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WATCH WHITE BUGGY” W HEN n«it to runnin WHIT Id the •nj WHITE 1X10K FOH OUR PRIVATE "A-URADE" MARK ATLANTA BUGGY COMPANY, - . Atlanta, Georgia ECHOES OF THE TIMES By Percy Wiggle. INSTRUCTIVE LETTER OF STATE CHEMIST. LETTER NO. 10. Violent Reaction In the Mixer, Nature of Acid Phosphate. We will now go back to the mixture i which we left in the iron mixer ami j I study it a little further. As we saw the chemical energy of the action of the tulphuric acid upon the phosphate meal was prodigious, stcum and hot j stilling gases are expelled from the | mixture, und Anally the seml-Ilquld muss is dumped Into an Iron car, run ' out upon a track, built fur above a deep den or pit, the car Is tilted amt the mass precipitated to the bottom of the pit; this operation Is repeated many times, until the den or pit con tains hundreds of tons of add phos- 1 phate. The mass lying In the pit! gradually becomes drier and drier, owing to the escape of steiyn, and T ork ( ity tititl New Orleans. I his also to the absorption of som^uf the water In crystal form by the sulphate of lime or land-plaster which has been vice in operation between New In these days of expert detective service it is rare indeed that a man succeeds in getting out of reach of the “arm of the law;” but John I). Rockefeller, the head of the great trust known as the Standard Oil Company, seems to have succeeded in so doing. For several weeks past the presence of Mr. Rockefel ler has been desired in the Missouri Supreme court, to testify as to the methods of business of the Standard Oil Company; but the keenest research fails to reveal the w hereabouts of “Coaloil Johnny.” Mr. Rockefeller, by his donations to institutions of learning and to the churches, has long posed as u public benefactor, and now we have him in the new role of fugi tive from .justice! Verily, the way of the transgressor is hard. —o— Dear me, what a disposition some people seem to have to get in the limelight and stay There! Some weeks ago, when the death of Charles Yerkes laid bare the man ner of life the man had been liv ing, newspaper readers were dis posed to pity the woman who was his legal wife. Scarcely two weeks after tuc death of her husband, we were surprised by the intelli gence that Mrs. Yerkes had mar ried a man named Wilson Mizner. We have reasons to believe that this event was the outcome of “a gay old time”—in other words, a debauch, and the fact that Mrs. Yerkes Mizner at first denied the marriage seems to bear out this statement. Now one day we read that divorce proceedings are being instituted, and the next that the eouple is “happy ever after,” so we don’t know what to lielieve. Certain it is that the doings of the couple do not enhance our respect for what is commonly known as the “smart set.” would mean the biking out of ser vice of No. 5)7, the ]train of fast schedule and phenomenal runs which is familiar to the people of the towns on the West Point Route. The alleged reason for the discontinuance of the service is the desire of the (or some) Northern economists to decrease the deficit in the postofliee department at the expense of the mail service in the South. H it is most urgently de sired to decrease this deficit, it might be done by reforms in other directions. < )ne of the most flag rant abuses of the I'idled States mail service is the misuse of the government frank, a courtesy ex tended to the members of the Senate and of Congress. For per sonal correspondence, this free mail privilege is all right, but when the frank is used to “mail” such articles as book-cases, desks, couches, iron safes, and a multi tude of other things that should lie sent by freight or express, it is all wrong. In mail matter, the gen eral public is limited to articles weighing only four pounds, and why this limit is thus exceeded and articles transmitted at no cost to the sender or receiver is hard to understand. Here is a matter for postal reform that would decrease the detieit more than the discon tinuance of No. 5)7. Another “reform” perpetrated in Congress has been |the Jcutting out of the appropriation fur the distribution of free seed. This is another blow at the South, for here has the greatest good been derived from the practice. How ever, this “reform” entails a sav ing of about a quarter of a million of dollars annually, and this will give Uncle Sam more money to pay for the privilege of transporting freight by mail. Poll of Business Men of Newnan. Mr. Franc Campbell, local rep- •sentative of the Atlanta Journal, ! polled the business men of New- In the popular