Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1913 — Page 3

PRESIDENT’S DAUGHTER AND HER FIANCE

The camera caught Miss Jessie Wilson, daughter of the president, and her fiance, Francis B. Sayre, on their slay to churph in Cornish, N. H.

JAYHAWKER’S TRIALS

Survivors Live Again 52 Death Valley Days. jOf the Fleet White to Cross the Desert In 1849 Only Four Are Now Living—Boiled Ox Hide for Soup. San Francisco. —Of the hardships endured by the “jayhawkers of *90," as the survivors of the first band of white people ever to cross Death valley are now galled, little has been told. The memories of 52 days spent in the sands of the Mojave desert, with boiled ox hide for food, and water as an occasional luxury, however, are kept alive by the Jayhawkers’ society, whose four members, one of them a woman nearly 100 years old, hold yearly meetings. These meetings, preceded by a din 1 ner, take place on the anniversary of the day in 1850 when the remnants of the party left the desert behind them and wandered, mere dead than alive, into a Mexican rancho in the valley of the Santa Clara river, near the present site of Newhall, a southern Pacific station on the route to Mojave. At the home of Mrs. Juliet W. Brier, the only woman of the party, who brought three children under the age of ten years with her on the journey, the remnant was' held this year. She now lives at 94 Myrtle street, Santa Cruz. Col. John B. Colton of Galesburg, Ill.; L. Dow Stephens of San Jose and John Grosscup of Laytonville now compose the rest of the Jayhawkers. Only three were present, as Mr. Grosscup has been unable to make the journey for a number of years on account of ill health. Absent in body, he has been present in spirit, sending a letter each time, which is read at the dinner. In 1849, when the party started for California, Illinois was a frontier state, and west of there Indianas were practically the only inhabitants. By the time they reached Salt Lake and the Mormon settlements practically all their cattle had been stampeded. The desire of the Mormons to have some one break a wagon trail to southern California led them to advise the jayhawkers to head for Los, Angeles, says Colonel Colton, and the start across the desert was made against the advice of Kit Carson and other noted plainsmen. Hearing of the hardships of the Denver party, however, they hesitated at taking the route, over the Sierras, and so, after waiting for six weeks in Salt Lake for the desert to cool off, they started southward. Captain Hunt of the Mormon battalion of the Mexican war was engaged to lead them at a price of 91,000 for 100 wagons. Nearly 290 persona were in the party at the beginning. They soon found that they could eat the flesh of their cattle,' and so a diet of oxen was begun, to continue until they reached California. These poor animals, scarcely more than skin and bones, were killed regularly, and the skin boiled until it was eatable. Possibly a pailful of blood was secured from each, and this made a blood pudding. By boiling the entrails, a dish on trfe order of tripe was made. There was no other food. Three out of five water holes they reached contained alkali and so had to be passed by. Men and oxen alike dropped in their tracks, never to rise again. According to the account of Rev. Mr. Brier, husband of the "little woman/’ one man was left behind, unable to walk, and the party too

weak to assist him. When “Providence Spring” was reached they went back to look for him —he had crawled four miles on his hands and knees before he died. A second wandered away insane, a third fell dead without a groan, another staggered into one of the springs on the route, and died with the first taste of water on his lips. When his veins were cut open, a watery fluid bearing a faint resemblance to blood flowed out

