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Talks IVith Farmers
Conducted By C. H. Jordan
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HOME MIXED FERTILIZERS.
the following letter has just been re
ived: • _ ....
“ASHBURN. Ga , March 7.19 M.
Harris Jordan. Agricultural Editor.
"Monticello. Gm
>ar Sir: Will you please publish an ar
te in the Semi-Weekly Journal giving
e rule for finding the percentage of
losphoric acid, ammonia and potash In
bring different amounts of acid, cotton
ed meal and kainit together for fertil
srs. I am satisfied such an article would
of great help to the farmers in this
etion. Thanking you tn advance for the
formatkn. I am yours truly.
"SUBSCRIBER.”
t has been quite noticeable the incrcas
jr Interest manifested by farmers in the
rtlllser situation. A large number of in
iries have been constantly coming in
king about the mixtures of certain in
edients. and what such mixtures would
alyxe and showing proportions of the
ree elements of plant foods. A general
(position has been manifested along the
e of securing fertilisers best suited for
e different crops, and to abandon the
1 practice of using one brand for every -
ing which was always bad business,
f the farmers would now undertake to
idy the methods of mixing the different
gredlents in such proportions as will
ve them the percentages of plant food
eded in the different elements used,
ch farmer would soon become his own
anufaeturer and get just the kind of
ods he wanted for his crops. "Sub
riber” asks for information which is
lite valuable, but which even after
Ing explained in as practical and sim
s way. as can be done, will nevertheless
quire some thought and study on the
art of the mixer to secure the results
mted.
A Plain Method.
Not being a chemist. I'cannot explain
ie system by any regular rule used by
lemists. but can only give the plan
lopted by myself in working out differ
it formulas. A ton of fertilisers weighs
M pounds, and 1 per cent of this would
l to pounds. We must use the ton basis
i figuring out the percentage of plant
od in any of the different chemicals
ted. For example, let us take a phos
aorlc acid analysing 14 per cent available
josphorie acid to the ton. and desire to
ie enough of It in a mixture to secure
per cent phosphoric acid. Multiply the
per cent by 1.000 .pounds and divide by
KO pounds, and you have 7 per cent
sosphoric acid, if the. other 1.000 pounds
made up of a material containing no
Oosphoric acid. The units, decimals, etc..
ted by the chemist are omitted, because
is not necessary. Cotton seed meal an
lyses 9 per cent ammonia to the ton. or
0 pounds; 500 pounds cotton seed meal
mltlpled. therefore, by 8 and divided by
M 0 would give you 2 per cent ammonia,
lainit averages* about 12 1-2 per cent pot
sh to the ton. or 250 pounds of potash in
ne ton of kainit; 500 pounds of kainit.
nerefore. multiplied by 12*1-2 and divided
jr 2.000. the ton basis would give you full
per cent potash in the mixture. You
Fould then by using the above examples
> make up a ton of commercial fertilisers
ave a goods which would safely analyse
s follows: 1.000 pounds phosphoric acid.
per cent acid; 500 pounds cotton seed
leal. 2 per cent ammonia; 500 pounds
alnit. 3 per cent potash. Total available
I per cent of plant food, making a stan
ard grade goods. If you wanted a fertll
ver to analyse 9 per cent phosphoric acid,
per cent ammonia and 3 per cent potash,
sing a 14 per cent acid to get the phos
hate. cotton seed meal for ammonia and
alnit for potash, you will still follow the
ule. and it will work out as follows: Mul
iply L 250 pounds of the acid by the 14
er cent available and divide by 2.000, you
rill have 8.75 per cent available phospho
ic add. with enough phosphoric acid in
be cotton seed meal to bring the percent
ge up to 9 per cent. To get the 1 per cent
f ammonia multiply the 250 pounds of
VIRGINIA-CAROLINA
CHEMICAL COMPANY,
ATLANTA, GA. RICHMOND, VA. CHARLESTON, S. C.
Largest Manufacturers of
FERTILIZERS
IN THE SOUTH.
Importers of
PURE GERMAN KAINIT, MURIATE OF POTASH,
NITRATE OF SODA, SULPHATE OF POTASH.
