Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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;7 > v.? 1 iarr,ySpjflT PftHflTO ^ GLfl g * t* \ Jf it! y ninor Events of the Week in a # IP ^ (p Brief Form. ? ? 5 Sunday Bud Leo Clingscales and "Lewis Miller, two negro convicts on the gan? cf road-wo; he: s. went in .swimming in Littie river at Hartin's mill in Abbeville county. Their shackles were not removed and when | tliov get beyond theid depth were en- I taagrlei? and weighted down by them an i could not swim or regain the bank. Before assistance could be had they both lost consciousness. Miller was revived but C!inks;-alcs was dead before any means of reviving him could be obtained. Clinks,ales had about sis months more to serve as a convict. Monday morning about six miles ' from Johnston in Saluda county Mr. John Shaver was shot and -killed by Kufus Durst, a young white man. It appears from the information obtained that Durst wanted Shaver's son. who. with his father, was a tenant working on shares on Durst's father's farm, to work in the latter's field. Shaver explained that his son had to go away for part of the d3v. It seems that Durst became infuriated. Hot words passed and Durst pulled his pistol and fired, killing old man Shaver, who was about 70 years. Another of the ante-bellum mansion of the State has succumbed to the A few rfavs asro 011c of the ! olhest houses in the MeClellanviHe neighborhood n?ar Planterville in Georgetown county was burned and the origin of the fir? is unknown. It was a three-story structure, built when nails were wrought by hand, and ! was owned by the Poor family prior I to *he Civil War. but of recent years it has b:-en in the family of the late ; I)r. Horace Leland. Lewis Smith, g Confederate veteran 61 years old aad one-legged, vho lives near Kinard's store, about 15 miies frcm Saluda, has been sent up to the circuit court by Magistrate S. M. Meyers on the charge of attempting a nameless crime on his grandniece, a child of 10 years. Smith denies his guilt. The people of the community are much stirred up over the affair, but to their credit nothing illegal has been attempted or even thought of. A smooth young fellow giving his name as Howard ar.d claiming to represent the Curtis Publishing company, of Philadelphia, said $75 worth of subscriptions to the Saturday Evening: cost to young men in v_oiunroia some time ago. The young mcu have received no paper, bat, instead, the information from the Curtis company that they have no such man representing them. He was clearly a fakir. On the grave of Wade Hamptin there was laid Saturda> a beautiful laurel wreath, sent by members of the Charleston Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy through the regent. Mrs. James Connor, the widow of the gallant Confederate brigadier, who was aitorney general in Governor Hampton's cabinet. The wreath was sent to Mrs. Clark Waring, regent of the Wade Hampton chapter. The engineering corps of the Tennessee, Georgia an 1 South Carolina Jfcjailroad has reached Anderson. This rdad is projected to run from Chattanooga to that city. A charter was secured some time ago and for several months the work of making the preliminary survey has been in progress. The work has beta completed, the surveyors reaching Anderson from Walhalla. Saturday night in Florence some trouble arose between Alonzo Pike, a white man. and Isham Brown, a negro, which resulted in the white man being seriously cut about the neck. The trouble arose from the fact that earlier in the day the negro ran into Mr. Pikp with n hirvrdp The Vigilant Building and Loan company of Charleston has been chartered. The capital stock will ultimately be $120,000. The officers are T. A. Wilbur. president: John B. Reeves, vice president; B. J. McTureous. secretary and treasurer, and R. S. Whaler, solicitor, ' The Bank of Saluda has applied for a charter. It will be operated with a capital stock of $25,000 and the gentlemen who are backing the enterprise are B. W. Crouch. Geo. C. Wheeler, Alvin Etheredge and J. P. Lindler. There are no new developments of * any kind in the sensational discovery of Saturday morning of the bloody tracks ana other evidences of foul play discovered in the rear of Tomlinson's store on East Main street in Spartanburg. The growers of strawberries in Marion. of whom