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The Columbus journal., 1910-09-28

, remember. don't you! Where did
put that package?"
He found it finally and opened it on
table. displaying with some theatric.
alism a rectangular piece of muslin
and a similar patch Of striped tick.
ing
You recognize it," he said. The
stains. you see. and the hole made BY
the dirk. tried to bring away the
entire pillow. but they thought l was
stealing it. and made me give it up."
Richey touched the pieces gingerly.
by George" he said. and you carry
that around in your pocket! What II
you should mistake it for your hand.
kerchief?"
But Mr.. Hotchkiss was not listen.
Ing. He stood bent somewhat for.
ward. leaning over the table. and fixed
me with his ferret-like eyes.
The Columbus journal., 1910-09-28
Uncle Sans Bug Sleuths After Ca

Of fact they do almost no good and .
great deal of harm. The difficulty in
following the question of the extent
to which they carry disease is meas
ured by the difficulty Of following the
cat. And yet there Is no doubt in the
world that many q child who. for NO
apparent reason and from no discern
ible cause. develops q case of diph-
iberia or scarlet fever owes its illness
and often its death to the cat 1t has
been fOndling. Moreover. cats are a.
susceptible to hydrophobia as dogs.
The highly pampered pet cat OF
the luxurious household never fails
to get out and roam around with tho
ordinary alley cat. In many instances
the alley cat. which prcwis all night
long with the pet cat. has spent the
day sleeping in some hut OF howell In
an alley where smallpox. diphtheria
or tuberculosis il hid.
Recently there has been much at.
tentiOn paid to rats and the harm
they do. both as destroyers and as
spreaders of disease. In this c0nnec-
ton the cat has been pointed out as
a valuable aid in keeping down the
rat. That is an error
Il can state from my personal OBJ
servation that only about per cent
Of cats are really mousers. / have
seen cats that would tackle the big
gest rat going and kill him. but such
instances are rare. AS rule a cat
cares little for a conflict with a rat.
'As a matter Of fact cats prefer
birds to mice. They will spend twice
as much time hunting birds. II one
keeps count of a cats quarry during
a year he will find that the birds killed
will far outnumber the mice. Little
harm would be done if the whole cat
tribe were eNterminated. but there
would be too much opposition to that.
Still We think that when some of tho
facts concerning cats are well known
to the public. many mothers will be
more careful about allowing their |
children to play with cats"
The Columbus journal., 1910-09-28

no YOI- remember how proud We
- we're of our Spanish warships And
ROW they are ali in the scrap heap.
The Boston. the Concord, the Winslow
and the Detroit have all to go. as they
are no longer fit to cope with modern
armament on the high seas. A storm
of protest has gone mp In Washington.
but It is not going to help matters a
single bit. The United States govern
mcnt caEont AFFORD TO hang on TO the
old taitleships. even il they are dear
in memory. 1t will be remembered
that the Boston. q protected cruiser.
and the Concord. a gunboat. were in
Admiral Dew~ey's fleet at Manila. 1t
was on the deck of the WinslOv dur
Ing the hottest cannon fire of the war.
that Ensign Worth Rasley was killed
by an exploding shell. One of the
achievements OF the Detroit was the
capture of the Catalina to the west
ward OF Havana. and she took active
The Columbus journal., 1910-09-28

w AsHINGTON.-A bitter war on
" the house cat has been declared
by the department Of agriculture. Elk.
perts In the biological bureau of that
department are making exhaustive In.
vestigations Of the cat as a spreader
OF disease. Already they have found
out enough to convince them that AZ
much danger turks In cat as in .
rat. and rats are known to be fatal
distributors Of plague.
Upon the completion of these IN.
vestigations efforts will be made by
the Federal authorities to have cat
license laws passed. II is much more
desirable, they say. to have a license
for cats than q license for dogs.
I'VE know that cats carry disease"
said H. ". Henshaw, chief of the bu-
reau. In discussing the fight against
tabby. but We do not know to what
extent. We are practically certain
they carry diphtheria. scarlet fever
and ringworm. and We suspect they
carry tuberculosis. All this we want
to find out. OF course the fight to
bring about a cat license will be a
hard one. Such a suggestion will be
scoffed at. But in time people will
come to realize what a menace cats
are. That is what We hope to do
bring the people to such a realiza-
ton"
DIR. 4. X. Fisher. of the bureau o.
biology. is at work on a bulletin on
the house cat. He has been studying
the question fer years and knows the
general habits OF cats thoroughly
There are lots of fallacious the
cries regarding the usefulness of
cats" says DR.. Fisher AS 4 matter
The Columbus journal., 1910-09-28
ENTRY OF TELEPOST
TO OMAHAAWAKENS
POPULAR INTEREST
NEW AUTOMATIC TELEGRAPH
sYsTEM, WHICH TRANSMITS
1000 WORDS A MINUTE FOR
ONE CENT A WORD %
MAKING DEEP INRoADS
ON BUSINESS OF lTS
BIG RIVALS.

