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The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1909-04-03

Nov. IL may appear TO some that
the prices obtained for the hay we're
too high aa n basis for comparison
with what Others can do. There are
few sections in the South. however.
v here good hays OF tho sort made on
this farm can not be sold for above
$50 ton. but suppose we figure on
a more conservative basis. Before
doing SO. however. let IL be clearly
undcrn,ood that the figures above
given do not represent paper farm
ing. but they arr actually the results
obtained.
Let us give tho following yields
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1909-04-03

That these figures are conservative
Is proved by the fact that Or. Ram
seur did very much better. but even
paying all expenses including depre-
citation OF machinery yields a revenue
ot sts3.l0 on the following invest
ment:
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1909-04-03

and prices which are so low no one
need fall below them:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-22
MANY CAPITAL CASES.
This Wsll Be Busy week fin Birmins
 ham Court.

ham Court.
 Birmingham, Feb. 2J.-(Special.)- J. All of the prisoners in jail who are charged with capital offense and whose cases are set for trial Monday, March Sth. and Tuesday March 9th. were ar. ranged before Judge Samuel L. Wea. yer of the criminal court this morning
 Those who are out on bond will not be required to present themselves un. til the day of the trial.
 Here is the docket for next week Monday. March Sth. Louis R. Dean Ernest Robinson and Dock Marshall charged with shooting a negro in tn. court house corridor or on the street R. W. Thompson, charged with tho murder of E. w. Robertson at Hous. mans pharmacy; Frank Phillips charged with murder; Callie Richard son. charged with murder of her com. mon law husband: Mary Lewis, rob bery; Chas. Tucker, robbery; Jim Be, son. murder; Will Turner, robbery Marion Connell. self-confessed mur. derer of his wife.
 Tuesdays docket: Draper Vernon rob bery; B. Moss murder: John H Russell. criminal assault; Mack Wood, robbery; John Brown. robbery; VII Thomas murder.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-22
MONDAY, FEBRUARY P, 1909.
THAT ABSURD JURY LAW.

The Kansas City Journal takes the jury in the Carmack murder case as a text from which to hand out some pretty severe hits at some of the legal Hbsurdities of the present day. It speaks of the delay in getting jury in the case referred to, and of the ap- parent determination to have none but the most ignorant men on the jury, and men who had had least opportuni- ty to inform themselves. Tt Is clearly manifest" it says, that there Is some thing radically wrong with a system of jurisprudence which makes ignor- ance instead of intelligence the first qualification of a juror. No amount of hair-splitting casuistry can excuse or defend the monstrous absurdity of supreme court ruling which penalizes the reading of newspapers in this en- frightened age when everybody who has any intelligence or education reads newspapers. Our entire legal system needs reformation. Some brave judge ought to let in the light of ordinary precedents and cobwebbed brain twist ings. Either that, or the lawyers in their bar associations should rise to the level of the ethical standards of their profession and appoint commit tees to revise the law and adjust 1t to the needs of modern society The ethics of law prescribe that a lawyer shall be an officer of the court and that his first and foremost duty Is to protect society. As 1t is. the law in stead of being rock of refuge for the oppressed is in countless instances an instrument not of justice but ot oppression to society"
 We do not know where. or with whom, the remedy lies but certainly the ruling of the Supreme Court of Tennessee Is not of nature to further the interests of justice We do not know what other states, if any, are like Tennessee in this respect. but In that state. at least. there is much room for reform.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-22
The Wood Schedule And
 Hotu 1t Bears on Tariff Issue

