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I Talks With Farmers |
Conducted By C. H. Jordan
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SOME INTERESTING INQUIRIES.
T think the most interesting and most
valuable part of an agricultural paper is
the "Inquiry Department.” if properly
conducted. If the readers of the paper
will take advantage of the opportunity
given them to ask questions relating to.
any feature of their business affairs about
which they may not feel fully posted, and
If the editor will serve that department
of his paper faithfully and to the best of
hte ability. It can be made highly profit
able to all the readers. Many a man hag
found in the "Inquiry Department" ques
tions and answers covering matters about
which he bad already been anxious to
learn.
The “Inqnlry Department” of this paper
has grown steadily within the last twelve
months and subscribers are cordially In
vited to rtake inquiries weekly upon all
matters pertaining to the field, farm or
garden, about which they desire informa
tion. Replies to inquiries will always be
cheerfully given, and information will be
famished as fully as possible. Some in
quiries require considerable research in
formulating a proper answer, but the time
employed in searching out such informa
tion is well spent and is never regretted.
The editor desires, therefore, to Impress
upon all subscribers that they need feel
do hesitancy or embarrassment about
coming into the “Inquiry Department.”
The following are some interesting In
quiries which came in today and whfbh
go to make up tbe reading matter of our
farm department for this issue:
"X. Y. Z-. Nelson. Ga.”—While I am not
a farmer I enjoy reading your Talks with
Farmers and believe that through your
columns in The Semi-Weekly Journal
great good is being done all over our state
in every department of farm work.
Without taking too much of your valu
able space I would be glad to ask a few
rtmple questions. Last winter I bought a
trio of White Plymouth Rock chickens.
From these three we now have some
thing over 40 spring chickens. We are
well pleased with this breed and wish to
raise White Plymouth Rock exclusively;
not for breeders of fancy fowl nor for
general market, but for the "tooth.”
My chicken lot is 20x80 feet, excluding
but adjoining good house Bxl2 1-2 feet.
In this space of 1.400 square feet tlse
chickens are confined nearly all the time
bpt in winter can let them run for several
minutes or an hour every day on half
acre grain patch.
L Under these circumstances and as
suming that the yard and house are kept
clean, that plenty of food and fresh water
are properly provided how many hens
would you advise me to keep to get the
best results in chickens and eggs for
home use?
X Would you advise disposing of all my
cockerels and getting one from another
breeder, thus avoiding "in-ind-in” breed
jjg or Just keep a cockerel of my own
raising''
2. Do Belgian hares require more care
or more expensive feed than chickens?
4. To say nothing of the profit in raising
and selling Belgian hares, are they profit
able for home consumption when you pay
SJ.BO tor a pair to begin with?
5. Where can I get a young shepherd
dog’ •
Hope soon to see an answer to the above
questions tn The Journal.
Answer: It is never a good plan to con
fine poultry tn too close quarters. Even
with the best of care they cannot stand
crowding either in buildings or in yards.
Where the premises they occupy, however,
are kept nice and clean the year round
and the fowls are furnished with such
varieties of food as required and plenty of
fresh water given, success may be had
in dealing with a small flock. You could
not manage successfully over 10 hens on
the sise lot referred to. nor would it be
advisable to keep a larger number in your
poultry house. With ten hens of the Ply
mouth Rock variety you should, with
proper care and attention, raise enough
chickens to provide your table amply
through the spring and summer. "In and
tn" breeding is never desirable or profita
ble. if persisted tn for many generations.
It is decidedly preferable to infuse new
blood tn your flock every two of three
years, or as you make changes in your
hens. Whefl in a confined lot poultry
must be supplied with grass, meat and
crushed shells. In other words, the hens
f A REAL MAN* 1
yrw raen are absolutely free from soma organic weaknesa. I want to
taM* t® svsry mao who feels any indication of a loss of manly vigor, no
t matter how slight. You cannot afford to Ig
nore even the first symptoms, for unlees prop
«riy treated prematura decline and complete
* lose of manhood will surely* follow. Spots be
fore the eyes, dizziness, bashfulneaa. week
back, loss of memory, aversion to society, etc.,
are symptoms which you cannot overlook.
These conditions can be promptly ovq-come if
the right treatment Is given, but experiments
with free samples, ready-made medicines, etc.,
will only aggravate :<>ar trouble and make a
cure more difficult.
Before jeopardizing your future happiness
bp by experimenting with clap-trap remedies andz
5 unscientific treatment. I want you to investi
gate fully my superior equipment for curing
DR. HATHAWAY you ' 1 ean ihow y< ’ M to your entire satisfac
tion why I can eure you. and explMn why no
good reunite can be expected from tbe various nostrums so widely adver
tised. I have cured completely tome of the worst cases on record. No
matter of bow long etandin/ yoer case is. you can obtain from me *he
beat and most reliable treatment to be had.
My specialty includes all other chronic diseases, such as stricture, vart-
i cooele, blood poison, bladder and urinary diseases etc., which 1 trekt in the
letest srienttfic manner. Each case receives my personal attention. Con
sultation free, either at office or by mail. Send for complete symptom
bjenke, mailed free in plain envelope. Correspondence confidential.
J. NEWTON HATHAWAY. M. D- -
32 Inman Building. 2? . South Bread Street. Atlanta. Ga.
must have the same variety of diet as
when they have the run of the whole
premises.
