Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1914 — Page 6

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DITCH NOTICE. In Commissioners’ Court, June Term, 1914. State of Indiana, , County of Jasper, ss. In the matter of the Ditch Petition of Charles Erb, et al. for drain in Hanging Grove Township, Jasper County, Indiana. To all whom it may concern:NoGce is hereby given that a petition for a drain, in Hanging Grove Township, in said County and State, has been filed in the office of the Auditor of Jasper County, Indiana, and that the petitioners have fixed by endorsement thereon, the Second Day of the June Term, 1914, as the day set for the hearing and docketing of said petition, and therefore this notice is given to all of the following named landowners and corporations of the filing and docketing of said petition, to-wlt: Washington Cook, Simon Cook, Robert S. Drake, Jessie L. Drake, Martin L. Ford, William C. Fulk, John A. Jordan, Frank S. Hall, ueorge A. Steger, William H. Wakeman, Louella May Childers, Patrick Hallagh.n, Hanging Grove Township, by George Parker, Trustee. That the route of the proposed /-rain is described and set forth in said petition as follows: Commencing about forty rods west of the southeast corner of the one, in township twpnty-nine north, rang® five west; and running thence southeasterly following generally the course Of an old open ditch to a point near the northwest corner of the SW % of the SE 14 of section 2 7 in said township and range, where it will have a good and sufficient outlet in a public drain known as the Erb Ditch; and also by the construction of a closed tile lateral drain commencing near the northeast corner of the NW 14 of the SE *4 of section twenty-two (221) in said township and range, and running thence in a southerly direction following generally the line of an old open ditch to a point near the northeast corner of the SE 14 of the NW {4 of section twen-ty-seven in said township and range, and where said lateral will connect vith the main ditch herein above described and where it will have a good and sufficient outlet; and also iby the construction of a closed lateral tile drain commencing near the center of the SW 14 of the NW 14 of section twenty-seven in said township and range and running thence southeasterly ( 0 a point near the center east and west and near the south line of the SE 14 of the SW 14 of said section twenty-seven, and thence easterly along or near the north line of the public highway until it intersects and empties into the, main ditch hereabove desribed, and where it will have a good and sufficient outlet. That said petition is signed by the following named persons, to-wit: Charles Erb, Magdal.na Erb. That said petition is.set for hearing and docketing on Tuesday, June 2, 1 914. GEORGE A. WILLIAMS, Attorney for Petitioners.

Notice of Letting Contract for County xt , , Farm Supplies. < s hcreb * &iven that the Board .of Commissioners of Jasper County; Indiana. will, on Monday June 1 1914 receive sealed bids up to 2 o’clock’n m for furnishing Groceries, Dry Goods'and f ?[n th i^ US V f K C ° Unt y As"? 1 A J t 0 be accompanied by bond and affidavit as provided by law The Board reserves the right to re’ect any and all blds. ■' ect By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. Indiana. ■ JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, M-J3-ZQ Auditor Jasper County. Calling cards, the correct sizes, both plain and linen finish, constantly in stock in Tho Democrat’s fancy stationery department.

A Daring Ruse

• It Was Practiced by One Work- <J ing For the Russian Revolution 4 ■ '?■

By MARIA FOEDEROVNA

Women arc : a:ts. especially of children, and a great many of us Russian women have been drawn into revolution through efforts to break down that ignorance which unfits the large mass of our people for free government. 1 am the daughter of a Russian country gentleman living On the family estate in the province of Kostroma and began my revolutionary career by teaching the moujiks (peasants) on my father's estate. 1 taught not only the children, but grown, men and women, and when I saw their anxiety to better their condition, which they seemed to know they would <1 > by learning, I felt that I could take any risk in their behalf Wlien I was stopped in this work I did .not attempt openly to defy the g >■> eminent, because I knew such a t course would be futile! r allied myself With one of those sCeret organizations whose

THE OFFICIAL TOOK THE PACKAGE.

object it was to rid Russia of our auto cratic form and replace it with one that would aive us liberty to teach the Ignorant. This took me to the fountain head. St. Petersburg. My father en delivered to persuade me to desist, lint 1 could not bear to retnain with tied hands among a people who were more like cattle than human beings, yet 'er. dowed with a desire to better their condition. When 1 began to work secretly in the cause of the revolution [‘entered upon a lite of duplicity. The foundation of a revolution must necessarily involve organization, and that could be aclnev ed only by secret methods. for the government was aware of what was going on and met our secret efforts by secret efforts of its <>wm My work in St. Petersburg was that ot messenger. Documents, sometimes printed, sometimes written, sometimes in plain language, sometimes in cipher, must be constantly conveyed from <»ne point to another. An ordinary messenger, such as is used at telegraph or other offices.is a mere Conveyance, and almost any one will sulfi-e for such a purpose, but to carry that which the whole [lower of an autocratic govern meat is used to intercept and which, if intercepted, will cause the banishment tb the icy' regions of Siberia of those implicated, liesides doing great harm to the cause, requires coolness. cour age and resource.

