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THE I y NEWS,
Entered at the Post Office at
Uu., as second class /nail matter.
Official Okoa.v ok the County.
Published Every Thursday,
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ANNOUNCEMENT.
Afte ' an absence of two years it
fords u* some degree of pleasure
*tiite that with this issue we again
«umo charge of Tj.k News ns
and proprietor. In making this state
ment we are reminded of the
of another, "that lie who once
of printers’ ink is more strongly
ihratled than he who once
w ine.” Be tlm 1 true or false,
compels us to admil that WJ at.
feel at home in the clmir we
during the first eight years of the
per* existence. in resuming our
position we have no new promises
make or declaration of purposes
tie', forth—satisfying otirselv US
the statement that it is om purpose
give the people of the county a
worthy of I heir support, and to
end propose to improve it
during the year, both as to size
inake-up.
In retireing from the*billowy
of the "fourth estate” our predeecs
j<ors, Meows. Tu.ner and
have just cause to congratulate
selves. Without former experience
anil unaccustomed to the inky lint
that “chase" one around the "quads
into the "pie" to the "devil's tail,”
they have mor ed the tide of the
journalistic sea for two long y» nr* and
safely landed with “forms" well
blocked. They arc true blue, and
with experience gained, coupled with
natural endowments and acquired
accomplishments are well equipped
for life’s buttle*. May success clown
their every effort. M. V. UltU.M..
Editorial Remarks.
Sidney Tapp should go
back und sit down. Too muuv
n kind of ill i same time is
t»ng.
A Savannah man says this
ton crop will reach fifteen
bales. We can see his hoar
lrotn here. .
Having dined with
Roosevelt, John Temple
is fit to associate with
Washington.
Give the cotton buronti
money to make its estimates
curate—and men who arc
to—or abolish it.
A religious wave is
over th* Western country.
it continue until it reaches
Southland of ours.
Gov Terrell says Georgia
not lie represented hy negro
at the Roosevelt inauguration,
ond ws soy “Shake, Governor."
All the indications point to a
plenty of candidates for governor
next year, but there is still only
one gubernatorial cheif to fill.
Postmas er Harry Edwards of
"Macon, is still standing godfather
to Toddy’* affection for the
South. Is the post mastership
worth it?
<«►
John Beflay is making the Ma-
co** Evening New* twinkle like a
little star. Excuse us, John, we
know that’s not tho right way to
rpell your name, but we’ll be jig-
ered if we know the right wny.
Atlanta may be successful in
getting theStute fair this full, but
if she does a large majority of the
people of the State will tie
pointed. Mmcoii i* tin* proper
plac i and the (air shoald lie held
there.
A . . 1\i.***
|»r^acucr . h( s women not
to mm ry uniil th» v know ali
About the past of their intended
husbands The tr,. u fi|« is that
jnKii , * pasl ... until some years after ,
they marry him.
B.M. in cou.,1, ...........
nrations for a tog county fair this
fall. One «.f her papers is resp,ii,
eibls for snyiut ihat it Join ■
0 uld hold a county fair Aildwin
could have a i exhibition. \\ e
nat p ral y lojk foi 0 reut things
*-* there. j
Stall* Sanitarium.
Pacta About in not Generally
Known hy the Public.
To tho majority of people tho
Georgia State Sanitarium for the
insane is an institution of wr,ich
little is known. It is looked up-
on with n vague kii d of horror,
the impression generally V
! prevails that it is only In rg ' ,
... , . . . k;-l. t
j J.. li t ,.".T .a i i. fiv.'s i i„ ...... 1
1 Buffering*. In reality, it is a
great philanthropic work.
The sanitarium, which is situ
ated near Milledgeville, occupies
a floor apnoBS of 10 to fcO acres
j There are eleven large building*
; c,>V(-ritr>; this acre, and each of
{wards, the buildings is sub-divided into
There are in nil seventy-
two wards in the buildings, all in
direct communication by tele¬
phone with the oflices of the su¬
perintendent, l)r. T O Dowel.
Each of tho seventy-two wards
has at its head a nurse, and tinder
her direction are special corps of
nurses. Each ward has its gepa-
into office, jits own medicine
room, its own hospital room, and
ull the other requirements which
go to make up a great hospital
wI k. ib skilled physicians “minis¬
ter to a mind diseased.”
