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Newspaper Page Text4 The SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLAXIA GA. I NORIK FORSYTH ST. Rnterrd »t tfc» At'aata aa Mall Matter of the Claw. JAMES B. GRAY. President Editor gUBACzUPHOS FRIC£ OKWitUa. TSe »St B».«rtto ** TN--* .... ...... 7 *~ T>- *•■■>«- A H-kfy Jtmraal <• I** ■•**'< “• K «r 4 VtOst. ami t» ma!.ad br the abort cat toV" far »«rty ry. It rcelsle- »*•» frnw all a»ar tb* wwrM 1 Inrrh' M aaaota: e-tr*a Int" ■»>' of»«- U baa a Staff «f d'at Inaa-b-.! reotritatorß ? with atmnc A.n-rfm-ntz of ’iw te tb» kame and tw fam. Ay«-t>r» -a-*4* at —r- *rar*tfV"e. Libera Cr>tn>et»«Vm «l>. aed. Ontfit t tee. Write t- R. It. R«t»fHFY Orrwlatloo l>ept. The oaty traeeHng reprr-aentittvra we hare are J. A. Rryaa. B. F Bollen. C. C. Ccyle. L H. i Kta’r. and C. T. Yatca. We will be re \ MMMwiMe only for o»«ney paid to tbe above named traveha* HOTICX TV .SaCRIBERS Tbe label coed for aMr>malnc r-v roper abnw. tae car y.-ar •ohar'tpttoa eyjdtve. By reoewfnj at least twa weeks before tbe date oa tbe label, yea g , Ibsnre rentier retire. lb errieriaa patter eb aer rd be wore to btebtbm yoar o4d as well *.» yoot bew. address If re ■ rural roots, piece* alre tbe mate comber. bt eanon* enter enbacrirriooa to be ft» w’tb tan-t arnnoers. Remittance ebneH be nrat by postal order er rv<>e tered mail. deper-rcert to THZ SlVl-Wm t. T Address all o-dere and oorieeo for rbi* Jrit R'AV. Ar’ente ria ij' ' . Welcome to th* boats of labor. And th* cold weather will also put gin I gar into the gubernatorial campaign. Life these days u one football game after another. Bag Oatside of the weather, the tabor hosts are getlng a warn greeting here. Carl Morri* has whipped a Denver heavyweight. Maybe Carl will come back jrl We should say that oysters would be aa eminently safe diet while this weath er last*. KT Baker's home run bat is sold for $250. Thu* does baseball human interest over lap the sea jon. Indications are that there will be no acarcity of exhibits at the coming South ern Corn show. The death blow ha* been dealt boxing In old England Probably they feared the American invasion. The trouble about havfng a brilliant future ahead of vou is that it isn't in i'' variably bankable collateral. It was the coldest 13th of November on record, and what else could have been expected from that number? Th® extreme cold weather doesn’t seem to be shitting a quietus on the activities of the gubernatorial campaign. ▲ scientist says that In a number ot years woman will have no Uttl* toe.' , Such is tbe cruelty of fashion. Alleged cruelly of Italy to Turkey is nothing compand to the cruelty which the American citizen will soon visit on turkey. It is to be hoped that in the dissoiu ' tfon of the tobacco trust, the government took care of tn* ultimata consumer of stogie*. There 1* no doubt about th* fact the office of president afford* the holder thereof a great opportunity tpr travel and «elf improvement New York city seems to be having trouble with its garbage, showing that garbage, a* a municipal problem, beset* . an cities, large or small. Tbe trial of the meat packers on erim teal charges Is up today, and th* coun try will see whether there is such a thing a* jail for trust magnates. There are J2.0G0.006 telegraph and tele phone poles in the country, and thia may account for th* fact that so many of them come in collision with automo bile* Years of Suffering Catarrh and Blood Disease—Doeton Palled to Cure. Miss Mabel F. Dawkt is. UK Lafay ette St., Fort Uayne. Ind., writes: "For three year* I was troubled with catarrh and blood disease. I tried several doc tors and a dozen different remedies, but pone of tnem did me an} good. A friend told me of Hood's Sarsaparilla. I took two bottles of this medicine and was as well anv strong as ever. I feel like a different person and recommend Hood's to any one suffering from ca terrh. ’ Get it today In usual liquid form or Chocolated tablet* called Bar** tabs. tel IlWail 1 iglyHair Scarce! BaleTbirrs' Vaud. Price is Best Sy /TAKE scarcity of hay has boosted prices way up. Thousands of J farmers who never baled their hay before are doing It now —shipping 1-““ their baled bay wherever the price is highest. They are feeding corn fodder and other similar feeds to their own stock. Their profits this year will show a big increase over last year. Why not you? Baled hay pays best any year, whether prices are high or low —whether you sell it or feed it. It can be stored in one-fifth the space— does not gather dust—is always ready for best markets—anywhere. I H C Hay Presses are equipped with the dow famous compound lever and toggle joint plunger, which gives them their great compressing power. A 500-pound pull on the sweep of a 16x18 I