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GEORGIA HAS GOOD ROAD MATERIALS Limestone, Chert, Shale and Sandstone are Abundant. GOOD GRAVEL VERY PLENTIFUL The State is Well Equipped With Road Build ing Materials and it is Only a Question ol Getting Them to the Roads. Atlanta.—Georgia is well supplied With road building materials, accord ing to State Geologist S. \V. McCal lie, who has made a special study of the subject, and has gone more inti mately into it since the state began its most recent agitation for road im provement. Professor MeC'allie divides the state into three divisions, by lines drawn through it from northeast to south west. The first he calls the Palezioc area, in the northwestern section of the state, comprising only about ten counties, in waich the principal road building materials are limestones, cherts, shales and sandstones. Of these the limestones are the most pro lific, though the cherts and sandstones of this area, however, are easily worn or crushed and are of little value for road building, especially where the traffic is heavy. ! In the second region, known as the plateau, the principal road building materials ae granite, gneiss, diorlte and trap-rock, or the harder (stones used in macadamizing. Gneiss lis far more abundant, than granite, and is regarded a much more suitable road surfacing material. Diorlte and itrap-rock are also considered splendid materials, some qualities of I lie latter, jit is said, having no equal for the purpose. These stones are well dis tributed and almost any county in (the region which desires to secure them for macadamizing purposes can do so with a comparatively short haul. Down on the costal plain, which is the third of these divisions, the chief iroad building materials are limestone, clay and gravel. Shells are also used jin the vicinity of the coast. The litne jstones or south Georgia crop at jmany points througout the coastal (plain; they are exposed most abun jdantly along the streams or in the (vicinity of lime sinks or lakes. This [limestone has been used to advantage jon streets and roads both in south 'Georgia and Florida. The gravel deposits are most plenti ful along the northern border of the kcoastal plain, crossing the state from through Macon to Columbus This gravel makes the most substan bitial and satisfactory road in this sec rti'on, though the mixture of sand and (clay, which 's most used, has been found to give splendid results. The .state is well equipped with road build ing materials and it is only a question of getting them to the roads. KU KLUX KLAN STORY TOLD BY DALTON NEGRO Dalton.—The ku klux clan was on one of its rides in this county, accord ing to a wild story told by a negro named Cade here. The negro was limping i from the effect of a bullet (wound in his foot, received, according to his statement, from the rifle of one (of the night riders. ; The negro told his story to a num ber of interested people here. (He stated that he had gone to the Fincher district, a few miles east of here, to see a negro woman. While he was in the house -he was called to the door and found a band of mounted (masked men. Without mincing words he was told to leave in a hurry. As he ran down the road a bullet was sent after him to hasten his speed, the bullet striking him in the foot. If the negro is telling the truth it is jthe first thing heard of the ku klux jklan here in nearly two years. On jtheir last visit to Dayton they warned a number of negroes to leave. THAT MYSTERIOUS LETTER STILL PROFOUND SECRET Atlanta. —For the first time since it was written. Governor Brown discuss ed with newspaper men the mysteri ous letter which lie wrote to former Governor Hoke Smith, and which, it is said, precipitated the action of the governor in dismissing Governor Brown from the railroad commission, (the office he then held. The letter was sent back to Govern or Brown and he declared that he still (has it and is keeping it in a safety reposit vault. The governor would 'not give the slightest intimation of the contents of the letter. 1 “No eye but mine uas ever seen that letter, - ’ said he. "There was not a word in it, however, which might not have been sent with perfect propriety to any official, if the occasion ever arises, 1 will make known the con tents of the letter. 1 see no reason at the nresent time for so doing." Unttdllla authorities are considering the proposition to construct a sewer age system. The ginneries at Americus have re duced the price 25 cents a bale, the cost now being sl. Hog cholera has made its appear ance in some parts of Pierce county and is hitting the farmers pretty se verely. Richmond county commissioners have received complaints of the whip ping of convicts on the public roads and ordered an investigation. UNCLE SAM’S PLAN FOR ANDERSONVILLE Washington, D. C.