Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1903 — Page 3

Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law, Abstract*. Real Estate, Low, WW practice in all the courts. Office ormr Peadig's Fair, RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Judson J. Hunt, in, Mom, lams and sail tm RENSSELAER, IND. Office up-stairs In Leopold block, first stairs west of VanKeosselaer street. Wm. B. Austin, Lawyer and Investment Broker Attorney For The ** N. A. AC.Ry, and Rensselaer W.L. A P.Oa tfito-Office over Chicago Bargain Store. Renaselapr. Indiana. V. A. Baughman. O. A. Williams. r Baughman & Williams, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Law. Notary work. Loan*. Real Estate and Insurance. Specie' attention given to collections of all kinds. Office over “Racket Store.” ‘Phone 830. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. I. F. Irwin S.C. Irwin Irwin 8: Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. Collection a. Farm Loans and Fire Insurance, Office In Odd Fellows’ Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. R W. Marshall, ATTORNEY AT LAW. t# ■ Practices In all courts. Special attention given to drawing up wills and settling decedent’, estates. Office In county building, east aide of court house square. nun volts. e. e. envueh. umt a. eueaia Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Suoeeaeors to Tbompson A Bro.) ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Law. Real Estate, Insurance Aberacts and Loan*. Only set of Abstract Books In the County. RENSSELAER, IND. Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Remington, ... Indiana. Law. Real Estate. Collections, Insurance and Farm Loans. Office upstairs in Durand Block. Drs. I. B. & I. M. Washburn, Physicians & Surgeons. _ Dr. L B. Washburn will gtveapecial attention to Diseases of the Eye, Bar, Nose, Throat and Chronic Diseases. He also tests eras for glasses. Ornoi TikiMONi No. 41, RiaisiMoa Pmons No. IL Rensselaer, - - Indiana. E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Office overlme,’ Millinery itore. Rensselaer. Omoo Pmoni 177. flsoiOßatea Phohi, 111, Doctor A. J. Miller, PHYSICI AN ND SURGEON, Rensselaer, - Indiana. Office np-atelra in Forsythe block. General practice of medicine, surgery and X-ray work. Calls answered promptly, day or night. Office ana residence ’phones. >O4 (Jasper Co.li also (Hal leek) 43 at residence. W. W. MERRILL, M. D. Hectic Ptiystcion ond sun, RENSSELAER. • INDIANA. Chronle Diseases a Specialty. Office 'Phone 80*. Residence ’Phone 841 Dr. Francis Turfler. Dr. Anna Turtle*. Drs. Turfler & Turfler, OSTEOPANHIC PHYSICIANS. Graduates American School of Osteopathy. Office over Harris Bank, Rensselaer, Ind. Hourst *to ISm; Ito 4:80 p. m. H. O. Harris, B. T. Harris, J. C. Harris, President Vice-Pres. C ashlar. Rensselaer Bank. Deposits received on call. Interest Bearing Certificates of Deposit Mpued on time. Exchange Bought and Sold on principal dries. Notea Discounted at current rates. Farm Loans made at * per cent We Aellctt e fibers of Year Business. H. L. Brown, DENTIST.. Office over Larsh’s drug store mmmm. y Crown. Bar and Bridge 1 Work. Teeth Without W i Plate*. Without Pain. ' .. J. W. HORTDH ~ V la TEARS 111 RENSSELAER ~ Tooth caret ally stopped with sold and other fillings. Consultation free. Nitrous Oxide Oas administered daily. Chargee within the* reach of all. _• •; r •old bp A. ». Loog.

