Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1904 — Page 7

I FARMERS! FARMERS! | ARE YOU GOING TO HAVE A SALE? j K » ' X y Employ the “Hustling Pair” of auctioneers. ♦ «; * Why? We get the highest prices, we treat f <► your friends and bidders with courtesy, we X y guarantee satisfaction or no pay. Get our t • terms before you employ your auctioneer. x X T ♦ l Phone 515-H, HARMON & GRANT, Rensselaer, Ind. | X X ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦•♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•»•»♦ ♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦•»•»» I ft SI J! M tl Win! S CORNER OF WASHINGTON ANO VAN RENSSELAER STREETS. & | DIRECTORS: 1 p John Eger, Pres. Delos Thompson, Cashier. 8 S Lucius Strong Granville Moody Warren Robinson g 8- . g ?> Does a general banking business, Loans Money on g p all kinds of approved security; buys notes, pays in- p, £ terest on savings; pays taxes for customers and others. 3 | mis Book will De Giofl 10 Extend Every Fovor to ns customers consisien! Witn | $ Telephone 42. Sole Banking Mpies, \ \\X\\\\-.\\\\\X\W\\\\\\V\%\\\\\\\\\\\V\\\\\\X\\N\\\X ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ | FARHER FRIENDS, ♦ t Will this Interest You? \ Z —=— ♦ J The line of goods I shall handle this season are all J high grade, every Buggy and Carriage will be a guarX anteed job. I have several good makes —Studebaker, " > Page Bros., Gates, Osborne and others, T. Studebaker Farm Wagons are the best ironed and X have the best box ever put on a wagon. X The two best mowers and binders on the market — jt McCormick and Milwaukee. I have extras for both Y machines. The best of all, the Kemp Manure Spread- * X or, makes farmers more money than any implement X ever put on the farm. I have the Birdsell Clover X Huller of South Bend, Ind. It gets all the seed. An J 2* English sparrow would go hungry on the seed it . J leaves in the straw. I have the McCormick Shredder, and Corn Harvester, the world’s best. Come and see. :I am, yours truly, ▲ . C. A. ROBERTS. %

MAN WANTED We want a man in this locality to sell the world renowned WHEELER & WILSON, the only sewing machine so far in advance of all others that with it the dealer can readily overcome all competition. It is backed by a reputation of 50 years unparalleled success and thousands of the first machines made are still giving Jheir owners faithful service. We prefer a man with experience in some kind of canvassing (but this is not absolutely necessary) and who can procure a horse ana wagon. To such person we can offer exceptional inducements. We do not sell our machines to catalogue houses or department stores. We furnish them to our authorized agents only and protect them in their sale. This is a splendid opportunity for some energetic man to establish himself in a good permanent business. When answering, please give full information regarding yourself, age, previous occupation, etc. ADDRESS Wheeler & Wilson Mfg. Co. 72-74 Wabash Ave.. Chicago, Hl* Morris* English Worm Powder Warranted to cuto in, C**e of Worm* rn Hot** Cattle, Sbran or Dog*. aleo Pin Worm* in Oolt* Price. Me. oe- bn Sold by A. K. Long. Fob Sale: —A new, latest imI roved Jewett (No. 4) typewrites Apply at Democrat office.

ill ill DEALER IN.. 1 lie. Hi. Biid isl mil. RENSSELAER, IND.

Upholstering and Repairing Having sold my bicycle repair business, I have concluded to put in the place of it, and in connection with my undertaking business, a first-class Upholstering and General Furniture Repair Business. I have secured the services of a first-class upholsterer. Work called for and delivered to any part of the city. Satisfaction guaranteed. . ’PHONE 56. A. B. COWGILL.

If yon want to boy two good lots in Rensselaer, nicely located, each 67x150 feet, either for cash or time, The Democrat can pot you next.

FARM- FIELD AND GARDEN

A THREE HORSE EVENER.

