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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-12

BRUSSELS, Jan. 1.-THE Soir to-day
says p detachment of Congo Free State
troops undor Baron Dhanis, the Belgian
commander, had two battles with the
rebellious Batatolas in the neighborhood of
Baraka early in October last, in which
ninety of the Batatolas were killed, while
the Congo Free State troops suffered no
casualties. Among the killed were three
chiefs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-12

PITTSBURG. Pa, Jan. u.-Three hun
dred men employed i'm the coal mines OF
the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Com
pany's plant at Natrona. struck for higher
wages to-day. They demand from ten &c
twenty per cent. increase. The coal supply
OF the works is shut of by the strike.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-12

CHICAGO. Jan. u.-F'leeing to escape ar
rest on charge OF robbery and almost
at the door of his home. John Burke was
shot and instantly killed tonight by Po-
liceman Joseph L. Tischart, of the West
Lake-street station. The policeman had
trailed three highwaymen for almost half
a mile and surprised them as they were
sharing their loot In an alley. Burkes
companions escaped.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-12
A NARROW ESCAPE.


The residence of John Gallagher 402
Holmes avenue, Haughville, burned this
morning about o'clock. The fire was
caused by an oyerheated gas stove. The
family narrowly escaped. The flames COM
municated to the house adjoining, and il
was partially consumed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-12
WEATHER FORECAST.
Fair To-day and TO-MOrrow, with
NorthwesterIy Winds.

WASHINGTON, Jan. u.-Forecast for
Friday and Saturday:
For Ohio-Fair en- Friday and Saturday,
preceded by light rain on the lake; brisk
to nigh northwesterly winds.
For Indiana and Illinois-Fair Fri
cay and Saturday; northerwesterly winds.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-12
Bishop Rademacher Dying

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
FORT WAYNE, Ind, Jan. 12.-Bishop
Rademachers attendant, at this hour C
a. mr.. states that he cannot live till day
light. and will most probably die In less
than hour
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-12
Protest from MaIietoa.

LONDON, Jan. 1.-THE Times prints
this morning the text of protest by Mali
etoa Tanu to the tripartite powers against
the Samoan treaties.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-12

portion and utility OF each in conserving
that aim are those of evangelistic work.
educational work.. literary work. medical
work, benevolent work and women's work.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-12
Local Observations ON Thursday.
Bar. Their. R.H. Wind

Bar Their. r. II. Wind. Weather Pre-
g g N Nssss d 5s Thln S SSs
Maximum temperature. 80 minimum tempera-
ture. 81
Following Is comparative statement OF the
temperature and precipitation for Jan. IL:
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ciety. Nevertheless. we do not believe he
is yet willing to give the Socialists COM
plete freedom OF action"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
RURAL FREE DELIVERY.
system Has Proved Failure In Many
Localities on Account of
ExecrabIe Roads.

The farmers of Washington county.
Pa, have at last attained their hearts
desire-free rural mail delivery. And
at the same time they discover that
the system viii probably be failure.
owing to the bad condition of the
roads in that country. Strange, isn't
IT, that this discovery was not made
before the government acceded to the
demands for the mail service? Verify,
What fools these mortals bel" Aft
er having listened in stony silence for
70 years to good roads sermons and
IN the meantime deciding that rural
mail service was of more value than
good roads, these farmers discover
that the road must come first and
that rural mail delivery will follow
naturally. AS it is, they have put the
cart before the horse. and as a result
the horse backs away
Here was the proposition which
these farmers considered: Good roads.
which would enable the farmer to
haul his products to market at less
cost and with greater ease than with
the present roads; and. secondly, rural
delivery, whose only advantage is the
delivery of letters once a day Sup
pose that the letter which the rural
carrier delivers contains an offer for
the farmers wheat at one dollar per
bushel on immediate delivery. and
suppose that the roads are in their
usual impossible condition; then
what? The farmer tears his whiskers
and other hirsute adornment and
cusses the government that allows
such roads to be built He forgets
that the building of roads lies within
his own power; that if he asserts him
self he can procure the finest roads in
the world. Instead, he is obliged to
lose this chance to sell his wheat at
one dollar per bushel, merely because
he has accepted rural mail delivery
in lieu of good roads. That letter does
him no good; it is the immediate de-
livery of the wheat that counts, and
rural mail carriers are not addicted to
carrying wheat to the railroad sta
ton some miles away. Rural delivery
will surely follow good roads, and
good roads may possibly follow free
rural mail delivery, but let us have
the roads first. You cannot send sew
eral hundred bushels of wheat by
mail, but with good roads you can
have the pleasure, the real pleasure,
of driving into ''town" any day with
your wheat and other products and
get your own mail, and then you will
not feel the need of free rural mail
delivery. When you get the good
roads, then the boys will want BIZ
cycles, and every morning they viii
be only too glad to ride in for the
mail, and the rural mail carriers will
their. salary, and they will wax fat.
and the farmer likewise, and then
prosperity will ride through the land
in a motor vehicle on good roads.
AS at present contemplated. it will
require from 20 to so carriers to de-
liver the mail through Washington
county once day. That is, provid-
ing the roads are in good enough con-
dition; otherwise the farmers will be
lucky to get their mail once month.
Cleveland Cycling Gazette.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
Agricu1ture tn A1aska.

