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SUNDAY, JAN. 21.
The Farmers Forum
(Conductud by J. C. McJtullffm of Ga.)
Address. Agricultural Ed.tor Herald,
Augusta, Oa.
“Oh well for me and m.v fellows,
To save the wine of the song.
And closer press the roses.
As we cheerfully pass along."
• • •
The cotton growers' convention at
New Orleans Is over and Its delibera
tions have been given to the world.
John M. Parker, of the Progressive
Union of New Orleans, delivered the
welcome address and It was replete
with cordiality.
The responsive address was deliv
ered by Hon. W. L. Foster, of Shreve
port, 1.a., who Is one of the largest
cotton planters of the world, lie told
graphically and politically of the Im
portant part cotton played in the de
fense of New Orleans at the great
battle In which (Sen. Andrew Jackson
won such a signal victory over the
British. He declared that cotton will
be the defense of the city In the fu
ture as all growth of the city In the
days to be depends on cotton. He
urged delegates to return home and
perfect their local associations.
The light of Samson was as noth
ing compared to a fight the southern
farmer could make if he would mount
himself on a home-raised mule and
take the hambone of a home-raised
hog as a weapon. At the conclusion
of Mr. Foster's address the audience
gave well deserved applause and the
band appropriately Htruck up "The
Bonnie Blue Flag’—"lt shows what
southern folk for southern rights will
do.” 4
Ht was followed by President Jor
dan. who recited the work already
done by the association He espe
cially emphasized the work of Secre
tary Dick Cheatham in turning on the
light in the cotton scandal in the ng
ricultural department at Washington.
He declared 15 cents cotton is an as
sured thing if producers stand "pat.”
There are now 5,000,000 more spin
dles in operation than a year ago and
Fall River mills are running full time,
■while they were idle a long time a lit
tle more than a year ago, according
to Mr. Jordan, and he told the farm
ers they were monarchs of all they
surveyed and Wall street had its pow
er. But after all he declared home
grown food supplies furnished the only
method by which this would be done.
The bonded warehouse system was
advocated as the proper solution of
storage and sales problem.
The number of addresses and talks
made to the convention were many
and in the majority of instances ev
erything said was logical, though, of
course, at times the spirit of spicy
character was manifested, but it only
gave more life to the convention.
E. D. Smith, of South Carolina, was
a conspicuous figure in the convention,
and he was always given an ovation
when he arose. His main address was
the essence of all that is good, and
John Temple graves, of Georgia, only
eclipsed him as the closing orator of
the convention by the oratorical flow
of language which he as a God-given
power possesses.
In my mind it is useless to try to
tell of the events marking the course
of the convention for a hundred thou
sand copies of the proceedings will be
given out and all the world knows
about it anyway.
President Clarke, of Mississippi,
made an address that particularily
appealed to me as coming from a plain
practical common sense farmer and
in his concluding remarks he said he
posed as no orator but simply as a
farmer and his feeble efforts could
only be classed as the "still small
voice of Mississippi."
The discussion which followed Mr.
Clark’s speech was interesting in the
extreme and Mr. Smith, of South
Carolina said: “If it be true that
that is Mississippi's still small voice,
then God deliver us from her active
big voice.”
The principal arguments set forth
by the convention were those dealing
with the problems of diversification
and acreage and the extension of the
cotton trade In to foreign markets.
The first proposition was the impor
tant one ns on it hinges primarily the
success of every move made by the
growers. Following this the acreage
question was another matter of vast
importance and received a goodly
share of discussion. It was decided
that the proper thing to do was to
try and fulfill to the letter the re
duction of 25 per cent in acreage
under the crop of year before last.
No doubt, if all the farmers of our
beloved southland could have been
present and heard the arguments set
forth thev would have gone home more
th an prepared to do their part.
As it is the great fact now stands
out pre-eminent above all others and
that is: there must be individual ef
fort put forth by every member of the
> association in order to attain success.
The idea of loyal members doing more
than their part was suggested and as
a method it was proposed that cot
ton growers turn to be corn, grain,
hay and stock growers and supply
their neighbors w-ith the needs along
these lines.
