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Large Sums to Be Spent on Im
provements and New Works.
FOR PENSACOLA, FLA,, HARBOR
A Million Dollars Was Appropriated.
List of Other Posts Which Are
to Be Improved.
Washington, U, C.~While it has
not yet been decided by the war de
partment, owing to the short time
which has passed since congress ap
propriated the money, how all of the
military appropriations for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1910, will be
spent, it is believed that the south
will receive a goodly share of the
money.
Of the more than $4,000,000 asked
for to be used for barracks and quar
ters, $3,600,000 was granted, The cut
in the amount asked for will mean, of
course, that some of the construction
work which the department had plan
ned to do during the next fiscal year
must be deferred,
For roads, walks, wharves and
drainage, the sum of $1,367,000 was
asked for, of which $1,100,000 was
granted. This means that most of
the work planned by the department
in this line can be carried out. [t
was desired to spent at Fort Pickens,
Florida, $7,413; at Fort Morgan, Ala
bama, about $14,000; at Fort Sam
Houston, Texas, abcut $37,000; at St.
Thomas, Ky. a little more than sls,
000; at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., about
$4,500; at Key West Banks, Fla,, $785;
at Fort Monroe, Va., $3,000, and at
Fort Barrancas, Fla., SIO,OOO, all of
the above being for road construction
and repair. At Fort Taylor, Fla,,
SB,OOO was asked for to construct a
wharf, which, it was stated, “will be
an expensive structure owing to its
great length and the character of the
bottom on which it is placed. This
is indepndent of the prcject for sea
wall and fill.”
For grading and improving the
land at the following points appropri
ations, included in that for walks,
roads and so forth were asked for:
Fort Morgan, Ala., about $3,600; Fort
Barrancas, Fla., $10,000; Fort Scre
ven, Ga., $51,500; Fort St. Philip, La,,
$28,000; Fort Pickens, Fla, $20,500,
and Fort DeSoto, Fla., $10,650. For
deeping the channel to the wharft at
Fort Moultrie, Ga., $44,875 was asked
for.
In the matter of specific appropria
tions for fortifications and other
works of defense under the engineer
department of the army almost a
million dollars is allotted for Pensa
cola harbor and Galveston, to be
spent during 1910. For Pensacola
there is appropriated $507,000 to com
plete the sea walls for the protection
of the sites of tlee fortifications and
other necessary post bu.ldings atp
Forts Pickens and Mcßee, while $§440,-
000 is appropriated for the construc
tion of a sea wall and fill for the pro
tection of the militatry reservation at
Fort Travis. |
TEACHERS TOO CRGANIZE,
United States and Canada Peda
gogues Will Fight For Rights.
Boston, Mass.—The 500,000 school
teachers of the United States and
Canada are to be formed into a gi
gantic league for the upbuilding of
the profession. The organization
will be known as “The North Ameri
can Teachers’ League.” The nation
al organizer is Frederic A. Tupper,
head master of the Brighton School
here, ,
The following outline of the pur
poses of the organization is given
out:
Higher salaries, pensions for teach
ers, tenure of office, national and
state aid to education, reciprocity in
state certificates, clearer definition
and extension of teachers’ legal
rights, academic freedom, encourage
ment of the highest professional skill
on the part of the teachers, more at
tention to school hygiene, play
grounds, gymnasiums and baths for
each school.
CONVICT LEASING ENDS.
Georgia Prisoners Returned to Serv
ice of the State.
Atlanta, Ga. — Georgia’s convict
lease system ended, and hundreds of
prisoners, taken from mines, brick
kilns and factories, returned to the
service of the state.
Georgia has no penitentiary and for
years her convicts have been leased.
The 1,600 prisoners now will work
the public roads. Most of them are
blacks of a low order of intelligence,
sentenced for every conceivable time.
Though shackled and ironed, the
convicts greeted the change with
shouts of joy. Negro preachers were
at most of the stockades and ied the
blacks in their impromptu praise serv
ice.
The new system, {t is believed, will
not only improve the health of the
convicts, but will assure Georgia the
finest turnpikes in the south.
HAS WALKED 7,700 MILER.
Sergeant John Walsh Starts on An.
other Stroll Across Continent.
Boston, Mass, — Sergeant John
Walsh of the United States Army,
the long-distance walker, who arrived
in Boston, after having completed a
walk from Boston to San Francisco
and return, a distance of more than
7,700 miles, in 156 days, started off,
after a few hours’ rest, to repeat
the performance. Walsh left Boston
on August 12, 1908, and arrived in
San Francisco, October 23, according
to his statement. He said he lost
50 pounds, but felt strong and would
make the present trip in competition
with Edward Payson Weston, who
started from New York recently.
T e trE AR DInIE sneese | W
© TALKS OF KING COTTON, '
Daniel J. Sully Says $500,000,000 Is
Waiting for the South.
