Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1912 — Page 7

J Oilil§®P :|: |J &K|| -I* - ” — _ *°- 38 f"jNE or two generations ago most farm animals roamed at large, but we have gradually found that this did not pay. The barn yard fowls have been the a few years ago. Every farmer last to feel the effects of business keeps chickens because it pays and methods on the farm blit at last it will pay lots better and the farm they have to get in their place (in will look better if they are kept in the poultry yard) and stay there. the poultry yard. The farmer who reads the maga- They are about the most profitzines knows that today many a able animals on the farm and it chicken farm of a few acres pays a takes less space and less expense to bigger profit than a big farm did keep them. • . ENOUGH of our poultry fencing to keep your fowls properly will cost very little and will be the best investment you ever made on the farm. Eger’s Hardware Store Rensselaer, Indiana THE best recommendation, that any vehicle can have, the strongest guarantee that it will give its purchaser satisfactory service, is the fact that It is a For considerably more than half a century Studebaker vehicles have held first place in reputation for <\\ high quality, long service, reliability I— —and all that goes W make a vehicle \\7 serviceable and dependable. C. A. ROBERTS, R S‘T

COMMISSIONERS ALLOWANCES. Following are the allowances made by the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Ind., at their regular March,, 1912, Term: C C Warner, salary clerk $375.00 * Same, postage clerk.. 10.00 Levy Bros, sup same 1.50 Burt- Haywood Co, same ..... 4.8® Joseph P Hammond, auditor.... 383.33 Levy Bros, sup same 58.25 Same, same ......... 10.50 Ji P Hammond, -exp same. .90 Levy Bros, sup treas 37.44 Same, same 8.75 Same, same * 17.00 John W Tilton, recorder’s 5a1.... 425.00 W I Hoover, sheriff's salary.... 350.00 Same, attend com court 52.00 Levy Bros, sup sheriff 10.00 W F Osborne, sur per diem 52.00 Same, sup surveyor 5.31 Levy Bros, same 3.26 Ernest Lamson, sal Co 5upt...... 108.00 Same, traveling expenses 36.35 Healey & Clark, sup Co Supt.... 17.00 Levy Bros, same 3.50 Eva Moore, office help Co Supt 2.50 John Q Lewis, sal co assessor... 150.00 Levy Bros, sup same 8.85 Same, same 26.75 Chas Morlan. janitor c h 45.00 J L Griggs, fireman b h 45.99 Same, extra firing ... 2.70 J A Grant,! exp c h .... 90 Chas Morlan, same.... 90 H W Johns-Manville Co, same.. 18.70 City of Rens, lights’ c h........ 105.23 W R Gates, asg A A Fell, hl coal 11.35 Same, same 7,40 Shirley Hill Coal Co, c0a1........ .206:07 Amer Steam Pump Co, rep b h 2.51 Hamilton—&. Kellner, sup jail.... G.OO City of lights jail 21.63 McColly & Coen, -pt pay c f barn 200.00 Jesse Nichols, sal supt c f.i.... ’75.00 John W Price, labor c f 1.50 J E Cooper, 5ame...... 23.00 ■ Mary Anderson, 5ame...... 14.00 Wm Day, sup same.... ....... 10.00 larsh & Hopkins, same. **..'..... 8,48 E VanArsdel. 5ame.,............ 75.00 Roth Bros, same 1.3.00 ,J M Yeoman, wood 5ame........ 22.00 Marion Adams, gravel same. 9.33 Jasper Co Democrat, pub ptg.... 21.55 Healey & Clark, same... 7.10 Same, pub petition. 35.00 Same, same .................... 21.00 Same, pub ptg.................... 15.00 Same, pub del tax list .....48.20 , J P Hammond, adv g r.......... 22.70 k *"’Sarpe, same 22.30 ; Healey & Clark, same.., 15.751 same ..................... 9.75> W V Porter, const W E Moore d 10.00 J P Hammond, trns E Maxwell d 74.20 Ferne Osborne. Jungles-Davis d 9.00 W F Osborne, bridge engineer.... 15.00 Omar O Osborne, 5ame.......... 8.80 Ambrose Blasdel, crow bounty 10 James Bullis/ same 3.50 Mart Cain. same..,. 1.70 Branson Clark. 5ame............ 3.10 J E Dunn. same..... 1.00 Matilda Dluzak, .same. 1.10: James Haynes, same.... ‘ 4.70' Donald Hoover, 5ame............ 1.60: Austin Iliff, 5ame.......... 2.40: Ben C 'UilveS, same.... 4.0(1. Earl Mathena. same .601 Chas Marchand, same..., 2.00' S C Michaels.. same 14.401 Joseph Nessius,' ■ 5ame............ 2.10 ! Manley- Price, same ......... ’ .20 Thomas E Reed, same 1.60 ' Burdette Roush, 5ame............ .90! John Southard, same ......... 20 Russell Willetts, 5ame............ 1.00 George Wolf, 5ame...... ■ Arthur Wortley. 5ame........;... 2.90Jacob A Wright, 5ame.'......... '*■ .50 ? Bert Hana way, wolf bounty...... 10.00

