Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1901 — Page 7

Consolation and Comfort.

Who is tt that does not wish to be out In the open air or alive in some field of whether it be with the bat, rod or gun; whether we go coasting over the hills and vales, on the wheel or sailing over rough waves or into serene coves, It is all sport, and the springing muscles seeiU to need It. It is bound to happen that some mishap will occur. Thus it is that we have sprains in abundance. Light sprains, sprains that cripple, sprains that give great pain, sprains that rob us of sleep, but sportsmen of all kinds have come to know that there is nothing better than the old, reliable St. Jacobs Oil. Have it with you for use; you may rely on its cure of the worst sprain and restoration to the comforts of life.

No Doubt of It.

The inmates of a Yorkshire asylum, says London Spare Moments, were engaged in sawing wood, and the attendant thought that one old fellow was not working as hard as he might. The old man had turned his saw upside down, with the teeth in the air, and was working away with the back of the tool. * “Here, I say,” called out the attendant, “what are you doing? You’ll never saw wood in that fashion. Turn the saw over.” The old fellow stopped and looked at the attendant contemptuously. “Did ye lver try ajsaw this way?” he asked. “No, of course I haven’t.” “Then ho’d thy noise, mon,” was the rejoinder. “I hev, and this is t’ easiest/'

Couldn’t Wear Shoes.

Sumpter, 111., Sept. 9.—Mrs. J. B. Flanigan of this place had suffered with Dropsy for fifteen years. She was so very bad that for the last three years she has not been able to wear her shoes. She had doctored all the time, but was gradually getting worse. Last winter Mr. Flanigan, who was very much discouraged, called for some medicine at Mr. J. J. Dale’s drug store In Carmi. Mr. Dale persuaded him to have his wife try Dodd’s Kidney Pills, and he bought six boxes. His wife used five out of the six, before she was entirely cured. She is now as sound and well as ever she was, completely restored to health, and free from any symptom whatever of Dropsy. To say that Mrs. Flanigan is pleased at her wonderful deliverance does not half express her feelings, and she and Mr. Flanigan are loud in their praises of Dodd’s Kianey.Pills, and of Mr. Dale for recommending this wonderful remedy to them. The fact that Dodd’s Kidney Pills cured Mrs. Flanigan of such a severe case of Dropsy, after the doctors had given her up, has made them the most talked of remedy ever known in White County. Water will be supplied the Charleston exposition by three artesian wells over 400 feet deep. A salt water system is provided for fire protection. Piso’s Cure cannot be too highly spok•en of as a cough cure. —J. W. O’Brien, 322 Third avenue, N.. Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6, 1800. From antiquity the rose, the queen of flowers, has been regarded as the emblem of joy, love and prosperity. It is also the symbol of silence. These crispy mornings Mrs, Austin's Pan Cake Flour tastes delicious Ready in a moment. Buy from your grocer

CASTOR IA For Infanta and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of '~*uv? c /y. LIBBY’S ! Mince iw?J Hi | Meat. Wf | i I In onr mammoth * [ 1 • kitchen we employ a chef K J “• • |1 who is an expert in mak- H| Y ! ~ ing mince pies. He Vas uL (? ~ • • charge of making all of , • • • | Libby's Mince Meat. He EL | , , uses the very choicest ma- J ML • • • • terials. He is told to make 1 •’ jj the best Mince Meat ever *| ]! sold—and he does. Get a • • package at your grocer s; m* Jk** ]) enough for two large pies. ~ ~ You'll never use another kind again. «. a» « * < > Libby's Atlas of the World, with 3a «* • • new maps, size Bxll inches, sent any- j J ) I where lor 10 cts. in stamps. Our Book* ~ 1 > let, "How to Make Good Things to • • J * Eat," mailed free. Jj i| Libby,- McNeill & Libby, f OHICACO. IN WET WEATHER A WISE MAN § WEARS OILED WATERPROOF CLOTHING MACK OK YELLOW MU KUP TMI MtT HINKtUtML SOZODONT for the TEETH 25e

