Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1902 — Page 7

Tell your neighbor to subscribe for the taxpayers’ friend, The Dmeocrat. It gives all the news. FARMS FOR SALE. BY Dalton Hinchman REAL ESTATE AGENT, Vernon, Ind. No. 370. Farm of 140 acres, 2 miles of good railroad town of 400 inhabitants; a twostory frame house of 8 rooms; frame barn 54x00, 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 342*4 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 : *i miles of railroad town. Price S2O per acre, one-half cash, good time on balance at 0 per cent, secured by first mortgage. No. 270.' Farm of 200 acres; frame house of 5 rooms, large frame barn, ice house and other out-buildings; farm is well watered, lays nice, well fenced; 3 miles east or west to railroad towns on J. M. & 1., B. & 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 orct ards; this farm can be put into 3 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 b'f 100 acres; 5 miles of good R. K. 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, Ex-Judge T. C. Batchelor, First National Bank. Merchants: S. W. Storey. N. DeVersy. Jacob Foebel, Thomas & Son, Wagner Bros. & Co., Nelson & Son. J. H. Maguire & Co., W. M. Naur. Herbert l ioff 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 Sta'es 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 infoimation free. Address, R. J. WEMYSS General Immigration and Industrial Agent, LOUISVILLE. KY.

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POLITICS OF THE DAY

Tariff Revision Must Come. The tariff will not down. No matter how hard the Republican leaders try to keep it down, the tariff continues to force its way to the top. The official Republican campaign text-book, by ignoring the tariff in effect, issues orders to the party’s orators and editors to keep silent on the subject. Nevertheless there is an unmistakable demand among the Republicans of the Middle West for tariff legislation. The lowa platform’s declaration in favor of such remodeling of the schedules as shall deprive monopoly of protection's shelter is a significant response to this demand. Dr. Schurman, who, besides being president of Cornell University, is an ardent and active Republican, cries out that he believes “the people want to indorse the three R’s—namely, Roosevelt, the nation's leader; reciprocity with Cuba, the nation's duty, and revision of the tariff, the nation's interest.” It is too early to make Presidential nominations for 1904, but otherwise Dr. Schurman undoubtedly speaks for the patriotic citizenship of his party as distinguished from its controlling and managing politicians. President Roosevelt is for reciprocity witli Cuba, but in his December message lie advised against touching the

ENOUGH TO MAKE A HORSE LAUGH.

-Chicago Chronicle.

tariff. It may be that—since he is a student of public opinion—the intervening months have been working a change In his mind. He could do no more popular thing than to come out for tariff reform. The reasons for the rapidly growing strength of the demand for tariff revision, even within the Republican party, are obvious enough. William McKinley in his last speech expressed one of them when he said that the country had outgrown narrow business conditions and that tlie tariff should be used to obtain extension of our foreign trad£ through reciprocity. There is a feeling abroad among the more intelligent protectionists that there can be such a tldng as too much protection for giants that were once infants. But, above all, the -conviction is spreading that the tariff is the mother of the trusts. It Is the tariff that enables the industrial monopolies to perpetrate the swindle of selling goods cheaper to foreigners than to Americans. It is the tariff which shields tne food trust from competition, and thus enables it to charge wlint It pleases for meat. It is the tariff which enables the shoddy trust to make counterfeit cloth nnd so defraud the poor whenever they buy a “cheap" garment, carpet or blan ket. Tariff revision must come. Tho American people will not submit to being permanently governed and robbed by tlie trusts. —Chicago American. Whnt the lowu Platform Meant. Tlie tariff revision paragraph in tlie lowa Republican platform is variously considered. Tlie Republican organs ns n rule undertake to mlniiulxe it. Tlie Democratic organs, on the other hand, attach great importance to the deliver ance. Tlie significance of n declaration of any kind often depends upon the time nnd circumstances surrounding it, and it cannot be denied that nt this particular time the declnration tnnde In lowa means for mare than the same declaration made'a year ngo. It Is true that the platform of 1901 did contain the substance of the tariff plank of thlrf

