Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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GONDITIONS Russian Affairs Grol With Every LABOR TROUJBL[S ADDED Plans of Revolutionists Misearry. Meeting at Sveaborg Collapsed. Sit uation Greatly Changed. Order for General Strike Probably be Counter mandrd--Baltic Squadron not in Hands of Iutineers-Emperor Or ders Court Marshall for Those Im plicated in Meeting at Fortress of Sveaborg-Other Mutnies. London. By Cable-A dispatch from Helsingzfors says that serious conflicts between Communal police and the So cialist Red Guards occurred. Warsaw, By Cable.-General Mark graffsky. chieif of the Warsaw Gen darms, was shot and killed. St. Petersburg, By Cable.-A col lapse of the mutinw at Sveaborg, coupled with a breakdown of the plans of the Revolutionists to secure possession of the Baltic Squadron and provoke an immediate rising of Cron stadt, greatly changes the situation. The sy-- of the government offi tials have risen and those of the Rev olutionists are correspondingly depres sed. Arrangements for ordering gen eral strike Saturday may be counter 2nanded. The strike ia Finland is already a failure. The latest reports show that all rumors that the Baltic squadron was in the hands of mutineers were untrue. When lie mutineers ,ho were led by the ag4itators from the shore and who believed that the squadron was coming to their r.escue found that hope in that direction was erushed, dissentions broke out among them and they turned their guns upon each other. Those who had determined to die rather than surrender fired into the ranks of their more faint hearted -eomrades who hoisted the white flag. Number Dead and Wounded. During the night the mutinous sail ors, soldiers and sappers and miners seized Fort Constantine at Constradt but were subsequently dislodged and compelled to sirrender, after heavy fighting with the1 loyal regiments. A hundred rere killed and many wounded, including Admiral Boaki wvisheff. Some mutineers succeeded in boarding a st 3amer and escaping to Finland. edRiroons iD-mh o-S. f7a- K CMF Mutiny at Constadt. The wildest rumors are in circula-. tion. one of which is to the effect that the mutiny has )roke out at Constadt has caused the utmost alarm, which has been increased by the fact that telephone communication with Cronx stadt again is interrupted. It is asserted that four mutinous warships have arrived at Cronstadt and that thle gun> of that fortress have been trai-ed on them. but that the fire has not yet been opened. Mutineers Surrender. An odicial telegram from Helsing fors announces taat all the mut~ineers: of the Fortress of Sveaboarg surren dered arid that by order of the Emper or, court martialk have been instituted for the trial of the men implicated. The prisoners are being landed in batches guared by loyal troops. They: are sullen and seem to have little thought of the punihment, whieh awaits them. Neff Guilty of Granid Larnceny. Warsaw, N. Y., Special.-The jury in the case of John W. Neff, former county auditor of Erie county, in dicted for grand larceny in the first degree in connection with the Old North Street Cemetery deal in Buf fdlo returned a verdict of guilty. The specific charges on which Neff was tried was the stealing of $7,500 from Erie county on October 1. Conditiol. of CottOn. Washington, Special.-The crop estimating board of the Department of Agriculture. firxds the average con dition of eotton July 25, S2.9 com-, pared with 74.9 last year and 91.6 in 1904 and the ten year average of S2. By States. 'Virginia. 83; North Carolina, 75; South Carolina. 72; Georgia. 74; Flo -ida, 72: Alabama, 83; Mississippi, SS; Louisiana, 8S; Texas. 86: Arkansas. S9; Tennessee, SS; Missouri 95; Oklahoma. 92; In dian Territory. 83. At Negro Conference Washington, Special.-The sessions of the Negro Young People's Chris tian and Educational Conference given mainly to the reading of papers. A vote of thanks wa s accorded Rev. S. S. Lawton. of )rurge. South Carolina, who in a brief addiress counselled the tiZ thle whites anad paying more atten tian to follbwirj tae flag. Train Kills . tged Farmer. Hagersdo~wn, Md .. Special.-James Drury. aged seventy-five years .a promiinent farmuer, was 'run over and killed by a Westrnf Maryland pas senner traiu at Ciharlton Station. on the Potna ' n!!c \ d.ivti~slin. lHe was walklag on the tra ik, in a cut, to the station to t::kR' the train which strue~k him. Both D~rury' feet were cut off an.i the back of hi, head v;as crusiien. IRE SERIOUS w More Complicated Passing Day Crew of Ship Mutinied. Startling news reached here to the effect that the crew of the armored cruiser Pamyate Azova mutinied ff the Esthonion Coast ana are now in full possession of the ship, which sailed notbward in the direction of the Finish Gulf. The Captain Killed. St. Petersburg. By Cable-It is stat ed that tIie captain and four other ofli cers of the armoured cruiser Pamyate Azova were killed by the mutineers who took possession of the warship. ' is rumored that the Emepror and the imperial family have fled from Peterhof to Barskoe-Selop. Immediate Strike Ordered. London, By Cable.