FARM AND GARDEN

RAISING CLOVER SEED. My farm contains 160 acres, beautifully located, bordering on tbe eastern shore of Lake Michigan. The soil ranges from gravelly, Bandy loam to heavy clay loam. Eighty acres is under cultivation, 20 acres fallow and' pasture, the remainder, 60 acres, being woodland and forest. A splendid, never failing spring gives rise to a creek which is about 80 rods long; when it leaves my premises. I have never made it a, practice to wantonly destroy the trees on my woodlot, but have used most of the timber in some form or other. My principal crops are medium red clover, corn, potatoes, oats and wheat, making a four years’ rotation. I seldom let clover sod lie more than one year, harvesting one crop of hay and one Qf clover seed. I usually harvest the clover seed with the ordinary mowing machine and horse rake, but do not consider it the best way. I hired a man with an old-fashioned reaper to cut my clover for seed one year and left it in the gavels until I drew it direct to the halier. It was the cheapest and most satisfactory of any work I ever had done; but It is a plan that cannot be depended upon, for one is not always able to get a huller when ready. I think many people make the great mistake of leaving the clover lying In the gavels for days and! weeks before securing. If I have no other means of protecting my seed, I stack it Just as soon as it is dry enough. I make a practice of trying to use up all of my hay and rough fodder by feeding it to stock on the farm, thus helping to keep up the fertility of the soil. Of course merchantable potatoes and wheat are put on the market but all other grains are used for feed. To have the best success producing clover seed, one must he sure to cut the hay or first crop when It Is In full bloom or before. If the first crop commences to turn brown and dry up, or ripen, it greatly reduces the seed crop, besides being worth very much less for hay.—W. A. Eaton, in American Agriculturist.

HORSE TALK. After the work horses have had their night feed turn them in a small field near the barn where they can rest on the cool ground. Remove all the dried perspiration from the hair with a stiff brush before turning them out. Bring them in early for their morning’s feed and brush them again. Just notice how much work a team will do cared for in this way ar.d how well they will look. Hot weather Is very trying for korsc-s. If possible, give the road horse a cool, airy box stall at night, during tbe hot weather at least. Clean all the stalls every morning and put the badJing out to dry and air. Sprinkle land plaster over the wet places in the stall. A stable filled with the fumes of ammonia Is bad for the horses’ eyes and not good for the general health. Various mixtures are sold to keep the stables sweet and dry. They are tinted and scented, but plain land plaster is the base and just as good at much less cost. If a horse shifts from one foot to the other, there is pain somewhere. The shoes do not fit or his feet are hard and dry and feverish and ache. Find the cause and remedy it or a good horse may be ruined. Every stable should have a foottub, and during the dry time particularly every horse should stand in it, if only for five minutes every day. Let them stand in it while you clean them. They soon learn to like it. Put fine wire netting over the windows and make a wire door to keep the flies and mosquitoes out of the stable. Use a gauze blanket on the horses in the stable to keep the flies off and the dust out of the hair.—Farm Journal.

HINTS FOR FIELD WORK. During spring and summer it is almost necessary to expose many of the wooden implements that are constantly in use. If those that are not painted are given a coat of crude oil, the exposure to the weather will not injure them nearly bo much. When buying new baskets for farm use, give them a coat of oil, both inside and out, and they will last twice as long. The cost is not over 5 cents for both oil and labor. Make up some canvas or leather bags, Vith hooks on them, and just large enough to hold a wrench, an oil can and a bunch of cotton waste; hang one on the plow or harrow when going into the field. The wrench and oil will often save a trip back to the barn, and the waste is useful to wipe off the moldboard after finishing a job In the field. Two or three galvanized iron pails are very useful for carrying fertilizers for distribution. 4f left in tbe field or otherwise exposed, they will not fall to pieces as wooden ones will. < When in town, better get an assortment of bolts, screws, wire

nails, a few horseshoe nails, an extra plow point, and any small tools necessary for the repair work. Some tool is sure to break, and such things are often worth ten times their cost in an emergency.—New England Homestead. ROTATION IN FRUIT CULTURE. Here is a bit of Important information wdrth giving. Some time ago, Mr. John Wright, at a fruit confereye, mentioned that a fruit grower hand planted an apple orchard, in one corner of which they had no success, and they could not understand the cause of the difficulty until an old man employed by the firm said he remembered, as a boy, there was an apple orchard in that corner before. I never lost sight of this fact, and when I reached Rochester, N. Y., which is pre-eminently a district for young fruit trees, I called on Mr. Barry and asked him, "Do you ever grow young apple trees on the same ground?” Never," ho replied ; “there is not d bit of ■ good ground all about Rochester for miles round but what we have had apples on at one time. We always seek fresh ground.” In Australia I asked a fruit-grower, “What do you do when you have deaths or accident* to your apple trees —do you put other apple trees in?” The answer was, “No, we invariably plant stone fruit.” The knowledge has either been acquired through long experience, or it has been found out, with the result that the practice la now common throughout the fruit-grow-ing countries, not to plant apple trees where trees of this fruit have been before.—W. C. Barr, in the Cultivator.

