Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1906 — Page 7

FARM AND GARDEN

He plows Best who plows last and nftenest. . Sheep require a clean place to eat and must have it, else their health will be impaired and food wasted. Regularity Is perhaps more important in feeding sheep than is the case with other animals, for sheep are naturally regular ft* their habits. It is well enough in embarking In the swine business to aim at a large herd, but commence with a few sows; In other words, aim at the top but commence at the bottom. When the brooding hen refuses to voluntarily return to her eojjp at night, but squats outside, you cau be pretty sure that the' coop Is either fearfully lousy, filthy or close, or .perhaps all three. Investigate. Professor Hodge, of Clark university, has estimated the value of tof.ds to the farmer at $lB apiece because they destroy cut worms. There Is a regular market for toads in England, however, at 25 cents apiece. Small bughouses are more deslrabl® than large ones. When large, too many hogs congregate in them when the weather is cold. This causes disease, apd the swine are liable to smother and injure one another. At the eml of the growth of any plant is the time to kill it. In the month of August more weeds and undesirable plants can be killed than in any other month of the year. This applies to briars, bushes, willows, etc.

There Is this about the poultry and dairy business —there is no danger <xf overdoing either one. Profitable prlcas are: absolutely assured for the future. The two lines represent the very safest and surest of any branches of agriculture. Burn, over the old; strawberry bed and row it In some waj*'. Plow out so as to leave rows about ten Inches wide every three feet, then harrow it down, so new rows will be formed. By pursuing this plan a bed can be made to last a year or so longer. Pruning should also be done to prevent undesirable and crowded limbs, and to take off occasional su-ekers and water sprout, bearing in infad always not to prune too severely. In the case of the neglected orchard, care should f be used not to remove too much brush al! at once. Very few farm or village families grow asparagus, yet It is very easy to raise. It is best to get strong roots In the spring, but It can be raised from seeds, one ounce of seeds producing a thousand plants, sown In a bed twelve feet square. A bed of seedlings will not generally be (it for use until the third year.

A good shepherd says that sheep on our western ranges that are properly salted stray much less than unsalted flocks. Be this as It may, sheep cravh suit, and will hunt for salt licks, alkali, or other partial substitutes, if It Is denied them. As a rule, we think sheep .consume less salt when the/ have cfm6tant access to it than when It Is fed to them infrequently. Have you provided sufficient dry earth for winter use? Now is the tlmo to buy spring pullets for winter laying. Feed more corn to the fowls than yoB did during the summer. As the supply of Insects decreases make up the deficiency with meat scraps or meat meal. The fowls might be excluded from some of these runs and these spaded and sown to rye and grass. In late fall and winter the chickens enn get fresh green stuff. A great Interest always attaches to the first of any tree In the homo orchard. The most Important question to be decided Is: Will It come true to name? Many and keen have been the disappointments that havefol* lowed the negative answer to that question. The purchaser of .a few trees, of different species and varieties. Is entitled to as much honesty and care In the Election and shipping of the stock as the commercial orcbnrdist, who buys by tfie block or the thousand.

Cost uni) Hesulta of Araenate Sprajr. As a result of spraying experiments at the Illinois experiment., station, It was found that four times spraying with arsenate of lead at a coat of seventeen cents a tree, Increased the yield of the apple orchard about one-half, and the average size of the fruit about one-fifth, and so Improved the quality of the apples Tfiff thefwM*e Worth two and one-half to three times as much as If the orchard had not been sprayed. Orchards In the section Indicated are much Infested with the apple curculu and the spraying was successful In deetroylng these. Experiments at the aanie station with various washes for daatroying the San Jose scale Included ell the common mixtures and various patented preparations, but It was con

