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kTRAWBERRIES BRING TERRELL GROWERS $350 AN ACRE
AEASE 19 SHOWN IN
NUAI REPORT OF PRISON
oMMbi‘\lON GIVES INTER
ESTING INFORMATION.
RDER LEADS ALL CRIMES
¢ Married Convicts Than Single
s in Prison. Number of White
riminals Grows. Twenty-two Boys
mong Those Serving Sentences.
. rease of convicts in Georgia
L Juring 1922 was the smallest
auy year since 1918, according to
anual report of the Georgia pris
( ion, prepared for submis
b to ! legislature. The report
ol 3054 felony convicts on Dec.
1022, an increase of 107 over the
per confined on December 31,
The increase in 1921 had been
126 in 1920 and 112 in 1919.
i the convicts on hand December
1922, there were 692 white men, |
white women, 2,849 negro men
107 negro women. The number
eoro women decreased 85. The
ror of white men increased 37. 1
here was one 10-year-old boy in
1 on December 31, two IZ-yearii
foe 13 vears old and 14 who |
their azes as 14. The majority
ed in age from 18 to 30, the age
vears leading, with 243. One con
i 80, two are 78, five are 75, two
73 and seven are 72.
Crimes of Violence Lead. l
irder leads the list of crimes that
¢ent convicts to prison, 975 be
bonfined on that charge. Burglary
s next with 765, and m:mslaugh-l
s third with 394. There were 301
ol with attempts to mutder, 3()1|
ol with larceny, 196 on whisky |
¢s, 127 charged with criminal
its and 201 charged with roh-l
der the classification as to pre
ccupations, farm laborers lead,
1085, laborers come next with
ad public work laborers third
719, There are 26 auto mechan
ix bankers, 11 barbers, 15 black
k, three bookkeepers, 10 brick
i, four butchers, one city mar-
I 3 carpenters, 48 cooks, 67
trrs, one dentist, seven distill
| farmers, one florist, 20 house
rs, 17 machinists, 11 painters,
hysician, five plumbers, four po
en, three preachers, one printer,
Idier, two street car conductors,
t:ilor, one teacher, one veterina
the 3,654 men and women con
-2031 are married and 1,603 are
[wenty-six of the married
ns got in prison by marrying
the white prisoners 572 can read
write, 34 can read only and 82
literate. Of the negro prisoners
an read and write, 97 can read
and 944 are illiterate.
rec of the convicts are serving
seventh terms.« Five are serving
sxth terms, 16 their fifth terms,
¢ir fourth terms, 108 their third
398 their second terms and
their first terms.
County Figures.
¢ counties having the largest
ations have sent the greatest
er of men to prison. Fulton is
ed with 587, Chatham with 207,
with 111, Muscogee with 94 and
nand with 83. Dade ‘and Brant
ountics have only one” convict
viile - Appling, Baker, Echols,
I Long, Pickens and White have
e are 963 convicts serving life
. two serving for 40 years, one
vears, three for 30 years and
than 100 were sent up ‘for 20
r re. The majority of the
$ ces range from two to
Ithough 178 are serving
F nd 94 will be confin
r 13
o 1 tv is working 165 felony
i I 479 misdemeanor pris
: uls, Chatham county is
g fclony prisoners and 95
mear prisoners, and Bibb
)18 rking 55 felony prison
l isdemeanor prisoners.
E ! Iv cost of 'maintaining
s at the ‘state farm, in
s xpense of the prison
58 given as $15.52 in the
d $18.38 in the female
OTIC DRUG USE DROPS
PER CENT DURING YEAR
SSioner Says Figures TRefute
“IB¢s of Increase in Addicts.
i TON, D. C.—Per cap
m of narcoti¢ drugs in
I “tates has decreased near
" tent under the administra
urison drug act, accord
- tement today' by Federai
mmissioner Haynes.
’ t his figures “refute the
M Oiten made that drug ad
i t use of narcotic drugs
mcrease in the United
; tatement indicated that
v nufacturers of . mnarcotics
: r ended June 30, 1921,
t tor 174 grains of mor
: ta, while for the fiscal
b were reduced to 7§ of
r capita basis.
: ita consumption of co
: ! was given at one-third
& ile that for 1923 was
tourth of’'a grain.
E <t vield of potatoes to
.. the United States varies
.t 50 bushels in Texas to
' <UO bushels in Maine.
