Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SOUTMRN I Topics of Interest t( man and Tr The South and Live Stock. W. C. Swope, of Courtland, Ala., lives just forty miles below the quar antine lines. He believes that a great future is before the South as a live stock country, but he shares opposite views of many cattlemen who consider the danger of Southern fever as a great handicap. Speaking on this point he says: "If the cattle are handled rightly. the danger can be reduced to a mini mum, but the moment the breeder of the exposition management gets a little careless his herd is gone. I have had only one .death among my Northern cattle in thi past two years, and now see that I could easily have avoided that. The case was that of one of my young bulls, which I served to a grade cow. She was ticky, which did not of itself mean that the bull would catch the fever, but I carelessly de ferred spraying the animal with disin fectants until too late. "There is a general impression among Northern cattlemen that the best thing to do with their cattle when the stock Is shipped below the quarantine line or otherwise exposed to Southern fever, is to inoculate them. For my own part I am not in favor of inoculation. It may be effective in the long run, but a cow or bull that has been inoculated remains in a poor, half-sick condition for four or five months after inocula tion. Thus the breeder loses so much valuable time. "The way I handle my cattle Is to spray them with disinfectants, and I bave always found this works admir ably, especially so when I keep my breeding stock in fenced pastures and do not allow It to mingle with the wild native cattle. I have constructed a corral or series of chutes into which I can drive the pure breds from time to time and give them a good spraying. Such a course of procedure, combined with common sense management ren ders Herefords as safe in the South as in the North. "The crying need of my State as well as the whole South is better cattle. The people have at last come to reali sation of this. I think, and the future will see rapid strides made ii the im proved quality of our range and feed lot stock. The ever present Jersey is a too common ciass of cattle down my way. *We have a few Durhams, bul mot enough to begin to fill the needs of the country. It is a good territory for the Northern breeders to work up, and I think they will find it as satisfac tory an investment as their 'deals in the Southwest.. "Two years ago I. bought five helfers and one bull from Missouri breeders, giving over $2000 for the animals. With the single exception mentioned above they have done remarkably well. I have crossed my bull with native grade Durhams, and this spring ex pect fifty calves, which I will raise and fatten for the markets. "Alabama offers plenty of induce ments to cattlemen. We have no hard winters, and never worry whether there is a bounteous corn crop or not realizing that the cattle will carry ovei just as well on hay. My heifers wil: average well with any of .the stock of fered in the ordinary present sale, ye' their only feed all winter has beer fifteen pounds of hay each day. "We have the land and the where withal to handle Herefords and othe3 fine cattle; all that is needed is a little prodding of our stockmen and my State will soon take a much higher rank ii the blooded stock raising business." ~" sheep Made Big Cotton. A correspondent of Farm and Ranet says: "One of the most difficult prob lems with which Southern farmers have had to wrestle is that of proper fertilizing for cotton. On black lands with alternate plots fertilized and un. fertilized, the unfertilized have usually given the best results. On sandI loams heavy applications of nitroge nous manures have given too muel *weed' without a corresponding yield of lint and seed, and yet on our rivet bottom lands, rich in humus, the cot ton plant frequently grows eight tc june feet high, and yields from 750 tc 1000 pounds of lint cotton per acre Here we have a heavy yield with enor. mous weed, proving that heavy yield and great growth of 'weed' are not in compatible, but under pktoper condi tions of soil and good cultivation the 'weedy' growth is necessary to a large yield cf cotton. The writer had sever acres cf sandy loam that had been i sheep pen, or series of penal Foi twelve years this ground was planted alternately with cotton and corn. The first year the cotton was left eighteer inches apart in four-foot rows. The re suit was an impenetrable thicket and not 500 pounds of seed cotton on th< seven acres. Afterward it was planted In six-foot rows and thinned to fout feet, and the average yield of five years (ccvering a period of twelve years) was 515 pounds of lint, and not a pound of additional fertilizer was used. Th< same land also averaged forty-twc bushels of corn for the six alternatt years. There Is