The Marlboro democrat. (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, January 06, 1905, Image 7

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ORTS n Mam?i ?mepf. % DINNERS' oy Cotton Statistics, North of the Census ?, WlioJExpresses Sur prise aud Concern. He Warns Growers. - Director of the Census North ina letter to Representative Burleson of Texas, made public Thursday, takes notice of the situation presented hy the cotton statistics given out for publication Wednesday and expresses his surprise and concern at tho recent alleged movement in the southern 8tates, "apparently approved and augmented by the cotton growers themselves,'* to destroy the census re ports by concerted refusal of the gin ners to make returus. Director North asserts that a continuance of the cot ton ginning reports ls impossible with out the sympathetic and whole-heart ed co-operation of the glnncrs of the south. Immediately after the receipt of the letter. Mr. Burleson, a mem ber of the houKo census committee, and who was the author of the provi sion making appropriation for the gathering of cotton statistics, gave out an interview in which he upholds the director in the work now being done by his bureau. The letter is as follows: Washington, D. 0., Deo. 29,1904. Hon. Albert S. Burleson, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. My Dear Slr: It seems proper to invite your attention to certain ano malot 5 conditions which confront the census omeo in carrying out the pro visions of seotion 9 of the act to estab lish a permanent census office, direct ing the periodical collection of the statistics of cotton production through the agency of the glnners. This provision was Inserted in the law at our urgent request and that of other them representatives, on the plea .was necessary for the protec nf^Ettir.'iirtft?. ,?t??fliK'.flra ?|yhj|t. the speculators and others interested in depressing the price of the staple for their own profit. It was urged that enormous losses resulted from the untrustworthy estimates put forth every year by speculators and agents of the Liverpool market, and that early and trustworthy official informa tion regarding the size of the crop would?protect the grower, disarm the speculator and market manipulator and permit the law of supply and de mand to regulate the prices. EXPENSIVE INFORMATION. Since tho law was passed congress has appropriated and this office has disbursed more than $125,000 a year l i the collection and dissemination of this information. The system has been gradually perfected until lt has become more nearly perfect than any 6lmllar plan for obtaining exact know ledge of the size of any agricultural orop during the progress of harvest ing. i_ No complaint bas been made that -the census repoi ls are not accurate, Indeed for a year or two past we have en able to trace the crop so closely radically every bale has boen d for. js?-.i"P increase !-,. for it becomes possible, by parison of the statistics of one year with thoso of the same date in preceding years, to judge the size of successive crops with an accuracy never before known or approximated. The ginning reports of tho census office have crowded out the specula tive and interested estimates referred to, and the single object which the southern representatives had in view, in urging this legislation, has been successfully accomplished In view of these facis, 1 have been surprised and concerned at the pres ent movement in the southern Slates, which is opparently approved and aug mented by the cotton growers them selves, to destroy the census reports, by the concerted refusal of the glnners to make the returns upon which they are based. Thus far thc movement has not seriously affected our work, but if it continues and spreads, lt will necessarily destroy Its value during the coming year. It appears to have been suddenly discovered that these reports, undertaken solely at the de mand of the cotton growers, are high ly detrimental to his Interests. Mr. F. Webber, president of the Mern phiscotton exchange, is quoted as de claring that ''the cotton Interests of the south have everything to lese and nothing to gain by their continuance; they put the manufacturing interests in possession of information which works irreparable injury to the south." My attention has also been called to tho so-called "National Cot ton Glnners' association," the purpose of which ls stated to be "to gather accurate and reliable information re garding tho amount of cotton pro duced In advance of the government report." It also appears that "'this information is to be sent in code; and the members of the association will be sworn no? to divulge it." The in formation is still highly desirable, but