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AND LOWV/LLE TIMES. <• ••••v>r H. A. PHILLIPS PUBLISHING COMPANY. LOWVILLE, N. Y., THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1909. VOLUME 60. No. 25. •••& • ••;% BOYS WHO BREAK LAWS. The New York Prison Associat- ion's Annual Report Tells of the State's 18,000 Boy* Under Twenty-one Who Need Reformative Treatment. Bill for John Howard In* duatrial School Introduced at Albany. NK\V T YORK, May 3d.—The Prison Association of New York in its annual report to the Legislature pointed out some of—the- glaring defects -of - the - prison system of New York. •*• \ • I. Several thousand persons are punished for crime who need to be treat- ed tor disease. -•2. Several thousand boys are shut up ami deprived by the State of the very in- fluenees which they need to \mate them HOTEL MUST PAY Court of Appeals Declares Law Emphatically. Mrs. De Wolf Put Up at the Grand Union With Her Brother and an Em- ployee Broke Into Her Room and Ordered Her Out .aa a Disorderly Person. The Court of Appeals has handed down a decision in the suit for damages brought 4>y- Mrs. Catherine De Wolf against the Grand Union Hotel in which it reverses all the courts below and de- cides unanimously that the proprietors are liaole for damages on account of the conduct of an employe in forcing him- self into her room under protest, ace us ing her of being a disorderly person and better. We punish where we ought to I ordering her to\ leave the hotel. The educate. A discipline which corrects; court also decides that undera complaint and develops is beneficial; punishment setting forth these and additional facts arrests the very development it ongbt.to demanding damages for a breach of duty promote is bad for the state as well as I between innkeeper and guest the plain for the boy.\ Calling attention to several important measures before the Legislature to unify auij improve the prison system, the Association declares that the most vital and most\ pressing of afl questions is: \Shall we save our boys?\ New York has not been indifferent in the past to this important problem.. It h.vs answered it so effectively with refer- ence to a large number of delinquent boys that it only needs to employ the same principles and the same methods to yet equally good results with the great number for whom no provision Is made. In 1^24 the state established the House of Refuge in New York the firstreforma- atnry for boys in the United States. State or local appropriations have foster- ed institutions for, dependent or delin- quent children some of which are fine examples of modern methods in child saving. In establishing the Elmira Reformatory in 1S76 the state also took a radical and important step forward. It perceived that a boy of seventeen or eighteen might be just as much of a boy as one of fifteen only a little larger and more dangerous if neglected. It saw that the process of education should go on until youth had come to maturity. Even in a physical sense, human being3 ao not reach matur- ity^ util twenty-five or thirty\. Under wise leadership the age limits for ad mission to Elmira were fixed at from sixteen to thirty years. The establish- tiff may recover compensatory da nages injury to her feelings and the personal humiliation suffered,. This is the first decision of the kind in New York State. The DeWplf suit is sent back for trial and a jury will be on to decide what damages will be proper compensation, not as punishment for the proprietors; Simeon FordundSamuel T. Shaw, but for~the injury to Mrs. DeWoifs feelings. The facts recited were that in 'June, 1905, Mrs DeWolf, who was in mourn- ing, we^t to the hotel with her brother and daughter and engaged: rooms and registered. About 1 o'clock in the morn- ing one of the hotel servants forced hi* way into the room where Mrs. DeWolf was in her nightgown aud in the presence of her \brother insulted her and ordered her to leave the hotel, threatening among other things to have her Dame published in the newspapers as a warn- ing to other hotels. The defence in substance was a rule of the hotel forbidding the presence of a man in a woman's room at night un- less he was her busband and the duties of the employees to enforce this rule The majority opinion of 4he Appellate Division proceeded on the theory that under the common law an innkeeper is not responsible for the safety of his guests. Justice Chester B. McLaughlin i dissented from this opinion, maintaining that this was a civil wrong which could be redressed by the award of money dam- ages. SENATE ON THE TARIFF. Amendment Reported By Committee ment of this reformatory marked a great i The court of appeals opinion rests on step in advance. It has been copied in ; a decision many centuries old, known other states of the Union and abroad. It has also had a powerful influence in making onr prisons more educational and reformatory in character. While this wise provisions was made for youths who are felons under the law, no provisions, unfortunately was made for those of the same age who were simply misdemeanants. In other word, a boy wBo~8teals twenfy-n*w~<IotlaT3~becoines~ a ward of the state and has a chance for reformation; and a boy who steals only $24, unless placed on probation, is turned