EIGHT
ABOUT FARMS AND FARMING
GARDENS AND GARDENING
THE SILO, SILAGE, ETG.
By Martin W. Calvin.
I return to a consideration of the
silo and silage, because they are in
dispensable to every well regulated
farm. In short, a farm that is not
equipped with a silo cannot be said
to be even moderately regulated. The
silo is a. money saving adjunct to the
farm. It is easy of construction and
inexpensive.
You may make it circular, octagonal
or square. The first mentioned seems
to be most popular. The cost will
range from $75 to $150—12 feet inside
diameter, 34 feet In hight.
I have in mind a silo that is 12 feeet
inside diameter, 16 feet below the level
of the surface and IS feet above sur
face level. It is single bricked and
cemented to the surface level. At
that point it is capped with a parapet,
so to speak, three feet wide and two
fret in hight. There is a grove in
which the 18-foot 2x4s are set. It is
topped and has something in the na
tuiire of a dormer window through
which the silage is blown. It is held
by three steel hoops. Has three doors
next the barn and at varying hights
from the top so that silage may be
conveniently reached. It has a capaci
ty of 55 tons. An average of 37 pounds
of silage a day was fed 15 milch cows,
November to April, both inclusive.
In other words, the cows had the
choicest of green stuff as a part of
their ration daily through a period of
six months. Now they are on a Ber
muda pasture. True economy suggests
another silo which will be built in
July or August next.
Meantime, fifteen acres will be plant
ed to .Eureka silage corn. The average
yield per acre of silage corn Is seven
tons. Eureka, par excellence the silage
corn, will yield quite ten tone per
acre. The corn is cut close to the
ground when the grain is in the glaze.
Without unnecessary delay the silage
Is hauled to the barn, run through the
cutting machine and blown into th6
silo.
This year an acreage will be Sown to
Olay or Unknown peas between the
rows of corn. The vines will be in
perfect condition when the corn is
ready to be cut. It will be found that
the cornstalks and vines will be in
bundles and In running through the
•cutting machtne will be thoroughly
mixed.
Corn and soy beans make good sil
age. It is a question whether sorghum
Is adapted .to the silo. That is all
right, for the reason that it is not at
all necessary to lay the silo under
contribution to sorghum which latter
Is adapted to so large a number of
economical uses.
I have long believed in "The old flag
and an appropriation,” therefore I urge
you to request ypur congressman to
have mailed to you Farmers' Bulletins
Nos. 58, 103, 147 and 222 —all free. Send
& dime to »he Silver Manufacturing Co.,
Salem. Oh o, for a copy of a brochure
|£j ‘Modern Silage Methods.” From
may glean much valuable
on the front of my desk is
( v'avlng of what was until re
‘ fM.'hc world's champion Holstein
row, Pontlag Clothilda 1)1. Kol
; !Biir er record was 17.050.4 pounds
and 757.3 pounds of butter a
■ 'a beautiful, high-bred animal,
as though she could not pos
lMK„se the championship.
Nf * comes Banostine Belle De Kol,
anoL Holstein-Freisian. with a rec
ord m- 365 days of 27,404.4 pounds of
milk ahd 1,322.9 pounds of butter,
p, When Banostine was being tested
harA. was fed quite all the time more
kygpMs ensilage and alfalfa. The
mrnnoation of her ration was bran and
oats. Between times she was fed roots
‘ahd dried pulp.
The record made by each of these
great cows is out of the ordinary. It
■ls simply a commanding illustration of
'Hie possibilities of good blood and ex
cellent management.
l\saw In a Western paper a very in
teresting comparison of the difference
1n point of money value between Ban
ostino Belle De Kol and Pontlag Clo
thilde De Kol 2nd, and a cow which
produced annually 175 pounds of but
ter. Ttrat is hardly an allowable com
parison. There are hundreds of cases
in this »t«te in each of which can be
shown by', fair comparison the costli
ness of a {poor producer of milk and
butter.
The difficulty is that the owner of
an unprofitable cow never permits
himself to "future” as all. He can
not be easily brought to weigh the
fact that the keep of an ordinary cow
Is as great as if not greater than that
of a cow which will give ample re
turns for good treatment.
Just now much Js being written
about liming the soil and a number
of brands of agricultural lime are be
ng exploted. There is a wide differ
ence in opinion among experts as to
the time when and the manner in
which to use lime advantageously. It
has been shown that the safer plan is
to follow the homeopathic practice,
this is in comparison with the custom
which prevailed several years ago of
applying ten to twenty tons of air
slaked lime per acre.
Nitrate of lime as a top dresser is
being pressed upon public attention. It
carries approximately 13 per cent, of
nitrogen in its most active form and
25 to 30 per cent, of lime in a soluble
condition. It is claimed that as a top
dressing It is far superior to nitrate
of soda and sulphate of ammonia, and
the most economical and profitable of
nitrogenous fertilizers. It has been
used effectively and satisfactorily on
oats, wheat, potatoes, cabbage, car
rots, beets, etc'.
