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MAGAZINE FARMER. 1 used to like the old place Bet now it ain't no use: It's laid out inartistic. And it's tacky as the deuce; You see I've Leon a-reading. Till envy makes me preen, Of artistic agiiculture In u farming magazine. tt tells you how your pig pen Should be.on aesthetic lines: And your Looey Fourteen henhouse Should be draped in ivy vines: I'm goin' to sell the old place? Its architecture's burn! And I'll buy one of them dream joints In that magazine, by gum! p-' I'll raise no crops plebeian. But I'll put in plants and shrubs; I'll do no harvest sweat in"? Leave that for old time dubs! I may not last a season 'Fore I meet the sheriff man. But I'm goin" to bo a farmer Oh the mugazinis't plan! Her First Fishing Trip. A CASE OF TRUE SPORT BEING UNAPPRECIATED. IP* A When my husband proposed a fishing trip for vacation, it suited me well. Not that I had ever gone fishing, but just that morning I had. seen in a magazine a picture of a woman angler? with long rubber boots, hair beautifully arranged, shirtwaist spotlessly white? as she was jerking a wriggling trout I from a rippling brook, whose banks j were lined with great rocks that looked as though they were put there for picnic parties. j "Exactly what we want," said I. j In the first place, we decided to omit the long boots. He said they would be too heavy. The proper way, he explained, was to get wet, just wade in, and let the sun dry one out afterwards. Besides, one was liable to slip and i , break one's neck in rubber boots. In short, boots were only seen in pic tares; nobody really used them. He also said: "Don't wear a white j shirtwaist. Nobody ever does that, be- j ^ _ ? cause tne iroui can see you. The halo which surrounded that picture was fast disappearing. t What we did in the way of preparation, in addition to learning the name Of a small Ulster County hotel, close to a trout stream, was to invade a sporting goods shop. I watched my husband admiringly as he bought rods and lines and flies. c- I "Oh, give me a few of the bright j ones. The Professor' is a good one," said my preceptor to the clerk. "They don't take the quiet ones now." "Who's they?" I asked timidly, r "The trout, of course," and he added in a patronizing tone: "You see. you must know the habits of the fish in or?' der to get proper flies; you must know what kind to use in each month, i This early in the summer we would | waste our time if we used any but ] those of brilliant hues." i afterwards learned that somebody i had told him this. But I was all un- i suspicious at the time. "Charlie's a great fisherman," I said ; to myself with pride as he proceeded ! to spend all the $25 we had allotted for j tackle. We took a train for .Weehawken early in the morning, and arrived at our destination late in the afternoon. An hour or so later Charlie unpacked his outfit. To the hotel proprietor, a sociable fellow, he exhibited the rods ! and flies. t* ? "But" remarked our host, "but " fie hesitated, shaking his head. "But," v he continued, "you ve got the wrong | kind of flies. The trout in these parts j tike only the little black crickets or j the brown hackles at this season." _ After a weary wait for a fresh supply j from the city, we were ready, but rain j made us idle for a day, which Charlie spent talking with our host, who told j s story of a trout he caught in the Nepigon River that had taken him one hour to land. My husband promptly responded with an account of a fishing trip he had taken up Pigeon River, and narrated how he had landed fifty trout with in an hour. Each eyes the other o-l v anrt fnr thp li fc nf mo T ~ ? could not tell which deserved the medal. At last the weather cleared and we arose at daybreak. We couldn't wait, but adjusted the reels to the rods as we sat on the hotel porch. The morning was beautiful. The grass was gray with the heavy dew and the little clover leaves were just awakening from their night's sleep. I taxed my husband's patience rather severely, for every time I came to a clover patch I would make a careful search ior a four leaf to bring me good luck. "Do let that clover alone and come on and fish," said Charlie, and I went. x I was never so sleepy in ray life. As I stumbled "along with my rod I fell over a dead snake. I did not know it was dead and screamed. "If you make a noise like that, you will frighten all w.e fish away," I was ?