Belgian hares can be raised as cheaply
and as profitably as chickens. They in
crease quite rapidly, (ndeed there Is no
animal in the world that multiplies more
rapidly under favorable conditions than
the hare. They do not require the same
space as poultry pnd will thrive with prop
er attention in closer They will
eat grass, vegetables and cooked food of
almost any kind. They can be made pro
fitable with proper care given them, other
wise the investment will be. a failure. I
do not know where you could purchase a
thoroughbred shepherd dog. Perhaps some
subscriber has one.
Irish Potato Culture.
W. T. 8.. Schlatterville. Ga.
I am a subscriber to the Atlanta Jour
nal and would be pleased to have the fol
lowing information by the agricultural
editor in the paper:
First, is virgin sandy soil in south
Georgia fertilised with guano and acid
phosphate suitably for a fall crop of
Irish potatoes. Second, how to treat them
after they are dug and shrunken from
the spring crop, as I find it difficult to
get them to come up regular. Third, what
time to plant for a fall crop?"
Ans: I can see no re'ason why the soil
referred to, if properly fertilised, would
not make a profitable fall crop of Irish
potatoes. Bandy soil is deficient in potash
and yqu should fertilise heavily with that
element. You should use a fertiliser
which will analyse about as follows:
Phosphoric acid, 8 percent.
Nitrogen, 3 per cent.
Potash. 7 per cent.
Total, 18 per cent.
This is a very high grade goods, but if
you cannot buy the ready made mixture
you can buy the materials and mix them
in proper proportions at home.
The following proportionate parts per
ton will give you the proper analysis for
a fall crop of potatoes:
Acid phosphate. high grade, 1,300
pounds.
Nitrate of soda. 500 pounds.
Muriate of potash, 300 pounds.
Total. 1000. ‘
This mixture should be applied at the
rate of 1,000 pounds per acre, putting 500
pounds in bottom of furrow and mixing
in earth with scooter plow; then the other
half after planting and covering, but be
fore --*e last furrow is put on, thereby
diriding the fertiliser equally above and
below.
When you dig the spring crop, the po
tatoes reserved for seed, or planting the
fall crop'should be carefully laid out on a
dry floor under a good roof and left until
wanted for use. Do not pUw them up.
but spread out so as not to touch. Seed
potatoes preserved in this way should
germinate promptly when planted at any
time. Or you can bed them out as you do
sweet potatoes, covering the tubers with
' two inches of dirt, and after two weeks
plant only those that are beginning to
sprout. This bedding should be done the
last of July and the planting about the
middle of August for the fall crop, plant
ing the whole tuber instead of cutting
them up. i x
Injurious Insects. »
f. T. G., Klttrells. Ga.:
I am a subscriber to The Semi-Weekly
Journal. I would be glad tq know how to
destroy worms and bugs on collards
and cabbage, and how to prevent them
from coming again.
Answer—There is no way to prevent the
appearance during certain seasons of in
jurious insects. Whenever climatid condi
tions are favorable they come and there
seems to be no way to check their work,
except through the use of insecticides, af
ter the insects make their appearance. It
has recently been suggested that cedar
leaves boiled and the tea extracted, if
sprayed on plants will drive off the in
sects. Another good remedy is to mix two
gallons of kerosene oil with one gallon of
sour milk. Churn this together for five
minutes until a good emulsion is made.
Then dilute the emulsion with ten times
the amount of water.
Spray the plants lightly, not enough to
have any of the emulsion run down the
stalk of the plant.
Cockle Burrs.
J. L. 8.. Berry. Polk eounty, Ga.: I am
an interested reader of your page of the
Semi-Weekly Journal and write to ask a
question in which I am very much inter
ested. I sowed 20 pounds of Bermuda
grass seed the past spring on six acres of
fine bottom land; have a fine stand of
grass and a thick stand of cockle burrs.
By the 15th of next month the land will
be completely shaded by the burrs. Now,
what I want to know is, should the cockle
burrs be mowed off during the hot sum
mer months, or would it be better to wait
until the nights get longer and cooler.
My idea now is to follow your suggestion
and sow burr clover on the land next fall
after disking the land.
I would be thankful to get the informa
tion asked for from yourself or any of
your readers who have had experience in
sowing Bermuda grass seed.
I am with you heart and soul in your ef
fort to induce the farmers to sell their
cotton as the spinners need it, and I made
$6 per bale the past season by pursuing
that course.
Ans.: The cockle burrs will be of no
material assistance to th*> Bermuda grass
now. Bermuda loves the sunshine and
needs no shade to get its start in life.
Your best plan is to mow off the cockle
seedburrs, especially before they begin
to seed. It will not hurt the Bermuda, but
do it good. HARVIE JORDAN.
Crazy Woman Has Killed Twenty-One.
BOSTON, June 24.—Jane Toppan, who
was sent to Taunton Insane asylum by a
jury at Barnstable yesterday, where she
was tried for the murder of Mrs. Mary D.
Gibbs, has made a confession to he'r senior
counsel. Judge Fred M. Bixby, that she
killed thirty-one persons.
They were patients whom she had
nursed.
, THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1902.
It seems a trifle spiteful to be flinging
reproaches at Mr. Cleveland, and charg
ing him with the present low estate of
the national Democratic party. When Mr.
Bryan has had eight solid years of em
phatic leadership and could not "make
the trip!"
