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the Eagfle Eablishing- Company.
VOLUME XXXVIII.
SHOES!
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We have jui-t received the largest shipment that ever came to
Gainesville. Over one hundred caseses of the famous
HAMILTON-BROWN SHOES!
From a stock of over
6.000 PAIRS.
We can fit any foot from AtoE E, and any r C $ r
pocketbook from to O
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Any and every pair is FULLY GUARANTEED
and will wear like FLINT.
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Men’s Shoes in Black and
Chocolate, of Russian Calf,
Box Calf, Harvard Calf,
Cordovan, Kangaroo, Vici
Kid, Patent Leather, etc, in I
all the latest toes, and any I
last from C to G.
Women’s Shoes in Lace
and Button, Chocolate and I
Black, wide and narrow, i
heel and spring heel, heavy I
and fine, cloth top and kid i
top, in the newest toes, I
widths from A to E E, any .
price from 75c to $3.50.
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Good line Ladies’ 1898
Bicycle Boots.
Shoes for Boys and Girls : We have them laced, buttoned,
chocolate, and heel and spring heel, in the prettiest toes.
A big line of Babies’ soft soled Shoes. Men’s and Ladies’
Rubbers and Over-gaiters. Nice and convenient places for trying
and fitting shoes. Buttons fastened on our shoes free of charge.
R. E. ANDOE & CO.,
T1 Main St. ‘
Telephone f>.
Petition for Incorporation.
GEORGIA, Hall County.
To the Superior Court of said Comity:
The petition of H. T. Martin, A. J. Mundy,
and A. I). Candler, all of said State and county,
and Harvey Richwine, of the county of Wabash
and State of Indiana, shows:
1. That they desire for themselves, their asso
ciates, successors and assigns, to be incorpo- I
rated under the name .of
THE NORTH-EAST GEORGIA FENCING '
COMPANY.
2. The object of this incorporation is the pe
cuniary gain of the members thereof, and to 1
carry on the business herein set forth.
3. They desire authority to construct fences,
erect the same, manufacture or otherwise pro
cure material therefor; to sell such fences, and |
the right either to use the same, or to sell to |
others the right, in any or all of the counties I
hereinafter mentioned; to sunscribe for and
own stock in any incorporated company; to
borrow and to lend money for the purposes of I
their legitimate business; to execute mortgages,
trust deeds, and all other instruments incident I
to borrowing money; to have and exercise any I
and all other powers permitted to corporations I
incorporated by the Superior court under the
laws of Georgia.
4. The capital stock of said companv shall be '
Twelve Thousand ($12,1X10.00) Dollars" in shares
of One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars, each, with
power to increase the same, from time to time
by vote ot the majority of stock-holders, to any
sum not exceeding Fifty Thousand ($50,000.00)
Dollars.
5. The principal office of said company shall
be in Hall county, Ga.. with authority to estab
lish branch offices in such other places as they '
may desire. i
6. The said company shall have power to
transact its business as aforesaid, in the follow
ing named counties, all within the State of
Georgia, to-wit: Hall, Habersham, White,
Lumpkin, Franklin, Banks, Dawson. Forsyth,
Milton, Gwinnett, Jackson, Madison, Hart, !
Elbert, Lincoln, Wilkes, Oglethorpe, Clarke,
Oconee, M alton, Newton, Morgan and Greene.
7. No stockholder shall be liable to the said
corporation, or any creditor thereof, for more
than the amount of stock actually subscribed
by him; and, upon the payment of the total
amount ot said subscription by any stockhold
er, the liability of such a stockholder to the
corporation or its creditors shall cease.
8. Petitioners further desire that this peti
tion be tiled, recorded and published as re
quired by law, and that they be incorporated
tor a period of twenty years’, with privilege of
renewal.
And your petitioners will ever pray, etc.
ESTES A- BOONE, Pet’rs Att’ys.
Georgia. Hall County: I. a. R. Smith, Clerk J
of the Superior court of said county, do hereby
certify that the foregoing is a true copy, from i
the tiles of this office, of the application for '
charter tor “The North-East Georgia Fencing '
Company, - ’
Witness my official signature, this 12th dav !
of January. 1898. A. R. SMITH. :
Clerk Superior Court Hall County, Ga. i
Mixed Books Unmixed
E. P. MITCHELL,
Expert Accmlant and Auditor.
