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I Talks With. Farmers .
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THE SOUTH’S MONEY CROP.
The one crop which is of equal impor
tance and necessity to the farmers, mer
chants. bankers and manufacturers in
the south is that of cotton. All other
sources of revenue pale into insignifi
cance compared to the value of our mag
nificent staple. The products of our cot
ton fields annually amount to hundreds
of millions of dollars, and they represent
the broad base of the south's prosperity.
There is no other crop grown in United
States of equal value compared to a rel
ative area of acreage. The lint Is being
Woven into the finish fabrics of cloth, and
its use for different purposes is being rap
idly broadened year by year. The seed.
. through the ingenuity of man. are being
converted into many highly valuable
products which in a few years will dou
ble their present worth. Prominent cot
ton seed oil mill men prophesy that the
time is not far distant when a ton of
cotton seed will sell for more money than
a bale of cotton. With the rapidly increas
ing demand for the lint from all parts of
the civilised world, and the high value
which the seed is destined soon to com
mand. together with the other magnifi
cent resources of the south along agri
cultural and manufacturing lines, we
have a future coming, to which any man
in this section may well point with pride
and enthusiasm
New Phases of Situation.
The Southern cotton producers will
continue to plant, cultivate and harvest
this fascinating and magnificent money
crop on an extensive scale, because of
- the ready market in all local communi
ties every day in the year. The farmers
need no special education or advice con
cerning production of cotton, as to how
best to plant, cultivate and harvest ft.
They already produce more cotton than
the world can consume under existing
methods of culture whenever seasons are
favorable throughout the cotton belt.
The line along which an active cam
paign of education should be conducted is
teaching the farmers how best to market
the cotton crop after it has been harvest
ed New conditions have arisen within
recent years which have largely changed
the old system of handling cotton. To
meet these new conditions the farmers of
the south who grow cotton must educate
themselves to meet the new situation, so
as to be able to protect their individual
and collective interests.
A decade ago the price of cotton, based
jsege.lv upon its intrinsic value and our
borne markets, was largely satisfactory
to the producers.
That was in the days when active com
petition was the rule which regulated
all the varied avenues of the trade. At
the present time it Is popular to combine
the interests engaged in any particular
industry, thereby defeating the good ef
fects of competition. The price of cotton
is primarily fixed by the spinners based
upon the cost of manufacture and the
profits they desire to make in the sale of
the finished fabric. Between the spinner
and the farmer swarm a horde of cot
ton buyers and speculators, who, being
in possession of the price fixed by the
•pinner must buy the cotton from the
farmers at a price that ‘will pay all the
fixed charges on the staple from the gin
bouse to the factory: also a good margin
of prom, to themselves for handling the
staple en route to the spinner, and the
farmers receive the balance.
The question of prime importance to the
producers, in arriving at a fair and legit
imate price for the raw material at their
local markets, is to determine among
themselves whether they as producers will
submit to the existing state of affairs, or
Whether they will take a hand and voice
tn the price at which their staple shall
bs sold. The spinners are now generally
combined and agree upon the price they
will offer the open market for the staple.
The buyers and exporters are also com
bined and agree to hold the market within
a certain radius during the few short
L months of the fall which witness the rapid
movement of the crop from the farms. The
•pinners naturally seek to secure the sta
ple at as low figures as possible in order
to insure large dividends as a result of its
■ manufacture into cloth. The buyers are
naturally combined to secure as large a
margin of profit as possible between the
price offered by the spinner and the price
at which they can buy the staple from the
farmers. When the producers rush the
* staple on the market and force its sale
within a limited period of time, submitting
to whatever price is offered the spinners
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and buyers are left undisturbed to ma
nipulate the market to suit themselves.
Pricing the Staple.
It makes no difference who prices the
staple or where that price is fixed so
long as the margin of difference between
the value of the raw material and the
finished fabric is equitably adjusted, al
low a fair profit for handling, less the
coat of transportation and manufacture.
The farmers should acquaint themselves
with all these details as fully as the spln
ners.and when the margin of difference
is too great and in favor of the spin
ners the producers should demand their
rights and if necessary combine to en
force them. There is no good reason
why the southern farmers should not
combine and co-operate for mutual pro
tection upon a business basis. Co-opera
tion which would insure accurate and
prompt statistics as to the yield of the
crop each season would be one of the
first and most important steps in the
right direction. An absence of informa
tion on that subject this last season, and
permitting the buyers to price the crop
which was rapidly rushed on the mar
ket, enabled the buyers to control the
situation, and the spinners to secure the
crop at $lO per bale less than its true
value, entailing a loss of at least 1100,000,-
000 on the southern cotton producers. I
made every effort in my power to impress
these facts upon the minds of our people
and worked faithfully in the Interest of
organisation in every southern state.