there are a good number in and around the place, are daily shipping fine berries in large quantities. The dispensary was defeated at Greenwood Monday by a heavy majority. The vote stood 313 against to 175 for it. This makes the fifth defeat for the dispensary at that place. Cuba Gets Isle of Pines. Washington, Special.?Although the negotiations are still in progress between the United States and Cuba respecting the Isle cf Pine3, there is reason to believe that the treaty to be kieawn and which is now practically ; -complete will confirm the title of iCuba to the island. News Notes. Teachers in the Chicago public schools must pay their bills, otherwise & .they will have to look for employment -elsewhere, says the school management committee. The .specific case which caused the committee to act was that of a young woman teacher who was married last year. Her creditors charged that she failed to pay for her wedding clothes, and that she also I-'i owed S100 fcr board. The committee ordered her to pay her tills cr look for a new place. 7 . i ' .i-T . - ' .-J, -. WEATHER AND CROPS. Conditions the Past Week as Given by the Department. The week ending S a. m.. Monday. April loth, had a moan temperature of j about 66 degrees, which is 4 degrees above norma!. The first of the week J was cool, the middle and iatter portions were very warm. It appears that the frost of the 5th reached to within a few miles of the coast, and that thin ; ice formed over the northern counties, but that the damage was slight, and j was confined to white potatoes and ojker tender garden true!:. Fruit cs- j taped injury. ! There were quite general rains on the 8th. heavy in the western and northern counties, that deiayed farmwork materially by making the ground tco wot to plow in the aheady named divisions, where plowing was practicable on one or two days only, a: the close of the week. The rainfail was light, over the east- | em half of the stats and farmwerk was j scarcely interrupted by it. The week j cioscd with warm, cloudy, threatening J and showery conditions prevailing, that are favorable fcr growth of vegetation. but are unfavorable for the rapid progress of farmwork. Planting operations made favorable progress, in the eastern and southeastrn counties, and ars as far advanced as usual, at this season. In the western counties, planting is from 10 to 15 days later than usual, with but little corn and no cotton planted. Corn that was planted early is coming up to fair stands, and some is ucing cultivated. Birds are destroying stands in a few counties. Cotton planting has not advanced beyond the central counties, and. in places, in the eastern counties is being purposely delayed. awaiting more settled weather. Oats look well in a few localities only. CunnMiiv thev hnvo hppn seriously damaged by a grain aphis, and by rust. S:rae fields are ruined. Wheat has an unusually rank growth, but in places the plants arc turning red. in other 'localities rust has appeared, both conditions tending to mar its prospects. Rice planting has made fair progress, except in the Georgetown district where the lands arc still too wet to work. Tobacco plants are plentiful and rarlv. Transplanting is actively underway. Some farmers have almost finished this work. Strawberry shipments are being made from all the eastern truck districts. Melon plants are sickly in the Charleston districts owing to defective seed. Other truck crops are growing slowly. Bugs have appeared on white potatoes. Pastures afford fine g-azing. Fruit prospects appear to be unimpaired, with, however, a few localities that report peaches sparsely 3Ct Perpetual Motion at Last. Sumter, Special.?Mr. D. G. Zeigler. an architect of this city, has invented a machine for perpetual motion which he thinks has solved the problem ! which has puzzled the world up to this time. It is the first perpetual motien invention that the United States government has allowed a patent for in 40 years. It has also been patented in every foreign country. Mr. Zeigler would not make his invention public until he had it covered by patents in every county. In the near future Mr. Zeigler will use this machine for practical wnrk The United States patent office has the following to say about the machine: "The invention utilizes the gravitative force of a traveling weight arranged to move in a circle and during each revolution to pass towards and from the centre of rotation in a path, to bring the preponderance of weight on the descending side of the rotative support, carrying the same weight, whereby power is generated to perform effective work. MARKETS. ! Corn 42 j Wheat 83 Bacon 12 1-2 , Lard 12 1-2? 