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MAKES A PLEA j For the Farmers and the Rural Population of the Country. BETTER ROADS NEEDED Claims Tliut tlie Tin iJT Laws Are Made and Shaped to Benefit the Manufacturers, But None of Them Are Intended to Benefit the Fanners of the Country. Representative Candler of Mississippi made a plea recently in a speech for the farmer on the lloor of the House. He said: The smallest soul in all the world Id ...............I V... *1... ....... ... 1.|u o,. full of egotism that he is wrapped up in himself, while the man with the gV .itest soul in all the universe is the one who continually, like the man of Gallilee, se<ks to help and bless somebody else and contribute to the prosperity and happiness of others. One of uiy sins when 1 was removed from tins great committee? and 1 consider it one of the greatest committees of this House?was that I was in favor of increased appropriations for agricultural schools. I want to educate the youth of this grout Republic. A man could not bring greater blessings than to devise means to cultivate the minds of the youth of this Nation; open the door to them to knowledge and le? them learn, not only about the Nation and the country, hut let them study the mysteries of the past and the problems of the present as they unfold, as we travel in the pathway of the future. Let them realize what a great country we possess and create patriotism in their hearts, and It will make them better citizens and more useful by reason of the fact that they have been permitted to acquire knowledge which may be fur nlshed to lu the schools of the count ry. 1 believe that there is nothing more important than the cultivation of the mind except the salvation of the eternal soul. As so I believe that we should prepare a way to cultivate the mind and teach, as best we can. i nu youtli or tlie country the benefits and joys which come from the acquisition of knowledge, and the good mothers. I am sure will impress the importance of the -eternal destiny of the soul. And because I believ.e in that doctrine and tbecause I believed in these principles I did stand for an increased appropriation for the agricultural schools of the country, because 1 wanted to helfl the cause and benefit the youth, and I stand here today voicing' th? same sentiment. I have heard that It was the policy which 1 advocated that also contributed to take me from the Agricultural Committee. I want to tell you what my policy was. My policy on that committee was to develqp and build up all the county. Especially did I have in ew, the development of the agriItural interests of the country, beise 1 believe in developing thoso help every trade and calling and 1 ifession in this Irroad land. I jllected year after year the ap roprlations which were made for the otbe?* departments of the Government. 1 conlrusted these appro 1 pri&iions with the appropriations for 1 the Department of Agriculture, and I showed that the Government was ' doing many, many times as much for brass buttons and for show and ' for ormanent of warfare than it waa doin.3 for the peaceful pursuits ' In this country, in helping the agri- ; cultural interests of the land and that may have been another reason { mku f ....... 1 ? -l!-f " - ' n ii/ i <1 no iii uiaitivur. i\i r. unairman. it is shown in the statistics ' which I submitted on a former accasion that the average annual appro- * priation for tlie War and Navy departments tor ten years was, in round numbers, $245,000,000, which is more than has been appropriated for | the whole Agricultural Department [or the sixty-nine years of its existence. J list think of that. Is it just to thus treat a great department, representing the marvelous agricultur- ? al interests of this country? The 1 farmers of America produced this 1 year crops valued at $8,700,000,000. s and in the pending Dill only $12. ! 417,120 is appropriated to foster and ' develop all this great Industry. liecause I believe in larger appropria f tlons and as a consequence, greater d development I was arbitrarily stoo l s aside, and tliis year the distingushe 1 ' gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Hef- 1 lin), than whom the farmers never 1 had a better friend or more zealous advocate, suffered the same fate. It 1 Is well known here that In committee s and on the floor the gentleman front Alabama was always alert, active and energetic In looking after every interest of the farmers of this country; "but faithful service to theni seems t TO be a crime to be punished here ? rather than a virtue to b<> recognized. ji If Mr. Heflin feels like I do?and I r ani sure he does?ho is willing, if need be, to suffer for a righteous a cause, for right Is mighty and wl'l f yet prevail. When the proper time 1 is reached lu tho consideration of P this bill, the distinguished gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Dickson), who is a farmer himself and has suffered from the boll weevil, and therefore has knowledge of present conditions, will move to increase the appropriation for the study and demonstration of the best methods of meeting the ravages of the boll weevil from $215,000 to $500,000. This is asked for by the farmers of Mississippi in a unanimous resolution passed by the Farmers' Cooperative and Educational I'uiou, an.l I hope his amend inent when offered will prevail. Mr. Chairman, I have introduced a bill to prevent dealing in cotton i futures, farm products, and, in fact, all kinds of future dealing. Tie| people of this country, and especially the farmers, desire legislation on this subject to put an eud to this unwholesome and pernicious speculation. If my bill can not pass, t will cheerfully and gladly support the ; Henry bill, or anv other hill whi.-h will accomplish the end desired. 1 appeal to the membership of the Mouse to .get together and give the people relief from this great evil. Mr. Chairman, one of the greatest | dessings and benefits ever b.'Stowed1 I apon the rural sections of our country is rural delivery of the mails. Sow, add to this good roads and the whole country will call you blessed. As was well said by Senator Bankhead in a speech in the Senate when speaking on this subject: "Another reason for national aid is to be found in the fact that nearly all of the great appropriations made by Congress arc for projects that do not benefit the rural districts. The shipping interests have had the rivers and harbors improved to expediaf heir business; the cities have been supplied, at a cost of $300,000,000, with postoffices and custom houses: the railroads have received large appropriations and have made use of the credit of the Government; millions collected from the people hav? been loaned to the banks withou* interest, and iron master have tie landed upon the Government to construct great locks and dams for facilitating the assembling of materials at cheap rates for making Iron. The tariff laws have been shaped to ben efit the manufacturers, but none of them are intended to benefit the great American farmer.' May I not appeal to your patriotism to consider this great question, and if you really want to do something to benefit all the people everywhere, spend some of the millions yearly appropriated in aiding the construction of good roads. Th"? average cost of hauling over the public roads is 25 cents per ton per mile, and the average haul is eight miles. Good roads will reduce the cost to 10 cents per mile, which would re duce the cost of transportation to the farmers more than half and save them every year enormous sums of money In the aggregate. LKGISLATl'ItK SENDS HKGIIKTS Both Houses Notice Senator Tillman's Extreme Illness. The News and Couriejr says the apparently serious illness of Senator Tillman has been the subject of greatest Interest here. In Legislative circles. The bulletins have been closely watched and all news from the bedside has l>een eagerly sought for. There has not been much satisfaction In the news and there has been deep regret over the continued liscouraging tidings. During the evening this concurent resolution was unanimously agreed upon: "Re it resolved by the Senate, the House concurring. That the General Assembly learns with deep regret of !he serious illness of Senator B. R. ( Tillman and earnestly hopes that he will be speedily restored to health , ?nd vigor. "Be it further resolved. That a ( 'opy of this resolution be transacted to the family of Senator Till- , nan." The resolution was offered by Dr. 'rosson. GIVKN A MFK TKHM. "'or Committing Cross Immorality With Some Hoys. At Savannah. Oa., F. M. White, onvleted In the superior court < f :ross Immorality, fainted before the nig"'s stand when he was sentccvd o life imprisonment. It reijuired onie time for the deputies tj retore the prisoner to eons.-i >us io.vi riils ease has attraeted eonsid mm bio ttentlon in Savannah. When it wis tailed for trial Judge Charlton or lered the court room cleared of "'1 pectators and only those who had j tusiuess within the court room w.re j lerniitted to remain. Wliito ente-ed t l general denial to the charge of ihe f toy when he told his story and i tut two or three witnesses on the land for the purpose of p ovlng an i ibili. i ( Killed l>y Quake. \ A severe earthquake was felt hnmubout Crete at 6:30 o'clock laturday morning. It was accom anied hy violent subterranean ex- > dosions In Coma a number :>f j tulldings were damaged and a min- a ret of the nvosque crashed through l he dome. In the willage of Varlpe- i ro a house collapsed, burying six $ lersons In the ruins. * I % THE NEXT LIFE Ex-Senator W. E. Chandler 1'links Aftei Death We Will Live IN ONE OF THE STARS lie Says We l>n Not Live a.