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GERMAN SHIP TORPEDOED; SUNK WITHOUT WARNING ENGLISH START NEW BLOODY ALWAYS LIFE .01 DEATH Wlrr>l«M to Hayvllle Annoanros Shell- No Need tor HI fie When Gang of Sol diers Dash Into Knemy Dagoot to ' Way the Individuals In Hand to Hand Combat—Kaeh Man Goes to Kill or Capture Another. Midway between the Rrilish and * 1 ‘ German systems of machine war fare, wherein every man was sup posed to have become a (tawn without initiative of Ids own, has been developing perhaps the dead- liret form of sport imagination can conceive—where every combatant places bis cunning. Ids strength and his skill in hand-to-hand fight ing against those of his adversary.^ Hardly a day passes mat there is not a trench "raid” by one side or the other, and sometimes several , such sallies. No subject is more taboo in its details by the censor. Commanders do not want to let tfee enemy know why their raids succeed ed or fall or why the enemy’s suc ceed or fall. Invention fights inven tion; secrecy fights secrecy. All the elements of boxing, wrest ling, fencing and mob .actlcs, plus the stealth of the Indian who crept up on a camp on the plains, and the teamwork of a professional baseball nine, are valuable to the player. The weapon that is least needed is a rifle. A club or a sandbag or an iiidian battle axe er spiked club Is better. A good slugger without any weapon at all may take an ad versary's loaded rifle away from him and knock him dowa and then kick him to death. v The monotony of trench existence these days is broken by preparing for raids and agalnatA them. Bat talion commanders work out schemes of strategy which would have won them fame in smaller wars. Fifty maw oa-a thousand may be engaged In a raid. It may be on a frojO-of fifty yards or a thousand. Its object Is to take as niasy pris oners and kill and wound as many of tlie enemy as possible in a few miautm, and then to get hack to their own trench. If the assaulters try to hold the piece of trench they have taken, the guns are turned oq them, the bombers close up on either side, and machine guns and rifles are prepared to sweep the tone of. ret'roment. Uncanny curiosity Is an Incentive for the raids. Ordinarily the sol-1 diers never see their enemy hidden In his burrows across "No Man's' I.and" from thnir own burrows. Un seen bullets from unseen snipers crack overhead. Unseen gvns sud denly concentrate a deluge of shells. For months this sort of thing goes on. and the trenches of the adver- ssrlsa remain In the same place; the grim monotony of casualties and watching continues. This arouses the desire to "get at" the enemy which the trench raid satlsflss. It meana springing over the parapet and rushing across "No Man's Land" Into the houses of the enemy and proving man to^ man on his door step which is a better fighter. To go over the parapet ordinarily means death. To make any such rush there must be "Interference,” as they say In football, and the barb wires In front of the enemy’s trench must be cut. This is usually done by the guns which become more and more deadly In their ability to turn accurate sprays of destruction on given points. They cover the rush and the return ST the raTderir But the guns are not all; there are all kk>£* of organized trickery to en able soldiers t* get into the enemy's trenches for a few minutes of activ ity. when the occupants throw them- afiver on their invaders at such close quarters that It is a question if even a revo’ver is a practical weapon. It cannot be thrown over a traverse anfl a bomb can. When one runs into a German around the corner of a tra verse a blow may be better than a shot There have l>cen trench raids where every man why went out was responsible for a casualty, or a pris oner, while the raiders’ own less was not one in ten to the enemy's. There are also failures. Success requires that every detail should work out right. The British inaugurated trench raiding which the Germans promptly adopted. Where its de velopment will end no one dares ven ture to say. S*v ’ , . . j e-e-s Ing <>f Kramer «s Crew I jet . Down Boats. Six men were lost In the attack by a submarine oh the German steam ship Kolga, Sunk In the Baltic on May 17, according to a dispatch to the Overseas News Agency In Berlin Tuesday from Lubeck, where^the sur vivors have arrived. . The dispatch declares the Kolga was shelled after she had stopped, and that the submarine launched a torpedo which sank the steamship as t}ie crew was about to lower the life boats. "The submarine appeared sudden ly at a distance of four hundred metres from the Kolga,” says the dispatch, “the submarine firing a shot which went wide, upon which the steamship immediately stopped. Notwithstanding this, one minute later a second shot was fired, which