13 | Oats 33 Sugar, Granulated 5 3-4 Peanuts :. ..4@4 1-2 Cattle, live 2@4 CHICAGO GRAIN AND PRODUCE. The grain and provisions market experienced another weak session and closing prices were lower all around: May wheat being off 1-4: corn 1-4 lower and oats down l-4@3-S; provisions were fpom 12 1-2 to 22 1-2 | lower. Farmer Cuts His Throat. Spartanburg, S. C., Special.?A special from Seneca says that Thomas Hewbanks, a young farmer who lives at Oakway, ten miles south of there, committed suicide Sunday morning. The man was missing several hours and search for him resulted in finding him dead in a field near his home, with his throat cut from ear to ear. No cause is assigned for the act. Killed While Playing Ball. Newnan, Ga., Special.?Punch Arnold, 15 years old, sou of the county supervisor, was killed Monday afternoon while playing baseball. He was struck over the heart by a swift ball, and fell to the ground. Physicians were summoned, but the boy expired within a few moments. *\ia n.? Ckn? .nr| If VIU i laii uuw A special to The News and Courier from Saluda, S. C.. says: "Rucus Durst, a young white man, at Pleasant Cross, shot and instantly killed John Shaver, aged 60 and the father of a family. The trouble grew out of a dispute as to land rented by Shaver." The Alexander Murder. New Orleans, La., Special.?Captain R. Duckworth, inspector of the Liverpool police department, has arrived at Biloxi, Miss., and is securing the history of the British ship Avonica, in connection with the four members of the crew, who are charged with muI'ny and murdering Captain Alexander Stowo. First Mate MacLeod, Second Mate Abraham Jcr.cs and several members of the crew, February 19, on the high seas. A number of the crew were shipped at Biloxi and near by points. f . V* -r *?.!. ' ? ' ; ^ ;*r v*' '.V.' CLEVELAND SPEAKS. Ex-President Talks at Tuskeegee institute Banquet in New York. SOUTH ENTITLED TO SYMPATHY i In the Solution cf the Negro Problem l hey "Must Bear the Heat of the , I Day." j Now York. Special.?Former PresiI dent Grover Cleveland was the princii pal speaker Tuesday night at a meeting held in the concert hall of Madison Square Garden in the inteiest of the Tuskeegee Normal and Industrial School Institute. Among those on the platform with I Mr. Cleveland were Mayor Low, who | presided; Booker T. Washington, EdI gar G. Murphy. Dr. Lyman Abbott, i president Nicholas Murray Butler, and i Dean J. Van Amringe, of Columbia; W. K. Baldwin, Chancellor McCraeken, of New York University; John De Witt Warner, and George F. Peabody. Mrs. Cleevland sat in the gallery with Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, who are Mr. Cleveland's hosts while he is in the city. Mr. Cleveland, who was greeted with prolonged applause, as he was introduced by Mayor Low, said In part: "I have come here tonight as a sincere friend of the negro and I should be very sorry to 3upno3e that my good and regular standing in such cc~3pany needed support at this late day either from certificate or confession of faith. Inasmuch, however, as there may be differences of thought and sentiment among those who profess to be frien?3 of thecegro. I desire to declare myself as belonging tn the Booker T. Washington-Tuskeegee section of the organization. THE DAYS OF UNCLE TOM'S CABIN PAST. "I believe that the days of Uncle Tom's Cabin are rast. I believe that neither the decree that made the slaves free, nor the enactment tb?A suddenly invested them with the rights of citlI zenship any more purged them of their I racial and slavery-bred imperfections 1 and deficiencies than it changed the | color of their skin. I believe that among the nearly nine millions of negroes who have been intermixed with our citizenship, there is still a grievous amount of ignorance, a sad amount of viciousncss and a tremendous amount of laziness and thriftlessness. I believe that these conditions inexorably present to the white people of the United States, to each in his environment and under the mandate of good citizenship. a