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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-02
A WHOLESALE ISLANDER.

The Detroit Free Press, which was once
both a prominent and reputable news
paper. has emerged from its latter-day OBJ
security by reason Of its sneers at the per-
secuted Jews of Roumania and its libels
upon the south in the same connection. In
a recent editorial The Free Press attacked
Secretary Hay for his appeal to the pow
ers OF Europe to protect the Roumania
Jews, as they agreed to do under the
Berlin treaty.
The Free Press sneered at the alleged
outrages upon these unfortunate victims
of Roumanian cruelty In this fashion:
ITO be sure, the lot of the Roumanian
Jew is not a happy one. yet they do not
burn him at the stake If he is remotely
suspected Of having committed a crime
against society. He has few political priv
ileges, but they do not assassinate him
when he undertakes to exercise those few.
He has a melancholy social standing. but
they do not compel him to ride in Jim
Grow cars; they do not refuse to serve him
in hotels and restaurants, and they do not
lynch him II he grows insistent and I'M
dertakes to assert his lawful privileges"
The Detroit Free Press pretends to be a
Democratic paper, but we have never seen
from the most reckless bloody shirt jour
nal viler Islander OF the southern people
than is embodied in the positive terms
and palpable limitations of the editorial
from which we have quoted. There is not
professional Republican campaign liar,
now in service, or gone to the reward
which is in store for an his kind, who
ever did, or ever will surpass the mean
ness and villiany which this pretended
friend OF the south has embodied in the
words we have quoted.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-02

had or decree entered in divorce cases
within three months from the time the
default Is entered or appearance of the
defendant is fixed.
This change will put an end to the quick
divorces for which Illinois has become
famous, mainly because of the frequent
divorce scandals in Chicago.
The commission recommends the extern
sion of the time required for obtaining a
divorce for the reason that where d.
vorces are asked for on other grounds
than a desire to marry again the three
months after default is entered afford
time for reconciliations, explanations and
readjustments that will be improved by
many erring couples that have become es-
tranged for trifiing causes and misunder-
standings. 1t also affords ample protec-
ton for the innocent defendant in divorce
proceedings whose rights are ignored or
jeopardized by hasty action on the part
of the courts.
1t is not probable that we shall have
uniform divorce laws in all the states, at
least for long time to come There is
still less probability of federal legislation
on the subject of divorce, but there is a
growing tendency toward restraining di-
vorce by state legislation.
This has accomplished much in the last
few years and the prospects Of much more
general divorce reform are decidedly
bright.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-02
PROHIBITION STATES.

There are three nominally prohibition
states in New England. namely: Maine,
Vermont and New Hampshire.
The liquor question comes up in some
form or other at every state election in
any one Of these commemorative. Maine
and Vermont have voted already this
year on this seemingly interminable issue,
and New Hampshire is to vote on it next
month.
The prohibitionists lost several sheriffs
in Maine and had still more decided re-
verses in Vermont, where, for the first
time in many years, the Republican candi-
date for governor failed to receive a ma
jority, and the election will have to go
to the legislature.
The license party has gained greatly in
Vermont in the last few years. and counts
confidently on carrying the state at the
next election.
The campaign now going on In New
Hampshire is one Of the most animated
I'm the history of that state. and the re-
suit is conceded to be doubtful.
Prohibition is laxly enforced in both
Maine and Vermont, but is a notorious
burlesque in New Hampshire.
In the cities of that state Intoxicating
liquors are sold either openly or under
such thin disguise that nobody who wants
a drink has any trouble in getting it.
The indications point to the emascula-
ton or absolute repeal of the prohibition
law i'm the state
The Democrats are demanding the SUBJ
stitutiOn of high license for prohibition as
they have been doing for years past.
The Republicans have evidently weak
ened on prohibition. as their platform
merely calls for a revision Of the liquor
laws. leaving it for the Legislature to de-
termine what changes shall be made.
The Republican candidate for governor
is not advocating a continuance Of the
prohibition regime. but is pledged to APP
prove whatever act on the subject the
legislature may send to him.
Prohibition las clearly lost ground In
New Hampshire ever since the last cleo
ton.
1t is the general belief that the Leg
islature 10 be elected in November will
have a majority in each house favorable
! to the substitution of high license for pro-
hibition. In New Hampshire prohibition
seems to have been an even worse failure
| than usual.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-02
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