THE DAWSON NEWS
SWINDLERS PLAY N. Y. SIOCK
EXCHANGE AND GET AN
OCCASIONAL DOLLAR.
FORGERY THE BASIS OF LURE
Fake Checks, Buying and Selling Or
ders, News Reports and Dividend
Rumors Play Leading Part in Up-~
setting Market. 5
NEW YORK, N. Y.—-The wolves
are barking at Wall street. They got
a nibble the other day when checks
came from different cities in the east,
accompanied by orders for the pur
chase of $3,000,000 worth of stock.
The checks were forgeries, but Jbefore
that fact was discovered stocks went
up and somebody made a cleaning,
Then they went down, and somebody
made a second cleaning. :
Who is playing the game Wall
street. does not know. But the game
!is simple. One of the spurious checks
came’ from a small town in Pennsyl
‘vania. It was for $15,000, and the or
der was to buy $15,000 worth of New
York Central stock.
Checks Looked Good.
The broker, who received the check
and order, immediately followed di
rections, thinking the check good. An
other broker received a similar order
and a check, which was also forged.
Heavy buying of one railroad stock
sent its price up two and one-half
points.
Somebody in the offing, holding
this stock, sold at a profit. The same
method was used in the buying of
other prominent stocks. It is calculat
ed by brokers that some person or
persons made a cleaning of $250,000.
The checks were forged with the
names of well known customers of
the various brokers: They were sent
through banks or trust companies and
had every mark of being genuine.
Not so long ago a letter came to a
broker on Wall street purporting to
be from Samuel Vauclain, president
of the Baldwin locomotive works, of
Philadelphia. The letter said that the
condition of the company was not
promising.
Baldwin stock tumbled. Somebody
bought. When it was discovered that
the letter was a forgery and that the
stock was A No. 1, the pricg imme
diately went up several points.
Letter Was Forged.
The sender of that forged Iletter
which caused the stock to drop had
bought heavily when it was down,
When the stock regained the three
points it had declined he sold at a
handsome profit.
Qccasionally the game is worked to
clean out certain investors. The fa
'mous ‘“Mex-Pete Phone Call Case” is
one with this end in view. A tele
phone call came to the Negw York
News bureau, a Wall street agency,
‘saying that the directors of the Mex
jcan Petroleum Company had decid
ed to pass up the semi-annual divi
'dend. The call was supposed to have
“originated at a certain banking house.
" Wall street looks with suspicion on
'a company that does not pay its divi
‘dcnds. The bottom fell out of Mexi
‘can petroleum. A number of investors
were all but ruined.
A gigantic clean-up was also made
when a clique of men succeeded in
'depressing the stock of the Atlantic
Gulf Corporation of Mexico. A wire
'was received by a prominent stock
}exchange "house to this effect: “Re
ceiver asked for Atlantic Guli.”
. Atlantic Gulf stock toppled from
146 to 43. That clique of men bought
at 43. When it was discovered the
telegram was a fake Atlantic Gulf
!soarcd. The clique then sold.
His Scheme Did Not Work.
' Nobody on Wall street knows “Ja
cob Scheuer” personally. They are
!fnmiliar with the name, however.
Scheuer sent forged checks to 15 bro
kers, asking them to buy 15000
shares of Mercantile Marine. The
‘brokers bought. But somehow or oth
or thé stock did not climb, as Scheuer
had anticipated it would. Accordingly,
he remained hidden, and the brokers
found themselves with thousands of
shares on their hands and-a number
of forged checks. They succeeded in
selling the stock at a small margin.
. The schemer was ten days too ear
ly. Mercantile Marine rose suddenly,
going to $lOO a share. Had the rise
taken place after the brokers had
bought, “ten days before, Scheuer
could have given order to -sell at a
big profit and without the necessity
of paying over a single dollar in cash
to complete the transaction.
“B;ll of Pleasure’’ of the American
People Totals an Enormous Figure
Coney Island, With Its Myriad At
tractions, Takes in One Hundred
Million Dollars a Season.