I advised and gave sound reasons for
holding the staple firmly at 10 cents per
pound, knowing full well that the crop
would not be sufficient to meet the de
mand by the world, and that the price
of cotton goods authorised a higher price
for the staple than was offered. Not un
til after the crop had passed out of the
hands of the producers did we note any
material advance in the price. For the
past sixty days the market has steadily
advanced and will soon reach the ten
cent mark. The only people who will be
benefited are a few wealthy cotton men
who bought at low prices and have held
for higher figures, and the spinners who
will take every advantage of the late rise
to advance the products of their mills and
thereby declare larger dividends on their
investment. The farmers of the south
must unite to protect the future market
ing of their cotton. It Is Inevitable if
they expect to do a successful, prosper
ous business in the culture of cotton. An
other hard effort will again be made this
year through the Southern Cotton Grow
ers' Protective association to secure good
prices next fall, and the effort will be
successful if the producers will give to
the association their active co-operation.
HARVIE JORDAN.
INQUIRY DEPARTMENT.
C. L. M. Candler, Ga.
I wrote you some time ago for a white
wash receipt for my barn and outbuilding.
Please give a receipt in the Semi-Weekly
Journal for whitewash that sticks well to
lumber, and that will not wash off easily,
and you will oblige very much. I read
your columns clbse cmd I assure you they
have benefited tie very much and I try
to follow your methods of farming.
Answer: The following is a good mixt
ure for whitewash intended for outside
exposure. Slack half a bushel of lime
in a barrel, first pouring on the water
slowly so as not to chill the lumps. After
the lime has .slacked or pulverised, then
add sufficient water to make the white
wash of proper density for use. Then
add one pound of common salt, one-half
pound of sulphate of sine and one gal
lon of sweet milk. Stir the mixture well
as It is applied. Increase the ingredients
in proportion to the increased amount of
lime used. Always slack your lime first
with a small quantity of water applied
slowly.
S., Lowndesville. S. C»:
I am a reader of The Journal, and have
noticed your inquiries and answers, and
concluded to ask a question too. I have
a mule that is well fed. eats everything in
sight, always hungry, and yet grows poor
er and is apparently weak and dull; makes
water frequently and often tries to make
it. Flow not free; seems strained. Please
tell me what to do for him in next num
ber of Journal.
Answer: From the symptoms described
your mule should have a diuretic and gen
eral tonic. The following mixture will
doubtless give relief and improve condi
tion: Pulv. gentian one-fourth pound,
pulverised copperas, one-fourth pound,
pulverised fenugreek, one-half pound,
pulverised elecampane one-fourth pound.
Mix well and give a large tablespoonful
once a day until the mule is cured.
M. C.. Colquitt. Ga.:
As I am a reader of the Semi-Weekly
Journal, will you please let me know
through the columns of The Journal
where I can get wire fencing suitable for
cemetery and at nearest point to Colquitt,
Georgia. Please answer as early as pos
sible.
Answer: You ought to be able to sup-
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1902.
SENA TOR MORGAN FIRES
FIRST GUN IN CANAL FIGHT
WASHINGTON, April 21.-The senate
has heard the opening gun of the great
canal fight.
Senator Morgan fired it. He aimed at
the Panama project and denfended the
Nicaraguan route. Thursday morning
to a notice he gave on the previous after
noon, he called up the canal bill and spoke
with the strictest attention.
This speech of Senator Morgan was not
the great effort he had stored up for
months to meet the efforts of the Panama
crowd. It was simply a clear, concise
story of the advantages the Nicaragua
route has over the Panama route, and a
statement of the facts relating to the
canal project generally. Senator Morgan
chose to make the speech at this time
merely to get his side -of the project be
fore the country. The canal bill was not
under consideration and the fact that he
spoke on the measure does not even ar
gue that it will be called up soon by the
committee on the order of business in the
senate.
At the beginning of the speech Senator
Hanna, the leader of the Panama advo
cates, was not in the senate, but Senator
Morgan had been speaking but a moment
or so when some one informed the Ohio
member and he immediately returned to
his seat, where he remained throughout
his opponent's argument. He was per
haps the mojt attentive member on the
floor while Morgan spoke.
The senator from Alabama, whose am
bition now is to hammer a canal bill
through congress during this session, took
the floor shortly after noon. For several
minutes before he began to speak he stood
at his desk to wait for silence. Calmly, as
a marble statue might stand, he paused
in the center aisle before the president's
desk and looked over the assembly of his
colleagues.
He saw men there who, like himself,
had fought for years in the interest of
a canal project. Men from the south, ac
tuated by the high motives of national
wellfare, were grouped about him to hear
what he might say. On the other side of
the green and gold hall sat men of the
north and west; some of whom w-ere eager
to join with the men of the south in their
task to connect the waters of the Atlan
tic and the Pacific for the benefit of Am
erican commerce, while others were ready
to beat dow-n in debate for the benefit of
railroad corporations every hand raised
to help the canal. Morgan looked them
over, one and all, while a fighting express
ion assumed shape on his stern old coun
tenance.
Then, with the deliberation of one long
used to the language of legislative halls,
the gray old warrior began his fight. His
voice is not strong. He makes no ges
tures. He even relies on his manuscript
for nearly every sentence he utters, yet
there is in what he says that interest
which abounds In the address of the
strong-voiced, stalwart-armed orator who
speaks without reference to notes.
