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I Life-Savers The Church of God, Saints of Christ, which has an edifice on Barclay street. Newark, holds as one of its tenets the necessity of immersion. Yesterday 100 of the congregation. headed by Eder Anderson, says the New York Globe, journeyed over to Greenville I to witness the baptism of Mrs. Charles Jackson of Boston. who had come on from that city for the ceremony. rhe saints choose Newark Bay as a suit able place. On Saturday night the lifesavers stationed there, who are all volunteers,. and the sons of rich families. h ald a ball at the station. The dance went on considerably after midnight, and when the guests had gone the members con tinued enthusiastically to celebrate. On their clouded vision the next morning fell the sight of a boly of white robed persons singing hymns, who were apparently about to enter the water. Capt. Stephen Herig sum moned his crew to quarters. "We must save them." he said. "Certainly," responded the crew. "Come nearer to the saving flood." sung the company, as Elder Anderson and the novitiate walked into the water. Every one knows that Newark bay at this point is not more than five feet <ieep anywhere. but the life savers, anxious to do their whole duty, rush ed out of the station, plunged into the water and drew the elder and woman ashore. Then they buckled life preservers about their bodies. Elder Anderson protested. Caught Grizzi "In the winter of 1S93," said Tim Kinney, a ranchman of Rock Springs. Wyoming., "the bears in Bitter Creek were surely a nuisance to the stock men. I lost so many calves that I got fighting mad, and declared war on the four-footed despoilers. "One day my foreman and I were out rounding up a herd of beeves when in a low, marshy spot we came across one of the biggest bears I ever saw. Unluckily, we didn't have either rifie or revolver, but as . looked at the beast and thought of my dead calves my dander got up, and it oc curred to me that we might throw our lariats over him and hold him until some way of executing the death pen alty could be found. "We thought it was a picnic, and so it was, as far as throwing a rope over Mr. Bear was concerned. My man got his rope over the enemy's neck and I got him around one leg. It looked as though we had him. Dismounting, I made the end of my lariat fast to the Would Spend Before the afternoon ended every man, woman and child in the place had dropped in at Emma Eliza Pratt's, for the story had spread rapidly -. through the little village that the death of a cousin in the city had made the lonely, elderly spinster rich beyond imagination. Through it all Emma Eliza herself had been surprisingly mute and out wardly unmoved-a study and an enig ma to the lawyer who had arrived on the noon train, bringing the great news. This gentleman promptly ac cepted Emma Eliza's invitation to tea, -being not at all unwilling to observe further this curious little woman of rural birth and limited experience as her mind began to grasp the fact of her new fortune. "What will she do with it?" he spec - ulated. "Will it be a cat-and-dog hos pital or an orphan asylum? Will she embellish her native village with du bious works of art? Will she build herself an absurdly big and preten Fooled the G~ The following story . illustrates the ready wit of an old New Eng lander: The report that Eli Green, a farmer residing in Shelburne, N. H., had kill ed deer out of season. reached the ears of the game warden of that sec tion. About the same time a sporting party, who called themselves the Ap palachian Club. passed through Shel burne en route to the White moun tains, on snowshoes The game wardens thought to take the wary Eli by surprise, so. arming themselves with a quart of the best whisky to be had, and disguised as a sporting party, they crossed the fields on snowshoes, and reaching the house, introduced themselves as the Appala chian Club, told Green w~hat a pleas ant trip they' had, and, producing the bottle, offered him a drink. The delighted farmer partook freely, The Psalir The poet lay on his sleepless bed. gray were his locks, and sere: -'God: Let mec sing one song," he said, 'that the world shall pause to hear." The Fathe~r siled on his wayward .child. "Thy prayer is granted thee." In softest bre-ath to the ainge'l of death. "Give thou the song,.' quoth he. erhen there rang nlo~ud through the an guished air the ':ry of a breakimg heart. The wail of a pi-t's last despair, that rent thr- ec'hoes apart. .-'was a song of agony. li-ree andl weird. tha: w..r found voie' be'fore. Ad the worllg shurided the 'm:th wor ferd a>;' its tones wVax',d mor un more, Hundreds of trdians Wamt Work. John R. Brenn-. Indian agent a Pie Rig .!agency. hs eu hh cireu sao.H cais de~ a:tention c: contracto:rs to the f?..t that these rmen are good work~er?