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TI .WI AWO DIFFICULTIES UNDER WRICH FARAERS USE TO FARM Andthe Great Improvements in Earm, ing Implements In Recent Years. Ivery zan seventy years old wal contemporaneous with the introduc tion of- agricultural implements V which might properly be applied th word "limproved." In otner worie when he was a baby there vwere a few places where farmers were starirg i open-mouthed wonder at the mystew ious things that had come cut. Tae were crude as compared with what I have now but markEd the beginnin of that most marvalous developmen1 in which they and their kind kal been the pricipal factor. Up to 183" all states w;z; of the Allegneails r.n nearly all sections of Tue others, we: still using the old woodtn plOw, very clumsy affa.r beside the Olive Chilled and the wrougat iron p17 point, a miahapen thing with a ta ly rounded poimt az one end and i large hole or socket, a5 the ottier, in tended to receive a sort of beam b> which the piow oauid be piuLL a-c guided. This was the period of th spaning-wheel and log calin, W greased paper windows, when Lne p er coulm stand in his dC1.IWIY Ay pleasant morn and shoot squirrel enougn for the family breakfast, wit' out leavMg his tracms. In fact, the population depended far more On fUr of wild animals for an imcolme thia upon cltivation of the grouad. Ag riculture was little more than rude gardening or tru;:k patching awd wha~t hittle m.nufacturing was done was al together by hand. duen was the un promising beginning of an era, which in the regular lifetime o mann has ac complished the wonders we we bexoie us on every firm. It is interesting -o note that the State mussums which contain samples of %te crude imple ments of the late thirties, label them "ancient," much as they would mark an Egyptian mnmmy, though a man who has not passed the ps;mist's limit of three scare ard ten woula hardly feel comp!Lmented if so char acter.zsd. Tnough sometaing then thougnt to be "improved" was brought Into the west as early as 1837, the really revolutionary farm machinery was not introduced until much later. A man muca yaunger than saventy, in fact men still in the tilties, have covered by their lives the epoch-mak Ing period of agricultural machinery. The diffulty prior to 1850 was not so much lack of invention as lack of manufacturing facilities, practically all agricultural Implements up to that time being made by hand in a small way by local mechanics in the east It was not until after the civil war that increase In manufactures with their Increased power and specially invented tools that the modern fArm era area began. The student of evolution will find an Interesting field by following up the inventions or agricultural mach ery from tne beginning. The grea; law so brilliantly expounded by Dar win and which he proved to be the governing prmnciple in all worldly at fairs, the law of gradual growth from small beginnings, the law of ordarly development from the simple to the complex, ja found here operating ir ful f~aroe. Take for instance ue first Invention of a reaper, which appeared In Great Britian in 1827 and was re produced in tlus couc ary a few yeare later. Its main prmncipal was the re ciprocating knife aet ween reaper fing era and renough greatly improved ir details since, this cardinal feature, which was found to be funidamenta and Indispensable, has been emnoodie. in all ueneding types of hay anc graIn-catting machins. It was tne same way with the plows, harrows, threshers and all other Implements one main princiiole must be adhered to, however great the variety of de tails and improvements to meet ob jections of an incidental character, such as too much weight, faulty con struction, diffculty of handing arnd the like. Thre thresher was long com ing. Though invented over seven;a years ago, tne d.ff.:ulties of manufac turing preventec iLs general introduc tion until-a comparatively recent per iod. It was not until the modern facilities for turning out scores o; hundreds of finished machines dait became common that thre reproductioz of all the largeimachiner~vOn a largi scale made tem familiar on ever; farm. Carrying out the idea of evo lution, 4t may be remarked that thi first patent fcr a thrasher, though is sued in 1830, was a crude affair though it aeveloped into the magnifi cent machine of to-day which containm the principal cf the original. The firs1 effort, however, resembled the improv ed thrasher of tne present da~y aboul as much as the old- fashioned hanc printing-press resembles one of thi great perfecting presses in one of oni first-Class printimg offces. Farmeri had to await the coming of the im proved thrasher before they let go st old-fashioned flall, made of a long stick and short stick tied togother, and the process cf tramping out the grain by horses. Many men still hy ing remember these primitive meth ods just as they remeirber when the tree branches was the only harrow used and when the sr~ike-tooth har. row, shaped like a capitai A, was con sideredi a great improvement. The cnief value of recalli::g all thi Is to show farmers that they a.re liv Iig in the golden age of agriculture Formerly, great devnlopments liki that we have been .decnibing, tool many centuries for their accomplisa ment. Everything moved with pain ful slowness. It is a characteristic c: our age that great revolutions In me Ohaninoal appltinces, epoch-makmni discoveries and reforms, follow eact Other with such starting rapidity al to daze the behioldier. Tue telephonE Is only twenty-six years oldi, and elec tric traction by trollay Is much young er. The incandescent lamp and othei marvels of eecriciay have beenl prO duced so reccatly tuat tue lives oi mere boys meas their existence. Tue nineteenth has gone into ilistorI as the "marvelous century" and mune: tihe greater part of lc~s accomplish menst was the p:oduct of the iass half. Every deparmnent of science has madre wondel Leadiay, astrcon omy, geo.ogy. arcneoiogy, hirr e searca sad crildcasm, but none hrvE