Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1900 — Page 3

AGRICULTURAL

Fruit Storage House* The Vermont Station gives a description, with illustration, of a frame storage house in which low temperature and ventilation are provided by throwing open doors and windows during cool spells in the fall and keeping them closed at other times. The house is 30 by 50 feet and has two stories and basement The basement and first floor are used for storing fruit and hold 1,000 barrels each. The second floor is for empty barrels, etc. The building has double walls and double windows. An oil stove gives heat enough to keep the fruit from freezing in wJMer. The lumber used in the construction of this house was as follows: Three thousand five hundred feet wall boarding, 8,000 feet roof boarding, 8,500 feet celling (Inside), 7,200 feet floor boards (douffte floors), 4,000 feet clap-boards, 25 bundles lath, and 22% squares slate. Outside Finish—Two hundred feet (linear measure - ) 5-lnch crown mold, 190 feet (linear measure) 3-inch bed mold.

APPLE STORAGE HOUSE.

800 feet (linear measure) % by 10 mold for freize and facia, 200 feet (linear measure) % by 7 base and water tables, 200 feet (linear measure) % by 12 planers. Corner boards, four pieces, % by 5, 15 feet; four pieces % by 6, 15 feet. Sills, eight pieces, 2 by 8, 15 feet; 16 pieces, 2 by 8, 13 feet. Floor joists, 56 pieces, 2 by 9, 15% feet; 26 pieces, ft by 9, 30 feet. Collar ties to rafters, 26 pieces, 1% by 9, 19 feet Wall studs, 100 pieces, 3 by 4, 14 feet; 20 pieces, 3 by 4, 12 feet. Rafters, 56 pieces, 2 by 8, 21 feet. Braces, 26 pieces, 2 by 6, 6 feet; 26 pieces, 1 by 0, 8 feet. Ribbons, 16 pieces, 1 by 4, 13 feet. Ridge poles, four piecs, 2 by 12, 18 feet. This bill is estimated at $443.69, and the house bor of building was performed by the owner at spare times. , Such storage buildings as the one Just described, which depends on the husbanding and utilization of low temperature during cold waves In early spring and fall, would not, of course, fulfill their purpose during the hot summer months. They are obviously best adapted to a cold climate, such as is found in the Northern States Here they can, in the opinion of the New Hampshire Station, be made more useful in our present transitional period of storage construction than any other. Their defect is that they do not inaln-

CROSS SECTION OF APPLE HOUSE.

tain a sufficiently low and even temperature, and they would be of little use in a warm climate. It is, however, but a step from such a fruit house to ice storage. Aside from the details of construction, the only difference Is that the upper story is used for storing Ice, thus cooling the air in the top of the building, which sinks and In turn cools the room below. Market Value of Ensilage. Trof. Phelps makes quite an elaborate computation as regards a fair market value of ensilage, from which he decides that it is worth about one-third to one-fourth the price per ton of a good stock hay free from clover. He figures it In this way: There is about 480 pounds of water free or dry matter In a ton of ensilage and 1,740 pounds In a ton of hay, but when the digestibility is calculated there is 330 pounds of food elements digestible In the ton of silage, and about 1,000 pounds In the ton of hay, being near enough to call it one-third of the food value. But we do not always compute the value to the dairyman by the nutritive value if the Professor does. The more succulent and easily digested silage when given as a part of the food ration will produce more milk than one-third of its weight in hay. That Is those who have fried It aay that thirty pounds of eo-