year. But that was exclusively a local election and had nothing to do with National policy. This year the case is different. The question is a live and a practical one and the intention of the convention was that tlie eleven Republican Congressmen who will be elected In lowa this fall will go to Washington pledged to vote for tariff reform upon the lines laid down in this platform.— Baltimore Sun. Justified by an Enemy, Both as to their position witli regard to the trusts and witli regard to the Philippine atrocities tlie Democrats have been justified out of tlie mouth of the President himself. The Democratic positions can be justified by other argument than' tlie President's indorsement, but a ready answer to Republican criticism is: "Your President and chief leader, by saying exactly what tlie Democrats have been saying, has admitted that the Democrats are in the right.”—HoustbirPbstT Facts and Theories in Conflict. All over the land housekeepers and heads of families are complaining of the increased cost of living. Tlie “weekly allowance” which formerly met all the demands of the household and satisfied the claims of the butcher, the baker,

tlie grocer and venders of fruit and vegetables, is now painfully inadequate. This is an era of great industrial activity. Our optimists are fond of asserting and reasserting that the country was never more prosperous than at present. Perhaps that is true. But the average housekeeper will not agree with the optimists that high prices are an unmixed blessing. When she counts up her balance at the end of each week she is inclined to think she lias a grievance. It seems to lie Impossible to reconcile her facts with tlie optimists’ theories and conclusions.—Baltimore Sun. There Is No Luck of Issues. Tlie Democrats have practically the whole choice of Issues. All they have to do Is to come together, drop a few faded notions and outworn resolves, and they may select from the whole catalogue of abuses that have grown up under Republican rule. Issues! There never were more of them before the people, and pressing ones, too. The Democracy have everything In their own hands. It will be a pity if they cannot throw overlioard non-essentials and achieve the harmony so much desired. —Boston Globe. An Inulorious Polley. Tlie paramount issue is the issue of “tlie tariff-nurtured trusts." The oppression of our own people first calls for relief. Reform, like charity, begins at home. Bitt tlie oppression of a foreign people by tlie Republican party Is not to lie ignored. It is profitless—nay, more. It Is costly. It Is not only not glorious. it is un-Amejlcan.—Houston Dost. Waste Keeps Up the Taxes. The Philippine waste may greatly aid tlie high-tariff workers in keeping up the present exorbitant rates, ns they will try to show that the country needs all tlie tariff taxes it can get. The trusts will, of course, get tlie benefit of a continuance of the rates now collected.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

GARDEN AND FARM

AIDS TO WHITEWASHING. The use of the fruit-spraying pumps makes easy the task of whitewashing stables, henhouses and cellars, and It Is much more effectual than the use the brush, because by making the stream a little larger and more forcible, which most spraying nozzles admit of, a stream can be sent into stacks and crevices where the brush would not reach. It may not prove as penetrating or as powerful a disinfectant as the gas from burning sulphur and charcoal, hue it takes next rank, and can be used where it might not be well to use the sulphuric acid jas, as in cellars under living-rooms, if it is to be used as a disinfectant, or is an insect destroyer, the addition of’ 1 little carbolic acid or a little dissolved copperas to the whitewash may be an advantage, and we prefer the latter, at least in cow stables, because It units no offensive odor. Let the lime be thoroughly slacked, and strained through a cloth, so that it may be thin anough to work well in the nozzle. And sides, ceilings, corners and floors ?an be well sprayed in one-fourth the time needed for the use of the brush. Applied during the hot weather, it titles notr take 1 ongto dry, and two coats ( > an easily be given if one does not look thick enough when dried. LARGE LITTERS OF PIGS. We never saw a litter of pigs so large that the sow did not have milk enough for them until they were two weeks old. We have been told of such a thing as one having more pigs than she had teats, and in such a case it might be necessary to kill the extra ones or put them on another sow, or to bring them up on a bottle, but we think such cases are about as rare as that of the cow that had five calves, and one had to look on while the others were getting the milk. But usually the prolific sows are also the best milk producers, and as we have said have enough if properly fed to supply their pigs until two or three weeks old. By that time they can be taught to feed themselves at the trough and by the time they are from six to eight weeks old they will prefer the trough to the mother’s milk, and may be taken from her. By feeding regularly three times a day while with the sow, giving no more than they will eat up clean, or taking away ■whatever they leave every time, they will soon learn to eat at the trough. We think that a mash of bran or shorts with skimmilk, the more milk the better, is the best feed for them, but some claim to have good success with soaked shelled corn. We never tried it, but after they were a week old we began to add cornmeal to the bran, gradually increasing the amount. —The Cultivator.

