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This department.will cheerfully endeavor to furnish any Information.
Letters should be addressed to Dr. Andrew M. Soule, resident State Agri*
cultural College, Athos. Ga.
PREPARING LAND FOR CEREALS.
Do you expect to eow any ceieals this
Tall? If not. you are making a mis
take. Cereal crops do well in the south
i*nder rational conditions and manage
ment. They provide much needed sup
plemental grain to use with cotton seed
meal and corn. They act as cover crops
the winter, and. therefore, absorb
and utilize a part of the residue of fer
tiliser applied to corn and cotton and
'cowpeas. They provide a most desirable
cover crop, and are. therefore, not only
valuable for the hay they produce, but
for the roughage as well. They can
frequently be grazed to advantage in the
fall and winter, and they can be har
vested In time to devote the land to an
other crop during the same season.
It is quite practicable to plant corn,
■cotton, cowpeas or other soiling crops
after cereals have been harvested. The
tests made by the college show that
wheat will grow in all the Piedmont sec
tion to good advantage, and may be
• cultivated with profit on soils of the
Tifton sandy loam type in what is
known as the coastal plains region.
Oats can be grown almbst anywhere if
a farmer will take sufficient pains and
trouble to seed them properly. Rye can
be cultivated with equal advantage,
while barley will prove valuable on lim
ited areas of soil which have been care
fully improved and put in good condi
tion.
There has been a tendency to empha
size cereal production in the last year
or two. but farmers often become dis
couraged about the growth of these
crops because of the yield being cut
down so materially by drought. Os
course, this is one of the conditions
which has to be met. and instead of
complaining about it. it would be bet
ter to consider the means by which
this difficulty can be overcome. This
should be entirely practicable because
there is an abundance of rainfall in
the south in the fall and winter, and
if soils are properly worked they can
hold enough of it to supply the needs
of cereal crops. If the earliest matur
ing varieties are selected at planting
time it will also be an advantage, and
then if the ground is properly prepared
in the fall and a liberal amount of sup
plemental fertilizer of the right type
applied, the crop will naturally be in
much better condition to withstand ad
verse weather conditions than is now
true. At the present time the common
practice is to seed cereals altogether
too late, to use no supplemental fer
tilizers, and to prepare the land in the
most indifferent manner. The yield is
cut down frequently by an insufficiency
of available plant food. Therefore, those
who intend to cultivate cereals should
give attention and consideration to these
imoprtant matters, for if they are rem
edied, as they can be, the yield will be
greatly increased, drought damage ma
terially lessened and the cultivation of
cereals regarded as a more profitable
undertaking than at present.
In the first place, soil preparation can
not be emphasized too strongly. It is
.necessary to plow the land in many in
stances. Where the corn is cut with a
.harvester and the ground thoroughly
dlsked and redisked and then harrowed,
a good seed bed for the average cereal
can be secured. Planting cereals in open
furrows between cotton rows will give
good results providing the planting is
done at the right time. Seeding, as a
rule, should be done in north Georgia
from October 1 to IS: in middle Georgia
from October 15 to November 1. and in
south Georgia, from November 1 to 15.
Will farmers heed this important ad
vice? If they do. they will have infinite
ly better success with cereals. It is a
matter of common observation that the
seeding of these cereals id frequently
not done until December 1. and probably
more of the oat crops is planted in north
Georgia after November 1 than before.
This is a mistake, as the most careful
tests show.
Does the fsrmer realize and appreciate
the necessity of using supplemental fer
tilisers? There is an opinion that enough
food is left after the cultivation of
the com or cotton crop to supply all the
needs of the cereals. This also is a
mistake. South Georgia soils are not
rich enough in nitrogen, phosphoric acid
or potash for this purpose. For the
present, potash must of necessity be left
out of consideration, but there is no rea
son why a moderate amount of nitrogen
and phosphork acid should not be ap
plied. In the fall it is reasonable to
supopse that organic nitrogen -vould be
the best form to apply. At least l<>o to
200 pounds of cotton seed meal shou'd
be used along with 206 to 300 pounds of
acid phosphate. From 300 to 500 pounds
of a good formula, if applied to land
which has been properly prepared, should
prove a profitable Investment under ce
reals. Remember, however, that fer
tilizers put on after a crop has already
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Coffee
Disagree
Many are not aware of
the ill effects of coffee drink
ing until a bilious attack,
frequent headaches, nerv
ousness, or some other ail
ment starts them thinking.
Ten days off coffee and on
POSTUM
—the pure food-drink—will
show anyone, by the better
health that follows, how
coffee has been treating
them.
