Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1899 — Page 3

AGRICULTURAL

More Room in the “Tie Up.’’ The “tie ups” in old-fashioned barns are almost always too short in depth to give proper chance for cleanliness ■or for comfort in caring for the cows. Figure 1 shows a cross section of the

FIGURE 1.

old-fashioned tie up. There is a narrow walk in the rear, always slippery and dirty from the absence of a gutter for the manure. Figure 2 shows a ■change of plan that is easily accomplished. The cattle are moved ahead so that the tying post comes at the edge of the feed floor and the platform is raised, giving a chance for a manure gutter behind the platform and for a raised walk that is always dry and clean. The cribs occupy space in the

FIGURE 2.

feed floor, but are made so they can be removed in haying time, if desired, so that the hay teams can be driven Into the feed flood. The plans speak for themselves, and show an easy way to improve the conditions in many old barns. Setting Out Strawberries. By many October is regarded as the best month to set out strawberries, especially in the middle and southern portions of the cotton belt. It is a hardy plant and will make considerable growth between this and Christmas. Select plants from this year’s runners; never set out an old plant; an old plant is easily recognized by having more or less dark roots, while those of young plants are yellow. The land should have been thoroughly prepared and highly manured, with well rotted cow manure or with ground bone and kainit, or with ashes in place of kainit if ashes can be had. Lay off drills 3 feet apart and set plants 15 to 18 Inches apart in drills. Trim off most of the leaves and shorten the roots some, if very long. Puddle roots to mixture of clay and water; spread out in furrow, cover with a little dirt and press firmly on them, then fill furrows so that crowns of plants, will be a level with general surface or a shade below it; never set so deep that the crown or bud shall be covered with dirt—Southern Cultivator. Swedish Ducks. The Blue Swedish ducks originated In the extreme northern part of Europe, and it is claimed are a cross of the common German farm duck and the Rouen, having received additional blood from the wild blue teal. They

SWEDISH DUCKS.

are very hardy, can stand any climate and produce eggs on almost nothing. They equal at least, if not surpass the famed prolific Indian Runners as layers. This is the case with us anyway. Their young are hardy from the start and seem to thrive even under bad conditions. They will live under mistreatment when Pekins will get cramps or rheumatism. As to size they fully equal any Pekin or Aylesbury that ever lived, and- the meat, having teal and Rouen blood, Is surpassingly tender and well flavored; no stringy, oily meat like fattened Pekin ducklings.—Orange Judd Farmer. Leanrtnz tn Milk. When a stranger begins to mdlk a cow it usually results in some decrease of milk production, though he may be a good milker. The better the cow the more likely she te to be of a nervous srass st . aUCCIJcU a JU 11 41$,

milk yield and early drying off of the cow.' But it te necessary that the boys Should learn to milk if they are to remain on the farm, and therefore they should be set to learn upon such cows as will naturally dry off soon. Do not give them heifers with their first calf, as the heifer should be kept in milk as long as possible, to get her to the habit of giving milk ten or eleven months in a year. Do not give them hard milkers or kickers, or the uneasy ones which never stand still. That is too much like giving them dull hoes and scythes or other tools to work with, that no man would consider fit to use for a day’s work. It is calculated to disgust them with the business, and drive them to seelf other occupations as soon as they are at liberty to leave home. When it is not practicable to give them such a cow, allow them to partly milk her, and then let some experienced milker finish the job, who will be sure to obtain the last drop. Food for Young P>rs. While there can be no better food than skim milk with shorts or middlings mixed in it for young pigs which do not get enough milk from the sow, if the milk is scarce water may be used Instead, and if it is given about blood warm they will grow all the faster in cold weather. At first the slop should be quite thin, that they may suck it down as if it were clear milk, but as they grow older it may be made thicker. Do not add cornmeal to it unless you want them to stop growing and begin to fatten. This extra feed not only helps the growth of the pigs, but makes it much better for the sow. Never allow the slop to get sour or even stale, and feed no more than they will eat up clean. The trough should be placed for the pigs where the sow cannot get to it. Even though there lb room enough at her trough for them to eat at, It Is better that they have a separate trough. It should be low enough so that they can easily reach the food, and there should be a platform of two or three planks for them to ptand on. Clean the trough each time before putting the feed In.

