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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-03-13
SUGGESTIONS FROM
OUR CORRESPONDENTS

umns recently from many sources. esps-
cially the fight and victory of the diSpen-
sary people of Rome; also the statement
of a very noted bishop regarding prohibit
ton, and how he was assailed from all
over the country. 1t seems that 1t is des-
tined to play quite an important part in
the race for governor with some people,
but the prohibition plank in the platform
OF any aspirant for governor will give way
under the weight of few practical
thoughts. We know it is impossible to
legislate morals. Sobriety or religion into
any people. But suppose we mad state
prohibition; think Of the amount of money
that would go out of this into bordering
states for whisky. and the extra cost to
the consumer! Now, this extra cost is
what has hurt more people and deprived
more drunkards' families of the necessi-
ties of life than any other thing except
the article itself. I live in a dry county,
and often prescribe whisky in my prac-
tice. If do so in the fall, 1 have had
some people to go get II and return before
left the house. This was done several
times last fall, while people were making
up their syrup. But ii was not fit for use,
and they had to send off on the train for
it and pay 25 cents for carriage. Every
body knows dry counties will have more
or less blind tigers. Every effort at prohi-
bition which tends to Increase the expense
to the consumer or makes 1t harder for
the drunkard to get works alhardship on
his innocent family. 1 am sure a we'll reg
ulated dispensary would be preferable TO
present conditions in this county. and in
the larger towns and cities. If the drunk
ard could only purchase one quart per
month and get purer article, and at half
what he now pays how much better it
would be for his little ones. A law similar
to the one passed and vetoed at the last
session of the legislature will yet be the
final solution Of the whisky question Of
this state, and this is the suggestion of
your humble writer. Put The sale Of 1t in
the hands of the state, make the punish
ment for bringing or shipping it into this
state so severe that IL will be effective,
only through the proper channels. Make
every man register his name when he
makes a purchase, and allow the dispen-
ser to sell no man more than one quart
per month. Divide the counties into dis
tricts, as for voting, and every one must
buy in his own district, and not be al
lowed to buy for any other person only
under prescription. Make. it a crime
against the state laws for any man to get
drunk, Furnishing him with a fine of from
S25 to $50. and the punishment of the un-
lawful making of it severe enough to
stop it. Respectfully,
DIR. A. r. WRIGHT.
Renfroe, Ga
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NO WORSE THAN sYLLA5U5,
SAYS CLASS PRESIDENT
OXFORD, Ga. March 5, lSO1.

OAFOhDs Nd-s 4AdA~A " N~S~-
Au,ong the Letters from the People In
q recent number of your paper there ap-
reared what was termed "a KICK Dy
aIurnnus. against banquet menu, the
BANQUET in question being the one held oy
the senior class Of Emory college at the
Aragon hotel on the evening OF FEBRUARY
"a $500.
It seemed that the writer was indignant
over the fact that est. Julien punch ana
"cigarettes" were included in the menu OF
a BANQUET held by class Of CHRISTIAN
college, and that, too, under the nose OF
a member of the faculty.
In the first place, it appears that the
writer is profoundly ignorant of the IN
gradients of this same est. Julien Punch,
which he so readily attacks as an into1l-
eating beverage. No doubt he was OF the
opinion that it was a kind of mixture OF
sst. Julien and punch" or some other
vile connection of equally injurious COM
position. we would urge that he look
into this matter before making announcer
attack The est. Julien punch ne re-
ferred to is quite harmless, assure MIN,
and is not so strong as the olo-las 7,l-
toned "syllabub" which, / dare say, ne
has often drunk with much pleasure at
his old grandmother.
We admit that the cigarettes, which ne
so bitterly denounces as born OF the
DEVIL are Injurious to the physical and
mental being, yet why he should take TINS
fact as a basis for an attack on the
cigarette number" of the menu we can
not see. If he is familiar with banquet
proceedings, especially among college
bows, he is aware of the fact that even
had not cigarettes been on the menu those
who wished them could have procured
them elsewhere and smoked as many as
thew pleased at the banquet. Not having
them on the menu would by no means
have prevented their being smoked.
We would like to inform the writer that
the member Of the faculty" referred TO
was the guest of the class and had moth
ing whatever to do with the arranging OF
the menu, and we would have been glad
for the "alumnus' to have occupied the
same relation.
1t would have been preferred to have
banished the whole Of this matter as In
significant, as it really is, yet II seemed
that an explanation was due the class
and the college. Allow me to say that
the banquet was characterized by thor
ough gentIen.anly conduct, betting the
Students of the ''south's foremost Chris
tan institution T H. WADE,
President Class 1902.
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THE BIRTHPLACE OF
PRESIDENT DAVIS