- 'hey wtl wo ai raitrc-Cd gradir~g. ditch digging, shed; krain~ or ranchin~ and Saints "It's our duty.' 'observed Capt, Heri solemnly. "We cannot permit yO to risk your lives here." The rest of the company subilitte to having the cumbersome presprver buckled about them and the elder an he woman walked into the col water. This time, however, the elder bi gan to float high, after having waike a little way into the water. By greE exertion he managed to regain th footing. The woman had by this time floate out beyond his reach and was drtf ing rapidly out into the bay. The gallant life savers manned thO boats and went out after her, capt ing her by means of a boathook an towing her back to the anxious elde When he tried to immerse her th life preserver being about the centE of her body, he had considerable difl culty and the life savers rushed in an hid their eyes. The eider was perspi: ing in spite of the cold as he tried t stop the rotary motion of the woma from Boston. Finally he managed t seize one of her feet. The life savers again came to th rescue with sympathetic words. -"Young man," said the elder sever ly, "your feet take hold upon deat and you are doomed." Then he dragged the woman o and the company cast off their pr servers and went away saying har things abont the life savers. "Well." said Johnny Gibson. regre fully, "our intentions were all right. y With Laria stump of a tree, but the forema stayed on his pony. Grabbing a hue reck. I got quite close to the brute an dealt him a terrible blow i. the for head. With a howl of rage he gav a mighty lunge that broke the roi from the tree and started after me. "But for the tremendous efforts my companion, who still maintaine his hold, I would have been caugl and killed before I could have bee able to reach my pony. As it was, th shave was extremely close, and th bear was right at my heels as I g< in the saddle. All this time the for, man was tugging and hauling maj fully, and if he hadn't been bot strong and skilful I'd have never live to tell this yarn. In a few minutes managed to get another piece of rop, and this time old Silver Top was ui able to break his fastening. Both us then assaulted him with stones an beat him into insensibility before ai ministering the coup de grace with hunting knife."-Washingtonl Post. SHer Wealti tions 'residence,' or will she movet the city, go abroad, and become last-an art collector?" The lawy4 enjoyerd an inward laugh as b watched the queer little figure at the moment engaged in placing a plate< hot biscuits on the table, the ine: pressive eyes and pursed-up lipsa sphinxlike as ever. At tea he set himself to the task< stimulating his hostess' imaginatic to the point et grasping some of th possibilities unfolding before the po: sessor of such great wealth. And bi exertions brought their reward, fc he was privileged finally to look i the heart of Emma Eliza. "All my life," she said, at last, cu ting off each word in turn with he customary precision, "I've wante some sidecombs with yellow glas beads onto 'em, and now"-a reckles gleam relieved the dull of her eyes~ I'm goin' to have a pair, if I have t go as high as fifty cents!"-New Yor Press. me Wardenm and soon was in a very confidentib mood. The visitors then added the they lacked but one thing to mak~e success of the trip. "We haven't ha any deer meat," they said. "Of cours it's out of season, but couldn't yo get us some? No one will know up here." At first he said he couldn't. 1)t money persuaded him, and taking shovel, he started in the direction< the barn, and soon returned, draggin a large piece of meat. But just then his wife called frot the house: "Why, Eli, what yer doin What yer diggin' up thet pork for?" "Yer jest mind yer bizness, will yer thet's deer meat, I tell yer. Wh; now, ef 'taint I never see no dee meat. I give $4.50 for thet air pi, and give him ten bags of grain, at$ a bag. Now. ef'that ain't dear mea where you'll find it I dunno." i of Dead All that of woe. ma'nkind may know. th death knell of the soul. Was wildly hurled at a startled worli that shuddered frora pole to pole. Hungry and weary, and worn and ok4 the poet swept his lyre. With naught to battle the wintry col save the flamne of the seraph fire. It ceased at last, as the nutumn hlas sinks when th" sun hath set. To the silent shore had the sing~er pas' o'er. but the song. it linge-:s yet: 'Tt heard o'er the mfountain. 