Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 286, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1911 — Page 2

; ,rewfcg the ttme vegetables. It we » impossible to move our garaeo ',XX beans last Tear plant lettuce this ’• 3*ewr. “.' ■"■ ;■ - •V „ - ~***?**'***~^ lllf mrir .6:. ___ I ,—afriiißweeew I f mbumm * I i A Plan for a Farm Garden Suggest ed by the Government In the fall it is a very good plan to seeded in. "early in the seaP W something In a different order.

The Cost of Producing Eggs

Very few poultry-keepers know how much the eggs produced by their Socks cost them. They accept the common dictum that poultry is profitable but do not know how much it! coots them to produce a doxen eggs. On most farms it is impossible to arrive ata very exaet estimate of the. cost of coring for the fowls kept on it, because this work is a part of the general routine, but when It comes to estimating, the “feed-cost” of eggs we have some very reliable figures on which to base estimates. In (he great Australian Laying Competitions the accounts kept show ex•ctly how many eggs were produced and how much the feed consumed by the hens cost. In the several competitions from SOO to 600 hens were entered -and kept in confinement for a year, strict account being kepi with ■Hmm — *- .. In one there were SOO hens in the annual contest. These were divided into 50 pens of six hens each, no males being kept with them. Theee 300 hens produced during the year 54,070 eggs, equal to almost exactly 180 tafch, Of 15 doxen average to each hen. The cost of keeping them one year was as follows, counting the English pound Sterling at $lB6 American money; Bran and rborts, $104.40; grain-wheat, and corn, mostly, $321.70; meat—largely ox livers, $14.58; green feed—chopped alfalfa, $19.44; shell, >19.44; sundries, $4.86; total feed—cost, $549.18. The average price of eggs in Australia for the year was about 30% centsper doxen, the total receipts being $1,397.70. The feed cost of these eggs was almost exactly 12.6 cents per doxen, the price of feed not being very much different from prices for the same feeds in this country. A series of experiments in Canada. ■■■' where two flocks were used during a period of four mouths showed somewhat different results, in this experiment each flock contained twelve hens and a cock. One flock was purebred by Plymouth Rocks and the other was pure-bred Andalusians. The Plymouth Rocks produced eggs at an average cost of 6 1-3 cents and the Andalusians at an average cost •f 5 4-W rente per doaen. The feed was oats, wheat, meat, bone and a mash made of equal parts of shorts and -ground nata. mixed with skimmed milk. The method was grain In the morning, scattered In deep Utter; meat at noon four times a week. No noon food was given on the days meat was not fed; mash at - four in thy afternoon and an hour before dark) a little whole grain, scattered in th|e Utter. These bens were kept confined and the experiment was conducted during the most favorable time in the year for egg production. Those ; ame hens at liberty on a farm would have produced the same number of eggs at shout half the feed-cost. it is suite probable that the farmer who feeds his hens property and regularly produces eggs at a coot of about t to IS cento a doxen. All he 1 fluOYc Uliß lIP Tl'lflfl.y T*<j4SjK.~ .in vai iliE IVI Hlo ;

A SIMFLE MEDICAL COIL.

a skilled mechanic to undertake. This » « ariial mietaVa hn*avn» aa It U make a coil that will give goodT re suits at a cost of but a few cents, and with the use of only the moot ordinary For the core there may be used an iron bolt about three inches long and three-eighths of an inch in diameter, as shown at A to the accompanying drawing. It is a good plan to soften the bolt by heating it red hot in a lire and allowing it to cool slowly. Make two thin wooden washers about an inch and a quarter tn diameter, and glue them on to the bolt to form a spool as shown at B, and sover the iron between the heads with a wrapping of two layers of paper glued on. The nut shown is not necessary, but makes a neat finish. The first part of the winding, or primary coil, requires about half an ounce of No. 20 or No. 22 double cot-ton-covered magnet wire. Pass the end of the wire through a small hole in one of the heads, and wind on a smooth layer of the wire like thread on a spool When the opposite bead is reached wind a sec ond layer .of wire over the first one back to the place of beginning. Cui a second hole tn the head near the first one. as shown at D. The excess of wire will be useful for connections The next part of the winding, or secondary coll, requires an ounce ni two of No. 32 single cotton, covered magnet wire. Finer wire gives more powerful results because of the greater number of turns tor a given weight, but it is rather delicate to handle. Be fore winding on any of this wire, glue on a wrapping of two or three layers of paper over the primary coll, to keep