silage a day with ten pounds of hay will give better results than twenty pounds of hay. As those who have grown it for years say the cost when in the silo is from $2.50 per ton with best machinery up to $3.50 when much hand labor is used, we think it is profitable for the farmer to put up his ensilage. Keep the Bojra on the Farm. A great deal of plausible advice has been given" under this heading, which may or may not be practicable when applied to real life. But one secret of keeping the boys in the country home, and thus solving the abandoned farm problem, is in arousing their interest and giving them some personal share in that farm, something which they can feel Is their own, and which will be theirs also when the time comes for its sale. For this purpose nothing is better than poultry raising. Many a boy has become a successful poultry keeper by having a pair of bantam fowl given him when a child, and being made responsible for their care and keeping. Do not discourage the crude attempts of the boy, nor laugh at his enthushasm, but tactfully point out the best way to accomplish the end he desires; show him how to care for his little flock, and foster his Interest in every way. Teach him about the nature and habits of the hen, and cultivate in him the faculty of careful observation. As the boy grows up, his Interest wif. deepen, and when the time comes that boys are tempted away from the farm by the attractions of city life, he will be unwilling to leave the business which he has built up and which he finds profitable. Give him occasionally a pair of fancy fowl; encourage him to exhibit at the fair and to take a pride In the condition of the feathered community under his care. A sabscription to a good poultry journal or live farm paper, if he Is ak all Inclined to reading, will help to simulate his interest. If the boy, the werage country boy, has a pleasant, mon-ey-making employment, he will not often desire t.o leave the farm; and that employment may often be found In poultry raising. It is a business which is never likely to be overcrowded. Encourage the boys; they are the lifeblood of New England.—Maine Farmer. Clean Milk. To secure cleanliness in milking the American Agriculturist suggests a wooden hoop a little smaller than the

PAIL COVER.

made In ten minutes. The cloth should be washed after each milking, when it will be ready for use again. This simple device will do just as well as the tin tops that come ready to be adjusted to the tops of the milk pails, and the homemade affair will cost nothing. B irnyard Sheds. We once knew a man who decided that he would make a tight board fence on the north and east sides of his barnyard to protect the cattle from the wind, as it would cost but little more than any other suug fence. When this was done he found that wlittle expense would roof over the space between the fence at one side and end and the building. Then he had a shed, not quite water tight, for he did not shingle It, but battened the cracks, where the cattle could stand while he was cleaning out the stables and spreading the bedding in a stormy day, and longer when the snn shone into It, and they were much more comfortable. It was pleasing to see how the cattle would gather in that shed after they had drank, While waiting for the door to open that they might go into the barn. The expense was small and was more than repaid by the comfort of the-cattle, and probably by saving of food, though the farmers of those days did not carry their experiments on as scientifically and get results as exactly as the experiment stations do now. When they thought a uew' method paid they did not figure the profit down to fractions of a cent.—American Cultivator.

Too Much Salt. * Too much salt is used by many butter makers. The whole tendency among consumers is toward fresher butter. In England and on the continent butter made In those countries is served particularly fresh and white. In the best restaurants and hotels in the larger cities of this country the tytffter. contains very little salt. A great number of American who go abroad or who patronize city hotels and restaurants in this country are acquiring the taste for fresh butter.—American Agriculturist Adulterated Flour. It is said that one reason why Em gllsb buyers prefer to purchase wheat and have it ground there, instead of buying American flour, is that they have found evidences in the flour of adulteration with corn flour, and even corn cobs, clay and other substances. If this charge is true, there Is no one to blame but the millers if they do not grind all the wheat we grow, or all they need to keep their mills busy. It Is said that the Millers’ National Ass® elation will take action In the mattrl

top of the milk pail. Put a square of cheesecloth over the top of the pail and hold in in place by the hoop, as shown. This is an aid to cleanly milking and can be

