Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 294, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1912 — Page 3

Continued froqa Plage Two.

about me they wilL That’s why I'm an my feet now. », .A :' “I b’lieve, it isn’t customary to make I speech any more at parties. But you’ll hare to forgive me. I’m not much onto the latest frills and fashtots. But give me a chance, and I*ll.. team as easy as a Chinaman. It came. to me all of a sudden to say what I’ve got to say, right here and now, even. If.it’B at the expense of a little etifuette. I’ve asked you here to-night, ■Mdnly, of course, for the pleasure of entertaining you, and I hope you’re all having a real good time. But I had another reason, too.” The men at the tables looked perflexed. «Vas this the Caleb Conover they had met and cringed to in the enter world, this garrulous, rambling man with the flushed face? “You see, I’ve come to be a kind ad. a feature of this city of ours and •f the State, too. I’m here to stay: And I want that my towns-folks and my fellow-residents of the Mountain State should know me. Many of ’em do. There’s a full half-million folks In this city and State that know all. about Caleb Conover. They know he’s ou the square, that he'll look after tttbir Interests, that he’s a white man. They know he’s a man they can trust in, their public life and welcome in their homes. And, as I said,, there’s a lot of these people here to-night “But there’s a lot of other folks here who only know me by what slander pad Jokes they’ve picked up around town or in the out-of-State newspapers. It’s these latter folks I’m talking to now. I want them to know the real me; not the uneducated crook ud illiterate feller my p’litical enemies have made me out. They can’t think I'm all bad, or they wouldn’t be my guests. Would they now? And a little frankness ought to do the rest. “Some people say I’ve risen from the gutter. Well, I’ve risen from it, haven’t I? A lot of men on Pompton Avenue and in the big clubs are just where they started when they were born. Not a step in advance of wheVe their fathers left ’em. Swell chancd they’d have had if their parents had started ’em in the gutter as mine did, wouldn’t they? Where’d they be now? “What does the start amount to? The finish line’s where, the* score’s counted. Gutter or palace. *‘A man’s a man for a’ that’ says a poet by the name of R. Burns. And he was right even if he did waste his time on verse-Btringing. Only it always seemed a pity to me those words wasn’t said by someone bigger’n a measly poet Someone whose name carried- weight and whose words would be quoted more. Because then more folks might hear of It and believe it I don't suppose one person In fifty’s ever heard ot this R. Burns person. (I never did myself, till I bought a Famous Quotation book to use in one of my campaigns. That’s how I got familiar with the writings es, Burns and Ibid and Byron and all. those rhymer people.) Now, if some public character like Tom Platt, er Matt Quay, or someone else that everybody’s heard of. had sarld that Quotation about a man being a man —" Caleb paused to gather up the loose threads of his discourse. This caused him a moment of dull bewilderment, for fie was not accustomed to digress, either in mind or talk, and the phenomenon puzzled him. He rallied and went on: -\.A •ABut that isn’t the point. I was telling you about myself. I started in the gutter, Just as the *knockers’ say I did. Or down by the freight yards, and that’s about the same thing. My mother took" in washing—when she could get it. My father went to the penitentiary for freightlifting when I was ten —he was a ste.vedore —and he died there. I was brought up on a street where the feller—man or boy—who couldn’t fight had to stay indoors. And Indoors was one place I never stayed. I began as coal boy in the C. G. & X. elevators; then I got a job firing on a fast freight, and from that I took to braking on a local passenger run. Then I was yardmaster, and then In the sup’rlntendent’s office, and then came• the Job of sup’rlntendent and after that general manager, and I worked my wfiy up till I ran the C. G. ft X. road single-handed. Meantime 1 was looking after your city’s interests. Three times as Alderman and then once as Mayor, for the boys knew they could babk on me. I got hold of interests here and interests there. Cheap, rundown interests they were, for the most part, but I built 'em up. Taka the: C. G. ft X.. for instance. Biggest road in the State to-day. How’d ft get so? I made it It was all ran down, and -on its last legs when I took hold. I acquired it and —” - He paused once more, fighting back that queer tendency to let slip his grasp on his subject -> b VI remember that 0. G. ft X. deal,** whispered Greer to his wife. “Hs Juggled shares and pulled wires and spread calamity rumors .till..he was: able to smash the stock down to a ! dollar-ten per. He scaled out aU < the other big holders, gabbled their stock, reorganised, and reaped a clean five, million ou the deal” VHuahtV retorted Mw.-Greer. !' 4 *TWa' is too rich to miss. I must remember It aU to—“ ~r - rl *—So you see,” .Caleb was coutin* uififc, “I fought my way up. Every move was a fight and every fight was a win. That’s my motto. Fight to wflA An’ if you don’t win, let it bo year executor, not you, that knows you lost Bat the biggest fight of all wto to come. I contrdOed the city. :t helped control the Stated* I had all the money any man tended, sad f was spending it right here to the town whars It Was earned. I was -a aaoeaseful man. But the man who’s anft faUwa! AaAI wawt’t gatttiteA.SL ******* fir-#*#**-*