“There’s a Reason”
for
POSTUM
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been planted, say in the late fall or
early spring, are not likely to give good
results. If the crop is planted thirty
day s after the normal time for a given
locality or if it has been put in in ac
cordance with the methods followed on
many farms, 't is not reasonable to an
ticipate much prokt from the application
of fertilizers. Fertilizers should not be
blamed In such instances, for the crop
has comparatively little chance from the
beginning. If formulas of the type sug
gested above are applied and the crop
sown at the proper time on well prepar
ed land, it should make a vigorous
growth and development in the fall and
early spring, and therefore mature ear
lier than is normally true and have suf
ficient vigor to withstand adverse condi
tions to better advantage. The mere
fact that the soil has been properly pre
pared means that it can store and hold
more moisture than would otherwise be
true.
While nitrogen is a limiting factor in
crop production, so are phosphoric acid
and potash. In fact, nitrogen and phos
phoric acid are both likely to be needed
by cereal crops during the season of
grain development and maturity. Nat
urally, if the nitrogen supply of the soil
is limited, the crop no matter what the
conditions, is bound to be short-strawed
and insignificant in appearance. If there
is a deficiency of phosphoric acid, it is
not reasonable to expect the grain to be
plump and well filled out. While cereal
crops, as a rule, would probably not be
regarded as hard on the land in the mat
ter of exhausting the store of plant food
as cotton or more particularly corn, sor
ghum and other forage crops, they still
make a considerable demand on the
plant food constituents of the soil, and it
is therefore important that they be prop
erly fertilized. That a considerable part
of this fertilizer should be put on in
the fall is now clearly established. To
depend on the use of a little nitrate of
soda in the spring can not be regarded
as the best practice, though, of course,
there is no objection to its use, and it
undoubtedly is beneficial in many in
stances. These are matters of vital con
cern to every one who expects to culti
vate cereals and no doubt they will be
given due consideration.
• • •
TREATING A CASE OF STRING HALT.
J. S. 0.. Fort Pajne, Ala., writes: I
have a seven-yea r-ol«l mule which is string
halted in both hind lege. I would like a
r’-nifiy for the same.
If the symptoms as set forth in your
letter are correct, your mule is evidently
suffering from what is known as “string
halt." a disease which causes the spas
modic contraction of some of the volun
tary muscles. It is similar to St. Vitus’
dance in the human family. There are
several forms of this disease. The
most common in horses and mules being
that of the spasmodic jerking in the hind
legs. In some cases it is seen only when
the horse first starts, after standing in
the stall, and disappears after a few
steps have been taken. This trouble is
generally most severe in cold weather
and usually gradually increases in se
verity as the animal grows older. Med
ical treatment does not give great bene
fit. Good results are more likely to fol
low careful feeding and tonics. The
food should be nutritious, easily digest
ed. of good variety and abundant. A
good grain ration to feed is a mixture
of oats and bran to which is added a
handful of cotton seed meal.
Your mule may be given three times
a week the following mixtures: Com
mon salt, four ounces; sulphur, two
ounces: hard-wood ashes, two ounces.
Give a tablespoonful of this mixture in
the feed. Also give Fowler's solution
(of arsenic! beginning with half-ounce
doses in the feed once daily and grad
ually increasing by one-fourth ounce at
a time until one ounce is given at a dose
in the morning and the same at night.
The arsenic, as you understand, is a
poison and must be used with care and
skill. It should not be given for more
than two weeks
• • •
DATA CONCERNING OUR COTTON
CROP.
R. R.. Douglasville. Ga.. writes: I would
like sonic Information In regard to the cot
ton <-rno. What is the average number of
bales forth»- state, the value of the crop,
and the ac.-eag* devot«s| to the same?
About five million acres of land are
devoted to the cultivation of cotton in
Georgia each year. Os course the acre
are varies some with conditions. When
the price of cotton is extra high there
Is a tendency to increase the acreage,
whereas the low price of 1914 tended to
reduce the amount of cotton planted In
1915. Five million acres, however, is a
safe figure to use in estimating the area
devoted to the cotton crop in Georgia.
Tn 1915 nearly two million bales of
cotton were produced. These are about
7an.nnn less than in 1914. due to the cut
In acreage and to the fact that seasonal
conditions were not so favorable In 1915
for the production of a maximum crop
as in the previous year.
Os course you understand that much
of the cotton produced in Georgia this
year sold for around 12 cents per pound.
The cotton seed brought anywhere from
S4O to SSO per ton. The cotton crop of
Georgia in 1915 is variously estimated
as being worth from $140,000,000 to
$100,000,000. '
HARDENING OF HOGS GRAZED ON
PEANUTS.
W. J. S.. Maron, Ga., writes: Hew
long will It take to harden off peanut
f«l hog. on corn, so that they will go on
th- market in <—inpetition with the western
grown hog' IVhat is the difference in the
(M-anut meat and in the meat grown on
velvet beans’
If hogs which have been grazed on
peanuts are fed on corn for a period of
two to three weeks, the meat should be
hardened off satisfactorily. It is good
practice to feed a little corn to hogs
while grazing them on peanuts. In lieu
thereof, some digester tankage may be
fed. As you probably know, several
hundred pounds of pork can be obtained
from grazing down an acre of peanuts.
