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Panama City pilot., 1907-12-12
Getting EGGS In Winter From PuIlets.

Feeding and caring for the pullets
has much to do with their laying
qualities later on. l have had expert
ence with Plymouth Rocks, Brown
Leghorns and Black Minorcas. While
the smaller breeds mature earlier, the
Plymouth Rocks make very satisfac-
tory fowls for the farm and as
mothers.
For winter layers l prefer pullets
Matched in April or May. The
weather is then favorable, and they
can be out and get the young grass
and the many little things required
to keep them growing. The main
trouble have is to keep them free
from lice. 1t requires constant vigi-
lance and care.
| never feed any sloppy food, l
prefer screenings, or pure wheat, if
can get it, with some millet, buck
wheat and Kaffir corn for a change.
The main thing is to get the chickens
started right and feed to build good
healthy frame, not keeping them fat,
but in good growing order.
usually feed some good poultry
food about twice a week, and keep
plenty of good, sharp grit where they
have access to it at all times, and
plenty of fresh water. | had some
pullets Matched the last of May, 1906,
that commenced to lay in the last
week of October, and they had no
special care, but they were fed we'll
and had all the range they wanted.
! When the weather becomes cold,
or those cold, rainy November days
come, do not allow them to run out.
| | keep them in and feed them some
cabbage or other green stuff and
scatter some small grain in deep
litter to keep them busy. 1t is the
hen that is always busy, scratching
and foraging around for anything she
can eat, that will fill the egg basket
! the quickest Extract from prize ar
ticle in Indiana Farmer.
Panama City pilot., 1907-12-12

does not excuse nor palliate the Of
Tense so generally offered the Federal
government by officers in State, Jr-
dietary, Legislative Hall, and Execu-
tive Chair, in their childish and petty
resistance to his will and authority.
Tariff, taxation, railroad legisla-
ton, immigration, and yet more, each
and all afford material for the little
domestic embroglios, oft times less,
rather than Of greater Importance,
yet the brewing, the stewing, the
sizzling, and frying go on.
Why can we not attain wisdom
and be men. In one respect only
have We the right to be children.
Howbeit in malice be We children,
Dutin understanding be men," Shall
Uncle Sam in justice to the entire
family Of States let these embrogIios
pass unnOticed until they have be-
come deep seated fostering ulcer
on our political commercial and social
body? No never.
Panama City pilot., 1907-12-12
HarbOr Lights.

The attention of the PILOT has been
called to the necessity of change OF
the lights at the entrance to this har-
Dor, or placing an additional light at
West Pass, the only pass that is used.
The range lights that are now in
service are of no benefit other than
to permit of vessels using East Pass.
But no vessels use that pass, nor
have they done so in years, even be-
fore the lights were placed there.
All vessels passing in and out this
bay now use West Pass. The depth
of water there is equal to that on the
course through East Pass and on up
the bay, and the distance some miles
less in and out of the harbor by way
of that pass.
1t has been suggested by our vessel
men that light placed on the west
point of Hurricane island would be
sufficient to mark West Pass. This
one additional light would be a small
matter for the government TO arrange
for, and the PILOT trusts that it will
he done. If there be any reason why
it cannot, changing the present range
lights to West Pass would most fully
meet all requirements. The present
buoying of the entrance to this harbor
was based on conditions of long ago,
and though these conditions and the
commerce has changed, nothing has
been done by the government to meet
these changes. With the present
awakening to the Importance of
waterways, harbors &C., the PILOT
trusts that this matter may very soon
receive the attention of the proper
officials.
Panama City pilot., 1907-12-12
Fertilizers for Grapes.

The object of the grape growers
should be to make wood the first two
years and fruit thereafter. For this
reason the fertilizer should contain
more nitrogen the first two years
than afterward.
A fair average application for these
first years would be 500 pounds per
acre, analyzing about 6-4-1O. There
after the annual application should
be about 1, 200 of $50 mixture.
The first year the potash may be
most economically supplied in the
form of the muriate. Afterward only
the sulphate should be used.
1t is important to note that the com
paratively high proportion of potash
is not based solely on the known i'm
pOrtance of this material in influen-
cling quantity and quality of fruit. 1t
has been frequently demonstrated
that the dropping of the fruit, SO
disastrous a trouble in many sections,
is prevented by the liberal use OF
potash fertilizers. Market Growers
Journal.
Panama City pilot., 1907-12-12
State News.

