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The Origin and Domestication of the Peanut
Fertilisers
Since the peanut is adapted for growth
on a soil which is not naturally rich in
any of the essential elements of plant
food, the proper fertilisation of the crop
become* a matter of the utmost import
ance. It was found at the Tennessee ex
periment station that ® bushels of pea
nuts with a ton of nay would remove
from the soil about 85 pounds of nitro
gen. 1* pounds of phosphoric acid. 32
pounds of potash and 47 pounds of lime.
Os this amount, about 41 pounds of nitro
gen. 6 pounds of phosphoric acid. 20
pounds of potash and 43 pounds of lime
were found in the bay, and since the
vines would either be left on the ground
or fed to stock and the resulting ma
nure applied to the land, the peanut is
seen to be a comporatively easy crop on
the land so far as soil exhaustion is con
cerned. as it has already been pointed
out that it gathers a large per cent ot
its nitrogen from the air. Since it has
been amply demonstrated that the yield
of the crop may be greatly increased by
judicious fertilisation, and since WU bush
els should be a fair average crop rather
than the low yields now obtained, the
importance of using sufficient amounts
of ait the essential elements to increase
crop production and counteract the draft
made on the soli by the plant during the
various stages of its growth becomes ap
parent.
The needs of a crop of peanuts may be
appropriately supplied by using 1.300
pounds of high-grade acid phosphate. 400
pounds of dried fish, and 400 pounds of
muriate of potash. This would give a
mixture containing 1.4 per cent of ni
trogen. 10.2 per cent of phosphoric acid
and 10 per cent of potash. It may be sta
ted that this ration has been found one
of the most satisfactory to use on this
crop. Another mixture which has been
tried quite extensively is I.MO pounds ot
acid phosphate. 300 pounds of dried blood,
and 400 pounds of muriate of potash. This
mixture would contain about 2 per cent of
nitrogen. 10.4 per cent of phosphoric acid
and W per cent of potash. These mixt
ures should be used at the rate of 300
to M 0 pounds per acre. Cotton seed meat
may be used to supply the nitrogen, if
desirable, and kainit. the potash, though
owing to th elower percentages of avail
able plant food conutained in these two
substances, larger amounts per acre
would have to be supplied.
Many planters will find it advantageous
to apply some farmyard manure to their
peanut lands since a small amount of
vegetable matter prevents the harmful
influences which sometimes follow
drought periods and increases the vigor
of the plant without Injuring the quality
or quantity of the nuts. Os course, the
excessive use of vegetable matter might
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prove injurious, but thia will seldom if
ever happen until the entire system of
rotation now in vogue in peanut belt
changes radically. In fact, few peanut
planters pay any attention whatever to
the rotation of their lands and grow the
crop on the same area year after year.
As a result, the nuts become small and
inferior, and the vines tend to lose their
leaves before maturity. , A good physical
condition of the soil is essential for this
crop.
The importance of applying lime must
also be emphasised in this connection,
as there is comparatively little of the
land devoted to peanuts which naturally
contains enough of this important ele
ment. Any kind of lime may be ap
plied provided it is very finely ground or
burned before applying. Oyster shells are
accessible to farmers living near the
coast and answer very well, though
caustic lime is noe of the best and chea-p
est forms in which to supply this ele
ment. Marl may be used in sections
where there is an abundance of it and it
can be secured at a low enough cost. At
least 30 bushels of lime may be applied
per acre, and 100 to 150 bushels of marl.
As a rule, lighter applications of lime
made more frequently will prove the
most profitable, and there Is less danger
of burning up the already deficient sup
ply of humus when lighter applications
are made.
A review of the fertiliser proposition
therefore, makes it clear that potash
and phosphoric acid are the two most
essential elements to be applied to this
crop in a commercial form, and that
liberal applications will prove profitable
has now been fully demonstrated by
scientific experiments and practical oper
ations as well. When large quantities
of phosphoric are used, it is not so nec
essary to apply lime or gypsum since
there are between 600 and 700 pounds of
the latter in each ton of phosphate.