eluded that the best and cheapest mix* ture Is the common lime and sulphur wash prepared by boiling. The mlxturl applied in March was much more effective than when applied in midwinter. Picking? Geese. It is all right to pluck old geese when their feathers are ripe and begin to molt, .which will occur about this time, and if only the feathers that come easy are plucked it is beneficial and not injurious to them. It is poor policy to pick geese more than once a year, and not advisable to pick the goslings at all. In plucking a goose, draw a stocking over its head to avoid being bitten. Do not pick the feathers that cover the wing butts, ns It will cause the wings to drop, and means lots of trouble for the goose. Do not pick feathers growing In the back, or the down on any part of the body. It would make nice pillow?, but let it be. It is enough to pick the down from those killed for market. Seeding- Alfalfa. The success of alfalfa depends so largely on the condition of land when seed are planted that very intelligent Case should now bo given to prospective alfalfa fields that are to be seeded this fall. If the land has been in small sipring grain and Is hard and compact, the first summer plowing given it should not be over deep, or clods will bo turned up which no summer rains .will pulverize. Turn plowing to a depth of three to five inches, followed by a second plowing of greater depth when a good season is found in the upper or surface soil, will be found thoroughly practical and will do much *o guarantee the rapid growth and strong development of the young plants this fall. We would much rather have as a seed bed for alfalfa a four-inch soli well moistened and thoroughly fined by harrowing, than a six-inch freshly plowed mass of half moist, loose soil particles through which the hot September air circulates with destructive effect. On uaplowed alfalfa land at this date give only normal plowing, with thorough harrowing, and If later seasons are good plow deeper and so “cinch” the season for the use pt the crop.—Farm and Ranch.

Bottle-Fed Tree*. .Science has recently learned a good deal that was previously unknown about the anatomy of a tree, and especially about the circulatory system of the great plant, says the Technical World Magazine. In order tha't it shall l»e healthy, it Is as necessary for a tree to have a good circulation as for a man. But hitherto nobody has realized the activity of this function In the tree —an activity sufficiently evidenced by the fact that chemical substances Injected Into cottonwoods were detected In the sap of ths topmost twigs, 30 to 40 feet above the bottle, within 1C hours. l j I Some recent experiments at the North Dakota experiment station have had for their object merely the feeding of poorly-nourished young which, when supplied with a bottle filled at frequent Intervals, appeared to suck in sustenance at a rapid rate. So far, Indeed, Is this the case that it has been found possible to regulate to some extent the growth of young trees by such .means, retarding their development or making It more rapid as might be desired. It Is all a matter of food supply, the “patient” under treatment showing a ready willingness to absorb extra provender and to utilize It in the building of plant tissues.

The Old Cow. There Is no rule by which the age of a cow will determine the qnd of her period of usefulness. Some cows remain strong and vigorous up to 15 years old, while others Indicate age and evident decline at 10. It Is a well-established fact among breeders that nfter a cow has raised two or three calves her value as a breeder may be pretty accurately determined, and she has also arrived at the age of best service as a calf producer. The heifer Is not the best mother, usually, but Improves maternal qualities as she approaches maturity. It Is, therefore, very uncertain lu results to turn the heifer off because she does not with her first calf equal the old cow In her produce. It Is also bad management the old cow off because she Is old, when she has proven a valuable breeder of excellent calves. Many an old cow has produced a call that would sell for three or four times what the old cow would sell for. The old cow even among grade cat tie Is often worth more to retain ns a producer of calves than to exchange for the uncertainty of a young animal. Excellence In breeding Is .what la desired In the breeding herd. If you have this In the old cow, be snre you have something to take her place la this very desirable quality before you dispose of her on account of old ago Judge closely, Judge accurately on ths value of the old, reliable breeding cow, remembering that good cows are scarce and that It is much easier to get ..ft! of a good eow than to buy onj. .

MOB KILLS NEGROES.

