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A CRIME OF LON6 ANU. How Mrs. Silver Slew Her Husband With an Ax and Burned His Body ~Blackest Page in North Car oiina Records. BY H. E. G. BRYANT. NE of the most brutal murders ver committed in North Caro lina was conceived, planned and executed by a woman, one Fran cis or Franky Silver, of Burke County. who killed and burned her husband, Charles Silver. The crime was done one night about seventy years ago in a bonely mountain cabin on Toe River in the presence of a two-year-old chId. while the vichim lay asleep by his own fireside. The murderess was tried, convicted and hung. being one of the first women executed on the gallows in this country. Mr. Alfred Silver. half-brother of the murdered man. is living to-day-on - Curtis Creek, four miles northwest of the town of Old Fort. McDowell Coun ty. lie will be eighty-seven years old I -the 15th of .November. if the Great Master alloxw him to live to see his I next birthday. I went out to see Mr. Silver one morning last week. He is tte finest type of the best class of mountaineer that I ever saw, being large, strong-featured and manly. His 1 face looks like the pictures of old pa friarchs as they appear iWi the histories. - I found him willing and able to talk about the murder, the trial and the hanging. He remembers the details of the case as well as if the crime bad 1 beeu perpetrated last month. At the time of the deed he was just at the I tender age when a bright mind takes. and retains most. C In giving the story of the affair I 0 s'.Iall let him tell it in his own vigorous, I forceful way: "Charles Silver, killed and destroyed I by his wife, Franky Silver, about the i year 1832, was my half-brother. He a was strong, healthy, good looking and e1 agreeable. He had lots of friends. t Everybody liked him. He was a fa- t vorite at all.the parties, for he could s make merry by talking, laughing and P playing musical instruments. He had 0 been married long enough to have one C heir. a girl. He lived in a cabin across f a ridge, a quarter of a mile from my father's home on Toe River. 'Charles was pretty much of a hunt- t er, and it was Christitas, just his time e lor hunting. The ground was covered c with snow and the river frozen hard. ' His -wife, contending that he would be t] off soon on a hunt. trrged him to cut v enough wood to do all the week. H'e fell in with his axe and cut up a whole b bickory tree, and shocked it so that it P .would keep dry and clean. t< "Be-.ng tired and sleepy after the Ia- F I-or of chopping, my brother lay down b cni the floor, close by the fire, with his h .Iittle girl in his arms, and went to V :sieep. His head rested on an inverted mE -stool for a pillow. Franky gently took the bs by from his breast, put it in the S abed. gieked up the axe from the door, 0l where she had placed it for the pur- F~ pose, atnd whacked his head nearly off ti at a single blow. She intended to cut tl it clean off, but miscalculated. and TI -either stood too close or too far back. si *The first lick did not kill him instantly, la -for he sprang to his feet and cried~ b: "'God bless the child-' His wife fled to 'T -The bed and covered up, till she heard b UTItles fall and then jumped out and B tinished the .job with a second blow. h But the most inliuman part of the atro- E cious deed was to come. The wotnan f( went to work, cut the body into small n pieces. and burned it bit by bit, the en- b< tire night and much wood being con- C sumed destroying the body- The " 4 Tbuse ali Ehe door steps went up in the effort to keep a roaring fire. It al is believed that her mother and young- h - est brother helped dispose of the di - body. In fact she confessed as much fi .to a woman who calied on her in jail. n I believe the killing was a conspiracy I entered into l-y the whole Stewart famn- a ily. 1 -Of course we knew nothing of the critne at my fathier's nouse. Franky came early the next morning, stopped where my mother and the girls wered washing for Christmas and remarked: 'b 'You are hard at it early.' My mother p answered: 'Ys we are trying to get C ready for a rest,' 'Yes,' said Franky, S 'Tye been at it myself ever since be- d fore day.' She told mother that a Charles had gone up the river to o George Young's. "That same afternoon Franaky came e over and reported that Charles had not returned. She said she expected him Lack earlier-. Mother noticed that she was a bit nervous, but thought it was ' on account of the proo~gti