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GEORGIA. FLORIDA AND
SOUTH CAROLINA.
HEWS OF THE THREE STATES IT T
T 1 I’E.
GI'ORGi %.
At a meeting of the Executive Commit
tee of the Fourth congressional district,
held Thursday at LaGrange, Ga., a con
vention to nominat* a ire mb. r of the Fif
ty-seventh Congress from the Fourth
district was called to meet at
Warm Springs, Ga., on Aug. 15.
Reports from all sections of the state.
North, Middle and South Georgia are to
the effect that the cold weather of Thurs
day and Friday morning, when there, was
frost in many places, did no damage *o
the fruit crop. The i> aches are all right,
say the growers, and the crop will be
a big one.
Eighty delegates from Columbus labor
unions to the State Convention in Augus
ta. who had agre <1 to travel over the
Southern Railway, changed their arrange
ments, due to the strike of the telegraph
ers on the Southern, and will boycott the
Southern, deciding to go over the Central
of Georgia.
The machinery purchased for the Moul
trie Cotton Mill, will enable it to turn
out quite a variety of products. Its prin
cipal out-put will be brown sheeting. This
will be made in different sixes, ranging
from the narrowest up to 40 inches. It
has also purchased looms adapted to turn
ing out drills and with a mall additional
expenditure can also make* duck.
The appraisers of the estate of the late
T. C. Dempsey of Macon have completed
their work and the estimated value of all
the property is placed at $47r,000. Most of
Mr. Dempsey's property' was in Macon,
but he also had interests in other places,
which made the work of the appraisers
difficult. Mrs. Dempsey, the widow of the
deceased, gets the bulk of the property.
Harry Burke, one of the highwaymen
who nearly a year ago attempted to kill
Hon. H. H. Singletary of DaCrosae, after
having “held up" his clerk and robbed the
store, is to serve twenty years in the pen
itentiary for his crime, the same for which
his partner was shot to death. Such was
the sentence imposed by Judge Littlejohn
after Burke’s trial in Schley Superior
Court.
Moultrie Observer: Three young negro
men from Thomas county, who came to
Moultrie Saturday in a wagon, were at
tacked on their way hack home, and two
of their number. Henry K.<*np and Clar
ence Stewart were killed outright while
the third, John Mjtchell, luarelv escaped,
receiving a flesh wound and a broken arm.
The killing is a mystery that hasn’t been
solver!.
The Girard, cotton mills were formally
organized Friday. The stockholders held
a meeting at the plant in Girard. Ala.,
Just across the river from the Eagle and
Phenix mills, in Columbus and elected O.
B. Jordan president, and P. N. Hill secre
tary and treasurer. Mr. Jordan is a prac
tical manufacturer, for many years con
nected with the Eagle and Phenix mills
and is a brother of Mr. Gunbv Jordan,
himself president of the Eagle and Phe
nix mills.
Mr. G. Gunby Jordan, president of the
Eagle and Phenix Mills is one Southern
manufacturer who is inclined to smile ot
the recently published story that the
Northern cotton machinery mills ore go
ing to shut off on Southern, orders for
machinery, giving Now England manu
facturers the preference, and practically
stopping tho erection of cotton mills in
the South by their position. “Such a con
dition would be impossible,” he sail
“Southern mill people have no trouble
whatever in getting machinery when they
offer to pay cash, or when their credit
is good. We have no trouble whatever
in buying any machinery we want for
the Eagle and Phenix Mills. If it is pub
lished that w'e are to buy some new
machinery we get a dozen or so tele
grams the next day, from the various
manufacturers asking for the business.
It’s a matter of business with them. They
ere in the market to sell machinery.”
Fl, Oil ID
Hon. J. H. T. Bynum of Suwannee is an
nounced as a candidate for Secretary of
State.
The ladies of Jacksonville will take
charge of the Metropolis for one day on
April 23, and will devote the proceeds
to the public schools of Duval county.
A candidate who lives in Putnam coun
ty announces that "I am a candidate for
the Legislature. If fleeted will do my
duty, if not elected, the work! will move
on Just the same.”
Hon. S. M. Robertson of Washington
county is announced as a candidate for
Commissioner of Agriculture ami W. J.
Barnet of Port Tampa City is a Candi
da te for Railroad Commissioner.
The strawberry growers are shipping a
fine crop of berries from around Lake
land and Plant City, and the returns are
Wry satisfactory. From three acres a
father and son realized over *3,000 for
berries sold.
Judge Y\. T. Duval died Monday at his
home in Crawfordville. He was one of the
oldest and most prominent citizens of
Wakulla county. Judge Duval had been
an Invalid for several years, and the end
was not unexpected by Die many friends
throughout the state.
Capt. P. S. Harliee of Palmetto says
that the reports of the heavy losses suf
fered by the Manatee truckers two weeks
ago were not exaggerated. He estimates
his own loss at *2,0u0. But he is greatly
encouraged over the prospects for the
orange crop. The trees are fairly loaded
with bloom.
John Durst, a young newspaper adver
tising solicitor who went to Brunswick
a few weeks ago and found temporary
employment on the Times, returned to
Jacksonville Thursday and found that his
wife, who was staying at the Savannah
house, had disappeared mysteriously. Mr.
Durst Is of the opinion that she became
Impatient ut his delay in returning and
went home to her parents at Tampa.
There was no word left fjyr him by the
young bride.
Tampa Tribune: It is very evident that
the body of Itinerant thieves which hns
been coming down the state for the past
three weeks, has arrived in Tampa. They
seem to have been making a systematic
tour of the state, Dade City, Plant City
and Dover having been visited In turn, anil
they have made their presence felt in each
place. A numNr of petty larcenies oc
curred In Tampa during the past few days,
enough to give color to the belief tiiiu the
band of plunderers has established tem
porary headquarters in this city.
