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4 THE SEMhWEEKLY JOURNAL Entered »t th* Atlanta Poatotflc* aa Mall Mattar of the Second Claaa. The Semi-Weekly Journal to publtehed on Mondays and Thursdays, and mailed ln # t ’ r P* ter all the *wte»-*-w*«h etar roate malls. It contains the news from *» ,Pi rt *, world brought over a special leased wire Into The Journal office It has a start of distin guished contributors, with strong Agricultural. Veterinary, Juvenile. Home, Book and other department a of special value to the home and farm. Agents wanted tn every community tn the Booth. Remittaacee may bo made by pootoffice money order, express money order, registered ,ett Persons ll who send postage Stamps In payment for subscriptions are requested to send those of the »-eent denomination. Amounts larger than SO cents postoffice order, express ***B^teeid>ey oC wbo wtsh their papers changed should give both the old and the now PUBLIC.—The only traveling representatives of The Journal are C. J O’Farrell. J. A. Bryaa and James Callaway. Any other who represents hlmael. ns ronnec’od with The Journal as a traveling agedt to a fraud, and we will be responsible only for money paid to the above named representatives. ATLANTA. GEORGIA. MONDAY. OCTOBER 28. 1901. ATLANTA BEATS WORLD’S RECORD. Atlanta’s postal busmens exceeds that of any city in the world of like popula tion as Atlanta. Atlanta’s bank clearing* have increased more in the last five year* than those of any city in the world of like population. Atlanta he- more modern steel office buildings than any city in the world of Kke population. Atlanta’s office buildings are better filled than those of any city in the world of Mke population. Atlanta has more street railroad mileage than any city in the world of like population. Atlanta’s afternoon newspaper has a circulation greater than that of any pa per in the world, morning or evening, published in a city of 150,000 population or Atlanta's railroads are carrying more people to and from Atlanta than to any city in the world of like population. —and— A Hants’s passenger depot is the poorest, vilest, filthiest and the most danger ous of any passenger depot In any city in the world, without regard to population, age. color, sex or previous condition of servitude. SCHLEY’S VINDICATION. As the investigation of the Schley case draws toward Its conclusion It becomes clearer that if the board bases Its finding upon the evidence it will be compelled to give the most complete vindication to the man whom the country generally regards as the real victor of the sea fight at San tiago. Not only has the previous popular esti mate of Sehley s achievements and mtr ; Its been sustained, but It has been raised still higher by the great mass of incon trovertible testimony of the beet possible A few of the witnesses, it is true, have made flings at Commodore Schley, but these have been only the ebullitions of 111- conceaied spite and prejudice and in no in stance have they been coupled with or supported by evidence. Admiral Dewey ha* repeatedly declared, as head of the investigating board “Give us facts. We want only the facts.” And the facts are shown to be all in Schley’s favor. They are so clear as to make the covert attacks of the few hoe tile witnesses really react against those wbo made them, as they were so clearly suggestive of animus. Admiral Schley’s straightforward state ment yesterday added greatly to the ef fect of the overwhelming testimony al ready beard tn his behalf. Anything but his complete vindication would justly provoke the indignation of the country. BOOMING SOUTHERN TEA. There are practical and well informed men who predict that a few years hence million* of pounds of excellent tea will be produced annually tn the south Atlan tic states. Nearly a quarter of a century ago Mr. Le Due. then federal commissioner of ag riculture. endeavored to arouse interest in the possibilities of tea culture in South Carolina. The proposition was ridiculed away without being accorded anything. like a fair trial. But the idea it embodied was not crush ed out, and the profitable production of good tea in South Carolina Is now a dem onstrated success. If Is certain also that there are large areas in Georgia and other southern states where tea of as fine qual ity as that now sent to market from South Carolina can be grown. Secretary Wilson, of the agricultural de partment. has almost unlimited faith in this industry for the south. He is a farmer who has made a great success on bis own fields, and Is not to be carried •way Into unreasonable experiments. He believes in southern tea because he has seen It growing, has seen it gathered in large quantities and sold at prices that paid the producer handsomely, and has tasted It and found It good. . Secretary Wilson to therefore using ev ery means at his command to extend the tea Industry that to already well estab lished in South Carolina At the cabinet meeting last Friday he made an earnest and practical talk on this subject, tn which he said: “Good tea can undoubtedly be grown tn that state, and perhaps elsewhere In this wide and varied country; but can it be produced as a commercial success, or must we be prepared to listen to a series •of tedious arguments for subsidising an other unprofitable industry T* The evidence that tea can be grown suc easefully in a large part of South Carolina and the reasonable assurance that like re sults can be obtained in other regions of the south will destroy every argument that can be raised in favor of a bounty on tea ratsing. Wherever it to