Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1906 — Page 3

Nervous Worn-Out If you are in this condition, your nerve force is weak—the power is giving out, the organs of your body have “slowed up,” and do their work imperfectly. This failure to do the work required, clogs the systepi and brings distress and disease. When the nerves are weak the heart is unable to force the life-giving blood through your veins; the stom- ' ach fails to digest food; the kidneys lack power ’to filter impurities from the blood, and the poisonous waste remains in the system to breed disease. Nerve energy must be restored. Dr. Miles’ NeAine will do it, because it strengthens the nerves ; it is a nerve medicine and tonic, that rebuilds the entire nervous system. “Several years ago I was all broken down. I was nervous, worn-out, couIQ not sleep, and was in constant pain. I doctored for months, and finally the doctor said he could do nothing for me. I began taking Dr. Mlles’ Nervine, and used altogether eight bottles, and I became strong and healthy, and now weigh 170 pounds." H. C. CUNNINGHAM, 108 Ellsworth Ave., Allegheny, Pa. Dr. Mites* Nervine Is sold by your druggist, who will guarantee that the first bottle will benefit. If It falls, he will refund your money. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind

THE SUPREME COURT.

Timely auad Significant Warning* That Should Be Heeded. We have had several wise deliverances of late from Justice David J. Brewer, Hannis Taylor, Wayne MacVeagh and other eminent constitutional lawyers in opposition to the imperialistic tendencies of the supreme court of the United States. The best of these admonitory speeches perhaps was the one delivered by Mr. Taylor before the Maryland Bar association, but they were all timely and significant The tendency to amend the constitution by judicial construction Is truly ominous and is rendered more and more dangerous by the prevailing doctrine of the sanctity and Infallibility of the federal judiciary. Lack of Implicit confidence in the courts has been denounced as the very quintessence and deadly virus of anarchy—as treason of all other crimes In one. Yet overconfidence is the worst possible enemy of free Institutions. Jefferson once said: “It would be a dangerous delusion were our confidence In the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights. Confidence Is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government Is founded in jealousy and not In confidence. It Is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power. Our constitution has accordingly fixed the limits to which, and no further, our confidence must go. In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence In man, but bind him down from mischief by the claims of the constitution.” Overconfidence was no less emphatically reprobated by Madison, who said: “It js proper to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the late revolution. The freemen of America did not wait until usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled Itself In precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided thb consequences by denying the principle.” The doctrine of Jefferson and Madison respecting confidence in public men, whether on the bench, In the legislature or In the executive offices, needs today to be applied as vigorously as It was In 1776. Judges are no more sacred than other servants. Their deliverances must be carefully scrutinized and impartially, but fearlessly, criticised. For In those decisions may lurk greater dangers than in any legislative or executive usurpation.

In View of Wheat Seeding.

It I could have my choice of ground to sow on, I would choose a field where a heavy clover sod or where cowpeas had been plowed down and petal toes raised the present year, using at least 1,500 pounds high gtade fertilizer on the potatoes, says a Rural New Yorker writer. The potatoes having been kept clean and dug in good time, 1 would not plow for the wheat, but harrow at least four or five times and then drill tn the wheat, drilling fertilizer, with at least 3 per cent of quickly available nitrogen, 8 per cent phosphoric acid and 0 per cent potash. Then in the<Bpring, if it did not start to grow promptly, I would sow ibroadcast 150 pounds nitrate of soda per acre. A heavy dressing of stable manure will make a large stand of straw which will not fill well unless one ft> sure the ground contains plenty of phosphoric acid and potash. Riddles. What mostly resembles a cat’s tall? A kitten’s tail. When is a baby not a baby? When it’s a little bare. Why is an egg like a colt? Because it isn’t fit for use till It’s broken. What pain do we make light of? Window pane. When is It a good thing to lose your temper? When It’s a bad one.

