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The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1906-03-15
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DOMESTIC.

The thousands of employees of the
American Steel and Wire Company, at
Wauken. ILL.,, are to be allotted one
hour each day for prayers. Work Is to
be begun with devotional exercises and
another brief interval will be per-
mitted for special prayers. This inno-
walton is expected to follow the en-
ployment of a large number OF nom
union 'workmen imported from DoWle's
Zion City. :
Mrs. Helen ~. Knickerbacker, Of
New York City, and her ION. William
II. KniLkerUacker, announced their In
tention to give to Ballston, Spa, N. T.. q
public library building which, with the
land, will cost $4,000. >,
Nine-months-old "Jack" Rogers. who,
with Rex, his ~fve-year-old brother, was
abandoned in August by his parents,
John w. Rogers and. wife, at the Ho-
tel Ten Eyck, Albany, is dead at the
home in Crawford, N. j., of Mrs. 3.
Van Allen Murray, who adopted the
children.
Edward Carew Rice, thirty-three
years old, local representative OF the
Virginia Carolina Chemical Company,
and a prominent clubman. was found
dead in his Office at Mobile, Ala, with
a bullet through his brain. He left a
telegram and a letter showing that the
act was a deliberate one.
Judge Martin, at Norfolk, Va, ap-
pointed Catesby Jones receiver for Vir-
ginia of the Southern Mutual Aid AS
ISOLATION, of Birmingham, and the Uni
ted States Mutual Savings Association,
Of Virginia. This action is the result
of a suit alleging that this company
was Improperly merged with the Ala
bama company.
The Chief Of Police of Chicago pro-
hibited the blowing of horns. etc., for
more than fifteen minutes after mid
night on New Years morning.
President Schurmau, of Cornell. de-
Tended football rs the greatest of
sports, and said its bad features will
be eliminated.
]. Rider Cady testified before the Arm
strong Committee, in New York City.
that President McCurdy, Of the Mutual
Life, had offered him a retainer while
lie was counsel for Superintendent
Payn. of the State Insurance Depart
ment.
The Rapid Transit Board, Of New
Yorl, City. directed the drafting OF
bills to enable the cI,y to build sub
ways in spite of the BelmOnt-Ryan
combine.
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PerIods Of tho Moon.

The average time occupied by the
moo in moving in its orbit around ths
earth is twenty-seven days seven houra
forty-three minutes, it's sidereal period.
The synodic period is the interval De-
tween successive new moons, and 1t is
a little longer, owing to the time, 1854
days, occupied by the earth in moving
around the sun. The moon performs
1-27 1-3 Of its orbit and the earth
1864 each day, and therefore the
difference between these, 1-27 1-3 minus
1864 equals 1921. is the daily frac-
ton Of it's path which the moon de-
scribes with respect to the sun; that
Is. twenty-nine and one-half days
twenty nine days twelve hours forty
four minutesI is the synodic period. 1t
the plane of the moons orbit conceded
with that Of the earth's equator the
noon would rise about fifty minutes
later each day, but the inclination or
these planes to n another varies be-
tween eighteendegrees and t~wenty-nlne
and one-half degrees, so that this re-
tardation is different at different times.
When full moon occurs near the au.
tumnal equinox it may, in the latitude
of New York, be as small as tWenty-
three minutes, while further north 1t
may reduce to nothing. so that for
several nights the full moon rises about
the same time, soon after sunset.
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Etiquette of CsauibaiIsn.

even among the savages of French
Africa, who eat human flesh, there are
differences" said Paul PUGET, a young
Italian traveller. "Some while ago.
when exploring that country, 1 learned
a good bit about the ways Of the vari-
ous tribes. In a majority of them
cannibalism is INDUCED in only when
the bodies are those Of prisoners taken
In battle. 1t is all right to. eat persons
who! belong to hostile clans. but it
would be a gross violation OF tradition
and the custom Of the land to feast
upon friends or even upon members Of
the same tribe. This delicacy of SEN
ttment, however. is not universal, and
In one tribe in particular; where 1.
noted the absence Of any old persons,
I learned that it was the proper thing
to add the aged inhabitants to the local
food supply. This confined the popu-
Iatlon to the young and hardy, for at
the first signs Of decrepitude the boil
ing pot was called into requisition."-
Washington Post.
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TRAGEDIES OF THE YEAR
The Number Of Suicides Breaks All
Records OF the Past.
IIornicides sud Deaths by Violence Nam-
bered 9a12, Against s4s@ in 1904
H~ighwaymen's BannerT limo

