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THE NORTH GEORGIA! 1 :
(SUCCESSOR TO THE NORTH
GEORGIA BAPTIST.)
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wing, Ga., as 6econd class matter.
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Our real friends gently tell us of
our faults- and then, muses the Com
moner, we no longer consider them
our friends.
It seems a shame, to the New York
American, to arrest a man inventive
enough to can chop suey—and per
suasive enough to sell It.
The Poatofflce Department proposes
to economize In the use of twine.
Economy in the use of red tape, sug
gests tho New York Herald, might be
a good thing In all the government
departments.
Uy the "composition of forces” sev
eral persons striving earnestly for
that which they think Is right and
best, declares the Christian Register,
will strike out a course different from
that which any one of them could
foresee or propose.
Says the Detroit Free Press: The
nation Is coming to see that the loss
of life Is not unavoidable. Almost all
our Industrial accidents are preventa
ble In some measure, and these mine
disasters would most readily of a.'l
yield to proper measures of foresight,
according to tho opinion of those who
have given close study to the subject.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward at a women’s
luncheon In New York City said of
the literary style of a popular nove
list: “It is an Insane style. It makes
mo think of the school girl novelist
who wrote: 'He sprang ardently for
ward, but a look of soft entreaty
from one of Pearl's eyes and a glance
of warning darted from the other in
the direction of her aunt forced him
regretfully back into his chair.’ ”
A St. Louis woman recently suc
cumbed to thf? attractions of Mr.
O’Grady, the “human ostrich” in a
dime museum, mentions the Argonant.
She is said to have fallen in love with
him while he was eating tacks at one
of his exhibitions. "I thought I would
like to cook for a man like that,” con
fessed the blushing bride. ‘‘He can’t
be fugay about his meals." So the hap
py lovers were united by a justice of
the peace.
Canada, notes the Boston Globe, is
going to begin the construction of a
railway to Hudson Bay next spring,
with a terminus either at Churchill or
Nelson. It is calculated that the route
will be available four months in the
year, and that a great portion of the
Western Canadian wheat crop can be
hauled out each year at a saving of
live cents a bushel in freight. Will it
ever be possible to go to the North
Pole by rail?
Next to our rejection of Santa
Claus, apprehends the Philadelphia
Press, the worst thing that the sophis
tication of time does for us is to de
stroy our interest in the other best
dates in the calendar. If some of us
strove to keep that interest alive we
might know life better and live long
er. One of these days is iSt. Valen
tine's. There was a time in the life of
most men and women of middle age
today when the approach of Febru
ary 14 meant a thrill. It was a day of
sentiment and humor. To the very
young it was an occasion for the ex
hibition of irresponsible and frequent
ly cruel play in the dispatch of the
“comic" —and mostly coarse—valen
tine. Old maids and bachelors and
other grownups of well known weak
nesses and tender sensibilities suf
fered most, but even these could afford
to forgive and ignore the thoughtless
effrontery of children. The other and
elaborate valentines, however, if sent
anonymously, bore a mysterious, even
celestial, message. There are many
thousands of women still living today
who have some of these lacy colorful
creations preserved in lavender. And
why not? There is all too little of the
tender and innocent expression of a
distant and respectful regard for wom
en to be noted among men Just now.
and altogether too much of a bolder
and degrading admiration.
LESSONS FROM THE COTTON CROP OF 1909
Bureau o i Plant Industry Issues
Important Bulletin.
PLAN TO FIGHT BOLL WfflfiL
Government Agricultural Department Has Ap
proved Method For Growing Cotton Under
Bell Weevil Infestation.
Washington, D. C. —The season of
1909, while one of the worst we have
ever known for the cotton crop in, all
but tiie Atlantic states, taught some
valuable lessons.
First —it demonstrated that a crop
of cotton, under heavy boll weevil in
festation, could be made after July
1, provided tho farmers pick up the
punctured squares and work the field
intensively. In fact, there were vesy
few bolls on the cotton plants in Lou
iana and Southwest Mississippi on
July 1, 1909. The weather then be
came dry and warm, and such as fol
lowed the instructions of the govern
ment demonstration work made a fair
crop of cotton, both on the al
luvial bottoms and on the hill lands
and the planters who failed to fol
low such instructions made very lit
tle. Louisiana has always had years
of a short cotton crop, due to adverse
weather conditions. The crop of 1905,
though practically unaffected by the
weevil, was oniy 511,7158 hales, whicti
is less than half the product of 1904.
