Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1904 — Page 3

POLITICAL COMMENT.

■ Protection in England. The growth of the protective tariff sentiment in Great Britain, under the vigorous campaign of Joseph Chamberlain, is a cause of infinite worry to a large number of the Free-Trade newspapers in this country. If Cobdenism loses hold in England, what refuge will its exponents In this country find? In endeavoring to break the moral effect of this abandonment of free trade in the home of its votaries, some of these Free Trade newspapers profess to believe that the hand of England is forced in the matter; that she is compelled to turn to protection not because it is sound in principle, but as a matter of retaliation against the United States. Thus a conspicuous Free Trade newspaper says that the Chamberlain campaign has apparently roused in many quarters of this country '“a vague feeling of distrust of the wisdom of our own policy, which has provoked this attempt at retaliation.” This is an exact converse of the Chamberlain position. Mr. Chamberlain has never for a single instant usedthe argument that protection should be adopted for the purpose of compelling the United States to open its markets' to English goods. On the direct contrary, he has commended the tariff policy of the United States and held it up ns a model worthy of British adoption. For the free trade between the States of the American union, witii a tariff against the outside world, he proposes a substantial equivalent of

VERY MUCH INCLINED TO STAND PAT.

free trade between all of the component parts of the British Empire, with tariffs against outsiders, which is as near an equivalent of the American system of protection as the different circumstances of the British Empire will adept adopting.

It is not to break into the American market, but to keep the American manufacturers from taking the British colonial markets away from the British manufacturers that Mr. Chamberlain urges the adoption of our policy. The things whlcji have provoked this attitude of Chamberlain are the supremacy of the United States in manufacturing and the wonderful expansion of German manufacturing and commerce as well. Behind the Chamberlain policy there is no resentment at the tariff laws of Germany and the United States; but a resentment at the commercial and industrial expansion of both •countries, which have rendered Great Britain’s Industrial and commercial supremacy a thing of the past. If there is any one in this country who questions the wisdom of the tariff policy of the United States, which has ( created the conditions above outlined, he certainly cannot be found in the ranks of the Protectionists. The wisdom of our policy Is most heartily indorsed by Chamberlain himself, who gives it the highest possible praise In his recommendation that it be copied by the British Empire, in order that Great Britain can save herself from being driven out of the markets which her own colonies nfford. There is no longer the remotest thought in Great Britain of being able to recapture the American markets. —Seattle Post Intelligencer.

Just Plain Free Trade. It Is not candid treatment of the subject to quote McKinley and Blaine ns In fnvor of wholesale reciprocity. They were both conspicuous advocates of protection, and only advocated reciprocity with nations offering articles we *do not produce. Reciprocity In competitive free trade. Reciprocity Implies special advantages to be mutually enjoyed. All trade between nations Is not reciprocity, and the Free traders should be restrained from masquerading under the reciprocity banners. These distinctions, should be kept In mind.— Fontanelle (la.) Observer.

Wanting in Discretion. A declaration In the Chicago platform that the Republican party, If continued in power, will keep nbreast of the times In the tariff, ns in nil other matters, would not be objectionable.

but the introduction of the tariff as a campaign issue would be pleasing only to those who find delight in fomenting trouble. Business will not thrive under tariff agitation. The industries do not prosper. New enterprises are held back, old enterprises wait for developments. The uncertainty as to what the result will be.keeps everybody on the tender hooks, and everybody suffers. A Presidential campaign under any circumstances is unsatisfactory from a business and industrial standpoint, and to introduce the tariff issue will be to make it worse. Governor Cummins may be given credit for sincerity, but his discretion is notably wanting.—Grand Itapids Herald. ' A Two-Edged Sword. Reciprocity in competitive products with Canada and the rest of the world would cut like a two-edged sword. It would begin by increasing our surplus of agricultural commodities through the free admission of Canada’s natural products, and in. order to work off this increased surplus It would end by lowering our tariff so as to admit a larger volume of foreign manufactures. The compensating gain, if any, is problematical and speculative. The injury is clear and unquestionable. To increase our agricultural surplus means a loss to the farmer. To provide new outlets for that surplus by diminished tariff protection on manufactures means a loss to our industrial interests and to labor. The more the question

is studied the more certain it becomes that reciprocity in competitive products would prove a false and pernicious policy for a country blessed with the resources and capabilities of the United States.

WAISTS THAT CLOSE IN BACK.