A Simple Medical Coil.

the two coila entirely separate. The secondary wire need not be wound in layers, though care is required to avoid injuring the insulation or breaking the wire by pulling it too tight The two ends may be left projecting. ,as shown at H, for connection to two handles or electrodes, and the coil may be protected by a final wrap ping of paper, as shown at,<3. One pole of a dry battery E is connected to the tang 6f a large file F. and' the other to pne of the primary terminals D. The remaining primary terminal G is then lightly dragged along the surface of the file, thus making and breaking the circuit in rapid succession as the wire passes over the teeth. If the shocks received from the handles are too strong, use a longer piece of wire at G; if too weak, add another Any battery in series, or put more wire on the secondary.

“ The Wise Owi.

"In a hollow tree, during my vacation. I found two young owls,” said a student. “1 also found in the same nest two eggs. Puzzled that the mother owl rhould have abandoned her setting ere its completion. I laid the subject before my fanner host.--“The fanner told me that country people know well that the owl, after hatching half her brood, leaves the other eggs to be hatched by the newborn birds. These young are warm blooded, they are helpless- to leave the nest and tn nine cases out of ten they complete the hatch as well as the mother would have done. “I’d consider this a superstition if I hadn’t seen a proof of it.**

Glasses to See Behind You.

4 A little aparatus that enables a man to see behind him as he walks along the street has just been put on the market in Paris. It is called the periscope and is the invention of Count Soulie de Cenac. The periscope consists of two tiny circular mirrors which can be attached to the outer edges of any ordinary eyeglasses. They swing on pivots

which enable the wear to adjust them to his eyes, QC to swing them down in a position in which they will be out of hie range of vision. They can also be adjusted to the focus of the eyes. . The inventor thinks the periscope will prove valuable especially tp do tectives who may desire to watch a person without his being aware of the fact that he Is being watched.

Magnetized Watches.

People who travel daily on electric railways or cars often have great dlffi onlty I* getting their watches” to go property, as the electricity magnetises them. Hero is a simple test to show whether a watch is magnetised er not Place a small compass over the open part of the inner ease. If the watch |a magnetised the pointer <m the, compass will revolve. If the pointer rwWiVtns suite still, the watch Is not affected. • /.X. J

When Spraying is Practiced

*wo classes or enemies attack rrun < WWW u V J established fact that intelligent and persistent spraying always pays. The effects of spraying are cumulative. The effects of spraying last year and this year may result in an increased yield next year. An instructive bulletin issued by the Wisconsin Horticultural Society, has the following to say regarding spraying: The Insects affecting fruit may be divided for convenience into two classes, which are distinguished by their mode ot feeding, viz: eating or chewing insects and sucking insects. Eating insects consume the affected tissues, commonly the leaves, and thereby hinder the functions of the plant. The common example is the potato “bug” or beetle. Insects of this class are destroyed by poisoning their food. Sucking insects do not consume the external tissues of the plant, but feed only on the sap. In order to accomplish this the insect thrusts its proboscis through the Juices4n tha same way aa a mosquito sucks blood. As these insects do not consume the tissue of the leaf or branch, poisons are of no avail. We must therefore attack the insects. This is done by covering them with some substance which will penetrate their bodies, or with substance which closes their breathing pores. To repeat:

Barrel and Cart Spraying Outfit.