ON THE WRONG TRACK

THE TRUST AND DINNER-PAIL QUESTION. Mistaken Democratic Contention that Tariff-Protected Tru»ta Have Arbitrarily Increased the Price of Necessaries—Kansas Is Regenerated. The Boston Post, in its issue for last Sunday, discourses at some length and with eonsiderablefervor on “The Man with the Dinner Pail.” Our Boston contemporary submits that those citizens who were induced by the “full dinner pail” argument to lend their aid to keep the Republican party in power in Washington are learning something from the course of events since the election. Although the pail may be full up to the present time, our contemporary asserts that the man who carries it has to pay more to keep it in that plethoric condition. “The sudden activity of trusts in putting up prices immediately after election” is noted as “significant and ominous.” The first of these offenders to come in for scarlfica--tion at the hands of the Boston Post is “the great Pennsylvania coal trust,” which, It says, did not wait for the election, but advanced prices “regardless of the political situation.” “The others,” it says, “held off until the party crisis was past; now they are putting on the screws.” ~Tt(e attention of the inab with the pail is called to the alleged fact “that the first in the field to levy tribute upon him are those trusts which control necessaries of life. He will also observe that those trusts are favorites of the Republican tariff, sustained by the protection which the Dingley bill provides against competition.” Let us inspect the latter of these two allegations and see how it tallies, or fails to tally, with the truth. The Boston Post assuredly must know that there is no duty on anthracite coaL That commodity certainly is not a “favorite of the Republican tariff.” The Boston Post also knows that Congress has not, and, under the Constitution of the United States, could not have, anything to do with the coaL combine. It knows also that there is not a Democrat in Congress who is not bound by fidelity to his party’s creed to oppose any and every movement looking to national control of State corporations.

The Chicago beef trust comes next on our contemporary’s list of tariff-pro-tected sinners. “This,” we are told, “is the trust for whose benefit bides were taken off the free list, where they had been for a quarter of a century, and a tariff tax was laid upon the material of a great New England industry, and upon the footwear of the man with the dinner pail, his wife and his children.” That duty is 50 cents a hide, and it was ostensibly laid for the benefit of the cattle raisers. It may be that the members of the lieef combine profit by it more than do the men from whom they buy~cattle, but it is so insignificant a levy that it is no serious factor in the price of meat, nor does it greatly enhance the cost of footwear. Still, if it is really promotive of injustice, it might well be repealed. The Boston Post waxes eloquent in its denunciation of the salt trust It says, among other things, that “under the Democratic regime salt was on the free list, and for this reason a great variety of food products were available to fill the dinner pail at reasonable prices. The Dingley tariff placed a duty on salt, and as soon as the salt trust finds this tariff made permanent by the election of a Republican government, it puts up the price of this necessary of life to the top notch that the ‘protection’ will stand.” If the protection accorded to the salt industry is abused, the wrong should be abolished. The Washington Post is inimical to any and all abuses of protection. But it is absurd bo speak of the price of salt as having any great effect upon the cost of a dinner, or even upon the expense of subsisting the average family for a year. But the most ridiculous of our Boston contemporary’s complaints relates to Standard Oil. It is true that the price of oil has been Increased, and it is also true that the combine which controls that business has made and is making immense profits. But the Boston Post knows very well that there is no duty on coal oil, and It is not ignorant of the fact that Congress has no right to Interfere with the State charters under which that business is conducted. Tiiere are combinations of a more or less monopolistic character that ar,® sheltered by the tariff, but the Boston Post skillfully dodges them and delivers its hardest blows upon tlie anthraciate coal and Standard Oil trusts. It would be an Insult to our Boston contemporary’s Intelligence to assume or eyen to suspect that it is ignorant of the fact that neither of these combines gets any help from the tariff. What, then, is the object of such an appeal to “the man with the dinner pail?” Is It possible that our contemporary presumes on his ignorance of the subject? —Washington Post. The Favored Land. Word comes that the total number of immigrants who will come into this country during the present fiscal year will reach 450,000, the largest number on record since 1892. There is no Intention here to discuss the advantages or disadvantages of Increased immigration. The fact merely as a fact Is worthy of attention, though. The purpose of every Immigrant In coming to this country is to better his condition. When times are dull and work scarce In the United States, therefore, the foreigner is not inclined to leave familiar

