The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, January 21, 1915, Image 7
THE ORE
/& successful tc
K0 U0 W0 ;arid sill Blood Dtii
men and woneo
I 'll pa&l 35 years. 'J
?F. V, UFF
WANTS ALLTBBA0U9 i
GRADED AND TIEDI
I1
Will Ask the Legislature now for
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EXTENSION OF THE. SEASON .
N. A. McMillan, "Business Agent j
of the Marion ,Co. Farmers ,
Union, Makes Statement
of What Tobacco Grow
ers Want. v
Editor ?
Sfraie ..the farmer iHtoittt.." I the rnwt?*mont
t.o get hitter marketing conditions
on tin ir tobae.on, so muck .bar
been .said v. hich vr-a?. misleading, we
would be.ulad if >00 would give .us
space to explain to .your 'end. rs what
we want .to do.
We have ashed JLbe legislature to
put a license fee c?f Si ,00 on every
wa use in th.; Stiite and co enact a
law roslrki'tn th: rt\ i.e. je .-.ale of leaf
tobacco which bus been graded and!
tied. Of .course to except bug scrap, j'
At the sa.ue* time tu arr :nd the lav
regulating warehouse charges so they '
will he vodie o 1 to the .N.evih Carolina
scale.
Now what 'vc hope 1? accomplish,
i8: . .
1. An o:st P>'ion of JVo celling season
to avoid ill. terrible .ingestion of
our markets.
2. To keot down ovn production.
M. To recc ivt. a In tie r p?.ico for our
tobacco.
For tlio past few year* we have
had to rush ?ro tobacco a > market
without getting any improvement in
the hulk.. Any good tobacco farmer
knows what a big improvement he
gets 011 the appearance of his tobacco;
by bulking it. for a month or six!
weeks. He ajso knows that ihe buyers
buy his tobacco by the way it
looks when placed on the floor for
sale. We .we. confronted witfr conditions
this year which have not pre-1
vailed henntt&erp. rV;hen < uottflM .was
selling well and labor was scarce, and
we needed all the room we. could get
for our cotton Then vve were raising
normal crops <ff tobao ;o- Thivde.
mand exceeded the supply, cQmpetit-!
tion was keen and toe ouyers greedy
for our tobacco. Then ue could afford
to handle our products in a careless,
manner, and sacrifice 0.1 the price,
; for we were making good money any
way. nut now conditions vire dilTerent:
Last year with vfgy poor .seasons oven
the entire belt we raised ovc?
foj ty-onc million pounds. Had the
..seasons been good we would .have raised
over sixty millions.
Uastem, North Carolina made a
big- crop and as it u- also .a cotton
eodntrv it is but ruiturtv :thaf?hey will
increase.
Now wo had just as well meet the
situation square./. Our tobaccos are
being- discriminated against, and it
due to our method <;f ma-keting them |
Hasten), North Carolina went i.nto
tobacco ra'sing- at the time .that South'
Carolina <Ud. We followed the same
methods <)'< raising and .marketing until
a few years ago when they were;
forged?madx the word?to grade all
of their tobacco. Up to this time we
were receiving about the same prices
for tobacco. Since then ithcy have on
some years nearly doubled us. 1
have taken the trouble to get the averages
from Wilson, N. C., market
for several yeary>. This market as
centrally located in the fiat sandy
eastern coast of the State. When the
lands, the climate, ,the season and the :
people are ^jmiliar ?to the South Caro- j
lina section. They make the name!
types of tobacco we do. They grade j
and tie every leaf. They commence to
soil in August and sell till March.
Now let us see what they are doing.
The Wilson figures were gotton from
thr president of .their bo%rd of trade, ,
an<? the South Carolina figures from
ou?' fttate Commissioner EJ. J. Watson.
Year Wilson S. C, Dif in j
average <
. a. /i a. a no rt.? r\ f\/\ tf>o /\o '
i:MZ ^u;.w $o.ao
1913 19.03 13.77 5.2(5 1914
est, 15.00 .9.(58 5.52
Average loss per year to the South
Carolina farmer is $6.58 per 100 lbs. J j
South Carolina sold during these i
past three years 98,739,124 pounds.!)
