Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1911 — Page 2

THE JISPER GOOIHY DEMOGIRT > f. [.UKOa-fDITOIIIDNIIUaiI. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. Entered as Second -Class Matter June 8, 1908. at the post office at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 Pages; Saturday Issue 8 Pages. Advertising rates made known on application. Long Distance Telephones Office 315. - Residence 311. WEDNESDAY, APR. 19, 1911.

BLACK KNOT.

One of the Worst and Most Common of Chsrry and Plum Diseases. i Black knot of plums and cherries is pne of the most common and destructive of the plant diseases affecting our orchard trees. It is marked by large black swellings or knots appearing on the limbs of certain varieties of cherries and plums. In some sections this disease is exceedingly common and destructive. It is

caused by a fungus living as a parasite in the bark and wood of the plum or cherry. This fungus reproduces itself and spreads by means of spores which are carried by the wind and lodge in the crevices of the bark or on the buds, where they germinate, penetrate the living bark and by their presence and growth irritate the cambium, the growing part of the limb. The plant responds to this irritation by the increased growth of this

part at the point [Er °m circular Vlraffected which &»nia agricultural exanectea, wnicn periment station ] eventually results in the black knots so characteristic of the disease. It takes approximately two years for the fungus to complete its development in the tree —that is, from the time the spores first lodge on the twig until the knots have matured and their'last crop of spores has been distributed, says H. H. Whetgel, plant pathologist, writing in the Rural New Yorker. The period of infection— that is, the time when the tree may take the disease—is probably from May to July. The knots do not appear on the limbs until the following spring, when in the month of April or May they burst forth and in June become covered with a green felt upon which are produced great numbers of summer spores or conidia. These are scattered by the wind and produce new infections in June and July. The knots then gradually become black in color and in March or April of the second year produce another set of spores in minute pockets all over the surface of the knots. These so called winter spores are distributed in May or June, causing another new set of infections. It is thus evident that the knot may cause new infections for two years in succession. These knots are not caused by insects, as is very often supposed. The most satisfactory means of controlling this disease consists of a surgical operation—namely, removal of all limbs and twigs bearing knots, cutting at least three or four inches below the knot in every case. The proper time for cutting out the knots is early in the spring, say not later than May, and again in the fall as soon as the leaves are off the trees. Permanent relief from the trouble cannot be expected unless an effort is made to eradicate the disease from the entire neighborhood, at least for considerable distances in the direction of the prevailing winds. Old cherry and plum trees should be very carefully pruned out and put in shape or else cut down arid destroyed. All knots should be burned promptly after cutting from the tree. Selecting Seed Wheat. According to the Kansas wheat growers, the idea that large kernels of wheat germinate better than small ones is a mistake. The germinating power is, rather, dependent on the density of the kernels.

When you take an inventory of the farm do not fail to make note of its healthful surroundings and its attractive features for a happy home.

Knew Their Friends.

"Johnny, do you know the Greek gods?" .. "No. Where is their fruit store?”

BLACK KNOT.

Uncle Sam Urges Planting of Trees

Agricultural Department Suggests Exercises For Public Schools. Arbor day, Which was founded away back in 1872 by the late J. Sterling Morton of Nebraska, who became secretary of agriculture under President Cleveland, is now observed annually in every state of the Union. The United States government has issued through the department of agriculture a pamphlet earnestly urging that the public schools everywhere hold exercises on Arbor day and instruct the children in the planting and the proper care of trees. The pamphlet gives some valuable suggestions for public school programs, Including this list of topics for Arbor day essays by the children or the instructors: “Celebrated Trees,’’ “Short History of Arbor Day.” “What Arbor Day Is For.” “How to Plant a Tree.” "Best Trees to Plank” “The Most Useful Tree.” “Trees and Their Relation to Birds.” “Trees and Their Relation to Fishes.” “Varieties of Trees on Our Farms'” “Schoolhouses—What They Are and What They Should Be.” “School Grounds—How to Improve Them.” “What the Leaves Do.” “Best Trees to Plant on the Roadside.” “Planting Nut Bearing Trees—Encouragement For It,” “Best Trees and Shrubs For Ornamental Planting.” “What to Do With Signs That Are Nailed to Trees and Fences and Painted on the Rocks." “How to Do Away With Rubbish on the Roadsides.” “Roads and Walks and How to Make Them.” “How to Make Arbor Day Most Useful." Uncle Sam also makes the following suggestions for recitation or declama-