-J:oId. But in stumbling I had let go the leader I had been holding in my hand with the rod. In looking for it I found?all three flies had caught in ray skirt. After struggling in vain to extricate them, I gave up. ^ "Cut 'em out." came the order. "And ruin the skirt? Not much." I insisted. "This is the skirt to my winter suit." "The idea of wearing a thing likethat fishing. You should have worn?" And then 1 got a lecture on the inadennironocc nf mv rosfnmo T flriiillv wriggled the hooks out, and we went on until we reached a.cool shady pool. Charlie decided to cast his fly. He waded out into the stream and the click of his reel could be heard where I was sitting. I had decided to watch .... . r . him awhile before starting out to flsn for myself. I was the first to get a bite and it was a vicious one, but it was not a trout bite. Insects of every description j were crawling over me. The punkies were simply devouring me. They are very tiny black flies., that bite and bite until they draw blood. A lizard ran up the tree back of me and on the water nearby I could see a long black snake swimming lazily. As I rose, i in my haste to get away, I forgot my responsibilities and held my rod upward, and it caught in a branch over- I head. I pulled at it, first quietly, then viciously. My arms ached and my head ached. Finally the line came j down, but the hooks again caught in my skirt. After much twisting and turning I got them out, leaving broken threads and small holes to be darned i when .1 got home. I Meanwhile, Mr. Fisherman, who had ' - 1 ? ^ Ar 1111 WBiACil ix IIUI1U1 CU [WVCfl UI OVJ ??j. I stream shouted to me to "come on." To start in his direction I had to fol- i lov." an unbeaten trail through the un- [ | dergrowth. In <..oing tins I lost all j my hairpins. My hair was pulled out j ; on the twigs almost by the handfalls. j I Inwardly I was raging. But eventually i | I reached my husband. My hair was | i almost gone. My temper was entirely j gone. "Did you see that?" he cried as I came in sight. | j What he alluded to was a diminui tivc fish that he had dangled for a sec| ond on his hook. At least he said it I had been there. I didn't see it. | "Never had such luck." he explained. i got plenty of strikes, but somehow I I can't land them. Must have the wrong sort of flies. This stream is j pretty well fished out, anyway. Now, j in Pigeon River " j I pretended not to hear, for the Pigeon River stories had lost their attraction. i "I want to go home," I announced rather viciously* "Aren't you having a good time?" I i asked my husband in a most surprised tone. I tried to force a cheerfulness j I did not feel. "Oh. yes, I am having the time of my j life," I truthfully replied. "Any fish?" "Three beauties, all speckled trout," | he replied. "Let me see," I said, as I waded out to where he was. In his fishing basket Charlie really I had three fish, but none of them wa9 over six inches long. I caught a lot more," he explained. | "but I threw 'em back. You know it is against the law to keep fish under six j inches." "How can you tell when they are six inches?" I asked. He pulled up his sleeve and displayed with pride a pin scratch, on his wrist. "I measured six inches on my arm this morning with your tape line, so l I would be sure to keep no fish under size." [ "Those aren't all speckles," I said, as I again peered'into the basket. I saw/his face fall, but I was bent on displaying my knowledge. "One is a German brown, and another is a California rainbow, and that littlest fellow is a brook," I announced proudly. "We can't go home to the hotel after staying away all this time and let the people find that we caught only three fish, so let's cook 'em. Tor 1 am hungry anyway." Charlie said, having a neat way of turning a subject. We * piled together a few rocks as a founI dation; then we collected some leaves and twigs and made a fire. We endeavored to cook the trout by holding them over the flame with a wooden stick, but the stick seemed determined j to get on fire, and, of course, down would go the trout into the flames. Finally the fish much besmirched with smoke and cinders were pronounced done. We proceeded to eat them, and, | strange to say, they were really good, and certainly took the edge off our hunger. "Let's go home," said I, rising, and we trudged along wearily, those miserable hooks catching in my skirts almost at every step. "Let's go home?back to New York. I mean," I repeated. Charlie looked at me reproachfully. "Very well." he said, "if you are ! determined upon it. But we have two | more days of vacation, and I am sure j I could get a lot of fish." I packed my trunk that night ere I slept, and the next morning we drove to town (five miles) in the sort of storm that is unknown anywhere exI cept among the mountains. I was go; ing home?getting farther and farther j | away from the land of snakes and m! sects, I was blissfully happy. At last ! we arrived at Weehawken and there. ' a ferryboat awaited us. To me it seemj ed like a steam yacht. I exclaimed: "Isn't that ferryboat the most beau! ti?u! sight you ever saw? It looks as I if it is straight from fairyland?and j what a nice salty smell!" "This' is just the sort of weathe: j trout bite best." said my