Senator Morgan kald:
Mr. President, there is but one class of
enterprises projected in the United States
that is free from the control of private
interests and is intended only to promote
ply your wants at any of the leading
hardware houses In Albany, or you can
write to the Dunlap Hardware Co., at
Macon, or Beck & Gregg Hardware com
pany, at Atlanta. These firms can supply
you with catalogues to choose designs
from and can doubtless fill your order as
cheaply as you could buy direct from the
manufacturers.
•‘Farmer,” Demorest, Ga.—Kindly an
swer the following in columns of Semi-
Weekly Journal: I have a “moon-eyed”
mare, that is, she goes blind about every
six weeks. Her eyes will turn white and
she will be entirely blind for several days,
when her eyes will gradually assume their
normal state and sight return. She is 7
years old and a splendid animal. Have
had her only a short while. Will she
eventually lose her sight? Please give
remedy, if any.
Answer—The trouble indicated will
probably require a surgical operation to
relieve the eyes of your animal, as per
manent relief is not likely to be secured
by external remedies. A good veterinary
surgeon may remove the trouble if he
knows his business. If not attended to
promptly, your horse may eventually lose
his eyesight. I would advise the prompt
services of a reliable veterinary surgeon.
Subscriber, Talbotton, Ga.—Please give
me the following information through the
columns of the Semi-Weekly Journal: My
mule gets sick oft and on every year from
March 15th to June Ist, and seems to be
in great misery, rolling and falling about.
She does not swell any and eats heartily
all the time when well, and is as good a
mule as was ever hitched up. After two
or three hours of sickness she becomes
very gaunt. Don’t you think it is gravel?
And if so, what will give Immediate relief?
She is taken about once every ten days.
Any Information you can give me as to
how to effect a cure will be highly appre
ciated. My wife says please tell her
through your columns what will destroy
mites on chickens.
Answer—ls there is any disorder of the
kidneys or bladder, it should be indicated
by a wide, straddling gait of the hind
legs, or a tenderness over the kidneys un
der pressure of the hands or under the
flanks. For calculi, stony or gritty matter
forming in the kidneys and passing off
in the urine, which causes irregularity in
leaking water, give 35 drops of muriatic
acid in a pailful of water, to drink twice
a week. I think, however, from the symp
toms described that your mule is either
troubled with bots or constipation. Bots
or grubs would cause the trouble referred
to, or constipation either. In either event,
you can give the following spring tonic
with good results: Pulverised gentian
1-2 pound, pulverixed copperas, 1-4 pound,
pulverized fenugreek 1-2 pound, pulverized
elecampane 1-4 pound: mix them well and
give a large tablespoonful once a day. The
ingredients can be bought at any drug
store. The best spring tonic is a patch of
green rye, barley or wheat, cut and fed
to your stock dally.
For the destruction of mites, begin first
with a thorough renovation of the poultry
house and hens’ nests. Take all the boxes
out. burn up the nests and whitewash
them inside and out with a whitewash into
which Is mixed 1-2 pint of kerosene oil to
the gallon of whitewash. Clean out the
poultry house, sweeping est the sides and
floors. Whitewash inside and out, also the
roost poles with same mixture, sprinkling
the floor good. Mites and lice will not re
main where everything is kept clean and
nicely whitewashed. Make new nests out.
of clean, fresh straw. The mites originated
from bad eggs left too long in the nest
while the good eggs were hatching, or
from decayed broken eggs left in the
nests. Whenever a hen hatches burn up
all of the old nest and whitewash the
box. Dust the fowls that already have
mites on them with snuff or "Death to
Lice" powders. If everything about the
poultry yards and nests is kept clean and
fresh, there will never be any mites to
disturb the hens or little chicks.
W. A. 8., Guysie. Ga.:
Will you please answer the following
questions through The Journal:
1. When is the proper time to plant car
rots to feed hogs to get best results.
2. 1 had a sow pig that died suddenly:
had her on rye. I feed them, one and all,
in the morning, and she looked as well as
any. there being no signs of sickness, but
before night she died. What was the
cause, and do you think there is any dan
ger of it be’ng contagious. The others
seem perfectly healthy. Have divided
them.
3. My chickens have some kind of dis
ease that takes the feathers off their
throats. What is it? And remedy for It.
4. I have five tons of shredded cornstalks
and my commission merchant will not
handle it for me, says it is unknown in
the general welfare. It is the class of en
terprises that, in some form, increase and
facilitate ocean navigation. Such works
are government property and are guarded
by every form of legal, judicial and ex
ecutive power against the intrusion of
private interests.
All rivers, harbors, bays and canals that
aid the commerce of the country are free
from private ownership and are open to
the use of the people upon equal terms.
This policy cannot be reversed as to a
ship canal to be constructed and owned
by the United States to connect the great
oceans without a breach of public faith.
Assuming that congress is ready to un
dertake such a work in this spirit of sin
cere devotion to the welfare of the people
and to realize the anxious hopes of all,
except those who would profit by further
delays, I will address myself on this oc
casion to the question of the choice of
routes for an isthmian canal. It is a ques
tion of the greatest moment, and should
be considered carefully, dispassionately
and with impartial sincerity.
