Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ESCAPED COWVlCfs] give battle to the guards AND CITIZENS WHO + . TRIED TO RETAKE THEM (.uuid^ Inside Penitentiary Fight Desperately AKalnst lluitdmlH of {Mutinous "Prisoner**?< 'itizens Join in Pursuit of Those Who (hiin Liberty.?Many Killed. At Rawlins, Wyo., guards and prisoners fought a desperate battle early Sunday night inside the State Penitentiary. Hundreds of mutinous prisoners attempted to escape and the guards fought desperately to restore order. Camped outside the walls was a force of citizens, heavily armed, ready to drive back the convicts if they murdered the remaining guards and made a rush through the gates. Shouts and occasional shots told of desperate lighting within the walls, and it was rumored that several guards and convicts were killed. Another battle was in progress t the " i- V.lll? 41. ?4> n. ... SUIUC UHIt! III tllU lllll? hlMIIII III IVttWliiis by a posse of citizens and from twenty to forty escaped convicts. "Two men were killed in the streets ot' Rawlins, one was desperately wounded and two convicts were recaptured, following the escape of from ten to thirty prisoners Sunday afternoon. The town was in a panic. Frantic telegrams were sent to Governor Carey imploring him to send State troops to protect the citizens. Town people baricaded themselves in their homes Sunday night, or heavily armed, patrolled the streets. The outhours. About three p. m. Saturday twenty prisoners escaped and nine were recaptured before eight o'clock. At two thirty o'clock Sunday afternoon a party of desperate life termers overpowered the keeper of the cell house, took his keys and released their comrades from their cells. Every prisoner willing to risk a battle with the guards nrade a rush for the gates. A moment later the citizens of the town hoard a fusillade of shots inside the walls. A bedlam of shouts and yells echoed from the prison. A few seconds later more than a dozen men dashed down the main street armed with guns and knives. Holding the few citizens on the street at bay with revolvers, they charged i n i /\ o I i if o r t- 11 n rn li/J / I i ti ir 11 i\ t I w> uitu (i i i * u j ,> I'm ii, 1117 j it 1 u ft ?i j/ uic proprietor and hastily throwing saddins e id bridles on (he horses. A 1 ugc negro with a revolver w is lefi as guard on the ou+3lde. (T.arStnfc^snes, a barber, had heard the cum motion, and came down the street with a shotgun. The negro shot him thiougb the head, killing him distantly. At the sound of the shot the convicts swarmed fro nithe barn, some with stolen horses and some afoot. A Mexican wantonly stabbe 1 the proprdietor in the face, severely wounding him, and a few seconds later paid for the deed with his life. ' Hugh Kogner, a deputy sheriff shot him twice, killing him almost instantly. Leaving their dying comrades, the convicts made a dash for the ricky hills south of the town. !> party of penitentiary guards followed in close pursuit, and before the bewildered citizens had l ad time to form a posse, pursuers and fugitives had disappeared among Hie hills. In a short time posses had heen formdd and one of the most desperate n.an-hunts in the history of the West whh on. i no convicts scattered into small groups, all striving to escape in tlio almost impassable stretch of rocky country between Rawlins and th? Colorado line. Until nightfall a running battle was kept up and late Saturday night occasional volleys of shots in (he direction told of the man-h unt. Just before nightfall six convicts were located in a canyon about a mile south of Rawlins. Twenty deputies, each armed with two revolvers uijfl a repeating rifle, were sent to Cloture or kill them. The deputies reached the spot and found the convicts barricaded, ready for battle. Deciding that an attack in the dark was too dangerous, the ofllcers surrounded the stronghold of the desperadoes and will wait for daylight before closing in. In the meantime a search of the town was made. One convicts was found hiding in a caboose in the railroad yards. Citizens overpowered the guards, who were taking his heavily iraned back to the prison, but the arrival of more guards prevented a lynching. The man was hustled into the prison. Some time later a citizen discovered another in his cellar. While most of the guards were pursuing the convicts who fled to the hills, most