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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-08-04
ATLANTIC CITY DEFIES Law
OFFICIALS FRANKLY ADMIT THE
TOWN rs WIDE OPEN.

Prosecutor Tells Excise Investigator M
Has Made Ne Move TO Step Sunday
Selling because me People Favor IT
sheriff and Police Chief Coeiiy Defiant.
ATLANTIC CIrY, N. j., August s.-A cool
defiance of law and Of any punishments
Its infractions might entail was displayed
by the officials Of high and low degree who
gave evidence to-day before the New Jersey
excise investigatorsl appointed by Gov.
Fort. Their testimony was that Atlantic
City was run without heed TO the Bishops
law and would continue TO be 80. and that
the legislation which could check them had
not yet been born.
Headed Thy Prosecutor Clarence GoldenI
berg and Mayor Franklin P. Stoy. and
including in their ranks County Judge
Enoch A. Higbee. Recorder James H. Hayes,
Jr., Malcolm woodruff. Chief Of Police
Mayors and police chiefs Of other town
ships in the county and hotel owners and
local business men. the witnesses filed by
and with in~sistent unanimity said vir-
tually:
Atlantic City Is run vide open. We
shut the front doors Of saloons and show
them how TO conceal the open back door.
The Grand Jury that would indict us can
not be drawn in Atlantic county. and IL
We had q mind to remedy these violations
the combined force Of Mayor. Judge, Prose-
cutor and Sheriff could not do 1t. beoause
nine out Of ton taxpayers In the city want
an open Sunday. Now. what are you going
to do about itf'
Prosecutor Goldenberg. the first witness
called by the commission. said that never
In his term Of Office had he ever made o
move to correct the lawbraaking which he
60 6andidly admitted because 1t would be
an idle fitting at wind mills.
THE people Of the county are getting
the kind OF government they want" he
said. .and 80 overwhelming IL public senti-
mont In favor. Of lenienoe to these infrac-
tons Of the Bishops' law hat do not believe
a panel Of any twetty-thres men could be
drawn which would return an indictment
against the men charged with them
County Judge Higbee admitted freely
that a Intervention on hls part would cur
tail HE usefulness On the bench almost
viola ton Of the Bishops Law could not be
done away with or even punished In the
county.
Il do believe. however, be added, shat
II the charge against any man were Of keep
t Ing 9 If d sse sssiss housf shi OF Grand aag . Jafg would would
indict and D petty jury convict the offender
Smith e. johnson. Sheriff. Of Atlantic
county. was vigorous In his challenge that
he not only had not interfered with the
open saloons on Sunday but that he was
commission could show him how to run
the Sherif's Office they could take his head
for q football.
Chief Of Police Woodruff said that II the
officers under the excise law were arrested
avl ~Aa-rAzknl AuASxx AnxS fN~ at~ nDntk
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-08-04
SOMETHING WITH GIRLS IN 1T
AND INCIDENTALLY MUSIC, PLOT,
JOKES AND PATHOS.

That's 'SThe GiFi Question:" Produced al
Walaaek's ss the Summer Seasons Tail,
endef-ChicaeO Liked Tt, and nc vii
Pass Muster Here for . Brief Spell.
The Girl Question one of those regular
musical comedies full OF girls with six OF
eight kinds Of costume, music that won't
make Victor Herbert jealous and q little
plot spun slowly through three hours, q
few Jokes and D little pathos to make @heart
interest," came 10 Wallack's last night
to oil out the summer season.
Out In Chicago IL ran $50 nights or 90.
That is q long time In this town for a sum-
mer show which is about the best descrip-
ton thatEfts this particular piece. Com
petition isnt very brfsk at this time of year
n some folks like EN- pretty light any
way. 30 "The Girl Question will survive
the t~ransplanting for . while anyway.
Last nights audience. composed Of a few
regular frat nighters, many visitors who
are welcome to u city and moro folks
who themselves had been rehearsing all
day long, found Q number Of things that
they liked.
There's nc need 10 go into the plot. Il
only served to introduce q few characters,
one OF two Of which had novelty enough to
be Interesting. For example, there's the
Bdroa Mar toh Tesmdr. played by Carl H.
George in . delightful vein. His difficulties
with the English language didn't remind
one Of Weber And Fields. They sounded
right. n tho actor succeeded In presenting
Q picture Of q real German gentleman in q
manner quite out Of the ommon
Then there was Isabel Diamond, who
was 30 pretty and graceful that every one
liked her; and Junie MoCree who got some
humor out Of the part Of a restaurant man.
aeer who knows a. much about slang as
about food.
One Of his Jokes wa about a plumber.
He's o man. was the definition, "who
gets paid % oents IN hour Tor sleeping
under q bathtub.'
Helen Royton showed her usual dash,
and George Drow Mondum, in spite Of the
fact that her lines sometimes approached
the sobblng point, did . few good bits Of
acting a. q waitress who inherited the rail-
road stock that had to come out before
the inal curtain could descend.
A large chorus changed clothes often,
looked pretty and young and displayed
good form. Some Of the show girls had
sheath skirts. Apparently no musical
comedy 10 complete without them nova
days. The music was good enough. Joseph
E. Howard composed It. To finish out the
record let II be announced that Hough and
Adams wrote the book and George Marion
staged II. Whoever evolved a few Of the
color schemes ought to be talked to severely.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-08-04
BISHOP BRENT DECLINES
Diocese OF washington and WIN Continue
Work In Philippines.