MUSIC SAVES A MAN’S LIFE

Wrapped Around Carnival Manager, Snake Loosens Colls as Mlle. La Beneto Plays Weird Tune. Punxsutawney, Ha.—With the colls of a python 25 feet long tightening gradually around his body, James Harve Stengel, manager for a carnival company, escaped being crushed to death only through the power of music to soothe the reptile after the efforts of six men had failed to dislodge it. ‘Mr. Stenger was superintending the unloading of a box of snakes when the python escaped. For an instant the reptile seemed to be dazed, and as Mr. Stenger took a stick and tried to push It through a door into a big glass cage the snake turned like a flash. In an instant the python entwined Itself around Mr. Stenger, pinning his arms to his sides. Six men went to Mr. Stenger’s aid and attempted to pull the snake from his body. The folds of the big reptile, however, only drew closer, and Mr. Stenger was on the verge of a collapse, when Mlle. La Beneto, who owns the reptile, appeared with a flageolet between her lips. Stationing herself near the snake she began to play a low, weird melody, at the same time swaying her body to and fro gently. Raising its head, the python began to sway in rhythm with the player and the music, and gradually loosening its folds from Mr. Stenger it colled on the ground with its head swinging from side to side. Slowly approaching the snake Mlle. La Beneto, still playing gently, forced it into the glass cage. In the meantime Mr. Stenger, who had toppled over unconscious when released from the folds of the snake, was revived and found to be uninjured.

PREDICTED THE RUIN OF N. Y.

Yellow Invaders and Negroes Will Throw Dice for Spoils In 1914, Said Seer. Parle. —There is much talk here of the death of one of the most picturesque figures in Europe, Maria Benita Frey, who breathed her last recently near Rome after having been bedridden 52 years. She is said to have made many predictions which were fulfilled with absolute accuracy, which gives a sinister significance to her last utterance dictated on her deathbed to the nuns: "Before two years are papt—about the end of 1914 —yellow invaders and negroes will be throwing dice for the fate of the last American girl in Central Park, N. Y., amid the smoking ruins of the great city, to the idolatrous cult of the Golden Calf.”

Lightning Kills Mother.

Titusville, Pa. —Mrs. L. O. Bradley, wife of a prominent merchant here, was instantly killed by a bolt of lightning. When killed the woman carried a small baby and it was uninjured. The death occurred at the Bradley summer home at Mystic Park.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN. RENSSELAER, IND.

CITY OF MYSTERIES

Over 20,000 Disappear Every Year in London. Little Hope of Discovery—By Moving Around the Corner One Can Vanish Completely, Declares a Veteran Detective.

London. —The disappearance of ths Memphis '‘millionaire," Joseph Wilber-, force Martin, in the hidden depths of London has served to remind the whole world that the British capital is in many ways the best hiding place that anybody can utilize. The city is so vast that the police can only investigate any case on well understood and well defined lines. A smart man learns these lines. He does not rush to the railroad depots to get knocked down by an auto and conveyed to a hospital. He does not take too much to drink and secrete himself in a police cell. He merely changes his name, his clothes and his address, and if he does not provoke feminine curiosity he is as safe in London as he would be in the desert of the Sahard. The best proof of this will be found in the fact that on the day that J. W. Martin disappeared in London somewhere about fifty other persons vanished.' A similar number were lost the day before, and a similar number the day after. But no outcry waa raised on the subject. “London does not boast or shout about its mysteries. It is only when something really dramatic happens and there are shrewd folks like the Americans concerned in the solution that a real big stir is made. Then one realizes with a start of surprise that somewhere about 20,000 men and women disappear every year within that puzzling conglomeration of towns and cities to which is given the magic name of 'London.’” An outcry was raised over the disappearance of Antanas Vedegris, a wealthy Lithuanian, who came to London on business in January, and on the 17th of that month visited a friend, a priest, and has not been seen since. Yet he was a man of forty, could speak English fairly well, and had a physique that few “toughs” would care to tackle in the daylight. He had about SIO,OOO in his possession and facilities for obtaining more money if he wished to do so.

( Some time ago two girl students took rooms together in the west end. One night they were hanging pictures and they found they had run short of nails. “I’ll go out and get some,” one said. She went, just as she was. without hat or coat, to a little store round the corner, while her companion set about preparing the evening meal. The girl never returned. Inquiries showed that she did not visit the store, and she has not been heard of since. “London has cloaks enough to hide iis all,” Sherllker contends. “If you want to disappear all you need do is to move around the corner; Very few people in the metropolis are on speaking terms with those who live in the next flat or in the next house. There have been several cases ,ln recent years of policemen having resided tn the same block as men who were wanted for some notorious crime, and there is an instance on record of a wealthy ex-convict who vanished, assumed a disguise and another name, became a property owner and actually leased a house to the judge who some years before had sentenced him to penal servitude.”