Prof Georgeson is experimenting
in the growing of different varieties
of cereals, forage plants, fax and
vegetables in gardens placed at his
disposal by citizens of Sitla. In spite
of late planting. oats, barley, pota-
toes, fax and a number of different
kinds of vegetables of good quality
were matured last year. Clover and
grasses made an excellent growth.
Useful data were also obtained from
these experiments regarding the eff
feet of different soil conditions on
the termination of seeds and the
growth of plants. Experiments SINH
lar to those being conducted at Sitka
were made at SkaguaY.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05

reproduce their kind so long as the
food supply is continued. In one small
jelly glass there is a large Irish Po-
tato, where lot of little flies have
laid their larvae, and the potato is
fairly riddled with the holes which
have been made by the larvae. An
other larger glass jar contains few
yucca pods. In the sand beneath
them are buried number of grubs
which have deserted the yucca pods.
Some time in April they will emerge,
not as grubs, but as moths. The yuc-
ca will then be poisoning, and the
moths will live on the blossoms. Ma
ture supplies food for all manner of
life, and the food-eating insects bring
death to these forms of vegetable life.
One of the strangest things in this
collection of wonders is the fact that
half a dozen huge oak gals not only
nourish the gall bugs, but protect
their destroyers. just as a cancer is
concealed within the body of human
being and protected from medical and
surgical agencies while it eats away
a human life. the oak is stung in hun
dreds of places by gnatlike insects;
forms over the injured parts, where
eggs are deposited, odd-looking
growths which protect the offspring
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
UNCLE BIG IKE ON ..wAH. ),
"Reminiscences of an ola Body SEW
ant OF n Young Confederate
Soldier.

swell, Mars William Henry, dey tells
me de wah am ober. Mighty quick
done up, want it? De wahs I is use
ter want no sech fas' perceedin's, but
dem Dagoes amt morn hat men,
noways. L seen lots on 'em down in
New Orleans when I use ter go down
dar wild mules frum Kaintucky. Dey
gifts mad mighty easy. en- den look
out, er dey'n stab yea in de back; but
when dey hez to face yer in fight it
don't 'quire long to whip EN-
''Why, Uncle Ike, didn't know you
were in the war of the rebellion You
lived in Mississippi then, you told ne.
Did you join Sherman on his raids?''
Sherman? No, Mars William Hen
ry, L wuz on t'other side. De way
huccom it wuz. my young marster he'd
to go; leastwise his pa couldn't hole
him at home no longer, en- so ole
marster sont me wild him. want
nuthin' but a feF-han', but I wuz
strong en- healthy dem days. .Ev'y-
body called me- Big Ike fur I wuz
putty pow'fu In de aims en- shoulders.
We he'd sev'rul O. de same name-Lit-
tie Ike, Ike Johnson, Ike Darlington
"a foolish sort O. niger, allus crackin'
jokes en- me. Dis VIZ how it hap
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
wHEELMEN TO HELP.
Much Work for Good Hands to BE
Done This Year by Leading
Bicycle Organization.

