Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1902 — Page 7

FARM AND GARDEN

Shading the Stables. Where It is the custom to keep the horses and cows In the stables at night, and also for a portion of the day somfe provision should be made for shade as well as for keeping out flies. The plan shown in the Illustration has the merit tf'bf being simple as well as effectual. Cover the opening with flru * wire, netting, placing it so that it will not Inter--{ere with the management of the glass window from the inside. Then make a frame with light strips of lumber of the form shown, and cover It with canvas, or with a strip of unbleached muslin, bracing it at either corner as shown. This device is readily made and will add greatly to the comfort of the animals in the stable. The

A STABLE PROTECTION.

same arrangement could be applied to the window spaces of-the poultry house and in such a position it would not be necessary to use the fine wire screen for the wire netting of ordinary mesh would keep out intruders. Illinois Apple Orchards. Hmerata Babcock gives Green’s iPUit Giwer information- in regard to in Illinois as follows: An apple orchard syndicate in Clay and Richland Counties has sold the apples cf its orchards, which aggregate three hundred and twenty acres, for $11,500. This fruit Is from young orchards Just coming into bearing. There are one hundred and twenty acres planked with 3,300 Jonathan apple trees. Jonathan is highly prized for its hardiness, productiveness and the fine quality of its fruit. The best apple orchards of Illinois are on the southern border, embracing seventy-five thousand acres of apple orchards, mostly planted during the past ten or twelve years. This Is the first general crop from these orchards. One thousand acres of apple orchards may be seen near Flora, 111., nnd the trees there are heavily laden with fine fruit this season. Ben Davis is the variety most largely grown. The problem now is to get enough laborers to harvest the fruit from such a vast acreage of apple orchards, and to secure apple barrels for such big orchards. Three hundred and thirty car loads of empty apple barrels have recently been shipped iato this locality, nnd nine large evaporators have been built near Flora, with a capacity for each of one hundred and fifty bushels of fruit per day. A cold storage house, with a capacity of 46,000 barrels of apples, has been bulk at Flora this year. * Fcr Brnshins Fruit. The fruit brusher is a comparative newcomer except In California. The necessity of clean, polished oranges and the expense of brushing by band brought it into being there. Now, brushing, which has already been a habit with some packers, Is becoming

A FRUIT BRUSHER.

jiore necessary on account of the widespread of white fly and other insects causing smut It is not only expensive, but dlfflculL to get at short notice the number of men necessary to hand brush a car of oranges. With a brusher, it is claimed, one man can do the work of several.—Florida Agriculturist. Value of Small Fruits. Not all farmers seem to know the value of small fruits to a family when (frown In their own gardens. You commence with strawberries; they continue about a month. You pick perhaps from six to twelve quarts a day. You have them on the table. If you please, st breakfast, dinner and tea, and you want little else except bread and butter. In one way or another the family consumes about eight quarts a day, and while they last no medicines for bodily ailments are required, as a quart of strawberries dally will generally dispel all ordinary diseases not permanently In the system. After strawberries come raspberries, and they last about three weeks. Then we have blackberries, the cultivated varieties. Next currants ripen, and they remain until early grapes mature. So, taking Pe season through any family with

