Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1908 — Page 7

FARM AND GARDEN

If the boy Is mechanically Inclined oee that he has good tools to work with. The practice of wintering over stock has kept many a man poor. It’s a poor policy to keep over inferior stuff. Having an extra lantern globe on hand will sometimes save any one the trouble of stumbling around in the dark doing chores. A change In feed Is more than apt to afTect the milk giving of the cow. However wise the change it Is apt to reduce the flow until the cow gets thoroughly accustomed to the new ration. Owing to the high price of feed and the comparatively low price of hogs the Inexperienced feeder is liable to go out of the hog raising business only to buy brood sows at a rise when conditions are righted. One’s dignity does not depend on the profession he follows. No one can tell ,me that dignity cannot be surrounded by a wire fence or a willow hedge as well as by a stone or granite wall, or a bank cage railing. * c With all the talk about corn Improvement that is going on dally over the platform and through the press, It is said that to the two billion bushels grown in 1900 there has been added an Increase of only forty million bushels in the last six years. The figures seem a trifle sarcastic.

Sleighing is productive of more colds and pneumonia among horses than anything else, unless your horse is hardened up for It be careful about driving too fast. A speed clip against a cold wind Is dangerous. It Is better to let the other fellow beat you to town a few minutes than to hurt your horse trying to outdrive him.

In Colorado the State statute provides that all cheese shall be marked with a stencil brand that the purchaser may tell whether It Is a cream or skimmed milk product. Cheese which has over thirty-five per cent butter fat In its composition may be labeled cream cheese, while that which contains less than thirty-five per cent is skimmed milk cheese, but the law is Ignored. Everybody wants country boys. If you don’t Relieve It, stop to think of how often you have seen advertisements calling for this great resource of the country. Uncle Sam wants them. The telegraph college and business school wants them. The big corporation is constantly In the market for them. Still the farm needs them the worst, yet Is doing the least to hold than.

Slopping hogs In winter Is not altogether a joke. You have to feed carefully or the troughs get terribly bunged up. Your hogs may be going after their slop vigorously and cleaning everything up when a cold, stormy time will put tbelr appetites out of business. The next time you feed yon may discover that the troughs are heaping to start with. All In all, the weather haa a good deal to do with one’s feeding methods.

Movable Heahouae. Here in Newport County, R. 1., the most successful ben men bouse their birds In small movable buildings. We have learned by experience to build small, cheap bouses of cull lumber on skids. Place them 25 to 50 feet apart In rows, and move them as often as need be a few feet on to clean ground, says a writer In Rural New Yorker. The grass and weeds will spring up and purify the ground long before It will be time ttr cover It again. Cement blocks may be cheap for a permanent building, but I can see but Xew situations where it would be best to use them for henhouses. The Feedlas of Dobs. “No dog kept indoors, and, indeed, very few outside, should be fed on 1 meat; nor should be be fed from the table at meal times, as he will soon become a nuisance, especially when there are visitors. If he Is always fed at the conclusion of a certain meal — dinner, for Instance—he will wait patiently until the prescribed time. It Is a good plan to feed after one’s mid-day , meal, giving plenty of green vegetables, braid and potatoes, with a very few scraps of finely cut meat, the whole well mixed and some gravy poured over it If two meals are given, one should be at breakfast time and one ta the evening. One should consist of only a little oatmeal and milk, or a piece of dry dog biacult. v “At no time should the dog hare more than he will eat, and If be leaves anything on bis plate except the pattern, his allowance should be reduced or a meal omitted.” —Suburban Life Winter Varssf. ' ~~ v The question of winter forage and pasturage Is one of the greatest Importance in the Southern States, and Carletrtn R. Bail, of tb« Bureau of Plant industry, was sent by the Do-

partment of Agriculture early In .the past year to make an investigation in several of the Gulf States. In his report Mr. Ball says, amongst other things: "The production of Southern hay has been a question long under discussion. The amount produced and the yield per acre have both Increased steadily and encouragingly- during the laßt few years. On every hand It Is admitted that it Is both possible and necessary to raise all that is needed for home consumption. Alfalfa, Bermuda grass, Johnson grass, crab grass and cowpeas furnish an abundance of hay of the very beat quality. This hay can be produced much more cheaply than an equal quality can be shipped In from Northern and Western States. With better transportation facilities and an Increasing demand, the production will become more and more profitable. At the same time, with hay raised on the home plantations, and hence cheaply" and readily available, larger quantities are being used In feeding the plantation stock.”