possession of lt ls to be restricted to thoso who grjw and gin the cotton. DISAPPOINTMENT OF OROWE11S. I can understand?the disapolnted ment of cotton growers at the preser fc prices of cotton, and their feeling that these prices are due to the uu usual size of this year's cotton crop, early and dt finite knowledge concern ing which bas been given to the pub lic by the census reports. But 1 con fess myself unable to follow the rea soning which leads the growers, and through them the gluncrs, to Imagine that lt will be to their advautage, be cause of this exceptional situation, to destroy tho efficiency of the official maohinery tbrough which they learned the present situation, early knowledge of whioh has undoubtedly extended the ohangc in the price of cotton over a much longer period, and thus saved the growers and tho country from much larger losses than would other wise have been encountered in con nection with this year's crop. It would scorn to be plain that In the long run, taking ouo year with an other, only one thing can decrease tho speculative element in the business of cotton seding, and thus permanent ly benefit the cotton grower, and that is knowledge of tho exact truth as to tho size of the orup, from an absolute ly impartial ?md tiuthworthy source, it tho earliest practicable dales. This .vas the unanimous contention of tho southern representativo In congress when tlie law was passed. I-t ts not noy purpose, however," to irgufe the matter. I 3lmply desire to jail your, attention to the fact that Ibo continuance o? the census cotton ginning report? ls impossible, without tlfo-ccmplete, sympathetic, and whole iiarted-cooperation bf the 30,COO sin ners of the south: Tho cehaua "oQIc-o cannot enter into competition with a cotton ginners' association which pro poses to gather the same data for private information only," Moreover it cannot continue io pronudgate statistics of the quantity bf cotton ginned to certain date, after it has reason to believe that these report? are no longer correct, in consequence of a concerted boycott by the ginnen, j Otherwise lt would be guilty ot the ? Identical evil ot misrepresentation ita reports were established to pre vent. The census bureau bas no in terest in the matter whatever, beyond the discbarge of its duty as establish ed by law, and thc maintenance of its reputation for the compilation and publication of acourate statistics. WAUNING TO GROWERS. 1 have, therefore, decided to notify you In this manner, and through you the cotton growers of the south, that the continuance of the mo vernont whloh they have b?gun will necessari ly result in the discontinuance of the 0 itton Rlnnincr reports ot the census office, for without the hearty and general cooperation of the ginners those reports would become valueless and the compilation an unpardonable Traste of public money. The situa tion would then revert to what lt was ti ve years ago. But after the private and interested estimates controlling the market price have again for a few years been too high, as they undoubt edly will be, and the repeated losses of the cotton growers in consequence have again convinced thom that the change they demanded in 1001 was a wise one, it will be far moro difficult and may bo impossible to -induce con gress to reestablish a system which the cotton growers set up once before only to tear lt down when it chanced that a knowledge of the facts was to their disadvantage. I deem lt my duty to acquaint you with the probable course of the cen sus office, in order that you may take any steps which may seem to you de sirable or necessary in connection with the matter. Very respectfully, S. N. D. North, Dlreotor. Upon receipt cf the letter. Mr Burlcson gave out the f jilo wir g stated ?inent: 1 "Believing that lt was to the in terest of tho producer of cotton to af?nate as far as possible the speou-' ia^?.eleraontj_iom entering-into or uffectTng the market price of his pro duct, 1 caused to be embodied in the act, making the census bureau per manent, the original item providing for statistics of cotton ginned during the current year, and the result of census bureau's labors in carrying Into effect this provision has materi ally aided in accomplishing this end. The result bas not influenced aohange of opinion on my part. A PERSONAL ALLUSION. "If I may be pardoned a personal allusion, a grower of cotton myself, having frequently experienced the damage occasioned by the high esti mates and cocksure assertions put for ward by those acting for speculators and cotton gamblers, I felt the neces sity of some impartial source of infor mation wbioh would be as accurate as possible. This the census bureau has proven itself TO bo. "I concur