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The VOL. XXIV. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, JULY is, iqoi. STORIES ABOUT AN OLI^ TRAGEDY. * ... ■■ ■ —^• - - • -Trial and Conviction of Wm. L. Yancey . t ' > . ^ Conflicting ^tat*ment8 That Are Not Surprising Newspaper correspondents are reviv ing the most noted tragedy of Green>- ville in its earlier days, and circum stantial accounts are given in which there are evident errors and conflicting statements, but which a>e entirely ex cusable owing to the fact that these correspondents are writing from the memory of others. The killing of Dr. Xfobinson Earle sixty-three years ago might have been forgotten oral least very dimly remembered even in Green ville were it not that he belonged to an illustrious family, whose descend ants' arc very numerous in the com munity, and that his slayer was Wil liam L. Yancey, who became a famous leader in the secession movement of IbttO, more than twenty years after the unfortunate encounter which ended Dr. Earle’s life and which doubtless •mbiucred Mr. Yancey’s existence loot; afterwards. Mr. Yancey'* promi nence as a lawyer and |•olilictail in Alabama (icvcf diminished the nolo- net) <>f ilu* sad latgedy, ami in fact only ad A c*a A'jt-Hm GraeaVil ixl to the jierpetuity 'of the for ful ville many years ago, which appeared in the Birmingham Age Herald recent ly and which the Intelligencer copied last week, does not tally with the ac count contained in DuBose's -‘Life and Times of William L. Yancey” in sev eral’very important particulars. Du- Bojie got his facts relating tualje hom icide and the trial of Yancey from the files of Tiik Greknville Mountain eer. Benjamin F. Ferry was in charge of the paper at the time, and he doubtless wrote the accounts from which DuBoee drew. The rec rd as 1t appears io “The Life and Times of William L. Yancey,” a highly valuable contribution to the history of the coun try, by the way, may therefore be ac cepted as authentic. Yancey was scholarly, talented, one of the finest orators our country has produced, prolific as she has been ol these, and 1 believe he was thoroughly patriotic. He has been much misrep resented aod consequently much mu- underdood. It, ha* lietli bruited all the \eara, Lite cuir< nisei in motion by unfriendly longues, that Yancey ran otT to Alabama immediately'J^ter the tragedy, aa if to escape the frowns of an ouirased poUte, but the facia are that be had been a resident of Alabama* two y< ■m Birmi II VI arc pru r lb the uufor- if Mr. DuBoaa says, and •ked to compare it with icb ap|nar>d la-1 w.ek » w. ADmkm.n. Juiy’K, I.KH. , deceased. The court could impute to him no moral guilt. What happened there seemed to be entirely accidental and to be attributed to the angry and excited deportment of Dr. Earle. The Judge explained further that Mr. Yan cey seemed to have worn his pistol in Greenville because of habit acquired in carrying it while passing through the Indian country of the West. Tn con sideration of this practice the court, had made up its judgment^ The sentence was $1,500 fine and twelve months imprisonment in jail. ‘‘Governor Patrick Noble remitted two-thirds of the finb and released the prisoner. Mr. Yanuey then returned with his family to Alabama.” Maj. Ferry was not only the editor of Tiik Mountaineer when Yancey became involved ^n this trouble with his wife’s uncle, Df. Earle, but he was also one of the counsel for the defend ant, with whom he was on rhtimate terms, and he has left om record his testimony as to the character and dis position of his., client, and given a statement of the circumst mces under which the fatal difficulty took place. In his “Iteminiscencesof Public Men,” winch was published only a few years l»efore hi* deslh, Gov. Ferry has an interesting sketch of William L. Yan- from which we make ths follow- BILL ARP ON THE CONVICTS. Concerned About of Crime and Im- M. Mi Mi a i Will M r ti ■ >r\ cey ing extract : Mr. Yancey read law in osy office^ two or tbr«-£ >ian, and we were for a much longer period on terms of great iwrmmcv.