SCORE OF BLACKS ARE SLAIN IN ATLANTA. Bemten and Shot to Death la tha I Street* by Infuriated White Men —-Police Prove Powerleaa and Troops Are Called Out, Deadly race riots following at' by negroes op four white women v>. . in the city limits of Atlanta. iturday afternoon and evening broke out early Sunday night. Twenty uegroij* are known to be dead and two white men are reported killed. A score cf wounded negroes, five of whom will die, are in the hospital. The police and fire departments were powerless to cope with the situation and at midnight Governor Terrell issued an order calling out eight companies of the Fifth Infantry and ouo battery of light artillery. -— — From 15,000 to 20,000 white men and boys armed with rifles, revolvers aud clubs surged through the streets frequented by negroes searching for blacks. The county jail, in which several negroes held on charges of attacking white women are confined, was threatened and terror reigned throughout Atlanta generally. The attacks on women Saturday followed two others of a similar nature within the week aud at least half a dozen others within the last two months and brought a climax Sunday night The mob began its work early in the evening, pulling negroes from street cars and beating them with clubs, bricks and stones. Negro' men and women riding to their homes after the work of ,the day were torn from the cars or attacked on the streets. In a few cases negroes retaliated during the early part of the nighty but after 10 o’clock they were scarce in public places. The fire department was called out to disperse the mob on beeatur street, a street most frequented by negroes, and for a time seemed to hold the crowd at bay. The disturbance soon took the form of an active and bitter race war. The incidents of the day, which were given in numerous extras by the local papers early Sunday evening, added immensely to the usual Saturday night crowds on the streets. A negro walking along Whitehall street, the principal shopping section, was attacked about 7 o'clock, beaten and escaped with few clothes. The news of this attack spread rapidly and within a few moments the appearance of a negro was the signal for a riot. The negroes scattered from the streets, going to their homes by back alleys or flocked to Decatur street, the home of tfre tougher negro element.

Soon street cars were attacked naff negroes going to their homes wore taken from the ears and beaten, stamped upon~and in many cases fatally hurt. The barber shops where negroes, were employed next' became objects of attack. One of the hardest fights of the night took place about the postoffice. A negro barber shop across the street was the object of attack, and in less time than it takes to tell it the shop was wrecked aud the negroes were beaten, one to death, the other proprietors escaping by aid of the police.

On Peters street, near the terminal railroad station, a hard fight took place. This was started by n negro shooting at the crowd from a second-story window. A brick bit him and he fell back and died iu a few moments. One negro who was found with a pistol In his hand was beaten to death on the Forsythe street viaduct, in the center of the city. Certain it is that Atlanta experienced the wildest night in her history. Not oue of the negroes killed, a press dispatch says, had anything to do with the attacks on white women which set the lynching spirit aflame. Nearly a score of attacks on white women by negroes in two months, three of them Saturday night, had put the whites iu such a state of mind that the question of a negro’s innocence was not considered. lie was a negro, and the cry was “kill him.” Sunday night Atlanta was in the hands of soldiers, seventeen companies of militia from all over the State being in control of the streets. Seven negroes and a white man were killed iu Memphis, Tenn., within twen-ty-four hours as the result of fights.

LAYS CORNER STONE.

Vice President Pnlrhunk* Presides nt Ceremony in Cliicniro. Fifty 'thousand people stood In Dark and Randolph s*reels, Chicago, Friday as Charles W. Fairbanks, Vice President of the United States, laid the corner stone of the new go, 000,000 Cook county court house. Stooping his towering figure, the Vice President laid a little dab of mortar on the foundation of the stone anil then stepped back while the three-tun block of granite was slowly lowered into position. This last oiierution consiyned some time, for the block nt the end of the big derrick had become tangled in flags generously used in the scheme of decoration. A magnificent audience cheered the Vice President approvingly. Short addresses were delivered by Mayor Dunne, Gov. Deneen nnd Mr. Itrundage between spirited selections by the "various' band* rhnt hud' orenptnd places in the procession and the singing of “Illinois” by a quartet. Then the chief speaker of the day was introduced. After a glittering eulogy of Cook county, which Mr. Fairbanks said was greater than many States and not a few foreign countries, such as Portugal, Switzerland and Greece, he predicted Chicago was destined to become the seat of commercial power not only in tha intermediate \Vest but of the continent.

