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RAISING HOME SUPPLIES
There is no question of greater import
ance. demanding discussion and thought
on the part of southern farmers at this
time, than that of home supplies. The
proposition, in the way of advice hereto
fore. which has almost been worn thread
bare in the columns of the press during
past years, has at last resolved itself into
one of necessity to the individual planter
and the time has now passed when the
farmer can glance over the columns of the
agricultural writer’s page, and going con
trary to the advice expressed there, hitch
up his team and drive to town for his
suppUes of bread and meat. The supply
merchants who. during days of prosperity
and good prices for cotton are wont to
meet theii customers with smiles and use
every means to run up heavy ledger ac
counts. are growing exceedingly wary just
at this particular time, and are beginning
to plead financial inability to "run” the
man Who has an empty corn crib and
smokehouse.
If it were possible to closely draw the
lines of credit and have the farmers un
derstand that the extensive planting of
cotton was no longer the best class of se
curity which could be offered for credit,
rhe tndtvtdua* and country at large would
soon be in a much more prosperous and
progressive condition.
The daily reports coming in from all
commercial points indicate that the mer
chants. warehousemen, hanks and fertili
ger people by common consent will under
take to draw the lines of credit tight this
spring, and many a man who has been
heretofore buying his corn and meat with
a promise to give a mortgage on fifteen
acres of cotton to the mule, will have to
hunt other employment. The extensive
cotton acreage plan with nothing else- to
back It up. is becoming dhpopular in the
minds of business men. and the system of
farming heretofore pursued by so many
men. will have to go out of the business.
It is on* of the strange and unaccountable
thipgsof this day and time, that so many
intelligent farmers will make no apparent
effort to keep out of the supply depart
ment of the merchant’s store. Even if
do by hard work and economy make
both ends meet, when their cotton crop is
/ sold tn the fall, it would seem that the
i pride in their business and the favored
section of the country in which they live,
would actuate them to a higher ambition.
Thousands of farmers do make their
supplies at home in abundance, and It is
thereby absurd for any man to confess
or even imagine that he cannot do the
fame if the effort is made. The effort—
therein lies the secret of the whole trou
ble.
The Cotton Acreage.
Right now an important matter for so
lution is that of the coming cotton acre
age. It is a problem which we have to
go up against every spring, and upon the
aeroage planted will largely depend the
price st which the staple will sell next fall.
Reduc'ng the acregae by common con
sent merely to reduce the output next fall
is a falacy which has never yet resulted
in anything tangible. The cotton produc
ers of the south have no idea of reducing
the acreage with such object in view. If
fewer acres are planted this year than
last, the cause of the reduction must be
attributed to something. else. If it were
generally reported that the acreage would
be reduced to lessen the output. It would
doubtless end tn the largest acreage ever
planted. Each planter, going upon the
Idea that his neighbor would reduce his
own acreage would be voluntarily increas
ed. and upon that proposition united con
cert of action would be overwhelmingly
saeured. The present restriction of the
cotton acreage to anyt...ng like the
world’s requirement for the production of
American cotton is due solely to the ina
« hillty of the planters to secure labor. It
we bad the labor and the credit there can
be no doubt that the south would aConce
undertake to produce twenty-five per cent
more cotton this year than all the spin
dles in the world could spin up in twelve
months.
I do not think this Idea of the situation
would be denied by anybody familiar with
the disposition of the average southern
cotton producer. But fortunately for the
individual and for the country at large,
there are two important elements which
act as a curb on the spirit which so reck
lessly favors the extensive cultivation of
cotton, and those are. scarcity of labor
and inability to secure unlimited credit.
As labor grows scarcer and harder to
manage, and the limit of credit is narrow- :
ed down to the man who fills his cribs and ;
smokehouses with something to eat. the
price for cotton can be sustained at rea
sonable figures and the financial strength
of the south put upon a solid basis. It is
a fact which is becoming more apparent
each day that the merchants are getting
tired of advancing supplies to farmers
who raise but Utile else beside cotton, and
many supply dealers have already openly
stated that they could not and would not
longer fake the risk of crediting farmers
who had but little or nothing to sustain
themselves on at their homes. This ought
to be an incentive to increase the corn.
VIRGINIA-CAROLINA
CHEMICAL COMPANY,
ATLANTA, GA. RICHMOND, VA. CHARLESTON, S. C.
Largest Manufacturers of
FERTILIZERS
IN THE SOUTH.
Importers of
PURE GERMAN KAINIT, MURIATE OF POTASH,
NITRATE OF SODA, SULPHATE OF POTASH.
In baying fertilizers it is important, not only to secure goods of estab
lished reputation and high grade, but to buy where
YOUR WANTS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION CAN BE SUPPLIED.
We are in position, with, our unparalleled facilities and our many plants
located all over the territory, to furnish all classes of goods and in such
quantities as buyers desire. When you buy of us, with our immense
capacity, you knotv you atn get the goods, and edl you want of them.
See our nearest agent to you, or write us direct.
Address VIRGINIA-CAROLINA CHEMICAL CO.,
ATLANTA, GA.
fe* the ktryinla-Carellna Lmmc Free for the aeking
wheat, oat and other acreages upon which
food supplies of various kinds can be
raised. If not for market, at least enough
to make the farm self-sustaining upon
which they are produced. Sweet potatoes
are toe. ay worth from 75 cents to 11.00 per
bushel in our markets, and they are hard
to get at that price.