— t Iww n— wmfc mi most affrcnonaiety I rare and nobis qualities of tMKh bead I and heart. * He was full of genius and I talent, aud endowed abb high gifu of oratory. In di»po»iti<« be was kind and aff.etiouata, warm ^nt laud drv<>(ed t<> hi* fiienn*. | very handsome young iu ■rful face, eet lid g«Nel lee.in ordinary heig . wtlh great i if !it I.. Ill He is Deeply the Increase morality A 'vita Constitution. Next in importance tq the education of the children of the State comes the care of the convicts, the lunatics and the deaf and the blind. These are charges, fixed charges that rest every where upon the citizen and taxpayer and cannot be avoided.' A careful perusal of the last reports of the officers of these institutions give us deep con cern, for their inmates are increasing faster than population and this increase indicates a growing degeneracy in mental, physical or moral condition of our people. These reports give much interesting matter for there is hardly a State in the Union where similar in stitutions are so ably and faithfully officered. *We are especially fortunate in having such a capable and ex perienced man. as Dr. Powell at the head of our sanitarluffi. The appre hension is that when he dies we can not fill his place for we cannot find a man who has both bis ability and his long experience. The same can be said of Professor Conqur, in charge of the school for the deaf. These two are veterans in the service and have by their long and failhfu work allayed all public auxttty about those iustilu- lions. But why should so many more children be.born deal and dumb tban formerly, and why should so man) more people become insane? Only a t f" r iA WJ Sn itgli* i‘ivlrHuP Conner re- ( He find many I l*orU>d Id'*, and now be - has jTfS'Tu , charge. Do folks keep on mam ing ihnr cousins aud will the law keep no allowing u? A* to the sanitarium, there seem* to tie no limit, no dimmu- 1 U»ti uf the rapid increase aod as fast I as more room is provided more still is wanted. Dr. Powell ports that on October 1. ItMJO, there were I.70U whites aud 742 colored on baud, and the new ap- i plications now average about MX per I day. Of course a.any die aod it is a 1 comfort to know that man* recover genelou*. He was a i. aith a in»t. 11 aud ivtiy not ring was + %ll i and | only | *t read) faact- thai • l f< as a is of it. ripe eeu G f« V\ i ha His (■ ■ us «•« I.. an Kai IU tauof high tpu [•- II »• '■!’* rotvrd him ta i jf a very aenoi rr, oo ouc uct flag law with i tea him ami revent their ti my had c> aicax .0. whah Mid e they drew 1 c Min- 1 ilinr n "AAOtl ■till Arc li in llArjrrtJ. T»o ill V | kit buiHlr* d AtMl till) DIM Whiim A Dll i» L bis, 1 rnm-tv •«ur i—gruaa wire .Bechanced r wi EE not LAE t \ t?4 ir. One hundred aad AfU**ix Hi , or •te , Whiles aud 1 -*» aagtaae tend. The iii •tr ung liwCluf gives pleasant aod easy employ- mm If* r ally 1 OM 111 l« i all who cau aud are wtUi ig to *ti rut. 1 wuik. He is a philosopher of my m«l ( 2A1 own ki tod fur be says he has foaon 1 Ell Ml hie that W« >ik, tueouaJ labor, to esore coo real m any dncive to restoration aod roo leaf ant i-hai roc than any oilier me*itone- Ganleoing, oi nisi, i •* .washing, can mag frails, etc., tui is douc i oo a Urge scale. Much more IHf r. I of ibis M done than formerly aod iho If iX u « -ack : report shows an immense business. «l s Just it link uf Iasi year’s work -1,000 i CO Uli li lit' epr. uis , 2,000 budltcks, 32)00 chemises. ir i ig tels, 1 1 MOO calico drei.ee, 700 bomeepau and forty-four of them are serving a second term. Thirty are serving a third term and a few a fourth and fifth term. They seem to like it. One thousand and twenty of these convict* are from three counties—Fulton, Chat ham, and Bibb. Aa Thomas Jeffer son said, “ The influence of cities is pestilential to good morals.” It is esi<ecially so with negroes. The large majority of the negro convicts are from the ciiies and large towns. Twenty years ago there were 1,100 negro convicta and 00 per cent of them were wholly illiterate, could neither read nor write. Now we have 4,300 negro convicts and 54 per cent can read and write. How is that? Doe* education lessen cripae or increase it? Mr. Stetson, the Stale statistician of Massachusetts, says it ” increases crime not a little, but immensely,” and be proves it. It certainly does amdhg the negro face in (reorgia. It Is curious to note that we have two counties <n the State-—White and Gilmer—-that have ro repieseutaiive among the convicta. There are four counties—Towns, Pickens, Banks and Dawsou—that have but one each. There are three counties—Union, Mur ray and Kabun—that have but two each. How is that for good monds in out mo t Northern mountain counties, where the school master ha* not been abroad iu the land to auy alarming ex- t n:? No, the truth is that education of itseif neither I. ssens nor