Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1904 — Page 3

THE FIRST jUTMUL BARK at Or MNMIIAIR. IMDAddbon Park lion, Pres. John Id. Waaaon. Vice P»es. K. L. Hotlines worth. Cashiet euoeaaao* rm thb iuwmim ae tni mhiuoiu nm bank l Opened March 3, 1303, at the old location. NORTH SIDE PUBLIC 3QUARI. A general banking bnatneaa transacted: deposit* received, payable on time or on demand. Money loaned on acceptable security) Pratts on all cities at home ana abroad bought end sold. Collection of notes and account* e specialty, s per eent. farm loans. •Your Business Solicited.

Chicago to the Northwest, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and the South, Louis- " ville, and French Lick Springs. Rensselaer Time-Table, In Efreot June 29,1902. Sooth Bound. Mo. 6—Louisville Mall, (dally) 10:55 a.m. Mo. S3—lndianapolis Mail, (daily).. Z K)1 p. m. No. 33—Milk accomm., (daily) 6:15 p.m. Mo. 3—Louisville Express, (daily).. 11 M p. m. ♦No. 45—Local freight t :40 p.m. )No.Sl—Vast Mail 4:48a.m. North Bound. Ho. 4—Mail, (daily) 4:30 a.ni. Mo. 40—Milk accomm., (daily) 7:31a.m. Mo. B*—Past Mall, (dally) 9:55 a. m. Mo. 6—Mail and Express, (daily)... 8:30 p.m. •No.3o—Cln.to Chicago Tea. Mail.. 6:3Z p. m. fNo. 88—Cln. to Chicago 3:57 p.m. •No. 46-Local freight 9:55 a. m. •Dally except Sunday. ISnnday only, Hammond has been made a regular stop for No. 80. No. 83 and 83 now stop at Cedar Lake. Fbank J. Rkid, O. P. A., W. H. McDoxl, President and Gen. M'g’r. Chas. H. Rockwell, Traffic M'g’r. CHIOAOO. W. H. BbaM, Agent. Rensselaer.

j!SUOWBi« CITY OFFICERS. Mayor J. H. S. Bill* Marshal Mel Abbott Bark Charier Morlan rrttasnmr James H. Chapman Attorney Geo. A. Williams Civil Engineer LG. Thrawls Sire Chief C. B. Steward cbdNCUAfRS. Ist ward Henry Wood, Fred Phillips td ward W. 8. Parks, B. F. Ferguson Sd ward J. C. McColly, Peter Wasson COUNTY OFFICERS. Serk John F. Major tariff Abram G. Hardy Auditor W. C. Babcock Treasurer R. A. Parkison. Recorder Robert B. Porter Surveyor Myrt B. Price Coroner Jennings Wright Supt. Public Schools Louis H. Hamilton Assessor... John R. Phillips COMMIMIOKKBS. Ist District Abraham Halleek Ind District Frederick Waymire Ird District Charles T. Denham Commissioners’ court—First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. TXUSTKBfI. TOWNSHIPS. Joseph Stewart Hanging Grove Ijohn Ryan Gillam Lewis Shrler Walker EUas Arnold ..Barkley Charles M. Blue Marion John Bill Jordan Geo. M. Wilcox ....Newton B. L. Luce Keener Thomas F. Maloney Kankakee Stephen D. Clark Wheatiiold Elbert J. 8e110w5..... Carpenter William T. Smith Mllroy Barney D. Comer Union Louis H. Hamilton. Co. Supt Rensseleer G. K. Hollingsworth Rensselaer George Beese Remington Geo. O. Stembel Wheatfield JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting attorney John D. Siuk Terms of Court.—Second Monday in February, April, September and November.

