Republican News Item
JOHN B. ENGLISH, Editor.
LAPORTE PA.
WEEK'S NEWS
STORIES RETOLD
Events That Made a Stir Con
densed to a Paragraph.
WHAT WASHINGTON IS DOING
News of Interest That Trickles From
the White Houre and the Various
Departments Catalogue of
Crimes and Casualties.
Washington
Rear-Admiral James H. Sands, re
tired, died in Washington. He was 06
years of age.
Attorney General Wickersliam, dis
cussing the suit against the United
States Steel Corporation, said he did
not expect the decision to be governed
by the precedents established in the
Standard Oil and American Tobacco
cases.
Brigadier-General George H. Torney,
eurgeon-general of the army, in his
annual report suggests that civil piac
titioners adopt the system of vaccinat
ing against typhoid because of its suc
cessful use in the army.
The Department of Justice is estab
lishing a card-index system in an eftort
to stamp out the white-slave traffic.
It was reported in Washington that
the Tariff Board's reports on the wool
and cotton schedules were almost
ready.
Personal
King Victor mmanuel purchased a
series of thirty etchings by Joseph
Pennell, the merican artist.
Richard Le Gallienne, divorced poet,
forbidden to remarry in New York
State, wedded Mrs. Jrma Hinton Per
ry, a divorcee, in Connecticut.
Governor Simeon E. Baldwin of
Connecticut will be a candidate for
the presidency on the Democratic tick
et, and his name will be presented to
the national convention by the state
ielegation.
High tributes were paid to Edward
M. Shepard at a memorial meeting at
the College of the City of New York.
Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor of"The
New York World,' died on board his
yacht, off Charleston, S. C.
Miss Fola La Follette, daughter of
Senator La Follette, of Wisconsin,
and Mrs. La Follette, was married at
the home of her parents to George
Middleton, of New York, a playwright i
Sporting
The victory of the Athletics in the
•world's series was a signal triumph
for clean baseball.
Tyrus Raymond Cobb, generally
considered the greatest natural base
ball player of the day, may be seen
In the uniform of the New York Yan
kees next season.
Sam McVey, the California negro
heavyweight, put a stop to Bill Lang
in two rounds at Sydney, N. S. W., in
the presence of 6,000 spectators.
The Princeton Tigers are blessed
with better material this year than for
several seasons, but the line is not
quite strong enough to protect the
■wonderfully speedy but wofully ligh'
General
The General Education Board ap
propriated sUus,ouu to be divided
among six colleges on condition that
they raise SU, 160,000.
Robbers cut out the telephone and
telegraph wires at McComb, Okla.,
blew open the safe in the town bank
and escaped with a large sum of
money.
The Boston police said they had
found a new witness in the Riulieson
case who asserts she saw the accused
pastor and Avis Liunell together on
U e uay of the trageay.
President Taft addressed 1,600
•workingmen at a luncheon in Milwau
kee and said the law must be enforced
against its violators in either the la
bor unions or the trusts, no matter
whom it might hurt.
The funeral of Ida Lewis,, the life
eaver, was held at Newport, R. 1., the
•whole city paying tribute to her mem
ory; thousands viewed the body as it
lay instate.
The Steel Trust issued a statement
denying the charges made by the Gov
ernment, said "if any harm results it
will fall upon the stockholders and
employees," and that the absorption
of the Tennessee Coal and Jron Com
pany "was to prevent a threatened
general financial disaster which would
have adversely affected the corpora
tion as well as others."
Clever sleuthing on the part of cus
toms men resulted in the arrest in
New York of six stewards of the
Ward liner Havana, and a tobacco
dealer on the charge of smuggling
cigars.
The consul general of Colombia, in
an open letter, attacked ex-President
Roosevelt for his oourse in the Pana
ma matter.
Three divisions of the Atlantic fleet
sailed from Hampton Roads for New
York, where the greatest mobilization
of American war-ships in the country's
bistory will be on viivv.
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw was re
elected President of the National
Woman's Suffrage Association.
Secretary of War Stimson, after an
Inspection of army posts in the South
west, returned to Washington.
Orvillo Wright fell with his glider
in an experimental flight at Kill Devil
Hill, N. C\; he escaped with slight in-
Jury.
J. A. Heany's applications for pat
ents on the Tungsten light, involving
$5,000,000, were rejected on the ground
of fraud.
President Mellen of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford Road said
j he saw no reason at present for a re
duction of the 8 per cent, dividend.
Samuel McKnight Butler, an auto
pioneer, was killed by his machine
overturning while traversing Georgia
with the Glidden party.