of the guards left in the nrln/... C.. > _ ?. ill J ? IOUU luuuu a sun more uespei iue i situation. When the doors of {he f cells wore unlocked a large number 1 of convicts who did not join in the t break for liberty \vere set free inside p tho%nlls. Many of them wore arm- c ed. Soon a riotVwas inprogress, the. > guards battling desperately to save s their own lives and prevent the cs- 1 capo of every convict in the lnstitu- c tion. < The gates remained locked nnd no c definite word came out early Satur- 1 day night regarding events within. \ Earlier reports that several men wore killed had not been confirmed sever- t a1 hours later, persons coming into > town from the south bring stories of s a reign of terror in the country dis- r ranches for a radius of several miles \ warning the owners to be prepared c to defend their property. t Several persons, who went south i Saturday on horseback or in car- t rlages, returned Saturday night t afoot, their horses having been stolen \ I ' / SPEAKS AT THE PLATZ \ SAYS OLI) OIIAKMOSTON CAN l><> AS SUM PLISASHS. \ Coventor Please Declares There Will lie no Change In His l'olicy Kogui-rfing That City. "I propose to (leal with the City oi Charleston for the next two years just as 1 have done for the past nineteen or twenty months, and to let Charleston do as Charleston pleases." The News and Courier says these words were spoken by Governor Cole I. Please Friday night from an openair platform at the Schuetzenplatz to a crowd of about 1,000 people, who cheered the statement lustily. A few minutes later, the Governor said: "I want to say to you and to all of South Carolina, that there will be 110 change so far as the State Government is concerned in the officials in charge of Charleston, and there will be nothing done that can make any man fear that his home will not be inviolate and safe from forced entrance." The News and Courier says the friends of Governor Please in Charleston took advantage of the occasion Friday night to present to the Governor a handsome diamond ring 5'S a 10k?n 01 ineir regard, aim tuere were several speeches in addition to that of the Governor. Mr. .J. V. Wallace, president of the Charleston County Hlease Club, presided. There were many prominent Charlestoninns on the platform. The lirst speaker was Mr. George Lunz, who introduced Gov. Hlease. Mr. Liiii/. spoke briefly, telling the people bow glad he was to introduce Governor Hlease as the Governorelect., as he had done on this date two years before. He said he knew all the people would obey and respect Cole H. IMeaso as Governor of the State. "As good a Governor as any in South Carolina for many years." Mr. Lunz spoke of the difficulties under which Gov. Hlease made his campaign. He said that Gov. Hlease was the only Governor since the war that had given Charleston home rule. Gov. Hlease was greeted with loud cheering. After expressing his pleasure at. being in Charleston he delivered an address. ? HANK KOKBIOI) OK CASH. * Two Men of Cheap Concert Company Suspected of Crime. The Hank of Wesley, Ga., was entered by burglars Wednesday night, and after blowing up the safe, the thieves made away with $1,200. This robbery occurred just a week after the robbery of the Hank of Register in the same county. Tuesday the marshal at Wesley had arrested two men belonging to a cheap concert mpany which had shown in Register the night of the robbery there and in Stillmore IMonday night when si* unsuccessful attempt was made to rol) the Hank of Stillmore. He turned them loose about dark, as he had nothing to hold them on. That night the bank was robbed and the two quondam suspects were nowhere to be found Thursday morning. AVIATOR SAVKS IMiOWMXO MAN. 4 + In Aeroplane, Speeds Half Mile and lOlfects Rescue. Rescued from drowning by an aviator, who came to his aid in a hydroaeroplane, was the adventure of Walter Sstrohbach in Hempstead harbor Friady, says a dispatch from Sea Cliff, N. Y. Stroh.bach, a poor swimmer, fell from a row boat a half mile off shore. His plight was brought to the attention of Charles Wald, aviator. Wald was tuning his machine preparatory to a flight. He covered the half mile in less than a minute, tossed a life preserver to Ctrohbach and dragged the drowning man into the machine. Then he made the return flight, with Strollbach as a passenger. Rroaks Fatlier-in-Law's Skull. A