Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1906 — Page 3

FARM AND GARDEN

Hoqa will turn grain: into money luicker than any other farm animal. Beauty in form and appearance is no iafe indication of a sow’s good breeding qualities. Experience has taught that the most profitable kinds of poultry to raise for market are the quick-growing, earlymaturing breeds. —?— Spinach is a much-neglected crop in the kitchen gardens of the rural districts. It Is found on sale in the city markets, however, at nearly all the season of the year. T ... In burning stalks no available fertility goes up in smoke. The loss in smoke is carbon. There is very little nitrogen in stalks. There is more humus, and if a soil lacks humus the stalks will be a help to 1L Some of the “safe schemes’’ advertised are safe. One man invested in one of these “safe schemes” and his money is apparently safe, for it is there yet and no indication that he will ever get it out again. It is a well-known fact that the safest schemes do not have to be advertised as “safe schemes.” Farm laud in a. certain locality was selling at about SIOO per acre and a trolley line pased along through that locality and land now' sells at from $125 to $l5O per acre. This is the way It helps the laud owner. The land is —more valuable, and It is the demand for it that causes, it to enhance in valu e. - ' It Is a good plan to sometimes get away from the crowd. Last summer many ...were induced to store eggs because the crowd was,doing it For the past few years many lamb feeders have been making money feeding lambs; this year there has been a loss in some cases because feeders stuck too closely to the crowd. Each tree should be carefully examined early in the spring, say in March, for the presence of borers which have been at work during the past six months. They can be found by scraping the dirt away from the tree and noticing closely for the sawdust trail. If that Is found the borer must be cut out and killed.

It is almost always a good plan to - keep the harrow close up to the plowupT;he' avenues' of escaping moisture, thereby hastening decomposition of all litter and mulch which will add still more moisture to the soil. There are many problems going on all the time in the soil. We want to get some of them in our heads. “In 1888 Japan only use! a little over one thousand pounds of American flour. Last year she took 50,000,000 pounds. It seems that breech clouts and chop sticks have made way for pants, plug hats and baking powder biscuits, and more than any other nation to-day Japan is adopting the American type of civilization,” remarks a writer In an exchange. Oat smut is caused by a microscopic plant life that lives on the oat plant. It is propagated by tine spores that are like dust. These tiud lodgment in the hulls of the oats and are sown with the seed. They grow in the plant and hothlug is seen of them until it is manifested In the ripening grain. “An enemy hath not sown” this, but one is responsible for it in the selection of his seed. Seed oats can bo treated so ns to be free from smut sjjores. The question is, will it be done? Papers not posted on the status of the Angora Industry are linble to print some strange news thereon. The following from the American Cultivator is u case in point: “The popularity of the Angora goat scents to have been a short-lived affair. Some of the larger concerns have gone out of business, declaring that the young stock could not be sold. Othei* have offered goats at per head. Probably the truth 1s that the boom in sheep has shle-t racked the goat business for the time being.” Profit In Kcaplns Hog*. The hog Is the poor man’s friend, and yet some men think they are too poor to keep a pig. I know men with families and a small farm who say that It does not pay to keep a hog, so they have to buy all of their meat. Is this not short-sightedness? I am quite positive that in my case, nt least, it has paid to keep hogs and I have always had to purchase more or less grain. I would not now think of farming without keeping some hogs, no matter how small my farm might be. I consider them among the most profitable stock a farmer can keep and adapted to nuy klnd of farm. On many farms the hog does not receive the attention It de---s*TT«r — 1 : -- -

.ClMalag K mam (or Market. The beet way' to have the egga clean la to see that the nest material In each tax la kept dear at all times If bat a

few eggs are soiled these should be kept at home for use and they may be safely washed if they are to be used within a few hours afterward. If It Is necessary to cleanse the shell of the eggs which go to market a good plan Is to take them In hand as soon as they are brought In and with a canton flannel cloth go over them. If the soil still sticks breathe lightly on the egg and wipe It again, always with the dry cloth. Eggs which are wet spoil very quickly and the moisture removes the bloom from the shell. Batter front Goat's Milk. Replying to an inquiry In Hoard’* Dairyman as to the value of goat’s milk for butter, Professor Farrington says. “I know no reason why goat’s milk, If the goat is healthy and receives sound, wholesome food, is not as valuable for Butter as cow's milk, and If the milk Is well taken care of, and has uo bad odors, you probably will never know the difference If some goat’s milk Is added to the cow’s milk which comes to your factory. You can yourself judge as to the advisability of accepting the goat’s milk by Inspecting it before you receive it. I certainly do not know why it should injure the butter, neither do I know of, any law that forbids the making of butter from goat’s milk. If the goat’s milk is richer and Increases tire test, the patron bringing such milk should get the credit for the increase, and I do not see why this should be an objection.”