From 100 to 200 bushels can be easily
raised per acre at but little cost, and sold
at a profit far greater than could be real
ised from the same acreage in cotton, even
if one bale per acre could be produced.
Corn 13 sel'ing at 11.00 per bushel and meat
at 10 and 12 cents per pound. Southern
farmers tan raise their cofn and meat for
less than half these prices, upon certain
ly a much more satisfactory basis. It has
always been and always will be bad policy
on the part of the farmer to purchase
anything which he can profitably raise on
his farm. Within ~ie past ten years a
notable improvement has been made in
Georgia and the other states in the more
extensive production of supplies at home
and the more general merging into the
business of diversified agriculture. In
every county hundreds of farmers can be
foilud who make their farms self-sustain
ing. and who are generally independent.
But the majority of our people, particular
ly the tenant classes, have grown to be
lieve that because they rent land and
must pay their rents with so much lint
cotton to the plow, that they must plant
ail cotton and but little or no corn. This
clars of farmers are making but little
progress, and their failure to make money
is due entirely to their system of bad
management, and not so much to the fact
that they are renters.
Diversifying the Only Hope.
We have had all the experience wanted,
the best and safest plan now Is to act. and
act as each man's best judgment will dic
tate. It is time td get out of the old ruts
that have made so many thousands of far
mers dependent upon the whims, fancies
and dictates of the commercial world, and
forge ahead on more substantial and solid
ground. Raise more corn, peas, hogs, cat
tle. hay. poultry, and other feedstuffs,
whlcb are so absolutely essential to suc
cess, and which every successfuly farmer
at the present time produces. Read your
farm papers carefully, grasp all the new,
practical ideas that are advanced and en
deavor to use them to advantage. We
made less cotton this past season than we
did in 1960. and sold it for SIO.OO per bale
less, notwithstanding the fact that every
spindle in the world is running on full
time and a fine demand for all kinds of
cotton goods exists. We cannot sell the
new cotton for its value, when the major
ity of our people are forced to turn it
loose on an overstocked market to meet
obligations due the merchants for corn
and meat. Raise supplies at home this
year, and if cotton does not bring a high
price next fall the producers will at least
be in an independent position. Don’t think
so much about cutting down the cotton
acreage, but determine to increase the
corn acreage and the cotton acreage will
then properly regulate itself. Get rid of
a position which forces you to be refused
credit by anybody, and out of the soil
which is under your own control secure
freedom and independence. 1t is easy to
those "who try. and easier for the farmer
than in any other line of business in
which men are engaged. It is sincerely to
be hoped that the food supply acreage of
the south will be largely increased during
the coming months and that the excess
cotton acreage, for which there is no need,
will be correspondingly decreased.
HARVIE JORDAN.
INQUIRY dFpARTmTnT.
ATHENS. Ga.. January 16. 1902.
J. H. B. to The Farm Editor of The
Atlanta Journal:
Dear Sir: I have been tlking the At
lanta Journal (dally) for two years and
would like to ask you a few questions
which I wish you would answer in the
dally journal as soon as you can. In
the Journal of Monday evening. January
13th. appeared The Fertiliser Problem.”
In one ton of fertiliser you say there is
300 pounds of phosphoric acid, 40 pounds
of potash. 40 pounds of nitrogen. The
other 1,720 pounds is filler. Now I want
to know can I get the 300 pounds of
phosphoric acid, 40 pounds of potash. 40
pounds of nitrogen. Then haul 1,720
pounds of sand, then mix al! together
on a good floor and have a ton of good
fertiliser.
Or can I put the three different in
gredients tn 1.720 pounds of stable manure
and mix it up. will that make a better
fertiliser for corn and cotton on red clay
land?
Is air slacked lime good for the land; if
so what part does it dp? Is air slacked
lime good to rnix with stable manure a
long while before using same on cotton
and corn? I mean would It be a good
plan to put down a layer of stable manure
then a layer of lime, then manure, then
lime, and so on till I made a large heap
of same to be used after It was in a
pile for a month or so to get well rotted?
You will confer a favor on yours truly
if you will answer this.
ANSWER: When commercial fertilizers
are manufactured out of ingredients
which are regarded pure, the fillers which
they contain are natural, that is, placed
there by nature. As an illustration, a
pure phosphate rock when ground and
acidulated analyses 15 per cent of avail
able plant food to the ton, we have sot
pounds of pure acid phosphate, and the
other 1.7C0 pounds are a dead weight, or
uselees as a plant food, but it Is the
form in which nature prepared it. and as
such we are forced to use it. 500 pounds
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1902.
of cotton seed meal analysing 8 per
cent of ammonia, will contain 40 pounds
of available ammonia, and aside from
a small percentage of potash and phos
phoric acid, the balance is dead material,
but we cannot extract the ammonia
from the meal for fertilising purposes,
without using the whole 500 pounds.
Take for another illustration, milk.
