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THE ELLIJAY COURIER.
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ELLIJAY, GA.,;AUQUST SI, 1882.
Official Organ of Fannin Cos.
Official Organ of Gilmbr Cos
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Official Organ of Pickens Cos
From the Farm to Ruin,
It is not our purpose to raise an
indiscriminate cry against leav
ing the farm for the purpose of
engaging in more congenial pur
suits in the city. There are thous
ands of country boys whose
minds, tastes, habits and inclina
tions unfit them for farmer’s
liyes, but would qualify them for
great success in the professions
or in business. But while this is
true, many thousands leave coun
try homes where they should al
ways remain, and go to the city,
where, even i t they do eaeape the
many snares and temptations by
which they are sure to be sur
rounded, they never will rise
above mediocrity and never do
more than eke out a bear living.
Too many have not sufficient
strength of character to resist the
siren voice of temptation, and the
road to the city is to them the
road to ruin. But why do farm
ers’ boys leave homes where they
should be contented, happy and
independent ?
Plainly answered, they are
driven away. Not necessarily by
harsh treatment, by a lack ot af
fection, or parsimonious usage,
but by parents uot recognizing
the growing men in growing boys.
. There is nothing dearer to a boy’s
heart than a little responsibility.
He likes to own hie own colt,
raise a pet calf, cultivate a par
ticular piece o l ground in his own
way and with the full assurance
that the crop shall be his own
private property. He doesn’t
like to be set to work day after
day and be fed and boused just
as horses and cattle are. He
wants the man that is in him
recognized. He may be pleased if
liis father brings him home anew
pair of boots, but how much more
gratifying it would be to him if
he had earned the mony and
brought the boots himself.
There is too much monotony
drudgery in the ordinary life of
the farm boy. A man absorbed
in the struggle for gain may find
in his work all the recreation he
needs, but the boy has only the
work without the incentive.
Farmers, if you would Keep
your boys with you, recognize
them as little men. Give them a
purpose; place responsibilities
upon them ; give them a start in
life by allowing them to earn
property and to keep it. Give
them good books to read; let
them take good papers reason
with them rather than dictate;
don’t interfere with their plans if
you can possibly help it; even if
they are going to make a failure
at some thing, experience at the
end will often be worth more
than advice or commands at the
beginning.
Another important point, sup
ply your farm with first-class im
plements. Cheap tools and an
inferior style of living go togeth
er. If your boy wauls a certain
implement, get him one. He can
do a man’s work for you and will
be getting a good knowedge of
machinery. Just so with other
implements, get those which are
first-class and try hard to get the.
best. Make the farm so attract
ive that year boys want nothing
better, and although they may in
time leave you, they will stick to
the farm.
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Irish and American Farmers.
“American products,” says
Consul Brooks, at Cork, Ireland,
“continue to find their way into
the Irish markets via roundabout
methods of Liverpool or Glasgow
or other English or Scotch impor
tations. In short, trade, between
the United States and Ireland is
constantly and naturally increas
ing, despite the indirect and tort
nous channels of traffic, despite I
all political agitation, and despite
the handicapping it suffers from
the absence of direct transporta
tion between the two countries.
It is perhaps a fortunate thing for
the farming classes generally in
Ireland that this absence of direct
transportation exists. At the
same time the masses of
the people lravo good reason to
complain of its absence. This
conffiict of interest is at once ex
plained when it is understood
that even under the most favor
able circumstancies the Irish
farmer would not be able to com
plete with the average American
farmer in the cheapnes of his
products, and that so long as the
products of the latter are weight
ed in the market by the cost of
transportation via England and
Scatland, the former enjoys a
wider margin for profit in the
competition between tbo two
countries than lie otherwise
could. But that margin is paid
for by the noil-agricultural; con
sumer, and whatever the Irish
1 Miner gains by it, small as bis
gains may be in the uneven con
test, comes out of the pockets of
the bread-consuming masses. So
true are these facts, and so thor
oughly understood are they and
feared, that Irish agriculturists
frequently exhibit unqualified
jealousy, amounting almost t 0
enmity, toward the United States
and all efforts for the increase of
Amarican traffic facilities. It is
also true that much of the agita
tiou in behalf of cheap rents for
farming lands has for its basis the
inability of the.lrish tiller of the
soil to hold his own against the
incursions as his own door of for
eign enterprise.”
How to Milk.
In milking do not seize the teat
between the thumb and forefing
er, and draw down until the end
slips from the grasp of the digits-
Do not grasp with the hand pres
sing the nails into the teat with a
squeeze and a pull. Grasp the
teat with the thumb partly up
ward, and the fingers in their nat
ural position when closed, next to
the udder, aud closing the fingers
in succession, force the milk
downward with a gentle pull pn
the udder. So proceed altern
ately with each hand, going fur
ther aud further up into the ud
der as the flow ceases, until you
have all the milk drawn. If a few
simple rules founded on common
senso were observed, instead of
kicking cows and holding up the
milk, we should find our cows
gentle and easy to handle, and
much vegetation would be spared
to the milkers. It should, how
ever, be remembered, that gen
tleness is a cardinal virtue.