BosroN. Aug. s.-The Right Rev. Charles
Henry Brent, d. D.. Episcopal Bishop OF the
Philippine Islands. to-day announced tina,
he had declined after long and careful
considers ton TO succeed the late Right Rev,
Henry Y. Satterlee as Bishop OF the Protee.
tant Episcopal Diocese OF Washington.
This decision is u result OF the Assurance
on The part Of specialists that the Bishop
harder but more fertile fields embraced
In the country's insular possessions with
out fear Of jeopardizing his health.
The welcome medical verdict was ell that
the Bishop desired TO reach q conclusion,
fered Of late proved h be Of q character
which would compel o change OF climate
Biehop Brent would have accspted ths call
20 Washington. -
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-08-04

wanted 10 SLICK 70 redmond even then, but
produced the letter. the yeiioWed. faded SSe
letter that her own mother had written
after Redmond had abused her cruelty.
Then you can bet the brave girl turned on
Redmond. There's a lot Of spunk in these
golden haired. blue eyed girls when they
She started back to Angel Gulch with
Topds and Young Buffalo. and you had a
feeling there was going to be big trouble
before they ever saw Angel Guloh again:
up e. the third act, you saw what Red
mond's bunch Of fends were up to. They
we're hiding behind every rock Int tree at
DEVILS Ford. waiting for the boat that was
bringing Year0 Bsfaio And Topaz and
Phoenix. Hushl Here they come, with old
Topaz rowing and Young Buffalo wiping
the tears from LiHidn's eyee. Great heav-
ems! Are they blind es batsf Can't they
rocks?' is it possible that Young Buffalo
Bangl The first shot. Then, crack!
crack craokl From every rock and tree
Is shot in the shoulder; Young Bafato's
sombrero is torn from his curls by q dozen
bullets and goes spinning into the boiling
river: Lillian screams and falls back bleed
ing from a bullet which burrows her pink
than the old gambier and the daredevil
sasrH Of Angel Gulch, Caught in Red
y1oNds trap they fight till the last gasp,
Young Bafdlo's blue steel guns dropping
o redskln at every vicious bark, old Topdzfs
six shooter splitting out leaden death every
lime he crooked his ~foreanger.
They will escape! By heavens, they will
i9ii that gang yeti Mol Chief Plenty
Holes has swum up behind the canoe and
has slit the thin bark. They are sinkingl
Another instant and Redmond and 0eod
Louson, laughing soornfully, have dragged
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-06-06

MeAars, Editors: | have been
thinking for some time | would CT
press tn you my appreciation OF tho
good paper you arc giving tho pco-
pie: and ma the land In too wet TO
plos and has been an for nix days.
I will have u little chat with you and
your honorcd anhacr!bcra. The Ca
r"tt" Is tho bees, farm paper In tho
South. ~ithou, question. Even my
wife reads II ~i,h aa much apprecia-
zion na | do. | am very much intcr-
Gated In the improved methods of
farming: but | think We should TAX.
.nto consideration circumstances be
!orc We spend "A large amount for
"eedsrs. cotton choppers. auikicm,
etc. | believe We can gee, left on
pillow tools an we'll nn anything else.
The condition OF the land. seasons
and prices should NIL be taken into
consideration. ! know several far
rnera In my section I.cake County,
Miss. J. who bought 40-dollar sulky
blows who have not run them three
days In Ave years. You don't want
my snlky In roots. and crooked rows
and hillHidcs.
think evcry farmer ought To have
Mt least two horses and break his
land with n 2-horse plow when the
condition Of the land permits. I will
give my simple way OF farming.
which | believe IL m economical M
may be practical. | call myself tho
farmer preacher that Is. | supple
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-06-06