A company is talking of starting a
canning factory at Pensacola to can
Escambia bay oysters.
The keys of the new city hall Pen
saaola have been turned over to the
city by the contractors.
Escambia cOuntG is to vote upon a
bond issue to build a new Jail. Old
one probably getting too small for
Pensacola's daily needs.
L. & n. R. R. were to pay off their
October pay roll in this state on Dec
9Th. They planned upon paying 4O&
in cash and 500 in checks.
Lieut. Cone, who is in command of
the second torpedo fiotilla en- route
for the Pacific, was appointed to the
naval academy from Florida.
Much interest is being manifested
in West Florida in the matter of to-
bacco raising. Undoubtedly next year
will see a large acreage of it planted.
Pensacola ladies are just now being
badly frightened at the repeated at
tacks of negro "Hugger. All at
tempts to capture him have thus far
failed.
The British steamer Diadem taking
on cargo of cotton at Pensacola,
was discovered to be on fire in one
of the holds. Steam was turned in
and the fire gotten under control.
b The next Chautaqua at DeFuniak
Springs will open on February 18th
and last until March 2Sth, inclusive.
Preparations are being made to fur
nish a choice and interesting pro-
gram.
Panama City pilot., 1907-12-12

Financial matters may be pretty
deep subject for country newspaper
to attempt to discuss, but it seems to
US that had the Pensacola banks seen
fit to do so they might have afforded
considerable relief to this section by
issuing clearing house certificates on
the plan adopted in other places.
These placed in the hands of the tur-
pentine and lumber men could have
been used all over West Florida as a
circulating medium, for that is all
that any sort of money is, and the
most of them would have gone back
to Pensacola within very short time
in settlement of the bills of retail
merchants with the wholesalers there.
a man who Onght to know whom this
suggestion was made, said that the
only reason that it was not done
was on account of the rivalry
of the Pensacola banks and dispO-
sition on the tart of the older insti-
buttons to, if possible, freeze one or
more of the new ones out. Maybe so.
-DeFuniak Breeze.
Panama City pilot., 1907-12-12
LO the Poor ~ Indian.

When one turns from United States
history, made in eye olden time" to
the news of to-day, and finds the
newest and most progressive State in
the Union has such strong Indian
complexion, colored by those fierce
old Choctaws and Chickasaws, in its
legislature, and in one of it's L. S.
senator's; and that full blood Semi
mole with an half breed comes to the
Everglades of Florida to visit the
latterS father, white man of some
considerable property in that loca-
ton, and from there to visit the tribe
itself in this State; and that little
note tucked into a can of baking
powder by a young factory girl brings
from far away Alaska to Chicago, to
an ardent and successful wooing of
the pale face maiden, we of the Goth
century can but appreciate the say
ing 1.-THE first shall be .ast and the
last first
Panama City pilot., 1907-12-12
Uncle Sam.

Men are only children of larger
growth" The conduct of affairs in
our political, economic, and we must
add social life, never demonstrated
more forcibly than now the truth of
the proverb.
True it is that Uncle Sam like ali
parents may not always choose the
wisest course in controlling his own,
or his adopted children, and in par
ticular may he fall short in dealing
with the refractory ones. But that
Panama City pilot., 1907-12-12
Congress all at Sea on LEGISLATION.

