The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, September 14, 1905, Image 3
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.
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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.
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\ TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THEPLANTE
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* 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
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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
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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
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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 *
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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
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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
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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
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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*
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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
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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. _ ?