'tis hear o'er the sen, the chiJ wind waftsi aulo::g. Whrevr our earth has misery. tha drear. dread dIea th bo,:na song! -Hi. TudOr-. in St. Louis Globe-Democrai Stone Soles for Shoes. An inventor has hit upon a metho of putting what are practically ston solos on boots ard shoes. He mixe a waterproof pitue with a suitab] quantiy of clian quartz sand, an oreads it over the leather sole use, as foundation. These quartz soles ar said to be very flexible and practicall: ndestructible, and to give the foot irm hold even on the most slipper; THE S. C. PRESS ASSOCIATION The Editors Had a Good Time, and Much Business Was Transacted. White Stone Springs, Special.-The thi-ty-first annual meeting of the South Carolina Press assiciation is perhaps the largest in attendance in the history. of the association. And in point of in d terest it is second to no other. The pa pers presented have been remarkable d for their force, breadth of thought and d patriotism. Mr Bingham's paper on "The Press and Morality" and Mr. Jordan's plain, practical talk on the business d sdie of a country newspaper were the features Wednesday. Thursday Mrs. Virginia D. Young and Col. Jas. T. Ba d ccn pairted bright sketches which were t amusing and at times touched a chord of patriotism and sympathy by their references to matters close to the heart r of all South Carolinians. Rev. Dr. Ja d cobs made an addrEss of great power and Rev. Mr. Witsell read Mr. Brice's paper on ethics. At the night session Senator J. E. Purifoy read Senator Christeasen's papers. r The association was very much o amused at the embarrassment of Col. n James T. .Bacon when Mrs. Young o made some bright sallies of wit at his I expense, and when she told the asso e \ciation that she wanted to show them a new picture of the colonel the mem 3-> were convulsed with laughter. h ut Mlrs. Young h'astened to explain hat the photograph was not given to it er by Col. Bacon. Mrs. Young's paper brought out the f4et that while many South Carolina d -nen have been cistinguished 'poets, a thors and jourralists yet they re t- ceived their inspiration from their m thers, intellectual women. She also ga 'e the names of intellectual women of outh Carolina vho had written. By the time she had concluded the asso eia ion was ready to agree with her - tha man is but secondary. M is. Young's beautiful references to n the (lead editor of The State made a prof und impression, which provoked dappi use. Her tribute to Carlyle 'Mc Kinl v also gave great satisfaction to his m ny friends and admirers. e r . Young was given a vote of e thank and was asked for a copy of her p per to publish in the minutes. A v ry interesting paper was read by d Mr. St. Elmo Massengale of Atlanta on t the su ject of th? relation of the ad vertisi. g agent to the newspaper pub iisher Ir. Massengale's paper will be e! publi's'h d in the inutes. e There were three places put in nomi > nation f r next year's session and the a- I vote sto d, White Stone 16. Isle of I- Palms 1. , Harris Springs 1. The vote h was clos d Mr. Ko n, of Iigham and Mr. Free man spo e in behalf of the Ise of Palms. Ir. Knight of Bamberg thought t e change every years would be pleasin . Mr. DeCamp nominated )f White Sto. e. Mr. Banks, Mr. Galloway d and other. spok.e in favor of White Stone. HE OFFICERS. The fol . -ing )fficers were elected: E. H. A 11, Newberry Herald and News, presi lent; William Banks, The State, first vice president; Dr. J. C. Mace, Mario Star, second vice presi dent; C. C. ngston, Anderson Intel ligencer, secr tary; August Kohn, The News and Co rier, treasurer; Rev. W. 0P. Jacobs, Ou Monthly, chaplain; Ed t H. DeCamp o Gaffney Ledger, C. M. rGalloway of T E~ S nte andi W W. -jh eof The News gnd Courier, members of it the executive epmmittee. Mr. P. H. Flike, chairman of the committee on reports of officers, re ported with rescommendations to the effect that the b'xecutive committee be empowered to select a permanent badge and that the m nutes from the year n 88to 1894 iclbsive be collected and e printed. This was adopted.. :- At morning se sion, the first paper read was by Mr4P. H. Fike on the rsubject "Getting the News." This wasI rfollowed by the paper by' Mr. William1 Banks on the "Lights and Shadows of a Reporter's Life.'~ These papers were tordered printed ini the minutes. Mr. rFike is city editor of the Spartanburg d Herald and his paper was full of inter SThe committee o'i the memorial on telife of Mr. Carryle McKinley re ported the following btrough Mr. Banks 0, and on motion of ten. R. R. Hemp hill the report was sgread on the min utes: "Resolved, by- the Press Associatioin of South Carolina. That it is due to the 4memory of Carlyle M'cKinley that we inscribe upon our miutes a tribute =to his memory, a me orial all too in Iadequate, for words ce nnot frame ex t pression for the measu ~e of usefulness' t of this man of giant so l. a "Fearless reporter in ~he days of po d litical fury, student. teacher and scholar of wonderful nasterly mind. 