husband, j dreamingly.?F. M. G. in the New j Yortc Evening Post. A Substitute. Little Helen, aged four, was in a frightful predicament. The nurse, carI rying the cherished two-weeks-old ba! by up and down before the house, had ' paused to show the new infant to the ! bishop, who had asked to look at it. And then the tall, grave bishop, of j whom Helen stood greatly in awe, j had unexpectedly asked the little girl j to give him the baby. | How in the world to refuse a request made by such an awe-inspiring person as the bishop the child did not know. But presently she wrinkled her small countenance shrewdly, moved closer to the petitioner, and said, ingratiatingly, "I'll let you have ! the next"?Harper's Weekly . ' ' ' \ -- V - " .. ? \ v - . .- i v- /r?_. v? .V ...iv jPalmetto State News[ r W V V V ? f V < Bad Fire in Lumber Yards. J. H. Pearson's lumber yard at Spartanburg was partially destroyed t>> lire Saturday night. About $3,C'OO worth of lumber and the store bouse were destroyed. In an adjoining frame building, used as a store room bv the Manikin Construction Company, of Richmond, engaged in building ihe local government building. was a lot of material, valued at $900. which was badly damaged. * * Warrants Issued For Club Members. Warrants have been issued against several members of the Spartan Field Gun Club, composed of prominent society young men of Spartanburg, charging them withh maintaining a public nuisance, operating a shooting mnge on the public highway and shooting at clay targets, to the annoyance and constant fear of a large number of citizens who travel the highway. The case will be heard at the next term of the court. * * * Inter Collegiate Tennis Meet. On November 21 and 22 there will be held in Greenville the first South Carolina inter-collegiate tennis meet. Nearly every college in the state will send representatives to the tournament. There will be two loving cups presented by the city of Greenville and merchants have offered numerous prizes. The games will be played out on the fair grounds, and the visitors will be entertained by the people of the city. * Costly Blaze in Barnwell. The business portion of the town of Barnwell was practically wiped out one night the past week by fire, which originated in the grocery store of A. K. Burkhalter. This was a small frame structure and burned rapidly. ? - - -- ?a - Trie dry gooes siure v1 A. Cave, next door, caught and was soon destroyed. The drug store of Ti. A. Deason and C. N. Burkhalter were also burned and the law offices cf State Senator Bates, Charles Carroll Simms and B. T. Rice and other property were destroyed and damaged. The total loss will reach $&0,000. ? * Heyward Heads New Company. The Columbia Trust Company has decided that after January 1, 1907, it will engage in the savings bank business. The board has made a most fortunate selection in being able to secure Gov. D. C. Heyward for the presidency of the company. The change is to take effect on the 1st of January. The executive committee lias instructed the builders to go ahead with the erection of the new bank building next to the State office and to perfect whatever plans may be necessary for the trust com pany to so into the savings business actively after the 1st of January. * * Charged With Murder of Woman. Walter R. Woody, the marine of the Charleston navy yard, who was last seen in company with Lillian Reeves, found dead in her home on Ashley avenue, Charleston, several days ago, has been arrested and charged with her murder. Woody was picked up by r. police officer, with a wound in his stomach, rear the woman's house, before her death was discovered and it has since developed that the two had had supper together and been drinking together on the night previous to the woman's body being found. It appears that the woinau shot Woody and he either shot her in self-defense or by accidqnt in the schuffle which is supposed to have ensued. This conclusion was deduced from the testimony at the coroner's inquest. w^wsoaoer Man Dead. i*v" ?'p?? Mr. Fred J. Loudette, one of the most efficient newspaper workers in Columbia in recent years, has passed away. Mr. Loudette was a native of Nova Scotia and was "derated at a military school at uircal. He was a printer by trade and liau seen a great deal of the world in his travels as a journeyman printer. lie came to Columbia in 1871 and ' engaged m newspaper work. He was a .competent news gatherer and news editor. He was one of The first eni-~ plcyes of the State and held responsible positions, his last being that, of foreman. He went to Atlanta to become local nf thp American Newspaper iiiaaa^\.i w* Association and returned to Columbia to take the telegraph editor's desk on i a morning paper. For several years he has been unable to do any work. I and has been cared for in a faitlij ful