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THE COTTON CROP.
Within the past six weeks there has
been a decided change for the worse In
the condition of the crop. Up to the mid
dle of August quite a large area of the
cotton belt east of the Mississippi river
gave promise of a fairly good yield. In
some sections of thia state planters an
ticipated an extraordinary yield. But cot
tea is a plant which never indicates dert
■ttely what it will do until the bolls ma
ture, open and the staple is ready for
harvest. Unfavorable climatic conditions
will paralyse and ruin a good prospect
. within the short space of ten days.
And so it has been during the closing
days of the passed summer. The
fields which had been early planted and
well worked took on a very good crop
during the month of July, which has been
retained. The August crop has from va
rious causes disappeared until now but
few fields show atty top crop at all. Too
much rain in some section, too little in
others, and the damaging effects of the
boll worm, boll rot and other insects
have worked untold damage and loss to
the crop up to the present time.
The great trans-Mississlppi or cotton
area west of the Mississippi has shared
' a worse fate than the erop in the old
states on account of long continued
drouth during the growing season. When,
in Texas, the rains finally came, they
were too late to be of material benefit,
but rather Injured the crop instead of
bettering It. Thousands of acres of land
planted in cotton were converted Into hay
fields on account of scarcity of labor to
keep back the grass, and I have seen
many large fields of cotton which would
not produce one bale to ten acres, and
that tn jom« of the best cotton territory
of this state.
Th* Anticipated Yield.
It Is of course impossible thus early In
the season to formulate any definite Idea
as to the exact yield this season. We can.
by comparison of existing conditions with
those of previous years, based on the
same acreage, form a fairly good opinion
as to what the crop will yield* in the
aggregate or at least come within the
neighborhood of it. There has been a
considerable Increase in the acreage this
year, but it has been largely discounted
in that a proportion of the crop was
thrown out after being planted and the
late cotton planted after what, in Texas,
failed to mature on account of dry
weather. The Texas farmers seem firmly
convinced that the crop of that state, in
cluding Indian Territory and Oklahoma.
Will fail short this year I.SOO-'MO bales as
compared with the big crop harvested in
those states last year. Indeed, many far
mers who grow cotton, tn some of the best
counties in Texas are reporting that they
are already through gathering and have
turned their cattle in the fields. The re
port of a short crop is so general and
widespread aU over that section that there
can be no question of the present short
yield anticipated. In Arkansas the crop
is decidedly inferior to that of last year
and the output of the staple will be cor
respondingly small. ’ •
New. with an indicated heavy shortage
west of Mississippi the crop in the old
states must be looked to to make up the
deficiency in order to harvest a crop the
else of last year, which amounted in
round numbers to 10.353.000 bales. Will
the old states make as much as they did
last year and in addition thereto the es
timated Texas shortage? Except in a tier
of counties in the northern part of the
state I can bear of no section in Georgia
which now has prospects for a better
yield than the season of 1900. On the con
trary. we have had nothing but com
plaints during the past four weeks and
now nearly all sections report the antici
pated yield short. The state of Georgia
had brighter prospects up to the first of
August than any of the old states except
Mississippi The same conditions which
have so materially Injured our crop have
prevailed in the other states, hence a
general reduction all along the line has
occurred within the past six weeks. From
the information which has come to me
by correspondence the reports in the dally
papers and my observation of the crop in
various sections I do not see how it is
possible to make more cotton than we
did last year In the old states. Certainly
we cannot make up the deficiency now re
ported from the territory west of the
Mississippi.
Price of Cotton.
The monthly report issued by the Cotton
Growers' Protective Association of Texas
on September Sth estimated the yield at
*>.<<7.ooo bales, by giving the states east
of the Mississippi an increase of I per
cent over the yield of last year. A re
cent detailed report sent out from a New
Tork statistician, who claims to have
made a careful estimate, based on a large
number of reports received from all sec
tions of the cotton belt, figures the yield
for this season to be not larger than
1.500,00) bales. Mr. Ellison, the cotton sta
tistician for the European r pinners, re
cently issued a statement in which he
declared that the world would require
lI.SSO.OOn bales of American cotton for con
sumption during the next twelve months.
It is a well known fact that but little or
no surplus of last year’s crop will be
carried over, it having all been consumed
by the mills, and the spinners must now
depend upon the present crop for the sup
ply which Mr. Ellison says they will re
quire to meet consumption during the
next twelve months, or until another erop
ean be planted, cultivated and harvested.
If our crop should yield 10.000.000 bales this
season we would still fall short of last
year’s crop several hundred thousand '
bales and bales short of antletpat- '
ed demand. We received 10c per pound for i
a larger crop last year than we are likely
to make this year. The trade with China
hag been resumed and the dry goods trade
WARNING TO MEN.
Nine men out of ten sooner or later suffer from a weakening of their manly
functions. Overwork, a strain on the nerves, worry, excesses, etc., are sure to
rsoult tn an Impairment of vigor, which may appear slight at first, but will
load to a complete derangement of the sexual system. Buch cases. Involving as
■e
DR. {uShawAY.