Fertilizers Suitable for Spring Oats
T. H.. Eastanollee. Ga.. writes: Can
16 per cent acid phosphate be used with
stable Manure to any advantage for
spring oats, and would muriate of potash
be of any additional benefit? What
amount of acid phosphate, cotton seed
meal and muriate of potaKh would it take
to make a fertiliser analyzing 2-10-3?
phosphate can be used with good
a&antage in connection with farmyard
manure. It can be scattered in the stalls
under the horses or cattle in small
amounts each day. Large amounts should
rot be used as there is some danger of
the acid injuring the feet of the animals.
You. should use about 50 to 100 pounds of
phosphate to each ton of manure. Floats
have also been used to good advantage
With farmyard manure in similar
amounts. Foats consist of the finely
ground phosphate rock before treatment
with sulphuric acid. Its value as a fer
tilizer depends very considerably on the
fineness with which It is ground. A top
dressing of well-rotted farmyard ma
nure on spring oats to which acid phos
phate has been added would be excellent
practice. The addition of potash would
not be so important or so likely to prove
beneficial as it would be somewhat slow
In Its action. Phosphates and potash do
not readily leach from the soli and art
not taken up so quickly by plants as
some other constiuents of plant food,
and may then be applied to the soil con
siderably In advance of the seeding of
the crop. In other words, the longer the
plant has to get in proerp touch with
them the better are the results from the
use of these materials likely to be. A tor.
of farmyard manure contains from 9 to
15 pounds of nitrogen, 4 to 9 pounds of
phosphoric acid and 9 to 15 pounds of pot
ash. You will see that It is not a well
balanced plant food and why it is bene
ficial to use acid phosphate in connec
tion with it.
A fertilizer containing approximately 2
per cent of nitrogen. 10 per cent of phos
phoric acid and 3 per cent of potash may
be prearped by mixing together 600 pounds
of cotton seed meal. 1.200 pounds of acid
phosphate and 100 pounds of muriate of
potash. To bring this mixture up to 2,000
pounds add 100 pounds ot rich compost.
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Treatment of a Sick Cow
K. T. A., aeon, Ga., writes: I would
like to know what to do for my cow.
* loaned her to a neighbor for a while,
and her milk supply dropped from a
gallon to a pint. I feed on hulls, cot
ton seed meal, and a little bran. An
old negro tells me she has lost
her cud or has hollow tail, but I
suppose this is mere superstition. But
it is true we do not see her chewing
her cud. and she coughs as if .trying to
bring up something.
Your cow is evidently suffering some
form of indigestion; a healthy animal
chews the cud or ruminates, and when
a cow becomes sick she generally ceases
chewing the cud and tue muzzle be
comes dry and the coat staring. It is
probable that your neighbor overfed
the cow or gave her too much of on*’
kind of food. If' she has been eating
i.ulls alone or corn stalks, she may be
suffering from Impaction of the rumen.
In that case a dose of salts will be a
good thing to give her. You should use
about a pound to a pound and a half of
Glauber salts dissolved in water and
given as a drenqh. Th* is probably as
■ useful a purgative as can be used In
! this instance. You might give this dose
every other day for two or three times.
Then feed her on bran mashes and let
her have green feed if you can secure
some for her. A field of oats or rye
will furnish ideal pasture, and we would
cut out the hulls and meal for a few
days. Give a two-ounce dose of Jamaica
ginger in a pint of moderately hot
water as a drench three times daily.
If there is nothing more serious affect
ing your cow than a case of indiges
tion, the tonic treatment suggested and
care as to diet for a few days should
bring her arpund all right. The cough
ing may be due to a little cold, or It
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may be an evidence of the langs being
effected with the bacilli of tuberculo
sis. The onljr way to ascertain whether
this‘is true or not would be to have
yout cow tested for tuberculosis by a
competent veterinarian.
Injuries to the Udder
O. R.. Rhine, Ga., writes: 1 have a
fine cow that has one teat that does
not milk. She has had'two calves since
1 bought her and has been affected this
way ever since. 1 have a tine mule that
nas weak eyes. V\ ..at should I do for
them? I have some fine sandy land on
which I have sown oats. What should
I use as a top dressing, as no fertilizer
was used at time of sowing?