half an acre of land In a garden can grow small fruits that make country life delightful and at the same time save hundreds of dollars in table supplies.—Home and Farm.. Concentrated Foods. The real value of a farm is Its capacity to produce. It is really a storehouse of raw materials which are manufactured Into salable products, and may contain a mine of wealth requiring but the labor to bring It to the surface. Every pound of plant food returned to the soil is an investment for the future. In addition to the gain from the f»ceding stuffs purchased there are cmps rich In nitrogen which draw upon the atmosphere, through the agency of minute organisnls, for supplies of nitrogen, even the roots, after the crops are harvested, enriching the soil. The nitro-gen-gathering plants arc limited in number, but all plants have the power of derivlqg carbonic acid from the atmosphere, and from this comes the fat and smirch. The corn plant contains large quantities of fat and starch, but is deficient in mineral matter, while bran, linseed meal, cottonseed meal and middlings abound largely *ln the mineral elements. It will, therefore, pay the farmer to feed his corn and fodder in connection with the concentrated foods mentioned, as he is sure to gain largely in the manure. Estimating nitrogen at 16 cents per pound, and 130 pounds in a ton of 2,000 pounds, the value of the nitrogen is $19.50, and as the food also contains about $3.50 worth of potash and phosphoric acid, its real value as a fertilizer is $23. In addition, it also contains about 100 pounds of fat and 500 pounds of starch per ton. This the farmer saves by using it as food, although a portion of the nitrogen and mineral matter is appropriated by the animals and sold at a higher price in the forms of milk and meat. —Philadelphia Record. In Place of a Silo. Not every farmer has a silo or a com shredding machine. They cost too much for the man who has but two or three cows. But he can pick the ears from his com stover and have the grain ground, and the cob, too, if he so wishes, then have the stover well cured In the field, and when he takes it to the bam have it cut into pieces not more than a half inch long and shorter if possible. I Then moisten it with warm water if such is convenient to the cow stables and cover it up to steam for twenty-four hours at least before feeding. Put on each cow’s ration as much and such groin as her condition calls for, and If she does not do as well as she would on ensilage she will do better than on dry com stover. If obliged to wet it with cold water, It will be, better for standing forty-eight hours, to germinate a little heat by fermentation.—American Cultivator. A Handy Fodder Stack. How best to stack born fodder to keep and be handiest in getting at when feeding is often a question given much thought by the farmer. This method possesses many advantages that will recommend it above others: Set two posts twelve or sixteen feet apart where you wish the stack to be. Across from one to the other, four and a half or five feet from the ground, spike a 2 by 4. Stand the fodder against this with the butts on the ground and the smaller ends coming together at the top. There should be a space o/ two or three feet at the bottom. This will give the rat, dog and eat an opportunity to keep the stack clear of ‘mice. This stack will turn the rain and snow of winter, will keep dry and bright and when used will not be opened to the weather, as no stalks are left exposed by removing the top.—Farm Journal. lowa Horae tales. At the big sale of range horses at Sioux City good prices wefle obtained. The top figure was $60.50, which was paid for a load of good, heavy, blocky geldings and mares of all colors. The draft horses ranged from SSO to S6O, general purpose horses from $35 to $45.50, yearlings and 2-year-olds from $12.50 to $26, and sucking colts from $6 to sll. —National Stockman. Farm Notes. Sklmmllk for hogs and the big profit in it is all the talk now. Ohio Is a clover growing State. It is also becoming an alfalfa growing State. / The market for coarse flax fiber ,is almost unlimited, according to a Western grower. A recent circular of the United States Department of Agriculture defines the laws regulating Interstate shipment of birds and game. The attendant who enters the stabfe to milk a how with a pipe in his mouth Is not the proper man to perform that duty. Milking should be regarded as the cleanest and most important work on a dairy farm,' as milk not only absorbs odors, but is also quickly affected by any foreign substance. Hundreds of horses are ruined every year because they are not given water when they require it. There may be regular times for watering, but rules cannot safely be made to govern the duty. On warm days, when the horse* perspire freely, they give off from thejr bodies large quantities of moisture, and should be watered often even if allowed but a small quantity at a time. The young animal pays more than the adult because it grows and increases rapidly; the younger ttie animal the lower the cost of production. A pig farrowed in early spring and marketed late In the fall will give a much larger profit than will one kept through the winter. There Is also a great demand, with better prices, for a small carcass, a weight not exceeding 150 pounds being preferred to an animal that Is heavier.

Uncle Sam is now undertaking, in accordance with his agreement with Colombia, to keep the Panama Railroad open to traffic.

WARNS EUROPE TO UNITE.

Andrew Carnegie Says Ani:rica Will Overshadow World. At St. Andrew’s, Scotland, Andrew Carnegie the other day suggested the formation of the United States of Europe. He appealed to Emperor William of Germany as the most puissant of monarehs available for the work to take the first steps necessary to accomplish the desired result. Mr. Carnegie urged a political and industrial union of the European States. Only by means of such a union, he said, could Europe ever repel the American invasion of the markets of the world; only by such means could Europe hope to go forth and conquer fields of commerce for her own advantage. France, Germany and Russia might form the nucleus about which the new union could be effected. * , “The Cfcar,” continued Mr. Carnegie, “having taken the first step toward the peace of the world in The Hague conference, the other mighty emperor might some day be impressed with the thought that it is due to himself and to Gerpiany to play a great part upon the wider stage of Europe, as her deliverer from the incubus which oppresses and weakens her, the appalling, paralyzing fear of war and of ruin between members of her own body.” Mr. Carnegie gave expression to his views in his rectoral address at St. Andrew’s University. He had been formally reinstalled as rector’ of the university

ANDREW CARNEGIE.

and honored with the degree of doctor of laws. At the same ceremony the same degree was conferred on Joseph H. Choate, American ambassador to the court of St. James; Dr. Andrew D. White, American ambassador to Berlin: Alexander Graham Bell of Washington and Henry White, secretary of the American embassy in London.