Bradford Telegraph: U. D. Miner, the
J- w< ler. Is confined to his home by wounds
Intlleie.l by , t kicking cow last Kntttfduy.
-Mr. Miner was inlikiug its- cow when the
animal rnadi a forward movement and
kicked bnk at nini, landing her hoof with
Ki<al force on his right sl l Mr Minor
has sine.. Ish-,1 uiul.l. to Is al Ills place
of bushier, and -u(T. i continually from
tile wound In Heoit. Ihe attending ~hy►-
► h lan, ihlnks Ii probable that a rib war
fra lured hi wlileh .-mm p will I. some
itnie yet until Mr. Miner Is entirely well
SOUTH C \nOLS.\A.
Mr. Prank P. Milburn, architect of tho
Southern Railway, has been selected t>
supervise the completion of the State Cap
itol.
The State Christian Endeavor Conven
tion, to be held at Aiken, S. C., April 24
25 and 2*l. has the promise of being quite
a success.
The truck growtrs of Charleston and vi
cinity are congratulating them-'lve - over
the prospects of a big harvest and area ly
sale for their products at good prices. Sel
dom has the outlook promised so much.
Small.-pox is reported at Whitney. In
Spartanburg county. The matter has be-*a
referred to the State Board of H alt ‘i.
That body reports generally that th
small-pox situation in the state Is well in
hand.
Th' re Is reason to believe that the
State Firemen’s Tournament on May 15
and 16 wi 1 be the gala event of the year
in Greenville. The subscriptions for prizes
now amount to over f3'o, whbh insures
four or five interesting races. Invitations
are p *w being sent out to every white
fire 'company in the state, asking them to
join the association and enter the tourna
ment.
The contract for building the tobacco
warehouse at Scranton has been let out.
and the contractor is at work on the
building. It is to be completed by July 1,
ar.d is designed to be one of the finest
warehouses in the Pee Dee section. The
company will employ a c %ape?ent and ex
perienced man to manage the warehouse
and will arrange ample banking facilities
to handle the tobacco crop.
For shooting at each other on the street
at Newberry on Saturday night Mayor
Mayer fined Messrs. A. J. Cook and J. A.
Bradley $75 each, or thirty days on the
streets. Both will appeal to the Circuit
Court, as they think that the fines- are
excessive. Both of the young men engag
ing in the scrape failed to hit the mark,
but one of the six or eight shot<? took ef
fect on Mr. Lawson. B. Kibler, who hap
pened to step up just at the time, the
pistol ball hitting him in the foot and
making a bad wound.
A letter to Senator McLaurin from a
prominent citizen < f Windsor. N. C., con
veys the information that Mrs. Hannah
Biddle, an aged lady of that town, and a
granddaughter of ex-Gov. Stone, of North
Carolina, has in her possession, as an
heirloom, the walking cane of Gen. Sum
ter, of Revolutionary fame. The stick Is
in a good state of preservation, with the
exception of some four or five worm holes.
It is made of some kind of jointed wood,
resembling briar rcor, and has a buck
horn head, with an ivory capping, upon
which is Inscribed the word “Sumter.”
said to have been put there by the old
General himself.
The cotton mills around Abbeville are
experiencing trouble with some of their
operatives. Some werks ago the cotton
mills at Greenwood*went through a period
of agitation. The representatives of some
labor organization attempted to organize
a labor union, to which the directors ob
jected. and turned off all who had joined
who would not abandon the union, and
quiet was eventually restored by a num
ber of them returning to work and the
places of others were filled by employ
ment of new hands. The Abbeville Mill is
now going through the same experience.
About sixty cf the employes were turned
•fT several days ago on account of their
joining the union.
Col. Isaac F. Hunt died at the Mansion
House in Greenville Friday morning, after
a week's illness. He was attacked while
at work last week with paralysis and was
unconscious from Sunday until his death.
Col. Hunt’s last work was as president of
the South Carolina National Insurance
Association, which he helped to organize
five years ago. He was a strong, vigor
ous. active man. Asa citizen, business
man and soldier he was a remarkable In
dividual. He was 65 years old snd was
u native of Newberry. He was a cousin of
Hon. Hilary A. Herbert of Alabama, for
mer Secretary of the Navy. Col. laac
Foster Hunt was one of the roost gallant
soldiers ever engaged in battle for South
Carolina’s honor. He had a fine military
education, hut he dashed into the war as
a private, not waiting or trying to g t an
office. He was gradually promoted until
he became colonel 'of the famous Thir
teenth Regiment and was in command of
the gallant remnant at Appomattox. In
several battles he achieved great promi
nence for brilliant and brave work, and
was at times in command of McGowan s
brigade. Col. Hunt was in the cotton bus
iness from the close of the war until late
ly, and he made and lost two or three for
tunes in the trade. He and hi brother
mode a notable triumph in New York, but
soon lost nearly all.
POLITICS IN GEORGIA.
Telfair Enterprise: Ras YVilleox will in
all probability be in the race for senator
from this, the Fifteenth district. He will
be elected, too.
Over in Baldwin county Judge John Al
len and Judge D. B. Sanford are running
for the stare Senate and J. D. Howard,
YV. H. FI. Barnes and Dr. Mark Johnston
are running for the House.
Prof. YV. H. Cobb is a candidate for
state senator from the Thirty-first dis
trict, subject to the action of the Demo
cratic primary, l’rof. Cobh is well known,
and ie said to be a man who Is ably quali
fied to occupy the position.