RETURNS TO THE OLD HOME

Kentucky Farmer Gives Goose to a Friend but She Returns Next Day. Louisville, Ky.—A Kentucky farmer gave a goose to a friend who lived six miles away. The goose was put into a bag and carried In a wagon, a river separating the two farms. On

the afternoon of the next day the goose was seen walking up the hili to her former owner’s home, having swam the river and walked the entire distance during the night. That goose wasn’t given away again, you may be sure.

BOOT TOO TIGHT, SNAKE IN IT

After Returning to Farmhouse From Feeding Chickens Woman Makes Unpleasant Discovery. Junction City, Kan. —Mrs. Grover Filby, wife of a farmer near Skiddy, raises ducks. Mrs. Filby also has a pair of rubber boots that she wears when attending to her charges. When not in use the boots are left lying on the porch. In the morning, when Mrs. Filby slipped them on, she noticed that one of them wgs rather tight, but did not pull it off to Investigate, as she supposed that the children had stuffed paper or rags into the toe, as a joke on her. She' looked after the ducks and returning to the house, pulled off the boots. From the tight one dropped a snake. \ . Mrs. Filby has no recollection of how large the serpent was or its kind.

CATTLE FEEDING AND COUNTRY BEAUTIFUL

By J. 8. COFFEY, Department of Animat Husbandry, Purdue University u School of Agriculture, Purdue University Agricultural Extension.

In southwestern Illinois, in the county of Macoupin, near the village of Chesterfield, there is located a small community which is made up almost entirely of live stick farmers. This particular vicinity is of much interest to the Visitor chiefly because of the comparisons which may be made between it and the immediate surrounding localities. First let us inquire as to how this vicinity, so well adapted to grain farming, happens to be a live stock center. Early in the settlement of Illinois there came into this locality several families from Yorkshire, England. The statement of this fact alone should be sufficient to solve the mystery. The English farmer in general is a lover of live stock, and the Yorkshire farmer proves no exception to the rule. In fact, he dwells in that part of England where the breeding and Improvement of live stock, in the past, has been most active. Consequently it has been most natural for these Chesterfield farmers, who are descendants of the old Yorkshire farmers, to breed, grow and feed live stock. Regarding the comparisons which this community affords with the surrounding communities, one can hradly Imagine the vast differences that are displayed without having visited the localities.

APPLE GROWING

Horticultural Department, Purdue University Experiment Station. Purdue University Agricultural Extension. It is time now to thin apples from trees too heavily set with fruit. Thinning will help you to produce winning fruit at the apple show; thinning, when Consistently followed up, will do more than any other single thing to make your trees bear crops annually. Thinning will lessen ydur picking costs, make easier your packing problems, and, by increasing the number of apples which grade as firsts, will fatten your purse with profits. Thinning presents every indication that it will become one of the most profitable orchard operations, and, as was the case with spraying, the pioneers in adopting the new custom, will receive the pre-competition profits. The market today gives first recognition and highest prices to fruit uniform in size and uniformity may be obtained by thinning. It pays to thin. The practice of thinning fruit is as logical as that of thinning corn. What good corn grower will allow an overstand of stalks in the hills to menace his crop? Nature’s prodigality provides well for reproduction, but not for man’s pecuniary profits, hence artificial methods must be employed to make nature obey man’s demands. We demand annual crops of goodsized apples, but in order to get them we must not allow the trees to carry in some seasons burdens so heavy as to exhaust them for the succeeding year’s work. A tree can bri/ig to the highest perfection only a certain number of apples. All above this number are surplus, or “weed apples," and should be dealt with accordingly. Profitable apple growing demands thinning now, when years ago it did not. The “June-drop,” due largely to Insect and fungus infestation, and to imperfect pollination, was formerly locked forward to, and depended upon to remove some of the surplus apples. However, when the codlin moth, curcullo and fungous troubles increased so rapidly that too many apples dropped in June, or were rendered unfit for market later, means had to be devised to control these pests. Modern spraying not only successfully controls the pests, but also causes an over-abundant setting of fruit. Therefore a new problem has been brought about, and one which is compelling more attention each year as the value of thinning fruit becomes more apparent.

