Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 5, Petersburg, Pike County, 9 June 1899 — Page 7

UPSET THE PRESIDENT. How Vnn Barca Wax Convinced That Better Ronds Were heeded In the Meat , Dumping a man in a mud puddle it rather a drastic way of changing his convictions, yet such was the means by which President Van Buren became a convert to a good-roads movement started in Indiana away back in the o thirties. There had been considerable protest against the condition of the western highways, but Van Buren was opposed to what he looked upon as a needless expenditure of money in times of financial stress. Finally be decided to make an investigation for himself, and planned a trip from Wasshjpgton to St. Louis. The stage co^eh run between Indianapolis and Tcrre Haute was under the charge of a whig named

INDIANA’S HISTORIC ELM, (Under This Tree Van Buren was Upset In •i , the Mud.) Hale, who was determined to give the president a practical demonstration of the necessity of additional improvements over his part of the road, at least. He entered into a contract with his driver, Mason Wright, the latter agreeing, in consideration of a five-dol-lar hat and relief from all damage that might accrue, to dump the president in one of the deepest mud holes along the line, ; • The plot was carried out in all its details, and the presidential party upset under an elm tree near Plainfield, Ind. The president landed on all fours —if such a description is possible—and, as a dutiful lieutenant, the secretary of state followed his lead and wallowed in the mud and water. Wright caught the stage and did not get very deep in the mud. President Van Buren and his ' secretary flonudered around until they found a root of the old elm, and, standing ip the mud almost up to their waists, they waited until the crowd pulled them out. The historic old elm stands as stately and as full of life now as on the day when the roots gave the president of the nation a plunge. But the road that passes along beside it is no longer a mire of mud. The highway passed under the state an* private tollgate regime and was improved into passable shape. MONEY WELL SPENT. -— ; : ! • Every Cent Paid for the Improvement of Road* li Sore to Pay a Large Dividend. *

The construction of good roads has received wide attention in this country, but as yet no practical system has been devised by which any considerable portion of our roads can be improved. The construction of good roads on any except a gravel soil & a costly business, so expensive that the farmers simply cannot bear the burden. It would amount to confiscation of the farms if the burden were placed upon them, for on black prairie soil, for instance, there must be a deep, solid foundation laid. Gravel on such a soil will not stand. It will go down out of sight during the spring thaws. Where such roads exist wide tires would go a long ways toward preserving them, but it would be a long time before everybody adopted wide tires. But bad roads are very expensive. The wear and tear of wagons, harness and horses which they enttfil amount to many millions of dollars in a year, and the farmer is 6hut out of the market and from all social intercourse with neighbors frequently for long periods. All this is a loss and a serious one, ao perious that in many sections where the conditions arc all together favorable to road improvements there should be no negligence in this matter. No one should object to the small outlay necessary to make a good serviceable road when only a small outlay is needed. Every road should be made as good as it is possible to make it at reasonable expense, for money thus expended will pay a large dividend.—Agricultural Egitomist^ ^ ^ ^ir' ' Smooth Resrnlar Surface. ''The peculiar feature of a road grader is that it cuts away the dirt at the side of the road, and draws it up into the middle, thus producing a ditch at each side and a slope in each direction from the center. At the same time It will cut away the dirt to just the proper depth and no deeper. In this particular, its work differs from that accomplished by the use of plows, shovels or hand scrapers. The road grader leaves a smooth, regular surface, giving the road the proper contour. A dirt or a gravel road can be put into excellent shape by running the grader repeatedly over it. Care should be taken first to remove the brush and rubbish from the side of the road, that the grader may not earrv it into the traveled roadway.