mind, the aver age conception of the Chinaman is. , ,. - ^ * ... i resentative oi the Atlanta Journal, an individual who has no higher 4l , . n 4 . xr ’ ambition than to wash the dirty' linen of a superior Caucasian race. We read in the newspapers of j Boxer troubles, and without a nan last Saturday in reference to their preferences for guliernutorial candidates. A poll of 290 voters resulted as follows: 118 lor Hoke Smith; 00 for Dr. G. A. Nuunally; 27 for Clark Howell; 3 for Estill; 1 for Jim Smith; 1 for R. B. Russell; 74 non poll: knowledge of the history of the Chinese Empire, we cannot realize the significance of an event which on its surface appears to be of such little moment. It would take more than twenty-four columns of space in this paper to tell the real meaning of the Boxer uprisings, lint summed up in a nutshell they are but symptoms of an intense patriotism which is awakening in the heart of the Celestial, and . which will one day break forth in 1 Ut Ut U1 ® one of the bloodiest wars whose . . _ . ... , , ... . turing firms, lawyers, physicians records have seared the pages ofi__., ^ , I_ . human history. China feels, and , .. ,, justly, that she has been injured Sy *, ^ 1C y an at the hands of the “foreign devils,” and it needs only an . , , .. . . .. .. , , , counted, a number of expressions which awakening o‘ its lour hundred . * formed. This water which escapes as steam, , und which is absorbed as crystal water, came from the sulphuric add with which It was mixed. The sul phuric add used In the manufacture Is usually what Is known as (50) fifty ! add, or fifty degree Heautue add, and contains about Mfty-Ave per cent of real sulphuric add, the other forty- live per cent being water. After the semi-liquid mass has remained for a few days In the pile, It Is dry enough to he handled, and on digging Into it we And It to be of u porous honey combed strudiire, crumbling easily 1 between the lingers. If the add phos phate is allowed to remain for a still longer time, still more water dries out from It, und ll buconies hard and luntpy, and requires to be broken up In a disintegrating machine, before It can be manipulated or sacked. But no matter how dry It becomes, It readily dissolves when placed In water, the water at once acquiring an add taste. This udd taste Is due, not to the sulphuric ncld from which it was made, but to the mono-calcic phosphate, or acid phosphate, or su perphosphate of lime, which was pro duced by tho split) lug up of the phos phate rock by the sulphuric add. This phosphoric add Is called the soluble or water soluble phosphoric add, In a well-made superphosphate there Is no longer a particle of sulphuric add remaining as such. Its powerful caus tic and corrosive properties huve been absolutely killed or neutralized by the Mine of the phosphate rock . A won derful transformation has boon ef fected. We started with powdered phosphute rock und dilute sulphuric add; In the material which we have produced from them there Is neither phosphate rock nor sulphuric add, but we have a mixture of a little free phosphoric add, of mono-calcic phos phate, of sulphate of lime or land- plaster, a little water and a little Hand, and a few other Impurities, such as were found In the phosphate rock to begin with. The phosphoric add, the mono- calcic phosphate, and the sulphate of lime are now harmless, soluble In the soil waters, and ready for appropria tion us food by tho rootlets of the plant. What Insoluble Phosphoric Acid Is. In practice tho composition of the material will vary somewhat from what I have Just described; for in stance there will usually be present a small percentage of what Is known as "Insoluble phosphoric add." Tills expression refers to a little phosphate lock which escaped the action of the sulphuric acid, because it 1b safer to use a little less sulphuric acid than is required for all the phosphate rock, than to run the risk of getting too much of this caustic and corrosive liquid, and thus spoil the mixture. 