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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14
IMMENSE GAINS
INCATTLE RAISING
SINCE WAR BEGAN
Government Reports $780,
900 More Dairy Animals
Now Than in 1914

The number of cattle, including
milk COWS, swine and sheep, in the
United states increased 6,315, 900 dur
ing the year 1918. These figures will
be made public in a report of the
Department of agriculture which has
rome to the printers and will be
eady for distribution in the next
EN- days.
Never in the history of the United
states have there been so many hogs
n the country as at present. During
he war period from 1914 to. January
of this year the swine increased
by more than 16,60G,000 head. Also
in 1918 there was registered for the
first time in more than two decades
T. substantial increase in the number
of sheep in the country. AS for dairy
animals the herds have increased by
more than 2,750,000 head since the
outbreak of the war and by more
than 100000 since 1910. Cattle,
other than milk cows, also shows a
tremendous increase. The cattle
herds in the United States have in
creased by more than 100000 since
the outbreak of the war.
On January 1 last the value of the
milk cows of the United States was
$780, 55, 900, the other cattle was
worth $1,960, 100000, the value of the
swine was $1,665, 1887, 900, and that of
the sheep focks $579,O16,000; ,...
In the case of sheep the statistics
show a reverse of conditions. In 1900
there were 11.64O,0OO more sheep in
the country than at present. There
was a still further decline shown in
1910 when the census figures show
that the number had decreased from
about 61,5OO.OOO to 52,5Oo,ooo, or
about 100000 more than are now
in the country. In 1914, the first
war year, the total had decreased to
49,719,OO0. The year 1913 shows the
largest gain in twenty years, the
gain for that year being approx
mate1v 100000.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14
Immense Power in
Water Available in
Farm Employment

Two cubic feet of water, Whlch
weigh 125 pounds, by falling SIX
feet produce one horsepower Oh
energy.
Falling water in early days was
used to turn water wheels to oper-
ate chiefly flour mills, but, now IT
is guided by concrete penStocks to
turbines, which whirl electric gen.
orators and the horsepower thus de-
veloped in electric current is trans
mitted hundreds of miles over cop
per wires to cities and towns to
operate manufactU ring plants and
street railways, and furnish light and
heat. They are known as hydro
electric plants.
1t was the introduction of the
turbine water wheel in about 1885
that started the utilization of the
flow of streams for mechanical. pur-
poses. But not until the alternating
current system for the transmission
of electrical energy was introduced
| in the early nineties, and the dis
covery of electrical transmission
| over long distances, did the develop
| ment of water power one of the
great factors in industrial life
There is estimated to be-, by. the
government and other authorities
| 30,O0O,O00 to 100000 potential
| horsepower in the streams on the
United States public domain:
The national house of representa-
| tfves has passed a bill giving a wage
| bonus of $24O a year to nearly al
| government employees receiving So
| 500 or less a year.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14

buildings and hundreds of coy
wooden and tar-papered cottages
built by the company.
The powder plants payroll APP
proximated more than million dol
lars a month. Money was plentiful.
and the city was one of the most
prosperous in the country, despite
it's youth. 1t installed costly fire
apparatus, built works, paved
the streets. lit them with electric
lights, organized a police force. and
laid it's plans to expand into a city
of 100000. It's board of trade did
a lot Of advertising to bring people
here. and there was work for all
who came.
Then came November 1.-THE day
of rejoicing throughout the world.
but of dire tragedy for Hopewell.
Four days later the com pany began
| discharging its men. BY January 1
| the entire plant was closed. The
| giant stacks are smokeless, the
great boilers are cold. Twenty
| thousand men found themselves
| without work.
Unless the Du Pont company's
paper experiment proves successful
| within a few months Hopewel will
| be completely deserted and will be
| left to ruin like it's historic neigh
| Dor, Jamestown. only few miles
! away.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14
Georgia to Be Free Of
Cattle Tick by End
1921, Saws Bahnsen

Georgia will be entirely free of cat
err, if the cattle growers continue to
cooperate with the state and federal
governments as well as they are now
Cooperating, according to DR.. P. H.
Bahnsen, state veterinarian. who es-
Inmates that two years of work after
1919 will complete the eradication OF
the pest.
Something over thirty counties now
are being worked, and will be fin
ished by the end of 1919. This will
leave about thirty-six counties yet to
be freed of the tick. and those thirty
years 1920 and 1921, after which the
cattle industry in Georgia can go
forward without interruption from
the cattle tick.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14