One night at a secret meeting of the circle of which I was a member 1 was given a package which I was told < <>n tained printed Circulars condeimiiiig the government and calling on those who loved freedom to enroll themselves for the cause. There was noth ing in the circulars' in case they fell into the hands of tlie government to injure any one but the person having them dn his or her possession, though such person might be led to implicate others. On account of tllis possible implication and for' my own safety, I was cautioned as usual that if suspi cions ,of being watched to pet rid of the package if possible. It contained i a hundred circulars, which was all one person would be. intrusted with to curry on account of size. I had a pocket made in the skirt of my dress especial !y adapted to carry concealed articles. The morning after receiving my in structions. being ready to start out on the duty assigned me, I looked oiM of my window down on to the street to see if any . suspicious person loitered near. People Were passing to and fro. A sho.rt distance up tire street two men were standing -talking together. They seemed to be discussing something which I assumed was of no importance to me. for they never once glanced in my direction. ‘ Aiyl yet these then were spies of the government. One of them was instructing tlie other that, the house in which I lived was tinder suspicion and any one issuing from it was to be fob lowed, and if an arrest seemed warranted the person suspected was to be taken before a police officer. But I.

not knowing this,‘Went : 'wistairs and pursued my way unconscious of the danger that threatened me. However, I had noted the two men and, after walking a short distance, stopped at a shop window ostensibly to look at the goods displayed there, but rdally to glance back at the two men I have mentioned. They had separated, and one of them was coming toward me. He stopped to look up at the signs above him as though looking for some especial [dace. Had he come right on I might not have been very fearful. As it was 1 inferred that, seeing me glance back from before the shop window, he had pretended to be looking for some particular address in order to divert my suspicion from him.

My heart leaped up in my throat. However, I would soon know if this man was following me, and 1 nerved myself to meet the issue if he were. I walked on, turning down a cross street leading away from the point I had started for, and presently, stopping again at a shop where women's hats were displayed, 1 glanced back. The man I feared was jUst passing behind a projection of a building. I now felt assured that he was watching me, but resolved to make one more trial before acting upon the supposition that he was. 1 walked on and turned down another street, taking a direction toward the point from which 1 had stal led. 'Then, suddenly turning at a right angle so that I 1 could see my shallower without appearing to do so, I caught him coming toward me and looking straight at me. Owing to the dangerous work in Which I was engaged I spent much of my leisure time in thinking tip expedients in case I should be caught red handed. 1 now resolved to put in practice one of the most daring of which I had conceived. I was sure that this man was a police official and that he was following me. At .any moment he was liable to ha ve me arrested, though 1 fancied that unless he believed he had excited my suspicions he would permit me to go where 1 intended, leaving me to implicate others. As to dropping my package, I carried a knife with wjuch I could slit my pocket ami let it drop out. Could I have got far enough away from my shadower I would have done this, but after I turn ed so quickly as to see him coming for me he drew nearer and 1 was in great trepidation as to being arrested. I therefore resolved to put in practice the plan 1 have referred to. I knew very well every police station in St. Petersburg and directed my steps to the nearest one. On reaching it 1 turned into the building, my watcher following me to the very door, and in a few minutes 1 was standing at a desk, behind which sat an, official in uniform. "I have found a package in the street," I said, “wrapped in such sash ion as printed matter is usually wrap ped to send through the mails. There is no address on it. 1 was ab uit to tear off the cover when it occurred to me that it might contain something of an illegal character. If seemed to me that 1 would better turn it ".er t" a representative of the goveiiiin mt. If it is ordinary matter no harm is done: if there is anything criminal in it my action in bringing it to you is 1 root that I am in no way to blame fm- lulling it iu my possession." I nerved myself to say this as in gemiously as possible. The oliii ial n ok the package which I handed him hud. breaking it open, ran his eye o>er d. The expression on his face changed at once from one of carelessness to one of Intense interest. "Whefe did you tiiid this? ' he aske I. "1 was looking in at a shop window not far from here in which hats were

