Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1903 — Page 2

POLITICS OF THE DAY

Free Coal Hnrllo* the Tr«a* The New York Times recently contained an interview with Mr. George Jr. Baer, President of, the Reading in which he said that coal anincs might have to be closed soon and miners thrown out of work because of the difficulty of getting rid of coal, especially of the steam size. The Times’ report says: “He said that the plan he had inaugurated when he became President «f the Reading of making a reduction ft 50 cents a ton in April, and then advancing the prices 10 cents a month tintil the figure again reached normal tty Sept. 1 had worked very satisfactorily.** Yes, Mr. Divine-rights Baer, it does peem to have worked beautifully—for the Coal Trust. It Is, however, a little hard on a few millions of us coal consumers who now have to pay higher prices for coal than ever before, except during and after the strike of last year. The retail price of anthracite at Washington is uow $7 25 and at Chicago $7.50 a ton. Immediately following the Baer Interview, the Times contained a dispatch from Pennsylvania saying: “The Philadelphia and Reading Coal *ad Iron Company lias issued a sweeping order closing every one of its washeries that produce small sizes, and other corporations and individual operators have followed suit. It is estimated that there are 2,000,000 tons of small sizes now in Btock, for which there is little demand." The inadequate demand for anthracite coal Is said to be partly due to closed mills and to the Increased use of soft coal for Btoam purposes. But the statistics of foreign commerce for the year ending June 80, 1903, offer some additional explanation as to this oversupply of hard coal. They show that we Imported last year 3,818,189 tons of coal, or nearly 2,000,000 tons more than were Imported in any previous year, and that of this amount. 207,004 tons were anthracite. This is more than 100 times as much anthracite as was Imported In any year since the Dingley bill taxing anthracite became law. It appears, then, that free coal, while it has not compelled the hard coal trußt to lower its prices for ordinary sizes of coal (and this is not strange .•when it is considered that there Is nowhere else anthracite like ours —that Is Baer's—to take its place), especially •t interior points, has compelled it to reduce prices of Its smaller sizes used for making steam and which, therefore, compete with bituminous coal. Nearly all of this imported coal is consumed in New England and on the Pacific Coast. It does a great deal to free manufacturers in these sections from the exactions of the hard and soft coal trusts now charging us two or three.times a fair price for this bounty of nature, Possibly some mistake was made when the Almighty consigned this most valuable heritage to Mr. Baer to parcel out to the rest of •us dwellers at so much per ton. It will be observed that the excess of imports over former years (2,000,000 tons) just about measures the surplus stock of steam coal for which no market can be found, although prices have been reduced from 15 to 30 cents a ton for these sizes. How Mr. Baer must hate free eoal! But he is lying low and saying nothing, for he knows that his Republican friends in Congress put coal on the free list only for one year and that bituminous coal will be dutiable again next January. He will not agitate this coal tariff again. But will the manufacturers and the people keep quiet? B. VV. H. Republican IMsoriranlcatiott. The Republican leaders seem to be liable to agree on what legislation is necessary by the coming Congress. President Roosevelt demands that Cuban reciprocity shall be first attended to, and has declared that he will call an extraordinary session of Congress for that purpose. The Republican leaders in the Senate are opposed to reciprocity legislation, and Senators Aldrich, Platt, Depew, Hanna, Quay and Spooner have all advised the President not to call an extra session of Congress this fall, and they are known to be opposed to the President’s policy. The President has declared that such legislation shall pass, “as sure as fate," and will doubtless send a message to Congress recomnmffing it On the necessity for I Aoanclal legislation there is a like dis vision of sentiment and even those I who desire a change in the law are I'hopelessly divided on the scope of the alterations that should be made. On the trust issue, the President has deI dared for publicity, but Is very slow at putting it in practice, and a majority of the Republican leaders are for flatting well enough alone, so anti-trust legiglatlon will be at a standstill. On tariff revision the party is more nearer ts united, but a minority of Congress |4hat are being pressed by their con Bayu—.hi will ifamand that some of the tariff schedules be revised and if 1 no recognition is vouchsafed to them, fttkdan they will carry the fight late | the BepublUtn national conventkpr T~M a , '

