Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1902 — Page 6

Chicago, Indianapolis and LouiiTillc By. Rensselaer Time-Table, South Bound. 80. 31—Fast Mail 4:49 a. m No. 5 Louisville Moil, (dally) 10:55 a. ra. No.33—lndlanaiK>lis Mail, (daily).. 1:46 p.m. No. 39—Milk aocomra., (dally) 6:15 p. m. No. 3—"LouisvllleExpress, (daily).. 11:25 p. m. •No. 45 Local freight 2:40 p.m. North Bound. No. 4-Mail, (daily) 4:30 a.m. No. 40— Milk accomm., (dally) 7:31a.m. No,B2—Fast Mail, (daily).... 9:55 a. m. •N0.30-Cin.toChicago Ves. Mail.. 6:32p.m. lNo.Bß—Cin. to Chicago.... 2:57 p. m. No. 6—Mail and Express, (daily)... 3:30 p.m. •No. 48—Local freight 9:55 a. m. No. 74—Freight, (dally) 9:09 p.m. •Dally except Sunday. tSuuday ouly. No. 74 carries passengers between Monon and Lowell. Hammond has been made a regular stop for No. 30. . , , No. 32 and 33 now stop at Cedar Lake. Frank J. Rkkd, G. P. A., W. H. McDokl, President and Gen. M’g'r. Cu as. H. Kockwbll, Traffic M‘g’r, CHICAGO. W. H. Ream, Agent, Keusselaer.

Board and lodging. Rates SI.OO Pt* Day. FRANK COOPER, Indianapolis. Ind. 20*4 MOVY STREET. jin, iomip md coin iioiir CITY OFFICERS. Mayor John Eger Marshal Abram Simpson Clerk Schuyler C. Irwin Treasurer James H. Chapman Attorney Harry R. Kurrie Civil Engineer H. L. Urarable FireClilef Klden R. Hopkins OOUNOItiMEH. Ist ward .Clms. Dean, H. J. Kannai 2d ward I. J. Porter, C. (i. Spitler 8d word J. F. Met lolly, J.C. Chllcote COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk .John F. Major Sheriff Abram G. Hardy Auditor W.C, Babcock Treasurer R. A. Porklson. Recorder Robert B. Porter Surveyor Myrt B. Price Coroner Jennings Wright Supt. Public Schools Louis 11. Hamilton Assessor John R. Phillips COMMISSIONERS. Ist District Abraham Halleck 2nd Distrle Frederick Way mire 3rd District Charles T. Denham Commissioner’s court First Monday of eaoh month. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. TBl BTEKS. TOWNSHIPS. Joseph Stewart Hanging Grove John Ryan Gillum Lewis Shrier Walker Riias Arnold Barkley Charles M. Blue Marion John Hill Jordan Geo. M. Wilcox New ton S. L. Luce Keener Thomas F. Maloney .Kaii/kakee Stephen 1). Clark Wheattield Albert J. Bellow s Carpenter William T. Smith Milroy Barney D. Comer Union Louis H. Hamilton. Co. Supt Rensseieer G, K. Hollingsworth Rensselaer J. D. Allman ... Remington Geo. O. Stemhel Wheattield JUDICIAL. Clreult Judge Simon P. Thompson Prosecuting attorney John 1). Sink Terms of Court.—Second Monday in February, April, September and November. TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES’ CURDS. _ Milroy Township. Wm.T. Smith, trustee of Milroy township, gives notice that lie will be at his residence in said township on the First and Third Saturdays of eacli month for the purpose of transacting township business; and business relating to making contracts or paying claims will be done on such designated day. Wm. T. Smith, Trustee. Jordan Township. John Bill, trustee of Jordan township, gives notice that he will be at ills residence In said township on the Second and Fourth Saturdays of each month for the purpose of transacting township business; and business relating to making contracts or paying claims will be done on auch designated day. John Bill, Trustee.