problem, which neither enlightened self-interest nor the higher motive of human sympathy will permit them to put aside. THE SOUTH ENTITLED >3 SYMPATHY. "I believe our fellow-countrymen in the Southern and late slave-holding States, surrounded by about ninetenths, or nearly eight millions of this entire negro population and who regard their material prosperity, their peace and even the safety of their civilization. interwoven with the negro problem, are entitled to our utmost consideration and sympathy and fellowship. I am thoroughly convinced that the efforts of Booker Washington and the methods of Tuskeegee Institute point the way to a safe and beneficent solution of the vexatious negro problem at the South, and I know ?he godd people at the North, who have aided these efforts and methods, have illustrated the highest and best citizenship and the most Christian and enlightened pniiantiiropism. "I do not know how it may be with mind tonight, the thought that after all we of the North may do. the realization of our hopes for the negro must, after all, mainly depend?except so far as it rests with the negroes themselves?upon the sentiment and conduct of the leading and responsible white men of thu South and upon the maintenance of a kindly and helpful feeling on their part towards those in their midst who so much need their aid and encouragement." Mr. Cleveland closed with a strong appeal for the uplifting of the race and In closing introduced Booker T. Washington. Nine Killed by Cyclone. Birmingham, Ala., Special.?A brief special to The Age-Herald from Evergreen, Ala., says that at least nine persons were killed and an immense loss to property was caused by a cyclone which visited Burnt Cork and Petcrmar., in Monroe county Tuesday night. Largest Man Dead. Fayetteville, Special.?At 11 o'clock Tuesday at his residence on Gillespie street, died Mr. James A. Burns, a prominent business man of this city, cf great energy and ample means, carrying on a grocery on Gillespie street, with a large slothing house in the Williams-Morgan iron-front block on Hay street. Mr. Burns was probably in physique the largest man in North Carolina, weigh? ?1 J- son mg, VMlCd in lluaiLll, auuut 1/A.v pounds. He was a native of Alamance. a near relative of Mr. Ransom Burns, of tbU city, and of the late Sheriff Burns. Telegraphic Br'efs. The United States Supreme Court sustained the contention of the city of Memphis, Tenn., in the tax proceeding cf the Union and Planters' Bank against that city. The bank claimed exemption from taxation. The opinion sustained the decision of the United States Circuit Cot/rt, but held that the Circuit Court of Appeals should not be justified in assuming jurisdiction in the case. ^ THE GOEBEL MURDER. Some Important Testimony Takeg B.-forc the Court, Frankfort. Kv.. SDecial.?Henry B. Youtsey for the first time told on the witness stand his story of the killing of the late Governor Goebel. He named < James Howard, the defendant, as the man who fired the shot. Youtsey said 1 he saw Howard for the first time a few minutes before the shooting. Howard had a letter sent him several days bp- t 'fore by the witness at Governor Tay- 1 lor's dictation. Youtsey says he took 1 Howard into the office of Caleb Pow- f ers. then Secretary of State, which had 1 been especially arranged for the shoot- 1 ing. He showed Howard the Marlin rifle, the bullets and the window from ^ which the shooting was to be done. He says Howard asked what he was to got for doing the shooting. 1 "What do you want for It?" Yout- ] scy says he asked, and that Howard said he wanted a pardon for killing George Baker. "I told him he could have that and more, too," said Youstey. "About that time,"' said the witness, "Goebel came in the gate and I pointed him out to Howard and then ran from the room. As I disappeared down the steps to the basement I heard the crack of Howard's rifle." Youtsey said that after the shooting he passed through the State house basement and a few minutes later came back into the executive building from the east side entrance. "I stayed in the office of Assistant Secretary of State Matthews,' 'said he, "for a few moments and saw Matthews break open Caleb Powers' office and find tbe gun that had been left in there." Younisey said that at the time of the shooting he was private secretary to Auditor Sweeney, but that while his political siatus was not definitely fixed it wa3 understood he was to have a j good place under Taylor. "Governor ? Taylor," said Youtsey, "directed everything we did. We regarded him as our leader and he was morally responsible for all we did. We knew we had the * Governor and the pardoning power behind us. and were not afraid of pun- 1 ishment for killing Goebel." 