cess, unless they Join with the Democrats, is perceptible to the veriest tyro In the political arena, and most of them are merely playing that way to fool the voters. The Tanama canal is another matter upon which the Republican politicians are at odds, their leaders In the Senate who are controlled by the transcontinental railroad are secretly opposed to any canal, others favor the Nicaragua route and in consequence nothing has been accomplished. There is, however, legislation that the Republicans unite upon with the utmost celerity. They all favor “the old flag and an appropriation” and official graft and loot for themselves and their political strikers, and they uanimously agree that the crops would not grow and hard times would result from a Democratic victory. The Republican leaders also pretend to be unanimous for the nomination of President Roosevelt, yet more than half of them are really opposed to him. The cohesive power of public plunder holds them together, but the long-headed ones like Root and Quay know that the end is near and are leaving the rat-infested ship. There is an universal unrest and even the chief of prophets, if in the flesh, could not predict what the present Republican President or the coming Republican Congress will do. Talk of Democratic disorganization and reorganization, why it is infinitesimal compared to the Republican factional disagreements. Every Democrat Is united upon opposition to trusts, upon tariff reform, upon equal taxation and upon equal rights to all and special privileges to none, nnd that Is the winning platform.

Juggled Tnveatigation. The expected has happened. Postmaster Genera! Payne has succeeded In pretty nearly squelching the postoffice scandals. Since the indictment of Machen and Beavers, it is evident that but little more will be done. There are too many Congressmen and Republican leaders mixed up in the matter, who must protect the looters, and some of them too much dread an Investigation to allow the matter to proceed. Such a competent machine politician as the Postmaster General knows that the Republican party cannot receive any more such hard knocks as It has received by the exposure of even a small part of the scandals and survive the treatment. Trusting that other matters may occupy the attention of the voters, Mr. Payne has ordered no information to be given out about tho scandals and refuses to say anything himself. Looking at the matter from a political party standpoint he may be wise, but the exposure of the scandals in other government departments persistently keeps these matters in the public eye. How President Roosevelt and the other Republican leaders must pray for something big to happen. How quickly the Beirut Incident was seized upon, but that faux pas only occupied a day or two, and the scandals are still on top. There are indications that an attempt Is to be made to take advantage of the disturbed condition at Panama as an outlet for the public mind to dwell upon. But the scandals will not down, but bob up unsuspiciously with a worse aspect for the administration. One day we hear that Diggs and Miller will not be brought to trial, the next day that Beavers snaps his fingers at the administration and dares the government officers to arrest him, anyway he is daily seen on the streets and avenues of New York, often in the company of government officials. The proceedings are becoming farcical and there is a strong impression abroad that the investigation is being juggled and the pressure from the machine has been too great for the President to withstand. PtWs Trad* Knglaad and Protected Hues la. The American Economist, the organ of our protected manufacturers, gives much space to the protectionist speeches of Hon. Joseph Chamberlain of England. "British free trade,” it says, "has resulted in a terrible burden of poverty crushing the people.” Perhaps. But no one In or out of England will assert that conditions In England have been as bad at any time since “protection” was discarded as before. Nor will any one, with a reputation to lose, assert that conditions in freetrade England are not far better than in any of the highly protected countries of Europe. Look at Russia, which has within fifteen years become, perhaps, the most highly protected country in Europe. Conditions there are wretched. The people are starving by thousands. Wages are very low—s 4 to $6 a month for men in protected mills. An article in the Washington Post of Aug. 22 says that “during the month of July 200 men were killed and 2,000 wounded during the labor disturbances In Russia," and that “the sailors and stokers of the Russian Trading and Bteam Navigation Company at Odessa, who recently struck, were receiving sttly $0 and $5 a month respectively.” Will the American Economist kinder tell os what is the matter with pro-

TURKISH BATHS IN TURKEY.