Thousands Of people have made the mis-
take of buying stomach and liver medicine
because palpitation and irregular action or
the heart. Treat the heart first, is wise
rule.
Build up the heart, make it strong and
regular in its action, if you want to be
we'll.
A full stream of rich, pure blood, circu.
lating through every organ, every part OF
your body, makes you feel years younger
stronger more active.
We want all who have heart trouble, weak
and over-taxed Hearts, Palpitation, Nervous
Heart, Tobacco Heart" Nervous Exhaus-
ton, cold hands and feet, poor circulation.
or impairment of the Heart functions, to
have free 50-cent bottle of CARDIAN1.
Send your name and address to THE CARD
IANl COMPANY, Dept. .C1S5, East Hampton,
Conn. You will receive by return Par
eel Post full-size 5O-cent bottle go doses)
of CARDIANI and new heart book, free from
all further expense or obligation Absolutely
free from any habit forming dangerous
drug. Guaranteed not to injure the most
delicate system.
Take it. Find how quickly bad symp-
toms disappear, and how bright and fine
you feel. Very valuable after attack of
grippe" or other weakening sickness.
Vt \
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14
Mother Of Great Player
Tells of His Childhood
BY MORGAN BLAKE

M old he earned twenty-five
wv cents by driving neigh
boris COW to pasture for him.
And how do you guess he invested
his earnings? He bought a baseball
mitI.
This information as to the begin
ming of the greatest ball players
career was given by his mother. Mrs
A. Cobb, CT Royston, Ga. Mrs. Cobb
is g. woman Of very keen intelligence,
and in personal appearance resembles
her noted son considerably. 1t is easy
to SEE where Ty got his quickness OF
decision, his enthusiasm for his worl;
has talked with his mother.
ance and this is explained by the
fact that she is only fourteen years
older than her son. Ty was born
when his mother was in full prime
tributes his great energy and dash
and fire in action to this.
Mrs. Cobb has, of course, seen her
son play big league ball many, many
times, and she is a great lover of the
game.
II lad rather see Ty play than
anybody" she said, land T don't think
it is all maternal pride either. / try
to forget 1 am his mother and eve :
when 1 watch him with unprecedented
eyes I am constrained to believe that
he is a pretty good ball player"
"Ty has always been impetuous
and headstrong. Even when he was
just little tot in short clothes he
hated to lose an argument. and he
never did lose many. He was full
of mischief in his boyhood days and
he had fights in school. If a strong
err boy would get the best of him
Ty. would fight him every day or
two until he finally won the verdict;
U'at lad could get the best of him.
Ills father. and I were very much
opposed to his playing professional
ball at first, but his mind was so
set on it that I relented: I felt that
man should go into whatever walk
of life his heart was set upon.
"The thing that always impressed
me most about Tvs playing is the
speed in which he gets away to the
bases. When he hits the ball I have
noted that he is always about three
or four steps towards first base be-
fore his bat hits the ground. He
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14
GERMAN
SPIES TRADED IN
DEADLY COCAINE.
War Introduced Terrible
Drug Habit in London With
Young Girls as Easiest
Victims