No. 2 State Bank Building.
lias had twenty years experience
as an expert in examining and audit
ing the books of partnerships, banks, '
and mercantile companies, and now I
offers his services for opening, clos-■
ing, and untangling books and ac- i
counts.
RUDY’S PILE SUPPOSITORY
is guaranteed to cure Piles and Constipation. '
or money refunded. 50c per box. Send for list ,
of testimonials and free sample to MARTIN <
RUDY, Registered Pharmacist, Lancaster, I’a. ;
For sale by flrst-ciass druggists everywhere, and
in Gainesville, Ga., by Dixon & Co.
Dr. <D. A. RYDER,
DENTIST,
GAINESVILLE, - - - GA.
Dental work of all kinds done in a
skillful manner. Crown and Bridge
work a specialty.
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We call special attention to our
iLs Shoe Co's.
•Own Make*
A. K. HAWKES
RECEIVED
GOLD MEDAL
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Highest Award DipSama as Honor
I for Superior Lons Grinding and Excellency in
he Manufacture of Spectacles and Eye Glasses.
! ,old in 11,000 Cities and Towns in the U. S. Most
Popular Glasses in the U. S.
ESTABLISHED 1870.
fl fl II T ? Thi'se Famous Glasses
SAUmuH A:..; Never Peopled.
Mr. Hawkes has ended his visit here, but has
appointed M. C. BROWN & CO. as agents to tit
and sell his celebrated Glasses.
JOHN MARTIN.
NACOOCHEE, GA.
REAL
Alines and Mining Lands,
Farms and Farming Lands,
Timber and Wild Lands.
SOLID INVESTMENTS AT
TEMPTING PRICES. (
Correspondence Invited.
M. F. FORTSON.
The Jeweler,
AND DEALER IN
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry.
All kinds of repairing done, from
the finest to the cheapest, in the lat
est styles and in the best workman
like manner. I also make a specialty
of ordering select, special and fine
Jewelry, Watches, Clocks, and Silver
and Plated Ware at prices that defy '
competition. All persons wishing
anything in this line will save money |
by getting my prices before going.
elsewhere.
LIME!
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Cement, Plaster Paris.
LARGE SUPPLY always on
hand. Can fill orders at short notice.
WILL OFFER Special induce
ments to those preparing to build.
Lime house and office No. 16
Grove St.
C. L. DEAL.
THE GAINESVILLE EAGLE.
A Small Sum of Money-
WILL BUY LOTS OF GOODS
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£ Turner’s Cash Store.
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■k/ll 11111 l BE CLOSED OUT atJ
vUUiUUU AND BELOW COST. ■
In order to reduce my stock and get ready for the spring trade,i
I will offer for next thirty days my entire stock of goods at'
a very reduced price. A great many things will be closed
out regardless of their former price, and regardless o|
what they cost me. For instance: Dress Goods that sold at
75c will be closed out now at 37 t-2c per yard. The 50c.
quality will be sold at 25c, and the all wool dress goods that
sold at 30c will go now at 15c a yard. Linings, Trimmings,
Embroideries, Laces, and all such goods will be closed
this sale at and below cost. Now is your chance for a bar
gain if you need goods in this line.
Corsets at Cost.
Dr. Warner’s and the R. &G. Corsets to be closed out in this sale. The
regular $1.50 Corset will go now at sl.lO. The $1 quality at 83c. The
75c Corset at 59c, and the 60c quality at 45c. A very gdod corset can
be had in this sale at 20c. *
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Clothing.
$4,000 worth of Men’s, Boys’, and Children’s Suits, and Men’s and Boys’
Pants to be closed out at cost, and a great many odd Coats and Vests'
and odd Pants will go in this sab: at less than first cost. , *a
If you want a bargain this is the place to find it. ,
Come and see. ' *»
Very respectfully, L
West Side Square, - - . GAINESVILLE, GA.
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Fine hand made Harness a specialty. Repairing neatly and qoickly
done.
Thomas <& Clark.
Next door below Post-office, - - - GAINESVILLE, GA.
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GAINESVILLE, FEBRUARY 3. 1808.
> Thomas & Clark,
Manufacturers of and Dealers in
HARNESS, SADDLES, WHIPS, ROBES,
Blankets and Turf Goods.