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Atlanta. Office hours, 8:30 a. m. to S p. tn. Sundays, 10 a. m. to 1 p. m.
occupies a much better position now than
it did a year ago. Last year the farmers,
with not as good prospects for better
prices ahead of them as now exists, held
their cotton firmly until the buyers came
Into the market and offered them the
value of their staple. This year, for some
reason, known only to themselves, the
producers seem disposed to rush their
staple on the market and sacrifice it at
about sl2 per bale less than its value. In
other words, we are getting rapidly back
to the old ruinous system of letting the
buyers take our staple at thier prices,
when last season, we forced them by a
little firmness to pay ours. We need 10
cents per pound worse this year than we
did last, because the coot of growing the
crop has been more and everything we
' have to buy at this time has greatly ad-
I vanced In price. If the farmers of the
! south would only sell such cotton as was
1 needed to meet pressing demands and
' hold back the remaining, selling a certain
percentage of the crop each month, it
would lighten up receipts, they could easi
ly become masters of the situation and
this erop could be sold for its value. The
Texas farmers are now discussing a
proposition to sell one-tenth of their crop
each month. If such a policy were gener
ally introduced we would not only get
better prices, but we would have money in
circulation among the cotton growers
every month In th'e year. Now the plan
Is to have the money for the entire crop
received and spent during three or four
months and go without and on a basis of
bad credit for the balance of the year.
I can see no good reason for the pres
ent low price of cotton except to gratify
the wishes of the spinners and give them
an opportunity to build up big dividends
again Nor can I understand why it is
that the farmers knowing the true sit
uation eo well, will deliberately sacrifice
their'money prop on a market 3 cents per
pound below Its true value. Perhaps when
it is too late the producers will see their
mistakes and gain wisdom from dearly
bought experience. All reports indicate a
short crop and with light receipts the
market must rally within the next 80
days. HARVIE JORDAN.
INQUIRY DEPARTMENT.
D. B. 8.. Bryant, Ga —What do you con
sider the best method of harvesting pea
vtne hay* Is it possible to save the hay If
baled immediate!}’ after it is eut? Name
some method of saving it in case of bad
weather soon after cutting. Answer
through Semi-Weekly Journal.
Answer—l have been cutting and cur
ing crops of peavine hay for the past 20
years and have no recollection of ever
having loot a crop within that time. I al
ways notice my weather reports about the
time the vines are ready to be harvested,
that is when the pods are about three
fourths ripe.
When the weather Is likely to be open
and clear for three or four days. I have
the vines mowed when the dew is off.
They are permitted t«r lie as cut for 96
hours, when they are naked into win
drows and hauled to the barn or stack
pale, and firmly peeked down as they are
unloaded. The vines will cure up nicely if
packed down hard and firm and will not
mould. I have never tried baling green
pea vines and would not recommend baling
them until the vines had wilted in the
sunshine for a day or two. If the vines
should be cut in wet weather I would
put in stack poles same as for fodder,
nailing cleats across them three or four
feet apart and fork the vines up around
the poles until they were thoroughly
dried out. The pieces of plank nailed cross
wise on the poles would hold the vines
apart nicely and permit circulation of air.
It will not do to pack down wet peavines.
The rainwater will cause mill dew or
rot. and endanger the lives of stock fed
on it. Cut the vines when the pods are
about three-fourths ripe and not much
trouble will be experienced in curing
them in anything like fair weather, ac
cording to the plans suggested. Peavine
hay is well worth all the care and atten
tion necessary to its proper cure and care.
EXCHANGES.
Agriculture In the South.
From an Exchange.
That the south is to be considered an
Important factor in the further extension
an<f development of American agriculture
cannot be well overlooked at this thne.
Not only immense sums of northern and
western capital 'have been invested in
farm lands of the southern states, but, in
many cases, the men furnishing the mon
ey have gone with it. In Georgia last
summer we found the Hoosier, Buckeye,
Pennsylvania Dutchman and New Eng
land Yankee, each owning and managing
large plantations, employing thousands of
native laborers. The more intelligent per
sons were imbibing new ideas dally, and
the stimulating influence of up-to-date
methods on the local population was ap
parent on every hand. This is true In a
measure of the Carolinas, Virginia and
westward.
The effect the large quantities of fresh
vegetables and fruits coming from the
south will have upon the canning indus
try of the north will be watched with
much Interest. The development of the
dairy interest In the southern states is
just beginning to dawn, and the northern
and western dairymen mky yet experi
ence future competitors there. The re
cent Introduction and cultivation of cas
sava in Florida and the manufacture of
starch in large quantities from that plant
will no doubt have a bearing on starch
manufacturing centers tn other places.
From the agricultural point of view a
new era has opened for the southern
farmer and great is the possibility for
future development.
Cut Hay Early.
An Exchange.
Practical feeders have all noted that
farm animals are less likely to make sat
isfactory gain during the spring months.
Sometimes they will even lose flesh unless
given the very best of care. They often
refuse to eat the usual amount of forage.
