Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1898 — Page 3

FARM AND GARDEN

Running a Farm. When 1 was young at farming, I’d waitch the turnip tops, And quickly go to wishing For good, big, rousing crops. I wished for mammoth pumpkins All others to outweigh; In short, I took to nothing But wishing all the day. A solace sweet and soothing In every wish would lurk, Till dreaming speculation Seemed surer than hard work. I wished my cellar full of Potatoes with a will; I wished the granary groaning With corn to go to mill. While other farmers wished for A good supply of rain, I thought it as sound logic To wish for fruit and grain. And so 1 went on wishing, Contented with my lot, In autumn no potatoes Were boiling in my pot. I tell you I’d discovered That wishing only breeds Keen disappointment; wishing Won't pull up choking weeds; It won’t hoe corn in summer, Or husk it in the fall; I tell you. boys, that wishing Won’t run a farm at all. That winter my potatoes I had to go and buy Right from my smiling neighbors, Who h.ad a good supply. They’d slyly nudge their elbows, And taunt me with a laugh. That labor’s wheat that’s golden, And speculation chaff. I learned this goodly lesson — And in my heart it seems — One day of honest labor Is worth ten years of dreams. And now in idly wishing, My duty ne'er I shirk; But just roll up my shirt sleeves, And like a beaver work.

A Fruit Picking Box. A contributor to the New York Tnoune offers the following suggestions: The ordinary basket is not a convenient receptacle into which to pick fruit from a ladder. Too little of the opening is presented between the rounds, owing to the round form of the basket's top. The round form also keeps the basket from being stable, as it is constantly swinging about on the one book sup-

FRUIT PICKING BOX.

porting it. A fruit-gathering box is shown in the cut which obviates both these defects. Its handle is made from a flat hoop soaked in water and bent into the proper shape. This handle can be supported by two hooks, keeping the box very firm. With a box the full opening from one side to fehe other is afforded for putting in fruit. If the box is carefully lined with a double thickness of burlap there will be less likelihood of bruising the fruit, in the tun.:llea* degree. - li'urreliiiK Apple* and Pear*. In barn-ling apples it Is cpilte safe to pile the apples as much as two inches aliove where the head will lit in the chine. If pressed down evenly there Is elasticity enough In the apple skin to allow such compression without brulsiug It. if the apples arc not thus pressed down Ilicy will shrink so ns to he loose in the barrel, and will thus bruise In handling the barrels worse tIiHU they would if pressed down. Pears cannot Is- thus pressed down. They are best packed with a paper around each, which will keep It from to>f-hlng its neighbor. Fall Plowing to Kill Inaecta. One of the benefits of fall plowing thut more than compensates Its disadvantage is wasting the surface soil by blowing and wnshing. Is that It destroys millions of destructive Insects. In orshnrds especially, many of the larvae that are injurious are hidden under leaves nr stones, where they will be partly protected from wet, and will there endnre any amount of dry freezing without Injury. Hut turning the •oil over 1o the depth of five or six inches dlsturlm these Insect arrange tjnents. Moisture means that the. larva must begin to prepare for emerging

fiorn its cocoon, or if already an insect it may be tempted to move to escape it. Arq- such movement before there is settled warm weather is death to it Cutting; Corn. Corn fodder, if secured when it Is in its best condition, is almost as good as hay for cattle and sheep; and for milch cows there is no other feed that I have ever tested equal to it. Just as soon as the corn is well in tlijb dough it is ripe enough to cut. Some farmers let their corn stand till the stalks get dead ripe before cutting. Corn thus cared for may he a little heavier after it is husked (at least it is so claimed by some), but the waste in fodder more than consumes the extra grain in we'ght of corn. The average day laborer will, if cutting by the shock, cut seventy shocks containing sixty-four hills in each shock, per day. An expert worker will, in medium corn, cut from 100 to 125 shocks in the same length of time, and of equal size. Twisted rye straw or marsh hay is good to use, although the best thing that is being used is a No. 9 wire, cut about 3% feet long, with a hook bent on each end, so that they can he quickly fastened or unfastened. These wire bands can he saved and used year after year. Hoofs Like Horus. Here’s the picture of a freak cow owned by a Massachusetts farmer. The abnormal hoofs are apparently of regular horn substance, and further than to seriously impede the animal's locomotion do not otherwise seem to interfere with the performance of her ordinary functions. Those hoofs, or horns, as they might be called, when trimmed