Perhaps Thar Ara Oaaalnc, hut Thar Art Nat at AU Agreeable. “About the first real craving that atrlkea the unsophisticated American or Englishman upon bis arrival In Damascus is the desire for a Turkish bath rlgth on the spot where the famous bath was originated," said a traveler. “His next decision is that a New York or a London Turkish bath la about as far ahead of the Damascus article as mother's pies beat the baker’s. In view of the eastern origin of these baths I naturally expected to find something of a luxury. “Entering one of the finest baths in the city, I was at first sight much pleased with the general appearance of things. Dog of a Christian that I was, I entered a large open court, in the center of which gushed a splendid fountain, while the scene all about was at first Impression one of nn -ortjental fairyland. All around the fountain on raised platforms were combina- ' tlon chair-couches upon which orientals were lolling as only orientals can. Borne were reclining, some napping, some sipping qoffee, some smoking the ; narghlleh, some chatting, and som* was going through the red tape contortions required by Allah when tho ninety-nine Mcslem prayers are offered. “As if to carry out the fairyland idea, Instead of being conducted to a private room, In conformity with the views of propriety of the Western dog of an unbeliever, I was expected to disrobe before the miscellaneous audience; also, before the audience In the street wherever the door was opened. My clothes I had to store in a drawer under my couch. The publicity of the disrobing act was modified somewhat, however, by the attendants, who, by the use of towels, formed a temporary screen. After this they gave me wooden sandals with high strips fastened to the soles, which conveited them into a sort of high stilt. I saw no use for this contrivance excepting to further the chances of broking my neck. With these ■tilts too I was taken to the ‘hot room,’ where there was a temperature not higher than that of New York City on a hot rammer’s night. After remaining here some time there was some slight cubbing and a deal of leg-pulling and arm jerking. “Desiring a shower bath, a believer in the true faith aimed a garden hose at me with such a sharp stream that I had all the ‘shower’ I wanted in three seconds. Then they wrapped me in a Turkish towel and turbanned my head for me, and led me to a couch and bade me rest. I rested, wishing for an hour in my favorite Turkish bath in New York City, far from the land of Allah, Within earshot of the clanking trolley car and in a district over which reigns only Shlek Tim Sullivan. “As a mere Idea of satisfying curiosity nothing can top the visit to the Damascus baths. But, unlike the Turkish fig, the Turkish bath is not at its best when sampled on the spot" —Hygienic Gazette.

The Lost Consul.

Haro ness Bonde in her recently published "Letters” relates a delightful anecdote of Lamartine, who by nature as well as vocation was a poet first and a man of affairs afterward. Shortly after one of the periodic revolutions in France Lamartine wrote on the blank leaves of his poeketbook the names of his proteges, and sent to the new rulers the list to be provided with places immediately. Previously, however. It seems, he had scribbled “David" on the page and the head of the cabinet appointed the said David consul at Bremen. The man did not come forward, and although Lamartine did not like being disturbed, Monsieur Hetzel was obliged to *sk who was the David on his list “He who danced before the ark,” was th4> poet’s answer. “O dear! I have gazetted him to Bremtor* “How very singular! I meant him for a subject for meditation, not for a nomination; but you can cancel it” The hfoniteur registered the change; bat few know that the consul appointed to Bremen was King David t

House and Furniture.

