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jus. j. uat SEES DANGER To Nation In the Decreased Production of Crops. QUOTES SOME INTESESTING FIGURES Will Soon ;cease to Be a Sell- Supporting Nation as Far as Food Is Concerned-Food Con sumption Is Increasing. Portland, Oregon, Sept, 5.—A paper by James J Hill was read at the Portland Fair and Live Stock Exposition today. The paper fol lows in part: ’* *Unless we change our industry, we must soon cease to be self-sup porting as far as food is concerned. This sounds ansurd in view of our immense expanse of fertile land, our relatively scanty population and the part we have played in feeding the world in the past. But the fig ures prove it. Our foreign trade in cereals tells the same story as that in meat products. Between the five years ending with 1904 andtht five ending with 1909, the decrease of our wheat exports was over 40 per cent. In round numbers,- our exports of food stuffs in crude con dition and food animals were $106,- 000,000 for the eleven months end ing May 31 of this yt ar, §132,000.- 000 for the same period in 1909, and $181,000,000 in 1908. Our exports of'foodstuffs partly or whol ly manufactured for the game three eleven months periods were $240,- 000,000, $281,000,000 and $310,- 000,GOO. The wheat exports were 46.000. 000 bushels, 66,000,000 bushels and 96,500,000 bushels; the flour exports 8,o00,C|00 barrels, 10.000, b00 barrels, and 13,000,000 barrels. The force of these figures cannot be evaded or misunderstood. “Food consumption in the United States Is increasing more rapidly than food production. That is the explanation of the falling off in ex ports of all forms of food products. “I have demonstrated that this country might easily double its wheat yield per acre and make a similar gain in the quantity of ev erything produced-from the land. It requires better cultivation .smaller farms, study of soils and their adap tion to different fo.ms of plant life, rotation of crops, selection of seed as careful as that which a breeder gives to the parentage of animals, and proper fertilization. By these methods from 25 to 40 bushels of wheat per acre and a corresponding yield of other crops are now being obtained. If all our farmers could be educated to the same point, 25 bushels of wheat would be only a fair crop; but this on our present acreage would give us a surplus of 400.000. 000 for export. Plenty at home and a balance to draw on abroad would /transform our out look,’at present far from reassur ing. The game is in our own hands. This change could scarcely be wrought without the assistance of the industry which you more par ticularly represent. The farmer and his land cannot prosper until stock raising is an inseparable ad junct of agriculture. The natural increase of animals, the dairy pro ducts, the meat market products, create the wealth of such countries as Holland, and may and should be valuable revenue producers on every farm in the United States. Hogs can be raised at small cost of food or labor, and bring a sure in come. Still more important is the fact that all forage fed to live stock, at least one-third in cash value re mains on the land in the form of m nnr« that will aid in restoring exhausto 1 lai’id to fertility and main tain good land at itB highest pro- duc-ive pen-.t.'’ Good Roads Boosters. Good roads bring the products of the mine and forest to the factory door. Good roads bring thrift to the farmer, and thrift to tho consumer an l wealth to the nation. Good roads make farm life pleas ant and enhance its usefulness. more efficient ones. firesides, spore rntriotic people. the intelligence we enjoy. from all. and failure. They patronize the rail- appropriated for so lavishly. Southbound. 1st CLASS Passenger 2nd CLASS Mixed 3 1 Sunday Only Except Sunday A. M. 7 00 '7 15 7 35 7 55 8 20 A. M. 7 00 7 15 7 35 7 65 8 20 one class of men, but are the pro perty and interest of every one, whether he be black or white, edu cated or uneducated, weak or strong, high or low, savage or civilized. They are the property of us all, and we should all aid in their upbuild ing.—Exchange, REMARKABLE C SE OF Muscles ol Pitt County, Va., Far raer Become So Brittle They Break From Jar ol Walking. Richmond, Va.—Physicians here are greatly interested in the ease of M. L. Peadon, a Pitt county farmer who js in a hospital for treatment to prevent a form of ossification. Peadon’s condition is regarded as due to a form of the hook worm disease, which he suffered two years ago. Six moths ago he noticed a hardening of the muscels of the feet limbs and hands. This continued to such an alarming extent that the muscles would crack when jarred by walking. The joints of the • elbow and fingers developed boil-like ul cers. The physician in charge savs Peadon is suffering from hardening of the muscles, and that it is yield ing somewhat to electrical treatment Big Men Doing Wrong But Can’t Be Stopped Sioux City, Iowa, Sept. 3.