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| Talks With Farmers Conducted By C. H. Jordan ♦ Official Organ of Southern ♦ ♦ Cotton Growers’ Association + < > The Swnl Wwk!! Journal U tbs ort- « > ’ • cial organ of the Southern Cotton , , ' • Grower* - Protective Association. the ( > . < ' only official paper of that organiaa- , , * < • Use. and hereafter all official corn- , , < » munlcattona of the association* offi- , , < > eera. and all matters pertaining to ita , , < > affairs will appear In these columns. , , ( > The Journal also Invites members of , , a > the association and cotton grower* and , , , , farmers generally to use Its columns , , . . for the expression of such views and ( ( , , suggestions as may be of interest and k ’ value to the agricultural interests of J [ the south > The Journal will devote each week ’ ‘ two columns, as requested by the as ' ’ eoctatien. to a "Cotton Department.” 1 ’ tfi which will appear the official com- ‘ ♦ ‘ munlestlons of the association and 11 ' ‘ such statistical and other information 11 ’ » as bears upon the work of the assn- 11 < > cisMoa and all matters of Interest to < > < > southern cotton growers. < > tlllllMlllllHllllfllllll {►* 1 ♦ Subscribers are requested to ad- ♦ ♦ dress all inquiries for Information ♦ L ♦ on subjects relating to the farm, ♦ ♦ field, garden and poultry to the ♦ ♦ Agricultural Editor. All inquiries ♦ ♦ will receive prompt and careful at- ♦ ♦ tention. No inquiries answered by ♦ ♦ mail. Please address Harvie Jordan. + ♦ Agricultural Editor, Monticello. Ga ■> ♦ ♦ HfllllllllllHHlHllHM SHALLOW CULTIVATION. There is no question of greater import ance. connected with the future cultiva tion of present growing crops of cotton and corn, than that of shallow cultivation. Practical experiments, in hundreds of field tests, have clearly demonstrated that deep plowing should be done in the preparation of the land to receive the crop, and that growing plants should, with but few ex ceptions. be cultivated arith light running implements Aside from the fact that pos itive results have been obtained along this line which do not admit of argument, all sound and logical reasoning are behind it from a scientific standpoint. In the first place nature does not Intend that the thousands of delicate rootlets which are feeding out in every direction, searching for nourishment for the growing plants, should be ruthlessly cut. twisted and torn asunder by the long steel blades of a deeply running plow. Nature rebels when these tender rootlets, the very life of the plants which they nourish, are so seriously interfered with. Growth for the time be ing. when such is the case, is checked, and the time lost and the damage done can never be fully repaired. The latteral rootlets of our principal field crops begin their journey through the soil in all direc tions. early in the life of the young plant, searching for both food and moist ure. Within an exceedingly short time these rootlets have grown far out from the parent stem, and when the deep run ning plow point comes along an Immense amount of damage is done. Any man who would pause and think over the matter seriously, would not be likely to do much - deep plowing after his crop was up and ■growing Every farmer who does not live in the sand belt should break his lands as deep as circumstances will permit, but such work should always be done befc.-e the crops are planted, preferably in the fall of the year. Holding Moisture. One of the great objects in spring and . summer cultivation is to preserve the moisture in the soil for the benefit of the plants. Moisture Is constantly rising to the surface of the land and passing off thmug.-i evaporation. The moisture passe- up tn the surface through innu merable small air cellls in the soil, and the whole process comes under the sys tem tennned capillary attraction. That Is. the powerful rays of sunshine become a I magnet to attract and draw up the moist ure from the soil through these minute pores tn the earth's surface. The plan then for proper cultivation, to conserve motstur- and hold It in check. Is to culti vate the land so as io allow, by capillary attrartin. the moisture to come up from below and cut off its final escape at the dterface as much as possible. To do this, we must leave these capillary tubes open and undisturbed an Inch or two below the surface of the land, and by breaking the top crust break off the final avenue of escape. At the same time a cemented crust which has run together and hard ened. if only for half an inch in thickness. While a good thing to hold the moisture bek.w. ft prevents the proper circulation of the air from above downward, a vital essential In the life and development of all things. There must be proper circulation of the air from above downwards and the moist ure from below must be allowed to come upwards and held in check near the sur face of the sod. How to do this, and to do It properly during short or long periods of drought Is one of the principal prob lems to be solved in successful cultivation of crops through the spring and summer. It can only be accomplished through the use of light running plows, and braking the surface to the depth of one or two inches. This system makes what is termed a "mulch” of the soil's crush .and serves the double purpose of breaking and cutting off the escape of the moisture as it rises upward from below, and at the sam* time Insures proper circulation of the air above, iownward. The pro cess is simple and easy of accomplish ment Shallow plowing, where the farm er keeps up with his work, also insures tbs destruction of young grass and weeds as rapidly as would deep plowing. A great many farmers, particularly in red land sections, have an idea that they must plow their crops with deep running plows until the final plowing or "laying by” work Is done. This, however, is a great mistake and a small experiment will qulekly demonstrate the advantages of shallow plowing, particularly after the first working. If the land was not well prepared to receive the crop at planting time, as a matter of course the ground should be deeply broken, at first plowing when the plants are up and growing. Rapid Cultivation. Rapid cultivation of the crop with the plow is as important