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A PARAELE OF PROGRESS. fV.u the placid pool to i}io rippling rill. .As it ? ilhcked along on its way down the hi!!: *'Oh, stay with me here! It is foolish and ! wrong For you to forever be tushing along. Stop here on the heights; for, as sure as you How. You will only sink further and further below. You are noisy and boisterous: be quiet and hear The choir of the song-birds carolling near. JL5e contented, my brother, and patiently try To remain where the Clod of the clouds made vou lie. It is wiser and easier far to lie still," Said trie placid pool to the rippling rill. Said the rinnline rill to the nlacid nool. As it lay in the shadows so quiet and cool: "I know it is easv and nleasant to stav In one's flower-circled oed on the hillside ! . % all day; That each leap leaves me lower; and that, as 1 How, Some desert ot* death may await rae below. Vet some spirit impels, in such magical way. That 1 feel it is better to simply obey; And, somehow, as onward 1 leap in the night. Toward the strange, distant valley, I know it is right, And that safety is sure if I keep nature's rule."'' Said the rippling rill to the placid pool. So the placid pool lay selfishly still, Reflecting the stars and the sunshine, until Its purity paid the high price of its peace; Its water grew stagnant : its very life-lease "Was cancelled in scorn by the sun overhead. And the placid pool died in its flowercircled bed. Rut the rippling rill, as it sped on its way. Grew larger and stronger and deeper each : \ / day. The sunshine strewed gems on its breast as it ran, To do useful service -or nature and man. It grew to a river, and. when duty-free, It found permanent peace in the infinite " s sea. ?Charles Wesley Casson, in the Christian Register. Br' , I TUTTUrLITJTJlJTITJTJTJTJTJrLrLri I 2 An Unwitting Crime. ? jt". ? By Oscar Ir.'ciet. r pf y^fitf,, HEIiE was despair written \f on Jack Marston's face. q ^1^ O The walls of the room in J| * * which he was pacing rest>yfOjf lessly seemed to close in upon him, and the day to grow blacker and blacker as the silence grew and the minutes passed on. At last he sank helplessly on a lounge in a corner. She came in then?the only woman in the world for him. but he did not notice her until she touched Ills arm. "Jack!" her voice shook queerly. "Is she worse?" "Dead!" he stammered, as his eyes wandered nervously from the girl to the ground. "Edith is dead, and?oh, heavens!?you are accused of murdering her. There is a warrant out for your nrresr, anu xue ponce are corning here to arrest you?to-night." Then followed a silence broken only by the quick beating of hearts. "Dead, Jack!" The girl spoke like one who had been struck a severe blow. "Oh, Jack?Jack!" She broke off suddenly and fell back in a chair. Jack stared at her wildly as he saw ' ;the ashy pallor of her face, but when he spoke again there was sympathy and sweetness in his voice. "Dora?my love!" * "Jack; you believe " "My heart?my own heart, against all the juries and judges in the world. You could not have killed my sister?you. .who loved her so. Dora?my darling!" ' He gathered her in his arms and told her everything then. \ Dr. MacManus, the physician in attendance in Mrs- Edith Marston, Jack's sister, who had been stricken down with fever, had left his patient a powerful medicine to be given in twelvedrop doses every two hours, and had cautioned Dora Sauber, who had of fered to attend to the wants of the sick woman during the temporary absence of the professional nurse, about exceeding the dose, and warned her that a larger dose might prove fatal. He had been summoned hastily in the afternoon following Miss Sauber's de% parture from the bedside, and had found his patient in convulsions, the effect of yerj, strong dose of the medicine. His skill was of no avail, and she died in his arms. Dora alone had attended the poor woman during the morning, and administered her medicines and food, and the doctor felt that it was his duty to inform' the police of the fact and how his patient met her death. Jack and Dora were to be married within a fortnight; but the death of Jack's sister had blotted out everything now. The days passed heavily, then came the one when Dora was to be tried for her life. The court was packed. In tHe morning nie proseeunng auorut.v had given in all his testimony, and, after luncheon, counsel rose for the defense. He looked from the judge to the jury and smiled faintly. Very briefly lie made his speech. "The prisoner is innocent," he said. "She is engaged to the deceased lady's brother. Mr. Jack Marston, and she learned to love his sister as if she were her own. She could not have committed the crime that has been brought against her! She could not!" His tone changed. "I have only one witness, and I fear she is too young to understand the nature of an oath." The prisoner grew deathly white. The tears came aiul gave her some relief. but she shuddered when a chair was pu| into the witness box and a tiny girl, with wavy golden hair and big blue eyes, red now with crying, was lifted gently upon it. "Your honor," said counsel, "the witness is very younsr. but I trust her evidence will be admitted." !Xlie judge nodded assent, then coun sel turned to the little girl and spoke to lier very softly. "I want you." he said, "to tell us what you told uncle and me the other day about nursing mamma when the lady you see there." he pointed to the prisoner, "was asleep." The siience that followed was broken only by sobs from the auditors in the room where women were weeping like chidden children. Then a little shrill /Mil. > viv c uivtvtr uuu I "She?she was sleepy in the chair when mammy asked for her medicine." "What did mammy say?" "She said?she said. 