Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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^ ^ #? Decision Reached By Cana * Commission * ?.? BQRAD OF ENGINEERS AGREI After Nearly Three Months' Hart Work, Advisory Body, Composet * ? ?" t,?_r -1.. of Engineers i rom ah x-arxs ui vu< World, (Joes on Record Agains' Locks by a Vote of 8 to 6. fV / ( Washington, Special.?By a vote ol , 8 to 5, the board of consulting engineers of^he Isthmian Canal commission placed itself on record as favoring the construction of the Panamt ' Canal on the sea level. This decisioi represents the outcome of nearh three monhs hard work. Early in September the engineers gathered from all parts of the world to assist the American engineers in the direction of the momentous question of I .constructing the Panama Canal, at sea / level or at a greater altitude, involving a system of locks. The foreigners came to Washington aosonneiv wunoui iusininiuu? hwuj their own governments and without bias, determined to be guided to then ? direction solely by the facts to Ik presented to them. It was not until last Tuesday that anything in the na"r-v^ ture of.a decisive vote was taken: and r that, after all, was au indirect test Jnst what that proposition was cannot be stated with absolute certainty, but it is conjectured that the issue was whether or not a lock canal of a cer, t^in type should be constructed. At any rate, the vote disclosed the fact that a majority of the eight Ameri *1 can members, under the lead of (Jener.al Abbott, was strongly in favor of a lock canal. Tl>/> VAM,:<n,ai-G worv> niTilllKt the xv*v.5??v4? "v.v ^ ? particular type mentioned in the proposition, but it was not clear that at that moment they were opposed to the " whole proposition of a lock canal. The real test come/ and the time be^ ' tween Tuesday and the meeting Saturdav was consumed in some very strong presentations on the part of tfri^Tnainrr nf the American dele-Jtfptes to influence their foreign colleagues to accept one of tlfe other loek propositions. The Americans, there is reason to believe that three of their number, probably General Davis /Vr and Mr. Pearson and Mr. Burr, joined r the foreign delegates in this first vote, f . which" Yeeorded the board as favoring gthe sea-level canal. [ , * The decision was reached about noon and thereby the board practicalr Iv concluded its labors. There will be a few more meetings next week simply to deal with small details and to pnf 1. into nermanent form the results of the board's protracted meetings. The foreign delegates desire to leave for their European homes by the 27th instant. To accomodate them in this, the full board has agreed that they may conclude some purely formal work at a rt special meeting to be held in Paris in December or January. It is expected that the American members of the board will go to Paris to.wind up this business, all of which must be done before the final report of the board ean be regarded as complete and ready for submission to the Isthmian Canal | - commission. The commission in turn. ?? . . must record its own 'judgment upon the conclusions reached by the board ?? engineers, and there is even now . a belief curent that that judgment a ' will be adverse to the board's plan. ^ However, there are two more im|*>rttant steps at either of which there fv> may be great changes proposed, for f the commission must pass the plans ,-and its own recommendations to the , President, who in turn, must stamp them wth his own approval or disapJfv proval and forward thera to Congress, which, after all will be the court ol - last resort as between the sea-level f . and lock canal project, simply througL ft the fact that additional legislation ? ' will be necessai^' if a sea-level canal ? is to be built; for the board finds that r such a canal will cost from seventy? five to one hundred millions, dollar* 3 more than the cheapest practical lock % canal and will consume from five tc ~ seven years more in the construction - Ships Sink With 100. SC. ' , London, By Cable.?The Southwestern Railwnv'a #?rns-5-phj?impl stenniei Hilda was wrecked off St. Malo, or the north coast of France, and it is believed that ong hundred or more oi her passengers and crew were drown jjjT ed. The Hilda left Southampton Fri ^ day for St. Malo with considerably more than one hundred souls on board Her passage was greatly delayed by a fog in the channel, and when near ing St. Malo she ran into a seven storm, apparently missed her cours< and foundered on the rocks off Jar din lighthouse, three miles from St * * Malo. K':-v a - Hester's Cotton Statement. New Orleans, Special.?Secretary Hester's statement of the world's vis A" iWe supply of cotton shows the tota to be 4,2S0,856, against 4.001,14.) las ?week and 3,658,182 last year. Of this the total of American cotton is 3,502. 