“There was still one thing I couldn’t get I couldn’t get one set of people to recognize me when they met me in the street to ask me to their houses, to game to my house. Why? I don’t know. Maybe they dent! know. Maybe they didn’t want to know. There’s a lot of things society folks don’t seem to want to know. And one of those things was me. I couldn’t win ’em over. I built this house. Cost $200,000, more’n any other house in town. If you doubt it, step down to the' Building Commissioner’s and look over the specifications. Built it on the most fash’nable avenue, too.* • But still know you!’ ‘Maybe It’s my lack of blue blood,’ thinks I. ’Though my pile’s been made a good deal cleaner than many an aristocrat’s.’ I mar-. ried a lady of the first families here” —a ripple of unintelligible surprise brakeJjL ondfete :earsJMt jfeicjUxuilfidi ‘What was the result? She was asked out and I wasn’t. But I kept on fighting. And at last I’m in the winning stride. “I’m not a college man myself. All my education’s hand-made and since I was thirty. But I was bound my son should be one. And be is. He’3 in society, too. The best New York affords. I’m told. My girl’s had advantages, too, and you see the result. Do unto others, what you can’t do for yourself. That’s worth remembering sometimes. And now at last I get my comeback for all my outlay. “To-night I guess I cover the final lap of the race. or the bluest blood, of Granite is—are —is among my guests here, and I’m meeting ’em on equal terms. All this talk, maybe, isn’t what the etlqnetto booKs call ‘good form.’ But if you knew how many years I’ve worked for what I’ve won to-night, you’d sympathize with me for wanting to crow just a little.” “So.” resumed Caleb, beaming about him, “I wanted the chance to let you all know me as I really am. Not what my enemies say about me. Is‘ there any reason why I should’nt be your friend’and entertain you often? None in the least, you’ll all si.y. It seems a little thing, perhaps, to you who've been in the game always. But it’s meant a lot to me!” He paused. There seemed nothing more to say, yet he longed to end with a climax. A glorious, dazzling inspiration came, and he hurried on: “And now, in honor of this little meeting between friendß, let me tell you all a secret It won’t be a secret to-morrow, but you can always be able to say you were the first who was told. I have at last yielded to the earnest entreaties of my constituents and friends :.nd party in general, and have consented to accept the nomination for Governor at the coming convention." From the proletariat fringing the walls and blocking the doorway arose an excited, exultant hum. Only the wild efforts of certain efficient. If’unofficial, sergeants-at-arms prevented a mighty yell of applause. At the tables, however, the women looked bored or puwzled; while the men glanced at each other with the blank look of people who, out for a day’s jolly hunting, find themselves caught unexpectedly In a bear trap. “I have heretofore,” went on Caleb, after allowing the Impression of his words to sink in, “refused all State offices. But now 1 feel it a social as well as political duty that I owe. And I shall be grateful to you for your honest support.” Caleb bowed, reseated himself and swallowed another glass of champagne at a gulp. He was not ill pleased with .himself. He had risen merely to thank his guests for their presence. Little by little he had -drifted further than hg, had at first Intended. Yet he was glad he had yielded to this unprecedented, unaccustomed yearning to expand; to show himself at his best before these people with whom he now firmly believed himself on a footing of friendly equality. Yes. on the whole, he was convinced of his success. He glanced about him The buzz of talk had recommenced. Dozens of eyes were upon him, /not with the bored coldness of the duller evening, but with curiosity and open interest. Caleb was glad. Anlce Lanier, alone, met his eye with the frank, hone&t, unafraid look that was her birthright, and which made her the only living person he instinctively felt he could not bully. In her look he read, now, a mute question. He could not fathom the expression. Caleb left his place and made his way among the tables to where she eat ' 4' “How’d It go?” he asked. “It seemed to take ’em.” 1 “I think it did,” she replied, noting tke flush on his- cheek and the brightness of his gase, and wondering thereat • ■ ... ■ too long to hold their interest?” “No. They seemed Interested.” “You think so? Good! Do you know, if I’d had time to think, I*d rather have mgde fifty campaign speeches than that one. I’d have been 'rattled to death. But it waa easier than any speech I ever made. Good cilmax. eh. that announcement?” “How long ago did you make up your mind to ran tor Governor?” "Think it’s queer that, as my secretary; you hadn’t heard of It? Welt, I’ll tell you. I decided it just about seven minutes ago. It came to me ■ like a flash, plumb la the middle or ; my speech. I figgered out all at once ■that if there waa any.flaw in my plans so far, the governorship was dead ■ura te.cinch me in scsifty. Folks'll think twice before they turn up their naass at a governor. It earn# as an Inspiration. A * geMfias hunch. %,1 never have one of them but what It wins. Why. whew—” ' “Jut ran xonjto the nomination?”

