Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1912 — Page 3

POULTRY

RAISING GUINEA FOWL. Easily Raised and a Useful Addition - to the Farm. The great objection to the Guineas la their wild nature, but the control Of the flock depends upon the beginning made. The beat plan It to buy eggs instead of fowls, and put the eggs under a chicken hen. When the guinea eggs have been under the hen a week, add two or three hen’s eggs, and the chicks will hatch at the same time as the eggs of the guineas, as the latter require four weeks for incubation. The young chicks will obey the hen, and the young guineas will follow their example, with the result that the guineas will remain with the other fowls as they grow, and go into the poultry house to roost with the hens. Guineas so raised will be tame and can be better managed. The guinea is most active of all feathered foragers, and is capable of destroying many insects. They quickly notice strange persons or animals, and will at once make sufficient alarm to warn their owner, and they can see the hawk long before he can reach the barnyard. The guinea hens are very prolific, and lay during the entire summer, but will hide their nests, attracting attention to them however, by making noise, which assists the farmer to secure the eggs. They are usually hardy, self supporting in summer, and will roost in the trees near the house, if they do hot go into the poultry house. Their eggs are rich, and the nests are usually well filled. The guinea may be said to be a semigame bird. Its flesh has a gamy flavor, and it is considered by some as a domesticated wild bird. There Is an opportunity in some localities for establishing a trade in guineas by educating customers to the excellence of their flesh and the high quality of their eggs.—lndiana Farmer.

White Indians.

The ideal general purpose breed is becoming popular with the up-to-date fancier who appreciates the Leghorn, the world’s finest table and non-setting breed —perfect in color, comb and plumage. The White Indian produced from the Cornish Indians had originally some Leghorn or Minorca blood. They stand in a class by themselves, as they resemble the turkey more than any other fowl, especially in plumage and flavor of flesh, as well as size. The 6Mi to 10 pound Indians are as active as the Leghorns, naturally more vigorous, and easily bred to the highest scores. When the public realizes that the Indians are the most cowardly of birds (non-flghters really) and without a doubt the greatest utility breed, there is going to be a decided change in our motto: “Less feathers and comb, and more meat and bone.” The profits will double and still the same birds will win and lay. For lack of good advertising this fine breed has been left in the background .while many other new varieties are being “boomed” on their fine plumage and lacing The “proof of the pudding is the eating,” and after actual comparison of different varieties,, fine feathers will not always produce fine birds, or add to their table or laying qualities. Advertising is the secret of popularity, but when backed by actual merit, it give assured success.—Poultry Gazette.

Trough to Fatten Turqeys.

Here Is a device used on our farm for fattening turkeys, where other poultry runs, says a writer in Prairie Farmer. It consists simply of a trough with a 6-inch bottom and 3lnch sides, raised about 16 inches

RACK FOR FATTENING TURKEYS

from the ground. About 4 inches from the top of the trough another 6 or 8 inch board is nailed parallel with the bottom of the trough thus effectually excluding the laying hens and other polutry which you do not wish to feed so heavily.

Destructive to Chickens.

Hose bugs will kill chickens if they eat of them too plentifully, v Chickens eight and nine Veeks’ old often turn up their toes and die In * few hours after filling their crops •with these bugs. Oftentimes, in some localities, the grass is covered with ♦hey* hateful bugs in the morning. Then If the chl.ftcaa set after them With ar. empty crop the wqrk la done.

FOND OF OUTDOOR SPORTS

Mrs. Ollle James, Wife of Kentucky Benator, Is Popular In Washington Society. There are four men in the lower house whom every visitor, be he from north, south, east or west, always asks the guides to point out, and they are "Uncle Joe” Cannon, the speaker, Champ Clark, Nicholas Longworth and Ollie James. Whenever any of this illustrious quartet is missing from his accustomed place on the floor the guides look troubled and the visiter feels as though he had been cheated out of a spectacle for which he paid his sound casb. Mrs. Japes is a frequent visitor to the house gallery, and she has some lively stories about the way the professional cicerone points out her husband. • , “I used to feel aggrieved," she said, “when I would hear the inevitable prologue. 'See that great big man with a bald head; that’s Ollie James from Kentucky. He is the biggest man on the floor and I can tell you he does love a horse race.’ “Now I look around and see how the stranger relishes this explanation. One thing for which I rejoice, my husband’s baldness is not the result of matrimony. It was just as apparent eight years ago when we were married and I believe even prior to his soul-racking experience of falling in love. ‘lt is some years since Mr. James or I have indulged in our much loved exercise of horseback riding, though

Mrs. Ollie Murray James.

we both still think it Is the finest and most exhilarating of sports and though we must plead guilty to the guide’s description of loving a horse race, we are not alwaya able to be present at these exciting incidents of our familiar Kentucky life. Mrs. James came to Washington a bride shortly after Mr. James took his seat In congress. She Is very popular as an entertainer.