To Destroy Barit I,lce. _ A cheap mixture which has been tested with excellent results is to dissolve five pounds of potash in five gallons of boiling water, adding five pounds of lard at the same time. In another vessel slake one peck of stone lime - In five gallons of boiling water and add a pint of crude carbolic acid. While hot mix the two solutions. The mixture may be kept in a barrel, to be used as required. When about to be applied to trees take one gallon of the mixture, add two gallons of boiling water and swab the trees with It, or apply with an old broom, while the mixture Is warm or as hot as it can be applied. It may be used as frequently as necessary, both on the trunk of trees and on the roots, after removing the top soli. It loosens the old bark, destroys bark lice and makes the trunks smooth. The odor of the carbolic acid Is enduring, and Is especially distasteful to insects.

Dehorning- Young Calves. The dehorning operation may be easily and painlessly performed when the calves are from two to five days old. The only instrument necessary ls f a stick of caustic potash. Itoll a strip of paper around one end of this to protect the fingers, moisteD the other end slightly and rub the tip of the horn for a half minute, or until the potash has made a slight impression in the center of the horn. Repeat this

treatment two or four times at intervals of about five minutes, and if during 6ne of these intervals, after one or more applications, a little blood appears In the center of the horn, it will be necessary to give only another very light rubbing with the potash. Particular pains should be taken to rub the caustic in the center of the horn and not around the sides of it, and .the stick must not be too moist, else the caustic will spread on the skin around the horn and destroy the flesh. For the same reason the calf must not be allowed to get wet for a few days after the operation, and the wound protected so the mother will not lick It. The operation should uot be attempted except on calves umler eight days old. — S. J. Marsh, In Massachusetts Ploughman.

Beetle* nnd Bug*. Rose beetles appear some time in June and in sandy localities are liable to cause very serious injury. It Is difficult to destroy these Insects either with poison or a whale oil soap solution, and, as a rule It would pay to shield more highly prized plants by covering them with mosquito netting. The striped cucumber beetle and the. nauseous squash hug begin operations about this time. Young plants can he protected for a while from both with light screens. Trap the squash hug under shingles laid near the plants, and kill the bugs each morning. The striped cucumber beetle is held In check by spraying with a poisoned Bordeaux ‘mixture or even dusting heavily with, land plaster ,or ashes.

The aaparagw beetles and theli grubs are frequently abundant at this time and jwmg plants at least should Ik* thoroughly protected with a poisoned B p™y- a The Joung of two of our common scale Insects, the scurfy scale and oyster scale, npj>ear the latter part of May or early In June, nnd there Is no better way of keeping them In check than by thorough spraying at this time with an insecticide like the -whale oil soap solution, one pound to five or six gallons of water, or the standard kerosene emulsion diluted with about nine porta of water.

PHTHISIS IN FRANCE.

Conanlar Cleric Reports 1.50,000 Victims a Xpert-,. Startling statistics of ,the of tuberculosis in France are contained in a report rendered to the bureau of manufactures, Department of Commerce and Labor, by Consular Clerk Augustus E. Ingram, at Paris. Official statistics discussed by the Academy of Medicine in the French capital, lir. Ingram states, show that 150,000 persons die of tuberculosis in France every year, representing thirtynine deaths to each 10,000 inhabitants. In Germany the rate is only twentytwo deaths from tuberculosis to every 10,000 inhabitants, but chronic bronchitis is counted as tubemilosis in