dispatch from Kershaw to The News and Courier says as the result of a family quarrel, Mr. Roddick West is fatally hurt and not expected to live. Mr. John Hough, his son in-law, during1 the quarrel struck Mr. West, over the head with a stick, hi caking his skull. The affair oc-1 :;urred about six miles out of Kershaw. fry the convicts. The escapes of Saturday and Sunday appear to he the *esult of a general plot inside the prison. It is not known how the prisoners who made their break for iberty Saturday afternoon got the runs, with which they were wMI supplied when they dashed from the jatos. It is possible, the local officers beicve, that they killed a number of| guards after overpowering the cell louse keeper and took their weapons. \nother theory is that the guns were imuggled into the prison by friends ).- the men who escaped Saturday. .V'arflAn Alslnn hns boon in tbo hills ince Saturday night and has not boon ocated, although couriers wore sent tut Sunday night to tell him of the wents of the day. A deputy warlen said Sunday night ho did not enow the exiot number of the men vho escaped. It is believed the ringleaders in he delivery are some of the men, vho, several days ago, lynched indde the prison walls Frank WIngfall, i negro who had attacked an aged voman. Several weeks ago several >f the most desperate prisoners had ; heir sentences cut down for aiding n putting out a fire in one of the mildings, thereby saving the peniteniary from probable destruction. >erculosis sanitarium. THEY GOT NO BOOTY > FOUR BANDITS FOILED IN ATM TEMPT TO ROB TRAIN FOUGHT ROBBERS HARD ? Brave Mxpress MesNChgor Tlrwarts Bandits in the Car.?Though Brutally Beaten lie Refuses to Te'l Where lie Hides Money.?Shoots One Bobber But Misses the Others. Four masked bandits bungled in ar. attempted hold-up and robbery of a northbound Kansas City Southern passenger train between Hatfield and Mena, Ark., Friday. One wa? wounded and captured and the other bandits escaped after a battle with Express Messenger Merrill Burgett, of Kansas City, Mo., In which Burgett exhausted his ammunition and was 1mi<1 iv hantan ?hout. the head and shoulders and refused to disclose the hiding place of valuable packages. Burgett shot the robber who was discovered an hour later after his companions had deserted him. The robber is being conveyed to Mena. Fifty more men in an armed posse are pursuing the bandits. Burgett is ir a hospital at Mena. Mis recovery is expected. The train, known aft No. 2, arrived at llatfield, Ark., about 2 o'clock. The train started and Burgett was busy in his car when the bandits clambered up the side door of the car and smashed the glass with their revolver butts. Burgett sprang to his most valuable packages, estimates of the monetary value of which vary, and, while the robbers poured into the car a deadly hail of lead, secreted them. Once, the messenger says, a bullet pierced his shirt during the interval. The packages hidden, Burgett turned his attention to the invaders, who had now abandoned for a time their firing into the car. As Burgett fired at them the robbers managed to reach through the small apertures made by smashed glass and undid the catch securing the door from the inside, and sliding back the door, sprang into the car, firing on Burgett at brief intervals. The messenger leaped to shelter behind a pile of baggage and met the robbers' onslaught, shot by shot with revolver and shotgun. The train had attained a speed of about 3 0 miles an hour and apparently none of the train nor locomotive crew knew that a hold-up was being attempted. A last shot fired by Burgett before the robbers gained the inside of the car wounded one of the bandits who cried out that he was hit. One robber assisted the wounded man and as the others sprang into the car and cut off the air, the two leaped to the ground. A few more shots and Burgett's shells were gone. The robbers closed in on him and by sheer force of numbers overpowered him, although he gave battle to the three, wielding the butt of his short shotgun effectively until conquered. The bandits clubbed the messenger repeatedly over the head, crashed their fists into his face and belabored him over the shoulders, meantime demanding to know, "Where's that package of money?" Bleading, I Burgett crouched in a corner of the car while the robbers brutally beat and kicked him, .but