—The 83-acre tract of land embracing the famous Andersonville prison and fort in Georgia, the acceptance of which from the women s relief corp3’ own ers, was authorized by congress and the transfer negotiations carried on at Atlantic City a day or two ago, is to be kept by the government in the same way as if under private own ership. The prison has been a fruitful source of trouble in tracing title. The site the government now acquires in clude the historic burrows made by the unfortunate prisoners. The shift of ownership means that hereafter congress must appropriate for the maintenance of the institution, which is to be kept intact as a land mark of the civil war. CHINESE GIRL BARRED FROM MACON SCHOOL Macon. —The Bibb county board of education turned down the applica tion of Miss Shoone, a native of China, for admission into the public schools of the city. She wanted to prepare for Wesleyan college. She had asked to be admitted to the junior class at Gfesham High school. The board turned it down flatly and took the position that none but citizens were contemplated in the act creating the system. Miss Shoone is here with her sister, who is prepared for a course at Wesleyan and is now attend ing. She will in all probability seek private instruction here and make no further efforts to get in. —.—- <j OFFERS SSO A GLASS FOR ATLANTA LIQUOR Evansville, Ind. —Seaborn Wright, the Georgia prohibition'leader, has of fered Dr. W. F. Melt, founder of the National Reform league, SSO for every glass of “blind tiger” liquor or beer Dr. Ilelt will purchase in Atlanta. Dr. licit made the statement that whiskey is being sold in Atlanta. Then came Mr. Wright’s challenge. Dr. Helt lias accepted and says he will go to Atlanta soon to prove his assertion and prove that the city lias innumera ble "blind tigers.” The Reform league man's assertion that prohibition lias inceased the con sumption of intoxicants in states where it is in effect aroused the Geor gian's ire. He denounced the assertion as false. BIG LOSS OF HOGS BY BROOKS FARMERS Atlanta.—Dr. P. F. Bahnson, the newly appointed state vetenarian, has just returned from Cairo, Ga., where he delivered a lecture along the lines used by the farmers’ institute work, to the farmers of that section on the subject of hog cholera, which . has been raging among the stock in the same locality "for some time. Dr. Bahnson states that, during the past few months, several hundred hogs have died in one district of Brooks county alone, and that the total losses from the disease during the year will exceed $50,000. GEORGIA NEWS NOTES. Governor-elect iloke Smith has ac cepted several invitations to make speeches in various parts of the state during the months of October and No vember. if possible, he will defer his contemplated business trip to New York until November with a view to spending all of the next month in Georgia. The governor-elect has agreed to make speeches at the follow ing county fairs; Gordon County fair, at Calhoun; Chattooga County fair, at Summerville; Brooks county fair, at Quitman; Coffee County fair, at Douglas. In addition he has accepted invitations to attend the unveiling of Confederate monuments at Hamilton, in Harris county, and Waycross, in W are county. Work on additions to the Rome post office lias begun. About $44,000 will be spent. According to some state weather prophets the heavy crop of acorns aud uuts presages severe winter. Thousands of dollars are being spent in Rome at present in new buildings and improvements to structures .al ready erected. The building boom ex tends through all parts of the city and includes residence, business and public property. The largest construc tion works now going on are the $43,- 000 addition to the federal building and the $15,000 Carnegie library. The largest land sale yet consum mated at Americus has just been clos ed wherein the former Robert E. Park plantation of 4,000 acres is sold by Lee G. Council to Thomas B. Hooks of Americus. Sixtv-five thous and dollars is the reported consider ation. Cotton picking and ginning is going forward at a rapid rate in Henry county. The cotton picked so far is not stained, but makes a good sam ple. It is being sold almost as fast as ginned. The Seaboard Air Line will soon commence the erection of a handsome passenger station at Athens. Dr. J. D. Lancer won his own case in the Macon court against Miss May Carroughtv, who was making an ef fort to