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i . WINTER TO BE BAI>. Dutch Prophet Says This Will Severer Winter Tluin Last. W. P. Houseal, the ''Dutch We! er Prophet," predicts a killing fi October 18, and emphasizes t * weather. conditions are already veloping in this trend. He forec; a normal quantity of precipital for the remaining fall months, wl will be favorable for the sowing grains. Rainfall, he says, will be i mal through the fall and winter, % creasing periodically until spr when there will be an excess of r; He expects the winter to be seve than last. The forecast follows: "Rainfall during the fall and v ter season will show the nor: amount of precipitation, increas periodically until spring will show excess. The remaining fall sea will be favorable for the sowing grains. t;i. "Temperatures will be lower t last winter, with periods of c weather already confirm the fore< ' . " for killing frost October 18. occurrence of the thunder storm 1 day night, extending into Satur morning, formed conditions ne< sary as the forerunner of sim i > " weather conditions which will pre1 with frequent intensity as the v ter solstice approaches. "Favorable weather is indica for Harvest Jubilee week in Coli bia October 23-27."?The State. |jfoc v The Tick Closes the Gate. Washington, JJ. u., uct. z^.?kj Tennessee stock farm, native c< that weighed from 500 to 700 pou each and ranged in value from I R- . .. to $20 a head were bred to pr - bred Shorthorn bulls. When fr fifteen to eighteen months old BR"-" * ' calves were sold on the Chicago m ket. They weighed an average 800 pounds and brought 8 cent: pound, or $64 a head. This simple business transact represents the difference between s tematic stock raising and sell p? scrubs. One thing made it possible |& . the elimination of the tick. Gr; : * stock cannot be raised without pu bred sires and pure-bred sires i pV the cattle tick do not live long in same pasture. Usually the tick st and the sire dies of fever. Thai one reason why the average value beef cattle in tick-infested States always many dollars less than in ti free country. There is no way grading up the herds. In tfte particular case mentionec Iit was in the days when Tennes was still tick-ridden?the stock o\ n er was a big enough man to be a to get rid of the pest himself in own dipping vats and to import own breeding stock. The sir BL x - v r farmer can afford to do neither. I he has just as much to gain in p portion as the big man from gc stock and he wants it just as bac XT** />o? rro+ if f"i + hv PrtftnorntlTIP HO VCXXX 5CI It, xxx Ob uv< systematic tick eradication work 1 der State and federal supervision a when that has been accomplished. Wr / joining live stock associations a bull clubs in which a number of f 7/, mers have the" joint use of a pu bred sire. The United States depa ment of agriculture will assist in formation of these associations, j as it will assist in the eradication * the tick. If the regulations are properly served, it takes ordinarily one seaf to drive the tick out. Thereafter way is open for stock raising 01 scientific, profitable basis. This being, done elsewhere in the Sou There are no ticks now in Tennes fand Kentucky, and only one cor: of Virginia and the coast counties North Carolina tare still infest Much of South Carolina is free, 1 about half of Mississippi and A bama. There are large areas of f territory in Georgia, northern Ark sas and Oklahoma and in Texas. S cessful work has been done, too, T Aiiiciono ond TT'lrtridjl Tn fj JJUUioiaua uuu x iva there is not a single State in whole area originally under quar tine which has not driven the t out of some part at least of its te tory. The people who have done tlfis it because it paid. It is not only man primarily interested in t raising who profits. Every fan knows that his farm will benefii it has live stock on it,-but he wa that live stock not only to enrich land, but,to pay for itself and m besides. For the ordinary man * tick cuts the profit down until t are too small to notice; so he doe: keep many cattle. But when tick cuts the profits down until t gate open for the pure-bred bull walk in and bring an income v him. m If you have stumps in your fi< that you have been plowing aro for years, determine to get them of the way this fall. They mak harder for man and animal wort in the field, and take up valu; room. Don't leave the cotton stanc s out in the weather. It isn't g for the cotton, nor you, financiall fiSV' r ? - * Pa**' . . * .-1%: ;v . ' MISTRIAL IX GRAHAM CASE. Be Jury Fails to Agree in Hosiery Mil Suit. Columbia, Oct. 21.?Presidinj rost Judge S. W. G. Shipp tonight at 9:2; o'clock ordered a mistrial in the casi ^e" of J. M. Graham, against the State o asts South Carolina, in which Mr. Gra :ioft iiam was suing the State for $24,300 alleged damages sustained as a resul ? 