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GOV. J. C. W. BECKHAM M1S9 JEAN FUQUA, OWENSB0R0.
Gov. J. C. W. Beckham, the youngest governor In the United States, will
soon niarry Mif-3 Joan Fuqua, one of Kentucky's handsomest girls. The
wedding will take place at Owensboro, Ky., the home of the bride. The
event v ill be of Interest to every section of the south as the governor and
his Intended bride are known by everyone In that part of the country. The
governor is now only 22 and Miss Fuqua la 21. The young couple are the
descendants of two of Kentucky's oldest and most prominent families. Gov.
Beckham's grandfather on his mother's side was a former chief executive
ot the Blue Grass state. Miss Fuqua's father Is a wealthy tobacco merchant..
Miss Fuqua !s tall, has a flark complexion and Is noted for her love of atblet-
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i "Railroad Cramp Waisance.
The Importance of .the railroad
tramp nuisance Ik indicated by the fact
that it is mad!? the subject of the
leading article In the "investors' sup
plement" of the Commercial and
Financial Chronicle, an isiiie of over
ISO pat.'s. - The estimate of Josiah
Flynn that 10,000 tramps steal rldC3
nightly and 10,000 more are loitering
around railroad lard Is quoted, to
gether with his estimate that each of
the 60,100 tramps In the country trav
els on an average of fifty mils a day,
which, for 100 dava in the year, means
3,000,000 miles of free transportation
annually, which at two cents a mile,
would represent paying travel of $8,
000,000. The free rides are, however,
of slight Importance compared with
tho extensive pilfering of freight and
personal damage claims arising
through accid 'iits to tramps white
tresp.usslng. Tho Commercial and
Financial Chronicle aJviseB railroads
to adopt tho plan of the Pennsylvania
road, which employs a regular force of
eighty-three men to keep the cars and
yards clear of the undesirable class.
The success of the plan Is shown in
that the company pays $17,000 a year
less for Its police arrangements than
before it adopted it. The adoption of
the plan by all Important roads would
not oniy be of benefit to them but to
the country. It is well kmrwn that
most tramps are what they are partly
bccar.so of hatred of work and partly
boeause they like to travel. The re
moving of easy facilities for transpor
tation would reduce the number enor
mously. The driving poor may gt
treo transportation at any time.
Japs Miss Hot "Baths.
Apart from th trouble the Japanese
have with fermenting rice, their s.aplc
rations in China, they experience con
sldijrable annoyance wpfc their hot
baths. Every Japanese soldier, when
at home, is accustomed to a hot bath
at least once a da. During a cam
paign like that which Is now being
conducted In the province of Chill, It
is not always easy to prepare hot baths
every morning for 30.000 men. The
men feel very uncomfortable without
their dally tub, b: i the Jap Is brave
and uncomplaining, and withal pains
taking and Ingenious enough to con
trive means to compass this little bit
of luxury In tho Held. Correspond
ence Chicago Record.
Governor of Florida.
One representative of the Bryan
family came oat o fthe recent election
victoriously and the governorship
of Florida 13 the consolation prize that
compensates the family for the loss
ot the presidency. Hon. V. S. Jen-
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HON. W. S. JENNINGS,
nings, who was elected chief executive
of the Peninsula State, is a native of
Illinois, born Match 21. 1KC3. He re
moved to Florida In 1S06 He graduat
ed from the Southern Illinois Univer
sity and the Union Law College in
Chicago, and has practiced law since
Ills r.sideneo in Florida, lie has been
lionored with many offices in Brooks
vllle, where he resides, sat lu the legis-
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Count Boni de Caatellane and bis wire, tha former Anna Gould, wnose
financial affairs are now the topic of table talk for two continents, are here
presented as they app :ar in a new group photograph jntt taken in Paris.
The countessalthough a small woman, is almost as tall as her husband.
Boul, if a little extravnfrart. Is at least a brave man. This was shown by
bis encounter with the burly and ferocious editor of the Petite Republique,
in which he severely wounded his opponent, who had written an Insulting
paragraph about him.
lature aiitf was rpeaker of the Lower
ioui. He is a man of character and
ability and his independence ot
i thought and ntt'Tince is not unlike bis
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Guests "Didn't Come.
