Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WAVE OF CRIME. Chistmas Festivities Marked by Many Shooting Scrapes ALL OVER THE LAND. A Wave of Crime Seems to Have Broken Loose All Over the Coun try During the Christmas Eve and Two or Three Days After. Mur ders and Self Destruction Make Up List of the Violations of Law. An awful wave of crime seemed to pass over the country on Christmas Day and the day after. It makes one shudder to think of them. Here is a partial list of the murders and sui cides that occurred on those two days: ASSAULTED HIS FATHER. A message from Flowery Branch, Ga., to the Augusta Chronicle, says Law Hawkins, son of Ex-Senator W. B. Hawkins, is in jail on a charge ol assault on his father with murderous intent. The cause of the trouble has not been learned. It is said Law Haw kins will be tried for lunacy. SHOT BY EX-SHERIFF At Lexington, Ga., Ex-Sherifl George W. Cumming shot George Brooks in the back of the head witb a pistol Thursday. Cummings wa hit on the head with a heavy weight. The wound of Brooks is serious. KILLING AT SAVANNAH. A dispatch from Savannah, Ga. says "this has been a noisy, but fair ly orderly Christmas. There have been but two killings, one of a negre by a white man and the other of E negro by a negro. W. J. Mixon wa the slayer of Joe Bryan, the negrc having made insulting remarks aboul white women, which augmented the trouble between the two." SHOT IN HOME. Harry Morrell, of Turkey Run Pa., was shot and killed while trim ing a Christmas tree in his homE early Thursday by Frederick Taylor a fellow miner. Taylor had been vis iting at Morrell's home, but was ask ed to leave after a quarrel. He weni home, according to the police, and securing a rifle, returned to Morrell', house. OFFICER KILLS NFGRO. At Tampa, Fla., Deputy Sheriff W C. Deas. late Christmas afternoor shot and killed Charles Strong, a ne gro, Strong was standing in front ol police headquarters, when the depu ty sheriff drove up. Strong threat ened to shoot, when Deputy Dea pulled his revolver anca fired thre( bullets into the negro's body. caus ing almost instant death. FATALLY WOUNDED. As a result of a Christmas carou sal in the Pound Gap section, of Ken tucky, Morgan Hughes, aged 24 Christmas day shot and fatally wounded Washington Pollock, age< 30. It is said that both the men's fac tions are arming themselves in con sequence. SLAiSHED EACH OTHER. At Chicago two men, both uncon seious and each suffering from number of knife wounds, were founc within a few feet of each othe2 Christmas day at Grand avenue and Desplaines street. The men, evi dently had slashed each other until both fell weak from loss of blood. MURDERS IN NEW YORK. Christmas Day in New York city was ushered in with two murders Because he refused the price of drink to a passing stranger, Johr Sweeney, was struck over the head with a black jack and later died Mariano Gaeto, was called to the doo2 of his apartments in West 28th street and shot to death by an unknowr man. BLOWN TO ATOMS. Paul Garil, employed at the Doro thy works, near Latrobe. Pa., was blown to atoms while celebrating thE advent of Christmas. He ran a wire from a telephone battery in a foreigr boarding house to some dynamite it a can. The exrlosive was premature lv set off. TOOK HIS OWN LIFE. At St. Louis on a crowded street car in the midst of a party of stu dents celebrating the coming of Christmas day, James Hornish de serted by his wife and doubly miser able at the sight of the joy around him, quieted the mnerrymnakers by ending his life with carbolic acid this morning. His only words sev eral times repeated were: "Mother." WAYLAID AND KILLED. Near Roxie, Miss., while return ing home John Temple and J. C. Campbell were waylaid and Campbell was killed and Temple shot through the arm. Campbell was shot in the stomach and had his head almost blown off. Campbell was out on bond having killed a young man named Grover in May last. Temule was his main witness in the case. FELL AND BROKE NECK. Jackson Stilley, 50 years old, of West Elizabeth Pa., while stelthily trying to escape the eyes of the younger members of the family and hide Christmas presents, fell down stairs Christmas Eve night and broke his neck. SHOT SELF AFTER DINING. "That was about the best Christ mas dinner that I ever ate. I certain ly did enjoy it," said Henry Horner, to his wife in their home at 7304 Sus (;uehannla avenue Pittsburg Pa., Ch istmas evening. The husband then went to his bed room and shot him - o death. He had been wor rying over the loss of his position re cently. sHJT HIM DOWN. Luther Wallace, 20 years old, shot and killed Lee Eldridge in the Hols ton valley, near the Virginia line. Wallace, while intoxicated, broke in to the postoffice at Harris, Tenn., and a warrant was issued for his ar rest. Deputy Sheriff White deputiz ed Eldridge to assist in making the arrest. Wallace surprised the two men when they approached him, and after shooting Eldridge, escaped. go ing into Virginia. THREW BOMB AT WIDOW. Because Santine Mastrin~ela, a pretty widow of Clarlerer, Pa., wo ild not marry him, Joseph Roa throw, threw a dynamite bomb through the window of her home. AN AWFUL TRAGEDY. Fatal shooting Scrape in a Ker shaw Barber Shop. Two Prominent Young Men Instnt ly Killed and Another Received a Mortal Wound. As the result