as is the proper sys tem of cultivation. The hoe should be used as little as possible after the plants —Valuable Books Free— A series of valuable books, edited and published by J. Newton Hathaway. M- D., the acknowledged authority on Chronic Diseases, has just been Is sued. Dr. Hathaway has devoted K years to the study and treatment of these diseases, and has acquired a perfect knowledge of their every phase and detail. He is conceded to be the most expert and skilful specialist tn the United States, and each of these books contains invaluable Information which every one should know. He will take pleasure in sending either of these boobs to any address in plain sealed envelope. Simply designate by number the one desired, end it will be forwarded promptly. No L Nervous Debility (Sexual Weakness). No. 1 Varicocele. No. $. Stricture. No. 4- Kidney and Bladder Complaints. Ne 6 Disease* Peculiar to Women. No 6. The Polson King (Blood Poison). Ne. 1- Latest InformaMon About Catarrh. Write for one of these books t<ay. Address J. NEWTON HATHAWAY, M. O, 88 Hunan bunding, Atlanta. Ga. have been brought to a "stand.” as the carelessness of the ordinary’ field hand often results in damage to the shank of the plant, and if the field can be kept clean of grass with the plow the hoe should be kept out. Hoeing Is expensive anyway as compared with the plow, and every Item of field expense should be re duced to Its minimum in order to insure as large an Item of net profit on the crop as possible at the end of the year. Once every two weeks during the cultivating season the plows ought to be run through the crop and get back to starting point. In dry weather it is as essential to push the plows as during seasons of wet weathr er. After heavy rains it is oftentimes nec essary to put one wide furrow on one side of a row and skip to the next, rushing over the crop rapidly and then tuHitng back to complete the work. This partial work in half breaking the cemented top crust between rows is quite beneficial and is of more decided advantage to the crop as a whole than the more slow process of plowing "out and out" from the start. Each farmer must be guided in this work largely by circumstances and the climatic conditions surrounding him during the different stages of his crop's growth. The best resolution for every man to adopt during the next sixty days is to rush the plows as rapidly as possible without ces sation except when the land is too wet to plow, and to use shallow plows for cul tivation, ’either short scooters and scrapes or in sandy lands, wide sweeps. The pros pect at this time is qylte promising for both cotton and corn, good stands have been obtained and plants are making good progress as to growth. The outlook is quite favorable and with rapid cultiva tion from now on. backed by good sea sons. we may look forward with a con siderable degree of confidence to a pros perous. successful year in southern agri culture. HARVIE JORDAN. INQUIRY DEPARTMENT. T. E. M.. Farmington. Ga.: Please answer through The Journal whether or not a sow. after having pigs, has an after birth, as a cow or mare? It is disputed generally through our neigh borhood that they do not. Answer—Yes. but it Is not so apparent or excessive as in the other animals named. This is true of all animals be longing to the Mammalia species. M. M. W.. Fort Mill, S. C.: I am building a fish pond. Will yoYi be kind enough to let me know at what point I should apply for fish to stock it with; also what kind of fish I had better get. I want fish for a spring branch pond. • Answer—Apply to the commissioner of agriculture of your state or the depart ment at your state capltol which has charge of the state agricultural matters, if South Carolina has no commissioner of agriculture. I presume you have in your state, as we have in Georgia, a “superin tendent of fisheries,” whose duty it is to give such information as you ask and to supply you with suoh fish as is best suited to the waters in your section from a hatchery controlled by the United States government. We have a fish hatchery in Georgia which will supply all demands from parties for fish to stock their pri vate ponds. If you have no such depart ment in your state, then write to Colonel A. T. Dalias, superintendent of fisheries, LaGrange. Ga-, and explain fully the character of your pond and ask him if he cannot supply your wants with the proper kind of fish from the United States government fishery established in this state and under his charge. W. C. W.. Wampun. Ga.: I am a sub scriber to The Semi-Weekly Journal and would like to have your ideas on the cul tivation of Russell's big boll cotton. As it is somewhat a late cotton would it be best to lay by early or would it pay to plow late as other varieties. My neighbor planted corn full moon in March. I planted April Bth. We both got up a stand April 15th. Now who is in th* full moon, or has he any advantage over me in the moon? Is the effect in the time of planting, if any. or is it after getting the plant up? Please answer in The Semi-Weekly and oblige. Answer—The question of "laying by" or bringing to a close the cultivation of any crop la largely determined by the growth and condtton of the plants. The cultivation of Russell's big boll is not different from that of any other cotton, so far as plowing is concerned. I.ay it by when the growth and fruiting of the plant have reached the stage of other varieties of cotton. The moon has nothing what ever to do with the date of planting or cultivating a crop nt any kind. The full n<Mw. half fullness or newness of the moon exercises no influence whatever upon veg etation. Thorough preparation of the soil, good fertilisation, rapid cultivation are what makes good crops when seasons are favorable J. C. C.. Baxley, Ga —I am a subscriber to The Journal, and would like informa tion through its columns in regard to my poultry, which are affected with some kind of disease that kills them in about 24 hours after giving signs of being sick. They begin to droop around and are soon dead. Their droppings are perfectly green, and they invariably die on the nest or roost. Were affected in like manner two years ago, when I lost my entire flock. Please give name of disease and remedy for same. Answer—From