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MISS KATHLEEN GLADSTONE VIRGINIA PEYTON HOWE HOW TO DOUBLE YOUR. COTTON r YIELD PEiy ACRE The Knapp Method ? of Growing: Cotton By H E. Savely and IV. B.Mercler - of the United States Department bf Agriculture ... P SAVES FORTY LIVES r . v ' CROP 18 ONE OF THE LARGEST GUESTS OF WINDSOR HOTEL, IN EVER OROWN IN THE UNIT ED STATES. MILWAUKEE, SCURRY DOWN FIRE ESCAPE. What the "Knapp Method" does' fl NEW METHOD IN REPORTINC NEWSPAPER UNION BURNS REPORT if Over Thirteen Million Running Bale Produced by Southern Farmers, It the Report Washington. One of the largest cotton crops ever grown, amounting to 14,127,368 equivalent 600-pound balnj of llnters, was produced by the farmers of the United States during the census bureau announced In Its prellmlnaray report of cotton gin ned as reported by glnnera and de- HntnrB to February 28. These figures compare with 13,703, 421 equivalent 600 pound bales of lint and 609,694 bales of llnters last year, and 16,692,701 bales of lint and 667,- 676 bales of linterest In 1911. The department of agriculture's es timate, announced December 12, plac ed the 1913 crop at 13,877,000 equiva lent 600 -pound bales. The total value of the crop, Includ ing the value of cotton seed, Is unoffl dally estimated roundly at more than 11,000,000,000, compared with last year's 1920,000,000, and $963,000, 000 for the previous most valuable crop, that of 1910. With this report the bureau of cen aus departed from Its previous method of reporting the cotton crop by not Including the quantity of llnters in the total production. Director William J. Karris announced this was done be cause with the installation of modern machinery closer delintlng of seed had Increased the quantity of llnters and at the game time lowered the aver age quality of the fiber so that now only a small part. If any, was used as a substitute tor lint cotton. The number of running bale of lint cotton, counting round as half bales, was 13,964,981, and of linter cotton, (29,019 running bales, compared with 13,488,639 running bales of lint and 602,324 running bales of llnters last year, and 16,653,073 runnlgg bales of llnters In 1911. Included in the production for 1913 are 29,267 bales, which glnnera esti mated would be turned out after the time of the March canvass. Round bales Included numbered 99, 916 compared with 81,628 last year and 101,664 In 1911. Sea Island bales Included 77,490 com pared with 73,777 last year and 119,293 In 1911. The average gross weight of bales for the crop, counting round aa halt bales and excluding llnters, was E06.8 pounds, compared with 608.0 last year and 604.5 in 1911. VILLA REACHES T0RRE0N Federal Stronghold Shelters 9,000 Troops Under General Velasco. Constitutionalist Headquarters, Tor ino, Durango, Mexico. General Villa and his army of 12,000 rebels Invested the federal stronghold of Torreon. The khaki-clad columns occupied the environs of the city without opposi tion, and In wheeling and dragging field pieces Into place to shell the federal trenches, dug at every point where the federal commander, Oen. Refugio Velasco, expects attack. Velaaco's army 1 estimated to num bet 9,000 men. South and southwest of this city his position Is regarded as almost Impregnable by reason of the mountains, through which only three passes run, and these have been rendered almost Impassable by fortifi cations and barbed-wire entangle ments. In other directions the city It reached through the desert and high hills. Lansing Named to Succeed Moore. . Washington.; President Wilson nominated Robert Lansing of Water- town, N. V., to be counselor for the department of state, succeeding John Bassett Moore, and Cone Johnson of Texas to be solicitor for the depart ment, succeeding Joseph W. Folk. Mr. Lansing Is an associate editor of the American Journal of International Law and the author of several workt on international subjects. Identifies Train Robber. Atlanta, Ga. Harry B. Mellville. the postal clerk on the Queen and Cres cent sotuhbound train No. 1, running from Cincinnati to New Orleans, which was robbed sear Birmingham of f 40, 000 on the night of February 19, ar rived to Atlanta and Identified A. O. Perry, one of the three alleged yegg men, who were arrested at No. 89 Brookllne street, aa the train bandit who stabbed him In the back with a knife when he refused to tell the gang of robbers where all the money In the small car was hidden. How It Feelt to Be President. Washington, Woodrow Wilson un bosomed himself to members of the National Press