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m LEAD DUAL LIFE. I A Physician by Day and a Bur- 1 glar at Night WIFE DENIES CHARGE. 1 The Police of New Rochclle, NewYork, Charge That I>r. Bolin, A j Society Leader of That Town, Is a ^ Burglar and Is Itcttpuusiblc for 1 Many Robberies, and Have Ar- j rested Him. Dr. Samuel Bolin, physician, chem- T ist, house owner and a social leader * of the Huguenot Park section of New ^ Rochelle, New York, was plucked t from a trolley car and landed in * jail to answer the accusation of the attempted burglary of a hardware t store. Detectives say they will prove g that the physician has been posing as 1 a distinguished resident by day and * robbing his neighbors' homes after ^ .dark. t x, ' The New Rochellians, who, prior t r to Saturday, had ridden with him ( fiftr proudly behind his pair of bays, were : * so tunned at his arrest Tuesday ( night that they could not even re- l ^ gain equanimity enough to go the < W doctor's bail. < * Dr. Bolin entered New Rochelle < society with something of a fan fare < about four months ago. He had pre- ' viously become acquainted with ? Judge John Van Zelm, a prominent ' lawyer of the city, and the Judge -helped him spread the report that his practice in Harlem was some- 1 thing to conjure with and that as an ' inventing chemist his reputation was ? little short a of wizard's. i When he bought a handsome house ? on Summit avenue, installed his wife ' and three children and a stable, and J spent $2,000 improving the grounds, < he was accepted as a welcome addi- * tion to the social situation without ( bo much as a question. The horses ' that pulled his carriage through N ew '> Rochelle might have been blue-rib- < boners. He entertained well and { made friends. < But last Wednesday night, just > k after 12, Mrs. Robert Haugh, of Hu- ' guenot street, looked out of her bed- : room window and across the lot to { the rear and spied a man sawing the : bars out of a window in Levison's J hardware store, which backs up ' against her property. ' The sight interested Mrs. Haugh < the more from the fact that two i weeks ago her house was entered by < means of just such a saw as she was 1 hearing then, with a consequent loss < of $500 in jewels. Other wealthy ' residents of the vicinage suffered > similar losses. 'I Mr*. Haugh 'phoned hysterically * for the police. The station being 1 close at hand, Detective? De Veau and Chenowith were groping for a < sight of the burglar in about two 1 minutes. They came on a man hur- 1 rying up the rear stairway of the 1 Levi son building. He was taking off his coat and collar as he ran and act- ' ed very much like a tardy home-corn- ll ^ er rushing for his cot. "What's up?" he demanded, as the detectives followed him up the flight. "We're looking for a robber anBwered Chenowith. "He's been breaking into this place. "You don't say," cried the man. "I'll just run up stairs and get my i poistol and then I'll help you catch 1 nim. Completely mislead the detectives i started back for the rear entrance. ' The man they had been talking with bolted through the front door < and ran away. Though they didn't ' find him again that night De Veau and Chenowith swear he was Dr. Bol- 1 in and the collar left behind when he < fled is as good evidence as thev : with their eyes. Under the half-sawed bars of Lev- ' inson's window they found u bur- < glar's hack saw and a can of lubricating oil. ( Sergeant Cody of the New Roch- J elle police detailed all of his slim de- i tective force on the case at once. He < says he d'*scovered that Bolin was 1 home much of the day and away most < of the night. But friendly neighbors > who knew this explained with the I statement that as Bolin was practic ' . ing medicine and running a drug ' store in Harlem, he couldn't be ex- < pec ted to come up from New York * * "x. .. until late in the day. The police found ' out, however, that he generally ar- 1 rived in town so late that he must t have been compelled to use the t Mount Vernon trolley car. E Just what?if anything?the dc- r tectives found to involve Bolin in an f unadvertised double life they will i not say, but they declare they have J found enough. They say they fol- f lowed him fouf days, know where 3 he went on his strange trios after c dark, traced him until no doubt remained, and then got out a John Doe warrant for his arrest. 