DANES KILL ISLE TREATY.

United States Cannot Buy Lands Desired in West Indies. The landsthing, the upper house of the Danish Rigsdag, has refused to ratify the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States. The vote was a tie —32 to 32. The sale of the islands was approved by the lower house of the last parliament, but the landsthing rejected the treaty. In June of this year Denmark and the United States agreed to extend the time for the ratification of the treaty for one year. Meanwhile a new parliament was elected, and it was thought that there was a safe majority of two or three iii favor of the sale in the upper 'house. The lower house was overwhelmingly in favor of the sale. * The predominant sentiment throughout Denmark is undoubtedly pro-sale, and the rejection of the treaty is attributed chiefly to a domestic political effort to embarrass the goveroment and bring about the resignation of the ministry. The question of the sale of'the islands may not remain dead for any length of time. When official confirmation of the action of the Danish upper house in declining to ratify the treaty for the *ale of the Danish West Indies to the United States was received at the State Department in Washington, the officials of the department expressed themselves as much disappointed. It is believed that the Danish people, the noble classes excepted, are heartily In favor of selling the islands, which have been a continual expense to the crown. Warden Jewett of the Kansas penitentiary is said to be making an effort to get shoe manufacturers to establish a factory at the prison and uae convict labor. « Many prominent Jews in all sections of the country hare written to Secretary Hay. thanking him for his recent >ffarts h* behalf of tho Roumanian Jews.

CLEAR THE TRACK.

ROYAL ARBITRATOR WHO DECIDES AGAINST UNITED STATES.

King Oscar of Sweden and Norway, whose decision as arbiter of the disputes arising out of the interference of the United States and Great Britain in the Samoan insurrection in 1899, is in favor of Germany, has several times before been selected to pass judgment on international differences. He is a popular choice for arbitrator, because of Sweden’a freedom from entangling alliauces with other nations. It is announced from Washington that King Oscar’s decision, while it will be accepted in the Samoan matter, will not be recognized as making a precedent, as such a course would involve the payment of big claims by the United States whenever marines are landed to protect American interests.

Miners* Strike Commission Begins Work at White House. The members of the strike arbitration commission, appointed- by President Roosevelt, met at the White House shortly after 10 o’clock Friday morning and went into conference with the President. The President greeted the members of the commission cordially. The interview was brief, lasting scarcely twenty minutes. The work to be done by the commission was informally discussed. The President impressed upon the commission the importance of expedition and informed them that he had decided to uppoint two assistants to the recorder, to facilitate the work. He then presented to them their instructions, as follows: “To the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission—Gentlemen: At the request l>pth of the operators and of the miners I have appointed you a commission to inquire into, consider, and pass upon the questions in controversy in connection with the strike in the anthracite region' und the causes out of which the controversy arose. By the action you recommend, which the parties in interest have in advance consented to abide by, you will endeavor to establish the relations between the employers and wage earners in tha anthracite fields on a just and permanent basis, and, as far as possible, to do away with any causes for the recurrence of such difficulties as those which you have been called in to settle. I submit to you herewith the published statement of the operators, following which I named you as members of the commission, Mr. Wright being named aa recorder, also tho letter from Mr. Mitch-1). “I appoint Mr. Moseley and Mr. Neil as assistants to the recorder. “THEODORE ROOSEVELT.” With the instructions were the statements of the operators. The members of the commission withdrew in a l(ody. When they left the White House they declined to comment upon their interview. ;

In a wreck, Thompson, Ark., Fireman Abraham was killed. Fire at 478-480 Pearl street, New York, did $75,000 damage. Ex-Gov. John B. Neil of Idaho died ct Columbus, Ohio, of cancer of the throat. The corner stone for a new New York custom bouse was laid with appropriate ceremonies. A woman waa accidentally killed by a pick in tha hands of a miner, Laredo, Texas. Range rider* in southwestern Wyoming may clash because of tha importation of foreign aheep. Cuban custom receipts for Septembef were $264,490 greater thia year than for the rams month of 1901. Two freight trains on the Golf of Colorado and Santa Fa Railroad collided head-on at Ardmore, I. T. Two members of the crew were killed and lira injured, two perhaps fatally.

KING OSCAR II.

ARBITERS IN SESSION.