Monarch “C Malleable Iron not crack, B#M iX'i ft «i direct PWr*s*r*JhsA-f—dse#i body re. qutrra n « Whale. J ", WMWaHIMIW enamel. (I £&!?■? Malleable Price. I frames make ■ ,11 ar> 8 tea m I boiler. Any Special *9 n > l> ' cC-T.1.l ■IMln * mentdarnW mil. (tired. ram too h» ndi « with a* Monarch HBirMWeiPi lownnee wiiftll further* where uty Monarch Range (elected, freight prepaid, without a cent In advance. Give It SODATB rcaT. Then •end the money or return range at ear coot. Poetal will bring you catalogue, particulars and prloes. Tn« Mnn.r nh Pr„ Not a picture but a peroy Nlonarcn rrtt. fee* reproduction of . —•■W range. Send three twoceat etampe BB for peetege and packing. JflSjm* Mailable Iron Dante Co., jEgM '9l lake St. BEAVER DAM. Wl». 'B* Recently St. Louie, Mo. REVIVO IgjP RESTORES VITALITY £S'JSt7iSsSffiSr%2e.“i£!S2S wfiny tn Rensselaer by I, A. Larsh

POLITICS OF THE DAY

The Postal Frauds. The investlgntiou of those two eminent lawyers, Holmes Conrad and Charles J. Bonaparte, of the postal scandals, expose more rottenness and Involve many much higher in authority than the legal proceedings Indicate. In their report they denounce Perry Heath, the secretary of the ‘Republican National Committee, In unmeasured terms and say that Charles Emory Smith, ex-Postmaster General; Robert „Traccwell, Comptroller of the Treasury; Henry A. Castle, Auditor for the Postofflce Department, and the late and present postmasters of Washington, D. C., all appear to have shared in the responsibility for the acts of the minor officials been indicted. They also say that the “TulJoeh charges” have never been properly investigated. The far reaching grab game of the minor officials has been described by a Kansas City paper In a way that will bring the matter home to the voters: “Whenever within the last ten years anyone in America mailed a letter, the chances were that he deposited it In a letter box which was bought by graft, painted by graft and attached to the lamp post by graft. He found what time the letter would be collected by reading a time card put on the letter box by graft. The mail carrier who took up the letter, if he lived in the East, perhaps paid a bribe to get his job or to get an increase of salary. The postman placed the letter in a pouch suspended from a shoulder strap, both of which were sold to the government by fraud, and carried it to the postofflce, where, perhaps, some favored or mulcted clerk canceled the stamp with ink and a machine fraudulently foisted upon the post department. The letter was then bundled up with other mall matter, tied together with a piece of twine or leather thong which the government was swindled into buying, and thereupon thrown into a railroad mail bag: and this bag, its fastener, its locks, its keys, became public property by three distinct and separate grafts. Finally the laden bag was sent off to the train according to the time told out by a peculiar clock, during every tick of which Uncle Sam was being outrageously robbed and swindled.” It might be added that the greatest graft has not been included, the railroads every time a wheel goes round charge Uncle Sam more than twice as much for carrying a pound of mail as they charge the express companies, j The postal cars even when standing i still are bringing rent to the railway coiporations equal each year to double what they cost to buy from the car manufacturers. Yet the voters in many States seem to approve this era of looting and go on electing representatives of the party whose morality has departed and whose slogan is “stand pat.” Republicans Call Thia Prosperity. The Hon. J. G. Cannon said the day tho Republicans nominated him for Speaker of the House, “The people never jvere so well and perfectly employed” as now.” That great Republican leader, Congressman Hepburn of lowa, who, when he is speaking will not brook Interruption by any new member, said on Dec. 1, “To-day every man in the United States who wants to work finds employment In the great labor fields of the United States, and at compensating wages.” How do the facts bear out these strong optimistic assertions? On Oct. 22 the Boston Transcript, a leading Republican paper, said: “Organized labor is facing the greatest wage crisis since the panic of 1893. • • • It has been estimated that before the close of the year the big employing concerns of the country will have discharged nearly 1,000,000 men.” On Nov. 11, the New York Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin, the greatest journal of this class in this country, said: “It would be folly to shut our eyes to the fact that industrial and in turn commercial depression are following right along in the wake of the financial collapse. Mills are shutting down; mining is being restricted.” The National Labor Tribune of Pittsburg said, Nov. 2l8t: “There are still more Idle mills throughout the country than seemed possible during the flush times of a' year or more ago. What is still more unpleasant to contemplate, a number of the shutdowns appear to be for good, or at least for an indefinite time.” The International Mercantile Agency, of which ex-Dlrector of the Census Merriam is the head, said, about Dec. 6th: “The week is characterized by further slackening industry. • * • Wages of 200,000 industrial employes bjve, been reduced 10 per cent or more, and preparations are making to effect a similar reduction with respect to 300,000 others in various lines on or about Jan. Ist” As indicating the slackening in industry, we may note the falling off in the production of pig iron. The Iron Age of Dec. 10 says the production fell from an average of 1,680,000 tons a month for July, August and September to 1174,000 tout for November, and that “Such a drop within the short pgace of two months ts altogether on-