Henry Miller, John Poisel, same.. 10.00 Richard Peterson, same..... * 10.00 E’“F Pullins, fox bounty 3.00 Guy Baldwin, g r repair. 3.60 Jacob. E Gilmore, same... 6.00 John M Hollenback, 5ame........ 37.60 Wm Hoffman, same 1.60 Perry Liston, same.... 3.60 Elmer Matheny, same 3.60 Lloyd Parks, same 1.60 W S Parks, same 9.00 Arlie Rowen, same 6.00 George Siebel, same 3.60 Chas Stanley, same.. 3.60 Claims of 1911. Isaac Kight, em bd health 16.00 A F Long, same 1.00 Hamilton & Kellner, sup co jail 6.60 H F King, exp c f.............. 17.95 Daniel T Cresse, g r repair.... 44.50 Wm Warne, same Union 9.00 W H Cheadle, same... 26.00 JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor Jasper County.

CIRCUIT COURT ALLOWANCES.

Following are the allowances made by the Judge of the Jasper Circuit Court for the February Term, 1912’ PETIT JURY. Earl Leek, 8 days, 28 m ...$17.40 Joseph Stewart, 8 days, 44 m.... 18.20 Elias Arnold, 8 days, 40 m 18.00 Delos Thompson, 6 days 12.00 M L Warren, 8 days 16.00 Robert Drake, 8 days, 44 m 18.20 S C Robinson. 9 days, 72 m 21.00 Jos R Parkison, 8 days, 12 m.... 16.60 H L Langdon, 9 days, 100 m.... 23.00 F E Osborne, 9 days, 60 m...... 21 00 Samuel Dutcher, 9 days, 100 m.. 23.00 Wm J Holmes, 8 days 16.00 W V Porter, 1 day..... 2.00 Sam Stevens. 2 days. ... 400 MISCELLANEOUS: Lizzie Comer, 13 meals for jury 3.25 Ben Barnes, same .: 3.25 Wm A Ervin, jig-y bailiff 18.00 Gus Grant, room bailiff 58.00 Chas R McFarland, ct reporter. .145.00 C C Warner, clerk of court.... 48 00 Same, vacation c0urt...*,.....,..'. 4.00 Same, same juvenile c0urt...... 6.00 Same, order and draw g jury.. '25 Same, same petit jury....... 25 Same, venire petit jury... 25 Same, oath and app jury bailiff -. '/o Same, same room bailiff]..... 50 Same, same court reporter,. »• 50 Same, rec allow bailiff & sheriff .50 Same, same jurors ...TOO Same, same genera1..,........’” I’oo Same, general index of causes/ STO app and oath 2 spec judges 100 Same, cert allow to spec jdgs (5) 2/0 Saine, rec & index 3 infrn pr atty 1 35 Samp, preparing bar docket.../.. 5!oo Same, N W Tel Co message ... .50 Healey & Clark, ptg bar docket 15.00 W I Hoover, sheriff 58 00 Same, serve petit jury.......... Callaghan & Co, law b00k5........ 8.00 Bbbbs-Merrill Co, 5ame........ 19 50 Classic Pub Co, same 4’oo £ jury com box., B F Fendig, 5ame.............. gOO Same, draw jury Feb term..../ 3’oo J L Griggs, firing at night.. 200 James P Wason, gpec judge.... ... 15.00 Moses Leopold, 5ame........ 1500 E B Sellers, same, 1500 Burton_ 1> Berry, same... .......... j" 00 JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, ■ - Auditor Jasper Cou,./-.

