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MMBER 20.
BA1NBRIDQE, DECATUR COUNTY, GEORGIA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20 1903.
$1.00 YEAR IN ADVA W
©ffldal ©rgan of ©ecatur County anMbe City of ffiainbrtogc.
e Growers’ Plans
Perfected.
et j n g of great importance
icultural Georgia and' of
interest to the growers of
n e, was held in the * par-
he Hotel Lanier in Macon,
r last and was attended by
:r of enthusiastic fncn.'s
ndustry. The object of
ting was to perfect ar-
nts for the holding of the
te Sugar Ca^ie Growers’
ion which will be held in
Ga„ May 6, 7 and 8th,
Previously it had been
:ed that the convention
held April 29 and 30th
ist, but it was brought
at Tuesday’s meeting that
to secure the presence of
y Wilson of the United
Agricultural Department’
be necessary to change
previously set; and this
irdinsdv done.
urposes of this convent : on
;adv been set forth through
'umns, but they are of
t importance to say that
terested syrup grower in
county should attend,
experts from Louisiana,
awaii, together with the
the Agricultural Depart-
Washingtdn and assist-
1 address the important
of “Gene r al Sugar Cane
“The -Cultivation of
” “What the Department
ulture of the Government
for Agricultural Develop-
the South,” “Relation of
Sugar Industry to Sugar
oduction," “The Manutac-
5ugar from Indian Maize,”
)st Modern and Successful
1 of Manufacturing Geor-
■ Syrup and ihe Best Plan
coming the Difficulties of
ifacture,” The Operation
al Cane Mills and Sugar
and many other important
and methods will be con-
rowers of the several cane
states have been re-
to appoint five progressive
from each county in the
ere sugar cane is grown,
lustrial Development of
road will have onf repre-
and one will be appointed'
Department of Agricul.
n ea <* state. These del-
'pointed from the various
will be expected to attend,
with every other farmer
res the interest now b ting
ru P production and who
0 obtain all possible in
i’ from those who have
'fe long study of the cul-
:ane - It is hoped that
he thronged with cane
and visitors and that there
" m' s convention such an
m ane cultivation as has
en manifested in Georgia
ca ne states So much
tier,dance upon the con
1 the very pertinent ques-
h farmers'of this section,
l‘ S that °f proper machin-
oe manufacture of syrup;
' s , con >>ng convention
Pnufacturer of sugar mills,
James Tillman’s Defense.
A great many of the influetial
men of Columbia believe that
James Tillman, the murderer cf
Gonzales will be acquitted It is
the consensus of opinion that he
will at least never hang. His line
of defense has been given to the
public which is in brief as follows:
that on account of the violent edi
torials appearing in Gonzales’ pa
per bitter animosity between the
two resulted. Threats were made
on both sides and Gonzales made
the statement that if Tillm-n came
to Columbia a fight would ensue.
Messages were exchanged by both
parties that it would be a case of
“fire” on sight. On the day of
tragedy Tillman was moving his
effects from the state house and
among other things in his office
were two pistols which he placed
in his pockets, Walking down the
street he saw Gonzales on the op
posite side. Gonzales crossed
over, his hands in his overcoat
pockets and as he approached Till
man he thrust his hands further
do.wn. Tillman considered this a
movement for a weapon, (which he
is positive Gonsales had) he drew
and fired.
This is the plea that will be
presented to the Carolina jury.
We can only surmise as to the re
sult. Certain it is however, that
the feeling against Tillman is not
neatly so bitter as it was several
weeks ago.
Birds as Insect Destroyers j Wedded at Dawn.
evaporators and sugar and syrup
machinery has been invited , to
exhibit its machinery and demon
strate its operation. This will
afford an excellent opportunity for
our farmers to become acquainted
with the best equipments on the
market, their cost and their prac
tical operation.
The Macon Chamber of Com
merce at whose ipvitation the
convention goes to the Central City
have evidenced their desire to
make the meeting in May the
most important one that was ever
in the South. The railroads will
charge one fare for round trip with
25c additional and moderate hotel
and boarding house accomodations
will bfe arranged.