over to the unmerciful neglect aud condemnation of some county jailor pen itentiary. He not only has no chance tor education»and dicipline; but the chances are that he will come out a little worse than when he went in. yThe poor boy in New York is pretty well taken care of and so is the youthful felon, but the youthful misdemeanant has been overlooked. It is appalling to think that by a pro- cess of legal indifference and neglect a boy may be sent for six months or a year to a jail where he comes into the as Calve's case, and Judge Werner, writing the opinion for the court, makes this comment on jj : There is a dictum in the opinion to the effect that if a guest be boaJHiat.WBihe inn the innkeeper shall not answer for it, but under no reasonable construction can that language be held to mean that an innkeeper and his servant might assault a guest and yet ~nbT~be liable. There may doubtless be many conditions under which a guest at an inn may be assaulted or insulted by another guest or by an out- j sider without subjecting the innkeeper to liability, but if it was ever thought to be the law that an innkeeper and his servants have the right to wilful y as- sault, abuse or mistreat a guest, we think the time has arrived when it may very properly and safely be changed to accord with a more modern conception of the relation of innkeeper and guest. We think it would be startling, to say the least, o announce it as the law of this state that an innkeeper and his male servants may invade the room8~6f a j female guest at any hour of the day or most degraded society, where he is with , night without her consent and in utter out work and without schooling, except | disregard of every law of deceney and the deplorable schooling in crime fur- nished by older and hardened offenders. A few figures from the official reports of the State Cojnmission of Prisons show how imperative is the need. The num- ber of boys from 16 to 21 sentenced to jails and penitentiaries for the past year outside of Greater. New York was 4,429 and the number of the same age sen- tenced in New York city was' 14,044, a total of 18,482. In addition more than 10,060 are between the ages of 01 and 30 are likewise sentenced to the jails and penitentiaries. The Prison Association of New York joins with the State Prison Commission in urging that a beginning be Immedi- ately made of a policy of reformatory treatment for the 18,000 boys under 21. Assemblyman Herritt has introduced a bill providing for the establishment of the \John Howard Industrial School,\ constituting a commission for the selec- tion ef a site and appropriating $60,000 for the purpose. \8uch an appropria- tion\ says the Prison Association \is in the highest degree economical. At pres- ent these boys are being made into old offenders. It is cheaper to reform them than to make criminals out of them, and while it is more economical it is more humane. It is to be hoped that the bill will be promptly passed by the Legisla- ture. . r _ ..'•- MiUc in Siberia. The people of Siberia buy their milk frozen, and for convenience it is allowed to freeze about a stick, which forms a handle to carry it by. the milkman leaves one chunk or two as the case may be at the house of his customers. The children jn Irkutsk instead of crying for ,a drink of milk cry for a bite of milk. The people in winter time do act say, \Be carefnl not to spill the milk,\ but, • 4 be careful not to break the milk.\ Broken milk is better than spilled milk, though, because there is an opportunity to save the pieces. A quart of frozen milk on a stick is a very formidable weapon in the hand of an angry man or boy, as it is possible to knock a person down with it. Irkutsk people hang their ilk hk itd f tti i i p milk on hooks, instead of pans, though of course, p g putting it in when warm comes pans or pails must be used, as the milk begins to melti —A representative of the state de-- partment of agriculture when in Can- andaigua the other day stated that the disease of rabies still exists largely throughout the state and that it was probable that the whole state would be quarantined and the muzzle law rigidly enforced for at least a year. modesty, and that the necessity forsuch an extraordinary right lies in .the rule that an innkeeper must be permitted to control every part of bis inn..for theL pro- tection of all his guests. Such a doc trine, so far from holding an innkeeper to a reasonable responsibility in the quasi public business which he is per- mitted to carry on, would clothe him with dangerous prerogatives permitted to no other class of men. In an elaborate and exhaustive opinion in which Judge Werner traces the his- tory of the law of innkeepers in England and this country, he shows that the question at issue has never before been decided in this state. Drawing analo- gies* from decisions in this and other states which protect the customer from assault by a tradesman's employee and the passenger of a street railway car from the insults of strangers and train- men, Judge Werner shows why an inn- keeper should not be a lonely exception to the rule of respondent - superior (\let the man higher up answer for it\) when a guest is assaulted or insulted or in- jured under circumstances which would generally make