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THE CARROLL FREE PRESS, CARROLLTON. GA.
Summzr Legumes
Business men hurrying through
life seldom consider the myraids of
microscopic organisms called bac
teria, notwithstanding they know
them harmful or helpful. The ones
to be called to our attention now are
extremely helpful. They live on the
roots of the plants known as legumse,
and have a peculiar power of ex
tracting nitrogen from the soil, air,
and storing it in the plant. The le
gumes of economic importance to us
are cowqeas, soy beans, velvet beans,
clover vetch and peanuts.
It is not too late to provide con
siderable nitrogen for next year,s
crop of corn and cotton. In the
commercial form nitrogen costs 20c
VELOCITY OF LIGHT.
On* of Jupiter’* Moons Showed the
Way to Compute It.
The speed at which light travels
through space was discovered al
most by accident 250 years ago. It
grew out of an irregularity in the
movement of one of Jupiter’s
moons. At one period of the year
this moon was sixteen minutes and
thirty-six seconds behind time—
that is, behind the time table it
had kept six months before. This
moon would disappear behind Ju
piter and at times be sixteen min
utes and thirty-six seconds late in
reappearing.
In other words, the time table
Jupiter’s moon kept in spring was
and more a pound, and the corn and different from the one it kept
fall. It is important to note that the
variation occurred every six months
regularly. Every half year the
cotton crops feed heavily upon this
element. A 40 bushel crop of corn
requires 60 pounds of nitrogen; a
one-bale crop of cotton requires 84 j moon wou ) ( j b e this quarter of an
pounds of nitrogen. If proper p an hour late in coming out from be
ings are made, this amount of m- hin(J jtB nt planett j U|)it er.
trogen can be gotten r ®™, ® . This periodicity explained the ir-
mosphere before nex y a P regularity, for the distance bo-
planted. A crop o cowpeas yield- t / een J and
Jupiter varies every
ing a ton of hay will gathe_r_ 43^lbs. ^ months> and tl ‘ e inoon aprar ,,;,
TORTURED TO DEATH.
Report of the 1). D. C.
Committee
Medal
ofnitrogen per acre in parts above
ground, while soy beans contain
more nitrogen than cowpeas. Make
free use of cowpeas and soy beans
this summer. Soy beans are little
known, but are a very valuable
summer legume. They grow erect,
and unlike the cowpeas are more
late in making its appearance be
cause its light had a greater inter
vening space to travel over in com
ing to us.
Suppose you are on a merry-go-
round and a big arc light is at one
side of it. At times as you ride
accomodating to late planting, that wound you will be near the arc
is the 1 ,long maturing varieties shorten hght and at times removed to the
their growth materially when plant
ed in July. The Mammouth Yellow
seems to he the most reliable, and
the best suited variety for all con
ditions. When cowpeas and soy
beans are sown for seed or grazing
with hogs, they should be sown in
24 inch drills, and cultivated two to
three times. This method reduces |
the amount of seed required more
opposite side of the circle. When you
arc on the opposite side the light
will have to cross the circle to reach
you. To cross the circle in which
the earth moves is a distance of
18G.000.000 miles. Hence astrono
mers saw it took the light of Jupi
ter’s moon sixteen minutes and
thirtv-six seconds to travel 18(>,-
000,000 miles. The sixteen minutes
than half. In South Georgia thej and thirtv-six seconds are about
velvet bean stands premier. It is a equal to 1.000 seconds. Therefore
greedy gatherer of nitrogen, and is: the rnte at which light travels is
oneof the greatest soil rejuvenators' l8G,OOO.Ono miles divided by 1.000.
known to that section. Its use 1 or 186,000 miles per second. That
should be more general on sandy
lands.
Peanuts are used extensively in
the south, and are considerable ni
trogen to the soil. The cotton yield
can be materially increased if the
poor lands are put in legumes,
rather than put in more crops
which will be taken from the soil,
thereby still futher depleting its
fertility. Clovers that grow i n the
summer will add much to the fertil
ity and reduce the labor and (xpense
of getting free nitrogen from the air.