“DUDS” IN NATIONAL MUSEUM

V , Kensington Palace Contains Variety of Togs, but Hae Nothing on Uncle Bam. Uncle Sam is getting along in every way. He has got to a point now where he is going to imitate .Europe in the gathering of the costumes of noted people. In London, at Kensington Palace, one may see the togs in which the late Queen Victoria spent her childhood, those in 4 ' which she was crowned, and also her marriage garments. In Paris, at the Cluny museum, may be seen the slipper, about four inches long, worn by the Princess Lamballe, and also those which covered the more generous extremities of the queen, Marie Antoinette. So in coming years at the National museum at Washington will be shown, the duds worn by Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs. Taft, Mrs. Grover Cleveland, and the first Mrs. James A. Garfletd. It was currently reported at Washington during the Roosevelt administration that the “first lady in the land” boasted that her annual expenditures for clothes came within S3OO. It is respectfully suggested that Dr. Mary Walker donate to the society the unmentionables which cover her nether limbs.

History of Each School Child. Every child in the elementary schools of the United States would be oard-eatalogued and a running history of his entire school career in the grades kept permanently on file under a plan formulated by Investigators whose report has just been Issued by the United States bureau of education. The plan has the approval of the National Education association, and some 300 cities already have began to keep the cards. Eventually, it Is anticipated, about 6,000,000 pupils will be thus tabulated. From the new card catalogue system definite and scientific answers can be made to a large number of questions, the solution to which now must be guessed. The committee of investigators also has drawn up a uniform method of reporting fiscal statistics for the computation of costs.

Too Much.

“Who gets the custody of the auto-; mobile?” "I told my wife sbe might have It I can’t keep up a machine and pay alimony too.**

DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATURE REFUSED TO PASS KEEGAN’S CHILD LABOR LAW.

. v- • ' . f ; —— Democratic Representative, Who Is a Candidate for Re-Election, Tells of - Hard Knocks His Pet Bill Received at Last Session. While the Democrats of Indiana are boasting of their strong friendship for the laboring man in Indiana and pointing to laws passed by the Democratic legislature to prove it, John Keegan, secretary of the International Machinists’ Union, with headquarters in Indianapolis, who was a Democratic member of the last Indiana legislature and who is a candidate for re-election from Marion county, is on record that union workingmen are not enthusiastic over what the Democratic party has done in passing laws for them. Mr. Keegan was a speaker at the last State Conference of Charities and Correction, held in Indianapolis in October, last year, when he spoke on his child labor law, which the Democrats declined to pass, and he is quoted in the Indiana Bulletin of the Board of State Charities as follows: “I sat in the legislature and noted the great interest taken In the protection and preservation of our birds and our fishes. I saw the farmers introducing bills for the care and protection of the hedge fences that divide their properties. I heard all kinds of legislation submitted and just as soon as a measure of this kind was introduced a great number of the members appeared interested in its successful passage. Finally it came my turn to introduce a bill and I had in mind the thought of the protection of what I considered the dearest thing we had to preserve on this earth, our little children. I introduced this measure at the instigation of some of our good people in Indiana. Instead of that great interest in the success of the measure, there appeared to be the greatest possible excitement for fear it might pass. “I say it is wrong; that no child should have to be employed. And I say to you that back and beneath all of it is this damnable commercialism of our times that has not only ruined the morals, but the minds and intellects of this that would be and may be the greatest race of people in the world today. It is rapidly, very rapidly, unless some check is put upon it, ruining this great country of ours. I have no fear of the child labor subject retrograding to the least extent. “I hope the day is coming when we will have a child labor law in Indiana that will conflict more seriously with our industrial conditions than the present law that I had the pleasure of introducing in the legislature. We did not hope when, we started out in a struggle of this kind to get all that we desire. The men of the trades union movement in this country that fathers and fights for the industrial freedom of the children are not quitters. They have learned by long, bitter struggles that all they obtain in this life, of its beauty or its happiness, they have to struggle for. They had reason to expect from certain sources better treatment after the bill was passed. “The department that has to do with enforcing the law is the factory inspection department. We had reason to suppose from previous remarks of our Governor that he would have been enough interested in the subject to place at the head of that department a practical man with some knowledge and some interest in the subject. For some reason or bther he did not see fit to do that and our law will undoubtedly suffer somewhat by his lack c interest. I do not know when in America a Governor or any one else searched for a factory inspector from amongst lawyers. So I say in that respect we have been rebuffed, but working men will not forget that; in the selection of a Governor, you may rest assured they will be more sure of their man along those lines again.”

