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VOL. VII.
‘‘iaßcSoi Hie Hini.'’
ItY MELODIA.
not the bird, but ever let
Hib notes gush glad and free,
Deprive him not of God’s best gift,
The boon of liberty.
Lis pinions now bear him aloft.
To highest tower or tree,
They flap and flutter at his will,
Untrammelod, hold and free.
No prison bars encirele him,
No sorrow dims bis eye,
Hut twinkles ’neatb the feathery crest.
In wondrous brilliancy!
No sad eyed thought is in his mien,
Hut sprightly is his air,
And while he skips from branch to bou nr li
Trills forth his music rare-.
I too have heard his melody,
Have listened to his song,
And said within myself, ‘sweet birds,
I would not do thee wrong,”
I’d have thee perch on yonder bough,
And sing thy sweetest lay,
Perhaps thy warbling is of her,
Thy loved mate far away,
Of one you wood in early spring,
And promised long to love,
To sing for her, and only her,
In city, town, or grove.
Of her by night or day to dream
You’re nestling by her sido,
With head tucked snugly’neath your wing
Close to your birdie bride.
O ! no; we’ll not ensnare the bird,
His song is sweeter there;
It floats in sweetest melody,
Upon the summer air.
Then birdie, trill and twitter on,
No cage awaiteth tlieo,
We’d rather have thee free, then check
Thy happy minstrelsy.
Yea, birdie go, but come again,
When e’re it pleaseth thee;
Be not afraid, no harm shall come,
Sweet bird, you’re free ! you’re free !
*at>lmt9i School Address.
Zebulon, Ga., July 14th, 1876.
Col. J. S. Pgfe—
Dear Sir.' The undersigned, a
committee appointed, for the purpose,
ask of 3'ou for publication, the manu>
script of an address delivered by
yourself, before the Zebulon
dist Sabbath School on Sunday last.
Respectfully,
C. F. Reddmig,
W, 11. Prichard,
IX I). Malair.
To Messrs C. F. Redding, W. H.
Prichard and D. I). Malair, Com
mittee, Ac,—.
Dear Sirs: Your note of 14th
instill lit, aokingy of iLo manueoript
of a Sabbath School address deliver
ed on Sabbath last, is received, and
the manuscript is herewith enclosed.
The address was never intended for
publication, but for a Sabbath School
audience only.
Yours Very Respectfully.
J. S. Pope,
ADDRESS.
In our complicated being, the mor
al principle stands most prominent. It
is the conservative power of human
nature, the keystone which supports
the sublime archway of human hap,
piness. And its proper development
should boa tliome of constant study
and attention, by all good men and
woman.
To be successful in this responsible
work, it is evident that we must start
at a period in life when the mind up
on which we would devote our earo
is most easily impressed, and best
adapted to the ideas we impart. The
absolute helplessness of infancy
teaches us that nature is designed,
it should lean upon stronger arms for
physical aid ; and the thousand curi
ous questions of childhood, tell us
equally plain that for proper mental
and moral culture, it must look to
older heads and hearts. Childhood
then, is the true starting point in
moral education. And in the differ -
ent moral training of children, wc are
furnished a key to the great diversh
sity of character the world over. It
is true that many boys and girls,
without direct advantages of moral
and religious teaching, have bcGome
men and women illustrious for mor
ality and pity ; but by tracing close
ly their history, we will lind in the
majority of cases, that the influences
which shaped tffdy after-bfo, were
obtained from early associations.—
There is a strong magnetism in an
exalted moral nature, and as
the Pole star unerringly directs the
finger ot the compass.sq a pure heart
will always be a centre of influence
and power
The mind of a child is never sta
tionary. From the moment the in
tellectual principle assumes its sway,
like a .pebble dropped upon the sur
face of a calm sea, it becomes a nu>
cleus of aggressive power in the
world of progress. And in its re
lentless search for improvement, if it
learns no good, it surely learns no
evil. No truth is plainer than this.
Like clay in the hands of the potter,
the young heart in the hands of one
who has its condifience may be
moulded as he diz*ects, and being free
from business care, the impressions
then made become indcllible. These
older persons, -whose heads are
ening with tiie frosts of age, can tes
tify to the truth, that their earliest
impressions remain the brightest
through life. The ardent love ot the
grandparents see reflected in the
fection, their own and their children’s
happy childhood. When our forms
bend lowest under the weifrht of
years, when we have fallen into the
“sere and yellow leaf of life,” the
hapaiest thrill that cheer our hearts
is given us in looking back through
the vista of the past and viewing the
beautiful panorama of chikLlife.
