MiniOJEFFU DAVIS
Memorial Park U Dedicated at The Birthplaca Of
The South'* Chieftain—Memorial Temple
Proposed.
Fairvlew, Ky., Special.—Among
the trees which have grown up about
the birthplaoe of Jefferson Davis
since the year, early in the nineteenth
century, when the Davis family re
moved to Mississippi, the Jefferson
Davis memorial park was simply ded
icated Thursday. Northeast across
the State is Hodgcnville, near whieh
Abraham Lincoln was born eight
months after his great opponent.
Fairview is still a tiny town rimmed
with forests and sloping gently to
ward the grass grown battlefields of
Tennessee.
In September, 1007, when the gray
grown and enfiladed ranks of Ken
tucky's famous "orphsn brigade"
met in Glasgow, Ky., st the grave
o£ Joseph H. Lewis, their commander,
former Governor Bolivar Buckner, of
Kentucky broached the plan of the
Jefferson Davis Monument Associa
tion. Subscriptions were started, the
women of the South aiding nobly, and
when all but $4,000 had been raised
to purchase seventeen acres at Fair
view, General Bennett H. Younsr,
commanding the Kentucky division,
United v Confederate Veterans, ad
vanced that sum and made the mon
ument possible.
Oratory, music and flowers made
today notable. A basket dinner aud
a barbecue were provided by the peo
ple of Todd and Christian counties,
which share equally the Town of
Fairview and when Col. W. A. Mil
ton, of Louisville, as chairman in the
absence of General Youiig, who was
detained in Chicago, " opened llie
meeting, the homestead of the Davis'
was crowded. General Young, a
prominent Louisville lawyer, wrote
the chief address of the day, and it
was read by Colonel Milton. He ««•-
MANY PERSONS ARE INJURED IN GEORGIA CYCLONE
Sylvania, Ga., Special.—A half
doien persona, probably more, were
injured in a terrific cyclone that past
ed over the lower part of Screven
county at 4 o'clock Thursday after
noon and, while no life has yet been
lost because of its passage, many per
sons escaped by seeming miracles,
houses falling about and upon them
without inflicting fatal injuries.
The cyclone came from the direc
tion of Dover and diaappeared from
there in a notheasterly direct ion It
completely wrecked the home of
Stephen Thomson, • white farmer,
and buried under its ruins the farmer
and his wife. An act of heroism
followed, when the older of their
son* after working valiantly despite
his injuries, managed to extricate
himself from the fallen timbers and
debris of the house and then rescued
the other members of the family ,in
TRAIN TOPPLES INTO CREEK-EIGHT ARE INJURED
Birmingham, Ala., Special.—Eight
persons were injured, none fatally,
this afternoon when a combination
freight and passenger train on the
Short Creek division of the Southern
Railway toppled into Black creek;
near Maxine, Ala. The injured are:
E. V. Lambeth, engineer; O. R.
Woodall, brakeman; H. C. Collius,
brakeman, and George
fireman, and four negro passengers.
- The train ran upon a fill, support
tag the approach to the trestle, which.
PATRICK'S APPEAL FOR LIBERTY OR DEATH DENIED
New York, Special.—Albert T.
Patrick'B appeal for liberty or death
was denied by the appelate division
of the Supreme Court in Brooklyn
Friday. Patrick had appealed to thnt
court for a hearing on a writ of hab
eas corpus, which he had obtained
from an individual juatice of the Su
preme Court, ordering the prosecut
ing officers to show cause why iie
should not be released from prison or
put to death for the murder of WiT^
HEALTH CONFERENCE DISCI/SSES MANY DISEASES
Washington, Special.—Leporay, tu
berculosis and 'the pollution of
streams formed the principal themes
of discussion Friday at the twenty
fourth annual meeting of the confer
ence of State and provincial boards
of health of North America.
Wtih regard to leproay, Dr. W. C.
THE PHILADELPHIA TRANSIT STRIKE IS NOW SETTLED
Philadelphia, Stepcial.— '"The strike
has been settled. The men receive
22 cents an hour, beginning Saturday
morning, and ten houra will consti
tute a day's work."