the symptoms described, it is quite evident that your chickens are dying up from cholera, the most fatal of all diseases among poultry. The germs of disease which attacked your flock two years ago have never been obliterated from the premises, and the disease is be coming once more contagious. Your premises and poultry buildings should have a thorough cleaning up and the poultry houses and nests whitewashed and whitewash sprinkled on the floors in side the buildings and on the yards out side. All of these deadly diseases originate from filth and In crowded quarters. Chol era may have originally occurred on your premises or been Imported there through the purchase of diseased stock. The first thing to do for the sick fowls is to give a teaspoonful of hyposulphite of soda, forcing it. slightly moistened, down the throat of the fowl. An hour afterward give a grain each of powdered mandrake, red pepper, ground ginger and copperas. Each Ingredient should be finely pulveris ed and mixed together with a little meal and moistened. Place all the sick fowls in a quiet, clean place to themselves and J THE BEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1902. give them plenty of fresh, pure water. Keep the poultry yards and buildings clean, and these contagious diseases will be kept down. Close up the poultry house as tight as possible after the fowls are out and burn some sulphur, allowing the fumes to remain in the building for an hour or two. W. B. D., Moultrie, Ga.—We want to set out three or four acres in strawberries. Want them to ship and for honje market. As we are not posted on this plant, would like to get the names of the earliest and best and also a large variety. Will you please give us the names of these? Answer—The Lady Thompson is one of the best early varieties for shipping, and the Haverland is a good late shipper. The Hoffman also comes early, and the Bu bach No. 5 matures late. The Lady Thompson is one of the best all-round va rieties for both local and foreign markets. The Hoffman is probably the best first early that you could plant. It is a large, fine looking berry and is a good shipper. I would advise of three varieties, early, medium and late, as follows: Hoffman, Lady Thompson and Barbach No. 5. H. W. McT., Climax. Ga.—When is the best time to plant Unknown cow peas to make hay? How many to put in hill? How far apart, and best fertiliser to apply? Cotton on ordinary pine land, rows three and a half feet apart, would you leave two or one stalk. About 200 pounds high grade guano to the acre. Answer— Plant the Unknown cow pea early in June in rows three feet wide and two feet apart in the drill, six <o eight seed to the hilt are sufficient to Insure a good stand. If land is ordinarily fertile, mix together 100 pounds phosphoric acid and 50 pounds kalnit per acre, or buy a good grade potash acid. If the land is not fertile use complete fertilizer. Cotton will do beat thinned down to one stalk on the character of land described and the amount of fertilizer as stated used pro acre. In drilling cow peas you will make a considerable amount of peas, but for forage or hay .he best plan is to broad cast the Unknown variety at the rate of one bushel to the acre. DR. STELL OBJECTS To Killing 801 l Worms and Letting Big Bugs Go. Farmers Advocate, Paris, Tex. To the Editor of The Advocate: Some weeks ago a call was made for concerted action to exterminate the boll worms in the four counties of Red River. Lamar, Fannin and Delta. The call urged that inasmuch as the boll worms were get ting worse from' year to year, if steps were not taken it would soon be that we could raise no cotton at all in those coun ties; that the railroads compresses, oil mills, cotton buyers and business men would put up the necessary money if the farmers would apply the remedies. There was a meeting called for all parties inter ested in those counties to meet Prof. F. W. Maliy on a given day in Paris. Said meeting was held, and Prof. Maliy was on hand. Committees were appointed, etc. As I had no confidence whatever as to any good results from such action I stayed out—thought I would just lay low, keep still and watch the battle go on against his wormship as the money for the war was to be put up by those who felt able to do so, and the farmers to only do the fighting. But how is it now? We are told that a certain variety of early corn, recommend ed by Prof. Maliy for the “trap rows” has been purchased and will be sold to the farmer at the (low) price of 10 cents per pound. There are 56 pounds of shelled corn to the bushel, so we see the farmers must pay $5.60 per bushel for an early variety of corn to plant late, when it does seem that anyone should know that if late corn (our corn varieties) was plant ed early the result would be the same, that is to bring the corn to the silk state in proper time. This I know can be done. Common corn is a difference, then, of $4.75 in the price of one bushel of corn, which would be $475 difference In the price of 100 bushels—pretty good sum it seems to me, when one variety will answer the pur pose the same as the other, if planted at the proper time, unless it be that the boll worm has a choice in varieties. It seems from Prof. Maliy’s experiments that he has found out that the boll worm chews to bacco, eats red pepper, and drinks beer (see Prof. Maliy's report on the “Boll worm of Cotton,” Bulletin No. 29.) Now, if the professor could only teach them to smoke the deadly cigarette there might be some hope of exterminating them by that route. I am quite sure it cannot be done by feeding them on corn and peas. It is altogether a mistake about the boll worms doing more damage to cotton now than they Hid many years ago. It is entirely owing ’to the seasons. Os dry summers they do no damage of conse quence 071 our black lands, and of wet years they do much damage; but not one half the damage to cotton of wet years is done by boll worms and sharp shooters. Our black lands would not produce good cotton crops of extreme wet seasons if there was not a boll worm in the state. When I found that the farmer would have to go down in his pocket for $5.60 to pay for one bushel of corn to feed the boll worms on, I concluded I would inves tigate this subject a little, even if my own mind had been fully made up; and believing the better plan would be to get the desired information, I wrote and sub mitted a few questions to cotton planters of Caddo and Bossier parishes, Louisiana, the same gentlemen upon whose planta tions Prof. Maliy made his experiments in 189 L viz.; Mr. John Glassell, Jr., Rush Point, Caddo parish, and Mr. M. A. Cur tis, of Bossier parish. Their answers are as follows: I. Both say Prof. Maliy’s plans for exterminating the boll worms were put in operation on their plantations. 