of a difficulty in Ker shaw between 11 and 12 o'clock Sat urday night, two prominent young business men of the town are dead and a third is seriously, if not fa tally wounded. The facts are that Steve Welsh, who was manager of the Heath Sup ply - Company. and Van Mungo, an other young man who clerks for Car son and Company, had some words ir Wilson's barber shop. but they soor made up and shook hands. The reconciliation was quickly fol lowed by an altercation betweer Welch and Berry Mobley, a young man also connected with the Carsor store. Thomas Clyburn, head cler of the Heath Supply Company, in terceded as peace-maker, when sud denly Welsh and Mobley drew pistol, and began firing at each other, Welst is said to have fired the first shot. Clyburn and Welsh were instant ly killed, both being shot in thi body, Welsh receiving three bullet and Clyburn two. Mobley was sho twice, one ball entering the breas and the other the throat. He is stil alive, though his condition is criti cal. The killing of Clyburn was clear ly an accident. The impression ii that he was killed by bullets fron the pistol of Welsh, who was hii first cousin and personal friend. Clyburn was a son of Hon. W. U Clyburn, of Haile Gold Mine. an< was about 25 years of age. He wa a student at Clemson at one time His mother was in Charlotte at thi time of the tragedy. He leaves : widow, having married about a yea ago. Welsh was a son of the late Capt James V. Welsh, of Kershaw. an was about 28 years old. He was un married. Mobbley, the desperately wound ed man, is a son of W. C. Mobley of Lancaster. Too Mild. There are distinctions without dit ferences, also differences without dis tinctions. A small man, noted for hi economy In speaking truth. demos strated the fact. After a long and ex asperating career of prevaricatioi chance brought him up standinj against a bigger individual, who ha the courage of his convictions, also nice sense of discrimination in the us of language. He said things to th little man - things that made lik writhe and turn purple in the fact "But the worst of it all was." whine the little man to his confidant late1 "he never once called me a liar--sai< I was nothing but a miserable littl story teller."-Success Magazine. He Was a GM Judge. aA few weeks befor. Grieg, the con poser, died Carreno played his concert in London and played it so magnif cently that the audience refused t -calm down. Among the most excite was an old man who called: "Brav<( bravol I :a-s never heard It playes better!" Carreno graciously acknow: edged the compliment. When she wa recalled before the footlights again h said, "No one ever played that cot certo better than you just now!" Agai Carreno acknowledged his enthu siasti words. After the same performanc had occurred three or four times sh began to show signs of annoyance, bu her vexation vanished as the old ma: finally called out: "I ought to know. wrote It myself!" Virtue of Exercise. Do you ever see a woman with he ears covered, no matter bow cold it is Do you ever heaz of a woman havint her ears frozen? Well, it isn't because women's ear! are made of something different. No at all. It is because they use theil ears, and the exercise keeps theix warm. A woman hears everything. New York World. explosion of the bomb, and her housi and other houses in the vicinity tool fire, so that altogether $10,000 worti of property was consumed. Josepi is in .iail. BILLIARD ROOM TRAGEDY. At Riverside, Cal., H. S. Swangan constable at Tomnacula, and Loui: Escalier, a Frenchman, were shot and instatly kiiled Wednesday night by Horace Magee, a half-bred Indian in the Degoumes billiard room. Ma gee was struck on the head by a bil lard cue by John Jackson a bystand er, and will die. TWO BURNED TO DEATH. At North De'ver, Ohio, two peo pe were burned to death and a third was fatally hurt in a fire which de stroyed the general store and apart ment house of J. B. Currier Wednes. day. KILLED BY HIS SON. Duncan Sheffield, a very prosper ous farmer living at Winona, Ga. was killed by his son Christmas Eve night. Details of the affair are mea gre, but it is said that Sheffield and his son became involved in a quarrel about a horse and buggy. As yet the son has not been arrested and nc warrant has b~en issued. ONLY iKILLED TwO. Christ mas Eve shortly before noon Wallace Dval, a woodsman, employ ed by W. L. Hinson & Co ,.at a tur pentine still about eightee'n miles from Waycross, was sh,,t riown by a crowd of negroes who v.ecre rlghting among themselves. Before dying he Ishot antd in tantly killed two negroes. H-E SST1L3D IT. At Covington, La., H mrry Route, a negro, entered the front yard of a IMr. Bradley, white, inviting the lat ter to settle a money matter by "coming out to shoot it out." Brad ley killed the negro. THREE MORE KILLINGS. At New Albany, Miss., Ed F. Mill' house, a section foreman, shot and killed Martin Arnold, also a man. Both are white. Vaiden. Miss., was the scene of a terrible fight which cost the lives of both parties. Maury Davis, white, and Wmn. Spinx, colored. A love affair at Greenville, Miss.. caused Ed Smith, a negro, to seek gr.out and kill Jim English, another ne STORY OF ESCAPE Of Gen. J. H. Morgan, from the Ohio Penitentiary. The Noted Cinfederate Raider and His Comrade Had No Assistance from Outside. Ever since the