Box wood. ebony. granadilla. lance wood, satinwood-all on the free list, srS all sa Sea M aSsf Se oy tas ac and
 ought to be taxed 100 per cent for reyo & enue only, which would put Into the treasury $4.ooo.ooo paid by oEs+ men ana
 Now let us see about wood or lower degree, the bases sort. Boards. planks, and deals are taxed $l per th0usand had mad a ii" lick done on 1t the tax is grad uated up to $4 per thousand feet. Thus the heiress who would buy a $b,ooO piano pays no tax on the fose%oU" tS os ,al ah borer, who would build a cabin worth $500 must pay a tax of 11;ss per csne desirable dssipa pipe i is made. and of which we imported from the isles or SnoFes of the Mediterranean, to the vAluH S vi s346.27o in 1907. Is on 30o the nr cent cese The The clapboard that covers the pssst syssat "0'e4 is taxed s1.6O per thousand tset'
 Barrels so boxes; eaSks as ss 1na psr esst: fur wheels are taxed 20 ger cent; stsvss,
 sent ssnssa ssa sF and Ss@ ooT Tbe are .ntirs ntIS wood schedule Is set down at an average E1'a taxauOH Tt i4 sd Rtee Rtse revenue csHsi @ collected on aggregate i'm poTtations Sf Sasiasls yeSas Sss ahat ana manSiSo7 Mas in 1907, That year we i'm ported of other woods to the value of Xii, ,s74,s25, that paid not cent of revenue.
 70 we'll" the. fellow says. .'ths tax P; nothing." But 1t is a great deal, and as big relatively as tax of 80 per cent on wool. The bulk and weight of a cargo of lumber made the rights on 1t ample protection to the Amer ican sawmill If wood were as light as wool we might be sure the ''protec- ton" on 1t would be expressed in as hIRh figures as that on wool.
 Here is Canada at our door with ss.OOO,oo0 of woods, against our 1000. | list we would stoN cutting down so many trees. ana wNAwoyld not hear | ernment to buy lands on which to plant | trees to conserve water courses. When
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-22
This Is My 18th Birthday
Bishop Carroll.

Right Rev. John P. Carroll. Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese Of Hell ena. Mont, who. according to report. Is to be tie next rector of the Catholic University of America in Washington, D. C.. was born in Dubuque, Ia, Feb ruary 22, 1864. He attended St Ra- phaels parochial school in Dubuque un- til his 14th year, when he went to St :. Josephs College. In 1883 he completed his collegiate course and then went to Grand Seminary in Montreal, where he received his ecclesiastical training, After being ordained to the priaet- hood in 1889 he was appointed profess sor of mental philosophy at St. Jo- seph's College at Dubuque. In 1894 he continued to serve in that capacity until 1904. when he was made Bishop of Helena when he was made Bishop known In the Roman Catholic world as a scholar and 8 prelate.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-22

then the pretense is on. It is horse- piaintiffs, mostly women. but enough men to go around. lt
 There are two women divorcees to one man divorcee up there. The na- ported article by her features. Most divorcees are blonds with expensive shoes. The natives are demure and retiring. Nobody invites them to go horseback riding. There are . few churches for the natives, no children with the divorcees, and the blandest lot of lawyers ever gathered within of them are specialists on divorce.
 Everybody, on being introduced. Is asked. When does your case come meeting the barbers, the manicurists or the old residents who know the folly of. grieving where nobody else orieyes '"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-22
Don't Ridicule Your Boy.

Orison Swett Marden, In success.
 Many a boy has gone e,t;.,sd tG bed in tesrs sr nounced his efforts at playing the vio- lin: made fun of a simple little com position or story which he wrote; dis little mechanical device, or threw a wet blanket on his dreams, laugh ing at his prediction of what he would do in the future
 great prominence in his profession says that when. tremblingly. he told his father what he. wanted to be-. he was place for boy with such crazy ideas. and that he was forced for. years to do that which God had forbidden in every fibre of his being. and against which which every drop Of blood In him pro-
 The father who has made up his his mind that his son must continue ms bSt m snd ase hs dde fssaea oa bent-his special aptitude. He Is preju- diced at the very outset.
 The reason why there are so many never found their right places.
 Everywhere we see men and womehs vSn'd we're diseourased co ed and divsrtsd from their natural bent when young. Their own families did not take stock in them; they laughed at their young am.  either by harsh treatment. or, what Is even worse, ridicule; and their teach CTS did not understand them.
 You cannot read the sealed message which God has wrapped up in your boy or girl, and you should regard 1t as sacred. You should respect the dreams of future greatness of your son, because the Creator may have in tended him for grand and far-reach- ing mission. You cannot tell what Is going on in his mind; you cannot tell what possibilities are locked in his brain. Ee may be perfectly conscious at this moment that fle was intended than you are occupying yourself, and to denounce him. to scon at his dreams, to laugh at his predictions for humiliatio to you some day It may also work incaiculable injury to your boy. A thousand times better strike hopes by didicule or by cruel, chill ing, cutting word.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-22
that can be grown in spite of the boil