(1) Biting or chewing insects are destroyed by placing poison on the parts On which the insects (2) Sucking insects are destroyed only by attacking the insects and for this class poisons are of no avail. Apple scab, brown rot of plums and peaches, potato rot, blight, rust and other destructive plant diseases are commonly ascribed to weather conditions. Indirectly this is often true, but neither, rain nor drought nor any other atmospheric condition is ever directly the cause of plant diseases. Rainy weather does not directly cause plum rot, but provides conditions ravorable to the development of the fungus, and probably unfavorable conditions for the development of the plum and its ability to resist the Invasion of the disease. Fungi (plant diseases) are propagated by spores, minute bodies which may float in. the 'air and are usually too small to be discerned singly without using a compound microscope. These spores alight on leaf or fruit and under favorable conditions of heat and moisture germinate, giving ride to threadlike projections which penetrate the plant’s tissues. The main fact to be borne in mind is this: The spores which may be present in innumerable numbers may be destroyed or their germination prevented by the application of certain substances known as fungicides, while existing as spores on the outside of plants, but after these have penetrated the tissue of leaf, stem or root, spraying is of no avail. In other words, spraying for plant diseases must be wholly for prevention. Making Bordeaux Mixture. The following formula for Bordeaux Mixture is used is a, preventive of fungous diseases, as potato blight, apple scab, etc. Various formulas are quoted, but the following is now accepted as safe and reliable: - Copper sulfate, 5 lbs; Fresh lime, 5 lbs; Water, 50 gals. Either arsenate of lead or Paris green may be safely combined with Bordeaux Mixture. In fact, in all orchard spraying operations it has come to be a common practice to add either Paris green or arsenate of lead to Bordeaux at every application. By this means biting insects and fungi are controlled at a single operation. No other fact is more important than thia tn spraying. Arsenate of lead is a poison for biting insects and is less liable to injure foliage than Paris green. It remains longer inrsuspension. It adheres better to need for any purpose for which Paris green is employed in liquid sprays. The formula is: Arsenate of lead, fl to t Ibe; Water 50 gala. - . . A market squab raiser can not feed as high an* the fancier, but he must feed good, wholesome grata, avtddtas'that which has Him. aged ta any 7 a ,

GRACE POOLE TESTIFIESUs FATHERS BEHALF.

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ra ' *** * ’."ir » a wuu or four at a time. Once he hired a X e mbeX COme baCk ’ The “ an men he employed. Once she told him she would leave if he didn’t quit taking those kind of men. He went into _ . . . a irenzy, Btiia - tnat sne wouion t let him keep help and that she . was against him, so mother didn’t say anything more about it "She always sold the stock and took charge of the money gotten from the gftdn. I went»to high school in 1905. Mother sent me, although father objected to my going, saying that I ought to stay on the farm and work. “When I was a little girl, .most of our evenings were spent quietly, no one was allowed to talk; father commanded us to keep quiet” Here Miss Poole broke down and *"wept'but'"®-'

ter a short time recovered her composure. J.y-'X “Father talked to himself while working in the fields, almost continually. He has been doing that for years. Often he would assume listening attitudes. Once at the dinner table, Listen, do you hear those death bells ring? Some one is dead.’ No one else heard anything. “He had a habit of writing letters, sometimes before breakfast, or before the chores had been done. He would send'those letters away. He has writdidn’t send som. of those letters ani burnt them so he couldn’t find them. They were about land in the west, and he sent them to many states to land agents. In one he described a farm he had for sate in Arkansas. I never heard him say he ever owned any land in iho West “In the winter of 1910, he spent most of the time writing and reading. He would use about a dollar’s worth of cheap paper a week writing those letters. He wanted everything quiet when be was writing and would curse curse if we moved about./ "He has said that everybody was - gainst him as far back as I can* remember. XX “1 belidve my father of- unsound mind and I believe he has always bem so.”

Miss Grace Poole was passed by the defense and the defense offered as evidence the transcript of the case of John Quigley against .Poole on the charge of assault and battery, with intent to kill. The jury’s verdict was insanity and recommended Poole being sent to the insane hospital. Mr. Hall said that the jury had no right to return such a verdict, but the couix overruled the objection and held the transcript to be completed. The jury was excused while the attorneys argued.