Experiment, Ga.
Use the Harrow and Warm the
Soil.
As the time to plant com is here
again and much has been and is being
said about the use of the harrow in
the preparation of the seedbed and
in the cultivation of the crop after
it is planted, I wish to further empha
size the Importance of the use of this
Implement by speaking of one thing
than in general seems to have been lost
sight of, says a North Carolina writer.
We are told that we should harrow
to crush the clods, fine and firm the
soil and put the seed-bed in good me
chanical condition, and then continue
to harrow to dislodge and kill sprout
ing weed and grass seed and conserve
soil-moisture by preventing its evap
oration from the surface of the land.
AH this is very important. But it
seems that little or nothing is being
said about the importance of harrow
ing the land as a means of keeping it
warm. The land should be warm when
we plant our corn and cotton. But It
is usually kept cold by allowing it to
He with a crusted or compact sur
face. But by the use of the harrow
the crust of the surface soil Is brok
en up, .evaporation of the soil-water
checked and the land warmed up sev
eral degrees, and the crops grow all
the more rapidly and vigorously.
Last spring we carried a thermom
eter wkh us while on our rounds
among ou» demonstration men, and
, .
HON. MARTIN V, CALVIN
in our field meetings often made ex
periments to show that evaporation
lowers temperature. We would take
a glass of water of the same tempera
ture of the atmosphere and by the
use of a feather moisten the bulb of
the thermometer with some of the
water, allowing the water to • vaporate
from the bulb before more was ap
plied. And we noticed that when the
air was dry and the evaporation rapid,
the mercury in the thermometer would
go down ten to fourteen degrees in
less than five minutes. Os course,
when the air was very humid or
damp, the evaporation was less rapid
and the lowering of temperature not
so great. If the reader wishes to con
vince himself of the cooling tendenoy
of evaporation lie has only to moisten
the back of his hand with his tongue,
and then note the sensation while the
moisture evaporates or dies away.
Now if the evaporation of the little
moisture left by the tongue on the
back of the hand causes such a sen
sation of cold, what must be the quan
tity of heat dissipated or driven off
or away from the soil when by ne
glecting the harrow the land, you al
low thousands of gallons of water per
ncre to evaporate from its surface
each day? To fail to keep the sur
face of the land stirred during the cold
days of spring is to rob our little corn
and cotton plants of the warmth that
would enable them to do their best.
AVe should divert our minds of the
idea that we have no power to regulate
the heat and water-content of the soil;
for it is a fact that both of these
agents so necessary to the growing
of good crops' are more or less under
our control, and we jean regulate their
efficiency to a great extent by the use
of the harrow.
Castor Oil for Chilblains.
Aside from its great value internally,
castor oil is a specific in removing
warts, and one of the safest remedies
for chilblains. It will allay the ichlng,
reduce the inflammation and effect a
cure if applied morning and night.
In the meantime wearing foot cover
ings that are large enough (wide) for
the feet. Being ft heavv tenacious
oil, castor oil is not readily removed,
and thus has a better chance to ex
clude air from frost bitten parts than
many, if not all of the other remedies
In use. and it is healing and safe, and
that is more than can be said of tur
pentine when used too freely on or
near the joints of the anatomy.
Castor oil will remove warts, even
obstinate ones, if it is well applied and
as often as possible. The removal de
pends upon the frequent applications,
and keeping the wart in question sat
urated with the oil. Results may
soon be noted, the surface of a wart
will begin to harden and shrivel, and
in time it will fail off. leaving a small,
smooth, clean depression which will
scon disappear. The present writer has
faith In the use of castor oil for dan
gerous external growths—faith without
any proof—lf used upon the first ap
pearance of any and every hard ex
ternal growth upon the body.
Medora Corbett.
Home Canning—The Biggest
Little Thing on the Farm.
Farm tanning has a perfect fascina
tion for me, says a writer In the
Southern - Agriculturist. It is really
the only form of farm work that ap
peals much to me, and possibly that
Is why I have been so successful In It;
or It might be I liked it just because
I was so successful. I started in with
fear and trembling. I was a failure as
a chicken reiser, and I wanted to do
something to help. We got our canner
with the idea of saving our cull’fruits
and helping out glutted markets. We
did not intend at first to do more than
this, and perhaps supply our own ta
ble with canned vegetables for winter
Our outfit eoit us $lO. We used it
first for peaches. Elberta cullls, can
ned, netted us 70 cents a bushel for
fruit otherwise a dead loss. For seed
lings which were absolutely unmar
ketable fresh, I netted 90 cents a
bush'd canned. That year tomatoes
failed, but I bought 200 pounds as an
experiment. It was extra good fruit
and averaged 30 cans per 100 pounds.
I paid 35 cents a hundred for the fruit
and $2.50 per hundred for the cans.