escape of John Mor gan the famous Confederate raider from the Ohio penitentiary insinua tions have been made that Morgan and six of his comrades had outside assistance from Southern sympathiz ers, and that Warden Nathaniel Me rion conived at the escape. But this is not the case. Thomas W. Bullitt, of Louisville, lieutenant in the second Kentucky 1 Cavalry duriug the celebrated Mor gan raid, has just visited the cell in the Ohio penitentiary in which he was confined in 1863-4 as a prisoner of war. rhis is Mr. Bulitt's first visit to the penitnetiary since the escape. In very expressive terms he denies the insinuations regarding the escape. Accompanied by the deputy warden. Mr. Bulitt visited the cell in which he was confined and also that was occupiad by Morgan. "There was no outside help in the escape," said Mr. Bullitt to a representative of the New York Times. "I know, I was in with the plan from the first, and I helped dig the tunnel through wnich the men escaped. The whole thing was plan nen by Captain Thomas Hines, and the hole through the floor was in his cell. It was kept absolutely se cret, even from our own men. "Not more than a dozen or fif teen knew anything about it until the last day when we were unable to keep it from them any longer. I knew about it because I helped with the work. I am positive that not a sin gle person on the outside knew a thing about it. And I'll say this about Merion, who was warden at this time: I never did like him--] disliked him exceedingly-but he did not know a thing about the es cape. There has been some suspi cion that there was some conniov ance on his part, but it was absolut ely untrue. "The work was all done with case knives, which we stole from the din ing room, and one shovel, which one of the men stole somewhere. It war used in digging the tunnel." Bullitt assisted the other men tc get away, but did not go himseli - because his cell was near the end of - the cell block--No. 4--and a gaurd i stood near it. It was feared this guard would hear him if he made an attempt, so he decided he should stay behind. Captain Hines, who had cell 19, commenced the work, dig ging through the floor, under his bed. Every morning he would clean his cell up nicely and put every thing in such prim condition that s look at the inside, without making an examination. "During the day when the men were allowed the freedonr of the corridors for exercise, down through this hole the met would climb. The cell tier was buili o on an archday, and in herE there was plenty of room to work o The distances were carefully meas. 3 red and holes dug up to the cells Sfrom below. When the floor hiac 2 been sufficiently removed that - stamp of the foot would break il through, work would be started or eanother cell. "At the same time work was go ing on in the tunnel. On the day of General Morgan's escape hE achanged cells with his brother, 'Big aDick' Morgan. A hole had beet t due into Diek's cell. In this wal the general escaped, the brothel I staying behind. I"Four of the seven men who es. caped are dead," said Mr. Bulitt "Smth, I have not seen for twc years or more and I am not certair whether he is living, but I think ne is. McGee and one other I lost traci of soon after the war, and I don't know whether they are living," Mr. Bulstt was a prisoner from~ August, 186.3, until early in thE sping of 1864. Only the commis sioned officers were confined and on lv a part of them were put in the Ohio penitentiary. the others being - taken to Allegheny, Pa. Mr. Bul lit knew but little about the prison, ased Mrgan men were not allow etowork in the shops. "The only part of the inside of the penitentiary I ever got to see was my own corridor and what I could see while beingmarched acrosi the court to my meals. We ofter wisied they would put us to work in the shops. We would have takers ~the prison if they had." Mr. Bullit came near making this visit to the prison on the anniversary of Morgan's escape. It was in No vember 27, 1863, and his visit was only a few days later, forty-four years after the escape. "You after the job as offce boy?" asked the merchant. "Sure'" replied the youngster. "Any previous experience?" "No. sir, nothin' previous about me, an' I don't whistle." "Hang up your hatl"-Philadelphia Press. A Nice Job. A poor laboring man was recently fined and bound over to make his wife, a very garrulous and quarrelsome wo man, keep the peace for six months. t would be curious to trace how the unfortunate husband accomplished such a feat, but It was doubtless achieved through the pressure which magisterial authority had placed on his unfortunate shoulders.