Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1902 — Page 3

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FARMS FOR SALE. BY Dalton Hinchman REAL ESTATE AGENT, Vernon, Ind. No. 278. Farm of 140 acres, 2 miles of good railroad town of 400 inhabitanti; a twostory frame house of 8 rooms; frame barn 64x00, all in good shape; fine orchard: farm well watered: 40 acres In timber, farm lays nice and nice roads to town; 70 acres more can go with the 140 if purchaser wishes it. Price S2O per acre. No. 278. Farm of 342V4 acres; frame house of 5 rooms, good frame barn, a fine young orchard, 100 acres in timber, balance in good state of cultivation, a fine stock farm as well as a good grain farm, it is a well watered farm and lays nice: 2% miles of railroad town. Price S2O per acre, one-half cash, good time on balance at 6 per cent, secured by first mortgage. No. 270. Farm of 200 acres; frame house of 6 rooms, large frame barn, Ice house and other out-buildings; farm is well watered, lays nice, well fenced; 8 miles east or west to railroad towns on J. M. Sc 1., B. Sc O. S. W. or Big Four. Price S2O per acre. No. 280. Farm of 700 acres; said farm has three dwellings, two good barns; three good orchards; this farm can be put into 8 or 4 good farms; part of farm is rolling, but is not bad, most of it level and smooth; 3 miles of a good railroad town, 14 miles of Madison. Indiana. Price S2O per acre, two-thirds cash, balance on good time at 0 per cent, secured by first mortgage on said farm. No. 281. Farm of 100 acres; 5 miles of good R. R. town of population of 400. Nice frame cottage of 8 rooms, large frame barn, fine orchards of all kinds of fruit, farm lays nice, in good neighborhood. Church and school close to said farm. Price $2,200. Correspondence Solicited. References: Judge Willard New, Kx-Judge T. C. Batchelor, First National Bank. Merchants: S. W. Storey. N. DeVersy. Jacob F'oebel, Thomas Sc Son, Wagner Bros. Sc Co., Nelson & Sion. J. H. Maguire Sc 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.

Where to Locate? WHY IN THE TERRITORY traversed by the . . LOUISVILLE and NASHVILLE RAILROAD —THE— Great Central Southern Trunk Line, —IN—KENTUCKEY, TENNESSEE, ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI, FLORIDA, WHERE Farmers, Fruit Growers, Stock Raisers, Manufacturers, Investors, Speculators, and Money Lenders will find the greatest chances in the United States to make "big money” by reason of the abundance and cheapness of Land and Farms. Timber and Stone. Iron and Coal, Labor- Everything! Free sites, financial assistance, and freedom from taxation for the manufacturer. Land and farms at SI,OO per acre and upwards, and 500.000 acres in West Florida that can be taken gratis under the U. S. Homestead laws. Stock raising in the Gulf Coast District will make enormous profits. Half fare excursions the tint and third Tuesdays of each month. Let us know what you want, and we will tell you where and how to get it—but don't delay, as the country is filling up rapidly. Printed matter, maps and all infotmation free. Address. R. J. WEMYSS General Immigration and Industrial Agent, LOUISVILLE, KY.

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POLITICS OF THE DAY

The Heralded Truat War. Again It Is announced from Washington that Attorney General Knox will proceed vigorously against the trusts. He Is described as waiting Impatiently for decisions In the suits pending, and to be full of plans for the assault on the monopolies and combinations that meflaee and oppress the people. The attack by President Roosevelt In his Fourth of July speech was a bombardment of the Trust citadel with projectiles of thistledown, and the prospective siege by Attorney General Knox will be no more calculated to cause the trusts concern. Knox seriously attack the trusts! Knox, the trust lawyer, who went directly from the position of attorney for the armor-plnte highwaymen to the Attorney General’s desk? Knox, the one man In the United States who, though he had been the lawyer for one of the large component companies of the Steel Trust, did not, according to his own declaration, know there was any Steel Trust? Knox, whose position as the bulwark of the trusts is so well known that the non-partisan Anti-trust League has demanded his removal at the hands of the President?