exhibited, and, casting my eyes down to the flagging, saw it lying at my feet." “Did you see any one moving away who might have dropped it?" I pretended to ransack my memory, then said: “After emerging from my home tin; morning to do some shopping I noticed a man going in the same direction as f. He had been standing at the mill! net’s window just before 1 reached it." "Can you identify him?" "I could if I were to see him. but he is doubtless far from me now. one of the crowd." When I said this I believed my shadower was at the door of the police office. And yet on second thought it seemed that Seeing me go into the station he would suppose that he had got on to the wrong track and would abandon his chase. But lie would likely report it, and then I would not get off so easily. The officer at. the desk took my >:d dress and permitted me to go where I liked: but, believing that he Would send some one to make sure that 1 had given’ him the right one, 1 left him resolving to go straight home. I was relieved not to see my shallower waiting for me outside the station. As soon as I reached my home 1 put on a disguise I kept concealed there—that of a decrepit old man—and left the building. At tlie door I passed my shadowpr, talking with a man I had seen at the police office. I made my way to the home of a prominent member of our 1 circle, to whom I told my story. Through the. secret machinery by which important news wiik communicated he flashed it among tile members, and that night, dressed as a young man. I was driven to a railway station and furnished with money, a ticket and a passport of a citizen of the United States. I crossed the border, arriving safely in Germany and for awhile my efforts on behalf of the revolution ceased. How my friends secured the passport I never learned, but I fancy it was stolen by some one interested in the cause of the revolution.

Crimson Clover a Useful Crop.

A number of ways in which the early appearance of crimson clover in the spring can be turned to the farmer’s advantage are pointed out in Farmers’ Bulletin 579, ‘‘Crimson Clover Utilization.” In the; southern and central Atlantic states 1 this crop is of particular value. /Generally speaking it suffers from the severe winters in the north and from too great dryness west of the Mississippi river. In Florida also it has proved less successful than elsewhere. Crimson clover, says the bulletin, has two great advantages. It is an excellent fertilizer and it can be used for pasture and hay before any other green growth is available, the land being then sown with an ordinary summer-grown crop. The clover itself can be sown toward the end of the summer on land where such late crops as corn or tomatoes are still under cultivation. Its use, therefore, does not interfere with other products and its benefits cost lift’.'.' but the labor and seed involved. To obtain the full value of crimson clover as a fertilizer, the entire green crop should be plowed under, thus adding to the soil a large quantity of nitrogen and humus, or decayed vegetable matter. The poorer the land the greater is the benefit that the succeeding crop derives from this process. A yield of 30 bushels of corn per acre may ordinarily be increased by crimson clover to 45, but on richer land an increase of more than 10 bushels is uncommon. A convenient, method of calculation is to consider a full crop of crimson clover, weighing, with roots and tops, about 10 tons an acre, as the equivalent of a distribution of 8 tons of fresh barnyard manure to an’acre. In this way the soil is greatly enriched each year without interfering in any way with the. regular money croiis, such as corn, cotton or tomatoes. It is, however, by no 1 means necessary to sacrifice the entire crop of crimson clover to fertilizing purposes. Excellent results can be obtained by plowing under merely the roots and stubble. This, it is estimated, returns to the soli 4 0 per cent as much nitrogen as the green crop. When this is done the cloves itself can be used either for pasture, before ordinary grass is sufficiently far advanced to be available or for hay which can be gathered in time to leave the land free for another crop. ■ -. _

Crimson clover intended for hay ■must, however, be cut at the right moment, when the most Advanced heads are beginning to show faded flowers at their base. At this stage the plants contain the maximum amount of protein and dry matter, while the leaves are still present and the stems comparatively green. If the harvest is put off, the short hairs on the stems and flower heads become dry and stiff. In this stage there is danger that they may form hard hair balls in the intestine tracts of horses and mules to which the hay is fed. I hese hair balls, solid, compact, feltlike structures, nearly, always cause death. Early cutting, however, and judicious mixing with other hay will obviate this difficulty to a great ex'tent, and, under any circumstances, cattle are rarely affected. By dairymen, crimson clover hay is considered a roughage feed fully equal if not superior to either red or alsike clover.

For early pasturing crimson clover is even more satisfactory, its chief drawback being the limited period in which it can be utilized for this purpose. This period, however, is ample to enable the ordinary grass pastures to attain a growth which will greatly increase their carrying capacity later in the season. After the cattle are removed, the uneaten plants and the manure left behind are plowed under, the manure of course forming a valuable addition to the fertilizing effect of the clover. As pasture, hay or fertilizer, therefore, crimson clover offers itself to farmers at a time when the ordinary summer-grown crops are not available. Incidentally, it should be said, this clover is valuable for poultry. A tubful o! hand-cropped leaves thrown into the poultry yard will provide the chickens with the best Possible green food at a season when eggs are ordinarily high and everything that promotes laying is most welcome. Small patches of crimson clover are, in fact, grown by poultry raisers for this purpose alone. Methods of growing the crop, the preparation of the seed bed. and the soils and sections best adapted to the purpose are discussed in a previous publication of the Department of Agriculture, Farmers’ Bulletin 550, Crimson Clover: Growing the Crop." Both this bulletin and the new bulletin, “Crimson Glover: Utilization," will be sent free on request.

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