856, against 3,298, 415 last week am 3,129,182 last year; and of all othei i. t kinds, including Egypt, Brazil. India etc., 778,000, against 763.000 las week and 529,000 last year. 8X^,000 Gallons Liquor Burn. Conbellsvillc, Pa., Special.?At thi Overbolt distillery at Bradford Sun day, 810,000 gallons of whiskey fur nisbed a spectacular fire entailing ; loss of $4,000,000, covered by insur ance. The main bonded warehous* was burned to the ground. A stead] northeast wind which blew the flame toward the Younghigheny river save< the town of Bradford, the buildings o the H. C. Frick Coke Company am the R. & O. railroad station from de ' st ruction. r- .-if ' ' Representatives of 40 Loading Op* | Mines in the Knoxville Sectioi Draw Up Petition Declaring Elkini Anti-Rebate Law Sufficient?Fina Action Delayed Until Meeting a ' Louisville. Knoxville, Tenn., Special.?A meet I ing of coal operators of Tennesse* ^ and Kentucky was hold here at whicl . forty leading mines of this seetior ; ^ were represented. Their meet:,ngi were secret and definite action wa: delayed on the Esch-Townsend bill for which purpose the meeting was called, until after a meeting ot Louis ville, Ky., which will be held then by the coal men of the northern out' of the district. It is the plan to secure a representative committee fron the two sectional meetings and senc the same to Washington to appear be j fore the Senate committee and sel before them their objections to the Esch-Townsend bill. A peition drawr , up recites the belief of the coal operators that the demand for new rate legislation is the outcome of failure of some of the common carriers tc impartially apply the published tarifl to all shippers, by the granting oi rebates, concessions from tariff rates either directly or indirectly. The petition further recites that the Pies ident is right in demanding the stop [ page of all rebates, expresses the belief that the Elkins law effectively remedies the rebate question when ' properly enforced, and urges the pasgage of legislation necessary to provide the proj>er machinery for the effective stoppage of rebates of whatever character arising from the failure to observe impartially the published rates of railroads. "Any legislation," recites the petition, "thai will radically disturb the prevailing conditions will inure to our injury by destroying the elasticity of presenl I rAtp.mnkino- methods, and as far as coal rates are interfered with at all local monopolies will be created b) law, which present methods of ratemaking make impossible." The petition recognizes that there are evils to remedy, expresses the belief thai the Esch-Townsend bill will not furnish relief and prays for a hearing Killed by a Trail. Reidsville, Special.?Richard C Hall, employed with the double-tracking force of the Southern Railway was struck fcy fast trail No. 36 Sunday afternoon n?ar Stokesland. He was standing on the main line signalling the crew of the work train anc did not notice the approach of the a x 1 ???? eiwuil' h\ passenger tram, aim avium the engine and knocked a distance oJ fifteen or twenty feet. When pickec up a few minutes later by a fellowworkman he was dead, a large hole being cut in the back of his head an<] an arm brokeu. Deceased was 2t years old and was a resident of Danville. Cofessed Large Robberies. New York, Special.?Confession t( the robbery of $100,000 worth oj gems from faidnonable New Yorl homes in the last two years was made by Harold Preseott a painter. His profit on pawning the jewelry, Pres cott said, was but little over $o,000 Almost by accident the painter was arrested in connection with a receni small robbery and the police were ignorant of the value of their arrest until at his arraignment, wher ' Preseott said that his thiefts coulc ( not be concealed much bnger anc then confessed. : I The Hardware Manufacturers. I "Washington, Special.?The Amcri 1 can Hardware Manufacturers Asso [ ciation endorsed President Roosc velt's plan for railroad legislation The convention also agreed to a reso ! lotion approving "a plan to re-organ > ize the American consular service 01 a strictly business basis." The Asso ciation elected