Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 24, Petersburg, Pike County, 26 October 1894 — Page 7

AFFAIRS AT PULLMAN, As Shown hfr the President's Annual Report—Chartres of Inhumanity Answered, and the Company's Solicitude for the Welfare of Its Km ploy ec Declared—Increased Wares Realised Under the Old Seale. .Chicago, Oct. 19.—Unusual interest attached to the annual meeting of the Pullman Palace Car Co., held yesterday, on account of the part taken by the company in the last big railroad strike. As expected, President Pullman, in his report, referred to the strike at some length, answering the charges of inhumanity which have been made against him from time to time. The usual quarterly dividend of $2 a share was declared, which shows that the company, was affected but little by the . cessation of work at the Chicago shops. As the fiscal year ended July 81, 1894, the report covers the biggest part of the World's fair business. <, All the old directors were re-elected, as follows:- George M. Pullman, Marshal Field, J. J. W. Doane, Norman Williams and G. & A. Sprague, Chicago; Henry C. Hulbert, New York, and Henry R. Reed, Boston. The surplus for the year is $2,820,416.90. - Last year's surplus was $4,000,000. In his repiort Mr. Pullman said, in reference to the strike: ‘'There has been no substantial change in the oarbuilding business, and the contracts taken by us before the strike and those taken since the strike are being executed at prices that give no profit, and

sucn contracts are taken because tne shops are being kept in operation for the repairing of the company's own •cars, and to give as much employment as possible in the present condition of business. I have learned in various ways that a good many persons during the strike lost sight of its true origin, and gained the impression that it was influenced by the house rents at Pullman not being lowered when wages were reduced from the high scale of the spring of 1893. This is not true. “The number of men mow employed at the shops is 2,640 and the scale of wages now is the same as that existing at the time of the strike, and rents are promptly paid. As to the tenants who were not re-employed, none of them were evicted, or unduly pressed for their arrearages of rent; there has been a gradual voluntary departure of unemployed tenants constantly going on, as they have found work elsewhere and there are now 279 of them remaining. ^“Of the present force at the shops only about 300 are new employes, and the remainder have returned to their former work, with, I believe, a widely pervading feeling that they have learned by experience that this company was earnest in befriending them in seeking work for them when little was to be had, and in giving them work at wages which the selling price of their product did not justify, and that the genuineness of the interest of this company in their •welfare is far more to be trusted than the promises of the agitators who misled them. “By increased attention to their work the mechanics have, under the same scale of piece-work prices, increased their average daily earnings from 92.03 in last April to $2.16 in the last half of September, the latest report received. “The fiscal report says 5,282,828 passengers were carried during the year. The difference between this year’s surplus and that of last year is explained by the (difference in travel on aocount of the strike.”

UNDER ARREST. The Pollee of PorkopolU Think They Have One of the Acqula Creek Train Robbers. Cincinnati, Oct. 18. —The police have under arrest a man who says his name is Charles A. Morgan field and that he livesin Ripley county, Tenn. The prisoner is alleged by the police *to be one of thesrobbers who held up a train near Acquia Creek. Va., a few days:ngo, and robbed the Adams express car of a large -sum-of money. Morganfield was fount! lying beside the Cinoidnati, Hamilton .& Dayton railroad track at Chester park'yesterday morning, with a broken leg, having fallen while attempting to board a freight. "When.searched, over 9500 was found concealed in his clothing, and .a box of pills with a Cumberland, Md., Address. The description «f the man tallies worth.advices received here from AV ashington. At the hospital it was started that the man’s leg would have to be amputated. IMPRISONED BY WATER. a __ Narrow Escape of Seven Men fro— Dos—Bi * in* in » Pennsylvania Mine. Wilke SB arbe, Pa.. Oct. 19.—The news has come out that on Wednesday night seven men were imprisoned in m the Honeybrook mine, near Hazelton, m/T this county, by a rush of water, and f narrowly escaped with their lhr.es. The matter was kept very quiet by the company. The men were engaged in drawing the water which had collected in the mines. The water flowed to the bottom of the slope in a great body, filling the “sump” immediately and the gangway to the roof. The {ramping machinery was put in motion, pud the pumping was kept up until yesterday, when the men were all safety taken out and removed to their hemes. Miners Ambushed. Ashland, Ky., Oct. 19.—The outbreak that has been expected forborne days in the Carter county mining district came yesterday morning in the ambushingdif the miners of the Straight Creek Coal Co. by the strikers. The miners were fired upon from the bushes along the hills as they were en route to the mine and a number were wounded. Jack Marcum and John Morris were perhaps fatally shot, while Bob Evans, John Adams and several whose name* were not secured were also reported as badly injured. The bullets in each ease cams from Winchester rifles- • {

