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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-03

There were handled on the Big Four sys-
tenn in January 141 $50 loaded cars; on the
Peoria & Eastern. 2o.4os
The next number Of the official organ Of
the railroad clerks will appear in magazine
form. instead of an eight-page paper.
j. r. PEBBLES, superintendent of the Nash
vile, Chattanooga & ST. Louis, will go to
Florida on account of serious throat
affection.
S. p. Shane assumed the duties of freight
traffic manager of the Erie line Feb. l.
being promoted from assistant freight
traffic manager.
Despite the unfavorable weather last
month. the revenue of the Big Four from
sales of tickets at Indianapolis was So 46O in
excess of that of January, 1902
Thomas Smiley. agent in this territory
for the Lake Shore Lehigh Valley Dis
patch. has suffered relapse of grip, and
is again confined TO the house.
The Ozark & Cherokee Central will have
40 miles in operation by Feb. 10. Regular
trains began running between Fayetteville,
Ark. and Muskego, l. T., on Sunday
The Kingan Company Qimited) last week
contracted for fifty new refrigerator cars
When these are in service the company
will have 500 modern refrigerator cars.
Train No. 10. on the Lake Shore, is now
run in two sections. One train Is made
up of the Chicago service, the other of the
Cleveland. Cincinnati and st. Louis service.
+ f. Robb, superintendent of the West
an indefinite leave OF absence on account
of i'll health.
III. s. Slack, chief clerk of j. r. Cava-
nagh, car service superintendent of the
Big Four. has resigned. and will be sue
ceeded by j. V. Clarke. of that department.
promoted.
The Southern Pacific has granted an in
crease in the salaries of all its station
agents and tclegraphe-s between FL Paso
and New Orleans. the total being about
$4,000 per year.
II. Il. Stiles. general agent of the Cincin-
has been confined TO the house by illness
for over "A month. was at his office yes
terday for a short time.
ID. It. Bacon. who retired yesterday as
general manager OF the Indiana Car Serv-
ice Association, completed his fortieth year
a New York freight office.
The entire route of the Columbus &
Springfield has been located between Toledo
and Columbus. distance of les miles, and
about forty-fve miles of the new road was
plased under contract last week.
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific has
purchased 900 acres OF land just east of
Rock Island, ILL.,. where il purposes to erect
"A great shop plant and will consolidate
some of its minor shops at that point
The Cincinnati. Indiana * Western bet
ter known as the Cincinnati Richmond q
Muncie. is purchasing real estate in Gin
Cinnati for its terminal facilities Last
week is purchased three blocks of ground
The block system on the Big Four's st
Louis division was opened on Sunday, and
the heavy traffic over the line on Sunday
and yesterday was handled with more
promptness than has been the case for sew
eral months.
The Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad will
, be double-tracked between Toledo and Dill
londale. .. The purpose OF the double
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-03

Because Of inability of Eastern roads to
handle all the traffic offered to them. West
ern roads have issued blockade notices that
affect several of the necessaries of life.
Among the latter is flour, which the North
western roads will not receive for delivery
to Eastern roads until further notice. The
condition OF congestion on Eastern roads
is very much worse than on Western roads,
and the blockade notice which was issued to
agents to-day by one of the Western
roads gives pretty comprehensive idea Of
the condition of affairs. The notice con-
tains these paragraphs:
Until further notice we decline to ac-
cept shipments as follows: All carload
terial or supplies, perishable freight or
freight loaded within switching limits at
Chicago. destined east of Versailles.
Moundsville and Parkersburg; loaded cars
minal district with the exception Of coal,
COKE oil and perishable freight; all freight.
except live stock or perishable destined
to points reached via the Wabash Railroad,
Windsor TO Buffalo; all freight, except live
stock or perishable, destined to Canadian
Detroit; all freight, except live stock, per-
ishable or bituminous coal, destined East
via Nickel-plate; all freight except live
stock. perishable or coal, destined to
points on Grand Trunk Railway; grain,
hay. lumber and ore destined to points west
of Pittsburg; grain destined to points on
or reached via Erie Railroad; grain and
Hour products destined East via Niagara
frontier, routed via Milwaukee and Grand
Trunk railways across lake line"
Chicago and western Indiana advise that
they cannot accept shipments of grain
routed via Michigan Central Railway.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-03

Country Gentleman.

