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I Talks LVith Farmers
Conducted By C. H. Jordan
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CELERY CULTURE.
Less than 30 years ago the grfiwth and
use of thia highly edible. vegetable was
confined in the first place, to small lo
calities tn cultivation and tn the second
place, to the menu of but few leading
hotels and the tables of wealthy epicures.
The use of celery at that time was al
most confined to the flavoring of special
dishes. But within recent years and es
pecially during the last two decades the
general use of celery by the public as an
article of food has increased so rapidly
that now It is raised in large quantities
hy leading - market gardeners and shipped
in car load lots to all parts of the country.
Celery has been developed by cultivation
from the plant termed In botany as the
wild celery plant, found in the marshes of
southern England. While celery does not
possess any great value as an article of
food It is highly regarded as a delicacy
and valuable for the nervous system. In
the north the celery beds are ready from
the first of June and shipments continue
on through the summer and fall, while
ta the extreme south, celery ripens from
tne middle of December until the first of
April. Thus, the plant cultivated in the
two extreme sections does not enter into
competition on the markets and it has
not proven profitable to store or hold
celerv. The profitable growth of celery
ta desirable locations has ceased to be
experimental and has become now a
well established business, hence it is well
enough for farmers and market gardeners
who reside in the south Atlantic and gulf
states to give this vegetable more atten
tion in the future as a money crop than
they have given to it in the past. In
fact it is needful to use all ot our re
sources ta the development of food pro
ducts that have a good sale.
Soil and Fertilizers.
In the cultivation and production of
celery, and wtyat is here meant is a first
ria wn crisp article of food, a rich, mel
low. sandy loam is most desirable. Muck
beds after being opened and drained have
Btao produced pome of the finest crops
in the whole country, especially around
lakes and ponds. The soil of the seed
bed should contain a quantity of leaf
mould ground up fine and mixed ta with
the sand, so as to bold the moisture and
furnish the neceseary percentage of
humus.
In the transplating beds, or rows, the
leaf mould is not so necessary, but an
abundance of well rotted stable manure
should be used. Any good, fertile sandy
soil will grow celery, if located where
the land can either be kept moist by
natural or artificial methods. In clay
soils good celery can be grown by heavy
applications of barnyard manure. The
growth of a heavy crop of cowpeas on
the land, a year before planting, and turn
ing the crop under is the best and
quickest method of furnishing the, soil
with an abundance of nitrogen and
humua
As it requires a heavy percentage of
nitrogen, potash and phosphoric acid to
grow a fine crop of celery, it is well to
apply a high grade complete fertiliser
containing all these elements. ta the
absence of an abundance of well rotted
stable manure. The land should be plow
ed dedp with a disc plow, and then har
rowed and pulverised to a depth of <
inches. This work can be done in the
fall and the land harrowed and rolled
.rain jtet before planting. Good seed
should be bought and planted ta the seed
bed.
Sowing Seed In Beds.
The best seed bed is a shallow wooden
box about 16x24 inches, with holes bored in
the bottom to give good drainage. Mix the
sand and crushed leaf m<4d together and
sift through a sifter, filling the box. Press
the soil down ta the box with a board.
Sow the seed ta small, shallow drills two
inches apart. Place the box in a window
and water the bed occasionally, so as to
keep it moist. The seed will germinate in
two or three weeks, and when they begin
growing turn the box around dally so as
to prevent the tender plants from bending
toward the light or sunshine. The seed
dings should be ready for transplanting in
from four to six weeks from the time of
■owing.
Transplant to the open ground in rows
four feet apart, with the plants from six
to seven inches apart in the rows. By
planting In rows the crop can be worked
with a horse and plow and the plants hoed
the same as any other crop. The plants
should be set out ta moist weather and
placed ta the furrow and the soil pressed
around the roots, leaving them a little
below the level of the surrounding soil.
If the rows are not mulched, the soil
should be watered when the plants are
set out, just the sapie as we do ta trans
planting sweet potato sHps. It is best to
mulch the rows for eight to ten inches on
each side of the plants, and nothing is
better for this than well rotted stable
manure or pine needles may be used.
Where the rows are mulched, the only
cultivation needed is shallow plowing in
the middles, not allowing the plow or cul
tivator teeth to come nearer than the out
side edges of the mulch. Where no mulch
is used, of course the cultivation must ex
tend up to and along the furrow of the
plant, stirring the surface of the soil light
ly with an iron rake or cultivator. Let
the cifltivation at all times be light and
shallow.
Bleaching Celery. t *
There are two varieties of celery, pne a
self blanching and the other must be
tlanched or bleached by artificial meth
ods. The Giant Pascal is a type of the
first and the Golden self blanched a varie
ty of the latter. One of the commonest
and most economical methods of bleach
ing celery is to use boards placed on each
side of the row. These boards may be
one tach thick, twelve inches wide and
fourteen to jixteen feet long. Any per
son can arrange the boards properly along
each side of the rows, where the variety
of celery planted requires the artificial
bleaching process.
