Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1899 — Page 6

TEN TEARS IN PRISON.

| 'TH!B IS THE SENTENCE IMPOSED UPON DREYFUS. .. I Captain Ja Confident of Release Despite the Judgment-New Deirrada--7 tlon of Condemned Man la Not PosIfr aible—World to Boycott Paris Fair. ;■ All Franco is perplexed over the effect | Of the verdict in the Dreyfus court marI tial, which sentences the unfortunate |f. officer to ten years’ imprisonment in it P-fortress. Even the men most familiar |i with the nation’s law differ in opinion as to whether or not the condemned man will have to suffer the ten years' deten- | tlon imposed by the judges. Dreyfus him- | self holds that the five years’ solitary irai. prisonment will offset the new sentence and many prominent lawyers hold the same view. Attorney Demange of counsel for the defense. Col. Jouaust, president of the court martial, and Clerk Coupois of the military tribunal declare that the imprisonment on Devil's Island will count for nothing and that the new term must be served by the captain. The theory that the sentence was fixed at ten years by the judges, that the punishment would exactly equal that already undergone, seems I the court martial —f> to 2 —made such verdict obligatory and the question of the accused man’s early release was not considered by the tribunal. A second degradation will not be possi- | ble, as Dreyfus’ sword was not returned to him and he has uo epaulets on the undress uniform which he now wears. Formal application for revision will bp made as soon as the necessary papers can be prepared. * Dreyfus bore the terrible shock with marvelous fortitude, one might almost aay with unnatural calm. He seemed atupefied when Attorney I.abori communicated to him the verdict, but he afterward rallied. Mme. Dreyfus and Mathieu Dreyfus, his brother, visited the prisoner during the course of the afternoon, tiis brother subsequently leaving for Paris. The application to the court of revision was taken tahim by M. Labori’s assistant and he signed it: Sunday he spoke but little, although he seemed in better spirits than

MME. DREYFUS.

might have been anticipated. The meeting with his wife was naturally very affecting, but both held up as weil as possible. He said to her: “I am not uneasy regarding myself, as I shall soon be free, but I think of you and my poor children. They will be branded as the children of a traitor.” Dreyfus is convinced that the ten yenrs’ imprisonment to which he is sentenced will be wiped out by the five years of solitary seclusiou he underwent on Devil’s Island, and he expects to be released by Oct. 15, which will be five years from the date of his former condemnation.

TO BOYCOTT PARIS EXPOSITION

Report* from All Parts of Civilization Wonld Indicate Thta Result. Reports from all pnrts of the world indicate a general boycotting of the Paris exposition because of the verdict in the Dreyfus case. Germany will doubtless lead in this effective condemnation of the nation which bears the Dreyfus scandal. Although the various governments have already been allotted space for exhibits and their buildings are uuder way, it is

DREYFUS’ TWO CHILDREN.

probable that many of the powers will decide to abandon their plans for the big fair. Where it will be impossible for the governments to cancel arrangements individual exhibitors will refuse to participate aud they predict utter failure for what was to have been the crowning event of the century. jp The lamdon press is open in denouncing the judgment of the Kennes court. Lending papers of Russia. Germany, Austria. Italy. Hungary and other nations unite in advocating a boycott of the exposition. In the United States, from which France expected to draw thousands of visitors, a similar movement is said to be on foot. From many New York pulpits Sunday the verdict of the Dreyfus court martial was denounced in unmeasured terms. Evs- ‘ erywhere in the city, where the result of the court martiul was discussed, the judges who rendered the verdict of guilty were severely criticised. Iu Chicago this feeliug has been noticed everywhere. From gray-bearded men of business to the newsboys there is now a feeliug of ?■■■ repulsion for • all that appertains to France. In his pulpit at the First Bap- ' tist Church the Rev. P. 8. Henson dell dared Dreyfus a martyr and said the decision was a disgrace in the eyes of jus- | Among the reports from Berlin that of s. the Cologne Gazette is very significant. The Gazette says: "This verdict stamps '' France as belonging to the barbaric middle ages. A wall has been established r between France and the remainder of the world.”

LATEST PICTURE OF CAPTAIN DREYFUS.

BUSINESS SITUATION.