Crops of 1007. Despite the fact that the cereal crop yield of the United States for 1907 la itelow that of the previous year, the money return on the 1907 crops promises to equal, If not exceed, that of 1906. This statement is contained in a bulletin issued by Bradstreet’s: “Owing to the very cold and backward spring season, only hay, sugar and rice crops promise greater yields than those of last year. The bulletin says in part: “While the aggregate cereal yield, six crops being Included, Is 15 per cent smaller than a year ago, a counterbalance to the falling off in crop production is found In the generally higher level of prices of the leading cereals, guaranteeing that the producer at least will derive some compensation alike from the smaller’yields, the amount of the old or 1906 erops left over, and the Improved exp<4pinquiry, particularly for our wheat and flour, caused by less satisfactory harvests abroad. The price of wheat last week was 22 per cent higher than a year ago, while corn was 18 per cent higher. From this It may be gathered that'the present money returns on these crops is better than at the outset of the cereal year, and the prospects are that taken as a whole, this year’s cereal crops will yield fully as touch, If not more, than they did a year ago. “Following Is an estimate of the yields of the leading crops for 1907, showing the per cent gain or loss from 1906:

Per cent gatnorloM yields. from 1900. Corn, bo 2,553,732,000 Dec. 12.7 Winter wheat, bu.. 409,500,000 Dec. 17.0 Spring wheat, bu... 216,007,000 Dec. 10.7 Total wheat, bu... 023,567,000 Dec. 14.9 Oats, bushels 741,521,000 Dec. 23.1 Barley, bushels ... 147,192,000 Dec. 17.4 Rye, bu 31,560,000 Dec. 5.4 Buckwheat, bo. ... 13,911,000 Dec. 4.0 Total, six leading cereals 4,113,489.000 Dec. 13.5 Flaxseed, bu. 25,420,000 Dec. .2 Potatoes, bu. ..... 292,427,000 Dec. 5.2 Tobacco, lba. 045.210,000 Dec. 5.4 Hay, tons 60,706,000 Inc. 5.4 Bice, bu. TV. 21,412,000 Inc. 20.2 Sugar, tons 1,387,000 lac. 9.0 Cotton, bales ..... 11,500,000 Dec. A 0

A Simple W my te Hslce Cfceeee. The making of cheese is a very simple process, and almost any one can turn out a good article with little practice. I will give a method by which any one con make cheSe successfully. Take evening’s milk and strain it into some dean vessel and let it stand cool place until morning. Evening’s milk should be warmed to about 96 degrees before adding morning's milk. A good way to warm It Is to set a pall of boiling water into the milk. Prepare the rennet by soaking in one gallon of warm water tor twenty-four hours before using. Add as much salt as it will dissolve, strain, let It settle and it is ready for use.

Use a tableapoonful for each three gallons of milk. If It Is much over half an hour coming Increase the quantity, if much leaa decrease It As soon as it is well curdled take a knife and cut the curd Into blocks so that the whey can escape. As soon as the whey Is mostly out of the curd take a has_k* and place a cloth In It so as to receive the curd. the curd hardens to strain off the whey. Chop rhe curd fine, add salt—l ounce to each five pounds of curd—and it is ready for the press. Put the curd In a tiu hoop made like a peck measure without a bottom. It is a good idea to have two sizes, as the amount of curd will differ at times. Almost any one with a few tools aud a little Ingenuity can construct a press that will answer the purpose very well. A simple way Is to mortise a beam Into a post so that it can work up or down, and hang a weight tflHCpe outer end of the beam. The hoop with the curd In it should be turned or reversed every bright or ten hours. From eighteen to twenty-four hours is generally long enough to press a cheese. Now comes the curing period, which requires considerable care and attention. The cheese when taken from the press should be rubbed with lard and a bandage of new msails pinned loosely around It The cheese must be greased every day. Do not remove tbs’bandage, but apply tbs grease on It In from four to firs weeks the cheese should be reedy for home one or markat. —J. VL Smith.

