WORK OF FIENDS
A Negro's Brutal Outrage on a White Womau
in North Carolina.
HE HELD HER FOR HOURS
The Daughter of n Fanner Residing
Near Hose Hill, N. C., Brutally
Assaulted by a Hlack Fiend. *"Whom
Search is llciin? IUH?re??#lv
Made by Posses..
Late Wednesday afternoon a young
lady, about twenty-one years of age,
the daughter of Mr. J. W. Judge, a
well-to-do farmer, residing about
twelve miles from Rose Hill, in Duplin
County, N. C.. was criminally assaulted
by a negro and Is reported
as being in a serious condition.
Pos8cb searched all laBt night for
the negro and Bcoured the surrounding
country today. This afternoon a
negro was arrested at Magnolia wno
filled the description of the negro,
but there was doubt about him being
the man wanted.
MIsb Judge had started from her
home to visit her brother and while
passing along the road, walking, was
met by the negro, who compelled her
to go into the woods near the roaa.
This was about 3 o'clock in the
afternoon and the young woman remained
in the woods from that time
until 8 o'clock last night, when she
made her escape, there being a heavy
rain most of the time and the weather
very cold.
Owing to the Inclement weather,
the negro left Miss Judge for a few
minutes in order to get some material
to make a covering to protect
them from the rain, and the young
woman took advantage of the momentary
absence of the brute to make
her escape, although she had beet,
told that she would be killed if she
moved.
When she reached home most of
her clothing was torn from her body.
When the news reached Wilmington
and other places great indignation
was expressed, and posses set out to
hunt down the fiend.
ANOTHER NEGRO FIENl).
*
A Young White Woman Assaulted
Near Due West.
An unknown negro attempted to
assault a prominent woman, near her
home, at Due WeHt late Wednesday I
afternoon, and that town is crowded ,
jL with indignant persons who are niak- ,
ing a thorough search to catch tho ,
hrute.
The ne^ro suddenly attacked the ;
woman from behind, snatching her (
shawl from her shoulders and throw- (
ing it over her head. The woman 1
screamed and tho negro became
frightened and fled. Some people ,
were in a nearby field and they were j
attracted to the scene, but not belofe j
the negro had disappeared. He tore
the shawl and part of the garments
of tho victim. j
Because of the suddenness of the
attack and because it came from behind
her, the woman did not get a
good look at the negro.
She has furnished a meagre description,
and the towns in the neighborhood
have been notified to look
out for the man.
Tho assault was made near the
creek about one-half mile from tho
Associate Reformed Presbyterian
church.
SherlfT Lyon and his deputies are
on the scene and great excitement
prevails.
SKVNN MKN PKItlSlf.
A Fishing Tun <?oes to the llottom
Near Cleveland.
One fishing tug with a crew of
seven is lost, and one other with a
crew of three is missing as a result
of the pale that swept down over the
lakes Wednesday, and is still raging
on L.ake Erie off Cleveland.
The Silver Spray, of Frio, Pa., operated
by the Hooth Fisheries Company,
wont down ofT Cleveland harbor
Wednesday night after battling
with the heavy seas for twenty hours.
The last seen of her was at 2 a. 111.,
Thursday, when Capt. Hansen, of the
life saving station, sighted a vessel
a few miles out, burning torches as '
signals of distress.
Thursday morning the tug Hurkoye
patrolling the breakwater, sighted
what is believed to have been tne
pilot house of the Sliver Spray afloat !
In the lake, off East Fortieth street. '
Two bodies, which Capt. Cornelius
believes belong to members of the
Silver Spray's crew of seven, were'
lying on the breakwater. It was im-I
possible for the tug to get near
enough to take off the bodies.
Killed by Collision.
4
At Gloucester, Mass., four deaths
resulted from a collision hctv.eon the
power fishing vessel Hope and the
fishing schooner, linllie A. Heckman,
In Gloucester harl>or Wednesday.
