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•• PECAN CULTURE.
Pecan culture t« one of the new indus
tries now being rapidly developed in Geor
gia and about which but few pepple have
any very Hear or definte idea. A few
years ago pecan trees were but little
known In this state, although in widely
scattered sections a few trees have been
growing and bearing for the past half
century. The first pecan tree in Georgia,
of which we have any record, was plant
ed in Worth county by the mother of
Major R. J. Bacon, of Baconton. In the
year 1815. That tree is now a large-, mag
nificent specimen of its species and bears
a splendid crop of nuts each year.
There are In Monticello. Jasper county,
half a dozen fine trees which were plant
ed by Mrs. Penn about seventy-five years
ago, and which annually bear prolific
orops of delicately flavored nuts. The pe
can tree seems to be indigenous to the
south and in the rich allurial soils of the
southwest are found In the forest growth,
just the same as hickory, oak and pine.
During mg visit to the Brasos river sec
tion of southwest Texas last year. I drove
through quite extensive forests of pecans,
along the western banks pf the river and
aaw many magnificent specimens Xi feet
in height and from 3 tp 4 feet in diameter.
These forests are of course in an orignal
wild state of growth and while the nuts
they bear are not so large or as attractive
in appears nee as rhe cultivated and im
proved varieties. they are none the less as
sweet and as delicately flavored. The large
cotton planters who own thesq pecan
utilise them for fattening pork,
which they assert is more valuable than
corn and that the i>ecans impart a rich
ness of flavor to the meat of their pork
which causes it to command a higher
r price in the mArkets than corn fed pork.
Reckoning the ages of these mammoth pe
can trees growing in the Brasos river bot
toms by the rule governing the ages of
other trees. I saw many specimens which
must have been several hundred yeafi# old
and had doubtless furnished their fruit
for the palate of the red man centuries be
fore any white man ever placed his foot
upon the soil of that section of the Uhited
States. '*
These facts are recited merely to ihow
the hardiness of the pecan tree anil its
natural adaptability to the soil and cli
matic conditions of the south Atlantic and
gulf states. Aside from the regular de
mand and market value of the nuts, they
are valuable as shown for feeding and
fattening pork, so tuat if the time should
ever come in the distant future when the
supply of the nut bearing orchards should
exceed the dethand. the nuts could be
profitably used tn the production of pork.
But as the pecan Is grown only in the ter
ritory mentioned and In no other part
of the world, except portions of Califor
nia. and as the markets will be broaden
ed with the increased supply and the- uses
of the nuts multiplied, there need be but
little fear that the time will ever come
when pecan culture will fall to be profit
able.
Starting a Grove.
In early life the pecan tree is much
more delicate than the ordinary wild tree
of the forest. After the young scions are
one and two years old. however, (they
rapidly become quite hardy, and need
little care thereafter in their rapid
growth toward development and j ma
turity. I would therefore discourage the
Idea of any one undertaking to secure a
grove by planting the seed out in the
field at the regulation distances apart at
which the trees are to remain. The re
sult can only be a ragged and unsatis
factory orchard. Some of the plants will
be successful, while a majority of the
others will have to be replanted and .more
or less replanting will have to be done
for several years.
Experience teaches that the most sensi
ble and 'desirable plan for starting a
grove is to purchase either one or two
year old seedlings from a reliable nur
sery. and plant the young trees out where
they are to remain. These can be bought
cheap and if properly planted and cared
for but few losses will be sustained. Af
ter the young trees in the nursery are
three years old they can be budded, but
the process Involves quite a delicate sur
gical operation, and none but an expert
can be successful. The average expert
will lose SO per cent, of the stocks he
attempts to utilise for that purpose,
hence budded pecan trees are much more
costly at the nursery than seedlings, and
only the three-year-old scions can be
budded. Agents who ouer one or two-
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year-old budded stock for sale are just
simply perpetrating a fraud on the ig
norant purchaser!
The process used In budding young
pecan trees is quite different from that
usually employed in budding peaches. A
I strip of the bark about two inches long
has to be removed from the entire cir
cumference of the young stock, and the
bud transferred from the tree on a strip
of bark the same size ano length as that
originally removed from the young stock.
Au the parts must fit in perfectly and
then bound with a strip of waxed cloth.
The inner layer of the bark must be
left adhering to the body of the young
tree and the outer layer only removed,
and in that instance a nice piece of work
is also required. If the operation is suc
cessfully done and the new bud grafted
in takes hold, its growth is rapid and fruit
will be borne in 3 or 4 years thereafter.