2. Mr. Curtis did not continue the plans; Mr. Glassell continued the plans two year. 8. Both say the boll worms have not been exterminated. 4. Both say Prof. Maliy’s plans for ex terminating the boll worms are not being conducted now by any one in their section to their knowledge. 5. Both agree that the boll worms do not damage the cotton the same each yearw. 6. Mr. Curtis says the damage is much worse of wet years; Mr. Glassell says some worse of wet years. Mr. Glassell says: "The worms were worse here in 1898. than I have ever seen.” Now here is the gist of the answers of theee two gentlemen of whom Prof. Mal iy speaks in high terms as aiding him to prosecute his experiments by setting aside parts of their plantations. Prof. Maliy's plans were put in operation, continued two years, did no good, but the worms were actually worse the laet year than ever before, and everybody quit in disgust —no one now using Prof. Maliy's plans. Remember, it was in 1891 when Prof. Maliy prosecuted his plans in Loulsana. Now, when his plans have been entirely aban doned by the cotton planters of Louis iana as worthless, will the farmers of this section take them up at a big ex pense and a whole lot of foolishness? Would it not be a good thing, while our aforesaid friends' bosoms are actually heaving in deep and earnest sympathy on account of the boll worm, just to invite them to drop the little bug matter and give us "one strong pull, hard pull, and pull altogether” after the big bugs? You see, the little bugs only prey upon the cotton crop one to one and one-half months of wet years, whereas the big two legged kid-glove silk-hat bugs (the cot ton bears) put in their Infamous work every year, and from the first day of January to the last day of December—the whole twelve months—and if there were 18 months in the year, they would occupy all the time. Neither does it matter to them whether it Is a short or a long crop, they are doing all they .can to de press prices. They are the bugs that need extermination worse than any other bugs I know of. It would be a blessing to the farmer if all these rascals had died of colic, croup, spasms, or summer com plaint while they were in their cradles. Yours for an energetic war on big bugs. W. W. STEEL. THE JOURNAL’S “JOINT DEBATE.” 4 ■ Continued from Page Four. and why did he share in the proceeds of the job? So long as he was a railroad attorney he saw no justice in railroads charging as much or more for short hauls than long hauls of freight. Yet for that offense mainly the constitutional convention of 1877 created our railroad commission and congress passed the Interstate commerce bill. But Mr. Guerry, in the interest of hie clients, as a legislator voted against forbidding that Injustice to the people. The naked truth is that Mr. Guerry has opposed none of the above things until they ceased to be profitable to himself personally. Second. Mr. Guerry has a chief cam paign manager, Mr. Sidney C. Tapp? That gentleman has the bold shamelessness to acknowledge that he became possessed by accident of a private letter that he knew was not intended for him; that when the honest gentleman who innocently forward ed it refused to authorize its use and sug gested consultation with its writer, he, Tapp, refused to do that genteel and hon orable act, but assuming a corrupt pur pose on the author's part, publicly used the letter. This he did in defiance of the United States postal laws and he is still holding the letter contrary to law. Not only so, but he boasts that he will do like wise with anybody else's private letters that he may obtain, and which he sus pects conceal a deep laid plot to injure the Guerry gubernatorial interests! The question arises right here: Do the people of Georgia want a governor whose right hand man, whose Warwick and Fidus Achates is Tapp, the man and uses the citizen, contrary to common decency and actual statute laws, to serve his political pur poses? If Mr. Guerry thinks this act of Tapp is legitimate, fair dealing and com mendable politics, then God save the state and the people if he shall become governor and Tapp, the captain of his campaign, becomes the power behind the throne! T. E. MASSENGALE. Norwood, (Ga., May 14, 1902. SAYS PENSION QUESTION IS AN ISSUE IN THE RACE To the Editor of The Journal: In the discussion of platforms bearing on the present race for governor, a very Important item seems to have escaped the notice of newspaper controversialists in volving the construction and application of Georgia's pension law. Are e pensions of Confederate veterans to be paid under a liberal construction of the constitution, which places these royal men on a deserving basis, or, shall there be a restricted construction that will put them upon an indigent or pauper basis? Mr. Terrell is the only candidate who has stated that he was in favor of "con tinuing pensions on the deserving basis." This makes him essentially the gratefful and dignified friend of the ConfeSerate hero. Nothing less was to have been expected of the loyal young Georgian whose family blood bathed the trenches around Atlanta in 1866. It was in splendid accord with the po sition taken by him in 1885, when, as a member of the legislature, he introduced a bill to so amend the pension law as to provide for the payment of pensions every two instead of every five years. When it is considered that the discussion growing out of this bill lead to the con stitutional amendment providing for an nual payments, the people will understand the great benefit that was vouchsafed by Terrell to the widows and veterans of this state. This was seventeen years ago, at the beginning of Mr. Terreli’a public career. Today he shows the continued high esteem in which he