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IMPORTANCE OF ,
SOWING WHEAT
SOUTHERN farmers canot be
aroused too fully to the importance
I of planting a considerable area of
their farming lands in wheat dur
ing the next sixty days, particularly in
al! of those sections where our lands are
favorable to its growth and profitable de
velopment.
The price of provisions and all kinds
of commodities used on the farm are con
tinually advancing in price. Provision
bills within the past twelve months have
almost been prohibitory to the farmer
who has been heretofore depending upon
bis cotton .crop to pay for supplies and all
other coats for the operating expenses
of his farm. The prices for which we are
forced to sell our cotton is not on a par
ity with the high prices which we have
to pay for the things that have been
.bought. The i argin of difference as been
too heavy in favor of the seller of such
commodities as we have been in the hab
it of buying, reducing the margin of
profit on our money crop to about the
cost of production. We could better af
ford to run the all cotton system on a
basis of C cents for that staple two years
ago at the prices then prevailing for sup
'plles. than to buy provisions at the pres
ent prices and sell our cotton for 8
cents. The crop of cotton this year has
been short in most sections of the cot
ton belt, taking into consideration es
pecially th* shortness of the staple. Or
dinarily farmers are quite busy with their
cotton during the time which should be
taken up in preparing their lands for
wheat. This trouble, however, will not be
an us this fall, and nothing short of in
difference will stand in the way of being
able to plant a goodly area of land on
every farm In this valuable grain crop.
The first question of prime importance to
decide, is whether or not the crop can be
made a profitable one by giving It that
•attention which is necessary to secure
the best results. The question of an ex
tensive area is not important. A few
acres properly prepared and highly fertil
ised will turn out a heavier yield than
double the number of acres on poorly
prepared land with little or no fertilisers.
The general unfamOiarity of our people
.With this crop renders it necessary to
discuss in detail many of the important
features essential In making an effort to
Secure the best results. Tnis I shall en
deavor to cover as fully as possible tn
this article. There are many successful
Wheat growers tn the south, annually
turning out as heavy yields per acre as
Is mad- oa the best lands In the great
wheat regions of the west. The possibili
«tles of our sauth»rn soils to meet compe
tition from any section ha* been fully es
tablished not only by experiments, but by
hundred* of practical farmers in yearly
y.olds of .ne different crops planted. No
man should ever become discouraged in
making an earnest, active effort to pro
vide the food crops necessary for sustain
ing all the requirement* of his family and
.farm animals. It is the key note to suc
cessful forming in the south where condi
tion* not only render diversified farming
possible, but make that system of farm
ing imperative. A full appreciation of
our magnificent resources, and a deter
mination to take advantoge of them, will
within a few years make every such
faym»r Independent and secure for him a
business which is not only pleasant, but
highly lucrative.
The character of the soils beet suited
for the growth and development of wheat
Is good clay loam, furnished with a good
ly supply of humus and nitrogenous
matter, phosphoric acid and potash. The
elements of fihoaphor.c acid and potash
should predominate, particularly the for
mer. Light sandy soils will not yield sat
isfactory results, and such lands would
Spey better planted in something else.
There are but few sections of farming
lands in the south, however, which with
proper tillage and fertility will not yield
* fairly good crop of wheat. Whenever
• strong vigorous stalk is secured with
but little or no development of grains, the
trouble is not so much with the land as
. it is with the absence of proper fertilis
ing ingredients. Such a condition of af
fairs under otherwise favorable climatic
conditions indicates a deficiency of both
elements of phosphoric acid and potash
in sufficient quantities to develop the food
constituents of the grain. It would then
be Incumbent upon the grower to provide
these absent constituent* either by heavy
applications of barnyard manure, ashes
and Mme, or by the purchase and use of
Isuch commercial fertilisers as will furnish
the required needs of the soils in proper
proportions. There is no one thing
more essential in preparing for a wheat
crop than the thorough preparation of
KIDNEY AND BLADDER DISEASES
«Are always serious and demand the skill of an expert.
Pains in the back or loins, irregularities in the urine, such
as scantiness. Smarting, burning, incontinence, etc., are
danger signals which should be promptly heeded. My
treatment of these diseases has been uniformly success
ful, and I hav* cured some of th* worst cases on record.