Setting the Orchard.
Forty-two trees to the acre, planted out
35 feet by 30 feet, will give the best aver
age satisfaction. As the trees on good
land attain good growth, it is best to start
with the required distance to prevent
crowding in future years. Dig the holes
from 3 to 4 feet deep and about 3 sept in
diameter. Use top soil in filling in around
the young trees when planted. One per
son should stand in the excavation and
tramp the dirt around the root of the
l plant, steadily until the hole is filled. The
dirt should be pulled up around the crown
of the plant about 3 Inches higher than it
originally grew in the nursery. This
should be done to prevent injury to the
crown by hot sunshine.
In a young orchard it is best to culti
vate cotton, and great care should be ex
ercised in hoeing the young plants, not to
strike or bark the stem, in keeping out
the grass and weeds. If fertilixers are
used when planting out the young scions,
scatter the fertilisers at different depths
in filling in the soil, keeping the circle
back to a distance of 8 to 10 inches from
the roots of the plant. Any good high fer
tiliser will answer for this purpose.
While hoeing the orchard, after cutting
out the weeds and grass, always draw up
-- inch or two of dirt around the base or
crowe of the young plants.
There is no trouble now to secure the
finest varieties of the target or medium
sise paper shells from reliable nursery
men.
Fraud can be easily practiced, however,
in the pecan Industry, parties con
templating the establishment of an or
chard should take the care and time to
examine into the reliability and standing
of the nursery or agent offering the plants
for sale.
After the trouble and expense of plant
ing out and caring for a pecan orchard
for seven or eight years before fruiting, a
man does not want to be deceived in what
he originallly believed he was buying. I
have more than once advocated the plant
ing of pecans around the home, and in
towns and cities to take the place of the
ordinary shade trees. The pecan not on
ly a dense shade, but in a few
years It begins to yield a profit, and to
that extent Is doubly desirable.
The yield from an acre of pecans after
the trees are ten to twelvp years old, is
estimated at 100 bushels. As the trees are
hardy and need but little or no attention
after that age a splendid fixed Income is
assured for all time to come. I recently
had an oppportunity of personality in
specting the nurseries and groves of pe
cans on Maj. R. J. Bacon's plantation
near Baconton, in this state, and to him
and his son. Mr. R. J. Baeon. Jr., I am in
debted for much of the information con
tained in this article.
Northern capital is being invested in pe
can culture near Baconton, and several
hundred acres of pecans have been plant
ed out- down there within the past few
year* by both foreign and local interests.
• A 300-acre pecan grove may be seen in full
bearing within 2 miles of Bacont cm within
the next few years, and this together with
the other acreage in smaller bodies of
land, will make of that section the larg
est shipping point of pecans in the world.
HARVIE JORDAN.
INQUIRY DEPARTMENT.
W. S. T., Royston, Ga.:
Please oblige a reader of the Semi-
Weekly Journal as to the-best variety of
snap beans to be planted about the mid
dle of June on bottom land.
Would it be better to plant cornfield
peas, instead of snap beans?
Answer: The advice sought through
your inquiry will depend largely upon the
object you have in view. If you want to
grow beans for market, then it would be
beet for you to plant a running bean of
the “fat horse” variety at that late sea
son of the year.
. If your purpose is to grow stock, food,
I would advise you to plant cowpeas,
using the ‘Unknown” variety.
You would have to market your beans
while in the green stage, the “Unknown”
or any other good variety of cow peas
could be either marketed green or left
until they ripen and then sold through the
winter season.
i W. L. Green, Woodstown, Ga.:
| Please answer the following questions
■ through the Semi-Weekly Journal. I live
t in Henry county, and am a farmer and
i carpenter. Have one mule and force
: enough to operate a one-horse farm. I
i wish to change locality. Where would
i you advise me to go to buy a farm of 75
■ to 100 acres of land, that I could purchase
• cheap and on easy terms, located in a
! healthy neighborhood and handy to good
• schools. I could pay cash 8150 to S2OO and
. would wa,nt easy terms on tne balance.
• I cannot buy such a place here for less
than sls to S3O per acre. How about south
i Georgia or Alabama? I woulo like to go
to California. Do you think that a good
place for a poor man? 1 would like to cor
respond with some one. having land to
sell as I want to leave this section of the
state. Please tell me candidly what to
dOj I have six in family, all girls, from
two to 14 years pi age. Your advice will
be very much appreciated.
