Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1901 — Page 2

NEW PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES

Career and Characteristics of Theodore Roosevelt —His Public Career—Happy Domestic Life.

NEW HEAD OF THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT. Theodore Roosevelt, who became President of the United States upon the death of William McKlnley, Sept. 14, 1901.

«?o NLIKE the deaths of Lincoln lilj and Garfield, the passing of President McKinley brings to the White House a man whose characteristics are known to the people. When Xiincoln fell the reins of government passed to hands ill-fitted to handle them. Johnson’s administration was a national scaftdal. When the last spark •f life was eitinguished at Elberon on

MRS. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. The new mistress of the White House, formerly Miss Carow, of New York.

that mild September day of 1881, and the nation mourned for Garfield, there came to the Presidency a man hitherto known only as a politician. Theodore Roosevelt is already well known; he has been in the public eye In civil and military capacities and has demonstrated the possession of the executive ability, as well as of soldierly characteristics. That he will be equal to the requirements of statesmanship demanded of a President his admirers aeem positive. Roosevelt comes of distinguished ancestry. Away back, as the eighteenth century was dawning, one of his forefathers was an Aiderman of New York, then an honorable position, and many and varied have keen the offices which others filled. His grandfather was a Supreme Court jus-

ROOSEVELT HOME AT OYSTER BAY.

flee and Congressman. His father, Theodore Roosevelt, was a leading merchant, a philanthropist and a strong advocate of outdoor life. Theodore was, born in the metropolis in 1858, and ki the youngest man who lias ever In the White House, Grant, the second' youngest, being 47 when swbrn in. His boyhood and early manhood were spent amid such surroundings as wealth, social position and high political association would bring to a fain-' My. He went through the best preparatory schools, graduated at Harvard in 1880 and left college esteemed aot only for his learning, but also for 11s ability as a boxer. Then he studied law with his uncle, ever at that time leing possessed of the determination to eventually engage in “the work of government.” Long before he was ndrnlttcd to the bar, lie saw a chance to go to the Assembly and grasped it. Before he was 23 he was helping to make laws. He became a Republican leader. In 3883 he made a campaign for the Speakership, but failed. In 1884 lie went to the Republican National Convention, as a delegate, In George F. Edmunds' behalf. In 1880 he was the Bepublicau candidate for Mayor of Sew York, and was defeated by 22,000 votes. In 1880 he was appointed a

member of the United States Civil Service Commission by President Harrison. i When the great wave of reform following the investigations of the Lexow Committee swept over New York in 1895 and William L. Strong was elected Mayor, the latter thought of Roosevelt as the best man to reorganize the demoralized police force and enforce the laws whose violation had become a disgrace to the metropolis. He was made President of the Police Commission.

In the Navy Department. When President McKinley assumed office in 1897 he wanted to reward Roosevelt for his service during the campaign of 1890, when, in company with Senator Lodge, the New-Yorker had made a speaking tour of the country. He also wanted an energetic man in the Navy Department. The appointment of Roosevelt was a natural consequence, and in April, 1897, he assumed the Assistant Secretaryship. From the first he foresaw, it is said, the possibility of a conflict with Spain, and he set about preparing his department for it. He pushed repairs on the ships, and left nothing undone that would in his opinion secure the highest efficiency in the service when the time for action came. When the Maine was blown up Roosevelt had no doubt, it is said, that war would follow, and his energies were bent with , redoubled force to getting the navy ready. When war did finally break out, he resigned and organized the Rough Riders. Then he became something of a national hero.

In the fall of the year In which San Juan was fought New York elected a Governor. The politicians feared him, but the people demanded his nomination. He was elected by a plurality of 18,079. With the approach of the Republican National Convention of 1900, the politicians, hoping, it Is said, to shelve the New-Yorker so that he could not be nominated for President in 1904, demanded his nomination for Vice President. His Western friends, from other motives, insisted upon similar action. They wanted to honor him and to strengthen the Republican cause. So McKinley and Roosevelt became the ticket. The campaign was a memorable one. The President has written numerous works, some of which *yill become standard. \ HIS DO.VI A Tale,-* 'Usuallykft”* Delightful Children. President Roosevelt’s domestic life has been beautiful. Mrs. Roosevelt never has courted social prominence, but she has been equal to every demand which the rapidly changing conditions of her husband’s career have made upon her. By birth, education nnd cultivation she is fitted to stand by her husband in the high place which Fate has assignedjo him, and she possesses the ready tact and sympathy

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND FAMILY. Group photograph taken recently shows five of the six children.