holds these exalted and de serving beneficiaries by being the only can didate to say, without equivocation, that he is in favor of continuing to pay to them their justly won tribute on a deserving basis. In view of the fact that there is a disposition on the part of many in this thoroughly practical age to save money, even at the expense of the delicate feel ings of these grand patriots. I have felt it to be my duty to a class who have al ways held my profound admiration, and who will ever receive my first considera tion to appeal to the sons of veterans that are dead, and to those frosted heroes who are yet living, to rally to the - standard of one so thoughtfully patriotic. To my mind this is one of the most important, questions of the campaign, in that it involves a class of our citizens who are fast passing to their reward. Men and women who have cledrly won their right to a place on the pension roll should not be forced to humiliate them selves by subscribing to a pauper’s oath. Dignity of patriotism and the sterling merit of citizenship are involved in this thought, and in these brave, appreciative words of Mr. Terrell. There is a world of meaning and soul in this delicate manifestation of a young man to the aged loyalist, and I will vote for Terrell on this account if for no other reason. It is indicative of a spirit that guarantees a good governor. BENJAMIN M. BLACKBURN. “PRECOCIOUS,” BUT WOULD HE MAKE GOOD GOVERNOR? To the Editor of The Journal: The letter of Rev. J. W. Domingos, ip eulogy of the youthful career of Hon. Du pont Guerry is very entertaining, but it affords no sound argument why all the world should rush to make him governor of Georgia. Precocious youths lived be fore the Guerry era and will continue after it is finished. But the item which strikes me as peculiar is thai Mr. Guerry should have been so much brighter than all his schoolmates and then need at this late day to plead the baby act on his rec ord as a grave and reverend senator in 1880-1. Certainly so phenomenal a youth as he was should not have been so raw and green at that time as not to under stand the purport and effect of the Hawes local option bill. That measure was in tended to put the whole liquor traffic in the power of property owners and tax payers. It would long ago, if law, have cleared the saloons out of Atlanta, Macon and all other cities, where the Guerry idea of that day, adopted in 1885, has since kept them and now protects them. Really, Mr. Domingos has done Mr. Guerry an injury by showing how bright he was and how he ought not to have been so violently opposed to the Hawes bill. But Mr. Guerry pleads Infancy and Mr. Domingos tries to show that as an infant Mr. Guerry was one of the wisest children of the age. Somehow their theo ries of his case do not jibe! In fact, Mr. Editor, this instance only the more clearly reveals how consumate an opportunist Mr. Guerry is. He started out opposing things because they didn’t "gee” with his notions, even though they were right in principle, and he has kept up ever since the practice of being for what suited his interests best at the time and opposing any thing that Interfered with his personal welfare. Grant all that Mr. Domingos says about Mr. Guerry’s school days and yet we have no prevailing argument showing that he would be a better governor than he was a senator, or a railroad attorney engaged in lobbyism and securing the passage of unconstitutional special acts to benefit the railroads, or as a candidate striking like a blind adder at every noise and reck lessly sinking his fangs in the flesh of friends, as in the case of General Evans, as readily as in the flesh of foes. A serious study of the methods of Mr. Guerrj - does not assure the people that he would give the state a level-headed, judi cious and statesmanlike administration. He has too much of vicious spirit, of re taliation, of self-interest and periodical fanaticism to ma)te a thoroughly safe chief magistrate. Very respectfully, H. E. HATCHETT. Decatur, Ga., May 17. 1902. FAULKNER SARCASTIC ON SEWING MACHINE AGENTS To the Editor of The Journal: Those sewing-machine agents and other constitutional authorities whom the peo ple have strangely neglected to elevate to the supreme bench of the state, and who are attacking Hon. Joe Terrell for re ceiving the customary fees for services performed outside of his jurisdiction, are about the mpat amusing performers that the Guerry vaudeville company has offer ed us! Think of Johnson and Earle setting up as critics of the solemnly given legal opin-< lons of Logan E. Bleckley and James Jackson! It is true that such men might err even in questions of law, but is it likely that Johnson and Earle would be employed by anybody to catch them at it? Suppose that those jurists did give opin ions—do not tile mere ipse dixits of such men weigh tons to the ounce of legal in fallibility assumed by a gentleman whose chief business is to explain bobbins, hem mers and quilters? If not it is about time for the general assembly to employ John son and Earle to re-edit, correct and con stitutionalize the decisions that Bleckley and Jackson have put into the Georgia supreme court reports. Something of tnat sort ought to be done right away to free us from their blunders in law, don't you think? Those critics of Clifford Anderson, Ely. Terrell, Bleckley, Jackson and a half doz en governors and three state treasurers, would have us understand that the idiote who made our constltion and the officials who interpret and execute it should have required our $2,000 a year attorney gen eral to rack all over creation to look after Georgia’s legal business for that pitiful sum. If the attorney general can be or dered before the state courts anywhere in the Union to prosecute extradiction proceedings, or be sent to Mexico, Can ada or England for the same purpose, and to the supreme court in Washington to wrestle with the giant lawyers defending corporations against the rights of the state—all for $2,000 a year—then we car; understand why Mr. Guerry has not of fered himself-to be elected attorney gen eral. But the merest child ought to know that the governor of Georgia has no authority to order the attorney general, or any oth er state officer, to perform any service