Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1904 — Page 3

AGRICULTURAL

Fighting Roadside Weeds. Lu States there are county laws which make it obligatory for those in charge of the roads to see that roadside weeds are cut twice during- the growing season, first before July and the second time before the first of September. It would be well if such a law was in force in all sections, and yet the fighting of obnoxious ■weeds seems to be one of those things for which no law should be required. Farthers ought to be more than willing to combine among themselves for mutual protection, even going so far as to cut the weeds in front of the farm of any man who will not do the work himself. This would not need to be done very often, for shame would soon .compel such a man to do his duty. The main trouble with weeds, however, Is with such as are allowed to grow inside the fence line, for few farmers are willing to spend the time necessary to rid their farms -of these. Combine with each other to rid the roadside of weeds, and then let every man take care of those inside the fence and elsewhere on his farm. It this weed fighting was done systematically instead of spasmodically, it would not require many years to decidedly lessen the weed crop and materially increase the valuable crops as well as save much labor. —Exchange. Gray African Geese. Gray African geese are advancing in popularity and are now considered among the most profitable geese to raise. They grow rapidly and attain a

GRAY AFRICAN GEESE.

weight of over eight pounds in ten weeks. They are good layers, averaging forty eggs In a season. Their flesh is fine and nicely flavored, which makes them very acceptable for the table. The standard weight of the gander is twenty pounds and of the goose eighteen pounds. Artichokes for Hogs. Artichokes are naturally more suited for the use of the hog than for the use of any other stock, for the reason that the hog will do his own digging. The crop is usually ready for the digging about September. The porkers can continue the good work till frost hardens the ground. The freezing does not injure the artichokes, and if they have not been well dug out in tjie fall thet hogs may be again turned in in the spring. One beauty about the growing of this crop is that it does rot have to be planted each spring, but comes up of Itself. The exercise the hogs receive when digging the tubers is a'beneflt to them. New Milk Process. A new French process of sterilizing milk, the fat of the milk is tltoroughly broken up after heating, thus avoiding the lumpiness of the cream which consumers have found so objectionable. It Is said that when cream is treated by this machine, it is rendered quite homogeneous, and the fact that the fat globules are broken up makes the cream look thicker and become more uniform. When milk and cream are treated by a homogenizing machine, they mix more thoroughly with tea and coffee. Having seen the advantages of the process, some of the largest dairy companies In London have ordered machines. —New England Homestead.

Don for the Farm. If n farmer stands In need of a dog he sliould have a good one. The farm dog, to be a profitable adjunct of the farm, should have duties to perform, and should possess certain valuable ciualltles that will enable him to do Ida duties well. He should be a faithful watcher of persona and property, and nt the sqme time of a kind disposition. He abould be gentle to the Jive stock of the farm and, above all, obedient to his master. A good farm dog is n very knowing animal. Increasing the Protein. Beyond doubt there can be much more digestible protein saved for the use of the stock during the winter If more care is used in harvesting the various grains and the hay crop as well. If one stops to think it is evident that there Is more of the protein saved in the hay if it is cv.t before it is fully ripe. This same state exists In oats and grains fed to slock and

also in corn grown for the silo. True, in the case of the hay It is a little more difficult to cure, perhaps, but the added value mo.-e than compensates one for this trouble. Try the plan this season and if carefully done it will work out as indicated. ' A To Protect the Horse from Flies. Horses suffer from flies during the summer, but seem to be able to fid themselves of them to some extent

FLY NET.

band and the band fastened to the headgear so that they will fall over the face of the horse. These strands may be knotted together over the forehead and at the sides of the face, so that they will not fall over the eyes of the horse. One can have no idea how these nets will keep the flies off until they drive a horse with and without the net The cost is trifling compared with the comfort such a contrivance will give the horse. The illustration will give one an idea of how this net is constructed and how applied to the bridle. Profit £u Hand Separator. Hand separators average about SIOO each, but this cost can be saved in a year in any dairy where ten or more cows are kept; this has been demonstrated time and again, so there is no doubt about it. Manufacturers of separators claim that the saving is about ten dollars a cow-per year and is based on the fact that the cream is taken from the milk while it is sweet, lienee there is no dagger of it becoming sour, and because of this almost perfect condition the cream ripens more evenly and, therefore, make's a better quality of butter. Again, as the separating is done soon after milking the value of the skim milk for feeding purposes is greater, as it is usually given to young stock while it still retains the animal warmth. There is everything in favor of the hand separator and nothing against it, so that any man with a dairy of proper size, who does not have a separator is cheating himself out of just so much- good profit.