prccedented in the American Iron Industry.” Yet It says that not only did the stock of unsold iron greatly Increase during November, but that for the first Aveek in December there was a still further falling off in production. If, ns has heretofore been supposed, the iron and steel industry is the barometer of business, then a great industrial storm will soon La upon us. Of course, those who choose to do so can accept the interested optimistic vnporiugs of their Republican statesmen and discard the disinterested warnings of our great trade and labor journals and of our financial and commercial authorities. This is a free country and a man need not put a roof on his house if he doesn't think there will be any more rain. Time will tell who are right.—Byron W. Hall. Our Perplexed President. When the tariff is being discussed everywhere and when it is expected to be the question at issue between the tAA*o great parties next year, we should naturally expect to find some recommendation on this important subject iu the President's message. It contains not a word to guide us; it does not even mention the word “tariff.” Why? Has the President no opinions or ideas on this question, or is he afraid to talk on it? Is he undecided iu his mind and is he hesitating to jump either towards protection or free trade? A year and a hdlf ago he was talking tariff reAision and a tariff commission. Last spring he left off talking on both of these subjects and was reported to haA-e joined the “stand-pat-ters,” after a conference at the White House with representatives of the Protective Tariff League, Just before ho started on his Avcstern trip. Is he, silent because the protected Interests told him then that if he continued to talk tariff revision they would defeat him for the nomination next year, as was reported? Back in the eighties Mr. Roosevelt Avas a member of the Cobden Club of England and of the Free Trade League of New Y'ork City. It was said that in some of his speeches he expressed a Avillingness to die for free trade. Is lie silent because his free trade ideas are returning to haunt him and to make him undecided? Is it not clear to him that, with the great protected trusts of to-day preying upon us, protection is now far more of a curse than it was fifteen or tAventy years ago? Is the great'steel trust making itself so obnoxious that he is silently considering a special message advising the removhl of all tariff duties that protect it? This would be grand. We could forgive the apparent oversight in his message if he is saving, up a big bIoAV for this hated robber trust. We could not forgive him if the omission was due to overwork with his White House ! Incubator of South American republics. We care but little for “abroad,” but we are much concerned about the steel trust right here at home. We want to see its plundering career stopped. Free trade in steel will do tho business. Why, Mr. President, don’t you talk tariff revision again?— Byron W. Ilolt. Perpetual Blackmail. So long as it was believed that the goA-ernment of the United States would observe the treaty of 1846 the isthmus route Avas in perfect security. The moment the Panama conspirators got from Washington assurance that the administration wouH violate the treaty the isthmus was menaced. Menaced it will remain until the conspirators are convinced that the United States will return to observance of the treaty of 1846, which alone assures the peace and progress necessary for construction of the canal. The fake republic of Panama can guarantee neither peace nor progress. Its purpose is continuous blackmail of the people of the United States. Roosevelt at Gott ysbnrk. Mr. Roosevelt has accepted an invitation to delh-er next year’s Gettysburg Memorial day address. His boundless egotism does not shrink from comparison of his literary style, jejune, banal, diffuse and often ungrammatical as it habitually is, with the classic simplicity and flawless precision of one of the greatest masters of English* k Of Lincoln and the silent dAA-ellers on that vast field he should have the candor to-say: “What you died to accomplish, the perpetuity of a free republic, I have striven my best* to undo by abrogating the principles upon which the Union was saved.” —Chicago Chronicle.

The Broken Engagement.

