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THE BANNER, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 27, 1911.
DON'T YOU WANT TO SAVE?
Big prices are on vacation here—their stay will be indefinite. A whirlwind of bargains in ready-to-wear this
week. Wonderful opportunities among the remnants and wash fabrics. Your attendance is respectfully
requested. You’ll be more than repaid. Great half price sale on all ready-to-wear continues. .*. .*.
New Piices on Silk Voiles, Foulards,
Lingeries and Wash Dresses
All $ 4.00 Dresses now $ 2.00
5.00
7.50
10.00
12.50
15.00
20.00
25.00
2.50
3.75
5.00
6.25
7.50
10.00
12.50
Sale Wash Skirts $1.00
Linen, rep, khaki, and linine wash skirts, in
white, tan, brown, blue and navy; latest models;
regular 2.00 and 2.50 values.
Sale Coat Suits $1.00
Linen, rep, and ljnine coat suits, last season’s
styles, in white and colors, 6.50 to 16.50 values. 1.00.
$3.50 Sale Lingerie Dresses
In white, pink and blue; last season styles; 8.50
to 18.50 values,
Shirt Waist Sale 75c
Made of dainty check muslin, trimmed in black,
sailor collars, splendid 1.00 values, 75c.
5.00 Silk Petticoat 3.50
In black and colors, well made and good 5.00
skirts, this sale 3.50,
Children’s Wash Dresses x /\ Off
Made of best quality ginghams, percales and
reps, in pleasing styles, all sizes 3 to 14 years
Auto Coats 5^2 Price
In linen, crash and rajah silk, with coat or large
shawl collar, well tailored.
Silk Coat Suits at Price
In black, champagne and a few colors, elegantly
tailored, all new models, just suitable for summer
travelling.
Millinery
Cost and profit not considered.
Every Hat must be sold.
Silk Specials
l.oO grade foulards now 50c
60c “ “ “ 35c
50c grade wash silks now 25c
50c grade 36 inch Dolly Varden silks now 35c
1.00 grade 27 inch messaline satins now 75c
Specials In All Departments
Boys’ blouse and shirts without collars, our 50c
numbers 25c
12 l-2c best percales, now 8 l-2c
12 l-2c best ginghams, now 8 l-2c
25c 36 inch white poplins, now 15c
All dress trimmings and nets 1-4 off
10c size Bailey’s talcum powder 5c
Thousands of yards of choice wash fabrics, 10c
and 12 l-2c values 5c
Sale Muslins 15c—Consists of voiles, lawns, dim
ities and foulards, values 18c, 20c and 25c, choice 15c.
Chick muslin, regular 10c grade 5c
Children’s hats and caps at half price, nice col
lection to select from.
Notion Specials
25c to 75c neckwear 15c
15c hand painted plates 5c
100 pairs house slippers 25c
1.25 grade Rogers & Gallet perfume 78c
35c to 50c grade fancy ribbons 25c
7 cakes best 5c soap % 25c
35c and 50c hair bsushes 25c
SYSTEM OF TENACITY.
The Great LcKinley Estates in Maryland,
Comprising Fifty-Six Farms, and
the Plan Pursued.
“REPRESENTATIVES.”
Something About the Classes and Kinds
the Law Makers of Georgia Belong
To in the Business World.
A Rational System of Land Renting.
1 have more than onco referred to
the system of rentln“ land inaugu
rated by the late William McKinley,
ot Queen Anne's County. Maryland,
lately I received from the Agricul
tural Department In Washington
Farmers' Bulletin No. 437. "A Sys
tem of Tenant Farming and its Re
sults.” The bulletin evidently refers
to the McKinley estate, though it
gives no names. This estate con
sists of 56 farms, with excellent
dwellings and barns on which there
Is a class of Intelligent tenants, many
o' whom have been on the same farms
for over twenty years, or have hand
ed them down to their sons. The
crops grown on these farms are not
so very remarkable, but the farms
have been maintained by the regular
system laid down by the originator,
ar.d have not only held their own.
hut. as a rule have improved in pro
ductlveness.