So without going into details fur
ther along this line I suggest that we
as farmers get together everywhere
and any time we can. If it be not
LAWRENCE MEAT COMPANY
(INCORPORATED)
FINE a _ POPULAR
MEATS PRICES.
ELLIS AND SEVENTH STREETS.
In regular meetings often then let It
be in every locality as frequent as
possible. It may be there are spirits
that will dominate in every gather
ing and work for the good. Certain.
I am, there is room for Improvement
In our saction. 1 see no reason for
doubt and gloomy forbodlngs and there
is poetry in everything, so once again
I say:
"The tissues of life to be
We weave in colors all our own
And in the field of Destiny
We reap as we have sown.”
J. C. McAULIFFE.
OFFICERS SOUTHERN COTTON
ASSOCIATION.
Harvle Jordan. Georgia, president.
Richard Cheatham. Mississippi, sec
retary. ,
J. H. Latham, Texas, treasurer.
E D. Smith. South Carolina, field
agent.
DIVISION OFFICERS SOUTHERN
COTTON' ASSOCIATION.
Alabama.
President—W. H. Seymour, Mont
gomery, Ala.
Vice President —J. A. B. Lovett,
Montgomery. Ala.
Treasurer —L. B. Farley, Montgom
ery, Ala.
Arkansas.
President—B. H. Burnett, Chickalah,
Ark.
Vice President—John G. Fletcher,
Little Rock, Ark.
Secretary—Fred C. Burnett, Chick
alah, Ark.
Treasurer —C. D. Milner, Little
Rock.
Georgia.
President —M. L. Johnson, Atlanta.
Ga.
Vice President—John Bostwick,
Bostwick, Oa.
Secretary—H. C. Hill. Atlanta. Ga.
Treasurer —John D. Walker, Sparta,
Ga.
Louisiana.
President —Paul M. Potts, Natchi
toches, La.
Vice President —J. A. Brewer, Nat
chitoches. La.
Secretary—G. W. Sentlett, Bunkie,
La.
Treasurer —R. H. Jackson, Natchi
toches, La.
Mississippi.
President —Walter Clark. Clarks
dale. Miss.
Vice President—N. B. Crawford,
Houston. Miss.
Secretary—Dr. Will H. Woods, Jack
son, Miss.
Treasurer —W. D. Carmichael, Bear
Creek, Mich.
North Carolina.
President—John S. Cunningham,
Cunningham, N. C.
Vice President—A. C. Green, Ral
eigh, N. C.
Secretary and treasurer —T. B. Phr
ker, Raleigh, N. C.
South Carolina.
President —E. D. Smith, Columbia,
S. C.
Vice President—H. B. Tindal, Co
lumbia, S. C. V,
Secretary—F. H. Weston, Columbia,
S. C.
Treasurer —F. H. Hyatt, Columbia,
S. C.
Tennessee.
President —T. C. Long. Jackson,
Tenn.
Vice President—J. H. Flowers. Mem
phis, Tenn.
Treasurer— M. L. Buckingham, Mem
phis, Tenn.
Texas.
President—R. E. Smith. Sherman,
Tex.
Vice President—C. H. Jenkins,
Brnwnwood, Tex.
Secretary—R. D. Hudson, Waxa
hatchie, Tex.
Treasurer —W. R. Rivers, Sherman,
Tex.
Oklahoma and Indian Territory.
President —C. H. Onby, Rossvllle,
Okla
Vice President—Roy Hays, Good
night, I. T.
Secretary and Treasurer —L. B.
Irvin. Stillwater, Okla.
Organizer—Roy Hays, Goodnight,
I. T.
MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE
COMMITEE SOUTHERN COT
TON ASSOCIATION.
Alabama.
W. F. Vandiver, Montgomery.
T. C. Banks, Attalla.
F, S. Moody, Tuscaloosa.
Arkansas.
L. E. Love, Dardanelle.
W. Y. Foster, Hope.
Georgia.
W. L. Peek, Conyers.
.1. L. Boynton, Dickey.
J. R. Miller, Statesboro.
Louisiana.
F. L. Maxwell, Mound.
VV. L. Foster, Shreveport.
Mississippi.
.1. McC. Martin. Port Gibson.
