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Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1903-06-10

facolet Mills, June 6.-Twelve which went first
ives, $2,50O000 in mill and By this tin,a tbe r;r h..
Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1903-06-10
APPALLING DISASTER
In UPPER CAROLINA.
lhe Loss of Property Will Reach Into the
Millions and Many Have Perished in
Their Homes.
BY Randolph W. Smith, in The State

BY Randolph W. Smith, in The State.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1903-04-10
To Make a Balky Horse Pull.

For the benefit OF those who have been
caused great deal OF anxietyb by a ba1k
horse lost trains as well as tempers and
even sometimes ruined the horse the next
time they have the experience to run
across a balky horse, no matter how
bad he Is, let me tell you how to start
him ninety -nine times in a hundred
When a horse balks, no matter how badly
he sulks or how ugly he Is, do not beat
him; don't throw sand In his ears; don't
use rope on his fOrelegs or even burn
straw under him. Quietly go and pat
him on the head moment; take ham
mer or even :pick up a stone In the street;
tell the driver to sit still; take his lines
hold them quietly while you lift up either
front foot; give each nail a light tap and
a good smart tap, on the frog; drop the
foot quickly and then chirp to himto go.
In nintynine cases out of hundred the
horse will go on about his business but
the driver must keep his lines taut and
not pull or jerk him back. III Ihave tried
this once have tried it.50O times, and
every time Ihave suggested 1t people have
laughed, and even bet 3 bottles Of wine
that could not do it. So far have won
every bet. This makes you smile, but a
horse has more common sense than most
people are willing to give him credit for.
The secret of this little trick lie simple d.
version. | am a firm believer that with
kindness aud proper treatment horse
can be driven with a string. Horeshoer's
! Journal.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1903-04-10

a half or two inches apart and sowing
the seed rather thickly, say at the rate
OF one ounce to twelve square feet Of
bed. Push the growth all you dare to,
and cut off one-third Of the tops when
top heavy. Then plant out in good soil
in early spring, with three or four inch
es space between each two plants In
the rows and the rows fourteen or if
teen inches apart. If this is followed.
you will be liable to grow very large,
fine bulbs.-T. Greiner in Farm and
FireSide
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1903-04-10
Onion Lore.

No more red onions for me. Nobody
seems to want them, and they are
drug in the market while the demand
is brisk for yellow onions. l.shall plant
no more pink Prizetakers. Yellow ones
are good enough for me.
The imported Spanish onion Is quite
subject to the attacks of black rot fun
gus, and large proportion of the bulbs
brought to this country are spoiled for
use by 1t. The Gibraltar onion has the
same weakness. Evidently 1t Is of the
same blood. The only thing we can Go
is to sell and use these large onions as
soon as possible after harvesting.
A reader asks for some hints on how
to grow onions. It's big subject, too
big to give many details. Try the new
onion culture. Get little seed Of Prize
taker or Gibraltar and sow as early as
possible in a box In the house or in a
hotbed outdoors, making rows one and
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1903-04-10

and manager for himself at sixteen
years of age on 200 acres, and it is
among the many substantial improve
ments which he has effected in q few
years In addition to managing his farm.
When the picture was taken, the
darkroom was not completed. The
main house is Is by SO feet, II feet
high, with strip and packing room in
front, 12 by 16 feet, with room for sap
pals directly above. These rooms are
ceiled with a tight partition between
the evaporator room, except doors, and
therefore exclude all steam from the
tins stored in them.
The house is built on a side hill. SO
that sap can be drawn from gathering
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1903-04-10
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36FeeT
GROUND PLAN OF SUGAR HOUSE.

GROUND PLAN OF 5UUAb HOUoA'
wagon or sled to store tank, there to
eyaporator without any pumping or
handling. The camp consists of 1000
sugar naples, large proportion being
thrifty second growth, set in orchard
style about forty years ago by the ia
Their Of this young man. The work In
this camp is usually done by three
men, except during very large and
long run, when little extra help has
to be used. The income from the
sugar and strip products adds ma
terially to the revenues OF the farm.
The balance of the farm is devoted to
dairying.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1903-04-10
80 IS s,zs
NARN% CARDEN
WsSBzS ~
~
MAPLE SUGAR MAKING.
An Ohio Camp With a Modern Sugar
House and OUTFIT.