1 At any rate Detective Scott was on e hand when the Mount Vernon trolley > care surged into New Rochelle, and j as Dr. Bolin got off and started to t sounder toward his waiting carriage <> the detective said, "I want you for _ burglary," presented the warrant ~ and dragged off the prisoner to po- si lice headquarters. * S When Huguenot Park found out a at daylight that Bolin was in a cell and why, it gasped and grew utterly p indignant. Mrs. Bolin, declaring the a; arrest an outrage, ran from neigh- b bor to neighbor, and by 10 o'clock ai 5 had twenty prominent citizens in J' court demanding the instant release tl of their friend, and offering any amount of bail to get him out. cl But after they had talked awhile hi I with Sergeant Coady most of them a changed their minds. As a result the m | bond was fixed at $3,000 by Justice ft Van Auken. aa If her husband has been pursuing w a double career, Mrs. Bolin says m |H| Fhe origin of corn Hrst Discovered Among the in dians by Columbus. t Has Now Become One of the Grea Articles of Food in This Conn try. When Columbus reached Cat It and on that fateful day of 1492, h found the poor savages cultivating i >lant that was new to the Spaniards j&ter. when they saw the islander fathering from the stocks a mater al which they used for food," th< Spaniards took a curious interest ii heir actions. This plant, which th< latives called "Mahiz," was wholl; inknown in Europe or any othe >art of the old world. Afterward he Spaniards themselves cultivate* his plant for food calling it "maize,' >y which name it has since beei mown in the botanical world. Ii n this small way began what is nov he most important and most valu dole crop in the civilized world cooked at from the standpoint o he botanist, a strange fact is dis dosed in considering the habits a veil as the habitat of this celebrat ?d cereal. It was indigenous to th< ,wo Americas, but at the time of th< ronquest had made little progres :oward the wonderful developmen t was subsequently to attain. The In lian tribet in various sections, fron :he Canadasto Patagonia were foun* :o be acquainted with its merits an< iepended upon it as one of thei ihief vegetable foods. They cultivat <1 it in little patches, planting it ii i hole in the ground made with i stick and from it made certain dishe ifterward famous as "succotash,' nominy" and "hoecake." What is especially noticeable is th fact that no other j^rain or vegetabl ias such difficulty in reproducing it self unaided as rr.dize. Left to itsel tis difficult to see how it could kee] dive. The grain being encased in i hick and closs-fitting shuck, am growing closely to the cob. can no eproduce unless in falling it becom shattered and covered. Birds am ither animals misrht help some ii .his process, but not enough to great v extend the area of its productivi ,y. The aid of man is needed, no >nly to plant, blit to cultivate th corn. and it is questionable whether f left ungathered, the whole of th ields in our mighty belt, woul< spontaneously bring forth next sea son a single ear. Fortunately, th* savages in a limited way assisted thi vonderful plant sufficiently to keei t alive in many places until the whit nan came with his hoe and plow t io the work on an extensive scale. I s just possible that but for the In lians, the valuable grain might hav jeen lost entirely to man. Its onl chance of survival originally woul :>e in the tropics, where the firs grains that fell and became coverei vould escape freezing and thu sprout in the returning season for it propagation. It is a far cry from the little pat dies on Guannahani island to th cornfields now smiling over the Uni ted States preparatory to a produ< tion of 3,000,000,000 bushels this fall These fields occupy an area great cr in extent than the German Enr ptre. Though every state and terr tory in the Union produces corn, th principal crop comes from Indiam Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas an Nebraska, which constitute the fai famous "corn belt." It is that if all the corn produced in on year in these six states were shelle *nd loaded in wagons, the trai would extend nearly 155,000 miles irelting the earth six times with 4,00 miles of wagons to spare. Iowa alon has produced a crop equal in valu to the annual output of gold, silve and lead in this whole country, o more than the net earnings of a the