R. N. McGhee, Woodville.
S. A. Witherspoon, Meridian.
North Carolina.
J. A. Brown, Chadbourne.
.1. P. Allison, Concord.
South Carolina.
E. D. Smith, Magnolia.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 13.—Builders
constructors of great piles of steel
Hnd masonry which have of late
years been reared in New York, ns
well as those engaged In erection of
dwelling houses, are heartily in favor
of adaption of a metric system of
measurements, says the New York
Herald. Beginning with the archi
tect, the draughtsman, the maker of
structural iron work and Including
tnnson, carpenter and plumber, all en
gaged in construction of houses, be
lieve they will be saved much un
necessary and foolish figuring if con
gress will pass a law making use of
the metric equivalents compulsory in
this country.
Henry F. Hornbostel, well-known
both as engineer and architect, and to
whom was intrusted planning
buildings of the Carnegie Institute in
Pittsburg, is heartily in favor of a
change in methods of measurements.
"I used the metric system abroad
for four years,” said he, "and I must
say that the medievalism of England
William S. Lipscomb, Gaffney.
Tennessee.
W. G. Davis, Bailey.
Texas.
J. H. C'onnell, Dallas.
C. H. Jenkins. Rrownwood.
John H. Latham, Dublin.
F. M. Green. Atlanta.
Oklahoma.
L. B. Irwin, Stillwater.
Indian Territory.
G. W. York, Inrlianola.
Don't Blame the Crops.
The sapient, ones who always have
an expiation for everything are blam
ing the present stringency In the
money market on the crops. The
crops must be moved and It. takes so
much money to move them that, a se
vere tax is put upon the money supply.
Hence the stringency.
This may be partly true, but only
partly true. There is more money in
the country than ever before, ana
New York is less drawn upon for
money to move the crops than is cus
tomary. The banks in the wheat
growing country are better supplied
with money than at any time in their
history. Some of them have refused
deposits because they did not have
vault room to store the cash, and
could not be encumbered with it.
Men who raise and move crops are
seldom borrowers when the rate of
interest is abnormally high. They can
afford to wait. It Is the speculator
who must have money, no matter what
the loss, to save him from utter dis
aster. Money was loaned in New York
on call last week at 45 per cent. That
sort of money is too expensive to be
used in moving crops.
The secret of the stringency may
be found in the fact that people have
outgrown the habit of sending their
extra dollars to New York for storage.
They are keeping it at home. A vault
in a bank on the Kansas prairie is
just as safe and much more conven
ient. It is the same with banks scat
tered all over the country. People
are no longer slaves and worshippers
of the New York financial idols.
They have seen the error of their way.
Money no longer pours into New York
as it once did to be loaned out at
good Interest. New York is no longer
the catch basin for every loose dol
lar.
This fact, renders the New York
banks less able to supply the demands
of the speculators who must pay an
enormous rate of interest in order to
obtain it.
The growth of the banking facilities
of the south are something marvel
ous. In 1905 the national banks In the
entire Southland numbered 1,221, as
against. 220 In 1880, a clear gain of
about 455 per cent, with a correspond
ing gain in capital from $46,000,000 to
$126,000,000, an increase of 176 per
cent. In the same period the surplus
rose from $0,000,000 to $50,000,000, au
increase of 458 per cent, and deposits
soared from $65,00,000 to $469,000,000,
a truly amazing increase of 625 per
cent. Undivided profits went up from
less than $4,000,000 in 1880 to approx
imately $27,000,000 in 1905, a gain of
675 per cent.
What the national banks have done
is only a part of what has been done.
The figures here given do not include
the savings banks, the state banks,
the private banks and the trust com
panies, which largely outnumber the
national banks. These millions ag
gregated make a stupendous whole
and they explain in a large measure
why it is less difficult to bring about
a stringency in the New York money
market.
The crops have little to do with It.
Changed conditions are making them
selves felt.—Memphis News-Hcmit.ar.
THAT GREAT CORN CROP.
The Methods and Fertillxers Used by
Farmer Woodley.
