Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1899 — Page 7

TOPICS FOR FARMERS

A DEPARTMENT PREPARED FOR OUR RURAL FRIENDS. Poultry Raising as a Easiness—Thin Soils May Be Made Fertile by Turnins Under Green Crops—Hints on Ice Harvesting. . In all occupations it Is the strict observance of business principles that results in success. Raising poultry is no exception to this rule, and those who 'have and are making the business a decided success are but receiving the reward that follows the faithful application of strictly business methods. This so-called luck, good or bad, is merely the effect of proper or improper methods. Success in poultry culture is'no haphazard affair, but is secured only by regular methods, and the closer the aplication and more.careful and earnest, the greater becomes the success. One reason why many fail to meet with success when they increase their flocks is that they fail to increase their accommodations in proportion to the increase in their flock; they fail to recognize that large flocks are difficult to feed so that each individual may secure its allotted share; the various ailments have to be guarded against where large flocks are kept that are comparatively unknown among the moderate-sized flocks. The man who has attained success with a fair-sized flock should be very cautious how he increases It, expecting thereby to increase his profits. He should make a careful note of the facts that have resulted in securing profits. A good way to Increase the flock is to do it on the colony plan. After you know how to care for. say fifty hens, then start another yard of fifty hens. Then you will either ddfible the number of hens with not quite twice the amount of labor, and you should have twice the amount of profit This should be followed up until you can increase by another colony of fifty hens. By method you will be able to care for 500 hens, and do it as successfully as you did with the first fifty. Remember that It is the little things that make the success good or bad on the poultry farm.—lndiana Farmer.

How to Help Thin Soils. Shallow, thin soils that are deficient in vegetable matter, or, in other words, are barren from excessive cropping, can be made fertile only by the turning under of green crops grown by the aid of chemical manures, or by spreading a thick coat Of rotted straw, leaves •or swamp grass over the ground and turning this vegetable matter under four inches in depth. The following spring spread forty bushels of fresh lime to the acre, and harrow it in both ways. Plant the field to corn, applying 250 pounds of bone phosphate to the acre in the hill. Work the corn five or six times, and not more than three Inches in depth. Cut the corn off early In September; harrow the stubble well, and then drill to wheat, putting in with the grain 300 pounds •of bone phosphate to the acre and seed one peck of timothy In the fall and one peck of clover in the spring upon each acre. After the grain is harvested roll the stubble and keep off all stock. If there is a rank growth of grass, foxtail and ragweed, cut it off with the ■mower the first week in August, setting the cutter bar high. These weeds and grasses, if cured in the cock, will make excellent rough fodder for wintering young cattle. Pasture lands and run-out hillside fields can be cheaply Improved by spreading a coat of straw on the surface and then spreading forty bushels of fresh lime to the acre over the straw. Let the field lie until next fall, keeping off all stock, then plow the field shallow; harrow well and drill to grain, applying 300 pounds of some good bone manure tn the acre and seed down to timothy and clover.—The American.

Preventing: Apple Rot. A writer In the Practical Farmer, aays: “On my father’s farm is a Janet apple tree about twenty years old which never produced any sound apples until recently. The tree bloomed freely and set a great many apples, -w hich rotted before maturing. On examining the tree we found the bark rough and scaly, and under the scales hundreds of bark lice. The leaves also looked badly, having a pale green appearance. In May, 1896, I pulled off the scaly bark and applied with a brush a mixture of soapsuds and carbolic; ■acid, half pint acid to two gallons suds. In 1897 we sprayed the tree with the Bordcau* mixture just after the bloom bad fallen and again two weeks later. During the summer the foliage was of dark green, and in the fall we picked several bushels of excellent apples.” Harveattn*. Ice. As soon as the ice is six inches thick it should be cut Cut and stack It up alongside of the pond. Clear, solid ice, properly packed In a good house, will keep. Snow ice Is very porous, and, being full of air-hole*, will soon melt The Ice should be marked off and sawed out In medium-sized blocks. « A handy block to handle is one tstanty Inches square. Square blocks pack more closely. The moreagompact the tee can be put away the better It will keep. The icehouse should be cleaned <out the rails laid abot six inches apart in the bottom of the bouse, and one foot of straw spread over the rails. See that the board siding next to the house is in good condition. Holes should be nailed over to keep the ice from coming in ■contact with the earth. As the ice is put in, leave a ten-inch space between the ice and the sides of the house. This space should be rammed solid with leaves or chaff. Haul and pack the ice •when the weather is cold, ice packed when the weather la severe will freeze