The tenants are required to stick
to the regular rotation of crops, and
they have found it to be to their ad
vantage to do so. and many of them
have made money enough to buy
farms of their own. While the com
crops on these farms have not been
of remarkable size, yet the bulletin
snys the average crops exceed the
average in Iowa, one of the best corn
states in the west, and are far larger
than the average in Kansas After
twenty years of cropping these farms
nre fully as productive as they wire
at 189(1. Then, too. the average
yield of wheat on these rented farms
for the past twenty years has been
larger by 2 1-2 bushels than the aver
age In Kansas, and 3 bushels higher
than the average tor the United
States. There are farms in the same
county that have long been owned by
progressive farmers where far larger
erops of com and wheat have been
made than on those rented farms,
but the main feature is that these
farms, 56 of them averaging 270
acres each, have been maintained
anil improved by a tenant system,
I wish that every land-owner in
the South who is parcelling out his
land annually to be skinned would
get this bulletin and study it. The
distinctive features of the estate are:
1. The tenant is well provided
with a comfortable house, barns and
other out-buildings.
2. He is encouraged to keep live
stock and Is supplied with material
foi fencing and shelter.
3. He Is given all the roughage
when he feeds It, bat only half when
he sells it, thus making It to bis in
terest to feed stock and return the
manure to the land.
4. He is under contract to use on
certain crops fixed euantities of fer
tilizers of a specified formula: the
quality of this fertilizer is guaranteed
by the state.
5. He must sow a given quantity
of clover seed each year. This is
to his advantage, as he gels the crop
either for pasture or hay, and in ad
dition he receives the benefits of il
a--, soil renovator. This must be
done or the <ontraft is violated.
6. The tenant takes an interest
in the farm because of his belief in
the fairness of the contract and the
permanency of his tenure so ions
as he abides by the contract.
At the close of the war William
McKinley was as poor as any of the
rest of ns,, but he had faith in good
farming. A year before his death,
in a speorh in Baltimore, he said:
“It is claimed that there is no mon
ey in farming, but 1 do riot know any
of my old comrades who have done
much hetter since the war. If you
will examine the tax hook of my
county, yon will find that T am assess
ed $1,000,000 of real estate for tnxa
tion. and every acre lias been made
ard paid for at farming."
The foundation fact in the system
is the encouragement given to the
tenants to feed stock. They can
feed all the stock that they can sup
ply with feed, provided the roughage
of the farm is fed. and they pay no
rent for the stock, but if they sell
any hay, one-half must go to the
owner of the land.
Another feature of value Is that
the farms are equipped with comfort
able dwellings and bams and out
buildings, and the landlord furnishes
paint and whitewash, and the tenants
are required to keep the buildings
in neat condition, as they must do
the painting and whitewashing.
Then so long as the tenant farms
according to contract and does the
work well, keeping the fences In
good order with material given by
the landlord, he is sure of the place
and can hand the farm down to his
son. There are tenants on this
estate who have bought more than
one farm and are renting them to
others on the same contract they
they make, while they stay on the
rented farm. This practice has ex
tended to other business men In that
and the adjoining counties. In Kent
county the late Andrew AVoodall died
v millionaire from renting farms on
the same plan, and others are grad
ually building up estates in the same
way.
This system could be carried out
in the cotton belt fully as profitably,
perhaps more so, than in Maryland.
If the owners of" large tracts, in
stead of parcelling the land out to bo
run down by mere croppers, would
equip the farms so that men of In
telligence and means for farming
would live in the houses and farm
according to a well settled system,
there are opportunities for not only
making great fortunes for the own
ers, but for tenants to make money,
ar. they have done on the Maryland
farms.
Manure and clover have kept these
Maryland farms up to a good state of
fertility, and many of them have in
creased in productiveness, for the
tenants are picked men, who have
the stock and means to farm and aro
required to farm systematically. The
five-year system is the most popular
for it gives the tenant two fields of
wheat, one after com and one on a
(lover fallow, and two fields In clov
er every year, while on some of the
farms t.he rotation is a four-year one.
with only one field in Clover each
year. The five year rotation is the
most popular with the tenants, as it
gives them more hay and pasture.
The tenant farmers long ago found
that it is to their interest to keep
Ihe farm up and improve it, for be
Ing certain of a long tenure they
knew that increased production
meant greater profit for them, while
When Clerk John T. Boifeullett
called to order the lower branch of
the general assembly he faced not
only the house of representatives of
Georgia, hut In many respects a
body representative of the various
elements of the state.
The house of representatives is
composed of nearly 200 members—
187—prorated among 146 counties;
six counties are credited with three
representatives each, twenty-tight
with two, and the remaining with ono
each.
In a recent publication giving in
formation regarding the personnel of
the general assembly, there are do
tails of 115 .representative!!!. Of
these it is found that 101 were born
in Georgia, 6 in South Carolina, 3 in
Alabama, 2 in North Carolina, and
one each in Kentucky and Maryland.
Both Fulton and Richmond counties
are represented by South Carolinians.
