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A SMALL SPOT
MAY BE CANCER.
IMCT VIM CUT PICCO EJII/C The greatest care should be (riven to
ItIUuI flULtni UAulO fIAIL any little note, pimple or (scratch which
shows no disposition to heal under ordin
mnrinrn IT CIDOT AC ary treatment. No one can tell how soon these
HIT lAiIIU AI rlnol Ad will develop into Cancer of the worst type.
So many people die from Cancer simply be
•|rnr DIMDI CQ cause they do not know just what the disease is;
mLIIL rimlLLui they naturally turn themselves over to the doctors,
and are forced to submit to a cruel and dangerous
operation —the only treatment which the doctors know for Cancer. The disease
promptly returns, however, and is even more violent and destructive than
before. Cancer is a deadly poison in the blood, and an operation, plaster, or
other external treatment can nave no effeet whatever upon it. The cure must
come from within— the last vestige of poison rnu£t be eradicated.
a Mr. Wm Walpole, of Walshtown, S. D., says; ‘'A
little blotch about the size of a pea came under my left
eye gradually growing larger, from which shooting pains
at intervals ran in all directions. I became greatly alarmed
and consulted a good doctor, who pronounced it Cancer,
and advised that it be cut out, but this 1 could not con
sent to. I read in my local paper of a cure effected by
S S. S.. and decided to try it. It acted like a charm, the
Cancer becoming at first irritated, and then discharging
very freely. This gradually grew less and then discon
tinued altogether, leaving a small scab which soon drop
ped off and now only a healthy little scar remains where
yrhat threatened to destroy my life once held full sway.”
Positively the only cure for Cancer is Swift’s Specific—
S. S. S. FOR THE BLOOD
because it is the only remedy which can go deep enough to reach the root of
the disease and force it out of the system permanently. A surgical operation
does not reach the blood the real seat of the disease—because the blood can
not be cut aimy. Insist upon 8. 8. S.; nothing can take its place.
8. 8. 8. cures also any ease of Scrofula, Eczema, Rheumatism, Contagious
Blood. Poison, Ulcers, Sores, or any other form of blood disease. Valuable
books x>n Cancer and Blood Diseases will be mailed free to any address by
Bwift Specific Company, Atlanta, Georgia.
African
Limbless
Cotton Seed
Free.
Anyone who sends one dollar
for a year’s subscription to the
Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal
can get postpaid one pound of the
celebrated African Limbless Cot
ton Seed without charge.
A pound of these seed will
plant one-fifth of an acre, and
with proper attention should
yield enough to plant a crop.
The seed were tested in a list
of thirty varieties by the Georgia
Experiment Station and a bul
letin recently issued l>y Director
Nodding shows that the African
Limbless Cotton produced 70
pounds more per acre than any
other variety, and 161 pounds
more per acre than the average
of thirty leading varieties.
The African Limbless Cotton
produced 780 pounds of lint per
acre, which is nearly four times
the Hverage on the farms of the
South. This shows what high
fertilization and thorough cult
ure will do with these excellent
Seed. The value of the product,
counting cotton at 5 cents and
seed at 13 cents a bushel, was
over $45 per acre. The cost of
fertilizers used was 54.77 per acre.
The Journal does not guarantee
results, but the result of the test
at the Experiment Station makes
it worth a farmer’s while to test
these seed when he can get them
for nothing.
The Journal brings you the
News or the World Twick a
Wkkk, with hundreds of articles
of special interest about the farm,
the household, juvenile topics,
etc., and every Southern farmer
should have the paper.
You don't have to wait a week
for the nevft>, but get it twice as
jpfteu as you do in the weeklies,
which charge the same price.
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\V Address
THLi JOURNAL,
Atlunlu, (Ja.
Don't let the farm tools and imple
ments get rusty: use kerosene oil.
Don't let the brain get rusty; use
newspapers and books.
Luxuriant hair, of uniform color is
a beautiful head covering for either
sex. and may be secured by using
Hall’s Vegetable Sioician Hair Re
newer.
An able man shows his spirit by
gentle words and resolute actions.
He is neither hot nortimid.—Chester
field.
O A. STO IX X A.