FIGHTING THE. INSECTS. V«w to Kill Cntirerai, Wl wworm^ Crasahofprn. Float Mltea and Other PciU. When plants are attacked by insects tt is not always advisable or effective to apply poisons directly to the plants infested. This is particularly in cases where trouble is experienced from cutworms, wireworms and grasshoppers. In such cases the use of-w hat is culled poisoned bait has proven very satisfactory. In many Helds a mixture of bran, molasses and arsenic is used to kill cutworms. Cutworms and wireworms can also be baited by distributing poisoned succulent vegetation such as freshly cut clover, in small'bunches about inI fested fields. The bait should be dij ed in a strong arsenical solution and protected from drying by coverings of boards or shades. Sach bait must be renewed from time to time as it becomes dry. The agricultural department recommends the following: For locusts take one part, by weight, of white arsenic (costing about ten eents a pound), one part «f sugar and six parts of bran, to which add water to make a wet mash. Place a tablespoonful of this at the base of each tree or vine, or apply a line of baits just ahead of the advancing army of insects, using j a tablespoonful of the mash every sis | or eight feet, and following up with I another line just behind and alternating with the first. Flower of sulphur is one of the beat remedies for plant mites, such as the red spider. Applied at the rate of one ounce to a gallon of water or mixed with some other insectide such as kerosene emulsion, it is a very effective I remedy. For the rust mite, sprinkling the sulphur about under the tree is sometimes sufficient in moist climates to keep the fruit bright.—-Journal ol Agriculture. A FIELD TOOL BOX. Simple Contrivance That Will Saw a lot of Time and n Great Deal ol Annoyance. To be continually going back and forth from field to house and from house to field for tools and seeds, some of which have been forgotten on the first trip, entails much needless labor upon the‘farmer. An excellent plan is to have a long, commodious box that

V FIELD TOOL BOX. will hold all the small tools, the seed and the commercial fertilizer, and to take in it all necessary articles to the field and to keep them there. The box should therefore shed water and should be provided with lock and key. If made in the form shown in the cut a horse can be hitched to it, when it can be drawn to the field without loading it upon a drag or cart. The bottom boards run lengthwise and project in front, turning up to enable the box to pass readily over any inequalities in the ground. Such a device will save many steps and much time that might be lost in going for articles that by this plan are always right at hand.—X. Y. Tribune.

GOOD SELLING APPLES. «*• They Must Be of Good Stse, of Fats Appearance and of the Very Best Quality. Under average conditions, when grown especially for market, winter apples pay the best profit. But, as with all. other farm products, if the best prices are realized they must be what the market demands. With fruits of all kinds it is useless to plant trees unless they are vigorous, hardy and productive. The fruit must keep well as well as sell well to consumers. The fruit must be of a good size, of fair appearance and of good quality. Goodsized, smooth, nice red apples sell better than any other kind. Size and color are the two most important items. Good keeping qualities and good quality of fruit come second. A nice red apple of good size even of poor quality sells better than apples of a better quality but not nice looking. In selecting varieties for a commercial orchard this fact should always be i i ke^t ip mind, us tue jjowing of an | chard to maturity requires too long a I time and costs toq much«to make mistakes. So with many other products, it costs no more to grow something the market will pay the most for than it j does to grow a lower grade.—N. J. Shepherd, in Farmers* Voice. Tomatoes oa Potatoes. We think that experiment showed some years ago ..that by bringing a growing tomato plant in a pot close enough to a potato vine to allow part of each to be cut away, both might be made to grow together. But it was regarded as a fanciful waste of time, and that the success could never be repeated to be of practical importance. That is yet our opinion, notwithstanding the United States experiment station has been repeating the experiment, and has issued a bulletin on the subject. A crop of potatoes below and of tomatoes above ground is oow the promise. But of what good will this be when the extra cost in grafting will be greater than both crops sre worth? It is worth while sometimes to remember Benjamin Franklin’s little story about paying too dew lor the whistle.—American Cultivator

feti of tke Japaacae Cktltfrea. For pets the children have a kind o» tiny rabbits and a queer breed of cats. The cats have white fur with black and yellow spots, and do not have tails. I Tiny dogs also sometimes are seen. j Iu the houses of families of moderate j circumstances there is usually anj aquarium well stocked with beautiful! and curious varieties of fish, gold, sil- | ver and crimson, some as round as a ; ball, some with spreading fins as fine , as gauze. Another pet is the large ' katydid, whose piercing note is very j much enjoyed by the children. The | katydids are very numerous in certain 1 places in the summer. As a residence ' for these treasures they have bamboo | cages, built like tiny houses, in which they daily arrange beds of fresh flow- j ers or leaves for the minstrels. Gaily-! colored butterflies are sometimes kept ’ in the same kind of cage upon beds of ,flowers. Butterflies have been seen to alight voluntarily on children’s hands; , and in Japan, birds, too, show that they 1 are not afraid of man or child. — St 1 Nicholas. A QqmHvb of Ttaftea. The question of tongues has . for j | many years past caused much bad blood i and still worse language througout the empire. Every idiom claims a right to i oust every other idiom. This is natural and patriotic. Every people likes its \ own tongue best. The first step of the | Maygars on receiving autonomy in 1867 j was to proscribe German and discourI ape every language but their own. Their last move, at the close of 185)7, has I been to replace the names of German I towns and districts with Hungarian I ones. In Austria proper the language t dispute raged principally in Bohemia, [ Moravia and Silesia, where the propori tion of Germans to Czechs is approxi- | mately as two-fifths to three-fifths. ; Now, of all the nationalities in the monI archy, the Germans are the least agi gressive and the most amenable to reason. They have always rested the claims of their language on its own merits, and have done nothing politically to support them. — Contemporary | lieview.

