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s ~ FUSED HANGfcD. A1KUN NEOllO PAY8 THE DEATH PENALTY FOR Assault on a White Northern Woman Who iad Befriended Him. The crime for which Isaao Knight paid the death penalty was the most hlenous of all the dlabolloal crime i bo frequently committed by the criminal class of his race. In the very act of receiving a courtesy, one the thought of which would thrill with horror the average Southern woman, who has long slnoe learned the b*ute instinou common to the negro, the fiend conceived and oarrled out the hellish impulse of his beastly passion. For three years and seven months Kulght had received the kindest treatment at the hands of his victim, Mrs. Ohapin, & Northern womar fiVed in her belief that the negro v Tone of the down trodden and oppressed race, possess in. ">J1 nf fr.h A human 1nt-.iiifr.fnria ami au, ^ a w* umwmm iuvuivivuo auu sooilki faoulties of the superior raos, had made KnigA a one of her family. He occupies a room in her realdenee, enjoyed his meals at the family board an was extended every oomfort of the home of whioh he was in a measure a beneficiary inmate. Mrs. Ohapin removed from the North several years aRO and had made her home up to the time of the asault in a section of the county seven miles south of Aiken. When her alleged friendly attitude toward Knight became known the good people of the neighborhood were at once solicitous as to her safety ag?d gave her warning. However, her faith in the negro was unshaken and the warnings of her white neighbors were attributed by her to unwarranted prejudice against a persecuted race. For nearly four years Knight, under these conditions, remained in the employ of Mrs. Ohapin. A few hours before his execution with what little feeling there seems to be in the brute, Knight spoke to The State's correspondent of the kindness of the philanthropic woman toward him and of "the fine.way" she treated him. On Sunday night, July 8, tbiByear, after a day well worn Into the night with carcusinr In a neighboring negro settlement, KDlght returned home, some hours after Mrs Cnapin had retired for the night. Upon being acquainted with the fact that he had re? turned she hurriedly dressed, unlocked the door and admitted him to the house Later she had gone to the dining room, according to the evidence adduced in the reoent trial of the case, to give Knight supper, when he fell upon the victim in the very act of carrying cut her philanthropic ideas, and c< mmitted a crime, the hlenousncs9 of which id unprecedented in the history of the county. II's victim is an agr d widow, probably 65 years old. The burly biute was approaching hiB 32nd year. On the night of the crime Knight made his escape and all traoes of him were lost for several days His capture was accidentally accomplished in Bar tow, a imm town id jenerson ccunty, Gaorgla. on Wednesday subsequent to the cfmo. The Degro appeared suspicious and his actions oaused the town marsball at Bartow to arrest him. When ordered to submit to arrest, be drew a pistol quickly, and but for the alertness of the marshal, in knocking him down, would most probably have added another to his list of crimes. After arrest he could not or would not give an account of himself, and was therefore held by the authorities there. Further investigation developed the fact that the man incarcerated at Bar tow answered to the description of K dght and was later identified as the man who had committed the assault upon Mrs. Obapin. The negro then admitted having attempted an assault on Mrs. Ohapln, but denied that he succeaded. He stated that on the night of the orime he ha^f gone to Vfrs. Oh&ptn's about 1 o'clook and went to the room where she was, and waB talking about the crops, etc., when he suddenly grasped her and attempted to throw her down, but she called lor "John" (his brother in-law) and that he then turned her loose and went to his sister's house nearby. Mrs. Ghapln called his sister. Knight said, and told her she wanted to talk to him before he left1 that she told him she "would have V> haVe him arrested or lyhoh* ed." He says he told her to kill* him or do anything else t6 him, as he would probably be lynohed or banged anyway. -He then got his olothes and went baek *e hle-aleter's and neat mottling went out to Montmorenci Stayed there until the 11:30 tral came, and got on the train and went tcfAugusta, where he stayed a while, and then went to Barto#,- whert he was taken Into custody. Kolght #as brought back to Aiken and placed In jail. Later It was decld ed by the coo heads, only as a precautionary step, to take Knlgbt to Columbia and have him plaoed in the penitentiary for stfe keeping. This was done and Knight remained In Columbia* where he etayed till some time before the fall term of court, at which time he #as convicted. He wat given 1 a fair an&kn partial trial before 12 as eool, fairannde%and honorable