11902 me standard Bred Ming stallion 2 DALLAH NO. 4645.: s high, weighs 1400 pounds; bred by R. Ky., owned by T. M. Hibler, Joliet, 111. rd, the greatest living sire with 158 from 2:06 to g sons that have sired 348 trotters and 380 pacers; ed 68 trotters and 38 pacers. it dam is Jeanette, sired by Woodford Abdattati, he 1-2, he by Mambrino Chief; 2d dam, Japhet, sired , Doniphan, sired by Davy Crockett. ICE TO BREEDERS. II make the season at my farm known as the bid Township, at $lO to insure a colt to stand and suck. i the low figure of $lO we insist that tnares be relyone parting with mare before foaling time will be Wilkes Abdallah is a licensed stallion under the ind colts will be held for service. Mares will be li.and have the same attention as our own. but all rr's risk. X. M. HIBLER, Owner. #) Box 138. D. ART WHITNEY, Manager. ~/^>RIDERAGENTSWANTED Jw one * n cach town r i<i o and exhibit a sample 1902 model bicycle of our manufacture. YOU OAU MAKE 910 TO B II WEEK besides having a wheel to ride for yourself. Im 1902 Models Guaranteed $9 to SIS K |1 /f Vl 1900 and 1901 Models SSL *7 { 0 S|| ms \f|M If/ \l 500 Seoond Hand Wheels** . »j» ml § M 111 d'i'lß taken In trade by our Chicago retail stores, all UU IQttfO Bi > C Bat 9m i IS makes and models, good an now ~ ~ Bf fH > We Khi P an y bicycle ON APPROVAL to anyM m eSslflJufjlfedcßone without a cent deposit in advance and allow I #lffipf|lO DAYS FREE TRIAL. :| KjpßL Mm no risk in ordering from us, as you do not need ■/M y(l ' ill ■ l ° pay a cent if the bicycle docs not suit you. l/lisv ■pJR. ItA MAT nilV a wheel until you have written for our ■ / M\ I v IgDu NUT HUT factory prices & free trial offir. B ml VBt Tlrea, equipment, sandrina and sporting irood* of all kinds, ab WL , m half regular prices, in our big frew sundry cutnlogue. Con* B/I tains a world of useful Information. Write for It. | \lm WF WAOT >\ reliable person In each town to distribute catalogues tor us la l Iv exchange tor a bicycle. Write today for free catalogue and our apeclal otTer. \ir J. L. MEAD CYCLE CO., Chicago, 111.

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FARMS FOR SALE. BY Dalton H inch man REAL ESTATE AGENT, Vernon, Ind. No. 389. Two hundred and forty-five acres, level, new two-story frame house, seven rooms, well and cistern, two tenant houses, two orchards, fair sized barn, 80 acre* timber, good soil. Can be bought for SBS per acre. No. 390. Two hundred and eighty-two acres, two houses, one and one-half storie each, barn 50x60, cattle barn with crib 10x50 feet, horse and cattle barn combined 60x70, 6 corn crib* 8x34 feet with driveways, granary with capacity of 3,000 bushels, running water, three fine wells; two windmills; large orchard of all kind* of fruit at each house, 77 acre* wheat, 185 acres timothy, three and onehalf miles over pike road to town of 7,600 population. Price 811,000, $4,000 cash, balance six per cent., five years. No. 291. Three hundred acres, 230 acre* cultivated, 40 acres timber, 170 acres bottom, 80 acres tiled, on pike, four wells, cistern and live water, two large barns, com crib*, granaries, sheds and wagon scales, medium house, level, yielded fiom 40 to 70 bushels corn last year per acre. Price S3O per acre. Correspondence Solicited. References; Judge Willard New, Ex-Judge T. C. Batchelor, First National Bank. Merchants: S. VV. Storey. N. IleVersy. Jacob Foebel, Thomas & Son, Wagner Bros. & Co., Nelson & Son, J. H. Maguire & Co., W. M. Naur. Herbert Goff and Wagner's plow factory. Anyone that wishes to look over the county, would be pleased to show them whether they wished to buy or not. Read The Democrat for news. Don’t forget The Democrat when you have a legal notice to be published. I have private funds to loan on real estate at low rates for any length of time. Funds are always on hands and there is no delay—no examination of land, no sending papers east—absolutely no red tape. Why do you wait on insurance companies for 6 months for your money? I also loan money for short times at current bank rates. Funds always on hand. W. B. Austin. Tell your neighbor to subscribe for the taxpayers’ friend, The Democrat. It gives all the news. Have You Seen? The New Machinery at the Rensselaer Steam Laundry. It is the best and latest improved in the United States. No more pockets in open front shirts. Our New drop board Shirt-Ironer matches every button hole perfectly and holds the neck band in perfect position while ironing. Do you realize you are working against your own city when you send to out of town Laundries and indirectly working against your own interests? We claim that with our present Equipment and Management our work is Equal to any Laundry in America. Our Motto: Perfect Satisfaction or no charges. We make a specialty of Lace Curtains. Send us your rag carpets, 5c a yard. Rates given on family washings. Office at G. W. Goff’s. Phone 66. Prompt work. Quick Delivery.

