The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, February 05, 1914, Image 4
SMITH IS PLEASED
SEES SAVINGS FOR FARMER IN
NEW GRADING PLAN
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MUST BE STANDARDIZED
Cotton Tests Conducted t?y (he Gov- 1
ernmcnt Shown That There is an ,
Incredible Difference in (he Selling
Value of the Various Grades and
Their Textile Worth. ?
Senator Cmith of South Carolina '
the other day visited the ofllco of Dr.
Cobb of the department of agriculture
to bco a demonstration of the
work inaugurated under the appropriation
obtained by him in tho last
agricultural appropriation bill, "to
bo used in testifier (lie ivasto fonuiln
strength. and bleaching qualities of
the different grades of cotton as standardized
by the government."
The work contemplated i.n this
amendment was carried on by the do(
partment at Clemson College, Danville
and in Washington. The result
has more than mot the expectation '
of Senator Smith in demonstrating |
that the difference in the spinning
valuo of the different grades, as standardized
by the government, is not
nearly so great as the difference now '
fixed by the cotton trade. The difference
in the yarns made from good ordinary,
the lowest grade under the
government standardization, and
middling fair, the highest grade under
the government standardization
of upland coton, is practicnly negli- '
gible. The cost of bleaching good ,
ordinary, and each of tho grades ^
higher is practically the same. Tho
waste in converting tho different
grades into yarn Is considerably larg- '
or in the lower grades, to wit, mid- 1
dling, strict good ordinary, and ordinary,
but tho commercial valuo of j
this waste appears to be the same.
These tests which arc now practically
ready to be demonstrated and
distributed throughout iho country
establish the fact that the farmers
of the country have lost millions of
dollars because of tho want of this
knowledge. It is claimed by an export
that the state of Texas alone this
season has lost, approximately $4 0,000,000.
Prom this estimate, it would
bo a safe estimate to say that South
Carolina has lost perhaps a million
this year.
Senator Smith is introducting an
amendment, intended to bo proposed
by him to tho agricultural bill, requiring
tho department of agriculture
to furnish a set of the standard samples,
as fixed by tho government,
free of cost to every shipping point,
in the cotton growing section which
ships a sufficient number of bales annually
to justify the uso of a set of
these samples; and also to furnish
each shipping point, either with the
bulletin setting forth, tho spinning
value of each grade as ascertained by
the recent tests, or a set of yarns
bleached and unbleached, made from
each sample, with such other products
as were obtained from the test
from each grade, so that those who
sell cotton may ho ablo to determine
for themselves what their grades are
and the value of these grades as compared
with each of the other grades.
To illustrate, if middling should be
quoted as worth 13 cents, by reference
to tho buletin setting forth the
finding of the department , tho value
of ordinary would bo readily determined.
So also, as indicated above, if
middling was worth 13 cents, and the
tonsilo strength, as tested by tho government,
tho cost of bleaching and
tho amount of waste from good ordinary
being determined should amount
to 7 0 points, or 7 0 cents per 100
more than for middling, then tho difference
between middling and good
ordinary would bo $3.HO per halo. A
telegram receivod some time ago by
Senator Smith in responso to an inquiry
of the New York Exchange as
to the difference fixed by tho exchange
between good ordinary and
middling was to tho effect that a difference
of 3 00 points, equal to $ 1 f>
per bale was made. Therefore, once
the grade was determined, the value
of that grade as compared with the
price of middling could Wo ascertained
fairly and impartially by both tho
farmer and tho buyer, as a result of
this work.
Senator Smith, in speaking of the
work, said: Unless these samples,
that is, a set of tho government
grades are obtainable for every shipping
point, together with a result of
the findings of tho department, the
value of these tests will not be fully
available to tho cotton grower. To
illustrato this, the government has
decided that 3G inches shall make a
yard; if only one store or three or
four only In South Carolina had a
yard stick, those who would buy in
the stores which had no yardstick
would he at the mercy of the merchant.
Therefore it is essential that
every shipping point should have a
set of these grades and the findings of
the department under these tests, as
it is that every buyer and seller
should be furnished with a yard stick
or a standard set of scales.
"So gratifying are these results
that I propose now to have stains
and tinges standardized and their reljfc.
.
THE EDUCATIONAL BILL
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ll>OITBl> BY TIIK HOUSE TO INCKKAKK
INKLIiKJKNCE !
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Kull Text of the McCruvey-Harpcr
liHwson Compulsory Education ,
Hill Which ltoceivod Big Majority.
