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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-08
TONDERS or FLORIDA.
Crops Grow So Fast 1t Keeps Horses Trot-
ting to Reap Them.

Florida is a strange land, as big as all
New England or nearly so, and with wealth
untold. 1t takes a good farmer to know
his business here, says the Independent,
but there is no lack Of crops for gathering
and for soil making, too.
The velvet Deal needs a sharp paced
team to keep up with its growth. 1t will
make fifty feet Of good hay in a single sea-
son and then leave plenty Of fodder
for the COWS and a cover crop for winter.
When you come to plough it under in the
spring you have not only a big mass of
humus but a large storage OF nitrogen
added to the soil.
The beggar weed is anything but a beg
gar, but is a grass Of superb quality yield
ing an immense amount of hay and then
forage, and after that adding nearly as
much to the soil as your velvet bean.
This only begins the story Of Florida
farming. 1t does not, however, under
take to deny that many of the Florida farm
ers import their hay from the North
Do YOU know a loquat when you see one?
It has the shape of a pear but the flavor
Of a cherry. 1t is good for pies and pud-
dines and marmalades and for pretty
nearly everything else that that marvellous
fruit the cherry is used for. Our New
England mothers would have gone wild
over it.
The kumquat is a sort OF compromise
between an orange and a stick of candy
we do not mean in flavor, but in shape and
size, The tree when loaded with fruit Is
ga beautiful as a rose bush.
There is not much to create enthusiasm
about a Southern city. They are all OF
them more or less tawdry and have a slack
ness in their ways of doing business. A
cabbage palm brought out OF its native
habitat with congenial companions and
set in a dusty dooryard Is about the mean
est thing we aver saw. What can one say
of guava bushes and camphor trees fenced
in with wire?
But the country in this State OF fowers-
we'll named F%lorida-is about as rollicking
and utterly natural a bit of the world as
can be conceived. In the highlands OF
the central part of the State the palm and
the pine meet together.
1t is the North and the South In pertect
harmony 1t is the garden of the world.
THE new farmer is coming in to Jake pos
session. The old orange growers were
mostly city folk and Nature did not hesitate
70 shoo them out of the State. Those who
are now finding their way into these reglons
are bee keepers, truck growers and very
PRACTICAL sorts of people who go well undo
The name of home builders.
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Protection for Trailing Arbutus.

Wv wv
1T will not be long before school children
and organized parties will be out securing
the forests for the trailing arbutus." said
J. G.. Montgomery of Blpomvll L.. "Milwau-
kcears probably remember the time when
excursions Of school children in the northern
part of the state gathered thousands OF
BOUQUETS of the fragrant flowers aud sent
them to the hospitals OF this city.
The craze for the flower has become so
great aud the gatheTers of the bl ossOm have
Become 80 careless that unless something
is done the trailing arbutus viii become cX-
iinct. II is an easy matter when picking the
flower TO pull out its root With il. This
has been done for the past few years, with
the result that the flower is much more scarce
than formerly. Las year people who
went out into the woods TO pluck arbutus
found but small quantities Of the pink flower
of spring. | think that the matter will be
taken up by citizens of the northern part OF
the State, and laws may be passed al the
next session Of the State Legislature afford
ing some protection to the gro with OF the
trailing arbutuA. -
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-08
HAD THEIR WITS WITH THEM.
How Grant Fooled the Enemy's Picket
Escape OF Rachel.