The probabilities are that the teat of
your cow which, has lost its function
can never be restored. At least It
would be a very exceptional thing ft
thia could be done after two years or
more have elapsed since the trouble ap
parently first happened. The loss of
function in this teat was probably due
to an attack of garget or "caked bag.”
When a calf is dropped there is often
an unusually large secretion of milk.
The milk should be drawn from the uu
uer of cows that are free milkers sev
eral days before calving takes place.
This will often prevent the caking of
the udder due to inflammation which
sets in and will prevent the loss of func
tion. To avoid this troub.e the milk
should be drawn frequehtly and the
udder thoroughly rubbed and bathed
with hot water for twenty minutes at
a time. A good ointment to use foi
bathing is made by dissolving two tea
spoonfuls of gum camphor in a tea
spoonful of fresh melted lard. If only
the milk duct is closed up, it may
be opened by the use ot a milking tube.
Great care should be exercised in us
ing these instruments, as often they
do more harm than good.
Weak eyes may be caused from one
of several things. First of all, it may
be an inherited trouble. In that case,
nothing can be done for it. Sometimes
inflammation of the eyes is caused from
minute objects getting into them. A
careful examination will generally re
veal the trouble, and the removal of
the cause will effect a cure. You might
try bathing the eyes with hot water
three times dally for at least twenty
minutes, and then apply a few drops
of a solution of boric acid in tho
strength of one drachm to three ounces
of water twice daily. This should cure
any ordinary case of inflammation un
less the cause is deeper seated and has
lasted for a sufficient length of time
to become chronic.
About the only fertilizer you can use
as a top dressing on oats at the pres
ent time would be nitrate qf soda. Other
forms of nitrogen would hardly become
quickly enough available to be of ser
vice to the plants. The nitrogen in ni
trate of soda is very quickly available,
and hence this material is a favorite
form of top dressing for field and garden
crops. You snould not use over 10u
pounds per acre and you should take
care to make the application when the
crop is dry, so as not to injure the foli
age.
Destroying Lice on Horses
T. L. N., Douglasville, Ga., writes: I
would like a remedy for destroying lice
on horses.
Lice may be destroyed by dusting in
sect powder into the hair, or through the
use of kerosene emulsion, which is made
by dissolving one quart of soft soap or
one-fourth of a pound of hard soap in
two quarts of boiling water, and adding
one pint of kerosene oil. This mixture
should be churned violently and three
quarts of water added when the emulsion
is ready for use. A solution of creolin,
one part to fifty parts of water, will also
prove effective. The animals phould be
given salt and sulphur and the quarters
should be cleaned and disinfected thor
oughly. Probably the simplest remedy of
all is one of the coaltar products now
on the market. They are easy to use and
effective if the treatment is persisted in.
The disinfection of the stables with this
material is also easily accomplished.
A FINE KIDNEY REMEDY
Mr. A. S. Hitchcock (clothing dealer),
868 Carrier building. East Hampton, Conn.,
says if any reader afflicted with a kidney
or bladder trouble will write to him he
will diruct them to the splendid home
remedy he so successfully used. He is
glad to do this and does not wish you to
send him money.
WESTERN UNION TAX
IN ANOTHER COURT
In the case of the state of Georgia
against the Western Union Telegraph
company, which came up in the United
States court on Saturday for further con
sideration of the supercedeas proceedings
asked for by the attorneys of the tele
graph company on the preceding Satur
day, Judge Newman signed the order
granting a supercedeas.
The case in this manner is removed
from the jurisdiction of the United States
district court and will be next heard in
the circuit court of appeals, the sub
stance of the action taken by Judge New
man being that he refuses to interfere in
the proceedings.
It Will be recalled that the case orig
inated in the refusal of the Western
Union Telegraph company to pay taxes
on its franchise in the state of Georgia,
when called upon by Comptroller General
Wright. Upon the refusal of the telegraph
company to pay the taxes, amounting to
about $25,000, the comptroller at once is
sued fi fas to collect the taxes by regular
legal procedure. '
A bill of demurrer enjoining the state
from the collection of the taxes was at
once filed by the attorneys for the tele
graph company to prevent the collection.
This bill was on Saturday, February
20, diemisfeed by Judge Newman, virtu
ally granting the supercedeas asked for
by the attorneys for the telegraph com
pany, though the formal order granting it
was not signed until the hearing on Sat
urday.