Pre««rvinjr Wnson Wheels. Farm, Field and Fireside tells of a method of preventing wagon wheels from shrinking todry weather, which a North Carolina man says avoids the necessity of having tires reset, and in thlsway soon saves itself in blacksmith bills besides preserving the wagon. The trough, shown to the illustration, is made of sheet iron. In it he puts a supply of pine tar, which is heated over a fire to a boiling heat. The wheel is then jacked up, the trough placed under it and the wheel lowered so that

TARRING A WAGON WHEEL.

the tar will cover the felloes. The wheel is then slowly turned to the tar, which fills every nick and crevice to the wood and between the wood and tire, thus making it impervious to moisture or air. With a brush the hub is also treated with a coat of tar, and if the wagon is old the spokes also in Lieu of paint. Minimize Cholera Lease*. If the hog cholera should break out on your farm, then all the pigs that have been exposed to it should be confined in small lots so as not to spread the disease. The pig that has the cholera should be confined to a pen by itself, and it should be sprayed three or four times each day with chloro-naph-tholeum, twenty parts water to one of the chloro, and the floor of the pen should be kept white with slaked lime, and if the pig should die, if it can be done, haul some logs and wood and burn it in the pen where it died, but if not, be sure that every cholera germ is killed on the way from the pen to the place where the pig is burned. Form Note*. Calves like fresh water. Any arrangement that will keep clean, fresh water before them all the time is the best way to supply it If the strawberry bed has been overrun by grass and weeds the best thing to do to to burn the bed over late in the fall, and next spring the strawberry plants will get a good start The weeds and grass will render any strawberry bed useless and unprofitable if something is not done to give the strawberry plants an opportunity to get ahead to the spring. Mulching will also be serviceable on the bed. Sawdust can be prepared to a manner to be used as an excellent preventive against lice to poultry houses and to keep flies from stables. Dissolve as much powdered naphthaline to a gallon of kerosene as it will take, permitting it to stand for a few days to order to allow time tor the napthaline to become well incorporated with the kerosene. Sprinkle the sawdust with the autotion. using it plentifully on the ikt*l nnair-gi ho viarkrLckrl ■

PRESIDENT M'KINLEY: "OUR FLAG STANDS FOR LIBERTY WHEREVER IT FLOATS.

—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

RESIDENT M’KINLEY made American sovereignty in the PhlUppines a part of nearly every speech across lowa, Illinois and Wisconsin. For the Swedes and Norwegians and especially the Germans, who who are alleged to fear “imperialism” as a corollary of national expansion, he had plain, cogent, lawyer-like argument Each audience received at least one gem of succinct expressions, like these:

We will not take down that flag (in the Philippines), representing liberty to the people, representing civilization to those islands; we will not withdraw it, because the territory over which it floats is ours by every tenet of international law and by the sacred sanction of the Constitution of the United States. We are not there to oppress, we are there to liberate. < We are not there to establish an imperial < government. We are there to establish < a government of liberty under law and < protection to life, property and opportu- J nity to all who dwell therein. < That treaty of peace, ratified by the< Senate of the United States, approved of < by a vote of Congress, gave to the United $ States the sovereignty and the authority < of the Philippine Islands. If I am not mistaken, the American s people do not propose, whatever may be < the cost, to see our flag dishonored any- < where. 5 Our flag in the Philippines still waves < there, and it waves not as the banner of imperialism, it waves not as the symbol of oppression, but it waves as it waves here and everywhere, the flag of freedom, of hope, of home and of civilization. All hostilities will cease in the Philip-