Each case gets careful, individual treatment.
MAKE NO MISTAKE by being misled by advertised quick
cures, free prescriptions, free samples and other forms
of cheap advertising by specialists who claim that they
are the only ones who treat patients personally. You can
consult Dr. Hathaway PERSONALLY and you have the
additional benefit of his trained staff of skilled specialists
in each department, which no other office in the south ha*.
A re«p- nslbi*> guarantee of cure which means something,
and bacMbd by leading banks. Is given when required.
ieediirz.<i me* J. NEWTON HATHAWAY, M. D.,
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the land by deep plowing and harrowing
down to a fine tilth.
The more fully the land is pulverised the
better will be the yield, no matter how
fertile the soil or how heavy the applica
tions of fertilisers may be. This is a
matter which should be borne in mind,
because it is highly important. Experi
ments have proven conclusively that land
prepared like an ashbank furnished heav
ier yields of wheat than similar plats of
ground adjoining gave without such prep
aration. though a much higher percentage
of fertilisers were applied to the latter. A
corn and pea field, with the stubble whip
ped under with a good turner or oisc, and
then harrowed over two or three times
presents an ideal field for sowing down in
wheat. Barnyard manure or cotton seed
can then be broadcasted and a disc har
row run over the Ibid. or if the seed is
put In with a drilling machine and com
mercial fertilisers used the who»e can be
done at one time. Wheat ordinarily should
be covered to a depth of three Inches, not
deeper on heavy clay soils. With good,
clean seed wheat, sow from one bushel to
one and one-fourth bushels per acre. If
sown by hand, endeavor to so scatter the
grains that by spreading the fuh width
of one hand on the ground five grains will
be covered. If with a drill the machina
can be regulated to do the work automati
cally. After the field is sown, by whatever
method employed, it is best to run a heavy
roller over the ground to smooth down all
clods and ouier obstructions which will
interfere with proper harvesting. All small
seed germinate better and grow off more
vigorously when the soil under which they
are planted is rolled to a firm and com
pact texture.
Probably the best general fertilizer
which can be secured for a crop of wheat
to meet all requirements, especially
when the land to be sown has grown a
crop of pea vines this year, is as follows:
Nitrogen, 2 per cent; available phosphoric
acid, 9 per cent; actual potash. 6 per cent.
This formula can oe secured from any of
the fertilizer companies making a first
dans wheat fertilizer. Apply at from 300 to
500 pounds per acre. It is not necessary to
secure a large stalk; the point is to have
a full head containing well developed
grains. A yield of 20 bushels per acre
should be secured ordinarily under proper
tillage and fertility. Before planting the
grain always subject it to a thorough
treatment of blue-stone. One pound of
bluestone is sufficient to treat five bushels
of grain. Dissolve the bluestone in boiling ,
hot water, then pour into barrels or tubs
half filled with water sufficient to hold five
bushels of the wheat. This can be left to
stand over night and planted next day,
or, immersing a few hours in the solution
will be sufficlept. All that 1* necessary Is
to let the grains come In contact with the
solution, and the smut germ will be killed.
The smut germ Is a parasitic plant, which
adheres to the grains, and if not killed be
fore planting it will germinate with the
seed and grow along with the stalk, finally
feeding on the head of wheat, when the
mischief is done. This is a quick, simple
method of preventing smut, which is more
disastrous to the wheat crop than any
thing else if left alone to do its work. No
wheat is immune from smut tltat has not
been treated. Wheat free from smut may
be thrashed on a machine covered with
smut pores and the grain infected for the
next year.
There is no safer or surer crop to plant.
Wheat will mature a crop every year, and
if not wanted for bread, it is equally as
good, if not better, for stock than oats. If
planted for stock, it should be cut and
made into hay when the heads are in the
early dough stage. All work animals will
keep in splendid condition fed on wheat
hay. and the fear of saving an oat crop
need not longer worry us when we can
accomplish the same end with wheat. In
many sections wheat is grown for stock
alone, and either fed upon the farm or bal
ed and shipped to market, where it always
commands a high price. Baled wheat hay
wtll net more dollars per acre to the
grower than Jhe threshed wheat. The cost
of handling is less and the price obtained
is greater. The demand is always good,
not only on the farm, but in the city mar
kets. The opportunity presented this fall
for sowing wheat was never more propi
tious. It should be generally taken advan
tage of- Make your bread and meat at
home. Plant for the table and for the barn
yard. Prepare your lands now and plant
in the latter days of the present month.