CUTTING THE CORNERS

A Republican Statesman With a Changeable Record. WHAT WILL EOOSEVELT DO NEXT •, - .. ■, . \ A Few Ixrtanet* of His Chameleonlike Matnre and Infinite Variety. He Keeps Cannon and Other Republican Statesmen Guessing 'as to Where They Are At. With the president plunging Into the congressional campaign as general manager, so as “to secure a congress of his own,” a lively campaign and probably something Spectacular is certain. At present the president stands pat on the tariff, but who can tell what will happen? He may, If the exigencies of the canvass require a change of front, throw over the stand patters and stand for tariff revision or even free trade. Senator Dryden assures the people of his state that “the mental attitude of President Roosevelt toward public questions of our day Is a fine blending of a broad and courageous progressive-' ness with a wise and steady conservatism that Is altogether admirable.” Senator Dryden is in a tight place himself, with the hounds of reform on his trail, and knows full well the short corners a Republican statesman Is bound to cut. In these perilous times. He evidently sees in President Roosevelt qualities that he la envious of, for what trust and corporation representative, not to say life insurance president, would not like to be able to appear progressive and conservative at the same time—progressive to the people on one side and conservative to the trusts and corporations on the other; one day issuing orders for the vigorous prosecution of.the trust officials, another day ordering the attorney general not to press the criminal charge against John D. Rockefeller which had been commenced at Cleveland; on one side appealing to the Republican voters to subscribe a dollar each to the campaign fund, on the other side having Wall street figuratively ecraped with a small tooth comb for campaign contributions? One day he assures President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor that the eight hour law has been constantly and vigorously enforced and the next day Issues an order for the enforcement of that obsolete law. One day he speaks of President Monroe as a “failure," as one “well fitted to act as a presidential figurehead,” as "too much to the taste of the Jacobinical Republicans” of France, and on the next day be declares that the one grand purpose of his administration is to uphold the glorious Monroe doctrine. One day he denounces “the pension grabbing congressmen and their supporters” and the “vidous special legislation, sure, in the end, to bring about the breaking down of some of the most important principles of our government," and the next day he issues an executive order, without authority of law, Imposing upon the treasury an annual expenditure of more than $30,000,000. One day he favors free trade and denounces a protective tariff as “vicious in theory and harmful In practice,” and the next day he declares for the stand pat theory. One day he stands for reciprocity and the next day against it Always he cries for peace in one breath and for the big stick and war In the next One day he speaks of the religious system of the Quakers as “a direct Incentive to crime and wrongdoing,” denounces their "vaunted policy of peace" and declares that the colonj' of Pennsylvania was “contemptible, supine and selfish," and the next day he says that the Quakers are "righteous, peaceful and virtuous.” One day he speaks of the negroes as "a perfectly stupid race," and the next day he closes the postofflce at Indianola contrary to law because the people of that town object to a negro as postmaster, Invites the negro Booker Washington to dinner and says that “the door of hope” for equality with white men and women must be kept open to the negro. One day be denounces political corruption, and the next he refuses to compel Cortelyou and Bliss to return to the Insurance companies tile money stolen from the widows and orphans of their policy holders and used as a corruption fund to place him In the White House. One day he denounces the railroads for violating the law against rebating, and the next day he appoints Paul Morton, a notorious rebater, to a place In his cabinet and discharges from the public service Harmon and Judson for proposing to prosecute Morton and bls pals. This is the man who is going to conduct the congressional campaign this year. The chameleon and the kaleidoscope are surely In politics. There will be “Infinite variety,” at least, in the performance. »

The Open Door In China.

Republican statesmen have been laboring for years for the open door In China, but It Is hardly to be wondered at that the door la still only juat ajar when it Is considered how the tariff prevents the door from being opened here. And yet we wonder why the Chinese have boycotted Our goods and allow English goods where the tariff is moderate to come in without question.

Republican “Harmony."

There is a great struggle for harmony In the Republican ranks just now, and there is a strong feeling in the hearts of those who have not succeeded In getting their feet In the public trough that there must be harmony even if they have to fight tor tt.

