St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 7, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 7 September 1895 — Page 3

KNIGHTS IN BOSTON. twenty-sixth great trienNiAL CONCLAVE. Thirty-Thousand Templars and Their Friends from All Parts of the Country—The Great Parade-A Week of Much Gayety. Owned the Town. Boston has had rather more than its share of great gatherings this summer. Scarcely had the Christian Endeavor cohorts departed with their banners than the Knights Templar veterans were seen rallying to the city of brains and beans to the number of 30,000, with half as many ■more ladies in their illustrious train. This twenty-sixth triennial conclave of <he Knights of the Temple was remarkMg age l ' Aw nA W. 'ML wk * WWw'/ \\ W I X MOST EMINENT SIR HIGH M’CUBDY. able in more ways than one. It was the largest gathering of the kind in the history of the order. This not only means that there is financial hopefulness and ^prosperity in the circles to which the Sir Knights belong, but it calls attention to the fact that the great and beneficent

life MASONIC TEMPLE, WHERE THE CONCLAVE WAS HELD.

Masonic brotherhood which has been inwoven with the most important features of our national history is experiencing a healthy and continuous growth. The fact that there are now in this country upward ■of 100,000 members of the order of Knights Templar alone is full of encouraging significance. It is maintained that the Masonic fraternity. not to speak of others scarcely less influential, has done an incalcuable amount of good in conserving respect for the basic principles of true religion among a class of men most likely to be prolific in scoffers. And not less important is the part played by this order in the perpetuation of patriotic sentiment throughout the Union. From the laying •of the corner-stone of the national capital ! at Washington, a century ago, to the lay- j ing of the corner-stone of the Masonic I Temple in Chicago, this society has played 1 an important part in the public and semipublic events that have made up our history as a nation. It is forty-five years since Boston has been the scene of Knights Templar grand conclave, and the members of the order in the city exerted themselves to the utmost to outdo all that have taken place since. Boston boasts of the largest com- j mandery in the United States, and this i •one body appropriated $35,000 to be I spent in making the guests appreciate their welcome. Even with such an ex- i ample the visiting commanderies were I termined not to be excelled, and though j none of them expended any such sum of | money, all planned to more than do their part in the festivities. Special trains were I chartered from all parts of the country to • carry the members of the visiting com- ! manderies to the East, and in many in- | stances the trips were arranged end add- ! ed to so that the route included not only Boston but many other Eastern cities and points of national interest. The Grand Parade. The conclave was opened with a parade, which was the greatest of its kind ever I held. More than 40,000 Knights Templar were in line, and fully 1,000 of these were mounted. In addition to these was the members of the Grand Encampment of the United States, as well as other high officials of the order, in carriages. The parade was commanded by Grand Master McCurdy, of the Grand Encampment, -who is the head of the order. The decorations of the city were superb, and all along the route of the parade mammoth grand stands had been erected, each artistically decorated, and it is estimated that the seating accommodations for the reviewing of the parade •exceeded 150,000. The stands seated anywhere from twenty-five to 5,000 persons and were erected by the different

comandories of the city and also by private individuals for speculation. In addition to these every available window in every house along the line of march was bought up by speculators, and oven the front doors wore utilized for seats and FLORAL CROSS AND SHIELD ON BOSTON PUBLIC GARDEN. sold to the highest bidder. Every available window on Dartmouth street was sold for prices varying from sls to S3O for every front room above the first floor. Columbus avenue for its whole length ; was one reviewing stand, and the seats j were disposed of at an average price of : $3, while window space was taken by ; visiting knights for their friends at prices ■ ranging from $25 to SSO for front rooms i above the first floor. । So great was the demand for window : space and points of vantage for seeing I the parade that enormously high prices ; have been been paid. A barber in Washi ington street offered his window space for $25 for the day and a shrewd customer in one of his chairs took it up and later sold the privilege for $75. Not less than $1,000,000 changed hands for the pleasure of witnessing the greatest parade in point of splendor ever held in this country. Expense of the Conclave. The estimate of the expense of the grand conclave to the members of Massachusetts and Rhode Island commanderies, who are the hosts, was $350,000. In addition to this each member procured special regalia, and several thousand dollars represent the expense of badges for exchange. Every frater was supposed to carry an exchange badge; in fact, a pocket full of them, and when another frater met him on the street without the ceremony of an introduction badges were