H C press gives 76,800 pounds pressure in the bale chamber. The bed reach is only about 4 inches high and very V| parrnj* The bale chamber is low —easy to reach over and tie the bale. ' I H C Hay presses are operated by horse power or gasoline ■ engine. The one-horse press has 14x18 in. bale chamber; ■ I the two-horse press has 14x18 in., 16x18 in., or 17x22 in. ■ ffi I fe II < bale chamber. The International Motor Baling Press is I ■ ■ > * IKjE furnished with 14x18 in., 16x18 in., or 17x22 in. bale ■ • pAw chamber and 3,4, or 6-horse power IH C gasoline engine. I Call on the I H C local dealer for catalogue and full Jj particulars, or, write direct. /■ m2Sß— lnternational Harvester IH C Service Bureau I Company of America jaaTj I o——> Jjok any worthy question concerc ng soils. crops. I IT S A pests. tert.liters etC-4 write to the I H C Service I C k « L . Bureau »n<l learn what our experts and others I have Sound cut concerning these subjects. FOR THE GOOD OF 'SOCIETY. Fearful though the crime may have been that provoked the punishment, few of us can read without a shudder of horror that the young Virginia wife-murderer, now a living and breathing'man. must die by the hand of the law two weeks hence; that he is doom ed irrevocably, and that every tick of the clock brings him nearer the moment when the lightning death will wither him in the electric chair. The law is great. It protects us. It guards our lives and our property. Its rigid enforcement against rich and poor alike, against big and little, is none too common, and in that respect the Beattie case is a notable example worthy of emulation in other states. • But how much better would it be if the law were less Mosaic, less archaic, less cold-bloodedly murderous in its punitive cruelty! That lamented son of Georgia, the late Gen. Clement A. Evans, once characterized capital punishment as barbarous. He was even then a prison commissioner of the state, required to hear pleas for mercy from condemned criminals almost daily. It was but a few months before he died. He could hardly talk above a whisper. He looked out of his office window into space and in a voice that was barely audible he talked for an hour about the time that is coming some day when another punishment than death will be imposed up on murderers; when, perhaps, they would be held in solitary and lifelong confinement until the hand of God, not that of man, re moves them to their hereafter. Though society abhors the thought of capital punishment, there is a feeling that it cannot yet be abolished—that there is some powerful reason why it must be continued as it has been handed down to us through time; that it is almost a divine institution, orig inating away back, in the time when the Almighty was more evi dent upon earth, and that man must not tamper with it. Much of that semi-superstitious regard of it is due to its very deep-rooted ness in our social organization. But the reluctance is due more to our well-grounded fear that if the murderer is condemned to life imprisonment, he may some day go free through the clemency of a governor who rentembers little and cares less of the crime. We can meet that only J) y providing a class of life sentences subject to no governor’s pardon. GO AT n HARDER, GEORGIA. In connection with the interesting statement attributed to Sec retary of Agriculture Wilson that the south alone has spent more than forty-four million dollars in the past ten months on road im provement, it is rather surprising to note that Georgia, spending two and a half millions of the whole amount, still spent less than Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas or Virginia, and no more than Kentucky. The states which Georgia excelled were Arkansas, Delaware, Florida. Louisiana, Maryland, Oklahoma, South Carolina and West Virginia. The bigger moral of the secretary’s statement is, of course, ob vious—that the south is leading the whole country in road construc tion just now. the truth being that the eastern states have already spent many millions and have finished their main roads. But the south as a whole must not sit down and pat itself on the back every time figures are brought into evidence to prove its road activities. Least of all can Georgia afford to do that. Geor gia’s example has apparently so stimulated Alabama and Tennes see and Mississippi and Virginia and North Carolina that they have begun a determined emulation of it, and unless Georgia looks to its laurels will stand a big risk of losing its boast as the leading good roads state of the south. Secretary Wilson is not quoted as stating just how much of the difference in figures could be attributed to convict work in one or two of the states. It may be that that would account in a meas ure for Georgia’s