The use of the supplemental food sug
gested generally results in an increased
gain and lessens the necessity of feed
ing the corn to finish off the hogs.
Soy beans exert about the same in
fluence on pork as peanuts In other
words, they tend to produce a rather
soft, oily pork. Personally we have
never fed velvet beans to hogs and front
experience coujd not offer an opinion as
to the effect of the beans on the meat.
Velwet beans, of course, contain a good
deal less oil than peanuts or soy beans.
Possibly on that account they may not
affect the meat so markedly. •
SHORTHORNS AS MILK PRODUCERS.
G. fl. N„ Aurusta. Ga.. write*: I have
been, under the Impression that the short
hnrn cattle enrps«--«d the Hereford ! r rnllk
prndrelng qualith«. and that the shorthorn
romhine* In a greater degree the advantage*
of lees ami milk-iarodwing eharacterlatlca.
fleaee write me if I am correct In thia.
There are two quite distinct strains
of shorthorn cattle. One especially val
uable for beef production and the other
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1916.
featuring jug WTEEFS-ai? BILLIE BURKE
MR AKD MRS RUPERT HUGUEJ
P w COPHIIGUT 1916 BY ADELAI Dt M UUGUEJ
STCOND CHAPTER.
OLD Shonolakee raised her knifo
and was about to plunge it into
the heart of the shivering captive
when something about the captive made
her pause- She saw that the lad was
a lass. Her rage was forgotten in
amazement for a moment. She grunt
ed: “The boy he is one squaw.”
The other Indians started at Gloria
and the pallor of her terror was red
dened with shame. The blush was very
becoming to her. The young chief
stepped forward for a closer look at
it.
Thinking him a possible rescuer Glo
ria turned on him with one of her 90-
candlepower smiles. The effect was
greater than she had expected. Ketca
lani was dazzled. He blinked, then
turned his eyes at the smoky Indian
maidens clustered about. Each of them
had ambitious dreams of being his wife.
But shabbily as Gloria was dressed she
was a tearing beauty in any company.
Compared to the unkempt daughters of
the everglades she was a goddess.
Katcalani's heart beat with a new
kind of excitement. He resolved to be
gin his new chieftainship with an act
of courage. He would defy not only
the men, but even the women! He seized
Gloria's hand and shouted:
“If boy is squaw he is my squaw.”
Gloria did not understand the meaning
of this. But she saw that it had not
endeared her to the Indian women. They
murmured their wrath and would have
struck her down if Katcalali had not
protected her. She drew closer to him
and he took that for consent.
Gloria tried to explain who she was,
but the fame of her father’s wealth had
not penetrated to these depths. If they
understood her frantic cry that she was
rich, they mumbled: "All white folks
liars all the time.”
They led her into the village, a hud
dled group of palmetto shacks, mainly
open sheds with a roof thatch of palmet
to leaves. The place was not attractive
to any of the senses. The
are not neat. Dead fish lying about
the ground and old terrapin shells
pleased neither the eye nor the nose.
Shonolakee first went aside and sent
the dead chief's horse on the long road
to the happy pastures. Then she re
turned to prepare Gloria for the honor
of becoming the wife of the chief. She
led her into her own hut and gave her
the habiliments of an honest squaw in
place of the boy's disgraceful togs.
Seminole ladies are modest. Then she
showed Gloria a little sewing machine.
She had bought it with the proceeds of
rattlesnake skins she had sold to tour
ists in the villages along the road. She
promised Gloria that some day if she
were good she might be allowed to play
on the machine- The squaw's idea of
being good consisted largely of doing
heavy labor. The first duty of a wife
better defined possibly as the milking
Shorthorns. It is probably true that
the Shorthorns quite excell the Here
fords considerably in the milk produc
tion and especially would this be true
of the milking strain. On this account
the Shorthorn cows are able to nurse
their young to better advantage.
It is desirable on any farm to have a
class of cattle which are valuable for
both beef and milk production and if you
have this end in view I would not hesi
tate to advise you to select the milk
ing strain of Shorthorns. As I wrote
y«u previously, the selection of the in
dividuals for your foundation stock and
the care and treatment subsequently ac
corded them are matters of very grave
importance.
• • •
MANAGING A MULE WITH DE
PRAVED APPETITE.
F. A. R.. Jon»*sl>oro, Ga., writes: I hnve
a mule about 14 years old that ha.- a habit
of eating wood and clay, and In plowing 1
she Wille lie down and wallow five or six
times a day. She doos not seem to have the
colic. Rite stays in very good flesh but
dors not eat like she ought to. I give
her corn and fodder and some oats. I will
appreciate your adtice regarding her.
The symptoms given with reference
to your mule indicate that she is prob
ably suffering from worm infestation.
There are several kinds of worms as
you probably know attacking horses and i
mules. The intestinal worm most com- I
monly seen is the long, round worm. ;
Where worm infestation occurs there Is
often evidence of a colicky tendency at
times. The appetite is depraved as you
have described, the animal being dis
posed to eat rotten wood, rub against
various obstacles, eat earth and show a
special liking for salt. There is often
itching of the upper lip.