Thus far the state has won a signal
victory in its contention for the payment
of taxes by the telegraph company,
which has refused payment on the
giound that its franchise was granted
by the national government, thereby ex
empting the company from the pay
ment of taxes to the state government.
A statement was made by Attorney Gen
eral Hart on Saturday, February 20, that
if the telegraph company did not pay
the taxes in a reasonable time, he would
take steps towards having it placed in
the hands of a receiver and impound its
revenues.
No action with reference to placing the
telegraph company in the hands of a re
ceiver has been taken so far, and it is
not known what the next move of the
state will be. The case will, of course.
be heard next in the circuit court ot
appeals.
Attorney General Hart, for the state,
and Albert Howell, of Dorsey, Brewster,
Howell * Heyman, for the telegraph
company, represented the contending lit
igants at the hearing on Saturday morn
ing.
OUTLOOK GOOD FOR~
FERTILIZER SHIPMENTS
iteaplte the preaeat shortage iu tert Ulcer ship
ments up to lebruary 1, compared to the same
period last year, railroad men are of the firm
l>eltef that the total movement this year wilt
easily equal and perhaps exceed file to'.al out
put of last season.
Notwithstanding that at present the figures
allow a decrease, manufactories and railroads
have received assurances of a large number oi
orders between now and the middle of April,
when the season is closed.
General bmdneas la said to be greatly im
plored despite the pessimistic reuorts from some
sources and railroads are of the opinion that
there wiil be a volume of shipments iu the
next few weeks.
84,380 ILLITERATE
CHILDREN IN STATE
SCHOOL CENSUS SHOWS 23 IN
EVERY 200 CHILDREN ARE
IGNORANT—DECREASE OF 1.0
PER CENT IN PAST 5 YEARS.
That the number of illiterate children
in Georgia has decreased very consider
ably during the pant five years, will be
shown by indisputable figures which
will be incorporated in the annual re
port of State School Commissioner
Pound. These figures constitute the basis
of comparisons in the state school com
missioner's qulncennial school census, or
the showing that is made every five
years of the number of children in the
state between the school ages of 6 and
18 years.
According to those figures, it will be
that there were at the close of
the year 1808, 84,380 illiterates out of a
total population of 735,471 children of
school age, or that the percentage of
illiteracy among Georgia children over
the age of 10 years (prior to which age
a child cannot be considered illiterate),
is 11.5 of the total number of children
between 6 and 18 years of age.
Twenty-three children out of every two
hundred in Georgia are either unable to
read and write or can read but not
write! That is what the figures spell.
Decrease Shown
In 1903 the percentage of illiteracy was
determined by computing only those
children who could neither read nor
write. The percentage shown by that
census was 7.3. Wherefore a true con
trast with the 1908 showing quoted above
is Impossible, for in the 1908 compu
tation the practice of the United States
census is followed and both classes (i. e.,
those children who can neither read nor
write, and those who can read but can’t
write) are Included. If 1908 is to be com
pared with 1903 on this point, the com
parison must be made on an even basis.
Computing the number of illiterates who
can neither read nor write under the
1908 census, there are shown to be alto
gether 42,027, white and colored, or only
5.7 per cent of the whole number of
children of school age in the state. In
1903 the percentage of 7.3 was obtained
by comparing the number 51,801, of totally
illiterate children of school age with the
whole number.
So that a fairly estimated comparison
of the census of 1908 with that of 1908
shows a decrease of 1.6 in illiteracy
among children of Georgia during the
five years Intervening. As the number
in the “read but not write’* class, ex
cluded in 1903, is in both cases almost
exactly equivalent with that of the other
class, the percentage of decrease in
all illiteracy during the five years is
roughly estimated at not less than 1.7
and is probably more, according to the
state school authorities.
The report w’lll show the following to
tal figures:
Children who can read but cannot
write—white, 9,986; colored, 32,368; total,
42,355.
Children who can neither read nor
write— white, 9,343; colored, 32,684; to
tal, 4,027. (In 1903 there were 51,801 chil
dren of this class, 13,539 white and 38,262
colored).