Governor General and Lady Minto
of Canada have been the victims of an
awkward contretemps. They ordered
the A. D. C. In waiting to semi out 100
or ho inv itations. The cards were writ
ten and on the afternoon appointed
the vice regal host and hostess were
ready to receive their guests. "Tho
band played, the tea and cotfee steam
ed away in tho urps ca the refresh
ment table, but nobody cti:ie. By four
o'clock something was known to be
wrong; then th A. V. C's were In
terrogated and it dawned upon one of
them that he had forgotten to send out
the cards.
Maharajah of Vatiala.
The Maharajah ot l'atiala, noted as
a polo player, a cricketer, a eoldier
and the chief Sikil prince of India, 4s
dead, lie was very popular v.ii.'i tho
British because of his loyalty to the
empire and to the queen. Among
the many rajahs of Indii th3 0vl
monarch ranked in the third class and
was entitled to a salute of seventeen
pins. The two grades of princes above
bim are cntlUrd to salutes of nineteen
and twenty-one guns respectively.
Patiiila'8 last noteworthy act was
his request to be allowec' to go to
South Africa and to evince his loyalty
by personally fighting against the
Boers. He visited London in 1S97 to
attend the Jubilee of the queen and
at the same time attracted much at
tention by the splendor of his dress
and the importance of his retinue.
As Illustrating the methods young
men have of working their way
through college, one of the Tale facul
Tuo More Islands.
A Spanish-American convention ha
been signed In Washington, by which
two small Islands, bearing the raraei
of Cagayon and Clbotn, are ceded t
the United States by Spain for $100,
000. These islands lie at the southera
and hottest extremity of the archipel
ago, being the tail end of the Sulu
group. Cagayen lies In the passage
from the China sea Into the Sulu sen,
and Cibotu lies between the Sulu and
Celebes seas.' Both properly belong to
the Philippine archipelago and were
supposed to be ceded to the United
States by the Paris treaty. But the
limits of the cession were designated
by geographical lines and two little
islands were afterward found to lia
outside the boundary named in the
treaty, though believed, owing to their
position being given incorrectly on the
maps, to be within them. They wertr
of no use to Spain, but that govern
ment had the right to demand an extra
compensation before turning them
over to the United States. For this
reason the full price of the archipel
ago in money may now be said to hav
been J20.100.000. The mistake of the
commissioners has cost the extra
amount, but the government has acted
wisely In purchasing the stray Islands
and keeping the archipelago intact.
General Wesley Mcrritt found the
Paris exposition not up to Ms expecta
tions, lie thinks that the principal de
fect was in organization, a respect in
which the French fair was far Inferior
to that held in this city.
ty cites the scheme of a party ot stu
dents ot.that Institution. Two of then
made a trip to Europe last summer as
hands on a cattle beat. Their experi
ence, together with the pictures they
took, forms the euhjet for" a lecture
on that topic, with stjrcoptkon views,
which they deliver at little towns
about New Ilavtu. A Ua'.f dozen of
their fellows have been formed into a
MAHARAJAH OF PATIALA.
banjo club, which plays during the
entertainment.
C. Oliver Iselin has yielded to the
urgings of New York clubmen and will
manage the yacht Col!tm;ia In trial
races against the new defender of the
America's cup. Mr. Isclln had an
nounced his retirement from yachting
life, but was induced ta reconsider h'.g
deteniilnatloa.
FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
AGRICULTURISTS.
feme rp-to-Dufo Hint About CultiTu
t Ion. or the Soil anil Yield Ttieroof
llorUeullure, tilleultortt ul floricul
ture. TTtinat! anil Bpelt.
it communication from Prof. A. S.
Hitchcock of the Kansas Agricultural
College ays: The ' wheats of the
world are all referred by botanists to
three species, which form a natural
group among the grasses.
1. One-grained wheat (Triticum
Tnonococcura, L.) This wheat is ot
great antiquity as Is shown by Us
presence in the Swiss Lake dwellings
of the Stone age. It Is now cultivated
to a considerable extent In Spain and
more rarely in some other countries
of South Europe. It Is not often used
for bread, but for mush and "cracked
wheat" and for fodder.
2. Polish wheat (Tr. Polonlcum, L.)
This did not originate in Poland, but
probably in Spain. It is now grown
in that country and also Italy and
Abyssinia. The grain resembles rye.
The beads are very large and of a
blue-green color. The Polish wheat of
Russia which Is being Introduced by
the U. S. Department of Agriculture
and Is being tried by the experiment
stations of this country is not the true
Polish wheat, tut a variety of common
wheat
3. Common wheat and Spelt (Tr.
sativum. Lam.) This group Is divided
Into three races. "
L Spelt (Tr. Spelta, L.) This was
anciently the chief grain of Egypt and
Greece, and was commonly cultivated
la tho Roman empire. At present it
la cultivated in a few localities In
South Europe.