-A dispatch from St. Peterburg says that an extfa ordinary conference of all revolution arv bodies decided on an immediate general strike, the exact date and hour to be settled at the meeting soon. and in the meantime railways and fac tories have been ordered to prepare for future events. Fnr Officers Killed. The Associated Press is officially informed that only four officers were killed and four wounded at Cronstadt. No figures regarding the losses in rank tand file are given. Those Injured and Dead. An oicial statement of the Con stradt mutiny gives the following list of officers killed and wounded: "Naval captains Rodioneff, Dogro welsky, Schomoff, Stayanowsky; wounded, Rear Admiral Beclemscheff, Captains Krinitzki'and Paton and~En sign Maltzeff. Big Strike On. St. Petersburg, By Cable.-St. Pet ersburg is in darkness. The employes of the electric lighting plants, al ways the earliest barometric record on political conditions, ceased work in obedience to the call for a general strike. This call already has been obeyed by 2,000 factory hands in the capital. Says Dead Reach Thousands. Helsingfors, By Cable.-A soldier who came from the Sveaborg fortress during the day said the casualities from the fighting of Wednesday would be shown to number many more than 500, expressing the opin ion that the totals would run into the thousands. The garrison consisted of 6,000 men. Cheatham is Oensured. Atlanta, Ga., Special-The commit tee of five to which was commited ,the investi~zation of the charges brought by State Representative An derson against certain officers of the Southern Cotton Assoc'iation, met here. after concluding the taking of testimony. The meeting to consider the evidence and formulate the re port to President Jordlan, was held behind closed doors. The report was completed and sent to President Jor dan. and is to b~e forwvard1ed by himi. to the executive committee of the as sociation for finial aetion at the meet ing. which is to be held at Fat Springs Septemnber 6. '-ith reference to Mr. Cheatham the report says: "Mr. Cheathamn having admitted to your uommittee such dealings in the names of himself and for Michael 0O'Grady and P. A. Lee. such action on his part while an officer o fthis association meets with our strong est disapproval and condemnation. "The A. P.'' Boy Injured in Mill Jonesville, Special-William Briggs a boy about 17 years old, and an op erative in the yarn department of Jonesville Manufacturing Company was eaught in the machinery in the eard room and fatally injured. Dr. W. 0. Southard, attending physician stated that he entertained no hope for hic reco'very. Commercial Law League. Ashe-.ille. Special.-The 12th au nual convention of the Commercial Law League of America adjourned Thursday afternoon after electing the following officers: President, H. G. W. Dinkelspiel, San Francisco; first vice president. Edgar F. Brown. Sy racuse, N. Y.: second vice president, George M. Napier, Atlanta: third vic president, Henry Deuteh, Minneape lis; treasurer. WV. 0. Hart, New Or leans; recording sec'retary. WV. F. Car roll. New York. Members of execut tive committee: E. P. Allen. Minne apolis, and A. V. Cannon. Cleveland. Bound Over For Peonage. Pensacola, Fla., Specia.-An in vestigation of the alleged peonage at the Jackson Lumber Company' camp at Lockhart, Ala., by the United States commissioner was held and rec sulted in three men being held to the United States Court tria.l under heavy bond. They are Robnrt Galla gher, superintendent; WV. N. Grace and Oscar S. Sanders, employe-s of the company. Insurrection Collapses. St. Petersburg. By ('able.-Aa offi eil telegram from Heclsingfors an niounces that all the mutineers of the fortress of Sveaborgz have surrender ed and that by order of the Emperor court matrtials are being instituted for the trial of the men implicated. The Pennsylvania Railroad Corn pany announced a rednetion of the (one-way passenger rates to 2 1-2 cents a mile nud will issue transferable mileag tickets at a fiat rate of $20. SOUl CAROLINA CROPS Condition of South Carolina Crops For Week Ending Monday, July 30, 1906, as Given Out by the De partmerit. Like the preceding one. the current week has had an excess of cloudiness and a markel d1-tieenev yn sunshine, al;houigh in parts of the Stwte there were one or two clear days. The temperatures were unseason ably low during most. of the week. The daily maximum temperatures were generally between 82 and SS de grees except on one, and in places two days when they rose to 90 degrees, or above, over practically the entire State. The highest maximum temper ature was 9S degrees at Blackville