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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-16
The "A" Class Boys Circus.
BY WILLIAM WALLACE. JR.

At 8 o'clock on Saturday morning the boys of the "A" class. fifth grade. met on the big public playground. that cov- cred half dozen vacant lots at the out hkirts of town. They brought with them curious assortment of things in carts. wheebarrows on sleds and in arms. that took on the semblance of shape after an hours hard work tall center pole was erected. and the great mass of gunny sacks. bedticking and pieces of sheets, which were sewn together with twine opened up into the form of huge tent This was soon pitched ana held securely in place to the center and side poles by bits of rope. platted twine scraps C., string and wire and wooden pins.
 Right manfully the "A" class worked, for by 2 o'clock everything must be in readiness for the circus.
 All fall the flfth-grade boys had been planning on and fixing for this enter tainment. Frankie Davis ingenious mind had conceived the idea of raising a fund to buy a library for the nith-graa,es g room, and the other boys of the "A class had promised their assistance Tn laying the foundation.
 On avery available occasion-at noons. after school and at spare time on SatuI- days they had come together to work ont their plan. and today was to see the fulnlment of the beginning. The teach CTS had been presented with compli- mentary tickets (bits of white paste board on which was written i'll a boyish hand Admit one'). but parents. friends, kin and kids" would be expected to pay admission fees at the gate. The price sci was 10 cents for adults and from 8 to cents for children. according to size
 Promptly at ? o'clock the procession led out to the tent. It was composed of a mixed crowd. There were several mothers of fourth and fifth grade boys and girls, a goodly number Of friends and relatives, a few teachers from the smaller grades and noisy. excited throng of little ones.
 Outside the grounds a curious crowd from the third and fourth grades; but they had been kept at bay by half a dozen of the big AS" who threw clods and sticks at the would-be fntruders, telling them that none would be allowed to approach the tent till o'clock, and then not one could enter without the necessary price.
 Frankie Davis. "chief instigator and promulgator" as the As" called him, stood at the entrance to take up the tickets which had been purchased by the crowd at the ticket booth five feet away, and presided over by Dock Payne and Dennis Ryan.
 Once inside the tent. 12-year-old Jack Collister, in a loud. vibrating voice, in- vited the people to please pass to the right and view the freaks and other animals of the me-nag-ry before seating
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-16
The Secretary Bird.

The secretary bird Is a South African species, though it is found as far north as Abyssinia. It builds it's huge nest of sticks in low bushes or tangled under brush. While sitting the remale secre- tary is fed by her mate. The young mature in strength very slowly. seldom leaving the nest till six months old.
 The secretary bird differs from the other members of the hawk tribe in it's exceedingly long legs. It is bird of prey, feeding on insects, small animals and reptiles, snakes being It's favorite food These reptiles are often of the most venomous kind but of them the secretary feels no fear, attacking them with it's great and powerful wings and beating them to helplessness. after which it swallows the victims whole and headforemost.
 Owing to it's value as a snake-eater. the secretary was carried in great mum bers to Martinique to help destroy the poisonous snakes that overrun that island.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-16

wish frien's As din lonR-side me pretty pupil! inside For think so much of you That l would eat you upF'
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-05

the musician and the artist continue TO
weAr long hair. We long ago placed
the fish proposition in the same cate
CORY with the fellow who wears his
hair long in order to be a deep think
err Now comes the declaration of sci
ence, as voiced by the London Lancet,
to the effect that fish is no more a
brain food than cabbage, or turnips or
roast beef. This is unwelcOme news
for the ministers, teachers, writer's and
musicians who have been subsisting on
fish diet for many years. If they
have not found out long go the fall
lacy of this notion about fish, they can
now contemplate the authentic state
ment contained in the London Lancet,
and change to a diet that is just as
nourishing, and much more easily pro-
cured. 1t is true, as a matter of fact,
that fish contains phOsphateS but so
do nearly all other meats in larger or
smaller proportion. The water we
drink and vegetables we eat all con-
tain prosphates. The human animal
could be "a profound thinker without
ever tasting fish of any kind. 1t is
true that fish is an excellent food be-
cause of its nourishng nature. be-
cause of the digestibility of its elements.
1t may digested and assimilated by
ston'achs that will not dispose of the
harder meats and other articles of diet
but it is in no sense a brain or nerve
food. If you want a good. clear brain,
capable of sustained and efficient
effort, drink plenty of good water,
breathe plenty of oxygen from the out
door atmosphere, take plenty of exer-
else and subsist OH simple foods of
highly nourishing value, easily digested,
easily asSimilated. For a bullying brain
you could have no possible use without
strong and vigorous body, a health
full circulation and rich blood to go
with it.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-05
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 5 1904