TIIOMASTON. GA.. SATURD
i hesc truths are natures voice telling
us that in youth the foundation ol
diameter is .laid. God lias given
us many illustrations of this priucL
pic in the vegetable world. Take for
instance the climbing vine ; plant it
and leave it to chance, then -ec what
a confused unshapely mass it pre
sents ; its delicate tendrils rambling
hither and thither in search of sup
port; but let the hand of taste and
lo\e direct it, and liehold how grace
fully it adorns with its beauties the
lowliest cottage. One of the most
striking accidental illustration of this
truth I ever met with, was in reading
a description of the terrible cyclone
which passed through the State last
year. An officer in the interest of
science had lieen sent by the United
States government to go over its
entire track aud report its ravages.
In describing the path through a
dense foiest, lie mentioned large trees
tom literally in pieces, and their frag
ments scattered like straws, nothing
was left in its destructive path but a
few small samplings with their forms
bent and their tops resting on the
ground, just as the storm had left
them. This circumstance struck me
with much force, and I thought that
amidst such terrible desolation what
a sublime moral truth we were
taught. The giant oak had grown
too hard to yield,so can man’s heart;
the sappling before bent the storm
and remained as impressed; so
the plastic heart of child.
'fhe truth I have recited, together
with a principle of charity as broad
as the universe, form the purpose of
the Sabbath school. Christ said “suffer
little to children come unto me and
forbid them not, for of such is the
kingdom of heaven.” The Sunday
school aims to accomplish just the
work marked out in these words, to
educate, our moral nature make the
hearts of old and j'oung as pure as
when they know no wrong. It is
emphatically Christ’s church for thy
children. Some term it the nursery
of the church ; it is more, and as a
moral and Christian educator of the
human heart it stands pre-eminent.—
The present style of pulpit preaching
is not adapted to children. It is not
simple enough. In the Sabbath
school we meet them face to face,
learn the peculiarities of each ones
disposition, and teach them as we
would around the fireside. If the
balance-sheet for good between the
church and the Sunday School
were to-day made up, you would
sec the Sunday School stand
ing first. Many argue that children
can be taught at hoiim n ti.cj- —runici
leavn ni t} m Sabbath school In a
few instances this might be true, but
there arc many parents who arc not
qualified to teach their children.—
They are illiterate, but desire their
children should learn morality and
piety. In the Sunday school these
unfortunate children obtain the bene
efit of learning and experience.
Another important reason foi the
preference of Sabbath school to that
of exclusive family teaching is that we
are truly social creatures that every
improvement of which we are capa
ble, is best attained by social inter
course . There arc many men and
women in Georgia to-day, standing
high in society, who never received
any benefits of education others than
those of the Sunday school. Their
social, intellectual and moral acquire
ments they attribute to its teachings.
This argument against the Sabbath
school will apply with equal force to
the church, and if it should prevail,
this country in a little while, would
present a sceno of moral desolation
indeed.
In the criminal statistics of New
York State published last }'car, it
was stated that twosthirds of its citi
zens charged with criino had never
attendod tho Sunday school. This
important fact should give great en
couragement to Sabbath school
friends, and nerve their hearts for
greater responsibilities upon you now
than ever ; our society and our gov
ernment are well nigh gone to pieces
for lack of morals to save them; In
fidelity insinuating its wily infiucnces
into every work ot society. The
question of excluding tho Bible from
the literary schools of the country is
greatly agitating the mind of the
North, and many ol its public men
bear lamentable e\ idenees of its ef
fect. Let us teach it in our
Sunday schools thut the only true
standard of every worthy underta
king is found in the Bible. Then we
will leave behind us a generation- of
philosophers indeed; and shall have
made a grand stride in approxima
ting the purpose of our creation.
It must be a source of great pleas
ure to faithful Sabbath school teach
ers to see their pupils, in the duties
of life rise to eminence and success.