in every wcrd oantoine? in this letter of Mr. V^rth and feel ?wat ic WOUOJ oe nothing short of a calamity if the ginners should at any time fail to furnish prompt and acou rate reporto to the census bureau. To fail to report to the census bureau will only play Into the hands of the cotton gamblers and will serve to promptly reestablish alleged statistical agents, who are now, thanks to the bureau of statistics of the department of agriculture and the census bureau, thoroughly disc-edited. If during next year, as a result of deoreased acreage and imperfect weather condi tions, there should be a short cn p, ?vhich is not improbable, then the ginners' reports issued by the census bureau woulc'fiagalu be In high favor by the cotton growers. What is wanted and what ls really always to the Interest of the cotton grower is a prompt knowledge of the exact truth. "It ls my purpose to prepare an offer nt this session of congress and amendment to the census aot provid ing for the oollec-jlon and publication of accurate statistics the number of bales of cotton consumed each year and tho surplus cf cotton held In the hands of the manufacturer and the number of bales exported. This Is necessary and only fair to the grower of cotton. He should promptly nave this Information as the manufacturers of cotton throughout the world are given knowledge of the number of bales of cotton grown. "I have discussed this with Senator Balley of my State, and he agrees with me as to the importance and necessity of this amendment and agrees to lend a helping hand In so surlng Its adoption." A Bad Af an. At Thomas, Ga., after killing his mother-in-law, Mrs. W. H. Parrish, making a desperate attempt to kill tils 18-year-old wife and shooting himself twice with a Winchester rifle Wednesday. J. B. Barrow 1B lying in the city hospital Thursday night in a pncarlouB condition closely guarded :>y olllcors. Barrow Is an engineer on ulm Atlantic Goast Line. He ls 38 rears old and had been married but >wo years. His wife was 20 years his lunlor. Domestic infelicity Is given as ihe cause of the tragedy. The verdict if the coroner's jury doe? not say whether murder was committed or jbe killing was accidental. Lielt Atone to Dio. Tho polios are Investigating tho nysterlous death of an unknown ioung woman, found lying in the mow In the Riverside drive, New irork, Thursday and who died without lecoming conscious. The suspicions >f the pollco were aroused by the fact .hat her underskirt and bat were buud nearly 100 feet from where the lody lay. Thc spot where tho body vas found ls a lonesome and deserted me. The police suspect that the roung woman while unconscious was eft there by other persons to die of ixposure. Six Killed by Explosion. Six men were kill?d Wednesday ifternoon by an explosion of four Millern at a Wal ville sawmill, 30 mlleu west of Ohehalls, Wis. Two others were badly hurt. TO COTTON GROWERS. ! Tiley Aro A4vit*? to Organize ?ad Held Their Cotton. -- Clubs Will Bu Formed ID livery Vot>' i lng Product In Bouth Caro lina Without Delay. Mr. X. D. Smith, President of the South Carolina Ootton Growers Asso elation, issued the following address last Saturday: To tbs Cottoa Growers of South Car olina: ' I would have written an account of the Shreveport meeting before tbls, but have been waiting to hear from the president ot the national organiza tion as to the final steps to be taken. This I give In today's issue. From t ie Bio Grande to the Atlan tis the farmers are fully alive to che situation. The old spirit that seemed to be prevalent; that every other bust ness was our enemy ls passing and the ootton farmer fully realizes that the present condition in whioh he finds himself is the result of his own do logs. Every State in the cotton belt ls organizing for the purpose of hold ing ootton and reducing acreage of ootton and increasing acreage for home supplies. Let every farmer who has cotton hold it and not duplicate in next year's crop It is manifest to lil ai that ii he stores this cotton, borrows the money on lt and does not duplicate lt, that another year he will realize enough to pay him 75 to 100 per cent, besides giving him an abundance of home sup plies. Again we must have a syste matio reduction of acreage; some plan by which we may bare this done or ganically, officially, if those are the proper words. To this end we meet In New Orleans, Jan. 24-26. Let each voting precinct In the State meet on Jan. 10 and organ za Itself into and auxiliary club, elect a dole gate or delegates to meet at its cc url house on Saturday, Jan. 14, to perfect a otunty organizitlon and to eleot delegates to the New Orleans conven tion. It is urgently requested that this be done in every county. Send raf the names of tbe delegates elected tc New Orleans, so that I may send them in. In the meantime I wish to warn every farmer against the schemes now being used to get bold of spot cotton. Don't lend to the mill man or export er. Hold your otton. We are able to hold and we need the pro lit. E D. Smith, Pi esluoiit South Carolina Cotton Growers' Association. Magnolia, S. O j Deo. 31, 1904. - BOMB COTTON FIGURES. That Will Be Hoad With Interest Jty Our Farmers. We preBcnt below some cotton iig urea that will be of interest to all in the face of the present cotton situa tion : TOTAL AMKHICAN CHOPS. Season. Bales in Crop. 1886 87. 