The National tribune., 1907-01-10

Cultivation of Drug Plants Dry
Land Arboriculture Work" 'Introduc-
ton of Hardy Apples for the Apple
Breeders and Introduction and
Breeding of Citrus Fruits.
AS fast as the Department has any
thing new under these Or other topics.
any new variety of seeds, or anything
new in the cultivation of crops, 1t would
furnish the Congressman or Congress
men in the territory especially inter-
ested with the seeds or the information,
as the case might be. and he would have
oversight of the distribution to farmers
willing to try the experiments ana re-
port to the Department of Agriculture.
Illustrating his plan with reference to
drug plants DIR. Galloway says:
"The Department of Agriculture has
been trying for some months to en-
courage the Introduction of mating
plants in this country. Now most of
those plants are imported from Japan.
We import about s5,000,000 worth of
mating from foreign countries. 1t is
believed that most of this material
could be made here if the raw material
could be grown. There is plenty of
land in the States of Texas. Louisiana,
Mississippi. Alabama. Georgia and
North and South Carolina which is
adapted to the growing of this crop. 1t
is important to introduce the best kinds
of mating plants from abroad and 10
establish the growing of the crop here
1t is also important to improve our own
native forms for this purpose"
The Department has been sending
plant explorers into various forgotten
corners of the earth-to Chinese Tibet
and Chinese Turkestan after hulless
barleys; to Russian Turkestan for the
naked oat: to Han Chung for glutinous
rices: to Arabia for dates, and so on.
1t wants to extend these explorations.
which. it is claimed. have already yield
ed valuable results, and to utilize in
dividual farmers for the development
of the new crops. In the course of a
few years, the Department officials say,
the benefits to agriculture in the United
States would be enormous.
John Sharp Williams has concluded
to decline the Presidency. It is true.
he says, that there was no great clamor
for him to be President, and yet it
might have come his way. and he has
quite decided that it would not be right
to let the great heart of the Democracy
get all awry. and then have to say to
them that he will not have the Office
if it is handed him on silver plate.
John Sharp says that he arrived at his
present state of mind thru the advice
and counsel of his wife. Now, Mrs.
Williams is a perfectly charming little
woman, and devoted to her brilliant
Democratic husband, and there is
whole herd of little Williamses. Mr..
Williams declares that he was thinking
about accepting the Presidency. and
named the fact to his wife, and she
vetoed the proposition at once. She
said. SO John Sharp declares. that she
never. never could live in the White
House because the cellars are TOO damp.
She is sure that the whole family would
be i'll from the damp floors in the base
nent where the cooking is done. and
chlls and fever are not to be invited
with impunity, she declares. NO" de-
clared John Sharp, with a reflective
smile, 4 shall not accept the Presi-
dency, because If Kit or Sallie We're TO
ge i'll from those damp cellar floors my
wife would never forgive me. SO I shall
have to give up the dream" It would
sure enough be a pipe dream" all
right, for John Sharp Williams.
Congressman A. r. Webber. repre-
senting tie 14th Ohio District in Con-
gress, was married New Years morning
at Hinckley. o., to Miss Nettie Finch
The ceremony was performed by Rev.
c. II. Searles. at his home.
The bride is second cousin of the first
Mrs. Webber, who died in a Washing
ton hospital last March. Hinckley IS
the boyhood home of Congressman
Webber.
The Governor of North Carolina and
the Governor of South Carolina are said
to have exchanged pleasantries at one
time: but this time the Governor of the
old North State is after a citizen of that
State. Representative Blackburn That
gentleman declares that the Governor
bought 'em, or did something to get
lot of votes away from him.
In his letter he charges, among other
things, that Gov. Glenn and Hackett,
his successor, entered into an agree
ment with the American Book Com
pany whereby the Governor was to pro-
cure the adoption of books of the COM
pany by the public schools Of the State,
and that Hackett, as counsel for the
company, was to use his influence to
the same end, and that in return for the
service the American Book Company
was TO contribute large sum of money
to procure the defeat Of Blackburn, and
that the money was so contributed and
so used
This story is denied in every particu-
lar by Gov Glenn, RepreSentative-elect
Hackett and the State agent of the
American Book Company. Gov. Glenn
has asserted his intention to prosecute
Blackburn for criminal libel In the
courts of the State, and to have him
arrested as soon as he comes within
the Jurisdiction of the courts.
Mr.. Hackett denounced Blackburn in
most unmeasured terms, using the
words lying scoundrel" and others
equally strong.
Here's story that is being told. but.
for goodness sake, don't say / told you
sa,'' They do say that Slippers. the
White House cat, has brought there a
litter of kittens. but that is not the
story. Slippers is distinguished fe-
line, in that she possesses six toes ON
each of her white-slippered feet, the
rest of her anatomy being covered with
soft gray fur. and she is great favor
ite with everybody at the White House
But that is not the story. The kittens,
a hoy and girl kitty arrived Just
before the Roosevelts went to Pine Knot
for the holiday outing, and Quentin
insisted that those kittens should be
named at once. He iugged them in for
his father to see, and that distinguished
gentleman, upon being importuned by
his youngest son for names for the fe-
lines, suggested "Bellamy" and Ma
ria." and Quentin at once agreed. And
the kittens are destined TO bear those
names---so the story goes, but, then
you see, it Is just story.