FARMERS CORNER

Poor Work in Shreddina* Considerable complaint has been made against the corn shredder because the shredded material, especially the coarser parts of the corn stalk were not properly cut to pieces. Pieces of stalk from six to ten inches long formed the greater part of the waste that accumulated in the mangers. Much of this material, if reduced to fineness, would be eaten by stock, and a great deal of actual feed could be saved. However, It is true that a portion of the stalk can hardly be reduced by the shredder and cutter head sufficiently to be eaten by animals. A grinding process that crushes as well as cuts is necessary to do this. But the common shredder may be made to do much better work than it has done the past season. Where the shredder has started fresh with sharp, keen knives, firmly set, the thrashed material was made a gi'eat deal finer than after the machine has been used for a considerable length of time without the knives "being sharpened. Shredder owners are doing jjreat injury by allowing such careless work. Instances are known where the knives of the shredder have not been looked after during the entire season’s work. Such poorly cut up fodder brings the shredder into disrepute; and the districts that have been imposed upon will likely have very little fodder shredded the coming season because the machine did not increase the value of the fodder.—lndianapolis News. Barn Floor Scraper. The stable scraper Is a very handy tool to keep in the barn, and can be easily and inexpensively made. The foundation is an inch board, five inches wide and about eight inches longer than the width of an ordinary four-tined

SCRAPER FOR BARN FLOOR.

fork. Quarter-inch hole* are bored in the edge of the board the same distance apart that the tines are on the fork. These holes should l>e about three inches deep, and pass out of the board on the side. The lower edge of the board is beveled behind, which forms a good scraping edge. The Corn Binder. Saving the corn fodder has become a most important operation on most of the farms. The drought has cut short the oats and hay crop, and the deficiency in coarse fodders must be supplied front the corn fields. The silo has proved to be of great value in converting the green fodder into ensilage. It is not only the most economical method of handling the crop, but gives the best food, not for dairy animals only, hut for the production of beef. The making of ensilage Is not generally practiced throughout the country. The stover is put up as dry fodder, and is so fed. Corn-cutting has become so general that it is often difficult to obtain help for harvesting the crop, either for the silo or in the dry state. The improvements made in the corn binder have made It a practical and valuable Implement for cutting the fodder. The binder not only hastens the work of cutting the forage, but by tying it into bundles the material Is much more easily handled when put on wagons or when placed In the shock. The feeding Into the shredder is more regular where the fodder has been given to It In bunches of equnl size. Biennial Plant* BeMina Firat Year. We have occasionally been called upon to tell our neighbors why some of their plants that are not supposed to produce seed until they have been reset In the ground after they have made one year's growth should have gone to seed the first season. They are roots, and we have seen It happen in beets, carrots and celery, probably more often in the latter than in the others. In every case where we have had an opportunity to examine the plants that thus seeded prematurely we have found that some cause had checked the growth in the early part of the Beason, and when It began a new growth It began as If in Its second year to develop the seed stalk instead of perfecting the root. Celery set In the ground too early, or allowed to be chiliad in the hotbed where started, does