Isabel —Weren’t you congenial? Arabella —Not at all; he made me jealous and I couldn’t make him jealous.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy. The average age for men to marry is highest in Sweden, thirty-one years, and the lowest in the United twenty-six and one-half years He who says there is no such thing as an honest man is himself a knsvn —Bertaiy.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY 5 TOLD. Compiling Information Concerning State MU it In Windstorm Sweeps Beverel Conn Use - Corpse Found by Hunters—Big Hotel for Mancie. State Adjutant General John Ward is preparing for the Adjutant General's office at Washington a special report on the condition of the National Guard of Indiana and the number of men available for active service on short notice. In addition to this arrangements are being made to complete a list of persons in this State who Avill be qualified in the event of war for commissions in all branches of the volunteer army of the United States that may have to be called into existence at any moment. The Dick bill, which was passed during the last session of Congress, provides for the establishment of a complete qualified list in every State in the Union of persons fitted to officer volunteer commands. The general staff at Washington, in pursuance of the provisions of the neAv volunteer army regulations, is providing for a board of officers to be convened in each of the principal cities of the country to examine members of the National Guard, civilians and young men who have graduated from private military schools in the various States. Applicants will be examined and those who are successful will be given certificates and their names at once placed on an eligible register to be kept at Washington and also recorded in the office of the Adjutant General of the State where the examination takes place. Each applicant will be required to designate the grade and the branch of the service for which he desires to be examined. Sullivan’s Pioneer Merchant. John B. Draper, Avho has been a resident of Sullivan since 1836, has been engaged in the grocery business there for

JOHN B. DRAPER.

father of sixteen children, twelve of whom are living. Heavy Damnjre front Wind. A terrific windstorm swept over Daviess, Pike, Jackson and other southern Indiana counties and did great damage to houses, timber aud fencing. At Washington the five-story building of the Cincinnati Heating Company was blown down, and twenty or thirty persons, who had just left the building escaped injury from the flying debris only by fleeing to the protection of other houses. Houses were unroofed, smokestacks blown dorvn and many barns and stables destroyed. At Petersburg much damage was done to property. Seymour, Jackson County, and a part of Johnson and BartholomeAv counties were visited by the storm, and telephone and telegraph poles were blown • down. Body of Man Found in Woods. Two hunters discovered the body of a well-dressed man in the Wiseman woods near Salem. A pistol with one chamber empty was clutched in the ri£ht hand. On the other hand he wore a glove. His mouth and lips Avere powder burned and a bullet was taken from just under the skull at the back of the head. A gold watch and razor were found in his pockets. On the right arm just above the elbow was found the name “G. Hope,” tattooed. The body is supposed to be that of a Louisville mau. Perrjr Beath Invests #IOO,OOO. , Perry S. Heath, secretary of the National Republican committee and former Assistant Postmaster General, has decided to erect a six-story hotel building in Muncie. His brotlwr, Fred Heath of Mancie, also will be interested. Perry Heath’s investments probably will be not smaller than SIOO,OOO, and may be greater. Mr. Heath has Muncie realty valued at about SIOO,OOO, and recently sold a business block worth $40,000.

Mato Items of Interest, James Porter Shaw, a'confessed embezzler in two States, Kentucky and lowa, was arrested at Evansville. He will be returned to lOAva for trial. Miss Erline Sinclair of Sullivan, the school teacher who was ducked in an icy pond by some of her pupils, has brought suit against them for SIO,OOO. Mrs. Elmira Drake, on trial at Covington,on the charge of haring murdered her husband one year ago, was acquitted. The jury was out all the previous night. The existence of a doctors’ trust in Anderson ia held to be proved by the facta that a number of physicians have refused to treat the child of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Graham, because the parents admitted they had no money to pay for services. Furniture smashed to splinters, lamps overturned, broken floors covered with coal oil, the pulpit carpet ripped from oqe end to the other and the walls ruined formed the scene in the old Methodist Church at Maywood when it was entered by members of the congregation the other morning. The church is now the property of the Friends’ congregation. Recently this congregation has bitterly fought the two saloons in Maywood. It ia thought the friends of the saloons wrecked the structure. The man found murdered in the woods near Indian Springs is believed to be a baseball player named Calhoun* who Avas with Wheeling last season. He had been rooming with a bartender named King, and it was the latter’s aliirt with the mark “King” which Calhoun was wearing and which was found near the body. Presence -ot mind saved from death Martin McGregor of Hammond, » switchman in the employ of the Chico#* Junction Railway. He fell beneath hi. train and, hearing the engine coming, he seized a brake beam and clung, td it I until the train was stopped.