prodted more than agricu-ture. Great Is Its indesbtness to apj,?ied science, which has convertedi a rule and senua. sa-wage calding into the m~s; intellect ual and prcalable of the industri For a hunared years the best invent lve genius of the world has been work ing to ameliorat~e the condiltion and facilitate the operations of the farm es. Tue flid was wise, the opportun itIes great, and greatly have rney been inproved. It Is educatio-nal as well as nennraging and upnufting. to go through the history of agricultural pa tents and see what has been done. how the farm world has been turned upside down 'durir g the three score ears and ten vouchsafed to the ordi nrry man. Walk through the patent .fize or some sta~e museum and look at the model of the first plow then glance at the one you are using and you will be able to form soma notion of what has happened in a space of time so short as an ardinary human Wonder of the World. Our corn crop is the wonder c' the worid. In 1905 it amonuted to : 700 000.000 butheli, worth about $1,2I6, 000,000, or twioe as much as any cth r cap. Every secilon of the oC-mn y coitributed a share. But great as e ures are, they couid probe bly ba doubled in a few years without ~aring a s1agle additional acre sim Lly tmproving the method of ot.ltva ;ion ana above all, by gettir';; better god The d partment of agrisulure Avery day receives requests like the 'uongw!r ''Will you please infrm me where well-bred seed of a variety of corn Euited to this Iccality can be puradc?' Unfortunately the ma jxity of the letters cannot be satis :otoilly answered because no corn -rs been improved for sections of the U Ited States from wbich they come. As a consequence the department is trying to rtamalate at least one per sen in eve-y p-rtion of the country to breed seed corn urging that he who produwes an Improved variety for his section will not only be a benefactor to As commuaity, but also get a hand. i:me pr. At for his work. To help the york aloag the department dis tributes phamphlets advising the grow ers how to select his corn at best ad vantege. Apples and Salt. Est fresh apples with salt after ev ery mEl, advises a physlc!an who has made a speotaly of stomach and intes finzl roublies. They aid dig fio more ti ectrvely than many drugs, and people who make them a part or the daily diet rarely have indigestion. "Take apples, cooked or fresh, with salt while dining or immediately af ter and eat. them between times when hungry, he says. Cultivate the ap ple habit, and instead of eating bon bons and pastry serve them in some form for afternoon tea or for a light lunches in the morning. Eat them in the summer even more than during the winter months, for nothing is bet ter or more nourishing for the entire system tba this fruit, especially as it is not heating. "The skin, if prop erly masticated, is not injurious, but the best plan is to cut it off, for it is usually tough, as is the outer coat- of most fruits. Apples isan aid to diges tion despite the crust that is ordinar ily considered hard to assimilate. The beat time to eat a pples is af ter meals, wzhrn all the fluids neocesey have been taken into the stomsch, for if milk, coffee or water are drunk after takir g this fruit they lessen it powers to help digestion." Cotton Picker Needed The farmer of the South need a mechanical cotton picker very much, and we hope before many more crops are made that one will came to solve the diffioulties of gathering the eot ton crop. iUder the present uncer tain system It requires something like 1 500,000 cotton pickers, each picking 130 pounds of seed cotton on an aver 'ge for each picker and working 100 days, to pick a 10,000,000 bale crop Of course some pick more than 100 ounds of seed cotton and some less. There are days when on occount of rain, no cotton can be picked. The average of 100 pounds a day for 100 days is not wrong as an estimate of the pickcer's work. At 60 cents a hundred weight the cost of picking a bale of cotton is $9. At 7Z5 cents a hundred weight the cost is 811.25 a bae. Therefore une cost of picaing the entire crop will range somewhere betwen $90,000,00'0 add $112 500,000. This immnense sum of money ought to stimulate some genius to invent a cot ton picker that will pick, * An Eye for Business. The following unique notice was recently published by the Coleeme, N . C. Banner: "Miss Jennie Jones and Bob Henry were married at the Jones mansion last night. The bride is the daughter of our constable, Jones who made a gcod cficer, and will undoubtedly be re-eleoted next spring. He cffers a fine horse for sale in another column. The groom runs a grccsry store on Main street and is a good patron of cur advertis ng columns, and has a good line of cargains this week .All the summer he paid two cents more for butter than any store in town. The happy couple left on the 10 o'clock train for Milwaukee to visit the bride's uncle, who is reported to have lots of money and Bright's disease. Bob certainly nas an eye for business." The scribe who wrote the notice seems to have an eye for business as well as Bob. * Want Them Looked After. Gov. Cobb, of Maine, received a let ter last week from N. H. Harriman, of Boston, formerly connected with the Holy Ghost and Us Colony at Shi lor, asking that execnuion action -be taken to eliminate sufferings In the Shloh Colony. The communication was accompanied by a letter from Mrs. Fred Gallatt, whose husband sold a prospering plumbing business at Ta oba and gave the proceeds to Shiloh. Mrs. Gr.1att, who has just left Shi oh, says It was nothing less than a prson for her, and that for the last month of her five years' stay the chief article of food was mush, made from musty sneal. Governor Cobb say s he is not empowered to take any action, the courts being the only means of dealing with the matter. Ms. Gaillatt's husband is with an expedition bound for the Holy Land eded by bne Rev. F, W. Sandford, leader of Shilohr. Mut1yor Quit. There has been much trouble at the Florence .colored