SOuHtIy 0cHticIudH.
The garden should be planned so that
much of the work can be done with horse.
In addition to the tools necessary for car
ing for ordinary farm crops, every farmer
should have some kind of a horse culti-
vator. wheel hoe and a garden seeder; a
combination tool will answer for the two
last. A greasy rag is a necessary accom-
paniment of this outfit. and should be ap-
piled to every tool as often as used. A
dressing of coarse manure. applied late in
the fall and plowed under, will enable you
to work your garden from one to two weeks
earlier in the spring. Give the plat a good
coat of well-rotted manure in the spring
just before blowing. A hotbed should be
started in the fall by digging a hole three
feet deep and six feet square and filling
with coarse manure. Provide suitable
horse manure and tramp and keep level,
then apply four inches of surface soil con-
sisting of leaf mold or ordinary loan mixed
with sand and well-rotted fine manure. In
about the middle of February. There is a
great advantage in growing ones own
plants for setting, in that one Is sure Of
ones variety, and the plants do not suffer
so much in moving. / grow for trans
caulifiower. eggplant and onions. Peren-
malls, such as strawberries. pieplant and
currants, should be set at one side of the
garden plat. Thorough filming of the soil
will materially reduce the after work of the
garden. Everything should be planted in
rows extending the long way; 1t may be
necessary to plant several things In row.
Lettuce. radishes, early cabbage. spinach
and early potatoes may be followed by a
second crop OF some kind. 1t is easy to ex-
tend the season of sweet corn in our part
of the State from about July until frost.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-03
No "New-FangIed- Farming.

Now the farmer dons his go-to-meetin' suit
And he HES him to a grangers' institute,
There TO hear. in learned lectures,
Agricultural conJsctures
And TO bark to professional dispute.
on the platform sit the experts. wise sedate.
Each with boards OF useful knowledge meath his
pate.
And they tell the farmer how
He should milk the specklei cow
In the fashion most approved and up TO date
There are papers on Rotation of the Crops"
Dissertations on The Proper Poles for Hops"
And a long. intense debate
on the question grave and great
should the Barn Be Cleansed with Pitchforks
with Mops?"
How to Trace the Willy weasels to Their
Sources.
Helpful Hints on Painless Dentistry for
Horses.
How Build Stack OF Oats
As Winter Shed for Goats
There many more such edifying courses.
Now the farmer sagely mods at all they say.
And shutdown. having spent a pleasant day.
Homeward hastens his toll
And proceeds to till the soil
In the very good oid-fashioned Jersey way
Newark Evening News.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-03

c. M. Harger, in The Worlds Work.
One day. late In the recent autumn.
half-dozen farmers. coming fifteen miles.
drove into prairie village with heavy loads
of corn. They went to the principal eleva-
tors and asked the price.
Thirty cents a bushel to-day"
1--WE will go to the buyer at the other
end of the town." said the spokesman.
1T will do you no good" was the reply.
las all the buyers pay the same price here. :"
Very well. we will go home and send
our corn TO market on foot.
They drove back fifteen miles and UNI
loaded the corn into their own granaries,
to be shipped later in the form of fat cat
tie.
Such an incident would have been impos-
sibIe ten years ago, when the average
farmer was compelled TO take what was
offered for his crop. But two things have
growing portion OF the West: the farmers
have become conservative with prosperity.
and the railroads have widened the mar
kets.
Five years of good crops in the West have
not only paid debts but have also made
the farmer capable of employing business
methods. A few years ago settler visited
town only once a fortnight or once a
month. He took home with him the coun-
ty papers, the few magazines that he re-
ceived from the East, and a large bundle
or groceries ana Qry gOOOS. WIN
delivery and rural telephones all that is
past.
One morning the telephone in my. Office
rang, and answering. recognized the
voice of a farmer friend living dozen
miles from a railroad.
II see in the Kansas City morning pa
pers." he began, that there is trouble In
Venezuela. Is there anything later?'
How did you know what was in the
morning papers,"
"Oh, we get them from the carrier every
day"
1t was not noon, yet he had been ir
touch with the worlds news up to O'Clock
that morning, and this two hundred miles
west of the Missouri river.
Under these conditions the Western farm
er has developed an independence In the
movement of crops disconcerting to the
market manipulatorS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-03