inert-area crime. It depends ■ u the moral train ing that the b y gets ^either from bis teacher or his parents or his em ly as- bui if h& environments are makes him a more dangerous ciuseo, for it enables him to cover Op alftl conceal bis crime or to escape from punishment In some way. It is like throwing pea-U before swifle to give the vile «nd vicious an uduca- Uno, Km we can't pick them before hand ami so all muse have a chance. But if 1 was a lawmaker I w< miM pul some |<enalUee upon bud cU>aoos, upon the idle aud vicious, whether white or blech. Wedo not allow them to have their namee in the jury box. They cannot try a mao for crime no* set in judgment upoa hie civil rights Why sbonid such men he trusted with the ballot? Why nut let the same commisetoo that makes up the jury box also snake ep the ballot hot? If some negroes got in end some bad white men were left out it would sociates, bad bis education scale. people putting a ctltseos, whether peupie « k. Good conduct laral in a>t, U :h ft •ut f i tht rs. . hi it E 'r Bt hh*« becj pn lh« pftely, t father | ly in pri > Earle a 1 haw) it coaid ( l s ci md ?bt pi Ml.. iu kind! ‘1 did not hug whi so* I \ s , sdvi-u had be. intend b Yi . t as stand led bv na»." l sue Ttirr c tern 'I Tui I'm imi<tiw‘ !l ,r lWlthS men se|>srate.j un m at That occurred in the tuoruing. V At noon Earle went (ionic to his4 midday dinner, according to cut>tom | that prevails still in Greenville, and to his astonishment lie found Mrs. Earle in a high state of excitement. Tbe | boy had gone home and told the mother about Yancey bsViih; stiuck him, and *he was pas*;onatety angry. It seetui that at first Earle sought to soothe his | wife, but she played upon his feelings and s..pn got him wrought up iu anger JW. I }OI ! tin ’ |3I | of sei aft t yua, E lia-, but only to chastise r iespude oce ; I sruald rather irivi ^ j. | g • | m tja VS rriie saddle hum ) ii tj» bAte O 1”M>“ oal diUUuity »ith 3 nr. n TOrTt'fi "l.'TIfUi.’Tithvf K.lsi", AU< i uucle iff Mr*. \aaei. tsrdl lUyt after th a ikcui reme, ar^il im.d hsvt ex in the street ! Iu Eane, the uncle of h'* pistol and shot died in a few hours, md convicird . f mst In ihi* affair, how few men of spint tun under tbe circuui-l previous he had ha Dr. Etrie’s son, who was quite t aocr) sough! the doclar aud winmmr »vho seemtsl to b*- d mi sell g.d shots »rrel with Dr. wif«, be drew The doctor ore) was trie.I urcMcs, low csso 1 ,(MlU u •cote c a toUl u 4.7UU purr draw |,&,UUU purr pu t itdersbir rax f oi cl qui.tf er 50.li i.. V 4.'dJU pil- 3^u0 ( »hins, ■quuts by the 1 suppuee making JOart«ciee made by rv»r, -hi n he did what K^jkave done ices Tbe day a oifficulty with lad. ■d gracious, what family the In this way be has the coat of maiu- tutd assured Yan y ami u liix son had acted with spirit in the affair he was conteul, pttacked Yaucey on the porch of a store at (jreenviUe with a section of ibediandle of a grain cra dle .is a wca|M>n. Yancey, at tbe oul- set. iKgan to retreat, step by step, siill facing his antagonist and warning him repeatedly, as if reluctant to dell-nd himself by the uscof the weapon he armaa - ertuy wumcD. Ali UHilUinoat d.ctor has g.d. greatly reduced lenaoce and brought down the per capita to $117. But on the other hand, he has to be continually repairing or xp.aia- f^placi ig something, fog he says ** in- perfccili satisfied. • tendency of a large number »7 [lalieWF was inquiring for!'• 10 furniture, crockery, b«d- be rewarding merit aod [lenalty upon bud diiaaua. aod Yirgioia have ibis questiou before their eooveotiooe aod we hope they will cjossder it wieely aod give eo- cou rage meat to good (hey be wlute or block should be the lest. It io more iaipuv- lam than ad’tcaUoe or pioperty. Let us purge the ballot box just oe we do ibe jury box. Purge it once n year Put such colored men ea Gaaaett aod Joe Brown and| Fri hie in aod leave ell such while men no Pat Banks out. Don’t shut the door forever oo good negroes. By the way, 1 wish some Ik*' y would hunt op our cook aod send her home. within a few years we will produce all the sugar a-e jequire and we will then be in p6ailiotv to ignore the foreign product. Oor experiments have shown that the sugar produced from our quality of beet is much richer than that manufactured in foreign conn- tries. Our preducts, therefore, will be much more desirable. “ When this result shall be attained 'the sugar trust will, in my opinion, vanish, for the reason that the trust