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Southwest Georgia, Augusta,, the Carolinas and
Eastern Cities
NAS-HVILLE, ADEL, SPARKS, MOULTRIE, TIFTON, ALBANY, VALDOS
TA, MADISON, QUITMAN, THOMASVILLE, BAINBRIDGE WkITE
SITUNGS, LAKE CITY, PALATKA, TALLAHASSEE, RIVER JUNCTION,
PENSACOLA,
AND VIA
HAZLEHURST AND THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY TO MA
CON, ATLANTA AND POINTS WEST.
I ; eave G. & F 6:4oam 3:sopm
Arrive WUlacoochee G. & F 7:3oam 4:2Spm
Leave WUlacoochee A. C. L 7:3oam 4:32pm
Arrive Waycross .A. C. L 9:ooam 6:oopm
Leave WUlacoochee A. C. 1 9:l6am 7:4opm
Arrive Tifton A. C. L 10:25am B:43pm
Arrive Albany A. C. L 11:55am 10:10pm
Arrive Nashville G. & F B:2oam 5: OS pm
Arrive Sparks G. & F ..10:35am 6:oopm
Arrive Adel G. & F 10:48am 6:l3pm
Arrive Moultrie G. & F 12:10pm 7:35pm
Arrive Valdosta G. & F 9:47am 6 i 13pm
Arrive Quitman A. C. L 3:o3pm -
Arrive Thomasville A. C. L 4:oopm _______
Arrive Bainbridge A. C. h. .... .. s:3opm -
Airi\e White Springs G. S. & F 7:o4pm 7:oßam
Arrive Lake City G. S. & F 7:3opm 7:32am
Arrive Palatka G. S. & F 10:50pm 10:40am
Arrive Jacksonville G. S. & F B:soaiii
Arrive Madison .. G. S. & F. .. ..11:20am
Arrive Tallahassee S. A. L 2:25pm
Arrive River Junction S. A. L 4:lspm
Leave Douglas G. & F 9:lopm 10:03am
Arrive Hazlehurst .. ~G. & F 11:15pm 10:50am
Leave Hazlehurst Sou. Ry 12:38am 11:25am
Arrive Macon Sou. Ry 4:osam 2:3opm
Arrive Atlanta Sou. Ry 6:soam s:oopm
Arrive Chattanooga Sou. Ry 10:55am 9:35pm
Arrive Birmingham Sou. Ry 12:25pm s:2oam
Arrive Memphis L ..Frisco B:2spm 6:lspm
Arrive Vidalia M. D. & S 7:35am I:3opm
Arrive Dublin M. D. & S 9:loam 3:ospm
Arrive Macon M. D. & S 11:25am 5:25pm
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Leave Vidalia S. A. L 6:ooam 5:25pm
Arrive Savannah \. ~S. A. L 9:ooam B:3spm
Leave Vidalia G. & F 6:35am 12:23pm
Arrive Stillmore G. & F. t 7:36am I:29pm
Arrive Statesboro C. of Ga 3:2opm
Arrive Millen G. & F 9:osam 3:oopm
Leave Vidalia G. & F I:2oam 12:25pm
Arrive Swainsboro G. & F 3:2oam I:39pm
Arrive Midville G. & F 4:45am 2:lßpm
Arrive Augusta G. & F 8:10am 4:55pm
Leave Augusta Sou. Ry 3:2opm 6:oopm
Arrive Columbia Sou. Ry 6:4opm 9:lspm
Arrive Charlotte Sou. Ry 10:05pm 9:35am
Arrive Washington Sou. Ry B:s3am '
Leave Augusta A. C. L 2:3opm ——-—-—-
Arrive Florence A. C. L 8:10pm
Arrive Richmond A. C. L s:osam
Arrive Washington A. C. L B:4oam
Leave Augusta C. & W. C 11:00am
Arrive Greenwood C. & W. C I:24pm
Arrive Spartanburg C. & W. C 3:4opm
Leave Augusua Ga. R. R 2:oopm s:lspm
Arrive Thomson Ga. R. R 3:lspm 6:54pm
Arrive Camak Ga. R. R 3:32pm 7:lspm
Arrive Barnett Ga. R. R 3:55pm
Arrive Washington Ga. R. R s:ospm
Arrive Union Point Ga. R. R. ..• .. 4:3opm
Arrive Madison Ga. R. R s:3opm
TRAINS ARRIVE DOUGLAS.
