Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1909 — Page 4

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If a bill introduced by Representative Edward Wicky, becomes a law Hammond's superior court will once more become a marriage mill, to the disgust of Crown Point J. P's.

With county option as the issue Adam Wise, democrat, was elected over C. H. Brown, republican, in Marshall county last Wednesday by a vote larger than the normal democratic vote. It seems that while local option is strong as a sentiment, it is hot worth a tinker’s d— as a vote getter.—Starke County Republican.

It is unfortunate that Senator Clark’s bill providing for registration was discussed along party lines, though two republicans, and Cox, broke away from their party and treated the matter as it should be regarded, as of Statewide, nonpartisan interest. A majority of those voting declared for the bill, but so far it lacks a constitutional majority. Certainly the evils prevalent at elections have demonstrated that something ought to be done in this state to shut out the repeaters and ther illegal voters. There are precincts in the state that are dominated by ignorant, unnaturalized voters who ought not to be voters at all. Besides these there are, as all politcians know, districts in which repeating is a political industry. Senator Clark’s bill is the best measure that has been proposed for the correction of these crimes. To treat it as a party measure and to vote for or against it simply because it has beep introduced by a Democrat is a foolish and narrow way of considering this grave question. We hope that there may yet come a chance for a vote on the merits of the bill.—lndianapolis News.

HINTS FOR FARMERS

Some Poultry Wisdom. Some do well with several different breeds of hens, but for most folks one ■kind is best. Give plenty of litter for the biddies to work In; “clear up to their knees” is not too much. It does them good to work, and they like it too. You can keep as many liens as you | like, only do nut h:v? too many in a flock. Not more than twenty-tire r.hould ibe kept in n j l.n e.' You will not be al lo to give your Jhens newly dug earth these days, but iyou can give them earth tint In;.: net been worked over by the chicks. This iyou should always try'to do. for earth which has been dug over repeatedly is {not clean, and- It may have germs of {disease in it. It is wrong to dose healthy hens with stimulants. Any hustlers among your hens? .They nre the ones that bring you in the money. Are your hens too fat? - Give them more to do. Re regular in feeding ard keep dear of digestive troubles.—Farm Journal.

Feed After Milking the Cow. A great many dairymen before beiglnning to milk feed each cow. Th? milker hurries to get through beeaus - if the cow finishes her meal before the milker has done his work she extorts more feed by holding back her milk, so must lie fed again to keep her in good Punier. it Is a better plan to de the milking first and then feed immediately, and cows that are accustomed to this treatment generally give down their mill: cheerfully, for they know that milking is a prelude to feeding. A cow is much smarter than she looks and more grateful than most persona would believe. So long as the cows know they are not going to be struck or beaten they will neither kick m r hook. An experienced milkman will neverijillow any loud excitement about his barn or stable, for the quieter the cows are kept the greater the quantity of hiilk given and the easier the work is performed.— Farm .Journal.

Treating Seed Grains For Smut. The ofliee of experiment stations at Washington recently received a report from the Wisconsin experiment station of experiments carried on for the purpose of lessening the loss caused by smut diseases of barley. The treatments ipciuded soaking the seed grain in formaldehyde and corrosive sublimate solutions and a modified form of the hot water treatment. The formaldehyde and corrosive sublimate treatments were effective in controlling the form of smut known as closed smut, ibut they were without effect for , the loose smut of barley. For the latter 'lt is recommended that the seed be soaked for twelve hours in cold water, after which it should be submerged from five to twenty minutes in water at a temperature of 130 degrees. As this treatment is efficient for both forms of smut, it is recommended for combating smut diseases of barley.

FLEET NEARING HOME STEADILY

Tomorrow the Battleships’ Trip Will Be Done. GLORIOUS TIMES AHEAD Admiral Sperry Accepts, by Wireless, the Invitation to Speak at Dinner In Washington—Old Point Comfort and Norfolk Hotels Are Crowded With Throng That Desires to See the Great Naval Parade—Plan Entertainments For Officers and Enlisted Men.

