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OL INTEREST TO WEALTH CREATORS
ELECTRICITY IN DOMESTIC USE.
The recent electrical exhibition at
Madison Square Garden, in New York,
was a revelation to many of the pos
sibilities of utilizing electricity for
domestic uses. The Brooklyn Eagle,
for example, says that the display in
this respect was actually startling to
those who witnessed it for the first
time.
A feature of the exhibition was the
arrangement of an apartment house
of five rooms, with a complete electric
equipment. The apartments were
heated and all of the cooking done by
electricity; the sewing machine was
operated by a motor; the dishes were
washed and rinsed; the domestic
washing done. Indeed, electricity, in
this particular modern apartment was
the domestic servant, doing all of the
hard and disagreeable work, the most
distasteful to the average housewife.
In addition to this,, of course, the
house was brilliantly and decoratively
lighted by electricity; and it con
tained, a doubtful advantage, a me
chanical piano, also electrically op
erated, without the intervention of
human hands, and started and stop
ped by merely touching a button.
Throwing a switch flooded the house
with music from a teleharmonic, op
erated at a central station.
It is difficult to see anything par
ticularly startling about this. All of
these operations, it has been under
stood for a long while, could be done
by electricity, and doubtless there are
hundreds of other directions in
which the domestic offices can be
lightened by the use of electrical ap
paratus. The one trouble has been
that the cost of using electricity on
such a scale has been prohibitive.
Still, conditions in this respect will
not always be as they are now. In
such a community as Seattle we can
anticipate the practical utilization of
electricity for domestic work, because
here steam is already divorced from
electricity. The utilization of a small
fraction of the splendid water pow
ers within a radius of a hundred miles
from Seattle would furnish power suf
ficient to operate every factory and
every house, if equipped as is the
model apartment in the Madison
Square exhibit.—Post-Intelligencer.
UP-TO-DATE FARMING.
We dip the following from the
Elberton Star: “Mr. Charles J.
Dickson has placed on exhibition a
few stalks of cotton taken from a
two-acre patch that has on it forty
five bolls to the stalk. This cotton
was raised in the flatwoods land of
Elbert county. It was planted June
15th, just after a nice wheat crop
had been taken from the land, and
up to about three weeks ago but one
rain had fallen on it and that in
July. The ground had been thorough
ly prepared for the wheat by deep
plowing and harrowing last fall, and
again thoroughly prepared for the cot
ton. It took a good seed, good land,
preparation and fertilization to bring
about two good crops on the same
piece of land. It took the manage
ment of one of the best farmers in
Georgia to look after all the details.’’
And then the Star goes on to say:
“Mr. Dickson is happy and content
ed, like all the other good farmers
in the flatwoods. The value of these
lands in the flatwoods has increased
so rapidly here of late years and has
produced such fine crops that many
people are going to that section, be
lieving that it is hard to beat. There
are quite a number of recent arrivals
from across the Savannah in South
Carolina, and they are delighted. If
the flat woods land of Elbert needed
anything to establish its reputation,
that need is now no longer neces
sary.’ ’
This is talking the thing up pretty
well. And we have no doubt that
the farming lands in the flatwoods
are all right, and possibly possess a
specially fine adaptation of soil for
raising of some special crops and for
the reaching of a great success in di
versified farming. We dare say that
this is a tavored section for farming
with successful outcome. Take it
for granted that the lands there are
better than the average lands, it
still takes brain force on the part of
the planter to reap the highest bene
fits. That is the secret after all. in
telligent labor, intensive effort. And
with proper care, sensible endeavor,-
and tireless labor, a desert-looking
farm may be made to blossom as
the rose and bring forth a satisfac
tory fold. There is not room in the
flat woods for all of the farmers that
are needed. Take your own land,
even if it may not be quite so fertile,
quite so good, quite so adaptable, util
ize a little gray matter, profit by
your own experience, and the expe-
others, put the will and the
muscle to the proposition, get better
results next year than you did this,
and point the finger of success toward
the highest pinnacle.
PROSPERITY CONTINUES.
Foreign banks may fail and an
American bank here and there may
be affected and become embarrassed.
There may be slumps in Wall street
and a tightening of money. But the
general business of the country is in
a healthy condition, and it will re
main sound to the end of the vear.
Furthermore, the indications point to
a continuance of prosperity in 1908.
In Birmingham prosperity was
never more pronounced than it is now.
Last year it was at high-water mark,
but when 1907 comes to a close a new
record will have been made.
A few years ago Wall street panics,
such as have excited the money mark
et, at intervals, during the past nine
months, would have resulted in wide
spread disturbance of business; but so
prosperous and rich has this country
become that stock market slumps
come and go with only a passing re
mark in the industrial and commercial
world.
Certain il is that the banking situ
ation in Birmingham is not only nor
mal, but exceptionally satisfactory.
The pay rclls are steadily increasing,
and capital is all the while accumu
lating. Birmingham is now recog
nized as the money center of Alabama
and, with one or two exceptions, the
money center of the South. Outside
of New Orleans the Birmingham
banks are nearer impregnable than
any south of the Ohio river.