The “bill of pleasure” of the Amer
ican people runs into enormous fig
ares. Take Coney Island, for instance,
that little strip of land cut off from
the city of Brooklyn, N. Y., by Coney
Island creek. _
The pleasure-seeker can walk its
streets, step into a million-dollar ho
tel, step out again and get a "hot;dog"
at a little stand next-door, a dish of
jce cream at the next stand, take a
whirl in a “ferris wheel” at the ad
joining concession, see an “oriental
dancer” or a “minstrel show” across
the street.
“A million .persons flock to Coney
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Charley
Graffeo became the thirty-fifth vic
tim of Birmingham’s mysterious
“ax murderer” when his body was
found behind a counter in his store
in an outlying residentiaf section
early tonight. The skull had been
crushed by a single blow with an
ax. Police records show that this
was the twenty-eighth similar at
tack during the past two years, in
which eighteen persons have lost
their lives and seventeen being in
jured.
LIQUOR PLOTTERS }
|
HIDING IN GEORGIA?
FEDERAL AGENTS ARE NOW
SEARCHING FOR FOUR MEN
WANTED IN NEW YORK.
ATLANTA, Ga—Are New York
liquor plotters, said to be involved in
large smuggling operations, hiding in
Georgia or other southern states?
Federal agents are making a search
for four of the eight men wanted in
New York city, according to dis
patches received here.
Only two of the number wanted in
connection with the alleged alcohol
smuggling cperations of the British
steamer Yankton appeared before U.
S. Commissioner Hitchcock in New
York city when the case was called.
A third was arrested at New Haven
and a fourth was reported to be in
lEurope but would return immediate
y.
The two who appeared were Jacob
A. Kirsch, formerly a well known
commission merchant and recently
acquitted of the charge of conspiracy
in connection with the unloading of
alcohol from the steamer Javary and
Nathan Scharlin, Abraham Scharlin,
% brother of Nathan Scharlin, also
wanted in the case, was reported by
Colonel Thomas B. Felder, counsel
for-the three men, as being in Europe.
Colonel Felder said that a cable had
been sent directing his immediate re
turn to this country. In the meantime
the two defendants were released in
$5,00 bail each.
Scharlin, dispatches state, is stay
ing at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New
York city, but he told Commissioner
Hitchcock that his residence was in
Chicago. Colonel Felder said that
Scharlin was connected with one of
the largest drug concerns in the coun
try. Information from Chicago was
that ' both , Scharlins had been con
nected with the J. B. Scheur Com
pany, a patent medicine corporation
in that city.
Kirsch, who was acquitted in the
steamer Javary case, involving sev
eral million dollars worth of contra
band liquor, was on trial for several
davs.
CONNECTICUT CONTESTANTS
ARE AHEAD OF ALL COM
PETITORS IN THE RACE.
Leave it to the American dames.
They’re ahead of all British and Cana
dian hens in the eleventh annual in
ternational egg-laying contest now
going on at the Connecticut state ag
ricultural’ college, Starrs, Conn.
These contests begin November Ist
and last 12 months. According to lat
est available ' statistics, Wyandottes
are first, Leghorns second, Rhode Is
land Reds third and Plymouth Rocks
last.
In earlier years of the competition
English pens carried off the honors,
but the world war affected the entries
and last yvear the only pens of special
English interest came from agricul
tural colleges in Canada.
Interest in Race.
English poultry fanciers are resum
ing practical interests in the race, as
manifested by the recent visit of Per
cv A. Francis, English poultry com
missioner for the ministry of agricul
ture, London. He was highly gratified
to find an English hen, Lady Ander
son’s entry from Harrold, England,
continuing to lead in the Wyandotte
class. A thousand hens entered are
nearly 10,000 eggs ahead of the ex
pected yield for that period. In the
first 26 weeks they laid 79,192 eggs,
as compared with 70,142, the average
for previous years—9,oso ahead of the
average and are more than 3,000 ahea‘d
of the best previous mark. At this
rate the hens should lay a total of
179,000 eggs by November 1, 1923.
Island on Sundays and holidays. On
Monday morning $2,000,000 pour into.
the banks of New York and Brook
lyn, the money extracted. from the
pockets of the crowd, which spent 10
cents for a “hot-dog” here, 25 cents
to see “Lizzie, the Fat Lady,” on the
other side. of the avenue.
Dozens of millionaires have been
made “on Coney Island. Six Greeks,
who started out with small stands,
dispensing pop or sandwiches, later
building handsome restaurants, are
now rated in seven figures.