refines imported brown sogar, while all the American factories will finish the product and place it in entire readiness for sale on the markets. ‘‘We are now succeeding admirably in the production of tea in the United States,” .continued Mr> Wilson. “It is only a question of a short time when we will be able to raise all the tea de manded for usy in this country. The two tons of tea grown at Summerville, S. C., last year so welt satisfied the New Yurk investor* interested-in the industry that they immediately formed a syndicate and bought tt.uOO acres of laud in the State upon which tea will be grown. This department last year sent tea plants to every Golf State in tbe Union from the Caitfiinas to Cali fornia fox experimental raising. We have jus# heard from South Carolina that imported machinery in use there is able to mute green tea from tbe black product In one hoar. We do not yet manufacture such machinery In this country, but we will get to that later. Then there ia no question con cerning the availability of labor when get to growing our tew oa a large There ia any number of young who will seek employment as of the leaves,aa wagon will he come pretty pear starving any other nation. Therefore, an effective com bination against us will be an im possibility.” BACHELOR’S No old maid over 40 can show a strange plomber over the boose with- oat giving him her opinion on tare, religion end the Filipmoe. When a woman thioke that a man le going to kiss her against her will she generally dresses herself with two papers of pins less than osoal. On a real hot day cupid seems to lock himself in a refrigator. There’s oo woman who won’t be lieve some part of flattery; a man be lieve* it all. v - Children keep cooler than grown-np people, besause they keep thlnkibg about something else, i If the best child could only look as innocent es the worn noman, nobody would ever know who ought to get the whipping. Tbe only difference between the man who thinks women can’t fool him aod the mau who knows they can, to that be gets fooled a little ofteoer. W hen a woman to very positive she is never certain. The longer a man lives the more he has to live for and the more he hm to live withynu When a man g*ta married there to at least one woman i*>et ha lose* all his Influence with. The average mao would rather have hie wife eel like the devil and look Hke an angel than to act Ilka an aagel iud V redact than Is seat aa She » not a “ settled just gallivanting around till her is off. I have to get up Iwfore 1 like it and Are up the elove and call the girls and they get a g wd breakfast in half an boar. Biecait and coffee an.I hominy aod fried egg* gaafft* We are from China, Ceylon and Japan, aod we imrpoa* raising the highest grade of plod uct in this country. “ rhrec yean ego tbe department bagmn cooeuieiailuQ of the subject of no* caltiveiMMi io the United Mnlne. At that U«* we produced about 26 pat cent Of what we consumed, and when w* examiaad lb* Mlaatioa we found that there was n demand for a much better grade of the was being grown expart to Japan to Inuk over the field and this man loand just what we were looking foe. Tbe ms nit ia that next year we wtU grow an excnUswt grade <4 rice e cleea, la fact, nhich will equal that oi any other i-ti—n prt*lur ing the grata. - The department to jwat now also basily engaged ia ronetdstallna of k dtvsreuy of iu is reels which are Io bo promoto*1 la uarpMW poseaaatooe. We have found upon investigation that the if the new lands Bead egrical- ustreet!on and euc* eragameat This wa propone la give them to Mm beet of oar ability. Pur instance, wa miiet be able to produce large qaaati- Use of hay ia the l*h dip pines u> (and the 13.UUU hureee and mrnee which the Untied Stave* to now ms i Dial a tag there. Tbe demand for fodder ip far la excess of the home supply, so that It has been found nerrainy to import the product. This ought not to bo. There to ample opportunity for hay aad other food products for in the Puilippiaes, aa will he, taken to relievo the “ Coffee to another prod not which i are looking after. Oar edontiate are invsaugatmg^the coffee outlook in our insular possessions, aad we expect Lov« yon neighbor aag them that toil your wife husbands have told them el Whan Eve bit into the Taere to aeevtai I ap when a man to eami her which she calls M Just It makes a girt nvfa^f I reelf yawning aad real has raaght it from a man carried. His bar been knocked against Yancey. Finally his wife