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The Washington bee., 1902-06-07
They Say.

can Club will be 1000 strong.
Col. NJ. NJ. Parker will be the
next national committeeman.
He is the choice of the repubh
can party Of this city.
Carson will be Raybun's running
mate so Carson says.
The BEE is the peoples paper.
The democratic party is getting
itself together.
Don't be disturbed in mind
when you are right.
Senator Fairbanks is the dark
horse for the presidency.
What has become Of the wire
pullers?
The man who cannot originate a
thought has an empty rain.
This is a world Of deception.
Be what you are and don t
change yourself to a false face,
Il is bad policy to ape after
other people.
An honest man will condecend
to do honest acts.
Ex-Recorder Cheatham is saving
wood.
This is a time for the so called
leaders to act.
Do as you think best and moth
ing more.
Speak kindly of your friends and
watch your enemies.
Whatever you do, do it with a
will
DON'T imagine that you are a
leader because you hold an office.
Leaders are born and not made.
Speak the truth always and then
you will have no fear.
Nothing succeeds like success.
A good friend is a jewel.
Deception may always be found
in a treaCherOus heart.
If the justices are cut down to
four there will be some bowling.
The man who thought he was
the whole thing will have to get a
move Cn himself.
Do your duty towards your
friends.
Never wait to be asked when
you see your friends in distress.
Nothing is so beautiful as the at
ention of an honest friend.
Some people don't know when
they have a good friend.
A friend is hard to find and
when you find one honest and true
never allow him to get away from
you.
New faVOrs will change the dis
position of some people.
New faVors soon change and
then we begin 20 look fer those
who have been kind and true.
Don't be alarmed when you
should hear a noise.
The democratic party should con
Centr&te on something.
The committee that went South
TO look after the negroes is wiser il
ia hoped than it Was before.
Read the BEE if you want the
news.
Why should an outside Judge
be appointed.
The District is the dumping
ground for politicians.
The people pay taxes and they
should hold the offices.
The people are dissatisfied and
don't you forget it.
Just why an outside man should
be appointed The BEE is unable to
state.
The greatest imposition practic-
ed upon the people is the appoint
ment of an outsider to the Judge
ship.
The Police Court judges ought
to be satisfied.
Colored attorneys viii not unite.
There is a division among them.
The democratic party viii have
an issue in 1904.
tR, people sh uld demand the
6D'a ton of su 0 rage.
Read The Bee if you want peo
pla's defender and true ColOred
American.
This is a world in which there is
3 grea deal sl dissatifaction.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-03
is GROVER CLEVELAND
A DEMocRATl

Kindly allow me space to comment on
the communication of Mr.. Clarence I.
Walker, which appeared in your columns
on Friday, the 24th. replying to remarks
of mine about Cleveland as a Democrat.
Mr.. Walker did not read my article any
more carefully than he did 1.-THE Democratic
platforms orr he would have seen that my
protest was not against the Democratic
party listening to the advice" of Mr..
Cleveland. but against certain newspapers
continually harping on his words. as If
he were a Democrat. The party is not
liable to attend to his advice, unless the
rank and file by apathy and neglect allow
themselves to be misrepresented in its
councils
AS to the potent" facts presented, Mr.
Walker writes as If he CLEANED his infor-
nation from papers like the Birmingham
Jews, rather than from personal assoc
citation with the events as they transpired;
using as he does their stock argument
that Cleveland is the only candidate for
president, that the party has been able
to elect in nearly 30 years. so naturally
did it come out, that one was not disap-
pointed when the bosom Of destruction
came along in it's due time and place.
Now the truth is. that the first ten years
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-03
APPROVES OF JOURNALS
CONVICT LEASE VIEWS
10 the Editor of me journal:

To the Editor of The Journal:
The press has ever stood for the better
ment Of society, the uplifting of humanity.
barring a few depraved sheets that dis
grace the fourth estate. The Journal be-
longs to that class which points the way
to better things, as far as a secular pa
per can. I read with pleasure that edi-
torial on the convict labor question in the
issue of the 18th. 1t was a classic, a
gem, and deserves the most careful con-
sideration of the general assembly. There
was not a line that did not reflect the
sentiment of all high-minded men. Every
word bristled with indisputed facts. The
sentiment pervading the whole article was
a lofty conception of the states bounden
duty toward its unfortunate class OF
transgressors Of the law. No one win dis
pute your assertion that to traffic in the
convicts is a blot on Georgia. That tho
changing is a bar to the reforming of
the member thereof Is also true. That
the object of restraint of the liberty Of
the criminal is to reform, is the first pur-
pose of the law that does it is not to be-
questioned. And yet the great state OF
Georgia perverts that purpose in the mode
and manner of punishment. AS insisted on
by The Journal il is hoped there is wis
dom and humaneness enough among the
200 legislators to wipe .out this foul blot
on Georgia. May The Journal cease not
its glorious insisLence for a proper set,
Element Of this vital question.
LOUIS L. PARHAM.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-03
PEABODY OFFERS NEW
ATHENS SCHOLARSHIP

ATHENS, Oct 31.--Mr. George Foster
Peabody, of New York, has again shown
his love and friendship to the university
by endowing a permanent scholarship in
the graduate school of Harvard for the
benefit of some graduate each year of the
University of Georgia. A fund of 100000
for that purpose has been placed in the
treasurer's hands and will yield an in
come OF $500 per year.
After due consideration the faculty of
the University of Georgia has decided to
open the course to the students OF the
professional schools as well as the school
of arts and sciences. The holder of this
scholarship for the next year will be Sc
lected during the early spring
1t will be recalled that Mr.. Peabody re-
Gently offered the university a $4,000 Ii
brary building WITH the condition that the
general assembly appropriate $4,000 per
annum for the period Of two years. This
new building will do much for the uni
versity and will enable the faculty to re-
move the several schools in new college
to the library building, by which means
the new college can be made into a dor
mitory, accommodating so boys. No doubt
whatever is entertained as to the general
assembly meeting the conditions of Mr..
Peabodys offer.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-03
THE FARMER SPEAKS.
A New Prayer to the New Ceres.

written by a New York Broker. Dedicated to
Mr. Buston, OF LiverpooL)
BY Private Wire 20 Murphy g. Co.
Oh. Brston. Bounteous Buston, YOU have left
But our hearts are thrilled with gladness as
they have never been thrilled before.
You have stepped our souls in peaceful balm.
For instead OF crop disaster it viii be Eleven
Twol
To plod weary weeks behind the rudder OF a
Or view the rains with anguish. or trembie at
When all he needs to make a crop is Buston's
visit south.
Where YOU see green. we'll fruited stalks" we
see but weeds and grass;
We thought the fields which you declare "a
truly marvellous sight
Were white because our picixers jumped a
month ago last night
Until YOU reached our Dixie land-a Liverpool
Messiah
We really thought that drouth and worms have
wrought as havoc dire;
How sweet to know at last those bug tales were
And, II the wevil came at all. twas a blessing
in DISGUISE.
We thought our fields were overrun with locusts,
slugs and lice,
And listened to those short crop advices," Go
hi with Mr.. Price.)
Buston. now we know the truth at last, and
while farm work Is slack
Wen drive 70 town and sell those bales you say
we're holding back.
The second growth" is doing we'll and "looh-
ing green you think;
Ut might well be dappled gray, or heliotrope
or pink;
white:' the top crops fine" you say;
And ''the plant will still be making on the
fourteenth Of next May.
But. Buston. Bounteous Buston. tell us. Oh.
tell true.
What is your simple method" so accurate
and new?
Did YOU talk with the conductor as your train
sped night and day?
Or did you seek the butcher out and steal
his brains away7
Or did you swap statistics Of you did you
hadn't orter)
with that grim guardian of the berths, the
colored Pullman porter?
But never mind. dear Buston, how you made
your estimate"
You have filled our hearts with gladness at the
prospect You relate.
So. come again. sweet Buston. and predict big
crops OF hay:
And say cur cows will soon have calves, our
hens begin 70 lay:
on. give us bumper crops OF corn and I'LL our
empty bins,
But don't estimate" our families, for you're
sure 10 figure twins.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-03
GROWING APPLES.