During a good season $100,000,000
is taken in. It is the “bill of pleasure”
of the thousands and thousands ,who
flock to this one resort from May 15
to September 20 every year. This
year “Coney” is expected to outstrip
Atlantic City.
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 5, 1923
ATLANTA WOMEN HAVE
SURGEONS PERFORM “BEAU.-
TY” OPERATIONS AT A
COST OF $lOO EACH.
WANT TO LOOK YOUNG AGAIN
Incisions Made Back of Temples and
Tuck Taken in Muscles. “Patient”
Holds Mirror in Hand to Watch
What Is Happening to Her.
ATLANTA, Ga—At least six At
lanta womef have had their faces lift
ed, according to a news story printed
in the' Atlanta Journal and written by
Angus Perkerson, well-known staff
writer. ‘
And all are younger looking for it,
it is said.
Incisions were made just back of
each temple, and a tuck was taken in
the sheaf of muscles that control the
face. The result was that the flesh
around the jaws was drawn tight, in
stead of lagging as it does as youth
begins to wanegand the two sharp
lines that cut in!) the skin afong the
sides of the mouth were smoothed out.
The operations were done here by
an Atlanta surgeon and ecach cost
about $lOO.
He is one of. the best known men
in his profession, and he isn't much
in sympathy with “lifting” faces. He
believes that surgery has a higher
purpose. ; é
“It’s to relieve pain and to minis
ter to sickness,” he said. “But the sit
uation was this: Patients of mine—
six in all—came to me at different
times and said they were going to
have their faces lifted. If I didn’t do
it they’d go somewhere else, go to
New York if necessary, and perhaps
put themselves into the hands of a
quack.
Operation Not Difficult.
. “They believed that lifted {faces
would make them look young again,
and they couldn’t see where they
could get anything better out of sur
gery than that., As I said, it looked
a little like putting surgery to a some
what trivial use. But they were bound
to have it done, and, anyway, lifting
the face is a form of plastic surgery
like grafting a bone into the nose or
remodeling other features deformed
by disease or accident.
“So, I lifted their faces.
“The operation isn’t difficult and it
isn’t dangerous—if it is done right.
It is such a minor thing that only a
local anaesthetic is administered. No
vocaine is enough to dull the pain,
‘then you go ahead with the patient
conscious of everything you are do
ing. .
“In fact, at the beginning of a face
lifting operation every woman wants
a mirror in her hand so she can see
what is happening to her face. But
at the first sight of blood she decides
she can do without the mirror.
“The purpose of the operation is to
catch up the muscle sheaf of the face
in order to tighten baggy flesh around
the chin and to erase the lines at the
mouth. To do ‘this two incisions are
made beyond the hairline, back of
each temple. This position is selected
in eorder that the scars will be hidden
when the hair grows back.
How It Is Done.
“T make each incision half circular
in shape, and cut down through the
skin and flesh to the muscular sheaf,
and in that I take a tuck; just as a
seamstress does in a dress, with the
result that the face is drawn up lift
ed, in order to do away with baggi
ness about the chin and jaws and
lines about the mouth.
“The operation takes from an hour
to an hour and a half, and about ten
days are required for the incisions to
heal completely.
“T must say that in every case
where I have performed this opera
tion the patient has appeared young
er aiterward. Whether the face will
stay lifted or will sag again is hard
to say. One Atlanta woman who had
the operation done eighteen months
ago felt the flesh beginning to grow
baggy once more at the chin, and had
the operation done over again. She
says she is willing to have it repeated
every year if necessary.”
“What can be done about lines un
der the eyes?” he was asked.
“So far as I know surgery is help
less there,” he answered. “The only
method I ever heard of erasing crows
feet is to inject paraffimm under the
skin, and that'is dangerous, to say
the least.”
Ford Leads for Presidency
. s
In Collier’'s Weekly Poll
Paper Makes Nation-Wide Canvass
Of Its Readers’ Choice.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—The first
week’s tally of votes in a country
wide canvass of readers of Collier’s
Weekly on their choice for next pres
ident of the United States, announced
today, showed Henry Ford in the
lead, with 5,547 votes, and President
Harding second, with 4,460.
During the week a total of 19,744
votes were recorded. Governor Smith
received 996, Senator DBorah 287,
Woodrow Wilson 245, and Taft, Bry
an and Senator Copeland cacfi one
vote.