Chicago Correspondence: The developments of the last week have all been in the direction of improvement. Reports of railroad earnings have shown further gains, the bank clearings are again well ahead of those for the corresponding week last year and from every section comes the news of steadily increasing activity iu trade and manufacturing lines. Prices are being well maintained for the reason that the production, groat as it has been in the last few months, is still considerably below the demand. Collections are uniformly reported to be good and wholesalers say that the proportion of each transaction is showing a gratifying increase. In the security markets there has been some uneasiness shown with regard to the Transvaal situation and money rates have also shown a tendency to harden. The result of this has been that during the latter part of the week prices for stocks showed a considerable decline. On all the recessions,- however, good buying has made its appearance in the standard stocks. Trading sentiment at the moment is somewhat mixed, but the best opinion is that as soon as money again eases up the stock market will again develop into a bull affair. Meantime, it is expected to eontinue to have two sides, with fluctuations covering a range of two or three points. Business on the Board of Trade suffered to some extent from the state of the weather. The volume of speculative transactions was thereby curtailed, and the lack of activity gave to the markets au appearance of weakness which was more apparent than real. Holders of wheat had to battle with increasing receipts, hut were sustained in their efforts by the liberal outflow' toward foreign ports nnd the fact that, notwithstanding almost daily claims of no demand from abroad, the weekly shipments from this country to Europe exceeded by about 40 per cent the combined efforts of nil the other exporting countries of the world. Corn closed Saturday without any appreciible change in price from that ruling at the close of the previous week. Reports from the country very generally claimed damage more or less from the extremely dry, hot weather, but the speeulative appreciation of the amount of injury is displayed in the immobility of the grain’s value, notwithstanding the excellence of the shipping demand. It is true that freight rates are hardening, nnd that would have a natural tendency to depress prices west, but they could not me kept down on that account if there w'as any doubt of a large crop being practically assured, although it may not be so overwhelmingly heavy ns promised two weeks ago. The dry term has come to an end, and farm work in preparation for another season. temporarily suspended by the lack of moisture, can now be resumed, so that the flourishing condition of things agricultural cont nues in undiminished degree.

OTIS PLANS CAMPAIGN.

Commander in Philippines V.ays Out Work for Army and Navjr. Considerable progress has been made by Maj. Gen. Otis upon the plan of campaign he will open immediately upon the beginning of the dry season. Gen. Otis proposes to divide the army of 64,649 combatantH and the mountain batteries and dynamite guns which he will have in December into two divisions, commanded by MacArthur and Lawton. One of these will to the north of Manila and the other to the west and south. Each division will operate in two military provinces to be defined by Gen. Otis, but there will be effective and prompt cooperation when it is desirable. It is expected each commander will have six brigades under his command, the remainder of the troops being employed to garrison Manila and other seaport towns through which the insurgents are receiving supplies. Lawton will be required to make quick movements, and it is proposed to place the cavalry brigade under his command. The navy and marine corps will also be doing effective work. It is understood to be the intention of the administration to enforce a strict blockade of the Philippine porta. Coal trust, Pittsburg, Pa., baa popped up the price of lump coal 10 cents a ton.

DEWEY SAILS FOR HOME.

Olympia Leaves Gibraltar on Ita Wax to New York. With the inspiring air of “Hail Columbia,” being played by the band of the British guardship Devastation, Admiral Dewey's flagship, the Olympia, steamed out of Gibraltar bay Sunday morning on her way to New York. Just as the Olympia finished turning to run out the narrow entrance to the mole the snn burst through the clouds, making the cruiser stand out like a picture against the background of gray brown rocks, and across the water floated the music of the Olympia’s bund ns it plnyed “God Save the Queen,” which was followed by “The Star-Spangled Banner” and “Home, Sweet Home.” United States Consul Sprague and Captain Littlefield of the British navy were the last visitors on board and just before

LATEST PORTRAIT OF ADMIRAL DEWEY.

they left the admiral expressed satisfaction in being at last on the final run for home. The New York World prints an extended interview with Admiral Dewey, which was obtained on the eve of the admiral's departure from Gibraltar by a staff correspondent. The admiral feels it his duty to refuse the invitations that have been extended to him from Chicago and the West. After his reception in Washington he will go to Montpelier. From Montpelier the admiral expects to return to Washington for the sessions of the Philippine commission. Speaking of the proper policy to pursue in the Philippines the admiral said: “I’ve little to say until the recommendations of the commission, of which 1 am n member, are laid before President McKinley.”

BRINGS TIDINGS OF PEARY.