Owing to loss of labor and fear of the
boll weevil, about 30 per cent
than normal acreage was planted to
cotton in 1909, and when practically
no cotton was made up to July Ist,
such was the alarm that a large area
of cotton was plowed up and planted
to other crops. The amount plowed
up or abandoned is estimated by good
judges at 40 per cent. But allow that
it was 20 per cent, deducting from
the probable crop in such a season,
to-wit: 511,738 bales, the 30 per cent
not planted and 20 per cent plowed up
or abandoned, and the crop of Louis
iana, without allowing anything for
weevil damage, should have been
about 286,574 bales. As far as caa
be ascertained the crop was about
270,000 bales. This clearly proves
that the fright is more damaging than
the weevil.
The second item emphasized by the
experience of 1909 is the importance
of picking up and burning the punc
tured squares. There never had been
any question but picking up the
squares in the fore part of the sea
son would check the weevils, but it
was proven in 1909 that it was effect
ive after the field was fully infested
if rapid cultivation was continued.
The third item of value demonstrat
ed by the season of 1909 is the im
portance of having the land well
drained so the crop can be worked
as soon as the rain ceases. Under
boll weevil conditions the heavy black
lands and the poorly drained fields
should be devoted to other crops, be
cause intensive working of the crop
is a necessity. There must be no
weeds and no grass in the crop.
Fourth —The past season has added
its conclusive testimony in favor of
the plan for making cotton under boll
weevil infestation, which plan, ap
proved by the United States depart
ment of agriculture, is as follows:
1. Destruction of the weevils in the
fall by burning all rubbish and ma
terial in and about the field which
might serve for hibernating quarters
of the weevils, and breaking (plow
ing) the soil as deep, as conditions
will allow.
2. The shallow winter cultivation of
the soil if no cover crop is used.
3. Delaying the planting till the soil
and temperature are warm enough to
make it safe.
4. The planting of early maturing
varieties of cotton.
5. The use of fertilizers.
6. Leaving more space between the
row's, and on ordinary uplands having
a greater distance between plants in
the row than is usually allowed.
7. The use of the section harrow
before and after planting and on the
young cotton.
8. Intensive shallow' cultivation.
9. Agitation of the stalks by means
of brush attached to the cultivator.
10. Picking up and burning the
squares that fall under weevil condi
tions, especially during the first 30 or
40 days of infestation.
11. Controlling the growth of the
plant if excessively by deep and close
cultivation while the plant is young.
12. Selecting the seed.
13. The rotation of crops and the
use of legumes.
It will be noted that the system, as
outlined, has a two-fold object: (1) To
reduce the number of weevils and (2)
to aid early maturity. The foregoing
methods may require modification to
suit the soil and climate. Where there
Cannon Gets Automobile.
Washir.tgon, D. C.—Careful analy
sis of the conference report on the
legislative appropriation bill show's
that Speaker Cannon’s automobile
will be cared for at government ex
pense, after all. The $2,500 appropri
ation for ttie speakers’ car was trans
ferred to another paragraph covering
expenses of select committees and
similar items, and was incorporated
into a lump appropriation of $75,000.
Send Cane to Patten.
Montgomery, Ala.—in appreciation
of the part taken by him in revival
of cotton prices, a cotton factor of
this city purchased a cane and sent
it to Janies A. Patten, care the New
York Cotton Exchange.
Is too much food and a surplus of
moisture available for cotton in any
soil, common sense dictates that these
conditions should not be increased by
deep fal breakings. We, therefore, ad
vise toe following plan under boll
weevil conditions on such lands:
liurn all the cotton tsaiks, and af
ter the weevils have gone into win
ter quarters bdrn all the rubbish in
and about the field as early in the
fall as possible, in the spring, bed on
the firm ground, giving more space be
tween the rows. Prepare a'good seed
bed before planting and maintain
ridge cultivation throuhg the season.
The under weevil conditions there is
an excess of plant growth.
