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SOIL ANDJ1ROP. Work of the United States Agricultural Department. IMPROVING COTTON Experiments in South Carolina. The Selection of the Best Seed Improves the Standard Varieties of Cotton and Ohter Crops. Tea Grown in thl-* State. The annual report c f the secretary of agriculture for the year 1U05 has just become available and contains muoh interesting information ralar.lvp to soil, crops, methods of planting, etc., in South Carolina. In the breeding and improvements of cotton the first experiments were made ia 1899. At this time little had been published concerning cotton breeding. The fr< quency of natural orqssing in the tieid has been given attention, no that different varieties might be grown without risk of mix irg and deteriorating. The correlation of c laraoters, the law governing the splitting of hybrids, the form of plant and other important matters have been carefully studied. The most important problem in tbeco ton industry is the securing of varieties as productive as ordinary staple sorts, but producing better and longer lint Tois can be done bv two distinctly different methods. The tirst method is to s?. cure hybrids of the long staple, sea island cotton with the stand ard short staples, with a view towards securing new sorts which combine, first, improved length of staple with large hols, opening well; ard, sic oud, the productive chartcter of the plapt of the short staple. The denoi't rv\n*if ho o e/-/?n ? / ^ h . M ^ Iiaiiiu&uii itact DCUU1CU 11) UI1U3, UUt" class of which is a distinctly upland type and produces large round 5 lock ed bolls, has iiae sllkly lint from 1 1 2 to 1 5 8 Inches in length and a mii joili black seed, so that It may be easily ginned on roller kins is lesbed, t ie liber of this will rival the lO^yptian and lower grades of sea islanu, Two other varieties secured bv the department are sirr liar, but have lint averaging only 1 '1-8 inches. A sicjnd method of securing im proved staple, which has given very striking remits, is the straight sel? c tlon of the standard short staple varieties. It was found by careful ex amination of such varieties as Rut sell and Jones improved, that there was conquerable variation in the length of lint produced by different plants. Careful? xperlments have teen made with both these varieties arid the average length of lint in the brt ed in# stock of these two varieties has increased from tne ordinary 1 to 1 18 inches until it Is now from 11 1 to 1 3-8 looms; meanwhile the plant have maintained their fuil prcduotivene s and all other good character. All varieties of cotton have been found to vi;ry greatly in their produc tivity in th case of different nj.iivid uals and different strain* (f the same vailety. One strain, Pride of (Jeor gia, which has forest veval years been selected for increased > ield by a caroful system of pedigree bieoaing, lias 8liown marked improvement. A con slderable q lautity of this seed wiil be distributed to planters in the spring of 19uG, and m 1907 a still higher grade of se.ect seed of the same variety will be available. In the boll weevil infested area therip is great demand for earlier va rletlesof big bolltypis. Tne extensive experiments inaugurated In 1904 In tbls line have not yet reached a t-tage where safe conclusions can be drawn, but preliminary experiments stated the year preceding have given one very early strain, selected from a na tive Texas big bull sort, with which It has been coJ pared. A limited trial distribution ol the seed of this v?^lety will be made in t.b? spring ol I9u0. A large quantity of E<yptaln o >Uo.i is Imported iuto this country annually aud used in the mills. It 1* not hi prot. able that in s??me sretions of the cor. ton growing area suitable soil* for this could be found. During the last two years the bureaivof plant Industry has had a skilled cdrps of men in the Held battling t against the boll weevil, and wherever triuble along this line has been reported, experiments have at oriC'' been commenced, The most importani work, however, in this countc ion, Das been the tie lei demonstration wo k which has bad for Its object the bring ing home to the people practical meth cds of tillage, cultivation and plant ing to enable them to grow cotton dj spite the preser.ee of the weevil. Rice has received special attention during the last six or seven >ears. The Japanese, or Klushu variety was brougnt into tbe country and dissim