Grand total of illiterates, 84,380. Total
centage of illiterates, 11.5 (computing
both classes). Percentage of illiterates
on 1903 basis of computation, 5.7 Per
centage In 1903, 7.3. Decrease in 1908, 1.6
per cent.
It will be seen by a comparison of
the above figures that in both classes
of illiteracy the number of colored chil
dren is about three and one-half times
that of the white children.
Lee County, 39 Per Cent. Illiterate
The greatest percentage of illiteracy
among its children will be shown by
Lee county, which has also the great
est percentage of colored inhabitants
among all the counties of the state.
county will show 39 per cent of illiter
acy.
Upson county, with seven-tenths of one
per cent, will show the smallest degree
of illiteracy in the state.
Among the higher counties will be
shown Burke, with 31 per cent; Houston,
with 21; Macon, 25.2; Mclntosh, with
30.9, and Miller, with 25.
In point of low percentage will rank
Telfair, with only 2.3. Though Telfair
shows an Increase of 415 in school popu
lation, it shows a decrease of 435 in illit
erates, or a difference of 850 altogether.
This is attributed to the influence of the
Methodist college at Mcßae and of the
Improved condition among schools, which
has moved parents to seek a better edu
cation for their children.
Other low counties that will be shown
are Catoosa, with 2.9 per cent; Richmond,
with 4 per cent; Rockdale, with 4, and
Whitfield, with 3.4 per cent.
Fulton Shows Decrease
Fulton county, though it will show an
increase of 692 children since 1903. will
show also a decrease by 5.8 per cent in
flliteracy. This computation does not in
clude Atlanta’s population.
Bibb, inclusive of Macon, has increased
by 861 in school population, but has de
creased by 307, or 5.5 per cent, in illit
eracy.
Chatham, including Savannah. will
show an Increase of 1.820 in school popu
lation and an increase also in illiteracy
of 799, or 12.6 per cent.
Floyd county, exclusive of Rome., will
show a decrease of 541 in school popula
tion and a decrease of 41 in Illiteracy, or
12.4 per cent.
Muscogee county, exclusive of Colum
bus, will show a decrease of 200 in school
population and a decrease of 502, or 9.7
per cent, in illiteracy.
Sumter county, exclusive of Americus,
will show an increase of 90 in school pop
ulation and a decrease of 392, or 5.9 per
cent, in illiteracy.
The compilation is not yet completed
regarding the seventy independent school
systems there are in Georgia, in towns
and cities. It has gone far enough, how
ever, in the opinion of the state school
authorities, for the conclusion to be
pret*y definintely formed that their per
centage of illiteracy will be shown as
much smaller than that of the state at
large—hardly over 5 per cent, in fact. This
is pointed out as showing the educa
tional Influence of long school terms.
SANDERSVILLE— Emory English, the young
man who was killed In the/store of Bedgood
&• Burns Wednesday night while making an
attempt to turn on a No. 16 candle power elec
tric light. was burled here Thursday afternoon.
PRICE OF MAY WHEAT
HITS NEW HIGH RECORDS
(By AxiocUted Pr«i«.)
NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—The price of
May wheat today surpassed all records
of recent years on the New York pro
duce exchange when it advanced two
cents a bushel to $1.22 3-8. The final
THE BOLL WEEVIL CRUSADE
STARTS FOR COTTON FIELDS
(dy AModateu Frew.) |
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Feb. 26.—J. A.
Taylor, of Memphis, president of the •
National Ginners’ association, today an- i
nounced his opinion that the boll weevil I
250,000 SPINDLES
ADDED IN THE SOUTH
In industrial matters in the south the
most remarkable progress, indicating the
speedy return of business to its normal
conditions, has been made In the past two
months in cotton manufacturing circles.
Other branches of manufacturing and
other industries have made much pro
gress, but in cotton manufacturing cir
cles the revival of interest has been es
pecially marked.
This revival of activity has shown itself
in the building of new mills, upon many
of which work is already in progress,
while the contracts for many others have
already been placed in the hands of the
builders. Many of these mills are being
constructed by newly organized com
panies, but the majority of them are be
ing built by companies that are estab
lished in the cotton manufacturing trade.
