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WILL HEAVY FERTILIZATION PAY?
“How can I raise larger crops of corn
and eotton?” is the subject of constant
consideration on the part of the farmer,
and it te well that it should be, for little
progress is made in any direction unless
the problem be approached from the
standpoint of the student. Moreover,
success is more likely to be attained when
one sets up a standard or ideal much
above the ordinary. At present the yield
of corn and cotton are both very low.
Probably M to 15 bushels of the former,
and a third of a bale per acre of the
latter. Let us set a standard for com at
30 bushels per acre and cotton at one bale
per acre. Is It possible to attain these
yields by methods which will leave the
farmer a sufficient margin of profit on his
labor? To cultivate an acre of land
where the yield of cotton is one-third of
a bale per acre entails practically as
much outlay for labor and effort as where
a bale is grown. Therefore, the cost of
cultivation will not be materially in
creased by the larger crop. There will of
necessity have to be a larger outlay, how
ever, for plant food. Two-thirds of a
bale of cotton is worth 330 00 a 9 cents a
pound. An additional expenditure of 35.00
to 810.00 per acre for commercial plant
food would thus be justified by the in
creased yield. Let us now consider what
draft will be made on the land by a yield
of thirty bushels of com with the stover.
We find that 45 pounds of nitrogen, 15
pounds of phosphoric acid, and 46 pounds
of potash would be removed from the
soil. A third of a bale of cotton would
remove from the land in the seed and lint
between 9 and 10 pounds of nitrogen. 3
pounds of phosphoric acid, and about 4.3
pounds of potash. This is certainly a
small amount of plant food, and one
would naturally think the land would
supply this food if no commercial fer
tiliser were used. A bale of cotton, in
cluding the seed, will remove from the
soil about 28.3 pounds of nitrogen. 9.3
pounds of phosphoric acid, and 13 pounds
of potash, amounts of plant food which
would easily be applied by the farmer at
a profit where he raises one bale per
acre. Evidently from these figures it
should be possible to supply the addi
tional plant food needed to increase the
yields to the standard sugested. and that
it would be profiitable to do no one will
question.'
At the present time a fair average ap
plication of plant food per acre is prob
ably not over 300 pounds of a “2-8-2
fertiliser," or 4 pounds of nitrogen, 10
pounds of phosphoric acid, and 4 pounds
till IIH t»»t tttttt
♦ QUERIES ANSWERED ♦
Reclaiming Worn Out LantK
A. C. V., Houston. Tex., writes: I would
like some information on the following
subjects; Rye for soil improvement; recla
mation of wornout Virginia lands; the
best varieties of Canada peas and where
to obtain them; Fenugreek; soy beans;
rape, tangier peas, nematodes; cover
crops; orchards in grass as compared
With clean cultivation.
Rye makes an excellent winter cover
Wop for soils likely to wash and may
be turned under early In the spring to
add vegetable matter to the soil in time
to permit of growing a crop of corn or
cotton on the land that season. Rye should
be turned under when comparatively
young because of the rapid growth it
makes early in the season by reason of
which it is liable to pump too much watei
out of the soil, and leave it in bad me
chanical condition. This crop may be used
for cover on any soil. The worn lands of
Virginia as elsewhere may be reclaimed
by crop rotation In which the legumes
predominate. Os course, stock farming is
ths most certain and economical method
of building up thin lands, but stock farm
ing can only be practiced to a limited
extent without considerable capital,
whereas, one may use the legume* in a
crop rotation for soil building. The wri
ter has ssed exha used soils in all sec
tions of the south reclaimed in a perlox',
of five years, and brought under profita
ble cultivation by the use of a rotation
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of potash. Compared with the demands
made on the soil by a crop of cotton
yielding one bale it Is apparent that
one-seventh of "the nitrogen and one
third of the potash needed has been
applied to the soil. It is also generally
recognised by experienced farmers that
a surplus of plant food beyond the
actual needs of the crop must be sup
plied, especially to soils markedly de
ficient in vegetable matter, and which
have been exhausted through continuous
culture without proper regard to crop
rotation. Since the same kind of fer
tiliser is frequently used on corn and
cotton it is easy to see that large yields
can only be brought about by more
thorough and systematic cultivation of
the soil, and a greatly Increased use of
commercial plant food.