Chicago, Ill.-UnoficiaI statistics of
the year show that the number of muir
ders and suicides in this country has
greatly increased, and that there has
been a decrease in the number of legal
executions, compared with the number
of homicides. The homicides and
deaths by violence total 9212. as COM
pared with 1882 last year.
The startling feature of the record
is the increase in the number Of muir
ders committed by highwaymen. being
5S2. against 464 during 1904. -Four
years ago the number was only 103.
Jealousy provoked $40 murders and
liquor GAP. Homicides growing out OF
quarrels number Sill. The record of
self-destruction is one Of the most de-
plorable of the year. the number of
prominent men being much larger than
hitherto. The total. is 1882. an increase
of SAP over the list of the preceding
year. The steadiness of the increase is
indicated in the following table:
In 1899. $40; 1900. 6775: 1901, 724o;
1902, S591: 1904, 9240: 1905, $685..
The proportion of suicides between
men and women remains about the
same. nearly twice as many men as.
women taking their own lives. Ply
sicians head the list of professional.
men, the number being $40.
The causes were dependency, domes-
tic infelicity, disappointment in love.
i'll health. liquor and business losses.
Poison was resorted to in 4132 cases.
shooting in 1851 cases. hanging i'll
1922 and drowning in S6S.
Ten blew themselves up with dyna-
mite and three starved themselves.
The legal executions numbered 13j,
of which .tifty-one were in the Nortl,
and eightY-two in the South. Seventy
three were negroes. ffty-nine white
men and one q Chinaman.
Mrs. Rogers, of Vermont, was the
one woman executed. Showing the
relative changes of murders and execu-
tons, it way be sail that in 1885 1905
murders were reported, while the num-
Der of hangings was 10S, while this
year 1873 were hanged or electrocuted
FOR 9212 murders committed.
The number Of lynchings was sixty
six. tie smallest number reported since
1885. when statistics were first gath
cred by the press. Of the total number
lynched sixty-fve were negroes. Thlr-
ty-four were lynched for murder, ff-
teen for criminal assault and fifteen for
miscellaneous reasons. ,
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Silver Polish.

3 The above is a common name and
many are familiar with the powder or
polish as it is called, but perhaps few
have any idea as to where it Is found.
In the boundaries of HartRick village,
about seven miles from Hartwick Sem
mary, is the mine said to be the only
n of it's kind known. It is found
only a.few feet underneath the sur
face and is ~sandwiched between layers
Of clay. In some places it is found
even to the depth of, thirty feet and
when first extrteated it appears like
blue clay, but after it. is thoroughly
dried 1t. turns to a4lighter color. When
first taken from the mine It is placed
on a large platform and allowed to
dry by exposure to the air and sun.
Then a temporary roof is placed over
to protect 1t from the inclemeRcy OF
the weather. When thoroughly dried
heavy rollers, are used tofpufyerize ft
into the finest dust 20 perfect that not
a particle Of grit remains in it.
Finally it is put into barrels and,
labelled sand burr and shipped to the
silver plate manufactures where it is,
used especially to burnfsh the metal
before the silver plate is applied. Its
weight in barrels is about $50 pounds
and sells at 81 and $3.50 per barrel.
Carloads of this polish are, frequently,
sent out from the station at Hartwfck.
--Hartwick Seminary Monthly.
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DEATH IN A GREAT WAVE
Giant Sea Boards Five Masted
Schooner in Vineyard Sound.
Captain aud Mate Of tho Henry o. Bar.
ret Swept in
Storm. ,

