Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1899 — Page 3

FARMS AND FARMERS

Single Sashes Double Glazed. One of the ways in which poultry and other stock suffer is from the rapid radiation of heat from the windows at night. Double windows are sometimes used, but these are expensive, somewhat of a bother to put on and hard to keep clean. The cut shows a single sash, double glazed, which a poultryman has recently described. The sash is made so that the glass can be set on both sides of the wooden bars, leaving a half inch or more of space between. This gives a double window and the cost is said to be not more than 25 cents extra per sash for. the glass and the labor of setting. The glazing must be tight and

SASH WITH DOUBLE GLASS.

carefully done to keep out all dirt and dust from the inner surfaces of the glass—American Agriculturist Hay in Better Demand. Canadian papers are boasting that the war in the Transvaal has created a demand for hay, and that prices have already advanced from 50 cents to $1 a ton In Montreal, and if there were more vessels to take it and lower rates of freight there would be a further advance. So many British vessels were taken as transports for the troops en route for South Africa, and for their equipments and supplies, that it has been almost impossible to send forward the amount of goods that Great Britain wants from America. It is reported that one cargo of Canadian hay has been sent direct to South Africa by the way of Boston, and that other vessels are on the way to Montreal for a cargo. Hay is now in good demand in the United States, and prices are more likely to advance than to decline. If farmers here and in Canada will next year Increase their fodder crops as they may, they will find a ready market for all the hay they haVe to spare, at better prices than they have realized for some years, or we cannot read the signs of the times aright A little planning for silage and fodder crops will enable them to feed more cattle at home and have hay to sell. Buff Turkey*. Buff turkeys probably resulted froih selected crosses of the bronze and white breeds. In size and general qualities they resemble the White Holland,

PURE-BRED BUFF TURKEY.

hut with pure buff plumage. Tlje full color Is hard to get and every hatch includes birds with black or white in the plumage. This difficulty 4s perhaps the chief cause of lack of popularity. Buff turkeys are seldom kept on farms, although they are considered equal to the other small breeds for general purposes.—Orange Judd Farmer. A New Hybrid. The Brazilian minister at Washington has communicated to the United States department the fact that Baron de Parana in Rio Janeiro has succeeded in producing a cross between the zebra and the mare, a hybrid which is much larger and handsomer than the mule. The male used Is wbat is known as Burchell’s zebra, a native of South Africa, which is naturally less wild and more tractable than the mountain zebra, and which has been so far domesticated as to work in teams of six, eight or more together, or with the same number of horses, though it does not work kindly singly or In pairs, as in its native haunts It went in large droves for protection against other wild beasts. The baron claims that they are more docile and gentle than the ordinary mule, quicker, softer mouthed, with no w*K«iT y to J EI IX remarka^y sprightly, have extraordinary muscular strength, and are much less subject to the mule. ' * 1 •> *-"-v. ' •. ■ ■ Weed. Seed for Bird*.

likely to suffer from this cause there will be people who for humanity’s sake wUI furnish food for them. A handful of oats, millet seed and other small grains thrown out every day in winter will supply a vast number of small birds, and if we were rid of the detestable English sparrow, we could have the trees around our houses thronged with song sparrows, finches, chickadees, wrens, snow birds, and hosts of other birds both winter and summer. Planting Tree Seeds. Apple seed and plum and cherry pits can be kept In the cellar in condition to grow with proper attention to watering. But in any ordinary dry cellar the sand gets too dry to prepare the seeds for germinating the first season. It is much safer to bury outside, where they will have regular moisture and more or less freezing and thawing. It Is also safe to plant these seeds and pits in the fall, if properly managed. Cover the seed at least three inches deep in drills by mounding two Inches about the surface. Early in spring rake off the mound, leaving the seed one inch deep with a mellow surface for a seed bed. In this way the surface is not packed and the plants will make larger growth the first season than we secure with spring Advocate. Cultivation of Berries. Berries should be cultivated from planting time to fruiting season, keeping the ground pulverized between the rowh; strawberries, however, should be mulched with straw, which takes the place of cultivation. Blackberries, which often dry up on the hushes before the crop is all matured, can be saved, in most cases, by frequent surface cultivation between the rows, retaining moisture, which nourishes the plants and matures late blooms. The roots of trees spread op. every side the same distance as the limbs extend, and therefore cultivation should cover the entire surface; in the case of large trees, none but shallow plowing should be done, so as not to injure the roots.— Farmers’ Voice. v A' Winter Gate. A gate that must be used in winter is often opened and shut with difficulty when the snows become deep. If the

