The Atlanta News. (Atlanta, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 29, 1910 Page: 2 of 8
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TEXAS
Precipitation is aviation's worst
•my.
Airships have not yet filed freight
tariffs. v
Winter is looking over the fence
at us.
Nicaragua gives signs of refusing
to stay put
"The hobble skirt is passing," says
A fashion note. But slowly, of course.
One of the requisites of an aero-
plane flight is a check for a good-sized
amount. -
One of the shocking new plays
brought out in New York is named
"Electricity.''
The thumping of the steam pipes in
le early morning means more noise
tut not more heat
Chinese officials must give up theii
jobs or their queues. The latter will
naturally have to go.
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A London scientist has invented a
sure cure for a cold. So has every-
body else in the world.
A Hoosier dentist has planned a
•tooth insurance policy. He may bite
off more he can chew.
In future, when aviation meets are
to be stopped by the police, they will
Ibave to have more "fly cops."
There are 80,000 rooms in New
ork without light And yet they
of the Great White Way.
i With aeroplane makers organized
the pickets could have lots of fun
malting faces at non-union craft
f King Chulalongkorn is dead. Com-
tpoeitors will be glad to learn that his
successor's name is Chowfa Maha Va-
liravauch.
A lecturer declared lately that the
perfect woman of the future will not
be a mother. Then she will not be a
perfect woman. v
The woman who has a pet boa con-
strictor 11 feet long shouldn't kick if
jher husband brings Jwme a load of
snake bite cure.
Man is a useless creature, asserts a
Chicago woman lecturer. What? Who'd
stay home and tend the baby if it
Wasn't.for men? .
Still, there are some young men who
are more interested in the price of
American beauty roses than in the
oost of beefsteak.
About the time a man begins to
grow brush heaps in his ears he loses
interest in the changing vagaries of
fashions in socks.
The Massachusetts girl who can
throw a baseball like Ellam is a fac-
tory girl. No college or society girl
compete with her.
Shakespeare may have had the man-
birds in mind when he mentioned the
condition of being "horsed on the
sightless corners of the air."
It is alleged that dressed Peruvian
monkeys are being sold sa rabbits in
the London market What a waste
there must be in monkey tails.
A Toronto girl who thought she was
marrying a young capitalist soon dis-
covered that her husband was a bur-
glar. Is not marriage a lottery?
The Swiss are going to construct
another tunnel through the Alps. Evi-
dently they do not,take much stock in
the aerial route taken by Chavez.
Three of the last load of deer
brought into Bangor, Me., sayf an ex-
change, were shot by women. Who
says a woman cant hit anything she
alms at?
They are going to put up another
huge building In New York, this time
one of 46 stories. Daylight will yet
be at a premium on the Manhattan
street level.
A preacher says that young women
prefer marriage to missionary work. If
they tackle the former, however,
they'll find that they're In for a bit
of the latter.
Only scientific Institutions or learn-
ed chemists will be permitted to buy
radium. As it Is $36,000,000 a pound,
one can readily see what hardship
this arbitrary regulation is going to
work among the general public, seek-
ing radium bargains.
In Detroit a man was arrested be-
sause he shot off firecrackers on the
twenty-fifth anniversary of his wed-
ding. A man who wants to celebrate
because he haa been married twenty-
five years ought to have some privi-
leges.
An Oregon detective has been deco-
rated by China for guarding the Chin-
ese prince on the tatter's recent visit
to this country. But a detective sport-
ing a yellow Jacket and a peacock
feather would be rather hampered la
this business of seoret identity.
World
Nation
Peoples Dwelling
Together as One
Nation
By ADA MAY KRECKZ3
EOF. STANLEY JEVONS has been most famous perhaps as
a historian. But he ia fated to become quite as celebrated as a
prophet. He founds his prophecies on his history and in that
way deduces them as logical and natural and inevitable se-
quences from his premises. They are the answers to puzzles,
the answers to problems in arithmetic.
They are the calculations of an astronomer who fixes the
course of comets thousands of years before the destined date
of their visible arrival, although the professor most evidently
expects his predicted phenomena to sweep over the heavens far
within the period of a thousand years. And that although they are far
stranger and rarer than comets. Indeed in ljis latest vision he foresees
what never has been. And that is a world state, a world nation.