'stoi'ed with only the choicest thoughts u fteworld's betlitera ure; editor of t power, spirit. loyalty to country and love for all mankind; p et whose fu Lt gitive verses. all too few, -'ill rank him a in sentiment if not in te zundity with > -Hayne. Lanier and Timro -it is to g Ihis memory that the Pres association of South Carolina will p use at this moment from its sessions ad will put ,upon record a declaration of faith in -the works and a declaratio of rever~ ence for the spirit so tende'r and ye. Sso true. so strong and so b ave. Thi:, rwe do. knowing that thou h not a r member of the association. h had ten , der sympathy for and keen uman in terest in the labors and in t e welfare of his fellow worker's off the ress." IAt the afternoon session he selec tion of a place of meeting 'as helt and Mr. Hairdwick's address w s heard with great pleasure, the associ tion be ing assembled in the routund . liam Boulrs in Columbia Stat New Enterprices. Tl'e Secretary of State has ch rter'd the Yorkville HardewareConn a cnpital of $S.000. The oflkcors -r vice-president. and Gcorge W. B tsecretary and trearurer. d a ermmissV5ion vrs issued to theI An ierson Farmers' T'nion Wareh us - t Company, which will have a capit: i0 $20,000 and the corporators are .J il t Douthitt and B. Harris. -Co-opera:tive cetton warehouses r being b)uilt all over the State and ne r ly every day; the Secretary of States e cives notice of the formation of a dcompan:y of this kind. Last v~'ee an plicatis w-ere made for a commisia Sfor ihe Cn::lisle Waire.ouse5 Compni' E of Union eccunty. The capuital is Ql. d and R. C. Hill and W. E. chr are the netition~ers. E A commn5ison was also issuied to) the Dilon Ice and Storatge Company, hav ing $2.500 capital. C. T. O'7errall. Jr.. T. L .Bass and1 W. '1. Bct~hea are the neiioners. SOUTH CAROLINA CROP BULLETIN Weather Conditions Given Out by the Department Observer. The week ending 8 a. m. of the 10th, had a mean temperature slightly in ex cess of the normal, although there was some complaint of too cool nights near the close of the week, from the western portions of the State. The extremes for the week were a maximum of 100 de grees at Columbia on the 3rd, and a minimum of 62 degrees at Greenville r on the 8th. There were destructive high P winds in the western and central coun ties accompanying thunderstorms but the damage was confined to small areas. t There was more than the usual amount of cloudiness, especially during the af ternoons, with mornings and nights generally clear. f The average precipitation was some what in excess of the normal, with, however, many places in the east cen tral and northern counties that had lit tle or no rain and where the drought was intensified and is now very detri- f mental to all growing crops. In Oconee, c Anderson, and parts of Pickens and the r central Savannah valley counties there t were very heavy rains that washed lands, flooded bottom lands and re- 0 tarded cultivation; over the greater s portion of the State the rainfall was wholly beneficial, though scarcely suf- t ficient for the needs of crops. There was a general improvement in the condition of cotton, confined largely to clayed soils, while on sandy lands there was improvement in spots only. The plants have grown too fast in the r western counties, and generally under- I sized elsewhere, though healthy. Rust x has appeared in Anderson county, and f "black root" in Clarendon. Sharp- % shooters have done considerable dam age in Anderson and Pickens counties. In sections where the rainfall has been deficient, and the plants are in conse quence small, they are blooming to the tops. In most places the plants are fruiting normally. The rains came too late to benefit old c corn, which is poor in every part of the t State, while young corn has become very promising, except on bottom lands, in a few counties, where what is left after the floods has become very grassy. Tobacco curing has made fair prog- ' ress, but the crop is a light one. Rice I is doing fairly well. A large a -age of cow-peas has been planted on wheat and oats stubble lands, and they have come up to good stands. Gardens are poor, in places ruined by the drought. Pastures have improved recently. Mel ons are plentiful. Peaches scarce ex cept where raised on a commercial scale.-J. W. Bauer, Section Director. Ben Bennet at Liberty. Hampton, Special.