Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 51, Number 39, Jasper, Dubois County, 25 June 1909 — Page 2
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Farm and Garden.
Gypsies. Tho gypsies camped last night bv Goodman's ford; The sun Just touched the forest when they made Tholr merry camp, and soon the laggards strayed And bogged some fragment from each farmer's hoard; They soon returned with hnnknt
heaped and stored, And spread the feast; ore long tho dUSkv rlnilo
Was lighted by tholr Art; the watch-
...... h oayea. Uhile strains of music down the twllight poured. Tholr camp Is shown us by the closecropped grass. And fading wreaths of smoke that upward tend; For heodless of the cardinal points tnoy roam; Sad waifs, blown by the winds of time thov tin??
Down thoroughfares that have no visible end. Tncheered by blazing hoarth or welcome home. Alonzo Rice. In Boston Transcript
threo weeks without oven germinating and some of tho seod rotted. Tho ground was ploughed, harrowed und planted early for the season, and because solid and soggy and full of living thillCS. HYront hnntfhv .-.. .,1 ...
-v. . 1 - v......j VUI II .IUIIV before the permanently warm weather
s.iuv uiuiifj. me seed that was planted In did not have half the chanco
,ia tnnt sou that It did In the refitted small Mold. So I would advise you to refit, and plant good tested seed on clean, mellow soil, even if it Is tho ti
days In June. In this corn belt. There are thousands of farmers who are considering this Iirahlnm thncn .hvu nn,l
I hope my experience given above will be timely for their consideration.
The Average Hen's Work. After tho Incnhn
Important develonmnnt in thu mi.tc.
try has been the breeding by careful selection of races of hon thnt um v.
ceptlonal layers, says an exchange, j credit lost. It is not unusual for a well conducted fa mi tö JlVfr:l Ff nnnrlt
200 eggs per hen per year, and the tendency is to improve upon this flc
lire. Several vears am in ,un
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WHAT TO DO iCTcp U1 üs-,a,nS contest was held extend1 ' u AFTER line over an ontir
THE CORN IS PLANTED ' DOr of breeds being pitted against
wacii uuier, ana tne average of the
will gain by tho feed tho stock will get. Get the sheep shearing out of tho way and dip the sheep ns soon as you get tho wool off ihom. A second dipping should be given ten days Inter. Have the lamh nona tlirhMv I
I "0"V UvU at the bottom, not only to keep tho
iiLiiu ioi.ows irom wandering off, but to prevent drafts from striking them. The reason that skim milk is cnr.ii n
splendid food for young and growing stock is that It Is rich In protein food, which is needed for
" -w KMU UWIIV
ouiiuing. Catalpa cuttings will grow In good soil if the cuttings are made after tho leaves have started. With a year's
gruwiu me cuttings can be transplant ed to permanent locations.
The higher temperature at which the
mux. is run uiruugn the separator the
mi-ger mo amount or cream, but It will be thinner than tho rrnnm wl.li, la
sKimmeu irom cooler milk. A Innre locr rnn ho oik IK- i
Into a small garden roller by putting
an iron pin in tne center at each end
nnu making a framework which will permit tho log to revolve on the pins. Provide plenty of fresh water for the
sneep. it not confined In a pasture whore there is running water provide
a gooti trougn wliere they can always
imu a suppiy oi ciean, iresn water.
MOVING ISLAND
Proved To Be Shoal of Over Six Hundred Giant Porpoisei.
PLOWING BY STEAM.
Machines Kept Going Day and Night
Turning Up Prairie Sod.
Questions of Planting in or Reseeding '"'"L11. LS pu"ets; averaging
Whole Field in Late Season.
A farmer in Michigan writes that he is planting his corn, 'and wants to know if i have continued to drag my
,, mies up writes J. H. t Brown, in New York Tribune Farmer. He states that he will harrow once ox tw ee after planting, but Is afraid to put the harrow on the Held after the corn is in sight Several other farmers In this section navo not planted, on account of the cold, wet weather, and they fear their fields will be very woody and grass v. Others are planting in. with weeds and grass already in sight, and I know ifley will "havn n timn r u im
might better fit the fields over and replant on clean, mellow ground after warm weather comes to stay, even If It Is late in June. As I write these lines there are thousands of farmers who read this
from seven to twelve months old, was
-io uKKs per nen ror the year. At niany of the experiment stations In this country similar tests are conducted from timeto time, and it is not unusual for One hßn nf solontorl frw.,l ...
produce an average of 250 eggs apiece,
hü in recoru ior individual hens a much disputed honor. Is considerably above that figure. The White Leghorns appear to be quite as good layers as any other breed, and in the Call-
lumia settlement nr Pain ..m ui-.
