THE BOOK IS CLOSED. Last Page of Volume 1900 of the World's History Written. A (■ lit 11 ct* fit Some of (lie Hark S|»ot«— Stll 11 st ic« of I>l*«*t«T*. \Vitr»> Nolnblc Urntlm nntl Crime* of \ i)rlouM Kintln. The list of notable dead for the last year of the century is a lons one. Among the names probably the most conspicuous are the following: January 1. Karl Mlllocker. <■()< ra composer. Austria : January 4. Dlmltrl Grigorowltch. novelist. Russia; January 12, James Martlneau, philosophical and theo logical writer. England; January 20. John Knskin, art critic and author. England; January 21. Richard D. Blackmore. novel ist. England: February 20. l.*eanderJ. Mccor mick. manufacturer. Fnitid States; Feb ruary 20. William H. Beard, animal painter. United Stat.s; February 21. I>r. I.eslie K< elev. gold cure discovert r. United States; March 7. Paul Jean clays, marine painter. Belgium: March 9. Edward J. Phelps, ex minister to Great Britain, United States; March 2S. Gen. Pietrus Jacobus Jouhert. Boer army. South Africa; April 1. St. George Mivart. scientist. England: April 5, Gc-n. Osman Pashn. Turkey; April T. Fred trick Church, landscape painter, I'nited States; April 19. Jean Falquiere, sculptor. France; April 19, H< inrich Vogl. opera tenor, Germany; May 1. Michael Munkaczy. paint er. Hungary; May Si. Giuseppe del Puente, epera baritone. I'nited States; May 28, Sir George Grove, musical writer and con r.oisseur. England: June 5, Stephen Crane, story writer. I'nited States; Jtine 21. Count Mouravleff, minister of foreign affairs. Russia; June 22. Jasper F. Cropsey, land scape painter. I'nited States; June 30. John \V. Philip, rear admiral. F. S. N.; July 29, Humbert, king of Italy; August 5, Dr. William Liebknecht, socialist leader, Ger many; August 5, Collis I*. Hunting ton. fianeier. Fnlted States; August 1»I, John J. Ingalls, ex-senator, I'nited States; October 20. Charles Dudley Warner, author and journalist, Fnlted States; Oc tober 22. John Sherman, statesman. I'nited States; October 25. Sims Reeves, concert ter.or. England; October 28, Frledrieh Max- Muller. philologist, England; November 22. Sir Arthur Sullivan, composer, England; November 27. Cushman K. Davis, states man. I'nited States; December 111, Michael G. Muihall. statistician, England. Tn January 1,000 persons were killed by earthquake at Tiflis; 12 by a mine accident nt Gross Kateher. Prussia; 13 by a storm at Newhaus, Bohemia; 411 by a typhoon or the Japan coast; 21 by an earthquake in Sumatra; 13 by a dynamite explosion at Avigliano; 30 by the fall of a church at Malowzcnsk, Russia; !i by an earthquake at Collma, Mexico, and 5 by a dynamite ex plosion at Ashley, Pa. In February 60 perished by fire at Nava oca, Japan; 100 by a powder explosion at Hang Chow. China; 30 by an avalanche In Turkestan, and 31 by a tire at Komaijura. Japan. In March 52 wen killed by a mint accident lit Fire Creek. \V. Va.; 11 l>y a mine accident at Vlcenza. Italy; 16 by a mine accident at Bessages. France. 13 by a lire at Newark. N. J ; 971 by an earthquake at Alhakalah. Asia Minor, and 24 bj a boating accident at Buda-Pesth. In April 77 lives were lost by an avalanche In Japan; 28 by Hood in Colorado river. Texas: s by a landslide at Naples, Italy; 7 by flood In Rio Grande river. Texas; 11 by « boating accident on the Cornish coast; 38 by a boating accident at Bingen. Ger many: 13 by a flood in Mississippi; 30 by a powder explosion at Kam Shan. China; 6 by a lire ut Ottawa. Canada; 65 by an explo sion at Pretoria, South Africa: 6 by a flood a: Waco. Tex.: 6 by a cyclone in Texas; 9 by a falling bridge at the Paris exposition, and 6 by a mine accident at Tazewell. Va. In May 250 were killed In a mine accident at Scofleld, Utah; 16 by a fire at Fukin, Ja r an; 27 by a boating accident at Rencigll or.e. Italy: 22 by a mine accident at Cum nock. Va., and 30 by the fall of an embank ment at Ahmedabad, India. In June 30 were killed in a railroad aeci r- nt at Staffelbach. Ga.; 9 by a lire In New York city; 8 by a mine accident at Canmore. N W. T.; 23 by a boating accident in Brit ish Guiana, and 3(K) by lire in New York city. In July 19 lost their lives by a boating ac cident off Norfolk. Va.: 12 by a tenement