something more ir this matter of fertilization for cottor than the character and quantity of txe fertilizer, in one respect cottor differs from most staple crops, becaus, the more fertile the soil, the greatei distance the plants must have. It is the reverse in the case of corn. Experiment With Upland ice. In 19C0 I planted one pound on land that would have made fifteen bushels of corn per acre, writes W. D. Osbort of Logpnt Alan in snme and F'arm. EAR.M NOTES. the Planter, Stock uck Grower. and I harvested fivc and one-half bush els of clean, rough rice; shipped 115 pounds to a rice mill and had it cleaned and received back seventy pounds of clean rice, pronounced by one of our merchants in Alexander City, Ala., to be as good as any that they sold. There were two grades-cracked and uncracked. I am satisfied that I made at the rate of sixty or seventy bushels per acre. I also had some of the rough rice ground on a grist mill and fed to my cow. I find it as good as corn meal. I notice in a bulletin from the South Carolina Experiment Station on the feeding of rice meal to hogs they find that rice meal is as good as corn meal or better. It is easily grown. Plant after danger of frost In drills like sorghum, two or three foot rows, and cultivate two or three times and you are sure of a good crop. , All stock love it. Cut in the dough state it makes an excellent hay. Last year I planted a small patch and harvested several bushels, but I didn't considei it a good yield. It grows from three to five feet high, and when It began to head the heads would curl up like they had been cut off. Has any other read er had a similar experience? I would like to bear from them as to what was the matter and the remedy. Brother farmers, wake up and plani two or three acres of that land you in tend to plant in cotton in upland rice and fill your barn with some of the best feedstuff that you have ever fed. I filled my barn last fall with rice hay, millet and peavine hay, as fine as evel grew, and have fed my mules and cow. nothing much but this hay this winter, and have plenty to carry me througlh I also make as much corn and cottor as any other man to the mule. Plent3 of hay and corn and cattle to consumE it is the secret of success in farming. Dairy Cow Rations in the South. The following rations made up of our common feeding stuffs are sug gested by one of the stations as being suitable for dairy cows in the South: No. 1-Cottonseed hulls 20 pounds cornmeal 8 pounds and cottonseed mea 5 pounds. No. 2-Crab grass hay 10 pounds cowpea hay 10 pounds and corn and cob meal 10 pounds. No. 3-Corn ensilage 30 pounds, brat 6 pounds, cottonseed meal 3 pounds and cottonseed hulls 12 pounds. No. 4-Crab grass hay 20 pounds corn stover 12 pounds, cornmeal i pounds and cottonseed meal 3 pounds No. 5-Corn stover 18 pounds, wheal brati 4 pounds, eettonseed meal4 pound, and cornmeal 6 pounds. No. 6--Sweet potatoes 25 pounds corn stover 10 pounds, cottonseed mea 4 pounds and cornmeal 8 pounds. No. 7-Corn shucks 12'pounds, cow pea hay 10 pounds, cornmeal 4 poundi and cottonseed meal 3 pounds. No. 8-Vetch hay 14 pounds, cotton seed hulls 10 pounds and cornmeal( pounds. No. 0-Cowpea hay 15 pounds shredded cornstalks 10 pounds, cotton seed meal 2 pounds and cornmeal" pounds. No. 10-Corn shucks 25 pounds, cot tonseed meal 5 pounds and wheat brai 3 pounds. No. 11-Cottonseed hulls '20 pounds cottonseed meal 4 pounds and when bran 5 pounds. Cantaloupe Blight. The cantaloupe blight Is increasing it some sections. As, it is carried in thi seed no doubt other sections will soow make its acquaintance, and it is wel to be on the lookout for its first ap pearance. The cantaloupe blight is caused by .true parasite fungus. It first appear: as a number of small brown spot: upon the leaves in the centre of thi hill. If the younger leaves are exam ined it will be seen that the fungus if at work some time before the browi spots make their appearance. It wil be noticed that th~e leaf tissue is beini eaten away where the fungusm is a work, and It is the decomposition o: dying of this tishue that causes thesa brown spots. The spots grow large: as the fungus spreads, until the leave: affected have the appearance of bei frostbitten. At the first appearance of the dis ease spray with -bordeaux mixtur' made in the following manner: Dis solve six pounds of bluestone; slak< four pounds of fresh lime; when thi lime has cooled, strain off the lime water and add it to the bluestone so lution; add water enough to make forty gallons. IAs the vines grow rapidly at thi time of spraying it will be necessar3 to repeat often In order to cover th< new growths. Almost all spraying mixtures should be stirred while beinl used to prevent precipitation. Best Varieties of Onlons. Onions are not grown in the Souti to anything like the extent they are Ix the North and West, but some