. - -...IUI, tilts arlety is raised nlmnst ovni..i,.i,.
The Brown Leghorn while not quite so
luuHiic myers. require relatively small rations and therefore are considered very economical egg producers. A good layer will nm,inw, .-. t
times her weight In eggs each yoar. From "the Weekly Witness.
paper who have just planted their corn, and many others who have not. The spring is very backward all over the country. In Michigan it has been cold and wet Some corn fields are already in bad shade, the rains having packed the soil nn.i tho nunt.i
being green in spots with grass and weeds. It keeps the farmer guessing to know just what to do sometimes, and even then he simply has to wait and be shown what the weather boss hands out day after day. Another fn rmop nolo mA it u . .
.. , ' ... "v: 11 JJU WUUIU
: . 1 , or reP'int his field entirely. He planted three weeks ago and only a small portion of his corn is In sight We have not planted corn on either of our farms yet (May 29), but expect to do so in a day or two if the weather permits. We consider we are fortusate in this respect, in view of the weather we have had for the last
,u c ars- "t we have been caught
Hours of Labor on Farm. Prof. Doss of the Minnesota Agrlcul-
vu.u. luat-gu says mat statistics of the actual hours of labor on the farms investignted show that farmers work nine hours a day in the summer and between four and live in the winter r.l?f'Bane-v of the Roosevelt Farm Life Commission tolls tho e-.. .u
1 , . ----- uiui . Ul Hit? school ma am working from 9 until 4 until she married a farmer, and had to
"um iruxu i io a.
- The First Baldwin Apples. The place where tho flrct nM.i.
apple tree grew Is marked by a monu-
ü ursi lree was a chance seedling that came to maturity on a farm near Lowell. Mass., about 1740 It was not until 17S4 that Col. Bald win became interested in the apple developed it and gave it his name. The original tree lived till after 1S17. and did not live In vain. Fnr th ni...
apple is one of the best
in tho same marmot- c7rn,,i .L Dral" the Feed Lots.
previous years and long back as far as ! .7 ,S no pIace uPn I can remember. I have tried both f Where a system of d"lna nlans nf ninti , "V1 .oin more nrofltablv !nsnli,i i
Plans of "planting in" and replanting and generally prefer the latter prac' t ce. i have seen many corn fields
tuim-u tor tne season's growth by planting in. How? J One spring a score or more vears ago we had twenty acres of 'corn p anted in a finely fitted seed bed about the middle of May. The seed was good, and was thoroughly tested several weeks previous. A day or two after planting cold, wet weather came on. and It snowed enough to cover the ground twice during the same week. For two weeks It was impossible to touch the ground with any tool, and the weeds and trmea i-m . ..
Some of the corn came up, and father
luvugai mora would come in a few days. Flnallv .Tun i f,..i
ing In where onlyone stalk was visible
uuu m cnecKmarkS of missing hills Possibly a little more than one-third Of the hills had nnn tnrn nn.t
- ...v. aim utVilslonally three stalks from the first
putnung wnen we began cultivating with a two-horse riding cultivator. The kernels from the second planting
uu &vi miiiaieu ana tne sprouts were just out of the ground. Say. brother farmer, there Isn't much fun In such a job of cultivating. We had to keep the guards down to protect the sprouts and could not throw dirt Into the taller stalks, so the weeds got a good "holt"
iu me meantime.
The next time I cultivated this field I had arranged a contrivance wherebv I could raise the guards to throw dirt
iiuo one mil and Instantly drop them
io guard the next hill. I worked this
nvv atiacnment with my left hand, and It did good work. But It made my left hand tired before I had finished my first forenoon "stunt," as there was a constant variety of stalks about six Inches high and little things not more than one to two Inches high. The stand of corn was verv KOod when one considered both plantings' but the resultant yield was very poor when we husked tho
I J A , . , Ulf Ulli. We tried this plan several times, but It seldom paid so well as to fit the ground all over and replant. In the year referred to above we also refitted and replanted a small field, and tho corn was nlmost as far advanced in August as the first planting In the arger field. The yield was good far the season, and of far better quality than the patchwork field crop. In fact the "planted In" corn did not mature at all. and had a sickly nppoaranco all summer.