graded school. According to the law of the city schoOls a supplementary fee of $2.00 is required or every child upon his en trance at the beginning of the ses sion. It seems that the negro pupils were so derelict in this matter last year that the suparintendent, Dr. J. L. Mann, decided he would not tol erate the trouble and delay again this year. Dr. Mann accordingly announo e to the negroes that ubless the mat riculation fee was paid on due time he would be compelled to expel the de linquents. Trune to his warning, he proceeded to expel more than one aif of the scholars, and notified the princpal and teachers to allow none o reenter withOUt first paying the required fee. WHAT will the corpcration lawyers find to do, when the American peo pe control the trusts and have com-1 pelled the railroads to charge reason RICH BUT FORSAKEN. Son of Millionaire Arrested in New York for Forgery. Emil Baresford Pickhardt, the son of a mult-millionaire, brother of a baroness, and at cue time wealthy in his own right, but now unable to fur nish even $1,000 cash baill, was ar raigned in the West Side police court, charged with circulating a number of checks that he knew to be worth less. Not i relative or a friend was by his side as he faced the magistrate. Even his lawyer deserted him at the last moment so that he was forced to ask for an adjournment. And that little was granted to him, his case be ing held over. Dresed in an ill-fitting "pepper and salt' suit, Pickhardt presented a striking contrast to the straight, clean cut, fashion&bly clad man of five years ago. At than time he was wealthy and lived in luxury at Hemp stead, L. I He was a captain in the ninth regiment, but of his military career he makes no boasts, for when he resigned in the ;hrilllng days of 1898, he was dubbed "The Coward Captain," and in camp his tent one night was pulled down upon him as he slept. Then when he took refuge in his house at Hempstead, men of his company sought him out and stormed the place with stones and eggs. It was said that he did not dare go to the front. Pickhardt Is the son of the late Sid ney Beresford Pickhardt, who made millions in the whosesale drug busi ness, and lived in a mansion -at Fifth avenue and Seventy-fourth street. Pickhardt's sister married the Baron Loefelz von Coberg. His mother is now living in Frankfort, Germany. Pickhardt is charged with circulat ing checks of the Dominion Fire In surance company, drawn on tho Citi zens Trust and Safe Derosit compa ny of Tacoma, Wash. It is declared that the latter conoern exists only in his imagination. Five complaintants appeared in court. One of them, Har ry W. Shattuck, of No. 20. Maiden lane, a jeweller, said Pickhardt had obtained a diamond ring worth 8850 from him without gayment. Pick hardt admitted to this and said he had given the ring to an actress now playing in Boston. He gave Shat tuck a letter to her asking for the return of the ring, and the jeweller left immediately for Boston. TRIBUTE OF RESPECT. Resolutions Passed On tne Death of Mr. J.T. Paeoks. The following resolutions were pas sed at the last meeting of the State Democratic Executive Committee: Since the last meeting of this Com mittee the cold hand of death has re moved from the service of the Com mittee its efficient and loyal Secre try. James T. Parks departed this life on the 30th day of June. 1906. He was born on May 12th, 1865. a t Parksville, in Edgefield Connty, where his remains were laid to rest. After attending the local schools he received his higher education at Roa noke College, at Salem, Va., and af terwards taught school for several years in this State. At various times he resided in sey eral counties of this State and enjoyed the esteem and confidence of his neighbors and associates wherever he was known. The best years of his life and best talents were given to his newspaper work in Marion and Orangeounrg counties; he was a filaen: and vigorus writer. He was loyal to his friends and true to his convictions. He was of a jovial nature, opan, warm hearted. More than four years ago Mr. Parks was eleoted Secretary of the State Demccratic Executive Committee, and he performed the duties of this position faithfully and well. Therefore be it resolved: 1st. That in the death of James T. Parks, its Secretary, this Commit tee has lost a faithful and efficient of ficer, and one who was held in the highest personal esteem and regard by its members.' 2nd. That a copy hereof be trans mitted to the family of our deceased friend together with the sincerest sympathy of the members of this 0cm mittee. 3rd. That these resolutions be transcribed upon the records of this Committee. Deceiving t-he People, Speaker Cannon is deceiving the Epuilioan voters by declaring in his stump speeches that the agricultural prosperity is due entirely to the pro ective tar.ff. This leads the Kan sas City Sta~r to declare that what~ tbe people of Missouri cannot understand is why the blessings of the republican stand-pat doctrine have worked so unequally in the several counties. What the Missouri farmers would like to know Is why the protective tariff has brought bountiful harvest to tue rich alluvial counties along the Mis souri river and to those of the midland prairies, while It has done little or nothing for the rocky, hilly countries of the Ozarks. A point which adds to the contu sion is that the rich countiss of goo'd crops are almost all democratic, wh2ie the poor counties that csnnot raise anything better than Ben Davis ap ples are almost without ebception re publican. If there had to be disorin inaton, It would seem that the re publicans would be the boneficiaries. Of course, before Mr. Qannon made his speech In Kansas City It would have been argued that the rich allu vial farms produced good crops just because they were fertile, and the montanous counties were distinguish ed for nothing In particular--not even, in many instances, for Ban Davis ap ples -for the very reason they were hilly and rccky. But "Uncle Joe" says that the tar 1ff