AGRICULTURAL HINTS. MAKING HALTERS. KaCfMtloiUi That Hurt Bmi Tested end. Found Freetleeble. I have a cheap and simple device for halters and ties, which may be of service to your readers who cannot afford the swinging or other stanchion in lieu of a tie. In Fig-. 1 r is X'tach grass rope; o, a common round-eye snap; b is l^-inch iron ting. Rope is cut to length for X _

riu. i. collar; an “eye-splice” is turned into snap and ring; another eye-splice in the other side of ring, at e, forms the tie. To make eye-splice, unlay strands two inches, pass them through the ring or eye of snap, and stick two strands between the laid-up strands of the rope, leaving enough rope to form - the eye. Draw the unlaid strand through. ^ Begin with the tt^ird unlaid strand to splice, by sticking it under the next strand to the left; then the second strand to the left over and under. When each strand has been stuck once, they are drawn through close, and worked down smooth. (Fig. 2). It will be sufficient to repeat this so that each strand will be-stuck twioe

FIG. Z. under the parts of the rope. Unless the rope is tightly laid up the splicing may / be done without a sailor's ‘•pricker” or ‘‘marlin pricker.” A sharpened hardwood stick a little largefr than the strand of the rope will make the pricker. In the same way a cheap hadter for staking ont cows or horses may be made as shown in Fig. 3. The„ head stall is in three piecea

mo. 8. and only two ring's are required. The halter or tethering part is passed through a ring'on one side, then under the jaw and spliced to the opposite ring. Thus a :pull on the rope draws the rings together and puts the strain where the animal will not stand it long. These suggestions may savor of the salt sea, but they have been tested and found practicable.—Dabney M. Seales, in Country Gentleman. THE FEEDING OF GRAIN.

Chute from Green to urjr Food Should Be Made Gradually. While it is an important item to lessen the cost of feeding the stock through the winter as much as possible, it is of no advantage to do this at the expense of growth or gain. Roughness, such as hay. straw and fodder, is nearly always cheaper than grain of any kind, and in very many cases, where a good shelter is provided, a good growthy condition can be maintained by feeding plenty of roughness with a little bran or ground grain. Generally, the more comfortable the shelter, the less grain will be needed. But it is a mistake to defer commencing to feed the grain until the stock have been allowed to commence falling off. If the stock are to be kept through the winter in a good condition at a low cost, it is very important that they be in a good condition in the fall when it is necessary to depend upon dry feed. The change from green to dry feeding should always be made gradually, in order to avoid any ill effects, dt is also best to commence feeding a light ration of grain in good season. By commencing before the stock begins to fail, a very light ration will be all that is necessary; but after the atock once gets started to running down, it will require considerable more {feed -to keep thrifty. The amount of grain that will he needed will vary considerably and .can only be determined by the condition of the animals, and the .condition 'Under which they are fed. The economy in providing shelter, in feeding and watering regularly, in snaking comfortable by providing eLean bedding, is that less grain is needed, but it wild not answer .to conclude that growing stock, because they are made comfortable, can always be kept thrifty} through the winter without grain. The object in supplying these is to reduce the cost as much as possible, and at the same time maintain a thrifty' condition, but, when necessary, grain . should be supplied, and the safest as well as most economical plan is to commence in good season giving a light ration and increasing as the needs of the animal seem to demand. —K, J. Shepherd, in Prairie Farmer. UVE STOCK NOTES, The best pays in all things pertain* ing to stock. Clean stables have ranch to do with success in batter making Better breeding and handling have made the average fleece weigh more than it did twenty years agd Wheat is rich in nutriment, and at present prices is a good and cheap feed for bortes. Use it mixed with Ovher flood.

HOW fO STORE CORN. New mad Ta liable Ideas Advance* by Jouathaa Perlam. Jonathan Periam, a well-known authority on agricultural topics, makes some valuable suggestions about the care of corn between the times of bar-’, ▼est and consumption. He thinks the cereal would be far more attractive to Europeans if offered to them in better, shape, and that the average American consumer w||f’d like food prepared from corn much better were it not for the fact that it is allowed to become musty, soured or bitter as to the germ, which destroys its integrity as a food grain. He boldly advances the statement that, one year with another, Indian corn kept in wide cribs through the winter and subsequently in the commercial elevators is not in a proper condition to be used for human food, nor is it in the best state for the fattening of live stock. It is not strange that Europeans decline to use it as food when the ordinary hog will refuse to touch corn a year old if laid side by side with a sufficient quantity of newly plucked corn taken directly from the fields of the west in October. If the corn could be carried to Europe in its perfect state the people of that part of the

