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iSHBi&fly Case of Graft But One of ParjBHT tiality and Favoritism Reason Tor the Summary Dismissal of Public Printer Palmer is Given by President Fvcoscvelt. Oyster Bay, L. I., Special.?President Roosevelt has made public the report of the Keep commission on its recent investigation of aifairs in the Government* Printing Office at Washington. The.^tneuiry was made by special diEOBB^orticn o." the President on account of BrajgA protest which he had icceived from ?nB||HRprotest which he had received from offk&ls of the Mergenthaier Typesetting Xlrtf.l* ir nnrlinrr th O O XV?>r/l I;au?? ci^eiuci. mv v. a contractor Public Printer Frank W. Palmer to the Lanston Monotype Com!r pany for 72 machines of its make. The President decided, after an examination of the Keep report, that the contract for the Lanston machines should, stand. The Keep commission repocted that if the contract could be set aside, "such a course would be advisable," although the commission states expressly that "no corrupt consideration, payment or promise passed from th? Lanston Monotype Comnanv to the public printer or to any person in the government service." It was developed by the investigation. however, that two important assistants cf the public printed were indirectly interested in the Laston Company, "their wives being stockholders therein." The commission shows that a - fair and impartial test of the Lanston ana j;?.i gsiuaiiicr mai-iimes m>i made, and reports that the purchase of so iarge a number of Lanston machines was improvident" and indicated "great partiality and bias on the part of the public printer." The commission regards the purchase as " maladministration." The text of the President's memorandum upon the report follows: "Oyster Bay. Sept. 9. 1905. "The conclusion of the committee are hereby approved, save the latter part of conclusion first. It does not appear that there is any question as to the validity of the contract in question. If it had not been for the conduct of the Mergenthaler Company in preferring the charge discussed by the committee in conclusion two, that cf corruption. I should agree with the committee that it would be desirable to set aside the contract, if such course were legal. But second only to corruption in a public office in point of inquiry, comes making a baseless charge of corruption, and this is what the committee finds the Marganthaler Company has doue in this case, its comments being in ; . part: 44 'In the light of the failure of the company to produce evidence of such corruption, it must be held that the charge was made recklessly and the Mergenthaler Company should be severely condemned for including such a charge m a formal communication to the president of the United States made as a basis for official action on his part. It is fair also to the Lanston Monetype Company to say that no evidence was produced by the Mergenthaler Company, nor was any obtained by the committee in the course of it3 bearing, tending to show any promise. ? payment cr consideration of any kind v whatsoever made by the Lanston Company. cr any of its officers or agents, to any person in the government service.' "Had not this charge of corruption been made I should have entirely agreed with the conclusion of the committee that if it were possible (which it is net) it would be desirable to cancel the contract in question. "Public Printer Palmer has been removed from office. The cases of the subordinates alluded to in the report must be taken up in connection with the discipline and re-organizaticn of the bureau when Mr. Palmer's success or assumes office. "THEODRORE ROOSEVELT. ? ' ?11 Anro + i /\T> tKlt fie . / nexernns iut nw^anv/u mai v. / car J. Ricketts was the candidate of y the Merganthaler Company for Public y Printer, the report says: "Questions were asked of the Public Printer. Mr. Dove and General Michner. as to what grounds they had for thinking that the Mergenthaler Company was behind Mr. Ricketts. The seasons given were of an unsubstantial character and it is only just to Mr. Ricketts to say that there is not in the evidence taken before this committee anything to show an illegitimate connection between Mr. Rockets and the Mergenthaler Company." Gomez on Parade. Santiago de Cuba, By Cable.?General Joseph Miguel Gomez. Governor of Santa Clara province and National Liberal candidate for Presidency, and an escort of a thousand horsemen entered the city Saturday morning and parraded. The Governor of this province and the maynr of the city, anticipating disorder, made elaborate police arrangements. but these were found to be unnecessary as there were no starting incidents. Governor Gomez was given a bliiliant reception at the San Carles Club this afternoon and addressed a meeting at a theatre at night. Snlurhs Unsafe. Tangier. Special.?Samuel R .Gummere. the American Minister and a number of European inhabitants, have abandoned their residences in the sub**--r t-rbs and removed to the center of the town at the request of the Moroccan authorities, who said they were unable to guarantee their security owing to disturbed condition of the surrounding districts. Severe fighting continues between Raisuli's tribe and others. , Millions For Land Act. London. 