Interesting News Items.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. ) \V Farmer Slays Wife for Talking About Him—Girl Whips a New Richmond Man—Train Gets Safely Off a Collapsing Bridge. *>hn Sterrenburg, aged 52 years, formerly of Chicago, shot and kilted his wife in Marion, and when found hidden in a com field three hours later turned a revolver against bis own head and inflicted a serious wound. The officers'had some difficulty in preventing a lynching, us liie mob was restless at the time of the murderer’s capture. When Sterrenburg reached the jail and had been revived with stimulants he was told that he had killed his wife. To this he replied that he was glad, as it had been his intention to do so. He said he had intended so cut out his wife’s tongue and had taken a sharp butcher knife to bed with him for that purpose, but she was restless and did not sleep and he was not given the opportunity. He said she had talked scandalously about him and lectured him and this was the reason he had killed her. The woman was shot three times in the back and ran nearly half a mite; to a neighbor's, where she died an hour After the shooting. The husband died later of hemorrhage of the brain. Presence of Mind Saves 500 Lives. Nearly five hundred passengers who were aboard a train on tiie Wabash road narrowly escaped a wreck and death near Clark station. A short distance out of Clark thes Wabash crosses the Grand Calumet raver over a huge trestlework bridge. Some repairs had been made c-n the structure only recently, and it was considered perfectly safe, track walkers having just patroled the bridge before the Wabash limited left Clark station. As -the train, haring aboard nearly 500 souls, reached the middle of the structure that spanned the Calumet the engineer Heard the cracking of timbers as the middle span of the bridge sank beneath his engine. He opened the throttle to the farthest limit, and the train fairly leaped from the swaying trestlework. Postmaster Whipped by Girl. Miss Virginia Dewey, the 18-year-old daughter of a prominent New Richmond physician, entered the postofflee at that village and, white J. W. Holland, the postmaster, had his hack turned, drew a big whip and administered a terrible whipping. Holland did not attempt to escape or retaliate. When Miss Dewey finished she walked out of the office to a justice’s office and paid her fine. The whipping was determined on by the girl as the only way to avenge insults which Holland is alleged to have offered to Miss Dewey and three others in New Richmond. Holland is married and is a leading politician. Note for Missions Valid. ' A note for SI,OOO payable to Mrs. Mary Woodworth, an evangelist of the Church of God, for the furtherance of religious work in La Porte, was held to be valid by the Appellate Court. Mrs. Mary J. Vinson had executed the note and the payment was contested by the administrator of Mrs. Vinson’s estate on the ground that the note was not given for a legitimate debt. The ruling is a precedent. Trainer Attacked by a Lion. Dick Dekenzo was attacked by Nero, the big lion with a wild animal show, at the close of an exhibition at Terre Haute. The lion inflicted frightful gashes on Dekenzo’s back, hands and legs. Only the prompt action of attendants saved the trainer’s life. The spectators were stampeded, and a number were bruised in the wild rush for the exit. Brief Btate Happenings. Edward Stinkard, a boy, was killed at the Hoosier quarry, Bedford, by a falling stone. A workman had his leg broken ut the same time. „ The safe in the office of the Charles Hamer Lumber Company at Green town was wrecked by burglars. No money was secured, but a package of notes valued at $750 was taken. Vandaiia passenger train No. 8, east bound, and passenger train No. 21, west bound, collided at Reelsville, completely demolishing both engines. Two were killed and a number hurt. While temporarily insane over religion, Mrs. John C. Ice of Bruceville arose from her bed, said the Lord had commanded her to kill herself, set fire to her -light dress and burned to death. Royal Hero, the champion bull of 1800, owned by W. T. Miller & Sons of Winchester, became so disabled from paialysis that it had to be killed. The Millers had refused $5,000 for the animal. The home of Isaac Shipley, five miles west of Nashville, was totally destroy."! by fire. Shipley nnd his wife were awakened by fire falling on their bed, und they barely escaped from the house. The body of Mrs. James T. Kelly (Ida Carter), leading woman of the King PingPong theatrical company, who was drowned in the Ohio river, has been found twenty-five miles from Jeffersonville. Jacob Jones was fatally scalded while cleaning a boiler at the American rolling mill at Muncie. He had crawled inside when another workman, not knowing he waa in the boiler, turned on the steam. Burglars robbed the hardware atorc of J. E. Daria in Salem of S2OO worth of stock,- including guns, revolvers and cutlery. They took clothing nnd shoes to the value of SSO from the general store of Hervet & Clark. The Republic Iron and Steel Company’s mill in East Chicago has been reopened, President Schaffer of tha Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers having ordered the striking puddlers to return to work. The strikers ot»eyed the order of their chief. William Layman of Chesterton, in attempting to shoot a dog shot his wife, inflicting fatal wounds. The Indiana Association of Baptlats, in session at Muncie, re-elected Rev. T. J. Villen of Indianapolis president At Fountain. William O’lMen shot at his wife, and David Murray, who attempted to protect her. waa fatally wounded by one of the bullets. I Mrs. William Hharits and three daughten of Union City were injured hi a runaway, Mn. Sharila dangerously. The hone ran against a tree and waa Instantly HUM.