F. S. Kretsi^ger, ol Cleveland, president and decided tc meet at Hot Springs, Va., six months hence. The National Hardware Association elected W. S. Wrigh^ ot Omaha, president. ; To Btiild Nicarauga Canal. Mexico City, Special.?The Mexi " can Herald has been informed thai ' the governments of Great Britain ant Japan have practically decided tt construct a ship canal of their owr * across Nicarauga, practically on th< lints rejected by the American gov ? eminent, Great Britain will furnisl the capital and Japan the labpr. Brit ish and Japanese engineers regarc " the Nicarauga route as the onl yens really practicable. $26,000 Fire at Gate City, Va. Gate City, Va.?Special?The Myrtle Hotel, the law offices of Richmond " ' ? ** ? 3 it T \f I <x eona ana iacu)uucu winn, ? Lane & Sons' grocery store and Jaync f & Williams' barber shop were des* troyed by fire. The fire started from ' kitchen stove in the hotel about 5:16 o'clock when no one was up except 1 Billy Michael, the colored porter. The * loss w?ll be $25,000. James Davie Broke his leg. ? Lynchburg, Special.?James Davis - aged 72 years, a well-known citizen oi - this city fell down a flight of stair< 1 in his home and broke his right leg * Mr. Davis has been actively engagec 1 at work and it is feared the accideni ^ may prove serious. t Mr. B. F. Bywarters, of Culpeppci I county, has sold to the Chevy Chas< Hunt Club, of Washington, a pack o 14 hounds fbr $175. * ' M . fBiE i ? 1 Pitiful Scenes in a Tenement 9 1 House fire t .?. ROASTED LIKE RATS IN HOLES > Sleeping Tenants on Five Upper Floors of New York Italian House Were Cut Off While the Ground Floor Became a Roaring Furnace Beneath Them. > i * New York, Special.?At least five persons were burned to death in an I Italian tenement house fire at 221 E Seventy-third strec*. The house was i six floors high and the sleeping tenI ants on the five upper floors were - made prisoners by flames, with the t ground floor a roaring furnace bei neath them. Three of those who lost i their lives were kneeling in prayer when the fire reached them. s The police believe that the fire was ' started by an incendiary. It began in > a hfap of rubbish at the l>ottom of an ? air shaft and spread through the interior of a grocery store on the > ground floor. A policeman was the first person to see the lire, just as it had begun to creep up the air shaft. , - He ran into the building pounding on the hall doors all the way up to the | 1 sixth floor to waken the tenants. The ] ! tire followed him so swiftly that when he reached the top floor he was obliged to send the tenants there out to the tire escai>es to save them from 1 suffocation. When the fire department airived with its ladders, nearly every one on the fire escaj>es was kneeling in prajTer. Adding to the pathos of the scene " was the action of the men, who stood ; with their arms full of personal pos; sessions while their wives fought unr aided to protect the children from bc; ing trampled by the crowd or suflfoi cated by smoke. Every one on the , fire escapes was saved by the fire t men. The lessee of the house told the po lice that the Black Hand Society had ) recently sent him letters demanding t $2,000. Although the demands did not state what the penalty was to be . for refusing to pay the money, the j polioe have begun an investigation, on the belief tliat the tire was started by the writer of the letters. Odell Hotly Denies All. New York, Special.?Former Gov> emor Benjamin B. Odell, Jr., and j United States Senator Chauncey M. 1 Depew, as witnesses before the Arm strong legislative insurance investif gation committee, denied parts of the testimony of James Hazen Hyde in 1 which their names were used. Mr. Odell in the course of his testimony 5 called Mr. Hyde's statement "base j calumny" and when he was asked ' whether he directly or indirectly had ' made threats to have the charter of the Mercantile Trust Company revoked, his face flushed, and striking the arm of the witness chair with > his fist, he exclaimed. "There is no j truth in that statement, so help me God." I j School Dormitory Burned. Moultrie, (la.. Special.?Fire swept . away the boys' dormitory of Norman Institute at Norman Park. It was a t wooden structure and. with the fur; nishings, was valued at $S,000. The t trustees decided to replace the build? ing with, a brick dormitory to cost 1 $12,000. The boarding students have 1 been received into the homes of Norman Park until the new buildings can be completed. News in Brief. The