'Thus, If on studying the analysis of an acid phosphate or other fertilizer, you see that It contains one per cent I of “Insoluble phosphoric acid,” thut means to Bay that the fertilizer con tains two and eighteen hundredths per and found to contain only twelve per ceut of water-soluble phosphoric add, having lost two per cent of the phos phoric add soluble in water. On ex amination It u found that this two per cent has reverted or changed from a condition soluble In pure cold water to a condition In which It will not dissolve in water, but will dls solve in a solution made to Imitate the water of the soil. It ta, therefore, regarded as being avnllahle for the use and growth of the plant. What Available Phosphoric Acid Is. When, therefore, you see In our analysis of a commercial fertilizer tho expression “available phosphoric add" used, you may know thut It means the percentages of water-soluble phos phoric add and reverted phosphoric udd added together, and their sum Is caned the "available phosphoric add.' Usually the percentage of reverted phosphoric add la an add phosphate Is small, ranging generally from one to three per cent. I have now de scribed to you la a brief way the prln dpal materials which enter Into the manufacture of commercial fertilizers JOHN M. McOANDLESS, State Chemist. THERE IS MORE IN THE MAN THAN IN THE LAND. Sidney l.unter, our great Georgia pool, tolls a pleasing and instructlvi story of a man, who was always grumbling about Ills land, and wuii, after selling it and going West, found upon his return that another hud taken that same land and made ll a thing of beauty with lis crops ol lleocy cotton and waving corn. It is not ilie grumbler and (lie lag garil who wins III the ImtMe of life bill the diligent and progressive man who provuH himself a hero in the strife end who has the puilence "to lulior and to wall," knowing Hint to persevering and Intelligent toil lluul victory Is sure. Many a man who siaris with no experience, Imi goes to work to cure fully learn from the experience of others, making a diligent study of the conditions that surround him and ad Justing himself to those condlllens, milking use of scientific principles and business methods, will attain a suc cess which will pul to tho blush the mail who bus farmed all Ills life with out learning anything new or Improv ing In any way the condition of his Aelds exhausted by the old methods of farming iliui would produce good results on virgin soil, Imt fall of de sired results on iliut already worn out by old time methods and untiqiiuted farm Implements. Every business must be kept abreusl with the times, and thut of the farmer is no exception to this rule.—Georgia Department of AgrI culture. RAISE BEEF7hOGS, SHEEP AND POULTRY. committal. Mr. Campbell made to bis paper cent of pure phosphate rock that the the following explanation of this sulphuric acid never touched, because the manufacturer didn't put enough ! sulphuric acid In the mixture to eat “In order that this poll should , U p tips two per cent of phosphate lie correct and no voter counted rock, and convert It Into superphos- more than once, each of 8(i firms, P hate and land-plaster, merchants and their Our farmers, If they desire thut In dependence which 1h their birthright must raise not only their own corn wheat, oats, grasses for buy, fruits and vegetables, but also their cattle, hogs, sheep und poultry for home con sumption. Not only do good pastures securo good meat supplies, but the rasing of such unlnials as urc good for meat enriches lund and prepares It for the production of crops of every kind. Many of our city people are weary of cold storage meals, which urc some- times Impregnated with a taste that spoils the Juiciest beef, pork or mut ton. If fresh home-rulsed meats of the very finest quality could ho sup plied In suAlclent quantities to war rant some enterprising green grocer In putting them upon the market, they would soon lake the pluce of the west ern cold storage meats, which under present conditions ure the best that we can get. Oh for the Increase of good Htock farmers In Georgia with the resultant supply of fresh meats free from the objectionable taste that sometimes un avoidably mars the very best cold storage meats!—Georgia Department of Agriculture. BEGIN THE NEW YEAR RIGHT. clerks, the members of manufac turing firms, lawyers, physicians and city and county oilicials, were systerr polled thoroughly This insoluble phosphoric acid, how ever, Is not lost, because, while It ts not soluble so that the plant may take It up at once, It still remains In the soli and doubtless becomes acted on In course of time by the soil waters, and eventually appropriated plant-food. There Is also an- “Not a single floating voter was otehr constituent of an acid phosphate I did not mention during the being respectfully declined from flr8t description of the process of man millions oi population to bring .... ufacture, so as to avoid confusing you about the consummation hinted at. aien " ° " tre ln * ewnan 01 e by crowding too many names and That war between the United- ay ° n . ly - , vr facts t0 * eth ® r - an ' 1 that 18 that ,n , . “It IS strictly a Newnan vote,: most acid phosphates there are