to be exchanged. In this way vast collections of badges were procured as souvenirs of the triennial meeting, and a complete collection of those worn during the week will be worth fully SI,OOO. A series of receptions and social festivities were held during the convention and visiting knights were taken to view all interesting points about Boston. Many public, as well as private, buildings were elaborately decorated during the convention. and old Boston assumed an air of brightness and gayety such as she has rarely known before. Bishop Foley, of Detroit, the traveling companion of Cardinal Gibbons during the trip through Europe, says of Ireland

^1 KNIGHTS TEMPLAR CAPTURE BOSTON.

| that it was the impression among conser- | i vative men in that country that the factionalism in the ranks of the Irish parliamentary party had thrown back Ireland fully twenty-five years. J. R. Brandon and his son Alonzo are in jail at St. Louis charged with counterfeiting. They were arrested in Duncan County, and in a corn crib near their house was found a complete outfit for making money, together with $175 in 1 spurious dollars of 1891. I The Rev. Samuel Bissell died at Twins- • burg, N. Y., aged 98 years. He was the I oldest living graduate of Yale College, - and for years had an academy at Twins- ■ burg.

POTATO NOW IS K’NQ. Farmers Beginning to K««Hxe There Is Money in Tubers, The potato has at last taken ran^i^ king among the tillers of the soil. I»0^ a8 years Secretary of Agricwt uro Mor® ' op has been appealing to the formers of ■Kton United States to grow potatoes, as he ■ “* e liored that they would be their Balvatw * >e * They have finally taken his advice, M oa. I now they are beginning to realize tjßpnd / they will profit by planting to the tubers instead of wheiu'and coj^^w There is at all times a steely demand fo^U

them, and they are quire as ptaple as" wheat and not subject to the flinituatitM > of the latter. With the low price of wheat and corn the farmers have looked aboufs for some more profitable crop and invegtiM gation shows that the United States has § never produced enough potatoes for home, consumption. Thousands of bushels ar^ bought in foreign markets every year if there is a profit for powers abroad, wit^" small areas to devote to the crop and th^| additional expense of ocean freight rates,® there ought to be money in the business! i for the farmers in this country, who have! larger tracts of land and cheaper freight J rates. The imports for the fiscal year! ending June 30, 1894, were 3,022,578} bushels, of the value of nearly $1,250,ji 000. Last year 2,737,973 acres were devote/ to this crop, and that was an increase o®c the year before of 53,000 acres. The duct of 1894, on account of an unfKvorr’ able season, was 2,240,000 bushels short 1 of the year before, notwithstanding the in^ creased acreage. But in measuring the® popularity of the potato as an article o£J farm product, the product is scarcely I worthy of consideration, for the increase] in the area of land devoted to the crop is® plainly the index of its popularity. All i the evidence available indicates that there! are now 3,00(1,000 acres of potatoes growing in the United States. The fact that there has been a steadily decreasing acreage of wheat, rye, barley, oats and corn, which continues this year, is considered by the Secretary of Agriculture to indicate an increased acreage of potatoes and other substantial small products. New York has steadily led all the other States as a potato producer. Last year 378,728 acres of land were devoted to the crop in New York, and the product, aggregating over 29,000,000 bushels, was sold for half as many million dollars. Michigan was second, with 215,270 acres and a product of over 13,000,000 bushels, which brought the growers nearly $0,000,000. Pennsylvania was third, with 20(5,879 acres, which produced almost the exact number of bushels produced by Michigan, though the acreage was vastly less than Michigan’s. The acreage in Ohio was in round numbers the same as that in Pennsylvania, and the aggregate of the crop was the same within a few thousand bushels. showing that both Pennsylvania and Ohio raised a larger crop than Michigan with less acreage. The other big potatogrowing States are lowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota. Nebraska and Kansas, in the order named. lowa bad 176,(505 acres last year; Kansas. 108.213. The aggregate of acreage gradually decreases from lowa to Kansas, excepting that Illinois and Wisconsin had almost the same acreage—that is, about 1(5(5,500. While Missouri, Maim', Massachusetts, New Jersey, Virginia. Kentucky. South Dakota, Colorado, and a half-dozen other States are good potato growers and have a large acreage, none of them approached 100,000 acres last year, and in nearly all of them less than 50,000 acres of land was devoted to potatoes. WHEAT CROPS OF THE WORLD. Russia and the United States Have Nearly a Billion Bushels. Details of the Government estimate of , the wheat crops of the various countries, i the total for which wa» stated in a recent dispatch, shows the following in bushels: I Great Britain, bi.s’ Franco, 301,573,000; Germany, 103,550.000; Austria, 45,392.000; Italy. 1 ll.^Os.ihhi; Belgium, 21,277,000; Spain, 86,528,000; Russia, 415,053,000; Hungary, 150.3(51,000; India. 237,456,000; United States, 400,017,000; Canada, 51,066,0<J0; Roumania, 62,414,000; Bulgaria, 52,482,000; Turkey, 42,555,000; Argentine, 60,995,<XX); Aus-