believed that this industry can succeed tn the south experiments should be made to de termine whether it can or not. Where the conditions are favorable tea growing will pay. and where they are fatal to the com mercial success of the crop it should not be attempted. That there are many thousands of acre* in South Carolina on which tea can be grown profitably cannot be doubted, for the thing is being done. A number of tea planters have made money there for sev eral years past, and are steadily enlarg ing their production. A syndicate recently bought LOW acres of land in the south part of that state for the purpose •f establishing a great tea plantation. The market for South Carolina tea to practically unlimited. One dollar and even a dollar and a half a pound is readily paid for the best grades of this tea, and some farmers have sold their entire product for two or three years ahead. There are great prospects for tea culture in the south, and we would like to see it tried Intelligently in south Georgia. THE PAN-AMERICAN CONGRESS. There are great hopes of the results to be had from the Pan-American congress which convened in the City of Mexico last Tuesday. This is the second meet ing of the kind and had the effect of bringing the United States and the South American republics into closer relations. There to reason to believe that the pres ent congress will be even more practical and more effective. The former congress was arranged by James G. Blaine about ten years ago while he was secretary of state. At that meeting the whole subject of international relations was considered and an arbitra tion treaty was formulated which the ministers of nine South American govern ments signed, subject to the approval of their separate governments. Chile re fused to enter into that general agree ment. protesting against compulsory arbi tration and ha* given notice that she will adhere to that policy in the present con ference if an attempt should be made to extend compulsory arbitration to old dis putes or pending questions. Chile’s reason for taking this position is that she will under no circumstances yield her claim in her famous Tacna- dispute with Peru. This dispute originated in 1879, when Chile, being hard pressed for money, seised the rich nitrate beds tn the Peru vian provinces of Tacna and 'Arica under the color of an alleged title dating a Idng way back. It was clearly a case of “might makes right,” and war resulted. Chile found Peru an easy victim. In 1883 a treaty of peace was established by which it was provided that the provinces of Tacna and Arica should remain in Chile’s possession for ten years, the Inhabitants then to de cide their nationality by vote. It was also decided that the country to which the final possession of the disputed pro vinces was awarded should pay the loser $10,000,000. Chile, on one pretext and an other, has evaded the settlement of the question though that should have been had eight years ago. This matter will certainly be brought before the congress in some form or other, but it is not prob able that Chile will agree to abide by a decision that she knows full well will be against her. On other questions <9f even more general importance the congress will probably be able to agree. , Among these are uniform port and cus toms regulations, development of better methods of communication, the establish ment of a permanent court of interna tional claims and the reorganisation of the International Bureau of American Re publics. Our country ought to be able to use this great opportunity to increase her South American commerce largely. In the laat ten years our imports from South America have decreased from sllß,- 000,000 a year to $110,000,000. Though our exports to South America have increased in that period $11,000,000 they still amount to only the compara tively small sum of $44,000,000. The trade of South America is increas ing steadily with England and Germany. Those countries sell many millions of good to South American countries which should be supplied by manufacturers in this country. The Dtngley tariff act crippled our trade with South America terribly by taking hides off the free list where they had been for 30 years and imposing a 15 per cent tariff on them. This change was made at the behest and for the benefit of the cattle trust which has contributed enormous sums to the Campaign funds of the Republican party. Another blow at our South American trade was made by the Dtngley act when it laid heavily increased duties on wool. This has not benefited the wool producer at home who gets a much lower price for his product than he received before the Dingley tariff went on. By cutting down our imports from South America we have prevented the in crease of our sales in that country, for nations will not buy liberally where they cannot also sell liberally. Our delegates to the Pan-American con gress will doubtless be profoundly im pressed with the costly folly of our com- I mercial policy toward South America. THE FAVORED FOREIGNER. The protected interests in this country wherever a reduction of tariff duties to threatened raise the howl that these du ties are necessary’to enable them to com pete with the pauper labor of Europe and pay American labor good wages. This fraud has been exposed so oftco *i THE SEMI-WfEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA. GEORGIA, MONDAY. OCTOBER 28, 1901. and so thoroughly that it requires as tounding gall for most of the protected interests to put It forward. We have free trade in labor and the workingman get* no benefit from the tariff upon