There is a large area OF territory IN
the southern states that would probably
produce apples grown on an extensive
scale. There is only a very small area
which would not provide at least enough
apples for home contamination. Every
farmer. no matter how small or limited
his possessions. should have an apple
orchard. the product from which could
DC utilized on his table in some form
nearly every day In the year. The only
reason why this is not more generally
the case. - because the effort is not
rightly made. Farmers should give more
attention to the planting and care Of
their orchard. they should exercise proper
discretion In the selection OF the orchard
site. IN purchasing suitable varieties. and
such trees as win prove most thrifty and
productive.
In this article an effort VIII be made
70 supply some needed information along
the lines above referred TO- how TO care
for the orchard and how best to use
1nd dispose OF the fruit when grown and
ready for sale or family needs.
AS stated before. there are but few
places I'm the south where apples cannot
be successfully grown. and the average
farmer is rarely excusable IL he permits
his family 10 go hungry for apples. A
short historical sketch OF the apple would
not be out OF place here. as II Is sub
Jet with which all OF our people should
be familiar. The apple Is not a native
OF American soil. Notwithstanding Il finds
50 congenial a soil and climate in its
growth and production
We found some native crabs in the
early discovery OF this country. but they
have not proved 50 far OF any value.
Both our cultivated apples and crabs
descend from the original wild crabs OF
Europe. which through a long period OF
careful cultivation has brought them to
their present standard OF excellence. We
may. therefore. regard the apple as grown
in this country to be a foreigner. but like
the present race Of our people who orig
inally came from Europe. a congenial
home has been found and gradual i'm
pr0vements are being annually made in
development
The apple Is not regarded in the light
OF a fruit luxury. hut Is looked upon
rather from the standpoint OF a staple
article OF food. and one OF the leading
staple products from the farm. It's varie-
ties extend throughout all seasons OF the
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-03

of the last so, we had nothing but Dem
ocratic presidents, that the next Is were IN
the war and the Immediately succeeding
period which had no bearing on the sub
ject; that in 1876 we did elect Mr.. T1lden
by a larger majority than we did Cleve-
land in 1854. that in 1888 after Mr.. Cleve-
land had been president four years he
ran the campaign entirely on his own
plan and method, but even with the
advantage of having the federal ONCE
holders to assist, he was swept with
something of a bosom himself And later
events demonstrated that his signal sue
cess in 1892 was due to the union of two
opposing elements, the money power In
the east uniting with the people OF the
south and west-the one knowing their
man and the other thinking they knew
him and taking for granted that he would
carry out the platform on which he was
elected. After four years experience with
him, the national convention of 1886 came
directly instructed by the mass of voters
and wrote platform not to be misunder-
stood sor misinterpreted. The rank and
file were determined that If they won, it
would not be under false pretences, and II
they lost it would not be as bad as the
victory of 1892, victory only in name
Those who read this platform carefully
and dispassionately find out a line in it
distinctively ''populistic," unless time
honored Democratic principles are pop,
ulistic."
Then handicapped as we were with our.
nominal head openly assisting the foe,
and despite the millions of money collec-.
teu from all parts of the world and poured
into every doubtful district, our Bayard.
"sans peur, sans reproche," polled one,
million more votes than Cleveland did in
1892 and a majority of the white votes OF
the whole country.
As for Cleveland being the "ablest and,
most astute statesman who has occupied
the white house, since the foundation OF.
this republic" this is a matter Of opfn-
ion I can only say that Mr.. Walkers
i0ea of his astuteness must have
been derived from the facility with which
he Joined his small coterie of mugwun1ps
with the Republicans to defeat the efforts,
of Senator Morgan, of Alabama, Daniel,
of Virginia and other Democratic leaders
to carry out the promises of the plat
form on which Cleveland was elected, and
his idea of his ability, from that remark
able deal with j. p. Morgan, when he
placed the government bonds,at 104. which
Morgan syndicated a few days later at
III and which still later went TO the real
investors at III.
However this may be. in any battle be
it of bullets or ballots, when any man
deserts his side in face of the enemy. he
IS regarded as a traitor and it is worse
than folly for him to return to the ranks
and expect to be regarded as before. II
It is in war. he is shot. If it is In politics.
he is ignored. Any other course viii set
premium on unfaithfulness.
E Z. G. ROBERTS.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-03
EXEMPT BOYS UNDER 16
FROM WORKING ROADS


