Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1914 — Page 3

CEMENT DRAIN TILE

Easily Made in Winter—Materlte Must be Free of Frost, Keep Finished Tile From Freezing for 30 Days. . ' ..1 . /. (National Crop Improvement Servlce.l The melancholy days that the poet Bryant talked, about have come land gone, and the recent warm spell which has taken place over most of the corn belt , states has greatly lessened the number of idle days which the average fanner wastes in winter. Many farmers were plowing in Illinois up to December 15. Such conditions are, of course, unusual. The progressive, efficient farmer wishes there was something he could do during winter to utilize hie idle hours and idle days and also to keep his farm hands busy. Co-operation Desirable. Cement drain tile making or manufacture by the farmer is a comparatively simple problem and there is no reason why the individual farmer cannot successfully do Qis work. On the other hand, cooperation with a neighbor or two is desirable, If such neighbors are willing to agree on a plan of action and stick to it. The manufacture of cement drain tile provides one method of co-opera-tion. A tile making machine can be purchased by the fanner, or group of farmers, and the cost will be from $35 to perhaps SIOO. There is now on .the market a satisfactory machine selling for $35. While these machines require a small gasoline engine to operate them, yet this is not a factor to be seriously considered, now that so many farmers have engines of thiskind on their farms. The hauling of material (sand and gravel) and the Portland cement from the local dealer in the nearest town out to the farms is another co-operative problem. Given, therefore, a group of five or six farmers, who have hauled several tons of proper material to a common point and have purchased, let us carload of Portland cement which will be at least 257 barrels. In addition, a gasoline engine must be provided. The group of farmers are now ready to commence making cement drain tile. It has not been thought necessary to comment on the great advantages of tiling in this article. Materials Needed. According to an eminent concrete engineer and specifications published by the Concrete Institute the materials used for mailing cement drain tile should be three in number. First, standard Portland cement; second, torpedo sand or its equivalent in screened, graded Band; third, clean, pure water and plenty of it. In winter it will be necessary to heat this sand outside the building bo that all frost is removed. The heated material must be taken indoors before it has a chance to freeze. It is also desirable that the water should be heated which, with the large feed kettle used on many farms, is a comparatively easy problem. As to the water, any water that is unfit for drinking purposes should not be used for concrete work at any time. Torpedo sand is a course, hard sand containing no dust; dirt, vegetable matter or other foreign materials and ranging from ordinary fine sand to coarse sand and sometimes contains little pebbles, broken rock, etc., up to and including one-quarter-inch in size. Not over 10 per cent, of this material should be fine sand, or what every farmer knows as common beach sand. When sand has to be purchased (which is not common in most farming communities), torpedo sand can be specified and bought from dealers in building ma-

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terials. , wFerfie “pit” or "bank run' gravel is used, the coarser materia; shoul-1 be screened through a one-quarter-inch sand screen which can “easily be made of ordinary wire cloth and tacked to a frame of 2x4’s. If too much fine sap 4 appears to be in the mixture a certain amount of coarse material about %-inch in size should be added to correct this deficiency. Standard Portland cement should be used with this torpedo sand in the proportions of 1 to 3. Under no circumstances should less cement be used in the manufacture of cement drain tile, regardless of what any small town contractor or other "ovar-ly-wtee” person may say. Enough water should be added so that the finished, tile will bear a webed or water marked surface. The tile should then be sprinkled and kept moist for two weeks in a closed room where the temperature does not fall below freezing. This room, if necessary, must be heated by salamanders, stoves, etc. The. tile should be protected for at least two weeks longer from freezing, or at least thirty days in all, after which they may be piled outside in the yard.

The idea of farmers in building thU tile should be to make a small number of first-class tile rather than a large number of inferior tile, and like everything else in the business world, quality and not quantity should count.

TEACHING FARMING

In late years, the most marked change in the educational world has been the development of agricultural Instruction in the public schools From May 1910 to March 1912 the number of institutions giving work In agriculture' increased at the rat« of 76 a month. Now 19 States have agriculture in the common school and give examinations reviewing agriculture as a prerequisite in obtaining a fc Vß v certificate.-Charlotte Baker.

ONLY ONE “BEST.”