I have found that by saving, my best for>
age until last that I can keep the animals
from losing flesh and in a great many
cases can make them gain. For this reas
on I find it desirable to have on.hand a
little supply of early cut hay or cobn fod
der. With milch cows this early cut for-
they do the most delicate organs of the body, should
be treated promptly by a competent specialist who
thoroughly understands their every phase. The aver
age practicing physician, no matter how skillful, is
unable to treat this condition Intelligently. The
greatest mistake that can be made is to jeopardize
your health and future happiness by experimenting
with the many so-called “free" samples, which are
often poisonous stimulants, and are sure to do more
harm than good. Your case needs intelligent. Individ
ual treatment. The unapproached success of my treat
ment. extending over a period of twenty years, prove*
beyond all question my superior ability in curing
men. It matters not how obstinate your case, nor
what other treatment has failed, it Is your duty to in
vestigate my special facilities for restoring men to
the full vigor of their youth. I can furnish you with
any reference desired as to my professional skill and
resoonslbHlty. I can cure you at home, if you cannot
see me personally. Consultation free at office or by
k THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1901.
age makes it impossible to keep up a
fairly good flow of milk until the cows
are turned to grass.
Not only do the animals do better when
the best forage Is retained for spring
months but the animals seem to be in bet
ter condition for making satisfactory
gains when turned onto pasture. • This is
reasonable, for this kina of forage is slm
lar in compostion to grass, consequently
when the change from winter to spring
feed comes, there is but slight difference
in me character of the food.
Early in the winter animals are in bet
ter condition to consume and make use
of the more mature fodder crops. This is
due partially to the appetite being keen
er during cold, crisp weather, and the di
gestive organs being in a more healthy
condition. Where a large amount of hay
is to be put up. It is of course difficult
to cut It all when in bloom, but every
effort should be made to harvest as much
as possible at that stage.
Perry Davis' Pain-Killer.— its valuable
properties as a speedy cure for pain cannot
fall to be generally appreciated, and no fam
ily should be without it in cue of accident,
or sudden attack of dysentery, diarrhoea or
cholera morbus. Bold everywhere. Avoid sub
stitutes, there Is but one Pain-Killer, Perry
Davis'. Price 25c. and 50c.
CARTER ADJUDGED INSANE.
Valletta Boy WIU Be Sent to the State
Sanitarium.
VALDOSTA, Ga., Sept. 26.-Wlll Carter,
a young white man who has been in jail
here for some time under the charge of
stealing a suit of clothes from a room
mate. was adjudged insane today and is
to be sent to the state sanitarium at Mil
ledgeville as soon as room can be secured
for him in that institution. The young
man has been acting very strangely for
some time, but it was thought that he
was only feigning insanity. Deputies were
placed in the jail to watch him closely
without letting him know of their pres”
ence and their evidence showed conclu
sively that the prisoner is really of an
unsound mind. A jury was summoned and
he was pronounced a fit subject for the
asylum.
LAWYERS GO TO STATENVILLE.
A large crowd of lawyers and citizens
went to Statenville, In Echols county, this
morning to attend court there. Judge W.
N. Spence, of the Flint circuit, Is presid
ing and a busy session is expected. The
most important case will be the arraign
ment of the two Mobleys and Harrell, the
three white men charged with the assas
sination of Captain Adams, near Fargo,
several weeks ago. The grand jury will
take up the case lat once and the trial
will be at this term of court if the grand
jury returnsa bill against the parties. As
was wired The Journal some time ago,
Harrell made a partial confession and
implicated the other men. All three of
them have money and friends, and the
case promises to be hard fought on both
sides.
VALDOSTA’S BIG FAIR.
The business men here have organised
for Uielr fall fair and races, which are
to come off a week after the Atlanta
fair. The citizens have raised $1,500, which
is to go into the fund of the fair associa
tion to guarantee the purses, etc. Many
attractive features have been planned for
the week and the ouflook is that a large
crowd will be in attendance. Valdosta’s
reputation in the entertainment line is
state wide jand the city never fails to
draw good crowds. It also never fails to
give a good show.
CONGRESSMAN LIVINGSTON
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Makes Liberal Donation to the Monu
ment Fund.
The first Georgia congressman to send
in a subscription to the McKinley Peace
Monument fund is Hen. L. F. Livingston,
of this, the Fifth, district.
Congressman Livingston had not been
addressed on the subject, but came for
ward voluntarily with the handsome dona
tion of $25.
Like every other southern congressman
he entertained the highest respect for the
late president, notwithstanding the dlf
feitnces in their political creed, and it
gives him pleasure to thus assist in hon
oring the man who did more than all oth
ers to wipe out sectional linis.
Although Mr. McKinley was a Repub
lican he was broad enough in his states
manship to recognise the rights and claims
of the south’s representatives in congress,
and they all bear testimony to the fact
that he ever treated them with the high
est consideration.
It is altogether likely that the majority
of southern congressmen will consider it a
privilege to be able to contribute to the
south's monument to the fallen chief, and
it is believed that they will follow Col
onel Livingston’s example in sending in
their subscriptions at once.
Congressman Livingston's letter is as
follows:
House of Representatives United States.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Sept., 25. 1901.