Yesterday. through Hon. Robert Black
burn, had a bill introduced in the legis-
lature which if passed will exempt mi
nors Of this state from road duty. As you
know, except in Atlanta and few cities
over the state, the age at which the
boys are subject to this duty begins at 10
and continues to So The bill merely
strikes the word sixteen and substitutes
the word twenty-one.'
Some time ago 1 wrote a short article
on the question, copy of which 1 enclose
you that you may have small data be-
fore you for convenience in the event
am so fortunate as to get an endorse
ment from your paper, which, by the way,
is the primary object of this communica-
ton. Your truly,
E. F. CHILDRESS.
It is a very strange thing that our
state has for so many years required 10
year-old boys in the country to pay road
tax or be subject to road duty. 1t is noS
the opinion of the author of these words
that such is the will of her citizens.
Perhaps a review of the law would
be of some interest at this time. On De-
cember eth, 1899, there was a general
road law enacted, which was amended
December 18th, 1918, and part of which
amendment was in these words: IAN
male inhabitants, mulattoes and free ne
of sixteen to forty-five' years, in the
counties aforesaid, shall be and they are
hereby declared to be obliged to appear
with such implements as directed by
overseer, and work on the several roads. =
etc. (Cobb's Digest, p. 949), and this ex-
listed until February 23d, 1866, at which
time the age was extended from forty
five to fifty and until this day the age
remains from 16 to 80.
This was probably a good law when en-
acted, by reasons of the fact that the
country was greatly in need of new roads
and by-ways by which the country was
being opened up and developed, but such
is not the case today and it now looks as
If IT is simply inexcusable extortion IN
the part of the state as well as always
seemed TO be taxation without representa-
ton.
Another strange thing about it is that
in the city of Atlanta, for instance, the
people are not subject to street tax until
they are q years Of age and are then re-
quired to pay only 81 per year.
Is IT the desire of our people that this
law shall continue in force and work con-
tinued hardships on the poor country boys
or shall we rot blot, especially that part
of the road law which subjects minors 10
road duty TO the extent of $3.50 every year,
from our statutes?
1t Is the fundamental aim of our law &c
establish that which is right and prohibit
that which is wrong.
Is 1t right, then, to tax boys 16 years
of age $3.50 every year who live in tha
country when only 81 street tax Is To-
quired of the young men OF the city,
and then only when they have arrived at
the age of p and when they may have a
voice in the matter Of taxation?
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-03

and in the great struggle which followed
it was not the south which aped New
England, but New England which follow
ed the south into the desperate struggle
which gained for us the freedom we enjoy
today"
He spoke with cutting and biting sar-
casm Of the Boston tea party, Of which he
had heard so much that he could recite
it with his hands tied behind his back.
But what do they say of Charleston,
where the opposition was so strong that
the tea rotted or Of Annapolis, where the
tea and the ships were burned, but not
where our -forefathers, disguised as In
dams, filed their pockets with tea and
threw the rest into the sea-"
"They tell, us that Lexington and Con-
cord were the first battles of the war.
and that the men who fell there were the
first great martyrs of the great war.
''As a matter OF fact, four years before
this fight, 1000 Carolinians met the British
at Alamance courthouse and 200 of them
laid down their lives as martyrs to the
American cause"
He told of the Meclxlenburg declaration
of independence, signed many years before
the north came into line in the struggle.
He said that some historians had said
that the decisive battle OF the revolution
airy war was fought at Saratoga, because
feat at Monmouth, the starving times at
Valley Forge, the attempt to thrust Wash
ington from command, Gates defeat at
Camden, Arnold's treachery, and the de-
sertion of the northern troops. All Of this
followed the battle at Saratoga. He said
that hope really came when Furgeson
was defeated at Kings Mountain, and
Tarleton at the Cowpens. In connection
with the battle of Kings Mountain, Mr..
Watson told of the ride Of over 1000 miles
of the hardy band of Georgians and Ten
nesseans, who made a trip which history
never mentions, but the like of which has
never been heard of at any time, reaching
Kings mountain and capturing the Brit
fish forces.
He ridiculed Paul Revere's ride in cut
ting terms, and praised the starving and
bleeding troops who rode with Clark and
Gambler through the tangled mountain
passes and across fordless rivers to the
attack at Kings Mountain. re told OF
the capture of the British force at York
town, and the arrival of the French feet
which made this possible. The French
fleet was gotten there in time by John
Laurens, of South Carolina, who hurried
across the ocean and secured aid from the
French where Benjamin Franklin had
failed.
Mr.. Watson followed up the history OF
the country to the civil war; showing
where southern men had done such mar
velous feats for their country.
He touched but lightly upon the civil
strife, merely reminding his hearers OF
the fact that never a slave was brought
to America on a southern ship, but came
across in northern hulks, brought by
northern men and sold into the south.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-03
INQUIRY DEPARTMENT.
Rabbits InIurlnu Apple Trees