ach and kidneys, while the Tillman
process syrup will remain in barrels
for years, and, if any change, be-
come improved by time.
The Tillman process, though but re-
Gently patented, has been known, and
was used by the writer for many
years. During our later and unfortu-
nate war he made thousands of bar
rels of syrup, and as white sugar, as
any, except the refined, by this pro-
cess. 1t was pronounced then, as it
IS now, as being the best syrup known
to man. An elegant and highly Gull
tured gentleman writes thus of it:
4 have used your syrup process with
great satisfaction. 1t has proven all
and really more than you claim for it.
All of my syrup has stood the test of
the summer, and l am pleased to tell
you, if any change is perceiviable, it is
for being better than when first made
In your efforts to build up the agri-
cultural interest of the South, you
have proven yourself a philanthropist
who richly deserves the most profound
gratitude of all the farmers in the cane
belt"
The above is one of many acknowl-
edgements which 1 have, and am
thinking of having compiled and print
ed for distribution to inquirers.
Quitman, Ga. Joseph Tillman.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-05

Amateurs generally attach too much
Importance to experiments made on
experimental farms, says the Farmers
Review. These experiments are very
valuable to those that know how to
interpret them, especially to the men
themselves and other scientists en-
gagged in like work. They are of great
value to the farmer that has studied
the matter enough to understand that
a particular experiment means moth
ing beyond what it gives on the soil
on which it was tried and identical
soils. This thought needs to be inn
pressed on our agricultural communl-
ties. The fact is that on nearly every
kind of soil and in nearly every loca>
ton experiments need to be carried on.
A man may examine the soil at an
experiment station and the soil in the
field a hundred miles away and may
declare them Identical. And the two
soils may be identical as far as the
eye can detect and as far as even
the chemist can find out, and yet UNI
dar the same course of treatment may
yield entirely different results. For
instance there may be a sufficency of
nitrogen collecting bacteria in one soil
and a deficiency of the same organ
isms in the other soil, but what eye
NOuiu utlGCl AtlC
One can never tell what kind of
manure to put onto any one soil till
the trial has been made. The chemist
can show certain elements lacking or
in abundance, but he cannot show the
texture of the soil, nor can he tell how
rapidly the unavailable plant food
may become available. Every farmer
should therefore take up the matter
of the needs of his own farm and solve
he rroh1af,a nv Arirnapt xuntl1d
not be a difficult thing to put in a
large number of test plots and use
different combinations of fertilizers on
them. 1t would be a little trouble, but
would not require much land. Let
him prepare number of rows of diff
ferent grains and vegetables, includ-
ing grasses and forage crops, and
| across these let him run narrow rows
treated with lime and the various ele-
ments of fertility. The result will be
striking or it will not If all the crops
should do well 1t would show that this
| land was In a high state of productive
ity. But more often he would learn
that his land was deficient in GER
tain elements that could be cheapy
supplied.
In Southern Illinois thousands of
| farmers have been growing small
crops for a lifetime when If they had
followed some such plan as the above.
! they would have learned a generation
ago that their land needed lime to
neutralize the excess of acid in 1t, and
the information would have been worth
/ a competence to them by this time.
! Nothing can take the place OF this
| information, and il will be the cheap
est way to apply the Information that
! is being sent out in the bulletins from
/ the experiment stations Every eN-
/ pertinent at the stations is merely a
suggestion as to what should be done
/ on the soil of any one farmer.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-05
ItI.h 300 a Irnin-nulgcr.