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Suspicious Characters

By DONALD ALLEN

(Copyright, ipir, by Associated Literary Press.) Mr. Guy Ascott came up to the village Inn at Westport because he had been told that the fishing was great in September, and that all the summer guests would have departed. Mr. Westcott was a bachelor and he didn’t like a crowd ohpeople. He bad a fair Income and lived in a comfortable way, and mostly for himself. Whatever else he fished for, he didn’t angle for women. ;« Miss Helen Asher, who was old enough to be called an old maid, but didn’t care, and who couldn’t get away from her studio in the city until after August, had come up to the inn to rest and he alone, and perhaps make a few sketches in the neighborhood before returning. If she had ever loved she couldn’t recall the incident She had a very chilly way with men. , The landlord of the tavern boasted that he took no responsibilities. If his guests did not see fit' to deposit their valuables in the old sheet-iron safe in the office he could not even sympathize with the loss by theft He never introduced one guest to another. Thus, if a robber made the acquaintance of a minister, or a gambler that of a Sunday school superintendent, and things happened, mine host could rub his hands and say: "All their own fault! I did not introduce them.” It thus came about that although they were the only two guests in the house, Mr. Ascott and Miss Asher were not introduced. They had to take each other on their looks, and neither was satisfied. “He’s a selfish, repellent man,” was Miss Asher’s verdict as she sat opposite Mr. Ascott at their first meal. “And he’ no gentleman. Had he recognized my presence I should have recognized his. I hope hejvlll leave to-morrow.” And Mr. Ascott, after looking his vis-a-vis over from the tail of his eye, growled to himself: “An old maid, for sure. Probably spent the summer somewhere else trying to catch 0 a man, but failed, and is now making a. last effort She needn’t hope for a victim here.” After several meals had been eaten in silence the hotel help reported the

"Sorry, Very Sorry, Ma'am!”

frozen stiffness of the two guests, but the landlord had no remedy. “Fblks as want to get acquainted can find the way. Folks as don’t are probably just as well off.” It was only natural that the two guests should wonder a bit about each other, and perhaps it was only natural that they should think the worst To Miss Asher the old bachelor might be, and probably was, a fugitive from justice, hiding in that out-of-the-way place. As she was sorry that she had not read the daily, papers more closely. Some issue might have contained bls crime and personal description. She almost shuddered as she cast furtive glances at him. On his side, Mr. Ascot stuck to his first opinion. Miss Asher was not guilty of any greater crime than that of being an old maid in search of matrimony. That, however, when he was the target, was a greater crime than shoplifting. One day, when a week had gone past, Mr. Ascott had a startling tale to tell the landlord. He had come in from his daily fishing to find that he had been robbed of a roll of fifty dollars. He had carelessly left the money on the bureau in his room. “Sorry—vei-y sorry,” was the landlord’s reply, “but you can’t hold me responsible. There’s a notice on your door.” “But is your help honest?” “Straight as a string.” , , “Then—then—” “I don’t, know nothing about her. You remember I have never introduced you. I never do. I feed and lodge and take no responsibility.” And It was hardly an hour later when Miss Asher, who had been out for a walk, was saying to the nonresponsible: “I am sure I left my diamond ring on the washstand when I went out, and now it’s gone!” “Sorry—very sorry, ma’am, but you Should have left it in the office. Mj wife ’tends to your room,, and I hope you don’t think she took it”

“Of course I don’t, but some on* did." f “Just so—just so.” “And I’ve got my suspicions!" “Dear me! Well, I won’t ask what man you suspect I do ask those things. I simply feed and lodge.” "And I may have his room searched even have him arrested!” continued Miss Asher as she turned away. "Who is that man, anyway!” “Can’t say, ma’am. Unless my guests tell me who they are and all about themselve I don’t know a thing.” "He may be a criminal.” “Yes, he may. No telling what anybody Is these days—not by their looks.” In deference to what she knew must be an embarrassing situation, the landlord’s wife, at the next meal, seated the guests with their backs to each other, and bribed a boy to stand outside one of windows and keep up a constant whistling to relieve the awful strain, but the stratagems were only partly successful. Mr. Ascott had his suspicions and they would not down. If the hotel people were honest then—then —! He was out. His door was not locked. The roll of greenbacks was a temptation. He could not hope to recover his cash, but—