Answer: It is a difficult matter for me
to advise you with regard to rhe questions
askea. Ido not think you will find very
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1902.
cheap land cut up into small farms im
proved, located In good neighborhoods
and close to good school facilities any
where in this state.
South Georgia is rapidly developing into
a splendid agricultural section, and many
of our middle Georgia farmers have
moveu Into that section of the state with
in the past few years. Your inquiry will
be read by farmers all over south Georgia
and you may in that way be able to se
cure the information you seek. No other
state in the union has superior agrlcultu,
ral advantages over Georgia and for farm
ing, you can do as wed here as in Cali
fornia or in any other state. You can
doubtless secure a desirable location in
southt Georgia and get a farm such as
you desire on easy terms, but I cannot
give you the names oi any parties to
write to at this time.
Mrs. J. E. N., Apalachee, Ga.:
Enclosed you will find an Irish potato
root which seems to be diseased in some
way. Can you tell me how?
Quite a number of my vines have with
ered and look as though they had been
pulled up, and then carelessly replanted.
On examination I find that the top-root
of most of them have been cut, or severed
in some way, and often the root is covered
with something that looks like mould.
I can find no worm, bug pr animal that
could injure the roots, so am at a loss to
know what the trouble Is.
Several years ago I had potatoes in the
same place that they are now occupying,
and they were affected in the same man
ner. 1 .
You will greatly oblige me if you can
tell me what causes the trouble, and give
me a remedy.
Ans.: The trouble is doubtless due to
a bacterial disease of the plant. This dis
ease is characterized by the sudden wilt
ing and collapsing of the plant. This is
largely due to the clogging of the chan
nels of watersupply of the plant by the
rapid multiplication of the bacteria which
live In these channels and cause the delay.
It may also be the work of the Potato
Stalk Weevil. These little insects bore in
to the stalk of the plant and core it out.
thereby producing rapid wilting and
death. In either event the only remedy
you have is to burn up all the tops and
plant your next crop of potatoes on an
other piece of land.
Impure Drinking Water
is always a source of danger; dysentery and
bowel troubles follow its use. Every person
should have handy a bottle of Painkiller (Perry
Davis'), which will quickly cure these dis
tressing aliments. Be careful and see that
the storekeeper does not palm off some worth
less substitute upon you. as is sometimes done
tor the sake of a few cents extra profit. Large
bottles 35 and 50 cents.
MUN? Won MILLS
IN THE BIG
COMBINE
PROMOTER GIVES A LIST OF THE
MILLS IN THE MERGER PLAN.
TALKS OF THE
SCHEME.
CHARLOTTE, N. C., June 2.-F. L.
Underwood, of New’ York, who proposes
to combine 60 per cent, or more of the
southern yarn mills in a trust, arrived
here Saturday night from Atlanta, where
he has been working in the interest of his
scheme. He says the success of the
movement is already assured and that it
will rhohn the investment of $8,000,000 of
northern money in southern mills. In an
interview Mr. Underwood sal(J:
“In October there will be incorporated
under the laws of New Jersey the South
ern Cotton Yarn Company, capitalized at
$60,000,000. The merger of practically all
the southern yarn mills is assured. There
are over a million and a half yarn spin
dles in the south, and the owners of over
half a million spindles have already signed
the contract to deliver their mills into the
hands of the combination.”
Mr. Underwood stated that the follow
ing named well known mills have agreed
to go into the trust: The Tolar, Hart &
Holt Mills. Fayetteville; the Elizabeth
City Cotton Mills, Elizabeth City; the
York Cotton Mills, Yorkville. S. C.; the
West Huntsville Cotton Mills. Hunts
ville, Ala.; Opelika Cotton Mills, Opeli
ka, Ala.; Sycamore Cotton Mills, Syca
more, Ala.; Central Mills. Sylacauga,
Ala.; Columbia Cotton Mills, Columbia,
Ala.; the Quintette Cotton Mills, Eden
ton, Ga.; Chinnabee Mills, Talledega,
Ala.; Union Springs Cotton Mills, Unloi)
Springs, Ala.; the Knoxville Cotton
Mills, Knoxville, Tenn.; the Sutherland
Manufacturing Company, Augusta, Ga.;
the Cedartown Cotton Company, Cedar
town, Ga.; Paulding Cotton Mills, Dal
las, Ga.; the Georgia Manufacturing
Company, Gainesville, Ga.; Pearl Cot
ton Mills. Elberton, Ga.; Hampton Cot
ton Mills, Hampton. Ga.; Forsythe
Manufacturing Company Forsythe, Ga.;
Atlantic and Gulf Mills, qyitmkn, Ga.;