The surprising vote for Mr. Ford
in the solid south may be cast with
reservation. Perhaps it mieans that
these folks would vote for him on
condition that he run on the demo
cratic ticket. In Georgia there were
271 votes for Ford and 107 for Mc-
Adoo.
The first president’s message tele
graphed west was delivered by James
K. Polk. It required forty-eight hours
to perform the task. . |
ARCTIC VOYAGE TO DETERMINE IF
ANOTHER ICE AGE IS BEGINNING
WISCASSET, Maine.—Capt. Don
ald B. MacMillan, who will sail from
here June 16th on the schooner Bow
doin' to resume his Arctic explora
tions, announced today that one pur
pose of the expedition is to determine
whether there is beginning another
ice age, as the advance of glaciers in
the last seventy years would indicate.
Other purposes are study of terres
trial magnetism and -atmospheric elec
tricity, botany, ornithology' and the
obtaining of a series of photographs
of bird and animal life. Thirty thous
and feet of motion picture film also
wid be in the Bowdoin’s outfit.
I.ong copper strips are being at
tached to the hull of the vessel to be
NO SAVIOR IS COMING FROM
OUTSIDE, SAYS PRESIDENT
GEORGIA ASSOCIATION.
MOULTRIE, Ga.—Addressing/ a
meeting of Colquitt county farmers
and business men here George T.
Betts, president of the Georgia Asso
ciation and prominent banker, declar
ed that just such interviews as given
by a south Georgia lawmaker to an
Atlanta paper a few days ago in
which the lawmaker said “he had no
sympathy or patience with that crowd
of folks who are trying to tell you;
that there is something the matter
with Georgia” was one of the rea
sons that cther states in .the south
are passing Georgia in development
and prosperity.
Whacks a Legislator.
“Yes, he told the Atlanta paper the
folks down in his county jwere happy,
back on their feet, etc.,”.l\&r. Betts de
clared. “Well, if they are God pity
us. I have been in his county several
times within the past few months and
I can’t forget what I have seen. Wo
men and girls, many of them bare
footed, were toiling in the fields as
I rode by. Houses needed painting,
barns were dilapidated and nowhere
was there any evidence of the prosper
ity this representative in the legisla
ture sung of in his talk to the Atlan
ta newspaper man. That is one of the
things the matter with us. We have
been deluding ourselves about this
Empire State stuff, and this being the
best place in the world te live! What
we need to understand is that we are
lagging behind, but that by the right
kind of effort we can lead the south
in development.”
Mr. Betts said that agricultural re
naissance in Georgia nmust be brought
about by Georgians. The state will
await in vain for a savior to come
from without, he insisted. l.abor is
leaving the state, but it is not neces
sasy to hire labor to do that which is
needed in Georgia. Mr. Betts con
tended. The work must be done by
the man on the farm, he said. It is not
plantations and many plows that are
needed, but it is pastures and grain,
live stock amd poultry, he said. These
can he looked after without much la
bor, he pointed out.
801 l Weevil Didn’t Do It.
“Ft was not the boll weevil that
made cotton an unprofitable crop,”
Mr. Betts asserted. “We had made
cotton with .free labor for more than
fifty years before the boll weevil in
vaded Georgia, and were growing
poorer every year. The cattle were de
teriorating each year. The hogs were
becoming razor backs. The chickens
were becoming scrubs. The lands were
being wasted and worn into non-pro
ductiveness. Only our pside, our ego
tism, our conceit and our false claims
remained one hundred per cent.”
Mr. Betts declared that a similar
situation existed in Wisconsin, which
was the victim of the same system—
the one crop system—wheat having
the right of way there where cotton
had it here. Dairying and live stock
production saved Wisconsin and their
success can be duplicated in Georgia,
according to Mr. Betts. This, he
pointed out, has aiready been estab
lished in a few localities in the state
and it can be done anywhere in Geor
gia, he declared.
DECISION OF THE RESERVE
BOARD’S ADVISORY COUN
CIL. BUSINESS IS GOOD.
Federal reserve rediscount rates will
be maintained at their uniform level
oi 414 per cent for the present be
cause oi satisfactory business condi
tions throughout the country, it was
announced at the conclusion of the
meeting of the board’s advisory coun
cil.
