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THE NORTH GEORGIA! 1 : (SUCCESSOR TO THE NORTH GEORGIA BAPTIST.) Entered at the postofflcn at Cum wing, Ga., as 6econd class matter. •■ ii - ——■ — . 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.