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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1906-01-18
BACK YARDS.

The tendency in connection with
most homes, whether in city or coun-
try. Is to have a back yard dedicated
to dumping ground for all the odds,
ends and debris of modern living. This
back yard is quite often the great blem-
ish ia connection with otherwise pleas
ant homes. There is really no real need
to permit this accumulation of ash
piles, old shoes, boxes and barrels,
empty cans, bits OF lumber and trash
of all kinds. By having proper recep-
tacles for garbage and removing it
often the back yard may be easily made
just as attractive as the front yard.
Ii there are uns,ghtly Outbuildings and
fences. few vines will hide them.
Morning glOries a hop vine, Virginia
creeper. or, better yet, gfapeyines,
have great mission in connection with
nearly all the bsck yards of our Ameri
can homes. The grape will thrive lusti-
ly under the stimulus of soapsuds,
dishwater and The castaway bones Of
the Kitchen. In some Of our cities reg
ular campaign CT back yard improve
ment Is being carried on to the won.
derful improvene ent OF every place
treated. The gook citizen will not only
have an attractive front yard to his
home. but will also have clean back
yard.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1906-01-18
LIVE STOCK
MARKET REPORTS.

EAST BuFFALo-Cattle: Export, good
to ohoice, So 00m5 50 shipping steers,
81 g504 10: butcher cattle, So 00M4 IS;
heifers, SO O0a4 O0 cows 81 25@3 60;
bulls SO 2593 rs; mixers and springers,
325 O0d55 90. Sheep and Lambs-Good to
choice yearlings. So 0OM6 25 wethers,
IS SOFAS rs: mixed, SIS 50GD5 10: ewes, s5 25
as so; spring lambs 81 00d7 80. Calves
Best. 81 SOFAS 90. TIogs-Heavies, S5 100
10; mediums, So 10: Workers, IS 000
O5; pigs s5 90; roughs, "a OO@4 so.
CLEVELAND 49, Cattle: Steers choice
fat, 81 50M4 75; coarse and rough, SO 20
"a Is; heifers. SO 25mS so; cows. So OO@
rs; bulls So 50@2 IS; mixers and
sprngers SIS 00@5O 90. Sheep and
Lambs Good to choice lambs, 81 l5;culls,
So 0O@6 So wethers, So 00a5 so; mixed,
81 SOFAS % ewes, 81 25Q5 90. Calves
81 90 down Hogs-MiXed weights, SIS O5p
10: Workers, 81 O005 05; medium heavy,
SIS 10; pigs, So 90; stays and roughs, "a 90
"a 80.
cHIcAGo-Cattle: Common to prime
steers. SO 25U6 40; cows, 81 1904 90;
bulls, 81 O0U4 %; stOckers and feeders,
81 15G4 %; heifers. S4 5Om5 90. Sheep
and Lambs--Sheep, 81 00a6 25; lambs,
So 25m7 So Calves-S2 00m7 %. Hogs
Choice TO prime heavy, SIS lOM5 IS; medi-
um to good heavy, 81 95d5 O5; light s5 10
65 l5: good TO choice heavy mixed. 81 80
as O5; packing, 81 3Od5 OO Wheat-No.
red 89m9lc. Corn No. g. 46046hc.
pats No. =, 3O@3OAc,
PiTTSBURG - Cattle: Choice, IS ESQ
so, prime IS OOa5 90; tidy butchers,
81 l5a4 so; heifers. 50 5Oa3 so; cows,
bulls and stags, 81 OO@S 80; fresh cows,
$25 OO@5O 90. Sheep and Lambs-Prme
wethers So 25a5 so; mixed, 81 1905 2O;
lambs SIS O0@7 80. Calves-S6 O0QS 90.
Hogs-Prime heavy. s5 2O05 25; medi-
ums, So 10; heavy Workers, S. 05@5 10;
light Workers. IS OOa5 O5; pigs, IS OO@
05
cINcINNATI-Whea No red, 80 .,
9Oe Corn - No. mixed (new), 47Iac.
Oats-No. 2 mixed, 321ac Rye-No. 2, 73c.
Lard-S6 CO. Bulk meats. 81 371s. Bacon
IS rs. Hogs-s4 OOM5 10. Cattle-S2 OO@
4 60. Sheep-$3 pJ44 rs. Lambs-s4 so
OF 35.
NEW YoRk-Wheat: No. red 932ic.
Corn--No. 2, 62c. Oats-MiXed SO to 33
lbs. 35c.
ToLEDo-Wheat, SOC; corn, i9c; oats,
s2he; rye. 72c; cloverseed, IS OF.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1906-01-18
Could Still Keep Up.
atmospheric Pressure.