To the Editor OF The Journal:
In reply to Mrs. Hettie King Wades
letter in The Journal of March 9Th / will
say that did not go into details as 70
where jefferson Davis was born, because
my article related more especially to his
ancestors.
However, since Mrs. Wade has kindly
called my attention to a part of my article
that may be misleading, 1 thank her for
It, and will tell the story as 1t was told to
me.
When Samuel Davis left Georgia, it was
with the intention of settling on the Mis-
sissippi. In those days the whole of that
territory was called THE Great West"
From some unimportant circumstance,
which do not recall. the Davises stopped
temporarily in Christian county, Ken
lucky, where the future president of the
Confederacy was born.
This is what / alluded to when I said
that he was born while the family was
en- route to the Great West.
had the above from Miss E. A. Bowen,
when she was collecting data for her His
tory of Wilkes County,
MRS. T. NJ GREEN.
Washington, Ga.
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state altogether. This is too big an un-
dertaking. Shut up tha barrooms and
have a dispensary for each county and you
win reduce the whisky traffic to a safe
and more satisfactory way Of dealing II
out.
We use to have blind tigers and bar
rooms here by the dozen. But three years
ago our county voted them out and SUBJ
stituted the dispensary. Now our whisky
is sold through this dispensary from s a.
m. to D. m. in any quantity or quaiity
wanted from one-half pint up No drink
ing is allowed inside the building. Wnen
night comes all the drinking class, white
ana black, get on their mules and horses
and go home and finish their bottles with
their families, where they can be cared
for in case they take too much IN TINS
place when whisky was sold by the drink
our streets would be lined with wagons
and buggies, horses and mules up 70 mid
night. especially on Saturday nieNts. Now
the greater portion of our citizens leave
before shutdown and our merchants close
their places of business at O'CLOCK ana
scarcely no one is to be seen on the streets
in our quiet little town; and as to the
revenue to the city, il pays as well or bet
TOR than the amount received from the II
censed .barrooms So I'll say to Brother
Cuerrv lets not blot out the whisky trade,
INT work II down to where 1t can be nan
dled in a safer and more satisfactory
manner. with as large or larger revenue.
This statement may be worth sometnlng
to the good people of Georgia. as what
7 have written is from my own personal
knowledge and daily observation.
So institute dispensaries in every coun-
tv IN the state and vote for dupont
Query for governor, and we VIII Mlsn
for you a happy and prosperous iueuIs,
isv-sbiding and successful people. Very
respectfully, j. L. hOoEf'AS'
Union Springs, Ala
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-03-13