be yond the confines of the state. He can not even order the commanders of our troops to do any service outside the state. The fact is when he himself gets outside the state he ceases to be governor ex cept in name, and by courtesy. A pardon granted by him in New York would not be worth the paper it is written upon. Constitutions and statutes are con structed in harmony with certain estab lished principles and precedents, and it is an unheard of proposition that the at torney general of Georgia, or any other state, is elected to chase all over the earth and prosecute the state's business "in any court” in Christendom. If "any court" means any court in the United States it also means any court in Europe, Asia, Africa, or the Isles of the sea. Stuff and nonsense! The people of Georgia, fortunately, are not such gud geons as to be caught on such bare sew ing-machine needles! They know that their officers in these transactions have kept the law and not outraged it and they will reward these malicious attacks upon honorable officers, both the quick and the dead, with a Terrell victory of mammoth I proportions on the sth of June. Very respectfully, , . i, C. R. FAULKNER. Belton, Ga. - TAPP ANSWERS CRITICS; USE OF LETTER JUSTIFIED To the Editor of The Journal: I read in your Saturday’s issue in the joint debate column the contribution from Hon. H. Warner Hill, chairman of the Terrell campaign committee, in which he states that he is "glad the Dunn letter has been published.” If he is pleased, we certainly have no objection to this repre hensible political act of Mr. Dunn being exposed to the people of Georgia, and. therefore, there should be no issue be tween Mr. Hill and myself on that ques tion. Mr. Hill further states that he has been ' impressing upon the people of Georgia during this campaign the despis able methods adopted by Mr. Guerry and his friends against Mr. Terrell.” I wish to state that as to the methods of this campaign Mr. Guerry has been and is now willing to meet Mr. Terrell and give Mr. Terrell the opportunity to expose these "despisable methods” to the public, and that I, as I have suggested before, will ac cept Mr. Hill, if Mr. Terrell accepts Mr. Guerry, and give Mr. Hill the opportunity face to face to expose these "despisable to the people of this state. I notice that Mr. Hill further states that he has repeatedly stated in answer to such requests (like those of Mr. Dunn's) that he could not grant such requests. In other words, Mr. Editor, we have it from Mr. Hui’s own pen that the Terrell head quarters have been flooded with requests for free transportation to Atlanta in order to return and do a "little judicious work.” Mr. Hill states he did not grant these re quests. Perhaps he is not attending to this department, and therefore, it may be that the "special agents” and “advisory counsels” are loklng after this branch of the campaign, and Mr. Hill with great courtesy could reply to these requests in the manner that he states. Where there is "so much smoke there mpst be some fire.” Mr. Editor. I wish to state that these headquarters have not received one single request for free transportation; that the visitors might be prepared to return and do a “little judicious work and change the status of affairs.” But as Mr. Hill is fond of recalling "despisable methods,” I will give the facts in a certain case and let the public decide for themselves who is adopting "despisa ble methods.” Some weeks ago these headquarters ad dressed a polite and courteous letter to Mr. Hill inviting a joint debate in At lanta between Mr. Terrell and Mr. Guerry. Realizing the weakness of his candidate and the platform on which he stood, and knowing that it would be fatal to accept the invitation, Mr. Hill and his advisors undertook in reply to conduct a joint de bate through the mails with these head quarters. His reply, as a matter of jus tice, had to receive an answer and thus there was quite a correspondence between these headquarters and the Terrell head quarters in the Kimball house. Mr. Hill and his ad.yisors have printed simply one side of this correspondence, headed with big lines: “The Hon. Warner Hill Makes Hot Reply to Tapp," and "The Hon. Warner Hill Proves Tapp’s Charges to Be False,” and has sent this “circular” oroadcast throughout the state. We were perfectly willing that both sides of this correspondence should be published and sent to the people of Geor gia, for in so doing, we were willing to risk Mr. Guerry’s cause in the hands of | the people. But Mr. Hill, like his candi date. preferring that only one side of the issue should be heard, and that at long distance, prefers that pur side of the correspondence should not go to the peo ple of this state. We ask the public in common fairness to pass judgment as to who is audpting "despisable methods.” We notice also that the Terrell head quarters have published that long and lengthy correspondence between Mr. J. M. Terrell and Mr. Frank Potts and oth ers. in which it took them a month to “misexplaln” the Potts telegram, but in publishing and sending it out over the state they failed to publish Mr. Guerry’s reply and Mr. Holder's signed statement that Mr. Potts told him that Mr. Terrell “engineered the scheme.” In the name of common justice and common fairness why did not Mr. Hill and the Terrell head quarters. if they were going to send out "cheap” circulars to the people of Geor- gia, have both sides of the question. Mr. Editor, it is plain to the people of this state that Mr. Hill and his candidate cannot meet the issue of this campaign, and hence Mr. Terrell, at long distance has to explain and apologise why he can not meet Mr. Guerry. and Mr. Hill when he undertakes to come to his rescue by the joint debate through the mails can only give one side of it to the public. We are willing to let both sides of the issues involved in this campaign be discussed in common fairness before the people and leave the results to their honesty, integ rity, patriotism and conscience. If Mr. Hill, his candidate. Mr. Terrell, and their political machine, cannot do likewise, let there stop talking and writing about "demisable methods.” v SIDNEY C. TAPP. Chairman. P. S.