The treatment should be directed to
wards the destruction of the worms.
There is nothing better for this purpose
than a drench composed of 1 ounce of
creolin or turpentine dissolved in 2 to
3 ounces of linseed oil and followed
on the fourth day by a physic of
barbados aloes. 1 ounce. This dose should
not be repeated but should be followed
in 6 hours by 1 quart of linseed oil.
After this treatment we suggest that
you give the following vegetable tonic
twice a daj' In the feed: One-half ounce
of Peruvian bark, gentian, ginger or
quassiama. We advise that you vary
the ration you are now feeding as much
as possible. Green feed will be a de
sirable amendment. We would also ad
vise that you feed equal parts of corn
and oats or corn and bran for the next
two or three weeks. Cut the hay or
grass feed and moisten ■with water and
allow to stand a few hours to soften
before it is fed.
GOOD RATIONS FOR HORSES AND
MULES.
J. R. C„ Gainesville, Ga., writes: I
wool,! like to have you suggest Home for
mnlas for lir>r«es and innles hi which
corn, outs, alfalfa meal nnd molas-CH are
used. Would also like to have you suggest
a good one In which velvet bean meal and
pea vile hay is used.
If you mix together 700 pounds of
shelled corn and 200 pounds of cotton
seed meal and 600 pounds of molasses,
you will secure a very good feed unit
for horses and mules. Tt is of coruse,
supposed that 15 pounds of this mix
ture will be fed per 1,000 pounds of
live weight, the ration to be varied ac
cording to the weight of the animal
fed and also according to the nature of
the work performed. Animals perform
ing hard labor require to be more lib
erally fed than those standing Idle a
part of the time. It is also presupposed
that the farmer would feed along with
this ration, about 12 pounds of Lespedeza
or peavine hay, or 15 pounds of clean,
dry corn stover, mixed hay or Bermuda
hay.
Os course you understand that end
less combinations can be made in the
preparation of feeding rations. You
will observe that we have not Included
oats or velvet beans in this mixture.
Possibly you could substitue velvet
beans for the 'cotton seed meal but we
do not think this would reduce the cost
of the ration while reducing the foot!
value per ton. It is not practical to mix
coarse roughage like peavine hay with
a concentrated ration. There are two
reasons for this. First of all. the far
mer can grow his roughage at a
lower cost than you can afford to sell
it to him in a feed mixture. In the sec
ond place, you will find It difficult to
make a satisfactory balanced ration if
you include too large an amount of
roughness, which of course, must be re
garded when compared with concentrates
as rather low in digestive nutrients.
was to gather wood for the fire. She
set Gloria to work.
Seeing the pitiful little thing in her
Indian rags, bending down to pick up
stioka, Royce himself might have
passed her without a second look.
Royce was not the only one in the
everglades hunting the estray. Freneau
had gone as far as his motor boat would
carry him. Then he had found a native
Indian wtlh a dug-out, a cypress log
hollowed. The Indian drove it with a
pole. He had heard nothing of Gloria’s
presence in the thicket, but he promised
to guide Freneau to some of the scatter
ed villages.
Meanwhile Dr. Royce, hunting in every
direction, had happened upon the home
of the Sipes, and had asked about Gloria.
Fearlpg that he had come to demand the
return of Gloria's jewels they pretend
ed not to have seen her. But Royce
caught a glimpse of Gloria’s evening
dress, which Mrs. Sipe was trying to
hide. He charged the Sipes with decep
tion, probably with murder.
They hastened to confess that they
had seen her and helped her on her way
in the clothes of a boy. They sent
young Sipe to show Royce which way
Gloria had gone. Young Sipe, still angry
at Gloria and his parents, sent Royce in
a false direction, too. He laughed as he
saw the crazy stranger in the tattered
evening dress starting away in his blind
man's buff, not knowing that rivals were
searching the * wilderness, not knowing
that Gloria was now In Indian servitude.
The young chtef, Katcalanl, kept
watching Gloria. Her whiteness, her
delicacy, the unconscious daintiness
with which she lifted a crooked faggot
from the brushwood, and the luxurious
aureole of her hair in the Florida sun,
made him frantic to call her his own.
He beckoned her to follow him and led
her to a distance where the shambling,
dusky women of his tribe could not see
him bow his turbaned head to the chalk
faced squaw.
Gloria hoped that the peculiar person
was going to help her to escape, and she
followed him with only a little fear. But
he paused and began to declare his pas
sion with all an Indian’s eloquence.
His dialect was crude, but hia emotion
was fierce. He compared her with the
most graceful palm, with the rarest
orchids. He said that the sunrise was
in her hair and the stars in her eyes.