Nothing In . long time has awakened
moro popular interest throughout the
Middle West than the extension to
Omaha. Kansas City and Louisville Of
the Telepost system Of automatic tel
egraphy. This system. which Is revo-
lutionizing the telegraph industry Of
the country with tn 1000 words . min
ute service and rates Of from one
quarter Of q cent to one cent word.
regardless Of time or distance. Is max
Ing deep inroads into the business Of
the older companies IN st. Louis. Sc
dalia, Mo-: Chicago. Springfield. ILL.,:
Terre Haute, and Indianapolis In the
west and In Boston and other cities Of
New England where II Il now com
mercially operating In competition
with the hand operated system Of the
old companies.
Additional extensions q the system
to Detroit. Toledo. Cleveland. C0lum-
bus. Pittsburg and other cities In
Michigan. Ohio and Pennsylvania. are
near completion and 1t II expected will
be- ready to open shortly. Progress
II being made in extending the system
In still other directions. insuring the
covering at an early date of more than
half of the United States with Teie-
post service.
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~ III i zI @z~5
Position Long in Family

direction were surpassed by the minia.
turc iron bedstead. with mattress.
sheets. blanket. Quilt. hangings and
all complete. in which a four-month-
old Pekinese spaniel reposed. The
smallest deg In the show was Messrs.
Wilson's miniature black-and-tan ter.
rier- /: weighed only two pounds two
ounces. and was brought 20 the exhi-
bition In mans coat pocket The
lightest dog. however. was a York
shire terrier of one pound II ounces.
with = delightfully."- grOOmcd coat Of
silkeG fleece.
The Columbus journal., 1910-09-28
MEMBERS Have Been orsanist in Eng
iish Church fer Mere Than .
Century.

\ remarkable record has been com
memorated ut TeignmOuth. England
by the presentation TO Miss Linter. or
ganist Of the parish church of ST.
Michael. East Teignmou,h. Of an IL.
Illuminated address and a purse of 40
sovereisns. subscribed by parishioners
ard others The post OF organist in
the church has remained unin;errip,.
edly In the Linter family since the
year 1893. when Miss Linter's father
William Linter. became organist of
the church.
The pet dog show at the Royal Hor.
t1cuitural hall. In London. drew a great
crowd. chiefly Of women. and the old
familiar scenes of luxury were wit
messed In every avenue of the nearly
1000 pens But all records In this
The Columbus journal., 1910-09-28
Beware the Doc!

A family moved from the city to .
suburban locality and were told that
they should get watchdog to guard
the premises at night. So they bought
the largest dog that was for sale in
the kennels Of a neighboring dog fan
cier. who was German. Shortly
afterward the house was entered by
burglars. who made good haul, while
the big dog slept. The man went to
the dog fancier and told him about It,
Veil. vat you need now" said the
dog merchant. lis a leedle dog to wake
up the big dog."-EverybOdy's.
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beating until I could hear it. She had
not forgotten, after all.
Mcknight took q bud and fastened
II in Lis buttonhole. I'm afraid ! wal
not especially pleasant about it. They
were her roses. and anyhow. they were
meant for me. Richey left very soon,
with an irritating final grin at the
box
'Gcod-by. sir woman-hater." he
jeered at me from the door.
So he were one of the roses she
had sent me. to luncheon with her,
and l lay back among my pillows ard
tried to remember that 1t was his
game. anyhow. and that l wasn't even
drawing cards. To remember that. AMI
to forget the broken necklace under
my head!
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foIIed.

He was very bashful and she tried
to make 1t easy for him. They were
driving along the seashore and she
became silent for a time. whats
the natter" he asked.
%. feel blue" she replied. NO
body loves me and my hands are
cold"
You should not say that" was his
word of consolation. for God loves
you. and your mother loves you. and
you can sit on your hands."-Success
Magazine.
The Columbus journal., 1910-09-28
Public Want Ads.