absence of Charles. She said she would go down to her father's home, thre-e-quarters of a mile away If some of tihe boys would attend to the feeding of her cow..x plaining that Charles hasi fed her that t morning, but when we wvent there thati night we saw- none but women tr-acks. -Charles didnt show up the next 1 day. nor the one following. Franky < told mother that as he had remained 1 awaly so lonig she did not care whethert lhe ever came back or not, and wvent bac-k to her father's. --After several days had passed and nothing had been heard of Charles thei naarm was given. The word was put< out all thr-ough the mountains. NoI track or trace of him could be found. The river was searched, for somei tlhougzht that he might have gone through the ice. lHe hadi~ not bepn to 4. e->r-.e Young's%. My father wvas gr-eait iy -..ire up~ abu:) it. Hie was remly1 to do) anytthing. So when he heardl of1 an' old G uiea negro over n Tienec f :~ mil::s awvay.. who hadl a kiud of --~ir ball that told things. hte 'set outj onhreback ;o see him. ThNe negro wa not at homet. bu:t the~ man. a Mr. Wil:is for who u e worked. sai l:e couinterpret lhe beihavior of t*Ihe Ia :n an:d marked off the pois ot the (1upas.1 Falter told Williams' all ai;ouZ the locaion.~ of tEe house wvhere Charles lved. and drew a ma~p of the sek-tin r-otnd about. The ball didn't seem 10 t'tin aPway from e ouse. - and Wlliasaskd: - ant it po'i k!nared.' That was toward his o hou~se from ours. Later in the d, Williams tried his ball and told fath, that it indicated that the body h been found. Sure enough it was. -On the very day that father start( for Tennessee the mystery was pa tial!y solved. Some one of the scare ilg party Smuaested that the cal) and the premises be examined. A old man by the name of Jack Coll thought it wise to look around in ti house. He went about the yard ar cabin probing with his walking enn In stirring the ashes in the firepla< be found several pieces of bone. whic caused him to say: *There's too mar bits of bone in this fireplace and ti ashes are too greasy.' A small roc taken from the ashes was put in1 water to see if any grease bubbl would rise. They did, in great plent; [t was discovered that fresh ashes ha een poured in a mortar hole near tl: zpring. Pieces of the bone and fles were found there. also a heeliron, suc s Charles wore on his hunting mocci ins. After all this evidence. stron tnd convincing. was found. a jury wr ummoned and an inquest held. As a mmediate result Franky. her moth( nd youngest brother were arrestet 1l were bound over to court. "A more thorough investigatio tbout the place revealed substanth )roof. On the ground under the housi )eneath a dark spot on the floor a cirel >f blood as large as a hog's liver wa ound and the walls were specket ['here could be no doubt Charles ha >een murdered and his body burned. "*Franky was tried at Morganton m Lhout the third court after she kille 'harles. She got out of jail dressed i t man's clothing and escaped into th ountry. following the wagon of he incle. The sheriff of the county, di overing that his prisoner had fBe urried on her trail and overtook he everal miles out of town. He rode u lose and saidt 'Frtnky' She turne nd answered: 'I thank you. sir, mi ame is Tommy.' 'Yes,' her uncle pu n. 'her name is Tommy.' He gav imself and the woman away by say ag 'her.' She was returned to her cel nd on the appointed day. the 12th o uly. 1S33. in the presence of a grea brong of people. hanged. It was hopei hat she would make a public confes ion on the scaffold. and she seemei repared to do so, but her father yellei ut from the crowd: 'Die with your se ret. Franky.' There was a s!ght o olks there to see her hanged. "Francis Stewart (Stewart was he iaiden name) was a mighty likely lit le woman. She had fair skin. brigh yes and was counted pretty. She ha< harms. I never saw a smarter littli roman. She could card and spin hei iree yards of cotton a day on a bi, rheel. "The motive for the crime will nevei e known. Jealousy. she claimed. in . rinted ballad that she made gave ris< > the first thought. No one could evei nagine any one that she had cause t< e jealous of, for Charles was true t< er. He laughed and talked with th( -omen of his acquaintances, but tha -as all. "The surviving members of the tewart family met violent deaths ir e form or another. The old man ranky's father, lost his life while cut ng a rail tree. A limb struck him ox le head and.