The work ut the institution i*
regular, loutiue duties coming
<*ach day ut stated hours. At t
o’clock tlm rising whistle blows
and at once over 8,000 patients
with their nurses and attendants
rise and tlm daily life of tho greul
institution b'gins.
Those w ho cun* care" for (hem
selves tire left to themselves,
while the nurses turn their atten¬
tion to ilie helpless. The imbe¬
cile, the idiot, and nil classes of
mentally unbalanced, are washed
uni) drovBO 1 ns carefully as aie
the puy patients in the large hos¬
pitals ol any city. At times tin
•icene is liuli jrous, hut hack of tin
humorous side ulwavs the patliot-
i always the thought that these
unfortunates are ns dependent on
-heir nurses as the new-born babe
upon its mother.
'Tho patients aro then sent on
into the hallways and the grounds
near hy, while their rooms arc
thrown wide open and thorough-
y aired. As much attention i.-
paid to tho bed-rooms of these tin
fortunalesas though they \ ere
owners of luaiisions and eviry
earn is given them.
ylt 8 o’clock the call sounds for
breakfast and the multitude ot
patients are fed. 'Thirty-nine
dining rooms are required for
this and many of them are exact¬
ly similar to those of modem ho¬
tels and rest m auls. Others lire
fitted out like the mess tents of
soldiers, where all tho utensils are
of tin.
In these the more dangerous are
ed, tho tin iit iim's being u-od to
avoid tho breaking Hint w ould
follow if glass ami china were put
on the tnldi s.
For (hose whoso physical con
dilion is such that lle*y cannot
appear at the tables, breakfast is
served in their bedrooms. For
this purpose small adjustable ta¬
bles have been provided tlut pro¬
ject across she beds, thus making
anting ns comfortable as possible
for the invalids. As modern a
service is supplied these unfortu¬
nates as is given to the sick in tho
city h.,spitals‘ and nurses are con-
sutntly in attendance towait on
tneir every want.
every respect, except in the
character of the food served, the
other two meats of the day are
like hrenUfrst. As wide a variety
of cutab.es as possible isgivtn the
inmates, in every case the meals
ate Of a character to w inch there
can ii* be no objection
j During the times between tho
: serving "f the meals the uiifoi tu-
" Hes indulge in all manner of
"Vrk and amusement, j Those
" * l(> 0,1,1 work are given
about the grounds. Others con-
congregate ingroups about vio-
1ms ana nanjo8 f ami tho
nwnt they derive from the music
seems to he a* that of those who
are not afflict-d met,tally \„w
cinui
j < f the , Hour , and , old-tiain
an
j breakdown holds the Gourds.
| Here anil there is a man or a
»In. C.ink. I,, n, ,1„ j.
pait of tin* animal kingdom and
whose utter helplessness is nit, a
-
file. Ol iers hold weighty
....... on questions of theology or
philosophy, and still others tight
anew the battles ol cunipuigns
that their more fortunate compau
inns have forgotten ever existed.
Others are pleading their
to visitors and to the physcians,
and inuny of the argument! rb
why they should he released are
ludicrous in the extreme, buck of
it all there is a touch of the deep-
.-st putlms. In other paits of the
building are the maniacs, and
their violent shoutings and
actions hind an added feeling of
horror to that which comes even
from the presence of idiot and
.... |, llt .....
Ko U-Uar imloraamaii, of tho
wise management of the institu-
could be secured than the
figures from the superintendent’s
reports, nitd it comparison of them
with those of similar institutions
in oilier states'
,S'ixty percent of the recoveries
are due to the light employment
and the amusement furnished the
innnitesby the authorities. Near¬
ly 8(X acres of land is being cul¬
tivated by the sanitarium, the
patients doing most of the werk.
The per capita cost at Mil led gs-
ville is only about 80o. Only four
institutions in the country have a
lower cost. Two of the*,, receive
pay patients, a thing that the
Georgia instilution^does not do,
and the third does not include the
salaries of nurses, attendants, etc
mid the c'jst, as is done lie-re.