PO0uoC WANT Ao8.
Wanted-Several nice old gentle
men to represent US financially. Moth
Ing to do but utter wise remarks and
i1dorse dividend checks. Good wages.
from lifty to one hundred millions .
year.
Wanted-A hnancier who will guar
antee to keep US supplied with half
colleges and half-libraries while We
supply the other halves. No expert
ence required. Good rake-on.
Wanted-At once. A large number
Of stockholders to take charge of our
food supply and keep Us from eating
too much. No regular hours. Palm
Beach in winter. Adirondacks in sum-
mer.
Wanted-A few select persons to
represent US socially and do the
things we haven't time for No brains
needed. All expenses paid. No worry.
-SucceSS
The Columbus journal., 1910-09-28
Consolation.

THAT candidate insists that he was
defeated by the trusts"
Yes" answered Senator Sorghum.
whenever man gets the worst OF II
he likes to console himself with the
idea that he had a mighty big antago.
MIST"
The Columbus journal., 1910-09-28

Carve the face within. not dress IL
from without For whoever would be
fairer. ILLUMINATION must begin IN the
soul: the flce catches the glow only
from that 1ide.-W. G. Gannett-
The Columbus journal., 1910-09-28

Fred-I hear George and his wife
never quarrel now.
Maud-No. you see they're one now.
and = takes two to make q quarrel.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-04-08

pounds for the grain, or a total of 33.61
pounds OF potash he must supply for
the grain 1S.A pounds, and for the stover.
- pounds. or a total of GA pounds. As
a matter of fact. the great majority or
our farmers are using 200 pounds of a 2
So or 3-l0-S fertilizer to supply the needs
OF the corn crop. IL has been currently
believed 10y many that it is inadvisable
and Improbable to fertilize corn heavily.
To supply the needs of a 20 bushel corn
crop. 500 pounds of nitrate OF soda. $50
pounds of cotton seed meal, "a pounds OF
acid phosphate and 70 pounds of muriate
of potash would be required. To supply
the needs OF a 80 bushel crop would call
for an application of $50 pounds of nitrate
of soda, 1.452 pounds of cotton seed meal
30 pounds of acid phosphate and l2S
pounds of muriate Of potash. Is IL any
wonder in view of the light applica-
tions of fertilizers which have been made
i'm the past that but little apparent pro-
gress has been made in increasing the
corn yield. As a further evidence that
heavy applications of fertilizer are neces-
sary for the production of a good crop
of corn. bear I'm mind the results which
have been secured by those farmers who
i'm recent tests have made yields Of over
100 bushels per acre. IL has been shown in
every instance that they supplied lib
eral amount of commercial plant food.
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ence from the use of a prolific variety
of which the Marlboro, Tasting, What
ley and Cookies are among the best. We
would plant this corn so as to leave
about 1000 stalks per acre. The Guilt
walton after planting should be shallow
and frequent enough to keep the crust
broken and hold the moisture in the soil.
You should remember that the best re-
suits will never be obtained from fertil-
izer except where you have liberal
supply of humus in the ground.
According to the figures made by the
state chemist. nitrogen is worth about
$3.50 unit, or 10 cents pound; pot
ash, so cents unit, or cents a pound.
and phosphoric acid 20 cents a unit or
1-2 cents a pound. 10 this should be
added the cost of baggsng, mixing, state
inspection, etc, which amounts to about
$3.50 per ton.
Worms may be destroyed in horses by
giving turpentine in one dram doses.
The turpentine should be well diluted
with cotton seed oil so IL will not blister
the throat The dose should be given
once daily for two or three days and fol-
lowed by a good purgat1ve. The animal
sh ould be fed sparingly for at least As
hours so as to give the medicine an op-
portunity to act.
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cannot always control the negro. For
instance, Il is cheaper to feed mule
than il is TO pay a negro under present
economic conditions.
Rfter breaking the land thoroughly
and this deep breaking is best done In
the fall. though of course you may COM
mence this work in August, the next
thing is to institute a crop rotation d.
vide your land off in three parts as
, nearly as possible. OF course you Will
reserve portion of 1t for pasture, and
some for wood. as the toughest and
poorest of it will bring you as much
profit i'm " wood lot as in any way you
can handle it, On the first of your
arabic sections plant oats or oats and
vetch i'm the fall Cut this for hay In the
spring and seed Immediately to COW
peas or some other legume. On the sec
ond section. put corn. and on the third
section cotton. If you desire to develop a
live stock business, your method OF pro-
cedure would be somewhat different.
though you would want a good section
i'm corn but probably not as much in
cotton. The second year you should put
your corn after cowpeas, and the thiro
year, your cotton after the corn. You
will find that in this way you can i'm
prove your land more rapidly, and econ
omize on the use of fertilizers and secure
a part of the nitrogen needed in crop pro-
duction from the air.
| am not familiar with what you C.
star grass, which is probably a local
name. If you will send us a sample,
including the root, stem, leaf and flow
er. we will be pleased to examine 1T for
you and report on its merits.
Leaves may be rotted down in a varie-
ty of ways, but we would prefer to
scoop out hollow place in a clay bank
and puddle the bottom thoroughly by
wetting and letting hogs tramp and root
therein. Then pile in the leaves and
keep wet. In this way you can break
them down rapidly. You should, OF
course, make your compost where you
can have suitable supply of water. A
cheap shed roof may be erected over it to
prevent teaching. Fermentation should
go ON no faster than will permit of the
breaking down of the leaves without
danger of fire-fang. Some advise the
use of lime on compost heaps, but there
is danger of using too much and caus-
ing the loss of a considerable amount
of ammonia. and by keeping the leaves
wet. they will break down rapidly
enough for most purposes.
LIGHT FRUITING COTTON.
A. D., Robinson, Ga, writes: 1 have
some original oak and hickory land in
cultivation. 1t makes a very large stalk
or weed of cotton but 1t does not fruit
well. What would be a suitable fertilizer
to use on this land? What would be a
goor fertilizer for corn on land that was
i'm cotton last year? I also have some of
the same kind of land that was cleared
last year and planted i'm corn, but most of
it did not grow over head high. What was
the cause for this? l expect to mix my
own fertilizer this year.
Where cotton makes plenty of stalk
and does not fruit well, ii is an evidence
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auspices. As everything possible was done FOR
the ilIustrious patient. Ii is assumed that oxy-
gen was given. Pneumonia, however, is no re-
specter of persons. 1t carried off this prize
monkey with as little conjunction as it would
have taken one of his unknown brethren In the
Jungle. Now in a shroud of immaculate white.
on a flower-banked bier, Consul, Jr-, awaits
mortuary hcnors.
No doubt at the moment this lamented mon
kew died with all the resources of medical
skin at his command, scores of less fortunate
human beings were lying on death beds without
professional attendance of any kind, even with
out medicine. But that is neither here. no.
there. Nature is prodigal of humanity, but
chary of animal freaks. Rarely does she give
the world monkey with value of $4,000 and
an earning power greater than that of most
vaudeville stars. And IL a Roman emperor
could make his favorite horse Consul. why
berrudge a dying chimpanzee the attendance OF
specialists?
Consul J- who inherited his genius from
Consul apparently leaves no heir The line
thus became extinct, falling the discovery OF
nephew or other near relatives by some enter
prising Snowman
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-04-08
SOUTH A GOOD FIELD
FOR STOCK RAISING
Great Awakening of This In
duStry Told of in the April
Issue of Southern Field"

