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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-04-21
Four Injured By Explo sion.

Baltimore, Special.-Information just
received here reports the explosion OF
a locomotive near Marriottsville. on
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. 1t is
said that the conductor, fireman and
two brakemen and the engineer are
repcrted to be seriously injured. Am
balances have been summoned to meet
a relief train at Camden station to
take the injured to the City Hospital.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-04-21
Official Version.

St. Petersburg, BY Cable.-The Asso-
ciated Press has obtained what Is
practically the official version OF the
sinking of the battleship PetropavlovsS
at Port Arthur, and it clears up to q
great extent the mysterious features OF
that vessels destruction. This version
is as follows:
Retiring before the advance Of su-
perior Japanese fleet, which was no'
fighting its progress. the Russian
souadron approached the entrance tc
the harbor. 1t was shortly after Z
o'clock in the morning, and most OF the
officers and crew were at breakfast on
the flagship. Vice Admiral Makarol
was eating breakfast in his cabin ano
the ward room was crowded with OFF,
GERS surrounding the tables. On the
bridge Grand Duke Cyril, his friend
Lieut.. Won Kobe, Capt. Jakovleff, com
manding the vessel, and two other o1-
ficers were on watch, examining tne
narrow entrance preparatory to enter
ing it.
"At about 2 o'clock there was ter
rife explosion of the boilers, followed
q few seconds later by a, detonatlon
from the well-stored magazines. Huge
gaps we're torn in the hull Of the ship
and the water rushed In. The center
of gravity having gone, the ship rolled
on her side and sank.
"All information tends to prove that
q mine was responsible for the de-
1.-THE scene below will never be de-
scribed, as, 50 far as Is known, not 9
single person between decks succeeded
IN escaping. The hot steam whlcn
scalded the men on deck indicated
what must have been the character oil
the death met by those in the engine
room. The men on deck were thrown
In ali directions, those falling into the
water swimming and grasping tne
wreckage. TO which some Of them were
able to cling. -,
"Tbe remainder Of the squadron i'm
mediately stopped and lowered smal,
boats. and the torpedo boats steamed
as quickly as possible to the rescue OF
the survivors. The escape OF Grano
Duke Cyril and Lieut.. Won Kobe was
nothing short of miraculous. The 1orce
of the explosion sent Grand Duke Cyril
fying across the bridge. and the base
os his skull struck on an iron stancn-
ion. Fortunately he did not lose con-
sciousness. Believing that the snip
was about to sink. he clambered hastily
down its side and boldly plunged into
the water. He succeedde in reaching
a niece of wreckage, to which he clung
IelsM eua W ssM eNnd pueID eqL
about twenty minutes before ne was
picked up by torpedo boat. Lieut..
Won Kobe was also found swimming
and was picked up. Capt. Jacoviefi
was thrown against stanchion WITH
such force that he was killed.
"Grand Duke Cyril's injuries were
severe. Besides receiving blow on
the neck. his legs were burned and ne
suffered q serious shock. He was taken
Immediately to a hospital, where his
injuries were attended to. He Will re-
main there for three days. and then
will be brought to st. Petersburg.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-04-21
A Double Tragedy.

Water Valley, Miss. Special. - A
double tragedy occurred near this town
Thursday. Ed. Cannon, a young far
mer, had made arrangements to elope
with Miss Fanny Kimsey. when her
father Jake Kimsey, appeared on the
scene. Cannon shot and killed him.
The daughter endeavored to escape,
but Cannon shot her and then made
bis escape. A posse is in pursuit.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-04-21
How He Was Saved.

st. Petersburg, Special.-It is con-
frmed that the Grand Duke Curil's in
juries consist Of burns on the neck and
legs. A private dispatch to his father
reports that the wounded officer is bet
ter. A life buoy was thrown to the
Grand Duke by which he sustained
htmseif in the water until picked up by
cna OF the boats which were lowered
from the other warshiDs.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-04-21
The Tibetans, whose e1clusiveness

