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' * INSTINCTS OF PLANTS. iomc Instances In Which it Seems to Equal That of Anima's. As an observer, in my long life I have noticed strange explorations of the rccts of plants and especially of ffcrcst trees. Some years since I was making a road through a pasture. I came across a green root half an . inch m diameter. I looked about to see where there was a tree. In looking up a steep hill, about fifty feet away, I saw an ash tree about eight inches in diameter and from this tree the root came. I did not trace this root / to its end as I should have done, but knowing the distance to the water, on lower land below me, and the sire of the root where I cut it in two, I C*AT>A CdllJLllULCU LUC 1UUI U1UOL uav^ fewuv; twenty-five feet mere, making seventy-five feet in all the root must have traveled to obtain water. , Vines, including all that grow in gardens, such as grapes, squashes, pumpkins, also cucumbers and melons, in their natural st^te, climb where they have a chance. I have i had squashes climb high in trees and bear good sized squashes, so that I j would have to give them suppoit that they might grow to maturity. Market gardeners say that a squash running along on the ground in coming under the limb of an apple tree or any other tree will lift Itself to obtain support, and then fall back. Again, they say that if we place a dish of water to the right cr left of the terminal point cf a vine and a little forward the vine will go for the water in whatever direction the water may be. I have known butternut and elm trees to send their roots thirty or forty feet down a steep hill to a running brook of water. It has been recorded that a well was dug twenty- ( five feet frcm a tree and lined up i with cement, and the well covered, i The water was conveyed to the house in a wooden pipe. In the pipe there was a knothole and in time the water ' began to fail, besides acquiring a strange taste. On investigation it was found that the well was partial*_ On-J UV AT + V. ~ +-AA xy uiieu wiui uiv iuuis *jl mc A root found the knot hole twentyfive feet away and so found the water at last. A tj^ in California sent out a root foraging for water, so it followed the line ef a sewer, following its casing until it reached a high brick wall, in which several feet up there was a small hole leading to the other side. The root made for this hole, passing through it, then it ran down on the.i other side, finding the water sought. ' Some years ago I read of a case! where there was a wejl#cn one side \ of a house and a willcw tree on the other side. In the course of time! the tree sent a root under the cellar bottom to the other side of the house and cellar, reaching the water at last, I ; '! In- my own case, many years ago I conveyed water from a spring to the farm buildings in what we called ; pump logs. The logs getting some- j what decayed, the rkot of a maple ; | standing some ten or twelve feet away and a little down hill found its way into the logs and filled them to such an extent that the water at the ; "buildings was minus. On exploring, ' "we found the trouble as related. Mysterious are many of the works ?UrvTtt A r* rArtfc OTlfl "VA U<H'wUi C. JLXKJYV UV UXC uuu j Tines know where to find water? Is | it vegetable instinct? If it is, even | | . . then ft is mysterious.?Timothy "Wheeler in the New York Tribune. ' < Came Near Finding Out. Among examples of American humor, recently given in the Nineteenth Century and After, is a story which a bright ornament of the English bench is said to have told more than once. A speaker in a Western town had started out to shpw that there might be great differences between national and local reputation. He had said, "A man can't always tell what his neighbors think of him," when he was interrupted by one of his hearers. "I came mightly near knowing once," said the man, with a reminiscent lcok, "but the jury disagreed." HOME ART"Now isn't that steak a perfec poem?" asked Mis. Noowed. "I should say rather a study in burnt leather," replied her unfeeling ihusband, gingerly snifing the air. NOTICED IT * A Toons Lady From Sew Jersey Fat Her Wits to Work. "Coffee save me terrible spells of in digestion which, eomi*g on every week ' or so, mado my life wretched until some one told me that the coffee I drank was to blame. That seemed nonsense, but