traiia, 35,746.000. The Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark, Scandinavia, Portugal and Greece, together. 29.502.000; Servia. S.sll.<m>o; Chili. 18,440,(XX); Africa, 47.094.000; all Asia except India, 70,950,000; total, 2,402,671,000. Notes of Current Events. “Gon.” Coxey is touring Nebraska in the interest of free silver. S. A. Abbey, supposed to be a victim of the Denver hotel disaster, is alive at Pueblo, Col. Alfred Paxton has be?n appointed receiver for the Davis Carriage Company at Cincinnati. The Prince of Wales’ cutter Britannia has finished her racing season and ha/

gone to Cowes to dismantle, previous to lying up for the winter. She is flying I forty winning flags. Newton B. Eustis, second secretary and Mr. Alexander, counsel of the American । embassy at Paris, have returned from | Clairvaux, where they took down a full statement from ex-Consul Waller of his ' trial and conviction by the French miliI tary court at Tamatave. The schedules in the assignment of Jesse G. Jones, the veteran lumberman, of Indianapolis, show assets of slsOl 32,3.37; liabilities, $187,021.87. The heaviest creditors are the Security Bank of Boston, $61,500; Quincy A. Shaw, of । Boston, SSO,OCX); and Eliza A. Tolman i of Minneapolis.

4 9HICULTURAL news PERTAINING TO THE FARM AND HOME. - • tt» nierS Gain New Ideas and Invig- * ate Both Mind and Body by Taking Annual Vacation —To Drive Op sea Judiciously.