About 80 per cent of pure milk is water,
but it is placed there by nature, and while
it is a filler, it is a natural filler, and the
milk could at once be reduced in value by
the addition of water from outside
sources. Now this has been the trouble
with low grade fertilizers. Some manu
facturers would take a high grade phos
phate and by mixing with it a foreign ele
ment, such as ground railroad cinders,
slate, etc., which contained no plant food
and had no value, reduce the good goods
to a low basis, and such mixtures are
known in the trade as foreign "fillers” or
“make weights.” On the same principle
you can take one ton of guano, analyzing
14 per cent plant food, and mix a ton of
sand with it. and you would have two
tons of cheap, low-grade goods, running
about 7 per cent available plant food. You
cannot buy the chemically pure elements
without and filler and use them for fer
tilizing purposes, because the proportions
would be so small you could not mix them
properly. You can buy the more highly
concentrated forms, though, such as dried
blood, taniuige and nitrate of soda or mu
riate of p<wash in place of kanit, and a
high grade pure acid phosphate, and by
mixing them together under proper for
mulas secure a very high grade goods.
Cotton seed meal will average 8 per cent
ammonia, dried blood 16 per cent and ni
trate of soda 20 per cent. The commer
cial value of nitrogen or ammonia is about
15 cents per pound, hence the value of the
sources from which ammonia is secured
is based upon the relative number of
pounds of ammonia they contain as shown
by analysis, the more highly concentrated
forms being the most valuable. Kanit
contains about 13 per cent of potash and
muriate of potash about 50 per cent, hence
the latter is about four times the most
valuable and has four times less dead
weight about it. A phosphoric acid analyz
ing 20 per cent available plant food is
twice as valuable as one containing only
10 per cent, because you get twice the
quantity of available plant food, weight
for weight, in the latter. Dime it worth
nothing as a fertilizer in itself, but it
tends to break up, release and render
available forms of plant food in the soil
which might otherwise remain dormant.
Hence when lime is applied to land which
is naturally deficient in that element, a
decided improvement Is noted in the
growth and development of the crop.
Lime should not be mixed with compost
until just before it is to be applied to the
land, else the ammonia will be released
and will be carried off into the air and
lost. The best way to apply air-slacked
lime to land is to spread it broadcast to
the land after the soil has been well brok
en and harrowed. Lime should not be
plowed in, as it strikes downward Instead
of upward. The cheapest and best fertili
zer for the farmer is made by mixing at
home a good high grade acid with muriate
of potash and cotton seed meal Or dried
blood. The different Ingredients mixed in
such proportions under a formula that
will analyze the three plant foods as re
quired to meet the demands of the crop
planted.
Please Inform me through your paper
what to do for a sick mare; she often
stretches out as if she desired to urinate,
but does not, except occasionally, and
then it is scarce, thick and highly colored.
I am inclined to think she has gravel.
Please tell me what to do for her. 1 am
a subscriber to your paper and take great
interest in reading the agricultural page.
Swainsboro, Ga. W. R. K.
Answer—Give 35 drops of muriate acid,
in a pall full of water for the horse to
drink, and repeat twice a week. Apply
hot water cloths over the kidneys several
times daily until relief is had. This is a
good treatment for gravel.
In a recent issue of The Journal you
give the following as a proper fertilizer
for cotton:
Phosphoric acid, 9 per cent.
Potash. 3 per cent.
Nitrogen, 3 per cent.
As this is a little higher percentage of
potash and nitrogen t.ian can be obtained
by mixing acid phosphate, muriate of pot
ash and cotton seed meal. I would be glad
to know the materials you use. When
I want a high grade perfect plant food
I mix 65 pounds of acid phosphate, 30
pounds of cotton seed meal and 6 pounds
muriate potash. This will analize:
Phosphoric acid, 9.10 per cent.
Potash, 2.50 per cent.
Nitrogen (about). 2.40 per cent. '
Os course you can get as high grade aa
you want by the use of dried blood, suj
pnate of ammonia or concentrated tank
age. Nitrate of soda can also be used, but
is it not too volatile to mix and use with
other fertilizers at time of planting?
When I want to get a higher percentage
of potash and nitrogen. I select land from
which peas have been cut and decrease
the cotton seed meat and increase the
potash or supply what I think is lacking
in nitrogen by using nitrate' of soda on
the growing crop. W, O. P.
Gainesville, Ga.
Answer—The formula which was given
in a recent article and to which reference
is made in your inquiry, was intended to
meet general conditions where the land
upon which cotton was to be planted is
generally deficient in all the three prin
cipal elements of plant food, as for in
stance. lands which have been continu
ously planted in cotton without change
for many years. The’ intelligent planter
who rotates and studies the needs of his
soils and plants will regulate his fertil
izers to meet the conditions as he finds
them. The analysis of the cotton plant
shows that it contains about three times
as much phosphoric acid as either nitro
gen or potash, hence a soil deficient in
all three of those elements should be fer
tilized with a guano proportioned to meet
the requirement of the plant.
Such a formula as mentioned could be
secured by the use of a high grade acid
phosphate, muriate of potash and either
first class cotton seed meal or dried blood.
I do not advocate the use of nitrate of
soda, except as a top dressing during the
growth of any plant because it is so quick
acting. The formula which you name is a
good one upon under the system of rota
tion pursued by you.