Eatomon Messenger: The Hon. Char
ley Thomas is the last opponent of Tom
Eason for prison commissioner to retire
from the race. This leaves Mr. Eason
with the field to himself. This la ns it
should be. It takes a shrewd man to
know when to retire, and Mr. Eason was
opposed by three or four very shrewd
men.
Columbus Enquirer-Sun: Hon. Scab
YY’right of Romo has apparently repented
the error of his ways. Four years ago
he w is the candidate of ihe Populist party
for Governor. Now he is running In the
Democratic primary for the Legislature
from Floyd county. The erring but re
pentant brother Is cordially welcomed
back to the Democratic fold.
At a Democratic mass meeting held in
Sparta Friday, lion. R. B. Harley Intro
duced a resolution Indorsing Brynn for
President and Senator A. '). Bacon for
Y’lce President. The resolution was unan
imously nnd enthusiastically passed
Senator Bacon has always been solidly
supported by Hancock Democrats and his
name was loudly applauded. It was also
decided at the mass meeting to-day to
hold the county primary on the 15th of
May.
The Democratic Executive Committee
of Chattahoochee eounty mot at Cusseta
Friday and made arrangements fo r the
primary to be held In that county on
May 15. It Is understood that politics In
Cua Itahooch. e are warming up consid
erably. ns the -late for t'lie primary ap
proaches. The latest development re
imrb and Is <h:it Judge David J. Fussell, one
of the 1-st known and most popular citi
zen* in the county, hits consented m make
tho race for the Legislature. Chatta
hoochee has been n stronghold of the
populists In the past, but It Is believed
that the Democrat* will elect Iheir ticket
without serious trouble this fall.
W. V. HAMILTON,
Artesian Will Contractor,
.OCALA, I’LA.
An ir j imi to !rl!l w< llx up to uny
<L‘p4b. V.v lii M- l.i *s iii.l- lin< ry, ran
do work on thort UoUcv uud £uui untvt
•at if (action*
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, APRIL 10,1900.
THE FARM AND THE GARDEN.
HATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRI
CT'LTI II IST AM) HOI SE W IKE.
Current Work for April—Tlie Man
agement of Sheep— I The Persimmon
n \eaiected Native Fruit—What If
Co*tn to Raise u Pound of Cotton.
Green Corn for Market.
Where there is an easily accessible mar
ket green corn is one of the most profit
able crops that can be grown by the far
mer or market gardener. It is altogether
different from ordinary corn growing.
Small farly maturing varieties are grown
for this purpose for it does not matter
how small the ears may be they bring
<%bout the same price per dozen ears as
larger kinds.
On good soil with high cultivation and
using a prolific early kind like the Adams
or Cory or even the Blount prolific, it is
not a difficult matter to make 1,200 dozen
ear per aero. Under very fc'gh culture
even much more than this can be pro
duced, but this Is a very fair average crop
on good soil.
Any good farmer who understands corn
growing can make such a crop with the
Blount prolific, a variety earlier than our
common field corn, but not near so early
as many o.her kin Is of a smaller habit.
This corn planted in three foot rows and
a stalk left every tw r o feet in the row,
will easily average two ears to the stalk,
but there are smaller kinds like the extra
early Adams and the Tuscarora, that can
be allowed to grow twice as thick and still
average one and a half cr two ears to the
stalk. The stalk part of such a crop is no
mean crop itself, for if these stalks are
cut and cured promptly after the corn is
sold off, a large amount of most excel
lent roughage is secured for the stock.
Much of this can be used green, feeding it
to the horses or mules and cows. The
stalks being small are easily cured, and
they make an almost first-class quality
of fodder, in fact better than the average
hay or fodder fed by many of our far
mers.
To make the most profitable crop the
land must be made rich and it must be
well plowed and harrowed if necessary
until a finely pulverized seed bed is made.
To get the largest number of ears possi
ble, it is necessary to have every stalk
that the land w'ill possibly grow, and
with the smaller kinds like those named,
good land will allow of anywhere from
10,OX) to 15,(10 stalks per acre.
In planting these so-called “garden
corns” the rows should l>e at three
feet, and enough seed drilled along in the
row to in-urea stand every 12 inches in
the row. The seed must not be planted too
deep, but should be covered lightly, and
then a roller used to firm the soil. This
will hasten germination and will put the
[ soil in goed condition to allow of cultiva
tion as scon as it is up. The cultivation
must be prompt and rapid, using the har
row or cultivator often enough to keep
the soil in good shape for steady growth.
Early green corn commands a price of
ten-tlmes as high as 25 cents per dozen
ears; price declining to 20, then to 15, and
rarely lower than 10 cents per dozen even
late in the season.
“Fodder lorn” n Valuable Crop.
A great many people, no doubt, fall con
siderably short of realizing how valuable
our maize, or Indian corn, really is. Asa
table dish green corn is justly regarded as
unsurpassed by any other vegetable. As
a bread grain it is superior to all others
in some respects*. From it w'e get those
excellent articles of food—“big” and
“little” hominy.
In still another quality it is superior to
most all other plants. Asa means of
providing quickly and surely a crop of
green forage for soiling purposes, or io
l>e converted into excellent fodder, there
is no plant better adapted to the use of
Southern- farmers.
Every farmer should have a pitch or
field of corn fodder, planting it in propor
tion to his needs, and giving up to it gome
of the very best land of the farm. It
! will pay well to treat this crop with the
! t>est consideration, preparing the land
just as thoroughly as for any other crop,
manuring it if necessary and cultivating
it promptly and freely. At least th;ee
bushels of seed should be drilled oi the
acre and the seed distributed as evenly as
I possible. On very rich land four bushels
of seed should be used, for it is desirable
to have the stalks slim and tall rath r
than large and short. Small stalks are
iK-tter relished by the. stock and they are
more easily cured.