Mr. Osborne as a Reformer
The letters that Mr. W W Os¬
borne of Savannah is contributing
to tho daily press of the State
against lobbyism and the attempt-
mi control of politics and legisla¬
tion hy ^corporations are enter¬
taining, and they may accomplish
tuimi good in u general way, but
they do not contain anything that
the public did not already know
ro far as the methods of tho cor¬
porations are concerned. Hon.
Jos-[)h II Hall of Bibb county lias
baeu throning side Hashes on
those methods ever since he be¬
came a member of the legislature,
and tho people ure fairly well ac¬
quainted with them. They me
the same methods practiced at
the national capitol and at every
otntu capitol in the country*, and
we do not anticipate that Mr. Os¬
borne can tlo mole toward putting
m end to them than Mr. Hall ha*
done. In fact, he can hardly ex¬
pect to do ns much, for Mr. Hall
is sincere, while tho impression is
general that Mr. Osborne hai-
some ulterior motives and does
not care whether lie breaks up the
practices complained of or not.
People arc not usking “Will Mr.
run them out?” but
** HGiat is Billy up to?" a id tlm
want of sincerity attributed to
w ill necessarily place him ut
disadvantage.
Several tilings contribute to the
impression that Mr. Orborne ie
insincere. In the first place, he i.-
at the head of one of the mist
o irrupt political organizations
in tho State—perhaps the mnsi
corrupt; the local organization
that controls politics in Savan¬
nah. This being true, tho public
naturally is inquiring why ho does
not begin at home. In tho next
place, In, is one of the lobbyests
against whom lie is railing. In
the corridors of tho capital
when legislation is pending ho ip
a fumiliur figure at work for the
corporation* whom he now assail*
m general. He is the attorney
for several corporations, and the
work he does for them in Atlanta
dining sessions of the legislatiin*
.* as r. prehensile as that he
complains of as being done
others. In the third place, if
motive behind Ins letters is
it is said tube, viz., the
election of a certain individual
an office, greater doubt is cast r
his sincerity hy tha fact that
his candidate is as closely identi-
tied with the corporations as any
Olio of the other oundiduies, and
that lie is not supporting the
didiito whose record shows him to
bo anti-corporation. It th«
tiv*. attributed to Mr. Orborne is
tho correct ono, ho is giving tho
people rather a cortcuiptibie ox-
hibition of peanut politics is he
II. View 1,1 inose tilings,
question whether Mr. Osborne is
a rent reformer or a sham refor-
mer naturally arises, and the gen-
„„| v.rrtid, p.rlicnUrly „( ,l,o»
who know him best, is that he is
not in earnest, and that if his ui-
terii>r object is accomplished he.
will not again be heard of as a re-
former. For our part, we prefer
the reformer of ihe Joe Hill Hall
i
rp lre Spass Notice,
Ihi- is to notify all persons not to
J*"* kl " d V> e "
K^J place, planted in Jones eounty^Ga. said 3 !*
11 on place. Fail not
'"Feh/lsfi'itWS* 5 U ‘ e k J ' V ' M Ceakk.
The New Orleans Coiiven-
t ion.
j
The plans suggested to cause
an advance in tho price of cotton
hasheen exceedingly numerous.
All of them were well meant, and
it »« gratifying to notice the
spread interest in tne matter of
vital importance to the fur-
mer. But there is only one plan
J that I^an promises success, and that
was adopted hy a ununimous
Ik, gmt .(
.cotton plantar* m NowOil.au,
l a,, l week. Stated briefly, tho
| pl»»> to hold the cotton yet un-
*wld, «»d to reduce llie acreage
percent llns year,
Undoubtedly the present crop
was a very large one, and while
speculators have had much to do
with reducing the price from
10c to 0 l-2c, the fuel of a large
crop has na'urally assisted in the
decline. That there is u thirteen
million crop is hardly probable,
and with the sights before us we
think the government estimate is
too high. One reason for think¬
ing so is that the government in
its monthly estimates duplicates
the previous mont h’s figures of
■tinners who refuse to report for
die current month. Tin s the es-
tiiriate for December would con¬
tain figures furnished by many
ginnsrs for November, und the
unfairness of such u system ouglii
to be recognize d when it is born in
mind that the gins turn out many
bales more in November than
they do in December. But whih
we believe the government has in
dieted a grave injustice upon tin
South hy its arbitrary system, tin
crop is one of the largest oi. re
cord. Under ordinary conditiom-
it would have reached about elev
en million bales, blit the open
weather has proluih y added an-
other million, and with a surplm
on hand to he counted in the next
crop, the New Orleans Conventioi
acted wisely in planning for with
o’ ling the surplus from tin
market and for reducing the acre
age this year.
