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The age-herald., 1900-01-23

 The San Francisco widow who has come into possession of a $7,OO0.oOO estate will doubtless be invited to drop the widow busi- ness shortly.
 The esteemed MT. Hanna is now engaged in realizing on Philadelphia's $1OO,OOO check. He will not stand any foolishness in that quarter.
 Unfortunately short olive crop and a short cotton-seed crop have come together. Dressed salads will be higher.
 It is now plain why Senator Morgan's opponent lost his temper in Clarke. let ting loose a school of epithets.
 It is now estimated that only one per cent. of Chicago's typhoid fever will sur vive to thrive in St. Louis
 Count Smash-the- Republic Castellane has come over, it is said, to refill a purse that the Paris Bourse depleted.
 Early-bird counties are not, where we'll canvassed, any different than the common run of such political units
  Adjutant General Brandon did not bring the Johnstin Guards in Clarke county to @ thigh degree of efficiency.
 John H. Wallace brought back scalp from Clarke county. He never fails to bring down his game.
 Chairman White should have the burning issues as well discussed in Marengo as they were in Clarke.
 Whenever the esteemed Castelane goes broke he turns his steps towards Lake, wood, New Jersey.
 Public sentiment demands that Clark and Roberts be yoked together and treated to hot bounce.
 Money is beginning to flow back from Montana ito New York, and the rates are becoming easierf
 Massachusetts is trying to tag her lobby lSlS put lHe ioDDylSlS uo Hol Idke hInuly to the project.
 The esteemed paragraphists of the coun- try love General Wheeler He is a gold mine to them
 Clarkes unanimous beats will be dupli- cated in every democratic county in the state.
 The congressional blow falls upon three women and twelve children, including the twins.
 W. A. Clark of Montana is not a demo- crat. No robber-tariff man can be demo- crat.
 When Roberts encountered the women of America he was straisthtway overwhelmed.
 
 Colonel Russells "sta atement of admitted facts was rejected in Clarke county.
 The whereabouts of Aguinaldo and David B. Hill still puzzle the detectives.
 General Bul,er Is not at present engaged in re-crossing the Tugela.
 Count Castellane Is about to 80 into the hands of a receiver.
 Crenshaw is within the pale of populism.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-06
Advantages of Sailing

Feedstuffs grown on the farm fall into
two general classes. one being the con-
centrates, or grain crops, and the other
the coarser feed, such as pasturaee bav
and other crops grown as "rougbness ;,
says a Western journal. These latter
crops are handled in a variety of ways
They may be pastured off, which is the
easiest, but most extravaeant' wav. so
far as the returns from a given area are
concerned The crops may also he chi
and cured for hay or coarse fodder for
winter keep. A third method, and one
which gives the largest amount of returns
from given amount of land is soiline
By this method the crop is cut from day
to day as needed and fed green Ii in
wolves the largest amount of labor. but
secures the largest use of land. II Is
consequently in the direction of intensive
farming as opposed to extensive. Very
little complete soiling has hitherto been
done N the West. for the reason that here
land has been cheaper than labor. A
good many farmers. however. and es-
pecially those engaged in dairying. have
practiced partial soiling with good re-
suits. The moNve for the practice has
usually been, not so much a desire 10
economize land and find employment for
the labor of the farm. as to bridge over
the dry midsummer period when the pas
lures are short and burned down and
when stock does not thrive II il relies
upon grazing only. While the absence
Of thrift, due to dry pastures, affects all
kinds OF live stock, II is more keenly and
more Immediately felt by the owners of
dairy herds whose cows shrink in milk
production when subsisfing upon midsum-
mer pasture. and who find IL difficult. IL
not impossible to bring the yield back
to what 1t should be when shrnkage has
once been permitted. II is for this rea-
son that partial soiling has been prac-
ticed principally by darymen. although
the losses by other kinds of live stock.
due to short pastures, have not been in
considerable.
Soillng is quite common in the East
where land is expensive, and as Eastern
conditions creep westward soiling to meet
The conditions extends in the same direc-
ton. 1t is, Of course, adapted to small
farms rather than large ones, and TO 10.
calities where population Is dense ana
markets are close at hand. But these
are conditions that are coming westward
as the states become more thickly settled
and their industries grow to be more d.
versified. For these reasons we may ex-
pect from this time on, in the no-distant
future, 70 find the number Of those who
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-06

