The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, March 02, 1922, Image 2
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UNCLE SAM'S ICE HOUSE
Press dispatches intimate that
i ^.President Harding intends to visit
Alaska the coming summer and that
he will be accompanied by General
Pershing and a number of Congressmen.
Uncle Sam's ice house, as Alaska
is sometimes called, is a big proposition.
As it cost this government $7,200,000
in 1867 it would be the proper
thing to look it over and make the
most of it.
There are a number of important
industries that ought to be pushed,
not only gold min'ng but extensive
fisheries. It is said the waters of Alaska
contain over one hundred species
of food fish, including salmon, cod
and herring.
Mt. McKinley, the highest peak in
North America, is situated in Alaska.
It is 20,464 feet high.
The summers in Alaska are very
Bhort and it is said are rendered almost
unendurable by clouds of mosquitoes,
so that the natives love winter
with its snow and ice to drive oflT
the mosquitoes.
it t 1 .1?*.
it iv? tu nupcu mat Lit-siuviit nmuing
will not come back with cold feet.
JUDGE LANDIS STICKS
TO BASE BALL
Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis,
who has been for a year or more supreme
commissioner of the American
League Baseball, has finally decided
to resign his place on the judiciary.
He was criticized very severely at the
time of his accepting the base ball position,
while holding a United States
judgeship. But he refused to resign
either job, until his critics ceased
their lampooning.
Then he held the base ball commission
and let the judgeship slide.
The base ball salary is said to be
much in excess of that of the judiciI
ary, which is somewhat of a reflection
upon our political scheme <>f romuneri
ating judges.
A WOMAN DEPUTY SHERIFF
tMrs. Corra Harris, the farmous
Georgia writer, the author of "A Circuit
Rider's Wife," and other popular
Ivories, is a deputy sheriff. She says
Wb took guns frm several men and
that they submitted to her demands
with meekness and promptness.
Southy, the poet, who died in 1848,
asked in one of his notable poems:
"What will not woman, gentle
woman dare?"
As the wife of a Methodist Circuit
IKider, Mrs. Harris, no doubt had
many painful experiences ami was the
better prepared for the duties of her
new position.
A NEW POLITICAL PARTY
At a meeting of some of the leaders
of the American labor party in Chicago
it was decided to form a new
party to influence political action in
behalf of labor interests. If congress
men who are up for election this fall
do not agree to carry out the wishes
of the labor unions, candidates of
their own will be brought out.
One of the labor leaders said that
the plan contemplates a political party
similar to the British labor party,
committed to progressivism and prer
pared to swing its strength to what-i
ever candidates meot its require-1
ments.
An exchange suggests that every
American child conies into the world
endowed with liberty, opportunity,
and a share of the war debt.
Dispelled All Doubt*
A woman was presenting a check
at a bank. On examination the teller
told her she must be identified.
"You must bring somebody with
1 ??? Ln?.?c i
The doman drew herself up. "That
check," she said with dignity," was
given me by my husband. There's his
name on it. Do y mi know him?"
"Yet, but 1 don't know you."
"Then I'll show you who I am. My
husband has a mole on one -"heck and
looks a little like a gorilla. When he
talks he twists his mouth * > one side,
and one of his front teeth is missing.
He wears a number seventeen collar,
a number nine .hoe and won't keep
his coat buttoned. lies the liardesr
man to get money out of you ever
saw. It took me three weeks to pet
this check.'
The teller waved his hands. "I'm
sure it's all right," he said.
MICK1E, THE PRINT!
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FARMERS IN SOU
GEORGIA GR(
IN SPITE i
By Jam's A. Hollomon
(Printed by permission Atlanta Constitution)
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uawson, ua., Feb. 4.?Swinging
through southwest Georgia upon my 1
return from the gulf states, I find j
that even here, where the boll weevil
is comparatively a new problem, there
i are a few progressive farmers who
have learned to master him under
normal crop conditions. Terrell county,
to illustrate, made more cotton to
the acre cultivated in 1921 than in
any year since the weevil became a'
menacing influence?and the reason
again further accentuates the fallacy
of attempting to grow the staple under
the old system of large acreage
and slow cultivation.