The richest treasure a man ever
gets in this world is a good wife.
The poorest investment he ever
makes is a transaction wuich
shoued be removed as far as pos
Bible from the moneyed value of
either party. The happiest
homes everywhere have been
bought and paid for by the mutu
al earnings after marriage* Noth
ing is truer than that the good
wife in the home is as surely a
money earner as the husband
who toils with hand or brain. The
best motto of every young man
or woman is, “Mary for love and
work for riches.” It may be an
! old fogy idea, but millions of
homes will bear testimony to its
truthfulness.— Ex.
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Austrai appaears to have a cor
rectideaof the valoe of a thor
ough system of agricultural edu
cation, one in which all the farm
ing population can have a share.
In Corenthea, for example, Herr
Ernest Kramer, formerly a pro.
fessor in the High School a Agri
culture and Chemistry at Vienna,
has been appointed an itinerant
teacher of agriculture, and is to
go about from neighborhood to
neighborhood, inspecting farms
and gardens, and lecturing to the
pleasant farmers and instructing
teachers of public schools in agri
cultural flt'iifs.— Ex.
A Vigorous Growth.
Of the hair is often promoted
by using Parker’s hair Balsam,
it always restores the youthful
color and luster to gray hair,
gives it new life and removes all
irritation and dandruff - .
Southern Education.
There is much to encourage all
thoughtful and patriotic men in
the present attitude and activi
ties of the people of the Southern
States relativ eto education. The
iucrease of popular interest and
of accomplished results is every
where manifest and vital. All l
educational work in the South,’*
whatever the obstacles and dis
couragements in this field may
be, has the advantage of the con
stantly rising tide, and ot being
ou done widening lines of ad
vance. It is a time of growth, of
new undertakings, of more com
prehensive plans, and, generally,
of increaseing revenues and re
sources of all kinds. The very
fact that our educational work
has been going on so iong, and
that our educational institutions
are established so firmly and se
curely, is, in most Northern com
munities, a reason for a some
what languid popular feeling in
regard to education. “The ma
chinery runs itself.” But in the
South there is a newness about
much of the educational work
now going on, which gives oppor
tunities tor personal earnestness
and self-sacrifice, and for the de
velopement of popular enthusi
asm, and thus the situation has
its own advantages as well as its
disadvantages.
I observe also, nearly every
where, a feature of great interest
and importance in the fact that
the new education in the South is
tending to become more practical
and industrial than is the educa
tion which is obatained in most of
the schools of the Northern
States- The Southern people aro
compelled, by the peculiar posi
tions and circumstances of life in
their communities, to inquire
more closely than is usually done
in the North what kind of knowl
edge and instruction will be most
useful to the young in after-life.
The new education in the South
ern States is, in many instancies,
better suited to the needs of the
people there than in the average
Northern school education to the
needs of the masses here.
Of course there is still a vast
amount of popular ignorance and
indifference almost everywhere
:n the South ; there are many in
competent teacher; general dis
couragement of inadequate reve--
nues for pressing needs. But,
considering the recent extreme
impoverishment of the country,
the violent displacement of the
old system of social fife and of
the institutions of all the States,
the results actually attained iu
the estaplishment and adminis
trations of new sytems of popu
lar education are remarkable and
highly gratifying. The Peabody
Fund has produced immeasurable
benefits in the Southern States.
I visited many of the men who
are chiefly concerned in its ad
ministration, and it is evident
that this work is generally in the
hands of gentlemen who are| ad
mirably fitted for its manage
ment, and that the proceeds of
this endowment are distributed
with scrupulous fidelity, and with
a wide prescription of the chief
needs of the time.
The foremost men in the South
ern States—l mean those who are
foremost in business, and in the
social and moral life and activi
ties of the local communities—
are everywhere taking up the
subject of education for the ne*
groes in a serious and business
like spirit. I did not find any
where, except in southwestern
Texas, any manifestation of prej
udice againstjuegro education, or
feeling of jealousy regarding the
advancement of the colored peo
ple in intelligence or capability
for self elevation. The Southern
people are divided in opinion re
garding the capacity of the ne
groes tor continued or permanent
intellectual improvement; some
of them holding that, while the
negroes readily acquire the rudi
ments of knowledge on account
of their imitative ability, they
are much inferior to the white
people in whatever requires
sustained and complex mental
activity. This is probably true,
nut no such rule can be of uni
versal application, and .Southern
men say everywhere that' many
individuals among the colored
people are capable ot using profi
taoly the best educational facili
ties that, can be placed in their
reach, and that it is necessary for
the welfare of the white people
that the negroes should be educa
ted as fast and as fully as possi
ble.
Many of the Southern people
appear to be rather sanguine and
extravagant in their expectations
regarding the result of popular
intellectual enlightenment. They
talk very much as Horace Mann
and his fellow-laborers talked
when they were beginning the in
tellectual revival which led to the
establishment of the New Eng
land public-school system. They
will of course find, as has been
shown in tne Northern State, that
even after the public-schools
have educated the mass of the
people, other problems of a seri
ous nature remain. —Atlantic
Monthly for August.
