Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1900 — Page 7

IN THE MIDDLE AGES.

Student Life of the Olden Time Preacnted a Unique Spectacle. The student world of olden time presents a unique spectacle to the observer of the nineteenth century. When instruction was about to begin a curious sight was exhibited. Groups of students are pressing toward the university from every quarter. Their bright dresses flash along lonely forest ways. Now they form a part of a caravan of merchants making its slow way along the valleys, or they join themselves timidly to the retinue of some knight for protection; or they float down the dull, sluggish German streams in the trafficking boats, fhey stop for a day in the great cities through which they pass in order to feast their eyes upon the sights of a new world; they appear for a time amid the crowds at the yearly fairs, where they tell fortunes, or predict eclipses, or sell charms and false relics, or unfold the mysteries of the black art, to earn an honest penny to help them on their way. To-night they sleep in a castle court, and enjoy the hospitality given to strangers; tomorrow a friendly monastery gives them shelter and the wayfarer’s food. They chaff the honest country people, and make love to the maidens with their gay manner and songs. They peem like the reckless, careless, troubadours with their jests and merrymaking. The wealthier students ride on horseback; the nobles are accompanied by a retinue of attendants, the names of all of whom will be entered on the university books. The poor students, who hope by a drink from the mysterious fountain of knowledge to improve their prospects in life, have no baggage. The others carry a pack containing a velvet or satin doublet, linen shirts, a dairy, an album, a letter of introduction and some book, usually a Greek Testament, Terence, Ovid, Plautus or Petronlus. Most wear a sword as a part of their dress, and for defense as well, for the hot blood of these students constantly leads to broils.—Harper’s Magazine.

Exhibits at Paris.

There is a large exhibit from this country at the Paris exposition which will prove very interesting to all, but no more so than the news that the famous American remedy, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, will cure dyspepsia, indigestion and constipation. To all sufferers a trial is recommended.

Bright Repartee.

Sarcastic Wife (reading)—Another mysterious suicide unknown man throws himself from a cliff. Husband (thoughtlessly)—Bet his wife was at the bottom of it. Wife—Charles! Husband (hurriedly)—Of the cliff, my love; not the suicide.

What Do the Children Drink?

Don’t give them tea or coffee. Have you tried the new food drink called GRAIN-O? It is delicious and nourishing, and takes the place of coffee. The more Grain-0 you give the children the more health you distribute through their systems. Grain-0 is made of pure grains, and .when properly prepared tastes like the choice grades of coffee, but costs about as much. All grocers sell it 15c and 25c.

Refused Prime Ministers.

The wife of the late Earl of Bradford had a sister, of whom it was said she was the only woman who refused offers of marriage from two prime ministers. She was a Miss Forester, and In her youth refused Lord Palmerston. She married the Earl of Chesterfield, and as his widow refused Lord Beaconsfield.

Afraid of It.

The entire family were assembled about the deathbed. They stood there silently, in deep thought. “No,” they finally told the salesman, “we won’t take it Show us one of the old-fashioned kind that don’t fold up.” —Philadelphia Press.

His Prospective Condition.

Tarantula Jim—l hear tell that Polecat Pete was shot nine times through the body. You s’pose he’ll git well? Alkali Ike —I reckon he’ll live, but I figger that he’ll always be mighty porous.—Puck.

The Gold One.

Husklnby—l tell ye, I don’t believe Hiram Graball wuz ever in New York in his hull life. Hayrake—But he wuz—he showed me the brick.—Puck. When a man lives with God his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn.— Emerson.

BackAche 7 If you have Backache you have Kidney Disease, If you neglect Backache it will develop -into something worse Bright’s Disease of Diabetes There is no.use rubbing and doctoring your back. Cure the kidneys. There is only one kidney medicine but it cures Backache every time Dodd’s Kidney Pills.

FARMS AND FARMERS

Prevents Rapid Katins* The feed trough which we illustrate below has been patented by George E. Combs, of Chadwick, N. Y., and is intended to prevent the animals from eating their feed too rapidly, and also to prevent the waste of feed when the animal is. inclined to push it out of the trough. The new trough is of semicircular shape, with a hopper mounted on a raised base in the center of the rear portion of the trough. At the bottom of the hopper is a disk which can be raised or lowered by the adjustment of a thumbscrew, thus varying the size of The discharge opening. The feed falls through the opening around tha disk into the trough below, and a little watching on the part of the hostler will soon show the position to give the disk to regulate the discharge to the proper quantity. Projecting

VARIABLE DISCHARGE FOR FEED TROUGHS.

