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THE SOUTHERN WORLD, FEBRUARY 1,1882. Georgia’! Swiss Colony. Golden Grain. To.The Young Hen of the South. $he £<mthqm ffaM PUBLISHED TWICE EACH MONTH, On the 1st nod 15th. BY THX SOUTHERN WOULD PUBLISHING COMPANY, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. Incorporated—Paid up Capital, 920,000. D. C. BALENTINE, President and Manager. J. B. CARTMELL, Secretary and Treasurer. W. G. WHIDBY, Editor. LR NEWMAN,’ } Contributing Editors. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION! On. rear, poauce paid, ..... p.oo Bnbecrlptlona can commence at any time luring the year. Sample copies sent free to all who send us tbelr address. BATES OF ADVERTISING t We Guarantee a Circulation of 20,000 coplea Every luue. legitimate advertisements will be Inserted at the following rates; Inside pages, each insertion, per line • - 25 cla. Outside page “ •••'.. . .35 eta. Beading Notices - to cts. All advertisements charged by solid Agate measure ment, 14 lines to the inch. No extra charge for cuts. The Southkbn Would has the largest circulation and is the best advertising medium in the South. TO CORRESPONDENTS.—It is our aim to make the Southern World a medium for the dlOhslon of practical Information upon alt Agricultural and Mechanical subjects, and to this end we Invite com munications upon all rural subjects, experimental results, crop news, domestic economy, etc., and upon topics of Interest to Mechanics, Manufacturers and Miners. Address all letters to SOUTHERN WORLD PUBLISHING CO., Atlanta, Georgia. ATLANTA, GA., FEBRUARY 1,1881. EXPLANATORY. The delay and unsatisfactory condition of our printing arrangements compelled us to make a change, and in the transfer we were forced, by the necessities of the case, to omit the issue of the Southern World for Janua ry 15th. Our subscribers will not lose it, however, as they will receive their full com plement of the issues of the Southern World. Our arrangements being now com pleted, no more delays will occur, and the Southern World will be issued promptly on the 1st and 15th of each month. CASH PREMIUMS. To those who furnish us clubs of five or more subscribers, we will allow a cask premium of 20 cents for each subscriber. That is, send us five names and $4, and keep the remaining dollar for your trouble. Alabama to I be Front t A subscriber in Choctaw county, Alabama, gives us the particulars concerning two wonderful children in that county, brother and sister. The parents are Thomas Lacey and wife, hard-working people in straight ened circumstances. The boy is 13 years old and the girl 11. They are peculiar children. The boy has 12 fingers and 13 toes; the girl 12 fingers and 11 toes. They are not quite four feet high, and weigli 130 pounds each. Their photographs have never been taken, and consequently their exist ence is known only in that immediate vicinity. What a chance is here offered for F. T. Barnum or some other enterprising mant These Alabama children will cer tainly attract attention. Raise Oats. Georgia has a waggish farmer named James Y. Carmichael, of Coweta county. He never fails to “bring down the house.” One of hie pithy sayings we publish for its practi cal sense: “ If you want to save your dis tance, raise your supplies at home. Rust proof oats arc the best thing I know of. They are good for chickens, hogs, cows, sheep, and horses. If you get out of credit, you can iive at home. Sow your lands in rust-proof oats, and commence living at home." __ The South has a capacity for growing two food crops every year on each acre. It is our duty to bring up her soil to its fullest capacity of production. The ladies will not be forgotten. The editor of this paper is arranging a special premium for them, to be announced soon. Bermuda grass is estimated to be worth $500 per acre, as a pasture. Some men are wealthy, and don’t know it I The editor of the Southern World, de siring to stimulate the young men of the South to a deeper interest in, and a more practical knowledge of agricultural pursuits, offers the following premiums, open, to any young man under sixteen years of age, in any of the Southern States: For the best half acre in corn, oats, potatoes, peas, cane or cotton, cultivated by the contestant, a chest of tools, worth $20.00; for the second best a chest at tools valued at $10.00; for the third best a cbest of tools valued at $5.00. If contestants so elect, the premiums will be paid in gold, in lieu of the tools. Those desirous of contesting for the pre miums must send in their names to the ed itor of the Southern World on or before Marcli 20tli for registration. Contestants will be required to give a con cise statement of the character of the soil and seed, mode of culture, amount and kind of fertilizers (if any) used, cost of cultivat ing and yield, and send per express, charges paid, one peck of corn, oats, potatoes or peas; five stalks of cane and sample of cot ton, not less than five pounds, ail properly labelled witli producer’s name, coun ty and State, for exhibition at the office of the Southern World. Contestants will be required to have their land accurately measured and the yield properly certified to by neighbors before the clerk 0/ any county court, and sent to the editor of this paper for filing. The reports from the several contestants will be submitted to Hon. Thos. Hardeman, President of the State Agricultural Society of Georgia; Hon J. T. Henderson, Commis sioner of