Mime Ra chel, the great actress, was rest
ing alone in her dressing room one night
preparatory to going on the stage. when a
man suddenly entered and, drawing a dag
ger, said he was going to kill her if she did
not at once consent to marry hin.
The actress saw at a glance that the man
was mad and meant what he said. So
with the utmost GOODNESS she replied;
certainly l will marry you. Iwish moth
ing better. Come with me to the priest
at once: | have had him come here for the
purpose.
she took his arm and they went out to-
toeether-to where there was assistance
of course, and the man was lmlnediateiy
put under arrest. sl
under a very different aspect OF analrs
was ma rrated to me by John Russell foung
saws a writer in the Grand a game.
Once during the civil war, when 1far reo was
noitring alone neal the enemy's lines;
SIdden1y he found himself confronted
by one of the Confederates' pickets' VINO
was for arresting him. "Sho! sho!" SAID
Grant with the utmost coolhess, al
yyU;form3 Don't make a noise; / shall be
bach directly
the picket's sight, then ran as nimbly as ne
could. ;,d ,rndor
- Of great danger is related
Of laurence Oliphant by Mr., Innes Shand.
0liphant once declared that his nerves were
never more severely tried that when he was
attending a Socialist assembly in Lyons
as correspondent 20 o. . lne in the room that a
spv connected with that paper was present,
and the mob suddenly arose to discover
tne intruder, breathing threats meanwhile
which made ELEPHANTS hair incline TO stand
on end. That gentleman, however, hoppedd
sea sea rched carefully under the benches as il
he longed for nothing 80 much as to dis
cover the alleged spy.
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Inc Hypof.SouL.
I can play the hte and nddle to the tread OF Tying
feet,
And my pulses beat the measure Of the music In
tho street:
Kerry Dance" and Down In Dixie always seem
to draw q tear.
But I cannot SEQ tho color OF . single note I hear.
When the sky is gold and crimson. and an opales-
cent sea
Captures all the world Of color and in glory sets
II free,
silently ! sit and wonder Just what type OF car
'twould take
To perceive the kind Of music that q rainbow ought
TO make.
Yes. there must be something lacking In my love
of nature lore. .
And I mourn the subtle insight that I hadn't missed
before:
SO I wait and look and listen, and am hopefu tnas
ere long,
I may catch a strain Of 90 or. or the. Uniting OF o
aon9. GLANCE W. RuET.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-08
Time to Plant Asparagus.
From the Outing Magazine

Small fruit of all kinds-asparagus, pie
nIant. and Observation-Disclosures be set out
this month. -
In planting asparagus have the soil well
drained and heavily MANFRED and dug up TO
a depth of at least eighteen inches Set the
plants about that distance apart and let
their crowns be at least four inches below the
surface. Two or three year old plants are
nreferahle 10 seedlings. Consult the Cata-
70 Gles and satisfy yourself as TO the merits
Of the best varieties before ordering, remem-
Pie plant likes a deep. yich soil. u mode
ately moist, all the better, Set the ROOFS
at least three feet apart. Horseradisll should
or It will spread so rapidly as to soon become
a nuisance. In a rich soil IL will be much
tenderer and finer favored than in a poor
one. Peas do best II sowed early in the sea-
SON. They are not injured by frost.
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Try.
From he Houston Post.

Y TJT Tt TTUUsFVTF 7 VyF
There's a victory yonder awaiting the chap
Who grects with a laugh every downing mishap'
VINO nights as he loses and dies full Of try.
ubo tackles the ladder with vim and with bounce,
md laughs when he lands at the foot with a 1ounce;
Wno tightens his belt and with never a Sigh
Keeps falling and falling with heart fuh OF NY
He isn't defeated who dies In the night.
~ he had but lived he'd have finished all right.
II az fnte stuled bis laugh. and endeavor put by.
While his jaw was nrm set and his heart fun OF Try
And I know that UP yondcr when he has cashed in
The loser will head many fellows who win;
For we're Judged when we win TO our homes IN
the sky
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-08
Burmese Woman's Ambition.

From the Singapore Free Press.
The Burmese woman's highest ambition lie
70 maintain her husband in lordly idleness
and to supply him with abundant funds for
cock fghting. bullock cart racing and gam
bling.
Many Of the Burmese women do big deals
in timber, buying up in advance the paddy
crops OF q whole dlstrict, and 90 on0on q scale
that requires big financing.
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Old Wisconsin.

From the MlirGukse Sentinel.
There is beauty In your hills.
Old Wisconsin:
In your valleys, wales n Hlls,
Old Wisconsin,
Whether snow crowned SUBMITS CLEAN
or the lilies grace the stream.
There's the hitting OF a dream,
Old Wisconsin.
There Is romance In your dells,
Old Wisconsin.
In your virgin forest dwells,
Old Wisconsin,
Gems of nature yet unpalnted,
Nv the hand of man untainted.
I'ndenled, aye. pure and Salnted,
Old Wisconsin.
There Is glory in your fields,
Old Wisconsin,:
There is balm that soothes and shields,
Old Wisconsin,
In the songs borne on the breeze
From the rustic OF the leaves,
For the wearied heart tina gheves,
Old Wisconsin.
Oh. we love the summers breeze.
Old Wisconsin;
That blows from scented le8s,
Old Wisconsin:
We long TO have them come
We are growing stlf and numb,
For your breeZcs now arc bum,
Old Wisconsin.
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POEMS n D
A VOrnal Song.