manner by his son, at whose home he died. j * * Only Ten Were Dissatisfied. The trouble with the few discontented immigrants has now been setI tied and all of the 475 immigrants. I brought by ihe Wittekind to Charles| ton, have been placed in positions I i and have made good, except ten, who have "been put back on the steamship and will be sent to Bremen when the steamer returns. The dissatisfied ones seemed to be of an indolent class, who were out for an adventure. They have been trying to get the state and local authorities to send them to New York, which will not, however* be done. Desirable positions have been offered to the immigrants, even by the Belgian consul at Charleston, who aiso interested himself in the matter, but they show no inclination to accept nlaces at any wages. ?.nd they will, therefore, be carried back to Germany. * Duel Over Family Differences. On the streets of Heath Springs, in Lancaster county, Dr. E. S. McDow, of Lancaster, was shot by his brotherin-law, John A. Bridges. The shooting is said to be the result of a family difference which has lasted for some years. McEow was a brother of the Dr. McDow, who killed Francis W. Dawson, editor of the Charleston News and Ccuner, several years ago. Bridges used a double-barreled shotgun. McDow did not shoot. One load of No. 4 shot took effect in McDow's left arm just below the shoulder Made, another load entered the right forearm, and the third entered the legs above the knees, causing serious wounds. * * * Warning Proved Fatal. Frightened by a sudden yell "Stop," as she was crossing the Southern railroad near the station at Duncan, Miss S. B. Hand, sister of Professor Hand, of . the University of South Carolina, stood trembling on the main line and was dashed to death by the fast passenger train, No. 37. Miss Hand was 22 years of age and one of tbe most attractive young ladies of the community. She was teaching and was at the time of the accident returning home 'from school. She seemed to be in a study and was crossing the tracks in front of the approaching train when the man who cried out nrticed her. The sudden cry frightened her and she stopped and seemed afraid to move lest she meet a horrible death that she might avert by standing. She was struck by the engine pilot, knocked to the Kde of the track lifeless, though the .body was not mangled. I Omission May Void Ejection. The election in Richland county is in confusion and will likely be declared illegal if any contest is made. The tickets which were supplied were not of the dimensions required by law and the name of Probate Judge Cobb was not on the ticket at all. The probate judge is an elective officer, but the authorities who- prepared the Democratic tickets overlooked the office, thinking the office was appointive, and the name of the nominees was omitted. Strange to say, Probate Judge Wade Hampton Oobb, who was the Democratic nominee and the only candidate, cast his ballot and did not notice that his name was not on it As far as known, no vote for probate judge was cast, but if the Republicans bad voted only one ballot for some one else ne wouia nave been elected. The only danger In the illegality of the election' is that it may give grounds for the Republicans to contest the election of Congressman Lever, who was opposed by a negro of Orangeburg named Dantzler. Thb negro contested the seat two years ago and was put into the race soieiy for tlie purpose of making a content. NEGRO JUDGE WAS ELECTED. ??/ \ Got in While Scramble Waa On and Howl is Now Raiaed. Chicago is just awakening to a realization, of what it means to have a negro judge, and the howl of protest gained in volume when It was announced that Frederick D. Barnett, Llic judge in question, would not be assigned exclusively to the trial of eases involving persons of his own race. "This is not a 'jiracrow' court," de< claied Chief Justice Olson,- of the | new municipal court. "I shall as1 ci.Tii Luis-.-* Harnett where I think he will do the most good." Earnctt was elected to a two-year term as municipal judge as. a. Republican. despite the fact that he ran 30.000 votes behind the next lowest candidate on that ticket. It is said that Thomas Lantrey (Democrat), who lacked only 495 votes of defeating Barnett, will demand a recount Bavnetr, was scratched by the Republicans but managed to squeeze in on Lhe Republican landslide because the others failed to bnnch their ballots for any one of the Democratic candidates. CHARGES AGAINST M'CAREN. Prominent New York Campaign Mar.. ager Accused of "Knifing" Hearst. ?