A great many southwest Georgia
farmers, as yet inexperienced, have
continued to believe that the weevil
would pass on after a period of three
of four years, and have continued to
plant cotton to their old-time proweevil
acreage, plant the same way,
fertilize the same way, cultivate the
same way,and the result has been that
where one up-to-date, aggressive farmer
has grown cotton successfully the
past two or three years by applying
the rules of reason, scores of others
under the same climatic influences
farming the same kind of soil, have
fallen by the wayside, scarcely making
a bale to a plow in many instances.
This latter result has not been due
to laziness or to indifference?although
there are lazy and indifferent
people in every line of industry who
refuse to apply brain and brawn to
overcome any crisis?but it has been
due to either a lack of understanding
as to how to farm under boll weevil
conditions, or to a lack of confidence
in the cultural rules brought to us
from the southwest, where it took
long years of warfare to learn the lesson
of cultural strategy in meeting
the invader on the fields of hattle.
Southwest Georgia Learning Lesson
And yet southwest Georgia, on the
whole, is gradually emerging from the
agricultural panic that the boll weevil
originally produced?and in the
process of evolution the farmers are
beginning to build more substantially
and on a firmer foundation than ever
before.
Where forty acres were in the old
days given to a cotton plow, last
year ten acres was the standard of
those farmers who actually succeeded
in beating the weevil. Those who
refuse to thus intensify their cotton
growing operations found their fields
swept by the pest and their pockethooks
empty at the finish.
Those farmers who beat the weevil
in 1921 in this section?and a majority
of them did not?not only reduced
their acreage around onefourthof
their preweevil operations,
but instead of using 200 pounds of
fertilizer to the acre, as in the old
days, they used 500 pounds and 750
pounds, and applied it with intelligence
so that every dollar of the investment
should pay a dividend.
"Intense cultivation" does not prescribe
its meaning to intense plowing
It means pushing the plan to early
fruitage by intense cultural methods,
begining with the preparation of the
seed Deo, me nunciing up ol the sou,
the supplying of the requisite chemicals
to mature plant and fruit, and
to do it with the liberality that precludes
the possibility of plant starvation,
or the diseases resulting from
a lack of balanced food that results
in destroying plant vitality.
In this section the lands are light.
Unless the cultivation is intense, the
maturing o<" tl.i cotton plant it slow.
!n running a race with the weevil it
must not tie slow?hence the obvious
necessity not only for intense cultivation,
so that intense cultivation may
at least have a clear track and a
fair chance in its race with the wee|
vil.
The farmers of this section who
are growing cotton successfully in
spite of the weevil are not only doing
so on radically reduced acreage and
by intense cultivation and liberal fertilization,
but they are applying all
of the other essential rules that 1 have
empiirisizra irom iime to time in this
series. They rotate their crops, following
cover crops with cotton, and
vice versa; they drain their cotton
lands; they keep tho cotton fields segregated
from natural hibernating environments;
they plant early as climatically
safe, striving for a good
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stand at the first planting; they plant 1
an early maturing, heavy bearing variety;
they begin to fight the weevil
when he first appears in the buds;they
pick the wilted and fallen infested 1
squares?
And they cultivate the other threefourths
of their tillable lands in food
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kct crop in this section, both direct
through the shelling: plants and indirect
through conversion into meats.
Cotton a Surplus Crop Main Thing
When all the farmers of southeast
Georgia?and all of other sections of
Georgia?learn the lesson of weevil
mastery through intense cultivation
of not more than Ave to ten acres of
cotton to the plow; the making of
cotton purely a surplus crop, and the
raising of other field crops on the
major areas, either for stock growing
or for direct sale; a correlating necessity?then,
and not until then, will
the weevil problem be solved in Georgia,
as in Texas and other states of
the southwest.
There are few if any better or more
prosperous farmers in Georgia than
W. J. Matthews, of this city. He operated
forty cotton plows last year on
a basis of intense cultivation. He
fertilized more liberally than ever before,
using a 12?2 1-2? preparation.
He fed this preparation to the
growing plants during the continuous
process of cultivation. He picked the
wilted and fallen squares and burned
them and kept his cotton ahead of any.
. serious weevil infestation.
! Mr. Mathews said to me:
I '"It's a race with the weevil and I
1 win it by farming strategy. On my entire
cotton acreage I made an average
of two-thirds of a bale to the
acre, and on several small plots I ran
a bale to the acre. I recall on one
little field of 1 1-4 acres, where I
fertilized extra heavily to test more
liberal fertilization, which accentuate*,
too, the rule of int^nae cultivaI
tion, I made 800 pounds of lint?
think of it!
