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THE BANNER, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 24, 1911, THE ATHENS BANNER H. J. ROWE, Editor and Proprietor. THE ATHENS DAILY BANNER is delivered by carriers in the city, or mailed, pottage free, to any address at the following rates: $5.00 per year; $2.50 for six months; $1.25 for three months, or 10 cents a week. Georgia Is going to have the fees baseball team in her history this yea and that is good news to the Athen fans who so much enjoy the game: on the campus. Senator Aldrich is reported as be' Ing In favor of the reciprocity agree ment with Canada. That is prettv good evidence that the Old Guard of the republican party is about read tc turn its toes to the daisies. The Atlanta people have gone af ter the Y. M. C. A. fund of six hun dred thousand dollars with a do termination that will win. More than two hundred thousand dollars mains to be subscribed, but Atlanta will get It. 0 The extreme cold of the past twen ty-four hours has damaged the fruit crop of the state, no doubt, but those who are In touch with the situation are of the opinion th’t the entire crop has not been killed. It will be good news if It turns out after this cold snap is over that the fruit crop has weathered the storm and that Geor gia will still be able to furnish a goodly number of carloads of luclous peaches for the market this spring and summer. 0 The educational train Is making such a hit this year that It Is quite likely that the farmers of the state wiU demand that It be run each year In the future. Well, it ran be run, If those who are interested in It will help raise the money to finance It. It costs money to run such an enterprise and It can only be made successful through the generous expenditure of money. If the farmers make up their minds, however, that they want the train run each year, there will be no trouble In getting the money. They will themselves get behind the move ment that will result in the funds he Ing forthcoming. 0 The Crawford W. Long Infirmary will be erected at the University of Georgia by the good women’of the state who have the movement In hand. It Is desired to raise twenty- live thousand dollars for the building and a like amount for a maintenance fund. A considerable portion of this fund la already In hand, but much more Is needed. There should be no hesitation about contributing to this fund. It is not expected that Athens should put up all this money by any means, but It is expected that Athens should make a generous contribution to the fund that Is being raised fo> this purpose. Every Athenian should give something, especially those who have had to undergo operations and have been relieved of pain by the use of anaesthetics. 0 The democrats of New York had better keep their eyes open as to the senatorial question. Monday nothing but the determination of certain publican members of the legislature to stand by what they termed a gen tlemen's agreement prevented the election of Chauncey M. Depew the senate. The republicans turned up that day with a majority of the members of the legislature present ind could have elected Dopes- If they had been wllllngto disregard unofficial pairs. It Is to the credit of the re- publbcanls (that they stood by this agreement with the democrats and refrained from voting. The truth the democrats of the nation are get ting rather tired of the way in which this senatorial deadlock has been prolonged by Tammany Hall, quite clear that Sheehan will never be elected senator and for the good of the democratic party Tammany Ought to put up another candidate, WE HAVE WAGED NO BUSINESS WARS. In an interesting contribution to the current number of the Columbi, Henry Mann has draw-n some interesting parallels between the wars waged America and seme of the other countries, particularly the British empire, says; The American people are keen in business but they are first of all patriotic. Herein is the historic difference between America and Great Britain. All England's great wars have been commercial—originating in some sordid purpose to build up British trade by destroying the eomraeroe of rivals. The American Revolution was caused by Eng lish laws intended to erippie Colonial trade. England fought Holland and France, Spain and Denmark, with similar purpose, and during our Civil War the Alabama and other so-called Confederate cruisers were sent out of English ports to drive American commerce from the seas. The United States, on the contrary, have never had a “'business” war. Every conflict with a foreign power in which the American people have been engaged was begun and maintained, on the part of the Uni ted States, in defense of the national honor and independence, to re sist unjustifiable aggression, or to assist some weak and struggling people in their battle for human rights. Although the Mexican war re sulted In a large addition to American territory it began in resistance to Mexican Invasion of American soil. It should be unnecessary to say that In the Civil War commercialism did not enter into the motives of North or South. He has something to say of the treatment accorded the soldiers of