6.505,087 1887- 88. 7,046,8.13 1888- 89. 6.938,290 18H9-90. 7,311,322 1890 91. 8,652,597 1891-92. 9,035 379 1892 93. 6,700 365 1893 94. 7 594,817 1894 95 . 9,901,251 1895- 96 . 7 157,346 1896- 97. 8,7^7:994 1897- 98...11,190,994 1898 99... .11,274,810 1899 1900. 9 430,418 190ff-Ol..10 383 422 1901 02. 10,680,680 1902 03 .10,727,559 1903 04*.10.01L374 H IOU EST AND LOWEST PRICKS. Year Highest Lowest. 1886. 9 9-18 8 13 16 1887.ll 7 16 9 7 16 1888.ll 3 8 9 5 8 1889.11 1-2 9 3 4 1890.12 3-4 9 3 10 1891 ..9 12 7 34 1892.10 li 1116 1893. 9 15-16 7 1 4 1894. 8 5-16 5 9 16 1895. 9 3 8 5 916 1896 . 8 7-8 7 1-16 1897. 8 1-4 5 13 16 1898. 6 9 16 5 5 1? 1899. 7 13 16 5 7 8 1900.11 7 9 16 1901.12 7 13 16 1902. 9 78 8 3-16 1903.13 1-2 8 9 10 *To August 31. WORLD'S CONSUMPTION. World's Total. 1890 91 . 10,456,000 1891-92 . 10,471,000 1892 93. 10,247,000 1893 94 . 10,551,000 1894-95. 11,397,000 1895 96. 11,532,000 1896- 97. 11,880,000 1897- 98 . 12,889 000 1898- 99. 14,015,000 1899 1900. 13,773,000 1900- 1901. 13,503,000 1901- 1902. 14,414 008 1902- 1903. 14 351,930 Barned lils Hewart!. A dispatch from Columbia naya a striking Instance of a "Trusty" ne gro convict's loyalty, waH brought to the governor's attention In a pardon petition from Aiken Thursday. Tbe hero of story ls Andrew Washington, who vs as serving a two-year term on the gang, for killing a negro named George. The governor Thursday granted him full pardon on a strong petition, setting forth that on a ie cent occasion his heroism prevented the escape of all prisoners on thc gang. The guards were drunk and when the prisoners made a dash for liberty, Washington seized a gun and held them at bay, till assistance came next morning, Washington bad served over a year, and was convicted after two mistrials. - Hilled Brother and Self. A special from Ozark, Ala., says: A doubla tragedy occurred at Middle Olty In ohe eastern part of thisoounty Friday. Aich Pope and Jessie Pope, brothers, had a heated discussion and disagreement over aline fence and tbe former ahot and killed his brother with a pistol. Aioh Pope then went home and committed suiolde by taking strychnine. The Popes are among the most prominent and prosperous people of southeastern Alabama. both man leave families. Track Disappears. A seoMon of tho track of the New York, New naven and Hartford Ball road, between Hopewell and Storm ville, Gonn., suddenly disappeared Wednesday by sliding into Stoim Lake, which it crosses. This was a new track over whioh trains began Vt run last Friday. A section of the old track disappeared at the same place a few years ago. Ajcalnnt a \fopot?*i that VMll iS.cc? j Pricey*" Cotton Down. To the Editor. 'te: I have uotled 'tue pr?p^?fl?ffS??; sertalu cotton merchants in which they Follait shipments of cotton from the farm*:).*, offer lng free storage with the privilege of using the cotton in their business and agreeing to settle for lt at any time desired by the ship pers at the current price at time of settlement. 1 have no criticism to make of the cotton men making this proposition, but I wish to warn farmers against accepting it if they hope to realise any bent flt from holding their cotton. I am informed that a number of mills in this country and also In Europe have been pursuing a hand to mouth policy, buying only cotton for present needs aud having only a small supply on hand. If this ls the case and the cotton now in farmers' hands ls abso lutely withheld from the market a demand will soon be created, stocks will be depleted and spinners will be forced to buy cotton or close their mills. Now If the cotton ls consigned to exporters under the proposition re ferred to above, these exporters oan go right, on supplying the mills as they need it from week to week and month to month, there will therefore be no withholding of the cotton, nc pressure on the spinner, in faot noth ing to create an ritual demand 01 cause any advance lu the price, the farmer will simply be spiking bis c wn gun. If any pressure is brought tc bear on the market the cotton mint be kept at home or stored in the near est