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«ORN STALKS
FOR CATTLE
farmers Urged to Make Use
«F '‘©f This Valuable Forage.
J[B. NESBITT DISCUSSES MATTER
Tn® <'omini<®ionvr of Agriculture Requests
ißpeorgla Soil Tillers to Give the New
Food Stuff a Trial—As to the Cotton
Er Acreage— Work During the Cast Month
K Delayed by Bad Weather.
* Department of Agriculture,
| Atlanta, Feb. 1, 1898.
SHREDDED CORN STALKS.
■> Ac a matter of much importance to
laraters, I again call their attention to
the immense value of the corn stalks
usually left standing and wasting in the
■flaljis when they are shredded and used
•or forage. I have recently had a cou-
Yersatiou with a gentleman who is now
aelling all he can make of this forage at
910 a ton in carload lots, and sl2 a ton
|n smaller quantities. His experience
|s that from 1% to 2% tons of shredded
fodder can be made to the acre, accord
ing to the size and number of plants,
*pd that a large machine will cut each
<ay the product from six to 12 acres.
BJf course in both cases the amount is
by the quality and yield of
the corn crop. It has been ascertained
that the larger machines accomplish
.more profitable and more satisfactory
(work than the smaller ones, the stalks
"being more thoroughly cut and shredded.
■These machines being portable, if one
farmer cannot afford the higher price
for the larger machine, a combination
of farmers can invest in one and thus
by moving from one farm to another
the stalks for a neighborhood may be
converted into a wholesome and nutri
tive food. Or, as suggested before, one
man may own such a machine and by
Working all farms in reach during the
fall and winter the entire crop of corn
stalks may be shredded without expense
to the owners. A strange proposition,
bat nevertheless true, because the toll
may be paid in kind, and is taken from
an otherwise worthless product.
At the experiment station farm the
stripped stalks, which had been left
standing on the fields until January,
were hauled up and shredded. The pro
"duot was not only readily eaten by the
■farm animals, but upon analysis was
found to contain more nutriment than
an equal amount of the cottonseed
hulls, now so popular as stock food.
The shredded fodder has this additional
advantage over the hulls, it is much
more by horses and mules, as
well as cattle, and there is not the same
precaution necessary in feeding it. It
is welj known by those who feed cotton?
seed hulls tn at there is dagger ftLils be
coming compacted, if fed in
quantities, and that it is >lwayT?ti?er
to mix it with other more cdui&ifitrated
food stuffs. ”' 1 '
* The utilization qf sueh a
quantity of forage, will finable, us not
-md'-b-rftwar-1
farm stock for home use, but will give
an impetus to stock raising for export.
There is a growing demand from the
west for southern cattle, and with this
enormous addition to our food stuffs, a
comparatively large number of beeves
may be successfully raised to meet this
market without drawing too heavily
upon the other resources of the farm.
Thus will be opened a new source
of income for the south and also
the foundation be laid for a direct
exportation to Europe of thousands of
southern raised beeves. We have every
advantage of climate and transporta
tion, and once the. business gets a firm
foothold, we can scarcely compute its
benefits to the south. Our superior situ
ation and environment will give us an
immense leverage over our western com
petitors. This plan of shredding and
utilizing the otherwise useless corn
stalks is growing in favor each day and
the time is coming when the shredded
fodder will be as much an article of
commerce as the popular cottonseed
hulls, once considered equally worth
less.
THE COTTON ACREAGE.
We have no new arguments to offer
on this subject on which hangs the pros
perity, not of the farmers only, but of
the whole south, and we may say, of the
couatry at large. In the successful and
profitable handling and marketing of
our cotton crop by farmers, buyers,
manufacturers and others we include a
very large per cent of our national pop
ulation, and therefore the decision of
the farmers as to how much cotton they
will undertake to raise in ’9B is a mat
ter of almost as much importance to the
whole country as to themselves. This
decision to some extent affects present
conditions also, for as soon as it becomes
known that a large crop is to be planted,
the price either continues depressed or
falls lower; whereas, if a reduced area
is decided on, prices and the general
cotton trade show a favorable tendency.
In our inquiry columns are some very
pertinent questions as to the cotton sit
uation and the conditions of supply and
demand. We have endeavored to an
swer them fully and clearly, and to em
{ihasize what we have so often repeated
n these columns, that the farmers, in
dividually, must control this matter.