The Tibetans, whose eIclusfveness
the British seem to have set them.
selves to break down, do not exclude
Cinnamon, Japanese, Hindoos. or
other Asiatics, announces the 1ndi-
annapolis Journal. They draw the line
on white men only, for they do not
draw it for religious reasons, but only
because they are thoroughly convinced
that as soon as they admit the Euro
pean, with his arms, his opium, and
his rum, their independence as ma
tion would be doomed.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-04-21

successive
conceive lasting dislike for
poetry forced to base uses
household
brings read for the light OF wonder
world in which live and on the secret
the human
finding equal enjoyment in all
doubt intelligence
lken But leather also has Its
believe that
anti to
girl tells But don't like poetry feel inclined
to "Poor thing Who crippled you?'
the Of compilations and household
library liberal edu-
things
differ from the
had Of scre-
acknowledge control read the
confident the
could
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-04-21
Poetry For Girls
BY DIR. Henry Van Dyke

great mistake in opinion at least to use poetry and
especially good poetry as medium of grammatical nsruc
and scholastic domestic discipline To parse Para
lose it again, and probably forever The
teacher parent who gives out he Ancient Mariner OF
1.-The May Queen" be learned by heart punishment
severely dealt witbcompeed to commit
memory reports of the Bureau of Education or to at
tend the sessions school of metaphysics fol
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-04-21
The Newly Married
Woman's Peace of Soul
sy the Editor of Scribner's Magazine

during the first few months of her married lie
that all maidenly eageness
~ life brilliantly. and all her profound
the universe should nave endd
in her housewife with dupan anu
everyday
gladn She had herself him
distinguish him presently the common
of herself
Accordingly
which her confidence him mad spun
with ghhearted devotion
her honeymoon with exactly the
nothing his menta
habtuaed
whose anecdotes
they have lost the gmor OF novelty O the
easto submit
that he has
which suspected
his attitude regard this that matter
strenuous indifferent
their coutshp his real
retreat
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-04-21
An's Heart,..-What's In It?
By Nixo1a Gree1ey.Smith

husband lover 400 800 years
/ things that we do now'
NAYt Philip Carpenter at gath
during discussion
of statement interesting,
butt have if
tell what
S$S$SSt
to neither he the
which, altogether
French entee the less decta-
boarding house hash
into the hearts of their husbands
shadOwed
them and Of
about the
which dscouragnG
believe
books of which
yhavem the primer.
which have been
series of CALLING p
indifference
his regard food and the other
observation Of himself
hundred feelings that
little wisdom she has learned keeping her
mouth shut?
the innnmost recess
the benefit of her beatc
like prototypes 800 c. they are still
York Evening
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-04-21

warfare.
Mr.. Humphreys, Of Mississippi, also
q member Of the committee, spoke OF
the fallacy of the levee system OF i'm
proving the Mississippi river, and
said 1t was not possible for a levee
or a system of leyees to Withstand
floods such as occurred in 1897 ana
1903.
General debate was closed by Mr..
Small, of North Carolina. who spoke
OF the necessity for an inland water
way between Chesapeake Bay and
Beaufort Inlet, N. c.
Mr.. Clark, of Missouri. called at
tention to the fact that the river and
harbor committee was made up en-
tirely Of members living on the Gull
coast, the Great Lakes or the ocean
Seven great States through wnich
the Missouri river flows or passes are
without a single representative. He
alluded to the acquisition by the
United States Of the Sandwich Is
lands. the Philippines, Guam and Por-
to Rico, ION the pretext that homes
are wanted for our children, and yet,
he said, there is more farming land
out of which to make such homes
that is overflowed and destroyed ana
made barren by the floods Of the Mis-.
souri, river than could be found in all
those islands. Instead" he vigor-
ously declared, amid applause, "of
souandering money to hold the Fill
pinos in subsection, and educate the
Havaiins, and to carry the mail at
an exorbitant price to the cannibals
of the Fill Islands, you better be TAX
ing care Of this land you have got at
home"
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-04-21
The American Woman
By r. p. O'Connor

delightfully."- pretty. often extremely
lovely. rarely classicaly beautiful Beyond all women
gifts expression and genius
knowing what is do
seldom She strong
physically and how to throw them into most striking
u u
American woman taste in dress is perfect as
this imperfect world OF her genius for
Of pill
TO b drawback ultimate
the American her individuality She Is
generally amiabe often than
All takers they
occult than visit
"tomaytoes To husband the
selfish exacng rela
all qualities character In them
selfsacrifce lay hold her
disciplined her children
uuestong pathetic
SPURIOUS spectaee-London World. :-a1@A-4----
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1848-1918, 1904-12-02