warehouse. To illustrate, suppose the price ol cotton eeed was down at a figue to tally u rm rn un erst i ve and unsatisfac tory to tho farmer and tho oil mills were to send out circulars agreeing tc take all the seed and promising to settle at current prices at time re quired during the season, and the seed was delivered to them under these conditions, is lt not manifest that with the seed in their posset sion, their mills running on full time, there would be no incentive to force an ad vance in price, but, suppose the seed were hauled away from the gins, car ried back to the farm and a deter mination shown to put-them in the ground as fertilizer rather than ac cept unsatisfactory prices, the effect would be almost instantaneous, mill: would bo obliged to pay remunerative 'prices or shut down, and the chancer are that they would pay. The same priuolplo applies to cot ton; it is true that it cannot) be pui back in the ground as fertilizer as the seed, but it will keep, and it is cheap er to keep it than to raise it at pres ent prices. Tho crop last year was a little ovei fearing a cotton famine, went wild. This year's crop is estimated at 20 pei cent, over last year's crop aod they gc equally wild in the other direction. There was little reastn.ior last year'f extreme advance and less for this year's decline. The hears In tho mar ket, baaing their opinions on the gin ners' report, estimate that the oror. will be over 12,000,000 bales and they aot as if they thought that every bale of this cotton would be thrust on the market, that there would be more than enough to go around,1'and conse quently there is nc necessity for them to r '-7 even cost of p/odt^jtion for it. T Ry forget that t&battt ai ohetip to buy cotton at prosent prices as 11 raise it where commercial ferti lizers are used, and while the orop maj equal or exceed the ''iovernment estimate, it won'B be solo at current neverj and probably will never be counted In the crop of 1904-1905 unless there is a material advance in the price, because rather than accept cur rent prices it will pay better to store the cotton and borrow money on it. A 500 pound bale of cotton at present price, at initial point, is G 3 4 cents, equals 833-75. To carry this one veai at 8 per cent, would be less than 7 l 2 for the cotton, while such action, if at all unanimous, would advance the price probably two or three cents per pound. My advice ls to plant the lands In tobacco, corn, oats, peas, sugar cane, raise hogs curtail cotton acreage and walt till the world wants cotton at remunerative prices. B. Marion, Dec. 23, l?04. A Valuable Gift. Greenville's greatest Christmas gift was the donation by Dr. Chas. Ilallet Judson of his homo and grounds to Furman university. This property, which is located on McDaniel street in West End, ls given as a speolal In centive to those who have subscribed to the endowment fund to pay their notes, and in order, too, that the noble old institution may have its fund complete at the earliest possible tima. The papers conveying the prop erty have been made out to the exe cutive committee of the college, and the transfer has been effected. The Judson residence ls fairly valued by a prominent real estate man at $7.600, but In making over the property to the university Dr. Judson, with char actcrlstlc modesty and conservatism, places the value at $5,000. This most recent gift of Or. Judson is in addi tion to the $21,000 given last year. Dr. Judson's connection wltn the un iversity extends over a period of 50 years. Ile entered the faculty and was one of tho building committee which erected the main college struc ture a half century ago. With Fur man and its alumni Dr. Judson will leave the memory of an imperishable personality. A Peculiar Accident. Max Silverman, travelling salesman for a New York house, 1B In the Grady hospital in Atlanta In a serious con dition, with the paper wadding from a blank pistol cartridge in his right lung, aa a result of having been acci dentally shot by Sol Groodzlnsky. The accident is one of the mo3t peoullar tho hospital authorities have had to deal with for some time. The pistol was lired at close range and so great was the force of the shot that the wadding from tho shill went entirely through Silverman's thick clothing, tore through the body and penetrated the right lung. Physicians are not yet able to tell whether tho wound will prove fatal. Tho Unloaded Pistol. A dlspatoh from Holly Hill to The State says Jim Russell, the 14 year jld son of Mr. T. 8. Russell, who re resides nearHolly Hill, "sccldentally shot himself Thursday morning with bhe proverbial "unloaded pistol." In baking bis father's old pistol, which was in lie ved to be unloaded, from a bureau