Major John 8. Cohen, Sec., Atlanta, Ga.:
Please subscribe for me to the McKinley
monument $25 and advise when and to
whom to send check. Truly yours,
L. F. LIVINGSTON.
LAKETCH~IS HANGED.
GREENSBURG, Pa., Sept. 26.-Vassel
Laketch was hanged in the jailyard at
10:15 o'clock this morning in the pres
ence of about 400 people; death resulted
from strangulation tn eleven minutes.
On October 30. 1900, Paymaster Wil
fred Hassler, of the Southwest Coke com
pany, and his colored driver, Harry Bur
gess, were driving to Moorewood with
$5,000 to pay off the coke workers, when
they were held up by Vassel Laketch and
three companions, all foreigners. In the
ensuing fight Paymaster Hassler and one
of the highwaymen were killed and an
other highwayman was seriously wound
ea. Burgess whipped up the horses and
escaped with the money. Later the three
men were discovered hiding in a ravine
and before they were secured one of
them, Vassel Nicholas, was killed. The oth
ers, Mike Markovitch and Vassel Laketch,
were taken to jail ana one day, while
wafting for trial, Markovitch hanged him
self tn his cell. Laketch was convicted
and sentenced to be hanged on August 8
but was respited on account of the report
that his father was hurrying here
from his home in Montenegro tor the pur
pose of taking farewell of his unhappy
son.
PICKED UP ROPE WITH
MULE TIED TO END.
Joe Gauley, of Waycross, Ga., is In
trouble and an aged and Infirm mule is
the cause of it all. Gauley picked up a
rope while at Waycross several days ago
and a mule was tied to the other end of
the rope.
When Gauley saw he had captured a
mule he bargained with another man and
soon disposed of the animal for $9 and a
bicycle. The mule remained in Waycross
in the possession of the purchaser, while
Joe shipped the bicycle to Atlanta and
then followed it himself.
Wlta the $9 in his possession Joe was
taking in the sights of the city when
information readied the police that he
was wanted in Waycross for hauling off
the mule with a rope and selling the ani
mal. Cali Officers Arthur and Hubbard
located Joe and his bicycle and they were
soon at headquarters. A deputy sheriff
from Waycross will escort the prisoner
back to that town. ,
A WOMAN’S HEART.
(Copyrighted, 1901, by Short Story Company.)
In a miserable hovel that faced an
alley, a woman sat beside a bed, fanning
the fevered brow of a babe that moaned
and tossed. The room was small and din
gy and poorly furnished, but everything
was spotless and neat.
It was night—a stormy night. Without,
the rain fell dismally; within, a light
burned on a broken stand, its glimmer
shaded from the face of the child by a
sheet of paper that was scorched and
yellow. ' '
The woman’s eyes were red and swol
-1 len and her face was furrowed with
anxiety. At intervals she turned her
head as though listening for some sound
without. Then a louder moan frtAn the
child would cause her to bend anxiously,
her face drawn and pale, her bosom heav
ing.
A clock, somewhere in the darkness,
struck the hour of 2. and she trembled
with a vague fear. She arose ana walked
to a window. A form came through the
darkness—a man’s form, running, dodg
ing into the shadows. He turned in at
the gate, bolted through the door and hur
riedly closed it auer him.
"Jack, dear,” the woman exclaimed,
placing her hands on his shoulders and
looking into his eyes.
He roughl}- pushed her aside and cross
ing the room, blew out the light. She fol
lowed him and touched his elbow.
"Jack," she said softly, ”the baby is
very sick.”
“Can’t help it,” he growled. “You ought
to take better care of him ”
“Oh, Jack.” the woman sobbed “I ”
“Shut up?”
“But, Jack,” she persisted, “We ought
—we ought to have a doctor.”
“A doctor, hell! The kid's all right.
Now shut up, I tell you, I don’t want any
more blubberin.’ ”
The woman sank into the chair beside
the bed. She placed her hand upon the
child's brow and sobbed, while the man
hurriedly undressed and threw himself
upon a bed in an adjoining room. Pres
ently from his measured breathing his
wife gnew he was asleep. So she relit the
lamp and resumed her place beside the
child. And the night wore away.
When the sun arose the baby’s fever
was somewhat less. A brightness stole
into the woman's face and she stooped
and softly kissed the child's forehead.
Then she went into the kitchen and,
quietly closing the door behind her, began
preparations for breakfast.
She was worn and weary from her long
night’s vigil. So she made slow progress,
and finally her husband swaggered into
the room.
“Ain't breakfast ready yet?” he de
manded.
She glanced at him and tried to smile.
“No, Jack,” she replied softly, "not
quite, dear.”
"Well, why in hell ain’t it? What makes
you so d —d slow?”
“Dear Jack,” she said, ignoring his
harshness, “you’re out of humor this
morning, ain’t you?”
“Don’t want no more of your lovey
dovey talk,” he replied. “I want some
thin’ to eat.”
The woman’s face grew sad. A sigh es
caped her, but she said no more, and pres
ently she placed his meal before him. As
he ate, she stood beside the stove and
watched him. The light of affection crept
into her face and, stealing softly behind
him, she put her arms around his neck
and kissed him on the cheek. '
“Oh, go ’way!” he snapped. "Don't
bother me."