Do not postpone this most important mat
tar. The returns next spring and summer
will far exceed your expectations. Georgia
especially should be a great wheat grow
ing state. The time is ripe for a revival of
interest in this important cereal crop,
and the opportunity should not be passed.
HARVIE JORDAN.
iNQUIRY DEPARTMENT.
Harvesting Celery.
J. A. 8., Crawfordville, Ga.—Will you
please state through your columns some
thing about the harvesting of celery?
X* nen It should be taken up. how it should
be blanched, how it should be stored away
In order to keep to the best advantage?
Will the frost kt.i it if it catches it?
Answer—For early blanching on a small
scale the most common and simple plan
is to use square edge plank one inch thick
by 12 to 14 inches wide and 12 to 16 feet
long. In placing the plank in position slip
one edge under the outside leaves of the
plants, bringing the edge upward until
a vertical position is secured along the
row. Have another plank of the same kind
placed on the other side of the row at the
same time. Leave as little space between
the plank as the thickness of the plants
will allow. You can then drive stakes on
the outside of the planks about 8 feet apart
to keep the plank In position. You may
also secure the same results by throwing
up dirt with a turn plow run close to the
plants and finish up the work with a hoe.
From two to three weeks' time whl be re
quired to properly blanch the plants. Cel
ery will withstand considerable frost, but
its keeping qualities will be Impaired if it
is allowed to freeze. In storing for winter
use bank up earth around the plants and
cover when grown. Place plenty of earth
around the plants early to keep them in
position, and let stand until fear of frost.
Then, when necessary, throw the earth up
around the plants to the top. As freezing
weather comes, cover the tops with straw
to be held in place with board*. The cele
ry can then be removed from thesq ridges
as needed.
At thb time of the last census there were
780.W8 foreigners in the German empire.
THE BEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9* 1902.
A REMINISCENCE OF THE CIVIL WAR.
BY MRS. W. H. FELTON.
I THOUGHT I owned a very retentive
memory. I know it has done me good
service in times past, but I find I must
not depend upon it implicitly, without
other helps to bolster it up.
In making a late visit to Tennille, in
Washington county, Georgia, I was quite
satisfied that I was enjoying my first stop
over at the progressive little city, until I
begun to think about war times, and all
of a sudden it flashed over my mind that
I had once spent a night in Tennille, then
known as "No. 18,” if I am correct as to
the numerals. The revelation, or more
properly the restoration of a missing link
in memory's chain, induced a hearty laugh
at my own expense.
In the month of’ November, 1864. when
General Sherman started southward from
Atlanta, on his famous "March to the
Sea,” my little family, with myself, were
endeavoring to get back to Macon byway
of Augusta. We were refugees near the
Central City and all we had in the way of
household effects, wearing apparel, stock
and slaves, was on a plantation near the
Clinton road, between four and five miles
from Macon.
We left Augusta on Sunday morning
about three o'clock (had been left by the
Saturday train), and the wires were work
ing all right when we reached Millen on
the Central railroad.
The train was crowded to overflowing,
hardly standing room in the passway be
tween seats, and the seats were narrow
and cramped, and only one seat for four
members of the Felton family.
We were not distressed by any traveling
discomfort, because we were in hot haste
to get in reach of all we had in the world,
save some Confederate scrip, and the de
serted plantation in North Georgia.
We stood up when the others were too
fatigued to stand longer, and we sat down
when the younger ones were rested, but
my bones ached. Oh! My!
Sometime in the afternoon, after leav
ing Millen, we reached No. 13 station, and
as the train came to a standstill we saw
a number of long-faced people outside.
We heard the boom of cannon for the first
time on that trip. The long-faced folks
pointed to a colmun of black smoke and
informed us that the Oconee bridge was on
fire. I do not remember who fired the
structure, whether it was our soldiers or
the Yankees, but it was a tremendous
black smoke of pitch pine and we were
cut off without a doubt.