Woods Hole, Mass.-A wave. almost
of tidal proportions, rolled, up Vine
yard Sound at night and, overtaking
the fve-masted schooner Henry o.
Barrett, tumbled over the stern and
swept overheard to death Captain
Joshua Norton, of Rockland, Me-, the
commander Of the vessel, and his mate,
James Conley, Of st. John, N. B. The
wave jammed the helmsman against
the wheel, after smashing the yawl and
davits, and then, ranging forward, tore
through the spinnaker and jigger sails
and carried away the %deckhouse.
Captain Norton and the mate were
, standing together near the stern. and
were not seen after the wave broke.
The Barrett. which left Newport News
Va, for Boston, Mass, made q quick
run up the coast aud had good weather
until reaching Block Island. There she
was overtaken by the storm, but as
the wind was favorable she kept on.
She passed in by Gay Head oon
after dark. The wind at that time was
blowing strong from the west and
northwest, and as the tide was run
ming against it with considerable force
and a heavy e was rolling into the
sound from the ocean, the entire sound
from Gay Head to Nobska was q tum-
bling mass Of pillows. The Barrett
was abreast of Quick's Hole when thu
big wave came rolling up the stern.
Fhe helmsman said that he heard
Captain Norton shout as the sea rolled
up: "We are among the breakers"" to
which the mate replied, "No, sir"
Then the sea tumbled aboard, com-
pletely flooding the poop deck and
carrying the two officers overheard.
Although disabled. the Barrett kept
on. and anchored off here about mid
night. The second mate came ashore
at noon and reported the loss of the
two officers. Captain Norton was
ifty-seVen years old, and a native Of
Rockland. Me-, where he leaves a
widow. Conley was ffty-eiglt years
old, and a native of st. John, N. B..
His wife died recently.
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Keeping Good Company.

-. Experienced advertisers thoroughly
understand the Importance of keeping
good companY-a matter that does not
always impress itselG upon beginners.
Therefore novices in the field of pub
Lefty before spreading their wings for
higher fight should diligently study
the advertising tone Of the medium
they contemplate employing. Are the
reputable advertisers there? Is objec-
tionabte advertising excluded? Is the
character of the advertising columns
such that. they are likely to appeal to
people Of taste and refinement? These
are vital questions which may as well
be applied to the newspapers as to
other publications .-Philade!phia Rec
ord. -
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Farmer Butchers Family.

Rochester, Mich.-Alarmed by the de-
serted appearance of the farm house of
Clarence A. Barnum, who recently set
tied near here, neighbors broke into
the house and found Barnum. his wife.
his daughter. Louise, aged twenty
three, and his son, Chester, aged six
teen, all lying dead. The wife and the
son and daughter had apparently been
murdered with an AK.
A single-barreled shotgun lying near
his corpse and the fact that his head
was almost entirely blown off. showed
how Barnum himself had met his end.
Mrs. Barnum'S body lay in the wood
shed. 1t appeared that she had been
able to resist-the murderer for a briet
time, or at any rate had succeeded in
Guiding him long enough to reach the
shed. Here she was struck down and
met the same fate that had befalleD
her son and daughter.
Barnum sold a farm near Homer,
Mich. only a few months ago and
came here late in the season. It is
said that the harvest in his new homo
did not meet his expectations and
that he had become Respondent. This
was made evident in a letter he had
written to q brother in Waterloo, N. Y.
Two other sons and a daughter were
away from home when the tragedy
occurred.
William Barnum is editor of the Col.
lege News Letter. an official publica.
ton of the University of Michigan, at
Ann Arbor. John Barnum lives in
Coldwater. Mich. The surviving
daughter, Mary Barnum, lives in AL
bion, Mich.
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BITS d! Ne VS.


, Judge William L. Penfeld. Sel-'ito-
for the State Department, has resigned
partly because of ill health and party
to re-enter the practice of law. Presl'
dent Roosevelt and Secretary Root de-
sired him to remain.
A delegation of Western railway off,
Gals offered to cooperate with the In
terstate Commerce Commission to ex'
tirpate rebating.
John r. Stevens, chief engineer OF
the Panama Canal, in his annual re-
port criticises his predecessor. Chlef
Engineer Wallace, for. expendlng
S500.OO0 in experimental excavation Ii
the Culebra cut.
Secretary Shaw will dismiss Treas.
ury clerks who are .babitually "broke"
and who mortgage their future. He
will not make. the department a collec-
ton agency for money lenders He will
also dismiss any. empleye losning
money at usurious interest.
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Square Trunks In Vogue.

The current popular demand for
square-top trunks owe its origin to
Thespian preference. When this shape
was first introduced, the only market
worth while was found among theatri-
cal folk. A metropolitan manufacturer
is authority for the statement that
round-topped trunks are to-day being
relegated to the bargain sales.
Everybody seems to want this
square style of lid now said the man
ufacturer. NO, I don't suppose it's be-
cause the square effect bears the actor
Endorsement. The widespread call IS
most likely owing to the fact that the
capacity of the square trunk is great
er, Notwithstanding that the CUBIC
measurement of the round make may
be larger."-New York Press.
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FOREIGN.