de- off, his shin bosom torn open and he manded that he should go down town and have ..it out with Yancey. He armed himself and went. Nobody ever yet doubted the courage of au Earle, , o>tEarle found Yancey at a famous tavern within a few paces of the court house, on the site now occupied by the 'Greenville Daily News building, and a violent quarrel arose at once. Almost instantly Yancey drew a pistol aud shot Earle dead. “It was one of the greatest sensa tions iii the history of a $>tate famous for sensational tragediep. Yancey was indicted, tried and coimcted of man slaughter, and sentenced to a teim of imprisonment. After getting out of his trouble he removed to Alabama, settling in the neighborhood of Mont gomery, and almost at once began that extraordinary career of political activ- had been forced to the extreme edge of tbe porch, some two or three feet above the-ground. He then fired and mortally wounded his am agonist in the left side. Dr. Earle was six feet high and weighed two hundred pounds, and declared on the spot, ‘Had Yancey not fired 1 would have easily whipped him.’ “The case was put ou trial at the term of the circuit court at Greenville. The ju'-y brought in a verdict of man slaughter. During the seventeen con secutive’ hours in which the trial .pro grossed the prisoner retained perfect re pose, neither elated when the evidence was in his favor nor cast down when it appeared to go against him. The uni versal testimony was that Yancey had never before been in auy personal diffi culty in Greenville ; that he was uni formly polite and quiet ; that he had a The An day he „ Yancey with a bludgeon iu his bands. |®®ff* clothing, lights, saak and some Yancey went up to hianu perfect good t*®** tearing their rooms to ptooaapK humor aud anticipated no difficulty. ^ ow j u,t imagine what an armv of He gave Yancey tbe he and drew his lunatics we have. Carteraville is quite stick. Immediately Yancey drew his * httle country^ town of 3,500 pistol, and presenting it, told tbe doc- People, bill three-fourths of them are tor to “take it back or lake a shot.” | t * 11 l^ ren under age our cook aod hire her over again at leave out the spell privilege.'. Bill Ar»\ CROPS WE ARE GROWING We have only Dr. Eatle rushed towards him and ! xboul 8U0 grown-np people who are fit : Yancey’s pistol fired! But Yancey U° be lunatics, but here at the sanita-1 assured me, confidentially, that it was not his purpose to fire the pistol, and lhar he did fire it involuntarily under the excitement. He afterwards made affidavit to Ibis fact, and 1 have never for a moment doubted the truth of the assertion- lie Was defended by Judge Wardlaw, Mr. Burt.and myself. His sentence was fine aud imprisonment, which Governor Noble pardoned in a few weeks. ity which more than any other indivi- ver y hi S h 8eD8e uf personal honor ; . * « » i • .. lltlil tint tAtVlirnlro/l tlm vE dual force caused the disastrous war between the Slates, the result of which he w;ts not to live to see 1 “ The old courthouse in Greenville is a small two-story structure of red brick, and with its walls four feet in thickness it is as substantial now as it was when built more than a century ago.” The publication of the foregoing statement, which has bceii copied in a large number of newspapers, has brought out the following interesting article from Prof. W. A. Dickson, of . Anderson County, who makes an ex tract from DuBose’s history of Win. L. Yancey's life, which may be re- regarded as (airly authentic in giving the .details of the original diilkuiiy. Prof. Dickson write* r~ Editort InUlUyenarr : The story ol tbe Yancej-Eails Uagady ia Grfiea that he had not provoked the trouble with Dr. Earle ; that the knife and bludgeon that Earle carried when the attack was made were in the hands of the deceased threateningly presented when the shot was fired from Yancey’s pistol. “October 20, following, the prisoner was brought before the court, Josiah J. Eyaus presiding, for sentence. The Judge said the crowded state of the house indicated an unusual interest in the duty before him, and he would de part from his ordinary rule of brevity in such cases lo'explain his mind. Tbe prisoner’s deportment; he said, since the affray on the muster ground up to the moment of the difficulty with Dr. Earle, wa* such ai was to be expected from one in bis tteiion of life. No on* C'Aild believe that he had gone to that piazza with any bottle feehog toward Dr- Exile, or that jie carried