Chances favor the fight of Fayette-
Vile and Williamson, on the Atlanta and
Florida division of the Southern rail-
way. for a double daily service. Unoffi-
cial report is that their contention IS
getting tie approval OF officials of the
Southern, and that the change they ask
the routing OF me Columbus train by
their way instead of via McDonough and
Griffin-will probably be incorporated
i'm re new schedules which the passen-
ger and operating departments OF the
Southern are now working out for the
spring revision.
his means much To a prospecting ter
ritory on the Atlanta and Florida divis-
ion that is now served by one morning
train up to Atlanta from Fort Valley and
one afternoon train down. 81.
The reDort that there is strenuous
opposition in Griffin and McDonouGn
TO the proposed change is denied on
good authority. Griffin does not depend
on the Columbus train of the Southern
40 any very large extent, and McDon-
ough is served by ala the Macon trains
Inasmuch as there has been no formal
action by the commission on the petition
placed before it by the advocates or the
change. the favorable attitude which the
railroau officials maintain toward 1t is
regarded as basis or a safe conclusion
that the change will be made. The mat
ter has been left by the commission 10
the railroad and. the patrons for ADJUST
ment thus far without even a formal
hearing. 1t is probable that there will
be no nearing.
II me change is made 1T will be set
out i'm the new schedules when are ex-
pected to be pubnshed some time in May.
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ia
readers these freely We win endsvor
If
Agricultural College Athens
published
weekly
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-04-08

