Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1912 — Page 6

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Home Talent Minstrels at Remington, May 27.

At Remington opera hpuse Monday, May 27, 1912, for benefit .of Federated Clubs Civic Improvement fund. Part I. "The JingabooMan”. ... .Mrs. A. V. Locke, soloist, with chorus of 10 ladies. Solo .C. H. Wharton "The Marble Arch”—Comedietta in one act. Characters—(.’apt. Trextham, bachelor Kieth Spencer Jack Merewether, married Max Hargreaves Constance Cameron, widow Miss Pearl Morris Marion Merewether, married Miss Bess Guy Time—The present day. Scene- —Merewether's house in Milliton Gardens, Hyde Park, London.

Three Child Elocutionists Chester Wharton, Homer Doads, Bernard Hargreaves. ‘‘Sugwr Moon,” coon duet. ... Mrs. A. V. Locke, Wesley Merritt PART 11. ‘‘Old Black Joe”. Chorus Overture. “Band, Band. Band”. Claire Broadie “Everybody Two Step”. . . . • Homer Lambert “Come Along My Mandy” .... Miss Garnet McNary, C, W. Wharton “That Baboon Baby Dance... ChaBowman. “The Welcome on That Mat Ain't Meant for Me,” Kieth Spencr. “Take Me Back to Babyland” Mrs. Chas. Bowman “The Owl in the Old Oak Tree,” Miss Lillian Sharkey, 11. Lambert “The Humming Coon?. . ; .; • • ■ • ... C. W. Wharton “The Railroad Rag,” Walter Johnson “Massa’s in the Cold. Cold Ground” A. E. Malsbary “Dixie*' Chorus Chorus —• Mary Bartee Pearl Morris Grace Sharkey Zephyr Crabb Mrs. McCullough Homer Roads Tickets on sale at Bowman's restaurant on and after Monday, May 20. Reserved seats 50c and 35c. General admission 25c. “The Federated Clubs are endeavoring to raise funds to furtner their efforts toward beautifying and improving our pretty little town. Assisted by C. W.'Wharton of Kentland and home talent the above program will be presented.— Mrs. Geo. Hargreaves, Pres, of Federated Clubs; Miss Pearl Morris, Com.”;

NOTES from MEADOWBROOK FARM

By Willam Pitt

It pays to"spray Intelligently. Look well now to the brood sows. Buckwheat is an egg producing feed. Half starve your hens, if you want ao eggs. Examine tfce collars *of your work horses often. Few horses can digest perfectly clear timothy hay. Hang a cabbage where the hens have to exercise to get it. milk tastes fine to the calf these, chilly mornings. Charcoal in the feed is good for correcting digestive troubles. Any ipcubator will do its work, and some brooders will undo it. The true dairy cow is easily affected by unfavorable conditions. A good horseman never trots a draft horse even when he has no load. The damand on the foal’s digestive system for nourishment is very great.

Don’t let your hens mope. Give them plenty of dry earth, ashes, chdff, etc. Sunshine is the only disinfectant absolutely free. Then let us use plenty of it. The real dairy cow turns her food into milk and butter-fat instead of meat. M hen you mark the date on an egg, have a good honest man handle the stamp. Save eggs from hens two or three old, rather than from pullets, for hatching. The live, ambitious, energetic poultryman makes it a point to hatch early chicks. If cream is too Tyarm, butter is very likely to come in soft lumps, with a greasy texture. Go over the nozzles of the sprayer and see that everything Is ready for the spring work. .. . / ■ With proper care and protection, clipping is an aid to the health and condition of a horse. In a case of twins one is often weaker than the other, and would die if not assisted to nourishment.

Ducks do not need water for swimming, but ’they must have plenty of absolutely clean drinking water. There is more fat lost in the skim milk through slow turning of the separator than through fast turning. Have patience with the lambs. A lamb saved now will be a flve-dollar bill in your pocket Jater in the year. ' i Lambs should have milk within a few minutes of birth, and if not able should have quiet and quick assistance. Don’t think that a calf which is fed regularly on milk does not need water. Milk is a food and does not quench thirst. Two parts corn and 1 part each of wheat and oats fed in a litter make a well balanced morning feed for tne layers. The open range is best for young turkeys, but they must not be allowed out during a shower or before the grass Is dry.

There this to say for the fruit tree peddler: If it were not for him many a farm would have little or «o fruit on the place. New York’s butter bill for one.year at retail prices amounts to $53,000,000. The cheese bill for the same time is $12,000,000. In building new quarters for swine the foundations should be made permanent and the floors double, and wind and water proof. In setting out peach trees no side branches need be left. They may be cut back to a "whip.” With apples and pears only year-old wood should be cut back. Can you handle the ax well? Then have one of those roosters for dinner next Sunday. Get them out of the flock. They are a nuisance to the laying hens.