Mr. J. S. Fowler, of South Carolina,
nas made a notable success of growing
cotton, he used 300 to 500 pounds of
high grade fertiliser at planting time
and side applications once or twice later
on to the extent of 400 pounds more per
acre. This makes the total application
900 pounds per acre and he figures that
irom his side applications coating him
35 per acre he gets a net profit of 320.
Mr. C. J. Drake, of South Carolina,
who grew 254 bushels of oom on an
acre of land, used 1,000 bushels of sta
ble manure, 690 bushels of cottonseed,
Mt pounds of kalnlt, 200 pounds of cot
tonseed meal. 160 pounds of mixed fer
tiliser, 200 pounds of animal bone, and
400 pounds of nitrate of soda. Hun
dreds of Instances might be quoted to
show that Increased yields will follow
the Intelligent use of commercial fer
tiliser in ever-increasing amounts. True
there is a maximum beyond which one
cannot profitably go. Experience will
quickly indicate this point to the farmer.
In the meantime we should realise that
to succeed with fertilizer the soil must
De supplied with vegetable matter In
the form of composts, farm yard manure
and green leguminous crops plowed
under. Then liberal applications of
phosphates and potash must be made,
as our soils are notably deficient in these
mineral elements.
Try this year on your com and cot
ton crop an application of 1,000 pounds
of fertiliser containing at least 3 per
cent of nitrogen, 8 per eent of phos
phoric acid and 6 per cent of potash.
If your land has been properly pre
pared you will reap a handsome return
from the use of this high gflade ma
terial in the amounts indicated.
system and commercial fertilizers.
Canada peas have never proven a great
success in the south. Wherever you at
tempt to use them you had best seed in
the fall of the year, say about the Ist of
December, or even latet in your latitude.
You can seldom seed them early enough
in the spring to secure the best results.
When grown with winter oats they make
a very good quality of green feed for
soiling or pasture in the spring, particu
larly by hogs. The hay is also of excellent
quality. You can obtain Canada pea set?
from any leading seedsman.
You are seeking such a variety of in
formation that it would be imposible to
give it all to you in the form of a let
ter. We are sending you under separate
cover a part of the publications which
we are issuing, and which we believe wiil
be of service to you. We would advise you
to write to the office of experiment sta
tions, Washington. D. C., and askd them
for a list of Farmers’ Bulletins that they
have for free distribution. From this list
you can see which publications you wish
and on application to the proper authori
ties, they will be sent to you free of
cost.
Raw Cotton Seed Vs. Cotton Seed
Meal
L. J.. Altus. Okl., writes: I am In
terested in demonstrating to our farmers
the folly of feeding raw cotton seed
when they can exchange a ton of It at
our mill for 600 pounds of cotton seed
meal and 2,300 pounds of hulls. You may
perhaps have determined the comparative
feeding values of raw cotton seed and
meal and hulls, and If so, I would be glad
to have any Information you can give mo
on this line.
Cotton seed meal and hulls when they
can b? bought at the right prices form
an admirable ration for both beef and
dairy cattle. 'There is no simpler way of
making beef than through feeding meal
and hulls, though probably this ration
is not as economical as one consisting of
meal and silage. Where silos are not
available, however, and cheap hay can
not be had. the hulls make an admirable
form of roughness. For beef production
probably the best combination Is one part
of meal to five or six of hulls. The
price will of course influence the ratio
in which to feed these materials. Quick
er gains will generally result from feed
ing one pound of meal to three of hulls,
but the cost is often increased thereby
to such an extent as to make the use
of the meal and hulls th the proportions
first suggested the most profitable. Less
than two pounds of hulls should never
be fed to one pound of meal or indiges
tion is likely to follow.
