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A 1A>J8?J K'i"? 'p.'.t* '? I'or.vr. fT'.-.n... js ; .vver in i^rrieultaro r.s well as in other professions. The more a farmer knows about the facts of agriculture. an ! the more h ? prae1 i.-vs what he knows, the more su avssfnl he becomes. The wide awake farmer is observant, ant! profits by his failures as we"'as his successes. 11;suits of Ferdlnc. Tn the selection of cattle foods tlio fanner ikouhl keep in view the results to be onpecto;!. Some foods are more valuable, pound * w pound, than others, because they f. r in the relative proportion cf dry substance and its composition. The digestive capacity of .1 .v !?o (n flio VilA'il ii iv/ * ??? farmer. ai:d ho should endeavor 10 supply its wants. rill the Pork Carrel. The farmer who raises a few pigs for his pork barrel may count the cost and afiirm Ik at pigs uo not pay. but where a few pigs are raised they will consume a large amount of material that > would be of 110 value except for their use. When the pork barrel is full the farmer is at least fortified for the winter with meat and in many cases where 110 pigs are kept there is a waste of material that could be utilized with the aid of at least one or two young and thrifty pigs. To Keep Meat lu Summer. My way of keeping pork through the summer season, says Louis Campbell, of Pennsville, Ohio: I smoke it well as early in spring as I can and usually market all side meat as eariy as possible. .After I have it niceiy smoked I take it from the smoke house and hang it on stout nails around the sides of a garner in my wheat granary. I just hang it up without anything over it, being careful to let one piece hang so as not to touch another. I keep the granary dark so ns to keep out nil j flies. I have tried this plan for sev- i eraf years and have never yet had ( any trouble from flies or other causes. ; II0-8 in Orchards. As scavengers, or for consuming refuse that cannot be marketed, hogs are almost indispensable in an orchard, j The fattening of hogs on appl33 may i be considered a successful method, it . being certain that this fruit possesses i a value for that purpose that has been ( overlooked, and the destruction of in- ] sects by hogs in consuming the fallen . apples has given a new value to orchards and will probably check < their destruction, which in some sec- ( lions of the country has already pro- ? jsgressed to a considerable extent. The < -animal should be allowed in the ] - orchard from the time the fruit be- ; . -gins to fall until it is time to gather < apples for the winter, and they will. * in most cases, be found in good -condi- j ~ tion for hardening with grain arid < ~ slaughtering, and the meat will be j - lender and of an excellent flavor. ; 'When it is necessary to put them into ~5the pen, boiled apples mixed with a -small quantity of corn, oats, peas or buckwheat meal will make them fat in a short time and fill the farmer's J pork barrel -with sound, sweet pork of the first quality. ... .v.. i I X- The Hen an 1 Her Brood. 'When it comes to surety, safety and comfort for both the hen and her , i; . keeper, the pen system of managing the hen and her brood is the best and j 3n the long run it is much the cheapest. ( We have written on this subject before, but it is so timely now and it is such a good thing?such a great help 1 to the management of the hen mothers and their Uttle ones during the growing season, that we are writing on it : once more. The chief idea is individuality and comparative isolation of each hen and her chickens and in this alone much i is attained, for the more we divide the growing stock the more of it we will raise. In carrying out this plan, obserYes H. B. Geer, a good, stout, weather and varmint proof coop is the first essential, for the chickens must have protection at night The next necessity is a pen made of slats or wire netting, this to enclose the coop, say a space about ten by twelve feet all around it and the fencing should be six feet high aud then the flight feathers of one wing of the lieu should be cut so that she can not fly out, should she be of a flighty turn. A gate at the front is, of course, necessary. Within a small yard of this kind one hen and her brood should be placed, hut the fencing should not be so close that the little chicks cannot pass in aud out, for it is not intended to confine them, but their mother. This makes a security reserve for them?a place of refuge for them from any danger, and yet they may enjoy free range at the same time. It also makes it possible to feed each beii and her brood separately, which is a most desirable condition, as it prevents mob- ' bing up and overcrowding. ; Another thought?when the showers come up, and we are busy, we need not chase all over the place, dropping everything else, to get the hens and their chickens in out of the wet, for the ben is stationed where there is refuge nil the time, and the chickens can quickly scoot in through the cracks to j ber. In fact, this system minimizes work, j worry and the percentage of loss, and , it really makes the raising of chickens with hens a pleasure, as well as