Members of the council as well as
the reserve board maintained strict
secrecy regarding the council's discus
sion and, aside from the announce
ment relative to rediscount rates,
nothing official was forthcoming. It
was known, however, the two days’
discussion had included every phase
oi the economic conditions obtaning
throughout the country, together with
the question of extending federal s
serve banking activities into forSIES
tands and the proposition of aDGIENS
ing the present list of services SEs
formed free by the reserve DS
—_—
I.EGALIZING GAMBLI ;
PAYS FRA} {
Tegalized garsßime=s
French governments
francs in taxes dufim
according
K
made public
used for a ground connection for the
radio receiving and transmitting sta
tion which is being installed.
Whether communication through
the north will be possible will be de
termined as the MacMillan party is
going far beyond the lights to winter
either at Cape Sabin, if ice conditions
permit, or at Dones sound. The for
mer is about eleven degrees from the
North Pole, :
The table which the National Geo
graphic Society trustees have author
ized Capt. MacMillan to erect in
Greeley expedition of 1884 will be
placed on the rock cliff facing Camp
Clay, Cape Sabine, where eighteen
men of the expedition died of starva
tion and exposure,
A SURVEY IN 23 COUNTIES
SHOWS AVERAGE IN STATE
IS ONLY $271 A YEAR.
The income of the average Georgia
farm, based on thorough investiga
tions in twenty-three counties of the
state, is only $271 a year under pres
ent conditions and present farming
methods. This fact has been revealed
by a report made public by H.
S. Mobley, southern representative of
the extension department of the In
ternational Harvester Company.
The report is based on Mr. Mob
lev's personai investigations, and not
only upon the income of the average
farm last year, but on an estimate of
the income that will be made this
vear as the result of a careful survey
of present conditions. The income of
the farm includes the income of the
entire family on the farm.
Figures Given.
The income from the average farm
is as follows: $l6O from cotton; $45
from one and one-half cows, the aver
age for each farm; $l3 from 21 hens;
$4O from three and one-half hogs, the
average number on each farm; and
$l3 from unclassified sources. In mak
ing his report Mr. Mobley pointed
out that six cows would produce an
income as large as that now produced
by cotton, and that the income from
every farm would be greatly increased
by growing less cotton and raising
'more hogs, hens and cows.
’ He pointed out that in a little Ken
tucky town, Buffalo, where he had
once worked, prosperity was restored
to that section, when the land would
not longer grow the tobacco it once
would, by increased dairying. He de
clared that the Georgia Association,
“an organization of business men in
co-operation with county agents and
farmers, had revolutionized Turner
county and restored it to prosperity
by the hog, hen and cow program.”
1,804,187,631 IS THE
’
WORLD’S POPULATION
FIGURES COMPILED AT BER
LIN GIVES INTERESTING
FACTS. N. Y. LARGEST.
BERLlN.—Scattered over the face
of the earth is a total population of
1,804,187,631, only 7 per cent of which
is in cities of more than 100,000 in
habitants, according to statistics com
piled here and based largely on 1922
census reports. Only thirty of the
séventy nations listed have cities of
or above 100,000 class, which is the
lowest counted within the classifica
tion of “large cities.” ‘
Approximately 40,000,000 of the
globe’s inhabitants live in the eighteen
centers having a million residents or
more each. About 90,000,000 live fu
the smaller large cities, of which there
are only 393 in the whole world. The
average large city is said to number
some 320,000 souls. From these fig
ures, it is stated, every forty-fiith hu
man resides in cities housing millions,
while every fourteenth finds his home
in a large city of some sort.
New York is given as the largest
city in the world, with a population
of 5,620,048. London is second with
4,483,249, and Berlin third with 3,803,-
770.
Europe Leads Other Continents.
Europe leads the continents in
point of population. It has six cities
in the million class, London, Berlin,
Paris, Glasgow, Vienna and Moscow,
and 193 with more than 100,000 in
habitants. Of the European countries
England has 53 large cities, Germany
43, Italy 16, France 15 and Russia 15.
It is considered surprising that Asia
has more large cities than North
America. Six of the 92 Asiatic cities
house more than a million apiece.
These are Shanghai, Hankau, Calcut
ta, Bombay, Tokio and Osaka. British
India is credited with 30 large cities;
China has 20, so far as available rec
ords show. and Japan'’s number 19,
including three in her foreign posses-
SIO%IS.