jurors as the oountry afforded, who pronounoed him guilt? of orlminal assault. In sentencing the culprit Judge Gary said: "Isaac Knight, the jury haa given you more deliberation than I should give you. They deliberated on your ease one hour, whloh showed they are not ruled by passion. I am not going to say anything to you exoept pronounoe the judgment of the law. I do not understand for the Ufa of me what passions move the black men. Here 1ft thli lady who oame into your midst from tha North; extending to yon a courtesy and kindness and considera tion and a oharaoter of treatment whloh the Southern people had not been accustomed to accord to you; treated you, I might say, like a gentleman, and you reward that treatment with the most brutal oonduot? whloh goes to show that you are not fit to assoolate with deoent people." Tillman Ah a Looturor. Senator Tillman seems to have dls tinotly made good on the lecture platform, as all his available time has been engaged at a handsome prioe for more than a year anead. He Is want ed all over the country and It must bo because be knows things and says things that the people feel they ought to hear. There Is no particular demand for the services as lectures of men who have nothing to say. N If Senator Tillman's conduct on the lecture platform is as olalmed by some people in South Carolina, humiliating or mortifying to his state, they have a rather blue outlook ahead, as j t.Vl O XI txj ill A % vuu/ tt?ii unvg iu pub up W1U1 A KOOd deal of this sort of activity on his part. But as a matter of fact, Senator Tillman has done and is doing the state of South Carolina muoh more good than harm and his popularity on the lecture platform is only an extension of his usefulness. The Atlanta Journal says of him: After all patriotism pays in the republic. Senator Tillman has not al ways been a popular figure upon the lyceum, and the lecture platforms have not in the past years fallen over themselvts in anxiety to secure him, But Senator Tillman bore himself like a brave man and a statesman in the list session of the American senate. He bore the brunt of the people's tight for the regulation of the railroads, and he met all comers in that arena forcefully and fearlessly. Tillman grew to grand proportions out of that session of the henate, and today in answer to an invitation of tho South Carolina Society of Atlanta his secretary informs the president of that society that every day of the sen tor's time from now until the re-assi mbllng of congross on Deocmber 1, and that every day from the adjournment of the next senate on Maroh 4 to Do 1 nrvl ? 1 J a uuci \ji i?ui, in *noauy uuuer uju tract with the various leoture bureaus of the country. It gives us personal and professional pleasure to make this announcement to the multitude of friends of the senator from South Carolina. Feeding Cotton Meal. As a rule it is not advisable to feed more than three pounds of cottonseed meal to a dairy cow, says Prof. A. M Soule In the Southern Farm Magazine. Where sucoulent foods are used as muoh as five pounds may be fed. For beef oattle to be fed exclusively on cottonseed meal and fattened, say on some form of hay derived from legumes, together with shredded,stover or oorn silage, as much as 10 pounds may be fed during the last 00 days of the period. Not more than two or three pounds should be fed In the be ginning, and the inorease should be made gradually. Better results will generally follow where the meal is fed with silage or some other succulent, cooling food, and it is still more de sirable to feed equal parts of oorn, o:)b meal and cottonseed meal. Must not be fed calves under six months old. As a milk prGduoei It Is unexcelled, and a small quantity may be fed to ewes after parturition with advantage. Not more than a handful a day should be added to the ration of corn, oats and bran, and this amount will not be ulflcient to injure young animals. Ft r growing yearlings and other rrAfinrr ofA nlr IK In nnnnnollnrl if tdxri in jruuug O'A;ui IU 10 uuc^unuou u igu in moderate amount, For ouo and onehalf to two pounds a day may be fed to horses and mules with success and satisfaction. Some animals dislike It and will not take to it readily, but some become very fond of It. If silage Is fed to horses and mules In the winter time the meal should be sprinkled over the feed. A moderate amount of silage will not injure horses, an many suppose; unsatisfactory results usually follow from feed* ing too large an amount. Throw Them Away. special dispatoh from Atlanta to the Augusta Chronicle says State Chemist M. MoOandless Saturday completed his examination of the stomaoh of Mrs. R. E. Hooks, of nhalsaa. Ohattooao oountv. Ga.. who died a few weeks ago following the drinking of the* contents of a bottle marked "Kodol Nerve Tonic," which had 6e$n tehfc her through the aaails from Chattanooga. Dr. MoCandleae fouhd traces of stfyohnlne id the