For dairy cows we would suggest the
feeding of meal and hulls in the propor
tion of one to five. We think five to six
pounds of cotton seed meal as much as
ever should be fed to beef and dairy cat
tle per head per day when the animals
weigh approximately I.OiO pounds. Larger
quantities can hardly be utilised advan
tageously and are liable to produce indi
gestion. Raw cotton seed is not regard
ed as a very satisfactory food for either
beef or dairy cattle, and can only be
used advantageously for fattening during
the cool part of the year. Moreover,
they should not be fed for more than
part of the fattening period under any
circumstances as the excessive amount
of oil in them seems to throw the ani
mate off feed. A pound of cotton seed
has not more than half as much feeding
value as a pound of cotton seed meal. At
the Mississippi station experiments with
cows indicated that one pound of cotton
seed is equal to 1.17 pounds of corn or
com and cob meal or .68 of a pound of
cotton seed meal. There is thus no ads
vantage gained by the farmer from fetd-
THE ATLANTA SEMI WEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9. 1909.
Ing cotton seed to his cows, and if more
than six pounds are fed per day the
quality of the butter is likely to be in
jured. Since the oil is objectionable in
feeding for" more reasons than one and
better results have been obtatned with
both beef and dairy cattio from feeding
the metil ftnd hulls, it is impossible to
see wby the farmer should care to retain
the weed on his farm If he can obtain a
fair lymis of exchange. This we would
consider to be from 1,300 to 1.600 pounds of
meal when the seed are selling at 318
to 320 a ton and meal brings 323 to 325
a ton.
The Value of Soil Analysis
A subscriber, Athens. Ga., writes: I
would like all the information you can
give me concerning soil analysis. Where
can I have my soil analysed and what
amount would it require? How would
you advise preparing the soil to be an
alysed? I wish this information so I may
know what fertiliser is suited to certain
soils and crops, as I do not wish to pay
for something that I would derive no
benefit from.
There is probably no place In the state
where you could have your soil analysed
at this time without paying for the same.
There are, of course, professional an
alysts who will do the work for a fee.
Our finances have been in such condition
that the board of trustees have felt it
Impossible to appoint an agricultural
chemist up to this time in connection
with the State College of Agriculture. As
soon as funds are available, this will be
done, and we hope then to be in position
to undertake a systematic soil survey on
the state. ’.
While analyses do not reveal the
amount of plant food contained in the
soil, furnish an excellent guide as to what
the soil is most likely to be deficient in
and how to proceed with a system, of crop
rotations and in the purchase and use
of commercial fertilisers to correct these
deficiencies, and make the land more pro
ductive. A sample for soil analysis
should be taken as folows: One should
remove the soil to a depth of say twelve
inches by making a hole about one foot
square. After one side of this hole has
been carefully dressed, you should shave
off a thin column of the soli from the top
to a depth of six inches and put it In a
bottle; and then another shaving should
be taken from six Inches to a depth of
one foot and put in a separte bottle.
These bottles should be carefully labeled.
Several holes should be dug in the field
where the soil seems to be of uniform
character and similar samples taken.
When these are sent into the laboratory
they should be thoroughly mixed and
ground together, and what is called a
composite sample taken from the mixture
for an analysis. In this way you would
get a fair average of the amount of plant
food contained in a field where the soil
was of quite uniform character. If dis
tinctly different soils were found In the
field, it would be necessary to analyze
the several samples separately. The
work of taking soil samples must be done
with great care or else Inaccuracies will
result therefrom that would prove mis
leading. For this reason a good chemist
generally wishes to go out and Investi
gate the soil areas for himself and take
the samples that he may be familiar with
the conditions and be certain to get sam
ples of soil that will represent the area
under examination.
Since we are not in position to make
soil analyses, you may conclude that
nothing can be done which will help you
at this time. We would suggest, how
ever, that you take some plants of
ground of small size or an acre In area,
and make certain tests this year. We
would suggest, for Instance, that you use
a 2-8-2 fertilizer on one section, a 8-10-3
on another, and a 3-8-4 on another, and
then use these same fertilizers in differ
ent amounts, say at the rate of 300, 500
and 1,000 pounds per acre. In this way
you will get a line on the plant food re
quirements of your soil. If you are mak
ing plenty of stalk at the present time,
you may be quite certain that you do not
need nitrogen. If your plants are not
f 'uitlng as well as you think they should,
it Is a pretty good Indication of the need
of phosphates and potash.
By making some simple tests, such as
I have suggested, you will be surprised
how much information you will obtain
that will b eof real service to you in
ascertaining the plant food requirements
of your soli.