No convention or set of resolutions,
however intelligent the former, or forci
ble the latter, seem powerful enough to
cope with it Each farmer must study
the question for himself and must de
cide, not how much cotton he can raise,
but how much he can raise profitably.
When this is done, and when each man
sets aside a sufficient area for abundant
home supplies it will be found that a
reduction of the cotton area is a fore
gone conclusion. Profitable cotton pro
duction hinges on home supplies and by
that term we do not mean plain bread
and meat, but plenty of poultry, eggs,
milk,butter, fruit and vegetables as well.
In our climate all can be produced at
little cost and in greatest abundance.
But If a man overburdens himself
with an expensive cotton crop he has no
time to attend to these socalied minor
crops and when the cotton is gathered
and sold ten chances to one he will have
no money to buy necessary food, much
less the articles of comfort, and even
luxury, which he could have produced
en his farm at a scarcely appreciable
cost. Our past experience has made
these facts plain, but rhe certainty of a
cash market for cotton, and the uncer
tainty of being able to sell a surplus of
any other crop, has tempted the large
body of farmers to continue to plant big
ißiver Ills
® biliousness, dyspepsia, headache, consti
|B gi. sour stomach, indigestion are promptly
mby Hood's Pills. They do their work
hoods
easily and thoroughly. ® S fl
Best after dinner pills. Egg
25 cents. All druggists. B fl fl fl
by I. Hood & Co., Lowell. Ma«s.
LfrJ.l. JU’ill to take with Hood's Sarsaparilla.
Lils to take W.
crops cn cotton, anu to case tne cnanees
of selling them for enough to buy
needed supplies, implements, etc. The
cheapness at which we can produce all
food crops should forever set at rest
this question of home supplies. Our
mistaken policy on this point and the
crowding of the cotton marker has re
duced our income from that source mil
lions and millions of dollars, and when
to this is added short food supplies our
condition is deplorable indeed.
WORK FOR THE MONTH.
Bad weather has somewhat delayed
farm work, although in many sections
farmers have taken advantage of the
bright days to push forward prepara
tions for another crop. February is the
i best average month for sowing spring
oats. If the soil is thin make it rich by
manures or fertilizers. Oats will not
do well on poor land any more than
other crops, but, with the same care aud
plant food that we give other crops, they
often make far better returns, and there
is no better stock food known to south
ern farmers. Whenever the ground is
dry enough the regular field plowing
should go on. Don’t plow waen the
land is too wet. This is a mistake which
it often requires years to repair. Use a
subsoiler wherever possible, its good
effects will be noticeable when our
long summer drouth sets in. Clover
and grass may be sown. Both require
thorough preparation and high ma
nuring. In the southern part of the
state all the earlier vegetables may be
planted, and it is in this month that the
general Irish potato crop is planted. For
various reasons the eastern crop was a
failure last year. Prices are rndng high
and will no doubt continue fair. For
this reason a southern crop, which can
be forced on the market early, would
pay. It would be well, however, to
study the markets, and not wait until
the crop is ready before making any ar
rangements to dispose of it. Complete
your arrangements before hand, don’t
leave anything to chance. Many of our
farmers know how to raise potatoes suc
cessfully, but not all of these know how
to market them profitably. Jeff Wel
born says we can grow them much
cheaper here than they do at the north,
aud if the seed used are from the fall
grown crop they will come on much
earlier. He has raised eight c-ops, fall
and spring, in four years, on the same
land, without a change of seed, and
each year the potatoes have improved in
quality and quantity. After the spring
crop is taken off he sows the land in
early maturing peas. When these are
taken off, the land is in fine condition
for the fall crop, and thus he gets three
crops off the same area. The land, after
the peas, is thoroughly prepared, and he
gets about 160 bushels of potatoes with
out any other fertilizer than the peas.
If the ground has been well broken and
the planting properly managed, a very
shallow cultivation is all that is neoes
sary. In field crops, just as the plants
begin to break the ground, it is well to
run a harrow across the rows to break
the crust. Do not run a deep furrow
near the rows. Keep the patch free
from weeds. For the northern markets
■hip in 11-peck potato barrels instead of
■acks, they keep better and are more
s attaqyye in appearance —both of which
' add |d price." ...