PLANS FOR ESTABLISHING POSTAL BANKS

Hew Bills of Carter and Hitch* cock Differ from Madden* Snapp Measure. —i- ■■ ■ rfi ■ DISPOSITION OF THE FUNDS. "i . ■ " ; Democrat Provides for Board of Investment—All Fix Deposit Limit at SI,OOO. " Upon the indorsement by Postmaster General Meyer and later by President Roosevelt of the postal savings bank system for the United States, three separate and distinct plans have been proposed to Congress as the proper procedure for establishing andputting into operation such banks. In the House of Representatives Representatives Madden- of Chicago, andP Snapp, of Joliet, 111., have introduced similar measures. Representative Hitchcock, of Omaha, a Democrat, has introduced another House bill, and Senator Thomas Carter, of Montana, Is the father of a senate bill. The main differences in these bills lie in the protection afforded depositors and deposits and in the Investment features of the funds of the postal savings banks. All these bills place a limit on the interest-bearlqg deposits which Can be made by any individual within any single calendar year and finally. The Madden-Snapp bill provides that S3OO may be deposited within one year and that no interest shall be paid to any depositor upon a deposit In excess of SI,OOO. The Carter bill makes the limit of annual deposit SSOO and tfee final limit of intetost-bearing deposit SI,OOO, while the Hitchcock bill has h doublebarreled provision which is more complex. It provides a limit of monthly deposit of SIOO and the final limit of any single deposit at SI,OOO. In addition it provides that no interest shall be paid on more than SSOO to any depositor and that if any depositor deposit more than S2OO in any* one year Interest shall not be paid on new deposits In excess of that amount. Both the v Madden-Snapp and Carter bills provide an interest rate of 2 per cent on deposits, while the Hitchcock bill stipulates that the rate on S2OO or less shall be 2% per cent, and over that amount and up to SSOO the rate shall be fixed by a board of investment, composed of the Postmaster General, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Comptroller of the Currency. In establishing postal savings bank adjuncts to post offices there is also a difference between the Madden-Snapp bill and the others. The Madden-Snapp measure gives the Postmaster General discretion In the selection of offices for postal savings bank purposes; the Hitchcock bill is mandatory in that all Phoney order post offices are made branches of the postal savings bank system, while the Carter bill* makes all first, second and third-class post offices branch postal savings hanks and gives the Postmaster General some discretion as to further extension Into the fourth-class post offices. In administration the Madden-Snapp Mil provides a general of postal pavings banks, with such assistants and clerks as may be necessary, while the Secretary of the Treasury Is authorized to increase the auditor’s force in the Post Office Department. The sum of $50,000 is set aside to start the banks In operation. Both the Hitchcock and Carter bills stipulate that the head of the postal banks shall be an officer known to the Fifth Assistant Postmaster General, and ask SIOO,OOO to establish the banks.

Why More Boy Babies Die.

Dr. Francis Warner, senior physician of the London hospital, has drawn attention to a curions sex problem. Taking the births of 1905, he showed that 57 per cent were boys, yet the death rate of boys was so mnch higher than that of girls that of 5-yea r-010 children only 43 per cent were boys. Further statistics showed that 27 per cent of boys, as compared with only 22 per cent of girls, died In the first year. I)r. Warner attributed the preponderance of females in England, despite th«rmore numerous birth of boys, to the fact that a much larger proportion of males had the same physical defect. A minute examination of thousands of children showed that 9 per cent of boys were physically defective, as compared with 7 per cent of girls, but taking the children’s medical wards, where practically all were physically defective, the mortality of defective girls was higher than that of the boys. Hence he deduced that while the female sex apparently approaches closer to normality than the male, yet when normalities are found equally in both, the girls have less vitality, a fact which causes a more rapid breakdown under an added strain. It was also noted that while the male sex supplied a great majority of criminals, yet In murders complicated >arifh lunacy women were la a great majority.