national hanks. Our farmers ma understand what is meant by improv ed corn culture, when it is under stood that an iucrease of one ear i ivory ten in the five principal collates would mean an addition o ?44,000,000 a year to their wealth Though the origin of corn is very an lient, its use 0Y1 a large scale is ver; nodern. Darwin, the great natural st, while traveling in Peru, found a ?ar reposing in a metal vessel eighty ive feet below the present surfac >f the soil. Others have been foun< vith mummies in the tombs of th< ncas. the natives of Mexico, lonj refore the conquest, worshipped i coddess corresponding to the Greel ]eres, and the method war. for sui firgius to sacrifice corn cakes in hei lonor. The North American Indian relieved that corn was a direct gif !rom the Great Spirit. This inspirinj relief was embodied in a poetical le rend, to the effect that a young war >1A?* foofir?A? Iw -1J ? .v,. *.ookiii? m me wnuerness praye< or a gift for his people, when a spir t in the form of a beautiful younj nan garbed in glistening green witl lowing plumes, descended in re ponse and brought the grain o jrains as his offering. This Greenwood Index announce hat its subscription price will be in reaped to $1.50 on the first of th< ear. Sooner or later every countr taper in the State will have to rai? heir price to at least $1.50 or go ou f business. he doesn't know anything about it he, too, protests that he is inno ent. Judge Van Zelm also refused tout any faith in the police charges gainst his friend. He was retainec y Bolin to get him out of the scrap* nd expressed much anger wher ustice Van Auken declared to parole le prisoner in his custody. Sergeant Cody says that the large of attempted robbery of the Etrdware store has been used only as cover to hold Bolin for other and ore serious charges. "We've got this man right," he id. "We haven't acted hastily and e can prove all the charges we will ake. V r. . . " ' SPREAD BY MILK. - It Is Most Protont Agency in Transmission of Consumption. % t Government Bureau Busy Studying i- Question of Infection of Cattle With Tuberculosis. Twelve per cent of the deaths of e persons of all ages in America are a due to the 'white plague,' popularly (. known as consumption. In practicals lv everv instance the infection e# t?i_ - berculosis is communicated to peoe pie through impure milk and not n through the breathing of dried spute urn, as generally is supposed. My y belief is that the government could r do no greater humanitarian work s than in providing a fund for the eri adication of tuberculosis from cattle. ' This work could be performed comi paratively easily, and, while the inri itial cost might be considerable, it v would be well worth the money expended. Dr. C. E. Schroeder. of the bureau f of animal industry of the National <r Department of Agriculture, made s this statement, after a very exhaustive investigation of the causes which e lead to tuberculosis, e "If some man of the wealth of Ans drew Carnegie could be induced to t devote some of his riches to the era dication of the 'white plague' his 0 name would go down to history as 1 one of the greatest benefactors of i his race. I have no doubt that conr sumption practically could be eradieated from the United States by the 0 application of modern scientific metha ods in the handling of the disease, s Every cow in the country ought to ' be tested for tuberculosis and, if found infested, the animal ought to e be killed. Thousand of milch cows e undoubtedly are infected with tulier culosis and the milk they furnish f carries with it the germs of the disp ease into the human system. a "In a vast majority of cases, it has 1 been demonstrated conclusively that t the germs of the 'white plague' are i- introduced into the human system d through the alimentary canal. Thence n they are carried into the Jungs or throat or bowels, where they increase i- enormously. The only way to prevent t the introduction of consumption e germs into the system through milk t is to boil the milk and, of course, e that is impracticable in a majority i of instances. "I am satisfied from the results of e experiments made by the governs ment, that the danger of tuberculop sis from dried sputum is inconsee quental. It is not comparable with o the danger of impure milk, Kxpert iments have shown that the germs of - the disease must be taken into the e