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The Independent., 1904-04-15

Wanted: "A press censor as to what
is obscene matter, unfit for publication.
or not. Walter Clifford Smith of the
Advertiser, would be the best man for
the place. But will he know what is
obscene in the paper that he edits, or
probably he,onIy can see it in others?
Teuf! Teufl!
The Independent., 1904-04-15
TOPICS or THE DAY.

Cannot see the mote in the beam of
the eyes of others" is good, but bad on
Biblical quotation. That's one on us,
Senator Dickey.
The Independent., 1904-04-15

Our tip the other day with regard to
lobbyists" has had good effect. 1t
seems that those whom we aimed at
were soon found out early yesterday
and taken to task. Good.
The Independent., 1904-04-15

If the High Sheriff is on to his job,
he ought to be able to spot convicted
felon now serving on the Territorial
grand jury. And the Attorney Gener.
ais Department should also know it
too. Won't the actions by such jury
have no force and effect because
felon is on itY We think so.
Can man who is convicted thief
and has served sentence for it be per.
missible to serve as grand juror?
The Independent., 1904-04-15

The expected reconsideration Of the
tabling of an administrative measure
by the House yesterday did not mate.
rialize. 1t is still lying on the table
and may lay there for good.
The Independent., 1904-04-15
Payable invariably in Advance.

y. .. 1Es4A, Proprietor and. ruh
Usher.
Reading In Honoluiu.
The Independent., 1904-04-15

Why should the Mature Man" be
permitted to strut around the way he
does? Let him wear kimono. If he
was a Jap, he'd surely be locked up for
being nude and exposing himself to
public gaze on the public highways.
Why dispense with the Dispensary
service altogether, Governor? 1t is
much better to look after the sick poor
than to squander in undesirable quar-
ters and expensive luxuries. Save the
dispensary to the poor, is our appeal.
RS, III. N - T---
Representative Vida Is still a mem
ber of the House and still an employee
in the road bureau. And Represents
tive Andrade is in the same boat, an
employed attorney in delinquent tax
suits. Are these instances right and
in accordance with law? We think
not.
The Independent., 1904-04-15

Autsrsd at the Poo once at Honolulu
Smyrna times., 1904-01-06
A BIackened Character.

The city of Pueblo, Colo, is on ac-
count Of its smelling and refining
works one of the smokiest cities in the
world. At times the sun is quite OBJ
scured, and the light is much like that
which precedes a glowering thunder
shower.
One winter a traveller stepped from
a train at Denver and, walking up to
a policeman, asked him the way to a
certain hotel. The officer cast a scorn-
full eye upon the man, who was COW
cred with SCOT and CRIME, so that he
looked like a chimney sweep, and la
conically inquired of the stranger if he
was a coal miner.
NO" said the dirty one; 81 am not
a coal miner nor a charcoal burner;
neither am l in the coal dust business.
More than tLat, l am not a negro min
strel."
what are youY' asked the police
man.
Lean down." said the man, land l
will whisper to you. am a million
aire in sore distress. l have been
through a snowstorm in Pueblo"
Smyrna times., 1904-01-06
THE COTTON SITUATION.
Prices the Highest In Twenty Years.
PerpIexities of the Manufacturers.

Prices the Highest In Twenty Years.
PerpIexities of the Manufacturers.
Further remarkable advances have
taken place in the cotton markets of
this country and Europe. Within the
past few days prices have reached the
highest level in twenty years, the
standard grade for January delivery
selling in New York at $126O per 100
pounds, while March sold in New Or
leans at substantially a thirteen cent
level, top prices being followed by
some reactions under profit taking
Cotton is selling today about 500 per
bale higher than year ago, and the
staple is something like cents per
pound better than last New Years.
The latest influence leading up to
these phenomenal prices was the De
cember bulletin of the department Of
agriculture, indicating that the crop of
10000 will amount to 9,962, 900 bales
from an area of 2S,O15,000 acres. This
estimate is materially less than had
been expected and below the popular
trade estimates of recent weeks. OPP
orators bearishly inclined insist that
the government estimates are always
much too low and that the crop to come
forward up to Aug. 81 next will prove
much greater than the figure named.
AS a matter of course, the manufac-
turers are very much disturbed, claim
ing things are going from bad to worse.
The New England mills are reported
short of cotton, some of the southern
mills have only small supplies, while
English spinners need large quantities
to keep their plants in operation. Fac
ing this is the difficulty in marketing
finished goods freely at figures which
will show a profit in manufacturing
cotton at anything like the present
price of the raw staple. There is a
general disposition to curtail produc-
ton at northern mills, yet this argu-
ment is met with the counter reply
that any general action of this kind
would play into the hands of European
cotton manufacturers, said American
Agriculturist lately iii commenting as
above on the cotton situation.
The production of lint cotton is esti.
mated at an average of 17415 pounds
per acre. The estimated production by
states in pounds per acre is as follows:
Virginia, $50; North Carolina. 210;
South Carolina, 17S; Georgia. 15S;
Florida, 142; Alabama, 161; Mississip-
pi, 211; Louisiana, 223; Texas. 143;
Arkansas, 1856; Tennessee, 200; Missou-
ri, 232; OKLAHOMA. 223, and Indian
Territory. 231.
Smyrna times., 1904-01-06
The NIncnetic North