They Are Youthful in Appearance) but Troublesome to Button. There is no denying the fact that the majority of waists will close in the back. The youthful appearance of the long, plain, straight front is a thing that is beyond argument, and where is there a woman who will neglect that which Is a certulu guaranty of youthfulness? Nine out of ten of the finer grades of white waists close up the back and fully one-half of the linen and crash waists are closed in the same manner: The unhandiness of the waist which buttohs behind cannot be disputed. A woman who lived in a hotel will tell you that it costs her 10 cents every time she puts on her waist, for the maid must hook it, arm those who are traveling will assure you that the waist which hooks up the back is an unmitigated nuisance. Yet, after one look at herself, and after one of her youthful lines, the woman who has seen herself in one of these smooth-fronted waists will rush off to buy another, for she knows that in nothing else does she look half so well. All waists are to be worn looser, and this will bo good news for the woman who is tugging at her back buttons, and the buttons will be larger and the buttonholes more pronounced. Instead of being hidden under a slat they will stand out bold and pretty and the waist will button frankly by means of buttons nnd buttonholes and not by the little Invisible loops nnd the evasive hooks which were such a trouble last season.

There Is a French shirt wnist which buttons Invisibly front and back. The method Is by'means of the under nrm seam and the shoulder seam. It Is not n difficult thing to manage. And thero Is another French waist which does not button at nil. neither does It hook, nor Is It caught together with pins. This mysterious waist, which neither buttons nor books. Is made of lace. The entrance Is through the back. The panels of lace nrc then brought together and nn obliging friend news the waist In place. It Is stitched together with long white thread stitches which shut It and keep it in shape.—Kansas City Journal. Magazine advertising has developed almost entirely within fifteen years.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. - A C. M, Todd Convicted of Killing Hie Bride—Storm Damage—at Washington —Confession Clears Up Murder Mystery. Cyrus M. Todd, 19 years old, who was charged with the murder of his bride of but a few months Dee. 31 last, has been found guilty at Lebanon of manslaughter, the penalty feyg which is an indeterminate sentence or from two to twonty-o:%‘ years in" tlie penitentiary. At the reading of the verdict ypung Todd was nervous, bilt was apparently much relieved that the sentence was so light. The jurors themselves say they were inclined to be lenient with Todd on account of his youth. The charge against Todd was that ho Ordered tils wife with a shotgun. His defense was that his wife picked up the gun from where he had laid it, on the bed, and by the muzzle dragged it toward her across, the bed. The trigger caught in the covers, he said, and the gun was discharged, the shot entering her left breast, causing instant death.

Windstorm at Washington. A terrific wind storm did great damnge in Washington. The west wall of Nealand & Ivridge’s three-story building was blown in, resulting in heavy loss in the carpet and clothing departments. Tlie west wall of the Odd Fellows’ hall was blown in. The Hyatt Hotel, tlie largest hostelry in Washington, was partially unroofed. A stone blown from tlie Wilson building crashed through the roof and second floor of W. L. Jackson’s drug store and did much damage. Many frees and chimneys were blown down in all sections of tlie city. Policeman Shot in Thich. James Lamar, a policeman,, was shot at Grandview and badly wounded. Two boys, Walter and Charles Craig, were arrested on a trivial charge by Lamar and were placed in jail, but escaped in the night. The next day as Lamar passed the Craig house he was shot. The Craig family was arrested and held in default of SSOO bond to await trial. Lamar was shot in the thigh. The Craigs are local characters of ’Grandview aud have been in trouble before.

Clears Murder Mystery. The mystery of the Runyan murder in South Bend was cleared, by the confession of Charles Krienke. He said that Jarhes E. Costello was the murderer. “We went to the drug store,’’ he said, “to get some money. My heart failed me and I left Costello, refusing to go into the store. When Runyan resisted there was a fight. Runyan got the best of Costello and when he threw him over the platform in the window Costello shot him.” Bad Winter for Quail. The fanners of the Elwood neighborhood report that quail will be scarce next season, owing to the fact that they are finding large coveys frozen to death. Farmers also report that rabbits that have withstood the cold weather are so weak that they can hardly run. Large numbers of rabbits are being found frozen under rails and stumps, and many have been dug out of their holes that were evidently starved to death.

State Items of Intereot, Lots of measles in Terre Haute. Osgood has secured a trousers factory. A company will he organized at Waldron to drill for oil. Thomas Alltop, 87, first settler in what Is now Nashville, is dead. Wheat is selling in Indiana towns for from $1 to $1.05 a bushel. First M. E. Church, Shelbyville, has a chorus choir of about fifty voices. Farmers met at Camden and decided to build an elevator and start a bank. The pews in St. Simon’s Church, Washington', rented for $2,355 this year. Ten of the eleven townships of Ripley County have voted in favor of free pike roads. Crawfordsville merchants are bound by an agreement not to use trading stamps.

