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KHJEOLAS II, refugee after J8EVOLT, leaves HIS brother AS KEUFNT for (zarmtcu Stockholm, March 15.?The empire Russia has been shaken in its foundation by a revolt, the fierceness -ai*d exact consequences of which are sti!I shrouded behind a veil of secre cy?the s.i.me that managed to hide "from the world for fully a week tnai the' long-smouldering sparks of dis *H>nt iit had been fanned to the fury <ol rebellion. Nicholas II is no longer czar of all Abe Russias. He has abdicated his throne and is today a refugee at tile headquarters of some loyal army 'Chief, "somewhere on the easteru front." (His brother, .Michael Alexandro vitch, who six yrars fled the em jtire as an exile because of his mor ganatic marriage, lias been appointed xegent to ad for the 13-year-old czar-; <ntch_ Alexis Nicolaevitch. Kicbolas' ministers, at the time the' last reports were sent from Petro ?rad. were in jail. One of them, Min-j ister of the interior Protopoff, is re-1 ported dead, the victim of a wild bat-; in the streets of the capital in which hungry mobs, soldiers and po- i jflce were the contestants. The casualty roll is said to be be- j Tkrw 1,000. From Moscow, where a' cimilar Teign or terror previuieu, uv definite news is as yet obtainable. The duma emt rged complete \-ictor. j is to-day for the first time in the: history of its existence that it was created for?the representative body: -ol the people. Having been ordered by an imperial ukase to adjourn and fto home, it turned upon the govern- j ment, sent every minister to prison,; established a provisional government in complete control of the capital and as a crowning climax to its long and titter fight. Inflicted an ignominious defeat upon the rule whose powers, made him?as his predecessors?the aaost absolute autocrat on the face' of the globe. j The revolution, as far as is known, iwis short-lived, and completely sue-! ?essfu-l. It tasted three days?from i Thursday, March 8, until Saturday, j "k i n, tt wac tbp culmination of j JHiUXU IV. 11 ' ? - ^disturbances and riots that have been recurring "with increasing violence, and in decreasing intervals for many "weks. The cause of the revolt and of the) anomentous change it has brought j about may be summarized in two vi- j ta] facts: 1 A starving nation wanted food. j a mnz7led Darliament "wanted free-; xJom to give the people food. I And, while the duma fought the fin oSkJ fight with a tyrannical govern Taaent for liberty, the starving masses wb?m. they, represent fought for food in the streets of Petrograd and Mos cow. The chief sensation of it all was that the hulk of Petrograd's garrison ?30,000?strong sided with the rioting j masses, sided with them against the j . Better Farmim PEANUTS AS J To make money is the ooject of the farmer as well as of the manufacturer or the merchant. Real profit is the difference be-1 tween the mar- 1 ket value of a commodity over its cost of pro duction. A crop that has not a D. B. OSBORNE "Cash Surrender Talue" (m an interrupted market <deznand) cannot he considered as a ?npp K*own for Real Profit, although ;^sjb indirect profit may result in reduc es the cost of a Money Crop. Money Crop Gives Real Profit It is the Money Crop that gives '>.?Ctl 1 f n frt >**v? or?/l O MnnAtr p*v/ni iu uic iai in auu a luvuc/ j Crop can only be a crop of a known Xaarket vaiue immediately convertible 4abio money in any town at any time. The problem of supplying the South ern farmer with a cash market for iAi>er crops that would yield as much <sr more profit than he derives from She. cotton crop, has engaged the at tention cf the farmer and his friends, ' and with the assistance of the Boll 'Weevil, tbey have found a solution of problem in Peanuts. The Peanut "The Peanut crop offers wonderful opportunities. It can be grown over "Che entire South with profit. It reaches its perfection in growth awid yield on well drained, gray, sandy ->aam soils such as exist in the Coastal Plains along the Atlantic Seaboard, ^minch. territory is now either occupied Is being rapidly encroached upon >7 the Boll Weevil. There is a constant demand at a ""Cash Surrender Value" from a mar IXJLCbl UUU1U l/v* UALil^UlC IU ^lUl Wltii ~ike peanut, for the reason that there five avenues of profit. Five Avenues of Profit i^ret: Progressive oil mills through -arat the South are eager buyers of the Peanut and offer a spot cash mar ket at very remunerative prices. The ? oil is in great demand. Second: The nut and vines are a i^Tpjenaia ieea ior caum, prvuucms a ? qtiicfe growth of firm and tender meat - A. profit in the sales of cattle thus -Jed -and fattened is a certainty. Third: The best quality of peanuts ~?nd a ready sale at top prices to the manufacturers of candy, of peanut but ter and other confections. Fourth: Peanut cake (from the oil aaills), fed to hogs, makes a vigor <cus growth and gain in weight and when properly "finished off" with -?crn, gives a firm meat with the fat ? ! ? a T\t?Ar>a?? T>ror?Art 1 at? nf v <3UfiUUiLUI5 A |/i v^v/i uvu v* stearine for making good firm lard Feeding the whole nut to the hog .Is a mistake for two reasons: First, the value or profit from the oil is lost, and second, the oil of the nut ogiYes