Agriculture of Georgia; Hon. A. H. Colquitt, Governor of Georgia; Hon. D. N. Speer, State Treasurer of Georgia; Hon. J. E. Brown, U. S. Senator; and Hon. D. Wyatt Aiken, M. C., from South Carolina, who will make the awards. Reports must be sent in by November 15. The co-operation of county and State Agri cultural organizations are earnestly invoked to accomplish the beneficial result sought to be brought about by the offer of these premiums. Will our brethren of the Press give currency to our proposition by publishing it in their columns? A Hopeful View. Our excellent confrere, the Monroe (Ga.) Advertiser, indulges in the following hope ful view of the situation: “The people of our section are despond ent; there is no use of denying the fact. Last year’s business placed scores, if not hundreds of them, in debt. Not only farm ers, but merchants and tradesmen, have suffered. Short crops and the heavy pur chase of supplies last spring and summer have thrown the commercial world out of gear, and long faces are too common. We heard a gentlemen say^ a few days ago, that the 1 wolf was at the door' of many people. But good will come out of this. Economy in living will be practiced this year more rigidly than ever before, and next fall will witness a wonderful improvement in the condition of the people. Said a merchant to us, last week, ' not a single wagon load of goods on time has left Forsyth thus far.’ If economy is thus practiced, we may look for the most favorable results. We believe there is a more general disposition to work than we ever saw manifested before. There is a vast demand for more money, at reason able rates, and scores of applications are going forward to the loan agencies that have been established in Georgia. We do not know that any good will come out of these companies. We trust there may. No one, so far as we have heard, has yet secured any money from them. Their conditions are very binding and tight, but they can be complied with. It is evident that relief must come from some source, and at present this is the only one that holds out any hope." At the request of a number of agricultural ists, we add Broom-corn to the list of articles to be cultivated for the special premiums offered to young men in the South under sixteen years of age. The best way to save upland, is to plow deep and sow it every year in oats. The Swiss colony, located in Habersham county, Georgia, 82>4 miles from Atlanta, is in a flourishing condition and constant ly receiving additions from the “old coun try." A town called “New Switzerland" has been laid out, the Atlanta & Charlotte Air Line Railroad running through the center of the town. A very handsome “Immigrant’s House” (serving also as a station house) hss been erected there, and a church, school house, and large hotels, are projected. The head of the colony, C. A. Beidermann, is now in Switzerland arrang ing for bringing out a large number of Swiss farmers. Mrs. Beidermann is the life, the moving spirit and the good genius of the colony, looking with sleepless vigilance after its i nterests. Having visi ted the colony and enjoyed the hospitalities of Mrs. Beider mann, we are prepared to state advisedly that the Swiss are temperate, thrifty and industrious, and that the fame of Mrs. B.’s cuisine is not only well deserved, but really does not award to her its full meed of praise. These colonists are adding to the material wealth of that section, (having purchased farms and improved them,) and reflect credit on the foresight and patriotism of Col. G. J - . Foreacre and Maj. W. J. Houston, of the Air Line railroad, who, if not the fathers, arc the god-fathers of the colony. Cols. T. M. R. Talcott and A. Pope, of the Richmond & Danville it. R., are using every effort to build up this colony. There are about 140 persons in it, and dairy farms, vineyards, stock farms and truck farms will dot the hillsides and add to the industrial and material growth of that section. Mrs. Mary E. Bryan, of the Sunny South, speak ing of a visit to it, says: “I carried with me the impression that the Swiss colony in North Georgia is a suc cessful experiment, and that the people who will mostspeedily and substantially improve our undeveloped lands, and who will most readily assimilate our customs and institu tions, are the hardy, cheerful, industrious, free-born race who come to us from the shadow of the Alps.” Diversity or Pursuit. Diversified industries are not necessarily antagonistic. They are but the opposing forces that hold in proper check every ma terial interest of society. Diversity is written upon the face of nuturc. Mountain und valley, land nnd sea, the spring-time green, the summer fruit, the autumn leaf, the winter’s blight, are but the evidences of different sentiments nnd promptings in the Divine mind at Earth’s creation. Change and variety are stamped upon the earth below, while above we realize the fact, there is “one glory of the stars—for one star differeth from another star in glory." As in the natural so in the physical world, different conformations, different tastes and natural promptings, direct to different pur suits, into which men gravitate as naturally as did the planets to their respective orbits. And how wisely are these different pursuits adapted to the growtli of society and the permanent welfare of the people ? Were all men merchants, commerce—that great refiner and stimulator—would soon furl her sails and leave the ocean to tempest and to storm. Were