I noticed these attacks used to come on shortly after eating and were accompanied by such excruciating pains in the pit of the stomach that I could only find relief by loosening my clothing and lying down. "If circumstances made it impossible for me to lie down I spent hours iu gre$t misery. "I refused to really believe it was the coffee until finally I thought a trial would at least do no harm, so I quit coffee in 1901 and began on Postum. My troubles left entirely and convinced me of the cause. "Postum brought no discomfort, nor did indigestion follow its use. I have had no return of the trouble since 1 begau to drink Postum. It has built me up, restored my health and given me a new interest in life. It certainly Is a joy to be well again." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich, Read the little book, "The Road to JSTellville," in each pkg. | FITSpermanentlycure'l. Nofltsornprvuus' ress after llrst day's use of Dr. Kline's Great NerveRcs*orer,$2trial bottleand treatise free Dr.R. H. Kmxe. Ltd., 931 Arch St.. Phila.,Pa. Ainr.tic birds are more numerous than i land birds. 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France has 3,045 miles of canah and 4,665 of rivers improved, for pur poses1 of navigation. RESTORED HIS HAIR Scalp Iluinor Cured br Cuticura Soap and Ointment After All 121?e Failed. "I was troubled with a severe scalp humor and loss of hair that 2ave me a great deal of annoyance. After unsuccessful efforts with many remedies and so-called hair tonics, a friend induced me to try Cuticura Soap and Ointment. The humor was cured in a short time, my hair was restored as healthy as ever, and I can gladly say 1 have since been entirely free from any further annoyance. I sh^ll always use ! Cuticura Soap, and I keep the Ointment j on hand to use as a dressing for the hair I and sedlp. (Signed) Fred'k Busche, 213 East 57th St., M. 1'. City." t A SPECIOUS PLEADER. He?KkT.ing is a sure cure for freckles. She?I have no freckle^. j TT - T* . _ _ Z? -tie?UUt It IS a line prevcuwativts. NOT EMBEZZLEMENT. "I liear your cashier is in trouble," said the first bank president. "Yes," said the second bank president, "he's charged with stealing." "Oh, then he didn't get much, eh?" SUFFERINGS UNTOLD. I A Kansas City Woman'* Terrible Exper- j lence With Kldnejr SiekneM. Mrs. Mary Cogin, 20th St. and Cleveland Ave., Kansas City, Mo., says: | "For years I ^ was run down, weak, lame and sore. The kidney secretions WQ| Of were too freJ&k dropsy puffed up my ankles untl*tliey wiere f \ m\vi\ a to bem I'? hold. Doctors ' ' ^aVe me Up* =S^ using Doan's Kidney Pilis, and the remedy cured me so that I have been well ever since, and have had a fine baby, the first in five that was not prematurely bonn" Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. "Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. "No Rest In tho Trade." In the second act of a certain Aeloj ? nf fho antnrq. in the "role" Ui am a wut vi , ? of a poacher, was supposed to be killed. A rival poacher, after shooting him, ran off, and the curtain descended on the dead man lying alone in the center of the stage. The' piece was being performed in a small country town. At the end of the second j act the victim was duly shot and the j murderer as duly made his escape, j Something, however, went wrong ' with the curtain, and it did not de- J scend. It came down to within seven j I feet or so of the stage, and there it J stopped. Then whispers and frantic j orders, given in low, hoarse voices, i I sounded from the wings. The audi- j ence tittered. Suddenly, the "dead" j man rose wearily. He advanced to the footlights. "No rest, even in the j grave," he said, in a sepulchral tone, j Then with hie long, thin arms he reached up and pulled the curtain j down.?The Independent. i " UNFIT FOR PIRACY. First Magnate?Why don't you take j Gugins into your new ice trust? Second Magnate?Oh, he's too CUHJixeu uvui vv?. First Magnate?Chicken hearted, Is he? Maenate?Sure. "Why, I'D bet that fellow ha9 spent conscienc* ozej cj ihe Un.ted States Treas1 ury. i MORGAN SAYS NAY I | I Alabama Senator Declines to ! Go on Junket to Panama. i SO WRITES TO SHONTS Thinks Tour of Inspection of Canal ^ d ? <?J ft# Ifithmtm I ' | I wu kv miu vvu?