position in the list. Nevertheless it is a reasona ble certainty that Georgia is not where she ought to be, at the lead of them all; and the lesson is brought home to us that we-must be more generous in our road work and must make every dollar count. Georgia has awakened the whole south to good roads. Let her lead. CLARKE COUNTY TO ERECT ROAD SIGNS The commissioners of Clarke county have begun the erection of substantial guide signs at intersecting points on all the public roads of the county, the commissioners’ purpose being to lend their assistance in this way to the campaign for better roads being waged throughout Georgia. How illustrious an example is Clarke county thus elevating be fore every other county in the state! There is an old bug-bitten law on the statute books requiring the sign-posting of all roads, but making nobody responsible for its enforcement. Clarke county has gone ahead of her own volition to demonstrate the wisdom of that requirement. Let the other counties of Georgia follow Clarke’s example, Let them put up substantial and lasting signs wherever there is a fork or a cross-road, telling which road goes to where, so that strangers in the neighborhood may find their way about by the shortest and best routes. The advantages and benefits that will follow this progressive step in Clarke and the other counties that follow her example, are almost inestimable because they are so far-reaching. They begin with opening the county to visitors, untangling the maze to strangers; and from there they ramify in every direction through business and social life. In order that Georgia may be uniformly sign-posted, for the guidance of her own citizens as well as for that of visitors from be yond her bordprs, it might be well for the legislature to take this matter in hand at its next session and, after wiping the obsolete statute off the books, devise a law more nearly effective, making the duty specifically that of the county commissioners in each coun ty, and requiring judges and grand juries to include the road signs in their charge and report. THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA-, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1911. Moving Pictures of Their Wedding Taken | A new fancy of fashion was introduced yesterday, when Miss Marguerite Mar vin and George Valentine Schmitt re hearsed their wedding before a moving picture camera, in order that they might preserve a record of the happy event The authentic ceremony was performed (without picture accompaniment) in the evening in All Angels’ church. Natural ; ly the bride wore “filmy” lace, but she omitted the “picture” hat. Just what Mr. and Mrs. Schmitt will do with the moving picture was not ex , plained. Possibly they will keep them in readiness in the spare room, and when one or the other is cress (a great many years hence, of course) the other can start the machine going and show him (or hefj how much nicer he (or she) was on the day of the wedding. Seriously, such a moving picture show would be tather a pretty thing on, say, a golden wedding anniversary. Society may take up xhe fancy as a fyd. Bricfas That Float There is no particular demand at the present time for bricks that will float, and it does not seem probab.e that there ever will be. And that is the very reason why the new floating brick will be looked upon aa a curiosity. It is a real brick, made for building construction, and the only queer thing about it ms that it floats like a block of wood when thrown into the water. The brick has been designed for use a/ an Insulation in the construct on of cold storage plants, breweries, and refrigera tion plants, and it meant to take the place of cork, flax, charcoal fiber, and sawdust, all of which are Imperfect in sulating materials. It has been found that the use of the latter has often been attended by rot and foulness. The new floating brick, in waterproofing. Is so burned that 45 perf cent of its volume is confined air, with the result that its specific gravity Is less than that of water —New York World. / fOUAITRY IWCS LONPUCTED BY JIRS.XTH.FELTO/C THE LOW PRICE OF COTTON. There never was a completer “take-j in” than the methods used in market- J ing the crop of 1911. There was a full crop—and yet none too much —for the exigencies of trade and commerce, but somehow there came on a panic with farmers, and they actually fell over each other In their eagerness to sell their cotton. They were frantic to get rid of it. I have been told that they actually took the first bld in a multi tude of cases, and the buyers had only to say “the price is down today," to crowd the streets with wagons and im patient farmers—and they dumped their cotton on the market, just as though they were dragging their stuff out of a