The Bible talks of all peoples dwelling together as one nation. Pro-
fessor Jevons believes it. Efe has outlined the sort of government that
will rule the world state. And he has found the names for the officials,
and he has predicted a world executive, the literal king of the earth. And
he believes there will be such a sovereign within the next eighty years. He
finds the beginnings of him and his cabinet in the petty officials connected
with The Hague tribunal and the outgrowths of The Hague peace con-
ferences.
Some international government officials exist now. And they have
existed for years. Only they work so silently and unobtrusively that no
ene knows about them. But the significance of their position is not dis-
counted by its quiet and non-notoriety. Rather, it is glorified.
Besides of course people are growing friendlier. Good will on earth
is realizing as we all become more and more cosmopolitan. At the time
of the world's fair in Chicago there was a children's congress which Mary
Mapes Dodge conducted with her delightful grace. She introduced the
late Hezekiah Butterwarth, who read a poem in honor of the children of
the United States.
He explained that that was the second poem he had written for the
day. The first had been dedicated to the children of New England, his
own home. But some one had upbraided him for choosing so small a
theme. He remodeled his verses and inscribed them
to the children of the whole nation.
Overweening love of country is ceasing to be a
virtue among the ethically modern, among the ethical
elite. They prefer worldism, cosmopolitanism. They
have evolved beyond the thought of the <fbioody fur-
riner." Foreigner and native alike are desirable citi-
zens. Somebody has Vritten on patriotism as a primi-
tive ideal. The civilized and cultured prefer the
world state.
Various
Ways of
Stingy
Lover
By ELIZABETH BERNARD
There are in this world "Jimmy Tight-
wads" who, without previously spending a
2-cent stamp to acknowledge an invitation
for an afternoon gathering, come and seem
very much surprised when you mention
their oversight and wonder that you "could
have doubted their coming." Early in the
evening, before supper, they tell you that
if mother does not hurry with the supper
they will have to leave without it, as they
have an evening engagement. Imagine!
And if they do stay until later in the even-
ing they plead "early rising because of
work" as an excuse for not taking home one
of your guests.
If a man does not want to spend a dime in car fare he ought not to
•hare the pleasures of the other guests. A man certainly owes something
to his hostess and should not consider the acceptance of a party invitation
the granting of a favor on his part.
Indeed, he is the one favored and should have enough courtesy at least
after the event to spend 2 cents for a stamp, saying: "I enjoyed myself."
Some men are always talking about how much cheaper it is for a girl
to entertain her friends than for a man.
They are always bragging about the amount of money they spend, but
one never sees them spend it They feel very much abused when they get
the mitten. - . \
I have heard of people of this sort who went to see their best young
woman friends on Christmas and New Yea/a days without even a box of
candy.
Then they "wonder why the girls let mother entertain them."
Some "Jimmies" have a habit of dropping in informally about meal
time, just as some Genevieves do.
Then they wonder why a girl turns them down hard when they
propose.
Texan
Scores
Hobble
Skirt as
Hideous
By CAPT. WILLIAM G. DOAK
ef Su Saka Ceuty, Ttui
Out on the big cattle ranges of the
Southwest it is the common practice of the
nestor or cowboy, when he makes his camp
for the night, to put hobbles on his work
horses or saddle ponies.
There's a reason. With the hobbles on,
the animals are so impeded in their walk
that they can cover but a little distance,
even in the course of an entire night, and
the owner goes serenely to his slumbers,
knowing that his beasts will be in range of
his vision on his awakening.
The restraining thongs, attached only to
the forelegs, do not prevent them from
cropping the rich prairie grass, but effectually hinder their straying to a
great distance from camp.
Now, of all ungainly, ungraceful looking objects on earth, I put a
hobbled horse, or rather did up to this day, when my eyes for the first time
beheld a hobbled woman.
For the first time in my existence, my friend, I am brought to realize
that woman, the fairest, most beautiful of all created things, could by her
own act transform herself into a mast hideous and repellant phenomenon.
How can there be grace without ease and freedom of movement ?
A hobbled woman ought to be taken out and shown the limp and
Gobbled hop of a hobbled horse, and I honestly believe that one look would
«ause her to change her skirt*.
CEMENT SILO BUILDING
Reinforced Concrete for Practical
Use on Farm.