Tho McCravey-IIarper-Lawson opional
county adoption compulsory eil- ,
neat ion hill, as passed by tho General
Assembly to its third reading, which
will no doubt bo a final action by tho
llouso and Senate, is as follows:
Section 1. That tho county board
)f education in any county of this
State, upon tho written petition of
one-third of tho qualified electors residing
in any school district of tho
county, shall order an election to determine
whether or not tho compulsory
attendance of children between
the ages of eight and twelve years
shall bo authorized and enforced in
tho schools of such district.
Section 2. Upon tho written petition
of tho qualified electors of any
county in the State, tho County board
of education of such county shall order
an election to determine whether
or no tho compulsory attendance of
children between tho ages of eight
and twelve years shall bo authorized
Olid rnfnrppi! in nil tlin dlof rlola onrl
schools of such county.
Section 3. In such election only
the qualified electors residing in the
school district or county shall he allowed
to vote. If no election is ordertiered
for a school district the county
board of education shall designate
the time and place of such election
find give notice thereof in some newspaper
published in the county, and by
posting such notice in at least three
public places within the school district
for at least two weeks, unless
bore be no newspapers published
within the county, in which event the
posting of the notice as above directed
shall sullice. In such election the
board of trustees of the district shall
ic as election managers, shall count
the votes and shall certify the result
to the county hoard of education. If
such elction is ordered for the whole
county, the voting shall be conduced
at the regular election precincts and
the county board of education shall
appoint tho managers of such elction
and pay them from the general school
fund tho per diem allowed the managers
of general elections, and shall
receive and canvass the returns of tho
managers and declare the result of
tho election.
Section 4. The said election shall
bo by ballot, and tho ballots used
shall have written or printed on them
the words, 'For compulsory attendance"
or "Against compulsory attendance."
If tho majority of the ballots
cast at such election shall bo
"For compulsory attendance" then
the requirements and penalties hereinafter
stated shall be in full force
and effect in such district or in such
county, but if th emajority of the hallos
cast shall he "Against compulsory
attendance" the requirements and
penalties hereinafter stated shall not
m nr?l v t a cuoh rl i u t r I n f r\ n enob c/vun
I' I' jr w? u v? v 11 viign iv<b v/ i ouv n v vi u U"
ty.
Section 5. In tho district or in tlio
county which votes for compulsory
attendance in tho manner above described
it shall he tho duty of every
parent or guardian residing therein
to keep in daily atendance at some
public school in said district or county
every child or ward between the
ages of eight and twelve years under
the control of said parent or guardian
for the entiro school term provided
by tho district board of trustees,
unless such child or word is in
regular attendance for an equal term
at such regular private school, or
unless said parent or guardian presents
a certificate from some licensed
physician as evidence that such
child or ward is physically or mentally
in capacitated for school work,
or unless said parent or guardian
presents to tho county hoard of education
satisfactory evidonco that the
labor of said child is necessary to tho
support of said child: Provided,
that tho district trustees in every
county, city or school district in
which the provisions of this Act are
in force shall have tho power to buy
suitable clothing and suitable school
books and pay for tho same out of
ative spinning values, too. determin
od, In order to encompass tho entire
cotton business. Tho department, as
abovo stated, has demonstrated tho
relative cost of converting each grade
into yarn, the relativo cost of bleaching
each grade, and tho amount of
waste in each, thereby fixing tho spinning
value of each grado. This is
accomplished and done, and tho only
thing now to do is to seo that ho
/v# u ~ ~~ * 1.1 ~
i <u I in; I n ui LIIU UwllllLI y 11 <1 > l: lllis
knowledge In a practical way, which
I believe will ho accomplished by having
a set of those samples placed at
each shipping point, and the relative
value of the different grades, as determined
by tho department, furnished
each shipping point, I hope that
each legislature in every cotton growing
state will pass a law requiring
every buyer to comfort his grading
to the government standardization, so
that there may he a uniformity of
grades and an ultimate uniformity of
prices of each. If this be done, the
cotton farmers of tho South will ho
the beneficiaries?and beneficiaries
in the sense that means tho saving of
millions of dollars to thorn annually."