makes the farmer prosperous, and so, since soil and rain acd sun and climate have nothing to do with it, the problem must rema~in for ever un Eoved-unless It Is eiplained as be ing another instance of the way te protetiva policy confers benefits on somne and burdens on ot-aers. Ho-v Not to Aatvert~ise. The farmers of northern Indiana and southern Michigan have come to realize that advertising signbuards mar the beauty of the country ann hat the advertisers in placing thaem ruin their arees and break th~eir fenc::;~ ad they have effcted an organ.z ion to~see that every sign is remov d from their promises and to~ prosecute merchants who, in te fu ure, trespass on their prop.erty. Tu avertising signboards in the ccunary verywhere is a blemish and a bioL, esides being one of the least profita-' e a efctiave modas of advartising.I DESTRUC"IV STORM. San Salvador Devastated and many Lives Reported Lost. A dis'ptch from San Salvador ud er date Ont. 19 says a tempest has raged incessantly for ten days throughout the Republic, flooding the rich valleys, principally that of M= j %da, and resulting in great loss of life, and the destruction of cattle and crops. The Salvadoren man-of war izilco was lost at Acajutla. The topcgra.phy of various depart ments has been changed, buildings have fallen, burying their tenants in the ruins and the iron bridges over the principal rivers h .ve been carried away. The equeducts and electric light plants at Sonsonate and Salva dor have suffered heavy losses. The railroads, telegraphs and com merce are paralyzed, but traffia is be ing restored in some towns of the Re public. The rivers are bringing down the bodies of persons drowned in the storm, and the carcasses of cattle. and the sight of these tend to in crease the trror of the people. The 1. sseq are incalculcable. Guat emala and Honduras also have suffer ed severely. It Is said the losses there will amcunt to many millions of dollars. MIAMI HARD HIT. Miami, Fla., has been visited by the most destructive storm in years. It struck the town about three o'clock Thursday morning. The damage wrought throughout the city will amount to many thousand dollars, it being impossible now to give any thing like accurate figures. Many houses were blown down. E TR AzR WRECKED. The loss of the steamer St. Luce has been confirmed. She sailed from Miami on Wennesday morning and was caught in the storm. Another steamer arrived In port, bringing six ty wounded, which were taken to the hospital. it is said there were 28 dead bodies that could not be brought to iami on the steamer. AN ISLAND EFFULPED. Capt. Bravo, of the steamer St. Luce, said he anchored on the lee side of Eliotts Key, twenty-five miles souta of Miami Wednesday morning and that soon after a tidal wave en. gulfed the island. He says there were 250 residents on the island, all of whom were lost. The St. Lucie was crushed by the same wave, and of the one hundred persons on board twenty five were killed. Capt. Bravo was seriously injured FIFY DROWNED. A barge cntaining one hundred people is said to have been torn awaY from its moorings at E:liot's Key and afterwards picked up near the Bahama Islands, fifty of her passen gers having been drowned. It is beleived that a portion of the Florida Fish and Proiuce Company's flaet were drowned. Manager Adams sent out one of their boats Thursday morning to look for the men and boats and on their return they reporoed no sign of the fleet. The fishing nets were found stsewn upo the shore. SAILED DEsFrrIE WARNINGs. The steamer St. Lucie belongs t( 'the fleet of the Florida Eist Coasi RAlway and is employed In carrying workmen to and from the extension work on the Keys. Despite the storm warning, Capt Bravo sailed for Ke3 Sargo with a large number of work men aboard. The steamer was caught in the storm and was driven ashore with the awful loss of life reported In the foregoing. HAVANNA SUFFERs A dispa~cn from Havanna says the oclone which commenced there on Wdnesday afternoon reached its full fury on Tnursday morning. A num or of smaler craft and lighters~were ::unk, 'and some houses were blown dwn. The total number of deaths was 20, all Caibans of the poorer class. The are a number of sailora among the dead, Several score of longshoremen and sailors were ir jured. HORSES KILLED. Q iartermaster General Humphrey, of brne army Friday-night received a dispatch from Quiartermaster Baker, at Ho~vnna, as follows: "Cubana arrived this rarning at 7 o'clock and encountared heavy weather. He: foremast comepletely gone: main mast top gone. N~o men1injured. Con. siderable number of animalE killed and injured. Will report exact numbel with full particulars as soon as can be ascertained." Given F~orty Years. Robert Braham, the Atlanta negro who made the attempt to assault1 Misses Mabel and Edith Lawrence in the suhurbs of that city the 20 of August, has been convicted and giver forty years in the penitentiary. THE captains of industry have Such complete control of the Republican party that every Republican state and congressional eonvention has declared for the tariif that prosects the trusts. Is the military dictator of Cuba op erating under the American flag,. or under the Cuban flag? HONEST men are still in the de mand as political leaders. One hon est man on a ticket with a dozen rog us is expected to pull the whole bunch through and allow them to buck and gag him the very next day. Its a great game as played by the Republicans. IN spite of the declaration of Con gressman Littletield that President Gompers kept him from being defeat ed, there has been no call from Gomp r' services in the many other dis tricts from Republican Congressmen who see defeat staring them in the face. TUE religious editors declare that the h gh rates of postage proposed by the postal commission would severely tax their piety. The high tariff rates dsO tax people's piety. They make the average man swear every time he thinks of them. A CCoRDING to press dispatches from Washington, the Republicans fear se ious loss