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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-06
LETTER CARRIERS MET.

Convention at Denver Chose SYRIA
cuse as Next Meeting Place.
Denver, Col. Sept. 5-The National
Letter Carriers Association elected Of
ficers to-day and chose Syracuse, N.
Y, as the next meeting place. Presi-
dent j. G. Keller of Cleveland was re-
elected. as was also Secretary E. ].
Cantwell.
Resolutions were adopted indorsing
the salary bill now pending before
Congress; indorsing every union label
and appropriating $500 for the aid of
the striking anthracite coal miners.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-06
WILL INVITE ROOSEVELT.

Atlanta. Sept. 5.-Gov. Gambler will
write letter to President Roosevelt
inviting him to visit Atlanta during
the coming Interstate Fair. The At
lanta committees will call on the Pres
ident Monday at Chattanooga for the
purpose OF extending the invitation.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-06
REPORT OF N. & w.
Annual Statement of the Company
Has Been Issued.


Philadelphia. Sept. 5.-The annual re-
port of the Norfolk and Western Rail-
road Company for the year ended June
80, 1902, which will be submitted to
the meeting of the stockholders at
Roanoke, Va, on Oct. 9, was made pub
lie tosday. The total earnings for the
year were $17 ,552, 204, an increase of ST.
373,136. The operating expenses were
$10,136.2 27; increase, $550,470; net, ST.
415.977; increase, $1,O22, 665. The sur
plus over fixed charges is $5,123,0 94; in
crease, 1929, 216.
To pay the dividend of per cent. on
the preferred stock, $91O,O14 was used,
and $12S9, 1884 was disbursed to pay the
dividend of per cent. on the COM
mon. The sum of $2,500,00o was de-
voted to the betterment fund, and the
deficiency of interest on the Pocahontas
bonds amounting to $161.229. There
was added to the credit of the profit
and loss account $1S2,075.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-06
Pope Confirms 1t,

Rome, Sept. 5.-The Pope has con-
firmed the appointment of Rt Rev
John M. Fairly, the auxiliary Bishop
of New York, as Archbishop of New
York, and Rt. Rev George Montgom-
cry of Los Angeles Cal, as coadjutor
to Archbishop Riordan of San Fran
cisco, the latter with the right Of sue
ceSSiOn
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-06
SIXTY MILLS TO MERGE.
Report of Consolidation of South
ern Industries.

Huntsville, Ala, Sept. 5.-A report
is current here that sixty Southern
cotton mills have been pledged by
their controlling interests to enter a
merger. The prime movers in the or
ganization are said to be Eastern cap
italists who have been in Huntsville
for several days, proposing to under
write the amalgamation.
Sixty mills. according to reports,
have accepted the plans of the mer-
ger, and two have refused to enter
into the agreement.
The plan of the reported merger, it
is understood, provides only for the
selling of the min products through a
common agency, each mill in the or
ganization to be operated independent
IL
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-06
CITY COURT AT VALDOSTA.
Mrs. Jesse scruGgs Shot and Killed
Monster Rather.

MIS- Jesse ScruSEs SAOt anu n1iAeU
Monster Rather.
Valdosta, Ca, Sept. 5.-The City
Court will convene next Monday and
the session may last two weeks, as
the docket is fuller than 1t has ever
been before. 1t is said that there are
more than forty suits against rail-
roads, ranging in amount from the
value of hog to many thousands of
dollars. The business of the City Court
is usually finished in four or five days,
but the outlook is that it will take two
weeks to finish it this time.
Mrs. Jesse Scruggs, at Ousley, killed
a large rattiesnake with a shotgun this
week. She was sitting on her porch
when the snake crawled into the yard
from a pea patch. She went in the
house and secured a gun, and return
ing, shot and killed the snake. 1t
measured over five feet in length and
had elevent rattles.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-06
MOVEMENTS OF TROOPS.
How the Orders Have Been Given in
Venezuela,

Barcelona, Venezuela. Sept. 5.-Gen.
Matos, the revolutionary leader. has
ordered all his military chiefs to con-
centrate in the direction of Alta
Gracia, whence the troops will move
later on Caracas. Consequently, Gems.
Rier, Batalla, Mendoza and Sanchez,
with about $4,000 men, recently left
San Carlos, distant $50 miles from Alta
Gracia, but they cannot reach the lat
ter place within a fortnight and the
decisive battle cannot take place for
some time to come.
President Castro is still inactive near
Ocumare.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-06
LOOKING INTO MERGER.
Kentucky Railroad Commission Is
Still Investigating.