Craft’s Distemper and Cough Cure A Sssciflc for Distemper, Couchs, Colds, Hmtss, Nil ID, and all Catarrhal dlssasss of borsaa. Pries, Na |LN ysr hauls, Sold by A. F. Long.

GARDEN AND FARM

THE SMALL CROPS.

Do not miss having small patches of sage, mint, thyme and other pot plants. Parsley can be grown from seed the first year, and will last two or more seasons if cared for. Spear mint will grow and increase from a few plants and will thrive on a damp location. Sage, if once established, will remain for years. Pot plants take up but little room and can be made ornamental in a garden. PLOWING THE GARDEN. Plow the garden location deep and work It well with tlte harrow until the ground is very fine. One half the labor will lie saved if this is done, as the laying off of the rows and the covering of the seed can only be done well when the ground is fine. For a small garden there is no tool so serviceable as a tteel hand rake, as it can be used not only for making the soil fine but also for destroying young weeds. FOR PLANTS. "TOT you use fertilizer you may apply some kinds of plant foods that are not desired. Plants have the power of selection of foods, and will invariably select that which is best suited for their purposes. A plant that requires more potash than phosphoric acid will not use a larger quantity of phosphoric acid because of its being plentiful In the soil, but will make an effort to secure the potash; hence, it is not economical to use fertilizers without attempting to select the kinds which will be favored by the particular crops to which they are applied. EXPERIENCES WITH SCALE. J have had considerable experience with various oils as a remedy for San Jose Beale. Experience teaches me that we need a more effective remedy than these. The best thing l have yet found is an emulsion, the composition of which is as follows: Refined kerosene 10 gallons; whale oil soap 8 pounds; water 40 gallons. I am sure this is more effective than the emulsion of twenty per cent, kerosene, with laundry soap. With whale oil soap, the oil and water mix much better than with hard soap. I believe fifteen per cent crude petroleum will kill as many or more scale than twenty per cent, kerosene, but the petroleum is more apt to kill or injure the tree. Petroleum is harder to mix with the water in an emulsion, a good point in favor of kerosene. I believe a tree will stand twice as much oil when there la sap in it as when perfectly dormant. Decidedly the safest and best time to spray is when the sap is circulating, about the time the buds begin to swell in the spring. It may be applied in late summer or early fait; this last spraying is very effective. The scale is very easily killed then and it stops the great breeding in progress at this time.—R. W. Coviness, in New England Homestead. ROTATION OF CROPS. The six years’ rotation of crops is a very good system of farming to work on because you can bring the land into a high state of cultivation at little cost: First year, corn; second, barley or oats with clover; third, hay; fourth, pasture; fifth, pasture; sixth, wheat or oats. Much attention should be given the part with the corn. It should be well cultivated, the weeds carefully picked out and made garden clean. The first six years your farm will require a good deal of work in weeding; after that it will not be nearly so bad. Every particle of barnyard manure that has been made on the farm in any given year, should be carted out on it. In the following spring when sowing it done with barley or oats with clover; finish off with a dressing of lime. The lime should be newly slacked and put on the land as hot as possible, with the land perfectly dry, about one ton to an acre; on clay, a ton and a half. This quantity of barnyard manure in the land stimulated with lime, will insure a fine rich crop of grass. The secret of good farming is plenty of grass, and plenty of it to plow down; all other crops will grow equally well. One crop of hay will be enough, as hay is hard on the land; its tendency is, of course, toward tall, slender grass. Two years of pasture will incline the grass to bush and spread; pasturing the land also enriches it.—Henry Matthew, in the Epitomist.

