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SOW SMALL GRAIN
That is the Advice Given By the Pres
ident of the Fanners’ Union,
President Charles S. Barrett, of the
National Farmers’ Union says:
To the Officers and Members of the
Farmers’ Union:
The farmers who take advantage of
the present season to sow down his
acres in wheat, oats and other small
grains will be in top-notch position
with the coming of the spring. I ad
vise that you plant lavishly ot these
crops. You can be sure not only of
a heavy financial return, but as well
of a great saving in your own bills
for the coming season.
The southern farmer, if he would
reach the pinnacle of prosperity to
which he is entitled by the natural
richness and variety of his soil, must
realize that farming is a business to
be prosecuted scientifically, his crops
fertilized with brains, his methods
tempered with knowledge of present
conditions, and accurate forecast of
future conditions.
Stores, Conn., Nov. 2—With a great
cackling and flapping of wings, the
500 hens entered in the International
Egg Laying Contest started yesterday
on the long race, which will continue
one year. There are 100 teams of
five bens each, each team housed by
itself in a separate pen. One sub
stitute is held in reserve for each pen.
The competition is staged at the
experiment station of the Connectwcrt
Agricultural college, where a hundred
small frame houses have been erected
to house the competing hens during
their year of egg-laying trial. Armed
guards and savage dogs will guard the
pens day and night, as the hens are
the pick of the world and immensely
valuable. The entries are from all
parts of the United States. Canada.
Cuba, Mexico, Japan, South America
and Europe.
While most of the hens have set
cheerfully about their task of laying
as many eggs as possible during the
year there was evident today among
the occupants of some of the pens a
spirit of sadness and gloom which
argues ill for their egg-producing
ability. The guards explained that
the melancholy was probably due to
the fact that the competitors bad to
leave their husbands at home, as no
cocks are permitted about the prem
ises. It was brutally explained, how
ever, that most of the hens had al
ready forgotten their lords and mas
ters and it was predicted that those
still faithful would become resigned
in a few days.
The first egg that was dropped in
the trap nest at the inaugural of the
competition today was followed by an
exultant cackle that will be heard
round the world, and from now on
poultrymen in every country will ea
gerly watch the scores of the different
breeds in the race.
The effects of the contest are ex
pected to be far-reaching, in that it
will definitely decide which varieties
of hens are the most fruitful producers
of eggs. It has been figured that if
the knowledge obtaine dthrough this
competition results in an average in
crease of one egg per ben per year in
the United States alone, there will be
nearly .400,000,000 more eggs per an
num in the nation’s egg basket.
Arangements have been made to j
give out scores of the different pens
every week, and these records will be
followed by the poultrymen with as
much enthusiasm and excitement as
the baseball fan manifests in the
i
standing of the clubs in his favorite :
league.
At the end of the contest, one year
from today, the committee in charge
will begin the compilation of exhaus
tive bulletins covering every phase
of the competition. The information
contained in these reports, it is ex
pected, will be worth millions of dol
lars to the poultrymen of the nations.
The new big iron tower for the fire
alarm system has been erected in the
rear of the new fire hall Perrtz.
street. The bell house will be put
on it as soon as possible.
A large proportion of the family
cows kept in town are extra good pro
ducers and one can often pick up good
heifer calves from their owners at
reasonable prices.
FARMERS MUST HOLD COTTON
This is the Concensus of Opinion Ar
rived at By the Governor’s Meet
ing.
New Orleans, Nov. 2—The farmers
of the south must withhold from the
market every remaining bale of the
present season’s crop of cotton and
follow this with a concerted and bind
ing agreement to reduce next season’s
cotton acreage at least 25 per cent
if the hope to restore the south’s great
money staple to a normal price level
and retrieve losses sustained by rea
son of the present low prices.
This is the plan which the confer
ence of southern governors adopted
at its concluding session Tuesday to
secure immediate relief from the de
pression in the price of cotton.
Paris, Nov. 4 —Emile Dubonnet, the
ballonist, arrived home filled with en
thusiasm over the American national
game of baseball and determined to
introduce the sport in France. Du
bonnet witnessed several of the
woirid's series contests in New York
and Piladelphia and immediately de
cided that baseball would be a tre
mendous success in this country. The
famous balloonist, went to America
for the international race from Kan
sas City.
“I shall be the Christopher Colum
bus of baseball in France, 1 ’ declared
M. Dubonnet, “and the time will
come when statues will be erected to
my memory as a benefactor of tire
French people. We Frenchmen have
■a temperament and an excitability that
demands a sport full of life and ac
tion, and baseball is such a. game. I
believe it will become more popular
in France than in America and that
in a few years the world’s series will
be played, not between teams of dif
ferent leagues of America, but with
the best nine in the United States
pitted against he baseball champions
of France.”
