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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-12-18

chimes to separate the seed from the pulp.
A huge hopper with long, sharp spikes is
run by horse power. The teeth inside the
hopper cut the melons all to pieces. The
pulpy mass is pushed over a screen,
through which the seed drop underneath.
The pulpy mass slides along to the waste
pile minus the seed. The seed are rinsed
in water then dried and sacked for mar
ket
The southern farmer can raise wa
termelons much better than the Kansas
farmer. From time immemorial the south
has raised watermelons. Hogs can be fat
tened on watermelon rinds and pulp.
White and black enjoy the eating also.
1t is to be regretted that even water
melon seed culture has vanished into the
far west, for reasons plain to be under
stood and needless TO mention at this
time.
Why cannot our farmers obtain a con-
tract to raise watermelon seed for com
mercial purpose? Are Kansan seed supe-
rior? If not why not try to get chance
at watermelon seed?
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-12-18
The COAL MINER,s STORY.

The findings of the arbitration commit
tee appointed by President Roosevelt are
not yet declared, but the stories that the
examination of witnesses, produces are
in themselves foodtide of light thrown
upon the investigation.
A woman with two sons was in the en-
ploy of the Markle company. Her hus-
band was killed in the mines, leaving her
with four children. the oldest barely eight
years of age. The miners among them
selves raised $50 to pay funeral expenses
The company paid her nothing. She gave
up a four room house and moved into a
two room, one above the other. For six
years she toiled to feed and educate her
children. She took in washing, scrubbed
for her neighbors. sometimes scrubbing
out the Office of the Markles. When these
six years were out she put her oldest boy
in the mines to help earn living, to make
life a trifle easier for her little family
of five. When her son expected to get his
first months wages he came home with
the news that 1895 for rent was due and
her sons wages were deducted from the
rent due For thirteen years they had
toiled, as she testified, she and her two
sons, to pay up the rent. which debt was
cleared off last August During the six
years after her hsuband was killed until
the time the first boy went to work the
company never asked her for rent.
That was sharp practice IL it was legiti-
mate.
poor old man was evicted from HIS
house after the strike with a sick wife
and her hundred year old mother. The
wife died from exposure and the old man
was made to pay up his rent out of col
lection his mining friends had taken up
for him after his terrible accident, where
he lost an eye, with crushed hands, ribs
broken and skull fractured.
A boy OF thirteen years worked at 40
cents a day. After working Sc IL hours
the company had a charge against him for
rent, $4.65; coal. $275. and balance due
the company of s54.95. Whenever or wher-
ever these rent accounts can possibly be
settled in this way it was done. How
they have kept body and soul together is
a momentous question.
One man bought oil from the company
at IS cents which sold at is cents else
where. Blasting paper sold at 10 cents a
quire, but the company extorted 80 cents.
Blasting powder sold ELSEWHERE at IS
to 95 cents, but the miners were charged
$3.50 per keg
From such signs and symptoms it is
evident the time for exposure has ar
rived. whether the time for better pay is
at hand, or arbitration necessary.
These wretched miners are at the abso-
lutte mercy of those who hire their labor
to dig coal.
They own the poor wretches, mind
body and estate. While Pennsylvania
has shed a barrel or more of tears Tor
the southern negro. right under their sniff
fling noses can be found a system of slav-
cry that is hundred per cent worse than
was African slavery before the civil war
all conditions being equalized, in making
an estimate. The coal miner is to be
pitied, but Pennsylvania maudlin SYM
pathy for the southern negro is contempt
| ible.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-12-18
aThe Journals Good Work."