II. Emmer (Tr. dicoccum, Schrsnk.)
.'This grain is cultivated more or less
In countries of South Europe and In
parts of Russia,; Mr. M. A. Carleton
of the United States Department of
Agriculture has Introduced varieties
ot this for trial. It was tried by the
experiment station of the Kansas Ag
rlcultural College, but failed to mature.
It is often called Russian spelt, but
is different from the true spelt. In
Russia it is sometimes used for mak
ing bread, but more often for gruel or
porridge. This is advertised by the
John A. Salzer Seed Company, under
the name of "speltz." Seed obtained
from that firm failed to produce a crop
at the Kansas Experiment Station,
only a few beads being formed and
these not producing grain. Like the
preceding group, the Emmers are
characterized by the act that the grain
remains within the chaff when
threshed. The heads' are usually
awned, but the awns (beards) are re
moved in the threshing.
III." Trto wheats. This race falls
Into four more or less well-marked
sub-races. ... ,
a. English wheat (Tr. turgidum,
L.) Leaves broad and usually clothed
with velvety hairs. The grain Is plump
and truncate or cut off at the upper
end. This wheat is cultivated In Medi
terranean countries and mere rarely in
England. It is poor in gluten and
makes e grayish Hour. The so-called
Miracle Egyptian or Mummy wheats
(Tr. compositum, L.), form a group of
varieties of this sub-race which orig
inated as a sport. Their culture is not
profitable, as the grains develop un
equally. b. Macaroni, Durum or Flint wheats
(Tr. Durum. Desf.) The heads have
long, bristly owns like barley. The
grain is very hard and Is used extsn
slvely for making macaroni and simi
lar rrcducts. Grows In Mediterranean
countries. In Russli it is u.'ed for
making bread, mixed with TO to 25
per cent of soft red wheat. The Kan
sas Experiment Station has some of
these Russian varieties under trial.
c. Dwarf and Hedgehog wheat (Tr.
compacUini, Host.) These varieties
are grown in tho mountainous regions
of Europe, Chili, Turkestan and Abys
E?uia, but are of little Interest to us.
6. Common wheat (Tr. vulgare,
VU1.) Tho varieties of this sub-race
are the common forms cultivated in
the United States and need no further
description at this point. The soft
wheats contain less gluten, the pro
nounced sorts, such as the English
wheat mentioned above under (a), are
better adapted for making starch than
baking. The very hard kinds are over
rich in gluten, and bread made from
them Is too firm. They are used for
making macaroni, "cracked wheats"
and mush. Several promising Russian
varieties are Wins tried at the Kansas
Exne.-larent Station and were crossed
this season w ith some of our best Kan
sas varieties.
HorUcTHInral OlwrratinM.
According to consular reports from
Germany the demand for American
dried apples, peaches and raspberries
Is Increasing. Consul General Mason
at E'H'lin saj'3, however, that to hold
the market Americans must ship in
larg: quantities of th"se things a
moderate prices. That is coir. to be
the troubic In the future S3 it has been
in the past the selling of our fruits
low enough to bold the foreign mar
kets. However, we have this to help
us the Europeans are accustomed to
paying fairly high pi ices fjr their
fruit.
The next meeting of (he Horticul
tural Society of Southern Illinois Is to
be hold I t Kinmundy, November 27
and So. We hope that readers ot the
Farmers' Review will be present from
all parts of the state. Southern Illi
nois has a great future as an apple
growing section, and at this time even
the orchard Interests are so extensive
that many of the great problems r?!
tlve to orcharding are being wnrked'
out there. We feel sure that any Illi
nois grower of fruits will be well re
paid for his attendance at the meet
At this time of year, when eo much.
fruit is going into cold storage both
for long keeping end for transit. It i;s
necessary that much attention be
given to proper preparation of tho
fruit. Ve are, as yet, only at the
thrcshhold of great things in this line.