In baying fertilizers it is insportant, not only to secure goods of estab
lished reputation and high grade, but to buy where
YOUR WANTS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION CAN BE SUPPLIED.
We are in position, with our unparalleled facilities and our many plants
located all over the territory, to furnish all classes of goods and in such
quantities as buyers desire. When you buy of us, with our immense
capacity, you know you can get the goods, and all you want of them. 9
Seo our nearest agent to you, or write us direct.
Address VIRGINIA-CAROLINA CHEMICAL CO.,
ATLANTA, GA.
Send ter ths Almanac. Free ter the aski'.g.
cotton seed meal by 6, the percentage of
ammonia per ton. and divide by 2,000 the
ton basis, and you get 1 per cent of am
monia. To get the I to 4 per cent potash,
multiply the 500 pounds kainit by its aver
age percentage of 12 1-2 to the ton and di
vide the result by 2,000. This formula
would be 1.250 pounds acid, 250 pounds cot
ton seed meal and 500 pounds kainit. and
would analyse as follows: Phosphoric acid,
9 per cent; ammonia. 1 per cent; potash.
3 to 4 per cent. There is a good percent
age of both phosphoric acid land potash in
cotton seed meal, which is helpful tn
working out a high grade goods with those
three elements.
High Grade Mixtures.
If a higher grade goods is wanted then
more highly concentrated material must
be purchased. Dried blood will analyse
to the ton 16 per cent ammonia, hence
only half the weight in dried blood is re
quired to get the same percentage of
ammonia as with cottonseed meal. Muri
ate of potash will analyse 50 per cent
pure potash to the ton, and therefore re
quires only one-fourth as much in a
mixture to get the desired percentage of
potash as with kainit. The method is sim
ple and can be easily learned after a little
study and work on different formulas. It
is to be hoped this explanation will be
sufficiently plain to give "Subscriber” and
all others interested the information wan
ted. To make a very high grade fertil
izer high grade materials must be used,
but for the ordinary standard grades, far
mers can safely mix a 14 per cent acid, 8
per cent cotton seed meal and 12 1-2 per
cent kamit, so as to get fairly good pro
portions of the three elements of plant
food. The fertiliser question la an im
portant one, and it is a matter about
which the farmers cannot too quickly and
too fully post themselves.
It is many dollars per ton cheaper to
buy the ingredients and mix them at home
by any formula desired, simply buying
the chemicals in such proportions as will
give the percentages of plant foods wan
ted In the mixture, than paying for thd
complete fertilisers.
HARVIE JORDAN.
INQUIRY DEPARTMENT.
W. C.. Dallas, Ga.:
I have a mule five years old that will
not eat corn. She will shell off the corn
and eat the cobs, and will eat all the for
age given. She seems to have tampers.
Please tell me the cause and the remedy.
Answer—Dampers is a swelling of the
bars in the roof of the mouth just above
and back of the upper teeth caused by
deranged stomach. Take a pocket knife
and cut the first two bars until they
bleed and rub in a little table salt. The
trouble will disappear in a day or two.
Da not have them burnt out or cut back
of the third bar. It is quite a common
trouble with young horses and mules.
W. 8. T., Royston. Ga.:
Will you please give the address of some
one who has cabbage plants for sale, or
get them to advertise tn The Journal? I
want to buy several thousand.
Answer—Your inquiry will doubtless
cause the advertisement desired. I am not
familiar with the names of any near by
truckers who grow cabbage plants for
sale, though there are quite a number in
this and adjoining states.
L. B. 8., Greensboro, Ga.:
Please send me one bushel of African
millet seed.
Answer—l have no African millet seed
on hand for sale. Write to the Hastings
Seed company of Atlanta, Ga, or T. J.
King company, Richmond, Va.
B. F. H., Colquitt, Ga.:
I want to know if you can tell me where
I can get some cabbage plants. I can find
no advertisement of any for sale this
spring.
Answer—As inquiries for plants are now
coming in I do not presume the growers
will longer delay thbir advertisements.
The severe winter has doubtless retarded
truckers in preparing the plants for
market. I
A. M.. R., McVille. Ga:
I have a setter puppy 2 1-2 months old.
that was weaned from its mother at the
age of five weeks. It was in good health
until three weeks ago, and now it is sub
ject to nervous or trembling spells. Dur
ing the spells the pup has no use of its
legs and will not eat. When placed by the
fire and made comfortable it recovers.