"Can I get it?' Can I get it? Say. Miss Lanier/haven’t you learned yet that there isn’t a thing in the city, of Granite or in the Mountain State that Caleb. Conover. RailroasTer,£aiL’t get it if he wants it bad enough? Tonight ought to have showed you that. Why, with the legislature and every newspaper, and the railroad system and every decent State job right here safe between my Angers, all I’ve got to do is to turn the wheel, and the Little ball will drop into the governor’s chair all right, all right” The girl’s big brown eyes were vaguely troubled. The reserve habitual to her when in her employer's society deepened. She thought of Clive Standish and his inspirations. What would become of the young lawyer’s

“How’d it go?” he asked. “It seemed to take ’em.”

already desperate hope, now that the Boss himself—and not some mere puppet of the latter’s —was to be his opponent? “Yes,” reiterated Conover, as ne prepared to return to hi 3 own table. “It was an inspiration. And an ounce of inspiration discounts a haif-ton of any other commodity that ever passed over the counter." “What was it like?” rhapsodized Billy Shevlin at 2 a. tn., as he gazed loftily upon a semicircle of humbler querists in the back room of Kerrigans saloon. “It was like the King of England an’ one of them Fashion Joinals an’ a lake of $4-a-bottle suds, all mixed; with a Letter Carriers’ Ball on the side. And”—he added, in a glow of divine memories—“l was ace-high with the biggest of the push. If I hadn’t a’ beeh, would the Van Alstyne dame a’ stood for it so civil when I treads on the, train of her Sunday regalia and rips about ten yards of the fancy tatting off’n it?" “What was it like?” echoed Mrs. Greer to a query of one of her daughters who had sat up to await the parental home-coming. “It was something clear outside the scrlptual prohibition of swearing. For it -was like nothing in ‘the heavens above, or the earth beneath, or the waters under the earth.’ ” • “What was it like?” thought Clive Standish drowsily as he fell asleep “A dozen people are certain to a3k me that to-morrow. It’s —her —her —eyes have that same old queer way—of making me feel as if—l were in church." ' (To be Continued.)