With maple sugar making time come
added labor, profit and pleasures to
the farmer and his household in the
sections where this special industry is
pursued The cuts from American Ag-
riculturist show modern plant" for
this purpose. 1t is on the farm of a
young Ohioan who started as proprietor
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1903-04-10

The boom in Canada Is far greater
than the American people have any
conception of. Over $4,000 Americans
from the western states have gone into
the Canadian northwest this season,
and the movement has only just be-
gun. 1t is predicted that next year
will see more than 150, 1000 people from
the states rushing into Canada, mainly
into the northwest, though there bids
fair to be an important development
also in western Ontario. or New On
tario, as 1t Is called in Canada And
now comes the announcement that the
English and Dominion governments
will cooperate in promoting a second
transcontinental railway in Canada. It
will run about 800 miles north of the
Canadian Pacific, skirting the northern
shore of Lake Winnipeg and terminal
ing at Port Simpson on the Pacific
coast, distance of 1880 miles, at a
cost of about 100000. 0OO.-American
Agriculturist.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1903-04-10
A Fair Division.

Doctor-I'll examine you carefully
for $40.
Weary Dreary-All right, an If you
find 1t, give me half.-Denver Repub
ican.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1903-04-10

The Value OF Husker and Shredder.
The value Of the shredder and husker
combined machine) lies, In the fact
that it permits Of the corn standing In
the shock until well cured, and then.
when the rush of other fall work is
over, the husl1ing and shredding can
be done in hurry. The husked corn
is then dry enough to crib, and the
shredded product may be stored any
place under roof.-Progressive Farmer.
When Wesley was about three years
old, friend who had not seen him for
some time greeted him with:
"Well, Wesley, what have you been
doing since / saw you lastY'
"Been GROWTH" was the rather unex-
pected answer.-Little Chronicle.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-25
SHOWS BIG INCREASE.
Central Is Doing Excellent Bust
ness This Year.

Central railroad stockholders IN
Dawson, as elsewhere, are gratifed at
the great increase in business, as is
shown in statement made recently.
The earnings of the Central for the
first seven months of the fiscal year,
ending June 80 next, show a most sat-
isfactorY increase. They have been
given out for the first week in Febru-
airy and for the preceding months, and
if the earning power of the road dur
ing the coming five months is main
tanned as it has been for the past sew
en-, as compared with former years, it
is possible that five per cent divl-
dend will be paid on the first prefe rr-
ed income bonds this wear. So far this
year the increased earnings are $T12,-
AGO over last year; a most satisfactory
showing.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-25
POLITICS IN THE SECOND.
There Is Not Even a SuspiciO7 OF
Opposition.

From the Albany Herald
The Savannah Press, discussing the
next congress and the representatives
who will probably have opposition in
1904, says: sin the second and taird
districts no particular candidates have
yet announced, but there are large
counties aud ambitious men in these
sections
There is always "ualk" of congress
slonal candidates galore in the second
district, but there is on the political
horizon at this time nothing to cause a
suspicion that Judge Griggs will have
70 shuck his coat when the congress
Slonal campaign open up in 1904. But
this isn't the proper time for agitating
matters of this kind. This is an off
Year, politically speaking, and the pee
PIE don't want to be bothered with un-
seas0nable surmisings
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-25
WOMAN RUNS A BIG FARM.
Is a Native of Boston, But Now
Lives in Georgia.
From the Atlanta Journal.

From the Atlanta Journal.
Here is pluck and courage for you
Miss Annie Blalock, young woman
from Boston, born with silver spoon
in her mouth. reared in luxury and
for eight years teacher In the En-
erson School of Oratory in Boston, has
given up her position and will person
ally supervise the work on $50 acre
farm near Barnesville. The plantation
is all her own, present to her from
her mother and father, who are still
living. Monday Miss Blalock was in
Atlanta attending to business connect
ed with ner new home in middle Geor-
gia. The Atlanta and Florida railway
officials have promised to establish a
station at place three miles from the
farm. The Southern Bell telephone
people will put in phone there and
also one at the residence of Miss Bla-
lock. Splendid business sagacity has
this Boston woman, and all these
things we're attended to before she
left Atlanta the other day.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-25
UNCLE SAM is MAKING GODS
A New Infant Industry Has
Sprung Up Here.