Ben* tli* _/? lhe Kind to Haw Always Boast
A Portable Church.
I Bishop Walker of Dakota was the
I first man to advocate the use of a
traveling church on railroads, and the
car which he had built for the purpose
was used for many years, to the ma
terial lightening of his labors of visi
! tation.
A church on wheels has just been
I built by a clergyman of Conanicut
[ island, on which he proposes to trav
'el over ihe couniry roads in going to
his missionary rounds. Although it
is neccessarily small and light, it has
all the details and fittings in keeping
with its size and purpose. Its out
side measure is 18 feet wide and 27
feet long, with a tiny bay window two
feet deep to give more room for the
altar.
From the floor to the ridgepole is
18 feet, though the cross and belfry
which it surmounts adds several feet
more. There are seats for 100 peo
pie without the least crowding.
Built into the left of the chancel is
a small organ of special construction
and good tone. It is believed this
chapel will be the precursor of a num
ber of similar buildings for use in
small communities too poor to pro
vide a more pretentious gathering
place. When the chapel is on the
road, the cross and bell are removed,
and it can be drawn under telegraph
wires, with plenty of room to spare.
Why don’t you dress that wound
with Dr. Tichenor’s Antiseptic in
stead of hat old greasy salve or oint
ment? It will yrevent or remove in
llamation and soreness and heal it
much quicker and is so much cleaner
and more pleasant. Only 50 cts. a
bottle by druuists.
A Shrewil Scheme.
A Boston restaurant keeper was
standing in front of his establishment
grumbling at the hard times and la
menting his fate, says Harper's Round
Table. Although he could see people
walking up and down tire streets, they
all seemed to avoid him, and even the
visitors to the town, who could not
be supposed to know anything about
Iris place, seemed to avoid it instinct
ively. He meditated much on his
misfortune, and racked his brains to
devise some scheme that would im
prove his business. At last an idea
occurred to him.
Going to a bronze founder, he or
dered several peculiar tablets of the
kind that are seen in different parts
of Boston on the fronts of houses to
commemorate the birthplace or board
ing house of someone or another of
the city’s great men. Fastening these
tablets on conspicuous parts of his
building, he laid in a birge supply of
eatables, and awaited the result.
Now the great point about these
tablets was that they were utterly un
intelligible the inscriptions being
half obliterated Latin—but their el
feet was electrical. Every true Bos
tonian glanced at them, took it for
granted that the restaurant was one
of the many with an historic flavor,
and patronized it at once. The stran
gers that visited the city looked at the
tablets hopelessly, then patronized
the house in the hope that they would
find someone who jfould explain the
strange inscription/
The Glory 0! Christ,
What is glory? To be called gnat
and honored. Kings and Generals
sometimes scholars, are praised and
called glorious. Sometimes Kings
have laid away the crown and the
royal robes to go in disguise as a
peasant to see their people in every
condition.
A King who did so a long time
ago had a great many names besides
the title of King. One dark night in
the far north, he knocked with his
staff at the door of an inn—the man
opened a barred window and said,
“Who is there?” Tell me your name.
The King repeated the half dozen or
more names given at his baptism.
“No! No!” shouted the man: “can't
take so many men in,” and barred
the wind w again. Hedid not know
he had driven away his king. Jesus
is like that king—in heaven he shared
the glory of his father, but in the
guise of flesh he came to earth as the
son ot man. Alas! that so many do
not know him as the Christ, the
redeemer and Saviour, and are like
those who had no room for him at
the inn. He has given some glimp
ses of his.glory to help us understand
that he is the King of Kings and the
Lord of Lords, that we may know
that when he went back to heaven
haw the chorus rang “Lift up your
heads, O ye gates; even lift them up
ye everlasting doors, and the King of
glory shall come in.” It \va? his
glory the shepherds of Bethlehem
saw, when the sky was bright at mid
night, when “the glory of the Lord
shone about them;” when they heard
the heavenly host praising and saying:
“Glory to God in the highest.” Yet
in the manger they saw only a little
sleeping child. Thirty years after he
was praying, heaven opened above
him, and as he was baptized, what
did the voice from heaven say?