Tank In Lyon County, Kansas, Is Thir-
ty Feet High and Fifteen Feet in
Diameter—Green Fodder the
Year Round.
The first cement silo in Lyon coun-
ty—the seventh or eighth to be bufit
In Kansas—is on the farm of George
Randolph, two miles south of Emporia.
The silo and the value of ensilage for
stock during the winter months is ap-
preciated by every farmer who is pro-
pressive in his agriculture. Perhaps
every farm in the Btate has a silo of
home construction, built of boards
and covered with earth. But the ce-
ment silo is to the one of boards as
the wheat binder is to the cradle and
scythe^ And, thanks largely to the
extension department of the Agricul-
tural College at Manhattan, the farm-
ers are beginning to realize the im-
portance of green fodder the year
round for their milch cows and stock.
For that is one of the wonders of the
cement silo.
The structure of Mr. Randolph's
was built this summer under the di-
rection of Mr. Hinman, formerly of
the Agricultural College of Kansas,
now head of the extension department
of the College of Colorado. The silo
is 30 feet high and 15 feet in diam-
eter. It is 4 Inches thick at the base
and 2% inches at the top. The ce-
ment was applied over a framework
of metal lath and is re-enforced
throughout with steel rods. The
foundation is sunk but four feet in the
ground; locations where the drainage
Jd not as good as it is in the Randolph
silo require a deeper foundation. The
2ntire cost of the structure was $300.
Mr. Randolph filled the silo during
the first three weeks of October. The
capacity is supposed to be 105 tons,
but the amount of fodder stowed away
Kansas Cement Silo.
fs estimated to exceed that. Twelve
acres of corn, running 60 bushels to
the acre, was ground into bits and
pressed Into the big cement standplpe.
Every part of the corn is utilized—
stalk, cob and leaves, and a delicious
mincemeat results, which makes a
nutritious feed for all kinds of stock.
This ensilage will keep Indefinitely
and any not used this winter will
make excellent feed next summer or
fall. A sectional door, running longi-
tudinally, is closed when the silo is
filled and the ensilage can be remov-
ed by removing one section of the
door. When closed the silo is air-
tight. Thirty to 40 pounds of ensilage
makes a good feed. Mr. Randolph ex-
pects to use the entire contents of the
■llo this winter in feeding a large
herd of thoroughbred Poland China
hogs, the chief stock of his Riverside
farm.
General
FarmNotes
How about getting a separator, or
have you one?
December eggs are always welcome
and high-priced.
The work of improving our dairy
herds should be going on all the time.
The hens that moulted early will
now be ready to lay and others com-
ing on.
Young trees may need support to
prevent the strong winds from uproot-
ing them.
Many farmers allow sick fowls In
the flock for weeks until they either
die or get well.
Be careful not to let your seed
corn freeze for this interferes with
its power of germination.
The man who is raising fancy stock
Is personally acquainted with each In-
dividual bird and its peculiarities. -
Pick out trees that have proven
themselves bearers and select well
seasoned wood of last year's growth.
It is most encouraging that sensi-
ble action is being taken by private
Individuals and by associations all
over the country to check the spread
of tuberculosis.
With swine, as with cattle, unless
one is breeding for the show ring or
for fancy herds, perfection In mark-
ings and minor points are not of
great Importance.
CORN CROP INJURED BY RATS
Destructive Rodents Attack Growing
Plant in Milk Stage and Do
Much Damage.
The corn crop suffers greater injury
from rats than any other crop grown.
Besides depredation on newly sown
seed, the animals attack the growing
corn when in the milk stage. They
climb the upright stalks and often
strip the cob clean of grain.
A farmer living near Grand River,
la., relates the following experience:
"We had about two thousand bush-
P
Stripped by Rata,
els of corn in three cribs to which
rats ran and they ate and destroyed
one-fourth of it. Much of it was too
unwholesome to put through the
grinder until it had been cleaned an
ear at a time. All the time we were
poisoning and trapping them. We
killed as high as three hundred rats
in two days and could hardly miss
them. They destroyed more than
enough corn to pay taxes on 400 acres
of land."
One man reports an instance v In
which rats destroyed three-fourths of
the crop on 13 acres. A large portion
of the crop grown on the Potomac
flats, near Washington, was destroyed
by rats.