British nation and of the soldiers of Uncle Sam: Another historic difference between Americans and British Is in the treatment of the soldiers and sailors who have fought the battles of their country. England practically abandons the old soldier to starvation and the workhouse. He gets a medal, perhaps, but he can not eat the medal. The veterans of the American army and navy, on the other hand, receive pensions, and are taken care of In soldiers' homes. Comparatively few veterans care to accept the hospitality of . the homes, although comfortable and well conducted, and make a liv ing as best they can with the aid of the pensions granted for disabil ity and old age. The pensions amount to an enormous sum in the ag gregate, but very little individually. The people bear the burden will, ingly, recognizing that it Ib a fulfillment of Abraham Lincoln's pldege in his second Inaugural to "care for those who have borne the battle, their widows and orphana.” The burden will not last long. Ten years hence there will be but few survivors of the men who fought the Civil War. ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦44+444444'4 4 POLITICS AND POLITICIANS Greensboro, N. C„ has adopted the commission form of government. Six aspirants are contesting for the republican nomination for mayor of Chicago. In connection with the proposal to hold the next democratic national con ventlon In Baltimore It la Interesting to recall that no fewer than fourteen candidates for the presidency were named in that city. Jamea A. Reed, United States sens tor-elect from Missouri, will be the principal speaker at the banquet of Kanias Democrat* In Topeka, February 22. The democratic State Executive Committee of Kentucky, has Issued a call for a state primary to be held In May for the nomination of a Unit ed States senator. Joseph T. Robinson, representative In Congress of the Sixth Arkansas district, will be a candidate next year for the democratic nomination governor of bla state. Simon Wing, who was the first SENATOR BORAH AND THE NEQRO. Senator Borah, who Is leading the fight for the passage of the bill to sub mit a constitutional amendment to the people of the United Slates through the legislatures of the respective stales to provide for the election of United States senators by the direct vote of the people, gave his Northern colleagues some hot talk yesterday. He said he was sorry that the negro question had been raised In this debate, but that since it had been raised the facts might as well be known. He then accused the republicans of dealing with this question In hypocritical manner, and charged that it had been injected into the debate on ly for the purpose of Imperiling the measure. He told the republicans who are opposing this bill that they might as w acknowledge that they had dealt In a hypocritical manner with the negro and also that there Is as much prejudice against the negro In the North as any where else The position of Mr. Borah wag no doubt annoying to the republican sens' tors, but to the democrats It is not sufficient to enuso them to support the bill unless they are assured In a most convincing manner that congress would not have the power to control the senatorial elections should tbe amendment final ly pass. Among other things said by Senator Borah during the debate on this sub Ject were the following: "The. Northern states have exhibited the same race prejudice that has been shown elsewhere. In the north we have our race wars. We push our negroes to the outer edge of the Industrial world. We exhibit the same prejudices, the same weaknesses, the same Intolerance that Is apparent 'n the Southland. - “The negro has been used as a polHIoal football about aa long as our own sense of decency and his developing Intelligence will permit. We should not longer mistreat him, but we should have the courage to Inform him as to the real situation. It dops not benefit him to make him the subject for our sophomore rhetoric. The negro has advanced to the point where we well may dlspenso with the perennial distribu tion of soothing syrup and give him solid food In the way of facts. We should tell him the truth v-.i conceal nothing.” 4 a THE VALUE OF LIVE STOCK. One can scarcely realize the value of live stock and Its Importance to the American people without reading the figures that are given out by the govern ment In Its annual reports. The Macor, Telegraph has complied from the government reports some very Interesting figures on this subject, as follows: During the past year mules made the greateat average Increase In val ue, It being $5.78, making the average price about $125.62 a head. Values of other animals were: Horses, $111.67, an Increase of $3.48; milch cows, $40.49, an Increase of $4.70; sheep, $3.73, a decrease of 35 cents, nnd swine, $9.35, an Increase of 21 cents. The highest and lowest average value per head of farm animals by States are given as follows: Horse*, highest In Massachusetts and Rhode Island, $148; lowest, New Mexico, $50. Mules, hlgheit In South Carolina, $173; lowest In New Mexico, $82. Milch cows, highest In New Jersey, $53.50; lowest In Alabama, $25. Sheep, highest In Connecticut, $5.60; lowest