The immense business in the Sc
cret sale Of drugs going on nightly
in the west end OF London is the
backwaSh of an iniquitouS traffic We
have to thank" the German spy for
introducing.
in which the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF
Berlin has not traded. The kaiser
secret service agents knew the hor-
rible fascination of such drugs as
cocaine, opium, and heroin, and used
them unScrapulouSly to weaken the
resistance, lower the moral standard,
and break down the will OF people
from whom they desired to get in
formation.
Each one of the German women
large numbers before the signing OF
the armistice carried a small box
oil cocaine. They used it with the
object of making certain people, VIC
inns to it, knowing that a confirm
ed drug--taker loses all sense on
right and wrong, and will not even
hesitate to betray his or her coun-
German Harpies
In addition they offered 1t to
young and pretty, actresses wno
ing that girls of the stage when out
with admirers often pick up valu-
able items of information-and gave
it with the same freedom ana APP
parent ,goodfellowship that one
snuff taker invites another to a
In this way they made cocaine
taking a fashion. They created a
demand for it. Young women who
Lad sampled it wanted more. Al,
though at the beginning of the third
year of the war there was a great
Shortage Of cocaine in Great Britain,
there was a plentiful supply, in the
possession of German agents over
here. 1t was obtained from Ger
many, but how it got to this coull-
try is one of the secrets of the
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
When certain London harpies who
were not necessarily agents OF Ger
many found there was such l a d de- e,;
10 supply it. Many of them regu.
Early made profits ranging from $1OC
10 $500 a week out of the sale. Ter
and fifteen shillings have been paid
for a single pinch by people whose
40 War Tragedies
If German spies had not created
the demand in this manner, the secre1
sale of cocaine would not be. any
thing like so extensive as it is to-
day. 1.-L
prices for the harmful drugs il
which they deal, the vendors care. mo-
a jot whom they get for victims
Many of them, well-dressed, well
spoken, and having every appear
ance of education and prosperity
have access to the dressing room:
of west end theaters and music
balls. and mix freely with youns
footIight favorites and their friends
When an actress received news o:
the loss of husband, son. brother
or lover in the war-a TRACED!
which frequently happened-the dope
fiend would generally be in the vi
entity with some. sort of costly drus
in which he traded. =,
In her agitated state, caused by
The sudden shock of bereavement
the woman or girl would take any
thing offered her to procure ever
temporary relief of mind. Whei
she found that such things as co
caine had so wonderful a result sh'
naturally wanted more when thu
effect of the first dose had die'
down. And it was always forth
corning-at a price. The first dos
was given to- her, but the bereavet
woman had to pay dearly for thu
second and subsequent ones.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14
CHILDREN HATE OIL,
CALONEL AND PILLS
"CaIifornia Syrup of Figs"
best for tender stomach,
liver, bowels

Look back at your childhood days.
Remember the "dose" mother insist
ed on--castor oil, calonel, cathar-
tics How you hated them how you
fought against taking them.
With our children it's different.
Mothers who cling. to the old form
of physic simply don't realize what
they do. The children's revolt is
weil-founded. Their tender little
"insides" are injured by them. -,
If your child's stomach, liver and
bowels need cleansing, give only
delicious California Syrup of Figs"
Its action is positive, but gentle.
Millions Of mothers keep this harm
less fruit laxative" handy; they
know children love to take it; that
it never fails to clean the liver and
bowels and sweeten the stomach, ana
that a teaspoonful given today saves
a sick child tomorrow.
Ask your druggist for bottle or
california Syrup of Figs" WHICH
has full directions for babies, chill
dren of all ages and for grown-upss
plainly on each bottle. Beware OF
counterfeits sold here. See that 1t
is made by "C Calf f Fig Syrup y,;u9
with ontempt-( AdVt.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14

HopeWeH.- Va.., has lost hope!
For over three years this little
mushroom city, which sprang from
the cornfields and cotton plantations
almost over night, lived UP to it's
name. 1t had visions of a popula-
ton of 100000 in 1920.
Then came the end ofHthe war
and Hopewell was hopeless. =:
The E. l.. Du .Pont de Men1fours
company closed its great gun-cotton
plant which had been the only indus
try, the sole excuse for the exist
ence of HopeWelL fse
TN three years Hopewell had
grown to city of 10000 people,
with paved streets. modern improve
ments, brick store buildings, and
row upon row of little wooden cot
tages In three. months it had be-
come a deserted village. with pop
ulation of less than 1000! :
Hundreds of the little cottages,
built by the Du Pont company to
house it's employees are empty.
Scores of the stores and offices
that lined Broadway and Hopewell
streets, the main business section,
are deserted and closed. Property
values, which in 1915 and 1916
reached metropolitan proportions,
have so slumped that you can buy a
lot in Hopewell today for $25 which
two years ago cost the owner $4,000
or more. I.,
And the Du Pont company is dis
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14
| am Sincere! Stop CaIomeI!
| Guarantee D0dson's Liver Tone
Listen to me! Calomel sickens and you may lose
days work If bilious, constipated or
headachy read my guarantee.