Proaperity and Education. From all over the country tiiere are reports that the enrollmenta at public and private schools, from the primary grades to the universities, are larger this year than ever before. Some increase might have been expected as a result of the steady growth of populatiotn, but the marked gain noted this season is much more largely due to toe general prosperity of the country. Thus the good times that have resulted from wise national policies, from large crops and from good markets not only bring employment to all who seek it, not only afford good investments for all who have money to invest, not only increase the earning power of both labor and capital and contribute to toe comforts and necessities of daily life, but they open the way for more liberal education. Children who had bean forced to earn something for the family are released from their employment and sent to school. Young men. and young women who have had but limited opportunities for higher education now find themselves able to attend the colleges and universities. The benefits of prosperity are incalculable, but among them one of toe greatest is along educational lines.—Kansas City Journal., Trust Aided by Democrat,. In 1896 we imported over eighty-nine million dollars* worth of sugar and over ninety-nine million dollars* worth of sugar 1n 1897, while in 1898 our imports of sugar fell off to a little over sixty million dollars’ worth. The Wilson Tariff was in force to 1896 and most of the year 1897 and the increase of sugar importations in 1897 was due to the efforts of the sugar trusts to rush to large quantities of sugar before the Dingley Tariff took effect, and they were aided in tote effort by Senator Vest of Missouri and other Democratic senators who held up the Dingley bill until the sugar arrived, and yet the Democrats pretend to denounce trusts. —Benton (HL) Republican. What He Needs. Here is a bright and shining example of the Protection afforded consumers by competition. Without toe Doechera and Arbuckle® there would be no cheap sugar. With them the fangs of the Sugar Trust are drawn, and Instead of a monopoly it Is only a large corporation to competition with smaller ones, which have toe power to regulate What Mr. Havemeyer seems to need Is not so much modification of toe Tar-

pines when those who commenced them will stop; and they will not cease until our flag, representing liberty, humanity and civilization, shall float triumphantly in every island of the archipelago under the undisputed and acknowledged sovereignty of the republic of the United States. That territory, my fellow-citizens, the President has no power to alienate if he were disposed to do so, which he is not. The sovereignty of the United States in the Philippines cannot be given away by a President. That sovereignty is there by right, not by right of conquest only, but by right of solemn treaty. The President of the United States haa but one duty to perform, and that is to maintain and establish the authority of the United States in those islands. Wherever we have raised our flag we have raised it not for territorial aggrandizement, not for national gain, but we have raised It for civilization and humanity. And let those lower it who will. I never travel through this mighty West, a part of the Louisiana purchase. lowa, part of Minnesota and the Dakotas, that I do not feel like offering my gratitude to Thomas Jefferson for his wisdom and foresight in acquiring this vast territory.

iff as a law prohibiting any one but the Havemeyer combination manufacturing or selling sugar. From his exhibitions of monumental gall and selfishness, it is a wonder he has not urged such action by Congress.—Tacoma (Wash.) Ledger. Ha, Lost Its f harm. Colonel Bryan, like the funny man on the American stage, makes “local hits.” When he is in toe East, the heart of America’s commercial life, he lets silver alone and talks on something more to the Eastern taste. When in the South among his silver-plated followers he talks free silver. In the West he used to whang away on this one ‘tellver string,” but the prosperity of the West under a Protective Tariff and a gold standard has caused the silver time to lose its charm for the Westerners.—Tiffin (Ohio) Tribune. Never Again.

Wage-earner—No, I thank you; not any for me. I tried your game to 1892, and know exactly bow It worfca Protection is good enough for me. And Riill Tiiey Cry. Labor Commissioner McCormack of Indiana makes the statement that there is work for every one in Indiana who is willing to work. In referring to toe condition of things in toe labor field, Mr. McCormack says that the improvement has been wonderful to toe last few yean, and the prospects are that it will be permanent. And still the Democrats are crying for free silver and hard times.—Logansport (Ind.) Journal. A Question.* If the Tariff te the “mother of trusts” it will be necessary to inquire into the legitimacy of toe British and'German trusts.—Detroit JournaL