Besides, it is a fact which cannot be
discounted that Mr. Cleveland is the only
man who did "make the trip” since the
close of the civil war. and made It twice,
in the face of odds, both times.
Nobody will accuse me of being a parti
san of Mr. Cleveland (but I have always
been loyal to his heroic wife). Neverthe
less it is a poor sort of a critic that fails
to see any good thing in a candidate, be
cause the critic does not want to see it;
and I am compelled to admit that Mr.
Cleveland has led to victory’ while Mr.
Bryan failed twice, and has simply put
himself hors du combat. I have scanned
the field many times since President
Roosevelt evinced his lurid antagonism
to the south and southern sentiment, to
discover. If possible, some candidate in
sight that could make the race, and while
my candor may not be politic, or even
palatable to myself, I confess I do not
see any political headlight in front of the
Democratic locomotive, unless it is Hon.
Grover Cleveland, and I recognise the
fact, also, that a third term candidate is
handicapped and (as in General Grant's
NEWS AND GOSSIP
OFTHE POLITICIANS
1
BY T. J. SIMMONS, JR.
Nothing further has been heard of the
protest of Col. J. H. Estill, of Savan
nah. who claimed some time ago that ir
regularities occurred In the recent pri
mary for governor. Judging from the last
letter received by Chairman Edward T.
Brown, of the state Democratic executive
Colonel Estill will make no
more protests with the committee. He
said in that letter that he appreciated
Mr. Brown’s attention to his protest ana
that was all.
It is expected, however, that when the
convention meets on July 2d Colonel Es
till will have something to say on the sub
ject. As the Terrell supporters are in the
majority, however, and as Terrell will
have the largest number of delegates, it
is not believed the protest will be heard.
Many friends of Colonel Estill expressed
surprise when the protect was fljed, and
it is said that many have written him
asking that he drop the matter alto
gether.
Hon. J. M. /Terrell is being besieged with
applications for appoiptment to various
offices, but on advice of his many friends
he has decided not to consider any of the
applications until after the general election
in October. Mr. Terrell will/have many
vacancies to fill, but it is safe to Say that
he will not make any appointments or any
promises of any until after he has been
Jn office for some time.
Mr. Terrell will spend quite a while in
Atlanta. He will attend the sesssions of
the bar association at Warm Springs next
month and will then return to Atlanta.
Some time in July the people of Lee coun
ty will give Mr. Terrell a big barbecue.
The coming meeting of the Georgia Bar
association will probably have theTargest
attendance ever known. The program
arranged by Secretary Orville A. Park is
decidedly the most attractive and the best
ever prepared and great interest is being
shown in the coming meeting. Secretary
Park will read a paper, in which he will
review the work of the association for the
past several years. Mr. Park’s papers are
always excellent and never fail to bring
for.a much applause.
Another splendid paper will be read by
Clem P. Steed, off Macon, on “Legal
Ethics.” This paper, it is understood, will
deal with the question as to how far a
lawyer should go in getting business.
Chancellor Hill, of the University of
Georgia, who has been a member of the
association for many years will also read
an interesting paper. Former Chief Jus
tice Logan E. Bleckley will be the special
guest of the occasion and will no doubt
mike a speech. Judge Bleckley has at
tended every session of the association
for the past 15 years and is always an
honored visitor.
The program this year will be more
devoted to discussions than heretofore.
There will be fewer papers read and fewer
speeches made, and the lawyers will be
given an opportunity to argue the differ
ent questions that arise. One of the fea
tures of the meeting will be the report of
Judge Spencer R. Atkinson, chairman of
the committee on “Legal Education.” He
will deal with the question of admitting
the graduates of law schools to the bar
and will recommend that they be required
to appear before the state examining
board before being given a license to
practice.
Charles L. Davis, proprietor of the hotel
at Warm Springs, is making elaborate
preparations for the lawyers and will do
everything in his power for their enter
tainment.
It is understood that a warm race is on
for the judgeship of the city court ofr Ma
con between Ju.dge'W. D. Nottingham, the
present incumbent, Marion W. Harris, a
prominent lawyer of Macon, and Hon.
Roland Ellis, one of the best known youhg
lawyers in the state. The term of Judge
Nottingham expires in January, and Gov
ernor Terrell will be called on to make
the appointment.
All three of the men supported Terrell
warmly in the recent election, and the
next governor will no doubt have a hard
time in making up .his mind which one
of the three men to appoint.
The many friends of T. S. Felder, of
Bibb, are congratulating him on the ex
cellent race which he made in Bibb coun
ty recently for the legislature. Mr. Felder
led the ticket over three candidates and
was overwhelmingly elected. Mr. Felder
is a cousin of Hon. T.'B. Felder, of At
lanta and is one of the most prominent
young men in the state. He took a promi
nent part in the deliberations of the house
Government Figures on Liquor
And Coal Output For Year
Washington Correspondence of The Chi
cago Daily News: There is little consola
tion for temperance workers to be found
in the report of the manufacture of alco
holic liquors during the year ended May
JI, 1900, which has just been made by the
census bureau. The report shows that
the value of the land, machinery, tools
and live stock used in the manufacture
of liquor aggregates $457,674,087 -and that
there are 2,850 establishments all making
money turning out alcoholic stimulants.