from either side of the hopper is a short arm, which is conne'cted with a stirring device inside of the hopper, this arrangement being useful in starting the flow of feed if it should become clogged in the hopper. If the feed stops the animal will move its nose about tie trough to pick up the stray grain, thus coming in contact evith one of the areas and dislodging the feed and starting the flow 7 again. Fattening Beef Cattle. Reports from the West indicate that a great many of what are called “feeders,” young stock ready to be put up and fattened, are being sold in the Chicago market, and that the farmers of Indiana, Illinois and Iow r a will feed more of them this year than ever. One reason for this is probably in the comparatively good price at which beef cattle are now selling, and another is tbe large corn crops which the farmers have grown, and w’hich they find it more profitable to sell “on the hoof” as it is called, or in the shape of.cattle a.uid hogs, than to sell by the bushel. They have learned that their soil, fertile as it was once thought to be, needs to have something in the w 7 ay of -fertility returned to it, or continual cropping will exhaust it. The corn shredder, whieh utilizes the stalks of their great fields of corn as rough fodder for stock, helps them keep more. Most of these young cattle come from the ranges in Texas and in the Northwestern States, where little corn is grown, and it seems easier to bring the cattle to the corn than to take the corn to the cattle, especially as the feeding points are nearer to a good market than are the ranches. Something of the same sort is beixg done near Kansas City and Omaha, which draw range cattle from Montana, the Dakotas and even from Wfnnipqj. Where drought has been too severe these range cattle are what is called “grass fat” when they come in, and need only a few months on corn w bring them up to prime beef, fit to ship to England or any other point whoye they will pay good prices for good meat j —American Cultivator. Drilling Grate. The Minnesota Experiment Statical tried for several years drilled wheat by the side of wheat sown broadcast These were field tests on considerable areas, and they found as an average that the drilled wheat yielded 50 per cent, more than that which w 7 as broadcasted. The results were most marked in seasons, when the soil was dry, as the seeds were well covered at a uniform depth by the dnll, and thus gcw minated more freely and' evenly. seasons when the sowing was followed by moist, cool weather, there was difference, as under such conditions ta.e seed germinated well whether covenyj deep or shallow. T. B. Terry tells m the Practical Farmer of one-horup drills costing at retail $lO to sl4, which are intended for sowing wheat or othar grain between the rows of standing corn. With _ the wings that go with them they can be run very close to the corp rows so as to leave the drills aboot seven inches apart, with scarcely a perceptible break where the corn stood. One man wrote him that he thus drilled in fifty-five acres in ten days. h Bloat in Cattle. Bloat in cattle, from whatever cauM, is very dangerous,; and unless help *s soon obtained, the animal will die. The most effectual way of relief is to inc the trocar and canula, an instrument that is designed for this purpose, ts this is not at hand, a knife may be uso£, the small blade of a penknife being the right size. We used the small blade of * jackknife, with rubber over the blade, to make the right length. Push the right

side of the cow against the wall. Place the knife on the left side, about midway between the short rib and hip bone. Give the knife a sharp blow with the hand; withdraw the knife, Insert a goose or turkey quill, and leave it there until the gas escapes. The quill should be watched so that it may not become clogged with blood. The next day after the operation we gave the cow one and one-half pounds of Glauber’s salts, and as she was not chewing her cud by the next day a strip of salt pork was given her. This brought her out In good shape. The knife operation is not dangerous, but the gas is. Rape Plants as Weed Killers. Aside from its value as a forage rape is an excellent crop to grow on fields that are foul with weeds. The late date at which the seed may be sown allows the weeds to get well started before the ' final preparation of the soil begins, they are further kept In check by the cultivation required for the crop during its early growth, and later the rape plants shade the ground so completely as to keep the weeds down. An excellent treatment for a foul field Is to plow thoroughly in late summer or early autumn and seed to rye or some other forage crop to be pastured off during the fall, winter or early spring. When the crop has been pastured sufficiently and before the weeds, have produced seed, plow again, plant rape in drills and give thorough cultivation. There are few weeds that will survive such treatment, and the land will have given profitable returns in forage in the meantime. The rape is usually ready for use in about eight or ten weeks from the date of seeding.—T. A. Williams.