inated. Since this introduction the dtvelGt orient of the rice Industry in the Soutn haR been phenomenal. B r tween 1899 and 1904 tiie rice acreage of Louisiana and T< xas increased from 210,300 acres, yielding 179,919,293 p< uuos of rcugh rice, In 1800 to 010, 7UO jcpcs In 1004, yielding 800 420.800 pounds, an increase of upward of 100 J;er cent In acreage, but rar tbe greatSo increase beiDg In Texas. In 1880 Texas had 178 acres of rice, in 1800, 8,711 acres, wnile in 1904 the acreage had Increased to 370,000, or more than forty-three times the area under this crop six years ago. In the drug plant investigations a field study of small areas of many kinds of drug producing plant has been made in South Carolina and other states, and It has been shown that many of the most important kinds will do well where tried, snob as pop- < py, belladonna, degitalis, wormwood, peppermint, eto. American wormseed has been grown in Scuth Carolina as a field orop with a protit comparing very favorably with that of corn, out ton and tobaooo. Experiments have been made dur log the last year in tea raising, and during this time 9,000 pounds of tea were made at Summerville. I a making these experiments it has been i found that the most important varieties of the tea plant that from Ceylon excepted make a growth and give a yield comparing very favorably with the results produced in their own land. It has also been shown that negro children make expert tea pickers when pn perly trained. BRIDEGROOM RODE IN TRUNK g Kan Short ol Caul) While on WfHtorn ^ WoddiiiK Journey. I because lie ran short of money on ' bis weddi. g tour and bad only cash ' enough for one ticket, George Francis 1 sent his wife thn ugh from Djnver to s Ciioagoon a pa>ser gar train, and he ( Himself attrmplcd to make the trip 1 in a trunk as his wife's baggage. lie * ?as taken out < f the tririk at Omaha c Nab., about three uu irters dead, but ( r the wife got through her journey all right. They had secured a large trunk, j put in seme provisions and water, braced it thoroughly. cut holes In it t f >r air, and after Frar cis t<>( k his t ymuu tuo u '* wi<s stcureiy iockco ana i strapped. Then it, was taken to the 1 1- dog ai d cheeked through to Chi- i cago. t After bring smashed arrnnd, the t trunk was heaved Into a U ilon Paci- i tie baggage car and j -uruey began c Juou before reaching Omaha, Wed i uebday night, the baggageman heard i a groan fn in a pile of b< ggage. An investigation rem,ted in nts locating the source and wiiii a gun in his banu he demanded to know who was inside threatening to tire through the trunk unless he was at swered. In muffled tones came the answer and tne stury, with a request that the trunk be broken open and the man inside he liberted. This was done and F,ai els was assisted out. His trunk had been delayed one train, aud hi* water bottles had been broken soon after the trunk was fastened. He had been without water for nearly two days. He was taken to police headq larters and later released. ''It was tne most rtmiik&ble ride I e\er took, aud i dout want any more of it said Francis* Attnckeii Ity HiikI) i'ylhon Rudolph Fluegal, an animal keeper at tne Cincinnati Gardens, had a narrow eacape this afternoon from beii g crushtd to death in the folds of a huge python quartered in the snake cage. Fluegal had gone into the cage to sweep it out l uo neglected to take tlie usual precaut.oa of throwing a olatkot over the reptile, which is one * 1. A. A? tlfuil- - ui uue i wj5' au iu captivity wane ne wasabwoik the immense snake at- 1 tacked him frc m the rear, sinking its 1 faogs into his back. Tne keeper's ' he<,vy coat protected 1dm from ser- * h ui lacerations, but he was panic ' stricken as he feit the colls of the long python envelop his body and ( slowly begin to tiguten. K ;eper Ki- 1 *ard Coyne and tuiewas^ stunts ru?n- { ed In to the cage, and while the for- 1 mar beat the reptile over the head to ( mike it release its hold on Fluegal, * tne latter exerted their strength to 1 unwrap Its coils from.about tne keep ers body. They did not succeed un- 1 till it had been beaten into insensibli- 1 ty. Fiucgal was ulcuiscIous when rescued and it was an hour before the physicians resusci&ted him. He is prostrated by tne neivons shock due to fright. Whole Family Slain. Near Independance, Iowa, Mrs. William McWilliams and her live chil dren, ranging from three to eighteen v >ars in age, were slain at their farm and ihe husband and