Ordinarily such a plan wouh
present great ilillicit I th s, but tin
■mason’s experience has reduced
he difficulties greatly, and we in¬
cline to a hopeful view of the sit
nation. It is n matter of self-
preservation with the farmers.
If the-y raise twelve million bah-i
this year, tl)M price next fall will
>
be 5c., and ruin will stare tin m
hi the face.If they raise not moit
than nine million bales, they will
get 10c or more for it. Cotton i-
profitable at 10u., it floes not pay
expenses at (Jo. The South can
make its cotton crop the biggesi
bonanza on earth. All that is
necessary is to produce a little
loss cotton every year than the
world wants, and in a little whiii
the farmer would lie the money
lender instead of the money Bor¬
rower. The thorough system with
which the New Orleans plan is
luing organized suggests perma¬
nency, nnd if die production is
controlled this year, there is lie
g iod reason why it should not
continue to be.
There are those who ild not be¬
lieve tho crop can be reduced.
They point to past unsuccessful
efforts to reduce it, and say his¬
tory will repeat itself. But they
tail to take into account that the
situation was never before brought
so directly home to the funner,
and that there never was before
such widespread and earnest mi
effort to ,,.d uce the acreage. It
i* „„t to U exp-cted that even
furmer wi || reduce, and probably
lna ny will refuse to sign an agree
lnwt lo do 8() who illten(l to re .
auc „ f but there is good reason to
,| nl ,k that there will be a general
reduction ; and it would be a wis-
, luuG ,i.„ not , , , to sign tne agreement *
b9cntlse „ 1H r „ fu8d , of
(l ble number uiicertuin'ly to si n w.nild cause
more or less us to the
ucroag-, whereas a generally sigd-
"d agreement would remove the
ll,,c ** r,M,ll, v H, "l haves good effect
.
pnce Lolh “" w a " d
-
j plan adopted a. New Orteau*
includes state, county ami
or^ani mions and tho move*
i me,,t i,as n,n a,, V begun. Heliov
| J"? that it is one that will
offers its services to our people in
their etforts as to Jones countv.
places its columns at their
for ,u, y information
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FOLEYSISWEF^TAR Nr
cA H i f r u/ toft, mr>< JTe
INQUIRIES ANSWERED
Letters Replied By The
Agricultural Dep't.
-
poBMULAS FOR MAKING COMPOST
Paper Read Before Meeting of Agricul¬
ture! Commissioner! in Regard to
the "Smithfield Virginia
Wheat Growing Profitable.
Question—“Hon. O. B. Stevens, At¬
lanta, Ga.—Dear Sir: Can you give
me a good formula for composting
with stable and cow lot manure?"
In reply to the above we beg here-
with to submit formulas for making
compost, which have been prepared by
the State Chemist, John M. McCand-
less:
In the first place take 100 pounds
of quick lime and slake it with 150
pounds of kalnit dissolved in hot wa-
ter. Be sure to so proportion the
amount of water used as to slake
the lime to a powder, and not have
* wet, sticky mass, If you use too
much water you will have a sticky
mass and not a powder which can be
tasily handled.
Your lime should be slaked by a hot
solution of kalnit to a powder, which is
Just damp enough to handle comfort-
ably. You have now an excellent and
perfect mixture of the lime with the
sulphate of potash and chloride of so¬
dium of th# kalnit. The work should
be done at a point convenient and
close to wbe^Tthe compost pile is to
be made.
The materials you will need to make
& ton of compost according to my for-
mlua then are as follows:
Formula No. 1: 1
100 pounds quick lime,
150 pounds of kalnit,
250 pounds 14 per cent, acid phosphate,
200 pounds of cotton seed meal,
1,200 pounds of stable manure.