on the 27th and the lowest minimum tem perature was 60 degrees at Bowman on the 26th. The average tempera ture for the week was about four de grees below normal. There were frequent and sone heavy showers during the week. The rainfall was quite evenly distributed and was generally in excess of the week's normal amount in all parts of the State. A few localities only had less than the normal rainfall. The soil everywhere is saturated. Low lands and swamps have much surface water on them. Except over small areas in the western and north central counties where the week's rainfall was less than an inch, the weekly amount ranged from one inch to over five inches, with a maxi mum amount of 5.46 inches at Clem son College. Destructive hailstorms occurrd in a few of the western and central coun ties, and high winds, accompanying thunderstorms did much damage lo cally in the central counties. Eeunion at Saluda. Saluda, Special.-On July 28, 1896, the cornerstone of the court house for Saluda county was laid here and Sat urday marked the tenth anniversary of that event. The day has been regularly celebrated, sometimes in one way, sometimes in another. Saturday there was a reunion of the old soldiers of the county and this, together with the sessions of the district conference, brought a large crowd to this town. The number of those who followed Lee and Jackson and Hampton and Butler in the dark days are growing fewer each year. There were about a hundred here Saturday and they were made to enjoy themselves. The town was turned over to them. Kind nesses were shown them. They were in fact made much of by their sons and daughters who cherish their glor ious deeds of valor on the field of ba tie as a rich heritage and whose en1 slee.ves and missing limbs are regard das badges of highest honor. The veterans, with Larkin Rice, a private in Company K, Fourteenth Southi Carolina regiment, in command, were formed in a line on the public square, where addresses on the incidents of the war were made bv Veterans W. S. Wightman, B. F. Sample. Sr., and athers. A free barbecue dinner was ~ervedl to every- veteran present. This they enjoyed to their heart's conten~t. In the afternoon they gathered1 in aluads uder the shade of the oaks and "fought all their battles o'er.'' 25 Men Engaged in a Terrible Fight. Greenville, Special.-Ed. and Joe Mfanning, young white men living near Lowndesville, in Abbeville county, went aeross the Savannah river into Elberton county, Georgia. Sunday to a negro baseball game. Three negroes were killed, but no one seems to know just how the fight be un. Ed. Manning was shot and will iie. Pistols and ball bats were used as -weapons and 25 men, white and black, fought for half an hour like emons. Chester Farmer's Institute. Chester, Special.-Farmiers in the eastern part of the county have for the past several days manifested a lively interest in the holding of a Farmers' Institute. They have comn pletedl arrangements for one to be held at Richburg, August 1. The speakers will include Professors Mor rnson, Shanklin and sowe other mem bers of the faculty of Cl emson col lege. The sturdy farners of that sec tion believe they can ..et hetter results from oceasions like this than, can be realized by running wild over a politi eal campaign. Minister Dies Suddenly. Greenville. Special.-Rev. J. L. Vass, a Baptist minister of this eity, after filling an appointment at a coun ry churchi Sunday. went to the home otf a frienid to spend the night. and died suddenly about midnight. Hie was a man of considerahle p~rominence in church circles and has a son who holds a professorship in Furman Unitversity. Change of Date. Gov. Hleyward has issued an an nouncement of a changee in the date for the special meeting of the trus tees of the negro college at Orange butrg. set f~or August 17. The new date. arrangzed to suit the convenienc'e of severa lW members of t he board who eould not otheCrwise attend the meet, is Aturis! 29. At 1t1is meet: ng some thin: de:in ite,. will be done a nout the p;re-sidhnlr, wh~ich T. E. M.iUkr has Injured by Explosion. Chester, Speial.-Albert Sample, the -year-old son of Mr. S. N. Sam p'le of the Nicholson hotel, was seri rusly injured by an explosiomn in the! rooms of a bottling establishment Fri dlay. He was taken to a Charlot te hospital for treatment, but it is fear ed that the sight of one of his eyes is seriously and perhaps permanantly PALMJ10 AFFAIRS Occurrences of Interest from All Over South Carolina MANY ITEMS OF STATE NEWS A Batch of Live Paragraphs Cover ing a Wide Range-What is Going On in Our State. General Cotton Market, Galveston, quiet...... .. .. ..10 7-8 1 New Orleans. quiet.. .. .. ....10 5 Mobile, nominal.. .. .. ....10 7-16 Savannah. quiet and steady..10 9-16 Norfolk, steady.. ........11 1-16 Baltimore. nominal.. ......11 1-S New York. quiet.. ........10.90 Boston. steady .. .. .. .. ....10.90 Philadelphia. quiet.. .. .. ....11.15 Houston, steady.. ........10 :3-4 Augusta. quiet.. .. ............ Memphis. quiet.. ..........10 3-4 St. Louis. quiet.. ..........10 7-S Louisville. firm.. .... .. .. ....11 Charlotte Cotton Market. These prices represent the prices paid to wagons: Good middling.. ..........111-4 Strict middling... .. .. .. ... 1-1-4 Middlin.. .. .. .. .... .. 1114 Good middling tinged . . ........11 Stains......... . .. .. ....9@10 White Man Kills a Negro. Yorkville, Special.-Mr. W. J. Whitner, superintendent of Glenn and Allison's at Fishing creek, killed Minge Armstrong, colored. The ne gro came late to work and Mr. Whit ner asked him the cause, wben he threw a shovel of dirt on Mr. Whit ner, who asked the meaning of that. The negio then attempted to strike him w'th a shovel and Whitner went towards his house, the negro follow ing. Whitner and his little brother held the door to keep the negro out and the negro tried to break down the door. Whitner got his shotgun and went around the house and ask ed the negro what he meant. He then advanced on Whitner with the shovel drawn. After being told to stop he kept on coming and Whitner shot him in the neck, killing him. For New Railroad. Anderson. Special.-A meeting will be held at Townville on the 10th of August in the interest of the proposed railroad from Westminister to Town ville. The campaign meeting, which had been arranged by the county ex ecutive committee for the 8th of Au gust at Townville was cancelled at the regigest of the people of that sec tion. They hvant a railroad and other enterprises that will help to build up their fine country. Solicitor Julius E. Boggs and Capt. H. H. Wat kins of this city will make address~es on that occasion in the interest of the road. Items of State News. A number of letters have been re elved by Gov. Heyward,. commending him for his course in the matter of comimuting the sentence of Bob Small, the young white man in Djar lington who killed a negro. Three years ago last June Pink W. Hutto of Norway eame to Columbia, surrendered himself to the pentiten tiary authorities and commenced to serve a sentence of three years on the charge of killing his own brother. He is now appealing to Gov. Heyward to restore his citizenship. Hutto at the ime that he surrendered himself de lared that lie had to kill his brother to protect himself and his own fam ilv. that his brother was blind drunk and was a dangerous man. Stamp Clerk Appointed. Greenville, Special.-Mr-. R. G. Me Pherson has been appointed stamp) cerk at the Greenyille factory of the Amedean Tobacco company. Hereto fore the stamps used by this branch have been cancelled at the Columbia office of the internal revenue collector but oa account of the growth of the business it is neceessary to bave a stamp elerk at the factory. The ap pointment was made by Collector Miah Jenkins. Mr. McPherson is a well known business man. Must Give Correct List. New York. Special.-An order di recting the Mutual Life to show cause why a writ of Mandamus should not be issued demanding it to file a ror ret lis.t of policyholders, was issued by .Just ice Giegerich in the Supreme Court. The order was issued upon the applicatiou of Col. Shook of Ten nessee through counsel for the Inter nal Polievholders Committee. Value of Mills. Greenville. Special.-The state boa rd of equalization in Columbia has assessed the value of cotton mill prop)ert ies in SoutIh Carolina at $46. 000,000. In 19)05 t he raluatio'n wa $41.00.000, showing uan Iincrease of live mijllions in one year. Of the .$15. 100.000 valuation. $1 0.001)000 is in ie thlree (cOm :lies of Greenvillhe. Spair :i''nur and Amie rson. The State o ardl pas~td a resoldution fixbrz' the' basis~ of mill assssimemnits at h0pe cenIt. White Man Hanged. Charleston. Special.-William Mar us, the first white man executed in Charleston county since the civil war, was hanged for the murder of his bigamous wife on Sullivan's Islan l last April. The victim was stabbed - forty times with an ice pick. Marcus had a wife and five children living in Money in Good Roads. In his report describing the won ders of the achievement of the American farmer the Seeci-c:ary Of Agriculture does not fail to speak a word of hearty commendation for the attempts that have been made, in a few localities, to improve the condi tion of American roads. In no other thing are the people of this country so far behind those of Europe as in character of the public highways. Of course, we have greater ditances to cover than other civilized peoples; in many cases the population is not so dense, and then all Europe has the advantage of us in having had centu riesin which to work at this busi ness. But, whatever the reason may be, the incontestible fact is that our country roads, even in the most thickly settled and the most prosper ous districts of this land, are