Knox, whose communication as to the nefarious Eastern Railroad Association brought this characterization of him less than a month ago on the floor of the House of Representatives? ‘‘The palpable evasion, the contemptible cowardice and chicanery of the Attorney General's reply were so plain and so damaging to his official sincerity and candor that not a leading newspaper in the country but commented upon it most critically and disparagingly. Any one who runs may read between and in the lines of this communication his absolute unwillingness to en force the law, and his corrupt complaisance toward the known violators of the law, because, presumably, they were his recent clients and his prospective friends. It is a document of such disingenuous and dishonest tene and temper ns to render it certain, in the minds of all impartial judges, that no anti trust suit will ever be instituted by the present Attorney General, except under the compulsion of necessity, and when instituted will never be prosecuted In good faith, nor with reasonable official honor and intelligence.” Attorney General Knox will seriously attack the trusts when John W. Gates moves to have gambling in stocks suppressed and John D. Rockefeller enters the lists as a champion of the Income Tax!—Chicago American.

Unappreciative Tin-Plate Workers. It Is difficult to find any palliation for those ttn plate workers who have declined to have their wages reduced 25 per cent In order that the American Tin-Plate Company may underbid the mills of Wales and secure a contract for the making of 1,500,000 boxes of tin plate for the Standurd Oil Company, at the lowest rates ever quoted. The men are actually given the opportunity to deprive themselves by their own volition to create benefits which they will not share In. Could anything be more liberal? There are not many countries In which the criminal has tj»e right to select the method of his execution. The indication of a preference not to be executed at all shows a nature lacking In gratitude.—Louisville Courier-Jour-nal.

Pirates in Agreement Again. Even the tiger Is for harmony, after he has had his dinner, and, therefore, there Is nothing surprising In the reports that Qnay has held out the olive branch to his former henchman and late antagonist, Elkin, and that they have decided to bury their differences. This corresponds to the general rules of piracy everywhere. The pirate chief Is the man who can hit the hardest nnd he remains chief Just as long as he can shrivel up other men’s aspirations by a glance of his eye. Quay proved that he could hit the hardest and now his late antagonists. In splints and bandages. are flocking to renew their homage. Besides, the signs of more plunder are not lacking.—New York Evening Post. Why Trunin Hold Control. With a billion dollar steel trust clearing up $140,000,000 a yeor and tlie American consumer paying oue-thlrd more for his steel goods than Europeans pay for tho identical articlemade by the same trust and sent abroad—lt Is easy to see why the trusts keep control of the Republican party. “The tariff is the mother of trusts,” said Mr. Haremeyer, of the sugar trust. And the Republican party Is the agent of the trusts. In that It Is responsible for the tariff laws.—St. Paul Globe. How Working People View It. When an honest laboring mau or woman, who Is not looking for charity, but for fair wages, rends In the papers that the eost of living to-day Is higher than It has been at the beginning of any fiscal year since 18«5, what does he or she csre If n trust magnate has endowed another library? Dora that endowment really Improve the present magnificent opportunities for securing a superior education In this country?— Boston Globe. Practice Far Short of Profeealon. The Democrats are determined to appeal to history to prove that no antitrust legislation Is to be expected from

the Republican majority in Congress. Scarcely a day passes but one of their politicians repeats the charge on tho platform or In the press. It may as well be honestly admitted that the records for the last six years, during which period the Republican party has been in absolute control of the Government, are all In their favor. President Roosevelt declared in his Fourth of July speech: “Words are good If backed by deeds, and only so.” If his party persists in refusing to live up to its profession it will stand condemned by the words of its foremost representative.— Philadelphia North American. Fairbanks and His Bonm. The “Fairbanks boom” has again been heard from. It is reported to have touched at Manhattan Beach Sunday, where it communicated with Senator T. C. Platt and “proceeded same day.” On the other hand, Senator Fairbanks of Indiana, managing owner of the boom, says that lie is out of politics until 1904 and is attending strictly to business affairs. Asked about sentiment in his section. Senator Fairbanks responded: “Roosevelt is very strong out West, but as to whether Indiana will commit itself to his renomlnation in 1904 I can't say,” which, being translated, means that Senator Fairbanks will take up an attitude of observation, prepared for any eventuality.—Boston Transcript. Home and F'orcign Prices. The higher prices at home than abroad for the products of American labor are Illuminating in more respects than one. They show that the wages paid do not cause the high prices at home, otherwise they would forbid the sale of such products abroad. The ability of the manufacturers to compete in foreign markets demonstrates their ability to compete in the home market if the tariff were removed entirely. Where it touches the trusts particularly Is In showing that domestic competition does not keep down prices, for the very ample reason that it is shut out by combinations powerful enough to control production at home.—Louisville Courier-Journal.