The late planted small field was
the farm
more profitably installed than In the
I "u ,ul rounu tne nog pens. In i too many Instances large wallows are formed around the hoghouse and ?f?i.b0ih "ns,ehtly and unsanlSth,f J6 hoshouse Is not so sltuatflM.i . dra,naBe ,s natural an art!-
Feeding Lambs. rTF?r?ecrs' ß,,,'etn Xo. 49 0f the United States Department of Agricul ture says that a mlvtnr nr , hll
5nTal and. ne part cottonseed meal for ten weeks to Iambs, with pasturage, gave a weekly gain of "95
i'ukuiis nur neau. Tho inmi.n
fed about 8 14. pounds each per week of the mixture. eeK
(JUmb the courthouse tnwor in
Faulkton any of these spring nights
niter tne long Dakota evening has
seiuea into uusk and you will see a puzzling sight if you are a stranger.
is lar as you can see through the thin, clear atmosphere of the sun-
snine state you win discover lights,
an moving slowly, but stendllv, in straight lines. This spectacle has to do with the filling of the nation's bread basket or the production of
us supply or unseed oil. It tells the
ursi cnapter or tne story that ends
wun tne gram elevator In the har vest days.
For every one of the moving lights belongs to a plow, or rather to a set of plows, and with each outfit is a steam traction engine. Eight. 12, 10. even 20 plows trail the powerful engine ns It moves deliberately across the prairie. Horses can not work 24 hours a day, but Iron and steel need no rest. Men can take rost hv work
ing in shifts. Take out your watch and see how long it takes the outfit to overturn
an acre or soa. it should not exceed 10 minutes. To every plow the same amount of ground the old-fashioned
smgie piow and the out-of-date team of horses must travel sir nr envnn
miles, according to the width of the
piow. a iew aays ago Thomas Mitchell, driving two rigs of 12 plows
tain. oroKe a iuw quarter section In
tnree nours over two days. If the owner of the land Is in a particular hurry to get In his crops he will hitch seeders behind the plows
mm narrows oenmu tne seeders, and
wnen tne traction engine has made
tne uistance he need do no more with
nis crop until he drives Into it with
nis oinaer.
In Lyman county It Is estimated
mat at least a Hundred steam and gasoline plowing outfits are at work and there are not less than 30 In Faulk county. In the state not less than a thousand of these steam unn-u.
rigs have been making their way back and forth across the prairie land. This Is equivalent to saying that they are producing 25,000 acres of plowed land every day. Today, the man who buys virgin soil in Faulk or a similar county doesn't move onto his land and bring .1 meager outfit of horses and machlnery with which to till It. Ho cino
on the old farm further east or In his town house and hires the owner of a
steam piow to break his land, seed It with flax and harrow it. Flax yields the seller an average of $1 a bushel and it yields about 15 bushels to the acre as a rule. That means a gross revenue of $15 an acre. The man who does the plowing chanres $3.50 till lCl"f TTlfltMner trw
himself about $90 a day as long as
1 ne season lasts. utner expenses should not exceed $3.50 an acre, so that the owner Is pretty sure to real
This morning they wero still tinloading the bensts and birds from the British steamship St Andrew, which arrived yesterday from Antwerp and was to-day alongsldo her Hoboken Phoenix Line titer. In th 'luwn
decks were thirty immense Belgian horses, "ponderous Perehnrnim ihn
3econd officer called them. They wero
tt-riuiuiu urenntinniMitR in nm.iv tnni.i.
ed horseflesh, bound for flliln lirooil.
ing iarms.
It was no easv mnttor tn in;wi tim
huge animals
and then down the staging on the
uwiur siue to the Moor of the pier. It was easier to dlsembnrk th o nlfomiu
many hundreds of these birds being
uruilKUL ill C.H.'1'S rnnln n nr nlinuf
nt , " ..tuuk
And thero were some tall cranes,
niClUrCSnUO irrnv hornria n,..l c...n
. " - ' wi.u, it it vi ouuiu
vaiunuio specimens of nhensants and
grouse. Last on tho iiv inxir iic
was placed several docks of Belgian
ll.UUa. WUICn nttOff nillotiv nvm- ln.n
inclosed areas of the 'tween decks. Asked for anv innl.I out nf Ihr
3gC. Captain Fitzcernlil rofo
doners to First Ofiioor Wniim. ci-
who puffed nt his pipe for a few moments and then remarked that for n -line on Mondav nft
the St Andrew was running on a shoal m mldocean.