lines of production in which the majority of the protected manufacturers of this country are engaged. The price of labor is fixed by supply and demand, while the trusts, by choking out competition at home and excluding that from abroad, are enabled to convert tariff duties into bounties for their fattening. The action of the trusts themselves shows that they stand in no need of pro tective duties. The greatest of them sell their products In foreign markets, where they meet the • World’s competition, at lower prices than they charge at home. Congressman Babcock, who is making the vain attempt to bring the Republican party to support his tariff reform plans, has charged that the billion dollar steel trust has offered an unlimited supply of its products in foreign markets for less than the American purchaser can buy it at the mills where it is made. The trust can pay freight to the parts across the seas and to the interior of dis tant lands pell it at a profit there at prices below what we have to pay in the home market. The officials of this great combine have testified before the Industrial commission and failed to re fute this statement. In fact, some of them have admitted that in some in--' stances it is true. This prostitution of the protective tariff is calculated to make the people of the United States very tired, and it is doing that very thing. GERMANY’S BAD PLIGHT. A Berlin letter to the New York Jour nal of Commerce states that Germany is going through “the saddest economic ex perience since the empire was founded." This indicates a deplorable state of af fairs when we remember the terrible fi nancial and economic conditions that Ger many suffered in 1873. The enormous war indemnity paid by France inflated German values and pro voked an epidemic of speculation which resulted disastrously. It appears that Germany Is now suffer ing not from any spasmodic panic, but from a steady shrinking of values which began in April, 1900, and has brought an increasing accumulation of business trou bles. It was believed and confidently as serted by the financial authorities that the worst was over soon after the first slump, but there has been no recovery. On the contrary, stocks have continued to fall and the list of business failures has grown to alarming proportions. The correspondent of the Journal of Commerce says that the trusts are at the bottom of all this trouble, and they are more numerous and more powerful in Germany than in any other country ex cept the United States. When the general formation of trusts began in Germany the banks encouraged them and lent their money and confidence with a recklessness that was often noth ing short of criminal. The consequence was over-capitalization and the formation of many trusts that cool consideration would have shown to be foredoomed to failure. The credits which were extended so freely up to a year ago have been with drawn and it now is hard to find takers for the best commercial paper. The rate of discount has gone ruinously high and no relief of the situation is in sight. But the worst feature of the case is not the industrial depression, as the following statement of the correspondent referred to will indicate: “Along with the numerous failures of banks and other companies has come the revelation of a state of moral rottenness among Germany’s business men that no body had suspected a year ago. The well grounded pride with which German busi ness men have . hitherto contemplated their excellent reputation abroad for com mercial honor has suffered a most se vere blow, and German papers are them selves saying that it will take years to wipe away the stain which has been put upon Germany’s business reputation by its enormous crop of swindlers and em bezzlers. The Frankfurter Zeitung ad mits in a recent market review that in no similar period of business depression in Germany have so many cases of ‘disgrace ful frauds and common swindling’ been exposed. The case could be stated still more strongly In the following form: No great country has for a century had so many directors of banks and joint stock companies in prison at any one time awaiting trial for dishonest financial transactions as Germany has today; and it is also perhaps true that no country has ever had so many suicides owing to business troubles and detected crimes in so short a time as Germany has had dur ing the past few months.” BETTER ROADS IN THE SOUTH. The work In the cause of good roads which the Southern railway has under taken will certainly result in great good to this section. The thoroughly equipped good roads special will soon visit many Important points in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Ala bama. The train, with its party of expert road builders, will arrive in Atlanta November 25th and remain here four days. The other points in its itinerary are Danville, Ashe ville, Greenville, Mobile, Knoxville, Ral eigh, Columbia, Birmingham, Montgome ry and Chattanooga. This program will enable the road build ers to reach a large area of the south and to extend far their helpful instruction and influence. They propose to give practical illustra tions of the best methods of road building in the various sections they are to visit and to encourage the organization of pe«- manent good roads associations wherever they go. Mr. W. H. Moore, president of the Na tional Good Roads association, will be with the good roads special. He is one of the highest authorities on road work in this country. He has made a study of road conditions in the south, and has observed that during several months