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Government to Join a Crusade
on Long Island. |
Department of Agriculture Inter
ested In the Movement—Reclama
tion of Lands and Redemption of
Marshes to Follow Route of Insects.
. C. Wéeks as Chief Engineer.
A government party in charge of
Professor Milton Whitney, chief of the
bureau of soils, department of agricul
ture, will start April 1 on a survey of
the entire area of Long Island, says the
New York Commercial Advertiser. The
object is the reclamation of land and
the redempfion of the large tracts of
marshes for agricultural purposes. The
attention of Secretary Wilson has been
called to the reclamation work which
has been in progress for the last two
years through the efforts of the North
Shore Improvement association, which
ig interested not only in the improve
ment of the land, but in a plan to ex
terminate the mosquito by destroying
its breeding places. The war being
waged against this obnoxious pest
along the north shore of Long Island
bids fair to terminate successfully.
Henry Clay Weeks, who is the chief
engineer for the North Shore Improve
ment association and is commonly
known as “Mosquito” Weeks, has mar
shaled his forces, and when the season
opens he will advance on the pest,
backed by maps, charts, petroleum, the
North Shore Improvement association
and the United States government.
There will be a cessation of mosquito
parades, for the parade grounds will be
in the hands of the invaders, and those
which are not held by them will be
covered with petroleum, and the mos
quito will be no more.
The war on the mosquito will make
necessary the reclamation cof the
ditches, marshes and swamps which
are numerous on Long Island. The
crusaders aim to break up the breeding
places by draining off the water, since
water is a necessary element for the
reproduction of the mosquito. Much
has already been done in exterminat
ing the pests on Long Island, and to
day many ponds and ditches are abso
lutely mosquitoless.
The commendable work done by Mr.
Weeks and the North Shore Improve
ment association attracted the atten
tion of Secretary Wilson of the de
partment of agriculture at Washing
ton. The result of the work of the as
sociation embodied in a report was
sent by Mr. Weeks to Secretary Wil
son in the early part of January. The
secretary at once appreciated the value
of the work and conferred with Milton
Whitney, chief of the bureau of soils,
department of agriculture, and L. O.
Howard, division of entomology, in re
gard to the draining of the swamps,
redemption of the marsh land and im
munity from malaria spread entirely
by one species of the mosquito known
throughout Long Island.
This work will necessitate new maps
and charts of the redeemable lands.
Secretary Wilson has already arranged
to send a soil party to Long Island on
April 1 to make a survey of the en
tire area of the island. Recent commu
nlcations have been received by Mr.
Weeks from Mr. Whitney of the bu
reau of soils, in which he says that the
soil party will probably start for the
New York end of the island. This will
enable them to take advantage of the
maps which Dr. Ernest Lederle, pres
ident of the board of health, is having
made showing the breeding places of
the mosquito in the territory adjacent
to New York city.
The extermination of the mosquito
from Long Island means an increase
in land values. In addition the re
claimed swamps will furnish the truck
grower with a fertile area that will
many times repay the work of redemp
tion.
There are two groups of mosquitoes
which are to be attacked by the cru-
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That old copybook maxim finds its
most forceful application in the waste of
vitality, which 1s called “burning the
candle at both ends.” A woman is
often tempted beyond her strengtn by
domestic or social demands. Some day
she awakens from this waste of stren%th
to the woeful want of it. She has be
come weak, nervous and miserable.
For weak, nervous, run-down women,
there is no better tonic and nervine than
Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. It
restores the appetite, quiets the nerves
and gives refreshing sleep. It cures
local diseases peculiarly womanly which
undermine the general health. It makes
weak women strong, sick women well.
*No doubt you have forgotten me, but after
fimad my letter you will remember me,”
es Mrs. Annie E. Moring, of 233 7th Avenue,
8. W., Roanocke, Va. "In the year 187, 1 wrote
to you for acvice, which you gave me free of
charge. Wheun I wrote to you [ was a wreck ; I
could not walk straight for pains in my abdo
men ; could not sit down, lie down, or get any
ease at all. I had what was called the best doc
tor here, but did not get any better uatil I went
through a course of your medicine. I took eight
bottles each of ‘Favorite Prescription’ and
*Golden Medical Discovery,’ and ten bottles of
the ' Pleasant Pellets.’ I tell you the medicine
made a cure of me.”