The eighth death among the follow
ers of the Rev. Frank W. Sandford,
who returned recently on the yacht
Coronet, occurred at Portland, Me.
John R. Walsh, formerly a Chicago
banker, died in his home in that city,
nine days after his parole from Leav
enworth Prison; he had been convict
ed of misappropriating funds.
Edward Hines denied before the
Senatorial investigating committee at
Milwaukee that he had anything to do
with the election of Senator Stephen
son.
The Supreme Court of the United
! States cut the time for arguments
with a view to learing the docket, now
cumbered with more than eight hun
dred cases.
The convicted members of the New
York Poultry Trust were sued for
$225,000, triple damages, under the j
Sherman law, by independent ship- j
pers.
Walter Diehl was convicted of mur- |
der in the second degree on the charge
of being the principal in the lynching
of Carl Etherington, an anti-saloon de
tective, at Newark, Ohio.
Counsel for the defense in the Mc-
Namara trial protested against the
presiding Judge's method of examining
talesmen on the ground that it indicat
ed a desire to prevent disqualification
of the man questioned.
The Rev. Frank Sandford, leader of
the Holy Ghost and Us Society, was
arrested at Shiloli, Me., by a federal
officer, on a warrant charging neglect
of his crew and followers on their re- j
cent cruise.
George Stovall is authority for the
statement that he will manage the
Washington team next year. He says
Harry Davis will handle the Cleve
lands.
The instructions relating to unmail
able matter "are not to be used to ir- i
ritate or annoy or intimidate publish
ers" is the order of the Postmaster- j
General printed in the Official Postal j
Guide.
Judge Bordwell and Clarence Dar
row, attorney for the defense in the J
McNamara case, came into collision j
when the Court refused to immediate- j
ly rule on the eligibility of chal- j
lenged talesmen as jurors and Darrow
refused to proceed.
Because the mob was too drunk, A. j
B. Walker, a negro and confessed mur- I
derer, escaped a lynching in Washing- j
ton, Ga., after the rope was around !
his neck.
Professor Robert J. Sprague of the j
Massachusetts Agricultural College at !
Amherst, in looking over the last I
state census, figures that the !
Yankee race is threatened with ex- j
tinetion. Rugs and automobiles are j
blamed in part for the falling off of j
the birth rate.
After repeated refusals to answer in
quiries concerning the ownership of i
stock in the Journal Company, of Al- j
bany. of which he is president, Wil
liam Barnes, Jr., chairman of the Re
publican State Committee, was de- |
clared in contempt by the Senate com- j
mittee which is investigating Albany \
city and county affairs.
Foreign
A French village notary bequeathed
|400,000 to the King of Spain.
The Bank of Mitylene in Palestine !
suspended payment.
Later reports from the battle in Tri- j
poli say that 1,000 Mussulmans were i
killed and 100 Italians killed or >
wounded.
Addressing a deputation of the
Brandenburg Senate, the German j
Kaiser urged the clergy to let dogmatic
preaching alone and pay more atten- |
tion to the person of Christ
A.n army expedition sailed secretly
from Naples; a state of panic was re
ported in Tripoli, where the Italian
garrison, 15,000 strong, was said to be
threatened by 60,000 well equipped
Turks.
Fears were expressed at Peking
that the negotiation of the new Chi
nese loan would create an anti-foreign
feeling among the revolutionists;
Peking was in a state of near panic
and a general exodus of Manchus was
begun.
News has reached Nogales, Mexico,
that 47 Chinamen have been massa
cred near Guaymas, at the scene of re
building and repairing of the South
ern Pacific Railroad track, which was
swept by the recent storm.
Turkish forces attacked Horns, near
Tripoli, but were repulsed with heavy
loss.
The ex-Shah's Turcomans, aided by
Russian troops and gunboats, defeat
ed a Persian government force.
Conditions in Peking are growing
more and more precarious, natives are
taking to flight and the American Le
gation has been partly fortified.
The "Frankfurter Zeitung" publish
ed the points of the Franco-German
agreement, defining the status of the
Fatherland and its subjects in Moroc
co.
WARSHIP FLEET
SIX MILES LONG
Enormous Crowds Admire Im
pressive Naval Pageant.
VESSELS AGLITTER AT NIGHT
Battleships, Dreadnoughts, and Cruis
ers Outlined in Brilliant Lights as
Thousands Look On—Batteries of
Searchlights Add lo the Picture.
New York. —In other respects than
mere number of ships and power of
armament, tlie naval review at New
York eclipsed any naval pageant ever
seen in this country. President Taft
not only sailed through the tour lines
of ships at anchor in the Hudson
River, but watched the armada pick
up its anchors and get under way.
