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Talks IVith Farmers
Conducted By C, H. Jordan
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THE FRUIT INDUSTRY.
There Is quite an extensive interest de-t
weloping along the line of diversified fruit
tedustries. It is hardly more than 30 years
ago when Mr. Samuel Rumph, of Marshal
vttle, the pioneer in the peach industry of
this state, began the cultivation of
peaches on an extensive scale for market.
Once that time millions of trees have been
planted and the business of raising
peaches for market, in Georgia now
amounts to many millions of dollars an
nually.
While other southern states, notably
Texas. Alabama and Mississippi, are pro
ducing peaches in considerable quantities
and of very fine varieties, the Georgia
peach seems to have won the blue ribbon
for richness in color and flavor over
peaches produced In any other state In the
union. While a few years ago the peach
belt of Georgia was confined to the terri
tory south of Macon, and in the neigh
borhoods of Marshallville. Fort Valley.
Montezuma. Tifton and other south Geor
gia points, it was afterwards learned by
practical experiment that the red. iron
lands of middle and north Georgia were
equal, if not superior, to the gray lands
for the production of the finer varieties
of peaches. Consequently millions of
yourtg trees are growing on the red lands
of north Georgia, thousands of which are
now in bearing and making their owners
rich.
It cannot be denied that the extensive
development of the peach industry tn this
state is gradually migrating toward the
middle and northern sections. Many hun
dreds of acres will be set out in young
trees tn Jones and Jasper counties the
coming winter, while in Putnam the busi
ness has already developed to nice propor
tions. It Is freely predicted that Judge
George Gober, of Cobb county; will In a
short time be the peach king of Georgia.
All along the line of the W. A A. R. R-.
between Atlanta and Rome, and on the
Southern between Atlanta and Toccoa,
thousands, of acres of good, stiff red clay
lands are being planted in peaches. Not
only is this true of peaches, but also of
apples, grapes, plums, figs and berries of
different kinds. Georgia is rapidly forg
ing to the front in the fruit Industry, and
In Jgss than ten years the value of her
fruit stop will not fall far short of the
value of her present cotton crop.
Over-production.
There is no fear of over-production in
the fruit business. The market for fresh
peaches, plums, apples and berries might
be glutted for a short period of time by an
unusually large crop, but the canneries
will be there to take care of the surplus
fruit and prepare it for the demands of
the market at a later period. There should
be more canneries erected now in all fruit
growing sections to preserve that class of
fruit which is not'good for shipment.
With the rapid increase in cultivation of
peaches and other fruits in all sections
of the state, and the development of the
cattle industry, small grain and grasses,
Georgia farmers are destined within a
few years to become largely independent
of the unsatisfactory business of raising
cotton. With diversified resorces any of
the southern states can within a few
years make their agricultural interests
not only profitable and successful, but
also attractive and pleasant..
The farmers of Texas are making a big
■access operating truck farming in con
nection with their fruit growing interests.
And the two departments should be oper
ated in common. The shipping facilities
for one are needed tn the other. The
same markets are used for both, and the
cannery for peaches can also take care of
the surplus vegetables. Profit on the farm
in the future lies in diversification, and in
there sections which are favorable there
can be no more profitable industry than
that of fruit and trucking, or raising cat
tle. HARVIE JORDAN.
EXCHANGES.
Dangers from Rape.
Wool Markets and Sheep.
Pasturing rape has its dangers. Some
times scouring is induced more especially
when lambs are first put upon it. Access
to salt at all times and to an adjacent
pasture have been found helpful as pre
ventives. Tagging should receive atten
tion before the sheep or lambs are put up
on rape When first turned in upon a
rape field sheep and cattle will freely par
take of it. unless the appetite has preJ
viously been well satisfied with other food.
Bloating may in some instances be Induc
ed, which, if not relieved, will soon cause
death. When sheep are turned in upon it,
therefore, they should be allowed contin
ual access to it unless in time of cold
storms, and when removed in no Instance
should they be put back upon It when
hungry. On frosty mornings, when sheep
eat freely of rape, especially of the leaves
of plants that are immature, there is
some danger that bowel disorders will be
Induced which may cause death. When
the sheep have been removed the pre
vious evening and get a moderate feed of
cats in the morning before they return
the danger is to some extent lessened.