" ~ Dem Sd9nbof BON y. pdrtett
III in Der He'touration bic ate
CV Dame nit ibrer gntelin unt
0ienerin uuf BEN beItelten
MtetbStpagen uno nu6m nit ben 8ei,
ben in3pi16en Elm etnuS perIpGtetes
Mitta9eHen Elm. Der 0irt6 beoiente
fie ielbit, nit !Sitfe zines QitcpIo, benz
er pGterli4e @nipeiIungeu ert6cilte.
ipG6reno er Der alten Dame, brennenoe
Neugier in Bid uno Wiene, Heoe
itdnb.
@s mar ia Elm @reigniB, baB Rei.
fenbe mad BEN Ritter9ut 8euren noG.
ten, uno gar feline 0omen, gu bieiem
berriitten alien Sruntenbolo unb Iei.
ner berriidten 3o4ter, gang gu i4neis
gen BON Der tollen DirtbI6aft bort,
bon tpeI6er Die gauge prooin5 pol mar.
uno Die dlte Dame nit Der borne6men
Si6erbett i'm WeIen unb Mtenen fra9tt
tpte Elm &riminalri6ter, als ob tie bd2
9rDBte Redt oa3u bate.
.9tlio taum cine Stunbs iIt'S biz
8euren, !Serr Wirtb?"
nMeiter ii9er ni6t, enGoigs Stout
bas 9orf 8euren 1T 5tpur 10 lang pit
-na-pte ne babe Gpigteit, dber
felt es our Stdot geSogen lpurOe uni
dls 8orort gift, bat es cine pprSiig'
lide Strabe; uno am @nbe bes Dor.
fes, ettpas feitpGrts, lieet bo8 8ut."
rSit es Elm f4Ones 8eiiBtbum. Sert
Dtrtb?"
nNd, I66n 1T pas onberes;-im
tpntrGren Gegentbeil! @itss 2anb,
uber felt Sabren i3le9t gebulten. Denn
etner Slid baben ipu, bann lGuffs
ibm nu9. Oils es Der !Serr S6erIt Dor
a6t ooer neun Sdbren tuufte, bat er
bas 8ut fir elm Spotlight i'm Sons
furie betommen-iebt pirb Inn jebe
Hutbe nit Cob a%ufeepo9en. Wer
fonnte bamdls dl9 benfen, baB bic
Sdfendnlagen fir ben 8anal iuit oabin
fommen niiroen unb na6 Der onbern
Seite Die Glettri3itGtsperte uno mas
Der Militdrfi8tus fir bic 8aiernen
brdu9t. g lit gerdoe, dls ob ii6 bds
Selo na9 benz alten Sberit b%inordn9te,
unb Der brau4t's nidt nal, bD9itens
fir ieinen Wein; benz iteblen es feline
S4mei4ler unb S9maroBer bod
Die Grbi4Iei4erei ion idon in beitem
8dnge fein. @nGoise 5rdu 1T ipobl
nit BEN Serrn Sberit peripanbt2 So2
Damn ni4ts fir UNCUT. Damn gibt es
ia pobt nod 2eute, bic ndber an benz
Ret4tbum iinb, als bas Deib, bic
Sriebe nit ibrem @ef9meib9"
unb nun belt Der offers Wasen auf
einem peiten %tpiiiten @derbof Dor benz
f%ogenonnten S6GoFe, einem eroben,
alter. 5tpeiitOdigen 9aufe. aus benz in
Der W}ttte elm 8prbau beraustpu6s, Der
ols portal pber @orfllr bisnte.
r41 Soft. bas fol elm @9lob feine
Sieh nur, @rpbmutter, bic Senfter i'm
9ah iehen aus pie offene ausen!
@ons unbeimlihl"
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1848-1918, 1904-12-02