And with her back to him and sitting as stiff as a poker. Miss Asher felt that the old bachelor had a guilty look on his face, and that if given the “third degree” by the sheriff he would break down and restore his plunder. She wondered if she towered over him and appealed and Threatened and spoke of his mother, who was probably a saint in heaven, if she could not touch his heart. She finally decided that she could not. At his age he would be hardened in crime and fiot care a copper whether his mother was in heaven or some other place. That night was moonlit. There was a veranda running along the second story of the Inn, and at about the hour of 9 the landlord’s wife beckoned him from the office and up the first flight and whispered: “They are together out on the veranda!” "No!" ■ "" “And sitting near each other!” “No!” “And talking poetry and things!" “I can’t believe It, and I can’t be held responsible!" "She found ■ her ring In the washstand drawer and he found his money In the hind pocket of his other trousers. They rushed out of their rooms and almost embraced. He begged her pardon and she begged his. He said he had not suspected a lady like her, and she said she had taken him for a gentleman at the first glance.” "And—and what?” "Why, the romance of the thing, you old goose! ” . “They’ll fall in love?” "Of course.” “Well, let ’em. I don’t know but that’s the best way, but you listen to me, Martha,, and remember what I say—l will not be responsible for It!"

POETS HAVE HAD WRONG IDEA

Their Rhapsodies About the “Deep, Blue Sea” Shown to Have No Foundation in Fact.’- ‘ The poet sings of the “deep, blue sea," but the sea is not always blue by any means. There are any number of colors to be observed tn the oceans, and many interesting facts have been gathered with respect to them. The Mediterranean and Carrlbean seas present the true blue color. The extraordinary blueness of the first named has been assigned to two causes. One is that very few large rivers of fresh water enter IL The other Is that the Mediterranean, practically landlocked and exposed to powerful sunlight, has the greatest evaporation of all seas. By actual test, it has been ascertained that the Mediterranean water is heavier and saltier than the water of the Atlantic ocean, which is an important circumstance in the consideration of the 1 cause of its color. “ ’ Aside from blue and green, other colors are to be seen in the world’s seas and oceans. In January, 1909. a river of yellow water, three miles wide and of enormous length was observed running parallel with the gulf stream. It stretched from Cape Florida to Cape Hatteras and was undoubtedly caused by some submarine upheaval, probably of a volcanic nature. It endured for some weeks. j In 1901, off the California coast, the sea turned almost black. The whole of Santa Cruz bay assumed this extraordinary inky hue, and fishing came to an end. In this case no definite reason was ascertained for the phenomenon. , The dull reddish tint that js seen in the Red sea, and which has given that body of water its name, is said to be due to the presence of millions upon millions of microscopic algae. The Yellow sea of China is supposed to owe its color to the floods of muddy water that the great river pours into it, but many scientists are of opinion that the color is to be ascribed to the living organisms that flourish in the waters. , Generally speaking, the blueness of sea water is in constant ratio to its saltiness. In the tropics the tremendous evaporation induced by the blazing sun causes the water to be much more salt than it is in iftore northern lattltudes For about thirty degrees both north and south of the equator the waters are of an exquisite azure. Beyond these latitudes the blue fades abd the color becomes green

MAINTENANCE OF PRODUCTIVE SOILS AND PROFITABLE FARMING

Judicious Use of Fertilizers in Rotation Systems, Homos Supply Has Been Kept Up Has Been Means of Making Many Eastern Farms Pay Good Returns—Methods of Culture. !

Fig. 1.—A Smoothing Harrow for Use I mmedlately After Plowing and to Be Followed by the Pulverizing Harrow.

The maintenance of productive soils and profitable farming on the highpriced lands in the eastern section of the country is due largely to the Intel* llgent use of commercial fertilizers. This statement does not mean that re* liance on fertilizers alone has been the means of maintaining high crop yield, but that the judicious use of fertilizers in rotation systems, whereby the humus supply of the soil has been steadily maintained; has been the means of keeping the farm lands so productive. Plowing for corn or other early spring crops usually begins about March 20, or as early as the weather and soil conditions will permit. The object of plowing early is to allow the soil to be thoroughly compacted by spring rains so that the sod or stubble turned under may decay readily and good capillary circulation of soil moisture become established. Sodfor corn or potatoes Is plowed from six to nine inches deep. Where the top soil' is shallower than this it may be deepened by turning up one-half to one inch or so of subsoil at each plowing. The field is rolled or planked immediately after plowing to level the soil for harrowing and to prevent clod formations. Instead of rolling many farmers prefer to use a small, square seeding or smoothing harrow, such as Is shown in Fig. 1. The field Is then disk harrowed, lapping half In order to keep the field level, cross harrowing if necessary, until the soil Is fine and pulverized. The disk harrow is followed by a spike-toothed or other smoothing harrow. (Fig. 2.) The use of the spike-tooth harrow is repeated every week or ten days, especially after a rain, until the time of planting. If the soil is loose and dry the field should be rolled again and the

Fig. 2—Harrow for Smoothing and Leveling the Soil Behind tho Plow.