» AN acation for Earmera. • « anyone needs a rest, and a change lU«J Beou e for a few days, It Is the indus?Min ° Us f arm cr- The early spring sowand Planting; then the cultivation ; weeding of the land under the an< ^ f l ie midsummer harvesting , the hay and grain crops, along with IBlany other little matters, have kept ■ alm busy from early in the morning b^intil late in the evening. The harvest Pla over; the hay is in the barrack or ■ ’ack; the grain in the barn going | J"ough the sweating-out process, and te corn is laid by. A few days can be ared now. Give the farm over to the W«# arge of 8011 or your foreman, 3B id go to the ^bashore, or upon a tisli- •* g trip. igaYour wife should go. too. If the farhas been busy in the fields, the 4fyifo has had her hands full in the j^Wuse. lie who knows nothing of the of the farmer's wife in harvest > in gathering the vegetables. In JMreparing and cooking them three Mpeals a day, along with much other p^ork, has much to learn. Take a rest; gif you live In the mountains, go to the "seashore; if you live near the ocean, go to the mountains. A change of locality—seeing now people, new things and new methods of working—will quicken one’s thoughts and produce lasting impressions for good. One returns knowing that other people have as many trials and discouragements as we have, and that farm life is not so hard and disagreeable, after all. Fifty or seven-ty-five dollars spent on a ten-days’ trip will do more good to both than twice that amount Invested at 6 per cent. Make a trial of It.—Baltimore American. Judicious Driving of Hornes. Rome drivers will take more out of a horse in going five miles over a country road than many others will in go- ■ Ing twenty miles. If a hard drive of twenty or thirty miles is before a horse, says the Breeder and Sportsman, start out moderately. Do not whip or worry or fret him. Leave all his strength, nerve and energy to be expended in going forward. Afjpr going along quietly and not too rapidly for a few i miles, ami the horse becomes warmed i up, his muscles distended, and he is re- j lieved of the hay eaten the night be- । fore, then push along briskly, and do ' the heaviest work of the day. Don’t hurry up the long hills. Stop frequent- i ly, cramp the buggy so as to take the i load off the horse, and give Idm time i to catch his breath. You will make I better time in the end by pursuing this course, your horse will finish his day’s work in better condition, and you will ; avoid wind-galls. Make time on roads which are level or slightly down hill. 1 । Then the weight does not drag heavily. I and he is not jarred when going fast. I as he would be if going fast down a l steep hill. Incendiary Lanterns. “That was a costly lantern." sighed neighbor D., as he looked dolefully at the smoking ruins of his new barn. The kerosene lantern had been set on the floor "just for a minute,” but long enough to get knocked over. The blazing oil made quick work with the inflammable material on every hand. In ten minutes the roof was falling in; it was impossible to save even the ani- , ma Is. A few precautions would certainly lessen the frequency of such disasters, says an exchange. Having a place for the light, secure from long handles, irresponsible heels and switching tails, would lie our safeguard, provided the rule was always adhered to of putting it in its place when not in hand. Great care must be used in making a place for the light, so that it will b? safe from d«ngers above as well as below. The heat arising from a continuous flame is considerable, and if too near the woodwork might gradually heat it to the burning point, or a dusty cobweb might serve as a fuse to carry I the blaze. A candle fixed in a lan- i tern makes a much safer light than kerosene, but is not bright enough for all purposes. One farmer who had suffered from fire planned so as to have all of his barnwork possible done before dark. When a light was necessary it was never canned into the barn, but put from the outside through a ; window into a box made for it, with a i glass front. Sul>duins; the Weeds. Any species of weeds can be subdued ; and controlled within the limits of an I ordinary farm, and, unless the value of the land is low from other causes, may be profitably undertaken. If the weed is an annual, says the Philadelphia Ledger, reproducing itself from seeds only, it maybe subjected by preventing seed production. For permanent pastures, lawns and roadsides, this is quite sufficient if persistently followed. In cultivated fields the land thus seeded should first be burned over to destroy as many as possible of the seeds on the surface. It may then be plowed shallow, so as not to bring the remaining seeds too deeply in the soil. The succeeding cultivation, not deeper than the plowing, will induce the germination of the seedlings as they appear. The land may then be plowed deeper and the cultivation repeated until the weed seeds are pretty thoroughly cleared out to as great a depth as the plow ever reaches. Below that depth, eight to ten inches, very few weed seeds can germinate and push a shoot to the surface. A thousand seedlings may be destroyed by the cultivator with less effort than a