All fruit trees are subject to fertile and barren years. Some years an exceedingly heavy setting of fruit will corns to maturity. These over-abund-ant crops usually prevent the formation of fruit buds to make a crop for the following year. Annual bearing of profitable crops is the end every fruit grower .wishes to attain, and consistent thinning will do more than anything else to bring this about. Of course, there are some varieties which seem to have a tendency to bear every other year, but no one knows yet that thinning will not correct, thia tendency. The value of thinning, then as a cheap insurance for future crops. Is evident. The current season's crops shew handsome returns, how-

. Extending east from Chesterfield for miles lies the broad prairie, adapted primarily to the growing of corn and oats. Here the farmers grow, reap, and haul their crops to msyket. The fences surrounding their farms and fields are either missing or in a dilapidated condition. Their barns are small, insignificant, and cheaply constructed. Even the residences show the result of the same neglect which prevails over the farm in general. Going back to the Chesterfield neighborhood one sees immense barns, numerous silos, modern residences, well-kept hedge fences, fields thickly set with clover, and the evidences of thrift and life prevailing at every corner. Two hundred and fifty acres is the average size of the farms in this community. Sixty bushels per acre is the average yield of corn. Five car-loads of cattle per year is the average number fed and 150 to 200 tons of manure are placed on these farms annually. Is it any wonder then, considering these activities, combined with the natural pride of these Yorkshire bred farmers, that this is a country beautiful? And again, is it impossible for any farmer in the corn-belt to accomplish the same thing if he is willing to expend his energy, exert his pride and develop his knowledge along lines of live stock production? We, who have seen it tried, think not.

ever, for the time and money expended in thinning. Your cost of picking will be lessened considerably by thinning. A man can remove four apples at the proper season for thinking in the same time he could pick a mature apple, and place it, with proper care, in the picking basket. The saving in this one respect is vouched for by one of the best known growers in this state, who, just after picking time last year, made the folldwing statement: "I did not know I had such a heavy setting of fruit until August. If I had only thinned my ten-acre block of Rome Beauties, I would have been richer by three hundred dollars, for the larger apples brought from twenty to forty cents more per bushel. My picking came at a time when labor was costly and hard to get. Had there been fewer apples, my picking cost would have been decreased, and the yield in bushels would have been about the same.” Statistics from authentic sources show that thinning increases the percentage of apples which grade as firsts from fifteen to slxty-flye per cent., according to variety and cultural conditions. The Ohio experiment station has run a series of thinning experiments which show the value of thinning to the immediate Crop in dollars and cents. One grower averaged more from thinned than unthinned trees. With forty-eight trees to the acre his increased profits from thinning amounted to $240 an acre. This figure takes into account the cost of thinning, which averaged forty cents* per tree, with labor valued at 15 cents per hour. More than fifty per cent, of the fruit which set was removed in thinning. Can you not afford to thin?

GRAPE INSECTS

By JAMEB TROOP, Department of Entomology, Purdue University School of Agriculture, Purdue University Agricultural Ex- ■ ■ ' ■ tension. ;' < Ot the species of insects which infect grapes one of hte most destructive to the foliage is the Rose-beetle or rose-chaster, but fortunately this insect does not make its appearance in large numbers only ocasionally, but when it does "come, it usually strips the vines of their leaves in short order. No ordinary insecticide has any effect upon them, consequently the only successful method of holding them in check is to spread sheets or blankets under the vines and jar them off, then gather them into a dish of kerosene.