A new infant industry has sprung
UP on the Pacific coast. 1t is the man
ufacturs of idols, to be used in heath.
en- temples. A merchant of Seoul,
Korea, is at present.n Tacoma, Wash,
for the purpose of contracting for the
manufacture of number of idols, to
be shipped to his own country and to
China. Some months ago small as
signment of American made idols was
sent to Seoul, where they met with
high favor. For some time England
and Germany have had practically a
monopoly in the idol trade; now the
United States steps forward and dem
onstrateS that lit is lin a position TO
make just as good gods as anybody
else,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-25
INSURANCE FRAUDS
ON STARTLING SCALE
ONE OF THE WICKEDEST SCHEMES
KNOWN IN CRIMINAL HISTORY.
Persons Believed Actually to Have Been
Murdered in New York in Order
to Collect Policies.

Assistant District Attorney Krotel
says that the insurance fraud case uow
under investigation in New York
promises TO develop into one of the
most startling ever known in the Grim
inal history of the city.
"Before the district attorneys Office
has finished it's investigation of the as
founding and extraordinary New York
insurance frauds he says, 81 should
not be surprised if it were proved that
the conspirators even went SO far as
30 murder in cold blood to get bodies
for the purpose of collecting policies.
We have found that twenty-three sub
stitute bodies were passed off on the
Hancock Insurance Company alone
and as soon as the plotters are indicted
these will be exhumed. The investi
CATION into the remarkable plot has
hardly begun"
The fate of Sarah Weber, who, it is
alleged, died from the effects of brutal
treatment, which, it is charged, she
received at the hands of the conspira-
tors, Mr.. Krotel says, is but single
instance.
According to the stories told by her
relatives Sarah Weber was tortured in
order to compel her to aid in the insur-
ance frauds. When the girl left home
she had rosy cheeks and was the pic
ture of health. When her family found
her she was a shadow. She told her
brother that she had been beaten,
starved and slashed with knives to
force her to help those engaged in the
conspiracy.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-25
MONEY FOR NATIONAL GUARD
$4,000, 900 Voted Them by Con-
greSS Tuesday.

The conferees on the.army appopria.
tion bill reached an agreement Tues
day last, says Washington press dis
patch. The senate amendment pro-
yiding for the detail of regular army
officers to the number of twenty for
service with organized militia was
agreed to.
The conferees agreed to the provis-
ion that citizens Porto Rico may en-
list in the regular army and the Porto
Rican regiment may be ordered for
service outsi lie of Porto Rico.
The appropriation of 100000 for
equipping the national guard the same
as the regular army was agreed to.
The senate conferees receded from
the amendments providing for the
purchase and preservation of the
Balls Bluff battle field. The senate
provision for 100000 for army
post buildings to take the place
of canteens remains in the bill, but it
is provided that not more than $40, 900
may be expended for any one build.
inc
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-25
SUED AFTER TWELVE YEARS
Unusual Case Is Filed Against
Street Railway.

John C. Carter of Atlanta, who lost
his right leg in trolley car accident
twelve years ago, a few days ago filed
suit against the street railway for S25,-
900 damages. Carter was nine years
old, he says, when the accident oc-
Cured, and he passed his twenty-first
birthday on January Is last. 1t would
seem that he has been waiting until
he became of age to sue the company,
or rather companies, for the Atlanta
Street Railway Company, Atlanta
Railway and Power Company and The
Georgia Railway and Electric Com
pany, as it is now known, are each
named as defendants.
According to his petition, Carter
was preparing to go to Sunday school
out in Bellwood when he met with the
accident on April II, 1891. He says
he mounted the running board of car
of the Atlanta Street Railway, which
was standing still at the corner OF
Marietta and Simpson streets. just as
he did so, according to the petition,
the car gave sudden jerk and he was
thrown under it's wheels and his right
leg crushed off three or four inches
below the knee. He sues for actual,
exemplary and punative damages.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-25
CAUSE OF SMALL FAMILIES.
President of a College Thinks he
Has Made q Discovery.

