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The Journal PUBLISHED WEEKLY. COCHRAN, GEORGIA. — - | . 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.” MUNYON'S RHEUMATISM Has cured C, I I D C" .thousands l»U H U and it can euro you. Relieve fForii ttw* . first. ' • All Druggists, 254 W. L. DOUGLAS HAND-SEWED QUnCC PROCESS orivco KEN’S *2.00, *2.60, *3.00, *3.50, *4.00, *5.00 WOMEN'S *2.50, *3,*3.50, *4 . BOYS’ *2.00, *2.50 &, *B.OO / f\ THE STANDARD /I ilfc FOR 30 YEARS I^. They are absolutely the most popular and bestshoes £■* ~ Jfj) for the price in America, t \J/ They are the leaders every- jT where because they hold their shape, fit better, */tk look better and wear lon- /It ?er than other makes. 'ft/ if/Sfesl hey are certainly the isSH most economical shoes for you to buy. W. L. Douglas name and retail price are stamped on the bottom—value guaranteed. Kvelrtt TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE! If yonr dealer cannot supply you write for Mail Order Catalog. W. L. DOUGLAS. Brockton. Man. TRY MURINE EYE REMEDV For Red, Weak, Weary, Watery Eyes and V , GRANULATED EYELIDS I MurineDoesn ’tSmart—Soothes Eye Pain ftaegists Sell Marine Eye Remedy, Lkjiid, 25c, 50c, SI.OO Murine Eye Salve, in Aseptic Tubes, 25c, SI.OO EYE BOOKS AND ADVICE FREE BY MAIL Murine Eye Remedy Co ..Chicago ALMOST WORN OUT. llllt) 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