Yield and fr. cos DarUjX tq® Pest Few
w Yeais— .';ti?ie* rar Farmer*. ' "
Question. —What were the total cot
ton crops for 1895-96 and 1896-97, and
their average price, and as far as known
what has been the crop and the price
for 1897-98?
Answer.—The cotton crop for 1895 96,
official figures, was 7,157,346 bales, and
the average price was 8.09 cents per
pound. The crop of 1896-97 was 8,757,-
964 bales, and ihe average price was
7.42 cents per pound. Up to Jan. 1,
1898, 7,260,033 bales have been marketed,
aud the average price was 6.05 cents per
pound. By comparing this with the re
ceipts up to Jau. 1, 1897, we find that
there was up to Jau. 1, 1898, marketed
861,841 bales more than to Jan. 1, 1897.
We also find that owing to the differ
ence in price, although there was such
a large excess of bales, the farmers of
the south have lost $54.305,046—a strik
ing commentary on large crops and low
; prices. It is almost beyond belief that
the cotton crop, which is virtually a
monopoly, and which should be a means
of independence, is surely becoming the
cause of general depression and poverty.
—State Agricultural Department.
Lio® and Mites on Foultry.
Question.—l live in the southern part
of the state, and, owing to the climate,
I suppose our poultry is much troubled
with mites aud lice. lam careful about
• keeping the coops clean, but in spite of
this these vermin seem to multiply very
rapidly. How shall I destroy them ?
Answer. —The coops should be thor
oughly whitewashed inside aud out
with a limewash in which has been
mixed crude carbolic acid. Every part
of the roosts should be brushed over
with kerosine, old nests removed and
all litter burned up. An experienced
poultry raiser says the easiest plan to
get rid of the pests on the fowls them
selves is the following: Fill a five gallon
oil can about two-thirds full of warm
water and add about 1 ounce of carbolic
I acid. Select a clear, bright morning
I and dip each fowl bodily into the bath,
I covering every part. Hold it up to drip
' a few seconds and then turn it loose.
; In an hour they will be dry and free
from living lice.—State Agricultural
Department.
The Sagar Beat Industry.
Question. —Please tell me something
about the cultivation of sugar beets, the
I jnethod, cost, preparation for market,
: sind of soli suitable, etc. How are the
I factories in this country succeeding ?
Is the sugar of good quality and is the
crop one which can be cultivated at the
sooth? How much do manufacturers
pay for them ?
Answer.—As yet the sugar beet in
dustry in this country is in its infancy,
and we have to depend on the experi
i ence of others for enlightenment on the
points on which you request Informa
tion. The following is from a man of
large experience both in this country
and in Europe, and what he says on
sugar beet culture is reliable and valu
able. He says the soil should be good
The crop will not pay if planted on poor
ground, or on muck laud, or on land
which has not good drainage, or if the
soil is not in a good state of cultivation.
' The cost of raising an acre of beets is
; too high for them to be grown on poor
land. The success of this industry is in
I the hands of the farmers and not in the
I hands of the manufacturers. No matter
how perfect the machinery or how econ
omically a factory is managed, if the
beets are brought to the factory not in
proper condition the expenses are
doubled and the farmer is docked, which
means loss of time, general discourage-
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meuc ana want ol success to botn man- ‘
ufacturer and planter. The beets when
delivered at the factory should be cut
off fiat at the root of the leaves, so that
none of the green top is left. This is
absolutely necessary in order to make a
good standard of sugar. Every beet of
which the green juice of the leaves is
mixed with the beet juice proper is an
obstacle to crystalizing the sugar, and
every drop of that green juice must be
eliminated before the white granulated
sugar can be manufactured. All the
fertilizing properties of the beets are
contained in the tops and the farmer
meets with a double loss if he carries
them to the factory instead of cutting
them off and leaving them on his land.
He is docked 8 or 10 per cent at the fac
tory, and wastes the valuable fertilizing
properties of the tops which are thrown
away.