He led the long column down the
bay and off Staten Island moved aside
on the Mayflower and again reviewed
the fleet as it passed out to sea.
Four lines of ships stretching eight
miles, from 57th street to Supyten
Duyvil, formed this monster attrac
tion. It was New York's greatest
naval show, and the probability that
nothing like it will be seen in these
ports for another decade helped to
j drive the populace to the river front,
j By early afternoon vast crowds had
i gathered on Riverside Drive from 72d
I street to the end of the extension near
I Dykeinan street, and had overrun
Riverside and Port Washington parks.
At every pier and landing place
I along this stretch launch, steamboat,
| rowboat and canoe owners bargained
and made change furiously all day, al
though for some time after their cus
tomers began swamping the accommo
| dations no visitors were allowed
j aboard the warships. Not until a
quarter of the twenty thousand sail
ors which the fleet carries had ob-
I tained shore leave and come ashore
I in countless boatloads were the "cits"
j allowed to approach the warships
j nearer than a hundred yards, and in
the mean time many a controversy
arose between irate ticket holder and
sullen boat owner over the latter's in
ability to put his passenger aboard
j some fighting craft.
A complete list of the fleet follows:
BATTLESHIPS.
Connecticut, Florida, Utah, Dela
ware, North Dakota, Michigan, Louisi
; ana, South Carolina, Kansas, Vermont,
i New Hampshire, Minnesota, Mississlp
| pi, Idaho, Missouri, Ohio, Georgia, Ne-
J braska, New Jersey, Virginia, Maine,
j lowa, Indiana and Massachusetts.
ARMORED CRUISERS.
Washington and North Carolina.
PROTECTED CRUISERS.
Salem and Des Moines.
DESTROYERS.
Reid, Flusser, Lamson, Preston,
; Smith, Drayton, Paulding, McCall,
{ Roe, Perry, Perkins, Mayrant, Sterett,
, Walker, Warrington, Patterson, Mon
| aghan, Ammen, Burrows, Trippe, Mac
| donough and Warden.
TORPEDO BOATS.
Porter, Blakely, Dupont, Barney,
Biddie, Craven, Dahlgren, De Long,
| Shubrick, Stockton, Tingey, Wilkes,
] Bagley, Bailey, Styingham and Mor
| ris.
SUBMARINES.
Brayling, Bonita, Narwal, Salmon,
| Snapper, Stingray, Tarpon and Octo
| pus.
TORPEDO BOAT TENDERS.
Dixie, Castine and Severn.
GUNBOATS.
Nashville, Dolphin, Petrel and Marl- :
! etta.
AUXILIARIES.
Prairie (transport) San Francisco
| (mine layer), Lebanon (ammunition
I ship), Panther (repair ship), May- i
; flower (converted yacht), Yankton
| (tender), Celtic and Culgoa (supply .
ships) and Solace (hospital ship).
COLLIERS.
Neptune, Cyclops, Hector, Mars,
Vulcau, Ajax, Brutus and Sterling.
OIL TANKER.
I Arethusa.
TUGS.
Patuxent, Patapsco and Potomac.
SUMMARY.
Total
displacement.
Tons.
24 battleships 366,864
2 armored cruisers 29,000 i
2 cruisers 6,950
22 destroyers 15,463
16 torpedo boats 2,994
8 submarines
3 tenders to torpedo fleet .. 8,466
4 gunboats 4,733
9 miscellaneous 40,733
8 colliers 93,938
I oil tanker 6,159
3 tugs 1,981
102 vessels of all classes ....577,285
A scene of panoramic gayety and
brilliancy was presented in the North
River when the twenty-eight battle
ships and cruisers were illuminated
from stem to stern and to the topmost
point of the fire controls, ami the
fleet of torpedo boats, destroyers, sub
marines and other war craft turned
on their searchlights. For almost six
miles, extending northward from 57th
street, there was presented a wonder
ful picture, beheld by hundreds of
thousands who thronged both sides of
the river or traveled up and down in
boats. The outline of every battle
ship was marked by long rows of
lights, and the detail of fire control,
funnel, turret and deck was shown by
rows of electric lights.
CAREFUL MANAGEMENT NEEDED
IN BREEDING COWS FOR DAIRY
Animals That Produce Pound of Butter and Cheese the
Cheapest Are the Ones to Keep One Reason Why
So Many Herds Do Not Return Profit From
Their Food and Cost of Attendance*
A Prize Winning Jersey Heifer.
(By W. M. KELLY.)
There Is no phase of the dairy busi
ness that needs more study or more
careful management than does the
breeding of the cow.