Darlington schools were closed because seven eases of scarlet fever were reported. Congregation of First Baptist Church, Franklin, may build a new $4,000 parsonage. The Carnegie public library at New Albany was opened. The building cost $40,000. Frank Finley, a farmer near Vincennes, was accidentally killed while hunting ducks. Thomas Watkins will build a SIO,OOO brick residence on his place near Linden this spring. Blackford County farmers have a lnrge quantity of wheat on hand to sell nt the high prices. Farmers around Camden want a system of free gravel roads established in k Jackson township. The fear of n strike is causing an unsettled feeling iu business .circles iu some of the Indiana mining towns. Mrs. Michael Strycker, near Goshen, slipped on nn icy walk and fell, sustaining injuries from which she died. Harry S. Shaffer, editor of the Clark's Hill News, is dead. lie was widely known ns an anti-saloon worker.

James J. Smiley, the oldest member of the Putnam County bar, fell from his chair nt Greencnstle, from uu attack of apoplexy, and (lied. Cyrus 11. McCready, former cashier of the First National Bank of Seymour, charged with embezzling $12,000, is in jail in default of $5,000 bonds. Spencer Saxton, an oil well contractor, was instantly killed and Edward Wood, a well shooter, and S. Culvertson, a driller, were seriously iujured by the premature explosion of two Charges of nitroglycerine which were being lowered into on oil well near Marion. . When Mrs. Willinm Minnick, Lawrenceburg, refused to give breakfast to' a tramp Wednesday, the man entered the house and followed the frightened womau into an inner room. Mrs. Minnick secured a revolver and firsd, wounding ths man In the arm. Hs fled and the police arg looking tor him.

FARM AND GARDEN

Automatic Milking Device. The buxom daift maid will soon be a tiling of the past if a new Invention which has successfully undergone r VI *n. err i

numerous tests comes into general use. The ingenuity of man has devised a scheme to accomplish her downfall as a necessity in the agricultural districts. The In ventton, known as the Lawreuce - Kennedy cow milker, is described by a London correspond-

ent of the Chicago Inter Ocean. It can bo operated, its Inventors claim, by any motive power—steam, water, gas, oil, or electricity. Pictures showing itis method of operation have the following explanation: “Connected by pipes with a vacuum continuing-tank is the tube A. The other end of the tube is connected with the puisator G, which rests upon the cone-shaped pail placed between the cows. From the puisator two rubber tubes BB branch out right and left, one to each cow, and each tube is attached to four rubber cups C, which are fastened to the cow. When tlie vacuum cock is turned on the puisator commences to work and causes the cups to collapse and expand and thus extract the milk. The milk on its way to the pail cam be seen passing through a glass trap .or indicator D, which is protected by a wire cage. The number of pulsations per minute can be regulated by screws which give adjustability to the characteristics of each cow.”

Lime in Agriculture. The use of lime on land jins not been largely encouraged by scientists in the past, though it has been used to a considerable in isalated localities. It was at first considered from the Itandpoint of plant food, and as such' |Df course it would not receive a very enthusiastic support from men that had found out by various tests that there was already in the soil more lime than the plants could use. When the soils of the various States came to be examined for acid, it was found that many of them were so strongly acid that some of our most important plants would not grow on them satisfactorily, Jii the soil surveys carried on during the past three years in Illinois it has been found that one-third of the soils of the State are so strongly acid that they will not grow red clover nnd other legumes successfully until treated with lime. Of the other twothirds of the State some of the soils are slightly acid and would be improved by an application of lime.

Poultry Lee Band. The illustration shows a neat and durable leg hand, which is easily put on, and one which will be no inconvenience to the fowl. It is made from a 2-inch strip of tin pointed at one end, and a hole made through the larger end. If it is desired to have a number or letter on the band, cover the

larger end with grease, in which carefully write the number or letter with some pointed Instrument. Then apply muriatic qcld, which will cut into the surface of t'ho tin where grease has been removed. After the hand has been put around the leg of the bird insert the pointed end through the hole In larger end qnd bend point down flat. "