Not the Man for the Place. It is semiofficially announced that the President's chum. Wood, is to be placed In charge of the construction of the Panama canal. The selection is Improper nnd can be explained only upon grounds of favoritism. It will surely arouse a popular protest. An army doctor, who chanced to be on terms of intimacy with the occupant of the White House, Wood's advancement has been rapid- far more so than often comes to men of greater merit. But upon what ground of fitness or experience could Wood’s selection as a canal constructor be possibly condoned?—Albany (N. Y.) Argus.

Volunteer Pension Grabbers. Five regiments of regular infantry that took part In the battles at Santiago and lost GO4 men In killed, wounded and missing have furnished ?04 applicants for pensions. From five regiments of volunteers that did not lose a maw la any of the battles come 2,997 claims for pensions. As we are forbidden to assume that the volunteers were any less unselftnh in their patriotic devotion than the regulars, the only possible Inference from this contrast la that the volunteers were sadly unfit to withstand exposure, since more than half of them represent themselves as permanently disabled by their short service.—Philadelphia Times.

Not Easy of Explanation. Mr. Austin, the newspaper man whom Mr. Hanna made chief of the Treasury Bureau of Statistics, Is an expounder of the doctrine that trade follows the flag, but he has difficulty In explaining the falling off in our exports during the past year, amounting to more than $100,000,000 In value. He is no worse off, however, than all the other Imperialist soothsayers who have found it to their profit to disseminate fairy tales about the effects of “expansion” upon our foreign trade and our national prosperity.—Hartford, Conn., T|mes. They Must AU He Crazy, If Hoar Is crazy on the subject of the Philippines, so was Benjamin Harrison, so is Governor Boutwell and George F. Edmunds nnd Thomas B. Reed. A man who harbors the Idea that we have not “outgrown the constitution” or that the Declaration of Independence Is something more than n mass of “glittering generalities” is •necessarily crazy.—Helena Independent. Democrats in Fightim; Mood. The Democratic party does'not agree with Senator Vest that it would be a good thing for It to be beaten by the Republicans this year. The party is in a fighting mood nnd far better lighting condition now than It hna known Blnce 1892. It Intends to attack the Republicans all along the line and to give them a walloping such ns they have seldom known.—Atlanta Journal. Honor Is I)uo to King Herod. When a man like General Jake Smith, who ordered all children over 10 massacred can be praised for gallantry It Is time that we were revising our opinion of Herod and erecting monuments to his memory.—Memphis Oommerclal-Appeal.

GARDEN AND FARM

SHADE FOR HOGS. Summer shade must be provided for hogs, especially brood sows. At this day and age when hog wallow is in disfavor, the animals must be provided with some place where they can cool off. Clumps of trees or shrubs are very desirable, but if these are not practicable on western prairies, a simple shed with board roof and one or two sides open answers very nicely. This sides should be so arranged that all of the sides can be raised during the hottest weather, making a free circulation of air possible. SELECTING FOR THE HERD. For farmers who desire to establish a small herd of a dozen cows, where dairying .s to be made a specialty, the selection of the highest type sire and crossing on grade cows of exceptional individuality ana quality Is advisable. It has been shown by frequent experiment that grade cattle, whether for either beef or milk production, are quite the equal of the pure bred, and as they are hardier and better rustlers, they do not require quite so much care and attention. WATERING HORSES. Horses often suffer for want of water. For some unexplained reason other animals are allowed to judge for themselves, but horses are kept on short allowance. This is all wrong. Except when too worin or immediately after feeding horses should have all the good pure pater they will drink. They need water to dilute their dry feed, to convert it into a liquid in the process of digestion. Food will remain in the stomach until sufficient juices are added to dissolve it. Feverlßh symptoms are soon apparent to a close observer when a horse has insufficient water. A horse should be given water both before and after feeding. Proper management will provide tb necessary conveniences. Horses should not be compelled to suffer for their owner’s neglect or other mismanagement.