system through food and milk is the y food which is the most extensive cond veyer of these germs. Therefore, if it we purify the milk supply of a given d community we practically eliminate ,s danger of the 'white plague.' " a So important are the investigations of the Agricultural Department and > of independent scientists regarded e that it is very probable Congress may i- take up the question precisely as it provided for the inspection of beef I. cattle after slaughter. Several mem> bers of Congress now are consideri ing the subject with a view to the i- introduction of legislation providing e for a careful inspection of the sources of the country's milk supply. The d idea is to have an examination made of milch cows, in instances where the d milk is furnished to the public, and e to provide for the killing of such and imals as may be found to be afflicted n with tuberculosis, the government 5, to make an allowance to the owner 0 of the cattle thus kiiled. In this way e only, it is urged by scientists, can e the "white plague" be eradicated r from the United States. A KHKAK rillCIvKN y r- That Has Two l'air of la gs To Walk Altout On. n n a farmer at Elwood, Ind., reports T a freak chicken with four complete legs. Two, with which it walks. ar? l" like other chicken legs, while the y others arc on its hack, where the '* wings ought to he. The latter are n fairly developed, and when the foul is turned "upside down" it can walk ? on its freak legs but is rather wabbly. * It would pay to raise a breed front D such a reversible, self-adjusting, doti% hleback action foul for several -eaf* sons. The demand for those who prefer legs for dinner could he met 11 easier, the chickens woui 1 have more r legs to run away from enemies, and ^ until they becaino common worl^ draw well at shows at so much to see K "the g-r-e-a-t-e-s-t living curiosity." - COST OF HON ICY. ,r The bnlmr Kequired lo Make Only ^ One round. " Few realise the industry nocessary * for the production of a pound of honey and the enormous labor necoss sary on part of the little Insects to supply us with this most precious- of all sweets. It in WRtlmntoH that tho B nectar must be extracted from 62,000 ^ clover blossoms to make a pound of e honey, which means that the bees ^ must make 2,750,000 trips from the hive to the flowers. - Bee labor is evidently to cheap. and If they had labor organizations we should certainly heur of strikes. But this is one of the few cases in the world where the laborer cheerfully works for nothing and feeds I himself. The employer gets all the benefit, but there is never a kick | from tho "wage slave." 5 The I^ancaster News thinks if the ( , Raleigh man who has sued the South- : , em for $5,000 damages for catching ' i a cold in one of its depots, while waiting on a train, wins his case the 1 company will have to get busy enlarging its stations all over the coun- t try to accomodate the inevitable rush i to "wait on trains." f ?# EGYPTIAN PRINCE. Wants to Study Cultlf * 'on of Cotton at Close Range. v Prince Dabro Pazratido, of Cairo, Egypt, who has stirred Boston's four hundred by appearing in the common street cars and hanging to the straps at that, will start for the South within a few days. He intends to stay at some length in Charleston. In one day the Prince stopped at three Boston hotels. "Well, perhaps !i. f_ i.1 -P 1. T X a - it is me met i stopped at tne nrst note! to rest up," he said. "This was the day I landed, and then I went to the second, where I expected to remain, but I could not get a suite there. The hotel was crowded so I naturally sought another stopping place." Prince Dabro Pazzatido is descended from an ancient family that for the last century has lived in Egypt, going there from Asia Minor. His father, Nubar Pacha, and his grandfather have both been prime minisisters of Egypt. Aware of the great commercial importance of cotton growing in his fatherland, the Prince is much interested in its culture and will study the plant during his Southern trip. Cotton bring 29 cents a pound in Egypt, he says, and rapid strides have oeen made by the cotton people there is raising it. He will remain in the United States for several months and will visit the principal cities and cotton plantations. The Prince was educated in France. He is young and good looking and speaks good English. TKOl'SKKS OF HKCKNT OHIGIN A