Straw on Pasture Land. A Dakota farmer writes as follows: Five or six years ago we tried a heavy coat of strawy horse manure on the high ground of our pasture where tue grass was quite short. At first the grass was almost smothered out, but within the last year or two a sort of second growth grass lias come In. and the feed on the manured spots seems at least 50 per cent better than It was before manuring. We shall try some more of this work next year on land not convenient to plow. Where worn out pastures are suited for plowing, a good plan would he to first seed an old plow field with Brome grass for.a pasture nnd then break up the old pasture, thus starting a system of rotation that should eventually take in tho whole farm. Once started. Brome grass as a pasture grass is the best thing I have found. But I hardly think it would be very profitable to try to start it on unbrrfkeu prairie. Co- Operation Among Orange". Co-operative buying and selling among farmers means money saving

for them. The Michigan State Grange reports tlie. purchase By rations of Iju '.bundry of 450 tons of binder twine, 1,000 tons of Land phosphate, trmlwo're'n wire fencing in the largest contract ever entered into. Ohio is about to establish a central bureau of information to provide for the disposal of crops, purchase of farm supplies and to keep patrons generally posted on piarkets ;--i) other matters to their interest.

The Farmer’s Reverie. Th’ nights is gittin’ shorter an' th’ days is giftin’ long. An’ .vest'day, i-jing, I lieer'd a rohin redbreast's song; Jos’ let me say in pausin' wlicft a robin starts tew sing Tliet it's a share-miff sign we hain’t so fur away from spring, I ciilkilate th’ grass is sproutin’ some beneath th’ snow; Tli’ sap is sort o’ thawin' nn’ a-tryin’ hard to flow; Th’ crow looks down an’ sasses ez lie flics past oinTU wiiigj^ An', somehow, things begin tew sort o’ smell' tew me like spring. 'Fore long I'll be a-traipsin’ on th' hill behind tlie plow—liiste'd o' sot t in’ ’fore th’ fire like I’m fl-doin’ now— " A-lls'nin’ in th’ furrow for tli’ dinner bell te\w ring— A-eussin’ Jeff and Kate an’ kind o' happy ms it's spring. Some folks prefers tlie winter time an’ sum prefers th’ fall. While summer time suits others, yit it, • sumhow, don't suit all. Es fur ea I’m eonsariied, es I could hev my choice, i-jing, I reckon I would .hev th’ hull endurin’ year jes’ spring.

fprnyinir Fruit Trees. Sprayiqg fruit treo* for the purpose of destroying insects and fungus growths is no longer looked upon as a fad, but is recognized as being an absolute essential where the best results in fruit growing are expected. In tlie matter of spraying the average farmer who has but a small orchard has much to learn from the specialist. Many thousand carloads of fruit are soid annually in the corn belt that have been conditions that are no more favorable for fruit growing than those of the corn belt, providing the same care could be exercised In handling the fruit trees. Spraying is an operation that should not be performed in a haphazard manner, and should only be taken up after obtaining speefle advice pertaining to it. In this regard the experiment stations of the corn belt stand ready to furnish individuals with formulas and directions for this work. —lowa Homestead.

Totato Digger. S. A. Pollock, of Cass county, lowa, writes: “I have never—found much use for any tool to scratch out potatoes after a digger of any kind save my fingers, but I know so many are averse to this habit that I have devised a tool whereby they can scratch out potatoes without using the flngeVs

POTATO DIGGER.

for the work. It is made in the shape of a rake, hut instead of using teeth, pieces of heavy wire bent as observed in the illustration and riveted In the head will he found very useful. The wires will let all the loose dirt pass through and being close together will bring out all tubers that are not small enough to pass through between the wires.” —Exchange.

What Does the Pork Cost? It is periods of depression in values that put the hog. grower to the crucial test. W. A. Henry, the Wisconsin expert on porcine matters, insists that the corn belt hog grower has not yet got down to the basis of making pork at a minimum cost. When corn is worth 25 cents a bushel it can he

thrown to swine ad libitum, but with grain worth 40 cents, the horse assumes a different hue. Growers unite hi declaring that they cannot make pork profitably at four cents. G. J. Maggenbeimer, of Hamlet, Ind., a successful grower on a large scale, told the writer only recently that $4.10 was the cost of his liogs at the shipping point. Consequently, thousands of growers are taking the easy born of tue dilemma and shipping the stock to market lacking maturity. The problem nt present before the grower Is whether or not he can furnish bis hog crop and market it at heavy weights profitably. Feeding either bogs or cattle for recreation is not desirable. Many feeders did both last year, hence the indisposition to repeat the performance.—Live Stock World. To Fatten n Horae Quickly. To fatten a horse quickly In order to Improve Its appearance before sale, feed liberally of corn meal, steamed oat* and clover bay, adding a little linseed meal to the graifi ration. Exercise but little, nnd give purging salts once a week. Feed nt least three times a day and supply plenty of horse not too wild will often gain several pounds a day for a fortnight under this plan.