The battle of Griswoldvllle was then in
progress and while we knew nothing of
that occurrence unt*. later, we concluded
very naturally, that we were about the
SOMETHING ABOUT ROUMANIA AND ITS PEOPLE
BY A ROUMANIAN.
To the Editor of The Journal:
SECRETARY HAYS appeal in be
half of Roumania Jews has created
favorable comment by the press In
this ‘country and abroad.
The average reader here knows Uttle
about Roumania. some having never
heard of that country before.
The writer having been a resident of
Roumania is enabled to furnish the fol
lowing fasts. .
The geographical situation of Roumania
is between Russia and Hungary. Being
bounded on the northwest by Austria-
Hungaria and northeast by Russia, south
by Bulgaria and southwest by Servia and
Turkey. •
The Danube river and Black Sea are its
navigable waters.
The bllmate is the best on the European
continent, being high and dry and bor
dered by the Carpathian mountains. The
scenery is most picturesque especially
those states lying in the mountain regions.
Its fertile products are cereals and all
fruits excepting tropical.
The country is divided into two states —
Muntenia and Moldavia—and thirty-two
districts.
Roumania. although a monarchy, is con
stWutlor.al, having senate to enact laws.
The population barely reaches 5,000,000 in
habitants. Bucarest is the capital. Here
is a country having agricultural resources
equal to any in Europe; a government
where the citizens Is allowed to vote the
same as in this country; yet they are
eliminating the best citizens from their
midst, and it is fair to foresee the natural
decline that must come to this hation, and
it will undergo as other nations have be
fore it. X
Any alien may become a citizen, but
the Jew who is born and bred there Is
denied this privilege. The Jew has always
proven the best citizen of Roumania. as
he has of any other country that hath
become his birthright, yet he Is denied
his very existence.
He Is forced to serve in the army three
years and no matter how efficient he has
proven himself, is not allowed to advance
further than sergeant, and when dis
charged from the army Is denied his cit
izenship. He 13 not allowed to sell to
bacco or liquors, and Is prohibited from
living in the country, being compelled to
seek the cities for a livelihood. HW can
not buy land and therefore agriculture is
denied him.
The peasants are very friendly to Jews.
Twenty years ago the Hebrew carried on
business with farmers, the same as mer
chants in our country. Advancing money
on forthcoming crops. Very often
the crops would prove a failure and the
Jews gratuitously allowed their patrons a
yearly extension.
The government has closed this help to
peasants by inaugurating agricultural
banks in rural districts, being very strict
on them, and refusing any extension in
the event of a failure of crops.
The majority of employes of the govern
ment are underpaid, receiving less salary
than is essential for their maintenance of
the necessities of life. As the winter sea
son is one of hardship, the Jew would
advance money to the employes until fi
nancially relieved. Now the government
does not consider such loan legal and robs
its own employes of the only advantage.
Queen Elizabeth, known to the literary
world as Carmen Silva, is very favorable
to Jews, also employing Barochiner, a
Jew, for her secretary. The question nat
urally arises, why are the Jews being per
secuted in Roumania, and the echo an
swers back. “Why are the Jews being
persecuted everywhere in continental Eu
rope?"
They are hated and persecuted partly
through bigotry and partly because it is
desired to get their money from them—a
task not very easy.
We hate what we fear. Jews have been
hated for various reasons, but mainly be
cause they have been feared in the money
making competition of the world.
They have been especially conspicuous
in money-making, not because Jews are
more attached to money than are other
races, but because in all other Helds of
endeavor opportunity was closed to them.
Today, When all fields are open, we can
see Jewish blood successful in every field
of citizenship—in great statesmen, in
Disraeli, the great conservative, and in
Gambetta, the great democrat. We see
Jewish blood in great actresses—Sarah
Bernhardt; in great musicians—Mendels
sohn and De Reske. For intellectuality
Karl Marx and Lassale have proven the
development of the Jewish brain.
book at our schools and colleges. Who
receive the prizes? Jewish children!
How different from the old days!
When Jews, half naked, were forced to
run races through the streets of Rome to
amuse a carnival crowd!
When the inquisition ingeniously applied
the thirty-odd tests for the detection of
“secret Hebrews,” bringing them to the
rack on innumerable trivialities, from re
fusal to drink milk after meat to purchas
ing of bitter herbs.