There. has been great diversity of
opinion among doctors and scientific
food experts on the question Of fish as
a brain food, says the American Guilt
vator. II has been popularity supposed
all along that fish is rich IN the ele-
ments that nourish the brain and
stimulate thought In the same way.
though not FOR the same reason the
notion has prevailed that long hair
was the sign of "a highly developed fam
cy hence the long-haired poet and the
long-haircd literary man and the long
haired artist No one has ever been
able. however 20 trace the scient hc
relation between long and busav
crop of hirsute and highly developed
imaginative faculty, and get the post
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-05
The Garden-The Work Begins in
Autumn.

In the South the gardening year
properly begins in the fall with the
planting or sowing ofsthose hardy crops
that are rarely seriously affected by
the average cold of a Southern winter.
There are not many of these but they
are important Spinach and onions are
the hardest of our garden vegetables
and are rarely injured by the severest
cold if started in time so that they are
well rooted before severe cold occurs.
Cabbage. English peas, satisfy, kale,
beets, carrots. parsnips are all vegeta-
bles more or less hardy, allowing OF
fall planting anywhere below the lati-
tude of Macon, with only occasional
serious injury from cold.
Let the risk be what 1t may, the
trucker or gardener that grows them
for market will gladly take it. The
crop viii be the earlier and the finer
If not injured by cold.
Other work I'm the garden in the fall
is the planting of strawberries, rasp-
berries, asparagus; getting the cold
frames in order and starting in them
their appropriate crops.
In fact the measure of success in the
spring will be according to the measure
of work done in the fall as a general
rule.
Between now and the close of the
year nearly all the manurng of
the garden should be done. All vacant
plats should be listed up-huted as it
were-and any stable or lot manure on
hand should be spread broadcast The
good effects of freezing will be secured
to the land when thus ridged up.
Orchard work is more winter work
than fall work, but If there is grass or
weeds growing about the trees this
growth should be moved and allowed
10 lie on the ground and rot. A pillow
should not be allowed near any tree
that has begun to bear.
Two or three 2-horse crates of pine
straw will go a long ways judiciously
used in the truck garden in protecting
any half-hardy plants from injury
when severe freezes occur.
Hard freezes occur sometimes as
early as December, but usually not be-
fore January. Onions just up from the
seed have a very slim hold upon the
SOL for several weeks after coming up
and If the soil becomes frozen while
they are small the plants are likely Ia
be heaVed out and consequently killed
A sprnkling of pine straw, enough
10 protect the soil fully from the sun,
along the rows of plants six or eight
inches on each side will usually pro
tect from heaving. 1t is well worth
this precaution always Any trimmings
OF these plants can be transplanted
elsewhere after January. II Italian on
Bermuda varieties are used this fail
sowing is bound 10 be "A success II MOI
injured by freezing and the soil is
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-05
Roup or Diphtheria in Poultry.

Mrs. w, Dodge, Ga: The disease af-
fecting your poultry is probably
"roup," or fowl diphtheria 1t is a
very offensive and dangerous ailment.
and you cannot be too careful in the
treatment of it. 1t is more common to
the fall Of the year and is the result of
damp surroundings and possibly inn
pure water.
Amy fowls that die should be burned
or buried very deeply. and as far from
the premises as possible. All seriously
affected fowls should be killed at once.
See that the surroundings are made
perfectly clean and purified with lime
or solution of creoline. Rub the head
and neck with strong carbolated vase
line or carbolic salve.
Get a small bottle of sulphur or liq-
uid SULPHUR. So long as the fowls are
able 10 drink put a teaspoonful of this
in a half gallon of water for them. 9th
erwise, give "A spoonful or two of this
solution once or twice daily. 1t may
be too late now TO do much for them,
bat it may be worth its effort.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-05
Preserving the Fertility of CuItIvat-
ed Soils.