in Mississippi and Louisiana, $1.90. sf * «| >jj Swine, highest In Maine, $13.10; lowest In Florida, $4.60. During the past thirty years the number of cattle (including milch cows) In thlB country has Increased from 34,932,000 to 69,080,000; of this increase the South is credited with from 11,571,000 to 17,416,000. During the same period the number of sheep In the country rose from 42 192,000 to 57.216,000, though there was a decrease of about 4,000,000 from the figures of 1900. Of the decrease about 2,800,000 was In the South, where the number dropped from 8,899,000 to 6,084,000, Georgia herself dropping from 527, 000 In 1880 to 245,000 in 1910. Swine In the entire country numbered 47,682,000 In 1880 and In 1900 rose to 62,808,000, but fell In 1910 to 47,782,000. THE APPALACHIAN FOREST RESERVt The forests In the Appalachians are to be preserved through the agency of the United States government. This has been made positive by the action of the senate In passing a bill appropriating ten million dollars to that work, the same bill having already passed the house. It now awaits the signature President Taft, and that signature will bo affixed when the bill goes to him for Its approval. This Is an important step and one that should have been taken years ago. tor tho Appalachian forests are well worth preserving, containing as they do the largest jiart of the wooded areas of the country. It Is lo he hoped that this step has been taken by the government in time > prevent the marring of tbe beauty of Tallulah Falls In this state, where It is proposed to utilize the water power of the Tallulah river to generate electric candidate of the Socialist Labor Par-j p 0wer p ut t; ie re arc thousand* and thousands of Georgians who had rather the ly for Preaidant of the United State* I w power ware generated In some othar way and the beauty of Tallulah died recently at ble home In Tharlee- 1 town) Maea., aged 84 years. ! left untouched. SPECIAL GUANO 102 BUSHELS OF CORN J OE STONE, the Jackson County lad, 11 years old, made 102 bushels of Corn on one am*; won the RED star jspecial aUANO I ANALYSIS JJkiWCVtOhC ACID .9 % t»iT*C«* —' ', M * , M, * 5 “»,»^.cru. E a'.v 3 JL EMPIRE STATE CHEMICAL CO ATHENS GA MASTER JOSEPH STONE Thi* I* lh** Jackson County boy who w on the Boys’ Corn first prize in the Georgia Boys* Corn Club contest for 1910, and received an Award of Merit from the government of the United States, signed by Honorable James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. LOOK FOR THE RED STAR ON EVERY SACK “While the earth re- mnincth seed time and harvest ★ ★ ★ shall not cease.” By using Red Star Special Guano, any farmer can greatly increase both yield and profit from every acre of his land. Not more acreage, but more from your acreage, is the Red Star “slogan. (»o to your dealer and ask for Red Star Guano. Don't allow the suggestion of any other brand, hut write us direct, giving local dealer’s name, and we will see that you are supplied with the kind of fertilizer which enabled a 11-year-old boy to raise 102 bushels of corn on ONE acre Our fertilizer book will be mailed free to you for the asking. Send us your name. EMPIRE STATE CHEMICAL COMPANY I Reliable Remedy FOR GATARRH Ely’s Cream Balm it quicklr absorbed. Gives Relief a; Once. It cleans*:*, Hoothes, heals aiil protects lie diseased mem. jrane resulting from Catarrh and drives •way ft Odd in tho Head quickly. Restores he Bouses of Ta'te and Smell. Full >.j /e it) cts. at Druggists or by mail. Fiiptj,j Jr-'H.n Balm /or use in Atomizers 75 cts. Ely Brothers, 56 Warren Street. New York. STUART’S BOCHO AND J0NIPER COMPOUND FOR KIDNEY TROUBtys * BO Years on the Market * GEORGIANS STAND SOLID. , The senators and representatives from the state of Georgia are in favor of electing 1’nitcd States senators by direct vote of the people, but they are unwilling to gain this privilege by allowing the Sutherland amendment to pass and thus place the power of regulating the senatorial elections in the hands of congress. Senator Bacon, having satisfied himself on the legal point that the pas sage of the Sutherland amendment would mean the giving into the hands of congress of the control of our senatorial elections, at once sounded the Georgia delegation in congress on the subject and found all of the members from this state opposed to the bill unless the Sutherland amendment Is elimi nated. Senator Bacon is anxious to secure an amendment to the bill, in which It will be stated specifically that the power to regulate the election of Unit ed States senators shall be left In the hands of tbe states. This amendment will be offered by the Georgia senator, but it may not secure enough votes to pass. It begins to look as If the Southern senators will stand against the bill to submit the constitutional amendment to provide for the election of senators by a direct vote of the people, unless it is made perfectly clear to their minds that the power of regulating the elections remains in the hands of the people. The Southern senators do not wish to take chances of a recurrence of Force bill legislation. The South now practically chooses its senators by a di rect