METHOD OF CULTIVATING SUGAR BEETS
The rows should be 18 or 20 inches
apart, the plants thinned out to stand
sor 6 inches in the row. Do not wait
until the young beets are surrounded by
weeds, but cultivate with the hoe as
soon as tbe plants can be seen. The
thinning should be done as soon as the
plants have two to four leaves. After
this keep the weeds aud grass down by
the horse hoe, cultivating often to
loosen the earth around the plants and
give air to the roots. As the cultivation
is very expensive no chance should be
neglected which will help to make as
large a crop as possible. If weeds and
grass are allowed to grow they will take
up the strength of ths soil, which should
be used to make the beets. The rows
should not be farther thaa 20 inches
apart. If wider than this the beets will
be larger bat will not yield as mach in
weight per acre, and besides, what the
sugar manufacturer wants is small
beets, from 1 to pounds in weight.
These are more profitable to handle and
have also a higher percentage of sugar
and Less water than the larger sizes.
COST OF CULTIVATING AN ACRE IN SUGAR
BEETS.
Preparation of laud: plowing and
harrowing $ 2 00
Extra harrowing lefore patting
in seed M
Tilling and rolling 1 50
Cleaning between the rows with
hand hoe 3 00
Thinning out and resetting plants
to stand 5 or 6 inches, and clean-
ing between rows 6 00
Cleaning with horse hoe 75
Cleaning with horse hoe and
slightly hilling up 75
Taking out weeds near the beets,
i yhteh horpe hoe has left 125
PMIW ,P ut^n »
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■Loadingfmsn banlingiw mteKt, »
* estimating 12 tons to the acre,
at 50 cents per ton, a distance of
6 miles 6 U 0
$27 00
The 12 tons at $4.00 per ton would
be S4B 00
Cost of cultivating as above .. 37 75
S2O 25
In this account labor is estimated at
$1.35 a day, and no allowance is made
for fertilizers or cost of seed. The
United States Department of Agricult
ure estimates the cost per acre for the
first few years at from S4O to SSO per
acre, though in many instances it will
fall below these figures. The cost varies
so, with varying conditions, that it is
impossible to give an estimate which
will suit every locality. The price paid
at the factory is from $4 to $5 per ton,
according to quality, and the yield is
from 10 to 20 tons per acre. The best
fertilization for beets is secured by a
heavy application of homemade manure
on a previous crop. The first run of
beet sugar in Naw York state was
made the past month aud the
product was smooth grained, white
and sweet. There are other factories
springing up over the country and there
are eight already in successful opera
tion. Professor Massey says: "I was
struck with the identity, so far as culti
vation is concerned, of tbe sugar beat
culture and that of cotton. I fully be
lieve that the negroes, who are accus
tomed to the cultivation aud thinning
«f cotton, would make the best of bands
® the beet field. I believe that we can
grow the beets an well as they can in
Nebraska and grow them more
cheaply. ” He says also that our "cot
ton sweep” as a cultivator, beats ail the
variety of tools that he saw used for
beet cultivation. Land for beets should
always be prepared very deeply. Sub
soiled, if possible.—State Agricultural
Department.
Quite Right.
After instructing his men in the
points of the compass Lieutenant
X. says to one of them:
‘‘You have in front of you the
north, on your right the east, on
your left the west. What have you
behind you?”
Private B. (after a few moments’
reflection) —My knapsack, lieuten
ant.—Libre Parole.
Sometimes She Doesn’t Know Herself.
When a woman is particularly
pleasant to a man, he never knows
whether it is because she likes him
or does it to torment some man
she likes better.—Atchison (Kan.)
Globe.
A Bit of Philosophy.
A man may marry the woman he
loves, and his son may marry the
woman he loves, but let the son s
daughter marry the man she loves
and there is straightway trouble in
the camp.—New York Press.
In * Hurry.
“So he married in haste. Did he
repent at leisure?”
“No, he repented in haste too.”—
New York Journal.
Think about your health. Do not
allow scrofula taints to develop in
your blood. Take Hood's Sarsapa-
L rilla now and keep yourself WELL.
NUMBER 5.
AMERICA IN 1800.
The Population Centered In a Very Few
Cities Near the Coast.