Albany Herald
Absenteeism on the part Of the mem
bers of the legislature has seriously
interfered with the transaction OF the
states business during the present ses-
sion, and when the evil got to be a
scandal the Atlanta Journal commence
ed to publish the names Of those
members who failed TO answer at roll
call The result shows that absen-
teeism in the legislature is one evil
that can be largely remedied, If not
entirely overcome, by publicity.
Let the good work of publishing the
names of the absentees go on Seeing
the samtary effects of its good work,
the Atlanta Journal will, no doubt,
feel encouraged to keep it up.
AS for Mr.. McCurry's resolution to
have the roll call Of the house with
held from all but members of the
house, It is simply silly. and it is safe
p to conclude in advance that the MAORI
" of the members viii treat 1t ac-
cordingIy. Even If such a resolution
should be passed by the house it would
only put a premium on the list OF abb
sentees and any enterprising newspa-
per could obtain 1t.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-12-18
Heavy Slaughter of Deer
In the Adirondack Region

shipments are now being sent in to the
forest, fish and game Office at Albany
but IL will be some time before they ara
compiled. Incomplete reports of shipping
received here and also reports from guides
who are coming in to this village remain
for the winter would indicate that the
number killed this fall was fully 5000
AS a rule the greater number OF deer are,
killed during the last couple Of weeks OF
the season, when there is snow on the
ground.
ais year, however, there was an unusu-
ally large number killed during Septenaber
owing to the late summer season. The.
summer hotels were well filled during the
greater part Of September owing to tho,
hot weather IN the cities then, and nearly
every one or the guests went hunting
1t is an interesting fac that more deer
have been killed since bounding and jack
ing were prohibited by law than formerly.
Some attribute this TO the increase in thes
number of huntsmen coming to the north
woods every fall.
The guides say 1t is due to the fact that
deer have become tame since the hounds
have been driven from the woods The
guides to man are opposed to the act
of prohibiting bounding. This is due to the
fact that their services are not sought for
so much as when the hounds were used
There have been no reports received
here of the killing OF the herd of elk and
Of moose which was donated to the state.
by William G. Whitney and liberated near
the Fulton chain Of lakes early last sum<
mer. 1t was feared that some of the eIn
might be killed in mistake for deer.
They do not resemble deer very much.
but hunters as a rule are unfamiliar with
them Elk have never liked the Adirons
dacks. and therefore there is much specu4l
lation as to these animals in their newt
habitat
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-12-18

SARANAC LAKE. N. Y. Dec. "A
careful estimate Of the number of deer
killed in the Adirondack region during the
open season that closed last week places
the figure at 5000.
This is 1000 more than the estimated
number killed during the open season last
year. The official estimate was 5000.
This was reached by statements of the
shippings of carcasses and heads in the
Adirondacks region to the secretary of the
forest fish and game commission. The
number shipped is multiplied by four, and
that gives what is officially believed to be
a fair estimate of the number killed 1t
is probably too conservative.
In the opinion of guides and others well
informed regarding the Adirondacks.
much less than one-quarter of the total
number killed are expressed.
In 1895, William +. Fox, superintendent
OF the state forests, made arrangements
to ascertain the number killed during that
open season, Irrespective of the reports
of the express agents.
He appointed a competent person in
each settlement to ascertain the number
killed in his immediate vicinity.
Each district was carefully specified by
definite boundaries, so that the possibility
o. duplication in the reports was reduced
to a minimum. Reports were received
from 247 correspondents, covering the en-
tire north woods. and they showed that
4,903 deer had been killed.
1t is, of course. very probable that
these correspondents did not become
aware Of every deer that had been killed.
The estimate that had been made from
the express ONCE returns that year placed
the figures at 5000, which goes to show
that that method OF calculation is reason
ably accurate.
The reports from the express office of
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-12-18
A woRn OF THANKS.