cotton seed meal by s. the percentage OF
ammonia per ton, and divide by 1900 the
ton basis, and you get 1 per cent of am
monia- To get the 3 to per cent potash,
multiply the 500 pounds kainit by it's aver
age percentage of u IL to the ton and d.
vide the result by 1900. This formula
would be 1.250 pounds acid, go pounds cot
ton seed meal and 500 pounds kainit. and
would analyze as follows: Phosphoric acid,
per cent; ammonia, / per cent; potash,
to per cent There is a good percent
age OF both phosphoric acid land potash in
cotton seed meal. which is helpful in
working out high grade goods with those
three elements.
High Grade Mixtures.
II a higher grade goods is wanted then
more highly concentrated material must
be purchased. Dried blood will analyze
to the ton Is per cent ammonia, hence
only half the weight in dried blood is re-
CURED TO get the same percentage of
ammonia as with cottonseed meal. Muri-
ate OF potash will analyze 80 per cent
pure potash TO the ton, and therefore re-
duires only one-fourth as much in a
mixture TO get the desired percentage of
potash as with kainit. The method is sim
pie and can be easily learned after little
study and work on different formulas. 1t
is TO be hoped this explanation will be
sufficiently plain 10 give subscriber" and
all others interested the information wan
ted. To make a very high grade fertil-
izer high grade materials must be used,
but for the ordinary standard grades far
mers can safely mix a IA per cent acid,
per cent cotton seed meal and II 1-2 per-
cent KANT. so as TO get fairly good pro-
portions OF the three elements Of plant
food. The fertilizer question is an i'm
portant one. and II is a matter about
which the farmers cannot too quickly and
too fully post themselves.
II is many dollars per ton cheaper to
buy the ingredients and mix them at home
by any formula desired. simply buying
the chemicals in such proportions as will
give the percentages OF plant foods wan
ted in the mixture. than paying for the
complete fertilizers.
HARVIE JORDAN.
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canada,s Aued Statesman.

But other veterans than these are active
in the political forces of the present. Da-
vid Wark, called 'the father of the Can
adam senate" is within three years of
century. Senator Hoar is Is, as is Maxine
Gomez, who has played so prominent a
part in Cubas struggle. Justice Gray sits
in the supreme court at 70. Salisburys II
years have not lessened the powers which
made him premier, while Lord Paunce-
fote at "a and Joseph Choate at 20 repre-
sent their countries in Washington and at
st. James.
Senior Sagasta, now in his 18th year. is
yet another of these. If constant excite
ment and danger could wear out a mans
constitution, this strong man of Spain
would have yielded up the ghost many
years ago. Stranger fortune than Senior
Sagasta few men outside a novel have ex-
perienced yet with physique unimpaired
and mind alert, keen and strong as ever,
he in his old age is the one leader to whom
his troubled country turns for guidance
and direction.
In American politics Galusha A. Grow,
of Pennsylvania, an ex-speaker of the
house. and Senator Hoar's senior by
three years, is still active. Senators ALI
son and Cullom are r. and Senators Vest,
Jones and Teller are but a year younger.
In Philadelphia lives George Franklin
Edmunds, the veteran senator from Yer
mont, who at "A has withdrawn from the
stage Of official activity, but whose influ-
ence still is felt in the legislative cham
bers, where for so long he was a power
to be reckoned with.
This, too, may be said Of former Secre-
tary Of the Treasury Boutwell,, now So;
for John H. Reagan, once senator from
the Lone Star State, where he celebrated
his S0th birthday recently.
Levi p Morton once vice president of
the United States, and today, at n, one
of the leading figures in the financial ope-
rations of the greatest city in the coun-
try forms the link between politics and
business. Yet the great veteran in that
walk OF the worlds activities has never
known any other-"Uncle" Russell Sage,
who was born in 1917
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-03-13
Pope Lea is Nlnety-Three.

Not the oldest of them as the years have
gone, but the foremost of the four great
rulers who have outlived the biblical
threescore and ten, is Pope Leo XIII. His
holiness, still so vigorous in intellect as to
be one of the powers of the world, is SO,
and the latest reports from the vatican
would seem to give the lie to the rumors
of his fast failing health.
Pope Leo was a boy Of 5 when King
Christian of Denmark was born. That
monarch has ruled only 38 years, to be
sure, but he was 45 at his accession and
now has celebrated his SSth birthday. AS
strong, robust and hearty as many a man
quarter of a century his Junior. the ia
Their of Queen Alexandra is a notable ex-
ception to the Psalmist's dark prophecy
as to labor and sorrow which are to be the
lot of all who have outlived the 70 years.
Franz Josef, emperor of Austria, is the
third of the four grand old monarchs."
He is now II, as is also President Diaz,
who has presided so long and so success
fully over the destinies of Mexico.
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The Importation of Steel.
Chicago Tribune.

