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Georgia Briefs
Items of State Interest Culled
From Random Sources.
Comptroller Issues Fi. Fas.
Comptroller General Wright has Is
sued tax ft. fas. against the Savannah
Electric company for $11,596.88; the
Brinson railway for $297.93, and against
the Western Union Telegraph compa
ny for $420.03. The executions were
issued at the request oij the tax col
lector of Chatham county for taxes al
leged to be due the county.
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Must Continue Conyers Train.
The railroad commission has given
Superintendent W. S. Brand of the
Georgia railroad and the people in
terested to understand that it would
not permit the discontinuance by that
road of the daily accommodation train
between Conyers and Atlanta.
Thfs announcement was made fol
lowing the conclusion of the hearing
on this subject.
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Slayer of Policeman Doomed.
Andrew' Johnson, the negro who kill
ed Patrolman Manier in Atlanta, some
months ago, will have to hang, accord
ing to a decision of the state supreme
court, handed down last Friday morn
ing. The opinion was rendered by
Justice Atkinson (all justices concur
ring), and affirmed the decision of the
lower court in refusing a new trial.
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County Liable for Debt.
In a decision handed down a few
days ago by the state supreme court,
Butts county’s liability to the Jackson
Banking company for money loaned
the county by the Lank is fixed.
From February to October, 1906. the
Jackson Banking company loaned
Butts county about $48,000 on notes.
All but some $19,000 was paid, then
the county treasurer declined to pay
any more of the amount on the ground
that the county was not liable.
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Big Power Company Projected.
A company has been formed in Jesup
with a capital of $300,000, for the pur
pose of developing water power and
generating electricity for manufactur
ing purposes.
The company will erect a cotton
mill and a cotton seed oil mill and
storage warehouses, and will build
and operate an electric railway from
Jesup to several other surrounding
towns.
Application for charter is now be
ing prepared. The privilege of increas
ing the capital stock to $500,000 is
asked.
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Postal Clerks Transferred.
Twenty railway postal clerks and
about $25,000 a year in salaries spent
In Atlanta will be taken away as a re
sult of changes recently made by the
Southern railway in its train sched
ules. Orders to this effect moving
away from Atlanta this number of men
have been issued by L. M. Terrell,
superintendent of the United States
railway mail service.
Under the schedules as changed
there was no other alternative for Su
perintendent Terrell, and he was com
pelled to have twenty clerks transfer
red to Washington.
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Appeals to State Supreme Court.
B. C. Sloan, son-in-law of the late
Rev. Sam P. Jones, has appealed from
the decision of Judge Fite, in which
he awarded the little grandson of the
great evangelist to his grandmother,
Mrs. Sam Jones, at Gartersville, for
live years.
In an effort to obtain possession of
the baby his wife waived her claim to
the boy to her mother, Mrs. Sam P.
Jones, and Judge Fite, after reviewing
the case, ordered the child to the care
of Mrs. Jones, its grandmother.
It is from this decision that Mr.
Sloan appeals to the supreme court
of the state.
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Ocilia Declared County Seat.
According to a decision handed
down by the state supreme court,
Ocilla will be the county seat of Ir
win county instead of Irwinville, the
old capital of the county.
Following an act passed by the last
legislature a new county, named Ben
Hill, was created with Fitzgerald as
the county seat, out of parts of the
county of Irw'in and adjoining counties.
Irwinville was at that time the county
seat of Irwin county, and was left
in the old county. A petition was got
ten up, signed by the required number
cf tax pavers, seeking to change the
county site from Irwinville to Ocilla,
also in the old county. On the
oT the returns Ocilla won. Proceedings
| were begun by certain citizens to stop
I flie transfer of the county seat to
I Ocilla, and in the lower court, Ocilla
again won. The case was brought up
for review, with the result that the
lower court was sustained, and Ocilla
won out again.
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Uncle Sam Issues Liquor Licenses.
From the records of the internal
revenue office in Atlanta, information
is gathered that since the first of Jan
uary, 66 federal licenses have been
issued for the retailing of spirituous
and malt liquors in the state of Geor
gia.
The purpose for which these licenses
are secured is of course not apparent.
With a prohibition law operative in the
state, making illegal the sale of intoxi-.
eating liquors or beverages, the num
ber of licenses issued by the federal
authorities, expressing the permission
of the national government for the
holders of those licenses to do the
thing which is prohibited by state law,
becomes exceedingly interesting.
A perusal of the internal revenue
record of these licenses shows that
most of them were issued to people
who give Savannah as their place of
business. Only four of the whole
number are charged to Atlanta, with
an additional license issued to a fish
ing club located at Brooks Station in
Fayette county.
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Decision in Favor of State Fair.