Method* of OTereomlni the Side Draft In Three Horae Teamlni. Teamsters in my section who desire to use three horses generally adopt the heavy thills* shown in Fig. 1, says A. F. Shull of Ohio in American Agriculturist. The weight of the thills is borne entirely by the middle horse, as they are hung in hooks attached to a broad strap over the back. The middle singletree swings from the same pin as the doubletree for the outer horses. Where it is necessary to use a tongue divide the doubletree into thirds and place the pin one-third the length from the end next the two horses. Then give the near horse a longer portion of the tongue chains or, as in western wagons,

A THREE HORSE EVENER. [Fig. 1, heavy thills; Fig. 2, short arm; Fig. 3, tongueless evener.]

of the neck yoke. Even then it it necessary to build a short arm at the side of the tongue (Fig. 2], but it is so short that side draft is nearly eliminated. Such a plan will be quite effective in two wheeled Implements where the load is behind the axle, tending to keep the tongue straight. It may be added that side draft is further lessened by hitching as far as possible from the load and using a long tongue. For tongueless vehicles and implements Fig. 3 shows a very good evener. Its construction is made plain by the drawing. In attaching the middle singletree be careful that the irons at the Inner ends of the small doubletrees are pivoted so as to move sidewise freely, as the distance between the ends is variable.

Suggestion* In Road Building.

It is desirable for many reasons to preserve tlie natural dirt road alongside and parallel to the surfaced road where possible. A common but erroneous impression prevails that when a road is once macadamized, graveled or surfaced with any hard material it is then finished and must endure forever. An improved road needs constant attention, and unless this is given in a systematic manner like the railroads the road will rut, ravel, disintegrate and go to ruin. It seems wise to recommend, particularly for level country where material is scarce, the building of macadam and gravel roads from eight to ten feet wide. Some will say: “These roads are not wide enough. llow will two loads of hay pass on an eight foot road?” The answer is: “Two loads of hay seldom meet. Usually both are going to the same market at about the same time. So it is useless to construct a road to meet a condition which seldom arises.” Of course these widths are only for strictly country roads, upon level lands, where it is easy to turn out. On main highways, where travel is extensive, a width of at least sixteen feet should be maintained.— K. W. Richardson.

Preparing Land For Wheat.

Where the ground is to be plowed for wheat it is essential that it be done early in the season even if the ground is dry and the plowing a little hard. I have seen men wait because the ground was dry ahd hard for a rain until late In the fall, and about nine times out of ten they fail to get a crop. There is no crop that the average farmer grows that requires more skill than does wheat. The nature of the wheat plant must be studied and then everything possible be done to make its abiding place congenial. The seed bed for wheat must be fine, firm and covered with a blanket of fine earth in which to deposit the seed. These instructions have been given so often that.it seems almost useless to repeat them. The amount of work to be done upon a field after it has been plowed will to a certain extent be governed by the weather, but seldom is a field worked too much. It is a good plan after the field looks ns if it is in perfect condition to give it an extra working. It is usually this extra work that makes the top bugbels the next harvest.—Cor. National Stockman.

The Path of the Ginseng Grower.

The Chinese are said to believe that ginseng will prolong life and make disease well nigh impossible, The ginseng at least caunot cure itself. The wild plants Are quite free from disease, but under cultivation wilts, rots and bligbts attack it. A recent Cornell bulletin describes some of these diseases and also claims that insects trouble the plants. So the path of the ginseng growpr is not all lined with gold. There seefns to be little help yet for diseased plants.—Rural New Yorker.

THE BEST COLLEGE

It That Which Furnishes the Com* pletest Men. DR. HUGHES ON HIGHER EDUCATION

Its Lofty Purpose Should Be to Fit Men to Further the Legitimate Interests of the Race and Push Those Interests to the Supreme Goal. ISncclal Correspondence.] Greencastle, Ind., Sept. 12.—Within a few days this old college town will take on new life with the return Of eight hundred students to the halls of DePauw University, an institution which for three-quarters of a century has been a training ground for the youth of the middle West, and during that period has given to the work of the world many men and women who have become eminent in their chosen fields of endeavor. Some recently compiled statistics show that of the graduates of this typical Western institution who received their diplomas up to 1900, two have become governors of states, two lieutenant governors, two cabinet officers, rive foreign ministers. five attaches and consuls, seven United States senators, ten members of the house of representatives, ten state officers, twenty-one state senators, twenty-three federal and state supreme judges, fifty-nine state representatives, and seventy-seven officers in the army and navy; fifty-one college presidents, 129 college professors, and 104 city and county superintendents. It is interesting to know that of the graduates of DePauw 6p4 have become teachers, 510 lawyers, 389 ministers and missionaries, 147 physicians, 102 newspaper men, 52 authors. It is not strange that the authorities of DePauw have chosen as a motto: “The test of an institution of learning is the man it produces.” Judged by this standard DePauw University is entitled to rank high among the colleges and universities of the country. As to President Hughes. DePauw University is fortunate in having enlisted the services as president of Edwin Holt Hughes, formerly of Malden, Mass., one of the most enlightened and progressive educational leaders of the country, and the college year is inaugurated under auspices un-

