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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.