-News came here early Monday morning announcing the fact that Ben Bennett, a white man convicted of wife murder and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary or on i the chaingang, and Sain Jenkins. a ne gro serving on the chaingang for kill ing another negro, whose sentence was four years in the penitentiary or on the public works of the county, have es caped. The escape was made by filing a large ring. They left with their shackles on them. There were nine i convidts at work near Hickory Hill. Webb Thomas was the only guard in i charge on this gang at the time. Romy Bowers. the other guard having gon to his home on Saturday. Nothing was known of the escape until daylight this morning. Supervisor Snider will do his best to have the convicts captured. It is thought that Bennett has gone to Savannah or Charleston. The State House Case. Columbia, Special.-Col. Robert Ald reh of Barnwell and Mr. H. A. M. Smith of Charleston are here to repre sent the State of South Carolina in tlhe4 prosecution of the case against the State house contractor and architect who are responsible for the dome on the capitol. The complaint charges con spiracy to defraud the State and the suit is for $150,000 damages. It is prob able that the trial of the case will be very interesting. There is some feeling on both sides, as was evidenced on the floor of the general assembly on more than one occasion, and the attorneys on bith sides are very determined men. Mr. T. Yancey Williams of Lancaster was also delegated to assist Col. Ald rich in prosecuting the case. Serious Shooting Affair. Union, Special.--Word has just reach ed here of a very serious shooting af fair in this county, near Jonesville, at a negro church, in which one Jim Glenn is fatally wounded and three other ne groes are seriously, but not necessarily i fatally shot. The name of the negro 4 who did the shooting could not be learned. He is still at large. A Large Deal. Conway, Special.-Few larger deals have been made in Horry county than the transfer of the stock of the Conway Coast and Western railroad. As an- i nounced previiously, the road has 1 changed hands, Messrs. James H. Chad bourn, Eugene P. Schulken and C. P. Bolles of Wilmington, N. C.. being the purchasers of a majority of the stock. The directors is composed of MIessrs. Chadbourn, F. A. Burroughs, C. P. Bolles, B. G. Collins and E. P. Sch ul ken, with H. H. Chnadbourne as presi dent and E. P. Schulken secretary and t treasurer. Ship Lies in Harbor Bottom. Kustenji, Roumania, By Cable.-The announcement that the battleshipa Kniaz Potemkine sailed with Rear Ad- a mial Kruger's squadron Monday even ing turns out to be incorrect. Before leaving the Kniak Potemnline the mu tineers opened the seacocks and flood-, ed her hold. She is now lying at the t4 bottom. but, it is expected, will be re floated in time to leave for Sevastopol July 12.t Insurance Co.'s Complain. Odessa. By Cable.-The authorities gy here have been informed that the Po temkine has sailed from Kustenji. Rou- a mania, for Sevastopol. sI The question of insurance on proper ty lost by fire in the harbor during the ~ recent dlisturbances is occasioning se- it rios disputes between the Russian and the foreign insurance companies. The A foreign corporations declare they will e< make claims against the Russian gov- cI einent. The claimnants number about 400 and the total losses are now esti- si mated at $20n000,0n0 -0 CAROLINA AFFAIRS Occur-ence3 of Interest in Varicus Parts of the State. Geneal Cotton Market. Galveston, steady ................10~ New Orleans, steady ...........10% Mobile, easy ...................10%1 Savannah. dull ...............10' Norfolk. quiet ................10 Baltimore. nominal ...... ...... -1-0 New York, quiet ............-.10.80 Bostcn. quiet .......- ....11.36 Philadelphia. quiet ........ .....11.05 Hous-:on, easy ................11.00 Augusta. quiet ................10~s Memphis, quiet .............10 13-16 St. Louis. quiet ................10 3l-16 Louisville, firm ...................10 T Charlotte Cotton Market. These figures represent prices paid to 'agons: trict good middling .............101 ood middling ................10 5-16 trict raiddling ...................10% iddling ....... .... ....... . 103 Tinges ........ ............5% to 9% Stains .................7i to 9.00 Died on Engine. Aiken, Special.-Mr. W. E. McCar ter was found dead on his engine at Bath Wednesday night about 7 o'clock. The engine w;as moving in the direc tion of the chalk beds. to which it ran. when Mr. McCarter was found. Some egroes saw the engine moving, and thinking that there was no one on it, jumped on and found Mr. McCarter lying on the floor dead with a slight bruise on his head. It is thought that his 'death was caused by heart disease. The bruise on his head is supposed to have beer. caused by falling. Mr. McCarter was about 70 years of age. He was an engineer on the old Auguste., Columbia and Georgia railroad for a number of years, and only left it a few years ago to take charge ofl an' engine running from Bath to the kaolin beds, situated near there. He has been living at Bath for a number of years. He was a ConfederLtO veteran and a membcr of the Barnard E. Bee camp at Aiken. He was also a prominent member of the Masonic lodge. The Dargan Case. Colu-nbia Special.