Into a solid mass. Pack the Ice layer by layer, and fill up the holes with small pieces of ice. Snow when it falls on ice that Is to be cut should be brushed off the next day before it freezes. Farmers living near the city and haring a pond of clear spring water can find a profitable market for all the good ice they have to spare.

Keeping Potatoes. A correspondent of Farming suggests that potatoes will keep best at a low temperature, a little above freezing. Many potatoes are spoiled by being kept in too warm a place during the early fall and late spring. They should be kept In a dry place. If It will keep dry, a deep cellar is preferable, for the reason that It Is more likely to have a low uniform temperature, and will not be reduced to freezing temperature so readily as more shallow ones. The. blns in a potato cellar should not be too large. A three-hundred-bushel bin should be the largest used. Smaller ones would suit better. Slatted floors for the bins and slated walls between the bins, which allow the air to pass wound them, are better than close walls »r floors. The circulation of air which they allow keeps the potatoes dry and prevents heating. It is not a good plan to put potatoes in the cellar as soon as they are dug. It is better to put them in pits in the field until the weather gets cold enough to freeze the ground a few inches deep. In pitting them temporarily, If the ground is wet, put the potatoes in a conical pile on the surface; but, if the ground is dry, dig a shallow pit for them and use the dirt out of it for covering. After the potatoes have been placed in an even conical pile, cover them with a layer of pea or other straw about four inches thick, and then cover them with from three to five Inches of dirt. In such a pit potatoes will keep through a severe frost

A Pound of Pork. It requires 13.50 pounds of skim milk, to produce one pound of pork when fed with corn meal, ratio 1:14.7 to fattening bogs. Skim milk could not be economically fed to fattening hogs unless it was a product which could not be otherwise utilized. It required on an average 4% pounds of shelled corn to produce one pound of pork during an average period of four weeks, or one bush?! produced 13% pounds. It required 4% pounds of cornmeal to produce one pound of pork, or one bushel of corn made into meal and fed will produce 12% pounds of pork. When dry, shelled corn is more economical than cornmeal to feed fattening hogs. It required 7% pounds, or one bushel, of ground oats to produce one pound of pork, when fed with equal parts, by weight, of cornmeal. One bushel of cornmeal is worth nearly three bushels of oats as food for fattening hogs. Corn-fed pigs gained 4% pounds per week and ate about 21 pounds of corn per 100 pounds of live weight. Pork was produced during the cold weather, with corn at 28 cents per bushel, for less than 3 cents per pound. Indian corn is the most economical pork-produ<flft material during the winter months in regions where extensively grown.—Market Basket

To Kill Lice on Hogs. In answer to an inquiry, the Orange Judd Farmer gives the following instructions: “Before using any remedy have the pig house cleaned and hot Ihne sprinkled over the floor, and the walls whitewashed with fresh-burned lime. Then brush the hogs well to remove all dirt from the skin. Stavesacre seed, 1 quart; water, 20 quarts; boil this for one hour; let it simmer one hour longer, then strain and add water to make it up to the twenty quarts again. Rub a little of this well in all over the body. If the stavesacre seeds cannot be. obtained, use 1 pound of black tobacco to 30 pounds of water in the same way as the stavesacre seeds.'*

Paper to Exclude Cold. Common paper being, if whole, impervious to air, makes a very good covering where it can be kept from being wet By using tarred paper and placing It between two thicknesses of matched boards, the paper can be kept in gojd condition several winters, provided mice do not gain entrance. The imprisoned air which the paper will held between the boards makes the very best kind of non-conductor. Even the newspaper spread over the bed, or, better still, placed between the coverings, prevents much cold air getting through to the sleepers beneath, and a folded newspaper at the chest or back, under the clothing. Is a great protection against cold in day time.