of ou: growers are growing them very suc cessffully. The varieties best adaptei to the South are the Bermudas, Extri Early White Pearl, and the potato on ions. although the standard varieties of other sorts also succeed and d( very well. Cow Peas In the Cotton Crop. Keep the cotton and tobacco crops growing by frequent cultivation, anm sow cow peas in the cotton crop-whex cultivating the last time. In this wa3 I the land can be improved and some jfed can be mnade-Southetai Planter. POST MORTEM PROOFREADING. Always Easy to See Errors After They Are Irremediable. When I was reading proof on the old National Republicai. says a writer in the Washington Trade Unionist, I nad a post mortem assistant located in New York, but I never knew who he was. He took the paper and read proof carefully on it for several days, forwarding the result to the business ofEce. After he had sent several papers containing the results of his labors he put in an application for the job, but he didn't get it. His ignorance of local geography and affairs caused him to make some very amusing corrections, but I'm not denying that he found quite a number of legitihate errors, as and one can ,in any daily newspaper. Of course, I was prejudiced in the matter, and my judgment was not as cool and impartial as would have been that of an unInterested party, but I thought that was a pretty mean way to try to get a fellow's situation away from him. I have known that method of procedure to be attempted several times, but I have never known it to succeed. It is always easy to see errors after they are irremediable, but it takes the eye of an eagle, the watchfulness of a ferret and the alertness of a pointer to run them to earth while they are legiti mate prey. I remember the remarks of my old boss, when I was running the inking machine on the lightning hand press, with which he rushed off the edition of 248 copies, during the first year of my apprenticeship. If he stopped for a few minutes to jolly a visitor or to hunt around his bench for a quid of tobacco that was being worked overtime, my eyes were going over the paper, and generally I had an error to show him. He would unlock the form and correct 1t, giving me baleful looks in which the malevo lence was at least an Inch thick. Finally, one day he burst out: "You dodgasted brat, if you ever find another error in this paper after I have locked it up I'll fire you on the spot!" That cured me of post mortem proof. reading, and I have stayed cured. WORDS OF WISDOM. To be light-hearted is often to be simply light-headed. There are criminals that can be clas sified, but there are no criminal classes. Sincerity often consists in frankness in stating opinions which are not worth stating. Life is a succession of choices. One cannot often have this and that, but this or that. If we cannot make ourselves. happy we can make others happy, and they In turn can create happiness for us. Hae that cannot forgive others preaks the bridge over which he himself must pass, for every man has need to be for given. .Our duty to God Is cheerfully ac knowledged, but toward our n4ighbor we rarely realize we have any ypecial obligation. It is so easy and pleasant to discover sins lurking in the pursuits for which you are not inclined. Many of us pos sess wonderful powers of perception in that direction. ,A flatteier is said to be a beast that biteth smiling. But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obse quious and full of protestations, for as a wolf resembles a dog so doth a flat terer a friend. It has been said that bright thoughts do not occur to ignorant people, neither can thqy, for there is nothing within to suggest them. The .daily, ordinary level determines the height to which we can rise on rare occasio;j3. When we see leaves drop from their trees in the beginning of autumn, such, we think, is the friendship of the world. While the sap of maintenance lsts, friends swarm in abundance, 15ut in the winter of need they leave us naked. He is a happy man that hath a true friend at his need, but he is more truly happy that hath no need of hi friends. I Wilhelmia's Wealth. The Queen of Holland is among the richest of royal personages. Part eI her enormous fortune belongs to the crown, while the rest .Is her private property. The royal estates in Holland and the East (which include the Dutch East Indies) are also of great value. On her marriage with Prince Henry the young Queen set aside twenty mil lions of marks, the arrangement being that the Interest, whie~h is nearly 30,000 a year, will be at his own disposal, while the capital Is ultimately to pass to the youngest children of the marriage. If there are no children, Prince Henry Is to have absolute power of disposing by will of five millions of marks, while the remainder will eventually revert to the Queen's estate.