of every year it is almost impos sible for the farmers to carry their crops to market on account of the bad condi tion of the roads. If they were able to use the roads at all seasons they could market their crops at far less expense, and the regular dis- tribution of them would be of great ad vantage to both the railroads and the shippers. Mr. Moore estimates that 99 per cent of all the products of the soil, valued now at $3,060,000,060 a year, must first be hauled over common roads before they reach railroad or steamboat lines. The loss that is incurred by farmers by reason of uncertain and slow access to markets amounts to many millions of dol lars every year. The part of economy is to invest money in the building of good roads and keeping them In order. A large part of the money expended in road work is practically wasted in make shift work that is washed away very soon after it is done, and often leaves the roads in worse shape than before. Practical lessons in road building are badly needed, and we are sure of getting them from Mr. Moore and the other ex perts who will come on the good roads special of the Southern railway. These experiments will be witnessed not only by persons in the immediate locali ties where the special will make stops, but at those points many persons from the surrounding counties who are interest ed in the great work of road improve ment will gather to get the benefit of the instruction and suggestions thus afforded. DOWNED~THE speculators. It was formerly a crime in England to speculate in food products. Those who combined to corner wheat or ahy other staple article of food were punished speed ily and severely. In this land where so many men make it thefr business to prey upon the neces sities of others and often succeed in rais ing artificially the price of bread and meat it would be a blessed thing if we could have and enforce such a law. The farmer very rarelytgets much bene fit from these conspiracies to corner food products. Usually they have passed out of his hands before the speculators begin to put up their prices and levy their taxes on every household. One consolation is that these schemers so often overstep themselves and lose what they had before they begun to try to coin their heartless greed. President Diaz, of Meffico, has recently given a deserved dose to a gang of Mexi can corn speculators. Corn and beans are the chief food of the masses and when the price of either is forced up suffering among the people en sues. A corner in corn was recently planned and carried to a great extent. It would have gone further had not the bold and powerful man at the head of the Mexican government smashed it and left the spec ulators several million dollars to the bad. When they had caused a terrible rise in the price of bread President Diaz de termined to take a hand in the people's fight. He induced the railroads to make a sudden and sweeping reduction of the freight on corn. , ' , He did not stop there, but through the government officials and agents purchased vast quantities oL-cyn in every part of Mexico and it on the market at hardly one-third the price the corn con spirators had been charging. The result was almost instantaneous. Corn fell to the pride it had been selling before it was cornered. The speculators found themselves with many bushels on hand for which they had paid much more than the then ruling market price, and had to give up their wicked scheme, not however, before many of them were fi nancially ruined and.all'Of them had lost heavily. Now President Diaz to a greater popu lar hero than ever before and we shall probably not see another corn corner at tempted in Mexico. anTmpre’&sive lesson. An Indiana court has made an example of a wealthy tax dodger who for years had been defrauding the state by making false returns of his property. He was fined SI,OOO and compelled to pay back taxes for seventeen years on prop erty that he had succeeded in hiding out, and of the existence of which his sworn tax returns gave no hint. He got off light enough, and his punish ment is said to have caused a commotion among the tax dodgers, who are numerous in Indiana, as they are in every other state. The honest taxpayers of Indiana have been paying inis rich deadbeat’s way for many years, and it is only justice to make him disgorge. The Indianapolis newspapers say that a campaign against men of his class has been begun in earnest in their state, and that some of them are coming up to pay arrears of taxes which they know they owe, and to increase their tax returns to something like honest figures. This is a reform that should be made to extend to all the other states. We see no good reason why it should be called the white house any longer. Well, at any rate, it has been proven that Schley could swear like a true sailor. Mrs. Editor Myrick is engaged in warn ing the Hon. J. Pope Brown not to drop the bone for the shadow. While Captain Howell was about it he might also have given the new president some instructions about who to invite to dinner. After all, it appears that President Roosevelt invites anybody to dine with him who happens to be around about meal time. That proposition to send anarchists so the leper islands is manifestly unjust. Even lepers have some rights which should not be Ignored. According to the Baltimore Sun, the court of Inquiry will cose Admiral Schley not less than $20,000. But think of what it has cost the country. And all brought about by a $2.50 a day navy yard employe. Mrs. Roosevelt to to introduce a new factor, and It should prove a very helpful