Bright, well-cured fodder corn I* fully
equal to any second quality hay and think
what an acre can be made to yield of it.
It is a wise farmer who values this crap
at its true value. Certainly Indian corn
is one of God’s greatest gif's to man. We
should utilize it better than we do.
\ Xeßlfcted Native Fruit.
Tho p©r*lmmon is one of our native wild
fruits which is susceptible to great im
provement by proper selection and cross
fertilization. It is a Southern fruit, hardy
as far north as New York, but is little
known outside of its native belt and not
given much attention there as regards cul
tivation. The fruit, which varies much
in size and form, ripens from August to
December, and until thoroughly rfpc is
very astringent or puckery. but after
ripening it is the sweetest of our native
fruits, containing 20 per cent, of sugar as
against 12 for apples, 11 for cherries, 9 for
oranges and fAz for strawberries.
It has generally been supposed that frost
is needed to ripen them, but such is not
the case for all varieties, for the early
sorts are ripe and gone long before frost
api>ears. The native sorts are from one
half to two Inches in diameter, contain
usually from four to tight seeds and vary
greatly in shape, as shown by the illus
tration. The Japanese kinds are larger,
heavier and contain fewer seeds, but are
less sweet. The trees, In th© open, grow
not over forty feet high nnd are self
fertile, although a few male trees are
found which bear no fruit. Varieties do
not com- true from seed, nnd resource
must he had to grafting or budding, which
is easily done. Owing to a long tap root,
the sidling trees are not easily trans
plant* and except when under two years old.
They com© into bearing from three to five
years from the graft.
Persimmons do well on almost any soil,
but best, however, on locations similar to
ihat demanded by th© peach and plum.
They draw rather more heavily upon th©
fertility of th*' soil than most other fruits,
bill send their roots so deeply that they
thrive on the poorest soils. The fruit has
l*een greatly improved In Japan, where
it ranges in size from eight to twenty
ounces and holds relatively Ihe same po
sition that th© apple does in the United
States. They are little known in th*-
Northern markets, but a profitable de
mand could easily created by shipping
only the choicest varieties.
Sucre*#* 111 Fruit Uniturc.
There is a general consensus of opin
ion among good fruit growers that there
M profit in tin* business if conducted prop-
rl.v, but not more than every other man
nnlly follows th* business with a Jus,
• ■on 'pilot: of its needs, s.iys (V S B.i ku
)*i Wi torn tgrieulturiJ IVMMi loc and
dllTercn* • may make rules an*l ndvi.
< on< ©ruing cro*w nnd method* of rultur*
II .; pli • for .I*l MCttefll t ti.-fe .m
| uou-i thekpn evrtuiu udvlcq that will (a
of service all over the country. To go
into these paints of success in detail it la
ner-esssery in the first place to give not
only good itllage to the fruit trees and
bushes during the growing season, but
intelligent and methodical cultivation. Let
the experience of one year teach some
thing that will make the work of the
next more aatUffaetory. Good cultivation
means also food fertilization, which can
best b© done by planting forage crops in
th© lute summer and covering them under
in the spring. Such green crops help to
keep the land warm in winter, and im.
prove th© mechanical conditions of it.
Trees and tender vines and bushes need
mulching in winter, and this should be
don© after some system that will make >t
simple but effective. A grower, of large
quantities of fruit must have wonk of this
kind so that it 'con be done
with the regularity and swiftness of a
machine.
When the growing season comes the
orchard must be protected from the
worms, blights, mildews end other pests.
There is no half-hearted\work that will
do this, but every ounce of poison used
in spraying should be for a purpose and
Intelligently applied. A good deal of mon
ey is wasted in spraying the same as con
siderable is thrown away in applying fer
tilizers. If you do not know- what the
spraying is for. it is better to leave it
alone until you do. Study and observe
the work o/ others. There Is no question
more important to fruit growers than
that of thinning out the fruit. It is hard
for some people to pull off fruit that
might be sold at a profit. But the era
of poor fruits has gone by forever, and to
secure first-class fruits It is necessary
to thin out many from every tree. By
rigidly applying such a system one is
bound to get fancy fruits that will com
mand the highest market prices. These
fancy fruits ore the ones that make the
profits in the best markets. If we spend
as much time In raising fancy fruits as
we do In cultivating inferior kinds, we
will surely find a way to make something
more than a living. Fancy fruit packed
and marketed properly will always find
purchasers even when other fruit is a
drug on th© market. Sometimes it is nee
’essnry to find special markets for such
products, but in the end our reward will
more than repay for the energy given to
th© work.
More About Cnsimvn.
Considerable inquiry has ben raise 1,
and not a little talk has naturally been
stirred up, about the matter of cassava in
respect to digging it. “lifting it.” easily
and cheaply, says a Florida paper.
Now, with your permission. I will give
something of what I understand about the
case; for the subject has b-en a revelation
to myself, as well as to many others, sine©
this great plant has sprung up among us
in the past few months.
First, the ground for cassava is to be
nicely and deeply prepared by cultivation
a week or a few weeks before planting.
Then it is marked off both ways, say from
four feet to five feet, and the cuttings
(carefully selected as to vitality so as fo
get a good stand) planted say from 2? 2 o
3% inches under the surface, so ns to ad
mit of nicely sliding the ground all over,
or lightly harrowing it all over the sur
face even before the plants come up. And
this process of light, level cultivation with
a shallow implement is to b© kept up. first
across one way and then the other, keep
ing what Prof. Stockbridge is pleased ;o
call a nice “blanket dust,” about the
plants the sumimr through.