SOFT FOOD FOR HENS. If we were asked whether we would prefer an exclusive diet of soft food or grain for laying hens, we should certainly say by all means let them have the grain. We don’t have much faith in balanced rations or soft food, though we admit that a change is not only relished, but becomes almost a necessity. Grain should form the principal food, and the exercise the hens get in scratching for it will keep them healthy. A meal of table scraps, and vegetables thickened with shorts two or three times a week will always be relished, but a full meal of soft food given each morning will soon disarrange the system and lessen the production of eggs. When soft food is given, it should be the last thing in the evening; so that the hens may be kept at work during the day. When their hunger is satisfied, the hens stop work, and lazy hens are not healthy, and seldom lay. Make them work, and they will always be profitable.—Home and Farmer.

THE SCRUB. Thirty-two pure-bred chickens, thirty-two scrubs, and the same number of average chickens were divided into eight lots, each containing an equal number of the three varieties, and fattened on different rations by the Ontario Agricultural College. The cost per pound of gain of each lot was as follows: Groiip I—Pure1 —Pure bred, 3.51 cents; scrubs, 4.25; average, 3.38. Group 2—Pure bred, 4.08 cents; scrubs,'7.s2; average, 5.8. Group 3 —Pure bred, 4 cents; scrubs, 6.87; average, 5.4. All the chickens in each group were fed alike, the fattening lasting for three weeks, but the results were the same in every case; the scrubs were the most expensive chickens to fatten. Unquestionably they do not lay as many eggs; then how can any farmer afford to keep them? The summary of the college is that "scrub or barnyard fowls are very poor feeding and selling class of stock.”

POULTRY OR PORK. A hen may be considered to consume one busbel of grain yearly, and lay ten dozen or fifteen pounds of eggs. This is equivalent to saying three and one-tenth pounds of corn will produce, when fed to a hen, fivesixths of a pound of eggs; but fivesixths of a pound of pork requires about five pounds of corn for its production. Taking into account the nutriment in each, and the comparative prices of the two on an average, the pork is about three times as costly a food as eggs. Therefore, it will pay better to feed waste milk to fowls than to pigs, If not enough for both.—Miss Annie Holtz, in The Cultivator.

Railroad System for Cities.

A system of suspended cars on an elevated structure in Paris seems to be meeting with approval. The cars are suspended by rolling wheels on a central rail on an iron structure. One of the advantages is that cars can go around very sharp carves at high speed. A curve of 1,200 feet radios can be passed at a speed of 120 miles an hour. A woman who can turn a wrinkle Into a dimple has. a future before her.

HOUSEHOLD.

BURNT MILK. Next time you burn any milk take the saucepan off the fire and stand it at once In a bowl of cold water. Put a pinch of salt in the saucepan, give the milk a stir, and you will find that the burnt taste has almost entirely disappeared. COFFEE AS A DISINFECTANT. Experiments with roasted coffee prove that it is the nfost powerful means not only of rendering animal and vegetable effluvia harmless, but cf actually destroying them, states American Queen. On one occasion, meat in an advanced state of decomposition wa3 instantly deprived of its offensive odor when a pound of roasted coffee was placed near it. In another instance, where sulphurated hydrogen and ammonia could be strongly detected, the odor was completely removed in half a minute with three ounces of fresh roasted coffee, while other parts of the house were cleared of the smell simply by passing through the rooms with a roaster containing coffee. The best method for using coffee as a disinfectant is to dry the raw bean, pound it in a mortar, and then roast the powder on a moderately heated iron plate, until it is of a dark brown color. Then sprinkle it in sinks or cesspools or lay it on a plate in the room which you wish to disinfect. Coffee acid or coffee oil acts more readily in very small quantities.