Since The Journal made its appear
ance on the streets Thursday after
noon. this ONCE has been simply
overwhelmed with kind words and
congratulatory messages upon the position
Of The Journal in condemnation of the
state house lobby and in support of the
franchise tax bill.
No less outspoken are our friends upon
The Journals bold, fearless and crushing
reply to those who have sought to To-
ment discord among our own stoclkhold-
ers. II any one has hitherto entertained
a lingering doubt as to whether or not
the people OF Georgia would sustain The
Journal in its course upon all Of these
questions. such a doubt would be complete
" dispelled by a glance at the kilograms
and letters from all over the state which
have come to this Office. II we attempted
to print half of the pleasant things that
have been said about The Journal. the
paper would contain nothing else. They
come from all classes and conditions OF
people and from every section of the
state. Indeed. the manner in which The
Journals course has been endorsed has
been little short Of an ovation. The
Journal regrets that It cannot publish the
kind messages that have been received
II takes this method Of saying to its
friends. all over the state, that such man
ifestations Of confidence and. approval
have won our deep and lasting gratitude
The Journal claims no special credit
for what it has done. We feel that II
has simply discharged a duty that a
free and independent press owes to the
public. It could not do less and discharge
this duty
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-12-18
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
New York Press.


The arst fall hurts the others harden.
Woman is the weaker vessel filled with tears.
When a girl marries her mans trouble be-
gins.
After thirty virgin is civil even to
boys.
women's rights begin where mems wrongs
leave of.
Love me. love my cooking is the axiom Of
bri1ehood.
Man is a wild animal and woman a Wild ami
NAL tanner.
There is no insurance that anybody can take
out on innocence.
Women have so much heart that they don't
need any conscience.
Women marry for mushrooms on toast and
compromise on potpie
The way to lose a friend is to have him get
rich while you stay poor.
Financiering is keeping people from finding
out what you haven't got
Man stokes the furnace by day and the
devil puts it out in the night
A great many more men would want to go to
church il there was law against Il.
A tiny chiid's hand may lead strong man
where no brute force can drive or drag him.
Coal bills piled on top Of Christmas bills
get man into good condition for observing
Lent
A good many great men take good to
show their greatness by standing always among
little men.
If man will only let doctors fool with
him long enough he can 90 on being SICK LOT
the rest Of his life.
1t is a brave man who would get out Of bed
with the mercury below zero to see II there
were burglars down stairs.
The best way for a woman TO make her hus-
band not afraid OF some other woman Is Tor
her to make him afraid Of her.
When a woman makes up her mind to marry
a man the way she begins to catch him and
doek catch him is TO make him understand she
would not marry him for anything under the
sun.
There are three times in a mans life when
he is Thoroughly frightened: Whep he gets
married, when his wife has her first BABY and
when he resolves to ask his mother-in-law TO
rrO
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-12-18
RELIGIOUS POINTERS
Rams Horn.


Religion is a mans relation to God.
He chooses night who refuses light
Seeds Of love may need storms of sorrow.
Better be a good servant than a bad son.
Conceit is not an ingredient of conservation.
Preaching for wages never won the world.
The will Of Gcd today waits on the will of
man.
Stolen thunders will not bring showers Of
blessing.
The losses Of childhood are the gains of
manhood
silent idiot is wiser than babbhng
simpleton.
There can be no communion where there
is union.
Everything comes to the man who waits
and keeps on walking.
1t is easier to preach patience in the church
than It is to practice 1t with our children.
The prayers that, like jacobs ladder rise
from hard pillows, may reach blessed peace.
The man who says there is truth in the
world has mistaken mirror for the universe.
When you can honorably do the best way
to conquer your enemy is to concur with him.
1t will be time enough to indict others when
we have finished the inventory of our own
faults.
II takes less Of a FOOLS brain energy TO
doubt all things than It does for wise man
to accept one fact.
The GOSPEL would soon reach all men II we
were as anxious to tell the virtues OF Christ as
we arc to publish the faults of others.
It viii not help your husband to heaven to
leave him at home with cold victuals while
you go to your heart at the prayer
meeting.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-12-18
SAM JONES TALKS ABOUT
THE LEGISLATURES WORK

