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Things Done and Doing Along the Line
FARM DISTILLATION.
(The N. Y. Tribune.)
One of the most important pieces of
legislation by congress at the last
session was the adoption of Senator
Hansbrough’s amendments to the free
alcohol law. Many supporters of the
original measure had expected that it
would enable the farmer to manufact
ure small quantities of spirits for use
in running a portion of his machinery.
To some agriculturalists that privi
lege would be more welcome than any
increased demand for their corn by
wholesale distillers. When, therefore,
it was discovered that the proper pro
vision had not been made the Senator
from North Dakota took the lead in a
movement to correct the oversight,
and was entirely successful. The new
law does not go into effect until next
September, but it will then be permis
sible for anybody who complies with
regulations w’hich the commissioner
of internal revenue is required to is
sue to distill on his own premises a
quantity of alcohol not exceeding a
hundred gallons (about two barrels)
daily. It does not matter how little
he produces or how much of the time
his still stands idle. The all important
thing is not to exceed the prescribed
limit in an interval of twenty-four
hours.
Before availing himself of the oppor
tunity, soon to be open to him the far
mer will need to obtain a variety of
information. For some of this he must
look to the head of the internal reve
nue bureau.
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WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
COTTON IN KOREA.
(The Dublin Times.)
According to American consular re
ports there is some danger of America
getting competition in cotton growing
in Korea and the following little item
tells the tale:
American cotton seed planted in the
experimental grounds of Korea, 175
acres being cultivated, yielded the past
season 100 bales weighing 50,000
pounds, says the British Board of
Trade Journal, which adds:
The fibre is said to be fine and soft,
with exceptional luster and well suited
for mixture in the spinning of fine
yarn. It is valued at $11.29 per 100
pounds. The people interested hope to
produce 1,000 bales next season and
10,000 the year following. Estimates
give 175,000 as the possible number of
acres of cotton lands in Korea, and
the yearly yield of these is 100,000
bales of 500 pounds each. Experiments
made in 1905 resulted in 400 pounds
to each acre.
The land experimented on was well
and carefully cultivated by intelligent
Korean coolies. No such intense culti
vation could be carried out on a very
large scale, still, if Japan can get 100,-
000 bales of upland cotton per annum
from Korea, it means just that much
less in her purchases in the United
States. A sample of cotton grown in
the Ottoman Empire, part of 400
pounds picked on less than an acre, is
on exhibition in London. The land on
which it grew was not cultivated last
year, the cotton growing on plants
left over from the previous season.
One hundred acres near where this
sample grew have been prepared for
cotton. These were to be planted dur
ing the month of February.
SOUTH MUST PAY BETTER.
New Orleans. —A drawback to im
migration in the south was pointed out
today by Frank P. Sargent, commis
sioner general of immigration.
“There is one thing,” he said, “the
people of the south must learn in
handling immigrants. They must pay
better wages, or the foreigners will
not remain with them. The south is
badly in need of agriculturalists, but
it is not possible for the farmers and
planters to keep laborers at a wage
of 90 cents to $1 a day, when they can
secure a wage of $2 in the north.”
CLARK TO ADDRESS LAWYERS.
Macon, Ga. —Secretary Park, of the
Georgia Bar Association, announces
that Hon. Champ Clark, of Missouri,
has accepted an invitatio to make the
chief address at the meeting of the as
sociation at Tybee island in May.
LIFE SENTENCE FOR TABOR.
Dallas, Texas, April.—Phil Tabor,
charged with robbing the Cotton Belt
passenger train near Redwater, Bowie
county, several months ago, has been
convicted by a jury in New Boston
and given a sentence of life imprison
ment.
The Constitutionality of the Louisia
na law of 1898 making taxable in that
state notes taken by non-residents on
account of business transacted there
was brought into question in the case
of the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company of New York, vs. the City of
New Orleans, which was decided by
the supreme court of the United States
in favor of the city, the opinion being
by Justice Moody.
The Mexican population along the
lower Rio Grande river is in a state
of panic owing to a mysterious mala
dy which has broken out at Reynosa,
a town in Mexico opposite Hidalgo,
Tex. One hundred people in the little
town have died after a brief illness
with the disease since Tuesday.
Alexander, looter of the Equitable
Insurance Company, is living comfort
ably in Bombay. Nearly everybody
thought he was in a lunatic retreat
near Boston Bay. Where he ought to
be is in Botany Bay.
In Nebraska the rule goes with the
women that th.ere shall be “No be
whiskered callers on Sunday nights.'*
They do not want to lean on the
moss, but be tickled by the stubble.
Sometimes a man in France can
cast five votes. He can do more than
that in this country unless the poll
watchers are mighty spry.