MIBSISSIPPI TOWNS
SWEPT BY CYCLONE
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Feb. 6.—lt is re
ported here that a cyclone has struck
Booth, this morning, killing six
people and destroying much property.
TWO KILLED; OTHERS HURT
BY ARKANSAS CYCLONE
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Feb. 6.—A special
from Brinkley to the Arkansas Democrat
says:
Two persons were killed and a third
fatally injured in a tornado which struck
Stuttgart early today.
The dead:
Mrs. Garfield and a child of Will Shorey.
Fatally Injured:
Mrs. Will Shorey.
The tornado carried away one residence
and five barns, besides doing considerable
damage to property in the surrounding
country.
The residence destroyed was that of
Will Shorey. his wife and child being
crushed by the falling timbers. The child
was killed and Mrs. Bhorey taken from
the ruins unconscious. Her Injuries are
thought to be fatal. The storm did ex
tensive damage to the rice fields.
FOUR ARE KILLED
IN ROLLING FORK
JACKSON, Miss., Feb. 6.—A long dis
tance telephone message received here
this afternoon states that a tornado had
struck the town of Rolling Fork, Sharkey
county, today and that foilr persons had
been killed.
Up to this hour it has been Impossible
to secure details of the disaster.
The report received states that there
has been a heavy property loss in addition
to the loss of life, which may be increased
by later reports.
Rolling Fork is a town of about 1,200 in
habitants and the county seat of Sharkey
county.
NEW CURRENT FOUND
FOR INSULATION WORK
NEW YORK. Feb. Dr. L. H. Baeke
land announced last night at a meeting of
the American Chemical society, that he
had discovered a new chemical substance,
which he says is valuable to electrical in
sulation where a high voltage current is
used.
It is a coal tar product, with the com
bined properties of amber, celluloid and
carbon and Is less expensive than the
substances named, or hard rubber.
For the sake of euphony. Dr. Baekeland
calls the substance Bakelite, although
from a scientific view point, it would be
known as oxybensyl-methylenglicolanhy
dride.
HOUSTON MASONS SCORED
IN DISPUTE OVER TAFT
CINCINNATI, Feb. 6.-W. B. Melish,
past grand master of the grand lodge of
Masons, said that the adoption of the
resolution by the Masonic chapter at
Wortham. Texas, condemning the action
of the grand master of Ohio in granting
a special dispensation in the case of Pres
ident-elect Taft, permitting him to be
come a Mason “at sight,** is unpreceden
ted and inexcusable.
He declared that the action of the grand
master of Ohio was absolutely regular
and Masonic in every respect, and in ac
cordance with Masonic precedent.
W MURDERS *> RUEr MORGUE,
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The sailor had recovered his presence
of mind in a great measure while Dupln
utered these words, but his original
boldness of bearing was all gone.
“So help me, God,” said he, after a
brief pause, “I will tell you all I know
about this affair—but I do not expect you
to believe one-half I say—l would be a
fool indeed if I did. Still I am innocent,
and I will make a clean breast if I die
for it.”
What he stated was in substance this:
He had lately made a voyage to the In
dian archipelago. He had landed at Bor
neo and had captured the ourang-outang.
After great trouble, occasioned by the
intractable ferocity of his captive, he at
length succeeded in landing it safely In
Paris, where he kept it carefully seclu
ded until such time as it should recover
from a wound in the foot received from
a splinter on board ship. His ultimate de
sign was to sell it.
Returning home on the night, or ratner
in the morning of the murder, he found
the beast occupying his own bedroom, in
to which it had broken from a closet ad
joining, where it had been, as was
thought, securely confined. Razor in
hand and fully lathered, it was sitting
before a looking glass attempting the
operation of shaving, in which it had
previously watched Its master. Terrlfiea
at the sight of so dangerous weapon in
the possession of an animal so ferocious
and so well able to use it, the man, for
pome moments, was at a loss what to do.
He had been accustomed, however, to
quiet the creature, even in its fiercest
moods, by the use of a whip, and to this
he now resorted. Upon sight of it, the
ourang-outang sprang at once through
the door of the chamber, down the stairs,
and thence into the street.