During the census year, the report says,
there were 1.198.602.104 gallons of malt
liquor, 103,330.423 gallons of spirits and 23,-
425,567 gallons of wine cf various kinds,
making a* total of 1,325.858,094 gallons of
all Kinds of alcoholic liquors which were
manufactured in the United States during
that year. According to Admiral Bowles,
of the bureau of construction of the navy
department, this amount of liquor would
make a lake in which a battleship not on
ly coujd float but in which it could be
man erne red. The total consumption for
this country is estimated at 1,322.166,685
gallons, or 17.3 gallons per capita for every
man, wotran and child found by the census
enumerators. ■ ' \
Illinois led the list in the manufacture
WHY NOT MR. CLEVELAND?
BY MRS. W. H. FELTON.
case), the candidate would have difficulty
in winning enough support to be nomi
nated with such an unpopular idea.
I notice Mr. Watterson is on a rampage
—but I do not forget that Mr. Watterson
was about as dead a load as Mr. Bryan
had to carry in his struggle for the
presidency. When Mr. Watterson made
that hisioric denunciation of free silver
(which free silver was nevertheless Mr.
Bryan’s sheet anchor for his campaign),
Mr. Watterson was even a deader weight
than Mr. Cleveland, who never did like
free silver, but made no pretense of lik
ing it. and was well -abused for not pre
tending to like It, and for failing to sup
port Mr. Bryan’s ideas on the
The ex-president was honest and open in
his dislike.
But the candidate that promises success
to the Democratic party is not in sight,
unless It Is Mr. Cleveland himself. He
has prestige, and is a sort of mascot and
therefore reasonably sure of making a
better race than Mr. Bryan ever did make,
when the latter had all the opportunity
to do as he pleased. Some hold to the
opinion that Senator Gorman could win a
presidential race. Perhaps he can, but
a man who lost his own seat in the sen
ate and also his control of his own state,
a few years ago is not a Von Moltke or a
Napoleon either. If Mr. Gorman is select
ed it is because he represents the same I
last fall and is now being 7 suggested as
a candidate for the speakership.
John A. Perry, of Gwinnett, and Julian
B. McCurry, of Hart, are candidates for
speaker pro tern of the house. Mr. Perry
has represented Gwinnett In the house
for several sessions and is popular with
the members. He is an excellent legis
lator and will be unanimously re-elected
the coming primary in Gwinnett. Mr.
McCurry is a young man who has just
been elected to the house, tfut he has
hundreds of friends in Georgia and will
give Mr. Perry a warm, race for the po
sition. >
There Is considerable speculation as to
what the state Democratic convention will
adopt as a platform when It meets on
July XS Great objection has been set up
by many delegates to the convention
against putting in a free sliver plank In
the platform and It la considered very
likely that the platform commltteee will
ignore that portion of the Kansas City
platform altogether.
It may Ignore several other portions as
well. The effort to put local option In
the platform is meeting with considerable
opposition, but ft is considered very like
ly at present that such a plank will be
adopted.
Bryanism, It Is said, will also be elimi
nated from the Georgia platform. Gov
ernor Candler and many other prominent
Democrats are of the opinion that the
convention should stick to state Issues and
let national affairs alone, but this the
convention will hardly do.
Since the defeat of Hon. Roland Ellis in
Bibb, the speakership race has itaken a
new tprn and the candidates are working
harder than ever for votes. The support
of Mr. Ellis has been widely scattered
and it is hardly probable, that there will
be any election on the first ballot or the
second ballot for that matter. Walter
Steed, of Taylor; Fondrifti 'Mitchell, of
Thomas; Newton Morris', of Cobb, and
Emerson George/ of Morgan are actively
In the race and each man is claiming his
election.
Pleasant A. Stovall, of Chatham, and
John M. Slaton, of Fulton, may enter the
contest in the event of a deadlock. They
are being looked upon as dark horses, so
to speak, and if the deadlock becomes
pronounced they will be put in the race
by their friends. Any of the candidates
would make able presiding officers and
would reflect great credit Aipon the house.
The many friends of Justice Hal T.
Lewis, of the supreme court, will be
pleased to learrf that he continues to Im
prove at Atlantic City, N. J., and that It is
altogether probable that he will resume
his work on the bench on October Ist.
Carl DeVaughn, a prominent young law
yes of Montezuma, was at the capitol
Friday. Mr. DeVaughn is a graduate of
the Mercer law school, and it Is said that
he will be in the race for the legislature
from Macon county at the next primary.
State Entomologist Scott has received
a poem which was written about him by
a man in Ontario. Last year Mr. Scott
read a paper at the National Association
of Entomologists In Denver, Col. The pa
per referred to the Insect called curculio
which eats into the peach after It is
formed on the tree and causes it to fall
off. A new method of getting rid of them
has been devised and ft was this method
that Mr. Scott was writing about. A
sheet is spread under the tree and the
tree is jarred several times. All the cur
culios turn loose from the peaches and
fall into the sheet. The Ontario man read
the paper of Mr Scott in the publication
of the proceedings of the association and
then wrote the following poem:
We’ve heard of people sparking way down in
Tennessee,
And in Carolina lynching's thought the proper
thing to be.
They’ve gushers down in Texas, but there's
nothing that I know
Like the Georgian game of “Jarring” for the
gay curculio.
There’s nothing small about him, they jar for
hitn wholesale,
In the Cotton fields of Georgia, “on a most
extehslve scale,"
But is it In the day, or when de gas light ob
de moon
Lights up »he depredations Os the chicken
loving coon?