The victims comprised the crew of
the Hope. The power-boat sank almost
Immediately. The other vessel
sustained no damage.
AIRSHIPS OP HISTORY.
The first birdnuin of whom there
is any definite record was Simon
Magus, who, according to Antonius
Byerlink, flew high in the air over
Rome during the reigr of Nero from
54 to 68 A. I). The account of the
adventure is very ">rlef, but not
more so than was .his pioneer's carr?f?r
jia nn niMut or fnr It la r/jonrrl
that his evil ge' ius became displeased
with him v .ten he was aloft and
suffered him o fall and dash out his
life.
The f" ^ of this first martyr of the
air oms to have discouraged ex.vitnentcrs
for many centuries, for
we must turn over a thousand years
of history before putting our finger
on the next birdman to be definitely
mentioned. This was Elmerus, a
Thirteenth century monk. Taking
the flying squirrel for his model lu.
gave successful exhibitions from a
tower, soaring sometimes above a
furlong through space.
The first birdman to flay a considerable
distance appears to have been
John Rabtiste Dante, a Ffteenth century
mathematician, who lived in
Perugia. He framed a pair of ingenius
wings with which, it is narrated,
he amused his fellow Perugians. One
of the most successful flights was over
Lake Trasimenc, that body of wated
with no outlet, on whose northern
shore Hannibal annihilated the Romans.
Rut the aerial career of Dante
or Perugia was cut short one day
when "he fell on the top of St.
Mary's Church and broke his thigh."
That the great Leonardo da Vin]
ci (1452-1519) was a birdman as
well as a painter, sculptor, musician,
' architect, engineer and meehanici\
an, is stated by some authorities.
While making the careful observations
on which he based his "Treat.
Ise on the Light of Birds" he so
thoroughly fathomed the secrets of
flying as to be able to build a pair
I of mechanical w ings with which, according
to Cuperus* "Excellence of
' Man," he practiced flying success'
fully.
Soon afterward came an "artificial
eagle." which .lohann Mutter hinh?-???
| of Ratlsbon and a noted German
mathematician and astronomer,
| built at Nuremberg during the generation
just proceeded Columbus' disJ
eovery of America. This aerodome
is reputed to have flown out to meet
the Emperor Charles V. and to have
accompanied him back to town.
In 1510 an aviation exhibition was
arranged for the amusement of
James IV. of Scotland and his court,
the Tongland. After the court had
all assembled the prior mounted one
of the lofty battlements of Stirling
castle and donned an elaborate arrangement
of wings and feathers.
Then he leaped forth and fell ingloriously
onto the dunghill.
A daring flight from the Steeple
of St. Mark's cathedral, Venice, is
mentioned by the Lord Hishop but
history does not perpetuate the name
of the aviator who performed the
feat. The same authority mentions
another unnamed man who made a
flight at Nuremberg, the same city
from which Hishop Muller's artillcial
eagle went out to meen the emporer.
j One of the most noted birdmen of
this time was Allard, a tightrope
performer who apj>eared in France
' about lfifirt. Wearing wings he
I made a number of flights from various
heights. Hut while |>orforming
before Louis XIV. he got a bad fall,
1 and seems to have thereupon quit
the flying business.
The most successful birdman of
' v* *
mem* iiiutftt apprars io nilvo been on<*
llosnier. a locksmith, who succeeded
in flying at Sable, France, a few
years after A Hard's 4ierial career had
ended so painfully in the presence
; of the great Louis.
I According to the Journal des Savants
of Sept. 12. lfiTS. Besnler flew
with wings consisting of four rectangular
surfaces, one at the end of
each of two rods passing over his
shoulders. With these he would
raise himself from one height *o anothir
until he reached the top of a
house, from the roof of which he
would pass over the neighborhood
houses. Finally working himself up
to a great height he would make a
downward swoop and cross a river
of considerable breadth.