Give me a remedy for the disease.
Answer: Dogs do not usually require
THE BEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1902.
much medicine. A very good tonic and
one that is often used for young dogs is
copperas. Powder it fine, cut a slip in a
piece of fat meat and pour in about one
fourth of a teaspoonful and give to the
puppy. He will swallow it down before
tasting the copperas. Nux vomica is also
good as a nervous tonic. Give one to two
grains every few days. Keep the puppy
in nice, comfortable quarters and feed him
on warm liquid food, or coarse gruel,
such as bread mashed up with potliquor
or butter milk.
G. F. H., Heard. Ga.:
I am a subscriber and admirer of your
valuable paper and have confidence in
your answers to queries, therefore I desire
to make an Inquiry. Will you please tell
me how to clean sorghum cane seed from
the heads? I desire to raise the seed for
market, but don’t know how to clean
them. lam very welhacquainted with the
method of producing the seed, as I raise
some every year for my hogs, but I never
have undertaken to clean any seed. So
any information you cap give on the mat
ter will be appreciated. I am a young
farmer and I desire to fall into line by di
versifying my crops.
Answer: It is always gratifying to hear
of the young men who are engaged in
farming making an effort to introduce a
system of diversified agriculture. It is the
only safe, reliable plan which will make
farming pleasant, attractive and profit
able. Unless you expect to grow sorghum
seed quite extensively for market, an
ecoAomical way of cleaning the seed from
the heads is to take a common curry
comb and comb the seed off. One hand
can shell off several bushels a day in that
way. If you want a regular seed separat
ing machine, write to the Cordwell Ma
chine Co., Richmond, Va., or Dehner
Wuerpel Mill Building Co., St. Louis, Mo.,
B. W„ Norwood, Ga.:
If I take 1,300 pounds of 12 per cent
available phosphoric acid and one per cent
potash, mix with 700 pounds cottonseed
meal, what would be the chemical analy
sis of the 2,060 pounds?
What is the analysis of 1.000 pounds of
the IXI acid, 500 pounds kainit and 500 of
cotton seed meal, mixed together? '
How would the 2,000 pounds analyse.
Answer through paper as soon as possible
Answer: The mixture in formula No. 1
would analyse about as follows:
Phosphoric acid, available..B 1-2 per cent.
Ammonia 2 3-4 per cent.
Potash ' 1 per cent.
Total available 12 1-4 per cent.
The percentage of phosphoric acid in the
cotton seed meal helps in raising the per
centages of that element, as it also does
the potash,' so that counting it in, you
will have a goods showing the different
elements named in about the .proportions
given. You get what is commonly known
a “standard” grade fertiliser.
Formula No. 2. as given in your in
quiry should analyze about as follows:
Potash 3 1-2 per cent.
Ammonia 2 per cen.t
Phosphoric acid, available ..7 per cent.
Total available 12 1-2 per cent.
This would probably give you a better
balanced fertilizer than No. L particularly,
for use on gray, sandy land under cotton.’
E. H., Undine, Ga.:
As I am a reader of The Semi-Weekly
Journal I would like for you to give me
a little information through the columns
of your paper.
My father has a horse that has fits. He
is about 15 years old and-is a good work,
horse, but has fits about every two weeks.
He trembles and shakes and then falls
down. When they go off he seems all
right; he eats hearty and is in pretty fair
condition. I have never seen him when he
had them. I live some miles from him,
and would like to see him to see exactly
how he acts. I will certainly appreciate
any information whatever.
I cannot see any remedy for him. If he
was mine I would kill him.
Answer.—Your horse probably needs a
good nervous tonlcl Give him 12 to 15
grains pulverized nux vomica in a bran
mash occasionally. I have never seen a
horse afflicted as you describe this one,
and it might be best for you to call in
the aid of a regular veterinary surgeon if
be is a valuable animal.
J. C. N., Callie, Ga.:
Please answer in your inquiry depart
ment what to do for my horse.