It is at least questionable If there is any
profit in pasturing rape after the stalks
have been made brittle with hard frost.
When the sheep or lambs have been on
the rape for some time they become fat
and In consequence are proportionately
less active. They sometimes get on their
backs in depressed places and are unable
to rise, in which condition they will ng*
live many hours. This is the case more
especially where rape has been grown in
ridged drills. It Is a wise precaution,
therefore, to visit the flocks at least twice
a day. and in doing so the services of a
saddle horse will be found very useful
where the flock is large. It may be well
to allow the animals to remain on the
rape but a short time at first. The length
of this period may be so increased from
day to day that soon, they may remain up
on it all day. Caution should be exercised
as to putting them upon the rape when
it is wet with rain or dew, or when it is
frosen. and they should never be put up
on it when hungry. It may not be known
to all that when sheep or lambs are af
fected with bloating, if they are slaugh
tered in the early stages of the trouble,
the meat is considered perfectly good.
The same is true of ailments caused by
eating of frosen rape. By giving prompt
attention In such instances nearly the full
value of the lambs so affected may be re
alised There is less liability to loss from
these ailments when the rape is well ma
tured. and these losses seem to vary much
with the seasons. Some authorities ad
vocate hurdling sheep while on the rape.
They argue that when it is fed off in this
way the ground will be more evenly ma
nured. While this is true the practice
has some disadvantages. The sheep have
lees of liberty, an important element in
their well-being, their wool gets more soil
ed. and they are prevented from eating
any grass, which is generally believed to
be helpful In regulating the health of
sheep feeding upon rape. The expense of
providing hurdles and the labor of plac
ing them are tp Ua-ebnsldered. It is inter
esting to note the manner in which the
Stoeep feed upon the rape. When It is
grown in drills they walk along the line
of the drills much of the time, and so do
not injured the rape by tramping. When it
grows very rank they do not go far into
It, but eat It off nearly to the ground as
they go. The waste from pasturing with
sheep is very little Indeed. Date rape is
probably not a very profitable crop. In
time of cold rains and sleet the sheep are
safer housed. After the rape has been
frosen so as to become brittle, when it
thaws out again its value as a food is
probably lessened, even though the weath
er should turn warm again, as freezing
to the extent indicated seems to leave it
in a semi-wilted condition. From our ex
perience in pasturing it at such a time
we conclude that it would be more profita
ble to have the rape eaten off by the time
the period of hard freezing arrives.
Goats for Profit.
Goats are first class for cleaning up pas
tures, weedy fields, etc. In this respect
they are better than sheep. Certain kinds
of goats can hardly be confined as they
son learn to climb over almost any kind
of rail or board fence. The modern wire
fence, however, will keep them in, one
3 1-3 feet high sufficient. If you are
going, into the goat business why not
try the angora. This goat is much easier
handled than the common goat, can be
kept in by means of an ordinary fence,
has a splendid fleece of mohair which sells
readily on the market. The flesh is also
considered quite palatable.
Salt for Shfeep.
The value of salt for sheep is shown by
an experiment In France, where three lots
of animals, fed alike on hay, straw, po
tatoes and beans for 124 days, one lot had
no salt, one had half an ounce of salt
each day, and the other had three-fourths
of an ounce. Those that had half an
ounce gained four and a half pounds each
more than thoge which had no salt and
one and one-quarter pounds more than,
those which had more than a half ounce.
So it seems that too much salt can be
given, as well as too little. The salted
sheep clipped one and three-quarters
pounds more of wool and a better fleece
than those that had no salt, showing bet
ter results In the wool—that is, larger pro
fit than In the flesh.
MARTINIQUE’S GIBRALTAR.
Diamond Rock, Said to be In Eruption,
Was Once Fortified and Marked
on Maps as a Ship.