During the latter part of 1907 and prac
tically the whole of 1908, most unsatisfac
tory conditions existed in the cotton man
ufacturing world, causing a great de
crease in the building of new mills and in
■the enlargement of old ones. Mills that
had orders ahead for as much of their
manufactured products as they could turn
out In a year were suddenly confronted
with the cancellation of these orders or a
great part of them, making it necessary
to run mills on half time or to close
down entirely.
In the last three months of 1908, the
total number of new spindles installed
throughout the entire south was only
57.000. Since the new year came in a re
markable change ahs occurred in this
respect and the past seven weeks shows a
total of 250,000 new spindles installed,
which represents a capitalization of
$6,000,000.
This shows a proportionate increase of
over four times as many spindles install
ed during the first two months of the new
year as compared with the last three
months of the old year.
These new operations in the field of
cotton manufacturing are not confined
to any one state or group of states in the
south, but are widely distributed over
the entire territory. As cotton is the
great staple of the south,, the wide dis
tribution and Increase of manufactories
of that staple represent a most hopeful
sign in the growing power of this section
in the manufacture of this great fiber.
An unusually large number of the new
spindles are being installed in Georgia,
South Carolina, North Carolina and Ten
nessee.
As a majority of the new spinflies are
being installed by established factories,
which are enlarging their capacities in
order to effect a larger and more varied
output, it shows without a doubt that
those who are already in the cotton
manufacturing business have the great
est confidence in the future of their
industry.
GOVER NOR UPHOLDS
FREEDOM OF PRESS
FRANKFORT, Ky„ Feb. 26—One of
the strongest defense of the freedom
of the press in criticism of public offi
cials ever delivered in the south waa
written by Governor Augustus E. Will
son today in granting a pardon to the
Herald publishing company of Louisville,
publishers of the Louisville Herald, for
an indictment in the Calloway and in
Trigg circuit courts of western Ken
tucky, charging the paper with criminal
ly libeling Judge Thomas P. Cook and
Commonwealth Attorney Denny P.
Smith.
The two officials preside in the dis
trict in which the greater part of the
night rider troubles in western Ken
tucky occurred, and the paper vigorously
scored them for failure to perform their
duty in prosecution of the lawless ele
ment.
Governor Willson wrote upon pardons
to the newspaper company this rea
son:
* Because the long series of crimes in
this district, which have not been pun
ished under these officers’ administra
tion make it necessary for the press to
criticise all who can be held responsi
ble.
“If the courts do not put an end to
the rule of crime in the counties in
Which the judge and commonwealth at
torneys are selected to uphold law and
order, the only hope of permanent re
lief from such conditions is in enlight
ened public sentiment aroused by the
press of the country and instead of pun
ishing the newspapers which made a
fight against such conditions, it should
be regarded as fulfilling Its duty.’*
FARMERS WILL MAKE
TAFT MEMBER ON SIGHT
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Having re
cently been made a Mason “at sight,” It
Is probable that President-elect Taft will
have conferred upon him soon after his
arrival in this city from New York today,
the honor of being elected, “on sight,” a
member of the National Farmers* union,
as was President Roosevelt on Thursday.
The organization has prepared a memorial
to be presented to Mr. Taft asking him
to use his influence in bringing about
legislation to do away with “trading in
futures on crops.”
Mr. Taft will not leave the national cap
ital again until he has assumed the reins
of government. Mr. and Mrs. Taft will be
the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Board
man in their home near fashionable Du
pont circle until March 4.
Mr. Taft will see today a city almost
ready with its waving banners and
streamers of red, white and blue, for Tils
inauguration as president.
ROOSEVELT IS “MADE”
FARMER BY BRRETT
WASHINGTON. D. C., Feb. 27—Presi
dent Roosevelt. Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson and Gifford Pinchot, government
forester, are now all fullfledged "farm
ers,” having just been admitted "on
sight” to membership in the National
Farmers’ union.
The honors were conferred by Presi
dent Charles S. Barrett, of Union City,
Ga.. of the National Farmers union,
which organization now is In session
here.