Children on “Tattlln*.** Not long ago 3,060 schoolchildren in Utica were asked by Superintendent S Griffith to give their written opinion— anonymously, it is supposed—as to whether one pupil should testify against another. Voluntary telling, or “tattling,” was not meant in the test, but only 15 per cent, of the children noted the distinction, so that the result may be accepted as the children’s opinion of the “tattler.” The question was asked whether it was right or wrong, and it appears that of the 2,834 who answered the question 494 boys, or 3S per cent, and 375 girls, or 23 per cent, considered it right to tell—the largest percentage of both regarding it as wrong. —X. Y. Sun. A Discovery. Cholly Addlepate—I ttattah myself, bah jove! that I’m quite a student of aw—woman’s nature. 1 have discovered that a woman’s “no” oftens means “yes.” ' - Willie Xoddlekins—Say, that’s so, but I nevah thought of it befoah. Now, lawst night I awsked Miss Plunks if she didn’t want to go to the aw—theater next Saturday evening, and she said no. “Bah jove! and she meant ’yes.’ ” “1'ni suah she did, foh I heard her tell that beastly Gawge Bonds, not ten minutes befoah, that she wanted awfully to go.”—Up-To-Date. I'Hinal Government Pension. The government is about to pay an unusual special pension claim to the widow of Lieut. Michael Moore, who, at the time of his death in Brooklyn last year, had served in the United States army continuously for 83 years, thus holding the world’s record for service of that character. _ He enlisted as a drummer boy at the outbreak of the war of 1812.—Chicago Tribune. The Wrong Word. “Newspapers make use of some very strange expressions,” remarked Mrs. Snaggs. “Do they?” replied her husband. “For instance, here is an article which speaks of speculators pocketing their losses, when I should suppose that they really unpocketed them.”— Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. Balked. Gayboie—Only one; just a little one. Miss Townley—Oh, no! I have no desire to be added to the list of girls you have kissed. * “I have never kissed a girl in my life.* “Oh, then I am not going to let you serve your apprenticeship on me.”— Harlem Life. L Great Britain a Warlike Nation. During the last 50 years Great Britain has been at war more frequently than any other nation. The total number pf large and small wars waged during that Parson Browning—I hear dat Uncle Eph’s boy, Jim, dun took de chickenpox at school. _~ - Brer BlaqkJey—Ya’as, dat Jim is a chip ob do ole block, an’ he liable to take anything kin to er chickin.—Up to Date. An Invitation to Keep On. “Oh, that I might die kissing you,” he exclaimed. “Well, 1 expect papa home almost any minute now,” she replied. — Chicago Evening News. How the Jellyfish Feeds. The jellyfish has no teeth, but uses himself as if he were a piece of paper, when hungry, getting his food and then wrapping himself about it.—Chicago Chronicle.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Canaries, in the mating season, seem to Tie with each other in the production of brilliant melody; and it is ad* mitted that the female birds always select the best singers for their mates. * The bee of Mexico does not “improve each shining hour.” As there is eery little cold weather there no necessity exists for laving in winter stores of honey, and the bee is therefore as lazy as a cockroach, The oldest tree on earth with an authenticated history is the great bhoo tree of Burma. For 30 centuries it has been held sacred to the Buddha, and no person is allowed to touch the trunk. When the leaves fall they are carried away as relics by pilgrims. The healthiest and rosiest girls of Europe are those representing the middle and poorer classes of Holland. They are the tidiest housekeepers in the world, and are rarely ill. Their good health is mainly due to the exercise they get in attending to their household duties. A thief had for weeks been stealing incandescent lamps in one of the Parisian theaters. The electrician caught him by arranging the wires so that when a lamp was removed an electric signal informed a man on the watch. When caught the rogue had two -burners in his pockets. The most beautiful and costly,fishes in the world come from China, and the rarest and most expensive of all is the brush-tail gold-fish. Specimens of these have sold for as high as £ 140 each, and. in Europe the prices range, from £50 to £100. The brush-tail gold-fish is so small that a five-shilling piece will cover it, and probably there is no living thing of its size find weight that i* worth so much money. IN REMOTE PLACES

