TOL L NO. 7. - *CAMDBN, & C, THURSDAY* MARCH 17, 1904. *1.50 PER YEAR. >rJ- A ;?a?uciiD ncmmiHsuL r--. taau RvsfQtr likn Inn PntkOwL y- " - Berlin, Much 10. ? The Tsge bUtt to-day userti that the oon V Hbtton prevails in government circles in Russia that war with England la inevitable, aa a re l^'nKof the preaent Japaneee war. l Russia is actively preparing to r strengthen her defences on the Baltic coast The minister of ^ marine has asked the inhabitanta of the Finnish inland Kallin to " leave the entire island to be pre * pared for fortifications. Prince Uchlomsicy, the Csar*s confidential advisor, is qnoted as j saying that a Russian attack on EMK India is imminent. Chinese Neutrality. * Paris. March 10. ? It* is official ly confirmed that the Russian ambassador at Pekin has enter ed a protest against the massing oTChinese troops on the Man churian frontier, claiming thatj this would endanger the main of Chinese neutrality. a iL, _ _ . ffifinr of BawU to Help i ling the War Fund. 8k. Petersburg, March 10. ? / The Csar has contributed two hundred million rubles the war V: tod. ' A Good Start. St. Petersburg, March 11. ? The Russian torpedo boat flotilla ? ..left port Arthur at broad day light this morning and. attacked : the Japanese fleet One Japan -eee torpedo boat wae ~*unk and ? one Russian torpedo boat de stroyer, the BespOshtchadni, was sunk. The fate of the lat v ? ter's crew is not known. Admiral Makaroff inaugurated his assumption of the command of the Russian fleet at Port Ar thur by a complete change of tactics. As soon as be appeared he ordered the removal of the > Battleship Retvisan, which was . stranded at the mouth ot the harbor and barred the channel at oertain stages of the tide, ma . king the egress of battleships Impossible. This ? morning he directed a sortie of the torpedo boat flotillo, supported by part of the Russian squadrop, against the Japanese. sunoi siUTortf sichbss. l1 r#?wlItNMM?Mgr to Vn th? AfkU YMtordkjr, Washington. March 11. ? Ben. ator Tillman was much more un comfortable today then at any time during his illness, though his condition was not necessarily worse. His throat is distressing him greatly and the suffering is most acute. The physicians again today found it necessary to lance ft and the indications are that another suoh operation will be necessary tomorrow as a second abeoess appears to be forming. * Still the physicians see no cause for apprehension and believe careful treatment and patience will insure relief. They think that in short time Senator Till man will have recovered suf ; ficiently to enable him to go south to recuperate. national Fraternal Union. The candidates who have been nominated for the monument committee are as follows: TREASURER. L E Cayoe, Hopkinsvllle, Ky. B. W. HIH, Delmsr, Del. J. E. Denton, Chsrlotte, N. 0. . Win. M. Everhart, Wheeling, V W. Va. 1 F. Cooke, Dover, Del. ' FINANCIAL SBCRKTARY. W. A. Schrock, Camden, 8. C. J. 8. Love, Carrifille, Ky. J. E. Tall, Ltard, Del. Dr. Thos. D. Cook, Wilming ton, DeL CORRESPONDING 8ECRRPTARY. J. B. Burkholder, Martins burg, W. Va. . John T. Dise, Tangier, Va. Charles W. Dempster, Butte, Montana. W. A. Vesa, Athens, Ga. F. C. Murray, Richmond, Va. J. I*. Cannon, Camden Del. , The treasurer to serve three years. Financial Seoretary to serve two years, and the Corre sponding Seoretary to serve one year from January 1, 1004. One officer to be elected each year thereafter. The Treasurer shall be custo dian of the monument fund, and shsll give such bond in a guar antee company as may be advised by the board of directors. The Financial Secretary shall receive all contributions for the fund and turn the same over to the Treasurer monthly. He must also give s bond in a guarantee company. The Corresponding Secretary shall contract for all monuments, have them shipped and delivered for erection, keeping a complete record of each transaction. He will not be required to give bond. Each olticer shall perform such other duties as may from time to time be deemed necessary for the good of this department. For the first term the honors of the tfffioe shall be all the com pensation allowed. VOTE, the polls are now open. Cut out the blank ballot which is on the last page of the Advocate. Vote for your choice of the can didates by writing their name on the ballots and send the same to the Supreme Secretary. The "polls" will remain open until the last day of March. You can vote any time until then, but the sooner the better, so send in your vote at once. When the ballot is received the same will be recorded and your name will be place upon the monument list On the last day* of March the ballots will be turned over to the Supreme Pres ident who will count them in the presence of two witnesses and declare the three candidates re ceiving the largest number votes elected. Immediately thereafter the successfal candidates will be notified and shall qualify and take charge of the monument de partment at once. Each vote and a report of the whole proceedings shall appear in