AR R ESTED FORKILLIN G
NEGRO HACK DRIVER
EVERGREEN, Ala.. Feb. 26.—Wi1l
Hicks, a well known white man, is in
jail at Andalusia, charged with killing
John Askew, a negro driver of a public
hack. Askew was found dead, and the
vehicle broken to pieces several miles
from Evergreen. He had answered a call
to drive for Hicks, and Hicks disappear
ed.
Hicks was arrested at Andalusia, and
will be taken back to Evergreen.
price was $1.22 1-4, a net advance for
the day of 1 7-Bc. Impetus was given
to the buying by reports of large spot
sales in London and high prices for
cash wheat throughout this country.
New crop wheat also advanced to the
highest prices of the year today.
will reach the Atlantic coast in 1914.
two years earlier than his former esti
mate. He predicts the boll weevil will
invade the cotton fields of the entire
state of Arkansas within two years.
MOTHER WITH TWO BABIES
WALKED MILES TO ATLANTA
Mrs. Mary Weller Makes Remarkable Journey of 70 Miles
Afoot With Babies on Her Arms —House Burned in Pike
Jounty-Picked Cotton When Youngest Was Five Days Old.
Fatherless Family Arrives After Many Adventures and Suf
ferings on Road and in Forrest—Baby is Fat and Cooing.
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Just as the sun was rising, a woman
with a baby on each arm, a heavy bask
et tied to her shoulders and' a six-year
old boy skipping by her side, issued
from a green little mill doyn in Pike
county and crossing to the* steep, red
highroad started northward.
That was last Sunday morning. Thurs
day night she reached Atlanta, still car
rying a baby on each arm, though she
was bespattered with mud and her eyes
had sunk far back into her head. The
basket was empty except for a pone or
two of dry bread. The boy carried it
lightly.
This mother’s name is Mrs. Mary F.
Weller. She has made a journey that is
perhaps without a parallel for endurance
as well as suffering.
A year ago Mrs. Weller’s husband died,
leaving her alone w’ith three tots. The
youngest was a baby just three months
old. His name is Robert Lee. The next
was not quite four, a little brown-eyed
girl, called Ora Estelle. The boy of six
is named Johnson, after the famous gen
eral. -
When the baby was not more than
six days old, Mrs. Weller went out into
the fields and picked cotton from sun-up
to dark.
••What did you do with the baby?” she
was asked.
Baby ia Cotton Pile
“I put him on big pile of cotton in a
wagon, gave him a sugar tit, and he lay
kickin’ up his little heels jest as happy
as anything you ever looked at.”
A week ago the two-room house where
Mrs. Weller lived, caught fire and burnt
flown. What should she do? She had a
cousin, Mark Appling, who lived up at
Duluth, something like 70 miles north.
She herself didn’t know how far it was
but she knew that her little ones must
have bread and a roof and Cousin
Mark's farm was the only spot on earth
she could think of. Gathering up the
few clothes left from the fire, took
Robert Lee on one arm. Ora Estelle on
the other and having spent one night at
the miller’s house, set forth in the nip
ping air of the dawn.
Travelers along the highroad turned
in their buggy seats to watch the broad
shouldered woman (Fudging on past miles
of farmland into the cold, still stretches
of the forest.
“Is this the road to Duluth?” she asked
one of the churchgoers.
“Yes, that’s right,” answered the hale,
country squire she addressed.
Sixty-Five Miles
“And how far might it be?” she con
tinued, leaning to rest a moment against
the rails of a fence. •
“Just about 65 miles, they say,” re
plied the farmer.
“Much oblige,” said Mrs. Weller, and
she continued her journey.
Sometimes she says people would give
her a lift in a wagon. Then Robert Lee
would sprawl on the cushion and wriggle
like a baby kitten for joy. She herself
would fall asleep. She was so tired. When
it rained the pilgrims would take such
shelter as they could under a tree. From
night to night they slept at strange
houses along the way.