tbls very frequently, but we'have syeH beets and carrots do it when a sever© late frost wenl over them after they were well up, and we think parsnips are liable to do so. But we have found beets and carrots doing so when examination showed that they had been injured by having been touched with the hoe or weeder, or possibly injured by worms or other insects. There is no i*emedy but to pull up and destroy the plant. Seed produced on such a plant is valueless for sowing another season. —American Cultivator. Robbins Farm* and Families. The American Sheep Breeder says that it is quite possible that an ounce of ntixeil food, such as corn and oats ground together, with an equal quantity of wheat middling or bran, will add an ounce or more to the weight of lambs after they are four weeks old, if given daily in addition to other proper food, and as they grow older this amount may be increased, with nearly a corresponding increase in weight gained. To exchange a pound of grain, costing about one cent, for a pound of lamb worth fifteen cents seems to be, a trade that almost any farmer would be willing to make, but we have seen those who boasted that they never bought any grain. They did not raise lambs or chickens, sold but little and bought less, and saved money, but we would not have accepted their farms and the money they had accumulated and agreed to mak4 the farm as good as it was when they received it. Such farmers are usually robbers, robbing the land of its fertility, robbing their families of the comforts of life, and their children of the pleasures of youth and nearly all that is desirable in life, unless the children forsake the farm and establish a home where they may earn more, expend more and enjoy more of life.—New England Homestead. Value of Foracre Crops. Dry pastures and hot weather bring little terror to the farmer who has planted liberally of such crops as will give forage in midsummer. The early sweet corn is in condition to feed and the sorghum is coming into head. With these crops to supplement the pastures, the live stock will receive little check In the production of meat and milk from lack of food during the hot weather. If stock is compelled to hunt for a living all day in weed fields with little grass, a loss may be expected, one that will be difficult and expensive to make good later on. The hogs and sheep, as well as the cows, will appreciate an extra ration during the warm days. While the stock is running on pasture, if shade, food and water are together, noon is an excellent time to do this special feeding. At this time of day the animals will be in the shade near their watering place, and extra feed may then be given without disturbing them In .the cool morning and evening when they enjoy feeding on the grass. A check in growth, whether in summer or winter, is always an actual loss to the owner.—Exchange. % Crop-Bound Fowls. There is more or less trouble with crop-hound fowls in the summer, and during this season it is due nearly always to the bird having got some improper substance in its crop. If the bird is a valuable one and worth treating the best plan is to take her between one’s knees with a cup of sweet scalded milk in hand and gently force some of the milk down the throat, at the same time working the crop gently hack and forth with the fingers. As ter giving a few spoonfuls of the milk then give a dose of Rochelle salts in a little milk. If this does not bring relief, go back to the first treatment, which will be more effectual after tin use of salts, and will relieve the trouble in the majority of eases. The difficulty may have been caused by eating too much grit or gravel, or eating con sklerahle mud when picking up com oi other grain thrown to the hen. Aftei feeding the fowl as indicated she should be fed bread moistened in milk for a day or two and kept in a clear coop, where she can get no food exeepl that given her. The HnnpyTrnck Farmer. Truck farming differs from the growing of ordinary field crops in that not so much land is needed for this work; hence the location of the home can be found in the suburbs of towns and cities," where both the advantages of city and rural life can be e njoyed. This is my ideal home. A man upon such a truck farm is a king, surrounded by the best influences of earfli, away from the temptations and excitement of the city and close enough to take advantage of Its schools, churches, water, lights, etc. He Is in touch with the great pulsating heart of nature, her invigorating atmosphere, her balmy sunshine, pure water, the song of the birds, the hum of the bees and the aroma of the flowers. What more enticing surroundings could a man need to lead a pure and happy life, which Is the ultimate object and aim of human ambition when simmered down to.its elements?—Farm and Ranch. Keeping Milk Sweet. If the milk is to be delivered In good condition to the consumer during the summer months. It must be thoroughly cooled and aerated and kept cool, says Hoard’s" Dairyman. These steps are absolutely necessary with all milks during the hot weather. A great improvement can also be made by looking carefully after the cleanliness of cows, stabies and milk utensils, as there is a great difference In the keeping quality of clean and dirty milks. The whole question of keeping milk sweet Is in providing a clean article, kept cooled aud well aerated. Preservatives should not be used under any condition.