Is another thing inquired about.
Drills about three and one-half feet
apart are recommended. with the idea
OF giving cultivation. The cultiva-
ton will keep down grass and weeds
and make n larger yield OF the crop.
Some object TO drills, since 1t makes
cutting with n mower somewhat din
cult. But II level cultivation is
practised. the mower car be run d.
agonally across the rows. II run par
allel with the rows. too much OF the
cutting comes nj one place on tho
sickle bar: and II the mower Is run
straight across the rows. the sickle
then has too much work thrown on
(, all ut once. when tho cutting In
done with acythes or hoes. two COM
mon methods and two that are we'll
quited TO small acrcagcs. drills will
be convenient.
II the crop Ia TO bc pasturcd on.
drills will DO satisfactory in every
wav: and II n crop In TO be raised
in drills after tho peas. the new drill
can be right over tho pea drill. 10
~ 10 have tho pea roots 90 subsoii
the L. nd well where Il will do the
following crop the most good. The
land aill also no most; improved
where tho roots o. tho following crop
will feed most.
We do o know tus. Why planting
peas IN drills gives Tho largcs, Yield
Il may be because moro sunlight
reaches the lover part OF tho sinca
k~ow that corn can he planted M
hsck tina, IL ~lll make only small
Htalks and very iittie grain. Thickly
planted p~am go further In this r~-
8pcr, Than Tho corn The corn may
give n large Yield al hay. with y re-
duccd Yield Of grain. while tho peas
~ planted TOO thick may give n 70.
siured Yield 81 both hay and acca. On
tho very h!-h. priced land OF Europe
1T IN found profitable Ia plant small
grain In drills that arc cultivated, On
our cheaper land In this country.
'riliing small grains and rul;tva,sng
hem ~ not practical. but the Euro.
,~an practice non many growers
~ small grain nhowa tina, planting
peas in drills and cui,ivating them IL
nigh, b. supposed.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-06-06
Advertising Rates in The Gazette.

The general advertising rates In The On
zette are strictly tLs per single eolumr
inch. without discount for time or snao.
That is to say. a one-inch single column nd
costs st.b each and every time It appears
whether one week or one year: q half.inch
adj - cents each and every time f, appears.
= inches. e. Is: inches. A9. etc.
The one and only exception TO this rule I.
that. in order to encourage the live stock ana
poultry interests In our territory. we MAXI
= special discount OF 10 Ter cent on live stock
and poultry DDS running 3 months or louYe,
~ rcr ecut on live stock or poultry ads run.
nsus 9 months or longer. ard ~ Ter cen, on
such ads running ono rear or longer.
Thcsc discounts will positively never BE-
allowed on any other class OF advertising
except Tive stock and Poultry ads.
Copy for H~,r ads. or for change of eopv
sho.sid rearh ss 10 days ia ad~aree Of IN.
dss~ Of fhe ias.r in 1h'eh fh~v are %
appear.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-06-06
Editorial Comment:

Editorial Comment: II In shown
rom. per acre. exclusive Of the gar.
den. Mas about t3s. and that tho In
come u"r month for tho year was
Owes $50. Thia IN no, drducstng the
usIne expenses. but from the items
mentioned. II Is fair to presume. the
grown nj home. possibly ss,m. w.r.
solt Ia help huy greaH~sica. Suppose
a man saa working In town for $50
y month fs tho time he had met
,nnnt ~ Tho expenses that ono living
on a farm has 10 meet and "a number
of other expenses that onr living on
II farm does not hare To meet. the
$50 81 tho man in town would look
like a minus sign In front O! a dollar
mark tha; had something following
II, This farmer In his own boaH that
ls. II ho docsn't wear tho collar of
ntu man who furnishes him aup.
plies. The man In town has many
t~oaHrs. whether he works for himself
or no.. He In open 10 all morta OF
criticism that the farmer does NOT
hnv" TO bear. II he Ia not unusually
bright. The man In town will be-
II mana hoaAcd hircling nil hta
life. II ho In bright. he could ind
on the farm full opportunity 10 turn
hsa active mind tn honorable and
monoy~making service. Iiia oppor-
,unity 10 make a living. and a good
one. on the farm would not depend
on tho good will of II man. Th.
showing mad" In this letter ia not
very large: but II IA farmer preacher
who supplements his ministerial
work by farming makes such II show
ing from his own farm work, IL
would Ne"m that men who give all
'hcir time To farming ought 10 do
still better II they would supplement
their farm work with thought.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-06-06