Successful flights were made at the
same time by one Baldwin, of Guibre,
who built Hesnier's first pair of
wings. He and his disciple were
blrdmen indeed. They flew only by
their God-given means of locomotion.
Tho monoplane is first met with
in a picture from Faustus Verontius,
1 G0.r?. showing a flying man supported
by a rectangular fabric stretched
upon a frame front whose four corners
depend ropes passing under his
arms.
During these latter years of the
Seventeenth century Francis Luna,
a Spanish Jesuit, designed an airship.
which w .is to consist of a boatshaped
body from which rose a m.i?t
and s:ill surrounded by four globes
of very thin copper, each containing!
a vacuum. Needless to add this contrivance
never worked.
A generation later <17.".f>i a Portuceso
ncmed He r.usman is said to
have "made a wicker basket of about
seven or ? ight feet in diameter cov- <
ered with paper, which basket elevated
itself as high as the Tower of 1
I-isbon." This "basket" is believed I
by some authorities to have been a
wicker frame supporting a paper vessel
tilled with heated air. If so. the <
apparatus probably was the first bal- s
loon. However this may have been, t
the introduction of tbo balloon in i
COCA-COLA CASE
DR. KEBLER GIVES EVIDENCE ]
AGAINST THE DRINK.
Serious "Witness in Government Suit ?
Makes Charges Against Beveridge
and Its Manufacture.
In the heariag of the case of the
United States against a certain num- (
her of barrels and kegs of coca-cola ,
in the federal court at Chattanooga, j
Tenn., Wednesday, some of the most j
interesting testimony yet brought out ,
was given by Dr. Lyman F. Kebler, ,
chief of the drug department of the ,
bureau of chemistry, Washington, D.
C. ,
Dr. Kebler is the chemist who (
made a test of coca-cola and he testified
that coca-cola contains caffeine,
declaring that to each eight ounce ,
glass there were one and one-fourth j
grains of cafTeine, which he says is ,
poison. j
Dr. Kebler cited many authorities ,
in proof of his statement that caf- ,
feine is a poison and cited a number
of deaths reported as being caused by ,
its use. One of these writers had ,
reported a case where four and one- j
half grains of the drug had produced |
death and he declaredd that about
three glasses of coca-cola contained (
this amount of caffeine. Dr. Kebler ,
testified as to the finding of vermin {
and bugs in the vats as the result of ,
his inspection of the coca-cola plant (
in Atlanta. ,
He also testified that caramel and ,
brown sugar were added because of
their opaqueness tended to conceal s
impurities in the coca-cola syrup. (
Dr. Rushy, for the government,
testified along the line of the name j
of the drink coca-cola and stated that ,
no other product boro the name ot |
either "coca" or "kola." t
Government chemists stated that j
coca-cola contained neither coca nor ,
Unt?> < ? ? " *? * - * *
v. me oiuii ui me government ,
will be to prove that the drink Is
mishrandcd. f
f
Feeding the Chirks. {
The chicks need no feed for the ,
first two days after they are hatched. t
It is better to leave them in the nest ,
with the hen the first day and move t
to the coop when one day old. A
llglu feed may be given the evening
of the second day. and the next
day give three feeds and increase one
feed a day till they are fed five times
per day.
If the chicks can not get on the ^
ground where they can get sharp v
sand, they should be given a little
with the first feed. Oat tlakeB or
pin-head oatmeal makes a very good
fed for the first day or two. Some y
prefer to give bread or cracker
crumbs wet with milk and squeezed
as dry as possible. Either of these
feeds will be all right, but do not ^
give too much of either. Feed a
little at a time and often; never try ()
to coax the chicks to eat. If they are
not hungry when feeding times conies
they have had too much at the last j
feed and it is better to let them go
without till they are hungry again.
After the first couple of days finely
cracked grains should be added to j
the ration. This can be bought ready f
mixed for chick feeding, in most
towns. When 1 make my own mix- j
ture, I use one part of corn, one part
n'lia on.l A - ? *
nuu iwu pans wnPill.