father has hficn cr ari/ed with kiliim/ the mnrnhftrN of his family. He declares himself to bii Innocent. Each person had been killed wiih a hammer blow on the head. Mrs. McWilliams w?h atrociously beaten, a few knife tin utt.s had been inflicted on the crushed bi dy. In the woman's rigid arm lay the orpse of the three-year-old baby, its hood, coat and miitens one, and a piece of buttered bread in one hand. The baby had been killed by one blow of a hammer on the head, The other children lay about the house, dressed in working clothes. AIwhjh Clean. Did you ever notice that tobacco is always clean. If a man drops a piece of meat, no matter how e'ean the floor may be, he will either give it a pick or pick it up and lay it to one fide. He will never eat it. But let him drop his plug of tobacco on the ground and no difference how dirty the spot was where it fell, ho will pick it up and give It a careless swipe on his coat sleeve or on the bosom of his pants and then take a chew with greater relish then ever. hlfcvoii MIbmIdk The steamer Ikuta, bound for Llaetung peninsula, collided with the steamer Fukara, near Mutsure, not far from Shimonosekl Tuesday night The Ikuta, which was struck amidships, sank immediately. Most of those on board were saved. Eleven are missing. t i 9 4 BADLY SCARED. Moving Pictures Shows General 1 repoff, The Tyrant, His OWN ASSASSINATION. The Ingeniously Cruel Trick bv Which The Savage Russian General Was Forced to Cease Butchering Innocent Women and Children and Resigns. A letter frc m St, Petersburg, Itusda, to the New V ;rk American, says !our very unusual moving pc ur.i lave jast sice ded In wielding a more powe ful ittluence ever General Tre* pc IT than tni u-ands of strikers, armed nob , plottii g annihlllsts, hired aslassius and ang*-y men, women and Uiildren shouting for vengeuce. The pictures, it ii said, have otused the 'earless Trepofl to quit his place as lictator of Russia, c ilef of police and. ioveruor-Gcneral of St, Petersburg, rhey lave succeeded in thoroughly lightening TrepctT?In scaring him, u tact, almost to ueatu. Iti la reported that lite entire set of living pictures which, it is declared, tave C)*ed tills hitherto dauntless nan into abdicating 1 n nearly bound ess powers cjuuI i.ot be preserved in ,act for ail time, it is reported that -hey iiave been destroy id by some of -he government's secret police, til* tot, However, before the pictures had lone the work for wl ioh thev were utenoed, and to tht m many attribute lis recent resignation. TltHl'OVP 8EP8 II1M8ELF. The pictures bad just shown Tre)olf himself being bu-wn to bus as a )ui.l3bment for his repression of Rus ian 1 inters. Tois high oHLial of the Czar's em >ire was atteuaiug a performance in me of i be State theatres and wws watching ctnematograpliic views ol if Prescient Loobet's recent visit to he King of Spain. He was surround ounded by members of the Kcnperor's iourt and several titled women as well is many of his own stulT cdicers. The lli>tinguished party was gossiping, whispering and jesting, paying hut icant attention to tne pictures a ho wo >n tne canvas, Suddenly the Spanish pictures /anianed and a vaulted darkened room kiood upon tne wince tcreen. Around t table were crowded ab ut a dtz;n nen in tne act of lakiug a solemn juth. Their hands were outstretched ind their heads were bent low. Lots were drawn. Two men, selected for lume mission, qu ckly left the room. Then It was toao TrepclT, who hah ip to that time o-;en more Interested n nis conversation with the fair Kus ilau women, iu:ned toward the can /as fur toe DQ)sterlt us change in views jhe pictures on a baud of supposedly Russian plotteis natturaliy excited his suriosity. lie was still unmoved, but le was .horuuguiy interested. Quick as ngntasng the iquare in A oroveruor General TrepclT a palace n St. Petersburg, witu nis own ?lattly mansiuu prominent In the foreground, replaced too den of the jonsphaoois on tne screen. The fruiiu juora of tne buiiding were suddenly thrown open and at the same moment i Hue carriage ai.d spired noraes draw ilk it drew up in front of the governor's residence. Tueu T'ropt If saw, to hlsamE/.iment moving picturts ?