“Jest before we reached Cousin
Mark’s,” says Mrs. Weller, “we come to
our last piece of meat. I tore it in two
and give half to Ofa and half to John
son. I can tell you my spirits was gettin*
powerful low. Jest then I see a chimney
off in the distance. That was Mark’s
house. ’
The Sphinx Future
But on arriving the mother learned, she
says, that It would be impossible for her
Low Rates to
and the Southwest
On the first and third Tuesdays of each month
exceptionally low-rate round” trip tic Ice ts will
be sold via the Cotton Belt Route to points |l1f
in Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma tffaw&SrZ Jr
and New Mexico. Return limit 25
days and stop-overs allowed both
going and returning.
s: 1 x’»b e "T.”'•»£>*
will send you a complete schedule *° *“® South west, Ihe
for the trip, and will make some Cotton Belt is the only line
suggestions which wdl be help- operating two daily trains, carry-
fui to you. ing through cars without change—
the only line with a through sleeper
Memphis to Dallas. Equipment in
eludes sleepers, chair cars and parlor case
cars. Trains from all parts of the Southeast
HU make direct connection at Memphis with Cotton
AgHQB tra * ns f° r Southwest.
Ask the ticket agent to sell you a ticket via Memphia
JMI 4m Hl Cotton Belt.
. jMSL Write for Texas or Arkansas book whichever Section you are
JM JM interested in. These books are just off the press, and are fall of
•IB facts and examples of what is actually being done by farmers, truck
3ttJSF gardeners and fruit ra.sers in this highly-favored section. A fiv».
CoU>r Dap *’ * nßcrled in och bock Free upoo request.
L" P' Smith, Traveling Passenger Agent,
b 203 Equitable Building.
Atlanta, Ga.
kinsmen to keep her and the children.
Things had not gone so well on the farm.
In fact, he might have to fltove away i
himself.
“But what can I do?” pleaded the .
mother, glancing at her little ones* sore |
feet and pinched faces.
“Go to Atlanta," the cousin answered.
! "They’ll be good to you there.”
And so on she came to Atlanta. She is
J here Friday under the temporary care
|of the Associated Cnarities. And the
baby and his little brother and sister
are laughing as though there w*ere no
such thing as a big. Sphinx-like future J
waiting, grim and dark before them.
MOTHER AND BABIES
’ HAVE FOUND A HOME
Bright and early Sunday morning Mrs
Mary Weller, who walked 70 miles to 'r
Atlanta with a baby on each arm, will
leave for Auburn, where a home ?walls
her on the farm of her brother, Wiley
’ Rhodes.
This time, however, Mrs. Weller will
[ ride on the trait) and instead of hunger
, and hardship, she will be journeying to- s
, ward a warm fireside. It was at first «
thought that it might be wisest to take
• the children and place them in some* in
stitution to be reared. But When this was
suggested to her, her eyes filled, her
throat jerked witli a sob and gathering ~
' her three little ones about her. she said: S
“Well, I hope you’ll kill me before you
take 'em from me.”
So the baby just eight months old,
the little girl of four, and the boy of
six, will all accompany their mother. a—
ROOSEVELTS HOOK TOO
VILE FOR THE] MAILS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Senator Till
man, who today offered a resolution call
ing upon the postoffice committee to pass
upon the armissability to the mails of
President Roosevelt’s homes’ commission
report, declares in a statement that the
viciousness of the work staggers him. 9
He says it is too»vile to discuss on the
floor of the senate, and is confident that 4 ';
it is too obscene to transmit through the
mails. The report is bound in book and
covers nearly four hundred pages.
It discusses in plain English every form
of vice and immorality known of in the
District of Columbia, and some of its
disclosures are as startling as they are
sensational.
The report was sent to the senate yes
terday, and although hundreds of copies .
have been printed. It is practicaly im
possible to obtain a copy, so great has
been the demand for them.
Among the many matters discussed in
the home's commission report, soft drinks I
sold at soda fountains are prominently
mentioned, and held up as harmful to
The health of the people.
A hundred or more manufacturers are
designated by name and their syrupz are
mentioned as containing caffein and other
so-called habit-forming drugs.
“The first appearance of preparations,
of this type was in the south,” says the’
report, “and the demand had spread to
other sections. The greatest demand is
still in the south, however.” flB
WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS
HAVE BILL SIGNED
OLYMPIA. Wash.. Feb. 2*—The genernor
yesterday sisned the woman's suffrage billK
which provide for an election in November, ..
ISIO. ta decide whether the women rhall be J
allowed to vote.
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