John E. Redmond, chairman of the Irish parliamentary i«rty. and William O’Brien, nationalist member of tbe parliament for Cork, are unable to reach an agreement for summoning a national convention on a new baai# of representation, according to a cable from Dublin. Ireland. Clarence Darrow baa ao far recore red from his illness that be has been able to more from tbe California hospital in Los Angeles to private apartments. It is believed that all ncceasitj of an operation baa passed. "* ~ 9 • v . v

Indiana State News

ROWDY BOYS REAP DISASTER. Stona a Hermit, Who Them Cut a "v Shotgun. Sir young men and a double-barreled shotgun in the hands of John Barrett, an. eccentric hermit, living near Oatsville, have the neighborhood excited, and four of the young men are carrying buckshot in the bodies and faces. Rufus Crecillus, one of them, is so badly wounded that he has been taken to Vincepnes for treatment. The slight of his right eye is destroyed. The shooting is said to be the result of a foolish escapade by the 1 young men. The boys were passing the home in which Barrett |ives, and one of them suggested that they throw stones on the roof to see what-the old man would do. The stones had hardly struck the house before Barrett appeared at the door and emptied the contents of a double-barreled shotgun into the group.

YOUTH COMMITS SUICIDE. Despondent Became His Sweetheart Wns Sentenced to Girls' School. Clifford Mack Smith, 18 years old and the only support of a widowed mother, committed suicide in Covington by swallowing carbolic acid. He was on the way home at the time, and on entering his mother’s presence, he remarked, “Ma, I have taken it,” and threw himself on the bed. Before anything could be done in relief, he was unconscious, and he died before a physician could be called. Five months ago he attempted to commit suicide In a similar way, but was prevented. A few days ago Judge Schoonover sentenced Smith’s sweetheart to'the Indiaua Girie* School. The young people had set Jan. 4 as their wedding day, and‘it is supposed that while brooding over the fate of the girl he renewed his determination to end nis life.

DECLARES UNION UNLAWFUL. ■ <%u r > flow Fights (or Estate Deft Father’s Second Wife. s,> Mary Johnson Strunk of Niles, Mich., is the defendant in a sensational case now on trial ip the Porter county Circuit Court. An estate of $40,000 is involved. The plaintiff is Jennings C. Strunk, who alleges he is the lawful heir to the estate, because his father’s marriage to the Niles woman was bigamous, the elder Strunk having failed to obtain a divorce from his first wife, who was Jennings Strunk’s mother. The second Mrs. Strunk has been in possession of the property since the death of John C. Strnnk, who is alleged by the son to have led a dual life. ' • ■/ -

BURGLARS FIRE STORE. Uso Kerosene to Saturate Grocery Establishment and Escape. Angered by not finding money after they had broken into the Butterfly grocery store, in the heart of the business district of Muncie, burglars saturated the place with kerosene and set fire to it, and left through the rear door, which they had broken down to gain entrance. The firemen had a hard fight to check the flames, which had been started in several places.

SHORT LIVED HONEYMOON. Bridegroom Stricken wltk Doable Paesaoais and Dies. John Reedy,' 19 years old, who was married on Christmas day, died the other afternoon at Decker of double pneumonia. He was taken sick on the day following his marriage to Miss Katherine Manning of Decker. At first little attention was paid to Bis ailment, under the belief that it was a cold, but later pneumonia developed. I Mr. Reedy was well known as a melon raiser.

Put to Flight hr Cray Wolf. A big gray wolf, the first seen in Cass county in many years, put John R. Donglass and Earl Smith, two hunters, to flight while they were setting traps in a woods three miles west of Logansport. They came upon the animal unexpectedly, and Douglass, who had a loaded shotgun in his hand, was so frightened that be could not shoot. He was afflicted with “buck fever.” The wolf stood its ground and Smith and Douglass, after glaring at it for several moments, turned and ran. Boro with Sot of Teeth. Supplied with a full set of teeth. Baby Crow was bom to Mrs. Elve Crow near Evansville. The infant is s girl and weighs about four pounds. She is in good health and exhibited the full power of her teeth by biting the nurse’s finger on the twelfth hour after becoming a member of the family circle.