II You desire to obtain vivid idea
OF the force of atmospheric pressure
try the following simple experiment;
Place an ordinary wooden ruler on a
table In such manner that half OF 1t
VIII project beyond the edge of the
table aud then over the table and the
portion of the ruler thereon lay a
smooth sheet OF paper.
Now, il you strike the exposed part
OF the ruler 1t will in nine cases out OF
ten break in half, and yet the sheet OF
paper on the table will neither be
raised nor moved in the slightest from
Its position, The simple reason Is be-
cause the atmospheric pressure exert
ed on the paper is more than sufficient
to counterbalance the force of the blow
which is struck at the ruler
BY means of simple experiments like
these one can learn a great deal OF
science.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1906-01-18
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lies to deliver 1t into the hands of their
opponents. 1t looks like the Arthur
Blaine-F0lger tragedy over again.
In no other mans political prospects
in America have the last five years
wrought such disastrous change as
In those of Governor Odell. He was
chief executive of the most pOpulous
and wealthy state In the Union, young,
vigorous. ambitious. He asplred to
the presidency and not unreasonably.
Colonel Roosevelt was in the vice presi-
DENTAL chair. not good place for an
aspiring statesman the bullet of
Czolgosz changed the situation i'm
mensely to the benefit Of Roosevelt and
immensely to tile disadvantage Of
Odel!. The net result Is that Roosevelt
is in the White House and Odell is
down and out That bitter feud be-
twixt the New York Republican rae
tions is on there can be no question.
May it lead to a long series of Demo
cratic victories, as that Of 1882 did,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1906-01-18

past the middle OF September a field
OF oats, storm beaten and discolored,
stlll stood In the shock. An overdrawn
picture, you say. or perhaps the home
OF some shlftess renter. Neither, good
friends: merely the abiding place OF
him who farms with loose ends. This
man owned his farm and was prac-
tlcally out of debt; hence the excuse of
poverty cannot be urged. What then
Loose endsl The barn door and the
front yard wilderness, the patched
fence and the unpainted house We're
still waiting for the rainy day, which
never came. when they should be re-
paired. The broken down and weather
beaten machinery gave mute evidence
Of the shed which was never built to
cover them, while the grain stood In the
shock waiting for the thrashing ma
chine which was still coming. Just
such pictures as the above give black
eye TO life on the farm In the minds
Of many people. or course none Of
our readers has u home in the least re-
sembling the one described, but per-
haps your neighbOr has, and IL you
think 1t would be OF any use you might
put this little word picture where he
could cast his eve upon it, thereby be-
ing the means of making him. see his
place as others see 1t and bringing
himself to the realization that the farm,
like other walks OF life, calls for
careful attention tu iuusy tlItis il ii ix
to be either pleasant or successful.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1906-01-18
CARP AN. I'VE FISH POND.

A friend Of ouls inds that with a
little trouble he can make a first class
fish pond upon his farm, one fed from
the water of an artesian well. He
writes US that he Is thinking of putting
carp. black bass and crOppies in the
pond and wants IL know il this Is the
right thing to do. II is noI. A few
years ago the carp was introduced into
many Of the streams and lakes of the
country under thp stippOsitiun that 1t
would prove a valuable food fish. 1t
turns out that 1t is regular fish hog, a
water scayenger, gross feeder upon
the spawn OF ak other fish and so
rolls the water il lives in that other
fish will not stay with it. The value
Of this fish as food is very low indeed,
being the next thing to worthless. In
many places every effort Is made to
get rid Of this fish, and no greater mis-
take could web be made than to intro
duce 1t into fish pond. Our friend
will find that the black bass. wall eyed
pike, porch, snnfish and croppies will
live together ali right in his pond. and
he cannot do better than to use them.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1906-01-18
Especial Washington letter.