Street Cars Supplying Cigarettes.

An experiment for the convenience of passengers is in preparation by the North Metropolitan Tramway Company of London. Their cars are to be fitted With automatic machines for the supply of cigarettes—two ordinary ones for a penny, or one of superior quality for the same coin. This, of course, is for the convenience of outside passengers only, for, as heretofore, the Interior of the vehicle is strictly reserved for nonsmokers. One of the cars has been fitted with its automatic machine at the company’s works, Leytonshire, and should the experiment prove successful others will be similarly supplied. -

Fooling the Lordly Plumber.

Freezing win not injure a newly patented water pipe, which has a yielding core in the center, strong enough to withstand the force of the water under natural pressure, but which collapses as the Ice expands, and prevents bursting; the core enlarging again as soon as the water thaws and the pressure i* removed.

NEW PENSION LIST GROWING.

Already 3,392 FpanLh-American War Claims Have Been Filed. Commissioner of Pensions H. Clay Evins estimates that in ten years there will be 20,000 persons drawing pensions from the Government as a result of the war with Spain. He places the average pension at $lO a month, which would make the annual expenditure for pensions on account of the recent wnr about $2,500,300. The number of claims already filed exceeds 3,000 and is growing at the rate of 100 per day. Less than six weeks after the formal declaration Of hostilities the first application for a pension resulting from the war with Spain was filed at the commissioner’s office. It was from a widow of Private William H. Hook of Company F, Second Wisconsin infantry. It seems that about two days after Hook was mustered into the service his regiment was ordered into a State camp. There Hook contracted a fever and died inside of a week. His widow lost no time in putting in a claim for pension. For the first few weeks nearly all the applications were from “dependents,” that is, widows aud mothers, and were about evenly divided between the army and navy. Later a flood of “invalid” applications were received, coming from soldiers who had been ordered out of the service and who were filing claims for bounty based on diseases contracted while in the service. The first soldier to apply for a pension on his own account was F. Roy Eshleman, a private in Company E, Sixth Illinois infantry. His papers were recorded at the commissioner’s .office on June 8. No more applications of this class came.in until July 1, but from that date they began to pile up rapidly. They numbered 69 by Sept. 1 and 450 on the Ist of November. During the month of November the cases ran up to 1,623, but the record was broken in the first throe weeks of December, when the total was almost doubled. On Decl 20 the number of invalid claims on file was 3,167, of which 1,398 came in since Dec. 1. In the meantime the persons who were injured in the pavy were putting in their claims. On Dec. 20 there were 225 claims for pensions growing out of fatalities and damages sustained by sailors. Of this number 193 were invalid claims and the balance were petitions from mothers and widows. This made a grand total of 3,392 claims on file Dec. 20 from the army and navy.

The first pension of the Spanish war was granted to Jesse F. Gates, a member of Company A, Second United States light artillery. This, soldier wns badly wounded at Santiago, a Spanish shell tearing away a portion of his face and disfiguring him for life. He put in a claim for pension on Oct. 26 and then got officials of the administration interested in his case. Upon the direct order of the President his claim was taken up and adjudicated, the allowance being made Nov. 16 and the pension dating from Oct. 26. Gates receives sl7 a month.

THIRTY LIVES IN JEOPARDY.

Break in Cleveland I'am Lets Loose y Immense Flood. A dam under the Willson avenue bridge at Cleveland gave way Wednesday morning. Baek of the dam is a body of water a mile and one-half long, hundreds of feet wide and in places twenty-five to thirty feet deep. The break allowed torrents of water to pour down on the flats below. The cause of the flood is the recent heavy rains, the melting snow from the hillsides and. a pond of several acres overflowing. Streams for several miles up the gully added their quota of water. The Willson avenue bridge is 700 feet long and has been built but a few months. It cost $350,000. The break in the dam, which was an unsubstantial mass of earth, occurred while thirty men were at work in the artificial canal being sunk by the city engineers to allow the pentup water to find a gradual and safe outlet. These men had a most harrowing experience and escaped with their lives with not one second to spare. The warning given them was not sufficient.to even arouse their fears of what was happening, and hardly a man had looked up from the bottom of the deep trench in which they were working before the crash came and the awful flood had broken loose. The rater undermined an embankment 150 feet high and fifty feet in area, sweeping it down with the raging flood.