It is well to have an excess of phos
phoric acid, as it is not a costly ingre
dient, but a highly essential element in
perfecting and building up the fruiting of
the cotton plant. If the land produces a
good weed, a reduction in the use of the
ammonia, which is expensive, might be
judiciously employed, particularly if the
cotton crop is to follow a crop of field
peas. This plan you seem to have pursued
and have doubtless secured satisfactory
results.
FIRST TRAIN IS RUN p c d d
OVER M., D. & S. R. R.
MACON, Jan. 30.—The first train to Vi
dalia over the Macon. Dublin and Savan
nah railroad was run yesterday. It was
a freight. A passenger train is to be run
on Saturday.
Early in May the trains will be run on
through to Savannah. The line has been
completed to Vidalia, but here the busi
ness is transferred to the Seaboard Air
Line. After the first of May the trains
will go straight through over the Sea
board's tracks. The management of the
Macon. Dublin and Savannah railroad is
regarded as a benefactor in this section
of the state, and the country developed
already along its line is a splendid one.
Macon will have a new route to the sea
after the first of May.
Note premium list In this issue,
make your selection and subscribe at
once.
Elder Hess to Preach in Macon.
MACON, Jan. 30.—Elder Hess, the mil
lionaire preacher of the Primitive Baptist
faith, will fill the pulpit at Bethlehem
church, in south Macon, on the second
Bunday in February. Elder Greene, of
Jones county, will assist him.
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Employ System.
Rural New Yorker.
Many farmers fall to make their labor
profitable because they do not work sys
tematically. While they recognize the im
portance of system in any other business,
they practically deny it in their own. Very
few farmers keep any record of their op
erations by which they may determine the
amount of profit or loss of the year's op
erations, or of their cattle, hogs or sheep.
If there be a loss, it cannot be located and
amended, but must remain to affect the
future operations. If there be a net profit
indicated by palpable assets, its source or
sources cannot be traced up and con
served. Competition is so sharp these days
that permanent success cannot be reason
ably expected where recognized business
principles are neglected.
Educated Farmers.
American Agriculturist.
Many farmers make a practice of pok
ing fun at the scientific farming done at
the experimental stations. They call it
"book farming," “white shirt farming”
and other equally significant named to in
dicate that a man who has been brought
up on the farm knows all there is to be
known about the business, and that no
man who goes into the business on such
a small scale as does the professor at the
experiment farm can tell them things they
do not know kbout their work. It is hu
man that it should be so. The Chinese
look upon the attempts of the western
world to "civilize” them in the same
light, but that does not alter the facts
that in each case the parties are laboring
under a mistake. There is no industry
under the sun that is more complicated
than farming. The diversity of Interests,
the number of different things that the
farmer is expected to know, the number
of "irons that he has in the fire” call for
a vast amount of knowledge on his part
if he would make no mistakes. It is true
that a man may farm all his life, make
a living and die respectable without hav
ing fitted himself by special education for
his business. AH that signifies is that he
has chosen a very lucrative occupation or
he would have become bankrupt. It does
not show that he would not have made
more money if he had been better fitted to
conduct the work he had before him.
The fact that some farmers have better
success with their catne than others is
not a piece of luck, but because of better
management. It may be that the success
ful feeder and breeder did not learn his
methods in- an agricultural school, but it
docs show that he had better methods
than the man who raised nothing but
scrubs. The man who always raises a
good crop, year after year, while his
neighbors .with just as good soil and other
things equal, fails every two or three
years to raise half a crop and never
raises as good yields as the good farmer,
may not be a college graduate, but he
has methods that the others have not
learned. These things show that there are
better methods than the ordinary farmer
uses.
Local Organizations.
Farm and Ranch.
It would be greatly to the advantage of
farmees if they would organize local asso
ciations in every rural'neighborhood. Os
course, they will not do so. There is no
reason why they ought not to, but many
reasons why they will not. No public en
terprise is ever inaugurated without at
least one leader ,and Jn many places there
is no man ready to say, "Come on, boys,”
and then go ahead. Generally, all that is
necessary is for one or two or more farm
ers to desire such an organization and to
begin by talking about it. A little well
directed talk will generally prove conta
gious and develop the one thing needful,
to-wit, a leader—a man who has energy
td begin with. The necessary enthusiasm
can then be 4<jrked up later, In any
neighborhood where there is one man who
desires an organization for mutual bene
fit. and who will ride around and talk to
his neighbors on the subject, a practical
working organization can be secured. The
writer has participated in more than one
such enterprise, and in eich case much
good resulted, and one of these organiza
tions has existed since 1880, and that
neighborhood and another in t|je same
county under a similar organization, have
become the most prosperous in that sec
tion; and, to begin with, there was a vast
expanse of room for improvement. Such
associations, properly managed, can be
made more beneficial in their sphere than
the more prominent county or district as
sociations. The field of their operations be
ing small, it can be better cultivated. Such
organizations can not only meet to dis
cuss methods and make all the knowledge
of all the members common property, but
they can, by concert of action, make their
influence felt where it will do the most
good. They can co-operate in buying
seeds, plants, nursery stock, fine breeding
animals and labor-saving implements be
yond the reach of the members individu
ally. They can secure concert of action in
all measures affecting their Interests as
farmers. Many of our most profitable
crops are unprofitable unless grown in
sufficient quantities to attract buyers. A
creamery cannot be successfully operated
unless there is concerted action on the
part of the patrons. Cotton gins, mills,
roads and bridges, transportation compa
nies, schools and schoolhouses, markets
and marketing, as well as agricultural
methods, are proper subjects to be han
dled by local farmers’ organizations. The
very independence’ that farmers boast of
has worked to their detriment in this day
of combinations. The farmers must or
ganize in self-defense.