old Richmond and Tidewater to be completed by a new naiuvuu ? M ' company and called the Richmond, . Rappahannock and Eastern. The Virginia Conference of the . Methodist Episcopal Church decided i to meet next year in Portsmouth. The Woman's Union annual meet? ing at Frederricksburg adjourned > after electing officers. ' r Petersburg is raising a fund for the Russian massacree victims. The Russian Government finds the Polish situation growing hourilv worse. King Alfonso of Spain arrived in 1 Vienna. ' Republicans made some sains in the 1 Spanish municipal elections. , The German Foreign Office states there is no present purpose of vacating Germany's lease of Kiaoehsu, China. i Japan is to issue a $250,000,000 4 i per cent, loan to convert outstanding debts. Barge Wrecked. Norfolk, Va., S|>crial.?The ocean [ barge, Frank Pendleton, of New . York, loaded with over two thousand i tons of coal, was rammed and sunk by Merchants and Miners steamer, i Kershaw, coming from Boston, off ! Lamberts coal dock. The barge struck ; a rock amid ship and was almost cui t in half. The crew was saved. Wreck is in the channel and will have to be rcovici. Shooting in Atlanta Hotel. , Atlanta, 6a., Special.?As a result of a quarrel between Frank B. ? Meador, a well-konwn young business man, and Minder Rawak, clerk at the I cigar stand of the Kimball House, I. the latter was shot and seriously wounded by Meador. Meador left the hotel immediately after tiie shooti ing nnrt has not been found by the . police. Rawak was removed to the [ Grady Hospital. The quarrel is reported to have originated over the price of a package of cigarettes* i.. ISLE OFPINES REBELS v \ Effort to Set Up Independent Government * WASHINGTON FIGHTS SHY OF IT Territorial Government is Said to Have B^en Erected and Officials Selected to Administer Its Affairs by American Residents, Who Own Five-Sixths of the Soil. Washington, Special.?It has been known lor several months that American residents in the Isle of Pines were becoming restive under Cuban control, but surprise was created at the reported erection of a territorial government on the island and the selection of imDortant officials to ?d. minister the affairs of that government. No advices indicating such action have been received officially. It can be said that the would-be seceders will receive* no encouragement from the administration. Secretary of State Root, when he was Secretary of War, was very clear rid emphatic "that the Isle of Pines b r longed to Cuba as a natter of right, as a matter of justice;" furthermore, that in procuring naval stations in Cuba for the United States there was a general understanding that the Isle of Pines was to be ceded to Cuba, although its title had been in doubt. The rejx>rted secession of the residents from Cuba control is deprecated, but action regarding it, if any should be contemplated, would be taken only after the government had been advised officially and fully as to the situation. Senator Quesada, the Cuban minister here, called at the State Denartment and seemed to be consider able agitated over the news of the movement in the Isle of Pines. He had an interview on the subject with Secretary Hoot, but declined to make any statement concerning it. The Cuban legation has no advices concerning the reported secession." The contention of the American residents of the isle is that* as they own in fee simple five sixths of the ground and as the remaining one-sixth is in the hands of one or two Spanish families, the l,20(f native residents being non-property owners, they have a right to be heard by this government. i New $250,000,000 Jap Loan. London, By Cable.?The Associated Press is informed that the Japanese government has decided to immediately issue a new foreign loan of dxjTA AAA AAA nor /*nnf _ wlliph ipi^WVjVuu aw 1VU1 pv ? vvu..; will be used partly for converting' the external 6 per cent, loan and partly for the redemption of the international loans. It is understood that France will participate to a considerable amount, the Rothschild's Paris house being the issuing house there. The ex' act date of the issue has ot'yet been decided upon. ( New Move For Mrs. Chad wick. Cleveland, 0., Special.?Ex-Judge F. J. Wing, counsel for Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick. announced that an application for a writ of cortiorari is now being prepared and will be submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States with a view of obtaining a review of Mrs. Chadwick'a case