PLANT ATREE

tlon by the children at the annual tree planting exercises: “Character of Washington.” Thomas Jefferson. “Antiquity of Freedom," Bryant “The American Flag,” J. Rodman Drake. “Planting of the Apple Tree.” Bryant. “Under the Greenwood Tree,” Shakespeare. “Among the Trees,” Bryant. “Plant a Tree.” Lucy Larcom. “The Prairies,” Bryant. “The Oak.” Lowell. “The Pine Tree,” Emerson. “Fair Tree," Lady Winchelsea. “Discourse on Trees,” Beecher. These suggestions from the government should be of much value to teachers who plan the Arbor day observance.

ROYAL TREE PLANTER.

King Alfonso Adopts American Institution of Arbor Day. Only one foreign country has copied the American holiday known as Arbor day. The nation that has paid the compliment of imitation is Spain, but in the land of the dons the festival is known as Fiesta del Arbol (the fete of the tree). The Spanish holiday was

KING ALFONSO, ROYAL TREE PLANTER.

inaugurated in 1896 and is celebrated earlier than in this country—namely, on March 26. On the first tree day in Spain the young King Alfonso, with the queen regent and the ladies of the coiffC proceeded to ground situated near the viV lage of Hortazela. some two miles dis tant from Madrid. Here the king planted a pine sapling, and 2,000 children selected from the schools of Madrid immediately followed his example. Then gold medals comment -ative of the event and duly inscribed with the date were distributed among the youthful tree planters.

FOR THE CHILDREN

The Dead Pussy Cat. You’B as stiff an’ as cold as a stone, Little cat! Dey’s done trowed out. and left you alone . j Little eat’ ' I’s a-strokin’ you’s fur, ‘ But you don’t never pur Nor hump up anywhere. Little cat! Why's dat? Is you’s purrin’ an’ humpin’ tip done? An’ w’y fer is you’s leetle foot tied. Little cat? Did they pizen you’s tummick inside, /T . ' ■ Little cat? Did they pound you with bricks Or wif big,nasty sticks . Or abuse you wif kicks, ’ Little cat? Tell me dat. Did they holler w’enever you cwied? Did it hurt very bad w’en you died. Little cat? Oh, w’y didn't you wun off an' hide. Little cat? I is wet in my eyes, ’Cause I most always cwise Wen a pussy cat dies. Little cat! Think of dat. An’ I’s awfully solly besides. Dest lay still dere down In de soft gwoun, Little cat. Wile I tucks de gween gwass all awoun. Little cat. They can’t hurt you no more Wen you’s tired an’ so sore. Dest sleep t wiet, you pore Little cat, Wis a pat. An’ fordet all de kicks of de town. / —Author Unknown. "Here I Bake, Here I Brew.”

The players join hands in the circle with one of their number in the middle, who is supposed to be a captive longing for freedom and reduced to diplomatic measures to secure it. The prisoner touches one pair of joined hands in the circle, saying “Here I bake.” Then, passing to the other side, she says “Here I brew" as she touches another pair of hands. Suddenly, then. in a place least suspected, perhaps whirling around and springing at two of the clasped hands behind her or at a pair which she had touched before if their owners appear to be off guard, she exclaims, "Here I mean to break through!” and forces her way out of the circle if she can. The players must be on the alert and strongly resist the captive’s effort to escape. Those who permitted her to regain her freedom through inattention or weakness must then make use of the “counts” familiar to children to decide which of them shall take the place of the prisoner.