Club of Washington, telling them, in a frank, conversational way, how he felt as president of the United States, how difficult It was for hlm to Imagine himself as the chief executive with the formal amenities of the position, and how he had strug gled to be at free as the ordinary Individual without the restraints of hit of flee. It was an Intimate picture of Woodrow Wilson, the man, drawn y Untalt V ;: '; tV if Mist Kathleen Gladstone of Hert fordshire, England, and a relative of the "Grand Old Man" of Great Brit ain, la visiting Lieut Col. and Mrs. Moreton F. Gage In Washington. Lieutenant Colonel Gage la military attache or tne British embassy. MANY BURIED UNDER WALLS BUILDING FALLS IN HIGH WIND, CAUSING DEATH AND 1 DESTRUCTION. Tragedy In 8t Loit Due to Collapse of a Wall of Burned Building. St Louis, Mo. At least two persons were killed, fifteen buried under de bris and ten Injured when the west wall of the Missouri Athletic club building, which was destroyeu by Ore, In which thirty persons lost their lives a week ago, collapsed under a high wind here, and crashed through four-story building occupied by the St Louis Seed company. The wall of the Missouri Athletic club building, which stood seven sto ries high, crumbled when a 36-mlle wind veered to the northwest A few minutes before the collapse. Building Commissioner McKelvey, wbo was di recting 170 men In the work of ex ploring the ruins of the Missouri Ath letlc club, feared the wall would fall and ordered his men out of the de bris. This action probably prevent ed a heavy loss of life. The four-story building occupied by the St, Louis Seed company had weak ened, apparently during the burning of the Missouri Athletic club building, which adjoined It on the east, and when the brick wall crashed on the roof of the four-story building, the walls of the latter gave way and all above tne second floor crumbled. COTTON EXCHANGE REFORMS New York Organization Adopts tht N Ire-Grade System. New York. Submission to the nine- type system of cotton grading favor ed by the United States government wat acknowledged by the board of managers of the New York cotton ex change In the adoption of a resolution making the government standard types of cotton the basis for trading on and after April 1, 1916. The resolution reads: "Resolved, That the government standard types of the fololwlng grades of cotton, 1. e., middling fair, strict good middling, good middling, strict middling, middling, strict low mid dling, low middling, strict good ordi nary and good ordinary shall be the basis for determining the grade of all cotton for delivery upon oontracts ma turing on and after April 1, 1916." The nine-grade system has been ap plied by the New Orleans exchange for years, and Is said to simplify the marketing of the product Concilia tory action was taken last fait by the New York exchange, but the conces sion did not completely appease dis satisfaction In the South, which has insisted on a complete surrender, It Is said. Girls Flee for Their L'ves. - Wellesley, Mass. Perfect discipline, coolness and bravery on the part of students and faculty members pre vented loss of life or Injury, when college hall, oldest of the Wellesley college buildings, was burned here. Two hundred and fifty young women students, fifty Instructors and fifty maids, were In bed when the fire wag discovered. Every one was saved, and not one of the scores who marched In an orderly procession through the smoke-filled hallways, suffered so much as a scratch. Yelping of Vagabond Pup Awakens Hotel Proprietor, Who Rouses . Guests In Time. Milwaukee, Wis. Guests of the Windsor hotel, numbering nearly two score, were compelled to flee for their lives when a fire, which destroy ed the hotel and the Western News paper Union plant. In the southern portion of the building, and burned out the four-story structure. The barking of a dog sounded the alarm in time for escape. Charles Sandberg, lessee of the ho tel, declared that every guest of the hotel got out safely. The property damage is 8200,000. The barking of a vagabond dog aroused Mr. Sandberg, the hotel keep er, and he and policemen " went through the halls smashing in doors where the guests failed to answer knocks. Quests were soon scurrying for safety clad In night attire. Patrolman Wilke was the last to emerge from the mission of awakening the guests. He said the guests had all been awakened and managed to get out BANDIT MAKES RICH HAUL Bandit Robt Express Messenger on 8anta Fe Railway. Beaumont, Texas. After bundling the messenger, "Reb" Martin, in