Steamer Windward Retnrns from the Far Frozen North. After hnving winteredJn the far northern polar regions Explorer Peary’s steamer lias arrived at Brigus, N. F., from West Greenland. Peary penetrated into the “land of the midnight sun," fifty miles farther north than Sverdrup went with the Frani. Jan. 6, while pushing toward Cape Columbia, on the northern extremity of Grinnell Lund, Peary had both his feet frozen. He was hauled 100 miles on a sledge to the Windward, where Dr. Diedriek amputated the frozen member. His expedition was fruitful of good results. Besides finding that Buchanan Strait was really a closed bay the party came across the last camp of the lost Grecly expedition. At Fort Conger, Greely’s old headquarters, iu Lady Franklin bay, Peary found a Greely house and its contents just as It was left by his predecessor fifteen years ago. Peary will remain at Etah this fall and winter, and next February, when the light serves, he will start north, the whole tribe of Arctic Highlanders supporting him. • -

News of Minor Note.

Power house in Queen Victoria Park, Niagara Falls, burned. Loss $85,000. Fifty-five postal messengers, Cleveland, struck for sl6 a month, an increase of $2. Richard Kessee, Springfield, Mass., sentenced to hang, committed suicide by the morphine route. Cleveland, Ohio, has a company of soldiers in the Philippines and their mothers requested Gen. Corbin to -hurry then home. . They are Indignant because the general stys ther are doing unnecessary "cackling.” C .. J 7.77

AGRICULTURAL NEWS

THINOB PERTAINING TO THE FARM AND HOME. Deep end Shallow Cultivation for Corn—How to Raise Peanuts—Turkeys Should Haw a Good Range— Some Advice totYonng Farmers. In a bulletin from the University of Nebraska appears the following: A test of the relative values of deep and shallow cultivation of corn on the station farm demonstrated beyond doubt the superiority of the latter method. Four acres of land were divided into tracts of one acre each, and each tract was cultivated by a different cultivator, the same one being used on each throughout the summer. The samb number of cultivations were given in each case. In the fall the corn was picked from each acre and weighed. The yield was as follows: Deep cultivation, 59 bushels; shallow cultivation, 68. 69 and 60 bushels. The land receiving shallow cultivation was stirred to a depth of 3 inches, that receiving deep cultivation to a depth of 6 inches. Shallow cultivation for com possesses two advantages over the other method. In the first place, by stirring the soil to a depth of only 3 inches the air does not penetrate so deeply, and it does not dry out to such a depth. A study of the roots of the corn plant shows that many of them would naturally grow within 3 or 4 inches of the surface, but when the upper layer of soil is dry they cannot obtain nourishment from this portion of the ground. Another injury to the corn crop from deep cultivation Is the tearing out of the corn roots by the cultivator shovels. By pruning these roots the ability of the plant to secure nourishment is greatly hindered, aud the crop Injured thereby. It is very important' that the cultivations should be sufficiently frequent to prevent a hard crust from remaining on the ground for any length of time. Peanuts. ? Peanuts require a climate in which there is a season of five months free from frost. Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee produce a large part of the crop of the United States, amounting to about 4,000,000 bushels of 22 pounds each annually. Upon soils properly cultivated yields of more than 100 bushels an acre have been obtained, but during recent years successive planting has so depleted many farms that scarcely twenty bushels are raised. The vines are valuable as hay, being but slightly inferior to clover, and superior to timothy. Peanut meal is highly regarded as a feeding stuff in European countries. A sandy loam, neither too dry nor too sandy, yet light and porous, produces the most marketable peanuts, yet any soil that can be put in a friable Condition and kept so will produce them, provided it contains a sufficient quality of lime. Soil as near like the natural color of the peanut shell produces the light-col-ored shell so popular. Soil should be worked into a level, well-pulverized bed, the seed planted in drills about 3 feet apart each way. though on less fertile land they may be planted nearer together, about May 1. Weeds must be kept out, and the soil tilled enough to keep it well pulverized. The nuts should be out of the ground before the first frost. In harvesting a specially prepared plow is used to cut off the tap roots of the vine, after which laborers with forks remove the vines with pods and stack them up around poles 7 feet high, set in the ground at conven Ijjfet distances. They are carefully protected from rain, left to dry fifteen or twenty days, after which the podß may be picked. This must be done by hand, and is one of the largest items of expense to the peanut farmer. The nuts when picked are placed in bags holding four bushels, and either store# or sold to factories, to be cleaned, sorted, sacked and branded.— Southern Field. Ranee for Tnrkejra. The turkey is a fowl that has been least time domesticAed by man. It is considerably less than 300 years since any attempt was made to domesticate this bird. One result of the wild nature of the turkey is that it will not bear to be confined. Even the domestic hen will not he so good a mother : to the turkeys in their later stages as 1 the turkey hen. She will take long | jaunts In the fields catching insects, ; and when frost loosens the beechnuts on the trees, the turkey hen will take her brood to the woods anu live on what was! in their wild stute the main j feed of the turkey during winter. A beechnut diet.gives the turkey a better flavor than any other food. Buckwheat Is, perhaps, the next best grain for turkeys, hut It lacks the oil with which the beechnut abounds. When turkeys are put up to fatten, which is I the only time they should be confined, j It is worth while to mix a few tfcwchnuta with their feed. This will keep j the other food from caking in their crops, and enable the turkeys to fatten faater, besides Improving the flavor of \ their flesh. To have good-flavored meat the turkeys must be kept from indigestion, which always creates fever. For this reason the fattening of turkeys must usually be completed in ten days to two weeks after they have been confined In a dark place, where they can do nothing but eat Pome Dvnirible lions* Plant*. For pretty foliage we seldom see anything finer than the varieties of asparagus now grown for decorative purposes. The asparagus tenulsslmns Is a most useful plant for home culture, and it easily managed; It needs a good soil And light, with a doe amount of