Lime and Acid Phosphate. Much having been said 'lately about the tests made at the Rhode Island Experiment Station In the use of lime upon certain soils and for various crops, we desire to call attention to the possible danger of using lime with an acid phosphate. The object in treating bone and phosphatic rock with sulphuric acid is to render the phosphoric acid soluble in water so that it may become more readily available for plant food. It does this by removing from it a part of the lime, changing it to a sulphate of lime. If now more carbonate of lime is added it will be taken up by the dissolved phosphate, and It reverts again to the insoluble form. be used with bone meal, because that already has its phosphoric acid combined with as much lime as It can take up, and it really becomes available, as it is acted upon by the acid in the soil. But where one uses enough of bone meal there is little need to use lime in any other form. Good Strawberries. The Nick Ohmer strawberry is a fine grower and carries its fruit on strong stems well up from the ground. It is

NICK OHMER BERRY.

be easy figuring in the cases of Nick Ohmer and Sharpless, which stand preeminently in mind as the leaders of the test. Frost caused some injury, but Gladstone, Gem and Star suffered most seriously in this respect. Wilson and Sharpless were tremendous croppers and gave good fruit early to late. Co-operation in Fairs. We should like to see the stock of every fair association in the country scattered out in small blocks among the representative farmers, breeders and business men of the community. Then they would all have some direct personal interest In making the fair a success, and they would do it, too. Wherever the managers of a fair have the good will and help of a community which is proud of its fair we find a clean, Instructive and successful exhibition. Fair managers as a rule are anxious to give the public clean fairs, but they cannot do It without such public support as will keep them “out of the hole” financially.—National Stockman. Unalaked Lime for Rats. A correspondent of the Country Gentleman says that to keep rodents out of oats “take unslaked lime, just sprinkle it over the floor or platform on which one will put his grain, then a layer of sheaves and another liberal spread of lime. Continue in like manner, lining each layer of grain to the last, not smothering the last layer, and that is all there is to W. I keep rats and mice out of my corn crib in the same way, and ft is Invariably a success. I also keep large quantities of unthreshed oats In barn free from rats and mice the same way. One barrel of unslaked lime is enough for 2,000 or 3,000 bushels of corn or eight tons of sheaf oats. Sowing Timothy. ' In the opinion of a National Stockxnan correspondent there is no better way of getting a good stand of timothy than to put the ground in good order and sow the seed about the last week in September or first of October, one bushel to six acres. "I have sown in corn,” he says, “the last time I worked the corn and got the best kind of • starid of timothy and clover."

heavy and large in leaf. The fruit Is of a beautiful shape and color, coming in as early as the majority and continuing as late in the season as any on the list. In its variety trials of strawberri e s for 1900 American Gardening found fully a quart per plant to