- DiseniIxxlied Spirits, Itut to a star. Where We Inhabit .New Physical Btxlicx, Which Embrace Our I'reseni Souls. William E. Chanliir, forme* U' lied States senator fru.n New Hampshire, former se:ret.i v of the navy and for years one of ike erent political leaders of the country, has come into the limelight again as the auvocate of a new religious doctrine. He believes that after we lay down our physical being upon this earth our souls go to some of the stars, there to be reinvested with physical bodies and to have the same consciousness of existence as here, only to greater perfection. Mr. Chandler talked with a reporter at his summer home at Waterloo, N. 11., before his departure for Washington, where lie will spend the winter. "My faith in a future life," lie said, "is strong and ever present with me. It is only faith. We have 110 knowlege, and it is intended that we shall have no knowledge. We do not live as disembodied spirits; we go to one of the stars, where we sli?ll inhabit new physical bodies, which embrace our present souls. Wo shall see and hear and have the senses, taste, smell and touch, and , perhaps other new and more joyous senses." For many years Mr. Chardler has read all the works obtainable on the subject by the .greatest thinkers of all countries and he has thought the matter out on lines of his own. Now 1 lie makes public declaration of what is to him a well founded theory. "We must start with the vast, startling, overwhelming thought that | there exists a power that can create an immortal soul, capable of living forever," he said. "Once created, the soul must go 011, and on, throughout the eons of eternity. The great object of existence could not be satisfied by annihilation. It can Ik satisfied only by immortality. I "Admitting the future existence 1 of the soul whot more logical thought can we have than that our souls < go to some other part of the unl- 1 verse to take their abode there. They 1 do not exist 011 this earth. What 1 can he the object of such an exist- j ence? There is 110 communication 1 between the souls of the departed 1 and the souls of those who remain. Such a spirit would be a very unhappy one. "1 do not believe in spiritualism in the common meaning of the word. The idea of spirit rappings is entirely unreasonable. "If we go to some of the stars? to Sirius, to the North star or to the ? sun we shall be reinvested with c physical bodies. The joys of exist- j ence attendant upon the use of the ( five senses must not be sacrificed. s And what more reasonable thought j than that we shall be invested with a new senses ns enjoyable, if not more s so, than the five we have in this ex- j istence? j "My idea is that when our souls j, leave this earth we do not scatter to ., different planets. Tills would lie 1 ,, terrible seperation. Suppose we are sent to Mars and our dearest friends n nave prone to Sirius. The very v thought is distressing. v "Surely, in the Oro.lt Beyond, w? j, Biall rejoin our friends. We shall . not scatter. We shall know each ;l it her there as we have known each :>tlier here and shall have friends imong each other there as we have Trlends among those we meet in this ife and among the countless millions s ivho have proceeded us to the necropolis of the past ages. "I love to thing that lu the next vorld life will bo a little easier than r. t is here. After the cares of thi? '.v ife are over we shall need rest. The w nost prevalent hope is that of a si ittle rest before entering upon new b abors. The new life will be a IB- T lo easier?a little rest is what w si ong for. But when we reason upon e he subject we must believe that the ts ife to come is one of activity, a life T >f work, a life of service." n Senator Chandler does not believe t< n the transmigration of the soul on tl his planet. Nor does he believe that a he soul has had any previous exist- n moo. In his philosophy this is the 1> > ginning. "Else, why," he asks, "are all the rears necessary to be passed in the lodies of infants? Why are we not f( rented in the full stature of a man? p A'hy all the years of preparation?" q C, Shot by His l>o??. jr At Albany, (la., Paul H. Jon^s t< was accidentally shot Saturday and w nay lose a hand and part of an arm a is the result. He was riding to a el mnting field in an automihlle, when lis dog pressed the trigger of a Bhot can with its paw, sending the load m nto his master's arm. hi ATE THE DOG I' ONE OF THE RESULTS OF THE HIGH PRICE OF MEATS. While Fating in a KesLnurnnt n Man Finds a Dog Tag in His Weiner- I hurst. At Los Angeles, California, while G E. Sewerwright was eating a wlenerwrust commonly known as a "hot clog," in a restaurant Saturday, he bit something metallic. It proved to be a dog license No. 413. Sewerwright then denounced the b?ef trust that raises prices to such a height that a restaurant keeper can not afford to serve anything but dog. 111 U Iri.wt t,. !.. I. !. - " ? . ?V x* tu voiaou til*-- tYclii'.'l wan served the wiener, and the cook v >,o prepared it. The police quelled the riot, whereupon Sewerwright went to (he c:tv c hall and asked the license clerk whose dog was number 413. The dork looked through his records and replied: "Miss Anna Hell, No. 300 Vj South Los Angeles street; a female Scotch terrier. Why" Sewerwright replied, T ve eaten her. Hotter cancel the record." Miss Hell said she lost her dog about three weeks ago. l'h restaurant that served the wlvie?