bottle from wblohshe drank, and there was no doubt about the aypearanoe of this poison in her stomach. As a result of this investigation the governor has offered a reward of $200 for the apprehension Of the party who sent the bottle to Mrs. Hooks through the mafli. It is strange that a person would drink the oontents of a bottle sent them In that way. We think it a go6d rule for people to throw kway all samples of medicine sent them. Although the orgen of the Protective Tariff League denounced Congressman Sereno Payne A an old imbecile, or even worse, he has been renominated. The question in the mind of the ohalrman of Payne's campaign eoramittee now Is, will the League prevent the usual flow of campaign contributions from the proteoted trusts, or will he have to run the campaign on reform promises? iM IP Trial by Jury in Criminal Cases Recommended* TO HIRE ATTORNEYS CommlMfos " || 1 Separation of OHnfaul Mi Ohrfl Ou<?BMj mi Law Heretofore Frowned Ufou and liBUj? Were Not Alp lowed to Argue Qmm. Trial by Jvry did not hare Its orlgIn In Km gland; the principle Is many many years older than the Magna Charta, says ths New York Sun. According to a translation from the Pol Yang Kuan Pae which the Minister at Pekla sent to the State Department, containing n memorial of the commissioners charged with a levislon of the Chinese code, It originated way back In the good old days of the Chou dynasty, centuries before the historic little Incident at Hunnymede, but It has not yot been put Into practical operation In the Celestial Empire. The Chinese didn't want to be in u hurry about the mattor. It was the well beloved Chou who said, and It Is so recorded In his "ltitos": "The officers having Jurisdiction In criminal cases had three ways of determining a sentence of death, threo reasons for the exercise of clemency and three for the bestowal or pardon, by the use of which the Minister of Crime was assisted In hearing criminal cases. The first method of arriving at a sentence of death was taking the opinion of the whole body of Ministers; the second taking the opinion ef the Inferior officials; the third, taking that of the people.M This, the Chinese commission holds, was the inception of the Idea of trial by Jury, and It ?o states In Its memorial to the Emperor in prayIns for nn imperial decree to establish trial by Jury in the empire. The commissioners not only reoommended trial by Jury for criminal offences but also suggests a separation of criminal and civil cases and different modes of procedure. They point out that Japan formerly followed the Chinese practice, but that Kinco the revolution she has followed in the footsteps of the West, and in tho twenty-third year of Ming-Chih she published in succession rulcB of procedure for civil and criminal cases, with the result that all citizens of all nations settled there have become subject to her Jurisdiction. Tho cause for this the commissioners assign to the fact that no one any longer fails in the settlement of suits at law to obtain his rights. Continuing, the memorial, which is regarded as one of the most lmnortant steps toward reform which f?hina has taken in recent years, says: "In China mixed China and foreign cases are daily Increasing in number and complexity. Foreigners consider our manner of Judgment wun.Tum iroin uieirs, ana there constantly arises a difference of views. Chinese merchants, too, are not familiar with foreign regulations and constantly suspect bias, and as such suspicions accumulate harmony becomes impossible. Every lawsuit growing out of some trifling dispute becomes a question for international investigation. There have been innumerable cases of this sort in recent years." Tho commissioners then go on to tell of their examination of the laws of other countries and express the belief that, with the separation of civil and criminal cases In the method of procedure and tho establishment of trial by Jury, foreign countries will no longer demand the enforcement of the doctrine of extraterritoriality, an end which the corasloners express the hope that China may attain in order that she may recover her Jurisdiction in ail cases. The memorial makes another novel recommendation, which is to the effect that lawyers should be emplo>ed. This recommendation la distinctly a new departure la China and places the Dractlee of law t? th? plra for tha first tlma upo* a roapaotabla footing. Tha study of tha law has barutofora baaa frawnad upon, and axcapt racantly In porta whora foralgnars raslda lawjara ham not bean parmittad ta appaar befora courts to drgua n anna. In axplalnlng why tha asaplaymant of lawyars in adrlsahto tha ma mortal eays that "whan par Has to a lawsuit am brought in foar and trombllng into tha praaanaa of tha court if they say mu?k they talk la a confused way. Hence they employ lawyars to talk for them." Tha memorial also rscorn meads tha am ploy meat of attorney s who shall