Hundred Years Ago Methodists Though! Theiu Immoral. The modern custom of wearing trousers was taken from the military dress introduced into the army by the Duke of Wellington during the Peninsular war, says the Tailor and Cutter. In early days these were known as Wellington trousers, after the Duke. When they were coming into gen vrtti use at tne commencement of the j nineteenth century the religious | world and the fashionable were most I determined in their opposition. A clause in the original trust deed, da-! ted 1820, of a Sheffield Nonconform-! ist chapel provided that "under no: circumstances whatever shall any preacher be allowed to occupy the ! pulpit who wears trousers." I But this was not all. Some doubts were expressed in many quarters concerning the question whether a man could be religious and appear in trousers. One of the founders of the Primitive Methodist body remarked to a colleague in the ministry "that trousers wearing, beer drinking so an so will never get to Heaven," Father Ueece, a famous Methodist minister, twice president of the Con-1 ference (born in 17(i6, died in 1850,) j could not be induced to adopt trous" ers, and among the Methodist was the last to follow popular fashion in this respect. HIGH HANDED OUTRAGE. Negro linlcml Young Lady's Itooin and Chloroformed Her. Miss Evelyn Cauhlc, aged 14, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Cauble. who reside on George Vander-1 hilt's Biltmore estate, near Asheville, I N. C., was Thursday night chlorform-1 ed at her home und an attempted assault was frustrated by the screams of her ten year old sister, who occupied the same room. The cries of the younger girl aroused the girl's parents, who put the intruder to (light. The Asheville police were immediately informed, and Deputy Sheriffs Williams and Penland went to lMltmore with bloodhounds. Hlltmore village and the surrounding country have been searched by a posse hut up to the present writing no trace of the perpetrator of the crime had been found. Miss Cauble was several hours regaining consciousness, and she was at first believed to be dying. It was found that entrance to the Cauble residence had been affected through a rear window. S.\\\ it.VI.N HOW AT M<;HT. rale of the Sea Told by Trans-Atlantic Travelers. The Atlantic trans|>ort liner Minnehaha, just arrived at New York from laxidon, brought to port a story of having seen a rainbow at night, Captain itobinson, and a score of passengers vouched for the truth of the story. H. W. Rroville, a retired merchant of Newburyport, Muss, said that the rainbow uppearcd just before midnight on Wednesday. Ali that day there had been occasional showers. Toward evening there was a clearing, hut at night a mist set over the water. "Along about midnight," said Mr. ^coville, "a peculiar half circle of colored light appeared in the west. Roth ends touched the seas and although not as vivid as the rainbow we see In the day time, it was clearly defined and a beautiful sight." The phenomenon remained in view twenty minutes and finally faded away. SHOT FOI'KTKKX MEN. Kentucky Feudist Makes Startling Admission on Witness Stand. D. I). Edwards, on trial at Chat- , anooga, Tenn , for the murder of ?am Rrooks, under cross examination Thursday said: "I have shot and probably killed ourteen men in my ^ime." He said hat a majority of the killings oc:urred in the Kentucky mountains md during a labor strike in Chicago. Edwards is known as a Kentucky eudist SOME TRAGEDIES That Have Been Enacted Through Mistaken Philanthropy. The Gypsy Moth, the Guatemala Ant and the Australian Rabbits Three of the Worse. Our calamities are often due more to misguided friends than to open foes. We suffer more from the fools than the frauds. "He means well," says Dick Deadeye in the opera, "but he don't know." Perhaps farmers have suffered more from this forcibly feeble element than any other class of human beings, says the American Farmer. The experiments are usually tried out on them. When in trouble the quack comes along with one of those remedies worse than the disease, they yield and are ruined. A favorite form of this mistaken philanthropy deals with a cure for pests, especially those of the insect specfes, and as farmers are the chief victims of these, the tragedies herein to be recorded are exclusively agricultural. Many years ago a kind-hearted but soft-headed