The bleaching should be done ta two or
three weeks, after which the celery Is
ready for use at home or market. The
best plan for blanching, however, is bank
ing the soil up around the celery. This can
be done by throwing the soil up against
the plants with a plow and completing the
Work with a hoe. It will cost about SIOO
per acre to grow celery, and the yield
should be about SO,OOO plants, which
should easily sell for WB.. leaving a profit
of from 1100 to $125 per acre. It is a pay
ing crop when properly handled and the
demand Is always first class for good,
crisp ortzry. HxßtjE JORDAN. .
INQUIRY DEPARTMENT.
Cotton Seed Off Trusts.
T. B. T„ 'Camak. Ga., July 28, 1902-Ag
rtcultural Editor: I read with pleasure
your writings for the Journal with regard
to agriculture. It is a well known fact to
men of knowledge that we are being rob
bed yearly of over one-third the value of
our cotton seed by the oil mills of this
country. You know it, but I don't think
a great many men take time to look into
the matter enough to be posted. Won't
you give us a letter through the Semi-
Weekly Journal, exposing this robbery, as
I know you are fully posted and able to
do?
Tell the farmers of how much they are
swindled each year. A farmer carries his
seed to an oil mill for sale and he gets
back less than half of the intrinsic value
in return for them. I contend it costs less
to manufacture a bushel of seed than to
grind a bushel of my grain; but notice the
difference in return. When I leave the
grain mill I have seven-eighths of what I
carried there, but not quite half when I
leave the oil mill. Publish them as a set
of monopolists and lead the people to see
how we are being swindled out of our hard
earned products. \
Start an endless chain from the heads
of all your departments, that farmers will
not sell a seed unlike they give us at
least three fourths the true value of our
seed, or say 30 eents per bushel. May you
live long to fight the battles of the down
trodden farmers and give the consolida
ted oil mills a general shaking up, for
they surely need it and that badly. You
are the man to do It.
Answer: Our correspondent Is talking
on the right line and if all the farmers
would talk and act accordingly, results
would soon be secured. These troubles
not only apply to the oil mills, but also to
the handlers ot our cotton as well.
In the next issue of the Semi-Weekly
will appear an article fully covering the
subject tn at ter discussed by our sub
scriber. and all the information in my pos
session will be given, so as to put every
reader of this paper on notice as the
true value of our seed at the present time.
The season is ju>t opening and while these
matters have been discussed before, it
will do not harm to tover the matter
fully again. ‘ /
Paralysis In Pigs.
S. W. 8.. Douglasville, Ga.:
■I have two fine shoats. One of them
got down in its hind parts and cannot
get up, and the other one is getting in the
same fix. They are a cross between the
rtfland China and the Burkshlre. Please
answer through The Journal, the trouble
and the remedy.
Aqpwer: The disease with which your
pigs are affected is what is termed partial
paralysis, and is nearly always confined
to the hind quarters. The disease some
times progresses until the animal simply
drags the hind parts. The appetite is
usually good and will remain go. unless
the pig is troubled with constipation- In
some cases a cure may be effected tn a
few days or .few weeks, while in others
the animals 'linger for a time and die.
Place the pigs in nice clean quarters,
where they cannot be disturbed by other
hogs, and reduce the feed to a small quan
tity, preferably ta the form of slops or
buttermilk. Give no corn. Give tincture
of nux vomica, ten drops twice a day for
two weeks, and keep the bowels open with
from one to five grains of calomel, or cas
tor oil, given once a day after the first
week. Do not try to force them to walk.
After a cure keep the pigs separate from
other hogs for two or three weeks.
Storing Winter Apples.
Mrs. E. T. Mcß„ Mt. Vernon, Ga.—
Having received mush valuable informa
tion through your Inquiry department, I
desire to ask the following question,
which If answered through your inter
esting columns, will be of much value to
me. and I assure you I shall appreciate
your kindness very much: How can I pre
serve late apples through the winter
months? Wh have a good many fall ap
ples of the bard variety, but last year, not
knowing how to store them away for the
winter, lost them all.
Answer—Great care should be taken in
gathering apples to be stored for winter
use. Apples must be perfectly dry when
placed tn barrels, the presence of either
dew or rain trill be fatal to their keeping
qualities. The ripest apples should not be
mixed with hard and greener ones. Nei
ther must any apples that are bruised or
specked be placed with sound ones. Slight
bruises which do not break the skin soon
begin fermentation, and rapidly cause de
cay to others. If large and small, ripe and
unripe, perfect and Imperfect specimens
are mixed together there will soon be de
cayed apples in the barrels, and all the
fruit must then be reassorted. Store them
in barrels in a dry cellar or room, and if
carefully gathered and packed you should
have no further trouble.
WOMANIs ARRESTED~~
FOR INFANT'S DEATH
CHICAGO, Aug. 2.—The police have ar
rested Mm Neil Campbell ,of 655 Grand
avenue, on a charge of allowing an in
fant to die from Insufficient nourishment.
It is alleged that within the last three
years eight other infants have been buried
from the woman's house.
Dr. Joseph Wei field was called to the
Campbell house yesterday to attend the
infant, which has since died. He found it
in such a condition that the child died of
starvation.