that can be grown in spite of the boil weevil.
 The second method which 10 meet ing with gratifying success Is . scien- tific study of the weevil and its his tory-finding a way of extermiating 1t. Several plans of furthering this work have been tried. but the most efficient appears to be the introduce ton of parasites from other countries which feed upon the weeviL but which do not affect the cotton plant.
 The scientists in charge of the work are optimistic and they believe that in a year or two, while the boil weevil will not be entirely exterminated much of the terror that h As attached to it will be dissipated.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-22
COURT AT HAYNEVILLE.
The Criminal Docket VIII Be TakeI
 Up Today.

Hayneville. Feb. H.-(special J. The first week of Circuit Court has ended. Most of the cases on the civil docket were disposed of and the crim-
 In organizing the grand jury Judge J. c. Richardson delivered one of his usual forcihle and Instructive charges to the grand jury, which was listened spectators in the Court House.
 A Goodly number of those present expected that the charge would be more in the nature of a prohibition grand jurors all laws that are violated ought to be carefully investigated and wherever the public good demanded an indictment should be returned with lation of prohibition. murder, gambling or whatever 1t may be.
 Sinve Judge Richardson came on the bench the people have become accus- to the grand jurors. at each term of the court, and the Court room is al- ways. crowded the first day of court Solicitor Charles R. Bricken has been many important cases investigate.
 Judge Richardson and Solicitor Bricken have hosts of friends in Lowndes County.
 advanced before the late rains and are therefore not behind in their work.
 Misses Corinne Freeman End Geor- gia Garrett spent several days in Montgomery this week.
 Mrs. Maud Floyd, .nee McDuff1e. of Connecticut is the guest of her sister. Wrs. w. T. BriEhtman.
 The Board of Revenue is contem- plating doing some more good work on the public roads. President Rogers of the Board will call a special meet ing at an early day.
 The finances of the county are in good shape and a bond issue is men. tioned here.
 L. A. Easterly, Esq. Clerk of the Probate Court, spent today in Mont-
 The first rural roSte from Hayne- vile has been established and will soon be in running order.
 Clerk Douglas and Sheriff Coleman have been very busy during court week issuing and serving papers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-22

Daniel Boone first set foot on Ken lucky soil I doubt If there was river In what. is now that commonwealth half the rivers of that State are muddy half the time. Annually floods in the Ohio cost in damage to property. to millions of dollars. Our scientific men say that 1t is all because of this cut ting down of trees.,. and there is no worse. year by year, as the cutting down of timber increases.
 Mesopotamoa was the garden and the granary of the world when Cyrus was mighty rivers. bedecked with bound less forests and be1ewelled with opu- dwell in Babylon, and Mesopotamio is desert inhabited by Bedouine, for th simpl rason that those forests were of Guadalquiver three centuries ago. was unsurpassed in Europe fir saiui brity of cline. fertility of soil, beauty of landscape. and prosperity of inhab- Now 1t has become. comparatively a desert. Why? They cut down the forests and the soil went off in fresh Kentucky. and in 1909 there is but one family in the Valley of the Guadal- quiver where there were four families befell Spain, and in France have been told no man may fell tree until he own land. Perhaps that Is why France Is the garden of continental Europe.
 But here is a protective tarin. the wood schedule of which made "Old Say-Log Sam" Steph enson a million aire, that encourages men to cut down trees. and here in Congress with It's arm full of bills calling the millions with which to buy land on which to plant trees.
 Once there was a fellow by the name of Sisphus. He was a very bad man of old sledge Thesupus killed him for some of his devilment. and Pluto set him to work in the Internal Re back every time he got 1t to the top.
 Congress is the great American Sis- phus.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-22