Atlanta, Ga,~—"Twenty-five Yyears
from now the south should, in all
probability will, absolutely dominate
‘civilization, Cotton, crude and man
utactured, will be the all-powertul and
‘all-sutlicient factor in that domina-
Lon,”
This is the calm, unemotional and
measured prophecy of Daniel J. Sul
ly—" Dan" Sully, one of the biggest
bullg, certainly the most spectacular
“bull,” in the wonderful and varie
gated history of cotton,
Mr, Sully is in Atlanta for a visit,
Introducicg “Dan” Sully to the aver
age reader would be to perpetrate a
superfiuity, His was the initiating
genius and the engineering skill and
concentration that, several years ago,
took cotton to 17 cents a pound, ithe
top-notch price since the ecivil war,
Absolute king of the cotton market
during that memorable and fevered
campaign, he kept a cool and sensi
tive finger on the pulse of the great
est industry in America,
“The southeirn cotton farmer,” said
‘Mr. Sully, “must first wake up his
mind to the naked fact that Provt
dence has gifted him with the great
est monopoly in history.
“The nations might dispense with
every other American product; de
prive them of cotton, and you would
precipitate world-wide panic and star
vation,
“It is the soul of industry, life it
self, over the entire globe. Once the
man who preduces it gets this idea
firmly fixed in his mind, he must see
that he is at present almost wholly
at the mercy of the intermediaries in
marketing his output and securing
an adequate and legitimate return
for his labor. He must next realize
with sufficient vividuness to give mo
tive-power to his energy, that the
emancipating force must come from
within himself., Organized endeavor
and co-operation are imperative, In
the. last analysis, to the striking of
the shackles from the farmer. 1 am
confldent both will be forthcoming.
“] do not regard foreign competi
tion in the raising of cotton seriously.
I venture to predict that within 20
years 50 per cent of the mills of the
land will be located in the southern
states.
“American capital will also be
abundantly available., We are piling
up new wealth, creating big surplus
es, in this country each year ia a
wealth, many of these surpluses, will
wonderful manner. Much of this new
come into cotton mills in the southern
states. New England has already per
ceived the situation. Much Nee«; Eng
land money is now in the southern
states. :
“A conservative estimate woulG put
it that the enormous sum of $500,000,-
000 is turned in the direction of the
scuth. As soon as its custodians here
become assured of the permanence
and safety of their new investments,
as soon as they can get their bear
ings, so to sreak, this money will be
gin to flow into your section. The
eyes of the investing world are on
the south today.”
ARMIES AND NAVIES BANKRUPT EUROPE
So Foreign Secretary Cray Tells the
English Commons. :
London, England. — The house of
commons refused to express lack of
confidence .in the government’s naval
policy. The motion on which the
notable debate hinged was proposed
by Arthur Hamilton Lee, conservative
member of the house from Hants. It
sets forth “that, in the opinion of this
house, the declared policy of his maj
esty’s government respecting the im
mediate provision for battleships of
the newest type does not sufficient se
cure the safety of the empire.”
The debate was one of the most
momentous the house has listened to
for years. A. J. Balfour and Mr. Lee
accused the cabinet of incompetency,
and demanded that eight Dread
noughts be laid down immediately.
Secretary Grey’s speech was by far
the most notable contribution to the
debate, because of its remarkable can
dor. He dwelt on the diplomatic as
pects of the British-German rivalry
and the hopelessness of expecting any
cessation of the race for armaments,
and he predicted eventual Europeéan
bankruptey if it continued.
NEWSY PARAGRAPELS.
Jesse Powers of Wendell, Mass.,
while suffering from melancholia
jumped from the steeple of a church
in that city to the ground below, a dis
tance of ahout seventy-five feet. He
struck on his feet and the heels of
his shoes made dents in the ground
about two inches deep. His ankles
were fractured.
More limited liberties for clergy
men were urged by Dr. J. A. Adams,
editor of the Advance, at a meeting
of Chicago ministers. He said:
“public official are required to take
an oath of office, hence ministers
should be under some rule, Every
preacher should not be allowed to
preach anything he may see fit’
Buried six feet deep in a wagon
load of cotton seed, the dead body
of an unknown white man, badly de
composed, was found at Clinton, S. Ch
by a negro, who was driving the team
from the ginnery of the Clinten oil
mill, A pistol and over S2OO were
found on Lis person and a shotgun
was by his side.
The bill to repeal the Sturgis law
for the better enforcement of the pro
hibitory liquor law was passed with
out debate in the Maine house of rep:
resentatives, despite the fact that the
bill had been defeated in the senate.
The Sturgis law has had much to
do with Maine politics the past four
years, but will not change that law
unless the senate recedes from its
position. ' ek
w 0 P e AR s AMEF WTVAER AW
LEABERS ASK FOR AID
“Standpatters” Are Up Against
It On Tariff Bill,
FREE COTTON BAGGING, TIES
And Duty on Egyptian Cotton are Of
fered If Southern Democrats Will
Quit Fighting the Measure.