Now that the League of American
Wheelmen has abolished it's racing de-
partment, every attention will be
given the other branches of the work
The most important of these is the
highway improvement department, in
which is intrusted the work in behalf
of the good roads movement, which
was started by the L. A w, and
which has been constantly agitated
by it for almost 20 years. The league
has made rapid strides in this move
ment, particularly during the past
year, but the racing question has re-
fected upon this as upon all other
deparements. the belief being dissem-
mated that none of the branches of
league work could be made effective
until the racing question was settled.
The most important work accom-
plished last year was the holding of
many good roads conventions in va
rious states, the introduction of
highway improvement measures in
many of the state legislatures and
the evolution of the movement to ma
tional proportions, as was evidenced
by the bill introduced in congress call
ing for an apprOpriat ton of $4,000, 600.
Constitutional amendments were car
ried in Michigan and Minnesota, and
a large amount of education on the
subject was circulated by the league.
All of this work will be continued
during the present year, but upon a
much larger scale than heretofore. In
fact, this will be one of the most i'm
portant agitations of the year, aside
from the presidential elections. The
delegates of the L. A. W. were never
more enthusiastic upon the subject,
and they will enter into the work
with increased vigor. They expect
the cooperation of all wheelmen in the
great work they are doing.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05

of mankind must come and go before
we have anything like comprehensive
scientific cyclopedia of these things.
''We see death and life here together
We see insects die, and out of their
death we see new life arise. The ordi-
mary illustration of the butterfly
emerging from the death form of it's
predecessor we see multiplied indefi-
nitely in these studies. Here in this
jar is twig infested with little worms.
They will die very soon, and out of
their decayed forms will come full
fiedged beetles. In this jar are several
immature grasshoppers, buried in the
earth. They have been there six
years. Eleven years more will elapse,
when they will come forth from their
graves as full-fedged locusts of the
17-year variety.
Naturally, we who see and study
these phenomena of nature are not
staggered with the statements of the
ologians that out of the death of hui
man beings there will arise new forms
of life. There is a very slight border
line of demarkation between science
and philosophy. Science ascertains
facts. Philosophy asks: 'Why?' and
tries to give the reason. Theology
goes a little farther But all stu
dents, all scientists. philosophers and
theologians are striving for the adj
vancement of human knowledge. And
sometimes our bitter divcrgences and
controversies result in bringing forth
truths which might never be deyel-
oped but for the earnestness and in
creased energy which are let loose by
sAcrimony and controversy"
But to return to the jars: In one
OF them, which is half full of beans,
there are hundreds of bean-eating
bugs which will continue to live and
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05

means, however, more vigorous tree
later on, and the vigorous pruning
should be given, no matter how much
it hurts to cut the young growth back.
There is another important point to be
remembered in setting out young trees.
Probably more of these die annually
for want of sufficient moisture than
from any other cause. This is shown
by the fact that one rarely loses any
newly set trees if the season happens to
be very moist, while in dry seasons the
loss is apt to be very great. A heavy
mulching about each tree as it is set
will greatly assist in keeping the roots
moist, as will also a firm packing of
the earth about the roots when being
covered. If it pays to set out trees at
all, it will pay to set them out properly
and to care for them when set.-N. Y.
Tribune
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
PRUNING FRUIT TREES.
Use OF the Knife Is Advisable
in Most Instances.

When trees are taken up in the nur-
sery a great many of the roots are
broken off. The drying out incident to
transportation reduces the vitality of
the trees also, and so they must
be favored as far as possible by
a vigorous pruning of all limbs.
The cuts show, first an average
tree as it comes from the nurs-
cry, and, second, the same tree
as it should be pruned when it is set
out. Most people are too much afraid
of cutting a tree back. Such work
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05

B. r. wanted one to hold 300 pounds of
corn. 1t would be difficult to plan one
that small; this one pictured holds COG
pounds. Use inch plank. First make
the floor or bottom, 80 inches long and
20 inches wide. Take four planks three
feet long and seven inches wide an6
make partitions (A) for the trough;
these are three inches wide at the bot
tom and beve1ed up to fit faring side
of trough. The troughs are four
inches wide on bottom and the
plank (B) is eight inches wide. A
space of two inches at the bottom OF
the box CO., allows the corn to come
through into troughs. The ends (Dl
are 40 inches long. The dotted lines
(E) show the slanting floor. The box
is broken out at F, to show grain in
side-Ohio Farmer.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
THE STUDY OF BUGS.
Pursued for the Benefit of Farmers
as Well as Consumers.
Our Washington Correspondent De-
crfbes a Visit to the Most Inter
esting Branch of the Agri-
cultural Department..
Especial washington letter.

