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I = Meaning of Bumper Crops I Fertility Is Being Exhausted Rapidly and J Must Be Restored 1 J . By I. C. Brown, La Grange, lit ( i <JL? *?????***** UMPBR crops mean that unusual amounts of crop-making it > elements have been taken from the soil. So it must fol* [ < low when soil is put In such good condition that crops grow i > < > abundantly and produce above the normal yield that greater * J B M < pains must be taken to return a much lareer amount of fer 1 X tlllzlng material. This very thing was brought to my iitiiioa?i * few days ago, while I was traveling through Central Illinois. The case in point was a farmer who had a thoroughly kept farm. He had worked out successfully the problem of keeping his land In good condition. This he had done by a carefully laid Bystem of drainage and by knowing when to plough a field He had worked out successfully teh problem of keeping his land in good condition. This he had done by a carefully laid system of drainage and by a carefully laid system ow drainage and by knowing when to plough a field and when to leave it alone. Up to twelve years ago mixed fanning was practised here, and a considerable portion of the farm was constantly kept in meadow and pastures. Twelve years ago stock feeding was stopped and the whole farm was turned into grain fields. The natural result was that that farm soon became famous for its big yields of corn, oats and wheat. These unusual crops were taken oft for nine years, and then the yields fell oft alarmly. What wss the trouble? No doubt there is still a large amount of nitrogen in the soil, but it has been thrown out of balance by drawing too heavily on some other elements. Thousands of fine farms in Central Illinois are in precisely this condition today. Upon these farms cattle and hogs used to be fed, and little, if any, of the crops were ever hauled away from the farm. iwciYK or uneen years or i&-DUsneis-an-acre corn crops farmers And that they have to go to the bottom of one of their soil bins. If these lands are handled right they are good almost indefinitely, but allow this one-sided cropping system to go on and on and the soil conditions here will soon be on the same basis as In the southern section of the state. The thing to do Is to keep this land in condition to produce bumper crops, but not to lose sight of the fact that a 40-bushel wheat yield an acre has used up a correspondingly large amount of food elements. rThe ****** Typical Bostonian? Ngj ^ Does He Exist? S By M. A. De Wolf Howe S F the careful student of Boston should undertake to reconT struct from the recorded Impressions of observant visitors W o and critics an imaginary city, it must be said hat nearly all % I o tbe counterparts of the actual city would be found among * <? his materials. He would probably discover that some of fl>M>H |t the materials are provided in excess and others lnsufflcient4 ly. The nature of most of them could be summarized by a tlllllllM further condensation of the reports here brought together. Such a summary might be desirable were this a more extensive compilation. As it is, there 1b need only to add a single consideration for the reconstructive student who, for one reason or another, may not pur ?^ 1.0 oiuuiu uii tue ?poi. ine possiDinty or scrutinizing the "typical Bostonian"?the man who has created the impression which the word "Boston" brings to mind?is a diminishing possibility. This person, moving dally farther from the East, is fading by degrees into the light of common day. For the sake of fifty righteous men, Abraham persuaded the Lord to spare the city of Sodom, and with an admirable process of "Jewing down" brought the number through forty-five, forty, thirty, and twenty?finally to ten. The submerging wave of modern conditons has not yet brought the number of typical Bostonians so low as the highest on which the bargain for Sodom was struck. But it will roll onward; fifty will be reached, and possibly by dreadful degrees even ten. Lower than that the imagination refuses to go, and if It must go so far there will be comfort in the knowledge that ten complete Bostonians will be enough to preserve for their city something of its ancient quality.?Harper's Weekly. 