A mistake made in the selection of a ca
nal route which will or may involve the
failure of the effort to construct a safe
canal will be fatal.
A route that is safe for the construction
and maintenance of a ship canal is the
supreme consideration that should control
the selection now to be made by congress.
The interest at stake and the expend!
tures involved are too great to justify the
abandonment of a safe route for the sake
of the possible saving of money in a Idss
costly route that is of doubtful safety.
I will assume that the senate, without
material division of opinion, is convinced
that a canal is an indispensable, national
necessity, and that the people, with al
most complete accord.are demanding it for
that reason and for the additional reason
that it will remove the obstructions to in
dustry and commerce that have so long
chained the right arm of their strength in
almost helpless paralysis. «
The subject presents itself to my mind
with conclusive force in the form stated
in the six propositions I will now state:
1. We have reached the point where in-
vestigation is complete by observation, ex
perience, scientific research and forecast,
and these means of knowledge are as
conclusive of the facts as we could hope
to make them in another half pentury of
delay. *
This knowledge of the controlling facts,
as to the practicability of a canal through
the American isthmus, satisfies the peo
ple of the United States that the time for
final action has come.
2. The question now to be decided is the
choice of either of two routes for a canal;
whether it shall be located at Panama,
or through the valley of the San Juan
river, in Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
3. The controlling factor in making this
selection is the assurance of success in
constructing a canal that will be per
manently useful for commerce, and for
tlfe needs of the government and its poli
cies, and for the benefit of the people of
the United States.
4. A sum of money necessary for ex
penditure in the work of coristructlng
his locality, therefore he does not care to
handle it. Can you give me a market for
It and price per ton f. o. b.?
5. v» nlch paper do you think best for a
south Georgia farmer that the Berni-Week
ly Journal offers in its clubbing offer?
J take pleasure in reading all your ar
ticles and think you are doing lots of good.
I think your article on “The Man of Char
acter” is worth a year’s subscription to
The Journal.
Answer: 1. The carrot is a member of
the common beet family and should be
planted, cultivated and fertilized the same
as beets. You can plant them this month,
as danger from frost in your section has
already passed.
2. With the brief description given of
the manner and sudden ueath of your pig,
I am unable to say what the trouble was.
You did right, however, in separating the
balance at once. If either cholera or swine
plague caused the death of the pig, others
of the brood would doubtless have been af
fected before now. The suddenness of the
pig’s death, together wit... its apparent
healthy condition at the time, was doubt
less caused by some brain or heart trouble
which will not be contagious.
3. The disease with which your chickens
are affected, must be caused by a very
small mite which burrows into the lower
part of the •quill or root of the feather,
causing the feathers to become dry and
brittle, breaking off at the surface of the
skin. A simple and effective remedy can
be found in rubbing t..e affected parts
with a mixture of lard, sulphur and car
bolic ointment. This will kill the Insect
and stop the .rouble.
4. Nicely baled shredded cornstalks and
stover should command a price of $12.00 to
>15.00 per ton in any market where hay or
foiage is in demand. Write to Miller &
Brady, of Atlanta, or the Sawtell Packing
houses, of Atlanta, Ga.
5. It Is hard to say which one of the pa
pers offered in our clubbing list would suit
you best for general purposes. There are
special papers in the list devoted entirely
to the raising of poultry, sheep, dairying
and cattle. The hural New Yorker, Home
and Farm, or American Agriculturalist
are all good papers, devoted to the ..eld
of general agriculture. Munsey’s Maga
zine is devoted to general literature and
would prove interesting to the memcers
of your household: also the Youth’s Com
panion or Conkey Home Journal would
furnish pleasant reading for your family.
COTTON GROWERS’ COLUMN.
Special Correspondence.
BLOSSOM Texas. April 17, 1302.
Hon. Ha: vie Jordan:
Dear Sir—l send you my April contribu
tion fc c.ttcn £r<wars’ cAv.m.t of The
Journal. If you think it will be of any
service to the readers of The Journal, let
it go in. if not “burn it.” To a cotton
grower “up a tree” in Texas, who reads
ll:e Journal with great interest in all its
var ed subjects treated and especially
th ?o from the agricultural editor it
cculd easily be inferred (if the reader was
otherwise ignorant) that all the cotton
growers of Georgia were dead except
yourself. They ask the agricultural editor
for information on almost every other
thing connected with Georgia agricultural
irterest except about cotton and hew to
make cotton growing profitable. I hope
to meet some Georgia acquaintances at
the Dallas reunion. Very respectfully.
W. E. MOORE.
To Southern Cotton Growers.