The belief in the constancy of the
magnetic compass to the north pole has
not the least foundation in fact. At
every different place on the globe it
points in a different direction, and only
one or two of them are due north. Be
sides, it is always changing. In Lon
don, for instance, it points to a place
about II degrees west of north.
In 1925 it was still farther away, be-
ing then 2419 degrees, or a quarter of
the way around to the west. In the
year 1880 it pointed II degrees east.
Then it began to move north till 1863,
when it pointed due north. But it re-
mained thus only for a moment, pass
ing around to it's greatest DETECTION in
160 years.
Again it turned in 1920 and is still
moving nearer the north. 1t will not
reach that point for nearly a century
and a half. and so it will 60 on back
ward and forward forever.
Smyrna times., 1904-01-06
Profit In EARLY Tomatoes.

Growing and marketing tomatoes is
an important branch of farming on
the garden and truck farms about
Providence. The soil of the greater
part of the county is suitable for their
culture, and in some portions excep-
tionally early ones are produced. The
soil is in a large part of the towns
bordering upon the city a light sandy
loan, such as is just right for early
forcing crops, and this helps the to-
matO grower. Plants started in hot
beds will bear as early as the middle
of July in a good season, and at that
time fabulous prices are received for
the fruit. Sometimes as during the
past season, the early figure is as high
as So bushel. and the tomatoes that
are raised early are not of surprisingly
good quality, Two dollars to So is a
common price for early fruit, and it
will drop sometimes in two weeks to
about 81. This year the season was
backward and tomatoes were late.-
American Cultivator.
Smyrna times., 1904-01-06
A Case of Kidnaninc.

The pretty baby had fallen asleep in
her perambulatOr in front of her ia
theirs house on a fashionable street.
The nurse was nowhere to be seen. A
shabbily dressed man, clad in black,
looked at all the windows and saw that
the blinds were drawn. 1t was the
afternoon hour, when wealthy New
York likes to drive in the park.
"Ahy he exclaimed as he crept
stealthily toward the sleeping child
eff l can only catch her befo.e she
wakes-so pretty, so peaoneIl! 1 know
her father will be cllly too glad to pay
my price"
In two seconds he stood before the
baby carriage. drew black box from
beneath his coat and snapped a rubber
bulb directly in the baby's face. Then
he put the black box beneath his coat
and walked away with a smile of su-
preme satisfaction.
"Gee!' he exclaimed. "Such luck!
Daddy will pay So for a dozen of those
photographs; sure thingp'-New York
Times.
Smyrna times., 1904-01-06
HOW TO GO NUTTING.
Looping the BOUGhs Is an Effective
Way to Strip n Tree.

Way to Strip n Tree.
Not a few are the devices of skilled
nutting. How often shall we see the
novice crushing the green bur with a
stOne--and the chestnut by the same
blow--or with many pains from the
sharp spines trying to open the bur
by hand The nutter who is better
versed has the trick, not mastered un-
til some practice, of a peculiar quick
tap of the heel-sOmething between a
blow and a cut-which at one deft
side stroke lays open the nuts for the
hand The old device of jarring by Il
heavy stone the tree bOle-especially
the slim secondary trees of the deeper
woods-may be trite, but not its refine
ment of taking Il smaller stone and by
a series of quick taps on the trunk
Swapping" the upper branches.
Less known and more effective is an
other good plan. Its elements are a
good arm, a ball of strong cord and, at
tached, a half pound stone. more or
less, according to the weight of the
string. The theory involves the casting
of a weight over a bOugh of the nut
tree and shaking it briskly when loop
ed by the cord. The practice is that
many a youngster who deems himself
crack thrOwer on the ball field will
find some lessons to be learned in
the precision of looping" a chestnut
branch and in the retarding power of
an ascending cord tied to projectile.
releasing the cord from an upper
bOugh as to loop the bOugh below and,
with acquired dexterity, strip half a
dozen branches after a single cast
Clarence Deming in Outing.
Smyrna times., 1904-01-06
No VOweIs In IT.