And if these little boys or girls in
their respective sphere of usefulness,
should reach the topmost round in
the ladder of true fame and attribute
it to your Sabbath school teaching,
what an honest pride you would feel
in yom triumph ; and it would throw
a halo of renown over your life that
an angel might env}\
Though I accord much to the aims
and accomplishments of the Sabbath
school, yet after all it is dependent
for success upon the fathers and
mothers, especially the mothers.—
They are the mainstay of society’s
hope. The home circle is a sacred
domain, and the mother is the queen,
happy subjects good mothers
should have. You reign supreme in
your childrens hearts. They instinct
ively rely upon your aid and your
counsel. The Sabbath school has
for Its model a well ordered family,
and mothers are just as essential in
the one as the other. You may
posess every capacity for instructing
your children, and you may luiow
howto apply it yet these accomplish
ments only render it the more impor
tant that you attend the Sunday
school—it needs your abilities and
your skill. You will then become
the means of many childrens suc
cess in after }'ears ; thus building in
the hearts of an honest people a mon
ument of worth, more durable: than
that of stone or brass. God has en
dowed woman with a tact for teach
ing children, far superior to that of
man. Her kind, gentle nature and
womanly instincts, arc peculiarly
adapted to the training of their ten
der and confiding minds. Mothers
seem to understand intuitively the
needs of childhood, and must be
more successful in the management
than any oue else. How the - can
the Sunday school prosper without
your presence and your interest and
your aid ? It never will—never.
But lend it your energies, and its
rooms will soon fill to overflowing. In
the gleeful innocence of children you
are not Duly crowned with a mother’s
j°y, but possess the means ot shap
ing the fortunes of the world.
During the time of Napoleon 1,
when demoralization was fast ruining
the French empire, lie was asked
what was to be done to save France.
His reply was, France needs good
mothers.” Had these been the only
words Napoleon ever uttered they
would immortalize him. In their
philosophjr is embraced the destiny
of the human family. In their truth
ful eloquence the ambitious warrior
is lost sight of, and we admire the
philosopher and the genius of the
statesman. A higher tribute to wo
mans worth, and to a good mothers
value never escaped mortals lips.—
Mothers hear it: the hand that rocks
the cradle rocks the worid.
During the debate in the Spanish
Senate on the new constitution, the
bishop of Salamanca said that the
Spanish prelates would always oppose
religious toleration as incompatible
with Catholicism.
Just so. The theory of Catholicism
is that the Pope, as the head of the
church, is infallible and always right.
Anything, therefore, in oppositon to
Catholicism is wrong, and what is
wrong should not be tolerated. The
fallacy is very potent to Protestants but
seems not to be detected by catholics.
The protestantant theory is that men
are absolutely free in matters of relig
ion, provided you work no ill to your
utiigLLui, T)vt j-ujL.otnr.to ?Vl 0 y CrOTVII',-
times fail to remember that to proscribe
Catholics because of their theory, is
as intollerant as for Catho
lics to proscribe them. Such questions
cannot be properly settled by political
proscription. The questiou belongs to
the realm of education and free discus
sion.
German llillot.
WHEN TO CUT AND HOW TO CURE
IT.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger :
Many of our farmers have sown
this millet, and what few patches
wc have seen will make a fine yield.
As it is something new with them,
and many inquiries have been made
of us as to the time when best to
cut, so as to make the most and
best forage, allow me, through
your columns, to give my experi*
ence and observations. For forage
all forage plants must be cut when
thero is the most sacharine matter
in the stalks. Observation and
experience have taught us that
when forage plants are in bloom
they contain moro sacharine matter
than at any other tme. It is so of
Indian corn. Any person who has
ever tried it knows that when In>
dian corn is in the roasting ear
state the stalk is sweet; as soon as
the grains commence getting hard
the stalks lose their sweetness and
become hard and woody.
So it is with all the grasses;
when in bloom the stalks arc sweet
and as the seeds form and begin to
mature the stalks lose their sacha
rinc matter, and become hard and
woody. The seed then contains
nearly all the nutriment of the
plant.
The proper time then to cut the
millet is when in bloom, just as
the seed are forming. This may be
known by the head having a red
feathery look and the stalk green.
Some say wait untii the seed
form, but cut at that stage you lose
a great many seed, fer they are ea
sily threshed out, and when dry, in
handling the hay, you lose a large
part of the seed, which, at that
stage is almost the only valuable
part of the hay.