haunts, however evil the conditions, for the uncertainties of this country. Furthermore, he gets little encouragement from the steamship companies to emigrate under those circumstances. But when there is a job in this country for every man who can and will work, the immigiants come in herds. The Increase in immigration, therefore, is a tribute, welcome or otherwise, to the prosperity which the protective tariff, system, restored by the Dingley law, has brought to this country, as the large immigration in 1592 was a tribute to the prosperity which followed the enactment of the McKinley law of 1890. The would-be immigrants apparently put no more confidence in Mr. Bryan's predictions of hard times in case of President McKinley’s re-election than did the people of the United States. REGENERATED KANSAS. Securely Anchored to the Party of Sanity and Prosperity. The return of Kansas to the Republican party has an interest for the entire United States. Kansas was one of the first States to be swept off its moral base by the Populist flood. .The Farmers’ Alliance, which was the nucleus around which the Populist party was built, had Kansas for its radiating center. William A. Peffer, who succeeded John J. Ingalls in the Senate in 1891, was, with James H. Kyle, of South Dakota, the first of the Populists to reach that body, although at 'the tyne of their election they were simply Farmers’ Alliance men. Both are in the Republican party now. Kansas went squarely over to the Poulists in 1892, and gave its ten electoral votes to Gen. James B. Weaver, the Populist candidate in that year, w r hom William J. Bryan supported On the stump and at the polls. The State made a temporary return to political sanity in 1894, when it elected a Republiean Governor, and was carried by the Republicans in 1895 also for Chief Justice. It went back to its follies in 1896, however, when it gave Bryan a 12,000 plurality. An indication of reawakening reason was shown in 1898, when the Republicans again got the State on Governor. Its big plurality for President McKinley in the election just held marks the end of Kansas’ Demo-Pop debauch. Kansas will hereafter stick to the party of public spirit and balance. That State has seen right at home some of the evil effects of its political obliquities. Its gain in population in the decade ending with 1900 was only 42,000, which was Insignificant compared with its expansion in the Republican days. Popocracy assailed the State’s credit, diminished its business, sent thousands of its residents out to other States, and prevented the immigration of other thousands who would have gone there if that Popo-Dem. quarantine has been raised. In the election just held Kansas has redeemed Itself. Its days of adversity are consequently ended. Millions of dollars of capital and thousands of settlers that have been repelled by the Bryanite blight on the State will now flow in, and another era of expansion and prosperity like that of the old and great Republican days will come. Kansas has anchored herself to the party of sanity and prosperity, and the prizes of social fortune are again within her reach.—St. Louis Globe-Demo-crat He Had Learned the Lesson.

The Chiefest Threat.

Said the Salt Lake Tribune Just prior to the election of Nov. 6: “The men of Utah will keep in mind that the election of Mr. Bryan would smash the protective tariff in Utah. That is the chiefest threat of the Kansas City platform. The lead, wool, sheep, sugar and stock men of the State should keep that in mind.” It is very evident that the men of Utah kept in miml that “chiefest threat,” for they swung into line for McKinley and protection by a majority of over 4,000 r a State which in 1896 gave Bryan a majority of 51,390. Can’t Escape It. ( The prosperity Idea has invaded even the cold and clammy precincts of the grave over Kansas, as will witness this opening verse of an obituary poem published by the Girard Press: And as his age advanced, his home With comforts was surrounded; His farm with cattle, sheep and swine, And other things abounded. —Kansas City, Mo., Journal. Wouldn’t It Jar Yon? “We believe It to be perfectly clear,” says the Examiner, of San Francisco, “that if the country has rejected Mr. Bryan It has done so with reluctance.” Now, In the language used by the Democratic cartoonists daring the > campaign, "Wouldn’t that Jar you T’—Tacoma (Wash.) Ledger..

GENERAL KNOX, WHO IS PRESSING DE WET HARD.

Gen. Charles E, Knox, who is giving Gen. De Wet a lively chase in the southern portion of Orange River Colony, has been in South Africa about a year, and has seen a great deal of fighting. He commanded a brigade of Lord Roberts’ army until the battle of Paardeburg, in which he was severely wounded in the chest. Gen. Knox was born fifty-four years ago and served with Sir Charles Warren in the Beehuanalnnd campaign of 1884. His substantive rank in the British army is that of colonel.

HOW HE WAS KIDNAPED.