Then during the rainy season, as often
as the farmer can afford it he should go
through his cassava with his commercial
fertilizer, carefully dusting about each
hill what the plant needs for feeding it.
It is in this painstaking, shallow, level
cultivation, and in this not less painstak
ing surface-fertilizing, carefully worked
in, that it is believed lies the theory, the
secret, of coaxing to the surface the r.*> 9
or tubers of the cassava, little matter how
massive they may become by liberal fer
tilizer and judicious careful culture.
A Found of Cotton.
What does it cost to raise a pound of
cotton? Any answer to this question is
essentially complex, writes Dr. W. L.
Jones. Because of an absence of data
any answer approaching exactitude is
well nigh impossible. The opinions of
experts are at variance, and each man is
left to spin his own theory according to
the lights before him. Climatic influ
ences, the condition and character of the
soil, the financial status of the producer,
the variety of the plant, and many other
things necessarily enter into a discussion
of the question. Cotton, under certain
conditions, can be raised at a profit at a
certain price. Cotton, under certain other
conditions would be raised at a loss at
the same price. The matter of climatic
Influences, soil culture and the variety of
cotton, are questions which come more
properly within the scope of scientific
gentlemen who busy themselves with ex
perimenting processes. But there is an
economic side to the question, and the
layman may glance at this without fear
and trembling. The economic feature of
the controversy is one which necessarily
addresses itself to the producer, i It in his
business. He is, of course, interested in
soil culture, and all the other questions
which have been raised by scientific ex
perimentalists. But primarily he is in
terested in ihe strictly economic side of
the subject. What does it cost the pro
ducer to raise a pound of cotton under
present conditions? This is the question
of immediate concern. The soil is of*a
certain character. He plants a certain
kind of cotton. He lines certain imple
ments. and cultivates according to a cer
tain established method. He markets his
product according to the customs of the
day. What does it cost the planter to
produce a pound of cotton? What should
ho sell it for in order to net a profit? The
estimates of experts range between 4 and
6 cents. Six cents when the producer
sows, and tills, and reaps on the credit.
Six cents when the profit which shoflld go
into his pockets is paid out in percentum
on some other fellow’s ducats. Six cents
when the value of hypothecated prospects
is equal in value to the coat of produc
tion. But 4 cents, and probably less, when
the producer is not plastered wfth sign
ed and sworn to promises, and when he
escapes the gouging processes of merci
less mendicants who have grown too mer
cenary to bo just in their dealings with
the man who sweats. If the cotton pro
ducer can ever reach the point when he
can raise a crop of cotton without rais
ing a crop of mortgages, there will be a
big profit in 5-cent cotton, and the profit,
too, will go into the producer’s pocket.
Management of Sheep.
There is nothing mysterious about the
management of sheep. This is a kind of
stock that has been domesticated from
the time of Abel down to tlr>e present, and
yet many farmer* feel that one has to be
in possession of special knowledge or have
a peculiar gift in. order to successfully
handle sheep, says the Homestead. This
Is not the case. Sheep are not managed
just tho same as swine and cattle, and
yet there is not so very much difference.
They require feed, about so much of a
certain kind about so often, and should
have shelter, should be shorn and man
aged about right in order to have the
Industry pay as lirg© a profit as tt can.
Hheep are very timid in dlx|*>Kliion and
•' I-'• | 1 Ii <■ • • JM lIU.II <1 .| \. '
they do not die with cholera nor anything
ilk** it. Dog* and politicians are among
the greatest enemies to sheep and we
sometimei are at a loss to kiM>w which
t • wo Wi Min lons since i mi
a great and | of dependence on our own
efforts * a M eans of protection against
both. W# huvy no ujh for u tit tip that |r
Does your head back
your eyes? Bad taste in your mouth?
It’s your liver I Ayer's Pills are
liver pills. They cure constipation,
headache, dyspepsia, and all liver
\V;int~your mmi-raV-h-Tor tiearil a beautiful^l
brown or rich black? Then use I
BUCKINGHAM’S DIE {ft,iter,
rT ' 3* Pn--..”.' B. P h.u, a co. ■ t
not a money maker under ordinary con
dition!? and we do not care to breed a
sheep that has to be bolstered up_ by out
side conditions in order to make it profit
able. The point is to breed a sheep that
will be a money maker of itself.
It is not a good plan to undertake to
handle sheep with poor fences or fences
that will scarcely restrain cattle. We
have known men to start in the sheep
business with a two-wire fence with a post
seml-ocoasicnall.v, and they soon hart dif
ferences with their neighbors and found
out ail at once that sheep did not pay
hi that locality anyhow. Sheep are not
difficult to restrain, so long as they have
plenty of pasture, but if pasture gets a
little short they will try a poor fence
pretty hard.
Sheep possess many good qualities not
found in any other kind of stock and
they have to be kept find managed by
the peopfs who like the business. A good
piofit is an essential thing to make some
men fike a business, but in the sheep busi
ness, liking it is really a necessity. They
will do very well, on plenty of pasturage
and that should be short and sweet rath
er than abundant and of excessive growth.
They are grazers first, and browsers
when pasture fails. They will live on
short grass where other farm stock would
not do well. They do not require so
much grain as other animals, but the im
proved method of keeping sheep means
feeding more grain than was fed to sheep
forty years ago. Because they have a
good fleece of wool is no reasofi why they
should be exposed to storms. Dry cold
weather does not affect them as much as
cold ond wet. The peculiar construction
of their feet demands that they should be
kept as dry as possible. A good farm
equipped with good buildings and fences
is a good place and a man who has made
a success with swine or cattle will do well
wail sheep could he bend his efforts in
that direction. Protect your own flock
of sheep—let the chips fall where they
may.