She sat in a chair and faced him.
“Jack,” she said, "where were you last
night?”
"Now, that’s none of your d— business,”
he scowled.
“But, Jack," she insisted, “I—l You
weren't In any mischief, were you, Jack?”
He laid down his knife and fork and
stared at her, his face growing white
with anger. • ’’ 1-
"I’ll break your d— jaw if you don’t
keep your gab khut;”''lie thundered.
The quick tears sprang to her eyes and
she knelt beside his chair and gazed
anxiously into his frowning face. “Jack,”
she said, appealingly, "I love you, Jack,
and I don’t want—l don’t want you to
get into no trouble."
The man arose angrily and picked up
his hat. He stood and looked at his wife
a moment, biting his lips in his rage.
Then he suddenly turned and put his
hand on the knob of the door. Instantly
the woman was at his side.
“Don’t go ’way mad, Jack,” she beg
ged. “I didn’t —”
He turned sharply and struck her with
his first, and as she fell heavily to the
floor, he opened the door and left the
house.
And presently from the adjoining room
came a baby’s cry—the cry of the help
less and the fever-stricken. But the one
ic
“Don’t go away mad. Jack.”
to whom It pleaded lay in a pool of blood
upon the floor, her pulses throbbing, her
eyes closed and her ears deaf to song or
sob.
• ••••••••
Again it was night. Again the light,
burned dimly in the hovel, and a sad faced
woman sat in silence beside the bed of her
babe. A livid gash was upon her fore
head. the glare of fever was in her eyes,
and, in her heart, was the poison of de
spair. But patiently she sat beside her
child, fanning it, pushing the ringlets
back from its flushed forehead, listening
to its moans.
Again and again she went ?o the win
dow and gazed anxiously out into the
blackness; no footsteps entered the
gate. Monotonously the long hours fol
lowed one another Into the past, and at
last the east grew gray with the promise
of a dawning.
Gradually the great city awoke to life
and energy and action. Wagons rumbled
along the streets; dense clouds of smoke
arose from chimneys. Another day was
come.
And still the baby moaned and tossed
In sleep; and still the tired mother rat
beside him, nursing her sorrow and her
pain—and on her lips a prayer, but no
complaint.
When the sun at last was high ’n the
heavens a man came down the alley. He
wore the blue of an officer, and he turned
in at the gate. Loudly he knocked on the
door with his club and the woman opened
it, her face pale, her eyes staring.
"Your man's in the lockup at the Cen
tral station,” the policeman said, blunt
ly, “and he wants to see you.”
"My man? In the lockup?” gasped the
woman, pressing her hand to her breast.
"What—what’s he been doin’?”
"What’s he been doin’?” sneered the
officer. "He held a duffer up, but got
ketched. He’s a bad 'un. We's been
after ’ im for weeks. Got ten cases agin
'im, an’ he’ll sure go over the road.”
The woman covered her face with her
hands.
“Poor Jack!” she sobbed. “My poor,
poor Jack.”
Then tfie officer strode away and the
woman threw herself on the floor beside
her moaning child and burled her face
in her arms.
It was mid-afternoon when at last she
stood outside her husband’s cell and
watched the jailor unlock the door. He
came to meet her, striding doggedly from
the dim corner in which he had been sit
ting.
"Jack!” she cried, throwing her arms
passionately aicund his neck, “poor, dear
Jack!”
He rested a hand on her bowed head.
“Anhie," he sail, hoarsely, "I’m sorry I
—I struck ye."
She smiled up Into his face and brushed
. D
“He rever knew.’’ she said.
_i
back a lock of hair that hung over his
forehead.
“Oh, don't think cf that. Jack, dear,”
she said. "You—you—l hadn’t ought to
have made you angry.”
Both lapsed into silence, he awkwardly
stroking her hair, nrd she clinging to him
with all the strength of a woman's love.
And then
“Jack,” she said softly, “I’d a come
sooner, only—only ”
“What, Annie?”
“Only baby’s much worse, an’ I couldn’t
leave him alone. Mrs. McCarthy’s with
him now.”
The woman tried to stifle a sob, but
failed. She bowed her head upon her hus
band's bosom and her tears dropped upon
his woolen shirt. < t
“There, there, Annie,” he said, “the
kid'll be all right in t'he morning, an' you
can bring him—” He paused. “No, no,
Annie, for God’s sake don’t bring him
here into this hell-hole.”
“Jack.” said his wife, raising her face
to his, "I’m sorry you—you got into trou
ble.”
The man hung his head.
“I was afeered you’d—but I won’t com
plain. I’m your wife, Jack, an’ I love
you. I love you same as when I married
you, an’ I’ll stick |o you. Jack—l'll stick
to you. If they send you to the pen. I'll
remain true to you, as true as I am now,
Jack. An’ When they let you out. I'll
be t!har at the gate a-waitln ’an’ a
watchin’ for you. Jack.”
He pressed her hand, and she kissed
him. Then the jailor led her away.