COW WITH ABNORMAL HOOFS.

off soon grow again to the size and shape shown in the illustration. Fall Seeding; of Corn Ground. A crop of corn may be succeeded the following year with grass for pasturing or hay if the land is fitted right. A light plowing, or rather cultivating so as to pull down the corn butts, and then following them with the roller to press them into the surface will he all that is needed. Then run over the leveled surface with the smoothing harrow, which will roughen it and sow the seed. If a permanent pasture is desired sow some June grass seeds with the timothy, and in the spring sow some clover seed. All will grow, and the first year each will help the othpr, as the more grass or clover growth can he got on the laud the earlier it will dry out when spring comes. Most attempts to seed without grain fail because not enough seed is sown. Threshing; Buckwheat.* Owing to the great amouut of sap its thick stalk contains, buckwheat cannot well be piled up in sacks or put in mows. We have known it to be threshed by machine, but it took so much power to thresh the buckwheat by threshing machine that the experiment was not profitable. It is extremely easy with a little beating of the head to dislodge every grain of buckwheat. But when stalks and all are put in it has to be done very slowly, else the green buckwheat stalks would clog the cylinders and stop the machine. It takes much more coal to thresh buckwheat with a steam thresher than it does to thresh grain whose straw is dry.— American Cultivator.

Stabling an(l Blanketing Horses. Horses that are exposed to rains should be blanketed while out of doors, and the blanket, or rather a dry one, should cover the horse after he is under shelter. Under the blanket the heat gathers from tlie internal heat of the body, and as there is thus a double protection between the skin and the outer air the skin does not chill. Carefulness In blanketing a horse lias at all seasons more to do with his condition Ilian feeding grain. If a cold is developed In the early winter it is extremely likely to last until spring, and may then develop Into much worse disease than an ordinary cold. Poultry Notes. Filthy quarters produce sickness, and sick liens will not produce eggs. Cull out the poor layers and give the prolific hens more room to work. After the second year the hen’s value as a winter egg-producer lessens. Green rye Is the best form for feeding; ns a grain it is a poor poultry food. Make the liens work. Exercise helps digestion. Feed all they will eat up clean. Keep the fowls Indoors while there is snow on the ground or the air cold and raws When the weather Is cold scald the morniug mash and feed while In a warm state.Hens and pullets may lay as well without the attention of a mule birij as with It. Cora should not be fed exclusively. It should be only a nigbt feed In very cold weather. Ten cents a pound is about the average price for hens In market for the whole year. Boiled buckwheat fed once or twice a week to the hens makes a good alters nate food for egg production. Ten eents should feed a chick, and It should then weigh ten |>ounds, If highly fed, 10 cents covering the greatest abundance of food.

PROTECTION’S WORK.

