Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1905 — Page 2

Big Public Sale. The uudcnifiied having decided to quit farming, will offer at Public Sale at hla realdence In Jordan township, 4 mile* North and S miles Bast of Ooodland, 4 North and 4 miles West of Remington, commencing at 10 o'clock, a. ni, Monday, February 20,1905, 14 HEAD OF HORSES AND MULES, conHinting of 1 Bay Horse seven years wt 1,1(0: 1 Bay Mare ten >enih old. w * I.l‘U, J Huy Horse twelve years old, wt. 1 White Pony three years old. broke to ride or di ive, wt. 700; 1 coining two-year-old Colt: 1 Huy Mare ten years old. wt. 1,100: 1 Bay Horse ten years old. wt. 1,100: 1 Dun Oehllng nine years old. wt. WO, 1 Bay Horse four year* old. wt. 1. 00, 1 Bay Horse twelve years old, wt. 1,2<0, 1 span of Horse Mules six and seven years old, wt. 2,300. 7 HEAD OP CATTLE, consisting of 4 Fresh Cows, three with calf by side, one cow fresh April Ist, 1 two-year-old Heifer. 1 Yearling Heifer. 14 HEAD OF HOGS, consisting of 1 Dnroc Jersey Brood Sow ■Wilelmina," sired by Good I and Chief. 10509, dam, Loretta, 2252*11 is now with pig to Pilot Wonder, 2d, owned by May A Porter, w ill farrow about April 5, 2 young Dnroc Jersey Sows, out of Wilelmina and a registered Boar, one will farrow' by day of sale, and other is open, 1 Duroc Jer sey Sow with pig. will farrow about April 20. 6 Fat Hogs weighing about 225 pounds each, 4 Head of Shoats weighing about 70 pounds each. FARM IMPLEMENTS, WAGONS,Etc., conlisting of 1 Milwaukee Binder, run two seasons, 1 Corn Harvester, used three seasons, 1 Riding Cultivator, 2 Walking Cultivators, 1 Sulky Plow. 1 Hurrow. 1 Weeder. 1 Corn Planter w ith 80 rods of w ire, 1 Disk, 1 good Farm Wagon, triple box, 1 Wagon and rack, 1 Carriage, 3 sets good Work Harness, two new, 1 thirty-pound Saddle, Grindstone and other articles too numerous to mention. A credit often months will be given on sums over $5 with the usual conditions: 8 per cent off for cash where entitled to credit. JOHN F. KELLY. Fbank C. Eos, Auctioneer. J. W. Phelps, Clerk. James Bullih, Hot Lunch.

Big Public Sale. Having leased my farm for three years for cash rent and intending to move to Indian Territory, 1 will offer at Public Sale at my residence 0 mdes North and 1 mile Kast of Kensselaer, 1 mile East of Aix and 1 mile of Blackford, commencing at 10 o'clock a. m,, on Monday February 27, 1905, 7 HEAD OF HORSES,- -consisting of 1 team of Iron Greys, wt. 1350 each; 1 Grey Mare ten years old, in foal to Iroquois company’slhorse. wt. HK'O: 1 Blrck Horse coming three-year-old, wt. 1350, broke to work; 1 Sorrel Mare three-year-old, wt. 050, well broke single or double; 1 Hay Mare five years old, wt. 1000, well broke to work double but not single; 1 Bay Horse wt. 1000 pounds. 24 HEAD OK HOGS,—consisting of to Head of Stock Hogs. wt. 100 pounds each and 4 Brood Sows bred to Poland China Boar. 17 HEAD OP CA TTLE c o n - sistiug in Milt'll Cows, all , with calf, and ‘2 two - year - old to SHROPSHIRE EWES. IMPLEMENTS, WAGONS, Etc.—consisting of 1 ttiree inch tire Farm Wagon, 1 light two-horse Wagon, 3 Stubble Plows, 1 Harrow', 1 Disk, 4 Cultivators; 1 Corn Planter, Farmer’s Friend.” with SO rods of wire. 1 set Chain Harness, 1 set Single Harness, 1 Ice (’ream Freezer, 5 tons Timothy Hay, 20 tons Mixed Hay, 20 bushels of Potatoes. H bushels of Seed Corn, some Household and Kitchen Furniture and many other articles. A credit of 12 months will be given on sums over $5 with usual conditions; 8 per cent off for cash where entitled to credit• FRANK LAKHS’. Fhkp Phillips, Auctioneered G. SimtLek, Cletk. Hot Lunch on ground. Big Public Sale.