-Westmin ster Review. Enameled Ornaments of Antiquity. Enameled ornaments were among the treasured possessions of the Greeks. Etruscans and Byzantines, and the art was also recognized by ancint nations less cultured and artistic. To such a degree of perfec tion did the ancients carry the art that modern skill and fancy has found little to improve and practical ly all the old systems remiain in force to-ay. Music Shcets for Wall Paper. Two unituely ador-ned rooms are In the residence of Christine Nilsson, the Swedish vocalist. In her sleeping room. instead of wall paper the walls are adorned with leaves of music from music from the operas in which she has sung. Her dining-room walls are decorated with a collection of ho tel bills which she incurred and paid dung her trIps nroma the wyl. AS HE SEES US. A Fair Northern Man's Views of South Carolina. SOCIAL CONDITIONS. The Very Interesting Address of Mr. Geo. A. Beers, Formerly of Bris tol, Conn., But Now a Resident of Rowesville, Delivered at His For nier Home to an Audience of Re publicans. Mr. George A. Beers, assistant treasurer of the J. H. Blake Lumber company of Rowesville, S. C.. who is at his home in Bristol, Conn., for the Christmas holidays, was by request of the programme committee of the Men's Union of the Congregational church, the speaker at the meeting of the Union Sunday noon, and he took for his subject, "A View of the Physical, Social and Moral Con'di tions of South Carolina and Its Peo ple, with Special Reference to the Prohibition Wave that is Spreading Over the South." A correspondent writing to The State from Bristol says what makes the address of interest to readers of a Southern paper is that Mr. Beers, who has lived in the Soutn for the last 10 months, and in that time has come to view Southern conditions from a Southern standpoint, was lis tened to with the closest attention by an audience every one of whom is a Republican in poiitics and are lead ers of thought in the community. Mr. Beers said in part that the physical conformation of South Car olina might be divided into the high lands and lowlands and that while the southern part of the State was almost a dead level, the northern part, commencing at Orangeburg, 70 mi'as from the sea, was slightly rolling with higher hills in the vicin ity of Columbia and mountains in the northern part of the State. The conformation of the land de cided apparently the character of the settlements of the early days. The cavaliers came to South Carolina and settled on the lowlands and built up large estates and lived in baronial style and with their great estater cultivated by negroes became the ar istocrats of the State. The higher lands were settled by small farmers of Scotch-Irish ancestry and to thih day there is something of a distinc tion in the character of the people inhabiting the different sections. There never have been nearly sc many negroes in the upper counties of the State. In speaking of the social conditions it can be said that the ever present negro furnishes a question that only the Southerner can handle wisely andc he will be put to his vit's ends tc know how to handle it to the besi advantage of all concerned. In the first place there is no well definec race antagonism. The negro must noi askfor social or political equality and it can be said that in the rural comn munities he is not looking for it or expecting it.. A white man who goes into the State from the North must learn that the negro is never to be address ed assir. He does not expect to bE put on the same social plane as thE white man and will despise the whitE man who accords him that place Then again the white man from thE North must not do it, if he expect to be treated like a white man b the Southerners. Among themselves the Southern ers are the most hospitable people or the face of the earth and the strang er in their midst will be treated likE one of their own kind, as long as hE does not overstep the code of conduci which the Southerner has establish. ed for himself. When it comes to business the Northerner will find that the man ira the Southland is able to hold his owr with the sharpest Yankee that ever tried to make a bargain. There was a time when the Southerner who call ed himself the aristocrat looked dowi on the man of business and the pro. fessional man as well, unless the lat ter was a land owner also, but thai day has largely passed away. Today the business man of the State is its greatest hope for future success. Columbia is a good proof of what business can do for the South. With a population that has nearly doubled since the last census was taken it is one of the most progressive cities of the South. Time was when a female who did not marry was not allowed under any circumstances that might arise to dc anything towards her support, but that has passed away along with oth er old time ideas. Today the daughtcr of the South who has received a college education goes out to use that education by helping to improve the minds and morals of others. The speaker has known of a number of young ladies of the greatest refinement, coming from the best homes in Orangeburg who are not obliged to do anything for a living, who are at the present time teaching school in the rural communities about Rowesville and St. Georges. What this means not only to the better education of the coming generation but in the way of teaching them by example a more refined way of living, can only be es timated by those who have lived in those communities and understand the necessity for such an education. While the people of the State have some characteristics that seem un fortunate to a dweller in a more con servative State, such as the two fre quent homicides, yet the better ele ments in the State, including all the leading papers, are casting the influ ence against the too frequent using of the gun to settle disputes. It must be remembered that half of the murders in the State are laid to the negro population and that they belong