recover SIO,OOO damages be cause she swallowed a gold crown on a tooth which was placed by the den tist. The jury returned a verdict for him in a very short time after the case was submitted. Construction of the Atlanta, Union City aud Fairbnrn electric line, work upon which was commenced some months ago, is fast nearing comple tion, and in a short time it is believed it will be in operation. OFU TICKET FOR OH. ELECTION The official Democratic ticket for the state election, October 5, fol lows; For Governor: HOKE SMITH. For Secretary of State; PHILIP COOK. For Comptroller General; WILLIAM A. WRIGHT. For State Treasurer; W. J. SPEER. For Attorney General: THOMAS S. FELDER. For Commissioner of Agriculture: T. G. HUDSON. For State School Commissioner: M. L. BRITTAIN. For Prison Commissioner: ' R. E. DAVISON. Pension Commissioner: J. W. LINDSEY. For Railroad Commissioner, unex pired term ending Dev. 1, 1911: J. A. PERRY. For Railroad Commissioner, full term beginning Dec. 1, 1911: C. M. CANDLER. For Railroad Commissioner, unexpir ed term ending Dec. 1, 1913: JOSEPH F. GRAY. For Chief Justice Supreme Court, full term: WILLIAM H. FISH For Associate Justice Supreme Court, full term: MARCUS W. BECK. For Judge of Court of Appeals: ARTHUR G. POWELL. For Judge Superior Court Atlanta Cir cuit: (Vote for two.) W. D. ELLIS. GEORGE L. BELL. For Judge Superior Courts Atlantic Circuit: WALTER W. SHEPPARD. For Judge Superior Courts Augusta Circuit: HENRY C. HAMMOND. For Judge Superior Courts Brunswick Circuit: C. B. CONYERS. For Judge Superior Courts Cordele Circuit: U. V. WHIPPLE. For Judge Superior Courts Cordele Circuit: R. T. DANIEL. For Judge Superior Courts Macon Circuit: W. H. FELTON. For Judge Superior Court Middle Cir cuit: B. T. RAWLINGS. For Judge Superior Courts Northeast ern Circuit: J. B. JONES. For Judge Superior Courts Ocmulgee Circuit: J. B. PARK. For Judge Superior Courts Pataula Circuit: W. C. WOKKILL. For Judge Superior Courts Rome Cir cuit: JOHN W. MADDOX. For Judge Superior Courts Southern Circuit: W. E. THOMAS. For Judge Superior Courts Tallapoosa Circuit: PRICE EDWARDS. For Judge Superior Courts Waycross Circuit: T. A. PARKER. For Judge Superior Courts Western Circuit: CHARLES H. BRAND. For Judge of City Court of : For Solicitor General Atlantic Cir cuit: N. J. NORMAN. For Solicitor General Brunswick Cir cuit: J. M. THOMAS. For Solicitor General Cordele Circuit: W. F. GEORGE. For Silicitor General Northeastern Circuit: ROBERT McMILLAN. For Solicitor General Southern Cir cuit: JOHN A. WILKES. For Solicitor General Tallapoosa Cir cuit: J. R. HUTCHESON. For Solicitor General Waycross Cir cuit: M. D. DICKERSON. For Solicitor General City Court of For state Senator front the District: For Representatives from the District: For Clerk of Superior Court County. For Sheriff of County. For Tax Receiver County. For Tax Collector County. For County Treasurer County. For County Surveyor County. For Coroner County. For County Commissioners County. No Interference With Speech. Toledo," 'Ohio. —Instant dismissal from the Toledo, police force is to fol low interference by any officer with anyone who is making- a speech in Toledo, no matter.,the time or place or crowd. Coincidental with the mailing of, his letter went another one to Wiliam Patterson, a Socialist, carying the of ficial apology of the city threjgjh the mayor because of the ed upon him through speaking before a street crfCd,.'Sit ing the sidewalk. Ip ’ TO FATTEN TURKEYS Approach of Thanksgiving Day Brings Matter Up to Farmer. Demand Is for Plump, Well-Fattened Birds, and Extra Effort Required to Produce This Kind Will Be Well Repaid. With the approach of Thanksgiving and the holiday season, the attention of all who raise poultry naturally turns towards the fattening of the surplus stock, including all the tur keys not to be kept over for breeding purposes. All poultry in proper con dition sells well at this season, but turkeys, particularly, sell best of all. And of all poultry none pays so well for the extra flesh put on as the tur key, for the larger the birds are the more we can realize a pound for them, writes W. F. Purdue in Ranch and Range. This being a fact, in the first place every effort should be made by all turkey growers to raise only large birds for the market, as large as is possible to do so without injury to the breeding stock. It is possible to get turkeys too large for breeding pur poses and the turkeys that are over grown and leggy in appearance do not make good market turkeys. There fore, good judgment should be used in breeding, the object being to breed birds as large as possible and at the