Charleston News and Courier: A meet
ing was held at the office of the Royal
Bag Manufacturing Company, in Hayne
street, yesterday and new company was
organized for the manufacture of cotton
goods. This new company, while COM
posed chiefly of men interested in the
Royal Bag Company, will be, when regu-
larly chartered, a separate and distinct
corporation, which proposes 90 erect a
cotton mill in Charleston. The full de-
tails of the matter were not fixed upon
at the meeting yesterday. but will be de-
termined at subsequent meeting
Enough of the general plan was made
public TO show that this new enterprise
will mean a great deal for Charleston A
suitable location will be sought, after
which fully equipped cotton mill will be
erected. While some of the signers for
stock i'm this company are large owners
in the cotton mill now in operation here,
the new mill will not in any way be con-
nected with the old one, and the proprie-
tors assert that they intend to prove that
a modern mill can be successfully operat-
ed by white labor in Charleston. Nearly
all of the stock was subscribed al the
preliminary meeting. those present having
been quite ready to take II all If the
amounts had not been limited by resolu-
ton.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-06
Angora Goat Breeding.

AS civilization advances 1t is always ac-
companied by closer settlements, and a
tendency towards better methods of cui-
tivation, which, of course, includes clean
ing up and improving pastures that may
be overrun by weeds and brush, says the
Homestead. 1t is natural that farmers
should wish TO do this cleaning up at the
least possible expense, or at no expense
al all, If possible, and SO the Angora goat
has been enlisted as a scavenger against
the weeds and brush. For ourselves, we
have very kindly feeling towards the
Angora goat, but too much should not be
expected of il. Like other workers in a
good cause, the goats have their limita-
tons. For instance, sixty head of them
cannot do the work of hundred, nor can
a hundred do the work of 500. Moreover.
the brush may have grown too strong
and be TOO far advanced for goats to work
upon and effectively keep down. This is
said not with the intention of discourag-
ing farmers from keeping flock of goats,
but with view of emphasizing the need
for helping in the scavenger work if it
is to be made effective. Where the brush
is large il must not be left entirely to
goats. Farmers pretty generally know
that great amount of brush has to be
srubbed out and trees must be cut down
improved for grazing purposes. Yet when
all this Is done there is still enough ten
der brush left for the goat as a browser,
and too much should not be required of it
or ii will not do the work WELL although
goats are good helpmates.
Angora goat breeding, however, may
we'll be placed on a higher plane than
that of merely supplying farm scavengers.
although incidentally the goat is good
al in
they are more in favor with many Amer
leans than sheep or common goats. They
are freer from disease than the former.
and not by any means as mischievous as
the latter, neither are they of a very :ov-
ing disposition. The real point in their
favor. however. is that they cost little TO
keep and sell readily at from IS to 81, their
meat being delicious and wholesome. OF
course pastures where they are kept
should be fenced, and, like other live
stock they can be improved by selection
in mating for breeding purposes. and by
good care and humane, liberal treatment.
all of which can be provided at small ex-
pense. 1t is asserted by those who know
whereof they speak that well-bred goals
of this breed will shear five to seven
pounds of mohair. worth from thirty-iye
to forty cents pounds. The sum thus
realized for their fleece so far exceeds the
cost of keep that they cannot fail to be a
profitable investment wherever they are
properly looked after. At the present
time it Is but natural to expect that the
Angoras will gradually assume a much
more prominent position in farming oper-
alton than they have yet done, as an
American Angora Goat Breeders Associa-
ton was formed some time ago. composed
of live men who have already made their
mark with other breeds of live stock. The
ger work on the farm to a profitable ex-
tent. Let the association do the goats full
justice and they will do more and become
still more popular
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-06
Charters and Commissions.