FARM AND GARFEN

TOBACCO GROWING. Intereatln* Point* In the Culture of the Dark Tobacco of Virginia. By Messrs. M’NESS and MATTHEWSON, tobacco experts, bureau of soils. The dark shipping tobacco Is generally raised on rich lands and cured with open wood fires. England, France. Germany, Spain, Austria and Italy Jake the bulk of this tobacco, although the higher grades are used at home for plug wrappers. This tobacco is produced to greater or less extent throughout the tobacco belt of Virgin-

BOOT SYSTEM OF TOBACCO PLANT.

ia, but the most of It is grown south of James river in territory extending from Petersburg on the east across the Piedmont plateau to the edge of the Blue Ridge, with Lynchburg and Petersburg as the most important market centers. In Virginia the practice is to follow tobacco with wheat and the wheat with clover for two years and then back to tobacco. On the tobacco It .Is the custom to apply per acre 400 pounds of a fertilizer analyzing 8 per cent ammonia, 9 per cent phosphoric acid and 3 per cent potash. This adds to the soil a total of twelve pounds of ammonia, thirty-six pounds of phosphoric acid and twelve pounds of potash per acre. It Is noticeable that the requirements of tobacco for phosphoric acid are very small, but as a matter of field practice it Is found that the crop will show signs of suffering from lack of this substance unless the available supply is very much in excess of the amount actually taken up by the crop. Where wheat follows tobacco no additional fertilization is given, dependence being solely upon the natural resources of the soil and the remnant of the application given the tobacco. It is seldom that more than ten or fifteen bushels of wheat to the acre Is harvested. Tobacco is a crop that with fin increase in yield usually gives a corresponding increase in quality, provided the soil conditions and management are right. It has often been found that it pays to apply very large amounts of fertilizer to a tobacco crop 'where it might not have proved profitable to do so with other and lower priced farm crops. The Virginia farmers generally cultivate their crops deeply, thus injuring the root system which is spreading near the surface. The rule is to give tlip tobacco three cultivations, using a one horse implement (the first two with a double shovel plow and the last with a turning plow), and two hoeings by hand. Except in the case of low lying fields, where there is danger from standing water, it is best to discard the turning plow entirely and use nothing but implements for shallow cultivation. This has been fully demonstrated in recent experiments where the efficiency and profitableness of frequent and shallow cultivation of tobacco have been studied. The shovel plow may be used to advantage and is recommended for the first cultivation. At this time the roots of the plants have not spread into the row and the soil is likely to be packed from heayy rains and from tramping it at the time of setting. Deep, thorough breaking out of the middles is to lie

CULTIVATOR WITH ATTACHMENTS.

advised at this time, and the double shovel plow with narrow blades is about the best tool available. As the plants grow and the roots begin to occupy the soil between the rows deep cultivation should be stopped and frequent shallow cultivation substituted. For this purpose a five toothed cultivator (Fig. 60), with an eighteen inch sweep and a depth regulating attachment, is recommended. This will keep down the weeds and preserve an effectual soli mulch, which retards surface evaporation with-, out doing Injury to the roots. About six cultivations are necessary to keep the soil in good tilth, or an average of onfr a week between the setting and topping seasons, the soil being worked a little toward the plant at each cultivation. Cap* For Haycock*. For the benefit of those who are unwilling to purchase caps for covering the cock* we wish to say that alfalfa, properly cocked, will shed water just as well as clover—ln fact, many farmers claim that It wllj shed water even better and that It is no more difficult to cure than clover In any season. While this may be true, we urge the use of caps for the reason that alfalfa is so much more valuable than cloyer, and a little extra expense in this line Is money well 'lnvested.—Farmers' Trib une.