STORY OF RADIUM I:
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SUBSTANCE IS WORTH JUST FIFTY 1
MILLION'S A POUND
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TOTAL SUPPLY AN OUNCE;
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Only One lMant in I lilted States for
the Production of This Power (
W hich is Kxpocted to Kevolutioni/.e ]
Science and Medicine History of (
Its Discovery and Development.
t
In a little, brick building in the (
village of Selloraville, Pa., an hour's .
ride by trolley from Philadelphia,
there is located the lirst radium man- J
ufacturing plant in tlie United States, |
or in the Western hemisphere for v
that matter. The second will soon
be in operation in Colorado, but the j
initial honors go to the little plant in I j
the century-old settlement in the
Keystone state. I
Radium is quite the tnoso expen- .
slve, and likewise the most lnyste- ,
rious tiling that tlio world's science
has knowledge of at the present time. ,
It is also the most diilicult and the |
most costly to produce. One gram of j
radium is worth, at the lowest esti- (
mate, $100,000. It takes about 4SS {
of those grams to produce a nound: *
hence the vine of a pound, if there
were that much in the world, would
ho worth 0,000.0 0 0
But the world does not possess a
pound of radium, and it will he a
matter of a great many years before
it does. In fact it is doubtful if the
entire ore field of Colorado "will produce'
much more than a pound of 'his
material. At the present time there
is not much more than an ounce of
radium in the world, as it is rated
at about $3,000,000 an ounce, avoirdupois,
the entire supply is worth
about $3.T,00,000.
Just what radium is remains a
great deal of a mystery. Although a
component part of the earth since its
creation, it was only very few years
ago that Mine. Curio, 1he French
scientist and her husband succeeded
in isolating it. Scientists havo discovered
{..nne of the things this wonderful
new power can do, but the sum
of its aetivitie is a problem which
will require the work of several generations
to establish.
It. is still in the experimental
stage, and it was not until a year
after Mine. Curie had collected the
first radium tho world's history
that its wonderful curative powers
become known.
Prof. Henri Booquerol, a great
French physicist, who had closely followed
Mine. Curie in her work, journeyed
to London to give a lecture on
radium. In his waistcoat pocked he
carried a vial containing a few specks
of tin' powerful mineral. Unknown
to him. the mysterious light rays,
which he clement gives off, pierced
the glass and his clothing and entered
his side. Accordliu to the now
established radium law, a red streak
appeared on his flesh 1 t days later,
tho school funds of tho district in
which said child shall reside, when-!1
I ?
ever it is made to appear to said
school hoard that on account of lack
of money tho child or its parent or
guardian or other person having control
of such child is not able to comply
with the provisions of this Act.
Section G. It shall be tho duty of
the school district board of trustees
to furnish the superintendent, principal
or teacher of the school or
schools under their jurisdiction a list
of all children of tho constitutional
school age of from 6 to 21 years
with tho age and place of residence
of each.
Section 7. When any child between
tho ages of S and 12 years
named on such list and not exempt
under tho provisions of Section f> of
this Act shall have been absent from
school for fivo consecutive days or for
more than five days in any scholastic
month, without valid excuse, it shall
be the duty of the superintendent,
principal or teacher of said school to
report such absence in writing to the
chairman of said district board, whn
shall forthwith, either in person or
in writing, or through somo otlieer
designated hy tho district or comply
hoard, notify tho parent or guardian
of said child of such absence, and J
shall call his or her attention to tho
provisions of tho law and shall warn
him or her against a repetition of
tho offence.
Section 8. After tho warning de- 1
scribed in tho foregoing section of
this Act. any parent or guardian who
shall fail to comply with the provisions
of this Act, unless excused or i
exempted as hereinbefore provided, t
shall ho deemed guilty of a nilsde- i
meanor; and, upon complaint, enter- i
ed before tho nearest magistrate by i
tho chairman of tho district board of 1
trustees, or by such other norsnn
officer as may bo designated by him <
or by tho county board of education, f
and upon conviction shall bo llablo <
for each offence to a flno of not less f
than $2 nor more than $10, or to
be Imprisoned for not less than two
days nor more than ten days, at the
discretion of the court. All fines will
be paid to the county treasurer and >,
by him credited to tho school dis- ji
trlct in which the delinquent parent f
or guardian shall reside. \
niii ho suilered grout pain from it. li!|
leveloped nuo a deep wound, with so- (
ious complications, and ho was coiujolled
lo tuko his bod. it Was sev ral
months uoforo u euro was eftoctid.
Scientists and physicians immeliately
reasoned tiiat such a power*
ul agency could bo harnessed lor
juui.j welf. re, and since that time
5no long series of experiments with
radium and tho human body have
jeen made. They know little more
iow than when they began, but it is
tolerably certain that tho invisible
rays will halt cancer, and perhaps
stablisn a permanent cure, while
jcores of other human ills have
proven susceptible to its influence.