No. 4 from Vidalia .9:sßpm
No. 6 from Madison and Valdosta B:4spm
No. 5 from Augusta and Millen 3:45pm
No. 7 from Augusta and Millen 6:2oam
For Rates, Time Tables, and any other information, apply to your nearest
Ticket Agent, or Address:
C. H. GATTIS, Assistant Traffic Manager, Augusta, Ga.
Atlanta. Birmingham and Atlantic R.R.
The Standard of Excellence in Service
Schedule, Effective September 28th. 1913.
TRAINS LEAVE BYROMVILLE AS FOLLOWS:
SOUTH BOUND
Train No. 16, for Oordele .....: 9:35 p.m
Train No. 4 for Fitzgerald, Thomasville, Waycross
and Brunswick 3:10 a. m
Train No. 2 for Fitzgerald, Thomasville, Waycross
and Brunswick 1:01 p. m
NORTH BOUND
Train No. 15, for Macon and Atlanta 6:5 1 a.m
Train No. 3 for Atlanta, and Birmingham 12:53 a. m
Train No. 1 for Atlanta and Talladega 2:31 p. m
Trains No. 3 and 4 carry Pullman drawing room sleeping cars
between Atlanta and Thomasville and Atlanta and Brunswick.
W. W. CROXTON, A. D. DANIEL,
General Passenger Agent, T. P. A.
Atlanta. Ga.
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COFFEE COUNTY PROGRESS, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA.
SOIL SURVEY RESULTS
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Interesting Statistics Announced
by Government.
Dwarf Kafir Corn Has Proved Profit
able Farm Crop—Peruvian Alfalfa
Valuable in Warm Climates
Diseases of Potatoes.
(Prepared by the United States De
partment of Agriculture.)
During the year ending June 30,
1913, an area amounting to 52,609,600
acres was covered by soil surveys by
the department of agriculture. Of
this amount 21,210,880 acres were sur
veyed and mapped in detail. Parts
of thirty-one states were included in
this work and all sections of the coun
try were represented. The remainder
of the area surveyed was covered
which took in a reconuoissance sur
vey. The total area of which soil
surveys have been made up to June
30, last, is 703,235 square miles.
Dwarf Kafir Corn Has Proved a Prof
itable Farm Crop.
The department of agriculture an
nounced that the dwarf kafir corn has
been extensively distributed through
federal states and commercial agen
cies and has proved to be a very de
sirable and profitable farm crop.
Feterita has awakened much interest
as a desirable type of white durra.
Both faterita and dwarf kafir are
adapted to harvesting with the ordi
nary grain header, which add greatly
to the value as crops for extensive
farming.
The department has taken a promi
nent part in the campaign now being
waged for the planting of pure and
viable broom corn seed. Experiments
with dwarf broom corn tend to prove
that this crop is usually sown too
thickly for best results.
High Value of Sudan Grass.
Sudan grass has continued to dem
onstrate it 3 high value for the semi
arid regions, and even in the humid j
regions has given exceedingly satis
....
, Ninety Acres of Alfalfa on J. E. Long’3 Grand View Farm, Seven Miles
Northeast of Wagner, Oklahoma.
factory results. Extensive experi
ments are being made with this grass
and arrangements have been made so
that sufficient seed will be grown for
all demands.
Rhodes grass is continuing to show
its high value for Florida and Gulf
coast conditions. American-grown
seed will be produced to meet the
continued growing demands.
Vetches.
Interest in the cultivation of
vetches, especially the hairy vetch,
continues to increase, and there is
probably now a greater acreage grown
than ever before. In many parts of
the United States seed is now being
grown successfully. One difficulty in
the production of hairy-vetch seed,
which ordinarily must be grown with
a small grain crop, has been the sep
aration of the seeds.
By means of the spiral seed sepa
rator, this can easily be accomplished,
and these machines are now available
to American farmers. There is rea
son to believe that within the near
future sufficient American seed will
be raised to meet the demands and
probably reduce the price of seed
much below what is at present asked.
The department has recently intro
duced the purple vetch, which is
especially promising, inasmuch as it
yields as much hay and more seed
per acre than the common vetch.
Cowpeas.
The cowpea investigation, especial
ly in breeding, has resulted in the
production of a considerable number
of exceedingly promising new varie
ties, some of which, especially from
the view point of seed production, are
apparently superior to any of the
standard varieties.