>i?iwi>?a %ri j by Commission Will Result in ] No Tangible Good. 1 Senator John T. Morgan of Alabama wrote a letter to Chairman T. P. ; Shonts of the Panama canal commission, declining the invitation to ac- 1 company the commission which left ' Now York Thursday for Panama. The j senator thinks nothing will be accom- 2 plished by the trip. His letter says 1 in part: 1 "In your telegram of the 22d instant you speak of a large party who , are to sail with the commission and c the advisory board to Colon and are j c to have comfortable facilities for j1 j making tours of inspection and exam- j ination of the canal. In the matter ^ of sightseeing, such facilities'will af- 1 ford mucin pleasure, which I regret t I am not prepared to enjoy; but k do i not suppose that such a surface in- I spection of the appearance of condi- i tlons in Panama would give me any 1 data from which I could form any ? judgment as to the practicability of a c lock canal, or a sea level canal, or i the preference due to either plan, or r as to the cost, or the cime required for the completion of the canal on either i plan. ? c "I could not wisely, intelligently or t justly give an. opinion to any commis- r &oner, or to any member of the ad- s visory board as to the possibility of i a dam at Bahio, 168 feet below tbe s level of tbe sea, that would supply 1 the canal at 90 feet above sea level; | c or as to a dam at or below Gatun a that would supply a canal at 30 feet s above sea level; or as to a dam at t Gamboa that would control the waters of the Chagres river; or as to a pos- t sible tunnel to either ocean to carry i off those flood waters. "I could not inform the able, courageous and distinguished chief of the j hygienic service in the canal zone I < whether, if we should flood all the breeding places of the stegomyia fasciata with great lakes, we would not t increase them a thousand fold along j the margins of the great bodies of ^ fresh wat-er, m the tropical under- j \ growth that would spring up around t them in a few hours. Indeed, this is i no question, among the many vital interests that concern this great in- j c qisiry, upon which any rational mind ! 5 could give any reliable information or j t, form any correct judgment, from what j t one could see or hear In the tours 1 a along the canal zone that this party j r of visitors will have the opportunity j 1? ! T IU LLU5.1\C. "I must say that I distrust the ex-j c pected advantages to congress or to j $ the country, of such an excursion or j ^ the value of any opinion that may be j c formed on great engineering problems j t by a body of gentlemen who are non- $ professional and'must form their conclusions from surface appearances. c Neither of these important committees can derive any .<?gitimate conciu- j sions upon vital facts that must con- j trol that vast subject, from the opin- 4 ions of those who are mere guests of an excursion party, and they will e be men of extraordinary self poise, if ? they are not influenced by what may j be a. prevailing sentiment among ^ them. 1 "Since the ratification of the Hay- ( Varilla treaty, which I opposed, I have -j done all that I could and much more t than I thought could ever be of ad- . vantage to the country to sustain tho , government in its purpose to construct a canal in Panama. Yet I have not . believed that success could crown ( their efforts, even in their most cost- j ly and desperate form. You may find iV- iir?irv?v the barriers that tiio Ac;I nature has interposed at Panama. It you should be so fortunate, I will applaud your genius and courage. I will vote to provide you with every ' reasonable authority and power to accomplish your task and to meet your tremendous responsibility. 1 "In the effort to answer your friend- J ly invitation with perfect frankness, ] if I have said anything that jars upon ' your sensibilities, I have not so in- 1 tended it and would regret it. I beg to assure you of my sincere respect 1 and to say that I will rejoice with 1 you in the successful completion of 1 the great work in your charge. Sin- 1 cerely yours, (Signed) "JOHN T. MORGAN." ON TO GULF OF MEXICO. Plan on Foot t<> Extend Darien, At. lantic and Gulf Railroad. At a meeting in Douglas, Ga., Frij day of the directors of the.Earien, At lactic and Guir ranroaa company it | was decided to extencf the road northI ward from Barrow's Bluff to Helena, I and southward from Nashville, Ga,, I to some point on the Gulf of Mexico j not yet decided upon. I PACKERS TURNED