There was one feature in connec
tion with the wreck of the work train
Saturday on the Georgia railroad, in
which Engineer T. A. Campbell was
killed and two or three others in
jured. that was overlooked in the press
reports of the wreck says the Macon
Telegraph. This feature was the ac
tion of Fireman W. C. Branch, a negro
of the wrecked train, in warning the
engineer of the regular passenger
train due in Macon at 3:35p. m. in
time to prevent that train from crash
ing into the wreck, thereby probably
saving the lives of several people and
preventing considerable property dam
age.
Ti hen the work train was derailed
Branch jumped and aside from a se
vere shaking up was apparetly un
injured. He managed to keep his
presence o fmind, and knowing that
the passenger train was due in five
or six minutes, he ran back up the
track and flagged the oncoming train
Then he collapsed.
The negro seemed to go all to pieces
after his act of heroism and he ap
peared to be so badly frightened that
those who gathered around him
for a time that he was going
to die.
The wreck of Saturday happened
within tt?n feet of the spot where a
passenger train of the Georgia road
was wrecked several months ago, in
juring several persons.
By experienced railroad men the
cause of the accident Saturday is
assigned to the fast rate of speed the
train was running, the engineer real
izing that he had to clear the main
line track for the oncoming passenger
train and be was burning up the rails
in an effort to do so. The tender, im
mediately behind the engine, had very
littel coal in it and the water was low
making it unsually light. It is
thought that this had something to do
with the causing the accident. When
the engine plunged into the bank at
the side of the track the tender shot
entirely over the locomotive and lan
ded in a cotton field fiftv or sixty feet
away. The engine was not overturned
as was reported, but was almost buried
in the high bank at the side of the
track.
Engineer Campbell was horribly
crushed and his body was.Memoved n
pieces. One arm has not yet bees
found and what became of it is a
mysetry.
THE DALTON ARGUS, DALTON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, NOVEMB ER 9, 1911.
SPOT WHERE LINCOLN STOOD
Exposed to Gen. Early’s Fire, Will
Be Marked by Huge Memoral Boul
der.
Washington, D. C., Nov. 4 —The
spot on the parapet ot old Fort Ste
vens where Lincoln stood exposed to
fire when General Early attacked the
capitol is to be marked by a huge me
morial boulder. The formal ceremo
nies will be held next November 2,
the forty-seventh anniversary of Lin
coln’s second election.
What Were in the Bath Tubs?
Miss D., a teacher of unquestioned
propriety in all its branches, was in
the throes of commencement, and to
the best of her ability was entertain
ing some young men —the suitors of
her fair pupils. They conversed on
some beautiful flowers in the drawing
room.
“Yes,” exclaimed the old lady,
but if yon think these are pretty you
just ought to go up stairs and look
in the bath tubs of the girls’ dormi
tories. They are just full of Ameri
can beauties!”
Branding the present prohibition
law as a hypocritical disgrace and de
claring its passage in 1907 to have
been a step backward toward the dark
ages, Judge Richard B. Russell, can
didate for governor, in his speech at
the Grand opera house last night, un
equivocally declared himself in favor
of local option and forcibly ex
pressed his antagonism to the present
-status of prohibition in Georgia, says
the Atlanta Constitution.
Thg judge declared that the prohi
bition law was passed by a clique of
politicians who raised the prohibition
issue of their own volition and forced
it down the throats of the people of
the state witout giving them a chance
to express their opinion on it.
He scouted the suggestion that he
is a “whiskey man,” and declared
that he stands for “home rule and lo
cal self-government,” and he asserted
that local option means self-govern
ment, whether applied to the settle
ment of the liquor question or to any
other issue.
The judge declared that when Geor
gia had prohibition sunder local op
tion it was a success, because in the
counties that voted dry there was a
sentiment strong enough to enforce
the law, and he classes the present
law as a farce, because it has been
forced upon the people of the coun
ties in which the sentiment is not
strong enough to enforce.
Judge Russell declared himself op
posed to Governor Brown’s sugges
tion that the prohibition question
should be referred to the people and
so far as is known, was his first ex
pression on that subject. He said he
is opposed to it because it is in viola
tion of the fundamental principles of
local self-government that the entire
state should be permitted to vote on
a question which may force on certain
counties a law which the sentiment
of those counties may violently op
pose.-
Judge 'Russell also declared him
self in favor of a reasonable control
of corporations and the preservation
of powers now accorded the railroad
commission, the upbuilding and im
provement of the rural school system
the advancement of the good roads
movement, and the extension of the
Western & Atlantic railroad to the
sea.
The judge was heard by a large au
dience and was given close attention
throughout his speech.
TWO PERSONS KILLED
IN SOUTHERN WRECK
Atlanta. Ga., Nov. 3—Two trainmen
were killed last night when Southern
railway passenger train No. 14. south
bound from Cincinnati to Jackson
ville. Fla., was derailed near Chatta
hoochee, about seven miles from At
lanta. The victims were E. O. Byron,
baggagemaster, and a negro fireman
named Ben Briggs, who was deadhead
ing from Cleveland, Tenn., to Atlan
ta. The baggage, mail and express
cars left the rails, bat it is stated by
the railway officials that none of the
passengers were injured.