ba counsal for tha Government and that a definite number' of students of good charaater and serious minded ba trained la tha principal law schools for this purpose. Tha various reoommendatlons tor tha reforms suggested In tha memorial have bean Incorporated into a oluma of five chapters, and containing 260 regulations, which the commissioners urge tha Bmepror to promulgate as tha law of China by ofielal ad lot. * i' ? e Marriage In England. Under tha English law of tha j eighteenth century women were absolved from all debts on marriage. Fashionable women who had lost heavily at cards sometimes wedded a criminal on his tray to the g&lloWd to escape thetiLfittdUors. I a Khosld BUnd Toffetber. If those whom yout owe want their money, and many of them are almost oompelled to bate It, don't sell your cotton If the price Is not right, but put It In the warehouse and borrow money on It and pay your debts, including your subscription to the paper you take. We hove no hesitation Id saying that the present prloe of cot ton is too low. The Wall street sharks who never saw a field of oott^n arc fixing the price, and are not permitting the farmer to haye a voice in the fixing. Don't let any one deceive you on this question. Join your brother farmers who are trying to resist op presslon. Don't stand idle. Qet busy. The Lord helps them who help themselves. "He who dallies is dastard; he who doubts is damned!" Will you stand like a lot of slaves and be robbed! From the Atlantic to Oklahoma the cotton farmers are rising up in their might and banding themselves together against thler common foe. Lay aside all differences of politios, religion, and personalities uq pa. your si^ulder to the wheel. You owe it to your wife and children 'o do so. It will not take thirty dayp to win the fight. Let every farmer r solve not to sell a pound of cotton f r less thon ten cents or more Y u are masters of the situs'.ion Sti W together and win or divide and oo ruined. Wa^hoose your cottor and pay your debts but don't sell your cotton for less than ten oents per pound. Threo TraKodlce. There were three tragedies in Aug uata, via., od xuursn&v nignc wituin four hours time. At 8 o'clock W. J. Sowell, a sowing machine agent, of Langley, S. O., was run down by a trolley car on the Aiken line, just beyond North Augusta, S. C., and about tive miles from town. He was brought to the city hospital, where ha died at 12 o'clock. lie was walking beside the track, In an alleged Intoxicated condition, wheu he was oonfused and blinded by the brilliant headl.ght. He stepped on the traok d'reotly in front of the car. George Williams, a painter, killed himself with a overdose of morphine at his home on Montesano street about 10 o'clook. No reasou has been assigned for the suicide and as the family refuse to talk, the facts cannot be made public until Friday afternoon at the coroner's request. He leaves a wife and three children. Mamie Duvall, aged 41, took au overdose of morphine, with Buioidal intent at mid night. She was car ried to the city hospital at 3 o'clock, and died three Friday morning at ?> o'clock. J. Heavy Receipts. The ootton market tried very hard last week to climb to and above twelve cents, but the farmers kept piling the cotton on the market until the marlrnf tvn PA uiou flin r\vInn auu ft < v U Tin/ ?IIU vuu yuuo UVUilUQU considerable. Every time the market starts up tho cotton is rushed on the market, whloh Is found to hoid the price of ootton down. The cotton growers Care now the worst ootton bears in our country?they are the men that keep prices from rising by dumping on the cotton every time the market starts on a rise. We are not blowing the farmer, because many of them are compelled to sell their ootton, but we are only giving a reason for the depression in the price of cotton. All who can should market their ootton slowly, and in that way keep up prices. Tiiu*dollar subscription , asked for by the Republicans having praotloally proved a failure and most of the government clerks at Washsngton having ignored the request for a donation of 5 per cent of their annual salaries, the Republican committee is scouring Wall Street for subscriptions from theitrusts and corporation magnates with far better suooess. . Tuky appear to have troubles over tho servant question even in France, for a dispatch reports the President of Franoe has fired his cook. It is to be hoped that no such trouble will ooour at the White House, for with a man of the oholerlo disposition of the President of the United States, the result might be disastrous. The report that'jin some parts of Pennsvlvania they are gathering a second orop of plums, must be due to the constant visits of^boss Penrose to Oyster Bay and the I White House, where the process described by the late boss Quay as;"shaklng the plum tree" is being imitated by his successor. ________ Tiieue Is a great dlfferenoe between the party oampalgh hoiks. The Democratic book proves what it olalms by giving the evidenoe supported by facts and figures, whereas the Republican book olalms everything In sight and proves nothing. Reports from the White Honsindicate that Secretary Cortelyou will suooeed Secretary Shaw as Sees rotary or the Treasury. This shows that the oonstant visits of Oortelyou to Wall Street for theoampalgu funds have shown the Trust Magnates that Mr. Oorteiyou may be relied upon to carry out a "safe and sans? policy, li Mu.