Alfalfa.
The breeding of improved varieties
of alfalfa. especially hardy and
drougk-enduring strains, has devel
oped new possibilities through the
finding of forms of yellow-flowered
Medicago falcata that produce new
plants from true lateral roots. Cer
tain of the forms that possess this
character are good forage types, and
it is hoped that by hybridizing them
with selected plants of common al
falfa an extremely vigorous strain
will result.
As a result of the recent introduc
tion of new roots of seed of Peruvian
alfalfa, the chances of establishing
this variety in the southwest are be
coming extremely favorable. Peruvian
alfalfa has so thoroughly demonstrat
ed its value as a quick-growing strain
for warm climates that little difficulty
Is anticipated in getting it thoroughly
1 established as soon as the shed is
j placed on the market. <
Potato Diseases.
The appearance in a destructive
way of several new dlsrjasei of po
tatoes in large producing areas has
caused great alarm and heavy loss in
certain of the important potato pro
ducing districts of the Rocky Moun
tain territory. Among these mala
dies, heretofore unknown in this coun
try, are leaf-roll, known in Europe for
a number of years, curly-dwarf,
rosette, and the mosaic disease.
The attention of the pathologists in
charge of this line of work has been
devoted exclusively to a study of the
causes and methods for controling
these troubles. As a result of the in
vestigation a method has been worked
out by which the resistance of the
foliage of potato varieties or seed
lings may be tested in the greenhouse
during the winter which will greatly
facilitate the work of potato breed
ing and will also furnish a method
of determining whether seed potatoes
are free from this disease. Recent In
vestigations have proved that the dry
rot of potatoes, which has been de
structive in certain regions, is not
caused by Fasarium, as was previ
ously supposed, but that this disease
is due to other wound parasites.
Date Ripening.
The work during the last year has
proved beyond a doubt that the arti
ficial ripening of dates such as the
Degelet Noor may be carried on
cheaply and efficiently merely by
keeping the full-sized though imma
ture fruit in a moist, warm condition.
Fruit so ripened is cleaner and more
attractive than that ripened on the
tree. Thus the failure of the Degelet
Noor to ripen on the tree as it does
in some parts of the Sahara Desert,
which at first seems a great draw
back to date culture in California,
turns out to be an actual advantage,
permitting the ripening of the fruit
more uniformly and more efficiently
than is possible in the open air, where
the conditions cannot be controlled.
Date Propagation.
The rapid propagation of date off
shoots is a matter of great Import
ance to the development of the date
industry. Experiments now under
way indicate that it is possible to
root upshoots much more rapidly un
der greenhouse conditions where they
can be given bottom heat than by the
old world method of procedure. It
is believed that by this method much
smaller upshoots can be rooted. It
has also been found that when grown
in the cool, moist climate of the Pa
cific coast, in immediate proximity to
the ocean, certain varieties of the
date palm fruit scarcely at all, but
produce instead very great numbers
of offshoots and continue to produce
them through a much longer period
of years than in typical date growing
districts.
New Hybrid Substitute for the Lime.
A new hybrid, a substitute for the
lime, fruited for the first time during
the year. This is the limequat, ob
tained by crossing the West Indian
lime with the kumquat. It has proved
to be not only a very prococious but
also exceedingly fruitful and hardy. It
bears a very acid fruit, much like the
West Indian lime in size and flavor.
The tree, however, is much hardier
than the lime, having withstood the
past three winters in extreme north
ern Florida where the lime can not
be grown.
Tobacco Investigations.
It has been found that a rotation
in which special fertilizers are applied
is of great importance in maintaining
the character and burning qualities of
the product. Investigations are made
during the year in the Connecticut
Valley, Xew York, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Kentucky, Tennessee, Maryland, Vir
ginia and the Carolinas. In the last
four states the most important prob
lem is the restoration of the much de
pleted supply of vegetable matter in
tobacco soils through the use of cover
crops, which do not increase the
nitrogen supply.
Summer Apples.
Summer apples were, for a long pe
riod, a minor commercial considera
tion, but for the past 10 or 15 years
an important demand for them has
developed in the eastern markets,
which has greatly stimulated the
planting of early apple varieties in
many sections where formerly they
were little valued.
Well-Dressed Fcwls.