He compared himself with the great
warrior Osceola, who had slain so many
whites. He offered to kill all the white
men In Florida to please her. He spoke
of his wealth. His turban had a silver
band made out of four silver dollars. He
had a gold watch, sixteen handkerchiefs,
and eighteen shirts. He had six of
them on. Gloria should have his grand
mothers' forty pounds of beads to wear
—she should be a queen and she would
not have to plow.
Gloria had often dreamed of her first
proposal of marriage. This was it. It
did not accord with her dreams. She
was disgusted, aghast, afraid. She
could think of nothing to do.
The caught sight of the dagger that
Katcalanl wore in his belt. In a sick
horror of her fate she snatched it from
him. She had not the courage to kill
herself, or him, but she gave him the
knife and begged him to plunge it into
her heart. Katcalanl glared at her In a
frenzy of humiliation and wrath. Then
the child-woman wavered on her tired
feet and suddenly dropped to the ground
in a dead faint.
HUGHES SAYS DEMOCRATS
ALWAYS OPPOSE PROGRESS
(By Associated Press.)
BUTTE, Mont., Aug. 12.—Charles E.
Hughes, addressing an audience in the
ball park here late today, continued his
attack on the administration’s foreign
and Mexican policies, its appointments,
and its tariff views.
"The Democratic party,” the nominee
said, "has always been a party of oppo
sition to progress, 'there has not been
a great national mgVcihent in response
to a national demand that has not had
to run over the prostrate form of the
Democratic party.”
The nominee scored the administra
tion for what he called failure to carry
out its party platform, notably the plank
in the 1912 platform declaring for the
maintenance of American rights abroad.
"This administration in the first in
stance organized its state
Mr. Hughes said, "so as to reduce its
potency Hu per cent in ,ne ui the
world.”
The nominee characterized the last
rivers and harbors bill as a "spectacle
of shocking waste.”
"And it will continue," he said, “until
some American executive is willing to
take his political life in his hands and
come before the American people and
say 'h<»re I stand for business-like meth
ods of government, come what will.’
"Until that time comes, we will still
have to get along in a haphazard way.
For the nineteenth century that way
might hqve done, but it won't do for
the twentieth."
Mr. Hughes left here at 7:35 p. m. for
Spokane where he will spend tomorrow
resting. Reviewing the first week of
his campaign, the nominee Issued a
statement Saying that he was much
gratified by the reception given him and
expected strong support in the north
west.
Several Meet Death
In Street Car Wreck
(By Associated Press.)
JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Aug. 12.—From
ten to fifteen persons were killed and
about forty others injured at Echo, ten
miles from here, toda> in a street car
wreck.
The accident occurred on the Southern
Cambla Electric railroad, which connects
Johnstown with Ebensburg, at the foot
of a steep hill.
One car had just turned a sharp
curve when it was telescoped by an
other dashing down the hill. The mo
torman had lost control, and the car,
rushing through a switch, had continued
at high speed, crashing into the car from
Johnstown, which also was making fast
time to reach the switch. All the avail
able doctors and nurses were hurried
from Johnstown to the scene. .
DR. ATWOOD INDICTED
ON CHARGE OF MURDER
(Ey Associated Press.)
BOSTQN, Aug. 12.—Dr. Eldridge D.
Atwood, the osteopath who snot and
fatally wounded Dr. Wilfred E. Harris,
president of the Massachusetts College
of Osteopathy, is accused of murder in
the first degree in an indictment re
turned today.
Just before the shooting Atwood had
learned of the death of his fiancee. Dr.
Celia P. Adams, from poison, apparent
ly self-administered.
Atwood told the police that Dr.
Adams had admitted an intimacy with
Harris that made her promised mar
riage impossible.
Kcffl.O'.HOME
Hfe- .
Conducted py
KIBKE WHITE’S KYMX.
Last Sunday night, while the Sam
Jones Tabernacle had two thousand
seats filled with an audience listening to
a son of the evangelist Gypsy Smith,
(the father waiting in the trenches in
France with English troeps), a severe
storm of lighting and torrents of rain
continued for several hours.
I was at home and in bed, but I wa»
anxious for those who were at the tab
ernacle meeting, as some of my folks
were there. The electrical storm was
unusually severe. Peal after peal »f
thunder and blaze after blaze of light
ning, and sometimes a sharp crash, that
betokened a stroke —kept me wtd
awake. There seemed to be a cloud
burst, and the storms clouds instead of
dissolving seemed to' be gathering force
all the time, rain beating down in fu
rious floods.
As I often do when I cannot sleep I
attempted to repeat petry and Kirke
White’s magnificent lines came to me,
which might have been written in a
thunder storm, so vivid are his illustra
tions. Finally I forsook my bed, lighted
a lamp and searched for a hymnbook
because there was a missing verse that
eluded me and I must get it back in my
mind at once. Here's the hymn I
sought.
"The Lord our God is clothed with might
The winds obey His will,
He speaks and in the Heavenly light
The rolling suns -stand still. ,
"Rebel ye waves and o'er the land
With threatening aspect roar,
Te Lord uplifts His awful hand
And chains you to the shore!