the messenger did not reveal the biding, place of the valuables. The train conductor turned on the air and the train started or. again. The robbers varied their search for the supposed money package with beating and kicking the messenger. They searched the car carefully but Burgett had been too wily for them and they could not find what they sought. Again they cut off the air and made another careful search for the valuables. This time the conductor feared something was wrong and began an investigation. As the conductor came forward with his lantern the robbers took flight and fled in haste. In answer to repeated knockings on the door of the ex press ear by the conductor, TTurgett struggled to his feet and staggered tr the door, which he unlocked and fell in a heap at Conductor Lockwood's feet. He was revived long enough to give a brief story of the attempted hold-up and the train rushed into l.Mena, where physicians attended the messenger and a posse was organized to pursue the robbers into the hills. A special train bore the posse to the scene. Near there the wounded rober was found. My daylight the hunt was on, and later in the morning the posse was augmented by scores of others pressed into service by the authorities. So far as is known the robbers took absolutely nothing from the express car. Tne wounded robber, who is unidentified, received a charge of shot in the left breast, near the heart. Tie will probably die. ? ? Another Aviator Killed, Mothosia Kondo, a Japanese aviator, aged 2 7 years, was killed Monday, near Savona, N. Y. The aeroplane that ho was trying out struck the derrick of a large windmill and the aviator fell about 4 0 feet, fracturing his skull. Kondo came from San Diego, Cal., where he obtained his pilot's license last winter. Snake Chased Mouse, A big blue racer snake pursued a ni ajlrt a 1 f /\ 4 h /> no 111 am aP n n T iiwiioo iiiiu iii'c |jui iui ui vj. I . Uillll* port's home, at Brighton, 111., and, paying no attention to the screams of Mrs. Lamport, kept after the tpouse and caught it. The woman ran from the house hysterically calling for help. Her husband killed the snake ac it was about to devour its captive. n jf/mp - *** BLEASE IS FOR WILSON * HE SAYS THAT TALK OF HULL MOOSE IS FOOLISH. ? . Ho Will Address Let tor Next Week to Voters of the State Urging Them to Support Wilson. It is all bumcombo and foolishness to talk about, the bull moose party doing anything in South Carolina," said the governor Friday morning. He declared that it was his purpose to address a letter to the voters of the state urging his friends to rally to the support of Wood row Wilson. "If they send any speakers down here and attempt to make inroads they will be made the laughing stock of the nation," continued the governor. lie added that he was not responsible for what other people might write about the situation. These statements are significant in view of certain published statements in some of the papers. The trouble and talk has been brought about by the action of W. P. Heard. Beard, it will bo ) remembered, followed the campaign party last summer and was generally known as "Bodyguard" Beard. Several days ago Beard left the fold of the Democratic party and became permanent secretary of the Bull Moose organization. Beard is also editor of the News-Scimiter, one of the strongest Blease papers in the State. In fact, it is generally supposed that the paper was launched aj an administration paper. Several days ago there was a story printed in several newspapers, purporting to be an interview with Heard in which it was claimed that he had stated that Hlease intended to run on the Hull Moose ticket if ho was not declared the nominee of the paHv. Heard afterwards denied the story, saying that he had been misrepresented. The governor said Friday that his statement to the public would very probably be issued next week. Stole to Save Husband's Info. At Oneonta, X. Y., after her arrest en a charge of thereft a woman, who described herself as Mrs. Fdwin Hill, of Union Hill, XT. J., told the police she had stolen in order to allow her husband, who, she said, was in Franklin, Ha., to be treated in a tu ? ? CIGA mOTTU ( HAZY. 4 Colorado Girl Set Too Fast a Pace for Herself in New York. Having accomplished the feat of smoking 3 00 cigarettes in 2 4 hours, Miss .Pauline McKenzie, young dauehtor of