The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-30
iHr on 1t very favorably. .

ing on 1t very favorably."
 Colonel J. B. Browniow, representa- tive of the Postof1ice Department at the Pan-American Exposition recalls a sig
 nificant circumstance with reference to the South in connection with the mail service. He says: When the war of 1861 began money was due citizens in all the seeded States for carrying the mails. Under resolution of Con- gress payment, was forbidden except where parties having claims could prove continuous and unconditional loyalty to the Union. Several wears ago Congress rescinded this resolution and provided that in all cases payment should be made without reference to the question of loyalty or disloyalty. Alexander H. Stephens. Vice-President of the Confederacy, supported Douglas for President in 1s60. After the cleo tion and before Georgia seeded Mir. Stephens wrote letter to Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. He never re- ceived a reply He said himself he was satisfied his letter was not permitted to go through the mails in Georgia else lie would have received a response. Be- fore Tennessee seeded letters of w. G. Brownlow to George D. Prentice of The Louisville Courier-Journal and other men within the states which did not secede were opened in East Ten nessee postofficeS and sent to the Con- federate authorities at Nashville. Of this fact Colonel Brownlow has in dubitable proof. The postal clerks on the line of Fast Tennessee and Vir- gin'a and East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad threw large packages of the Knoxville Whig into the rivers of East Tennessee as the trains passed saying. No Lincolnite newspapers should pa circulated It is proper to add that When rov father made complaint to Hon. John H. Reagan of Texas. the Postmast sr-Genersl in Mir. Davis's cabinet. he strongly condemned the outrage. My ia ther never believed Judge Reagan capable of countenanc- ing any violation of the law regard ing the mails. The course of the Con- federate postmasters in East Tennessee referred ta was not without precedent. While Jackson was President the post master of Charleston. s., C., refused to deliver to subscribers anti-Slavery pub lications and in so doing was susts ned by Postmaster General Amas Kendall Connecticut Yankee, " Northern man with Southern princip es'' as his enemies called him. These reminis- cences of postal service in the South in 1881 illustrate the truth of the adage inter arma leges silent.,''
 Prof. $. A. Knapp. IL. D of Louisi- ana is in Buffalo on his way to the Philippines as special envoy of the Department of Agriculture He is very much pleased with the Exposition and is especially interested in the Louisiana and Texas Rice Kitchen. Prof Knapp is graduate of Union College. New York. He was for several years president of the Iowa State Col ledge. In 1878 he visited Japan, China and the Philippines as the representa- tive of the U. $. Government. In 1900 he was sent by the department of Az riculture as Special Commissioner to Porto Rico under act of Congress to investigate the Agricultural conditions there. The mission on which he is now starting is to introduce forage plants into the Phlllippints and bring back from various countries seeds and plants to the United States that will be of practical value to our farmers Prof. Knapp said to-day to your correspon- dent:
 Something like fifteen years ago the culture of rice with modern machinery was introduced on the prairies of south ; plements and machinery employed on the large wheat fields of the north west have there been successfully used. From Louisiana it has gradually ex- tended to Texas. The Gulf Coast Rice belt is the only portion of the world where machinery is extensively used ] in the cultivation of rice. The same care in the maturing and handling oi the grain could not be exercised as wa: | formerly the case by the hand process As a result, the breakage in the mill ! ing of rice was a large item, creating
 a loss of from twenty to forty per cent | in the gross value of the product. Three years ago the department of Agricul- ture attempted to remedy this difficult I ty by means of the importation oi rices better adapted to cultivation un- | der the machinery plan. We introduced | a variety of the Japanese rices known
 as the Kiushu. This almost entirely remedied the difficulty that had form | erly prevailed. The result was SC | gratifying to the department that am now going again to see what ricee can be found in the old world that may ha still heter adanted tO the rice bell