experimentor conceived a plan of ridding the grape growers of Massachusetts of the philpxera which by annual visitations was ruining their crops. To this end he Imported a supply of gypsy moths, whose favorite food was the Identical insect that was preying upon the vines of New England. Apparently this moth was the most harmless of creatures and only good was expected of It as a pest-destrcycr. It was cultivated, turned loose and soon had Increased to millions. The trouble was, however, that the gypsy moth declined to have his bill of faro arranged for him in advanco. He objected also to a restricted diet land demanded a more varied menu. He insisted 011 eating other things and In time developed into a far greater pest than the one he was imported to exterminate. The State has spent millions in trying to unload this costly Importation, but in vain. They can't deport him like an undesirable emigrant, they can't stop him from breeking, nor can they check his omnivorous appetite which is cratifled at the o*nnnse r>f tho frutf. growers and gardeners who have been made victims of this conspicuous example of mistaken philanthropy. A few years ago. some genius thought he had discovered a supreme remedy for the boll-weevil which was threatening the southern cotton crop with destruction. While "nosing around" in Guatemala he made the acquaintance of a variety of ants which showed an especial- fondness for boll-weevils as an article of diet. It. was not definitely ascertained that the weevil of Guatemala was the same as that In the United States, or that the nature of the cotton or other conditions were similar. The genius, however,like many others of his kind Jumped to conclusions, decided with himself that he had made a great discovery and induced the government to import a lot of the blessed ants front Central America. When they arrived on Ixtuislanna soil, like the smart insects that they are, they looked around and took note of the vegetable productions and the opportunities in life presented for poor but ambitious insects ushered without their concent umong strangers in a strange land. They did not seem to have any especial enumlty to the boll-weevil, and the later indicated no fear of these pauper immigrants from the south. The ants, after sizing up all things, went to work with zeal on such food as lay before them. Indicating an especial fondness for garden truck and various valuable plants on the farms. With that community of Interest which is said to prevail among 'brigands, they left the cotton to the boll-weevil as his special meal, while they proceeded to show what a Guatemala ant could do in the way of making a pest of himself. At last accounts, he was climbing trees and destroying the nests of singing birds to such an extent that the people were in fear that their favorite songsters would be exterminated by what was promised as their benefactor. Rut the worst tragedy of all in the line of mistaken philantrophy is reported from Australia. About thirty years ago one of our sapheaded Kind Hearts noticed that in the distribution of the wonderful fauna of that island continent, the rabbit had been omitted. He instantly decided that Old Nature had made a mistake and determined to import six as a starter. They were the only things to nibble the surplus grass, nfford sport to the natives and incidentally lend beauty to the landscape with their elevated ears and cottony tails. The progeny of these six rabbits have cost An stralia more money than she has spent in running the government, building railroads and constructing all her Internal Improvements. Many times they have brought the farmers and sheepherders to the bring of ruin by their devastations. It was necessary to build rabbit-tight fences around whole provinces and employ an army of men to stand guard and endeavor to hold down the over Increasing supply of plant-eaters. The rabhit got into politics and statesmen found it the hardest of their problems to deal with. They are now killed by millions and shipped in cold storage to Europe; other millions are shot or poisoned, but the cry is still they come, and this closes our melancholy chapter of mistaken philanthropy. ( v. Low Price* .jga tiffin "" ??""