One important difference between Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roose- welt is in the fact that Roosevelt ap- parently considers it little better than treason for a newspaper or q public speaker to criticise the government or its officials. Lincoln took different view of 1t, and few Presidents have been more bitterly abused than he was. There is." he said on one occasion, "an important sense in which the gov ernment Is distinct from the admins tration. One is perpetual. the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the peculiar principles and meth ods of the administration. l should regret to see the day in which the people should cease to express in- telligent, honest. generous criticism upon the policy of their rulers"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-22
wAsHrNGroN,s BIRrHpAY.


 A former Confederate officer brok e the news of General Lees death to a Kentucky dinner party in these words: ''The solitude of Washington in heaven is at last broken. Lee Is dead"
 Behind laudation of this kind there is an insidious danger which Washing toms fame has escaped. Efforts to exalt a hero until he becomes super man endanger the fame they seek to preserve, and such Is human nature, arouse an active opposition that would otherwise have continued dormant. The best friends of washington's fame are not those who would present him as one lifted beyond the reach of human emotions and exalted from his high place among men to become a sort of demigod. It is possible to idealize him away from the love and affection of the people in attempts to defy him.
 There is no need for 1t. Ills place in history is assured. He is one of perhaps six great figures in the his- tory of the world-the figures of men who changed the course of history Probably the work of Washington more affected the life of his own country and the life of the world than any man who lived as a soldier and an administrator. Washington gave to the world a clear, definite. and tangible conception of the word. Liberty. And more than any other single man he delivered over his people to liberty and it's pursuits.
 No one man achieved half as much as he in the long and bitter struggle fer American independence. He was the great stalwart figure throughout that long and disheartening war, a rock of refuge in time of stress, a glorified leader in time of victory. No the dark hours when the splendid dream of American Independence seemed forbidden of fulfilment. The Father of his Country was the natural compliment. for his associates to pay him. He was all of that
 Nor are his services as the first President to be lightly regarded. That. too. was a time of danger. To the young country all the world was new. There was no lamp of experience and impetuosity was more highly honored than caution.
 How ripe a time 1t was for grave mistakes. But Washington at the head of civil government, guarding 1t from well disposed but dangerous enemies on the inside, was no less a heroic figure than Washington at Val ley Forge. To his wisdom and pru- dence may be led the credit of safely guiding the Ship of State when 1t was newly launched. leaking somewhat, and uncertain of purpose.
 The breadth of the honors that are paid him. grow with each year. His fame widens with the cycles. He is a bigger figure in the worlds history than he has been at any time. He made history-he made more history than he dreamed of himself.
 It is well that the county exacts ob- servance of his birthday as a national holiday. This is the least that the country he did so much to found could do. And honoring him to the highest, we may yet feel pride that he has not been idealized away from us-that he was a man, with human impulses and not beyond the reach of the under standing and the affection of posterity.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-22
UNUSUAL CONDITIONS.