thirty-seven ypars, and is still conducting the business at the same stand where he started. “Uncle John” is enjoying good hmlth and can be found at his store every day, although he is now nenring the eightythird milestone of his life. He has been married four times aud is the

FARM AND GARDEN

THE FARMER’S LIFE. The farmer can be the happiest and most independent man on earth. .Before sunrise the crowing of the roosters and song of birds usher in the new day, while the cows remind him • by their bawling that they are ready I to pay their tribute of rich foaming milk and are in a hurry to be off to the pasture, while the faithful horse 3, man’s good and tried friends, are impatient for their share of attention, and will not be quiet until their wants are supplied. Then the fresh gathered berries from the garden, with plenty of good cream—surely food fit for the gods—but none too good for the farmer, who works hard to get them. One fruit overlaps another so that by the proper management there can be, in a good year, a continual supply for weeks at a time. Strawberries commence to ripen the first of May and when they are half gone raspberries begin, followed closely by blackberries, which, counting from the Early Harvest to the late varieties are, or might be, on hand for some time. Then the early and late cherries, the plums, peaches, pears and grapes which every farmer ehou.d raise, as well as many other fruits not here mentioned, surely make an inviting list of fruit, the raising of which is delightful and profitable. The apple orchard is of co.irse an indispensable thing on the farm, furnishing food and cheer throughout the greater part of the year. What more can the farmer ask of nature? I cannot stay my pen Avhen looking out over broad acres of land lying idle that could be made beautiful and profitable if planted out to fruit, while so many families are entirely without fruit of any kind whatever and generally without the enterprise to plant it out and care for it. This comes especially hard on the women of the family who have the meals to prepare, and that too sometimes with a, very poor garden, or worse, no garden at all. Living as we do on a public road we often furnish meals to travelers, who enjoy our berries, and as we grow them ourselves they are about as cheap as any food we can furnish. —Jacob Faith.

SAVING STABLE MANURE. Many methods have been recommended for saving manure and preventing loss of nitrogen, but it is plain that the best mode of keeping cattle manure, so as to incur the least loss, ia to have an impervious floor, leaving all manure in the stall to be trampled and packed under foot, using very fine absorbent material, until it is thrown upon the heap. This would necessitate deep stalls. The manure would receive the urine and be richer than thrown upon the heap. Experiments made to test the mode of keeping manure show that ten tons of that kept in deep stalls contained 108 pounds of nitrogen, while that from the ordinary heap weighed sev r en and one-half tons and contained sixty-fqur pounds of nitrogen. As the increased bulk of the deep stalls was partly due to moisture, the solids in both cases being nearly the same, there was a loss of 40 per cent, of nitrogen in the manure daily thrown out. It is almost impossible to use the deep-stall method on dairy farms thought it might be employed with beef cattle.’ The stalls of cows must be kept scrupulously clean, and even washed, in order to have the milk pure and wholesome, but one of the nearest approaches to packing the manure is to use all absorbent materials in as fine condition as possible, as the finer the pieces the greater their capacity to absorb the liquids, which is a fact that is very difficult to impress upon those who are In the habit of using coarse straw and stalks. There are farmers who pay great attention to the making of manure, but the making of manure—that is. the addition of various substances to the heap—is not so important as to preserve the manure in a manner to prevent the usual heavy loss of ammonia.—Philadelphia Record.