which are so essential to the successful hostess, especially in public life. As Theodore Roosevelt for the typo of energetic, healthy American manhood, so his wife represents a high type of American womanhood. She was Miss Edith Kermit Carow and was born of'a well-to-do family. As a girl she knew young Roosevelt. It has been said that a boy and girl sentiment existed between them before he went to college; but. soon after his graduation from Harvard he married Miss Alice Lee, of Boston. Miss Carow went abroad to supplement her education by a course of study and travel. When Roosevelt had lost his girl wife and was seeking solace in a European trip, he met Miss Carow. When he returned to America they began a correspondence. Their engagement followed and they were married in 1886. Between Alice Roosevelt—the only child of his first marriage—and her father’s second wife there has been always the warmest affection; and her husband’s sisters have been Mrs. Roosevelt’s most intimate friends. Like her husband. Mrs. Roosevelt has a pronounced literary bent. She is an omnivorous reader, an accomplished linguist and a keen student. Several years ago shejiublished a volume of verses, intended for circulation among her friends.' She is posted in

MISS ALICE ROOSEVELT.

politics, and keeps up with the newspapers and periodicals dealing with matters of current public interest as well as her husband does. She is not athletic, although she rides a horse well. She has little taste for club life and the Daughters of the American Revolution besought her in vain to be a candidate for President-General of their order. Mrs. Roosevelt is not handsome, but she is attractive. Her manner is unaffectedly cordial and winning. She has nice brown eyes, and she wears her brown hair parted {uid carried back loosely from her temples. She dresses with a simplicity that is becoming. Her street frocks especially border on the severe. For evening entertainments

THEODORE ROOSEVELT. As the President appeared when Police Commissioner of New York.

she dresses handsomely, but never showily. She manages the affairs of her own large household to the sma'lest details. Besides Alice, whp Ss‘ 18 years. old, the Roosevelt children are Theodore, Kerrnit, Ethel, Archibald and Quentin. Santa Claus will find a visit to the Wflri’e House next Christmas* exceedingly pleasurable.

His Turn Next.

Kind Gentleman—Why are you crying, my little man? Little Boy—Because my maw is lickin’ my little brutber fer sumthlu’ wot I dun. King Gentleman—What a conscientious little gentleman! Little Boy—But my little bruther nil tell her it wuz me, an* nen I’ll ketch it! 800-hoo!—Ohio State Journal.

FARM AND GARDEN

For \Ve«te-n Farmer*. The up-to-date farmer with a large acreage finds it slow work to plow his fields with the old single plows of the past, and so he utilizes the electric current and multiplies the number of plow' shares to suit himself. Ip the West this is practically a necessity, on account of the large size of the fields and“ the cost of labor and teams. Our illustration shows a convenient form of motor plow which has been designed by Conrad Meissner of Fredericksburg, Germany. It consists of two electric motors opera ting winding drums on separate carriages, which may be placed at any required distance apart, only one motor being connected with the main feed wire. To supply power to

ELECTRICALLY OPERATED PLOW.

the second motor a feed cable lying parallet,with the traction cable is readjusted at every trip of the plow to follow the latter down the field. The mechanism is so adjusted that when once set in motion the apparatus practically operates itself, moving the carriages forward at the beginning of each trip to bring the plowshares in position for the next row of furrows. The plows are attached to a two-wheeled truck, which is pulled back and forth across the field, moving forward aX-the end of each set of furrows as long as the power is turned on.

Grow nis Rye Profitably. In sections of the country where wheat was formerly an important crop, rye has largely taken its place. The best method of growing rye is to seed it with timothy in the fall, and follow it with clo-ver the next spring. This is the plan used where rye is in the regular rotation after corn and oats. To get the best results the seed should be sown thinly on fairly good soil. The time of-sowing usually being early in September, never later than, the middle of the month. If the soil is rich and In good shape, one and one-half bushels of seed per acre drilled in is sufficient On land that is poor, a bushel and three pecks is usually used in seeding. Rye straw brings good prices in the market, and as the grain is less likely to bts injured by insects than wheat, and cgn be grown on soil too poor for wheat, it can be used to advantage in feeding for certain stock. It is not particularly good for cows, as it seemingly injures the quality of the butter. It is excellent food for swine, nnd to a moderate extent for poultry. While it has no particular value as a legume, rye is vaf:/’ able to turn under for green manu/fng. —Exchange.