If you'd solve these hidden mysteries, address
Atlanta, Ga..
Where William Scott and Walter Fiske, the
jarring experts stay,
Or jhe publication bureau that’s housed in
Washington,
For the Bulletin of series 3, that’s numbered SI.
of spirituous liquors with 32,508,435 gallons.
Kentucky ranked second with 21.709.873
gallons. Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and
Maryland follow in the order named.
FIGURES ON COAL OUTPUT.
The geological survey has just received
reports which represent fully. 97 per cent
of the entire coal output of the United
States during the year 1901. In that year
292,240,758 short tohs were mined which
were valued at $348,813,831. This is an in
crease of 22.338.981 tone over the output of
last year and an increase of $41,922,467 in
value.
Os the twenty-seven states which pro
duced Coal all save four showed an in
crease. The fbur whose product decreased
were California, Montana. New Mexico
and Tennessee. The production and value
of the output by states were as follows:
Total. Total
Bituminous— '
Alabama 9.078.477 $9,967,811
Arkansas 1,784.136 2,033.193
California 151.079 394.106
Colorado 5.699.016 6.441. SOI
Georgia and N. Carolina. 854.825 ‘ 426,685
Idaho _ ••
Illinois 27.313.296 28.452.278
Indiana 6,962.94" 7.078.842
Indian Territory 2.406.943
lowa.. 5,578.522 8.016.274
$
financial views of Mr. Cleveland, and it is
a question whether the subaltern could do
more or do it better than his chief at the
present time. Mr. Cleveland has a back
bone, and the country needs backbone.
Mr. Cleveland has the confidence of the
moneyed men of the country, and as be
tween himself and Mr. Roosevelt there
would be no comparison as to steadiness
In action.
It is more than likely to be a race be
tween Hanna and the Democratic nomi
nee. It will be a tough struggle if it
should be Mr. Hanna vs. Mr. Cleveland.
Mr. Hanna would simply have a walk
over with some dozens that might be
named as his antagonists, but he would
have his hands full with Mr. Cleveland as
the Democratic nominee.
The “third term idea” is the greatest
objection that occurs to my mind.
And perhaps Mr. Cleveland would not
accept the opportunity if offered.
Then Mr. Gorman might—and there
must be somebody.
No Substitute Wanted.
No! I did not ask for a bottle any cheaper,
or twice as large, or one made by yourselves.
I did ask for and will not have any substitute
for Perry Davis’ Painkiller. I have used it, my
father used it and I would not be surprised if
my grandparents did so. too. There is no imi
tation that can equal it. That I am sure of
fer stomach ache.
Kansas 4,880,526 5.973.381
Kentucky 5.487.994 5.208.094
Maoland ... 5,113,127 5.046,4?
Michigan I’SS'SS I-S'itl
Missouri ... . 3.799.993 J’lJS’}?!
Montana 1.396.081
New Mexico 1,086,546 1,546,6->2
North Dakota 166,085 212.635
Ohio 19,695,723 19,789.908
Oregon ... 69,011 173,646
Pennsylvania 82,914,840 82_2?9.906
Tennessee 3.546.551
Texas ... ... .>• ... ... • • 1,086,012 1,886,083
Utah 1,322,614 1,666,052
Virglna 2.963.999 2.523.270
Washington 2.578,217
West Virginia 23.816,434 20.908. <O6
Wyoming ... ... •• 4,485,374 6,060,462
Total bitumin0u5224.769,091 8236,309.811
Penn, anthracite6J.47l.667 112,504,020
292.240,758 $348,813,831
A preliminary report issued by the in
spectors of mines for Great Britain shows
that the production of coal in the United
kingdom for the last year was 219,037,240
long tons, a decrease of 6,132,923 tons. Our
coal production was nearly 80 per cent
larger than that of Germany, nearly
seven times that of Austria-Hungary and
more than eight times that of France.
does Tobacco disinfect?
The Prog and Cons of the Question
Considered from Professional
Standpoints.
Medical Record.
Despite the fact that the general public
are continually being warned of the evil
effects which will assuredly follow Indul
gence in the soothing weed, smoking con
tinues in much the same manner as usual.
There can be ho doubt that smoking to
excess, or following the habit when
young, Is hurtful to the health, and to
some people a positive danger. The
wisest way is to steer a middle course.
There are, too, enthusiasts with regard
to tobacco, and who attribute to the weed
all the virtues under the sun. These
eulogies, of course, are a# much In error
’as those who deny it any saving grace.
A discussion was raised In an English
lay paper of a recent date as to the merits
of tobacco as a disinfectant, and much
Interesting matter was brought forward.
The Lancet was called to give, so to
speak, expert opinion, and further in
formation on the matter was forthcom>
Ing. •
The belief that tobacco possesses extra
ordinary prqpertiea Id warding .off certain
diseases of a contagious nature is almost
as old as the introduction of smoking
into Europe. During the great plague
tobacco waa largely used for this pur
pose, and children were encouraged to
smoke as a precautionary measure.
“In 1888.” says The Lancet. “Dr. Paul
Tassinarl of Pisa subjected the germs of
various deadly diseases—such as anthrax,
cholera, and typhus fever—to the action
of dense clouds of imprisoned tobacco
smoke, during periods of 100 to 150 hours,
and he came to the conclusion that in
most cases, and especially when .large
cigars had been employed as generators,
the development of -pathogenic bacteria
was either partially or wholly arrested.”