|Hughes, the. Republican can dldate for governor of New York will have to watoh the chairman and treasurer of his campaign oommittee, or they will surely allow some corporation^ to deposit.?a check to their oredit, that would compromise Mr. Hfcigbes. **???rnmmm?! 11?- ?fc The prloe of sllve^ is higher now than slnoe the repealing the Sherman purchasing aot; the reason being, a greater demand for the metal and the greater abundance of gold and thus a decrease In its purchasing fOMl PWFHCTTiT SAWIflPIKD. The Lecture Wm Appreciated and D located. "I don't wish to take up your time," the caller said, "unless you think It Is likely I might Interost you In the subject of life insurance." "Well," replied the man ut the desk, "I'll not deny that I havo beon thinking about It lately. Go ahead. I'll listen to you." Whereupon tho caller talked to him forty-live minutes without a stop. "And now," he said at last, "are you satisfied that our company la ono of the host, and that our plan of doing business Is thoroughly safe?" "Yes." "Have I convinced you that we furnish as good insurance as any other company, and at rates as cheap as you can got anywhoro?" "Yes; I am satisfied with what you say?perfectly satisfied." "Well, don't you want to take out a policy with us?" "Mo? Oh, no! I'm a life insurance agont myself. I thought I might bo ablo to got Bomo tips from you!" So Wduld Wo All. Connie Muck, tho noted baseball man, was talking In Philadelphia about the Importance of Hllenco. "No ball played," he Huld to tho group of young men around him, "accomplishes anything by being noisy. If a decision goes against a player, if the umpire Is unfair, lot him keep quiet. Let him rofrain from oaths, shouts, accusations. Noise, in the midst of u game, only damages the Ill-treated player's case. "To Impress on my men this doctrine of sllonco T often tell thora about a married couple. "The wife, In the middlo of tho night, was awakened by the loud snores of hor husband. She endured the horrible racket as long as sho could. Then, pinching tho man sharply, sho said: " 'Herbert, you'd make less noise If you kept your mouth shut.' ''Herbert, sleenv and snrlv. mu? tered: " 'So would you.' " Two Offers. Dr. Wood row Wilson, the preside nt. of Princeton, was sauntering down n shady lane one day in tho early summer when lie met a tall, handsome youth. This youth had just been graduated. Ho was very poor and very intelligent. In all his courses ho had taken honors, and in uthletlcs also great honors had been his. "Well, Smith," said Dr. WilBon, 'through at last, oh?" "Yes, sir," said tho young maji, smiling and blushing. ' And now what are you going to do?" "1 hardly know yet, sir. I have had two offers." "Two? Wonderful!" "Yes, sir. One Is from a scientific society, offering mo a secretaryship at $5 a week: and tho other Is from a baseball magnate, offorlng me a live years' contract to pitch at $5,000 a season." 7 Peculiar Malady. jpBS^ She?That throat trouble of yours Is most distressing. Does it attack you frequently? lie?Yos; every time you eat ice cream I have to cough. She Was a Prevaricator. Little Johnny's father found his young hopeful holding up one of his rabbits by the ears and saying to him: "How muck Is seven times sevep?" "Bah," the father heard the boy say. "I knew you touldn't. Here's an easy one, six times six Is how much?" "Why, Johnny, what lu the world are you doing with yeur rabbit?" asked the father. Johnny throw the rabbit down with disgust. "I knew our teacher was lying to no,** was afl ho said. "Why, how?" asked his lather. "Why, she told us this morning that rabbits was the greatest, multipliers In the world."?Toadies' Homo Journal. In the Family. "Young Dr. Walker always Impressed me as having nerves of Iron, Judging by the cool way ho perfoims the most serious operations," remarked his friend, "but yesterday when 1 met him In consultation he was the most excited man I havo seen for a long while." "It must have been a most unusual and extraordinary case." "No; one of the doctor's own children had a mild attack of measles." The Vain Quest. I sought for a woman of thirty?