-.f himself attended oy members of the stall, whom he als) recogniz.d, emerge from tne palace. Tney were surrovndea by guards for the Russians nave long promised to kill TrepclT the moment tney get the sllgntest opportunity. That tney will do so he well knows Down the broed granite steps the party moved, and in the nixt instaut the Czar's military lieutenant saw himself spring into his owu^carriage, fouowed by a st< IT c ill aer. Then the carriage drove rapidly away. Ncv->ki Prospect appear, d ni xt with its Hue oullnlngs, broad carriage drives and stately towers in the uackground. This was where the Russian cavalry, the dreded Cossacks, riCihtiy mowed djwn oy hundreds tne rioters as well as many innocent people who were merely onlookers. Along the splendid street cashed a carriage which TrepclT as well as every other person in the theatre recognized instantly as his own. A * 1 * ?- ' *1? ?X 11J All I C?U 1UI W(vru lUWfim Mir veLlole, raising bis right arm, in the hand of which he was ,holding something which was smoking. Pausing ior better aim, he flung ihc burning of jeot right under the carriage and darted back Into the little crowd wmch had gather* d. Tnere was a flash upward of blinding smoke, which partially obscured trie carriage, it teermd as enough the wnteis had bieu nlouted cut and the vehlcie left Hanging in mid air. In an instant the vapors were dissipated and in the window of the carriage was seen distinoiy for a moment tne face of Trepi IT contorted into a whirlwind of passion and pain. IIis arms were flung upward and outward as though in tne extremity of terror and torture. Ihe wheels of the carriage were seen flying through the air and the great carriage horses were scattered In fragments far and near In the road way. High above the wreck of the vehlc'e and flying among the teces of Che dismembered horses were arms, legs and bodies of two men?the occupants of the carriage, TrepclT and his staff assistant. Trepoffsank far back in bis seat, and before his attendants could gather around him to shield him from ] the stare of dfteen hundred pairs cf ( eyes he was seen to cover his face with his hands and collapse. Two of the women In the ottlcial b x with ' Trcpt IT fainted. * Secret service otlljlals and the po- j lice rushed toward the cinematograph Some person had inserted the assassl- ( nation views among those which had been prepared for the night's entermerit. Tne machine was stopped on the Instant and Che whole paraphernalia, It Is reported, was taken. TrepclT had been tricked! He knew It in an instant after he had collapsed, but too late. The nervous shock nad been administered, tbe object lesson blasted home with the picture of a bomb. The governor general was more carried than led from the theatre b.?x <.0 hlB carriage. Try as his suite did to keep the g.oatlng pub lc gi zi from their master in 1 Is terror and agony, they could not, and the authors of the plot, to show TrepclT a moving picture of himself being assassinated, as they had so often threatened him, must have seen that they had been suocos&ful. TrepclT has resigned, lie Is an unnerved man ft r the Lime at least. He will leave St. Petersburg to as tune the ollice of Governor of the imperial Paiace at Peterhof. The offloe of Minister of Polios for the empire is to be abollstied. Tne Grand Duke Nicholas will likely be appoint ed co the military command of Sc. Petersburg. In preparing the assassination scones duplic&tt s weio made of four of the pictures in the tanies. In ti.eir search fur the machinery and p.c ures mo government v nisiaG k ?cw nothing uf tnera, for they 11 vcl bo ;n made ana kept by tno Niuillsts who bad concocted and exeouteu the plot. It Is in tins manner that these pictures ?scaped. it was due to the woi d^rful cunning and skill uf certain students tnat tne assassination uf Trepi IV was produced in p.cture form befurc nis eyes At secret meetings it was doomed tnat, while TrepotT was a reasonable object or hatred, ne was not really so bad and dos von* of assassination as bad been the Grand Duke Ssig.us. 11c was merely tno too willing tool of i/iie autocracy, lie might be terribly punished ana some good might follow. To make the pictures 01 the as a-?sanatiou was the 11.st thing ai d tbcu to insert tbem in the roll of ti<ms for tne performance at the th- aire wnen Trepolf slioind be pre cut was the other requisite. Tile who.e matter was left to a selected band. In oiiceud of a wide room a scene painted to represent Trepotl's mansion j and toe diiVdway belore it was hung. iStvskl Prospicj was represented and hung in the same manner. The carriage c iitaluh g tne supposed irepolf was uilveu before it, fc'ig arts gathered, one man rusi.ed out holding an tmpty bumo with ourn ing