-Tit-Bits. Costly Baskets of Fruit. There Is a wide range in the price for which the fruiter will put up a "steamship basket." He can easily make it cost $40 or $50. Strangely enough the fruits which go to make up the most expensive baskets are not the Imported, but the domestic varie Ities out of season. Peaches at $1 each and plums at fifty cents in the middle of winter are more expensive than almost any of the tropical varie ties brought from the Indies by steam er. Most of the hothouse fruit for the local market is raised in New Jer-sey. -New York Post. Any one attending a spiritual~stic seance in Bohemia is liable to a fine of $40, a decree to that effect having been issued by the Goverrxnntf &1i DlSBRODWHLD FOR MUDER His Lawyer Declined to Call Wit nesses in His Defense. COURT'S DECISION APPLAUDED The Prisoner Lobt His Self-Control When the District Attorney Declared That He Lied-Justice Foster Said Ihat All the Evidence Pointed In One Direction' -Statement 'of Disbrow's Counsel. Good Ground, L. I.-Louis Disbrow went back to the Riverhead Jail a pris oner, committed for. the action of the next Grand Jury on the charge of mur der in the case of Clarence Foster and Sarah h. Lawrence. The hearing came to a sudden ending. Mr. Miles, coun sel for the young man, put in no de fense, saying that he would wait until the trial of the case to do so, as he felt sure that no matter what evidence he adduced, his client would be held. It is exactly a month ago since Dis brow, Foster and "Dimple' Lawrence started on the drive from Corwin's house that ended in two of the party meeting death in the waters of Tiana Bay. Disbrow took his commitment coolly. Only once did he show any emotion or excitement. That was when District Attorney Smith closed his summing up by shouting at Disbrow: "You lied, you know you lied!" Disbrow gripped the arms of his chair and began to rise, startled more than anything else. Sher iff Wells and Mr. Miles placed their hands on Disbrow and he sat back in his chair. Justice Foster reviewed the case very fully before announcing the commit ment. When the decision was an nounced the crowd in the hall burst into cheers, and there was much hand clapping. Deputy Sheriffs tried to stop the demonstration, but it was con tinued for several minutes. After the hall was cleared, Mr. Miles said: "'What I expected would happen has happened.I Disbrow has been held. It would have been very foolish for me to lay bare my case at this time when It was practically certain that my cli ent would have to face a trial jury. At that time we shall not only overturn all the evidence to be brought In by.the people, but will make the case against the young man look even more foolish than it does now. We shall show that Disbrow was wholly guiltless of any crime whatsoever. I am not at liberty to tell what further action I shall take. I cannot say yet whether I shall seek Disbrow's release through a writ of habeas corpus. That is a matter to be decided later." The attendance was larger than on any day since the first. Mr. Smith rested his case when several witnesses for the prosecution had been examined. After a controversy about the admis sion of the record of the. proceedings before the Coroner, which had been filed with Justice Foster, Attorney Miles moved for the dismissal of 'the prisoner from custody, on the ground that no evidence had been brought in to connect him with the crime, if any crime had been committed. Mr. Smith declared that he had traced the three to the water's edge. He wanted to know why Dlsbrow did not, go on the stand and tell his story. The District Attorney dared him to do so. Taking up the statements made by Disbrow to different persons on the day of the tragedy, Mr. Smith, shaking his fist close to Disbrow, shouted that Dis brow lied and he knew he lied. The Justice said that the evidence pointed in one direction. While, per haps, he said, the evidence was not of the strongest character, there was no doubt that there had been some crooked work somewhere, and there re mained much to be explained that should be explained and should be submitted to the Grand Jury. There fore he committed the prisoner. After the formal papers had been drawn Sheritf Wells took Disbrow back to the fail in Riverhead, to re main until the fall term of court. MORGAN'S OFFER CONFIRMED. Admiralty Can Control British Ships in Combine For Fifty Years. In the House of Commons the Par liamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, H. C. Arnold-Forster, replying to Will iam Redmond, the Irish leader, con firmed the report that J. Pierpont Mor gan had offered to place all the British ships In the new combine at the dis posal of the Admiralty for the next fifty years, on certain terms. He added that the offer could only be dealt with In relation to British ship ping generally and the Atlantic trade position, which was being very care fully considered by the Government. DEVASTATION BYRM Reclained Desert Swept t., S1, 000,000 Damage Den. - San Francisco, Cal.