Weak and sick women are invited to
consult Dr. Pierce, l‘)iy letter, free. All
correspondence is held as strictly private.
Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
.. Dr. Pierce’s Peligtp cure biliousness,
[ saders—namely, the culex and ano
pheles. The latter alone disseminates
malaria, but the former is no less a
pest. The elimination of the mosquite
depends on the fact that the mosquito
has an aquatic stage and that the adult
does not fly far from its breeding
place. In the case of the anopheles the
distance is never over 200 yards, while
the culex flies half a mile or under ex
ceptional circumstances a longer dis
tance. The three methods employed to
break up the breeding places of the
mosquito are draining, petrolizing or
pouring petroleum on the water so that
it forms a film which smothers the lar
ve and by cleaning the ponds of vege:
tation and stocking them with fish. |
The fight against the mosquito, which
was started by Mr. Weeks over twenty
years ago, will result eventually in the
fnsects either being driven into the
sound or the Atlantic ocean. Every
village has its antimosquito society,
which in summer wages relentless
warfare upon the pests and in winter
holds meetings and plans new cam
paigns. Mr. Weeks was jubilant over
the fact that the government was
about to take an active interest in the
work. With wealth and the govern
ment and Mr. Weeks against the poor
mosquito it is only a question of time
before he becomes a rara avis on Long
Island at least.
VICTIMIZE NEGRO GIRLS.
A New York Agency Is Importing
Them from the South.
A dispatch says that Edwin F. Mer
win, superintendent of the Outdoor
Poor Bureau of New York, is conduct
ing a fight against the reckless impor
tation to New York by employment
acents if negro girls from the south,
who after they have been in that city
a short time became public charges.
He says he has sent letters protesting
against the methods of the agents to
tue mayors of Savannah, Richmond,
Jacksonville, Norfolk and other south
ern cities.
“We had the proprietor of a local
agency up in court on one case of this
sort only a few days ago and we Intend
to stop the importation some-how,”
said he. ““The employing agencies are
sending negro girls here every day,
and numbers of them have to be sent
home at the expense of the city.
“What happensisthat the girls have
to pay a small sum to the agency at
the outset and then are broucht here
at the agency’s expense. As soon,
however, as the girls are put in posi
tions they find that they have signed
iron bound contracts by which they
have to give over to the agencies prac
tically all their wages for seyeral
months.
“By the time the girls have worked
out these months they are usually
without a eent of money and their
clothes are worn out.”
A PRESSING INVITATION.
To the Meeting of Woman’s Un
ion in Cuthbert.
Dear [Sisters: On the evening of
February 25, at 7:30 o’clock, Miss An
nie Armstrong, of Baltimore, Md., our
secretary of W. M. U.. south, also
Mrs. J. D. Easterlin, ofoMarietta, Ga.,
our state secretary, will speak to us
about our work in the Master’s cause.
We herewith extend you a most cor
dial invitation to be present. We open
our hearts and homes to you. Ifyou
will kindly write to Mrs. J. D. Gunan
or Mrs. G. Y. Moore, at Cuthbert, Ga.,
they will assign you a home. Please
state when and how ycu will come.
However, we shall welcome you with
out preyious notice. We wish to share
‘vne inspiration and rare privileges of
this occasion with as mauy of our co
workers as possible. .
Remember the date and come with
the prayer that God will use the meet
ing for His glory. In His service.
W. M. S., Cuthbert, Ga.
BAPTIST WON CAMEL RACE.
New Jersey Clergyman Finished
Six Lengths Ahead.
The Rev. Linn E. Wheeler of the
First Baptist church of New Bruns
wick, N. J., who recently returned
from a trip to Egypt and Palestine,
tells of a time during that journey
when his sporting proclivities got the
better of him, says the New York
Times.