'I. plow every week or ten days
1 "VAMPS" WHO 5
MADE HISTORY |
| By JAMES C. YOUNG. *
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THE BEAUTY WHO DEFIED AN.
EMPEROR.
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ONCE1VE for a moment that you j
v-i are standing In a Uoman road
way, toward the end of the Third century.
A hedge of humanity lines both
aides. In the distance you hear the
wavering notes of a horn, and soon a
drumbeat sounds, then a fanfare of
horns. Aurelian Is approaching to en- i
Joy the ceremonial triumph extended
to successful leaders.
Who Is the woman that walks before
him? A woman of remarkable
beauty, loaded with golden chains!
which slaves help to support, and'
decked with so many jewels that |
she almost faints from the combined ,
weight, the clamor and humiliation, i
She is Zenobla, former ruler of Pal- ]
niyra, who called herself Queen of the
East and dared to challenge Home.
Zenobla's story Is gay and sad.
When her husband still lived she
reveled In the delights of war and love.
It has been said that she made many
of his victories possible by her advice,
and between them they erected an
empire. Then he was assassinated by
a nephew. She took the lleld, won the
throne and extended her power over
a broad expanse. Home watched with
envious eyes and sent armies to conquer
her. But she partly defeated and
partly wore out these armies. Theu i
Aurelian was made einj>eror of Rome
and himself came to subdue her. |
Inch by Inch she was driven back to;
her capital of Palmyra. Aurelian
stormed vainly at the gates, and Zeno- ,
bia sent him Insolent messages In ark- 1
swer to his proposal of terms. At
Inst the city was near capture and Zenobla
tied across the desert on a
dromedary. She was seized and car
rled before Aurellun, who demanded
why she had defied Rome.. She answered
that.she had not been able to
regard other emperors as such, but
"you. alone, I acknowledge as my conqueror
and my sovereign."
Her blandishments failed to move
Aurelian and he carried toer uway to
Rome, to march before his chariot
along the Applnu Way, a beautiful
captive. To complete" her Indignity,!
there followed, just behind, an ebibo- '
rate chariot which she bad bad built |
with the announced purpose of riding
In It when she entered Home, a conqueror.
But on the fateful day Zeno- !
bla was decked in her golden chains
and t! clank of each link was a
deathblow. She died not long after*j
w ard of humiliation.
By Charles Sughroe
* Wmuiti Nrwitxp*. Umoa
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it the outside, using a light sweep
during the latter days of cultivation.
[ chop around 16 inches and plant
:otton in four-foot rows. I pick weevls
when they first appear in the bud,
?nd through fast plowing keep the
weevil infestation from becoming serious.
I turn the stalks under immediately
after the cotton is picked,
the land needing the potash. I keep
the cotton fields removed from weevil
hibernating haunts, and rotate the
crops, selecting only open fields for
cotton. To plant cottcta in stump
fields or near woods or unkept hedges,
etc., is simply throwing time and
money away. I prepare, with dust,
to fight serious infestation should a
wet summer make it necessary."
Terfell Co. Farmers Adopt Right Way
There were 16,000 bales of cotton
made in Terrell county in 1921, which
illustrates that other farmers besides
Mr. Mathews applied the same methods
that he so potently demonstrated
to be successful.
Coming around from southeast
Alabama. I BtODed at. Arlin^tnn
There are many prominent farmers in
Calhoun county who are beginning to
adopt the same methods of farming
that is winning against the weevil
elsewhere. Representative J. W. Cowart,
one of the larger planters of the
county, is one of them. He is beginning
to adopt intense cultural methods
and is wining.
In Dougherty county I talked to
several of the larger cotton farmers.
Where the acreage has been radically
reduced, and the "rules of reason"
applied they are begining to master
the weevil.
All of these southwest Georgia
counties have gone heavily into the
growing of peanuts and pigs, grains
and hay, and this utilization of land
has necessarily reduced cotton acreage,
sometimes without an organized
plan?and many of the farmers arc
learning by experience, forced by
necessity, that the weevil can only be
beat by drastically cutting the cotton
acreage, and running him a winning
race.