In my letter published in The Journal
about a month ago, I said that cotton
growers of the south had it in their power
to always secure a profit on the cost of
the production of their cotton. To do so.
they will have to change their methods of
marketing the crop. Every intelligent
cotton grower must certainly know that
if eight-tenths of the crop is forced on the
market the first throe-fourths of the
picking season that they, the producers,
are not only paying all the profits the
short sellers of contract cotton contracted
for. even before a boll of the new crop
was picked, and in addition paying the
interest and Insurance as well as storage,
on one-half of the 8 per cent of their crop
they have delivered for at least three
months in aduitlon, and nearly every sea
son during the three months of Septem
ber, October and November when produc
ers are industriously gathering and un
loading their crops (they think they arc
selling their stuft) and paving some em
ploye of the short seller 50 ~ents per tale
to help them unload, the price was going
lower and lower, and producers have en
joyed all the labor and excitement and
the other fellows have pocketed the prof
its. Remember, cotton growers, spinners
never want to take off the market and
carry more than two months’ supply of
workOs cotton ahead, and all in excess of
such a canal, to accomplish such ends,
cannot b% reasonably compared with the
real value of the results to the people,
and the government of the United States,
and the choice of either route, with safe,
intelligent and sincere regard to its per
manent usefulness and advantage, should
not be controlled or affected by a dif
ference in the present cost of cofistruc
tion.
5. The assured certainty of success in
the construction of a permanent canal is,
of necessity, the basic or foundation fact
upon which congress must act in the se
lection of the canal route.
Considered as a simple proposition of
civil engineering, there is no doubt—
not even a shadow of doubt —as to any
fact touching the practicability of a ship
canal from Greytown to Brito, in and
along the San Juan river and across Lake
Nicaragua.
It is certain, beyond a reasonable doubt
that its cost is as nearly within the lim
its of exact estimates as any great pub
lic work that was ever undertaken.
As to this fact, there is no difference of
opinion among the great number of en
gineers-who have surveyed the Nicara
gua route, or the boards and commis
sions that have studied and reported upon
it, or the contractors who have examined
and counted its cost in every element of
calculation with a view to making con
tracts’ for its construction, or among the
great engineers sent out by European
countries to ascertain the feasibility of
a proposed great highway of the world.
It is upon this ascertained and settled
basis of certainty that I rest my judg
ment. I have been compelled to accept
the conclusion that the Nicaragua route
is the true and safe route to be adopted
by congress, and tvhen I contrast it with
the many and dangerous uncertainties of
the Panama route, my judgment will
not permit me to cast aside this assured
success and this conclusive state of facts
and, for the possible saving of $6,630,704
in the estimated cost of constricting the
canal, to imitate the dog in the fable,
in dropping the bone from his mouth to
seize its reflected image in the water
he was crossing. Esop's homely fable il
lustrates a danger that now threatens
this august senate
6. If the dam at Bohlo, on the Panama
route, should fail for any cause, the only
hope of a canal across that isthmus
would perish, never to be restored. All
engineers admit this fact.
The failure of a dam at Conchuda, or
Boca San Carlos, or at Ochoa, or at Tam
bogrande, or at any other site on the
San Juan river, in Nicaragua, would only
mecn the loss of that structure, to be
replaced on a better location if a lake
level canal is preferred.
“I Stood In a Draught
with my coat oft and caught this wretched
cold.” says the sufferer. He need not pay a
heavy penalty If he follow his act of folly
with an act of wisdom. Soak the feet in hot
wa-cr with a few teaspoonfuls of Perry Davis
Painkiller In It. Take a teaspoonful of Pain
k.der in hot sweetened water at bed time and
be thankful for so simple and speedy away
to break uo a cold. There is but one Painkiller,
Perry Davis’
that amount that producers dispose of
they have to pay the carrying charges
for 60 days.
Now suppose the’ opposite policy had
been pursued by the cotton prouucgrs of
the states during last September October
and November, and instead of getting rid
of eight million bales of last year’s crop
(as they did), they had only delivered
one-tenth of the amount p'cked In each of
the three months and delivered that the
latter part of each month. Do you sup
pose the price would have been seven
cents the first of December to the pro
ducers? It would most certainly have
been nearer eleven. The producers of
cotton and every other legitimate interest
of the country would have been benefited
to the extent of many m lions of dollars.
Spinners would not have been hurt, they
know how to protect themselves. Nor
would even the short sellers have been
hurt much, for they would soon get out
of the market or on the other side of cot
ton. Why cotton growers should want
to work so hard and even their wives and
children in trying to make some money
for short sellers of tnelr product is a mys
tery. There is nothing that the soil yields
up to the industrious farmer that im
proves so much by keeping and will keep
longer (if cared for) and surer of yield
ing or giving back to the farmer—not on
ly cost, but a profit—than cotton. There
is no better collateral that i .e farmer can
tender the banker for money nor surer if
tendered in a business way than cotton.
Then how much better and more busi
ness like if. when the price is not profit
able. for the farmer to use h:s cotton In
bales to borrow money and h. j for better
price, than to borrow money to make
cotton with an u then as soon as pic..ed
throw it overboard regardless of cost.
