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The Journal
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
COCHRAN, GEORGIA.
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. The Joy ride frequently turns ‘out to !
Tie a "fine" thing.
Humor as a seventh sense Is good
cense not to be disregarded.
• When ordering hobble skirts sped- i
Yy whether they are to force a trot or
n pace.
Two New York young men threw
■dice for a girl. We pity both men
and the girl.
Any hope is vain that the new hob
ble skirt is warranted to check ex
travagance.
A New York woman committed suV
Mde at 91, proving once more that
tehis is an impatient age.
Sent to prison for an undignified at
itempt at suicide! Did any one ever
fend a real dignified means?
The old war between blondes and
torunettes is to be renewed. You can
wot dodge the issue this time.
An Ohio farmer has found that
snakes destroy potato bugs. We would
prefer not to raise potatoes.
Another great aviation meet is to
ibe held in France soon. Funeral ar
rangements have not been made.
I Each new Gotham breach of prom
| suit seems to produce mushier love
Iters than any marked Exhibit A be
French telephone girls say “I listen.”
The American kind couldn’t do that
'without telling whoppers, now and
then.
A horse named I!ig Stick has re
cently been winning races. With
(that name tho horse simply had
Ito win.
"The meaning of money” is a
new book. Most people disclaim
the need of book knowledge on that
subject.
Sailors on a German ship mutinied
recently because the food was poor.
This should serve as a warning to the
managers of some of the summer re
sort hotels.
A Pueblo (Col.) educator says
every child is born a liar. But let
him cheer up. Some of them out
grow it.
"Flirting,” says an eminent educa
tor, “is woman’s safety valve.” Does
a safety valve have a siren at
tachment?
German gun factories are swamped
with orders, in spite of the fact that
aeroplanes are about to make war im
possible.
With no kissing in moving pic
tures, parks, street cars and public
railway stations, where is a poor fel
low going to?
We may need a two and one-half
cent piece, but we certainly allowed
the three-cent piece to perish in in
tcuous desuetude.
"Smile, when you get up in the
morning,” advises an optimist. But
you’d better straighten out your face,
while you're shaving.
A Pennsylvania woman, aged S 3,
took her first ride on a train the oth
■teylay. She may be expected to
Bkdcycle riding next.
for radium Is being
sure, when you order to '
Bet the original, with the maker’s \
Fnarne blown upon the bottle.
Thanks to the general use of the
typewriter, the newspaper editor very
seldom now sticks his mucilage brush
Into the ink bottle, as he used to do.
One of the college professors thinks
girls giggle because they are myo
pic. We have always supposed they
did It merely because they felt
foolish.
Two New York men shook dice to
decide which should have the girl they
loved. It doesn’t sound half as roman
tic as the old-fashioned duel with
ewords or pistols.
One of the aviators has been no
tified by his wife that he must quit
flying high or she will get a divorce.
When last heard from he was busy
oiling the propeller shaft.
The boll weevil scare is rife again
In the southwestern cotton states; but
intelligent authorities in that section
persist in classifying that Insect in
popular entomology as a humbug.
A Philadelphia man has a schetne
for making venison as cheap as mut
ton. That’s all right as far as it
goes; but it might help if he could also
find some way to make venison as
good as mutton.
Although Aviator Ehrmann escaped
with his life when his machine was
struck by lightning near Barcelona,
i Spain, most men would prefer if they
I must be struck by lightning to have
I It done while they were on terra firma.
But gives a more reliable place to drop
Farmers’ Educational
"jTI and Co-Operative
Union of America
Matters <tf Especial Moment to
. the Progressive Agriculturist
Sacrifice a little and enjoy great
gains.
A man never improves his character
by posing for a reputation.
No man is fit for another world who
is net efficient in this one.
It is not difficult to overcome grief
providing it is not our own.
The best way to cure the dishonesty
of the world is to be honest ourselves.
There is a world of difference be
tween self-reverence and self-adora
tion.
By your conduct show your neigh
bors what sort of neighbors you de
sire.
Don’t take too much pride in family
trees. The fruit crop may be a fail
ure.
Never despair. If the things you
hope for don’t happen something else
will.
Truth is as simple as the language
of a child but some people never learn
to speak it fluently.
Nothing was made in vain, but it is
hard for a mere man to believe this
when he sees a lap dog.
There Is much greater fun In ham
mering cold iron than in trying to
farm without a well-arranged plan.
