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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-07

els of the animals rather lax as the
time of parturition approaches. Some
of our best authorities attribute this
unnatural habit on the part of sows
to too feverish condition of the sys-
TEN, and in order to prevent 1t, the
administration of small doses of laXa-
tive medicine given at regular inter-
walls for ten days to a fortnight before
the young are born, is often found
productive of very satisfactory re-
suits.
Sows seldom produce as many young
on their first as on their subsequent
filters. This is evidently a provision
of nature, and very wise one at that,
because 1t is well known that with their
first born all classes of farm animals
produce smaller quantity of milk
than subsequently. The Limitation in
the number of the young in the case
OF sows is, therefore, advantageous,
not only to the animal herself, but
also to her owner, because it naturally
follows that it is much better for a
sow to bring up six or seven young
ones in good condition than to have
ten or twelve for which she would not
be able to supply the milk required
to do them justice
1t is frequently recommended that
sows should not be bred until they are
at least eight, or, better, twelve months
old, so that the first litter comes when
the mother is year or sixteen months,
as the case may be. There can be
no hand-and-fast rule about this mat
ter different animals have different
characteristics, and each must be treat
ed individually.-J. l.. H.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-07

The great drought of 1904, long to be
remembered, was brought to a close
on Nov. 2. Preceded by easterly winds,
the gentlest of rains set in about y.
IN. I'm Middle Georgia The rain con-
tinued to fall gently for eighteen hours.
allowing the steepest hillsides to abb
sorb all the water as il fell: but II
fell upon a Drowned and parched earth.
Nothing green TO be invigorated but
the cedars and pines. There were no
growing crops either i'm field or gar
den to be refreshed by the Iife-giving
moisture. The drought had effectually
accomplished whatever destroying ef-
feet 1t possessed. Even the grass had
been dead weeks before the drought
ended. The soil had been too dry for
dhree months previous for the start
Ing of any of the usual crops of the
garden or field. There were no grow
Ing plants, no seeds I'm the soil TO no
quickened insO growth by so belated
influence for good as rain usually car
ries with 1t. The staple crop OF the
year-corn. cotton. hay, potatoes. meas
sugar cane--had long since reached a
premature maturity.
For many weeks Il seemed that only
q spark was needed TO precipitate a
great confagratlon. Never before. per
haps. was this part OF the earth quite
so at the mercy OF the great destroy
ing element as Il has been this fall
There were not many disasters, for
tunately. but there were many narrow
escapes. There are many anxious
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-07
GREEN GHOST HAUNTS
STREETS OF NEW YORK.
Has Pulled People Out of Bed and
Gives Servants Mysteries.

has fuIIeO FeOpAe Out OF Be0 ana
Gives Servants Mysteries.
From the New York Evening Mail.
Here's an accurate description of the
Harlem Haunter. otherwise the ghost
that walks at dead of night through
the old rooms and chapel of the Con-
molly mansion, at One Hundred and
Eighty first street and Northern ave-
nue..
"Bill' Murphy has seen him and de-
clares that so strange an apparition
never was viewed before by mortal
man. Murphy works on a place adj
joining the Connolly mansion, once the
glory of "Dick" Connolly, controller
of this city in the civic freebooting
days of the Tweed ring. This is what
Murphy says of the appearance of the
spectre:
Hes tall and bony, and without a
face. Where the face should be is a
greenish yellow blank that shines and
shimmers like PHOSPHORUS.
Hes not pure white. like an ordi-
nary ghost. His shining shade is sort
of greenish, like the shining blank
where the face should be.
His arms are long and shiny, too
In the center of each bony hand is
a blood-red spot as big as a dollar.
Under the big willow tree each
night at II you can hear a strange
sound. 1t begins like a soft sigh of
the wind and ends like a snakes hiss.
After the sound all is quiet for
about minute. Then this greenish.
whitish, yellowish figure, at least
eight feet tall, comes slowly into view.
II he was a human being you'd say
he'd broken his neck.
Another of the weird sounds that
send shivers up the spine precedes the
raising Of the head. When its up you
see a shining blank where the face
ought TO be and the arms spread out
as IL the fearful thing intended fly
ing. That's where you see the blood
red spots on the hands. It's somethin'
awful to look at, and it's awfuller to
heart"
BIN" Murphy shivered. though II
was broad daylight. He pointed to
the tumbledown shutters Of the great
house. and declared in a stage whis-
per:
HE bangs 'em every night"
Numerous other strenuous accom-
piishments are credited to the Har-
lem haunter. He Is said to stalk
through the weird old house and pull
people out OF bed. Sometimes he lust
pulls the covers of them. He makes
"A speciality OF haunting servants.
The family Of Howard B. Moore an
artist. who lives In one wing Of the
mansion. fear him not al all. Mrs.
Moore declared to-day she had never
seen the specter. and that none Of the
family had been bothered.
long line Of servants, however. have
Ned Al his approach When the Me-
lnerneys had charge Of the house the
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-07
Prosperity in Small Farms.