The question III also asked what
variety will be best for Delta condi-
tons. The first preceding paragraph
viii enable one 10 choose which suits
him best. The distance OF planting
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-06-06

ment my ministerial work by farm
ing for n support. and enjoy 1t. |
break my land with Ave burrows to
"A 5-foot row. by running the fertilizer
distributor first. opening the furrow
and putting fertilizer in at the same
time: list with a double stock. 2-bull
tongue scooter: and n 2-horse. steel
lister makes n good bed. Then n
l2-inch blunt middle splitter COM
pletes the row. and the land Is brok-
on deep enough for all practical pur-
loses.
made last year. on land that was
worn out twenty years ago. : 500
pound bales of cotton on 10 acres.
i65 bushels OF corr on nine acres. 20
bushels OF peas on } acres. so gal
Ions Of nnc syrup on is acre. so
bushels OF potatoes on Ia acre. be-
sides peanuts. the garden and water
melons for family use on IL acre.
All this was done by my " labor
Indirectly. The summary OF tho crop
in value IL IA follows:
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-06-06

The average yield from a iarer
number OF teat plots WAS 2.olT
pounds OF Whippoor~iii pea hay per
acre and 5.063 pounds OF Clay pea
hay per acre. But the Whippoor wiil
variety gave "A much heavier yield
OF seed. and could be uscd more
p~Icftably where the production Of
seed was the principal aim. From
the same test plots just mentioned
the Whippoor will variety gave nm
average Of over Is bushels per acre.
while the clay yield gave AN average
yield of less than I bushels. Fur
thermore. there were over SIS per
cent OF the Whippoorwiil peas In the
hnlls. while less than 62 per cent OF
the Clay peas were in the huiis.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-06-06
Florodora Cotton Seed!

Early and Prolific. The beat long
staple cotton for the hills. Sold for
;. ecn,s per pound last year. Our
Seed are pure.
Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Roses,
aud etc. adapted to tho South.
Reduced prices for February and
March. Write for price list.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-06-06

Another typical question came
from the Mississippi Delta. for infor-
nation as 10 the relative yield OF
Clay and Whiproor~ill peas and for
full information or the pea ,hresher
recently mentioned In these columns
Az the men who are pushing that
,hrcshcr have begun 10 advertise II
and are ready now to market IL. &,
will be bcs, for possible purchasers
To address the manufacturers direct
Their address In Roger Pea and bean
Thresher Co. Morristo9n. Tenn.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-06-06

~ Our d8ddtea ~~ aaJ t3TmtG.
doesn't pay. Next time | will tell
how | worked my crop and the
amount of fertilizer uacd.
G. W. MUTT.
Lena. NiHa.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-06-06

since IupIb ItCtIlIs dDpSdiNu Ia
these columns the article under the
caption of How 10 Plant Less Pei
Seed and Get Larger Yields" a num-
Der have expressed surprise bordering
on establishment that fifteen pounds
or a peck Of pea seed be recommend
ed for planting. When such seeding
was advocated. 1t was not on any
theoretical basis; but 1t had the solid
basis OF actual yields in pounds per
acre. as shown by. the scales. Theory
has small place In safe farming. a
sample of the inquiries received Is
the following one from Mr.. s. l..
Rose. Warsaw. y. c.: do your real
~ advise planting In drill n to two
recks OF peas per acre7 No more?
have Cole planter to drill with
Difference in soil. seasons and va
-ieties of peas will inevitably cause
some variation and make little heav-
Ter or a little lighter seeding yield
best occasionally: but the average
best yield will come from tho use OF
fifteen TO sixteen pounds fabout n
peck of pea seed per acre. That
amount Ia recommended. not merely
10 save seed. but TO get the larges,
yield Of hay and OF g II. after
one hnd bought seed tn plant at tho
rate of one peck per acre. somebody
would offer 10 give him one or two
or three bushels more Of seed per
acre to plant. he could not afford 10
plant tho seed given tn him. The re-
ductlon in yield ha; tho heavier
seeding would cause would make Il
inadvisahlc.
The use Of one peck per acre for
seeding IL advised on tho superstition
that the seed ~iil be planted with a
drill ma advised in tho article refer.
red 10 in the foregoing. That advice
Is given also on the surpos.ston that,
the seed are sound. that wrcstis have
not made The ased nse less. II the
seeding In done late In tho year. tho
advice given IN also on the auppoai-
'ion tha; tho land has been 20 han
died M 10 keep moisture In tho soil
In large quantity IN sprou; tho aerd,
At this time that feature will no be
further discussed. az tho former ar
ticle may be re-rcad |! necessary.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-12-01