there. The home life of the Southern family is something to be admired. No child thinks of addressing a fath er without adding sir arnd the~ love of the children for the rmother is some thing beautiful to see. The Southern ~white family as a rule is a big one and this in the mind of the speaker is going to solve the supremacy of Ithe race question. Families of eight, ten or twelve children are the rule instead of being the rare exception as in the North. While this is true of the whites just the reverse is true of* the olored children. While they C-..nary Convenien:es. Cul:nary convcnicnces are constant ly increasing and the inventors keep faculties and wits steadily at work devising contrivances that will le sn labor for tne COOK and add to the comi fort of the household in general. A t-rio of the most recent of these inven tion are here pictured, all of which the housewife is certain to find a de cided help. A special mission of the vegetable fork is to facilitate the ex traction of baked potatoes from the oven, but its uses are ms.ny and va ried. The coffee strainer is an adjust NEW VtGZ-IABL~j able device which will fit over the ordinary coffee pot and transform it into the French variety easily and satisfactorily. The nutmeg grater plays a less important part in the list than the other two, but the cook who uses nutmegs to any great extent v- i appreciation this 1905 design, which is a marked improvement on its pre''e cessors and very simple to manipu late. are born into the world in great numbers only a small comparative percentage get beyond infancy and of those who grow up but few live to old age. At the Prospect camp meeting, which the speaker visited last fall, where 1,200 negroes were gathered together there were but few to be seen who were over 50 years of age and of these all without an exception were old time slaves. The larger portion of any gathering of negroes to be seen in the State are under 30 years of age and the cause for this is found in the death rate which is abnormally high, owing to unsanitary living and inherited dis ease which saps the vital powers. The speaker boarded while in the South with a doctor and he was told that the death rate anong the ne groes from pneumonia during the winter and spring months was something great. They take no care of themselves or of each other when sick and a pneumonia patient is almost sure to die. Consumption which was unknown in the old slavery days, now claims its victims by the thousands among the negroes. This condition of the negroes may be something to be deplored but it looks to the speaker like a survival of the fittest and as being the way that nature takes to carry out its inevitable laws. In speaking of the wayve of prohibi tion that is sweeping over the State it can be said that the negro or rath er the presence among thc people of the negro is responsible for what is being done all through the South. While the negro in the rural com munities of the South is tractable and docile when sober, there is no telling what he will do when drunkA and the fear of what inight happen in communities where the negro out numbers the whites tniree or four to one, as he does in many pla'ees in the South, that is making the white man pass laws that will make it as hard as possib~e for the black man to get liquor. The white man of the South is much like his white broth er of the North. While there is no longer the sideboard in every home with an invitation to drink extended to e;'ery visitor any more than the same thing exists in the North, yet the white man by means of clubs and kindred organizations will get what he needs to drink even in pro hi>ition States like Georgia and Ala bama, The speaker thinks that the -coun ty dispensary law of South Carolina with local option comes as near solv ing the drink evil as any method that has come under his observation. With the business handled in the way that it is and with good men in the county dispensaries who will not sell to men who are drunk or drunk ards and with the law asit is, so that it must be sold only between sun up and sun down and the places closed on special occasions, it seems to meet the situation as well as any law of human contrivance can, It is the opinion of the speaker that near ly all the counties except Richiand and Charleston in the State will go dry at the next general election. It is also his opinion that the law as it stands is pretty well observed in every county in the State except Charleston, where practically every restaurant in the city is a blind tiger for the sale of liquor. The people of South Carolina are a religious people so far as outward forms go and in the little village which has been the home of the speaker for the last year practically every man, woman and child is a Methodist, which church fairly di vides the honors for membership among the people of the State. In noticing obituary noticies as Iprinted in The State the speaker has observed that practically every one written about who is a man of ma ture years recites the fact that he was a distinguished member of such and such a regiment in the late war and he was an active member of uch and such a charch. The speaker believes that the peo pe of South Carolina are as good Iand. no better morally and spiritually than the native born population