GIVES LIFE TO THE DEAD.

Indiana Pkyalcian Discovers the Principle of Existence. Dr. C. W. Littlefield, of Alexandria. Ind., has discovered the principle of life and is capable of restoring life to

animals which ordinary tests proved to be dead. The doctor has revivified time and again files which have been dead from half an hour to a day. Asphyxiation. drowning and oMb e r means of death have been resorted to in his experiments, and so long

DR. LITTLEFIELD.

as the organism of the Insect or animal was unbroken or not destroyed revivification was successful in every instance. Beginning with the lower organisms, such -as files and bumblebees, be has ascended with his experiments until be has succeeded in bringing to life mice, rats and cats which were to all ordinary- tests dead. Recently a cat was chloroformed and atferward immersed in water for twenty minutes, after which it was covered with the magnetic powder which Dr, Littlefield says contains the properties of the atmosphere which sustain life—magnetism. Within eight minutes the eat was anxious to get away and was as lively as it was before chloroformed and “drowned." The theory was severely tried during the winter months, when a boy was under the ice for fortyfive minutes, and then without treatment for almost the remainder of the hour. A slight attempt at artificial restoration of respiration commonly used in such cases was resorted to. Then Dr. Littlefield and his discovery were called into requisition. Within an hour the boy revived and is to-day living. According to the doctor's theory the principle which we call life exists everywhere. It will not enter into chemical action and .combination with other elements and form new compounds, nor is it the result of chemical action or the union of any definite number or kinds of compounds. It can neither be created nor destroyed. It can be excluded from • the organic body and then be coaxed to return in all Its fullness and completeness. This life principle is abundantly diffused throughout space abd needs only the proper media to cause It to objectively manifest Itself. It is, as he believes, the underlying first clans of all things physical and manifests itself as a volatile magnetism. “This leads me,” he says, “to believe that this life principle exists at all times and is coexistent with creation. Therefore when the Bible tells us that God breathed Into mau’s nostrils the breath of life it states a more profound fact than we havs heretofore been able to appreciate.”

OHIO WAR VETERAN.

Was a Target for the First Shot Fired at the Siege of Vicksburg. B. J. Williams, cashier of the Firal National Bank In Shelby, Ohio, enjoyi the flistinction of having the first shot

fired at the siege of Vicksburg in 1863 aimed at hi m personally. Mr. Williams was bora in Marlon, Ohio, In 1842. In 1861 he enlisted in Major Ink’s battalion In Missouri, and served for eighteen months. He re-

enlisted in the Sixty-ninth Ohio, and hefd the office of quartermaster ser * geant. At the siege of Vicksburg h« was on the staff of General Burbridge of Kentucky, and as the army marched up on the hills surrounding the city h« was ordered to go over and take possession of a farmhouse as a hospital He rode away with a few men, and at they passed up the lane to the house two Confederates opened Are on them from the place. None of the men wen hit. Another curious coincidence in connection with this Is, that when General Pemberton sent a flag of true* into the Union lines with a proposal ol surrender the men were taken to Mr Williams’ tent and kept while General Grant went over their message. Mr. Williams has been cashier of the First National Bank of Shelby continuously since the day of Its opening, April 9, 1872. He Is, therefore, serving his thirty-first year as cashier.

Spoke from Experience.

A man who tries to uphold all hli statements with the prop of personal experience Is pretty sure sooner ot later to find himself in difficulties. “What kind of posts should you say I’d better hare for my planar’ asked a summer resident of the oracle of Bashrille. "Cedarr “No," was the Instant reply; “not ‘less you want to pay for poor stuff. Git pine. Pine will last ye a hundred years.” “Are you surer’ asked the summer resident, doubtfully. “SureT’ echoed the oracle. “I never state a thing without I can prove It I’ve tried ’em both. Tried ’em twice on my south porch, I tell ye!”

Room for More Improvement.

Prison Director—What, you hero again for burglary? When yon left here three weeks ago yon said that yon had become a much better man. Prisoner-Yes, air, but I want to be* come better still!—Heiter Welt A girl raves over the beauty of a* apple ties In bloom, but a boy waits until the blossoms are apples. Fishing cultivates patience. Ladies will please take not lea

B. J. WILLIAMS.