There will he a state fair at Pied
mont Park in Atlanta this fall. The
old machinery hall will he torn down
this spring. These two things were
agreed upon by the park board after
a three-hour session, at which a num
ber of prominent citizens, Including la
dies, were heard from. There were ar
guments against the holding of the fair
at the park so all the old buildings
might be removed, and there were ar
guments for the holding of the fair
for commercial reasons.
The argument to tear down the old
machinery hall came in the way of a
compromise, as this will give room for
the immediate beautifying of a portion
of the park which will not he used
for fair purposes.
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Crime Decreases in Atlanta.
Here is the record of Atlanta’s first
month under prohibition. It speaks
for itself:
Total number of cases tried in police
court in January, 1907, 1,663.
Total number of drunks, 341.
Total number of cases tried in Jan
uary, 1908, 768.
Total number of drunks, 64.
The first month under the reign of
prohibition shows a slump in police
court business of 895 cases. The de
crease in the number of cases of
drunkenness is even greater than in
the total number of cases.
The police court acts as a splendid
barometer and gives a good idea of
the effects of the “dry” reign.
A CYCLONIC STORM
Swtopi Over Section of Mississippi, Kill
ing a Number of People and Doing
Great Damage to Property.
Six persons were killed outright by
a cyclone which laid waste a strip
of farming country three-quarters of
a mile wide and several miles long
just north of Wesson, Miss., Friday.
Three persons were probably fatally
injured and many others were slightly
hurt w'hen their homes were blown
down.
The cyclone struck about 4 o’clcok
in the afternoon and for twenty
miles in a northwesterly direction the
wind tore a pathway nearly a miie
wide, partly or wholly destroying near
ly every building in this area. Scores
of dead farm animals littered the cy
clone’s track.
Surrounding towns not in the direct
path of the storm suffered damage dar
ing the few minutes of its duration.
At Georgetown buildings were blown
down and at Hazelhurst two sawmills
were destroyed, many fences and sev
eral small buildings were blown over.
Center Point reported much damage,
but no loss of life.
Martinsville, which was just on the
edge of the storm, escaped without se
rious damage.
Darkness settled down so quickly
after the cyclone that only an incom
plete estimate of the destruction both
to life and to property was obtained.
GOVERNOR OF MONTANA RESIGNS.
Toole to Vacate Executive Berth Because
of Failing Health.
A special from Helena, Montana,
says: Governor Joseph K. Toole Sat
urday tendered his resignation to Sec
retarj of State Holder to take effect
April 1, next, on account of ill health.
The right kind of man doesn't go
FORESTRY BILL
GIVEN BOOST
By Capituat oa of Speaker Joe
Cannoa in Its Favor.
WORKERS AT CAPITAL
Meeting of Appalach an Association in
Washington Attended—Vig
orous Campaign Launched.
That this nation has reached the
point where it must decide whether it
is to lose the use of the rivers in the
east and sotuh through the non-pres
ervation of forests wnich safeguard
the water dtieds, was tile declaration
of Secretary of Agriculture Wilson,
president of the American Forestry
Association, which convened in Wash
ington Wednesday. The secretary
said that the rivers of the west were
fairly well taken care of on account
of forests. He expressed the hope
that congress would take action to
assure the beginning of the work of
the preservation of the forests and
the safeguarding of the watersheds.
Speeches were made at the morning
session by Gifford Pinchot, chief of
the forest service; J. T. Rothrock,
secretary of the Pennsylvania State
Forestry Association, and others. John
A. Walker, game and fish commission
er of Alabama, said that his state
was not only making wise laws to pre
serve its forests, but is enforcing
them.
The membership of the association
is 6,565, of which 1,735 were added
during the past year.
One of the objects of the convention
is to further tho movement for the
establishment of national forests in
the White mountains and the South
ern Appalachian range, a bill appro
priating $5,000,000 for the creation of
which is pending in congress. The
territory to be set apart comprises
about 5,000,000 acres in the south
and 600,000 in the White mountains.
To further this project, a hearing
will be given before the committee
on agriculture, to representatives from
the states affected and also represen
tatives of all societies interested in
the preservation of the forests.
At the afternoon session Secretary
of Agriculture Wilson was re-eltcted
president, and the following vice pres
idents were chosen:
Edward Everett Hale, chaplain of
United States senate; B. E. Burnow,
dean of the* Canadian School of Fores
try; J. W. Pinchot, Washington, D.
C.; W. J. Bachelder, master of the Na
tional Grange; George F. Peabody,
New York; George C. Pardee, Califor
nia; Rutherford D. Haves, Ohio; Al
bert Shaw, New York; W. W. Finley,
Washington, D. C.; D. J. Rothrock,
Pennsylvania; George T. Oliver and
Dr. Van Heiss. Otto Leaukbert was
elected treasurer.