As an Illustration of the good opinion
the modern cotton speculator has of cot
ton growers, your attention is directed to
the New York market reports of today
(17th of April):
Middling cotton spots 9.31V*
Same grade futures. August 9.02
“ " “ September 3.38
“ " " October 8.02
“ “ “ November 7.95
“ December 7.94
This shows how much faith they have in
cotton growers, foi.owing the very same
plan In marketing the crop now being
planted as t. ey did last fall. If the acre
age planted this year is increased over
last year, next fall months will be sold
lower than above quotations. No one can
tell'now whether the acreage will be in
creased or decreased. I have Increased
acreage in corn, Bermuda grass and al
falfa ciover, and reduced acreage in cot
ton in pro?~tion. East Texas 'may re
duce cc>Jn acreage 5 per cer.fi and west
Texas and Indian Territory and Oklaho
ma may increase IOC per cent.
W. E. MOORE.
Blossom, Texas, April 17, 1902.
GENERAL STUART WAS
KILLED AT YELLCW TAVERN
To the Ed'tcr of The Jcurr.al:
The statement in Saturday's Journal
that General Stuart was killed at Seven
F.nes is a mistake.
Seven Pines, cr Fair Oaks, as the Fed
eral dispatches nut it. was one of the
early battles of the war—May 31st and
June Ist, 1F62. 'For numbers engaged, one
of ’he blood'est.
General Stuart was ki'led at Yellow
Ta\ ern, seven miles frem Richmond,
about the middle of May, IS6I.
While Grant was engaging the attention
of Lee from Gordonsville to Spottsylvan'a
Sheridan swung round the Confederate
right in the direction of Richmond’for the
purpose cf destroying the railroads and
cutting off supplies. He had in part ac
complished his purpose when General
Stuart came up with him first at Ash
land, the birthplace of Henry Clay, sub
sequently at the Yellow Tavern on the
Fredericksburg and Richmond railroad.
Here Stuart was mortally wounded. He
was taken to Richmond and died next
oay. A. G. BEAZLEY.
Crawfordville. Ga.
WHALE FOUND DEAD
°N_THE_ 6ULF BEACH
PENSACOLA. April 21.—The big whale
sighted arhore one week ago end so re
ported in these columns, wrlgg’ed off the
neach where It was firs* seen and was
last sight of until Friday afternoon when
the huge carcass was found upon
the teach eight miles from Pensacola har
bor. The monster was dead and sharks
were tearing the body to pieces. Oil from
the body covered the water some hun
dred yards, and as the carcass was much
decayed, it was evident deaui had come
several days previous.
SUGGESTIONS FROM
OUR CORRESPONDENTS
WHAT IS THE STATUS
OF U.NMARRIED WOMEN?
To the Editor of The Journal:
I was •‘delighted” with the able article
of our worthy bachelor friend. Hon. Eb
T. Williams, on the "Status of Married,
Women.”
I beg him to favor us with another on
“The Status of Unmarried Women,” legal
ly styled femes sole. I am sure he could
handle the latter better than former
subject. I write to inquire why he, in
writing a splendid dissertation from the
view-point of the astute lawyer that he is.
turned aside to make a thrust at married
men in language as follows: “Some times,
but not often, a husband is mean and pe
nurious and shuts off articles so necessa
ry to the wife’s comfort, but she may get
the ‘necessaries,’ charge to the old ‘skin
flint,’ and make him pay the bill. And if
I were on a jury I would hold him respon
sible for all beautiful and dainty things,
from spring hats as large as a flower gar
den to laces and dainty lingerie, especially
if the wife was a beautiful and dainty
woman. Such a woman requires not bread
and meat, but the sweet and nice things
so congenial to her nature, and without
which life *ould become a burden.”
The latter part of this is most remarka
ble, indeed, eminating as it does from our
distinguished friend. I suggest that when
he was put on his voire dire he would dis
qualify himself to sit on a jury in such
case. He forgets that beauty unadorned is
most adorned, and I rise to inquire
on earth he can know of the “necessaries”
of married women?
I am satisfied it is the wish of your nu
merous readers to have our good friend
discuss the proposition. "Resolved, that
bachelors should be taxed to support the
spinsters.” Respectfully,
J. C. JENKINS.
WON’T DO TO MENTION
STATUS OF SINGLE LADIES
To the Editor of The Journal:
In reply to my friend Jenkins I wish to
state that, in my restrictions on "skin
flint” husbands, nothing therein ap’plies
to any married man of my acquaintance.
I have only heard of such husbands. I
am like the man, when the preacher asked
his congregation-if any one had ever heard
of a perfect man to stand up. A little
trembling, “hen-pecked” fellow arose.
“What,” said the preacher, “you have
heard of a perfect man?” “Yes.” said the
demure looking little man. "My wife’s
first husband!”
Now, I said if I were a juror I would al
low dainty things, as necessaries where a
woman was beautiful and had been ac
customed to such. The law allows this
distinction when the commissioners who
set aside a year’s support are permitted
to give the wife the whole estate if it re
quires it to keep her up in her accustomed
manner of living.
Now the laws of Georgia fix the status
of married women; but when my friend
Jenkins asks me to give the status of un
married women, I will reply, as Silas
Wegg did when Mr. Baffin asked him
what was the difference between the Ro
man empire and the “Rooshan” govern
ment. Mr. Wegg looked unusually wise,
scratched his head and replied that the
difference was very marked; but it was
such as would not do to mention in the
presence of Mrs. Baffin, and I will add,
of the ladies. Truly yours.