pres- ‘ tates and hma is possi ile must re p re8en tf n g opinions of men ent small percentages of what is be admitted even by the most con- established in business.” known as "reverted phosphoric acid.” servative, and the only hope is, i __What Reverted Phosphoric Acid Is. that trouble may lie averted. One Reverted phosphoric acid Is that who understands the situation Warning! phosphoric acid which has reverted or must admit that China is more ■' >■ gone back from a condition soluble sinned against than sinning. All parties are hereby warned ln water to one which Is insoluble In —o— against hiring or harboring Legg water - For ,nHtance . an acid phos- .... r , ... phate may be analyzed shortly after An item appeared in the news- Pye, a white man of middle age, as maKlng and found to contaln Bay four . papers the other day to the effect the said Pye is under contract with teen per cent of water-soluble phos- that there is talk in official circles me for the year 1908. 1 phorlc acid; after standing for a of discontinuing the fast mail ser-j 2t I. T. Mattox, i month 11 mi 8ht be analyzed again To all our farmers we would say. If you have not already done so, begin at once the raising of all needed home supplies. See Arst. of all that you make at home what you will put upon your table or furnish to your stock. When you have secured tills result, after thorough preparation and fer tilization put surplus lund Into cotton, endeavoring by the use of the best modern Implements and the most Im proved methods of cultivation to In crease the productiveness of your land. With all the money kept at home that used to go for the purchase of western (lour, corn and meat, what ever price your cotton may bring, Its sale will be that much money for your pocket or for your bank deposit. Stand true to the business methods that brought you prosperity last year, and the new ye»r will Increase that prosperity. That all our farmers may stand to gether for good business methods and that the year 1900 may be to them one of great prosperity and happiness is the wish of the Georgia Department of Agriculture. SPRING OPEN ING SALE Our great big opening sale of Spring and Summer Merchandise will beirin on SATURDAY, MAR. 17 •Inst koop the sale and the date in view and eome to this store at that time. NEW YORK BAR GAIN STORE NEWNAN, GA. tryi Aetna Life Insurance Co. There nre ninny kimis of life insurance companies. Some are eheap, both in fact anti in the protection they afford. The very best protection is a policy in the Act- n<i Life! Insurance Company. Its policy holders are never ashamed to acknowledge their connection with the Company Rich and poor find it the best kind of an investment. Here is what a prominent Atlantan says about his connection with the Company: Atlanta, Ga., June 9th, 1905. Mr. W. E. Hawkins, Manager, .Etna bile Insurance Co., Atlanta, Ga. I >ear Hir:— AIhmiL three years ago, after careful investigation of the plans of several companies, I insured for #10,000 with the /Etna Life insurance Company. I was induced to take this de cision largely from my personal acquaintance with the officers of the Gompuuy, who are known to me to be men of the highest business integrity, as has been fully displayed in their conserv ative management for the last quarter of a century. Yours very truly, FRANK HAWKINS. See F. M. Bryant, District Manager Aetna Life Insur ance Company, for this kind of insurance. Dodson Mrs. Sarah Sewell,who has been visit- ! mg relatives in Atlanta and Villa Rica, lias returned home. K. L, Dukes and family visited at T. j A. Sewell's last Saturday night und ; Sunday. Allen Palmer is slowly improving. Miss Mary Carter returned home last ! week from a visit near Sand Hill. Mrs. J. P. Keesejspeut Bundny with Mrs. J. K. Thurmond. Miss Alioe Hyde is spending several days with Mrs. J. W. Dukes, near Hap- | py Valley. Remember the farmers meeting at Macedonia school house next Huturday afternoon. The many friends of Mrs.J. M. Boone, of below Sargent, who has been ill for several weeks, will be glad to learn that she is some better. Do You Sufferfrom Kidney Trouble? We guarantee one bottle of Smith's Sure Kidney (Jure to boneAt or cure, or your druggist will refund your money. Price 50 cents at Holt & Oates'. Warning! All persons are warned not to hire Lewis Watkins, a negro who is under contract to work for me this year. W. H. Meriwether, 21 Newnan, Ga., Route No. J. The Only Guaranteed Kidney Cure is Smith’s Sure Kidney Cure. Your druggist will refund your money if af ter taking one bottle^you are not satis- Aed with insults. 50 cents at Holt & Cates'.