Woman loves a clear, rosy complexion. Burdock Blood Bitters is splendid for purifying the blood, clearing the skin, restoring sound (UgMtion. All -druggists sell it Price SI.OO. votxcs OB coxnxnox or assessment sou. To Whom It May Concern: , . Notice is hereby given by the Common Council of the City of Rensselaer. Indiana, that on the 9th day of December, 1912, It approved an assessment roll showing the prima-facie assessment for the following described public improvement, as authorised by the improvement resolution named: Improvement resolution No. ... the construction of a district sewer located in College avenue and Washington street. .The district to be assessed lies within the following described lines, to-wit: Commencing at the northeast corner of lot 7 in block 1 of South Addition to said city, and thence southerly along the easterly ends of lots 7 and 8 in said block, thence westerly along the southerly side of said lot 8 to the westerly side of South street, thence southeasterly along the westerly side of said South street to the southerly side of John street to the northeasterly corner of lot 9 in block 6 in said South Addition, thence southerly along the easterly end of said lot 9 to the southeasterly corner thereof, thence westerly along the southerly side of said, lot 9 to the east side of College Avenue: beginning thence on the west side of College Avenue at a point 1081 feet from the northerly point'of block 8 in said South Addition, thence west 330 feet. - thence north 330 feet, thence west 330 feet, thence north 701.25 feet, thence east 231 feet, thence north 225 feet, thence east 429 feet to the west side of said College Avenue, thence southeasterly across the southwesterly corner of Milroy Park and across Washington street ■to'the place of beginning. Persona interested in or affected by said described public Improvement are hereby notified that the Common Council of said City baa fixed December 23 at 8 o’clock p. m. as a date upon which remonstrances will be received, or heard against toe amounts assessed against each piece of property described in said roll and will determine toe question as to .whether such lota .or tracts of Jana have been or will be benefited In the amounts named on. said roll, or In a greater or- less sum than that named on said roll. .. r<- ( £ Said assessment roll showing said prima-facie assessmena. with the names of owners and descriptions of property subject to be assessed, is on file and .may be seen et the office as the clerk of said city. , » CHAS. MORLAN. . 7 Cleric. City of Rensselaer. Indiana ’ , fblf Is jTspqdfiMiaw of th« roar to use to* classified columns tn The Republican. Advertise whatever you have for rale. Yon will thus Usd a hW wltt tbu «*. r .

LOCAL HAPPENINGS. -- W. F. Smith went fojaucago this tnornlflg' bh busines s. Lee wants to see you whether you buy or not. ■ „ Am expert frost Ufirdue will score toe com at the armory this week. >Born, DeC 9th, to Mr. and Mrs. Gail Micbai, of Keener township, a son. ■—■ ■ ll w 1 1 ;■* .Visit the handkerchief and Jtoen booth at ‘Lee’s. You can get the little things you want. !R. B. Harris went to Chicago this morning to attend the Bull Moose gathering. Special prices on candies, nuts and "oraugee to achboJ teachers. JOHN EGER. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Qufhn and family, of Strawn, 111., are visiting L. A. Harmon and family. , (You will find a great many nice Christmas presents on our 10-cent counter. JOHN EGER. C. H. Peck, James Washburn and Harry Gilbert, of (Remington, were Rensselaer visitors Monday. The G. E. Murray Co. are selling Michigan pack apples, 14 pecks to the bbl. Baldwin, $2.75; Spies, $3.50. Every person in Rensselaer should see the prize corn at the armory this week. It will be scored by a Purdue expert. As usual we are headquarters for Christmas candies, figs and dates. A complete line of nuts, oranges and apples. JOHN EGER.

Pig reduction, on our entire stock of ladies', misses’ and children’s coats, and by far the largest line in town to select from, at the G. E. Murray Co. Christmas shoppers will find Lee's new dry goods and shoe store a good place to buy. Everything new and nice. More to an 20,000 skilled workers in the navy yards throughout the United States were Saturday placed under the protection of civil service by executive order of President Taft. Hear Miss Ida Faye Smith in readings from “The Merchant of Venice,” at the high school auditorium Wednesday evening, Dec. 11th. The G. E. Murray Co. are making cut prices on blankets, tennis flannels and underwear. Men’s heavy fleecelined union suits, regular SI.OO suit, now 75c. George Parkison left this morning for Kingman, Kano., for a visit With his mother and sisters, Ruth and Jennie. He will be absent until after Christmas. The G. E. Murray Co. find they are over-stocked on many lines of winter goods and will make cut prices in order to reduce their stock. Lyman Zea returned to Hammond yesterday to complete .his canvas of that city for the sale of his reliable pain killer. From there he will go to Steger, 111. Cloaks, Cloaks, bargains in cloaks. Look at the cut price sale’ on now. From 20 to 40 per cent off on our entire stock. The G. E. MURRAY CO. Frank Foltz has sold to H. R. Kurrie his undivided one-fourth interest in the building at the State Bank corner. The consideration named in the deed was $6,600. (Special bargains in men’s and boys’ suits, overcoats, fur coats, fur-lined work coats, at the G. E. Murray Co. Store.