THE IMPROMPTU NURSE. The American Journal of Nursing urges upon the impromptu nurse in the private home, whether city or country, not to shake blankets and clothing that have been in the sick room out of the windows. Moist sheets hung outside of the door of the apartment in which there is a contagious case, says this authority, will do much to prevent the passage of infectious dust to other parts of the house. A weak solution of soda or carbolic acid should be used to keep this barrier wet, and should be applied by some one on the “clean side” of the apartments. Soiled linen should be placed under water, in he sickroom and boiled before being handled by any one outside. Nothing should be tak&n to the laundry in a dry condition. The patient’s silver and dishes should be cleansed in the room, and before returning for general use should be thoroughly boiled. AMMONIA AND ITS USES. A little ammonia added to the bath will have a very refreshing effect and give tone, vigor and smoothness to the skin. When color ha 3 been taken out of any fabrics, sponging with ammonia will often restore it. Ammonia is an excellent remedy for the bites and sting 3 of insects. It should be applied immediately, if possible. Mildew stains can be removed by rubbing with ammonia diluted with water. A few drops of ammonia in the bathing water is very good for oily skins. lodine spots on linen will disappear if soaked for a time in ammonia and rinsed in clear water. The best way to clean hairburshes is with water, to which a few drops of ammonia has been added. —American Queen.