-For three days a sand storm raged in the Inb. Valley In the Colorado Desert, and an arti ficial 'oasis of 000 acres, made by dig ging artesian wells, has been swept clear of vegetation, the loss being $1, 00000. The desert had been planted in mel ons, and 300 carloads of melons, worth $1200 a car, were almost ready for shipment when the storm broke. Dur ing its progress the thermometer regis tered E6 degrees in the shade. A Hot Town in Illinois. The mercury reached 103 degreos at Metropolis. Ill. R~ussia Still Holds Manchuria. In ecntradiction of the recent report that Russia already had practically evacuated Manchuria, an official dis patch just received in St. Petersburg from Kharbuin says the evacuation has not even bWgun. Chief of rolice Escapes Cenviction. At Minneapolis, Minn., the jury in the case of Superintendent of Police Frederick W. Ames. charged with ac cepting a bribe, after being out eigh teen hours returned a verdict of not 'REPLY OF. THE VATICAN Settlement of Frars' Land Questions by Arbitration Froposed. The Philippine Government to Buy Lands of Eeligious Orders, the Holy See Acting as Intermediary. Rome.-The answer of the Vatican to the note of Judge Ta't, Governor of the Philippine Islands, concerning re ligious affairs in the archipelago, has been delivered to Judge Taft. The an swer follows: The contract which the Vatican pro poses shall be signed by both parties comprises twelve articles. The first article says the Philippine Gc .ernment is to buy the lands of the four religious orders concerned, the Holy See acting as intermediary. The second article describes what are the agricultural lands to be bought. The third article says that If some of these lands are possessel by corpora tions the friars will sell their share. The fourth article establishes a tri bunal of arbiters, to be composed of five members, two of whom are to be chosen by the Vatican, two by the Phil ippine Government, and the fifth by the other four. In case of disagreement as to the fifth member, he shall be chosen in common accord by the Pope and President Roosevelt. The fifth article provides that the work of the arbiters shall begin on Jan uary 1, 1903. The sixth article refers to title deeds; these will be transferred to the Philip pine Government. Article 7 sets forth that payment is to be made in Mexican dollars In the period of time proposed by Judge Taft in his note of July 3, interest during ,the period of payment accruing at four per cent, Article 8 deals with the transfer to the church of ancient crown lands with ecclesiastical buildings on them. The ninth article proposes amicable accord in the matter of the existing charitabte or educational trusts which are In dispute. In the event of a fail ure to agree In these matters recourse is to be had to the arbiters, to whom will also be submitted the case of the Medical College of San Jose at Manila. The tenth article provides for arbitra tion as to the Indemnity the United States shall pay for the ecclesiastical buildings used during the war in the Philippines. According to the eleventh article, the expenss of the tribunal of arbiters are to be paid by the Philippine Govern ment. Article 12 declares that the Holy See in the sphere of action which is in its competence, shall use all its influence for the pacification of the Philippine Islands and in favor of adhesion of the people to the established Government, and that it shall prevent all political opposition on the part of the clergy, both regular and secula:-. SHARK TOWED THEM TO SEA. Queer Things Happening in the Gulf Since It Got So Salty. New Orleans, La.-From all parts of the Mississippi Sound and the bays and bayous off the Louisiana and Missis sippi coast come wonderful stories of the unprecedented saltiness of the Gulf waters and of the appearance of deep water fish hitherto unknown here. The belief is growing that the volcanic dis turbances manifested by the Marti nique disaster are the cause. At Horn Island, Harrison County, Miss., a num ber of devil fish, one of them measur lug thirty feet from tip to tip, have been harpooned by fishermen. There has also been an Invasion of man-eat ing sharks. A party of gentlemen from New Or leans while fishing on Ship Island fas tened their three boats together and steadied them with a heavy anchor. A shark became entangled in the an chor, carried all three boats out to, sea and finally wrecked them on the shore. The fishermen narrowly eS caped with their lives. BLOW UP JAIL TO ESCAPE. Prisoners Use D~ynamite, But Jailer Holds Them in Check With a Revolver. St. Joseph, Mo.