SILO INCREASES FARM CAPACITY

Many Farmart Taraing to H«s» Rocopt*cto Benoflcont Solation of Food Problem. (By GEORGE P. GROUT, Minnesota University Farm.) It does not pay to devote highpriced land, for long periods, to pasturage and the production of hay. The land can be put to more profitable use. In order, therefore, that dairying may continue profitable, Instead of depending, as in the past, wholly upon the pasture for the chief food supply of their herds, many of our farmers are turning toward the silo as affording a beneficent solution of the feed problem. It is doubly beneficent in that it not only does away with the necessity of devoting so much land to pasture; but also, by making available a cheap suppl/' of succulent and high-ly-relished food all the year round, it deprives stall-feeding of some of Its objectionable features, while keeping the milk flow at a higher level. During the past two or three years, more silos have been built than in ail previous years combined. The more prosperous farmers are often supplied, not merely with one, but with two good silos. i ( The economic value of this method of handling feed being generally recognized, the only real obstacle to the general introduction of the silo seems to be the first cost of the structure and of the machinery for filling it More stock can be kept and profitably fed, per acre, when ensilage is grown, than by almost any other method of feeding. . The silo practically increases the producing capacity of the farm at least 10 per cent, and often more. A 160-acre farm with a silo will produce as much revenue as one of 180 acres without. Therefore, the first cost of a silo—like that of a dwelling house, a bam or a team —should be considered part of the initial investment; and. if one’s capital is limited, it is better to buy a farm smaller by 10 per cent, rather than dispense with a silo. The producing value of a silo

roller should be followed with a light harrow to prevent evaporation. Practically, all of, the barnyard mar nure is applied to the corn crop. The rate of application usually ranges from ten to fifteen tons per acre, depending upon the available supply. One successful farmer, whose fields yield 75 to 80 bushels of corn to the acre, never plows under manure even on sod, but spreads it in the spring after plowing and disk harrows It under. " When ten or more tons of manure are applied to the acre, most farmer* in this section consider it unnecessary to apply commercial fertilizer except on very poor land or where corn follows corn. Where fertilizer la used for corn, a few farmers follow the practice or applying to this crop 300 to 500 pounds of fertilizer contain, ing three to four per cent .of nitrogen, eight to ten per cent, of phosphorte acid, and ten per cent of potash. Other faripers appear to be getting aa good results with corn by applying a fertilizer containing two to three per cent of nitrogen, eight to ten per cent, of available phosphoric acid, and four to six per cent of potash, especially in connection with an application of eight or more tons of barnyard mo nure. Where either crimson clover or hairy vetch, or both, are turned under as green manure, the practice among successful farmers who plant winter cover crops for green manure indicates that as good yields of com are obtained as from an application of eight to ten tons of barnyard manure. Moreover, where these green manure crops are regularly grown the nitro gen in the commercial fertilizer may be considerably reduced. If not entirely omitted. ,

on SSO land would be equal to that of twenty acres added to the 160-acre farm, or $1,000; on SIOO land, it would be $2,000. This is a low estimate; for the stock-carrying capacity of the farm will often be increased fully 2S per cent by the adding of a silo. As compared with its producing valuer the cost of constructing the silo is small. Round wooden silos cost from $1.50 to $3 per ton of capacity; those of stone, brick or cement, from $2 to $4-

CHEAPLY MADE BALE CARRIER

Simple, inexpensive and Easily Operated For It Especially Adapted for Heavy Work. A bale carrier devised by Edward H. Boehme of Rankin, 111., is described In the Scientific American as follows: A front presentation of a bale carrier patented by Mr Boehme illustrates this article, and the inventor’s object is to provide a simple, inexpensive and easily operated fork especially designed and adapted for lifting material, such as hay, straw and tbs

Bale Carrier.

like, in bales, which will firmly hold, during elevation and transportation, a plurality of bales, and which may be easily and quickly engaged with and released from the bales. The levers can not be disengaged until tbe trip rope is pulled.