Total loss to the South Carolina farm L
er at $6.53 per 100 pounds is $6,447,- ;
644.79. K'?w granting an extreme al i
lowance for grading and loss in ]
weight of $1.50 per 100 pounds, we 1 j
still have a net loss of $4,966,577.93 .
to the South Carolina farmer for three, <
years. This is* a little over a million
and a half dollars net loss per year
distributed over a bout half dozen j
counties. The United States makes <
about 950 million pounds of tobacco!,
each year, livery leaf of it is graded
before being ,c >ld except the forty v
million raised in this State. If they <
arc wrong and we are right why do \j
i
XT BLOOD PURIFIER. {
niTsdy for Rheumatism, Blood Poison !
Beasos. A wonderful tonic for both
Has been nuinufactured for the
it all Druggists* $1.00.
HAN CO., Savannah, 6a.
;hey not adopt our system of marketing?
We have the farmer on our
side who wants to raise a small amount,
handle it nicely and get big returns
for his pains and care. There
lire large farmers who want the same
thing but there is a class of laiae
farmers who are mot pleased with the
bill. This is the -man who h3Ls a big
place and a lot ?>f ignorant negro
share croppers. He wants to make tobacco
like cotton. If he can realize a
decent rental foi his land ho >:.k sal is
lied. It is to lhis class of farmers
that we amy look for over production,
for which we must all suffer, .ton! it is
sure to com* d (conditions continue
like they are- rJiUe only way 1ti> reach ,
it is through the Legislature, for the!
non-resident warehouseman will ncv1
or agree to a -charge. Ho is jwdenlificd
with us fcr only n short season and |
the shorter the season the bettor
pleased he is.. :LiU he it said to the ,
credit of the warehousemen who j
make South Carolina their home, they j
are not lighting it. What they j re t in
increased commissions from higher j
average price wj.il be overcome by the
reduction to the N. C. scale of charges i
and the lengthened time they will j
have to hire the if forces, hut they are
willing to see rlv farmer better his 1
condition if possible. Conditions arc
growing worse ouch year. You see
what the crowded glutted markets
hid for you the past year. Now with
o sixty million cittg to face and with
;pe short time wo have to sell it, am!
with the limited .capacity of the buyer
to handle it, you may expect worse
rmAvded conditions than ever before.
Now wt have plenty of time to correct
this evil and it can be done by the
i 'oposcd law. Write your member of
. .Legislature oj Senator at Columbia
and ask him to do something
to help relieve the situation. If you
fail to do this and fond your tobacco
discriminated against in favor of other
states when the crop is better prepaid
for market and >when they don't
have to sell it all in sixty days, blame
no -one but yourself.
If you will prepart your tobacco
for rjtai ket by letting lit. remain a
reasonable length of time in bulk
then grade and tie it. You will find
the buyer will remain .'&<fre and give
you a square deal, but jf you are disposed
to dump it on the market like
shucks, ^thon you will fiidl the buyer
disposed to throw our crop into the
low grades and pay us accordingly. !
If it is .known before the buyer com-!
os hero he will find the crop graded,'
ho will come with limits on .a graded
basis equal to Eastern Ne>rth Caro
lina, but if it is not a state wide, they;
will come usual with limits on an
11 i? T / it?# 1 hfw---lo n ?i/l f
ivmvvi emu tai; va>\ uvj
grade will receive no benefit.
Write your representative today
U'> hoij) you.
N. A. McMillan,
Bus. A gt. Fsirmers Union Marion
County.
M LIS DEL L. SMITH
ELECTED JUDGE
Fills Place of Judge x^rnest Gary IHv
ceass-d,?I) ist i u guish ed Law y er.
iviendcj L. Smith of Camden, former
speaker of the house, was unanimously
elected Judge of the Fifth circuit
Jast week by the joint assembly. He
succeeds the late Judge Ernest Gary
of Columbia. Some surprise was
caused by the fact that Mr. Smith's
name was the *?nly one offered for the
vacancy on the bench.
Judge Smith served several terms
in the house from Kershaw county
During the past four years Vie was
speaker of the houae and admittedly
one of the most brilliant presiding
officers that body ever had. In the
last Democratic primary Judge Smith
was an unsuccessful candidate for
governor. In his race he espoused
strongly the cause of law and order.'
Mendel Lafayette Smith was born
July 5, 1870 at Smithville, S. C. His
father, L. M. Smith, was a most use
ful and substantial citizen; his mother
a woman of remarkable energy and
executive ability. Mendel Smith attended
the common schools of Smithville
and later went to Camden to attend
the graded school. After one
year at Wofford College, Spartanburg,
he entered, in J885, the Citadel, in
Charleston, from which he was graduated
four years later. He took a law
course at the University of Virginia
and in 1895 was admitted to the South
Carolina bar. He was elected to the
lower house of the general assembly
in ii)00. lie became speaker in 1908
and presided over the body for several
terms.