destroyed the bridge. The crew, only half clr.d, rushed for the lifeboats, while the captain ran Into the cabin in an offort to rescue the ship’s papers. “The submarine fired two more shots, both of whiph struck the steamship. One of tlie crew was wounded. Immediately afterward came a torpedo, although It could be clearly observed from the submarine that the crew was about to launch the lifeboats. The torpedo caused the steamship to sink Immediately, the captain, both the helmsmen, the cook and two of the crew perishing. "The enemy submarine opened fire without warning and continued fir ing in spite of the immediate stop ping of the steamship. Furthermore, the torpedo was fired as the crew was about to enter the lifeboats, so that six out of nineteen sailors lost their lives.’’ MATE G1YES ITS ASSINI ELEVATION OF THE JEW I TO Soctkm ot Veishm *1Wun<rrtimler*» WILSON BACKED HIM UP AUSTRIAN SUCCESS Fighting in Tyrol Evolves Into a Mobile Campaign. "The fighting in the Southern Tyrol has evolved into a mobile cam paign," says a correspondent at the front with the Austro-Hungarian forces. — "The successes won during the first few days of the Austro-Hyn-. garisHi offensive Me of uncomparably more significance than all ttyvse ob tained by the Italians during the en tire previous year. The Italians at no time succeeded in turning tlie warfare to any other ^form than frontal attacks. In which successes are without effect upon neighboring sectors. "The Austro-Hungarian attack, however, resulted in the formation of a curving front, an advance along which provided an increasing num ber of sectors which could be men aced by outflanking movements and taken under a crossfire. "For this reason the Austrians were enabled to make the relatively large gains they have scored. ."In the course of a few days the Austro-Hungarians regained a large part of the terrain which they had given up voluntarily at the beginning of the war, and in addition crossed ths enemy’s frontier at several points. __ "The succees was especially not able on the Folgaria plateau, which had been a pivot in the defensive system about Trent but now has be come a base for attack. "From the Folgaria plateau the Crown Prince’s troops began an irre sistible advance toward the south after the left wing in the Sugana Valley had Insured its safety by the storming of Armentara ridge and after the right wing had likewise secured itself In the Adige valley by the storming of Lugna Torta." APPOINTS BOARD OF REVIEW President Manfully Stood Behind His Choice for the Supreme Court Benclj While Hepublicans Assail V- . ' •* Him Before Committees for Four Months. The nomination of Louis D. Bra'n- deis of Boston ^to the supreme court to succeed the late Joseph Rucker Lamar was confirmed by the Senate Thursday by a vote of forty-seven to twenty-two. The vote, taken with out debate, ended one of the bitter est contests ever waged against presidential nomin^j. Mr. Brandels will be the firbt Jew to occupy a seat on the supreme bench. Only one Democrat, Senator New- lands, voted against confirmation. Three Republicans, Senators La Fol- lette, Norris and Poindexter, voted with the Democratic majority and Senators Gronna and Clapp would have done so but were paired with Senators Borah and Kenyon. The negative vote of Senator NewLands was a complete surprise to the Sen ate and the Nevada senator, recog nizing that hfs action bad aroused comment, later made public a formal explanation. . i . “I have a high admiration for Mr Brandels as a publicist and. propa gandist of distinction," said Senator Newlands. "I do not regard him as a man of judicial <emperament and for that reason I have voted against his confirmation." Throughout the fight President Wilson stood firmly behind his nom inee; never wavering even when it seemed certain that an unfavorable report would be returned by the Sen ate judiciary committee. Before the committee voted he wrote a letter to Chairman Culberson strongly urging prompt and favorable action. Senators -who voted for cuufll'lilF 1 tion were: Democrata—Ashurst, Bankhead, TWkham, Broussard. Chamberlain, Chilton, Culberson, Fletcher, Gore, Hardwick. Hitchcock, Hollis, Hughes, Husting, James, Kern, Lane, I^ea of Tennessee, Ijee of* Maryland. Lewis, Myers, O’Gorniaa, Overm<»a, Owen, Phelan, Pittman, Ransdell. Reed, Saulsbury, Shafroth. Sheppard, Shields. Simmons. Smith of Orizona, Smith of Georgia, Smith of Mary land, Smith of South Carolina, Stone, Taggart, Thomas, Thompson, Under wood, Vardaman .and Walsh. Total forty-four. Republicans—La Follette. Norris, and Poindexter. Total three. . Voting against confirmation were: Republicans—BradyT" Brkndegee Clarke of Wyoming, Cummins, Cur tis. Dillingham, DuPont, Fall, C.al- linger, Harding. Lippitt, Lodge. Nel son, Oliver, Page. Smith of