same time avoid breeding overgrown, gangling birds. Inbreeding seems to ruin the vitality of turkeys quicker than any of our domestic fowls, and this should be guarded against. The birds need good, strong blood behind them to carry them through. None should be marketed but well fattened turkeys. The demand is for plump, well fattened birds, and the ex tra effort required to produce this kind will be well repaid. It costs no more to make a pound of turkey meat than a pound of pork, and the former commands a price greatly in excess of that of the latter. Turkeys that are not large enough to go on the market for the Thanksgiving trade should be kept over for Christmas, when the late and small Birds bught to be in prime condition. The Christ mas market generally caters more any way to smaller turkeys, yet plump and well fattened, while the Thanksgiving market demands the largest and best turkeys produced. Turkeys intended for the market should be allowed a limited grain ra tion for the first ten days, gradually increasing the food until they are com fortably on a full grain ration. If the flock contains many late fowls, which should first gain in size and frame, sometimes before the actual fattening process begins they should be fed such food as will develop bone and. muscle. Corn, oats and wheat In equal quantities supplemented by some kind of animal food, if insects are scarce, such as beef scraps or even sweet skimmilk, is a good ration for this purpose. This will produce bone and flesh, aiding nature to develop them into properly filled out birds. They should not be overfed at this period, only giving them enough feed to keep them in a growing, thrifty condition. If this is followed with the small birds, or even with the whole flock so long as the feeding is not overdone, they can gradually be brought up to a full grain ration with out danger of any serious results fol lowing. It frequently happens that feeding turkeys a full grain ration at first results in crop bound or indiges tion, which brings about serious trouble and very often a loss of some of them. TIME TO HARVEST COWPEAS When Sown Alone for Ensilage Crop Should Be Cut at About Same Maturity as for Hay. When sown alone cow-peas should be harvested for ensilage at about the same maturity as for hay. They should be cut only a short time before going into the silo, raked green, plac ed in small bunches, or, better still, loaded on the wagon directly from the windrow. When planted with corn the combined crop may be har vested with the corn-binder and han dled in the same manner and as eas ily as corn planted alone for ensilage. Cow-Pea Harvester. For hay, cow-peas should be cut when the first pods and some leaves begin to turn yellow. Cow-pea hay cures more slowly than alfalfa but it should be handled in cur ing in about the same manner. Cut ting should not the morning until the dew is off and the hay should be raked and allowed to cure in the windrow a short time. The picture shoxvs a cow-pea har vester attachment for the mowing ma chine, showing the vine-lifters on guards and a windrowing attachment. These machines are almost indispens able where large crops are to be har vested. Spring Lambs. The best spring lambs grown at the jNew Hampshire state school came -f*Bi a cross between the Merino and tbWßoutbdpwn. HANDLE TO UP-END BARRELS. Directions for Making Device That Will Materially Aid One in Han dling Heavy Objects. The ordinary way of upending bar rels is to take hold of the edge at the floor or ground and lift, which is quite hard on the back as well as the hand that grasps the barrel rim, writes Don ~' Upending a Barrel. C. Higbee in Popular Magazine. If you have many barrels to handle, the device shown in Fig. 1 will be of great assistance. The construction of the device is simple and it can be made in a few minutes’ time. The handle is about three feet long, on the lower end of which is fastened a block having one side hollowed out to fit the curvature of the barrel. An iron hook is fastened in the wood 6 or 8 inches below the hand grip. The handle is used as shown in Fig. 2. USE COTTON-SEED PRODUCTS Oklahoma Crushers Start Campaign of Education Among Farmers, Advising Use of Meal. A campaign of education has been started by cotton-seed crushers of Oklahoma among the farmers of the state to use meal and other products of cotton seed instead of raw seed, as many do at present. At a meeting held in Oklahoma city it was decided to ask President Con nors of the State Board of Agricul ture to make an address to farmers on cotton-seed products as stock food. “There is as much nourishment in cottonseed