Cesstr doll IcorekH. Fire originating from s defective flue damaged tbe Knox county jail in Vincennes $5,000. Tbe loss is covered by insurance. Tbe thirty-nine prisoners were boused In tbe basement while tbe Are was being suppressed, and no ona was suffered to escape. Killed ky Brother’s Train. John Ullery of Indianapolis, a Pennsylvania freight conductor, waa instantly killed at Richmond by another freight train, of which his brother, William Cilery, was sngineef. AMO VO OUR VEIOHBORB. „ The Rev. C. E. Weidner has resigned as pastor of tbe Brethren church it Nappanee to accept a call to Cariron,

Mat. . The safe in tbe poetoftce and general store owned by F. O. Peckinbaugh, at Sprlngport, was raided by burglars, and a small amount of cash and stamps wens carried off. After tbe robbery the burglars stole s horse and boggy from Clarence Swain, in which they drove to a point naar Anderson, whore they abandoned the rig.

BANKER WALSH GUILTY.

Former Financial and Political Chief in Chicago Is Convicted. The jury in the case of John 8. Walsh, the Chicago banker and politician, found the defendant guilty. Tho trial was one of the most bitterly contested legal struggles known Id the history of the Chicago federal courts. Walsh was a unique figure In the history of Chicago. His growth has been practically coincident with the growth of *Jie city. As g.boy he came there when the city was a village, and as a man the village that be knew has grown to as great proportions as himself. Irish emigrant, newsboy, small merchant, politician, banker, railroad president, and newspaper publisher mark the chapters to- the life of John R. Walsh, central figure in the great trial recently closed. It was In 1860 that he made hlq first great stride toward his millions. The war coming, and Walsh was the first man in the west to see the great possibilities of general circulation of the newspapers. Id partnership with McNally he founded the Western News Company. Dec. 18, 1905, It was announced that Walsh’s banking Institutions had been declared Insolvent by the authorities. With this announcement came the assurance that the banks of the city had rallied to the assistance of the deposit-

JOHN B. WALSH. Chicago Post.

ors and would pay all indebtedness. Investigation of the failure continued until early in 1906, when matters became serious for Walsh, and he was arrested on complaint of the district attorney. The main charge on which Walsh was placed on trial Is in effect that he on Nor. 18, 1906, in sworn report to the comptroller, understated the amount of the bank’s loans to its officers and directors by nearly $3,000,GOO, and overstated other loans to a generally similar amount The result was tp hide the fact of $8,000,000 loans tqr Walsh to himself. Tragedy and scandal entered the case for the first time when Attorney Hamlll was made the target for the weapon of Mrs. Beatrice Metcalfe, who followed the lawyer out of the courtroom and fired at him in an effort to kill him. John R. Walsh’s conviction of felony in toe seventy-first year of his age came as a shock to the community where he has lived and prospered for so long. Until a little over two years ago bis position in Chicago waA and for many years had been, one of Influence and respectability. He was supposed to be a very rich man. He bad taken a part In every great enterprise for the building up of the city. His judgment was respected, his integrity unquestioned. Aid now, in bis old age, twelve of his fellow citizens, after probing into bis life, declare him guHty of a serious crime, punishment of which is imprisonment

$48,000,000 in Benefactions.

According to statistics collected by the Chicago Tribune, the sum of $148,902,130 was given away for the good of mankind during the year 1007. Of this amount educational institutions rgpeived $70,015,542; religious institutions, $0,343,802; museums, art galleries and public improvements, $17,247,400, and libraries, $2,043,000. Tbe heaviest donors were John D. Rockefeller. Mrs. Rosseli Wage and Andrew Carnegie, in tbe order named, although there were more than a dozen others who gave amounts above $1,000,000 each, and it is noted that over $30,000,000 of the total sum was contributed by women.

Philadelphia Traction Concessions.

President Parsons of tbe Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company in a letter transmitted to Mayor Beybora offers a plan of harmonising tbe differences between tbe company and the employes who recently voted to strike. Mr. Parsons says be will set apart one day each month to confer with tbe committees of the men irrespective of union affiliations. He is also willing to reinstate forty-seven of tbe sixty men recently dismissed for associating with the union.

SHORT MEWS NOTES.