vote, through the medium of primaries, and is willing to let well enough alone, unless it Is quite certain that something is to he gained by the change. > f JUDGE SPEER AND FORTIFICATION. Judge Emory Speer, of this state, in an address before the Republican Club of New York, made a strong appeal for the fortification of the Panama Canal. He explained In a convincing manner what the canal meant to this country nnd the dangers that would be encountered should the United States allow It to go unfortified. Among other things he said: And our forces on the canal are not there to maintain neutrality alone. There Is the duty to guard the sovereignty and the safety of the nation. Shall we stand Idle while the potent fleets of our enemy may swiftly sweep through the canal nnd attack, ravage, lay tinder contribution or seize possession of either coast of our country? So otlur nation, not even Great Britain, guarantees neutrality for us. If. then, we a r e belligerent and helpless, a hostile.fleet might blow up the looks and destroy the canal without violating any rule of international law. Or, what Is more dangerous, our enemy may himself fortify and hold the canal as an incomparable naval base, to extort from us terms humiliating to American honor and destructive to our power among the nations of the earth. ♦ -♦ ATHENS REAL ESTATE. The city assessors of real estate, having finished their work, it appears from the tabulation of their books that the real estate of !hc city of Athen. again shows a magnificent increase in value. The total increase is not quite ns large as that of last year, but last year was a phenomenal year ami tbe In crease was far beyond what was normally to be expected. An Increase of nearly two bundled thousand dollara in the real estate of a city the size of Athens Is a showing of which the people may well be proud. In this increase Is Included n number of splendid Improvements that have been made In the city during the past twelve months. The figures that are given out by the assessors’show that there is no bet ter Investment open for the man who has money to Invest than Athena dirt. There Is a chance for men with money to gain a splendid yield on their mon ey by Investing It In either Improved or unimproved real estate In this city. Athens Is a city with a great future. There will never come a day when well-located Athens property will show a diminishing value. The city Is going steadily forward and the real estate of the city keeps pace with the growth In other directions. Come to Athens, Mr. Investor, and you will not regret placing your money In Athena real estate. THE SOUTHERN COMMERCIAL CONGRESS. The Southern Commercial Congress that meets In Atlanta next month Ill accomplish much for the advancement of the material Interests of this section of the'eountry. It is an organization that is young but possessed of much vigor. It has mapped out a program of great usefulness and when it has put Into effect a number of plans that have been made, the South will at once begin to reap the benefits of the organization’s work. At tills session in Atlanta many of the leading business men of the South ill be present and addresses will be delivered by a number of the most prominent and most successful men In the country. The subjects will be many and varied. There will be discussions of the problems of agriculture, commerce, education, forests, good roads, heaalth, Immigration, insurance, land reclamation, manufactures, mines and mining, real estate advertising ater resources and the like. It will be shown how the South is alive and ac tive in the development of all these lines of endeavor. There Is no doubt concerning the resources of this section. The thing to be done Is to bring about the development of those resources. When the re sources of the South have been fully developed, this section will be the rich est part of the world and wlll.have more population and wealth than any other section of the republic. The Southern Commercial Congress will l n a large measure bring about this work of development. Every city In the South should be represented there and It Is gratifying to know that the Athens Chamber of Commerce will vc a large and Influential delegation on hand at this meeting. A PROPOSITION AS TO THE CANAL This is a day of propositions concerning the Panama Canal. The people have been discussing the proposition to fortify the canal and there have been made many arguments for and against that proposition. Now It Is proposed that all ships flying the American flag be allowed the tite of the canal free. It urged that this would Iiav4 a tendency to build up a merchant marine In this country. INTEREST IN POULTRY RAISING. There is a growing interest in poultry raising in this part of the country. Within the part few years this Interest has Increased so rapidly that it is now quite the fashion to raise poultry. And it Is to be noted that only the host chickens are being raised. The common dunghills are being relegated to the rear In the poultry procession of the day. The Jacksonville Tlmea-Union dignifies this tendency to raise poultry by a most enthusiastic editorial In which the hoys are urged