Was it not glory, for the father to
call him the beloved son and say
that he was well pleased? Again, as
he prayed on a mountain he was glo
rified, the brightness of the shining
sun was in his face, the dazzling
whiteness of snow through all his
garments, so bright that the three
friends with him hid their faces from
the blinding light. Who were they?
Could the disciples ever forget the
sight? Long years after John wrote
“we beheld his glory.” “Peter wrote
that “he received power and glory
from the Father when we were with
him in the holy mount.” John was
afterward permitted to look into
heaven. He saw the one on whose
shoulder he had leaned, so glorified
that his tace was as the shining sun.
The one with whom he had so often
talked said again to him, “fear not”
and bade him see as through an open
door, and write of what he saw; the
things which shall be hereafter.
John saw Jesus upon the throne, and
heard saints and angels singing songs
of praise and glory. In that multi
tude are now thousands and thou
sands of children close around the
throne in the heavenly city, where
there is no need of the sun or the
moon, for the glory of God did light
en it and the lamb is the light thereof.
How did Jesus show his love for little
children when on earth? He not
only said “of such is the kingdom of
heaven,” but he told the grown peo
ple that unless each one would become
as a little child, they would not even
enter that kingdom. What was Jesus
doing when he was glorified on earth?
Asa tiny flower or one dew drop can
reflect the shining sun, so in the
heart and lite of a praying child can
be reflected the glory of Jesus Christ.
Such hearts and lives will follow him,
not as did the crowds on the road
from Bethany to Jerusalem, but will
imitate him in daily service ann offer
ings of love, and at last in the new
Jerusalem be in tne company “which
no man could number, arrayed in
white robes, and palms in their
hands.” Faith Latimer.
COLOR and flavor of fruits,
size, quality and ap>
’ pearance of vegetables,
weight and plumpness of grain,
are all produced by Potash.
Potash,
properly combined with Phos
phoric Acid and Nitrogen, and
liberally applied, will improve
every soil and increase yield
and quality of any crop.
Write and get Free our pamphlets, which
tell how to buy and use fertilizers with
greatest economy and profit.
QERIAN KALI WORKS,
94 Nassau St., New York.
To Coro Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or S5&
(t C. C. C. tail to cure, druggists refund money.
One Minute Cougli Cure, cures
That U wbat U was made
FARM WORK THE
LATEST IN YEARS
Commissioner O. B. Stevens Urges
a Reduction In Cotton Acreage
and Fertilizers Used on Cot
ton of One-Third at Least
From That Used the
Past Two Years.
lie Alio Urge* ii Uurge Increase ol
Food Supplies Kur Man ami lieust
Kor Home Coiii’Uiiiption, as Well as
of All the l*roduct of 1 lie Karin (Ki
prpt Cotton) That Will Bring Spot
Cash unit Large Profits lu the
Markets.
Atlanta, April 1, 1899.
The year 1899 is a memorable one in
the backwardness of all kinds of farm
work, preparatory for the coming crop.
The mouths of January and February
were almost entirely lost, and the un
stable weather into March, has retarded
the usual progress made in this direction
during last mouth. Under these cir
cumstances it is a fixed fact that all
crops of 1899 must be planted much
later than usual.
Even with the corn crop in South and
Southwest Georgia, most of the usual
planting in February was extended to
March, while much of the March work
of the corn crop iu Middle, North and
Northeast Georgia, will of necessity, be
carried into April this year. But late
planting with deep and thorough prepa
ration at the start, is much better than
•lip-shod work and planting at an ear
lier period. Every intelligent farmer
knows that more than half the work
is done, in making, when a crop is put
in after this kind of preparation. But
there is one other reason why late plant
ing and deep and thorough preparation
of soil should go together this year,
which I submit to yonr reflection.
I refer to a fixed natural law that
regulates the labor of farmers through
out the world, and enables them to tnrn
the sunshine and rain God sends us ta
their own profit.
It is this: That the mean annual rain
fall in any given locality, whether 10
inches or 110 incites a year, does not
vary much, either iu any given year c?
series of years.