The man who fears the wisdom of
the people to select representatives
and officials is not to be trusted him
self.
The man who knows all about the
business of everybody else in the
neighborhood seldom has any of his
own.
It so often happens that the thing
we slight as being of little value is
the very key to the situation. It be
hooves us, then, to look carefully to
each detail.
Some farmers are so lazy that they
depend altogether on Nature and lean
on her so heavily that she becomes
tired a,nd rebels. Nature is kind but
she requires every one to do their
share.
The Farmers' union is muchly alive
and don’t you forget it. It has had
some jolts and has passed over some
rough roads, but it is at tho turning of
the lane now, and things are going to
happen sure.
The nervous little scrub-horse is al
ways jumping around, now pushing
hard on the collar and again lagging
back, but the well-bred draft-horse
moves along with calm dignity, doing
most of the work without undue waste
of strength.
GREAT SOURCES OF WEALTH
Diversification of Crops One of Best
Ways of Making Cotton Grower
Independent.
Diversification of crops is one of
the great sources of wealth of the
Texas cotton farmer., It is not only
making amends for years of wasteful
cultivation of the soil, but, by furnish
ing supplies for home needs and fod
der for live stock, it has made the
planters more independent. They are
no longer obliged to sell their cotton
at once for whatever price they can
get at the nearest market, but can
store it until prices are good. In
Texas diversified farming is carried
on to a much greater extent than in
other states because the lands are so
rich, especially in the southern coun
ties, that they can be kept under cul
tivation the year round, and thus be
made to yield several crops.
The by-products form a most im
portant factor in the cotton industry
today. Tho leaves have a certain
value as coarse fodder, the stems can
be made into fiber for bagging, and
the bark of the root has medicinal
properties. Next to the lint, the seed
is the most valuable, for it yields cot
ton seed oil meal, which can be used
for fodder and for fertilizing. The
hulls are used for the manufacture of
paper and for fuel, the ashes being an
excellent fertilizer, as they contain a
large amount of phosphoric acid and
potash. It is estimated that the value
of the cotton by-products in Texas
exceeds $20,000,000 annually.
There are many thriving cotton
seed oil mills throughout Texas, but
they use only a small portion of the
enormous amount of seed produced
annually. There are fine opportuni
ties for the investment of capital in
plans of this kind. In Houston alone
there are five of these mills and seven
cotton compresses. There could be
more manufactories established there
with good returns on the capital in
vested in view of the excellent market
and the splendid railroad facilities.
The number of cotton textile mills
in the south is growing every year,
and it is undoubtedly destined to be
come the greatest cotton manufactur
ing territory that*the world has ever
seen, as Texas Is already the pro
ducer of nearly one-third of the United
States’ supply of raw cotton.
For Grazing Pasture.
Rye sown in August will make. If
weather conditions are at all favor
able, excellent grazing for stock
through the fall when the pastures are
short of feed. This is recommended
l>y several experiment stations.
WHO SECURES RATE BENEFIT?
I Does It Help Farmer When Freight
on Cotton to Galveston Is Re
duced?—Question Discussed.
j Every once in awhile there comes
up a proposition to chaange the freight
rates on various commodities, writes
A. W. Grant in Co operator. When
the commodity involved is something
that the farmers raise, the farmer’s
interest is invoked either to secure a
reduction or a raise as the case may
be. Like the tariff freight rates are
a species of alleged protection. For
instance, a higher freight rate on
farm products intended to be sold in
Texas is considered beneficial to
Texas farmers. If the rate on flour
from Kansas were raised a few cents
it would be considered to the advan
tage of Texas farmers who raise
wheat, because the higher freight
rate will enable Texas millers to
charge more for their flour, and it is
assumed, pay more for Texas
wheat.
On the other hand, a reduced
freight of any farm ■ product from
Texas to market is considered to the
advantage of the farmer on the the
ory that it will mean a higher price
to him for the product.
The purpose of this article is to
. inquire whether the farmer really is
benefited by the protection of freight
rates. Does it help the farmer when
the cotton rate to Galveston is re
duced or when the rate on flour from
northern mills Is raised?
The farmer should consider this
question carefully because time and
again he is called upon to exercise
his right of petition to the railroad
commission on one or more rates.
The men who ask the farmers for
their petitions have much at stake.
Does the farmer get the benefit those
who ask for his influence say he
will?