TOMATO CULTURE. The tomato has come to be one of our most important garden products though elderly people tell us it was once raised for its beauty. The red and yellow plum are grown for picking and preserving, hut for the late market, when large quantities are wanted, the large varieties are preferable. The first step toward success is good, early plants. We plant in hot bed about the middle of March if the weather permits, If not. we sow in boxes in the house. Soon after the second leaf puts out we transplant to larger boxes, and if short of room we have taken the plants up, thoroughly stirred the earth, and reset many of them In the same box. This process is gone through with three or four times; then it the weather is still too cold to plant out, we transplant to a cold frame. The more tr&nsplantings they have, the stronger, better plants we get. The cold frame is a simple frame of boards, banked against the side and generally covered with cloth, although

glass is sometimes used. In this we put about a foot of good rich earth. Plants that have undergone the several removals from box to box and lastly to the cold frame, seldom give any trouble when transplanted to the garden bed. In cold backward springs I have kept them in the cold frame until tney were budded to blossom, yet seldom lost a plant. The several transplantings give stronger roots, stouter stems and branching, bushy tops, instead of the pale spindling things kept in the hot bed without transplanting, awaiting suitable weather for planting out. We are never in a hurry to plant in the garden until spring is well advanced. The consequence is, we generally have plants enough and to spare.—Jennie M. Wilson, Agricultural Epitomist. ’ PEACH CULTURE. An interesting and exhaustive paper on “Commercial Peach Culture” was read by Professor Taylor at the annual meeting of the Ohio Horticultural society. He advised proper business caution in going into the business, and did not think it best to invest one’s whole capital in one line of production. Formerly, in years of scarcity, prices would be very high and favored localities free from frost and winter-kill-ing would sell their whole output at three or four times what they would bring in seasons of plenty. Thi3 made the business very profitable. Such opportunities had mostly passed. The country was so diversified in climate and means of distribution were so perfect that there was an abundance of fresh fruit in the large markets at all seasons and people would not pay fabulous prices for peaches or anything else. He would therefore make peach-growing a part of some other business, either farming or general fruit growing. Plant only in localities especially favorable, freedom from late spring frost being a prime factor. The winter climate should also be considered.

For selections for first planting the experience of careful growers in the vicinity should be the main guide, it being foolish to plant varieties which for some cause had failed. He would plant a number of varieties suiting the whole season, and varying tastes and markets. Yellow peaches delight in a heavier soil than white-fleshed sorts. He would propagate from wellknown types of bearing trees. There was no question that in some way there were several types of several leading sorts, some of which were decidedly better than others. For the first two years he would plant corn or beans in the orchard, but after that it did not pay, as it interfered so much in cultivation as to make the crop unprofitable. Finally, in producing fruit, grow only the finest, which end is reached by good cultivation, fertility and severe thinning. In packing and shipping use carefulness and economy.

THE VARIATIONS IN CATTLE. One of the most exasperating things which a breeder of cattle has to counter is tne variation in individuals which constantly crop up, and which in some instances prove exceedingly annoying. It is expected in breeding up a herd of scrub or common cattle- to find a considerable variation in the individuals during the first few generations, but according to all laws of breeding this variation should become less noticeable each year as careful methods are followed. Some cattle appear to show a special tendency to considerable variation in the individuals. I remember particularly a good Berkshire sow which could be depended upon to bring about one inferior pig into existence in each litter. While all the others were up to the standard and showed remarkable uniformity of good breeding, one littic fellow invariably inherited some poor tendencies from remote ancestors which condemned it. 'inis tendency was not eradicated in some of the sow’s progeny for two successive breedings which followed.