The Movab'e MansreY. When stock is fed in the field, as it is oftentimes convenient to du; a number as movable mangers will be found very useful. A horse such as is used by carpenters is constructed of light wood and a light board eight by twelve inches wide nailed to the legs on each side of the horse. This leaves sufficient space'between the board and the top bar of the horse for any animal to get his head In and feed. There is no need of having any bottom to this manger unless the feeding is done in some place where it is wet. Of course, if the feeding is done against a fence or

A MOVABLE MANGER.

the side of a building or wall, it will be necessary to attach the board on that side of the horse.--Indianapolis News. Fllo and Knsilajte, People are fast learning that good ensilage can ouly be secured In a first class silo and that a silo mado of poor material or from lumber that warps or twists will always prove disappointing to its owner, says a writer In National Stockman. This is illustrated by the method of cnnulng fruit. If the can is sealed airtight, the fruit can be preserved all through the winter. But if the rubber pncklDg is poor or the top is uot screwed on tight, admitting the air, the contents “work" and ara spoiled. The same thing holds true with n silo. Unless the walla are Impervious to both air and moisture one must vet

expect to keep this ensilage sweet Thu cheap structures made of old fencu boards should not be called silos. Vessels of this kind have also led many men to reject silage and probably accounts for the unjust and sweeping condemnation of it by milk eondensarles. There has never been a food upon which all kinds of stock thrive so well and which gives such large returns as Indian corn, cut and preserved in a silo in the form of ensilage. As Prof. Henry says. “Cheap silos are a delusion and a snare, while good ones enable Indian corn to yield its greatest benefactions to man.”

The Va'.ne of Abandoned Farm*. Every once In a while communications come from farmers in the West and South, who, for reasons of their own, desire to-return to the Eastern States. They have read about the abandoned farms in-New England and New York, and seem to think that if they could obtain one of these farms at little or no cost, their future would be assured. In mapy cases these abandoned farms are simply lahd that is worn out, or too stony to be worked to advantage with the modern form crops. In nearly every case the vital objectipn to these farms is their distance from market. The great majority of them are located miles from a railroad or a market, which can only be reached over very rough and little traveled roads. Some of these farms are capable of being made profitable, but the expense of marketing the crops is so great that it is a question if it would pay any one to take up one of these places. Gradually, the increase in the number of troliey roads throughout the Eastern States is bringing these farms within easy access of markets, and as soon as these roads become a reality, the farms quickly disappear from the market. Any farmer who is located within reasonable distance of a good market, and who can reach it readily, had best stay where he is. Of course, if he is in a position to buy an improved farm better located than the one he at present occupies, that is a different matter, but as for taking up one of. these abandoned farms, it.would be like going from the frying pan into the fire.—lndianapolis News.

Winded Horse*. Horses and mules are frequently afflicted with broken wind, due, in the majority of cases, to being worked on a stomach filled with bulky food. If the trouble Is cared for early it may be Overcome. No coarse food should be fed winded horses during the day, but be given at night after the gniin has been eaten. Everything should be done to keep the animal comfortable; the stable should be well cleaned and ventilated and the bedding dry and abundant. A lump of rock salt should be kept in the manger at all times. After the horse is brought in from work he should be sponged all over with cold water, in which a little aqua ammonia has been placed. Then rub.tlie animal until dry. Do everything possible to prevent the horse becoming overheated, and if the bowels are constipated inixa tablespoonful of glauber salts in the drinking water three times a day, increasing -the amount if necessary to cause the bowels to move freely. Tills treatment will usually effect a cure. The Rel Poll Cow. The Red Poll is coming and will till an important place with the farmers who keep a few cows, milk them and

RED POLL. COW.

grow their calves. While of quito a different type, yet the Red Poll tills very nearly the same place that the oldfashioned heavy milking Shorthorns did twenty-five years ago.—Breeders’ Gazette.

Lump on J;i w. Actinomycosis Is characterized by a hard swelling on the side of the face, sometimes In connection with the upper jaw, and at other times It is the lower jaw that is affected. It is sometimes in the early stages loose from tlio bones; at other times it Is (irmly adhered to the ja wbone. When it Is small and just starting to grow and looso from the bones. It may lie dissected out, or It may be sloughed out with arsenic, but in any case iodide of potassa should be given, at least a dram a day, for two weeks or twenty days, according to the ease. It is the only remedy known that seems to have uny effect on it.

Dairy Utensil*. In dairy work there are three very Important things, brushes and plenty of clean white dish and wiping towels (not rugs), scalding water apd salsodu, says Rural New Yorker. The virtue contained In a pinch of sal soda cannot be estimated. It does uot take very long to run hems In towels for dairy work. There is nothing better than flour and salt sacks. They are soft and pliable; also easy to wash-. Hnve several dishcloths. Don’t use one for all the dairy work—one for separator, nnother for the butter uten. sils and still another for milk pails. Weak Kyev In Horse*. Keep a dark shade over the eyes during (lie daylight, batlje the eyes twice a day well lu hot water and put a few drops of the following lotion In the eyes after the bathing with a camel’s hair brush: Four gr/Una of sulphate of zinc, four grains of morphine, ten grains of cocaine nn4 one ounce of water.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY • -V TOLD. Bloat Active Prosecutor Gets Cofivict Out of Prison—Closely Contested Race Brings Abont Law Suit—Kentucky Man Shoots Wife—Boy Shot in Play. Thirty-five years ago John H. Terhdne, a wealthy citizen of Anderson, aided in the capture, trial and conviction of James McCullough on the charge of murder. McCullough was given a life sentence. The other day Terhune took to the Michigan City prison a pardon for the aged convict. Terhune became convinced aa the result of developments that McCullough was innocent and his zealous work to prove him guiltless was continued till executive clemency was exercised. McCullough is now 70 years of age. Fhoota Wife for Taking Children. Percy Nathan of Henderson, Ky., murdered his wife at Evansville by shooting her. Some time ago the woman came to Evansville with two of her children because of domestic differences, while two others remained with their father. The children finally decided to join their mother, and this angered Nathan so that he arrived-from Henderson the other morning, and, visiting his wife, shot her to death. He then surrendered to the police.