happitS inlurtn9 apple trees.
w. A p, Hartwell. Ca, oct. 81. 1902
Winter is coming and the rabbits will soon
be on the war path, and ruin our young
apple trees. Is there anything that could
be put on them that would keep the rab-
bits OF and not injure the trees? How
would lime or coal tar do? have usually
tied them up In broom straw, but as 1
have 1000 trees to attend to this winter,
1 would like to have a better way.
Answer-There are several plans which
have been successfully used to prevent
rabbits from barking the young trees. The
use OF broomstraw, cornstalks or stiff pa
per tied around the bodies of the trees
are among the safest methods. You might
also take the fresh liver OF a beef or hog
and rub the bodies of the young trees ev-
cry two weeks, or the inside of a rabbits
hide will answer the same purpose. This
will have to be repeated, however, every
two or three weeks. Another plan is to
take three parts of sulphur to one Of lard
or oil, mix and rub on the trees. This need
not be repeated during the season. Lime
and coal tar lightly applied might prove
effective also. but 1 have never heard OF
its being tried.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-03

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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-03
Fertilizers Per Acre.

THoMAsTON. Ga, Oct. Ill have re-
Gently purchased Go acres of land that has
been in cultivation five years. 1t was
originally oak end hickory, and will make
without any fertilizers about 1000 pounds
seed cotton.
I suppose Il might be turned loan land,
il has clay foundation.
/ want to use every pound of fertilizers
that win pay. Please write me what an
alysis to use for cotton, corn and wheat,
also please write me how much per acre,
I was thinking IL would be cheaper to buy
cotton seed meal, and acid and potash,
and do my own mixing. If you recon-
mend this, please write me how to mix
and what per cent acid phosphate to buy.
etc. 1 would like to use 800 or 100 per
acre, should you think 1t profitable.
BY answering above, II will be greatly
appreciated.
Yours truly,
G. b. KING.
Answer-I cannot give you a formula
guaranteed to suit your soil, which can
only be determined by experimenting. j
can. however, furnish you with a formu-
la that will ordinarily give best results
on the average soils of this state, es-
pecially the character of soil named.
For cotton a fertilizer Analysing:
Phosphoric acid (available), 9 per cent.
Nitrogen, 2 per cent.
Potash, per cent.
For corn and wheat use the following:
Phosphoric acide (available), 9 per cent
Nitrgen, 5 per cent.
Potash, 2 per cent.
You could not use over 500 pounds per
acge profitably If the fertilizers were drill
ed, as for cotton and corn. BY broadcast
ing you can probably use 1000 pounds per
acre under wheat on fertile land.
It is always cheaper to buy the ingre-
dients and do your own mixing at home,
but you cannot very well get as high
grade goods as named in the above forn1u-
la out of cotton seed meal as a basis for
the nitrogen. Five hundred pounds Of
cotton seed meal will give you per cent
ammonia or Les nitrogen. Twelve hun
dred pounds Of phosphoric acid Is per cent
available will give you per cent phos-
phoric acid and 300 pounds kainit will
give potash 1.S0. In order TO secure the
higher grade goods you would have to use
dried blood and muriate of potash. But
you could use more OF the cotton seed
meal formula per acre as IL is a home
product and is cheaper and just as good
~oportionately as anything else. You
could use the following formula which
would analyze: Phos. acid, 8 per cent; am
monia, per cent, and potash, 1-2 per
cent for cotton. Twelve hundred pounds
acid, $50 pounds cotton seed meal and 100
pounds muriate OF potash. This would do
for cotton. For wheat use 1900 pounds
acid phosphate, 700 pounds dried blood and
100 pounds muriate. This will also answer
for corn. Break your land deeply, put
the soil in first class condition, you can
then use fertilizers In heavy quantities
profitably but not otherwise.