Birds that fly low no game for sportsmen.
Grass widows not so green their
name.
Most friendship wouldn't keep even II you
embalmed 1t.
Sermons are made to be preached; stories to
be listened to.
It is better to be made fool of by women
than to he ignored by them.
It's uniucky for a boy who needs spanking
to have a mother with big feet
Goodness is measured by the opportunities II
does not have to be something else
The woman who smokes does It as natur-
ally as the man who battles the baby.
In trade either you are afraid that the other
fellow will cheat you or that you won't CHEAT
him.
1t takes only will power to face your mother
in-law, but It takes heroic fortitude to love
her pets.
Marrying a woman who knows her own
mind means marrying a woman with Wild
cat temper
A woman can gain an awful lot Of flesh
without anybody discovering 1t except her
corset maker.
A bachelor in his second boyhood and
widow in her second girlhood head the list Of
harmless idiots.
When a girl refuses to give she is
flirting with her photograph, it is a sign II
does not 1atter her.
In rainstorm woman would much rather
get her stockings wet all the way up than
the narrowest hem of her skirt.
What could have been the of Ewes
wearing clothes when there were no other
women to be jealous of them?
You can never make a woman understand
that a who isn't afraid OF a mouse can
feel any different about burglar.
Generally the old man with the long. flowing
whiskers and benevolent mien is having des
Perate Irritation with some slip OF girl
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-02
BY MRS. w. n. FELTON,.

grieving that the United States should
attempt to govern the Filipinos without
their consent when there are 100000
of colored people in the south, although
they are in the majority in several states,
no longer have a representative in this
house and are no longer permitted to exer-
else an elective franchise"
"Straws show how the wind blows
In the name Of all that is good and just
why does not New York send a colored
man to congress or put one in the post
Office or custom house in that city or
make a United States senator out Of
some one of the educated negroes Of that
section?
What is sauce for the goose might be
seasoning for the gander, don't you think?
An uneducated Filipino is certainly as
good as an uneducated African. Whence
these tears over the negro when Jake
Smith received and executed military or
ders to kill all Filipino boys over ten
years old, to reduce population and con-
troll the natives?
And why do not our people stand up
and tell them that negroes have more
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-02
MR. DOOLEY ON ARCTIC EXPLORATION.