IVofiee.
We solicit articles for this department.
The name of the writer should accom
pany the letter or article, not necessarily
for publication, but as an evidence of
good faith.
Questions ana communications relative
to agricultural and horticultural subjects,
if addressed to Agri. Editor, Drawer N,
Mllledgevllle, Ga., will receive immediate
attention.
CHANGE I\ ATLANTA JOURNAL.
Mr. Dickinson of Ntw York to Take
Charge This Morning.
From the Atlanta Constitution, April 15.
The majority interest in the Atlanta
Journal will to-morrow become the prop
erty of Messrs. H. M. Atkinson, Morris
Brandon and James R. Gray, and on
Tuesday they w r ill issue their first paper.
This means the retirement of Hoke Smith
from the newspaper business.
George H. Dickinson, a New York news
paper man well known throughout the
country, will take charge os general man
ager. He has been in Atlanta two weeks
under n contract which provided that if
the deal should be made, he would take
charge of the entire plant.
After considerable negotiations on the
subject, a contract was entered into by
which Mr. Atkinson and his associates
secured the right to purchase Mr. Smith’s
stock, at n stated figure, any time up
to and including April 16. Mr. Smith hns
been notified that his stock will be bought.
The formal transfer will be made Mon
day.
Whether Mr. Atkinson and his asso
ciates have obtained the remainder of the
stock held by minority shareholders does
not appear. Whether he has done so or
not does riot figure In the transaction,
since the major portion of the stock :s
now controlled by him and his associates.
While the negotiations for the Journal
were pending there were added to the gos
sip already engendered, additional rumors
that Indicated a consolidation of the streeA
railway interests In the city—Mr. Atkin
son, in the talk, being made the buyer.
The denial of all this has been persist
ent, but out of the masw of mis-state
ments and mysteries there has emerged
one truth—tfie purchase of the majority
of the Journal stock by Messrs. Atkin
son, Brandon and Gray.
The new owners will take charge on
Monday and Issue their first paper on
Tuesday. It is definitely known that Mr.
Dickinson will take charge of the Jour
nal as the general manager, supervising
all departments. The editorial depart
ment will be conducted by an executive
committee of three or four, of which body
Messrs. Atkinson, Brandon and Gray wiil
be the controlling influences.
It can be stated positively that there
will be no immediate changes in the
force, business or editorial; that is, un
ices there are voluntary witdrawals from
the paper. What may develop in a month
or a few’ months is a matter for the fu
ture. The new general manager, Mr.
Diqkinson, who is a thoroughly well
equipped newspaper man, is not likely to
begin an acquaintance with a paper new
to him by dlspbsing of the men now em
ployed.
H. M. Atkinson, one of the three new
owners of the Journal, Is probably the
best-known young business man in the
South. He Is at the head of, or connected
with, a tremendous variety of enterprises.
He Is president of the Georgia Electric
Light Company, which holds the city’s
’contiact; he Is president of the Southern
Banking and Trust Company; president
of the Tlfion, Thomasvllle and Gulf Rail
road president of the Union Lumber Com
pany; president and treasurer of the At
lanta Suburban Land Corporation; secre
tary and treasurer of the Collins Bark and
Belt Line; treasurer of the Georgia and
Carolina I’lanters’ Company; vice presi
dent of the Third National Bank. In ad
dition to tho foregoing, he hns charge of
Ihe large real estate inti rests of T. Jef
ferson Coolldae, Jr., of Boston. Among
them is the big fourteen-story building,
the Empire, which is tn lie erected on
Broad, Marietta and Walton streets. Mr.
Atkinson Is not only well known In the
business world but is. as are Messrs. Gray
and Brandon, popular socially.
Morris llrandon Is a member of the firm
of Brandon Ac Arkwright, and has con
ducted for that law partm iship some of
tin' hugest llt'g.illon In tilt* city. He has
served one term in the state legislature,
where hi repn ented Fulton county to
the complete sitlsfaetlon of his cunstlt
ii uey lie Is now n candidate fur re-eloc
tl m at the pr mtry In May.
Jatrn* It. Gray, the thltd member, U a
well-known lawyer. He Is a member of
the firm of Gray, Brown & Randall. He
is alfo Alee president of the Fourth Na
tional Bank.
George H. Dickinson of New York, who
will take charge Tuesday as general man
aged of the Journal, is a man who pos
sesses executive ability, allied to energy.
He hae figured prominently in New York
Journalism for the past ten years, making
for himself an enviable reputation and
enjoying the friendship of those with
whom his work placed him in touch.
Mr. Dickinson is a young man—still in
his thirties—but he has managed to
crowd into the past twenty years an
almost continuous career as a Journalist.
His first work Avas in Boston on the Bos
ton Globe. From there he was called <o
NeAV York city by Mr. Pulitzer, owner
of the World, who put him in charge of
his paper. For five years Mr. Dickinson
was in closest contact with Mr. Puiitzer’s
interests, and was so successful that the
attention of James Gordon Bennett* was
attracted toward him. The result was an
offer to Mr. Dickinson to edit the Sunday
Herald. Mr. Dickinson remained five
years with the Herald, going from there
to the New York Journal, where he re
mained until a short while ago.
Personally.• Mr. Dickinson is genial,
though thoroughly outspoken. He is by
nature broad minded and through travel,
cosmopolitan. Enterprising, alert and en
ergetic, possessing an abundanc of ideas,
he is sure to make his presence felt in
Southern journalism.
THE WEATHER.