Fifth—The lands must be well
drained and no larger area planted
than can be intensively worked.
Sixth—All the supplies of food and
forage must be raised at home, and
can be on the lands not planted to
cotton.
Seventh—lt is practically safe to
make advances in boll weevil territo
ry if the farmer follows government
instructions.
Eighth—There should be a rigid
system of inspection to see that tne
government plan is followed.
The great droutn and the intense
heat in July and August last year
throughout Texas and Oklahoma, ac
centuated the importance of deeper
tillage and more thorough prepara
tion of the soil.
I ask every agent of the farmers
co-operative demonstration work and
every farmer in the southern states
to his best to make a banner crop of
all farm staples in 1910. From the
Bureau of Plant Industry, by S. A.
Knapp, Special Agent in Charge.
FAMOUS MEDAL FOUND.
After Being Lost 50 Years Winfield
Scott Medal Found.
Cordele, Ga. A medal about the
size of a twernty-dollar gold piece was
found within the city limits of Cor
dele by a negro while walking along
the tracks of the Atlanta, Birmingham
and Atlantic Railroad. The medal
is a curiosity and its being found in
this city incites considerable interest.
How this curiosity found its. way to
this place is a mystery which will
probably never be disclosed.
The front of this medal bears a fac
simile of General Winfield Scott, and
engraved above the head of the fac
simile, in bold letters, were the words,
“Winfield Scott, U. S. A." On the oth
er side was a reproduction of a scene
from the battle of Lundy’s Lane. The
picture shows several men about the
wounded general as they bore him
from the field of battle. History has it
that General Scott was mortally
wounded at this battle, where he dis
played great bravery. It is believed
b'y man who have seen the medal that
it is one presented General Scott by
congress in 1814 for heroism exhibit
ed at this battle, which occurred in
July of the above year. When pol
ished up by a jeweler he remarked
that the medal perhaps had been lost
fifty years.
HATS WORRY RAILROADS.
Women’s Hats Are So Large Rail
roads Have Problem.
Washington, D. C. —Women's hats
have been growing larger and larger
every year. They have also been
growing lighter and lighter in weight.
So that now a woman’s hat weighs
less and takes up more room than ten
did years ago. A freight or an ex
press car will hold only a tenth of
the hats it once did and the carriers
raised the rates to make up the dif
ference.
That is the answer of the railroads
and express companies to the com
plaint of the Millinery Jobbers’ as
sociation, which was heard before the
Interstate Commerce commission. The
milliners say the rates are too high
and the carriers say the evolution of
the headgear simply made them put
on the increase.
TO CENSOR BATHERS.
Over Bathing Costumes “Cops” Will
Be Censors.
Chicago, lll—Police censorship of
bathing costumes was established in
Chicago, with the adoption of new
rules for swimming beaches. Chica
go’s wide, sandy beaches along the
shores of Lake Michigan are lined
within a short distance by residences.
The rules governing costumes, laid
down by Chief of Police Steward, fol
low:
"Extremely bizarre costumes must
not be worn.
“Women who wear costumes that
they do not care to get wet will have
to have them made of modest design,
or they will be ordered off the sands.
"Men who appear on the sands
merely to pose as athletes will be or
rehed away.
“Bloomers without skirts will not
be tolerated.
"A censor will stand at dressing
room doors to pass on all costumes.
TRAVELING A LA MAIL POUCH
Illinoisan Has Invention to Wheel Pas
senger from Trains.
Washington, D. C. Rapid transit,
as it perhaps had never been dream
ed of by any other man, has been
offered to the postoffice department
by an Kffington, 111., inventor. This
inventor had a scheme to run a rail
road train at the rate of 80 miles an
hour for 500 miles without stopping,
which, he claimed, would unload pas
sengers, mail and baggage meanwhile.
His device would whirl the most deli
cate passenger out of tae car and into
the station without lessening the speed
of the train or injuring the passenger.
It would do the same with mails, he
said. His Invention was declined.
GEORGIA NEWS NOTES.
With the receipt of $9,800 in fees
from fertilizer inspection which was
turned in by the agricultural depart
ment the state treasury now has on
hand a fund sufficient to make a pay
ment of SI,OOO to each of the eleven
district agricultural schools.
