People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1896 — Democratic County Convention. [ARTICLE]

Democratic County Convention.

The Democratic voters of the various townships will meet in mass convention at their respec tive voting places Saturday May 16, 1896 and elect delegates to the democratic county convention to be h6ld at Rensselaer, Indiana, Saturday May 23 1896 to nominate a county ticket to be voted for at the November election and to elect delegates to the state and district conventions. The apportionment will be one delegate for each ten votes cast for William R. Meyers at the election of 1890 but one township or precinct shall have less than two delegates. The various townships and precincts are entitled to delegates as follows: Hanging Grove 3 Gilliam 2 Walker 6 \ East Precinct 2 ■’ i West Precinct 3 MARION. Ist 5 2nd 5 3rd.. 6 4th 7 Jordan. ....... 2 Newton 6 Keener... 2 Kankakee 6 Wheattield (5 CARPENTER. East 5 West 3 South 3 Milroy ,J . 4 Good speakers will be present. A. Nowels, David Shields, Secretarv, Chairman.

Among the live social, economic and political subjects ably discussed in the April Arena are Prof. Frank Parson's continua tion of his masterly paper on the “Telegraph Monopoly," in which facts upon facts are marshalled forth in a most convincing manner. Prof. Parson's legal training and his duties as a professor of the Boston University School of Law, as well as his experience as a legal text book writer for one of the greatest publishing firms of the country, render him especially qualified to sift evidence and deal deadly blows against the great monoplies which are sucking the life blood from the veins of national life. President Gates of lowa University makes some startling revelations in a paper entitled “Government by Brewery ” Dr. John Clark Ridpath, LL. D., the eminent historian, continues his able and startling papers which have awakened such interest from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Justice Walter Clark, LL. D., of the Supreme Bench of North Carolina, who has recently returned from an extended tour iu Mexico, during which he made a careful study of the actual conditions of ail classes in our "Bister Republics discusses the effect of Free Silver as he found it in actual operation in Mexico. Richard J. Hinton, the veteran, journalist, who was in the heat of the “Corn Law” agitation in England the Anti-Slavery Crusade in New England in the fifties, and is no w battling for a truer realization of Republican ideals contributes a strong paper on present day conditions. Ex-Con gressman Davis concludes his notable series of papers on “Napoleon and the ruin he wrought.” The veteran poet, James G. Cl ark appears in a two-page poem entitled “The Living Christ,” dedicated to Prof. Geo. D. Herron, and his work. A portrait of Mr. Herron forms the frontispiece of this issue, and a character sketch of this modern Sayanarola also appears as an interesting feature of this issue of the Arena, which, more than any other great review deals with live, up to date, and fundamental problems in an au thorative mannej.

The season for spraying our orchards and vineyards is at hand aud it should be attended to at once. It is estimated that the apple crop alone in Indiana, in an ordinary season amounts to, approximately, 3,000,000 bushels, and it is also estimated that at least two thirds of these would be classed as “seconds” in the market, owing to the defects caused by insects and fungi. This means a direct loss to the farmers of the State from this one cause, of at least 500,000 annually. The same may be said of all other kinds of fruit to a grea.ter or less extent, so that a set of spraying machinery has come to be just essential to successful fruit culture as the trees themselves; for^ttasbeen thoroughly demonstrated that from 80 to 90 per cent, of the fruit crop can be saved in perfect condition by an intelligent use of the spray pump; and at a cost of not more than 30 to 40 penfaS per tree.

In the application insecticides it should be remembered that there are two classes of insects with which we have to deal; one takes its food by eating the foliage, fruit, etc,, while the second class sucks its nourishment from the interior of the stem, foliage or fruit. The Tent caterpillar, Canker worm and Currant worm are familar examples of the first class, and the plant lice, squash bug. etc., represent the second class. Accordingly insecticides may be divided into two classes, viz:(l) those which must be taken into the system before becoming active, and which contain more or less arsenic-, such as Paris green. London purple and White arsenic, and which should be used at the rate of one pound to 200 gallons of water; (2) those which kill by contact; such as kerosene emulsion, pyrethnm, by-sulphide of carbon, etc. The only precaution necessary here is in the use of bi sulphide of carbon, which is very explosive when brought near the fire. It is used in the destructicn of all kinds of grain insects in bins. To these may be added a third class called repellants- those which by their offensive odors prevent egg laying—such as carbolic acid, soft soap, etc., which are applied to the bodies of trees as a prevention against the attacks of borers. The numerous fungous diseases, such as the blade rot of of grapes, apple scab, plum rot. etc., lequire a different class of remedies. The one in most general use is the Bordeaux mixture, which is made by dissolving six pounds of sulphate of copper and four pounds of quick lime and adding these to 45 or 50 gallons of water. The first application should be made before any sign of the disease has manifested itself, repeating at intervals of ten or fifteen days.

After the fruit has set a combination of Paris green and Bordeaux mixture will be found to serve a double purpose in destroying both insects and fungi. James Troop, Horticulturist.

Delegations to that convention from the silver states will be of the Crisp stripe, and right now they are being selected for their lamblike submissiveness. The man who hopes for silver at the Chicago convention could easily be led to hope for big returns from a green goods dealer. The simple-minded silverites will be taken into the confidence of the sleek-tongued gold bugs, just as they would be taken into the confidence of one sleektongued green-goods drummer, and, for a fat roll of glittering promises, will sell themselves and realize all they are worth—a box of sawdust. You will not get free silver from either of the old parties. —People's Guide, Georgia.