He is in good order, but when I drive
him he gets crippled in his front feet;
when I drive on dry ground >e travels
very well, but vfrhen I go through water
at all he limps badly. I have, tried pour
ing hot in the frog of his foot but
it only helps a short while as he soon gets
as bad as ever. The bottom of his foot
is brittle, will crumble like chalk when
I dig it out with knife. The bottom of his
hoof and the top don’t seem to grow to
gether good at the toe and gravel packs
in there. If you can suggest anything that
will help him I will greatly appreciate it.
I have been a subsriber to The Journal
a year and think it a good paper.
Answer—Your horse may be slightly
foundered. There are a great many dis
eases of the foot that sometimes in order
to definitely determine the exact trouble it
becomes necessary to call in a veterinary
surgeon. You would probably get relief
for your horse by changing the common
method of shoeing. The hoof can be sof
tened by oiling well with castor oil, and
continuing to keep the bottom of the hoof
well oiled and the sides up to skin. In
shoeing have a piece of sole leather cut
large enough to cover the entire bottom
of the hoof, place the shoe on and drive
the nails through the leather so as to
hold it on. Then pack cotton batting sat
urated with tar under the leather, so as
to soften up the bottom of the hoof. This
plan has given permanent relief in many
cases. Keep the stall clean and dry. Let
the horse stand in his stall on a litter
made of sawdust or straw from 3 to 4
inches deep.
THE BIRTHPLACE OF
PRESIDENT DAVIS
To the Editor of The Journal:
In reply to Mrs. Hettie King Wade’s
letter in The Journal of March 6th I will
say that I did not go into details as to
where Jefferson Davis was born, because
my article related more especially to his
ancestors. »
However, since Mrs. Wade has kindly
called my attention to a part of my article
that may be misleading, I thank her for
it, and will telj the story as it was told to
me.
When Samuel Davis left Georgia, it was
with the intention of settling on the Mis
sissippi. In those days the whole of that
territory was called “The Great West.”
From some unimportant circumstance,
which I do not recall, the Davises stopped
temporarily, in Christian county, Ken
tucky, where the future president of the
Confederacy was born.
This is what I alluded to when I said
that he was born while the family was
en joute to the Great West.
I had the above from Miss E. A. Bowen,
when she was collecting data for her "His
tory of Wilkes County.”
MRS. T. M. GREEN.
Washington, Ga.
The Importation of Steel.
Chicago Tribune. .
The interesting feature of the industrial
situation in this country still is the In
satiate demand for steel. This demand is
so great that for the time being it has
reversed the course of trade. The United
States Is ceasing to send that metal to
Europe, and is importing it from there.
These importations are taking place In
spite of the high duty. There is no other
way for many of the independent finishing
mills to get the steel they need.
Congressional Voting Machines.
Toledo Bee (Dpm.)
There is no longer any reason why the In-
UUlgent and successful citizens should want
to Lecomr a member of congress in the lower
home. Unices he be a man of conspicuous
ability and can assume a position of leader
ship al the start, ho is unable to accomplish
anything In congress, and is little better than
an automatic voting machine, controlled and
rtUnlntilated bv narty bosses.
" "GRAND OLD
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Chicago Tribune.
There are nearly aixty “grand old men”
still active in the world. Scarcely a nation
but can point to some veteran still in the
harness, while not a profession but is dom
inated by some leader who has stood in
the forefront of its followers until the
years have crowned the efforts maintain
ed for more than half a century. Six of
them arb more than 90, sixteen others
have passed the fourscore mark, while
between the ages of 70 and 80 no less than
34. are today directing the doings of the
world In government, politics, or law, in
finance, religion, or philanthropy, in the
fine arts and the sciences, leading its ar
mies or acting on its mimic stage.
Pope. Lpo is Ninety-Three.
Not the oldest of them as the years have
gone, but the foremost of the four great
rulers who have outlived the biblical
threescore and ten, is Pope Leo XIII. His
holiness, still so vigorous in intellect as to
be ond of the.powers of the world, is 93,
and the latest reports from the Vatican
would seem to give the He to the rumors
of his fast failing health.