In most of the states east of tha
Mississippi, we have had an excess
of rainfall, commencing last August
and perhaps ending with February, for
this reasou the possibility or perhaps
probability of a drouth more or less
protracted during the growing season of
the coming crop would seem to be in-
dieated; an additional reason why deep
and thorough preparation and lata
planting should go together, both in
corn and cotton this year. Every weak
point in every terrace on the farm
should be looked after and repaired so
that rains that do tall during the com
ing mouths of crop maturing will be
consumed and utilized by the growing
crop. With perfect terraces, deep prepa
ration and shallow culture afterwards,
growing crops will be exempt from
drouths when compared to lands that
are un terraced.
We have now arjived at the cotton
planting month of April, the most
critical in the history of the eutiro
state, because on her agricultural pros
perity all other interests hinge or rest,
either languish or prosper, upon the
decision of the farmers of Georgia
during this month touching the re
duction in acreage as well as in fer
tilizers of at least one third from
that used the last two years, not only
in Georgia, bnt in all the other states
east of the Mississippi, and as substan
tial a redaction in the acreage of the
cotton states west of it. The imperative
necessity for the reduction will be seen
by a short glance at the crops of 1898
and 1899.
The crop of 1897 was 8,750,000 bales,
and sold for from 7 to 8 cents. The
crop of 1898 was 11,200,000, and this dis
astrous crop brought less than $11,000,000
more than the crop of 1897. Iu other
words, 2,500,000 bales of the crop of the
1898 crop were sold at 4.soperbale,weigh
ing 507 pounds; so much for making more
cottou than the world needs, and allow
ing the cotton spinners of Manchester
to set the price on the entire crop, and
the loss sustained on the present crop
is much greater than on that of 1898, as
many millions of it were sold at 3 cents,
and some of it even less than this.
There is now more than cotton enough
assured to supply the world’s needs the
present year, or until next September.
I know that the farmers of Georgia
have been surfeited with newspaper
advice in the management of their own
business for years, but in this instance
you are advised by one who will do
more than praotice the precepts here in
culcated, both in the reduction of'his
own acreage devoted to cottou, as well
as the quantity of fertilizers used by
him this year.
Georgia made more cotton than both
the Caroliuas in 1898 and manufactured
less of it than either, while the two
Carolines united consumed the entire
orop of North Caroiina and reduced the
ootton crop of South Carolina 120,000
bales in 1898. Georgia uses one-fourth
of all the fertilisers used from Maryland
and Virginia to Louisiana, including
that used on the wheat of the first and
the sugar oaue of the last I She hai
taken the lead in the “all cotton” craze
folly. For the past two years, until the
meshes of the spider web mortgages
woven around her hospitable homes by
the crop of 1898 that brought disaster
and ruin to very many, have redoubled
their meshes on very many more in
1899.
But Georgians have an almost infii
nite power of active potential endur
ance and energy, and their helpmeets
are in every way worthy of them if
their work were shown to them.
A farmer near Atlanta brought 100
fine turkeys here lately and sold them
for cash as quickly as cotton for $lO5 to
the retail trade, a sum equal to seven
bales of cotton at 3 cents! They cost
absolutely nothing but care and promo
tion while young. They live on insects,
bugs and plenty of corn, and corn never
ought to be sold off the farm in Georgia
until after it has been fed to pigs and
turkeys, worth 6 and la cents a pound,
at least, dressed. The cotton bales cost
$8 a bale to pick and cover per bale after
it is made, leaving a net balance of $49.
The farmer fancies that the bagging
pays for itself, but there is a tare of 23
pounds deducted on all cotton exported
—deducted from the price of every bale
of cotton, whether consumed at home
or in Europe.
A half million turkeys raised by the
farmers’ wives will boa labor of pleas
ure, leaving three-fifths for home con
sumption and two-fifths for the market.
Dressed turkeys can be sold in the
cities at from 10 to 15 cents per pound
through the winter and early spring
months, and paid for on delivery, by
using systematic business methods. Ev
ery city, town and village will furnish
a market for them.
The freight on such products would
be from 10 to 15 cents per 100 poundt
from any county to any city in Georgia.
Why should Georgia depend upon
Tennessee for her dairy and poultry
products, and on the west for nearly all
of her mutton, beef and pork supplies!
