The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, September 11, 1908, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextHenry County Weekly. J. A. FOUCHE, Publisher. R. L. JOHNSON, Editor. Entered at the postofficc at McDon« ough as second class fhail matter. Advertising Rates: SI.OO tier inch per month. Reduction on standing contracts by special agreement. - -m A darning needle was removed from ttie ankle of an Ohio girl. She ought to have taken them ofT before using the needle, contends the Atlanta Georgian. In spite of the limitation caused by toy absence of pedestrians on the water, notes the New York Sun, the power boat speeders are trying to live up to the record of the motor car scorchers. It's the idea of E. E. Hall of Spo kane, Wash., that the man who drinks liquor (and not the man who sells it) should be required by law to take out a license. He would make the yearly drinking license fee $1 to $3 for the city and $5 for. the county, and make it a misdemeanor for any saloon keep er to sell liquor to an unlicensed cus tomer. He would have a phootgraph of the holder attached to every license, The wage-earners, of whom we hear so much, are mainly concerned in the secondary processes of manufacture. They really produce nothing, urges the Christian Register. They transform raw materials into manufactured arti cles. But their work and their wages would vanish if there were not mil lions of people engaged in the cultiva tion of the soil. Out of the soil comes everything that we eat and wear and everything which is wrought into the habitations of the people and the com modities with which commerce deals. The English Law Journal referring to the dinner to Mr. Asquith, K. C., says: Only once before has the bar played the part of host to one of its own members. M. Berryer and Mr. Choate, two distinguished advocates belonging to other countries, have been entertained by the bar; Sir John Hollams, the doyen of the other branch of the profession, has been feted in the hall of one of the inns; Lord Bramwell received a similar trib ute from the bar when he retired from the bench; but Mr. Benjamin is, so far the only member of the bar itself who has been so honored. The United States cannot be ex pected to remain in Cuba indefinitely, protests the New York Tribune. If it is under an obligation to organize Cu ba for good self-government . Cuba is under at least as strong an obliga tion to facilitate and expedite that or ganization as much as possible. We are inclined to think that the ordering of these elections is the best possible way of moving Cuba to fulfil that ob ligation. There have been those in that island who have desired Ameri can occupation to endure as long as possible, and who, therefore, have ac tually discouraged and delayed prep arations for renewed autonomy. It is well that they, should be reminded that such tactics will not permanently work. The proverbial postponement until “manana” cannot be indefinitely repeated in dealing with the United States. The medicine of the future for the more serious diseases may be given through the veins rather than by the mouth, and would consist not of drugs, but of fluids obtained as a by product of the disease itself, or from animals that are naturally or artifi cially proof against the disease, pro phesies the American Cultivator. Very interesting results are already being obtained with animals and birds, but doctors are wisely cautious in ex tending the system to treatment of human patients. There is fair promise of control of such destructive diseases as hog cholera, tuberculosis and glan ders. With human beings the method has long been successful with diph theria. rabies, small pox. and perhaps with some other maladies. Less con fidence is placed in drugs, and more in general health measures, with a resort to inoculation for an increasing mtm. ber of the most dangerous disease*. The Anarchists of the Caucasus Oil-Fields By H. tV. J\fevinson. SI is not only the unending feud that divides Tartars and Armenians into hostile armies which devastate the oil fields from time to time, and are constantly preparing each other's destruction—with batteries of quick-firing guns, as they boast. Besides this central feud, there are numerous fighting groups organized among the workmen and the un employed. Asa rule, they take some political title, such as “Social Democrats,” or “Anarchist Communists,” in the hope of securing popular favor, and in some cases their origin may have been political and their aims may still be revolutionary. But their methods are so simple and so lucrative that perhaps it would be a mistake to attribute the zeal of all their members entirely to enthusiasm (or social reform. The manager of an oil-field receives a letter briefly ad dressing him as “Parasite!” It bears the stamp of a group, and it demands