The opinion prevails that Captain Han
sen. of the Norwegian steamship Talis
man, who reported on his arrival in this
port on Wednesday that Diamond Rock,
off the coast of Martinique, was in erup
tion on May 13th, was mistaken. None of
the books containing accounts of Diamond
Rock indicates that the little Gibraltar
possesses any volcanic properties. It is
famous in bistory as having been fortified
by British sailors io 1804.
Frederick A. Ober, in his book, "The
Storied West Indies, " says:
“Near and to the south of Fort Royal.
Martinique, rises huge, sea-surrounded
Diamond Rock, which once upon a time,
as it commanded the entrance to the port,
was seized and fortified by sailors under
the command of Lord Howe, after the
capture of St. Lucia. It is 500 feet in
height, with sides nearly perpendicular,
but those brave British tars swarmed to
its summit, and there, with scarce room
enough for a foothold, they mounted sev
eral guns, with which they peppered away
at every French craft that hove in sight,
sending some of them to the bottom of the
sea. But they were provisioned for a
twelvemonth only, and when their supplies
failed they had to capitulate, as their
commander sailed away and left them to
their fate. They did so, however, with all
the honors of war. as defenders of ‘His
majesty's ship Diamond Rock.’ ’’
William Agnew Paton, in his “Down the
Islands, writes:
“At a distance of one mile from the
mainland, southward of a grand promon
tory called Morne du Dlaraant, there leaps
up from the tea a stupendous rock, with
such perpendicular sides that, by their ex
ceeding steepness to ail appearance its
narrow, level top, 574 feet above the sea
level, is rendered inaccessible to man.
These smooth, flinty, battlements no doubt
remained unsealed from the beginning of
time under Admiral Sir Thomas Hood,
serving under Rodney, conceived the idea
of flaunting the British ensign from the
peak of this breeding place of sea fowl,
in the face of Frenchmen shut up in
fortresses in Martinique or in ships lying
Grande Anse du Diamant and other an
chorages almost under the shadow of the
Caribbean Gibraltar.
"According to one version of the story
of Hood's exploit some of his sailors flew
a great kite from the deck of a sloop of
war, or. as some say, fired a shot carrying
a line, which they managed to stretch
across the summit of the crag; by this line
a rope was drawn over the lofty pinnacle
and made fast below.'*
The remainder of the Paton story agrees
in the main with the Ober version. The
following description of the rock is given
in James' Naval History:
"The south side of the rock is Inacces
sible, it being a fiat steep like wall, but
sloping a little toward the top. The east
and the southwest sides are also inaccessi
ble, the first has an overhanging cave
about 300 feet high, and the other several
caves of great magnitude. The west side
where breakers run into the sea affords
the only landing. But even this landing
is not at all times practicable, on account
of the surf, and a person, when he has
landed, has to creep through crannies and
over dangerous steeps.”
The rocks for many years appeared on
the books of the British navy as “H. M.
8. Diamond Rock.*'
Weary of Joke on His Name.
Philadelphia North American.
“I cannot stand being called a fool in
joke all the time and having people joke
also by saying I have a pull,’* said Ed
win Phful, of West Pittston, "and I am
going to have my name changed.” The
play on words was too much for him,
so he appealed to the court and after he
has paid the necessary costs and adver
tised as required by law the court will
allow him to be known as Edwin Folmer.
He was born in Rossbach, Germany, and
has for 35 years borne the name he de
sires to change.
t
Cyras H. Eothrop. of Taunton, Miu.. has
given a soldiers* monument to hts native city,
which has just been dedicated.
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY. JUNE 23, 1902.
LARRY GANTT WRITES ON
POLITICAL CONDITIONS IN S. C.
INMAN, 6. C„ June 16.—After more than
ten years of political bitterness, wrangling
and warfare, peace and good will once
more reign supreme between the rival
factions in the old Palmetto'state.
South Carolina has ever been loyally
Democratic, and even when Populism was
in the zenith of its power and an elec
toral ticket put out in our state, it receiv
ed less than 2.000 votes, and only 13 in this
(Spartanburg) county.