'Dear, give me my medicine. I ought to have had it long ago,' but Dora was sleepy?so sleepy and?and couldn't give it to her." "And what did you do, little one?" Counsel's voice trembled. "I?I got the bottle, and poured cut the stuff in a glass " She hesitated, looking frightened. A kindly court attendant patted the fair curls, and she continued: "And Dora was so sleepy and I was so glad 'cause I could play doctor. It was such fun. I climbed on the bed and said so fiercely. 'Open your mouth.* and mammy opened her mouth and J made her drink all the stuff." "And what did mammy do?" "Xtiffin! She went sleepy again." The unconscious little murderess lost her grip of things and cried as if her heart would break: "Mamma?I want my mainroa?my mamma!" Tender hands carried the poor child away. Dora fainted when the jury, without lt'ilNJIIi; llitf UUA? HI U. %^7JLV41VC of "Not guilty,"' and Jack took her home in a cab. In the quiet of the house she recovered. and went to her room and locked herself in. Now that the trial was over, the sense that she was a free woman again swept over her and almost crushed her. .Tack paced silently up and down the passage outside her room for the remainder of that day and all throvsrh the long night. When dawn broke he tapped gently, and the door was opened from within. Without a word he lifted the girl in his arms and kissed her tear-stained ! face. And then suddenly he gave a j low cry, for the beautiful reddish- j golden hair, whose soft waves he had j so often caressed, lay in streaks across ! a wrinkled brow, and in the place of the gold was the sheen of many silver threads?New York Weekly. Faithful Failnren. Such was the quaint description applied by Robert Louis Stevenson to all human beings who had done their best j to do well in life. He felt that how- j ever much we tried, we should hardly : be able to realize the highest ideals; 1 we should be failures, judged by that ! lofty standard, but we should at least.j be faithful because we had done our \ utmost. To get on in life, speaking of mate- j rial things only, is the desire of every j one. yet it is only the minority who ! do their best. There is a lamentable ' lack of determination, a deficiency of j "grit" and 4 go" in so many of us. We , see the object, we sigh for its attain- i rcent. we make spasmodic attempts to reach it, but we shrink from taking j too much trouble about it, and we ! cannot strive steadily and uuswerv- j ingly for it. - Those are not the faithful failures. ; We cannot impress too strongly upon j our children and upon those older ones j who are just commencing life, that if ; they would succeed in climbing the j ladder to any appreciable extent, they I must cultivate the quality of "sticking j at it"?to use a popular phrase?and I that they must aim high. If we so j seldom reach the ruug of the ladder which we have in view, and experience teaches us that this is more frequent I than we like to believe, then it is bet- , ter to fight for a still higher position. I The probability is that we shall fall short of that position, but attain one higher than would have been the case . had we not been aspiring. Stevenson, doubtless, had the moral | side of things in view when writing j those words, but they apply equally I well to the material fact6 of life. 950,000,000 Yearly For Golf. rAii imooriMA fhof ?Amofmn<* l U VU1U J VU luut like $50,000,000 could be spent yearly ! on the game of golf? To begin with, there are 879 golf clubs in England, ! 760 in the United States, 632 in canny Scotland, 134 in Ireland, forty-three in Wales and sixty-three in different parts of the continent. There are, all told, probably not less than 3000 organizations devoted to golf playing. These clubs, counting their grounds, buildings and preliminary expenses, represent a permanent investment cf $40,000,000 to $50,000,000; and comparatively few of them can be run at a yearly expense of less than $5000. The average membership is about 200 and the average yearly subscriptions of these 600,000 golf players amounts to nearly $20,000,000. Each of the players is equipped with an outfit that costs on an average about $20; and the yearly purchase of golf clubs, all over tlie world, amounts, therefore, to several millions of dollars.?Springfield