The Jew was driven into trade and
money changing by the edicts of Christian
poorest folks on the planet, and flat on the
bottom, as to clothes, bedding, food or any
thing else but what we were then wearing
and had along with us in a carpet bag.
The engine was detached and ran along
towards the Oconee river to make sure as
to the results of the burning. By the time
the engine returned nightfall had overtak
en us, and the conductor decided to stay
awhile and await developments.
The train stood stock still until daylight,
but not so, the squirming, restless passen
gers.
A slow rain fell all night long. The con
tinual drip from the car-roof made a
dirge-like moan to my depressed spirits.
It was not a cold rain—too warm for com
fort—because it developed every bad smell
in that promiscuous crowd, and the night
seemed a week long, with those sleepy
young folks and that narrow, hard and un
comfortable seat.
Some time in the night, my spouse be
came almost desperate for a nap; and he
fell upon a plan, that nothing but a des
perate person would have risked. Said he:
“I’ll put the carpet bag on the floor next
to the window and you must not kick my
head, if you get to dreaming, and I’ll push
my feet outside into the aisle and I’ll try
to get a nap.”
The younger ones leaned on me, and 1
spent a part of that fateful night, like a
trussed fowl, miserable in both mind and
body.
And we were so hungry 1 Every effort to
get food on that Sunday afternoon was
fruitless. Everybody was in a state of un
controllable excitement outside the train,
houses were few and the demand would
have been beyond supply, in the best of
times. We had a lunch on Saturday, and
had eaten up the last crumb by Sunday,
and feeling sure we could get more at
Macon, we divided with some travelers
who had no lunch.
Monday morning was a gloomy one, to
be sure. We knew Sherman’s army was
not far off, and if General Sherman de
cided to go to Savannah, we were in his
proposed line of march.
My spouse had a pair of sore, aching
legs, as you may imagine, but he put in
good time applying for food at the cabins
within reach.
After a sp.ell of anxious waiting, he got
back to us with a single handful of fried
sweet potatoes; the grease oozing down
between his fingers. I wish I could re
member how much he paid for that break
fast, but it was a monumental price, for it
was the rule, “first come, first served,”
and he aimed to get a share. Not a news
paper could be found where the potatoes
were cooked to, wrap up the potatoes, and
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potentates forbidding him to acquire title
to land.
Money is power, even in the hands of the
Jew, and it Is small wonder that when he
found it his only friend in a world of fa
natical foes—the only weapon with whicn
he could hope to win his way—in sheer
self defense he diligently sought to ac
quire all of it possible.
The avarice, so-called, of the Jew is the
result, not the cause, of centuries of po
litical and social ostracism.
Numerically too weak to force recogni
tion of his rights with the naked sword,
the Jew forges his weapon of fine gold and
with it makes the proudest of Christian
potentates pay him homage with their
lips, while they curse him in their hearts.
Avaricious! Miserly! Little-souled! What
foolish prattle! The Jew is the most liber
al money-spender in the world. He calls
for the best of everything and pays for it
like a prince! Did you ever hear that a
Jew miser starved to death in the midst
of his millions? That one of the race of
Judah ever perished for lack of medical
attendance which he was too penurious
to pay for? Yet such tnings are of daily
occurrence in Christendom. But the vic
tim of the unholy lust for gain is never,
no. never, a Jew!
That the spirit of the Jews has not been
utterly crushed by twenty centuries of
systematic oppression; that they have not
withered beneath the ethereal baptism of
fire, degenerated into a contemptible,
spiritless lazzaroni; that the united world
has signally failed to trample them be
neath its brutal feet and keep them
there; that despite two thousand years of
trial and temptation, of calumny, Intimi
dation of the most'brutal outrages record
ed in time s annals, the daughters of
Judah are today the paragons of purity,
as they have ever been of beauty, pro
claims to every man with eyes to see and
brain to understand that the Jews are one
of the greatest races, one of grandest peo
ples that ever appeared upon the earth.
JOE ROSENBURG.
Brunswick, Ga.
In view of all he had heard about it,
President Roosevelt may be excused for
not knowing that “empty coal scuttle”
was loaded.
his face was a study, as he looked at his
soiled hands and the greasy potatoes when
he handed them to me.