J. E. Smith Manufacturing Company.
Thompson, Ga.; Eagle Cotton Mills,
Madison. Ga.; Argonaut Manufactur
ing Company, Covington, Ga.; Sumter
Cotton Mills. Sumter, Ga.; Elm Grove
Cotton Mills, Lincolnton; Newton Cot
ton Mills, Newton; Manetta Cotton
Mills, Lando, S. C.; Rodman & Heath
Cotton Mills, Waxhaw; Monroe Cotton
Mills, Monroe; Smithfield I Cotton Mills,
Smithfield; the Holt-Williamson Manu
facturing Company, Fayetteville; Levi
Cotton Mills, Rutherford; Tuscarora;
Cotton Mills, Yorkville. S. C.. Belmont
Cotton Mills, Shelby; Stanley Creek Cot
ton Mills, Stanley Creek; Wadesboro Cot
ton Mills. Wadesboro; Albion Cotton Com
pany, Mt. Holly; Tuckaseegee Manufac
turing Company, Mt. Holly; Spencer
Mountain Mills, Lowell; Nims Manufac
turing Company, Mt. Holly; Mt. Holly,
Mills. Mt Holly; High Falls, Manufac
turing Company, High Falls.
In a further discussion of the merger
Mr. Underwood said:
“It will mean the immediate investment
in southern mills of about $8,000,000 in New
York capital. The consolidation will ef
fect a maintenance of a fixed price for the
products of the mills, causing an improve
ment in the selling of the goods. It will
result in a great saving in the distribution
of the goods, which will go to their nat
ural markets. It will also mean great
saving in the purchase of supplies or
stores. The plan is fair to Ml the mills,
and they are coming to take that view of
the matter. It v is more conservative in its
capitalization, so far as the preferred
stock is concerned, than any other indus
trial company that has been floated on the
New York markpt,
“There' is no longer the shadow of a
doubt about the success of the merger.
Ten of the best known mill men in the
south are busily preparing for the or
ganization, .which will be effected inside
of 90 days.”
“If your plan is successful, as you sug
gest, will it cause a decrease in the pres
ent number of officers in the southern
yarn mills?” asked the reporter.
"There will be no change for a year,”
was the reply.' “After that official decap
itation will be only for logical cause.
Two-thlrds of the directors of the com
pany will be southern men and I am pret
ty sure that the pqj?sident of the trust will
be a southerner.”
STR IKING PLUMBERS T
ASSAULT OUTSIDER
BIRMINGHAM. Ala., June 2—B. K.
Gunn, a non-union plumber, who was
brought into the city by the Master
Plumbers’ association, was assaulted last
night by a number of striking plumbers,
and only escaped serious injury by ac
cepting 'the punishment in good grace and
subsequently taking to his heels. He has
requested the police to arrest C. M. Bates,
one of the strikers. Meanwhile neither the
strikers nor the master plumbers will give
in. About forty men are affected.
BRITISH PEACE TERMS
LIBERAL TO THE BOERS
LONDON, June 2.—The demand for accommodations in the House
of Commons this afternoon to hear the statement of first lord of the
treasury and government leader, A. J. Balfour, was unprecedented.
Mr. Balfour arose at 2:40 p. m., and announced the terms of peace
in South Africa as follows: . ~
“The burgher forces lay down their arms and hand over all their
rifles, guns and munitions of war In their possession, or under their
control.
“All prisoners are to be brought back so soon as possible to Soyth
Africa, without loss of liberty or property.
“No action to be taken against prisoners, except where they are
guilty of breaches of the rules of war.
“Dutch Is to be taught in the schools, if desired by the parents, and*
used In the courts if necessary.
“Rifles are allowed for protection.
“Military occupation is to be withdrawn as soon as possible and
self-government substituted.
“There Is to be no tax on the Transvaal to pay the cost of the
war.
“The sum of 3,000,000 lb. sterling is to be provided for re-stock
ing the Boers* farms.
“Rebels are liable to trial, according to the law of the colony to
which they belong. The rank and file will be disfranchised for life.
“The death penalty will not be Inflicted.”
Costly, Cruel and Corrupting.
BY BISHOP WARREN A. CANDLER.
OW as the war in South
Africa is about ended, it may
be well to raise the question
if the game of war is worth
N
Jhe candle?