a wenlthv mine owner of Boulder, Col., is in a hospital at New York undergoing treatment. She was taken to the institution after a policeman had found her making an incoherent speech to a crowd of men and boys. Upon her arrival from Coiorado, eager to see the bright lights of Broadway, she learned that New York women smoked. She decided to smoke herself and bought 5 00 cigarettes to begin on. ccording to statements made at her hotel when Miss McKensie had finished about 100 cigarettes, she went out on the street and brought in a five-year-old hoy, telling her fellow-guests she had adopted him. An hour later the mother of the boy was causing a riot in the hotel. Miss McKenzie surrendered the youngster and then calmly went out and got another. Itiot No. 2 followed. Still the girl from Boulder was not discouraged. She continued to smoke and wandered away from the hotel in the early morning and a policeman picked her up. BRUTISH FIEND IS CAUGHT 1 + He Confesses to the Murder of Two Uittlc Girls If the story which George Brown Spengler told Monday night proves to be true, then a crime mystery which has puzzled the Detroit police for nearly three years?lias been cleared up. Spengler, a laborer, 3 0 years old, described as a moral pervert, was arrested in connection witn t.no murder of 12-year-old Matilda lteis, whoso mutilated body was found in an alley near her home in Detroit last Tuesday. He confessed not only to having killed and mistreated this child, but told the police he also mistreated and murdered Helen Drown, 1 1 years old, whose body was found in a coal yard on December 1 2, 1909. Four other girls have been attacked 1 in Detroit in the last 13 months. ( One of them was permanently injur- 1 ed and the other less seriously hurt. ' Spongier admits responsibility for ' two of these offenses. In each case the child was attacked as she was a- 1 sleep in her parents' home. * < NOT FlHARD FROM IN YIOARS. 1 i +, Spartanburg Minister Who Disappeared From llomo. Suit has been brought in the courts of that county to have Rev. W. P. ~ ?t * vvunu, <t miiii?i?r, wuo uisappeareu from Spartanburg 13,years ago, ad- c judged dead in tho eyes of the law, k that his estate may he divided among his children whom he left and who have not heard of their father since * the day of his departure from home, 1 saying he was going to Asheville. r When he left he owned three lots ( and two buildings at the corner of * Wofford and Wolfe streets, the latter ( named in honor of the departed min- ( ister. From the day Mr. Wolfe left j Spartanburg until now no word has * come to his family, either directly or j indirectly from the man. He has been completely swallowed up by the earth. Tho five children heirs want to divide tho property and settle the 1 estate. c rar ST LARGE SUM FOUND DIVER FINDS TRACE OF FIVE MILLION DOLLARS CANNON NEAR THE GOLD ? Bullion Lost in the British Frigate j Lutiiio at the Kn trance of the Zuy- i (ler Dee Over One Hundreds Years Ago >1ay lie liaised From the Deep ; Waters. A cablegram from London says 0110 million pounds in bullion, which 1 has lain buried for more than a ceil- , tury in the watery safe deposit of the Zuyder Zee may be recovered from the deep within the next few days. Fine weather alone is stated to be the factor upon which this record salvage is dependent. If the work of the next ten days is successful it will bring to completion one of the most romantic stories of treasure hunting known to history. The British frigate, Lutino sank at the entrance of the Zuyder Zee in October, 1790. She had then 011 board $6,085,000 in bullion and money. The Dutch government claimed the wreck and granted one-third of Mir> ciilvntrft in 1 .V O 1 In bullion fi?li ers. After much discussion and occasional recoveries, the king of the Netherlands ceded half the wreck to Great Britain. About 99,S9.'l pounds was recovered at various times, leaving about 1,1 75,000 pounds within the hulk, but during the lapse in salvage operations the site was obscured by silt. Many attempts have been made in the last fifty years to relocate the wreck, but only recently bus this Jbeen successfully accomplished. For two summers Captain Gardiner of the National Salvage association, at the head of a band of gold seekers, had fought upon the salvage ship Lyons the fierce currents that run between the islands of Vieland and Terschelling. The men on the Lyons still feel j the thrill of the words of Diver H. T. Baillie, who only recently came up from tho wreck with great tidings. \\ hen they unscrewed Baillio's helmet he turned to Captain Gardiner, "I believe I have found the gold," he said. Baillie and another diver found a fourth cannon belonging to the Lutine. Every one of these guns are muzzle loaders and are filled with grape shot, with the wooden plug, driven home, all ready for firing. The cannon was hoisted aboard the Lyons, but 110 work could be done till the following Saturday. On that day Baillie struck what he believes to be tho treasure.