We were in a state of miserable uncer
tainty, as to what we should do under ex
isting conditions. Must we leave the train
and try to hire conveyances and reach Ma
con, or go back to Augusta and try to go
up the Georgia railroad, or go to Savan
nah by rail and tn’ the Gulf railroad to
Thomasville and cover the distance to
Albany by hacks and still try for Macon.
When we pulled into Millen we had de
cided on the latter course, a trip that last
ed nearly three weeks.
It was after night when that train reach
ed Savannah. The ride from the depot to
the Pulaski house that night convinced
me that one may not die until their time
comes. Inside, the people were packed
like sardines, and on top of the omnibus,
human freight was piled, until the sup
ports creaked ominously every minute.
Three hundred passengers went into the
dining-room of the hotel, and I am willing
to make a wager, if necessary, that there
was not a bushel of bread, or anything
else, for that famished crowd. We gave
up the effort, and went to bed hungry.
We paid seventy-five dollars for two beds,
and went out to the Gulf road depot early
next morrdng without a mouthful, but my
spouse hunted up a Savannah bakery and
brought us twelve dollars’ worth of bread
to the train, and we went on our way re
joicing. "Hope springs eternal” in the hu
man mind.
I found Tennille to be a most progressive
town. A splendid new hotel, fine brick
stores, brick warehouses, good churches,
a fine Institute with splendid faculty and
over 200 pupils, are some of the latter-day
improvements.
Trains seemed to be coming and going all
the time. Cotton bales pouring in by ev
ery country road. There is thrift, pro
gress and prosperity everywhere around
Tennille. t
We had a fine, cultured and appreciative
audience to listen to my story of “South
ern Women in the Civil War,” and it was
my great pleasure to give the splendid
citizenship of Tennille my recollections of
my other visit to Tennille, which had
dropped out of mind (owing to the confu
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until it suddenly came to me with vivid
memory of that long, dreadful, rainy,
steaming night that I spent in an old pas
senger coach, and where I was saved from
dire hunger by a mess of fried sweet po
tatoes in the early sixties. My best wishes
will ever go with the fine people I met in
Washington county, whose gracious hos
pitality has made such lasting impress on
the mind of your scribe.
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CONDEMNS VACCINATION
AS WORSE THAN SMALLPOX
Editor Atlanta Journal, Atlanta, Ga.:
Dear Sir:—l notice in your issue of the
35th Inst., a letter headed, "Doesn't Be
lieve in Vaccination,” in which the writ
er, Jac Rosenberg, condemns the practice
as being the cause of lockjaw. Heart
rending and terrible as this disease is;
appalling at its frequency has become;
it is but one count in hundreds against
vaccination.
All statisticians of note, and a large
number of medical men of prominence,
have condemned vaccination in unmeas
ured terms.
It is not necessary to look far for some
of the results of this filthy practice. An
abnormal increase in consumption and all
tubercular diseases; in syphilitic and skin
diseases, and in cancer has been coinci
dent with the vaccination craze.
Cancer was almost unknown prior to
the Introduction of Jenuerism. Herbert
Spencer, "the world’s greatest philoso
pher,” unequivocally condemns "the
world’s greatest delusion,” and traces the
rapid growth of cancerous diseases to the
practice of inoculating with vaccine vi
rus. His latest work, “Facts and Com
ments.” furnishes interesting reading on
this subject for both doctor and layman,
as well as on many other subjects.
But, probably, the most serious charge
against vaccination, is that brought forth
by Prof. Hubert Boens (Belgium), who
traced cow-pox to its original source,
which he found to be "syphilitic sores”
on the milker’s hands. Cow-pox Is not
smallpox, and has no resemblance to it.
Ricord first showed it was in the syphilis
(pox) class. Creighton and Crookshank,
of England, afterwards confirmed his ex
periments; but it remained for Hubert
Boens to prove that the likeness was with
syphilis, and not wits smallpox. He says:
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
A New York woman ha* been married seven
time*.
Australia finds horn*" for more than 106,500
German*.
A Berliner take* on the average U» street
car rides a year.
France's Society of Dramatic Author* col
lects for its clients some 150.000 a year.
The cathedral of Gothenburg, which was
only built in 1915. threatens to collapse.