-w?\ist with the dog license trlmtniuqs a\ors that the food was bought th 1 regular way. Sewerwright has for3aken ' wieners, and Miss Hell has cancelled the reward she offered for h< r Jog. KILLKU KICKING I'lTCHKK _ i Supreme Court Grants New Trial n Umpire's Helialf. When an umpire slays an ohstr^p- t erous pitcher with a baseball bat, odes it constitute murder? Haseball players take notice! It does not. Such is the decision of the Georgia Supreme. Court in the case of Henry 1 Adams against the state. Adams was an umpire of a game of ball played in the vicinity of Thomasville, Ga. There was a dispute over strikes and balls. The pitcher, Curtis Cason, got too free C with his tongue and the ur.nlre promptly laid him over the skull with a ball bat. All this occurred on April 39 of last year. The case came to trial an 1 M?e jury found Adams guilty of murder 1 with a recommendation to th 4 mercy af the court. Ho w-as sent^nc-vi to die Imprisonment in the penitentiary. A new trial was applied for, which was denied. On appeal to the supreme court . 'he decision of the lower cou*t w.s ' rcversod and a new trial grial 1 rn the ground that the court below failed to charge the jury on ti?e subject of mutual cambat. which might constitute the case one of involving manslaughter. * HIT HVSIIANO IN FI N. , t \nd Then Discovers That lie Had Committed Suicide. At New York when Mrs. Peter ?mith, wife of a longshoreman, look d behind the door of her dimly lghted kitchen last Friday night af- ~~ er returning from a neighbor's, she aw the huge form of her husband, 'eter, pressed close to the wall in in evident attempt to conceal hinielf. Being somewhat of a practical oker herself, Mrs. Smith seized a ?room and playfully whacked her lushand's back and shins. He made o outcry and she stopped in amazenent. Then her eyes widened for he saw that her husbands feet were ot touching the floor and that he .as swinging to and fro. Smith, ~ . ho was thirty-four, had hanged imself to a gas-pipe, using an old loth trunk strap. lie was out of job and despond* nt. . t . $ SHOOTS PHK.MIF.lt OF FtlYPT ' re lc. Indent of Nationalist Party Inflicts f ?1 Superficial Wounds. P< At Cairo Routros Pacha Ohali. the a gyptian minister of foreign affairs, qi as shot Saturday by a student, who lo 'as arrested after the shooting. The udont shot five times, three of the ullets lodging in the premier's body, wo of them, however, inflicted only ? iiperflcial wounds. The bullets w re xtraeted, and it is practically cor lin that the premier will recover, c he crime was entirely of a political ^ at ore. the would-he assassin claims I" > he a Nationalist. He declared s7 lat his motive was the desire to M vengo various acts of the govern- r?r. lent, which the Nationalists attri- *>u Wf lite personally to Roustras Rhali. Sj I,cavp tho State. Agreeing to leave the State and sa mse his attentions to a 14-year-old ,;i irl, he claimed to love, I> L. Me "neon, a young white man. held at f roenville on the charge of abduct- J >g the young daughter of Post ma s>r J. A. Cannon, cf Fountain In'>, as released on Saturday. McQueen nl tho young lady attempted *.o lope several days ago. 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It has also been known that old worn-out lands are extremely deficient In lime, and that sour, badly-drained lands ha\e their lime is a for mthat is not usable by growing cropH. Farmers' Bulletin No. 124, D. 8. Dept. of Agriculture, says: "All the applications of lime Increased the vields The best yields wer? obtained with the lime in the form of carbonate, the finely ground oys'er shells standing first Lime with fertilizer was more profitable than dependlug upon fertilizer alone." TIiIh new fertilizer which present* lime in its most usable form is made by a new process of burning oyster shells and using a burner that can supply potash. The result is a high grade fertilizer costing the consumer only $7.00 per ton. It reclaims worn-out lands In a marvelous manner If applied broadcast two montha ahead of ammonlated goods. It's sweetening effects on sour lands is almost uingical. Charleston freight rates apply on this new fertilizer. The factory is located on Young's Island, S. 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