The sailor followed in despair; the ape,
razor still in hand, made off. The chase
continued for a long time. The streets
w’ere profoundly quiet, as it was neadly 3
o’clock in the morning. In passing
down an alley in the rear of the Rue
Morgue, the ape’s attention was arrested
by a light gleaming from the open win
dow of Mme. L’Espe.naye's chamber, in
the fourth story of her house. Rushing
to the building, it perceived the lightning
rod. cfambered up with inconceivable
agility, grasped the shutter, which was
throws fully back against the wall, and.
by its Means, swung Itself directly upon
the headboard of the bed. The shutter
was kicked open again by the ourang
outang as It entered the room.
The sailor, in the meantime, was both
rejoiced and perplexed. He had strong
hopes of now recapturing the brute, as
it could scarcely escape from the trap
Into which It had ventured except by the
rod, where It might be intercepted as it
came down. On the other hand, there
was much cause for anxiety as to what
it might do in the house. This latter re
flection urged the man to still follow the
fugitive. A lightning rod is ascended
without difficulty, especially by a sailor,
but when he had arrived as high as the
window, which lay far to his left, his
career was stopped; the most that he
could accomplish was to reach over so
as to obtain a glimpse of the interior of
the room. At this glimpse he nearly fell
from his hold through excess of horror.
Now it was that those hideous shrieks
PITTSBURG POLICE
RUSH IN MOTOR CAR
PITTSBURG, Pa., Feb. 5.-Shortly af
ter noon today it was reported to police
headquarters by telephone that a negro
had assaulted a white girl on Ridge ave
nue, Herron Hill. A large force of officers
was rushed to the scene from the different
stations in automobiles.
When they arrived they found the dis
trict in an uproar over the alleged as
sault, but an Investigation failed to lo
cate any young woman who had been at
tacked.
The police are now searching for the
person who sent the message.
Early today two negroes attempted to
assault Miss Blanche Smith, daughter of
a justice of the peace, and Miss Rose
CORNER IN EGGS IS
EFFECTED IN A TLANTA
A chronic bachelor, who has a western
exposure room in the Bachelors’ Domain,
makes it one of his principles of life to
have a nip of eggnog when he rises in
the morning. But Friday when he looked
into the little box he keeps over next to
the washstand, he found it empty and
bare.
“Dere ain’t er egg on de place, boss,’*
the negro bell be” explained.
So he took it t;vw, and went down the
stairs feeling that he had made one of
the first serious mis-steps of his life. He
is as firmly addicted to ham and eggs for
breakfast as to eggnog for a morning
bracer.
“Ham and eggs,” he said at the lunch
counter where he has eaten ham and
eggs regularly every morning for the last
twenty years.
The girl looked confused and went away
with a guilty expression. She returned
with a platter of ham, but no eggs.
“Eggs all out,” she said.
He toyed with his ham for awhile, then
got up and walked away with a dazed
look. He felt as though something had
happened to life and changed it sadly.
Mechanically he went towards a barber
shop. Since time immemorial l;e has had
an egg shampoo every Friday.
As he clambered into a chair, the bar
ber coughed embarrassedly.
‘‘Shave?’’
"Shampoo,” he said.
“Not an egg in the shop,” the barber
replied.
He walked blindly by the manicure girl
without even smiling, and totally ignored
the morning paper. Down the street he
went, round the block and into a grocery
store.
“Have you any eggs?" he demanded.
The clerk shook his head.
"All out. You might as well hunt for
pearls in this town today as for eggs. A
fellow shipped away the last one yester
day.”
Coner in Eggs
Owing to conditions existing in the east,
an effort has been made to corner the
Atlanta egg market. Harry Well, of Bir
mingham, reached here the first of the
week and has since been buying every
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“With inconceivable agility itgrapsed the shutter and swung itaelf
directly upon the headboard of the bed.’’
arose which startled from slumber the
inmates of the Rue Morgue. Mme.
L’Espanaye and her daughter, habited
in their night clothes, had apparently
been occupied in arranging some papers
in the iron chest, which had been wheeled
into the middle of the room. It was open
and its contents lay beside it on the floor.
The victims must have been sitting with
their backs toward the window, and from
the time elapsing between the ingress of
the beast and the screams it seems prob
able that it was not immediately per
ceived. The flapping to of the shutter
would naturally have been attributed to
the wind.