France, and not in Germany. The cases of chronic bronchitis listed as tuberculosis are estimated at 50,000. Mr. Ingram says in part: “Prof. Landouzy’s investigations among policemen and postal employes, both of whom have also very insanitary offices —indeed, the public complaints against the' impure air in postoffices In Paris are most frequent—and also among laundry workers, have revealed a disastrous condition <sf affairs. Also among 247 workmen carefully kept under observation by Pro. Landouzy, consisting of carpenters, joiners, floor layers and packers, all living under practically the same conditions, the mortality from tuberculosis amounted to more than 30 per cent. “Laundry workers, however, were found to be the most seriously affected. From statistics made at Billancourt, Boulogne-sur-Seine, and certain districts in the neighborhood of Paris where laundries abound, the mortality from tuberculosis reached the alarming total of 75 per cent. “The Paris bakers a few days ago formed an organization for the improvement of insanitary conditions under which they have to work. It is stated authoritatively that despite the governmental inspection of bakeries and the most modern hygienic appparntus, out of 400,000 bakers in Paris, 240,000 suffer with tuberculosis.”

ROADS TO QUIT GRAIN TRADE.

New Hallway Rate Law to Have Big Effect on the Bualueaw. What effect will the new railroad law have upon the price of this year’s grain and upon its marketing? This question Is perplexing some of the best lawyers who have been consulted by railroads tapping the Western grain fields, which during past seasons have purchased large quantities of grain and placed It in warehouses which they own or control to be marketed at their pleasure. Under the new law railroads are prohibited from engaging in business in competition with their patrons. It is asserted at the Interstate Commerce Commission that the Missouri Pacific and other cases demonstrate the foundation for the assertions of Senator La Follette that railroads have been controlling the grain-buying business. This must stop, the officials say, and under the new law the grain business must l>e changed materially. The railroads may own elevators, but it is held they cannot buy and store grain. They may place the grain of patrons in tlie elevators and may include in their bill an item to cover this service. The effect of the enforcement of the new law upon the grain business Is uncertain, but the officials have no doubt that the railroads must cease to have any pecuniary interest in the grain which is shipped over their lines.

THE RAILROADS.

There has been a great increase during the past year in both freight and passenger traffic between the United States at*) Cuba, chiefly through the port of Havana. Announcement has been made by the Erie of a new sleeping car service by, way of that road and the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton between Chicago and Dayton, Dliio. Traffic officials and general counsels ot Illinois lines met and took action looking to a uniform method of putting into force the reduced rates recently ordered by the State railroad and warehouse commission. By direction of Attorney General Moody criminal actions have been started against a large number of railroad companies to recover penalties for violation of the safety-appliance law through failure to keep their equipment in proper condll ion. * A decision in favor of the Portland and Seattle, a Hill railroad, and against the Columbia Valley, a liarriman road, was rendered by Judge \V. \V. McCreedy of Portland In the case Involving tlie right of way down the north bank of the Columbia river. The Columbia Valley road is, however, to be allowed to roustruct a line over the Portland and Seattle’s right of way, providing it does so w.tliin a reasonable time. The case will be appealed. , The Wabash railroad has made negotiations in Pittsburg for a loan of $2,000,000 to care for the floating indebtedness of ail the Wabash lines between Kansas City and Pittsburg, preparatory to the amalgamation of all these lines under a $200,000,000 blanket mortgage. Protest against the recent classification »f rates made by the Illinois board of railroad and warehouse commissioners in connection with Hie new freight nrtiednle was made to the commissioners by W. E. Keepers, general freight agent, and John O. Drennan, attorney, ft* 'toe Illinois Central railroad.

Indiana Stale News

BIUAMUr LOSES tJf tOfBT. ~ Judge Robinson Rales Agrafnst Mayor la Terre Haute Fight. Judge W. D. Robinson of the Indiana Appellate Court, sitting at Terre Haute, as special judge in the petition of Mayor Edwin J. Bidamiu to restrain Frank M. Buckingham from assuming the -office of Mayor, dissolved the temporary ing order and held that the action of the City Council in ousting Mayor Bidamin was legal and that Bidamin had no claim to the office. The petition for the restraining order was based on the assertion that Mr. Bidamin was being deprived of office without due process of law. Buckingham, who was comptroller, became mayor on the impeachment and removal <sf Bidamin. Pending the ruling on the legality of the Council’s action the. city has been without an official head and all municipal business has been tied U fc '■

