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The vast mineral wealth of our Southern
country is almost beyond human competition.
Our minerals are unequaled in quality, quan’i'y
and variety. We have the finest farming m I
timber lands and water-power of which any
country can boast, and our climate is the fines;
in the world. The columns of this paper
are every ready to encourage the development
of our enormous natural wealth.
Cotton Factory.
SUBSCRIPTIONS COMING IN.
We are gratified to learn that subscriptions to
the stock of the Cotton Factory Company are
constantly being made, and that persons outside
of the city, who are seeking a safe and remuner
ative investment of money, are subscribing to
this stock quite freely, and we see no reason
why they should not. The organization of the
company is admitted to be the strongest and
best that could be made, and the charter under
which they are working is all that could be de
sired, confering every power and privilege a
company could ask, and guaranteeing to the
stockholder the most perfect protection that
law can afford; under its wise provisions, no
stockholder can be made pesonally liable for
the debts of the company.
'1 he Board have adopted an admirable code of
by-laws, holding every officer to the most rigid
accountability, and surrounding the appropria
tion of money with every posible safeguard
against indiscretion or extravagance.
They have also unanimously agreed to the
platform laid down by the President. Mr. Kim
ball, in his inaugural address, enforcing the most
rigid economy in the management of the Com
pany's business, and declaring that not one dol
lar shall be expended for ornamentation nr
show, and furthermore declaring his willi. g
ness to serve the company to the very best i
his ability, without salary or compensation of
any kind, until the Factory is completed, and
the company coining money with which to pu
To this proposition every other officer read,
agreed, an example of purely unselfish interest
in a great public enterprise that we have never
seen excelled.
this fact alone, ought to convince our people
beyond question, that these gentlemen are thor
oughly in earnest, and desire above every other
consideration to make the Factory a financiai
success. By the wisdom of our legislators, the
property of the company will be exempt from
nil taxation for a period of ten years.
I nder such a condition of things it seems to
us that there can be no possible doubt of com
plete success, and we are not surprised to learn
that our people, and persons outside of the city,
are beginning to subscribe to the stock as ihe
safest and best-paying investment they can make
of their money.
The Charter and By-Laws have been printed,
and can be obtained at the office of the Presi
dent.
Now let the people of Atlanta come forward
promptly, and fill up the subscription to the
required amount, and let the Factory be built
at once, ami remits will follow of the highest
interest and importance to the future growth
and prosperity of our goodly city.
Ihe Shelby Iron Company, Alabama, shipped
twenty car-loads of iron in one week.
Hood’s Copper Mine, near Carrollton, Ga.,
has yielded a net profit of twenty-fobr thousand
dollars in nine months.
I’he Austin Coal Mine, near Bever Dam, Ky.,
has commenced operations.
l'he mineral wealth of Virginia is just now
attracting a great deal of attention abroad.
A large vein of bituminous coal has recently
been opened on the line of Wythe and Smyth
counties, N. C.
Ihe gold fields of Georgia are creating con
siderable excitement.
Large and valuable veins of red hematite ores
have been found in Walker's mountain, Va.,
near Wytheville. The«e ores when freehly
broken up present a smooth, satin-like fracture,
Fund are said by experts to be very pure in their
components and particularly useful for mixing
with the coarser and richer ores, which exist
alau in their immediate vicinity.
THE W4I. SO Wtt &
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For the Rural Southerner.
I’ll Sing of a Home in my Sweet Sunny-
Clime.
BY MRS. B. A. HARPER.
I’ll sing of a home’in my sweet snnny-clime,
Where the wild flowers blushed in early morn ;
The honeysuckle and the red wood-bine,
Clambered o’er the thatch of my young life’s dawn.
Where the jasmine mingled its golden hue,
With cedars’ fay-robes of emerald-green,
And the myriad flow’rs of the soft clime grew
In the fullest luxuriance e'er seen.
I'll sing of a home in my sweet sunny.south,
Where’the mocking-birds taught their young to sing,
In the lost, loved days of my early youth,
Whose ravishing memories around me cling. .
Where gay birds warbled thro' the merry days,
In the wild notes of nature-love, soft and low ;
Where harsher voices of woodland lays,
Were mellowed in the still river's flow.
I’ll sing of the days of happiness, when
Not one cloud hover'd in the vault above ;
Os the tranquil joys and the peace of then,
The sweet blessed days of usy cottage lover.
I'll sing of bright hopes in the long gone by-
Born where the flowers’ breath lived on the breeze—
Where oaks rear’d their heads to the bright blue sky,
Whose crystal drops hung on their glist’ning leaves.
