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Grady County Progress
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
CAIRO, GEORGIA.
NEEDLESS N0I8ES.
It Ib possible to liavo a big town
and o prosperous town without mak
ing bo powerful much fuaa about It.
There Is a large amount of unneces
sary din about everyday traffic. To
begin with, we build a lot of our
streets out of brick and granite when
wo might Just as well construct them
of material that 1b less productive of
noise and less calculated to bring
wagons and other vehicles to a state
of premature debility and disrepair,
says the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Then we tolerate all sorts of nui
sances that ought not to be tolerated
In a civilized community for the sim
ple reason that “everybody’s business
is nobody’s business," and everybody
is so absorbed In looking after his own
personal affairs that he has neither
time nor Inclination to do much for
the general comfort and welfare. Pos
sibly about seven-tenths of the noise
Incident to city existence could be
subtracted without any especial detri
ment to the progress of Industry and
commerce and the ordinary transac
tion of business, and with undoubted
relief and pleasure to persons of su
perabundant nerve and others who
delight In the quiet life. Under such
conditions the average city, however,
would lose Its attractions for that
more self-assertive element of human
ity which revels In racket and believes
In “whooping It up” all along the
line.
It Is Interesting to learn from the
seat of war that the experiment of us
ing the aeroplane In war operations
was tried at Adrlanople with a result
vhioh went a little further than pre
dicted. Lieutenant Popoff, aviator
with the Bulgarian forces, made a
flight not for the purpose of attack by
dropping bombB, but to view and re
port on the disposition of the Turkish
forces, says the Pittsburg Dispatch.
In doing so he got within the Turkish
line of fire, and a shot from the Turk
ish cannon killed him and. wrecked
his machine. Much attention has been
given, especially In Europe, to devis
ing means'to repel aeroplane attacks.
Army squads have been trained In
firing at kites, and- specially mounted
rapid-fire guns have been Invented.
" But at Adrlanople an ordinary field
gun loaded with shrapnel was suffi
cient for the purpose. This gives a
hint of what could be done with guns
of longer range, specially adapted to
the purpose, In the line of repelling
neroplane bomb-dropping attacks.
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Cities
Woman Faints at Movies and Loses a $25 Hat
WHAT
vice-president of the local Ice com
pany, will hereafter eschew moving-
picture shows.
The last one Mrs. Muckermann at
tended cost, besides the price of ad
mission, one new $25 hat, black vel
vet, trimmed with small red roses.
The other night, after the Mucker-
mann family had dinner at their
home, at 6054 West Cabanne place,
someone suggested a night of amuse
ment at the "movies.” The sugges
tion was adopted, and Mr. and Mrs.
Muckermann, with a party of friends,
adjourned to a theater.
The atmosphere of the place was
bad. Mrs. Muckermann stood It as
long as she could, and then fainted.
The London Sphere asserts that
there Is a national awakening to the
persistence of ancient errors In the
training of boys In the public ele
mentary schools. It is now seen, the
Sphere says, that to teach a boy read
ing, writing and arithmetic only and
to dismiss him from school at fourteen
or younger without further training
either’of his hands or his mind Is
suicidal for the boy and for the na
tion, too, Inasmuch as boys thus
brought up ultimately tend to swell
the ranks pt adult nondescript labor,
of the unemployable, or even of hooli
gans. The Sphere praises the results
which have been achieved by tech
nical training schools where boys are
taught manual crafts, and, after a
thorough course, are watched for three
years with a view of seeing how far
they win out In the battle of life. The
careers of these trained boys are said
to be very encouraging.
Her husband picked her up and
started for home. A friend started
for the Muckermann garage and got
out the automobile. He mot Mucker
mann about a block from the house,
and the two lifted the unconscious
woman Into the car. In the exertion
they knocked off Mrs. .Muckermann’s
hat.
“Get her hat,” said the friend.
“Oh, that'll be all right; get It
later. Hurry up for the house,” re
plied Muckermann, and they whirled
oft.
When Mrs. Muckermann revived
she Inquired for her hat. When told
that It was lying In the gutter a block
away she sent a searching party.
Muckermann and his friends dug
up lanterns and electrlo torches and
went after the hat. It was gone. A
search until'midnight failed to reveal
the hat and the searchers were com
pelled to go home and break the
news to Mrs. Muckermann.