EXPERIENCE WITH BROODER CHICKS. I have been using brooders this season for the first time and have two of 100-chick capacity. What little experience that I have had with the brooder chicks, teaches me that we often crowd too many chicks in a brooder. If you place only about 40 or 50 chicks in a 100 capacity brooder, you will find they will occupy it among them. I placed 40 chicks in the brooder and lost but two. At another rime I placed 100 in a brooder and lost over half of them. The method of feeding brooder chicks is of the utmost importance. I had read several articles on feeding and care, hut I thought there was too much theory about the feeding question. My little experience teaches me that the feeding question must not be neglected. The 40 chicks were fed on food that I believed would do Just as well, but I plainly see my folly. Crowding in too many together and improper feeding was the cause of a large per cent of loss in the second case mentioned. —‘Alvin Whitlock, in New England Homestead.

WHY CHICKENS DIE. It has come to be a saying with poultry breeders that the chicks must be four weeks old before they can be safely counted on to mature. The reason of this is that most of the loss among young chicks is previous to this sge. It is not necessary to go far to find It. It may be due to anyone of three causes, and is often due to two or even all three of them. In the first place the vigor of the chicks depends on the vigor of the stock which produces it. If the stock Is weak from any cause, the eggs cannot be mode to produce vigorous Chicks. This lack in the breeding ftoek may be brought about by inbreeding, the presence of vermlne, or feed insufficient in quality or constituents. After the eggs are hatched the rhicks may be killed off by lice or mites or they may be sacrificed by Lareless feeding. For the first cause of this trouble .here Is no remedy. Chicks hatched from weak breeding stock are foredoomed to an early death or a profitless life, and oftenest It Is death. The presence of lice Is often due to carelessness, and lack of proper food may be due to ignorance of carelessness, or a combination of both. Soft feed mixed in excess of immediate wants and allowed to sour is a prolific cause of death. Bad drinking water leads In the same direction. The cause of this great mortality among young chicks being pointed out, the remedy Is obvious, and anyone can apply It. Sound, sweet feed, plenty of grit, freedom from lice, pure water. These are the requirements to maintain good health in chicks from healthy stock. Not to furnish these brings Its own punishment in the loss of chicles.—Farmers’ Voice. WATER SUPPLY FOR FRUITS. As the growing or strawberries has been one of our special crops, and aiming to produce as fine berries as possible, the application of water by Irrigation has been forced upon us. We put In a gasoline engine of 14 horsepower and a rotary pump with a capacity of 300 gallons per minute. This was selected because of Its economical method of producing power, It costing only from $1 to $1.50 per day to run It The engine ÜBes one gallon gaso-

line per horse power per day when running to its full capacity. A well was sunk about 18 feet deep and 10 feet in diameter, from which an iron pipe 4 inches in diameter run out 160 feet into a lake, the water in the well standing within 4 or 5 feet of the pump. A survey of the grounds to be irrigated, with a leveling instrument, showed the average height to which It would be necessary to force the water. To distribute the water 1,000 feet, a 2% Inch wrought Iron pipe was bought and laid on the ground to such places as it was desired to Irrigate. This is simply screwed together and can be changed for different crovs as needed. Large valves opening to full size of the pipe, with hose connections, were ataclied at such places as to make it most convenient to use a twoinch linen hose.

The watering of the strawberries was mostly done with a nozzle which, 1,000 feet from the pump would throw the water in a solid stream from 80 to 100 feet, breaking into a fine spray like rain before reaching the ground. With 100 feet of hose we can, with one attachment of the hose, cover a circle of 400 feet, or something over two acres. This could be thoroughly wet in two hours, which is really more than is necessary at one time for strawberries, unless allowed to get too dry in the beginning. For black raspberries we tried irrigation by showering and flooding. The latter method gave the best results, for more water was got on the ground, and the berries were larger, of better color and morS" juicy. A heavy irrigation of about inches of water to the acre was given as the berries were beginning to ripen, which was enough to carry the crop. The lorries sold from two to three cents per quart more than berries not irrigated.—Walter L. Taber, in American Agriculturist.