WANTED—Two traveling salesmen in each
state; permanent position; S6O and expenses.
Write Central Tobacco Works Co., Penicks,
Va.
STOCKSOF PRUNES
ARE VERY LIGHT
NEW YORK. Jan. 30.—Acecording to W. G.
Allen, a prominent fruit dealer, of Salem. Ore.,
who is in this city, stocks of prunes on the
coast are light, particularly the Oregon prod
uct.
"These stocks are pretty well concentrated
and are in strong hands.” said Mr. Alien.
“Early sales or Oregon prunes were satisfac
tory. but later there was some pressure among
holders to sell and the F. O. B. market declin
ed. There has been some improvement in con
ditions and. while stock is offering freely at
tH cents F. 'O. B. four-size basis, 'there are
holders who ask up to 2% cents four-size basis.
The present market conditions are regarded as
favorable, stocks being in good control, both
tn Oregon and California.”
AMERICAN LABORER -
IS SUPERIOR TO ENGLISH
NEW YORK, Jan. 30.-Gllbert Parker,
the English author and member of par
liament, said before sailing for home on
the St- Paul:
“One of the objects of my visit here was
to look into the labor question for parlia
ment. In my opinion, the American work
man is mqre enterprising than the Eng
lish. The American workingman welcomes
machinery, while the English working
man has not come up to that yet.”
Sell Fruit Trees.
We want energetic men all over the
southern states to sell Nursery Stock. Our
terms are liberal and our prices low. Our
stock is fine and will please the salesman
and the planter. No trouble to sell our
trees. Write for terms. SMITH BROS.,
Proprietors Concord Nurseries, Concord,
Ga.
BOSTROM’S IMPROVED FARM LEVEL
Is not a makeshift, but
aKayEjSCi&tiSwMM tbe best one made for Ter
ef: racing Ditching and Drain-
ape. Price $5 00 including
Tripod and Sliding Target
o 3 ° Rod. Send for descriptive
z.IA circular and Illustrated
sSW ’ Treatise on Terracing, free.
J. M- ALEXANDER 4 CO..
M & 58 S. Pryor St., Atlanta, Ga.
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ANOTHER SUGGESTION
ABOUT DEPOT PROBLEM
Editor Journal:
The depot business has been ludicrous
all the way through. In the first place,
the state of Georgia has mgde a fool of
itself for trying to force the railroads to
build a house on the state's property. The
very idea of such a thing is ridiculous. Os
course, the railroads can be forced to
repair the old shed, but nothing more.
Now the state proposes to have the rail
roads to pull out |30,000 or $40,000 per an
num more to pay for depot facilities. Why,
of course, they won’t do it. They have
rented the Western and Atlantic road
with depot facilities, and it is the state's
duty to put on the property a suitable
depot, and the railroads have a right to
demand it, without any more expense. Os
course, our governor had no reply to the
notices sent out to the railroads, and he
won’t get any. As stated before, it la the
duty of the state of Georgia to give the
Western and Atlantic a depot in keeping
with the city. This can be done on the
ground floor by covering all the space
from Loyd to Forsyth.
The state possibly may then arrange with
the railroads that they pay extra for any
space they occupy above the ground floor.
Tbe state will, of course, want to carry
the building up ten or twelve stories high,
and the frontage on Whitehall, Broad and
Forsyth street bridges, and the upper sto
ries will pay the state a handsome income,
not less than 10 per cent. No doubt the
railroads would take up half the building
for offices.
The state has a frontage on Whitehall,
Broad and Forsyth street bridges of at
least 900 feet, which would readily bring
$1,500 per front foot, worth at the least
calculation $1,000,000. No doubt the rail
roads would use all the space of the sec
ond floor, not otherwise used as store
rooms, for waiting rooms, etc? Such ar
rangement as this no doubt would be ac
ceptible to the railroads and profitable to
the state. This would incur an expense of
about $1,006,000 to the state of Georgia.
This property is right in the heart of the
city, and any space not occupied by rail
roads would rent readily at a good price.
Yours truly, J. K. McCALL.
WANTS INFORMATION
ABOUT HIS RELATIVES
' HANDY, TEXAS. January 21. 1902.
Please publish in your valuable paper
a letter of inquiry. I have a father and
brother, if living, somewhere. My father’s
name is Henry Sawyer. My brother's
name is Samuel H. Sawyer. Have not
seen or heard of them since May 18th.
Was living in Lighamingo county, Missis
sippi. wpen last seen. Any information
of their whereabouts will be thankfully
received. A. A. SAWYER,
Hardy, Texas, Montague county.
ENDQRSES DEKALB MAN
FOR SCHOOL COMMISSIONER
BROAD, Ga., Jan. 18,
Editor Atlanta Journal:
We rise to endorse what Dr. Landrum
said about Dr. A. J. Beck and hu candi
dacy for state school commissioner. There
is not one in the state who is better fitted
for the position than he. He has had ex
tensive dealings with both country and
city schools. He is from a stock of educa
tors. His ancestors away back helped to
establish one of the best Institutions of
the state —Mercer university. He and his
ancestors have been potent factors in the
education of the people of Georgia.