The interesting feature of the industrial
situation in this country still is the in
satiate demand for steel This demand is
so great that for the time being it has
reversed the course of trade. The United
States is ceasing to send that metal to
Europe, and is importing it from there.
These importations are taking place In
spite of the high duty. There is no other
way for many Of the Independent finishing
mills to get the steel they need.
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AGED Literary Men.

In literature and journalism the roll Of
honor grows longer. First comes Samuel
Smiles, Of London, who is 90; then Theo-
dore Mommsen, the great German, who
spent forty years in writing his monu-
mental history Of Rome, and who, though
slight and pale as ghost, shows no signs
of decay at 81; and, third, Philadelphia,
Thomas Dunn English, whose name has
been immortalized because of one ballad.
He is Mommsen's Junior by but year.
Linking the American literature of to-
day to that of the times of Emerson and
Lowell, Longfellow and Whittier, stand
Edward Everett Hale. Donald G. Mitch
ell, Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higgin-
son. and Richard Henry Stoddard. The
first two are 70. Colonel Higginson is IS,
and the genial old poet of New York rs.
Two others of the country's authors are
to be included in the list-General Lew
Wallace and Colonel Alexander X. Nc
Clure, each of whom is now in his 18th
year.
Returning to the continent, one finds
Traeger, the German Jurist and poet who
now is Is; Ibsen, the Norwegian dramat-
fist, who is 70: Jules Verne, of France,
whose predictions, once considered as fan
ciful, have all of them been fulfilled and
more, and Count Leo Tolstoi. the grand
old man of Russia, who at 70 is still writ
ing for the cause of his oppressed fellows.
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"GR A N d OIL d
M f N. "
Chicago TrIbune.

There are nearly sixty grand old men"
still active in the world. Scarcely a nation
but can point to some veteran still in the
harness, while not profession but is DOM
mated by some leader who has stood in
the forefront of it's followers until the
years have crowned the efforts maintain
ed for more than half century. Six of
them are more than 80, sixteen others
have passed the fourscore mark, while
between the ages of 20 and so no less than
"a. are today directing the doings of the
world in government, politics, or law, in
finance, religion, or philanthropy, in the
fine arts and the sciences, leading its ar
mics or acting on it's mimic stage.
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Congressional Voting Machines.
Tnledo 10 (Dem.

There is no longer any reason why the in
tsIlirent and successful citizens should want
70 become a member Of congress in the lower
house Unless he be a OF conspicuous
ability and can assume a position of leader
ship Il the start. he is unable to accomplish
ansshirr In congress. and Is little better than
an automatic voting machine, controlled and
Manipulated BIZ marty bosses
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Florida Favorite Watermelon.

A splendid melon for family use in the
south. Medium size to large and very
prolific. Early and of the finest flavor.
Melons weigh from 20 to 40 pounds and
are of a dark green color, slightly striped
with lighter green. Flesh red. crisp ten
der, mslting and very sweet. A sure
ana heavy cropper.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-03-13

The heaviest yielder Of all tomatoes IN
this section. Fruit very large, smooth
and firm and OF the finest quality. This.
variety does not rot or split easily and
lasts we'll into summer. Good for either
slicing raw or for canning.
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Mammoth White Bush Squash.

Every one knows the White Bush or
Patty Pan" squash, grown SO generally
in the South. This is identical with that
variety except in size. our Mammoth. be-
ing nearly double the size OF the other,
giving twice tho quantity Of squash from
the same vine.
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n. @. HASTINGS & CO.,
WHOLESALE AND Retail.
SEEDsMEN,
NO. Z WEST MITCHELL STREET.

ATLANTA. Ca. Jan i, 1904.
Atlanta Journal Co,
Atlanta, ia.
Gentleman:
In reply to your inquiry Is to the coll
lection OF seeds that we ara furniHnlng you
for premicma with thei Semi weekly We
would state that we hereby guarantee that
the seed used In these collections u the
same that we furnish our own customers
that the seed contained therein ia o. the
very highest quality obtainable. This col
lection Of seeds that you are furnishing
that they would have to pay Us 90 cents Tor
II they sent orders to us direct OF purchased
same IN person at our store. Through YOU
they are not only getting the best there y
10 be had but the full quantity that tAes
would get II purchasing tor cash.
Yours truly,
Signad, H. @. HASTINGS q CO.
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In the World of Art.

