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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-08-19
(From the Jenersonian.)

Happy is the man who is blessed with
a good son-in-law. Uncle ODE is extreme
~ lucky in that respect. In NJ. ]. Yeo-
mans, Uncle ODE has an ideal son-in-law.
So much so, indeed, that he sympathizes
with the old brother in his desire to keep
the confectionery in the family. In the
goodness of his heart, and in his natural
desire that the candy should stay in the
family, this ideal son-in-law is circulating
literature that tickles me all over. Yeo-
mans didn't intend that any of it should
fall into my hands-but it did so, just
the same. The political wire-pullers, and
the Deserters and the Do-nothings, as
we'll as the Union City crooks, can't send
out any circular letters or campaign lit
erature to Old Man PeepuI which that
keenly interested individual will not d.
vide with a Red-topped Person, looking
just about like me.
Thus 1t happens that 1 am in possess
sion of the Yeomans literature.
With pathetic earnestness, Yeomans in
quires. why Defeat the Farmer" An
other moving headline is, Farmers Must
Retain Their Representative on Railroad
Commission" The bucolic person refer
red to by Yeomans is, Of course, Uncle
Obadiah.
Don't you remember when the Railroad
Commission got after the Georgia Rail-
road? Don't you remember that some
parts of it's road-bed were In such a d.
lapidated condition that spikes could be
pulled out Of its rotten crossties with the
naked fingers?
Don't you recollect how Bowdre Phinizy
carried a sackful of those old spikes to
Atlanta to show to the Commission?
Don't you remember how wrecks multi
piled? The condition got to be so terri
BILE and intolerable that after a bad
smashup near Thomson, due to the defec-
tive condition Of the road-bed, l called up
Governor Smith over the long distance
telephone, and appealed to him, for Gods
sake to do something.
Don't you remember how our farmer"
Obadiah Stevens, was detailed to inspect
the Georgia Railroad? Don't you recall
how the railroad officials took Uncle ODE
in their special private car, and whirled
him over the road?
This iron highway starts out from Au-
gusta, and goes up to Camak. from which
place IL sends out a branch line to Ma
con, Ga, a distance of about so miles to
the left. Then the main line goes on up
70 Union Point, from which place 1t SENDS
out two branch roads-one to White
Plains and one to Athens. The White
EldlHs Todu 10 siOAe' ONN ~
ems Is about as long as that to Macon.
Then the main line goes on up to Atlanta,
a distance Of considerably more than 100
miles from Union Point.
This transportation company, being UNI
der accusation-the charge being that its
roadbed was in such a dilapidated condi-
ton that human life was being sacrificed
for dollars-the Railroad Commission de-
tailed Obadiah Stevens. the said farm
er." to make a careful inspection Of said
road-bed.
Could this farmer" have been assign
ed to a more sacred duty? II he has at
heart the interests Of humanity, will he
ever have a better chance to show 1t?
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-08-19
ALABAMA FARMERS UNION
MEETING IN MONTGOMERY

MONTGOMERY. Ala. Aug 1I.-Asbsma's
capital Is rapidly filing with the vanguard OF
delegates to the convention Of the Alaoans
Farmers union. which opens this morning.
Among the more prominent arrivals are G 3.
Barrett. NATIONAL president; W. A Morris, state
pr.std.-t and J. =. Robinson, chairman Of the
executive eomuitteee-
Officials Of the hundred union warehouses In
fha state held an executive meeting tonight
az vii rpport 20 the convention tomorrow. II
a prnbabie some action VIII be taken concern
inx the plan recently proposed By Jobs Hays
Hamuoud and associates 10 establish cotton
warehouses in every cotton center OF the giooe
ara 70 revolutfoniEe the market OF the staple.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-08-19
POLLOCK WILL DEFEND
RUSSIAN BANK ROBBER

BOSTON, Aug. 1S-Simon o. Pollock.
New York lawyer. who last fall sue
ceeded in preventing the extradition to
Russia of Jan Pouren, the revolutionist
has announced that he win assist in the
defense of Andrea BuIlow. in jail here.
charged with having participated In the
robbery of about $4,000 from the SUBJ
treasury at Tiflis, Russian Trans-cau-
casia, in 1907. Mr.. Pollock, who is now in
Boston. hopes to prove that RuIlow was
at the University OF Zurich, Switzerland,
at the time of the robbery, II that is
not enough, he will claim that the offense
charged was a political one and, there
fore, Rullow could not be extradited.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-08-19
MRS. w. III. FELTON, ARGUES CASE
BEFORE RAILROAD COMMISSION

were these: That some years ago the L.
& n. built a spur track to the ore mines
on her husbands farm; that at the
junction of the spur track with the main
line was created a station and 1t wss
named "Feltonia"; that no agent WIS
needed at this station as all its business
was handled by the agent at Carriers
vile; that two months ago the L. & ~.
tore up tn espur track, removed the ties
and rails. and removed the sign which
marked the station of ''Feltonia"; that
the right-of-way for the spur track was
decided to the L. & N. free Of charge by
her deceased husband. and this deed has
not been returned.
The L. & Ms claim was that az work
in the ore mines had been practically sus-
pended, they had no further use for the
spur track
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-08-19
R. E. DAWSON
FOR PRISON
COMMISSIONER
r. z. Dawson, of Greene
County, Is Opposing G.. r.
Hutchens, Who Was APP
pointed by Governor
Brown, for Prison Com
missioner.