Senator Platt of New York is alwayr neat and trim, well groomed. Gov. Bowes of Oklahoma was once a telegraph operator at Leavenworth, Kan. Senator Richard R. Kenny of Delaware Is under indictment in Delaware for felony. Senator Proctor of Vermont has become a golfer and a member of bls home country dug.-* Senator Platt of New York has nn enormous stock of conundrums which he originates himself. The youngest chaplain in the navy is said to be the Rev. Frederick C. Brown, 25 years old, now on the lowa. Gov. Pingree owns the prize war scrapbook. *lt is of enormous proportions and yet treats mostly of the Michigon volunteers. Queen Victoria invariably sleeps with her bedroom window slightly open at the top, jio matter what the season of the year. During the civil war Gen. Merritt won in two years seven brevets and promotions for “gallant and meritorious service in the field.” The late Senator Morrill always made * speech early in the session, sent a copy bound in Russia leather to every Senator and a paper-bound copy to every voter in Vermont. Gen. Miles’ seal ring, which is shi*«vn in all his half-length portraits upon the third finger of his left hand, is of a black onyx stone bearing in monogram the initials N. A. M. - It is said that when Cornelius Bliss was a small school boy his teacher asked him If Jerusalem was a common or proper noun. “Neither,” replied the little pupil. “It’s an ejaculation.” Representative White of the Second North Carolina district is the only colored man in the House. A modest,, unassuming, unobtrusive man,' he is a leader of his race in his section.

PERINENT Personals

FARMER WASHINGTON.

Employments in Which Our Flrat President Passed His Declining Years. “Grandpapa is very well, and much pleased with being once more Farmer JVashington,” wrote Nelly Custls, March 19, 1797, four days after Washington and bls family had arrived at Mount Vernon. John Adams had been Inaugurated President and Thomas Jefferson Vice-President, and Washington had been present at the scene. After President Adams had delivered his speech and taken the oath of office, he retired. Then there was a little scene which illustrated Washington’s appreciation of good form. Vice-President Jefferson, instead of retiring from the hall immediately after President Adams, waited for the ex-President to follow his successor; but Washington, a master of courtesy, insisted on the VicePresident’s preceding him. Reluctantly Jefferson yielded.

John Adams wrote to his wife that Washington seemed to enjoy a triumph over him. “Methought I heard him say, *Ay! I am fairly out and you fairly In! See which of us will be happiest!’ In the chamber was a multitude—and I believe scarcely a dry eye but Washington’s.” Farmer Washington began at once repairing the Mount Vernon mansion, surrounding himself with masons, joiners and painters. He wrote to his old friend, Oliver Wolcott: “To make and sell a little flour annually, to repair houses (going fast to ruin), to build one for the security of my papers of a public nature, and to amuse myself in agriculture aud rural pursuits, will constitute employment for the few years I have to remain on this terrestrial globe.” “I begin my diurnal course with the sun,” he writes to his former Secretary of War, James McHenry; “if my hirelings are not in their places at that time I send them messages of sorrow for their Indisposition. Having put these wheels In motion, I examine the state of things further; the more they are probed, the deeper I find the wounds which my buildings have sustained by an absence and neglect of eight years. “By the time I have accomplished these matters breakfast (a little after .seven o'clock) is ready; this being over, I mount my horse and ride round my farms, which employs me until it is time to dress for dinner, nt which I rarely miss seeing strange faces, come as they say out of respect for me. Pray would not the word curiosity answer as well? And how different this from having a few social friends at a cheerful board!