^ The discovery was made with con- , slderable risk. Many times have the divers been swept off their feet by the i tides. By digging and using the same pump the divers have crept under the only part of the great hulk that remains intact. Baillie, who knows the wreck a? well as any man says a great number of the beams in the hull or. OO 4 U ii u it ci i u tin kimju uuw tin wuuu lliey were built in (he frigate. On (he decks lie masses of can- , 11011 ball and shot, but along her ribs . arc holes and rents showing the broken, jagger ends of planks and tim- , her. It was by investigating in one j o?' these crevices that the diver found ( the bullion. , Me had crawled on hands and \ knees along to the opening and tried to get inside bodily, but the ragged rents, threatened his life lines and ( air tubes. Had the edges of the bro- , ken timber pierced his dress he would never have seen daylight again. Still he groped on like a blind man. Fifteen times he failed. Eventual- 1 hold of some part of the interior. ! Fifteen times ho failed. Eeventual- ' ly, while stretching as far as he could 1 around the corner of gaping timber, * his hand touched something hard and square. Baillie knew the "feel" of them. There was, however, no moving ] the precious metal, so after a vain attempt Baillie signaled to the men ( above when they sent down a line, ( and with this he fastened a buoy to the hole in the side of Hie hut inc. j They pulled him out of (he sand nnd hoisted him aboard?the man ' who had .stood next to a million pounds at the bottom of the sea. The fall of the deck has impris- . [)ned the treasure in the strongest . sliest, imaginable, and it will require . i "pill" of dynamite to take it from Y the grip of the fifteen inch thick r beams. H So the Lyons men wait day and v light for the wind to go down and he lighthouse for Terehelling llsh- s ?s in the darkness over the bleak is- \ and and the wrecks that lie buried v n the sand. v (jlOOHCilA HANK IS KOltHKD * d I'he Robbers (iot Only Nine Hundred d \\ Dollars in Cash. t Safe blowers robbed the Farmer's 1 >tato Hank, of Register, Ga., early donday morning, getting away with v 1900. Thay piled large boxes in the ^ treet for a barricade in readiness . or a tight. The tirst of the two ex dosions that wrecked the safe arous- J id F. P. Register, president of the , >ank, and lie tried to get a shot at ( ?ne of the robbers from the window N >f his home, but obeyed when comnanded to put out the light in his p louse. No arrests have been made f sTo one seen to know where the rob- . >ers came from or where they went. ' The Atlanta Journal says that one ouch of frost would make the wholo d :otton crop higher. p V fft i| At r'': I '{ '1 '' * * MAKE BETTER CORN RY CAREFULLY SELECTING THE SEED YOU PLANT. Rules Prescribed by C. P. Hartley in (Tiai'KC of Corn Investigations, U. S. Department of Agriculture. Some idea regarding the economic importance of corn may be had by a realization that in the United States it exceeds in acreage, yield and value, wheat, oats, barley, ilax, rye, buckwheat, and potatoes combined. An increased value of 1 cent per bushel would mean an additional income to the farmers of the United states of twenty-five million dollars, while an increased production of but one bushel would add fifty million dollars annually to the national wealth. In addition to its magnitude, the crop is important because of the wide range of industries in which some portion of the corn plant plays a more or less important part. In fact, it may almost be said that there is 110 industry into which some product or by-product of the corn plant does not enter. Therefore, any conditions which effect the production of this king of crops are of interest