01 of the abolition of the penitentiar; lor" mill while Mr. Graham had a con *n~ tract for the use of the mill and con in.g, vjct labor. The jury had been ou a*R- more than eight hours and the fore Jrer man announced that its member: were hopelessly disagreed, vin- The defense of the State was tha the hosiery mill had become a men ace to health of convicts and througl an them to the general public througl son prevalence of tuberculosis amonj or those emnloved in the building. hati Trajan's Wall. jold *ast ^he great war thrusts its tongue: The hame into scenes that mark tin Fri- beginnings of human history and tin foundations of religions and empires %es_ In this moving picture our attentioi ilar kas been called to the traditional sit< yail tlie Garden of Eden, to rivers tha rin- are suPP?se(* to have watered tin earthly paradise, to Mount Ararat ted ^ount Sinai, and Mount Lebanon, t< lm- relics of the Assyrian, Babylonian Egyptian, Parthian and Roman em pires, and to places that are closelj connected with the rise of Judaism Zoroastrianism, Christianity and Mo D a hammedanism. It is a little world 3WS and war can but tread on ancieni nds ground. Not long ago we were re &12 minded by the fighting at:, Ctesiphon ire" on the Tigris, that there the Pai om thians defeated Trajan, and' nov the comes the mention of Trajan's wal iar" in the Dobrudja as a battle line, witl of the Russians and Roumanians on the s a north and the Germans and Bulgarians on the south. i?n It was in the year 101 that Trajai ;ys" led his legions forth from home tc conquer the Dacians, whose countrj 3? comprised the provinces of Moldavia 1(*e Wallachia and Transylvania, whict ire~ the Roumanians are now endeavoring in(* to reunite under one sovereign., Dacia's warrior, King Decebalus, dea>Ts fended his land so well that Trajar : is had to start a second campaign foui ! years later before Dacia would ac1 ^ knowledge Roman rule. The wall ck~ that bears the emperor's name is an earthwork extending from the Danube above Czernavoda to Constanza *? on the Black sea. It is no great see rampart, being just an earthen ridg vn~ from eight to fifteen feet high, bul ble the Turks defended it against the his Russians in 1854, and it might be useful in the present Dobrudja fight. ia^ Other traces of Trajan are still to be found in the military road he conr0~ structed along the banks of the Dan)0(* ube, including a commemorative tab^ I let, and the pier of a bridge he built f?r across the river near Orsova?the Lin" important point from which the Roun(*? manians have driven the Austrians back into their Banat province. And Ln(* there the war now bridges more than ar~ 1,800 years. re irt- In the construction of a California the home, the pipes of an organ are hidust den in the grill work of the room, sc of that only the console is visible, and this may be drawn about the room tc oh- any convenient location. 5?n Selecting the Cabinet. the 1 a Roosevelt is appearing as the *s proxy for Hughes in the speech-making effort of the Republican candisee date to land. Roosevelt has beer ner called upon to put pep in the cam1 paign, for Hughes is lacking in it e<*. and arouses no enthusiasm. He ii ind. proving a frost in his stump-making ^a' tour/ ree With Roosevelt as his hope, it is tc an" be expected that his administration ,uc" if by any misfortune he should b( in elected, would be a Roosevelt bossec administration, that it would begir with Roosevelt and end with Roose an~ velt. And there is much thought ii ;ica this for the American public, whicl m7 knows the rocks upon which the shii / * of state would drift with Roosevel ^ in charge. the 0? R00seveit as the heac >eef and front of the Hughes campaigi ner leads a correspondent of the Macoi ^ ^ Telegraph to enter into the realms o ints possible cabinet-making, as this tron the Telegraph will show. ore "If the Republicans win," writes J G., over at Fitzgerald, "1 predict th< next cabinet will be about like this:' sn t Prpsiripnt Theodore Roosevel t*le Assistant president hughe; Sec. of State .... Theodore Roosevel ^ to Assistant secretary roo rith Secretary of War Theodore Roosevel Assistant bonypar =>lds Sec* of Treas Theodore Roosevel und Assistant jp morgai 0U|. Sec. of Interior .. Theodore Roosevel Assistant giff pinsho 'ing Attorney General Theodore Roosevel ible Assistant wickershan Sec. of Labor .... Theodore Roosevel Assistant judge gar; ling Sec. of Navy .... Theodore Roosevel ood Assistant vonmeye y. 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