"It turned ntrV hmvovor r Ua n
shoal of nornolses '
by way of explanation. "There must have been C00 of them, all bound north at express speed. "Let's See. It wnu nhnnl J n'ilnul,
on Monday afternoon when we sighted 'em some distance nir ntIT- unrt linn
"... jvi t UVJ, They made a dark spot on the horizon, to which I called the captain's attention. It looked nt fl
bank, and I thought we had discovered
it ut? iv isianii until wo mn.i
they were.
"Latitude 4L loncirnilo ks tr r
... t-f---- w wt ti A V
uifiuucr ncntiv. And tho mMt
" HIV liUä i, 1 markable thlnsr about ir WJ1C iYtr Infli.AK
, , ' " m mv IVUUCt
u uie nig school. He was a huge fellow, looked about 20 feet long, and he
iijing iar in advance of the rest. At times he made great leaps. Jump-
7 uiuugm, zu or 30 yards at a
uiuf, nign in the air. Really, he could
11.nu juinpuu over the ship. "I never saw so many porpoises in a bunch before. As I said to the sec ond. they were going north like a flock of blooming birds at home. There was a German steamship In the ofiine honm!
have seen 'em too." Besides being a raconteur of no mean ability, Mr. Spicer is a good shot with a rille. On the voyage when east of the Grand Banks he shot a New-
xounuianu gun which measured five feet from tip to tip. The bird was shot about 500 miles off shore. "He was flying over the ship when I shot him, and fortunately he fell on the deck," said Mr. Spicer. The skin and fine feathers of the bird hang In Wie first officer's room and will be mounted. Mr. Spicer learned to use his Martini in the Hnni'n nn,i ii- i
... elvi iu South Africa. New York Evening bun.
HOOSIERISMS
Little Items of Interest All Over the Length and Breadth of Indiana
Etna Green has S40.0O0 Pir..
Fire in the buslnoss section of Etna
pre,! loss, partly cov-
Storm Damage Was $50,000. A tornado in Hendricks County last h?r J1 1 15'000 dn,oa8 10 'arms In that section. Lamphere Near End?
It Is assorted ihn n. 1 ...1
n principal In r""''' "'
dying in .Michigan City prison.
Watches His Father Drown 'nÄ.'w O-year oId Hon u..
.....111 J Ul l.UIIIVOIf.. r.,
b.v jumping fron the c V"1 ?'u " Street bridge into he w The son drnvo ..... J Hn
told his mntli. .i.... . . " ;ti
himself. "mi "a,,a huu.
Dr. Snearly Exonerated. Ur. GeorL-o p o....i..
of oann. has been exS? Charue of wtr , u,li VhU "f tt
been IndTcte 1 1 ft, 7t deS1'' L" ,B Tho report of phÄS SJ' f'lir,'f Bhows that M'rs.'sSoa 1 "X !:. '.":'
Of Ktrx.oh.,i.. . M.V'"' '1 Ht di
that c,r,n 'Z "LÜU,ür 1 ll
. j -.. vi buna w ere r un. .1 this rniiKo.i '"a.vd
all
New Paper for Indianapolis. IndlananollH is
w IIUIU tl 111 1371.
tlonal weekly paper. It will be called I V1511!1 oreans wre di; Clean Po tins if Q i. .. v.. " "Us caused a natural .1,,.....
1,11.1.1 ' ' i uc il 1 TU' I ""-"Wl. lllllitlnn in. -f.. , I
run; uiyuu.
Bolt from Blue Sky Almost Fatal. A half nt !(..)... I.... t
1, r . "tmiiiis lruiu a sunny b ue sRy devoid of clouds came near Mlllnir the Infnm ...
"uiuuui 01 uurnsvnie.
uu 1 l: 1 j 1 r 1 n n iiv i - . . . iiiiii iii rivic-ni. r . .
... wuiiv. 1 ii. j " i'.iauu me roouet' ii ofBcl!,r,!0,d bf,ne?th a treIedous weight I Sun ZT' Tys iho Woi ' C of sand. Herbert Seliom. 1 years . . ,lto 1,10 house, pretend..- I o d lost his life In a landslide I M'Vt7 S;; t
"u pji near üjkimrt.
Tried Old Badger Game. .May Cook of Terre Haut. , 0 prison for live years for hi n ing a Dictum n Ji,a""''!
"U her brother who ,,Hv T,' n's
New Cure for Nervousness. Georgo Zimmerman, aged 07 years.
.lit , i. ns nervo"s. hanged himself in his barn near Harlan. His body was found by his sou. Sues Pastor for $10.000.