Still Investigating.
Louisville. Sent. 5.-The investiga-
ton of the alleged merger of the
Southern and Louisville and Nashville
Railways, which was begun the first
of this week by the Kentucky Rail-
road Commission, was continued to-
day, and President Milton H. Smith of
the Louisville and Nashville was
called upon to give his testimony.
He occupied the entire morning ses-
sion and a greater portion of the af-
ternoon, but the members of the COM
mission refused to give out any state
ment regarding the evidence.
Atilla Cox, president of the Louis
Vile, Henderson and ST. Louis Rail
road and director of the Louisville
and Nashville, was also summoned be-
fore the commission this afternoon.
State Attorney General Pratt was
present at the sessions and assisted
in questioning the witnesses.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-06
WILL BE 7oO FIREMEN.

That Number Expected at the Chat
tanOOga Convention.
Chattanooga, Tenn, Sept. Sit is
estimated that over 700 delegates will
attend the biennial convention of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen,
which begins here next Monday A
special train conveying the main body
OF delegates from the North and East
will arrive here Sunday morning. The
entire forenoon of Monday will be de-
voted to the entertainment of Presi-
cent Roosevelt, and the business ses-
slons of the convention will begin Mon
day afternoon.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-06
ON THE RIVERS BOTTOM.
A Heavy Engine of the seaboard All
Line Is Lying.

Fernandina, Sept 5.-One of the Sea-
board Air Line Railways heavy con-
solidated locomotives, No. 1854, lies at
the bottom of Amelia river. at the
draw bridge. four miles out from this
city.
This engine left here at $50 last
evening with an extra freight, with
Engineer Dugan at the throttle. The
draw happened to be open and the
train, it appears, could not be got
under control and plunged into the
river. The engineer. fireman and
brakeman went down with,.the engine.
but were miraculously saved from in
jury.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-06
TH0RNE SUCCEEDS CAMPBELL
Change Announced i'm Management
of the PocRhOntas.

Roanoke, Va, Sept. 5.--A change is
announced in the management of the
Pocahontas Collferies Company, which
owns and operates the coal mines at
Pocahontas, the largest coal and coke
plant in the Flat Top fields, including
the Baby Mine, West Mine, Silver
Ridge and Nos. 1 and East mines.
The company is operating $500 acres
of coal lands and running 600 coke
ovens.
By the change w. B. Campbell is
succeeded as president by Charles S.
Thorne. The head offices will be in
Philadelphia. Thesnew owners of the
company are mostly New York men.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-06
Mohnmmed ReIemsed.

Madrid. Sept 5.-A dispatch to the
impartial from Tangier. Morocco. says
the Berbers have again attacked Me-
kines. a town 81 miles from Fez. with
the result that MOhammed. brother OF
the Sultan OF Morocco and Pretender
10 his throne, has been released. Mo-
BANNED was imprisoned Ia Mekines.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-06
WRECKED MINERS HOME.

His Wife Fled in Terror Before the
Mob of Strikers.
of Lawrence Tarwoski, a non-union
mine worker at Hudson. six miles
north of this city, was wrecked by a
mob tonight. Tarwoskis wife, who
was alone, fed in terror.
The strikers at Hudson engaged in
a march tonight, carrying banners
which threatened non-union men at
work in the mines.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-06
OBITUARY..


Waycross, Sept. 5.-Mrs. F. T. Cady
of Willacoochee died at her home, near
that place yesterday afternoon. The
funeral took place this morning. Mrs.
Cady was a sister of Messrs. G.. G.. and
]. NJ. Parker of this city.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-06
WILL SELL A NEGRO.

He Will Be Put on the Block and
offered for IL Months.
. Shelbyyille, KY, Sept. 5.-Fisher Mil
lion, negro who was indicted in 1901
for vagrancy, and who has been at
large since, has been captured at Law
renceburg and tried before Judge Da-
Wis in the County Court. The Judge
returned verdict of guilty and fixed
his punishment at being sold into ser
vitude for period of twelve months,
the highest penalty. He will be put on
the block and sold into servitude by
the sheriff, if a purchaser can be found.
The officials hardly know what to do
in the event of no sale.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-06
wheeler Coming Home,

London, Sept. 5.-The American Line
steamer Philadelphia, which sails from
Southampton for New York tomorrow,
will take among her passengers Gen.
Joseph Wheeler.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-06
WILL NAME BOIES.
He VIII BE Nominated in Iowa
Against Speaker Henderson.