we all mechanics, the fields would ripen no harvest, and the hammer and the saw would be heard only “ upon the works of our own hands." Were we all manufacturers, the spindle and the loom would quickly stop, and the wheel would no longer move to the power of the stream, for want of the raw material upon which to operate. So, were we all agriculturalists, labor would confine itself to the production alone of the necessaries of life. Energies would languish and die, for there would be no re muneration for toil. Society would retro grade as the people became idle and listless, while progress, with no good in view and no motive power to propel, would leave the world to abject necessity and slothful in difference. How essential, then, to growth, prosperity and happiness is diversified industry, and how wisely was it ordained that so large a majority of earth’s laborers should be en gaged in that occupation upon the success of which that of every other one so eminent ly depends. It antagonizes none, for on it all lean for permanent prosperity. Mutually dependent, they should move in sweetest harmony, each guarding, with sacred fidelity, the best interest of the other. The plow, the loom and the anvil are the grand rounds in the ladder of advancement. One broken, and the ascent is slow and unsatis factory.—[Thomas Hardeman, of Georgia. B. S. T., Verona, Miss: “I think the Southern World is the cleanest, nicest and best paper in the United States.” L. R. C., Clarksville, Tenn: “If you have not the back numbers commencing with No. I, you can make the subscriptions for the club sent for 1832, but as I expect to take the Southern World forever and keep a file, would prefer to commence with the first issue.” Rev. A. Means, D. D., L. L. D., Oxford, Ga.: “May your beautifully executed semi monthly prosper." J. B. R., Carter Depot, E. Tenn.: “I think so much of the Southern Word I want to give it a “boom” in our county." The liveliest and brighest exchange we get from the South is the Southern World, published at Atlanta, Georgia, by the Southern World Publishing Company. It deserves succes. — [Plaindealer, Hastings, Iowa. Wc take special pleasure in commending the Southern World to such of our readers as are interested in the industrial future of Georgia and the South. It is full of infor mation of vast importance to farmers. We have received and examined three copies of this journal, and we unhesitatingly pro nounce it the best publi cation, in its line, that lias ever come to this office. The far mer of the present day cannot keep abreast of the times without careful reading and close study; and he will not find a bet ter aid to success than the Southern World.—[Sparta, Ga., Ishmaelite. The Southern World, published at At lanta, Georgia, is an attractive periodical. It is devoted to agriculture and is a medi um for the diffusion of practical informa tion generally and is handsomely illus trated. The Southern' World proposes, while discussing the elements cf industrial and commercial achievements, not to forget to cultivate the beauty of home and home re lations. In the farm and at the fireside and in the workshop it will scatter informa tion and lead to a higher development of the intellectual and morul fucultics, by the elevated tone of its teachings. Mr. W. G. Whidby is the editor. He was formerly the editor of the Headlight and made it one of the most useful and readable papers of the kind in the country. The terms are $1 per annum, and taking it all in all the Southern World is one of the best publications of the many that grace our table.—[Kcowee, S. C., Courier. The Southern World.—The above is a sixteen page journal, devoted to the farm, home and the workshop, published semi monthly at Atlanta, Ga., at $1 a year. We have received several copies of this paper, and must say that after a careful perusal of the same we regard it as the very best pub lication of its character in the country. Its agricultural department is one of its most attractive features, containing much infor mation and advice that will prove of prac tical advantage to the farmers of this sec tion. We especially commend it to our planters as a journal that will meet all their demands. Address the Southern World Publishing Company.—[Bee, Gainesville, Florida. The Southern World—a journal for Farm, Home, and Workshop. Published in At lanta, Georgia, at $1 per annum. This is an excellent paper. Its several departments are ably conducted, giving instruction, miscellany, variety, spice and interest adapted to all classes of readers. Every copy is beautifully illustrated. It is pub- ished twice a month by the Southern World Publishing Company, Atlanta Ga. The Southern World will be sent as a premium to any one who will send us a new subscriber enclosing our regular subscrip tion price, $2.00.—[Southern Medical Rec ord. Many good people calling themselves tem perance men and women never make the least personal effort or sacrifice for the cause. They meet men every day who are drifting into bad company; viho frequent saloons; who go reeling through the streets drunken, yet they never try to rescue or save these unfortunate ones. They read of the horrors of intemperance, as they are chronicled day by day in the papers, but never think of giving their time or their money to further the good cause of its abo lition. Brethren, these things ought not to be so; sometime you will awake to the aw- ful fact that God has made you “your brother’skeeper."