People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1895 — Page 1

VOL. V.

A SOUVENIR EDITION.

The People’s Pilot will be issued in pictorial form of about forty pages -on the 19th of December, as a grand holiday souvenir of Kenselaer and Jasper county. It will be the most complete exposition es this rapidly developing city and county, that has ever been attempted, and it is hoped will compare favorably with the mammoth illustrated editions gotten up for older and larger towns. Messrs. Healey and Graham have been at work for a week securiiig the photographs of every public building, including ths schools, churches, county buildings, principal business blocks, mills, elevators, street views, and upwards of fifty of the better residences o'! the city and county, all of which will be

usqd in illustrating the paper. There will also be portraits of many of the prominent citizens and pushing business men. Accompanying these illustrations will be given as complete and forceful a resume of past, present and future of Jasper county as possible. A brief historical summary will be given; Hie natural agricultural worth of the soil truthfully described ; the drainage system, tiling methods, crops, stock and stockfeeding mentioned. The road improvements, land possibilities and in fact every thing that can possibly interest residents here, or those abroad who desire to come here. And the paper will ceftainly be of inestimable value for reference in the future. It will be a compendium of general information, including a classified business directory, complete with the name of every business man in town. An effort will be made to have descriptive articles on every meritorious feature, embracing secret societies, church societies, musical talent, bands, public health, etc. The growth and improvements of Rensselaer for the past year, will be carefully summarized; also the proposed improvements for the near future. The possibility of making Rensselaer a city of ten to twenty thousand people, by creating a manufacturing center and founding such schools as will make it the Athens of northwest Indiana, will form a department.

The editor of the Pilot desires to make this one edition of his paper of the greatest possible value to the whole community, and he asks the assistance of every one who can furnish data, or articles on any of the lines suggested and implied. He would appreciate sketches of each of the churches and church societies, secret societies, the schools, public improvements, fire department, agricultural specialties, and, in fact, any thing that would be appropriate for such a paper. The Pilot will be printed on the best of book paper, with an appropriate outer sheet for a cover. The price of extra copies will be ten cents, three for twenty-five cents and $5 per 100. Those desiring copies will please order at once, that provision may be made for them. The first pages of the paper will go to press next week, so contributors will please hand in their matter as early as possible.

Farm Loans.

We are prepared to make farm loans at a lower rate of interest than any other firm in Jasper county. The expenses will be as low as the lowest. Call and see us. Office in the Stockton & Williams Block, near the Couft House. Warren & Irwin

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT.

FOR THE FREE AND UNLIMITED COINAGE OF SILVER AND GOLD AT THE RARITY RATIO OF SIXTEEN TO ONE WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ANY OTHER NATION ON EARTH ~

Winter School of Agriculture.

The Winter School of Agriculture is designed to meet the wants of the young men and women who desire to excel in some agricultural pursuit-and who feel the need of more thoroughly preparing for their work, but can devote only the winter season to such preparation. The course has been arranged, therefore, to give the largest amount of information and assistance possible during the winter months and allow the students to the farm for the busy season. The subjects presented are those about which every one engaged in farming should have a definite knowledge of both the science and the art—the underlying principles and the best practice—relating thereto. In order to throw the light of science and experience upon these subjects, the faculty and specialists will be aided by practical lecturers who have been notably successful in the various agricultural pursuits. The class-room instruction will also be supplemented by laboratory practice in the dairy, veterinary hospital, judging of live stock, soil physics, horticulture and by visits of inspection to herds, farms and other points of interest. The extension of the term from eight to eleven weeks will permit more thorough instruction and thereby add greatlyr to the value of the work. Young women will find dairying, horticulture and poultry especially attractive and profitable subjects; and any who desire it may also take music, for which a moderate charge will be made; or, if qualified, enter without extra expense, the regular classes in drawing.. English, or mathematics. The courses of study outlined below will require the student to attend two winters to complete the work; hence, each student will be permitted to select, under the provisions named elsewhere, any three courses, leaving the others to be pursued the second winter. Any who q*ay desire to prepare for the regular agricultual courses will have an opportunity to do so while taking one or more courses in the Winter School of Agriculture. The endorsements of former students show that the Winter School of Agriculture has proved of great value to young persons about to engage in farming. It is therefore confidently commended to the attention of every ambitious young person who wishes to excel in some branch of agriculture.