There is no evidence against Mrs. Camp
bell save that of a girl named Viola Camp
bell, but Police Inspector Wheeler, who
has the case in charge, declares that he
believes her story and says that the bodies
of the children that have died will be ex
humed ta order to determine theiir num
ber.
LITTLE GIRLSTAKEN~
AWAY FROM MOTHER
MACON. July U.—Ordinary Wiley yes
terday awarded the two little girls of
Mr. T. F. Hunnicutt to the Methodist Or
phans' Home. The mother of the children
is Mrs. Tankersley, residing on Walnut
street. She and Mr. Hunnicutt were once
husband and wife, but separated, and
were divorced. He consented for her to
take the children. But recently he became
dissatisfied with the way tn which she
was bringing them up and he petitioned
the ordinary to look into the matter.
Revival at Epworth.
EPWORTH. Ga., Aug. 2.—The biggest
meeting held here in yearn closed last
Thursday night. Fifty-seven professed
religion ond 40 joined the church. Rev.
W. F. Hampton, of Ellijay, had charge
of the meeting. The meeting was held
tn the church near the spot where the
old arbor of Fighting town Campground
formerly was. People attended the meet
ing for ten miles around.
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, AUGUST 4,1902 t
JUDGE MODIFIES ORDER
IN JULY OATS CORNER
CHICAGO, Aug. I.—Judge Chytraus has
modified the injunction issued Wednes
day restraining the Chicago board of
trade and the board of trade operators,
James A. Patten, Carrington, Patten &
Co., and Bartlett, Frazier & Co., from
conducting a corner in July standard oats,
by restraining the defendants from asking
the president of the board of trade to in
dorse down margins deposited by the
complainants, Waite, Thorburn & Co.,
to secure 55.000 bushels of short sales.
The court held a session before the open
ing hour of the board of trade in order
that a decision might be arrived at be
fore business was begun. So important,
however, did the court consider the prece
dent of the case that a motion for a dis
solution of the temporary injunction was
not considered and the case will come up
for further adjudication next week.
The effect of the action of the court is
for the time to protect the complainants
against any alleged corner and is con
strued as working against the bull clique
of operators on the board.
Argument was brought to bear by at
torneys for the board and for the defend
ant operators that isasmuch as both the
complainants and the defendants were
members of a tribunal that adjudicated
any controversies between its members,
the injunction should be dissolved on the
ground of want of Jurisdiction. It was ar
gued that the complainants were prema
ture In asking for an injunction against
a corner when no such corner was in ef
fect and when the board of trade rules
specifically prohibited corners.
The defendant members of the board of
trade in answer to the injunction denied
the affirmation that July standard oats
were worth not in excess of 36 cents a
bushel and said they were worth more
than that price. Theywalso denied any con
spiracy among themselves or with Joseph
Bidwell, grain inspector, to corner July
oats or to forestall the market in that
commodity or to revise the price of July
oats. They denied that they had given a
fictitious value to the article and that they
had made any purchase for July delivery
since July Ist. It was set forth that the
elevator accommodation and railway fa
cilities of Chicago were such that wouiu
allow of delivery of 15 times the amount
of oats bought of Waite. Thorburn &
EXPERIMENT FIRM
LOSES PROF.
FOLTON.'
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HORTICULTURIST and biologist
RESIGNS UNEXPECTEDLY '
TO TAKE POSITION IN
WASHINGTON.
GRIFFIN. Ga„ Aug. 2.-Professor S. H.
Fulton, horticulturist and biologist of the
Georgia Experiment station, has tendered
his resignation to the board of directors,
to take effect August 15th.
This action takes the board of directors
and the staff at the station completely by
surprise, as he was elected to his pres
ent position for the year ending December
31st, when, it is said, he would have been
re-elected at a largely increased salary,
so satisfactory has been his work during
the 12 months he has been with the sta
tion.
It is said that the board of directors
will begin at once to look out for a suita
ble man to take the place made vacant
by the resignation of Professor Fulton.
His successor may be chosen* at once, or
the place may be left vacant until the reg
ular meeting of the board in October.
His resignation was such a surprise that
the board has not sufficiently recovered
its composure to determine which of the
two steps will be taken.
Professor Fulton leaves the station to
accept an appointment in the potnological
division of agriculture at Washington,
D. C„ which is an honor worthily be
stowed. He came from South Haven,
Mich., about one year ago, and his work
at the experiment station has been so
satisfactory that the board and officers
regret to see him leave.
SINGING CONVENTION *
HELD AT DOUpLASVILLE
DOUGLASVILLE. Ga., Aug. 2.—On the
26 and 27th, Saturday and Sunday, there
was a singing convention organized at
this place. There were enrolled about 300
members. A large crowd assembled to
hear the music—2,soo people. It was a
grand convention, over 100 leaders and
teachers in music being present.
It is putting it mildly to say that the
music was second to none, and exceeding
ly doubtful whether or not such vocal
music has been produced anywhere in
this state in years. The melody, harmo
ny and time was perfect. The winding up
was like a campmeeting, a regular old
shaking hands and tears flowing from the
eyes of all who were present, as they took
parting farewell. This convention is
bound to be productive of much good, is
the universal verdict of all present.