Where the violets woke from their wintry sleep,
To greet their fragrant companions of spring ;
For these, the chords of my lyre I’ll sweep,
Over now, the days of the past to fling.
I'll sing of a love, a bright, happy love,
| |That lived so pure in a heart’s early bloom—
And let the sweet thoughts that the fair then wove,
Live in the shades of my heart's blackest gloom.
I'll sing of this home, 'tis an exile’s song—
Sadder than death is my soul while I sing ;
But I'll revel still as I wander ’long.
In the freshness of love, these mem’ries bring
A Cheerful Womau.
What a blessing to a household is a merry,
cheerful woman—one whose spirits are not af
pcted by wet days or little disappointments, or
whose milk of human kindness does not sour
in the sunshine of prosperity. Such a woman in
the darkest hours brightens the house like a lit
tle piece of sun-shiny weather. The magnet
ism of her smiles, the electrical brightness of
her looks and movements, infect every one. The
children go to school with a sense of something
great to be achieved; her husband goes into
the world with a conqueror's spirit. No matter
how people annoy and worry him all day, far
I off her presence shines, and he whispers
to himself, “At home I shall find rest.” So day
by day she literally renews his strength and en
ergy, and if you know a man with a beaming
face, a kind heart and a prosperous business, in
nine cases out of ten you will find he has a wife
of this kind.—Az.
This from Edward Everett: “To read the En
glish language well, to write with dispatch a
neat, legible hand, and be master of the first
four rules of arithmetic, so as to dispose of at
once, with accuracy, every question of figures
which comes up in practice—l call this a good
education. And if you add the ability to write
pure grammatical English, 1 regard it as an ex
cellent education. These are the tools. You
can do much with them, but you can do little
without them. They are the foundation ; and
unless you begin with these, all your flashy at
tainments, a little geology, and all other ologies
and osophies, are ostentatious rubbish.”
Lircis made upof little things. He who travels
over a continent must go step by step. He who
writes a book must do it sentence by sentence;
he who learns a science must master it fact by
fact, principle after principle. What is the hap
piness of our life made up of! Little courtesies,
little kindnesses, pleasant words, genial smiles,
a friendly letter, good wishes and good deeds.
> One in a million, once in a lifetime, may do a he
roic action. But the little thing* that make up
our life come every day and every hour.
A couple of neighbors became so inimical that
they would not speak to each other: but one of
them, having been converted at acamp meeting,
on seeing his former enemy, held out his hand,
saying, “How d'ye do, Kemp ! lam humble
enough to shake hands with a dog.”
We learn bv what we suffer.
QWJWH-
Air, Pure Air.
The article in the January Reformer headed,
Universal Suffocation, is too true for the health
of the people. Since the cold weather came on,
I have had occasion to enter many houses ; and
it was generally, yea, in almost every instance,
the case that no signs of attention to ventilation
could be seen. The closer they are shut up,
and the less of the pure air of heaven is admit
ted to enter, it seems to be esteemed the better.
Men advanced in age, who have led active lives
out of doors, now having but little to do in the
winter season, fill up the stoves with fuel, hover
around them, and guard against the entrance of
the least amount of air on every side, as they
would guard against the entrance of the most
deadly foe. The blood rises to the head and
does not circulate well in the lower extremities;
and while the brain almost boils, the feet grow
cold, and a sense of chilliness comes over them,
the remedy of which is to pour in more fuel
and guard more closely every avenue through
which their best friend, and most needed, could
come in to their relief.
When the genial spring returns, they will per
haps wonder at their lassitude and want of vi
tality, after having taken such special care of
themselves during the winter I
Tell them that they need air, pure air, to in
vigorate their bodies, and they will be perfectly
unmoved by your appeal, or perchance they
may consent to open a door into another room,
the air of which has been confined for days or
weeks, and consequently is I'aded with impurity
and is not fit to breathe. It is not the coldness
of the air that we seek, but the purity. We want
the air that has its due proportion of oxygen,
such as we have in the freely moving element
without ; not that which has been shut up,
breathed over and deprived of its oxygen, and
filled with carbonic acid gas. Such air is deadly,
though reduced in temperature to zero.
Some are found who will say, Yes, yes ; when
you speak of the need of a constant supply of
fresh air ; but they have no means provided in
their houses for ventilation, their windows are
not constructed so as to let down from the top;
and there they rest the matter, not thinking it
of sufficient importance to pay for a few min
utes’ work or a few dimes’ expense, to have
them prepared for proper ventilation. What
wonderful indifference to a matter of such vital
importance to themselves ' Are not life and
health worth taking a little pains to secure ?