The entire cost is very light in comparison with the advantages offered. Any energetic young person can earn in a single season the money necessary to meet all the expenses of a winter’s attendance. THE COURSE OF INSTRUCTION. The subjects for study are grouped into six courses; as follows: (1) Live stock husbandry and Veterinary hygiene. (2) Farm dairying. (3) Soils, Crops,, Manures and Farm building. (4) Horticulture, Economic Botany and Entomology. (5) Agricultural Chemistry, Bacteriology, Vegetable parasites and Rural Law. (6) Practical lectures by stockmen, farmers and horticulturists. Each of the above courses involves daily exercises in classroom or laboratory; and each student will be permitted to select from the above any three courses, including (for men) course (5). Provided, however, that no class will be formed in any course for. less than five students. LIVE STOCK HUSBANDRY AND VETERINARY HYGIENE—PROF. C. S. PLUMB AND PROF. A. W. BITTING. Breeds of live stock —their characteristics and adaptations; principles of breeding; heredity; atavism; cross-breeding; inbreeding and line-breeding; feeds and feeding—carbonaceous and nitrogenous foods; nutritive ratios; feeding standards and compounding rations; common diseases of live stock with curative and preventive treatment; sanitary care and management of herds and flocks. Students taking this course will have ample

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opportunity to judge live stock, trace and make out pedigrees, and make laboratory demonstrations showing the differences in the digestive organs of the various classes of domestic animals and the peculiarities in the form and structure of animals adapted to special purposes. FARM DAIRYING—PROF. C- S. AND MR. H. C. BECKMAN. Breeding, rearing and general management of dairy cattle; foods and food combinations in relation to the per cent of milk solids; health and thrift Of the animals and financial returns; milking ami care of milk; testing and creaming of milk; ripening of cream; churning, working and grading of butter; cheese making; disposition and utilization of dairy products and by-products. Students taking this course will have daily drill and practice in the use of modern methods of dairying, and they will conduct numerous experiments to determine the conditions essential to success in making and marketing gilt-edge butter. The instruction will be specially adapted to meet the conditions and needs of. those who expect to engage in farm, dairying.

SOILS, CROPS, MANURES FARM BUILDINGS. —PROF^ W. C. LATTA. Soils —their origin, classification, characteristics, impoverishment. improvement and adaptations; drainage—its relation to the physical condition and to the biological and chemical activity of the soil—its effect in wet and dry seasons—its cost and value—lands that need drainage—location, planning and construction of drains—farm sewerage and road drainage; irrigation —value and methods of—how far feasible in Indiana; tillage—purpose, depth, frequency and kinds of; comparison of the various cultural implements; principles of cropping, crop rotation and soil renewing crops; the making, saving, application and use of farm manures—relative cost and profit of using commercial and farm manures; the location, planning, grouping, construction, lighting and ventilation of farm buildings, including dwellings, general and special purpose barns, silos, etc. Laboratory experiments to determine the behavior of soils towards water, the effect of adding lime, humus, etc., to soils, and the inspection of buildings will prove attractive and valuable features of this course. HORTICULTURE, ECONOMIC BOTANY AND ENTOMOLOGY. PROF JAMES TROOP. Methods of establishing orchards and gardens; desirable sites and kinds of soil; preparation of the soil fertilizers; planting, pruning, thinning, harvesting, marketing and storing for winter use; market gardening as a business; plant diseases and their remedies; seed testing to determine vitality and best conditions for germination; harmful and beneficial insects —their structure, distribution, habits and methods of control; insecticides and their adaption to var-