RECIPES. Meat and Ice Croquettes.—Mix one cupful of sour chopped beef, cut from under round, one-third cup of boiled rice, half a teaspoon of salt and a little pepper; cook a few cabbage leaves three minutes in boiling water, then lift them out, put some of the mixture in each leaf and,fold leaf to enclose mixture; fasten with a toothpick; cook in tomato sauce one hour, closely covered. Bombay Toast.—Beat two eggs; add one teaspoon of chopped capers and a dash of cayenne pepper; put one tablespoon of butter in a frying pan; when hot stir in one tablespoon of anchovy paste and the egg mixture; when it has thickened remove from the fire; spread on thin slices of buttered toast. Blackberry Souffle. —Put a half pint of blackberry Juice and a half pint of blackberries over the fire, heat to boiling point and sweeten; thicken with four tablespoonfuls of sago, and when it cooks clear remove from the fire; when cool add the juice of half a lemon and the beaten whites of four eggs. Turn into small molds decorated with fine large blackberries; set these in a shallow pan of water and bake in a moderately hot oven until firm. Serve with whipped cream or sweetened plain cream. Pineapple Pie. —Grate one pineapple. Beat thoroughly one-half cupful of butter and one cupful of powdered sugar. Beat separtely the whites and yolks of three eggs; to the butter and sugar add the yolks, next the pineapple, lastly the whites of the eggs. Bake and finish with a meringue. Cherry Salac.—Stone half a pound of cherries and save all the juice. Take the white leaves of a nice head of lettuce and wash them thoroughly. Slice a small cucumber, chop finely a dozen blanched almonds, mix all gently together, arrange on the lettuce leaves and pour over a dressing made of a gill of cherry juice, two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice and four tablespoonfuls of sugar. Serve very cold.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTB OF THE PAS* WEEK. Kokomo Man Lons Blind Now Ha? Hla Vision—Shoots at Man Who Took His Wife to Town—Attempted Mar dor of Family Charged. After living in total darkness for six months Henry H. Downey, an old resident of Kokomo, the other day suddenly I regained his eyesight. His blindness was caused by paralysis of the optic nerve, which completely baffled all of t'lie physicians. The man was taken to specialists at Indianapolis and Chicago and ail gave as their opinion that his sight could never be restored. One night Downey j went to bed a blind man and the fol- ■ towing morning awoke with eyes tlhtt ' could see. At first he could not believe that before him there were objects and daylight. Everything was unfamiliar. He screamed that he could see, and hla family rushed into his bedroom nnd found his statement to be true. Downey was examined by several physicians, and all of them were unable to account for the restoration of his sight. Their only explanation is that life has been restored to the optic nerve by some natural moans. Shoot* at Wife's Kacort. R. H. Layton, aged 63, of Battleground, met William Downs of the same town in Lafayette with Mrs. Layton and fired two shots at close quarters at <hls wife’s escort, both going wide of the mark. Mrs. Layton and Downs came to Lafayette and went to the law office of George L>. Parks, where the woman said she had an appointment with the attorney, who was to file her application for divorce. On finding the door locked they turned to go down the stairs and were confronted by Layton, who drew a revolver from his pocket and fired. Layton was arrestd and lodged in jail. Both men are prominent in Battleground, where tile news of the encounter has caused a sensatiou. Woman Charged with Murder. Mrs. ■’Tillman Fountains of Wabash w:*s arrested the other day on a charge of chloroforming the family of Chris liarnish, near Lincolnville. The crime was committed on a recent night nnd one or two members of the liarnish family narrowly escaped death. It was charged that the woman administered the anaesthetic through motives of jealousy. She had a Iwarder, B. E. Turner, who had been attentive to one of the Misses liarnish. After the chloroforming Turner says the Fountaine woman confessed 1 to him. Miamated in Marriage. Being niismated in marriage, a woman of 40 years nnd a boy of 18, led Mrs. Ollio Gibbs of Rising Sun to take her life. It is stated that on the night before Ehe was looking far her husband with a loaded revolver, but he could not be found. She said that she would be deal before morning. Returning to her bonce, she locked herself in and took “rough-on-rats.” She was not found until next day, when people, who heard unusual noises about the home, broke into the hou.ee and found her just before Eh* died. State Items of Interest. Jeffersonville will abolish mule cam. Hail damaged the Floyd County tobacco crop. Cold weather is having a serious effect on the corn crop. Glass factories in Terre Haute have opened for the winter. Thieves stole all the fish from a pond in the M uncle cemetery. Rural free delivery made a start in FioyiT County on Sept. 1. Indiana employes of the Wabash Railroad have received a raise in pay. Enos Neal of Richmond bus a pickle that has been preserved for 37 years. Anderson is considering a proposition to filter all the water used by the city. Kaolin, used in the manufacture of porcelain, has been discovered near Salem. A Chautauqua association is being organized for New Albany and Jeffersonville. A new electric line is projected from Montpelier to Marion, through the oil fields. Delivery boys in Tipton have formed a unton and are going to strike for higher woge*. Mr. and Mrs. John Chopsou of Huntington County have been married for fifty years. An unknown man was killed by a train at Elkhart. The mark “J. Fleming, Chicago,” was on his shirt. Sixteen passengers were injured, none of them fatally, in a collision between a passenger car and an express car loaded with race horses on the Indiana Union Traction Lme between Anderson and Indianapolis. Tbe Indiana Northern Traction and the Marion Light and Heating Company interests have been merged. Tbe light and heating company’s plant in Marion ia to be enlarged and to furnish power for the interurban lines. William Bolk was tried in Terre Haute pqtice court for shooting and slightly wounding August Matheny, a fellow workman, at a brewery. Boik aaya the gitn wae discharged accidentally. Both agree that Bolk had complained to Math eny that he was working overtime in violation of the rules of the union: John McCriaty, 72 years of age, and Omer Taylor, aged 33, quarreled in Marion about $1 alleged to be due McCristy for rent. McCristy is alleged to have attacked Taylor with a knife. Taylor struck him with a club, breaking his jaw and crushing his skulL McCristy m said to be fatally injured. Taylor is in jalL India Shutterly. 15. ran away from h«r home in Michigan to see the world. She was arrested in South Bend for vagrancy. At Shoals Clay Wagoner, the 12-year old son of George M. Wagoner, was kicked in the stomach by a horse and lived but few minutes. i A tank holding 30,000 barrels of crude petroleum belonging to the Manhattan Oil Company waa struck by lightning ad Montpelier and the oil set afire. A can- > non was brought from Lima, Ohio, and a I s large hale was shot into the tank to let eat the oil. Tbe loss is $35,000.