WINTER GATE.

of a rod of iron that will turn easily In the eye of the other part of the hinge. In the lower hinge have three or four holes drilled through the Iron rod, as shown. When the gate Is to be raised slip,a 20-penny wire nail through the required hole beneath the part containing the eye, and the gate will stand at the elevation required. When the snow is gone the gate can .he returned to its natural position. Farmer*’ Children. Farms are places for raising crops, not only crops of grain, but crops of men and women. From the farmers’ boys and girls come not only the physical health and strength, but also many, aye, most of the brightest minds in the various walks of life. Farmers’ boys and girls have ample opportunity foi the education and development of their mental faculties. Good schools are abundant and easily accessible. The high schools in the cities are now nearly or quite as good as were many of the colleges fifty years ago, while State normal schools, agricultural colleges and universities furnish wonderful opportunities for the education of the youth of the present day.— Farmers’ Advocate. Getting Rid of Rat*. Mix com meal and plaster of parts together, about one-third plaster of parls. The rats will eat the com meal, also some of the dry plaster. As they pick the com meal out, add a little more meal to it, and mix together, put It in shallow dishes and set It around in different places. Also have some water convenient for them to drink. And in three or four days you will not be troubled with rat% To Keep Apples. An experiment made by a Michigan grower of apples shows that if apples are packed in kiln-dried clean sand, and •the apples not allowed to touch, they may be put into bins and kept for month*, provided the bins are in a cool, dry place and the apples not braised. Success has been obtained by the use of well-dried com and oats also, espedally In keeping with beets, turnips Fajm Notes. ' Shelter sffieep cold rains. Do not allow manure to accumulate in the stables. Sheep as much as any ether stock require dry bedding. I’ , V As the roads get bad the loads should be made lighter. Old stock of any kind decrease in value as they become older. The most profitable stock to feed is young, thrifty, growing It Is a safe rule on very cold days to increase ifite grr&in rations. j ds.U'oy* 0 * tli. white jgrub-

hinges are made according to the plan shown in the accompanying illustration the gate can be raised continually a s th e snows become deeper and deeper. The long part of the hinge is made

"KING" LEARY OF GUAM.

Bow This Versatile Naval Officer Is Atetah isterinf Oar New Me. It Is not strange that among our diversely gifted people there should be found here and there a* man with an aptitude for kingcraft There have always been plenty of Americans who would have reached one, too, If thrones had been open to competition. But the division of labor has not gone that far and hitherto the deserving person has stood no chance against the tenth transmitter of a foolish face. So many a potential monarch among ns has had to look on while others muddled the royal business in a way to make him grit his teeth. Such a man was Commander Leary of the Boston Navy Yard till a turn of affairs led the government to take him away from routine duties and anoint him king of Guam. Not that there was a formal coronation, tor that would have offended popular sentiment And as to any future legends that he was burning cakes in a peasant’s hut at the time or that he was at his plough clad only in a tunic and had to send home for his toga, we may. say in advance that there is nothing in them. The one authenticated fact is that he became king of Guam. As king he has justified the hopes of all that knew him. There was nothing of the Bourbon about him—no blindness to the mistakes of his predecessors. He saw, for example, where men like Louis the Pious and Edward the Confessor had failed, and he soon wrote home that “Having disposed of the priests, rapid progress will be made and no further resistance will be encountered.” Rapid progress was made, such progress as is seldom seen in.a Pacific archipelago. The people were lazy and producing just enough food to keep them alive. In his ukase ofOctober 4 |ie commanded them to plant cereals and Vegetables. He has required every adult native to contribute to the support of the government. He has compelled each one to maintain twelve-hens and a sow. He has ordered them to bring tneir produce to the palace and sell It In short he has started them at the regular production of wealth out of which they are to discharge their debts and pay their taxes. /" In this there is a resemblance to the policy of Peter the Great but Guam is more backward than the Russia of Peter’s time, and the reforms are more sweeping. He may Jt>e compared to the Hohenzollem who beat idlers over the head with his rattan and made the apple women knit at their stall. But behind Frederick William was an army of 70,000 men, the best drilled force in Europe. On the other hand, when the Navy Department asked’ the ruler of Guam If he wanted more troops he replied that the only thing Le needed was an ice machine. Where other kings required standing armies be wanted only ice water. That, as an American, he felt he must have. And it is no mere matter of issuing decrees. These decrees are obeyed even when they run counter to the strongest popular traditions. A light and transitory marriage tie, or no marriage tie at all, is one of these, traditions. Yet when the decree went forth that people should marry, the entire adult population made a rush for licences, and the officers had more than they could do to meet the demand. These are the rumors that come to us from Guam, and of no man is it easier to believe them than of the present ruler. • It should encourage them who fear that we should be unequal to our new duties. Even for a queer anachronistic job like this we can find our man, and he fits in a good deal better than the average porphyro genitus.