transportation a charge should be
made. Household furniture and per-
sonal effects by the ton have been car
ried on the congressional frank. The
cost is, of course, charged up to the
postoffice department, and the con-
stantly growing deficit curtails the ex-
tension of the free delivery system
and other methods of expediting the
receipt of mail.
Thousands of tons of reports, more
or less Enthusiastically less-corre-
spondence, garden seeds and other
merchandise are carried through the
mails free of charge 1t has been sug-
gested that an official stamp should
be used by each department, the cost
20 be charged against such depart
ment. There can hardly be any doubt
that some such plan would eliminate
the technical deficit, especially if the
abuses of the ranking privilege were
corrected. Even with the tremendous
problems of distance and topography
with which the American postoffice
department has to contend, it is the
best in the world, and the fact that it
is really self-sustaining ought to be
added to the list of other triumphs
which it has achieved.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-12-01
THE AFFINITY FAD.

The Jonesboro Daily News says the
affinity fad is passing.
And good people all over the coun-
try hope that the statement is cor
rect.
1t was born of corruption and nu-
tured in sin. Good people discredited
it from the first, and only moral lepers
resorted to it.
Its intent was to cover with thin
gauze of responsibility. a state of
moral affairs which decency was not
willing to tolerate in it's uncovered
state.
Its practice was by people who had
no moral strength and who grasped
the opportunity which the fad seemed
to offer for doing as they pleased in
defiance of the laws of morality.
All who resorted to the affinity ruse
were sooner or later brought to grief
and their baseness exposed.
Such resorting to subterfuges ty
the unlawfully inclined and the moral
ly deformed is no better than open
violation of the laws of decency To
cloak ones vileness with the stolen
mantle of responsibility is to practice
fraud and deception in addition to
the major crime itself, and it is well
for society and for the moral atmo-
sphere of the world that affinities do
not find the path they travel so pleas
ant as they had expected it to be, and
that good people have refused to ac-
cept the affinity claim as justification
for the crime against society that af-
fnities commit.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-12-01

ed a compliment or an accusation
when he said Messrs. Flagler and
Dodd conceived the idea of the con-
solidation on which the Standard Oil
was built up!" How can a doubt ex-
list? Mr.. Rockefeller conceived the
desire to perform an act of justice and
did 1.-THE minds that created the
Standard Oil. Organization showed
ability surprising that of any living
American statesman. Unless Jeffer-
son is responsible for the sins of our
government, how can the plan of or
ganization be held responsible even
for such guilt as remains to be proved
in the management of the Standard
Oil?
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-12-01
DEFICIT ONLY NOMINAL.

On its face the official statement
that the deficit of the postoffice de-
partment for the past year reaches
the Unprecedented sum of $4,000, 900
looks serious enough. As a matter of
fact, it is more than probable that
this deficit is only normal and that if
some account were kept of the vast
sums spent in the gratuitous distri-
button of matter the discrepancy
would be found to be entirely one of
bookkeeping.
The postoffice department is the
dumping ground of all the other de-
partments in this respect, and the bur-
dens thus thrust upon the mail carry
ing branch OF the government are not
confined to the legitimate and neces-
saTy expenses of this nature. The
abuse of the franking system is pro-
verbally gross and is increasing all
the time. A vast amount of stuff of
all sorts is carried free fol whose
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-12-01
Yours oery truly,
J. c. BALLARD, CASHIER.

though there will likely be a lot of
routine work
1t is possible that some spice may
be added to the occasion concerning
the appointment of Messrs. ]. H..
Binns and Edgar Parker to the police
force which was made recently by the
mayor. Chief Pool is not very well
pleased with one of the appointments
at least, but he is not saying much.
He states that it is a matter for the
mayor and board of aldermen to de-
eide, and it is understood that the
mayor had the approval of majority
of the board in making the appoint
ments, from which it does not appear
likely that there is a contest in store
over the matter.