in Atlanta? If so, when VIII 1t be
built and viii it be occupied by all
the railroads running into Atlanta?
II these questions are answered in the
Affirmative, and satisfactorily answer
ed. 0then it would be the heighth of
foolishness to make the lessees of the
Western and Atlantic railroad put that
old depot in first-class repair. It
would be a waste of money without
bringing returns either to the state or
the lessees. know Major Thomas to
be a man of sense; a man of judg-
ment, and, above all. a man Of fair
dealing He is not a man that you
have to send the sheriff after or put
the governor on to. but he is a man
who will do right everywhere and
every when. Perchance. If the chair
man of the committee on invesuga-
ton Of the Cow she'd had not block
ed the wheels two years ago there
might have been a magnificent union
station now standing in place Of the
old one, and the states property pro-
tected. But win say, without sheriff
or governor to enforce the stipula-
tons of the contract, that so soon as
that new depot matter is settled.
forthwith will Mr.. Thomas proceed to
meet the states authorities on a prop
osition to either vacate me old depot,
or, If he is to use 1t. will put 1t in
hrst-class repair.
We all know that patience has been
exhausted long ago in reference to
the state Of things involved in the
problem Of a new depot for Atlanta.
It is one thing for railroads to improve
their own property; it is another
thing for tenants to improve the prop
erty of a landlord. But with patience
stretched out a little longer Atlanta
will have a magnificent depot in which
all the trains will run, or she will have
two depots; one a magnificent, and
the other repaired so 1t win be habit
able and comfortable.t am one citi-
zen who wants to see the depot prob
lem settled and there are million
others in Georgia like me. perhaps.
Let the Georgia legislature cut down
its appropriations about s250.O0o stand
by its present tax bill, adjourn and go
home sober, and win be satisfied.
Yours truly,
SAM P. JONES.
P. S.-Has any of the official family
OF The Journal resigned? You throw
a rock into a crowd of dogs and hit
one, he don't. turn TO another dog and
tell him that he win give him a dollar
to run and holler for him. but every
dog does his own running and holler-
ing. $. p. j.
Gainesville. Ca. Dec. II. 1902.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-12-18

profits of a single day made by its
promoters.
What is $3.50 per annum tax on a
slot machine? They ought to be taxed
out of existence, and if they cannot be
taxed out, they ought to, be kicked
out.
And a tax of 5000 a week on these
dirty, driveling, indecent street fair
shows! That ought to have been put
at a thousand dollars for each paint
ed, half-nuded woman, and more or
less on every other dirty thing that is
shown up in these street fairs.
And so it goes.
But when legislation is proposed
along certain lines that touch certain
corporate interests in Georgia, it is
said that paid counsel and lobbyists
turn up on the scene. / am utterly
opposed to lobbying unless all inter
ests go into the business. 1t is I'M
fair and unjust for one interest to
have its lobbyists. and another interest
unprotected and unchampioned by
either counsel or lobbyist. The farmer
and he is the man who gives us the
stan of life-whether crops are short
or long, whether he must mortgage
his land or deliver his last bale OF
cotton, and sometimes his last bushel
of corn in order to pay his taxes, he
must pay them all the same, and never
in the history Of this state were taxes
so hard to pay as they are in this
December month. 1902. Hard first be-
cause they are so high; hard secondly,
because the farmer has so little with
which to pay. That Is what makes
me say, just estimate upon all val
ues is the only just way to settle this
=
interests may suffer, but then, they
only get in the bed and lie down with
the masses in Georgia as they suffer.
The sturdy old Georgia farmer, who
made his ten bales of cotton this year
with three mules, pays two Of them
for guano, two for taxes. and then
tries to settle with the merchants.
doctors and preachers with the bal
ance of his cotton, has to sit down
to work out the problem: How many
times does six go into four? He winds
up by saying: by Granny, it won't
go at ALL" There is one each for four
of the crowd, but the other two must
go without.
I see the committee on the cow shed
has reported. am not one Of the
committee who made the investigation;
nor am the lessee of>the w. and A.
railroad, but there is more than
one question involved in the re-
modelling OF that depot. First: Is
there a new union station to be built
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-12-18