The Uncertainty of Fishing

Fishing is notoriously an uncertain calling. The motions of fish are past all understanding. One season they will visit every part of these shores and those of Labrador in their countless shoals. The next season certain bays or even a whole shore will be almost deserted. The herring are especially fickle, and there are places that were once good herring grounds that have scarcely seen a herring for many years. All sorts of theories are advanced to account for this, some of them ridiculous enough. But the fact remains, and when the fish fail to turn up in numbers at the accustomed place destitution follows. From a very early period the Government has granted relief in such cases. It is far easier to start doling out public funds thao to stdb< and it has now become a regular affair. The effect of such doles may readily be imagined. The baser look for them, ana the higherminded soon accept the philosophy that they have as much right to get a share t. s any one else.—New York Sinn.

Kruger’s Youthful Prowess.

Many stories are told of Mr. Kruger’s prowess as a young man. He trekked over the Vaal when he was about Bine, and was fighting the natives a few years- later. He was a field comet at twenty, and rose to be commandant general In tne Boer forces. He became a member of the executive In 1872, and has beqn president since 1882.

Adders in England.

Although adders are comparatively rare in most parts of England, there are people, hardly past middle ago, who remember when they were so common on the south side of Clapman a xSraing to'dS

—New York Herald (Dem.), Dec. 5, 1889.

no Tariff tinkering. Representative Payne, of New York, chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means, is certain that the present Congress will do no tariff tinkering. “The Fifty-sixth Congress has important work on its hands,” said he in a recent interview. “There will be no tariff legislation during the present session. The condition of the country is to-day thoroughly prosperous and will continue so unless ill-advised and radical legislation affecting the business and financial interests of the nation is enacted during the next few years. “The country demands and should have a settled and assured policy In respect to those questions. The Dingley law as a revenue producer haß more than satisfied those responsible for its enactment, and has proved gratifying to the people of the country generally. “It has furnished ample revenue to carry on the Government from the moment the sugar and wool schedules began to operate. lam convinced that the happy results It has produced wiU be permanent.” Representative Payne Is right. The Dingley law has proved so satisfactory and in all ways beneficial to the country that the people have no desire to interrupt Its operations for some time to come. Protection and the Gold Reserve. The Treasury statement for Oct. 13 shows that the gold reserve in thetreasury stands a,t $257,746,906. The Democratic “endless chain” seems powerless to draw the gold out of the treasury during a Republican administration. When we had free trade, or tariff reform, the Democratic administration sold over $262,uu0,„00 in inter-est-bearing bonds to obtain gold with which to maintain the gold reserve and to pay current expenses of the Government. There has been no drain on the gold in the treasury since the Republicans were placed in charge of it, because the people have full confidence in the financial ability of the Republican party. If the Democratic party was placed in power to-morrow our unparalleled prosperity would vanish, our gold reserve would melt away like snow in August, and before six mouths had passed the “endless chain” would be doing business at the old stand, bonds would be sold to pay expenses and maintain the gold reserve, business would he paralyzed, and before a year had passed the country would be swept by a panic, and labor would be thrown out of employment.—Benton (Ill.) Republican.

Everywhere Recognized. A San Francisco merchant who has just Yetumed from a business tour of Eastern manufacturing centers reports that manufacturers are so overcrowded that they have been forced to stop taking orders. Their works are running to their full capacity, wages of employes are being advanced, and there are no unemployed spinners and weavers to be had at any price. This era of prosperity is recognized everywhere as the direct result of the domestic and foreign policy of the McKinley administration.—San Francisco Chronicle. At Both End*. The American farmer appears to be catching prosperity at both ends of the trap this year. The war in the Philippines, by cutting off the supply of hemp, has greatly enhanced the value of flax. It is estimated that North Dakota farmers alone will get more than $10,000,000 for their fix crop, which will enable them to hold their wheat crop for better price*.—Seattle (Wash.) Po*t-Intelll-gencer. ' • /.'.-yt Oh, the Badnea* of Prosperity! Everything seems to be lost for the time being in the whirl of money-mak-ing—the pursuit of money.—John R. McLean, In Cincinnati Enquirer. This is the pathetic way in which the candidate defeated on a platform of calamity and discontent describes general prosperity. The situation, as Mr. McLean describes it, may seem sordid, but It is all right—New York Sun. Another Orphan Child. Another trust has Just made its appearance in free trade Great Britain. The London Economist announce* the formation of the United Indigo and Chemical .. m