But, determined to have that hat
back, Mrs. Muckermann published an
advertisement and will pay a liberal
reward to' the person who brings
back the missing headgear.
MODERN DAIRY STABLE
Ground Plan
Structure
Given of $600
In Kansas.
Show Girls Dance “Bear” and “Tango” in Pulpit
M inneapolis, Minn.—Two chorus
girls danced a ragtime dance on
the platform of the pulpit of the Rev.
G. L. Morrill In Minneapolis the oth
er day, llustratlng *hls sermon on
“Praise Him With tne Dance.” The
most amazing and bold dances were
“put on the boards” by the two girls
from a Minneapolis burlesque house
and the audience fairly gasped at this.
The “Turkey Trot,” the "Crab
Crawl,” the “Tortoise Tango,” the
"Jolly Wobble,” the “Angle Worm
Wriggle,” the "Grizzly” and all others
known to these two girls of the stage
were danced.
Then began the Rev. Mr. Morrill’s
sermon.
“Now you have witnessed JUBt how
fashionable society carries on when it
gets started," said the Rev. Mr. Mor
rill. “I admit there Is a decent dance,
a dance helpful to the body, pleasant
to the mind and harmless to the soul,
but these rag dances that you have
witnessed, not at all exaggerated, will
make the devil bluBh, and he would
hesitate to introduce them into purga
tory.
u)aJ—
’There was a time when statues
were made of graceful dancers, but
today there Is a crying demand-for
statutes against dancing which Is dis
graceful. The dancing whirlpool of
society has drawn into its drowning
depths many of the best craft that
ever sailed life’s sea. The dance you
have witnessed has degenerated from
devotion and diversion Into dissipa
tion and debauchery."
As the two chorus girls performed
these “rag” dances, now and then a
coin would fly toward the pulpit,
while the big organ of the church
pealed forth rag-time music to ac
company the dance.
Building Is Considered Model for the
Average Dairyman by Prof. O. E.
. Reed of Agricultural College
of That State.
You can build a modern, two-story
dairy barn, large enough for 18 to 24
cows, for $600 If you work on It your
self, writes Harlan D. Smith In the
Country Gentleman. The Kansas Ag
ricultural college recently built such
a barn. O. E. Reed, professor of dairy
husbandry at that college, planned It.
This barn 1b 30 by 66 feet It has
room for 18 cows, a box stall, 8 by 11;
a bull pen, 8 by 11; a feed room, 11
by 12; a calf pen, 11 by‘18; and a
milk room, 11 by 10. The stalls are 3
feet wide and 4% feet long. For Hoi-
steins the stalls should be half a foot
wider. Just now the dairy depart
ment, which has another much larger
barn, Is using this one for a calf
house.
The first thing to think about in
planning a dairy barn, Professor Reed
says, is this: Try to Imitate, in your
barn, the conditions of early summer
outdoors when the cows are at their
best. Of course that Is not easy to
do; but you can give the cows the
sunlight, fresh air and freedom of
movement that they get outside. And
those are the most important require
ments of a modern dairy barn.
This bam, being 30 feet wide, will
permit of the cows facing one another,
with an 8-foot feedway between the
two rows of stalls. The mangers are
2 ffet wide; platforms for stalls, 4%
feet; gutters, 18 Inches; and a pas-
sageway back of the cows, 3 feet.
Professor Reed prefers to have! the
cows face the feed alley because It re
quires less work to feed in one alley
than In two. With the gutters In the
center, as they are In some barns, the
manure may be handled a little more
easily, but feeding Is more difficult
because silage, grain and hay must be
handled separately. Manure, on the
other hand, can be cared for In one
container.
Stop Game of Cards to Get Marriage License
'"'it Is remarkable under what diffi
culties the crusade for fire prevention,
which- Is one of the leading issues of
the day, Is being pushed. No danger
Is greater, more horrible nor more
Imminent than that of fire, yet the
apathy of the average person to
means of protection from this worst
of the elements Is little short of mar
velous. The majority go on, Inviting
destruction by living In the conditions
of fire traps, and resenting all inters
ference with this criminal careless
ness, trusting to luck that the danger
so courted will not come to pass. With
cordial co-operation with the efforts
of the authorities In the matter of
this defence, the large cities could be
made practically almost fireproof.