MAHONE’S BRIGADE MADE
FIRST CHARGE IN RE-
CAPTURING CRATER
Editor Atlanta Journal:
I notice In The Journal of the 4th in
stant a communication from a member of
the Tenth Alabama Volunteers, in which
he seems to claim the honor of the retak
ing of the Crater for his regiment.
It has been a long time since the battle
of the Crater, and to the average mind
the facts of the case are necessarily more
or less dimmed. I write from memory, the
actual occurrences as I saw them on that
memorable day.
After the springing of the mine by Gen
eral Grant the federal forces rushed in
and occupied something like 300 yards of
our works. The Confederate lines at this
point were intersected at intervals of 30
or 40 yards by traversles, to protect the
men from an invilading fire, which the
enemy were able to pour into them from
some batteries on the right. It was nec
essary to state this fact in order to make
clear what is to follow.
Mahone’s old brigade made the first
charge in recapturing the works, and from
what I- saw afterwards, I presume they
retook something like one-half of the
space occupied by the enemy: those of the
enemy not being killed or wounded run
ning over the breastworks or into the
traversles still occupied by their friends.
The second-charge was made by Wright’s
Georgia brigade. Wright’s brigade did not
charge in a body, but by regiments, the
space being too small to handle the whole
brigade at one time. The brigade had
moved up the ditch left in front and the
Sixty-fourth Georgia was the first to
charge. I could not see the result of this
charge, nor the charge of the Twenty
second Georgia. The next regiment to
charge was the Forty-eighth Georgia.
This charge was in plain view of where I
stood, and I noticed that they recaptured
and held the space of one terrace. The
next and last charge of Wright’s brigade
was made by the Third Georgia. Our regi
ment undertook to retake two
but only succeeded in holding one; the
men on the right being so overpowered by
numbers that they were compelled to give
back and to come into the terrace occu
pied by the balance of the regiment. This,
according to the best of my recollection,
left two terraces still occupied by the en
ema*
I had been wounded soon after the
charge' of my regiment, and at the first
lull in the firing had gone to the rear.
Several hou?s after I had gone back to
the field hospital, which was on the road
between the Crater and the city and be
tween one-fourth and one-half a mile
from the former, the Alabama brigade
passed by going to the Crater. The charge
of the Alabama regiment finished the
fight, but the brunt of the battle had been
won several hours before.
I think I have given the charges and
the results about as they occurred, and
that my statements will, in the main, be
borne out by eye-witnesses. I could not
see the casualties in my regiment as we
charged, but it looked to me as If the
Forty-eighth Georgia lost one-fourth of
her men in charging a distance of 75 or
100 yards. My company went in that morn
ing with twenty-four men and came out
in the afternoon with eleven men in com
mand of Second Sergeant McCrutchen.
We passed that morning a member of
Mahone’s brigade who had in his posses
sion four stands of Yankee colors and th
his body seven holes made by mlnie balls.
If he recovered fron) his wounds and is
still living, I would be glad to have his
autograph. C. M. SANDERS,
Co. C, Third Ga. Regiment.
Penfield, Ga.
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Toilet Articles and any one of the
premium papers offered with The
Semi-Weekly at SI.OO. This is the
greatest offer ever made and you
should take advantage of it without
delay.
Mrs. Jeff Davis to Present Home.
JACKSON. Miss., January 30.—Mrs. Jef
ferson Davis will arrive in the city to
night. She comes here to offer the state
"Beauvoir” as a soldiers home.
She will be the guest of the governor
and wife.
This is her first visit to Jackson in some
ten years.
§ Gubernatorial Campaign Will
| Be Warm and Interesting
£. Terrell Ready to Leave Attorney Gen-
:< eral’s Office—What Will Brown and
•** Smith Do?—Clark Howell to Run for
the Senate Again. Sj
$ :? BY T. J. SIMMONS, JR. ’
J. Render Terrell, of Greenville, cam
paign manager for J. M. Terrell, candi
date for governor, was at capitol Thurs
day conferring with the new candidate.
Mr. Terrell brought a whole bag full of
letters from Greenville which were sent
there to Candidate Terrell in answer to
his announcement for governor. The let
ters are all favorable, so it is said, and
the attorney general is assured much sup
port. Manager Terrell says he feels very
much gratified by the letters and the
promises of assistance which have come
in since Candidate Terrell made his an
nouncement. He says that no definite
plans have been decided on just yet, but
the program for speechmaking can be an
nounced a little later on. Many invita
tions have already come in for the new
candidate to make his opening speech, but
where the first gun will be fired has not
been determined. The people of Meriweth
er are anxious for the first speech, and
may use a strong pull to get it.
When Mr. Terrell leaves the office of
attorney geheral and delivers his first
speech the Interest in the campaign,
which interest has been lagging for sev
eral months, will take on new life.