As the sailor looked in, the gigantic
animal had seized Mme. L’Espanaye by
the hair (which was loose, as she had
been combing it), and was flourishing the
razor about her face in imitation of the
motions of a barber. The daughter lay
prostrate and motionless! She sad swoon
ed. The screams and struggles of the old
lady (during which the hair was torn
from her head) had the effect of chang
ing the probably pacific purposes of the
ourang-outang into those of wrath. With
one determined sweep of its muscular arm
it nearly severed her head from her body.
The sight of blood inflamed its anger into
frenzy. Gnashing its teeth and flashing
fire from its eyes, it flew upon the body
of the girl and imbedded its fearful talons
in her throat, retaining its grasp until
she expired. Its wild glances fell at this
moment upon the head of the bed. over
which the face of its master, rigid with
horor, was just discernible. The fury of
the beast, which no iloubt bore still in
mind the dreaded whip, was instantly
converted into fear. Conscious of hiving
deserved punishment, it seemed desirous
of concealing its bloody deeds, and
skipped about the chamber in an agony
of nervous agitation, throwing down and
Sesock, residing in a nearby suburb.
The screams of the girls frightened the
negroes and they escaped. Several hours
later two negroes were arrested on sus
picion and sent to the workhouse, almost
immediately, for three months. In many
sections of the city racial animosity is
gradually becoming acute.
Serious trouble, growing out of the
police crusade against negroes, who
have terrorized the Herron Hill district
by frequently assaulting white girls,
was narrowly averted last night when
John Moulton, a negro, 39 years old,
was arrested In the east end district on
a charge that he had annoyed a witlte
girl and had accosted her with “Good
evening, sweetheart; alnt you going to
kiss me?”
The negro was quickly located by a
squad of officers. While being taken to
a police station a brother of the girl
egg in sight. Thursday afternoon he
shipped away 2 1-2 car loads, which is
equivalent to 13,860 dozens, or 166,320 eggs.
It is probable that such an amount of
eggs was never before bought here. The
price they brought was between |3,000 and
34.000. And now Atlanta stands eggless.
Every egg purchasable has been bought,
and the market is fairly stripped. The
commission merchants are dependent on
shipments and the supply of the retail
dealers is small.
There has been an egg famine in Cin
cinnati, Chicago and other western
cities, and speculators have bought all
the eggs obtainable in Atlanta to secure
the high prices existing elsewhere.
Monday and Tuesday eggs sold in
Cincinnati at 10 and 15 cents apiece,
and were scarce at that price. In Chi
cago the famine was just as keen and
was felt just as heavily.
As soon as news of these conditions
orifted south an effort to corner the
entire southern egg market was begun.
Eggs were bought right and left, the
markets were stripped, not a one was
left. Monday operations, were started
against Atlanta’s egg supply. The last
crate that the commission merchants
possessed was taken, even the retail
market was invaded, and Atlanta stands
today in a more eggless condition than
it has been for years.
Ships Off 166,320
By Thursday Mr. Well had bought
every egg to be secured, and he shipped
away his total purchase—two and one
half carloads, or 166,320 eggs. The
number was great enough to have sup
plied every resident of Atlanta with at
‘least one egg apiece.
As a result of the enormous number
bought, the wholesale price of eggs has
advanced six cents since the first of the
week. Before the effort at cornering
the market was begun, eggs were selling
at about 22 cents wholesale; now they
are bringing about 28 cents. The retail
price is over 35 cents.
Most of the eggs shipped from here
went to Chicago or Cleveland, but a
number were also sent to Philadelphia.
breaking the furniture as it moved and
dragging the bed from the bedstead. In
conclusion, it seized first the corpse of
the daughter and thrust it up the chim
ney, as it was found; then that of the
old lady, which It immediately hurled
through the window headlong.
As the ape approached the casement
with Its mutilated burden the sailor
shrank aghast to the rod. and, rather
sliding than clambering down It, hurried
at once home, dreading the consequences
of the butchery and gladly abandoning,
in his terror, all solicitude about the fate
of the ourang-outang. The words heard
by the party upon the staircase were the
Frenchman’s exclamations of horror
and affright, commingled with the fiendish
jabberings of the brute.