I NDIANAPOLIS, IND.—A suggestion
from friends that they get married
at once, made half in fun, it is-said,
caused John Patterson and Miss
Emma Shepp to disturb a penuchle
game In which Jonn Rauch, county
clerk, was playing. They sought
Rauch In order to get a marriage
license, and they aroused Mayor
Shank from his slumbers' shortly
after midnight that the mayor might
perform the ceremony.
It was not a full dress affair—far
from It The mayor was clad In a
pair of trousers, his nightshirt and a
Prince Albert coat, and also wore a
pair of shoes, which were unlaced.
Patterson and Miss Shepp were out
calling on friends, when some one
suggested they get married at once.
It was agreed It would be a “lark,”
and an automobile was called.
Rauch’s home was visited, and he
was Induced' to leave a penuchle
game and go to the court house about
11:00 p. m. and issue's license.
“Let’s get Mayor Shank,” some one
suggested.
“But the mayor Is probably in bed,"
said another.
“That, don’t make any difference,”
replied the first. “No one but the
mayor will do.”
The couple, accompanied by three
young women and a man, went to the
mayor’s home and with considerable
difficulty aroused him. Rauch, Wll-
Ham Brommer, a saloon keeper, and
August Pohlman followed In an au
tomobile, wishing to see the fun.
Shortly after midnight the ceremony
was performed and the couple said
they would leave at once for a trip
to Pittsburgh.
“John was feeling good and I
thought we had better get married
while he felt like It,” the mayor says
the bride explained.
Revolutionary Ghosts Stirred by Abbey
Now, to realize universal peace,
why not send the fool that rocks the
boat, the practical Joker, and the
nuisance who plasters newlyweds
with signs, out hunting with the fel
low wbo mistakes the guide for a
deer and the fool who didn’t know It
was loaded?
N EW YORK.—Ghosts of a score of
Central and South American revo
lutions were stirred from their lurk
ing places in the arms-filled corners
of Westminster Abbey’s “what-not”
store, No. 61 Front street, by a fire
the other afternoon. Since 1830 it
has been possible to get anything
froln a print- of eighteenth century
New York to a pound of “good mixed
tea at 20 cents” in this store, but mu
nitions of war have been its chief
stock, and It seamen’s goBslp means
anything filibusters have had good
reason to know this for more than a
generation.
Westminster Abbey—who got his
strange name because his father,
Jared Abbey, Intended him for the
church—watched the progress of the
fire with tear-filled eyes.
“Every one’s got a bug,” he said,
“and my bug Is my business. I had
things in there that you wouldn’t
take as a gift, but that I wouldn't
have parted with for any price you
could have offered."
Many of these things were ruined
by smoke and water, but for the most
part the damage was confined to
flags and uniforms from half the
countries in the world; to tenting
and fishing tackle; to teas and cof
fees Jumbled in with ship’s paint; to
prints and etchings, and to some an
cient paintings of greater sentimen
tal than artistic worth. Some $60,000
worth of arms and ammunition
caped harm.
Perhaps the most valuable relics
owned by Abbey dome under this last
category.
The building occupied by Abbey
wap said by the police to be the odd
est along Front street
The floor Is cement It is finished
rough so that the cows cannot slip on
It. With plenty of bedding, no bad re
sults have been experienced from a
cold floor. Gutters are from 4 to 6
inches deep at the high end and 10 or
12 at the low end; Swinging stan
chions are used. They allow the cows
more comfort than the rigid kind. ,
“I like the two-story barn because
it allows a big, roomy mow for hay,
Professor Reed said recently. But
the floor of the mow must bo tight.
Some of the best dairy barns ai;e one-
story, for the reason that chaff and
dust sift through the floor of the loft
Into the mjlking room. But a two-
story barit can _ be made Just as sani
tary, provided a tight floor Is made In
the loft and the rafters are sealed
with matched celling underneath. . A
tight celling and floor can usually be
made cheaper than an extra barn for
storing hay. A good dairy barn should
have at least four square feet of glass
for every cow. Sunshine and light
keep the barn sanitary. Sunshine
drives out the dampnesB and leaves no
place for bacteria to thrive."