President Elliott feels concern be.
cause the graduates of Harvard marry
late and have very small families. He
attributes this state of things to the
rather mature age at which men finish
their education, and as a cure sug-
gest expediting school and college
work.
The effect of education upon those
mentally capable of receiving it is to
make them reflective, and out of ref1eca
tion comes prudence. Therefore the
educated man is disposed TO look before
he leaps. 1t is not enough that he
should be 10 love with u girl; be wants
to be reasonably sure that he can pro-
vide for her after marriage. And
when he becomes father be naturally
desires that his children should have
a good start in life--he wishes them
not to fall below his own level. Con-
sequently he wants no more boys and
girls than be can manage to educate
and launch properly.
The New York Journal and Amerf.
can asks, "ls there anything wrong in
all this? Would President Elliott have
educated young men marry recklessly
and have large families regardless OF
the means OF support of their offspring?
The sort of social philosophers who
are most troubled about small families
of the educated are generally prone,
when in another fit, to inveigh against
the large families of the happy-go-
lucky poor"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-25
SPHERE OF FIRE
DARTED FROM SKIES
A STRANGE ELECTRICAL FREAK OC.
OURS IN CALIFORNIA.
A Ball of Fire Falls from the Heavens
With Loud Report. Windows Rat
tied and Houses Shock.

A Redding, CAL, dispatch says one
of the strangest freaks in electrical
phenomena that has ever been report
ed in California occurred near there
few evenings ago. During the day
the thermometer had lowered, and
about o'clock there was slight fall
of snow. After the supper hour the
snow and rain ceased. There had
been no thunder nor lightning during
the day nor during the storm. Sud-
denly and withou warning, from what
appeared a clear spot in the clouds
overhead, brilliant ball of fire shot
from the heavens and struck the
ground on farm about two miles east
OF Anderson. The illumination was
plainly visible in Redding - miles dis
tant.
A few seconds after the descent of
the fire ball there was a. loud report as
of mighty explosion. The shock was
felt in Reddlng, where houses shook
and windows ratified. In the town of
Anderson the people were panic
stricken. Glass in windows was brok-
en-, walls were cracked, houses rocked
as though tossed by an earthquake,
and telephone, telegraph and electric
light wires were put out of action for a
time.
Where the ball of fire struck the
ground was badly torn, and the inhab-
itants of the farm, who lived about a
half mile from the spot were shaken
up. The phenomenon had all the APP
pearance while falling of brilliant
meteor, but was accompanied by roar
like thunder, and there was no mete-
ORIG matter visible where 1T struck. In
Redding the fuse boxes in the central
telephone office were all blown out al
most simultaneously with the report,
and the operators were badly frighten-
ed.
A strange feature in connection with
this phenomenon is that about an hour
before it happened what appeared tc
be shooting star decended from the
cloudcast sky In the vicinity of Rear
Mountain, eighteen miles north OF
Redding. There was no report follow
ing this, and no particular attention
was given to it by witnesses until az
ter the incident near Anderson. Then
people began to wonder, and the SUI
perstitious, being already wrought
up by the terrible storm and floods,
engaged in prayer and prayed for the
oft-foretold coming Of the end of the
world.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-25
BURN JAIL FLOORS.
That Method Used to Keep St.
Louis Prisoners Warm.

A ST. Louis dispatch says that owing
to the scarcity of coal at the "Four
Courts" which contains the Jail, the
police headquarters, the criminal
court, etc, the buildings have closed.
Not pound of coal could be found in
the engine room, and old floors are be-
ing torn up to keep the $50 prisoners
in the jail warm.
The grand jury investigation into
the investment companies is suspended,
and the two branches of the criminal
court and the court of correction have
adjourned.
Other institutions are also short of
fuel, and an investigation is to be held
to ascertain who is TO blame.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-25
NEGRO TO GET A PENSION.
A Quitman County Darby Will
Receive ST., 800.

From the Cuthbert Leader.
A Quitman county negro, whose
name we do not remember, will soon
be enjoying a pension, if Hanna's ex-
slave bill was all bluff.
1t seems that the negro IN question
was carried cY his master to the front
during the civil war, and slipped away
aud joined the union army. Learning
these facts, Capt. T. 1. Ball attempted
to secure pension for the colored ex'
union soldier, and recently received a
letter from the federal pension de-
partment saying that his client is en-
titled to $l,S00.
1t may be remarked that this negro,
after receiving check for this
amount, will become a much more pa
triotic citizen.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-25
AMERICA A DUMPING GROUND
Immigrants to This Country
Worst Foreign Elem emit.