Indiana State News

i i it; ended by gasoline. Woman Fatally Burned by Exploalon of a Stove. Mrs. John Polger, 45 years old, living • «t East Chicago, was almost cremated in - -b**r h. him- as a result of a careless grocer clerk’s giving her gasoline when she ordered kerosene. After she had purchased the supposed kerosene she filled a small stove with it and it exploded. She was covered with the burning fluid and tried to extinguish the fire in the kitchen instead of caring for herself. Her children playing outdoors heard her screams and ran for the neighbors, but her body was almost burned to a crisp when help arrived. The house was saved. :: SUBSCRIPTION NOT A CONTRACT. Indiana Court Decide* Both Against and For Historian. That a subscription list is not a valid contract is the decision of the Henry county Circuit Court in the case of George Hazard, a widely known historian, who recently issued a history of nenry county. Hazzard brought suit against several persons who had indorsed the work, claiming they had signed a subscription list, but they in turn charged him with forgery. The court held Hazzard not guilty, but also held that lie cpuld not collect on the subscription list, so he is a heavy loser. He will carry the case to the Supreme Court. GYPSIES TAKE SMALL BOY. Farmer Recognizes Lad and Returns Him Home. Gypsies traveling wjtli two wagons kidnaped Lincoln Whitney, 6, son of George Whitney. The boy was playing" along the road, east of Petersburg, when one of the occupants grabbed him. While stopping for water, George Elkins, a farmer, recognized the boy. The gypsies surrendered the lad and made good their escape. Elkins returned he boy home. VANDALS LAY WASTE CEMETERY Overturn Headstones in Graveyard., and Pillage Railroad Office. The village cemetery at Fremont was raided by Vandals, who overturned headstones aud monuments on fifty graves. Some of the headstones were broken with a hammer. The vandals left no clew, although in raiding the cemetery they entered the ticket office of the Lake Shore railroad and smashed all the furniture.

Woman Killed by Falling Celling. Miss Mary Sellinger, 07 years old, was killed and Miss Edith Rockwell injured by the fail of the ceiling in Samuel Bkank & Son’s overall factory in Terre Haute. Eight other women escaped injury, but were thrown into panic. The factory is in an old church building, and it is believed the vibration of sewing machines caused the plastering to fall. Richmond Woman Tortured. There will be a double lynching at Bibr erty if a posse with bloodhounds is able to catch two robbers who almost fatally tortured and robbed Mrs. Ora Miller. The robbers took $1,400 from Miller’s home after burning Mrs. Miller’s feet and setting fire to her clothing in an effort to make her disclose the hiding place of the money. White County Fair Breaks Record. The twenty-eighth annual White county fair has closed one of its most successful years in Carmi. All attendance records were broken, over 50,000 witnessing the racing and other fine exhibits. The horticultural and farm products exhibited were the finest in years. Walked from Texas. Thomas McGuire, 70, was picked up in the City park in Terre Haute in a fainting condition. He said he had walked from Texas, and was on his way to Cincinnati in search of a sister he had not hoard from for 33 years. Xo Money In 80-Cent Gas. The Fort Wayne Artificial Gas Company has rejected Mayor Ilosay’s offer of a franchise for 80-eent gas. The company says it cannot make enough money at that price. It wants 90 cents as the maximum price.'' l 1,1 fe Term for Gary Slayer. Thomas Hannon, who shot and killed John Banning at Gary several weeks ago, was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. Hannon’s only defense was that he was intoxicated when he killed Banning. - S(ubn Man Who Embrace* Her. Because he persisted in embracing heT against her will Bute McGill was stabbed and wounded seriously by Mary Cissna at a Boonville factory, where both are employed. Suicide by Barnint,-. Miss Ethel Williamson of Muncie committed suicide in Toledo, Ohio, by pouring oil on her clothing and applying a match. It is said her suicide was due to a love affair. Brief State Happenings. Rev. 8. V'. Williams, who was deposed from the pastorate of the Christian Church iu Baporte because of his sensarional confession of indiscretions, has written front New York that he has be come a resident of that city, buried his identity, and is seeking menial labor that he may do penance for his sins until again commanded by God to pteach. Mrs. Williams has left him. He says lie will not ngaiu he heard of until he feels he has been forgiven. The northwestern Indiana Methodist* Episcopal conference, iu session at Bebar.on, adjourned to meet next year at 1 Greeueastlc. r , Charles Groves of Atonington, agpd 30 years, and Frank Bundy, nged ‘JO, rivals for the smiles of a young woman who lives near Stonington. called on the girl the same evening. Groves, in his anger, applied a buggy whip repeatedly to young Bundy's head and shoulders with groat violence. Crouching to the ground to 'escape his enemy/Bundy fired, the bullet striking Groves in the breast. Bundy U V» iafl. Groves may dis

RUSSIAN HORROR.