usually no better than they were sixty, and not improbably a hundred years ago. There is many a road in England upon which a man may not find a loose stone as big as his thumb in the distance of a mile. No doubt we have been laggards in this important matter, because railroad building be gan and developed with marvellous rapidity before Americans had money enough and a fair chance to engage under proper conditions in the construction and repair of ordin ary roads and the rapidity, ease and cheapness of travel and 'freightage by rail helped to obscure, and per haps to diminish, the seriousness of the injuries Inflicted by the insAffi clency of the wagon roads. But it will be plain enough to anybody whc shall take the trouble to look into the matter that good roads, made ac cording to the best modern methods, have a large cash value to any com munity that is compelled 'to use them. The matter of convenience and agreeableness cannot be ignored, but the money view is likely always to be the more impressive to the or dinary man. A bad road represents loss to the people who have to keel it in repair, to the persons who use it for hauling purposes, and to the community generally.-Philadelphia North American. Sand-Clay Roads. A coating of sand on a clay road s a good thing, but the more this sand inclines to gravel the better. Good gravel would be far superior. The exact amount of sand to use wil generally have to be defermined b3 experiment in each locality. Apply the sand when the road is wet bul not rutted. It will not be of much value till it becomes mixed with thE lay and thus forms a sort of arti icial hard pan. On the other hand f sand is applied to hard clay it wil be a positive nuisance until we1 weather comes and allows it to be :ome mixed with the clay. It i: nly suitable for roads of compara ively light traffic. Ciay on sand usually gives better re suIts than sand on clay on accoun1 f the excellent natural drainage af forded by the sand foundation. I1 should be applied .in a layer about sia inches deep, well harrowed, smoothei off with a grader, and roiled till hard nd smooth. After the rolling, fron ne to two inches of sand from th< sides should be uniformiy spread over the road by use of a road grader. Clay thus applied will no1 have reached its best stage unti mixed with the sand. Neither sand on clay nor clay or sand should be japplied till the bec ias been properly graded and shapec for a permanent road. Repairs to this class of road wil consist in maintaining the drains anc culverts in good condition 'and ap plying such material to the surfaci as was originally used to build th4 road. Care chould be taken in ap plying this new material when fillinj ruts to see that It Is properly 1ev elled. If very much new material is added it is better to harrow and rol again. War on.Dust. For siome time past extensive ex periments have been conducted ii Europe, and more especially I1 France, In an endeavor to ascertaix the most practical and economica method of preventing dust being raised from streets and roadways Three processes have been given ex haustive trials-oiling, watering witi deliquescent salts, and tarring. Thi most successful of the experiment! were those made with coal-tar, th4 cost of this application, in France amounting to about 2.5 cents pe: square yard, but this cost is reduce to a much smaller figure when it i: considered that the application save! wear upon the roadbed amounting t( at least 2 cents per square yard pe: annum. Chloride of calcium worke< fairly well, except for the opthalmii effect upon the eyes of those usin~ the roads. The use of tar or oil upon the road! of the United States, except in a ver few localities, would not be possible most of the highways being sof dirt" roads. To be of any practica benefit the road to which the oi of tar is applied must be well built smooth, and hard. A macadamlize( road with the tar coating gives cx cellent results.-Harpe'r's Weokly It is r:-ported that the consu;Mp tion of horse ii'eat in Neuremlbu-i where a few years ago it was quite insignificant, h'as now increased s< greatly that the facilities for hors4 slaughtering at the municipal abat toir have become insufficient, and th4 city council has been obliged to con sider the construction of a new abat teir for horses, the cost of which estimated at $43,000. - A number of the local dramatic c itics, to gailn practical experience are occupying the stage at the prin cipal theater in Tokio. Large audi enees watch their histriouiC efforts 8OUTHEIN '- f 4 T0PICS OF INTEREST TO THE PLANT Apple Culture. At first glance this subject May not seem worthy of especial con sideration. We are inclined to think that apples grow so plentifully and easily that they do not need very much attention. But there are apples and apples. There are mil lions of very poor apples put on the market every year. They are poor