Did meiner 1u5radg an, tpfr mo8ten
81 9eIoe, mas mir batter"
9onot @obottu Ia6ts B16nii8. Ser
oloere Oerbtferte Ii6 9sldfcn: rNa-
@tl3-pas 0u batteIt. Oh iouit ben
N4pm Der Tinun3irung ~uniere5 Inter
Ie9h'ens ia audi pou bebaIten, penH
UH MIR muir bas @eroieuit Der Soee
nl4t bettrsiten niuft."
Der @ufnGrter 6rQ6ts bic 8ouiuon,
oa8 81 uno Die stpei 0Cdfcr Qortpein,
0aour3 ipurbe ba8 0ort9efe4t OBJ
gebro9en.
S6ouoernb unb fr5Ite,uo bate Der
Se'oenoe ii9 iber bic beige 8ouiQon
2et9enla3t, gierig tront er uno fublte
ll0 1e9r erquidt. Oils er Oaun auf
tfeunol9aftIt4es 3ureoen 8enutidet5
9tn au4 bos 81 9~enofeu uno enbli4
pen g%ortfpein getruu,en, dnoerte ii4
ietne Stimmung bDuig.
"9u bit Elm gutter aerI. Geo, i9
oante Dir. Qb, tpie Oa5 mir pobIges
t9an 9at!" ia9te er in einem gang an
bern Son.
"Stebit 0u nun! gu bait Did bort
IN pteiem infamen N}d9ren fur9t6ar
srtaItet, bo3u fam bic Gnttduf6ung.
&eln Wup0er! Ser SEER S4ntegers
papa fort-lunge Sabre i6on fort, tein
Wtenl4 lpetB, nobtn? 0o5 9ut bers
tautt-ote Trau i'm Srrenbau5;-ber
9enter bole foI9e GnttGuIhungen Sd
tam Dir fagen, mir mar eben 10
9unoemdBt9 gu Mut6e. Won tommt
tauieno W}eiIen peit aus 2(rtauIos,
opfert 3eit unb @elb in Menqen uno
itebt mad al ben Stropo3en mijoe uno
IN 9reultder Saterftimmung in elmer
ooutg fremo 9epprbenen Melt, no bic
9eute einen angloBeu, ais pb Ie ME
W(enl4en 9efe9en bdttem.- Gang
f4auoerbaft!"
rNa-einp tdiier pur'8 frciIi6 ni6t,
1t9 er3d3len IuiIen gu mitIen, tpie Der
Bump bon Sdpieger1o6n nit Der
0perettenidrgerin- S4 bonfe-mir
tlingen bic O9ren nod baopn." limb
Der eIbe W|enf9, Der trort uno perbits
teri, eben nod mutbto5 uno enerqielo8
od 9eIegen, la4te jeBt Iout uno Iei9ts
terttg uno i4ien ii6 gar ni6t ungern
jener lebensIuiti9en Reiiebe9Ieiterin gu
erinnern.
rSiebIt OH, 70 gefGuIt Oh mir befs
Ter! uno nun oos Slid, bu5 i9 bate,
BON Dem alien 9farrer bic ieBioe
Noreiie u%nIeres cher pcre 5I betommen |!
Sa-oa5 MAIDEN Die guten Soeen!-
Wtit benz, mas bier brinnen in bieIem
S4doel iiBt, bin i4 nod ME perloren
9etpeIen.-llno nun here: mir 9a6en
9eraoe nod 10 biel Gelb, boB mir bas
Observation-Disclosures errei9en, in mel,
dem Defines S8piegerpater8 jeBige8
Gut liegt-ber 9efeBestunbige iunge
Wldnn bat mir, trpB alerIei Wenn unt
&6er neuen Mlutb einQefl0Bt, unD penn
9u ieBt Der ri6tige Weni4 biIt, meme
pIdne aus3ufiibren, 70 miiBt' es nit
benz 8udud 3uge6en, tpeHn mir ni8t--
Yur ems muB i'd ii4er mihen, bait gu
&purd9e?"
SD pijroe an 0einer Steue e6r,
lt9er frogen; bait gu bic 6re96eit2--
&ber gut, ib babe iie! Sd fi6le mid
pieoer tart. unb Der Monn, Der i6
tpar.-So tunn's ni9t fort9eben."
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1848-1918, 1904-12-02

o ebrdu9te Grab an
tou fen geudt. Neuartia
ourfte ein aaufsefuh fein, bas lebtbin
IN elmer Miinhener 3eituna su leien
mar. Gs lautete: Sin .aebraudtes
Grab ntro gu faufen ssfuht!"
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1848-1918, 1904-12-02