DOWN. Lost Contention in Court Through Judge's Deoision Against Their Plea in Abatement. At rhinieo Fridav. Federal Jtkice - ? ' " w Otis J. Humphrey sustained the demurrer filed by United States District Attorney Morrison to the plea in abatement made by packers to have indictments for alleged restraint declared void. Judge Humphrey said he made his decision on broad grounds without taking into consideration technicalities which the government advanced against the plea in abatement. It is likely that the jury for the trial will he drawn about the middle 3f October. After the decision had been given die defending attorneys tried to imend the fourth plea by the inser:ion of tho word "for." This met vith resistance from the district atorney, but the court promised that f the law was clear on the point .he vould allow it. The government is laid to fear a trick in- the insertion )f the one word. The district attorn ?ey moved that the defendants plead o the indictment. One of the points in the pleading vhich attracted considerable attend don and which the court declared had'; jivien him some difficulty was in re;ard to the right of Judge R. H. 3ethea to leceive the return of the ndictment. It was argued by the defense that he was sitting in the east ?rn division of the northern district >f Illinois and received an indictment roted in the northern division of the vorthern district of Illinois. The district attorney declared that f the law of March 31, 1905,. was cnstroed against his contentions here was no court, no judge and no eturn of the indictment. The court (urprised almost every one when he ead from President Roosevelt's mes>age in the Congressional Record of ast November in w<bich it is declarsd that Judge Bethea was appointed is a successor to Judge C. C. Kohlaat, promoted from *he district court o the. circuit court This promotion gave Judge Bethea he right to accept the return of an ndictment in the old district SEABOARD'S VALUE FIXED. >tate of Georgia Gets No Raise in Findings of Arbitrators. Two boards of arbitration made heir reports Friday to the comptroler general of Georgia, fixing the vat lations upon which the Southern railpay and the Seaboard Air Liae will lave to pay taxes on their property n the state for 19GD. As a result of thes-? arbitrations th<j " ' * - 11 ?? ?a? r> r> joumern railway wm pay waco uu 11,454,S43 more than in 1904, while he increase in the Seaboard's valuaion. over 1904, including the Georria portion of Its new lKle to Birningham, is only $470,151. While the Southern has secured a eduction in its assessment of $1,033, 00 and the Seaboard was put down 1,792.000, the Atlantic Coast Line, vhich was the first arbitrated, had the lomptroller general's assessment susained and must pay taxes on over .2,000,000 more than in 1904. The board of arbitrators in the case >f the Seaboard Air Line fixed the' ralue of that company's tangible >roperty In Georgia at $7,956,560 and ranchise at $1,500,000, a total of $9,?6,560. From this finding Railroad Comrnisdoner Warner Hill, representing the itate, dissents most emphatically and s preparing & dissenting opinion in vhich he states his views. He will iring out the fact that a representative >f the railroad company swore in the Jnited States court last November hat the Seaboard's property in Georgia was worth $30,108,000. Mr. Hill jays be cannot see how a property ;an be worth such an amount as this or the purpose of paying interest and iividends, when it is worth only 8 ittle more than seven millions for the purpose of taxation. \ AGREEMENT ASSURES PEACE. Representatives of France and Germany Sign Up a Treaty. At Paris Thursday Premier Rouvier inri Prince Von Radolin, the German ambassador, signed the FrancoGernan accord concerning the Moroccan conference, thus definitely terminating the difficult negotiations. Preceding the signature Dr. Rosen, representing Germany, and M. Rourier, on behalf of France, met at the foreign office and went over the final letails of Ihe protocol. MRS. COBB UNDER ARREST. Grand Jury Indicts Woman for Murder of Her Husband. Sheriff Rampiry 0t Franklin county, Georgia, placed Mrs. Amanda Cobb under arcst at Royston, Friday, she having been indicted by ihe grand jury for the murder of her husband, and held in $1,000 bail. It is not known as yet whether Mrs. Cobb's trial will be held at once ox whether she will be