3y Cable.?Walter Hume Long. Chief Secretary of Ireland, an^ ^ nounces that the Treasury has age?4 W to provide additional funds amount ing tc 51.OCO.COO before the end of the year, together with such nn amount o~ sleek ;!::r;r.s the year 1306 as v.*iiI 1 :v "..re $jO.COO.COO cash to facilitate the operations o: the Irish lr.nl r.ct r.r.d to r a;'.ay the recent stop ..re; <; ' fcalcs o; iar.d through the inability to advance the purchase moraney owing *n lack of fund3. Notes of Southern Cotton Mills and Other Manufacturing EnterprisesFountain Lin, S. C.?The Fountain Inn Manufacturing Co.. has decided to add 4,300 s])iudles. The company has erected a two-story 73x104 addition to its buildings to receive the new spindles and preparatory machiuery, and this equipment is now being; placed in position. It is also adding; 00 72-inch Jacquard looms for weaving; cotton damasks and equipping; a dyehouse. J. R. Young, superintendent, made the plans for the improvements, and is in charge of all the work connected therewith. The cost of these betterments will amount to about $30,000. The company has been operating 3,004 ring spindles and 3,000 twisting spindles, manufac taring yearns. Its present enlargement is the second in five years under the same management. C. E. Graham is president, and 11. L. Graham, treasurer. Columbia, S. C.?The stockholders of the Olmpia Cotton Mills, met last week, purpsuant to a resolution adopted by the directors at a meeting held on July 13, and voted an increase in the capital stock to tlie amount of $3,000,000. The amount of the increase is $1,$00,000. and is to be known as * * first preferred stock." Practically all ol' this amount will be issued to tli^ present holders of the tirst mortgage bonds. The company is practically reorganized. The mill and equipment is in the best physical condition and indications are that the demand for the product of the 100,320 spindles and 2,250 looms will be satisfactory. Textile Notes. The Lancaster, S. C., Cotton Mills has declared its ucnal semi-annual dividend of 3 1-2 per cent. The Eureaka Cotton Mills of Chester, S. C., has declared its usual semiannual dividend of 3 1-2 per cent. Messrs.' Sanders, Simth & Co., of Charlotte, X.C., will install a bleaching plant in their cotton-batting mill. This improvement will add largely to the mill's capacity, which is now 2,500 pounds daily cotton batting and mattress felts. The Eagle and Phoenix Mills of Columbus, Ga., announced its fall prices on rope last week and on the same day filed orders for 250,000 J- n? TM.? pounas ojl uie pruuuci. mc manufactured varies from three-sixteenths to three-quarters of an inch in diameter. The Pomona Cotton Manufacturing Co. of Greensboro, N. C., will roof in mill No. 2, which is 130x200 feet in size, and fill it with machinery later on, after the first mill of 10,000 spindles and 300 looms is finding a ready market for its product of export sheetings and drills. A stock company has been organized at Clafton, Go., to establish a $100,000 cotton factory, and will hegin to erect its buildings next month. A third cotton mill for Newberry, S. C., is the latest announcement along the line of that city's progress and spirit. Gharles Iceman, the promoter of the cotton mill for Cheraw, S. C., is looking over sites for the mill. It is said that sufficient capital has been subscribed to build the mill at once. Capital $100,000. Capitalists of Meridian. Miss., disgusted with eastern associates failing to put up $200,000 promised money, have assumed charge of the proposed Beatrice Cotton Mills, costing $300,000. Half the capital is already raised, and the plaut will be bonded for the balance. Ti. aaiioo o n nc_ 11 IIlttY IIUW Ut" I'VMimru oo au v o tablished fact, that Cherryville is to have her fourth cotton mill in the near future. A Winston special says: "C. B. Watson left for Halifax county, Ya., to appear for the defense in a $30,000 damage suit, instituted against the big cotton mill at Roanoke Rapids, for which John Patterson, formerly of this city, is manager. The case is set for trial this week. The Saluda River Power Co. reports steady progress on the construction of the dam for its water power development five miles from Greenville. The dam will be 3S feet high, to develop 2500 horse-power. The work of installing the new electric lighting system in the White Oak Cotton Mills