burning barn—resolved to get a little money, and be rid of their burden. Now, when the bulk of the crop is gone and what Is picked after the drenching rain storms will be stained and Inferior — these hurry-to-sell farmer* will discover their mistake. If 90 per cent of the cotton in Cherokee, Georgia, is already picked and sold, and reliable farmers so as sure me, then there is less than 10 per cent of the crop from which the men who produced it may expect to get anjf profit at all. The farmer who has debts to pa> will find himself without money to pay them, and the profit he should have received will go into the pockets of men who bought at a low price ana will simply double his money—-every 60 days or less. It was the farmer thia year who robbed himself. WHAT INTOXICANTS CAN DO. Only this morning I read the story of the murder of a 70-year-old woman in Macon, Ga., lay her husband, aged 71. She was this murderer’s wife for a long term of years, maybe half a century, had a number of grown children. The poor woman was asleep on her bed, un conscious of her impending doom, when the intoxicated man placed 'a shotgun against her back and thus blew her vitals out of her body. The murderer had been on a ’’drunk’’ in Jacksonville, Fla., for nearly three weeks, and was doubtless insane from debauchery. He was demoniac. Fifty years from today it will be a horrible thought that womenkind were made so helpless and unprotected in the presence of intoxicants. It would seem now to be a rehc of savage barbarism that this aged woman should be given such an exit out of life. Doubtless Death was a friend to haj- in the fact that she will be no more exposed to the liquor demon, acting through the erased brain of the father of her children. There should be no temporizing with the sale of intoxicating. Every compro mise is in the nature of surrender. The sale of strong drink to that old man was a crime, per se, just as the sale of poison to an innocent person is a crime before the law. Liquor has its uses, in medicine, but it should bear the usual mark of a death’s head and 'crossbones—and should bear the same wherever vended as an intoxicant. Liquor will kill and strych nine will kill and both should be labeled as poison, because of their deadly quali ties. I saw a man who killed himself by an overdose of whisky. He was a congress man from a western state. Their apart ments were only separated from ours in a large hotel by a shor. corridor. He had been drinking all day Sunday, but I saw himself and three children at din ner that day. About 10 o’clock I heard him enter the corridor on his way to his rooms. Be fore 2 o'clock his wife ran screaming from the rooms, and I rushed over there as soon as I could throw on a wrapper over my gown, and put slippers on my bare feet. The man was in convulsions and never regained full consciousness. He died in less than 12 hours. As he passed through the hotel office he called for a quart of whisky. He had poisoned his system with th* intoxicant and died nearly as soon as if he bad taken a dose of strychnine. The agonized wife said he had no limit to his thirst for liquor. He could not be satisfied and I saw dozens of empty quart bottles in their bed doom. The sight T of liquor poison- ■ne has never vanished from m Fortunately for u.» wjfe and children he killed himself before his mania turned to the destruction of his family. The aged murderer in Macon would have done better if he had pulled the shotgun on hlmseif before his mania ex hausted its force on that long-suffering woman. , t/ The question comes up. “Who got any benefit out of the sale of that liquor poison?” i Nobndv. but the makers and venders, and it horrifies me to know that there are many people who contend that these venders shall have full liberty to sell the poison that will make a man shoot his sleeping wife with a deadly weapon, •somebody should be made to answer for the crime. THE EXECUTION OF MRS. STTRBATT. Fruit Cake (B*c<p* by Mrt. Mary J. UncaM Mix four cups sifted pastry flour, one level teaspoon soda, two level teaspoons mixed spices (except cloves), one-fourth level teaspoon salt and two cups seeded and quartered ralslnsz- _ Add also one half cup nuts cnoppeu urns i* Blend one-half cup Cottolene with one cup brown sugar and one cup white sugar, add one cun molasse*, on* onp milk and then the flour mixture Beat well and bake in two pans. You will find this fruit cake as light, moist, flavory as any you ever made with butter. You save something, too, by using Cottolene-—the perfect shorten ing. THEN. IF YOU ARE PLEASED. SEND US ONLY 11.45, «nd you win own one of ths best Razors made, also a Horaehlde and Canvas Strop Worth SI.OO. If you are not pleased, simply re turn the R«inr. Co- td we make a f-lrrr offer? ’ OUR DIXIE RAZOR I* extra hallow *rourd, hand forged from Genuine Sheffield Steel. We i:ee It and know It ie the beet Razor mads and want you to find it o- t by f-ing it a fair trial. WRITE US A POSTAL and aay. “Send me your Razor on 10 days’ trtaL I will send you $1.15 or return razor.’’ We will rend Razor and full particulars about our "“'er offers. DIXIE MFG. CO.. EOX 94 UNION CITY, GA. Formerly B. W. M dalabrooka A Co. Directly after the death of Mr, Lin coln, who was shot by Wilkes Booth, a younger brother of Edwin Booth, four persons were arrested, tried and con demned to death. One of the four was Mrs. Surratt, a resident of Washington city. She had, as I remember, one daughter and one son. John Surratt, the was tried for his life a year or more afterwards. Poor as I was after the war, I subscribed for a Washington city newspaper, and read the story of the trial from beginning to end. John Surratt escaped his mother’s fate, but the evidence pro and con and the speeches of the lawyers was a thrilling recital. In one of the late magazines the man who conducted the hangnig of the four tells how those doomed ones appeared to him as they advanced to the place of hanging. Mrs. Surratt was in front, supported by two priests, almost faint ing a s they led her along. Payne, the bravest one, showed no fear. He oame last, and his biographer says: “He walked like a king td be crowned—his fearless blue eyes roving over the scaf fold, his yellow hair shining like a halo in the sun.” A quartette of soldjers walked behind each one. The German Atzerohdt and Herold were timid and shaking. Mrs. Surratt was heavily veiled. They were all hung at one time and were cut down in 30 minutes. After they were lifted into their wait ing coffins a bottle was placed in each coffin witn their names inside. Not one of these persons shot at Mr. Lincoln, but madness ruled the hour. WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN IN GEORGIA. Alabama had a campaign last year to restore local option to the liquor deal ers. As a result every drug store In Alabama can now become a liquor an op. Collier’s drug store, in Birmingham, has sent out a blazing advertisement. It not only has 22 whiskies to sell, bifl an immense supply of wines, brandies and cordials. They *wili promptly deliver to the homes so that women as well as men may drink plentifully. This flaming ’ ad” lies before me, nearly a yard in length. The door to drunkenness is opened wide in the state of Alabama. All that the good men and women of Alabama worked so hard to get, has been cast a tide, and the drink demon is grinning in the .saddle, as he rides dowa mou.ers prayers and wives’ agonizing cries. And we nave a liquor campaign on to poor old Georgia! A judge in high posi tion has made his huge ambition yield to the liquor demon’s demands. He will if elected do in Georgia what other am bitious men carried through in Ataca ma. If elected it will be liquor money tnat does it. Then we will see whisky, rum, gin, port, claret, everything in drug stores, so-called, and also “delivered to tne homes of out people. ’ If the women of Georgia had a vote there would be no return to bar rtyuns, but they cannot cast even a ballot to save their boys from a drunkard's doom. I am cld, have seen many discourag ing things in Georgia politics, but this intent to drive our homes, our children, our happiness and our civic safety to one side, to give full force to ihjuor salesmen and debauchery seems to my mind to be the work of the Evil One! How the Levil grink. , May a me-ciful God protect the in nocent and the helpless! A LETTER FROM A VETERAN. Kalispell, Mont., (Box 476), Oct. 31. Mrs. W. H. Felton, Cartersville. Ga. Dear Mrs. Felton: Will you pardon an old Confederate veteran for intrud ing on your time and patience? I live in Baldwin county, yes, the county the old capltol is in (Milledgeville). Am out here on a visit to my two sons. This is a cold northwestern state, on the borders of Canada. I want to in duce them if I can, to return to their native state, where we have such a mild climate, generous soil and noble, loyal people. I would not live hen, where the winters are six months long er, for a whole section of land. The lands are fertile, but have to be irri gated to make good crops. I saw in The Atlanta Journal sometime last spring or summer, a notice from you of a plantation you had to lease or sell. Have you disposed of it? If not please Inform me what you ask for it. How much it contains, whether there is much pasture or meadow land on it. If you have please let me know if there are other farms to be bought or rented. They would like pasture land tfell wa tered, where they could raise grain, hay and stock. They are engaged in that business here. They are men of