there the pistol that was in his boeom for the of shooting the unfortunate The crop of winter wheat, now being harvested, promises to be a record breaker. It will be not only of unpre cedented quantity, but it will be ad mirable in quality. The Cincinnati Price Current gives some interesting figures on the crop, and compares them with the record for previous years. It estimates that the crop, with the marketable surplus now on hand,, ‘will amount to 775,i>00,000 bushels. The visible supply iu the United Slates on June 29 was 30,793,- 000, but the available stocks at the leading interior and seaboard markets cast of the llockies, on transit from the west to the east'’and on the sea destined for Great Britain and the con tinent on July 2 aggregated 71,081,000 bushels, against 73,959,000 a year ago, and 77,610,000 ou July 3, 1899. This means, of course, that the Price Cur rent’s estimate for the 1901 crop is in excess of 700,000,000 bushels. Jacob S. Rogers, who died suddenly from the effecu of heat iosNew York, was worth many millions of dollars. He made ' most of his money building locomotives at Psteraoo, N. J. He was over 75 years of age, a bachelor, with uo kin neater thau nephews and nieces. To his relatives he bequeathed $250,000. To Paterson, where his wioney was chiefly made, ha left nut one cent, and even eloced his ;mmense works, while Milt prospermia, much to the dtinmeat of the town. rium are three limes as tnacy, and the number increasing every year. But the report of the prison commis sion gives us most anxiety, for that concerns crime and involves the sa’ety ' of our people from the lawless who fear not God nor regard nun. The maintenance of the sanitarium costs the State #275,000 'Annually, but tht-re is oue good thing, .and only one about the convicts. They cost the Slate nothing after the trial, hut ou tbe con trary they bring in a considerable rev enue, and under the new system this revenue U rapidly increasing. General Evans, Mr Eason and Mr. Turner in augurated this system only two years j ago and it has already .proved a sigqal success. Tbe State now has the abso lute control of all its convicts and has purchased a large farm near Miiledge- ville, where the old men and the boys and all the women are kept. Under the skilful management- of Mr. Foster ' the farm paid well the first year, and the convicts are nearly as happy as they were iu old slavery times. Most of the able bodied convicts are leased to farmers at^-good prices, but the State provides guards and medical at tention. Here is another army of 2,300 to look' after, but these are not all. There are 2,350 more at work in the couuty chaingangs, making a total of 4,650, of whom 358 are white, ten are white women aud 215 are negro wo men. Of tbe State convict* for felony 907 are guilty of rourdey or manslaught :r, 915 for burglary or robbery or larceny, 237 for the usual crime. The rest are for most utty other crime in the cata logue. Moit of ihem were laborers, but I ih'te ihat twenty-seven did noth ing aud eighteen were preachers. Nintly per cent or the negroes are be- iwaeu the s^c* of fifteen aifff forty, and knew oo.hing of slavery. Only oo* par ixnl are the old slaves who are over sixty years old. Two hundred The United Staten Produce* Nearly Every Needful Crop that it Uaea Secretary of Agriculture Wilson predicts the most glowing era in his lory for the agricultural interests of ibe country during the new fiscal year which ha* ju t *>egun. Incidentally Mr. Wils >n asserts that if tht; United Slates is given a few inwtuhs m ro time any or all the for eign nations of tbe world may form a c -mmi rctal combination against the coumry with impunity. lie says that bef<-re July 1 u xi this country, with its new pn^sesstons, will be raising and producing everythin*! that it uses and tha if we s-i elect we can furnish almost any i^ber nation on the-globe I “We are now pushing investigations and experiments alone a great many ’* said Mr. Wilson in an inter- % Our agricultural export* lines, view. maintained their position in^the tWal year just closed and compared v th some years past increased appreciablyopeiAiion One of the principal objects which the industry. “ Several year* ago this began to collect specimens of rubber. Al present ibe United biale* buys Dually $30,900,000 wortn cf ru her, bat the outlook is that w* will now be able to raise in our new pm^mesions every bit of the frtoduci needed. It will be produced in I'orio