Formula No. 2:
100 pounds of quick Urns,
150 pounds of kalnit,
250 pounds 14 per cent, acid phosphate,
400 pounds of green cotton seed,
1,000 pounds of stable manure.
You will observe that both these for.
mulas add up 1,900 pounds, but as a
matter of fact, they will add up 2,000
pounds or more after the lime has
been slaked with the hot solution ot
kalnit, because the lime will absorb
and hold a large amount of water in
a fixed condition.
Provide a place under shelter for
making the compost, as you cannot af¬
ford to have the rains leach such a
valuable after it is made.
Method of Composting.
First, put down a layer of stable
manure well chopped and Tree from
lumps, about three Inches thick,
sprinkle over this a layer of cotton
seed meal, say one-eigth to one-quarter
of an Inch thick, then moisten with
water until manure and meal are well
dampened; then sprikle on a layer ot
the slaked lime and Uainit mixture,
using your judgment as to the thick¬
ness of the layer, so as to make your
materials come out about even. On
top of the potash sprinkle a layer ol
the acid phosphate. On top of this
again pu ta layer of stable manure,
say, about two inches thick, then cot¬
ton seed meal as before. Again moist¬
ening the layer of cotton seed meal
and manure until damp, then as before
a layer potash lime followed by acid
phosphate, " ‘ ‘ , Cotinue in this way until
the materials are all exhausted and
top all over with stable manure or rich
woods earth, say two inches thick. At.
low it to stand until thorough fermen¬
tation takes place, which should ha
from one to two months, according to
the temperature, moisture, etc.
The formula for the use of green cot¬
ton seed should be put up in precisely
the same way. except, of course, tha
layer of cotton seed will be thicket
than the layer of meal, When the
cotton seed have been kilted thorough¬
ly, cut down vertically with a sharp
bo*,-mattock or spade through the lay¬
ers, shaving off a thin slice at the time.
PntWsrize and shovel iwto ft heap and,
and allow the fermentation to go on
again for about ten days, when the
compost ought to be ready for use. Ap.
ply liberally at the rate of four or
five hundred pounds per acre, Such
a compost as this, made either with
cotton seed or cotton seed meal, ought
to analyze about—
2.25 per cent, available phosphoricacld.
1.10 per cent ammonia,
1.25 per cent potash,
but its results will beat its analysis.
JOHN M. McCANDLESS,
State Chemist.
Recently the following letter was
received:
"Hon O. B. Stevens,
Atlanta, Ga.,
Dear Sir: I am a
northwestern farmer and wish to know
how the crops of Qeorgia compare
In yield to those of our section.
(Signed) “X. Y. Z."
We can find no better answer to this
Inquiry than the testimony of Mr. Geo.
Dillon once of Maine, then of Iowa
but now a citizen of Georgia, and the
proprietor of a large dairy farm near
Macon, our beautiful "Central City."
s£
Mr. Dillon:
“My salary at the ttme I left the
North was *3,600 per anum. My health
broke down and I was advised to corns
I cani« here and
bought what ia called the poorest
•*“<!. I have been here n
Y ear8 ' an <l have never had to take a
«ose of medicine, and I have not be«
2 ITT'J £ S.*£
who!* statek I have got too much
sense now to ever try to stand those
Awful winters."
\VM. B. BIRCH. CLARENCE II. CUBBEDGK.
BIRCH & CUBBEDGE,
Headquarters for
HARDWARE
AND
HOUSEFURNISHING GOODS.
Agents foa CHATTANOOGA PLOWS.
3 .7 and 819 Third Street, MACON, GA
GO TO
Jones & Todd,
FOR YOUR
Dry Goods, Clothing and Shoes.
406 3rd St., Macon Ga.
Tli 3 Price of Cot¬ m
ton Is Down
But not more so the: the price ol
our buggies.
All ivc nsk is an opport unit''
show you our I ugme-
> market 011 01,1 pi fora buggy It you a t «■•* . T
vvuwili«Hi
you.
We have recently received
some of the handsomest ve¬
hicles ever seen in Macon.
ASHWORTH & COLEMAN
318 and £3} Thir d St Macon, Ga
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