As jet we know little of what certain
kinds of fruit3 will do under cold
storage conditions. It will ultimately
be found that different kinds of fruita
require different temperatures to keep
them at the best. Packers of -"ruits
for cold storage have been frequently
disappointed at the ninnner In which
their fruits came out of storage, when
the varieties have been other than the
long-keeping sorts. Now the differ
ent companies and growers are experi
menting to learn the requisites for
each kind of fruit. i
Reporl3 say that the Investigations
by the United States forestry commis
sion show the wooded area of the
country to be considerably greater
than supposed. It has been ot late
years placed at about 20 per cent, but
that figure has now been raised to
37 per cent. The fact is that people
take little count of what is called
annua forest growth. This, taking the
country as a whole, means a very
groat lworease every year. In the
older settled states forest fires are less
extensive now than before when the
wooded areas were contiguous. So it
happens that In some parti of the east,
notably in Vermont and in Connecti
cut, the forests are as large and thrifty
as they were a hundred years ago. If
this is so during the present time,
wbeimve have applied little of forestry
science to the handling of the forests,
what will it be when we have learned
to take care of our trees aa we should?
Gras.
Grass Is the forgiveness of nature
her constant benediction. Fields
trampled with battle, saturated with
blond, torn with the ruts of cannon,
grow green again with grass,-and car
nage is forgotten. Streets abandoned
by traffic become grass-grown -. like
rural lanes, and are obliterated. For
ests decay, harvests perish, flowers
uish, but grass Is immortal. Be
leaguered by the sullen hosts of win
ter, it withdraws into the impregnable
fortress of its subterranean vitality,
and emerges upon the first solicitation
of spring, Sown by the winds, by wan
dering birds, propagated by the subtle
horticulture of the elements which are
its ministers and servant, It softens
the rude outline of the world. Its tena
cious fibers hold the earth in Us place
and prevent ita soluble components
from washing into the wasting sea. It
Invades ihe solitude of deserts, dimb3
tho inaccessible slopes and forbidding
pinnacles of mountains, modifies cli
mates, and determines the history
character and destiny of nations. Un
obtrusive and patient, it has immortal
vigor and aggression. Banished from
the thoroughfare and the field, it bides
its time to return, and when vigilance
is relaxed, or the dynasty has perishsd,
it silently resumes the throne from
which it has been expelled, but which
it never apd'eate?. It bears no blaz
onry of bloom to eharm the senses with
fragrance or splendor, but lt3 homely
hue is more enchanting than the lily
or the rose. It yields no fruit In earth
or air, and yet should its harvest fail
for a single year, famine would depop
ulate the world. John J. Ingalls.
Cr-mian Clrr " lh North.
A few years ago It W3s believed that
crimson clover was a plant valuable
for the North and for the South. After
several years of rather extended ex
perience tho sio.vers at the North,
both on our farm3 and at our experi
aient stations have passed upon it ad
versely. It is a plant requiring a cli
mate warmer than we can gTe it, and
it also requires conditions for its
growth such as seldom exist here.
Where red clover can be grown to
perfection it is Impossible to put In
any kind of a clover that will bo more
profitable. We would, however, en
courage experimentation with It even
in the North. It may be found of
value in some localities far out of Us
natural latitude. In the South It has
been little understood, and has Quite
often failed because tha soil did, not
contain the germs necessary to Its
health. Where it has been sown on
fields and has repeatedly failed we
would suggest trying to inoculate the
soil with water that has been drawn
through soil taken from thrifty fluids
of red clover.
The Grapa Crop ot rwnt
A newspaper correspondent writing
from Nimes, France, under date of
Aug. .2-d. said:
Tho annual wire sale which took
place la this city yesterday brought
U-gether a large number of wine-grow
ers and dealers. The prices were lower
than at any time during the last thir
ty years. It is reported that wise has
been ofTerrd during the last three
weeks at as low as ?1 per barrel. Large
sales were made yesterday at $1.50,
$2 and $3 per barrel ot 110 cunts. Th6
vines arc weighed down with luscious
fruit that Is fast taking the last pur
ple tinge and swelling to bursting un
der the sun. One grape-grower brought
in a small vine yesterday to which
hung ninety-five bunches of grapes,
and this little overloaded branch of
green and rurp'e was a fair specimen
of the average vineyard of today; The
wine men In this section of France
have but one cause for anxiety, and
that Is to find barrels in which to
hcuse tho purple flood.
altpr for T.-e Kflltajr.
sum timg ago we saw in an Aus-
tralian exchange a icuci -- a. form
er resident of the United States tell-;-ing
about the practice of killing trees
by the U30 of saltpeter. According to
his statement tha saltpeter was In
serted in tho tree while in the process
of growth and while the leaves were
still performing their function. A hole
was bored In tho tree and filled with
saltpeter and water, after which the
hole was plugged up. This saltpeter
was carried to all parts of the tree.