4 delicate crimson IRE
On the crest OF. the maple Showa,
And tho tip OF the leahess brter
Gives presage Of the rose.
The breeze In the barren bough
Drops silvorn hints Of the note
That win soon fall like q vow
From the Nreo's nutelike throat,
The marEe OF the twilight sky
That tho rugged hilltops fret
Has tints that ere long will dye
The eye Of the violet.
subtle, mystical. strange
(Ah. but our hearts are fainN,
VIII follow the miracle change
on the footsteps OF tho rain
Dawn!-and behold the clod
Sudden a living thingl
And tho earth viii own its God
In the conscious face OF Spring.
CLINTON SCOTLAND
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-08
Little DorrIt's Church.

From the London Ereuin0 STANDARD.
READERS of Little Dorrit" will be interested
perhaps to learn that the crypt of st, Georges
Church, Southwark. is TO be let. Apart
from it's association with the heroine OF
Dickens's book. the church. which was aDst
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-08
April and Woman.

From pIo Baltimore American
April weeps,
April smiles
Woman threatens
Then beguileS.
Rain or shine,
Who can hndl
Who can tell
A woman mind!
Bring blooms Of May:
WomAn's weeping
Gets her way.
Aprirs mild and
April's chill:
Warm and cold Is
Woman'S will.
April's full Of.
Quick surprise;
Sos the light
In woman's eyes.
Apnrs young, 50
Fair in truth:
Woman's sweetest
For her youth.
Young mems fancy.
II Is said,
Turns 20 loving
Month and maid.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-08
n Fountain.

From the New orleans Times Democrat.
Ii rose a silver column.
IL fell a diamond spray;
So rose and fell the water
Throughout the llvelong day.
The column seeking heaven
was beautiful 70 me,
And shattered. cleaning. falling.
Twas wonderful 10 see.
How fair Is aspiration
Unto the farthest skyl
How beautiful cen failure
OF aspiration highl
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-08
Elijah.

How are the mighty fallen.
No more the third IL he;
Instead We christen Dowie
DuAh a.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-08

ACCOMPLISHMENTS N. l.. Parsh's inquiry
where 10 md with all my soul, then. icy us part
found under the head OF Juvenile Poems, but with
no title. simply addressed To HoweSer;
AZ / remember IL as a song the words OF the INST
and second verse OF the poem comprised the nrst
verse OF the song and were almost Identical, but
the second verse OF the song differed considerably
from the third and fourth verses Of the poem.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-08

Kindly ask II any one reading THE SIN has any
recollection OF an old humorous song beginning:
Back side Albany Lake Champlain
Lies q little pond half full OF water.
remember the air but not the words or their sig
~nlncance. ~ H. C.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-08

Peace In polltics?" whispered Samuel j.
Tnden. why. you might as well expect Ear
mony In hell
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-11

persuaded Miss Ellison to give it to
him outright. If the motive was money
alone, why should he take such fend-
lsh means to obtain it when less vio-
lence would obtain the same endf
On this account the police believe
that there is some motive even stronger
than the money back of the killing, and
they are endeavoring to find it. This
question, however, will probably only
be answered by the murdered himself.
Riggs and His Family.
The blinds were down at the two.
story cottage-like dwelling occupied by
Nathan M. Riggs. at 1905 Pillsbury
avenue, and his family when a Jour.
n Il reporter called there yesterday,
shortly before noon. Inquiry from next
door neighbors elected that Mrs. Riggs
and the daughter, a miss of 16 years.
had gone away about week ago, and
were visiting friends at different points
IN Wisconsin. Mr.. Riggs had come to
the house almost daily see that
everything was all right.
He came about 4 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, carrying a satchel, and was
there about an hour, when he went
away. He was at the house Monday
morning about 10 O'Clock and STAYED
about the same length of time. The
neighbors did not know how long the
Riggs family had lived there, but one
of them said 1t was to exceed three
years, to her knowledge.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-11
of Probable Murderer
Given to the Man Now Accused
of the Crime as He Left
on His Train.
THE, THEORY OF THE POLICE

Mile Ellison,
National She
the head with and while nnb clothing had
with alcohol then ged She died within
after discovered.
On information given by the murdered girls family which TALES
with gathered
M Riggs
Riggs
Eoy Wis
with instructions himself his pulled
leaving the city last
According
Riggs understood by Miss Ellison be single She had
exhibited indicating
sold millinery
Ellison
lands and
Riggs
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81 70 81 -
WOUND
RUSSIAN ADMIRAL
Head of Black Sea Fleet Is a Sec
ond Time a Victim of
Terrorists.
Plant of Bombs Is Found in the
Garden Of the Cars
Palace. ~.