The truth of the matter is that if
the farmer shipped direct to the spin
ner and had to pay his own freight,
a reduction in freight rates would
help him. If the farmer milled hi 3
own wheat and sold flour a raise on
the flour rates from other states com
ing in would also help him. But so
far farmers neither mill their own
wheat or ship their cotton direct to
tho spinner.
Yet everybody is in favor of lower
freight rates. Where does the farm
er have a chance to get off?
He has only one, and that is in the
ownership and control of warehouses.
Owning a warehouse which can ship
his products direct to the consumer
without the chance of a middleman’s
handling the product, gives the
warehouse the benefit of the reduced
or increased freight rate as the case
may be. If the farmer is a stock
holder in the warehouse he gets the
benefit. In a warehouse of which he
is a stockholder the farmer can hold
his cotton until tho price suits him
and the warehouse can then ship it
and get lower rate. If the spinner
bought direct from the farmer the
farmer could ship it himself, but
spinners don’t buy that way. In an
elevator of which he is a stockhold
er a farmer can hold his wheat until
the price gets right and then the ele
vator can sell to the miller and reap
the benefit of the protective freight
rate to come back later to the farmer
in dividends. Better still it would be
if the elevator also controlled a flour
mill to manufacture the grain it con
trolled into flour.
So long as middlemen get their
hands on the farmers’ products freight
rates can be juggled to reduce, but
it is gambling against human na
ture and human selfishness to think
they will ever be juggled to raise
them. The only remedy is ware
houses and co-operative control of
products until they are ready for ship
ment.
Weighing and Testing Milk.
This is the only sure way to de
termine the difference in value be
tween the good and inferior cow.
Weighing and testing daily is only a
business proposition. It is the only
safe way of determining what price
to ask for a cow in selling her, or of
what to pay for her when buying.
No intelligent farmer will sell a cow
for S3O that w ill make him a net profit
of S4O or SSO a year. Neither will he
keep a cow that doesn’t pay him a
profit if he knows it. Test and weigh
the milk is the way to know’.
Whole Grain for Chickens.
Never feed whole grain to chickens
from a trough. The stronger and the
bolder birds w'ill get more than their
share and more than is good for them,
W'hile the weaker ones will be under
fed. Scatter all grain fed over as
wide an area as it can be throw’n. If
In narrow' quarters, then go to some
pains to bury it in straw’ or litter.
Essential to Success.
An essential to success in the co
operative movement is a realization
on the part of the co-operator that he
is going into a business enterprise,
and a willingness on his part to as
sume the responsibilities of a co
partner quite as readily as he accepts
the profits of the business.
Fallacious Notion.
Some persons have a notion that
pure bred stock is less hardy than
scrub stock, but it is altogether an
erroneous idea, for it has been proven
time and again to be fallacious.
LATE FROST NEEDED
FOR COTTON CROP
Seme Fine Crops in the East
ern States.
THE BOLL WEEVIL H MENACE
Texas Yield Promises Better Than Last Year.
Oklahoma Has Excellent Prospects
For a Large Crop.
Memphis, Tenn.—The cotton crop
situation is summarized thus by the
Commercial-Appeal.
It is evident that the recent rainfall
in Texas has been of scattered and lo
cal benefit, the precipitation being too
light in most cases to relieve the
drouth. In central and southern parts
of the state boils are opening very
rapidly, and almost the entire crop,
unless rain falls soon, will very short
ly be ready for the pickers. The yield
promises somewhat better than last
year, how’ever. The .crop in northern
counties is good. Oklahoma’s pros
pect continues excellent, a record pro
duction being indicated.
In other states returns do not aver
age quite so favorable as during the
preceding four weeks. The rainfall
has been unevenly distributed, and
there are places where, shedding is
complained of, the most serious re
ports coming from central and south
ern Alabama. The crop in Louisiana
and southern Mississippi will not be
increased beyond its present promise,
because of the activity of boll weevil.
In all eastern and valley states,
where rain has fallen during the past
two weeks, reports are good, and
there are some fine crops. The plant
generally has fruited well, but a late
frost is needed for maturing every
thing in sight. As a rule, cotton is
opening slowly, but the fruit is be
ginning to mature more rapidly than
heretofore.
The irregularities of reports make
general characterization difficult,
many poor crops appearing in the
same districts with good ones.
WIRELESS ON AEROPLANE.