Rensselaer People Give Credit Where Credit is Due. People of Rensselaer who suffer with weak kidneys and bad backs want a kidney remedy that can be depended upon. Doan’s Kidney Pills is a medicine for the kidneys only, and one that is backed by willing testimony of Rensselaer people. Here’s a case: William Clift, 528 College St., Rensselaer, Ind„ says: “I had kidney and bladder trouble and my back ached severely. I did not sleep well and was annoyed by a too frequent desire to pass the kidney secretions. I took doctors’ medicine and remedies of various kinds, but found no relief until I used Doan’s Kidney Pills. Since then my back has not troubled me and I have felt better in every way. It gives me great pleasure to endorse Doan’s Kidney Pills.” For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—Doans’— take no other.

LECTURE COURSE DATES.

Feb. 10—Regimental (Quartette).' March 9—Amsbary (Lecture). March 23—Plumstead (Impersonator).

To feel strong, have good appetite and digestion, sleep soundly and enjoy life, use Burdock Blood Bitters, the family system tonic. Price SI.OO.

Job work at Republican office.

“BEHOLD. I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW"

Fallen Race illdP to Bn Mate-Haw Dy QMg. Man's Original Perfection—The Reign of Sin and Death—A Sad Spectacle. Thousands of Millions Dead —Hundreds of Millions Dying Weak In Body, Weak Mentally, Morally, Physically—Human Power Has Failed to Arrest the Malady—Man’s Only Hope Is In God—Messish God’s Appointed Agent—To Redeem, to Regenerate, to Make New—Soon He Wilt Deliver the Whole Creation—Nothing Bhall Hinder —Blessings Will Be OutpgurgtL

each a thousand years long. At the beginning of man’s Week he was perfect, as represented in Adam; but disobedience to his Creator brought upon him the curse, “Dying, thou shait die.” Under that curse our race has gone down steadily to the tomb—the Bible Hell Sfieol, Hades.

Next tlie Pastor showed how Ineffectually man has struggled against this curse of death. Today, he said, our race Is assailed by more ailments, mental, moral aud physical, than ever before known. Onr jails, penitentiaries, asylums, hospitals, ail bear testimony to this fact, be claimed. Even toe morals of the world be believes to be apparently at as low a state as coulfi well be Imagined, after all our preaching. and manufacture of hobgoblins, devils and bells, to frighten humanity Into church, religion and morality. Then the Pastor asked whether it is not time to acknowledge onr failure and to cry to God for help ere we perish as a race. Not only have we not converted the heathen world, but' we find the civilized world retrograding. Statistics show that crimes Increase amongst the heathen despite the preaching of eternal torture.

Man’s Extremity Is God’s Opportunity. The Pastor next outlined God’s great Plan of Salvation through the Redeemer, who died, “the Just for the unjust,’’ to open the way for man’s return to God’s favor. Daring the Gospel Age the Savior has been gathering out an elect Church to be His associates in a coming Kingdom, In which He with His Church will reign for a thousand years. Daring that period Satan will be bound, to deceive the people no more; and the Redeemer will put down sin in Its every form. The Savior’s work at the First Ad-vent-healing the sick and the blind, casting out demons and awakening the sleeping dead—the Pastor showed was a foreshadow merely of the greater work which Jesus and His glorified Church will accomplish during the great-antitypical Sabbath. These. As the antitypical Seed of Abraham, will fulfil God’s Promise to Abraham. Christendom’s Great Mistake, The Pastor believes that the creeds of the Dark Ages are gross misrepresentations of God’s character. Many

Washington, D. C., Feb. I.—Pastor Russell preached today in the Temple. His text was, “Behol^, ( l make all things new.”— Revelation 21:5. The Pastor showed that the Bible Intimates that the seven days of the week are typical of seven great Days,

have takeu these misrepresentations too literally As a result, some have gone to insane a*y|i»i|s; others have turned to pleasure and,sin JQ their endeavor to forget Cod; and still others have been made unhappy as they thought of kind, good neighbors and friends who; made no profession of Christianity