Mary A. Hullihan, having decided to quit farming, wilt offer at Public Sale on what is known as the Rabbit Island farm, half mile Southwest of Newland, commencing at 10 o’clock a. m.. on Thursday, March 2, 1905, 6 HEAD OF HORSES AND MARES, consisting of 1 Sorrel Horae, Dine years old, wt. 1850; 1 Sorrel Mare eight yrs. old. wt. ISOi, in Hay old. wt. 1300; 1 SMfij| Hay Mare ten SIWfiSS r - years old. wt. ‘ 1250; 1 Sorrel Mare ten years old, wt,, 1100; 1 Bay Driving Horse seven years old, wt. 1050. 1 MILCH COW 0 years old, fresh. 6 HEAD OK HOGS, consisting of 1 Poland China Brood Sow, and 5 Shoats weighing about 50 pounds each, FARM IMPLEMENTS, WAGONS. ETC. Consisting of 1 Deering Binder, nearly new; 1 John Deere Gat.g Plow; 2 Sulky Plows, one a Clark with double attachments, aod and stubble bottom; 1 Deering Mower; 1 Osborne Disk; 1 three-section Harrow; 4 Brown Cultivators, one riding, three walking; 3 Walking Plows. 14 inch ; 1 Endgate Seeder; 1 Com Planter; 1 Farm Wagon, wide tire; 8 sets Work Harness in good condition; 1 set Single Harness; 1 Carriage; 2 Single Buggies, 1 a rubber tire, and numerous other articles. A credit of 10 months will be given on sums over 95 with usual conditions; 8 per cent off for cash where entitled to credit. MARY HULLIHAN. Butler Bros.. Auctioneers. E. P. Honak, Clerk. Hot Lunch on ground. Get your horse bills printed at The Democrat office Bead The Democrat for news.

THACKERAY IN AMERICA.

TIN Preachy Crescent City Pleased Him s Great Deni. During his visit to this country in 185 ft Thackeray wrote the following letter home from New Orleans: “I have already begun another letter on a paper with a picture of New Orleans at the top and all the rest of the paper nicely ruled, but it is such an immense sheet that I felt as if 1 could not speak upon it in my natural voice, and 1 don't choose to talk in any other to my daughters That's why they get so little instruction from me. which I have not got. or wit. which perhaps I might fetch np with a little tronble. But what man ought to be witty to his family? I left Mobile on Tuesday. This is Friday I found kind folks and pleasant compuny in Mobile, though we did not make a mint of money there. ‘‘What little 1 have seen of this I like perhaps better than any other town in the Union. There are pictures on the quays: there are old French houses: there are streets which look for all the world like Havre: the sweet, kind French tongue is spoken in the shops, and 1 felt quite a liking for the negro who drove me from the station for calling out in good French to a brother driver. There is capital ordinaire claret for dinner: the faces are not Yankee faces, with their keen, eager, narrow eyes; there are many fat people: these are interesting facts, and the most interesting that as we turn from this we ■hall be going home. O mong Jew! Come quickly. I say. thou end of May! We had a famous lecture room full of people last night.”—New Orleans Times- Democrat.

Why They Were Surprised.

Sir William Vernon Harcourt is very abseutminded. Going to a dinner on a Monday night, he noticed a look of surprise on the faces of his host and hostess. but thought no more about it. and spent a pleasant evening. On Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday he attended dinners at other houses with the same result, and on Friday, while keeping the list of his engagements for the week, which were marked down in his book, he found that the butler, who was to announce him. was an old acquaintance—had formerly been in his service. The man. however, started back and gazed at him open mouthed. “What’s the matter. John?’ asked the statesman. “Didn't you expect me to dinner?” “Yes, Sir William.” explained the butler, “but it wasn’t tonight. It was for Friday of next week. ” Investigation of the engagement book explained the mystery. Each page noted a week’s engagements. Sir William, in his haste, had turned over two pages and had thns been keeping engagements which only fell due a week later.

A Novelist’s Memory.

A characteristic of the late William Black was his ignorance of his own books, and it was very difficult to get him to talk about his novels. It seemed that as soon as the proof sheets were returned to the printers Mr. Black forgot all about his own creations. “In talking to my husband the other day.” Mrs. Black once said to a visitor. “I suddenly remembered an anecdote in one of his novels which illustrated what I was saying. Mr. Black laughed heartily at the story and then turned eagerly to me ’But where did you hear so good a story? My husband wouldn't believe it was in one of his own hooks until I found it for him. ”

THE CHRYSANTHEMUM.