Washington, U, C.~—The latest and
most interesting rumor in connection
| with the tariff debate is that the re
- publicans may agree to put cotton
‘ baggiug and ties on the free list and
‘ place a duty of 5 cents a pound on
‘lmporlu of Egyptian cotton, if the
democrats will not insist upon free
lumber and certain other amend
ments,
These changes in the bill, which the
republicans now offer as a concession,
have been urgently advocated by sev
eral of the most thoughtful speakers
on the democratic side, They show
that the Payne bill places onerous,
burdensome and seriously unjust du
ties on the cotton farmer., He buys
what he needs in a protected market;
he sells his crop in competition with
all the world, lie fights at both ends
of the line, whereas the manufacturer
is protected in making both purchases
and sale.
It is understoed that the above
overtures were made to Representa
tive Broussard of Louisiana, who is a
protection democrat, They are being
discussed by the democratic members.
It remains to be seen whether they
are wiiling to accept the proposal,
There is no question but that the
rtiepublicans are uneasy and apprehen
sive.
Senator Simmons of North Caro
lina stated that every senator from
the scutheast, except one, would vote
for the old duty on lumber,
The treasury deficit has reached
$89,600,000. 1f last month’'s rate is
preserved, the end of the fiscal year
will see a deficit of over $100,000,000.
With this huge and constantly grow
ing deficit staring them in the face
and a turbulent and divided member
ship in their own camp, the leaders
of the party in the house are in a
quandary.
it was said that President Taft had
been direcily appealed to by Speaker
Cannon and Leaders Payne and Dal:
zell, when they spent more than an
Lour and a half with the chief execu
tive at the white house.
TO DESTROY AIR WAR FLEETS.
Lewis Nixon Has Invented €Shots
Flame That Strike.
New York City.—“The aerial war
fleet of which we hear so much, the
oretrically, is doomed before it has
had a real start,” said Lewis Nixon,
inventor and shipbuilder, speaking
of his new sharpney shell, intended to
destroy objects from one thousand
and five thousand feet up in the air.
The new destroyer is an old six
pounder, throwing three or five-inch
shells, with a new filling. DBesides
the usual quantity of bullets, it con
tains semi-liquid matter, the composi
tion of which is Nixon's jealousty
guarded secret. |
“Airship and aeroplane builders
smiled when German and French gun-‘
makers threatened to bring down
their craft by bullets shot from guns
vertically aimed,” continued Mr. Nix
on, *“Perhaps they had a right to
smile at the imperfect destroying ma
chines invented in Europe, but they
won’t laugh when they hear of my
invention.
“The shell,” he explained, ‘“con
tains, besides the bullets and motor
power, glutinous matter, adhering to
the bullets and bursting into flames
the moment the bullets strike. When
the discharge comes into contact
with a balloon a sticky fire is thrown
over it and all inflammable parts, par
ticularly the envelope, will instantly
ignite.”
THE WEEVIL INVASION. |
Pest Repcrted Rapidly Migrating
North.
Jackson, Miss.—An insect believed
to be the Mexican boll weevil has
been found in Winston county, ac
cordding to reports from Louisville,
the county seat.
Agricultural experts here seriously
doubt whether the insects found are
the genuine weevil, however, regard*
ing it as very improbable that the
rest could have reached that far
northward in its migrations.
Specimens, it is stated, have been
sent to the Mississippi agricultural
experiment station and the verdict
from Starkville is being anxiously
awaited.
It is yet too early for the boll wee
vil to reach maturity in large num
bers and weather conditions have
been very much against their propa
gation,
The boll weevil experts of thel
United States department of agricul
ture, bureau of plant industry, figure
that the weevil will not reach Win
ston county until the summer of 1910,
JEFFERSON DAVIS FARM.
Will Be Bought— $2,000 Has Already
Been Subscribed.
Louisville. Ky.—Thomas D. Osborne,
secretary oi the Davis Farm Associa
tion, which has undertaken the pur
chase and care of the farm upon
which Jefferson Davis was born, atl
Fairview, Ky., states that each mail |
cairies many requests for subscrip
tion certificates from southerners whol
have subscribed in sums varying from
$5 to SIOO.
In all, according to Mr. Osborne,
about $2,000 has been subscribed and
at the rate at which subscriptidns
are coming in, the fund of $§3,000
necessary to close the option, will be
in hand when the option expires.
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Cotton Crops
is merely a question of using enough of the right
kind of fertilizers.
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irginia-Carolina
Fertilizers
are the right kind.
The cotton plant cannot feed on barren land. Study
your soil. Find out what it lacks. Then apply the
necessary fertilization and the results will surprise you.
See what Mr. W. C. Hays of Smith Station, Ala., did. He says:
“I planted about 30 acres of some ‘gray sandy land’ that had been in
cultivation for aver 20 years, and used 300 pounds of Virginia-Caro
lina Fertilizers per acre, and I expect to gather 30 bales from
the 30 acres.’”’ Thisis why we say it is the right kind. We have
hundreds of letters like this, and even stronger, in praise of Virginia-
Carolina Fertilizer for cotton. :
Get a copy of the new 1909 Virginia-Carolina Farmers’ Year Book
from your fertilizer dealer, or write our nearest sales office and a copy
will be sent you free. It contains fi{‘tures of the capitols of all the
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