"Howl winds of night. Your force com
bine
Without this high behest,
Ye shall not in the mountain pine
Disturb a sparrows nest!
“His voice sublime is heard afar,
In distant peals It dies.
He yokes a whirlwind to his car
And sweeps the howling skies.
“Ye nations bend —in reverence bend,
Ye monarchs wait his nod—
And bid the choral song ascend—
To celebrate our God!"
When the missing word was restored
to my memory. I felt that I had hardly
ever appreciated the poem, so much in
an my life.
TIMPEBAITCE VS. lIQUOB.
The struggle that the liquor forces
are making to be able to manufacture
intoxicants in Georgia and to sell the
same to those who should be protected
from temptation is a sad commentary
upon the cupidity and greed of human
kind. As is well known, the liquor
forces In the city of Savannah have
paid no attention to the prohibition
law in Georgia. Os course it is under
stood that they have had substantial
backing from the city authorities, and
it has been the custom to elect men to
the legislature who would first and fore
most and all the time give attention to
the demands of the saloon element in
that great seaport city. These legis
lators are favored with prominent posi
tions in the legislature. They are given
good places on committees.
The liquor tiger would show his teeth
if these Savannah legislators did not
perform as was expected, and It is un
derstood that they can remain in the
legislature as long as the saloon ele
ment can have its will and way in
Savannah.
For eight long years, since 1908, the
prohibition law, for state-wide prohibi
tion, has been the law of the land. In
those eight years Savannah has re
mained a wide-open town.
There were mayors and councilmen;
there were judges of various courts:
there are city marshals and policemen,
and all are supported by the tax money
of the city, unless the courts are paid
with tax money from the state treas
ury. Nevertheless, the saloons were
kept open, drunkenness was prevailing,
and liquor advocates snapped their fin
gers at the law and kept the town wide
open. There was no serious resistance
until this law was strengthened and
orders were issued to close those
saloons last May. Now a storm of oppo
sition is seen, and heard, and felt. The
mayor, who Is endeavoring to enforce
the law, Is vllllfied and denounced in the
state capitol, and Tybee has been raided
and Immense quantities of liquor have
been discovered and captured.
The situation is without a parallel in
any state in the union, and the Savan
nah members in the legislature are ab
solutely rampant against a proper ex
ercise of the prohibition law that has
been on the statute books for eight
years, and nobody has a care for the
drunkards’ wives and children.
"ATLANTA SONG AMATEURS.”
After the Civil war got fairly started
there were some enterprising men in At
lanta who organized a band of singers
to raise relief funds for the soldier boy*
who enlisted and whose kindred lived in
Georgia. It was the most popular enter
tainment that the Atlanta people at
tended. It was headed by Mr. W. H.
Barnes and some of the songs were old
tunes with new words arranged to suit
the times. I have a number of these
songs, and I am going to reprint as many
of them as possible in the Country Home
column. When we recollect that this
went on a good deal more than fifty
years ago, I think you will agree
with me that it is a substantial contri
bution to the history of the Civil war.
Here is one that was very popular, and
Mr. Barnes arranged the music and the
words:
"FAREWELL TO THE ATLANTA
GRAYS."
'The tocsin of war's loudly sounding,
It echoes o’er valley and dale,
The hearts of our freemen are bounding.
The watchword, 'Right never can fall?
Tomorrow, Atlanta Grays, you leave us
To resist with your Uvea every foe.
The just God of battles go with you.
He’ll protect you, wherever you go.
“Remember your fathers and mothers,
Remember your sweethearts and
wives;
Remember your sisters and brothers.
You’re protecting, defending their
lives.
Remember the prayers of our people
For victory will be wafted on high,
Let the thought nerve your arm in the
conflict
And impel you to conquer or die.
"We feel that the honor of Georgia
Is safe if left in your hand,
We feel that our flag will ne'er tarnish
While defended by your patriot band.
Good-by. boys! Good-by! In your great
hearts
Let the fires of patriotism burn—
Drive the foes from the soil of Dixie,
Then back to Atlanta return!”
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“WITHOUT GOD
AND WITHOUT HOPE”
BT BISKOP WABBEN A. CAKDLER.
St. Paul, writing to the Ephesians, de
scribed certain of the Gentile world as
being "without God and without hope
in the world.” He described men who
had become hopless because they had
become godless. Nevertheless, those
people worshipped a multitude of gods,
so-calledfi They worshipped so many
false gods that they ceased to worship
the real and true God.
Such a loss of God Is not peculiar
to the heathen world. It is a matter
of frequent occurrence among men who
profess and call i hemselves Christians.
Men may truly lose God as a real per
son while still clinging to the forms of
religion; and it is to be feared that we
have many such in our land today.
They are really atheists, although they
profess to abhor atheism.
The worst atheism is not that which
formally dentes the existence of God,
but that which lives as if there were no
God while professing to believe in the
Divine existence. Any one observing
the customs and conduct prevalent in
our land can not fail to observe that
this sort of atheism abounds in the
United States.