HINTS FOR FARMERS

The few Milk Cow ( In an addi as before the Connecticut I Dairy association Professor T. L. j Haecker said: “In the first place cows should come j fresh in the fall. If the calf is dropped in the spring, great shortage in the flow of ir }k will follow during the {summer, when unfavorable conditions 'prevail over which we have little conI trol. Flies, short pastures and press of farm work invariably raise havoc with .the flow of milk, and by fall you will have a lot of unprofitable strippers to board. “If good winter quarters are provided land a liberal supply of roughage arid I some farm grains are grown, with cows fresh in the fall, a better and more profitable yield can be secured. I With cows in full flow during stall | feeding, there is profit during the winter, even if feed is expensive. Then we get better prices, and this is an additional reason that the largest yield ►should be at this season. Hidebound Horse*. The condition called hidebound Is simply a general run down condition of the animal, bad digestion and malnutrition. Give the animal a drench composed of bitter aloes, eight drams; ground ginger, one tablespoonful; common soda, one tablespoonful. Mix in a pint of lukewarm water and give as a drench. Keep the horse in the stable two or thred days and feed on bran, with a half pint of flaxseed to the feed and cut grass' or clover, then the following in the feed twice a day: Sulphur, one-quarter pound; saltpeter, one-quarter pound. Mix well and give a large teaspoonful In his feed twice a day. After this mix well ground genItian root, one-quarter pound, powdered sulphate of iron, one-quarter pound. 'Then give a large teaspoonful twice a 'day in his feed; or if not working, simply let him run in a good pasture.— 'Farm Progress. Sheep on Small Farm*. There is a prevailing Impression that sheep are only suitable for grazing upon large areas, writes L. C. Reynolds in National Stackman. It Is erroneous and unfounded. There Is no other place better adapted to the production of sheep products than the small farms, where the best attention can be allotted to developing their highest productivity. Sheep never do so well as when maintained upon good pasturing areas in small flocks. This condition can be maintained on small farms where a limited number can be handled and forced to maximum production. The Useful Dorking*. The Silver Gray Dorking is an English fowl. Dorkings are noted for theii exceptionally fine table qualities and great beauty as an exhibition fowl, says a Pennsylvania fanner in American Cultivator. They have short legs, long, low set bodies, and especially full, heavy developed breasts. The flesh of the Dorking is very tender, fine grained and juicy, and the bones are much smaller than other fowls of their size. As layers I was well convinced of their abilities in this respect when from five June hatched pullets I received 700 eggs in eight months, the count beginning Jan. 1. When to Caponlze. The proper time to caponlze Plymouth Rocks is when they weigh two or three pounds, although it can be done at five pounds without losing more than 5 per cent, while at two pounds the loss will be from 1 to 3 per cent, depending on the skill of the operator. The larger the breed, the better capons it will produce. The ones having yellow legs are preferable. The Rocks, Wyandottes, Reds or any breeds whose standard weight Is not less than the Wyandottes will do, the ideal breed, however, being Plymouth Rock.—Reliable Poultry Journal. I.linr For Old Land. No matter whether lime is needed to destroy mineral acids in the soil, or whether it is needed to destroy vegetable .acids, or whether it is needed to supply the growing plant, the fact Is that much old land needs some lime. The top soil contains less lime than the subsoil because lime leaches. There may be a lot of lime in the top soil that is inactive. Be the action what it may, the presence of more lime is demanded on millions of acres where clover has ceased to do well.—Alva Agee in National Stockman. No Gain In Use of Salt. < It is supposed by many dairymen that the use of salt iujiberat quantities adds to the profit of buttermaking, but recent tests at the Indiana station indicate that when salt is left out water takes the place of the salt and there is nothing gained by weight with the use of salt, but if sold entirely fresh is found to weigh as much for a given quantity of cream as when butter is salted. Skim Milk a* Fertiliser. A curious experiment was made this summer near Halsey, N. J„ where a lot of refuse skim milk was used as a top dressing for grass land. It is claimed that remarkable results were obtained, and that the grass was about seven times as vigorous as on adjoining fields on which milk was not used, but which were dressed with commercial fertilizers. For Scour* In Calye*. When calves are afflicted with scours ■treat as follows: Glvq as a drench onetlilrd of a pint of linseed oil with three tablespoonfuls of tincture of catechu. Mix in a pint of lukewarm water. If not relieved In live hours give another drench of the same with the addition 3f two tablespoonfuls of common soda and repeat it every five hours.

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