uttar, and win respond to Jodidowi fertilization. It beautifies the plainest flower and gives a grace ana loveliness to the most uncompromising stiffness found In some floral beauties. It has the advantage of being freah-looklng long after It has been cut, even when It has no access to water, and this feature makes it doubly useful. The asparagus tenulssimus sometimes grows stocky and sometimes almost like a vine with branches several feet in length. The asparagus sprengeri is quite distinct from tenulsslmns; this has a heavier foliage and stronger stalks, and makes an immense growth —under greenhouse advantages it will grow to be ten feet in height or length of sprays, and Ita fresh, brilliant green color makes It a conspicuous object This is most useful for cutting, and the medium sprays are almost wreaths of themselves if the ends are tied to> gether, so closely is the foliage set upon the stems. The asparagus sprengeri blooms and bears in due time a small red fruit or seed; the fruiting takes a good deal of the strength of the plant, and unless you prefer this to the green growth It is well to pick off all withered blooms. This plant grows under the most ordinary conditions, and makes a most charming bracket plant, —Vick’s Magazine. Hoks Want Water. Hogs frequently suffer from lack of water, because farmers do not remember that whatever comes In liquid form is not a substitute for the clear and fresh water which all animals need. Most of the water that pigs get Is as bad for drinking as skim milk. It is largely the water used for the washing of dishes or the freshening of salted pork. In this way the hogs get more salt into their stomachs than they require, and this also makes the hogs feverish and injures the quality of the pork. This sometimes makes the Western pork, which is fattened hi large droves and get little salt, better than the pork made by farmers who keep but two or three pigs and feed them from the swill barrel filled with a mixture of skim milk and salt water. If fed as it should be, with only enough corn at the close of the fattening and without an excess of salt, the Eastern pork Is much the best. The water in which salt pork and beef are freshened Is highly nutritious, as a good deal of its strength goes out with the salt when it Is freshened for cooking. But the great majority of hogs wosjld be healthier If they had enough fresh water, fruits and vegetables to offset the excess of salt that most of their drink contains.—Boston Cultivator.

Halter-Breaking Colts. Every colt should be taught to lead with a halter while still with the dam. There is less difficulty at this early age than later, 'and also less liability to having the animal injured in Its struggles to get free. The first thing to do is to make a strong bead halter that can be let ont or taken in with buckles so as to exactly fit the head. Put on the head halter at first without any bitching strap, and leave the colt all day to become used to it, taking off the halter at night. When the hitching strap Is attached it should be held firmly, for if the colt finds that It can escape, It will be slow to unlearn the habit. It Is well at first to lead the colt and its dam side by side. When he learns to stand by a hitching post without trying to pull away the breaking to lead may be considered complete. It takes very little time when this breaking to the halter Is made while the colt Is young. The handling that this requires Is the first lesson to the animal that it Is to be man’s servant If this is early impressed the breaking to harness Is made much less difficult