at Greensboro lias been completed and accepted. The plant is one of the largest in the South, there being in one of \the rooms of the mill over 300 arc lights of 1,000 candle jjowcr each. Tho system was installed under the direction of Mr. W. R. Chapman. A Newberry, S. C., special says. A third cotton mill for Newberry is the latest announcement along tho line of this city's progress and spirit. A prominent citizen thoroughly alive to the interests ot' Newberry and its l>cople, stated that the mill will be erected. It Is probable that it will be built at Helena, i small tovhi adjoining this city. Newberry at present boasts of two of Uic finest cotton mills in the state. An Excellent Ice.?Here Is an excellent ice.. Slice bananas and sprlni-, . o.ltti lomnn iiiicP. Place Kie Hie OJIV.C-5 ? on the ice for an hour, then mash with a wooden spoon, and stir into the mixture three-quarters of a cup of powdered sugar and the beaten whites of two eggs. Freeze for five minutes, and add a pint, more or less, of whipped cream, and a cupful of chopped English walnuts, from which the skins have been removed. It is better to live one vers?of the Bible than to be able to preach about them all, LATE FEVER KEPORT % Conditions Alternately Worse and Better at Stricken Centers VIGOROUS WORK TO EXTERMINATE Sunday's Reports Show That New Cases Are Still Developing. Though Not So Numerous. New Orleans, Special.?Official report to C p. m.: New cases. 27; total. 2,280. Deaths, 7; total. 31G. New Foci. 11. Cases under treatment, 206; discharged, 1,677. The unfavorable part of the Sunday report is the unusually large number of deaths. Another distinguished member of the Roman Catholic clergy is in the list. Father L. E. Green, of the Jesuit College. He died at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon, after being ill eact| ly a week. He was struck with a chill I Onn/lflv iitCt O f tor /loltVOHn W fl lpp. laoi tjlliluuj jl?OW anvi uviil V'litg v* ture. but nothing was thought of it. The next day he visited a room in the college which had been screened and made ready for emergencies in accordance with the suggestion o? Dr. White, and jokingly remarked to one of his colleagues that they had the room ready now and only needed the first patient. A few hours later he was the occupant. He was later transferred to the Hotel Dieu. He suffered from other complications which caused tho fatal ending. He was 3S years of age and a native of England. He had been here about two years and was a teacher in the branch school conducted by the Jesui's on St. Philip street. There was not a single Italian name among the ether deaths. One occurred in the Emergency Hospital, one in Algiers and one in the French Asylum, on St. Ann street. Since the Marine Hospital Service has been in charge, the officers have discovered 57 foci infections, which has been of some standing and were unknwon except through the secondary infection. The district officers have been especially diligent in thus tracing up infection and this has been the means of checking what threatened to be serious nests in different neighborhoods. 19 MEN BLOWN TO SHREDS. Terrible Destruction Wrought by Powder Mill Explosion. Connelsville.* Pa.. Special.?The Rand Powder Mills at Fairchance, six miles I couth at T'niontown. were entirely wip ed out by an explosion at 9.05 o'clock Saturday. Of the 32 men who went to work in the mill, 19 are known to be dead. Of these 13 have been identified. Nine men, including C. M. Rand, manager of the plant, were seriously injured. Scores of people in the town of Fairchance, within half a mile of the powder mills, were more or less painfully injured. The shock of the explosion was distinctly felt in Connelsville, 20 miles away, building being rocked on their foundations. At Uniontown hundreds of panes of glass were broken. In tho town of Fairchance there is scarcely a house that did not suffer damage. The sides were battered as though axes had been used. Haystacks were toppled over in the fields and live stock were stunned. The rails of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway and the West Pennsyllvania Traction Railway Company were rooted from the road bed and traffic was delayed from four to six hours, transfers being made over the Pennsylvania Thain No. 52 on the Baltimore and Ohio had a narrow escape from annihilation. It had just passed the Rand Mills when the explosion occoaches were shattered and passengers coaches were shattered in passengerc thrown into a, panic. Had the train been a few seconnds late it woald have been blown up. as the mills were in a few rods off the track. A street car on the West Pennsylvania road had also passed just a few seconds before the explosion and was far away enough to escape damage, though it was derailed. Purchased Terminals. Birmingham. Ala.. Special.?The Birmingham Belt Railroad Company has purchased two hundred acres of land, at Village Creek, near Birmingham, which will be utilized for terminals for tral roads. The property extends from tiai roads. The property etends from North Birmingham to a point near the Thomas furnaces, a distance of about two miles. The Belt Line is owned by the Frisco and the Illinois Central, and has hi at completed arrangements for entering Birmingham over the tracks of the Frisco. Cotton Address Net Roady. Asheville. Special.?The public address of the Southern Cotton Association will not be issued for a week or ten days. The framing cf the address * ' " .