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12 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. THE w J Meridian Life & Trust Co. 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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.