It happened in Egypt, where the rev
erend gentleman and three compan
ions were viewing the Sphinx. Each
was mounted on a camel, and one of
the party, an old campaigner, suggest
ed a race. The clergyman demurred at
first, but finally caught the fever and
started off. The course was straight
away from the Sphinx to the nearest
pyramid, and the Baptist preacher won
by balf a dozen lengths.
A Weeping Tree. |
A species of tree found in Oregon,
Washington, Montana and British
Columbia continually drips pure and
clear water from the ends of its leaves
and braoches. The tree 1s a species
of fir. The ‘*weeping” is attributed to
a remarkable power of coodensation
peculiar to the lraves and bark. [he
American tree drips as copiously on
bright and clear as on cloudy days.
Other species in the island of Ferro
form tears most abundantly when the
humidity is relatively near the dew
point.
Wonderful Nerve
Is displayed by many a man endur
ing pains of accidental cuts. wcunds,
bruises, burns, scalds, sore feet or stiff
joints. Butthere’s noneed of It. Buck
len's Arnica Salve will kill the pain
and cure the trouble. It’s the best
salve on earth for piles, too. 25¢, at
Dawson Drug Co's.
HEROIC ACT OF A MOTHER.
Lashed Self and Babe to a Tree
During South Sea Hurricane.
One of the many acts of hereism re
ported from the scene of the South Sea
hurricane, 1n which more than a
thousarnd people lost their lives, was
that of a ‘woman. who climbed one of
the tall cocoanut trees and lashed her
baby to the branches with strips of
her ciothing. The mother clung to
the body of the tree beneath the iittle
one as best she could. There they re
mained for ten hours suffering great
torture from wet, cold and hunger un
til Snally rescued by other natiyes,
who swam with them to a ship.
Thousands of tons of copra and more
than 200 tons of mother of pearl shells
are known to have been lost. The
pearl shells are valed at 31,800 a ton.
DOWIE'S BIG INVASION.
Three Thousand Zionites to Go
to New York.
“My followers, the eyes of the world
are upon you. Prepare to put on your
armor and for the great march from
Chicago to the sea. Have your swords
burnished and your arms shining, for
before the harvest comes a great car
avan of Christianity will move on to
New York, next to Chicago the great
est home of vice in the world. And
we will go on special trains, and none
will be able to resist the mighty host
of Zion.”
John Alexander Dowie so heralded to
his hearers at the Auditorium in Chi
cago the other day the coming invasion
of Manhattan, says the New York
World. Like a trained chorus, the
4,000 people who heard him shouted,
“We will!” when he asked them if they
wouild follow on.
Dowie did not particularize in giving
his plans. He said two mammoth tab
ernacles, “heretofore given over to
worldly amusements,” had been se
cured in Manhattan as well as accom
modations for thousands of workers. '
“So be ready when I call. At least
3,000 of you must go with me. We will
go in the finest cars, drawn by the
swiftest engines, and for once there
will be a line of Christians from this
Sodom to that Gomorrah in the east.
After we have done our work there we
may build another Zion, but always
the grand temple will remain upon the
beautiful shores of Lake Michigan.”
An Affront to a Friend,
From the Savannah News.
The western Missouri court of ap
peals nhas decided that a mule is a
treacherous and vicious animal, and
that so well known is this fact that if
a workman is injured hecause of those
traits of mule disposition the employ
ers can’t plead ignorance of the mule’s
nature in defense. Not to put too fine
a point on it, this is a judicial libel on
one of man’s most patient and uncom
plaining friends. The mule has been
insulted in the house to whose fame
and fortune he has contributed 1n no
small degree. Except for the mule
Missouri’s wealth and civilazation
would have been much less advanced
than at present.
A Very Close Cll,
“I stuck to my engine, although
every joint ached and every nerve was
racked with pain,”’ writes C. W. Bell
ary, a locomotive fireman of Burling
ton, lowa. ] was weak and pale
without any appetite and all run down.
As I was about to give up, I got a bot
tle of Klectric Bitters, and atier taking
it I felt as well as I eyer did in my
life.”” Wealk, sickly, run down people
always gain new life, strength and
vigor from their use. Try them.
Satisfaction guaranteed by Dawson
i Drug Co. Price 50 cents.
May Go to Europe.