meal as in raw cotton seed,” said Sidney Roberts, Wynne wood cotton man, “and so farmers can make money by bringing us their seed. The mills will give 3,500 pounds of meal for 2,000 pounds of seed, and it will go just as far. Down in Texas the farmers appreciate the value of cotton seed meal as a stock food, be cause it goes so far. There the oil mills sell at home all the meal they make. In Wynnewood we dispose of only one-half of 1 per cent, at home.’ 1 Well Preserved Butter. Thirteen years ago a Delaware farm er lowered "wo pounds of butter in a tightly covered bucket in a well to cool off. The string broke and the bucket went to the bottom. A few days ago the farmer was clearing out his w r ell and found the bucket of but ter sound and sweet as a nut. #fleneral& FamiNotes Rye is coming in favor this fall. Level cultivation saves moisture. Water is of inestimable value in the garden. Disposition has an Influence on the value of a horse of any type. Are you sure of every cow’s yearly output of butter-fat and milk? Calves should be well bedded so that they will be dry and warm. Be ever watchful for the appear ance, in your hives, of foul brood. Every ewe in the flock should do her separate part and perform her work well. Ewes that possess strong constitu tions should be selected for breeding purposes. Quality, while not easy to define, one of the most essential points in horse flesh. Early varieties of apples and pears should be picked before they have become soft. Leaving grain in shock for from four to six weeks is attended with a great deal of risk. There is nothing gained in keeping animals in the flock simply because they once were good breeders. A good ditch should be dug around the poultry yards to prevent water getting in and to keep them dry. If the heavy mares do not produce good foals by a certain mating then try another stallion of the same class. Very young calves sometimes have a form of scours that is due to a de fect in the constitution or to prenatal conditions. Milk at a stated hour both morning and evening, and keep everything about the stable and the dairy clean and fresh. An insect pest that has caused severe losses where currants are grown is the currant aphis, which pro duces reddish blisters on the leaves. If you have not killed that surplus rooster, get rid of him at once for he not only makes no profit himself, but devours the profit returned by others. This is the time of year to keep that green scum out of the poultry drink ing pans. Typhoid lurks therein, and chickens have typhoid in the fall Scald often. HARD LUCK, INH Ul/l^B “Yep, Bill fell inter a beer vat an' nearly drownded; but dat ain’t de wurst of it. Dey pumped him out when dey rescued him!” Tuberculosis In the West Indies. Associations for the Prevention of Tuberculosis have been formed in Cuba, Porto Rico and Trinidad. In Cuba there are over 40,000 deaths from tuberculosis every year, and the death rate from this disease is nearly three times as high in the United States. In Porto Rico there are over 6,000 deaths every ydftr out of 1,000,000 in habitants. In Trinidad, the death rate from tuberculosis in Port-au-Spain, the only place where figures are available, was 4.75 in 1909, nearly three times the rate in New York city. Condi tions in the other islands of the West Indies, where no active campaign against tuberculosis has been under taken is even worse. The chief rea son for this high mortality is found in the unsanitary, dark, and poorly ventilated houses of the natives of the islands. Not on Your Life. An Irishman obtained a position in a skyscraper that was being built. He had to carry mortar up to the top floor. One day he went up and couldn't find his way down. The boss missed him and called up to him: “Pat,” said the boss, “why don’t you come down?" “I don’t know the way,” said Pat. “Well, come down the way jou went up.” “Faith, and I won’t,” said Pat, “for I came up head first.” Even the Children. Ex-Governor Pennypacker, con demning in his witty way the Ameri can divorce evil, toUhat a Philadelphia luncheon an appropriate story. “Even our children," he said, “are becoming infected. A Kensington schoolteacher, examining a little girl in grammar, said: “ ‘What is the future of love?’ “‘A divorce,’ the child answered promptly.” Man’s Many Attributes. What a chimera, then, is man! What a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradic tion, what a prodigy ! A judge of all things, a feeble worm of the earth, depository of the truth, cloaca of un certainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe. 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