Ventilation in a dairy barn Is very
Important. The King system Is the
most perfect In use today. That is
the system used in both dairy barns at
the Kansas Agricultural college. The
principle of it is lo have outlets near
the floor of the ham for foul air. The
lnletB for fresh air are near the cell
ing. The outlets and inlets are so ar
ranged that there is no draft ovof the
cows.
Continuous mangers—one long man
ger for each row of cows—are used.
These are about 2 inches higher than
the stall floor and only a few Inches
deep. This kind of a manger is easily
cleaned. There are partitions to keep
the cows from robbing one another.
These are of sheet Iron and Joined to
gether so that they can be raised
when the manger is to be cleaned .
throughout.
Slight changes would adapt this
barn to the needs fcf almost any small
farm. The calf pens could be given
over to cow stalls and the calves put
Into the box stalls. The long, open
driveway Is useful for storage In emer
gency and permits the backing In of
a wagon load of feed. The silo may
be located to one side of the center
of the building to allow a wagon to
pass out of that end of the building.'
i *<§
Ground Plan of the Model Dairy Barn at the Kansas Agricultural College.
DEMAND FOR FARM PRODUCTS
Not a Proportionate Increase of Poul
try and Dairy Products With In
crease In Population.
During the ten year period ending
In 1900, the population of the United
States increased 20.8 per cent. Dur
ing the' same period there was not a
proportionate Increase in the amount
and supply of dairy products, espe
cially of butter; and there was an
actual decrease In the supply of
poultry products. As a consequence,
prices of both thece classes of prod
ucts have risen to permanently higher
levels. Not only that, but the devlop-
ment of cold storage, both for butter
and poultry products, has done much
to eliminate the tremendous fluctua
tions In prices with the seasons.
There would seem, therefore, to be
ample room for large extensions In
both these businesses. The future cer
tainly looks bright for the dairyman
and the poultryman who will put on
PORTABLE FENCE IS USEFUL
the market goods of high quality.
The opportunity of such a farmer is
even greater now than it was former;
ly for the reason that in the case of
butter the advent of the hand separa-'
tor has resulted In a decrease of the "
first class butter on the market, and a*
tremendous Increase of Inferior butter. V
In fact, It Is nearly impossible In the
cities to get high class .butter any
more. At the same time the develop
ment of the cold storage business in
eggs has made it difficult for city peo-f. 1
pie to secure eggs of good quality. .
There is room, therefore ,for an
enormous business for the farmers
who will supply a high quality of but
ter and a good line of strictly fresh
eggs.
F'ound, of Much Convenience by
Farmers Who ,Have Green Crops
to Be Fed Off by Sheep.
Herewith Is shown a sketch by J.
T. McCoy In the Iowa Homestead of
a portable fence which may be used
Portable Fence.
by farmers who have green crops to
be fed off by sheep, or who for some
reason wish to divide their pasture.
The construction is very simple. A
panel is made of fence boards in the
ordinary manner, with two or three
cross upright pieces, as the panel may
be long or short.. At the top of fence
holes are bored with a two-inch auger
In a somewhat sloping direction to re
ceive the stakes shown In the illus
tration. These are sharpened at the
Future of Mutton Crop.
The future of mutton crop depends
upon'the attention given the young
lambs and the degree to which they
are kept going from the start.
end for about a foot, leaving a square
shoulder to prevent them going toe
far through the holes. In placing the
fence the stakes (pointed at the lower
ends) are driven Into the ground in
a sloping direction, the ends being
placed through tlie holes in the fence
panels. The fence leans backward
from the field and Is prevented front
slipping or being pushed forward by
stout stakes driven In the ground in
front or by pegs driven through holes-
in the bottom of the uprights. If made
five boards high this fence will be dog
proof as a dog cannot jump over it in
this leaning position.
Restoring Land.
If the art of agriculture has ruined
the land, the science of agriculture
must restore it; fbr the restoration
must 'begin while some farmers are
still properous, for poverty-stricken
people are at once helpless and soon
Ignorant. . Outside help will always,
be required to redeem Impoverished
soils, for poverty mnkes no invest
ments, and some initial investment is
always required for soil Improve
ments.