-The coroner's jury in the case of R. Keith Dargan, the former president of the Indepen dent Cotton Oil Cimpany, of Darling ton, who committed suicide Monday, returned a verdict that the deceased came to his death by taking carbolic acid. It was developed at the inquest that Mr Pegram Dargan, the brother of the dead man, was in the room with the suicide when he took the poison, and sta:red with him until he died. This brother was placed on the stand, but dec'ined to make a statement. saying tat the note left by Dargan would explain all. This note wasi read, an1 in it the dead man said that although he had mismanaged he was not 3, coward. The ph:sician who was called to the dead man's aid testified that Pegram Dargan said that he bought the acid and saw his brother drink it. Pegram Dargan niade no reference to this, Jowg.y 4. his testimony. he paitents of the suicide are ill, suffering :{om shock. Charged With Assault. Spartanburg, Special-B. A. Lowe, a white Bapt st minister living at Lolo, has taken out warrants for Robert Gossett, superintendent, and .Dan Moore, Ed. Tanner and Jack Gaines, operatives o'f the Valley Falls mill, charging them with assault and bat tery on his herson. The warrants were issued by lofagistrate Kirby, of this city. Lowe :alleges that on July 6 Gossett strucgk him on the head sever al tines anS subsequently on the same (lay tha others encountered him on the highway. The trouble appears to have arise from Lowe writing an official of the cotton mlil in Columbia that Gossett k-as not a fit person for the managenient of the mill. The case will be investigated in Magis trate Kirby's court. NeW Enterprises. The SecretaRy of State issued sever al charters and commissions Thurs The Colletob1 Cotton Warehouse Company receifVed a commission. This concern will hgve a capital of $3,000 and will be lodcated at Walterboro. The corporators are: W. B. Gruber, J. W. ill and 9. W. Wray. The Southern Realty and Invest ment Company is a Columbia concern, with T. C. Willia~ms, F. H. Weston and J. P. Iatthews as corporators. The capital will be $ 0,000 The Sumter Co ored Dry Goods Com pany received a commission, the capi tal being $5,000 .and the corporators being R. H. Richtardson, E. G. Jones. Z. E. Walker, M. J. Frederick and WV. T. Andrews. The Lynchburg IMercantile Company received a charter, the capital being $5,000 and the o fcers being J. WV. Tarrant. president; E. D. Smith, vice nresident, and J. 1F. McIntosh, Jr., sez-' etary and treasu~, Died Whil~ Plowing. Union, Special.- A special from Cross Keys in this county says: A tagic death ococurred near here when Andrew Lam ,. a farmer about. 55 years old, droppe~ dead while plow ing alone in a fiel4. His fall fright aned the horse, whic 1 immediately ran bme. The family, thinking some thinig must be wron ' sent at once to investigate, and foulnd the old man, wyho had apparently been feeling well when leaving home, ying dead in his Could Call hem In. The State of Souty~ Carolina is re relying good offer-s foir its bonds each iy. Few people are aware that the BBrowns" may be cal ed in in twenty weears if the State so estres. The is sue of January 1. 18S. . are known as South Carolina "Blue.-'," and are for 40 years, due to matn re in 1925. The browns, under act of December 22. 1892 (see page 24, vol. 1, statutes at large), are issued for 40 years also, but the State reserves the right to ral them in in 20 years if it wishes. Tis would make them due in i013 19 SOUTHERN A TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PLANTE Cowpeas and Corn For Sillage. J. J. E.. Berwyn, writes: I have been ,ading a bulletin on the use of cow ,as with corn and sorghum for silage arposes. but do not find any state ent as to whether or not the yield is creased by growing the peas with ie other cropi4. I 'would like some formation along this line. Answer: After several attempts to row copeas with corn and sorghum r silage purposes. it is my opinion at the practice is not likely to prove ry satisfactory. Corn or sorg1 um iust be planted in rows about four et apart with the stalks about eight en inches in the drill row to insure very large growth of peas. In a vorable season a large growth of >wpeas may be obtained. but as a 1ile this will not be the case. Thus. le greater distance apart of planting ecessitated to insure a good growth f peas cuts down the yield of corn or >rghum. which for silage purposes iould be planted in rows three to iree and a half feet apart in the rill row. Then. the cowpeas do not ften elimb on the