MACHINERY BY MAIL. Boy Orders f 1,000 Engine from Picture in Catalogue. Alfred Larson, a Hobart man, was amazed when he received a notice from the First National bank of Hammond advising him that there was a draft for sl,000 there for him to pay for a traction engine and thrashing machine, which was awaiting delivery to him at the Pennsylvania depot. Light was thrown on the mystery when he reached home, and his son Harry, aged 12, said that it was about time for his traction engine to arrive. The boy had found the illustrated catalogue of ar. eastern machinery house and had filled in the printed blank, accompanying it with a hurry up order for the machines. The boy said: “Well, it don’t cost us nothing. The company promised to pay the freight both ways.” •

STICK AIDS MAX’S HEARING. Deaf Telegraph Operator Invents a Unique Method. W. C. Elliott, agent at Tippecanoe for the Nickel Plate railroad, has for twentythree years been in charge and there has teen no change in the administration of the office since the first train was run over the road. Several years ago Mr. Elliott gradually became deaf, yet he conducts the telegraph office to the satisfaction of the company. He uses a buggy whip stock about eighteen inches long, one end of which he places on the instrument and the other to his forehead- In this way he receives correctly the ticks of the instrument and reads the massages.

BIG COAL MORTGAGE IS FILED. Inillnnu Southern Company to Issue m i ,500,000 In New Honda. The Indiana Southern Coal Company has filed with the county recorder of Vigo county a for $1,500,000 to cover a bond issue. The mortgage fs in favor of the First Trust and Savings bank, Chicago, and is for fifteen years. The purpose is to enable the company to increase its business and extend its holdings. The property involved includes eleven mines in Vigo, Sullivan and Greene counties, with 3,195 acres of land and 9,001 acres leased.

2!» Are Indicted In Scandal. In Valparaiso the grand jury returned twenty-nine indictments. Sensational developments are promised. The body also made a report on the new $25,000 county poorhouse, condemning the commissioners, architect and superintendent for the alleged loose manner of construction followed.

Want* Four Yearn’ Wngea. Joseph 11. Myers, a prominent church worker i nd marble dealer of Kokomo, was made a defendant in the Superior Court in a suit by Samuel J. Ferguson, his t'ather-in-'aw, to recover 1,598 days’ work, valued at $3 a day, making a total of $4,794 demanded, covering a period of four yea ra. Vse* Fire for Suicide.. Mrs. McDowell, aged 75, living at St. Bernice, in a fit of anger poured oil on her own nnd her daughter’s clothing and set lift to herself, causing her death. The daughter eseaped.

Minor State Items. While intoxicated George Ilembes of Mount Vernon, aged 37. waded into a pond over his liend and was drowned. An electric car of the Highland Electric line plunged over an embankment twenty feet high and five persons were injured at New Albany. David Alsop, aged 47, was shot and killed in a New Ilnrmony saloon by Newton Grady. The men had a dispute over the settlement of a Iward bill. Frank Uurlesx. aged 18. saved three companions bathing-with him in Down’s gravel pit in Kokomoj-and was then seized with cramps himself and drowned before help could reach him. Ray Browning, aged 12 years, died in Elkhart from lockjaw resulting from a wound caused by the explosion of a blank cartridge. Frank Beach lost an eye on account of a giant firecracker. Mrs. William Robertson, who shot nnd killed her husband three weeks ago when he Was whipping her for the third time in one night, was discharged in Terre Haute on the ground of self-defense. Learning that her supposed marriage with Roscoe Kersher was illegal, Bessie Whil»v 18 years old, committed suidqje in Terre Haute hy swallowing strychnine and oarbblie acid. The girl ourne from Ilnusertown.

William, the 13-year-old son of Fred 11. Schueinann. while crossing the Pennsylvania tracks at Fort Wayne, was struck by an engine and ground to death. Frederick C. Dierstein, aged 33. was found dead in a bath tub full of water at liis home at Fort Wayne. He was seised with a fainting spell while undressing on the side of the tub. „ , Overjoyed at having the banner wheat crop of his section, William Fowler of Pike county died in his wagon as he was hauling wheat to market. Fowler Buffered from heart disease and excitement brought on a fatal attack.

STILL A CITY OF TENTS.