other employees liable for the acts of .their servants. Jndge Werner's opinion concludes with this paragraph: One. of the things which a guest for hire at a public inn has the right to in- sist upon is respectful and decent treat- ment at the hands ot the innkeeper and his servants. That is an essential part of the contract, whether it is expressed or implied. This right of the guest necessarily implies an obligation on the part of the innkeeper that neither he nor his servants will abuse or insult the guest or indulge in any cdnduct or speech that may unnecessarily bring upon him physical discomfort or distress of mind. The innkeeper, it is true, is not an insurer of the safoty, convenience or comfort of the \guest. Bu^t the former is .bound to exercise reasonable oare that neither he nor his servant shall by un- civil, harsh or cruel treatment destroy or minimize the comfort, convenience and peace which the latter would ordinarily tn joy if the inn were properly conducted, due allowance always being made for the grade of the inn and thebharacter of the Putt in Effect After March 31, 1910, Maximum Provision for Additional 25 Per Cent. Ad Valorem Against .All Countries to Which President Hat Not Applied Minimnm tyrtes by Proclama- tion. Washington, May 2.—The Senate finance committee's substitute for the Payne tariff bill's maximum and mini- mum provision was reported to the Sen- ate by Mr. Aldrich, chairman of the committee, — It puts in effect after March 31. 1910, a maximum provision for an additional 25 per cent, ad valorem in all other rates of the Senate bill and then gives to the President the power to apply the minimum rates to» any country or Bection of a country by proclamation. It provides for a duty of five cents on coffee and 10 cents on tea imported from countries to which the maximum rates are applied. The section also gives the President the power to emplpy a tariff commis- sion for the purpose only of gathering the information. The Senate's tetaliatory provision is practically a reversal of that orginally placed in the Payne bill. Instead of the maximum rates applying automati- cally against a country which discrimi- nates in its tariff laws against the pro- ducts of the United States, the finance committee's substitute makes the maxi- mum rates applicable to all countries after March 31, 1910, and then gives the President the power to apply the minimum rates to those countries which give the United States equal consessions with other countries. But the President must, in his proc-~ lamation declare that the country which ia favored with the minimum rates does not impose any terms or restric- tions, either in the way of tariff rates or trade or other regulations, directly or indirectly, upon the sale or importa- tion into that country of any product of the United Staes. This, in effect, is the requirement which was in the Hose •bill. In addition the Senate provision re- quires that a country, in order to re- ceive the minimum rates of the Ameri- can tariff, cannot impose any export bounty or aprohibition upon the expor- tation of any articles to the United States which unduly discriminates against the products of the United States. The latter provision was not made in the House bill. It is not thought that it will affect Handled by Him, All Passe? Both f Houses With One Exception. Assemblyman C. Fred Boshart, of Lowville, made a fine record during the session of the Legislature just closed. Out of twenty bills / introduced in the Assembly and handled by Mr. Boshart, all passed both houses of the Legisla- ture, with one exception, and are either laws or thirty day bills with the Gover- nor. Following is the list of bills, several of which are of special interest to the. farmers: 1. State Fair bill, appropriating\ $278,000 for construction\of buildings. Third reading in Assembly then the companion bill in the Senate was sub- stituted and became chapter 106 of the laws of 1909. 2. Providing for the improvement of the Black River canal and appropirat- ing $75,000. The companion bill by Senator Cobb became a law. | per cent, of solids, \of which 3. Providing for experiments to as-127J per cent shall be fat;\ and requir- certain the best methods of dealing: ing skimmed milk cheese and watered with bovine tuberculosis and other con- jmilk cheese to be plainly branded, tageous and infectuouB diseases, appro-1 Passed both houses and is with the The item was placed ASSEMBLYMAN BOSHART. Out of Twenty Bills Introduced and side of the neck if tuberculosis is clearly diagnosed. Reports to the com- missioner are also required from per- sons selling or giving way tuberculin; & ersotts-ye-ppohibitod to-use4t4W less assured in writing that the report has been made or unless they report is receipt themselves. Unfit tuberculin must be forwarded to the commissioner with full reports of amount used. The bill prohibits treating bovine animals to prevent normal reaction to tuberculin tests; selling or offering for sale ani- mals that have reacted to the test, without giving information of the re- action ; and the sale or removal of ani- mals, without written permission of the commissioner, if they have reacted to the tests. Veterinary surgeons violat* ing any of these provisions are to for- feit their certificates to practice. Passed both houses and is with the governor. 