It is said that the southern textile mill* em
ploy 60,000 children under sixteen years of
age.
More deaths from shake bites occur in In
dia in houses than in th* fields or in th*
jungle.
The present population of greater Berlin ex
ceeds 2,550,000—Ju5t two million more than Mu
nich.
The beet record made on picking hopA was
that of a young lad who picked 458 pounds in
one day, earning 11.80 by so doing.
In Galicia the wage of the farm laborer has
been so reduced that he is starving to death
on a pittance of from 3 to 16 cents a day.
One of the most magnificent ballrooms in the
United Kingdom is in Lord Iveagh’s house !n
Dublin. It is 79 feet long and 40 feet wide and
the floor has a delightful "sprlngness.”
OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES.
Exchange.
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the teacher of a email pupils
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to a person or a bee," was the reply.
"Mamma,” said a little three-year-old whose
father was not a prise beauty, "was papa as
ugly when you married him as he is now?”
“1 suppose so. dear." was the reply.
"Well.” said the little miss, "you must hav*
been pretty hard up for a husband."
"Do you dye your hair. Mr. Jones?” asked
the Irrepressible little brother.
"Certainly not. Tommy,” was the reply.
“But why do you ask?”
“ ’Cause,” answered the youthful terror,
“your hair is black and sister said (he guessed
you were born light-headed."
"Mamma.” askbd little three-year-old Margie,
“do people go to Maven when they die?”
"Yes. dear, if they are good," replied her
mother. . . ~
“Then I guess grandpa wasn't any good,
rejoined the little miss. " 'Cause when he died
they just put him on a shelf in a big stone
house and locked the door.”
Cruel to Cholly.
Brooklyn Life.
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fessor of swimming, don’t you know I taught
Mabel Galey how to swim in two lessons.
Jack—Gad! That was a quick throw-down.
Cholly (indignantly)—What do you mean?
Jack—Why, she let me give her ten lessons
before she learned.
Right In Their Line.
Chicago Tribune.
“How did your baseball game come outr”
“They mopped the ground with us.”
“I thought they would when I heard you
calling them a scrub nine."
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"Continue, gentlemen, to vaccinate, if
you please; because you make money by
it; but never forget—pseudo-scientists and
false physicians that you are—that whilst
you sow vaccine among the people, they
reap the pox.”
Dr. Alexander Ross, a man with more
medical honors than any other known
man, says:
“I have frequently seen vaccination re
sult in erysipilas, hydrocephalus, tetanus,
and filthy cutaneous diseases. The dan
ger incurred from vaccination is infinitely
greater than that from smallpox.”
I believe that the time is soon coming
when the claim of the medical profession
to save our bodies from smallpox, by the ‘
aid of fines and Imprisonments, shall be
read with the same feeling with which we
now read of the persecution of the church
in former times, "To save souls by halter
and stake.”
F. WM. E CULLINGFORD.
Philadelphia. Sept. 29, 1902.
AN OLD DISCOVERY ABOUT
THE BOOK OF MORMON
To the Editor of The Journal:
I see in your issue of yesterday. Octo--
ber 2d, from St. Louis Globe-Democrat,’
that Rev. J. E. Mahaffey, of the Method
ist Episcopal denomination, at Granite
ville, S. C., claims a new and special dis
covery of the Original Book of Mormons.
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tion, after pushing his imagination for
the past ten years. This so-claimed dis
covery may be news to many, as to the
author of yesterday’s article, but such has
been before thousands of Baptist preach
ers for the last quarter of a century,
especially those who have had the good
fortune to attend lectures In our great
Southern Baptist Theological seminary in
Louisville, Ky. Rev. Mr. Mahaffey Is a
little late in his discovery.
REV. J. A. BELL.
BIRD 8. COLER’S
RECORD ftß A
REEORMER
• Baltimore Sun.
THE nominee of the New York
Democrats for governor is the
leader of the younger reform ele
ment of Brooklyn. He first came
into general notice by his vigorous ad
ministration of the affairs of the office of
comptroller, tue chief financial officer of.
New York city, in which he served during
the Van Wyck administration. Though
a member of an administration that was
severely assailed he won the highest
praise by his non-partisan conduct of the
city's financial affairs. It required no
small measure of ability to disentangle the
affairs of 95 separate sections and munici
palities and amalgamate them into a sys-j
tem for the Greater New York, and his
accomplishment of thia task was generally
commended.