Pope Leo was a boy of 5 when King
Christian of Denmark was born. That
monarch has ruled only 38 years, to be
sure, but he was 45 at his accession and
now has celebrated his 88th birthday. As
strong, robust and hearty as many a man
a quarter of a century"'hls junior, the fa
ther of Queen Alexandra is a notable ex
ception to the Psalmist’s dark prophecy
as to labor and sorrow which are to be the
lot of all who have outlived the 70 years.
Franz Josef, emperor of Austria, is the
third of the four "grand old monarchs.”
He is now 71, as is also President Diaz,
who has presided so long and so success
fully over the destinies of Mexico.
Canada’s Aged Statesman.
But other veterans than these are active
in the political forces of the present. Da
vid Wark, called “the father of the Can
adian senate,” is within three years of a
century. Senator Hoar is 75, as is Maximo
Gomez, who has played so prominent a
part in Cuba’s struggle. Justice Gray sits
in the supreme court at 73. Salisbury’s 71
years have not lessened the powers which
made him premier, while Lord Paunce
fote at 74 and Joseph Choate at 70 repre
sent their countries in Washington and at
St. James.
Senor Sagasta, now tn his 75th year, is
yet another of these. If constant excite
ment and danger could wear out.a man’s
constitution, this strong man of Spain
would have yielded up the ghost many
years ago. Stranger fortune than Senor
Sagasta few men outside a novel have ex
perienced. yet with physique unimpaired
and mind alert, keen and strong as ever,
he in his old age is the one leader to whom
his troubled country turns’ for guidance
and direction.
In American politics Galusha A. Grow,
of Pennsylvania, an ex-speaker of the
house, and Senator Hoar’s senior by
three years, is still active. Senators Alli
son and Cullom are 72, and Senators Vest,
Jones and Teller are but a year younger.
In Philadelphia lives George Franklin
Edmunds, the veteran senator from Ver
mont, who at 74 has withdrawn from the
stage of official activity, but whose influ
ence still is felt in the legislative cham
bers, where for so long he was a power
to be reckoned with.
This, too, may be said of former Secre
tary of the Treasury Boutwell, now 83;
for John H. Reagan, once senator from
the Lone Star State, where he celebrated
his 80th birthday recently.
Levi P< Morton, once vice president of
the United States, and today, at 77, one
of the leading figures in the financial ope
rations of the greatest city in the coun
try, forms the link between politics and
business. Yet the great veteran in that
walk of the world's activities has never
known any other—“ Uncle” Russell Sage,
who was born in 1817.
Aged Literary Men.
In literature and journalism the roll of
honor grows longer. First comes Samuel
Smiles, of London, who is 90; then Theo
dore Mommsen, the great German, who
spent forty years in writing his monu
mental history of Rome, and who, though
slight and pale as a ghost, shows no signs
of decay at 84; and, third, a Philadelphian,
Thomas Dunn En’gllsh, whose name has
been immortalized because of one ballad.
He is Mommsen's junior by but a year.
Linking the American literature of to
day to that of the times of Emerson and
Lowell. Longfellow and Whittier, stand
Edward Everett Hale, Donald G. Mitch
ell, Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higgin
son, and Richard Henry Stoddard. The
first two are 79, Colonel Higginson is 78,
and the genial old poet of New York 76.
Two others of the country’s authors are
to be included in the list—General Lew
Wallace and Colonel Alexander K. Mc-
Clure, each of whom is now in his 75th
year.
Returning to the continent, one finds
Traeger, the German jurist and poet, who
now is 78; Ibsen, the Norwegian dramat
ist, who is 73; Jules Verne, of France,
whose predictions, once considered as fan
ciful, have all of them been fulfilled and
more, and Count Leo Tolstoi, the grand
old man of Russia, who at 73 is still writ
ing for the cause of his oppressed fellows.
In the World of Art.
The field of art offers the names of sev
en who have left behind that seventieth
anniversary which the majority of men
never see. The oldest is Adolf Menzel,
the German, whose 86 years give him but
a narrow lead over three others, all of
them 85; Daniel Huntington, the portrait
painter, and Erastus Dow Palmer, the
sculptor, both Americans, and George F.
Watts, whose pictures were first exhibit
ed .in London's Academy the year that
Queen Victoria began her long reign. John
Tenniel, the famous cartoonist of Punch
and the illustrator of the Immortal wan
derings of “Alice in Wonderland,” is 82.