house lire in New York city; 60 by a stre< t ear accident at Tacoma. Wash.; 6by explo sion of an oil tank at Parkersburg, W. Va.; t by a fireworks explosion at Philadelphia. Pa.; 6 by a hurricane at Warzerburg. Ba varia; 50 by a powder explosion at Taking. \ china ; 50 by a powder explosion at Mirkden. Russia; 6 by an earthquake in the Cau casus; 15 by flood at Coleman. Tc x.: 250 by volcanic eruption in Japan; 11 by a boating Occident at Akron, Ala ; 30 by a mine acci dent at Matchuela, Mex.. and 12 by a flood .In Chili. In August 20 were killed by an explosion Mt Tampa, Fla.; 15 by a railroad accident In Italy; 200 by a flood in Japan, and 30by a tor pedo explosion in China. 1 Tn September 22 W tr> killed by p cannon explosion in Austria; 8,000 by the hurricane at Galveston, Tex., ar.d adjacent localities; lo by a fire at Cincinnati, O.; 38 by an ex plosion in China; 35 by a mine accident at Dux. Bohemia; 20 by a flood at Calcutta, r.dia, and 12 by a cyclone at Morrlstown, Minn. In October 20 lost their lives by an explo sion in the Transvaal; 10 by a cyclone at iridabik, Minn.; 10 by a railroad accident it Heidelberg. Germany; 40 by the collapse )t a building at Porkoff, Russia; 8 by a fire n New York city; 7 by the fall of a school ouse in Moravia; 203 by a typhoon in Ja in; 10 by a cyclone at I.odl. Tex.; 50 by a oiler explosion at Tomsk, Russia; 18 by ex losion in Tarrant's drug house, New York ty, and 25 by an earthquake at Caraccas, enezuela. In November 14 were killed In a mine ac ident at Philippi, Va.; 8 by the collapse of i hotel at Stettin. Germany; 7 by a railroad ccident near Frankfurt. Prussia: 8 by a illroad accident near Nantes, France; 6 • a railroad accident at Brueggar, Ger any; 12 by the fall of an arena at Pedra icr, Spain; 13 by a railroad accident at ayonne. France; 23 by a flood In Calcutta, lia; 7 by a hotel lire at Oswayo. Pa.; 79 a cyclone in West Tennessee; 12 by the lapse of a building at Darmstadt. Ger .ny; 300 by a typhoon on the coast of jam; 12 by a mine accident at Awrlche, ante; 22 by the collapse of a roof at San ranclsco, Cal., and 1,000 by a typhoon in tpan. In December :;oo were killed by a powder tplosion at Nanking. China; 25 by a rail ad accident in Mexico; 26 by a mine acci nt at San Andres de la Sierra, M< x.; 300 a typhoon at Hong-Kong. China; 200 a boating accident on West river. Una; 7 by a schoolhouse fire at Fredonia, i". 'he following table gives the loss of life suiting from disasters of various kinds this country during 1900, as reported by II and telegraph: •es 1,843 iwning 2,701 plosion 739 es 839 ing buildings, etc 559 lone and storms 8.215 itning 359 le loss of life by railroad accidents re ed by mail andi telegraph for 1900 was as compared with 3.552 in 1599, 3.590 in and 2,76-1 in 1897. The number of seri > injurtd was 3.870, as compared with n 1599, 2,616 ill 1898, and 2,428 in 1897. Kpi loss of life by epidemic diseases famine during 1900 has increased ly as compared with that in 1839. The ;cs of the plague have been greatly ed, the number of victims in 1909 a little over 20,000, as compared with in 1899. Cholera shows an increase, aths from it in 1900 being nearly as compared with 2,000 in 1899. The arge Increase In the total was occa •loned by the terrible famine In India. Five hundred thousand deaths have been "eported, but the number of victims Is un questionably much greater. It in difficult lo make any accurate list of statistics of this kind, but as far as reported the total r or 1900 is 579,609. as compared with 310,- KH> in 1899 and 222,900 In IS9S. Warn. The most conspicuous wars in 1961,000. The following is a roll of honor containing the names of those who havo made bequests or donations amounting to 5500,000 or upwards in each case: Samuel Cupples and R. A. Brook ings. St. Louis, Mo., gifts to Washington university $5,000,000 Andrew Carnegie, gifts to Pitts burgh for institute and library.. 3,600,000 Robert M. Brigham, Boston, Mass., will to Charities 2,959,000 Jonas G. Clark. Worcester, Mass., will to Clark university 2,350,000 1. D. Rockefeller, New York, gifts to I'niverslt.v of Chicago 2,050.000 Daniel S. Ford, Boston, Mass., churches 1,150,000 John I'. Brown, Newport, R. 1., libraries 900,000 Lyman C. Smith. Syracuse. N. Y„ gift to Syracuse university 750.000 Andrew Carnegie, gifts to libraries 625,000 D K. Pearsons, Chicago. 