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November the 11th Was the Great Day of Peace;
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WEEKLY LETTER
FROM J. J. BROWN
Atlanta, Ga., Nov.—The cotton
States Official Advisory Marketing
Board, whose committee, appointed
at the recent Atlanta meeting, went
to Washington to secure action pro
tecting cotton and peanuts in the
hands of the producers, was success
ful in both cases, said Director L. B.
Jackson of the Georgia State Bureau
of Markets, of the State Department
of Agriculture, a member of the com
mittee who has just returned.
“The most vicious bear raid in the
history of cotton has been attempted,
uncovered and checked this week,”
Hr. Jackson said. Through this raid,
secretly hatched in New York the plot
ters had set out to ruin the farmers,
merchants and bankers of the South.
“But when Chas. J. Brand, chair
men of the government cotton distrib
uting committee, issued his order pro
hibiting speculative short selling,
which our commtttec heartily approv
ed and commended, it checked the
raiders up short. Mr. Brand pointed
out that ship room for cotton should
increase very rapidly following the
armistice, thus relieving congestion at
the ports. He also showed that the
world’s warehouses and shelves out
side the United States, are bare of
cotton and cotton goods, and that Eu
rope’s consumption of raw cotton this'
season, should execeed last season by
not less than 2,000,000 bales.
“This bears out the position taken
by the Cotton States Marketing Board
• which is composed entirely of agricul
tural officials of the cotton belt, and
ef which commissioner of Agriculture
J. J. Brown is president, in calling on
thef armers of the South to stand with
their backs to the wall, and not to
sell a pound of cotton for less than 35
cents.
“There is still work to be done,
however. The war trade board, an
entirely different organization, con
trols thes hipping of cotton, and a
special committee of cotton states
senators, appointed at a conference
in Senator Hoke Smith’s office, will
take hold of the difficulties which this
sltuaton presents. The one man
the war trade board who has, appar
ently most nfluence in this direction
is Beaver White of Miilroy, Pa., and
while his capitalistic activities in Eu
rope, do not furnish the best a
once regarding his attitude in
gard to moving our cotton, we have
every reason to believe the commit
tee of southern senators will work out
the situation and bring it to a satis
factory conclusion."
The removal of the restrictions
placed upon the marketing of peanuts
by the federal food administration,
immediately upon the showing made
by the Georgia State Bureau of Mar
kets, leaves the market in that prod
uct wide open to the influence only of
the law of supply and demand. It was
promptly recognised by the food ad
ministration that, in the absence of a
stabilized price, these restrictions
should never have been placed on pea
nuts at all.
With the removal of the restric
tions, already announced from Wash
ington, anyone can buy peanuts now
without a license, hold them as long as
they want to and get all they can for
them. The Federal Reserve bank has
declared that peanuts stored in a rep
utable warehouse, are just as good
collateral as cotton.
“While in Washington,” said Di
rector Jackson," I ran across a large
manufacturer from Portland, He.
who makes a crisp from peanut oil He
was greatly distressed over not being
able to buy any peanut oil, although
he stated he was in' the market for
ten tank cars of it and had offered
even more than the market price, but
lound sellers were holding for still
more. The name of this manufactur
er will he furnished on request.
“If u-’y one has any doubt about
the ps-aut meal mvkc‘ being strong,
Jet him try to contract to buy soalc
and hew 211 find out.
“The State Bureau of Markets re
news its advice to market peanuts
very slowly, and producers will get
better price for them than has been
prevailing this season.”
That “a Little Learning Is a Danger.
ous Thing” Seems Shown by
This Anecdote.
A certain lawyer of a bygone gener
ation, Mass Jones by name, had a case
before a justice of the peace out in
the country, says Case and Comment.
He was for the defendant, while a
wiseacre of a schoolmaster who had
plcke up a few Latin words, appeared
for the plaintiff.
The fat'- were all in the schoolmas
ter’s favor, and In summing up he
would exclaim with great gusto as he
made his points, “and that is th n sum-
mum bouum of the matter, and the
case must g- to the plaintiff.’
Mass had'really no defense, but his
ready wit and keen sense of the ridicu
lous supplied him with one. So when
he came to reply he said to the justice,
T have n grent regard for thn’. old
law of summum bnnum, on which the
gentleman wholly relies, for its an
tiquity. It was an old English law,
and served well its day and generation.
But the people finally outgrew It and
became dissatisfied with it; and it was
one of the laws England tried to force
upon the colonies.
“But,” said Mass, raising his voice
and arm on high, “our forefathers
fought and split their blood in the
Revolution to overthrow that law, and
they did. overthrow it, and then they
reared in Its stead tho law of e pin-
rlbus unum, which must govern this
case;”
Thereupon thn justice said, “I have
grent deal of respect myself for that
old English law, summum bonum. It
was good enough for that time, and
good enough for the English, but I
agree with Mr. Jones that our fore
fathers tumbled thnt law over in the
Revolution, and this case will bo de
cided In favor of the defendant under
the law of e piurlbus unum, which
was put in Its place."