Especial Washington Letter.l
- ERTAIN signs of the times are
4 not proptious. The breaking
4 of the three great banks in
Chicago involving $26.000,o 900,
coming close on the heels of the huge
Devlin smashup. end other failures of
the same kind are by no means reas-
suring. Quite the contrary. Here is a
more unhealthy sign. The following
dispatch carries the mind back to 1892,
when the panic of 1893 was beginning:
Pittsburg. Pa, Dec pa cut of 80 1-3
per cent in the wages of the window
glass workers Is TO be made to meet the
low prices that have been established
A. l.. Faulkner. president of. the new or
ganization OF workers, has sent an adj
dress to the membership in which he an
nounces that no power on earth can keep
the men employed unless a reduction in
wages !s made to meet present conditions
The factories of the country are producing
glass at the rate of nearly 100000 boxes
q month, while the consumption Is but
little more than an average of 5O0,QoO
boxes month. One manufacturer de-
clared that there Is enough glass on hand
with what the American company will
produce next year. to supply the entire
demands of the country for 1906. -
In this connection the following ex-
cerpt from the last circular letter OF
Messrs. Henry Clews & Co. furnishes
much food for thought
1t is quite time that cautlonary signals
were again in evidence, Recent bank diff
fculties In Chicago are an intimation Of
what might happen elsewhere. Serious
trouble was only prevented in that instance
by heroic action. the necessity for which
showed the seriousness of the case. The
recently suspended Chicago institutions
fear are not the only ones which have
been lending more freely to the large
capitalists who dominate them than ordi-
nary business prudence would permit, and
unless something occurs to check this
sort Of extension of credits more trouble
Is likely to follow.
Another source of doubt Is the extreme
ly high prices to which many securities
are being pushed Bold spectators with
unlimited capital behind them have been
successful in forcing their favorites to
unreasonably high levels. BY means of
adroit manipulation they have induced
the public to enter the market more freely
than for many weeks past, and by allow
ing the earlier public buyers to make
some profit they have naturally been able
to encourage and widen the new buying
interest. There has no doubt. however,
been much realizing under cover, and
some of the rich and heavy holders Of
securities have been freely unloading dur
ing the past week or two. Stocks which
are selling at unduly high prices are too
well known to require mention. but at
their present altitude they are a menace
to the market and should be carefully
avoided by either spectators or investors.
Another element of risk In the market is
the sensat tiohal activity in copper stocks.
Here, too. the process of unloading upon
the public is actively at work, and all
sorts. of questionable properties are sell
ing at unreasonable prices.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1906-01-18

A hundred years of occupation and
cultivation by man have about ruined
the productive capacity of the soils Of
many of the eastern states, have so bad
ly impaired their fertility that even
with the stimulus of commercial fer
tilizers they will no longer return a
profitable crop. The same destructive
process is at work in Il marked manner
In the southern and north central states,
and even the land of the northwest,
whose fertility was supposed to be
practically ineXhaustlble, Is already
bearing abundant evidence of the GER
tain result of continuous highway rob-
berry OF the soil. The western land
owner should heed well the lesson
taught by the eastern and southern
states in this matter, and before 1t Is
too late change the degeneratlng and
soil pauperiZlng methods In such gen.
eral use in that section. No man
farms well whose soil grows poorer
and less productive year by year. There
are lands in England which produced
wheat thousand years ago and which
today produce an average crop OF thlr-
ty-seYen bushels an acre, but the way
OF the English farmer WAS not that OF
the American,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1906-01-18
9E5>x>>
SWEARING OFF.

High on the water wagon
Reserve a seat for me:
When this years o'er tnen neysrmora
VIII l 80 on q spree,
But VIII refuse ailuging booze
And stronger drinks than tea.
No more the foaming nagon
Shall tempt my feet 10 stray
With song and wine adown the line
Where night Is turned to day;
AL this I'll chuck and early duck
Into the yielding hay.
1t seems SO very easy
At least before the date
tor saving wood to be SO good
And sit up firm and straight
And never think OF things to drink
Nor for the growler wait.
oh. why will men be foolish
And waste their time and cash
In cheap resorts with tin horn sports
And other loWiy trash
Grow into soaks when their home folks
Are needing shoes and hashg
There isn't any answer;
The wisest can't tell why.
We only know that II IL 90,
For logic can't apply
Te how good msn cut capsrs Whsn.
ghsz think that they are dry.
-
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1906-01-18
Goodby, Bennie!