Eastman Johnson and Albert Blerstadt,
the Americahs, are respectively 78 and 72.
It is to be added that the last named has
been the recipient of more foreign medals
and crosses than any other painter of this
country.
Four names pre-eminently great suggest
themselves among those who have won
fame in the world of science. Ernest W.
G. B. Legouve, the veteran of the French
Academy, is at 94 the oldest of these.
Then comes Sir Joseph Hooker, the Eng
lish botanist, who has to his credit not
only 85 years but records of the greatest
value won from Africa and the Antarctic
regions, from Asia and western America.
Herbert Spencer, one of the greatest
thinkers of all tinje, is 82, and Rudolf Vir
chow. of Germany, scientist, author, poli
tician and patriot, is 80.
Two of England’s most honored veter
ans are Admiral Keppel and the Duke of
Cambridge, both of whom .came to the
fore during her Crimean campaigns, and
both of whom, though now on the retired
list, still hold commanding positions in
her naval and military history. The ad
miral. now 93, has become an author, is
an ardent sportsman, and is known
wherever a gun is fired as an unerring
shot at everything from grouse to ele
phants. The Duke of Cambridge, a
cousin of Victoria and the commander of
her armies from 1856 to 1895, though 83, is
far stronger today than at least one of
his juniors. General Ballington Booth,
who is 72.
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Spain wants Cuba to annex herself to
the “mother country.” But a burnt child
dreads the fire.
The Semi-Weekly Journal’s
Seed Offer for 1902.
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riety, fine for an early medium elaed cab
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It's a sure header with half a chance and
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Improved Long Green Cucumber.
▲ standard variety for southern family
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picked when I or 4 Inches long.
Hastings’ Drumhead White Cabbage
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A favorite wherever known. Large,
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Crisp, tender and free from bitterness.
Leaves outside are a light green, inside
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Os rather large size. Strong vigorous
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DISPENSARY VIEWS
PELHAM, Ga., March 5, 1902.
To the Editor of The Journal:
Who would have thought that Sam
Jones, of Cartersville, would have come
out “flat footed” for the dispensary sys
tem—the most degraded, damnable system
that ever cursed a country or corrupted
a people, and the greatest drunkard pro
ducing, liquor consuming method of dis
pensing Intoxicants known to this or any
other age. His utterances in last Satur
day's Journal falls rather harshly on the
ears of some who have been wont to
think of him as a "preacher of righteous
ness,” a “home defender,” an "ambassa
dor for Christ.”
As The Journal only allows me 500 words
In which to reply to Mr. Jones, I cannot
quote him at length, but fie says: "I am
not the champion of the dispensary, but
I know as well as I know my name that
morally, socially and from every stand
point of decency a dispensary is better
than a saloon.” That’s enough. Every
whisky man would like to pat him on the
back even for that much. But facts are
what we want, pot mere talk.
On February 20, 1902, I addressed the fol
lowing questions to the editor of the Co
lumbia State:
1. Does the dispensary breed lawless
ness and disorders.
2. Has the dispensary lowered the moral
status of the people generally?
3. Has it increased whisky drinking in
South Carolina?
To these questions Editor Gonzales an
swered as follows:
“1. The dispensary system has wrought
much lawlessness and disorder in South
Carolina. The disorders seem to have
passed, now that the law has been amend
ed and its enforcement relaxed, but the
lawlessness continues in the form of il
licit whisky selling, there being 25 to 50
times as many blind tigers under the dis
pensary system as the license sys
tem.
“2. It has certainly lowered the moral
status of the people in this: Whereas, un
der the license system a majority of the
country people thought |he whisky traf
fic morally abnoxious and a thing not to
be allowed, a majority of them now ap
pear to think it a goo- thing, when tue
profits accruing from the business go into
the public treasury and thus relieve the
pressure on their pockets as taxpayers. •
"3. There is less public drinking than
formerly, but necessarily a great deal
more private drinking, for the reason that
purchases are made* by the flask or bot
tle and the liquor is consumed at home
or by the roadside, in alleys, in closets,
etc.