<nmn!ttdp mm 18 III (UU uuuao t/i u \ wv posed of Brown, of North Carolina: Smith, cf South Carolina: Moody, of Alabama: and McMartin, of Mississippi. The actual wording and writing of the document will bo done by Mr. MeMartin. Admits Wrcckius Train. aged 14, and John McDowell, aged 10, aged 14, and John McDowell, age". ... both colored, were arrested by Atian tic Coast Lino Detective L. B. Bryan and City Detective J. T. Durst. The boys confessed that they wrecked the Atlantic Coast Line freight train in the city limits Thursday night oy placing spikes on the tracks. They wanted to see how far the engine would jump. In the wreck Engineer Radford received serious injuries, and the track was blocked for many hours. Notches Has Two New Cases. Natchez, Miss., Special.?Two newcases in one family, making one newfocus of infection, were reported Sunday. The patients, Ruby and Joe Zicgler, white, live on a street adiaeont to the block where the first infection was discovered. There are r.ov five eases rnder treatment. A resume of the local fever record shows ID cases for the last two weeks; no deaths. Monday was fumigation day. ?gggBBg COTTON FOLKS MEET I C.rati fimworc' foThprinar If AcflP- 1 \JI VOI Uiunvio UBIUVIIUC n> I ville, North Carolina 1 12-CENT MEN ARE IN THE MAJORITY 1 ? < Two Hundred Committteemen, Dele- ( gates and Visitors Present at Open- j ing Session of Southern Cotton Growers' Convention ?Fourteen < Cotton-Growing States Represent- 1 ed. ; Asheville, Special.?The Southern Cotton Growers' Association, which convened at Kenilworth Inn Wednes- , day morning at 10:30 o'clock, with ( President Harvie Jordan in the chair, ( is distinctly a meeting tn the interest i of the grower; it is a meeting for which the manipulator has little use; 1 it is a meeting that has little use for ! the manipulator; it is a meeting on which such men as Theodore H. Price ( may look in upon but whose voice must j not be raised in its councils; it is a meeting composed of the bone and j sinew of the South, the cotton produ- ' cer; it is a meeting of intelligent men; 1 it is a meeting of prosperous men. In fact, it is a meeting to perpetuate the | reign of "King Cotton," with the Southern Cotton Growers' As?eiation j as the power behind the throne\ ( THE OPENING SESSION. When President Jordan rapped for i order in the sun parlor of Kenilworth Inn he looked out upon an assembly ' of committeemen, delegates and visitors to the number of fully 200. The attendance at the convention is gathered from the 14 cotton growing States J and Territories of the Union. They ? are here for business. They are repre- ' sentatives of the most prosperous section of the nation, the cotton belt of : the South. They are all smiles and they intend to make the people on the other side" feel their power. Presl- , dent Jordan dispensed with a set speech. He stated in terse and concise language me purpose ui luo ucu>u6, to hear discussion on conditions; to ' secure accurate statistics direct from ' the growers to fix the minimum price of cotton and to strengthen the association. # At the conclusion of President Jordan's remark J. A. Brown, of Chad- i burn, N. C., welcomed the convention i on behalf of North Carolinx 1 The question of fixing the minimum price of cotton was discussed at some length. It was finally agreed that each State delegation elect on^mem- ( ber to compose the minimum price committee and that this committee fix the minimum price and report to i the executive committee of the association. It was also agreed that the statistical committee and the minimum committee should hold joint sessions. The representatives selected to fix the j minimum price of cotton are as fol lows: Brooks, of Alabama; Love, of i Arkansas; Miller, of Georgia; Max- : well, of Louisiana; tVitherspoon, of Mississippi; Allison, of North Caro- ' Una; Smith, of South Carolina, chair- 1 man; Davis, of Tennessee; Kickey, of Texas, and Erwin, of Oklahoma. The ; committee appointed to issue an address through the association is composed of Brown, of North Carolina; i McMartin, of Mississippi, and Smith, of South Carolina. The establishment of a newspaper as an official organ for the Cotton Growers' Association, a question which was parried over from the Memphis meeting, came up for discussion. Ow ing to the absence of three members of the committee having the matter in charge, Mr. Moody, of Alabama, said he was unwilling to report. There appeared to be a decided sentiment against the establishment of such a paper, which was emphasized when A. L. Brook took the floor and spoke for an hour and a half against the proposition. Mr. Brook said there was no necessity for a cotton growers' organ, as the press of the South was doing all in its power to advance the interests of the Southern cotton grew- , ers. At the conclusion of Mr. Brook's speech, a motion to adjourn till 10 o'clock the next morning was carne-i. The report of the committee on minimum price will not be made un::l the morning session Thursday? There are two elements contending with each ether. One is holding out for 12 cents, the other wants the price fixed ct 10 cents. It is believed that the 12 cent men aro in the majority, and thn' this will be the minimum price. There is a probability, howe#r, of a compromise on 11 cents. The committee having in charge the firing of the minimum price of the Joining cottcn crop is as follows: Brooks, cf Alabama; Love, of Arkansas; Miller, of Georgia; Maxwell, of Louisiana; Witherspoon, of MisI sissippi; Allison, of North Carolina; Smith, cf South Carolina; Davis, of Tennessee (chairman); Hlckcy, of Texas, and Erwin, of Oklahoma. Private Car Line Rates. Washington. Special.?The Southern Railway, the Atlantic Cop .inc. th< Central cf Georgia, the ison, Topeka & Santa Fe and the i eunsylvania have filed their answers to the inquiry of the inter-State commerce commission concerning relations between re! frigcrator lines and railroads. All ex| copt the last two mentioned declare that the;' are in no way respon3iDie for the changes made by the Armour Car Lines. More Dispensary Rottenness. Sumter. S. C.. Special.?Wednesday'3 two sessions of the dispensary investigating commission were productive of evidence tending to show that L. J. Williams, recently defeated for Congress. used hi.s influence while chairman cf the State board, to got county dispensers to get their friends to the poils in the interest of the gubernatorial candidacy of ex-Congressman .1. W. Talhert, now chief political gladiator against the dispensarj , and threatening to run for Governor on the prohibition platform. WHAT TOTEWlSM 5 Some Extraordinary Sapmtllleni BepiTdlni Them PromH in Suno*. It in interesting to note that toteisrn Is found, not only in Alaska, but uniong the North American Indians, the aborigines of Australia, the Hottentots of Africa, and even the hill tribes ( f India. Totems are also common among the Samoans. Broadly, the totem is the badge of a clan or tribe; but it signifies a great ileal more than mere political or social alliance. It is not only a tribal emblem, but also a family signal; not merely a symbol of nationality, but ilso an expression of religion; not simply a bond of union among primitive peoples, but also a regulator of the marriage laws, and of other social institutions, says a writer in the June iiouseKeeper.. a xoiem nas oeen ueflned as "a class of material objects, which a savage regards with superstitious respect, believiug that there exists between him and every member of the class an Intimate and special relation." Among the Ojibway Indians, there ore no fewer than twenty-three different totems. Nine of these are quadrupeds, marking out the wolf, the hear, the beaver, and other clans, eight are birds, live are fishes, and one is the snake. Some extraordinary superstitions r> garding totems prevail in Samoa. Thus, it is believed that if a Turtleman eats of a turtle, he will grew rery ill, and the voice of the turtle will be heard in his inside saying: "He ate me; I am killing him." If a Bananaman uses a banana leaf for a cap. 1)^ becomes bald. If a Butterfly-maw catches a butterfly, it strike him de:M. If a Fowl-man eats a fowl, delirium and death result. And so on?all going to show that the totem has something of the quality of a fetich as well as the significance of a family emblem. Regarding totemisn^ it is to be noted that the relation of mutual help and protection includes also the totem itself; that is to say, if a man takes care of his totem, he expects the totem to return the compliment. If the totem is a dangerous auium, i?. not hurt his clansmen. The Scorpionmen of Senega mbia declare that the most deadly scorpions will run over their bodies without hurting them. There is a Snake clan in Australia, which holds to a similar belier. Among the Crocodile clau of the 3echuanas, if a man is bitten by a crocodile, or even has water splashed on him by one, he is expelled from the clan as one esteemed unworthy by the