Capt. R. E. Rose, of Tallahas
see, Fla , who attended Tuesday’s
meeting, is enthusiastic over the
outlook, and predicts that the at
tendance from his state will be
large. Capt. Rose is state chem
ist of Florida and is one of the
best posted men on the sugar cane
question in the South,
The Search Light has led the
fight for the development of the
sugar cane industry of Decatur
county and has continuously
fought against the pernicious
practice of adulterat’ons that is
dragging the name of puke Geor
gia syrup into unmerited disre
pute. We hope that our farmers
will trouble themselves to attend
this convention which is the most
important meeting of its character
yet held in Georgia.
The White Star Line has re
cently completed a trans-Athntic
steamer, the Cedric, which will
accommodate three thousand per
sons, 2650 passengers and 350
men of the .crew. Ninety two
men will be requited in the engine
rooms. The steamer will run be
tween Liverpool and New York.
In a plea for the protection of
birds, the Louisville Herald dis
misses sen'.iment and takes up
statistics, which prove not only
interesting but important. It says:
“What successful hunters of
insects are the birds is clearly
shown! The stomach of a single
quail, for instance, contained 101
potato bugs; that of another 500
chinch bugs. A cuckoo shot in
the early morning contained 43
caterpillars; another 217 web
worms; a robin, 175 caterpillars.
Four chickadees held 1,028 eggs
of canker worms; four other chick
adees, 900 eggs and 105 mature
insects, A single chickadee will
eat 5000 eggs of the canker worm
in a single day. Barn swallows
will destroy from 5,000 to 10,000
flies and other insects every week.
The young of a pair of jays re
quired half a million caterpillars
in one season. In the space of
four hours and thirty-seven min
utes a mother wren made 110
visits to her little ones, feeding
them 111 insects and spiders. A
pair of chirping sparrows fed their
young 200 times a day. From a
nest of barn owls 675 pellets were
collected, which upon investiga
tion showed the remains of 1,119
common meadow mic r> , a destruc
tive enemy of young fruit trees
and crops generally.
“Allowing twenty-five insects a
dav as the average diet of a bird
and estimating one bird (o the
acre for Kentucky, we'have a total
of 25,812,480 birds for this state
alone. This great army of birds
would require 643,312,000 insects
every day. Allowing 120,000 in
sects to fill a bushel measure,
Kentucky would have to supply
5,377 bushels of insects every day
to feed her birds.’’
We are not aware as to the
methods employed whereby these
interesting estimates were secured.
They may be overdrawn, at the
same time it cannot be doubted
that the wholesale destruction of
our birds has led to the great mul
tiplication of insects that inflict
the land. The laws which regu
late the killing of birds and the
robbing of their nests are hardly
as strict as they should be. It
would be difficult, if indeed pnssi
ble to check the army of’ quail
hunters as they swoop down with
out any limit to the slaughter,
either by law or from conscientious
regard of moderation; at the same
time more strict rules should be
made to apply to other birds than
quail, which are insect destroyers
and are not desirable for food
The time will yet come when
Georgia and her citizens will rue
their present disregard of the im
portance of her bird wealth.
It is claimed that nolent me
chanical vibrations will kill the
majority of the disease microbes
that are now such a scourge to the
human race. We may early in
the future expect some enterpris
ing yankee to come South selling
a h uraan churn that will knock
the spots out of any typhoid, yel
low fever or cholera germ. This
will be a great thing for the—
yankee.
Quite a romantic affair occurred
in the Wainman parlors early
Thursday morning. Mr. C, T.
Hays, Miss Lula Hays and Miss
Clifford Herring arrived on the
night train from Midland City,
Alabama.
Mr. T. B. Maxwell was sent for
as soon as the train which was
quite late, arrived. The blushes
of the bride were like the hue of the
sky which was roseate frem the rays
of the rising sun. The ceremony
was witnessed only by those who
were fortunate enough to be up at
that early hour. After the con
gratulations, in lieu of the pealing
wedding bells, the breakfast gong
sounded and the third attempt at
being united in the holy bonds of
wedlock, was crowned with suc
cess.
Mr. Hays is an employee of the
Atlantic Coast Line in Midland
City, while the bride is the daugh
ter of Mr. Herring, a prosperous
farmer cf that section.
Revival Services Closed.