We have become quite familiar with
the term, agricultural depression in
England" says the Farmers Journal.
IL has been a common text for
writer's and speakers on both sides
OF the water. The question has
been why should an agricultural
depression exist in England when
It did not exist in France and other
European countries. Along with ag-
ricultural depression has come ag-
ricultural depopulation, the people in
the rural districts finding IL impos-
sible TO make a good living have
moved to the cities and there de-
pended on days work To give then,
enough to subslst on. Mr.. Joseph q
Stephens. United States consul al
Plymouth England. reports TO the
United States government that small
farm holdings are now considered the
best remedy for agricultural depopu-
lation. Many papers still argue. how
ever. that Is delusion, and Will
not work In practice. Where II has
been tried Il has been successful. and
Il IL strange that so few estates
should be cut up. When large farm
is divided into small holdings tho de-
mand for the land usually far exceeds
the supply. This has been the cxperi.
cnce IA Dorset, wits, Suffolk. Norfolk.
Lincoln and Surrey counties. Men
are willing 20 remain In the country
N they have the satisfaction OF work.
Ing on land which is their own. or
~ held on a secure tenure. This Is
az present far from the case, and thou
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"sperrit" first showed himself. This
was after Connolly died in France,
whittier he fled when the crash came.
He used to entertain lavishly in the
place.
The ghost. when it was first seen,
was declared to be Connelly's spirit
come back to square accounts with the
servant world. Later it was insisted
that the apparition was none other
than the ghost of the man who at
tempted to calculate the number of
delicatessen shops in Harlem and who
died counting.
The spirit of a Hessian officer kill
ed at the battle of Fort Washington,
just a stones throw away, was the
next Characterization of the spook.
Mary Carney, an old Irish servant,
is said to have been one night in the
big, hall, screaming with fright. When
she recovered her composure she said
that the ghost had come to her room
and after sitting on the bedpost had
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-07


Mortimer lowering, in a letter to the
Stoekman. says this about ponies:
A Shetland pony more than thirty
years old and a 6-year-old draft horse
got out of feed lot on prairie farm
one cold night, few winters ago. The
pair wandered through a large corn
heid A foot or more of snow cover
ca the ground, a new tile ditch was
Deing dug, and left uncovered, the pair
Tell into it. Two weeks later thav
were found by man passing through
the field. He found the draft horse
DEAD and the pony alive The indiea-
lions showed that the big horse had
iVed only day or two, the pony had
lived by nibbling the earth and snow
on the sides of the ditch.
There are ponies in this country that
have been kept for years, in good con-
dition, and fed only Stops from the
table. Never have been fed any grain.
In the Shetland Islands, ponies are not
fed hay or grain, but live from scraps
from the table, their principal diet
being potato Feelings and fish
scraps. These same ponies often car
ry persons weighing half as much as
their own weight to the peat beds
twenty or thirty mile away, return
y
own weight of peat For another
comparison, think of a horse weigh
ing 1900 pounds carrying a load on
his back of $50 pounds, twenty miles
over rough rocks and stones and no
regular road. and returning same day
carrying 5000 pounds of load in sacks
on his back twenty miles down noun
tain sides. Is it probable that he
could do that work regularly during
q
years old, without a wind puff. a
splint, a curb or swelled ankles?
Thousands of ponies do it and live
to old age, which in ponies means 40
years or more. Instances are frequent
of their living to 60 and even so is
recorded. One farmer used a pair of
Shetland ponies only a inches high to
draw hay wagon with ton and
quarter on it. Such work is not their
province and it is an abuse of their
willingness. But for errands to be
made on or about the farm, driving
stock from pasture, going to the post
office, the store or visiting, either for
old or young ponies are better than
horses. The money invested in them
is small, they require but little care,
no blanketing, currying. cooling out,
or bandaging, such as good horses re-
quire.
A Welsh pony exhibited at the last
International gives an idea of pony
roadster. This pony. weighing about
$50 pounds, was driven by a gentle
man in England fifty-two miles in live
hours and seven minutes. The pony
made this over an ordinary road,
hitched to a cart. We recommend that
everyone. whether in town or country,
should have one or more ponies for
riding and driving. AS an Investment
they pay a large dividend by their
work. and a larger one in the pleas
ure they give us by the manner in
which they do everything required of
them
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The Growing of sugar Beet..