Mr. Smith v. as married in April,
1895 to I'.'iss Anna Dixon. They have
foj v\ 'hi 'on. He conducted a Bible
A.a.ig f v } oung men in the Baptist
hurch at Camden.
t>. nth was one of the candit.
- s for governor in the campaign
)'f a summer, which result d in the
ainutioa of Richard !. Manning.
THROWS I? JOB
BEFORE HIS TIME'
1 ' <
Like Hrs Other Acts as Chief 1
Executive of State <
SMITH SWORF IN PLACE 1
Lieut. Governor Smith Held :
Till Last Tuesday, the 19th, !
When Manning Sworn In
A telegram was roc ci vox I here last (
week to the effect that Gov. Cole I/.
Ill ease had resigned the office, tendering
his resignation to the General assembly.
tic did this at 12:15 o'clock |
on Thursday of last week and just
thirty minutes later, Lieutenant Gov- ,
ernor Chas. A. Smith was sworn in
UK J rOVonini* p.nrl lir, Vital*' i'r?r fLo v*%.
waining five days of the time that
JRlcaso should have servwd the great
State that lie claimed to.love so well i
and which lie never lost .an opportunity
ito .extol Notice
to the genera) assembly that
Gov. JSlcase J.u;d withdrawn .from ofilee
was contained in the following communication,
read in both the house (
and scutate:
Jan nary 14, 1915. ,
' To the General Assembly of South
Carolina.
"1 hereby resign as governor of ,
South Carolina.
(Signed) Cole L. I)lease."
The resignation was written in red
ink on a sheet of the governor's pri-'
vote stationery. A duplicate of the
communication to the general assembly
was filed in the office of the secretary
of state.
Although Ch-.iK. A. Smith had taken
the oath of ofliae and was governor of
South Carolina., he agreed at .the reour
st of the ir.oneral assemblx to he!
inaugurated formally at noon before J
the joint assembly in the hall of the!
house. lie occupied the office of the
governor in the west wing of the
State house. The failure of the senate
to act tliat night on the resolution
from the house fixing noon for a meet |
ing of the joint assembly threw some
doubt around the time for the formal
inauguration of Gov. Smith.
LeGrand Walker, president pro
tempore of the senate, succeeded Governor
Smith as president of the senate.
President Walker announced
that he would not Jake advantage of
the permissive clause in the constitution
which would allow him to qualify
as lieutenant governor and hold the
office until Andrew J. Bcthea of'Columbia
was inaugurated on January
19. President Walker said, in effect,
that he was satisfied to continue to
hold his office as senator from George
town, which he has held for 21 years.
The resignation of Gov. Blcasc
made a pallid day in the general assembly
take on a hectic tinge.
Came as a Surprise.
"It startled me. 1 was very much 1
surprised. 1 do hate to leave the senate,
because my work there has been i '
so pleasant,'' said Charles A. Smith,
governor of South Carolina, as lie sat
in the executive office t\\ 1 he St-ni-e ! '
house, shortly after he had been '
sworn in.
Gov. Smith received many telegrams
congratulating him upon his
elevation to the high office. Many '
called over the telephone from points
in the State. During the afternoon
there was a constant stream of callers 1
"1 have already received three pe- !
titions for pardon. They are right
important cases, but 1 have taken no 1
action," said Gov. Smith.
Gov. Smith said that he would re- '
tire from politics at the expiration of
his term of office as governor. 1
One of the first acts of Gov. Charles
A. Smith was to name C. L. Blease, (
former governor, as a notary public (
of Richland county.
Gov. Smith also appointed W. F.
lackburn as his private secretary ^
to the retiring chief executive. Ail of (
the other members of the office force
will be retained by the new governor (
during the 120 hours of his incumben- 1
<
/ \7 1 *
The News Spreads. 1
1
The first intimation that he was j
going' to be made governor of South
Carolina came to Charles A. Smith
at 12:15 o'clock as he was ascending ^
the steps of the speaker's rostrum in
the house to provide over the the joint ^
session at which Mendel L. Smith
was elected judge of the Fifth circuit. ^
Gov Smith, who was still lieutenant t
governor then was stopepd on his way
up to the steps by W. F. Blackburn, ^
secretary to Gov. Blease,. Mi'. Black ?
burn told him to come down to the .
governor's office as soon as the joint
session was over and imparted the
further information that Gov. Blease
had resigned.