The Comet! He is on his way,
And singing as he flies;
The whizzing planets shrink before
The specter of the skies;
All! well may regal orbs burn blue,
And satellites turn pale.
Ten million cubic miles of head,
Ten billion leagues of tail!
On, on by whistling spheres of light
He flashes and he flames;
he turns not to left or right.
He asks them not their names;
One spurn from his demoniac heel
Away, away, the fly.
Where darkness might be bottled up
And sold for 'Tyrian dye"
And what would happen to the land.
And how would look the sea,
If in the bearded DEVILS path
Our earth should chance to be:
FnlI hot and high the sea would boil.
Full red the forests CLEAN;
Methought l saw and heard 1t all
In a dyspeptic dream!
/ saw a tutor take his tube
The Comets course to spy;
l hard a scramble gathered rays
Had stewed the tutors eye:
saw fort-the soldiers all
Were armed with goggles green;
Pop cracked the guns! whiz flew the balls!
Bang went the magazine!
i saw 8 poet dip a scroll
Each moment in a tub.
/ read upon the warping back,
The Dream of BeelZebub:"
He could not see his verses burn.
Although his brain was fried.
And ever and anon he bent
To wet them as they dried.
/ saw the scalding pitch roll down
The cracking. sweating pines.
And streams of smoke. like waterspouts.
Burst through the rumbling mines;
] asked the firemen why they made
Such noise about the town;
They answered not-but all the wh4.s
The brakes went up and down.
/ saw roasting pullet sit g.
Upon a baking egg;
| saw a cripple scorch his hand
EItinguishing his leg;
] saw nine geese upon the wing
Toward the frozen pole.
And every mothers gosling fell
Crisped to a cracking coal.
/ saw the OK that brOwsed the grass
Wrthe in the blistering rays.
The heritage in his shrinking jaws
Was all fiery blaze;
! huge fishes. boiled TO rags.
Bob through the bubbling brine;
AMI thoughts OF supper crossed my soul;
had been rash at mine.
Strang esigFts! strange sounds fearful dream
Its memory heunUs still.
TIE steaming sea. the crimson glare,
That wres thed each wooded hill;
Stranger. if through thy Keeling brain
Such midnight visions sweep.
Spare. spare. spare thine evening meal,
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leached away before the plants can uui-
iZe =.
THE BEST METHOD OF CULTIVAT-
ING CORN.
E. NJ, Gainesville, Ga, writes: To
satisfy myself as to which is the most
profitable method of cultivating corn,
your plan or Mr.. Williamson's, l have de-
cided to test them both. Would like to
have description of your ideal way OF
nlanting. cuitivating and fertilizing corn.
4 he land was broken last fall with
two-horse turner to about five or six
inches It was in cotton last year and
made a bale to the acre. 1he land con-
tains about as mucn sand as it does loan
ana clay and has deep red suosoiL.
What variety would you suggest? What
shall / 40 for my horse which has
worms?
The plan we would suggest for Guilt
waiting corn to secure large yield would
be about as follows: First of all, plow
your land deeply and if you have a red
clay subsoil, use the subsoil pillow. The
breaking and subsoiling should be done
in the fall. The land should be turned
over to a depth of 10 to IL inches and
left as rough as possible so 1T will alb
sorb and hold the water that falls as
ram, ana II II CTuSlS over OiI lOp
threatens to wash, run the disk over 1t
once or twice TO break the crust. You
have not plowed your land as deeply as
we advise, and you can not, therefore.
hope to secure the best results this year.
Land intended for corn should be made
rich with vegetable matter by plowing
under a leguminous crop or through the
use of yard manure. For this crop at
least five tons of compost are needed
per acre. In case you have only limit
ed amount, however, put at least two
tons per acre under the drill row. Lay
your land Off in rows l-2 feet apart,
and plant the corn at least two feet apart
III the drill row, leaving a single stalk
to the hill. The land should be fertil-
lied with at least 500 10 So pounds or
a mixture containing per cent or nj
trogen, - per cent of phosphoric acid
and per cent of potash. If you use a
quickly available nitrogen in the mix
ture. put 800 pounds under the drill ana
use 500 pounds as a side application. We
would prefer, however, to put the ferti1-
izer under the drill row. and where the
corn did not make sufficient stalk to
suit, top dress with nitrate of soda at
the rate of 100 to loo pounds per acre
about two weeks before the corn is
shooting into tassel. 1t takes some
time to put land in ideal condition for
corn and will call for the practice or a
rotation of crops.
While a great many varieties of corn
may be grown, the best results OH up
lands have been obtained in our expert
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Where cotton makes plenty of stalk
and does not fruit well, it is an evidence