“Exi.e«% of furniture destroys the repose of A lazy man. and Is la the way of an industrious one," wrote William and it was also one of his maxima that if houses were built as they should be we should want but a little furniture, and be happy in that scantiness. In “The Lesser Arts of Life” he wrote: The arrangement of our houses ought surely to express the kind of life we lead or desire to lead. Our furniture should be good citizens’ furniture, solid and well made In workmanship, and In design should hare nothing about it that Is not easily defensible, no monstrosities or extravagances, not even of beauty, lest we weary of It Aa to matters of construction, it should net have to depend on the special skill of a very picked workman, or the superexcellence of bis glue, but be made on the proper principles of the art of joinery. Also I think that, except for very movable things. like chairs. It should not be so very light as to be nearly imponderable; It should be made *ff timber rather than walking sticks. There ate some people whose use In the world It would be as hard to define aa the nee of the pieces of paisley draped around meat on the table. It takes a bachelor wffh money to exterminate the weeds from a young widow’s bonnet

FARM AND GARDEN

CARE OF YOUNG TURKEYS. | A pen should be ready for the little turkeys to occupy about a week, with plenty of room for the mother and a I good lengthy run. If the mother is a wild cross, It is hardly best to confine her at all, as ehe will struggle to escape. Put the turkeys out at once In a high, light graee patsure, and “shingle” the mother to prevent surmounting the wall. Give the little ones all they want to eat, four times daily, coming down to three when a third grown, and ■ afterward decreasing to two. North--1 ern corn meal mixed with milk, sweet jor preferably sour, should be the ’ earliest food, with the admixture es black pepper when necessary- A little hard boiled eggs may be added, bread crumbe soaked in milk, and by late summer cracked corn, which it is an excellent plan to scald. By win* ter they may be fed whole corn. In September and October the feeding i may be wholly omitted, and then a mixture of new and old com will fatten rapidly with the best results in November. Do not allow the turkeys | access to the fields of green oats, for they will prove exceedingly distastrous. Brisk showers will usually kill young turkeys, and eternal vigilance will be needed to get them under cover. If the shingle fetter for the another is objectionable, It is sometimes practicable to give her the circular run of a long cord, pegged to the earth. i The little turkeys should be en'eouraged to roost out aa early as possible, care being taken to keep them from the early morning dew until they are at least a month old. There will not be much Illness in a flock from the best irjfd hardiest stock, not inbred, n.'id carefully watched and tended, though distemper will attack and lay low the finest j of flocks at times, and the depredations of foxes will undo the painstaking work of months. August is the most trying month for stomach troubles, and bearing this fact in mind and using red and black pepper and ginger as preventives, these may be sometimes wholly warded off. Death among very young turkeys us ually occurs during the first week. — M. M. Tallman, in New England Homestead.

ADVANCEMENT IN FARMING. The man who is engaged In agricultural pursuits at the present day is expected to keep up to and advance with the agricultural progress of the world. He must dispense with the old methods and adopt the new and later inventions. We cannot raise and feed our stock as our forefathers did a hundred years ago because we are advancing and land is more closely taken up; consequently we must work more on the order of the intensive system. We know It Is hard for some farmers, who have been taguht and raised to do a thing a certain way, to change to the better methods. It seems to them that it is wrong, and often they cannot be blamed for feeling so. But we must gradually free ourselves from these ideas. All the other departments of the business world are advancing, and why should not agriculture advance with it? The whole race of humanity is depending upon agriculture for a living and the trade should not be thought any the less of by any one. The man who is engaged in other pursuits of life should honor the farmer, as he must understand that whatever he eats comes from him. If the farming class does not advance with the rest of the world It will be its own loss. . It is not natural that we should be satisfied to work In the same road we did years ago, or even one year ago. We should strive to do better this year and make an advancement wherever possible. The best, easiest and most practical way to advance ourselves is given in one sentence, namely,—* “Read plenty of agwwHtural literature, and apply the facts gained to actual experience." The farming world would be far behind where It now is if it was not for the help that has been given us by farm literature. Every farmer should try to make some improvement and advancement every day. Never let your business get the best of yrtr, but get the best of it, and you can best do this by advancing with the rest of the world. —E. J. Waterstrlpe, in The Epitomlst.