R HAVE been noting with interest
the acts and doings of the Geor-
gia legislature as the days of the
session ere drawing to a close.
They have really had up but twt
bills in which there is common in
terest to the people of Georgia: One
is the appropriation bill. the other
the tax bill. The tax bill seems to
cover everything on top of the earth
and under the earth. Their franchise
clause in the tax bill is one of the
most important with which they have
had to do. If they will only be wise in
their determinations betweens occupa-
ton tax and franchise tax. There is
a difference that makes the odds, and
there are the odds that makes the
difference. If Georgia is taxing val
ues, then IT Is only just that all values
should be taxed 1t requires wisdom,
justice and patience to reach right con-
illusions and do the right thing to-
wards everybody and everything.
They can tax some things out of the
state. They can run capital out of
the state. They can ruin the business
interest out of the state by unjust
taxation. But whatever is just, let 1t
De done though the heavens Idil duO
everything leaves the state except the
poor farmer, who cannot leave because
he is too poor to go.
There is much being said about lob
bying. Everybody thinks lobbying is
going on with the legislature. OF
course, what everybody thinks is not
altogether lie. Corporations can
employ counsel. Monied interests can
afford to employ lobbyists. But the
average poor devil in this country is
not able on the one hand to employ
counsel or lobbyists, nor Is he wise
enough on the other hand to form a
combination with his class to employ
lobbyists and counsel in his behalf.
The only ways that anything can be
well taken care Of is by employing
first-class brains to look after it,
whether it is in business or legislative
matters.
There are some things which ought
to be taxed TO the limit, because they
tax the patience and the pocket books
Of the masses. Whisky ought to be
loaded down to the guards, and legis-
lator who would pe lobbied with in the
interest of liquor is not flt to hang
on the back door of perdition. He
would not ornament the devils back
yard.
1 suppose coea-cola had counsel lob
bying in its. behalf for what is a
thousand dollars on the manufacture
of coca-cola? That may not be the
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-12-18

ton of the Monroe doctrine to the situa-
ton cannot be made until this motive on
the part of Germany develops; but many
there are who suspect that Emperor
William is but following out preconceiv-
ed plan to get around our Monroe doctrine
(Which Germany especially has never
liked, and which Bismarck once alluded
to as that piece of impudence'D, and es-
tablish himself in the western hemisphere
on a definite and solid footing.
If this be his purpose, the Monroe doc
trine will necessarily have to play a part
in the proceeding. But, unfortunately, we
are not now nearly 50 we'll situated for
dealing with this matter as we once were.
We have been indulging in a little "for-
J eign aggression ourselves of late years
and the nations of Europe might with
some justice, say it's poor Monroe doc
trine that won't work both ways.
We may feel deeply outraged that two
of the most powerful nations of the earth
should show so much brute force in deal
ing with a little nation like Venezuela,
without first exhausting every means to
secure an adjustment of their differences,
but we displayed some brute force our
selves four years ago when we suddenly
and arbitrarily swooped down on poor lit
tie Spain, cleared the seas of her antiquat-
ed ships and stripped her of her posses
sions.
Indeed, these reports Of the sinking of
Venezuelan gunboats and the destruction
of a Venezuelan fort by the powerful
ships Of larger nations read, for all the
world, like accounts of certain engage
ments which took place during the Span
ish-American war. So that we are not In
an advantageous position for doing much
talking about brute force"
Be these things as they may, however,
the Monroe doctrine still lives, and the
time may come when we will have to draw
it out and apply it to the South American
affair. We win be told, it is true, that we
are not entirely consistent in view of our
own record for the past few years-but,
then, consistency is a jewel that is not
always needed to be worn during troub-
Ious times. We may have to override pre-
cedepts which we, ourselves, have set,
and establish some new ones-as we did
four years ago.
And if we have to. we can. With France
and Russia ready to back up any move
that the United States might make. the
results might be serious. but the outcome
could hardly be in doubt.