Varying Length of Life In Fishes.
The length of life of fishes is vari
able In the extreme. ■ When wo think
of the great number of enemies to
which any fish is exposed, such os
other predatory fishes, parasitic
worms and Crustacea and other para
sites (which are usually harmless to
man but destructive to the fish) crabs,
sea birds, bncterlnl diseases, etc., we
easily see that to live in the water
and escape all those dangers re
quires many protections which at best
can preserve only a very small num
ber of fishes beyond the spawning
me,
Such protections to fishes are speed
of swimming, defensive spines and
fins, the ability to distend themselves
like the puffer to prevent being
swallowed, teeth, electric organs, heavy
corselets of scales which easily slip
from .the skin and a high state of re
sistance against disease, .
Thus, If a fish is well protected, out
of a largo number of its kind a few
may live to reach unusually largo sizes.
There ore records of very large fishes
of most known varieties.
“THAVILbeen using Doctor Cald-
X well’s Syrup Pepsin for more than
seven years. I believe it saved my little grand
daughter's life, as she had such terrible spasms,
caused by the condition of her stomach, until
we gave her Syrup Pepsin. Our family thinks
there is no remedy, like Dr. Caldwell’s
Syrup Pepsin for the stomach and bowels.”
/From ft letter to Dr. Caldwell, written by\
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Angling Frog.
There la a hideous reptile, known ai
the fishing frog, which angles for its
gome as expertly and with as great
success as the most adroit fly-fisher.
Ho is a clumsy, awkward swimmer,
hot nature has compensated him for
his unwieldiness by furnishing him
with an equivalent for a rod and Une,
with bait always ready for use. Two
elongated tentacles spring from his
nose, which taper away like actual
fishing-rods. To the end of them Is at
tached, by a slender filament, which
serves the purpose of a line, a bolt in
the form of a shiny bit of membrane.
The hooks are set in the month of the
fisherman below, and in order to In-
doco the fish to venture within reach
of them, the angler stirs up the mud
at the bottom with his fins and talL
This attracts the fish and conceals him
from their observation. He. then piles
bis rod; the glittering bait glows la
the water like a living Insect. The
dazed fish are taken In great numbers,
perfectly circumvented by the trick of
the crafty angler.
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Festival Custom In Southern India
Hat Long Been a Recognized Fea
ture of Native Life.
One of tbc interesting uses to wbicn
brass and gold leaf are applied In
southern India Is for gliding limes,
the decorated fruit, according to a lo
cal custom, being exchanged by na
tives on festival occasions In token
of esteem. The origin of this practice
Is apparently unknown, but it datea
from a distant period and Is a recog
nized featnre of Indian life. The ex
change of limes takes place on New
Year’s days, of which several are ob
served In India. Besides the English
anniversary observed by the naUves,
the Mohammedans and the Tamil and
Telngu branches of the Hindus have
special New Year's days. A native
calling on New Year’s day on a per
son to whom he or she desires to
Bhow esteem, presents the host with
a lime. In the case of the well-to-do
tho Umo Is always ornamented with
brass or gold leaf. The custom some
times extends also to tho ordinary
“tamash" or social reunion. Thus, a
good deal of brass leaf Is used for
gilded limes and the bazar trade In
this lino throughout southern India
is really considerable. Tbe leaf is
also used to some extent In tbe man
ufacture of gilded cops or ‘‘topi,’
worn generally by Mohammedans In
southern India on their holidays and
for decorations on the dresses of
Mohammedan women.
Lead Poisoning In Waterfowl.
According to Mr. Alexander Wet*
more of the United States biological
survey, lead poisoning In waterfowl,
which has been known for a number
of years, has recently assumed consid
erable economic Importance. Wild
ducks, whistling swans and a few oth
er birds subject to the disease, pick
up and swallow pellets of shot, lying
In the mud In marshes and shallow
lakes about old shooting blinds. Tbe
shot remains In the stomach until It
has been ground Into fine particles by
bits of gravel, swallowed to aid di
gestion. nnd part of the lead Is pro*
gresslvely absorbed Into the system,
resulting In slow paralysis, emaciation
and death. Mr. Wetmore's experi
ments show that In some cases a sin
gle No. 8 shot Is snfflclent to cause
death by lead poisoning.—Scientific
American.
Ecology.”
Although the word “Ecology” has
long been known in Its meaning, lib
tie practical attention has been given
until recently to the methods of study
It connotes. Ecology Is that phase of
biology that considers plants and ani
mals as they exist In nature, and stud
ies their Interdependence, and the re*
lation of each kind and Individual to
Its environment It Is the study of
the actions and Interactions of living
things and their reactions toward ex
ternal influences.
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