profit-' able. Rape For Sheep. It bns been well attested that rape aaakes the quickest and one of the best Ifc bk" v;vVv ^ f-,V4T-.v.. ; v >ke?p and bog pastures tliat can be grown. One of our correspondents, Mr. L. C. Reynolds, says of rape: Rape has wen for itself great popularity as a food for sheep in recent years. It is grown to-day more or iess upon every farm where sheep or hogs are raised. I have grown rape for sheep pasture for more than twelve years, and the more I grow of it the more thoroughly I am convinced it is one of the best sheep feeds the farmer can grow. While it does not come on as early as rye in the spring, its hardy nature makes it one of the best of for age crops. When sown under favorable conditions it will supply a large amount of palatable pasture at six weeks of errowtb, and the fact that it can be sown at any senson'of the year makes it one of the best general forage crops for the fanner. No sheep owner can afford not to grow rape. It can be sown during every growing season of the year and produce excellent pasture. I prefer to sow rape in drills instead of broadcast, as many do. A better stand of plants can be secured by this method, and the stock does not tramp the forage down nearly so much., I sow my rape with a band or grain drill in rows twenty inches apart. Sow about four pounds of seed per acre. Care should be exercised not to sow ihf seed too deep.?Indiana Farmer. Fertility ?ncl Fruit Growing. At a meeting of horticulturists Professor John Craig, of Cornell University. said: "Every modern system of cultivating fruits recognizes as a first principle the right of the fruit tree to be considered a specific and sufficient crop under the soil, or at least to be regarded as a crop quite as exhausting in character as any grown by the farmer. Unless the fruit grower realizes and puts into practice the essential part of this principle lie "will fail as a cultivator of fruits. Experiments in orcharding conducted some years ago at the Cornell Experiment Station proved conclusively that it cost the soil more to produce twenty average crops of apples than twenty average crops of wheat. In other words, more fertility was extracted from the land in growing an acre of bearing apples for twenty years than in growing twenty consecutive crops of wheat. As a rule, the farmer recognizes the food needs it the wheat plant, but too often does be look upon the apple or fruit tree as i mere tenant of the soil, and one which is not to be regarded as a specific crop. Having recognized the principles, the particular method of orchirding much be worked out by the fruit grower himself. This method will depend upon soil conditions and climate. Nevertheless, it is safe to say that in eight cases out of ten that method which employs clean tillage for at least part of the season will be most successful. It is also safe to say that ill secondary crops in orchards are in* jurious." Farm and Garden Notes. Much labor and expense may be < saved by planning ahead. Only a few varieties should be planted in the commercial orchard. Exercise has a decided value in lowering the cost of egg production. The more litter in the manure, the lower the process of decomposition. Celeriac is a plant similar to celery, Put more easily crown and more easily cooked. Too large quantities of fertilizers applied at one time will kill tender plants. But few plants will thrive in a wet soil. A good drain is sometimes better 1 than manure. There are few times of the year when a good pair of pruning shears can not be used to good advantage. Don't forget the stock water in the pasture. Stock must not be without good water, not for a day nor half a day. When a better price for better fruit is obtained, the difference in price pays for handling. It pays to grow the best, for that reason. *. In nearly all cases animals in lew flesh are more liable to disease than when in fine bodily condition, and it costs more to keep them. Thinning fruit is proving such an advantage to the quality that the plan is gaining ground everywhere. Better prices for better fruit is the result. Some fires have occurred from eare1/N^a.iAi.e in Vioniilinit inMlhntm'9 ICOOiiL'OO ^ brooders. Possibly we might encase the incubator, if in cellar, in light framework covered with asbestos paper. The latter is cheap and a suie protection from overheating. Barring all the differences that may be in individual birds .and strains, it may be said that Wyandottes are now considered to be among the very Post of all-purpose fowls. They are hardy, active, good layers, good mothers and of good size and good table quality. The world would do a bad job of getting along without the grower of live stock, and that same world ought to be willing to remunerate him for his labor and risks. Indeed, no class of people is vnder any obligation to feed and clothe another class without pay for it. That bone has great value as a ration for poultry, both for egg production and for growth in chicks, is not a matter of dispute. The fact is generally recognized that in no other way can eggs be produced more readily, or growth made in young stock more quickly than by