the April issue of the Advocate. The voters shall pay the 25 cents contribution to their local secretary with April dues. The local ~ secretary shall forward same to the Financial Secretary and the Financial Secretary shall turn same over to the Treasurer, each officer obtaining a receipt from the receiver. After the first 25 cents contri bution there shall be no more un til a death occurs, then each member shall be notified and an other contribution shall be levi ed and a like levy shall be made for each death occurring there after or at least often enough to keep a sum of $100 at all times in this fund. No member shall be compelled to pay into this fund but no member not a contributor shall toe entitled to its benefits. This department shall not af fect or Interfere In any way with the Class A, B or Funeral | departments, but shall bs separ ate and distinct therefrom. Had we been opentug this feature from the tagtaatof (or er three years ago) the onet to members would not here exceed ed 25 cents each sad we oould have erected a $100 monument to each of oar deceased members and have half the money as a surplus yet in tne fond. It Is hoped and expected that each member of the order will hare their names enrolled at onoe. It is certainly cheap* ef fective and beneficial* Look ov er the list of candidates and send in your ballot at onoe to the National Fraternal Union, Mur ray, Ky. ? Fraternal Advocate. ?He Oftended the Empress. The Veri trine were boys of -enormous wealth end power. Paul held a high office at court. One night, glittering with jewels and orders, the young prince, who wag one of the handsomest of men in Russia, danced in a quadrille opposite the empress As she passed him in the dance fancied that his eyes scanned her gross figure with covert amusement. After the quadrille she beckoned to him, and, with a smile handed him her tiny ivory tablets, containing seven pages, one for each day in the weeir. On the first was written: "The Imperial ball-room St. Petersburg." On the last: "The mines, Siberia." He read it, his face grew gray aa that of a corpse, bowed low* kissed her hand, and withdrew, "taking, " says the old chronicle, "his wife, the beautiful princess of Navgorod, with him. He was heard to say as he left the ball room: 'My minutes are number ed; let us not lose one.'" Flight or resistance was im possib\e. The hold of Catharine on her victims was inexorable as death. Prince Vetitsin was forced to remain passive in his palace while each day the power, the wealth, and the happiness that life had given him were stripped from him. First he was degraded from all his offices at court; next, his estates were confiscated by the crown; his. friends were forbid den to hold any communication with him; his very name, one of the noblest in Russia, was taken from him, and be was given that of a serf. Then his wife and children were driven out of the palace to herd with beggers. "On the last day,*' says the record, "- Paul Veritzin, in rage and barefooted, chained to a convict, %ade an eternal farewell to his home and departed to the dark and icy north. He was seen of men no more." ? Life of Prince Veritain. Cotton Delivery 1890. Among the resolutions adopted by the National Alliance at St. Louis was the following: "That cotton producers be ad vised not to contract any debt in the future that will obligate them to deliver their cotton on* a given day, sooner than the 25th day of December." ? Southern Farmer, March, 1800. This is as good advice now as it was then ? Ed. If th? negro** were qualified to rule the southern whites 84 years ago. whj is npt Booker Washington, highest representative of his raoe, a suitable person for vine president on ths Re publican ticket? Will tha Republican newspapers of the north please tell us why he Is not qualified ; why the ne groea with suoh a representative, should not be reoognixed; why ths door of presidential hope should bs longer dosed to them by the party they bars so faithfully supported even to their andologf White Knight cigar, a -splendid smefce, oall for them at the Oaaiden Drrg Company, and lake no other. Chicken Column. r"w~H? ~i rij- _n_ri BffoEatlnf. There is no way of caring hens from eating eggs, but to prevent them -my mechanical means is easy* A nest with a double bot tom, the npper one inclined so as to allow the egg to roll to the lower one answers well, but the j haoit.is one that is easily acquir ed, ami is a lasting one. Hens learn it by being in the presence of broken eggs, but they rarely break eggs themselves until so taught. If the nests are arranged as to keep the eggs out of their reach, they will forget the habit if fed liberally with meat for a white, but the safest plan is to cut omthe heads of such fowls beforwthe habit becomes general with pe flock. ? Exchange. ?. Vertigo. 