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PALMEHO AffAIRS Occurrences of Interest from AD Over South Carolina 7MANY ITZiiS OF STATE NEWS A Batch of Live Paragraphs Cover ing a Wide Range--What is Gong On in Our State. Columbia Cotton Market. Columbia Sept. 10-The cotton ma: ket was steady. New crop cotton: LmV middling.. .. .. ....... ..7 1-2 Strict low middling.. .... .. -.S iMiddlitg.. .. .. .. ......... Middling.. .........--..S 1-2 Strict middling.. ..... .. ...S 3-4 4Good middling.. ........ ..9 Charlotte Produce Market. Chickens-Spring.. .. ....12 to 25 Hens-per head .. .. ...... ..3. Ducks.. ................ 23 Eggs.... .. .... ........21 to 22 R ve.. .. -. .. .: -- -- -.... 0 . Corn... .... .. .. .. .......73 to 75 Cotton Sped.. ..- -. .... -2 Oates-Feed .. .. .. .. 47 1-2 to 50. Oates-Seed.. .. .. .. ..55 to .u7 1-2 Baltimore Produce Market. Baltimore. Md., Sept. 10.-Flour dufl. unjchanged. Wheat: Weak; spot con-:ract 69 7-8 t ): Southern, by sample, 30 to 66. Weak: spot 54 1-2 to 3-5; Sonimern white 58 to 59. Oats: Barely steady; No. 2 mixed 34 1-2 to 35. Ilye: Finn; No. 2 Western 63 to 64. Butier: Steady and unchanged; fancy imitation 20 to 21; do creamery 2.5 to 26; do ladle IS to 20; store packed 15 to 16. Eggs: Firm, 23. Cheese: Active and unchanged, 13 to 13 1-2. Negro 102 Years Old Attempts Maur der. St. George, Special.-Magistrate J. W. Cummings of Harleyville, commit ted to jail Friday Caesar Sheppard, colored, aged 102 years, charged with attempts and threats to kill Mr. J. W. Infinger a respectable white citi zen of the Harleyville section of this county. This old negro has already served five terms in the penitentiary for various offenses, including hog stealing. He has already expressed a willingness to be sent to the peniten tiary, and upon his return each time expresses himself as being highly pleased with'his trip, and on his way to jail Friday he told the constable in whose buggy he was riding, to .please drive a little faster as he was anxious to get there, and that on his last trip he was made a (trustee) "trusty'' at Clemson college, where lhe cooked and waited on the "boys." Young Lady Accidentally Shot. Greenville, Special.-Miss Lucile. Hladdon, a beautiful young woman about 19 years of ag~e, daughter of Mrs. Sarah E. Haddon, met death in a most shocking and tragie manner early Thursday afternoon. She was shot through the heart by the acci dental discharge of a pisr~ol which evidently fell to the floor while she - was removing several articles of <-lothing from a trunk. Miss Haddon * had only a few minutes befo::e return ed from shopping and while out she bought a bottle of gasoline to cleaen a skirt. She went io her .room and a fewv mo'mems lates the report of a pisiol wvas heard. When the mem b)ers of 'the family reached the room he youngr woman was lying on the floor gasping for breath. She never spoke. Advertising Columbia. Seeretarv of the Chamber of Com merce E. B. Clark has received so many applications for the "Condens ed Facts About Columbia,'' which the chamber has been issuing, that about 2.000 copies have been distrib uted. The distribution has not been broadcast in a worthless sense, but has covered ten States and the pam phlets have been sent to bona-fide in qunirers. The next advertising book 'Columbia as a Tourist Hotel Re sort,' has been prepared and will be -issued shortly. Death of Mr. Parrotb. Scranton. Special.-Mr. B. Parrott died Tuesday at his home, a few miles from town after several days' illness. He was abouit 73- years of age, and servedl faithfully in the War Between the Sections. The remains v-ere buri ed at High Hill oemetery with Mason ic rites. A widow and several child. ren survire mmn. New Enterprises. A c'harter was issued to the Madi son Lumber company of Madison, Oconee county, the capitalization to be $5.000. P. P. Sullivan is president and ireasurer and J. S. Rice, manager. A commrnission was issued to the cor porators of the Garren Electric comn pany ot Coinmbia, canitalization to be $10.008. T!:5e interested are Luther -Gnurren. 1-. R. Brooks. .Jr., and S. T. Catert. A\ chaZrmy we iSued1 to the MceCor-! iem and Lumb w~. ~e~V comany S. Faurn'e"n" h.E Lgn The Scot Lam-itr (omnanu'. *r 000. was gives :r r. Alex Seout mi~ Georg Lu=4.:li v-zsurer. SOUTH CAROLINA CROPS Condition of South Carolina Crops For Week Ending Monday, Sept. 3, 1906, as Given Out by tha De partment. Early in the week the weather was .eierally cloudy and sultry, but the last three days had ample sunshine. The mean temperature was aoove normal, although there was no exces sive heat. The nights were compara tively cool during the middle of thd week, but were again hot as the week ended. The State range of tempera ture was from a minimum of 60 de grees at Liberty and Walhalla on August 28th, maximum of 94 degrees at Blackville, Bowman and Summer ville on August 31st. The tempera ture conditions were quite favorable. Excessive precipitation was noted early in the week at widely separated places, with the heaviest rainfall in the northwest and north central coun ties, while the central counties had the lightest rainfall. Heavy local rains fell in Abbeville, Orangeburg, Pickens, Spartanburg, York and Union counties; Calhoun Falls re ceived 6.64 inches, Bowman 5.61 in ches, Liberty 3.54 inches, Spartan burg 6.52 inches, Yorkville 4.31 in ches. Rock Hill 5.38 inches, Santuc 3.32 inches. These heavy rains covei ed comparatively small areas and fhe average precipitation was below nor mal, although the soil continues to have apiple moisture in all parts of the State. Cotton Damage in York. Rock Hill, Special.