James L. Keglev. manager of the Vor.,La,I'S0" Creamery, has filed a
viw.i.uw uuei sun against Rev. Lewis
an. and then 0 cd SiS;;"" band, who demanded $25 bu . ' X cents-all Bolder had. " "Q Will Watch for Heresy Right Hev. Francis Silas ciu-ani Bishop of Indianapolis. icUn ' order from inn ii. ' i-11 : ' 11 "n
pointed a committee of Äv',? e Hanapolls diocese ,0
ti,M I,. rr :l c.enr i'ii .f
C Hoppel. because0 le la tor" wrote ' ISLdSi f bks- a a letter in which he charN that iSc ?nTi, 'Cree ,,0th olic :... first filiini..!,,.. .i. . in.u.
Mule Kills Small Boy.
IV' i,,.,h0"- aad Council f v j !
WhllP i.lnvl,,,. i. ' 'Inno I0 7"." or
i've. - "ii an tivans-, . " "- mwibu 10 act as a 1 v u,.r Mile commons Hum- iin.i, ........ urecaiitlnn ni... . 11 'r
10. ran btiblni! n dim. m..i.. nt. .in Imo it a t
.... . . 1 . 1 . 11 1 1 ill iiri.. 1
jnarklcked the lad in the head, crush-
I.. 11 . .. v trctl, ti (1SII111 his skull, ntwl ih.PU t
for his recovery.
Says Pastor Broke Up Home. Elmer K. Kmr.11 n .,,..t.......
of Duff, has filed suit against the Rev Louis Fleenor nf T.,,. vo., u , "
that the minister has alienated the n,ffneLonf of h,s wlfe- Small seeks
fv,uuu uaraages
Woods Are Full cf Them.
Whistle Saves Girl's Life. ,Ti!e b,Io,u',nK t the C-o'clock I vie nt the Lrie cold storage plant at IhwSS,.Jwd IC-year-oId Frieda s ff from being torn to pieces. While wnlklnc imm uk . 1
.1.1. .....v one aiiii.iH.i xiy
10 move, anil i)mw h. .u
ior the whool Iii r..ni...i . ' , .
I uoiii ner legs. Th tfllnil ..
At the commencement exorcise held , w leel, was whirling her to a In the men's gymnasium at Bloomlnu- 1? , , dea,h whon the G-o'clork mh:ton thlrty.four graduates of the In- ! ' , an1 tho "achlnerv o nlnnn lt,,t. .i. .. . " I stonnt.ii
WHEN KEENE WAS STUNG.
...... Limvisiiv acnooi or Law re
u uu neir itgrea and were admit
iuu iu im: unr 01 Indiana.
How Magnate Was Bullied Into
sorblng Jerk-water Road.
stopped.
Tells Tale of Kidnapping. A StOrV Of kltlnnnl nrr l.nit
f,n l.,,an. that ot Millie Whltla wo
Convicted BankerV TVrm tr-
. ...... L..iua. n.iii, uiui Ul WIIIIA Whltla
Ah. Thomas J. MeCov hns luion told at Colnmlm iiv wnn.
I m - . . w. . uivuouil I I 11.111 . 1 1 1 T i'LT-
rom tne Indiana State Prison, hav-F- w,1 arrived from Texas and snusht lnc rnim-ilotn.l ,..! .Iflio ioe!t.in.. ... . . . N"
-- ,..w.vu lua.Miuuni iime on "-"oi.Mn.v- ul me local nolif. iu
1 Wnhnrn hv. , I.-., W3S 'omiorly a proml- a searfh for his parents, from hm.
. ..w... i.wuu u lt.w yn.irS IIUUL ItPnilllllP.nn nnlll ll.. 1 I HO Rnlfl no t...l I..
ago." said James 71. Knn LnH(; ZL r Ul'""'. was .1 l. u "'.V recently -urn-
ard nf Will tn ' , .. ;r "',v-;u V "zziement n connec- "v "u" oee" Kidnaped when 3 v. jrs ?.r.d. f. iNa.,Lstr:?t' t0. a sroP of his tlon with the failure of a bank nt iw The youth, who U. ? .tl' S
SSJllnnr fitirl 1nA1tl a . " .