\vorld would take kindly to it as a precious food. Ear corn, kept in the ordinary way in the wide cribs of the west, heats in the winter or early springs It acquires a bitter or musty taste while on the cob, and when shelled the chemical process thus sta rted goes steadily forward in the ordinary elevator, even if the airing has been fairly carried on. Corn that will germinate promptly neither has been heated in the crib' nor has the germ been severely frozen. Seedsmen compass this by plucking the corn when just ripe, before freezing weather, and drying it artificially. The Indians knew how to accomplish this in a better way. They selected the best ears and placed them in holes in the ground, points downward. without removing the husk, the holes having a capacity of about two bushels each, and being lined with rushes if necessary to dryness. The deposit was mounded over with earth, and the seeds never failed to grow promptly when planted. The secret of the process was complete exclusion from the air. Mr. Periam says when corn once has got out of condition it cannot be restored Jx> soundness. It will make musty flour and meal in spite of sulphuring and polishing, which may deceive the superficial observer but not the chemist. He advocates the building of storehouses in which corn and other food products could be kept in air-tight chambers, and does not believe it would cost more than store room constructed on the preseht wasteful plan. The principle used in canning fruits and vegetables—exclusion of the air —might be extended in a more simple way to the cereals through storage elevators. When this is done we may have pure materials in the cereals used for human sustenance, and human ingenuity will find the means of doing this economically. Both domestic and foreign consumers would pay 'more for the flour and meal from grain thus kept than for what is made from grain that is musty, smutty, mildewed, sweated or infested with weevil, such as too often comes from our present system of warehouse storage. It is certain that all the cereals are far better as food if containing normal moisture of about 15 per cent, than after the moisture has been artificially eliminated by kiln drying or other manipulation.—Chicago Tribune. FEEDS ON CATERPILLARS. A Parasite Which Does uood Work for the , Fruit Grower. The accompanying illustration represents one of the green sphinx caterpillars so frequently found feeding upon the leaves of wild Cherry trees, grapevines, efc. The specimen in question, however, is greatly burdened with a large number of egg-shaped cocoons of a parasitic insect, an ichneumon fly, the cocoons sticking out of the caterpillar’s skin the same as bristles on a round brush. This parasitic insect, on maturing in its shell, bursts the upper end thereof, crawls out, and then sails forth on its own wings. The minute ichneumon flies lay their tiny eggs in the skin of the caterpillar, and from

FAKASITES OS A CATERPILLAR. these eggs hatch the' larvae, which live within, :and yet their nourishment from the caterpillar. The caterpillars infested by these parasites dae before attaining maturity.; but if healthy caterpillars that are next burdened with the parasitic cocoons be foand, it is possible to obtain a pupa or chrj-salis which, when properly kept, will change the following year to a moth belonging to the sphinx or hawk moths, which in the morning and evening twilight dart swiftly from Sower to Sower in search of honey as their food.—Scientific American. There is no profit in raising cal vet unless they are well fed and cared for from the start. When brought from the pasture in the fall they should be stalled the same as the other cattle, that each may get its share of food. See that the pasture fences are all right just now. Many a good beast has been lost because a poor fence let it into the o»rn field

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THE MAKKETS. New York. Oct 22, 1891 CATTLE—Native Steers.|4 35 a 5 15 OOTTON—Middling. 5X0 « FLOCK-Winter Wheat. 2 85 ® 8 00 WHEAT—No. 2 lied.. 5«H CORN-No.2. 55v*0 55* •ATS—No. 2.. .. 31 Vi® **X PORK—New Mess. 14 25 (4, 15 .-o 4 ST. LOUIS COTTON—Middling. 5*0 54 KKKVKS—Shipping Steers... .Hi a 8 00 Medium. 4 45 4% 5 -r>0 HOGS—FairtoSelect. 4 50 a 4 80 allKEP—Fair to Choice. 2 25 a 2 7» FLOUR—Patents. . 40 a 2 55 Fancy to Extra do.. 2T0 0 2 20 WHEAT-No.2 Red Winter... 4840 484 COKN—No. 2 Mixed. (3 45,4 OATS—Nc. 2. a 184 U YE—No. 2. 49 ® M»H TOBACCO—Lugs. 4 00 (TS 12 00 Leaf Hurley....... 800 0 18 00 HAY—Clear Timothy . 8 r0 44 10*5 BUTTER—Choice Dairy_ M 0 19 EGGS—Fresh. ...' Si HH POKK—Standartl Mess (new).. 13 25 0 13 374 UACON—Clear Klh. 740 "4 LA Kl>-Prime Steam. OX® 7 CHICAGO CATTLE—Shipping . 4 50 a 6 15 HOGS— Fnirto Choice. 4 7» a 5 25 SHEEF—Fair to Choice. 2 25 0 2 7» FLOUli— Winter Patents. .... 2 50 Spring Patents.. S *i0 a 5i x® ® WHEAT—No.2 Spring No. 2 Ked. COKN—No. 2.. OATS—No.S. ...... .... .... POKK—Mess they). 12 25 4 KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Shipping Steers 3 25 S HOGS—A!1 Grades. 4 00 (i WHEAT-No.2 Ked ... . 4 OATS—No 2. 28 4 COKN—No 2.... S NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR—High Grade. 2 81 <? CORN—No. 2. ... Ci DAI'S—Western. 36 { HAY—Choice. 15 00 S PORK—New Mess. 4 BACON—Sides......- .... & COTTON—Middling. 4 •* LOUISVILLE WHEAT—No.2 Red. fO 4 CORN—No 2 Mixed.. 53 4 OATS—No.2 Mixed (New).... 30 4 PORK—New Mess. 13 00 4 UACON—Clear Rib. 844 • h 5TTON—Middling. S 13

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