of Conner 'icut. Of course they do niot have tue foreign element with their loose way of observing Sunday to deal with as does Connecticut. The speaker is satisfied that the proud old State of South Car olina which stood with Connecticut shoulder to shoulder in fighting th - war of In dependence has a splendid future before her. The war and the Reconr struction days put back her develop ment half a century but the people have taken hold to place her in the front rank of States and already their efforts are bearing fruit to a degree that one not acquainted wth the State of affairs would hardly be SOME GOOD BO( Will .be Sent to Any One Asking. Mark Those You Want, Out and Mail to Your man. The books mentioned worth fifty dollars, but y, them free by marking want, cut out the list a your congressman and h them sent to you. 22. The Feeding of Far 24. Hog Cholera and S 25. Peanuts: Culture a.. 27. Flax for Seed an, 28. Weeds, and How tc 29. Souring and Other Milk. Pp. 22. 32. Silos and Silage. I 33. Peach Growing for Market. 34. Meats. Composition and Cook ing. Pp. 31. 35. Potato Culture. Pp. 24. 36. Cottonseed and Its Products. 39. Onion Culture. Pp. 30. 42. Facts about Milk. Pp. 32. 44. Commercial Fertilizers. 47. Insects Affecting the Cotton Plant. Pp. 32. 48. The Manuring of Cotton. 49. Sheep Feeding. Pp. 24. 1. Standard Varieties of Chick ens. Pp. 48. 52. The Sugar Beet. Pp. 48. 54. Some Common Birds. Pp. 48. 55. The Dairy Herd. Pp. 30. 58. The Soy Bean as a Forage Crop. Pp. 24. 59. Bee Keeping. Pp. 48. 60. Methods of Curing Tobacco. 61. Asparagus Culture. Pp. 40. 62. Marketing Farm Produce. 63. Care of Milk on the Farm. 64. Ducks and Geese. Pp. 55. 66. Meadows and Pastures. Pp. 30. 71. Essentials in Beef Production 72. Cattle Ranges of the South west. Pp. 32. 74. Milk as Food. Pp. 39. 77. 'The Liming of Soils. Pp. 24 80. The Peach Twig Borer. Pp. 16 81. Corn Culture in the South. 82. The Culture of Tobacco. 83. Tobacco Soils. Pp. 23. 85. Fish as Food. Pp. 32. 86. Thirty Poisonous Plants. 88. Alkali Lands. Pp. 23. 91. Potato Diseases and Treat ment. Pp. 15. 93. Sugar as Food. Pp. 31. 95. Good Roads for Farmers. 96. Raising Sheep for Mutton. 98. Suggestions to Southern Farm ers. Pp. 48. 99. Insect Enemies of Shad( Trees. Pp. 30. 100. Hog Raising in the South. 101. Millets. Pp. 30. 102. Southern Forage Plants. 104. Notes of Frost. Pp. 24. 106. Breeds of Dairy Cattle.. 109. Farmers' Reading Courses. Pp. 20. 110. Rice Culture in the Unitec' States. Pp. 28. 111. Farmer's Interest in Gooc Seed. Pp. 24. 112. Bread and Bread-Making. 113. The Apple and How to Gro' 118. Grape Growing in the South 120. Insects Affecting Tobacco. 121. Beans, Peas and Other Le gumes. Pp. 38. 125. Protections of Food Products from Injurious Temperatures. 126. Practical Suggestions foi Farm Buildings. Pp. 48. 127. Important Insecticides. 128. Eggs and Their Uses as Food 129. Sweet Potatoes. Pp. 40. 131. Household Tests for Detec tion of Oleomargarine and Renovat ed Butter. Pp. 10. 132. Insect Enemies of Growing Wheat. Pp. 38. 134. Tree Planting in Rural School Grounds. Pp. 32. 135 Sorghum Syrup Manufacture. Pp. 40 136. Earth Roads. Pp. 24. 137. The Angora Goat. Pp. 48. 138. Irrigation in Field ~and Gar den Pp 40 140. Pineapple Growing. Pp. 48. 142. Principles of Nutrition and Nutritive Value of Food. Pp. 48. 143. Conformation of Beef and Dairy Cattle. Pp. 44. 145. Carbon Bisulphid as an In secticIde. Pp. 28. .14 6. Insecticides and Fungicides 147. Winier Forage Crops for thc South. Pp. 40. 150. Clearing. New Land. Pp. 24. 151. Dairing in the South. Pp. 48 152. Scabies in Cattle. Pp. 32. 154. The Home Fruit Garden: Preparation and Care. Pp. 16. 155. How Insects Affect Health in Rural DIstricts. Pp. 19. 156. The Home Vineyard. Pp. 22. 157. The Propagation of Plants. 159.' Scab in Sheep. Pp. 48. 161. Practical Suggestions foi Fruit Growers. Pp. 30. 164. Rape as a Forage Crop. 165 Silkworm Culture. Pp. 32. 166. Cheese Making on the Farm. 167. Cassava. Pp. 32. 168. Pearl Millet. Pp. 16. 170. Principles of Horse Feedirg. 173. Primer of Forestry. Pp. 48. 174. Broom Corn. Pp. 30. 17-5. Home Manufacture and U~se of Unfermented Grape Juice. Pp. 16 177. Squab Raising. Pp. 32.. 179. Horseshoeing. Pp. 30. 181. Pruning. Pp. 39. 182. Poultry as Food. Pp. 40. 183. Meat on the Farm: Butch'er ing, Curing and Keeping. Pp. 37. 184. Marketing Live Stock, Pp. 40. 185. Beautifying Home Grounds. 187. Drainage of Farm Lands. 188. Weeds Used in Medicine. 192. Barnyard Manure. Pp. 32. 194. Alfalfa Seed. Pp. 14. 195. Annual Flowering Plants. 196. Usefullnless of the Amer'ica.1 Toad. Pp. 1 6. 197. Importation of Game Birds and Eggs for Propagation. Ppp. . 198. Strawberries. Pp. 24. 199. Corn Growing. Pp. 32. 200. Turkeys. Pp. 40. 201. Cream Seperator on Western, Farms. Pp. 23. 203. Canned Fruits, Preserves. and Jellies. Pp. 32. 204. The Cultivation of Mush rooms. Pp. 24. 205. Pig Management. Pp. 40. 206. Milk Fever and Its Treat 208. Varieties of the Fruits Re commEnded for Planting. Pp. 48. 209. Controlling the Boll Weevil in Cottomedcd a~ at Ginneries. 211. The U:e r onrolin the Conon Bo.1 Neevl. 3SE NT-MINDEDNESS. .uggestion for Cure-Concentration is the Secret for Presence of Mind. 