“All pretense at morality in the system
seems now to have been abandoned. It
holds its own, despite many scandals and
much political demoralization, because,
after eight years it is beginning to pay
considerable profits to the communities
having dispensaries.”
These are facts which I am able to
verify by unimpeachable witnesses as to
the condition under the dispensary sys
tem at Pelham. I have seen four men
stand in their tracks and empty two bot
tles of dispensary whisky, passing it from
one to the other until the last one was
empty. It certainly increases whisky
drinking and drunkenness, and though
the dispensaries close at sundown, the
blinfi tigers run day and. nign., and the
damnable traffic continues.
Bar rooms have been doing business in
America for a long time, but they have
never been able to elevate the business,
but when the community or the state en
gages in it, then the cursed business ap
pears to be respectable, and all the people
are involved in the murder, robbery and
degradation which the traffic engenders.
I nave used the 500 words words granted
me. I can say no more. But be it
known unto you, Mr. Sam Jones, that I
have a paper of my own, with five columns
of editorial space at my command, and
that I am not through with you.
S. R. BLANTON.
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umns recently from many sources, espe
cially the fight and victory of the dispen
sary people of Rome; also the statement
of a very noted bishop regarding prohibi
tion, and how he was assailed from all
over the country. It seems that it is des
tined to play quite an important part in
the race for governor with some people,
but the prohibition plank in the platform
of any aspirant for governor will give way
under the weight of a few practical
thoughts. We know it is impossible to
legislate morals, \obriety or religion into
any people. But suppose we nad state
prohibition; think of the amount of money
that would go out of this into bordering
states for whisky, and the extra cost to
the consumer! Now, this extra cost is
what has hurt more people and deprived
more drunkards’ families of the necessi
ties of life than any other thing except
the article itself. I live in a dry county,
and often prescribe whisky in my prac
tice. If I do so in the fall, I have had
some people to go get it and return before
I left the house. This was done several
times last fall, while people were making
up their syrup. But’ it was not fit for use,
and they had to send off on the train for
it and pay 25 cents for carriage. Every
body knows dry counties will have more
or less blind tigers. Every effort at prohi
bition which tends to -ucrease the expense
to the consumer or makes it harder for
the drunkard to get works a/hardship on
his innocent family. I am sure a well reg
ulated dispensary would be preierable to
present conditions in this county, and in
the larger towns and cities, if the drunk
ard could only purchase one quart per
month and get a purer article, and at half
what he now pays, how much better it
would be for his little ones. A law similar
to the one passed and vetoed at the last
session of the legislature will yet be the
final solution of the whisky question of
this state, and this is the suggestion of
your humble writer. Put she sale of it in
the hands of the state, make the punish
ment for bringing or shipping it into this
state so severe that it will be effective,
only through the proper channels. Make
every man register his name when he
makes a purchase, and allow the dispen
ser to sell no man more than one quart
per month. Divide the counties into dis
tricts, as for voting, and every one must
buy in his own district, and not be al
lowed to buy for any other person only
under prescription. Make, it a crime
against the state laws for any man to get
drunk, punishing him with a fine of from
|25 to 350, and the punishment of the un
lawful making of it severe enough to
stop it. Respectfully,
DR. A. R. WRIGHT.
Renfroe, Ga.
SAYS DISPENSARIES HAVE
SOLVED PROBLEM FOR BULLOCK
Gentlemen: As I am a yearly subscriber
to your daily paper, I ask a small space
in its columns to speak a word in behalf
of my friend Dupont Guerry. •
I am a Georgian myself by birth and
raising, and have many relations now
in the northern portion of the state.
Therefore I feel a special interest in the
welfare of the good people of this state
and my many friends in the city of At
lanta.
I am a citizen of Bihlock county. Ala
bama, and have been for 32 years. But
six years ago Mr. Guerry defended a
young man, Sutt Baldwin, for murder in
this county. I was sheriff at the time, and
had opportunities of conversing and be
coming familiar with him. Dr. Baldwin
was from your state and wuue on a visit
here to see his sister he unexpectedly
got into a difficulty and committed mur
der. Dupont Guerry was employed to de
fend the young man. Os all the masterly
efforts ever made In the courthouse at
Union Springs. Mr. Guerry made it for
his client, and he today is warmly re
membered by all the citizens of tnis place.