Sau Franeliieo Must Provide Shelter far Vd,OOO Before tVlnter. The troops having been withdrawn from San Francisco, tlie Mayor is now supreme. To guard the storey, control

MAYOR SCHMITZ.

salary of $5,000 a year. Dr. Devine, of the Red Cross, will select one, Mayor Schmitz the other and the third will be selected by the Finance Committee, and will be a man familiar with the commercial, industrial and business Interests of the city.

The great concern of the San Francisco authorities just now is how to care for the refugees now encamped in the parks, when the blustery winter weather comes on, and how to provide houses for the thousands of workmen who will come to San Francisco as soon as building operations are well under way. There are 25,500 people living in tents at the present time, for whom concern about the winter is Imperative. Assuming that 25.000 persons have left San Francisco permanently, that 100, 000 will double up in the residence section that escaped the flames, and that 50.000 will be provided for by private enterprise, about 50,000 remain out of the 225,000 rendered homeless by the fire to be cared for. It means virtually the building of a good-sized city within a few weeks if these unfortunates are to. be properly housed. Capt. W. W. Harts, United States' engineer, has prepared plans for temporary houses to be placed in the parks ind public squares. These will be two and four-room cottages, and the designs afford better hygienic conditions than the ordinary city tenement. The Red Cross Society has a plan to use its surplus in building temporary homes for all who cannot find houses already built. It is proposed to rent these houses at rates varying from $4 to $8 per month. To the destitute no rent will be charged. The Red Cross will also extend the helping hand to working men who own land and wish to weet permanent homes and will lend them money at a low rate of interest. Portable houses that can be put together “while you wait” are also to be had In emergencies. Barracks will bpbuilt If the influx of working men hurrying to the city for the good wages that await them is realized.

CHICAGO A HEALTHFUL TOWN.

Government’* Mortality Figure* on Six Largest Cities.

Now comes the United States government and backs up Chicago in her proud boast of being the healthiest city in the country, and therefore, by Inference, in the \vorldT~The Chicago Tiealth department, in its weekly bulletin, tells of having received the “special reports” of the federal census department These reports are the mortality statistics for 1900-1904 inclusive, and their authority Is the highest obtainable. The six most Important cities In this country—those with populations of *OO,OOO or more—are dealt with In Uncle Sam’s figures. The Chicago health fllicials make this condensation of tho report: * ' “Chicago’s annual death rate Is more than one-fifth (23.5 per cent) lower than the average death rate of the other five cities—the Chicago rate being 14.61, and the average rate of the other cities being 19.11 per thousand of the average population of the period.

“The St. Louis rate (18.05) Is 23.5 per cent higher than the Chicago rate. The Philadelphia rae (18.82) Is 28.3 per cent higher. The Boston rate 118.93 is 29.6 per cent higher. The New York rate (19.64 is 34.4 per cent higher. And the Baltimore rate (26.09) Is 37.5 per cent higher than the Chicago rate.”

As to the Chicago “pace,” the bulletin says:

“Life Is certainly ‘strenuous* enough ivt Chicago. But the figures show that the average Chicagoans can stand strenuoslty 12 per cent better than the New Vorker, 20 per cent better than the Bostonian, nearly 28 per cent better than the St. Louisian, one-third better than the Philadelphian and nearly 40 per cent better than the Baltimorean.”

Asphalt Damage Suit.

Charging that his reputation has been Hijured by attacks upon his management of the asphalt trust prior to its reorganization, Amzi L. Barber has brought •ait for SIOO,OOO for damages against J. M. Mack, bead of the reorganized trust, and haa named the voting trustees as eodeferxlants. The action is based upon atatementa in the last annual report, in which it was said that Barber had conspired to ruin the New York and Bermudes Company.

Illegal Trust Can't Collect.