Fifty-six were born in the counties
they represent, and 58 were born out
side the counties they represent
Bibb has no native representative—■
two being from Twiggs county.
In the matter of ages, there is dif
ference of half a century. Between
25-30 years there are four; 30-35
fourteen; 35-40 fourteen: 40-45 eigh
teen: 45-50 twenty-two: 55-60 tliir
teen; 60-65 nine; 65-70 five, and 70-75
three.
What would make Roosevelt proud
ef his mother’s state (and make
Woodrow Wilson mourn over it) Is
that 97 members have been married
cnee. 7 twice, and one is a widower
at present. These are the fathers o>
359 children, living and dead.
In religion, data is not as complete
ns in other points: There are 2?
a mere annual cropper has no induce
ment to improve the land, but every
inducement to skin It all he can.
What a country the cotton belt
would be with some such system in
operation!
Get the bulletin from your con
gressman or from the Secretary of
Agriculture.
Methodists, 22 Baptists, 6 Presbyte
rians, 3 Christians, 2 each Episcopa
lian, and Primitive Baptist, and 1
each Cumberland Presbyterian and
Lutheran.
The Masons outrank all other so
iret orders, having 29 members;
they are followed by “several,” with
14. and the Knights of Pythias come
with 13, the Odd Fellows 9, the Red
Men with 3, College Fraternities have
2, and the Elks and Farmers Union
1 each.
Considering the ages of the mem
bers and the half century since th»
opening of the War Between the
States, it is not surprising that only
five Confederate soldiers are noted,
and one from the Spanish-American
war.
Of those having previous service
in the general assembly, 6 served in
the senate, and 40 in the house.
There are fourteen occupations re
presented—the lawyers leading with
41, farmers 23, merchants 8, physi
cians and public officials 6 each, 4
school teachers, journalists and gen
eral business 3 each, planters and
naval stores 2 each, and bankers,
statesman, railroad and manufactur
er one each.
It Is a well educated body. The
common or public schools lead oft
with 52 members, the State Univer
sity comes next with 20, Mercer 12.
Young Harris College, Emory, an-1
the Virginia Military Institute 2
each; Washington-Lee, North Geor
gia Agricultural College, Gordon In
stitute, Atlanta Medical College, Van
derbilt, State Normal, Harvard,
Cherokee Baptist College and the
University of Chattanooga one each;
one is self-educated and one trained
by private tutors.
In politics, there is hut one re
publican member.
Nationally all favor a revision of
the tariff downward, an income tax,
direct senatorial elections, economy
In expenditures, better banking and
financial laws. ‘In Ihe state they
want equal taxation, and improved
srhool system.
One is the “author of some good
legislation;” one opposed to “boss
rule;” “favors a devolpment policy;’*
although only 42 years old, one is
an old-time democrat; a "strong cor
poration lawyer," is from the "best
known folks of the state and a man
of considerable influence:” a clean
ballot and port rates is demanded
by one: one read law under Henry
G. Turner and is a democrat dyed-
in-the-wool of the progressive type:
one is “progressive in the best
sense:” another would like to see a
Christian feature Injected into our
educational system; opposition to
new counties, sharp lookout for va
grants, the race problem, interest in
Sunday school work, protection ot
forest and water-power, revision of
the criminal procedure code, exten
sion of the state road to the sea.
better hanking, corporation and in
surance laws are other matters that
will receive attention of some mem
bers. One would preserve “the pub
Ho roads by use of wheel tires of
sufficient width,” another came to
the assembly “without any strings
tied to him:" one worked in a saw
mill for 80 cents a day: one “travel
ed far and wide and is now a leading
citizen;” one has been a Sunday
school superintendent for thirty
years; another a deacon for twenty-
five; one, a judge, has never had an
opponent for public office ' >1 never
had a decision reversed, one is a
“Woodrow Wilson democrat;" one
has educated his eight children at
college; one is a successful farmer
making a specialty of Berkshire
hogs; one would repeal the dog law
and make one for fish; one is “not
partial to professional politicians,”
one has been “foreman of the grand
jury several times;” the author of
the Confederate Home bill is a mem
ber of this house: one worked as a
stork boy in a department store, dry
goods, shipping, receiving and law
clerk; clerk in justice of peace court;
newsboy, civil service.
With a body of such men with
many minds about many things, it
is too much to ask: “What will tne
harvest of legislation be?"—Macon
Telegraph.
Rose Stahl, who Is resting in Ire
land, will return August 18, and di
rectl.v afterward rehearsals will be
gin for the New York production of
the Klein play, "Maggie Pepper,”
which is to open the Harris Theater
the last week in August.