a few cents under my personal mon
ey-back guarantee that each spoon
full will clean your sluggish liver
better than a dose of nasty calomel,
and that it won't make you sick.
Dodson's Liver Tone is real liver
medicine. You'll know it next morn
ing, because you will wake up feel
ing fine, your liver will be working,
headache and dizziness gone; stom1
ach will be sweet and bowels reg
ular.
Dodson's Liver Tone is entirely
vegetable, therefore harmless and
can not salivate. Give it to your
children. Millions of people are using
Dodson's Liver Tone instead of dan
will tell you that the sale of cal
omel is almost stopped entirely. here.
(AdVt. }
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14
THE MOST
DANGEROUS DISEASE

unless they are driven from your
system.
Oil Capsules at once. They are an
old, tried prepare ton used all over
the world for centuries. They con-
tain only old-fashioned, soothing
oils combined with strengthening
and system-cleansing herbs, well
known and used by physicians in
their daily practice. GOLD MEDAL
HARLEM Oil Capsules are imported
direct from the laboratories in Hol-
land They are convenient to take.
and will either give prompt relief
or your money will be refunded. Ask
for them at any drug store, but be
sure to get. the original imported
GOLD MEDAL brand. Accept no
substitutes. In sealed packages.
Three sizes.-(Adyt.l .....-....-,..
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14

No organs of the human body are
so important to health and long life
as the kidneys. When they slow UP
and commence to lag in their duties,
look out! Danger is in sight.
Find out what the trouble is
without delay. Whenever you feel
nervous, weak, dizzy, suffer from
sleeplessness, or have pains in the
back or difficulty in passing urine
wake up at once. Your kidneys need
help. These are. signs to warn you
that your kidneys are not perform
ing their functions properly. They
are only half doing their work and
are allowing impurities to accummu-
late and be converted into uric acid
and other poisons, which are caus-
ing you distress and will destroy you
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14
FEEL MISERABLE
FROM THAT COLD?
Colds and coughs are quickly
relieved by DR.. Kings
New Discovery

Nobody should feel perfectly
miserable" from q cold, cough or
bronchial attack for very long. For
it takes only little while to relieve
it and get back on the road to re-
covcry when DR.. Kings New Dis
cavery is faithfully used. 1t soon
loosens the pr'a@m, relieves irfita-
ION, soothes the parched, sore throat.
brings comfort
Half a century old and more popu-
lar today than ever. All druggists.
soc and $130.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14
SWAMP FOR
KIDNEY AILMENTS

There is only one medicine that
really stands out pre-eminent as a
medicine for durable ailments OF the
Kidneys, liver and bladder.
a DIR. Kilmer'S Swamp-Root stands
Che. highest for the reason that it
has proven to be just the remedy
needed in thousands upon thousands
sa&kes friends quickly because it's
mild and immediate effect is soon
realized in most cases. 1t is gen
tie. healing vegetable compound.
= Start treatment at once. Sold at
all drug stores in bottles of two
sizes, medium and large.
However, if you wish first to test
this great preparation. send ten cents
to DR.. Kilmer &c Co., Binghamton
N. Y, for sample bottle. When
writing be sure and mention The At
lanta Semi-W eelkIy JOurnal.-(Advt)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14
HANDSOME MEN OF GEORGIA
PROOF AGAINST BOLSHEVISM

Georgians, the Georgians who live
in a far land across the seas, not
here in the good old U. S. A, who
refuse to be party to any confer
ence with the Bolsheviki because
they have set up republic of their
own in the Caucasus, have a unique
distinction.
Their men are declared the most
handsome in the wrold.
Mountain brigands or honest farm
eb5 ney are and Ioo mon
In fact the Georgian men are de-
clared ha1tdsomer than the Geor-
gian women, who as they advance in
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14

Liven up your sluggish liver! Feel
fine and cheerful; make your work
pleasure; be vigorous and full OF
ambition. But take no nasty, dan
gerous calomel, because it makes
you sick and you may lose day S
work.
Calomel is mercury, or quicksilver,
which causes necrosis Of the bones
Calomel crashes into sour bile like
dynamite, breaking it up. That's
when you feel that awful nausea and
cramping.
Listen to me! If you want to en-
joy the incest, gentlest liver and
bowel cleansing you ever expert
enced, just take a spoonful of harm
less Dodson's Liver Tone tonight.
Your druggist or dealer sells you a
bottle Of Dodson's Liver Tone for
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14

