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TUB 80PTHEBN WORLD, MARCH 16,1882. 0 NENT1MENTH OF THE FRKNN TnK Southern World is the title of a bright semi-monthly paper, published at Atlanta, Georgia, a journal of industry for the farm, home and workshop.—Indiana Farmer. The Southern World is a large sixteen page paper, printed twice each month and thoroughly devoted to the advance of all Southern interest; each number is hand somely illustrated and the subscription price is $1.00 per year. It is an instructive, bright, clean paper that will prove a wel come visitor in every household in the South.—Newbernian, Newbern N. C. The Southern Would is neatly illus trated, and conducted with marked ability and as each number contains 16 pages and 64 columns, the price is extremely low. It should, have a large circulation among southern homes.—Lake Charles, (La), Com mercial. The Southern World a large sixteen page paper printed twice a month at At lanta, Ga., is one of the finest and most practical publications devoted to the South ern interest that has yet found its way to our table. Each number is handsomely il lustrated, and it is a cheap paper at the price.—Friars Point, (Miss) Gazette. The Southern World is one of the lead ing journals of the South.—Ashland (Ala) Banner. Time was when the planter ridiculed what he was pleased to call “ book farming, ” and, indeed, there be many old fogies at this day whose disgust is profoundly stirred if any newspaper or book man presumes to suggest to him that his system is stupid and suicidal. In this respect, as in others, the people of Georgia are far in advance of those of the Southern States. It is undeniably poorer, as regard to her soil, than any of its sisters, and yet we hear no complaint of starving among its people, though they suf fered severely from the drouth of last sea son. However, we intended merely to notice the Southern World, an agricultural jour nal recently established in Atlanta. It is a model of typographical excellence, is hand somely illustrated, and the matter is alike useful and interesting. It is a sixteen-page paper, issued twice a month, and is only $1 per annum. We wish it abundant success. —Shreveport (La) Daily Times. We have received the Southern World, a 16 page semi-monthly, published in Atlanta, Ga. It is devoted to the closer interest of the Southern people, the farm, home and workshop, and the paper before us bears the impress of an able hand at the helm. The agricultural and mechanical advancement of the South and her social elevation can never have too many advocates.be they ever so numerous, and it is a duty that ea?h and every one of them be liberally sustained. The Southern World! See what the name im plies, and think for a moment upon its vast ness and its varied Interest, and then re member that the publication bearing this proud title is a fullmeaning champion of those interests of real and distinguished merit. Send your name to Atlanta for a specimen copy.—Athens (Tenn) Post. It is gratifying to know that the South iscoming to the front in point of agricultu ral and stock journals. Good papers of this character are in demand and among those supplying this demand is the Southern World, published semi-monthly at Atlanta, Ga.—Herald, Pulaski, Tenn. It gives us pleasure to place upon our ex change list the Southern World, a large semi-monthly paper published at Atlanta, G., at the low price of $1 a year. It con tains a vast amount of useful and entertain ing matter, and strikes us as being the very paper for the Southern farmers.—Blue Grass Clipper, Midway, Ky. The Southebn World is the name of an illustrated sixteen page, semi-monthly jour nal recently started at Atlanta, Ga. It is printed on fine paper and is a very credit able specimen of newspaper excellencies. It is a journal of the farm, home and shop. We hope that it may live longer than did Mathuselah, and exceed the prosperity of Job in his latter days.—The Advance, Pitts burg, Pa. The Southern World, a Journal of In dustry for the Farm, Home and Workshop, Isa semi-monthly, published at Atlanta, Ga., handsomely printed, and is worth the dollar a year which is asked for it. It is well edited, and muat be prized by all who are so fortunate as to receive its visits. Those who desire to know what the South are doing on the farm, in the house and the workshop, cannot do better than subscribe for it.—Home Gunrdian, Boston. We have received the Southern World, a magnificent Agricultural and Family journal published at Atlanta, Georgia. It is devoted to the interest of Southern plant ers, and is the best paper we know of for a Southern farmer. We are not in the habit of clubbing with other Journals, but as we are so well pleased with the World, we will club with it, thinking our friends will be benefited by reading this excellent paper.—Do Soto Democrat, Mansfield, La. The Southern World, a new journal of industry, devoted to the interests of the Home, Farm and Workshop, is published in Atlanta, Ga., and a most excellent paper It is. When a farmer is not able to take more than one paper we are candid and un selfish enough to admit that he had better fail to subscribe even to his own County paper than not to have such Journals as the N. C. Farmer and the Southern World. —Warrenton (N. C.) News. The Southern World comes from the growing city of Atlanta—a sterling pai>er. You will like it.—Hiwassee (Tenn.) College Paper. The Southern World, published at At lanta. Ga., isan excellent journal of industry for the farm, home, and workshop.—Valley Farmer, Staunton Va. We return thanks to the Southern World Pubmshino Co., Atlanta, Ga., for a copy of their beautiful paper, the Southern World. —Gilbert Hollow (S. C.) Monthly. The Southern World, is a sixteen page journal, devoted to the farm, home and workshop. It is an excellent paper, each number illustrated, and should be in the house of every farmer.