CROWDING POULTRY. Practice has demonstrated that the only way to make poultry profitable Is to divide tne fowls into small flocks. Large flocks of fifty or more have at times occasioned a loss, as crowding is just the opposite to the need of the fowls. Every form of disease that makes its appearance In the fowl houses and among the flocks Is traceable to crowding. Then crowding is injurious in several other ways. It places the weak under the dominion of the strong, insures competition for existence, nnd prevents systematic breeding. In summing np the advantages of keeping poultry In small flocks may he mentioned the following: Smill flocks, in separate yards, enable us to breed our fowls to suit our incliaatleas, and we are

able to make crosses with certainty. As no two cocks are together in tho same yard there is no warfare, and better hatches will result from the eggs. The feeding can be performed according to the requirements of each flock. The maintenance of a superfluity should be avoided, as only the breeding yards need contain them. Should disease appear it can be confined to the yard in which It makes its appearance and can be more effectually checked. Should a thief make an attempt he will find greater difficulty with several yards than with one only. There will be greater security against the natural enemies of the fowls. Accounts can be kept with greater certainty and accuracy. Hens will lay better when but few are kept together. It will be as easy to keep five hundred hens In small flocks as to keep one hundred running at large. Perfect cleanliness can be practiced, and the fowls will not make the stables filthy, nor the lofts and other places on the farm. The soil on which they are confined will become very rich. If trees are In the yards the fowls will do them service in ridding them of noxious insects. The fences can be built of lath or other cheap material. If well managed a profit of three dollars may be expected from each hen In eggs and chicks, which has often been the case.—Mirror and Farmer.

DAIRY NOTES. It is safe to learn something of the dairy business before embarking very heavily in It. At an auction sale recently the great Hblstein-Fresian cow, Segls Inka, sold for $1,600. A cement floor for the cow stable .is a sanitary floor. It should be more or less rough to prevent the cows from slipping. A dairy cow that is worthy the name always shows her excellence, in form, in color, or iu rlze and shape of the udder. There are doubtless some farmers’ wives who are poor butter makers, but it is a slander to call them a class of poor butter makers. See that your pasture, during the summer months, is well provided with shade and water. The comfort of your cowß is money lo you. The bitter taint in cream caused from the cow eating ordinary weeds, can be removed by mixing the cream with two or more-parts of water at any temperature above 70 degrees Fahrenheit and running it through a separator. An analysis of milk In Scotland demonstrated that morning’s milk contained 3.2 per cent fat and 9.2 solids not fat Evening’s milk contained 4.5 per cent, fat and .8.9 per cent solids not fat Many modem, methods add very much to comfort and convenience of both customers and dairyman. Quart bottles, ice boxes, rubber tires for milk wagons, etc., have revolutionized the old fashioned milk business. Cowß differ a 9 to their habits of feeding. It is usually best to let them have their own way. However, it is desirable to keep them in milk as much of the time as possible. But if they want to rest a few weeks, It will not hurt them. , USING COMMISSION MAN. Very few farmers are good salesmen, hence the commission merchant in some nearby city Is necessary, in order that the farmer may get fair returns for his produce. Not all commission men are dishonest, and if one goes about In a businesslike way to ascertain the standing of the city men he proposes dealing with, he runs little risk. On the other hand, there are many farmers so located that they can make more money dealing direct with the consumer, but the one trouble with this plan is that when a number of growers meet In competition they lose their heads and begin cutting prices, a thing merchants rarely do; instead of wholesale cutting the commission men generally agree on prices for certain qualities and maintain these prices. If the producer takes to the consumer a product of first quality he is warranted in asking a higher price than is asked for the same produce of Inferior quality, and he will, as a rule, find little difficulty in selling the first class article. If one is a fairly rood salesman, work np a retail nearby; If a poor salesman, send the products of the farm to some reliable commission merchant. —Indianapolis News.

The Fashion Spreads.