single mature plant can be destroyed, and every seedling killed means one less weed seed in the soil. Storing Potatoes. One of the most essential points about potato culture is to know how to preserve the crop when you have raised it. This Is the more important with regard to the seed potatoes, which have to be kept from sprouting for a long period. If buried, potatoes must be covered lightly at first, so as to permit of ventilation, and the covering added from time to time, but only enough ,to protect the tubers from the frost. This, in my experience, is the most unsatisfactory way of storing potatoes. The next worse way is a cellar under a building. । Ihe trouble with a cellar is to give it air enough and keep it cool enough. The most satisfactory and cheapest way that I know of is to store tn a dugout, making the roof of earth over poles and brush. In very wet weather such a roof will leak, unless covered with boards, corn stalks, straw or other covering. The best location is a slope or bank facing south. By leaving an alley through the center of a dug-out, ■with plenty of large ventilation shafts through the roof, a brisk circulation will be kept up whenever the end door is opened—particularly where the door opens on the level, as it will do if the building is dug in the side of a bank. The dug-out should be built with a bin on each side of a central alley. The bottoms of the bins should be raised six inches from the ground and the sides of the bins should bo clear of contact with the walls, whether stone or dlrL Both bottoms and sides are best made of fence boards, with inch spaces between. Such a building, carefully managed as to ventilation, opened up on frosty nights and kept closed during the warm days of fall and early winter, will take early Ohio potatoes through to spring without a sprout Early rose, beauty of Hebron and other such varieties may require turning over once. —Kansas Farmer. For Granary Pests. Last fall in cutting up my corn I placed two open bottles, containing bisulphate of carbon, four feet apart on the floor of the bln. The mouths of these bottles wore covered with a layer of cheesecloth, and each bottle covered with an ord broken box. The corn, according to the New” York Tribune, was thrown on these boxes, and the bin filled to its utmost capacity. The result was highly successful; what weevils were admitted from the field were destroyed, and none further appeared. Thus, at a cost of fifty cents, j with very little trouble, I protected : about five hundred bushels of corn ! against the weevils. Moreover. I have I noticed neither mouse nor rat in the ! bin, nor traces of them, which was not ; the case before, for in previous years : they, too, did great damage to the com. 1 have advised for years such use of bisulphide of carbon. I am gratified i to hear of its extensive use all over the country. Many millers use it most satisfactorily. It kills, is easily used, is ! not expensive, and, if cautiously used, so as to cause no danger from fire or explosion, is most excellent. Make the Calf Drink Slowly. We often see articles in agricultural papers, giving directions how to break the calf to drink; how often, how much, an>l what to feed, all of which are most important, but what I consider one essential phase of calf-feeding I never see touched upon, says Rural Life. Rapidly or slowly shall the young bovine drink his milk? Calves generally, when fed milk from the pail, drink as rapidly as they can. The greedy and very hungry ones gulp it down till they choke, and it seems the delight of others to thrust their noses to the bottom of the dish, and drink as long as they have breath, then “come up and blow.” The sudden filling of the calf’s stomach with milk is well known to be deleterious, and to obviate this too rapidly filling up I had a tinner, several years ago, make me a vessel, holding about a gallon, the diameter of a six-quart pail, with an oval bottom, with a hole punched in the center about large enough to thrust a lead pencil through. With this “drink-slow dish” set on the milk in the । pail, the calf drinks slowly from the j fountain that comes through the hole in । tdie bottom. One Way to Spray. When paris greening potato vines it occurred to me how many ways it is done. A neighbor used to plaster the paris green dry at the same time I used it wet, says A. P. Sampson in the New ■ England Farmer. I put the same barrel j I use on apple trees on the stone drag, ’ close to the tub I use to cool milk, and I have a man pump into the tub. I fill I the barrels, then draw to the potato field I and leave one barrel at each end of the field, so as not to walk .so far back and forth. Now I put a pound of paris green in each barrel and apply it to the vines with a pail and whisk broom. I used to do two rows at once, now I do one, as the pail reaches the other barrel better and saves a walk. Two barrels will do an acre. Some use a spoonful of green to a pail of water, and, of course, with a barrel of water there needs be a stick to stir the water every time a pailful is taken out. A gun to put on raw paris green costs $7.50; the tools I use cost 50 cents. Root Crops Not Fat Producers. Root crops cannot be considered’directly as fat or flesh producing, but they make an agreeable change of diet, and are valuable to use In connection with more concentrated foods, such as corn, bran, oil meal, etc. Consisting mostly of water, they have a loosening tendency that must be counteracted with heavier food. Evergreen Corn. Stowell’s evergreen corn is all right for main crop and for succession.