This experiment, however, by no means
proves the case, for, as The Lancet says,
no one keeps a cigar in his mouth for 100
hours at a time. Workmen in tobacco
factories are often pointed to as examples
of the disinfecting properties of tobacco.
It is declared that they are immune from
epidemics. On the authority of some ex
periments conducted in France, It would
appear that there are some fairly good
grounds for this belief, but the Investiga
tions have not been carried out to a
sufficiently wide extent to justify the
passing of any authoritative opinion.
The matter is as yet subjudice, and will
probably remain so for an indefinite pe
riod. Strong tobacco will keep away in
sects, and certain mild species of mos
quito, but that It will render a person
immune to contagion is a theory that
will not commend itself to the common
sense of a sane man.
X RAY BURiTdEFIED
BY USE OF PARAFFINE
NEW YORK. June 19.—8 y the use of
a single coat of paraffine what is known,
as the X-Ray burn can be prevented, ac
cording to the statement of a physician
of this city. The indiscriminate use of
the X-Ray in medical work has been
handicapped by this bum, caused it is
supposed, by the powerful shaft of light
driving certain particles of bacteria in
the atmosphere into the parts under the
ray. This action can be entirely prevent
ed, It is claimed, by applying a coating of,
melted wax to the skin or by using a
wax coated paper screen before the light.
You are liable to a sudden attack of
Summer sickness and should keep in your
house a bottle of Dr. SETH ARNOLD’S
BALSAM, the best known Remedy. War
ranted to give satisfaction or money re
funded by Brannen & Anthony, Atlanta.
' FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.
Four persons found living in a wave-worn
cave on the seashore at Nlnewella, -Dundee,
have been fitß-d Is. Vach. or twenty-four hours
imprisonment in default.
One hundred and eighty pounds in gold and
silver was found wrapped in old rags under
her pillow after an old woman named Mary
Rettlgan was removed to Clareraorris Work
house..
For stealing a bicycle valued at £5 10s. sen
tences of four years’ penal servitude were
passed on two young men named John and
William Griffin at the Middlesex Sessions,
London. ”
There were 927,062 births registered in Eng
land and Wales during 1900. These figures are
equivalent to a birth rate of 28.7 per Cent,
per 1.000 persons living, which is the lowest |
on record.
Boys absolutely fought to get at the auto
matic gaming machines, and when they had
lost their money left the shop crying, stated
a police witness recently at Lambeth during
the hearing of a summons against a refresh
ment dealer for , allowing gaming In his
premises.
Special harvest weather forecasts in Eng
land will be supplied in sixi>enny telegrams
to farms th by the Meteorological Office daily
at 3:30 p. m., fro-.’. June 1 to September 30.
The forecasts will apply to the weather for
the twenty-four hours following the midnight
of the day of issue.
Engineers and artificers for the French navy
are to be trained on board an old transport
which has been turned into a naval school
ship at Bordeaux. She wifi accommodate 400
cadets, who will go through a four years’
course. /
It is estimated thkt Canadian forests will
furnish wdod for the pulp industry for 840
years. The forerts of Norway and Sweden,
which furnish the materia! for European paper
makers tor many years, have become denuded
and the United States has about exhausted its |
aitnnlv. •
SUGGESTIONS FROM l|||
OUR CORRESPONDENTS l|
SOCIAL EQUALITY IN
THE CONVICT CAMPS
To the Editor of The Journal:
The statement of Mr. O'Neil, ex-police
man, ex-convict, from Savannah, is in
teresting reading. It gives us information
which we had before, but coming from the
iqside, it has a new interest, and will im-
Hpress the public mind and possibly com
pass reform.
For a number of years I have endeav
ored to induce a change of method in
dealing with society’s criminpls. but seem
to have made little Impression.
Now the great advantage possessed by
my fellow-wonker is" that no person who
reads what he has written will call him a
“maudlin sentimentalist.” He is quite re
mote from a possible suspicion of that
quality; but he hits straight from the
shoulder, calls a spade a spade, and he
will produce an Impression.
Now, is he to be suppressed, or shall he,
have a hearing?
Governor Candler, in pardoning him, has
enabled him to voice a message which we
cannot afford to pass by.
My friend Blackburn, In the April num
ber of Leslie’s Monthly, has written an
interesting story of “The Georgia Convict
Camps,” which deserves more of atten
tion than it has received; but we are forc
ed to the conviction that the system is
evil, and that the result cannot be good!
If we consent to practice brutal meth
ods in dealing with convicts, we shall pay
the Inevitable penalty, and brutal crimes
will continue to increase as in all ages
they have under similar treatment.
The great state of Georgia cannot afford
to let this stigma rest upon her. There
has been improvement, there is need for
more. WILLIAM RILEY BOYD.