The Merchants Bank. of Winnipeg,
Manitoba. has lost $4,000 by two re-
cent mysterious robberies.
The Press. of Paris, France. an
nounces the nomination Of eX-Minister
Bourgeois as French Ambassador to
Germany.
Ex-President Soto Of Honduras, who
is an old friend of President Palma,
arrived in Havana, Cuba. President
Palma boarded The steamer to welcome
him.
Ex-Miuister Se.uiers gave a farewell
reception on board his yacht in the har-
Dor, at Havana, Cuba.
The Atlantic Society is arranging en-.
tertainments for the American Rhodes
scholars, most of whom are spending
the holidays in London. England.
American war ships are at Sauto Do
mingo. Rebels are menacing Santiago.
Business is dull aud L feeling of unrest
prevails.
Sipido, the young anarchist. who fired
an Intellectual shot at King, Edward.
then Prince of Wales, in the Brussels
railway station during the early stages
of the Boer War and was sent to the
reformatory ut Namur, where lie has
since been. has been released and was
enrolled i'll the army.
No fewer than 5000 persons have
been killed and wounded i'll the re-
cent conflicts with the Russian troops
in Rostoff, Yaroslav, Nijaf NOvgorod,
Kieff and other centres, showing the
widespread nature of the movement.
The agrarian movement, which is
swelling in volume and growing i'll
ferocity, now embraces the finest agri-
cultural provinces of Russia. Scores
of the greatest estates have been
burned, looted or appropriated by the
peasants.
According to the London Telegraph's
st. Petersburg correspondent the work
men of Moscow have taken little part
in the rebellion.
Russian rebels set up 4 republic in
Ufa Province, on the line dividing Asia
from Europe. New uprisifgs were re-
ported from various other parts of the
empire.
If order is temporarily restored in
Moscow it is planned for the revolution
to break out afresh in Kieff. Kharkof'
the Caucasus, Poland, Siberia and the
Baltic provinces.
The st. Petersburg correspondent OF
the London Daily Mail says that COM
petent observers hold that even no."
the difficulties Of the Russian Govern
ment are only beginning.
On the opening of the japanese Diet
at Toxic the Emperor, in his speech
from the throne, expressed his deep
qualification at the honorable conclu-
sion of hostilities and also expressed
satisfaction at the renewal of the alll-
ance with England.
Senior Rios, ex-Premier Of Spain, an
nounced that he would not serve on
the Moroccan commission and would
retire from public life.
Moscow's Civil Governor was at
tackled by a youth. who, failing to kill
him, took a fatal dose of poison. The
revolt there has virtually been crushed,
and in st. Petersburg most of the rebel
leaders have been arrested :.
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SIX PERSONS MURDERED
Youth at Caledonia, Mimi, Shoots
Three Helpless Women.
REJECTED LOVER TAKES REVENGE

in His Head-One Sister of His Swe ct.
heart Escapes-Awful Tragedy in .
Michigan Home Revealed by Nearby
Neighbors OF the Victims.
Caledonia. MINI. Frenzy arising
from disappointment in what he called
love led a young dental student in the
University Of Minnesota, Matthew
Styer. to the particularly cowardly
murder of three women and to suicide.
He shot his sweetheart to death and
sent fatal bullets through her mother
and sister. Then he wounded himself
beyond recovery and flung himself
down to die With his head on the breast
of her he would have wed. None of
the women had O chance for life. The
man shot them down one after another
as he sped from to room. Pearl
Wheaton, the murderer's inamOrita,
was the last he shot before turning
the weapon on himself. Her mother,
Mrs. S. N. Wheaton, and her sister
Ruth fell in her defense. A smaller
sister escaped the students bullets by
making a flying leap through a window
by which Styer entered the house.
Styer had been rejected by Pearl
Wheaton. He went to the house in
the early hours, when he knew
Wheaton had not returned home, and
raped on the hall door for admittance.
Mrs. Wheaton opened the door a few
inches and told the young man he could
not enter her home. Styer hurled him
self against the door, but it was held
by a safety chain. Then he rushed
along the veranda to q window and
smashed it with a blow of his fist. His
hand was cut severely, but he beat on
pane after pane until all the glass was
broken, and then he battered down the
frame. Blood was streaming from the
gashes in his wrists when he sprang
into the house.
"You mustn't come herew cried Ruth
Wheaton.
81 must see Pearl" Styer shouted.
"Stand back" shrieked the girl, lev
cling a revolver at the intruder. The
maddened man snatched the pistol
from her. grasp and shot her twice.
Both bullets pierced her breast, and she
sank unconscious to the floor. Styer
leaped across her, only to be confront
ed by Mrs. Wheaton.
"You shan't kill both my daughters"
the mother screamed, throwing herself
upon him. He shot her through the
arm, but she grasped him about the
neck with the other and tried to bear
him to the floor. He fired again, the
ball passing through her throat, and
she fell across the sensless girl.
pearl! PEARL" cried Styer, bounding
upstairs. 1t was then the child got
away. The elder Miss Wheaton was
barricaded in her room. Styer burst
the lock and pushed back the furni-
ture that>held the door. He sent a bull
let through the young woman's heart
and shot himself in the head. The
girls body was found on the floor by
heighbors. Half way across it, his
head above the heart his bullet had
pierced, lay Styer dying. Surgeons
found that heart cleft in twain. They
said they could not a Y the lives Of
the wounded persons.
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MALARIA
Generally That Is Not the Trouble.