Union. How to "Water IMantf:. i It is much wiser to give plenty of water once every few days than a j little each day. The latter method | keeps the surface moist, and the roots naturally rise for the moisture, so that they are near the surface and will be injured by the heat of the following day. (.Jive enough water to go deep, or else just enough to wash the leaves. The amatein should by preference water at night, for then the moisture has a ilia nee to do its good work before evaporation starts under the heat of the sun's rays, as it does almost at once when watering is done in the ( morning.?Garden Magazine. I Progress of INDUSTRY BECO ONE OF THE SOI I Ripid Development of Lands Decline in Georgia and the Fields-*Immigration . At Growing States--Inci the CereaW-Value Region Last Y i ! am vliUj.ASHIXGTON, D. C.-Oft-t// VO-1 ^ i_ ? r il.? rinnri IK'lillS U1 lUf L/rimi lujtm Wof Agriculture are watching with a great interest ; j^\ /^jf the progress of the ricej r culture work r.ow carried I on in the new rice belt along the Gulf I of Mexico, in Louisiana and Texas, j Conditions there have not been wholly | satisfactory during the last year, but j the Department is doing all it can to help the rice planters, and the indicaj tions are that the growing of the white i cereal in a comparatively short time j will be one of the principal industries j of the Southwest. The acreage devoted to rice in Louisiana and Texas last year comprised I ninety-three per cent, of the entire rice j acreage of the United States, according j to figures published not long ago by I the Department. A total of G10.700 I acres was planted in the two States, j and as the total five years ago, when I rice was first recognized as a staple in j that section, was only 210,390, it will I be seen that the increase was more than 190 per cent. Louisiana now has tlie largest acreage in rice. Last year ! 370,500 acres were planted. Texas is j showing a much more rapid rate of inj crease, having gone from S711 acres ! in 1S99 to 234,200 in 1904. It is officialj Iy established that about 7,500,000 acres which have not yet been touched are available for rice culture in the two States, while individuals who are on the ground and shoxild know whereof they speak, say that Texas alone has at least 10.000,000 acres of land on which rice may be successfully grown. The industry has plenty of room in which to exnnnd. | IRRIGATION OF RICE FIELDS. The experts of the Department say that the prairie lands along the Gulf, reaching from Bayou Tuche in Louisiana to a point near the mouth of the Rio Grande in Texas, are better adapted to rice culture than those of any other section of the country. Under present conditions, these lands are the only ones on which it can be profitably cultivated. These prairies for some distance back from the Gulf are underlaid by a stratum of impervious clay. As it is absolutely necessary to have the rice fields covered with water during the growing season, the clay subsoil makes this possible. On ordinary land the thousands of gallons of irrigation water?and all the rice fields in the new belt are irrigated?would soak in almost immediately, but on the prairies where rice is now grown so extensively the underlying clay prevents this waste of water, and the process of irrigation is therefordlcomparatively inexpensive. All of the big rice-growing concerns have their own pumping plants located olnnof tho hnnte of snmp river or havOU. The pumps fill up the big main supply canals, scores of miles of which are to be found traversing the rice belt, and from these lateral irrigation ditches lead out across the field. The smaller farmers either rent their water supply from the big concerns, or irrigate their fields from wells dug especially for the purpose. Artesian water is easily obtainable In most parts of the Gulf region, so that this latter process is comparatively cheap. * The clay subsoil also makes it possible for the farmers to drain their fields thoroughly at harvest time. It is essential that this be done, in order to permit the use of heavy harvesting and threshing machinery, the enforced absence of which in the old rice-growing region in the South Atlantic States has been so largely responsible for the decadence of the rice industry there. | INCREASED -PRODUCTION IN LOUISIANA AND TEXAS. The decrease of rice production in the j Carolinas and Georgia, incidentally, | has been even more marked than the | increase in Texas and Louisiana. ' There has been a sixty-four per cent. J loss in acreage in the last five years, and reports made by the Bureau of Statistics indicate a continuance of this decrease and the ultimate extinction I of the rice-growing industry in that I region, which, up to the time the value of the Gulf belt was discovered, was : supreme in the world of rice produc| tion. None of the three Atlantic States ; has been harmed by the gradual dimi| nution of the acreage and yield of the j cereal, because in practically every instance other