We pronounce him a gentleman of the
highest type, and only wish him success
in the effott he has so zealously under
taken.
He is open, plain, frank and fully ex
plains every plank in his platform.
While I do not agree with him in every
particular, yet he is honest in his views
and working for what he considers best
for the citizens of Georgia.
He Wants to wipe out whisky from the
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state altogether. This in too big an un
dertaking. Shut up the* barrooms and
hare a dispensary for each county and you
will reduce the whisky traffic to a safe
and more satisfactory way of dealing it
out.
We use to have blind tigers and bar
rooms here by the dozen. But three years
ago our county voted them out and sub-,
stltuted the dispensary. Now our whisky
Is sold through this dispensary from « a.
m. to 6 p. m. In any quantity or quality
wanted from one-half pint up. No drink
ing Is allowed inside the building. When
night comes all the drinking class, white
and black, get on their mules and horses
and go home and finish their bottles with
their families, where they can be cared
for in *ase they take too much. In this
place when whisky was sold by the drink
our streets would be lined with wagons
and buggies, horses and mules up to mid
night. especially on Saturday nlftits. Now
the greater portion of our citizens leave
before sundown and our merchants close
their places of business at 9 o’clock and
scarcely no one Is to be seen on the streets
In our quiet little town; and as to the
revenue to the city, it pays as well or bet
ter than the amount received from the li
censed .barrooms. So I’ll say to Brother
Guerry. lets not blot out the whisky trade, •
but work it down to where It can be han
dled in a safer and more satisfactory
manner, with as large or larger
This statement may be worth something
to the good people of Georgia, as wh»t
I have written is from my own personal
knowledge and dally observation.
So institute dispensaries in every coun
ty in the state and vote for & u P°nt
Guerry for governor, and we will wish
for you a happy and prosperous future a
law-abiding and successful people•
respectfully. J- D. ROBERTS.
Union Springs. Ala.
NO WORSE THAN SYLLABUB,
SAYS CLASS PRESIDENT
OXFORD, Ga. March 5, 1902.
Among the “Letters from the People” In
a recent number of your paper there ap
peared what was termed “a kick, by
alumnus, against banquet njenu. the
banquet in question being the one held by
the senior class of Emory college at the
Aragon hotel on the evening of February
2< Jt seemed that the writer wfiw Indignant
over the fact that “St. Julien punch" and
"cigarettes” were included fin or
a banquet held by a class of a Christian
college, and that, too, "under the nose of
a member of the faculty.”
In the first place, it appears that the
writer is profoundly Ignorant of the in
gredients of this same “St. Julien Punch,
which he so readily attacks as an intoxi
cating beverage. No doubt he was of the
opinion that it was a kind of mixture of
“St. Julien” and "Punch.” or some other
vile concoction of equally injurious com
position. We would urge that he look
into this matter before making another
attack. The “St. Julien punch” he re
ferred to is quite harmless, I assure him,
and is not so “strong” as the old-fash
ioned “syllabub” which, I dare say, he
has often drunk with much pleasure at
his old grandmother’s.
We admit that the cigarettes, which he
so bitterly denounces as “born of the
devil,” are Injurious to the physical and
mental being, yet why he should take this
fact as a basis for an attack on the
"cigarette number” pf the menu we can
not see. If he is familiar with banquet
proceedings, especially among college
boys, he is aware of the fact that even
had not cigarettes been on the menu those
who wished them could have procured
them elsewhere and smoked as many as
they pleased at the banquet. Not having
them on the menu would by no means
have prevented their being smoked.
We would like to inform the writer that
the “member of the faculty” referred to
was the guest of the class and had noth
ing whatever to do with the arranging of .
the menu, and we would have been glad
for the "alumnus” to have occupied the
same relation.
It would have been preferred to have
banished the whole of this matter as In
significant, as it really is, yet it seeraea
that an explanation was due the class
and the college. Allow me to say that
the banquet was characterized by fhor
ough gentlemanly conduct, befitting the
students of the "south’s foremost Chris
tian institution.” . T. H. WADE,
President Class 1902..
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