They sayv that Governor Candler is
going to Europe to look up some of the
state records which are needed to com
plete «the colonial series. Governor
Candler is making splendid headway
n this matter.
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HAY MAKERS ENCOURAGED.
Macon Firm Uses a Car Load of
Native Grass a Week.
From the Atlanta Journal.
“We have not bought this season a
pound of hay raised outsiae of Geor
gia,”” said Mr. Morris Waterman of
Waterman & Co., yesterday. We made
up our miunds to buy our hay at home.
We let the farmers know of our aeter
mination and they took advantage of it.
Not only that, the Georgia farmers are
learning that hay is a valuable mouey
crop. We use a car load a week, and
pay from $l2 to 816 a ton for it. We
are satisfied with it. Our horses and
mules thrive on It, and we are prepar
ed to back up the proposition that all
hay used in Georgia can be raised
here, and shculd be.”—Macon Tele
graph.
There’s a proposition for vou farm
ers to think over. Twelve to sixteen
dollars a ton for your hay—and vyou
can raise from three to four tons per
acre when you try.
Not only that, but it is an extra crop
—just that much picked up after the
main crop has been harvested. All
that has been required is a little fer
tilization, a little harrowing—and then
the cutting and baling. It has been
the easiest crop on the farm to make, ‘
the easiest o sell and the most profit
able.
If the farmers of Georgia, all of them, ‘
would only pay a little more attention |
to their hay erops they might have a
bank account out of the proceeds of
their hay crop alone.
Manv progressive farmers are al
ready devoting considerable attention
to hay. And you couldn’t make one
of them quit it to save yourlife. They
have found out that it pays more clear
money than any other crop they can
raise.
Millionaire Buys a Town,
The quaint old village of Manhasset,
oc Long Island, is doomed to disap
pear from the face of the earth. It is
situated on the shore of a beautiful
little lake, which has attracted the
fancy of Payne Whitney, who is the
son of a millionaire, the nephew of an
other millionaire and the son-in-law of
still another millionaire. Mr. Whit
ney wants the lake to beautify his
country estate, and in order to secure
and control it he is buying all of the
property in Manhasset and tearing
down the old buildings to make way
for lawnse, roadways and shrubbery.
Within the course ot a few years it is
predicted there will be nothing left of
the old village but its memories.
A Thousnd Dollars Thrown Away,
Mr. W. W. Baker, of Plainview,
Neb., writes: ‘“‘My wife had lung
trouble for over fifteen years. We
tried a number of aoctors and spent
over a thousand dollars without any
relief. She was yery low and I lost all
hove, when a friend suggested trying
Foley’s Honey and Tar, which I did;
and thanks be to this great remedy it
saved her life. She is stronger and
enjoys better health than she has ever
known in ten years. We shall never
be without Foley’s Honey and Tar and
would ask toose afflicted to try it.”
Made Wolves Settle for Damages.
A Natrona Ity ranchman recei
bhad a heifer killed by weolves, says a
dispateh from Casper, Wyo., to the Den
ver Repubiican. He placed strychnine
in the carcass. Up to a recent date he
found eizht dead wolves and one coy
ote beside the remains. The heifer
was worth only $25, and the wolves |
and coyotes will return to the ranch
man somethicg like $2OO in bounty and
sale of skiiws.
Domestic Troubles,
It is exceptional to find 2 family
where there are no domestic ruptures
occasionally, but these can be lessened
by baving Dr. King’s New Life Pills
around. Much trouble they save by
their great work in stomach and liver
troubles. They not énly relieve you,
but cure you. 25¢ at Dawson Drug
Co’s.
Whole shredded wheat biscuit at
Wall Bros.
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your plans and furnish specifications for same that will enable any one ¢t
see on paper just what they are going to get before being executed int
actual investment, thereby giving protection to both owner and builder,
I will, in connection with the above, solicit opportunity to figure with thos
having work to let by contract, as I am also a practical builder in both bric
and wood. Reference furnished if desired.
C.M. LANGSTON. - - Box 126, Dawson,Ga.
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remove all time limitations to my guarantee and positively ::hen
to replace and make good any defects or breaks at any time
the part 1s returned to me.”’
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