Des Moines, Ia, Sept. "a special
from Waterloo states that members of
the Congressional Committee and local
leaders of the party announced to-day
that ex-Gov. Horace Boies will be NOM
mated for Congress against Speaker
Henderson at the Third District Dem.
ocratic Convention at Dubuque next
Thursday.
1t had been expected that his son,
Louis Boies, would be named, but the
latter declined because of professional
engagements, and the leaders turned
to the former Governor who showed
his vigor and ability as leader at the
recent state convention, where he led
the fight against the reaffirmation of
the Kansas City platform.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-06

New York, sept 5.~The famous
black mare Imp WAS sold "a Sleeps
head Bay to-day 10 %. a. Upton for
$500. "a IL understood thaf Imp viii
be sent - John 4. daddsns place Ia
Kentucky.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-06
Left for Potsdam.

Posen, Prussian Poland, Sept. g.
Emperor William, the Empress and the
Crown Prince, Frederick William,
started at noon to-day for Potsdam.
They were everywhere heartily cheer
ed
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-06
S30,0 900 for Horses.

New York, Sept 5.-John e. Mad
den to-day purchased from J. w.
Schorr, the 2-yearolds, Onatas and
Judith Campbell, and the 4-year-old
FLY, Lady Schorr, paying $4,000.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-06
JELLIco NOT WORKING.
Operators Are Awaiting "A Wage
Scale Settlements.

Scale Settlement.
Knoxville, Tenn, Sept. 5.-The East
tennessee Coal Company is not OPP
Grating it's mines at Jellico on account
OF disagreement on wage scale ques-
tons. About $50 men. nearly all of
whom belong 10 the union, are out
waiting settlement. In the Tennes-
see coal fields west Of the Cumberland
coal belt, there are now about 900 men
out waiting for agreements as to wage
scales
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-06
R0SEHILL AT MARCUS.
The japanese Report That Every
thing Is Satisfactory.

The japanese Report That Every
thing Is Satisfactory.
Yokohama, Sept. 5.-The japanese
cruiser Takachihe returned here to-
day from Marcus Island. She reports
that Capt. Rosehill is at Marcus Is
land, but that everything has been
arranged satisfactorily.
Capt. Rosehill. an American. claim
ed ownership of Marcus Island, but his
claim was not recognized by the Unit
ed States government.
Capt Rosehill sailed from Honolulu
for Marcus Island last July. The
crew of his schooner were said to be
armed, and it was believed he intended
to occupy the island by force.
About the same time japanese
warship sailed for Marcus Island. and
by this vessel the state department
sent notification to Capt. Fosehill not
to offer resistance to the Japanese.
The progressive farmer., 1902-01-07
Grasses and Forage Plants Of Tho South,
RVJ.B. NLLsaN.
ct The UulvsrsIty OG Tennessee.

1t is a complete manual of the cul
ture of grasses and forage plants Of
the South. It contains about lao
pages, and is written in a style to be
understood by everyone.
The book discusses the character
tstics Of the principal prasses, the
maintenance of pastures and mead
ows, leguminous forage plants, wild
pastures, etc. It is fully illustrated
with original analytical engravingR
by Scribner, our greatest grass ex-
pert, and embellished with a large
number of half tone outs of field
operations.
KIIte6ree0'S former t0Ork on grasses
IS 'aOao entirely Out of print and
brings So a copy. This nee0 book con-
t0iroS all the 6'1forn10t6on In the for.
naeT e0O''k, ye-eOr6ttego, and ena6od5es
the results Of ta0eroty gears additional
experience Of the tOrGter and all the
information attained By the eepert-
nae71t stations and the Un6ted States
Department Of Agriculture.
The progressive farmer., 1902-01-07
Is IT UP TO YOU?
tanned
ANNIE @. WEBSTER.