Charcoal for Sick Animals-
In nine cases out of ten when
an animal is sick, the digestion is
wrong. Charcoal is the most effi
cient and rapid corrective. The
hired man came in with the intel
ligence that one of the finest cows
was very sick, and a kind neigh
bor proposed the usual diugs and
poisons. The owner being ill and
unable to examine the cow, con
cluded that the trouble came
from over eating, and ordered a
tea spoonful of pulverized" char
coal to be given in water. It was
mixed, placed in a junk bottle,
the head turned downward, in
five minutes improvement was
visible, and in a few hours the an
imal was in the pasture quietly
grazing. Another Instance of
equal success occurred with a
young heifer which had become
badly bloated by etting green
apples after a bard wind. The
bloat was so severe that the
sides were *as hard- as a barrel.
The old remedy, saleratus, was
tried lor correcting the acidity.
But the attemots at putting it
down always raised cougliingj
and it did little good. Half a
tea-spoonlul of fresh powdered
charcoal was given. In six hours
all the appearance of the bloat
bad gone and the heifer was well.
—Selected.
Eighty-Five Dollars Lost.
“You do not tell me that your
husband is up and entirely cured
by so simple a medicine as Park-
Ginger Tonic?” “Yes, in
deed, i do." said Mrs. Benjamin
to her neighbor," and after we
had lost eighty-five dollars in
doctor’s bills aud prescriptions.
Now my husband feels a well as
ever.
Ellijay Seminary.
M. G. Bates, A. 8., Principal,
Miss Mary O. Kirbt, - Assistant.
Fall Term begins July 10th, aud closes
November 24tli, 1882.
Course or study— Primary English
branches, Higher English, Science, Math
ematics and Classics.
Tuition ranging from $1 to $2 per
month. Board in good families from $7
$lO per mon*h.
Students living in messes can board
themselves comfortably, at a cost of $8 to
$4 per month.
TO THE~
MILLING PUBLIC.
THE undersigned takes pleasure in in
forming all who contemplate building
or repairing Mills, in'the best and most
durable style, that it will be to their best
interest to consult him before employing
or closing contracts with others. Besides
being fully prepared, after years of study
and practice, to do all kinds of Mill work
in the best workman-like manner, lam
Agent for all lands of Mill Machinery
of the most improved patterns, and guar
antee to sell them at Manufacturers.’ and
Importers’ prices, including the celebrated
BOOK WALTER ENGINE AND THE
Leffel Double Turbine Water Wheel
French Burr Stones, Eureka Smutting
Machines, etc., to be brief, anything in
the line of Mill Machinery.
Now, if you want anything in my lint
I promise satisfaction iu woikmanship and
price. Call on or address
J- W. DUGKETT,
Mill Contractor,
Dec. 29-ly, ELLIJAY, A/ttk
TIS SHY SOUTH.
FOB 1882.
EXTRAOR DINARY ATTBACI IONS.
CLUBS OF THREE AT. $2.00!
The Sunny South has long been rec
ognized by the American people as a
grand success, and everybody is de-
But each year adds to its in
terest and importance, and during the
ensuing twelve months it will be far su
perior to its former self in every par
ticular.
- MRS. MARY E. BRYAN
will be chief assistant in the edtoria
management, with L. L. Veazy, E>q.
and Richard Fenfield to help. She
will run some of her best stories dur
ng the year.
FATHER A. J. BRYAN,
known and loved all over the south ns
our sw. etest poet., and as the author of
“Furl that Banner,” wilt be a regular
contributor of prose and poetry. He
1 will also write a story.
BETSY HAMILTON
will continue to edify and convulse the
i public with her quaint ideas aud inim
itable style from the Backwoods.
SLIM JIM
will begin anew series of “Off Hand
Talks" upon the popular questions of
the day.
BILL ARP’S PEN
will not be allowed to rest long. His
sage adviee and sensible suggestions
are too popular.
TALMAGE’S SERMONS
from the great Urookiyn- Tabernacle,
will continue to appear regularly.
BENCH AND BAR OF GEO.
Under this head will appear original
sketches and anecdotes of prominent
living and dead members of the bench
and bar of Georgia.
THE SOUTHERN HOUSEHOLD.
This is one of the most popular de
partments with all Southern and Nor
thern women, and all are urged to con
tribute to it.
CORPORATE MONOPOLIES.
The brilliant series of articles upon
this subject, by the Hon. Stephen D.
Dallave, of Washington City, will be
continued.
STORIES! STORIES \
Continued and short stories by the
best writers of the day will appear in
every issue. Newstoiies will be corn*
nienced every few weeks duiing the
year.
BIOGRAPHIES and PORTRAITS
“Our Portrait Gallery," with sketch
es of the promineut men and women of
the hour, will be kept up with anew
interest.
Society gossip, farm and home, con
densed news oi the States, answers to
correspondents, letters from all points,
lar.dom notes, etc., will continue to be
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