WHY THIS ISSUE SHOULD BE KEPT BEFORE THE PEOPLE. Increase in thi Amount Paid to Wage Earners During the Current Year Estimated at More than Two Thouand Millions of Dollars. The recently published comprehensive Industrial census of leading industries in forty-seven States and Territories, issued by the American Protective Tariff League, proves that the amount of wages paid to labor in the United States was 44 per cent, greater in 1898 than during the distressful year of 1895. This document was prepared by Hon. Robert W. Tayler, who represents in Congress the district formerly represented by President McKinley. The vitally important question arises, W T hat does the increase of 44 per cent, in wages amount to in dollars and cents? This can bo answered approximately upon the basis of the ivages paid during the census year 1890. The w-ages paid in manufactures alone during that year amounted to $2,283,216,529. Forty-four per cent, of this amount is This represents approximately the increased amount of wages paid to labor in manufactures in the United States during the year 1898, as compared with the amount paid in 1895. It far exceeds the value of the commercial advantages which will be realized from all the territorial acquisitions of the country during the recent war, even if w'e shall acquire Cuba. In a word, during the present administration of our national affairs the victories of peace through the adequate protection of American industry are far more renowned than those of war. Again, this increase In the amount of wages paid to labor exceeds the average annual value of the exports of merchandise from the United States during the last five years by $31,662,966. This is not a strange thing. The internal commerce of the United States many times exceeds in value its foreign commerce. The value of the home market is at least twenty times the aggregate value of ail our foreign markets. But the foregoing statement as to the value of the advantages derived from protection ($1,004,615,272) falls very far short of the truths It is based upon the wages paid in manufactures alone during the year 1890. If to it were added the amount of wages paid in agriculture, in mining and in all oilier industries the gain for the year 1898 over the year 1895 would undoubtedly amount to nearly if not quite two thousand million dollars a year. Under unbroken protection the number of persons employed in manufactures Increased from 1.311,246 in 1860 to 4,712,622 in 1890; the value of the products of manufacture increased from $1,885,861,076 in 1860 to $9,372,437,283 iu 1890, and the annual earnings per capita of laborers employed in manufactures increased from $289 in 1860 to $484 in 1890. Again, the value of domestic exports of merchandise from the United States increased from $793,392,599 during the calamitous year of 1895 to $1,210,291,913 during the prosperous year of 1898. For the first time in the history of the country, the value of the exports of manufactured goods from the United States during the year ended June 30, 1898, exceeded the value of the imports of manufactured goods into the United States. In his last annual message to Congress, submitted December, 1892, President Harrison showed that the country was then at the high water mark of prosperity. Upon the inauguration of President Cleveland in 1893 the country was plunged into the depths of despondency as the result of free trade. But again, under protection, it has attained unto a greater degree of prosperity than ever before. It would seem that these important facts have been lost sight of even by many Republican speakers and newspapers in the light of the brilliant achievements of our army and navy. If we fail to profit by the more important lessons of experience in the arts of pehce, the patriotic soul of this nation may w’ell exclaim, in the language of Itudyard Kipling’s recessional hymn: Lord, God of Hosts, l>e with us yet, Lest we forget; lest we forget.

Extend Protection to Bhips. We must be able to feel secure in the control of our home markets l>efore there is any letting down of the protective liars. Just at present protection should bo extended nml the great carrying trade of this nation should be brought under control of American Interests. We are paying three hundred million dollars a year Hi this direction, because wo are not yet able to compete with the cheap labor on foreign ships. We can build the ships ns cheaply, but we cannot run them at as low a figure as can tlie foreign owners, principally on account of the starvation wages paid to foreign seamen. The remedy Is not to even up this disadvantage by reducing the wages of American seamen, but by extending the lieneflts of protection to American shipping, whereby we can successfully compete with that of any foreign nation, and at the same time pay higher wages. This has been the result of all other American Industries fostered by protection; there Is no reason why It should not work as successfully In building up an American merchant marine.—Tacoma Ledger.

Must Cone to This Country. The "Importer’s revenge" referred to In a recent Issue of the American Economist—that of retaliating upon our government’s refusal to admit undervalued goods by establishing a large plant In the United Rtates for the inarm failure of those goods-impresses the Minna-

apolis Tribunt. as “aa interesting illustration of the Working of the protective principle in favor of American labor.” The Tribune remarks: If this is their mode of securing “revenge” on the customs officials, it will be a revenge that will conduce to the interest of American labor and American farmers and merchants, for the work of manufacturing their goods will be done here. American workmen will be employed, and the wages paid to their employes will be spent here instead of abroad. Thus protection encourages an importation of capital and industries rather than of goods. The way to national development is through the diversification and multiplication of industries. Political economists say we need foreign capital to properly stimulate our growth, and the application of the protective principle is bringing it to us. There la Plenty of Gold. The refutation of the plea of the silverites that there is not enough gold to answer the demands of the gold standard for money Is found in the reports of the production of gold throughout the world. The Director of the Mint has just published his report of the gold production of the United States and of the world for last year. It shows a vast increase ewer 1896, just as 1890 showed an increase over preceding years. Taking the world’s production, Africa leads with something over $38,000,000. The United States comes next with over $57,000,000, nnd Australia next with over $35,000,000. liussla leads European countries with $23,000,000. Altogether the world's output of gold for 1897 was nearly $238,000,000, which is an increase of $35,000,000 over the output of 1890, and more than twice as much as was produced in 1890. The indications for the present year are that these figures will be surpassed and that not less than $270,000,000 will be the production for 1898. The statistics for the United States show that Colorado has at least surpassed California as a gold State, her output being $19,000,000, as against $14,000,000 for California. South Dakota—the Black Hills region—comes next with $5,000,000, and Montana with $4,000,000. With such a production of gold the world over—one that Is a permanent addition to the world’s wealth—how futile It Is to say that there is not gold enongli to answer the demands of a monetary system founded upon it. It may seem paradoxical to say so, but the more gold we have the less we will need it as money. The world's business is done with paper, and all that is needed is a uniform standard for the paper. That standard is gold, and we have it In abundance,—Chicago Tlmes-Herald.