—In his speech here to-day Col. Roose velt criticised the financial methods of two railroads which he did not name. “Two great railroads are now at work on where I have to question that the stock is being honestly pro vided for and represents honest work.” he said. “But under the present system I have reason to- be lieve a great mass of bonds will be issued which will represent, in ef fect certain big men who ought to have something for what they have done, but who ought not to have anything like what they will get, “Under the laws at present we cannot stop it and instead of de nouncing the big men for what they have legal right to do, the wise thing is to give us po ver to ' prevent the recurance of such an abuse. So in dealing with everything affecting corporations. ’ ’ How to Kill the Deadly Fly. Flies kill a greater number of hu man beings than all the beasts of prey and poisonous serpents, for they Bpread disease. Flies like odors of filth; a pleas ant smelling substance,tlie fragrance of flowers, geraniums, mingonette, lavender or any perfumery drives them away. Sprinkle your garbage can with lime or kerosene oil. Here are some cheap wavs to get rid of flies: ■ Heat .. shovel and 23 drops Pelham & Havana Railroad Company* TIME TABLE NO. 1. IN EFFECT: MONDAY, AUCUST15, 1910, A. C- FELTON, President. J. FRANK SIKES, Gen’L Supt. BETWEEN CAIRO AND CALVARY. TIME TABLE NO, 1. In Effect: Monday, August 15, 1910, STATIONS Lv ... Cairo ... Gradyville. Cranford.. j. Reno ... Ar Calvary.. .Ar .Lv Northbound. 2nd CLASS Mixed 1st CLASS Passenger 2 4 Except Sunday Sunday Only A. M. 10 10 9 55 9 35 9 15 8 50 A. M. 10 10 9 55 9 35 9 15 8 50 of carbolic acid on it. The vapor will kill them. Dissolve one drachm of bichro mate of potash in twenty ounces of water and add a little sugar. Put the solution in shallow dishes about the house. A spoonful of formalin or formal dehyde in a pint of water will kill the flies. Burn pyrethrum powder in the room. This stupefies the flies so that they may be swept up and burned. Why His Watch Stopped. A downtown business man who came back from Europe a month ago brought with him an eight day Geneva watch of which he is proud. As it cost him an even $400 he has been extremely careful of it, and his friends have had little opportu nity to get a close jgpk at it. Several 'days ago* one of iHs friends asked him the time. When the watch was removed from its chamois cover the proud owner found' that it had stopped. In three minutes he was at the repair window of a Maiden lane jewelry store. “I am in a hurry; fix it as soon as you can,” said the business man. “Lot of business to attend to?” asked the expert. “Yes, lots,” was the reply. “I should think so,” retorted the watch fixer. “This is an eight day watch, and you haven’t found time to wind it for more than a week.”— New York Sun. “Pin Money.” In days long ago pins were so ex pensive that husbands gave their wives certain allowances just for the purppse of the costly luxury; hence we call the money given, to a woman for her own special use “pin mon ey.” Five centuries after pins were invented the peddlers sung the fol lowing rhyme as they went through the streets in London: Ten rows ti penny, O! Isn't that a many. O? Silver heads, golden points, Ten rows a penny, Ol Our ‘Plant Is Abloom With the Freshest Flowers of the Frintinf Art. It le a. Complete, Up to Date Print ing Plant, Ready to Do Your Commercial Printing Attractively. Your Law Printing Accurately. Your Social Printing Arils- ti sally dll PrWwS E*j»w»W«*«ty. Wight & Weathers CAIRO, GA. We have the following proper ties for sale and invite the care ful inspection of the public to them: C. W. Harper place; 21-2miles from Cairo, 87 acres with 57 acres cleared, plenty of outbuild ings, dwellings, etc., with bug gy, harness, farm implements, cane mill supplies, mu!« For $2,600.00. 150 acres, G mi’es from Cairo, with plenty of houses, near good school. For $2,250.00. D. W. Howell place, 125 acres with 40 acres in cultivation, dwellings, cribs, barns, etc., enough for the place, 65 acres fenced, 1 mile east of Whigham on A. C. L. For $1,800.00. R. M. Wadsworth place, 150 acres, 50 acres in cultivation, 2 good tenant houses, well water ed, good school advantages, 6 miles'north of Cairo. For $2,- 500.00. William Drew place, 265 acres, 100 acres under cultivation, 5 dwelling houses, $500 worth saw mill timber, 11-2 miles from Pope’s store, 4 1-2 from Ochlock- nee, 10 miles from Cairo. For $5,000.00. Will be glad to show the farms at any time. Call on or write to Wight & Weathers, Cairo, Ga. Office in Court House. We Fit Your Eyes By mail and guarantee satisfaction Letters of highest praise. Wo also want live agents to handle our Clear Cut Crystal Lenses. Drug stores preferred. We furnish ad vertising matter. Exclusive terri tory to hustlers. Write for infor mation about our popular