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THE GAINESVILLE NEWS, WEDNESDAY JULY 16, 1902 Reported That He Will Be O s Vice President. INDUSTRIAL umciai urgap T he Savannah Morning News of ... .Saturday has the following inter- Gainesville, Ora., July 16, 1902. esting story of the promotion of 1 ■"■■■■-/• ~ Mr. W. A. Win burn, son of Judg Georgia Farm Operators. and Mrs. J. M. Winburn of this In the twenty years between the city: census enumerations of 1880 and Traffic Manager W. A. Winburn 1900 the number of farms in Geor- of the Central Railway will, it is gia increased 86,065, or 62.1 per understood, be made vice president cent. Meanwhile the farms/oper- in charge of traffic. This report a ted by owners increased only 18 was current yesterday, xt is sale per cent., the remainder of the in- that Mr. Winburn will be elected crease being taken up by tenant Monday, at the quarterly meethg farmers. There are more than ~°f the'directors. As the place is 90,000 farms now operated by their aT1 executive one, it is necessary owners, against a few more than t^ a t it be filled by election. 76,000 in 1880; nevertheless there The Central has not had a vice has been a steady decline in the president since the promotion of percentage of owner-operated President Egan: Mr^Eg-an came farms. In 18&0 the percentage of to the company is vice president owners who managed: their farms while the -late Hugh M. Comer lands was 55.1: in 1900 the per- was president. Upon Mr. Comer’s times are ever so hard. But I be* lieve I cau see a wav to effect quite a saving in another direction. Please stop my——’ ’ Tea, coffee and other unhealthy luxuries? No, no, no ; not these. I cannot think of such a sacrifice. I must think of something else. Ah l I have it now. Mv weekly paper costs me 2 cents a we£k, $1 a year; I must save that. Please stop, my—pa per. . That will carry me through easily. I believe in retrenchment and economy.-’—Exchange Mother Always Keeps It Handy. “Mv mother suffered a long- time from distressing pains and general ill health, due primarily^ to indigestion,’ says L. W. Spalding, /erana, Mo. Burpett 0 (j A TEST THAT TELLS The advancement of Mr. Win burn is t$ken to mean that there will be no traffic manager. As vice president he will be practic ally traffic manager, and will have able freight aud passenger officials under him, to exercise a genera:* supervision over that work. Mr. Winburn is a young man. who has demonstrated his ability as a traffic official. As genera freight agent of the Central he served it efficiently fora number of years, his work having been such as to mark him for promotion upon the resignation of Mr. Hin ton some months ago. Oil Engines for the West. '' • * Two monster oil locomotives, consigned to the Southern Pacific railway, at Los Angles, Cal.,*pass ed through the city yesterday af ternoon oyer the Seaboard and at tracted much attention. The lo- were monster affairs If we were not sure that our clothes were better than the erage ready-to-wear at the same price—do you suppose we w say—money back if we are not righP When We say better we mean not only better fabric, but i ter linings, better canvas, better padding, better half dozen 1 points that make up the life of the garments- And these the points that tell—’Cause most clothes look right at first: you can’t tell anything about them until they’ve been?:: awhile—Then comes the test—and one thing remember- 3 don’t care whether you test us on a $io.oo, $12.50, $15.00 or $25.00 St the result will be;—The best clothes on Barth for the money* 200 or More Killed. Johustown, Pa., July 10.— Johnstown has again been visiter by an appalling disaster. It is only less frightful than the awful calamity of }Iay 81, 1889, in cost of life, but in its terrible con sequences it has brought the shad ow of sorrow into hundreds of homes made desolate by a mine comotives with tremendous boilers and tanks for oil and water. They are tech nically known as vanclain com pound locomotives and are built by the Badwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia. They weigh about 110 tons, have a tank capacity of 6,000 gallons of water, 2,500 gal lons of oil, and cost $18,000. The fuel used is crude petroleum which is placed on the engine in a tank over the water tender. The oil is. forced into the fire box which blast furnace and is AND Acts Immediately. Colds are sometimes more trouble some in summer than in winter, its so hard to keep from adding to them while cooling off after Exercise. One- Minute Cough Cure cures at once. Ab colutelv safe. ^ Acts immediately. "Sure sure for coughs, colds: Croup, throat and lung troubles. Robertson & Law. Never were shown in such exclusive designs- to wear for the Young, Middle aged or old man. Wisdom in Farming. Col. J. B. Kill brew in Southern Farm Magazine of Baltimore for June says: . The farmers of the South have arrived at that stage iu their agri cultural progress when the system practised for more than 100 year.- of clearing new land aud turning out old must be abandoned and » more rational system adopted. To wear out land aud then abandon it is a barbarism—a practice, indeed, unfit to be tolerated by an enlight ened people. The earth butcherv of the past must be atoned for by is really converted into spray which is fired and creates tremendous heat. The fire box is lined with clay to pro tect it from the heat aud iu it an enormously high temperature can be gotten. The boiler is known as the Van derbnt type, and is made of steel and in it are 400 iron tubes, 19 feet long. Not a bolt or rivet ot Lincoln’s Hay Crop, v A story of Abraham f Lincoln would have to be older than the one below to lose its characteristic savor, says the Philadelphia Times. ’ ? ; In the summer of 1857 Mr. Lin coin was sitting 111 his office, when he was visited by. one of his neigh bors, an excellent farmer, but one inclined to increase toe size of bis crops even after harvesting. He had given, on this particular mor ning, a skillfully padded account of the hay he had put in. “I’ve been cutting hay, too” re marked Mr. Lincoln. “Why, Abe, are you farming?” “Yes.” “What you raise?’ ’ “Just hay.” “Good crop this year?” “Excellent.” “How many tons?” “Well, I don’t know ju9t how many tons, Simpson, but my men stacked all they could outdoors, and then stored the rest in the barn. - Long distance Phone 2845 Mail orders have prompt attention An English ed tor having ted that tour King* is a s>i to open 9 jack pot on, th« ington P st is led to r*-?na the game is evidently j n leg cy in Great Britain Th^ Po iave feeeling recollection aces or a straight flush.—A Ch ronicle A Detroit familv, the ^hich is still alivp, oonsj 4 *! ixteen brothers aud eiste*^ j ldHst75and the v.oiu»g ,,st j '’herM ha's never been a l J the children. Ch ronicle. I HfUOl Iff Editor Sid Lewisnaafc 08 ^ gestion that Governor ommend to the legislature • irst message, the enactnaeci Australian ballot system ^ gia This is a good suggest 10 ^’ one The Banner hops= ^ Terrell will act on.—Athens Four hundred columns of the Congressional Record are devoted to Isthmiau canal speeches. Of this number-,•. Senator Morgan talked 172 columns. II