Victims of Sledlce Huucrs Perish Miserably Of Thirst. The full horror off the massacre at Sledlce will never be known. The official report is that 100 were killed, but this is far belowt he total. Whole blocks of houses were burned and tremendous damage was done toy sheila from the battery of artillery that fired recklessly into the mob. All this, however, is merely incidental, being as nothing when compared to the awful details of that Russian tragedy. A terrible feature of the woe of Siedlce is that many persons died of thirst. The drunken soldiers and police cleaned out blocks, leaving only the dead and wounded behind. Many of these buildings were not entered for five days'-and it is said twenty bodies of men and women, who died from their wounds and thirst, have been picked up. One Jewish girl was found unconscious on the floor under a water faucet. Two policemen had broken both her legs and cut her in the side-wlth a sword. She had dragged herself across.the floor, but was unable to rise to the faucet. There she lay in agony for nearly five days. She revived just long enough to gasp “Water! Water!” and then died. An old white-headed Jew, one of the wealthiest men in the city, was found dead in a bathtub in bis house. He had been shot twice in the body and evidence was found showing he had spent two or three days helpless on the dining room floor. Blood clots showed where he had dragged himself to the bath room. Apparently, in a delirious ecstasy at getting water, he had turned on the faucets, struggled over the side into the bath and was drowned. A few days ago, with a prayer for Russian freedom on their lips, SenaWe Konoplianikovo, the girl who assassinated Gen. Min Aug. 28 in the Peterhof railroad station, walked with firm step up a scaffold and was hanged. When the black cap was being pulled on the girl In a loud voice called: “Long live the social revolution for land and liberty !”

WRECKED BY DYNAMITE.

Explosion at Jellico, Tenn., Does $1,000,000 Damage. A terrific dynamite explosion at Jellico, Tenn., caused the loss of at least nine lives and more or less seriously injured not less than fifty people. Property damage estimated at $1,000,000 was done and the town of Jellico, Ky., -was practically destroyed. At least 500 people are homeless. Without exception every business house in the town is either totally wrecked or badly damaged. The union station of the Southern railway and the Louisville and Nashville railroad, located about 100 yards from the scene of the explosion, was shattered to splinters. This cut off all telegraphic communication and news of the explosion was handled by telephone. The explosion occarred upon the Kentucky side of Jellico, and in consequence every business house on that side of the town was wrecked. Not one was spared. A large number of residences located near the railroad on the Kentucky side were demolished. As a result it is estimated that one-seventh of the population of the two Jellicos is homeless. A car loaded with dynamite, and consigned to the Rand Powder Company, was brought in by the Southern railway from the direction of Knoxville and was sidetracked in the yards used jointly by the Southern railway and the L. &N. It is believed that the explosion was caused from spontaneous combustion in the car. The spot where the car stood is marked by a crevasse in the earth fully twenty feet deep and about thirty feet in diameter.

Word was received in Winnipeg,-Man., of a dynamite explosion, which occurred on the right of way of the Grand Trunk Pacific railway near Finmark, northwestern Ontario, in which five were killed outright and six injured. A gang of B’inlanders was engaged in tunneling, according to one story, when the premature explosion of a large quantity of dynamite occurred. •

The Comic Side of The News

The advance in the price of sugar will make many of us look sour. Europe proposes to prevent the Shah of Persia from hiding under the bed. Palma might catch those recalcitrant Cubans by putting a pinch of pie on their plates. Bank Wrecker Stensland doesn't know so much about its being “Home, Sweet Home.” The Chinese Emperor is getting to be almost as great a proinrser as the Czar of Russia. Before the court gets through a Pittsburg divorce suit, they arrest most everybody in sight. ~ , It is claimed that Gen. Tropoff’s death was due to natural causes. Natural to Russia, no doubt. , What Cuba especially wants is to learn the difference between a ballot box and a waste paper basket. “Segal got all the money; I was fooled,” says Hippie in his confession. So were the rest of ’em. How fortunate would be all nations arho go to war if they had some big friend to make them behave! Cuba knows a hint when, one as large as a skyscraper begins taking ominous strides in its direction. The insurance Companies are not all quitters. They have paid $55,000,000 of their San Francisco kisses. Between being arrested and committing suicide, our poor bank wreckers are having a very unpleasant time. The Czar is beginning to find out that you can’t govern an empire nor lay pavements merely with good iofintiona.