stalks as well as is esirable. We have tried a good many arieties. and of all of them the Whip rwill and Lady were the best, but nless the plants get started properly. nny of them spread over the ground nd can be gathered by the corn har ester. Of course. hogs could be urned on the field so they would not e lost. We have tried sowing the peas with le corn and sorghum after the crop ad made considerable growth. It is auich better to seed the nleas and corn r sorghum together than to attempt plant later. The work can thus be one at one operation and saving in ime and labor effected. It is a mis ,ke to let the corn or sorghum get e start of the peas. for unless they row up vigorously in the beginning he ranker growing crops shade them r) that they do not grow well. In everal years' experience the largest ercentage of peas obtained in the corn r sorghum crop intended for silage as ten per cent. This was not nough to have any appreciable ef ect on the feeding value of the crop nd it little more than paid foi the eed and the extra labor involved in lanting. It would be much better, in y judgment. to sow the cowpeas in [rills twenty-four inches apart and cut nd cure as hay and feed. with the corn r sorghum silage rather than attempt o balance up the food by growing hem in the drill row unless some 1eans can be devised by which a much rggr yield is obtained than follows the average year. Many persons -ill be inclined to doubt this state ent. but they have never taken the rouble to separate the peas and esti nate the relative percentage of peas n the crop. The peas climb vigorously nd spread over the corn and sorghum lants very often until they almost over them up. and one is ready to )elieve that there is a very large per ~entage of peas present, but actual est has failed to demonstrate this to e a fact.-Knoxville Journal and 'ribune. Iweet Potatoes at Ten Cents a Bushel As the time for sweet potatoes is at Land, I will give the plan I have adopt d, which has succeeded very well in ur section. With ground flat, broke and made ne, I run rows three feet apart, put ing a fertilizer of three per cent. am nonia, six or seven per cent. potash tnd eight per cent. phosphoric acid. I hen throw two furrows with turn )low, making a nat list; drag or level if top of this list and we are ready or setting. If the weather is dry, make a rich nud paste and put roots of potato lants in it for a short time; then tick them out with a thin stick that eaves a very small hole. Press the 'oot firmly on one side of the sprout in top of the ridge, and with the stick :nock the dirt solid against the sprout. hey will live almost any time with ut watering if thus firmly pressed in o the soil. After a few days I run the cultivator n the middles. and about ten or twelve lays after setting I side them up, very nuch as I would corn or cotton, being ure not to let them get grassy. I can asily weed an acre in a day when roperly plowed; and if neglected. I ave seen some of my neighbors take our hands a day to clean an acre. Plow as often as they need it till lnes have met in middles; then throw to light furrows with turn plow ip to the potatoes and the work is oone-unless some heavy rain falls oon after they are laid by. Then it ays to go over with a pitchfork and ift the vines lightly from the dirt to revent their rooting in the middle. This plan generally insures a good rop with a very small outlay of time d money. A few bushels of cotton ed to the acre. if kitted, will take he place of ammonia. I have raised a number of crops of Pointed Paragraphs. Where there is a man's will there is woman's way to break it. A man seldom goes to a friend for loan if he really needs the money. well-balanced man doesn't have to rt his hair in the middle. Some girls proceed to catch on and arry-then implore the divorce judge ) help them let loose again. A man seldom has to work overtime Smake a fool of himself. Walking is said to be the best ex cise a man can indulge in. Perhaps at is why so many men walk home :> the races. After singing the boy to sleep a wo an proceeds to talk her husband to About the only fault the average wo an has to find with her past is that 's too long. The illness of the Commonwealth's torney and a principal witness delay he trial of Mrs. Smith on the arge of ill-treating her son. It is estimated that the country will end $15,000,000 celebrating the Fourth Jly with fireorks. q R M ':' UTES4. R, STOCKMAN AND TRUCK GROWE, potatoes after this plan that Co than ten cents a bushel from work till potatoes were in pile. banking. Of course, we must g good yield to get them at such igu We count 300 bushels to the ac good crop, but often under favo circumstances, especially after a pea crop. we get even more than I have seen some articles in The gressive Farmer about housing toes,. and In a later article will my plan; however, I will state h that I seldom put up potatoes r from the sprout for late winter as vines keep much better and are ter to eat.