Through sources other than Gov. ,
Smith and Mi-. Blackburn the news
V
of the governor's rcs'g mtion got
abroad among the people in the lob- .
bios and was spread among me B . ; s
of the house and senate : ilting i?.
joint sessi -n to elect a j-' lgc.
On hi.4 way 1 ach vo be
chamber ; the head of tin4 p:v- .
. >ion of 5tru),tc>rd> after the join - csi
ceir.bly adjouvned at 12:45 o'^locV
Gov. Smith was congratulat 1 on hi^i
Hidden elevation to the office of chief
executive. He smiled and remarked,
Til have a long time to serve, won't
1?" a
Reaching the senate chamber, Gov.
Smith called LeGrand Walker, president
pro tempore of the senate, to
the chair and went down to the gov-1
mi nor's office. There he was told i
that Gov. HI ease had resigned.
At 12:45 o'clock Charles A. Smith .
appeared before the supreme court,
being presented by F. H. Dominick,
assistant attorney general. He took
the oath of office from Eugene L>.
Clary, chief justice, a moment later.
Resignation Applauded.
The news of the resignation of Gov.
rtlease was officially confirmed in the
bouse at 12:45 o'clock, when Speaker
[Ioyt announced, "A communication
from his excellency, the governor."
"To the general assembly of South
Carolina: 1 hereby resign as governor
)f South Carolina. Cole L. Hlease,
read i\. E. Hutchinson, reading clerk
jf the house.
cvv'tuu red applause wnicli swelled
in volume until Speaker Hoyt rapped
for order greeted the reading of the
sorr.municution.
Iirme'lately the house took a re?c
;s subject to the call of the speaker.
The recess was ended a few minutes
later when message No. 1 was
ved Tom Coy. Smith.
Tlie message read:
To the Honorable, the Members of
the General Assembly of the State
of South Carolina:
"I hove the honor to inform yot
that upon the resignation of Hon.
Cole T.. lilease , as governor of the
State of South Carolina, 1 appeared
before the supreme court of the State
of S6uth Carolina, and being duly
presented by Mr. Assistant Attorney
General bred H. Dominick, was sworn
a as cTV governor of the Stale <
South Carolina?the oath of office
having been taken by me at 12:45
o'clock j). m. this day.
"Very respectfully,
Charles A. Smith."
A hearty round of applause, which
the speaker had some trouble in silencing
with his gave1, followed the
reading of message No. 1 from Gov.
Smith.
Mr. McMahan of Richland offered
the following resolution:
"Resolved, That a committee of
throe be appointed by the speaker to
wait upon his excellency, Charles a.
Smith, governor, and inquire.whether
it will he agreeable to him to be inducted
into office more formally in thi
presence of the joint assembly."
Governor Richard [. Manning waz
inaugurated last Tuesday.
Work of the Audubon Society.
The Audubon Societies are the em
bodiment of a great nationwide movement
for hire pt .ction. There are
. 'late .sOtii uics >?.. v ,
united in formrng me National Association.
These societies are named in honor
of John James Audubon, the great
paiiuer-naturalist. He lived in the
first half of tile eighteenth century
and did more to teach Americans I
aoout the birds of their own country
than any other person that ever lived.
As far back as 1883, an awakening
interest in the decrease of bird life,
and the need for its protection, callec
forth a comment from the magazine.
forest and stream. in ibbo, tnc
State of New Jersey placed upon her
statute books what was, perhaps, u.
first comprehensive bird law ever pass
I'd.
The first Audubon Society in the
country was in 1886, and from the
very beginning the cause which it rep
resented has enlisted the co-operation
md attracted the support of the highest
types of men and women in the
country. Among the first to commend
the movement were Henry Ward
Beechcr, John G. Whittier, Bishop
Henry Potter, Oliver Wendell Holmes,
and Charles Dudley Warner.
The South Carolina Audubon Society
was organized in 1900. It has
liready done a great work in this
State in calling the attention of the
iiiblic to the economic value of birds.
lJ.. has proposed most of the State
aws for the protection of game and
ion-game birds.
The work of spreading broad-cast
he most relable information concernngthe
good which birds do in the
.voods and fields, the Socictv hones to
;ontinuc, until the knowledge pone,rates
every nook and corner of the
State.
Dr. Edward Howe Forbush, State
Drinthologist of Massachusetts says:
'That an acquuutanec with the useful
>irds on the farm is as important to
he farmer as is a knowledge of tho
nsect yjests which attack his crops."