GOOD NEWS.

sponsible for this British trust, or that the absence of a protective tariff constitutes any serious bar to the formation of trusts. A Financial Contrast. Under Cleveland and free trade we had peace and no extraordinary expenses of any kind, and the govern, ment was obliged to issue bonds in order to keep good the national credit and to get gold for our depleted and well-nigh empty treasury. Under McKinley and protection we are conducting a costly war, yet, to relieve stringency in the money market, the Secretary of the Treasury has offered to take from an overflowing treasury $25,000,000, and put it into general circulation by buying bonds to that amount The contrasting circumstances outline in vivid colors the difference there is, in respect to the condition of our national finances, between free trade and protection. Knows His Business. No Secretary of War before Secretary Root has shown a more masterful grasp of the army’s conditions and greatest needs, or has proposed changes which, If adopted, wtll open for it so successful a future.—New York Sun. No Longer Idle. The iron mills In the vicinity of Cleveland have enough orders on hand now; to keep them busy all of next year. Before McKinley was elected many of ’them were lying idle or working only half time.—Cleveland Leader. A Change Would Suit Him. The times are unusually prosperous. “Let’s vote for a change,” says Mr. Bryan.—Burlington Hawkeye.

A POSTAGE STAMP.

It Might Have Become the Most Valuable in the World. In the year 1851 a 12-penny black Canadian postage stamp was printed by the Government of Ottawa, says the Outlook. The pubUc did not regard this somber issue with favor, so few were isued. One of these stamps was sent to the Hamilton postoffice, where it was sold to an old gentleman, who said it was a shame to print the Queen’s picture on a stamp that might be handled by profane hands. Tenderly the gentleman put it on a parcel, sending it to a friend in the United States. Here, to the wastebasket, it lay for many a day, till an errand boy found it, and quickly transferred it to his album. Despairing of getting a good collection, and bis fever somewhat abating, be sold them to &4ealer. The new owner, on looking at the catalogue, found that what he had paid $5 for wa* worth $25. Acidentally this stamp was slipped into a 25-cent packet, and sent to a dealer residing in Hamilton. When the latter opened the packet he was astonished to find such a valuable stamp, and, being honest, wrote his friend to inform him of wbat had happened, offering him $1,200 for it. The offer was accepted and the stamp again changed hands. By this time the stamp had increased in value, and not a few came from a distance to look at the treasure. One day an English nobleman, who, through a Canadian friend, had beard of the stamp, offered $1,500, which offer was accepted. The English lord, falling in love with an Americad heiress, and wishing to gain the favor of her brother, presented him with the stamp as a token of bis esteem. Here, in its new and luxurious American home, it came to a sad end, for one day the maid, by a mistake, swept the stamp, which bad acidentally fallen ont of the album, into the fire. In an instant the stamp, which thousand* had heard of and longed for, went op to smoke to the broad bine sky, leaving not a trace behind.

That corn bread makes Mg men physically is proved by the fact that the six-footer* of Indiana, Ilttnais and Kentucky, as a nde. were brought np on hominy or corn bread as the main food supply. A table in any of the rural districts to those State* on which there Is no dish prepared from com is & curiosity, and to those States men who fall below the stature erf five feet axe dwarfs. Six feet Is the regulation size, summer, wbo tower considerably

Tall Men.