to every citizen of the United States. Each spring many farmers discover?when it is too late?that their seed corn either fails to germinate or produces hut a weak growth. They must either pay high prices for viable seed, which may or may not be acclimated and adapted to their conditions, or by means of laborious tests they may pick out such of their seed as will at least "come up". The corn crop of 19111 is now pract in.i llir iii'nln !in.l I Iwt t imn for ?n lecting seed for l!)13 has arrived in the Southern sections, and will reach even the latest sections of the United Stated some time in October. Unit ss sullicient seed corn is selected at the right time in the right way, there will he the same deplorable situation next spring?again when it is too late?as there has been at each previous planting time. With very few exceptions the best possible seed may be selected on the farm on which it is to be planted, and by carrying out the following Instructions, issued by the ollice of corn investigations, of the United States department of agriculture, each farmer may provide himself with an abundance of seed of the highest productivity, for planting in 1913. The process of seed selection is of too great importance to bo conducted incidently while husking, and in many localities if selection is delayed until husking time, the vitality of the seed will have already been injured bj an early freeze. As soon, therefore, as the crops ripens, go through the field with bags and husk the ears from those stalks which have produced best without having had any special advantages, such as space moisture or fertility. Late maturing plants with ears which are heavy hecause of an excessive amount of sap should be ignored. In the Central and Southern States, other things being equal, short, thick stalks are preferable. These permit of thicker planting, are not so easily blown down, and are usually more productive than slen der ones. The tendency to sucker is hereditary. Other things being equal seed should he taken from stalks having no suekrs. The same day that the seed corn is gathered, the husked ears should ho ->ut in a dry place where there is good circulation of air, and placed in such [i mannner that the ears do not touch each other. If no previous arrangements for caring for the seed have been made the ears may he suspended with hinder twince, tying them about two inches apart, The twin^ ill support fifteen or twenty ears. Tf this method cannot conveniently be followed, tables may he improvis?d by placing hoards across boxes or barrels. These hoards should be dry Hid not too wide, and should be spaced one or one and a half Inches apart. Pho seed ears can he put on these cables, using caro to have ' them / spread out to insure a good circula- / ion of air among them. It will bo idvisahle to move the ears a couple if times at intervals of about two lays, when first put on the tables. Whichever method is used, the seed should he placed in a shed or >uilding, having a good circulation or lir, and where it will bo protected rom rain and excessive cold, as well is from rats and mice. Do not store he seed in a cellar. The driest celars are too damp and do not afford a roe circulation of air. l)o not store he seed in a room in which there rill he vapor to condense on it and >revent its drying, as in a barn over tock, or in an outhouse used for cashing, etc. If seed corn is stored properly it hould be thoroughly dry in from hree weeks in the South to eight reeks in the North, and if kept dry it , ui i)e sare rrom injury except by inects ami vermin. In the North the ars may bo loft, where they wero ried. In regions where seed corn is amagod by weevils or grain moths, l should be packed in boxes and roated as described in Farmers' Rul9tin 415, entitled "Seed Corn". By the proper selection and card f sped corn, as outlined above, the ield may be greatly increased with ut a slight expense. Increased of S bushels per acre, due to properly reserving the seed, have been obainod. In every phase of present ay agriculture, the tendency is toward efficiency. The days of largo roflts under profligate methods have assed, and there is no cheaper or asier way of increasing the profits rom the farm than by properly seed ing and caring for your seed corn. Do you want a Democratic Presi[ent? If you do, chip in and help ay tho freight. J