The speaker then showed that Christendom’s great mistake was that of disregarding. Cod’s Word aud believiug .Satan’s lie. as the heathen do Cod declared that the wages of sin wonld be death- absence of life. Satan contradicted this and falsified to Mother Eve, assuring her that there would be no death penalty. When death came, Satan and bis fallen angels perpetuated the lie by telling us that when onr friends appear to die they really become more alive than ever. In accepting their testimony we have done what St Paol cautioned against Evil spirits, be claimed, have seduced Christendom by giving feigned com municatipns between the dead and the living. As Satan and his demon host have full knowledge of human affairs, they can easily personate the dead, and through mediums, witches, plancbettes.. visions and dreams, represent the dead as still alive. The Pastor then drew a picture of the coming Messianic Kingdom. He declared that as the gross darkness flees before the dawning light of the New Dispensation we see more clearly where our mistake was. Bible students the world over are studying afresh the Word of God in its own light. Now they perceive that the resurrection hope Is based npoD the fact that Christ died for all Bible students* now see that the world’s blessing will be a resurrection to human perfection—a lifting up. not only from the sleep of the tomb, but also from all the weaknesses and imperfections of the flesh, back to ths full image of perfection lost in Eden, redeemed at Calvary. Tbns onr great Redeemer will make all things new.

MILROY

E. Marchand, Willard Johnson and families and Clarence and Claude Blankenship spent Tuesday evening with George Poulks*. Harold McKlnly has been sick under the doctor’s care and now Mrs. McKinly Is sick. Mrs. T. E. Johnson, Mrs. Willard Johnson - and Mrs. E. Marchand and Miss Irene called on Branson Clark, who Is In very poor health, Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Parks visited her mother, Mrß. Ravenscroft, near Remington, Tuesday. Mrs. Mary McCashen and Ettie, Chas. McCashen and family and Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Clark, of Lee, spent Sunday with George Foulks’. g: L. Parks was a Rensselaer visitor Monday. Joseph Rees and Robert Keve visited Perry Castor and family in Stegar, 111., last week, returning to Geo. Foulks’ Monday, They also visited the auto show In Chicago Friday and Saturday. Wm. Wall Is tacking sale bills for his sale Feb. 15. Wm. Wall and family ate dinner Sunday with John Tow’s. Mr. Ogle and family spent Sunday with Lon Wood and family. Lon Wood was a Rensselaer visitor Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Clark, of Lee, spent Saturday night with his sister, Mrs. Chas. McCashen, and family.

Special Sale of Potted Plants.

For this week, in order to make room for spring plants, I will make a special sale of potted blooming Marguerites, the 35 cent kind for 15 cents. Remember, this week only. H. Holden.

None should miss hearing The Regimental Quartette at the Christian church next Tuesday evening, Feb. 10th. This is the third number of the union lecture course and the soldier boys are recommended as capable musicians with an instructive as well as amusing and in all respects a pleasing program.

Phone us your orders tor set i, coal or wood. Hamilton A Kellner, No. 273.

REMINGTON.

Horace Hoover and family visited in Kokomo last week. Ed Sutherland has opened a livery barn on S. Ohio street at his old stand.

•Wedding bells and more again are about to be heard in our city. The K. of P’s. are making ready for the Golden Jubilee convention In Rensselaer on February 10th. George Carrothers, late of the Philippines, where he was district superintendent of education, gave a lecture in the M. E. chureh last Wednesday evening, proceeds for the public schools. The gentleman is a close friend of Jas. Washburn. Florence, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Howard, died Thursday night of heart trouble Funeral services were held at the home Saturday afternoon, conducted by Rev. E. H. Bull. Interment made in Remington cemetery. The O. E. S. chapter has issued invitations to a “box party” Friday eve, Feb. 6th. The Presbyterian Industrial Society meets Thursday with Mrs. Belle Greene. The M. E. Missionary Society gave its January program at the home of Mrs. James Washburn Tuesday, Jan. 27th.

The Presbyterian Missionary Society meets Thursday, Feb. 12, #ith Mrs. Fred Hicks. Rev. Bull is forming a communicant’s class, looking forward to Easter. Several auto loads of our Rebekahs went in the bright sunshine to Rensselaer last Friday, spent the time pleasantly and profitably at the convention, and came home—in the blizzard late Friday night. Their enthusiasm, however, was not "snowed under.”

Rev. Bull occupied the Christian church pulpit Sunday evening. Mrs. Frank Pample returned to her home in Hastings, Neb., last week, after several weeks’ visit with her father, John Crabb, and other relatives.

Clubs.