-crushed out his. brains he mother died from the effects of ake bite, and was in great agony thi .st hours of her life. Jack, one of thf others, was killed during the Civi: 7ar. Joe met a sudden deatj, but ave forgotten the facts concerning it lackstone, the brother, charged witl1 lping her burn my brother, went t, entucky, stole a horse and was hn r it. All went. It looks like God gde g'ay with them on purpose. lieve that they all conspired to kil harles. It was a horrible d'eed. H14 'as such a fine fellow. We loved him.' Nancy. the little daughter of Charle: ad Franky SAf'er. grew to woman ood and married David Parker. wh< ed fighxting for the Confederacy at thi rst battle of Manassas. The widov arried again and is now said to bi ving in Madison County. The Stew rts went to Burke from Anson.-Char >tte Observer. The Fat Ox of Paris. Paris is mainly carnivorous, and to ay the procession of the fat ox, or 1i oeuf gras. circulated in the densel. opulated quarters which lie round the atle market of Paris. The apothec is of the fat ox in Egypt was, n oubt a fete in honor of agricalture d -la that sense, when the abattoir Paris no longer exist, the celebra Ion wiil return to its original signif ance in a full and exclusive sense. There wais a time when the chili rho is chosen by the Parisian butch 's to represent them rode on the bac] f the ox. but that custom yielded Ion; go to the cars such as we saw to-day t'hich convey not only the child, but; 'reat many grown-up children, wea: g every kind of fancy dress. Th tern Revolutionists said. "Enough ( his foolery," but Napoleon, with hi nfalible instinct. knew that the bex ray to govern the French people wa o ylease them. So he ordained it ontinace of the processionI of th )oeuf gras. Quite modern is the eu omi of naming the ox. Paris hat ;nown Pere Goriot, which was namec tfter Balzac's novel; Monte Crist6, Pol hos. Aramis. the Wandering Jew, So etino and a great many others. Ti x to-day was called Atlas II. HI ja!;, as broad as a dinner table, w:1 overed with a snow white robe. Ox s"per said that when he returned1 xxs stal he had a supereillious smile 'xls face. That. at all events, was a 'uost his las't p)rivilege. The churc '(elk~ls. whih w'ere soundinig as he we rarading through thxe streets. were lx th Londoni Standcard-i 01 Japattesc Palm Filw. Artical and ribbon tiowers wi now he to take a hack seat in far< of a new style that has made its a pearane ini tuie shops, says the Ne York Sun. Te new ones are made from Japa e palm fil..re. and a:'e so natural; apernce that it Is quice impossibJ to tell tlexm fr'om the real article. Tih isartcularly~ the cas:e with car'natioi ad Amercan~': Beaucx~ty r'oses. f->r a fu her resembhinece to unture s: ddcd heir bein;: pe~rumed like their natu: So f:ar as the expense ::es. they r'o H TOOK REBATES b A Pensylvania Purchasing Agent Makes Confession PROFIT ON COAL HE PURCHASED . In Nis Capacity as Purcher of Fuel e Coal an Official Testified That He b Had 1eceived From Five Comps Y nies an Allowance of From 3 to 4 k Cents Per Ton. .0 Philadelphia, Special.-The Inter State Cotnmerce Commission contin e ued its investigation of the relations of the Pennsylvania Railroad employ h es to various mining companies in the 1. bitumiuons coal district. The first g witness was Joseph Boyer. of Altoona, s chief clerk in the offiee of A. V. n|Gibbs, superintendent of the Motive r power. 1. In fs entirety Mr. Bover's testi mony was a startling character. His n stock holdings were only a small por dI tion of the gifts he admitted receiv . ing from the coal miging companies. SIg his capacity as a purchaser of fuel s c9al he testified that he had receiv - ea from five -eompanies an allowance d of from 3 to 5 cents a ton on coal used by the ?ailroad for fuel purposes. t D'uring a period from the latter pan. d of 1903 to date he has receive1 a to n tal of more than $46,000. The com panies which made him this allow ance were the Graff Coal Company, the Clearfiell and Granion Coal Com pany, Dankirk Coal Company and Thomas Blythe Company. I Graff Coal Company allowed him r five cents a ton and the Clearfield and t Granton Company gave him a share e in the. profits which amounted to not less than four cents a ton. Blythe 1 and Company gave him three cents f a ton. Re was asked why he discrim t inated in favor of Bythe and Co. He 1 replied he did not discriminate as the money came to him without solicita tion or any effort on his part. He be lieved that the money had been paid in the same manner to his predeces sors in office and he believed he was only following the custom of the de r partment. t Conditions Filthy. Chicago, Special.