This statement from C. O. Pratt,
chairman of the executive committee
of the Amalgamation of Street Rail
way Employes, the leader of the
striking mortomen and conductors,
followed by the deportation of the
450 strike-breakers, who came here
from New York, ends the strike ef
the employes of 4fee Philadelphia
Bapsd Transit Company. The men
■greed to accept 22 cents an boor in
sarted that every Southern State
should rear a shaft to Jefferson Davis
whose character and sufferings he
dwelt upon sympathetically. Be paid
high tribute to Lincoln, saying that
the time had come when men might
speak kindly and truly of the past.
He said the massage whieh the united
South gave to .the world today was
one of everlaating peace.
The plan ia to raise $30,000 more
with whieh to build a memorial tem
ple to contain all the records of the
Confederacy, and to remodel a two
story rescidence upon the Davis farm
to house the widows of Confederate
soldiers.
The seventen acres which are to
enclose the memorial building* to be
erected adjoin the original nine
acres which were the remnants of
the plantation upon which Samuel
Davis, father of the President, set
tled when he came from Virjrinia in
1793. These nine were given by Mr.
Davis to Bethel church on tfce occa
sion, June 21, 1886, of his last visit
to his first home. To tbe people of
the neighborhood this chureb stands
as a memorial to their neighbor, and
to his pride in his old Kentucky home
they ascribe tbe fancy which led him
to call his land along te Mississippi
shone of the Gulf, "Beauvoir."
The site of tbe memorial slopes
softly from a splendid grove which
crowns its highest point. It ia in the
heart of Fairviey, and the presnt
plan is to place all the records of the
Confederacy in the temple to be buiU
within the shadow of the trees. A two
story residence ia also on the land,
and the intent ia to make of this a
home for the widows of the Confeder
ates whom age has rendered decrept
and from whom the years and the
wars have taken husbands and sons.
turn. Mrs. Thompson was very ser
iously hurt, but the others of the
family sustained injuries less grave,
though very painful.
Two tenant houses on tbe place of
J. C. Walker were destroyed and
their colored occupants injured. Ten
ant houseg on the places of Thomas
Lee and John Robbins were ,al*o
wrecked but DO one was killed. In
places large pine trees were twisted
from their roots, so great was the
storm's violence.
Many of those who were caught by
the cyclone saw it approaching but
owing to ita velocity were unable to
find places of safety before it struck.
It is stated that the storm's appear
ance was that of an ordinary whirl
wind, such as axe frequently seen in
summer, though# vu Very much
larger and moved with much greater
rapidity.
had been softened by the hard rainc.
The engine and some of the freight
cars got across but the fill gave way
under the strain and the passenger
coaches were precipitated into the
creek and entirely submerged. Train
men regard it as remarkaUe that the
negroes were able to get out of the
submerged coaches and swim to land.
Affer crossing the trestle, the en
gine was overturned, and the men oo
the locomotive were injured in jump
ing.
liam Marsh Rice. In support of the
writ, Patrick several weeks ago made
a sensational personal appeal to the
appellate diviaion in which he declar
ed that the commutation of death sen
tence to that of life imprisonment
made by Governor Higgins constitut
ed the imposition of a sentence worse
than death. Patrick* also attacked
the legality of his conviction on the
ground of conspiracy. All the jus
tices of the division concurred.
Woodward, of the District of Colum
bia, chairman of the committee on a
national leprosarium, reported that
no progress had been made toward
the establishment of Bach an institu
tion, but he argued that the dictatea
of humanity have upon the govern
ment a most impelling force in thia
connection.
stead of 25 they had demanded orig
inally. The old "awing system." had
been abolished; ten hours will con
stitute a day's work J all employes
will be permitted to purchase their
uniforms in the open market; all fu
tiyw differences are to be adjusted
between the company and a grievance
committee chosen by ttoe employes.
If, after an investigation by the citv
controller of the books of the com
pany it can be shown that more than
22 cents an honr can be paid without
crippling the finances of the rapid
transit company, then the men will
insist upon a further advance.