tot?m. ?Housekeeper. Corrupt UlTlnjj. One of the effects of the generosity Df the unjust, which deserves more consideration that it get.:, is this: It closes yie mouths of critics whose voices might otherwise be heard In ef* * ? * * wnAnrrc rectuai protest against jpuum; ?ivu^ or defects which cry for change in economic conditions. Limitation of space confines the writer to cue illustration. There was a public agitation some jrears ago concerning a certain bill, Involving a franchise of groat value, which was being bcr.vily lobbied through the New York Legislature. A movement was at once begun against the measure, and during its progress a gentleman standing justly high in public esteem, a man of unquestionable probity and of great injuence was asked to take part in this protest. He remained in doubt for a few days and then- declined. He was the president of an important charitable institution lependent largely for its support on the generosity of a particular donor, who was also the real sponsor for the grab bill. With what he conceived to be the prosperity of his institution at stake, he could not feel it to be his duty personally to antagonize the corrupt scheme of the generous supporter of his institution.?George W. Alger, In the Atlantic. Forgot What Electricity Was. A Denver newspaper devotes a large space in an unavailing effort to answer a correspondent's question, "Does anybody know what electricity is?" As somebody has observed, that reminds us of a story. "There is now in Prinevillc, Ore., a lawyer who, some years ago, was a college student back East. One day in thn classroom the subject of dis cussion was electricity. This student had read all lie could llnd in his testbook about electricity, and considered himself primed for the occasion. The professcr opened the ball with this direct Question, flashed peremptorily at this particular student: "Mr. Blank, can you tell us what electricity is?" Mr. Blank squirmed in his seat, hemmed and hawed for a time, and Orally admitted: "I did know, professor, but I've forgotten." The professor gazed at the student with an expression of uiispeakujile sorrow. Then lie said sadly: "Mr. Blank, you do not know what you have done. Alas! what a sad loss to science! You are the only man that ever lived who has known what electricity is?and you have forgotten."? I'Gruanu vrtrji'jiihiii. Innurance Up-fo-Date. The drop a nickel In the slot machine has been adapted to various and divers purposes from selling collar buttons to dispensing gum and fortune, but an enterprising bathing pavilion manager at Coney*Island has brought in a new idea by providing an insurance policy for the nickel. The policy Is for $500 for the day Issued, the date being registered by an automatic stamp. It Insures the bather against death by drowning. The proprietor reports that the machine has been showing a handsome profit on the investment. Thus far there have been no claimants for insurance. Sar* Vn From Our Frlrmla. lie was a doctor witness in an Irish murder ease, and was very anxious that the Crown.should let him go home as soon as p ssible. So he got a friend of his y plead in his favor. Tliis was how tf. t friend did it: "It is this Attorney-General: My friend tli^doctor has been for three years looking after, two old ladies. If you don't let him go home tomorrow, he's afraid the ladies will get well." And that's why the doctor doesn't speak to his friend.?Sporting Times. f SOUTHERN * F -d? E? \ TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THEPLANTE 4^? ? I * Sheep Kaloine In the South. I have wondered why James Wilson. Secretary of Agriculture, has never given the powerful*impulse of his paternalism to sheep raising in the South and its almost incomputable potentialities. Certainly here is the line of "least resistance" to develop the business, which, in tarn, would give an Impetus to cognate or allied industries that would put the South on a plane of development almost as great as was given by cotton manufacture. Here could be developed the business of raising lambs for the early markets, North and West, an industry kindred in its spirit to that of raising early fruits and vegetables. Here could be raised wools that would furnish Eastern manufacturers. Here would be the greatest centre of manufacturing fine woolen fabrics on the globe, for, with the cheapness of lands South, the cheapness of labor, the healthfulness of sheep, the fineness of their wool, given the same breed, no one could bring to the manufacturers here so fine a wool at so low a price. Of course woolen manufacturers would more South from New England and elsewhere to weave this wool, as cotton f manufacturers have done in the case of cotton. I have long regarded wool raising and the manufacture of woolen goods in the South as among its greatest unexploited resources and potentialities. But there is another aspect to this matter that makes sheep raising in the South a pressing necessity. Any one familiar with the inroads the sawmills are making on our yellow pine areas of the South and the effects on the topography this deforestation makes, must view almost with dismay their future condition. Our heavy precipitation, in conjunction with the rolling and hilly topography, sets the soil to ntnohinn foni/JlT- Who cnil hoinf RATUtv .nuouixife i?