Miss Poole was then on the stand .tor. Sbe,,said that her father’s attacks of frenzy were more than anger. ' 3 ? * Mr. Hall read parts of her testimony before the coroner and grand jury 'investigators, which she admitted. Miss Grace was then excused. Dr. C. C. Driscol, of Lafayette, was then called to the witness stand by the defense as a medical expert He said that he examined the skull supposed to be that of Kemper about ten days' T ~' T*‘ - .*•-* — Dr. Driscol took the skull and showed it to the jury. He held that a charge of shot fired at close range shattered the skull, the point of entrance beir f the small round hole in the back, under the large aperature. He said that it was possible for such an injury as foe one in the skull to be made by a gun discharged as Poole claimed the gun he killed Kemper uith was accidental!: discharged. Dr. Driscol then described the foigh bones to the jury. He said that one of the bones had been cut and then fractured. He,said, that he made an examination of John Poole’s head at the jail Saturday afternoon. With, a diagram of a human skull made by himself, and the instruments he used in the examinations, the witness told ot the defects in Poole’s bead. The normal skull should be 18 centimeters from the root of .the nose to the occipital protuberance, he said. Poole’s is 16-2-3 centimeters. The normal diameter of the skull Is 54.5 c.m.; Poole's is 47.7 c.m. His right ear is 11 cm and his left ear 10 cm. from the center of the hack of the neck, showing that there is one centimeter difference 4n the position of the ears, the witness stated. He presented a plaster cast of the formation of Poole’s mouth, but the state objected and the court held the man who made the < Cast should testify sb to whether or not

tian. tv ic and progressive insanity, and that I on December 12, 1909, he was insane. The defense passed the witness for cross-examination but it was then 4:20 o'clock and Judge DeHart adjourned court until 10 o’clock this morning. *, iX

Obituary of Owtn Callahan.

Owen Callahan was born in Ireland June 22, 1822, and died at Gary, Ind., Nov. 24, 1911, his age being 89 years, 5 months and 2 days. He came to America when 23 years of age and settled on a farm in Perry county, Ohio, where he lived tor 15 years. He then went to Springfield, lit, and with his brother engaged in coal mining. They owned a mine within two miles of Springfield, which at that time was a very small town. His brother died -ten years later and he sold X’.? « a farm.. n,£<y, Lincoln, 111., where he lived for fifteen years. He then went to Champaign county, 111., where he lived so: nine years. He then came to Jasper copntjf, Ind., where he lived- until bout eighteen months ago when he went to Gary to live with his son, M. O. Callahan, conductor on the Gary Interurban railroad. . He was married Nov. 23, 1871, to Miss -Mary Mullad, of Lincoln, 111., who survives him. To tfeis union Were born seven children; three boys and four girls. Two of'the cfifHdren l ave proceeded him in death. James died In infancy at Lincoln, 111., and Maggie died Jan. 24, 1907. Two sons. Thomas M., of "Newland; and M." 0., of Gary" and three daughters, Mrs. John Halladay and Mrs. Bert Camp, of Rensselaer, and Mrs. William Whited, of Wheatfield, survive. The funeral services were held from the Catholic church in Rensselaer Monday, Nov. 26, at 9 o’clock, burial in Mt. Calvary cemetery, soulil of St. Joseph'* college.

Telephone Any Number For Wasson’s Bus, Day or Night

All cal Is for bus service, either to the trains, down town, or-from one part of the city to another, promptly answered. Call any. of the following phones: Makeever Hotel, Phone 107*. H. Wasson’s residence,Nb. 49. ™ W. F. Frye’s residence, No. 369. The patronage of all the public is solicited. HARRISON WASSON.

Rosebud Christmas Cantata.