The cost of solder, acid, etc., would
not run the cost to $3 per hundred. I
sold these, without labels, at $1 per
dozen. Fuel was too plentiful to con
sider, save in the labor of wood-cut
ting, and for this and the work of
canning I felt well paid.
I bought a bushel of pears for 40
cents and was given two bushels of
culls. I canned these in the spare time
ore day and sold them for $8.75. I
canned pumpkins for which there was
no market and netted 10 cents each on
them, big and little. My first season's
work netted me S3O and a lot of exper
ience—enough to make me ready to do
bigger things the next year.
That season was very dry. however,
and my vegetables near failures. Yet
I put up 100 cane of peaches, which
brought me sls. and pome blackberries,
for which, however, I had to pay so
much that I did not make any great
profit. But I filled some orders and
held my customers. I put out one acre
of beans, on about the poorest land on
the farm, using three varieties, onc
thlrd of an acre each. One variety
failed entirely owing to dry weather.
The other two grew less than half a
crop Still I netted $25 from that one
acre, which was more than mv hu«-
-band made from any acre ii» his com
field. Ore bushel of beans will fill
thirty two-pound cans, and mine sold
at 35 cents a dozen, netting me at
least $1 a bushel. This was six years
ago and prices are higher new for
canned stuff. Cans are somewhat
higher, hut not in proportion.
Mv third year's work was still more
extensive and mav be summed up .as
follows. Beans. 1,205 cans; beets. (T 5
cans'; blackberries, 323 cans; tomatoes.
471 cans: peaches. cans; corn. 7S
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK) THURSDAY, r MAY 9, 1912.
cans; grapes, 8 cans. I got better
prices for most of this, peaches es
pecially. I sold them in three grades,
according to size of pieces, getting $2
per dozen for perfect halves in syrup,
$1.75 for the same without svrup, and
$1.50 for broken pieces and peeled seed
lings—just as good exactly save in
looks. This is where so much of the
“cost o r high living” comes in.
Tne next year we left the farm,
renting it, but reserving the fruit. I
canned 100 cans in one day, with the
help of a little girl, besides packing
and overseeing the day's picking, to
flli an order from an old customer.
Then I sold mv car.ner, but was so
addicted to the habit that I reserved
my soldering coppers and every year
since have canned tomatos and beans
in my wash boiler, getting cans by
the dozen from the local factory. Had
we stayed on the farm I should have
run my output up to 5,0C0 cans per
season, about all I could do without
hirihg outside help, and kept it there,
unless better help than was then at
tainable could have been secured.
These are facts and figures from
what I lave Actually dene, under or
dinary circumstances, With, a rather
poor market at home. I have preached
the doctrine of home canning vigor
ously all these years, and am still in
the work, as I believe it to be the
most profitable work a woman can
undertake on tjie farm, if so located
as to produce fruit and vegetables.
Mattel Emerson*Moore.
Missouri.
Timely Work in the Garden.
When the early peas are off clean up
the vines and get some other crop on
the land, writes Prof. Massey In the
Progressive Farmer. Where my early
peas are 1 have some late-sown toma
to plants coming on ready to sbt after
the peas are cleaned up, and these
will hold the land the rest of the sea
son, as they will follow my early to
matoes.
I usually get some tomato plants
out in the garden by the middle of
April, but it was the last of the month
this year before it seemed safe to set
them. Then I watched the weather
reports, for they are sometimes right,
and if frost threatens I bend the plants
down and shovel the soil over them
till the cold has passed and then un
cover them. I once carried the plants
through a freeze down to 20 degrees
In this way.
For these and the butter beans I
use the chicken-wire netting for them
to run on for I do not like the ugly
bean poles in the garden. The wire
netting is better and far cheaper than
going Into the woods to cut the poles,
for it is rolled up when not in use and
will last a lifetime. I use it also to
train tomato plants on, planting them
only two feet apart in rows three feet
apart and training to single stems. If
tomato plants are let sprawl on the
ground they soon get smothered up
with crab grass and cannot be kept
clean, but where they are trained up
you can keep the ground clean.
The Early Norfolk corn that was
planted in March is now well up and
has been twice cultivated and the
early sugar corn, the MalakofT, is also
well above the ground and has been
once cultivated. The extra early sugar
corns seldom amoflnt to much in the
South, but we try to have a little as
early as possihle. Plant now Country
Gentleman and Stowell’s Evergreen,
both of which do well in the South.
My main dependence for lima beans
Is on the little butter bean which bears
better than the large lima and I think
is better to eat.
Then I plant some of the Fordhook
Bush lima beans. These belong to the
thick seeded or potato lima beans and
bear very much better than the large
white limas.
Eggplants I keep in pots till late In
May as they are very tender and need
the soil to be well warmed before set
ting. Further south they can go out
early in May.
If you like carrots, sow some of the
early French forcing sorts. They grow
about as quickly as a radish and are
nice In soups. Then by all means plant
a few seed of the chard. This Is a
sort of beet, the top of which is eaten.