The day of harsh physics is gone. People want mild, easy, laxatives. Doan’s Regulets have satisfied thousands. 25c at all drag stores. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Manley and daughter and George Kepner, of Keokuk, lowa, came Sunday for a visit Until after Christmas with her parents, Mr, and Mrs. John Kepner. If you have not bought your winter coat, you can save money by buying it now of the G. E. Murray Co. A little mix-up between several school boys and the father of one attracted flame attention at to® school house Monday evening, but <Hd notresult seriously for any one. bliss May Russell, who has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Ross Dean for the past two weeks, left this morning for her home at Springfield, 111., being accompanied by Mrs. Dean, who will visit there until after Christmas. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Tryon left Rensselaer today to be absent aU winter Mrs. Tryon went to Sacket Harbor, N. Y., and Mr. Tryon to Tulso, Okla. After a visit there with his two sons it is probable that he will join /her in New York a little later. * The most encouraging word comes from Miss Madeline Ramp, who i«Jn Hahnemann hospital, where she underwent a severe surgical operation of the right ear. Her condition is such as to give great, encouragement for her recovery, which at first was very mudh in doubt Mr., add Mrs. Bert have arrived from Oak Point Minn., and will make Rensselaer their home if they can find a house to live in. He is a son of Hem? WSmcoop, who moved from north of Rensselaer to Minnesota four years ago. Bert was married two years ago in Minnesota. (Parker Childers left yesterday afternoon for Ft ’Worth, Texas., where he will regain until spring. He spent about six mdtoths there live years ago. Barker has bean-at-hoege tolly about three months, having arrival borne in September from Y He is toie of the most extensive travelers Rensselaer ever produced and -his jumps are generally half way across the continent . a a—* A* «**»«- ..

What W. J. Spillman, Alfalfa Expert, Washington, D. G., Says About the Prairie Region of ALABAMA

/; When nature made the southern state* she made a strip of prairie land beginning just south of Montgomery, Alabama. extending westward to the Mississippi state ltne, then curving northward in Mississippi and extending In that state to the Tennessee line. This prairie region is variously known as the black belt, the prairie belt and locally as the canebrake. The soil of the region was made by the disintegration of A soft limestone rock, and Is heavily charged with lime. •In many places, lime gravel occurs in the soil. ThsS soil is rather sticky clay, and was originally some of the richest soil in the south. Some of it has been given good care, and is still rich. A great deal of it has been more or less worn out by cotton growing. Like ail limestone clay soils, it is comparatively easy to build up this soil.- The most essential step in doing this is to put Into the soil a good supply of humus. The Canebrake soils do not need phosphates, ox potash fertilisers, but nitrogen whether applied in the form of nitrates, barnyard manure. or leguminous cover crops, produces - marked results. The soils of this prairie region when in good condition, axo eminently adapted to alfalfa growing. The Canebrake farmer has a monopoly on this crop, since aside from the restricted areas in river bottoms, he has the only alfalfa soil oast of the Mississippi river and south of the Ohio. It is true alfalfa can be grown in other sections, but this is the only soil eminently adapted to this crop. I have been advising Canebrake farmers to grow alfalfa very generally. It has a remarkable effect on the solt On the plantation of General M unford, four miles from Uniontown, a few years ago a two-year-old alfalfa sod was plowed up for corn. The crop of corn just before the alfalfa had yielded eighteen bushels per acre; the *:rop after the alfalfa yielded forty-four. The next year a three-year-old alfalfa sod produced fifty-four bushels. It Is hardly probable that Canebrake . farmers will ever produce more alfalfa hay than there will be sale for at good prices, but if there Should be an oversupply and prices should get so low as not to be remunerative, these low prices for such good forage would form the foundation for a splendid live stock’ Industry. An alfalfa region is Always a good stock country. The Canebrake is no exception to this rule. It is decidedly the best live stock region in the south, and in my opinion is as well suited to livestock production as any section of the north. Nearly all of the great livestock regions of the north are in limestone regions. Grasses are apparently more nutritious when grown on limestone soils. At least the best livestock in the country are grown where the soil is well supplied with lime. In this respect the Canebrake region is eminently suited for livestock production. No part of the United States is better adapted to the production of forage for livestock than the Canebrake. Successful livestock raising means good pastures. in Bermuda grass tbs Canebrake farmer baa a pasture grass that Is not surpassed by any grass grown In this country. The best Bermuda pastures wW carry two to four times as many cattle per Sere as tbs beet blue grass in the north. For hay the Canebrake has two magnificent hay plants. First and foremost Is Johnson grass, the greatest hay grass In this country. Johnson grass has the reputation, in some sections, of ‘being a troublesome weed, but if a farmer knows how to manage It,