“Oh, doctor," moaned the suffering young woman, “I have such an excruciating pain in my side.” “Urn— yes. What seems to be the nature of the pain?” asked the physician. “Does it cover the side, or is it confined to one spot?” “It seems to be scattered all over,” explained the patient “Just aa if it were in a hundred little spots an at once.” “Ah!” mused the physician. "This corroborates my theory of the influence of current fashions upox the human system. You hare what we would colloquially tens a drop-stitch tm tho side.”—Judge.

THE FIRST MPWH BANK or NKMsastxsß, me▲ddioon Park Ison, Pm c S’. eaaaaa—a is tns auaiiasaa a* m aaaamani STATS ■ASS* •pened March S, 1008, at the old location. NORTH SIDS PUBLIC SQUAR>- ▲ general banking business transacted; deposits received, payable on time or on deni and. M onay loaned on acceptable security; Drafts on aU cities at borne and abroad bought and sold. Collection of notes and accounts ■ specialty. O par cent, farm loans. Your Business Solicited.

Chicago to the Northwest, Ipdianapolis, Cincinnati and the South, Louis- ' ville, and French Lick Springs. Eensselaer Time-Table, In Effort Juno 29,1902. South Bound. No. s—Louisville Mull, (dally) 10:55a.m. N 0.33 Indianapolis Mail, (dally).. 2:01 p. ns. No.Bß—Milkaecomns., (dai1y)....... fldSp.m. No. B—LouisvilleK*press,(d»ily)..H:2Sp.no. •No. 45—Local freight.... 2:40 p.es. No.Sl—Pest Mall 4:49 a. ra. ' North Bound. No. 4-Mull, (dai1y).................. 4dou.ni. No. 40—Milk aeeomm., (daily) 7:31a.m. BS: *S=£SS :: fiSSS •No. SO—©ln.to Chicago Yus. Mail.. 6:32 p.m. tNo. 38—Cin. to Chicago 1:57 p.m. •No. 46—Local freight 9:53 a.m. •Daily except Sunday. Hammondses been made a regular atop for No. 30. No. 32 and 8 now atop at Cedar Lake. W. H. McDonXhP&aldent and Gen. M’g’r. Chas. H. Rockwell, Traffic M’g’r. BNIOABO. W. H. Beau. Agent. Rensselaer.

jar, mrnrn CITT OFFICERS. Mayor .... .5. H. S. Bill* Marshal Mel Abbott Klerk.. Charles Morlaa Treasurer James H. Chapman Attorney Geo. A. Williams Civil Engineer J.C. Thrftwis Fire Chief C. B. Steward COUNCIL MXN. Ist ward Henry Wood. Fred Phillips td ward W. S. Parks, B. F. Ferguson Id ward J.C. MeColly, Peter Wasson COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk .John F. Major Sheriff Abram G. Hardy Auditor W. C. Babcock Treasurer B. A. Parkison. Recorder.. Robertß. Porter Surveyor..' Myrt B. Price Coroner Jennings Wright Supt. Public Schools Louis H. Hamilton assessor John R. Phillips ooiuossioiatßS. Ist District Abraham Halleck tad District Frederick W^yraire trd District Charles T. Denham Commissioners’ court—First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. TBUSTSS*. TOWNSHIPS. Joseph Stewart -Hanging Grove John Ryan jGlliam Lewis Shrler .Walker Elias Arnold Barkley Charles M. Blue Marion John Bill Jordan Geo. M. Wilcox Newton 8, L. Lose Keener Thomas F. Maloney Kankakee Stephen D. Clark Wheatfleld Albert J. Bellows .Carpenter William T. Smith Milroy Barney D. Comer Union Louis H. Hamilton. Co. Supt Renaaeleer G. K. Hollingsworth Rensselaer George Besse..,. Remington Geo. O. Stambel Wheatfleld. JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge Charles W. Hauler Prosecuting attorney John D. Sink Terms of Court.—Second Monday in February, April, September and November.

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