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ious kinds of insects. Students taking this course will have laboratory practice in grafting and budding; in the detection of the impurities of farm and garden seeds; in the examination of diseased and insect-infested seeds, fruits and plants, and in the identification of fruits, grasses, weeds, etc. The class-room instruction will be supplemented by visits to greenhouses and nurseries in the vicinity. AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY—BY PROF. H. A. HUSTON Chemical composition and characteristics of soils; composition of coarse fodders, grains and byproducts; composition and value of fertilizers; manures and waste products; chemistrv of animal and plant nutrition; chemistry of fermentation and decay. The sujyects in this course will be treated with special reference to the needs of practical farmers, stockmen, dairymen and horticulturists. VEGETA3LE PARASITES—DR. J. C. ARTHUR. A general discussion of the more common’diseases es field crops, including rust, smut, scab, blight, mildew, etc. BACTERIOLOGY—PROF. SEVERANCE BURRAGE. A discussion of the nature, propagation, distribution, uses and effects of bacteria, with reference to the conditions which exist in the country; bacteria in ice, water and milk; conditions which favor or retard the development of disease-producing bacteria.

RTJRAL LAW —A. A. RICE, ESQ. Two lectures each week on farm law, a discussion of Indiana laws as related to highways, fences, water rights, ditching, live stock, weeds, trespassing, etc,, and the legal duties, rights and responsibilities of farmers. THE PURDUE FARM CLUB, A society conducted by the agricultural students, gives opportunity for drill in the discussion of many practical and economic questions, cultivates selfreliance and habits of independent thought and investigation, and thus admirably supplements the work of the classroom and laboratory in the training it affords. This society is a popular feature of the School of Agriculture as its weekly exercises, in which all the agricultural students take part, are pleasant, instructive and highly profitable. REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION Applicants for admission should be at least sixteen years of age and have a fair common school education. No entrance examination is required. Experience has shown that persons at least twenty years of age, who have had practical experience in farming, do the best work, derive the most good from the course and are best pleased with what they learned. EXPENSES. Residents of the State pay no tuition. Non-residents pay a tuition fee of SIO.OO. All students who do not hold free scholarships pay an incidental

and library fee of SIO.OO. Books will cost from $3.00 to $5.00. Furnished rooms can be rented at 75 cents to SI.OO per week. Table board in clubs ranges from $2.00 t 052.50 per week. The following is a fair estimate of the expenses for Indiana students: Room rent (11 weeks at 75 cents per week) ...$8.25 Board (11 weeks at $2.25 per week $24.75 Incidental fee(for those without scholarships SIO.OO Books. $3.00 Visits of inspection and miscellaneous expenses optional with the student $4.00 Total ~550.00 FREE SCHOLARSHIPS.

Two free scholarships are offered to each county farmers’ organization in Indiana. This includes county agricultural and horticultural societies, Farmers’ Clubs, Pomona Granges, Farmers’ Institutes, county assemblies of the Farmers’ Alliance, F. M. B. A., and Patrous of Industry. Candidates for free scholarships should be elected at a meeting of the organization, provided the same is held before the opening of the term. In case no meeting is held, the president and secretary may appoint the candidates and submit the same for the approval of the association at its next meeting. Blank certificates of appointment will be supplied to the secretaries of the above associations on application. Students who hold free scholarships will have no incidental fee to pay, but will be expected to honor the associations appointing them by earnest attention to the studies pursued, * DATE OF OPENING. Students will register and secure rooms and board on Monday, Jan. 6th, and recitations will begin at 8:15 a. m. Tuesday Jan. 7th, continuing without interruption until the close of the term on March 20th. Those who expect tq attend should register in advance. To all such, additional information in regard to board and rooms will be sent a week or two before the opening of the term. For further information concerning the agricultural courses. Address Prof. W. C. Latta, Lafayette, Ind. For information concerning the other courses in the University, Address Pres -J. H. Snart, Lafayette. Indiana