Two nOtdDle events uappeueu ldSC
week, one in pugilism, the other in pol
itics-BOb FitzsimmOns was eliminated
from the ring and Ex-Governor Benja-
min b. 0dell Of New York was elimi-
mated from politics. Bob accepts the
Inevitable and retires with the good
will of the American people. He says
he was fairly trounced and that youth
will be served. Benjamin is bad
loser and makes a mighty roar-a roar
which will not bring him any sympa-
thy or make him friend. His conduct
as governor, boss and chairman of the
state committee has not been such as
to render him popular. Senator Thom-
as Collier Platt, the erstwhile "easy
boss,' created Benjamin, and then Ben
jamin, concluding that he was greater
than his creator. unceremOniously roll
ed the senlle Platt. The latter babbled
much in the King Lear strain about
the serpent's tooth. Later ON Odell Gre
ated Governor Higgins. Now Higgins.
following Odell's example, concludes
and sends Benjamin to the bottom Of
the sea la the late Mr. McGinty. IF
Odeli were wise he would go quietly
about his business selling groceries and
wait for another turn of the wheel. but
he is wroth and is making the welkin
ring with sermons from the hOusetops
on the King Lear line. The role does
Senator Platt. for both Plat and Lear
were well stricken in years while de-
llverlng their homilies on ingratitude,
but Odell is a rambunctious man in the
prime Of life. Consequently his lamen-
tations are provocative of laughter
rather than of tears.
Evidently Odel in his anger and de-
sire for revenge is in a frame of mind
to follow the example Of Samson In
pulling down the pillars of the temple.
Inter ALA he remarks:
II President Roosevelt had the good of
the party at heart he could have sent for
me at any time. and L would have been
glad to confer with him for the sake Of
obtaining harmony In the party. If that
had been done all this trouble would have
been avoided without warfare.
L charge Mr. Roosevelt and Governor
higgins with deliberately trying to- wreck
the party in this state for their own per
sonal ambitions. IL this means party dis
aster. they, not l and nay friends. are
responsible. THEY. and not I. are to
blame.
SO far as gratitude Is concerned, Gov.
ernor Higgins certainly owed me some
thing. Instead of putting out the hand
or friendship he chooses to throw stones
nj those who have been his friends Hig-
gins could have told me that he did NOT
10. Ia H.. ~.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1906-01-18
Bishops Salary.

Mr.. Bishop and his salary appear
quite likely to become as important
matters as did certain Mr., jenkins
and his ear in the halcyon long ago,
except that the latter embroiled differ
ent nations, while the former may serve
only to set the Republican factions at
daggers' points. but anything that pre-
clpitates a row among the Republicans
ought to he hailed with unfeigned de-
light by all lovers of the country. OF
course the Bishop salary Is preposter-
Gus, but that certain Republican big
bore statesmen are merely making that
a pretext for a war on the administra-
tion. which they had already determin-
ed on, Is the general conclusion. Re
publican senators never hankered after
Colonel Roosevelt in the first instance.
They have always been restive under
his domination. and they seem to be In
frame of mind to assert their power
and prerogative to the fullest extent.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1906-01-18
A Sack Goat psmocrat.

Certain papers are making great
hullabaloo over the fact that the new
Democratic senator from Oregon, Hon.
John NJ. Geaiin, was sworn into office
wearing sack coat. Just why that
should attract attention is beyond find
ing out We sometimes boast of our
''shirt sleeve diplomacy" Why not
take kindly to sack coat democracy!
There is no earthly reason why a sen
ator should not wear a sack coat IL he
so chooses, any more than there Is why
other folks should not wear Prince AL
berts or cutaways if their taste or COM
fort so demands, or why the venerable
General Keifer of Ohio should not
wear spade tail If that sort of raj
ment appeals his fancy. 1t does not
matter much what kind of clothes a
senator wears. The main things are
head and heart.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1906-01-18