-There. is no doubt of the fact that the cotton crop in this section has been greatly dam aged by the excessive rains for the past week. The wet weather is eaus rig the green bolls to rot. pecil.ly those that are beginning to open. As soon- as the bolls begin to crack open they turn black and great quantities of them are dropping off. Mr. W. S. Thomasson, who lives near the city, was showing a number of full de veloped and matured bolls on the streets that he took from his field. They had turned black and would have dropped off the stalk in a few more days. Mr. Thomasson reports that his entire crop is affected in this same way and the same reports come from all other sections of the country. Dies For Want of Medical Aid. Anderson, Special.-Baxter Hayes, the little boy who was refused medi cal attention by his parents on the ground that they could cure thir son by divine healing, died here. The case has excited great indignation in the city. Hayes is an itienerant preacher. He believes in the doctrine of faith cure. He refused to let a physician attend the suffering boy, seeking to save him by means of prayer. The statute law provides no remedy for cases of this kind, but prosecutions will probably follow, as it is believed that the common law provides ade quate punishment under the general head of "neglect and illegal treat ment.'' Two White Men Arrested. Lau rens, Special-Will Kern and Jule Gillespie of Youngs township were landed in jail on a warrant sworn out by Mr. Sam Burnett, also of Youngs. charging the two men with grand lareeny. Both the ace-us ed men are white and they are charg ed with stealing a mule and a buggv' from Mr. Barnett in the upper part of the county. last Sunday nigtht. dlur inz services. The men and team were captured near Hendersonville by a party of fox hunters. It is saiid that Kern and Gillespie showed fight when caught up with andi some shots were fired. The sheriff was with the fox hunters atnd took charge of the men. who were brought to Laureuis. Hon. R. E. Allison Dead. Lancaster, Special.-Hon. R. E. Allison. the eldest member of the Lan easter bar, died at his residence at this place. Mr. Allison was one of the ablest civil lawyers in the State. He was born in York county. hut has lived in Lancaster since 1356. He was a member of the legislature for sev eral terms in the 80's. -He was a consistent member of the Methodist chui-ch, living up to his profession, and was active in church work most of his life. He was highly esteemed by all who knew him andl will be greatly missed. He was 76 years of age. Negro Ground to Pulp. -Spartanburg. Special.--Elbert Ro land, a negro fr-onm Roebuck, was run over by a shifting zngine in the (Ch1arleston and Western Carolina railroad yards here and was litrally grolund~ to pieces., The man was mu-I tilated in such a manner as to make it a hard job to colleet his remains. He was gro indlt beyond~ r*eogn~it ion as a human being and resem'bled a mass of sausage meat. Drowned in Catawba. Fort Mill, S. C., Special.-Joseph 'Vaca. a Spaniard working at the Charlotte Briek Company's plant, was drowned in the Catawba river there. He was sitting on a limb over the wvater fishing when the limb broke and precipitated him into the water. He was unable to swim. Four Ger mans were near in a boat and tried to rescue him, but his body has not been recovere.d vet. Negro Shot and Killed. Greenvile. Special.-Jim Blassin tame was shot and killed hy Tom Whitmire at the Southern passenger station in the heart of the city. Both negroes wer eimplo'.es of the South ern. Whitemire who was a cook for a train crew iade his escape after the shooting. The figzht was over a diiSreputable white woman. The au thor-ities are now in search of Whit ARRESTS ARE MADE Developments in Connection With Trust Company Wreck PROSECUTIONS WILL FOLLOW Promoter Segal and Two Officials of Wrecked Real Estate Trust Com Pany, Treasurer North and As sistant Treasurer Colliniwood At sistant Treasurer Collinwood to 3e Arrested, States District At torney. Philadelphia, Pa., Special.