The Jolly Club is to hold a valentine reception for members and their husbands on Friday eve, Feb. 13, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Somers, Mrs. Harvey Zinser is hostess Friday to the Sew and Sew at the Hartman home. The Dorcas Club met Wednesday evening with Miss Claire Broadie. Mrs. Geier and Mrs; Hargreaves were hostesses to the Fortnightly Club at Mrs. Geieris home last Wednesday, where a "Carey” program was given as follows: Sketch of the Sisters, Mrs. Rose Craine; Solo, Mrs. E. H. Bull, Recitation, “The Lovers”, Mrs. J. B. McNary; Inotations, Roll Call, Incidents, etc;, Club. Several special guests were present. The library board held its regular monthly meeting Monday evening. The duties of librarian will now be assumed by Miss Mollie Shearer. A meeting of the Federation of Clubs will be held in the near future.

CASTOR IA Jtf Tiifcnfai tail flhlMium, Tha Kind You Have Aluap Bought Order your coal ol the GrantWarner Lumber Co. A new car of Jackson Hill just received.

SALE. ' The undersigned will hold a pub 1 lie sale on what is known as the Salisbury ranch,.9 miles north and 34 mile west of Rensselaer, and 4 34 miles east of Fair Oaks, beginning at 10:30 s. m., on - ' ' —^=*=r=£= FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1914, the following property: 6 Head Horses—l brown mare, 10 years, wt. 1300; 1 bay gelding, 4 years, wt. 1300; 1 4-year-old black gelding, wt. 1500; 1 brown driving mare, 10 years old, wt. 900 ; 2 good horse colts, one last spring colt and a good one, the other was a year old last September. 23 Hoad Cattle-10 good milk -cows, 2 fresh with calves by side and several will be fresh soon; 3 coming 2 year old heifers, be fresh soon; 5 heifer calves and 3 steer calves and 2 good Shorthorn bulls, one 2 years old and one yearling. These are extra good milk cows. 10 Head Duroe Jersey fall pigs. Terms—lo months’ credit on sums over $lO, under $lO cash in hand; 8 per cent from date if not paid when due; 5 per cent off for cash. Usual terms. ED EILTS. Fred Phillips, Auctioneer. C. G. Spitler, Clerk. Hot lunch by the Ladies Aid of the Aix U. B. church. .PUBLIC SALE. We have decided to quit farming and will offer at public sale at our residence, 9 miles west and 1 mile north of Monon, 4 miles southwest of McOoysburg, on what is known as the Larshbaugh farm, sale to commence at 10 o’clock a. m. on, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1914 the following property: 6 Head Horses—l gray horse, age 8, wt 1450; 1 gray mare, age 9, wt 1350; 1 sorrel horse, age 10, wt 1100; 1 brown mare, wt 1200 and a good worker; 1 sorrel horse, wt 1100, and a good worker; 1 black pony, 8 yrs. old, broke to all harness. 4 Head Cattle— 3 yearling hellers, 1 yearling bull. Hoge—2 sows and 14 pigs, 5 shoats weighing 100 lbs. Farm Tools— l J. L Case cornplanter and fertilizer attachment and 100 rods wire, good as new; 1 narrow tire wagon, trippje box, 1 Studebaker wagon, 3-ineh tire, food as new; 1 Deering binder, 6 ft cut in good shape; 1 walking breaking plow, 14-inch; 1 walking breaking plow, 16-inch; 1 disc with trucks, l riding cultivator, 1 walking cultivator, 1 10-ft. harrow, 3 sets work harness, one set good as new, 114-ft hay rack, 20 rods hog wire, 2 dozen chickens, and others things not mentioned. Terms— l 2 month’s eredlt on all sums over $lO if paid when due; if not paid when due, notes to draw 8 per cent interest from date; 6 per cent discount for cash. Sums of $lO and under cash In hand. No property to be removed until terms of sale are complied with. W. H. WALLS. Hot luneh on ground. Y. D. Clyne, Auctioneer. Oscar Watson, Clerk.

M. P. Church Services.

Dr. H. Y. Sharp will preach at the Methodist Protestant church in Rensselaer Saturday evening, Feb. 7th, at 7:30 o’clock, and again on Sunday, Feb. Bth, at 10:30 in the morning and 7 in the evening. The public is cordially invited to attend any or all of these services.

Genuine New River Lump Pocahontas and A-No.-l Jackson Hill Egg. Sold by Hamilton A Kellner.