SPRAYING HINTS. It is within the last twenty-five years that the great importance of spraying our orchards has become so manifest. Before that time there was not the close competition in fruit growing that there is today, and blemished fruit which would formerly pass in the market unnoticed is now thrown aside with the culls. There are several reasons why spraying is now of prime importance. Insects and fungous diseases are constantly coming to our orchards from foreign shores. Old neglected orchards serve as a breeding place for pests and help to scatter them about. There are many who grow fruit along with their general farming who say spraying doesn’t pay;” but if these same people would keep their orchards in good tilth, follow a systematic method of spraying, and properly grade their fruit, they would be surprised at the profit received from small orchards. Care, however, must be exercised in handling sprays, for a little mistake may cause a serious loss. An Illustration of this occurred in. Michigan. A fruit grower read a formula for a spray requiring so many pound 3 of copper sulphate to so many gallons of water, and through carelessness he read it pounds instead of gallons of water. The result was a badl£ damaged orchard. Had he followed the old adage, “Be sure you are right then go ahead,” he would have saved his trees, his temper and his money. When it becomes necessary to spray fruit that is ripening, the following solution is recommended Copper carbonate one ounce, ammonia, enough to dissolve the copper carbonate, water nine gallons. The time to spray and the number of applications rependß upon the variety of fruit and the object in view. Every grower must know just whtt he aims to kill when he sprays. Trees should never be sprayed with any of the poisonous solutions while in blossom, as this kills the bees and some other insects which are indispensable in fertilizing some fruits. Apples, pears, plums and grapes should receive regular applications every year. —The Epitomist.

Colorado Bees at St. Louis.