A Political Mawd Millar. «• Bill Bryan on an autumn day. In Canton, 111., was making hay— Making hay, for the day was fair. And the fair committee brought Mm there. 1 Down to the depot rushed the throng. And so Bill Bryan went along. McKinley’s train came rolling in. And Bryan met it with a grin. *His grin was wide, and blithe and sweet — It occupied the entire street. I It rippled with a glad surprise. And echoed in his twinkling eyes. And, ’mid the mnsic of the band. He reached out with his horny hand. (His horny hand, with calloused palm. Made so by many a gesture calm, As well as by sawing the gentle air To emphasise a point most rare; For the only work his hand had done Was to rake in the fair committee's “mun.”) And, as he felt McKinley’s clasp, “How are you, Bill?” they heard him gasp. “How are you, Bill?” the President Replied, as o’er the rail he bent And soon McKinley’s speech was o’er, And he was riding on once more. Bill Bryan looked, and sighed: “Ah, me, That I the President might be. “I should be glad and free from care, And I should shake the county fair. “I should not have to mark my place, And stop till after the next race. “But I could talk, or I could not. Just as I liked,” so Bryan thought. “I would not be,” he mused some more, “Emblazoned on billboards galore, “Along with heaps of fancy fruit. And yellow pumpkins, too, to boot. “The bills would not, in letters big. Say: ’Come and See the Giant Pig. “ ‘And Ride the Merry-Go-Around, And Eat Tour Luncheon on the Ground. “ ‘And Hear the Canton Brass Band Toot, Likewise, Bill Bryan Elocute.* “They would not'sandwich my best thought ’Tween heats of the two-forty trot.” * * ’ And then the fair ground’s wooden walls Stretched away into stately halls; The fair committee, heavy-set, Turned to a statesman’s cabinet; The set of faces round the track Became a Congress at his back; And for a moment, heart elate; He dreamed he steered the ship of state. But he looked at the fair-ground fence again, Sadly sighing: “It might have been.” —Josh Wink in Baltimore American.

Truth as to Trusts. Mr. Oxnard’s statement that trusts are toe result of competition which has taken business beyond a paying point is certainly the truth as applied to most cases. Combinations are the law of present day tendencies, and it te only natural that when competition so reduced profits that there was nothing left for the producer, combination should step to to prevent such a slaughter. This does not justify such combinations but merely explains them. It also indicates the foolishness of connecting these results with the Tariff. The greater trusts now in the United States were formed under the GormanWilson Tariff system. The greatest trusts in all history have been formed to other countries at other times and under nothing to the shape of a Protective Tariff system.—Peoria (Ill.) JournaL Are There Any Fo Blind t Ten thousand dollars paid to working men and women by four Xenia factories last Saturday. “The butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker;” the dry goods dealer and the grocer; the clothier, the shoe dealer and the printer; and every line of trade, and the landlord, each got part of this money. Within a few hours it had passed from hand to hand and bad bought the necessaries of life to make home comfortable and happy. This is what internal industries do for a nation. This is what the Republican party has long and bravely fought for—Protection to American industries. Is there a man or woman to our community so blind as to not see that these should be fostered?—Xenia (Ohio) Gazette. Utility of Tmeta. It is a fine thing for Democrats that we have trusts, for without them there would be nothing for Democrats to denounce. Yes, trusts are good things to have around when platform making time comes to this country. The Democratic party would be more consistent if her leaders to Congress would help Republicans to annihilate them with good laws on the subject—Williamsport (Ind.) Republican. Howllnx Haa Become Unpopnlar, Mr. Bryan is against trusts, but he hasn’t said yet what he would do to throttle them were he elected President And it may be necessary for him to outline a policy before the people place their undivided confidence to his ability. Mere howling isn’t popular any more. The voters are too busy with the new McKinley prosperity to listen to declamation.—Winchester (HL) Standard. Makes Them Stutter. General prosperity seems to be the hardest thing for the Bryanites to get over. It is a serious impediment to Kpcach. -fUaytoß CtaMtig, ■