1t is up to you whether you will
continue breeding the same old
mongrels, or make a change and get
some thoroughbred fowls.
1 can distIn city remember when
the question was up so me, though
ii Was some Some fifteen years ago.
Like u great maLy otuors dlu not
feel as though could afford to make
the change all at once, so l bought
a thoroughbred oockerel to mate
with the mongrels.
This was a step forward and paid,
but it was too slow a process of i'm
provement, so sold off all scrub stock
and invested IN thorough breds. This
was the best investment ever made.
l not only got more eggs and heavier
chicks, but got better prices for
them in market, in fact, could not
raise chickens enough to supply the
demand at the increased price. We
we're supplying people at a summer
resort and soon had the trade all to
ourselves. I think we were breed
ing the Barred Rocks then and there
was only one fanlt that could find
with them the black pin feathers
made us lots of extra work, so we
next tried the White Rocks. These
were o. K. on pin feathers, but we
found them lese hardy than the
Barred variety, lost more chicks and
did not get so many eggs. There
fore as soon as the Buff Plymouth
Rocks became esta ablished we invt g.
ted in them and are keeping them
exclusively now as they meet all
requirements.
AS this is the season when most
people thinks of making a start with
thoroughbreds or introducing new
blood, perhaps a few words about
ordering stock will not be out of
place.
The earlier one can place their
order the better value they will get
The progressive farmer., 1902-01-07

for their money as a general thing.
Because breeders have a surplus
then, and as soon as stock has to
go into winter quarters, are crowded
for room.
Then, too, there is a large num-
Der to select from, and about the
best way to order is to enclose the
amount Of money you wish to in
vest in a certain number of fowls
and tell the breeder TO send the best
value he can afford. We have al
ways had the best results in order
ing in this way and saved time and
annoyance.
Do noS expect to get exhibition
birds or the best breeder has for q
low price.
If you want low-priced birds, say
so, and tell the breeder that you do
not want to pay for fancy points,
but just for good breeding stock.
II one wants an ideal bird for ex-
hibition purposes, or for some special
mating, it is best to order on ap-
proval with the privilege of return
ing if not satisfactory, but for ordi-
nary breeding stock this is hardly
necessary, as most breeders will do
the fair thing.
Quite often a chick will not show
up good on arrival, owing to long
Journey, change of climate, etc.
therefore do not send complaint to
the breeder the first thing you do,
but give the chick a chance to try
and make something of it. We once
bought cockerel that was very un
promising until it moulted in the
fall after it was year old, when he
developed into a very fine bird.
One more word and I am done.
Take all the poultry papers you can
afford. You will learn something to
your advantage in each of them.-E.
E. Lawrence, in American Poultry
Advocate.
The progressive farmer., 1902-01-07
MARES FOR THE FARM.

It is an introvertible fact that the
farmers should keep mares rather
than geldings to do the farm work
Large heavy mares weighing any
where from fourteen to eighteen
hundred pounds each and bred every
year to large, we'll built, Peroheron
or Clydesdale stallion, will solve the
labor problem upon most of our
farms most satisfactorily, for each
mare will produce foal every year
as we'll as doing her part of the farm
work, and it will be easy to figure
up the advantage which will accrue
in the curse OF a period of say five
years, when the mares are kept
rather than the geldings. The geld
ings will only perform the work and
grow less and less valuable as the
years elapse the mares not only
work, but are constantly adding to
the horse stock, and good, large,
| young horses are always in demand
They mature early and bring paying
money are in fact no small item in
the proceeds of the farm. The cost
OF a few colts up to the age of four
or nVe years is inconsiderable as
compared with the cash value they
Will bring. Every we'll located farm
should certainly not neglect horse
preceding, for this offers one of the
main chances for money making
Farmers Voice.
The progressive farmer., 1902-01-07
The Poultry Yard.
HIGH EGG RECORDS.