DR. EDWIN H. HUGHES.

usually favorable because of his accession as chief executive. The faculty for the coming year has been materially strengthened and the year’s work is undertaken under auspices unusually favorable. To your correspondent President Hughes gives an interesting interview wherein he outlines his views of the purpose of the college, which may be taken as an expression of the ideals he is seeking to realize at DePatiw: “The college should stand,” says President Hughes, “as a preparing agent between the theory and the practice of life. To make the statement more human and personal, a college should carry the power that resides in young people out to cacet the opportunities that wait in the world. With

Whew! How are we going to pull a legislature through when It loads us down in this way?

these general conceptions all men would agree. The skeptic might query whether our average college was meeting this ideal, but he would not deny that the proper aim of a higher institution is to unite the theoretic and the practical worlds. The Crux In the Problem.

“The crux In the whole problem comes when methods are discussed. The strict advocates of the old classical learning would not have admitted that the ancient languages were merely the luxuries and the trimmings of the intellectual life. They would rather have claimed that the classical studies were the servants of a genuine practicalness. Undoubtedly the oldfashioned courses were often too inflexible. Studies were sometimes pressed upon students quite without regard to tastes and aptitudes. It Is not to be wondered that a reaction came, and that now the passing fancy of the matriculate often selects the easy subjects and pays small heed to the matter of all-round development. But the point now urged is, that the defender of the old fixed curriculum and the advicate of the new system of electives both claim that their plans made men more capable of dealing with the practical forces of the real world. "We need not enter into this debate. The promoter of elective studies has had a large day; he has had even a decade of victory. Nor does any wellinformed educator believe that the regime of inflexible courses will ever be fully reinstated. There are, however, some signs and influences that portend a slight reaction. Indiana has many colleges. The Cecil Rhodes scholarship calls for a careful training in both Latin and Greek. It is a sig nificant thing that only three Indiana students presented themselves for the Rhodes examinations in April last, and one of these came from an institution beyond the state. That only two young men appeared from all our Indiana colleges to try the tests for a scholarship netting $1,500 a year shows how very few of our present day students are studying two ancient languages. It is interesting to figure whether the Rhodes’ scholarship will not tend to revive somewhat the study of the ancient classics. Oxford stands for the old way. Perhaps Cecil Rhodes will prove to he the unwitting reviver of the dead languages, especially of Greek, in many of our institutions. Its Duty to Students. “But quite apart from this mooted matter—what should a college do for its students? It being allowed that its function is to prepare men for real life, what more detailed demands may we make of each higher institution of learning? Since life should he symmetrical, preparation for life should be likewise symmetrical. This merfhs that a college should give heed to all normal types of human living. “Under this conception the college has a duty with reference to the physical development of its students. The discussion of certain athletics is perennial, but the admission of the beneficial character of gymnastics should be just as perennial. He who implies that a student should pass from study to recitation and from recitation to study again, and that college life should follow this regular round alone, is a maker of the paths of death. The body has its rights, and these rights must be recognized in any proper plan of coliege life. Purpose of College Training. “Inasmuch as the very idea of a college presumes that it has a vital relation to the mental life, it may justly be demanded that an institution shall train minds into accuracy and power—into accuracy because may serve falsehood; into power, because otherwise accuracy may prove the mere vanity of exactness. Probably none will deny that the function of the trne college, as somewhat distinguished from the university, is to give the mental life an approach to completeness; It is plain that specialism may become too special. The ideal is stated in the sentence, a man should know something of everything and everything of something.