“The usual time of sitting at table, a walk and tea, bring me within the dawn of candlelight; previous to which, if not prevented by company, I resolve that, as soon as the glimmering taper supplies the place of the great luminary, I will retire to my writing table and acknowledge the letters I have received; but when the lights are brought I feel tired and disinclined to engage in tliis work, conceiving that the next night will do as well. The next night comes, and with it the same causes for postponement, and so on. Having given you the history of a day, It will serve for a year.’’ “At no period of my life,” he writes again, “have I been more engaged than in the last six or eight months.” Housekeepers will appreciate this lament: “The running off of my cook (a slave) has been a most Inconvenient thing to this family, and what rendered it more disagreeable is that I had resolved never to become the master of another slave by purchase, but this resolution I fear I must break. I have endeavored to hire, black or white, but am not yet supplied.”

Aboriginal and Original.

Whatever else may be true of Indians as waiters, after reading the following grimly amusing story, taken from the Chicago Times-Herald, it cannot be said that they are of the painfully obsequious type: In a small town in Nebraska the girl waiters at the tavern all left td go to a new hotel In a neighboring town, and as no other help was available the landlord was forced to do the waiting himself until he thought of the Indians at the reservation. He promptly hired four of them, but as the Indian has no idea of time they did not get round to the tavern the next day until the breakfast hour was over, and all the guests save one had eaten. He was a drummer for a New York house, and Is known in the West as a great grumbler. When he appeared in the dining room : the landlord urged forward the man be had been training. “Take this order, Jim,” he said, “and give him a glass of ice water.” The Indian managed to take the order correctly, and carried it In and served it; then he took his stand at the back of the guest’s chair, as he bad been Instructed to do. But the drummer was In a bad temper, and declared in no complimentary way that he would not be served by an Indian. At that the grim statue at his back whipped out a savage looking dirk, and holding it over the head of the grumbler, he said, with Choctaw brevity: “You eat.” And eat the drummer did, flesh and fowl, not daring to move a muscle, while the unwavering arm held the dirk within an inch of his head; and it was not until he had eaten everything in sight that his predicament was discovered and he was rescued in a state verging on collapse.

Fastest Four-Footed Swimmer.

The otter Is the fastest swimming quadruped known. In the water It exhibits an astonishing agility, swimming in a nearly horizontal position with the greatest ease, diving and darting along beneath the surface with a speed equal If not superior to that of many fishes.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Bold Hold-Up in Greensburg—Vineennee, Vevay and South Atlantic Road to Be Built—Sick Man Wanders Away and Dies-Life Term for Murder,. John Linen and James Donahue, residing near Smyrna, were held np the other night at 11 o’clock while hitching their horse to a buggy in Greensburg to drive home by a man whom they recognized as Robert Manford, residing near Harris City. Donahue was told by the robber to throw up his hands, and at the same time a revolver was thrust into his face, and in complying with the request one hand struck the revolver and knocked it to the ground and the other hand struck a knife held in the robber’s hand. Linen, who was on the opposite side of the horse, halloed for help and- frightened the man away. Road Is to Cost $10,000,000. Directors of the Vincennes, Vevay and South Atlantic, a branch of the Black Diamond Railway, met at Vincennes. The contract for constructing the double track railroad 204 miles in length was let to Col. Albert E. Boone of Zanesville, Ohio, for $10,000,000; this includes a branch from Fredericksburgh to Jeffersonville. Work will begin May 1, 1899, at Petersburg, aud will be pushed in both directions.