in New York, Ohio, Illi nois, and Pennsiyvania this year. The President is said to be exceedingly neasy. F Mr. Roosevelt will read the Phil delphia Pr-ess and North American f Oct. 4th, he will see that he blund red when he sold his beauty to the 'enros-PnDypaLcker gang. PxniosE, Hopkins, and Sherman re sioginlg a very doleful song this pear. Their party ha:s been weighed n the balance and found wanting. en nooevlt cannnot cnse them. SREL1GIOUS THOUGHT. gema Gleaned From the Teachngs of All Denomnnatlnas. The great thougnt of nature Is not bow little will do, but bow much ean be used,-Rev. Pleasant Hunter, Prem Uyterian, New York. The Bible% Best Friends. The higher etics are the best frisend the Bible has, for they are determined to tell the truth about It. -Rev. Dr. Moore Sanborn, Unitarian, Atlanta, Q. A Moral Need. The greatest moral need of this age is that men should appreciate the ded Vition of their property rights and should get the intelligence to assert tbem,-Rey. Herbert . Bigelow, Con egatlonalist, aneinuati. What God Wants. The thing that God wants us to do is to stand as representatives of him and reaize that what he would do we can do by the id of his power in and through our tvesaev. D. W. Bartlett, Baptist, Los Angeles, Ca. Helptoenes. The spirit of Christ is the spirit of belpfulness. The helping hand Is open wider today than ever before, and the sad heart of the Man of Nazareth Is surely made to rejoiced-RO. P. H. Swift, Methodist, Chicago. World's Good ftegn Whatever the condition of the world now, the beginning was good, and this good was to be man's permanent pos sesaon. The first scene Is all happi ness, all -beauty. To remember It now Is like a dresm.aev. D. J. Staferd, Roman Catholic. Washington. Tru Development. You cannot come to your true spirit ual development and best moral and mental development until you fret seek Christ and his righteousness, and then al these thinga-gea, all-will be added unto you-Rev. Dr. Frank De Witt Talmage, Presbyterian, Los Angeles, CaL Vazne of Clean Thlnint. The greatest part of the evil done by mankind is the result of allowing the mind to dwell upon things and to become habituated to things that lead to evil acts. Keep your thoughts right, and your Imagination wfMl be pure and your acts will take care of themselves. -Bishop Jagger, Episcopanlan, Boston. The Tongue and Its Use. ne use of the tongue without deeds Is like an artificial rose-beautiful, but without fragrance. The tongue must be under the absolute control of the wil power of the individual and e6 press with sincerity and truth the al us, which is above silver and gold rev. Dr. J. G. I. Luttenberger, ChrM tian Church, St Louis. - move Than scholarship. Scholarship is not the chief thlng. Culture is more than scholarship. Co& leges should give culture. They do not always do so. Some great schol ar are great boors, and not a few are the children of culture who never saw college. Mary was ignorant of books yet, discipuned by sorrow, hers Is the most perfect character In history Rev. N. 2,. Waters, Congregationalist Brooklyn. The Happr. Who are overwhelmingly happy' Whomsoever God has lifted up. Plen ty of you have worse sins than drunk. enness - ingratitude,- disloyalty to Christ, rejection of him who loves you most. Home coming from Babylonlan exile, the liberated Israelites were chanting these fifteen psalms of de grees, sung, some say, each on higher hiltop of the clustering mountain steps approaching their sacred city. On sey enth height rang this laughter paean. To your journey, men and women, hard, trial beleaguered journey, but know life's experiences met In Christ's might are hilltops higher, higher, till one breaks through the clouds and holds heaven on its summit-Rev. Dr. S. Edward Young, Presbyterian, Pitt. burg. Modern Idolatry. Our modern Idolatry is not so cr-ude as was the ancient, but there are many forms bearing the mark of the tool. Our theology, our standard of living and many of our Isms have many tool marks, and It Is the same old lgnorance and Imagination and not infrequently the same old fraud which blind us to the signs of faulty workmanship an our images. We do not need to gc back 100 years, when our theology damned infants, to find the signs of human workmanship. God In the per feton of his living plans for salva tion omitted none, but we need to cease worshiping at the shrines of eur selaness and get his view, obliterat lg all racial and national lines, and go to all the world to apply its truth. The mark of the tool Is on every inter' pretation of the book which enables us to stahd idle while men are lost in sln.-ev. Frederick W. Simpson, Meth edlst;, St. Louis. A Noble Soul. The truly noble soul will enter the lits against evil even though It may not have goaded him to the confiet. The evils of intemperance may never have Invaded his own household, but the Iron that has entered into the soul of so many mothers and fathers will pierce his also. And the nobler he is the more he will suffer with them. The nobler the soul that lives on the ave nue the more It will suffer because of the want and the sin that exist in the slums. The more of the spirit of Christ 1e have the louder will be the cry that sounds In our ears from the millions that sit In darkness and In the shad ows of the great night While the no ble soul must have regard to the pres ece and ravages of evil, it is possible to look at the si that abounds until ike the serpent, it throws Its sp& about us and we can see nothiur' ' Many of the choicest spirite gessi mists because they see no .Lg but the power of the prevalence of evil-Rev. Dr. John L, Himman, Bplscopalian, Pttsburg. The English government has sent detectives to Gastonia, N. C., to see if the complaints of bad treatment of English girls employed in the mills there are true. Frederick Coles Fairbanks, son of the vice president of the United States, eloped on Thursday with Miss Nellie Scott. and they were married. The bride is from Pittsburg. Four "neatly dressed white