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE " PAST WEEK. “Insanity Trust” Is Censured—Scott County Chickens Have Gold in Their Crops—Scorcher’s Fatal Fall—Young Woman Disappears from Peru. The State Board of Charities filed a report with the Governor on the result of its investigation of the insane hospitals. The report says no sane persons are confined and have not been within the last eighteen months, “unless it be in the case of John Ross, or Morse, or James Haywood, who probably recovered after he was found insane and before he was received at the hospital, a period of fiftythree days.” The board says the blame rests on the persons who conducted the inquests and suggests that it is the duty of the officers to recover that part of the $15,000 in fees wrongfully taken from the county treasury. The report says such a conspiracy as shown by the Attorney General’s report renders the members liable to severe prosecution. The board suggests that nn entirely new insanity law be enacted by the next Legislature, providing that all 'commitments be made by a Circuit or Superior judge. Gold Found in r cott County. Gold has been discovered in Scott County. A short time ago Mrs. H. W. Brandt of Seottsburg found a nugget in the crop of a chicken. She took the nugget to an expert, who analyzed it ami found it contained a large per cent of gold. Another discovery has been made in the same manner on the same farm. The people in that community have the gold fever and will begin prospecting at once. The find was made on the farm of Prosecuting Attorney S. B. Wells. Messenger Boy’s Mishap. Harry Mills, an American district messenger boy, was thrown from his wheel at Muncie and fatally injured. He was found unconscious in a pool of blood and when he partly regained consciousness he became delirious, imagining that a footpad is pursuing him. The boy was riding down a steep hill at terrific speed. His wheel struck a gutter at the foot of the hill, breaking the forks and throwing young Mills on his head. Pern Girl May Be Dead. Miss Nora Dinsmore, aged 23 years, disappeared from her home in Peru. When last seen she was in a dry goods store. Suicide is feared. A letter was received from her dated at Toledo, Ohio, by Ernest Thomas, her friend. In it she said: “I leave for the great unknoust. Good-by to you all, who have smiled on me, and get all from life you can.” Find Dead Body in Canal. Albert Patterson, aged 35, was found dead in the canal by the Indianapolis police. He lived at Manistee, Mich., and was traveling for an advertising firm. A telegram arrived at the Circle Park Hotel signed by Mrs. Patterson at Manistee asking if Patterson was still there. The suicide theory is accepted. Within Onr Borders. Logansport carnival has been declared off. Waynetown narrowly escaped being wiped out by fire. Several barns -burned. Anti-saloon fight is on at Newtonville, Which has had no saloon for many years. Typhoid fever has broken out in the Immaculate Conception convent at Oldenburg. James B. Hayes, a farm hand, aged 35 years, drowned himself in the White river near Hazleton. Lena and Anna Zunhammer fell from a raft while fishing in the Ohio river at Evansville and were drowned. Charles Spillman, Evansville, E. & T. H. brakeman, is missing. He had a large sum of money and foul play is feared. Asa Fadely was killed and David Richards fatally injured by the explosion of a thrashing machine engine near Anderson. While filling a cigar lighter with gasoline, Robert Tibbuts, Union City, spilled the stuff on himself and was badly burned. John Miller, aged 37, of Brookville ended his life by slashing his wrists and throat With a razor. Miller could not let whisky alone. - - " Rev. E. G. Walk, pastor of the Harrison Street Christian Church, Kokomo, has resigned and asked for a charge in the United Brethren Church. Louis Becker, aged 24 years,, was found dead at La Porte. He attended a dance the previous night and Coroner Jowell says he danced himself to death. Samuel E. Cochran has filed a petition for a receiver for the Leslie Lumber Company of Michigan City, which, he alleges, cleared SII,OOO in one year, but declared no dividends. A jury at Muncie found Walter Driscoll, 16 years old, guilty of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced him to the State reformatory for killing Minnie McCall Stephens of Benton Harbor, Mich., last July. Mrs. Mary Keeney of Marshall County was attacked by a crazed hog and fatally injured. The “porker” threw her to the ground an<l literally tore large pieces of flesh from her body. The wounds were gouged to the bone. Six robbers who beat and shot Benjamin Dotterer, a farmer, six miles northeast of Kokomo, have not been found. Dotterer, who was shot through the chest, is dead. His money was saved almost miraculously. After the thugs had clubbed him. to the floor Dotterer managed to take a roll of $6<X) froih his clothing and throw it up a stairway without the men seeing the act. They got but $lO and n watch, afterwards returning the latter. Henry L. Harbin, 79, English, is dead from injuries received at the hands of his grandson, Lewis Morgan. The young man will be tried for murder. J. W. Groves, u poor Muncie carpenter, received a letter from a brother in Wyoming that he has been made heir to a fortune of $5,000 by Irhabod Lucas, a rich uncle, who died in New York recently. Fred Powell, a young married man, reached home in Elkhart a couple of nights ago and found hia furniture ail gone except a picture of himself, which waa “turned toward the wall.” Mrs. Powell left no other measage.