Suggestions to Shepherds. Sheep require a variety of food to form flesh and fat. With sheep, rather more than with any-other class of stock, care must be taken not to overfeed. Overstocking is usually injurious to the sheep and ruinous to the farmer. Dryness is one of the requirements in the production of the finest grades of wool. Sheep are naturally gregarious. When one is seen by itself something is evidently wrong. No sheep should be allowed to die of old age, but all should be fattened and sent to market before their vitality has been Impaired. In commencing to fatten sheep, the feeding should not be crowded at first, but gradually increase the amount of the ration. A small, fat sheep will always bring better prices than a large, poor one. To have good-sized sheep, they must be grown rapidly while young, and it is important to give them a good start. Handy Grain Bag Holder. This can be made by the farmer himself, and at no expense. It is nothing more than & hopper, with

GOOD BAG HOLDER.

hooks upon which to hang the bag. fastened to a firm standard. This arrangement will a single person to till the bag quickly and easily. Farm Chat. z Shallow, level culture Is the thing for corn If It is done In the right manner and at the right time. Judgment Is the outgrowth of experience, yet a man may have a wide experience and yet lack in judgment. '/he profitable mutton breeds of sheep are those of early maturity, rapid growth and necessarily shortlived. It is'very important that a brood sow should be gentle, so that she may be handled at farrowing time if necessary. Gros* cannot always take the place of corn and corn cannot take the place of grass, bdT there can be a combination of both no as to be a great aid In the production of live stock.

everywhere but from their faces. A fly net for the face can be easily made, using heavy cord or rope of small size, if one can afford it, the strands of leather. These are fastened in a

Mystery in Man’s Death. Early the other morning while returning from a neighbor’s house the two daughters of Henry Williams ran on to the dead body of Charles Harris, aged 25, a young farmer, north of Dublin. By the side of Harris lay a revolver. He had been' shot Through the heart. The young man was last seen in Cambridge City the previous night and the spot where 'he was found is lonely and unfrequented. He was not a drinking man and had no enemies. While all appearances indicate suicide, it is thought that Harris came to his death by other hands. Courthouse War Ends. The county council voted favorably upon a $50,000 appropriation, to be used in improving the county court house in Goshen. The council’s action brings to a close the war which has been on with Elkhart regarding the proposed improvements. The citizens of Elkhart refused to sign the bond ordinance, proposing that in lieu of the ordinance a new court house be erected in Elkhart. Conies Back a Millionaire. A colony of young men is being organized in Whitley county recruited from the State at large to locate in Africa. L. S. J. Hunt, who went to Yorea a number of years ago practically penniless, amassed a fortune in the gold fields of that country and now is a millionaire. He is organizing a syndicate to make the Soudan the cotton field of the world. Scaffold Falls) Four Hurt. A scaffold bearing five men dropped twenty feet at the Swedish Mission church near Porter. John Strom, Otto Johnson, Swan Johnson and August Malmstrom, members of the congregation, who were making repairs on the church, were so badly hurt that they may die. The fifth man was unhurt.