The last beams of the setting sun push
ed through the morning-glory vines that
Annie had planted by the window, and
stooped to kiss the cheek of a baby asleep
in a trundle bed. No more were the marks
of pain upon its brow; no more was the
fever in its vein. But on its face was a
smile—the smile of that ffreat peace that
passeth all understanding.
And Annie, kneeling by its side, clasped
one pulseless little hand in hers.
“He never knew,” she said, the ring of
thapkfulness in her voice, “he never
knew his father was a—a criminal. Oh,
God, I thank Thee for thy infinite mer
cy.”
The twilight deepened Into night, and
somewhere, out beyond the shadows, lov
ers strolled, arm in Arm, under the happy
stars.
bar'tlett well again.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—Representa
tatlve Bartlett, of Georgia, accompanied
by Mrs. Bartlett, has arrived in Washing
ton from Saratoga, where Judgeßartlett
has been seeking to regain his health,
which was so shattered by his long ill
ness. He looks very well and is confident
that he has practically recovered. •
He called at the white house this morn
ing to pay his respects to the new presi
dent, and was most cordially received.
Mr. Roosevelt is cordial to all callers,
but he seems to have an especially warm
feeling for all Georgians, remembering,
as he does, that his mother was a Geor
gian and feeling that he is half a Geor
gian at any rate. <
Judge Bartlett also called at the war
department touching some army appoint
ments. He and Mrs. Bartlett will leave
for home tomorrow morning.
Prince Chun Ready to Return Home.
BERLIN, Sept. 26.—Prince Chun will
leave this city Sunday and will embark
on the German steamer Bayern at Genoa
October Ist, the vessel on which he came
to Europe. He will return to Berlin to
morrow. and will make his farewell visit
to the foreign office Saturday.
Its True Character.
Catarrh is Not a Local Disease.
Although physicians have known for years
that catarrh was not a local disease but a con
stitutional or blood disorder, yet the mass of
the people* still continue to believe It Is simply
a local trouble and try to cure it with purely
local remedies, like powders, snuffs, ointments
and inhalers.
These local remedies, if they accomplish any
thing at all. simply give a very temporary re
lief and It is doubtful if a permanent cure of
catarrh has ever been accomplished by local
sprays, washes and Inhalers. They may clear
the mucous membrane from the excessive se
cretion but it returns in a few hpurs as bad as
ever, and the result can hardly be otherwise
because the blood Is loaded with catarrhal
poison and it requires no argument to convince
anyone that local washes and sprays have ab
solutely no effect on the blood.
Dr. Ainsworth says. “I have long since dis
continued the use ot sprays and washes for
catarrh of head and throat, because they sim
ply relieve and do not cure.
For some time past I have used only one
treatment for all forms of catarrh and the
results have been uniformly good, the remedy
I use and recommend Is Stuart’s Catarrh Tab
lets, a pleasant and harmless preparation sold
by druggists at 50c., but my experience has
proven one package of Stuart's Catarrh Tablets
to be worth a dozen local treatments.
The tablets are composed of Hydrastin, San
guinarla. Red Gum, Guaiacol and other safe
antiseptics and any catarrh sufferer can use
them with full assurance that they contain no
poisonous opiates and that they are the most
reasonable and successful treatment for radical
cure of catarrh at present known to the pro
fession.”
Stuart's Catarrh Tablets are large, pleasant
tasting 20 grain lozenges, to be dissolved in the
mouth and reach the delicate membranes of
throat and trachea, and immediately relieve
any irritation, while their final action on the
blood removes the catarrhal poison from the
whole system. All druggists sell them at 50c.
for complete treatment. .
Dairying and Live Stock
Conducted By B. W. Hunt
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Obstacles to Be Overcome in Southern
Dairying.
A correspondent who requests that I
do not publish the communication, calls
attention to the scarcity of competent
milkers. In the south.
This correspondent Is located near the
successful commercial creamery at La-
Grange, Georgia, and therefore, has the
best facilities for the profitable disposi
tion of the dairy output. The gross In
come from this dairy is from sllO to $l6O
per month from twenty-six cows. If the
average for twelve months should prove
to be $145 per month we should have a
gross income per cow of about $67 per
year. A very satisfactory yield.
This Intelligent correspondent is very
much pleased with Alfalfa as a dairy ra
tion and wonders that all farmers do not
cultivate so profitable a forage plant. I
would answer this question for myself,
as I have cultivated Lucerne more or less
for over twenty years. The reason why I
did not plant more extensively was the
difficulty I experienced In getting negroes
to mow and feed it. I have never yet seen
a negro who had mastered the art of
mowing successfully with a scythe and we
have no other than negro labor.
I would like to say a few words on the
side of bur-clover as the earliest spring
grazing plant.
It iq so easy to raise in our climate, so
green and refreshing to the artistic sense
to see acres of green meadows early in
the year being grazed by gentle klne.
Bur clover is not eaten greedily as is
Alfalfa, still it should be planted on every
southern farm. It, like Alfalfa belongs
to the trifolium family, a tribe of plants
'that enrich the land upon which they
grow, thereby benefiting the future as
well as the present.