On Board the Flagship Connecticut, Feb. 19. —The position of the Atlantic fleet and Admiral Arnold's squadron by the latest wireless was latitude 84.29 north; longitude 62.08 west. The fleet is progressing in the formation of column of squadrons at a speed of 10.5 knots. Old Point Comfort, Va., Feb. 19. The near approach of the battleship fleet and its escort, signaled by wireless as less than 700 miles off the Virginia capes, is reflected in the great crowds of visitors pouring into the, hotels here. The big armored cruisers North Carolina and Montana finished coaling this morning off Sewell’s Point and dropped down to a new anchorage off the Old Point pier. It is planned now to have the cruisers leave today to join the incoming squardons. The combined forces are expected to arrive at the southern drill grounds fifty miles off the Virginia capes some time tomorrow. Norfolk, Va„ Feb. 19. —Norfolk is preparing an elaborate welcome for the returning battleship fleet. This is the home station of practically half the battleships in the fleet and even after the distribution from Hampton Roads begin the entertainments planned here for the officers and enlisted men will continue. A night parade of the steamers on Saturday, Feb. 27, is to be one of the unique features of the week. Washington. Feb. 19. —Via wireless from Admiral Sperry came the following, accepting the invitation to attend the dinner to be given by the Navy league as a welcome to the homecoming fleet: “Admiral Sperry accepts with much pleasure the agreeable invitation of the Navy League of the United States to the annual dinner of the league at the Hotel Chamberlin, Feb. 22. Admiral Sperry will speak with pleasure, and requests the committee to select the other two officers and will be grateful to be informed who are selected and the toast to which they will be expected to respond or the subject on which they will speak.” Admiral Sperry will respond to - the toast. “The Fleet;" Captain Fremont to “The Modern Battleship,” and Lieutenant Commander McLean to “The American Bluejacket."

QUITS “DRY” PARTY

Wooley, Once Prohibitionist Nominee For President Leaves Organization. Omaha. Feb 19. —John G. Woolley, head of the Prohibition party for many years and nominee of that party for the presidency in 1900, has deserted the party and will work from the lines of the oltjer parties in future. Woolley is visiting his son in Omaha and staled that he was no longer a member of the Prohibition party, although he was still a prohibitionist. “I believe the party has accomplished all the good that it can,” said he. •'and from now on the most effective work can be carried on outside of its lines."

LUMBER MEN IN CONVENTION

Hardwood Manufacturers’ Association Meets Today In Louisville. Louisville. Feb. 19.—Lumber interests all over the country are interested in the convention of the Hardwood Manufacturers’ association which began here today. Practically every hardwood concern in the United States is represented. Next week the Flooring Manufacturers' association, which works in conjunction with the hardwood men. will meet in Chicago for a convention. The delegates to the present convention will go to Chicago from Louisville.

FOR RAISING OF THE MAINE

Item to This Effect In the Sundry Civil Bill. Washington Feb. 19.—The House committee on appropriations is to include in the sundry civil bill an item looking toward the raising df the battleship Maine, the wreck of tyhlch still lies in the Havana harbor. The subcommittee which is preparing the bill has decided tb Insert a clause which provides for a commission to investigate the condition of the wreck and to determine the feasibility and cost of raising it.

High Heels Figure In Suits.

Newark, Feb. 19. —Two women lost suits for damages against a street car company when it was testified that their high heels had caused them to fall in. leaving cars.

COOPER TRIAL ADJOURNS

Holster Found In Carmack's Pocket by Attorney For Defense. Nashville. Tenn., Feb. 19.— Absence of state witnesses and a desire on the part of the defense to arrange its plan

GENERAL WASHINGTON.

of procedure, caused an adjournment until tomorrow in the Cooper trial for the murder of former Senator E. W. Carmack. It was brought out that the holster Undertaker Jones says was not in Carmack’s pocket was found there by General W. H. Washington of counsel for the defense when he^ tried on the overcoat.