for several reasons. The variety is not good, the soil was not prepared, the culture was lacking, and insects have put in their work. Diseases of various kinds have injured the flesh, the flavor and the looks of these apples. Some one set the tree or it came up by accident and con tinues to cumber the ground. The truth is that a first-class apple is scarce and quite expensive. This should not be so. Apples keep well and can be shipped with safety over long distances. It costs the same to get a barrel to hold poor fruit as to hold good fruit. The freight is the same, the time re quired to handle them is the same, and a poor tree takes as much room in the orchard and draws as much nourishment from the soil as a choice tree. When we plant an apple orchard, we should select the choicest apples that will grow in our section. If we do not know, we should consult a reliable nurseryman. In almost every part of the country there are gbod apples that are especially suited to that section. These local varieties are often superior in flavor and flesh to any of the highest brands. To illustrate this point, we call attention to the fact that while Georgia is not considered an apple growing State, there are several varieties, .developed locally from ac cidental seedlings now growing in Georgia, that are not surpassed in flavor of flesh or keeping quality by any apple that comes into the Atlanta market. Several of the choicest apples that do well up North will not pay to plant down South. A fine Northern fall apple becomes a poor summer apple down South, and a good winter variety becomes a failure by ripen ing in the fall. The difference in the length of the seasons is an im portant factor. Having selected your trees and your soil, you will greatly improve your chances, for success by using dynamite to blow the holes for set ting, instead of digging in the usual way. It is cheaper and better. Use two and a half feet of fuse and four ounce cartridges, and you will have a hole pulverized about four feet deep and five feet across. Put in your trees and fill in with nice rich earth, and the tree will grow 'off more rapidly and live longer and bear more and finer fruit. As potash greatly helps the trees to be healthy, and improves the flavor and color of the fruit, it should be used freely around the roots of the trees. In cultivation be careful that the single-trees do not strike the trees and skin them. Plant the orchard in peas or cotton or clover, and use potash and phosphate freely upon these crops. Plow deep while the trees are small, and shallow after they have grown large. Avoid break lug the roots as much as possible. As the roots will run through all the ground between the rows search lug for food and water, it will be profitable to see that they do not strike poor soil. Use such manure and fertilizers as will feed them freely. Peas and clover will furnish the nitrogen, and if you will supply the phosphate and potash, you will have full crops of well grown and highly flavored and beautifully col ored fruit.* Spray freely, beginning before they bloom and repeating until the fruit begins to color for ripening. For the fungus diseases use the cop per mixtures, and for insects use kerosene and paris green. A little space and time and intelli gence. will enable every family to h'ave apples almost the year round. Apples are cheaper than doctors' bills and more profitable than peaches. Plant them in the yards, plant them along the roads, plant them between the pecans.-J. B. Hunnicutt, in Southern . Fruit Grower. 'Chufas For Hogs. Allow me to subm.it a few obser vations on pork raising in the South. I assume first that there is a good breed or- grade of hogs as a basis to begin with, also pasturage, such as rye, bermuda grass or vetches, to tide through the spring months. Next I would have a lot of oats as a grain ration to begin with about July 1. Next soy beans planted early, as a close follower, which Current Eappenings. A woman, whose identity is con cealed is a new witness for the pro secution in the Thaw case. At Governor Ide's request troops have been sent to put down the Pul ajane risilng in Leyte. P. IL More arrests are promised in the Hartje dilvorce case andl it is said more strailin~r revehitions than any vet made may be ecl)(ted. The funeral of Russell Sage was held at First Presbyterian Church. Far Rockaway. Long Island. Leader Charles F. Murphy states Tamimany may support William R. Hearst for Geyernor. C'harles }Thimm returned from abroad with a large batch of new plays. Nine persons are believed to be dead and seven seriously injured as a :-esult of a Great Northern's train going into Diamond Lake, in the State A RM ]V OTES. ER. ST OCKMAN AND TRUCK GRC WER come in in August: cow-peas for Septermber and October'. Then chu fas, which will also come in in Oc tober and last throughout the winter if the supply is. not