A “trust-buster ’ on a scale that
promises to grow with relerence to
the meat and butter question has
started active operations, with head
quarters at Waycross. A partnership
in which Judge J. T. Myers, J. B.
Lewis, W. N. Jones and others are
interested has been formed for the
purpose of raising cattle for beef anci
evtra fine cows for dairy products.
Five hundred acres of land a few
miles from the city is under fence as
a pasture. One hundred acres will
be devoted to the raising of stock
feed.
Believing that they have made a
rich discovery, C. P. Worty and A. J.
Larmon of the lower Tenth district
in Whitfield county, are having an an
alysis made of some kind of ore they
have discovered in abundance on
their property. The vein, which is an
unusually heavy one, begins on Wor
thy’s property and extends into the
property of Larmon. They are both
of the opinion that they have discov
ered a rich lead ore.
By an agreement reached in the
office of the prison commission Clarke
county will turn over to Tattnall coun
ty the twenty convicts which Clarke
worked last year, and which were the
property of Tattnall. The convicts
were worked by Clarke county last
year under a contract made with Tatt
nall, and, when Tattnall demanded
the convicts at the expiration of the
year, Clarke county claimed that the
contract was still in force and declin
ed to surrender them.
People coming in to Thomasville
from the Duncanville road, report
that in many places the woods are
afire and that it is spreading. On the
Florida end of the road large pines
have burned through at the base and
in falling have blocked the road.
Many large pines have caught and
are being burned and all of the
young growth being killed by the heat.
The fire is spreading over towards
the Miccosukie road and south to
ward Bradfordville. Unless it is
checked pretty soon, much of the tim
ber in that section will be injured as
well as the natural beauty destroyed.
Governor Joseph M. Brown takes
exceptions to the statement of a writ
er that he is not a humorist and to
proove that he is tells a joke on him
self about his “ugliness.”
The calendar of Bibb county supe
rior Gourt for the April term will
show ninety-three divorce cases to be
set for trial. This is probably the
largest list ever carried on a single
docket for any one term in the courts
of Macon.
William H. Mitchell of Thomas
county who is serving a sentence of
twelve months in the chaingang on
the charge of committing assault and
battery upon the person of Miss Lu
cile Linton in that county several
months ago, for the third time has
been denied a pardon by the prison
commission.
Specific, tax amounting to more
than s2B,ooo—for the first quarter of
1910 —has been received in the office
of the comptroller general. Of this
amount Bibb county sent in $10,224.
Muscogee county sent in S6OO near
beer tax. Counties reporting specific
tax were: Troup, $1,689; Thomas,
$1,890; Ware, $855; Baldwin, $749;
Calhoun , $400; Cherokee, $198;
Clarke, $2,350; Crisp, 481; DeKalb,
$174; Douglas, $189; Emmanuel, $220;
Grady, $369; Gwinnette, $612; Macon,
$567; Madison, $211; Meriwether,
$324- Newton, $886; Pulaski, $733;
Randolph, $189; Stephens, $189; Stew
art, $378; Tolbert, $229; Tift. $274;
Turner, *603; Upson, $1,373; Warren,
$175; Wilkes, $756; Jenkins, $364;
Bulloch, $283; McDuffie, $243; Butts,
SSBO.
Without consideration of expense,
the Metropolitan Opera Company will
carry its entire corps de ballet on
its visit to Atlanta, week of May 2d,
and this charming form of entertain
ment will be presented as incidental
to one or more of the operas that
will be given in the Georgia capital.
The corps includes several famous
premier dancers of both sexes.
The senate has confirmed the nom
ination of F. Carter Tate to be United
States district attorney, northern dis
trict of Georgia'
That near-beer inspector may be
appointed within the next two or
three days, according to Governor
Joseph M. Brown, and then things
will begin to happen if dealers are
caught doing business without a li
cense. Governor Brown said that it
was probable that some action would
be taken this week unless develop
ments proved that it was unnecessary.
He said he did not wish to take sum
mary action, but that possibly if ex
amples were made in some of the
counties it would tend to have a sal
utary effect on others.
There’s a mighty little money for
the state in the new tax on soft
drink makers and wholesalers, accord
ing to Comptroller General W. A.