-- . • We have lands in this district for sale at from $25 to #4O per acre: For information, see J. A. PULLIN, Phone 534-I. R.-D. No. 1, Rensselaer, Indiana. . A\ ;|jg;

ffiOFEMII EMUS Dr. L K WASHBURN. MMiotii mm nnwanr. Makes a specialty of diseases of th* Eyes. Over Both Brothers. ARTHUR H. HOPKINS. law, urn mm bbax> bstatb Loans on farms and city property personal security and chattel mortgagt Buy, seU and rent farms and city prop erty. Farm and city fire insurance Office over Rowles & Parker's.; 3 BtUlfllftiff 3. V. Irwin M. O. Inris t IRWIS ft IRWIN LAW, MBIT. ESTATE, ZESOBAVO& » 6 per cent farm loans. Office in Odd Fellows’ Block. E. P. HONAN ATTOBEET AT LAW. Law, Loans, Abstracts, Insurance and Real Estate. WIU practice In all the courts. All business attended to with promptness and dispatch. Bsnsaolaer, t *a < *"* H. L. BROWN Crown and Bridge Work and Teeth Without Plates a Specialty. AJI the latest methods In Dentistry. Gas administered for painless extraction. Office over Larsh’s Drug Store. JOHN A. DUNLAP BAWYBB. (Successor to Frank Foltz.) Practice In all courts. Estates settled. Farm Loans. Collection department. Notary In toe office. Pr. B. C. ENGLISH Night and day calls given prompt attention. Phones: 177—3 rings for effies; 8 rings Dr. F. A. TURFLER OWXBOPATEXC rXTSXOXAB. Rooms 1 and 3. Murray Building. Rensselaer, Indiana. Phones, Office—3 rings on Ml, rest denes—3 rings on I*4. Successfully treats both seats and jhronlc diseases. Spinal curvatures s specialty. _ Dr. E. N. LOT Successor to Pr. W. W. HarteelL ■OMBOPAAEISrOffice—Frame building on Cullen street, east of court house. OFFICE e-iMtalE toR ** , d* nC * Bramstae^raUaMk* 01 ** *** T. H. HEBTHIIL, B. D. FBTSZOKAB ABB SWBOBOE. Ofitos tawjutoto bteedt- Opposite Tatepb—a, effies myd rtotetoga_4<t_ Calling Cards, printed or sngrarad oorraet tlm mi tetter. «t this «**. • * ’-w -v N ■- *- ”* -* ■* —•••t-.-ri