PLANET EROS SIGHTED
AFTER LONG ABSENCE
DENVER, August 2.—Eros, one of the
small planets or asteroids of the solar
system, was again discovered at 3:15
o’clock this morning by Professor G. J.
Lyng. who was operating the telescope
In Chamberlain Observatory at Univer
sity Park. Eros was first discovered from
jn impression on a photographic plate,
exposed by Witt at Berlin, in 1899. In
October, 1900, the planet came close to
the earth so that it could be observed
optically and was visible for observation
until June of last year, when it again
became invisible. The appearance of the
planet has been awaited with much in
terest by astronomers on account of va
riations in its brightness reported by va
rious observers, which it was desired to
explain.
negroThrowshlmself
BEFORE MOVING ENGINE
CHARLOTTE. N. C„ Aug. 2—John Hardy,
colored, killed himself about 9:30 tonight by
jumping in front of an incmlng Southern rail
way train on the outskirts of the city. The
negro, it is said, had been sitting beside the
track for some time and as soon as the engine
approached he threw himself In front of it
and was ground to death. He was out of work
and despondent.
Jim Baaer, white, a Southern railway
switchman, shot himself today with suicidal
Intent. He will die.
FAKE AGENT OF CUPID •
ARRESTED FOR FRAUD
LA GRANGE, Indiana, July 31.—Mrs.
Victoria Gibson, of Butler, Indiana, is un
der arrest charged with fraudulent use of
the mails in conducting a matrimonial
bureau. It is charged by the United
States authorities that by means of ad
vertisements she secured a number of
matrimonially inclined victims who sent
her sums of money for wives.
Miscellaneous.
WANTED —Persons, male or female, to do
writing for us at home. Light, easy work and
good pay. Particulars and outfit free. Address
Eugene Row, SENOIA, GA.
Co., by the defendants and that frequent
ly the defendants had bought ten times as
much as their total purchases in this de
livery. Following are the purchases made
in July standard oats by the bull clique as
set forth in their affidavits:
Bartlett Frazier & Co., 900,000 bushels.
Carrington, Patten & Co., 1,000,000; James
A. Patten, 860,000 bushels. Attorney. J. H.
Monroe, for the defendants, in addressing
the court, made sharp allusions to the
complainants having been of a speculative
turn of mind and sold something they did
not have and which they did not have the
means of obtaining for delivery. He said
it looked as if the complainants were try
ing to make money by buying in property
at a less price than that for which it had
been sold.
Judge Chytraus, before modifying the
order, told the attorneys he did not con
sider the Injunction restrained the defend
ants from bidding the buying or selling
to buy or sell, July oats in the pit or from
any of the business operations aside from
those in connection with the defendants.
There was practically no effect from the
injunction in the business in the oats pit
today. The assurance by Judge Chytraus
that ordinary business of the board of
trade acted as a check against any vio
lent fluctuations. A notice was posted on
'Change Interpreting the court’s action as
a dismissal of the injunction against the
board of trade and stating that all busi
ness could proceed as usual, save in the
matter of closing out deals with Tho
burn, Waite & Co. This was considered
held in abeyance.
July standard oats opened 1c higher at
64c and sold at 65 early. James Patten
sent brokers into the pit to sell indis
criminately and about 100,000'bushels were
covered early by shorts. This tended to
weaken the price and July dipped to 63
3-4. September oats opened a shade up
at 32 l-4c but sold to 31 3-B@l-2c before
noon in sympathy with July.
Speculators on the board were all in
clined to comment unfavorably upon ap
peal to the courts. The big bulls said if
such a precedent were established there
would be nothing but short selling.
If prices went down deliveries would be
made but if the price went against the
sellers there would be nothing to prevent
them defaulting on their contracts.
INSURANCE WAR
■ HAS BEEN ENDED
I
GREENSBORO PEOPLE WIN OUT
OVER TARIFF ASSOCIATION
%
IN ATTEMPT TO CHECK
HOME COMPANY.
GREENSBORO, N. C„ August 2.—State
Insurance Commissioner Young is here
looking into the war of the Southeastern
Tariff association on the Fire
company for refusing to raise 25 per cent
on its premiums. S
He says:
“I have been watching the fight, but
took no part in it until it passed lawful
bounds. When the association t notified
certain cltfeens of the state to surrender
Greensboro policies or they would be can*
celled and further insurance denied, I
had to take a hand.
"Since coming here those notice* have
been withdrawn. No poljcjfa are can
celled, many association companie* dis
approving the scheme in inception. I am
confident from a conference Just held be
tween them that the trouble is settled
satisfactorily to both and for the best
interests of the citizens of the state. I
cannot divulge the terms of the settle
ment now.” /
Since the war began the home com
panies have completed the organization of
a new fire company with $56,000 paid up
capital.
MILLIONAIRE MORGAN BUYS
ENGLISH COUNTESS’ HOME.
NEW YORK. Aug. 2.-J. Pierpont Mor
gan has Just purchased from Georgiana,
the.countess of Dudley, her handsome
house at No. 53 Grosvenor street, cables
the World's London correspondent. The
house stands at the corner of Davies
street and most conveniently situated.