Upon the cow depends success or
failure and we must, after selecting
her, look to her care and her feed,
and to the handling of her products.
The fact that dairymen have de
voted more attention to other phases
of their dairying than to the breeding
and development of the cow is one of
the reasons why so many of our dairy
herds are not capable of returning
a profit from their food and cost of
attendance.
We are often asked which is the
best breed of dairy cattle to select for
the dairy? To such men I -would say
that there is no best breed. Some
think because they have Jerseys they
are on the royal road to success.
Others think that the Holsteins will
bring prosperity to the farm.
This is a sad mistake, for scrubs
are very common among the pure
breeds, and a pure-bred scrub iS with
out doubt the worst scrub of all.
Select cows having individual ex
cellence as determined by the Babcock
test and scales In starting a herd.
Better and more uniform results of
breeding may be secured if the ani
mals are of one type of breed and
great care should be exercised in get
ting individuals which possess to a
certainty the characteristics we desire
to perpetuate in the herd.
What we dairymen want Is a herd
of cows that will give a profit at the
pail, whether pure-breds or grades.
The ones that will produce a pound of
butter or cheese the cheapest are the
ones that we want to keep In our
herds.
We have a number of improved
breeds of dairy cows that represent
the skill of years In their perfection,
but in adopting any of these breeds
we should consider the conditions and
environments under which they have
been developed in their original homes
and then plan to make our care and
feed and general management con
form to the conditions under which
the breed had been developed.
If a man has Jerseys, give them Isle
of Jersey care and feed for they can
not succeed on scrub fare and fodder.
They were not Intended for that pur
pose.
The Jersey cow Is a delicate, nerv
ous machine and requires warmth,
kindness and liberal feeding to make
her profitable.
If Holsteins are selected do not ex
pect them to thrive on closely cropped,
scanty postures where they are com
pelled to rustle all day to gather suf
ficient food.
Give them the care they were de
veloped under, large amounts of suc
culent forage and well cured hay,
warm stables and kind treatment.
You may get pure-breds if you enn
afford them, but all farmers are not
able to buy pure-breds. However, al
ways use a pure-bred sire.
The breeding bull always represents
half the value of the breeding power
of the herd If It Is desired to grow
calves for the dairy.
Select them from some of the well
known families of the breed and be
sure that he possesses prepotency
which gives promise of being a good
calf-getter.
A bull of this kind will give you
excellent results in improving the
herd. Some of the best herds in the
country are high grades that have re
sulted from the continued use of good
sires.
In order to be successful as breeders
we must learn some of the lessons
associated with our stock; have an
ideal type In our minds and always in
our selection and mating be seeking
to improve the type and standard In
our herd.
The best special purpose animal Is
none too pood. Never strive to pro
duce a general purpose animal i»y
mixing beef and dairy breeds. Aim
to produce the animal whose special
characteristic is the cheap production
of a pound of butter or a gallon of
Always seek to have the crosses in
harmony. Do not mate extremes
Vigor and constitution are two essjn-
VU'JB Unless a cow possesses vigor In
constitution she will make a poor
breeder.
Do not inbreed unless you have a
definite object in view, sucli as inten
sifying some particular good quality
and then do it by breeding the sire to
some of his own get.
This should not be followed up too
closely. Plan to have the heifers drop
their first calves at about 24 to 30
months of age. Their offspring will
be more vigorous and there will be
better results than by forcing an im
mature animal to bear progeny.
Breed cows are large feeders. Feed
them a liberal ration of milk-produc
ing foods and give them the best of
care. Keep in mind that bad qual
ities are more easily transmitted than
the good ones.
MULCHING THE
STRAWBERRY BED
Where Straw Is Not Readily Ob
tainable it Is Difficult to Get
u Covering: of Right
Thickness.
(By H. F. GRINSTEAD, Missouri.)
Where straw is readily obtainable
it is difficult to spread properly over
the strawberry plants so that It will
be thick enough yet not smother the
plants or require raking off in the
string.
A mulch of oats or sorghum is the
best thing I know of that may be
sown between the rows.
Oats aione has been tried, but from
the fact that we often have a very
dry fall it has not always made a
satisfactory growth before frost.
Sorghum or kaffir corn are dry
weather plants, and if there is suffi
cient moisture In the soil to germin
ate the seed they will grow till frost.
A good plan is to sow oats and sor
ghum or oats and kaffir corn in mix
ture and thick enough so that it will
not be coarse.
As soon as it is killed by the frost
the sorghum will fall, making an ideal
mulch. Then, as the weather becomes
more severe the oats will be killed.
Mulch grown in this way will al
ways be found thickest where peeded
—in bare places and between the
rows.