COPYRIGHT BILL READY

Unanimous Report on “Canned Music” Clause—2B Years Term Fixed. Wshington, Feb. 19.—The house committee on patents has agreed on a unanimous report on a general copyright bill. The so-called “canned music” clause which has been agreed upon recognizes the exclusive right of the composer to control his copyright, but provides that if he or any one under his authority uses the composition on a meebenieal instrument then all makers of mechanical Instruments may use the composition on the same terms. The life of copyrights is fixed at twenty-eight years, with a renewal period of twenty-eight years more.

FEAR PULLIAM IS ON VERGE OF BREAKDOWN

Baseball President Refuses to Attend League Meeting. Chicago, Feb. 19.—Harry Pulliam’s friends believe he is close to a mental and physical collapse. He is president of the national league of baseball clubs and refused to attend the spring meeting. He sent this statement to the representatives of the New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Cincinnati, Pittsburg and St. Louis teams in session at the Auditorium:

“I will not attend meeting of the National league. The reason Is that I desire to conserve my strength. There are a lot of cheap individuals who are built like Durham bulls who delight in nagging me to a point of desperation and then bawling me out at the top of their voices. They have something on me because I have neither voice nor inclination to reply to them.

“The trouble with the so-called magnates is that with the recent growth and popularity of the national game they have grown money mad. and want to throw sentiment henceforth to the winds. Their actions are just like those of the grasping millionaire race track owners in this country which resulted in killing American racing, the sport of kings. Racing flourishes in England, France, Germany, Austria and Russia simply because ft is properly conducted from the standpoint of sportsmanship. The baseball magnates will kill the goose that lays the golden eggs I. for one. am willing to let them alone.”

VICTIMS OF CANNIBALS

Three French Officials Fall Into Hands of Congo Savages. Brussels, Feb. 19.—A dispatch from Leopoldville, a mission station in the Congo Independent State, says that three French officials have been killed and eaten by rebels. News has been received of devasta tlon caused by floods in the lower Congo. Posts, factories and villages have been destroyed everywhere.

World’s Record at Ten Pins.

St. Louis. Feb. T9.—The Burkes of St. Louis equaled the world's record at ten pins by scoring 1.207 in league playing on alleys certified by the American Bowling congress The score was made by Charles Parr. 238: Louis Schroeder. 238; H. G. Mates. 234; F. Breckwinkle. 220. and G. D. Denhard 277.

W. J. Langson Passes Away.

Milwaukee. Wis., Feb. 19.—W. J. Langson, secretary of the Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce for forty-four years, is dead.

Veteran Conductor Dead.

Keokuk, la., Feb. 19.—George R. Hough, for fifty-two years a conductor on the Wabash in Illinois and lowa, is lead here.

SENATORS HAVE WAR OF WORDS

La Follette and Penrose In a Verbal Tilt ON DELAYED LEGISLATION Pennsylvania Statesman Says Arguments of the Solon From Wisconsin “Might Better Be Made by a Vendor cf a Patent Medicine From the Tall Door of a Cart” Than by a Senator of the United States—La Follette Calls Remarks of Penrose a “Coarse and Vulgar Assault.”

Washington, Feb. 19. —An acrid exchange of words took place in the senate between Mr. LaFollette, who was criticising methods of that body in the handling of appropriation bills, and Mr. Penrose, chairman of the committee on postoffices and postroads, who was in charge of the postoffice bill, then under discussion. Angry tones and a fiery attitude were assumed by the senator from Pennsylvania as he denounced the senator from Wisconsin, who stood quietly at his place on the other side of the chamber staring back at his big antagonist.