Miner State Matter*. The northwest Indiana conference at Terre Haute decided to meet in Michigan City next year. Prof. Marion Redding, Warren, has been employed as instructor in science at the Peru high school. Albert Butcher, Clinton, has organized a religious band which holds services in the surrounding towns. Madison county board of children’s guardians is making a tour of the orphans’ homes of the State. Porter Patton, a well-known oil worker of Marion, was run over by a Panhandle train and badly hurt. St. Joseph county board of education is finding it hard to get a sufficient supply of experienced teachers. Joseph Deutsch, a traveling picture agent, secretly married Miss Maude Rose, a well-known Kokomo young woman. While trying to kill bedbugs with gasoline, Thomas Harvey, Logansport, set the house on fire. All the bedbugs were burned. Miss Jennie Hall, 22 years of nge. was killed in Marion by a Toledo, St. Louis and Western passenger train while walking on the tracks. Her skull-was crushed, right leg broken and back injured. She was dead when picked up. During a fire in Indianapolis James Hillyer ran into the burning building, cried to one of the firemen to close the door after him, and was suffocated. The police believe he took this method of ending his lite. He had been despondent. A steer weighing 1.800 pounds was drowned in a two-gallon tin pail in Kokomo. The steer put his head in a pail of tar, thinking it water. The tar and the bucket rim held his nose and mouth In the liquid until death followed from strangulation. Whale hauling gravel out of a pit on his farm David Rusk, living north of Connersville, unearthed a large tooth and other bones supposed to be from a mastodon. The tooth weighs 10% pounds and is in a splendid state of preservation. William Caviness, unmarried, aged 63 year*, shot himself soon after midnight in bls room at the Central Hotel in Martinsville. He Hved in Danville and served as auditor of Hendricks county. He was known in business circles in Danville. Plainfield and Indianapolis. He had loot his fortune.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Gov. Durbin Is Lost Three Days in Wilds —Lake Swallows Up Most of Mau’s Farm js Young Man Found Dead —Falling Scaffold Injures Four. Lost on the plains of South Dakota, Gov. Winfield T. Durbin spent three days and two nights in the open, without any food, except two small sandwiches. When found by Indian scouts, who had been impressed by his friends, he Was nearly starved. The Governor is camping with a party on the plains. He mounted his horse and set out for a ride, but' underestimated the speed at which he was traveling. When he sought to return the camp was not in sight, and no familiar object was in view. The Governor had taken no account of the direction in which his horse had traveled, and, after wandering about for several hours, he was forced to camp out alone for the night. Thinking his friends would start a search for him, and fearing that he would get further away from the camp, he remained at the place where he had tethered his horse till late the next day, but none of his friends appeared, and again he tried to reach the camp. Night overtook him and he was forced again to remain in the open. His Farm Is Disappearing. Thousands of people have visited the location in Noble county where a tract of land several acres in extent surrounding a lake has disappeared. The land that has been swallowed up has been farmed for many years and one of the heaviest crops of recent seasons has been harvested this year. J. C. Holden, whose land as disappearing, says the ground began/fo disappear a few feet at a time, until now water covers a large section of his farm, and this despite the fact that a drouth has existed. State Geologist Blatchley will make an investigation to determine the cause of the phenomenon. Mr. Holden fears his entire farm will disappear from sight.

1 Cambridge City is having a building boom. “ Richmond City Council has employed a tax ferret. A Kendallville firm will erect a large : mitten factory. r South Bend Elks will erect a handsome lodge home. A new school building has been completed at Bedford. i Matthias Tnnzler, 60, committed suicide at New Albany. Anderson City Council has decided to build a new fire station. Germania orchestra is a new musical organization at Columbus. ~ Ben Bobo, son of the late Judge Bobo, has disappeared from Decatur. First Christian church of Indiana Harbor has just been dedicated. A -stock company has been formed to conduct a Chautauqua at Columbus. New Albany is hoping to secure one of the largest factories of the gas belt. War on saloons which has been raging at Royal Center has been declared off. A new pest has appeared in Wayne county which infests the heads of oats. Zionsville's only barrel house was dynamited by a crowd of angry citizens. The Wood Mosaic Flooring Company’s plant at New Albany burned; loss $50,000. Jonathan Spaulding, 73, one of the best known citizens of Washington, is dead. Elkhart company of Indiana National Guard is planning to build a new armory this fall. Rev. F. D. Dressell has resigned the pastorate of the Lutheran church at Middlebury. William Topping, aged 44, a paper maker, was killed at Kokomo by an electric car. Thomas BabcoA, who died at Nappanee, was one of Elkhart county’s oldest pioneers. First carload of fine onions this year was shipped from Columbia City a few days ago. Frank Marian, once a skillful engraver, committed suicide in the Marion police station. Anderson citizens are contributing money to send the boys’ band to the world’s fair. Logansport capitalists are contemplating organizing a company for the manufacture of brick. A canvass of the Richmond banks shows that they have not been affected by the campaign. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Roberts, Maysville, swallowed a penny and soon died. It is predicted that the open shop principle will prevail at the Hartford City glass factories this year. Oil drillers at work pear Wabash struck an old log at the depth of 250 feet below the surface. Joseph and August Moeller have been heavily fined for selling intoxicants at Pennville, a “dry” town. The program for the dedication of the Pigeon Roost monument at Underwood, Oct. 1, has been completed. While eating canned salmon, Peter Zeigler, East Germantown, swallowed a piece of tin which killed him. Prof. N. C. Grimes, Carthage, has been appointed as teacher of botany and zoology at the Muncie high school. Harry D. Keller, president of the Fort Wayne Federation of Labor, has announced his intention of resigning. Drowning in buttermilk is the fate which befell the 14-months-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Steele of Larwill. While cutting limbs from a tree, near Lafontaine, James Goff let his ax slip, which severed the toes on his right foot.