Read up, friends, on the laws of life and
health ; and when you have learned the truth,
as all may, put it in faithful practice. Know
that you cannot live without air to breathe ;
and also that the purer the air you breathe, the
better your chances for life 'and health. Re
member that the first precept of the “code of
health ” is, “ Breathe pure air.” But if you
only hear and do not heed, do not, I beseech
you, lay your sickness, sufferings, and prema
ture death to the charge of Providence. After
you have been f-r months and years committing
suicide by robbing yourself of the vitalizing
fluid, so abundantly supplied by kind Heaven,
do not think it some strange and unaccountable
providence that yourself or your nearest friends
fall a victim to your disobedience to the known
laws of your being.— R. F. Cottrell, in Health
Reformer.
Hooping-Cough.—Dover’s powder is a remedy
worth trying in hooping-cough. It should he
given in doses of one grain thrice daily to a
child twelve months old. It lessens the num
ber and the severity of the attacks, and soothes
the general irritability which so often exists.—
Z>r. H'. Maccall.
Mammary Abscess—Application of Oleate
Mercury.—Apply a solution of oleate of mer
cury and morphia in oleic acid, simply brushed
over the part. The mercury is rapidly absorbed
and arrests the inflamatory action, the morphia
at the same time relieving the pain.—.Vr. J.
Marthall.
CW
Extracts from “How to make Bees Pay,” by J. W
Pagden, England.
Bee Food.
To every pound of loaf or best moist sugar,
add half a pint of water, boil for a few minutes,
and when put out to cool, stir into each gallon
of the syrup two tablespoonfuls of rum, and
one teaspoonful of salt. The only safe and
proper way to administer the food is with a
bottle at the top of the hive, through the hole
in the centre.
When the feeding bottles are properly fitted,
the syrup will only escape so fast as the bees
store it away below. The bottle must be care
fully covered by an empty hive, and over this
some sacking or matting, so that bees from
other hives may not learn what is being per
formed for their neighbor’s benefit.
Above all, be careful not to shed any portion
of the liquid on the outside of the hive, or
great confusion and fighting may be the conse
quence.
when to feed.
In the spring of the year all light hives of
bees must be fed with from four to six pounds
each of the prepared food; the strongest hives
may also be fed more moderately to advantage,
as the queen will not begin to lay eggs until she
finds some new stores are accumulating for the
sustenance of the young bees; so that in feeding
even the vigorous stocks you stimulate and ex
cite them into greater activity, thus raising the
temperature of the hive, and when the queen
feels this change, she, fearing all the cells may
be filled, will commence laying eggs at an ear
lier period than she otherwise would have done,
which will naturally conduce to early swarming,
or to filling the top hives, etc. All your stock
hives of bees that do not weigh sixteen pounds
in the autumn, independent of the hive, must
be fed up to that weight before you may con
sider them safe to pass the coming winter. All
new swarms should be fed until the stock hive
is filled with comb.
SUMMER FEEDING.
This sounds rather a strange term, or at all
events a novel plan, in the management of bees,
at a time when they are supposed to be able to
get all they requre in the fields ; but neverthe
less it is a plan I experimented on last summer
with immense success. On the Ist of June I
took two swarms on the old plan ; they were as
nearly as possible of the sane size, and on one
of these I resolved to make a trial of summer
feeding.
I fed these bees only at night, or on wet days,
and in ten days, on inspecting the two hives, I
found the fed one completely fillled with comb,
and the one left to its own resources had o ly
three pieces of comb a part of the way down the
hive. I then allowed both hives to remain
quiet for a fortnight, when the fed hive showed
symptoms of casting a maiden swarm ; to pre
vent them doing so I placed a large cap on the
top ; the bees readily took to this, and began
to build comb. I then recommenced my night
and wet-day feeding on the top of the cap, and
fourteen days afterwards I took it off filled with
twenty-one pounds of honeycomb, which was
sold for $9.50. The bees consumed syrup to
the value of $1.75 only.
The flavor of the honeycomb was not to be
distinguished from the other taken at the same
time from unfed hives.
The companion hive at this time had still a
portion of it not filled with comb.
The cross of the Italian drone and black
queen is said to be preferable to the other cross.
Many aparians claim that Itallian bees in
crease faster and have many qualities superior
to the black.
The word honey is undoubtedly derived from
the Hebrew ghoney, which means “ delight; ”
an appropriate title.