N.Y. HILE the insecticides, Vermi-
wv cides, germicides and microbe
killers are diligently engaged
in efforts to destroy certain forms of
life, there are scientists in government
employment who are making strenu-
Gus efforts to hatch obnoxious insects
and their parasites.
Under the direction of the depart
ment of agriculture, in a building
erected specifically for that purpose,
insects are bred and reared in large
glass conservatory which serves as
dollhouse for the propagation of bugs
of scores of species. They are as care
fully cared for as the eggs in chicken
incubators, and are given plenty of
Hight and warm, moist air all through
the winter and during the damp or
chilly days and nights of spring and
autumn.
Although it is conceded that the
greatest study of man is man, there are
scientists who seem to have accom-
yplished all that they desire in that di-
rection, and they devote their waking
hours to the study of bugs, beetles and
all of the forms of minute animal life.
In all sorts of jars, from a small jelly
:giass to a large glass globe of kettle
form, they have insects in various
,stages of development. The daily his
tory of each insect is carefully noted,
and all of it's transformations are his
torically treated for several genera
tions.
In one of these jars there are two
;sunfower heads infested with the
larvae of beetles. These larvae have
buried themselves in the sand with
which the vessel is partly filled, and
there they have been alternating for
four months. Very soon they will be
set out in the sunlight. They will then
emerge rs perfect beetles, will lay eggs
in the sunflowers and new generation
will be watched with solicitude and in
terest.
The careful study of these things
has been fostered by the department
of agriculture in order that ultimate
1y the best methods of destroying the
pests, and preventing their propaga-
tion, may be discovered by those who
make specific study of these subjects.
Some time this spring the department
will issue bulletins for farmers, giving
all of the information which has been
acquired during the past IL months in
these studies.
One of the officials, upon being COM
plimented upon the value of the work
which is being done, said: 1--WE are
doing some good, but of course it is
very little. You must understand that
there are about 100000 species of in
sects, and we are treating them by
scores instead CT by millions. Human
knowledge is exceedingly small, and
our Investigations are circumscribed.
But if we can help our agriculturists
even little bit we are doing good
work. Men who give their lives to sci
entific inquiry naturally become moral
philosophers. We realize the vastness
of the forms and qualities of creation
and are lost in awe. Many genera tions
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05

horus. Wan noight, afther putin tn
inimy teh fioight, toired, hungry an
kivered wild blue clay, we lay down in
a secluded ravine teh snatch few
hours rist. A drizzlin' rain wuz fallin',
an tn 'cOmmodashuns wor not tn
best in tn wurruld. Howivir, OF sprid
me ileclOth down in tn mud an troid
teh make mesilf blave OF wuz at a
summer picnic. Mkt teh me wuz a
young sojer, wild his face turned
torrud tn skoy, an wild divvle a bit
iv shelter,
e" 'Mebbe he's dhramin' iv his swate-
ha-art far off sumwhares, poor boye,'
thinks Oh, an Oh divoided me blanlzit
wild him. Oh wuz hankerin' fur bit
iv tobaccy, an wunsht durin' tn
noight Oh asked him if he he'd amy
in his haversack. He niver med an
swer, an conc1udin' tn poor teller wuz
completely worrun out, Oh let him
slape on, an TUX a moor or less ray
frishing snooze mesilf. Whin tn
Sugle gev tn reveille, tn sojer boy
niver shtirred. Oh shook him voil' ntly,
but shtill he didn't bulge. TIL mornin'
wuz dim an gray, an whin Oh placed
me hand on his forrud tn cowld chiIIs
kervooted down me shpinal colyum.
Ne kumpanyun iv tn noight wuz dedi
An thare he wuz left, in Smokers
Gap, wild his handsome young face
shtin turned torrud tn skoy an
fotygraff of a swate young girreI
chasp-ed toightly in his hand. De
troit Free Press.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
Feed Good MILK ONLY.

Every man that brings back milk
from the creamery to feed to his stock
should insist that it be good milk, for
only good milk is fit to feed. Rotten
milk viii injure him at several points.
Frequently, indeed. the bad milk is
due to patrons not delivering it in
time, but that is no reason why the
long-suffering patron that does do
right should not bring up the ques-
ton. Perhaps it may result in re-
forming the patrons that are remiss.
at any rate, it may secure an improve
xnent.-Farmers' Voice.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
An Effective Insecficide.