The negro has been constitutionally dis
franchised in South Carolina and you can
never hear this race even discussing pol
itics. and even the few who are permitted
to vote under our new constitution are
never seen near a ballot-box. Our black
population is contented and generally
prosperous. While they are deprived of
any share in shaping politics, at the same
time the negro is accorded his every legal
right and privilege. It is not an unusual
circumstance to see an Ignorant darkey
gain a case in one of our courts over an
Influential and wealthy white man.
The people of South Carolina realize
that in disfranchising the negro they have
assumed a great responsibility, and pub
lic sentiment demands that he be accord
ed his every legal right and given full jus
tice before our court.
Our state campaign opens this week, but
it will be a very tame affair compared
with preceding meetings.
The bitterst contest, I predict, will be
between ex-Congressman A. C. Latimer
and ex-Gov. John Gary Evans, who are
aspiring for senatorial honors. Both of
these gentlemen were old line “reform
ers,” while all of their opponents were
known as "conservatives.”
Mr. Evans charges Mr. Latimeix with
duplicity in the senatorial contest four
years ago; that Latimer prevailed upon
him to enter the race; that he gave him
ammunition to use against McLaurin on
the stand, and he (Latimer) afterwards
confessed that he voted for McLaurin.
Latimer retorts that of the three evils he
chose the least. Ex-Governor Evans will
enter the arena charged with thunder
bolts to hurl against Latimer, and these
rival candidates will doubtless keep the
campaign enlivened up.
Cuba’s Experiment In Self Government
Is' Being Closely Watched by Statesmen
BY ALBERT HALSTEAD IN BROOKLYN STANDARD UNION.
The opinion has been quite general In
Washington that the new republic of Cuba
will soon meet such grave problems that
it cannot be expected to last long. Many
of the public men in Washington who are
most anxious that the infam republic
should live and thrive have been decided
ly apprehensive as to the future.
No such apprehensions are entertained
by Colonel Tasker H. Bliss, U. S. A., who
was the collector of customs of Cuba dur
ing the period of our military interven
tion. As an officer who performed a most
difficult task, ipn which he had had no
previous experience. Colonel Bliss’ opti
mistic opinion would seem to be decidedly
valuable. It was his duty on taking
charge of the Cuban customs to reorgan
ize that most important government de
partment, the one which furnished most
of the money for the administration of the
government of the island, a department
which during the Spanish rule of Cuba
was notorious for its corruption. He was
so successful that he is one of the authori
ties on Cuban affairs and particularly up
on its financial condition and possibili
ties.
Colonel Bliss was asked today what he
thought of the many predictions as to the
impending bankruptcy of the republic of
Cuba.
“I see no reason,’’ replied Colonel Bliss,
“why the government of the republic of
Cuba cannot successfully meet all Its
financial obligations. If it does succeed,
there is no reason why the hopes of all
well wishers of Cuba for the successful
continuance of its government should not
be completely realized. Os course, an eco
nomical administration will be necessary,
but with such an able, upright man as
THAT SOUTHERN FOREST RESERVE
(From The Washington Post.)
The interest felt in the establishment of
the proposed forest reserve in the Ap
palachian mountains was manifest yes
terday when Senator Simmons, of North
Carolina, spoke for an hour to a large
audience of senators in advocacy of the
enactment of the necessary legislation.
Mr. Simmons explained the bill which
is before the senate and which has been
unanimously reported, showing that It
was proposed to set apart four million
acres of land in the higher ranges of the
Appalachian range, running through the
states of West Virginia, Virginia, North
Carolina. South Carolina, Tennessee, Ala
bama and Georgia. He then devoted
some time to meeting the only substan
tive ground of objection to the bill, viz.,
that it committed the government to a
new policy and to a large expenditure of
money. He pointed out that the only
difference between the proposed plan and
the forest reservations of the west was
in the fact that the latter were largely
composed of land already owned by the
government, and he held that this was
really a distinction without a difference.
“I think, therefore.” said Mr. Simmons,
as he concluded this part of his argu
ment. "that it may safely be said that
this bill proposes nothing new and is in
line with the well-established policy of
“A Barn in Gullford.**
Philadelphia Telegraph.