111., col leges 587,000 Catharine H. Bong. Lancaster .Pa., gifts to charities 500,000 I', t'. Drake. Des Moines, la., gift to Drake university 500,000 Thomas Wilson, Cleveland, 0., charities 500,000 T H. James, gift to college at Guthrie. O. T 500.000 C. P. Huntington, New York. churches 500,000 J. Friedman, San Francisco, Cal., will to charities 500,000 An interesting feature of this splendid showing is the amount contributed by Mr. Andrew Carnegie to the organization of libraries in various parts of the coun try. The total number of libraries organ ized during the year is 68, and of them 19 are to be credited to Mr. Carnegie, his gifts amounting to $645,000. Iti 1899 Mr. Carnegie grave $3,503,500 for 34 libraries, making a total for the two years of 53 libraries at a cost of $4,148,502. SnicHlefi. Suicides in the United States are again upon the Increase. The total number re l>ortd by mail ami telegraph for the year Is 6,755, as compared with 5,340 in 1899. There had been a decrease in the num ber since 1896. but the tide seems to have turned again. Of this total 4,446 were males and 2,309 females. Hitherto the proportion has been nearly five to one in favor of males. The tigures for the year would Indicate that the number of fe males committing suicide is rapidly in creasing. Among professional men phy sicians still head the list, 38 having taken their lives, which is the same number as last year and six less than in 1898. Dur ing the year six clergymen, six lawyers, four journalists, seven persons engaged in the banking business, two actors, one artist and three college professors have also committed suicide. The causes of self-murder were as follows: Despondency 3.117 I'nknown 2.284 Insanity 353 Liquor 162 111 health 348 Domestic infelicity 212 Disappointed love 155 Business losses 64 In these cases poison remains the most common agent; 2,878 killed themselves with poison. 2.837 by shooting. 410 by hanging, ?53 by drowning. 106 by cutting their throats. 54 by jumping from roofs or windows, 47 by throwing themselves in front of railroad trains, 36 by stabbing, S3 by setting themselves on lire, 7 by the use of dynamite, 2 by starvation, 1 by freezing and 1 by placing himself against a circular saw. Murder*. The total number of murders commit ted in the United States during 1900 shows a marked increase, being 8,275, as com pared with 6,225 in 1899. The causes of these murders may be classllied as fol lows: Quarrels 4.823 Unknown 2,187 Jealousy 210 Liquor 259 By highwaymen 239 Rt slsting arrest 83 Highwaymen killed 85 Insanity 93 Self-defense 2S Strikes 58 Outrages 8 Riots 13 Infanticide 159 liUllglllgM. The number of legal executions in 1900 was 119, as compared with 131 in 1899. 109 in 1898, 128 in 1897, 122 In 1896, 132 in 1895, 132 in 1894. 126 in 1893 and 107 in 1892. There were 80 hanged in the south and 39 in the north, of whom 60 were whites, 58 blacks and 1 Chinaman. The crimes for which they wore executed were: Murder, 113; rape, 5; arson, 1. l.yneliingM. The lynchigs reported in 1899 were only 107, being much smaller than in any year since 1885, but in 1900 they show an in crease in number and cruelty. Judge Lynch executed 115 during the year. Of these lynchings, 107 occurred in the south and 8 in the north. Of the total number 107 were negroes and 8 whites. The al leged crimes for which they were lynched were as follows: Murder, 39; rape, 18; attempted rape, 13; race prejudice, lu; as saulting whites, 6; threats to kill, 5; bur glary, 4; attempt to murder, 4; informing, 2; robbery, 2; suspicion of murder, 2; complicity in murder, 2; unknown of fenses, 2; suspicion of robbery, 1; no of fense, 1; arson, 2; suspicion of arson, 1; aiding escape of a murderer, 1. Km liezxleiueii t«. The record of embezzling, forgery, de faulting and bank wreckage for 1900 shows a material increase over that of 1899, which was the smallest ever known In any year in the history of business since statistics were kept, which embraces a period of 23 years. The total is $4,660,134, as compared with $2,218,373 in 1899, $5,851,- 263 in 1898 and $11,248,081 In 1897. The losses are distributed us follows: Stolen by public officials $1,233,678 From banks 1,857.761 By agents 271,878 Forgeries 156,900 From loan associations 125,100 By postmasters 24,427 Miscellaneous stealing Stf.xso CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1901. GOOD LAND ROLLER. (Villi nn Innenlonii Man Cnn I>o with a Couple of Old Mon Inis Mn chlnr \\ To make this roller, take two old mowing machine wheels anle. A deep, loamy, warm, fertile soil is preferred. In the absence of such requisites the grower should choose one that nearest fills the description. A loamy soil, overlying a porous clay subsoil, is better than the same soil over a gravel or sand bed. Light soils, that is, such as are easily moved by the plow or less difficult to cul tivate and more conducive to an early harvest than are heavy, compact soils. No matter what the character of the soil —light or heavy, poor or rich in necessary plant food—thorough drain age is essential to the best success with Irish potatoes. Shortly after a continued, heavy rainfall dig a hole in the ground about 13 inches deep. The distance to which water will rise in this hole will show the distance below the surface of the ground be yond which the roots of plants will be as effectually submerged in water as if lowered beneath the surface in a tub filled with the same liquid. If the water level is gradually lowered, so that within 24 to 30 hours after rain has ceased no water stands over the bottom of the hole, no artificial drainage is needed. If, on the other hand, water sinks much more slowly, open surface drains, properly placed, should remedy the trouble. A pr< p erly drained soil warms quicker in the spring, retains water necessary for the development of plants longer, admits more air and gives far better results from plant food already in the soil, to say nothing of that added in fertilizers, than does a poorly drained boil.—Farmers' lie view. TIMELY DAIRY NOTES. Silage, and especially good corn silage, when compared with dry corr fodder or other feeding stuff, produces results so satisfactory as to surprise the ehemist and which chemistry can not explain. A silo or two, well built, but not toe large or too expensive, are convenient and economical, on most farms, to save crops which at times might otherwise be lost, if not some crops specially grown for silage. A good grade butter cow will make more butter from a certain amount ol feed than a common cow will and it is certainly reasonable that the more butter or milk secured from a giver amount of feed the better the oppor tunity for profit. With butter as with other products of the farm appearance is an important factor. On this account with a good quality of butter it will be found a good plan to use parchment paper with which to wrap t he prints as rolls ratliei than cloths. The paper now can be se cured so cheaply that all considered it will be found most economical. —Kura) World. Jiew Herry from Kiiglnnd. From Loudon comes the report of a new fruit shown for the first time at a recent meeting of the Koyal Horticul tural society. It is called the Mahdi and is a hybrid between the rasp berry and blackberry, its seed parent being the Belle de Fonte nay, a very large red raspberrj of European origin. The Mahdi has vers' much the habit of the blackberry, but its fruit resembles to some extent the dewberry. There is the same bloom, but the number of fruitlets is greater. Most important is the time of fruiting, for it comes into bearing as the rasp berries are failing and before the black berries are ripe. The Mahdi is very pro lific, and has considerable claim to be a decorative plant. The plants have not yet be< n placed upon the market, — American Agriculturist* THREE PEACH GROWERS. They Are Types of < hnraclrrn nlth Which AH of I * Are More or I.run Familiar. One of the fundamental laws of education is. that we learn by expe rience. Theories are all right, but practice is better. During my term of 14 years in the fruit business I observed three different classes of peach growers. The first, class are those who are determined in their efforts. They are wide awake, because