The state Of Iowa has recently COM
pleted what is said to be the very finest
dairy building in the world at its state
agricultural college at Ames. A herd
Of hundred cows will be used In con-
nection with. this building, and labOra-
tory and experimental work will be
carried on which will be of the great
est benefit to the dairy interests Of the
country at large.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1906-01-18

We know of several farmers who,
finding that they had poor seed corn
and q worthless stand, and some who
lost their corn by the worms, replanted
their fields as late as the middle Of
June with early types Of corn and Sc
cured crops running from forty to fifty
bushels per acre. Their experience has
convinced them that 1t will pay to
plant some of this early corn as early
in the spring as possible and thus Sc
cure plenty of good feed for their hogs
long before the ordinary field corn is
matured. This is a good plan.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1906-01-18

We passed the place the other day
farmyard filed with motley array Of
odds and ends, broken down seeder,
hayrake with one wheel missing and
most OF the teeth also. a defunct bind
er, barn doors on one hinge. fences
patched with old rails, the front yard
grown up to brambIes and tall grass
except where the pigs, which ran at
large there, had rooted clear space.
In the nearby fields we noticed that
the haystacks were lopslded and that
the aield had been poorly raked, and
in spite OF the fact that the time Has
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1906-01-18

Wild game, from being forty years
ago the poor mans necessity and one
important source of his food supply is
fast becoming the rich mans luxury.
We can recall the time when ducks,
geese, prairie chickens and fish were
such common and everyday articles Of
food that the people got tired of the
sight of wild game, whether dead or
alive. None of the almost endless
amount and variety of wild life then
so common now survives save the few
migratory wild fowl, which year by
year become fewer in number and
more difficult to shoot. This condition
prevails Notwithstanding game of all
kinds is protected by law in all the
states. The truth is that wild game,
like the Indian, cannot stand clyiliza-
ton.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1906-01-18

A darky down in Oklahoma claims to
have made the interesting discovery
that II cotton is topped or pruned back
in the dark of the moon in August II
will increase the yield Of the staple
from one-half bale to one bale per
acre, and he has found some people
who believe what he says.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1906-01-18

The sea Is getting to be farmed just
rs is the land especially in the raising
OF oysters. An acre of well kept oyster
water will bring in gross return OF
$500 per year. which beats most crops
which the land can produce.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1906-01-18

Some Of the largest salaries paid to
experts in this country are paid to the
men who know how TO buy stock on the
hoof and others who know how to cure
such meat for the market. There are
several $4,000 men engaged in this
business, and none Of them ever had a
college education either.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1906-01-18

marker In futlllty to the attempt to
increase Governor shaw's information
on the tariff. When read Of what Sec
retary Root Ia trying to do to Secretary
Shaw recalled Bret Harte's lines:
Do l sleep? DO I dreamg
DO wonder and doubt?
Are things what they seem
Or are visions about?
Is our civilization failure
Or Is the Caucasian played outf
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1906-01-18

Every load OF manure put on the land
to be in corn next year means at least
two bushels more corn, and it Will add
that much to the crop the second year.
In other words, when man hauls out
load of manure on to his cornfleld he
has earned a dollar, and we know Of
many men who cannot make a dollar
any easier.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1906-01-18

In no line of farm work is the mat
ter of cooperation so Indispensable as
among fruit growers. 1t Is almost i'm
possible for man TO go it alone in this
business AMI find a profitable market
for hlS fruit
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1906-01-18

More and more men are finding out
the intrinsic value of small piece Of
land intensively cultivated as an aid
to the support of family. 1t is really
surprising what little piece of land
can be made to produce under an in
telligent cultivation.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1906-01-18

Irrigation brings about the same con-
fiict with individual and private rights
that drainage does. They are neither
one possible save as result Of CO.
operative effort and merging Of pri-
vate interests for the public good.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1906-01-18

Latitude makes great difference in
the keeping quality of apples. Thus, if
a Wealthy apple is raised in Missouri it
becomes simply late summer or early
fall fruit, while if it is grown in cen
tral Minnesota it may be kept through
the winter without trouble as winter
fruit