'he little bride who started to the er wearing her "gumshoes" over - satin slippers was an awful ex "ple of the absent-minded woman .o is with us today in a most ex grated form. She turns on the ter wbn sLe meant to light the s; locks the safe, but forgets to put r jewels in it; leaves her umbrella the shop counter and sets tke aole department store on edge look g for it; orders three yards of rib )n cut off and then discovers tat ie only wanted three-quarters of a a;rd, and otherwise turns the world )psy-turvy. Now, there is some excuse for a an who is absent-minded. Men are ;upposed to be so busy thinking about he big. things of this life that they iave no time to bother with the little nes. The noble creature who is m k ng a million in Wall street cannot ae expected to rememnber to bring home a spool of thread aAd a piece of blotting paper. As yet he may have gotten only as far as a twenty-dollar salary, but that million Is already buzzing in his brain, to the exclusion of small gnats. Besides, it is a wo man's duty only to think of the ilttle things; and there isn't a mortal wo man living who would not give two fingers to be able to remember and attend to each detail in the right way and at the right moment. It saves sO much time and energy, and mental worry to keep one's wits about one. Yet with all the jokes which have been written upon the absent-minded ones, there has never been a single cure offered or suggested. Absent-mindedness is a habit. We have gotten in the way of living ahead of ourselves. We try to think ahead of what we are doing, and thereby become jumbled. We read the evening papers in the morning, buy our summer clothes in January and have our fur coats made over in JO:3 The woman who lives and thinks ahead of herself dosn't gain time; she only loses equilibrium. While shi is making the coffee for breakfast she is planning a new hat; while she is buying the hat she is thinking of te frock she will get to match it; while the frock is being fitted, she is de ciding to give a tea where she maY wear it. She never thinks of the thing she is doing at the momeni when she is doing it. And yet that it the secret for the cure of absent mindedness, blues and every kind of nervousness. It sounds wonderfully easy, but I1 is not Try it for a whole day. Keel your mind on what you are doin! every single moment, even if it's only threading a needle or sitting still in a street car. Don't dream don't get ahead of yourself. Do every thing that you undertake to do as i that was the one and last thing yoi were going to accomplish in this life If you merely stoop over to pick up a scrap from the floor put your entir< thought upon the act of the momen and see how much more easily an( quickly it is accomplished. Concentration is the secret of pres ense of mind. The woman wlzo ha presence of mind Is, of all her sex most to be envied, for she gain thereby poise, force and reserv power, which the absent-minded wc man never can attain. Making the Hair Grow. Elau de quinine has no effect upol the color of the hair and it is excel 'ent tpo make it grow. Sprinkle it or -etiring and massage it in with the [PS of the ten fingers, then divide thi air into small portions and brusi well. Whenever possible. let the hal all loose. This will add to Its growth ?ure vaseline also massaged Into thE calp once a week Is very good. Nev r touch the hair wit'h a curling iron ut if It needs fluffira.ss rough It n ierne'ath with the comb as the hait iressers do. This should be care ully brushed out at night. 213. Raspberries. Pp. 38. 215. Alfalfa Growing. Pp. 40. 216. The Control of the Boll Wee ni. Pp. 32. 217. Essential Steps in Securin; n Early Crop of Cotton. Pp. iii. 218. The School Garden. Pp 40. 219. Lessons from the Grain Rus Epidemic of 1904. Pp. 24. 220. Tomatoes. Pp. .32.. .. .. 223. Miscellaneous Cotton Insect in Texas. Pp. 24. 224. Canadian Field Peas. Pp. 16 229. The Production of Good See< Corn. Pp. 24. 231. Spraying for Cucumber an< Melon Diseases- Pj. 24. 232. Okra: Its Culture and Uses 234. The Guinea Fowl. Pp. 24. 235. Preparation of Cement Con crete. Pp. 32. 236. Incubation and Incubators. 238. Citrus Fruit Growing in thE Gulf States. Pp. 48. 239. The Corrosion of Fence Wire 240. Inoculatiou of Legumes. Pp 241. Butter Making on the Farm 242. An Example of Model Farm ing. Pp. 16. 243. Fungicides and Their Use ii Preventing Diseases of Fruits. 245. Renovation / of Worn--Oul Soils.. 246. Saccharine Sorghums for For age. Pp. 37. 247. The Control of the Codling Moth and Apple'Scab. Pp. 21. 248. The Lawn. Pp. 20. 49. Cereal Breakfast Foods. 250. The Prevention of Wheat Smut and Loose Smut of Oats. 253. The Germination of Seei Corn. Pp. 16. 254. Cucumbers. Pp. 30. 255. The Home Vegetable Garden. 256. Preparation of Vegetables for the Table. Pp. 48. 257. Soil Fertility. Pp: 39. 258. Texas of Tick Fever and Its Prevention- Pp. 45. 260. Seed of Red Clover and Its Impurities. Pp. 24. 261. The Cattle Tick. Pp. 22. 264. The Brown-Tail Moth and -ow to Control It. Pp. 22. 266. Management of Soils to Con seye Moisture. Pp. 30. 268. Industrial Alcohol: Sources and Manufacture. Pp. 45. 29. Industrial Alcohol: Uses and Statistics. Pp. 29. 270. Modern Conveniences for the Farm Holme. Pp. 48. 272. A Successful Hog and Seed Corn Farm. Pp. 16. 277. The Use of Alcohol and Gaso ine in Farm Engines. Page 404. 27. Leguminous Crops for Green Manuring. Pp. 27. 