GROWING CELERY. When the plants are about three inches high, they should be sprayed gently with bordeaux mixture. They should be sprayed the second time after they become six inches high, and again when nine inches to a foot high. This spraying will prevent r t and blight, and every variety of celery is liable to attacks of these diseases. Cultivation must be thorough and constant. A wheel hoe and rake is a good tool for the purpose. The space between the plants in the row must be kept clean by hand, and all -weeds should be kept out. Do not work the ground when the plants are wet, as dirt on the leaves causes rust and rot. As a matter of fact, no plants should be cultivated when wet with dew or rain. In blanching the idea is to shut out the light and free circulation of the air. TKese boards should be set close to each side of the row and held in place by stakes driven beside them. The top should be left open in order that the plants may not be hindered in their growth. The plants in the space between the boards will continue to grow and will soon become white and tender, and as the growth proceeds above the boards the latter may be brought together at the top, until the space between them is perfectly dark, and the plants will continue to grow. The stalks should be marketed or taken out as soon as they are sufficiently tender.—Thomas Alphram, in New England Homestead. INSECT ENEMIES OF FRUIT. The work of spraying the fruit trees and vines is usually done in the spring, but even now an exomination of the trees will show that they require nearly as much attention as in spring. The nests ot caterpillars can now be seen In the orchards and jn the forests. The catalpa trees have been almost completely stripped of leaves in some sections by large green worms that attack the trees almost before their presence is detected. In the vegetable garden there will be found worms and bugs innumerable, and that they can do considerable harm, even in a few hours, is *ell known. An eggplant can be entirely consumed by potato beetles in less ’han two hours, and the large green worm will strip a tomato vine in less than half a day. To save the fruit and vegetables, therefore, requires vigilance and work. The scale insect is the most destructive enemy of trees, as it attacks near ly all kinds, and, Its destruction must be attempted with the determination to succeed. A strong solution of whale oil soap has been found an excellent remedy. As the rains carry it away, an application should be made after every rain until assured that the pest has been eradicated. Kerosene emulsion, which is cheap, will instantly

destroy all kinds of caterpillars, and Is made by dissolving a pound of hard soap in a gallon of boiling water. Wheq the soap Is completely dissolved remove the solution from the fire and add a gallon of kerosene, churning the mixture for 15 minutes by pumping with a sprayer. A creamy mixture results. Add from 10 to 20 gallons of cold water (according to strength desired and spray the trees. For peach trees the mixture should not be too strong, about one of kerosene to twenty of water being preferred. Success depends upon getting the mixture on every part of the tree. The mixture can be improved if a gill of crude carbolic acid is added for every gallon of kerosene used. —Philadelphia Record.

DIPPING FOR PARASITES. Parasites of all kinds are not only injurious to the wool of sheep, but to the health of the animals as well, and dipping to destroy them should be resorted to wherever and whenever they are present at shearing time. There is no other way to remove the troublesome pests except by repeating dipping, and sometimes it requires a good many to accomplish the desired end. Ticks will worry the thin, weak saeep more than the strong ones, and they seem to congregate on them in such numbers as to cause their death. Sometimes the ticks appear on the sheep shortly after dipping, and the impression is made that the dipping did not free them from the parasites; but this is a mistake. The trouble was that the ticks were in the sheds or stables where the sheep were kept, and by putting the animals back in their infested quarters the ticks soon covered them again. The living quarters of the sheep must also be treated with the solution by spraying and washing, and in this way we protect the animals from a future invasion. A second dipping should follow the first about ten days later, and the living quarters should also receive a second spraying. Sometimes where the parasites are very numerous a third dipping and spraying may pay. There are many kinds of solution for dipping sheep, and most of Lem have their virtues and also their disagreeable Tobacco stems furnish one of the cheapest and most effective dips, but the solution has the disadvantage of being very obnoxious to both the animals and the workers. The results, however, are not al all injurious. There is no permanent sickness or injury caused by this. One might feel a little nauseated at times in the work, and the sheep may even show signs of sickness, but no actual injury wil result therefrom, while all the parasites will be effectually destroyed. The solution should be made strong and at a proper temperature to keep the sheep from getting a chill, and they should be held under for at least one good minute. That should prove sufficient for the most obstinate cases.—S. W. Chambers, in American Cultivator.