the liberal use of cut bone in the ration. V. ' - - ' \ Wliot Goal Tar's FIFTY YEARS AGO IT VVA! Chemists Will Celebrate the 1 Much to Put the Professi Utilitarian C /fffff-jfifffff-jfffffffffff'K-* BY producing delicate tints from the ugly black tar. a hitherto waste by-product of coal gas, William Henry Perkin. an EnglJcV* aIi aiv? i van /I <1 nilhllV SAl'VlPP USJJL V. ii CHI -O t, iUiUwlvu ? i' unappreciated at the time. His discover} turned the manufacturing industry of the world into new channels ami chemistry leaped to the front rank of the professions. That is why the chemists of England, Germany and the United States are now planning a fitting memorial to celebrate the fiftieth memorial of this remarkable discovery. Ferkin is not to be memorialized alone for his color discovery. The knowledge of his use of coal tar opened the way for other chemists to bring their learning to bear, and in rapid succession the world was given artificial perfumes,. flavors, carbolic acid, medicines and compounds employed in developing photographic plates. Chemists are now so well acquainted with the properties of coal tar that they can almost make a color to order. In perfumes their best known product is ionone, which is the basis of imitation violet; in medicinal products acetanilid, sulphonal, phenacetine, analgene and antiprylne; and the oil of bitter almonds and saccharine are perhaps the best known of the artificial flavors. Before Perkin created his sensation, chemists from the beginning of the * ^ l. - r. nineteenth century, anu even ueiurt-, bad been "working for these results. Synthetic or constructive chemistry was their subject, and the years they put in on tedious research made them a secluded, reserve^, class of men, who < to-day would be known as "grinds." j Their labors brought them little re- < turns, financially. The gay outside i world regarded them as hermits, i looked patronizingly on, and wondered, < maybe, at the sacrifice. ) But all this weary toil was not a i waste of time. Years later, profiting 1 by the studies of the pioneers, a man i appeared who hit upon a solution of i the problem. Artificial color was the 1 result. The article he made had been 1 known to exist in indigo, and its con- 1 stituents were known, but no one be- 1 fore had ever put them together in a laboratory. The beauty and the cheap- ] ness of the color Perkin made excited 1 great admiration, especially among < those engaged in supplying the market 1 with fabrics, and development was 1 rapid. 1 Other products followed in quick sue- 1 cession, and the manufacturing world 1 received an impetus such as it had < never known. Results of the chemist's j research work still continue, and each j year sees brilliant discoveries added t to the records of science. There is no i ( ? nnv nf(?nnic I 1 ruasuu u\jy * uuj uuj u>euu.v ??? should not be synthetically made If 1 chemists can And what its composition i and structure are. The only reason < they cannot make an egg is that they i do not know how to build the fabric. \ Tliey have each composite part, but i they cannot put them together, and, i as one chemist remarked to the writer, "Building the structure doesn't < properly belong to chemistry, any- s way." - ? i \ Synthetic quinine is the aim of the < large body of chemists engaged in re- 1 search work just at present. Others 1 are working to produce sugar, and the i men who find these formulae will j make their fortunes. A way to pro- t duce synthetic quinine has been found, 1 but it is yet too expensive for commer- l cial purposes. Chemists have just begun to be appreciated in this country. 1 Forty-five years ago, when the sugar ] industry was begun here in the United ; States, Professor Chandler, of Colum- 1 bia University, then a boy still at his 1 studies, was given a job by a friend : in the storehouses over in Brooklyn, j The position was more to help the boy \ through his scientific course than any- < thing else. . ] "But what shall I do?" asked the j student. "Do?" his benefactor replied. "Oh. i do anything, but keep out of the way j and don't ask questions!" ] He who was some day to add his' i contributions to science took the pat- i ronizing friend at his word and did i what he wanted to do without going < to a superior every day for permission. J The experiments and formulae learned i onil hrvrntnrv W'PTP UUt 1 XII V.'U19S IUUU (W.U lUWV.H...,, M into practical use and soon "the boy out in the back room" began sending in recommendations to headquarters as to savings here, expenditures there, ; a mass of economic detail that sur- i purised the older heads. That was years ago. To-day each sugar plant in the country has a laboratory and hundreds of chemist3 are employed. They are being taken into i factories generally and put at research work and analysis. In competition the house that can produce the cheapest and the best is the successful one and here economy counts?therefore the research chemist. In Germany, where the profession is farthest advanced, manufacturing establishments usually have a group of chemists. Maybe they -will work for years without accomplishing any results, still