Mlchl gan. Sterling, Sutherland, Townsend, Warren and Works. Total twenty- one. Democrat—Ne^Jimda. The following ^ pairs - were an nounced. senators named first being for confirmation and those named second against: Johnson, Maine, with Wadsworth; Samson with Jones; Martine with Smoot; Clapp with Kenyon; Gronna with Borah; Bryan with Catron; Pomerene with Weeks; Johnson, South Dakota, with Colt; Martin with McCumber; Williams with Penrose; Tillman with Goff; Robinson with Burleigh. Total Twenty-four. Senators who were not paired and who did not vote were:' Clark, Dem ocrat, Sherman and McLean, Repub- Jlcans .Total, threer — CAPTURE FRENCH POSITION ALONO TWO-MILE FRONT Village See Hard Fight- -. *«- — French position on a front of ap proximately two miles, extending from the southern ridge of Le Mort Homme to fhe Cumieres village, northwest of Verdun, hfive been cap tured by the Germans, according to the latest official communication from Berlin. In addition, the Teu tons again have pressed forward in the Thlaumont ^wood, northwest of Verdun, and ad'ded to their line in eastern part of it. These gains, ipade during the vi cious fighting of Monday, have, been in part admitted by Paris, which has reported the loss of three hundred metres of advanced trenches north west of Cumieres and the retirement from similar positions to the south of the road between Bethlncourt aud Cumieres. Berlin says the Germans captured 1,313 prisoners, including several staff officers. Around Le Mort Homme and Cumieres a violent bombardment still is in progress, but there * has been a diminution in the Intensity of the fire of the big guns northeast of Verdun. Since the fighting of Mon day, there apparently ’^ave been no Infantry attacks anywhere on either side of the Meuse. . ! CARRANZA’S NOTE RECEIVED IN WASHINGTON QUIETLY FIRED ON SUBMARINE Y- Berlht Says Freighters Attack Boat * Which Hailed Them. The following official communi cation was issued in Berlin Wedhes- day: "A submarine hag just returned from the Atlantic, where it was pur sued and fired upon by two freight ers which it had attempted to halt. The first steamship was a three- thousand-ton vessel without neutral distihguishlng marks which .he sub marine tried to stop On May 2 near Ushant, Department of Finistej-e, France, by firing a warning shot. After a few minutes the steamship opened firs from a five centimetre gun. The U-boat > h» j* TTT1 ni(?fi ItlMlT” n t t j n g "Iiv v O "On the afternoon of the follow ing day the same submarine pursued a big steamship and fired a warning shot at a great distance, whereupon the steamship opened fire from a twelve or fifteen csaitlmetje gun. The U-boat escaped at high ‘speed." BRITISH TAKE UNER’S MAIL Governor Names Board Created by Ijaat legislature. Gov. Manning Thursday announced the appointment of the board of re view for the South Carolina tat com mission as provided by an act of the last general assembly. The members of the board are B. F. McLeod of Charleston, wholesale merchant, and president of the Char leston chamber of commerce; D, A. Geer of Belton, farmer and mer chant; L. L. Wagnon of Union, mer chant; E. M. Croxton of Lancaster, banker; T. W. Berry of Latta, far mer; J. D. Shuler of Parler, Orange burg county, farmer; J. M. Rhett of Beaufort, merchant. Mr. Rhett was designate^ as chair- maiy'of the board for a term of fpur years. Each congressional district is represented on the board as provided by the act. The board has the power to review all assessments by tti£ tax commission. Of the senators who were paired many were absent because of the ap proaching Republican national con vention in Chicago.. All absent sena tors had arranged to be paired in the vote, however, except Senators Clarke of Arkansas and McLean of Connecticut. Senator Sherman of Illinois was paired with Senator Thompson of Kansas but released the Kansas senator so that he might vote. The nbmination of Mr. Brandeis was sent to. tlie Senate January 23 It was referred to the judiciary com mittee and immediately a flood of protests against confirmation and memorials in favor of it began to pour in » KILLED 550 IN BRITISH ISLES HUNGER STALKS IN GERMANY Raids by Sea and Air Have Caused Total of 2,106 Casualties. Tirthe attacks on the BrTtlsh TsTes from sea and air raids during the war 2,166 persons have been killed or wounded. The number of deaths is 550. The figures were given in the House of Commons by Herbert L. Samuel, the Homo Secretary, as fol lows: In the three attacks from sea, sixty-one men, forty women and ;forty children were killed and 611 persons were Injured. In the forty-four air raids, 222 men, 114 women, and seventy-three children were killed and 1,005 per sons were Injured. The number of soldiers and sail ors who were killed is only a com paratively small fraction of the total. British Officials !