gunnysack, a masked man robbed the express car attached to northbound Quit, Colorado and Santa Fe passen ger train No. 202, of several packages of currency, estimated to aggregate about $14,000, and escaped from the train at the village of Helblg, 12 miles north of Beaumont Posses, whloh went to Helblg from this city In auto mobiles, have not found trace of the bandit who la believed to be hiding In the dense forest about the Tillage. O. A. Taft, general superintendent of the Wells-Fargo Express company, es timated the amount stolen at 114,000, The moqey was part of a shipment made by a Houston lumber concern to be used In paying their employes at camps along the road. Explaining earlier estimates which placed the amount secured in excess of that fig ure, Mr. Taft stated that all of the lumber company's consignment was not sent aboard the robbed train. Pre vious' estimates were based on state ments of officials of tht lumber com pany. ' Unemployed Laugh at Sheriff. Sacramento, Cal. One hundred and fifty men the remnant of "General" Kelley'a army of the unemployed laughed at Sheriff Ahern, of Sacramen to county. When the sheriff received word that the scattered members were reassembling on a ranch four miles north of this city, he hurriedly collect ed a force of deputies and went to the scene. At the ranch he found a band of men engaged In erecting tents and shacks and the order was given to his posse to drive them out The deputies responded with a will, but were halted at the boundary of the camp by man with a legal paper. The document proved to be a contract for the pur chase of one acre fo.land, for which 870 bad been given as first payment There was nothing for Sheriff Ahern to do but retire while the unemployed hooted end jeered. Tuscaloosa Swept by Fire. -. Tuscaloosa, Ala. Fire In the busi ness section of Tuscaloosa early did damage estimated at a quarter of a million dollars. Three business hous es and their stocks were destroyed. The cause of the fire hat not been de termined. Rosenau company, depart ment store owners, were the heaviest losers, their building and its contents being valued at 1160,000. A jewelry store, a bakery, a general merchan dise store and a millinery establish ment occupied the buildings burned. Nolan Given Twenty Ytara. ' Marietta, Oa. John Nolan, accused of the daring single-handed robbery of a Nashville, Chattanooga and St Louis passenger train on the outskirts of Atlanta on January 17 and of after wards engaging in a pistol battle with the porter and a county policeman, was found guilty in the Cobb county superior court here and sentenced to twenty years In the penitentiary- F. W. Hadley of Atlanta positively Iden tified Nolan at the bandit who reliev ed him of 817 on the train. Two ne gro porters alto Identified htm. Wants 82,000,000 for Atlanta P. O. Washington. Among the things rec ommended by the efficiency commis sion In Its report on the Atlanta post office is the erection of a new build ing to accommodate the Increasing volume of business handled by the At lanta postofflce. In lieu of, this, Con gressman W. 8. Howard has Introduc ed a bill recommending a 12,000,000 appropriation to erect a public build ing for the postal department Mr. Howard says that In the event a re gional bank Is located in Atlanta the present postofflce can be used for it Hornet and School Work Together. New Orleans. Schools in general were discussed and suggestions offer ed as to bow they might be Improved, at (he concluding session of the tenth annual National Child Labor confer ence here. On several occasions dur ing the conference reference to what was termed Inefficiency of schools sys tem or Inadequacy of school laws have met with applause of delegates, - Or. E. N. Clop per of New York, secretary of the Northern child labor commit tee, said children were leaving school aa toon as the law allowed. - -. ".V 1'W A 7 Virginia Hew It the daughter of Dr. George Hew, nephew of Presi dent Wilson. WILSON APPROVES BILLS PRE8IDENT PUT8 STAMP OF AP PROVAL ON BILLS TO AMEND TRUST LAWS. Substance of Four Measures Framed by House Judiciary Subcommit tee Finds Favor With Wilson. Washington. President Wilson, at a conference with the house judiciary subcommittee on trusts, put the stamp of administration approval on the sub. stance of the four bills to amend the anti-trust laws which the committee submitted in a practically final form. There will be another conference at the white house soon, and members of the committee asserted that unless protracted discussion should be raised