~ ,r Hotar 0ottor Reblin mar
- Elm Mann Der Neu3eit, Der ous
. 9ebagen zines ih0n eingeri6z
ILL., .I.s45.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-03-31
Three Die of Consumption.

Death has again invaded the home
OF Mr.. and Mrs. John Brand of the
town of Stanford and taken their
daughter Ida who died last Tuesday
OF consumption, being the third daugh-
ter of the family to die of the disease
within the last four months. She
was twenty years of age and was the
youngest of the three girls who have
been taken away by the disease. Men
tion was made of the bereavement of
this family at the time the second
daughter died which was on Feb. 10Th.
the first daughter having died on Nov.
18th. The funeral will be held at the
home next Sunday at p. m. and the
interment will be in the Oak View
cemetery at St. Francis.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-03-31
Spring. Nit.

An attempt was made to halter break
spring last week and everything was
progressing favorabl The crows,
robins, (though the latter were stuffed
ones) pussy willows, and lot Of
other indications of spring were in
evidence for a few days. On Thurs
day there was a good rain and the
cisterns were beginning to start up
for the seasons business, when 10,
and behold there came a change. The
wind set in for good hard blow and
it blew as it has not blown for long
time, keeping it up all night Thursday
and most of Friday. The wind as
sumed a velocity of over forty miles an
hour, and it brought down from the
north cold wave that sent the Their
mometer down to almost zero Friday
night. In the west there was from five
to ten feet of snow in North Dakota
and Montana, while in the vicinity of
Chicago there was almost a tornado,
and much damage was done in some
places. There is no use talking,
spring will not be on in full blast for
some time yet, all weather conditions
are freakish and the only thing to do
is to wait patiently for settled weather
and few months to prepare for the
winter thati sure to follow.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-03-31
Commercial Fertilizer.

A U nj o n man dropped in at the
office of the roller mill the other day
and while there Miller Craig reached
in his desk and pulled out little case
containing long glass bottles to which
were screwed metallic shoppers. The
case very much resembled doctors
pill case, but just the same the con-
tents of those bottles were not pills by
a long ways, nor was the stuff inside
the bottles sugar coated. It was MOTH
ing more or less than commercial fer
tilizer, all wool and yard wide.
Anyone who has been through a
modern packing house and has visited
the stink or cologne room where the
fertilizer steaming hot is manufactured
for commercial uses does not have to
be told what the material is. There is
not exactly a stencil to the: stuff, for
the odor is a rather sickening one and
has just enough of the original smell
to remind one of the raw state. This
fertilizer is one of the products of
a packing house andvtis in great de-
mand in the east and south for enrich
ing the worn out lands. Farmers and
gardeners use it to great advantage,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-03-31
APRILTERMOF COURT.
1t Will Open in Princeton Next Mon
day Forenoon for Few
Days Grind.
No Cases of Any Great Consequence
on the Calendar--A Kansas
Man Sues Dalb0 Co.

The April term of court meets next
Monday, April 4th, when the judicial
trolley car will take the wire and start
down the pike to adjust the difficulties
between man and man and deal out
justice to the violaters of the Jaw.
Clerk of Court Briggs is busy at work
on the calendar which will be an aver
age one and in all probability it will
not require very long session to set
tie matters at the forthcoming term.
It will be Judge Searle's time to
preside at the Mile Laos seat of JUS
tice and he will no doubt be on hand.
Among the cases on the civil calen-
dar will. be an action against the
DalbO Warehouse Co. in which J. r..
Greenlees of Lawrence, Kansas, is
plaintiff and he sues the Dalbo people
for S., 900 for what he alleges was a
failure to deliver twenty cars of Bliss
Triumphs on board cars at Princeton
last season. There are several minor
cases filed for the civil calendar.
The criminal calendar contains four
cases against parties for illegal. sale
of liquor, while Harley Wright who is
now in the county jail in Minneapolis
will be arraigned for forgery of potato
checks. There are about half dozen
cases for the grand jury's investiga-
ton.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-03-31
To Make Artificial Stone.