Another Chapter in the Conquest cf
the Air.
New York City.—’’Buzz, buzz, zizz,
zizz," spoke the small voice of the co
herer into the ear of the wireless op
erator stationed on the roof of the
grandstand at Shepphead Bay race
track. A mill away and 500 feet up,
Aviator Curdy was a speck against the
sky. The operator began to piece into
sense thtf sputtering of the wireless.
This is what he heard;
‘‘Horton; Another chapter in aerial
achievement is recorded in the send
ing of a wireless message from an
aeroplane. “McCURDY.”
Thus became a reality the first wire
less message sent front an aviator in
flight to a receiving station on earth.
J. D. A. McCurdy, a pupil of Glenn
H. Curtiss, was both aviator and send
er, and Harry M. Horton of the Unit
ed States signal corps was the re
ceiving operator.
McCurdy had attached a key to his
steering wheel, and the antennae of
his sending apparatus suspended be
low him from the chassis of his bi
plane.
Fatal Battle in Dance Hall.
Marianna, Ark.—Two negroes were
killed, four were wounded and a
white man was fatally injured in a
fight which originated in a dance hall
quarrel at Raggio, 12 miles east of
here. A dance was in progress in the
place, •when an altercation arose be
tween Mack Harvey and his wife. Rus
sell, the white man, ordered them to
cease. Harvey turned on the white
man and declared he would talk to
his wife any way he pleased. Rus
sell left, and returned shortly with
two men, and the battle followed.
$1,000,000 for Tuskegee.
New York City.—By the death of
Mrs. Flora L. Dotger, who died at
her home in South Orange, N. J., the
hulk of her estate, worth $1,000,000,
will go to Tuskegee institute, of which
Booker T. Washington is the dead.
The German hospital of Philadelphia
will receive SIO,OOO.
Mayor Gaynor Leaves Hospital.
New York City.—Mayor Gaynor was
removed from St. Mary hospital in
Hoboken to "Deep Wells,” his coun
try place, at St. James, Long Island.
He bore the trip well, but his insist
ent plea to he allowed to walk un
aided resulted in three distressing in
cidents. Once he sank to his knees
as he tried to enter an automobile and
in ascending the steps of his home,
he fell on all fours from over-exer
tion. Despite his weakness, however,
he maintained his cheerful mood until
he arrived at “Deep Wells.”
Atlanta Girls’ New Fad.
Atlanta.—The demand for baby bot
tles and rubber nipples in Atlanta has
suddenly taken a jump and those who
have them for sale have been at a
loss to know why there are such un
precedented sales.
The reason is that within the past
two or three w’eeks the young girls,
running in age from 10 to 14 years,
have started a nqjv and very novel
fad, which is to drink water, coffee,
milk, ginger ale and all other drinks
from a baby bottle, just as the babies
drink their milk.
1 \vtLBUR PNESBIT
The city is of brick and stone
With walls that touch the sky,
But there a man is quite alone
Though thousands pass him by;
They breathe the breath of mill and mart
Where never dreaming Is;
He In their lives may have no part
And they have none In Ills.
It hammers him, the city's day,
Or binds him round with tape,
Until In Its relentless way
It molds him to a shape—
A shape that also shapes his soul
Like those of all the rest.
Unless he will not pay this toll
And fares upon a quest.
The country is of grass and trees
And cloud and sun and rain,
Of singing birds and humming bees
And winding road and lane,
A.nd grass that whispers all day long,
And orchards deep with shade—
Ah. there are story, laugh and song, j
Forever to be made.
And he who passes is your friend
Though ne’er again you meet:
The people do not blur and blend
As In a city street
Into a host of rushing forms
That either come or go,
And If your soul has calms or storms
They neither care nor know.
A garden first was given man
But with his knowing frown
He sacrificed the primal plan
And built himself a town.
And ever through the city w’ays
There comes the luring dream
Of starry mights and drowsing days
Of meadowland and stream.
Choosing a Watermelon.
The flavor of a watermelon depends
largely upon how you choose it.
If you select it over tho telephone
through the mediumship of a grocery
clerk whoso clairvoyance is imper
fectly developed you will obtain a
melon which is beautiful to gaze up- ;
cn externally but whose interior deco
rations are unfinished.
There is nothing so dispiriting in
life as to bisect a large, emerald wa
termelon with a blonde area on its
southern exposure, and find the inside
of it a discouraged pink streaked with
white. Such a color scheme is fine
for a mother-of-pearl knife handle, but
ineffective for nutritive purposes.