279. A Method of Eradic'ating ohnson Grass. Pp. 16: 20. A Profitable Tenant Dair3 Farm. Pp. 16. - 22. Celery. Pp. 36. 284. Msects and Fungous Enem ies of the" Grape East of the Roclky BABY SUERSTITION) Queer Celiefs of Mothers in All Quarters of the World. All tihe world over the mother has queer sj!: erstitions about her baby. Here are some of the queerest of them iCTOm the four corners of the earth. In 1tormania the infant's ankle is bound up with a red ribbon immedi ately after birth to ward off the evil spirits. In Ircland, for the same reason, a strand of woman's hair is placed in the cs:lle. In the West Indies the negroes fol low the same customs as the women in Rouma.'fi but their ribbon is blue instcad vred. If they have no ribbon tney make a .mark with wash ing blue upon the child. In Russia there is a superstition that a br:)y and a kitten eanDot thrive ini the same house. One is sure to pine away and di.a, so pussy is always driven away as soon as a baby comes. Most English women think it is ex tremely unlucky to carry a baby downst-,:rs before it has journeyed - upward. If the baby is born on an upper floor and there are no stairs to climb, tae mother must hold her darling high up in the air, standing upon a chair or table and only then Can it be taken downstairs in safety. This superstition is also common In France and Germany, and even in some parts of this country. Another English superstition -IS that th: baby who does ffot cry when It is chr:stened will have bad luck all through life. If the Infant insists on being good, the mother pinches it to make the cry come. In Spain the women say -that a biby under a year old should not be allowed to look in a mirror; other wise, it will grow up proud and haughty. Most mothers are very much alarm ed when their babies fall out of bed or off their laps, but in India the wo men think- it is an excellent omen. In Ireland ,.here is a similar superstition which says that unless the baby falls out of bed four times before it is a year old it will be a hopeless idiot. Novelties in Metal and Wood. Fnlks who are ,on the lookout for new things pertaining to the house ACVELTIES Ms METAL NWOOD - hold will find much to interest them. The general demand for novelties stimulates the inventors, designers and manufacturers with results that In many Instances are very gratify ing to the seeker for the latest dec orative and diseful produci~ions. Royal copper and silver have the preference this season in metals. the former showing a peculiarly bri'tht luster.' The combination is delight fully represented in vases and loving cups, two examples of which are shown in the accompanying >group. The miounting of silver presents an effective contrast to the .reddish gleam of the copper and the~' orna ments, being new, are likely i.o re ceive much attention from the ad mirers of artistic metal work. -The cigar~ case shows how copper gnount~ng is utilized- to impart -a decorative note to an unpretentioas box an~d the blotter with its mounting -of royal copper is the latest thing in des'k accessories. A fern dish or jardiniere of weath ered oak is In keeping with the fancy that has developed of late for furni ture of this ilark wood,- both in the mission style and more ornate de signs. The mounting '(gf silver re lieves. the excessive plainness of the fern holder and for a library or an apartment where dark oak furniture predominates this . jardiniere would make a miost harmonious ad.ation. There are clocks galore, stain and ornate, for special apartments and - general use, but the most distinctive of late designs is the one here shown In weathered oak. The dial Is an un common one, ,the ho.-s being indi-. cated by playing cards, while poker chips constitute the central decora tion. In a den or card room such a clock would fit in admirably,. the sim plicity of the casing and its dark cot oring adding to- its appropriaten'ss. Clocks such as these are not to'be had for a song, and therefore are not likely to become rery common. Wearing Imitation Jewelry. It is not unusual for r2he woman - who likes to make a display of jewel ry to have the real gems remnoved from their setting and fine imitatio::s substituted. These are worn during the summer, and even her b ..t friends-or enemies-cannot detect the difference, but recognize only the famous fashion of the setting. Hair Used as Thread. A clever woman traveler men led' a rent in her gown by using a halffrom her head as t'hread for the needle she always carries in her purse. 285. The Advantage of Planitng Heavy Cottonseed. Pp. 16.: 286. Comparative Value of Whole Cottonseed and Cottonseed Meal in Fertilizing Cotton. Pp. 14. 287. Poultr Management. 288- Nonsaccharine Sorghums. 289. Bleans. Pp. 28. 290. The Cotton Boll Worm. 291. Hvaporation of Apples. 292. Cost of Filling Silos. Pp. 19'. 293. Use of Fruit as Food. Pp. 35. 295. Potatoes and Other . Root Crops as Food. P1). 45. 297. Methods of Destroying Rats. 298. Food Value of Corn and Cora Products. Pp. 40. 299. Div-ersified Farming Under the Plautation Systemn. Pp. 14. orage Plants for the ~G[l Coast egiont Pp. 15. 201. Home-Grown Tea. Pp. 16. Z07. Sea Island Cotton: Its Cul ture. Improvement. and oiseases;' - 33. Corn Harvesting Machinery 304. Growing and Curing Hops. 206. Dodder in Relation to Farm Seeds. Pp. 27.