1 Socialism and Human ? * Nature * I By Vida Scudder \ ORAL preparation for the New Order! It might well be the watchword of the hour: It is the last thing of which one M hears. The militant socialists are too busily engaged in aggressive propaganda, so preoccupied with their vision of healing and liberation for the body that they lay themselves open to the charge of feeling slight interest in the soul. Yet in the confusion one fact is clear: Should socialiem come otherwise than as the result of an inward transformation, affecting the deep springs of will and love, it wouiu prove the worst disaster of any experiment in collective living that the world has seen. Matthew Arnold, wisest of Victorian critics, pointed out * years ago the perils with whieh the advance of democracy is fraught, unless It be achieved through a common enlightenment and a pervading social passion. Socialism is democracy pushed to an extreme. It would Involve immensely elaborated machinery. Unless the spirit of the living creature be In the wheels, one foresees them grinding destruction. Should socialism be * V- ? " uuui iub e*yr?;?Bion oi a general win very different from that of today, it would be an unbearable tyranny. The only oomfort Is that It oould not endure. The truth is that we are forced to agree with our tedious friends who Insist that we "must alter human nature" if socialism is to be a success.?From the Hibbert Journal. HoW ' * | Women May Be Graceful * By Florence Augustine } ITH strengthened muscles and nerves normally In hand any | vw* | self-respecting woman ought to be able to maintain a graceI II ful carriage and well-bred appearance at any social funeB ^ A tion. It is well to remember that the secret of graceful movement is comfort, that the graceful thing is the easy 9 | thing. A graceful pose, sitting or standing, is a comfortable 8 w I pose, and once you have gained control over your muscles, I thov will rail *-? ___________ ?, ..... ..o.u.aii; miu cumioriaoie, gracerul postures. Tet grace to be attractive must be unstudied, unconscious. This, if anything, is the most conspicuous ear-mark ot the well-bred I woman?-her total lack of self-consciousness. Sure of herself, sure of her clothes, but forgetting them, her attitude of mind is that of the kings of old: "I can do nc wrong." She mores with easy superiority, because she has no desire to impress with her superiority; she feels that It speaks for Itself. She is neither haughty nor aloof, because she doesn't hare to fight for "a f;. place." She is not cold or stiff, but merely reserved, mild, unruffled, slightly y disinterested, and grave, but always alert, kind and courteous. One's Innate feeling is bound thus to sheer in one's hearing, and true breeding in not a thing of birth or brains or property, but something of the npiril?From ' Br TIB NfWSW HBff Items of Interest Gathered By Wire ami Cdtfe GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAY Lire Items Covering Brents of More or Leas Interest at Boms anA Abroad. Four wealthy white men were lynched by hanging in Oklahoma last Monday for the murder of an officer. A terriffic cyclone passed up James River, Virginia, on Wednesday, working wonderful freaks and doing considerable damage especially to boats along the river. Since the Easter cold an ice wall 12 miles long and 60 feet high has made a dam just above Niagara Falls. It is being dynamited to prevent the great damage of turning the river out of its natural course. Robbers tnnrelled their way under four buildings and entered a bank at Suffolk, Va., lost week. They could not open the vault but secured about $1,500. Capt. Minus, who recently resigned as military commandant at Clem son College, has published some sharp reflections on President Mell, who seems to defend himself against every charge. The controversy however is a matter of much interest in South Carolina. The Beech Island Farmers' Clnb, at Augusta. Ga.. is said to have the original copy of Gen. Lee's farewell address delivered at Appomattox. Leo Mullhern, a 12 year old boy, is missing from his home in Cincinati. Several letters have been received by his mother demanding a ransom. A tornado struck Cleveland, Ohio, at noon Wednesday and left five dead, with a possible fatal list of 20 and a property loss of $500,000. The widow of the famous Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, recently won a lone drawn out suit against Andrew J. Davis, a wealthv mine owner, of Montana, for $133,810, a fee for her hnshfind'? lecml The five Powhatan county, Va., murderers will be put to death?two on April 30. "two on May 5, and one on May 7. They were sentenced to die on same day but prison officials realized too much difficulty in the | electrical arrangements. At Robinson, HI., a nitro-glvccrine factory blew up last week carrying two men and every trace of the plant away into atoms. At Stuart. Iowa, last Sunday hail stones weighing as much as half a pound fell almost as in sheets. A glass factory at Mannington, W. Va., was burned Monday entailing a loss of $60,000 and throwing 150 men out of employment. It is said that James A. Patten made about $5,000,000 on the late flurry in the weat market, and that he will retire from the pit. Judue William Hodges Mann and Mr. Henry St. Geeorge Tucker, candidates for governor had a hot joint debate at Boydton, Va., Monday night. A negTO ran amuck in Richmond, Va., with a shotgun