Horse Race Results in SIO,OOO Snit. Suit for SIO,OOO damages has been filed by James Carver, a jockey, against John Bronnenberg, a horseman, for injuries sustained in a race at the Middletown fair. Bronnenberg’s sou rode his horse, nnd his father is alleged to have ordered him to “Win this heat if you have to kill somebody.” Carver says he was entitled to the pole, bul, young Bronnenberg crowded him, causing him to fall, sustaining injuries for life. Shot Posing as -VcKinley. Omer Peeiee, aged 10, was fatally shot at Winchester while posing as President McKinley at Buffalo for Emil Miller of the same age, who was playing the anarchist in the case. The lads were playmates and decided to go through the Buffalo tragedy. Miller secured his brother’s Flobert rifle for the-work. —The ball passed almost through the child’s stomach, inflicting fatal injuries. Criminal Is Captured. George Brown, the negro who attempted to kill his wife, her aunt, Mrs. William Roed, and subsequently cut his own throat and severed his windpipe, and who broke jail at Washington, was captured at Odin, 111.

State News in Drier. Elwood plants of the American Tin Plate Company have resumed work. Levi Miller, 70, near Kokomo, fell from a cider wagon and was dead when found. A Butler man has made himself popular by giving a party and cooking all the eatables himself. A big bean dinner at Nashville given by the Jackson Wood Post, G. A. R., drew 3,000 people. Fred Cook, Elwood machinist, was caught in shafting at the Pittsburg plate glass factory and killed. Warner Titus has sold the Lindell Hotel, the second largest in Kokomo, to R. A. Brown for $17,000. Robert Walsh, Evansville, was sentenced to three months for desecration of President McKinley’s pictures. A splendid monument will be erected next spring over the grave of ex-Gov. James A. Mount at Crawfordsville. JVank Beatty, Covington, raised a peach as big as an ordinary inuskmelon and weighing eleven ounces. He has 5,000 trees, of a man, supposed to be J. Mauderson of Chicago, was found on the Baltimore and Ohio tracks at Miller’s Station. Isaac Barekman, his wife, Lucy, and his daughter, Helen, were acquitted at Vincennes, Where they were charged with burning Barekman Chapel last March 1. The famous campaign horse, Dollie, owned by ex-Recorder Joseph E. Voile, Kokomo, is dead, aged 39. Dollie had marched in every political parade since 1809. Fifteen Big Four cars were derailed in a rear-end collision near Grecncastle. The two crews jumped and escaped, but some tramps in an empty box car had a narrow escape. A double-header extra freight on tha Wabash Railway met a local freight at a curve three miles north of Peru, resulting in three engines being badly wrecked and nine cars ditched.

The American Straw Board Company brought suit against the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railway Company for $150,000 for the loss of a mill at Terre Ilaufo in April, 1897, by fire alleged to have been due to the faulty condition of the locomotive’s spark arrester. Dr. Z. H. Stamets, Auburn, narrowly escaped lynching because he is alleged t' o have said that President McKinley was only suffering what he had been instrumental in causing others to suffer, and that Roosevelt: would probably meet the same fate. As it was he was badly beateb. Considerable excitement prevails in Bremen over the striking of a strong (low* of natural gas at a depth of 700 feet. I)i%ing had been in progress for ten days at the second experimental oil well located one-half mile south of the city in the fair grounds. The pressure of gas was so strong that drilling had to be suspended. Prices of real estate have rapidly advanced and arc still going up by bounds. Speculators arc already oil the ground, offering fabulous prices for leases on the surrounding ground. Samuel Brasbears shot himself through the head at Bieknoll. No cause is known. Two years ago his brother, Edward, also committed suicide. By order of the trustees of Earlhnrn College, fraternities and secret orders are shut out this year, as they are against the Friends’ teachings. Andrew KinUele, near Chesterton, reports that one of his horses was taken from his pasture and Us tongue cut and hacked in a terrible manner. The liorae returned home dripping with blood and suffering so horribly thut it bad to bn killed.