sevastopol, July s11.-An attempt was
made at ! O'Clock this afternoon to
assassinate Vice Admiral Ohouknin,
commander Of the Black sea feet The
admiral was wounded and taken to a
Vice Admiral ohouknin has been
his treatment Of the crews Of the ships
under his command that the mutiny on
board the battleship Kniaz Potemkin,
In june and July last year, was attrib-
uted. The admiral displayed consid der
able activity in attempting to capture
the mutineers at that time and in sup
pressing the sailor nlutlny at Sevas-
topol in November last.
Feb. 9 last woman appeared at his
official residence during the afternoon
Of that day and sent. in her card, say
ing she was the daughter of rear adj
miral at st. Petersburg who was an
old acquaintance Of Chouknin. On en-
tering the admiral Is office the woman
drew rapid-fre pistol and fred four
shots at him, each bullet reaching the
woman was killed by the orderly on
duty. The crime, beyond doubt, was
When the sentence imposed on the
sailors for the Kniaz Potemkin mutiny
were before the admiral for review,
formal notice was served on MN InaI
if he approved the death sentence he
would share the same fate Chouknin,
however, approved the sentences, and
several intimations afterward reached
him to the effect that the terrorists
were merely waiting for a favorable
opportunity to kill him.
Bombs In Palace Grounds.
Journal Special Service.
st. Petersburg, July 11.-There was
wild CONSERVATION at the imperia! pal
ace at Peterhef yesterday, following a
discovery in the garden Of that palace.
Of several bombs filled with dynamite.
The excitement and dread were indie
scribable.
!! It was obvious that the bombs must
have been placed there by someone CON
nected with the palace, either as officer
guard or servant. and everyone equally
was under suspicion. General Petrol
the commandant, imme diately put in
motion all the machinery Of his office to
| discover the culprit.
In the meantime the person Of the
czar is being more rigidly guard ed than
ever, If increase Of preeaufion is posi-.
| BILE.
Black Hundred Plot.
London, July 1.-THE Standard =
correspondent at Odessa telegraphs that
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-11
FOUND DYING IN FLAMES
Millie Ellison's Last Moments, and the
Fire In the Room.

Her skull crushed by heavy hammer
blows dealt with fendish deliberation
and her body enveloped in blazing al
cohol ignited by her murderer, Mile
Ellison was found in room 16 at
the National hotel yesterday afternoon.
She died a few minutes later at the city
hospital.
A man registered as "M. ]. Will
an room a few minutes before her
blazing body was discovered is being
sought by the police. He has purchased
ticket for Milwaukee. where he is
supposed to live, but every railway
station and road leading out Of the city
Is watched and the police hope to arrest
him today.
Absolute mystery surrounds the case
and the police have, little to work on
save the story told by chambermaid
at the hotel and the hammer which
was found beside the dying woman by
the hotel clerk.
The details Of the crime now known
to the police are meager, vet they are
sufficient to show that they have a
murderer Of rare cleverness to deal
with.
Dying Woman in Flames.
The tragedy. first came to the notice
of the authorities at $3.50 pm, when
employees Of the hotel saw smoke com.
ing from the woman s room and heard
her scream. When they entered, the
room, was ablaze and the victim sur
rounded by the CHASTITY blue flames of
the burning alcohol
AS the hotel employees entered the
room terrifying sight met them. The
woman was on her hands and knees.
unconscious, but writhing as tho in
great agony. The heavier flames of
the blazing draperies and of the couch
or. which she had evidently been
Tying. were creeping closer to her. BY
her side were the hammer covered with
blood and tangled hair and an empty
alcohol bottle that had been thrown
down by the murderer as he fed. The
vlctlm's clothing was already burned
OFF, her face was covered with clothed
6tood and her right temple told at the
first glance of the murderous blows.
The couch and floor were also spotted
with blood, but there were no evil
dences OF a struggle, the woman evi.
IDENTIFY having been murdered In her
sleep and rolled off the couch to her
knees. She was dressed in light cloth
Ing because of the heat Of the day. and
the murderer's blow fell on her nm
turned temple.
All these things the clerk. who first
entered the room, saw at glance, but
he fastened to do what he could to save
her fast ebbing life. Running to the
hall he seized the first emergency fire
extinguisher and in moment he had
Continued on I'd Page, LIST Column.
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Present Quotations Warrant Ex-
pectation Of Good Prices,
Despite Big Crops.
AMERICAS GRAIN CROPS
TOLD IN FIGURES
Journal Special Service.