RECORD OF THE WEE

INDIANA INCIDENT# TEll#fi » *VV%I f% VfT' Muncie Resort Wrecked with mite- Work of a Bold j|| Seek Klondike Gold.' fgjm ■■ 1 The Maple Grove gardes, 'iiffffi 11 Bert Foster, the ex-heavyweight fljj pion of Indiana, was destroyed by * m Muncie. Mr. Foster, hi* 7-year-si® and his housekeeper, Mias My*t%JJ-y : M escaped with their Uvea la thefc.# 9 clothes. Three tramps, who we**lß.i| in« in the athletic garden, barely Met being cremated, two of whom WS**3 aj ribly burned. At an inveatlgatl<»| aj next day it was learned that the bnflf: M H was blown up with dynamite, there S.Jfl ing been for the last alx montM;do#J erable opposition by the residents «f portion of the city against the gamH IS ' Steals Weekly Pay RoH*l ;§§ The most daring robbery ever perpetrjj| ed in Madison County occurred alj| |g the other day in El wood, when sonlgj Jj known thief stole the pay rcdl Model Radiator factory, owned by Gjn.aj Converse of Chicago. The loesl#x«|| ager took the money, $450, out of J ® bank and stopped at his home en rOW'-ffl the factory to eat dinner. He overcoat in the parlor and was only ftWl from it about ten minutes, but fin M that time the thief entered the door, the pocket down the side, sack of money and disappeared, gl J|| • ‘m Gain a Fortune in the Klondik^|j| With several hundred thousand doßj Dr. and Mrs. W. F. Howe have jast || turned to their home in Indianapm* after a year and a half in the lOdlM 9 The husband and wife trudged togef&mt from Skaguay over the White F»*j S Lake Tagish. There the doctor buiß L-* open boat and they crossed to tb*|jßj| son country. They lived for montlWs the mercury 56 degrees below zertk Vi|j| declare the best days in the Klondil yet to come. They hold fine d*bj| gj| joining, one of which has paid $250,0#,. Aged Engineer Dies. I 1 Davis Verrill, the oldest enginedg g point of service on the Lake Shore 1 road, died at South Bend. He J •••'|| railroading as a fireman in 1846 tnd made an engineer in 1852. Since 180# |j has been with the Lake Shore rood. jj ■ jgj was 73 years old. M Within Our Borders. M Steuben County has no saloostgi A wolf was seen in the Kank*lH#»«|j ley. Jjjj Franklin is about to lose It* pants fl tory. 111 l The Hessian fly is in Fountain Cos* wheat. H Arcadia file work* is arranging tjffl oil for fuel. ;j| Incendiaries are burning barns ley County. f«J John Detrick, Greencastle, exhJMH 8 six-pound turnip. jj Floyd County has a new asylum fo*4| incurable insane. S John Royer, New Albany, fonnd/jH in his room. Paralyzed. jj Voting machines are being testtra 8 Crawfordsville. May buy. '-m Milroy township is said to.hAIMB Jj gest crow roost in Indiana. ‘tM I Twelve-year-old son of Henry YetflHShelburn, drowned while skating. 1 Jg Floyd Wilkins, 14, Summitville, dentally shot and killed Fred |g John Martin, Terre Haute, fell i feet from the new high school building : Linton and was fatally hurt. J| ■ Fred Meier, 25, farmer neat* $ ville, was struck on the head by rofcw dj recently, and has become insane. 3 County commissioner* la® j sered a SSOO reward for the conviction of those who lynched MitißL; Tyler. 'lll A “county cistern” that was stgaNHlf the rear of the jail at Garnett kaa?#W between $7,000 and SB,OOO and is not finished. fl Harry B. White, Terre Haute, four footpads the other night and Wmjm to work the next day as if SOti®g Sm happened. f|g Two children of Mrs. Decker #Mk|| near Sullivan, were left alone and phi * ed with fire. The house burned doffd One escaped and the other was Mine workers of the Indiana frltnmßg ous district have been ordered to pay||W 1 per cent of their earnings, imMH 2, as that is deemed sufficient to for the few men who are now idle, j |j| J. A. Buck, defaulting treasurerofjflKj land lodge, Amalgamated AssodafiW*j Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, pleaded guilty to embezzlement aa#| sent north to do from two to years. .2* ‘’’ jtpugß Wm Vincennes officers are death of Karl Wilson, 2, son of FaMM Thomas Wilson. The family tian scientists and the child,- after longed illness, died without medial .jjjg tention. 9H Indiana Dairymen's convention at Cambridge City. The *.a-.£ officers are: President, C. B. Lei toy; vice-president, John Bhnga|gJ§§ retary-treasurer, H. E. Lafayette. 11l Bert Julian, charged with ninad# Michael Houlehan at Colfax OriM .1 when he refused to give him a drinltf |||| convicted of murder in the seconds! ;|gg on the first ballot, at Frankfort, *f|B fenced for life. jßj Kokomo merchants say that being held up by church and chartl j gauization committees, who insttt *■ boycott if they refuse to that is asked. They have called m q ■ ing to devise means com tot the <