A more generous and judicious use
of legumes will increase the crop
production of Georgia several fold,
and the cost will not be felt.-Raleigh
(N. C.) Progressive Farmer.
this is true modern machines clear
ly show.— Louisville Courier-Jour
nal.
Notice Singers
There will be an all-day singing
at Bethany Church of old Carrollton
the first Sunday in June. All Sing
ers and lovers of good music are
especially invited.
Notice To horse Breeders
I have charge of the Broadnax
horse and will let him serve a limited
number of mares this season, will
be at Bledsoes stables.
Tyre Watson.
Good Keaton.
A young Boston lawyer who is
going to he married soon met an
other voting lawyer who was mar
ried wav last year. They ex
changed felicitations and inquiries.
“The onlv thing that bothers
me,*’ explained the about to be
happy man, “is the subject of ex
pense. Of course I'm not pluuging
into this thing with my eyes shut,
but”—
“Now. look here,” interrupted the
experienced benedict, “I'll tell you
an absolute fact. I don’t spend
half the money ) did before I was
married.”
“You don’t?” exclaimed the oth
er. “How do you work that?”
“1 don’t have it to spend.”
Utilizing Hit Talant.
“What kind of a career have you
mapped out for your boy, Josh ?”
“I’m goin’ to make a lawyer of
him,” answered Farmer Corntossel.
“He’s got an unconquerable fancy
for tendin’ to other folks’ business,
an’ he might as well git paid for it.”
-—Western Christian Advocate.
Horrible F.to of Damians, Who Tried
to Kill Louis XV.
As an exumplc of the administra
tion of justice in the reign of Louis
XV. history records the trial and
death of Robert Damiens.
Damiens was easily excited polit
ically. Ho became a most danger
ous fanatic, seeing in many existing
evils a menace to tbe people. He
watched the corruption and extrav
agance of Louis’ court till a crazy
idea developed in his mind that be
must strike a blow for the good of
France.
In the January of 1757 Louis was
■pending most of his time at the
palace of the Little Trianon, in the
great park of Versailles. The roval
family wus at the palace at Ver
sailles, and, hearing that his daugh
ter, Mine. Adelaide, had a severe
cold, Louis paid her a visit one aft
ernoon.
A private stairway led from the
royal apartments to the court,
where his carriage awaited him;
two torch bearers stood on either
side the coach door. Just us the
king reached this door a man in a
long coat aud a large wig grubbed
his shoulder and stabbed him.
The attendants threw themselves
on Damiens, but tbe man made no
effort to escape. Tbe weapon lie
hnd used was a two blnded clasp
knife, and the-winter clothing of
the king was so thick that the I
wound was little more than sulli-
cient to draw blood.
Damiens wns stripped of all his
clothes and at once forced to drink
an anti-poison for fear he might
have planned to escape the penalty
of the law. Then came torture to
make him confess his reason for at
tempting this crime.
Assured that the king would live,
attention was given to the matter
of punishment for Damiens. He
was brought to trial, and his sen
tence was that he should be torn in
quarters by horses on the Place de
la Greve, upon which the great city
hall of Paris faces.
At 3 o’clock. March 28, Damiens
was taken from the prison in the
death cart, in which were two
priests and the executioner. Arriv
ing nt the place of execution, Da
miens wns kept an hour waiting and
during this time calmly watched the
preparations for bis death. An iq-
closure had been made by solid
planks, giving room enough for the
horses to do their deadly work. All
about the square the windows and
roofs were crowded with spectators.
When all was ready Damiens was
placed on a strong wooden table in
the inclosure, this table being three
feet high. Then his right hand was
burned with redhot irons; next red
hot pincers made wounds all over
his body, and into these were pour
ed boiling lead and oil.
A horse was then fastened to
each ankle and ench wrist, and the
animals were lashed to pull in all
directions. It took an hour and a
quarter for him to die. His body
was then burned on a funeral pile.
The next act was to tear down his
house. His father, his wife and
his daughter were banished from
France, a'nd a roval order was given
to his brothers and sisters to change,
their name.
Our 30 Days Retiring Sale
CONTINUES
We are still selling best for
least. We have a full line of
Dry Goods,Clothing and Shoes
We are better prepared to serve
the people than ever before.
Don’t fail to call and see our
line before buying.