1 Youtsey, on cross-examination, said i that after he was arrested and later 1 sent to the penitentiary, he still had hope of gaining his liberty. He thought Yerkes would be elected Gov- ' ernor and would pardon him. Yerkes was defeated, however, and about a year ago he decided to talk aud did tell his story to Prison Physician Tobin. Youtsey said further that he had an additional incentive to tell the story, i as Taylor, Powers and others had used him as a cat's paw and scape-goat and ( then deserted him when he got into trouble. Serious Fire in B >aumont. Beaumont, Texas, Special.?A careless workman kicked over a lanteran at one of the Caldwell oil wells on Block 38, Hogg-Swayne tract, on Spindle Top and started a fire that resulted in the loss of property valued at'$l,000,000 and the bankruptcy of twenty or more of the smaller companies. There were 175 wells on the three blocks of the tract, and only five of the derricks and pump houses are left standing. Every company that had property in the Hogg-Swayne tract is a loser. The fire swept the'three blocks covered with derricks and pump houses clear of all its buildings. The derricks left are on the edge and are few and far between. None of the companies had a cent of insurance. The fire started near the scouthern edge of Block No. 38 and spread three ways. Pumping stations, derricks and pipe lines all fell before it. Large engines and thick pipe melted In the heat. It is estimated that 170 of the wells sustained an average direct loss -? i.nn nf half t U1 <pO,UUU. X mo l J VAV.I UCI V W Vi. UW?4 V* million dollars more, the aggregate loss on production and other damages. Fifty or more well3 probably are ruined by the dropping of tubing into them as the result of the Are. Among the losers are: London Oil and Pipe Line Company, Caldwell Oil Company, Spindle Top Power Company, Central Power and Equipment Company, Pumping Station Dividend Oil Company, Detroit-Beaumont, Palestine-Beaumont, Sun Company, Advance Oil Company, ruttr Onnon of Wnryi Drum V(UtCU V?V/, T. mors, Alamo. Buckeye, Ground Floor, Manhattan. Boreaulis and Buffalo. All pumping rigs, bricks and pipe line equipments were destroyed. Extensive losses were sustained by owners of drilling rigs, among whom were H. B. ( Ford, Cartwright Oil Company, John Markham and J. W. Ennis. Mr. Ennis estimates his loss at $15,000 and others at from $1,000 to $1,000. Metal to Be Tested. Washington. Special.?Unable to determine with any definiteness the real cause for the recent explosion on the Iowa, the board of investigation ap pointed has recommended a critical I mechanical and chemical test under the direction of an expert board to establish the condition cf the metal of the burst gun. Secretary Moody, acting cn this recommendation probably will appoint an expert board. Rear Admiral Higginson has reported to the Department that the mate of the injured gun was damaged by the explosion, receiving several deep scores and scratches along its chase. It is recommended that this gun be not flred until thoroughly examined, tested and aligned. The flan In the Barrel. New York, Special.?Vito Laduca. who was supposed to have been the j proprietor of the butcher shop in Stan- , ton street, where nine arrests were made in connection with the murder of the man found in the barrel in East Eleventh street, last Tuesday morning, 1 surrendered himself at police headquar- ; ters and was held by the police a3 a ? witness. Nikola Testro, 19 years old, . who lives with him, also went to police i ' headquarters ami was detained by the I police for the same purpose. I 1 ' / 7" SOUTHERN f, ci? TOPICS OF INTEREST TO TIIEPUNTEi x ItreeUer'a Alfalfa Stacker. Wo are asked to invite discussion of < ;he fastest method for handling alfalfa ; my in the meadow, our correspondent I ( aeiug dissatisfied with his stacker and j stating that it takes too long to move \ from one stack to another. We subnit a drawing