—Since writing the foregoing I have read an article by a fellow by the name of Massengale, from Norwood, (who I am informed is a whisky drummer), in which he seeks to measure the standard of my conscience for publishing the Dunn letter. I state for the benefit of the gen tleman that I do not need his guardian ship to direct me as to what is right and what is wrong, and what my duty was as to the Dunn letter. Had the Dunn let ter conveyed a legitimate message no man would have held it more sacred than I. and would have made it his purpose to have seen to it that it reached the Hon. ■Warner Hill in confidence. But I consid ered an attempt at political corruption should be exposed to the people of Georgia, and every fair-minded and hon est man will agree with me in this con clusion. It is the "judicious” work to "change the status of affairs,” and I will come to the Terrell headquarters "at once" that is bothering these fellows, since it has been exposed to the public and not what was my conscientious duty. S. C. T. SAYS GUERRY IS TRUE LEADER OF PROHIBITION * COLUMBUS, Ga., May 15, 1902. To the Editor of The Journal: Hon. Dupont Guerry is a prohibitionist, and is not afraid to say so, votes or no votes. He is, with all the force of his great brain and all the power of his clean, brave heart, the champion of the people against the liquor traffic. He is not pos ing as a saint, but performing the simple duty of a patriot. He is a leader who dares to lead. He stands for something and prefers defeat to cowardly silence or transparent duplicity. If he is a dema gogue, then let us pray for more dema gogues, for he is making the path of the non-committal machine politician exceed inly thorny. If he is a coward, may the land be filled with cowards, for his words do fight as an army with banners, and the braves that go out against him do hold their war dances in places remote and wash off their war paint and bury their tomahawks when he comes in sight. With them it is not a question of where Rode rick was then, but where Dupont is now, for they have business elsewhere. If he is a ranting fanatic, then may the soil grow fanatics till the socalled sane and practical politicians who are as colorless as a chameleon and as boneless as a jelly fish, shall become extinct as a species and exist only as fossil remains of an age when the holding of opinions was a crime and to advocate a principle was a sign of insanity. Were he a prohibitionist for office, his election would be at least an expression of the strength of the cause, while his de feat would' exhibit its weakness. But since he, out of deep and honest convic tion and with pure and patriotic motives, has thrown himself into the breach, fear less and unflinching to fight against the solid whisky vote and the corruption fund of the Liquor Dealers’ association and against the political ring that would per petuate the saloon that the saloon might perpetuate it, a battle as heroic as ever made victory sublime or defeat glorious, for prohibition, not to suppbrt him is not only a blunder, it is close akin to a crime. For once we have a straight candidate on a straight issue. If we shrink now, when shall we rally? When the local option campaign was sprung in Bibb county in 18s8, Colonel Guerry was chosen to lead in that cause. He consented with full knowledge of what it meant, and as chairman of our central committee made a noble fight for the home against the saloon in his own county. In all the heat and bitterness of that campaign he contended for a clean, honorable campaign, and frowned on ev ery slightest hint of doubtful methods, and, with the same fearlessness that he now exhibits, tore the mask from the fraud and trickery of the opposition. He came out of that campaign forever con vinced that local option in Georgia means the defeat bf the will of the white man by the irresponsible vote of the black man, Inspired by the rum and corrupted by the boodle of the saloon keeper; that all talk about white supremacy is merest non sense when cities like Maobn and Colum bus are at the mercy of the whisky seller and his hired repeaters With black skins, in spite of the votes of “a clean majority of the white men. That conviction he is now voicing on the stump with a fiery elo quence and a merciless logic that make the liquor king turn pale on his throne and the political boss sit up nights to ref pair his fences. If he is not the prohibi tion candidate, will some one please tell us what it takes to constitute one? If prohibitionists of all types do not vote for him, then will they ever vote for any man who champions their cause? If prohibition is not a cause in this campaign, then there is no issue. 11 it makes no difference to prohibitionists how the candidates stand on this question, then platforms have no meaning and principles have lost their power to inspire. Then let us cease to ask candidates what they stand for and vote by the pull of the wires, and tell the world that in Georgia we have politics without principles and votes without convictions. W. W. PINSON. 1605—1902—A COMPARISON. 'Midst the days of Spanish glory. Old Cervantes wrote a story Os a gent named Don Quixote, Os a warrior, fierce and bold. No old wind-mill could withstand him. If he saw a pig, he’d land him. No bad giant could command him— This the tale Cervantes told. Now this tale is ancient very. Don Quixote’s passed: but Guerry Still is with us, and the merry Funny times are with us still. So beneath the shades beguiling. Folks have stopped in wonder, smiling, While brave Guerry comes a-blllng Down upon Quixote’s mill. Octopusses fill his dreaming. Railroad engines, mad and screaming. Lobylsts. armed, a million teeming, Charge him furious, day by day. Tidal waves of whiskey, rumbling. Judges venal, laws all crumbling. Legislators, drunken, tumbling. Pile upon him as they may. But amidst the scene confusing. Hear his mighty voice enthusing. Feel his muscle, beating, bruising. Cracking heads with many a rap. Hear his ponderous orders thunder! "Forward Broughton, modest wonder!" "Jones has burst the bands asunder! “Clear the way for tiny Tapp!” Loud the engines, mad, are tooting. High-balls past his head go shooting. Octopusses grovel, rooting. In the dust before his might. Ixibyists round him swarm in masses. Shooting him with railroad passes. Foul