>eny That Prisoners Fare Worse Than People. Discussing in the House of Lords Wednesday the condition of British prisoners in Germany, Lord Newton, under secretary for foreign affairs, said their condition was much better than at the beginning of the war and that "it was unjustifiable to contend that Germany discriminated against British prisoners. Moreover, Lord Newton added, it was cruel to suggest, as had been done, that British prisoners were lit erally starving. Every week one hundred thousand parcels went from England to Germany, which was an average of three parcels per man per week. It was an exaggeration to say that without these parcels they, would starve, .because there, were a million Russian prisoners' In Ger many who received no parcels. A vast majority of the Qermaa TO RAISE $3000,00 Methodists to Get Funds for Wo#- ’ ' /L ' ‘ ' . ford, .Ijander and Columbia. A campaign of unusual magnitude may be launched by the Methodist denomination of the State to enlarge the endowment funds of the three educational Institutions fostered by this church. The educational com mission of the two conferences will meet In Spartanburg, when- the op portune moment for the ventare, long contemplated, to raise three hundred thpusand dollars, will be considered. This sum was estimated two years ago to be necessary for contemplated, development of the three schools, before the State had been divided Into two conferences. ■The apportionment fixed then, which will prevail now, was that one hun dred and fifty thousand dollars should go' to Wofford, and seventy- five thousand dollars to each of the two schools for young women, Co lumbia and Lander. -Previously the funds for each institution were pro cured through th^me’dlum of a finan cial agent. Under 1 the liew plan, the work of raising funds for the thrw institutions will bb cleared through one organization.- The commission Is composed of the The toUl subscriptions to the re population, said Lord Newton, were presidente-of-the-tfcree~rbnegM. the cent Austro-Hungarian ■aid to loaa are probhbly in a condition of compara- hunger owing to the British h<hat hunger. k chairmen of the three boards of trus- | tees and Stats. confea conferences of ths Shipment Removed From Kristkxu- iafjord on Way Here. When the Norwegian-American liner Kristianlafjord arrived In New York Monday morning from Bergen. Captain S. C. Hlortdahl reported that the entire mail, consisting of 794 sacks, had been removed from the ship at Kirkwall and retained by the British authorities. The captain said he was not order ed into Kirkwall by a warship, but called there in accordance with the Instructions received from ths direc tors of the Norwegian-American line at Berfgen VOTE FOR FIFTY SUBS House Increases Number of U Boats for Navy. Determined Republican efforts to enlarge the building program of the naval appropriation bill, as reported frqm the naval committee, resulted Tuesday in the adoption by the House, sitting ao a committee of the whole, of an amendment increasing the number of submarines from twrr.tr tu fifty. Proposals to pro vide for six battle cruisers instead of five and to add two dreadnoughts and two scout cruisers to the pro gram were defeated after a Tlvtfly fight. . AUSTRIANS MAKS PROGRESS Forced Passage of the Posina, Cap turing Southern Bank. In the southern Tyrol the Aus trians report a continuance of their advance. They have forced a pas sage of the Posina, to the west of Arslero, about five miles inside Ital ian territory, capturing the heighta on the southern bank, Vienna de clares. The current statement from Rome, apparently reporting on this same operation, claims that - Ihe Italian* were able to retain their positions despite violent Austrian attacks. OCCUPY GREEK SOIL Berlin Says Numerical Superiority r Caused Greek Withdrawal. Berlin reports: "German and Bttl- garian fighting forces to protect themselves against surprise attacks which apparently were planned by Entente troops, occupied the length of a ridge on the Struma, which Is an important position*in this connec tion. Our superiority In numbers forced the Greek forces to retreat. Otherwise Greek territorial * rights respected.” ACTIVE IN RUSSIA Germans and Austrians Make Futile Efforts in the East On the essave^a Augustin! ie Russian front the Germans an offensive northeast of Aug^itinhof, but were drives back to (heir trenches by the Russians. The Austrians.In. Geltoia-iaet wlth^a mo mentary success near Glladkl. driv ing the Russians from a In a shunter attack. rever. recpeurtde the REPLY TO GO BACK SOON President Wilson to Make His An swer to Latest “Ultimatum" of Mexican President Who Made Ven d ed Tlireat Against Safety of Our Troops Below Border. Gen. Carranza’s note demanding withdrawal of