Never at the beginning of any Con-
gress have the leaders of both parties
found themselves more at sea con-
corning legislation than they are now.
Very little except the financial situa-
ton is engaging the attention of any
member of either house, and all the
members of both houses, whether
leaders or followers, confess their
inability to forecast what will be done
on the subject. All of them lament
the present situation, but all of them
do not believe that the remedy for il
is to be found in legislation. Those
who believe that such remedy will
prove efficaciOuS are in the majority.
but their opinions as to means vary
so widely that all admit the great
difficulty of uniting. There is some
general division along party lines, but
there is also great divergence of view
among both Republicans and Demo
Gratis. 1t is evident that very little
attention will be given other questions
until there can be sOme capitalization
on the financial problem.
In his speech of acceptance Speaker
Cannon limited at the possibility of
some amendments to the railroad
rate law, and but for the disturbance
in the money centres there is little
doubt that these would have been
undertaken during the session. 1t is
possible that something may be at
tempted along that line, but all plans
to that end are now quite nebulOus.
The Democrats have already indi-
Gated purpose of trying to force the
tariff to the front, but the Republi-
cans are so largely in the majority in
bOth houses, and are so united in
their aim of pOstponing action upon
this important subject until after the
presidential election, that their OPP
ponents have very little hope of ac-
complishing anything beyond getting
recognition for few speeches for
campaign consumption.
Among other questions which will
receive serious attention will be that
of taxing the sales made on the stock
exchanges. While it is appreciated
that even an effort in this direction
may affect the market, there are a
number of senators and members who
attribute most of the disturbances i'll
the financial market to those specu-
lative processes, and would like to
make them as difficult as possible. 1t
is too early, however, to say whether
such efforts at legislation will be sue
cessful. There will be some anti
trust talk, but the financial panic
will probably have the effect of cur
failing it to considerable extent.
The Philippine tariff bill, and the
bills of the admission of New Mexico
and Arizona as States will be intro
duced early in the session, and it is
probable that all of them will receive
Panama City pilot., 1907-12-12

Scrip based upon cotton, as pro-
posed by the Farmers Union and
others, has been advocated by Biz
mingham merchants. The plan is for
farmers desiring to borrow money
upon their cotton without selling it,
to place the same in local ware
houses, and the warehouseman to
issue notes to the amount of seven
cents per pound on the same. These
notes will be taken by the merchants
as cash.
Panama City pilot., 1907-12-12

County Commissioner Bee Brooks
was here Saturday en- route to Mari
anna. He said the roads in the county
were in fearful condition, and
nearly all the bridges gone, or seri-
ously damaged. Torepair the bridges
will cost the county something like
two thousand dollars. And it Will
take great deal of work on the
roads, and several months before
they will be anything like good con-
dition. Chipley Banner,
Panama City pilot., 1907-12-12

The Charleston News and Courier
warns northern Democrats and south
ern Democrats who demand a south
ern candidate are ambitious only for
control in their several states" We
believe our contemporary is right;
we cannot believe that the way to
win is to make a local issue which
must tell against us and against the
candidate. We believe the man who
will prove strongest among Republi-
can possibilities is Hughes; we be-
lieVe if the Democrats can put up
man who as thoroughly represents
ability and principle and steadfast-
ness among Democrats, we can win.
If the south has such a man, put him
forward. If the south has not a
Democrat leader so sound and SO able
as Hughes we should look for him
wherever he is found. Among Re-
publicans Hughes stands head and
shoulders above all others for work
done and good accomplished. Have
we a man who SO stands among Demo-
Gratis? If we have, he is our candi-
date when we are wise. The people
will demand something more than
sound and theory next year. -Times
Union.
Panama City pilot., 1907-12-12
POST OFFICE DIRECTORY.

Office hours from a. m. until p.
m. Not open on Sunday. Mails from
the North arrive at a. m. From
East Bay points at 5:45 p. m. All
outbound mails close at $50 p. m.
TAYLOR POSTON,
Postmaster.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-18
TREASON IN FRANCE
Persistent RumOrs in CircuIatiOn-Im-
 portant Official Suspected.

Paris, Feb. 17.-There are persistent rumors in circulation of the discovery of reasonable practices carried on by an important official of the foreign of flee, who is alleged to have oommuni- cated to the vatican the contents of diplomatic documents emanating from French ambassadors to foreign coun- tries. This official is said to have been peremtorily discharged.
 Inquiry indicates that the disclosures had their origin in documents seized at the papal nunciature some time ago. An investigation of the rumors in of ficial quarters has not resulted in their confirmation, but it was declared that if treason had been committed the fact would have been made public in the course of the trial of the three Paris cures who were implicated with the papal nuncio before his expulsion.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-18
FOR MURD-R OF MOTHER
WIFE OF WELL-I0-DO lMPOR
 ER IS ARRAIGNED.