-Building Com m 'iner Bartzen and 12 deputy building inspectors went to the stock yards to make an inspection of every building in the place. Commission er Bartzen personally went to the hog killing department of one of the large packing houses, and described the conditions he found there as "filthy and dirty.'' Three Earthquake Shocks. Manila, By Cable.-Three slight earthquake shocks were felt in Ma nila June 5 and 6, the last at S:38 -p. mn. on the 6 th instant. The shoek$. are believed to have been severe on the island of Samar, but no details have been received. Government Forces Withdrawn. San Francisco, Special.-The Mil itary authorities are gradually with drawing aIl the Government forces from the city witiin a few weeks San Francisco will be entirely under the protection of the regular police force, assisted by a la-rge number of specials who have been added to the list since the fire. Heavy Fire Loss. New York, $pecial.-A second fire within the space of two weeks de stroys two or more warehouses of the Amneriean Cotton Dock Company at 'fompkinsville, Staten Island. and eanded a loss estimated at between $150,0005 and $200,000. A fire-man was probably fatally injured. Telegraphic Briefs Socialistic ideas are spreading among the radical members of the Douma. SThere is every prospect of bounti ful harvests in Southern Russia. s Captain ByiefE rode all the way -from Manchuria to St. Petersburg, a distance of S,700 miles, in eight months and four days. M. Delcasse, former French Minis ter for Foreign Affairs, will visit the 7 United States next fall. aA number of anarchists have been -arrested at Barcajonia on suspicion e of complicity in the bomb-throwing s Below freezing temperatures are re t ported throughout the middle of Ger e many e The International Miners' Congress - began in London. s The Intestate Commerce Commis sion took up the relations of the New York Central Railroad to the coal ~companies along its lines. SSan Francisco again quaked Mon day night, the shoek being of short duration, and causing no damage. ni Governor Chamberlain was re-elect 1- ed in Oregon. hl In the Missouri Democratic State s Couvention Bryan wvas acclaimed as the next President. SThe National Liquer Dealers' As woeintion put itself on record in an nual convention in favor of temper ant and the purification of the sj aoon. wChief Engineer Stevenson decared that a sea-level canal at Panama n would hardly be more than a narrow in grge, like a sewer. leThe Senate unssed the Naval Ap is propriation bill, carrying a total of yObjection in the Senate indicates a that the Railroad Rate Bill will be seni back to conference. stThe House passed the Naturaliza '~Iion bill in spite of a filibuster by Borne Cockran. WANTS IMMIGRANTS Southern Representatives Meet to formulate Plans MUST PROVIDE BETTER WAGES The Southern State Immigration As sociation Makes Necessary Ar rangements for its Establishment at Ellis Island and Plzces a Man in Charge. New York, Special.-A resolution requesting that Congress allow the importation of labor by employers, ana that the contracts between :;ueh laborers and their employers be filed with the governnment at the port of entry, -was presented by Max Robinson to the Southern States Im migration Commission, which met in this city to discuss methods for the sOecuring of desirable immigrants. for the South. The resolution furAhei provides that the wages to be paid under such contract be not less than the recognized standard of the laeal ity in which the work is to be done and further expresses disapproval of the biH providing for additional ed uconal qnalifications and ar in creased head tax as a bar to the im portation of a desirable class of im migratioa. The resolrtion was re fetred to the excutive cgmmittu. A letter was also read from Theo dore Marburg, of Baltimore, w.io is a, member of the immigration com mittee of the Civic Federation, it which Mr. Marburg wrote that onl,% 4 1-2 per cent. of the immigrants coming to this country last year went to Southern States, and that there was urgent need in the South of an immigration of a new race which can be sounted on to make its cuntribu tinmjs to progress. Tkp members of the commission in spected the immigration station on Ellis Island on invitation of Imsnigration Commissioner Watch hors. In the course of an adiress to the commissioners Mr. Watchorn