PROSPERITY IS GOING AROUND

Evidence is Abundant that Indiana Farmers are Satisfied with Republican Administration. Farmers of Indiana are giving evidence that there is no ground for the Bull Moose cry of “pass prosperity around.” Prices and demand for all lines of farm products, including field, orchard, dairy, poultry, live stock, which have prevailed during the administration of President Taft, have brought a flood of prosperity to Hoosier farmers such as they never had in the history of the state. The farm homes have very materially advanced their scale of comfortable living in the last four years because prosperity has been passed around. A concrete example of tjxis general division of good times is given by a" farmer near Knightstown, who has fortified himself against a possible panic in the etant of a change in the national administration. He sold his farm near Knightstown, and has rented one in northern Rush county to await the results of the election and its effects on business. “I bought a good farm at $l5O an acre, and I have paid for it with 9 cent hogs, 9 cent cattle and 70 cent corfi during the good Republican times,” said the farmer. “I have sold my farm at a good price, and I am going to keep my money until I see whether the good Republican times are to continue or the Democratic panic is to sue. I don’t care about paying $l5O per acre for a farm now and have to pay it out with 30 cent corn, 4 cent hogs and cattle. You can readily see why.” Every farmer in Indiana who has had a surplus of farm products to sell can appreciate the answer given by John G. Gartin, a farmer near Burney, who was asked by a neighbor if he was a Bull Mooser. “Give me your pencil and I will write down my answer,” said Mr. Gartin. This is whgt-hewrote: sold 81 cattle at 9 cents, weighed at home, and 70 hogs at 8 cents, weighed at home. My wheat was sold from machine for seed at $1.35 pec bnshel and clover seed sold for $lO per bushel. Why should I be.” Mr. Gartin sold a pair of mares for S6OO which further confirmed him in belief that no change was need in presidential administrations.

When Beveridge Was a Boss.

Beveridge’s denunciation of political bosses recalls tb men who were present in the Republican convention at Indianapolis two years ago the fact that the ex-senator, then endeavoring to retain his toga, was the boss supreme. He insisted upon “running I the campaign” to suit himself and as I a result John W. Kern went to the JJnlted States senate. Bat lingular it > is how and why some recollections can become so lapsy.

COL. DURBIN LOOKS INTO STATE FINANCES

Shows What Democrats Have Done With Indiana’s Money In Last Three Years. Col. W. T. Durbin, Republican candidate for Governor, is giving the voters of Indiana some highly interesting figures and a close insight of the state treasury during the time the commondealth’s finances have been in charge of Democrats and Republicans: He~says that the state’s bonded indebtedness matures in 1915 and that the option to redeem commenced in 1910, “so we begin with 1910.” He says that in 1911 SIOO,OOO was redeemed, the state fair bonds. In 1912 $150,000 was taken up that would not have been done, hut the last legislature made it mandatory.” Decidedly pointed as to details, Col. Durbin says: “The sinking fund is a sacred fund created for the purpose of extinguishing this debt. The present Democratic administration has taken from that fund far in excess of the total bonded indebtedness of' the state and transferred it to the general fund for running expenses; $977,000, I think, taken from the sinking fund to the general fund for running expenses. That is what I call an assessment, Mr. Tax Payer, op a dividend. During my administration there was paid $486,000 in interest, or an average of $122,000 a year.