After a remarkably successful
series of revival services, the
meetings at the Baptist chuich
were concluded Tuesday night.
Fourteen members having been
received into the church and many
others revived and reorganized.
Will E). Upshaw who conducted
the meeting with the assistance of
the pastor, left the city the follow
ing day for Macon, Ga., where he
attended a convention of Baptist
Bible students which was ir. ses
sion the first of the week,
Another notable feature of Mr.
Upshaw’s visit to Bainbridge was
the raising of $1100.00 for the
support of Monroe Female Col
lege of which he now has control.
Mr. Upshaw is one of the most
earnest and enthusiestic talkers to
whom we have ever listened, and
he is working great things for
Monroe College.
20 Acres In Peaches.
Belcher Bros,, who own a nice
farm just one mile out from town,
have recently put out 20 acres in
choice peach trees, and it is their
intention lo increase the acreage
if these trees do well. They have
spent several thousand dollars pre*
paring the land and planting the
trees already.
There can hardly be any doubt
of the venture being a successful
one, as several farmers in this
country now raise peaches tor
shipment and without exception
they have been pleased with the
yield and the quality of the peach
produced. Hon. Jno. E. Donal-
son of this city owns a large or
chard in the western part of the
county from which he has shipped
a lot of peaches, and for luseious-
ncss, size and general excellency
they cannot be surpassed.
If there’s anything that cannot
be grown successfully in Decatur
County it certainly is not peaches.
Queen Wilhemina of Holland
has been asked to name the umpire
in the Venezuelan trouble and she
has accepted the refponsibility.
Decatur County’s Tobacco
and Cane.
Mr. S. Russell Brinson, of Bain
bridge, Decatur county, is one of
the enthusiasts on the subject of
sugar cane growing in Georgia,
and he and Capt. D. G. Purse
were eongenial spirits yesterday
as they mingled among Macon’s
business men. Mr/ Brinson, was
telling the people of Macon all
about the thousand acre sugar
cane farm in Decatur county, and
the figures about the yield were so
big that the average mind could
not remember them. “Sugar cane
is the only crop that will give back
to a man the same year all that he
puts on the ground to make it,”
said he to a News reporter, “and
you can put it down as a fact that
in a few years a thousand acre
sugar cane farm in Georgia will not
be more strange than a thousand
acre cotton farm is at present, or a
thousand acre fruit farm, for that
matter. We have a thousand acre
tobacco farm in Decatur county,
and our farmers are demonstrating
to the world that Georgia can
raise anything. We can even
beat Louisiana on sugar cane
growing. We don’t know • any
thing about cane rotting in the
ground after it is planted, as so
often happens in Louisiana. We
have no moisture to , cause the
rot.”
Mr. Brinson is one of the Geor
gia legislators who. is always to
be found standing firirf for the-
rights of the farmer. He believes
in the agricultural possibilities, of
the state.—Macon News'
Does the Charleston News and
Courier give up all hope.' of ever
seeing an impartial history of re
const ruition? It says: “Profes
sor k.’ H. Dabney, of the Univer
sity of Virginia, has announced,
his intention of writing a history
of the reconstruction period in the
South, and in an Open letter to the
reconstructed people he asks for
books, pamphlet?, newspapers or
letters giving contemporary ac
counts of events from th'e time of
Lincoln’s reconstruction experi
ments down to the withdrawal of
federal troops by Hayes. We
wish him al) success in his self
imposed task, of course, but sug
gest, as a friend that he could find
a much pleasanter job in a ferti
lizer or glue factory, or something
of that moderate character ”—
Macon Telegraph.
On last Sunday the Americans
of Havana celebrated the fifth an
niversary of the destruction of the
battleship Maine. The memorial
services were simple yet impres
sive. The masts of the wreck
which are still in the harbor were
draped In crape. Many Cubans
joined in the memorial exercises of
the event which hastened the war
with Spain, and Cuba’s consequent
freedom. On the same day there
sailed away from the shipyards
the new Maine. The new battle
ship is a sister ship of the Battle
ship Georgia and his all the latest
improvements. It carries a bat
tery of twenty guns besides the
many rapid fire pieces. The de
stroyed vessel was.a second class
battleship.