Soils that were naturally rich. such
as our oak and hickory lands were
when first opened for cultivation, al
lowed Of being cultivated on the ex-
tensiye plan for many years without
the application of artificial fertilizers
But continuous cultivation along with
the action Of the elements at last eX-
hausted all their natural fertility. and
II became necessary 10 resort TO fertil-
izer or either discontinue their cultiya
ton in hOcd crops. Some of our soils
in the South, AS wen as in the low
lands Of tile Ohio and Mississippi ba-
SIN. were originally 90 rich 10 required
from twenty Co thirty years OF uninter.
rupted cultivation in hoed crops. like
cotton, corn tobacco aud cane. To ex-
haust their fertility 20 a point thut
rendered them improbable for further
cultivation without the use of ui.
nure. when the humus became entire
ly exhausted from them the soil was
naturally regarded Is worn out
Chemical analysis shows that boa
these ao-called worn out soils it ek.
igis though 100 an ing0lublc form Cou.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-05
GARDEN
AND HOUSEHOLD
By S. A. COOK.


Sweet Potatoes-FoIIOw with wheat.
There is no question that sweet po-
tatoes are more of a renovating crop
than otherwise. They are as little eX-
haustive of nitrogen as any crop grown
on the Southern farm. 1t is a poor
farmer, or a farmer with very poor
land, that would be satisfied with less
than $50 bushels of potatoes per acre,
and such a crop only requires of the
soil the following number of pounds
of the three essential elements of plant
food; Nitrogen. thirty-seven pounds;
phosphate acid, fourteen pounds; pot
ash, fffty-five pounds. If the vines
are returned to the soil this would be
all that crop of $50 bushels of po-
tatoes would take from it. Any good
arabic soil, such as would yield a half
bale of cotton or fifteen bushels of
corn, would afford easily this much
of plant food without the application
of any commercial fertilizer. 1t would
only need good cultivation to make
such a crop.
on account of the dense shading of
the soil that the vines give from July
to October there is a constant forma-
ton of ntrates in the soil during these
months and once the soil is covered
with vines there is no danger of the
crop suffering for available nitrogen
the remainder of the season. 1t is
a wise provision of nature that there
is at no given time any great super
abundance of plant food in a soluble
condition. There are certain condi-
fions that regulate this, the chief of
which depends upon the supply of
humus in the soil. The more of this
present in the soil, the greater elab-
Grafton of soluble nitrogen, phosphOr-
GUS and potash than will constantly
be.
Intelligent farmers observed long ago
that the crop that follow sweet pota-
toes was almost invariably good even
if that crop was not started until
spring. But it is much the best plan
10 SOW some crop on the land as soon
as the potatoes are taken off. And
the crop of all others most adapted
TO the purpose is wheat. over a large
section of the South November has
been found the best month for SOW
ing wheat Put in properly then, ii
rarely fails. Sown at once, it gets a
good hold on the soil before the severe
cold of January. 1t makes use prompt
ly of the available elements prepared
by the sweet potato crop and prevents
these from being wasted by the winter
rains. Il is a good rotdtion-Wheat
after sweet potatoes.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-05
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-05
MAGAZINES.