“Now, we hear much about the advance payment by county treasurers. Whenever the tax is paid into the treasury the money belongs to the state and the state has a perfect right to ask for it and receive it. In 1901 there was a call for $794,000; In 1912, $952,000. In the sinking fund from 1901 to 1904, Including 1904, there was $1,654,000 and there was taken from the general fund for the use for which the sinking fund was created, the payment of the debt, $1,148,000, which made up the $2,802,000 used to take up your bonded indebtedness. There has been altogether in that same fund in the three years of the present administration $1,077,836. There was taken SIOO,OOO to pay the state fair fund, as I told you, and we had left $977,836 that was transferred before the $150,000 was applied last July together in the fond for this. During the four years of the former administration they disbursed the sum of sl,324,500. By three years of this administration, $1,398,500, or $600,000 more ia three years than there was in four years. This is business. “Here is the item of salaries of deputies and clerks: $388,000 per year during the former administration against an average of $556,000 a year now, or SIOO,OOO more la three years thaa ia soar yean.”

FUTURE PROSPERITY DEPENDS ON VOTERS

Good Times or Depression An issue of Campaign. History of Business Panic Which Democratic Administration Brought On—Signs of the Times. Political condition* throughout the United States this year are bringing close home to the individual voter the question of which party he should support—the Republican or Democratic —for the general results of the election, especially as they affect the prosperity of the country, depends entirely upon how the votes are cast. It is an election to which first voters, as well as the older, should give thoughtful consideration, for upon its result very largely depends the employment of the younger men in factory, workshop and other industries which are guided In the magnitude of their operations by the volume of business that is available. Some twenty years ago there were many voters who felt that whatever the result of the general election, their future employment or prosperity would not be placed in jeopardy. Thiß was the though which came to hundreds of thousands of these voters. And they brought a Democratic administration into power. Immediately things began to happen in the business world. An era uncertainty set in. What followed can readily be traced in business encyclopaedias, reports of commercial rating bureaus, in reports of manufacturers’ associations, and other literature of the kind complied for the business man who for his own guidance must know the trend of prosperity or adversity in the commercial channels: of the country. The showing of the first few months of the Democratic administration which came in 1893 is given in the Columbian annual encyclopaedia for that year, which says: The three months ending June 30, 1893, have been months of unusual anxiety in business circles. A certain fear of something or other other —just what is hard to define —has spread over the country from Alantic to Pacific, causing an unusual stringency of credits, a depression in prices, and a most remarkable series of failures. The contraction of credits began immediately after the election of last November, and there is some connection between the two. Doubt and indecision, which are among the greatest evils that can affect the business of the country, continue to be the prevailing features of a situation which ha* altered little materially during the past three months. Throughout July and August the depression in trade and industry noted last quarter continued. Bank failures and suspensions of commercial and industrial establishments were of almost daily occurrence. The stoppage of industrial works, either wholly or for a part of the time, was in almost all cases due to diminished or uncertain demand for products.

Both Dun and Bradstreet reports confirmed the fact that the failures of 1893 exceeded by over 3,000, or 25 per cent, the number reported in any previous year. It is remarkable that while the total of liabilities as shown above, about $402,000,000, is unprecedented, the proportion of assets to liabilities, 65 per cent, is also greater than ever before —a phenomenon characteristic of a panic year. That the panic influences in business In that year, and throughout the Democratic administration, had direct influence upon the personal prosperity of the voters of all parties was very evident, for several million men were out of employment, and where there was one job open there were scores of applicants for it. The signs of the times point vividly toward a similar period of business depression should the coming election terminate against the Republican party, which turned the panic of the Democratic administration into an era of prosperity the like of which the United States had never seen and which has continued with comparatively little interruption to this day.

Thinking Time for Farmers.

There are issues this year such as never before confronted the farmer, and they must be studied fairly and impartially, if the greatest good to the greatest number is to result Spellbinders are going about the country throwing dust and obscuring the real issues. But it is the quietness of his home, around the family lamp with newspapers, magazines and books on the table, that the farmer must decide who is entitled to his vote this year. To reach a right conclusion is to save the nation; to reach an erroneous conclusion is to imperil his own welfare and national prosperity as well. Let the farmer see to it that he be not led astray by false friends nor hoodwinked into accepting fallacious theories and idle promises. Upon the men and measures now up for his consideration and selection depend national prosperity and progress as never before.— Wisconsin Fanner.