Tlie tirst chrysanthemum show was held In Norwich, England, In 1829. The Philadelphia Horticultural society held the lirst chrysanthemum show In the United States in ISB3. The tirst chrysanthemums brought to Europe were taken from China by skippers of the tea trading ships. After the chrysanthemum is potted leave It for a little time in the shade. Then give it all the sun that is possible. The chrysanthemum was introduced into England 200 years ago from China. It was grown first in Holland after Its emigration. The chrysanthemum Is one of the easiest of garden flowers to grow, but it needs careful tending after It is brought Into the house In pots when the frost comes.

Keep the Roonting Place Warm.

Many henhouses are not constructed sufficiently warm to keep hens from becoming frost bitten during extremely cold weather. To get the best results with poultry, and particularly with laying hens, they must have a warm place In which to sleep. In houses otherwise cool the roosting place may be made warm by using a hood. I have used with satisfactory results a hood made of burlap, which Is arranged like a curtain, so that it may be drawn back by day or In warm weather. —Cor. American Agriculturist.

The Horse to Raise.

For the average farmers to grow I would consider the most profitable animal a heavy draft horse of high grade. The heavy draft mare is more suitable to perform the work on the farm, and heavy colts can be broken to do the work at an earlier age than a light horse, and the work on the farm Is such as to fit him for future usefulness when sold for heavy draft purposes In the cities and towns.—Cor. American Cultivator.

The Kicking Cow.

To restrain a kicking cow while being milked buckle a small strap around the left hind leg just above the hoof. Fasten a small rope from the strap and bring It np over tbe stanchion and fasten It so that It will draw the foot up sligbtly, but will not move it from tbe floor. Secured in this way, the cow cannot kick, because she cannot shift her weight.

FROM THE PACIFIC COAST.

Intere«tlng Letter From nr. Lucius Strong. 315 So. Bunker Hill Avenue, Los Angeles, Cali., Feb. >2. Editor Democrat:—Since my last we have been visiting the parks and beaches. The parks are all well supplied with flowers and palms, and a number of them have a variety of wild animals and birda. The most important one, called the Cheetes, is supplied with a great amount of animals, a roller coaster and tobogan slide. A band of fifty pieces discourses music every afternoon. Occasional an air ship ascends, to enliven the occasion. The beach towns are numerous. Some of them are in a prosperous condition while others are but little more than towns on paper. San Pedro will be the most important one of all. The government is buildiug a harbor there. Its distance from this city is about twenty-eight miles and is the place of embarkation for the Catalina Island. Large quantities of lumber arrive at this point, which supplies this city and the surrounding country. The people here seem to think that the completion of the San Pedro harbor and the Panama canal will be all that is necessary to make Los Angeles one of the largest and best cities in the United States. I think a great deal of this is wind, and that the ones who are supposed to be benefited the most will never know the difference when it comes to paying freight bills. The railroads will undoubtly control everything that is to be transported and tix rates to suit. The people of the city thought that the building of the Salt Lake road would help to solve the rate problem by making it a competing eastern line. They now think that there will be no competition, that the three roads will be under one supervision and rates will not change. The boom spirit rages here to an alarming extent. There are enough vacant lots advertised for sale to add a half million inhabitants to the city if occupied by the usual number to the lot. When the bubble bursts there will be mourning, no doubt. A trip to the Catalina island is one of the most pleasurable of any of the side trips. It requires about two and one half hours. To return about the same. The island is seven miles wide and twenty-two miles loug, and is owned by one or two persons, the Bannings, except about eighty lots where the town of Avalon stands. There are about 40,000 sheep besides wild goal 8 ranging over the island. The people living there have no other way of making a living than taking care of tourists, selling curios and running row boats with glass bottoms so that passengers can see the wonders in the submarine gardens of the ocean. There is a school of sealions hanging around the landing expecting something to eat. They have become quite tame and seem to understand what it means to call them. Their performances afford a good deal of amusement for tourists. There is no chance for the town to expand as it is fenced in by mountains so high that the moon can hardly get over when it is full. Our mail has been very slow getting in for two weeks, on account of washouts. Respectfully Yours, L. Strong.