their pay continues. Then, some day, the long-sought process or solution is obtained, and thousands of dollars saved. That is one reason why the Germans and the English excel us in chemical industry. They recognize the chemist's worth, and have forged ahead through his ingenuity. rA'-'-. ..jr. v. Magic Has Done. S A WASTE BY-PRODUCT. Perkin Discovery, Which Die ion in the Front Rank of )ccupations. rrrrn * * * * * * ******* William Henry Perkin, F. K. S., LL. D.. Ph. D., D. Sc., V. P. C. S., is still alive, although this string of abbreviations after his name might lead some to think differently. He is working patiently in his laboratory in re search study and experiments with just as much zeal as before the day when lie made his "strike" in coal tar. Dr. Perkin was born in London on March 12, 1S3S. and studied chemistry under Dr. A. W. Hofmann at the Royal College of Chemistry, where he was afterwards assistant in his research laboratory. It was here Dr. Perkin :ade his coal tar. sensation by the discovery of the mauve dye in 1836. He was then only eighteen years of age. Subsequently he became interest* oil in the manufacture of coal tar colors, and continued in this work until 1S74. Since then Dr. Perkin's time has been occupied in research work and writing. His publications are numerous, and include a circle range of subjects. Although an Englishman discovered the value of coal tar and English manufacturers were the first to put the country's large deposits of the raw material to practical use, Germany has succeeded in taking the) industry away from the Britons, and is now importing the raw material to keep her factories supplied and running. Germany lias taken tlfe lead, because the Government has done everything possible to encourage the profession as well as the industry, and her chemists are masters who lead the world. Amon'oo ni?A^tinAO nnon a iiiciiv.a pivuuv.ua luiiucucv vjuim n ties of coal tar. It is formed from the old-fashioned process of making ooai gas, and although this system is now out of date, it is still used to make the coal tar now instead of the gas. A story is told and vouched for by an eminent authority that illustrates how highly this by-product is valued. It seems that not many years ago on the banks of the Schuylkill River, in Philadelphia, was a gas works. That was in the days prior to Perkin's discovery. The gas men had no use for the coal tar, and its rapid aocumulation soon became a nuisance and a burden to them. The city would not permit the company to run the tar into the river, so the gas men put down a drain, which ostensibly was to empty into a big underground reservoir, but which really discharged into the river beneath the surface of the water. Coal tar 19 too thick a substance to mix with water. It congeals just Tike molasses candy, when in making it you drop it into a glass to see if it has boiled to the proper consistency. That is just what :he coal tardischarged from this Philaielphia gas works did. When it flowed Prom tlio nines of the eras works into the river it sank into a pocket in the river bottom, and formed a hard, solid leposit, gradually accumulating in size is the years rolled on. ' Then the new process of making gas came into vogue, md the old works on tlie Schuylkill rvere abandoned. Several years after the value of the lespiscd coal tar became known, a sharp-witted chemist, in hosing around the old gas works on the Schuylkill, liscovered the drain pipe, and followng it up found that the output of coal :ar for years had been emptied into the river. It did not take long to,engage i diver and set him to work, with the esult that the rich deposit was located, inally brought to the surface 'and utilized to a considerable profit. The chemical industry is on the gain lere in America, and is coming up with ragid bounds. One thing that has icted to keep it down is the present tax on alcohol, which, it is expected, frill be removed by this session of Congress. Alcohol is a great solvent, and in the different processes of manufacture and research work is used in great luantitles. Net in the United States, however. Here at $2.30 a gallon it is prohibitive. Alcohol can be made for fifteen cents n proof gallon, yet the tax on it here is $1.10 for every proof gallon made. [t seems strange, out ir is nevertheless time. In England .and in Europe there is not this handicap, and "with such a difference in the price existing in favor of the foreigners, one advantage they hold in re mrch -work is plain to be seen. Sentiment and a popular agitation on intemperance has helped greatly in influencing the Government to maintain its tax on alcohol. The United States has been against any policy which should encourage the production of alcohol as a beverage, and the enforcement of the law has cost the Government a lot of money. The moonshiners in the mountains and the illicit distillers in the crowded cities have been the transgressors. Chemists acknowledge the danger of taking down all bars and permitting the wholesale manufacture of all kinds of alcohol. They have, however, at last made It plain to Congress that the sort of alcohol they wish to use In their profession is as different from rum alcohol as whisky is from water. The New York section of the Society of Chemical Industry, which has done so much to advance all branches of the profession in America, is the group * ? ^ M 1 01 men WHO aie uun ?? uiaiuj iv# iuia a Perkin memorial in the form of a scholarship to encourage chemical re search.?H. J. C., in New York Foat, Indiana paid $72,17S,2TG in wages In factories in 1905. - 5t< .. : :-~L .v -. - <? -v ^ v *: - Tf . .' *. V 'pr **. ' * i-" he" was "not a patriot. Cniii He Caught Sierht pf the FI*?, nnrt He yth? hypnotized. ? . v?. 