CARE OF FARM IMPLEMENTS. There are three things necessary td the long life of a machine —(1) shelter, (2) oil and (3) paint. But you can get along with less paint if you have plenty of shelter. A shelter can be made for all farm implements at a very small cost sudlcient to keep off the rain, snow and the hot summer sun. How often one sees machinery standing out in the field all winter long, left where unhitched from when through mowing or whatever else, far greater damage done to it than all the work it has done. Every farmer should have a tarpaulin cover, and put it on at noon and again at night to protect from the sun, as well as from sudden showers, the expensive machinery. As there is a half dozen good brands of oil costing from 20 to 40 cents per gallon, no farmer need bi without a sufficient supply. Don’t smear cog wheels with oil or grease; as the oil gathers sand and dust that very soon cuts the cogs to a small point and causes them to break; where necessary use graphite. Do not run a belt, chain or binder canvass any tighter than is necessary to make it do its work, as undue tightness strains not only the belt or chain but the entire machine. Paint your wagons, plow and harrow at least once in three years. We can buy colors and grind them with just enough linseed oil to make it of the consistency of thin putty, then add half as much turpentine as you have of this mixture, put in a small amount of japan dryer to each quart of paint, then thin with linseed oil until it will spread well, or one can buy ready mixed paints ready for use, which is sometimes more convenient to use; but I do not think them as good. From $2 to $3 will buy paint enough to paint all the farm implements one time. When the implements are put away in the fall give them a good oiling just as though going to use them and every bearing about the binder oil well and then a day or two before you want to use the binder take a can of coal oil and put a liberal quantity in every cup or oil hole and oil the knife well. Do this to cut off the gum and you will be surprised to see how much easier it will make the machine start up. About every machine and implement will be found a nut or two that will not stay on. Wet a woolen string in strong brine water and tie it around the projecting end ot the bolt, this will rust the joint that will stay tight forever. Again 1 will say that oil and paint cost much less than wood and cast iron. If all of us farmers would paint up all the farm Implements they will net only last longer but look much better when used so much.—Louli Campbell, In Agricultural Epitomist. Celluloid floating toy- are Ue newest invention for amusing children.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Ghosts Cause Farmer and Family to Flee —Russiaville Man Forgets His Wedding Day—Muncie Man Takes Poison—lncrease in Tax Valuations. George Flowers, a young farmer, bought a strip of land at Sandridge, on which was located the oldest cemetery in that section. The cemetery was surrounded by a grove aud contained 300 headstones. Flowers removed the headstones, throwing some of them into the Embarrass river and with the rest built foundation for his house. The cemetery he plowed up and planted in melons and potatoes. Although similar crops on the rest of the farm grew in abundance, the cemetery crop has been -eaten up by a strange bug. Flowers’ house lias been haunted for several nights, the building has shaken violently and Flowers, his Wife and two children have fled from the place. People having relatives buried there threaten to prosecute Flowers for obliterating the graves without giving them notice so they could have reinterred the dead. The grand jury of Lawrence County is investigating the case. Forgets His Wedding Date. Otto Amnion, proprietor of a hotel and restaurant at Russiaville, forgot his wedding day. His fiancee. Miss Jennie McXTormiek of Keokuk, lowa, arrived at the appointed hour, but he was not at tlie station to meet her. Miss McCormick went to the restaurant and found the groom behind the lunch counter. Ho did not recognize her, mid. thinking it was a customer, asked:'“What can I do for you?” “Well, I think you