VERMIN AMONG POULTRY. This is one of the subjects that must be talked about repeatedly until poultry raisers understand fully how important it It It may be safely said that there Is no one thing that does so much to prevent success in poultry keeping as the neglect of the vermin which make fowls so miserable. For this reason every bit of advice urging the tree and frequent use of whitewash, insect powders and kerosene on the roosts should be followed. There are many very good insect powders, but they are practically of no avail when it comes to fighting the vermin on the roosts and here is just where they gain a firm foothold among the poultry. When the fowls are moving about during the day they will do mere or less dusting and get rid of some of the Insects, but when they are roosting they do not protect themselves so well. The roosts should be swabbed freely with kerosene at least once in two weeks, once a week will mean less vermin, from the time the fowls occupy the house In the fall until they are turned eat on the range In the spring, and the bouses should be so

arranged that the birds will not beable to occupy the roosts except at night. Begin fighting poultry lice now and keep at it all winter; a marked Improvement in the egg supply as well as in the health of the fowls will be seen.—lndianapolis News. THE POULTRY INDUSTRY. Duck raising In many situations is even more profitable that chicken raising, but Is not susceptible of as many sub-divisions. In the first place, there are fewer varieties of ducks than of chickens. The eggs are produced either for the table or for hatching breeding, stock. The birds produced are sold for breeding stock, for roasters, or for ordinary table purposes. The feathers are also a source of considerable revenue. Geese are among the most profitable kinds of poultry when raised In a favorable location and where they can be readily marketed at fair prices. The products sold are eggs for hatching breeding stock, grown birds for breeding stock, goslings for fattening, green geese, mature geese for the table and feathers. The turkey industry is a very extensive one and always yields good returns for judicious care. The specialties are eggs for hatching breeding stock, mature birds for breeding purposes and birds for the table. Pigeons are not to be despised as a source of income, either alone or in combination with some other employment. They are often combined with poultry raising, fruit growing or gardening. The products sold from the aviary are squabs, breeding stock and mature pigeons for the table and other purposes.

FARM TOPICS. The age has come when the man who makes a failure at everything else, must make a failure at farming also. Ground bone is the best form in which animal food can be fed to laying hens. If this cannot be obtained meat scraps from the house and an occasional liver give good results. If the bees are protected by packing the hives over the summer stands, nothing the least bit damp should be used. Dry wheat chaff is the best material. Fine excelsior, planer shavings or pine sawdust will do. Well-painted implements are generaly accepted signs of thrifty farming. A dollars worth of raw linseed oil and color will answer to cover the running part of a farm wagon. Clover always does its best the second year after sowing, and there is a waste of time and consequent loss to allow it to occupy the land a longer time. It costs something to buy a harvester, tedder or hay press, and yet such implements are not always well cared for. One or two hours devoted to cleaning and oiling the implements and tools not required, and storing them under shelter, may save the cost of repair next year. All wastes should be added to the manure heap. At this season, when the rakings and refuse are obstacles, the labor of cleaning up around the barns and stables will be amply repaid in the conversion of all useless material into manure. In every neighborhood men surrourNled with all the requisites for keeping stock in the finest condition will have the most scrawny flocks, while other men, with very few of their conveniences, will torn out the finest of big fat animals. DUCKS FOR ROASTERS. Peklns are adapted almost exclusively to this industry. This breed is docile in confinement, requires little water, grows rapidly and develops a splendid carcass. Young ducks are kept for laying, as they begin earlier than those over a year old. The breeding stocks is selected in midsummer, males to weigh about twelve pounds and females eight pounds. They are mated about November 1, and eggs will be found fertile about January 1. The great object Is to get as many birds ready for market as possible during April, May and June, while prices are at their best. During the latter part of April and the early part of May they bring forty to forty-five cents per pound. The birds are marketed at ten to twelve weeks of age, and average, dressed from eight to twelve pounds per pair. Even when they sell as low as twelve cents pec pound, which Is about the minimum late in the season, the returns are satisfactory. It is claimed they can be raised for five cents a pound. The birds are dry picked and are packed with ice in barrels for shipment. The F*rench are now using a method of cutting down trees by electricity. A section of platinum wire is kept at white heat by the current, and this eats Its way through the tire fc* onefifth the. time a saw could do the - work. The charring of the log also prevents rotting and checking. The Utah “cutoff" across many miles of Salt Lake is undoubtedly a marvel as a railroad exploit. Our Americas engineers are of this spirit, the harder the task the more eager they are to take it up.