- - nrtmmOtpp TDe (lfeTnocrctuc awnc WUt<i?4VWNr met in New York FriSay and by a vote of 30 to ]3 adopted a resolution providing for an investigation of the conduct of the Kings county democratic organization, headed by State Senator Patrick McCartn, during the recent campaign. It is alleged that McCaren "knifed" the head of the ticket ?.n<l urged iiis followers to do the same. "" > t * ' - f. t / FORTY-SEVEN DEAD While Thirty-Eight are Hurt as Result of Collision. VICTIMS ARE CREMATED Frightful Disaster Occurred on Baltimore and Ohio Railway and Was Caused by Blunder of some Employe. More than one-half the passengers on an immigrant train on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad were killed and injured in a collision Monday be iween tne passenger tram ana a freight near Woodville, Ind. One hundred and sixty-five passengers were on the train, and of these forty-seven were either killed outright or were burned to death in the fire which broke cut in the wreckage Immediately after the collision. The names of all the dead will probably never be known, as forty-five of the dead bodies were consumed in the flames or were so badly burned that identification will be out of the ques. tion. Thirty-eight people were injured and several of these will die. Eighty others escaped unhurt, but lost nearly all their baggage and clothing. The disaster was caused by a blunder of some employe cf the railroad company, but just where the blame lies has not as yet been determined. The passenger train which was loaded with Russian Jews, Servians and Poles, all of them recent arrivals in this country, and bound for Chicago Or places in the northwest, was the second section of a through train from Baltimore. The engineer of the freight train, No* on instructions received at McCool, Ind., waited at a siding at Babcock, Ind., to allow the immigrant | train to i:ass. One report is that the j engineer cf the freight 'train fciad not been informed that the passen I ger train was running in two sec jtions; the other is that the fii;st see i tion of the passenger train carried j no lights or signals of any kind indi I eating that a -second section Was close behind. As soon as the first section of th, immigrant train had passed the switch at Babcock, the freight train j in charge of Engineer Burke and Con ; ductor Moste started eastward. A | light snow was falling, which in r creased the darkness in the earls j morning, and as the freight was round ing a shrrp curve just west of Wood ville the second section of the immi grant train-came in eight a short die | tance away, tearing toward Chicagc j at the rate of 40 miles an hour. The two trains came together witt unslackened speed, and in the crash six passenger coaches and several freight cars we^e knocked into kind ling wood,-and together with the loco motives, went roiling down a 10-fool embankment. "GMrn hmkp nnt almost iimmediateh in tbe wreckage, and, although a nam ber of Hhe injured ^rere saved by th? desperate efforts of tbe train ere* and surviving passengers, the greatei part of those who were pinned dowi in the debris were burned to death The flames spread through the wreck age so rapidly that it was impossi ble to save a number of people wli< were but .slightly hurt, but were helc j fast by limbers that weighted then down. These were burned in plaii sight of the throng which stood arouru the scene of the disaster utterly una ble to lend assistance In any way The fire continued until all the shut tered cars were entirely consumed ,and of the forty-seven persons whos< death followed the collision, 45 wer< burned to ashes. Silver Too Costly For Government. The treasury department Monday J .tffA.. fn. tha sola nf sitvPI IrtJVCl ?l*u "juc: a lvi we wv to the government at 72 cents pe. line ounce. These offers, were re jected, and Secretary Shaw stated subsequently that no more sllve would be bought at present hlgi prices. BOILER TAKES A FLYER. Engine on California Read Lets Loosi and Three Are Killed. Throe men ^vere killed by the ex plosion of an engine on the south bound Sunset Limited train on th< Southern Pacific road at Sargeanf! Station Sunday night. When ihe boiler exploded the cal was hurled Into Ihe station, which wa being passed at the time, destroy ing the structure, and the hue boiler, weighing 100 tens, shot ic: ward through the air, striking th track ahead more than 3(f0 feet fron the spot where the explosion occurrec . ONLY SHIP'S CAT SURVIVED. Every Member of Berk's Crew Fount Watery Grave. A apeeial from 'Riehbucto, N. B. states that the wrecked bark Adeon; wee boarded Saturday for the firs time since she went ashore off tba part last weak, and not a single sec man wac found or. the vessel. Onl; the ship's eat survived. v ;r'- ' . Z.-"'!.<-ft * ; . - <* K * r.yC " vi' ?W????? ? ? 