crops have been found i more profitable. In the Gulf country, | 011 the other hand, a great impetus has been given general business, be\ cause the land now devoted to rice was formerly held to be almost worth less, and the cultivation of it under exj isting conditions is material}* enhanc; ing its value. A conservative unofficial ; estimate places at $1S.000,000 the inj creased value of the prairie lands, bej cause of the discovery that they are i iwuliarlv adanted to the culture of : ' . rice. i The cheapness of the Gulf lands, as i compared with those formerly devoted ' to rice-growing in the South Atlantic I States, the fact that up-ro-date mac-bin; cry can be used on the former and not on the latter, and the unsatisfac: tory prices recently received by the j Atlantic Coast product, are the most i potent reasons for the transference of the centre of the rice industry to the | new section. Because North and South Carolina and Georgia could not comj pete Avith Louisiana and Texas, the ' Atlantic lands formerly devoted to Rice Culture. MING A LEADING JTH. .-. ... ..r in Louisiana and Texas, and CaroIinaS'-Irrlgation of the tracted to the New Rice> 'eased Consumption of > of Output of Gulf ear $12,000,000. ??? - rice have been gradually given over to other crops. IMMIGRATION ATTRACTED TO SOUTHWEST. One of the results of the satisfactory developments in the Gulf region, according to the Department's reports, has been a heavy stream of immigration toward the Southwest. The railroads there have been very active in inducing immigration from other States in the Union, and from other countries. The comparative cheapness of the rice lands has appealed to the newcomers, and they have taken up the growing of the cereal. The thing has been rather overdone in the last two years. There is no apparent danger of any ultimate over-production of rice in this country, since the home demand largely exceeds the home-grown supply: but the increase in production has been rather too rapid, and increased consumption has not kept pace with it. Rice-growing was so easy and so remarkably profitable at first that the planters thought it unnecessary to give much attention to the usuai problems which confront nil wiio licip to raise the crops which feed the country. They are waking up to the necessity of a little more care now, however, and the Department expects good results. Although consumption has not been increasing as rapidly as production, in this country, it has nevertheless shown material advances since the time when, about five years ago. the Gulf rice belt first attracted attention. At that time the annual per capita consumption of rice in this country was enly about three pounds. Xow the Department estimates it at over five, and it is predicted?unofficially, of course?that the "campaign of education" set on foot by the railroads of the Southwest and other interests, will eventually carry it to forty pounds. The establishment known as the "Rice* Kitchen." which attracted so much attenti"n at the St. Louis Fair last summer, was a part of this propaganda, and one of the roads has issued thousands of copies of a "rice cook book," which has been translated into several foreign languages. Japan has been especially Interested in the matter, and the Mikado's Govern mem iius seui ;i nuuiufi ui cchuijjbib iv Texas, with the view of sending a great many more if the first ones are successful in their work. The Italian Ambassador, on his recent trip through Texas, paid particular attention to the rice industry, and it is regarded as a foregone conclusion that the hundreds of his countrymen who are expected to emigrate to the South as a result of the reports he will make to his Government, will devote as much of their time to the raising of rice as to any other crop. VALUE OF GULF REGION'S OUTFUT. The value of the output of rice in the Gulf region last year was approximately $12,000,000. That is to say, the year's crop brought that amount to the planters for their "rough" grain. The cleaned grain, as sold to the consumers of the country, brought more than twice that. This is one phase of the matter in which the public at large is vitally interested. The price to the producer and that paid by the consumer are ob viously too Tar apart, rne middlemen are making too great a profit. The idea of the Department of Agriculture's agents, apparently, is that the farmer does not get enough for his grain and that the consumer pays too much for it after it has passed through the hands of the miller, the wholesale dealer, the retailer, and the various others who are now participating in the profits. If a means can be devised whereby the cost of rice to the people who eat it can be brought down to what it ought to be, and still allow a | fair profit to everybody concerned, there can be little doubt that consump- j tion will show an even more rapid rate of increase than it has in the past.? New York Evening Post. Trained Ducks. E. K. Masterson, a prominent farmer of this county, has found