fuse attached. lie threw lu. rnen another scene was made by ex plodiug some tinning pjwder in lurmless q lanlty. Tne next view *as maoe oy suspending the carnage ius wheili being taken ctt. in tne sir by means of ropes so pruned thui uiey would not bj seen In too p.c tUi'Ci Tne carriage was t;ken to pieces and the sections hung in the air before the same backgnun 1 as though iLhey were being blown up. Dlsmeui bond sections of dummy horses w? re scattered around ana portions of dummy men were hu. g o mspicouhly in tne foreground. * >o bomb tnrower runs from tne iceao t..e moment lie nurls tne ixplosive, lie u unen shown as b^ing siezed and arretted. in spite of all of the i IT mis of the secret service of Russia and of all of the Czpr's police the students who devised ana executed the plot to p c ture to Trepoir the iuvetiiabie late wnlch awaited him if lie continued his career, have escaped. No arrests have followed under uirect coarse of this crime for crime it is in Russia. That the plotters must have had accomplices among the men in e.iarg of the slate theaties clnc-matogiaph is probable, but if they any tbe Government with its cunning of generations and its great secret seivice machlnerj nas foroL.ce bjen completely btllUd. Dlbiuaaedi The secretary of the navy has ordered the dismissal of Midshipman Joseph Ralph Williams, of Patterson, KT f ? -w. . l~ ? S at.-. #t w. -.1 - . - ~ ii, u., n m* mut*r ui inu 11rnu ciu^s, jror unsatlsfacionness in studies and conduct. It 1h seldom that a midshipman of the first class is dismissed for anything but specitic misconduct. Williams test!tied before the court martial which is trying Midshipman Minor Meriwether, Jr., and told of ao incident where Commander Hugo Osterhaus reported a midshipman for not resentlr'K an insult, another midshlpman haviug called him a "cheerful liar,'' which was afterwards explained to have been a joke. F'*t*liy Shot. While c ut hunting In the country near Andeison on Thursday Mr. I>. McAdaoas, a well known plumber of Anderson, was r.ccidmtally shot and physicians say that lie cannot live. A covey of birds was Hushed and his companion, a Mr. Mitchell, tired at the birds but the charge entered Mr. McAdam'a head, fatally wounding him. BANK OF O O N \A/ A CAPITAL STOCK, $20,000.00 TOTAL ASSETS OF KICI II. 0. COLLINS, Prepidknt. J. P. QUATTLKBAUM, V-Pkes. 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The Japanese admiralty has entered upon an elab >rate scheme of naval fx panslon which tsexpicted to he approved at the coming session of the diet, according to advice received frcm Tokio. Ships with heavier aiiromeniM and hlgher steed will be. built. Tne J-ji Shlmpo savs that the battleships of the future navy of Japan will display 22,000 tons armament \ of fourteen 12 incn guns and a "need of twenty knots, while 1 h uuure cruisers will display 15 000 ty <% and have a speed of twen y flv ots. An Immense gwn factorv, h.a\ twenty large bulldli gs, c< v??n * eighty-three acres, Is being e abushtd on the Sumlda river, n? ar Tv.kio, by the Japanese mil r iy authorities, whtre t.OOu men v li oe employed icakir g heavy ord Ship aiul Crew Lost, It 1 believed that the steel steam er Ira II. Owen has been wrecked and that Its crew of 19 men are drown*d. The ship wi's last seen on Tuosday 10 miles from Outer Island in Like Su porlor. The Chicago owners have given up all hope of the vesstl. The Owen's captain was Jos. Mulligan of Buffalo. CONWAY' ,V, S. C. SUURPLUS FUND, $20,000. >, $180,000.00. EUS: D. A. SPIV FY, Cashier. M. \V. COLLINS, Asst. Cashier. >11, Iiur always striven for tho upbettorment of hor citizens. In jx>rextending to our customers every round banking. atronngo received in the* past, wo ly yours :yCas . Buck, W ill A. Freeman, resident. Cashier. HORRY, f. S, C. $25,0(X) rOBS: W. U Lewis, \V. A. .Inlmson, \\ ill A. Freeman est on yearly deposits. Will furnto open small accounts with us. md dimes, and you will find that will pay you on your savings will ^ dh r oo JR MEN * 5 something! If you want 1 for <kTlio IT?11 >. For sale By icliols. Professional Cards. McCord & McCord, SUIiOKON DENTISTS, Conway, S. C. flfciyOvor Bank of Horry. M- W- Burroughs, Physician and^Surgeon, Oonweiy, S- O R BTs^BROUGiT CONWAY, S. C., ATTORN ICY AT LA VV H. H. WOODWARD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, CONWAY. S. C. G. -Fred. Stalvev Attorney and Counsellor at Law, CONWAY. S. 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