EB T. WILLIAMS.
April 21. 1902.
SAYS IT WOULD PAY
FARMERS TO KEEP COTTON SEED
To the Editor of The Journal:
If you will allow me a shoft space in
your excellent paper I will give my reasons
for differing with a writer in your paper on
the cotton seed question. Are the farmers
.of the south • benefited by selling their
cotton seed? Those who take the affirm
ative of the question assert that the $42,-
000,000 which the oil mills pay for the seed
is what the farmers make by selling their
cotton seed. It takes but a little figuring
to prove the assertion absolutely false.
Instead of making $42,000,000 by selling
their seed they absolutely lose the differ
ence between that sum and the amount
they pay for fertilizers, which amounts to
much more than $42,000,000. This is not all
the loss the farmers sustain by selling
their seed. The fertilizers they put on
their land are not equal to the fertilizing
substance in the seed which they take
from it. The seed contains 95 per cent of
the substance the cotton plant draws from
the soil, and if this amount is not return
ed the land is falling off every year in pro
ductive power, and the farmers are losing
the difference in the amount of crop pro
duced by the use of commercial fertilizers
and what they* would make by using their
cotton seed.
There is not the least doubt that the
lands of the south have been failing ever
’since the oil mills began to succeed in
making money. This is plainly seen all
over the south. Land which formerly pro
duced.l,ooo pounds of seed cotton per acre
now making only 390 or 400 pounds, and
some of them so much exhausted as to be
worthless.
The farmers make a great mistake in
selling their cotton seed to the oil mills
and buying the seed meal which contains
only a very small part of the fertilizing
value of the seed. In a very dry summer,
which we often have, it does more harm
than good by causing the crop to fire.
Some years ago I was at a farmer's
house just after he gathered his corn crop.
He told me that he had put seed meal
on a part of his corn field, and left the
other nart without any, from which he
gathered 25 bushels per acre, and from
the part on wh'ch he put the meal he
fathered only five bushels per acre, be
cause the dry, het summer had made the
meal fire the corn so much. It has the
same effect on a cotton crop.
C. E. CRENSHAW.
THINKS AN INJUSTICE
WAS DONE DR. TALMAGE
To the Editor of The Journal:
In your sketch of Dr. Talmage's life
there occur some criticisms which seem
to the writer hardly fhir to the eminent
preacher who has just passed away.
True, these criticisms are, for the most
part, from New York papers. yet the
quoting of them without comment seems
to lend The Journal's endorsement to
these animadversions upon Dr. Talmage's
character. Dr. Talmage’s* veracity is at
issue.
To one paragraph the writer wishes to
call attention, viz.:
"The Holy Land had to yield him a
sensation, and the story was sent over
here that an American had met him there
and had asked the preacher to baptize him
in the Jordan, which Mr. Talmage, ac
cord own story, did do. But in
BrjolflHfr. Talmage’s enemies said that
he had jjatwhit a tramp on the river bank
and c’lSjfflrßlm.”
Os is a question of veracity
fnlr contradiction; one cf the
par been guilty of deliberate false
hood. it Mr. Talmage?
i-’i'opte who are acquainted with the
lower Jordan valley, that part an
cient Jericho, as well as with the wild
road from Jerusalem down to the Ghor,
or Jordan valley, know well that these
parts are neither safe nor attractive, so
far as the genus “tramp” is concerned.
.Hardly anywhere else under the sun
would the "tramp" be less likely to be
found. Blackmail Is levied upon the trav
eler who essays this robber haunted road,
dangerous now as it was in the days of
the Master. "Thieves” perpetually lurk
along Its rocky sides, ready to pounce
upon every wayfarer who may not be
“protected" by a sheikh, or other members
of the tribe. These protectors are hint
in Jerusalem and are paid liberally fob
“right of way” through their desert
Then, in the Jericho valley itself the
few vagrants who spend about four or
five months about the old ruins of Jeri
cho are of the vilest reputation. They
have degenerated since the days of Rahab
and her fellow-citizens. "Tramps” would
not find much favor among these bandits.
Even the miserable Russian pilgrims go
down to the Jordan in companies, and a
few Turkish troops accompany each car-»
avan. Dr. Talmage would hardly have met
an “American tramp” in such surround/-
ings.
Then, too. a number of travelers accom
panied Dr. Talmage on his journey.
Among these were one or two newspaper
correspondents. What an agreement or
liars there must have been that such a
detailed story as the baptism of the
“tramp” could have been manufactured,
and then retailed to an unsuspecting pub
lic, and yet not one of the company should
peach on the matter!
The writer had the good fortune to
lodge with Dr. Talmage in a private
home in Waseca. Minn., in July, 1890. only
a few months after his return from the
Holy Land. Dr. Talmage, who was ona of
the most social and genial of men, was.
full of his trip to the east. He gave the
writer many episodes from that journey.
Among others, he told of meeting
this American, who asked to be immersed
by him in the sacred river. The writer has
forgotten the name and place of residence
of the "tramp" American whom Dr. Tal
mage baptized, though he feels confident
that the doctor gave both.