a definite sum of money on pain of death. At an hour mentioned, the agents of the group call, and the manager almost invariably pays, entering the sum in his ledger pnder the heading “office expenses.” If he refuses to pay, he is quite sure to be shot, stabbed, or disembowelled within a day or two. If he attempts to betray the agents, all his family share his fate. This pursuit of wealth on a basis of murder is conducted with such businesslike accuracy that the manager in due course receives a stamped balance-sheet showing the expenditure of his contribution. The items en tered in the cash account are generally the purchase of arms and an assas sination, übt no vouchers are possible in such cases, and it is generally sup posed that champagne and ather carnal delights ought to figure in the outlay. I am not sure whether such charges as to the misappropriation of involuntary contributions are true or not, but where money is so easily obtained the temp tation must be considerable. In self-protection most of the richer managers and owners have mustered gangs of hired assassins, each of whom is pledged to murder at least one person named, if anything happens to his employer. Some go further, and publish in the morning papers the names and addresses of those who will be immediately slain if they are murdered themselves, and such advertisements give a new and varied Interest to the local “agony col umn.” —Harper’s Magazine. Place for Business Cares By H. J. Hapgood <*♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦# ON’T carry your office in your hat, and if you do, take your J hat off in the house. The man who brings his business ♦ liffi £ home with him is apt to find himself the inescapable victim £ I B £ of the demon called Worry. He will worry and fret through ♦ ♦ his meals, and is liable to suffer from the disagreeable habit >»»»»»»#♦» of lying awake at night. His wife and children —if there be ♦ * any children in the world unfortunate enough to have snch a father —will find him more and more of a bore every day. If a man carries his business in his hat when he goes to the club his friends will soon steer clear of him. He will find himeslf lunching alone, with no companions other than his papers and memoranda. To say the least, such companions by no means aid digestion. Business is a poor partner for a man’s leisure hours. You will see this workaday-all-the-time-man in the theatre scratching busi ness memoranda on the back of his program, or figuring up his bad accounts on the table-cloth in a public restaurant. He will be dragged off to the country by his family, who fully determine he shall have two weeks’ vacation. He no more than gets off the train than he seeks a long distance telephone station and calls up the office. He spends the evening writing letters to his employes, and telling them a thousand and one things to do which they would have brains enough to do anyway. The next day he sends a couple of telegrams, and calls up the office again. The third day, afraid that the busi ness by this time has gone to smash, he takes the first train to the city. There is no rest for such a man. Just so long as he carries his office in his hat he will keep his hat on all the time, and the cares of his business press heavily on his mind. Some one ought to search him body and soul when he leaves his office every night, and snatch from him every detail of business worry. The Minister * and The Banker By the Rev. William E. Barton, of the Oak Park {III.) Congregational Church *~*^^*« UDGED by commercial standards, these two men have little ♦ *♦♦♦<>♦♦♦«• enough in common. They appear in different columns, if at V w + all, in the lists of Dun and Bradstreet. And it would be idle ♦ | X to (leny tliat the contrast goes further. Yet each is, in a % ,1 ♦ way, a priest. For has not every, one noticed that solem £ ♦ nity, that sense of awe and mystery, with which men enter <>*«o**>**6* a bank? It is as if they said: "We are standing in the ***«♦♦««««« outer court of the temple of the great god, money. Behind this curtain of iron bars and plate glass and mahogany are those who receive our offeiings, and lay them on his altar, and who deign to intercede with him for measured blessing in answer to our prayers and col lateral.” Bankers and ministers have very much in common. They stand apart from all other professions as representing public confidence. If a bank fails it shakes public confidence more than if a dry-goods firm assigns, the amount of liaiblities being equal. If a minister goes wrong it shakes public confidence as the fall of a lawyer or doctor does not. In the world of com merce the banker represents what the minister stands for in the realm of ethics. Each is the exponent of an ideal, and each either exalts or degrades that ideal. The banker who has held other'men to