A coterie of poker players meet seml
occasionaiiy at one of the smaller up
town clubs and play the great American
game with all the zest that Mrs. Battle
used to put into whist. Once in a while
a stranger is admitted on the strength
of an introduction by one of the poker
crowd The limit is small, but the game
is often quite lively for all that. Strang
ers are welcome more for the variety of
the thing than for the amount of money
which their advent causes to change
hands, especially for the way In which
they enrich the vocabulary of the game.
One night last week two men were intro
duced who were types. The one, a college
man who in early life had studied theol
ogy; the other, one who had worked his
way up with the advantage of only one
winter's schooling. Both lost steadily
from start for an hour, and even with a
small limit one can lose a good deal in an
hour at poker. Luck turned for the col
lege man. and in ten minutes he had cap
tured three big "pots.” and at the end of
a quarter of an hour was playing “on
velvet.” With a smile he remarked, as he
raked In the chips after a big/“jack:”
"I knew there was balm in Gilead for
me.”
Luck was against the other stranger,
but just when he had begun to think that
it was not his night for winning his luck
turned, too, and things began to come his
way. When his pile of chips was big
enough to make the banker weary, he
said:
"There’s a barn in Gullford for me,
too.”
Exactly.
Philadelphia Record.
Willie—Pa. what's a linear foot?
Pa—Why—er—a linear foot? Oh, tt's one that's
hereditary. Didn’t you ever hear tell of a linear
descendant?
But there is no denying one thing. Some
of the brainiest men in our state or the
south are aspirants for this office, and
who would reflect honor not only on South
Carolina, but our country, at large.
At this time It is impossible even to sur
mise who will be the winner.
South Carolina is a state of surprises,
and when the people decide to take the bit
In their teeth they pay no attention what
ever to so-called "leaders. When fac
tional feeling was at a white heat in our
state and the reform faction absolutely
controlled matters, to the surprise of ev
eryone Judge Earl, a former “conserva
tive,” defeated for the United States sen
ate, Governor Evans, who was backed by
Senator Tillman, and who had published
a personal appeal In hia (Evans’) behalf.
Governor M. B. McSweeny will not of
fer for re-election. I yesterday received
a letter from him in which the governor
states that he had endeavored to faith
fully discharge his every duty, and had
decided to retire front politics this year.
Governor McSweeny has given the state
a clean, business-like and honest ad
ministration, and had he decided to en
ter for re-election would have made a
very formidable candidate, even in spite
of the cry of “a third term.’’
Had not Senator McLauren loosened his
moorings from the Democratic party
and became the disburser of Federal
patronage in our state, and then permit
ted the Republicans to assign him com
mittee places, he would have made a
much stronger race than many people
surmise. South Carolina has ever been
a progressive state, and our people are
quick to grasp and adopt new ideas.
They are -justly proud of their industrial
progress, and want to shape their party
platform so as to recognize and accept
the new and changed conditions that
confront our country,, But they very
wisely argue that we can never hope to
correct mistakes in the Democratic party
through the instrumentality of the Re
publican party. The result is that when
Senator McLauren began to affiliate with
our old enemies he also spun his political
windingsheet, and it was a wise act when
he declined to enter the contest for re-
Estrada Palma at the head of affairs
there is every reason to expect such an .
administration.
“It has been stated repeatedly that the
expenses of the new government would
be increased greatly beyond those of our
military administration,” was suggested ,
to Colonel Bliss.
“It is true that the new government
will have to meet certain expenses that
the military government of intervention
did not have to consider. But, on the
other hand, -the new government will be
free from other expenses. Nevertheless,
there will be the additional cost of main
taining the legislative branch of the gov
ernment. American military collectors of
customs are replaced, in a number of
cases, by native officials, who must be
paid from the Cuban treasury. The with
drawal of all the American forces will al- j
most certainly make necessary an increase
in the rural guard. Again, if an exten
sion is made of the school system, as
President Palma has expressed a desire,
there will be another cause of additional
outgo. ,
“On the other hand, there will be sev
eral reductions in the cost of govern
ment. All expenditures connected wtfh
the forces of occupation will be cut off.