4 IMMIGRATION CONGRESS J Opens at Nashville and Labor Supply and Negroes of South Are Two . Subjects Discussed. * The second annual session of the Southern Immigration and Quarantine _r-" '% Conference was called to order at the capitol in Nashville, Tenn., Monday morning. C?. s The conference was organized ayear ago at Chattanooga and its ef- ;V ^ forts resulted, "^directly in the enact- ||pj inent of better quarantine regula- . m tions. tions by the federal government. V-' \ Committees on the various subjects to be discussed by the convention were - % appointed by the chairman. . Aside from the appointment of committees, the clay was given to speech;.4, making by men, representative of ev~ I t ry becuuu ui uie suutn <uxu jus k?- v ^ I ried business interests. While the eon| i ere nee, which was presided ever by i, its president, John I. Cox, governor of Tennessee, was called primarily for consideration of matters pertaining toi ' immigration and quarantine, the ac- > lion of the federal government ia taklng charge of the quarantines two* years ago, eliminated almost entirely that subject from discussion, and the delegates devoted the time to a con rideration of methods necessary to. securing a proper share of the grants arriving in this country from, foreign shores. The discussion hadT not proceeded far when the race question came to the fore, and it occu- \ pied the attention of the delegate# off and on throughout the two ses- \ sions of the day.* The sentiment of the delegates on the negro question ; was manifest early in the day in the burst cf applause which greeted Gov- ; * ernor Cox's statement in his addrw* ; of welcome, that the south must deafc 4 , with the negro; that the negro muse 4 . be protected and-his rights preaen^^^gg but that political rights must be takea. ' V away from the low and vicious of the ' race. This sentiment was further en- . ' dorsed when Governor Heyward of yy "South Carolina, who made the prfnci' pai speech of the day, was givea ovation at the conclusion of hie" | dress, which declared that fioii would yet^ solve the ? I Governor Co* advocated the lishment of a bureau of by each southern state, with sttid^n^jJ-y , north European countries:, to j Ireland, Scotland, (Switzerland, F&ndfc.. , I Genii any, Wales and Sweden to kidsefe'; y 5 the laborer to locate in the south, crying need of the south, yy ' Cdx said, is more and better- y' , , especially for the farm aad the '.???\y v V ton mill. The governor thougb?ii. v \ would be a good move to send'"t^tasrj|, ^ /' to the northwest states in % to turn the tide of iinmlgration f^oiB^-| } Canada and British Columbia to i south. But conditions In the south,I [ governor said, must first be. sujtte.jl, \ ( favorable for tbe new class, the | question at this time, he said, ; is ; ;a menace to t*afe 311(1 3 hind mac* jfe- ^ ; | stontftern development: x ne t mu3t be sohret! by the jsouth, bot^h^':- ? aid and sympathy of the north i* r most essential. r ^ M. V Richards, land hnd immig*^J|? } lion commissioner of the SoRt^et^ : r railway, .was the first speaker at r afternoon session. He showed t tide of Lhe immigration which hai. flowed for years to the west and nert?west had tamed southward, and\wNh . a proper appreciation of the needs > of white immigrants the j easily assimilate the new arrivals', j J. 0. Hemphill of Charleston, j rented by Mayor Rhett, spokebrieffy I He, as did Governor Hevward at .the morning session, told of South Carelina's efforts for immigration. Mr. . \ Hemphill raid among other things that . ; the south, must expect to treat these I immigrants as white people shquld W j treated. They must aot be treated asr " j negroes. The negroes are being treatI rd well enough, he said, but tiesemeir immigrants asa those to come j be given better care. p Mr. Hemphill favored the strict, enr forcemeat of the vagrancy laws' a* > one means of solving the negro prvibI | le&, or the removal altogether cfr'ther colored men from the south, j F. H. Hyatte of Columbia. S. C> vice president of the National Good! Roads Association, spoke briefly in "avor of better roads as an incentivetc immigration. 9 ! Col. F. Y. Anderson of Birmingham | took issue with Mr. Hemphill's I of removing the negro from the south. " Colonel Anderson favored the paying" o? higher wages to white immigrants 6 and placing them above the negro>aa 8 they should be. . George H. Smith of New Orleans re- b viewed tbo work of T.ouisiana m eecuy- *1 ing immigrants and caring for them. - --V..V a mark* of -: f Sfter wn:cu tiwi * department of commerce '' Washington, read statistics, showing e tho desirability of the Italian oref n. the negro as a plantation laborer anff l- bis thrift as a farmer and settler. GRIM REAPER CLAIMS SHAFTE*. ^ j Valliant Soldier Passes Away In fornia After Brief Illness.", Major Gene:al William Rnfus Stpaf' ter, TTnited Stales army, retired. <He? t Monday uitcincon of pneumonia at t the ranch of Captain Wl H. McKittrick, his son-in-law, 20 miles soim* * of Bakersfieid Cal., after an ilibea* f of seven days, despite the best medp cal attention available in the Stale. C-;