strict account in the mat ter of their financial obligations, the minister who proclaims honesty and virtue and spirituality, have need to tremble lest, having preached to others, they themselves should become castaways. Just Filler. “What did you mean by this poem?” inquired a delegation of admirers. "I didn’t mean anything,” answered the great poet, frankly. "I wrote that poem for a monthly magazine. I did not expect it to be published in a book collection.” —Louisville Courier- Journal. Government experts are investi gating seaweed with the object of de termining its economic value. Everything Else. Yeast —Have you ever seen the sun come up at sea? Crimsonbeak—No; but I guess I've seen everything else come up! Yonkers Statesman. Since its establishment the Depart ment of Agriculture has cost the United States more than $200,000,000. It has given employment at different times to 58,000 experts and profess ors, and issued 17,675 publications. Southern Agricuitural Topics. Modern Method* That Are Helpful to Farmer, Fruit Grower and Stockman. A Scheme For Testing Seeds. For the ordinary planter the well known “dinner plate” tester, made with two soup or dinner plates and one or more moist strips of sterilized cotton goods, preferably cotton flan nel, will be found to answer all pur poses. The cotton strips are steri lized in boiling water to destroy spores of molds and other fungi pres ent, folded twice upon themselves and placed in one of the plates. The seeds are now laid between the folds For testing several varieties a/once, of cloth so as not to touch each other, and the second plate is inverted over the first, this forming a moist, aerat ed and more or less sterile chamber. The cotton strips must be kept well moistened, but not saturated, prefer ably with water that has been steri lized by boiling, and allowed to cool before using. Two or three lots of seeds may be tested in the generator at one tin;e, but each should be con tinued in a separate cotton strip and numbered to avoid error. When, however, it is desirable to make several germinating tests at one time or when many varieties are to be tested, instead of duplicating the plate germinators already described the writer found the following ger minator, suggested by Dr. Volney Spaulding, formerly of the Univer sity of Michigan, to be superior: A deep granite bread pan six or eight inches wide was obtained in which was kept about one-fourth inch of water. Cotton flannel strips of any convenient length, tw'o or three yards, and of the width of the pan, were tucked crosswise at intervals of five inches. Short galvanized wires about an inch longer than the width of the pan were inserted through A. Pan Germinator. these tucks and gathered together, thus forming the cotton strips into numerous folds or loops which were suspended in the pan above the water by means of the supporting wires. The ends of the strips being left sufficiently long to touch the water in the pan, the entire piece of cloth composing the loops, in which the seeds are placed, is kept uniformly moist. The cloth should be moistened be fore beginning the experiment and, it is needless to add, sterilized. A definite number of seeds taken as they come from an average sample are counted out for each germination. For seeds in rather small lots, as garden seeds, fifty to a hundred will answer, while for the cereals, grasses, clover and others used in exten sive cultural operations about 200 should be used and the tests dupli cated when any doubt exists about the results. The tests should be ex amined from day to day and the sprouted ones removed and counted, the number being recorded on a sheet of paper. The length of time required for germination is dependent upon sev eral factors, chief of which are mois ture, temperature, vitality and vari etal differences, six to ten days being sufficient for most kinds. When tests are made during the winter or early spring months, at which time it is usually most convenient, the germi nation should be conducted in a mod erately warm room so that the tem perature will not fall below fifty de grees F. at night and remain between seventy and eighty degrees F. dur ing the day. Il> the case of alfalfa and certain other of the clover fam ily a small percentage of the seeds will remain apparently sound at the close of the germination test. Allow ance is usuallly made for these, one third being counted as viable— 1. e., capable of growth. Cauliflower, cab bage, turnip and beet seeds of poor stock—i. e., run out—are just as viable as those of good stock. The only means of remedying this defect is to use selected home grown seeds or to buy the best stock of reliable seed houses. —J. J. Thornber, in New York Witness. To Keep Out of Brood. Barring accident, or destruction by force, nature intended every little chicken hatched to