At the same time, the new government t
acquires all the lands bought and build
ings erected by our military administra
tion. These should be so managed as to
produce revenue, while the original ex
penditures for their acquisition will cease.
The Cuban republic comes into ownership
of a most valuable railway property run
ning from the most desirable terminal in
Havana harbor to a junction with the en
tire railway system of the island. It will
be possible to sell this for a large sum.
“The source of revenue of the new
the government.”
Mr. Simmons dwelt at length upon the
work which foreign governments are do
ing in connection with the preservation
of forests and said that in this country
the enactment of the proposed bill would
save annually millions of dollars to agri
culture, commerce and manufacturing,
while the careful cutting of ripe timber
would prove a source of revenue. He
contended that the bill was not a local
measure, and quoted expressions of in
dorsement from all sections and from
many prominent associations, including
the National Hardwood Lumber Associa
tion, the American Forest Association,
etc.
The proposed forest reserve, Mr. Sim
mons also showed, is asked by scores of
the leading newspapers In the country
without regard to section. Mr. Simmons
then presented the great public interests
that will be subserved by the proposed
legislation, showing that the protaction
of forests from destruction would mean
an abundant supply of timber and fuel,
as well as preventing the erosion of the
land and the irregularity of the water
supply. Mr. Simmons called especial at
tention to the fact that the navigability
of Cape Fear river had been completely
destroyed because of the deforestation
along Its water shed.
Bret Harte, the Dead Novelist.
(From The San Francisco Call.)
“Who knew Bret Harte?”
“I.”
“And what did you know about him?”
No answer.
They are ready enough with their "I’s,”
these old residents who watched the name
of Frank Bret Harte, only thrice capital
ized, grow to Francis Bret Harte, capi
talized from end to end, within the pages
of San Francisco’s directory. They are
ready enough, those who have watched
that name arise to still bigger letters in
America’s literary muster. They are all
ready enough, with the exception of now
and then one who ruffles and asks indig
nantly: “Do you suppose I date back to
Bret Harte’s time?”
But when you ask these ready “I’s” to
prove their claim to acquaintance, alas
for their memories!
The truth of the matter is, nobody ever
knew Bret Harte.
Ask the people of London’s literary col
ony. Harte spent his late years in Eng
land, where he lived as a man of literary
distinction. Surely he must have been
known in Lpndon. He must have had
time to be known there, living in the lux
ury of laurels won.
“No,” they answer, the London folk.
“Why didn’t you ask us about somebody
else? We know other literary people
there; we know the American set, but
Bret Harte—oh, he was different.”
Ask the people of the mines. They were
the material upon which Bret Harte built
his fame and fortune. Surely there must
be miners of the one-time who knew him.
He must be remembered somewhere in the
region of Poker Flat or Roaring Camp, or
election.
If I had the writing of the next Demo
cratic platform, I would use but two
words:
“Agin Trusts!”
And let our party go before the coun
try with that single slogan. I believe we
would win a crowning victory and ad
minister to the Republicans a crushing
defeat. Every honest man in America is
personally and interestedly opposed to
this combination of capital for oppressing
and extorting the masses and would rally
around the banner of any party that made
a fight for the protection of the people’s
interests and a redress of their wrongs.
But it would be political suicide for our
next national Democratic convention to
again jthrash over old political straw. As
well had a farmer attempt to produce a
crop by cultivating last year’s cotton
stalks as for the Democratic party to win
upon a platljorm that has been twice re
pudiated by the voters and people of this
ebuntry.
But, Mr. Editor, I will assure yop of one
thing—the old Palmetto State will ever be
found battling behind the ramparts of
organized Democracy. Our people may
wrangle and fight over which faction shall
rule the politics of our state, but when
their grand old party has met in conven
tion and formulated its platform of prin
ciples all personal differences and opin
ions will be laid aside and our people
rally to that platform as did the High
landers of Scotland once rally to the blast
of the horn of Rhoderick Dhu.