The grape leaf-folder and the grapeborry moth are the next most important species, the first feeding upon the leaves and the second causing wormy grapes, often destroying the whole bunch. These species are easily managed, however, as both pass the winter in the rubbisb around the vines* and may be gathered up and burned. The grape phyloxera, which is so destructive to the European vineyards, does not injure our native varieties to any great extent, as they are more hardy and better able to overcome the attacks of these Insects.

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Only A Touch

By REV. PARLEY E. ZARTMANN. D. D.

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gospel this nameless woman Is- the most touching, and her attitude toward Jesus, his treatment of her, and the gracious results serve as encouragement to anyone who doubts his fitness for approach to Christ or his worthiness to receive anything from Christ. It is the story of a miracle by the way. Jesus had been requested by Jalrue to come to his house and heal his daughter. As he was going on bls way and much people followed him and thronged him, a certain woman, seriously ill for twelve yean, suffering many things of many physicians, and growing worse instead of better, came In the crowd about Jesus and touched the hem of his garment She was a great sufferer from her disease and disappointment . . Recognition. I Jesus noticed her touch; “And Jesus immediately knowing In himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?" He knows the slightest movement of the eoul toward himself, he feels the burdens we bear, for he is touched with a feeling of our infirmities. Like the father In Luke 15 he goes out to meet the returning wanderer. What an encouragement it is to the sinner to realize this approachableness and responsiveness of the great Savior. Sometimes we are in doubt about the character and love of God, but every revelation of the tenderness, compassion and thoughtfulness of Jesus is also a revelation of the fact that God is like him. Ha knows our reaching out after him; let us be sure of that. “1 waited patiently for the Lord, and he inclined unto md> and heard my cry.” Get close to Jesus in love and faith, and touch him. His heart and love and power will respond. "The healing of his seamless dress Is by our Ibfeds ot pain; We touch him in life’s throng and pna And we are whole again." Jesus rewards the woman, though she had mistaken ideas about his character and his work; but One thing she knew—she was sick and there was a healer; she touched him and that brought blessing and benediction. Jesus did not stop to raise questions a* to her character or criticise her for her conduct. He responded to the weak faith and the earnest desire of the woman, “And said unto her. Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.” The story shows that faith is personal allegiance to a personal Christ Many of us need simpler ideas and teaching about saving faith. Christ saves, not a creed; Christ saves, not a church; although creed and church are important and must find their place in the life of the saved sinner. The woman got more than she asked; the experience of every believing, loyal,, trusting soul is, "My cup runneth over." Confession. Who touched me? Christ waits for the answer, although the disciples said unto him, “Thou seest the multitude thronging to thee, and sayest thou, who touched me?” And Jesus waits until the woman tells him all the truth and goes away not only with a healed body but with her sins forgiven and the affectionate approval of Jesus. There is a vast difference between thronging about Christ and touching him; the supreme thing is to get at him. Having received blessing from Christ it is our duty to make his will our life and to confess him before others, because we love him and because* we want to help others. Has there been disease, disappointment, despair in your life? Reach out and touch Jesus. Think of his power until you say, God can save; think of, his love until you can say, God will save; then the touch of faith will bring a change—conscious, complete, confessed. Jesus meets the peculiar need of each soul: pardon to the penitent* justification to the guilty, cleansing to the impure. You should come to him waiting for nothing; so coming Christ will receive you. God’s mercy is greater than all the sins of the world; there is salvation for you if you will have it. "She only touched the hem of his garAe to his side she stole; Amid the crowd that gathered around him. And straightway she was made whole. Oh. touch the hem of his varment. And thou. too. shalt be free; tsra

The story of this nameless woman and the miracle of her healing is found in each of the synoptic gospels, and it is especially prominent in that of St Mark; in fact, it is one of the striking cartoons which this evangelist uses in describing the work of Christ. Of all the characters in the