-District Attorney Bell is authority for the statement that warrants were prepar ed for the arrest of William F. North treasurer of the Real Estate Trust Company; M. S. Collingwood, assis tant treasurer, and Adolf Segal, on charges of conspiring with Frank K. Hipple, the suicide president of the institution, to loot its treasury. Se gal is the promoter who borrowed more than $5,000,000 from the bank on flimsy collateral to finance his en terprises. Horace Hill, the aged au ditor, will not be arrested. He is 75 years old and broken in health. The district attorney says he was a figure head and a tool used by the looters. Public interest in the investigation of the defunct bank's affairs now cen ters in the warrants which District Attorney Bell says will be issued for the arrest of the men implicated with Frank K. Hipple, the suicide president, in looting and wrecking the institution. Abundant evidence of the culpability of others besides the dead president has been obtained, the dis trict attorney says. Two of the most prominent figures in the investigation appeared before District Attorney Bell and were Wil liam F. North, treasurer of the trust company, and Horace Hill, the audi tor. Mr. Hill, who is an aged man, was on the verge of collapse when ha arrived at the bank and nervously in quired of the newspaper reporters as sembled outside as to why the district attornev should send for him. Neither he nor Treasurer North would consent to be .interviewed. - Receiver Earle announced that Adolph Segal, the pro moter, whose extensive borrow es were mainly responsible for the fail ure of the trust company, had turned over his entire interest in the Penn sylvania Sugar Refinery. The plant is heavily encumbered, however, and Segal 's interest will be of little bene fit to- the depositors. The investigation of Receiver Earle and District Attorney Bell has estab lished the fact that President Hipple was a partner with Segal in a num ber of the latter's enterprises, and that F. Wharton Hipple, his son, a clerk in the bank, was the "dummy'' for his father. Suit Over Ostrich Farm.* Asheville, N. C., Special-Suit was doeketed in Superior Court Saturday entitled Karl von Ruck vs. the Ashe ville Street Railroad Company, J. E. Rankin and H. W. Plummer. Mer riek & Parnard and Merrimon & Mer rimon, ae-cording to the summons docket, represent the plaintiff. The suit has to do with the ostrich farm that was once located in Asheville and which proved a dismal failure. While the complaint in the cause !has not yet been filed and although the attorneys representing the litigants are reticent on the subject it is said that damages in the sum of $20.000 or $25,000 will be demanded. New York Prohibitionists Meet. Binghampton, N. T., Special-The State convention of the Prohibition ists of New York will open at the Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal church here. It will be called to or der by Chairman J. H. Durkee, of Rochester, and Mr. Homer L. Castner. who made a remarkably good run as candidat~e for Governor in Pennsyl vania and whom the Prohibitionists of that State expect to elect this year will be the prmecipal speaker. A full ticket will probably be nominat ed. - Found Dead in Room. Halifax, N. S., Special-A man reg istered as "J. Jones,'' United States, and who is thought to be from Rich mond. Va.. was found dead in his room at the Halifax Hotel with a bullet in his head and a revolver clutched tight in his right hand. Medical examiners report the case suicide. The man has been at the hotel for two weeks. He was about 40 years of age. Savannah Labor Day. Savannah, Ga.. Special.-An added interest was given the Labor Day celebration in Savannah by the pre sence of several hundred delegates to the annual convention of the United National Association of Post Office Clerks. The .convention held a brief i"on to formally organize and then mit the ,k;e::tes mo ;riew the :.,de andt enjoy the Labor Day yes tivites. N~o General of Society Yet. Rome. Italy. By Cable.-Delegates from the Jesuit order throughout the world. assembled here for the purpose of selecting a general of the Society of .fesiu.. in succession to Father Martin, deceased. took a number of ballots, but so far without result. The Pope, it is statedl. is using his influence for the elevation of Father Fre-dA, an Talian, to the office. 10 ENFORCE FOOD LAW Bureau of Chemistry Plans Incirease of Its Laboratory Facilities at Chief Ports-No Money Yet Avail able. Washington. Speci..-As the result of the new pure food law. whih goes into effect .Janiiary 1 next. the De partment of Agriculture is making preparations for the increased labor and equipment involved in its en forcement. The working forces and the appliances of the laboratories at' Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore and New Orleans will be largely increased, while at the ports of New York and Boston there will be erected new lab oratories in which to conduct the necessary examinations of all food products coming into this country. Plans for these latter buildings have been approved by Dr. Wiley. chief of the Burcait of Chemistry, and See retarv Wilson doubtless will coincide with the ideas of Dr. Wiley. There is no money available for the con struction of these buildings, but the Secretary of Agriculture has been as sured that it will be forthcoming at the next session of Congress. Furthermore. assurances have been given that the money necessary to ex ecute the pure food law, through the employment of inspectors, and the necessary clerical force, will be pro vided. Stensland Tells of Looting. Chicago, Special.