Mr.. Dawson ran q close second two
wears ago against Wiley Williams and
three others. He was entitled to run
a second race under the rules Of that pri-
mary and his gracious act in not awaiting
himself OF that right makes him strong
err now.
Mr.. Dawson is a business man OF ex-
perience and he will administer the Of
fice in a businessli1e manner.
He has made a vigorous campaign and
has received fiattering reports from all
sections Of the state. His 5000 supporters
OF two years ago are loyal and many
more have come to him. specially because
Of Governor Browns refusal to appoint
him when Mr.. Hutchens was appoint
ed, although by vote OF the people he
had been already declared their next
choice for the office.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-08-19

fetal classification territory which in
cludes the district east of the MISSISSIPPI
ri and north of the Ohio river to add
two classes to their freight classified
ton At present there are only six sets
Of class rates. whereas in other territory
there are several additional classes.
The purpose Of the movement Is to
differentIate more clearly between the
classes and avoid frequent disputes as
to the classification of shipments which
occur under the present system.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-08-19
SINGLE-SH0TTING IN
FULTON Is Permitted

That singie-shotting will be permitted
IN Fulton county at the primary on Au-
gust q. is the statement that comes Of
fcialIy from ]. o. Cochran. chairman Of
the county subcommittee
Singles Shooting Is not prohibited In
this county for county officers" says Mr..
Cochran, nor win IL apply, so far as
can see, for state officers, because the
oriciaI ballot sent out by Chairman Pen
dIeton does not contain two ofhces Of the
same kind TO be filled by two men to be
elected. Voters can singie-shot and their
votes will be counted"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-08-19
VAST AMOUNT OF OIL
DESTROYED BY LIGHTNING

TULSA. Okla, Aug. 1s.-Approximately
$4,000 worth OF oil and tanks in the
Oklahoma fields were destroyed by fire
during a severe electrical storm late yes
terday, according to advices received here
this morning.
A mile and a half northeast Of Keller
a 55,000-barrel steel tank of the Kansas
and Oklahoma company was struck by
lightning and burned. A SHORT distance
to the north two 16O, 600 barrel tanks
went up In flames, and still further north
another 550oo-barrel tank was lost. In
the same field three ], 6O0-barrel wooden
tanks were consumed.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-08-19
AMATEUR DETECTIVE
TAKES HIS OWN LIFE

SYDNEY, n. s., Aug. 1S.-A verdict
OF death by a razor wound. self inflict-
ed. has been returned by the coroner as a
result OF his inquest into the death OF
Z. J. Griffin, the amateur detective who
came mere in search OF Restelli, the
Quincy. Mass, murderer. There was
suspicion that Griffin was a victim OF
friends OF Resteili but the jury declared
that II was a case Of suicide.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-08-19
SENATE PASSES BILL
FOR EXPOSITION MONEY

RATt'N ROUGE. Ia. Aug. E.-The
senate a Louisiana assembly has
passed the special tax and bond
issue bill providing $s,5oO,OoO for the
Panama Exposition company Of New Or
leans. The bill now goes to the house,
where assurances have been given of its
passage next Friday. With popular sub
scriptions in New Orleans, this will give
the promoters of the exposition consid-
erabiy more than the S,5Oo,OO0 recon-
mended by congress.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-08-19
ESPERANTO CONVENTION
PLANS WORK FOR DAY

WASHINGTON, Aug. redistribution
of prizes for excellence in the use OF
Esperanto as a literary vehicle, a gen.
eral session of the congress, a trip to
Mount Vernon in the afternoon, and
reception tonight by John Barrett at the
Bureau of American Republics building,
constitutes the program for today's ses-
sion of the sixth international congress
of Esperanto now meeting here.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-08-19
FUNERAL OF MONT TO
BE HELD IN BERLIN

BREMEN, Aug. 1s.-The funeral Of the late
Pedro Montt of Chile, who died here August
16 while on his way to Carlsbad for medical
treatment will be held in Berlin. The date
has not been fixed.
The body Of the late president will probably
be sent to Berlin tomorrow, accompanied by
guard OF honor.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-08-19
RAILROAD COMMISSIONS
WANT NEW CLASSES MADE