money making assortment. CRYSTAL OPTICAL CO. 213 Temple Court. ATLANTA, - - GEORGIA. Wanted at Once Three or four nice 2 to 4-horse farms from 3 to 4 miles of Cairo. Price must be right. WE HAVE THE CASH. Smith & Coppage, / Cairo, Ga. Subscribe for The Progress now It gives you all the news and ig the • cu: nrv*v> APPLICATION FOR CHARTER. GEORGIA—Grady County. To the Superior County of said County: The petitition of G. A. AVight, Ira Higdon, M. G. McManus, H. G. Can non, John B. Crawford, Walter Davis, L. C. Graham, J. B. Wight, L. L. Bar- wick, W. A. Walker, Wight Brothers Company, P. II. Herring, M. L. Led ford, Wight Hardware Company, R. C. Bell, Thomas Wight, W. T. Crawford, W. D. Barber, W. J. Willie, W. G. Baggett, W. B. Roddenberry, Joe rf’g- don, J. A. Lindsay, Robert H. Harris, E. F. Dollar, J. J. Coppage, Roy W. Ponder, J. M. Sasser, F. M. Brannon. T. S. Copeland, W. P. Smith, Ira Car lisle, W. H. Robinson, J. G. Kincaid, J. G. Moore, T. M. Chastain, C. G. Stephens, White & Stringer. J, W. Booth, W. C. Jones, W. A. Carr, L. O. Maxwell, C. H. Maxwell, H. J. Poulk, Pelham & Havana Railroad Company, J. L. Peebles and T. A. J. Majors, all of the County and State aforesaid, re spectfully shows: 1. That they desire for themselves, their associates and successors, to te incorporated and made a body politic, under the name and style of Progress Publishing Company, for the period of twenty (20) years. 2. The principal office of said cor poration shall be in the City of Cairo, state and county aforesaid, but peti tioners desire the right to establish branch offices within this state or else where, whenever the holders of the majority of the stock may so deter mine. • 3. The object of said corporation is pecuniary gain to itself and sharehold ers. 4. The business to be carried on by said corporation is the editing and pub lishing of a newspaper or newspapers in said county or elsewhere in said state, the doing of all kinds of book binding and job printing, dealing in stationery and all kinds of office sup plies, and the transaction of all such business as may be necessary in or in cidental to the conduct of a general printing and publishing business. 5. The capital stock of said corpora tion shall be Three Thousand ($3,000.00) Dollars, with the privilege of increas ing the same to the sum of Ten Thous and ($10,000.00) Dollars by a majority vote of the stockholders, said stock to be divided into shares of Twenty-five ($25.00) Dollars eaeh, and to be non assessable. More than ten (10) per cent of the amount of capital stock to be employed in said corporation has been actually paid in. 6. Petitioners desire the right to have the subscriptions to said capital stock paid in money or property to be taken at a fair valuation. 7. Petitioners desire as a corpora tion, the right to sue and be sued, to, plead and be impleaded, to have and use a common seal, to make all neces sary by-laws and regulations, and to do all other things that may be neces sary for the successful carrying on of] said business, including the right to buy, hold and sell real estate and per-j sonal property suitable to the purposed of the corporation, and to execute notes] and bonds, as evidence of indebtedness! incurred, or which may be incurred, im tiie"conduct of the affairs of the corpor4 : ation and to secure the same by mort gage, security deed, or other form of Ren under existing laws. 8. Petitioners desire for said corpor ation the power and authority to apply for and accept amendments to its char ter of either form or substance by a majority vote of its stock outstanding at the time. They also ask authority, for said corporation to wind up its af fairs, liquidate and discontinue its business at any time it may determine to do so by a vote of two-thirds (2-3) of its stock outstanding at the time. 9. Petitioners desire for said corpor ation the right of renewal when and as provided by the laws of Georgia and that s they have all such other right!, powers, privileges and immunities as are incident to like corporations or per- missable under the laws of Georgia. Wherefore, petitioners pray to be incorporated under the name and style aforesaid, with the powers, privileges and immunities herein set forth and as . are now or may hereafter be allowed- a corporation of similar character under i the laws of Georgia. R. C. Bell and I | W. J. Willie, • , . Attorneys for Petitioners. A Filed in office, this the 3rd day of August, 1910. ^ McNair, Jr., M Deputy Clerk, f. GEORGIA-Grady County. | I I, J. M. McNair, Jr., Deputy Clerk- Superior CourtLOf said county do herei by certify tfiat the foregoing is a true! 1 and correct copy of the application for charter of Progress Publishing Compa ny as the same appears on file in-: this' 1 office. Witness my official signature and the ; seal of thiB Court, this the 3rd day ofl August, 1910. J T r. , M - McNair, { Deputy Cleric Superior Court, Orsdy