tem perate habits and considerd among the best citizens here. I am anxious for them to return south and share in the prosperity and future glory destined to crown the southern people. While not personally acquainted with you, I’ve known you by character ever since Dr. Felton represented his district tn con gress. With highest regard, I am sin cerely yours, T. J. H. IVife Os Newly j4rrived ■BEm jff k -1 WSi Mme. Naon. wife of the new Argentine minister at Washington, will preside tnis witner over one of the most popular le gations in Washington. The minuter and hU wife have five children. Facts About The Farm Guinea Pigs as Lawns Mowers A curious, but successful experiment is being made on a number of private lawns in Kent, and is about to be tried by a golf club In the neighborhood of Greenhithe. The idea is the novel one of substituting the guinea pig for the mowing machine and the weed killer. Around the lawn is arranged a low wire barrier, and into the inclosure are turned a number of guinea pigs; or better, a passage is made from their butch\ to the lawn.- The animals at once attack all the vrorst weeds—the plantains first, then the dandelions and daisies. These broad-leaved plants, which no mowing machine will touch, are killed by the persistent cutting of the guinea pigs’ teeth. When they have finished tbe weeds, which are broad-leaved and succulent, they pro ceed to the grass. In a short time the lawn looks as if it had been cut by the closest machine. The persistent cutting of the leaves kills the weeds, which can stand almost any other treatment, but does no harm to the Agricultural Bank in the Philippine During the period from October 1, 1908, to May 23, 1911, the Agricultural Bank of the Philippines made 166 loans, advancing in all 498,600 pesos (|349,- 300). No person or corporation can borrow less than $25 gold, nor more than $12.- 500 from the bank. The rate of inter est charged is 10 per cent per annum, and the maximum period for which a loan may be made is 10 years. Os the 674 applications received, 311 were refused because title was defect ive or applicant had no title whatever (in all cases were tbe applicant's de fective title could be perfected he was given Instructions as to how to do so), 101 applicants were refused because of the amounts requested being out of pro portion to the value of the security offered, 57 have been withdrawn by the applicants, 10 have been refused as the loans requested were for other than THE FARM TELEPHONE INBXSFEN SABI.E. The telephone has become the most h gh y prized aid t > the truck grower and .orc. ardist in marketing h.s products. Every morning and evening it tells him just how many cars of vegi tables or fru.t in his section have been shipped to the various markets and what pr ces are be.ng paid from day to day. It warns him of frost and storms, en ables him to augment his fie d workers by drawing upon the over-supply of la borbor at other points and keeps him within as close touch with every detail of tl e industry in which he is int rested as though he vis ted every fa. m in bis district. In California, Colorado and throughout the south various associations of fruit growers connect their individua members byte ephone and at certain hours each day all the members in the various lines are called up by a given signal, at the same instant, and reports as to th condi tion of the markets, the weather and every other fact of interest la thus spr- ad through the region, often many mi ea In extent and embraces hundreds of grow ers. In this way the growers are p'aced in possession of information which will tell them whether it will be profitable to ship to any certain market or to withhold their shipments entirely for a day or so longer until the pr'ces are favorable. It prevents gluts in the market, tells the farmer what particular fruit or vege table is in greatest demand at the mo ment, enables h m to work with system equal to that employed bv any mercan tile or manufacturing business in the country. The telephone is rapidly reducing the market.ng of farm products to an exact science, thus saving millions every year to the farmers who produce crops that Higher Cost of Living Does not Include Fence Ten,years ago ft took 2 bushels of corn to buy 1 rod of fence. To day 1 bushel of corn will buy 2 rods of better, fence. Price Low—Quality Better Than Ever Within ten years farm prod- American fence is made bet ucts have greatly advanced in ter than ever. It is a thorough market value while the price of ly galvanized square mesh fence . wo en wire fence has been rt- of weight, strength and dura duced. These are the reasons: bility. Large wires are used Newer and improved methods and the whole fabric is woven of digging the. ore, shipping to together with the