Multitudes who would be shocked by
the dogmas of atheism live as godless
1> as any avowed atheist could possibly
live.
There is a type of religion which
leaves God entirely out of account, and
yet claims to be a high form of Chris
tianity. Reference is Intended to that
sort of religion so prevalent nowadays
which does not concern itself at all
about the relation of the human soul to
God, but emphasizes only the relations
of men to the things of this world. We
are told that to feed the hungry and
clothe the naked and ameliorate physi
cal conditions generally are the main
elements of religion. The questions that
relate to the justification of a soul by
faith, or to the new birth of a human
spirit, or to the witness of the Holy
Spirit to the pardon and purification of
a human soul, do not interest the aver
age member of any Church. Even
members of the Churches who are count
ed above the average in intelligence
and culture, do not care for these things
and do not understand the Scriptures
which refer to them.
Moreover, there are not a few preach
ers who never discuss these themes.
They make much of all sorts of "social
service” programs, but they seldom, if
ever, call their people into the very
presence of God and cause them to face
the things eternal. Hence, we have a
prevalent worldly gospel, if It may be
called a gospel at all.
Let us not suppose that the human
heart will long be contented with the
things of the earth as the food of the
soul. The prodigal may for a time feed
on these husks; but at last his soul ab
hors such food of swine.
The ministry of the popular Evangel
ist called "Billy Sunday," exemplifies
and enforces this truth. Despite the un
couth speech of this Evangelist and the
reprehensible methods which he em
ploys, he drawe multitudes to hear him,
and the secret of his power is in the
fact that he preaches the old essential
truths of a spiritual religion. He calls
men to repent in view of the demands
of the Kingdom of Heaven and not with
reference to the necessities arising from
the conditions in this world. He in
sists that men shall find forgiveness
through Jesus Christ and be assured of
it by the witness of the Spirit. He
preaches, in short, very like all the
great religious leaders who have ever
brought multitudes to repentance, or
wrought permanent spiritual good among
men. Notwithstanding his blemishes
of style and coarse forms of speech the
fundamental truths which he proclaims
have the same effect which they have
always had in all times and places when
they have been earnestly presented. By
consequence, thousands flock to hear
him, while the worldly gospels to which
reference has been made attract little
attention.
The empty churches which are found
all over our land are the visible tokens
of a worldly gospel which has failed to
engage the attention of immortal men.
The world will lecture the Church and
oppose spiritual ministrations; but for
all that, the world never bows before
anything except the revelation of the
Eternal God. When a preacher, or a
church, ceases to bring home to the
hearts of men the eternal things of the
spiritual world, even earthly minded
people turn away from such a preacher
and such a church. In truth, a church
is good for nothing but for the accom
plishment of spiritual ends.
For all other needs, the agencies of
earth are more effective than those of
WhdThenar IsuomqforTklarnior
The European war Is not an *— l J — -racoffy-* —
unmixed «vU; nor yet is it an ' ■ ..' .||
ii nml red blearing for this . _-||
vonntry We shall not at- a.'CLza - .A* I
tempt to go Into the erbh nl I I
side of the quootbm at nl. I yI
nor shall wo di?' oss 'war I fWjUHjEVg tA. BJRssBhH
t r'.dos''. munition plants or 1 EHUt VI
ml.'T similar [.‘mses of tlm I
r-itiiat: u we shun look ut I
the war purely from the I j I
s-andp’diit of prl e* f„r raw I
products, eltlor pr d l''ed lore ’ ■ -ef-'''
in tills or Imported | Wkai nTOT***?**- 1
from foreign countries. And
■ i i—
] amonget them those that have
/61 ■' irii. dC-'f. I not gone up in price In apite
of the
For example, here !a a
I peculiar situation in regard to
I ' I » beverage wblch Is so unl-
I I
fJ I « staple The
’ V I name of that beverage Is
I / <’o<a-coia.
Now Coca-Cola, as you
/ Y know. Is really an agricultural
JZOJ'y _ i product—a product of the
Bo!1 - Cane sugar—the Tery
purest and finest—constitutes
of course when we consider raw products we
’must carry the subject further on into the
matter of the prices we get and the prices
we must pay for finished products. We shall
confine our consideration, too, to those products
which hare their origin on the farm either in
the raw state or finished and manufactured
into edible or wearable articles.
Let ns take wheat, fbr example. We all
know that the war has put the price of wheat
way up. Very well—this means that the
whole country: city, town and rural population
as well are paying more for their flour —there-
fore the wheat raiser should theoretically be
getting rich on a product which it costs him
no more to raise than formerly and for which
he geta more money.
But wait a minute —there are other things
to consider in this matter of growing rich off
of the war. Cotton and wool and meats and
farm machinery and sugar hare gone up too.
This means that while the wheat raiser is
getting more for his product, he is also paying
some other agriculturist more for his product.