* In vain. It Is plain to me That all women nnder fifty re not over twenty-three! ?Cleveland Deadest PBICK8 OF COTTON MUST GO flIGHKft SAYS PRK8IDKNT B. D. SMITH. Bates His Opinion on the Beport Recently Issued by the Government. Mr. E. D. Smith of the South Carolina Cotton association has Issued a statement concerning the recent ginning report made by the department of agriculture. Mr. Smith Bays that the figures shows as predicted by the asscoiatlon that the crop Is a short ore and the farmers should obtain 12 1-2 oents per pound for the product If ihey will only hold their cotton. Mr. Smith In his statement says: "The bureau's report on ginning makes the total amount of cotton ginned up to the present 4 1)10,000 bales South Carolina Is 390,000 as against 639,000 last year. 1 think all will agree that at least 60 per cent, of South Carolina's orop was ginned up to the 18th of October. This being true, we will not make much over 700,000 bales of cotton. Last year's orop was al>out 1,125 000. This will leave South Carolina something like 400,000 bales short Georgia, Alabama and North Carolina all show about the same percentage short. Texas makes up In excess lacking 80,000 bales of bringing it up te last year's glunlng. "The next ginners report, 1 am confident, will show that our contention that the orop is short, Is true. Last week and the week before the mills and the oottcn buyers gave 11 cents readily for cotton. If they could alTord to buy it then at that uKuix', ib ib worm mat much now, for the reason that they bad placed their oontraots months ahead and could afford to give 11 cents and show a handsome protlt. "There is no reason why you, tht farmers of tho South, should sacrltlce what cotton you do sell them, because somebody predicted there was a much larger crop. Demand from them that they shall give for what you do sell them from now on, what they have Veen paying for It for the last two or three weeks at least. Cotton Is worth today on the markets, In view of the price aud the scarcity of gcods, 12 1 2 cento a pound. If the farmers will just absolutely refuse to sell It for lees, this price can be obtained for the balance of this crop. "Of course everything depends upon the unanimity with which they hold cotton. I am still ccnv need that on recount of the frost and storm maklDg anything like a top crop is impossible; that this orop will not appreciably exceed last year's and therefore octton Is bound u tlmately to go very muoh higher. The world will need 12,600 000 bales and cnecf the test posted men In the cotton world wired me that if the crop should turn cut 12,000,000 bales, It would rapidly bring 7d, 'r Krgland. 1 do not tblDk anyone looks for a orop asgieat as 12,000,010 La,es. Let the faimcrs c* the country settle this question and Bettle it now by absolutely refusing to part with their property, except at a value satisfactory to themselves. The break in the market of one cent a tound within three days entailing a loss of *5 a bale oompared with the labor of the farmer for 12 months to make that bale of cotton, Is enough 10 arouse blm to a sense of bis duty In the DramlRPH "Tn w to .... _ w nul? l? UJV/UVUB to pioduoe that wMch speculators and gamblerB can take 10 per oent. from It* value In 2'1U boors is enough to either make a man quit growing cottcn or show that he 1h a man. The wirld la waiting to see whether you are men." Mr. Smith 1b now at work on the plans for the organization of the mammoth holding ocmpany whloh Is to buy and hold all cotton cfferid at less than the sgieed price. Some time ago a full statement of tbe purpcses of this ctmpany was given In The State and aince then the association has reoelved many letters seeking Information about the oompany. Another state ment will be given the press In a few days. Cotton Deed Too Low. Professor J. M. Johnson, of the University of Georgia, says that $16 per ton is low water mark for this year's cotton seed erop. Prof Johnson figures tbatssoh dollar put on to tbe selling prioe of seed means an Inorease of $5,500,000 to the farmers ot the Booth. At present prices of ootton oil and meal the farmer should get at least $18 for their sesd, whloh amour ts to $5 per ton less to the farmer on each ton that he sells for $13, or a loti over twenty five million dollars on the whole orop of the South. This loss on seed In one seaton would pot op enoogh warehouses to take care of half the ootton orop of the whole South. The Parmers Union experiments lass rear proved that ground cotton seed paid nsarly $25 per ton under ootton and oorn. Farmers, don't $ell yonr seed for six or elgnt dollars per ton less than the sesd Is worth for fertiliser. v aimers must look more alter the business tide of tbeir farming for their own Intereat and quit taking the other man's figures on everything. Hobbed by Piratev. The correspondent In Hong Kong of the London Evening Telegram sajs the launoh Flenam has been seized by pirates on the West river. The passengers and orew of the launoh were robbed, and the pirates then raided several Chinese launohes and engaged In a runlcg fight with an armed launoh of the salt commlisto ns. They finally escaped in the darkness with booty of $10,000.