Benjamin Jackson, 83, and Nancy Speece, 69, have just been married at Kokomo. It is the fourth attempt of each. A big snake appeared in the treasurer’s office, Boone county. After much difficulty, Treasurer Lase Wilson killed it. Frank Stonecifer, Washington township, Wayne county, shot a hawk that measured four feet and a half from tip to tip. Mayor and police force of Terre Haute have agreed on a plan jo check vice and will no longer allow Terre Haute to be a wide open city. While holding services at Montezuma, the Salvation army of Clinton was pelted with rotten eggs. The hoodlums have not been arrested. H. W. Smith and C. F. Zwiek, proprietors of an Indianapolis glove factory, are considering the matter of locating at Noblesville. Pilot W., a race horse which broke the record at the Shelbyville fair fifteen years ago, is now drawing a delivery wagon at Shelbyville. While John Hholtcs and two companions were fishing near Hammond, th* boat capsized and the men were nearly drowned when rescued. Shirley citizens say that they will b« able to show that the town is a city. They think that the next census will prove that they have a population of 2,000. Samuel Schwartz, aged 18, whos* sensitiveness many times caused him to say he would commit suicide, killed himself at Terre Haute, after a trivial dispute. An unusual romance is connected with the marriage of Miss Cora B. Moore of Dublin to Simon Waltzen of Benson, 111., which took place in that city. About a year ago Miss Moore, with • a -number of other girls employed in the Spiceland tomato factory wrote their addresses on the boxes about to be sent away. The box bearing Miss Moore’s address found its way into the department store where Mr. Waltzen is engaged as a bookkeeper. A correspondence was at once begun, which culminated in the marriage. Miss Edna Hertsog, 18, who was imprisoned at Fort Wayne on the charge of stealing jewelry, has confessed to having killed a negro in Ohio. Arthur B. Reed, Dudley Wadsworth and Warren Meyer, young men of laiporte, have started on a trip down the Mississippi in a small boat. Following the shooting of Jasper Hammond, colored, by Constable Johnson, at Carlisle, in resisting arrest, a mob of 600 persons visited the homes of all negro families and finding the occupant* absent demolished the doors a»d window*.

Political Comment

Governmental Extravagance Jude Parker in his speech to the Democratic editors accused the present administration of “reckless extravagance anti waste of the people's money.” To substantiate his charge he contrasts Hie expenditures of the last three years with those of the first Cleveland administration. During that first terin, says Judge Parker, "the average annual expenditure was $269,060,000,” while "for the last three years It hid been $519,000,000. The governmental expenditure last year mounted up to $582,000,000.” Judge Parker is accurate in bis figures, but it does not follow that he is correct In his conclusions. An increase in expeditures does not necessarily Involve great waste and extravagance. A larger population necessitates larger expenses. The United States had less than 60,000,000 Inhabitants In 1887, and it has over 81,000,000 now. New governmental duties call for larger appropriations. Mr. Cleveland did not have Porto Rico, the Philippines and Hawaii to care for. The matter w4ll be beter understood when a comparison is made of the sums spent on certain important branches of the public service in 1887 and In the last fiscal year. The outlay on the navy in 1887 was $15,141,-

LISTENING TO THE ECHOES.

—Chicago Daily News.