Eady Dudley had her house beautifully
decorated and finished at a cost of nearly
$200,000. "
Grosvenor street Is In the heart of fash
ionable Mayfair, while Mr. Morgan’s pres
ent house at No. 13 Princes Gate, is
merely on the fringe of the smart district.
His new house will enable him to display
to perfection his great store of exquisite
art treasures, the decorative possibilities
of which are lost at Princes Gates, where
they ,ar heapei t' ge hc» because there is
not sufficient room to show them off
properly.
Mr. Morgan’s purchases recently are
said to have reached an enormous sum.
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PRINCE CHEN, OF CHINA,
IS EN ROUTE TO AMERICA
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—Ambassador
Porter has cabled the state department
that Prince Chen, the Chinese envoy to
the coronation, with his suite, sailed today
for Cerborurg on/the St. Paul for New
Yortc.
At New York he will be met by Minister
Wu, whe will escort him to Oyster Bay,
where he will be dined by President
Roosevelt.
A special car, furnished by the state de
partment, will bring him to Washington,
where he will be entertained by the Chi
nese legation.
POLITICS LIVELY
IN TWIGGS COUNTY
FORTY-FIVE TWIGGS MEN HOLD A
MEETING IN MACON AND LAY
PLANS OF CAMPAIGN.
MACON, Aug. I.—Twiggs county is hav
ing a high old time In politics. Forty-five
of her most energetic citizens met in Ma
con yesterday in a secret session to dis
cuss ways and means for electing a new
crowd to fill the offices. Mr. B. S. Fitz
patrick and Mr. F. F. Everett were pres
ent and were urged to stand for election
to the offices of representative and sheriff
respectively. They will no doubt do their
best to win over the incumbents. An
other council of the same kind will be
held here soon. The gentlemen who were
present do not explain why they come to
Macon to hold the meetings. A new board
of county commissioners will also be run.
In fact, efforts will be made to oust every
body now holding the offices in the coun
ty. 'ihe present commissioners say they
do not see on what ground they are to
be fought because they have reduced the
county’s indebtedness from $17,000 to $lO,-
000 and have redeemed the county’s credit,
making the jury scrip and all other paper
floated by the county worth one hundred
cents on the dollar anywhere.
List of Dead Miners Has Reached 120.
SYDNEY, N. S. W., Au». 2.—The total of
lives lost by the explosion at the Mt, Klmbla
colliery, Wollongong, on Thursday, ww 120.
EfERr PERSUN
IS ENTITLED
TOM
MONEY IN CIRCULATION PER
CAPITA IN UNITED STATES
SHOWS DECIDED INCREASE
OVER FORMER YEARS.
WASHINGTON, August 2.—According
to the monthly report of the division of
loans and currency made public this af
ternoon the total amount of money in cir
culation in the United - States is $2,260,-
606,137, an increase of over fifty-one mil
lions since this date last year.
The general stock of money in the
United States has been increased nearly
ten millions during the last month, and
is now $2,567,361,863, of which $306,655,726
is held in the treasury as assets for the
government.
These assets do not Include the deposits
of public money in National bank de
positories to the credit of the treas
urer of the United States amounting to
$119,563,531. < ,
The population of the United States is
estimated at 79,230,000, at which figure the
circulation per capita amounts to $28.53.
FARMERS’InSTITUTE
HELD AT ST. GEORGE’S, S. C.
ST. GEORGES, S. C., Aug. I.—The Farmers
Institute was held at the court house here on
last Saturday.
Quite a number of farmers were present.
Cant. R. S. Weeks presided and Mr. T. H.
Abbott acted as secretary. Four speakers were
present. Professor Shiver spoke on ''Fertilis
ers,” Professor Connor on “Agriculture,” Pro
fessor Newman on "Horticulture,” and Pro
fessor Morrison on "Our Country and Its Ex
periment Station.” The farmers were well
pleased with the Instructions given.
Dorchester County Summer School opened
here on Monday at the St. George's Academy
building, with twenty teachers in attendance.
The institute is under the able and efficient
management of Me. H. A. C. Walker, a Wof
ford College graduate.
The talk of the ipwn Just now is the estab
lishment of a large ginnery, saw and rail mill
at this place at an early day. Several promi
nent and leading clnzens of the town and vi
cinity are at the head of the undertaking, and
there is every indication that the scheme will
prove a success, and will be quite an acqui
sition to the business interests of the town.
A lively game of ball was played here on
Tuesday afternoon between the “old" and
young Boys of the town. The result was the
"old” boys won.
Lieut. J. C. Minus, of the United States
Army, is at home, spending his furlough.
SiXTYONE SNAKES KILLED
SATURDAY BY CARL COOK
Carl Cook, of Clarkston, Ga., claims to
be the champion snaka kfller of the cen
tury.
Saturday afternoon, while strolling in
a swamp near Clarkston he stumbled on
a huge water moccasin. He shot the
snake with a pistol, and much to his
alarm small snakes about five inches long
began to wiggle out of the mouth of the
old snake. Soon the ground was literally
covered with small, wiggling water moc
casins. Cook thought of beating a retreat
but took another notion and seized a
large stick and began fighting the young
snakes at a fierce rate. When nearly ex
hausted, and entirely out of breath, he
stopped and began to count up the vic
tims of his work. There were sixty-one
young snakes and the old one, making
sixty-two in all.