The corn must bo quite finely (
cracked and the wheat should also
he cracked. For the first two weeks r
1 use oatmeal and then hulled oats.
Corn bread can he used to Rood
advantage for two or the five feed3. j
I make it out of equal parts of corn ?]
meal and wheat middlings, mixing j
either with milk or water. Cook
thoroughly and do not feed till cold, r
If you have Infertile eggs, boil them t
hard and feed with the bread, using
four parts of bread to one part of
egg. Do not give more than two ,1
feeds of this per day, making the
first and last of the grain.
This can he continued till the ,
chicks are from four to six weeks old.
From that time the purpose for which j
you want the chicks will determine
how you should feed them. If they
are for breeding stock, gradually
substitute a dry mash for the bread,
and the grain may he changed to (
larger size as soon as the chicks can (
eat it. If for market as frying-si/.e
chickens, more fattening feed should
he given and they should he given all
they will eat and should not have too
large a range.?J. S. Jeffrey, in Raleigh
(N*. C.) Progressive Farmer. *
this same century caused experimenters
generally to abandon the man- 1
(light problem for more than ?>0 t
years, or until Dr. Miller and one d
llensen. both Englishmen, resumed 1
experiments. 1
It was early in the last 40'g that '
England excitedly awaited Henson s t
"aerial steam carriage," whose great t
bat-like wings were to be waved by \
a steam engine of extreme lightness. <1
An inclined plane was devised lor the '
launching ge.tr. but was never need- ?
ed. And meanwhile Dr. Miller was d
at work on his "aerostat, ' with T
which he made futile efforts to re- h
discover the lost art of the ancient
birdnten, the lost art of really flying B
ivith wings waved by human muscles
.lie lost art that still remains lost. "
The time for shooting doves is y
>ut, and it is no longer lawful to fl
ihoot these birds. It is sAtd that 0
loves are much scarcer than they C
vere some years back. f<
WRECK NEAR AIKEN
FREIGHT TRAIN RAN INTO BY A
PASSENGER TRAIN.
The Firemnn on the Freight Train
Has His Skull Fractured and is
ExiKM-ted to Die.
A special to The News and Courier
from Aiken says several persons
were inji red. one seriously. In a
icad-on collision on the Southern
Road, about I 1 o'clock Thursday
light, the scene of the wreck being
ibout a mile below the passenger delot
at Aiken.
The injured were given attention
>y local physicians and later taken
0 a hospital in Augusta.
It seems that passenger Train No.
17, from Charleston to Augusta, was
ibout two hours late, and after leavng
Aiken was running, as the englleer
expressed it, "pretty fast," when
t ran into an extra freight, which
was coming around a curve without
1 headlight.
The freight was running at about
x five-mile rate of speed. The engileer
of the passenger did not see the
'reight until the headlight of his own
ocomotlve revealed the situation.
He Immediately applied the emergency
brakes and yelled to his fireman
to jump, intending to do the
tame himself. However, before either
coulu jump the crash came. It
ieveloped that the freight engineer
was stooping down in his cab and did
lot see the approaching passenger.
The fireman on the freight had Ills
ikull fractured and the engineer was
onsiderably bruised about the head.
On the passenger, the engineer,
irenian, ticket collector, and Pullnan
conductor suffered various
>ruises. as did also six of the passengers.
all men. The only serious
njury, so far as could be learned,
was to the fireman on the freight,
vho may die.
llofll j
... .vwuiuuica nri C 1111(11.V II Hilllged,
one being partly derailed and
several of the passenger coaches were
ronsiderably torn up. The injured
vere placed in a baggage car and
aken to Augusta, an engine. In the 1
neanwhile, having been sent from
hat city. 1
Hl'MOKOUS.
"I ish I had the toothache."
"Why such a wish?"