away; he's reached tn Pole: he's pull
in 1t up be tn roots; bravo Baldyl'
AN so he goes Till mis- hands is all
chapped firm thinkin' IL tn cold an
his leg is lame firm tn encounter
with Polar bear an his rockin' chair
is in danger iv bein' dashed to pieces
again tn threacherous pianny. An
wan day a message comes firm tn other
explorer: Rio Janeiro. We have ray
turned baffled but not defeated. TIL
picked walnuts give out befure we
reached tn West Indies. AS far as
we've gone we've had excellent ray
suits. TIL cap'n, tn mate, tn cook,
tn stewart an eighty per clint iv tn
crew is in ir'n an as soon as I've
got this tillygram off I'm goin' In to
punch tn surgeon. / congratulate We.
Ye'er name will stand high among tn
binnyfactors iv science. We have dem
onstrated beyond fear iv contradiction
that tn gulf sthreams is JUS where it
was an that volcanoes amt what
they are cracked up to be. Our motto
is: "Niver give up tn ship. It's too
comfortable" Who's ye'er banker
here?' Whin tn millyionaire dies iv ex-
posture, a victim to science, tn marin
ers rayturns an letchers on tn sub
ject, 'Quarrels Have Had
tn terrors iv Artic exploration, Hinnis-
sy! There's where We get thin. Did
We liver go to an Attic exploration
fletcher? I did wanst. They was wan
down at tn brothers school las win
Their. I've been lame iver since.
''None Nv it in mine, II We place.
MS too hot wurruk in thin clothes.
nm aven If We get up near tn pole,
what's 1t good Err? TIL climate is
disagreeable, an tn s'ciety is monot-
onous. Ivrybody dhresses alike. TIL
wan tailor makes tn clothes fr pah,
nah, Lucille an tn Polar bear out Nv
tn same patthern. II We go to coort
a girl, We don't know befure she
speaks whether tits hersilf or her I'm
Gle Mike. I heerd Nv an Artic explorer
wanst that held hands with a Swede
sicond mate f'r over an hour befure
he rallied his mistake.
mo, sir, no Attic explorations FIR
me, ayether pers'n'lly or be check.
But if I did go into it, know who
I'd sind. I'd not fool around with
people who begin to cough within
sight iv tn car barns. I'd utilize tn
folks in tn neighborhood. I'd path
ronize home INDUSTRIES. TIL pole FIR
tn polars, says I. They mus be
hundreds Nv la-ads in that part Nv tn
wurruld that'd be willin' to earn an
honest dollar be discoverin' tn pole.
With thin 'twud be like We goin' down
to explore tn stock yards. bet man
ny Nv thin knows tn pole as we'll as
/ know Haley's slough. Ye'd prob-Iy
find they've hung their washin' on 1t
fr years an nanny iv tn kids has
Skinned up it."
Who'd We sind?" asked Mr.. Hennes
sy.
"Esqueemos," said Mr.. Dooly.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-02
wHEN MILLIr sToP7

The statesmen who predicted twenty
FIVE or thirty years ago that when the
pension expenditures OF the United States
reached S75,COO, goo they would begin to fall
on and continue steadily to do so were
wofully mistaken.
AS the civil war, upon which the great
bulk of these pensions is based, recedes
the number of pensions and the amount
paid out for them grows necessarily.
At the beginning Of last month the UNI
ted States pension roll passed the one
hundred million mark for the first time
in history.
The actual number reported on the
first OF August. 1902, was 1,OO1,497.
In connection with these figures 1t is in
teresting to remember that the total en-
roIlment Of the United States army during
the period of 1S61-65 was 2.S5s,1S2 OF these
there were killed in battle and died from
wounds and diseases 3o4,969 men. The
war came to an end nearly forty years
ago, and since then great numbers more
must have passed away.
The extension and increased liberality OF
tie terms upon which pensions are gran
ted. the flood Of private pension bills that
pour through congress at every session
and the frauds that are worked off on the
government much more than Offset the
natural decrease in the number Of PEN
sloners.
We have pensioners of the war of 1872
still on the roll, being widows Of soldiers
of that var.
There were about 100000 men enlisted in
the United States army for the war with
Spain, first and last and nobody can cal
culate how long the pension roll will con-
tinue at its present gigantic proportions.
or how far above them II will go.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-02
STOCK RAISING POSSIBILITIES
OF OUR SOUTHERN STATES
BY MAS W. HUNT EAToNToN, THE JERSEY BULLETIN