Chicago Inter Ocean.
A business man in Springfield is quoted as
saying that when the interurban railroad
system is completed Whereabouts you will
see land worth $500 an acre" This he ad-
mits does not hold out encouragement for
the man of small means who thinks he can
not farm less than 100 acres of land but
the interurban farmer is going to be a small
farmer and he is going to make the most
out of his acreage, whatever may be its
extent
This business man is convinced that the
interurban railroad will take into the agri-
cultural districts people who love the pleas
ure and independence of country life.
Thousands of city people who now make
scant living will seek small farm homes,
he thinks; when they learn that the inter.
urban railroad places all the advantages of
town life within the reach of the country
resident
To prove what is possible to do with a
ten-acre plot he shows a statement based
upon actual experience. An inventory of
the things one may raise on such a small
parcel of land seems to bear him out in his
view that ii is not so much the size of the
farm that counts the way in which the
farm is made to do business. Here is the
ten-acre showing: .
Five hundred chickens, value 800; one
hundred turkeys, 500; one acre of straw
berries, $50; one acre of potatoes, $40: one
acre of apples. pears and peaches. 500; one
acre of onions, $50; one acre of general gar
den truck. $50; one acre of cabbage. SIS; one
acre of grapes. $50; one acre of blackber-
reS. $50; one acre of beans, $50; total, $685..
Deduct from this 500 for buying feed for
poultry and $50 for use of land and you
have left s545.
The business mans question, How many
renters of 100 acres of land make more
than that. taking one year with another?''
is not less difficult to answer to the salts
faction of the big farmer than il is to the
satisfaction of the city man on a good SAL
airy.
1t may be taken for granted that the in
terurban railroad is coming, and that with
it will come. as the Springfield merchant
predicts, marvellous changes In the agricul-
tural districts of this State. The fruit
farmer of the future, for instance, instead
of being Obliged to drive to a market al
most daily, will have merely TO deliver his
products in crates and boxes at the rail-
road, and consign them to his agent in the
city. who will dispose of them and pay him
at stated times.
The small farmer can deliver his products
to a railroad in a few minutes each morn
ing and have the rest of the day to attend
to work on the farm. instead of passing a
farm and the city.
Now" saws the Springfield merchant in
conclusion. Il said l believed that farm
land in this part of the country would be
worth 500 an acre. and | say this because
l believe the improvement in transporta ton
facilities is going to create an active de-
mand for II. In my opinion the next five
years will bring great changes in
farming conditions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-03

This is Her brother: ansel-faced--
Barring freckles and turned-up nose
Demon min6ed-a word well based.
AS nearer acquaintance will disclose.
From outward guse the most sage OF men
Would guess what within lies hid
IL years reckon. in age scant ten;
If cunning, cid pyramid.
This is Her brother, who sticks and sticks
Tighter than even a brother should;
Brimming with teasing tricks.
Hardened to bride and please be good;''
And who when at last afar deem,
In sly recess but turks in wait
To note the progress of loves young dream
And we learn OF his presence too late. too late!
This Is Her brother. with watchful eyes,
Piercing. shameless. and indiscreet.
With wide open for soft replies
And sounds that sibilant and sweet
With light approach mot a lynx stilD,
With figure reaniy invisible
With threatening voice and iron will,
And shrill demands he II ..go and teli''
This is Her brother-and l submit
To paying out quarters and sundry dimes;
This Is Her brother-whose urchin wit
Moves me 10 wrath thousand times:
This Is Her brother-and hence / smile
And Jest and cringe his tyranny
And call him SMART But Just wait awhile
Till he's my orother-and then we'll see
Edwin l. Sabin. in February Lippincotts.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-03
Big Four Earnings.