k METHODIST BISHOP GIVES PE-RD-NA CHEAT CREDIT.

| BISHOP GRANT. OF INDIANAPOLIS, j Bishop A. Grant, of Indianapolis, Ind., writes the following letter: Indianapolis, Indiana, ) 3349 N. Pennsylvania Street. J Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, O.: Gentlemen—“l have been using Peruna for catarrh and can cheerfully recommend your remedy to anyone who wants a good medicine. ”—A. Grant. Prominent members of the clergy are giving Peruna their unqualified endorsement. These men find Peruna especially adapted to preserve them from catarrh of the vocal organs, which has always been the bane of public speakers, and general catarrhal debility Incident to the sedentary life of the clergyman. Among the recent utterances of noted clergymen on the curative virtues of Peruna Is the above one from Bishop Grant.

DO YOU SHOOT? If you do you should send your name and address on a postal card for a WINCHESTER GUN CATALOGUE. IT’S FREE. It illustrates and describes all the different Winchester Rifles, Shotguns and Ammunition, and contains much valuable information. Send at once to the Winchester Repeating Arms Co.. New Haven, Conn.

Canned Ants.

Ants are now regarded as a great delicacy, and the only trouble is that there is not enough of them. Men who do hard manual labor in cold climates acquire a strong craving for something sour, and they have found out long ago that ants are a palatable substitute for pickles. They use only a peculiar variety, large and red in color, and found In immense quantities under the bark of dead trees. It Is not very hard to collect a quart pail full, and, after killing them by scalding, they are spread on a board and dried in the sun. When ready to eat they look like coarse, brown powder, and have a very agreeable, aromatic smell. With a view to making this new delicacy more generally known, a syndicate is at work collecting and canning ants, preparatory to placing them on the market generally.

She Kept Within the Limit.

There is a story in the Boston Transcript about old black Joan, a mammy <*f the good old kind, who was warned at a critical period In the family fortunes not to tell all she knew to the smaller children. “Huh,” says Joan I scornfully, “tink I dunner how to talk fo’ dat blessed chile, dat 111 Cely? De Lawd knows”—and up in pious protest went the pupils of Joan’s eyes, and out swept two broad and floury palms from the pan of dough—“de Lawd A’mlghty knows I’s dat keerful wat I says to dat HI honey sweet, Illy white lamb er Gawd dat I ain’t neber yit tole her one single word ob truf.”

Easy Come, Easy Go.

The man who creeps along bent over, with his spinal column feeling in a condition to snap like a pipestem at any minute, would readily give a great deal to get out of his dilemma, and yet this is only the commonest form by which lumbago seizes on and twists out of shape the muscles of the back. This is commonly known as backache, a crick in the back, but by whatever name it may be known, and however bad It may be, ten minutes vigorous rubbing with St. Jacobs Oil on the afflicted part will drive out the trouble and completely restore. It Is a thing so easily caught It may be wondered at why there is not more of it, but because it is so easily cuted by St. Jacobs Oil may be the very reason that we hear so little of it.

One More.

Aunt Chloe, following the suggestion of an educated friend, had named the previous pickaninny Appendix, thinking there wotfid be no more. But another one had come. “Dis,” said Aunt Chloe, “is my cullnd supplement.” And she folded it in her arms.—Chicago Times.

Still Sparring.

“We took our Filipino friend down to see ‘Monte Cristo,’ and told him the man who said ‘The world is mine!’ was an American.” “What did he say?” “Said he didfi’t need to be told —Chicago News. * ’ We refund 10c for every package of PUTNAM FADELESS DYE that fails to give satisfaction. Monroe Drug Co., Unlonvllle, Mo. Sold by druggists. The small German university town of Jena has no fewer than seven free reading rooms, with newspapers and books. For something good, try Mrs. Austin's famous Fan Cake Flour; ready In n jiffy. Your grocer has It on hand. Patternmakers in the shipyards of Liverpool receive $9.51 per week. Mrs- Winslow’s aoormam snot tor cauidrse

Writes His Recommiiation For the Famous Catarrh Remedg. Pe-ru-na. The day waa when men of prominence hesitated to give their testimonials to proprtO" tary medicines for publication. Thla remain* true to-day of most proprietary medicines. But Peruna has become so Justly famous, Ita merits are known to so maty people of high and low station that none hesitates to see his name In print recommending Peruna. The following iettets from pastors who ass Peruna speak for themselves: Rev. E. G. Smith, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, of Greensboro, Ga„ writes: “My little boy had been suffering for soaao time with catarrh of.the lower bowels. Other remedies had failed, but after taking two bottles of Peruna the trouble almost entirely disappeared. For this special malady I consider It well nigh a specific.”—Rev. E. O. Smith. Rev. A. S. Vaughn, Eureka Springs. Ark., says: “I had been prostrated by congestive chills and was almost dead; as soon as able to be about, I commenced the use of Peruna. I took five bottles; my strength returned rapidly and 1 am now enjoying my usual health.”—Rev. A. 8. Vanghn. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, writ* at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of yonr case and he will be pleated to give yon his valuable a,dvlce gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of Th* Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus. Ohio.

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