they know it is not the business that makes the man, but that it is the man that makes the business. '1 he second class are those who save at the spigot and lose at the bung. They set out their orchards and cul tivate very little and only visit their orchards about the lime they expect to find ripe fruit on the trees. They are good salesmen enough to sell any thing from a red beet up to a straw stack. They will by hard work man age to hammer enough money out of the business to pay the cost of pro duction. Then comes the third class. The only way I can see for those to make money in the peach business is to pre sent the nursery man with the money and positively refuse to take tlie trees. They would thus save the time and labor in preparing the soil and planting the trees, and not lose the use of the ground. 1 believe in growing first-class peaches, and in having everything clean from the or chard to the curbstone. If I want to do business, I must attend to my business. I will follow peach culture as long as I can keep the soil in a condition to sponge water. It may not, however, be expected that fruit will again bring the high price any more than wheat, corn, iron, etc. Nothing brings the high price it once did. Hut what we want is that our peach crop will sell for enough money to allow us a fair profit. Of course, competition may be sharp, as it is in all other classes of business in the country. —,J. P. Hover, before Pennsylvania Horticul tural Society. THE OSAGE ORANGE. For I'owtx iiml Telephone I'olex II llu* .No Kifiinl mill for He Holy It la I iie.vcellcil. In sections where it will thrive I be lieve it will pay to plant the Osage orange for posts and telephone-poles. It has one fault, and that is. \\ hen it has become seasoned one can scarcely drive any sort of a nail into it. Its lasting qaulities when used as posts exceed that of any wood I know of. It grows (juite rapidly, and should be pruned about twice a year to make good posts or poles. It will pay those who have Osage hedges to allow one plant about every 15 or yo feet to grow up for posts or poles. If they are kept properly trimmed up they will not injure the hedge any and will soon make good posts. When cut they should be sawed off close to the ground during the win ter season; then a thicket of shoots will sprout from the stump the follow ing spring, and close the gap. In half a mile of hedge one can grow about all the posts he will need. All that is need ed to make straight poles or posts is timely and careful pruning. I have known one Osage post eight inches in diameter to outlast three white-oak posts in succession. Barbed wires or ivoven-wire fencing can be fastened to these posts by means of short pieces of wire.—Fred Grundy, in Farm and Fire side. WHEELBARROW TANK. Easily Mmle mill rueful for n Thou* nun il uiiil One I'urpojie* Aliout Every Farm. The arrangement shown in the cut is very convenient for numerous pur poses about a farm. It is a square, galvanized iron tank, with sockets on each side to run a couple of handles WHEELBARROW TANK. through. Attach an old barrow wheel to these handles and the tank can be wheeled anywhere and tipped over with great ease. The tank can be used to carry skim milk to calves or pigs, to remove kitchen slops to the manure heap (thus doing away with a sink drain) or for many other pur poses that will readily occur to any one. —American Agriculturist. Correct FnrmliiK Always Pay*. There is a sort of pictufesqueness about women farmers which is inspir ing. A great many women to-day are making farms pay handsomely, in many cases they have been compelled to make the most of their chances, and as their chances were those af forded by a few acres of land they set about to do their work scientifical ly. A Nebraska woman has made a magnificent success raising poultry; a Kansas woman has achieved fame and fortune raising swine; an Indiana woman is widely known as a success ful dairywoman and breeder of Jersey cattle; a Pennsylvania girl has made a fortune growing violets. So it goes. Rural occupation affords recompense for all if correct principles be applied in its administration. FarinaiV Voice. 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