Wright, who points to the tax returns
thus far and calls attention to the
sum total thereof— $196.05, paid, by
tthree concerns. “Judging from this,”
says the comptroller, “the whole ot
it, when it’s collected, won t make
the treasury bulge.” This is the new
occupation tax that was enacted at
the last session of the legislature on
all manufacturers and wholesalers of
soft drinks. The law requires a quar
terly payment by every manufacturer
and’ wholesaler, of one-fourth of 1
per cent of the’ gross amount of sales
in this state.
WORTH
MOUNTAINS
OF GOLD
During Change of Life,
says Mrs. Chas. Barclay
Granite ville, Vt. “I was passing
through the Change of Life and suffered
—— from nervousness
andother annoying
symptoms, and I
vlp'l can truly say that
U$ LydiaE.Pinkham’s
Ili> *9 Vegetable Com
jpf pound has proved
lii.il - - _ (fUll worth mountains
!||||. - > of gold to me, as it
i;’ restored my health
38®$.and strength. I
nevor forget to tell
(I my friends what
LydiaE.Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound has done for me
during this trying period. Complete
restoration to health means so much
to me that for the sake of other suffer
ing women I am willing to make my
trouble public so you may publish
this letter.” — Mrs. CiiA3. Barclay,
K. F.D., Granite ville, Vt.
No other medicine for woman’s ills
has received such wide-spread and un
qualified endorsement. No other med
icine we know of has such a record
of cures of female ills as has Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.
For more than 30 years it has been
curing female complaints such as
inflammation, ulceration, local weak
nesses, fibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, indigestion
and nervous prostration, and it is
unequalled for carrying women safely
through the period of change of life.
It costs but little to try Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, and,
asMrs.Barclaysays.it is “worth moun
tains of gold ” to suffering women.
Not the Same Joshua.
One day recently an old darkey
was brought in from the mountain
district of Alabama under suspicion
of maintaining an illicit still. There
was no real evidence against him.
“What’s your name, prisoner?”
asked the judge, as he peered at the
shambling negro.
“My name’s Joshua, jedge,” was
the reply.
“Joshua, eh?” said the judge, as he
rubbed his hands. “Joshua, you say?
' Are you the Same Joshua spoken of
in the Holy Writ—the Joshua who
made the sun stand still?”
“No, jedge,” was the hasty reply.
“Ah’m de Joshua dat made de moon
shine.” —Cosmopolitan Magazine.
Scientists at School.
The mother of the new pupil In
formed the teacher that Freddie was
a Christian Scientist.
“Is he?” said the teacher. "Well,
for goodness sake tell him not to let
the rest of the children find it out.
They will pummel the life out of him.
if they do. One of the hardest things
a teacher has to do at recess is to
protect an acknowledged Christian
Scientist from his playmates.. This
isn’t a religious war. The children
don’t mean to be fiendish, but they
are. Somehow they get it into their
heads that nothing can hurt a Sci
entist and they punch holes in him
to see if he can be made to howL"
—'New York Sun.
ABANDONED IT
For the Old Fashioned Coffee Was
Killing.
“I always drank coffee with the
rest of the family, for it seemed as
if there was nothing for breakfast
if we did not have it on the table.
“I had been troubled seme time
with my heart, which did not feel
right. This trouble grew worse
steadily.
“Sometimes it would beat fast and
at other times very slowly, so that
I would hardly be able to do work
for an hour or two after breakfast,
and if I walked up a hill, it gave
me a severe pain.
“I had no idea of what the
trouble was until a friend suggested
that perhaps it might be causel by
coffee drinking. I tried leaving off
the coffee and began drinking
Postum. The change came quickly.
I am now glad to say that I am en
tirely well of the heart trouble and
attribute the relief to leaving off
coffee and the use of Postum.
“A number of my friends have
abandoned the old fashioned coffee
and have taken up with Postum,
which they are using steadily. There
are some people that make Postum
very weak and tasteless, but if it is
boiled long enough, according to di
rections, it is a very delicious bev
erage. We have never used any of
the old fashioned coffee since Postum
was first started in our house.”
Read the little book, "The Road to
Wellville,” in pkgs. ’’There’s a Rea
son.”
Ever read the above lettr ? Anew
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
Interest.