The variation in the individuals is, of course, one of the points which help the breeder in his work of selection. It is by discriminating between the excellence of the best and the poorest that we are enabled to mount to higher standards by persistent effort. Yet this tendency to individual variation is also the weak point in the chain. It is the opening in which the wedge of degeneracy can easily enter. Let the animal with poorest record and virtues be bred, and the poorest of her progeny likewise be selected for further breeding, and the downward course would be marked and rapid. Nature seems to have placed this as a stumbling block in the way of those who are not careful to make their selections according to merit. Whether accidental or otherwise the perpetuation of the breed depends entirely upon the selection of the best. If we once let down the bars there will set in a flood which will carry us down to the lowest depths. To understand this one should some day reverse the conditions usually followed in breeding. Take any fine breed and note the variation in the individuals, and select for the work the poorest of the lot. Then make each succeeding selection from the poorest for future breeding, and within a short time the stock bred will not bo worth the keeping. Not only this, but the variation in the individuals will increase rapidly until It becomes almost remarkable. It is by careful selection that we eliminate this tendency to variation In the individuals, and to that alone must we trust. —Prof. A. 8. Doty, In American Cultivator. The lightest automobile runabout is one of three horse power, which has a speed of eight miles and weighs 250 pounds.

POLITICS OF THE DAY

General Order 100. Each officer in the Philippines accused of cruelty to prisoners and others says in his defense that lie acted by the authority of his superior officers. So sill the acts of cruelty arc traced up from one officer to another until the whole respousibility is placed oti General Smith. General Smith says that his orders to ids subordinates were based on general order 100. recently issued for the information of officers as to their duties. General order 100 was issued by the war department in 1803. It covered instructions to Union officers who captured guerrillas of the Quautrell kind who had committed excesses in violation of the rules of war. It authorized a “suspension of ail rules of warfare and retaliatlou when the enemy acts in a similar manner.” This old order was dug out of the dusty files of the war department and republished last year for the instruction of our array in the Philippines. Tills fact furnished the apologists for the administration what they thought was a good joke on the press and public men who had criticised its application to recent methods in the Philippines. They found great humor in the fact that newspapers and members of Congress had condemned acts of barbarism supposing them to have been committed under a recent order, when, as a matter of fact, the order was issued during the War of the Rebellion. The joke is not apparent. General order 100 had been obsolete and a dead letter for thirty-nine ycarsi. It never would have been heard of again hut for Secretary Root and his methods. Its existence was recalled by some memory useful only for evil. Civilization has advanced by leaps and hounds since the order was issued, more than a generation ago. Another One. Mr. McKinley found Secretary Alger too heavy a load to carry and lie was dropped. Mr. Roosevelt shouldered Secretary Long and stumbled along with him for a while, hut he had to let go finally. There are indications that the relations between the President and Secretary Root are becoming similarly strained. Mr. Roosevelt is muscular and strenuous, but when it dawns upon him. as it must very soon, that Mr. Root will have to be carried by main strength he is likely to throw him. As an old friend and associate in •strong-arm practices about all that Mr. Root can hope for will be that the place selected for the dump will not he too rocky.—Chicago Chronicle. la Roosevelt In Earnest? The old leaders of the Republican party either do not know or pretend not to know wliat to make of Mr. Roosevelt’s display of activity against trusts. It is something new for a Republican President to make even a decent pre, tense of enforcing the laws against trusts. The leaders, therefore, are puzzled and more or less alarmed when Mr. Roosevelt mounts his broncho and sallies forth for a furious tilt-against the trusts without so much as winking the other eye at them. Can he mean it? Or is he merely out showing his teeth to the gallery gods of the political amphitheater? He does not take the party bosses into his confidence, and very likely they are really at a loss to know whether he is in earnest. Anyhow, there is a lot of scurrying. The gentlemen of the Northern Securities merger silently lile them to the capital and anxiously consult with Mark Hanna and the rest and pass the word up to the White House that If the President really means it something heavy will drop on the Republican party, or at least on Mr. Roosevelt as its official head, and the huge business and financial “interests," otherwise called trusts, will know wlmt that something heavy Is. The astonished packers also move on Washington through their political agents. If not personally, on a like errand bent, and they repeat the solemn warning. They remind Mr. Roosevelt that without the hacking of the big trusts the Republican party could not have won n battle these last fourteen years at least, and that no statesman of that party can put up an honest fight against the trusts and live. Is Mr. Roosevelt in earnest? That Is a thing that is yet to he found out. lie knows that these things are true. He knows that neither lie nor any other Republican candidate for the Presidency can win without the active supl>ort of the trusts. We can draw our own inference. We shall he assisted in drawing the inference If we l>enr In mind that he is proceeding by Injunction only. When we hear of his Instructing the proper officers to have the trust magnates Indicted under the criminal provisions of the statute we may begiu to believe he means something.—Chicugo Chronicle. ■ i i. Finite the Food Trust. The tariff duties on meats raise their price. That is why the duties were levied. Take off the dutleg on meats and the price will come down v Therefore President Roosevelt, If In earnest in bis desire to disrupt the Food Trust,