Mayor Swlnk, of Rocky Ford, Col., is an apiarist, and he has, perhaps, the largest bee plant in America. He is going to send his bees to the World’s Fair, and they will work at St. Louis from the time the Exposition opens until it closes. Mr. Swink’s plan, which will cost fully SIO,OOO of his own money is to bring to St. Louis enough bee hives to construct in miniature a counterpart of the Colorado State House, at Denver. The bees will then be turned out to find material for honeymaking in the coumry surrounding the World's Fair grounds. It will require about 640 hives to construct the little State House, and In it about 5,500,000 bees will work. A Colorado representative at the St. Louis Exposition said on this subject; "We have one bee man who works his bees all the year through. In summer they work in his alfalfa fields in Colorado, and in the fall he ships them to his plantation In Florida, where they work among the flowers and orange graces until time to return them to the west In the spring. In Colorado we have each yeai a Watermelon day, at Rocky Ford; a Potato day, at Greely; a Strawberry day, at Canon City, and a Fruit day, at Grand Junction. These are holidays, and In 1904 these celebrations will be held in St. Louts, and on these days Colorado fruit will be as free as water for those who celebrate with us.” By the use of a process invented at Bridgeport, Conn., wooden doors are being electroplated with coppor or brass. When a man gives himself away he naturally feels cheap.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PABT WEEK. i Mob Holds Sway at Charlottesville— Aeronaut Ascends in Burning Balloon and Lands Safely—Train Collides with Street Car at Terre Huute. The village of Charlottesville was in the hands of a mob the other night, nnd the sheriff of Hancock County with sev-enty-five armed deputies had been on the scene all afternoon. The purpose of the mob and the posse was to prevent the running of its ears by the Indianapolis and Eastern Traction Company. Recently a quarantine was established by Hancock County against Knightstown on account of smallpox there. The traction company stopped running its cap until the other day. When an effort was made to resume the people of Charlottesville stopped the second car. arrested the motorman and conductor and sidetracked the car. Hangs to Burning Balloon, With his balloon in flames above him Aeronaut Calloway clung desperately to the ropes at Burr Oak, waiting pluekily on the hazard that the balloon would go high enough before collapsing to enable him to cut loose his parhehute with a chance of its checking his fall before he reached the earth. The Palloon shot up nearly 2,000 feet and then Calloway dropped, landing with the parachute in safety. almost at the spot whence he started. The fire occurred through the carelessness of a man who held tho rope, Calloway discovered the flames at the moment of starting and cried: “Let her go. I think I can read) a safe height before she falls.” Train Dashes Into Loaded Street Car. As a result of a west-bonml Vandalia train crashing into a North Thirteenth street car at Terre Haute, three persons were probably fatally injured and six others seriously hurt. The accident was due to the watchman at the railroad crossing giving the car a signal to go ahead and raising the gates after a string of freight cars was cut at the crossing to give the street car the right of way. He did not notice the passenger train. The conductor of the street car, who went ahead of tile car. saw the passenger train approaching, but too late to jivoid the collision. ’ Huge Drainage Ditch Done. The Cook ditch, the greatest waterway ever constructed in Indiana, was completed a few days ago, the dredge entering the Kankakee river at the terminal point at Grand Junction. The construction of this waterway was begun several jears ago and its successful consummation has reclaimed several hundred thousand acres of what promises to be the best crop yielding laud in the great Kankakee region. Brief State Happenings. At an ice cream party in Kokomo right persons were poisoned by the cream. Miss Bernice Murden died. Newcastle has a building boom, seven businesw blocks and 300 residences having been contracted for. Modern Woodmen will hold a big reunion at Mount Vernon Atfg. 28, and 15,000 visitors are expected. The 14 months-old daughter of Isaac Gardner. Bloomington, was fatally scalded by upsetting a wash boiler. Robert Irvin. 70. was drowned in I.ittie Blue river, in two feet of water, in the rear of his home at Henderson. Adam Fuller, a farmer, living four and a half miles from Nappanee, committed suicide by hanging. No motive known. Patrons of the Muneio Gas Company say that if defeated in their suits for damages, they will appeal to the highest court. The Muncie Electric Light Company has begun work on its steam heating system for the city. Twelve-inch mains will be laid. Charles Pigg, son of a farmer east of Sullivan, tried to kill himself with arsenic. Mind affected as the result of a sunstroke. At Peru Charles I.ippohl was held up and robbed of several pounds of beefsteak. Supposed to have been done by a hungry tramp. The plan to remove the monument of Gen. Meredith from his farm. ne:r Cambridge City, to Richmond’s chief park lias been abandoned. George W. Brann, aged 28, an abstractor of titles, of Rushville, accidentally killed himself with a rifle while in a camping expedition. The Mist Indiana infantry regiment, which saw service in Culm, will hold a reuniou at Richmond next fall. Gen. Lee has been been invited. A Vincennes man claims to have discovered the cause of the destructive apple rot, so damaging in that part of the State, nnd how to prevent it. A bolt of lightning struck the homo of J. A. Jones in Kokomo. Mrs. Jones, who was standing in an open door, was stunned and one side was paralyzed. Albert Milton, a Kokomo pugilist, was shot and killed. His stepdaughter, Myrtle Smith. was arrested and charged with the homicide. She admits the shooting, hut pleads self-defense. Col. James B. Maynard, former editor of the Indianapolis Sentinel, and for many years one of the most prominent newspaper' men in Indiana, died at lbs home in Indianapolis, aged S 3 years. A petition in circulation at Chesterfield will goon he forwarded to the general officials of the Big Four Railway. It includes a vigorous protest over tho closing of the railway office at that point and usks the officials to ro-estuldish the agency. By abolishing the station at this point, the town is ul'W left without a telegraph *r express office. William Walla, a farmer and proprietor of a dance ball, was brutally murdered at Dixon by John Wannmakcr. who played a violin nt the dunce hull. The men hud quarreled earlier in the night, but had apparently made up their differences. The Commercial Traveler, the fast train on the Toledo, St. Louis and Western Railroad, was wrecked at Marion by running Into u pile of lumber which had fallen from a Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. lemis freight train. The passengers were badly shaken up, but Moue seriously injured.