In accordance with your recent re
THE AUGUSTA HERAID'
ami America is not encouraging. The
scientific world uses the metric meas
urements, but in this country the
scientist and the business man move
In different atmospheres. But engi
neers and architects could, if they
would band together, do a great deal
toward forcing adoption of the metre,
the kilo and the litre. it would be
of benefit to the movement., too, if our
universities and technical schools
gave more attention to the subject
and taught It In a practical wny."
In planning of a house and in its
subsequent construction original cal
culations are, of course, made by an
architect, who figures under our pres
ent system to the sixteenth, and often
to the sixty-fourth part of an inch.
Few beams are of even figures, and. If
so. they connect with other beams
and crosspieces, which run to frac
tions of an inch in size. A plan
for such a simple thing as hip truss
skylight, for instance. Is covered
with a mass of figures which are with;
difficulty crowded upon paper. Meas-
quest for an account of the culture
and fertilization of my corn crop I
beg to say that 1 have never attempt
ed to write an article for a newspaper,
nor would I now but for the fact that
I have recently received scores of let
ters like yours from different parts of
the country, asking me to ' give in full
the manner of planting, fertilizing,
gathering—in fact everything connect
ed with my crop of corn that would
be of Interest to my fellow farmers
throughout the state and the southern
states." As I have not the time nor
the Inclination to write so many let
ters, I will take this method of an
swering them through the press.
I will state first, however, that I
had the honor of being a delegate to
the Southern Cotton association held
at New Orleans in January last, and
camp back home from that convention
morally hound to reduce my cotton
acreage 25 per cent. And ns I had
been planting 40ft acres of cotton be
sides all the corn and oats that. I need
ed, and as It was then too late to plant
a large crop of oatß, I cut out 100
acres of my best cotton land and
planted It in corn in addition to the
usual amount of land already set aside
for com.
Early in the year I broke up my
land deep with two-horse plows, laid
it. off in five-foot rows and bedded it out
about the middle of March.
I planted a seed that I had been
improved for a good many years—
bred It. up from the big gourd seed
variety crossed with flint corn. It
has an extra large cob, well filled with
long grains; and I have selected 6ft
ears of this com that shelled out a
bushel. Planted the latter part of
March and got. a good stand, but.
crows and birds broke the stands so
badly that I planted the whole crop
over in the last week In April, and got
a perfect stand, 18 to 24 Inches apart
In the drill.
My Fertilizer was lftft pounds kalnlt,
20ft pounds cotton seed meal and lftft
pounds nitrate of soda, making 4ftft
pounds in all per acre. I put down
10ft pounds kalinit and meal mixed at
time of planting; 20ft pounds more of
same mixture at second plowing, and
100 pounds soda at fourth and Ibhl
plowing; cultivated crop altogether
with sweeps, using 16-inch for first,
18-inch for second and 24 inch for
two last plowings. Did not put Dixie
or turn plows In It after I rolled the
middle In the spring.
We had entirely too much rain all
through July for cotton, but the con
tlnuous rains struck the corn exactly
at the right time, so much ho that it
did not suffer an hour for rain from
the time it was up until It was fully
matured. The yield of corn averaged
a fraction over 50 bushels per acre on
150 acres thatl worked with contract
labor, but I had 25 acres more work
ed by share croppers that did not do
nearly so well, It being a well known
fact that negroes cannot grow corn
successfully. I will make more net
profit per acre this year on corn than
I will on 12 cent cotton. I have put
away plenty of corn to supply a 20-
horse farm another year and raise my
own meat, and have 4,000 bushels of
corn and 10,000 pounds of good sound
fodder for sale.—.!. M. Woodley In
Sumter (S. C.) Item.
The Investment In Cotton Mills.
During the past year there was in
vested In cotton mills and related In
dustrles, along the line of the south
ern railroad, the sum of $9,073,650.
These plants Included cotton mills,
cotton warehouses, cotton seed oil
mills, knitting mills, hosiery establish
ments, compresses, etc. In 1904 the
investment was $12,953,500; In 1903,
$10,326,100; and In 1902, $7,514,850,
making a total for the four years of
$39,868,000 a truly remarkable show
ing, still further emphasized when re
sults are measured by the number of
spindles which this great Investment
urements are In feet, Inches and fmc
tions of an Inch, and are difficult to
handle when taken in connection with
a multitude of other measurements
of the same complex kind in a Inrge
building.
Bricklayer, stone mason, plumber,
all are hampered by the sixteenths,
tlie thirty-seconds and the sixty
fourths, to say nothing of the quart
ers, thirds and eights, which are con
stantly appearing in their measure
ments, he is often compelled to make
allowance for errors which frequently
creep into plans, mainly through im
possibility of obtaining absolutely cor
rect measurements with our antiquat
ed system.
It is well known among plumbers
thnt in putting pipes In a five story
building there Is usually nn ercess of
two Inches at the fop story, owing to
crudities and inaccuracies of measure
ments. Work done with the metric
scale roulil he measured with utmost
accuracy.
has put in motion in the cities and
mill towns reached by the lines of the
Southern railway. With the addition
of spindles Installed since January 1,
1905, on which date the Ihsl yearly
record of mill equipment for this ter
ritory was closed—there arc at the
present time 6,778,186 cotton spindles
immediately tributary to the Southern
railway line, which Is about 28 per
cent of the total number of spindles
in the United States and 82.5 per
cent of the spindles of the entire south.
There are some 800 establishments In
the southern states which consume
raw cotton, and of this number all
but 96—less than half the number lo
cated In North Carolina alone are
established In Southern railway states.
This number Includes splnnln gmllls
and those establishments which use
raw cotton In the manufacture of mat
tresses, batting, felt, etc. The num
ber of active and Idle spindles In
southern mills, as compiled by Mr.
Hester, Is 8,685,393; the number ns
complied by another authority for
northern mills is 15,325,000, and the
total number of spindles complied
from these two sources Is 24,010,393,
which corresponds substantially with a
recent report of the bureau of the cen
sus.
When Mark Twain Joined the Church
Did you ever hear the story of how
Mark Twain met Rev. Dr. Twltehell
and got religion? No? When he went
to Hartford to live, his wife said to
wondered around a good while and
led considerable of a Bohemian life.
Now that we have settled down here
I 'think we ought to Join some church
and he respectable. It’s the thing
to do at least. It was that way I
was brought up In Elmira." Mark
agreed and suggested that, they make
the rounds of the churches and pick
out the one they like the best.
"They did so, Sunday after Sun
day, until they had visited all, and
then for a few Sundays nothing was
said. Twain hoped that the sub
ject was forgotten and he would not.
have to go anywhere. Hut one day
Mrs. Clemens reminded him. “Sam
uel," she said, “we have been to all
the churches and now you should de
cide which one wo are to attend.
Twain thought a long time and final
ly said: "There’s that Methodist
church down In the side street. I
rather liked the preacher’s sermon,
lyet s go there.’
’’’No, Samuel,’ replied Mrs. Clem
ens, sternly, ‘lt Is not sermons you
need, but. prayers.’
’“Well,lf It’s prayers I need, let’s
go to I>r. Twltchell’s church. He
wasn’t very hard on me In his pray
ers.’
"Ho, to Dr. TwlteholPs church they
went. Home weeks later a Hart
ford man met, Senator Joseph Haw
ley in Washington. ‘Hay, Senator,'
he exclaimed, ’we have had a great,
religious revival In Hartford.’ '
“ ‘lndeed,’ said Hawley. ’I hadn't
heard about. It.’
" 'Oh, it. was very successful. We
only lost. 17, but we got Mark
Twain.' ”
' “ ,T 1
Logic.
Translated for Tales from "Fam
ille-Journal.
Mother You must always remain
standing, Hugo, while a lady is cn
terlng the room.
Hugo And if no one Is coming
must I sit down all the time. ,
A Boft Anawer.
I've been kept waiting here a whole
hour!
Walter (pleasantly) Dear me, sir,
how time does fly! —Translated for
Tales from “Les Annales."
The New Year has already begun
to be an old story.