The unusual contention that a trust has no standing in court and cannot collect for goods sold to a voluntary customer waa sustained by Judge Ryan in the Circuit Court at St. Louis. This contention was made by Joseph E. Walsh, a plumber, who admitted that bs had bought voluntarily $240 worth of goods from the Cahill & Swift manufacturing Company. Walsh alleged that this company iu a trust and that he did not have to pay any. more than he would have to pay s gambling debt. The court's decision was in Us favor.

camps, administer order and provide sanitation for those quartered on private grounds or city property will keep a small army of unemployed busy. The Red Cross, which is abundantly supplied with funds, something like $6,000,|o6o™wfil pay the wages of the caretakers. The execu- | tive work will be ! done by three men, who will receive a

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1415 —John Huss burned. 1563- —France declared war against Eng- ' land. 1608—Quebec, Canada, founded. 1685 — Battle of Sedgeinoor. 1686 — League of Augsburg formed against France. 1734—Dantzic surrendered to the Russians. 1754 -Washington defeated at battle of Fort Necessity, Pa. 1755 — Gen. Braddoek’s expedition against the French in Canada defeated. 1758—Clement XIII. became Pope. 1762—Peter 111. of Russia deposed and succeeded by Catherine 11. 1764 —Ivan VI. of Russia assassinated. 1770 —Turkish fleet burned in Cheemeh Bay. 1775 Washington took command of the army at Cambridge. 1776 Virginia adopted State constitution. 1777 — Americans abandoned Fort Ticonderoga. 1781—Engagement at King’s Bridgs, N. Y. T7B5 —Standard of American dollar established. 1792 —Francis 11. elected Emperor. 1809 —Battle of Wagram. 1814 —-Americans captured Fort Erie. 1827 — Kingdom of Greece erected by treaty of London. 1828— Daniel O’Connell, elected member of Parliament, refused to tatfe the oath. 1830 —Algiers surrendered to the French. 1833 —Dom Miguel’s squadron captured by Admiral Napier. IS39 —First normal school organized ag Lexington, now Framington, Mass. 1849 —Rome capitulated to the French. 1852—United-States mint established at San Francisco. 1855—First publication of the Kansas Freeman at Topeka. 1860 —Prince of Wales sailed for America.

1866—Austria ceded Veaetia to France. 1870—France protested against choice of Prince Leopold for King of Spain. 1872 —International prison reform congress met in London. 1880 —Bi-centenary of the discovery of St. Anthony Falls celebrated in Minnesota. 1883 —-Steamer Daphne capsized while boing launched on the Clyde. One hundred and fifty drowned. 1889 —Two thousand laborers on strike in Duluth, Mir/i. 1891 — Four condemned murderers executed by electricity in Sung Sing prison ....Park theater, St. Paul, burned. 1892 — Business portion of San Jose, Cal., burned. 1893 -Silver purchase suspended by Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle.... Marriage of Duke of York, heir to British throne, and Princess Mary of Teck. 1894 — The Falcon, with the Peary auxiliary expedition, sailed from St. Johns, N. F.... Federal troops ordered to Chicago to enforce United States laws. 1898 —PrSndent McKinley signed resolution to annex Hawaii... .Exchange of Spanish prisoners of war for Hobson and his comrades. 1904 —Alton B. Parker nominated for President by Democratic convention at St. Louis.. . .Thomas E. Watson of Georgia nominated for President by the People's party.

Indiana’s Political Millennium.

A plan which has already been agreed to by five counties of Indiana is designed to dispense altogether with the mercenary worker and the venal voter in the coming fall elections. The leaders on both sides have pledged their words aa friends and neighbors not to spend a dollar for such purposes. It is agreed that there shall be employed no man who is known to be purchasable, and the custom of keeping hangers-on at headquarters shall be abandoned. It is also provided that no money shall be paid out for taking thirty-day and sixty-day polls, and she re it is necessary to employ labor both sides shall pay the same wages and employ no man to whom the other would object. Inspectors and judges of elections afe to be selected entirely outside of those who serve the campaign committee, and, if possible, business men of known integrity are to be chosen. The plan waa formulated by leading Democrats, and has met with the approval of their political ‘adversaries. Neither the State nor tbs ‘county committees will pay the expenses of stump speakers except in the case oi men called from other States.

Pennsylvania’s Introspeetion.

The Pennsylvania railroad’s self-Inves-tigating committee reported to 1 the directors Monday that the testimony of witnesses before the interstate com merer commission does not prove that there have been undue preferences, either aa to cos! cars or sidings. The audit company ol New York has been authorised to Investigate the company’s record of car distribution for the last five years, sad that work is now In progress. The ooomittee promisee te Investigate etery phase of thl subject.