correspondence OF The Progressive Farmer.
Good layers are dependent for high
records upon the quality and quan-
tity of the food given them, and no
one can expect TO secure great re-
suits even from the best hens unless
care is given to them in feeding,
watering and general oversight. Egg
records published in the papers ara
In one sense usually misleading.
They represent NOT what the hens
can do right along under normal
conditions, but what they can be
forced to accomplish under decided
artificial stimulus. That is, they can
be fed to lay plenty of eggs for q
short period, and thus they establish
a record. Some times the ordinary
grower of poultry gets discouraged
when he reads of such records, and
finds that it is impossible to come
anywhere near them.
No egg record is of any use to the
average poultry raiser unless it is for
a full year. A three months or
even six months record shows moth
ing except the ability of the owner
to force laying. When the record
extends over year, including sum
mer and winter, and all sorts of
weather, it is worth while studying
1t, and finding out something of the
methods of the owner. For instance,
there are some hens that have main
tanned a few years a record of 200
eggs a year, and they have proved
so profitable that it has stimulated
many a grower to attempt to build
up flock of 200 eggs-per- year hens.
This, however, seems impossible.
The record is too high. One man
claims TO have so per cent. of his
fock making that average. The
hens are kept on a large pasture
farm, with woodland attached, and
a fine stream of pure water running
through it. The chickens have an
excellent natural run, and the water
they drink is always clean and pure.
The hens have plenty of exercise,
shade and sun. They pick up good
deal of TODD such as bugs and worms,
and then they are fed literally on
scraps, grain, crushed shells and
ground bone. This diet naturally
helps them to a good, healthy living,
and SO far as possible the surround
ings are all as natural as those pro-
vided by nature. Their life is no
more artificial than circumstances
demand. Sickness and diseases are
very rare, and the poultry all show
the good effects of their natural run,
clean running water, and varied
food. B + then there are fifty acres
TO this farm, and less than thou
sand hens thereon. If they were in
creased in numbers so that 1he
providing was greater it is doubtful if
the same high results could be OBJ
tanned.
ANNIE c. WEBSTER.
The progressive farmer., 1902-01-07

with the dairy type and then follow
ing up carefully with the milk REQ
ord and the Baboock test, he is in a
position TO quickly and easily build
up a herd of dairy COWS. With but
ter at twenty-five cents per pound
and milk from five 80 ten cents per
quart, there are great opportunities
for hundreds and thousands Of dairy
men in North Carolina. Weproduce
iE our State limits no cheese and not
near the quantity of butter our poo
pie consume. Let as look TO breed
Ing Of good dairy ov,ys of the profit
able type, to make our butter and
cheese and have TO spare a remunera-
tive rates for the markets of the
cities near to Us.
CHAs WIN. BURKETT.
The progressive farmer., 1902-01-07
Horticulture.
GOOD APPLE ORCHARDS.

Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
With some we'll cultivated orchards
of apples yielding Il profit of hun
dreds of dollars per acre this year,
when fancy fruit is scarce, one may
question with himself if the apple in
dustry is not one of the most profit
able. No, it is not, suoh it is generally
understood but extraordinary apple
culture is. That is the difference;
it is the method more than it is the
industry. There will be thousands
of apple orchards which will hardly
pay anything year after year, but
here and there, it you go about the
country, you will find orchards that
are } ielding handsome incomes 1t
is the difference between good and
Indifferent culture-the price usually
paid for experience, Intelligence and
good WORK.
have always fully believed that
the So called off years and tull years
of the apple crop were merely acoi-
dental results of bad cultures 1t
was rather our lack of knowledge
concerning this frGit. 1t is unques-
tionably true that nature runs to eX-
tremes One year she will exhaust
! in producing such an abundant crop
that there will Oe plenty In the land,
and the following season there will
come d famine. Modern agriculture
and horticulture seeks TO elimina 50
| this uncertainty, anu 80 attain de
gree of uniform production which
will make each seasons production
sufficient for all needs. When you
go in5o an old neglected orchard of
apples and see the trees fairly groan-
ing under load of small fruit, you
know we'll that the trees are suffer
ing. They are pr Jducing more than
they can successfully and their vital
ity is being injured so that an attack
of insects or bad weather another
season will cause d general dearth of
fruit. There is simple Way to
remedy this. Never let a tree pro-
duoe more fruits than it possibly can
without straining branches It is
far better to prune off rigidly, and
let few fruits ripen each season.
Trees handled in this way will have
no off years. Every year will be a
profitable one, and the vitality of the
trees will be kept above par. T. q
more an apple orchard is neglected
the more uncertain is the fruit yield.
There will be seasons of no fruit and
years Of an abundance. It is all a
sort of gamble with the owner. If
he has an abundance of fruit when
apples are high priced he will make
good money; but like most gambling
games of life the odds are heavily
against the owner. This uncertainty
should be eliminated by better cul.
ture, and particularly by better
pruning and thinning out of the
young fruit. s. W. CHAMBERS.
The progressive farmer., 1902-01-07
Grow Grasses and Raise Cattle,

Examine agricultural statistics and see ths
high rank North Carolina takes in yield Per
acre Of grasses and forage crops. Com
pare her advantages for stOck-raising With
those of other States. Profit by these EaCts.
Grow grasses; raise stock. And whether you
have few animals or many, you cannot afford
not to read
The progressive farmer., 1902-01-07
THE TREATMENT OF WEIL-BRED SWINE

N. G. A. and M. College.