Most people, we imagine. look on the office of Governor of a State as one in which a good part of the duties of the incumbent Is to appoint men to office. In fact, there are some wh O think that is all . governor Is for. Then there are others who refuse to believe that a governor ever finds any difficulty about getting men to &C., cept any office he has to hand out. The prevailing opinion Is that there are never enough offices for those who O want places, and that eager applicants swarm about the executive office to catch pickings.
 All this is why the case of Cover nor Hadley. of Missouri Is so peculiar. for he seems to have offices that mo- body will have. Soon after becom- ing governor he let it be known in very plain terms that he would ap- point none but men of unimpeachable character and, standing to the position of police commissioners of Kansas City. The evidence is that he has tried to keep his pledge but has been met by a singular situation. for no men of the kind specified will accept places on the commission. The report is that ne has offered the positions to half-a- dozen or more representative citizens and that all have refused to accept.
 There's a nice kettle of fish indeed. It is stated that during Governor Folks administration men of Kansas City almost fell over themselves in their anxiety to get the appointments on the commission, but possibly they were not of the kind whom Governor Hadley has pledged himself to ap- point, and bis class of men do not want 1t. It is true that the office only pays $500 year. and that there is considerable work attached to it.. but here must have been something besides the pay that made men anxious to get 1t, and they were possibly men of a different character from those the present governor is pledged to ap- point
 The Kansas City Journal explains the trouble somewhat. "If."' 1t says, "the police department Is turned into political machine the situation is different, of course. Then the police commissioner becomes powerful political boss. or the representative of a powerful boss, and his salary Is of little consequence. But Governor Had ley has shown no disposition to make the Kansas City police department a political machine. He has stated that he wants the police department re- organized back to its old status Of efficiency. This means a vast amount of work and little or no political re- ward. An efficient police department cannot be a political machine. from the very nature of things. Then why should a busy man want such an of- flee? He doesn't. Hence Governor Hadley's difficulty"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-22
FIGHTING THE BOIL wEEvIL.

When the appropriation bill passes Congress and Is safely signed there will be available s19O.00O to check the ravages of the boil weevil. The fight, which will be made with this money will be of vital interest to the cotton growers of the South. The rapidity with which the destructive weevil, the greatest enemy that cotton has known since Whitney's gin made 1t one of the great crops of the world. has travelled east and in its ravages has greatly alarmed the large growers of cotton.
 That the weevil is recognized as a menace of the greatest peril by plant CTS in Louisiana Texas and in Missis- sippi Is not to be doubted. A speech delivered by Congressman Humphrey in Congress and quoted in The New York Commercial describes that peril as follows:
 There are two elements of disaster Wnlcn attend the lnNdSlOn or the DOll- weeviI; one results from the actual destruction of cotton and the other from the condition of panic which takes possession of every community upon the arrival of the pest; and am not sure which is the greater. Sane men. cool men, men who are conserva- tive in all the affairs of life are startled to such alarm as has not been witnessed since General Grant landed his army at Bruinsburg. Bankers de- cline n aXfen6 fnrthar credit fn chants upon whom the farmer must re- ply for the assistance necessary to make a crop; and the tenant thus de- serted must seek other fields of en- deavor. Plantations are either desert ed or sowed to some other crop. and when as a necessary result of such con- ditions the cotton yield of that par tiCular section falls off materially from the average yield that fact Is heralded on the wings of the morning to strike further terror to the territory yet to be invaded The alarm caused by the approach of no invading army In the history of the world ever bore such abnormal relation to actual de- vastation in its rear as the terror which the threatened attack of the boll-weevil bears to the actual work are fleeing the cottonfield. and in some instances sacrificing their property. while behind him the fields are still white in waving beauty and real estate higher than ever before.
 Representative Humphrey pointed out the two fold problem that com fronted the planters at the approach of the dreaded boil weevil. First the bankers refused to make advances to the planters, second the tenants of the planters regarding the weevil as a menace as great as yellow fever flee at its approach. The most benefit to be rendered by the government and by other agencies which are fighting the evil Is by work which will allay the panic and which will restore con fidence to planters.
 The earnest efforts of experts to check the ravages of the weevIl are directed along two lines. The larger effort is being made through demon stration of cultural methods. the selec- ton of seed and by similar plans by which a species of cotton, is developed
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-22

It is hinted upon pretty good grounds, we may say, that the anxiety to have Arizona and New Mexico ad- mitted into the Union as States is largely fostered by men who are hold ing themselves ready to grab the of flces when statehood comes. Besides the many state and local offices to be filled there will be four Senators to be elected and for these offices there will be plenty of applicants That those who want the offices will exert themselves to get statehood is not strange, but Congress should be cer- tain that 1t Is not getting more Nevadas into the family of states.