'T am :ioi a patriot," 'said the grouch: "that is not the 'my-eoimtryr'ght-or-wrong* kind. That sort of patriotism is only an enlarged egotism?it w founded 0:1 the mere accident of birth. The owner of it loves his country. and believes in it solely because he vas born in it. He thinks it must be a treat country to have produced him. Xow. I iret itt my patriotism?if you can call it that?the other way .round. 1 love and honor my country for the ideals and ideas it represents, and after having compared it with other countries and found it better. If comparison had demonstrated that the cause of lininanitv Was better served bv some other country, I would rank that first in uiy esteem. I was b.orn human by tiie law of heaven?boundaries established by man governed my American nativity. "Eur. as 1 said. I love this land for what it is doing for humanity. I believe in it. and would fight to extend its boundaries over the whole earth, so [ long as its lofty ideals are maintained. My country is an idea?the American idea?and knows no boundaries nor rules. It isn't a government; it is a people, a people striving toward a subi lime eud. The government may be | vested for a time in the hands of unworthy men; an oligarchy of special interests that seek to exploit the nation may use it for selfish ends. The ordinary 4my-country-right-or-wrong* kind of patriot is as wax in the hands of such schemers. He thiuks that the government is the country. Thank heavens! there are enough reasoning pa-1 tricts to offset the machinations of the schemers and gullibility of that kind of patriot?or there have been, heretofore. and the American idea marches grandly on. "Sometimes it has to do bloody deeds to win its way. It has to kill a few hundred Mcros in order to benefit millions. Some chicken-hearted persons call this cruel. Tliey would not call it cruel if the few hundred Moros were suffered to check the ousweep of the great ideal and savagery were permitted to work its evil will because we refrained from interference. They would call it 'Providence/ Those people always blame God for their sins of omission. They are not patriots of any kind, being false even to humanity. 'As for me, I discriminate; I?" and just then we came in sight of "Old Glory" floating from the flagpole of the high school. The grouch doffed his hat [ and a wrapt and reverent expression came over his rugged features. "God bless the flag!" he said devoutly. "I reckon I'd follow it wherever it led. It kinder hypnotizes you."?St Loui? Globe-Democrat. WORDS OF WISDOM. , T/et past errors serve as warning guides to future excellence. When duty coincides with interest, . honesty in office is made easy. The battle is never to the strong where brains are given half a show. In the last analysis, most human lore is mainly simile and metaphor. Most of us want to cast our bread upon the waters with a string tied to it. Not all is harmony that sweetly chimes, nor yet all poetry that aptly rhymes. "Strait is the gate and narrow is the way," to those who would the moral law obey. When we speed to the devil's honse, woman takes the lead by a thousand steps.?Goethe. Riches may "shrivel the .soul," but poverty is equally hard on the suppers. ?Chicago Tribune. When joyous, a woman's license is not to be eudured; when in terror, she is a plague.?Aeschylus. Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it.?Lingree. An optimist is a man who always hopes for the best, and when he gets it hopes for something better. There are a great many times in our lives when our "strength is to sit still." Motion is good in its time, but so is meditation, so is quiet study, so Is patient waiting on God. If a bucket is to be filled from a spout of water, the best place for that bucket is to keep it uu der the stream until it is full. We soon run empty of grace, and need replenishing, need to be ''filled unto all the fullness of God.''?Theodore Cuyler. All llercgnlzed H< r. The four old captains oi Salt Marsh, after carefully studying the attractions ottered by the iniud .eider who'j was to hold forth in the town hall, decided to attend the entertainment. "We can #;o right f~oin the post office when mail's in," said Captain Gregg, most adventurous of "he four, "and there .'