Small Sheep. The smallest sheep in the world is the tiny Breton sheep. It is too small to be profitable to raise, for it cannot have much wool, and. as for eating, a hungry man could eat almost a whole sheep at a single meal. It takes its name from the part of France where it is most common. It is the dearest little pet imaginable. It is very gentle and because it is so tiny is not such a nuisance about the house as the famous lamb that belonged to the little girl named Mary. Any little girl could find room in her lap for a Breton sheep. One of its peculiarities is its extreme sympathy with the feelings of its human friends when it has been brought up in the house as a'~pet. If Its master or mistress is pleased about anything the little sheep will frisk about with every sign of joy. On the contrary, if tears are shed the sympathetic sheep will utter the most pitiful “ba-a” ever heard.

Oil on Troubled Waters. The German steamer Hans Menzel was wrecked in the north Atlantic ocean on a passage that had begun at New Orleans at the end of January. Waves were running high, and it would have been sure death to try to leave in small boats. The sailors had almost given up hope of being saved when the British steamer Suram came up. There was help at hand, but still it was impossible to transfer the men from the wrecked vessel to the other because of the great waves. The impossibility did not last long. The Suram is an oil steamer, and the captain had oil brought up from the hold and scattered over the water between the two boats. The waves were stilled instantly. They heaved and swelled, but they could not break as they had broken before, and the shipwrecked men were carried to the Suram with no danger.

A New Biindman’s Buff. Here’s an improvement on the old way of playing blindman's buff. The blind man stands in the middle of the room holding a wand of paper. The players form a circle around him with hands joined. Some one plays a swift tune on the piano, and the players dance around. Suddenly the music stops, and the blind man touches one of the party with his wand. The person touched has to take hold of it. The blind ipa.P makes some noise, such as a dog barking or a cat meowing, for Instance, and the captive must imitate him. If the blind man can detect him by his voice he is “it;” in other words, he must be the blind man. If not tue game proceeds until some one is caught. The Lucky Horseshoe. The idea of a horseshoe being “lucky” began among primitive races, owing to their beliefs about the powers of the new moon and their association of the crescent moon, a horseshoe shape, with recovery from illness apd attendant good fortune, i Interesting examples of the use of the symbol have been collected among Europe’s prehistoric peoples. Thus the horseshoe, handed down from the ancients, is one of the most prominent symbols of the present unsuperstitious age.

GOWN FOR MUSICALE.

The New Modish Stripe For Gowns of Every Type.

GOWN FOR MUSICALS.

The girl who sings and whose means are limited is often compelled to make the same gown do for both her afternoon and evening engagements. To find a gown that will be both simple enough for the one use, yet dressy enough for the other, is not so easy as it may seem. The gown pictured here combines these qualities. It shows the new striped effect, here achieved by bands of satin on the bodice and tunic. Ball fringe edges the tunic, which falls over a band of the fashionable venise lace. A striking appearance is given to the costume by means of the use of horizontal stripes in the side panels. Black and white stripes will naturally have first place in the early season’s gowns, because we are under the seductive thrall of this combination. Several of the important dressmakers have already turned out gowns of black and white striped satin draped with black chiffon cloth or marquisette, with a touch of handsome heavy lace on the shoulders.

With these gowns go turbans or large hats of black net, with white aigrets and green scarfs or Alsatian bows of black and white striped ribbon. The whole idea is a good one for spring, for attractive as black is its universal usage the past winter rather depressed one. If it had not been for the freedom of wearing vivid colors as a contrast we would have been a somber assemblage indeed.

MY LADY’S BONNET.

Recall* the Headgear of Her Greatgrandmother. Man has never been able to disassociate woman’s millinery from the name of bonnet, and now he may literally speak of his wife, sister or daughter’s bonnet since the most modish things in the shops are the coquettish little affairs that tie under the neck with ribbons. The bonnet pictured here is an

A SPRING BONNET.