" -.irs oui, and that a few wr.ks
intimates the other day. The statement came In nnswnr tn n .
whether Keene had ever been "trlm-
meu. l used to live out in the coun
Pastors on High Horse. T . . e 1 . 1
lu'iusi'u me use of anv nf
ago he received a letter from a wonun
in rennsyivania Informing him that he
. niuiiitpt'ii wnen 5 years old. an)
ST:. 5SS.B.!.' a.nd..rode.to ad eh , ."SJ1" L "Z. ot the was kidnaped when k vono " n"
One day the "iSiSo SÄ tnenexerclser thV hi hlmTo S ."ie,e parents Hed at
well enough to call by his first name, ?iÄ.BBViii ,l conmienccmem nH '
v.Uk2x,u l w ui.i:i:iii 1 1 .' rnmniiif ntii -. . iiiiäi iui n 1 11 1 it l i .
Side-Stepped the Posse.
Spray for Apple Trees.
One of tho most Mifw.r..! 1 T . 0 rrom ",s ,an(1 without owers of Ohio Sa 7 a. Uar In
growers of Ohio ukps nn.. R.
Ä5r..B?rdeaur m,x,,,re to kill the
univ-iciii iiiiiLii. as won no I. ,
check the coddling moth, spraying at east four times after the bloom ffiff His formula for tho tinrH..
rounds of sulnhate of
of lime. 50 gallons of water.
Hastening Seed Germination. The germination nf snmto
co-er!nK8. such as cann ..l
and even morning glories, can be has! tened by boaking them In warm water for two to twelve hours. Sow tho Reeds nt once upon removing them from the water. If given this treatment. mornlne clorlou ximii i.i
oi hcuhb irom sowing.
AROUND THE FARM.
thoroughly refitted by harrowing and Jolling, and the seed planted In clean. frth and mellow soil. It w thb first week In June, very warm, and the rows could be seen across the field In six days after planting. Thero were no weeds or grass to bother, and we cultivated the rows much easier than on the other flold. hTth0.trOUb,e thc larSr "'! was IhrLi"0 C?n ,a; Jn ,he ground through all the cold, wet weather for
From the verv first rff ihn
" - O UIL ill customed to handling. An oil barrel cut In u-r.
excellent drinking tub. nn Grit must bo nrnvhlnd fn n... n...
vam.iv 11 uifj- are Kept confined. More care has to be used In feedlnc corn and wheat to horses than In feedIng oats. Keep the little chick dry. Xothlnc In such a fretful source of disaster with them as wet and cold.
bait the sheep regularly, or provide convenient boxes where the animals can heln themsolvo nmiuis
Millet hay if cut at the rlchf iJ ?f, Wlicrö 1 Ket even with and well-cured I bctVhnV Ä lhtfm mt!f alecks'" ho "aid. !,,. in.. , " . r inar tun- I The drummer 11 nnt r..-
wiuj, voiuviiiuy ior sueep
buildlncs or machinery nr ik di.
Flax is the usual first-year crop Faulton (S. D.) Cor. N. Y. Sun. The Drummer's Revenge. "I want a horse and buggy," said the drummer, "to drive to Willow-dale."
The liveryman looked him over. "Can you drive?" he asked. "Sure I can," said the drummer. "How much is It?" The llvervmnn nnnsliinrmi t 1
ways charge $1.50 for a drivo to WI1-
lowuaie. ne sniu. Agout 5 o'clock the drummer re turned. The horse gladly pounded Its way Into the cool depths of the stable. The drummer handed the liveryman a $5 bill, and the liveryman handed him back two silver dollars Ain't you making a mistake?" asked the drummer. "You said tho
drive to Wlllowdale was $1.50." The stableman grinned. "So It is " he said. "It's S1.50 hacU uhv if'.-
10 miles to Wlllowdale. Did you exy?crtni,.dr,ve thero nnd hack for 5I.Ii0? ion must bo n nou- ,!-...
Two weeks later the drummer came back. Tho liveryman seemed surprised to see him. "I want the same horso and bucgy for a drive to Wlllowdale," ho said. He got Into the buggy and drove
on, nnu tne liveryman chuckled.
reiuseu to accept my commutation ticket. I tried to pay my fare, and he wouldn't accept the money. He Jropped me off the train in six Inches of the thickest, stickiest mud In the world. By the time I got to the road where I could hall a wagon I had clods on my feet as big as the base of the
suiuie 01 iioerty. "I was roaring, raving, frantic mad. hen I got to New York my first call was on the officials of the road I wanted that conductor fired. I had to
inn-it iew every cussed little petty official of the road before I got to tho president. Every one of them Insulted me In the most judicial way. U hen I got to the president I was a howling, ripping, maniac. Ho listened to me for a moment and tnhi hia c-
retary to 'throw that ruffian down-stairs.