of a stacker which has | ieen in use on Woodlawn Farm for j :wo years and which seems to us ] ivould Iielp our correspondent in his < Iidicultics. Our field force when stack- j ng consists of two men on the stack, ; two men at the fork, a boy to ride ( liorsc at the derrick, four hoys riding ( liorses hauling up and one man loading ( sleds. We use good sized sleds without runners for hauling hay to the stack. ; With this force we have built a stack af fifteen tons in about three hours. Tlie chief advantage of this stacker , s that it can be moved so easily. After 1 finishing one stack we hitch a team to stacker and in twenty minutes are ' throwing hay onto a new one. The casting at A turns on the pole and allows the yard to swing around to i any position, dropping the hay at any part of the stack. We drive one stake at B and one at C and put a weight at B to anchor the stacker firmly and keep it from moving or tipping. When ' the stack is nearly completed we find it necessary to put a chunk under each ' corner Ii and C to raise that side higher ; than the other and throw the hay in 1 thet centre of the stack.?Chas. B. Wing, in the Breeder's (Jazette. Demnml For Corn. There is a pressing acmand all over the South for corn. Men. women and children arc ' needing it for bread. Horses, hogs and chickens are needing it for food. Corn is scarce and the Western farmer is getting rich selling corn and flour to us of the South. But we are eagerly crying to these very farmers that we have the best section on earth. We think they should sell out and come down here and help us enjoy the scarcity of corn, says the Southern Cultivator. Now, we think it is plainly the duty of every farmer to grow more corn this year than' he has been doing. Plant more acres and make more per acre. You can easily do both. There 1s no good reason why your crop should not average forty bushels per acre. Prepare the laud well. If you have not broken it deep, ten or fifteen inches, then lay off your rows and run a long scooter or subsoil plow in the bottom -' -"? * ? 4ltwA*ir An ttTA fitv UI )UUi' runs. 1 liUU lutun uu mu iu?rows .iml do the same tp each of these and you will have a good place to plant in. The water will be right under your corn and that will help resist the dry weather. Fertilize as well as yon are able, with stable manure, cottonseed or commercial fertilizers. Break the middies as deep as you can. then plant at least 4000 stalks per acre. Every time a crust forms run over it with a weeder ' until it is six or eight inches high. I Then use cultivator or scrapers and fol- 1 low each with a dustboard. This is important. Keep the top pul- 1 verized and you will prevent the evaporation of the moisture. Your corn will ' remain green and keep growing in dry 1 spells when corn not treated this way will stop and turn yellow. Keep at this until your corn is in ' full silk. We hc?e never failed to get a good crop of corn when we did this 1 way. * 1 Tlio Virtue Jn Cro*?- Brrertine. No one can calculate the vast improvement that has been made In 1 Southern poultry in the last ten or liftecn years, by the introduction of pure-bred males among the common bens of the farm. In Tennessee it 1 has revolutionized the poultry business, and from an obscure and neglected branch of the farm Industry, it has advanced to a position of first importance. Indeed, in point of cash re- 1 i 1 ~t.l I.. 1 turns, anu me general uiu m mc- iauni,i . maintenance, the poultry of Tennessee ranks first. Nor, is this true of Tennessee only. It is becoming more or less true of the whole South. News of the Day. The overhauling of the Alexander at :he Norfolk navy yard hl3 been recom- J mended by the bureau of construction. ( A Newport News, Va., dispatch 3ays: J 'The battleship Maine arrived in 1 E-lampton Roads from San Juan Friday, i md is at anchor off Old Point Comfort. 1 riie ship's six-inch gun platform will ; 30 examined by a naval board from ^ Washington to determine the extent of 1 ;te weakness that has developed." 