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Kyrle Bellew, the noted actor is
dead.
FIRST SNOW OF SEASON.
Michigan Gets an Early Hard Bliz
zary With Six torches of Snow in
Places.
Detroit, Mich.. Nov. 2 —Michigan
received its first taste of real winter
yesteray and the taste was rather
biter. The snowfall averages from
one o six inches. Trains have made
slow progress, but no blockade has
occurred. No deaths have been re
ported. The snowfall in the upper
peninsula has already increased the
army of hunters seeking deer.
At Calumet tonight sleighing was
indulged in.
The Nashville and Chattanooga
railway good roads train reached Dal
ton Saturday morning on time.
Through the courtesy of Phil Hay
ward the motion picture house was
used for a stereoptican lecture by Mr.
W. J. R. Weir, assisted by Mr. D. H.
Winslow. Both of these gentlemen
are sent out by the department at
Washington. Mr. Winslow has been
in Georgia many times and is familiar
with all sorts of road material in the
state and to an Argus representative
said that Whitfield county had the
very liest of road material in every
mile of the county. Mr. Winslow
was here in June with the Southern
railway good road train. It was
through his work that the counties in
the southern part of the state were
induced to build good roads and as a
result tens of thousands of dollars
have flooded into these counties and
hundreds of good western farmers
have bought lands and paid three and
four times what they were sold for be
fore the good roads were built.
The train reached the city and was
sidetracked near the First National
bank. Captain Tucker, a popular
conductor was in -charge. Colonel D.
G. Hudson, of the legal department
of the road with headquarters in
"Nashville, is accompanying the party
at the request of President Thomas.
The train left at noon for Calhoun,
where demonstration work was car
ried on. Trunk line railways recog
nize that in proportion as the far
mer prospers in that same proportion
will the railways have traffic to haul
and they know that good roads are
the greatest thing in the development
of the farms and enriching the farm
er. The railroads certainly would
not want to build for the automobil
ist for that machine today is hurting
the passenger business very material
ly but as a rule no passenger train
pays a railroad. It only stimulates
the building of towns and cities to and
from which the railways haul freight.
Chicago, Nov. 4—Get-rich-quick
schemes of J. Rufus Wallingford, fa
cile financier, or the tried and true
roads to wealth by thrift and indus
try which have rewarded more repu
table endeavor, are as the blundering
activities of children compared with
a plan Submitted to Postmaster D. A.
Campbell today.
The plan is nothing more nor less
than to feed rats to eats, skin the
cats and feed the eats back to he
rats, in endless succession, the only
break being the deduction of the cat
skins, the sale of which is to supply
the profit. The writer, outlining his
plan said :
“We will start a cat ranch, getting
1.000.000 cats. Each will have twelve
kittens a year. Cat skins are worth
10 cents for white ones and 75 cents
for black ones. They will average
30 cents each. There are 12.000.000
cat skins a year, a daily gross income
of some SIO,OOO.
A man can skin fifty eats for $2
and it will take 100 men to operate
the ranch, leaving our profit over
$9,000 a day. We’ll have to feed the
cats. How?
“Start a rat ranch next door. Rats
multiply four times as fast as cats.
We will have, herefore, four rats a
day for each cat, a plenty. How to
feed the rats?
“Simple—feed (hem on the cats’
bodies—a fourth of a eat per rat —
amply sufficient. Tims, you see, the
business will be self-supporting and
automatic all the way. The cats will
eat the rats and the rats will eat the
eats, and we get the skins and wealth.
Are you with me?”
Another Skin Game.
Simon Ford, New York’s hotel man
humorist, said at a recent supper, ac
cording to the Washington Star:
“These attacks on New York’s dis
honesty and extortion usually come
from pikers.
“The latest attack comes from
Peleg Pease of Croydon Four Corners,
up in New Hampshire. Peleg said
the other day at the general store:
“ ‘Yes, I been to York, and it’s a
fine town, but crooked.’
“ ‘How crooked?’ asked the store
keeper.
“ ‘Wall,’ said Peleg, ‘I bought
Mart hey a two-cent paper o’ pins
own to York, an’ on the train ride
home I counted ’em. They wuz mark
ed 1,000. but, by crinus, they wuz four
teen shoW by actual count.”
My dear, I was one of the very first
to leave,” said a man who, on return
ing from an evening party, was greet
ed reproachfully by his wife.
“Oh, you always say that.” she re
torted.
“Well, I can prove it this time,
anyway,” insisted the husband.
“Look in the hall and see the gold
mounted umbrella I’ve brought home.
-—New York Mail.
Miss Eugenia McWilliams has re
turned from Chattanooga where she
has been visiting for several days.
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“I hope you young men realize your
responsibilities.”
“We do, indeed, professor,” said"
the spokesman for the freshman
class. “It’s up to us to invent a
brand new class yell.” —Kansas City
Journal.