We. the Medal Committee of
Annie Wheeler Chapter, U. D. C.
respectfully submit our final report.
Eleven papers from the Carrollton
Public Schools. Nine from the
school in east Carrollton and two
, from West View were submitted to
the Committee. Four others were
written at West View, making fifteen
for the county. If others were
written in the several grades of the
east Carrollton school, the committee
was not apprised of the fact. There
were no reports from the teachers—
the pupils handing in their work
themselves to the committee.
Revs. Dodd, Dozier and Radford
agreed to act as a committee to
pass judgement upon the com
positions and they have handed in
their report and the two best com
positions in their judgement, have
been sent by our secretary to the
chairman of the state contest. The
report of our sub-committee will be
turned over to the president of the
chapter, to be read on Memorial
Day, when the prizes will be award
ed.
Notwithstanding the short time
for preparation, the ptpeis were
very good.
We desire to thank those who en
tered the contest, and we heartily
wish that a medal could be given
to each and every one. We hope as
the years go by that more and more
interest will he taken in the subject
given, and that they will be given
each year long enough before time
for handing in the composition to
permit of very careful study. We
want our side of the subject to be
so well known and studied that
when such articles as those now
appearing in the Atlanta Journal
come out, we will know the true
from the false. And when a north
ern writer would try to make us
believe that General Lee’s only
reason for not accepting the com
mand of the northern army was be
cause he did not wish to supersede
his old friend Gen. Scott, or that he
did not wish to draw his sword a-
gainst his own state, we will know
how to label the statement.
As regards the medals, your com
mittee thought that if we wished to
encourage the children to effort a-
long this line handsomer medals
than those procured for $5 ough;
to ue purchased. We therefore tooK
the liberty of getting some nicer ones
and giving two instead of one—the
two costing $12. Two others costing
$9 seemed to be of equal value, that
we took only one of them, getting a
handsomer one for the High School
pupil. If the history of our South
land is worthy of study, we should
not be parsimonious in our rewards.
Our fathers gave their all for us, why
should we hold the purse strings
too tightly when it comes to reward
ing our children for studying about
them? Our brothers and sisters of
the north are not stingy when they
honor their dead heroes. The deeds
of our noble soldiers should be honor
ed with equal liberality. We want
our prizes to be worth striving for,
Of course the greatest good the pupils
get is the patriotism that is bound
to be awaken in their breasts after
every such contest, but we want the
intrinsic value of the prize to be in
some measure commensurate with
the subject studied.
It was a matter of regret to us
that the teachers of the county took
so little interest in the contest.
Other contests were coming on
which they considered mere impor
tant. We should encourage southern
children in learning that their fore
fathers were the bravest and best
men in the world—they who left
their homes of culture; refinement
and ease, to fight and endure the
greatest hardships to gain the rights
.which our Constitution meant for
these to have, and which had been
trampled in the dust until they could
no longer bear it. We should do our
utmost to encourage that spirit
which teaches our children to rever
our noble leaders, Davis, Lee, and
Jackson,and our thousands of private
soldiers who fought so nobly when
Lincoln with his hosts of hireling
soldiers whipped us back into a
Union which we would have left
peaceably (as we had a right to do)
and establish for ourselves a country
which would have been governed by
men who thought more of honor,
principle and patriotism than they
did of the dollar. Because might
ICE NOTICE!
Beginning Monday, May I5th, we
will have Ice Books at the Carroll
ton Bank and J. L, Vaughan’s office.
Everybody wanting ice must supply
themselves with and ice book or
will have to pay the driver Ic per
pound for ice. The books will be
sold to you for ic per pound. You
can also have a book sent out from
our factory with your ice order. All
books will be sold for cash.
Carrollton Ice & Bottling
Company
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prevailed we must not hide our heads
and forget that our fathers did things
that were the admiration of the world
at the time, and had we been vic-
torius would have been sung from
one end of the land to the other.
We do not want to be at enmity
with any one or with any section of
the country but we believe our
fathers were right and we certainly
want our children to know is.
Respectfully,
Mrs. E. B. Meadows,
Mrs. R. H. Fitts,
Miss Helen Brown.
Medal Committee
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