thrive on the medicine they had found
for themselves.
Since that day, not only salt, but ashes.
sulphur and Line are kept for the cows
to consume what nature demands. Also,
phosphate of lines IS <ad to every cow
before ealving and to every brood mare
that has not nau trip to Kentucky.
The feeding tables Of balanced rattons
may be in balance for certain localities.
but are certainly out of balance for other
parts of our great country 80 widely diff
ferent in soil and climate. said no ex-
pertinent station had given this subject,
much attention, but 1 recall some bod
feeding experiments in one Of the middle
western states, proving that ashes fed to
hogs strengthened their bones Is per cent.
Not only the strengthened bone was not
ed, but great economy in growth over
the hogs not fed on wood asnes. The les
son from these facts is obvious without
comment.
In conclusion. let me say to my west
ern kinsman, there Is not an obstacle to
successful stock raising in Dixie that can
not be met and overcome with far less
effort and cost than you are expending
to reclaim the drought-scourged desert
plain. Texas cattle fever can be exter-
minated, 'big head" and hollow tail"
can be cured or prevented. So much for
the special animal diseases of the south.
And, now in comparison with the far
western desert on which you have fixed
your eyes: Bermuda grass is more fat
tening than cactus spines or sage
brush, and are not your southern kin"
prairie dogs, rattlesnaAes and jack rab-
bits" lone south, young man; come
south" MRS. B. W. HUNT.
Eatonton Ga
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-02

tendency toward absorption into the hands
OF the comparatively few. This he believes
to be true, especially of the criminal prac-
tiee. This respondent editor tells us that
he has been driven reluctantly to the
conclusion that within 20 years the indi-
vidual or general practice lawyer will be
extinct, except i'm remote country dis
tricts. AS a calling. he declares the law Is
fast becoming obsolete.
This is undoubtedly a pessimistic view
and one that will not be accepted either
by a majority of the legal profession, or
the public at large.
The legal profession is crowded I'M
doubtedly, but not more so than the pro-
fession of medicine and some others that
might be named.
We have an abiding faith that the aver
age American lawyer will continue to take
care of himself.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-02

- ETWEEN the west and south
- there are no natural barriers;
there is a peculiar sympathy, and
should be better understanding.
Our ancestry is often the same. Virginia
or Pennsylvania, or the farther northern
states. sent some of their adventurous
sons to the Carolinas and on to Georgia
and still on to the Lone Star State,
and some crossed the Alleghanies into
Ohio and on the great northwest. IL
matters not. We are children Of the same
far-away grandparents The same blood
runs in our veins. We of the west and
south have known different conditions,
and solved different problems. from those
of the longer settled eastern states.
What matters it that the west raises corn
and wheat and we down south raised
cane during the war;
Let bygones be bygones. The western
er is my kinsman and love him. love
his warm hand clasp and cordial greeting,
and honest, kindly way. 1t is like that
of the south. and I feel as much at home
in a typical western town as 1 do in At
lanta or New Orleans.
So this advice is to my much-scattered
and far-separated family connections in
the great west, in whom / feel deep
interest. We have long hoped to welcome
more Of you down in the cotton states,
but your course has been set by the star
of empire" and it has led you to arid
lands afar; to the land of the desert, to
the sage brush and to the cacti, whose in
habitants are the prairie dog, the rattle
snake and the jack rabbit-a waterless
land, a verdureless land, over which ma
ture has ceased to shed tears Of pity, and
which man must irrigate to raise food for
himself and his flocks and herds.
South of you lie fair, fertile plains and
waving wooded slopes that are watered
by the same rivers that bless and enrich
your own land. Nature stretched no
dividing line between us, yet this region
of fadeless summer and never-dying YER
dure is practically unknown to you.
Far be it from me to deceive you with
misleading statements ABOUT the south
as a grazing country, or as adapted
raising. There are difficulties to be met
and overcome in these as in all avoca-
tions, and in the south there are few
precedents established Should you pur-
chase a cotton plantation anywhere from
Virginia to Texas you would have the eX-
perience of many generations to guide
you, in seed and in SOIL labor trained
and skilled in cultivating your crop. and
gathering it; the long established ginnery
to clean the lint; the screw to pack and
bale 1t; the buyer ready at hand for the
''fieecy staple; and the world to consume
1t.
With your dairy, conditions would be
very different; If the price for cotton is
too low you can keep it a year-or in
definitely. Your butter or milk must be
sold today. Hence the great and crying
need of the south for more population to
consume perishable products. But as to
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-02
SOUTHERN JERSEYS
IN ISLAND OF CUBA