I have scarcely anything to add. The
ourang-outang must have escaped from
the chamber by the rod just before the
breaking of the door. It must have closed
the window as it passed through it. It
was subsequently caught by the owner
himself, who obtained for it a very largo
sum at the zoo.
Lebon was instantly released upon our
narration of the circumstances (with
some comments from Dupln) at the police
headquarters. The ch Ilf, however, could
not altogether conceal his chagrin and
was fain to indulge’in a sarcasm or two
about the propriety of every person mind
ing his own business.
“Let him talk,” said Dupln. "Let him
discourse; it will ease his conscience. I
am satisfied with having defeated him in
his own castle. Nevertheless, that he
failed in the solutions of this mystery is
by no means that matter for wonder
which he supposes it, for. in truth, he is
somewhat too cunning to be profound.
His wisdom is all head and shoulders,
like a codfish. But he is a good creature
after all.”
(The End.)
attempted to get him away from thq
officers. The young man struck at the
negro and threatened to shoot him. A
large crowd gathered and for a time it
was believed the negro would receive
rough treatment.
Two officers took charge of the prison
er, and while a number of officers kept
the crowd in check, he was rushed to
the police station. After the negro had
been locked in a cell the crowd kept
up a demonstration in the street.
Moulton was given a hearing today
before a police magistrate, who sen
tenced him to six months in the work
house without a fine. Before imposing
sentence the magistrate said:
“There is no evidence that you at
tempted to assault the girl, or I would
hold you for court. Under the circum
stancea, however, I will impose the
maximum sentence, to show othera,
black or white, that women must be
protected.”
ROOSEVELT HOPES
TO KILL ALIEN LAW
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.-The action of
the California legislature yesterday with
reference to the Japanese has not created
the excitement in Washington that might
be supposed, although the president was
surprised and the Japanese ambassador
disconcerted at the news. The latter
made no secret of his attitude but his
excitement was due to the fact that he
had advised his government that the Cal
ifornia legislature would do the very
thing they did not do. His misrepresent
ations to his home office were based upon
what he considered reliable information
from California. The ambassador still
has confidence in the president's ability
to bring about a satisfactory adjustment
of the question and the two have a per
fect understanding.
Mr. Roosevelt still has three cards up
his sleeve, and he believes confidently
that he will check the radical action of
the legislature without exhausting the
last card. He counts, first on considera
tion of this action by the assembly; sec
ond, he looks to the state senate to de
feat the bill unless the lower body recon
siders. Failing in both of these, the pres
ident is sure that the governor will veto
the legislation and that all will end well.
VETO ON CENSUS BILL
IS FINALLY REFERRED
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.-The first busi
ness of importance to claim the atten
tion of the house of representatives to
day was the president’s message, vetoing
tbe census bill. Mr. Crumpacker moved
the reference of the bill and message to
the census committee.
Such action was objected to by Mr.
Gillett, of Massachusetts, who declared
that, inasmuch as the bill could not
be amended, there was no reason for
reference.
Mr. Crumpacker met this contention
with the statement that there were nu
merous precedent for referring veto mes
sages. The alternative, he said, was of
fred, either to report the bill back, with
a recommendation that it pass, the presi
dent’s veto to the contrary notwithstand
ing, or with a recommendation that it
do not pass.
The bill and message were referred.
ATTENTION!
45-Caliber Springfield Rifle,
with Bayonet Only
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These Guns have all been BMh
in the U. S. government 1H
service,'but they are as
good as new; and as ev- _ B2q|
eryone knows, at the TQ I
above price it is like giv- qsy II
ing them away. The act
ual cost of making these B
guns runs from 315 to 318 IKS
each. They have the lat- '
est wind gauge sight, gwl
adapted for long or short SagM
range shooting. ■H||
This price we of course
could not make unless
the government had sac- jlran
rificed them, which ena-
bles us to sell them at Mlbh
$2.45 Each M
This rifle can also be Bulgr
used as a shot gun, as Mala 8
we keep the cartridges HBF
loaded with a heavy MHI
charge of shot. Price of
shot cartridges per box
75c, price of ball cart-
ridges per box 70c. We HhcT
carry this ammunition in KM
stock at all times. This
is the opportunity of jßaKji
your life time, for get
ting a perfectly efficient
firearm for home protec- ■"wßrP**
tlon or for hunting pur
poses Send your order JMgff w
today and remit by post
office or express money
order. As to our respon
siblllty we refer you to
any bank in Atlanta or
to The Atlanta Journal.