OLD CITIZEN TELLS OF
THAT COLD APRIL OF 1849
To the Editor of The Journal:
It was on Sunday, April 15, 1849, that the
severest and most remarkable spring
blizzard ever visited Georgia. It was
vexy marked in its effects along the
Blue Ridge section of the state, and in
the counties just south of it. There were
no premonitions or warnings of its ap
proach, ■and hence the people suffered
severely during its passage. The months
of January, February and March had
been unseasonably warm, and the first of
April found the leavbs of (he forest full
size, wheat grown and headed out, com
waist-high, garden vegetables on the
tables, and everything In full life and
great promise. This was particularly so
In the vicinity where my father’s family
lived, on the Hudson river, near Hebron
Presbyterian church, in Franklin, now
Bank® county. The usual services were
held at the church, but it got so cold they
had to resort to the academy where a
large fire was made. There was a
heavy dash of snow during the day, but
at night the clouds left, the winds lulled
and Monday morning, the 16th, brought
the heaviest* and most destructive frost
ever seen In* that part of the state. All
vegetation was killed to the ground, not
a peck of wheat was saved, farmers im
mediately plowed up their corn and
planted again. The forests turned black,
the foliage rotted and was very offen
sive for weeks and weeks. There was an
occurance that Sunday at the church
which fixed the date forever in my mind.
A young man .was around that fire sick
with measles and only three persons con
tracted the disease from him. I was one
of the three and came near dying. . There
is no mistake with me about the day and
date—Sunday, April 15th waa the blizzard,
and Monday, the 16th, the big frost.
M. P. CALDWELL.
SAYS NcGRu DISFRANCHISEMENT
WOULD SOLVE LOCAL OPTION
To the Editor of The Journal:
In a Communication to The Journal of
last Saturday Rev. Sam P. Jones made
the following declarations:
“I say again that I* will never be a
local optlonist so long as the scenes en
acted in Bibb county during the local
option fight there is possible. If the
question of the sale of liquor, or no sale,
can be left to the white primary just as
the democrats have every other less Im
portant matter, then I will join the local
option ranks, but so long as the Irre
sponsible negro voters are rallied by the
liquor gang and driven like sheep to the
polls singing ribald songs in the ears
of our God-fearing, praying women who
are workirtg around the polls to save
their homes and boys, so long I will
fight for state prohibition.”
While I supported Mr. Terrell In the
recent primary, and while I favor the
principle of local option, because I be
lieve It to be democratic—local self-gov
ernment —and because I believe that a
law thrust upon a section that *lB repug
nant to the public sentlmeht of that sec
tion is a dead letter, yet I heartily agree
with Mr. Jones In the sentiment that it
is a crying shame and a disgrace to the
fair name of Georgia to “rally irrespon
sible negro voters to the polls singing
ribald songs In the ears of our God-fear
ing, praying women.” But I believe this
evil can be successfully remedied with
out maiming the principle of local self
government. If Mr. Jones and other In
fluential leaders of Georgia would take
up the fight of negro disfranchisement
which was started in this state three
years ago by Washington county’s gifted
and gallant son, Thomas W. Hardwick,
and push it with the energy and vigi
lance with which they are. capable the
day would not be far dista'nt when ral
lying irresponsible negro voters to the
polls, thereby thwarting the will of the
white people, would be a thing of the
past In old Georgia.
The majority of the white people of this
state are in favor of negro disfranchise
ment, and will so register their verdict
-upon every opporuntity offered. The re
cent result in the tenth district was but
an endorsement of the noble and fear
less fight made by Mr. Hardwick along
this line in the legislature. Congress
man Fleming is a good man; he
for his constituents a splena.d represen
tative: was always fair and impartial
In his treatment of the populists, many
of whom were his active and ardent
supporters in the recent contest, and I
do not belive,\in fact I think it unjust
to charge, that his 'defeat was brought
about by a spirit of revenge upon the
part of the popuMsts of his district. He
was opposed to Mr. Hardwick’s negro
disfranchisement bill, and that was made
a clear-cut issue in the campaign, and
the verdict was against Mr. Fleming.
Being a former resident of the tenth and
having mingled with the voters of the
country counties of that “storm-tossed”
district, I make the above statement with
a feeling of absolute assurance of its
correctness.
And why shouldn’t Georgia fall in line
with her sister states. South Carolina.
North Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana and
Mississippi by disfranchising the irre
sponsible and purchasable negro voters.
For years the offices have been purchased
from this class of voters by - the highest
bidders. A candidate’s chance of success
depeneded entirely upon the size at his
pocketbook.
True, the white primaries are giving
present relief, but in my opinion it is
only temporary. White primaries will not
prove a success always. In the course
of a few years there will arise a dissat
isfied element, chagrined by repeated dis
appointment in the result of these pri
maries, candidates independent to the
white primary nominee will be declared,
and the irresponsible negro will agaii,
play his disgraceful part In politics.
But the above is not the only reason
apparent to my mind why the Ignorant
and purchasable negro voter should be
disfranchised. There are in Georgia to
day nearly as many negro voters as
whites, with a more rapid rate cf in
crease. Already In slxty-xnree counties
of the state the negroes constitute a
majority of the voting population. They
are becoming bolder and more aggressive
each day. The recent scenes of North
Carolina may yet be enacted in Georgia.
Who will be the Hardwick of the next
house. Yours respectfully,
K. J. HAWKINS.
Dublin, Ga.
NO DEPOT IN SIGHT
SAYS AN ATLANTA MAN
To the Editor of The Journal:
I have seen so many unwarranted pre
dictions during the past fifteen years that
Atlanta's depot problem was about to be
immediately settled that I have grown
accustomed to them; and yet when I read
The Journal’s big headlines of Friday
afternoon announcing that “Work will
commence on Atlanta’s new depot within
three months, says President Spencer to
The Journal; station will cost $500,000.”*
I could not help enjoying the pleasure for
a few moments, at least, of believing that
the story which followed would show that
the statement was correct.