When cut, if possible, after the
grass wilts never allow the rain or
dew to falll on it. The rain or
dew dissolves the sacharine matter
in the hay, which is lost in evap
oration. Every evening all hay
that has been cut should be thrown
up in heaps, or piles rounded off.
Next morning as soon as the dew
dries off it should be spread out
and any time after noon should be
put in the barn or under shelter
or in large shocks, or piles, which
should be well rounded off. It
can then be housed at leisure. If
RNING. .JULY 21), IB7C.
the piles are well put up, one rain
will not injure the hay.
As few persons can put up hay
so as to keep in stacks, I would ad
vise to house as soon as it is cured.
A half gallon of salt sprinkled on
each load of hay as it is put in the
barn will keep it, and stock seem
to relish it.
We are glad to see our farmers
turning their attention to hay rais
ing. Some are sowing millet now.
In rich, moist land it may pay. I
advise all who intend sowing to
wait until August. On good land
it will mature lor forage in Go to
70 days. Sown in August the cool
nights of September and October
and the dews will make a good
crop. Sown now, it will get up
six or eight inches high and the
hoi sun of August will kill it out
just as it is heading out. We all
know that corn, oats and all our
crops need moisture just as they
are heading. A good season on
crops at that stage is needed more
than at any other time.
I would advise all who have the
millet, and like it, to save their
own seed. Let it get fully ripe be
fore it is cut for seed.
B. D. Lumsden.
The Join! Resolution for the
Issue of Silver Coin.
Washington, July 11.—Tbe
following is the full text of the
joint resolution ior the issue of
silver coin, which has passed both
houses of Congress, and now goes
to the President for his signature :
Resolved, that the Secretary of
the Treasury, under such limits
and regulations as will best se
cure a just and fair distribution of
the same through the country, may
issue the silver coin at any time in
the treasury to an amount not ex
ceeding ten million dollars in exs
change lor an c<jual amount of le
gal-tender notes, and all so re
ccived in exchange shall be kept
as a special fund,separate and apart
from all other money in the treasu
ry, and be reissued only upon the
retirement and destruction of a
like sum of fractional currency re*
4/
ceived at the treasury in payment
of dues to the United States, and
said fractional currency, when so
substituted, shall be destroyed and
held as part of the sinking fund, as
provided in the act approved April
17, 1876.
Sec. 2. That the trade dollar
shall not hereafter be a legal ten
der, and the Secretary of the Treas
ury ts hereby authorized to limit
from time to time the coinage there
of to such an amount as he may
deem sufficient to meet export de
mand for the same.
Sec. 3. That in addition to the
amount of subsiderary silver coin
authorized by law to be issued in
redemption of the fractional cur
rency, it shall be lawful to manu
factuo- at the several -mints and is
sue through the treasury and sev
eral offices such coin to an amount
that, including the amount of sub
siderary silver coin atul of fraction
al currency outstanding, shall in
the aggregate not exceed at any
time $50,000,000.
Sec. 4. That the silver bullion
required for the purposes of this
act shall be purchased from time
to time.at market rates by the Sec
retaiy of the Treasury with any
money in the treasury not others
wise appropriated, but no purchase
of bullion shall be made under this
resolution, then the market rates
for the same shall be such as will
not admit coinage and issue as here
in proyided without loss to the
treasury, and any gain or seignior
age arising from this coinage shall
be accounted for and paid into the
treasury as provided for under ex
isting laws relating to subsiderary
coinage, providing that the amount
of money at any one time invested
in such silver bullion, exclusive of
such resulting coin, shall not ex
ceed $200,000.
TIIE BANKRUPT BILL.
The conference committee’s re
port on the act to amend the bank
rupt act, which was adopted in the
House just before adjournment to
day, provides that section 5108 of
the revised statutes is hereby
amended as follows: ‘ : At any
time after the expiration of six
months from adjudication of bank
ruptcy, or if no debts have been
proved against the bankrupt, or if
no assets have come to the hands
of the assignee, at any time after
the expiration of sixty days, aud
before final disposition of cause,
the bankrupt may apply to tho
court for a discharge from his
debts. This section shall apply in
all eases heretofore or hereafter
commenced.”
THE SUNDRY CIVIL BILL.
The sundry civil bill, as it pass
ed the House originally, appropri
ated $14,857,000 in round numbers.