Sick Man Lies in a Ditch. Henry Mater, 35 years old, was found dead by the roadside in the western suburbs of Kokomo. He had been sick several days with the grip and left his bed in a dazed condition, wandering away. In his delirium Mater must have run nearly all night, for when found in a ditch the body was mangled by barb wire fences. Gets Life Sentence for Murder. The jury in the Fitzgerald murder cose at Logansport returned a verdict, finding that the accused was guilty of murder in the first degree, and fixing his punishment at imprisonment for life. He was tried for the murder of young Quincy Beebe of Bunker Hill last October. ■ B Within Onr Borders. Elwood’s new high school building cost $53,000. Charles Hunt, who escaped from jail at Delphi a few weeks ago, has been recaptured. George A. Goodrich, prominent turfman, died at Shelbyville from paralysis of the heart. Kittie Stephenson of Demotte, aged 10 years, was burned to death by fire from the kitchen stove. Henry Hyne of Stewartville has probably the largest hog in Posey County. It weighs-800 pounds. George D. Noise, aged 16, shot and probably fatally injured Ray Miller, a prominent citizen of Bridgeton. All the money necessary to construct an electric railway between Hartford City and Noblesville has been raised. Charles J. Fink, a contractor, was found dead at the Hotel Arlington in Goshen, having been asphyxiated by gas. At Marion, Miss Nellie Jacobs, 19 years old, while lighting a fire fell into the grate. She was seriously burned. At Shelbyville, Ada Henry was burned to death from a lamp explosion. Mrs. Richard Thurber will lose both hands.

Van Patten & Kerr's dry goods and department store at Anderson was destroyed by fire. Loss $40,000, insurance SIB,OOO. At Indianapolis, a company with $500,000 capital stock has been formed to develop the gold-bearing resources of Morgan County. L. Lowenthal & Sons, wholesale clothing firm in Evansville, assigned for the benefit of creditors. Assets and liabilities are not given. Joseph Buskirk wrote to a cousin that he would come to Martinsville, the home of his wife and children, and commit suicide. He kept his promise. At Brazil, F. O. Marshall of Sidney, lowa, died from erysipelas, said to have been caused by nursing his son. Young Marshall was so overcome by his father’s death shat he will also die. The William H. Neff washing machine factory at Cowan was damaged SIO,OOO by fire, with but $3,000 insurance. The fire started from an explosion in an asphalting vat and three men were slightly burned. Two buildings and the office were burned.

After one week’s service as pastor of the First Baptist Church of Crawfordsville, the Rev. W. W. Hicks has resigned his charge, stating as his reason that he has received a call to the Baptist Church of Flint, Mich., which pays him SSOO a year more than Crawfordsville. The body of Joseph P. Patton, whose home is in Chicago, was found floating in the river near the city limits of Marion. Patton was an inmate of the national soldiers’ home there, and in November received back pension money to the amount of SSOO. On election day he left the home to go out near the entrance to vote and had not been seen or heard from since. While out hunting in the dismal swamp twelve miles west of Anderson, Frank Holbrook and others saw a man very coarsely clad and ill kept come out of the side of a hill. He saw them and attempted to cover his trail. They went to the place and found an opening. On entering they found three large apartments under ground. A few moments later while Holbrook was in the passage the wild man returhed. They glared at each other a few minutes and then, reaching out his hand, the stranger said: “Let us be friends. You are the first man I have spoken to for twenty-six years.” Later he said that his name was Spitzmeitaer and that he was an exile on account of a love affair, which he refused to discuss. He said he was able to get a good living in his hermit life.

Graham Kerr of Paris, Ky., a student at the Tri-State Normal College at Angola, attempted suicide by shooting and will probably die. A man giving his name as H. T. Springer of Yorklynn, Del., walked into the city marshal's office at Vincennes and gave himself up, saying he was wanted for absconding with S2OO belonging to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. He explained that he was station agent at that place and, getting hard up, ran sway with the money. He said he had become tired and worn out dodging the authorities and concluded to surrender.

STATE LAW MAKERS.