"And the secretary wnntH hnv ,i.
, too, if I hadn't beat him to It. As
buun as 1 could get to my broker I told him to buy the controlling interest In thnt road. It took me a week to get it and I had to climb for somo of the stock. Then I threw out every
"""- I. iicui Bcurueu me. I was
V... 1 . . l"io tJk lilt? churches said t would ho "Bmutn..
to permit paid entertainments to be . While a posse of 20 armed men. who
ueiu m tne cuurclies." "' captured Ancll Zimmerman charic-
p""" """.ving num. tne nine-year No More Option Elections at Present. !d daughter of Harry Wrlcht. n..ir
It is officially announced by E S "arfaw was debating his fate, the Shumaker. Superintendent of the Ant caJ! ,ve scaped. Saloon League of the State that no , Zimmerman was dismissed by the action will be taknn thi 0'm,- . " foreman of a ganir of workmen . ra-
- smaw UUIlllllUl I A" I .
ward calling a County ontion election "V1 .n aa wterurban line for l-
m Marion Coimtv. "At 11,1 .1 K urunK.
said Mr. Shumaker. "it doos nnt BDnm Ho started to walk toward Warsaw
oiuwiiuii iii t 110 vv riihf rim.
" IfMlh Win-
where the child was playing In t bayard, the men being In the fields, and tho mother nt some distance.
1 ne man attacked the child, warned
uvo .IUI, SCVll advisable to attempt to vote Indian
Father and Son In Bloody Floht.
....... 1 1 no. mnn oitnoL.n.i .n i .-.,.)
William J. Adams, laborer, nn.i 1,1 1.: ,";."u'
nomo'ÄoS" ftt HWSt'KSK
slashed his father Through one eve and fKl?". l ülnm:rtMfl tho oi.inr Aiinmc nnu T,le earning was answered by farm
; irT.."'1"" " us boh era nnd Interurban emnloves. who
o,..i ...... r:"" " "" uiiiivu lucmseives and enncht tlio fu
r"7,:.V.T" ""ws .w xn n,s ?. d EUlve. A part of the nosse s farted to
... uuii t, Berea two arteries. He beat tho rnntiv in.....K.
I ' w v UVU LUIT 111 WM
uiuii inienereu. in the argument that
unsueu tne prisoner escaped.
may die from loss of blood.
Jersey Bull Brings $11,000.
Derry's Golden Jolly, a high-class
- . " . . .. i.t)ii-viao9 Jersey bull, was sold for $11,000 at
Indiana Oil Field Declines. I Tho nil nnl.la 1 .. .. t....... 1
. ....... . n ill lliv USlin 1VUHI1VH1 111 IMO niinim! cn a V, w" "vtua Ul llllll.lll.l
pincid state of mind, when one day I Jersey Isle Stock Farm Tho hlrrh SrVater dec,no hi 190S than any oth.r fva,hfatnllar,faCe,at,the track. It priced animal wit i he owner Jf ?eld S th? Un,,od Stntos' Thls 1,1 ws the conductor who had thrown me the Sheffield Farm at Glendale Ohio furn,,at,P" ,s contalned in a report .f off. He waved to me blandly. 'Just This is the highest price e?e nald tor he UnIted States GeoloR!caI Sur-, bought a little place out this way.' he a bull this side of the AHe-henles JnSt mat.,, "ub,,c' Thc docllne ,n sa d. "iou know that stock you bought one Jersey bull selling for Si" 000 In d,ana oil I,rod"ct'n was nearly :w belonged to us. The X. M. & z. was tho East a few vears aco per cent, as compared with mi. Th.a close corporation ind wo i-nf b decline of the Inrilnnn nil floh! is .mi. I
mad on purpose. Wo stung you koo.1 " St. Louis Republic.
Churubusco Editor Dead.
Virgil A. Geiger, editor of the Chur-
The Habcock fom l ihn'nni.. .t. .
1 ... 111 lllt'UlOll thy which you can bo certain that your
cows are irivinc von
Remember that the first grass of 'tho spring is rather a light and fllmSy feed. It has not the food properties of
vuv-- IUICI lilSS. Make It a rule to cut sprouts from the orchard trees threo times durlntr tho first of September.
uon t turn the stock on tho pastures while thoy are soft. You will lose more In damage to the grass than you
, -""i iiv: num. 1 no urummer did nnt mil trn II
about 8 o'clock, and ihn iit.-.
waH worried. When hommn i,
afoot. Ho handed the liveryman a sliver dollar nnd a silver half l v tSli "-I?, ycr-nian: "where Is ray horse?" Tho i nimmn. 1 .
surprised. ,UUKt'u "Why," he said, "In Wlllowdale, of course. I on v wnnimi '
there. I came back on tho train. He's hitched In front of the church "1Galveston (TexasJ News.