Another unhappifying feature of a
watermelon is to be compelled to eat
it with a fork and not drop any of
the juice on your napkin. Water
melons were never intended by na
ture to be sliced geometrically and
eaten by means of a fork. They are
not in the pie class. For that matter,
many good authorities contend that
the use of a fork damages the flavor
of pie.
Pie and watermelon each should be
eaten by the same method. A con
venient wedge should be seized In
the hand, the back should be turned
If necessary to avoid shocking on
lookers, and then the delicacy should
he bitten off ad lib. The chin may
be wiped dry with the handkerchief
later.
To choose a watermelon, go to a
small town and wait on the main
street until a freckled boy drives in
on a w’agon load of the dainties.
Thump the largest one, and if it re
sponds with a solidly hollow plunk,
pay the boy his quarter, seglt a se
cluded spot, break the melon on a
fence post and let nature take its
course.
Changed Her Mind.
“Do you wish to break our engage
ment?” he asked, bitterly.
“I do; I feel that you do not ap
preciate me as you should,” she re
sponded.
“Then I shall sue you for breach of
promise, for a hundred thousand dol
lars’ damages!”
With a cry of delight the fair
young thing threw herself into his
arms.
"Forgive me, George,” she mur
mured. “1 was mistaken. If you
think my affection Is worth that much
to you, I am yours."
No Prentice Hand.
"How long has Mr. Flidge been writ
ing humor?”
“O, he must he an old stager.”
“But he seems so young.”
"I know that, but at the banquet
to the humorists he made a speech
and in it he never once said anything
about laying aside the cap and bells
for the time being.”
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ALMOST WORN OUT.
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Ella Fontine —Is your knee tired,
dear?
Slenderly—lt must be, pet; it’s gone
to sleep.
The Stylish Fisherman.
One of the guests at a fashionabldj
summer resort in West Virginia gotfl
himself up In his best “fishing togs” j
and started along a certain mountaiiu
stream. 4
Meeting a native, he asked: “Here||
my good man! Kindly tell me whether
it would be worth my while to try
fishing in this vicinity.”
The native regarded him scornfully.
“The fishin’ ain't good,” he finally
said, “but I ain’t informed as to how
you values your' time.” —Lippincott’s.
Not to Overdo It.
Lily—l’se gwine to a s’prise party
tonight, Miss Sally.
Miss Sally—What will you take for
a present?
Lily—Well, we didn’ cal’late on
takin’ no present. Yo’ see, we don’t
wan’ to s’prise ’em too much.
Detected.
It was at a Fourth of July meeting
in the little city. The mayor, William
Smith, rose, and at dignified lehgth
read the Declaration of Independence.
There w’as a pause; th6n from one
of the mayor’s old schoolmates came
the loud whisper: “Bill never writ
that. He ain’t smart‘enough.”
LACK OF MONEY
Was a Godsend in This Case.
It is not always that a lack of
money is a benefit.
A lady of Green Forest, Ark., owes
her health to the fact that she could
not pay In advance the fee demand
ed by a specialist to treat her for
stomach trouble. In telling of her
case she says:
“I had been treated by four differ
ent physicians during 10 years of
stomach trouble. Lately I called on
another who told me he could not cure
me; that I had neuralgia of the stom
ach. Then I went to a specialist who
told me I had catarrh of the stomach
and said he could cure me in four
months but would have to have his
money down. 'l could not raise the
necessary sum and in my extremity I
was led to quit coffee and try Postum.
“So I stopped coffee and gave Post
um a thorough trial and the results
i have been magical. I now sleep well
at night, something I had not done
! for a long time; the pain in my stom
| ach is gone and I am a different!
woman.
“I dreaded to quit coffee, because
every time I had tried to stop it I suf
fered from severe headaches, so I con
tinued to drink it although I had rea
son to believe-it was injurious to me,
and was the cause of my stomach
trouble and extreme nervousness. But
when I had Postum to shift to It was
different
“To my surprise I did not miss cof
fee when I began to drink Postum.
“Coffee had been steadily and sure
ly killing me and I didn’t fully realize
what was doing it until I quit andJ
changed to Postum.”
Ever read the above letter? A nev.g
one appears from time to time* .Them
are genuine, true, and full of lap
interest. life