Corruption, armed, enmasses All Its forces for the fight. None can tell this wondrous story. None can fitly sing his glory. Fighting all these forces, hoary. Filling Spartan-like the gap. None, but old Cervantes, merry. He alone can picture Guerry Fighting wind-mills, and his very. Very warlike follower Tapp. If this little squib Is daring. Though I think it mild and sparing. Just remember, I’m comparing Two groat men of different climes; And I think without dissembling. ' Though my heart with fear is trembling, I have found a great resembling ’Twixt the heroes of those times. O. G. COJL LaGrange, Ga., May 14, IW2. WAfINEBHILL SPOKE AGAINST GUEfIRY. ON MAY . READ A CARD WRITTEN BY GUER« RY SAYING LOCAL OPTION WAS THE PROPER SOLUTION OF LIQUOR PROBLEM. Candidate Dupont Guerry came in fo* no small amount of criticism at the hands of Hon Warner Hili Monday night in an < address to’the voters of Edgewood, in the academy there. * Mr. Hill, who is the campaign manager of Hon. Joseph M. Terrell, undertook to go after Mr. Guerry’s prohibition record, and took occasion to read a published card from the prohibition candidate, writ ten in 1896 at which time Mr. Guerry ex pressed himself in favor of local option as against state prohibition. Mr. Guerry’s card, from which Mr. Hill read, was in praise of the late Dr. Hay good, and was printed in an Atlanta paper. Referring to this, Mr. Hill made some sarcastic remarks about what he called a ckange of front on the part of the Bibb county man. Among other things, he said: "He is now against local option and in favor of state prohibition. Why this charge of sentiment &nd of opinion? Will he plead infancy on this letter, too, as h» did on state prohibition in 1880-1881? He said with reference to that vote, ‘I was a young lawyer with but little education and but little experience.’ etc. And al though he has been making charge after charge during this campaign and jump ing on everybody and and when Mr. Terrell, at Forsyth, and I, in a letter in reply to one from him, quoted a little of his own record, he whines like a whipped child and pleads the ‘baby 1 act.’ "His positions on public questions are as fickle as the wind. He claims to be for state prohibition today, but where will * he be tomorrow? 1 "In 1896 he was opposed to ‘prohibition being tangled up with Populism, but it reports are true, he is now industriously and earnestly seeking the votes of our Populist friends. "Will the Populists of Georgia be thus slurred at In 1896 and wheedled into voting for Guerry in 1902? What say the Popu lists of Georgia to this?” Mr. Hill’s speech was well received by quite a large audience which filled the building tn which he spoke. WATER MELON and cholera are easily associated. This dread ed and grave trouble of the bowels causes much suffering, painful cramps, profuse sweating and intense thirst with vomiting, purging and evacuations. Treat vigorously with Perry Davis* Painkiller. It is efficient and safe. It is a standard remedy. Druggists, 25c and 50c. WILL PRATHER KILLED” NEAR ATHENS MONDAY ATHENS. Ga., May !£.—A white man named Prather, a painter, was struck and instantly killed about 7 o’clock, two miles west of here, this morning by a Seaboard train. Prather had a job some distance up the road, and was walking along the track accompanied by his two sons. The party started across a trestle near Hun nicutt's farm, when the train came upon them. By running the two boys managed to reach a place of safety, but the father was struck by the engine before he could get off the trestle. Prather was about 58 years of age, and was reckoned a good workman and 4 steady man. Authorities in Athens were immediately notified of the accident. Prather was fearfully mangled, only his head and part of one arm being left In tact. He will be burled at the Prospect church, in Jackson county, in the morn ing. He was survived by a wife and five children. TEACHERS WILL GET ONLY HALF PAY THIS MONTH Warrants are being drawn up this week for $175,000 which will be paid to the Georgia teachers. This amount will only cover only half of the amount due them, but under the determination reached by Governor Candler, the teachers will have to wait until June 15th before they can get more money, as none will be borrowed by the state until that time. The teachers have been anxious for an other payment for some time, and they will no doubt be glad when they receive their hard-earned money. CO«WON MILL INCREASES* CAPACITY BIX THOUSAND NEW SPINDLES AND ONE HUNDRED LOOMS ARE ADDED TO PLANT OF GIRARD MANUFACTURING CO. COLUMBUS, Ga., May 19.—Six thousand . new spindles and a hundred more looms are to be added to the already big cotton manufacturing interests of Columbus by the Girard Manufacturing company, which is owned by Columbus capital and operat ed by electricity from the Eagle and Phe nix mills, being just across the river west of this plant. The Girard mill is the old plant of the Chattahoochee Knitting com pany, but has recently been equipped and operated as a cotton mill. Extensive enlargements are In progres* and besides the spindles and looms men tioned above, a lot of machinery of va rious kinds will be installed to fill out the complement. The work of enlargement is going on fast and all the machinery has been ordered. The officers of this com pany are: Oscar S. Jordan, president; A. S. Matherson, treasurer; William Caden head, overseer. BIRMINGHAM NEGRO KILLS WIFE WITH GUN BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. May 20.—Robert Page is an Ensley negro, who worked for the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company, and made about SIOO a month. , He saved quite a sum of money and went to Texas, where he bought a farm. Re turning from Texas yesterday, after com. pleting his purchase there, he told his wife to make ready to go to Texas with him. She said she would not go to Texas. Page became incensed and. seizing a small rifle, shot the woman through the breast. She will die. Page fled. Page killed a man in Tennessee several years ago and served a term in the penitentiary for the offense. soo 00 Steel Range s3l 08. Our free circulars give Cut Prices of everything. Stoves $0.40, Dinner Beta Sets $2 00. PADGETT FUB. CO„ % I— fF* J Augusta, G*. 5