|<.uv, ?o j more or less Is soon gullied, and the sand Is washed into the valleys. The landscape is scarred and marred into UQSightllness, and, in many instances, the ruin is irredeemable. This is proceeding at a fearful rate, and some large and concerted action is necessary. The railroads, if they could only be induced to reflect upon it, are most interested, for who will want to settle on these cutover, unsightly areas when the timber has been removed? At present they are having a fine business in tha tnnnaee of the lumber these great pine areas afford them from the innumerable mills along their lines, but after the timber is exhausted what then? It'is no answer to say that truckers and fruit raisers will occupy them. They will do so, and have done so, in a measure, but they can only sparsely populate the vast areas despoiled by the sawmills. And. truth is, these very sandy lands, with a hilly topography, ought never to be broken. They ought to be put down in Bermuda grass, red top or herd's grass and white clover. These would furnish pasture " lor Bfleep liie j Vttr iuu^u. Every considerable railroad in the South might do au infinite service by having several experimental farms on their lines, where the finest wool breed of sheep could be thus raised. They would soon be largely imitated. This is a needed diversification in Southern agriculture. Ere long woolen manufacturers would come in and prosperous town would soon spring up, .where else some may be some day irreclaimable wastes. - t -i. As it is, there Is room for many woolen factories in the Gulf States to absorb the wool that is raised there and carried at great cost to the great wool markets of Philadelphia and Boston, paying many tributes to middlemen before it reaches its consumers in the South as woven material. Of these - * 11 AO to Ira wools tne Dest are wen uuunu 00 wool, and have been long esteemed and bring a high price.?M. B. Hillyard, in the Tribune Farmer. Sweet Potatoes. C. It. Smith, of Texas, gives the following advice on the planting of sweet potatoes: In discussing the sweet potato question, too much cannot be said on its behalf, for there is no animal or fowl on the farm but what relishes it cooked or raw. and a more toothsome or .whole 6ome diet is hard to find for man. For feeding stock, its value is about three bushels of potatoes to one of corn, but when we come to the yield, It is from four to eight times that of corn per acre; and no farmer that has u few acres of sandy land has any excuse for not having some good feed for all kinds of stock, and a nice dish of good An >,lc +nhlf> +hr?A tlmp* ? dav IUUU VU iug VUW4V ?aa*wv mm . . m... w for six months la the year. So I will give you what seems to me the best method of cultivation, h know It will not fit all cases and under all circumstances, but I believe it worthy of any one man's consideration. To prepare the sweet potato bed. dig out the earth three feet wide and six inches deep, and as long as you need. Fill three inches with fresh stable manure, press down smooth, cover jf Pointed Paragraphs. Whoever thinks he knows it all evidently imagines there isn't much worth knowing. There is a certain brand of charity that will give a man a crust and then steal his coat. 'k woman will do without some thing she needs in order to save money to purchase something she doesn't need. Some women mourn the loss of a bad husband more than some others do the loss of a good one. Boil the water?unless you prefer to be au aquarium rather than a cemetery. It takes a lot of philosophy to enable a man to admire a woman after he discovers that she has no earthly use for him. It's easy for the average man to be honest whou he doesn't need the money ARM * Jt'OTES. :j i ft. S10CKUAM ANO TRUCK GROWER* V * _> i ill with loose soli two inches deep, then lay potatoes on that along side of each a other, not one on top of the other. J Then cover with rich soil to the depth of three inches; keep bed moist as long as needed for slips. You ean use vines cut ten inches long. Be sure to ygl bury two or three joints in setting out. \ - In preparing the land, be sore yon have i^in good tilth, for there is no 7 J crop that depends as much on well pulverized soil as the sweet potarto. Make your ridges moderately high, smooth nfp Ti-ith a iifrht hoard that will cover three rows at a time. Now