one, in having a social secretary. This office Miss Isabel Hagner. daughter of Dr. Charles E. Hagner, of Washington, is to fill. It is to be hoped she, too, is not color blind. Among the many gifts recently presented to him Professor Virchow probably values none more than the gold medal which came from the Emperor William. Only three duplicates of the medal are In existence and all are in the possession of members of the philo sophical faculty of the University of Berlin. ABOLISH CHILD SLAVERY IN COTTON MILLS, SAYS GOVERNOR CANDLER TO LEGISLATURE One of the most important recommen dations made by Governor Candler his message read to the general assembly of Georgia Thursday, is in favor of the pas sage of i child labor law. Representative Houston, of Fulton,, has a child labor bill for the consideration of the present legislature, which will pro hibit children under fourteen years of age working in the cotton factories of this state, and there is every reason to be lieve that the bill will be passed at this session, especially as the mill owners re cently indorsed the movement to prevent the working of children in the facto ries. On the subject of child labor Governor Candler says: “As cotton factories increase in our state the necessity for wise legislation on the subject of child labor becomes more apparent and urgent. It is a delicate question to handle, and yet present con ditions suggest action. 1 That mill own ers in Georgia have taken a broad, hu mane view of this matter is evident from the fact that nearly all of them have agreed, as I am informed, on a rule that seems to me to be wise and just. No child under twelve years of age, except ing the children of widowed mothers or parents physically disabled and without means of support, shall, under these rules, be allowed to work in cotton mills until it has shown a certificate that it has attended school at least four months in the year, and no child under twelve years of age shall be allowed to work at night under any circumstances. “These regulations voluntarily adopted by the mill owners in Georgia are on the right line. While education is not a panacea for all the evils of mankind, and while higher education is not indispens able in the ordinary walks of life, edu cation in the elementary branches is nec essary to the usefulness and happiness of all classes of our people as well as the operatives in the factory, as the mer chant or the farmer, or the mechanic, and to the extent indicated above it should be compulsory. To broad-minded, unselfish mill owners who, of their own accord, have adopted such regulations as the* above, no statute for the protection of the children of the poor and unfor tunate is necssary, but all mill men are not broad and unselfish, nor are the pa rents of all children who are employed in the mills widows or unable to earn a 5 UGAR CANE AND CASS A VA, GREA TTWIN IND USTRIES The following address by Colonel I. C. Wade, agent of land and improvement de partment of the Southern railway, de livered at the Sugar Cane and Cassava convention at Brunswick Tuesday, throws additional light on the subject of seed cane, and will prove interesting to those who did not attend the meeting. Among other things Colonel Wade said: As one great object of this convention is to bring to the forefront the profitable net results of all the experience that can be gathered and by these helps build up these twin industries of cane and cassava that some of*us think can revolutionize this section, I herewith hand in my mite for your consideration. It having been demonstrated that we have the necessary soil and climate and farmers that will take hold if we can prove to them the inherent value of these two great agricul tural products. As the stock business is the highest type of agriculture and the thing most needed just now with us is to cut off the vast amount of money going north and west and save for home farm ers this increment wealth, hence I say cassava for stock and sugar, with its strengthening power, to the human race. It has often been demonstrated that a soldier can march a day on one-half pound of sugar when other food was lacking. Therefore every desideratum we can ac cumulate to aid. in its successful growth is of great value just now. I have noted the frequent objections to the going into the cane business more extensively Is the lack of seed cane, hence I have been quietly investigating and here are the re sults after consulting with many of our oldest and best planters that I have been able to meet. I wish to offer the follow ing suggestion as procedure in saving and caring for the seed of cane. First—Prepare the ground for your in crease next year thoroughly and in the best condition possible ready to receive the seed at once. (This will not only save you the labor next spring, but insure prompt crop and IS LOCAL OPTION A FAILURE! £ by REV. A. M. WILLIAMS. Editor Atlanta Journal—Your Macon correspondent misrepresents the position of my sermon of last Sunday* night on prohibition. I ask In justice to myself and the sermon, space to set the matter right. I did not say that local option was a fail ure. I believe it has accomplished a world of good. There are many happier homes in Georgia from its existence. My posi tion was that its influence was curtailed and hindered by the hypocritical local op tion cry of the “wet” counties. That the demon alcohol was barricaded behind local option in the wet counties and was doing all he could to defeat the will of the peo ple in the dry. I showed how this was done by agents of whisky houses travel ing