CHICAGO. Aug. 1s.-Railroad commits
sions OF Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan.
Ohio and Indiana, after a series of
meetings in Chicago, have announced
movement to induce the railroads OF Of
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-08-19
NIGHTINGALE FUNERAL
WILL BE VERY SIMPLE

LONDON. Aug. 1.-THE executors of
the will of Miss Florence Nightingale.
the angel of the Crimea," who died
Saturday, definitely declined the offer OF
a public burial in Westminster Abbey.
They consider themselves bound by the
will, in which Miss Nightingale express
ed a wish for a simple private funeral.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-08-19
CHITWOOD Is KILLED
AND DEPUTY FATALLY SHOT

HOT SPRINGS, Ark, Aug. 1s.-In
desperate street battle between two al
legged horse thieves and several sheriff's
officers here Tuesday, George Chitwood,
one of the thieves, was instantly killed
by a deputy sheriff and Sheriff Jake
Houpt was probably fatally wounded.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-08-19

Vote for j. F. Gray to
succeed himself as Rail.
road Commissioner. Only
candidate with years OF
traffic experience. {
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-08-19
Vote for J. F. Gray to
succeed himself as Rail
road Commissioner. Only
candidate with years Of
traffic experience.

BILE to ring the block. the chances CT sue
cess at the game are so small that the
player is almost certain to fail in his
efforts.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-08-19

Vote for ]. F. Gray to
succeed himself as Rail
road Commissioner. AL
ready served one year. Why
change?
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-03-30
RAISE IN RAILROAD RATES
New Hampshire's Attorney Genera
Seeking to Prevent 1t

Exeter. II. H., March 28-A TEN
porary injunctioH restraining the Bos-
ton and Maine Railroad company from
further raising its freight rates was
granted by Justice Plummer of the
superior court here upon petition OF
Attorney General Eastman: The
question of making the injunction
permanent will come up at the April
term Of the superior court.
This action follows the efforts OF
the attorney general to have many OF
the railroads present rates declared
Illegal and the road prevented from
making further advances on the
ground that the legislative acts per-
hitting the Boston and Maine to lease
several of its subsidiary lines in this
state prohibited the road from in
creasing any of the freight rates in
effect at the time of leasing.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-03-30
Capt. Bogardus again hits the BnlPs Eye

This World famous rife shot who holds
the championship record of 100 pigeons in
lUO consecutive shots Is living at Lincoln
LII. Recently interviewed, he says:-ssI
nave suffered long time with kidney ano
olac Der trouble and have used several
well known kidney medicines all of which
hvVe me no relief until I started taking
Wiley, Kidney Pills. Before used Fo-
iey's Kidney Pills 1 was su ject to Sc
goth suppression and oftentimes a cloudy
nlding. While upon arising in the morn.
g l would get dull headaches. Now
nave taken three hotties of FoleA's Kid
ney Pills and feel 1C0 per cent better. lam
devar bothered with my kidneys or blad-
yer and once more feel like my own self
Al this owe~soleiy to Foley's Kidney
Pills and always recommend to my fellow
sufferers "
Foley's Kidney Remedy vii cure any
case OF Kidney or Bladder trouble that is
not beyond e reach Of medicine No
medicine can do more. FIR sale =
druggists.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-03-30
CAUGHT JUST In TIME
Police Prevent Maniac From Staying
His Four Children With an Axe


Hartford, March 28.-An insane
father was prevented from butchering
his four children, whose ages range
from to z years. on the banks of the
Connecticut river by the arrival of the
police. When found back Of the
bushes his four boys were partly an
dressed and were lined in row, the
maniac father standing over them with
uplifted axe. A boy of was to have
been the first victim.
The child was standing beneath the
shining blade with a crucifx in one
hand, calmly awaiting his fate. The
others were terrified spectators. The
police dashed through the under
growth, threw the mailman aside and
gave their immediate attention to the
children
The father was taken to the station
and locked in padded cell. He
had been dispossessed by his landlord
and it made him desperate.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-03-30

Copyright. 1909. by American Press
Association.
~ NE of the most important prin-
ID ciples of breeding is the law
w that like produces like. This
means that. other things be-
ing equal an animal will tend to pro-
duce offspring like itself. Coupled
with this is the law of variation.
which means the tendency of animals
to differ from each other and from
their parents. No two animals are
alike. and it is a good thing that this
is so, since otherwise there could be
no Improvement.
Like Produces Like.
Keeping these two laws in mind. the
chief means of improving live stock
must be by selection. The variation
in the young animals gives the basis
for this selection. The progeny of
two parents will differ both ways
from the parents-that is. some will
be poorer and some better. In gen.
eral, the number of poorer ones will
be about equal TO the number of the
better ones. Thus in nature little
Improvement is made. as both the
poorer and better animals are used for
breeders. With domestic animals
man steps in and eliminates the poor
er half or more. allowing only a few
of the best to reproduce themselves.
According to the law of like produces
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-03-30
Strike Plea Without Avail