Three important resolutions were
adopted, one recommending the pass
age at this session of congress of the
bill providing for the establishment of
national forests in the White moun
tains and the Appalachians; another
providing for a census of the timber
lands of the United States, and still
another asking congress to enlarge
the Hatch fund law, so that out of the
receipts from the national forests an
addition would be made to the fund,
to be spent strictly on forestry educa
tion and experiments.
At the concluding session Wednes
day night Gov. Hoke Smith of Georgia
announced the arrangements for the
hearing before the house committee
on the establishment of the proposed
forests. Addresses were made by E.
T. Watson, South Carolina; Professor
L. C. Glenn, Vanderbilt University ;
Harvey N. Shepard, Boston, and W.
J, McGee, Washington.
“Uncle Joe” Cannon, speaker of the
national house of representatives, on
Wednesday announced that the com
bination of the Appalachian forest re
serve people from the sotuh and the
White mountain men from New' Eng
land was so formidable that he could
no longer defer the consideration of
the Appalachian forest reserve bill.
This means that the bill will be per
mitted to come to a vote in the house.
That it has not done so heretofore has
been due to Speaker Cannon’s attitude
exclusively.
ITALIAN CONSULATE ESTABLISHED
In City of Savannah With Senor Jom
Cafeiro at Its Head.
Senor Mose Cafeiro of Savannah,
Ga., Wednesday received credentials
appointing him Italian consul at that
city. This is the first Italian consul
ate to be established in Savannah. Se
nor Cafeiro i.- also the consular repre
sentative of Cuba.
Southern Agricultural Topics.
Modern Method* That Are Helpful to
Farmer, Fruit Grower and Stockman.
The Artichoke.
The younger generation is not so
familiar with the artichoke as tvere
our grandfathers, since it is not so
extensively grown as it once was. But,
as it is so exceedingly productive and
thrives under adverse conditions, it
might be made to supply a consider
able amount of foed. There are, by
the way, tw'o very unlike plants
known as the artichoke. The one
commonly known in this country is
called the Jerusalem artichoke; it is
one of the sunflower tribe and is
grown for its thick, potato-like
underground tubers. The other, or
the true artichoke, is a plant allied
to the cardoon and thistles, the
edible part being the unopened
flower head. It is often known as
the globe, or burr, artichoke. The
Jerusalem artichoke has been grown
in this country for a long time and
before potatoes were so extensively
grown as they now are, these arti
chokes were used on the table in the
place of potatoes. They were either
cooked or eaten raw. (A favorite
way was to slice raw and eat with
a vinegar dressing.)
They are principally grown new
for stock food, being especially rel
ished by hogs that can root them out.
An artichoke patch is the “place di
vine” for the long-nosed breed of
hogs in some of the Southern States.
There is no reason why the arti
choke might not prove far more use
ful for stock food than it has yet
been made. Since the plant is not
particular as to the kind of soil on
which it is growii (only the soil must
be well drained, as wet soil will cause
the tubers to rot) and as it has a
tendency to become a weed in waste
places, it can be of value in utilizing
remote and little-used corners with
out encroaching on the cultivated
areas. It also has the ability to re
sist drought, which makes it a good
plant to grow in regions where rain
fall is uncertain.
The plant is propagated like the
potato, by means of tubers, and the
preparation of the soil and cultiva
tion are the same as for potatoes.
Also, like the potato and other root
crops, it requires a liberal amount
of available potash. This element
should be supplied in the form of
sulphate, when possible, and a good
mixture to use on the artichoke field
is one analyzing three per cent, ni
trogen, eight per cent, phosphoric
acid and eight per cent, potash, which
should be worked into the soil before
the seed is planted. Being a much
larger plant than the potato, it re
quires more room, and three feet
apart is about the right distance for
the hills.
A great factor in favor of the arti
choke is that it is free from attacks
of insects and fungus growth. It is
perfectly hardy and can be planted
almost any time the ground is not
frozen or too wet. In fact, it can
be planted in the fall and depended
upon to come up in the spring. The
tubers are not injured if allowed
to freeze in the ground, but are
spoiled if frozen outside of the
ground. The yield per acre is very
large, often greater than potatoes
in the same field. For furnishing
a feeding ground for hogs and a
relish for horses and sheep the arti
choke can be commended.—D. I.
Duncan, Virginia, in the Southern
Planter.
Corn in the South.
Mr. A. J. Legg need not worry
much about the Williamson method
of corn-growing. Mr. Williamson at
tributes his success to his “humiliat
ing” the corn by stopping the culti
vation for a time, while in fact it is
the improvement he has made in his
soil through the use of cow-peas and
the heavy fertilization he applies that
makes the corn. Mr. Williamson will
have to get very fancy prices for his
corn to make it pay to use fertilizers
as heavily as he does. I have never
made it pay to use a complete ferti
lizer on corn—that is, a fertilizer
containing a due percentage of nitro
gen. It will make more corn if the
season is favorable, but the extra
corn will be made at a cost that is
not profitable.