Several new enterprises were commits
stoned or chartered at Columbia wednes-
day. Among them is a s15O0OO cotton mill
at Marion. Corporators: ]. C. Man, E.
A. Gasque, w. c. Mullins, Henry Buck
B. r. Mullins. all of Marion. The mill
is 10 be known as the Ashby Cotton Mills
The Spartanburg Warehouse Company
was chartered. Capital stock, $4,000. w.
A. Law, president; j. W. Nash secre-
tary. A commission for a charter of a
somewhat unusual character in the state
has been applied for. The Woodward
Warren Theatrical Company asks for a
charter Greenvlle people are backing
the enterprise, some of them being own
ers of the proposed new opera house to
be erected in that city. The company is
well known in the state, having played
in the principal cities of the state for
several seasons. The capital stock is
$1,000. w. P. McBee is president; r. c..
Foster, vice president; Wilbur Atkinson,
secretary. The Camden Lumber Com
pany of Camden, with capital stock of
$780, and the Cash Grocery Store, of
Sumter, with a capital of $4,000, received
charters.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-06
The Scrap Book.

heslstarce to Frost.-They are irving a
peculiar experiment at the Rhode Island
station: In the spring of 1899 thew plant
gu three varieties of beans in a hotbed,
ana one cold night they removed sash
so THAI most of the plants were killed
few were injured, but did not die and
few escaped with but little injury From,
these last Few they saved the seed. and
made similar test this spring. They
removed the sash the night of May 10.
"hen the weather records near by showed
temperature of rs degrees. The results
were similar to that of the wear before
Many of the plants were killed outright,
nearly all lost their leaves and one stood
as IL nothing had happened They pro-
pose 10 continue the experiment and see
II they cannot from that one plant and
perhaps from some of the others that only
LOST their leaves, develop a strain Of
Oeahs that they can warrant as hardy as
peas are now. We wish them success.
To Dehorn Cattle.-The best way 10 de-
horn cattle is 10 take them when they
are calves not more than ten DAYS old,
and shear the hair away from the but
tons where the horn Is 90 appear and
win a moist cloth rub the oil off the
buttons, says the Ranch and Range. DO
not wash spot larger than the end OF
the little finger Get from she apothecary
stick OF caustic potash and moisten
one and so as to dissolve It slightly. and
rub the little spots of moist skin four or
five times in as many minutes. moisten
The potash each time. This will destroy
the cuticle of the skin, and check the
growth of horn. Do not use too much
moisture on the potash. for If the solu-
ton runs out into the hair 1t will leave
bare spot wherever 1t goes. Keep the
calves in out of the rain for several days
for the same reason. The operation IS
simple and practically harmless to the
q animal
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-06
Capital Removal.

The Executive Committee of the Cap-
tai Removal Association of Ocala held a
very enthusiastic meeting Friday Secre-
tary Williams read the reply of the com
mittee to the Jacksonville Association s
letter, in which that body seemed to fail
TO understand Ocala's proposition, An an
swer from St Augustine's association said
they were willing TO meet representatives.
OF the Ocala Capital Removal Association
and discuss the project of holding a pri-
mary to determine the strongest place
east of the Suwannee. Messrs Thagard
Miller Sistrunk, Harry Eagleton and Nj
gent were added to the Finance Commit
tee, and Mr.. Fishel made chairman of the
committee, vice D. f. McIver. resigned
Gen. Bullock was called before the COM
mittee and detailed the action of the State
Executive Committee at their late meet
ing in Jacksonville which was nil
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-06
The japanese Grasses.