One fact he does remember, however,
most distinctly—Dr. Talmage’s interviews
with the “tramp” in his (Talmage's) own
library in his Brooklyn home a month or
two after his return.
The gentleman (“tramp”) having been
admitted into the room, asked Dr. Tal
mage whether he recognized him. The
preacher, having surveyed him for a mo
ment, answered: "Yes, you're the man
whom I baptized in the Jordan.
A very pleasant interview followed. The
“tramp” had reached America shortly
after the preacher’s arrival home.
The jealousy among the great daily
newspapers of New York Is well known.
Some of us can remember how the other
great dailies for two years flayed the New
York Herald for its cock-and-bull story
about the finding of Livingstone by Stan
ley; how many people in America believ
ed that the whole story was out of a pk>t
on the part of Bennett, Stanley and oth
ers of The Herald men, to create a sen
sation and give The Herald great pre
eminence among the Gotham newspapers.
That Dr. Talmage had much of the sen
sational in his manner no one at all ac
quainted with his career will attempt to
deny. _
Beecher was sensational; so were many
other eminent preachers. But sensational
ism doesn’t draw a great and ever-increas
ing audience of intelligent people for more
than a quarter of a century. There must
be more than that behind. I.
Dr. Talmage was a friend to the south.
He had warm personal feeling toward
such men as Governor Colquitt, Henry
Grady and other distinguished Georgians.
He seemed to dwell with much pleasure
upon the life and work of his uncle. Dr.
Samuel Talmage, so long the president ofc
Oglethorpe college, near Milledgeville, and
he seemed to fee himself, in some sort, re
lated to Georgia. This Impeachment of
Dr Talmage's veracity seems to the
er to come with bad grace, so soon a* tha
eminent divine has left the r^' OMp
Granbury, Tex.
AN OPEN LETTER
TO PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS
To the Editor of The Journal:
In a recent issue of The Journal there
appeared a letter signed Darlina Bell. In
a very earnest manner the writer, a
teacher in the public schools,” took issue
with Evangelist Jones, who sometimes re
fers to matters educational in away
which rouses the opposition ot those who
favor progress and general diffusion of
knowledge through the system of public
schools. The attitude of Mr. Jones seems
hostile; he consciously or unconsciously
hinders the good work, and a mild protest
such as Miss Bell made is very good read
ing for those who hold a different view
from that of the gifted evangelist. Not
knowing the address of the writer I write
as follows, and would be glad if the mat
ter might come to her knowledge; also
reach other teachers who read and profit
by the contents of the esteemed Journal:
Miss Darlina Bell: Your letter in Tha
Journal, in which you take issue with 8.
J., is very interesting and instructive.
I feel a thrill of pleasure as I read of the
experience of a teacher who loves her
work, and who has evidently grasped its -
deeper meaning. Os course 8. J. is beyond
your influence, or of mine, “He is joined to
his idols.” but he has a host of follower!
who need and must have instruction.
We owe much to the inspiration of Froe
bel, who has brought a new gospel to bear
upon the life of the child, and we have
learned how better to deal with the little
people through the medium of their as- I
sections and their reasoning faculties. The »
result being that we adults are also see
ing more clearly the way of peace and
are learning the power of persuasion, and
inducement, in our dealing with children.
Out of this there is possible every good,
“peace on earth, good will toward men."
We have as yet learned only the primary
step, bv.t if we move forward all will b«
well; the rate of progress is of less im
portance than is the direction in which we
move. The influence cf the wise teacher is
permanent and far reaching. You seem
to me to nave caught the true meaning of
your mission, and I anticipate much of
benefit to those under your charge, and
through these good to humanity.
The Spartan thought it a need that a boy •
.-hould be taught to ride a horse, and to
tell the truth. We in Georgia may substi
tute the mule, but we may net safely ne
glect to imp-ess these young minds with
the beauty of truth as a ruling principle
of life.
If to-this we add the need for consider
ing the good of others in every action of
the day, we shall have brought them very
near to that kingdom which is the ulti
mate good and consummation of our hopes.
When in the nursery and in the school
the child has this higher training, the way .
cf peace will become easy of attainment,
and war and tumult will be replaced by
that "peace which at present passes man a
understanding.” ■ ..
I hope you may find your daily task real
ly not a task, but something quite differ
ent; and I somehow fancy that this will be
so. Fraternally and sincerely, - »
WILLIAM RILEY BOYD.
coffeeFounty primary
WILL BE HELD JUNE 5
DOUGLAS. Ga.. April 22.—The Demo
cratic executive committee of this (Coffee)
county met Saturday and called tlfe coun
ty primary election 'for-.tbe sth- of June.
Rules similar, so far as applicable, to
those adopted by the state executive com
mittee were framed to govern said prima
ry. Very few candidates have yet an
nounced in this county, hut others wll'
doubtless soon be heard from.
« SOO 00 St eel Range s3l 00.
Our frbextlrculars give Cut
prices of everything.
Stoves $0.40, Dinner Beta
' $3.48, 24 pieces Plated Table
Sets $2 00.
PADGETT FUR. CO, 1
Auguste, Ge.
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