and a pistol, wounding four persons before he was captured. Five men wora on^n?l.. v 1 1? oviivuni} uunieu uy an explosion of gas in a mine at Warnoclt, Ohio, near Wheeling, W. Va., Monday. Mr. and Mrs. James H. Boyle held as the kidnappers of "Willie"' Whitla, are to be tried in Pennsylvania. Ohio had set up a elaim on them. The steamer Elberward was sunk in Lake Michigan by striking an ice floe and five of the crew drowned Wednesday. It is said that the Houston Oil Company will take over the properties of the Waters-Pierce Oil Company, which was ordered to cease business in Texas. The builder of the railroad across the Florida Keys is dead . Miss Jesse Brown shot Earl P. Adams, an actor of the Mabel Paige Company at Jacksonville, Fla., on Tuesday, because having been once engaged to her he had since concluded to marry Miss Elizabeth Bagley. Washington Notes. Senator Stone, of Missouri, op1 poses the policy of President Taft as to the Philippines and would have the United States to prepare to withdraw by 1915. Senator Aldrich spoke on the tariff fighting? the inenmo w _0 ??A rtiiu ^lVIUg I notice that he intended to hurry the bill through. The state of Texas has finally won a suit ngainst the Waters-Pierce Oil Company by which it will receive $2,000,000 in cash. Mrs. Matthew Y. Rcott was elected on Thursday as president general of the D. A. R. Mrs. Sarah Thompson, who acted the part of a spy that caused the capture of Oeo. John Morgan in the Civil war, and was carried on the pension roll as a soldier, was most painfully hurt by being run over bv a Traction Company car last Wednesday morning. She is 71 years old but still holds a position in the Capitol. I President Taft on Wednesday 'directed the scout cruisers Chester and Salem to carry the Liberian Commission to Mounrria. I ICE JAM BLOCKS RIVER , 0 ' * lwMw? and Pr>p*rt* Owners ; Alone Banks of th- Lower Niagara Hirer Are Panic Stricken. Lewiston, N. Y., Special.?The | great ice jam still seals the waters of the lower Niagara river. In 24 hours the ponderous mass has not moved forward a hair's breadth. Residents and property owners all along the banks from Queenston to Lake Ontario are panic stricken, fearing out so much a futrehr rise in the ( river as the sudden breaking of the jam. The iee, which, in its slow e progress during the past few days, c has uprooted hujre trees and carried I away dozens of docks and boat hous- c es would, it is feared, in a sudden rush, erase acres of territory along the upper banks of the river. With the approval of the War De- 11 partment and Governor Hughes, ef- e forts are being made by State em- ' ployes to dislodge the ice jam in the ' Niagara4 by the use of dynamite. Re- ? ports submitted to Superintendent * Stevens by experts in the use of ex- 1 plosives, detailed to make an examination of the river, stated that con- * ditions were serious; that the ice was twelve miles long and sixty feet high; J that damage was inevitable and that . something should be done at once. 1 They recommended the use of dyua- c mite. v _ s Four Killed in Tornacbo. \1 Cleveland, O., Special.?Probably four deaths, scores of persons injured and hundreds of thousands of dol- jj lars worth of damage marked the ^ path of the tornado which passed j acoss the northern part of Ohio at noon Wednesday. The storm con- ? sumed only rive minutes in passing n given point, but during that brief ^ period it was as dark as night, hail ( battered in wiudows. lightning set fire to hundreds of btildings, and the g wind, which reached a velocity of 66 j miles an hour, raz^.d buildings and Q chimneys, tore off roofs, laid low many telegraph and telephone lines . and demoralized traffic upon steam ] and electric railways. In neighboring towns consider le damage was ^ done. Ten dwellings were reported ^ to have been blown to the ground in the southwestern part of the city ^ Many homes were burned as the fire department could not attend to all of t the calls. An unidentified young woman was blown into a lake and ? drowned. Alabama Statute is Held Invalid. c Montgomery, Ala., Special.?The State law of Alabama annulling the j licenses of foreign corporations tak- ^ ing cases from State to federal courts j has been declared unconstitutional in j a decision by Judge Thomas O. Jones j of the United States court of the mid- j die district of Alabama. He said -i that the law violated both the State j and the federal constitutions. The ^ decision was mad<? ir. ?n I joining the secretary of state from ( canceling the license of the Western ^ 'Telegraph company in Alabama. Judge Jones holds that the act is violative of the 14th amendment of ^ the federal constitution, in that it ^ does not apply to domestic corpora- ^ tions as it does to foreign, and of the state constitution because it de- i nies the right given by that instru- 