almost exact copy of the headgear of the French directoire period and recalls the old fashioned poke bonnet Bonnets are far more becoming to young girls than older women, for whom, presumably, they are intended, and some of the quaint bonnet effects of this season make charming frames for girlish faces. On young girls these captivating bonnets are babyish and picturesque, and the fresh, pretty face is all the more lovely because of the quaint bonnet that surrounds it Cerise and the American Beauty shades play a prominent part in the present millinery bouquet Every year artificial flowers grow more like their natural prototypes until there seems nothing more (..-the artist to accomplish:

iM V jG't 1 i | Chicago to Northwest, Indianapolis, Cln? cinnatl and the South, Louisville and French Lick Springs. RENSSELAER TIME TABLE. th Effect December, 1910. SOUTH BOUND. No.3l—Fast Mail (daiiyH; .? 4:45 a. m Mail a. in.' No.3<—Chicago to Cincinnati. 11:30 a. m ilail ‘daily.,. 1:58 p. m. Accom (daily)., 5:58 p. m No. 3—Cnicagp to Louisville. .11 p. m NORTH BOUND. Idaily).... 4:59 a. m H. l * k Accom (daily).. 7:35 a. m Mail (dai; Y> a. m —Cincinnati to Chicago. 2:53 p. m. and El (daily).. 3:15 p. m No.3o—Cm. to Chi. Ves. Mail. 5:58 p. m No. 4 will stop at Rensselaer to let off passengers from points south of Monon, and take passengers for Lowell Hammond and Chicago. Nos. 31 and 33 make direct connect tions at Monon for Lafayette. W. H. BEAM, Agent, Rensselaer.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. . r ; ' ' 1 ■' t■ ■■ ■ CITY OFFICERS. Mayor .G. F . Meyen Marshal w.George Musca tq —CXUbB. Munai treasurer ...R. D, Thompson Attorney Mow Leopold Civil Engineer.L. C. Kloeterman tire ChiefJ. j. Montgomery r ire Warden...... C. B. Stewar; Councilmen. Ist Ward....—George Hopkins 2nd Ward Elxie Grow 3rd Ward...... .......Frank Kreslei At Large..........C. J. Dean, A. G. Catt JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge........ Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attorney...... Fred Longwei Terms of Court-—Second Monday b i- ebruary, April, September and Novem ber. Four week terms.

COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk Charles C. Warne: Sheriff ......W, L Hoover Auditor James N. Leatuerarat Treasurer...J. D. Aniuat Recorder...J. W. Hi lox Sur veyot W. F. OsDbrnt Coroner. W. J. Wright Bupt. Public Schools Ernest Lamso: Couuty as.->essurJohn Q. Lewis Health Officer...E. N. Loj COMMISSIONERS. Ist District,.John -Pettet 2nd District.. Charles F. Stackhouse 3rd District Charles T. Heahaix Vomrxissumers' Court —First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. Trustees Townstiip Wm. Folgarßarkie Charles MayCarpente; J. W. Selmer;... Gulati George Packer Hanging Gru.-. W. H. WortieyJordar Tunis Snip Keene, John Shiver. aankasee Edward ParklsonMarine George L. Parks’.Miiru: E. J. Lane.,.......,.Newt0r Isaac KightUnior S. D. C1ark.............Wheatfie1c Fred KarchWaikei Ernest Lamson, Co. Suptßensselaer E. C. English,Rensselaer James H. Greenßeiningtot Geo. O. StembelWheatfield Truant Officer..C. B. Stewart. Rensselaer

TRUSTEES’ CARDS. JORDAN TOWNSHIP. The undersigned trustee of Jordar Township attends to official business at his residence on the First and Thinj Wednesday of each month. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Post Office address, Rensselaer, Ind., R-R-4. W. H. WORTLEY. Trustee. NEWTON TOWNSHIP. The undersigned trustee of Newtot township attends to official business at his residence on the First and Third Thursdays Of each month. Persons hav ing business with me will please goverr themselves accordingly. Postoffice ad dress, Rensselaer, Ind., R-R-3. E. P. LANE, Trustee. UNION TOWNSHIP. The undersigned trustee of Unioc township attends to official business at his store In Fair Oaks on Fridays oi each week. Persons haring business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postofflce address. Fair Oaks. Indiana. ISAAC KIGHT

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