Sir Michael Hicks-Beech has fig
ured it out that England has ex
pended thus far on the South Af
rican contest $825,170,000. When the
affair is fully rounded out, the sol
diers brought home and living con
ditions restored to the Boer farms,
it is estibated England's total bill
will foot up the enormous sum of
$1,340,000,000. To this must be added
the outlay by the Boers and all the
loss arising from the withdrawal of
thousands of men from productive
labor for several years. Together
with the value of all property which
has been burned and otherwise de
stroyed/ by the contending forces as
they have marched and counter
marched through the land. When
these items are added it must be
reckoned that $2,000,000,000 is the
lowest figure to express the cost of
this protracted conflict. '
\This stupendous figure leaves
untold the awful waste of human
life, thfe sad sum of widowhood,
orphanage, and inexpressible hu
man misery, and the aggregate of
international hate which has been
Incurred. No array of figures can
measure these immeasurable ex
penditures of invisible and invalua
able treasure.
Has England or the Boer Repub
lic anything to show for all this
that can justify the outlay? I
Let us bring .the matter closer
home. Four years ago our country
weht to war with Spain and that
contest brought us into the Philip
pine war, which is not yet ended.
It is computed that we have al
ready expended Spain
also is out of pocket a great sum.
The Filipinos have expended no
man knows how much—all they
could lay their hands on. And the
end is not yet. We continue to spend
about $140,000,000 a year in those
distant islands, or annually about
SI.BO per head for every man, wo
man apd child 1n the United States.
Is that the best we can do with our
money? Supposing that by these
w;ar-like operations in South Africa
and the" Philippines, the cause of
civilization has been and will be
really advanced, have we not bought
such civilization as may thereby be
secured at the dearest possible price,
when it might have been better pro
cured at a lower cost by peaceable
methods?
Cuba ought to have been libera
ted; but well Informed people know
that as far back as Mr. Cleeland's
last administration that result was
in sight by processes less costly and
cruel than war an<X that it would
have been thus secured but for the
jingoes in our own country and in
Spain. Later, in the early days of
Mr. McKinley’s administration,
these same jingoes Intercepted any
peaceable settlement of the question
and made war inevitable. j
What a pity that it was not possi
ble to have made the jingoes do all
the fighting and pay for all their ra
tions and ammunition while doing
the fighting. Then the war would
have been worth all it cost, for the
destruction of such a breed would
have been the guarantee of long
years of peace. Alas! jingoes rarely
ever furnish many men or much
money for the wars they kindle.
Like rats gnawing match heads in
a barn, they are able to make con
flagrations out of all proportion to
their own importance and to save
their sorry hides by scampering
away to places of safety and con
cealment always open to them by
reason of their very insignificance.
Honest people pay the bills or per
ish in the flames while these social
and political rodents set about some
new scheme of mischief.
Is it not tlfhe for the nations to
expend their militant energies in a
war of extermination upon the Jin
goes—the Ransy Sniffles of civiliza
tion who are never happy unless
they are bringing on a fight? Would
not honest people in all lands do
better to hunt down these pests
than to fall upon dach other in
bloody battles?
It may well be doubted if there
ever was a good war or a bad peace.
Certain it is that now, in this age
of enlightenment and humanity, in
this day of international arbitration
and peace congresses, there is no
longer just excuse for any nation to
avenge its wrongs or assert its
rights on the field of blood and car
nage. All Interests of all nations are
now better preserved by force of ar
gument than by the argument of
force.
The duel between individuals is
discredited; wherein are internation
al duels more honorable? They de
termine no principles of right, but
only make demonstrations of might.
They drag after them generations
men who hate each other without
a cause. They settle no questions
well.
Years ago the gentle Longfellow
wrote the following lines, which are
tilled with wisdom and pulsate with
love:
“Were half the power that fills the
world with terror;
Were half the wealth bestowed on
camps and courts
Given to redeem the human mihd
from error
There were no need for arsenals
nor forts. ,
The warrior's name would be
name abhorred
And every nation that should lift
again A t
Its hand against a brother, on its
forehead
Should wear forevermore the
curse of Cain.”
Rugged, honest Martin Luther
said:
"War is one of the greatest
plagues that can afflict humanity;
it destroys religion; it destroys
states; it destroys families. Famine
and pestilence become as nothing
in comparison with it. Pestilence is
the least evil of the three and ’twas
therefore David chose it, willing
rather to fall into the hands of God
than into those of pitiless man.”
When the Inventions of ipodern
warfare were in their Infancy this
same Luther declared:
"Cannon and firearms are damna
ble machines. I believe them to
have been the direct suggestion of
the devil. Against the flying ball
no valor avails; the sqldler is dead
ere he sees the means of his de
struction. If Adam had seen in a
vision the horrible Instruments his
children were to Invent he would
have died of grief.”