will supplement the court proceedings of his Attorney General by urging Congress to repeal the price-enhancing duties on the meats controlled by the trust. The President can do this most effectively by sending in a special message. So long as a Republican Congress, which has power to remove these du ties, allows them to remain the Republican party makes Itself responsible for the tariff protection given the Food Trust. That is a consideration which should have great weight with the President, who is a keen politician. Does Mr. Roosevelt want his party to stand in the coming Congressional campaign as the champion of dear food? That will he its position if Congress, which can take off the duties in twenty hours, shall keep up the tariff fence that protects the Food Trust while it robs the people. Send in a special message, Mr. Roosevelt. Hit the Food Trust through the tariff! —New York Journal. No Use In Heine Squeamish. The American people have declared themselves in favor of retaining the Philippines. The army is trying to carry out their wishes. Such being the case, why should they be squeamish about methods? Is not oriental expausiou the natural destiny of the American people? Senator Beveridge and the rest of the imperialistic statesmen have assured us that it is. Way falter, then, ou the way to destiny? What matters it if there are a few more dead bodies to step over, and why should a people marching to destiny concern Itself about the manner in which the former owners of these bodies came to their death? Destiny is destiny, aud is not all flesh grass? And what is a little grass more or less that it should block the progress of civilisation?—Detroit Free Press.

The Tariff Cannot Stand. It becomes more evident every day that the present tariff schedule cannot stand much longer. The paramount issue of the Congressional election this year will be the tariff and the old lines will lie changed Very decidedly. There are many men now demanding a reduction of duties wiio even two years ago would have stubbornly opposed any such tiling. The split iu the Republican party on this question is widening rapidly. Republican press is even more divided than the Republican politicians. Seldom has any party In this country been so much at sea as the Republicans are now on reciprocity. They are famous folk for getting together, hut if they can reconcile their differences on this question they will beat their own record.—Atlanta Journal. Farms Not Making Millionaires. The agriculturist of an agricultural country cannot ho benefited by a tariff on agricultural products. But they can be greatly injured by a tariff on the things they use. If they have to pay more than their foreign competitors for the tools they use, the clothes they wear, the food they purchase, the material needed for fences and buildings, they are manifestly handicapped in the contest, and that is what the American farmer is experiencing. Thu farm is not making any Scliwabs or Carnegies or Rockefellers or Morgans —at least not directly. These suddenly acquired fortunes are not the result of tilling the soil, hut the tillers of the soil are contributing to every one of them.—lndianapolis Sentinel. Orosvenor Talking Nonsense. Representative Charles 11. Grosveuor in attempting to show that the steamship consolidation furnishes no argument against the passage of the shipsubsidy hill declares that not a ship of the combination will receive any subsidy. Mr. Grlscom and Mr. Cramp disagree somewhat violently with General Orosvenor. They know very well Hint the combination would receive subsidy payments for all its new ships, while Senator Frye’s report shows that Mr. Griscom’s company, which has gone into the combination, will receive $1,713,8G3 per year.—New York Times.

Rushing Too Fuat Again. Just as was the case ten or twenty or thirty years ago, so It is the case now that in the warm sun of prosperity Is generated a sangulneness untempered by tlie remembrances of past disasters, and the opportunities of the moment are pursued with an eagerness which takes little account of ,ue possible vicissitudes of the future. Thus lias been generated In the past the pride that goetli before destruction, nnd, so far as the psychology of the case Is concerned, the present is In no wuy different from the pnst.—Baltimore News. The Only Hope of Relief. The Republican party, which created nnd fostered these monopolistic organizations nt the sacrifice of the people's rights, is owned body aud soul by the combines which it hns created. So honest or effective anti-trust action Is to lie expected from Republicanism. The Democratic party must make the tight in the people's behalf. If the evil working of the trust system Is to be remedied the remedy must come from Democratic action.—St. Louis Republic.