This article concludes the series on
farming under boll weevil conditions.
In the near future I shall sum up
the outstanding features of all the results
of my investigations, and condense
them into one concise closing
statement.
Stories of
Great Scouts Watson I
?, Western Newspaper Union.
JEDEDIAH STRONG SMITH, THE
AMERICAN ULYSSES
This is a story of a modern Ulysses,
a frontier hero of many wanderings,
who died without receiving the fame
which was his due. a man whose service
to America has been but lately
appreciated by his countrymen. Jede
diuh Strong Smith wr.i hU name, anil
his contribution to history was the
first accurate mapping of the great
West.
Smith was born In New York in
1709. As a boy he played with the
young Seneca Indians of Chief Cornplanter's
tribe, and learned their lore,
lie beeaiue an expert with the bow
and arrow, which be afterward carried
on all of his expeditions. Once
he brought down a hawk flying about
75 yards above him, und he could
drive a shaft to the heart of a buffalo
as skillfully as any Indian hunter.
In years of wandering Smith
crossed the western country on the
south from the Colorado river te the
Pacific; he crossed It'' midway from
the Rockies to the Pacific, and he
traversed It on the north from California
to the ltoektea. Re visited all
the Important streams from Arizona
to the Yellowstone country, and he
made accurate notes of all be saw.
This Information was used In correcting
the unreliable maps of the day
and proved of inestimable value' to
later explorers.
Smith'* death wa* heroic. la mi
be was guiding a wagon train- over
the Santa He trail. The train had taken
a short cut around the heed of the
Clmnrron river and soon was lost In
a desert country. Water must be
found at once. Smith set out In search
of a stream, and finally reached one.
While drinking, he was surrounded by
a hnnd of Comanches, who determined
to have the white man's gun.
The Indians signaled peace, and af0-^.
s- it- -
ici iinHiiiK in me sign language for a
wlille, they succeded In frightening
Smith's horse. As It turned, they ahot
at the scout with arrows, wounding
hlin In the arm. Smith wheeled about,
shot the ehief dead with his rifle and
killed two more savages with his pistols.
Then graapkig his ax, the scout
dashed Into their midst. They cut
him down with their lances, but when
they approached to scalp him, Rinlth
rose up again and stabbed three of
them with his knife. Then he dropped
dead. The Indiana afterward admitted
that be had killed 18 of their party
before he died I
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The tourist sportsman took a violent
fancy to a pointer pup he saw in
the yard of a North Carolina moan- ed
tain cabin and straightway offered
the owner a hundred dollars for it.
The trade was soon made, and as he e
counted out the money the tourist remarked
casually: si
"Seems to be it would pay you er
better to raise bird dogs than those
scrubby, razor back hogs." of
"Wall, no," the native drawled, so
"You' see, Ah kin sell my hawgs af
any time for a tolerable price, but it's hi
mighty seldom a dum fool come along th
willin' to pay a hundred dollars for a
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P T WAS evident that the robbery
of tlie Rock Island Express had
been effected In less than a quarer
of an hour. The express car had " _
icon hitched on Immediately behind
he engine, and one of the firemen
eoalled having seen Kellogg, the meaenger,
cheeking up his accounts about
Ifteen minutes before the train pulled
nto Morris, III. The next time he
;lafieed up a shade h*d been pulled
cross the window of the express car,
ind the first he knew of the robbery
ra4 after the train stopped at Morris,
ind Pitney, the brakeman, shouted
>ut that Kellogg had been killed and
bat thousands of dollars was missing
rodl the safe.
Jdmeson, who was In charge of the
aggage car, directly behind the ex rerfs
car. provided what anbesred to
>e the only clue to the crime, by statute
that shortly after the train left
rollbt, a than In a red mask bad severed
his ear, held him up at the
K)lrrt of a revolver, and had then
tasked through to the car beyond, leavng
Jameson In charge of another
nnaked man who had disappeared aa
he train slowed down at Morris.
"I was scared Stilt," admitted the
lagdagciipin, "and didn't dare budge.
The express authorities at Morrta
irortiptly sidetracked tht express car,
ind wired the details of the case to
William A. Plnkerton, who arrived
inly a few hours later. Meanwhile,
iow*ver, the contents of the safe had
ieen checked up. and It was dlsfovered
that njore than *20,000 was
nlsslng. Kellogg, the messenger, was
load, but before dying, he had evllently
given a good account of himself.