The sturdy old reformer has prob
ably revised some of his opinions
by this time. But his view of war
and weapons will stand.
War is costly, cruel and corrupt
ing. It has outlived its usefulness.
Even General Sheridan said a few
years before his death: “The im
provement in guns and the material
of war, in dynamite and other ex
plosives is rapidly bringing us to a
period when war will be eliminated
from history, when we can no
longer stand up and fight each oth
er, and when we shall have to re
sort to something else.”
And another has said: "Commu
nication between nations is becom
ing so swift and pervasive that it
must lead to contact among na
tions, ,and contact to conference,
and conference to concert, and con- .
’ cert to co-operatlen, and co-opera
tion to virtual moral confederation.”
"Down the dark future through
long generations
War’s echoing sounds grow fainter
and then cease.
And like a bell with solemn, sweet
vibrations
I hear once more the voice of Christ
say ‘Peace.’ ”
Mule Shipments from Pensacola.
PENSACOLA. Fla., June 3.—The work
of closing up the British mule station at
Chalmette Port, La., is going on rapidly
it seems. Eight transports which had
been ordered to load there have had their
destinations changed, and it is learned on
very good authority that Several will load
at Pensacola. One is already here, the
Vermont. She is taking a miscellaneous
cargo, for Cape Town, South Africa, but
last week cattle pens were built on her
and she is now awaiting either mules or
cattle from Texas. The utmost secrecy
is maintained regarding the matter.
Major M. Maud, a British officer who
is interested in the shipment of mules ahd
other live stock through Pensacola to the
Orange River country, has just returned
from Texas. What his purpose was can
not be gleaned.
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SUGGESTIONS FROM I
OUR CORRESPONDENTS I
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A CODE OF ETHICS
NEEDED FOR TEACHERS
FORSYTH, Ga.. May 27, 190$.
To the Atlanta Journal: •
Let me call the attention of all teachers
to the fact that we are much in need of
an authorized code of ethics, either for
all Georgia teachers, adopted by the
Georgia Teachers' association, or better
still by the National association for all
American teachers. Let us have some
thing specific for each class of members—
those in country schools, public school
systems, colleges and universities—with
reference to their duties and rights, es
pecially in connection with school boards.
May another summer not pass with this
work left undone. Why would it not be
a fine point to be considered by the sum
jner school of the south at Knoxville,
Tenn., this summer?
J. L. McGHEE.
• Principal Stephens Institute.
SAYS PELEE ERUPTION
WAS PROPHESIED
To the Editor of The Journal:
Behold now; are not these things spoken
of in the nine hundred and niety
nlnth volume of the Life of Yobl, who
ruled the empire of Atlantis one million
seven hundred and forty-seven years ago,
when the mouth of the St. Lawrence riv
er was on the western coast of England,
where its delta is today, in proof of what
I write. Does he not emphatically say
that the day would come in the remote
future, when there would be terrific con
vulsions of the earth, and that a chain
of mountains would be elevated in the
western waters and that the Apalacbian
chain would be extended to South Ameri
ca through the Caribbean sea. That the
Gulf of Mexico would become a fresh
water lake and that the Mississippi river
would flow through it and that its mouth
would be east of West India islands, or if
the barrier should be too high it would
turn southwest and flow over the isthmus
into the Pacific ocean. Hear ye people!
are not these sayings coming to pass. Ho
ye! listen at Pelee! Hear ye the voice not
supreme. R. R. MURRAY.
A SUGGESTION TO
NORTHERN EDITORS
ATLANTA, May 30, 1902.
To the Editor of The Journal:
History teaches that the most success
ful leaders of men have been those who
in reality led. They succeeded because
they inspired their followers by their
courageous acts, not by words or orders
Issued from places of safety.
With this idea I desire to suggest to the
editor of the Chicago Tribune that he
should at once arm himself, come down
south and' place himself at the head of
the downtrodden negroes and lead them
in his proposed war on the whites of the
south.
He can never incite them to murder and
arson by writing editorials from his sanc
tum in Chicago.
By all means Invite him to take the
field and, after the fashion of Mrs. Na
tion, put into practice the heroic remedies
hq prqaehes.
Get your gun and torch and place your
self at the head of the dusky warriors
who await your coming to commence the
proposed conflict.
Here is an opportunity for glory and
martyrdom which the editor of The Trib
une should not allow to pass.