The Alabama station tried the Wil
liamson method of growing corn and
reports it a failure so far as any
profit is concerned. I agree with
Mr. Legg that thirty-three tons per
acre of ensilage is hard to believe. I
have made thousands of tons of en
silage, and have growm corn on very
fertile bottom lands in the South,
making as heavy a growth of corn
as I ever saw (and corn grows
heavier in the South than at the
North) and yet I never had by actual
weight much over twenty tons per
acre as the maximum, and I do not
believe heavier corn grows anywhere.
But my tons were actually weighed
on the scales as the corn was brought
to the cutter. Most of these extra
heavy yields are estimated. Farmers
really believe they have made the |
yield, but if they had aclit:..!. :
1 weighed the corn and measured the
land as 1 did they would agree with
me that twenty tons per acre is as
much ensilage as can usually be made
under the most favorable conditions,
and there is more corn which makes
ten tons or less than makes twenty
tons.
The corn crop is the place for the
home-made manures, and when one
makes enough to cover his corn field
he will not need to buy any commer
cial fertilizers except phosphoric acid
and potash, and these only on the
legume crops of peas or clover. It
is not the actual yield of corn or en
silage per acre that pays, but the
yield that is made in the most prac
tical and economical way. Any one
can make a big crop of corn on a
small piece of land if no regard is
paid to the cost, but the farmer who
is dependent on his farming for a
living must as wide a margin
as possible beflween cost and selling
value of a sale crop.—W. F. Massey,
in the Country Gentleman.
Food Value of Eggs.
Popular belief to the contrary,
there is no difference in the nutritive
Qualities of eggs with dark shells
and those with light. Their flavor
is affected by the food of the fowl
for good or for evil. Exhaustive ex
periments by well-equipped investi
gators prove that the egg deserves
its reputation as an easily assimilated
and highly nutritious food, if eaten
raw or lightly cooked. Such experi
ments also show that eggs at twelve
cents a dozen are a cheap source of
nutrients; at sixteen cents somewhat
expensive, and at twenty-five cents
and over highly extravagant.
The basis of comparison was the
market prices of standard flesh foods
considered in relation to their nutri
tive elements. But there is a physi
ological constituent of eggs which is
of great value, yet it defies the
search of the scientist or the inquisi
tion of the statistician, and that is
their palatability. Unless a food,
however rich in proteins, is relished,
it loses much of its value, while, per
contra, a less chemically desirable
food that is enjoyed becomes valu
able by reason of that fact.—South
ern Planter.
A Good Stand of Vetch.
While over in South Carolina, W.
W. Smith, of Anderson County,
showed us a patch of vetch, where
the stand was perfect, which had
been reseeding itself for three years
and from the stand he had there
seemed to be no indication of it
“running out.” It was four years
old this fall, since seed were sown
on this land, and the stand was as
thick or thicker than the first year.
He grows oats and vetch or rye and
vetch upon this land and then a crop
of corn and peas each year. It is
certainly refreshing to see something
growing in the winter, when so many
of our fields are bare; especially a
crop so reliable and easily grown as
vetch.—Southern Cultivator.
Molasses a Good Feed.
The Maryland Experiment Station
made some exhaustible experiments
in feeding molasses last year, the re
sults of which are published in Bul
letin 117, from which the facts here
stated are quoted. These results
show that the addition of molasses
to a ration has a tendency to increase
the digestibility of both hay and grain
feeds. This, coupled with the gen
erally observed fact that molasses
contributes toward making feeds
more palatable, and also acts as an
appetizer, gives to molasses a rela
tively high place as a stock food, and
makes it more valuable than its an
alysis alone would indicate.
Appetizer For Horses.
An appetizer recommended by Dr.
C. D. Smead for addition to grain
rations of horses which seems a little
out of condition and lacking in appe
tite, is made as follows: Equal parts
powdered charcoal, baking soda, gin
ger and common salt with one-half
part of powdered gentian root. He
claims that the grain ration with this
addition will answer the purpose of
some of the high-priced medicinal
stock foods—Southern Planter.
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Later Particulars.
Alexander the Great was explain
ing to the reporters how the story
originated that he had wept because
there were no more worlds for him to
conquer.
“That ridiculous yarn.” he said,
“was started by a reactionary who
happened to see me wiping a cinder
out of my eye. But I’ve separated
him from his job in the Treasury De
partment, all light, all right.”
Feeling satisfied that he could leave
the verdict to impartial history, he
dismissed the reporters with a wave
cf the imperial hand.—Chicago Tri*
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