This cuts down somewhat on ttjp profits the
war is bringing to the farmer. Then it would
seem that the best way to keep ahead of the
game is for the farmer to pay the farmer who
raises his necessities the increased prices that
the war has brought about and when buying
his luxuries or those things that are not bare
necessities of life to pick and choose from
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the church can possibly be. For exam
ple, if a church proposes tv amuse the
people, it cannot by any means compete
successfully with the dance hall and the
theater. When it goes into business of
that sort the worllld can outdo it, and
furnish far more attractive entertain
ments.
If the church undertakes to offer to
the people such music as that of th?
opera, it enters a field where its worldly
competitors are far superior to it. When
men want the diversion furnished by the
opera they are far too sensible to go to
the church for It. They know where
they can get the thing they want, and
they will not take second-rate stuff of
fered in a church that is professedly set
■apart for higher and nobler things.
In the realm of the spiritual the
church is absolutely solitary and su
preme, and in that sphere it can have no
competitor and it cannot meet failure.
But outside of that sphere it merits de
feat and always meets it.
What American Christianity most
needs now is to call men back to God
Multitudes as jus>t as St. Paul described
the Gentiles of the first century; they
are “without God and with hope” in the
world. To be without Gd is to be with
out hope. All the forces of the earth
drive men to despair. By every law of •
nature the man who is once a sinner
must remain always a sinner; and his
course is inevitably one that leads inti
deeper sinfulness, and ends in utter
moral hellplessness The incoming of
some supernatural force by which he
may be renewed in righteousness and
true holiness is the only possible stay to
hold him back from despair. Hence,
whenever men or natiorts have lost their
faith in God they have lost their hope in
life. Suicides mutiply in proportion as
faith in God decreases. This is true •
even when pagan faith* decay and
perish.
When the Romans lost grip upon their
ancestral gods, suicides become shock
ingly prevalent, at)d the increase of sui
cides in our own country points to a
loss of God in the souls of men. Nor
can culture arrest the despair which
ends in suicide. Culture only points to
the utter hollowness of earthly things,
and when the cultured intellect has lost
God and has discovered earth’s hollow
ness, It reaches the conclusion that life
to no longer worth living and proceeds *
to make an end of it.
Whatever we may say of the Germans
we are bound to admit that in no other
nation has education been more generaj
and thorough, and yet it is a matter of
fact that in Germany there is prevalent
suicides among school children. How
pathetic is the case of a child who takes
his own life before the dews of youth
have dried upon his locks or the light
of childhood has died out of his eyes. It
is like the blighting of the flowers of
the springtime by an untimely frost And
this sad phenomenon we see in Germany.
Occasionally we see examples of it here
in our own country, and unless there
is a speedy and general revival of re
ligion we shall see more of it. Neither
we nor the Germans nor any other people
can preserve hope in our hearts after the
knowledge of God has faded from our
souls.
Very profound is the meaning of St
Augustine’s famous and pathetic excla
mation. "O God, Thou hast made us for
Thyself, and inqult are our souls with
out Thee!” There is no rest for human
spirit without God. Neither rationalism,
nor ritualism, nor any other form ct
godless religion can satisfy the death
less yearnings of the heart. The Phari
sees tried ritualism and the Sadducees
rationalism; but both Pharisees and*
Sadducees fell down in tearful penitence
at the feet of John the Baptist when the
prophet of the wilderness called the
Hebrew nation to repentance by pro
claiming anew the eternal verities of the
spiritual world. To the cry, “The King
dom of Heaven is at hand,” men of ail
classes came trembling to his baptism
of repentance But when did a man or a
nation ever repent at the proclamation of
any of the kingdoms of this world?
BOOKKEEPER MAY DIE
FROM FALL IN SHAFT
ATHENS, Ga., Aug. 12.—H. B. Burton,
bookkeeper for Collins & Co., fell
through an elevator shaft from the third
to the first floor this afternoon, fractur
ing his skull. He was talking to a
friend on the first floor and lost his bal
ance. He is in a very critical condition
at the hospital. Mr. Burton is one of
Athens' most popular young business
men.
puiroi aim uuvai
a large part of Coca-Cola syrup. As you
know, sugar has gone way up—so every glass
i of Coca-Cola you drink makes some farmer's
heart gladder. “
So it is with the pure fruit Juices that,
combined, produce the inimitable flavor of
Coca-Cola. Not so much in quantity seemingly
when you consider—a single glass of this
delicious beverage, but enormous when the en
tire Coca-Cola output is considered.
Yet this product of nature—of the farm —
Increased In cost though it has been to the
makers, has not been raised one penny in
price to dealer—or to you. The price at the
soda fountain and in the bottle has not risen
one iota.
Now inasmuch as the rural population alone
of America consumes millions of bott'ov and
glasses of Coca-Cola every year, you and the
other agriculturists of this country will not
only be able to continue to please your palates
and get delicious refreshment with this bev
erage at no increased cost, but you will be
sending back to the farm bigger profits and
more money at no greater expense to yourself.
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