In its passage through the Senate,
$5,099,000 was added in the bill.
As agreed upon by the conference
committee to-day, the Senate re
cedes from its former action to the
amount of 4,149,000, and the
, House recedes and allows to l>e ad
ded to the bill the sum of $950,-
000, making appropriations by the
bill about $15,800,000.
Tlic Next Administration.
Here is the scheme of the next
admistration, as outlined l>v a
Washington paper.
President—Tildcn.
Vice President—Hendricks.
Secretary of State—Thomas F.
Bayard.
Secretary of Treasury—David A.
Wells.
Secretary ol Interior—James ().
Broadhead.
Attorney General—Alien G.
Thurman.
Secretary of War—\Y. S. Han
cock.
Secretary of Navy—James E.
English.
Postmaster General—James R.
Doolittle.
Minister to England—Horatio
Seymour.
Minister to France—Joel Par
ker.
Minister to Russia—John Quin
cy Adams.
Minister to Spain—Thomas Ew
ing.
Minister to Germany—Thomas
Swann.
Should such men be the chief
officials and representations of the
next four years the country will
indeed have reason for honest pride
in her public servants.
(■rant* Real Nature.
It would be more agreeable, if
circumstances” justified it, to say
some pleasant things of Gen. Gray
as he is about to retire, with the
consent of the whole people of the
United States, from Public office.
Unhappily Gen. Grant affords
little opportunity for the indul
gence of any such amiable disposi
tion on the part of public journa
lists. Ilis demeanor has recently
changed, and not for the better.
Freed from the restraint of fur
ther hope of office, he seems late
ly to have given loose rein to his
passions, and to have made up his
mind to gratify his private reven
ges while lie has an opportunity.
Mr. Dyer is supervised as District
Attorney at St. Louis, Mr. Jewell
is forced from tho cabinet, Mr.
Platt is driven from the Internal
Revenue Bureau ; change follows
chang,e and we may expect a quick
succession of similar events.
It is not uncharitable to infer
that the real characteristics of Geu.
Grant arc now shown to the whole
public. indeed, the conclusion
seems irresistible, that the thin veil
which hopes for the future hereto
fore induced him to wear, has no..
been withdrawn, and the Ameri.s
can people behold him as he ically
is.
Heaven.
Were there a country on earth uni
ting all that is beautiful in nature
all that is virtue, genius and the
liberal arts, and numbering among
its citizens the most illustrious pa**
triots, poets, philosophers, philan
thropists of our age, how eagerly
should we cross the ocean to visit
it! And how immeasurably great*
er is the attraction of Heaven !
There live the elder brethren of
the creation, the sons of the morn*
ing who sang for joy at the crea p
tion of our race; the great and
good of all ages and climes; the
friends, benefactors, deliverers, or*
naments ot the patriarch, prophet,
apostle and martyr ; the heroes of
public, and still more of private
lile; the father, mother, husband,
wife, child who, unrecorded by
man, have walked before God in
the beauty of love and self-sacrifi
cing virtue. •There are all who
have built uo in our hearts the
power of goodness and truth, the
writers from whose pages we have
received the inspiration of pure
and lofty sentiment, the friends
whose countenances have shed light
through our dwellings, and peace
and strength through our hearts.
There they are gathered together
safe from every storm, and trium
phant over every evil; and they
say to us, “Come .and- join us in
our everlasting blessedness ; come
and bear part in our song of
praise ; share our adoration, friend
ship, progress and works of love.
— Ex.
It is said that some people in
Western North Carolina wish to
know whether llazen Wheeler,
the Radical candidate for Vice
President, is the Wheeler whose
“critter company'’ used to knock
down their “ash hoppers and chick
en coops during the war.
Grasshopers in Minnessota are
said to he numerously assailed by
parasites that affix eggs to their
bodies, and from the eggs come
grubs that bore into them with fjv*
tal effect.
California has “put up” 2,500,*
000 cans of strawberries this yeur.
v SPECIAL € AMD.
Dll. D. S. i '.nniiwn K, formerly of
New Orleans, ow* of the most success
ful physicians ami surgeons,Las located in
Atlanta, lie cures privately, quickly, anti
certainly, all diseases brought on by abuse
or indiscretion of any kind. All diseases
peculiar to females eon fide utijiiy cured, in
in a short time. Medicines (purely y?yo
tuhle) sent C. O. I>. or by mail to all-parts
of the contry. All communi* ati<>ns
strictly private. (Mice and rooms, 4 ; ami
45 Whitehall street, Atlanta, Ga.
mcblO-tf
NO. as.