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF TH® I PAST WEEK. Peacemaker Shot and Killed—Hue- j band Imprisons His Wife in a Cellar - for Several Weeks-Suicide of a Rich | Young Man-Robbed by Masked Men. ft An attempted double murder took plad»3 at Colfax. Bert Julian, who was recently discharged from the regular army in the Philippines, entered a saloon and shot Milo Houlehan, a discharged soldier. Ju- ; lian had a grudge against Frank Gray, ■ the proprietor of the saloon, and as h»?| came into the place declared that he in-'4 tended to kill Gray with a shotgun which | he carried in his hands. Houlehan to®| terfered, when Julian put the muzzle of the gun against his head and discharged < one barrel. Houlehan’s head was literally blown off. He then fired the other | barrel at Gray, but missed him. He was j taken in custody and hastened to Frank- j fort jail. Wealthy loans Man Kills Himself. Leslie D. Sinclair committed suicide at | Vincennes by shooting himself through | the temple. He was worth >IOO,OOO, and i belonged to one of the most prominent families in southern Indiana. He was one | of the principal heirs to the >500,000 estate of the late William J. Wise. The 1 coroner found a note Sinclair had written to his sister in which he said his life was a failure. Sinclair was 28 years old, and unmarried. He took his life in a restaurant. Woman Chained in a Cellar.’ Mrs. Herman Gays, who had been re- fl ported several weeks ago to have left her husband and gone to her mother in | Montreal, was found the other evening to have been hidden in the cellar of her residence in English, where her husband had fastened her with a trace chain less ■ than five feet long. The discovery was-J made through Gays’ 12-year-old daughter by a previous wife. Gays learned of his possible arrest and fled, but every attempt will be made to capture and pun- ? ish him. ’ # Woman Robbed by Masked Men. '.l Mrs. Louie Wandrel, wife of the land-1 lord of the Columbian Hotel at Logant- i port, was aroused from sleep by a noise in another room. Hastily arising, she ' suddenly found herself in the grasp of i three masked men. They bound and || gagged her and then robbed the rooms of all the valuables, consisting mostly of jewelry. ' Within Our Borders. ' I One hundred horses were shipped from Anderson for the Transvaal the other | day. James Wess, farmer near Vincennes, | was run down by a Big Four train and?! killed. Rush County commissioners decided to | build five wooden bridges instead of steel: j ones. Muncie has grown until letter carriers cannot cover their routes in an eight-J hour work day. Franchise has been granted to T. Ltadjl say Fitch, Louisville, to put in water works at New Albany. Construction of the Logansport, RodH| ester and Northern Traction road will begin at an early date. Anderson came out first, Columbus second and Seymour third in the band con-| test at the Greensburg street fair. C. H. Dale, superintendent of them Hartford City paper mills, has won thetS chess championship of Indiana and Ohio.J Three Panhandle engines and twentjk| freight cars were piled up in a wreck Peoria junction, near Logansport. No- a body hurt. Thomas Bowers, who was found dead! in bed at Anderson, was buried by relasg tives, his wife and daughter refusing toj| claim the body. Mrs. Helen Shipley, Muncie, confiasrlg that she was given >IOO to testify falsely-| in a trial three years ago. She was con-| science stricken. At Etna Green, Pittsburg, Fort Wayne | and Chicago east-bound freight No. flftf was run into by freight No. 78. The eoi-.! tiding engine and fifteen cars were wreck® ed. G. L. White, a well-known traveling salesman for the Van Camp Packing! Company of Indianapolis, who had been I for several days at the Terre Haute House, suddenly went insane. - A serious stabbing affray occnrredgß Knightstown. Waite Heaton, a bankers is alleged to have stabbed Joseph AtoJ paugh. The men are aged 00 and Sm years respectively. The trouble is allegft ed to have originated over a buiiiiuiMl deal. During the noon hour, while the office® force was away for a short time, flgj| safe of Lyons & Johnson, real estate] dealers, in the most prominent building! in Muncie, was opened and >4OO stolrija It was done by experts, for the combfafM tion was worked and the inner draWmß pried open, all in fifteen minutes’ ttamfl It is stated in railroad circles that tM Vandalia northern terminal at SoeoH Bend will be extended to Michigan Citja| A corps of surveyors has been running gl line to Michigan City which traverses tlmfl northern part of La Porte County. MM V. T. Malott of Indianapolis, reedver off the Vandalia, is credited with being Ma terested in building the Michigan Cft» road. Sheriff Klingler of Brazil received'Jll telegram from the sheriff at PhiladelphfiH stating that he had under arrest titefl; Fred M. Chapin, wanted at BrazillH| forgery. In 1887 Chapin and Sterling ft. j Holt, the Indianapolis ice millionalimH bought the plant of the Brazil Ice SImB; Cold Storage Company and Chapin wajl placed in charge. Soon he disaHOM | and it developed that he,had Holt’s name to checks for >3,000 on ft First National Bank of Brazil and >2,OM| on the Zeller & Riddell Bank. 1 Edward Casey. 7. South ; accidentally drowned in the river at |B:~ | hart. “Si” Sheerin, Indianapolis, wants' use of the alleys in Kokomo to put toft j telephone system.