an excess of oil OYer stearine - army of police only recently reinforc ed by thousands upon order of tlie bated ProtopopotT. Tlie revolt spells the death blow to the sinister forces of reaction and graft that have been holding full sway for centuries but were nevei fully exposed until the war came ana fVwirvi Russia in a state of economic, financial and military unpreparedness which converted every great drive on the eve of its triumph into disaster and from which the duma had been vainly fighting to deliver the empire. Iii entente quarters, the outcome is viewed as a defeat of the pro-Ger man propaganda, which, with such ready tools as Stuermer and Proto popoff, worked toward separate Rus sian peace. The duma, it is argued, i.s splidly united in favor of prosecuting ho -a-pr until it is won. While it is admitted by close ob-! servers here that the new order of things in Russia, if it lasts, will defi nitely do away with Germanophile in fluences, it is pointed out that the re volt with its government changes is bound to have a disastrous affect upon the army and that particularly as far as the food supply is concerned no relief is in sight even with the duma victorious. The great Muscovite empire is in a chaos of internal disorder, brought about by years of weakness. incoher-| ence and preying on the public runas by the various governments. The country has inexhaustible re sources to feed itself, but it is not even now mobilized to exploit those resources. There is no system of pro visioning, no scheme for transporta tion. More than 40 ministers have! come and gone in two years. Each j has added blunders or crimes to the orgy of demoralization. There have! been five different premiers since the j outbreak of the war. Insufficient provisioning, lack of munitions and disorganization behind the front' have hampered the army's work throughout the Z1 months or war. Protopopoff, more than any other individual, bears direct responsibility for the revolt. He is the best hated i man in all Russia. Originally a cloth i manufacturer, he was lifted to pow-j er by Rasputin, the "mystic monk,"! who was recently murdered by the) fots of the Germanophil^s. By a cu rious trick of fate, Paul Milyukoff, leader of the "cadets," who was slat ~ ~ nKftnt fho QflTTIf* ed ior assassuiituvn auvui ~ time, though by another group ot "sinister forces," is the commanding figure in the victorious campaign to day. .. , RDB-MFY-TISM?Antiseptic, Relieves Rheumatism, Sprains. Neuralgia etc THfc HERALD AND NEWS ONE TEAR FOR ONLY $1.50. in the South i CASH CROP and produces in the hog a soft, flabby meat, the fat of which will not pro duce- lard of a proper consistency. Fifth: The Peanut, being a legume, is a soil builder and adds nitrogen to the soil and works in splendidly in a rotation with cotton or corn, both of which are voracious feeders on nitro gen and requiring clean culture, rap idly deplete the soil of nitrates. Proper Fertilization Because it is a legume, many peo ple believe that it requires no fertili zers (IQU in litis tllCV ilic ua uijr uiia taken. Nitrogen gathering nodules do not begin to form on the roots of the plant until the nut is two-thirds matured and if through lack of prop er nourishment, the plant is allowed j to languish until this stage is reach- ] ed, the crop will be greatly curtailed and profits lost. The plant requires a sufficient amount of nitrogen from a "ick acting source to carry it to the nc .ule form ing period while the presence in suffi ? ? * nVincnVinrir> ofM/? and t'ICiit 4U<UillllCd yiLKJ O^liWiiV. WV.V4 U.MV* potash is essential during the growth and maturity of tbe plant. An application of a fertilizer con taining 12 per cent available phos phoric acid, 1 1-2 to 2 per cent am monia and 2 per cent potash, applied at the rate of from 400 to 6u0 pounds per acre, will make a crop of both nuts and hay sufficient to return the cost of the fertilizer and leave a hand some profit while an unfertilized crop will barely return cost of production. The Profit Value The profit value of an acre of well i cultivated and fertilized peanuts is ' oonai tn thp nrnfit value of an acre of cotton producing two-thirds of a bale j to the acre. j The following tabulated cost and value estimated by Dr. J. N. Harper, clearly proves this point: Comparative Cost. Per Acre of Cotton and Peanuts $ 1.50 Breaking Land Harrowin.sr Land CA Uitilinnr Cotton Cost Per Acre Peanutf Ctfit % 1.90 .2S .38 .JV .25 Laying off Land .21 .25 AppJyjftg Fertilizer .25 .50 Bedding on Fertilizer .50 .25 Harrowing before Planting JJS .75 Seed 2.00 8.00 Fertilizers 8.00 .25 Planting 35 5.50 Cultivation 2. SO 5.00 Harvesting 14.00 2.00 Preparing for Market Marketing 2.50 1.75 2.00 8.00 Rent S.00 $34.50 $42.75 Comparison of Return* from Cotton *nd Peanuts. 333 lbs. Lint cotton at 15c lb $49.95 | 667 lbs. Cotton Seed at $50 ton 16.66 | Gross profit $66.61 t Cost of cotton 34.50 j Net profit cotton $32.11 j 75 Bushels peanuts at 80c bu $60.00 1 Ton peanut hay at $15 ton 15.00 Gross profit $75.00 Cost of peanuts 42.75 Net profit peanuts $32.25 *If harT??tcd by machine the cost will be less. INTERESTING PROGRAMME j S< STATE S. S. CONVENTIONS] Spartanburg, S. 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