North America follows Asia with
79 large cities. Four of these—New
\ ork, Chicago, Philadeiphia and Mex
ico City—are placed in_the million
the United | ; pith 68 large
zities, 1 .more than
. Twenty fities are located
Beazil having:
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VOL. 40.—N0. 40
THE INDICATIONS ARE ACRE
AGE WILL BE LARGELY IN
CREASED NEXT FALL.
Soil and Climate Specially Adapted to
Growing Perfect Berries, Which
Are Ready for Market in Advance
Of Crop in Otker States.
Terrell county farmers are more
and more stressing the importance of
diversification of crops in their deter
mination to get on their feet again
financially and bring back the old
time prosperity to this section of such
wonderful possibilities,
Conditions which forced the plant
ers to abandon the idea of all cotton
have been a ‘blessing in disguise,”
turning their minds to the growing
of other money crops. In this transi
tion period the coming of people from
the strawberry section of Kentucky,
where the business long ago pass
ed the experimental stage and became
a profitable industry, to locate in Ter
rell county and awaken interest in the
growing of strawberries in this sec
tion for market has proven a boon
to those who dared to venture into a
new field of industry. Mr. J. E. Cush
enberry has heen the nioving spirit in
inducing a number of Terrell county’s
leading farmers to make a beginning
in strawberry culture, Mr. Cushenber
ry has shown a spirit of real helpful
ness in giving to those interested the
benefit of experience gained from sev
eral years devoted to the growing of
strawberries in Kentucky. He is frank
to say that this section offers advant
ages far superior to those of his na
tive state. The fruit from ‘Terrell
county can be put on the market two
months in-advance of that grown in
Kentucky, and Mr. Cushenberry is of
the opinion that it is of superior qual
ity and flavor. The Terrell county
farmers who followed the lead of Mr.
Cushenberry in devoting a compara
tively small acreage to these berries as
a beginning have had their share of dis
couragements, but they pressed right
on and have had their reward in the
returns of the season just now on its
last lap.
Despite the fact that the first two
crops were killed by the cold the yield
in every part of the county has been
highly satisfactory, the demand for
the berries in the local market and in
other towns has been heavy and the
prices have kept up well through the
entire season of several weeks. Pickers
have been plentiful, so there has
been no waste ir the fields, and the
quality of the {fruit has been excel
lent.
Big Receipts Per Acre.
There are 40 acres in strawberries
in the vicinity of Dawson, and figures
tell the success of the local grow
ers. From three acres Mr. D. A.
Smith has sold $l,OOO worth of ber
ries this season, while from four
acres belonging to Mr. B, M. David
son the receipts have been $l,lOO.
Messrs. Wyatt Bridges, J. E. Cush
enberry, E. E. Cocke and W. D. Da
vidson have also had large returns
from strfawberries.
Pointing to what has already been
realized Mr. Cushenberry sees in the
growing of small berries for market
one of the coming industries operated
on a large scale. Possibilities for ex
tending the business in this section
are unlimited. A number have become
enough interested to enter the busi
ness, .and it is probable that thous
ands of additional plants will be put
out around Dawson in the fall.
The day when diversifying in Terrell
connty becomes an actuality in real
constructive action many of the prob
-10;1\ of rural life will have been solv
ed.
The proportions to which the
strawberry business has grown in
Kentucky is indicated in this adver
tisement clipped from a recent issue
of the Franklin (Ky.) Favorite:
“The Warren County Strawberry
Growers’ Association, oi Bowling
Green, Ky., needs four or five thous
and pickers about May 20th. Ten
cents per gallon will be paid for pick
irg with a premium of three cents,
making thirteen cents. per gallon if
pickers stay till season is over. Good
pickers pick thirty and thirty-five
gallons a day.”
23,000 BARRELS OF WHALE
OIL IN NEW YORK PORT
Old Timers Say It's the First Whaler
To Dock There in Many Years.
NEW YORK, N. Y—Old salts
along the water {ront rubbed their
eves in incredulity and bhecame remi
niscent when the first whaler that has
visited this port in years, the Norwe
gian steamer Solstreif, slipped in
with 23,200 barrels of whale oil,
“Old timers said whalers had not
been seen here since the days when
whalers were sailboats instead of
steamers and the ggew went out in
small boats to. Pt their quarry
by hand. . e