The U. S. Bureau of Biological Surrey
tells that two of the most useful
>irds on the farm?the dove and the
urtridge. The dove is the champion
eed seed-ester. The bureau advises
ts protection in eve r; possible way.
iT.?- partridge is ,p. r! aps the best allu
\>\ sod' turd, .i.s he cats beta sccci and t
assets.
To Curs Cold in One Pay
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EUROPEAN WAR SUMMARY.
Short Statement of How Matters
Stood Last Monday, the Beginning
Of Present Week.
Neither in the east nor the west
do the operations of the opposing
forces show material change so far as
the ^official statements of the French
Germans and Russians disclose. A late
dispatch from Boulogne, however, declares
the Germans have evacuated
Lille, and that that city virtually is
in possession of the British. Dunkirk
has been bombarded again by German
aeroplanes. Thirty bombs were
thrown, but the Ravas Agency says
the victims were few ami the material
damage unimportant.
! It is also reported that a Zeppelin
land three German aeroplanes passed
over Funics, Dunkirk and Calis Saturday
night, apparently headed for
Dover. Hut late advices say po hostile
air craft have been sighted along
he Flnglish coast.
in Poland and Galieia the struggle
coins to ho one which embodies very
enull gains for a vast amount of ef"!-t.
Nothing has come out of that
rrito y to indicate a decisive result
at any point.
The British re) ly to the American
note regarding treatment of American
commerce by the British fleet has
been published at Washington. The
reply, which is merely preliminary,
concedes the principles of the American
government's contentions, dwells
upon the difllculiies confronting the
British Government and declares that
Great Britain desires to restrict its
action solely to interfere with contraband
destined for the enemy.
The London psoars < xpress approval
of the handling of the subject by
CO.. ,.,i n. -_v. :
kjn ajvivwiim v.:u(\ , llie uliusil iwi'v i 1 : i ?
secretary. They declare that while all
possible concessions should bo made
where only questions of procedure are
concerned, England's position precludes
any real change in her policy.
There is no confirmation of the report
that there has been a battle off
the Brazilian coast between the British
cruiser Invincible and the German
cruiser von Dor Tann.
Petrograd reports that the Turkish
cruisers Breslau and Hamidieh were
considerably damaged in a recent battle
in the Black Sea with Russian war
ships. The Russians have sunk a nuni
ber of Turkish merchant craft.
Complaning that the Germans are
holding captive French surgeons and
nurses, France declares that hereafter
she will repartriate German surgeons
and nurses held by the French only in
proportion to the French surgeons
and nurses returned to France.
CORONER'S JURY SAYS NORRIS
WAS MURDERED.
Tracks Found in the Back Yard and
Rear Window of Kitchen Was
Raised.?Police Will ConContinue
I. 'Obligation.
Raleigh, N. C., Jan. 17.?At an inquest
held today over the body of M.
T. Norris, prominent retired business
man of this city, who was found dead
in his back yard Saturday morning*
the coroner's jury returned a verdict
that the dead man was shot by an unknown
person.
The jury found tracks indicating* that
some one had jumped over the fence
surrounding* the yard and had ilci
hastily.
The negro servant who found the
body stated that a pistol was underneath
and that a rear kitchen window
had been raised and a box with timber
lain on top, was under the window.
Mrs. Norris, wife of the dead man,'
testified that it was the custom of her
husband to take a pistol in his hand
when investigating noises at night
and that he often got up when any
disturbance occurred at his stables, to,
the rear of the home. She reiterated
her former story that her husband,
slept in an adjoining room, arose
when he heard a noise as of some one
raising a window in the kitchen and
that she went back to sleep when he
reported finding nothing. A brother
f the dead man also testified to i
hearing a similar noise but went back
to sleep when all became quiet.
The police will further investigate
the mystery.
DOGGREL.
Old 'Lijah Lee bought a hundred
head
Of Southern sheep, that he aims to
to keep
In the pasture back of the river bed
They're high-toned critters, and
fancy bred.
Old Lije, ho reads all the books
than's sent
By the Ag-ri-cul churl Dee-part ment
He lows e'll be rich some day
il we'u.a; '11 kcoy our dawgs away.
Hut w'\'d.*1] \ 'uns do with Fanny,
An' Hooie an' Dewey?
- n' F?pct, Sport, Ki an' Hawg ?
llow'll we get she, of Annie
A. 1 )ownie an" Urovvnic
Of >"gyer, Jigger, Nannie, Ray an'!
Tr y?