allowed to give ball. TO BOOSTCOTTON Big Bull Pool Has Millions of Ready Cash, A GIGANTIC COMBINATION Monied Men to Stand With Cotton Growers of South in Raising the Price?Condition of the Crop Shows Decline. Frank B. Hayne, the moted cotton bull operator, returning to New Orleans Sunday, after a three months' absence on the f.oor of the New York cotton exchange, declared that the bull pool now operating to raise the price of cotton is the richest pool ever organized in America, and Is amply able to do what it has set out to. accomplish. Hayne's statements regarding the pool have broken the mystery which surrounded the new aggregation which expects to jut cotton at the top notch. Heretofore the greatest secrecy has been maintained regarding every detail of the pool's personnel and movements^ and even Mr. Hayne was not ready to give the whole matter to the public. He srated, however, that the pool was not composed of southern men, although many New Orleans men, he declared, are very bullish on cotton. Mr. Hayne would not admit that he was in, the pool himself, but stated that his ideas were in. line with the ideas of those in the deal, which I was that cotton is ch?p at the pres ent price, and that during no month of the coming year will the staple sell for less than 10 cents. * Hayne estimates the crop at 10,500,000 bales. The demand, he says, "will be enormous. Crop Conditions Show Decline. In its monthly cotton crop report Saturday the New York Journal of Commerce makes the condition of cotton on September 24, as computed from the replies of over 1,000 correspondents, 69;4, compared with 72.4 a- month ago. or a decline of 3 points. This compares with a condition of 69.9 for the corresponding report in 1904, 67.8 in 1903 and 64.7 in 1902. A three points decline is an exceedingly moderate one for September, the decrease for the past four years as reported by the Journal of Commerce being 7.5 in 1904, 11.8 *n 1903, 6.3 in 1902 and 6.7 in 1901. Moderate deterioration occurred in ail states, except in Florida and Oklahoma Territory. Florida shows an increase of 0.4 points to 73.6, and Oklahoma an increase of 1.1 to 82.7. WOMAN'S AIM WAS BAD. ? * ?-X lil/.iu uenerai fassenger ?gcm. vi r\ai; Flyer" Route the Target. Not since the Blair defalcation has St. Louis society been so shocked as by the attempt of Mrs. Lillian Sprague, a society woman, to kill George Morton, the general passenger agent of the Missouri, Kansas and T>xas railroad. Mrs.. Sprague fired twice at Morton shortly after midnight Friday in Morton's automobile shed in the rear of his residence. Recently Mts. SPprague's "husband obtained a divorce from her, naming Morton as correspondent Regarding her attempt to kill Morton, Mrs. Sprague says: "I tried to force him to take me home, and he struck me. He was furious. I thought he intended to murder me. As I struggled from the ground, I remembered the pistol and drew it I fired twice at xhim. I then ran. I was crazy with pain^ humiliation and fear." College Honors Peace Envoys. The honorary degree of doctor of laws has been conferred by Columbia University on Baron Komura andSergius Witte, the senior peace plenipotentiaries of Japan and Russia. PEACE A BOON TO JAPAN. . further Progress of War Would Have Been Hard on Islanders. A Tokio special says: "Notwithstanding the silence of the government the real fact is disclosed that Japan made peace at Portsmouth in fear of a financial breakdown. The war proved more costly than had been calculated and the rice and cereal crops seemed doomed to failure. Six months more of war would have meant very hard times, ior ine masses of the people are very poor and rice is their bread and meat OFFICERS SECURE PAPERS. Extradition Documents for Greene and Gaynor Given Out at Washington. United States Marshal George White and Deputies Guttengerber, Riley and Doyle of Savannah, secured the papers in Washington, Wednesday, with which they will take possession of Gaynor and Greene, at Montreal, Cac| ado, as soon as they arrive in that ' city. ? . V ; . .... . / DESPERADO BITES DUST. Outlaw Simms Laid Low by Sheriff ? and Deputies with Fourteen Bullets in His Bo4y. Will E. Sirams, slayer of Conductor Julius Landsberg of the Seaboard Air ^ Line some 3ix weeks ago at Bilabell, Bryan county, Ga., and later of James T"\ ? M -?i.?k r- n V* /\t nrtil r err V ^ ^ U.C5iU( woo LI imatu sum, aiau