Footlights on the stage were first use<l In Italy. Garrick was the first to use them on the English stag® in 1765. The Ainu women in Japan tattoo their faces to give them the appearance of men with whiskers. A vieyard on the Moselle which com tained only one acre of ground recently sold for $60,000, which is the highest price ever paid for vine land in the Moselle territory or probably in the whole* Rhine district. The better class of Russians keep their houses at almost fever heat dur* ing the winter. The result is that many of the occupants are susceptible to chills, and even in summer have to wear heavy garments. Africa is the most elevated of all the continents. It is the continent of “plateaus.” The great tableland fn the south has a mean altitude of over 3,500 feet; the wide tableland on the north has an average elevation of about I.30C feet. A peculiar way of committing suicide is practiced by the African tribes who dwell near Lake Nyassa. When a despondent tribesman tires of life he wades into the lake and patiently waits until an alligator approaches him with open mouth and swallows him. The czar is not less eareful of his life than his predecessors,* but he adopts different methods for safeguarding himself. Instead of having three trains ready when he is going on a journey, and leaving the anarchists to guess which train is conveying him, as his father did, he simply allows no one to know his plans. The route is published, but he never keeps to it. IN THE SCHOOLS. Prof. Hiram Corson, professor of English at Cornell, began life as a reporter in the United States senate. Senator N. B. Scott, of West Virginia, has offered to the West Virginia university a cash prize each year for the young woman excelling in oratory _ THE MARKETS: 1 ' New York. Jvne 5, 1S99. CATTLE—Native Steers $ 4 |« iii 5 36 Maiming . FLOUR—Winter Wheat.... 3 0 © 4 10 WHEAT-No. 2 Red. © 84* CORN-No. 2. © 40** OATS-No. 2...A. © 31 PunK— New Mess. 3 25 © 8 *.5 Si". LOUIS. COTTON—Midaang . 5\© St BEEVES—Steers .. 3 CO & 5 25 Cows and Heiters. 2 50 © 4 70 CALVES—iper loo).... 5 00 © 7 u0 HOGS—Fair to Choice. 3 40 © 3 87^ SHEEP—Fair to Choice.... 4 i d Hi 5 00 FLOUR—Faiems (new;— 3 85 © 4 00 Clear and Straight. 3 2) © 305 WHEAT—No. 2 Red Winter ... . it 78 CORN—No. 2...‘4# 33* OATS-No. 2....L........ .... © RYE—No. 2..... .... © TOBACCO—Lugs .. t i r © Leal Buriey.... 4 60 HAY—ClearTimothj. ICO ai Buriey... *%© BUTTER—Choice Dairy. EGGS—Fresh .. Fukiv—atandardMesstnew> BACON—Clear Bib. LARD—Prime Steam. CHICAGO. CATTLE—Native Steers....' 4 50 ©’ HOGS—Fair to Choice. 3 50 % SHEEP—Fair to Choice.... 3 50 © FLOUR—Winter Patents... 3 65 4* Spring Patents... 3 40 © WHEAT-No. 2 Spring. 75^# No. 2 Red.. 78*© CORN—No. 2 Mixed. .... © OATS-No. 2.,. -- : tt PORK—Mess (new).. 8 *»> © KANSAS CITY.. CATTLE—Native Steers.... 4 00 © HOGS—All Grades.. 3)0 ©. WHEAT—No. 2 Red. 78 © OATS-No. 2 Whne. iTft© CORN—No. 2. Hi NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR—High Grade....... 3 it) © CORN-No. 2. * © OATS—Western .. 54 © HAV—Choice .. 15 aO © : PuRK—Standard Mess. 0 *0 © BACON—Sides .. 5*0 COTTON—Middling ........ ..... © LOUISVILLE* WHEAT—No. 2 Red. 79 © CORN—No. 2 MUed. J5**® OATS—No. 2 Mixed.... US © PORK—New Mess. 8 75 © BACON—Clear Ribs.. 5%© COTTON—Middling . © 5%

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