The sugar beet is not very particular
as to the soil in which it grows and
has a wider range of service in this
regard than have the grains, says a
Western paper The best soil is one
that is rich and loamy. but as a gem
eral thing any kind of soil that will
produce grains will produce beets. Soils
that have in them so much alkali that
they will not produce good crops of
grain may yet produce good crops of
beets
Flowing may be done either spring
or fall, but the better plan is to pillow
in the fall. On some of the lighter
soils subsoiling to a depth of eighteen
inches is practiced. When the plow-
ing is done in the spring it should be
just before planting that the soil may
be fresh and moist for the reception
of the best seed. Subsoiling Is in vogue
in some parts of the country, but has
not seemed to give very satisfactory
results in others. At the Colorado ex-
pertinent station subsoilng increased
the yield is per cent
The time to plant is as early as the
land can be well fitted and the dam
ger of a heavy frost is passed. 1t L.
generally conceded that early planting
gives the largest crops. When the soil
is in good condition the seed may be
planted to a depth of from one inch to
an inch and a half 1t is not advisa BILE
to plant any deeper than this II the
soil Is very wet the seed should be
planted still nearer the surface of the
ground
There are two ways of planting beets.
one in single rows and one In double
rows. The single rows should be about
eighteen to twenty inches apart. II
double rows are used the usual prac-
tice is TO have the two rows of the dou-
BILE row about eleven or twelve inches
apart and have the double rows them
selves from two feet to twenty-seven
inches apart This is chiefly advan-
tageous where the beets are to be irri-
gated
one of the difficult things IN beet
growing Is to get Il good stand Of beets
Experienced planters SOW as high az
eighteen and twenty pounds of beet
seed TO the acre, though here and there
good crops have been obtained by SOW
ing as low as Ave pounds Of seed. The
larger quantity Is. however. safest.
Beets are not permitted to dry out
after being dug. as this decreases the
amount OF sugar I'm them. Also beets
should not be stored In place where
they can sprout as this process about
ruins them for sugar making.
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thrown her out of bed. Then he faded
out Of sight. Mary left that night and
never returned.
Other servants came, but they quick
ly went. One night was usually suffi =
cient. The ghost would come through
locked doors, or rather would seep
through the cracks. Some of the serv-
ants were thrown from their beds
others would wake to find the print
of a bloody thumb on their arms. One
session with the spook did the trick.
The Moores have lived in the old
mansion for seven years. They de-
clared that, ghost or no ghost, they'll
stay.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-07
HOME OF MAJ. GAMBLE
BURNS AT TALLAHASSEE.

Tallahassee, Fla, Nov. 6.-The hand
some home of Robert Howard Gamble
was destroyed by fire this morning
When discovered, it was a mass of
flames. The family escaped in their
night clothing.
Much handsome old furniture and
the family portraits. records, silver
and Jewelry were destroyed, and also
diary of Maj. Gamble, which he had
been keeping for fifty years.
Scarcely anything was saved. The
house was partly covered by insurance.
The furniture was a total loss.
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ACTORS RENDEZVOUS
Near Washington Was Destroyed by
Fire.

Washington Nov. 6.-Fire to-day to-
tally destroyed little group of houses
comprising what is known as -Four
Mile Run, several miles below this city.
They have at various times been the
rendezvous of Joseph Jefferson and
scores of lesser lights I'm the theatrical
profession.
A cottage owned by Mr.. Sherwood
OF the National Theater IN Washington
and Mr.. Allen. the leading man IN
Henry Miller's company. was stocked
with relics OF the American stage. A
frame cottage belonging TO Messrs.
Denham and Galloway. the latter Of
whom Is starring In Shore Acres. con-
tained rare prints and play bills. au-
tographed photographs water color and
charcoal sketches by Joseph jefferson
Thomas Edison and others that can
not be replaced. The third house de-
stroyed, o brick structure which was
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-07

sands of acres go out of cultivation
and multitudes hurry off to foreign
lands to obtain the opportunity denied
them in their own"
The small farm is everywhere the
salvation of the country where the
agricultural conditions are such as
TO make the small farm possible. On
great areas Of poor land or on rich
lands that have a very insignificant
rainfall of course extensive opera
tons have to be carried on. But most
of the land in countries with rich
soil and abundant rainfall is of a
character that makes the small farm
easily possible. Americans should
take a lesson from England and
should do all in their power to encour-
age the breaking up of large farms.
Inc man that adds farm to farm for
MS own glory and that he may dwell
alone in the midst of the land is not
a public benefactor.
Our land is never intensively farmed
under extensive operations. The man
with tens of thousands of acres de-
Ponds on doing work on an immense
scale and almost always the ground is
not made to yield the returns it
should. No man will work as hard for
another as he will work for himself,
and when the land is filled with men
working for themselves the land
brings forth larger crops than it does
at any other time.
The more small farms there are the
more independent farmers we will
nave and the more they will be in
terested i'm the welfare of the rural
inhabitants. Big farms employ hired
men, and these never feel themselves
TO be fixtures even if they are re-
tanned on the same farm for many
years. Their independence of action
IS destroyed. They cannot take hold
Of public affairs as they would do if
they owned their own farms and were
not under the dictation of other men.
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TRYING TO ADJUST 1T.
Italy and Austria Do Not Relish the
Trouble.