-D. Lane. Craven Cou N. C., in the Progressive Farmer. Growing Celery. 4 A Northern man who has come to live aakes this repo.t on raisi celery: My method of growing celery I have been 5n Virginia is as fo Sow seed in ea-ly spring when plenty of moisthrg in the ground, takes the seed from three to six to come up. These are the d have sown since I have been in ginia: February ( 1902; March 1903; April 1, 1904. I sow in good, rich. mellow soil. it is a good plan to burn the gro a few days before s.wing. the same for a tobacco bed. - When the y plants come up, I work very shall kill all weed and grass and to the young plants growing until t! set in the field. For ,the young pla I select a piece of -low. moist plow well and deep. about six to inches, and thoroughly work it six to twelve times, and then ope rows from four to sixfeet apart, shallow, and set the piants from to sixteen inches in the.row. These are the dates I have se in the last three years: June 26 to 4, 1902; June 20 to Juty 6. 1903; 1, 1904. If one chooses. a row of beans may be plantegi between celery rows. I work just as I woulds any other by running the fine-tooth culti through the rows once a veek to e moisture, but do not sxpect ii growth until tlie cool n ghts set Just as soon as the celer, comm to grow rapidly, I brinr i e dirt about August 23. I take th cele of the field about Novem er 10, use one of my old frames. I thr the dirt all out and then pac - my ery as close as I can get it by pu a little dirt on the root. Whe tl" done, I get pine straw or so e hay and cover it entirely up, an ' put the glass over it and stret sheet ov'er the glass to keep the and light from it. I leave it this way about two w, until it is thoroughly bleached. T it is ready to selL If the weather s -e get too cold and threaten frost, 'it a good plan to put fresh mannre'o the glass. I have grown white ph ever since I came here that meas over two feet.-Rice Journal. Sow Peas. Let farmers who have seta twelve to fifteen 'ac'es to the hors cotton, just figure a little. In thisl tion it will cost five cents a ponn make the cotton. Let thesect men take about four or five acre their cotton land, although prep and ready to plant, and sow a bu of clay or Unknown peas to the - If the land would make 700 pon seed cotton to the acre, it wonld mn ton and a half of pea vinehay. Ate cents aponnd the cotton and seed woi bring $20.90. Pea vine hay sells fra the wagon at ninety cents a hunjfr The ton and a half of hay would br $27 and the cost would not be half much as making the cotton crop. iand& would be ready for early se to wheat or oats. That is the o way to reduce the cotton acreage, so to make a more profitable crop and~ prove the land at the same ti Then when forage, corn, wheat oats were abundant the fowls, h. and cattle would soon be added farmers would be able "to live home and board at the same place Chas. Petty, Spartanburg Co~ S.C. Better Grass For Pa'tureu That "all flesh is grass'' may not literally true, but it is true'that flesh profitable to its producer is in of grass, and that grass in its m profitable sense is the best flesh fa known. Not enough importance isa tached to grass on the farm, for many farmers 'grow the wrong l of grass and in the wrong place.T seem to be contented to grow ii grass in the corn field rather tlw that kind of grass that contains we balanced proportions of protein, bohydrates, fat, salts and 'Wa which has been ordained as the li food for domestic animals. The " lot" is fast giving way to the hog ture, while pastures and meadow~s playing an important part in mod agriculture.-Progressive Farmer. News of the Day. Miss Alberta J. Cropsey, of Eliza City, N. C., whose sister, Nell Croe was murdered by Jam,'e Wilcox, married in Norfolk to William Brooks. Alleged irregularities in theR mond primaries will be investigate It is now thought that more thn 000 persons perished in Guanaju Mexico, as a result of the cloudbc which completely wiped out the te of Marfil. The First National Bank of Top Kan., has gone into the hands of a ceiver, having become embarrassed consequence of large loans made tc J. Devlin, whose affairs wer-e placet charge of a corporation last week. 'The National Educational Asso tion is holding its annual session Asbury Park, New Jersey. At South Boston the Interstate bacco Association met in' the 'O0 House Tuesday. After several spe es it was decided to .open books( solicit subscrip~tions to the amoun $50,000 to build a tobacco-manufa ing plant at South Boston.