-A dispatch to The Tribune from Tangier says: Stensland's confession clears up much of the mystery surrounding the ev ents leading up to the crash which involved the ruin of the Milwaukee Avenue Bank. He took much of the blame upon himself, but -leclared that Cashier Hering was a forger and that Hering got most of the money. He exonorated his son, Theodore, .id the bank directors. He pronounced it a lie that he had spent the noney on Leone Langdon Key or any other wo man. He deplared he never spent r-re than $5,000 a year himself. ands that all the money he stole he put into real estate or investments in the hope of "making good" before leav ing Chicago. He hesitated some time between suicide. and flight. Nab Mexican Revolutionists. Tuezon, Ariz., Special.-Collis Humbert, a Frenchman, and Leonardo Villareal and Bruno Trevino, Mexi cans, were arrested at Mowdy and Patagonia minig camps, where mainy miners are employed. The a rresv were made by Immigration Inspaesor Murphy and Rangers Olds and Clark. It is charged that the men are agita, tors who were attempting to organ ize a force of Mexican miners to at tack Nogales, Sonora. Letters found on the prisoners show that their plans were direced by Mexican revolution ist leaders at St. Louis. The letters also indicated that the revolutionists have organizations in 40 diries and that they will become active as soon as they cean secure arms. The sileg ed agitators are in jail at Nogales, Ariz. Bryan to Visit 'chicago. Chicago. Ill., Special.-Final ar rangements for the reception of Mr. Bryan have. been completed at a joint meeting of representatives of the Iro quois and .Jefferson Clubs. Mr. Bryani is expected to arrive at S8:30. At noon he will be the guest of the Iroquois Club at luncheon and is 6xpected to make a short address. In tihe even ing lie will attend the banquet of the Jefferson Club where his principal ad dress will be deliverred. Fatal Explosion. London. By Cable.-Four men were killed and eight seriously injured by an explosion on the Russian armored cruiser Rurik, building at Vickesrs Maxims Works at Barrow. The acci dent was attributed to contact of a lighted naptha. amp with inflammable gases in the tank where the men were working.. Minnesota State Fair. Minneapolis, Minn., Special.-The Minnesota State Fair opened with a satisfactory crowd for the first day. The exhibits in the agricultural, hor tiultural, manufactures and other departments are of the finest, and in the stock department the pens are rowded with prize-winning animals. An excellent race track, large strings of horses and purses aggregating as much as is usually offered for a grand iruit meeting insures excellent en tertainment during the week. .Good Roads Convention. Chillicothe. Mo.,Special--Many dele gates arc attending the Inter-state Good Roads Convention which opened here. Practical demonstrations in good road making were the feature of the opeing day. Governor Folk, Sen ator Stone and President Jesse of the Smnte iversity was sIated to ad dress the conve:1tion later in the week. Tobacco Exposition. New York. Special-Secretary Taft has sent a letter to the management of the Tobacco Exposition now in progres. in which he wrote that it should ;e shown "to the members of the trade at the exposition what I think can esainly be showni that the passage of a proper Philippine tariff bill wvill not in substantial way in terere with the tobacco trade in the ~GOOD @ ROADS. Congressional Interest in Roads. The closing hours of Congress were enlivened by a number of good roads speeches. in the course of which the necessity for government aid in improving the public high ways was brought out in no uncer Lain manner, writer the Washington correspondent of Automobile. Rep resentative Bankhead. of Alabama, in a very able address. declared that to his mind the condition of the wagon roads, over which ninety per cent. of- all the commerce of the country is transported, presented a problem for legislation by Congress far more serious and Important in its results than that of railroad reg ulation. There Is no necessity, he said, for making an argument to prove the value of good roads. They save worry, wasto and energy. They economize time, and labor and mon ey, and enhance the value of prop erty. Hb pointed out that it has been estimated that every time the sun sets the American farmers have lost $1,500,000 because of the condi tion of the