Then another hole was bored and more
saltpeter inserted, which also was dis
tributed through the tree. After the
tree died it was set on fire and burned
up root and branch, the saltpeter mak
ing it burn fiercely. We do not know
how much of a fancy sketch this was,
and if any of our readers have had ex
perience in the matter we would like
to hear from them.
Recently a dslcusslon has been going
on as to the power to destroy green
stumps in this way. Some men say
they bored holes in the stumps and
put in the saltpeter and water, only
to find afterward that the stump would
not burn. Some others say the effect
was to rot the stump, which could
afterward be dug out easily. Up to
date we have learned of no way that
will deal with the stumps more effec
tively than does the stump puller. As
to the burning up of trees that have
been saturated with saltpeter, we think
the time has gone past for that kind
of operation. The time was when
trees in this country were simply in
the way and were destroyed In the
shortest way possible. But now they
are wortn saving If only for fire-wood.
Tbo SoiL
A farmer can have neither a good
pasture nor a good meadow witnout
a good sod. But the kind of sod he
needs on his pasture is very different
from the sod he needs in his meadow.
We see in a contemporary a laudation
of blue-grass sod for the pasture. But
wo know that blue grass sod Is not the
ideal sod for a pasture. , It should be
a part of the sod but not the whole
thing. Blue grass makes good pas
ture at certain seasons, but during
much of the time is below its prime.
The pasture sod should most certain
ly be formed of a variety of grasses,
so that grass will be making a good
growth at all seasons when any grass
could grow.
The sod for tho meadow should of
course be made of one kind of grass.
The meadow 13 supposed to be for tho
production of hay and the hay crop is
gathered at one time. But in both
cases the sod should be well taken
care of, should be well manured and
not permitted to get thin. One of the
great faults of our, American farming
is neglect of the sod in both pastures
and meadows. In the sod lies much
of tha profit on the farm. We think If
our farmers would keep a close ac
count of tho receipts from their sod
lands they would pay more attention
to them. -
' Hog lloute
la the building of hog houses. If
such houses are to be Ideal, a number
cf Important points must be taken,
Into consideration. A writer on the
subject of hog houses rightly says:
"There is one point that is commonly
lost sight cf in hog growing, and that
is that he la cn animal to which sun
shine Is Just as essential as it is to
the corn plant. Neither corn nor pork
can be produced successfully without
plenty of sunshine. In the building
of the hog house have it constructed
in such a way that the sun will shine
into it on the south and reach to the
back of the pen and on the beds of tho
pigs." The house should be arranged
on tne wsiae so tnai mere win ue a
free circulation of air between tho
pens. This Is especially necessary In
warm weather. The drainage should
be such that the floor of the house
will be always dry. The arrangements
for removing the manure should be so
perfect that It can be kept out of the
way of the hogs at all times. The
pens in the house should be construct
ed with the idea of often needing to
change pigs from one pen to another.
To accomplish some of these things it
will be necessary to have much of the
Inside arrangement made movable.
Swinging gates can be used to ad
vantage. '
YteMn cf Wheat,
That the average yield per acre of
our wheat can be doubled under proper
methods is demonstrated by the re
ports that we are constantly receiv
ing from the agricultural colleges and
the experiment stations. The average
yield of wheat in the country at larga
Is only about 13 bushels per acre, yet
in some of our states where, because
of deficient rainfall, the conditions for
growing wheat ara not of the best,
the yields are far In excess of the
average for the country. We notice
that even ic Oklahoma the yields as
reported at the station are such that
wheat raising la highly profitable.
Yields of from 25 to 36 bushels to tha
acre are given as the results ot their
various experiments in handling the
land for the wheat crop. What Is
done on a small scale can be quite gen
erally done on a larger scale, and
there is no good reason why the best
methods should not be widely applied.
English and Amerlraa Thoroughbred.
The difference in the types ot Eng
lish and American thoroughbred
horse3 has been set forth as follows:
The English horse Is taller, or leggier,
as they say, then ours. He usually
has more length and mora quality;
whereas the American thoroughbred
has mora substance, 13 more closely
ymped that is, shorter and, as
rule. Is a horse of better constitution
and saunfler, particularly in the wind,
a "roarer" being a rare tiling with uj.