—Banner, Camden, Ala. The Southern World, is the title of a new sixteen page semi-monthly paper started in Atlanta, Ga. It is published in the interest of the agricultural and mechanical indus tries of the South. It is an excellent jour nal and should receive the support of every household in the South.—Evergreen (Ala.) News. We have carefully looked through a copy of the Southern World, and must say that it is one of the neatest printed papers in the South. Every number is handsomely illus trated, arid furnishes a vast amount of in formation by which men of every calling or profession may be benefitted.—Fayette (Ala.) Journal. _ A New Standard of Time. In response to the circular of tne general time convention, asking for communica tions bearing upon the matter of a standard time for the railways of the United States and Canada, Admiral Rodgers, superintend ent of the United States naval observatory, has written the following: The various countries of the world gener ally have their own prime meridian, as Greenwich, Paris, Pulkova, etc., and the national maps are drawn to the respective national prime meridians. The maps of the United States are drawn with reference to the meridian at Washington. The ob servatories of Europe—Pulkova, Greenwich, Paris, etc.,—give time to their respective nations. In England the differences of longitude are not great, and all England uses Greenwich time. But the extent of the United States renders a single time im practicable, for by the hour at any place is only sought an expression for the relative position of the sun in regard to that place. At the noon of any locality the sun is on its meridian; at 1 o’clock it is one hour past meridian; at midnight it is on the lower meridian, or just under the feet, and at 1 o’clock at night it is one hour past the lower meridian. All this is very elemen tary, and is known to everyone. By local time man must live, move and have his being. Other standard for his daily avocation is chimerical, fit for speculation, but utterly Impracticable. Sailors have for a long time kept on board ships, for their practical purposes, two times—namely, local time, for the daily uses of life, and the time of the national meridian, for astro nomical purposes. This is Greenwich, Paris, Pulkova, or other, according to nationality. This arrangement at sea is in constant use by a community far from a learned one, according to shore standards. The system must be plain and practical to landsmen, since it is plain and practiced by sekmen. The plan of time zones seems to me a plan for legalizing diversity. It is against diver sity that the country protests, as applied to railroad service. Two neighbors separated by a fence may live in different zones, or two villages near one another may have dif ferent zones and different legal times, in which case business will be carried on be tween them with more difficulty than with natural time, by which people dwelling near one another will have, substantially, agree ment in their watches. Two railroads on different sides of a river may have different zones, and trains collide for want of agree ment. Except in a town of some size no one would know his zone, for the zones can not be marked. The state lines are too ir regular in shape to serve for a guide, nor have wo custom houses on the borders to inform travelers of the name of the state into which they enter. Learned societies may recommend artifi cial time for the use of man, but it is to be apprehended that the community may re fuse to accept it. When the laborer, who has worked from sunrise until noon, is gravely told that noon comes at 1 o’clock, will he not object? In short, men will con tinue to keep natnral time for their daily uses,whateverdifferent practice conventions may recommend. In conclusion, I beg leave to recommend that in the railroad guides the time in Washington, the nutionul meridian of the United States, be published opposite to the movements of through trains, leaving, the trains to run on lkiston time, or Ogden or San Francisco, or such other times ns the directors may prefer. This plan invades no right now enjoyed; it changes no practice; it only adds to the table n few columns of figures. I would also recommend that the clocks at railroad stations be furnished with two sets of hands; gilt handsfor Washington time; and black hands for local time. These hands, separated by a constant difference equul to the diti'erence of longitude, will al ways show at a glance the time required, whether local or Washington. A Georgia Farm. | Augusta Chronicle unit GoiuiUlutionallst.l Two and a half miles from the city, half a mile to the right of the Sund Bar Ferry road is ‘'Evelyn.” It is an exception to most of the places we huve alluded to. in that it still remains in the family which half a century agocameintu possession of it, and who still own and operate it success fully. Originally secured by Mr. Oswell Eve, this estate pussed to his son Wra. J. Eve, who had itut the beginning of the war, 96 hands, and worked 60 mules. It wus stocked with fine imported Durham and Ayreshire breeds, and yielded up as plenti fully of Indian corn as the prairie fields of Kansas and Minnesota. There now remain on the land evidences of former improve ments. A brick church on the farm, well finished, attest in what esteem his slaves were held by the elder Eve, and it is stated that during his lifetime no man was ever mistreated on his place, and no slave ever a fugitive. There are in this farm twenty-two hun dred acres of land—nearly all cleared up, as level as a floor, withouta stump or a rock on the place. It is susceptible of the most care ful tillage. There's hardly an ucre on it which may not be cultivated with most im proved machinery, which is employed in abundance; and the cost of planting and harvesting is reduced to