You can pull off the leaves all summer
and we strip the leaf stalks and cook
them like asparagus, and boil the leaf
blades for greens and both are fine;
the leaves resemble spinach very much
and give us spinach in hot weather.
My seed of the Early Norfolk Queen
onion were sown In late April very
thickly in rows to make sets for plant
ing in the fall for early green onions.
Seed can still be sown on soil of only
moderate fertility and sown very thick
ly and they will make prettjssets.
The earliest sweet potato, but not of
the highest quality is the Hayman or
Southern Queen. The Nancy Hall is
getting popular too. It is rather deep
yellow, but not so deep yellow as the
Pumpkin Yam. For the Northern ship
ping the Big Stem Jersey and the Gold
Skin are the best.
The early cabbages that are later
than usual this season pill now be
greatly helped by a dressing of nitrate
of soda alongside the plants.
The first cultivation of the early
Irish potatoes Is best done with the
weeder. going both ways. Then use
the cultivator and lay-by with a slight
furrow with a sweep.
BLACKBERRY CROP
TO BE A BUMPER
May Be a Little Cordial Manu
factured This Year.
Thomasville, Ga., May s.—lt is said
that there will be the finest crop of
blackberries here this season that has
been known in several years. The very
dry weather for the last year or two
cut oft this crop very much and had
the effect besides of making what ber
ries there were very hard and dry.
The average South Georgia housewife
doesn't find anything to take the place
of blackberries for preserving, can
ning and making jelly and is of course
rejoiced at the prospect of a bounti
ful supply this season. It is said there
are still a few of these house
wives who keep to the old time plan
of putting up a little blackberry wine,
holding in higher esteem the advice of
St. Paul in the matter of taking a
little wine than they do any laws de
vised by the Georgia legislators. Os
course no mere man would be brave
enough to offer any expostulation in
this regard, many of the fair sex
feel that having no voice in making
laws they are privileged to break one
when it doesn't suit them.
Hangs Up 15-Mile Record.
New York, May s.—ln an internation
al fifteen-mile race at Celtic Park to
day, A. E. Wood, the English 10-mile
champion, won from a field of twelve
professionals and made a new world's
record of 78 minutes 13 seconds.
The former record. 80 minutes and
4-5 seconds was made by Charles Ap
pleton at Glasglow, Scotland, several
years ago-
FORMATION OF EGG
MOST INTERESTING
IT REQUIRES SOME TIME
Normal Egg from Normal Hen
Gives Normal Chick.
The business hen that makes egg
production her specialty is an inter
esting story, and the egg she lays is
just as much so. But how few who
prize the egg so highly understand the
process by which it is formed. They
accept without question all the eggs
the hen will lay, and thus the eggs
become so eommofi that they are given
little study as to process of formation
except by the poultry expert.
The fresh laid egg consists of an
outer shell, often tinted a rich shade,
surrounding first the two membranes
which lie close to it and form as it
were an inner soft shell. These two
lining membranes part at the large
end of the egg to form the air cell,
one membrane lying close to the outer
shell and forming the top of the air
chamber, the other separating the air
cell from the white or albumen. In
side these membranes is the albumen
or white of the egg, supporting in it
the yellow or yolk. This yolk Is seem
ingly held in place by two threads of
twisted albumen attached to it at eitn
er end and floating in the albumen.
At the top of the yolk is the germ
center where life starts in the fertilized
egg. This milch is familiar to any
careful observer.
The formation of the egg is still
more interesting. In the upper part
of the abdominal cavity of the laying
hen is found a cluster of little yolks,
small in size and enclosed in a mem
brane or capsule. Gradually one of
these yolks begins to grow, finally
breaking its capsule and falling into
the egg tube or oviduct, where the rest
of the egg is formed. If the egg Is to
be fertile, fertilization takes place soon
after the egg has entered the oviduct
and before the rest of the egg is form
ed
Starting down the oviduct the yolk
first receives the two cords or chala
zae, which seem to form an axis for
the yolk to rotate about as it passes
down the egg tube. Next the albumen
or white is secreted by the glands of
the upper part of the oviduct and add
ed to the egg. Then farther along the
two shelled membranes are formed.
The calcareous shell is next added, and
after receiving its tint or coat of paint
the egg is ready to be laid.
This process of egg formation re
quires some time, which time varies
under different circumstances and with
various breeds of hens. One authority
estimates that after the yolk breaks
out of its capsule it requires about
three hours for the formation of the
albumen, three more hours for the
shell membranes to be formed and
from twelve to twenty-four hours more
for the shell to be formed and the egg
laid.
Sometimes the egg is laid without
the hard outer shell, and the result is
the so-called soft shelled egg. This
is commonly caused by either lack of
shell forming material or by overfeed
ing, particularly the feeding in excess
of rich animal foods. Feeding oyster
shell will remedy the first cause and
a balanced ration the second.