said: "ImmiZrants who arrive here are for Northern points and if you were to tre and steer them from their several points they would think you were bineo men. Unles.s the -rages of the South are brought up to the standard of those of the North you cannot expect immigrarrts tc go South, and if you did get them to go they would not stay, because they w. -'ld probably hear from their rel atives in the North who were making more money." This statemaent caused surprise among members of the commission who seemed to be under the im pression that immigrants hav.e no special destination annd would glad ly accept any proposition which was made to them. 1w order that: the commission might hre convinced, Comn missioiner Watchorn allowed Chair mran James E. Graybill to grestion severur of the immigrants. Ini the half dozen or more questione d not one would consent to abandon the place he was bound for ar d go South. The election of permanennt officers of the commission rosulted as fo lows: President. T. K. Bruner. of North Carolina: vice president, D. W. Coons. of Kentucky: seeretai.'~r d n tjeasurer. David Robinson, of Geor Three Killed ini Explosioir. Mt. Sterling. Ky.. Specia .-The boiler in the saw mill of Lyors com pany near Fr~enehburg blew iop tifl ing three men and peieps fatilly irn inrine thr-ee others. The morey loss will be heavy. Grade Crossing Horror. West Peabody, Mass., Special. Mrs. Croning, wife of W. P. Urening, of Cambridge,. was killed ard Mr. Croning and several of his children were injured in a grade cros:ding ac eident here. A train on the Boston and Maine Railroad struck the au tomobile in which the Croning fam ily were tonuag. All of the ocen pants of the v-ehiele were tow.ed higth in the air, wvhile fra..:ments of the automobile were hurled 2)0 feet fr-om the scene. Village Washed Away. Ironton. Ohio.. Special.-Scottownl, a village 20 miles norih of Ironton. with a population of 200 was washed away. Not a house was left sianding on its formdation. Mrs. Srer and dagter were drowned. Bridg~es were washed away and telephone lines ar*e down. Struck By Engine. Morganton, N. C.. Special .-Art hur. Queen. of Ha~ywoodl county, aged 13. a pupil of the~ Deaf ani. Dumb School, was struck by: an cegine on the Southern Railway while crossing the track near the school. His skull was fractured and a leg biroken in ihree places. Ha is stinl alive but there is no hope of his recovery. Shot By Guard. SChester, S. C., Special -Frazier .Gist, a negro conviet. wile making an attempt to gal,n his liberty was chaot by the guard and lies in a erit ical corndidoin at the Magdmlene Hos l'.tal i.c. An opera'1ion has been performzed; but as his m'tetmes r ~nemre1d in 20-odd places. iti'~ i lv;rchable th-at he c" n r"cvr HeVLf ~ ~notorious character and, wa AM~IN END[UYHf NOI[S JUNE SEVENTEENTH. ropic-The Glorified Life. John 17: 1-10, 22-24. If even Christ needed to be glori ied before He could glorify God. ho-. nuch more do we need God's power mnd grace before we can glorify Him n the earth Christ's glory is bound up with our >bcdience: if we love Chrit. this hought will be a mighty incentive to L noble life. Th more we live for Christ's ;lory, the more we shall live for one mother. We enjoy earth in proportion as we see Christ's glory in it; thus also ;hall we enjoy heaven. Suggestions. The glorified life is unconscious of ts own glory,-conscious only of hrist's. "Moses wist not that his 'ace shone." Woe unto us when all men speak well of us! Their clamor will drown "od's voice. 'Glorified" and "clarified" are kin- I red words. A noble man is the mly nobleman. The glorified life glories in Christ. illustrations. Wordly glory draws inward, like he sponge- heavenly glory gives 4 mtward, like the spring. Earth's greatest glories, like the < xreek olive wreath, are valued for I heir ideal significance; so are heav- i n's. The mirror gleams only so long as t is turned to the sun; our lives are -adiant only so long as they reflect is in a mirror the glory of God. When the light falls upon the dia nond, it also becomes a light-bearer, Lnd shines in the dark. We need nore phosphorescent Christians. Quotations. Am I seeking my reputation below ir above? Am I letting my light shine? Is religion to me the happiest i hing in life? t Yes, there Is glory for the future: I iething for the true believer that sn't glory.-D. L. Moody. We shall each have our own pe ,uliar glory, while yet lost in the 'Greater Light" who rules that gold -n day.