20. Amending the agricultural law relative to condensed milk, the brand- ing of cheese, etc. It provides that evaporated milk in the regulations for condensed milk requiring it to have 28 Brazil because of the export tax placed j v in ega7solTto' by that country on coffee, but it is ex- pected that it will affect those countries which_ impose a tax on raw material which is used for manufacturing in the United Satea. Coffee and tea are the only articles on the free listjipon which a maxi- mum duty is applied WHY DO YOU WORRY? priating $10,000. in the supply bill by the committee of finance of the Senate.. 4. Relative to investigating certain questions with reference to milk and milk products, providing for an appro- priation of $10,000 for an investigation by the State Commissioner of Agricul- ture into the milk supply of the State, its cost and the methods of transporta- tion. The object of the bill is to acer- tain the entire cost of producing milk and the profits which may be derived therefrom. Before the governer. 5. Relative to the prevention of dis- eases effecting trees, giving the Com- missioner of Agriculture greatly int creased power in suppressing plant pests and diseases, ^ providing for re- stricting the distribution of imported stock, requiring all importations to. be reported and appropriating $25,000. The companion billiin the Senate be- come chapter 222 ofxfche laws of 1909. 6. Relative to the manufactures and sale of imitation batter replaced by substitute bill No. 17. 7. Relative of regulations and their enforcement,under the agricultural law and to dogs afflicted with rabies. The Senate bill is before the Governor. 8. Amending the agricultural law, defining ,'cider vinegar\ under the ag- ricultural law as vinegar made exclu- sively from pure apple juice and re- quiring all vinegar made exclusively from pure apple juice and requiring all govenor. NEW RULER OF TURKEY. its character and authorizing the Com- missioner of Agriculture in cases of violations of the law to publish the Inaugurates' a Policy of Economy by Dispensing With Services of Thous- ands of Person*. Constantinople, May 2.—Sultan Me- rahed V inaugurated a sweeping policy of economy by cutting off scores of at- taches from the palace civil list and re- moving hundreds of supernumeraries from the numerous government pal- aces. The Yildiz Kiosk has a force of attendants about the size of that main- tained at the White House in Washing- ton. All told several thousand persons have been let out of their soft jobs and a saving to the government of millions of dollars effected. This sign of a business method which is something new in Turkey , is received with almost universal approval. There is the highest authority to-day for the statement that the Young Turks intend eventually to court martial Ab* dul Hamid, the former Sultan. If this ie done his execution is probable as the Young Turks would hardly care to take this action unless they had sufficient evidence to insure Abdul's conviction of some penal offence. 35,000 Butchered. Messina, May 2.—The Christian vil- lage of Bakdjeh has been completely destroyed by the Mohammedan mobs. The inhabitants are almost wholly Armenians and only those who fled in the early stages of the fighting es- AROUND THIS BIG STATE. Brief News Paragraphs From the North, SouTh»~East~ind West. accommodation afford. which it.is designed to —At Seneca Falls, recently, 100 women met and formed a village im- provement society, the object of which is to keep the village clean, to preserve the trees from the ravages of insects, i to have good clean sidewalks, to inter- , est children in the work, and to plant , vines and flowers andjiistribute seeds. - V - ' Nerve Specialist Walton, of Boston, in a Recent Book Discusses the Matter. In a recent book by George L. Wal- ton, theTnerve specialist of Bostonrhe discuBaes the various types of mental strain, and has much to say of the phrase popularly know as worry. The book is a manual of every-day philoso- phy, and takes for its motto the saying of the Chinese philosopher: \The leg's' of the stork are long, the legs of the duck are 9hort; you cannot make the legs of stork short, neither can you make the legs of the duck long. Why worry?\ ' It is a charming book, and abounds in pithy epigrams. Here are a few specimens of Dr. Walton's terse way of putting things: \Many neurasthenics who think they are run down are really all wound up. \The\8imple admonition not to worry is like advising one not to walk awk- wardly who has never learned to walk otherwise. \Watching the digestion too closely is like pulling up seeds to see if they are growing. \It is our conduct rather than our thoughts that -determine the question of insanity. \ He-says that worry is simply a faulty habit of thought, and seems to infer that we worry, not because things are really wrong, but because they are not just what we think they should be. Of the too prevalent trouble of insomnia he says: \Sleeplessness is due in the majority of cases to the faulty habit of mind. The preparation for a sleepless night begins with the waking hours, is continued through the day, and reaches its maximum when we cease from the occupations which have in some degree diverted our attention from harrassing thoughts and retire to struggle in dark- ness and solitude with the worries, doubts, regrets and forebodings which now as9ume gigantic shapes.