The coming campaign is going to be a
campaign of campaigns. From what I
can gather the people will be treated to
speaking of the old-fashioned sort. Every
candidate is going to speak in every coun
ty if possible, and the voters ■will have
every opportunity of sizing up the aspi
rants. I hear that the registration will
be heavier than ever before, and that the
voters are going to flock to the polls on
election day. I learn that there is going
to be more enthusiasm than has been
shown in years, that clubs for the differ
ent candidates will be organized and that
every candidate is going to have five or
six hard workers in every county. If all
signs do not fall things are going to be at
a fever heat before many weeks and the
Georgia people will learn more about the
condition of affairs than they have heard
in several years. Colonel Estill and Mr.
Guerry have already begun their speech
making and Mr. Terrell will start soon.
Mr. Guerry has told his platform on the
stump and in the newspapera and Col
onel Estill has done the same. Mr. Ter
rell has announced in the papers and by
circulars, and in a short while he will be
on the stump. All that is now known.
But
The people want to find out something
else. They are making numerous inqui
ries every day. They are a little worried,
especially the political class. They are
anxious to know* whether Pope Brown is
going to be in the race or whether he will
hold on to his position as railroad com
missioner, which pays $2,500 a year.
They are also eager to discover whether
Jim Smith is going to desert his farm
and become a gubernatorial candidate.
Both men have been talked of as candi
dates for quite a while. First it is an
nounced authoritatively that they will be
in the race and then it is announced posi
tively that they will not. I think that
since the three other candidates hav. put
the people on notice it is time Mr. Brown
and Mr. Smith were doing the same thing.
I am sure that if Mr. Brown intends run
ning it wou!4 not injure his chances to
say so, -and I am equally certain that if
Mr. Smith has made up his mind to stay
out or enter the contest he would not
lose any friends by making known his
Intentions. As I said the other day, both
men have a large number of friends who
woula like very much to vote for them if
they should run, and who are anxious to
find out, as they are desirous of settling
on some of the others in the event Mr.
Brown and Mr. Smith are not in it. Will
Mr. Brown and Mr. Smith make known
their intentions?
Hon. John T. Boifeuillett. of Macon, is
going to have opposition for his position
§ THE .. .
| Wanderer
“Well,” said the Wanderer, cocking his
feet up on my best mahogany table and
accepting with alacrity one of my beet
cigars, "I’m glad to get home!”
"Where have you been, anyway?” I
asked.
“New Orleans. Ever there?”
"Never,” I replied; “but I have wanted
to go. It must be a lovely city."
The Wanderer looked thoughtful. .
“Well,” he said, reflectively, " ’tis and
•tisn’t. It all depends.”
“On what?” I asked.
"Lots o’ things,” he made reply, "I’m
not talking about New Orleans in carnival
time, you know. That’s different. You
kinder expect to run up on queer things,
you know. I mean at other times.”
"Is it much different from Atlanta?" I
hazarded.
The Wanderer looked at me scornfully.
"Different!” he echoed. In his voice was
a great feeling. "I sh’d say it was. Here—
suppose you went to the theatre and asked
the man for a seat in the pit, where’d you
suppose you were going to sit?”
“Why, downstairs,” said I.
“Well, you wouldn’t,” grunted the Wan
derer. “You’d go in the peanut. That’s
where you’d go. When they mean peanut
they say pit.”
"Why?” I inquired.
"Don’t ask me. I don’t know. Just their
way, J gufess. Do you know which way the
Mississippi river runs by New Orleans?”
"The Mississippi river? South, I should
think—at least, southward.”
"Wrong again,” returned the Wander
er, laconically. "It runs north. Don’t ask
me why. I don’t know. It just does,
though. That makes'north down town and
south up town. You have to stand on your
head to tell where the sun rises.”
"But the Mississippi river—” I begun.
“Don’t talk to me about the Missis
sippi river!” interrupted the Wanderer,
wearily. "I know all about ft. I tell you—”
and he leaned over confidentially, “I
didn’t dare to say so down there—a fel
low had to fight a duel once for making
fun of the Mississippi river—but I’d just
as lief see the ’Chattahoochee. Which
way do you suppose the gutters run in
New Orleans?”
“To the river, I guess,” I hazarded.
"Wrong again,” sniffed the Wanderer.
“They run the opposite way. Some of
’em have boiling water in ’em. A kid fell
in one not long ago and was scalded to
death before they could get him out. Why
don’t they cover ’em up? I don’t know.
They don't, though. Ever hear of part
of a street being called neutral ground?”
"Never did,” I admitted.
"Me neither,” went on the Wanderer.
“That’s what they call the middle of the
street down there. I don’t know why. You
smoke, don’t you? You can splash
through mud up to your shoe tops, but
you daren’t smoke on a street car. They
don't think it’s healthy. I suppose. No—
not on the front platform, either. No
where. Know what batcher is? They don’t
spell it that way, but that’s the way you
pronounce it. It’s the mud between the
levee and the river. Fond of smells?”
“What kind of smells?" I asked.
"Any kind—all kinds. They've got mill
ions of ’em in New Orleans, an’ when you
get used to the ordinary ones you can go
down on Tchoupltoulas street and get an
other million. Then all the theatres run
as clerk of the house. Hon. Mark Hardin,
who held the place for years and years,
but who gave it up to run for secretaryH
of state and raise peaches, has said he win
run again for his old position. He has
made no formal announcement yet, but in
an interview with a Journal reporter
Tuesday he said that he wants to be
clerk again. He finds raising peaches a ;
very profitable business, but is inclined to
the opinion that the S7O a day paid the
clerk of the house for himself and
assistants is worth having if ib
can be gotten and he is going to try harff
to get it. Clerk Boifeuillett’s friends claim
that "Uncle Mark” is going to meet with
a rough road when he attempts his travel
to the clerkship, but "Uncle Mark” says
he has traveled rough roads before and
he is not at all afraid of the stony way.