before that tribunal. The Supreme Court will be asked to consider Mrs. Chadwick's case on the general ground that errors were made in her trial here before the U. S. District Court and also in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in her case. By Wire and Cable. Willia H. Andrews denied that any of his transactions with the Enterprise National Bank in Allegheny City, Pa:, were otherwise than regular. Call money reached 25 per cent, in New York, and Secretary Shaw said he could not relieve the situation while speculation exists. Vladivostock Mutiny Over. St. Petersburg, By Cable.?Advices from Vladivostock indicate that the mutiny of the soldiers and sailors hd*> been quelled and order partially restored the commandant having agreed to send home the reservists and timeexpired men detained there. Mr. Greener, the American consul at 1 Vladivostock, telegraphs that a thousand Cossacks have been brought 1 there from Grodekoff to aid in quelling the riots and patrolling the streets Killed by Water Fixture. Bethlehem," Pa., Special.?While . Mrs. H. A. Foering, wife of Head Master Foering, of the Bethlehem Preparitory School, was in the kitchen of her home the water back of the stove exploded and a large piece of flying iron struck her on the head, crushing her skull and instantly killing her. Bessie Miller, a servant, was thrown the length of the room and injured by coming in contact with the furniture. The room was badly wrecked and set on fire, but the flames were extinguished by painters who were employed on the premises. Four Alleged Lynchers Arrested. Mobile, Special.?A special to the Register from Hattiesburg, Miss., says that D. B. Holmes, R. H. Holmes, A. Rowe and Albert J?'. James, prominent white men, were arrested on in- ; dictments returned by the g*and jury , charging them with complicity in the lynching of Kid George and Ed Brock, negroes. The men were not placed in jail, but are held under guard at the Holmes residence. Hebe as corpus proceedings for their arrest will be begun by the chancellor. - V; ' < CLIMAX IS REACHED Startling Testimony in Equitable Investigation YOUNG HYDE GOES ON THE STAND Former Vice President of the Eauit able Life Gives Sensational TestiMony and Clears Up Many Points They Have Hitherto Remained Dark, More Than Meeting the Expectations of the Crowd That Thronged to Hear Him. New York, Special.?James Hazen Hyde, former vice president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, whose resignation followed the sensational disclosures in tbath company last spring which led to the investigation of insurance company methods by the Annstrong committee of the Legislature, the man whose presence as a witness before this committee has been looked forward to in the expectation that it would produce the greatest sensation of the investigation, appeared before the committee Tnoo/lov' A UV OUUJ Mr. Hyde's manner on the stand was one of composure and deliberation and his replies to questions from counsel were calm and deliberate and at times studied. He was fortified with statements and data and was very frank in his explanations. Frequently he would become bitter in his reference to some of his associates, and while his entire testimony was of deep interest and cleared up many points that have heretofore remained in the dark, it was not until late in the day that the sensational features of his testimony were developed. Mr. Hyde cleared up the matter of the $685,000 loan of the Mercantile Trust Compauy, which appeared on the books of the Equitable Life under the caption of the *'W. J .Alexander number & Account." Mr. Hyde first heard of this account in the fall of 1902, when it was called to his attention by President Alexander, who said that he and Mr. Jordan had iucurred the loan to take up stock that was being bid up to fictitious values, to the deteriment of the company, to settle suits that were hampering thp, business of the socity, and for campaign contributions. This contribution was the one of the last campaign and was asked for by Mr. Friek, who suggested it for the -^benefit of the society. To procure this money, Mr. Alexander had Mr. Hyde write a letter to the president of the Mercantile Trust Company and this letter practically placed him in the position ol a guarantor. Later when the settlemen of the loan 'was forced, Mr. Alexander and Mr. Jordan raised all they could toward it. The stock purchased with part of the loan was sold to Thomas F. Ryan for $212,000 and the