roads. Representative Bankhead produced a set of figures, showing the cost of hauling per ton, horse power, over dirt roads five miles, was $1.25, and that sum will pay the freight for 250 miles on a railroad.or 500 miles on a river and 1000 miles on the lakes. These fig ures prove conclusively the enormous tax levied by the bad roads on the farmers, and how much of their leg itimate profit is consumed in hauling from their farms to railroad stations and river landings. The speaker declared that the question of governmental road con struction had been successfully tried for nmany years in other countries. Representative Lloyd began his speech by saying that he indorsed. the statement of a prominent citizen who said that he could tell the intelli gence and progress of the people by the condition of their roads. The wag on the streets said in reply: "Then judge our people when the weather is dry." He then went on to call attention to what the Federal Government has done, is doing, and what it may do to encourage road improvement. In his judgment the Bureau of Public Roads in the Do partment of Agriculture is one6of the most important branches of public service, and from it incalculable ben efit may come. This great service thus far has been somewhat over looked, and its Vork has not been fully known or properly appreciated. One step in the onward movement to give the country better roads is to encourage the development of the road department of the Department of Agriculture ify enlarging the scope of its labors, increasing its force of expert engineers and specialists and bringing it more in touch with peo ple, so that they can re'ceive mbre of its benefits by practical demon. stration of its real value. Interesting Road Figures. Believing that improved highways are necessary for the continued pros perity of automobiling, the American Motor Car Manufacturers' Associa tion will provide for a department haing road matters in charge. In formation i-eceived at the headquar ters this week from Logan Waller Page, director of the United States Department of Agriculture, gives some interesting figures -of the amount of new roads which hav'e been recently built, together with the total number of miles. The major portion of the States have less than ten per cent. of their roads improved, a wretched showing for a civilized country. Tennessee has 48,989 miles of pub lic roads, or one mile for every forty one inhabitants, of which only about nine per cent. has been improved. Virginia has 51,812 -miles, of which 1600 miles are Improved, giving but one mile o'f Improved roads to every 1158 Inhabitants; North Carolina has 49,763 miles; Oregon, 34,258 miles; Iowa, 10.2,488 miles; Arkan sas, 36,445 miles; Arizona, 5-987 miles; Alabama, 50,089 miles; Wash ington, 31,998 ~miles; New Hamp shire, 15,116 .miles. In most of these States there is one mile of ordinary road for every twenty-five to thirty five inhabitants, but of improved roads, only one mile for anywhere from 471 to 1255 lfthabitants, a dis coragingly small proportion. A Crging Need. One of the greatest needs of this country is good roads. The coun tries of Europe have better roads than we have. Thousands of wealthy Americans go to Europe every year to run automobiles over the good roads there. This is not a pressing reason why we should have them, but it is a pointer to our condition. We need good roads most especially for the sake of the farming commun? ty. They would enable the farmer to get to market better. He could save money and time by drawing much larger loads. The saving in this respect, the country over, would amount to millions of dollars every year. Good roads would bring us practically closer to our neighbors. Ihey would add to~ our convenience nd comfort in many ways, besides increasing the value of our lands. Some sections now have fairly good roads. Others are wretchedly pro vided. All could make decided im provement. Nothing tells more tor n agricultural community than good roads. How is This For High. Senator Clay, of Georgia, was once showing a constituent' the sights of .he National capital when the Wash ington Monument was reached. "What do you think of it'?" care lessly asked the Senator, as the con stituent stood gazing in awe at the stately shaft. Senator," responded the Geor- I gan, gravely, "that the darnedcst, highest one story building T've ever smen....Amerian Spectator. SOUTHERN * f TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PLANTj The Clover Crop. It is not advisable as a rule to cut a crop of clover seeded in the spring for hay. In a very wet seas on it will sometimes be the better practice to do this, but as a rule light pasturing late in the fall after it has become well established will be the better practice. Grazing helps to keep the growth in check and throws more strength into the roots, and of course if you can get a good strong rootAdevelopment, the chances are that you