1 iv s ... . ?. MM * flOTES. s|| ?, ST OCX MA It ASD TRUCK CROWER. f J It is a reform that is easily, quickly ami may be very cheaply inaugurated,. ?1 and carried to a successful point or L'onditiou. It is the outgrowth of neir ,J and improved blood that is now oh- .. tamable at a small cost. Where there are fifty or 100 hens on J the place of the common sort, they may in one year he transformed to halfbreeds of any chosen purely bred variity. A sitting of eggs of any of the lotcd laying strains bought this year at i nominal cost, from which a half a '* lozen thoroughbreds may be raised, in- v,; :ludiug two or throe young roosters? . the breeding of the latter with the ' home-grown hens next year, and the ? ** result?a fiock of half-breed pullets the fall following that will lie worth to *1 their possessor fully twice as much as tl au equal number of the barnyard class. Because they will be larger, more thrifty, and better layers by tweutyfive to fifty per cent. Indeed, the person who has a fiock of ' poultry, and does not at this favorable ' \,. season take steps to improve it In this way, is standing In their own light, and working to their own disadvantage.?Southern Cultivator. "}j%i Quick Profit! in Poultry, With the exception of strawberries * ?j? says Profess9r A. G. Gilbert, It takee ^ three years to realize on small fruits; a mileli cow does not approach her full . . A production short of three and a half rears; apples trees do not begin to beat .{* freely short of seven or eight year*. *" % How about the ben? Three week* ^ from the setting of the hen you have a hatch of chickens; from four to four . and a half months from batching the cockerels arc ready for the market, and in Ave to five and a half months the pullets will ljegin to lay. Add to tbla the fact that iu cities fresh laid egg* average thirty to thirty-five cents a' .vnjSB ilozcn, and It Is clearly demonstrated ,*~t rhat poultry raising well managed is - - - - - ? . ?. "'"VmB ane or tlic most protitabie urar.eiies or . 'arming. A New Garden Pea. The illustration shows a pea oC ^ comparatively recent introduction, ^-*03 which has been tested by market gapder.ovs in all sections of the country, '/j and found to be nil that is claimed for '_v t. The variety seems to Ijo well named "First of All." The peas are round - ^ J*7 Vif/ ^Jj| ' " A KEV,' CAr.DE>* PEA. K* . with hard shell so that they may bv planted when the frost Is barely oat of the ground and before it is safe to " put in the wrinkled sorts. Its maii^ good poinis as claimed by the Int dueer are, are the general excellec^F?of the variety, Its heavy yield, sizeW/* pod and regularity of ripening. It 4T Jjgj extremely early, the peas of good size, .'[j well tilling the pod and the plant, white a strong grower, is dwarf. Those who grow peas for market will do well to make a test or this variery ami see -sr if it is worthy with them of extended cultivation.?Indianapolis News. riaut Forage Crop*. . In laying out the land for crops see that provision is made for grpying an ^ abundance of forage crops, such as~co"sr * peas. Soy beans, sorghum, millet tso , called Penclllaria, which has been much advertised and recommended, is nothing more than the old cat tail millet,) and in Southern Virginia and the States South Teocinte. Do not let the live stock have to depend for their long feed next winter on the blade and com fodder made in the production of the corn crop. Southern lands will never be improved until more stock feeding / crops are produced and either fed or turned under.?Southern Planter. Cood Karinlnsr. When it said, "Make all the hay and forage you can," the Southern Ituralist was giving some good advice.. Do notbe afraid of getting too much, but while you are doing this be sure to have some good steers and milch cattle to consume it. Be a manufacturer. Manufacture the raw products of yonr farm into the concentrated formsbeef, pork, poultry, butter, eggs. This leaves all the manure on the farm to be used for soil enrichment to grow larger crops to be again manufactured. mat is luu Ditici vi j/iuuiMvu. ?? ?iupr. That is the kind of farming the , South needs. \ , % Minor Menton. The Chicago Tribune prints a special " % iispatch from Lewiston, Maine, saying: 'Although the engagement of United States Senator William P. Frye to Mri. . h Sarret A. Kobart, widow of the lata Vice President, has not been officially announced, a friend of Mr. Frye, who tor years has been one of his foremost supporters, says it is a reality. Tbl? friend stated that the marriage would take place early in the summer and that the honeymoon would be sp nt In* tbe Rangely Lake region."