The people of Clarkston are thinking of
giving Cook a banquet for Exterminating
so many reptiles at one time.
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SOLVES J MVSTERY
DISAPPEARANCE OF TALLADEGA
CATTLEMAN IS BELIEVED TO "
BE ACCOUNTED FOR.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Aug. I.—The de
composer body of an unknown white man,
which was found In a creek neat’ Bloc
ton on April 25, is now believed to be the
body of C. P. Baxley, a cattleman of
Talladega, who disappeared from this city
on March 11. So positive of this is a
brother of the missing man that he has
caused -e body ot the stranger to be ex
humed and has carried the skull to his
home in the hope of identifying it fully.
The head of the missing man was of pecu
liar formation, and it is believed that the
skull will show the same peculiarities.
Baxley came to Birmingham on March
9 with SI,OOO on his person, his purpose be
ing to buy cattle. Two days later he mys
teriously disappeared and nothing has
been seen of him so far as can be learned.
Ills brother instituted an immediate
search and now believes that he has found
a solution to the mystery in the body
discovered in the lonely stream near Bloc
ton. The body has the marks of three bul
lets upon it, one in tne breast and three
in the back of the head. Robbery is be
lieved to have been the motive of the
murder.
HARRY TRACY SEEN;
EN ROUTE TO WYOMING
SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 2.—Harry
Tracy, the convict, passed through Coulee
City,, Wash., last night about 11 o’clock
and is reported to have been seen at Al
mira, the next station east, at 3 o’clock
this morning.
Coulee City and Almira are on the north
ern Pacific railway, between Seattle and
the Idaho state line.
This would seem io confirm the report
that Tracy Is making his way to the Hole-
In-The-Wall country in Wyoming.
ESCAPED CONVICTSHAVE
NOT YET BEEN CAPTURED
Bob Stover and Jim Jackson, the two
convicts who escaped from the state farm
at Milledgeville a week ago, have never
been captured. The prison commission
has received no reports whatever from the
prison farm about their whereabouts.
Every effort is being made to locate the
two men, however, and it is thought that
they will be retaken before a great while.
Both men were life convicts and no
punishment, except harder labor, can be
inflicted on them if they are retaken.
ONLY FOUR NEGRO VOTERS
IN OPELIKA. ALABAMA
OPELIKA. Ala., Aug. I.—The county i-gls
ters for this county closed their work lart
night; 379 white men and tour negroes regis
tered in the county. Os the four negroes regis
tered not one paid their poll tax. so tney
cannot vote, and this is now a white county.
Forty years of yearning has reached realization
and the men of Alabama are going to keep tne
constitution In the hands of these who gave
it to them. The negroes *ot in under tne
soldier clause.
Burglar Is Wounded.
CHARLOTTE. N. C.. Aug. 2.—A at
tempted to enter the residence of Oscar Pears
all at Wilmington %ton|ght and was shot and
probably fatally wounded.
i ALL AUGUSTA STRIKERS
VOTE TO GO BACK TO WORK
AUGUSTA. Ga., Aug. 2.—The strike
which was instituted against the King
mill April 7th was officially declared off
and the King mill has been running for
several weeks, but some of the striking
operatives had not returned to work,
claiming they eould not do so under the
oath they had taken, until official sanc
tion was given them to work again.
The National Textile union had furnish
ed about SSOO per' week for the support of
these idle hands, but this amount had
gradually dwindled down until very little
was coming and a mass meeting of King
I mill operatives was called for this morn
ing and met in Red Men’s hall. It was
voted unanimously to return to work.
This ends the strike formally. The op
eratives return to work under exactly the
saAe conditions which prevailed when
they struck.
GYPSY BAND STEALS CHILD
OF GLASS MANUFACTURER
MARION, Ind., Aug. 2. Several mem
bers of a band of Gypsies are imprisoned
in the county Jail here, charged with child
stealing. The three-year-old daughter of
Henry Herman, a glass manufacturer,
was stolen yesterday from the home of
her grand parents, where her parents had
left her while they were enjoying an out
ing. Gypsies driving past the house kid
napped the child and drove south with
her. In South Marion they stopped at a
saloon, where the little girl was recog
nized by Mr. Wilson, a friend ot her par
ents. Mr. Wilson rescued the child from
her captors and took her to his own home.
Later the Gypsies were pursued and ar
rested.
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OFNEWSTEELMILL
IT IS SAID THE UNITED STATES
STEEL CO. HAS ITS EYES ON
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BIRMINGHAM DISTRICT.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Aug. I—All the
Iron is being sold right now that the man
ufacturers care to sell in the Birmingham
district and throughout the southern field.
This statement is made by Colonel T. G.
Bush, president of the Alabama Consoli
dated Coal and Iron company. He states
that the market is very active and that
though prices are good, this is not pre
venting a steady sale of the product, de
livery even into the last of the first halt
of the coming year.