you are ready to set your slips any time yoir have moisture enough to make them In regard to cultivation, as soon as , jl the plants take hold of the ground and show that they are going to live,' ^ it is time to commence cultivation, for you will find a first class stand of 'weeds and grass if you have any seed/ Take of the outside feet of your cul- ;3| tivator and put on two twelve or fourteen inch sweeps on the inside feet. (Must have beams of inside feet hung J on springs so as to give them a mffve-, ment in any direction.) You must necessarily go slow, but you will find with a little practice you can clean Tlion Trifh fl thirtV-inCh JUUi Ullll. auvm m _ solid sweep once in the middle yof M will have your potatoes clean. Do this as often as the grass comes up until the vines get too long. Remove all grass or weeds that might be left_by, the plow with hand or hoe. Radlahea and Peppers Profitable. ' A Louislanian has the following f# say of what he did with early crops of [a radishes and peppers: 4 In January last I planted Chines# -y* giant sweet pepper seed in hotbed} as , JS pepper plants grow very slowly at first '4 and as it is not advisable to set themr ?5 out before all danger of frost has passed, I planted them with turnip rad? ]>% ish seed the last of January. Thess' did very well and most of the crop was shipped to Kansas City in sugar bar rels with aboat fifty pounds ice m eaca jd barrel. The first shipment was madtf March 9 and the last April 8. Thejf netted $86.88. Immediately upon clearing ground of the radish crop I set out 400 v pepper plant, quite large by this time. The plants were set two and a.hall Sj feet asunder in rows three feet apart? v and occupied about half of the radish/ ground. A stake was driven at eachf plant at once and the plants tied se- ^ curely. After the plants tad started' growing I applied a small quantity of commercial fertilizer to each. |" The month of May was very dry and I was compelled to water the plants separately with #hose attached to a' force pump. Later, when ra'ins came, . growth was fine. At first a Planet JrJ single wheel hoe was used, but when! the plants became too large for this I used an ordinary garden hoe. As thai plants grew it was necessary to continue tying them up, as they are very tender and easily broken by the wind.'i * ** " hnomn j ADOUL me Uliit? LL1C piuuio fruit I applied a small shovelful of well rotted manure to each. As the season advanced tie price of peppers ^ declined, until I received only six cents a dozen. My last sale, which was madef November 21, brought total receipts up? to $43.50. The ground is cleared again and v-J sowed with mustard, which was off in time to follow the last of January, 1905, with radishes again. j " . Destroying Wild Colons. A correspondent asks for a way * destroying wild onions. A heavy application of salt to the ground occnpled by the onions, or water at the boiling point will kill them. It might be diffi- J cult to make this application on any; large scale. However. We believe that the best way of dealing with the problem is by putting the ground so troubled In some crop, calling for clean culture. No plant is known to us that can live through this sort of treatment, and probably, all things considered, it Is the most economical way of removing the difficulty. By it all undesirable vegetable growths can be brought to an end. Some plants are almost certain to be missed by anyr of the other methods employed with ^this obpect in view.?Home and Farm* I; ??? .wc < W Killing Borera. Tha fftrtmi? hnrers that infest fruit trees nearly always enter the tree bodies right at the surface of the ground, where the bark Is soft, and work upwards Inside the wood. ^ Af wire inserted in the hole made by them will usually destroy them and prevent further injury, and the work should be $ attended to in good season. .? Trees Need Boom. Give trees plenty of roon) if yon would hove them thrifty and vigorous and bear large well matured fruit. It -I is better to err on the side of giving more room than is necessary, rather than on the other?Southern Fruit Giower. Reflections of a Bachelor. It is easy to see the good points of the man on a pedestal. It's tough when a man has to giv# up good money for a tough steakFo?t<5 like men. are often broke, but J ? unlike men, tbey are never too fresfc.' A sensible man never has any spare t j time to attend to other people's business unless he is hired for the pur- . ' j True love is founded on the rock of reverence. Men never realize the joys of labor More corn grows in crooked rows than in straight one J A charter is granted the Bovlan- *5 Pearce Company, of Raleigh, capital $100,000, to deal in dry goods. It always make# a mean man happy to see another's misery. Xever do today the unkind thingst M you could put off forever. _ ?