Owner’s Rights In Highway*. If a farm deed is bounded by, on or upon a road, it usually extends to the middle of the roadway, says a Vermont correspondent of American Cultivator. There are a few exceptional cases, but ordinarily the farmer owns the soli of half the road and may use the grass, trees, stones, gravel, sand or anything of value to him either on the land or beneath the surface, subject ouly to the superior rights of the public to travel over the road and that of the highway surveyor or other similar officer to use such materials for the repair of the road, and these materials he may cart away and use elsewhere on the road, but he has no right to use them for his own private purposes. No other man has a right to feed his cattle there or cut the grass or trees, much less deposit his wood, old carts, wagons or other things thereon, and after notice to the owner the farmer may remove them to some suitable place, and if they are lost or injured it Is not his fault. A ' The Chftage of a Name. How family names change In the course of many years is illustrated by the conversion of “BotevUe" into “Thynne.” An English deed bearing date in the closing days of the fifteenth century shows three brothers then flourishing— John BotevUe of BotevUe and Thomas and William Botevile. The trio are distinguished from all other Boteviles by the explanation “of the Inne,” or family residence, the title to which had come to their Joint possession. John’s grandson was known as Ralph BotevUe-of-the-Inne, from which the transition to Ralph Thynne is easy. His descendants have been Thynnes ever since _ w

Plodding together through the sand. Here, then is the old situation -which has been dear to mankind, young and old, since the days of Robinson Crusoe—a shipwreck, an uninhabited island. Defoe found one single human being sufficient for his purpose- nowadays a man and a woman are preferred; we must have a “love interest.’’—New.York Mail and Express.

A SEEDLESS, CORELESS, BLOOMLESS APPLE.

Everyone is familfar with the seedless or navel orange, but the seedless apple is a new fruit on the market. This marvelous improvement in the common apple, fulfilling in letter as well as in spirit the jest of the schoolboy, who proclaimed that “there ain’t going to be no core,” would seem to indicate that the new apple will eventually monopolize the markets of the world, for reasons which the appended data clearly point out. By way of illustration, it ma\ be said that the seedless and core less apple follows closely the analogue presented by the seedless orange, and is in fact a prototype of the latter. When the seedless orange was introduced to the pub lie, it was regarded in the light of a horticultural wonder, for if there were no seeds, by what uncarin' method was their kind propagated? Shrouded in a mystery such as this, it required some little time for the matter-of-fact virtues to impress themselves and the real merit of the fruit to become known; but once eaten, its subtle qualities were forgotten, and its advantages were quickly appreciated, and from that day to this the old-fashioned variety, with its multiplicity of seeds, has suffered severly, having been almost driven from the market, and left all but out of the race. Now let us ascertain the real difference between the two verities of oranges, as the comparison will serve a useful purpose when the old and the new species of apples are being similarly considered. The reason seedless oranges are universally preferred to those that contain ovules is not because any saving was effected, but simply that the seeds are in the way. The ordinary apple presents a wholly different aspect, for the seeds are inclosed in a hard pocket that represents at least one-fourth of the apple, and which cannot be utilized in any way as an article of food, whereas in the seedless variety these disagreeable features are entirely eliminated. Still, what is more to the point of economy, apples without seeds are also wormle6S, for it is well known to growers tbfTt worms in apples obtain their sustenance not from the meat, but from the seeds; hence it is evident that if a worm was hatched in a seedless apple, it could not live.

The beginning of the seedless apple dates back only a few years, and therefore its necessarily brief. All the credit for the propagation of tbe apple thus far belongs to Mr. JohnF. Spencer, of Grand Junction, Col., who, struck with the success of the seedless orange, believed that similar results could be obtained with apples.

After several years’ experimental research he succeeded in producing five trees that bore seedleßs, coreless, and wormless apples, and from this little group there has budded two thousand more trees, which at present constitute the entire seedless abple stock of the world; and from these two thousand trees all the rest of tbe world most be supplied. It is estimated that these will have produced abont three hundred and seventy-five thousand nursery trees by the fall of 1905, and that the following year at least two

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million five huudred thousand trees will furnish the supply. There are many striking peculiarities in the developement of the seedless tree, as well as in the fruit. As an instance, it may be cited that the tree is blossomless; and while there is a stamen and a very small quality of pollen, exactly as in the blossom of the ordinary apple tree, yet the blossom or flower itself is pissing. The photograph shows wie only bloom, flower, or blossom that ever appears on the seedless apple tree. The only thing that resembles a blossom comes in the form of several small green leaves that grow around the little apple to shelter it. It is this lack of blossom that makes it almost impossible for the codling moth to deposit its eggs, and this practically insures a wormless apple. As it is the blossom of the common apple tree that is attacked by cold and frost, the seedless apple tree is immune, and the late frosts that play havoc with the apple grocer’s purse by denuding his orchard may now become a thing of the past, and at the same time prevent worry and increase profits. The seedless apple tree has a hard, smooth bark, and may be grown in any climate; the meat of the new apple, like that of the seedless orange, is very solid, and in both there is a slightly hardened substance at the navel end. Through long development this has almost disappeared in the orange; and while it is more or less prominent in the seedless apple, it has been materially reduced on the last generation of trees, and all sizes tend to show that it will grow smaller with successive generations, as the navel end of the orange has grown smaller. The apples, which are of a beautiful dark-red color with yellow strawberry dots, are of a goodly size and have a flavor similar to the Wine Sap. —A. F. Collins, in Scientific American.