“My observation is that these appropriation bills get in here about as late for th£ long session as they do for the short session," said La Follette. “It seems to be part of the system that these most important legislative acts shall have little consideration." He said that the salary increases for the judiciary, for the high executive offices and for the vice president and the speaker of the house had been put through in that way. He stated he hoped the tariff bill would not be put through on a “greased runway.” “Claptrap Statesmanship.” Penrose interrupted to ask the senator from Wisconsin whether “he was delivering his regular lecture,” adding that he thought he had heard it all before. La Follette replied by charging that the senate had put off interstate commerce legislation for nine years and delayed the pure food law for seventeen by applying the same methods against which he was contending. At this point Penrose arose and said in a loud voice: * “I shall not sit silent In my seat when misstatements are made or claptrap statesmanship is attempted here. There is no senator who has a greater record for absenteeism than the gentleman from Wisconsin. It ill becomes him to criticise these committees. I shall not sft here and listen to arguments that might better be made by a vendor of a patent medicine from the tail duor of a cart in a village of Wisconsin than from a senator of the United States.” “Coarse and Vulgar Assault.” “I would have more confidence in statements made here," replied La Follette deliberately, “if senators referred to the declaration themselves." Then, standing in silence for a few seconds, the Wisconsin senator looked intently toward the senator from Pennsylvania. Framing his words with great deliberation, he continued: “Against his coarse and vulgar assault I put my record since I have been a member of this body." Penrose referred to the next amendment in the postofflee bill. La Follette at almost the same time addressing Vice President Fairbanks to make an Inquiry concerning the amendment. “Mr. President—Mr. President.” called the senator from Pennsylvania in a loud voice. For a moment both talked at the same time. Finally Penrose’s voice was beard declaring that he believed he had the floor. “The chair," said the vice president calmly “is undertaking to answer a very proper inquiry by the senator from Wisconsin.” “I did not understand," said Penrose. “I thought I had the floor and no one had the right to interrupt me without my consent.” The senate then adopted the bill that had caused all the trouble.

SAUSAGE KILLS THREE

Members of Trip of Families Are the Victims of Poison. Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 19. —Three persons are dead and five others are seriously ill as a result of eating sausage supposed to have been poisoned. The dead are Mrs. Mary Cassini, Mrs. Mary Priora. Miss Mamie Cassini. The sufferers are Joseph Priora, Joseph Cassini and three members of a family named Novereisl. Several days ago Mrs. Cassini gave some sausage to the Priora family and tothe family of another relative named Novereisl and all became sick. The sausage is being examined by chemists.

BLASTING AT NIAGARA

Ice Interferes With Power Plants— Thousands View the Spectacle. Buffalo, Feb. 19.—The ice jam In the Niagara river has become so serl ous that the power companies have re sorted to blasting in the hope*-of in creasing the flow of water Thousands of visitors view the Ice spectacle daily at Niagara Falls.

Woman Burns Herself to Death. Beloit, Wis.. Feb. 19. —Mrs. George M. Allen sei fire to her clothing while insane and died from her burns.