Colonel Bush states that the furnace at
Gadsden being constructed by his compa
ny will be the largest furnace in/ the dis
trict, having a bosh six inches greater in
diameter than the Republic company’s
furnace at Thomas. He says that the new
furnace should be ready for the 'torch by-
January 1, 1903. k
With the addition of a few stoves and
more blowing engines, the company will
then have two furnaces at Gadsden. There
are rumors hereabouts ..that the United
States Steel corporation is after the Re
public Iron and Steel company, but offi
cials cannpt give any verification. It is
admitted that plans are still being dis
cussed for a monster steel plant in this
section.
According to plans, iron and steel com
panies in the Birmingham district will
during the next two years expend no
less than $5,000,000 in the erection of blast
iron furnaces, six of them to be built
or reconstructed into steel plants. The Al
abama Steel and Wire company spend
$3,006,000 in the erection of two blast iron
furnaces at Bessemer and a steel plant at
Ensley.
The industrial conditions in the Birming
ham district at present are most active,
and the prospects for the next 12 months
•are also bright.
APPLINGIiIEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
APPLING, August 2.—Mr.. "Babe” Strother,
ot Amity, Lincoln county, Georgia, haa an acre
of corn from which he will gather 100 bushels
this year. He has gathered 85 bushels off it
in time past and it is far better than ever this
year. This demonstrates the value of culti
vating well. One acre will make more under
'this method than ten under the "any old way”
system.
Already Lincoln county is getting her sena
torial candidates ready for the race when her
time comes under the rotation system, which
will be In 1904. Hon. J. R. Hogan, the last
Populist nominee for governor, will, it is un
derstood, be a candidate. Mr. R. E. Roberts
will be a candidate also. At a Fourth of July
celebration and Confederate veterans' meeting
held at Lincolnton, Mr. Roberts made a bril-,
llant speech, which was favoably commented
on by all who heard it, and the people may Idok
forward to a warm race between the two—
Messrs. Hogan and Roberts.
The sales of Improved harvesting machinery
has Increased more than 1,000 per cent during
the Last three years in Columbia county. A
farmer in the county has been the owner of a
mower and rake for the last ten years, but he
never used them until recently. He tells The
Journal man that he estimates his loss- some
where around SI,OOO, just because he‘didn't use
it. The sins of omission came dear in this
case.
Fine weather prevails over central eastern
Georgia, and farmers are expecting good crops
if propitious seasons Continue.
TEXAS FLOODS RECEDING;
WATERS FALLING RAPIDLY
DALLAS, Texas, Aug. 2.—There is no
trouble h’om floods in Texas now except
in the -extreme northeastern part of the
state, and most of that is expected to be
overcome today or tonight. Thousands of
acres of the Brazos valley are said to be
sti-1 submerged, but the waters are re
ceding rapidly. The Sabine river is four
miles wide near Tyler, and two miles
of the International and Great Northern
tracks are under water between that city
and Mineola. The Cotton Belt reports
their line clear again but it Will be Sun
day before the Texas Midland between
Terrell and Quinlan will be In use.
Conditions are so vastly improved that
with no more heavy rains the flood la con
sidered to be a thing of the past.
LAURENSMAY GET
EXPERIMENTAL FARM
DUBLIN. Ga.. Aug. 2.—Captain D. G. Purse,
special agent of the agricultural department,
and Dr. G L. Spencer, chief of the sugar de
partment, will be In the dty this week to
look into the sugar and cane raising of this
county. These gentlemen are looking for a
good location for an experimental station for
the cultivation of sugar cane. Laurens county
stands a fair chance to- be chosen for such a
station, fpr nowhere In the state does cane
grow better. While it does not grow quite so
luxuriantly here as in the further south, yet
the flavor and sweetness far surpasses the cane
grown in other lower counties.
Drs. Purse and Spencer desire to meet all the
cane growers of the county while here and
discuss the subject at length.
Macon Physicians Have a “Blacklist,”
MACON, Ga., Aug. I.—The Macon Medi
cal society has again adopted a blacklist,
and hereafter anj- man who is financially
able to pay and refuses to settle his doc
tor's bill will not have his summons an
swered unless he puts up two dollars cash
in advance. Worthy objects of charity
and people who are temporarily embar
rassed from sickness or financial distress
are not to be placed on the list.
Wife of Senator Pritchard is Dead.
ASHEVILLE, N. C.. Aug. 2.—Mrs.
Pritchard, w-ife of United States Senator
Pritchard, died here today at the Bilt
more hospital.
The funeral wfil be conducted tomorrow
at the home of the deceased at Marshall.
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RUSSIAN’S ARE
HAMPERED
BYGENSOR
EDITOR OF ONLY SEMI-INDE
PENDENT NEWSPAPER IN ST.
PETERSBURG DISPLEASES
THE AUTHORITIES.
ST. PETERSBURG, July 18.—The pro
gressive terrorization, of the Russian
press, which characterized the regime of
M. Siplaguin, the minister of interior, who
was assassinated last April, appears to
have been adopted as a settled policy by
his successor, M. Von Plehve.
M. Siplaguin closed thq Northern Cour-/
ler and the Rossiya. After their extinc
tion the only newspaper in St. Petersburg
which maintained an Independent attitude
towards the government was the St.