$22.45 to Texas and Oklahoma and return via Wabash Ry. Tickets on sale Feb. 7th and 21st. to Houston, Galveston, San Antonio and all intermediate points in Oklahoma and Indian Territories and Kansas. Tickets good 21 days. Other rates on application to Thos. Follen, P. &T. A., Lafayette, Ind.

For Sale; The Indian Asphalt Company cottage in the Jasper county oil field. New, completely furnished, and thoroughly modern; entry hall, living room, dining room, kitchen and pantry on lower floor, and six bedrooms and bath on second and third floors. Great opportuinty for boarding bouse, as there will be renewed activity in the oil field in the spring. Very advantageous terms to responsible parties. Call or address, Indian Asphalt Co. Asphaltum, Ind. Grave Trouble ForeseenIt need* but little foresight, to tell, that when your stomach and liver are badly affected. grave trouble la ahead, unleas you take the proper medicine for your disease, as Mrs. John A. Young, of Clay, N. Y., did. She says: I had neuralgia of the liver and stomach, my heart was weakened, and I conld not eat. I was very bad for a long time, but in Electric Bitter*, I found juat what I needed, for they quickly relieved and cured me." Best medicine for weak women. Sold under guarantee by A. F. Long, druggist, at 50c a bottle.

FAMOUS ENGLISH WELLS.

tome Whose Waters Are Charged With Magic or Miraculous Power. Though there are hundreds of wells supposed to possess magical power scattered all over England, the general public is Ignorant of their locality or the romantic stories connected with each one. There may be a possible exception in the well of St Keyne, in Cornwall, for Southey has made it famous In a witty little poem. The magic of its waters is such that the husband or wife who drinks first from it after leaving the altar will have the upper hand? over the mate for their Joint lives. The bride of whom Southey tells us did not wait till after the marriage ceremony to pay a visit to the well, but took the precaution of taking a bottle with her to the church. Another well, in Monmouthshire, which has a peculiar fascination for the unmarried maidens is known Is the “virtuous well.” For generations the maidens of that locality have accredited it with marvelous powers In forecasting their futures. They haveonly to drop a pebble into its water and count the resultant bubbles, for each bubble represents a month of waiting for the day which will make them brides. In order to propitiate the genius which presides over the well It is necessary to decorate the brambles which shade it with bits of white cloth.

Then there are the so called holy wells which have many medicinal virtues. Such a one is St. Winifred's, at Holywell, which is accredited with cures that are almost miraculous. The legend of its origin Is a very pretty one. It is said that twelve centuries ago St. Winifred, the winsome daughter of a Welsh chief, was wooed by Prince Caradoc, a prince of ill repute. She declined his persistent advances, and at last he killed her in a fit of rage. From the spot on which St. Winifred’s lifeblood fell there gushed forth a stream of crystal water which has worked miracles in her name for so many centuries. Practically all the ills to which the flesh is heir can be cured by one or another of these wells. St. Ninan’s, in Cornwall, Is said to restore lunatics to sanity, but the patient must be immersed in the water aud held there until the breath has nearly left his body. This seems a heroic measure. But even this is not so severe as the treatment which must be endured if a madman is to be cured at Llandegla well, in Wales, for after the victim Is nearly drowned he is trussed like a fowl and laid under the communion table of the neighboring church for the night.

Rotation of Crops.

A. rotation for dairy farms recommended by the New Jersey station consists of (1) field com, seeded to crimson clover in July or August; (2) crimson clover, followed by fodder com, land seeded to winter rye; (3) rye fodder, followed by oats and peas, seeded to red clover and timothy, and (4) hay. Some of the reasons for crop rotation are: All plants do not draw to an equal extent upon the manurial ingredients of the soil. They send their roots to different depths and have a different solvent action upon the constituents they reach. By rotating crops Insect enemies are more liable to be dispersed. Fungous diseases may be materially reduced. The soli is maintained in good tilth, and bacteria which are beneficial to the plants are more likely to be increased. Weeds are more readily eliminated, the humus compounds of the soil Increased and the work of the farm more easily distributed.

TO RENT. A 280 aore farm, well improved, good land; good orchard; want a first class renter; must have good recommendations. Will give a chance to make some good money. B. F. Ferguson.

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