THE AMERICAN HOME

Ml. WlMlam A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building, for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he Is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford, No: 178 West Jackson boulevard. Chicago, 111., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. The first Important work In building is the excavations for the foundation walls. All complete plans specify that trenches should be left with natural bottoms, level and smooth for the reception of walls, piers, etc. Not long ago a workman In digging a trench for a center wall in a large city block misread the directions and got the excavation a foot deeper than the specifications called for. The contractor called the owner's attention to it, as an honest man should, and offered to build the wall from the bottom up if the owner would pay the bare cost of the extra material, but this the owner refused to do. The contractor thereupon dumped in loose earth, the only thing he could do, and brought the bottom up to the depth required by the specifications. The building was completed and accepted by the owner. After a lapse of six months the center wall settled to crack the plaster on every wall in the house clear to the third story; It was a block of flats ocupied by six families. Three of the families moved out because they thought the building was unsafe to live in. This led to a lawsuit between the owner and the contractor. The contractor was able to prove that he went to the owner and offered to fill in from the

bottom with masonry instead of dumping in earth. The court decided in favor of the contractor. This Incident is mentioned merely to call attention to the importance of showing a little common sense in the different parts of the building, from the foundation to the roof. It is not always best to stick hard and fast to every provision of the contract, especially w’hen some accident arises that calls for the exercise of judgment Of course a man does not want to be run over by anyone. Every one In business finds out early in life that he must stand up for his rights or have them taken away from him. The old Bible admonition which Instructed every man to accept a whack on both cheeks will not work in this country as society is organized at present. One thing the owner needs to have an eye on Is the excavation for foundation and drains. The workmen are not Interested in the little details the

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same as the owner, and the health of the workmen and their families is not at stake afterward, as the escape of a little sewer gas here and there will not mean anything to them. You make a solid contract and the contractor may live up to it, but you have no guarantee that he will do so, and you cannot get at the underground details After the trenches are filled. So the only way to know that a job is done right is to inspect it as the work goes • along. Of course you can hire a man to do this, and you can usually depend on such a man, especially if he is a stranger and does not know the contractor. I prefer to have an Inspector who is a stranger in the neighborhood, a man who is personally not acquainted with any man on the job. I am not a pessimist and have

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not lost faith in humanity, but there are so many details, vital details, about the building of a house that not one of them can be overlooked with safety. Now, here is the design of a house that is a most pleasing one for a young couple just starting out It has four rooms and a bath. The width is twen-ty-four feet six inches and the length is thirty-six feet. It has the aspect of cosiness and neatness and appeals to the artistic sense. This house will cost very little and , when it is completed it will look so neat that all ▼our friends wiirbe talking about it. There is a little porch where you can sit out evenings and this opens directly into the dining room. The living room is in the front and immediately back is the bedroom. This house should be built on a large lot and if it is so constructed there will be abundant opportunity for the display Of shrubbery that will enhance the appearance of the place.

HAS GOOD CENSUS SYSTEM

Methods Employed by Austria Make the Work a Model for World Study. The full returns of the census of Austria, taken in December, 1910, are expected to be published about May of the present year. The population of Vienna is already computed, the city numbering, on December 31 last, 2,004,291, civilians and 28,543 military, a total of 2,039,834. This is a gain over the census of 1900 of 355,427 civilians and a decrease of 79 mill-

tary. In 1890 the civilian inhabitants numbered 1,341,897. It is to be noted, however, that in 1904 the city included as the twenty-first besirk (ward) the district of Florldsdorf, 314. Deducting this figure from the total of 1900 It is evident that Vienna’s rate of Increase for the same area Is less for the decade 19001910 than for the decade 18904900. The military garrison here has remained about the same for the last ten years. The method of taking the census in Austria is interesting. The great diversity of race and speech in this country and the influence of this diversity on political questions makes It Important to have accurate statistics thereof. The census returns therefore Include religion, race and usual language spoken in the family. The Information is collected in a practical way. Sheets calling for all details as to the buildings themselves, such as the ownership, rent paid’ number of occupants, number of windows, exposure of same, etc., and all details as to the occupants therein and their relation to one another, were left at every house in the middle of December to be filled in.

Early in January, on a fixed day, these sheets were called for by a census reviser who certified the returns. This placed in the hands of the authorities complete and accurate returns with the minimum of labor to the collectors and the minimum of inconvenience to the inhabitants, excepting that, as the sheets pass from hand to hand, publicity -s given to details 1 which it might be wished to conceal. The Japanese government detailed certain of its own civil employed to study Austrian methods of census enumeration. Teachers from the Austrian public schools were employed as census agents and the schools were closed for two days to permit their absence.

Had Seen Enough of Those.

The trust magnate detained by a washout, sought the village news stand. “What have you got to read here?" he inquired. “Well,’’ replied the proprietor, "w e have the popular magazines and—’’ “Give me one of the unpopular magazines, if you have any,” interrupted the trust magnate, with a scowl

Careful.

"If you are so afraid he won’t propose to you again why did you refuse him the first time he proposed?" “He was steering the auto we were in when he proposed." “But what had that to do with itT" "Everything. I accepted a proposal once while out in a canoe, and I was nearly drowned. I don’t take any more chances,"