can marry me,” replied the girl from Keokuk. In the joyous welcome that, followed tlie groom forgot to apologize and no apology was demanded. As soon as Ammon could doff his apron tlie happy couple came to Kokomo and were married by the Rev. Newlin, pastor of the Friends’ Church. Kills Himself for Love. Samuel Hughes, aged 33, vowed he would not live without Mrs. Mattie Miller as his wife, swallowed poison and died at Muncie. His body was found in the city park by a picnic party. Hughes was a well-known contractor and paid court to Mrs. Miller. She told him she was unable to wed him, as she was rot divorced from a husband who abandoned her after refusing to secure a divorce. Hughes threatened suicide, but she did not take him seriously. Body of Missing Farmer Found. The partly decomposed body of David McPherson, who disappeared from Lis home southeast of Warsaw, was found by boys who we’re hunting in the woods, eight rods from his home. McPherson was in the habit of leaving home for weeks and his absence caused no concern. Coroner Smith decided that McPherson died from au attack of epilepsy several days ago. Adds sll, 170,045 to Valuations. The State board ot tax commissioners, after listening to the representatives of corporations for ten days, all of whom asked reductions in their assessments, announced that it had increased by $9.179,045 the valuations upon which steam i and electric railroads, telephone, teleI graph and express, pipe line and trans- ! portation companies must pay taxes. Brief State Happenlng-a. Miss Zella Smith, aged 24 years, committed suicide at Richmond by taking carbolic acid. The child of Adam Snider, a Terre Haute hardware merchant, died from blood poisoning resulting from a mosquito bite. Rev. August Rehwaldt resigned the pastorate of the First German Lutheran Church at Valparaiso and accepted a call to Alcester, S. D. Mrs. Carrie Remark. wife of Jesse Remark, a merchant of Sharpsville, committed suicide by taking poison and then cutting her throat with a razor. The lifeless body of John Cahill was found at the side of the Michigan Central tracks in Hammond. Cahill was returning from Niles, Mich., where lie attenled tlie funeral of his father. Rev. Charles Hill, a Congregational minister, confessed at Terre Haute that he accidentally fired the shot which killed the widow Smith at tlie mining town of Benwood fifteen years ago. In Indianapolis Arthur E. Ferguson filed suit for divorce from Goldie M. Ferguson. whom he married two years ago. Ferguson alleges that his wife is so addicted to cigaret smoking that she forgot to prepare his meals. An expensive wreck on the Pennsylvania road between Winona and Warsaw occurred late the other night, badly smashing two locomotives and twenty freight cars loaded with farming machinery and merchandise, entailing a loss of about $75,000. Because Marcus Skinner, her sweetheart, had refused to call and take her for a drive, Miss Daisy Johnson of Marion drank an ounce of laudanum. The prompt arrival of physicians, however, prevented her death. Farmers living in tlie counties tributary to New Albany report young quails in greater abundance in the stubble fields, meadows and woods of that section than was ever known before, insuring fine sport for the shooting-senllon. Indiana Spiritualists are excited over nn alleged exposure at the camp at Chesterfield. During a seance given by Mrs. J. 11. Mendenhall, a widely known materializing medium, it is claimed Mrs. G. W. Kinard, a member of the Central Christian Church of Chesterfield, seized the supposed “spirit,” and when the lights were turned up it was found she was holding Mrs. Mendenhall. Mrs. Frank Taylor was so l-.tdly burned at Elwood by the explosion ot a gasoline stove that she cannot live. Information comes from Carroll County that a farmer and his two sons nnd two daughters living near Idaville have been stricken with milk sickness. One ot the sons died and the father probably will die. Near Plymouth a great sink hole along the right of way ot thl* Pennsylvania tracks swallowed an embankment of earth twenty feet high and fourteen Hat cars. The main track, though pronounced auto, is constantly sinking.