Sicily Lemons.
About one-third of the total lemon crop of Sicily la consumed In the manufacture of citrate of lime nnd from the peel of these same lemons :omes the enormous quantity of esäentlnl oil, or essence of lemon, which furnishes brnctlcallv tho
ply, and finally even the peel Itself
is uxpurieu in urine to be candled.
further shown by statistics which ac
company the ronort. In inn? Inrlinna
produced 5.128.032 barrels of crude p-
ubusco Truth, and wI.ToK- vm, Jn in ' "t.: en.r 8 ?r cr"' "
fh u'not,., o, rir , . "u,," which was va ueu at Lor 2 )5 M.fClhWnt hU" ma, average of S8 cents a barn I. ZinllJ ei.k; Deat l Was In 190S- cording to the figures just uue to n nervous bronK-ilnwn u -..o i. 1 . v .
n mnn f 7 , . . . tuiiiinvifu, inuiniia prouueeu 3.2j.--' JhoBIt Ä..n"l Lbe barr's of crude petroleum, of a total
ilfo rönn,V.n.. I. . , . ' . va,u0 or 53.203.SS3, a little more tlian life repeatedly threatened. Twice ho 91 V, cents n hnrr,.i nvor.nr,o nrirr in
was in automobile ncMdontn whon m, m t.i n. . ' i.
Monetary. When we hear a clrl
iresses and shoes aa frocks and boots
wu kuow nur iatner is making more money than he used to.Ohlo State Journal.
Pope Leo X. Tho great Leo X. was Pope nt thirty-eight. Having finished his acad. mlc training, ho took tho nnw t " '
. , . i.JiiMU v uibn--i;u, iweivo months tt la nlu-nvn oif "i-4k. 1 1 , . "luntns
" , r iu vvnere you''uu"tcl l"rt" "i,n v-naries JanioH Pnv can help another. ou,-hen he entered Parliament
were drilled in 1908. of which i.u
were producers.
"Black Hand" Demands Monev.
r Nathan Payne, a wealthy farmer of
his machines were blown up and de
iiuyeu. Short Weight Crusade On.
As one Sten in tho rrimn.l.. nonlnot
nt.n. ... i iV . . "ft"""" iuviiiiii x-ujiiu, a vyvniiny lanni'r h BhOrt Weicht COOds In Indlnnn TTnlln.l .. .. . . J . .
States Marshal Alonzo Boyd and Pure ea8lIC- turt-'d ovcr to föderal auFood Inspector Jenkins came to Rich- thorltles a "Black Hnnd" letter. The mond nnd seized nhnnt ir.nn wnri, nt lnttor nrdnroil him fn nlnnn tKOCi nn
.. ,. yWVV Ul W.I - . W I'll'f V V V - Canned apricots at n local wholesale tho northeast pier of the bridge over
w. vii,- luuim w u nun a riatrocK ureeK. ir tins is not ann pound short to tho can. the letter says, his barn will lw
burned, and another demand for Jl.Oi'O r.hlrnil nmmm AI.L. f l I . I ..... . ... T .. i
t, , u "'"I tiiiuciiicmcru. win uo maue, wincu it not compn' llobort Pomnr. flln rlnrlr In Pni ItVlV-l ...III. ...Ill . 1 1 I 1.1 I .. I..l.ii,
. , vv.u.i; IUI III I II IL iU IIIS IIOIIIU Ufll rrlnt-L- Olllll'o ndl.. T.. .11 .11- I .... . . . .. . ...
vv.... ..... a ' v v. , juiiiitiiatiuiiH, was uurneu, anu implies muruor or mm or nrrostoil nn Inn nfflJm.lto ntmnt. .... i. . .. li . n ..
... vuni eins i nn.-iiiuv.-iM ui ins iniuiiy. rnrinure lllm tl-lfft. Anilin, flm I . . 1 I ... . I ... .... ... -
...... ciiiuiiALiriiii.in ill iiiiiiim t ui m i . Diia.ninir . w n ir.v. m. Mini., m.i.i. minK.
.1 i . " hliniume, VIIVJ IIU1IIU ML tilUV 1111 b'" ing through his hands. Tho letter was mailed In Newcastle.