In another letter I will give my old
Georgia friends an account of the indus
trial progress of Piedmont South Caroli
na and show what the influx of capital
has done to enrich, develop and build up
our country. As an example to the many
towns in your state that are anxious to
secure a cotton mill, I will give your read
ers the story of the Fingerville Manufac
turing Company, of this county, and which
mill was built on the Installment and co
operative plan by young men without cap
ital and but limited means. There is not
a town in Georgia but can duplicate this
enterprise. T. LARRY GANTT.
government, as with its predecessor, will
be almost entirely in the customs. This.
I think, should yield a minimum, under
the present tariff, of 216,000,000 per an
num. Cuba is not, and in the nature
of the case, cannot become much of a
manufacturing country. Her supplies
must be imported in exchange for her
agricultural products—sugar, tobacco,
lumber, fruits and vegetables. Her pros
perity is measured by the amount of
these productions, combined with a fa
vorable market for them.
“Her products can hardly be less or
her market less favorable than during
the last three years. Therefore, the Im
ported articles for which she has ex
changed her agricultural products can
harflly be less In quantity than they
have been during that same period.
“With improved industrial conditions
in Cuba, there will be an increase in
importations, and therefore in the reve
nue from customs. With a better mar
ket for Cuban products, I think it not
unreasonable to expect that the present
tariff will yield 31 MOO,OOO or 320,000,000.
“This result might be affected by an
increase in the present rates of duties,
but I think that would be an unneces
sary hardship on the consumers in Cuba.
"As is well known, the administration
of the custom houses has, from almost
the beginning, been practically in the
hands of Cubans. I believe that is true
also of the other departments in the
government, and every American offi
cial who has worked with them will bear
testimony with me to the loyalty, integ
rity and zeal with which they toiled, not
merely to assist our government of in
tervention, but also to demonstrate, as
in my opinion they have amply done,
their ability to govern themselves.”
Mr. Simmons emphasized the damage
done along the banks of the streams
where forests have been cleared away,
and cited instances where land worth 31(0
an acre was made worthless by deposits
of sand washed down the mountain sides.
He presented a detailed statement by
Ptof. J. A. Holmes, showing that in the
last twelve months the damage to agri
cultural and manufacturing Interests by
the floods in the mountains amounted to
318,000,000. “As the clearing away of the
forest Increases,” said Mr. Simmons, “the
loss from the floods will also increase,”
Mr. Simmons said that there was not a
savannah which did not take its rise in
the region where it is proposed to locate
this forest reservation. This fact, he
said, showed that the question was not a
local ofle.
In conclusion Mr. Simmons said that
there was not a national park on the
whole Atlantic coast, the nearest being
the Yellowstone, 2'ooo miles away, while
the forest reserve was in the Da
kotas, 1,800 miles distant. He thought
that the establishment of the proposed
reserve In ’ the Appalachian Mountains
would be a great blessing to the country,
and the future generations would praise
the wisdom of congress in preserving the
territory from vandalism and destruc
tion.
Red Dog or Port Wine.
Ask. | f
“No,” they answer, the miners of the
one-time. “We never k new Bret Harte.
Don't believe he ever came here.”
And yet these are the men of whom he
wrote.
Ask the white-haired populace of San
Francisco. They are all ready enough to
remember him, but pin them down to facts
and they will tell you that "Harte al
ways kept a good deal to himself.”
Harte did. He never liked' people. He
was never the good fellow. The men who
worked beside him in the same office, who
lived beside him on the same street, never
knew him.
BEHIND A WALL.
Bret Harte put a wall around himself
and drew himself within it, and stayed
there to his dving day.
Was he happy?
Nobody knows—we can only guess. Few
lonely men are happy. '
Perhaps he wanted to break down the
wall. But he never will be given credit for
wanting to. Instead, he will go down in
history recorded by the generous as a cold
man, recorded by the less kindly a snob.
If he was a snob he was an intellectual
one. Money and what it buys were never a
source of vanity with him. In fact, he
never was known to have any of either.