According to the immigration fig
ures for the calender year 1902, as Civ
en- out by the United States treasury
department, more immigrants arrived
In this country last year than ever
came over during previous year with
the exception of 1898. In 1898 the to-
tai was 1892 as against 739, 2S9 last
year.
The great preponderance OF this inn
migration was from Austria Hungary,
Russia and Italy, the total from these
countries being 5l0,807 out Of 1922
1858 from all Europe, or more than five
seyenths of the number. The same
preponderance of immigrants from
these countries is noticed in the re-
port of 1901. This indicates a great
change from the former character of
the immigration to the United States,
when it was made up largely of Eng
lish, Irish, Scotch German and Scan
dinavian immigrants. But these form
only minority now. Twenty years
ago Germany was sending more i'm
migrants than any other country, but
last year it contributed only 81, 1856, or
about .04 per cent of the total. In
migrants from Great Britain and Scan
dinavla have also fallen off largely.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-25
SHIPYARD FOR CAMBRIDGE.
Boats for River Service Will
Be Built In Georgia.

A press dispatch from Bainbridge
SAYS that the M. A. Sweeney Ship
yard and Foundry Company, of Jeffer-
sonville, Ind, has purchased a site In
west cambridge on which they will
locate branch shipyarl and will in
the next few months construct eight
boats for the United State govern
ment.
Six OF these boats are to be used on
the ChattahOOchee river and two on
the Flint. They will probably be used
for dredging purposes. The order for
these boats are given by Lieutenant
Laymond of the engineer corps of the
United States army.
Dirt has been broken for the work.
and by the last of this month ffty
skilled boat builders from the north
will arrive to begin work.
The work will be under the direct
charge of James NJ Sweeney, the vice
president of the company. The Balm
bridge people are very enthusiastic
oyer the fact that the yards are locat
ed there instead of at Columbus or
Apalachicola, as it was first thought
they would be-.
Ii is understood that the shipyards
will probably be permanently located
there, as the concern has contracts for
a number of boats to be placed on the
rivers OF this section of the country.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-25
l0VNISSIONER STEVENS
WORK In WASHINGTON
nae HAD SEVERAL CONFERENCES
WITH SECRETARY WILSON.
:, Zane Station will Be Established
:. wsvcrOss. Will Be Conducted
At governments Expense.

washington special to the Savan.
Nows saws Secretary Wilson has
"a Commissioner of Agriculture
o..rors of Georgia, who went to
Warrington several days ago on i'm
.ort business connected with the
oricultural interests of the state, that
has definitely determined upon
VI. roross .as the place for the model
cane syrup station to be soon establish
ed in Georgia
Mr. Stevens and his assistants, Oil
,,.nactor Bryant and EntOmologist
SCOTT spent almost all their time at
tho department of agriculture during
their stay in Washington.
Commissioner Stevens has been in
.,oonent conferences with Secretary
Wilson. DR.. Wiley and the other heads
~ the bureaus under the department
Of agriculture. The model cane syrup
s,otion will be established in Georgia
under the appropriation carried in the
peuding agricultural appropriation
bill.
Commissioner Stevens found that
the officials OF the department are en-
tbusiastic in their efforts to develop
the cane syrup industry in Georgia
and other southern states, and are con-
fdent it will bring valuable and i'm
nortaut returns to producers. This
model station will he conducted entire.
" at the governments expense under
the direction of Secretary Wilson and
Chief Chemist Wiley. This station
will have no relation to the expert
ment station at Griffin, bat will be un-
der entirely separate Management.
Another important matter discussed
by MIR. Stevens with Secretary Wilson
was the extension of the cattle quaran'
tine line SO as to admit within the line
number of additional Georgia couu-
ties. This quarantine line is drawn
against southern states, or rather such
portions of them as have Texas fever
amoLg their cattle. Cattle inside the
quarantine line is much more valua-
bic than that outside, because the lat
ter, on being shipped to any market,
has to undergo fifteen days quaran-
tine,