The September number of the North
American Review is one of sterling in
terest and value Senator H. C. Lodge
advances a reason why Theodore
Roosevelt Should Be Elected President"
William F. Sheehan advocates the cleo
ton of Judge Parker Col. Robert
Bingham deplores the Sectional Mis-
understanding between North and
South, and offers a suggestion for their
mitigation. In an article entitled our
National Superstition, Barrett Wen
dell, professor of English in Harvard,
makes some surprising revelations as
to the quality of present-day education
in America. Charles w. Thomas pro-
poses "A Sixteenth Amendment" to the
constitution. Elizabeth Banks de-
scribes, amusingly but sympathetically,
the situation of the typical American
wife, whom she designates THE Edu-
Gated American Drudge The new
department on World Politics con-
tains Illuminating communications
from London, Berlin, st. Petersburg
and Washington.
North American Review, Franklin
Square, New York.
"A Prince to Order" is the title of the
leading story in the September Tales
from Town Topics" This story pos
sesses that which lifts it out of the
ordinary realm of narrative-ususuaI-
ness. The Prince to order is an Ameri-
can born and bred and thoroughly inn
busd with the democratic principles of
the Country-that is. until he is trans
formed. That "a man full Of such prn-
cipes could be found to enter into a
like scheme seems preposterous until
AIR Wayne tells us how II was eff
feCted. Then we realize its possibility,
and the possibilities. also. OF branches
OF psychological research that we as
yet see only through a glass darkly.
In addition TO the novel, Tales From
Town Topics contains much interest
ing matter FOR early autumn reading
Tales from Town Topics. Town Topics
Publishing Co, ASP Fifth ave.
The September magazine number Of
the Outlook contains many interesting
and valuable articles. The illustrations
are as fine as can be found In any pub
lication. and they have the advantage
Of being timely The leading articles
are The japanese Red Cross. hy
by J. 4. Trowbridrc The outlook r.
steadily winning rs way 20 the front.
Indeed, II is there pow. since there h
no one of the magazines that % more
highly appreciated.
The outlook. 90 Fourth ave. New
YORK CITY
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-05
FIRED ON HIS WIFE AND
A WHITE FARMER.

Columbia, S. c.. Sept. AT Cold
Point, near Laurens, this afternoon,
John Chappell. colored, went to the
house of John w. Moore, a white far
mer, 40 years old, and finding his wife,
Dollie Chappell, within, fired upon both,
Wounding the woman quite seriously,
while Moore escaped with four flesh
wounds. The negro fed.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-05
New buildings for MouItrie.

Moultrie, Ga, Sept 4.-Dr w r
Smith announces his intention Of build
ing block of six brick stores on East
Broad street to replace two stores re-
Gently burned, and four wooden build
ings which will be torn down. Work
will begin on the block next week
The building for the year will reach
a value OF more than S150,000.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-05

sequently unavailable large quantities
of nitrogen, potash and phosphoric
acid the three essential elements of
plant food but as they are so locked
up by certain, or rather unknown.
chemical agencies they might as well
not be there so far as any immediate
use can be made of them. While sci
ence has not yet discovered any chemi-
Gals, the simple application of which
in reasonable quantity will unlock
these locked up stores of fertility, still
science. or it's hand-maiden, common
sense. has pointed the way for attain
ing this result. though it cannot be
done in years time.
Restore to these worn lands only
small proportion of the humus or
humic acid they originally possessed,
and they will produce profitable crops.
A few years in grass (and clover
mixed with it, or giving the soil the
vines of a few pea crops will effect
this restoration generally
If we heed the lesson taught by older
countries we will find that as a sys
TEN of 'hoed" crops impoverishes the
soil that system gives way to pastoral
farming, a style of farming that in
wolves and enforCes increased attention
TO improved pastures and meadows
and stock farming as a matter of
tOuISCs liIlplleS dn lilCIGdSGu QudilbllS
of animal manure, rich in humus and
nitrogen.
When our soils become impoverished
or worn from d long continuance in
crops requiring clean culture such as
we have named we have only to devote
them to grass, such as our Bermuda,
and clover, such as Burr" and Lespe
dira and some other nitrogen produc-
ers for several years, and then with
the aid of a comparatively small guam
tity of mineral matter-potash and
phosphoric acid-they will still be ca
pable of producing very profitable
crops of one kind or another.
After soil has once been exhausted
fully of its humus, it requires very jul
dicious management thereafter to
make it produce satisfactory results.
There is only one natural reasonable
resort i'm such cases, and that is to
give the soil up to permanent grass
and clover for a few years. Humus
cannot be restored as so much mineral
matter can be restored. 1t must be
grown on the soil, and one year is not
sufficient for it's restoration.