? Eyes Accurately Fitted BY MAIL Frame* fitted to foe*perfectly Fft uF examination film/ ? CRYSTAL OPTICAL COMPANY RESCUED AT ALTAR. Young La?Sy Forced at Pistol u Point to Promise Marriage. She Appeals to the Minister, Who H Seizes the Would-Be Bridegroom and Lady Escapes. Miss Belle Crouse, pretty daughter of Her. N. I. Crouse, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Stan- ft! hope, N. J., was literally forced to o the parsonage of the First Methodist church, in Asbury Park, Wednesday n afternoon by her frantic lover, Percy d C. Bissell, who at the point of a revolver demanded that she marry t 11.1? UI,U' V When the couple came before Rev. v C. M. Griffin, pastor of the church, v and he began to ask the usual ques- ,| tions, Miss Grouse broke down and e begged the minister to save her from ti Bissell, who, she said, had a revolver in his pocket and had threatened to ti shoot her unless the ceremony was t performed. ,, Dr. Griffin, greatly agitated, made g a sudden attack upon Riisell. lie ,, threw his arms around the ardent ( lover and held him fast, while Miss ti Crouso made good her escape from v the parsonage. g She had no sooner reached the ^ boarding house in Ocean Grove where she was stopping, with liei w parents, when Bissell reappeared and s l>roke through a window in the house v He demanded to see Miss Crouse. but was told she was out. Later the () young man was overhauled by a policeman and taken to one of the out- t going trains. It Is presumed he re- g turned to his home. In Stanhope I, The Crouses, it appears, had been ^ told that Bissell, who is a merohei v of the Stanhope Presbyterian church. | had a fondness for cards, and on I his 0 account their daughter severed a ? growing intimacy with the young man. He is a student in the State t normal school at Trenton. r She wrote him a letter in which f she refused to hnve nnvtl.tmr ,, to do with him, and they went down to Ocean Grove to escapo th? t hubbub. All Stanhope hnd heard o' s the affair. When Bisxell got th? let- (] ter he followed the Crouses after ( having ascertained in Stanhope thai <( they had gone to Ocean Grove. I, Late Tuesday afternoon the young man met Miss Crouse in the street v and excitedly demanded that she marry him immediately. Miss Crouse p refused point blank to accede to his request and tried to reason with him. ., Bls8ell took from his pocket an ugly r looking revolver and showed her the . cartridges. Miss Crouse alurmed. (1 finally concented to go to Rev. Mr Griffin and be married. Blssell call K ed a cab and was driven with the ]; young woman to the parsonage. Miss Crouse would not admit latei p that she is engaged to Blssell but , said she heard some time ago that he played cards. He told her, however, that he had given it all up and , she forgave him. It is understood (j that Blssell]s parents will send the young man south. Miss Crouse is a graduate of Blair Hall. FOUND STARVING. n s When Cottage Was Searched Large ^ Fortune Was Found. o A dispatch fro Kenosha, Wis., says b after living as a rnisfcr for more than 50 years, and accumulating more " than $350,000. Lander E. Merrick ? died at the Home of Strangers in s that city Wednesday. The old man ,( went to Kenosha County In 1840 and lived in the town of llundall until ^ two years ago when the officials of ^ the town found him nearly starved j; and took charge of him and his prop- j. erty. A guardian was appointed and s when the hut, which the old man oecupied was searched $3 50.000 in t| cash and securities was found. <;avk rr c.\m>.s. w p n ll<<catise She Thought They Were I n- f (lermining the Church. '' h A sensational attack on card play- g ing was made at Winona Lake. In- A diana, the other night by Mrs. A. It. m Sims, of I)es Moines, Iowa, in the . presence of 1,000 people. Mrs. Sims ? is the woman's whist champion of"! he United States, hut the had seen a new light and has abjured her once ? favorite recreation completely. She Htated that she had burned her _ forty packs of cards, because they x had absorbed so much of her time ? land energy. Fre uicntly she had play- ed from 10 a. m. to 11 p. m. She i also thought that excessive card playing on the part of women was under- ; I milliner the r-hnreh THEY COME HICiH. ! Quite an Extensive Chirkrn Farm in Pittsburg, Pa. A Pittsburg millionaire has established a chicken farm on a tract of nine acres in the residence district f of that city, his purpose being to pro- t vide his family with fresh eggs and tender broilers. As the land is- val- a| ued at 