000. Last year it was $102,942,000. There is an advance of over $87,000,000. Does it prove extravagance? The people will say no, firstly because it takes more money to support the larger navy of .1904—there practically was no navy seventeen years ago—and secondly because the work of building up the navy is being carried on unremittingly’ with the hearty approval of nearly all Americans. They do not grudge a single dollar that is spent on the construction or upkeep of battleships. They do not look on the small expenditures of the first Cleveland term for naval purposes as evidence of economy but rather of parsimony perilous to the safety of the republic. The war department expenditures were $38,561,000 in 1887 and $115,153,000 In 1904. The difference is due in small part to an increase, in the' strength of the army. That was necessary because of territorial expansion and to provide men for the great guns which have been installed in the coast defenses. A considerable part of the money spent by the war department last year went towards coast defenses and their armament, making better guns for the soldiers, and generally putting the country in a state of readiness for war if it should come. There has been no waste of the public money In these expenditures. The money has been spent prudently—in taking out an Insurance policy. If the first Cleveland administratldn had spent more money for military purposes the McKinley administration would not have had to spend so much when the war with Spain broke out. Certainly the Roosevelt expenditures are higher than those of the first, (Cleveland term, ami last year’s were especially large, because of the $50,000,000 paid on account of the Panama canal.. The people do not call that an extravagance. When a sum of money is squandered or spent foolishly that Is extravagance. An even greater sum invested wisely would means be extravagance. Money sjient on rivers and liarbors, rural free delivery, the army ami navy, irrigation, the Panama canal Is not extravagance, but investment and insurance. It would have Is-en miserliness and hence folly to have gone without rural delivery, the new navy, and the Panama canal.— Chicago Tribune. Will Agree with the President. Who among our workingmen I* willing to favor a tariff change which would reproduce In the country the ata gnation. idleness ami distress of the years following 1893? What work-

ingman does not see the wisdom of a protective policy which maintains a higher average wage In the United States than that which obtains tn Europe? Our myriads of industrial workers will heartily agree with the President that tariff readjustment, when made, must maintain and not destroy the protective principle.— Toledo Blade. The President's Letter. Every reader of the President's letter of acceptance must be struck by Its vigorous tone. In its reply to criticism it suggests offense rather than defense. Its sentences are a series of ringing challenges which present the record of the Republicans as a record of splendid achievement, and heighten the effect by stinging intimations that the opposition is disunited, inefficient and Insincere. The same note is sounded whether the subject be the tariff, imperialism, constitutionalism, the trusts, the Philippines br the finances—what the Republicans have done is right, and an assurance that the Republican party will continue to do right if It is retained In power. On the other hand, what the Democrats propose to do is at liest a disquieting enigma. They do not agree among themselves and arte involved in a maze of contradictions.

Shiftiness characterizes all their utterances. When, for example, they cry out for economy, where do they propose to economize? How can they answer such questions as these: ‘•Do our opponents grudge the fifty millions paid for the Panama canal? Do they intend to cut down on the pension t to the veterans of the civil war? Do ,_ey intend to put a stop to the irrigation policy? or to the permanent census bureau? Do they intend to abolish rural free delivery? Do they Intend to cut down the navy? or the Alaskan telegraph system? Do they intend to dismantle our coast fortifications? If there IS to tie a real and substantial cutting down in national expenditures It must be In such matters* as these. The Department of Agriculture has done service of Incalculable value to the farmers of thl* country in many different lines. Do our ojmonents wish to cut down the money for this service? They can do it only by destroying the usefulness of the sendee itself.” Thf excerpt gives a very fair idea of the gay the battle is pressed home. There is no abatement of the fighting spirit at apy point, and the dissensions among the Democrats In recent years will uytke it exceedingly difficult for them to extricate themselves from some of the dilemmas in which they are placed by the President’s unsparing log c. We imagine that the letter will result In a louder demand than ever fe>m Democrats for a more aggressive leadership on Judge Prrker’a part.—-Chicago Record-Herald.

V*ooaevelt Never Said It. The dterary bureau of the Democratic rational committee is reported to be c.rculatlng the report that the President said in a spee«‘h made in “Jfr. Bryan and his adherents have aris-aled to the basest set In the land —the farmers.” The Pcesldent long ago denied that he ever piade the remark; but it was quoted a/ his utterance in some congressional speech, jterhaps more than one. prejjared for canqmlgn use. and the literature department of the Democratic party la sending the falsehood through f ie country. This is monstrous and shameful. It deserves the condemnation of all decent men. The charge is so incredible on Its face that it should not have b«>en given currency without conclusive, Indisputable proof of Its truth. The Democratic campaign managers should repudiate it and make apologies for ever sanctioning It.—Boston Herald.