Cudahy Boy Tells Thrill!nu Story of His Abduction and Release. - Edward Cudahy, Jr., son of the millionaire Omaha packer, who was kidnaped and returned to his home upon payment of a $25,000 ransom by his father, told the story of the kidnaping” to" the police Thursday. Edward A. Cudahy, the father, gave out a statement telling about the demand for the ransom and the method of payment. His experience was little less thrilling than that of his son. The letter written by the kidnapers demanding the $25,000 ransom was also given out. Mr. Cudahy announced he would pay $25,000 reward for the arrest of the abductors of his son. He offered $5,000 for one, or $15,000 for two of them. Young Cudahy’s story as related to the Omaha chief of police is as follows. “It was somewhere around 8 o’clock Tuesday night, as near as I can remember, and I was on my way home from Captain Rustin'a house, 205 Thirty-sev-enth street, and had reached Gan. Cor-

EDWARD CUDAHY, JR.

win’s place, which is 332 South Thirtyseventh street, only two doors from my house, when two men jumped out on m*. “One of them had a pistol and he shoved it in my face, and said if I made any noise he would do for me. “Then he said ‘I am the sheriff of Harpy County; you are Eddie McGee, and I arrest you for robbing your aunt of $500.’ “I thought that they had made a mistake, and I was not so very scared. But when I was told to get in a buggy standing near I felt differently. When I got in the buggy I was put between the two men who were masked. “We had not gone very far when a man on a horse rode up and spoke to my captors, asking if they had me. Then he rode ahead. "As the buggy neared Leavenworth street I saw a car coming, and looking through the lighted windows as it slacked up, I could see the conductor, who was an acquaintance of mine. I said that he would identify me. With that the man driving whipped up his horse and turned the corner. “When we reached Fifty-sixth and Center streets, near Rusers Park, I was blindfolded. I should say we drove about three miles afterward and when we came to a stop I was carried out of the buggy and up some steps and inside a house. I was taken through the halls and as the bandage was off my eyes I saw that there was no furniture. Everything was bare. “When I got to the second floor —the top—r was placed in a room and chained to the floor. One fellow, who afterward stayed with me, began drinking and pretty soon began to talk. He said that there were six men i« the scheme to carry me off and thut they had been laying for me for four months. “I slept in a chair that night, which was Tuesday, and was mighty tired the next day. The men who guarded me treated me well enough, but said my father would have to put up the stuff to get me back. I had something to eat, but the food was coarse. Wednesday night I heard the front door slam and some one came running upstairs. “It was late, but before I had time to think and after he had whispered to the jailer, I was blindfolded and put in a one-horse wagon. Almost before I knew it I was untied, the cloth taken from my eyes, and I was told to dig out. "You know the rest. I was found at Thirty-sixth and Leavenworth, only three blocks from home.” A pupil at the public aehool In Armstrong, Mo., refused to study Latin, and was expelled. His father, a Methodist preacher, took the matter before, the board* with the result that Latin is now an optional study. Mrs. George M. -Pullman, widiow oi the palace car magnate, denies the report that ahe will marry Gerard Berry, portrait artist. _ Wfllle Heinrich, Bell pfalne, N. Y., attached turkey wings to his arms, then jumped off the house. He’s badly don*

BECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. *' ' H Wheat Damaged by He**ian FlyFatal Result of Prank by Mischievous Boys—Farmers to Organize for Protection Against Horse Thieves. E. S. Holmes, special agent of the statistical bureau of the Agricultural Department, who has jnst completed a trip through northern Indiana, expresses the fear that the two almost total failures of the wheat crop in 1899 and 1900 will be followed by another failure next year. Mr. Holmes declares that fully one-thifd the wheat examined has been seriously damaged by the Hessian fly and that with bad weather henceforth the plants will have small chance of maturing. In some localities he advised farmers to plow up their wheat and cultivate the land in other crops until the larvae are destroyed, but the farmers hesitate to sacrifice the prospect of even a partial crop. - I Alarming Theft of Horae*. The theft of horses in the counties of this State north of Indianapolis has become such a serious matter that callsare being issued for the organization of vigilance leagues. The Kankakee swamps seem to be the headquarters of an organized gang, the members of which have carried on a wholesale business within the past year. Shrewd- detectives have failed to unearth the gang. Within ten >days, twenty horses were stolen im'various sections of northern Indiana, but not a single animal was recovered and the thieves covered their trail so ingeniously that not an arrest was made. Horse Drags Boy to Death. Dragging at the heels of a frightened horse, a boy named Hall was battered to death six miles north of Nashville. The two older companions, named Pittman and Copenhavea, in a spirit of boyish recklessness, tied young Hall on the horse’s back, telling him they would teach him to become a circus rider. The boy became alarmed as the horse started to gal Lop and his terror increased his companions’ merriment. The animal topk fright and began to run at a terrific pace. The boy clung to the frightened animal’s back for some distance, but in his terror he lost his hold and fell under the horse’s hoofs. Claims the Bite of La Porte. Charles L. Pokagon, only surviving son and heir of the late chief of the Pottawatomie Indians, will take legal measures to gain possession of land worth millions of dollars; the land in question covering the site of the present of La Porte. Mr. Pokagon has documents showing that the government by virtue of treaties issued a patent for 40 acres to Chief Pokagon, father of the late chief, Simon Pokagon,.and grandfather of the present claimant - . Mr. Pokagon is sanguine of establishing his claim. His residence is at Hartford, Mich. Gaa Explosion Rain* Office. A terrific gas explosion, followed by fire* completely wrecked the office of factory No. 11 of the American Window Glass Company in Muncie. The fact that the explosion occurred on Sunday saved the lives of nearly twenty office employes. Falling debris caused several glass workmen employed on night turn to receive injuries, but none were seriously hurt. All the valuable records and papers kept in the office were burned, and the loss will reach several thousand dollars. Btate New* in Brief. New gas well at Arcadia has a 259pound pressure. The Dinkey factory, Shelbyville, has had fifteen accidents in a year. Sonth Bend Polish societies want Congress to erect a statue to Pulaski. Fireman Way lost a hand and narrowly escaped death in a Big Four collision at Fortville. Charles Mitchell burned to death in the engine room of the Eagle iron works, Auburn Junction. Indiana State Grange, Terre Haute, resolved in favor of teaching agriculture in public schools. Said that Andrew Carnegie is favorably considering the establishment of a school for librarians at Winona. Charles Biddle. Lafayette, found the body of a colored child in a catch basin. It is said he dreamed he would find It. Charles Wagner, 35, recently installed as Bartholomew County sheriff, is the youngest man who ever held that office. Arm of John Clark, near Bloomington, crushed in a corn shredder. Machine had to be taken to pieces before he could be released. Homer Houser, Bowling Gre.en, Ohio, oil well driller, was instantly killed by being struck by a piece of bursting bull wheel at Geneva. Southern Indiana Press Association, meeting at Bedford, decided to hold ita next meeting in Buffalo, during the PanAmerican exposition. An effort is being made in Whitley County to organize a company of twenty young men to go to Corea in the spring, to work in the mines. While fishing near Rome City, Charles Uackett brought up a piece of cloth and a bunch of hair. An old man disappeared from the neighborhood a few weeks before. A party was organized and the river dragged. An old buggy top was found. At Currysville, a tramp colored boy was the victim of savage torture at the hands of drunken miners. He was given several mock trials, {trior to which he was branded with a red-hot poker on his head, face and all parts of his body. He was sentenced to be burned in a redhot stove, and in his struggle* burned his * hands almost to a crisp. Sober heads « saved the boy from further punishment. While the ice was over Heaton’s pond,jj Morristown, fishermen speared carpy! weighing from fourteen to eighteen pounds. Some that were still larger cw-'S caped. Milton Rutter, Hartford City, died fronts, being struck with an iron ladle by Lent Skinner. Skinner, who is not considered j bright, was constantly tormented by his * fellow-workers. Kokomo will no longer have “Patrol* naan No. 3.” That number bis beep abob* * ished. since the death ot Patrolman Kirk,- 1