In the spring Of 1893 I was at
tackled by Muscular and Infamma-
tory rheumatism. L suffered as only
those who have it know, for over
three years. L tried remedy after
remedy, and doctor after doctor, but
such relief as I received was only
temporary. Finally, I found a rem
edy that cured me completely, and
it has never returned. 1 have given
it to a number who were terribly
afflicted and even bedridden with
rheumatism, and it effected a cure
in every case.
want every sufferer from any
form Of rheumatic trouble to try
this marvellous healing power. Don't
send a cent; simply fill out the cou-
pom below and L will send it free to
try. After you have used it and it
has proven itself to be that long
Iooked-for means of curing your
rheumatism, you may send the price
of it, one dollar, but, understand, 1
do not want your money unless you
are perfectly satisfied to send it.
Isn't that fair? Why suffer any
longer when positive relief is thus
offered you free? Don't delay. Write
today. Mr.. Jackson is responsible.
Above statement is true.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14
NEW QUESTIONS

Can you answer these questions
correctly? Write your answers
now, and then look for the correct
answers in this column in the next
issue of The Semi-Weekly jour
nal:
1. BY what right did the United States
claim Oregon and what nation claimed 1t
on the same grounds? s.
. Under whose administration. and in
what year was the Naval school founded
at Annapolis?
g. Name the three kinds of ccal and de-
fine each.
hood in 1896?
3. What is a corpration? -
6. What is meant by the business term
'liuuidatioo?"
Z. What state in the United States has
the smallest population?
s. What state produces twice as many
Logs as any other statef
.. Name three essayists of the Victorian
Age and name an essay written by each.
IN Who wrote ''Koni1worth ?'' ..
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14
Is Your Blood Starving.
For Want OF Iron?
Iron is Red-BIood Food-Nuxated Iron
Helps Put Roses Into the Cheeks OF p
Women and Strength and Energy So
a Into the Veins of Men,


Women and Strength and Energy 1f%
~ Into the Veins of Men,
If you were to go without eating Until yoit
become weak, thin and emaciated, you could~r
not do more serious harm to yourself than
when you let your blood literally starve tor
want of iron-iron that gives it strength alds
power to change food into living tissues
muscle and brain. Without plenty of iron
in the blood, no matter how much or whats
you eat, your food simply passes through youa
without doing you. any good-you don't GET
the strength out of it and instead of being,
filled with youthful strength and energy you
are weak, nervous and all rundown. II you
are not strong or well you owe 1t to yourself
to make the following test: See how long
you can walk or how far you can walk
without becoming tired. Next take two five
grain tablets of ordinary Nuxated Iron three
times per day after meals for two weeks,
then test your strength again and see how
much you have gained. Numbers OF nervous
rundown people who were ailing all the
while have most astonishingly increased their
strength and endurance simply by taking
iron in the proper form. But don't take the
old kinds Of iron simply to save a few cents.
You must take iron in a form that can be
easily absorbed and assimilated like Nux.H
ated Iron if you want it to do you any good.n
otherwise it may prove worse than uselessSo
You can procure Nuxated Iron from You're
druggist on an absolute guarantee of satiAHs
faction or your money will be refunded. sqo
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14

years take on a masculine strength
Of features that robs them of their
charm. They are handsome, too, but
not in the feminine way.
The Georgians and the Armenians
are greatly mixed and each claims
to have been first to embrace Chris
tianity.
There's still another distinction
in Georgia. Mizkhet is declared to
have been founded by one of Noah's
sons just after the historic cruise
of the ark.
Georgia had it's own king until
1901, when George XIII yielded SOW
erignity to Russia.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14
SaiInrS Must Swim

American merchant sailors must
pass swimming tests before get
ting their degrees, the shipping
board notified it's merchant ma
rine schools this week. Swim
ming lessons will be provided
Immediately and swimming tests
set which the student sailors
must pass before being granted
their graduation certificates.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14
ARRESTED FOR FORGERY

arrested at Park field, near Memphis,
Tenn, this week on Geographic re-
quest from San Antonio, Tex. He is
accused of passing a fictitious draft
for 5000 on an army nuarternla Ster.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-14
ACTOR T,EFT $4,000

Nat C. Goodwin, famous stage CO.
median. who died in New York last
week. left an estate of only $4,000.
He was supposed to be worth at least
$3.50 600