Did Business By Telephone
During Recent Epidemic
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 20. (Bpe |
rial ) Business men lu Nm Otll in
are prepared to surprise the outside
world by reporting that in spite of the
yellow fever quarantine, which lasted
front July 21 to October 25, returns
for 11*05 industries with considerable
Interstate connections are practlciflly
normal. If anyone had told these
same merchants and their agents that
for three months the city would tie
completely cut off from the rest of
l the country they would, they admit,
: either have made arrangement a to
transfer thelk business elsewhere or
to abandon it altogether. With the
distress of IKI*S still in mind they
would surely have been prepared for
some such radical action; but ns it
is, they stayed where they were when
the health officials closed the gates,
and they have to thank the Bell Tele
phone people for the good results that
followed. The telephone certainly
spared them the loss of much of their
trade, and they freely acknowledge it.
During the quarantine more or less
publicity was given to the extent to
which the Cumberland Telephone and
Telegraph company, whicli is part of
the Bell system, went to provide ac
commodations for the various author
ities working together to end the
plague; but at that time, of course,
the story of how the telephone men
were helping to save the commerce
of the city could not be told for lack
of time and space. It is now being
told, however, as a sort of sequel to
the story of the stringent quarantine,
l’arts of it have appeared in several
New Orleans papers, and now an
other part, written by E. L. Powell,
superintendent of the Cumberland Tel
ephnoe company at New Orleans, ap
pears in the Cumberland Telephone
j Journal.
No more striking proof of the alarm
which was caused at the outbreak of
the epidemic cotlld lie presented than
the fnct that the telephone men them
selves were prepared for a marked
depression of business. The Cumber
land Telephone nnd Telegraph com
pany sent out at the beginning of the
scare the following circular to the
subscribers of its measured service:
“Owing to the yellow fever epidemic
and the consequent depression of bust
ness throughout the Houth. wo will
withhold the furnishing of the regular
monthly quoin of coupons for the
months of September, October nnq
November. 1!lof>, sending only such as
you may order unless you advise to
continue the regular shipments.” The
depression to which the circular re
ferred had to do with business In
general, but it soon developed that
.tile telephone business, instead of suf
faring from any depression .actually
j Increased during the epidemic. Re
viewing the progress made during the
continuance of the fever, Mr. Dowell
writes: ■
"Business generally In this city has
suffered to some extent, but, notwith
standing all obstacles, an Immense
business has been done, and now that
the quarantine restrictions have been
removed, we are going ahead at a
lively rate. While ihe telephone busi
ness In this state and In Mississippi
suffered to some extent, during the
months of July and August, hh far as
putting in new telephones was con
earned, our toll lines, Instead of fall
Ing off, will show the heaviest returns
of the year. Trains were running
very Irregularly, and on some roads
were stopped entirely for two or
three weeks at a time. Malls were
very much Interfered with, but the
telephone lines were kept open and
working, and the people were still In
touch with the world and aide to
transact their business, practically
without loss. What they would have
done without the assistance of the
Cumberland Telephone nnd Telegraph
company, no one knows.
"Our repair men met with all sorts
of hardships, tint by perseverance and
grit succeeded ill clearing all trouble
that came on the lines and kept alt
circuits working, with the trifling
exception of one or two days. So
highly was ihe service appreciated
that the governor of the state lent,
his personal aid to the removal of
quarantine restrictions ns far ns same
applied to the telephone repair men.
and Ihe state hoard of health printed
and issued special merits for I heir
use. Mississippi quickly followed In
tills action, and, while the local
guards did not always honor the
passes, yet they were of great as
sistance. A prominent New Orleans
merchant and prominent business man
outside of the city have stated that,
had the telephone lines not been kept
working, they would have suffered Im
mense lohs'-k, hilt with the assistance
of the telephone company that they
hnd been able to carry on their busi
ness very satisfactorily, nnd really
with less expense ,as wc all know it
costs more to travel than telephone—
both in time and money,”
Of course, this relief afforded iiy the
telephone would have been impos
sible unless the Cumberland company
had been able to keep up its service;
and in telling how the company did
keep up Its service Mr. Powell makes
the remarkshle statement that not one
official or employe left the post of
duty. In some cases operators actually
went from a district that seemed com-
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Paints, etc.
paratlvely immune from the fever and
took the places of operator* In other
ex range* that suffered more seriously.