Had tun was first made from tho
mineral known as pi chblcnde, great
luantitios of which abound in Ausria.
Hut a later discovery established
the fact tliat tlio new force existed
n greater quantities in carnotite, a
fellow mineral found in insignificant
liiantities outside tho United States.
It is present in small quantities in
jevoral states of tliis country, but
'unnir.g through Colorado aud Utah
las been found the richest radiumlearing
region yet discovered. This
arnotite is now being mined in tho
Paradox valley, in Colorado, and now
ho entire stock of radium is being
lorived from tliis ore.
Carnotite is usually found In pock*t
s; of smidytmm ilonnuHa cnoiip.
ng of it is a difficult task, and when
t is known that it takes many tons
>f the ore to produce a single gram
>f radium, the work becomes exccedngly
laborious.
While carnotito lias been mined in
'olorado for over a year, it was not
intll a short time ago that the <vork
>f extraet'ng radium from it was atemptod
in tlie United States. Hefore
hnt the entire output of rarnotUe
vas shipped to Rurope. Then the
Pennsylvania plant sprang up, getin.g
its ore from Utah and Colorado,
?nd already it has turned out about
M?r>0,000 worth of the product.
Tho methods by which radium is
'oncentrated from tho tons of ore
hrougli which it is spread are a secret.
There are probably several dif'erent
methods, each manufacturer
laving lijs own. Tint tho general
>rinciplo is well known. it is not a
smelting process, such as is used in
extracting gold, or copper, or iron,
jut is purely chemical. The radium
nust ho dissolved and then orystalized
in the form of salt?either ralium
chloride or radium bromide.
Mine. Curio, with her discovery of
)olonium, paved tho way and laid
lown tho general rules.
The ore is crushed and placed in
argo vats into which a solution of
uirhonate of soda is poured. I Feat,
irings the whole to the boiling point,
ifter which it is filtered. More car>onate
of soda solution is added for
ho purpose of washing out most of
ho sulphates.
Tho liqui 1 that results contains
several alkaline earths, including the
\auium content of tlio original oro.
This is now treated with pure hyIrochloric
acid. This dissolves these
earths. The radium has now to bo
ireeipitatcd from tho rest of tlie
nass. This may ho done either by
ulding sulphuric acid, which forms a
'ombination with tho radium in tlie
orm of radium sulphate and has to
)e changed back into a carbonate by
he addition of moro carbonate of
toda, or tho solution may bo saturated
with hydrogen chloride, which
irecipitates only tho radium and the
lariuin cholrides, leaving tho chloides
of lead, iron, calcium, etc., still
n solution. These radium and ba*ium
chlorides are practically purej
md ready to bo separated and crysalllzed.
It is a complex process, difTlcult
or any 0110 but an expert chemist to
inderstand. But it is to bo simpliled
and all tho mystery that still
langs about it is to bo removed. The
louse committee on mines and minng
is considering tho plan of withlrawing
from further appropriation
ill lands In tho public domain that
iro known to have radium bearing
ninerals in them.
The purposo is to k6op the carnoite
supply of tho United States from
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itiinK Biuppua anroaa at iron ore
jrices, where European nations will
lrst take for tlieni3elves the radium
lioy need, and then, if there is any
eft, sell it to tho United States at
liamond prices. The new plan is to
nako this country the center of the
adium business, and the first step is
ho preservation f tho carnotite supply
in tho states for American manufacturers.
THE COST OK WAR.
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Illustration of Human Waste Found
in Stricken Hulgnia.
An illustration of tho human waste
n war is furnished by the census just
aken of the new Bulgarian territories
acquired by war. Tho male popllation
of that portion of Macedonia
illotted to Bulgaria was reduced durng
hostilities from 175,000 to 24,>00.
In Bulgarian Thrace only 225,>00
males remain out of a total heore
tho war of 4 0 4.000, whilo in the
listrict of Mustapha Pasha, where
lghtlng waged long and fiercely, only
1,000 males are left out of 33,000.
Wants State to Mine.
South Carolina Farmers' union,
vhieh met in Columbia Monday
idopted a resolution urging that tho
U.ato operate lime quarries with condct
labor. i
SOME HOUSE BILLS
REPRESENTATIVES WANT A TWO
CENT MILEAGE AND
COMPULSORY EDUCATION
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Votes in the County Local Option
IMun for Compulsory Education by
Vote of (h"> to .'12?Two Cent Mileage
Hate Passes St to 25?Convict
Labor Discussed.