'l'lu* \ri*iiltui*al llor-e.
AmcrH'un Farmer.)
A western writer says we need a.
greater distinction in the classifica
tion of our horses; in other words,
we want the roadster, the draft, and
the agricultural horse. That we
need the roadster horse wo must
admit, for light driving and saddle
use. And it is equally admissible
that this is all the practical use we
have for him. That there is a
greater amount of labor that can
only bo performed effectively with
the heavy draft horse, is also a fix
ed fact. No one will contend that
either can perform the labor of the
other to any advantage. While
these are facts that arc not and can
not be dispute 1 it is equally evi
dent that there is a class of work
that must be-performed bv the
horse that cannot le done to any
advantage with either the good
roadster or the heavy draft horse.
This is very suitably named, in the
meeting referred to, the agricultur
al horse. This class is of more
utility to the masses than all oth
ers combined ; and iu my judge
ment, instead of receiving the cold
shoulder,if any partiality be shown,
have the preference. This is the
horse upon which all are dependent,
and might fitly be compared to the
laboring or producing class of men.
The question arises as to what con
stitutes the agricultural horse. It
is a question easily answered, but
a horse is hard to describe, owing
chiefly to the difference of opinion
as to what will fill the bill.
I would say that a horse for ag
ricub ural purposes should be select
ed solely for that purpose, without
regard to light harness or heavy
draft further than pertains to agri
culture. That some farmers do
use their farm horses for buggy
atul saddle, and all more or less for
heavy draft, is true. The agricul
tural horse can be used in all these
capacities in eases of emergency,
but seldom profitably. Con.se*
quently most farmers keep a cheap
light team to do light work. I
shall not attempt to describe an
agricultural horse in this article
further than to say that about sev
enty or eighty imported horses, and
all of the grade Norman and Cly
desdale, that were exhibited at our
last State fair, should come under
that head, weighing as they did,
iu high showing condition, from
fourteen hundred to seventeen hun
dred pounds—but, reduced to
working condition, would have
weighed from twelve to sixteen
hundred. That a large horse is
most profitable tor agricultural
purposes is evident to the iarmcr.
Successful farmers are scarce that
would discard a horse weighing
from fourteen hundred to sixteen
hundred pounds and select instead
one of the same formation and at
the same price that would only
weigh from eleven hundred to thir
teen hundred pounds.
To believe that religion will cease
to exist, is to Relieve that man will
cease to be human.
Nature will he reported. All
things are engaged in writing their
history. The planet, the pebble,
goes attended by its shadow. The
rolling rock leaves its scratches on
the the river its channels
in soil, the animal its bones in the
stratum, the fern and the leaf their
modest epitaph in the coal. The
falling drop makes its sculpture in
the sand or stone ; not a foot step in
the snow, or along the ground, hut
prints in characters more or less last
ing a map of its march ; every act
of the man inscribes itself in the me
mory of his fellows, and in his own
face. The air is full of sounds—the
sk}' of tokens, the ground is all me
moranda and signatures, and every
object is covered over with hints,
which speak to the intelligence.—ln
dex.
If so how thoughtful and careful
should mortals be. Writing histo*
ry day by day at home and abroad
—upon land and upon sea, all the
time—every where we go or be,
is a subject of momentous impor
tance. Every moment a sentence,
every hour a paragraph, every
week a chapter and every year a
volume! Take care how and what
you write!
Chicken Cholera.— The Shel
by Guide of the Gth instant con
tains the following recipe:
We arc indebted to a subscriber’s
wife for the following cure for
chicken cholera that has proved
so disastrous to poultry raisers.
Mrs. Moore says : “Last year I
lost upwards of lbO chickens. I
tried every remedy I could hear
of, w’ithout success. This year I
have given my chickens a'feed or
two every week of onion tops boil
ed and mixed with meal, and kept
a little sack of tar in a trough, and
have found it successful—have
not lost a chicken. My neighbors
and the tenants on our place have
lost nearly all they had."
Dalton Enterprise: Farmers
have finished harvesting, and the
wheat is better than was supposed
by many.