Well-dressed fowls are more attrac
tive to the hungry than well-dressed
people. If you don’t believe it leave
it to the hired man or the growinf
boy.
BAYONETS TO RULE
GOVERNMENT MEETS GENERAL
STRIKE ORDER BY DECLAR
ING MARTIAL LAW.
SITUATION IS VERY GRAVE
Feeling Is Very Bitter Throughout the
Country—Na.ives Are
Feared.
Cape Town, Union of South Africa.—■
A general strike throughout South Af
rica was proclaimed by the Trades
Federation, and the Rand miners, by
a two-thirds majority, voted to join
in the movement. Governmental retal
iation was swift in the form of the
proclamation of martial law.
This was the only step the authori
ties believed adequate to meet the sit
uation, for the strike of the miners
means not only the turning loose of
the most turbulent spirits in the Rand,
but raises the whole question of the
position of the native workers. If the
miners actually obey the strike order,
the government will immediately take
steps to send the natives, under es
cort, back to their kraals.
This means that about two hundred
thousand natives must be marched
back by road to their homes at enor
mous cost. It will be most difficult,
after the end of the strike, to recruit
them again. In brief, such a sten
would mean disaster for the Rand for
many years.
Although official reports from the
city of Johannesburg show improve
ment in the train service, reports from
other districts are less encouraging.
In Natal the situation is one of great
tension, and it is feared that the loy
alty of the trainmen will not stand the
strain much longer. An instance of
the men’s temper is shown by the ac
tion of an engine driver who quit his
train on the Veldt and left the passen
gers stranded.
Practically no information is at hand
as to conditions in the Orange Free
States, but improvement there is not
considered probable.
HUERTA DEFAULS ON DEBT
Dictator Announces No Interest Will
Be Paid on Debts.
Mexico City.—After a meeteing of
the cabinet, which lasted all night, the
Mexican foreign minister, Querido Me
heno, announced that the Mexican gov
ernment will default in the payment
of all interest on the bonds of the
| internal and external debts, which now
remains unpaid or which falls due with
in the next six months. A heavy pay
ment of interest on the foreign debt
becomes due in April.
It has been the practice of the gov
ernment to make weekly remittances
to New r York, London and Paris to ap
ply on its interest obligations, in or
der that when the interest payment
periods arrived the money would be
in hand. These weekly remittances
now have been suspended, the explana
tion being that the government re
quires all available funds for pacifi
cation purposes.
The foreign minister said also that
he had been instructed to notify all
foreign governments of the default.
Not Moral Turpitude to Libel King.
New York. —If it would not involve
a moral turpitude to publish in Eng
land a defamatory libel “against a
field laborer in Devon or a street
sweeper in London,” it would not In
volve moral turpitude to publish the
same libel “regarding the lord chan
cellor, or even the king,” the United
States court of appeals held. The
court expressed this view in deciding
that Edward F. Mylius, whom the de
partment of commerce ordered deport
ed, cannot be barred from the United
States on the charge of moral turpi
tude.
Thousands Killed by Quake and Wave.
Tokio, Japan.—A tidal wave added
its terrors to the earthquakes and vol
canic eruption which struck Kagoshi
ma, in southern Japan, according to
official advices. It is believed the
Kagoshima disaster will prove to be
one of the most serious in the history
of Japan. The loss of life and prop
erty increases with fuller news from
the scene. The full extent of the dis
aster could not be ascertained, as all
communication was cut off.
John Skelton Williams Comptroller.
Washington. —President Wilson has
nominated John Skelton Williams of
Virginia, assistant secretary of the
treasury, for comptroller of the cur
rency and ex-officio member of the
federal reserve board which will ad
minister the affairs of the new cur
rency system. Mr. Williams is now
assistant secretary of the treasury in
charge of the fiscal bureaus and Sec
retary McAdoo’s first assistant in mat
ters of government finance. The of
fice of comptroller of the currency has
been vacant several months.
Big Fire in Atlanta.
Atlanta. —The most spectacular and
disastrous conflagration since the Ter
minal district fire raged for hours, oc
curred when the modern plant of the
Cotton Slates Pelting and Supply com
pany was completely destroyed and the
warehouse of the B. F. Avery & Sons
firm was damaged, together with a
number of smaller buildings at White
hall street and Stewart avenue. The
entire fire department excepting a
small array of emergency apparatus
was summoned. For two hours they
battled to subdue the flames.