"Well, I've got a lot of other trou- 1
ilea that I'd like to forget for a 1
vhile." 1
Now Helen pink, the papers say,
Is Washington's new hue;
Veil, if the shade has come to stay, '
That must make Alice blue!
Alice?That girl is pretty, but she 1
lasn't any brains. !
Lorraine?If she's pretty she '
loesn't ncd any brains.
Miss Elderly What would you do '
f 1 should tell you my age? '
lie?Double it. I
"I have a remarkable history,"
>egan the lady who looked like a
>ossible client.
"To tell or sell?" inquired the
awyer caoutiously."
First Tramp?What do yer t'lnk 1
>f dis "mire beer"
Second Tramp?1 wish dey'd jest
nake me one of de inspectors.
Farmer?Here's a letter from city
'oiks answerin' our ad, Mlranay. 1
They want ter know if there's a bath
n the house. What'll I tell 'em?
His Wife?Tell 'em the truth.
Tell 'em if they need a bath they'd
tetter take it afore they come.
The Collector?Are you Lawyer
dlggS?
The Lawyer?Yes.
The CJollector?Want to know
when you will pay this bill?
The Lawyer?Never? Two dollars
or the advice, please.
i
Barjon?1 understand your wife
lever does things by halves,
Egbert?That's about right. She
'ither leaves the door wide open or
lse she slams it.
HOTEL M.A.N A SUICIDE.
A'ounds Friend, Misses Another,
Then Shoots Himself.
Henry P. Powell, proprietor of the i
^owell House at Sanford, N. C., com- i
nitted suicide in the crowded union ;
lepot at Raleigh Thursday afternoon i
>y shooting himself, after, firing wild- <
v I ?/,? <.! t ..? - *
?.i? iii nmeign as a mom- j
>or of a delegation asking for bet- j
or railroad service and was talking t
o two friends, n. B. Mclver and C. i
V. Smith, of Sanford, when he sud- i
lenly stepped back, pulled two pis- t
oJs and began shooting. One bullet r
truck Smith In the arm and shoul- f
,er, and the other missed Mclver. \
owell then turned the pistol to his f
ead and killed himself. Powell was
0 years old. Temporary insanity is n
iven as the cause for the deed.
? ,
Fireman Was Killed.
At Milwaukee the M. Hilty lumber t
ard was practically wiped out by s
re Thursday. The loss is $200,- u
00, partly Insuraoed. Fireman Fred t
lark was overcome by the cold and[i
?11 from a ladder and was killed. * (
1
ICY DEATH FOR FIFTY.
Many Drownings in New England
During Past Winter.
Half a hundred persons, a majority
of them children under twelve
years of age, went through thin Ice
to their death in New England and
the maritime provinces of Canada
during the winter Just closing.
There were several double drownings.
Many instances of heroic attempts
at rescue were recorded,
some of which resulted fatally to the
would-be rescuers.
Josephine Pizroski, thirteen years
old, looking from a window of her
home while changing her wet stockings,
saw three other little girls faF
i H r/M? 1? *- /Nt
c.unisii me iue in me unicopee river.
In her bare feet the child scampered
over the snow and, plungins
into the water, rescued two of the
children. Her collie dog sought o
save the third, but she struggled so
hard that the dog was forced to leave
her to die.
CJet Fnough Horse-Power.
I was once talking with a State
Commissioner of Agriculture, and remarked
that when I was farming on
a large scale I used ten mules. He
said, "That is too many. A fourhorse
farm is all that one man should
have," and his Idea of a four-horse
farm, was a tract of land on which,
where I now live no one would think
of using less than eight horses. On
such a farm as this man indicated,
every one of the four horses woala
he hitched to a plow to plow the land
for the crop, and every plow would
take a mnn. and the plowing vould
be about three inches deep, whll.
the eight horses would take no mor
men, but the team would plow at
least six inches deep, and the same
four men would cultivate a far larger
area with two-horse riding cultivators.