HAVANA, CUBA, Aug. u lS0z
Editor Jersey Bulletin:
Dear Sir: Paphie of Pamela, from the
herd of Mr.. B. w. Hunt, Of Eatonton,
Ga. is the gentle Jersey COW that with
out interruption has provided my family
with milk. cheese and butter since the
first day in June. 1898.
BY Orlando of Pamela she gave me the
heifer, Fortuna, which is proving to be
as good as ner dam. Both have been
bred to Menifee's King of st. Lambert,
bought for me by the same Mr.. B. w.
Hunt from Shallcross & Son, of Anchorage,
n.y., and thus for Fortuna has given me
a beautiful and promising heifer. and
Paphie is due by the middle of September
next.
My cattle are fed on ensilage, and a
ration of corn meal and bran, less ex-
pensive than oats; are bathed every day
during hot weather, and protected from
the burning sun and heavy rains.
Buttermaking would be promising in
dustry in this country If we had Jerseys.
Southern cattle become easily accllmated
here, and it would be to the interest OF
Jersey breeders to promote the selling OF
their cattle amongst US.
My efforts to form a Jersey cattle club
have not yet met with success.
DIR. ]. M. QUILEZ.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-02

"perishable products (meaning milk and
butter), can they be successfully made in
the cotton states? 1 unhesitatingly an
swer: Yes; given the Jersey COW, Ber-
muda grass and the southern cow peas.
The northern grasses are not all suited to
the south Atlantic and gulf states, where
cotton has exhausted the soil and sum-
mer ever fingers in the air"
There is something in connection with
this exhaustion of soil that must be also
stated for the benefit of the stranger.
Not only the worn out lands, but the al
luvial lands Of the south, are deficient in
bone-forming material. Colts and cattle
raised by us in the south have not The
bony equipment of those on lands under
laid by limestone, and the lime must be
supplied in the food and drink. Our mares
that produce small colts in the cotton
belt raise larger ones when sent to Ken
lucky to Craze on hme-enriched blue
grass; hence a lesson long ago learned; to
supply the missing bone-forming mate
rial to the southern animal, be it horse
or dairy COW.
lack of lime and phosphates in our soil,
that are discouraging but not at all in
surmountable. Take the matter OF So
called (by the unlearned) hollow tail"
In cows. The scientist will sheer at the
nomenclature, but the practical, observ-
ing southern dairyman knows diseased
condition does exist in his cows which
may as we'll be called hollow taiI'' as
anything else-as big head" (osteo po-
rosis) In horses, which also exists and Is
due to the same cause-lack Of lime in
bones.
The tall Of the COW and the head"
of the horse are no more affected than
the whole bony structure, but why deny
the disease because incorrectly classified?
This is not a depression. 1t is an i'm
portant factor in success or non-success
in stock raising in the south, and should
be carefully noted by the dairyman who
must substitute Bermuda for his north
ern timothy and bluegrass.
One never questions the wisdom and
economy of supplying fertilizer to the
land deficient in necessary constituents
but few realize the same necessity of
the animals body. Hence the fatal er-
rors of the southern stock raiser. Even
those who should know better, make
little effort to supply the animals ma
lures lack of phosphates in red clay and
alluvial land. There is no disease of the
bones known-even the so-called incura-
BILE "osteo porosis" or big head"-that
will not yield to suitable treatment; this
treatment being the supplying the animal
with bone-forming material which ii can
assimilate.
There are few experimental stations
that have given the subject the atten-
ton It deserves. / would not know
where to refer the reader for information
except to the few pioneers in the south
whose experience, like the writer's has
ben long and costly.
1t was many years ago noticed my
sick Jerseys eagerly licking ashes and
charcoal from burned pine trees in the
pasture 1t was. an object lesson never
forgotten, as the Jerseys all began to