--Nathaniel West. Thousands of us are yet living on :w or three hundred dollars that night live on the exceeding riches of 'od's glory.-M. E. Baldwin. I The Noblest Study. Missions are the new Acts of the kpostles, they are the newest New [estament, they are the prolongation 4 >f Calvary. They are the "greater I ings than these" which the Holly c pirit enables Christ's followers to Lo. A man may be a Christian and be gnorant of missions, but he is an un leveloDed Christian. s -n O TH LEAGiiE LESSONS 1 SUNDAY, JUNE 17.e Dur Aecounting.--Gal. 6. 7-10; Rev. 20., 11-15. He 'who does, not count his life a iigh and gracious gift of God, which nay ncrease in power and capacity 'orever, has missed life's greatest neaning. But if life is great in its privilege t is also great in its requirements. rhere is no such thing as possession 'itrout responsibility, and the larg r the wealth the greater the obliga ion. What will you do with your life?e It is an endowment.. It is a tes't. It s a probation. God would' put us to he procf. He gives time and ;trength enough for us to determine mr relaftion to the infinite future. All ife's activities have to do with that. Nothing we do can be separated from ,ts relation to to-morrow. Our work, ur play, our social life, our intel ectual life-all exert an influence on nd help to shape our destiny. That 1 s what probationx means. It is op portunity' to form character, to fix ifes direction..4 Life, then, is the great choosing ime. The play and counterplay of ~orces outside of us may be interest [ng. The activities of the great I wold may seem of importance. But the greatest thing about any indi- t ridual career is not what it has done, r seen, or suffered, or enjoyed, but what t has chosen. Eternal destin les are settled here. We docide on this side of the grave, and ife on the; ther side will follow the bent we hiave chosen here. Mn is the crowning point of ca ica. Heo is mri? in God's image, and ~od's idenr for him is communion with hi-s Mastor. We someimes hear t .said that mann is naturally oppos ed to God. It is not true. Opposi Hon' to God is unnatural, although it is .erribly prevalent. Our naturai re lation is one of communion. Augus tne was right-"T'hou hast made us for thyself. and we' find no rest until we find it in thee." Sin has turned us away from God. And yet there are great yearnings within us that reach out to him. The unrest of the sinner is the homesick ness f the prodigal in the far coun try. It is part of the Father's effort r ibring his child back. Nothing Less tha;n "All Around." A frica! of mine who is a clergyman tii me of a womian blon'ging to his fick who was the victihn of a remark ably htisty. tem.per. says a writer in the Chicago Tribune. She knew it: ste achno':.ledged her failing, and was~ dleterminedl to re~for'm. lHe called upon he one day to discove'r what progress she was makin~g, and having run; at th frrent door. vwaitd. From inside tlhr hall there ceame the cotifutsedI'lin of sh:ill 'oice's. A kind of femhinn whiwind '.< in progress insi'!e. At : he v.s drzitte'd. Du:'ing hisin to:-;low with : he v.omt:ta he gently hnftd( at what he had heartd and at his disappointment. "You see." pleaded the wyoman. "I was bad tempered with my husband this morning, a~nd when I do chage and become good tempere'! I must bc gin with him. It would not be nice to legin. wih .Tane. a servant. Whien I ochange~ I will he gOd tempered al round." Tho worst of so many people is SOUTH ERN :l FA . -C> D.@ 70PICS OP INTEREST TO IY"EPL ANyER Don't Make Garden in a Day. ti J. C. Whitten. the horticultuPist. E ives the following tinsely suggestions g op-garden making: y "If the garden is planted all in a daY. M1 :6 get the disagreeable job out of the b -ay, it is probable that only one or ti :wo species of plants will do their d est Some will hate been planted h :o0 early and othes too late. r( "For best results in garden making. ti ach !ind of plant should be put otit t! t the same time when conditions are p: est suited for it. Lawn grass seed, T ;weet peas. parsnips. onions. spinach al d some other species should be plant- a d as soon as the soil can be worked t( n the spring. Seeds of all these will pi erminate, and even make stronger li rrowth, when the soil is only a few hi egrees above freezing. If it freezes n, ore or less on cold nights after they re planted no harm is usually done. "Other plants, like nasturtiums. andy tufts, beets, potatoes. carrots, c tc., have a larger heat sequirement, 3 Lnd should