-Forty prisoners con fined in the county jail made a daring attempt to escape by blowing out the rear end of the jail with dynaimite. The building was badly wrecked and one wing of the court house shattered. The prisoners had gone into their cells and none of them was Injured. Jailer Thomas rushed to the scene the minute the explosion occurred, and, re volver In hand, guarded the hole torn out by the explosion until assistance arrived, thus frustrating a wholesale delivery. Not a prisoner got away. James Blades, under a ten years' sen tence for highway robbery, Is believed to be the prisoner who applied the dy namite, assisted by Leek Allen, under sentence for the same crime. WAS JUST AS OLD AS THE U. S. Death of a Tennessee Nqegro Who Was .Born on July 4, 1776. Knoxville, Tenn.-Ferry Chesney, the oldest man in Tennessee, died at his home on the summit of Copper Ridge on July 4, at the age of 126 years, the day of his death being his birthday. Chesney was born in Virginia on July 4. 1776, the day independence was de cared. As a slave he belonged to Jon athan Jackson at Clarksville on the Roanoke River. When he was twelve years old he was thrown Into the pres ence f Geoge Wshington while at tending his master. For fifty years he had lived a her mit's life, and it was several days af ter his death when his body was dis cvered Adds Suicide to His Tragedies'. Theodore Oelfeuer, who murdered his wife and wounded his baby and a seventeenyear-old step-daughter, com mitted suicide in his cell at the police station In Chicago. His body was dis covered hanging by a rope made from his undergarments. A Census of Glass-3faklar. A census bulletin describing the pro gress In the glass-making interestS of the United States, shows that there are 355 glass-making establishnments, em ploying a capital of $1,423,903. OURL BUDCGET OF HumoR. Things as They Are. The leopard cannot change its spots, Nor can the fool amand his ways, But neither sits with gloomy thoughts, On that account, through dismal days; The leopard's glad it has its spots, The fool's enchanted with his ways -Chicago Record-Herald. Disturbed the Peace. "She disturbed my peace of mind." "How?" "Gave me a piece of hers."-Detroit Free Press. A Jewel. Betzer-"Why do you have Aron bars in front of your kitchen windows and door?" Shemster-"To prevent the escape of the. ccok."-Brooklyn Life. The Incorruptible. Heavy Fare-"Cabby, I'll ire you half a crown to get me to stationl in ten minutes." Cabby-"Well, sir, you might corrupt me. but you can't bribe the hoss" The King. Generous to a Fault. Bings-"I nevei s4w such a generous man as Smithers. He'll divide with anybody" Bangs-"Yes, no matter how much they have."-Cornell Widow. Waste of Time. "Why. Willie, you have a spot o1A. your new suit. Come here and let me clean it." "What's the use? Give me a day or two longer and I'll have all the rest of the suit so dirty no one can see the spot."-Chicago Post. Not the Good Old Way. "How's the frew reporter?" asked the managing editor. "Amateur," answered the city editor. "How can you tell so soon?" "Failed to start a two-column story of a tragedy with the rerihark that It beggared description." - Washington Star. Going-Gonhg-Gowe o Shopkeeper tto small child, who has brought back sa recent "What's the matter with the cheese my dear?" Small Child-"Please, father says. when he wants any bait for fishing be cn dig 'em up in our back garden." The King. Social Paradoxes. Polly-"Auntie says you made you"' self horribly m'~spicuous at the musi-~ ale last night." Dolly (young and ingenue)-"Weli I'd like to know what she'd call incon spicuous! George and I were quite out of signt, clear around th~e turn in the stairs, the whole evening"-Snmart Set. Sparing His Feelings. H-ttie-"Now that you have broken your engagement with Fred. shall you return to him the diamond ring he gave you' Minna-"Certainly not, Hettie: it would be cruel to give him a thing that would be a .-onstant-reminder of the hiappiness he had missed."-Boston Transcript. -Noue in stock. I observe," said the literary custom r. "that 'concealment, like a worm I' the bud,' hath preyed 'on the damask cheek' of some of these apples. That is a poetical quotation. I presume you have read Shakespeare?" "Red Shakespeare!" echoed the ap ple dealer. "No, sir- that's a variety I've never heard of."-Chicago Tzt. bune. Brave by Proxy. Eployer-"Well, what did lhe say when you called to collect that bill?" Clerk'a"That he would break every bon:In my body and pitch me out of the window if I showed my face there again." Empoyer-"Then go back at once, and tell him he can't frighten me by hi violence."-New York Journal. Much Smoke, Some Fire. "I understand that you have made a life study of volcanoes," said the in ter'iewer. "I have." answered the scientist. "What do you regard as the most im portant conclusion to be deducted frotm your researches?" "Simply this: If you live near a crae ter that starts to smoke, take steam' shi passage for somewhere else." Washington Star