\ r And how true this is. Perhaps we have passed a,sleepless night and all through the day we keep saying to our- selvess: \I did not sleep any last night and I probably will not sleep any to- niglit.\ We keep this thought insis- | tently in mind, and by bed time we have it so impressed upon our sub- conscious mind that when we go to bed we lie awake just as we expected to do. Scoff as we will, there is more in this philosophy than Horatio ever dreamed of. If we would as persistent- ly say to ouraelve^: \I go to bed to slf ep. There is nothing to worry me or keep me awake and I expect to sleep,'' ten chances to one we would go to sleep as soon as our heads touched the pillows. Dr. McComb criticises Dr. Walton's-] book for leaving out the curative power i of work and religion. He says r^ To ' i ignore the heading power N of sound religious ideas, and of good, useful j work, is to sacrifice two of the most powerful weapons against the forces of nervous, disorders.'' —The girl who is a favorite with her own brother is apt to be popular with other girls' brothers, too, but there is no U8e in a girl trying to be nice with her brothers just when she is in com- pany, for the same is easily detected; She must be pleasant and \boon com- rade\ as the French say, all Hie time, then the other boys will want to find out for themselves why her brothers like to be with her. Smashes all Records. As an all-round laxative tonic and ' health-builder no other pills can com- I pare with Dr. King's New Life Pills. i They tone and regulate stomach, liver ; and kidneys, purify the blood, strength- en the nerves; cure constipation, dys- | pepsia, biliousness, jaundice, headache, chills and malaria. Try them. 25c atlF. C. Snyder's. name and business address of each per- j caped with their lives. The torch was \' J \\- then applied ot the town and scarcely a building remains. Messages to-day from Hadjin say the situation there is desperate and that no relief is in sight. The Christians of including foreign misaionar- ha v y qirtyenough food to last a day or Two. The mur- ders throughout the Province of Adana, since the trouble started are placed at 35,000. Local troops are aiding the rioters and no relief can be had untinrn^ invading army comes from TSuropeaif Turkey. The authorities throughout all of Asiatic Turkey have shown them- selves in complete sympathy with the massacre. ;.; TO TRY FOR POLE AGAIN. son, firm or corporation convicted. Be coming chapter 210 Iaw8 1909. 9. Amending the agricultural law, relative to adulterated cream, provides that the term., \adulterated cream\ containing less $han 18 per cent, of imlk fat or cream,, to which any - sub- stance whatsoever has been added. Be- coming chapter 186 laws 1909.' 10. Relative to concentrated com- mercial feeding stuffs. Passed both —Fifteen new granges have been or- ganized in New York state since the firBt week in Januray. —Mrs. Ruthelia Hall died on the 29th ult. at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Charles Baxter, in Carthage, aged 89 years. —William ishuley, foreman of the Camden knitting mills, died suddenly of acute indigestion Sunday night,aged 46 years. —A rural mail carrier at Massena has invested in an automobile to use in his business. It ought to prove a money saver. —Burt Hough, a well-known resident of Theresa, and dealer in agricultural implements, died suddenly Monday, aged 41 years/ —During the first quarter of this year the records in the county clerk's office show that 152 marriage licenses were issued in Jefferson, county. I —Gouverneur citizens have been warned to boil the city water before using it The health department has declared that it is badly poluted. —The New York Central Railroad company asks the government to pay $36,000-Jor disenfecting cattle cars dur- ing the quarantine for the hoof and mouth disease. The railroad company claims that none of its cars were in- fected. —The largest barn in Tompkins county will be built by the state of New York for the Cornell Agricultural college at Ithaca. It will consist of a main barn 40x12, 60 feet high with two wings each 40x107. The cost will be about $23,000. —It is estimated that 2,000,000 horse- power can be developed in the United States by water, which would represent a saving of 225,000,000 tons of coal a year. That ought to encourage those who have figured out the end of the coal supply of the nation. —So poor was the Atlantic steamship business last year that the earnings of ]~the several lines of steamships operat- ing between Europe and America de- creased $34,000,000. A million fewer passengers came from Europe to this country in 1908 than in 1007. —A Malone paper tells of a school district near that place where 44 chil- dren attend school and the family name of every child is Paquin. Fifty years ago the ifwo Paquin brothers came from Canada and settled in the district and the 44 children now attending school are their grand children. —Syracuse automobilists are organiz- ing to oppose the passage of the bill which will levy a tax on automobile owners. The Syracusians will en- deavorr too enlistt thee energiess off alll thee b iu FROM NORTH CAROLINA. 