a way to rid his vineyard of the grasshoppers which have been invading the county in countless thousands. Every evening for several days he walked through his vineyards with flails, beating the grasshoppers from the vines. A squad of ISO tame ducks followed hitn, picking up the grasshoppers as fast as they were brushed off the vines. In a few (lavs the pests left his place and his loss was insignificant in comparison with the losses sustained by other farmers and vineyardists. Mastersou says that with 1000 ducks he could have driven the pests out of the entire county. To Build Church With Tobacco Tag*. J. P. Withrow, a well-known merchant of Hollis and Elleiiboro. proposes to build a church at Hollis with tobacco tags. Every tobacco chewer can contribuie his part to this cause. Instead of throwing away the tags, just drop them into your pocf.et and forward them to J. F. D. Withrow, Hollis, X. C. Mr. Withrow bought and sold $1000 "worth of tobacco tags last year, which fact will give a very clear idea of how easy it will be to collect enough tags to build a church.?Shelby correspond ence Raleigh News and Observer. ] irvjrsirsjrsicNirsjfMtvij 1 X SOUTH CAROLINA \ } STATE NEWS ITEMS. \ j csicvir<irJ?cM<s>csirsi? j Beaufort Quarantines. A special from Beaufort announces J the fact that the local board of ! health has declared strict quarantine , against New Orleans and all infected j districts. Certificates showing that I persons have not been in infected district in ten days will be required. * * Charleston's Rules. Mayor Rhett's proclamation declares j that no passenger shall enter Charleston on any railroad or boat without a health certificate or satisfactory evidence of not having been in infected territory within ten days. Freight cars will be allowed to come in from districts quarantined against only with j certificates of fumigation. ! 1 New Baptist Publication. The first issue of the new Baptist j publication, taking the place of the j South Carolina Baptist, has come from | the press at Greenville, it will be j remembered that Louis J. Bristow and V. I. Masters purchased the Sou'n Carolina Eaptist from Pitman & Son several weeks ago. The name of the { paper has been changed to the Baptist i Press, and in appearance and make- \ s+ toVoa rant omnn? the leading ! UJ/ 11 iu?iv/w i uun ?> ?- ? ?^ _ w f religious papers of South Carolina. * * * Editor Given European Trip. Major J. C. Hemphill of Charleston, I editor of the News and Courier, left j for New York, when he sailed for | Queenstowu, p. few days ago, on a trip through Europe, a present which ! was made to him by his newspaper 1 connections in Charleston. He was tendered a farewell luncheon by his Charleston friends, an incident of which was the presentation of a silver flask as a souvenir of the luncheon. . * Newberry to Vote on Dispensary. The election on the question of dispensary or no dispensary for Newberry county will be held on Tuesday, August 29th. The election has been ordered by the commissioners of elec- j tion. "Newberry county will be watched ! with interest by the entire state in 1 this election, as it is a well known ; fact that the result in Newberry will j have a great effect upon the dispensa- j ry's future. * * * Editors Visit Exposition. E. H. Aull of Newberry, president of the South Carolina Press association. with a party of thirty members of the association, left a few days I ago in a private Pullman car, "Star- j light," for a trip to the Lewis and Clarke exposition, Portland, Oregon, i Over 7,000 miles will be covered by the party. An excellent schedule, including many side trips, has been arranged by President Aull. The trip will occupy nearly a month, and the j editors and their wives are anticipating a delightful time. * McLaurin May Go to China.. A well designed movement has been j started in Columbia to have ex-Sena- j tor John L. McLaurin sent to China j to see what can be done toward raising the present boycott there against American cotton and other goods and toward extending trace generally China. The senator opposed the Chinese exclusion act in congress and s a strong friend of Minister Wiu. He has been to Washington to confer j ^ - with the president on tne auujcci. The movement is backed by the South Carolina Cotton association and by a number of prominent mill men. * * * 6eeking to Save Dispensary System. It is said that the state authorities are about to make trouble for the hotels in withdrawing the dispensary privileges which they hold and making a great profession of strict enforcement of the law in order to try to save the institution at the hands of the legislature next January. The hotels are privileged to sell the liquor in whole packages and oniv to guests, but the hotels sell generally j and by the drink and by revoking the privileges the authorities hope to I make a great show of enforcing the j law and thus save the dispensary sybtem. j Industry May Yet Be Saved. Efforts are being made to organize j another oyster canning factory