will maintain the stand through the winter and get an ex ceptionally godd c&op of hay the next season. One can certainly damage his ground by plowing it too wet. The soil is very much like a sponge. You observe that when the rainfall is. abundant the ground becomes wet and soggy, as it were, and if you plow it in this condition, the parti cles of rock of which it is composed are run together and form a hard lump or. clod. It takes a great deal of work to break this lump of soil up, though of course severe freezing will help to pulverize . it. But you can never count on getting a freeze to do the work just at the right time, and by plowing your land wet .there is great danger of putting it in bad mechanical condition, and we all realize that a soil in good tilth will certainly grow larger crops because it is easier to cultivate, and the plant roots and moisture can pene trate it with greater ease. Land should never be plowed when so wet that it will not fall in a flaky condition from the moldboard as it Is turned over. Winter plowing where the water follows along in the furrow is a great mistake. You are simply sleeking over: and compact ing the subsoil and making . hard pan, as It were, at a depth of 6 or 8 inches through which the roots of plants can hardly. penetrate, and your soil is so shallow that instead of making a great reservoir for wat er to supply the needs df the grow ing crop next season, you only have a little shallow surface, say .from 6 to 8 - inches deep, from which the plant must draw by far the larger part of its supply of moisture. Deep thorough tillage and the opening of the pores of the soil is the proper policy to pursue and wet plowing will never favor the development of these very desirable conditions in your soil. If your ridge woodland is at all fertile why not try a mixture of or chard grass,, blue grass and white clover. This will make you an ex cellent pasture if it does well. ~The trees and underbrush should be thinned out before seeding and the seed cover with a light harrow. No grazing should be pernlitted during the first season. If your land will not grow these tame grasses the next best thing fou can do is to try Ber muda, though it will not prdve satis factory in a semi-shaged pasture. Bermuda will at laast cover the ground in the course of time, will prevent erosion anid will furnish a good deal of desirable grazing from four to six months of the year in your locality. Potash and Phosphate Essential. According to tests made at the va rious Southern ezperiment stations and by farmeri themselves who have bought high grade fertilizers of known quality from reliable firms, potash and phosphates are especially valuable to the Southern farmer when land is well supplied with vegetable matter through the medium of barn yard manure . ort green crops. The fact that fertilizers' frequently prove unsatisfactory on the farm is direct ly due in nearly every instance to the farmet buying something which is not what it is represented to be. For example, he frequently buys acid phosphate which is said to contain twenty or twenty-five per cent. c' phosphoric acid, but of this amoiur. probably only twelve or fifteen per cent. is available, the remainder be ing reverted citrate soluble or in soluble, etc. But as he is unfamiliar with the terms used in an analysis of acid phosphates, he is not in a posi tion to buy intelligently .and so is deceived. He finds the fertilizer un satisfactory and therefore concludes that acid phosphate is of no service on his soil. He might possibly have the same experience with potash or with nitrogen, and yet in every in stance his conclusions would be en tirely wrong. It is to the interest of the-farmer to inform himself on these points and only to use high grade goods of guaranteed quality and put up by the most reliable firms. Cheap goads with a low percentage guaran tee of plant food are always unsatis factory on the farm and it is the gen eral use of these that causes so many people to be dissatisfied with com-j muercial fertilizers. All soils of the Current Happenings. The peach crop on the Maryland Delaware Peninsular is said to be 2,000,000 baskets short. Vice-President Fairbanks made an address at Osawatomie, Kan., at the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Osawatomia, in which John Brown was a central figure. A number of vessels were driven rshore and wrecked on ~ the Great Lakes. There is a prospeet that Rev. Ru-| dolph Meyer. of St. Lewis, may be , ehosen Gener-al of the Jesuit Order' at the approac-hing conlventionl inl Roe. The funeral of General Vo".liar lierski took plac-e in War-sawv and ex traord-tinary precautions wer-e taken to prevent disturbances. Alabama held primaries to nomi nate candidates for Chief Justice, two United States Senators, two alter nate Senators, three Congressmen and a full Sita tickt. ARM * fUTES. , R, STOCKMAN AN yRUC* GROWER, South respond more or