W. H. HARRISON.
THAT HAMPTON ROADB
CONFERENCE AGAIN
To the Editor of The Journal:
The origin of the old story of what Pres
ident Lincoln is said to have offered to
the Confederate commissioners to the
Hampton Roads conference is to be found
in the second volume of General Grant's
Memoirs. At the opening of the confer
ence Lincoln informed the commissioners
that he could discuss no proposition other
than that of an unconditional surrender
on the part of the Confederates, leaving
the settlement of all questions that would
spring from such a surrender to be dis
posed of by the law-making power of the
United States. Os course the Confederate
commissioners had no authority or dispo
sition to make such concessions and the
conference ended. Shortly afterward (I
think on his return from Hampton Roads
to Washington) President Lincoln in a
conversation with General Grant said
that if he had had the authority to make
such a proposition he would have been
willing to have written a proviso guaran
teeing the preservation of the union and
the freedom of the stave and the comtnis
soners might have filled in the rest of
the sheet with the details of the settle
ment of the questions arising from the
four years ago war.
This is all there is of it: What Presi
dent Lincoln was willing to do as an in
dividual and not what be was authorized
to do and did do as the head of the gov
ernment. It is strange that anyone should
fall into error as Senator Tillman has. as
Grant’s story has been before the public
for fifteen years or more.
JOHN VALENTINE.
Atlanta, Ga., May 8, 1902.
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INTERESTING RELIC
OF THE REVOLUTION
PARROTT, GA., May 27, 1902.
To the Editor of The Journal:
Having found a little history of Interest
that I am sure the readers of your very
popular paper would be glad to read, I
give it to you for publication.
There is in the home Mr. O. A. Harris,
Benevolence, Ga., a relic of the revolu
tionary war, a powder horn, which was
the priming horn of General George Wash
ington. It came into their possession
through the Coram family, the great
grandfather of Mrs. O. A. Harris, being
a member of Washington’s staff during*
the revolutionary war. He gave it to Ms
eldest son, Thomas Coram, and he to his
eldest son, John Jasper Coram, and as he
had no son the relic fell into the hands
of his daughter, who married Mr. O. A.
Harris, of Benevolence, a most excellent,
Christian gentleman. No doubt this story
of the relic is true.
The horn, although it shows its age to
some extent, is in a fair Stats of preserva
tion, and may pass on down through many
future generations. If the curio hunters
should happen to pass through that sec
tion, they would do well 40 call and in
vestigate.
It would be hard to tell how much that
old powder horn had to do with our inde
pendence, the number of old flint and steel
guns it primed, also cannons, which did
their work so successfully in their day.
When I call to mind an old flint and steel
gun that I used to have fun with when a
boy, its uncertain Are. priming, etc., I am
surprised at what was accomplished by
our forefathers in the war of the revolu
tion. ~
A look at the old historic horn, witlv a
little meditation upon the past as it is
contrasted with the present, will make
one feel a little more thankful for his.
American liberties, and will feel the patri
otic spirit of the father of our couptry.
J. SHIRAH.
AN APPEAL FOR ORGANIZED
CHARITY IN ATLANTA
To the Editor of the Journal:
The other day I read your editorial re
garding respectable family that were in
want through liquor habit of the hus
band.
There is hardly a week goes by but
that some such article Is not published
in newspapers requesting aid for families
in deep distress.
Yesterday such a case came directly to
my knowledge, and is about as distress-
ing a case as I have ever known. A man
that had been living in the country, and
in poor health, found he could not stand
the work of the farm, and having a lit
tle knowledge of wagon manufactory,
4ame to this city witn his wife and child
some three years old, looking for work.
Soon after he arrived he purchased some
furniture on the installment plan, and paid
one installment. He was unable to get
work, was taken sick, and not being able
to pay on his furniture, the same was re
moved from the room that he had rented.
Will say that this room was in a cottage
on Linden street, n<st so very far from our
homes. His sickness caused the neigh
bors to send for a doctor, and this doctor
found the man lying on the ground, there
being no floor to the room, with no pil
low, and only an old quilt under him.
There was absolutely nothing in the room.
The little child was clothed solely In a
gingham apron, the woman had no change
of clothing, and they were hungry be
yond expression. Os course they were
taken care of for the time being. The
drayman, on delivery of some groceries
had to leave the box the groceries were
delivered in for them, to use as a table.
Now it occurs to me that Atlanta should
have some organized charity, and not
promiscuous working, such as operates
in cases that are brought to the attention
of charitable people. We have a com
mittee of 49 that are reorganizing the city
laws and regulation*. I think if it was
brought to their attention they might
formulate some plan for the municipality
to take charge of such cases, and appro
priate money each year for it. There was
in Atlanta a charitable institution to
which I contributed regularly, but I be
lieve this has passed out of existence, .the
city failing to appropriate any money for
it.