4KJne of my early pullets that j u laying quite steadily during the nice days of fall, quit, but still goes to the nest. Her head Is ben^Tback, and she keeps it from side to side, and look wild. I took her test, and she ran a few ~ then fell. Some dsya ,rs all right. J. M." is troubled with ver hy an undue flow of j head. ~ PoMTbiy you' are feeding too high, aud giving ] too much corn to eat. Some times this trouble wears away without medicine, and by a change and reduction of food. Give four grains of bromide of j potassa every second day- and between times a pinch of epsom salts to physic. Hold the bird's head under a faucet so that the cold water will fall heavily. If this treatment does not cure, bleed one of the veins under the wings. _____ z Poet Notes. If you wish strong ohioks, never set eggs from so unmatured pullet. When ben* have free range with their brood*, e tucks are seldom trou bled with lice. It Is s frest error to live s hen more ohicks In early winter then she osn hover well at night. Too few ohloka are better than too msny any season. To produce the largest and best geese for market, cross the Touloure gander with the Emb den goose Look out for heavy showers. A little rain will not hurt the ] chickens, but they should have convenient shelter from heavy showers. The poulterer who has all the milk he can use has at his hand one of the finest egg-producing and flesh forming foods that nature provides. Set few eggs under the hen in cold months. Nine is good num ber for ordinary size hen. Eleven may be given large hen, but never more than eleven in Feb ruary and March. A few small lumps of coperas put in their drinking water is an excellent tonic and appetiser, and if a box of broken bits of charooal be kept within reach, much bowel aerangement, the result of indigestion, would.] doubtless be prevented. Fowls) and all lower animals have a natural instinot suggesting pro per remedies fbr their various indisposition, and as a rule it seems better to place simple remedies within their reach then to begin dosing them indiscrim inately. FARM CLIPPINGS. The Hones (or the Farm* Farmers can nee draft horses with greater economy in their business when they adapt their farm implements to the capacity of heavier teams. They seem to forget or fail to consider the value ot the team is in exact pro portion to its weight, if the large team is equally well propor tioned with the lighter, for plow ing, harrowing, reaping, mow ing, and all heavy hauling, if they ouly adapt their implements to the greater weight of their teams. If the team weighs 1,000 pounds per horse, the plow may cut 18 inches and the harrow 20 feet, the mower and reaper in proportion, as well as for the 1,000 pound horses to use the 12 inch'plow, and other tools in pro portion, a heavy team may as weii plow four acres as a light one two and one-half. A good draft horse can be raised to 1,000 pounds as quickly and as cheaply as a grade steer of the same weight, and will sell on the same market for 2i times the price, and as promptly; will pay his own way from two years old on the farm. It is now too late in our experience to say that such horses are not salable at 'any time for cash. There is none left in any community where they have been offered for sale. No market in America has ever been supplied with them; 1,600 pound sound horses of any breed will bring $200 in any State m this country at this time. The de mand for them will increase in ggpportion to the increase in railroads and genoral commerce forever. ? Western Agriculturist. To Tell the Age of Cattle. A heifer has no rings on her horns until she is two years of age, and one is added each year thereafter. You can therefore tell the age of a cow witn tolera ble accuracy by counting the rings on her horns and adding two to the number. The bull has no rings, as a rule, until he is five years old. To tell his age after that period, add five to the number of rings. The best way to tell the age is by the teeth, which is of course the only way with polled cattle. What are called the milk teeth gradually disappear in front. At the end of three years, the second pair of permanent teeth are well grown, at four years the third pair, and at five the fourth and last pair have appeared, and at this time the central pair are full size. At seven years a dark line, caused by the wearing of the teeth, ap pears on all of them, and on the central pair a circular mark. At eight years this circular mark appears on all of them, and at nine years the central pair be gins to shrink, and the third at | eleven. After this period the age can only be determined by the degree of shrinkage gone rally. At fifteen years the teeth are nearly all gone. O. J. Farmer. The farmer must be more equal to his surroundings. We have seen, says the Iowa Homestead, farms upon which were thorough bred horses, cattle and swine ? but common fowls. It is not in keeping. If a thorough bred cow will give more milk and butter than a poor grade, is it not con sistent to suppose that a through bred hen will lay more eggs and give a better quality of meat? I What is true in one case is true in the other. The Whits Knight; no smoke to compsro with it. For sslo st the Csm den Drug Company. Trjr them, sn