The only answer to this is that the cot
ton producers of Georgia have been ex
pending their entire energies on cotton
for two years past, much to their own
sorrow, and have had no energies to ex
pend on any other produot of the soil.
A half million bushels of sweet potatoes
can be disposed of in the same way at a
stipulated price before shipment, and
spot cash on delivery, and millions more
for home consumption, as well as to fat
ten pork and poultry. They retail today
at $1 a bushel iu Atlanta, and in almost
every other large city in the state, and
never sell below 50 cents, and farmers
would not be compelled to market them
at the lowest price, as they always ara
with cotton.
It has been the custom for many years
for farmers’ wives to have a "cotton
patch” to supply them with Christmas
cash for family necessities or luxuries,
but alas, like the large body of labor
who "work on shares,” nothing or next
to nothing has been left of
“patches” after the picking and bag
ging were paid for. This year let her
“cotton patch” be substituted with a
flock of 100 turkeys. She will find
pleasure in raising them and seeing
them grow np. At an average weight
of 10 pounds dressed they will net in
spot cash over SIOO, equal to four bales
of middling cotton at 5 cents on the
plantation, besides helping in a small
way to reduce the volume of Georgia
cotton that has well nigh ruined Geor
gia the past two years. By the end of
this month an approximate estimate of
the coming crop will be arrived at and
by the last of May the statisticians will
be able to give the exact acreage in cot
ton planted, the amount of fertilizers
used, and on these two as basis give
their estimate of the coming crop in
bales for 1899 and 1900; the Neils
among them giving a large margin to
their guess work, in the interest of the
cotton manufacturers of the world, and
by this means robbing the cotton pro
ducers of the south, as they have done
in the crop of 1899. Already they are
boasting and assuming that the small
grain crops destroyed by the severe win
ter in Arkansas, west of the Mississippi,
as well as in Georgia and states east,
will now undoubtedly be planted or re
planted in cotton. If these predictions
come true iu Georgia or Arkansas it
will be hailed as a sure omen for another
large 4-cent cotton crop, and irretrieva
ble ruin to the cotton producers. But
we have au abiding faith in the cotton
producers of Georgia and we shall con
tinue to cherish it for one or two months
longer. Georgia farmers learn nothing
from didactic instruction, like school
children. The intelligence of the aver
age agriculturist is as broad and his
mind as clear as his city merchant
cousin. What he wants are cold faots
in plain language, and these he can deal
with and master as easily as they are
presented to him. Debt, debt, for many
years has put him iu the position of the
most stubborn criminals a century
ago. When they were enclosed in a
tank, chained to a pump, and water ad
mitted at a ratio faster than he could
pump it out, unless he worked with all
his might, with no volition of his own, he
was left for a given time to make his
ohoice between pumping and drowning,
the guards alike indifferent which he
preferred.
If he owed his creditors SI,OOO they
never offered to take 1,000 turkeys for
the debt, nor 2,000 bushels of sweet po
tatoes; if they had selected the potatoes
he would have taken 20 acres of his best
laud, planted it with this "apple of tbs
earth,” worked at it with the irresiat*
ible and untiring energy of a Georgian,
shipped the 2,C00 bushels promptly on
time to lift the mortgage, and bank the
other 2,000 carefully for the spring
market, at 75 cer ts per bushel.
But his creditors accept cotton only
on all debts due them. All other agri
cultural products are valueless. Cotton
alone brings spot cash, say they, and
yet the south in past years has paid out
millions annually for sun cured grass
to feed the stock engaged in making
cotton to glu. 'he cotton markets of tha
world with. We have already shown
the utter impossibility of the farmer
ever being able to cancel that SI,OOO
mortgage with cotton, by the actual
sale of seven bales at 3 cents per pound,
counting only the actual cost of picking
and covering it, if to this were added
the cost of picking, chopping, hoeing
and cultivating, we leave others to com
pute how much of the net proceeds of
that seven bales would be left to credit
that SI,OOO mortgage with.
Let those who blame even the ell cot
ton farmer put themselves in his place.