exhausted ear lier. In addition to these, I would feed liberally every evening a ration of wheat bran or wheat middlings, or the two mixed together. With this rotation or system, one should produce good pork in abun dance at a cost of less than five cents per pound; Spanish peanuts might be substituted with profit for soy-beans and cow-peas, or better still, come in as a link connecting the two. These crops are not only valuable as hog food, but are le gumes, except .the oat and perhaps the chufa, all easily grown and very valuable as nitrogen-gatherers, ha mus-suppliers, etc., feeding well both the pig and the land. Of these several crops I regard the chufa the most valuable, as it is easily grown, grows, well bn their soil, and Ws adopted-td any s~il that produces swekt potatoIes we'll. On good sandy loam it grows to perfec tion. An acre of such land in chufas, I am sure, equals a bale of eotton or fifty bushels of corn, and the pig pays for the picking (no small item). I have fattened (with good hogs to begin with) more than one thousand pounds of pork per acre on chufas alone of the best quality, with the exception of about ten days' feeding of corn Just previous to slaughtering. Otherwiso the meat would have been a little sofe and oily. I have -had about twenty years' experience in" growing-' the chufa, hence I believe I know something of its value. As a winter feed for brood sows and pigs, I know of noth ing better or half so cheap, as they remain in the ground all winter without serious hurt, with no pro tection except their own tops. I now have a lot of pigs and sleek-made so by the run of the patch from which my pork was nicely fattened. As a health food, nothing I have ever tried equals it. In all my ex perience I have never had a sick hog in the chufa patch, and the per centage of diseased or lumpy livers were scarcely noticeable. I am of the opinion that a chemist might ex tract from the chufa a medicine highly valuable to the human fam ily.-H. C. D.A Moore. County, .N. C.. in the Progressive Farmer. From a Six-Acre Farm. G. W. Baker, who owns four acres of land in the suburbs of Gaffney, last year rented two acres from a neighbor and went to work and from these six acres, after supplying his rather large family bountifully. from - his farm,. he sold from one and two third acres 340 bushels of sweet po tatoes for $272. From two acres of land in cotton he sold $98 worth, and from his snap bean patch he sold $35 worth -of beans, making - a total of $415 in cash received for .the surplus products made on this small farm. Besides this above Mr. Baker made fifty bushels of corn and killed 500G pounds cof pork, which he grew at home and fattened with the products of his farm. During last year Mr. Baker worked muchi away from hpme. Among other things he earned enough by work to pay for a one-horse wagon and mule, with which he made his crop. We had of ten heard about Mr. Baker's crop, and a few days ago we asked him about it. The above facts were ob tainied from him, and no one who knows him will doubt any statement he makes about his work or anything else.-Cherokee (S. C.) News. How to Cure Hay. W. J. Spillman, agrostologist of. the Department of Agriculture, gives a careful account of a very useful method of curing hay. "Harvesting on this far~m is avery interesting pro cess," says Mr. Spillman.. - "The method of curing is as follows: "The grass is cut in the afternc.on. The 'first night's dew never hurts it. Let it lie the next day until noon. It is then put Into curing cocks, whica are made 'to lie fiat. These cocks are upset the next morning, and in the afternoon four of them are made into ore weathering cock. Let it stand thus for oine day; then haul to the barn or rick." As there are many persons these days'who areturning to farming with little or no experience, the explicit directions given by Mr. Spillman will doubtless prove most valuable, al though, of course, they may require some modification with varying con ditions of weather and quality of hay. When a man really has the robe of righteousness he Is not afraid to let it touch his neighbor, Items of Interest. Queen Wilhelmina disappointed the Hollanders regarding an heir to the throne. Secretary Root was elected an hon orary presidenit of the Pan-American Cogress at: Rio Janeiro. The American Institute of Mining Engineers and the British Iron and Steel Institute are meeting in joint sesson in London. C'ol. A. M. Shook, of Teinnessee. de elares the Mutual Life should h~ava an1 entirely new maniaeent~ if the interests of the policy holders are to be proteted, and calls the "con script'' fashion of securing~ trustees unprecedented. Premier Stolypin, of Russia, not iied all governors-general that it is to be war to the knife with the re volut ion. Drunken Conssacks started an anti Jewish a?gitation in Odessa. several Jews beitg killed and many t.hrown