Trouble.
Rome, Nov. 6.-When Premier Giolit-
ii came into power a year ago he
found the relations between Italy and
Austria in a very disturbed condi-
ton in consequence of the fact that
anti-Austrian demonstrations had been
tolerated by Signor Zanardelli, his
predecessor, who, it is alleged, winked
at the propaganda for the union with
Italy of the Italian provinces that are
still subject to Austria. Signor Clio
litti changed all this and assured Aus
tria she had nothing to fear from
Italy. This was publicly emphasized
by the meeting at Abazza in April
last of Signor Tittoni, the Italian Min
lister of Foreign Affairs, and Count
Goluchowsky, the Austrian chancel-
lor. However, Austria's denial of the
request of her Italian subjects for
national university at Trieste led up
to the troubles at Innsbruck which
have endangered good relations be-
tween the two governments.
Behind all other explanations of the
Innsbruck affair there is the racial
hatred between Italians and Austro-
Germans in Italian provinces subject
to Austria, the latter element having
vainly tried for five centuries to Ger
MAMIE the provinces. Austria's re-
fusal to establish an Italian faculty in
the University of Trieste has been at
tributed to the fear that it would re-
suit in the university becoming the
center of an anti-Austrian propagan-
da, but recently it was decided to in
stitute an Italian faculty at the Inns
bruck University This went into eff
feet on Nov. 8, when the rioting be-
gan. The disturbances, it is alleged
here. were provoked by aggressions on
the part of the Germans.
The cabinets of Vienna and Rome
are doing what they can to smooth
over the difficulty.
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RUSHED INTO FIRE
TO JOIN HIS WIFE.
CnppIe Had Saved Mother, Father
and ChiI6ren.

New York. Nov. 6.-Joseph Capple,
a hotel keeper of Chauncey, Westches-
ter county, after saving his aged moth
err and father and three children from
his burning hotel lost his own life
early this morning by rushing into
the flames, when he learned that his
wife had not escaped.
The bodies of Cappie and his wife
were found later in the cellar, lying
side by side. burned almost beyond
recognition.
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Vienna, Nov. 6.-Prime Minister Won
koerber this afternoon had a stormy
interview with Herr Erler, vice bur-
gomaster of Innsbruck, and Herr Dens-
chatte. leader of the Peoples party.
The Premier firmly declined to close
the Italian faculty of the University
of Innsbruck.
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steamer WINS Rurned.

Detroit, Nov. 6.-The steamer Ger
manic. owned by Hutchinson & Co. of
Cleveland and valued at $4,000, was
burned to the waters edge to-day at
Stag Island in the st. Clair river. She
was insured for $4,000
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In Spite of Leaks.-"Russia must
have a big sinking fund"
Why?"
see shes been buying three or four
new warships. Chicago Record Her.
aid.
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one OF the safest preventives against
the habit possessed by some sows Of
eating their young is to keep the bow
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is falling now. Some of them are in
surance men.
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Royal Foot Wash
Stops Glazing, cur

sIops Ginning cures swealnE itching swollen Tired Feet
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LICENSES ARE
ALL GRANTED

Court convened at 10 o'clock Fri
day morning with President Judge r.
r. Little and Associates DR.. 5. Y.
Thompson and Frank G.. Blee upon
the bench.
Judge Little read the list of ap-
plicatious for license. Finding that
there were no new ones on the list
that called for special Investigation
and that there were no remonstrances
filed against the granting of any he
announced that the licenses would all
be granted subject to the approval of
bonds. These were considered later
in the session and duly approved, so
good for another year.
After the licenses were disposed of
the Court took up other business pend
ing The most important action was
the making of an order discharging
the rule to strike off the non-suit in
the case of Sarah G. Cromley VS.. the
cuHS lNduLd hdiIlOdNl Ollip l. HIS
was suit TO recover damages for the
death of Joseph B. Cromley and little
son David, who were killed by the
Buffalo Flyer at Watsontown in Jan
nary, 1902. The case came up for trial
at this city in November last aud had
proceeded on trial to the second day
when Judge Little ordered COM
pulsory nou-suit OH the ground of con-
negligence, The court grant
ed rule to show cause why it should |
not be stricken off The Courts ac-
ton Friday permits the inon-suit |
to stand and precludes reinstatement. |
1t is understood the case will now be |
taken to the Supreme Court.
Court adjourned at u O'Clock to re- |
convene at the ringing of the Court |
House bell