Uic.q Hawaii and the Philippine*, and liu. result will be that people using the com modity will be able to save man) ibousauds of dollars in iu purchase. Then there i$ the subject of macaroni wheats lo be considered. Ihe macaroni which we have been manufacturing here iu the past i* not quue equal to ihe lulisu product, but we are ou the rignt track, and it will not be long before we will- be able to pioduce a giade that will be superior to tbai im ported trom Europe. Tbe eemi-and regions of our country are adapted to the growth of macaroni wheat, and all oi tne 15,0U<>,090 pounds of thjj pro duct which we now consume and which c<’tne* mainly from Italy will be shortly grown upon home ground. “ As for spices, our new possessions will furnish us wiih au abuudaut quaiility a*-'ion as we can get the .ii.-fninen o. their production in full no stockings •how. Their the winds that blow, the Homan both* ! No < known was so lavishly i opportunitiw for bathing, most p •puloos of the i of the Eternal City in the liosw of Aa- gnstue and ot th* later Caesars wa* all the water on tep at all which man, woman or child cool tire. And no Roman h**d of a I hold, however small hto be, was compelled to •odor* fort for lack of baths.” this department has in view is to en able the people of the United Hiatcs to produce the agricultural products we are now purchasing from foreign coun tries During the year 1900, for in stance, we bought half ns much agri cultural good- hs we sold; that is to say, we sol-i ah.ml $844,000,090 wonh and bought about #420,000,000 worth. The principal product we purchase ‘ Anoiher important matter being consult ted by the department is Ihe c os* b ceding of cottons, which oper- at ion, when c* mpleted, will result in ihe es ublishtm it of the fine grade of ibe product tvaich we are now bound L>.inputi Iroiu Egypt. About $5,000,- OOt) w*iiih of this refined commodity find* us way here from that region cw/y year,.but after we have finished __ our «xpenmental work in this direc- from‘tuber* nations is sugar. This t.on hope to be able to arrive at a com .iudtiou which will produce a class bi coil on guotis as acceptable as that iroiu the region of the Nile. “ There is u * doubt that this coun try, within a low months, will be iu IKt-uioo to ignore every other nation on me gbroe iu the matter of food pro ducts. We will produce within oor owu domain t verything that goes upon conjino-lity comprises nearly one-lourth of the total of products imported. The department in tb i past has been mak ing cxperinients to ascertain in just what srclinD* of the country sugar can be raised to such advantage aa to obviate tbe necessity ot going t» foreign market* to complete our rup- ply. We want to raise beets, as there in lies the principal source of tbe *u- out table and upon our backs. We gar product. Within the United St ite* will then b*. commercially aod in- _ there will be over forty beet suga> Lc- dusinally, alnmet independent of tha, Ohio, ami nearly a* gnaft a* th* I too'-* m operation by next fall. Tm.-y other nations of th* world. Heuce of Pennaylvaaia. wi i be Situated in atonoM-evwry Stete any u*d* combination which may bo along the North*** bnodar, from New efecird against oe wlOtk*ffAlmi York to Califorja. I beltove tnst ug. Whenever w* gM Prof. W. H. Lynch, of ^oodtatai Grove Academy, at Mountain Grom, Mo , ia credited with landing more paid-for newspapers than any other man in the United State*. He aob- sciibea for 58 newspapers, six of them (f.ilies. The Professor says: “I ose ihe newspaper* in my clasnea. Thor are the best iostrnmant in the world for teaching current history nod geog raphy. - The real drama of life in its varied forms of commercial, political, and social relations most be seen and 1 arned through * the mirror of the world,’ the newspaper. Every Friday morning in the academy is devoted to the reading of newspapers.” Fifteen thousand aero* of wheat were destroyed by fire on the 8th insL at Great Bead, Kansas. The fire wa* started by an unknown man throwing a lighted cigar into a field of wheat stubble. Everything wee as dry as tinder and soon, a destructive fir* wee in progress. AU residents in the neighborhood left their work and ex hausted every known method for fight ing fires bat to no areU, and it was late in the evening before the fin was under control. Boogltly estimated, the lose in wheat will aggregate 300,- 000 bushels, nearly ail of which was ia •tack. Arkansas 25,000,000 to,