.oesn't seem to be any need to consult our women folks, so far as, I know. Most likely we shan't stay more'n a lew minute?." They were all agreed as to the advisability of this plan, and the next ~ +l)nm cautoS In tho Inst C> KUiUg aan iueiu gwutvu <u u>v row, with interest written on their faces. After a few preliminary exhibitions which caused the scattered audience to gasp and wriggle, the mind-reader said in a solemn tone: ' There is one person in this audience who has been thinking ever since he came in here of a person who is perhaps the strongest influence in his life?a small, determined looking woman. with eyes that snap and " At this point the four old captains rose as if moved by a single spring and filed from the ball. When they reached the safety of the steps, Captain Gregg turned to the others and spoke in a hoarse whisper: "Which one of us do you suppose hmeant?"?Youth's Companion. COURT CANNOT INTERFERE -?? injunction Sought by Presbyterians Denied Because Religion is Beyond Pale of Jurisprudence. Tlie application for an injunction to restrain the union of the Presbyterian churches Vas deckled in court at Decatur, 111., Wednesday by Judge V Johns. .. . He refused to issue the injunction. He said that the case has no parallel in the jurisprudence of the United States. He treated the church as "a vAtuntflfv rtrjrnrirflTlrm tkf> a*?ts " of X whose highest tribunal are binding * on all members, and will not be interfered with by the courts if the acts are fair and honest He held that courts of equity will not pass on doc- # ^ .trinal matters, the decisions of eccle- Q siastical judiciaries being binding on civil courts as to matters of faith. The decision sets forth the various acts of the Cumberland general assembly and says: These actions of the assembly must be held to be a determination ^ of its right and power." As to doctrine, the court held that . "whether the doctrines of the Cumberland Presbyterian church are wisely variant from those of the Presbyterian church, is an ecclesiastical question solely, upon which, having ' decided by an ecclesiastical judiciary, the civil court is powerless to in. V v j > *? quire." The decision adds: "No court has ever enjoined an ecclesiastical body from considering what action it should t^ke. This application is without pre- ^ cedent." Thr> oninion was read in the \ assembly. Dr. Steele introduced ,a resolution ttet in entering the union the Cumberland Presbyterians do not surrender any integral part of their dotrine. He read a statement made by the original Cumberland presby ^ tery, which said that the exception of fatality would not affect the Cumber* ^ bind doctrine. The resolution was adopted 1C2 to 108. Dr. \V. H. Black, president of the /rJ?p Missouri Valiey college, chairman, read the report on . fraternity and union, which was adopted. The antis filed a protest. TRAGEDY BROKE UP MEETING. Two Men Killed at Political Speaking in Chipley. ' In a pistol duel at Chipley, Ga., Wednesday, Joe Hasty, a farmer, was instantly killed and Irvin, the slayer, . was shot to death as ha ran-from the scene by several persons who pursued ' ^ him. < *" The first shooting occurred on' the outer edge of a grove, in which w^a an audience listening to a political ; v ^ speech by Hoke Smith, and the sec- -3&B9 ond killing took place about three ^ blocks away. ". ;-||| The speaking was abruptly term!-' ' naied. There,had been bad feeling between Hasty and Irvin over an alleged debt ^lli or 15 cents, which the former Is sail 'J/M to have owed the latter. The two men met in the crowd at the speaking |s and excl^anged hot words. Soon they began shooting at each other, the crowd falling away in an effort to es- :vl?$ cape danger. Hasty soon fett mortally wounded, and expired Immediately. Irvin ran end was pursued by several men, whose identity is not yet known. The V pursuers opened up a regular fusilade of shots, and before he had gone f more than three blocks Irvin fell and died, having been struck by a num- ber of bullets. In all, about sixtyave shots were fired. It is said that .'f, others beside Irvin fired at Hasty while the difficulty in the grove was in progress. Two spectators in the / ?cMorhtiv wounded by bill giO.C J ic-ts, which grazed them. Irvin was 25 years of age, and was married jVJ about six months ago. Hasty wa3 SI ye-.irs oi age, and unmarried. Sale cf Union Cotton Mills. Union cotton mills at Union, S. Cn were sold Wednesday to the Union and Buffalo Cotton Mills Company. J It was bid in by William Elliott, ot Columbia, for $l,239,490--only one V' bid. The mills will continue in oper> tion. GUARDS KILL CONVICTS. | White Man and Negro Shot Down In ^ Attempt to Escape. jonn B. McMillan, 25 years old, who "lwas convicted in Greensboro, N. C., . iui cuiu w tnj . - '.^3 years' imprisonment on the county roads, was shot to death near the city Thursday morning while making a ' . dash for liberty. McMillan, with four other convicts, got away from the guards, who opened fire upon thein, . killing Jesse Thomas, a negro, instantly, and mortally wounding Mc- . a Mil lan. BILL FOR FREE ALCOHOL. Measure Adopted in the Senate as Reported from Committee. The senate Thursday passed the so- - ^ calied free alcohol bill as It was reported from the commit to a cn finance. - "> The bill has already passed the house and amendments which the senate has adopted do net materially change its scope, it does net go into effect until May 1, 1907.