Many places have curious names, but
apparently there is only one place
which has name without any VOW
els. That place is the little hamlet of
Ws, near Paris. Ws being an unpro-
nounceable name, the inhabitants of
the hamlet have transformed it into
"d'Us," but this change has not been
sanctioned legally, and on all the Off
cial records the name Ws still appears.
The hamlet has III inhabitants, and
its sole attractions are the Chateau
dOsny, which has been for many
years in the possession of Edmond
About's family. and the Chateau de
Vigny. which is one of the best specl-
mems of the renaissance style of archi-
lecture.
Smyrna times., 1904-01-06
MEASURING HAY IN THE STACK.

-,nl there would be no more difficulty in
',''esanaAS iai.ag tl|sasna bic contents of the
t69fs1.sBuld be those of a
mass of hay in a NOW. But stacking
requires inclination of surface that will
shed rain, and consequently stacks are
built in a form that does not afford
straight lines by which to measure
them. The measurer, therefore, is
obliged to assume average lines that,
in his best judgment, reduce the stack
to solid square. The dc ted lines in
the illustration represent these, the
idea being to draw them in such q
way that If they formed a box, and
the hay was thrown into it, it would
fill it. Then these dotted lines are
measured, and the length, breadth and
height of the stack they show are then
multiplied together, and the cubic con-
tents are thus ascertained. The rule
above given is then applied, and the
number of cubic feet is divided by $50
or 500 or any intervening number that
the condition of the hay seems to war
rant, and the result is the number of
tons contained in the stack approx
mately.
Smyrna times., 1904-01-06
INTERESTING FARM NEWS
CLEANED HERE AND THERE
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS THAT CAN BE
APPLIED WITH SPLENDID SUCCESS.
The Care of Live Stock, the Cultivation of
Crops and the Latest Methods Used In
Raising and Caring for POuItrs.

When hay to be measured is IN In1
NOW and is stored so that the surface
is level it is easy to ascertain the num-
ber of cubic feet it contains. 1t is only
a question of multiplying together the
length. breadth and depth of the mass,
and as it is confined within square
walls there is no trouble about finding
what the length. breadth and depth
are. When this has been done the
measurer must exercise his Judgment
as to the quality, condition and effect
of storage on the density of the hay,
says the Iowa Homestead.
Usually good timothy hay when thor
oughly settled will require about $50
cubic feet to make a ton If it is only
partially settled it will take from 400 to
45O cubic feet, while new hay will take
800 cubic feet or perhaps more The
same figures would probably represent
pretty closely the number of cubic feet
necessary to weigh a ton in the case of
clover hay or of the ordinary mixed
grasses if in the same condition as to
length of time of storage.
To this statement redtop is probably
an exception. If the lot of hay con-
ta1ns much redtop it would take a
larger number of cubic feet to make a
ton, because the same treatment will
not compress it so closely or make it so
dense. This difficulty about determin-
ing with any degree of definiteness the
number of cubic feet required to make
ton in weight is one of the reasons
why the results obtained by measure
ment can only be regarded as approx
nations.
When the hay is sold from the stack
measurement is not only subject to the
uncertainty just mentioned, but It is
also question of judgment to some
extent to ascertain the number of cubic
feet it contains owing to the irregular
form of the stack. To illustrate this
objection as well as the best method of
overcoming it the accompanying illus
tration is given.
In the illustration the stack is a par
allelogram on the ground, and if the
side lines continued upward without
inclining inward and the top were lev
Smyrna times., 1904-01-06
oliver Cromwell.