The arsenate of lead has been found
to be quite as effective as paris green
for insects. The farmer can get the
materials for this and mix it himself.
Get the arsenate of soda 6S per cent.
strong and dissolve ten ounces of it
in tank of water. In another tank
dissolve either "a ounces lead acetate
or 20 ounces lead nitrate They are
best dissolved by tying up in bag
and suspending in the water Mix
these together, adding water enough
to make $50 to 200 gallons of the mix
ture. This would be effective on near
~ all leaf-eating insects, but it might
be used much stronger without injury
to the foliage. This is the mixture
used by the gypsy moth commission
for destroying the larvae, and it was
also used in the Hudson river valley
for the elm leaf beetle and caterpil-
lar with success.-American Cultiva-
tor.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05

ly (dat wuz de name o our planta tion)
en- he sont fur me. When I walked into
de room l s'luted him, en- he 'costed
me; den he seq: Set down, Big Ike;
[ want to talk wild yer
81 begun to wonder what wuz
a-comin', but putty soon he SEE: How
would yer like to go wild yer young
Mars Charles to de wah?'
''Well, san, de hair on my head putty
nigh riz UP strait outen de kinks, 1
wuz so s'prized; yer know I nuver
thought o bein' tooken fur a body
sarvent! L didn't know nuthin' bout
'tendin' to close or shinin' shoes or
sech like; but marster KEEP on: I think
I kin trust you wild him. You know
he's allus been mighty delikit, so you'll
ha'f ter look out fur him-nuss him
eff he's sick er wounded, en- bring him
back to me eff he's killed.
81 sed [ would, en- in a few days we
lef' fur de front. My young marster
fined his Pigment on de road to Vicks-
burg, en- arter some ftin' on de Big
Black en- long G de way we got dere.
Den Gennel Grant penned us up, en-
things got mo- en- mo- serious; meat
got skurcer en- skurcer; dey took to
KILN de mules and bosses, kase dere
wuzn't nuthin' fur de POI things to
eat, nur nuthir,' fur US. Yer mayn't
b'lieve it, but hossfesh amt sech POI
eatin' when yer stummicks entity en-
calm fur rashuns, en- dey amt no
r2ShUns. / aIluS WIZ good cook;
dey use ter say nobody could barbecue
like me at home, en- when we he'd de
big times, de fsh-frys en- de Fo'th O.
Julys, you'd better b'lieve Big Ike he'd
to be on land! I tell you he could roas'
a 'possum to de queens own tas'e, en-
jes' sarve it up wild plenty O. rich gravy
en- brown sweet-'taters de-1ish! So in
de siege [ set to work to make good
stews outen hess en- mule meat; den
when I could git some greens, en- make
a few cohn-dodgers, why, Mars Charles
en- me jes' natchelly smacked our
moufs over it, en- said grace inside tout
putin it in words.
II thought we he'd hard times in
Vicksburg. but I s'pose it wa mt nuth-
in to de bareback full O. worms our
POI soljers he'd to eat in Cuba en- in
de camps: Some on EN- looks like dey
hedn't he'd a squar meal sence dey been
gone. Wild dem yaller leggins on dere
spindlin' legs dey minds me O. ya1ler-
legged chickens.
Il hear how as yaller-jack cotch
some on 'em, too; when he's roun' yer
mout as well say yer pra'rs en- sing:
'Far'well, Vain Worl'!'"
''WeIl, Uncle Ike, did your young
master as well as yourself escape the
shells at Vicksburg?''
Eyes, sab; brung him back to ole
marster safe en- SCUM, putty thin en-
little de wuss fur wear en- tear, but
alive en- ready TO fight ag'in as soon as
he got thru wild his payroll. Thinkin'
bout it all, Mars William Henry. wah's
mighty quare thingi It's bad in
some ways, en- then ag'in it's good in
others. Wher'd this country be eff we
hedn't fit the British; en- wher'd my
people be eff de Eorf hedn't fit de south;
en- wher'd Cuba be eff we hedn't whipt
de Spanish? Pears to me like; on de
whole, wah's ii fine thing; leastwise
our wahs isl''-Orlena L. Shack1eford,
in Woman's Home Companion.