Good Rood* and Social Life. The advent of good roads will promote attendance at school and the church; facilitate social gatherings, literary societies, drnmatlc entertainments, and make club and lodge meetings possible to the farmer's family in the winter and spring months. Give the bright young men and women of rural districts these privileges and there will tie a smaller tendency of tbelr drifting to tho city.

MERGER IS DEFEATED

SUPREME COURT DECIDES FOR GOVERNMENT. Northern Securities Company Doses Its Case—Court Holds that Congress Can Control Commerce and Has Fullpower to Regulate Interstate Traffic.

The government lias triumphed .over the merger. In a decision handed down by tiie United States Supreme Court the

JAMES J. HILL.

trusts aud combinations. Justice Harlan read the opinion affirming the order of the Federal Circuit Court of Minnesota, .sustaining the contention that the Sherman anti trust law npplies to railroad combinations. Justice Brewer concurred in affirming the merger decision, but for different reasons than those of tlie majority. Justice Hnrlan said that in the merger of the two ponds tlie stockholders disappeared and that they reappeared in the Securities company, the two thus lie- oining practically consolidated- in a holding company, the principal object being to prevent competition. "So scheme or device could certainly more effectively come within tlie prohibition of the anti trust law and it is within the meaning of tlie act a trust.” State Nights Not Hit. Replying in detail for the securities company, Justice Harlan said that the contention that tlie law is an interference with tlie rights of the individual States by which the companies are incorporated was not well founded. In such cases, he said, the authority of Congress is supreme. He declared it to be unnecessary to determine the right of owners of railroad stock to sell the property. Nor was it true, he added, that tlie right of tlie securities company to own and hold railroad stock is the only question involved. Such contentions are wide of tlie mark—mere men of straw. All that tlie government complains of is tlie existence of a corporation to repress commerce, ahd it is not concerned with the other points. Justice- Harlan snid that in this day there should be no doubt of the complete power of Congress to control interstate commerce. Ail appropriate means might lie resorted to for that purpose. All the prior trust case*

J. PIERPONT MORGAN.

were in support of that contention. Whether free and unrestrained competition was wise, lie said, was an economic question with which the court need not concern itself: the question was that of statutory law. The suit was instituted by the United States against the Northern Securities Company and the three railroad companies—the Northern Pacific, the Great Northern and the Burlington—and their leading stockholders for the purpose of dissolving the merger of the two roads, which the United States declared had been created by the formation of a holding company. This consolidation was alleged to he in violation of the Sherman anti trust law. It was clnimed on behalf of the government that the consolidation was in effect a pool created to promote the interests not of one system at the expense of the otiier, bat of both nt the expense of the public. The railroads claimed that the transfer of the sbx-k of the two companies to the securities company was in the nature of n sale nnd perfectly legitimate.

TO LIVE IN GLASS HOUSES

IMaii of Philadelphia Physicians as ■ Cure for Consumption. A new idea for the treatment of tuberculosis lias been adopted in Philadelpliia where patients suffering from the disease are to live in glass houses. The institution will be known ns the Philadelphia hospital, which' comprises six pavilions, each to accommodate 18 patients. There is no more metal a)>out the pavilions than is actually required for frame work, and surrounding each pavilion is a six-foot porch enclosed with glass. The inside gluss is ribbed sufficiently to make it opaque anil is set in frames reaching 70 feet above the floor unit arranged to opyn automatically like doors. The glass of the porches is clear nud transparent. The buildings may he occupied during l>oth summer nnd winter. The heating apparatus in the basement includes a blower which -forces the warm air through metal conduits into the apartment where the pntieul is receiving treatmeirt. The Hoor iu enclt pavilion is of cement nnd in the rear of each is a glnzi-d brick structure, containing the kitchen, hath nnd toilet rooms. The cost of constructing the glass houses was $114,000.

Brief News Items.

Suintiel Gompcrs has gone tt> Porto Rico to study labor conditions there. Charles Fuchs, a Bt. Louis horseman, committed suicide by shooting iu a room nt the Nov Gmener Hotel, Buffalo, ft. Y. Tho entire plant of the Bowen & Scrlmser Oil Itefining Company at Elisabeth |s>rt. N. J., was destroyed by fir*. I-oss $50,000. William Fairfax, a wrecker, wni hilled by a falling wall at Baltimore whtlo razing the ruined front of a building in, the lurned district.

Northern Securities Company, tlie greatest railroad combination ever formed, is dissolved, and the__ business world has. received tlie dictum of the highest tribunal on the authority of the government to regulate