It is said the King of Portugal was in London not long since, and wnile there borrowed several million dollars, mortgaging the crown jewels estimated to be worth eight millions. The king got no gold. He simply gave his paper note and motgage to the money lenders, and they gave him their paper credit, and the people of Portugal must pay the debt if it is ever paid. The Milwaukee Advance pertinently asks why did not the king issue to his own people his notes in such form that they could circulate as money ? He could then have collected the debt back in revenue, just as he must do anyway, and he would at the same time have given the people a means of exchanging products and employing labor so thev could have something to pay with. Sure enough! And why do notour wise ones at Washington do that instead of issuing bonds to foreign credit mongers, and then taxing the people to pay them both usury and princi pie? Why don’t they? They will when the people have sense and courage enough to tell them to do so. At present the money lender holds the whip, and the people are afraid to vote him down.—Progressive Farmer.

The Value of Dollars.

The following is from a back number of The American, but is essentially up to date. It is a reply made by Mr. A. J. Chittenden to the two leading Congregationalist papers which had been depreciating “cheap silver dollars”: The editors of the Congregationalist and the Independent will favor aconsiderable number of their readers if they will answer the following questions: 1. Is there any known method of keeping gold dollars and

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silver dollars at par, unless they be regarded as money in law, and not as metal in the market? 2. As there could be no way to keep them equal in the market sense save by re-coinage once or twice a year, why then should the more abundant metal be recoined to suit the other when the growth of population and industries call" for more money in order to preserve the value of “dollars” in debts and contracts? 3. What principle of intelligence allows a thing to price itself to price everything else— not excepting justice and human rights? Can anything measure itself, or is price rather a relation of things in the market for which money stands as the symbol and instrument of transfer? Who made gold Deus Magnus over money and men? 4. When the London market for our silver dollars is quoted at seventy-two hundredths of a gold dollar have we not the right to inquire what the gold is worth? May we not say it stands at one dollar and thirtyeight cents? 5. Is the editor of the Congregationalist ready to raise the value of all papfr obligations so that each thousand dollars shall sell for one thousand three hundred and eighty dollars? 6. If silver is authorized by law for the purpose of a trade instrument, shall its value be maintained by law or ignored by a conspiracy of London and New York bankers. 7. Since the value of money depends upon the quantity, while the law gives the quality, what does it matter whether the government pays a few cents more or less for ,the silver made into dollars? If the government “makes” a margin on coinage and the government is the 'people, then the people get the profit as they ought toon all mineral deposits. 8. Since the people in making contracts, agree to pay U. S. dollars, if the Congress of banks proceeds with its program of discriminating between different forms of our ovlm money and thus changing the valQe 'of the people’s Contracts, would that be robbery or simply a transfer of the property from the debtor to the creditor?

9 If government may not do anything to impair the validity of contracts, does it ever become the duty of the government to protect the interest of the contractors equally? And is there any consistency in punishing anarchism among the poor, while it is allowed to plan and and work unrestrained among the rich? 10 Since we have had two very respecable financial crises within ten years, and each owing to a stringency of money purposely made in the money centres, how is the suspension of silvercoinage to bring relief to the present one now about three years old, and threatening death to the nation, because we coin money to bury it in the Treasury and not use it to pay debts? 11. If we have the power to force the Secretary of the Treasury and the bankers of the United States to obey the laws of the land, would it not be a good experiment to try the effect of a little vigorous constitutional “force” at headquarters, before we talk of “forcing” silver dollars upon the people who have never been known to refuse anything that would pay a debt and save their property from confiscation. 12. If there is not gold enough in the world to supply money for a single nation, what must all the other nations of the world do Jf England had it all?—must we stop before being born or must we pull the stakes or civilization and fall back on barbarism and barter for our base of supplies, or have some homemade money that would just pass around and do business among ourselves?

Texas Land For Sale or Trade.

I have 1920 acres of bottom land in the Pan Handle district which will sell at a bargain or trade for property nearer this locality. For information address Anson Stewart, Rensselaer. Indiana school books at Mey~ er’s drug store.