Double yolked eggs are also com
mon and triple yolked eggs have been
laid. They are the result of some kind
of a disturbance that causes two yolks
to be released into the oviduct at near
ly the same time, thus becoming sur
rounded with the same layer of al
bumen and with the same shell.
Eggs with abnormal shapes and with
peculiarly roughened shells are some
times laid. The why of these Is often
uncertain, but the probabilities are
that the secretion of shell material or
passage of yolk through the oviduct
Is in some way irregular. This irregu
larity may be of a permanent charac
ter, for some hens always lay a pe
culiarly shaped egg. Avoid setting
these as the normal egg from the
normal hen is likely to produce the
normal chick—Southern Agriculturist.
brooksTo vote
ON “FENCE” LAW
Sentiment Among the Farmers
Seems to Favor Plan.
Quitman, Ga., May s.—An election
has been called by Ordinary May to be
held July 3, in which the question of
“fence or no fence” will be submitted
to the voters of the county, a petition
having been signed by the requisite
number of freeholders and filed with
the ordinary asking for the election
This is the outcome of a general con
viction among the leading farmers of
the county that a no fence law will go
a long way toward checking the rava
ges of hog cholera which has cost the
county from SIO,OOO to $25,000 every year
in recent years. The large land own
ers and growers of stock are almost
unanimously in favor of a no fence
law. Their observation and experience
leads them to believe that this one
thing will do more to promote better
stock breeding than any other one
thing.
All the farmers who are improving
the breeds of their stock keep the stock
in pastures and provide clean water
and food for it. The cholera is car
ried from herd to herd by the roving,
uncared-for “shote,” turned out to seek
a living wherever he can find it. One
farmer who had not had a case of
cholera among his hogs In eleven years
and who raises thoroughbred stock,
found one of these stray hogs In his
pasture dead; shortly afterwards his
hogs developed cholera and it cost him
SSOO.
The farmers say the no-fence law
will compel every' one to keep his
stock in pasture and this will gradu
ally eliminate the scrub stock as no
one will want to pasture and care for
anything but good stock. At different
time< in *he past the no-fence law plan
has been agitated but sentiment is
more generally In favor of it now than
at any time previously and It is be
lieved the law will carry in the coming
election.
Surprise Wedding at Vidalia.
Lyons. Ga.. May 5.—E. Gordon Floyd,
a young salesman with B. F. Brown,
and Miss Gussie Montcreif, chief opera
tor of the Southern Bel! Exchange in
Lyons, motored up to Vidalia this aft
ernoon and were quietly Rev.
Mr. House, the Methodist minister in
that city, performing the ceremony.
The young people for the present will
reside at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Z. P. Williams.
Toombs Co. Vets Off for Macon.
Lyons. Ga.. May s.—Wade Hampton
Camp. United Confederate Veterans,
with their sponsor and matron of honor,
will leave In the morning about forty
strong for Macon. This camp is made
up of veterans from all over Toombs
county.
REPUBLICANS DID
NOT LIKE RESULT
OF MASSACHUSETTS VOTE
Worcester Man Says It Means
Split in Party Vote.
From the Morning News May 6.
Republican politicians in Massachu
setts are not pleased with the result
of the preferential primary in that
state, taking it to indicate that the
Republicans are not going to poll as
heavy a vote in the presidential elec
tion as they have in the past, accord
ing to Marcus L. Foster, a prominent
lumberman of Worcester, who is at
the De Soto.
That President Taft did not makp a
better showing in Massachusetts was
due more to the complicated nature of
the ballot than to any decline in the
President's popularity, says Mr. Fos
ter. He does not believe Roosevelt
has gained any strength to speak of
in Massachusetts. The Republican par
ty as a whole, he declares, is dissat
isfied with the result.
It appears, according to Mr. Foster,
that both Mr. Taft and Col. Roose
velt have thrown caution to the winds
and are looking out for their personal
interests regardless of the injury their
actions are causing the party. Such
a big split between the two big party
leaders will mean nothing more nor
less than that the man who is nom
inated will fail to get the support of
his opponent’s friends. This, Mr.
Foster says, should defeat the party.
The Republicans are doing right now
what the Democrats have been doing
in the past, Mr. Foster declares. And
this same dissension within the ranks
of the party has been responsible for
the several defeats that have been
administered to the Democrats. While
it is true, says Mr. Foster, that there
is a wild scramble among the Demo
crats for the nomination, the differ
ences between the several candidates
are not so wide and numerous as those
between Mr. Taft and Col. Roosevelt.
Mr. Foster has traveled extensively
through the North lately and he has
found that Underwood is gaining
strength every day. That the Ala
bamian will be heard from in the Bal
timore convention and that the other
candidates have a very formidable ri
val in Mr. Underwood is the opinion
of Mr. Foster. The business people
of the North, according to Mr. Foster,
have every confidence in Mr. Under
wood's ability, while the same cannot
be said of them in regard to the other
candidates.
Mr. Foster is accompanied by J. B.