“This implies that a college should provide both for generalism and specialism. The generalism will save the specialism from narrowness; and the specialism will save the generalism from indeflniteness. Men sometimes say that intellectual development comes from studying rather than from a study, and that the plea for the old curriculum failed to take note of this fact. There is a truth here. And yet

it omits an important item. Overspecialism may train the mental faculties; but over-specialism cannot open the various avenues through which the mind moves out toward life and through which life moves in upon the mind. As to the Social Side.

“Then also our higher institutions should make men strong or the social side. This statment does not relate to the frills and bows of etiquette—though in the sense of social formality the college is not without a duty. The monastic idea has passed; the joys of fellowship should have a right of way; the graces of sociability should be cultivated. If the world will not be patient with the college graduate who is mainly a dandy, neither should it be patient with him who is mainly a boor.

“But when ‘social’ is used as relating to human fellowships and their influence, the colleges have a large field. Often they set lives in permanent directions. Garfield’s statement about the log. with himself on one end and Mark Hopkins on the other, as constituting a college, is over-done. Yet It holds a truth. The first qualification of a teacher is personality; without that mysterious equipment his technical lore lacks a sufficient channel and remains clogged up within his own nature. Teachers there are who pour power into youth. Happy the young men and the young women who come under their instructions! Ideals of Public Service. “And society has a right to ask that the college shall fill students with noble ideals of public- service. There is something defective in the work of any institution when it fails to send men out as strong servants of the state and nation. The public in general and the prospective student in particular, should pay heed to a college’s relation to public service. It. was right that Hiram college should he exalted in popular esteem by Garfield’s eminent work! It was right that. Miami should gain- effective advertisement from the career of Benjamin Harrison! Such cases shows that our colleges may send men into the wider social relations with larger power. What shall the college do for religious life? The answer to this question will necessarily depend upon the personal viewpoint. If we believe that religion is one of the essential forces and influences of human life, we are surely driven to affirm that the college should in some way minister to the religious faculty. This claim is receiving increasing recognition. The school that utterly banishes God will in the end banish itself.”

Ship Subsidy to Be Revived.

Of course Secretary Shaw directly represents the president in his public announcements and speeches. When he spoke at the banquet given by the New York Chamber of Commerce last November at Delmonico’s he was enthusiastic for the ship subsidy steal if no other way could be devised of increasing the merchant marine. As the junketing committee of congress headed by Senator Gallfnger has been holding meetings all over the country on purpose to gather evidence in favor of the ship subsidy bill, there is no doubt that such a message will be forced through congress if money and influence will do it. President Roosevelt has virtually endorsed the program that Secretary Shaw spoke of with so much favor, and the only means left to stop the steal is for the people to defeat those who voted for it. Nearly every Republican member of the United States senate is on record as voting in its favor, and several of them are candidates this year for re-election, such as Senators Aldrich, Ball. Bard. Beveridge, Clark. Depew, Foster, Halo. Kearns. Lodge. McCumber, Proctor, Quarles and Scott. The hill was not voted upon in the house of representatives. The Republican majority ieared the people, but it is claimed that a majority are pledged to do so when it comes up at the next session. Every candidate for congress should be made to pledge himself to vote against, a subsidy bill in whatever form it may he presented, and also that members of the legislature will not vote to re-elect senators who favored it. It is bad enough to be plundered by the trusts through the protective tariff, which is an indirect form of subsidy, but to rob the people directly by granting an enormous subsidy to the Morgan steamship trust would he a crowning infamy that the voters should guard against.

Shots From the Commoner.

"One contribution to the g. o. p. campaign fund counteracts two federal injunctions against a trust.” “Popidar election of senators will make the senate a representative body instead of a political board of trust directors.”

“The man who talks about ‘granting self-government’ when the subjects are ‘fit for it is the same man who never would go into the water until he learned to swim.” “The coal trust has so much coal on hand thaUit is compelled to put the miners on half time, and such a small stock on hand that it is forced to elevate the price 10 cents a ton every day or two. The coal trust evidently is not worrying about the ‘shackling of cunning’ just at. present.”

Congressman C. B. I.andis says in his Delphi Journal that there is no Issue between the two parties. That Is a concession that amounts practically to a surrender, for when it comes to a choice between the men representing,the two parties, there is such a decided conviction in the public mind favorable to Judge Parker that It is reasonable to presume that his election will come with an overwhelming majority.—Plymouth Democrat