Even though his’ election was in a large
measure due to the votes of member* of
Tammany Hall, he openly attacked cer
tain methods of that organization that he
did not approve, and vigorously denouncedj
Richard Croker and hia rule-
When the time came to nominate a suc
cessor to
by many that Mr. Coler, whe-way proba
bly the most popular man in the adminis
tration, would be chosen as the Demo- <
cratlc candidate. Bqj Mr- Qgoker could;
not forgive the attack* on hlmUn-f peeches'
and magazine articles, -espedaHjt in the
publication on "Commercialism in Poli
tics," and though he had to select a recog
nized refomer as a candidate, he chose Ed
ward M. Shepard and ignored Mr! Coler.
Mr. Coler is the particular protege of «
Hugh McLaughlin, who controls Demo-|
cratlc politics in Brooklyn; and he is re
garded as the strongest politician in that
big borough. Hia residence is at 224 Han
cock street, Brooklyn.
He is not a native of New York, but waa
bom in Illinois, at Champaign, 35 years j
ago. The son of William N. Coler, he is a (
member of the firm of W. N. Coler & Co.,|
of ..he New York Stock exchange, and
possesses a strong following among flnan-.
ciers.
Mr. Coler has written a number of mag-,
aizine articles on municipal affairs, and in:
1900 wrote the volume, “Municipal Good
as Illustrated by the Charter, Finances
and Public Charities of New York,” an
exhaustive and original work.
One of the most notable of Mr. Color's
financial achievements was the floating of (
$35,000,000 in bonds at a much higher rate'
than New York municipal securities had;
been disposed of in former years. He also
had much to do with financing the New
York subway, which is one of the largest
enterprises any city has ever undertaken.
Since his retirement from the comptroll-<
ership a year ago he has been actively ea-'
gaged in private business.
BIRD S. COLER’S
CAREER AT A GLANCE
New York World.
Family came from Germany 100 years ago.
Born in Champaign. 111., on October 9, 1967.
Father rode circuit with Abraham Lincoln.
Moved to New York In 1870.
Studied his "Three R's" in Brooklyn schools.
Entered preparatory school at Andover but
left to learn banking.
Went west and floated bonds.
Hugh McLaughlin thought him a "bright
young man."
Accepted nomination and was elected comp
troller.
Overthrew Ramapo conspiracy at cost of
Croker’s friendship.
Lost nomination for governor in 1900 by writ-,
Ing "Commercialism in Politics.”’
One of the few Wall street bankers who
voted for Bryan.
Borrowed $1,000,000 at 2 per cent, from Hetty
Green, saving New York City $2,500.
More than six feet tall, black eyes and hair,
fine physique.
Walks across Brooklyn bridge for exercise
whenever time allow*.
Smokes black cigars but uses little wine.
Member of flrm of W. N. Coler A Com
pany.
Married in 1888 to Miss Moore, of Brooklyn.
Has son twelve years old.
Is comfortably well off.
Spent MO.OOO in various crusades oat of hl*,
own pocket.
Lives at No. 244 Hancock street, Brooklyn.
Herr Konetzky’s Announcement. '
London Dally News.
Are English attempts at advertisement)
in foreign languages as quaint, we won
der, as so many of the foreign advertise-'
ments couched in “English as she is
( spoke” that reach us from time to time?
‘ A certain Herr Konetsky, a specialist in a
highly unpleasant department of patholo
gy. sends us the following lucid announce-!
ment:
A seldom jubilee celebrated on August
28th, the well-known specialist. Th.
Konetsky at Sacklngen, Baden, Germany,
in ordering the one mlllionst cure. Th.
Konetsky has now been in his special
line as above, for more than thirty years .
and the circumstances that already one
million people have applied to him for;
being cured, is the best proof of his Aic
cess, and that many one has been freed
of his trouble, attest the more than 10,000
lettres of acknowledgement he has re-'
ceived these last two years from all’
countries and classes of people.
Slave riding in Northern Nigeria is not en
tirely a thing of the past, but it is being steadi
ly extinguished with the establishment of
British authority.
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