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BONING FOR GRADUATION.
NEW EMPIRES FOR PIONEERS.
Millions of Acres of Indian Lands to Be Thrown Open For
Settlement —Offer Homes and Wealth—lnclude Rich
Forming. Timber and Mineral Tracts in
Idaho, Montana and Washington.
Washington, D. C. Millions of
acres of fertile Western lands will be
made available by President Taft for
homeseekers during the next nine
months if be follows the policy which
has been laid down by the Depart
ment of the Interior. The settler
may make his selection in any one of
the three States of Idaho, Montana
and Washington.
It Is proposed to throw open 2,-
872,600 acres, comprising part of
five different allotments to Indians.
They include farming, timber and
mineral lands, sufficient not only to
provide homes but wealth to the suc
cessful applicants.
The sections under consideration
Include 310,000 acres at Coeur
d'Alene, Idaho; 64,000 acrea at Lem
hi, Idaho; 1,200,000 acres near Flat
head, Mont,; 153,600 acres near Spo
kane, Wash., and 1,145,000 acres In
the vicinity of Yakima, Wash.
Long ago It was decided that the
Indian Reservation must go, the In
dian be absorbed into the civilization
of the American continent and the
districts set aside for him made avail
able for homes for sturdy Americana/
It has been decided that the present
year Is the time to do this.
The readiness of the people of the
United States to gamble haa led the
Government to surround Its land
openings with restrictions. Even
with these the proportion of thoae
who applied for lands at laat year's
openings to these who obtained them
was flfty-seveo to one. There were
114,769 in the first class, and It Is
estimated that only about 2000 were
rewarded with good farms. It cost
the appllcanta on an average of 920
JAMES J* X RILL DEFENDS PATTEN.
Predlfl* Country Will Need All It* Wheat to Feel
the People.
Seattle, Wash—J. J. tflll, chair
man of the Great Northern Board of
Directors, discussing tire recent wheat
corner, said;
"It Is a mistake to say James A.
Patten cornered the wheat mffrket.
It it merely a case of a man taking
advantage of an opportunity. It has
been but a few years since it was es
timated that the average consumption
of wheat per annum in this country
was six bushels, but now the experts
argue that it is seven bushels. The
census of 1910 will show that we
have a population of 90.000,000,
which will mean that we will require
for our own use 630,000,000 bushels
hereafter.
"We raise now probably 650,000,-
000 bushels of wheat in the United
States with good crop conditions.
BELL SOLVES PROBLEMS OF AIR
His Tetrahd-al kite, Will Settle, Not Fall, if 41iot to
Piece*.
Philadelphia.— Exuesslr :tbe hope
that In the very near fut-.r*-, perhaps
some time this «ummer, he will have
perfected a flyi !g machine hat will
revolutionize navigation of t \e air In
at least two Important pe tlculars.
Dr. Alexander Crahara Bell. Inventor
of the telephone, detailed to the
American Phllc sophical the
experiments he has made a:.l those
that are to com'-.
In his effort to evolve a ma
chine Professor Bell will le ve the
aerodrome type > f machine a* I place
his dependence fn what he l as de
nominated the tetrahedral Mte, a
kite \»hlch has the form of i huge
triangle and is composed of many
small V,.
"All of the machines n"* 'n use."
the Inventor said. "£ven that of the
Wrights, who lead the world In flying
macbl^.' construction, lack ftability
In the at That is one fault. Anoth
er a* *re dangerous flaw Is the
Bteel Trust to Drop Dealings
With Unions Altogether.
Pittsburg.—Notices were posted at
the various plants of the American
Bheet and Tin Plate Company that on
and after June 30 the company will
refuse to deal with the Amalgamated
Association of Iron, Steel, Sheet and
Tin Plate Workers. The company Is
the last «of the subsidiaries of the
United States Steel Corporation to
deal with union labor, and it Is as
serted that the corporation has now
decided to drop dealing it'.. h the
union altogether.