WILL LET CHINA FALL

UNITED STATES WILL NOT FIGHT TO PRESERVE THE EMPIRE. Held in Washington that Germany and Other Powers Will Effect the Dismemberment of the Celestial Empire —Trade Rights to Be Guarded. i ———• Washington correspondence: While strenuously endeavoring to prevent the dismemberment of China, which now seems the only outcome of the existing condition of affairs, the United States is to exact guaranties from the powers acquiring territory that the trade rights of this country shall continue to be respected. Were China willing to place itself under the tutelage of the United States, and were there in.control four or five strong men with whom the United States could treat'rather than Prince Tuan and other reactionaries, it is the belief in Washington that the Chinese territorial integrity could be maintained. But the Chinese Emperor is a weakling, while the Empress Dowager, a hater of the foreigner, is surrounded by men whose lives depend upon keeping her eyes closed to the true situation. A fact known to foreign powers is that the United States will not go to the extent of war in preserving the integrity of the Chinese empire, and there is reason to believe that At least one power has sounded the'State Department in this respect, obtaining the answer expected. That power would have preferred the preservation of the territorial entity of China, but failing to obtain American support, and in view of its occupation of Shanghai, Great Britain stands ready to take its share of territory when partition occurs. < The United States has tried to maintain peace without surrendering any of its rights. In carrying out its original policy it has now instructed" Gen. Chaffee to withdraw his forces from Pekin, leaving only a legation guard to protect the American minister and American property. The order provides protection agaipst a twofold danger, as Gen. Chaffee’s retirement not only would take us out of the military muddle at Pekin, but would alter the status of the troops left behind. As a legation guard the force still in Pekin would be ataenable to the order of no one but its own officers and Minister Conger—a fact of some importance to a nation which wants no war with China and is Still less willing to have its soldiers forced into fighting under foreign leaders for the sole purpose of carrying out foreign policies. There is no question in the minds of well-informed diplomats in Washington that Germany is the power that will precipitate dismemberment if it can be accomplished. All the developments in her policy have indicated they are leading up to such an end. Emperor William, after having informed the world as to the revenge he meant to exact from China, has stipulated that prior to entering into negotiations with the Chinese government the authors of the anti-for-eign outrages must be surrendered. On this proposition he has received no support from Great Britain and the United States and at most a dubious assent from the three other powers most concerned. He now has two alternatives —to go ahead in accordance' with his own program, with the doubtful acquiescence of such powers as may approve his plan, or to come down from his former position and alter the terms on which he will talk peace. The powers are a unit in demanding punishment for the instigators of the Boxer outrages, and the present incidental difference seemingly ought not to prevent the execution of this single common purpose. Russia Rewarded in Any Event. Russia is posing to the Chinese as their good friend. If the question is peacefullj’ setatled Russia will expect reward, and the reward will be in the shape of territorial concessions. Great Britain has shown the territory It covets by occupying Shanghai, the key to the Yangtse Kiang valley, which is the road to India. Three powers will dislike to have Great Britain establish sovereignty over that region, and Germany and France have announced their opposition by landing troops at Shanghai. Japan stands ready to occupy the province of Fukien, and France is willing to extend its boundaries in southern China to the northward. , It is stated by authority that the United States will not under any consideration acquire Chinese territory. What will be sought by treaty with the powers when partition comes is the future protection of American trade rights. There, is reason to believe that. Minister Wu understands the serious phase of the international situation growing out of the attitude of Germany and the appointment of Prince Tuan as grand secretary and president of the privy council and other reactionaries to responsible positions. He also understands the willingness of the United States to render the imperial government its best assistance if it will in return aid the United States by removing {Tuan and in restoring peace and order throughout the empire. Size of the Forces in China. The War Department supplies a statement of the military forces now in China as follows: Officers. Men. Gune. Horses. Austria-Hungary. 16 272 2 80 France 182 6,186 37 670 Germany 15,600 44 Great Britain ...218 8.476 25 1,087 Italy 1.000 53 Japan 273 22,000 Russia 275 48,500 148 United States ...181 5.427 17 1,239 Foreign troops en route to China: Men. Guns. France 10,000 84 Italy 2,000 Rnssialos,ooo 138 Germany 7,500 Russia’s force now in China is distributed as follows: In Chili province, 11,500 men; in Manchuria. 37,000 men.

CHINA WAR NEWS.

Russians are rapidly pushing troops into Manchuria. The Americans have begun at Ho-fM-Wu a permanent telegraph line between Pekin and Tien-tsin. A Dondon cable says it is growing more and more evident that Russia and Ger-

Mixed His Bible Stories.

A schoolboy at a prize examination furnished the following biography of the patriarch Abraham: "He was the father of Lot and had two wives. One was called Ishmael and the other Hagar. He kept one at home and he turned the other into the desert, where she became a pillar of salt in the daytime and a pillar of fire by night’’

BEST FOR THE BOWELS.

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The Savage Bachelor.

“A young girl,” said the prosy boarder, “should tell her mother everything.” “Yes,” said the savage bachelor, “and any news she can bring about pa will be especially welcome.”—lndianapolis Press.

Try Grain-O! Try Grain-O!

Ask your Grocer to-day to show you a package of GRAIN-0, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try it like it. GRAIN-0 has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. U the price of coffee. 15c and 25c per package. Sold by all grocers.

Wise Proprietor.

“See here!” exclaimed the disgusted guest, “this meat’s simply awful. Where’s the proprietor of this joint?” “He’s gone out to lunch, sir,” replied the waiter.—Philadelphia Press.

Lane's Family Medicine

Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy thia is necessary. Acte gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price 25 and 50c.

The Oldest University.

The oldest university in the world is El Ayhar, at Cairo. It is the greatest Mohammedan university, having clear records dating back nearly 1,000 years. Besides New Scales of all varieties, the Chicago Scale Co. have a number of Second-hand Wagon or Stock Scales in perfect order, which they wifi sell low for Cash. Send for their “Bargain List.” What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of discip-line.-H. P. Liddon.

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove’s signature is on each box. 25c. “It’s only her way.” I wonder if the way people get with them isn’t something to be accountable for, though?— Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney. I do not believe Piso’s Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds.—John F. Boyer, TriJi ty Springs, Ind., Feb. 15. 1900. A movement has been started in France to erect a monument at Waterloo in honsr of the French soldiers who* fell there.

Carter’s Ink Is the

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Hall’s Catarrh Cure.

Is taken internally. Price 75 cents. Why doesn’t the pugilist who is looking for a scrap offer bis services to Uncle Sam? I PUTNAM FADELESS DYES are fast to sunlight, washing and rubbing. Beauty is the creator of the universe. —Emerson.

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