1 rr.ent to a corporation to conduct its 1 business without molestation. He holds that the law is in no sense jus- | titled as a police measure. "Tennessee Dutch" in Jail. I Atlanta, Ga., Special.?Advises ro- . ceived here by the postoffice inspector . in charge from the authorities at , | Bowling Green, Ky., ar to the effect j that a man believed to be "Tennessee j Dutch," the notorious safeblowcr ^ who recently escaped from the Greenville, 8. C., jail, is under arrest there. ' The man is being held pending identification. i Ten Thousand Reported Killed. London, By Cable.?A special dis- 1 patch form Athens Wednesday savu ' ?I telegrams from Mersina a ay fully t 10,000 persons were killed in the antiChristian rioting of the last few days J in the Adana and Tarsus districts, j Entire villages were razed and the 1 country is a smoking wilderness. I American Schooner Seised. Vancover, British Columbia, By Cable.?The cruiser Kestrel, of ths 1 Dominion government, nrrived in port Wednesday, having in charge the American halibut dishing schooner Charles Levi Woodbury, which she ' captured after firing four rounds 1 from her machine guns, and threat- I ening to sink the alleged poaching ' vessel ur.lc*ft she surrendered. The action took place Sunday afternoon 1 in northern waters, alleged to be con- 1 tiguous to Canada. Sixty Killed In Sortie. Tabriz, Persia, By Cable.?In the sortie from this city Tuesday the Nationalists lose 60 {D?n killed anfl , 100 wounded. Among them were H. C. Baskerville, an American school teacher, who lost his life. The armistice arranged by the Shah for the purpose of bringing in provisions is not regarded with enthusiasm here,* ae the absence of I t| transport makes provisioning the I town very difficult. 1 I ? ' \ / SOWWlM Every Paragraph in th Amendment When and the Whole to Revision i Washington, Special.?The fl reading of the traiff bill for com rationof committee amendments i oncluded -when the Senate adjoun IYday. According to an agreem oade when the reading was be{ rrery paragraph of the entire 1 rill be subject to amendment whei s taken up for final consideration ech paragraph Monday. While rbole measure is thus subject to f her revision, all ceneeded that s taatial progress has been ma ?here will be no return to many he schedules. There was comparatively little ate on the measure Friday, as Se or Aldrich postponed replying nany questions asked of him in or o hasten the conclusion of the re ng of the measure, saying he wo anke full explanations when arious amendments receive final c ideration. Many provisions, incl ng the wood pulp and wool schedu pere Friday passed over on spec bjectjon. During the reading of the ta till, numerous requests were made he part of both Republicans t democrats for the passing over 'arious schedules, although an agi nent had previously been made t luch action was not necessary in ler to permit a Senator to enter i tbtain a vote on any amendment. Senators McCumbcr and Simm uggested that the lumber sched e passed over and Senator Beverii Oaae the name request in respect he tobacco schedules. HOW SENATOR ALDI Senator Aldrich estimates tha 179,70 in 1910 on the basis of the .?o,6VJ.&l in i.yU7. He calculates that the Aldricl imn the Dingley law did in 1907. He claims that the Aldrieh b tries and $183,510,141 from dutia He snbmitted the following st mrsements, actual and estimated, o 1911 inclusive: Actual receipts and disburses al years 1900 to 1908, inclusive: Fiscal Year. Receipts. .900 $ 567,240,85] 901 587,685,337 .902.. 562,478,233 903 560,396,674 .904 540,631/74S 905 544,274,684 .906 594,454,121 .907 663,140,334 908 601,126,11? Deficit. Estimated receipts and disb nclusive: Fiscal Year. Receipts .909 $ 605.047.23C 1910 655,000,00( 191 1 695,000,00c Deficit. Actual receipts, nine and one-hali Disbursements, nine and one-half Deficit, nine and one-half months, KIDNAPERS IN THE Mercer, Pa., Special.?Iudictme vera returned here Friday night kfaroer grand jury against James ioyle and his wife in connection u he abduction of Willie Whitla, Sharon, Pa., on March 18. A t >ill was found against Boyle, cha ng kidnaping. The maximum s .ence is life imprisonment. In vase of the woman, the same bill i also returned, with an extra co vharging her with aiding assist SIX PERSONS INJUR Fort Gaines, Ga., Special.? Demons were injured and thousa >f dollars' worth of property itroyed in a cyclone that sw hnough Clay county Friday morni rhe approach of the storm threw 1 ilace into a panic, the roaring of wemwniB causing woman and child lo run about the streets crying < tractedlv. Within a few hund [rarda of Fort Gaines the storm e TAYLOR GETS PARDON; < Frankfoit, Ky., Special.?Gover Willson Friday cleared the Kentu sourt records of all charges grow ant o fthe murder in 1900, of Will: Soebel, except those hanging c witnesses