—Cartoon by Berrj m«n, in the Washington Star.
each to go to the sections where the
-openings took place, which Is one of
the requirement*.
Almost all the applicants for the
new lands come from east of the
States In which the new lands are lo
cated, but very few leave the Atlantic
slope to try their fortunes in the
West. Twenty States furnished the
greater part of the applicants last
year. Nebraska headed the list with
37,268 applicants. This is accounted
for at the I,and Office by the fact that
the settlers in Nebraska were pio
neers, and while they have been suc
cessful they have in many cases in
sufficient wealth to establish their
sons in the high priced lands of that
State. Thlß is true, perhaps in a less
degree, of the fertile Btate of lowa,
which Is credited with 32,413 appli
cants. South Dakota furnished 17,-
124;- Illinois, 7988; Indiana, 918;
Kansas, 5371; Kentucky, 153; Mich
igan, 726; Minnesota, 3020; Mis
souri, 605 8; New York, 191; North
Dakota, r>s4; Ohio,, 844; Oklahoma,
364; Pennsylvania, 190; Texas, 134;
Washington, 19; West Virginia, 19;
WJaconslß," 1778, and Wyoming, 38.
Lands were offered last year in the
town of Gregory, 8. D., at not less
than fl an acre, after having been
subject to entry at the rate of 12.50
an acre for four years previous. These
were suitable for grazing, but in
many cases could be made to yield
good crops. There is th* word of the
Government for the statement that
lands in that locality entered four
years before have not only produced
good crops, b(it were selling at the
time the opening waa advertised at
f2O to SSO an acre.
This will leave us but 20,000,000
bushels as a surplus for export, while
In the past we have exported upward
of 120,000,000 bushels per annum.
So one can see that we will need all
our wheat to feed our own people.
Within the next five years the wheat
of Kastern Washington will be shipped
eastward to feed the people of East
ern and Central Western States.
"And In considering these facts it
must be remembered that the number
of live stock slaughtered last year
was 1,000,000 fewer than the year
previous. When farmers of lowa,
Minnesota and Nebraska can get
slxtv-flve cents a bushel for corn at
the country station they will not en
dure the risk of hog cholera and the
labor Incident to hog raising, but will
sell all their grain."
fact that when an accident happens
to nne of these machines it fclta to
the earth with extreme rapidity, en
dangering the life of the aviator. On
account of their lack of stability In
the air the safety of the aviator de
pends almost entirely upon his skill.
' The tetrahedral kite Is perfectly
stable In the air, as has been demon
strated by repeated tests. In case of
an accident it will descend to the
earfh getaUy and smoothly as a bird
would. It could even be broken in
half and still reach the earth in safe
ty. In times of war this would be an
invaluable attribute, as the kite
would be abl° to stand any amount of
shelling."
It is these two things that will be
the subject of the exi>«rlments this
summer. Professor Bell hafc been
conducting his work at hia summer
house in Braddock, Nova Scotia, a
small town on the shore of Lake Bras
d'Or, and In Hammondsport, N. T.
Chicago Roads Order Special Cars
to Ron to Cemeteries.
Chicago.—Plans for funeral cari
for the surface lines were sent to ths
officers of the Chicago City Railway
Company by Blon J. Arnold, chief
traction engineer. Haste In getting
the cars has been precipitated by the
carriage drivers' strike. The first
test on the surface lines is to be made
on the Calumet and South Chicago
now operated by the City
JjfpOTMy. They are already used by
IVMetropolltan West Side Elevated
Railway,
PRACTICAL ADVICE ABOUT
DIVERSIFIED FARMING
Cotton-Seed Meal For Horse*.
Many inquiries come to us request
ing information as to the value and
advisability of feeding cotton-seed
meal to horses and mules. We al
ways recommend it in limited
amounts, of course; and believe there
Is no better source for protein in a
horse's ration than cotton-seed meal.