Newburg priory claims the distinc-
ton of sheltering the remains of Oliver
Cromwell. After the protectors death
on his lucky day, Sept. 3. his body was
embalmed and, after lying in state for
some time. was inferred with regal
pomp in Westminster abbey. After
the restorat ton his body. along with
those of IretOn and Bradshaw, was ex-
humed and hanged on the gibbet at
Tyburn. The heads, so the story goes,
were struck off and placed on the top
of Westminster hall, while the bodies
were buried beneath the gallows. On
the other hand. it is said that another
body was substituted for that of Crom-
well and that the protector was buried
secretly on the Hambledon hills. At
all events, at the top of Newburg pri-
ory there is a narrow room, one end of
which is occupied by a mass of stone
work built into the wall. Here, it is
said. the remains of Oliver Cromwell
rest.
Smyrna times., 1904-01-06
The Lead Pencil

The name lead pencil is a misnomer
made correct by custom. The so called
leads of a pencil are in reality a mix
ture of graphite and clay. Graphite is
a word derived from the Greek, mean
Ing ito write" 1t is a native mineral
carbon of black color and brilliant me-
tallic luster. To the touch it feels
smooth. somewhat like soapstone, and
1t breaks in very faky manner under
a very light blow. 1t is so soft it will
leave a trace on paper. 1t is sometimes
called plumbago and has still another
name - black lead - from which, Of
course, we get the name lead pencil.
Graphite is found in the oldest rock
formations, and deposits are to be
found in various parts of the world.
the most famous being those at Altai.
in Siberia. and at Ticonderoga. n. Y,
in this country.
Smyrna times., 1904-01-06
FARMFRs' INSTITUTE WORK
Entb usiasm In This New Line of
Agricultural Education.

Entb usiaSm In This New Line of
Agricultural Education.
The normal institute for farmers in
stitute lecturers at the close of No
vember at the agricultural experiment
station at Geneva, N. Y, is reported by
American Agriculturist as having been
very successful. The objects were:
To post institute workers on all that
is new in the various lines of agricul-
tural work and investigation, bring
them into closer touch with the expert
ment station, to compare notes and ex-
periences, sort out facts and theories
and show what is true, doubtful and
false and to secure uniformity in in
stitute work.
The programme consisted of lectures
by various members of the station
staff on the following subjects: Germ
life, sources and control; fundamentals
Of plant diseases; fundamentals of
insect life, spraying liquids and ap-
paratus, cheese biology and diseases,
animal nutrition, orchard management,
station work, needs and prospects, fer
tlizer inspection and markets, feeding
stuff inspection and adulteratiOn. or
chard scales, fruit diseases and the
practical relations of, cheese investiga-
tions. Some of the lectures were illus
trated by ,stereopticon, others by
charts, specimens, microscopic prep
arations, etc. Each person was sup
piled with an outline containing the
principal points brought out in each of
the lectures. There was also a full
discussion after each lecture.
Besides the members of the station
staff about twenty-five persons were
in regular attendance. Some sessions
were attended by seven or eight from
Cornell university and elsewhere.
Among the latter were John Hamilton
of Washington and Director B. C. Buff
fun of the Wyoming station. Enthu-
siasm ran high. A prominent feature
Of the meeting was the evident desire
of all present to learn the truth. No
time was wasted in controversy. Di-
rector F. E. Dawley thinks that it will
have a decidedly beneficial effect in
increasing the efficiency of the insti-
tute workers. This movement, so aus
piciously managed at Geneva, seems
destined to spread and become an i'm
portant factor in agricultural educa-
ton not only in New York, but in other
states.
Smyrna times., 1904-01-06
The Postmnn,s KNOCK.

The British postal service may be
slower than the American, but it has
its humors. The story is told that in
one of the remotest districts of Oxford.
shire-which contains some inaccessi-
BILE and primitive villages-there has
long been a subpostmaster with a
wooden leg. In performing his delivery
of letters he drove donkey cart. But
he found it difficult to get up and down.
So it has been his custom to take with
him tin bucket full of large stones.
These he hurled one by one with steady
aim at the doors of his neighbors as
occasion demanded. That was the
postman's knock.
Smyrna times., 1904-01-06
Honor to Whom Honor Is nue

"And now. gentlemen" says the
chairman of the committee on awards
at the millinery exhibition, 1.-THE ques-
ton before us is to whom shall the
chief prize go? OF the many pattern
bonnets submitted that of Miss Meek
leigh is far and away the most artis-
tic"
But" persists a more experienced
member. ''the bonnet exhibited by
Nine. Sokkettuum is far and away the
most expensive"
A few minutes later the medal was
pinned on Nine. Sokkettuum.-Judge.
Smyrna times., 1904-01-06
A MARVEL OF THE MAILS.
Great Distances That Letters Travel
at Small Expense.