The official statement of the Cleveland,
Cincinnati, Chicago & st. Louis for De-
cember shows gross earnings to have been
81. .942, an increase over the correspond
ing month of 1901 of ss7.O9s; operating ex-
penses, sl.26s,653. an increase of $50 400; net
earnings. s433, $50. an increase of $63s;
charges, S249.076, an increase of $6494; De-
cember surplus. $1S4.s13. a decrease of S. 49,
The gross earnings for the arst six months
of the fiscal year were $40. 263. l9S, an in
crease of $259. SOB; expenses, s7.73S,569. an in
crease of s59S,777; six months net, $2.524539,
a decrease of 1898. 273; charges. 81. 427 1867. an
096.563. a decrease as compared with 1901 of
1851. 100. An analysis of the above exhibit
will make il evident that the increased
wages and cost of supplies is cutting down
net earnings to a larger degree than would
be expected.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-03
The Blanket Remonstrance.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal
Perhaps there has been single event
in our national history that so thoroughly
aroused the people of our country. espe-
cially in the North, and which fastened
the final overthrow of human slavery, as
the repeal of the Missouri compromise at
the behest of the slaveholding aristocrats
of the South. If our legislators amend the
Nicholson law so as TO deprive the people
of the State of the of the blanket re-
monstrance' at the behest of the brewers,
may there not be strong probability that
history will repeat itself? If the people of
the State become thoroughly aroused on
this question 1t will not be hard TO foretell
the outcome. FAIR PLAY.
Marion, Ind. Feb 2.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-03
THE TRAFFIC OF JANUARY
LOADED CAR MOVEMENT CURTAILED
By CONGESTION OF BUSINESS.
Earnings of Big Four for First Six
Months of Fiscal Year-TakinG on
the Pennsylvania Special.

The train records show that in January
therethere were received and forwarded at
Indianapolis a total of 12i.926 cars. 97.i52
being loaded, against 101. li9 in 1902. de-
crease this year of 1857 loaded cars. In
1901 s6,4i5 loaded cars were handled at In
dianapolis, and in 1900, 9l.6Ol. The shortage
as compared with 1902 is wholly due to the
congested condition of traffic in the East
Eastern roads being unable to take loaded
cars from their Western connections, which
caused a congestion of business such as
was never before known. An official of the
transportation department said his road
could have handled at least 800 to 1900
more loaded cars per day than last year but
for the congestion with connecting lines.
He regretted this very much, as he would
like TO have demonstrated how many load
ed cars could be handled by Indianapolis
lines under favorable conditions. The in
dications are that February will not show
much Improvement, as II will take the
greater part of the month to move the de-
layed traffic.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-03

Josiah Strong, in Success.
In agriculture, as in manufactures. sue
cess consists in securing the largest and
best production at the smallest expenditure
of force. time and money. Evidently the
farmer who aims at such success must
have an understanding of plant life and
what proportion of its sustenance it draws
respectively from the air and the sell. He
must know the chemical constituents of the
latter and the treatment which IL requires
to restore the plant food exhausted by his
crops. He must have a knowledge of the
climates demanded by different cereals
vegetables and fruits He must be ac-
quainted with the diseases and insect pests
which eridanger both plant and animal
life, and should know how to treat tham
He should be familiar with the principles
of animal nutrition and the value of foods.
In addition to all the expert knowledge re-
quired, there are those mental qualities
which are developed by scientific training
a keen perception and alert habit of
mind. full appreciation of the value of
facts and hospitality to new IDEAS together
with that iexibility which enables its pos
SCISSOR to adapt himself more readily to
changed conditions. Evidently the farmer
of the future will not be 1.-THE man with the
hoe"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-03
SEALED PROPOSALS.

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Notice Is hereby given that the undersigned the
Board OF Commissioners OF Marion County Inai-
ana. will. 10 Do Geek. a. m. TueeCav Feb
-. 1905 receive sealed bids for cleaning skvights
q Marion county courthouse. according TO specf-
tcations on riV IN the Office OF the auditor of
Marion county.
Each bid must be accompanied by a bond and
afilcasit required by law
The board ieeeryes the right to reject any or all
bios
Witness hands, this I'd day OF February.
Ieos
JOHN L. MGAUGHEY
JOHN MGKEtfOl.
THOS. r. STAFFORD.
Commissioners OF Marion County
Attest. HARRY y SMITH. Auditor
Notice IS hereby given that the under signed the
Boafa ~ CommsSc ers OF Marion County. Indi-
ara. Will W TO N O'Clock. a. m. Tuesday. Feb
u. 1872. receive sealed bias for furnishing s. coo
feet OF pine lumber for bridge flooring accos ding
20 specifications on Gle In the Office OF the audit
or Of Marion county.
Each bid b. accompanied By bond and
affidavit required by law.
The board reserves the right 10 reject any or all
bids.
Witness our hands. this I'd day OF February.
JOHN e MGAUGHEY
JOHN MGREGOR
THCS. r STAFFORD.
commissioners Of Marion County.
Attest: HARRY d. SMITH. Auditor
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-03