11. Amending the agricultural law, relative to veterinary surgeons giving the chief veterinarian of the Depart- ment of Argiculture the same author- ity as assistant commissioners in quar- antining premises for contagious dis- eases of animals. Passed-both houses and with the governor. 12. Relative to the suppression of in- fectious diseases of domestic animals. Third reading, Assembly, then the Sen- ate bill waa substituted, passed, apd before the governor. 13. Amending the agricultural law, relative to injunctions. Passed the As- sembly, amended in Senate and died there. 14. Amending .the agriculturaLJaw, repealing sections one hundred and four anql one hundred and five thereof. Third reading, Assembly, then substi- tuted Senate b^ll. Before the governor. 15. Relative to issuing notice of in- fectious or contagious diseases. Second reading Assembly, then ^substituted Senate bill. Before the governor. 16. Relative-to the removal of ob- structions on highways caused by snow. A bill to amend the highway law mak- ing it permissive by which the board of supervisors of a county may decide that no tax be raised in their county for the removal of snow and _that they may establish the old labor system ojf working the highways in winter so far as snow is concerned. The supervisors may provide by resolution that the towns of a county need not raise the amount of money* as provided in sub- section four of section thirty of the highway law. It restores that part of the old highway law and gives the town superintendent power to first order persons to clear the road and if they do not do it, the town superintendent can deavo t enlis th energie o al th automobile organizations, throughout th stat Th cntnti is that such a g, g the state. The contention is that such a law- is contitutional. \ —It is some times a great relief to sneeze, but Weldon McClintock, living near Felts Mills, found very little relief when after a terrible sneeze he dis- covered that he had ruptured a blood Air Ship to B.e Got Ready and, *f Con- ditions Are Favorable Start Will be - Made in August. Washington.May 4.—Walter Wellman announced to-day that he will this sum- mer renew his efforts to reach the North Pole by means of a dirigible bal- loon or airship. All the preparations have been made and Mr.-~Wellman- will sail next week for Paris and Norway. This expedition will be under Mr. Wellman's individual ownership and responsibility. The capital has befen supplied by Americans who are inter- ested in the enterprise on scientific and patriotic grounds. No change has been made in.the gen- eral plan of the expedition, which is to assemble and inflate the airship at the headquarters station, Dane's Island, Spitzbergen, in June and July and to start thence northward through the air in August provided the weather con- ditions make a start practicable with reasonable chance for success. The airship to be used is the America, which had a trial in a voyage of about 20 miles at Spitzbergen a year ago last September. When the America is to 8tart she will carry a crew of three men. The first section, of the expedition is scheduled to leave Christianland, South Norway, May 21, in the motor ship Artie, launched this spring. She is a ing to death before physicians could ap- ply properjremedies. —Mrs. Christian Streeter died at her home in Carthage, Friday night, after an. illness of a short duration. She was 63 years of age and is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Byron Frost, of Syracuse, and Mrs. John Cook, of Camden, and one sister, Mrs, James Winnie, of Carthage. WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH. F. F. Wetmore Writes Entertainingly —of Africulture and Weather in they South—Great Trucking Section. Lumberton N. C, May 1, ,1909. Mr. Editor:—I thought, perhaps, it might interest your readers to learn of this part of the United States and what was going on here, BO I venture to write a few words. With us here the spring season is well advanced and planting practically done. That is, for . the main crops, cotton and corn. Both crops are well up and are receiving , their first cultivation. \Plowing it is called here and, it ia really plowing^— for the work is done with a tiny little one-horse plow and this plow will, on most all of the farms, have all the work to do, for with the majority of the - farmers that plow, a corn and -cotton planter, a fertilizer distributer (cost . $2.50) and on old two-wheeled cart or one-horse wagon is the farm equipment for tools. Oats are beginning to head out, that , is, the ones sown last November, and the spring sowing is about 15 inches high. They will nearly all be cut for hay. I have been out among the farm- . ere on several of the beat farming sec- tions of this, Robeson county, during the past week, and find crops .looking well as a usual thing, and well started. If we do not have a hail storm or some- thing of that sort, there should be a ' good crop. I Speaking of storms, this town waa wrought up to-day by telegrams from the weather bureau, advising that we were due to get a taste of that cyclone that ravaged Georgia at about, 4 p. m. it had been blowing hard all day, and looked