Franklin, N. H., March 2S.-De-
spite a fervent plea by j.. T. Carey
president of the United Brotherhood
of Paper Makers of America, the pa
per markers employed at the local
plant of the International Paper COM
pany voted not to join in the strike
of the pulp, sulphite and paper mill
workers.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-03-30
TARIFF NOT liked
IN NEW ENGLAND
Editors Sentiment 0VorWheln-
ingly Against the New Law


Chicago, March 25-That the east
as well as the west is dissatisfied with
the Aldrich tariff law and tie Cannon
speakersl1ip is shown. by the result Of
a poll made by the Ch1cago Tribune
of the editors of eastern Republican
newspapers. The answers Of the
eastern editors were received before
the now historic revolt Of the insur-
gents against Speaker Cannon
The result of the poll has now been
carefully compiled and it shows that
the opposition to the Aldrich tariff is
stronger in New England than in any
other section thus testedc> This is
the vote of the New England states:
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-03-30

FIG. &NAIV.- BREEDING PRODUCES UNI
TCRMITY,
like the offspring will tend to be like
these good parents. But here the law
of variation comes in again, causing
some of The offspring TO be better and
some poorer than the parents. In this
case, however, the poorer animals will
be considerably better than the poor
ones of the preceding generation and
the good ones will be better than the
best of the previous year Again the
poorer animals are discarded and the
better ones saved. In this way the
standard Of excellence is improved
from year to year
To accomplish much. improvement
by Selection must be guided by a man
who has a definite ideal in mind. He
must know exactly the kind of ami
NAL he is working for and should Sc
lect his breeding stock with this type
in mind. In this way is developed
strain of animals that are very
much alike in all their characteristics.
Though they still tend to varyg these
variations are not so marked as for
merIy, and a more uniform lot of ami
mails results. This uniformity is due
in large part to the fact that each
parent has behind it long line of an
cestors Of similar type. An animal
does not get all its characteristics
from its parents. Part of them come
from the grandparents. part from the
great-grandparents and part from more
remote ancestors. Clearly. then. the
more nearly all these ancestors resem-
bic certain fixed type the more uni
form the offspring will be. 1t is large
ly by continued selection that all the
improved breeds Of domestic animals
have been developed. 1t is this ability
to produce uniformly good offspring
that makes pure breds so much more
valuable than animals of common
breeding.
The tendency Of an animal to resem-
bic some Of it's remote ancestors more
closely than its immediate parents is
called reversion or atavism Thus. oc-
casionally a calf of a hornless breed
Will show horns, or pig Of a certain
breed will show a color that is not
found in the breed today. Reversion
cannot be guarded against. The best
that can be done is to prevent the use
Of reverted animals as breeders.
Mutations.
Any race of living things, whether it
be animals or plants, will occasionally
produce a mutation. or, as it is COM
monty called, sport" This is an in
dividual differing to a marked extent
from the general type of the race or
breed. If itAis a true sport. it will
produce its own characteristics in its
offspring, and thus a new strain or
breed is developed.
This new strain is distinctly differ
ent from the type from which it came,
and its offspring show little tendency
to revert to that type. The hornless
breeds Of cattle were developed from
sports. The nectarine is a sport from
The peach. and the weeping willow is
a sport from the ordinary willow
Sports. when of the right kind, are OF
great value in originating new types
and breeds. but they are seldom Of
any particular value to the ordinary
breeder.
Latent Characters.
A point that is of much value II
practical breeding operations is the
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-03-30

FIG. XXXv.-A STRONG PERCHERON HEAD.
sure to result in decreased size, vigor
and breeding powers. The safest plan
for the ordinary breeder to follow is
to let it alone.
The surest method of improving the
pure bred herd is by line breeding.
This, in it's simplest form, is the use
of line of sires of similar type and
breeding on the females of the herd.
Line breeding results in rapid improve
ment and the production of a uniform
lot of offspring.
Some Mistaken Ideas.
There are number of mistaken
Ideas in regard to breeding which are
more or less widely believed One of
the most common of these is the be-
lief in telegony. or the influence of
particular sire on subsequent offspring
from another sire. A study of the
scientific side of breeding shows that
this cannot be so. as it is impossible
for any particular male so to affect
the female that future offspring by an
other sire will be affected.
THE END.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-03-30
Money For Provincetown Harbor

Washington, March 28-Further
Improvement of Provincetown harbor
at an estimated cost of $40, 900 is
recommended by the engineers of the
war department in report sent to
congress upon a survey authorized in
the last river and harbor bill.