All farmers are Interested in secur
ing more efficient labor from their
teams, and, 4 if possible, without addi
tional expense. The writer proposed
a horse feeding experiment to test the
advantages of cotton-seed meal a year
ago, and has again proposed It with
some prospect of doing thla valuable
work for the benefit of the farmers,
all of whom are interested in teams
and their beat feeding for returns In
labor or breeding. We shall en
deavor to begin the work In a short
time.
Some have thought that feeding
cotton-seed meal would not be ad
visable for brood mares. Good horse
sense would indicate to us that if
not deleterious to cows, the most eas
ily excited to abortion of any of our
domestic animals, it would not be to
marea. We know cows are often fed
as much as three or four,pounds per
day. The writer fed cotton-seed meal
to horses and mules in Indiana, and
to three marea in the winter and
spring, all of which had spring colts,
and there were never any bad effects
observable at any time. Horses thrive
on cotton-seed meal, and while they
do not take to it very kindly at first,
yet the fact that they do so well when
it forms a part of their ration, is suf
ficient to justify the use of thla great
Southern feed, both for them and
rp'.ea. Judge Hammond, of Augus-,
I ta, Oa., say» there is not the remotest
danger of abortion from feeding cot
ton-seed meal to brood mareß in rea
sonable quantities, Bay, not to exceed
two pounds per day. It must be re
membered that they do not take to It
kindly If on full feed of good grain,
and a very small amount must bo
fed In the beginning, coaxing them to
the new taste, as It were, which Is
better than forcing them to it by a
semi-starvation process. But it Is
not inadvisable to keep horses a lit
tle hungry until they take to eating
a little of the meal, when they will
then Boon eat a full ration with such
an amount of the new feed as ytiu de
sire to Incorporate therein. It cer
tainly keeps work Btock In good con
dition, both body and coat. As much
ss three pounds may be fed to hard
worked hoißes. —Walter J. Quick,
Experiment Station, Blacksburg, Va.
| How to Get Better Cottonseed.
| ' An examination of a cotton field
will reveal all types of plants grow
ing within the space of a few feet.
Some of them are admirably formed
and developed and neavlly fruited;
others undesirable In shape and char
acter, and bearing but a few bolls.
Observation will reveal the fact that
there are many blank spaces in the
field; hence the stand Is not uniform,
and as a result the yield of seed cot
ton per acre is considerably lower
than It would have been were a per
fect stand obtained.
The selection of seed of the highest
vitality and the greatest weight
woufd have Tfisiii'ed a nnrelr "Wetter
stand, and have added from fifty to
200 pounds of seed cotton per acre
to the yield.
I Since the per cent, of llrft yielded
by plants varies from twenty-flve up
, to more than forty, and the length of
the staple which may be grown even
( on uplands from seven-eighths to one
and one-half inches, is It not Im
portant and necessary that greater
attention be given to the question of
the selection of cottonseed? But this
Is not all. It Is well known that some
Individuals have the power of repro
ducing tl»amselves with greater vigor
than others; that some are more pre
poteat than others, less subject to
disease and to unfavorable Influences
of soil and climate. These qualities
in themselves represent a fortune to
the individual grower of a given Com
munity.
The farmer can afford to select his
seed. No person can do it for him
half so well, as cotton Is influenced
markedly by even slight changes In
soil and climatic conditions. There
fore some individual in each com
munity must undertake the work, and
In order to maintain the desirable
qualities which superior skill and
selection may have engrafted upon a
certain type, must select his seed
from the most desirable plants as
they grow In the field, have the lint
picked out separately and ginned
with a small gin on his own prem
ises, since taking- It to a public gin
means to have It mixed in most cases
with unselected seed and his effort
at improvement practically nullified.
—A. Jd. Soule.
The Stallion Between Reasons.
Many good stallions are injured,
not by lack of proper ca.ro during
the season, or »ven by e:;c vslve use,
out by beinß kcpf.idlo durine >be
Sentence Sermons.
By Henry P. Cope.
No man ever overshoots his own
moral aim.
All worthy education is training of
will.
The dogmatic are always strong on
barking.
Counting your blessings discounts
your burdens.
No one was ever left sad by giving
happiness away.
entire fall, winter ana early spring.