The Rosebud Sunday school will render a popular Christmas cantata entitled "Santa’s Prescription,’* on Christmas evening, Sunday, Dec. 24, at 7:00 p. m. There is Sunday school, each Sunday at 10:00 a. m. and a class meeting immediately after, when the pastor does not fill the pulpit Rev. J. O. Ledbetter, president of the Indiana Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church, will visit our circuit on Dee. 10 and will preach in the morning at 11:00. A good attendance is desired by the pastor, D. F. Myers. .:. < .

Revival at Mt, Hope Church.

Meetings at the Mt Hope church began last Sunday and will continue for two weeks. There will be a service each evening at 7:00 p. m. Rev J 0. Led letter, president of the Indiana Conference of the Methodist Protestant church, will have charge of the evening service on Dec. 10th. A good attendance is desired at these spec-al services. D. F. Myers, Pastor.-

Annual Christmas Basaar.

The ladies of the Presbyterian church are busy making preparations for their annual Christmas bazaar, which will be held December 14, 15 and 16. The bazaar will be open to the public Thursday and Friday afternoons, and all day Saturday. A market will be held ta connection on Saturday. The usual large array of fancy articles wfll be on sale, including the useful as well as the ornamental. The place wfll be announced later.

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AWAY GOES CATARRH

MeUef Minutes X Where there’s catarrh there’s tjhousaids of catarrh germs. You can’t get rid of catarrh unless you kill these germs. ' ' ' 4 ' You can’t kill these germs with stomach medicine or sprays ot douches because you can’t get where they are. You can kill these germs with HYOMEI, a penetrating antisceptic air that you breathe a few tiniee a day directly over the raw, sore, germ infested membrane. ...... colds or catarrhal deafness Hyomei. is sold on money back plan by B. F. Fendig. Complete outfit >1.09. Extra bottles of HYOMEI if afterward needed only 50 cents. Remember, HYOMEI does not detain morphine, cocaine cr any drug that could possibly do harm.

Notice to Stock-Holders. Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Rensselaer Commergial Club will .be held cn Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock p. m, December 13, 1911, at the office of Charles G. Spitler in Rensselaer, Indiana, for the purpose of electing nine directors to serve for the ensuing year and such other business as may regularly come before said meeting. z CHARM® G. SPITLER, Secretary-Treasurer.

NATURE TELLS YOU.

As Many a Rensselaer Reader Knows .. Too Well. When the kidneys are sick, ' Nature tells you all about it- ’ The urine is nature’s calendar Infrequent or too frequent.' action; . Any urinary trouble tells of kidney ills. ' Doan’s Kidney Pills are for kidney ills. - Rensselaer people testify to. this. William Clift, 528 College street, Rensselaer, Ind., says: “I had kidney and bladder trouble and my back ached severely. I did not sleep well and was anoyed by a too frequent desire to void the kidney secretions. I took doctor’s medicine and remedies of various kinds, but found nd relief until I procured Doan’s Kidney Pills. Since using them my back has not troubled me and I have felt better in every way.lt* gives me great pleasure to endorse Doan’s Kidney Pills.” ( For sale by all dealers. Price 50 emits. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo. New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name —Doan’s —and take no other. . -•

FOR SALE- ’ 21 acres four blocks from courthouse. 66 acres, good buildings, six miles out 175. 40 acres, 4-room house, barn, good land. 60 acres, mile out, stone road, $1.60. 80 acres, mile out, stone, $l6O. 120 acres half-mile out, well improved, $l7O. v 180 acres, good land, good buildings, $1,500 down, $45. 120 acres, good buildings, some timber, $35. 165 acres, 15-room house, other good buildings, orchard, well tiled, halfmile out $1«. 599 acres, near station, good build Inga, on large ditch; will take up to SBO,OOO in good trade, remainder time. $55.' ' $5,000 mortgage and cash for farm or property. - 160» aeres. in Kansas, 160 acres in Arkansas, to trade for land or prop•rtr. ' ■ ' ■- I B. r. WBTBB3. t.