*
Forecast for Monday and Tuesday;
Georgia and. South Carolina: Showers
Monday; charing and colder Tuesday; in
creasing easterly winds.
Eastern Florida: Fair In southern;
showers on the northern portion Monday;
showers Tuesday; fresh easterly winds.
Western Florida: Showers and thunder
storms Monday; fair and cooler Tuesday;
brisk to high southeasterly winds.
Yesterday's weather at Savannah —
Maximum temperature 1:10 p.m. 73 degrees
Minimum temperature 5:15 a. m. 65 degrees
Mean temp rature &1 degrees
Normal temperature 63 degrees
Deficiency of temperature 2 degrees
Accumulated deficiency since
April 1 16 degrees
Accumulated deficiency since
Jan. 1 208 degrees
Rainfall €0 inch
Normal 12 inch
Deficiency since April 1 1.62 inches
Deficiency since Jan. 1 2.09 i^hes
River Report—The hight of the Savan
nah river at Augusta, at 8 a. m. (75th mer
idian time) yesterday, was 9.8 feet, a fall
of 0.3 feet during the preoeding twenty
four hours.
Observations taken at the same moment
of time at all stations, April 15, 1900, 8
p. m., 75th meridian time.
Name of Station. | -j-T.| •V. [Rain
Boston, clear | 54 | 19 ! .00
New York city, clear ...j 60 |lO | .00
Philadelphia, clear I 58 | 10 I .00
Washington city, clear ..| 56 | L j .00
Norfolk, clear | 52 | 6 | .00
Hatteras, clear j 56 l 6 j .00
Wilmington, clear j 60 j L | .00
Charlotte, pt. cloudy....| 68 | L | .00
Raleigh, clear | 69 j L | .00
Charleston. cloudy | 66 | 14 | .00
Atlanta, cloudy | 66 | 6 | .00
Augusta, cloudy | 70 I 8 | .00
Savannah, clear j 64 j 8 I .00
Jacksonville, clear | 66 j 6 j .00
Jupiter, clear ; 72 , 12 | .00
Key West, pt. cloudy....| 76 | 12 .00
Tampa, clear 74 | 8 .00
Mobile, cloudy | 66 j 6 .28
Montgomery, cloudy | 72 | L 00
Vicksburg, cloudy I 60 ] 12 .38
New Orleans, raining ....) 66 j 14 .56
Galveston, cloudy | 68 | 8 | T
Corpus Christi, cloudy | 74 j 14 | T
Palestine, cloudy | 76 I 8 | .04
Memphis, cloudy j 66 j 8 | .00
Cincinnati, cloudy j 64 | 8 | .00
Pittsburg, cloudy 1 56 | L | .00
Buffalo, cloudy j 50 | 8 | .00
Detroit, pt. cloudy j 52 | 6 j .0)
Chicago, cloudy j 38 j 14 \ .00
Marquette, clear \ 38 | L j .00
St. Paul, pt. cloudy | 54 | 8 j .09
Davenport, cloudy | 60 j 12 j .00
St. Louts, pt. cloudy ....| 64 j 14 j .08
Kansas City, raining ...j 54 j 6 11.08
Oklahoma, clear | 72 | 12 i .06
Dodge City, raining ~| 54 j 28 | .22
North Platte, raining ~| 46 | 14 j .40
-|-T, temperature; *V. velocity of rvlnd.
H. B. Boyer, Weather Bureau.
ISLE OF HOPE’S ABU POSTMASTER.
Good Outlook for n Lively Summer
Season at the Resort.
Mr. Alex M. Barbee has been appoint
ed postmaster at Isie of Hope in the place
of former postmaster, Bandy, tvho re
cently resigned. The change will not
affect residents at Isle of Hope, however,
as the office will remain at Barbee &
Bandy's place.
The outlook is bright for a gay summer
season at this popular resort. Some time
ago the street railway made improvements
about its depot, which includes a smalt
pavilion, a fountain, and the planting of
flowers on either side of Ihe track in the
depot enclosure. Besides the street rail
way's Improvements. Barbee & Bandy
haA’e about finished the dining annex to
their place, which will add greatly to
their conveniences for entertaining. Pros
pective summer residents are looking out
for cottages. As there has been little done
In the building line this season, the in
dications are that available cottages will
be in demand. Practically no new build
ings are being erected on Tybee this sea.
son on account of the high prices for
building material, and it may be the same
conditions apply to Isle of Hope.
FOIUIIT WITH \ FNYRK.
Lnvenln anil Lena Williams Attack
ed Each Other Viciously.
While the number of arrests by thp po
lice yesterday were not large the prison
ers are nearly all charged with crimes
more serious usual.
Lavenia Williams and Lena Williams,
both colored, were arrested by Officer
Hicks. The women accuse each other of
assaults, a fork being the weapon us id.
I?ena, It seems, was the first assailant,
but succeeded In making only one Jab at
her enemy Avhen the attacked one took the
fork from her and punctured the fleshy
part of her scalp nearly twenty times.
Both women were locked up.
Lcander Mcßride was arrested by Offi
cer Gullfoylo for throwing ait ax ut
Charles Itoveft and then drawing a pls’ol
on him with the threat of shooting.
Ruben Butler was taken by Officer E. F.
Davis at the request of Chris Struck, who
charges Butler with striking him on the
head with a brick.
Morgan Jones, colored, was taken In by
Detective Murphy on a charge of stealing
$5 from a vegetable vender of the market.
Tho crime was committed some ten days
ago.
1
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For Infants and Children,
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature of
Ocean Steamsiiio Go.
-FOR-
New York,Boston
—AND
THE EAST,
Unsurpassed cabtn accommodation Am
the comforts of a modem hotel K t .
lights. Unexcelled table. Tickets lociiid!
meals and berths aboard ship. **
Passenger Fares ironi Savannali.