Why not put the stallion to work?
It is no more trouble to handle • •
stallion than a mare If It is done In a
proper way by an Intelligent man. In
?olnt of fact, if the stallion la to
maintain his vigor and be fit for ser
vice, he should be kept steadily at
work during the entire fall and win
ter and early spring. We have here
tofore given the reasons for this at
iome length. We think every stal
lloner will bear us out in this. The
stallion may not be as good looking
In the spring, but his flesh will be
hard, and all experience showß that
Ilia colts will have superior vitality,
rhe worst place for the stallion to
be kept during the winter is in the
stable without exercise, and about
the worst feed he can be fed 1l corn,
rhe run of a paddock with an oppor
tunity for shelter is a great improve
ment over this, but this In Itself will
not maintain sufficient vigor. The
draft stallion should be taught to pull
and thus develop the pulling instinct.
Therefore, the right and proper way
to handle a stallion between seasons i
Is simply to give him the same care
that an Intelligent man will give any
other horse—no more and no less.—•
Southern Planter.
The Sumo Old Story.
I cannot too often repeat that no
cotton farmer, who farms In a good
rotation, grows an abundance of peaa
and crimson clover, and feeds stock,
will ever need to buy nitrogen or am
monia in any form, but can get more
and more of nitrogen in his soli an
nually, and that after a few years of
a good rotation with legumes, the
only fertilizer he will need to buy
will be phosphoric ncld and potash
for the pea crop. The peas will do
the rest through their feeding of the
stock; and the crops that are now
merely looked upon as "supplies"
will bring cash into his pockets at
all seasons of the year, and enable
him to say something about the
prices of his crops, since they will
then belong to him and not to the
merchant. —Professor Massey, in Pro«
greeslve Farmer.
A Sad Commentry.
Is It not a sad commentry on the
farming conditions in the Cotton Belt
that farmers need to borrow money
every spring, depending on the one
crop of cotton to pay the debt, and
then to start In another season in the
same old hopeless way, never getting
ahead, never with cash, but always
at the mercy of the fertilizer man,
the merchant and the money lendert
No section can be permanently pros
perous when her farmers are working
year after year simply to pay debts
contracted for the purpose of growing
cotton.—Progressive Farmer.
—
A Device Fop Killing Lice Faslly. 1
Lice do much damage to hogs*
which might be prevented at a small
cost. The hogs like to wallow, and
a vat twelve or fourteen inches deep
filled with water and on top of which
Is placed of gallon of crude petrole
um will serve as a wallowing placo
for them and at the same time keep
them free of lice. Such a vat should
be thoroughly cleaned out occasion
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1 Alfnlfa Hog Feeder.
Hogs are very fond of alfalfa, and
they will eat a good deal of it If
given a chance. They will also waste
a whole lot unless you stand and feed
It to them a handful at a time. A
rack with a swinging front works
very well,
Press. The punching the hogs give
It will work the hay down within
reach until the rack is empty. The
openings in front should be largo
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Front View.
enough to let a hog's head through,
but not much larger. The rack may
L>© any length and should be about
four feet high, and from three feet
to three and a half feet wide at the
top. Make it strong or they will soon
punch it to piec£3. Make the floor
tight to hold chaff and lay a floor in
front to keep the hogs out of the
mud. Brood sows fed a,ll the good
alfalfa hay and clean water they want
will winter well if given one good
ear of corn each day.
A Contrast.
The greater part of the hay used
In our cities and towns is shipped in
from the North, yet the three States
>T North Carolina. South Carolina arid
dcorgia average more hay per acre
than the thi-ee Sta'os of lowa, Illinois
iud Indiana, which procjuca over
twenty-flvo t'nips as much.
Prombs and Phrases
The ability to learn marks the
limits of actual living.
Too many men lay to a gentle
heart the faults of a soft head.
You cannot improve the breed by
polishing the brass on the harness.
It's no use paying for plush in tbo
pews if you've got putty in the pal
pit.
No man is master of himself who
can not control ths guests in hi*
heart.