little or nothing. Two-horse plows, patent harrows, cultiva tors, screw pulverizers, reapers and self- binders do the work, and farming has been reduced to a science. At present the place is worked by Messrs. Jno. Campbell, F. Edge Eve and C. C.' Jones, Jr. The former is one of the oldest, most experienced and best planters in the state; and takes great pride in every groath of grain or grass on the whole plantation. There are at present 500 acres in oats, which in the luxurient growth of the grain, looks like a sea of emerald. This is one of the most productive crops now grown by the Southern farmer, and it is a significant fact that from the drouth of last year the grain crop of the Union fell off, with the single exception of oats. In olden times this was too uncertain a crop; but the discovery and improvement of rust proof oats has rendered it of late years the safest and most satisfactory growth on field and farm. There are 60 acres in wheat grow- itg beautifully—both yielding about 30 bushels to the acre; and after cutting in June, a sowing of peas is made, from which is cut annually over a ton of peavine huy. A yield of $1.10 to $1.35 per hundred for peavine hay, in addition to the oat crop is a good return. Then there are the crab grasses which grow everywhere, raaking.ex- cellent hay, and which can be counted on every September. These lands also yield other hay grasses besides German millet, while experiments are being made, witli good show of ultimate success* in rice plant ing. There is one “patch” on this place the “Bar field” which was made by deposit from the Savannah river, the waters gradually re- ceeding and changing their course. Here, where was once the bed of the river, are 120 acres, and any year 70 bushels of corn can be procured. The field is a rich and rare bounty from the river. Comparatively little cotton is raised on this place; a surplus of 100 acres is usu ally planted and cultivated at th? rate of 3 acres to the mule. There are generally work ed here 32 mules, and besides a few regular hands, 70 or 80 day laborers are employed during busy seasons. Poison Sumach.—There Is another shrub belonging to the same family as the Poison' Ivy, than which it is said by tome to be even more poisonous. We refer to the Poison Sumach (proper), Poison Elder, or Poison Dogwood, all of which names are commonly applied to the plant. I have spoken of the Ivy as being the most potent of our poisonous plants, but perhaps that remark might be allowed to apply to these too plants, inasmuch us they both affect different |iersons .similarly in a greater or lesser degree, thus rendering it difficult to decide between them. The Poison Sumach, unlike the Ivy, Isa tullshrub, often attaining the height of fif teen feet. Its leuves are composed of from six to thirteen smoothish leaflets, arranged on a simple stem. The flowers grow in lit tle clusters from the base of the leaf-stalk, and are greenish in color. The poison of this plant acts much more quickly than the Ivy, but the symptoms are very similar, and it frequently happens that tlie hands und arms, and even the whole body, becomes greatly swollen from the simple act of touching or carrying a branch of the shrub. It is also affirmed that the poison may be communicated to some by merely tmrlliny the plant, while others may handle it witli impunity. An interesting story is told by an English botanist of two sisters, one of whom could do anything she desired with the tree with out ever being affected with its venom, while the other felt its exhalations on ap proaching within ten feet of it, or even at a still greater distance when to the wind- yvurd of it. The same authority says that lie himself was perfectly proof against the poison, and that once some of the juice from a bent twig of the tree squirted up into his eyes without subsequent trouble, while the hand of another person, which wus sprink led with the same juice, became as a piece of tanned leather, and thu skin afterwards peeled off in scales. This will show the marked difference in its effect on different persons, but, as a general rule, it is not safe to experiment with the plant, as proba bly the exceptions of poison-proof indi viduals are rare. The manufacture of agricultural imple ments has been the subject of government inquiry and census. The figuresgiven show a remarkable increase. In the United States there are nineteen hundred and forty-two establishments for the production of agri cultural implements. Of tnese, two hun dred and twenty-one ure in Illinois, two hundred and sixty-five in New York, two hundred and twenty in Pennsylvania, one hundred aud fifty-five in Ohio, one hundred and thirty-three in Michigan. The total capital employed is $62,315,966; paid in wages $15,499,114; worth of timber used, $5,791,916; wortli of iron and steel, $18,424,- 052; worth of other material, $7,878,202; total, $32,094,107. Tiie largest number of persons employed during the year was 49,180. The total value of all products was $68,373,086. In 1850 the total product was $6,842,611. In 1860 it was $17,487,960. In 1870 $52,066,875. During the year there were made 825,037, cultivators; 131,003 bai- rows; 280,654 dozen of hoes; 212,147 dozen of shovels; 380,732 dozen of hand rakes; 1,361,443 plows; 211,738 dozen of hay forks; 1,244,264 scythes; 43,717 scythe snaths; mowers, 72,000; seed sowers, 20,289. In 1850,7220 persons were employed; in 1860, 14,814; In 1870, 25,249,and in 1880, 49,180. The New York Christian Advocate gives some good advice to girls. It says: “Give your best sympathy. There is no greater human power than the tenderness of woman. If you can minister to some one in sickness, lessen somebody’s distress, or put a flower In some poor home, you have done a thing you will always be glad to think of. You will be remembered, and woman asks no grander monument than to live in hearts.”