Why, \ o wont h vo a d: wggoi.e
dawg! 1F. Mclntyro.
i
BLEASE REASONS I
NOT FORTHCOMING I
Why He Quit the High Office I
Six Days Before Time I
GREAT MANY^CONJECTURES I
Short Paper Whereon He v/rote 1
His Resignation in Red
Ink Was All.
Written in his own handwriting
l unci with red ink were the words "I
hereby resign as governor of South
j Carolina." That was all there was to
til a t a?i 4-V* ?* m fc'+A.I a I
vll|> vvmuiwiiivniilVIl 111MV O ut I tcu <%
whirlwind in the 'cgislativc halls last
! work. The note was written on the
stationery of Colo L. Mease, lawyer,
j and not on thai as Chief Executive of
the State. A threat many >vho heard
i the rumor of the 'Tsignation did not i
believe that it was so. hut when the
House heard the formal reading of
the notv there was considerable ap.il.
use. and hater en when Co /. Chas.
\. Smith sent his special message No.
1 to notify the G- Assimbiy that
I he h < qualified, as Governor, there
! was another outburst-, c' a^ylat.s^
Th? history of pdHi.'s m;i\ be pictured
to sum ' e^it v?i. hy the fact that
the formal rcsi,- ation of a Governor
of South Carolina was written on iJie
tower mar;vin r< v i ived <ts information
" and that disposes of the whole mat
tor." It is a real ease . !' "long live
, the King,"
Tense Situation.
Of course. it mus bo roealized tnat
the unexpected v? dgnation of Governor
Bloase created a t?~ so situation.
It was like an earthquake. The news
paper men were the fust to grasp the
situation and in five minutes had heralded
the news to all parts of the
coum y. Lieutenant Governor .Smith,
in company with friends, lost a very
few minutes in qualifying, but it was
not caLsfyirg to a s? notion like
this ' break'' without asking the whys
As yet no one has been able to answer,
there are all sorts of reasons
assigned. Of course, ev< ryone knows
that Governor Blease is a r.uiclc and
impulsive man and that ho may have
done it upon the spur of the moment
but there are many who do not credit
him with such impulsiveness. Here
are some of the many reasons that
are assigned for the unexpected resig|
nation. '
i Forst, that it was done for culveiti?3
ing purposes.
Second, that he wished to give Chas
A. Smith, with whom lie had been
very friendly, the privilege of being
Governor for five days.
Third, that he wished to oust Sen:
ator LeGrand Walker from the position
of Senator from Georgetown coun
ty by virtue of the fact that he is
i Piesident pro tern of the Senate.
Fourth, that Governor Blease is not
on such friendly political terms with
Governor-elect Manning that ho wishes
to narticinntr. in ih.- ImIIm-'o wjh
gurat ion and be present at the ceremonies
incident to the inauguration
in whose election he had no
part.
Fifth, that he did not care to enter
into in peaehme t p.- cctn.ings. of
winch *hore had be*, n - - .me rumor.
The last is probably the least probable,
because Governor Blouse is never
afraid of a political result?nor does
he shun the limelight.
Kept His Counsel.
I None of these may be the real reason,
because the Governor has kept
his own counsel in this matter and his
resignation was limited to eight simple
words that had no bearing on reasons.
At all events it is no longer Governor
Blease, but it is now Governor Chas
A. Smith,
AWWRATL3 FOB ' A KING ICE.
Every farmer can have his own ice
plant at a cost of from $13 to $20, if
lie will use the apparatus described in
a new bulletin just issued by I). J. D.
Walters, professor of archeticture of
the Kansas Agricultural college.
The ice plant is made of galvanized
iron and consists of a double tank
with an inner tank about 10 feet long,
2 feet wide, and 12 inches deep. The
top of the tank should be slightly wider
than the bottom. The inner tank
should be divided into six compartments
by means of galvanized iron
strips.
, double tank should be placed
near an outdoor pump where the compartments
can be easily filled with wa
ter. Being exposed on all sides, the
water wi'l Ihvt zo in from nno to three
hours. A bucket full of hoi, water
poured into the space between the two
tanks will loosen the cakes so that
they may be removed. One freezing
will j Ac live oak ?s of ice ach weighing
120 pounds. Fourteen freezings
will yield four tons of pure ice, or
enough to las. an avo ago family for
a year. The cai.es of ice can be packed
aw; y in sawdust in the cellar as
they arc frozen.
To Prevent Hlood P isonlng
ireJy one* till vi|'.l?r(; < rciiMwJc f>:t.
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