A writer In the Southern Liquor
Healer, ilie organ of the big distiller*
in (lie Mississippi valley, corroborate*
Mr. Powell'* account of the invaluable
service rendered by the telephone
during iho epidemic. Ho say*: “It'*
wonderful how much business ha*
been done by means of the telephone.
During the first few week* that the
quarantine was put on some of th*
Jobbers attempted to keep their men
moving through the parishes and
countles by preventing their coming
to New Orleans, but this did not last
long The jobbers soon found that
their men could not travel, even with
moderate ease, and practically all
traveling men were therefore recalled.
Those of tin. traveling men who liv*
out lu the parishes have been trying
to work their immediate vicinity, but
their efforts have been nenccsarlly
very much circumscribed. It's won
derful how much IniHinuss has been
done by means of the telephone. I
know Jobbers who have used the tele
phone extensively and in some case*
their liiistness has not fallen off at. all.
And in other cases, the falling off
bus been very slight. By means of
the long distance telephone. Jobber*
were able to ku*p in touch with ou*-
tomer* and to carry on their sale*.
The use of the telephone has been, ev
erything considered, very satisfactory,
and I do not know what, many Jobber*
would have done without this means of
communicating with their customer*.'*
Of course, the great factor in th*
service which tile telephone rendered
to the business men of New Orleans
wlille the quarantine was on was th*
ability of the Cumberland company,
ns a part of the widespread Bell sys
tem, to furnish long distance connec
tions. If the telephone service
throughout the stricken territory had
been In the hands of an Independent
company, with *lmply local connec
tions, the commerce of New Orleans
would probably have suffered Incalcu
lable damage. The Bell connection*
offered lnrnmpnrahlo advantages to
the pent up merchants and th*lr
agents, who were quick to aolze upon
them and thus retain their huslnea*
relations with the outside world. The
New Orleans Picayune says:
“It Is the testimony of practically
every i Jobber In New Orleans and ev
ery bnslness rnneorn selling to the re
tail trade in the territory adjacent to
New Orleans that doing business by
telephone is the liest substitute pos
sible for traveling salesmen, and that
the long distance telephone service In
Louisiana and Mississippi afforded a
greet relief In ihe hardships attend
ing the quarantine restrictions.”
Several Jobbers and manufacturers’
agents Informed the Picayune reporter
that their business was conducted al
most entirely by telephone during th*
quarantine and that their sales remain
ed quite normal. When the salesmen
were called in no means of communi
cation with customers was left, except
i the msll, telegraph nnd the telephone,
: and as business requirements Involved
! direct communication with customers
I the Jobbers found that, the telephone
, could he used with most, satisfactory
results.
It. Is, Inded, an ill wind that hlowa
no one good. Both the telephone men
and the business men have profited
by their experience during the dread
ful quarantine. In 189 S, the year of
the other great yellow fever epidemlo,
loud distance telephoning was prac
tically an unknown quantity in New
Orleans; hence at that, time business
outside the city was not. attempted.
It was during this last, quarantine
that the Hell telephone men unex
pectedly had an opportunity to prove
the great value of their long distance
service. Instead, therefore, of the fall
ing off usually noted in the telephone
business during the summer months,
there whs a marked increase. In
some eases business houses put in
as many as 40 or 50 calls a day with
customers hero and there in 1-ouisiana
and Mississippi. Many prominent
Johliers have since said that they
would have left the city hilt for the
long distance telephone service. A*
it was, they stayed st. home and at
tended to the usual amount of busi
ness. Ro, oVen though there should
tie nnother epidemic, merchants no
longer fear for the trade that, they
have been building up diligently and
hopefully for many years, since, no
matter how strict a quarantine may
ever be established, the telephone still
make business possible.
How He Knew.
f'lerk Here, boy, that half a dol
lar Is no good.
Boy It. Is, too. I guess I ought to
know- my own fathgr made It. —
Translated for Tales from "Famllle-
Jounal.”
For Condensed Apartments.
“Mamma, what Is the use of con
densed milk?"
"Oh, It’s for people who live in
I flats and have small kltrhens."—
' Translated for Tales from "Flle gende
Blatter."
Many a father and mother get up
tiefore the son rises
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