TO NEW YORK-FIRST CABIN J2O.
FIRST CABIN ROUND TRIP $32
TERMEDIATE CABIN, *ls; INTEitiip
diate cabin round trip i*
6TEERAGK, *lO. ’ ttt>
TO BOSTON-FIRST CABIN am.
FIRST CABIN ROUND TRIP ?> iv
TERM EDI ATE CABIN, *l7; INTERaJb
DIATE CABIN ROUND TRIP
STEERAGE’. *11.75. ’
The express steamships of this line
appointed to vail from Savannah Centra
(90th) meridian time, as follows:
SAVANMAIf TO SEW YOllu.
CITY OF AUGUSTA, Capt.
MONDAY April 16. 5:30 p. m .
NACOOCHEE, Capt. Smith, TUESDtv
April 17, 6:30 p. m. r ’
LA GRANDE DUCHESSE, Capt Han
ion, FRIDAYf April 20, 8 a. m '
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM. Capt Per*
SATURDAY, April 21, 9:30 a. m *'
KANSAS CITY, Capt. Fisher, MOND4V
April 23, 11:30 a. m. '
CITY OF AUGUSTA. Capt. Dat
TUESDAY, April 24, 12:30 p. , n .
NACOOCHEE, Capt. Smith, Friday
April 27. 3:30 p. m. •
LA GRANDE DUCHESSE. Capt Ran
lon, SATURDAY, April 28, 4 p. m.
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, Capt Ber
MONDAY, April 30, 6 p m. ’
SAVANNAH TO BOSTON-DIRECT.
CITY OF MACON, Capt. Savage,THUß3.
DAY, April 19, 7:30 a. m.
CHATTAHOOCHEE, Capt. Lewis.
THURSDAY, April 26, 2:30 p. m.
This company reserves the right t
change its sailings without noil e and
without liability or accountability there
lor.
Sailings New York for Savannah dallg
except Sundays and Mondays 6:ot> p. nt.
April sailings Boston for Savannah Wed.
nesdays from Lewis’ wharf. J2:*j n. -n.
W. G. BREWER, City Ticket and Ibes.
enger Agent, 107 Bull street. Savannah,
Ga.
E. W. SMITH. Contracting Freight
Agent, Savannah. Ga.
R. G. TREZEVANT, Agent, Savannah,
Ga.
E. H. HINTON. Traffic Manager.
F. E. I.E FEVRE, Superintendent, New
Pier 35, North River, New York.
MERCHANTS AND MINERS’
/*
TRANSPORTATION CO.
STEAMSHIP LINES
SAVANNAH TO BALTIMORE.
Tickets on sale at company s ofiicea M
the following points at very low rates;
ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.
BALTIMORE, MD. BUFFALO, N. X.
BOSTON, MASS.
CHICAGO, ILL. * CLE V'ELAND, 0,
ERIE, PA.
HAGERSTOWN. HARRISBURG, Pik
HALIFAX, N. S.
NIAGARA FALLS. NEW YORK.
PHILADELPHIA.
PITTSBURG. PROVIDENCE
ROCHESTER.
TRENTON. ' WILMINGTON.
WASHINGTON.
First-class tickets include meals and
state room berth. Savannah to Baltimore.
Accommodations and cuisine unequaled.
Freight capacity unlimited; careful han
dling and quick dispatch.
The steamships of this company are ap
pointed to sail from Savannah to Bald
more as follows (standard time):
BERKSHIRE, Capt. Ryan./TL'ESDai,
April 17, 6:00 p. m.
MILLER, Capt. Peters, THURSDAY,
April 19. 7:00 p. m.
ITASCA, Capt. Diggs, SATURDAY’. April
21, 8:00 p. m.
ALLEGHANY, Capt. Billups, TUESDAY,
April 24, 1:00 p. m.
BERKSHIRE,’ Capt. Ryan, THURSDAY,
April 26, 2:00 p. m.
D. H. MILLER, Capt. Peters, SATUR
DAY, April 28, 4:00 p. m.
ITASCA, Capt. iDiggs, TUESDAY, Mfif
1, at 6:00 p. nr..
ALLEGHANY, Capt. Billups, THURS
DAY, May 3, at 7:00 p. m.
BERKSHIRE, Capt. Ryan, SATURDAY,
May 5, ot 8:00 p. m.
MILLER, Capt. Peters, TUESDAY, April
8, 1:00 p. m.
ITASCA, Capt. Diggs, THURSDAY", Apnl
10, 2:00 p. m.
And from Baltimore Tuesdays, Thuri*
days and Saturdays, at 4:00 p. m.
Ticket Office 39 Bull street.
NEWCOMB COHEN, Trav. Agent.
J. J. CAROLAN, Agent,
Savannah, Ga
W. P. TURNER, G. P. A. 5
A. D. STEBBINS, A. T •
3. C. WHITNEY, Traffic Manager.
General Offices. Baltimore. Md.
FRENCH LINE.
COJHPAGNIE GENERALE IRANSAILfINIIOIc-
DIRECT LINE TO HAVRE—PARIS 1 France)
Sailing every Thursday ut 10 u in.
From Pier No. 4*. North Klver, foot Morton si
La Gascogne, ..April 19 La Champagne, May Jy
LaTout aitie ... April 26 I.a Gascocne May
La liretagne.... .May :i|L’Aquitaloe. May
Accommodations reserved in tne Grands mo*
telxda Trocadero during tho Paris Exposition
General Agency for United States and i.aria*
82 Broadway. New York. Messrs. Wilder
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