in the full committee when.the meas-i uret are presented, all four bills to strengthen the Sherman law, covering. Interlocking directorates, holding com panies, trade relations and definitions of restraints of trade, would be report ed to the house within a fortnight President Wilson Indicated his be lief that It would be better to consoli date all the bills into one In order to expedite legislation. The senate inter state commerce committee Is under stood to favor consolidation and that It will be' effected By the house judl clary . committee practically it cer tain. . EDITOR OF FIGARO IS KILLED Drawing Revolver From Muff, Woman Kills French Journalist Paris, France. Gaston Calmette, ed itor of The Figaro, shot by Mme. Hen- rlette Callaux, wife of Joseph Call laux. the French minister of finance, died. Mme. Calllaux went to the office of The Figaro to carry out an .act of ven geance against M. Calmette, who bad been waging a campaign characterized by great bitterness against the minis ter of finance. She Bred at least three times, M. Calmette being wounded In the chest, In the side and the abdo men. -. .;. Having committed the deed, Mme. Calllaux submitted to arrest and while employes In The Figaro offices were taking the pistol from her hands, the said: ' Since there It no Justice In this country, I take upon myself an act of justice. Take me where you will." Mme. Calllaux immediately was re moved to a police station. "1 am sorry," she said, "for what I was obliged to do. I had no lntenntion of killing M. Calmette and I would be happy to know that he will re cover. . : ... : . ..... -, Publishers' Meet closes. Atlanta. One of the most distin guished- organisations that -has ever visited Atlanta closed Its session! In Atlanta when the Southern Publishers' Association adjourned Its , two-day gathering after electing officers and selecting a city for the meeting of the publishers next year. Opinion Is 'Divided on Horror. ; Philadelphia. The two United States local Inseptcort of steam ves sels who investigated the disaster off the Virginia coast on January 30, in which the steamship Nantucket ram med the steamer Monroe, causing the loss of 41 lives,-rendered a divided opinion, one holding the captain of the Nantucket guilty of negligence and the other charging the commander of the Monroe with responsibility for the disaster. ,, The report of the Investi gation was forwarded to Henry M.. Seeley, supervising inspector. , Dear Ear Turned to Wilson. Nashville, Tenn. Declining to lis ten to the suggestions of President Wilson for harmony In the Democratic party In Tennessee and endorsing tht administration 'of Gov. B. W. Hooper, Republican, the Independent Demo cratic state executive committee ad journed, after calling two state con vention, both to meet on April 13. Th first conxenltlon la to meet at noon April '22 to nominate a candi date for judge of the supreme court The second will meet at I p. m. th tarn day Doubles the average yield per acre. Cuts down the expense. Reduces the hoe work one half.' Saves a loss bf from $5.00 to $15.00 per acre due to -poor seed-selection. Saves enormous losses due to disease and pests, Cotton is the most susceptible crop in the South and the ravages of insects often reduce production to less than 10 per cent of normal in some sections. Helps to solve the problem of the cost production. The book explains in a short way the "Knapp Mettl ed" now generally accepted as the standard process in , producing the world's greatest fibre crop. The book tells . the farmer exactly what he should know acd what he should do in order to be a oractlcal and successful cotton- ' grower. It is the last word in practical cotton-raising. ' Fifteen extensive chapters with forty-six accompanying photographs from typical plantations treat thoroughly each phase of actual operation: Equipment, seed-selec- . tion, planting, fertilizers their use and abuse, diseases and pests and what to do about them, Harvesting, mar keting for the small sc'le farmer as well as for the plantation owner, by-products, supply and distribution,' analysis and relative value of the various groups, out look for the cotton industry. : Annual cotton production has grown from 4,000,000 bales -to 14,000, 000 bales in the last thirty years and the de mand is still exceeding the supply. By using the Knapp Method you will keep up with this demand. - ' , The price of thiy book is $1.10 postpaid from the publishers, Messrs. Doubleday, Page Co., Garden City, -N. Y. . 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