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AOO. Parsons traveling between the Tennessee river and Natch ex, Miss., were so harassed by Indians that President John Adame ordered the War Department to establish block houses along the route. Twenty stand of small arms and fifty pieces of artillery were started for New Orleans, La., where the Spanish intendant was making trouble. The British House of Commons appropriated £20,000 for the construction of a ship canal across Scotland. The King of England, throngh Lord Hawkesbury, ordered a blockade at Havre de Grace and other ports of tbs Seine. BEVENTY-FIVB YEARS AOO. American free traders protested because the kdetiee on 109 bales of wool imported at Boston amounted to $2,450, while the original cost in Smyrna waa only $2,430. The Jewish race was estimated by the London Quarterly Review to number 6,000,000 persons. President John Quincy Adams’ efforts to preserve the government forests resulted in the seizure at St Marks, Fla., of a ship loaded with live oak timber cut on government land.X Gen. Chilly MclntcaA reported the killing of twenty-seven buffaloes in Arkansas territory, out of a herd of over COO. FIFTY YEARS AGO. Table rock fell Into the Niagara river. George Poindexter, second Governor of Mississippi, died. A religious liberty bill was adopted by the upper house of the Dutch parliament. ■ 1 ■ i FORTY YEARS AOO. Oil City (Pa.) newspapers reported smal! boys of that village making $1 to $5 daily after each hard rain by dipping crude oil from ponda and creeks in the neighborhood. Fort Wagner, In Charleston harbor, was abandoned by the rebels just as Gen. Gillmore's troops were' preparing to assault the works. Two hundred Union soldier* of Gen. Gillmore’* command were killed, wounded or taken prisoner* by the rebel garrison at Fort Sumter, which they had tried to surprise while asleep. The rebel brigade under Gen. Fraser was surrounded in Cumberland gap by Union troops under Burnside, Shackelford and De Courcey. Charleston, S. C., wae placed at th# mercy of Union artillery through the evacuation of Fort Wagner by the rebels and it* occupation by federal*. THIRTY YEARS AOO. Fifteen million dollar* waa paid by Greet Britain to the United States, under the Geneva award, for damage* to American shipping by th* rebel cruiser Alabama. John Bigelow, who originated the centennial celebration of 1876, protected against the Philadelphia exposition a* commemorating that event, because of its commercial character. „ Paris police refused to allow the display of the American flag by American citizens in celebration of the proclaiming of the French republic. Nelson Dingley, afterwards Congreaeman and Republican leader of the House, waa elected Governor of Maine. A bad slump in the New York stock market waa blamed to the shipment of fund* for moving the crops and t» Jay Gould. TWENTY YEARS AGO. Frank James was acquitted at Gallatin, Mo., of the Winston train robbery. Jay Gould forced Rufus Hatch and his friends to stop tfaedr litigation with the Western Union Telegraph Company by driving Louisville and Nashville Railroad stock, on which they were “long,” down to 40. Lord Chief Justice Coleridge of England was banqueted in Boston, Dr. Oliver Wendell Hohnes, Gov. Benjamin Butler and Nathan Appleton being among the guest*. The Northwestern State* were visited by * heavy frost, the mercury falling to 40 degree* at Bloomington, 111., and corn being killed outright in many localities. Jay Gould testified before the United States Senate committee on labor end capital, and wept as he described how, when a poor surveyor, he had gone hungry and had knelt and prayed by the roadside. John Jacob Aetor deeded his entire fortune to hie eon, William Waldorf Aetor, then United State* minister at Rome, retaining a pension of SIOO,OOO yearly for himself. The last spike in the Northern Pacific Railroad waa driven near Helena, Mont., ninety-one year*-after President Thomas Jefferson had suggested a highway to th* Northwest. TEN YEARS AGO. The Brasilian fleet blockaded the harbor of Rio de Janeiro and demanded President Peixoto’s resignation. Senator Peffer of Kansas introduced at Washington a bill appropriating SBOO,000 in “aluminum coin” for th* endowment of a “scientific college” in the District of Columbia. I Gov. Horace Boies of lowa, in a centI paign address, declared both th* Denae- . era tic and Republican parties oolanudy bound not to discriminate between gold, ' nnd ittnr as money standard*