men," according to the Georgian, were in op ium joint in Atlanta on Wednesday night. They are charged with run ning the joint. Chalburn Mintoo, aged 50, a promi nent farmer, murdered his wife and four children at his home near New Port, Tenn., with an axe, on Saturday atally injuring two other children, and thon commiitted suicide. Wayne Rt. G'ooch, known as "the king of the moonshiners," who is re utd to have made $200,000 by mak ing and selling crooked whiskey, was timed $1,000 in Richmond on Friday for violi n Qf ha revenue lam. ZULU WAR TACTICS. Method of Attack With the Crescent Formation. Zulu military tactics are associated with the name of Tyaka, the rMthless Zulu conqueror, who welded lnts the stock of the Amazulu, the people Ot the heavens, all the young men of the Va goo tribes he conquered, incorporat te= Into regiments and thus Ilding Upa powerful military na ton. Yet it was to Dinglslwayo, the wanderer, that the inception was due. This man, the son of the chief of the Umtetwa, was driven into exile In con sequence of an abortive plot to seize the reins of poweS. During that eile he lived in Cape Colony and saw the military methods of the British. With Instinctigenius he saw how the idea could be adapted to his own nation, and on his return and accession to the chieftainship he divided his people Into regiments, dis tlngushinig them by names and by a special color of shield for each regi mnt, though for a time they retained the nmkomto, or throwing assagal, as their chief weapon. He heard the gret use made by the British infantry Ge their favorite weapon, the bayonet, and so be replaced the umkomto by the inwa, or broad bladed stabbing assa gaL The peculiarity of the Zulu tactics has earned it the name of the crescent formation for attack, and it is note worthy that, broadly speaking, it was the method employed by the Boers in thetr invasion of Natal and adopted by Lord Roberts in his advance through Orange River Colony, and It was the tear of its success which kept the Boors continually on the run. The best thing with which to compare it Is the head of the stag headed beetle. Horns are thrown out widely on either flank, while the main body forms the head itself. From the main body a small force o detached to engage the enemy while the horns creep around the flanks. This force In the days of Tyaka was frequently dispatched with the com mand, "Go, sons of Zulu, go and re turn no more," and death at the hands at their fellows was the fate of those who returned. Whne this soree was oding the enemy the horns carried out their task if possible, and as soon as the two horns had ruet in the rear of the enemy the head or chest was launhed upon the position, and the upshot was that the whole force of the oe tasted the assagal, for in war no quarter was given or asked-'-South Af nSun, - POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Keep away from people you dislike and don't talk about them, Put a hog in a parlor and be would break out and wallow In a mudhole. It becomes necessary occasionally for every man to take punishment. When your time comes don't annoy others with your screams. isn't it a fact that the most success ful men you know are polite men? Then doesn't It follow that if you hooe to succeed you must be polita? When you hear a man abused be hind his back we do not think, "How unpopular other people are?" but "How we all catch It when we are not around?' Don't worry If you are not. good lookirng. You look all right to your friends. The best looks on earth gould not make you look good to your ene mies, and those who are not interested in you don't know how you looks Atchison- Globe. Saved by a Cool Head. Sir Andrew Clarke while traveling In Italy ascended a high tower one even tng and found at the top another tour st, an Englishman. They chatted pleas antly for a few minutes when suddenly the stranger seized Sir Andrew by the shoulders and said quietly, "I am go ig to throw you ever." The man was a maniao. The physician had only a moment In which to gather his thoughts, but that moment saved him. "POOh!" he replied unconcernedly. "Anybody can throw a man off the tower. If we were on the ground you could not throw me up. That would be too diffcult." "Yes, I could," retorted the inaniac. "I could easily throw you up here from the ground. Let us go down, and- I will do It." The descent was accordingly made, during which Sir Andrew managed to secure help and release himself from his perilous 11hen Edison Apoleg'ied, When Thomas A. Edison first camne to Washington to display the grapho phone, which had just recently been in vented, Roscoe Cnnking, who was al ways quits vain, was there too. Mr. Conkling wore a little curl on his fore hed, and when Mr. Whon repeated something about a little gfi with a little curl right In the middle of her forehead the New York senator thought at, of course, the remark was made for him, and Mr. Edison had to apolo gze.-Dr. Beyburn's Beminiscenm of Charles Sumner in Washington Post. A Lofny Min~d. A lofty mind always thinks nobly. It easily creates vivid, agreeable and natural fancies and places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others tstes and clears away from its own thoughts all that Is useless and die agreeale.-ochefoulcauld. Unworthy of D'amnesmbra@@. My Dear Friend-I beg you to 3end me 8,000 francs. Then forget me for ever. I am not worthy to be remem bere-From a Letter Pound hy Paris Judiciously Revised. Never hit a man when he Is upr-D las Morning News. Miss Mary Lewis, a telephone opera tor of Uticv, N. Y., was made blind on Thursday by an electric shock while she was sitting at the switchboard. Mrs. Curdy Green of Dallas, Texas, shot and killed her husband, a street car conductor, on Thursday because, as she says, he had bten untrue to her. James Johnson was convicted in Moultrie. Ga., on Tuesday for murder ing his father. On the reccommenda tion of the jury he was sent to the penitentiary for life. Hundreds of Chinese were burned tO death and a valuable cargo was lost by the steamer Hlanko at Hong Kong on Sunday.__ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A steamboat boiler exploded at Pitsburg, Pa., on Saturda; an d kill ed three men. The 17th annual reunion of the Con federate Veterans will be heid in Rich mond, Va., May 30 and 31 and June 1, 2and 3. mr~g Six inches of snow fell at Corry, Pa. m Thrday nri PRACTICAL JOKRU SHOT. A Farmer Tries to Score One of Is Tenants. Near Paducah, Ky., as the result of a practical joke attempted on a colored tenant on his farm on the Mayfield road, Richard Bell, a dairyman, is confined to his bed with a load of squirrel shot in his back. The Southern limits of the city on the Mayfield road have been terrified for a week with stories of. wolfe, and Spencer Young, a negro tenant em played by Bell, who goes to work at 4 o'clcck every morning, became great1y concerned becau3e he did not have a gu, with which to protect hixself or his way to work. Bell loves a joke, and after thorough ly frightening Young with stories Of the animai's alleged deprediations Tuesday night he hid along the road Thursday morning and as Young ap proached in the gloom, crawled out on his hands and kness and growled. Young, however, had become so completely terrified- that .he night before he had walked to the house- of a neighbor a mile away and borrowed a shotgun, which he charged with cquirrel shot. As he saw the igure and heard the growls of the supposec animal, be let go with both barrelt and then ran. The shot took efect In Bell's bace and side. Young ran to the farmhoust and told of meeting the wolf and shoot lg at it. The others were in on the joke, and, fearing lest the negro had shot too well, returned with him tc the scene, where they found Bel writhing in pain. Doctors have been engaged most o: the day in picking f quirrel shot out 01 Ball's skin, but he is not seriousl1 wcunded. The Sumter Watchman and South ron says "an occasional annual o3 semi-annual raid on the vagrant doe good for a time, but the only way a town can be freed from this class ol criminals is to keep them on th jump every day In the year. Thi applies with as great If not greate force to gamblers, big and little as tc vagrants. Professional gamblerf arf a greater curse to a community thax negro vagrants." TE Good Government Club/ o Monmouth County, New Jersey, hai commenced Its reform work by bag ging a Republican candidate for th Asssembly and another of the mosi prominent Republicans of the count ry. The plan adopted was simple The Club hired a detective, ; whC caught the Republican corporationist redhanded in bribing voters at tho primary election ani thereupox swore out warrants for their arresi under'the anti-bribery law. The sam plan - would bring similar result wherever the corporations control th Republican party. The Progressive Farmer says; "Ono thing should be impressed on th minds of all is that last year's cottol seed must be saved for. next year' crop, as the seed from the new cotto are no good at all. If yon have an: of last year's cotton seed, don't sell al feed them, but save them for plantini purposes. Men who are in position b know advise this as the best :plan. Our farmers should look Into this. THE cetfae trust has entered Intoi deal with 1the BrazIlian government t raise the price of coffee to the AineZ can consumers. When an America1 corporation can enter into an aliano or treaty with a foreign governmen with the design of pillaging the Amer ican people, It Is time to exterminat such a corporation, as a public ene my. A southern Indiana farmer deserv es the belt for the most curious froal so far reported this season. He ha an ear of corn from the top of whic1 is growing, a fully miatured blade c wheat, the head of which Is fillet wth solid grains. From the headca wheat a small nubbin of corn, per fetly formed Is growing. THE effort of the Republicans t convince the country that Presiden Gompers and Labor cut no figure 11 the political campaign this year i already a dismal failure. ALLm American citizens are entitles to equality' before the law, or as the Constitution expresses It, "the equa protection of the\ laws". They havy never had this under the REpublical regime._________ THE Cabinet is to. be reorganized b: the resignation of Maody and Shaw The public can spare both of them though, of course, the President wil aay how sorry he is to lose their valu able services. WE willlhave to get along withoul -e services of the Bough Riders- lx Cuba, for they are too busy holding down government jobs. SECBETAnY Taft Is threatened -vith another handicap to his presi -ental ambition for the New Yer] Sun is showing a dispositIon to sup port him. THE Republican bosses political like the Pittsburg millionaires seem to be an easy mark in matrimony. . Warr a lot of Federal otfices would become vacant if that Rough Ride: regiment becomes necessary in Cuba agamn. THE bad trusts do not seem to. feat the Administration any more thai the good trusts do, if there are anj g2d trusts. marine Disaster. A dispatch from Paris says a feel ing of the deepest passion prevails at the ministry of marine here on ac count of the disaster to the French submarine boat Lieut. which left Bzrt, TunIs, Wednesday morning for a plunging experiment, ha'ving on board a crew of fourteen men, com-. mnanded by Lieut. Pheopon and which was reported Wednesday nighit to have disappeared. Standard Oil Guilty. At Findlay, Ohio, the jury in the Stanard Oil case came into court at 4:35 Friday morning with a verdict guilty. The jury retired at 8:30 Wed nesday night and remained closely guarded until the verdict was an counced Friday morning. The Stand ard Oil Company was charged with vioaing the anti-trust law in com bining n restraint of trade. The pen alty Is a file from $500 to $1,000, which may be renewed for each day that off nse, or Imprisonment not ex seding 12 months. The Standard O1 Company has given notice It will a.pply for new trial Fearful Railroad Accident. A hundred lives are reported killed In