Petenburg yiedomasti, an old Journal,
which, since’ it passed into the control of
Prince Oukhtomsky, has been character
ized by the honorable and straightforward
manner ta which it waa conducted. TTiat
it was not a liberal newspaper, according
to western notions, need scarcely to be
emphasized. A liberal newspaper Is ab
solutely impossible where the censorship
Is as vigilant and exacting as it is in
Russia. Owing to the impossibility of ex-.
pressing its own views on either domes
tic or foreign affairs, consistently and reg
ularly, the Vledomosti abstained, except
on rare occasions, frofn any comment/
whatever. Its original news articles were
also couched ta the most guarded and
matter of fact language, and was based
scrupulously on official data.
It must be explained that outside of St.
Petersburg and Mqscow the dally press is
subjected to preliminary censorship; that
is, no article may be published which has
not been sanctioned by a governmental
official assigned especially to review its
matter. The press of the two capitals is
free from this burden, but may be, and is
called to a itrict accounting by the cen
sorship for any matter that may be found
objectionable, but It is regularly warned
against handling such subjects at all. It
also is a fact that the owners of nwvs
papers under preliminary censorship Wan
be and are severely dealt with and ahe
papers can be suppressed for publishing
matter that has been sanctioned by their
particular censor.
In spite of this censorship the St. Peters
burg always has been characterized by its
interesting excerpts from the provincial
newspapers. It alone, of all St. Peters
burg newspapers, has attempted to keep -
its readers informed about what was go
ing on ta the interior of Russia. It now
appears that the department of the Vied
omostl has become an eyesore toward the
government. %
Minister Von Plehve summoned Prince
Oukatomeky to him July 12 and lectured
him severely on his management of th«
journal which Is leased from, the govern
ment. M. Von Plehve told the prince the
Vledomosti had become the organ of the
liberals and revolutionists, particularly ta
Its provincial departments. He peremp
torily demanded the immediate dismissal
of the editor of this paper and warned
him that after two months his lease of the
paper .which had several years yet to run,
would be cancelled. M. Von Plehve con
cluded by saying he had seen the czar
on July 9 and had received his majesty’s
permission to take these sever* meas
ures.
Prince Ouktomsky has long enjoyed a
measure of imperial favor. After he ac
companied the czar, when heir apparent
on the princes’ famous tour around ths
world he was made president of the Rus
so-Chiense bank and his unrivalled knowl- :
edge of China and Chinese affairs has cer- <
tainly been of great advantage to the
government.* It is generally understood
that heretofore when pressed or threaten
ed by the late Minister Siplaguin, Prince
Oukhtomsky has been able to save him
self by a personal appeal to the czar.
M. Stakhovich, who is marshal of ths
nobility of Orel, was re-elected to this
position almost immediately after his fa- <
mous speech last year on religious liberty,
and his election was confirmed. He has
recently been active in a movement to
procure the participation of the Zemstvos,
or provincial self-government delegate
’ assemblies in the great agricultural in
quiry. He recently held a conference at
Moscow with a number of Zemstvos
leaders Jrom different provirices and for
this he was summoned before Minister
Von Plehve and reprimanded in the pres
ence of the head ot the police department
The government is extremely jealous of
anything approaching concerted action on
the part of the Zemstovs, fearing that it
might result In some form of representa
tive government for the whole country.
M. Stakhovich took the reprimand in
poor grace. He called the minister's at
tention to the fact that he is an elective
representative of the nobility of the prov
ince of Oreal and responsible legally to.
nobody save to the emperor personally.
He declared that he did not recognize
the minister’s right to harangue him about
his conduct and that he did not accept the
reprimand. He then stalked out of th*
room.
USED A PIECE OF TIN
TO CUT HIS THROAT
SAVANNAH, Ga., Aug. 2.—Charlie E.
Hicks, of Atlanta, a telegraph operator,
attempted to commit suicide in the .Sa
vannah police barracks yesterday after
noon by cutting his throat with a piece of
tin from a can of salmon. He first tried to
get a knife, but failed. He found the piece
of tin on the window ledge of his cell,
and made painful cuts ot his throat with
It. He only succeeded in making his neck
very sore. He has been sent to the prison
for 30 days.
Hicks is well known in local telegraph
circles, having worked both for the Wesb
ern Union and Postal telegraph companies,
at their branch offices In different parts
of the city. Hex was employed up to a
few months ago,X since which time little
has been heard of his movements. He is
about 25 years old.
ELECTRICAL WORKERS
MAY SOON BEGIN WORK
NEW ORLEANS, August 2.—The striko
of the electrical workers, which begun on
yesterday, will probably be entirely set
tled before Monday. The Cumberland
Telephone company today agreed to the
demands oi the men and they wjll go
back to work on Monday, receiving $3
per day insteajd of $2.50. , Negotiations
are still pending with the street railway
companies, which have offered an ad
vance and will probably ipeet the full
demands of the men now that the tele
phone company has done so.
BUTCHERS OF AUGUSTA
BOYCOTT TRADING STAMPS
AUGUSTA. Ga.. Aug. 2.—The butchers
of Augusta have declared their independ
ence of the yading stamp people, and
have ma’de public announcement that
they will not give trading stamp? to their
customers.
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