be planted In mid-spripg, a: r at least later than the first-men- rE oned list. They -will not endure well f put out on the first days when the t round begins to thaw out. but they ;ould be planted before the soil gets a ery warm. "Corn, beans, melons. cucumbers, to natoes and many others require a s( arm soll, and time will be gained if rc hey are not planted until the soil is II ell warmed up to , considerable b epth. If put out too early the seeds P Lre liable to decay in the soil. Even f the plants do grow they wiU be- a >ome stunted by the cold and will not Pi evelop into good plants. It saves B me to plant these warmth-loving SI inds after the soil is warm. "Some species need a great deal of n ieat. These are lima beans, okra or re aumboo. egg plants and some others. hey should be the last vegetables p, lanted. Still other vegetables should e planted-at intervals so as to get a le uccession of vegetables for the table. b. lost kinds which grow quickiy may be anted in succession. Radishes, beets, c ttuce, peas and many others are best Yc nly when they are tender and succu- n ent. Seeds of these may be planted very three weeks for a time, so as to in iave them tender during the first half if the season. "No date can be mentioned for plant- E: ng the different sorts. Seasons differ. t may be warmer one year on the first f April than it is two weeks later an- th ther year. If" one will watch the tarting of leaves and flowers on early cc ecies of trees art shrubs he can get index as to the time to plant. To lant sweet peas when the willow cat ins are coming out is a good rule, and mlar comparisons may be made for A ther plants. This is accurate, for the rillows start. not on -a given day in larch, but when they have received~ Leat enough to grow welL"O Or System of Agriculture. The three essentials are, first, theory *; second, art of; third, practice of N< griculture. AU fertilizers placed upon the foam in ill turn into cotton and corn in due at Break laud well before planting. 1 There is only go much cotton and m rn in fertilizers; the more you get A t the better. fa Plow deep, cultivate shallow. a Apply .from 400 to 000 pouds of ini Lgh-grade fertilizer to your cotton:1to 00 to 400~ to corn. Drain wet soils, terrace lull sides. Plant late than not at all. s Plant-ong-staple cotton. er Keep ant of debt, 0 Produce big ears of corn and big ales of cotton; both are eastly gath Save your money, buy everything for e sh, nothing on time. l Make all supplies at home. Deep preparation, thorough fertiliza- t ion, intensive cultivation. te Practice deep plowing, shallow cul ivation and high fertilization. j Advocate progressive methods. st Pres ve and improve the land. 01 Study the principles of agriculture. It is cheaper to make ten bales of ottoc on five acres than to make five in twenty-five. Use improved farm machinery.b "A dry May for a good crop"-!t isa ieessary for plaints to get moisture. : D. Martin. Gastonla, N. C., in the s' ?rogressive Farm er. Don't Buy Many Novettes. l In the matter of choosing the varie ies to plant eZier for the market or p r home consumption every vegetable u. -ower must ire more or less a inw into himself. Experience in a certain Pl ocality, on a certain piece of ground to ounts for more than all the outside da dvice that can bec put twgether. It is m m largely :a local matter that the ques ion must always be approached with hr feeling. "Well. I rather not." b; oie good general advice may. how- 11 ver. be given. t Do not plan novelties in large~ qrgan-'_d Refiections of a Bac~helor. A girl will never beloexe you love her f you tell her in plsin, sane Iar-d When a man knows how to earne his living it's a sign he doesn't tr to write poetry. If women could vote you could nev r gt them to elect a eatry-headed one to auything. Bits of Brightness. e Percy-My f'ather occupies the chair: ff applied physics at 'Awvud. Chimmi-Chee, dat's nuttin'. Me rudder occupied de chair of appliedb elctricity at Sing Sing. T If a man wore the absence of lothes above his waist as woman does a summer he wonid be arrested. A irl can be a great deal of help to I R M -:- f0 TES. STOCKMAN AND TRUCK Gq6WER. ties-test them first-try only a little. very year new varieties are brought it by the seedsmen and after a few ars we wonder where they have )ne. Simply disappeared-proved to ? inferior to other more stable and me-tried varieties and they have opped out of sight. On the other ind, many of the new things are ally genuinely good. Every variety .at we esteem highly was new one cie. but we must be positive before anting the new things extensively. hen get a little seed of the new thing id see what they will do. Every year small plot should be devoted to this st work and the new things which ove to be good can be planted more rgely another year and may often lp the planter to get ahead of his ghbor.