Japan continues to supply US with won
derful products of it's gardens, which
through centuries of culture they have
brought to the present high state of per-
lection, says an exchange. Japanese
plums. morning glories and lawn grasses
are now quite common in every orchard
or garden, and they are not excelled by
anything that the Western nations have
been able 20 produce. The Japanese
grasses have only been introduced in this
country few years, but wherever plant
ed they receive more than common notice.
For ornamental grouping on the lawn
there is no palm or plant that quite equals
them, not even excepting the celebrated
pampas plumes. When once planted these
grasses flourish so abunda ntly that II is
a question whether they may not have a
commercial value as we'll as an ornamen-
tai one In Japan, they are dried and
woven into mats, and If one cares to
initiate the Orientals in this respect, dura-
bic home mats can easily be manufac-
tured.
The japanese make many ornamental
wickerwork articles with the stems Of
the Eulalias, and if they are properly
dried in season, they will prove very stiff
and strong.
The Eulalia japonica variegata is a va
riety that greatly resembles the old-fash-
Toned ribbon grass, but it is prettier and
taller. The green leaves are brightly
variegated with white and yellow. which
eolors do not disappear as the season
advances. but remain on the foliage un-
Ill frost kills the plants
There are infinite uses to which these
tall slender grasses may be put. They
are not tough as the Japanese bamboo.
but for light work they answer almost
the same purpose. We cannot raise tho
bamboo in this country, but the Eulalias
Will flourish and we might endeayor 70
employ them about the house in useful
and ornamental ways
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-06

can adyantageously practice soiling in
crease from year to year. Prof. Shaw,
who has given good deal of attention
TO the subject, thus states some of the
more important advantages of the soil
ing system:
THE more important benefits resulting
from growing soiling crops are that food
supplies are increased in marked de-
gree; in various ways the waste in feed
ing is lessened; animals are sustained in
better form than where soiling is not
practiced; injury TO the land through
poaching is prevented; a salutary inf1u-
ence is exercised on weed eradication a
saving in land is affected: a saving in
fertility is effected; saving is also ef-
fected in abe item of fencing; animal pro-
duction is greatly increased, and the cost
of keeping the family COW is lessened."
These being the advantages, the prac-
tice of soiling will extend as the import
ance of securing its advantages becomes
more urgently felt by the individual farm
er. There are large wastes of forage
now in the way the corn fodder crop is
managed, and the excuse for the waste is
the amount Of labor necessary to save it.
OF course, the same objection applies 90
soiling. AS long as labor is scarce, as
compared with land, the fact will have a
controlling influence on the extent of the
adoption of this or any other of the more
intensive methods of farming; but in this
respect there is a gradual change in prog
ress. and land is gradually becoming dear
enough to render it important that the
most should be made OUT of it.
Recently published experiments at the
Kansas Experiment Station in soiing
cows last year are not without interest
in this connection. Twenty-one cows were
divided into two lots. giving a practi-
cally equal yield of milk and an equal
average test. One lot was pastured on
prairie and mixed grasses, the season be-
ing an exceptionally good one for pas
lures. The other lot was soiled on alfalfa,
oats. corn, cane and Kaffir corn. Some of
the results are worth noting: 1t required
OIL of an acre TO support q cow on soil
ing crops for IA days During the same
period it required S63 acres to keep COW
on pasture. Practically one acre eoiled
did the work of five acres that were pas
tured The returns showed that the pas
ture brought in products $i.2S an acre.
Calculated on the same basis. the alfalfa
brought $25.26 an acre. the oats $6.S1 per
acre, corn $2279 per acre, cane $3.50 per
acre and Kaffir corn 1888 per acre, the
average of the several soiling crops being
S1S0S per acre. These are large returns,
probobiy greater than most crops bring,
and yet they do not mean that soiling al
ways pays. 1t will all depend upon the
cost of labor the amount of land one has
that is suitable for pasturins only, and
other like considerations Still the re-
suits are valuable 10 those who feel in
clined to investigate the subject of soil
ing, for they show what may be done by
this method where limited supply OF
land is relied upon to keep large amount
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-06
Carolina Trust Company.