killed Thursday afternoon in Liberty t county, abcnit ten miles north of Fleming. Simms was killed by officers of the law, who had been on his track for many hours, when tDsy set out in pur- * suit of him on receipt of the news that he had started in the direction Of his old haunts in Liberty county. These officers were Sheriff James Parish of Bryan county and his two deputies, M. A. Gibson and H. F. Cuke* They left Ellabeli and followed tfje trace of Slmms as they picked it ? here and there, where he had stopp?l on his way. About two hours after Simms hid departed from a negro's house, Wa&nesday evening, where he had killed a small pig, and had it roasted for him, the officers arrived. They took"* jest then for the night, and eafy Thursday morning were astir. Thee i they found a bed in a haystack, jrijtt 100 yards from where they had slept. It was there Simms had slept, but he ? t i had got a good start, being up earlier tban they. j| To the Cancochee river they traced Simms, and there lest his track fori. time, but presently met A. Frabuii^ .; who told thfcm he had seen Simms * short while before, sitting in the yaijjty, of a man named Parker, Simms' father-in-l^w. The officers thereupon started for Parker's. Arrived the**,. yW*: - .. , . ?1 & they saw no one in tne yara save iwu small children. Sheriff Parish divid^L his force, approaching the house frojfe one. side, while his deputies each ap> ; proacbed from another direction, jp three arrived at the house at the same time. The elder of the children spleg . the officers aad shouting, "Willie,WBlie; here they come," and ran to t|$ house. ? The officers, not having seen Simn^l, had concluded he was off in the fieljfe ' - ^ somewhere. They entered the housp, watchful with their weapons. At t$b cry of the child, Slmms. ever alert, seized his Winchester rifle and sta^l" ' ; ed out the rear door. Catching sig| t of Sheriff Parish he fired at the officer at a distance of less than twent^ ? yards. He missed, and fired but on& more. Deputy Gibson fired the shot that^ : struck Simms first, the sheriff having fired with his rifle and missed. Simmi fell to his knees when struck by Gib', y son's shot, hut the officers knew his &SS determination, and saw he was still trying to work his rifle. They poured shot after shot into him until his body was riddled. One bullet nearly cut 0# f|p ' XXV- / blmms" nana at uie wiuu Parker oame up from the fields, attracted by the shooting. He knew wh&t it meant. He said he was surprised ; Simms had not been killed before that It was found that fourteen shots had taken effect upon Simms. A wagon was secured and Simms' body was taken to Ellabell. The death of the outlaw will relieve Bryan coun- *.^ ty of deep apprehension, such has been the terror of his name and of /' fi the deeds he has committed^ Sheriff Parish is being generally commended for his work. ROBBERS ABOARD STEAMER. || Wireless Message Calls for Detectives to Be in Waiting. A wireless message was received in Savannah Thursday by Captain Savage, local agent for the Ocean Steamship company, from Capt Fisher of the steamship Olty of Atlanta, or. the way from New York, request- . M ing him to have detectives at the dock upon the arrival of the vessel. This was all there was to Captain ... Fisher's message, but the operator -S aboard the City of Atlanta informed >>: the Savaimah operator that there had been robbers aboard the vessel since " her departure from New York, several passengers having lost valuables. T ' ' MARYLAND DEMOCRATS MEET. ? Platform Principally Devoted to Be- . ^ strictton of Negro Suffrage. At the democratic state convention f ?vi_v t,flu Raf, or ttaryiasa, wuiun ??o UV?*? ?M timore, Comptroller of the State Atkins was renominated and a platform adopted, which, excepting a paragraph indorsing the administration of the present governor, is wholly devoted to the proposed constitutional -/ ? amendment to restrict negro suffrage, ^ which will be voted upon at the No- 1 c'V vember election. J .mi COURT SUSTAINS TEACHER. Injunction Brought by Pupils of Florida School is Dissolved. At Tampa, Fla., Thursday, Judge Wall dissolved the injunction secured by 109 pupils of the Turkey Creek school to prevent Mrs. L. B. Mathes from teaching, on the ground that the court couid not interfere with disciplinary powers of school boards In appointing teachers. ' 4^91 ^ ' M