Persons with q susceptibility to mala-
rial influences should beware of coffee,
which has a tendency to load up the
liver WITH bile.
A lady writes from Denver that she
suffered for years from chiDs and fever
which at last she learned were mainly.
produced by the coffee she drank.
"I was also grievously afflicted with
headaches and Indigestion" she says,
(which ! became satisfied were like
wise largely due to the coffee l drank.
Six months ago I quit its use alto
gether and began to drink Postum.
Food Coffee, with the gratifying re}
suit that my headaches have disapA'
peared, my digestion has been restored
and I have not had a recurrence 81
chills and fever for more than thrse
months. I have no doubt that 1t was
Postum that brought me this relief, for
have used no medicine while this
Improvement has been going on" Ut
was really relief from congestion of the
liver caused by cofee.)
MY daughter mas Deen us great q
coffee drinker as I, and for years was
afflicted with terrible sick headaches,
which often lasted for a week at a
time. She is a brain worker and e11'
cessive application together with the
headaches began to affect her memory
most seriously. She found no help 10
medicines and the doctor frankly ad-
yised her to quit coffee and use Postum.
"For more than four months she has
not had i he~adache-her mental facul.
ties have grown more active and vigor,
Gus and her memory has been restored.
"No more tea, coffee or drugs for usI
so long as we can get Postum" Nams
given Ivy Postum Co., Battle Creek
Mich.
There's a reason. Read the littlt
book THE Road to MELVILLE in pkga
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Quito q Turn-Down.

In a street car in Cleveland the other
day a young man suddenly stopped
and picked up something from the
floor. After looking at it a moment he
asked in a loud voice. HAS anybody
lost a SIS gold pieces" Instantly a sol
emn man at the front end Of the car
rose and walking back to the young
chap said, Eyes, I have lost a S. gold
piece" and held out his hand. "WelLp
said the young man, "here's five cents
L just picked up toward 'it."-Kansas
City Journal. - IL 4s3
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sEPTUAGENARIANs TO MARRY.
Martin Green VIII WED Woman After
Forty-fye Years Friendship. zoo.

Martin Green VIII WED Woman After
Forty-fve Years Friendship.
Worcester, Mass.-Martin Green, sew
enty-fve years old, a brother of the
late Andrew H. Green, father of Great
er New York, announced his engage
ment to Mrs. Joseph Sampson, Of
Wareham. Mrs. Sampson Is seventy
two, and her friendship with Mr.. Green
dates back forty-ive years,
, In 1860 the Simpsons and the Greens
occupied the same house in Chicago,
ILL.,, but when Mr.. SIMPSONS ware
houses were burned in the fire Of
1871 the families drifted apart,
the Simpsons going to Denver, Col,
where MI. Sampson died. Mr.. Green,
after rebuilding the wharves destroyed
by the Chicago fire, came to Worcester,
Mass.
Soon after his wife died. last April,
Mr.. Green went to Wareham, Mass,
where he renewed his friendship with
Mrs. Sampson. The wedding will not
take place for some months.