In order that some remedial kgudatioa may be accomplished on county aad township expenditures. Representative Roots introduced a bill on Thursday which is less extreme in its provisions than the measures framed by the State cemmission. The bill provides for a purchasing board in each county, composed of township trustees and the county superintendent, whose duty it will be to meet once each year and pass upon all proposed expenses for the term of twelve mouths. AR expenditures not so passed upon are made illegal and uncollectable. AH warrants must be signed by the president of the board, and another officer purchasing supplies outside of the authority of the board is subject to removal. ' The promised campaign of the equal suffragists of the State took definite shape Friday in the form of resolutions introduced both in the House and the Senate asking for an amendment to the State constitution giving women the right of suffrage. The proposed amendment is to section 2 of article 2 of the organic law. The resolutions provide that there shall be no distinction as to sex in conferring the right to vote. Representative Furness of Porter County introduced a bill which provides that the State shall pay a bounty of 1 cent per pound on aU beet sugar produced in the State. A committee representing the non-State colleges began an earnest canvass of the members of the Legislature in the interest of the bill for the reorganization of the State Board of Education. Both houses adjourned to Monday. The first contest in the House came Monday afternoon over a lull that is designed to enable the executive to deal with the Roby racing people. The bill provides that in cases of repeated violation of the State statutes, places in which the violations occur may be declared a nuisance, and also that injunctions may be secured against them without giving bond. Representative Knotts of Lake County opiiosed the bill, but was beaten at all points, and it went to engrossment. While the bill is aimed directly at Roby, it is also designed to cover violations of the natural gas laws. Another temperance measure was introduced in a bill declaring that the possession of a Government license to sell liquor shall be prima faeie evidence of such sales, and where the person bidding it has not taken out local licenses his place may be declared a nuisance and abated as such. Bills for the appointment of a State boiler inspector, a State etymologist and a commission to prepare a general plan for redistricting the State for judicial pnrpiscs were introduced. Albert J. Beveridge, the nominee of the Republican caucus, was elected United States Senator on Tuesday to succeed David Turpie, Democrat, whose term will expire March 4 next. The two branches of the legislature voted separately. The vote in the Senate was as follows: Albert J. Beveridge, 28; David Turpie, 19; Alonzo G. Burkhart, Populist, 1. The House voted thus: Beveridge, 59; Turpie. 37. Two thousand persons crowded the hall of the House of Representatives on Wednesday. when the two branches of the Legislature met in joint convention to canvass the vote taken the previous day and formally announce the election of Albert J. Beveridge to be United States Senator. The 3G-year-old Senator, looking like a man of not more than 25, was brought in and was W elcomed with a demonstration lasting several minutes. He made an extended sjteech.

Health in the Philippine*.

It Is unfortunately true that the ciL mate of the Philippines is especially severe in its effect on white women and children. It is very doubtful, in my judgment, if many successive generations of European or American children could be reared there. We must then, 1 think, necessarily admit that we have here a serious, though not necessarily insurmountable, obstacle to the development of the great resources of this remarkable country. Malaria and digestive troubles aside, the health of the colony is fairly good, and the danger from epidemic disease is comparatively slight. Smallpox is always present, but seldom spreads rapidly, as a large percentage of the natives have It during childhood, so that there is hardly material for an epidemic. Cholera is infrequent, but when it once starts cannot be controlled. The natives believe that a black dog runs down the street, and the disease breaks out behind him. They declare that it is the will of God. and refuse to take the simplest precautions. j Leprosy occurs, but is not common. There is a great deal of biri-biri in BaL abac, and I have seen it in Mindoro. The bubonic plague has. fortunately, never gained a hold in the Philippine*.

American Books.

Just so long as reprinted editions of foreign books are cheaper than copyrighted American books, the readers among us will be more familiar with the works of foreign writers than they are with those produced at home. People whose means are limited cannot afford to pay a dollar or a dollar and a half or probably two dollars for a novel even by our best writers when they can get literature of the same class by foreign authors for less than half these prices. If our leading writers want their books to be read by any considerable number of their countrymen, they will have to put them out in cheap as well as high-priced editions.

Without Education.

In Alabama, it is stated, there are over seventy thousand white girls. Wring in agricultural districts, where public schools are open only for a short time annually, who are growing up almost without education.

Odds and Ends.

Japan now makes its own electric machinery. Australia possesses one-fifth of tha 1 world’s stock of sheep. The policemen are not all fathers, bet g each one has a little Billy of his own. No politician cares to die, but they all s seem anxious to join the great byDress is what an actor has to have, and redress is what many of theca after.