IST"* Protect in* with Whitewash. Experiments made in Missouri have proved that spraying peach trees with whitewash will protect the fruit bads from winter injury, even when the temperature falls ten or twenty degrees below aero. The Injury to the buds by the cold is due to the fact that on warm or bright days the action of the sun heat on them has caused them to swell, and thus they are in a condition to be injured by the cold weather. The whitewash reflects the heat and the buds remain dormant and are able to sustain the low temperature. The whitewash consists of four parts water, one- part skimmed milk and enough freshly slacked lime to make as thick a wash as cun be conveniently pumped through a Bordeaux spray nozzle. In the experiments made the first spraying waß given the last of December, and subsequently, at Intervals, three more Were given during the winter. How to Keep Apples. The proper temperature for keeping apples is aa nearly 35 degrees Fahrenheit as it is possible to keep it, says the Farm Journal, and In order to maintain this it will often be necessary in this climate to provide a separate place for storing the fruit, as the average cellar under the dwelling house Is wholly unfit for this purpose. If the collar consists of several compartments so that one can be shut off completely from the others, aud the temperature in this kepi below 40 degrees, It wtll answer the purpose very well. If this cannot be done, a cheap storage house may be built In connection with the ice house, by building a room underneath, having it surrounded with ice on the sides and overhead, with facilities for drainage underneath, keeping the air dry by means of chloride of calcium placed on the floor In an open watertight vessel, such as a large milk crock or pan. Iu this way the temperature may be kept very near the freezing point the year round, arid apples may be kept almost indefinitely. The model church will be the one that pays Its preachers what It now pays its singers, and its singers what it now pays Its preaebsn.

BICYCLE ON HIS MONUMENT.

The Aged Wheelman of Peoria Bn a Unique Tombstone. Thomas W. Davis, of Peoria, IH., has reared a monument to commemorate his career as a cyclist, and Incidentally to mark the resting-place of his wife. The shaft, which is five feet high and two feet square, bears a design of a bicycle on the top. The design is ten inches long and five Inches high, and is complete In every particular. It displays prominently all the parts of the bicycle, even to the name plate. On one side the monument bears the facts of his wife’s death and the other is blank. His idea Is to proclaim to generations to come the fact of his being a long-distance rider. He said that he fancied that he could

DAVIS AND HIS MONUMENT.

not have selected a better design for the top of the monument. Doves and open blbles arc &ld-fashioned, swinging gates a mockery, and a bicycle was as swift a messenger to any destination as could be found. He knew his wife would approve the design if she were alive, for she liked the wheel and was deeply interested in his bicycle career. Mr. Davis is one of the champnlon long-distance riders of the United States, and has a long string of bars denoting century runs. For several years Mr. Davis, who is now 72 years of age, has been among the first half-dozeu of the long-distance riders of the country, one year covering 14,000 miles and ranking third. Since he attained the age of 62 he has eoYer* ed 62,(XX) miles on his wheel.

THEY CANNOT GET AWAY.

How Mongolian Prisoners Are Kept in Durance Vile. Ever since men have bean impi’isoned for their crimes they have plotted to escape, and their captors have had to devise ways to prevent their foiling justice. This is how the Chinese have overcome the difficulty. It is hard enough for one to escape from prison, but two prisoners find their path even more difficult and with their heads thrust through this transformed stock it is impossible. To be put into one of

A CHINESE METHOD.

these contrivances renders one as helpless as though he were a Siamese twin trying to work independently of his brother. The Russians, who, with their convict settlements In Siberia, have the problem of keeping prisoners constantly before them, chain their convicts to wheelbarrows or planks and, thus hobbled, the unfortunate men have little chance of running off to the forests, as they like to do. If they do escape they spend the summer in the woods happily, and when cold weather comes give themselves up at nearest penal settlement.

Frogs as Bloodhounds.

“It's been ten years since I was in Washington last,” said the man from Boston, "and although I’ve been here now two weeks it wasn't until yesteiw day that I felt at home. I was born here, but when I came back this time the town was so changed I scarcely knew it. It wasn’t a bit like the Washington I remembered. Yesterday evening, though, I went out for a car ride—’way out into the country. A freckle-faced boy sat next me, and we struck up a conversation. He had a small rifle with him. “ ’What are you going to do with that?’ 1 asked after we had talked a while. “ ’Coin’ to shoot blood’n’ouuds.’ “Blood’n'ounds! My! but that one word made me feel at home. I hadn’t heard it since I was a boy, and the boys I know up in Boston wouldn’t know what I meant if I said it. ‘Blood’n’ounds!’ Why. it made me feel like a boy again. I haven’t an idea hovf 'you spell the word, but that’s the way we boys used to say it twenty years ago. I don’t know its derivation, nor anything about it. Washington has changed mightily since my day, but if the Washington boys still call bull frogs blood'n’ounds, I know It’s really the same old town that I was a boy in. The Washington boy is just what he used to be—Washington Post.

On a Level

Willy Outertown—Mother, cook says we will all be equal In heaven. Mrs. Outertown—That Is so, Willy. She will be no better there than we will!—Puck. A young man Is complimented when a girl shows Jealousy, but an older man gets scared.