1 do not know any greater work your
paper can do than to take up the mat
ter of public charities and arrange some
way that people close to our doors will
have enough to eat and cloth them.
CHARITY.
PERTINENT COMPLAINT ABOUT
CHEAP RAILROAD RATES
FLOTILLA, Ga., June 3.
To the Editor of The Journal:
We have read several times lately from
your valued paper that we could get cheap
rates to the Gate City on account of cer
tain meetings, conventions, etc., etc., etc.,
the last one appearing within the last few
days, saying, "One fare’on all railroads
on account of Odd Fellows' meeting in At
lanta on 28th of May.” We call for rates
on day mentioned and are told, "We have
no such instructions.” Now, is it the fault
of The Journal or the railroads?
Please let us hear where the fault lies.
W. J. PARTRIDGE.
OFFICEBROUGHT NO
HAPPINESS ■
TOJIM '
AUGUSTA POSTMASTER HAB BEEN
IN TROUBLE, SPEAKING POLIT<
ICALLY, EVER SINCE HIS
APPOINTMENT.
AUGUSTA, June 3,—The postoffice mud
dle seems destined to remain such, and
every effort to settle it only appears to
lead to some new complication. After
waiting several months Postmaster
Smythe made his appointment of assist
ant postmaster Sunday morning, giving
the plum to Mr. J. M. Lee. Yesterday it
developed that Mr. Lee really wasn’t his
ehoide, but that he was cleverly duped
into making the appointment by the Re
publican machine.
The postmaster and the machine have
been at outs over this appointment ever
since he had it at his disposal. He had
pledged himself in writing, it is said, to
appoint a nominee of the machine, while
at the same time it is claimed he had
promised the place to a Democrat in re
turn for Democratic endorsement to re
ceive the president's nomination. The
story of his duplicity leaked out, and in
this dilemma he refrained from making
any appointment at all. But perjdstent
pressure was brought to bear, and'a few
days ago he agreed to make the appoint
ment, at a meeting held in the pawnshop
of Lncle Paul Davis, a negro politloian.
to end the matter by letting the machine
select one of two candidates he was to
nominate. He nominated Messrs. J. M.
Lee and J. L. Lyon. The former he had
been led to believe was obnoxious to the
machine, and the latter was the man he
really desired. But peace was quickly
patched up between Mr. Lee and his for
mer enemies, and he was chosen. It was
a bitter pill for the postmaster, but there
was nothing for him to do but to swallow
it.
Already a rupture has been sought to
be sprung between the chief and his new
assistant by holding out to Mr. Lee prom
ise of suppdrt for the first place if he
shall refuse to accept second place. The
machine is determined to have the post
master’s official head for having dared to
refuse it obedience, and having the sup
port of V- S. Register Judson Lyons they
believe themselves strong enough event
ually to succeed. < '•
Thei citizens are watching this compli
cated fight with amusement, but without
special interest in the result.
TWO MEN ARE BURNED
IN EARLY MORNING FIRE
ELIZABETH CITY, N. C., June 3.—The
Godfrey brick building was totally de
stroyed by fire early yesterday and two
men perished.
The dead are W. K.‘ Carter and Benja
min Ward.
The lower floor of the building was occu
pied by J. W. Bergeron's saloon and the
upper floor was the sleeping apartments
of Bergeron’s son, Carter and Ward-*
YCung Bergeron had a narrow escape.
Hie room mates were cut off from every
avenue of escape. The charred remains
were removed from the ruins this after
noon. Several adjoining buildings were
slightly damaged.
BIG ADDITION PROMISED
TO HUNTSVILLE MILLS
HUNTSVILLE, Ata., June 2.—Presi
dent S. M. Milliken of New York, and the
other owners of the Dallas Manufacturing
Co.'s properties in this city, left Hunts
ville today after a visit of inspection here.
The gentlemen were well pleased with
their business and gave promise that the
new $750,000 addition to their targe mills
here will be finished and in operation not
later than October. The operation of this
new addition alone will add 3,000 people to
Huntsville's population.
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SOO.OO Steel Range s3l 00.
Our free circulars give Cut
prices of everything.
'S Stoves 10.40, Dinner Sets
«$3.48, 24 pieces Plated Table
Sets $2 00.
PADGETT FUR. CO.,
»' Augusta, Ga.
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