through dry counties to train and en courage-blind tigers; by the breweries, joining their efforts to defeat the ex pressed will of these people, in labeling their goods with deceptive names; by the manner in which the devoted liquor papers under professed love for local option were advertising in the most attractive man ner their wholesale whisky and jug houses, specially inviting the trade of the dry section. I showed how the blind tiger in Georgia laid his tail over the dry coun- DAUGHTERS OF CONFEDERACY DISCUSS THE SOLDIERS' HOME (From the Southern Woman.) Official organ of the Georgia Divlsiofi of the Daughters of the Confederacy. In the brilliant conception and mag nificent execution of a beautiful patriotic act the Atlanta Journal has placed its name on the very pinnacle of fame, and a grateful people and admiring press find words inadequate to express the heartful appreciation of the generosity of the great dally in sheltering the homeless veterans, and then liberally starting a fund for rebuilding the beautiful home before it was entirely reduced to ashes. It was a deafening cheer that went up from, the throats and grateful hearts of the lonely old veterans as they passed the Journal office that fateful night and “three cheers more and a tiger” have echoed and re-echoed until it has re verberated from the mountains to the sea. Subscriptions have poured in and all. independent of line or section, have aided in making the fund assume a nice proportion. As in furnishing rooms, so in rebuilding, the blue-coated veteran has i :< * * SSsSMk . I \ V • -w.. GOVERNOR ALLEN D. CANDLER. Who, in His Annual Message to the Legislature, Strongly Recom *:• * mends the Passage of a Child Labor Law For Georgia. support for themselves and families. Some mill owners are cruel and grasping, will ing to blight the life of a child and dwarf its intellect for gain. and sometimes shiftless, lazy, drunken parent* are found who, to avoid work themselves and secure the means to gratify their ap petites. are willing to impose any hard- early growth. It is well known that the top of each cane stalk previous to its receiving the darker or sugar color contains no saccha rine matter of any value, hence when the cane Is stripped leave the top part undis turbed down to where the color of the cane shows it to heavily charged with saccharine matter. Now as your land to all prepared cut off this top section, even two or three inches it may be, into the riper part. Then carefully wrap this top part with Its leaves, which will keep the earth from pressing too closely about the seed and also help make humus and be of assist ance as a fertilizer for aiding the new plants. Having your new ground furrowed out you lay this seed in and cover as you do the regular cane seed. This seed will, by this process, further mature and start eyes from each section. This will, you see, save the trouble and expense of strip ping and grinding a worthless piece of cane, also saving the trouble of evaporat ing a large quantity of merely water that has little or no sweet In it. Thus you save a large quantity of hitherto worth less cane and make of it valuable seed. Care should be observed to put this seed under ground before hurt by frost. How ever. with these suggestions indicated the farmer can readily arrange to suit hto condition. By following out carefully the above suggestions it will be found that the planter can “keep hto cake and eat it. too;” 1. e., grind his seed, yet keep his seed, the opposite of this condition having been the trouble heretofore because the planter wished to realize as large a quan tlty of syrup as possible. Second, There seems to have been con siderable trouble in the past in saving the old roots for the seed. This can. in a great degree, be obviated by cultivating the ground between the rows after the cane is cut off preparatory for the new crop, the tops having been planted as above and the cane taken to the crusher. ties, but hid his head behind the barricade “local option” in the liquor cities and that in self protection the dry counties must off his head with the sword of “state pro hibition." I believe infinite good has been done in the counties that have adopted prohibi tion. * Where jugs now go barrels used to go. "Where a half barrel would be sold on a Saturday afternoon In the country grog erry now a few jugs a month is all that is consumed. I had rather have blind tiger* than seeing ones. I also believe in going on unto perfection. I do not believe that under the plea of local option a compar atively few white people and a large num ber of corrupted black votes should hin der the beneficent effects of prohibition in the large number of counties which have voted whisky out. Whisky will be surrep titiously used but I am opposed to a mi nority selling it under the speciousness of a high sounding legality. As to “prohibition not prohibiting” I showed how regulation failed to regulate. How Sunday liquor sell ing went on shown in the num ber of drunks and disorderlies at the Monday morning courts. How the sale to minors went on by the local news items appearing ever and anon. How the regulation against women in barrooms was violated, as shown in a man murdered at the door of a Macon saloon Saturday given generously for the comfort of the homeless ones in grey. Fortunately the insurance, $21,500, is a good nucleus too, and hastens the day when the veterans shall again gather in a home builded once more as a testimony of the love and gradtude Geygia bears toward the faithful soldiers who served her so well when war clouds