FRIEND O’THE FAMILY

“Well, Sir," said the shoeinaker shortly after the sunfish quit biting. “I got a letter yesterday that done me a lot of good. You remember I told you the last time we was out fishin* together that I used to have a shop of my own up to old Illinois an’ made good .money too. Well, sir, all the kids in that town knowed /me, tin’ they wasn’t a one of ’em that, wouldn’t have gone to the bad place fer me if they’d been old enough to know what that really meant. But they wasn’t—bless their little hearts! “An’ there was two of ’em in pertlcklep, the nicest little kids you ever seen. It’s a fact that there little girl ’<l come from school every day leadin' her little brother by the baud. An’ they’d never be a time they’d be passin’ the shop on their way to school or goto’ home to dinner that they wouldn’t stop an’ knock on the shop window. “An’ often after school ’d be out they’d stop in an’ see me. Why, I've had as high as ten or twelve of ’em at one time after school in my shop singin’ the shoemaker song an’ goto’ through the motions just like their teacher’d learn ’em to. * “Sometimes some of ’em would have to stop an' laugh—they thought it was such a good joke on the shoemaker. But there’d always be two or three of ’em would go on an’ finish out, ’cause they knowed they'd never get the dime fer candy if they didn’t. Au' there's where I used to have the joke on ’em. They never knowed how much I liked to hear 'em sing that there song. I’d sooner hear it now than have a dollar. “Well, that's just the way it was all the .time with ’em kids. They all knowed me, an’ they all knowed my ddg. An’ when they knowed. my dog they knowed a mighty good dog. “Well, sir, this little girl's daddy, used to be station agent there at that town, an’ it was known all along that part of the Btg Four lino that there wasn’t a depot (anywhere that was what you could call as model a depot as his. Course I knowed him, an’ he knowed me, an' his wife she used to tell the little girl when they’d want me to come an’ take dinner or supper with ’em. It wasn’t very often I’d go, but I couldn’t refuse when they’d send the little girl after me. “Now, him keepin’ his depot so model is what got him promoted. The Big Four sent him over to a bigger town in Indiana. Course I was glad to see him doin’ better—he deserved it. But after they’d gone me an’ my dog we used to shut up shop an’ go flshin’ an’ puntin’ a little oftener than before. “Well, come along Christmas 'time an’ what’d Ido but one day get a letter from this here little girl tellin' me her an’ her little brother was goto’ to have a Christmas tree an’ couldn’t I come over to Indiana an' see ’em Christmas. “So I made all arrangements to go, an’ you bet I laid out a dollar or two fer presents. But course, like it had to be, one day I gets word her an’ her Httle brother was took down sick—diphtheria, the dispatch said. “So I makes up my mind I’d go anyway. There’s no tellin’, you know, what’s liable to happen in a case like that. So'l put SIOO in my pocket—an’ even at that I didn’t have to put it there; I always carried at least a hundred in them days—an’ I went over. An’ I didn’t get there none too soon neither. She died the afternoon of the evenin’ I got there. “Well, I didn’t know then what to do. I wasn’t what you could call *a friend o’ the family,’ but I wished I could do somethin’ fer that poor little girl a-layln’ there. An’ before three days was out I got my chanst. “You see, her dyln’ of diphtheria, they wouldn't let ’em ship the body back over the railroad. Her daddy bein’ agent didn’t Help ’em* none In that case, neither. He tried hard enough to get a permit, but It didn’t do no good. He just couldn’t get it. “The mother was Just about crazy to think they’d have to lay her away in Indiana Instead of the old buryto’ ground over in old Illinois alongside of ’em that had gone before. But you bet yer life they didn’t have to, fer I went an’ got a team an’ a wagon, an’ I says, ‘l’ll drive her through.’

“It was 12 below zero when I started, a little before midnight. They took the mornlu’ train next day an’ got there long ahead of me. Ninety-one miles in a spring wagon at 12 below ain’t no picnic. “I didn’t get to see ’em after the funeral. I felt just a little bit wore out, an’ I thought the best thing I could do was to go lay down awhile. An’, leave me tell you, I got all the layin’ down*l wanted In the next year an’ a half; an’ it cost me everything I had but my tools an’ shoemaker’s kit. I’ve got that stored up there tn old Illinois yet. “I wrote to her folks one time, but 1 didn’t get no reply. I thought maybe they thought I wasn’t quite as good as they was, so I never tried writin’ no more.

“This here letter I got the other day was from a friend o’ the family that knowed them an’ knowed me. It said they hadn’t never heard a line from me an’ they often wondered what had become of me. It said that little girl’s mother often wished she knowed where I was at, so she could write, because, this letter went on to say, she said I was the best friend o’ the family they ever bad. “An’ that’s the kind of letter that makes a feller feel good.’’—St. Louis Republic. ’

Pa Knows.

“Pa, what’s Dead sea fruit?” “The good things you were going to buy with the profits you expected to hare If your investment In mining itock had turned out right”—Chicago Record-Herald.

The Weather. Following Is the official weather forecast: Illinois and Indiana—-Rain; fair Saturday. Lower Michigan—Rato; fair Saturday. Wisconsin and lowa Rain and warmer; fair Saturday. 1

NEW OCEAN RECORD

Mauretania Betters Lusitania's Time by 1 Hour and 46 Minutes. New ■fork, Feb. 19.—The ' turbine flyer Mauretania came abeam of the Ambrose channel lightship In time to complete a.voyage in which several pew ocean records were established. The steamer not only broke her own record over the long winter course of 2,890 miles by two hours and twentyfive minutes, but she also hauled the figures held by her sister ship, the Lusitania. and has set the new record of four days and seventeen hours and fifty minutes, which is one hour and forty-six minutes better than the Lusitania’s best time over the cdurse. Another achievement of the voyage was a day's run of 671 knots, which breaks all records for a twenty-four hours’ run. The Lusitania still holds the TransAtlantic record of four days and fifteen hours flat, made over the short course in August last. «