drawer it was acci dentally discharged, the ball parsing Hi r ugh his band and entering his leS just above the kneo. The ball was not taken out but tho biby is resting quietly Thursday night, ire not thought to be ?rill be some time in healng. The wounds serious, but A PECULIAR CASS. A Man Serving- a Liifc fiuuteuoo at . PonttoutUry Want? Releasa. Governor Hey ward has received fx om Senator Tillman a letter in re~ ?g^rt^l to the pardon of George annis, now"salving a ljfe sentence in the penitentiary frum ' Barnwell county. The oaso is a very peculiar one, and the request for the pardon came in from Bepresentatlve Veapian Warner, of Illinois, who ls chairman ot the committee of the revision ot law? of the national bouse of representatives. Governor Hey ward will look into the matterat once. The letters whlob were sent the governor are as fol* lows: Gov. D. O. Hey ward. Dear Governor: I encloee you a let ter which explains itself. The writer is a member of congress from Illinois and a very fine gentleman and it seems that this man in wbom he la Interest ed is at least worthy ct having you examine Into his record and into tbs circumstances of the crime and see whether he is being held in prison un justly or at least longer tban the crime would warrant, supposing bim to bave been guilty. Please look this up and do wbat you can as a personal i favor to me and oblige, Tours sincerely, B. B. Tillman, i The letter inolosed ls as follows: My Dear Senator: Tou will remem ber that i spoke to you yesterday in i re'atlon to ?ne George W. Bonis, who ls now serving a life sentence in the . penitentiary lo South Carolina. Sa nis enlisted in the Federal Tolunteer army at the commencement of the oivil war in my county, where be then lived, and where his people now re side. At the close of the war he set tled in South Carolina, in what coun i ty I do not know, and was afterwards i indicted for setting Oro, as I am in i formed, to a small shed containing, a. mule. The shed and mule were burn I ed. Ennis was tried and found guilty i and sentenced to be hanged and on ? the recommendation of the judge, prosecuting attorney who tried him, i his sentence wascommuted to life im prisonment. 1 Ennis imlsts that he is innocent, and it has since been ascertained that . some other perton, colored, I believe, : set Ure to the shed. Ennis has now served in the penitentiary more than ; twenty five years' and I submit that i his punishment has been amply suffi > clent, even though he did not Bet fire i to the shed. His relatives live in my home county, DeWitt county, 111., . and he bas rot a relative or friend of J my kuuwledge in your state, ii you i will kindly ask your governor to bave ? Ennis' record in the penitentiary ex . amined, and if he finds that bis con duct bas been good and the olroum - stances justify, I, as well as bis many , friends in De Witt county. 111., where . y(u certainly know you have many ) friends, will be sincerely gratified. Very respectfully, i V. Warnt r. 1 JANUARY WEATHER. ; What It Has Boen In Colnmnla For Past Seventeen Years. > The following data, covering a i period of seventeen ye* ra, have been > compiled from the weather bureau re i cords at Columbia, S C. They are issued to show the conditions that i have prevailed, during the. month in i question, for the above period of years, but must nc t be construed as a i forecast of the weather conditions for i the coming month: i Month of January for seventeen ! years: i Temperature-M< an or normal tem i peraturc, 40 degrees. The warmest month was that of 1800, with an aver I age of 54 degrees. The coldest month was that of 1893, with an average of ; 38 degrees. The highest temperature was 78 degrees on January 15th, 1898. ? The lowest temperature was 10 de. grees on January 28th, 1897. The earliest date on which first ''killing" ! frost occurred in autumn, Ojtober 19, . 1890. Average date on whieo. first "killing" frost occurred in autumn, November 8th. Average date on which last '"killing" frost occurred in spring, M\rch 23d. The latest date . on which last "killing" frost occurred in spring, April 10, 1899. Precipitation (rain or melted sno^) -Average for the month 3.80, Inches. Average number of dajs with .01 of an inch or more, 10 The greatest i monthly precipitation was 7.03 inches in 1892. Tho least monthlv precipi tation was 1.07 inches in 1190. The greatest amount of pre cipitation re corded in any consecutive twenty-four hours was 2 93 Inches on January 18, 1892. The greatest amount of snowfall re corded in any twenty-four consecutive hours (record extending to winter in 1884 85 only, was 6 Inches on January lb, 185)3. Clouds and Weather-Averago num ber of clear days, ll; partly cloudy days, 8; cloudy days, 12. Wiud-The prevailing winds have been from the northwest. The aver age hourly velocity of tho wind ls 0 miles. Tho highest velocity of the wind was 38 miles from the south west on January 7. 