It cannot possibly smother out the
plants no matter how rank it grows,
and is the best for keeping the fruit
off the ground in the spring.
One of the greatest advantages in
a mulch of this kind is that you are
reasonably sure to have no weeds
sown with it, as is often the case
when using wheat straw.
LAY DRAIN TILE '
THROUGH SWAMP
Good Plan Shown Where Ground
Is So Soft as to Not Per
mit of Dfgginz Satis
factory Ditch.
It is frequently advisable to lay
drain tile through a bog or swamp
where the ground is so soft as not to
permit digging a satisfactory drain
ditch. By driving stakes in the ground
and lnying a one-inch board on the
tops of them, and upon this laying the
line of tile, a good flow of water can
bg secured. This tile must be laid be-
Tiling a Swamp.
low the wet weather water level and
after the land has been thoroughly
drained for a year or two the tile can
be removed and the stakes driven
deeper, so that it rests upon solid
earth.
Cure Feather Pulling.
A good remedy for feather-pulling
hens is said fo be a piece of tough
meat or bone with lean jneat clinging
to it. They will pick at the meat in
stead of pulling feathers.
ARE YOU FREE
—FROM—
Headaches, Colds, Indigestion,
Pains. Constipation, Sour Stomach,
Dizziness? If you are not, the most
effective, prompt and pleasant
method of getting rid of them is to
take, now and then, a desertspoon
ful of the ever refreshing and truly
beneficial laxative remedy—Syrup
of Figs and Elixir of Senna. It is
well known throughout the world
as the best of family laxative reme
dies, because it acts so gently and
strengthens naturally without irri
tating the system in any way.
To get its beneficial effects it is
always necessary to buy the genu
ine, manufactured by the California
Fig Syrup Co., bearing the name
of the Company, plainly printed ou
the front of every package.
I Coughs, Colds i
and Sore Throats Rc-
S3&& lieved and Cured by JKm',
im Hale's Jm
Hf Honeyfn
Of Rorebound and I'ar
It Soothes and Ilenls
WB Contains no opium nnr anything in-
W jurioua. All druggist*. %
112 Pike's Toothache Drops S!op Pala '
WANTED TO KNOW.
live 20 years you get the SIO,OO0 —but
If you don't, then your widow will
get It.
Mr. Kutting Hintz —How will I
know that she got it?
Literary Criticism.
They were discussing a certain au
thoress at dinner, and a well-known
critic raised a laugh by remarking:
"Well, her hair's red, even if her books
are not."
The mild young man in the corner
made a mental note fo the sally for fu
ture use, and at another party shortly
afterward he carefully guided the con
versation into literary channels, Tit-
Bits informs its readers. Fortunately,
some one mentioned the desired name,
and he triumphantly cried out: "Well,
she's got red hair, even if her books
haven't!"
He that doth a base thing in zeal
for his friends burns the golden thread
that ties their hearts together.—Jere
my Taylor.
THE TEA PENALTY.
'A Strong Man's Experience.
Writing from a busy railroad town
the wife of an employe of one of the
great roads says:
"My husband is a railroad man who
has been so much benefited by the use
of Postum that he wishes me to ex
press his thanks to you for the good
it has done him. His waking hours
are taken up with his work, and he
has no time to write himself.
"He has been a great tea drinker
all his life and has always liked it
strong.
"Tea has, of late years, acted on
him like morphine does upon most
people. At first it soothed him, but
only for an hour or so, then it began
to affect his nerves to such an extent
that he could not sleep at night, and
he would goto his work in the morn
ing wretched and miserable from the
loss of rest. This condition grew con
stantly worse, until his friends per
suaded him, some four months ago, to
quit tea and use Postum.
"At first he used Postum only for
breakfast, but as he liked the taste of
it, and it somehow seemed to do him
good, he added it to his evening meal.
Then, as he grew better, he began to
drink it for his noon meal, and now
he will drink nothing else at table.
"His condition is so wonderfully im
proved that he could not be hired to
give up Postum and go back to tea.
His nerves have become steady and
reliable once more, and his sleep is
easy, natural and refreshing.
He owes all this to Postum, for he
has taken no medicine and made no
other change in his diet.
"His brother, who was very nervous
from coffee-drinking, was persuaded
by us to give up the cofTee and use
Postum and he also has recovered his
health and strength.' Name given by
Postum Co., Rattle Creek. Mich.
Read the little book. "The lload to
Wellville." in pkgs. "There's a reason."
Evfr rend the above letter? A new
one nppenrn from time to time. They
nre srenulnc, true, and full of humaa
Sattrcflt.