Rensselaer Republican sanT ajtp nm-imm SHABBY a CXULBK - PuhMohmre m rauAT issue xs segcbab wrane rnmos. SUBSCBXniXOX XATU Dally, by Carrier, IB Cents a Week. fey A.all. $3.75 a Year. Aeml-Weekly, in advance. Tear, 11-B®-Saturday, October 12, 1912.

W. H. Taft.

REPUBLICAN NATIONAL TICKET.

Tor President, WTT.T.TAM HOWASB TAP*. Por Vice-President, JAMES SCXOOECBAPT BKEBMAM. Por Congress, SDOAB BEAM CBUXPACKBB. BEPDBUCAH STATE TICKET. Por Governor, WXHPXEXB T. DUBBXH. Por Ueutenant Governor, TBOXAB T. MOOSE. Por Secretary of State, PBSB X. XXEG. Por State Treasurer, JOB PXBEKAJT. Por Auditor of State, X. EEWT BEOWE. Por Attorney General, H. WtJBSBE Por Superintendent of Public Xnetrnotlon, SAMTTEXi C. TEXRELL. Por State Statistician, J. Xu. PEETS. Por Eoporter of Supremo Court, WAKWXCX K KXPXiET. Por Supremo Judge, Pint District, WOOBPXH B. EOBXESOV. Por Supremo Judge, Fourth Bistriet, BEAMS BE J. MOWXS. Por Appellate Judge, Southern Bistriet, BAVZB A. MTEBS. Por State Senator, Xu B. CABBY. Por Joint EepresentaUve, CKAEX.ES a WASHES. Por Prosecuting Attorney, PBSB J. LOXGWEXA. BEPtTBEXCAH COTTMTY TICKET. . Por Treasurer, AXaSOM A. nu. Por Sheriff, AX.TOH Xu PABOZT*. Por Beoorder, GEOBGB V. SCOT*. Por Surveyor, W. PBAMX OSBOBME. Por Coroner, WZ&US J. WEIGHT. Por Commissioner, second Bistriet, BAMXBX, 8. MA BEEVES. Tor Commissioner, Third Bistriet; CXAXLX3 A. WBBCM.

FARKS FOB SALE. • s2,soft livery stock for farm. 160 acres, finely improved, near courthouse, at a bargain. Terns $5,000 down. 225 acres, in Washington county, lad., nine miles north of Salem. This farm has 150 acres of bottom land, has house, good barn, 4 acres of peach orchard, is on R. F. D., and township high school 80 rods from farm. Will trade for property or farm near here. Large brick mill and elevator in Converse, Miami county, Ind., in firstclass condition, doing a good business. Will trade this plant clear for farm land or good property. 95 acres, large house, mostly cultivated, near head of dredge ditch, half mile to school and near station. Only $32.50 per acre. Terms SSOO down. 21 acres, five blocks from courthouse, cement walk and all nice smooth, black land. 35 acres on main road, all good soil, has good small house, new barn, and in, good neighborhood. Price SSO; terms SSOO down. 80 acres, good house and outbuildings, all black land, all cultivated, large ditch through farm, lies near station and school, gravel road, and in good neighborhood. Price $65, terms SSOO down. 40 acres, all cultivated, all black land, near school and station. There is a fair four-room house, outbuildings and orchard. A bargain at SSO. Terms S4OO down. 80 acres on main road, R. F, D„ In good neighborhood, has fair house, good barn and outbuildings, orchard and good well. There are 45 acres in cultivation, 15 acres timber and 20 acres in grass. This is good heavy soil. Price $45. Terms SSOO down. GEORGE F. MEYERS, Rensselaer, Indiana. u Engineer Frank Reneman, of Garrett, and his fireman, Joseph Leland, also of that city, were killed and two mail clerks and six passengers injured when the Baltimore 4b Ohio passenger train. No. 14, which leaves Garrett at 1:36 o’clock, crashed into a cut of cars on the main track near Chicago Junction, 0., shortly after 5 o’clock yesterday morning. The Elkhart Ministerial association yesterday voted to agitate any one from conducting a marriage service unless the prospective bridal couple submit a certificate showing them In fit physical condition for marriage. Steps will be taken to enlist co-opera-tion by ministers, jurists and socio--11 gists throughout the state. ecnma—any skin itching. 50c at all drug stores.

J. S. Sherman.