in the alleged conspiri by granting pardons to former C W% 8 .Taylor and Sec. of State CI Fiuley, who have been fugitives tbe State of Indiana for nine ye< to John Powers, * brother of Ci Powers, to Holland Whittaker, J TERRIFIC^ CYCLONE Riehmopd, Va., Special.?'The Dominion steamer Pocahontas, wt arrived Wednesday morning, w through a cyclone off Wyanoke land, in tbe James river, on Wedi day. Women on the steamer beci panio-etricken when the vessel tossed abont like a cockleshell, boat was drenched with water, deck ehairs were, washed away mBQFWG;v ^ i ' ' ' ' . -v .I - > - > 'i ? ,1 Iff BDl READ ' e Bill Will Be Subject to It is Taken Up Monday Bill Is Thus Subject Before Passing. ,rst Senator McLaurin, of Mississippi, lid- requesting that various schedules ttnvag der the head of agriculture be passed over, Senator asked aed whether he did no' rr \ v ***? I suniuar request in r . i'ic jun duty on which the *: had allowed to sto v-r t pound as passad b i "There is nothii the cu^tura^ schedules the duty on rioe,' - -xl >.!r. Aid rich. "Still we mi$ Gf schedule," said Mi ing. dc- 'i Let it he ps&acti, uikwipuuCu na- Senator Gallinger with a significant to glance toward the Democratic side, der The Phillipine sugar schedule callad ed forth a vigorous criticism on the uld part of Senators Clay and Bacon, of the the policy of admitting sugar from on- the Philippine islands to the United ud- States free of duty. They declared , lcs, that the free admission of 225,000 ific tons of sugar from Porto Rico and 400,000 tons from the Hawaiian isriff lands had not affected the price of reon fined sugar and added that while ind granulated sugar inthe United States of sells for 4.96 cents per pound, it is ee- sold for 2.70 cents a pound in Lonhat don. Mr. Bacon insisted that the or- introduction of free Philippine sugar ind would, by replacing an equal amount of dutiable sugar, reduce the reveons nues without any benefit to the peoiulc pie of this country, dge The paragraph was passed ovefc io | under objection by Senators Poster ' and Newlands. RICH FIGURES SURPLUS t the Aldrich bill will produce $399,052,importations of 1907, as against $329,1 bill will raise $9,934,420 more in 1910 ill will collect $155,542,538 from luxble necessities. atements showing the receipts and disof the Treasury for the dscal years 1900 aents exclusive of Panama Canal for flsDisbursements. Surplus. .89 $487,713,791.71 $ 79,527,060.18 .53 509,907,353.15 77,717,984.38 1.21 471,190.857.04 91,287,375.57 u40 506,089,022.04 54.307,652.36 1.40 532,237,831.31 8,393,928.09 1.85 563,360,093.62 *19,085.408.77 .67 549,405,425.35 45,048,096.32 1.05 551,705,129.04 111.435,205.01 1.53 621,102,390.64 *19,976,272.11 ur8eraent8 for fiscal years 1909 to 1911, i. Disbursements. Surplus. 1.00 $674,509,680.00 *69,462,450.00 ).00 700,000,000.oo *4o,000,000.oo 1.00 655,000,000.co 30,000,000.oo ! months, 1909 $468,042,873.28 ' months, 1909 533,986,815.88 1909 65,943,942.60 ! MESHES OF THE LAW ntsrand abetting in the kidnaping. The by indictment against Mrs. Boyle identiH. fles her as follows: Mary Doe, alias dth Helen Anna McDermott, Parker, of Miner, Yorke and Boyle. The trial rue of the abductors will begin next Friirg day, April 30. The grand jury reion ported that Sheriff Chess had been the instructed by them to place Boyle in was a burglar-proof cell because of recent unt attempts to liberate him by partiei ing on the outside. ?ED IN GEORGIA CYCLONE Six j denly swerved and took away only nds a corner of the town, demolishing a de- number of negro romes, wrecking the ept country homes of B. F. Grimsey and ing. J. W. Sutton. Mr. Grimsey, Mrs this West, two negro children and two the farm hands of Mr. Grimsey were inren jured. A Central of Georgia train dis- escaped by the narrow margin of red thirty seoonda, having passed that >ud- far ahead of the cyclone. jOEBEL'S murder unavenged t - ' " " uvt u?>ic, ui uuiuBviuti, ana ?*acn csieeie, c^y of Bell county. Those over whom indict n in?' left hanging are Walton < - u. -'t iam Knox Co., now in Colorat i" r. ,fc ver Cecil, of Bell county, now i .1 d detective in St. Louis, and Win' , * li*V ? Coulton, of OwesJey count\ t.< k)v. have died in the West rece . ias. These cases, with the pc-si Mo ex j* ception of that against Cec " ,11 ) ". dismissed, leaving Henry E 'iff y lr8' now serving a life sentem i :h? 'leb State penitentiary, the only t -r. ohn suffer for the nssasination ot UoebeL ON THE JAMES RIVER Old an automobile on board had to be licb lashed to the deek to prevent its beent ing washed overboard. The members Is- of the crew were compelled to tie ics- themselves to tbeir posts to escape ime being blown over the side. The steamwas er was badly damaged. Pessengen The say the hurricane earns as suddenly as the | bolt from the heavens, and took and J everybody unawares. A