Princeton is to have an artificial
stone company that will manufacture
building stone after a new process
which is owned by Minneapolis
party who has had great success in
making good hard and durable arti-
fetal stone out of Portland cement,
sand and some other ingredients. J.
D. Tam and James Burk went to Min
neapolis last week and closed a deal
whereby they will have the right to
manufacture this new building stone
in Mile Laos county. The name of
the firm will be J. D. Tam & Co. and
they will put up factory for the man
ufacture of the stone on the railroad
track where they can get shipping ia
cilities. They hope to have the plant
ready for operation in a short time
and will go right to work making the
stone as soon as the building and the
equipment is ready. The new industry
will give employment to several men
the year round and it is expected that
the output of the plant can be sold as
fast as it is made.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-03-31
The score was as follows:
Old Methodist Church Sold.

The Scandinavian Lutheran church
society which was recently organized
and of which Rev. Gronberg is the
pastor, has bought the old M. E.
church of Princeton together with the
pews, and some of the lighting fixtures
and church furniture. The price paid
was $3.50, and it is the intention of the
society to move the building onto a
lot south OF the German Lutheran
church which Chas. Keith and M. S.
Rutherford have donated the society.
On April 18th the society will hold a
meeting at the Congregational church
for the purpose of perfecting the bus
mess organization of the church and
electing officers, etc. The church will
be known as the Lutheran Emanuel
church and will start out under favor
able auspices. The citizens of Prince
ton have been subscribing quite lib
orally toward the society which will be
in prosperous condition in short
limo
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-03-31
A Telephone Ordinance.

The committee that was appointed
by the village council to draft an
agreement or ordinance for the regu-
lation of telephone companies operat-
ing in the village has held several
meetings and has drafted an ordinance
which is general in. it's nature and will
apply to any and all telephone COM
panies now operating and doing bus
mess within the village or which may
engage in the business at any time in
the future. The ordinance has been
drafted with view of being reason
able with all companies and also pro-
tecting the people from any possible
invasion of their rights by any COM
panies. A provision has also been
made for levying gross earnings tax
on all cOmnanieS
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-03-31

The flower was first brought to
Philadelphia in 1875 by a lady who
had visited the southern islands. She
presented the two Towering plants to
a local florist and in the next three
or four years there came from them
an increase of 100 bulbs. The bulbs
were purchased by another enterpris-
ing Philadelphia florist, who recog-
nized it's value as prolific bloomer,
and in 1882 it was put on the market
under the pretentious name of Lilium
Harrisii. Other florists of eastern
cities soon learned to know of the new
lily and also began gathering bulbs
from Bermuda.
The great commercial value of the
plant lies chiefly in the power of the
bulb to stand a high temperature in
forcing the bloom throughout the win
ter, the large size of the flowers and
the large number that can be produced
from each bulb.
It takes a bit of sentiment out of
these blooms form crop like onions
or potatoes and the white blossoms lie
like drifts of driven snow on the fields
ready to be harvested. It was first
thought that the flowers could only be
sent to other countries by means of
the bulb but of late years American
enterprise has made it possible to
ship the flowers themselves to the large
centers of America, and even Europe.
The buds are picked while they are
still quite green, and packed in boxes
holding about two dozen stalks each.
The buds are embedded in a kind of
sea weed resembling coarse moss,
which is kept damp and each box is
lined with large sheet of paper long
enough to fold over the top of the box
after it is full. Owing to the unre-
liability of the Bermuda supply,
blight having lately interfered with
the growth, it is believed that the lily
will soon be cultivated in Cuba and
the southern states.
There have been instances where this
lily has been forced into bloom in
ninety days, and if the temperature
is kept right a strong plant has been
known to produce as many as twenty
five blooms for Easter time.
White azalias, spireas and the Gala
lilies, with their sacred significance.
are also used in great profusion for
Easter decorations.-M Minneapolis
Times.