1903. Boy Confesses Terrible Crime. A special from Newport, Ark., says: Before the coroner's Jury investiga ting the murder of Mrs. Amelia Maul din, Newton Allwhite, a 10 year-old boy, bas confessed to being a party to thc outrage and murder of the wo man and her mother, whoso body, be says, was thown into White river near thc scene of tho Christmas crime on the Jaoksonport road. The boy im plicates his father, Louis Allwhite, aged 43 years, who he says first shot the girl and then the mother. He de clares he ras told by his parent to tire thc stoond shot wbioh killed the young womin and together they car ried Mrs. Kinkannon's bodv to the river and wore returning to tho scene of the crime to make similar disposal of the other body when &. ma people were seen coming down the road. The older Allwhite maintains his Innocence and together with relatives testified to a story Implicating Arthur Bunch and Walter Burgess, white farmers, but these men were able to prove ali bis Tried to Knoape. While a train carrying 130 convicts in the employ of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Ballway sompany was going from Mine No. 3 to the prison, Will Filler a negro convict, exploded a stick of dynamite in one of the coaches with a view of effecting a wholesale release. J. Dawkins, a con vict from Henry county, was killed, Guard Pickett lost a leg and an arm. Geo. Delaney, one of tho trainmen was burt, and several convlots were slightly injured. During tho Htam* pede guards from the other oars rush ed forward aod prevented the etcApe of any of tho convlots. The explo sion blew ont the end of the coach! TEACHES ? HEN TO LAY. Pearly Five Times ns Many Fgg? aa Bhs Canally Lays. The average ben la the United States lays only sixty eggs a year, or a little over twice her weight, but now comes the scientific hen who vt i tb out dosing or stimulating, lays seven and one third times her weight j tn eggs, or 251 eggs each year, and this ls by no means the limit. Tue I NSW TOrk A mnrlo.iu nayg: BYT th? ? past six years Professor George M Gowell, agricultura' expert and poul-1 try specialist at the experiment sta tlon of the Uni varsity of Maine, at I Orono, has been conducting expert-' mente with the view of producing a breed of hens that can and will lay more eggs than the ordinary hen, whose laslocas or lack of capacity 1B responsible for the high price Of eggs j in the American markets today. Pro Ifessor Gowell has made wonderful' I pr gress in bia experiments, having I thus far developed more tban forty I hens that exceeded 160 tggs in a- year j and one whose record is 251. People who understand omelettes better than they do hen history and who hare a better app?tite for eggs than they have for statistics do not realize the imp?rtanos of thia effort for poultry Improvement. Some idea of the benefits to fiow from even tial success of Professor Gowell's work may be gained Xrom a few figures. In 1900, according to the United States census, there were on the farm of the Unlted States: including Alaska and Hawaii, 233,508,085 1 chickens and hens over three months old, and the egg production In the prev ous year was 1,293,819,188 dozens, va'ued, on the average at 11.2 cent? per dozen, a total pf 8144 289,158. Bach chicken laid, on an average, 5 ?5 di.zens of eggs in the year 1899, or about one :ANtin Blx days. Now. this shows . , " f Kthicks were either very lazy ^ise^na^they iacked capacity for egg laving. Profess )r Cowell says it I was all lack of capacity, and to reme- ! dy that condition he has set about his experiments for the production of a better, a breed of more prolific lay ers. Even if the experiments now In progess at Orono shall accompltoh no more Chan to produce a breed of chickens that shall surpass the pres ent breed in egg laying by one dozen per cbioken a year, then for the whole United States, with Its nearly 234, 000,000 cbiokens; the Increase In val ye o' the poa nroduot wou?d 06 SbO'.'t .25,000,000 Vyoar. Professor Gowell's experiments are conduct od for the purpos*, simply, of ascertaining which individual hens are the best egg producers, and to use j them for the breeding of more of their | kind. As a means of securing thc needed information, flftv-two "trap nests" of Professor Gowell's own devlslon and construction were placed in the thir teen pens of tbe breeding house. The trap nest ls simple, inexpensive, cer tain in its action and requires little | attention. It 1B a box like struoture, without front or cover, 28 inches lung 13 