With Mark Hardin against John Bolfeuif
lett and William Clifton against Charlie
Northen there will be an interesting fight
on hand when the legislature convenor
next fall.
The Marietta Journal in its last issuo’
says that Col. R. T. Nisbet may become
a candidate for commissioner of agricul
ture after all. According to that paper .
the friends of Colonel Nisljet are urging
him to oppose Mr. Stevens, and now the
former commissioner has decided to take,
the matter consideration. As The
Marietta Journal is perhaps the official
organ of Mr. Nisbet, the statement re
garding his probable candidacy may mean
something. M. L. Johnson, of Bartow,
and Lucius Stubbs, of I.*urens, have also
been spoken of as possible candidates for
the place now held by Mr. Stevens.
There is now some doubt about the
Hon. Joe Hill HaU, of Bibb, becoming *
candidate for the legislature again. It is
said that because his law partner, Hon.
Dupont Guerry*. is a candidate for gov
ernor the Hon. Joe has decided not to get
into the biennial scramble for legislative
honors in Bibb county. Nobody from tha
Godfrey district in Bibb told me thia but
I get my information from other source*.
The Hon. Joe made the Bibb county peo
ple an able legislator, and despite tho
fact that one member of the firm is out
in politics the voters may prevail on him
to run anyhow.
It is generally* understood that Hon.
Clark Howell, of Fulton, will be a candi
date for the senate again from this dis
trict. Although, under the rotation sys
tem, it is Clayton county’s time to elect a
senator, it is said that the people in Clay
ton are perfectly willing to have Mr. How
ell as their candidate. Mr. Howell is one
of the most brilliant young statesmen in
the south, and will again be a candidate
for the presidency. He made an able pre- ,
siding officer at the last session, and it la
not likely that he will have any opposi
tion for the position.
Since the supreme court decided that,
the public property fund could be used to
pay the interest on the bonded debt, there
has been no talk of opposition to State
Treasurer Park. For awhile it was noised
about that former Treasurer W. J. Speer
would be a candidate, but Mr. Speer has
not yet announced. There was also a re
vival of the report that W. A. Broughton,
of Madison, would run, but Mr. Broughton
says the report is untrue. From the looks
of things now Mr. Park is going in with
out any opposition. He has made a splen
did official during his term and the peo
ple will no doubt give him another. t • .
T. J. SIMMONS, JR..‘
IT Ts’ A REAL PLEASURE
to us to speak favorably of Painkiller, know*
almost universally to be a good and safe rem
edy for burns and other pains of the body.
It is valuable not only for colds in wtntea
but for various summer complaints, and should
be in every family. The casualty which de
mands it may come unaware—Christian Advo
cate. There is but one Painkiller, Perry Davis .
Price 25c and 50c.
TELLS OF NEW ORLEANS AND
ITS UNEXPLAINABLE THINGS.
on Sunday—big day, Sunday. Some of
the churches have service at 7 o’clock,
so’s to let out in time.”
I expressed incredulity and asked if
there were any more odd things about
New Orleans.
"I ain’t started," continued the Wander
er. "Ever see mosquitoes in December?
No? They have ’em. You have to sleep
under mosquito nets Christmas night. I
don’t know why. You do, though. A man
went out hunting In tbe marshes near
New Orleans the week before New Year’ei
and was most bitten to death by ’em.
Never heard of cuite, did you? I don’t
know what it Is. exactly. Then you ge
to the opera house and they caH the cast
of characters the ’distribution.’ That 1 *
French, you know. You like dope?”
"Coca-Cola, you mean? Yes.”
“They don’t have IL They have some
thing they call that, but it ain’t. Like
to bathe? I lived in a house where I
don’t suppose anybody bathed—at least,
not in the house. They said there wasn't
any water »n the cistern. No rain, no
bath.”
The Wanderer paused.
"This is very interesting,” I said.
••Walt ’’ put in the Wanderer. "I wag
just getting breath. Know what lost
bread is? That’s a great dish. No, X
d’know, either. They have it. though. X
don t know why. Never heard of caUaa.
either, did you? They* bury folks on top
of the ground, you know. All water un
derneath, you see. Good deal of trouble
about building foundations, too. Three
boys played mumble-peg in a vacant lot
one time, and the contractors came along
and found they had made a fine excava
tion for a tremendous four-story hotel-*
only the excavation was too big and had
to be filled in some. But mat ain’t near
all "
“Suppose you come out to supper with
me next Sunday, and tell me the rest as
it?” I suggested. The Wanderer’s fasq
took on an expression of intense aston
ishment.
"Supper?” he ejaculated. "On Sunday?
Oh! I forgot. You know it isn’t custo
mary to have supper in New Orleans on
Sunday. Nobody does—l don’t ,-now why.
Say, you got to go? Well. I’ll tell you th«
rest of It Sunday.” ALLEi* GRAY.
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