Commercial travelers agree in re
porting that sales in this district were
never larger than they have been this
fall. If there is flagging in business
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
anywhere it is not felt in Birming
ham. The hotels are overcrowded and
the retail merchants are rushed from
morning until night. The state fair
just closed was the best exhibition,
and financially by far the most suc
cessful, ever held here. The farmers
are out of debt, and are on the road
to financial independence. Thus it is
that many things concur to make a
roseate picture. The Christmas holi
days are not far off, and during these
bracing autumn days every merchant,
every manufacturer and every wage
earner in the Birmingham district,
will keep up his pace and start the
new year with a larger balance in
hank than his deposit bock showed on
January 1, 1907.
In view of the facts, then, it is no
wonder that our people are heartened
and optimistic.—Age-Herald.
WAREHOUSE SYSTEM.
County Lecturer P. A. Hyatt Charges
Negligence.
On Part of Members of Farmers’ Un
ion.—Tells Them What They Will
Have to Do to Make the Warehouse
System a Success.
My brothers, this is one question
that has, or should have, the due con
sideration of every farmer, and es
pecially so with the man that raises
cotton.
This proposition has been discuss
ed many times, and why it is that
the cotton growers do not heed
the financial advantages set forth by
the warehouse proposition we can not
solve. We say, and confirm, that the
warehouse system is the foundation
and ground word of the Farmers*
Union. My brother, we take the au
thority to say without the warehouse
system the Farmers’ Union is a com
plete failure, so far as bettering the
condition of the cotton grower is con
cerned.
We will say, however, during last
season we had very few warehouses
in the State of Arkansas as compared
to the number we have at the present
date. But still we find through the
■workings of the warehouse system
throughout the State last season the
farmers received enough by deposit
ing their cotton in the warehouses to
pay the taxes of three counties the
size of Faulkner.
At the present time we have a
general system of warehouses estab
lished throughout the State ready to
do business for the cotton grower di
rect to the manufacturer. Brothers,
remember, procrastination is th ethief
of time, and remember if the thief of
time undermines and carries away
a part of that that belongs to you and
your children it is your fault and not
the other fellow’s. I want to impress
a few points, however, on the mem
bers of the Union in regard to our
Faulkner county warehouse. We will
say that the warehouse of this county
is not what it ought to be, simply be
cause the members of our Union have
not made the effort on their part.
We—all of us —are responsible for
the financial condition of our ware- -
house. It is an unvarnished shame
that conditions are as they are. There
are evils connected with this ware
house business that should not be
thus; when, if each and every Union
man would do his duty, these evils
could be eradicated. To do this, it
behooves you, as a member of the
Farmers ’ Union, to adhere to its prin
ciples by soliciting for and placing
the warehouse on a sound basis, and
then, and not until then, will we be
ready for business as a Farmers’ Un
ion institution.
Remember the warehouse is exactly
what you make of it. Remember
every effort that is put forth, either
for good or bad, is the fruit of your
labor. We can hot do one single
thing by a lot of wind-jamming, but
let each and every one of us practice
what we preach. I will declare unto
you, as an officer of the Faulkner
county union, that there is more de
pendent upon the warehouses of Faulk
ner county than any other principle
of the Farmers’ Union.
This is a matter you can see as
weil. Then why do you stand back,
grumble and groan at the other fel
low, when if each and every one of
you would come on and discharge
your duty as you should, we could
get to doing business and the nour
troubles would be at an end? But
negligence, carelessness, and net at
tending to our own business, 'has
erected us upon the pinnacle of mis
fortune today, yet we still ad
here to the same old principles.
Our National Convention said 15
cents. My brother, the proposition
means you. Our crop is cut short by
one-half throughout the cotton belt.
We can obtain the minimum price
just as easily as to reject it. Deposit
your cotton in your warehouse, draw
enough money to satisfy your demands
until the 15-cent mark is reached,
which will only be a matter of time.
Now, brothers, as I have said be
fore, the warehouse system is the only
means whereby we can ever reach the
manufacturer. Then, if this be true,
figure for a moment and see the bene
fit of the warehouse system.
Are you a union man ? If you are,
have you got a share in the ware
house? If not, why not?
P. A. HYATT,
County Lecturer.
Greenbrier, Ark.
SCIENTIFIC FARMING.
The business of farming requires
as much and possibly more study and
thought than any other industry. The
successful farmer must understand
the preparation of his soil for seed.
Experiments conclusively prove that
it is well to plow a, little deeper each
year, and experimenters claim the
land should be disked or harrowed
the same day it is plowed. This will
make the land hold the moisture bet
ter.
It doesn’t hurt land any to be well
cultivated and worked down fine. It
helps hold the moisture. When the
land is left rough and cloddy the
winds dry it out very rapidly and
the ground is left in poor shape for
receiving the seed.
It requires careful judgment and
thought to determine what kind of
grain to put on a certain piece of soil.
It usually pays to rotate, between
oats, wheat or flax.
The careful farmer is rewarded
with a bountiful crop in nearly every
instance. Why wouldn’t it be well