TO ISSUE LINCOLN PENNY

Brenner Medal the Design to Be Used by the Mints. Washington, D. C., Feb. 19. —Abraham Lincoln's head is to appear on the new- one-eent piece* which will appear tn about a month. ' .President Roosevelt has approved the plan. 'The represervation of Lincoln that will be used i/ that contain■ed on a bronze medal executed Ijy Victor B. Brenner.

MAIL ORDER HOUSES SUBJECT OF SPEECH

Retailers Advised to Oppose Bill For Parcels Post. Springfield, 111., Feb. 19. —Parcels post legislation was opposed and mail order houses scored by President T. J. Matthews of the Illinois Retail Hardware association in his annual address before the organization’s convention. He declared that mail order houses are the most dangerous competitors retail merchants have to contend with and that many of them are now sending out catalogues in which they represent themselves as jobbers. “Their most dangerous move so far," he said, “is their active, effective and persistent championship of the parcels post question. Should they succeed to their efforts to induce congress to pass a parcels post bill they will have in their hands the most effective weapon that could possibly be wielded against the country retailer.”

MRS. LEMP GETS DECREE

Will Be Given $6,000 Alimony a Year and Custody of Child. St. Louis, Feb. 19. —A decree of divorce with alimony of $6,000 a year and the custody of her son was awarded Mrs. William J. Lemp Jr., wife of a millionaire brewer, by Judge/George Hitchcock In the circuit court. The decision followed a sensational trial which lasted more than a week.

THE MARKETS

Cash Grain Market. Chicago, Feb. 18. Winter wheat by sample: No. 2 red, $1.18% @1.20; No. 3 red, $1.16%@ 1.18%; No. 2 hard, $1.12%@1.15%; No. 3 hard, [email protected]. Spring wheat by sample: No. 1 northern, $1.15%@ 1.16%; No. 2 northern, >1.13% @ 1.14%; No. 3 spring. [email protected]. Corn by sample: No. 3, 64%@64%c; No. 3 white, 65%@65%c; No. 3 yellow, 64% @6sc; No. 4, 63%@64%c. Oats by sample: No 3 white, 53%@54%c; No. 4 white, 52@54c; standard. 55c. Chicago Live Stock. Hogs—Receipts 45.000. Sales ranged at [email protected] for choice heavy shipping, [email protected] light mixed, $6.35@ 6.35 mixed packing, [email protected] heavy packing, $5.75@6'.15 good to choice pigs. Cattle—Receipts 7,500. Quotations ranged at [email protected] for prime fat steers. [email protected] good to choice steers, [email protected] good to choice beef cows, [email protected] good to choice calves, [email protected] selected feeders, [email protected] medium to good stockers. Sheep—Receipts 15.000. Quotations ranged at [email protected] for good to choice wethers, [email protected] fair to hcoice lambs. [email protected] choice ewes, 56,[email protected] western fed yearlings. East Buffalo Live Stock, Ea*st Buffalo, N. Y.. Feb. 18. Dunning &'Stevens, Live Stock Commission Merchants, East Buffalo, N. Y., quote' as follows: Cattle —Receipts 3 cars; market steady. Hogs—Receipts 30 cars; market lower; heavy. >6.80; Yorkers, [email protected]; pigs, $6.50. Sheep and Lambs—Receipts 20 cars; market strong; best lambs, $8.00; yearlings, [email protected]; wethers, [email protected]; ewes, [email protected]. Calves—Best, $5.00@ 10.25. Elgin Butter Market. Elgin, Feb. 18. Creamery, extras, 31; prints, 32c; extra firsts. 27c; firsts, 25c; dairies, extras, 25c; firsts, 21c; packing stock, 19c. •