GAS, DYSPEPSIA
AND INDIGESTION
‘‘Pape’s Diapepsin” settles sour,
gassy stomachs in five
minutes—Time It!
You don’t want a slow remedy when
your stomach is bad —or an uncertain
one —or a harmful one —your stomach
is too valuable; you mustn’t injure It
Pape’s Diapepsin is noted for its
speed in giving relief; its harmless
ness; its certain unfailing action in
regulating sick, sour, gassy stomachs.
Its millions of cures in indigestion,
dyspepsia, gastritis and other stomach
trouble has made it famous the world
over.
Keep this perfect stomach doctor In
your home—keep it handy—get a large
flfty-cent case from any dealer and
then if anyone should eat something
which doesn’t agree with them; if
what they eat lays like lead, ferments
and sours and forms gas; causes head
ache, dizziness and nausea; eructa
tions of acid and undigested food—
remember as soon as Pape's Diapepsin
comes in contact with the stomach all
such distress vanishes. Its prompt
ness, certainty and ease in overcoming
the worst stomach disorders is a reve
lation to those who try it. —Adv.
SPELLING STUCK THE JURY
Point of Information They Wanted In
volved No Great Legal Knowl
edge, If Judge Had It.
Here is one that was told at a tea
given by Miss Geraldine Farrar, the
singer, when one of the party re
ferred to the judiciary and the pe
culiar cases that frequently come be
fore the courts:
“Some time ago there was a homi
cide case in a western court in which
there was considerable doubt as to
the guilt of the accused. The trial
judge seemed to share the popular be
lief.
“ ‘Gentlemen of the jury,’ said he.
in concluding his charge, ‘if the evi
dence, in your minds, shows that
pneumonia was the cause of the man’s
death, you cannot convict the prison
er.’
“Whereat the jury retired and in
about ten minutes the constable re
turned and presented himself before
the judge.
“ ‘Your honor,’ he remarked, ‘the
gentlemen of the jury want some in
formation.’
“ On what point of evidence?’ asked
the judge.
“ ‘None, judge,’ was the rejoinder of
the constable. ‘They want to know
how r to spell “pneumonia.” ’ ”—Phil
adelphia Telegraph.
Kept His Secr;t Well.
One of the most successful disap
pearances on record was that of Wil
liam Howe. Howe was a successful
tralesman in Jerwyn street, London,
and one morning in 1706 he left his
wife, telling her that he had business
in the city. He never came back, and
all efforts to trace him failed. After
some years his death was presumed,
and an act of parliament was spe
cially passed to enable Mrs. Howe to
administer her husband’s estate. Then,
one evening in 1723, the “widow” re
ceived a letter from an anonymous
correspondent, requesting an inter
view the following day in Birdcage
walk. Mrs. Howe duly kept the ap
pointment—and discovered her hus
band. He had been living in disguise
in the same neighborhood all the time,
he explained, and keeping a close eyo
upon the movements of his wife. It
is said that the reunited couple lived
happily ever afterward.
Take a close look at the people you
meet every day and rejoice that you
were not born a cannibal.
High minded people do not have to
become airship chauffeurs in order to
prove it.
SKIN CLEARED.
By Simple Change in Food.
It has been said by a physician that
most diseases are the result of indi
gestion.
There’s undoubtedly much truth in
the statement, even to the cause of
many unsightly eruptions, which many
suppose can be removed by applying
some remedy on the outside.
By changing her food a Kan. girl
was relieved of an eczema which was
a great annoyance to her. She writes:
“For five months I was suffering
with an eruption on my face and
hands which our doctor called eczema
and which caused me a great deal of
inconvenience. The suffering was al
most unbearable.
“The medicine I took only gave me
temporary relief. One day I happened
to read somewhere that eczema was
caused by indigestion. Then I read
that many persons had been relieved
of indigestion by eating Grape-Nuts.
“I decided to try it. I liked the
taste of the food and was particularly
pleased to notice that my digestion
was improving and that the eruption
was disappearing as if by magic. I
had at last found, in this great food,
something that reached my trouble.
“When I find a victim of this afflic
tion I remember my own former suf
fering and advise a trial of Grape-Nuts
food instead of medicines.”
Name given by Postum Co., Itattla
Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to Well
ville,” in pkgs. “There’s a Reason."
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and lull of human
interest.