I presume that others have some form
of labor troubles that I have encountered
in the dairy business for many years past.
I do not desiije to exaggerate any of the
obstacles that the pioneers have to mas
ter, to make the way smooth for those
who follow us. Still it is due all those,
like the correspondent referred to, and
the creamery at LaGrange that we con
temporaries recognize and acknowledge
what altruistic benefactors they have
been to our country.
I have no plan whereby one writing In
the papers can supply the immediate and
pressing demand for skilful milkers, or
competent dairy labor. Each dairyman
must train his own labor as best he can.
The negro Is with us to stay. All we can
do is to accept the situation and try by
patience to guide the natural barbarian
Instincts in civilized methods of action.
That I and my neighbors who have fol
lowed me in stock raising have not made
brilliant progress In suddenly uplifting
tfie burden of barbarism is not to be ex
pected.
The commercial creamery, the separator
and modern methods, however, have met,
solved and ended half the difficulties that
beset the dairymen In Georgia when I
began dairying at Panola farm. I think
the futqre grows brighter, the country
greener, the pastures more abundant and
that American pluck will win over all
ordinary obstacles In all the higher de
partments of diversified agriculture. We
must remember that the negro was simply
a cotton raiser. We who are pioneers in
dairying and stock raising must educate
our necessary labor in the south. Every
well-conducted dairy farm Is a school,
whose benefits to posterity will be incal
culable. B. W. HUNT.
Thanks to the LaGrange correspondent
for her Interesting letter.
Swollen Leg In Horse.
Mr. Hunt—Dear Sir: I wet sponges In
vinegar and bound them 'with horse leg
bandages to my horse’s ankle as you di
rected. It takes the swelling out. but
when I let him stand all night without
the bandage the swelling comes back,
not as large as it was at first, but too
large to look well. He Is not lame any
more.
Now, I wish to know, if you please,
whether a permanent cure of the swelling
can be effected by further bandaging. If
so. about how long will I have to con
tinue it do you think? I look at it so
often that I cannot say whether It Is
gradually going down or not. I know it
is smaller than at first. It lacks only a
little of being natural in size. By an
swering you will greatly oblige, yours re
spectfully, w J- J- A.
Newborn, Ga.
I do not know the age of the horse. If
a young animal it-is likely the swelling
under careful treatment will entirely dis
appear in time. Our correspondent gets a
habit of mind that prevents his point of
view being a just one. He has seen and
thought of that swollen leg until he can
not see It as it really Is, but he sees It as
his mind pictures it. AH that is necessary
is to attend to the general health of the
horse and the leg will take care of It
self, now the lameness is over and the
swelling mostly gone.
The correspondent can omit bandaging
for a month and see how the leg acts. If
it continues to improve without treat
ment, let it alone. If it does not do well,
go back to the former treatment, which
appears to have been successful.
In my own experience I have had driv
ing horses on the hard roads of New
York that after a long drive always need
ed to have their legs bandaged. These
horses lived and died with practically
sound legs, hence the matter is not one
upon which too much anxiety need be
expended.
In medicine, veterinary surgery and in
all pursuits good judgment is the final
arbiter. I think this case in good hands
and I will ask the correspondent to let
well enough alone. B. W. H.
Cow Pox.
I have a cow with young calf. Her
teats are broken out In sores perfectly
raw. Old skin peeled off. H4ve to hold
her to let calf suck. Please name dis
ease and give iipmedy. C ( . R. W.
Chalybeate, Ga. ’
Answer: There is no medicine known
that will cure cow-pox. I would anoint
the sores with glycerine 50 parts, water
40 parts, carbolic acid 10 parts. Mix and
apply. |
The milkers will carry the disease to all
your other cows without they disinfect
their hanfls thoroughly. T’4> milk of
dows affected with cow-pox should not be
used. The disease will run itjs course In
from 4 to 6 weeks, without ybur milkers
carry it from cow to cow, as your herd
comes in fresh. In such a case it may
trouble a dairy for months at a time.
B. W. H.
Extermination of Moles.
Being a steady reader of yoi r most val
uable paper I wish to know! if you 'can
give me a remedy for moles. They are
destroying my garden. J. G. L.
Valdosta, Ga.
Answer—l do not know how to extermi
nate ground moles. The paten: mole traps
are the only means I know of catching
them. Why should our cc rrespondent
want to get them out of his garden? They
are not vegetarians. They vill not eat
his garden seed or vegetables. It is the
grubs and worms : tb&t • are- eating tha
cultivated plants of the inquirer’s gar
den, and the ground moles are eating- lip
these enemies of the garden. There is no
more voracious carnivorous animal known
than the mole. If he is deprived of his
favorite bugs and worms, he will attack
and eat animals of nearly his own size and
strength.
If my reading is right, the mole is the
friend of the gardener, not the enemy.
He is to be invited to assist in successful
gardening, not hunted and killed.
B. W. H.
Rest, Health and Comfort to Mother and
Child.