an accident Friday on the railway THE Cnicago Rcord-Herald says than treasurer Congressman McKin lay admits that the 81 contributions to the Republican car-paign are less than 850.000. He declared, however, "that this was Tmp'y r~cffident to wage&a campaign in all the necessary congressional districts this yEar." If that amou:t is t uiAnZ w1hy are the trusts and corpiati ns being called or for cortrituions .3 -y are of fice holders beirg assweE?" Pctirrater General Cortelycu is sill holding the positoln of chairman of the Republican NatiOnal Cammit tee and inti retted in the collection of campaigu iuods from the corporations and the office-holders. This would have been dencurced in fcr-rer yeirs by that enthusiastic civil service re former Charles Joseph Bonaparte, now Secretary of the Navy, but being a part of a reform Administration, appears to have closed his eyes -to that Infraction of civil service ideals. The State says "Mr. AllieD. Web ster, Postmaster at Oraugeburg, left Columbia Wednesday afternoon at 2.45 in his "Reo" .and arrived at Orangeburg at .9.07, a distance of 48 miles in 82 minuites. Mr. and Mrs. Webster and Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Van Oradell and two chuidren were the passengers. THEY say that Senator Beveridge wept when he heard that Taft was fl, Jug the Cuban flag over the Cuban public buildinga. When the imper ialistic bug gets Into a Republican politician's head of the Beveridge caliber, he is pretty near a candidate for the "bug house". SECEETARY Loeb has not been heard from for two weeks, and the Washington Post lives In hopes that "the rabbits" of Jackson's Hole, Wyoming, have captured him. It warned Loeb of the danger from those ferocious brutes before he started and wants to have the pleasure of saying, "we told you so". Aformer'mayoror Dablin, Ga., and vice president of the bank was shot in a hotel at Vidalia by a lumber man, Will T. G:pin, whose wife had made an appointment to meet Ma Donald at the hotel. IT certainly is rather awkward for President Roosevelt that the $9,000, 000 steal should be expose&just when he Is dedicating the Capitol of Penn slyvania for public use. But politic lans who mingle with Penrose gang must expect to be defiled. G. L. Toole, local option, was ele ted senator from Aiken county on Saturday to succeed Senator Tohhaon I deceased, beating his Opponint J. IL I Polatty, pro-dispensary, by nearly three to one. Two Norweigan sailors were fined in Charleston Monday for dressinz as women and disporting themselves in public. SsIDENT Palms is any way saved. the trouble of working for a third term. IT Is hoped that Prof. Muck who has come over from Garmany to teach us music will not turn his tuning fork Into a muck rake. Twelve Lost in Five. )At Biminghamn, Ala., early Thurn. day morning at -least twelv~e persons lost their lives in a dire which destroy ed a boarding house at Twenty-eighth Street and Third avenue. The house was filled with lodgers, many cf- whomn were In bed when the blsze started. A - panic followed when they were awak enedand some were killed by. jumping brom windows, while others were un able to escape and were burned to death.. Fell From a Steeple. Charles .Tones, a negro carpenter, f ell from-a -chumch aseeple, 53 feet - B igh, and was Ainstantly killed late Thursday afternoon in Union county. He had just put the finishing touches tthe jah when slipping on the plat form he plunged downward.'Hls neck - being broken. His body was broughb here today. , - ' Bridlge Collapsed. A stone bridge over the Lynesvilled Creek, near White Haven, Pa., collap-- - sed Thursday while workmen were engaged upon it, and two of the men were Instantly killed while another was probably fatally ijared Wreck on coast Line. A terrible wreck ocmrred near Dunn, IN. 0.. on the Short-cut dl'vis-. Ion of the Atlantic Coast Line Eail way, about 10 30 o'clock Thursday night in which two members of the - train crew were killed and three oth ea seriously injured. The dead are: Conductor Walker .T. Turbeville, of Florence;~ Brakeman ? Elis Covington, colored, of Florence. The Injured are: Engineer W. G. Mc. Liuchlin, of Fayetteville, N.. C., leg and body bruised, and Fireman Judge Craig, colored, of Florence, seriously scalded. Flagman Charles E. Ma, white, of Florence, was seriously. In jred by being thro wn against end of the caboose, The train that was wrecked was the first section of No. 210, the north bound fast freight, from ffiorence to South REcky Mount, N. C. It was speeding along at the rate of about thirty miles an hour. The wheels of the monster locomotIve mounted the rail between the switch and the frog .1of the side track thats leads to the Southern Cotton 0O1 Mill plant, about - one mile north of Dain, N. C., and then fall on the ties and burie d itself broadside in the ditch on the draman's side, about two cars' len- ths from where it left the rails, and ten box coars pied themselves high in the air on top of the locomotive. The cause of the wreck cannot be asectained. Mr~s. Davis' Funeral. The train bearing the b-:dy of Mrs. Jefferson Davis, who died in New York last week, arrived in Richmond, Va., Friday morning an~d was met by Let. Governor Ellion and details from Lse and Pickett esteps Confed rte veterans, who escorted the body - to St. Paul's Chuircb, where It was placed In the lecture room. Those_ accompanying the body from New York were: Maj. Owen, commander of the Confcddrate camp in New York, Dr. J. Harvie Dow, Col. Theo. . Casbln, Barry D:Leon and Mrs. - Joseph Plitz:-r. Toe funeral took place at three o'cleck Friday afternoon . when the body was laid beside that of ier distinguished husband, President Jefferson D)avis, in Hollywood Ceme- ~ Death or a (arolinian. - Mj. E B. Q iattlebaum, Inspector : of customs at MoubleO, who fell from a , barge and died from the injuries re eived, was a native of t~d as ate. He had been a resident of Mobile for sev eral years. -, THE Fairbanks speeches go to prove that our Vice-presidents are only or iamental,