journal special SERVICE
Washington, July 11.-Indications
will harvest the largest grain crops in
the history of the country and nothing
now seems i'll the way Of unprecedented
prosperity turnout the farming regions
Not only is the prospect for bounti.
full harvest most bri ght, but market
get fair price for his grain while re-
ports from Europe are that the wheat
crop will be 150OOO,00O bushels short
of that of 1905, Indicating that the ex-
port demand win be large and that
America will have to fill good share
Of it.
New High Water Mark.
It was thought when last years
bountiful crops, were harvested that the
United States had been reached. The
percentage estimates of condition Of
the department of agriculture this year,
however, indicate that even that record
will be surpassed in spite Of the fact
that the oats crop, bids fair to fall short
by S0,000,000 bushels.
The total crop Of all grains this year
promises to be 1921 ,444,Ooo bus hels, us:
ing the July l condition as a basis Of
calculations. This is about 100000
bushels above the indication at this
time last year, but PIT 100000 beloWM
the final figures. The weather IN all
ever, since July has been all that
could be desired and the prospects are
that the final figures will be as much,
Il not more, above the July promise this
year as they were last.
Corn Gains, Too.
The fields upon which these immense
crops are growing, or from which they
already have been harvested in some
instances, aggregate more than LIT ,ooo,-
600 acres.
The corn crop, Of course, is in an
early stage Of development, and be
tween this time and harvest last year
gained an aggregate of 175,000,000
bushels, while oats . gained 6Q,000,00e
bushels. Corn is now nearly 60,0O0,0 900
bushels ahead Of the July l indication
of year ago.
Oats started July with a prospect
about 100000 bushels below that Of a
year ago, but the acreage this year is
q little larger and 1t is barely possible
that the shortage may yet be reduced
Wheat Greatest Joy.
It is in the wheat-production, how
ever, that the United States has the
greatest cause for selfeongratulation
Counting the wheat carried over from
last year-only 100000 bushels in
farmer s hands-this country has the
largest wheat crop in sight Of any time
in it's history.
The winter wheat yield runs ahead
Of the famous crop Of 1901, and the
spring wheat promise is 50 high as to
indicate that, barring accidents, all pre-
vious records will be surpassed. There
are vast reserves Of moisture thru the
big spring wheat states Of the north
west just the conditions which pro
duced large crop on smaller acreage
year ago.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-11
TAR WOULD BE CHIEF
OF PRESIDENTS SLEUTHS

Oyster Bay. L. l., July u.-Edward
More, who claims to have been sailor
on the battleship Kentucky, created
considerably disturbance here today
when he called up Sycamore Hill on the
telephone and announced that he was
ready to take charge Of the president s
secret service force.
From the telephone More made cir
cult Of the Oyster Bay saloon district,
Informed several Of the saloonkeepers
that their licenses were invalid and
that he would return to make arrests
just as soon as he got his secret service
uniform. His tour of the saloon dis
who took him into custody on charge
of intoxication. 49,. +: .,--..4=,'s
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-11
AMERICAS CROPS
REACH HIGH TIDE
POKER CHIP PLUTO
MARK OF TAGGART
Red Devil on Gambling Discs Pat
ented in Democratic Chair
mans Name.
Journal Special Service.

journal Special Service.
Washington, July 1.-THE red devil
rPluto,N which appeared on all the
poker chips seized in the raid on the
French Lick Springs, Ind, gambling
raid last week, is the patented trade
mark of National Chairman Tom Tag
CART 8 mineral water. It was patented
by him personally and he IS on rec
ord here as declaring that no one but
Tom Taggart shall use it.
The trademark was authorized as ex-
clusively Taggart institution, almost
year ago. The question arises, there
fore, how it comes that the red devil
has been a gambling token at French
Lick Springs almost ever since.
The trademark consists Of the words
"Pluto concentrated America s phys
ic,' and a conventional representa-
ton, printed in red, Of the devil, with
a sword at his side and one hand up
raised and holding pair Of tongs in
the other hand.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-11
FINES OF 100000
: AGAINST REBATERS
Alton Road Taxed $4,000 and
Former Officials $1o,-
.ayF&.. $3.50 ~t. 49,
~, 600 Each. ;: b

Chicago, Julyfll.- Judge Lands in
the United States district court
today, sentenced the Chicago 8
Alton road, which was recently
convicted Of granting illegal re-
bates at Kansas City, to pay a
fine Of 100000 on each Of two counts,
the road, who were also convicted, were
sentenced to pay a fine of $4,000 each
on two counts, or total Of $4,000
each. ~. ..-<zs>. - -.