MRS. WINSLOW’S SOOTHING SYRUP, for
children teething, softens the gums, reduces
inflammation, allays al! pain, and cures wind
colic. Perfectly safe in all eases We would
say to every mother who has a suite ring child:
Do not let your prejudice, nor the prejudices
of others, stand between you and your suffer
ing child and the relief that will be sure—yes,
absolutely sure—to follow the use of thia
medicine, if timely used. Price «Sc. a bottle,
SOME STORIES OF ROOSEVELT,
Some additional anecdotes of Roosevelt
as a soldier and as a political campaigner
are told by the New York World:
When the Jlough Riders, after their
Cuban campaign, first landed at Montauk
Point from their transport and marched
to the detention camp the first demand of
the soldiers was to see Roosevelt.'
The next day Colonel Roosevelt walked
through the camp. He stopped at every
tent and looked in.
"Don’t get up, boys," he would say;
"lie still. Ah, Jim, how’s your leg feeling
today? Getting better? That’s good.
You’ll soon be all right now. Billy. I
hope your back doesn’t trouble you so
much now. You’ll have it easier here.”
And so It went all along the line. He
had a word for each man and he knew
each by name. He even knew just what
ailed each one.
Colonel Roosevelt was shown a picture
of himself during the war. It showed
him waving a sword, and dashing up hill
on horseback In one of the fights in
Cuba.
“Is it a good picture?” he was asked.
“Yes.” he replied. “It’s all right, ex
cept that my sword is still wrapped up
in a bundle in Tampa and I didn’t ride a
horse. Otherwise It’s all right!”
• • • ! .
He was going through, a street in the
Tenderloin one night and had been point
ed out to a number of policemen, one of
whom was patroling his beat just behind
the commissioner.
‘T feel like the caliph of Bagdad," said
Roosevelt, laughingly, to his companion.
“Begorra,” said, the patrolman, “that
man thinks he’s Haley, of Bagdad. Com
mish or no commish, I’d better be run
ning him in for a crazy man.”
• • •
Before Santiago Rev. Peter McQueen
approached Colonel Roosevelt and said,
“Well, you’re getting to be quite a gen
eral now am’t you, coWnelT’
“Not a bit of it,” replied the leader of
the Rough Riders, “I’m just getting to ba
a middle-aged military man.”
AN UNMILITARY SENTRY.
It Is told how at one of the camps in
the south, not long after Wood and Roose
velt joined the Rough Riders, a cowboy
was on jpiard near Colonel Wood’s tent.
Colonel wood was sitting at the entrance,
and the guard was at the regulation dis
tance pacing up and down.
Suddenly the sentry walked straight up
to the colonel and said: “You’re Colonel
Wood, all right, ain’t you?”
“Yes. sir; I am Colonel Wood,” gasped
the astonished officer. “Well.” said the
sentry, "I want to tell you the boys didn’t
much know what to make of you and
Roosevelt when you first came down, but
we’ve been sizing you up and .talking it
over, and we’ve about made up our minds
you’re both white, and I reckon most ot
the boys would go plumb to h—ll for you
now.” I
• • •
During the campaign of 1900, one day
the train bearing Roosevelt was halted
within, calling distance of that from which
William Jennings Bryan was making
"rear-platform” speeches. Roosevelt rec
ognized his political opponent and called:
“Hello, Bill!” “Hello, Teddy!" came the
Democratic candidate’s answer.
"How’s your voles?"
“About as strong as the Democratic
platform.” shouted Roosevelt, hoarqely,
“and yours?"
"Oh,’ wheezed Bryan, "mine’s in about
the condition of Republican promises.”
And the trains passed on.
• • ■
The remarkable popularity of Colonel
Roosevelt among newspaper men is said
to be due to his unfailing good nature. At
the end of an exhausting day of speech
making the colonel, so the story goes, had
retired early to his room. He had been
sleeping soundly for some time and the
house was very quiet, when he was
aroused by a violent knocking on his
door. The colonel hastened to open the
door and modestly poked his head around
the edge. He saw there a solemn individ
ual who said, that he knew it was late
but that he did desire very much to take
a flashlight photograph of the candidate.
"But,” said the colonel, “I am just go
ing to bed,’ and a blush mantled the sun
brown cheeks. The photographer was not
In the least abashed. Far from it. His eye
lit up with joy.
"That would be fine,” said he.
Anybody else but Colonel Roosevelt
would have either got mad or would
have made the photographer mad. They
parted, however, on the best of terms,
though the photographer, when he came
down stairs and told about it, still seem
ed to think the colonel was a strangely
modest man.
BOERS MAY GO TO MEXICO.
LONDON. Sept. M— The Daily Express
says the Boers are contemplating a teck
to Mexico, estates there having been of
fered for a new settlement.
Part of the land js the Floreschales es
tate, a concession from the government of
Mexico to certain financiers, one of whom
is a member of the house of commons.
The purchase price has been set down
at $2,500,000. which will buy »,000,000 acres,
this being the aggregate of two conces
sions now in the hands of syndicates. The
small offer of the two estate* comprises
5,000,000 acres.
This land has seaboard of 200 miles and
will thus offer shipping facilities, which
were denied to the Boers ifi South Africa
and which they so much desired.
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