Minnie Butler twelve years. 1884 Griffin. pneu-
rnoBIE-
Lee Bious twenty-five years. All South Senate
smallpox
Peal alexander. twenty-six years, pesthouse'
smallpox. :,
Henry cowherd. sixty-four years. us Maxwell
haematemeus-
Joseph Russell. thirty-three years. s51 Mulberry
cong<stiJ IN o. lungs.
Catharine Howard. forty-nine years. Cooper
avenue. Brights disease 49, -,
Mrs. ]. T. Pancake. forty-eight years, Szs NJ
Naomi L. Baker. two years. 1898 5. Belmont.
spasns. - -, A,a
fever. - -.
John DennAy. sixty-seven years, zoos English
heart trouble. a,os
Charles II. Irish. seventy-seveu years. Zoo
Barth. cystitis
EI.s Parkhurst. thirty-four years. sli ~ East
tuberculosis. -. -,
tuberculosis
Marion Cox. hfty-six years 1881 Virginia. lung
Frank Davis. eighty-ive years. 2si2 Indianapo-
lis cerebral aenurage.
Lucille Harris. two years. 425 Toledo. erysipe-
las. - -,
Jesse Cord. forty-one years. City Hospital.
smallpox. -,
Margaret Jennings thirty years. =, smallpox
Nellie Hickey. fourteen years. 400 Bates "
phoId fever.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-03
Regretted the Action.

1t is stated that the taking off of the
Pennsylvania special was the subject of
many conferences held last week in the
Office of President Cassatt. There were
present at these meetings all of the vice
presidents and transportation managers,
and all agreed that for the reputation of
the company the freight congestion must
be broken, IL in any manner such an end
could be accomplished. 1t was agreed, also,
that the attack must be made at the top
and that the Pennsylvania special, the
pride of the passenger department, would
be sacrificed, and this would be the first
train TO go; IL necessary, other fast passen-
ger trains will be taken off, but the freight
blockade must be broken. The most i'm
portant feature is the relief of the coal
famine. and the company is determined to
relieve ii if possible. II is thought that
should the present mild weather continue
such Roadway will be effected as to make
il unnecessary TO further disturb the pas
senger service.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-03
WANTED-MALE HELP.


Neutrality-suspicious. helper or baker; at once
To- n. Illinois 81.
WANTED-Live men: excellent proposition
light work. good pay. No. $50. Journal.
WANTED-For u. 5. Army able bodied unmar
rled men. between ages OF twenty-one and
firlrty-f>e. citizens of United States. of good
character and temperate habits, who can speak.
lead and write English. For information apply
20 Recruiting Officer. . North Illinois street.
Indianapolis. Ind.
WANTED-Recruits for the United States Ma
rine Corps. able-boded men of good character
between the ages OF II and 50 years. not less than
feet inches ana not over feet inch in
height. Of good character and not addicted TO
the OF LIQUOR: must be citizens OF the United
States persons who have legally declared
their intentions TO become citizens. able to read
and write English properly. well speak IL.
NO minors married will be accepted.
This important branch of the Naval Service
offers SPECIAL INDICTMENT TO RE-
LkuITS. as the Law PROVIDES for the PRO-
MOTION OF WORTHY NONCOMMISSIONED
OFFICERS 70 SECOND LIEUTENANTS. Ma
rines enlisted for period OF four years, and
are generally stationed in large cities. and are
now serving In Cuba. Porto Rico. Manila and
tsuam. and when sent TO have fine oppor-
funity 10 see all parts OF the world Pay from
SIS TO s44 per month. Clothing. board and nedi-
cal attendance are provided in addition pay.
Apply at y. ). MARINE CORPS RECRUITING
OFFICE. Room 80 Newton Claypool Bldg cor
CT Penn syivania and Ohio streets.
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ANU SEMENTS.

clears the passages and keeps the digestive
organs in condition. Bran alone would Dc
too light for exclusive feed. peslues'
il would not be i'm line with ma
ture to feed nothing else. The craw is
grinding mill and one must keep 1t at
work.
The different grains would not be per
feet feed alone: grass. insects and dozens
of things hardly think of go toward
completing the natural wants. Fowls on
free range usually find these extra knick-
Knacks but penned up fowl or fowls In
winter must have their equivalent in some
form or they cannot do the very best. Cut
clover alfalfa hay initiates. cut vege-
tables initiates and green cut bone helps 10
make summer out of winter as near as 1t
would be possible. All these things are
within our reach and the time required to
procure them would return nice prof1t,