George, another prominent lumberman
of Worcester.
RUSE SAVES NEGRO
FROM_ANGRY MEN
Young Woman’s Story Causes
Excitement at Valdosta.
Valdosta, Ga.. May 5.—A negro bar
ber named George Mobley was saved
from a crowd of men last night only
by a ruse of the police officers and
sheriff after the men had been held at
bay by Deputy Parrish, who stood Ip.
the city prison door with his revolver
raised and swearing to kill the first
man who came to the door.
Mobley was arrested by the police
on a complaint of ft young woman
clerk of a candy stand, who said the
negro made improper proposals to her.
The young woman supports two aunts
and herself. Mobley is almost white,
in fact it would hardly be known that
he was not a white man.
He asked the young lady if he could
see her home and she replied that she
•'did not walk with negroes.” Then he
asked he rto go riding with him and
‘‘if she did -not like his looks.” His
attitude toward her, she said, showed
that he was trying to push himself
upon her, and it is charged that he
laid his hand upon her.
When the story got out later in the
night a crowd went to the prison to
take Mobley out. but they were held
off by the deputy sheriff. Later the
members of the crowd were told that
Mobley had been transferred to the
jail and they broke for there. In the.
meantime he was slipped out a side
door and hustled into an automobile
and carried toward Quitman, catching
the m'dnight train at one of the sta
tions west of here.
The crowd was divided as to whether
to kill Mobley or beat him nearly to
death and let him go. The excitement
was intense for an hour or more.
Mayor Roberts, Judge Thomas and
others assisted the policemen and
sheriff in trying to keep down trouble.
JUST ONE DELEGATION
NAMED IN MUSCOGEE
Two Were Threatened, but
Trouble Is Smoothed.
Columbus, Ga., May 5. —Quite a flur
ry was created in local political circles
to-day by the announcement in a Col
umbus paper that there would be in
all probability two contesting delega
tions from Muscosee county to'the
state convention, one appointed by the
county Democratic executive commmit
tee and one by the Muscogee Under
wood Club. As a result of conferences
between Vhairman W. Cecil Neill of
the committee and President Ed.
Wohlwender of the Underwood club to
day it can be safely stated to-night
that there will be only one delegation
from this county, however. Chairman
Neill stated that the committee would
appoint on the delegation all persons
requested by the Underwood club, but
that the committee reserved the right
of, appointing as delegates other well
kitown supporters of Underwood who
were representative citizens.
President Wohlwender thinks that
the club should be permitted to name
the entire delegation in accordance
with custom in such matters. Chair
man Neill states that the Muscogee
delegation will not be named until
after the state committee meets.
While sharp difference* of opinion
have developed as to the right of the
committee to add to the delegation
names other than those suggested by
the Underwood club, yet the Under
wood people will hardly name a con
testing delegation.
Muscogee county will urge the se
lection of Dr. John M. Crook of Col
umbus as one of the delegates at large
from Georgia to Baltimore Dr. Crook
is an Alabamian. Is related to Senator
Bankhead and was an important fac
tor In the decisive Underwood victory
in Muscogee.
Morley Gets Life Term.
Lincoln, Neb., May 5. —Charles Mor
ley, the only surviving member of the
trio of state penitentiary convicts who
broke Jail March 1, after.killing. War
den Delahunty, Deputy Warden Wag
ner and Guard Heilman, was found
guilty to-day of murder in the first
degree. The Jury recommended that
he be sentenced to life imprisonment.
CLARK IS FAMOUS
BURGLAR JOHN HART
Robbed Homes in Charleston
and Savannah.
HAS WRITTEN MANY POEMS
From the Morning News May 6.
After strenuously denying his identi
ty during the day the aged sailor who
Saturday gave his name as George H.
Clark last night admitted that he is
John Hart, who pulled off one of the
boldest burglaries ever committed in
Savannah and who served a term in
the penitentiary for it.
Hart is 84 years old and has served
several terms in the penitentiary. The
crime for which he was convicted here
was the burglary of the home of Guy
A. Cardwell of No. 203 East Bolton
street about April 1, 1907. He took a
lot of silver plate from the house and
attempted to pawn it four days after
wards and was arrested by Detective
Umbach.
Recorder Schwarz suspended sen
tence on Hart when he was tried in
Police Court under the name of Clark.
He was sent back to the station house
and Chief Detective Murphy stated he
believed the man was Hart. Satur
day a representative of the Morning
News saw him and secured his story.
Detective Umbach recognized the
similarity between Clark's story and
Hart’s story and following the publi
cation visited the prisoner and
recognized him as Hart. Other
officers said he was Hart and
various persons who came in con
tact with him five years ago also posi
tively identified him. Hart continued
to deny his identity, asking the officers
If they were trying to hound him to
death. If so he said he was ready to
go to hell or any other port. The
officers continued to quiz him and
finallv he told them that he could not
conceal it any longer and that he was
the man.