We need to get away from
the old idea of estimating a farm by
horses, and should use all the horses
we can make profitable.?W. F. Massoy.
in Raleigh (N. C.) Progressive
Farmer.
What Constitutes Soil Fertility.
What is soil fertility? What does
the term mean to you? What is your
standard of measurement? What
are the conditions or factors which
rontrol or constitute soil fertility?
It appears that, to some, the quantity
of the so-called plant foods, nitrogen,
potash and phosphoric acid,
which are applied to or contained in
the land, is the most important factor
in measuring the fertility of productive
power of a soil. To others
the proper amount of humus, or decaying
organic matter in a soil, is tho
measure of its fertility, or at least,
is ine nrst essential of soil fertility. 1
Still others believe that tillage determines
more largely than any oth- 1
cr factor the productive capacity of
soils. And still others, even certain s
scientists and Investigators, have j
lalmed that soil fertility is almost or r
entirely a question of a proper supply f
of moisture in the soil. Independent s
of its chemical composition, except as c
this chemical composition affects its c
power to furnish a proper water sup- i?iy.
t
That all soils contain sufficient f
plant foods for the production of t
large crops, or that the supply of t
water is the sole measure of soil ^
fertility, will he accepted by few; j
but if any one factor could be singled ?
out as the most important in deter- i
mining the fertility of any soil, it {
would certainly be the one of a prop- j
er supply of water. The lesson which \
must first be learned is, that soil fer- i
tllity is dependent upon many differ- i
ent factors, and that if we neglect t
any one of the factors, or If we great- t
ly exaggerate another, we shall most |
likely fall short of that full grasp ot l
the subject necessary to the best soil ;
management. I
If we admit that good tillage, suf- i
ficient plant foods, organic decay and t
bacterial life and a properly regu- f
lated supply of moisture are all es- j
sential to large crop production, or 1
maximum soil fertility, it is not quite i
proper or accurate to state that any (
one of these is, in the true sense, t
the most important; hut since all oth- ;
ers of those are more or less depend- (
ent upon one, water, it may be placed <
first in consideration. f
Most soils contain much more plant t
foods than would )>e required to pro- 1
mure scores or maximum crops; but f
these are useless for crop production
until dissolved In the soil water, c
Drganic matter decays through bac- t
terial activities, which break down n
ind render soluble plant foods in the a
soil; but an equally important func- n
ion of decaying organic matter in s
lie soil is Its value in preserving d
i proper water supply. If. thou, suf- r
licient plant foods in soil, decaying v
>rganic matter and proper water sup- v
dy are three most important factors v
n soil fertility, it is entirely proner I<
o place the water supply as first in I
mportanco. Organic matter would r
>e placed second because Its decay ii
ends to render the plant foods al- o
< ady in the soil available ?o crops v
md to regulate the water supply in "
vhich the plant foods are dissolved <'
tnd carried to the growing plants. <
These, then, are our problems: ( 1 )
I'o control the water supply by druinIL'C
and t lw> IntmilnAiU" ?.. ~ *
nun 111 UIKilllli'
natter, and (2) to furnish soluble r
dant foods by introducing organic "
natter which in its decay will supply h
iiibRtances to dissolve the plant foods t
ilready in the soil, and by the addi- '
ion of other supplies of plant foods ?1
n commercial fertilizers.?Raleigh 1'
N. C.) Progressive Farmer. e
TRIED TO TRADE
A Manslayer's Brother Offered Votes to
Get Him a Fall Pardoa
OFFER WAS REJECTED
I. W. (iallmnn, Who Was Sentenced
to Fifteen Years Imprisonment for
Killing a Man, Since Paroled by
Gov. Itlease, Tried to Purchase a
Promise of Pardon.
The ? ite says last August or Sepeinber,
after the first State primary
iml before the second, a man who
tupported Mr. Featherstone for gov rnor
told a member of the staff of
The State that a man named Gallnan
had come to Columbia that day
>earing a letter of introduction from
i resident of Union.