balance, $212,500, Mr. Hyde paid personally. He did this because he understood that Mr. Alexander was financially embarrassed, and in a bitter tone said: "Notwithstanding the strained relations with these two gentlemen (Alexander and Jordan), I felt bound to see that the debt was liquidated by reason of the letter Mr. Alexander extracted from me." Mr. Hyde said that he first received a salary of $30,000, seven years ago. In 1902, when he became chair man of the finance committee, inis was advanced to $75,000, and in 1903 it was advanced to $100,000, at which it remained until he resigned as vice president of the society. Eclipsing all this sensational testimony, however, were the statements of Mr. Hyde concerning former Governor Odell and Mr. Harriman relative to the settlement of the Shipbuilding Company. Mr. Hyde said that Mr. Harriman came to him and advised the settlement of the Odell's suit, and he feared that powerful influence at Albany would be invoked in retaliatory measures. Charges of conspiracy to get him out of the country were made by Mr. Hyde against Henry C. Frick and E. H. Harriman, in connection with the reported aspirations of Mr. Hyde to become ambassador to France. He said Mr. Frick inspired the idea and | witness too it as a joke at first, but when Mr. Frick brought it up later Mr. Hyde wnr< flattered and both Mr. Frick -??" .Harriman promiscl to Aience to secure the I aP'' de waxed bitter in his I j > he extraordinary in- I, 'men bad in his ab- | j sen'Pe'v; ntry. He said he thought>TST?''Wa was "that they I i would acuuit themselves of their < friendly stewardship with great pro- | fit themselves" and added that I i ure of their interest hid since ^ very obvious. w Build Nicarauga Canal. Mexico City, Special.?The Mexican Herald has been informed that the governments of Great Britain and . Japan have practically decided to construct a ship canal of their own across Nicarauga, practically on the ( lines rejected by the American government, Great Britain will furnish " the capital and Japan the labor. Brit- i ish and Japanese engineers regard the Nicarauga route as the onl yone | , really practicable. j Seven Girls Injured in New ^ orx. New York, Special.?Seven girls J ir'orn 1 n ill red and damage amo? dting to about $.30,000 was caused by'a fire wnieli destroyed the live-story factory t building at Leonard and Mescrolc [ streets, Brooklyn. In the building about 600 girls were employed and . some of them were too panic-stricken ! to wait for the firemen to reach them and began jumping from the windows into life-saving net. Several of the 1 girls who made the leap struck the < ground and were severely hurt. j iMBfii miv,| 11jy ai i Y ?? SOUTHERN * / < t>-a ^ K TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PLANT, hN : Early Cotton*. Texas Station Buletiu 73, on "Early Cottons," gives the results of cotton investigation carried on by the station in co-operation with the Bureau of Plant Industry. United States Department of Agriculture: A study of early and late varieties was inconclusive because the seed could not be obtained at the right time. Cotton planted April 9 was attacked by the boll weevil, and all fruiting stopped after July 20. This planting yielded about three-fourths of a bale per acre, while a planting made June $ produced stalks from four to live feet high, but practically no fiber. The structure of the cotton plant was studied as the plants developed. It was found that early and late varieties differed in- length of joint, and in the fruiting capacity of the limbs at the first joints on the main stem. The early varieties had short joints and produced fruit limbs at the first joints on the main stem near the grodnd, while i^e late cottons had long joints, and r?re without fruit limbs at the lower joints. The time elapsing from the appearance of square in leaf axil to bloom ami full-grown boll was about the same iu late and in large and small boll cottons. | me large doii varienes required a iew days longer for tbe bolls to dry out and open. There Wis no apparent difference in the rate of growth of the several cottons, but as the rate differs in individual plants it is stated that rapidity in growth may be promoted by selecting seed from the largest stalks of the desired type. A definition of an early cotton is given and varietal characters, seed selection and importation, earliness of Northern seed and stormproof cottons are discussed. To test the effect of fertilizers on earliness, phosphoric acid, potash