Mrs. LOttie WalIau, of New York, Ac-
 cused of Causing the .neath of Her
 Mother by the Use of PoisOn-Ar- Result of Examination of Organs of
 Dead Woman.
 New York, Feb 17-Mrs. Lottie Wal lau. wife of. Leopold Wallau, well-to- do importer of bronzss. was arraigned before Coroner Acritelli to-day charged with murder in the first degree in hav- ing caused the death of her mother, Mrs. Ida Binge, by the use of poison. She was gleld without ball to await the inquest, which will open on Wednes- day.
 Mrs. Bnge, wealthy widow, who lived with her daughter and the latter's husband and twenty -year-old son AL exander at 6S East Eighteenth street. died on February 6, three weeks after she had undergone an operation for cancer performed by Dr. Bull
 Following the receipt of an analysis of the contents of the dead woman's $ stomach, the coroner late last night di- re6ted the arrest of Mrs. Wallau, who spent the remainder of the night at a police station After futile efforts had been made to bail her to-day the pris- oner was committed to the Tombs.
 It was on the report of the chemists who had examined the kidneys and liver of Mrs. Binge that they had found considerable quantities of biehloride of mercury present that the warrant charging murder in the first degree was issued.
 In the champagne, some of which, it is charged, had been administered to Mrs Binge by Mrs. Wallau, the chem ists declared they also found consider able bichloride of mercury.
 Elizabeth Divine, a trained nurse employed by Mrs. Binge on February { made statement which brought about the investigation. Mrs. Binge died the following day and subsequently, hel daughter was placed under $5,000 bonds to insure her appearance as a witness at the inquest.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-18
PENN. ROAD CLAIMS THE
 PUBLIC VAS MI.INFORNED
ONLY HEARD PARTS OF TESTI- MONE BEFORE INTERSTATE
 COMMISSIOM

Grave injustice Done the Whole Ser
 vice of the COmpnny-This In Brief the
 Report of Special Committee App
 pointed by Directors to Examine Into
 Charges Against Certain officers and
 safely Guarded.
 New York, Feb. 17.-"A mistaken public opinion, misinformed as to the facts. because of the publicat ton of por- tions, and not the whole, of the testi- mony of the witnesses before the inter- state commerce commission. and, there fore. passing it's conclusions upon insuf- ficent premises, has done grave in1us- tice esto the whole service of the Penn- sylvania Railroad company. That ser- vice is of more than sixty years growth; it is consulted, in the main, of educated, trained and self-respecting men, whose honorable lives have won 1 the esteem of those who know them best; it has its traditions of loyalty; and it has had, In its successive offl- | cers, examples of unseltish devotion to duty and steadrast adherence to the | right
 This, in brief, is the report of the spe- cial committee appointed by the board of directors of the Pennsylvania Rail- road company nearly year ago to ex- amine into the facts connected with the acquisition and ownership, by officers and employees of the company, of stock or other interest in any company the holding of which could affect the per formance of their duty or the compa- ny's duty to the public. The alleged acceptance of gratulties by employees of the company also was inquired into i by tne committed As a result of its examination of 2,5O5 officers and em- ployes, including every officer of the several companies whose individual ac- | tion or whose order to any subordinate could affect any discrimination, the committee reports it found that 265 had | IllilNi'SolS III COdl VT OlilCI NOl pbl eiblOlA1 or firms, or with individuals, With the exception of fifteen all of these had ac- quired their interest by purchase, The fifteen admitted tIley had received gifts of shares or interests in various corporations, and their names have been reported to the presidents of the several railroad companies for appro- priate action.
 1 On the whole, the report vindicates the officers and employees of the Penn sylvania system. It is found that in the development of the company between the year 1899 and 1907 the interest of the stockholders in every instance has been properly safeguarded It is de- clared that the terms on which in- creases in share and debt capital have been marketed have received the com mandation of competent and independ- ent fnanciers; that as effective compe- tition as possible in work of such mag nitude was obtained in placing the thousands of contracts for maintenance of way and new construction; that no | favoritism was shown In the purchase of supplies or equipment; and that the officers of the railroad companies, ill
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-18
FATE OF FRENCH CABINET
BRIAND'S CHURCH P0LICY WILL STAND OR FAIL I0-M0RRoW