However, this pleasant deception was
short-lived.
Instead of President Spencer saying that
he would begin work within three months,
the telegram sent to your able and widely
read paper showed that there was nothing
in what President Spencer really said to
justify any such Inference, except the
following dialogue, which occurred be
tween him and your correspondent: *
"Do you think it probable that the state
will meet th* Southern’s requirements?”
Mr. Spencer was asked.
"I do not,” he replied, emphatically and
unhesitatingly. * ' /
“In case the state falls tb build, what
will the Southern do?”
"We will build a depot the moment Gov
ernor Candler says the word. I have ask
ed him to clear up the difficulties. If at all,
within the next three months.”
"And if he doesn’t?”
"The Southern will build.”
Now. an examination of this dialogue
shows that Mr. Spencer is postively com
mitted to nothing except that he will not
accept the state's proposition in its pres
ent shape, and that if the state amends it
as suggested by him within three months
he will accept it, and that If the state does
not so amend it, the Southern wil build
on its own property at some time in the '
future, which is not fixed by any limita
tion whatever, except "whenever Gover
nor Candler says the word.”
Now, it will be remembered that the leg
islature will meet in about three or four
months and when that body does convene
we will doubtless hear, that the matter
must be postponed again "to see what the
legislature will do.” Then after it is seen
what the legislature will do it may be we
will have to go through what we are see
ing now, that is, waiting to see what the
Southern will do.
There was nothing absolutely in the ar
ticle you published to show what thefde
pot would cost. Mr. Spencer did hot un
dertake to give any estimate at all in any
way whatever. That it will cost SSOO 000
was a pure guess, and it may be corect. At
all events, I suppose the matter of cost
is unimportant, as a depot at almost any
cost would be preferable to tbe present
cow-shed.
I trust your inferences from what Presi
dent Spencer said are correct, but in jus
tice to him, I think it is wise and proper
for the public to judge him by what he
really says and not by inferences there
from. Yours very truly, S. H. C.
AGREES WITH MR. DENNIS AS
TO TREATMENT OF SCHOOLS
To the Editor of The Journal:
In perusing the columns of Saturday’s
Journal my was drawn to the
forcible article of Mr. M. B. Dennis en
titled "Georgia's Unwarranted Treatment
of Her Teachers is Inexcusable.” Having
formerly been a teacher of considerable
experience in the rural schools of our fair
state I feel in a position to give an un
biased view of the privations and incon
veniences suffered by our common school
teachers; and J add my plea to Mr. Den
nis' for prompter pay to this overburden
ed and underpaid class of citizens.
I would urge upon The Journal (as one
of Georgia’s most powerful mediums) that
It put this matter before the people in
its true light and endeavor to femedy this
undying shame to the Empire State.
Much has been said and little done to
ward the improvement 1 of the condition
In general of the common schools. Many
necessary repairs have been and are now
met out of the pocket of the teacher.
I give my own personal experience.
Not more than five years ago I accepted
a school and found the condition of the
building and surroundings about as fol
lows: Blackboard, two boards ten Inches
by ten feet, greased over with kerosene
and smut, no bell, no chalk, no erasers,
no bucket for the well and much of what
little furniture and fixtures sadly in need
of repairs. The actual cost out of my
pocket was not less than S2O.
And for five months’ labor, under the
most trying difficulties, I received the
glorious sum of S2OO. less 10 per cent dis
count, I was compelled to pay In order
to get the money to pay actual living ex
penses.
When you deduct the following sums
you will have an idea of what the average
teacher has to improve himself with dur
ing the summer months:
$20.00 for repairs and incidentals.
s2o.vj discount.
SIO.OO In securing the school.
SIO.OO In attending the monthly teachers’*
institute.
$40.00 board for the term.
Leaving a balance of SIOO for clothes and
railroad fare.
It is only by the most rigid economy
that they can hope to spend more than
three months at normal schools or the
colleges. \
1 repeat it, it is a burning shame that,
this class of citizens, who do so much
toward the upbuilding of the state and
• who receive so little compensation should I
have to wait from six to twelve months ..
for their pay, or give a tenth to get their
contracts cashed.
Until this evil is corrected we cannot
hope for better schools or better teachers.
I believe that it Is now the duty of the
people and the legislature to come for
ward and apply some remedy that will
relieve this strain upon these people and
while some will shirk that duty and criti
cise, to their discredit be K said, they are
wholly ignorant or unfeeling. Sincerely
yours. \' ■ M. S. LANIER.
Macon, Ga. *
Cobbs Not a Candidate.
BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. Juie 24 J. B. Cobbs,
of this city, who has been mentions* is a
probable candidate for governor on the Repub
lican ticket, denies that he has any Intention
of entering politics. Besides, he says, he is a
Democrat. He expressed s’—rrise that a re
port of the ktr.’i should got out and <«i.l
in effect that he would V" fcsvs the governor
ship if tendered him on a silver waiter.
fIgHSSi SBO.OO Bleel Bange s3l 00.
Our free circulars give Cut
prices of everything.
J. Stoves $« .40, Dinner Bets
24 P leces Plated Table
Sets $2 00.
PAO6ETT FUR. CO.,
‘ I Augusta, Ga.
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