American, troops from Mexico has brought no change in the determination of President”Wilson to maintain the present troop disposi tions until the de facto, government demonstrates its ability to police its side of tjie border. It was stated authoritatively Thursday that Gen Pershing's force would remain where it is until thak time arrived. A reply will be made to Gen. Car ranza but its form had not been de termined. President Wilson read the hastily translated text of the long 'communication. A corrected text is being prepared by the state depart ment for him. While official comment is withheld fTls understood that the tone of the note is regarded as decidedly offen sive and certain portions, surh as the thinly veiled accusation that the president is playing domestic politics in retaining the troops in Mexico, may draw a sharp rebuke. It is doubtful, according to author ities on the international correspond ence of the United States, if the gov ernment ever has ' received a com munication couched In as <|fensive terms and containing as many ap parent violations of the ordinary uses of diplomatic courtesy as this twelve-thousand-word arraignment of its good faith and honesty of pur pose. • President Wilson himself will de cide what course shall be pursued. So far as could be learned no con- T>YT*tTtWTfTai t 5 r ' Inqufriei PLAN FOR CONVENTION Wilson to Have Private’ Telephone to Hall at ,§k. iMHtlM. - ^—- \york of preparing the Coliseum for the Democratic national conven- • tion will begin Saturday night. By working double shifts it is expected to have the bailding ready by June ■j 2-—two days before the convention assembles. On thaf'date the Demo cratic national committee will meet to hOar contests for seats In the con vention. ■<. A private telephone wire will con nect the Coliseum with the White House during the sessions. The wire will have no switchboard connec- -tions, and, therefore, will never be "busy" when President Wilson wants to use it The Tamtiany delegation - will come to thfelonvention on thTfce . special tranis/the Kings County, N. Y.;Relegation on one train; two spe cial trains will come from .Indian apolis and one from Pittsburg." The Chicago delegation of one thousand will come on three special trains and another Irain will bring the New England delegation. Application for more than one hundred thousand seats have been received. Less, than six thousand seats, however, will be available to the general public. - ' AUSTRIAN NOTE ON WAY C , or "pTOTMTirary inquiries have yet been initiated to determine the nature of the reply. Apparently none are necessary so far as the withdrawal of the troops'ls concentr ed. There is no Indication that that possibility is even being considered. The president left Washington ft r Annapojj^. .to attend the gratuating exercises at the naval academy Con sequently there was no cabinet meet ing. This in itself will prevent an early reply to Carranza and it Is gen erally believed that no answer will be framed for a week or ten days. The Mexican note was sent by messenger, requiring a week la transit, and was further delays^after its arrival. Officials feel there can be no question of urgency In a com munication so handled and will not treat it as a pressing matter. As a matter of tact the note earn ed hardly a ripple in administration circles. No new orders went to Gen. Funston beyond a request by offi cials of the general staff for detailed Information as to disposition of Car ranza troops. In view of the note's open threat,of an attack on Gen. Per shing’s column It was thought wise to give attention to the military problem, although no doubt is felt as to the complete security of the American force under any circum stances. The Mexican embassy distributed copies of tlie note to all embassies and legations in Washington, ex plaining that it did so in an effort to enlist the sympathy of other gov ernments for the cause it set forth. Presumably this was done under di rection of Gen. Carranza himself. Neither state department officials nor members of the diplomatic corps would comment on this phase of the matter. Some diplomatic offilcals express ed the opinion, however, that Euro pean influences might be behind the move, while others thought It mere ly an attempt to gain publicity and noted that the matter was urged just on the eve of the pqlitical conven tions in^fhe United States. Officials are prepared to refute many of the statements of the Car ranza note should the presldeht de sire to enter into* a discussion of facts in his reply. Among these are repeated declarations that Gen. Scott, chief of staff, specifically agreed with Gen. Obregon that no-new expedi tions should cross the border and ad mitted that the object of Gen. Per shing’s .drive into Mexico had been accomplfsHed: It is known that Gen. Scott had no such understanding when the El Elpaso conference ended. On the contrary, in common wtih other army officers, he is said to hold that under the original exchange of notes as well as under the Scott-Obregon under- stalnding the United States has com plete liberty to follow ahy hot trail across the line. There was nothing to indicate that a third expedition would not be sent immediately ebon Id the need ariser As to the object of the expedition having been accomplished, a"rmy offi cials believe that only the presence of Gen. Pershing's force where it is assures a large part of the border of freedom from attack. They are not disposed to depend on repelling in- . vasion at the line when it is feasible. to-prevent-Hm-attcmptS' 'fit YaTdBTre^t fore they start. Communication on Allies’ Submarine Warfare is Received. The ntate department has been advised by the American embassy at Paris that the text of an Austrian note on submarine warfare has been received there from ' Ambassador Penflcld at Vienna and is being for warded by mail. This is the communication which press dispatches from Vienna recent ly said had been handed to the dip lomatic representatives at the Aus trian court. It cites several cases in which It is alleged submarines of the Entente Allies have attacked Aus trian mei'cliant ships without warn ing. Unless it should develop that American citizens were aboard the ships mentioned in the communica- |lnn the tf T f n f ^ been sent to this country In press dispatches, the f'nltwd States prob- abty wttt take-flo action. THREW THEIR RIFLES AWAY ItuMdan Ijowsew in Early Part of War Due to Stupidity, American Hays. William Warfield, a, special at tache of the United States embassy at Petrograd, who for tho last eight months has been investigating condl-. lions of German prisoners in Sibe ria. has returned to make his report to Secretary of State Ijtnsing at Washington. He said that a great deal of the Russian losses In the early part of the war were caused by the stupidity of the rank and file of the army. “During the retreat from Poland," Mr Warfield continued. "The Rus sian soldiers threw away their rifles in hundreds and left them on the ground for the Germans to collect when they came along in the rear. Too much ammunition was concen trated by the Russians on their first line of defense, and when the Ger mans drove them back^they cap tured Immense suppllen."^*^, MANNING IN SPARTANRURG (linksmlew to Accompany Him om Tour of County. A pre-campaign canvass of Spar-' tanburg County will be made by Gov. Manning on Friday and Saturday of this week un,acE__jLte»-,iiiiSBlcss J -.«4~- friends nf his in that part, of the State. An Itinerary has been mapped out, which will take the governor Into every neighborhood of Spartan burg county, and it Is thdught that through this means he will meet the greater part -of the people face to face. Ho will make over a dozen speech es on Friday and on Saturday will speak at a big agricultural gather ing In the city of Spartanburg and address a big gathering of the mill people in the afternoon. The gov ernor will be accompanied on his tour of Spartanburg by Prof. John Ct. Clinkscales, who is actively sup porting him for re-election. TRY NEW ZEPPELIN Super-Dirigible Liles Over Lake Con stance in Trial Flight. Reports have reached Zurich from ■ ROWiinshorn, a Swiss town on Lake Constance, that a new superzeppe- lin seven hundred and.fifty feet long has been seen when making trial flights over the lake. The total ca pacity of the airship is fifty-four thousand cubic meters, or about dou- ble lhaL of-ZeppeHns of-the earTfeF type. The new craft is fitted with seven motors, four armored gondolas, ma chine guns, small cannon and ap paratus for dropping bombs and dis charging aerial torpedoes. It weighs forty tons, is able to rise fifteen thousand feet and has a long range Qf a*ron. —• i 11 “■■■ NOT IN THE RACE McLaurin Says He Will Not be in the Coming Campaign. In a statement given to the press Warehouse Commissioner Jno. L. McLaurin Wednesday announced: "My proposition was to run for lieutenant gorertior. but tfiewarc* home association would not ron- vernor may rest his soul tn I shall not run for office." Winter Cover Crops. It is not too early for farmers to .begin planning for cover crops for next winter. Seeds of abruzzi rye, bur and crimson clover, and-hairy vetch are being harvested at this time and can probably be. bought cheaper now than later. If you have these crops growing on your own farm you shouldn't fall to harvest at least enougfi seed for your own use. If you do not save vour own in mu. ntlWliWUl buy a supply as soon as he harvests them. Home grown se ( ported seed. Your county demonstration agent will be glad to help you with these crops. Call on him.