at j Charleston to take the place of the corporation which recently went into liquidation on account of the xcessive :.v.tuse and tax rate of the act of the i.vs*..v,n Gi ;r.e jc-g.siaiure. Attorney c.ener?si Cantor w?s appealed to by the promoters oi anomer company, to ue organ.zed, to construe too law, as it auects tne ousnei measure and cost ol operation oi ihe p.ahr, J out thai official declares mat the ques- j tion is one ot lact and not *a\v and ; has passed tr.e matter over to tne I boaru oi coun y commissioners, who | will be caiiej i.pon 10 act. The board may take a mo-re favor- j i / I able ac.ion than the attorneys have aavised and ihe industry may yet no saved 10 tne ciiy and sute. | i V; Penalty for Flagging Train. C. P. Pnillips 01 Cnerokee Falls has been sentenced to serve fifteen days on the Spartanburg county! chaingang lor malicious mischief, his act consisting in flagging a through freight. It seems that Phillips loitered about ; the depot in Spartanburg until his train had departed and upon' learning of the fact set out to walk home.; When he saw the freight approaching he decided that to get aboard would be much Detter than walking, so he proceded to signal the engineer, who, not knowing the situation, brought his train to a standstill. * * To Vote on Bond Issue. By a vote of 112 to 6 the qualified electors of Spartanburg have decided, on the issuing of city bends to the amount of $100,000 for the purpose oil street paving and at an early date' the city council will pass upon the material to be used. This is considered one of the strongest efforts ever; taken for the permanent upbuilding ofi the city. A recent contract to the extent ofj $20,000 was awarded to George Baxter of Savannah, for placing cement sidewalks on the leading thorough'' fares of the city, and this work in; connection with the decision to e*-i tend the work on the streets is con-! siderable advertising for the progress of the town. / Pride Succeeds Cheatham. The Atlanta Constitution prints the following: The appointment of J. A. Pride? for* merly commercial agent of the Sea-, board Air Line at Columbia, S. C*; to succeed R. I. Cheatham, resigned^ as assistant genera] freight agent of} the Seaboard with headquarters In At-j lanta, is a source of gratlflction to . the friends and admirers of that capable and talented* young railroad man. Mr. Pride has brought his family, from Columbia to Atlanta, and harf v been in daily attendance on his new duties since August 1, having already ' demonstrated his ability to handle the business of his new and important post Mr. Pride held the position of commercial agent of his road at Columbia * ? for a numoer 01 yvam, wuuuv,v?b himself with such conspicuous merit that his superiors did not hesitate to | 2dvance him as soon as the opportunity presented itself. He had been giv- y - % en a cordial welcome by the Atlanta ^ railroad colony to the ranks of which he will prove a decided acquisition. ' SECRETARY TAFT IN MANILA. ^ Party Arrives at Philippine Capital and Great Blow-Out Follows. Secretary Taft and party arrived at Manila cn the steamer Manchuria at 10 o'clock Friday morning. Thepr ' v arrival was made the occasion for a gorgeous water pageant Governor General Wright Major General Corbin and Rear Admiral Train, with their staffs and the official reception committee, met the party when the Man churia anchored. The battleship unio, forts and crafts in the harbor fired the regulation salute for the secretary of war! The party then proceeded to the governor general's residence, where the official welcome was made and where the golden keys of the city were presented to Taft. Thousands lined the streets, which were elaborately d^fcorated. GOVERNMENT TAKES CHARGE. Uncle Sam Officially Assumes Control of Affairs in Crescent City. The United States government assumed official control of the yellow fever sftuation Monday. Dr. J. H. White of the federal forces took , charge of affairs shortly before noon on final instructions from Washington. The official report up to 6 p. m. was as follows: New cases, 32; total to date, 565; deaths, 8; total deaths to* j. date, 113. WELCOME FOR PEACE ENVOYS. Elabarate Arrangements Made fot Their Reception by Roosevelt. Fijiaf arrangements were completed at Oyster Bay Friday for the recep tion by Prvident Rcoseveit of the Russian and Japanese peace envoys on Saturday. Every honor due to then rank will be yalel :o the envoys* and the cord'ality of the greeting by the preslden: <>n be~aif of the Americar people will leave nothing to be de sired. WILSON NAMES HUTCHINS. To Perform Duty on Cotton Crop Es. timating Beard. Captain W. P. Hutrhius, formerly chief chemis" of the state board of agriculture of Louisiana, wiio is regarded as an expert in ccttcn statistics, h.-.s been appointed to the position as travel;;1.:: inspector of *bo agricultural department in co ton districts with the understanding that he will perform duty on the cotton eicp estimating board when called upon to do so. --b-&