Republicanism and I.abor.

A formidable movement of capitalists in Massachusetts for repeal of laws enacted in the interests of labor was turned down by the Republican Legislature in 1897. The object of the movement was to put the cotton manufacturing Industry on a more equal footing with the Southern mills. The recent Republican State convention of Massachusetts adopted the following resolution: The laws of Massachusetts passed in the interest of wage earners, establishing short hours of labor, compulsory education for children, frequent payment of earnings, guarding, as far as practicable by law, life and limb from the risks of machinery, and demanding the best sanitary conditions for the workshop nnd home, have proved wise and wholesome. If, in the industrial development of the country, they have become adverse factors in competition, the remedy is not in their repeal, but through education and the efforts of organized lal>or to procure the en-t actment of similar laws in the other State* of the Union. The charge is frequently made by the opposition that the Republican action in Massachusetts gives no support to the charge. An Astonishing Fact.

The Table* Turned an ICnittnnd'. An Associated Ureas dispatch from Washington sa.vs that the fact that British imports Into tlie United .States have fallen off greatly in the past year, while American exports to Great Britain have greatly Increased, has been anonuneed from time to time during the year, but the full year's figures Just presented by the treasury bureau of statistics, bring to the surface some Interesting facts heretofore unpublished. These figures show that while the exports from the United States to England have increased 111 per cent., the Imparts from England have fallen off 35 per cent. The exports from this country to England during the past year, in round numbers, were five times as much as the lni|>ort« from England, the figures being: Imports from England $100,138,885 Exports to England. 8540,800,UK! Our Imports from England decreased 12 per cent, and our exports to England Increased 35 pt*r cent., making a net gain for the United States of 47 per cent., almost one-half, and yet the Democrats condemn HepubUuanlsm and protection:

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Baptists to Establish a Chautauqua— Hunger Conquers Two Escaped Con-victs-Two Labor Leaders Shot—Soldier Stabbed by His Messmate, Indiana Baptists have taken up ! the proposition to establish a Chautauqua in this State. The matter lias been taken up in a quiet manner and at the Peru State convention a committee was appointed to look after a desirable location. They are ready to make a report. They have found several pretty parks in the northern Indiana lake district and favor one in the vicinity of Plymouth. The plans include a very elaborate building, ami an effort to make it the summer educational center of the central States. Indiana Soldier Fatuity Stabbed. W. S. Snyder, Company M, 160th Indiana, was seriously if not mortally wounded as the result of a stab received from the blunt and rounded end of a Government caseknife in the hands of Louis Gates, bis messmate, at Lexington, Ivy. The two men had trouble one night, and when they got up the quarrel was resumed. At mess Gates seized a caseknife and stabbed Snyder in the left breast, penetrating the lung. Snyder’s home is at Walton, while Gates comes from Logansport. Gates is confined in the guard bouse awaiting court martial. Farmer Fiahtorn’s Logic. George nnd ThomAs Fitzgerald, from Bunker Hill, broke jail while awaiting transportation to the penitentiary. William Fishtorn, a farmer, found them in his field suffering with hunger and cold, and after three hours of reasoning convinced them that a good dinner prepared by his wife and future obedience of the law was preferable to the life now before them. After dinner they were taken to Peru and lodged in jail. Two Miner* Are Shot Down. Richard Reibmeister and Lon Ragsdale, coal strike leaders, were shot at Washington Depot by Austin Ivoeher, a non-union miner, who claims Ragsdale tried to hit him with a brick, aud that Reibmeister offered to strike him. Koclier fired live shots, two of tiiem taking effect in Ragsdale’s neck and one in Reibmeister's side, Ragsdale is badly hurt. Reibmeister u not. Koeber was arrested. Within Our Borders. Fire destroyed the handle works of John L. Davis & Co. at La Fontaine, causing a loss of $5,000. Ernest Freeman, who killed his young wife at Lafayette last May, was given a life sentence by the jury. While walking behind a horse at Shelbyville, 8-year-old Wade Robert had his head kicked from his shoulders. Two hundred miners at. Ehruiandale went on a strike. They say it is because the foreman does not live up to the contract. Near Vincennes, while hunting, Tilton Hoffman, 20 years old and single, son of George Hoffman, was accidentally shot and killed. At Goshen, Mrs. Louis Ruhlman and Mrs. John Good engaged in a knife fight in Main street aud Mrs. Good wajs seriously injured. West River mills, throe miles, north of Hagerstown, owned by Richard Chessman, were totally destroyed by fire. Loss, $5,000, partly insured. Mrs. Elizabeth Buckingham, aged 83 years, was burned to death by gasoline at Terre Haute. She was the leading milliner of Terre Haute"for nearly half a century. The dedication of the new Christian Church of Argos has taken place. The service was conducted by I>r. 1). H. Long, president of Antioch College of Yellow Springs, (>hio. Hundreds of thousands of blackbirds are in their annual roost in the woods just east of Anderson. Their number is so great that big limbs on which they perch give away under their weight. A steep hill and slippery track was responsible for a serious street car collision at Lafayette. Both cars were badly smashed. One passenger, a Mrs. Evans, will probably uot survive the shock. Attorney James Cooper of Russiaville met with n singular mishap. While hitching up his horse to (Vive to Kokomo the animal suddenly tossed up ils head, striking a pipe in Mr. Cooper’s mouth and forcing the stem down his throat, producing a serious injury and interfering with his power of speech. It is thought the faculty is not permanently impaired. A gang of thieves was rounded up at Kokomo. For months the hand has baffled tlie officers, while wholesale burglaries have been carried on. It develops that two heretofore unsuspected women of the city beaded the gang. The women, Mollie Fritz and Mary Bober, were nabbed in the Howard Nutional Bank, where they, under assumed names, wanted checks cashed. One check was for sll, given by a local groin dealer for clover seed stolen from Edward Manship, a farmer, who tracked the women. The Boher home was searched and a large quantity of stolen goods was found. A fight occurred in Mack Clark’s saloon ut Asliboro, which will doubtless result in a double murder. The second slorj,of the building is used by Clark for gambling purposes, and fourteen men were cuguged in a game when Andrew Kuhns and Emery Tribble began a quarrel, which resulted in blows. Kuhns hastily drew a revolver and shot Tribble in the left side, the bullet isissing through both of his lungs. This caused a stampede among the crowd, and Clark, proprietor of the place, reached for bis revolver and discharged it nt Kuhns, sending a bullet in his stomach, which passed through him. At almost the same instant Kuhns shot nt Clark, and the bullet tore out his left eye and crushed bis skull. Fire broke out in the Hoosier Sanatorium, two miles west of Tipton, and destroyed the electric light and power building and the pure food manufacturing department. The handle works of John L. Uavi* & Co. at Lafontaine were destroyed by fire of unknown origin. The loss on machinery and stock is $3,000. Twenty men are thrown out of employment. . Charles Bachelor, while cleaning his shotgun at Brazil, accidentally discharged it and the contents lodged in his 10-year-old brother's right side and thigh, wound* Ing him so badly that he will die.

STRANGE BRAIN WOUND.