Mr. Featherstone was not in Coumbia
and Gallman called to see
jne of the men active in his campaign,
presenting the letter to him.
The letter said, among other things,
hat Gallman, the bearer, had a
brother in the penitentiary and that
the bearer of the letter had largo
political influence in Union, Spartanburg
and Greenville counties.
The bearer of the letter desired to
know if Mr. Featherstono could bo
depended upon to pardon his brother
In case of his election, provided tlio
Influence of the bearer were exerted
for Mr. Featherstone's election.
Mr. Featherstone's friend promptly
told the hearer of the letter that no
pledges or promises would bo made.
The Union man thereupon begged
that the matter be taken under consideration,
and left, showing eome
inxiety to catch a train.
Of course the matter ended there,
10 far as Mr. Featherstone and his
riends were concerned. Tho man
vho told Tho State man about the
risit remarked at the time that in
iny event he expectec. o keep an eye
>n ilBVolonmonlo
... , .... inks vjuiiiniiu case.
Yesterday the announcement was
published that the governor had paoled
James W. Gallman, a prisoner
n the State penitentiary, convicted
n 1907 of manslaughter and serving
l sentence of 15 years, during good
pehavior.
James W. Gallman was convicted
n Union county in 1907 for killing
time Gllmore at Jonesvllle, in Union
:ounty. Ho was sentenced to 15
'ears in the State penientlary. The
parole was announced by Gov. Hlease
Townsend of Union.
Hie Heavy I*rieo of Forestry Neglect.
Another thing that has burned iticlf
into my memory is the heavy
>enalty China is now paying for the
eckless destruction of her forests in
ormer years. On this trip I have
een river valley after river valley,
>nce rich and productive, hut now be:ome
an abomination of desolations
?covered over with unnumbered
ons of sand and stone brought down
rom the treeless mountain-sides.
bVhile the peaks were forest-clad,
hey held the rain-water like sponges,
living it out slowly from the docayng
leaves, humus, and well-soaked
oil. Now. however, the mountains
iro in thousands of cases merely
Miormous rock-piles, the soil, completely
washed away, having laid
vaste the country below; while other
nountains show the destruction still
icing on, rent as they are by gorges
hrough which furious torrents rush
lown, submerging once fruitful
plains with rock and unfertile gul
rj-iuri. usually mo cninese farmer
irourwl here has nothing to do with
ilddling little "patchea" such as tho
legroos have made disgracefully
oranion In the South; he prefers to
ultlvate In broad fields where tho
ilowman will not have to waste half
lis time in turning round at the end
>f garden-length furrows. In tho
levastated valleys, however. I find
hat John Chinaman is often forced,
igainst his will, into this sort of
latch-farming simply because it is
>nly here and there that fertile
itreaks have been left unruined. In
hese cases he has piled the rocks in
ittie heaps and saved some remnauts
rom the general soiMvreek.
Saturday I rode over the bed of a
>nce-deep river. Now it is almost
>nt irely filled up with sand and rock
ind of the once splendid arches of
in old stone bridge. 1 found only
i few feet of the upper part not yet
ubmorged in sand. Once the cleai,
loep. steadily flowing water ran hero
nonth after month, and all around
irere well-tended lowlands; now
vhen a rain comes a mad fury of
inters sweeps over the lowlands,
caving a ruinous deposit behind, mut
liter there are long weeks when tho
iver he?! is dry and desert-like. So
! was when I saw it yesterday, the
Id bridge itself standing amid tho
,-aste a melancholy monument to tho
ladness and fertility of a vanished
ra. Clarence I'oe, in Raleigh (X.
'.) Progressive Farmer.
One thing is certain, and this is
hat the Southern farmers must as
apidly substitute horse-power aim
taehinery for so much human laer.
There are plenty of laborers if
heir labor was made more effective
(trough the use of machinery as is
one In the West. W. K. Massey, in
taleigh (N. C.) Progressive Farmr.