Unless the statute of limitations in
South Carolina has run against him
.he is wanted in Charleston for the
burglary of the home of A. H. Sllcox
a short time before he burglarized the
home of Mr. Cardwell in Savannah.
Coming to Savannah, Hart pawned
the silver plate that he had secured
in Charleston. Seventy-one pieces of
it were recovered from pawn shops
here and returned. Mr. and Mrs. Sll
cox had only been married a short
time and the greater part of the sil
verware was wedding presents. It is
understood that he committed a num
ber of other burglaries in Charleston,
making a big cleanup.
Entering the home of Mr. Cardwell
in Savannah, Hart used candles with
which to find the plate. There was a
lot of imitation plate in the room, and
Hart tested each piece, taking only the
solid plate. Entrance was effected
through a French wifidow, and at the
time three women and two small chil
dren were the only persons in the
house. Before leaving Hart stopped
long enough to refresh, himself with a
pint of milk from the refrigerator, and
going out, took with him an extra coal
and hat left otj the rack by Mr. Card
well.
There was no clue to the burglar, but
four days later Hart attempted to pawn
the plate, having cut the letter "C”
from the pieces. He pawned a con
siderable part of it, but the matter was
reported to the police, and Detective,
Umbach found him on West Broad
street. He talked with Hart for some
time, and finally placed him under ar
rest, finding in his pockets the let
ters that had been clipped from the
plates. At that time Hart was 79
years old, and apparently in a more
feeble condition than at present.
The case attracted considerable at
tention. After confessing the burglary
Hart was tried before Judge Paul E.
Seabrook and sentenced to serve three
years on the state farm. He served
two years and was pardoned.
While confined In the Chatham
countv jail he gained the name of the
“Prison Poet.” He wrote a large num
ber of poems, several of which were
published. The majority of them were
good, and he showed an excellent com
mand of English. A sailor, and hav
ing traveled around the world several
times, his stories were most interest
ing, and as he was a willing talker,
he was given considerable notoriety.
The old man is very feeble now. He
is bent with age and is very nervous.
About two years ago a wardrobe fell
across his left hand, breaking the
bones, and it is stiff, it being with dif
ficulty that he uses it. He does not
care to talk about his past.
In the station house at night he said:
“I am an old sailor, and am doing no
person any harm. If they will give
me a chance I will leave this town.
There is no use in talking about what
I have done. I have suffered for it
and now it is past and gone. What I
have been does not matter."
Hart the police say, has been a des
perate'burglar in his younger days.
When he was sentenced by Judge Sea
brook. Hart gave a short resume of
his life, which was printed in full by
the Morning News at that time. He
was born in 1828 in Connecticut ac
cording to his story, and shipped in
1844 He followed the sea continuously,
serving as a blockade runner during
the £ivll War.
‘•I have been In an Insane asylum,
was his declaration at the time,” "and
I suppose I should have pleaded pa
ranoia” or "dementia" but I presume It
is too late now. "He then told of
having served four years of a ten year
sentence‘in Florida for stealing a bot
tle of whisky. A few days after his
trial here, letters were received from
John C. Taylor, a member of the prison
commission of Connecticut, stating that
Hart had served five terms In the
penitentiary there.
Mr. Taylor stated in his letter that
the last time Hart was sent up, was
under the name of John Skin
ner. He begged to be sent to Key
West, where he had relatives, contin
ued the letter. He was pardoned, and
a ticket given him to Kev West. Short
ly after arriving there he robbed the
home of the postmaster. Leaving
Florida after serving four years. Hart
went to Charleston, coming to Sa
vannah from that place.
He served two years of his three
year sentence in Georgia and was
pardoned. In some manner, in Febru
ary, 1911 he obtained admittance to
the Little Sisters of the Poor under
the name of George W. Clark, remain
ing there until last Wednesday.
During the time he was there. Hart
wrote a number of poems, sending
sorpe of them to various magazines.
He now has a trunk In pawn and in it
is a box containing a large number of
poems and articles, the majority of
them being based on his numerous ex
periences as a sailor.
A number of things caused him to
be recognized by Detectlye Umbach
despite his changed appearance, and
lAi denial V>f ids identity. The tip of
the lobe of his left ear is gone. When
arrested here in 1907. he stated It had
been frost bitten. A star tattooed on
his right hand, near the thumb: his
watery blue eyes, and his peculiar rasp
ing voice, all immediately struck the
officer, and he declared it was Hart.
There is no charge against Hart ex
cept that of being drunk and sleeping
on the street, and it is possible that
If the Charleston authorities want him
he will be sent there. For the present
he will be held in the station house.
DIVES BLOOD TO
SAVE NEPHEW
Clifford Cooler Said to Be
ing from Hook Worm.
BLOOD INFUSION IS MADE
Sister Died Last Week and
Brother Is in Hospital.\
From the Morning News May 6.
In a desperate effort to save the life
of his 6-year-old nephew, Clifford Mc-
Tyre Cooler, who is in a dying condi
tion suffering from hookworm, E. L.