1450,000 this would seem to lc be a rather extravagant outlay for eggs, even in Pittsburg. It is better, however, for these millionaires to raise poultry than such crops of ' scandals as they have been turning ^ out and may be hailed as a sign of reform. THE OX1 Y | in Columbia, South Carolina, inal it j thing In the Machinery Supply Llr Write us for prices before plfd COLUMBIA SUPPLY C On corner opposite Seaboard Air I * V COTTON FARMERS rged to Stand Together by President E. D. Smith. [e Says the ( ttntblcrs Give the Lie to Their Old Excuse of Supply and 'Demand. "Hold your cotton." That has ever been the advice of Ir. E. D. Smith. Now he adds: "Keep n holding." The State says when he saw Wodesday morning how the report to the epartment of aarlrniniro s??#i ??.i ed the claims of the Cotton assoclalou that the crop was short and that he price was ridiculously low, he was rought up to the boiling over pitch 'hen he saw that the gamblers on Vail street were pushing the price own and giving the lie to their own xcuse of the past?"We must yield o the law of supply and demand." "It is robbery. It is an effort to ake the money ont of the pockets of lie people of the South just aR a ickpocket would do," said Mr. inith. They know that this is 'debt aylng time in the South' and they hink they have us at their mercy, ut we will give them a fight which /ill show them the spirit of the outh is yet too proud to yield to hem. "Supply?It Is short! Demand ? /hy. I am informed that tlie mills are elling their product at a price which .ould be profitable if cotton were eing pruchased at 18 cents per ound. " 'Hold your cotton.' That is all hat 1 can say to the farmers of iouth Carolina. And all who will lold are urged to let me know that hey will hold and how much they /ill hold. It will require Just a few ines on a postal card addressed to ur office, room lilt), Skyscraper, Colimbla, S. C." "The government report, both hr o condition and number of bales ginled, was even more bullish than tho riends of higher prices really antiipated, t?7 on condition and practially a half million bales less ginned o date than hist year, confirming the tatement that the crop was steadily leterioratiug in condition and that hat there was not and would not lie s much to gin this year as last by ossibly 1'.000,000 bales . This mount is !iti"iit ? ?? vu.icvi na iu?? per ent. of decrease in condition shows, nd the ginners report certainly tonIrms this estimate. "Yet the 'professionals' take it as Joke and proceed in the face of hese conditions?that should warant from 3 to 4 cents more per ound than it is bringing?to deduct dollar a Wale from the cotton now ;oing 011 t lie market. Every argument, all statistics, the law of suply and demand, all in favor now of ligher priced cotton , the South hrough her cotton organizations demanding a higher price, yet thorn entlemen see fit to taunt them with his added insult today to a 21) point rop in the market. "Is it possible that the bsiness men and farmers of the South are oing to have it. proven to a certainty hat the cotton gamblers can determine what the revenue of the South hall lie and what shall be the 1 eronal wages of every individual in he South? Or will they take this evasion to prove that they arc niusers of the situation? "The situation would lje ludicrous F it did not involve so many iutersts vital to the South. As said in my article of last week, the only posIble answer Is?to stop selling cottin. "The bankers and merchants of the OUth as well as the creilltorc .,r <?.? outh should co-operate now tn lielpug the South to win this fight. This i the first timn when renditions were urh that we will he in a position to rove our friends and remember hem. "Once more let me urge every man 'ho has cotton to report to me on a ostal card the number of bales ho Is taking and how many lie will hold mm the market. Reports are coming 1 now. I want them as full as posaile so that I may tabulate them and ive them to the public for the benet of all parties Interested." 'JfoM OFFERED WORTHY Y0UNG pEopLE. Ho matter how limited your meui or ed?itlon.if yon desire a thorough business trala* ig end good position, write tor our OREAT HALP RATE OFFER. Success, independence end probable FOR. UNE guaranteed. Iion't delay; Write to-dey. he OA. -ALA. BUS. COLLBOC. Micon. 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