The House Thursday emphatically
expressed itself on several propositions.
First, it passed by a vote of
05 to 32 the McCravey-Harperow ..
optional county adoption compulsory
education bill. This is practically the
same propositon that was passed last
year and vetoed, wth some slight
modifications in the hope of getting
it through this year.
Then the House overwhelmnglv
passed the Mixson-Stanley two-cent
rate bill. Tho temper of the House
was to have absolutely no amendments,
but vote for a flat two-cent
rate. Of course, the Senate has yet to
pass upon this matter. The temper of
the Houso was shown in tho vote of
81 to 25 against any .modifications of
tho two-cent rate in favor of the
roads fliat had small passenger earnings.
The House also rejected amendments
exempting short lines, the 1
whole idea being to insist upon a flat!,
two-cent rate. There was very little
discussion of the bll. On the other
hand, Mr. Sanders went so far as to
say that there had not been a single
fact presented to warrant the twocent
rate.
The House showed a disposition to
use a considerable portion of the eon- 1
viets now employed on the Slate farm 1
for the making of good roads. The 1
bill to provide for the sale of the
State farms was not passed, but the
disposition seems to be to sell at
least one of the farms now, re- :
serving tho other for the making of
foodstuffs for the Penitentiary and <
curtailing the number of laborer t ;
used on the farm but at he same time
making restrictions so that the prep- '
orty will not be sacrificed to accoiu- <
plish this purpose. 1
The House did not seem to want '<
very much argument over the option- 1
al educational plan proposed by Mr.
Harper and Mr. McCravey, because it 1
was practically tho sairm proposition (
that had been passed last year. The 1
chief speech was made by Mr. Nicholson
of CI roil wood, who presented a
clear and connected argument in lav- '
or of compulsory education as provided.
I To called upon the patriotism
of the members to tlie best interest '
of the State to pass tlie Act, which
was done. i
Mr. Harper, who is responsible for
the new proposition which is grafted
on the McCravey idea, made a short 1
talk in which ho presented figures
and arguments in favor of this for- ]
ward step of the State. Mr. McCravey 1
stood ready with a battery of am- '>
munition to enter into tho fight in 1
defence of the bill but no one seemed
to want to raise any question, and
many of the speches that wero in incubation
XVnrfl sUll.hnrn
. . UU 1 11 IT I1CU i?l i ,
Ritenburg moved the previous ques- ;
tion.
On the vote to strike out the enact- ,
ing words of the bill the record shows
22 to kill the measure and G5 in its j
favor, as follows: <
Against the bill: Messrs. Addy, J. ]
W. Ashley, M. .T. Ashley, Browning, i
Creech, Cross, Daniel, Fortner, Coodwin,
Gray, C.reer, Hardin, Harrelson, 1
Ilarrelson, Harvey, Irby, Kelly, Kir- ,
by, Lybrand, Moseley, Murray, Nelson ,
Robertson, W. S. Rogers, Jr., Sum- j
mers, Tindal, White, Whitehead?.12. |
For the bill: Messrs. M. D. Smith, |
Atkinson, Barnwell, Bethea, Blackwell,
Bolt, Bowers, Boyd, Bushbee, \
Charles, Clement, Courtney, Dant- ?
zler, DeLaughter, Dick, Epps, Evans, j
Friday, Casque, Hall, Harper, Hay- 1
neswarth, Iliott, Hunter, James. ,
Johnston, Jones, Kibbler, Leo, Idles.
McCravey, McDonald, McMaster, Mc- i
Millan, McQueen, Massey, Means,
Melfi, Mitchell, Nicholson, Odom,
Bate, Pegues, Pyatt, Ready, Itiddle,
Riley, Ritenbhrg, L. M. Rogers, Sanrlnra
C!oa4 t n
uvip| uv.uii| ouuii) r>ensensy, S ilrlGyt
Smiley, Stanley, Stevenson, Sturkie, 1
Thompson, Welch, Wllburn, C. C.
Wyclie, C. T. Wyche, Youmans, Zelgler?C5.
KILLED IVY CAU.
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Tampa, Fla. Cyclist Moots Instant
and llorihlo Death.