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CONES FEB. 22
MEETINGS ABE NOW BEING AR
RANGED IN EVERY COUNTY IN
THE STATE—RURAL CARRIERS !
ARE INTERESTED.
The Good Roads club of Georgia is ar
ranging for a meeting in every county in ,
the state on Washington's birthday. The ,
plan is to have that a good roads day, ,;
February 22 was selected as the date be
cause it Is a iegai holiday and al! thu 3
rural free delivery carriers can attend
that day. There are more than 1,500 car- |
rlers in Georgia and they are all deeply
interested in the improvement of the
roads. They travel 35,000-milea a day. ]
and the condition of the roads is a very
vital question with them ak well as with
their patrons.
A few carriers in Georgia are now using
motor cycles and they cover their routes ■
in one-third the time , required for a
horse. This enables them to make earlier
deliveries of mail and to get back with
the letters which they have collected
In time to catch mid-day trains.
President Fred of the Good |
Roads club, suggests that the county '
commissioners, the rural carirers, tha i
newspapers, merchants and others inter
ested in each county, meet at their re
spective county seats on February 22,
organize county clubs and appoint com
mitteemen for the various districts and
adopt resolutions supporting their com- >
missioners in their plans for road im
provement.
AUST BIAN (OLNCILS
ENDS IN FREE FIGHT
VIENNA, Feb. s.—The present session
of the Austrian parliament came to an
end this morning after a scene of turbu
lence extraordinary even for an assembly
where violent outbreaks are comparative
ly common.
The trouble, which arose from the old
racial feeling between the Germans and
the Czechs, broke out during the debate
on a government bill to reconcile these '
differences. The radical Czechs obetruc- |
tlonists, who have been hindering the de
bate on this measure for several dajia |
with a continuous din from drums and
tin whistles, so exasperated the Germans g
this morning that the opposing deputies
came to close quarters and a fierce scrlxn- a
mage ensued.
One of the radical Czech deputies,'a man
named Speczek. who has been particular- j
ly violent in his obstruction, was captur
ed and whipped until he howled for mer- |
cy. Another Czech was bitten by a Ger- S
man on the cheek and sustained an ugly ’
wound. Black eyes and sore heads were
numerous.
The premier, Baron von Biernetb, seeing A
the uselessness of attempting to pass leg
islation, closed the session and sent the*
deputies home. The departure of the
ministers was followed by another free
fight, in which tile opposing factions
rushed upon one another to the strains g
of revolutionary songs, and wild ccnfusion
reigned for half an hour.
The deputies finally became exhausted
and the battlefield was gradually deserted. ■ -3
The sudden closing of the session and j
the political import of the disorder have
had no adverse effect on the bourse.
japs inTmerica
DEMAND EQUALITY
DENVER. Col., Feb. 6.-Equality with 1
other foreign nationalities in the United J
States, or a good and sufficient reason *4
why not, is the demand of the Japanese M
in America, according to Takeo Sagora, I
secretary of the Japanese association' of
Colorado.
“We consider ourserece superior as a
race to the Chinese. Koreans and o&ex* ®
Asiatics, and we do not want to be class- ’*
ed with them and will demand our rights
granted the Japanese by treaty and un
der the constitution of the United States, 4
to be treated in equal terms with the |
French, German or American of any otl> *
er nation.’’ said the secretary “Thb
Asiatic scare of the Pacific coast amounts
to little.” he continued. "The number of
Japanese in the United States is decreas- -
ing and will probably continue to do so. ’
There are about 4.000 Japanese in Color*-
do and 500 in Denver.’*
The statement that there are only 500
Japanese in Denver, is denied by Chief |
of Police Armstrong, who says a conserv- 1
ative estimate shows between 3,)u0 and 1
4,000 in this city. . . . 1
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