AA G4BGAAGs
If a man should start from New
York and travel nOrthward to Alaska
then down the coast to California and
take ship to Manila and follow the lines
of travel to Hongkong, to Singapore.
to Canton. to Tokyo, to VladivostOk,
to st. Petersburg. p Vienna, to Lon
don, to South Africa and finally to
South America. touching on the way
at several Pacific and south Atlantic
islands and thence back to his starting
point, he could travel distance sever
al times greater than the circumference
of the globe. If he ordered his mail
forwarded to him and left correct ad-
dresses behind at each place the letters
would dutifully follow him and finally
be delivered to him in New York a few
days after his own arrival there.
All that he would have TO pay extra
for this remarkable journey of his mail
would be dollar or two in tolls, which
would represent the charges for for
warding eXacted by some of the cOun-
tries through which it passed. There
are in the post Office department at
Washington the envelope of a letter
which travelled in this way 100000
miles and another which came safely
through a trip of 125,000 miles.-St.
Nicholas.
Smyrna times., 1904-01-06
Agricultural Notes.

Know which COW is not earning her
feed and dispose of her.
In the Berkshire hills near Lenox.
Mass, is one of the finest COW and
sheep barns in America. 1T has re-
Gently been built on the 400 acre farm
of W. D. Sloane and cost 100000.
Gilt Edge caulifiower attracted favor
able comment at the recent American
institute show in New York.
OF field peas tested at the Michigan
experiment station Marrowfat, Canada
Beauty and Prussian Blue each yielded
forty-one bushels to the acre.
Smyrna times., 1904-01-06
A Fnir Qnestinn.

A hypochondriac who visited Sir
Conan Doyle in the days when he was
a practicing physician complained of
"a very bad side" He told his story in
great detail, says the London Chronicle.
he put his hand above his waist line
and said:
Il get a sharp pain here doctor,
whenever l touch my head"
why on earth, then, do you touch
your head?" Dr. Doyle asked mildly,
but dryly.
Smyrna times., 1904-01-06
No pity shown.

"For y ears fate was after me con-
tinuously" writes F. A. Gulledge
Verbena, Ala. b ad terrible case
of Piles cansing "a tumors. When all
failed Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured
me. Equally good for Burns and all
aches and pains. Only Csc at Benton
n. Weldon's Drug Store.
Smyrna times., 1904-01-06

Compensation For Damage by Deer.
In certain parts of New England deer
have received rigid protection for a
number Of years and have become so
numerous in consequence that frequent
complaints are made concerning the
damage they do to growing crops. To
meet this difficulty Maine and Massa-
chusetts have enacted laws providing
for compensation for such damages.
Smyrna times., 1904-01-06
Keeping Her A,uax

Photographer-Don't assume such a
fierce expression. Look pleasant.
Murphy-Not on your life! NV wife
Is going to send one Of those pictures
to her mother, and if look pleasant
she'll come down on a visit-Kansas
City Independent.
Smyrna times., 1904-01-06
Working Night Ana nav

The busiest and mightest little thing
that ever was made is DIR. Kings New
Life Pills. These pills change weak
ness into strength, listlessness into
energy, brain-fag into mental power.
They're wonderful in building up the
health. Only 25c per box. Sold bv
Benton N. Weldon Druggist.
Smyrna times., 1904-01-06
Too Rapid.

There is such thing as milking too
fast. If the COW stops chewing her
cud, steps around and acts as if things
were not going right you had better
hold up little. You are hurting the
cows udder. and she knows it whether
you do or not.-Exchange.
Smyrna times., 1904-01-06

The talent of success is nothing more
than doing what you can do well and
doing well whatever you do without a
thought Of fame.
Evening journal., 1904-03-09

time. They are very fond Of her. she
has always been very active in the
Sunday school and in the work OF the
church and never more so than now.
Miss Elda Barnetts class, having
raised S27 for the year. $3.50 OF which
was raised on missionary day. was
given the banner for the day. Miss
Barnett has had charge OF this class
of bright. active boys for eighteen
months. About half these boys are
newspaper carriers.
IL goes without saying that John S.
Benson, the superintendent. the Rev.
T. A. II. OBrien. the pastor. were
greatly pleased with the years work.
The school is larger than at any time
in its history Of fifty odd years.
Mrs. Ella Beatty spoke touchingly
in carefully prepared meorial ad-
dress of the four members OF the school
who during the year had gone to be
with Him who said suffer the little
children 20 come unto me and forbid
them not, for OF such is the King
dom OF Heaven"
Next Sunday will be missionary day
in Riddles Chapel The Rev. DR.. Watt
viii make the address at 2.15 p. m.