Bennett of Okatie, S. C., submitted to
an infusion operation at the Savanna]*
Hospital, giving some of his blood to
the bov.
This is the second operation of the
kind ever performed in Savannah. De
spite the act of the uncle it is doubtful
if Clifford will recover. He is being
given oxygen in an effort to save him,
and it is said that he is slowly dying.
The. case is peculiarly sad. Last week
Cooler's older sister died at their home
near Okatie from the same trouble,
and now his 8-year-old brother, Halton
Heywood Cooler, occupies a bed in the
same room and is in a serious condi
tion. It is believed that the older boy
will recover.
Father Is Heartbroken.
Their father, G. N. Cooler, a pros
perous farsier, is with them and he
Is heartbroken. The moans of Clif
ford are mingled with the sobs of the
father and brother, and Mr. Cooler
was hardly able to talk yesterday, his
voice continually choking as he told
of the loss of his daughter and of the
seemingly impossible recovery of his
bey.
After Clifford was taken to the hos
pital the attending physician stated
that his only possible chance was for
an infusion. Mr. Bennett, who is de
voted to the lad, declared his willing
ness to submit to it.
He laid on an adjoining bed and the
operation was performed, the blood
from the arteries of one passing iqto
the veins of the other. The operation
was performed Friday. Mr. Bennett
was slightly weak from the operation
but he was not confined to his bed,
leaving the hospital that afternoon.
Physicians Watch Operation.
The case was a very interesting one
to Savannah physicians, and a, num
ber of them gathered in the room to
see the operation performed. It was
done by two physicians and took con
siderable time.
The children were found to be suf
fering from hookworm some time ago,
but practically nothing was done for
them. The red corpuscles in the blood
were gradually eaten by the ravages
of the disease and the children became
desperately ill. Their bodies are in a
swollen condition and the skin very
white. •
Clifford was the worse of the two,
and b ith were brought to Savannah w
soon after the death of the daughter, ■
it being believed that was the only 9
chance to save them. The ravages §f J&.
the disease have gone to Such'an ex- \
tent on Clifford that his heart Is af
fected and it is with difficulty that he
breathes, it being necessary for him
to be propped in a sitting position so
that he can get Ills breath.
SAVESIIEGRO* WOMAN,
BUT HITS SIDEWALK
Pastor Wilder’s Little Brush Is
in a Collision.
Forced to decide between running
down a colored woman and risking a
collision with the sidewalk, the
Rev. John S. Wilder cut his*
little Brush automobile sharply in
to the sidewalk at Brough
ton and Jefferson streets Saturday
night? The woman escaped untouched,
but the large iron post that protrudes
from the ground on the corner was
broken off and the little machine was
slightly bruised by the contact.
Pastor Wilder was driving east on
Broughton street. A negro woman
walking north stepped off the side
walk and hesitated a few moments for
a car to pass. Mr. Wilder came to a
stop, but when the woman proceeded
to cross the street he moved ahead.
Reaching the car track the woman
changed her mind, and turning sharply
stepped back immediately in front of
the automobile.
Mr. Wilder saw that an accident was
imminent. There was no chance for
him to escaped entirely. Straight ahead
of him' was the woman and to the side
was the sidewalk. He reached a de
cision instantly and determined to sac
rifice the car, expecting it to be badly
broken by the collision. He bumped
so hard into the sidewalk that he cut
an eight-inch iron pole completely off.
but the machine was not put out of
commission.
BIG CROWD SEE NEW
HYDROPLANE IN ACTION
Chandos Ross’ New Motor Boat
at the Isle of Hope.
A large crowd of Savannahians and
residents of the Isle of Hope had their
first sight of a hydroplane on the
Skidaway river in front of Barbees
pavilion yesterday afternoon.
'The Muggs was out for her trial
trip. The boat was finished by A.
Chandos Ross Friday and was on the
water for her first tryout. Mr. Ross,
who constructed the other Muggs,
which participated in the motor boat
races a year or so ago, built this one
himself on the Seaboard terminals,
where he Is employed. •
People lined the bluff and crowded
Barbee's pavilion while the little boat
skimmed over the water at almost
twenty miles an hour. It was only a
tryout and no effort was made to test
the speed of the motors. In fact the
machinery in the boat had not been
fastened down. As Mr. Ross explain
ed it, he only had the craft out to see
it there were anj strains in her. She
proved to be perfectly shipshape in
every respect. <•
The Muggs is 19 feet 9% inches over
all with 4 feet 3 inches beam. She Is
equipped with a four-cylinder 20-
horse power motor, capable of attain
ing something like twenty miles an'
hour when she is doing her best. Fcr
her size Mr. Ross says he expects the
Muggs to be able to hold her own
with most anything in her class.
This is the first hydroplane ever seen
in the waters about Savannah. This .
style of light pleasure craft is quite
common in other places where water
sports are indulged In to any consid
erable extent.