American the furnaces, melting into steel hinged **joint (patented)—the and making into finished prod- most substantial and flexible vets are in force. Ten years union possible. Both wires are ago operations were on a small positively locked and firmly held scale. Today the plan of oper- against side slip and yet are free ation is vast. The manufac- to act like a hinge in yielding turer is able to deliver the fin- to pressure, returning ished goods quickly, of better to place without bending or quality and at a lower price. injuring the metal. I m*<> f* yr a— r w w a Stocks of American Pence are carried !n every p?ace LrvCXlvl 9 VCijr WHCrC wnere farm supplies are sold. The Fence is shipped to these points in carload lots, thereby securing the Cheapest transportation, and the saving in freight thus made enables it to be sold at the lowest prices. Look for tbe American Fence dealer and get the substantial advantages he is enabled to offer. He is there to serve the purchaser w person, offer the variety of selection and save the buyer money in many ways. FRANK BAACKES, Vice-President and General Sales Agent American Steel & Wire Company Chicago New York Denver San Francisco Send for eot9 of “American Fence firms," illustrated. devoted to the interests of farmers and rhmymx hmr /Wf WUP ** emfimrd tn the enmtnf fan>er ota.ta.rm~ Fw rushed grass. One lawn, formerly a mass of weeds, has been made to grow nothing- but the finer grasses. Another is still un der process of treatment. The of it in which the guinea pigs were first set to work has been cut quite even and very close. For golfing it is as fast again as It was under the administra tion of the mowing machine, and not a weed is visible. The other half, where the animals have just been turned loose, is a mass of dandelions. In this neighborhood it has been found that the guinea pigs do not suffer at all by being left to work in winter as well as in summer. Indeed they aro healthier than under the usual treat ment of those who keep them as pets. An astonishing demand for the animala has grown up in th* neighborhood, and if (he inland golf clubs, which have great difficulties with plantains, take to the new method the guinea-pig popula tion is likely to go up in tbe ratio that the natural fecundity of the animal sur ges ta.—Consul S. M. Taylor, England. agricultural purposes, 13 have been act ed on favorably, but are awaiting sig nature to and registration of mortgage, and 16 are In the hands of various pro vincial boards for appraisement of the “ value of the security offerea. About a year ago the bank commu nicated with the provincial officials throughout the islands with a view to obtaining Information as to why re quests for loans were not more numer ous, and the reples received were, with out exception, to the effect that the people possessed neither royal nor Tor rens titles and that the requirement* for securing good titles were so com plicated and expensive that the people wuuld not attempt to secure them. Re cently, however, a system has been in augurated by the government to aid the people in acquiring Torrens titles, but the systenb has not been in effect sufficiently long to show any appre ciable results. BUGS ABB WOBSE THAI FIBS. There are Insects whose methods of attack are so obscure and covert that they are not usually discovered a* all by the ordinary farmer, who ninrly knows at the end of the year that his crops have not done well and the year has been an unprofitable one for him. Perhaps some of the wheat straw worms have attacked his wheat and the result has only shown in the shrivel ed condition and light weights of the kernels, with no apparent connection between the two. \ His corn has not grown well, the ears are short and not well filled out at the tips, precisely as if his land was lack ing in fertility or a drouth had prevailed and he may lay the loss to either «ha weather or his laiyl, whereas it was th. corn root worm that ruined' his crop, a pest that he might easily have avoided. His timothy meadow has died out, and he does not know why it should have done so, when had he looked carefuUy about the roots he would have found the short winged form of the chinch bug present there in myriads. Such losses as these are nor consid ered at all and do not enter into con sideration by the farmer 'ot statisti cian, unless they are of such magni tude as to devastate large areas of country. Here we have a financial loss, falling upon a single Industry nearly three times as great as that caused by fire, and to ask If such a factor' should be reckoned upon and carefully considered by those engaged in that Industry ap pears almost ridiculous. i ■ 'J

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, November 17, 1911, Page 4, Image 4