The Carolina Trust Company is a new
financial organization, which is soon to
open for business in Columbia 1t is
a home enterprise and home money will
back It. The capital stock is TO be 500.
900 and the corporators are Edwin w.
Robertson, T. Il. Wannamaker and WILL
lam d. Melton of Columbia The COM
pany proposes to do a general trust, guar
antee and security business. to negotiate
loans on cotton, act as guardian aud ad-
minisirator. issue surety bonds for off,
eials and other employees. An applica-
ton for chaster he's been made and
the company VIII be organized as soon as
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-06
some Point. on Rape Culture. a

One of the marvels of the latter day
husbandry is the progress of rape culture
in this country. Formerly the cultiva-
ton of rope was for its seed from which
an oil was expressed. But during the last
five years the attention OF farmers and
especially sheepmen has been called to
this crop as one that would practically
solve the question of summer forage.
says the Indiana Farmer. 1t is without
rival in all the list of succulent summer
and autumn foods, by furnishing more
and better green food TO the acre, and at
less expense.
A number Of. difficulties relative to its
culture will vanish as the farmer learns
to manage 1t. In selecting ground for
rGpe some attention should be given TO
the character of the soil. II requires con-
siderable moisture and hence should be
sown on ground that retains moisture the
longest. II does quite well on recleaned
marshes. 1t will not succeed on foul
ground where II would be choked out by
weeds in it's early growth. Rape is a
heavy feeder and requires good soil-can't
be TOO good.
To insure paying crop against the
counteraoting influences OF the most I'M
favorable season of the year for a grow
ing crop. should be literally supplied
with artificial plant food. We have had
splendid results by using 400 pounds OF
fertilizer per acre containing per cent
available phosphoric acid. per cent
potash and per cent. nitrogen Rape
like clover. enriches the ground in nitro
gen to a certain extent II therefore re-
quires but small per cent. OF that COST
~ ingredient. For early summer grazing
rape should be sown about oat seeding
time in April or May. but when late SUM
mer and fall feeding Is desired, Il can
be sown during July or early August, on
ground plowed and well prepared.
The best variety OF seed IL the Dwarf
Essex and the amount used Is about four
pounds per acre II sown broadcast, and
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-06
On Trial for Poisoning.

The trial of Tom Waters and his
mother, Hester Waters. charged with the
poisoning of Mrs. Sallie Waters, wife of
Tom Waters, which has been in progress
in the Counsy Court al Statesboro before
Judge Branan, has caused a sensation in
which the entire county is interested All
the parties connected with the affair are
among the most prominent in this section,
and the outcome of the trial. which will
end tomorrow, is watched with interest.
The evidence of DR.. Slack of LAGRANGE
who analysed the stomach of the young
woman, to the effect that her death was
due 10 poisoning, seems to establish be-
yond question the fact that she either
committed suicide or was poisoned. Mrs
Waters died very suddenly on July 2, and
the charge against her husband and
mother-in-law is that they put strychnine
in plums and apples and gave them to
her with the result that she died. While
the evidence against Tom Waters and his
mother is only circumstantial, the fact
that they are among the most prominent
people in that section has caused the mat
ter TO become a profound sensation, and
the court room has been crowded during
the trial.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-06
A aueer Pnrntershin.

Bulloch Herald: A novel partnership
business is transacted by a couple of old
gentlemen in a town not far from States
boro. AT the close of each days work
they divide the cash equally and each
takes his part. One puts his silver in a
shot bag and che other uses an old sock.
When the collector comes around on the
first of the month, each goes down in his
treasury for half the amount of the bill,
but not cent more will either pay BY
this method of transacting business there
is no danger of defaulting cashiers, and
no trouble about declaring dividends at
The end of each year.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-06

Mrs. Haley r. Brown, wife of one of the
most prominent farmers around Green
vile, is reported in a dying condition as
the result of a brutal attempt made to
assault her Friday morning about day.
light by an unknown person, believed to
be negro. Farmer Brown lives about
two miles from Greenvile. He was not
at home when the assalant visited the
house. The man entered the house by
breaking lock, it is presumed. He was
in the bedroom occupied by Mrs. Brown
before any one knew of his presence. In
attempting 20 strike a match Mrs. Brown
was awakened by the intruder. She
screamed and attempted to rush from the
room. He caught her and choked her I'M
til she was black in the face He then
struck her two fearful blows with his fist
in her face. She fell back on the bed,
unconscious. Mrs. Brown is in a crit-
cal condition, suffering from nervous
prostration. Because of her delicate
health and the great shock. the attending
physician does not believe she will re-
cover.