Government Will Go Before Parliament
 In the Afternoon and Define Its Po-
 sition--Briand Will Surely Retire Un-
 less He Is Upheld Against His Chief
 Stands for Liberal Interpretation
 of Separation Law.
 Paris, Feb. 1.-The fate of the Clem- enceau cabinet and the definite decision whether the settlement of the cilurch- lease question negotiated by Minister of Education Briand shall stand will probably be determined Tuesday On the morning of that day the cabinet will decide it's course, and in the after noon it will go before parliament and define its position. NM. Meunier and 'Guieysse, the radical republican depu- ties have consented to postpone their interpolation scheduled for tomorrow until the cabinet has had another op- portunity to compose it's differences. and meantime the negotiations between M. zelves, prefect of the Seine, and Monsignor Amiette, archbishop-coad- jutor of Paris, on the subject of con- tracts for the lease of churches, will be suspended.
 It is certain in advance that if M. Briand is beaten in the cabinet Tues day he not only will retire, but will ap- peal from the decision of the cabinet to tue chamber of deputies, and that the issue will be fought out upon the floor in battle royal between the pre- mier and his young lieutenant, whose speeches in favor of a liberal interpret ation of the separation law have been repeatedly ordered placarded through the country.
 It is a curious fact that, while the government is Glesitating, scores of communes, disregarding the instruc- tions and advice of the government, are concluding contracts between may ors and cures.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-18
4HAW 7R14L TESTIMONY.
sermon on whether It Should be Pulp
 Ilshsd. q.

Springfield, Mass, Feb. 17.--Rev. Dr. F. L. Goodspeed, pastor of the First Congregational church. as prelude to his sermon this morning, spoke on Should the testimony in the Thaw trial be printed?"
 He said '{As well ask should miasma yellow fever and bubonic plague be spread broadcast throughout the land The publication of this revelation of salaciousness Is even more to be fear ed. for while the plague of disease af- fleets only the bodies of it's victims the story of the disgusting incidents of this case attacks the minds and imag- nations of those who read It.
 T am opposed to the publication of this testimony We do not want a deluge of slush from a 'thaw. There are people who are willing to be con- nected with this case in order to se- cure newspaper advertising for them- selves I would not satisfy them. l would not give them the publicity which they seek"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-18
HINRY STEEL oLGoTT DLAD.
CO-Founder With Mnlc. BIavutsky of
 Theosophists in This Country.

New York. Feb. T.-Alexander Full lerton, secretary of the Theosophical society, announces the death to-day at Adyar, India, of Henry Steel Olcott. CO., founder with Mime. Blavatsky of the Theosophists in this country.
 MT. Olcott who visited this country last year. sailed for India in October. On the voyage he fell down the hatch way of the steamer and was confined for month in a hospital at Genoa, Italy. Subsequently he recovered suf- ficiently to continue his journey, but upon his arrival at Ceylon he suffered q relapse and since then had been in a more or less precarious state of health. Death was due to heart failure, MT. Olcott was seventy-five years old.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-18
(continued or Third Page,)
LESS LHAMEAGa
Consumption Apparently on the wane
 in This Country.

in This Country.
 Washington, Feb 17-Apparently champagne drinking in the United States is on the wane. Both the quan- tity and value of that beverage im- ported into this country last year were less than in the preceding one, and par ticuarly no greater than a dozen years ago,
 This is only one of several surprising features of a statement issued to-day by the bureau of statistics on the "ebb and flow of the commerce of the Unit ed States in 1906' The figures show that 394,727 dozen quarts of champagne and other sparkling wines were import ed in 1906, valued at $5,S55, ,425, while in the immediately preceding year the number of dozen quarts was 401,514, valued at S5,995,651.
 Another surprising fact is that, while the United States is one of the greatest coffee-consuming countries in the world, yet 1t is actually exporting that product.
 The imports of "autos" amounted to nearly $5,000,OOO in value, but this flg- ure was practically offset by the ex- ports of automobiles amounting in value to $4,4O9,1S6. Of the exports of these machines $1,OOO,O00 worth went to the United States and nearly another N,000,OO0 wortb to other European countries. Tropical countries also were large purchasers of this class of vehi- cles, Mexico having purchased $717, ,523 worth, against Sla2,452 in 1905; while the West Indies and Bermuda took $241,0OO worth, South America s167O00. Australia nearly $7OO,0O0 and the British East Indies $34,111 worth.