squally sure enough. True to '] the forecast, the worst of the storm struck a little after 4 o'clock, accom- panied by a short, heavy shower. I have~h~eard of no serious damage, ftu>. ther than breaking down shade- and fruit trees, etc. I do not think crops were injured at all. Our garden is fine; I truly believe i£ is the best in town. It has furnished us with onions, lettuce, carrots,radishes and greens in plenty since the middle of March, and for the last ten daya ^ some strawberries, but not a crop, as, the plants were not set until March 10th. To-day we have the first mess of potatoes from our own garden. They are the sire of a hen's egg, with a ., large number in a hill. They _, were. 1: planted about March 15th. •\-;. In about one week we will have.cab* • bage and peas, with beans following); soon afterwards. The peas and cabbage are late. The first two sowings of peaaS were taken -by the pesky sparrows,:^ and as we had used all of the available seed of the extra early varieties we;7 were obliged to use^ater sorts for sowing. With the cabbage, the plants, were poor and fcvery one then it waa several days before were any good plants to be had , market. Had our first /vVi*' firsts Dress Caught Fire While She Was Burning Paper in the Yard Adjoin- - ._ ing-lier. Home. „ Camden. May 5.— Mrs. James Dun- lap, a well-known woman of this vil- lage, died at 8:30 this evening aa the result of burns which she sustained this morning about 10 o'clock. Mrs. Dun- lap went to the yard adjoining her home to burn some waBte paper. In some manner her dfresB caught fire and she rushed into the house to extinguish the flames. A few. minutes later a open the roads and authorize the levy i three masted schooner of 450 tons, built of a tax to pay it Passed both houses \ for ice navigation, with great sailing and is with the governor. 17. Relative to oleomargarine not made from pure milk. A bill to com- pel boarding houses, hotels and restaur- ants to advertise the fact that they use oleomargarine was passed by the House yesterday. It reads: \Any keeper or proprietor of any hotel, boarding house, restaurant, saloon, luh~eh counter or place of public entertainment who UBes or serves therein for his guests any oleaginous substances as a substitute for butter, the m&nnfacture or «ale of which is not prohibited by the agricul- tural law, shall print plainly and con- spicuously on the bill of fare, if there is one, the words, \Oleomargarine Used Here\ and shall post up in differ- ent parts of the room where snch meals are served at least four signs in places where, they can be easily seen and read which shall bear the words, 'Oleomararinge Used Here' in letters at least two inches in length and so printed as to be easily read by guests pr boarders.\ Passed both houBes and is before the gvernor. 18. Relative to the quarantining of farms. Passed both houses and is with the governor. 19. Relative to branding tuberculosis cattle, etc. It requires persons inject- ing tuberculin into bovine animals for the purpose of determining whether they are afflicted with tuberculosis, to take the temperature of the animals before, during and after the injections, and to report within one week to the com- missioner of agriculture' giving a de- tailed account of the tests, the descrip- tion of the animals, the location of the farms upon which the tests were made, the name and address of the owner or custodian, and such other information as the commissioner may call for. Such tests are prohibited wjthin two weeks prior to or four weeks after parturi- tion. The bill requires branding of the letter T on the forehead or the right power and wi^h a petroleum motor which gives her speed of seven knots without sails. Leaving Tromso, North Norway, at the end of May, she' will go to head qyarters^t Dane's Island. Spitzbergen, with a crew of 12, firemen and me- chanics. Arriving at the base the cargo will be discharged and the party will at dance set to work clearing away thoueanA of tons of snow which covers th\ airship plant. While this work is inwrogress the Arvic will re- turn to Trfnso for her second cargo, including Ae airship. Before the end of June theientire party should be as- sembled at up base. \The difficiWty of getting a fair start with an airshv designed to go to the Pole is, of colrse, very great,\ said Mr k Wellman |p-day. \Much depends upon the win*. The acre and a half of canvass wmch forms the roof and walls of the aifship cannot be put in days of light wind, days are needed for rogen which .inflates days more are re- mechanics to finish place save Then about making the the balloon, quired for a do: the vast numbe motors, machine when all is in ord will be awaited, conviction as to w not awaiting us i make a start this pf details about the and rigging. And favorable weather re have not settled jther success is or fcase we are able to ear.\ —Work has be- building_ oi. the Canton, the company haying building, which first floor will hav< front and butter refrigerator and rear. The second class rooms, readij rooms. On th large assembly nail. n on the new dairy icultural school at ter Manufacturing ie contract for- the [1 cost $30,000. The two laboratories in >m, cheese room, >iter roomtf in the loor will have the room and cloak »ird floor will be a neighbor, Mrs. Phelps, saw smoke.