A Mechanic Alive Despite a Very Remark* able Wound. The hospital records of tbe recent war have directed a great deal of attention to the eases of brain wounds from which the patients survived, and the fact has been set down to the credit of the Mauser bullet. It is well known among surgeons, however, that an injury to the brain from any cause is not necessarily ratal, and an admirable illustration Is to he found in the person of a mechanic now employed at one of the foundries of this city. lb' is somewhat sensitive over the matter, so his name need not be mentioned, but the circumstances were these: Some years ago, while working at a lathe in Birmingham, a piece of machinery broke and he was struck on the left side of the head, just above the ear, by a Hying bolt. The blov£*“ fractured the skull and the iron penetrated the brain itself to a depth of about two inches. The man fell as if shot and lay unconscious for several weeks. llis death was hourly anticipated, but to the surprise of everybody he regained his senses and slowly recovered. It was found that he had forgotten certain things, and for a while he had great difficulty In keeping his balance while walking, but this was eventually overcome, and he is at pretgnt apparently as well as ever. There la a frightful Indention at the place of the injury, hut his faculties and general health seem to be wholly unimpaired. “The case is a very remarkable one,” said a surgeon, “and proves that n man may lose a considerable portion of actual brain without being any the worse for the experience.”—New Orleans Times-Democrat. 1

Pickled Fish on Trees.

An Irish officer who had served at Malta was one day at a public dinner. Expatiating on the luxurious living at Malta, he spoke particularly of the excellent quality of the anchovies. He had never seen any like them anywhere else. He spoke of a grove of them which ha had seen growing in the governor’s garden upon the esplanade. A gentleman present dispute,! the statement that ancliovlesTgrow on trees. The Irishman reaffirmed It most emphatically. A challenge was given aud accepted. On the following day th,j parties met, atteuded by their seconds. At the first tire the Irishman’s shot took effect In Ills opponent’s thigh, the ball hitting the bone and causing such a shock that the latter fell upon his back in such pain that he kieked his hods vigorously. ‘T’ faith, major," said the IrisTTßan’s second, “you’ve hit your man, but I think not dangerously, for see wbat lively capers he is cutting.” "Capers! Capers!” exclaimed the Irishman with a start. “Oh, by th+ powers, what have I done? Bad luck to me forever for such a dreadful mistake!” And hastening to the side of his antagonist. who had been raised to a sitting posture, he grasped his hand, saying as he did so: “My dear friend, I hope you’re uot killed, and If I’ve harmed you seriously I’ll ask your pardon forever, for I’ve made a murderin’ mistake. It was capers that I saw growing on that tree at Malta,and not anchovies at all!”

Gordon's Garden at Khartoum.

Gordon lias become a legend with his countrymen, and they all hut deify him dead who would never have heard of him had he lived. But in this gurcl'u you somehow came to know Gordon the man, not the myth, and to feel near to him. Here was an Englishman doing his duty, aloue. and at the Instant peril of his life; yet still he loved Ills garden. TU> garden was a yet more pathetic ruin than the palace. The palace accepted Its doom mutely; the garden strove against it. I T ntrimmed, imwatered, the oranges and citrons still struggl'd to hear their little hard green knobs, as if they had been full ripe fruit. The pomegranates put out their Vermillion star-flowers, hut tbe fruit was small and woody and juiceless. Tli' figs bore better, but they, too, were small and without vigor. Itaukly overgrown with dhurra, a vine still trained over a low roof its dwarfed leaves and limp tendrils, but yielded not a sign of grapes. It was all green, nnd so far vlvd and refreshing after Oindurman. But It was tin* green of nature, not of cultivation; leaves grew large and fruit grew small, and dwindled away. Reluctantly, despairingly, Gordon's garden was dropping back to wilderness. And in the middle of the defeated fruit tree* grew rankl.v the hateful Hondan apple, Mi,' poisonous herald of desolnl ion.- London Mail. ’

A Peanut Plantation in Blossom.

It is a pretty sight to see a peanut plantation when the vines are in bloasom. The blossoms are a bright yellow and the vines are a vivid greeu. As soon as tli • blossom appears a fine branch forms on the vine and shoot* down into the ground. The pens, aa the nuts are called on the plantation, form on the shoot beneath the ground, like potatoes. When the crop is gathered In October the viue is ploughed up, atiTl In twenty days the nuts am ready to he pulled off, placed in hag* and tak>n to the factories. There they are cleansed of dirt, assorted, polished In revolving cylinders auil put Into Imgs for the market. The fixed bayonet was not used its the charges, either nt San Juan or KI Coney. It Is claimed It should b« made smaller and sharper.