and nitrogen were each applied separately and in combination, in small, medium and excessive quantities. Acid phosphate and potash or kainit were used at the rate of 100, 200 and 500 pounds per acre, and .nitrogen or sulphate of ammonia at the rate of 250 and 500 pounds per acre. The mixture was made up of one part of kainit, one and one-half parts of cottonseed meal and two parts of acid phosphate, and was applied at the rate of 225 and 000 pound? per acre. Totash and nltrogei were apparently without effect upon the plants, but acid phosphate caused a rapid growth and greatly increased the yield. The results indiate that increase in earliness and yield and rapid growth are the result of supplying abundant plant food, and that it is sufficient to furnish the soil with only the lacking elements. After sixty-five days of growths the plants on the acid phosphate plat were eighteen inches high, with from eight to sixteen squares to the stalks, while the plants on the nitrogen, potash and unfertilized plats at this time were only from six to nine inches high, with from 0 to 4 squares per stalk. The yield of the first pickings were largest on the phosphoric acid plat. i Raising Berkshire* la South. ' Question?C. W. Crandall, Groton, 1 Conn., writes: "Can you advise me 1 where I can get Information about hog raising in Soutli Carolina? I wish to ' know if Berkshires will do well there, 1 and if I can ship them from here to the South and have them do well. Any j information will be grea ly appre ciated." Answer ? Berkshires are probably ( more widely distributed and more fav- * orably known in South Carolina than ] any other breed of hogs. Nearly all 1 breeds of black hogs do well in the ( South; whereas white hogs c.o not seem 1 to take so kindly to the climate. Berk- 1 shires are peculiarly well adapted to * the South, as they are naturally quite ( active and make good rustlers, which c Is a decided advantage when one con- 1 aiders the methods of pork raising most in favor, and likewise most economical for Southern farmers to follow. In many sections of the South there is still * much cheap land of a broken nature * which supplies an abundance of mast, providing almost ideal conditions for s raising pork under range conditions. * Hence soiling crops may be grown in a 1 succession so as to provide grain pas- 8 ture for several months of the year. 1 In this way hogs can b^ cheaply raised I for a small consumption of grain, and 1 the natural conditions are very favor- c able to the Berkshire with his well- S known rustling qualities. Hogs may * be shipped South at almost any time with comparative safety, though bringing them in the fall during cool weather is a decided advantage, as they then e tiave a chance to become acclimated be- fl fore the hot weather of the following P summer. The greatest care should be d exercised in shipping and unloading the hogs to avoid their infection with * ckokra.-^Andrew M. Soule. c t Horse Sense Hints. b Don't leave me bitched in my stall at | c Pointed Paragraphs. Lives of great men all remind ns low easy it is to be a small man. L Money doesn't sit around on empty ^ iry goods boxes when it talks. It takes brains to get through tho world?also to go around on the out- 2 ide. America's early settlers are those * who pay up promptly the first of each nonth. * An average girl is never satisfied r. D intil she acquires a son-in-law for ler mother. o Usually when a man reaches the urn in the lane he finds that it turns t n the wrong direction. I f Instead of seeking the man the office s kept busy trying to pick him out :rom the crowd of applicants. a Trusts must go. A Cincinnati man * las been forced to be^ because they fiosed a factory in which his wife had ? i job. * 0 V - / ' . * ' 'J'' V"" KM * yroto. {? g<r?> ER. STOCXMAR AM TRUCK OMW0I, I night with a big cob right where I must lie down. I am tied and can't se? lent a smooth place. Don't compel me to cat more salt* than I want by mixing it with 'my oats. I know better than any other nnlmnl hnnr miioh T naait Don't tbink because I go free under the whip I don't get tired. You would move if under the whip. Don't think because I am a horse that weeds and briars won't hurt my yg hay. . Don't whip me wheu I get fright* ened along the road, or I will expect it next time and maybe make trouble. .Don't trot me up hill, for I have to carry you and the buggy and myself, itoo. Try it yourself some time. Bun up hiil with a big load. Don't keep my stable very dark, for when I go out into the light my eye? , are injured. ,' f Don't say "whoa" unless you mean tfc- j Teach me to stop at the word. It * may check roe if the lines break, and save a runaway and smash-up. Don't ask me to back with blinds on, I am afraid to. Don't run me down a steep hill, for if anything should give way I might break your neck. Don't put on my blind bridle so that It irritates my eyes, or so leave my, forelock that it will be in my eyes. ' Don't be so careless of my harneat ^ as to find a great sore on me before you attend to It. Don't forget the old book that if friend of all the oppressed that says: "A merciful man is merciful to Jlift beasts."