In St. Nicholas there is a article
on the Greater New York entitled
“Reasoning Out a Metropolis,” by
Ernest Ingersoll. Writing of the
distribution of the population at the
beginning of the century, Mr. In
gersoll says:
Montreal and Quebec were then
large towns, but making no prog
ress. Nothing had come of the ex
pected cities along the coast |of
Maine. Old Salem had been out
stripped by Boston, which already
numbered 30,000 citizens; Newport,
New London and New Haven were
disappointingly small and sleepy;
New York, which bad borne the
brunt of the Revolutionary war, in
cluded only some 60,000 inhabitants;
while Philadelphia, unharmed by
the war, was flourishing and led the
list with a population numbering
over 81,000. Farther south, Balti
more, with about 27,000 people;
Charleston, with 20,000, and New
Orleans (then m French territory),
with 10,000, were the only coast
towns worth mentioning. Civiliza
tion had scarcely found its way
across the Alleghanies, Chicago did
not exist, and Oswego, Buffalo, De
troit, Pittsburg and Cincinnati were
mere frontier villages or Indian trad
ing posts. New England and eastern
Pennsylvania and Maryland were
dotted with villages, but the largest
inland towns were those of northern
New Jersey and the valley of the
Hudson, where Newburg, Kingston
and Albany took the lead of all.
Let us see what happened during
the next 30 years.
As soon as peace and a firm, unit
ed government were gained by the
war for independence we Ameri
cans began to think about finding ’
out and making use of the wealth oi
our new country first by setting as
many persons as possible to clearing
away the forests and planting fields,
and great numbers from the older
states and from Europe moved west
and received from the government
tracts of land for which the only
pay asked was a promise to stay and
cultivate them.
But it was plain >hat there was
no use in farming, no matter how
cheap and fertile the soil, or in
cutting timber or digging minerals,
no matter how accessible and abun
dant, unless the pioneers had some
way to send the grain they grew or
the timber or minerals to market.
Roads were therefore of the first
importance. Nobody but a hunter
k- or sflhexplorer Could travel into the
heavily wooded interior, except
along some navigable river, and at
first only the valleys of these rivers
1 were cultivated. Next a few roads
J were laid out, connecting the coast
and riverside towns, but none pene
, trated inland very far, and these
were mostly mere tracks for pack
horses. All frontier goods were car
i ried by horses until almost the be
ginning of this century, as they are
yet in remote parts of the far west,
i This method is exceedingly expen
sive. It cost, for instance, $249 a
ton, or about 12‘ 8 cents a pound, to
carry merchandise by pack horses
from Philadelphia to Erie in 1784,
i and when, in 1789, the first wagon
1 road was opened over the Pennsyl
vania mountains the cost of freight
age was $3 a ton for that part alone
—about 140 miles. It was not until
1804 that the first through line of
, stages was established from Pbila
, delphia to Pittsburg, making the
trip in seven days.
These things show how gradual,
but how sure, was the advance of
civilization westward.
The Youngster Was Sorry.
Here is a story of a bright little
tot of a boy whose father tried to
punish him, told by the New Or
leans Times-Democrat. It com
menced by the father giving an ad
monishment. “I shan’t behave,”
said the little fellow. “You are a
bad man, and I don’t like you.” At
this the child was told to stand in a
corner with his face to the wall, but
he cried so bitterly that his mother
went up to him and eaid, “You go
tell your papa that you are sorry,
and he will forgive you.” The little
fellow approached his father, blub
bering, and blurted out, between
sobs, “I is sorry that you are such
a bad man.” “Well, go’long and
play, then,” said the father, trying
to keep from laughing.
That Depends.
Hoax—ls this your little baby?
Joax—Sometimes.
“I don’t understand.”
“Why, when we’re among my
relatives it’s mine, but to my wife’s
folks it’s never anything but ‘our
Mary’s baby.' ” —Philadelphia Rec
ord.
Tricks of the Types.
A writer in Macmillan’s Magazine
offers in an article on printers’ er
rors some superb “mixes,” as blend
ings of alien paragraphs are called.
We borrow a couple. The first owed
its character to an interpolated line
from a report of a public meeting:
“On the 3d inst., at Elkington,
the wife of J. S. Terry, schoolmas
ter, of a son. He spoke indistinct
' iy. but was understood to say that
1 on the 3d inst., at Ripon, the wife
> of Joseph Landseer, tailor, of a
> daughter.”
L The second occurred in a descrip
tion of the campaign of Roman
Catholic missionaries in central Af
rica:
> “They are accustomed to begin
their work by buying heathen chil
dren and educating them. The
easiest and best way to prepare
them is to first wipe them with a
t clean towel, then place them in dr; p
i ping pans and bake them until they
■ are tender. After which cut thi in
in slices and cook for several hours ”