Rpfore he did anything else, Plnkeron
walked bnck over the track on
vhlch the train had come Into Morris,
.ess than half a mile out he Uls overed
a red mask, lying close to the
raek. and he also noted a most slgdflcant
fact?although there was more
ban a foot of snow upon the ground,
here were no foot-prints within a
Hinrter-tnlle of the mask!
Returning to Morris, the detective
onimenced his examination of the exiress
car, hut failed to find anything ,
>f value.
Close inspection of the body of the
lead messenger, however, brought to
lght another point which Plnkerton
'clt certain ought to prove valuable.
[Tnder Kellogg's finger nails was a
onslderable quantity of what at first
ippoared to he wet paper or pulp of
mine kind, hut which the detective
ecognlzed as the outer layers of
uitnnn skin, torn off during the
it niggle when the messenger's fingers
vere fighting to secure a hold upon
ds assailant!
Upon returning to Clilcngo, Pinker
.... <n irijur^ii-il UH* (MIIUiaiH Or
ho rond to have all the mem employed
>n the train oome to his office, one
>y one. to he Interviewed. Jameson, he
llreotod, was to be the last man sent.
When Pitney, the hrakeman, en-,
erod, Plnkerton did not overlook the.
rnot that he was dressed In a new)Utftt
which was distinctly nhove hlli
iphere In life. From the points of*
il<j glossy shoes to the top of his new
lerhy, the hrakeman hnd evidently:
rented himself to a hrnnd-new wardrobe
In honor of his Interview with"
he famous detective, in spite of the;
fact that he had very little to tell..
[t was he who had discovered the*
rohhery. hut he had seen nothing of*
the man In the red mask, though ...
Fameson's excited recital of the holdjp
had caused him Immediately to
Investigate the express csr.
"That was Just as we were pulling
Into Morris," concluded the hfakeman.
"and I gave a yell the minute 1 saw
(That they had done to Kellogg."
"That's whit I wanted to talk t*
rou about," said Plnkerton. "Sit
lown, won't yt>n? And take olf your
font. It's warm in here .... Tour
flovcs, too, be added, noting that Pitney
kept hit hands covered.
After a moment's hesitation the
brakeman peeled off his new glove*,
ind Plnkerton had difficulty Id concealing
a start of satisfaction. The hactaa
rvf the mar's hands were seamed and
kcored with a network of scratches!
"risen playing with the eat?" teiritred
Plnkerton casually.
M!fo, no,M Pitney replied. "I those>
handling a bnsted trunk a few night*
ago," and then he launched Into tr.
lescrlptlon of his experiences on the*
rilght of the robbery. When he badl
finished. Plnkerton thanked htm and'
flowed him out of the office, but themuffled
bur.* of n bell In the anteroom.
Informed the men stationed there thnt
Pitney was te be followed night and.
lay.
"So far as I was concerned," Plnkerton
said later, "the case ended right?
there. The backs of Pltney's hands;,
foupled with the absence of foot-prlntsi
In the vicinity of the red mask?
which proved that the Job bad been:
handled by someone 011 the train-?
(cave the whole thin* dead away.
There had been no hold-up In the hagffage
car. Therefore, Jameson was In
the frame, too. The pair of thena had
rrnmed tip a most plausible story,
K'blch, If It hadn't been for the shred*
of akin under the dead mnn'i nail-*,
stood good ehance of being believed.
"As It wan, my men shadowed them
nntll they got careless and hetfin
spending tlielr stolen money. Then y e
we closed In, reoovered all but $2.(yx>
and n*i i the pair to the penitentiary
Tor llf?! Dead men may not tell tulei^,
but si metlm?s their fl- gfrs do 1**
Utl'ity,
MYou made your wife a ChHsfmnv
>re*ent of a set of furs she doesn't
eafly need?"
"I did." replied Mr. Meekton.
"I thought you were a strict advocate
of useful giving."
"I am. A new set of fnra put Hcnletta
In a perfectly angelic fraipe of'
bind. Nothing could be more nsefu' *
The Unpardonable tin.
"What'a thla . I hear about the
linythes planning a divorce? t
bought they were wonderful puis but
she took up golf Juet to be with
Uii uod mil that sort of thing I"
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