All cotton producers iu Georgia and in
all the other old cotton states east of
the Mississippi have been too much on
the “all cotton” plan in the past years,
with Georgia far in the lead. We havej
tried faithfully to make this matter:
plain in cold facts and figures, and the:
necessity of raising not only an opulent:
abundance but a superabundance of all:
food supplies for man and beast, not;
merely for home consumption on the
farm, but for every product of the farm
that will find a spot cash market in
every village, town and city in the state,
and at more remunerative prices than
cotton ever brought. A few only of
these have been indicated by ns, because
every farmer cau supply many addi
tional products that will bring them the
hard cash for himself.
The farmers of Georgia are the poor
est people m the state, I mean the cot
ton raising farmer. A woman cotton
mill hand can make S3O to S4O per
month, and has more money than the
average farmer has seen the past two
years. He has been trying to clothe
the world at his own private expense.
He sold in 1897 and 1898, 2,500,000 bales
of his best cotton at less than 1 cent a
pound. He has been doing even more
charitable deeds than this in 1898 and
1899, but at heavy cost to himself and
family.
The facts are before you; the remedy
is in your hands. If you heed them
now the wrecks of the past two years
may still be repaired. But if the farm
ers of Georgia are saved from hopeless
bankruptcy and ruin it can only come
to them by a reduction of the acrege in
ootton and in fertilizers devoted to the
production of ootton this year of at
least one-third of each.
O. B. Stevens,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
Treatment of Krult Trees Injured by
the February Freeze.
Question. —To what extent did the
February freeze injure the fruit trees of
Georgia, and is there any treatment for
frozen trees?
Answer. The unprecedented cold
wave that swept over the state last Feb
ruary greatly injured fruit trees in
many sections of the state, and it is
highly important that such trees should
be properly treated at once, that the
damage may be overcome as much as
possible.
Peaches, plums and figs have suffered
most, while apples and pears seem to
be very little damaged. Of the peaches,
the Alexanders and Tillotsons. are the
most injured. All of the other varie
ties are greatly damaged, but to a less
extent.
In a great many cases the Satsuma
plum was nearly killed to the ground,
while the Abundance and most of the
other varieties are not so much dam
aged. The damage seems to be confined
almost entirely to the bearing trees.
Young trees from nursery stock to 2-year
orchard trees have escaped with little
damage. Unfortunately the principal
injury is to the trunk of the trees. The
bast tissues and the cambium layer of
the bark are frozen and blackened from
the surface of the ground np to 12
inches or more, and iu a few cases the
bark is loosened from the trees. Us
ually, however, there are about 2 or 3
inches of bark on one side of the tree
that escaped freezing. This green streak
of bark is usually found on the
south side of the tree. In some sections,
however, it is found on another side.
The twigs and limbs are apparently not
so badly damaged. The wood just be
neath the buds is browned, and some of
the twigs killed. In my opinion most
of these trees may recover and be re
stored to a fair condition. This, how
ever, is a question. Many will nndonbt
edly die in the course of this summei
Trees that were badly weakened frot.
the San Jose scale, or from the depre
dations of other insects, or from neglect
or otherwise, in most cases were killed
beyond a doubt and shonld be dug up at
once. The work of restoration can be
greatly aided by cutting the trees back
I severely. Each grower must determine
for himself how much must be cut
away, according to the extent and the
location of the damage. Asa rule, at
least one-third of the growth of the
limbs shonld be cut off. In a few cases
it will be wise to cut the limbs back to
stubbs about 24 inches. All badly dam
aged limbs shonld be taken out entirely.
This pruning will reduce the surface to
be fed through the roots and will stim
ulate new growth of healthy wood. If
the tree lives at all, it will regain rap
idly its vigor and retop iself during the
growing season and be prepared for a
fruit crop next year. In doing this
work a smooth, clean cut should be
made with a saw or sharp pruning knife.
The cut surface should be painted over
with white lead to exclude the air and
prevent evaporation. This work should
nave been done in March. However,
ic is not too late yet, and should be done
at once. Several prominent growers
have already commenced the work.
Prompt action in this work may save
your trees.
Neither should cultivation be neglec
ted. The trees need the best of atten
tion now more than ever. Orchard#
should be thoroughly cultivated during
the season as though you expected a big
crop of frnit. If cultivation is neg
lected, a little hot sun and dry weather
will tell a doleful tale.
State Entomologist. .