Tbe United fttates dredge boat Henry Fladd, worth $175,000, was burned to tbe water’s edge at her moorings in Memphis. '-7I Fite in a New York factory building occupied by the Groasoput Shoe Company and tbe Ilappel Iron foundry caused a loas as $200,000. Tbe four trust companies of Hr Louis announced that they would pay SV4 P*r teat an savings deposits and 4 per cent an certificates of deposit. .

WASHINGTON GOSSIP

The Signal Corps of the War Department has made public specifications for the construction of a dirigible ballooa to be used in a series of tests at Fort Myer next spring. Proposals for furnishing the balloon will be opened at the department on Jan. 15 next Tho balloon Is to consist of a gas bag of silk, to be covered with an aluminum (preparation. Tbs material for the bag and the hydrogen with whkfh it will bo inflated will be furnished by the government The dimensions and shape of the bag will be left to the bidders, except shat the length must not exceed 120 feet. It must be designed to carry two persons having a combined weight of 850 pounds; also at least 100 pound* of ballast. A speed of twenty mites an tour In still air Is desired, and the scheme of ascending, descending and maintaining equilibrium must be based on shifting weights, movable planes or some method which. will not necessitate balancing or changing of position by the aeronaut The balloon most have all the fittings jneeesaary for successful and continuous flights. It will be accepted only after a trial flight to be held at Fort Myer next spring. In a recent address at New Yoife City Francis E. Leupp, commissioner of Indian affairs, tobk occasion to reply to some of the criticisms that have been made regarding the treatment of tho Indians by his burean. He outlined ■ the present policy of the government as that of absorbing the Indian Into tho white man’s civilization, thus reversing the old policy of assisting him in bio ardent desire of keeping as separate from the white man as be possibly could. He expressed the opinion that the final solution of the problem would be reached by intermarriage. He doscribed tho success of the government In making the Indian work; even tho Utes, he said, were now working on tho railroads and helping to build up tho country of which they were a part The commissioner said it was true that about 85 per cent of the Indians tbst went to Indian schools, such ss Carlisle and others, and went back to tho reservations sooner or later reverted to the blanket But their children started away ahead of where their parents did so that the schooling was by no mean* wasted. ■ - An nnnsnai view of the army ha* lately been presented In a complaint over the decrease in strength of too coast artillery regiments. The Tenth Company, for Instance, which mastered a hundred and one men in 1900, wao able to get out only fourteen in too ranks in October. Tho explanation offered is that the men in the coast artillery receive training In some branch of mechanics, and can get employment outside at good wages. One officer instructed his company in the art of telephone repairing, and made to* men so efficient that the telephone company in the neighboring city offered them sixty and seventy dollars a month, and in some cases bought the discharge of the men, so that they might begin work before their enlistment expired. If too army can train Its men as effectively as this, it ought to be a pretty good school. •’ If there are not forty-eight star* on toe flag within a year or two It will not be for lack of effort on the part of Arizona and New Mexico. A convention of delegates from every part of New Mexico adopted resolutions the other day demanding the admission of the territory as a Stats The governor of Arizona has reported that tbs statehood sentiment in tost territory Is stronger than ever before. Bills were Introduced In the Senate on the first working-day of tbe session of Congress, providing for the creatloo of two new States ont of the territories. As the effort to pass a joint statehood Mil has been abandoned. It Is now necessary for the two territories to convince Congress that they are worthy to be admitted to the family of States.

• k -5 > According to Terence V. Powderly, formerly grand master of tbe Knights of Labor and now connected with the government Bureau of Immigration, extensive railroad building In Italy, tbe approach of tbe presidential election and scare headlines ln the newspaper*' aside from tbe flnaoclgl flurry, are the causes for tbe present exodus of alk-as from the United States. “No alarm need be felt because of tbe ebb In the tide,” be eaya “There is more work to do In this country than there ever waa before; there is a necessity tor men and women to do It, and the tint months of tbs next year will sea a return of aliens, who will he able to Sad remunerative employment In this corns* try" „ -5-*!* x . ' -"J The War Department has published a general order of the President requiring every field officer to make each year practice marches of three oouseestlvs days of not leap than thirty miles eaeh. In his order the President says It to Just as much the duty of army otoeem “to pursue each habits as will ms I ate to a physical condition fit tor active service as to cmltJrgts their minds tar thn Intellectual duties off their pos> tototo*”