The field of art offers the names of sew
en- who have left behind that SEVENTEEN
anniversary which the majority of men
never see. The oldest is Adolf Menzel
the German, whose So years give him but
a narrow lead over three others, all of
them IS; Daniel Huntington, the portrait
painter, and Erastus Dow Palmer, the
sculptor, both Americans, and George f.
Watts, whose pictures were first exhibit
ed in London's Academy the year that
Queen Victoria began her long reign. John
Tenniel, the famous cartoonist of Punch
and the illustrator of the immortal wan
derings of "Alice in Wonderland" is 50.
Eastman Johnson and Albert Bierstadt,
the Americans, are respectively rs and r.
1t is to be added that the last named has
been the recipient of more foreign medals
and crosses than any other painter Of this
country.
Four names pre-eminently great suggest
themselves among those who have won
fame in the world of science. Ernest w.
G. B. Legouve, the veteran of the French
Academy, is at "a the oldest of these.
Then comes Sir Joseph Hooker, the Eng
fish botanist, who has to his credit not
only IS years but records of the greatest
value won from Africa and the Antarctic
regions, from Asia and western America.
Herbert Spencer, one of the greatest
thinkers of all time, is 50, and Rudolf Vir-
CHOW, OK Gernanys ScleHtlSls duluOEb pom
tician and patriot, is so.
Two of Englands most honored veter-
ans are Admiral Keppel and the Duke of
Cambridge, both Of whom came to the
fore during her Crimean campaigns, and
both of whom, though now on the retired
list, still hold commanding positions in
her naval and military history. The adj
miral, now SO, has become an author, is
an ardent sportsman, and is known
wherever a gun is fired as an unerring
shot at everything from grouse to ele-
phants. The Duke of Cambridge, a
cousin of Victoria and the commander of
her armies from 1856 to 1895, though SO, is
far stronger today than at least one of
his juniors, General Darlington Booth,
uho is 70
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EARLY Lonu Scarlet RadIsh.

A favorits in most home gardens. Roots
long and Of bright scarlet color. Flesh
crisp and tender and when rapidly grown
is entirely free from pungent taste.
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BRANCH'S GENUINE
RattIeSnake Watermelon Seed |!

Only pure strain in United States carefully
selected kept pure thirty years. No other va
riety planted on a plantation OF 1,5o acres.
PI<t 10 cents: l or. 15c ozs., Csc; 4 10, 40c:
= n, 65c 1 ~, sL25 delivered Remit register
ed letter or money order. Send for seed annual.
n. I. Branch, BerZelia, Columbia Co.. Georgia
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THROAT soRE7

There's no telling what a sore throat will
do II you give it fright Of way. Uncertain
remedies often cause dangerous delay. Make
a cure sure with Painkiller, known for half
a century as a specific for sore throat, Group,
coughs and all kindred troubles. Keep 1t by
YOU for an emergency. 1t never falls. Avoid
substitutes there is but one Painkiller, Perry
Davis. 25c and soc.
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A splendid variety for home use. our
special strain of this is especially desire-
BILE with its medium size, round smootn
pods, free from ridges ana not Pricluy
to the touch. Very early.
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The Semi-WeekIy Journals
49, Seed Offer for 1902.

firm
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ni wAl ai sc
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Ha.tInns, Yellow Globe Onion.

Splendid variety for early rlantings IN
tho south. No prettier, or larger hneiy
shaped onions than this can De EFowh'
Color. q very light ysllew or straw color.
Flesh firm and good keepers.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-03-13
HEAVY FINE FOR DRUNKENNESS
INSTEAD OF PROHIBITION

1 notice a great amount of discussion
on prohibition, pro and con, in your col