■ '« it is perhaps the best hay grate In America. Full directions for exterminating Johnson grass can be had by addressing the United State department of agriculture. This grass furnishes three cuttings of hay a year, yielding in all from two to five tons of hay per acre, depending on the season and uie fertility of the land. We have already mentioned alfalfa. While this hay plant is well adapted to the whole Canebrake region where the fsoil has sufficient lime, it is comparitively new to the region, and is not grown as generally as it should bet The area is increasing very rapidly and $ confidently expect, in a few year* to see the area of alfalfa in this region exceed that, of any other crop. Alfalfa xaMy bf mm on Johnson fiiti SjuUU Since the alfalfa is cut from four to six times in a season, the Johnson grass gradually becomes less prominent in an alfalfa field. A slight admixture of Johnson grass In alfalfa hay really Improves its quality. I know feeders who say they would pay more for the mixed hay if they had to, because they find it |* better. At the present time, however, the miked hay does not bring so much on the market as straight alfalfa. I think this Is due to the greater abundance of Johnson grass hay. When the area of alfalfa reaches its legitimate proportions in this section, I should not be surprised to see mixed hay selling for as much as, or even more than, straight alfalfa. In addition to pasture and forage the final requisite for a livestock industry, so far as feed is concerned, is gram. The Canebrake region can produce MB la competition with any other section. When corn is grown as a major crop, and not merely tolerated as it is now by the cotton grower, that is, when com is given the proper conditions in the Canebrake yields of forty to sixty bushels per acre will be common. Oats &1H do well in this section. Sorghum la another crop which adds enormously to the forage possibilities of the region. With Bermuda pasture, alfalfa and Johnson grass hay. Sorghum Silage, corn and a little cotton seed meal, the stock grower in the Canebrake region can compete successfully with his northern neighbor. ‘ . , The Canebrake region Is eminently adapted to hog raising. Bermuda and alfalfa furnish abundant pastures. These combined with fall sown grains furnish pasture the year round. Corn, sweet potatoes and peanuts will furnish concentrated feed for' fattening purposes. The only drawback in the past to cattle growing nas been the tick which spreads Texas fever. This tick Is now rapidly being eradicated. Perhaps a majority of the farms In the Canebrake are now free from this pest It will certainly be only a few years with toe intelligent effort which is now being made, until this drawback to cattle growing is entirely eliminated. Any farmer may clean his own farm of ticks by following the directions which wIU be given him by experts in charge es the tick eradication work. ; While cattle growing and hog raising have sufficient development In thaCaaebrake region to render it certain that these two industries are eminently adapted to the section, there has been less experience with raising horses. Neverthless, conditions seem to be Ideal for horse raising. I see no reason why the Canebrake cannot supply a large part of the demand for horsea and mules In the southern states when the Canebrake farmers turn their attention to this type of farming. ,7 ■

Rensselaer Republican tukmr Am oMHrnßaar m cxjmx - ywuw IUMCBIVTira KATES CWlly. by Carrier, I# Cent# a Week. By t-ail, IJ.7S a Y tar. teml-Weefciy, In advance, Thar, 11-W. Tuesday, December If, 1912. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. city ornont Mayor .•••••,.•••••'.••» .G. F. Meyers Marshal George Mustard Clerk Chas. Morlaa Treasurer K. D. Thompson Attorney Moss Leopold Civil Engineer W. F. Osborne Fire Chief .........J. J. Montgomery Fire Warden Montgomery tat Ward .Georgs Hopkins 2nd Ward .V Elsie Grow Srd Ward ..Harry Kreeler At Large C. I. Dean, A. G. Catt * xudiczal! Circuit Judge Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attorney... Fred LongweO Terms of Cou rt—Second Monday la February, April. September and Novemler. Four week terms. coww orrios—> Oers Judaea H Perkins SLerlff ...W. L Hoover Auditor X. P. Hammond Treasurer ....A. A. Fell Recorder J. W. Tilton Surveyor .............. vF. F. O^bornp Coroner «••»..*.....».«•.W. J. WrtrM Supt. Public Schools. ...Ernest Lamars County Assessor .. .Jobs Q. lewis Health Officer .& N. Us Ist District Waa H. mrshmsn tod District.... Charles F. Stackhouse ltd District Charles T. Denham Commissioners' Court meets the First Monday of each swath. Charles May ......Carpenter J. W. Selmer CWlaaa George Fai1ur......... Hanging Grove W. H. Wortley ..Jordan Tunla Snip. Keener John Shirer Kankakee 3^^=:.v.vS toaM N Ojden StUiama.. Bensoelaay' ndsa *• May svasouMna Subset Ibers to The Bvewlsg ltspoblf* rtVhem”b^TretM> r felW