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. OCCURRENCES DURING THE PAST WEEK. An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doingn of Our Neighbors—Wed. dings and Deaths-Crimcs. Casualties and General News Notes of the State. Hoosier Happenings Muncie is to have a new people’s bank. Royal Center will spend £4,000 in Water-works. lorest fires arc doing great damage in the vicinity of Rigdon. Anderson milk men' have formed a combine and advanced prices. Milo Thomas’ hardware store at Corunna is in ashes. Loss, $15,000. Ed Wyman's little son was badly hurt in a runaway accident al Franklin. The Commissioners of .Jay County have contracted fora new infirmary building, to cost $17,000. James Bennis, an old farmer living near Lebanon, was fatally stabbed by Burt Neese, aged 14. James Kessleu of Shelby County, is insane over the delusion that some one wants to kill him. An unknown tramp was caught by a I Vandalia train at Terre Haute and liter- | ally torn to pieces. 1 John Jack of Elwood, was probably ! fatally kicked in the throat by a horse I which he was hitching. Temperance people of Elwood wish to prevent the saloon men from securing a renewal of license when their present license expire. Eva Byers walked from a Monon train in her sleep near Lowell. She fell under the wheels and her left leg was cut off. She will recover. Near Parker, on the Big Four railroad, the body of an unknown Jinan was found. He is believed to have been killed and placed on the track. It was reported that an eighteen-foot boa carried by a circus had escaped in Logansport, and that a reward was offered sered for its capture. There will be two murder trials, one of which is the famous Dollie Belknap case, and also a county seat war at Seymour, the coining term of court. John B. Sacre, of Fayette county, is lying at the point of death from injuries sustained on a barbed wire fence while trying to check a runaway team. The Columbus Stove and Range Company has decided to locate at Cicero. The capital stock ofthecompany is $25,000, and the plant will give employment to 150 men. The thirteenth annual reunion of the Seventy-tilth and One Hundred and First Indiana Regiments and the Nineteenth Indiana Battery occurs at Warren Oct. 3 and 4. James Devan, an old farmer of Montgomery County, who does not believe in banks, was knocked down and robbed of $129. Several months ago he was assaulted and robl ed of SIOO. Bhari.es Roac h, 22years old, employed by his father, William Roach, near Huntingburg, while feeding stock, fell through a hole in the mow, striking on his head and dying of his injuries. Charles Morris, aged 23, a member of a party of hunters from Wilkesville, Ohio, died at Crawfordsville from the effects of a gunshot which he received while engaged in a scuffle over a gun with a companion. The window-glass factories of Elwood, Orestes and Frankton, five in number, not —\ includi-d in the window-glass combine, are making arrangements to start up at fun capacity. They will employ about 1,500 men. E. M. Short, a prominent Grand Army man, met with a serious accident at the car works at Jeffersonville. A boring pin flew from a machine winch he was running, striking him on the right arm, almost tearing the member from the body. The Postal Telegraph Company has begun building its lines south from Terre Haute to Evansville and expects to be in operation by the middle of next month. The Long Distance Telephone Company has recently completed its line to the same city. Jacob Reich and his two sons were gored to death by a vicious bull near Wik ale. Mr. Reich was first attacked and trampled to death. His sons went to his rescue and were also mangled. The younger son was impaled on the bull’s horns. The anti-saloon element has been successful in remonstrating against the saloons in Bloomfield. A majority of petitioners have been secured and the saloons will have to go. The movement has also been successful in Jefferson, Grant, and. Jackson Townships. In North and South Dakota, whither hundreds of farm laborers from Indiana flocked in the hope of securing employment in the harvest fields at $2 per day and board, the supply of hands far exceeds the demand, and around Fargo alone a thousand or more men are homeless. Thieves entered the room ol Harry Mason, ticket agent of the Big Four railroad at Greensburg, secured a gold watch, $7 in money from his pockets, and the key to the safe in the railroad office, and then went to the depot. Half a block away, entered the office through the ladies' reception-room, unlocked the safe and stole SB7. Ains. Ma by Ri< he y’s son and daughter, aged 2-.^ years, were drowned in a small stream three miles southwest of Scotsbur.". The heavy- rain caused the stream in that neigliborhood to become swollen and the children wandered to the stream and are supposed to have been playing in the water and fallen in. Their bodies were recovered. Engineer Patrick Shea and Fireman Charles Larimore, while their engine was pulling a heavy freight train near Monroeville, suddenly saw a red light loom up (•lead. There was a fog, which prevented clear vision, and Shea shut off, and he and his fireman jumped. Both men were severely injured. The red light proved to belong to a train which they were slowly following. Lemuel Warner of Burlington, found his daughter at Peru in company with Charles Adams, a street faker, whom she claims to have married. The couple failed to show the marriage license, and the father is convinced his daughter has been deceived. She softened when told that her mother was dying, and returned home. James Delaney of Converse, filed suit for SIO,OOO damages against the Peerless Glass Works and William Feighner. In 1894 Delaney was arrested on charge of setting fire to the glass works at Converse, but after being held ten days was dismissed, and now charges false imprisonment.