Inches wide and 16 lnohes deep, in side measure. A division board with | a circular opening 71 inches in diam eter is placed across the box, 12 in ches from the rear and 15 inohes from the front end. The rear section thus I formed ls the nu ,t proper. Instead 1 of a close made door at the entrance, alight frame of lxlj inch stuff is covered with wire netting of 1 inch mesh. The door is 10x10 inohes, and docs not till the entire space, a mar gin of 2 inches being left at the bot tom, and 1 inch at the top and sides, to secure free action. Tbe door ls binged at the top and opens up into the box. When the nest is ready for the entrance of the hen the wire d'jor ls held up, or open, by means of a wire rod so bent that one section of lt rests directly across the olrcular opening ot the nest section. When the hen en ters the nest seotlon, ber back strikes ! and lifts this rod, thus releasing and dropping the door, making her pris oner until she has laid her egg and an attendant comes to set her free, the I do >r when it drops, being caught by a spring and thus held firmly in place. Each hen In tbe experimental class carries upon either leg a broad metal lic bend bearing her number. When the hen is released from tbe trap the attendant tak-s ber number, and then upon a board fastened on the wall over tbefnest, whereon tbe records are j systematically kept, she is credited with the egg laid. At tho end of the year the results are figured up, and the good performers are known by their records and separated from the | rest. All that have laid less than 160 eggs In the year are disposed of. Tbe others are congregated In differ ent pens, according to their produc tive capacity, and the experiments) continued, both as to the laying capa city of the selected performers and as I to the productiveness of their eggs, all duly labelled with tho number of the j hen laying them, In the incubation of obickens. Tho experiments began In Novem ber, 1898, fifty-two trap nets being used. When the dati from the firBt I year's testing were secured the birds | that yielded 200 or more eggs of good shape, size and c dor were selected for "foundation stocks," upon which, with additions made to them in suc ceeding yetrs of birds of similar qual ity, the breeding operations were based. It ls kuown that the laws of Inheritance and transmission are as true with birds as with cattle, sheep and horses, and when the wonderful changes that have been made In the form, feather and egg production of hons since their domestication com menced is considered, there seems to I bo ample ground for assuming that a | higher average of egg production than the present can ba secured, by breed ing only from birds that are them selves great producers. The experiments began with about 1,000 hens. Barred Plymouth Rocks and White Wyandottes. During the first four years In whioh Professor Gowell selected breeding stock by use of the trap nests he found thirty-five hens that yielded from 200 to 251 eggs In a year. Several yielded only 36 to 60 eggs at all. The Plymouth Rooks have far outstripped the Wy andottes in laying, all through the six years of tho experiments, and to day the champion hens, all Plymouth! Rocks, are: No. 617, who laid the first year 251 egera eggs; No. 1,003 laid 240 eggs; No. 1,001, 213 eggs per an num. They Cured Him. John Clark, a negro five years old, Is dead at the homes of his paront at Lyndon, Ky., cf acute alcoholism, In consequence of excessive doses of wine and a mixture of wino and whiskey administered to him by his step-father and mother in the t fiori, to keep him from ever having a desire for drink by making him siok of it. Recognized as the Oldest Established and Most Reliable Specialist. Attar 23 year? of activa procure, laboratory xperlnient and cclentl&c study, 1, Dr. J. New ton Hathaway, appear beforevyou as lia origina tor of a new sys ton? of oaring disease, compris ing notawortby diucoveries that have a bear in B on prorr form of chronio dlaease of both ?exea and which hara already dona much to revolutionize the old-style practice of medi cine aa followed by mont doctora. 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Her act oreat a commotion In the ?clghborhc where lt was declared the girl screaming for help when she was i to fling herself tn a tuda condilli head formost from the window, coroner took ohargo of the and Immediately gave it as h lal ion that tho girl was not a but had been detain-d aga! will and was attempting to Later he modified bis statement* what, pending further luvt The woman's clothing wo tered abo?;t the room from leaped_ Ex Gov. J. P. Ea home in Little Rook, day. He was a prot the Baptist church, years the presiden] Baptist con vent tor.