less freely to the use of fertilizers. On all the soils nitrogen is needed, though more in the form of cowpeas and bainyard manure, that is something that will give humus to the soil and put it in condition to respond to the use of potash and phosphates. The sandy, lighter soils of which there are large areas, respond freely to the use ,of potash, and to phosphates as well. All soils cultivated in orchards and gardens should be liberally supplied with potash in particular. Three Abominations. There are three things on farms that are abominations. The three are mean teams,- rusty tools, and crooked rows. These three evils are the farmer's own fault. A good team can be had at any price. .If you have a "run-away" team you have yourself to blame. They show their "raisin'." Treat them kindly and they will treat you right. A team that you cannot trust is not a team for the farm.- Get rid of "runaway" horses. Get first-class tools and keep them in first-class condition. You have seen while out in the country a plow here, a harrow there, and a cultiva tor yonder, and mowers and binders in the shade of a tree. Won't there be a hppy time when the farmer who left his tools and ma chinery out in the weather starts -to farm? Won't his old Pow "shed" the soil rapidly? Won't his-cultivator shovels work smooth? Well, I guess not. It will take several days' scouring and in that time he has lost more religion than he can get back in a year's time. Keep tools in the shelter. Some farmers make ' rows so crooked that they cannot follow them and -they. blame the team, the tools, "the old boy" and all things on earth except the man who laid off the rows. Straight rows, tell the world you love to farm and you love -ft enough to give your best attention t6 keep the rows straight. Keep your rows on a bee line on a level plece:of land or comparativb.; so. If landhas ter races follow 'then. Three points more and T am done. Get a good team. Get -oixa tools. Make straight rows and see how much easier it is to farm.-R. D. Martin, in Gastonia Gazette. Wheat Land For Cowpeas. D. F. D., :Boxwood, writes: I want to follow twenty-five .acres of my wheat land with peas and four acres with alfalfa, and would like to k~now what would be the best fertilizer to - use. Answer-Fertilize the wheat land intended for peas with 200 pounds of sixteen per cent. acid phosphate and twenty-five .pounds murlate df pot ash per acre. The land Intended for alfalfa, should be sown. in peas and fertilized like the balance. The peas on this land should be tur~ned' under as deeply as possible about the first of September, and if the- subsoil is very close and conipact It would be well to break it up. Prepare a fine seed bed by thorough surface tillage, an~d compact the soil with .the.roller. Inoculate the alfalfa with soil or with an artificial culture. If alfalfa Is growing successfully in your vicinity, 100 pounds of- soil per acre from an old field will be enough to insure in with the seed, which should be sown at the rate of twenty pounds per acre. Before seeding the. alfalfa, - broadcast or* drill in 30.0 pounds of sixteen per cent. acid phosphate and 100 pounds of muriate of potash per acre. If the land seems acid, which. ' you can determine by testing with - blue litmus paper, apply lime at the rate of twenty-five bushels per .acre. The lime could be applied. to. good advantage before seeding the peas though it may be put on' after the peas have been plowed down. ' Pur chase the unslaked lime in' suitable boxes and drill in with the agrain drill, or distribute through a manure spreader. -- Useful Machinery For the Home. Almost any farmer is always-glad if he can purchase any kind 'of ma chinery that will in any way lighten and we commend It in every way, but we' do not want thle women folks to be slighted in th~is matter.' There are any number of little contrivances that are gdten up with the Idea of - - doing away with at leastba part of the labor in the farm home. -Look anything helpful in any of them take advantage of it, for the' women folks appreciate, fully as much as the men, anything which will in any way serve to lighten their labors. Durrent Events. William Jennings Bryan was given a tremendous reception on his arrivel at New York, and in a speech gt Mad ison Square Garden he gave: expres sion to the sentiments which will guide him if he becomes a candidate for the Presidency, the chief being the extermination of the trusts anid the relegation of the money question to the rear. The suspicion that Frank K. Hip pie, president of the Real Estate Trus~t Company. of Pniladelphia, corn miltted1 suicide was confirmed. He blew out his brains. A monument was unveiled at Cam den. Maine, in honor of William Con way, who refused to pull down the United States flag at: Pensacola at the beginaing of the Civil War. Ex-Judge Alton B. Parker, in an address before the American Bar As sociation at St. Paul, advocated the