| issuing from the door of the Dunlap home and-went into the house to inquire the cause. She found Mre. Dunlap lying on the floor and her garments en- tirely burned from her body. Physicans were immediately summoned. Mrs. Dunlap, however, was beyond relief and after lingering in terrible agony until this evening she passed away at the time, stated Mrs. Dunlap's maiden name was Mary Kirkwood and she was v born in Florence 67 years ago] She had lived in Camden about 25 years and was an esteemed and respected resident and had many friends who are profoundly grieved at her violent and untimely death. Thomas E. Williams Injured. Carthage, May 5.—Thomas E. Wil- liams, the well-known meat dealer of Carthage, was injured yesterday at the mill of the Island Paper company. Mr. Williams was talking with an employe, when a heavy wooden beam that had become loosened by workmen, fell upon him. He was struck upon the back of his head and neck and his back with terrific force. He is under the care of Dr. C. F. Adams. Just the extent of his injuries can not be determined yet. Death of Senator O'Ncil. Gouverneur, May 6.—The death of Senator William T. O'Neil of the St. Lawrence and Franklin district, which occurred at his home in St. Regis Falls' to-day, has further complicated the political situation, which ,is already acute in this county. Senator O'Neil had been ill for a long time of locomo- tor ataxia and had been unable for weeks to attend to his senatorial auties at Albany. He was elected last fall to his second term from this district in the State Senate. He succeeded Con- gressman George R. Malby when he was elevated tq his present position. —The average newspaper man finds out all the naughty doings, no matter how secretly they are planned and kept. IfJhejjaperA would _publish half the stuff they hear there would be ten di- vorces where there is now one. There would be shot gun matinees, lynching bees, hatchet parties, gore, imprison- ment, desolation and misery. Many people continually find fault with the newpapers, when as a matter of fact, they owe their very standing in the community to the editorial waste bas- ket. on, we would have had cabbage this two weeks. If there was only a 1.,. t this would be. a fine plaCe fpr ? farm.\ But the people 11^ seem tc care for anything !; • of bitter turnips that are 'c^\.' ed \Tsmall tops and all, for greemg^__ ftn * in season, and during the j V ^ sort of bean, called here thef 'cojfcj\ or \field pea,\also lima bfeansrr^ ter beans. The other garden :'f^;^ is used but little. We have carrots and not one person in what they are: The Irish potato>haaf^~_ friends in the south, but from /-'\•--• ~~ til June the sweet potato is-ia article of diet. There seems-t prejudice against nearly all garden, duce, especially at this season.: It; 8 ^— \' popular belief that'it causes all of sickness. '. -?;. , This is in the famous tion of the Carolina^ At few miles southeast of us| is the great-berryr 1 farms, while about. west is the melon, cantaloup; potato section. The country; just Bs good for those crops, Atlantic Coast Line seems to better shipping facilities'than board. Also ' the Coast Line that traffic, and encourages it have connectton~wltjr th^Coi-., via a new line almost completed;^ip ahout a month. Then We may look fp^ : better things. Yours truly, ^ F. F. Wetmo*e£& SURVIVORS IN MISERY. Those Who Escaped Moslem •;» Terrible Plight. >4 Washington, May 4.—ThouBan the Christian and. Mohammedan lation in the disturbed districts key, particularly in the provinces3?--- Adana and Alexandretta are- wit food and shelter and there is ah mediate and urgent need for food; medicines, according to cable. to the State department to-day ____ W1 Ambassador Leishman at Ck)ristan€M\, nople and American consular officert»? in that country. \The greatest suffering the ravaged districts, where has now broken-out and an feared, owing to unsanitary caused by the uhburied dead,£* Ambassador Leishman to-day, wjt many thousands are shelterleB) without food, thus adding to the of the disaster. Feelings pf humi are stirred by the spectacle < ing misery, which I hope we able to alleviate in some degrc The department is. co-operating the National'Red Cross by pro transmitting any relief funds; American Board of Commissioners •••MtM Foreign Missions and other reHgioulfc and charitable organizations are a.Irt$|r~ raising funds. . ' ^jif Injuries Prored Fatal ~0!h\ Carthage, May 5.—Lawrence Sheeny^ of the village of Fine, died early thi»$^ morning at Oswegatchie as the result^* of injuries he received yesterday afterj*i|~£** noon in attempting to stop a ranaway^!% team of horses. Mr. Sheen was at theV^fv railroad station in Oswegatchie unload-, ing maple Byrup. A passing frightened a team of horses and Sheen jumped out of his rig and' tempted to stop the runaway. He thrown out of the wagon and under wheels. His leg and arm was broken; and he was badly bruised .about thfc- head and back. Sheen was a nearby hotel andjiis injuries The shock was too gr«ftt and his occurred this morning. Mr. Sheen 65 years of age and is survived v by wife, two sons and a daughter. —Woman do not love'the men much as they love to have the men loVe, : them. . .-*••*-**.- at-