The most serious charge against
rats grows out of their relation to
human health. It Is now positively
known that rats are responsible for
the spread of bubonic plague, a mal-
ady which, in spite of modern meth-
ods of fighting it, has within the past
dozen years destroyed over 5,000,000
human lives in India alone. The par-
ticular means by which the disease is
transmitted from rat to rat and from
rat to man is solely by the rat flea.
IRRIGATE COTTON IN TEXAS
Wonderful Results Accomplished by
That Method In Lower Rio Grande
Valley This Season.
Wonderful results were accom-
plished this season growing cotton "by
means of irrigation in the lower valley
of the Rio Grande." It is said to be
the only locality in the United States
where this product is raised by sup-
plying artificially the moisture needs
of the plants unless It be a few small
irrigated farms in the more arid re>
gions of Texas.
One bale an acre is an extraordinary
ily large yield under the ordinary
methods of farming, where the rain-
fall Is depended upon to supply the
moisture for the crop anywhere In the
south. The average yield Is less
than one half-bale an acre one season
with another. In the lower valley of
the Rio Grande this season, where Ir-
rigation was practised in growing the
crop, as high as two bales an acre Is
being obtained by farmers, says a
Mercedes (Tex.) dispatch in the St
Louis Globe-Democrat. T. P. Cheney,
who haa a farm two and a half miles
south of the town of Donna, picked 80
bales off 60 acres up to September 10,
and when the crop season closed h«
had gathered 60 more bales from the
«ame ground, making something over
two bales an acre. The revenue fronr
this cotton will be about $9,000, not
counting the seed, which will sell for
enough money to pay for all the ex-
penses of the crop. Including tht
planting, cultivating, picking and mar-
keting, according to Mr. Cheney's esti-
mate.
This is only one Illustration of whal
's being done in this region in growing
cotton. It is not unusual for one bale
of the staple to be grown to an acre
by the valley farmers. When the har
vest of cotton is over the same land if
planted in winter vegetables or some
other kind of crops, and they are gath-
ered and out of the way before the
next cotton planting season arrives.
One of the most Important featurei
of this now era of cotton production
in the Rio Grande valley during the
last three years is that it has resulted
in such a reduction of the boll weevtt
pest In this region that those insecti
are no longer considered a seriour
menace to the crop.
Fight Against Lice.
Keep up the fight against lice.
Dust the hens frequently with li
sect powder, especially the hen tha/
has a brood of chicks.
Cold rains will kill the chicks. See
that they are under shelter whenever
a storm occurs.
Watch for Lice.
It will pay you to look over youf
chickens and see If they are not both-
ered with lice. They should be sup-
pressed before they get too numerous
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h all its loveliness isn't mora redolent of fracranee
than is the ARTISTIC TWINING OF FLORAL
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Deft hands do onr bidding in the preparation
and skill of every flower arrangement.
Service prompt.
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Why Do They?
Why women like the baldheaded
man It Is somewhat difficult to define.
It may be because he appears to be:
Thoughtful and kind. •
Trustworthy and confiding. Whins-
slcaL Past the follies and frivolities
of youth.
Usually successful.
A man of property.
Opinions why women like the bald*
headed man obtained by the Daily
Mirror are as follows:
He is not silly like young men.
He accepts refusals of marriage so
nicely that one Is sorry one did not JJ.
accept him.
The bald patch looks so clean and
nice. One would like to kiss it
A doctor welcomes baldness when it
comes to him, as it is a sign of se-
dateness and dignified learning, which
Invariably increases his practise.
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Why Kick?
Louis Wlsna, the Newark artist,
wore a gloomy look on his usually
cheerful face.
"It has just struck me," he said to
Charles Strasse, "that my shoes donl
cost me as much as my youngster's."
"Then what are you complaining
about?" asked Strasse.
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Asking Too Much.
"The count has promised that he wiQ
never beat or kick me if I will marrf
him," said the betfutiful heiress.
"But has he promised to work tot
you?" her father asked.
"Oh. papa, don't be unreasonable.*
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Relish
Post
Toasties
A sweet, crisp, whole-
some food made of Indian
Corn, ready to serve right
from the box with cream
and sugar.
Flivoury
Delicious
Economical
"The Memory Lingers"
Poetuns Cereal Company, LH,
Battle Oieek. Mich.
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