-Souther Cultivator. Spray For ApOle .Trees. Scab Leaf Spot, Sooty Fungus-Use pper sulphate 1-25 before buds open. ?rdeaux just before blossoms open, ain seven days after blossomS dt-op; peat every ten or fifteen days. Rust-Cut out cedar trees if prac cable. Bitter Rot and Ripe Rot-Spray as ove, cut out canker and avoid bruis Aphis-Apply fifteen per cent kero ne emulsion when lice appear: treat ot form by removing dirt at the base itil roots are exposed; sprinkle on to icco stems, or tobacco dust. and re ace the dirt. Canker Worm-Use Paris green or *senate of lead as soon as first cater liars appear; repeat after five days,. and trees before moths appear in ring. Codling Moth-Paris green or arse .te of lead as soon as blossoms fall; peat in ten days. Curculio-Same treatment as for um curcullo. Fall Web Worm-Arsenate of lead on aves aroundihe nest, or destroy nest - burning. Oyster Shell Scale-Use fifteen per nt. kerosene emulsion as soon as the ung batch in the spring; repeat wher 'cessary. San Jose Scale-Lime. sulphur. salt spring just before buds swell. rent Caterpillar-Sare tretmtw r fall web Worm.-North Carogna :periment Station. What a Good Cow Does. Here is a condensed sintemer! rmrm e Clemson Agricultural College that its in a nutshell the story of benefit ming to the 'irm and farmer from good cow well kept. A good cow will produce yeariy: I lbs. bitter at 25c. per lb.........975 30 lbs. skimmed milk at 25c. per 100.. 12 calf worth................... Total- receipts............--.. She will consume yearly: ie ton of cottonteed meal.........2 , ie-half ten of wheat bran........., 11 lt tone of corn ailage..........-...16 Total expenditures,.....e.......-3 t profits................ h amount of fertilizer constituents the above feed is. valuing nitrogen fifteen cents per pound. and phios iorc acid and potash at four ansd e-half cents per pound, the total anurial value of this alone is $39.'1.. II of this fertility remains upon the rn, since only butter has been sald, id this does not, contain any fertiliz g elements. In addition, therefore. $42 net profit of a cow, add $30 orth of fertility to the land. This shows just how the farm is ved from being run down when the ops are not sold off, but consumed the farm.-Home and Farm. Snray For Grape.. Black Rot and Other Fungous Dis ses-Use copper sulphate 1-T f buds open. bordeaux mixtne 6-4. Ibefore blossoming. again ten or f-our n days af-ter-biossorning and every 1 days thereafter until the middle of ly. Destroy old leaves and rotten apes, or cover what cannot be de oyed by cultivation. Bulletin 185 this station gives full information. AphisUse fifteen per cent. kerosene mision. Berry Moth-Use arsenate of lead. ur pounds to fifty gallons water, just fore blossoms open; repeat after pet Flea Beetle - When buds begin to -ei use paris green. one pound to venty-five gallons of water or arseni e of lead: when worms appear en ayes repeat. Leaf Hopper-Whal-e oil soap one )lnd to ten gallons water; apply to der surface of the leaves. Root Worm-As soon as bettles ap ar use arsenate of lead, four pounds fifty gallons of water: repeat ten ys later. - North. Carolina Experi ent Station. The Catholic bishop at Vilna. Ruissia, tssent a report to the synod showing t since the ukase of religions to;era n over 20.000 members of the ortho *xchurch hae become Catholics. News Items. The special session of the Dela are legislature to elect a Umitee taes Senator met last- Wednesday. The Genecral Federation of Womn ns' iuhs begn its annual session at t. Paul. he twelfth peace conferen~ce op nd at Lake Mohonk, the limitation t armaments and the formation of n intratinal congress being the ricipal subjects discussed. An elevator of Armour & Co. burn-/ i in Chicago, and the loss may reach LO00,000. Prominent western stockmen form a pissionL'f comnpanly to be corn oed only of stockm'en, each mnem e being limited to 30 shares. The General Assembly of the United resbytrian Church refused to elect e. .J. A. Burnet t to an ofTice because e smokes tobacco. The Zulus again attacked Colonel onber's column and were beaten of ith heavy loss.