live and grow. There is no reason why we should as sume that a certain per cent, of each brood shall sicken and die. It would not be so, if we knew nature's way, and managed them altogether natur ally. It is not so with the young of the wild birds or the wild fowl; they live in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred; and yet, they are more ex posed to the elements than any brood of young chickens. They are as na fure placed them, and thence, with a natural mother, and natural food, they thrive. And now, with these thoughts in mind, and in looking back over the past, and gathering together the data —whether of success or failure, we can see in such a review, that our best luck, as" it is termed, or, our greater success, has been attained when w r e kept most in line with na ture in the feeding and the care of our young chickens. And, in this vista of the past, we see standing out like mile posts to our ignorant man agement, the long series of broods, and the hundreds and hundreds of little down innocents that were sac rificed to warm, soft, sloppy mixed foods. We £an recall the dysentery and the other forms of bowel trouble that carried them off, until from a brod of ten to fifteen, we would raise only two or three. This was killing chickens with kindness, coupled with inexperience. We cooked for them, and we made hot mashes, and we succeeded in making some of them sick, and the disease spread and we lost them by the tens and scores—and nature out raged. And then we tried another way, and it w r as a more natural way. It was less troublesome and more expeditious. We stopped feeding soft mashes, and resorted to cracked grain, small seeds, and coarse dry meal, and we put this sort of food where the chickens had to work to get it out. Now, this is an old story —this “scratching for a living"—it is almost threadbare, you know, and yet it is really the basis for keeping the chicks healthy'—of keeping disease out of the brood. For, the little chick that has nothing but dry food to eat, and has to scratch it out of litter, or trash—the chick that has to wander about and pry in here and there for the stray insect or worm— this is the chicken. The hen that scratches with her chickens— that dusts and wallows with them, is the healthy hen, and the hen with the healthy brood. That's the key to the thought. We need to keep close to nature in raising the chickens, to have good success. Practically, and to a definite plan —put each hen in a small run, with a coop to herself, so as to individual ize her and her particular little fam ily. Then feed her and her chicks dry food only; small seeds, cracked grain, oat meal, a little rye, corn meal, and let them work it out of a litter which has a sandy, grawelly base. This is a natural combination, and it will not be taken up at a gulp, but the mixture will be worked out gradually and in different parts at different times. This will take the greater part of the day and it will be all the better for it. It will result, in keen-eyed, alert, active and fast growing chicks, and a healthy, active mother. It will keep off disease, and it will lead to a greater per cent, of matured chickens per brood than any other system. It’s a good plan to have and to follow early in the season, and it is equally practicable and available for best results all summer and far into the fall. In fact, by keeping the hot mashes from our little chicks, and in working them as suggested, we may raise from thirty to fifty per cent, more than under the old system of coddling, and stuf fing with mixtures that are more or less injurious in their effects.—By H. B. Geer. A Word to the Wise. With the cotton crop 2,000,000 bales short of the previous year, cot ton is selling at only nine cents. Suppose the crop had been a full 0ne —13,000,000 bales instead of 11-, 000,000 —would not cotton to-day be seven cents? Suppose, moreover, we raise an other bumper crop this year—where will prices go next fall? And what is going to become of the all-cotton farmer who has his smoke house and corn-crib in the West if the crash comes? Centuries ago a wise man said: “The prudent man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself, but the simple pass on and are punished.’’ Will you play the part of the pru dent man or the simpleton? Pro gressive Farmer. Fertilizer For Peanuts. Peanuts, like cowpeas, can get ni trogen from the air, and do not need much, if any, nitrogen. But it will be well to give a little nitrate of soda for a start. Then for peanuts I would make the ton 1500 pounds of acid phosphate, 100 pounds of nitrate of soda and 400 pounds of sulphate of potash. In the 1500 pounds of acid phosphate you will get about 600 pounds of plaster, which many pea nut growers think essential to the crop. Of this ton I would use 500 pounds per acre for peanuts. W. F. Massey.