lowered. The trustees promptly met and discussed and arrang ed for rebuilding. The cottage plan was greatly favored, and President Calhoun gave out this casual estimate: For home supplied with all modern conven iences, consisting of thirteen cottages, mess hall, chapel, hospital, kitchen, laun dry office, stables and waterworks, total cost, $18,000; total cost of furnishing, $3,- 500. In an appeal published and addressed to the people of Georgia, the trustees of the home, after thanking them for past favors, solicits earnestly assistance and co-operation in rebuilding. With insur ance and amounts subscribed, the avail able assets for this purpose reach about $25,000, falling far short of the amount which to estimated at $40,000. The board ship upon their offspring. For all such compulsory laws are necessary, as well as for the good of society a* for the sake of humanity, and in all such cases the child should be put in school and protected, and the vagrancy laws should be vigorously enforced against the worth less parent.” leaving the roots, which are really the best of seed ifproperly cared for. Now. after the ground Is thontughly cleaned, take a plow that will turn out a deep furrow, turning over and under all of the roots Into this first furrow. This completely turns the old roots bottom side up, the Importance of which is leaving the sap to run out into the ground In stead of running down into the roots and fermenting, causing the root to rot and spoil the seed, as is often the case, es pecially if a warm season of weather comes on at this time. The farmer often objects to using any of the old seed on account of this previous fermentation, which renders it useless. But if the plant is turned over the sap will run out and still leave life enough in the root which is covered up by the furrow sufficient to start eyes in due season for the next spring’s crop. Third. A word about the syrup. The way the matter now stands there are only about 60 or 90 days that syrup can be handled in the original form. It should at once be refined by the refiners to the necessary point that makes good syrup, but not high enough to make it crystallze and make sugar out of it Instead of syrup. 'Another point of the greatest import ance to Syrup makers is, as this trade is being built up in many new quarters to insist upon a perfectly pure article, with out a particle of glucose of foreign ma terial in it. It is well known that the temptation is great to put in cheap adul terations. but it 1s a fraud, hende should receive the severest condemnation, for if the practice is followed up it will con demn Georgia cane syrup in the best mar kets we have. It is only by honesty in all matters pertaining to ita refining that we qan hope to reach the top and stay there with one of the best syrups .there is in the world. By placing samples of your syrup in neat and attraci.vely labeled cans tn the hands of great brokers tn our large cities a steady and lucrative trade can be built up to, I beliee, millions of gallons, where it is thousands now. night, October sth, while opening a back door to let two women in to get drinks, the same being reported ls» the issue of a paper lamenting the failure of prohibition to prohibit in Maine. t My position was that the thing to do is to put your liquor legislation as a state on the proper grounds, which I believe to be state prohibition. If the laws are vio lated you are on the same plane as other violated laws. There are laws against stealing. Few persons have escaped loss by stealing. Shall we repeal those laws because they are violated? No sane moral man would advocate such a policy. An objector says, but stealing is so bad. Al cohol steals the reasori from the brain, natural affection from the heart, the fath er from his child, the husband from his wife, the God from the soul. Is not that the greatest theft? The sale of liquor is either right or wrong. If it is right then a great mistake is made when you discriminate against it in your laws, regulations and other imped iments. If it is wrong then its license is abhorrent to sound morals under any cir cumstances. You fail in your efforts to regulate, then cease your half way treat ment of the great evil. Put your laws on the solid rock of sound morality and if they are violated punish the violation. Cease temporising with the greatest in iquity of our day. ot trustees appeal to the generosity of all and ask prompt response to the eaU. that the home may at once be replaced. Several chapters of the U. D. C. have sent in contributions ar.d others are In creasing the amounts on hand before for warding. A new chapter, not yet six months old, with true generosity, for wards a check. The state president, immediately fol lowing the destruction of the home, told a reporter "the Journal can assure the public that the daughters will give lib erally and co-operate in any plan to rebuild the home immediately. We will ta-e official action at our meeting In Columbus Odtober 30th. The daughters of Georgia can be depended upon to do their part for the new home. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. New York Press. Good cooks make cheerful husbands. The beet way for a man to get married is to try not to. When you speak of catching things men think of fish, colds and scoldings; women of husbands. A woman can always be happy without * man to rule her. but she can be happier wtth one to do it.. One thing that take* away a good deal of the pleasure for women in camping out where you sleep on the ground is that there la n° chance to look for a man under the bed.