to take to poultry raising on a large scale. The Tlmes-Unlon says: It Is a good thing for a boy to become Interested in something useful to the point of engaging him In continuous effort toward a defi nite end. Especially Is It a good thing If the community benefits by the results of his activities. The hoy who engages in chicken raising cannot succeed unless he takes an interest In animal life. He must learn to be gentle to his charges, to study their welfare, to provide for their comfort. Regular habits are necessary to success, for chickens must be attended to with regularity. Cleanliness Is a good habit that will be Inculcated, for their health will fall if he does not keep all things clean about the poultry yard. Most boys love to "make things.” The necessary constructions for poultry yard will call forth his constructive abilities and he will learn the use of tools. The emergencies that will arise are likely to call upon his ingenuity to meet them. In the matter of feeding he will be led to study something outside the lessons of the school room. He will learn what he must feed to make h ! s chicks grow fast, what to encourage his hens to lay, what feeds are useful to fatten such fowls as he wishes to sell. He wl.l learn to save money to begin or to extend his operations to the glorious end that he may raise money by his own exertions. He will naturally wish to Invest his savings to the best advantage In what breeds he helleves will best serve his purposes, will best repay his ef forts. • To develop character in the rising generation -there could he noth ing heller than to engage the boys, and the girls, too, In the raising of chickens. Nothing could go further toward steadying a flighty char acter, toward teaching the value of perseverance, toward Inculcating the virtue of early rising and Inducing other good habits. ♦ — * TILLMAN S PATHETIC TRIBUTE. It was a most pathetic tribute that Senator Benjamin R. Tillman paid to the memory of the late Senators J. I*. Dolliver and A. S. Clay. The South Carolina senator, who has been very ill for a long time, arose to make a fev remarks. He raid: “Dolliver was a great man. Great men are plentiful in thin country, hut net as great as Dolliver, Good men are plentiful In this country, hut not as good as Clay. They both have left us and we know not how soon our own time nay come. I feel that with especial force. But—but I cannot g> on, Mr. President. I have thought but the words will not come. So I will sit down.” And he sank Into his seat exhausted. The fiery Tillman, of ten or fifteen years ago, under the withering touch of disease, has disappeared, and in his place has come a quiet, sad, resigned man. He was for many years a most picturesqque figure ln the senate. When he first went as a member of that great body, his remarks on the floor of the sen ate were not always within the bounds of senatorial courtesy and his pitchfork methods did not always meet the approval of the best element. Hilt he learn ed much as the years passed and came to grasp the strongest points In govern ment. For a number of years the South Carolinian has ranked among th#ablest of the members of the senate and has given his country very able service. He still attends the meetings of the senate and attends to his duties, but with a feeling that is well expressed In his tribute to his departed comrades. ♦ —♦ PROTECTINQ THE FRUIT CROP. The fruit growers of Georgia are not going to lose the peach crop this year if they can help it. They realize what a freeze would do for the crop and ac cordingly are preparing against the freeze. It has been found that artificial heat can be supplied in orchards and in this way the temperature can be kept above the freezing point. This, of course, (Involves much expense and much trouble, but the crop Is one that is worth saving. If it can be saved by the expenditure of money and labor, it Is worth the time and the effort. One orchardlst in South Georgia, has just received a shipment of four thousand, five hundred orchard heaters. These heaters hold seven quarts ot non-eombustlble oil and It Is said that they will raise the temperature ten de grees if as many as one hundred to the acre are used. This would mean that the temperature rould fall to twenty-two degrees and still be kept at the freezing point in the orchards where these heater i are used. The fuel In a heater will run the heater for eight or nine hours and the heater can be refilled If necessary without turning out the flames, as the oil is non-combustible. This Is the first attempt made tn Georgia to preserve the fruit crop through the use of these artificial heaters, though ordinary (iris have often been built In the orchards and have in a number of instances been effective In their work. If this experiment should prove to be successful, then It is probable that all the larger orchards will be equipped with this means of protecting the crop against the cold. TAYLOR SAW MILLS LEAD »ln Simplicity, Capacity, Durability, Nana Better Steam and "Gasoline Engines Portable 4 StationaryBoilers 'Complete Gtiatig, Sawing zod Sktigl* Outfits ftn.tMis. 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