?Farm Jdhrnal. "* * ??? Timely Dairy Note*. If the milk stands so as to cool before separating, slightly warm It again, at most separators will skim closest when the milk is run through as soon at , drawn from the cow, or ftrhile at blood heat. ' ^ > Lime water will often work mafic lni"~ the dairy or creamery where the butter / is "off" flavor. Put twenty pounds of / unslaked lime in a barrel of water and t let stand for a day or two; then uae the clear water to rinse churn, worker and all other utensils, and finally flush the churn room and drain. ^ Do not keep dehorned cows "with ^ those that have horns. If dehorning is to be done do it before cold weathei |H Raise calves on skim milk^uid i H stitutc vegetable for butter fat in * form of flaxseed jelly at first, and lite j^H cornmeal. Good calves can be raiff H in this manner. Use dairy salt and salt butte* * HI trolffhf ai? mooonrn nnf Kw rrnoao ounce of salt to a pound of but' H about right for most tastes. S| Always use a combination roughage and grain feeds In MB euce to one or two of either. Is necessary.?Bural Voice. BB Ttmi tad Win Paadtff. Messrs. Editors?Farmers hare ralf MB serious objections to using lire a HH growlhg trees as posts for wire fc ing, and I believe the chief, If not afl only solid objection, is that the 1 HB tree grows and finally covers the w, j^fl and then the sap or dampness wh H gathers around the wire causes It BH rust and break at the tree. Now I have a remedy for this objection whiclf is very simple, and I writ* to suggest it for the benefit of those ^9 who may not have thought pf it, that Is to get a board or plank six inches. , ^; wide, and from one and a half to two . inches thick, cut its proper length for- . the fence, and nail these pieces one to ^ach tree, and upon this plank or board iail the wire. In this way you effectually protect the wire from the sap or iampiiess of the tree, and in the tree lave an everlasting post for the fence, 'or if necessary the board or plank can >e replaced frotfi time to tiqie, as n* jessity shall require it, and the treo an live on and continue to grOT IVm. J. Leary, Sr., Chowan Co., N. Keep Boadildt Clean. ^ Develop a sentiment that will cos- . lemn any man who allows weeds to go o seed along his roadside. If the farmer will keep the roadside clean there fa, some nope 01 ins mowing ine weeus in lis pasture. Say, what is the use of ;eeplng weed seeds in stock? Don't it ieem a perfectly absurd and foolish hing? Why do you complain of the irimeval curse of our first parents men you are doubling the corse up by. ultivating weeds, or allowing them to p-ow in waste places to make troublo or the next year??Wallace's Farmer. i Scattered Cocklebort. Cockleburs are getting scattered, and very farmer should see that the seeds re not left in his fields. If cut 01 lulled up early these weeds could b^Cy Iropped anywhere, but now it is torn? ate. It would not take long to go oveoKigi he fields and get them out. Thef-i ouid be put in piles on dltcl} or dike^i tanks or at the end oh rows, to be - urnt later when they are dry and tlh V. rop is off. . , . K News Notes. < i" Paul Deroulede, whose term of ba shment was remitted, was welooro tack to Paris. ' i Workmen looking for a gas leak^ in^Ishpeming (Mich.) bank cauu _ i. _.i." u u?j >a in CipiUMUIl wuivu iceuucu ui rleath of three children knd injuE* ^ o 13 other persons, t """ Canada cannot gtt ancient o carry its bumper whea j 1 * St. Petersburg spent a q*. t Sub'* J ut anti-Jewish rioting cOTt^ue# i , 5 lany of the provinces, and an uinbeif^ i f persons have been killed. The special commission appointed 0 investigate abuses in the CcjijfiT rree State recommends several 1^ orms. fej President Amador, of Panama. ?r , grand reception in honor of 0 arv Taft. England has surpassed gj Itates and betome the lar 1 r to Germany. I |