TTis head and body so tightly jammed
in the runnine eenr o ?*
t, 0 - .? v/i a niiUUl I
car at Tampa, Fla., Sunday afternoon i
that it was necessary to jack tho car i
clear of tho track to extricate him, 1
Duard Bourquardoz, of that place, 1
met instant death, lie was riding his
motorcycle to a nearby resort and (
tried to pass in front of a fast inter- j
urban car. Ho fell under tho wheels j
and was mangled beyond recognition. f
j
Had to Quarantine the Jury. f
Just as a jury at Fort Worth, Tex.. >
brought in a verdict Saturday one of <
the jurors developed a case af small- i
pox and now all tho twolovo men are <
under quarantine. I
THE HORRY HERALD
CONWAY, S. C.
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Published Every Thursday.
THIRSDAY, FMRKl'ARY 5, 1014.
PROFESSIONAL CAHIW.
H. II. WOODWARD,
Attorney and Counsellor at Ixiw.
CONWAY, S. C.
II. II. SCARKOKOUGH.
Attorney at faiw.
CONWAY, S. C.
If. II. IirKROUGIIS,
Pliysiciun and Surgeon.
CONWAY, S. C.
W. E. Met 'OKI).
Dental Surgeon.
CONWAY, S. C.
It F.N 12 IIA MO N10 L,
I,aiid Surveying
and
Drainage.
Spivey Duilding, Conway, 0. C.
Tiiio 111< 11 riiicio of io<h;s.
+
S i n I y -1 i \ <' For Cent, of Output is Mnrketed
in Three Months.
The recent high prices of eggs has
caused the Farmers' Union to conduct
an investigation into tlio poultry
conditions of the nation, and Peter
Had ford, lecturer of the national
Fanners' union, gave out the following
statement concerning condition?
in this State:
"Wo market sixty-five per cent., of
our egg crop in Apr il, May and June,
although the consumption of egg?
runs very nearly even throughout
the entire year. The American farmer
to-day is paying the middleman
the princely sum of $1138,000,000 per
milium for storing and selling his
eggs. This sum of money would
build and equip sufficient storage to
are for the agricultural production
:>f the nation. The value of the nation's
egg production during a decade
is equivalent in value to all the farm
property in Texas; would build a
city the size of St. Louis and would
pay the, national debts of Spain,
Japan and the United States combined.
"The poultry yard census of continental
United States taken by the
Federal government, shows that the
farmers of this country gather approximately
1,091,3 11,000 dozen
eggs per annum, which sell at. a farm
prico of $306,088,960, and a rota.il
price of $5 4 5,2 S 9,000. These eggs,
Eiccording to the market reports, ars
marketed about as follows:
January 4 7,789,000 dozen
February 63,652,000 dozen
March 65,000,000 dozen
April 303,349,000 dozes
May 318,262,000 dozen
lune 270,432,000 dozen
July 79,565,000 dozen
August 1 43,21 8,000 dozen
September .. ..111,311,000 dozen
Dctober 79,565,000 dozen
November 47,739,000 dozen
December 6 4,152,000 dozen
"The average farm price of eggs
per annum is known to be 20c per
iozen, and tho average retail pries
was 35c per dozen. The highest retail
quotation at any one time and
place during the year was 7 5c and
the lowest price was 20c per dozen.
"The latest census reports show
that there are 2,946,4 1 4 fowls In thi?
State and about three-fourths of
them are egg producers. The annual
production Is 1 1,049,468 dozen
?ggs, with a farm value of $7,162,7
97. Tho yearly poultry productions
s 8,811,348 fowls, valued at $2,648,179.
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^r.?V. 1 IVI'il/ *1 I I' III*
Indian Slays Mate in Order to I/earm.
New Worship.
A tragic story of superstition has #
:ome to light in explaining how a
man named Vahamidan, near O-alcuta,
India, murdored his wife with her
)wn consent in a secret ceremonial.
Vahamidan had heen learning the
irinciplos of Tantric worship from a
monk. To complete his studies h?
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<i uouy. a itor several attempts
to get ono, ho proposed to his
vife that she surrender her life to
\id him, assuring her that he would
revivify her as soon as ho finished
lis studies.
At midnight the devoted wife aesompanied
her husband to the eromalon
group(1, where with her consent,
in cut her in two and began his wordilp
to the goddess Kali. His devoions
concluded, Vahamldan spent
levoral hours trying to restore the
woman to life, lie was found by
ifllcers uttering loud lamentations
ind beating his breast In self-con*
lcmnatlon. The monk has disappeared.
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