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1499-—Vasco de Gama returned to Lisbon from his voyage of discovery. 1515—French victorious at battle; of Marignano, Italy. IGo9—Henry Hudson began his.voyage up the river which bears his name. 1615—-Lady Arabella Stuart, victim of the jealousy of James 1., died in the Tower. ■. . 1683—Turkish army routed ■ before Vienna by allies under command of John Sobieski and Duke of Lorraine. 1753—First playhouse opened in New, York City, located in Nassau street. 1759 —Gen. Wolfe killed in assault on Quebec. 1776 New York City captured by the British... .Washington and his army entered Philadelphia after the defeat at Brandywine. 1777 'Stars and Stripes first carried into battle at battle of the Brandywine... Burgoyne crossed the Hudson and encamped on Saratoga heights. 1795—Capt. Vancouver returned from his four years’ voyJge of discovery. Burr and his second arrived at St. Simonds, Ga., on visit to Gen. Butler Troops ordered out to quell riot among oyster strikers at - Amboy, Nr B. -? 1812—Cen. Harrison compelled the *Jn--dians to raise the siege of Fort Wayne. 1814 —Americans and British engage in ' battle of Plattsburg and Lake Champlain... .British repulsed in attack on Fort Bower, at entrance to Mobile bay... .Successful sortie made from Fort Erie. Gen. Drummond retired to Fort George. 1829 —Gold fever which had struck the Carolinas extended to Georgia.... Spanish army surrendered to the Mexicans under Santa Ana at Tampico. 7—... 1831 —Albany and Schenectady railroad, first in State of New York, opened to traffic. 1847 —American anmy, in command of Gen. Scott, entered City of Mexico. I^s0 —Fugitive Slave bill passed by House of Representatives. 1854 —English and French forces landed in the Crimea. ■ 1861 — President Lincoln modified Gep. Fremont’s emancipation proclamation. 1862 — Union forces under McClellan engaged Confederates at South Mountain, Md.... Unions and Confederates engaged in fight at Middletown, Md. Confederates .opened fire on Harper’s Ferry,.. .Battle of Anfietam, Md... .Surrender of Harper’s Ferry, after two days’ fighting. 1863 President Lincoln suspended the habeas corpus act. 1872 — Geneva tribunal of arbitration on Alabama claims awarded $16,250,000 to the United States. 1873 — Gen. E. S. McCook assassinated by P. P. Wintermate at Yankton, Dakota.

1874 — Fatal riots in New Orleans over demand for abdication of Gov. logg--1875 Perry’s flagship Bawrence raised in Erie harbor and removed to Philadelphia for exhibition at the Centennial. I£78 —Cleopatra’s Needle set up on the Thames Embankment. 1884— Antagonism between clericals and liberals in Belgium threatened to result in civil war. 1885 — Jumbo, famous show elephant, killed in railway collision at St Thomas, Ontario. 1888—Parnell commission first met. 1894—Japanese defeated Chinese at battle of Yalu river. 1897—Owing to strike riots martial law declared at Hazleton, Pa. 1901 — McKinley state funeral at Washington. 1902 United States warships sent to Panama. 1903 — United -States cruiser Maryland launched at Newport News, Va.... Colombiim Senate voted to negotiate new canal treaty with United States. 1905 —Car fell from New York elevated railroad into street; 12 killed, 40 injured. .. .Admiral Togo’s flagship destroyed by explosion; 509 lives lost.

Prof. Garner in the Jungle.

A letter has been received from Prof. Garner, who is now living in his steelbarred cabin in tjie African jungle for the purpose of studying the comparative intelligence of animals. He says thait not an hour passes during the day tbat he does not hear the monkeys and <hlinpanzes talking in the forest, and that they reply to his calls.

Steam Plowing by Night.

Out on the big prairie ranches of western Kansas and Nebraska farmers are now la such haste to get their fall plowing finished that they are running big steam plows at night, with headlights on the motor engines. Thus they ere able to turn over sixty acres of land In twentyfour hours with' only two men, working in shifts. Two men working in the old way could only plow about six acres a day. Within the past year 2*o a team plows have been sold