Bret Harte’s life in San Francisco was a
hard-luck story. Not that he didn't make
money. He did. There was a time when he
was drawing three comfortable salaries at
once: One hundred and fifty dollars from
The Mint, an average of twice as much
from The Overland Monthly, and a good
round sum from old Trinity Church on the
SUGGESTIONS FROM I
OUR CORRESPONDENTS I
NOT A DESCENDANT
OF HENRY CLAY
To the Editor of The Journal*:
I noticed a special in yesterday’s Con
stiution from Chicago announcing the
marriage of Col. Ezekiel Clay to Mrs.
Florence Lockhart, both of Paris, Ky„
my old home. Brutus J. Clay, a member
of the Atlanta bar, is a son of the above
Clay referred to. The point in the an
nouncement was he was a direct de
scendant of Henry Clay. This is an error.
The Cassius M. Clay family is not related
to the illustrious H. Clay’s family, and
never claimed any except possibly in the
most remote degree. Col. Ezekiel Clay’s
grandfather was a representative from the
District of Kentucky in the Virginia leg
islature, when Henn- Clay was a mite of
a boy in the slashes of Hanover county,
near Richmond.
In point of illustrious ancestry the Cas
sius M. Clay family, or I might better
say the Gen. Greene Clay family, stands
the higher. Gen. Greene Clay at the age
of twenty went to Kentucky, entered a
surveyor’s office (this was in 1777, the year
that Henry Clay was born), soon became
deputy, which* gave him the remarkable
insight of the valuable lands that were
being entered and surveyed, and in that
early day he laid the basis of his great
fortune, locating and entering the largest
acreage in Madison and Barbour counties
that was entered by any one man on his
own account. Gen. Clay was of heroic
stamp. In the war of 1812 he led an
army of three thousand men to the relief
of Gen. William Henry Harrison, who
was besieged at Fort Meigs, and saved
him from surrender. Harrison moved on
and left Clay in command of the fort,
which was soon afterward unsuccessfully
attacked by a large British and Indian
force, Proctor and Tecumseh being among
them. Harrison, on his return, compli
mented him for his gallant defense of the
Tort. After the war he entered upon the
cultivation of his large landed estate, and
at the time of his death was perhaps the
richest man in Kentucky.
Henry Clay's father was a Baptist min
ister perhaps of the primitive type and
possessed but nttle of this world’s goods.
He died in 1782 leaving a widow and seven
children, and an encumbranlce upon his
estate. His mother possessed great force
of character, quite above the ordinary in
intelligence and of fervid piety. Ten years
later she married a man by the name of
Watkins. They emigrated shortly after
marriage to Kentucky. Before going she
placed her son Henry In a small retail
store in Richmond. He was then about
16 years old, and all the schooling he ever
received was at a log-school house, taught
by teachers who selected themselves.
Peter Tinsley, then clerk in the high
court of chancery at Richmond, observed
in the lad clerk something far aWov6 the
ordinary, took him into his office. He re
mained with Tinsley for years. He enter
ed the law office bf General Brooke, the
attorney general, afterwards governor of
Virginia. During Clay’s sbrvice with Tins
ley he attracted the attention of Chancel
lor Wythe, who made him his amanu
ensis and in appreciation of his services
gave him much wholesome advice and
wise counsel that was doubtless his strong
anchorage in future years. But I did not
expect to write but one or two para
graphs when I commenced, in one of
which I expected to say x I doubted if
Green Clay’s family felt that It was any
feather in their cap to be a direct descend
ant of Henry Clay. They were two dis
tinct famines, without a common
Plaza, in which his wife, formerly Miss
Griswold, sang.
And Harte has been known to borrow
money for a new hat. He made the most
of the hat. He was always fond of dress.
This never showed particularly until he
went to England, adopted London ways,
and went the English one better from the
turn of his trousers to the cut of his hair.
He was too poor here to dress smartly,
but when he managed to raise enough to
invest in anything new and swell he would
put it on with careful elegance and start
down the Montgomery street parade in it.
FOND OF DRESS.
A huge overcoat with a great astrakhan
collar that lay high against the neck and
turned over with a great showing of fur
was one of his sources of pride. Montgom
ery street, the then fashionable line of
march, the Kearny street of yesterday
saw him wear this. He seemed to delight
in being observed, but he scarcely ever
stopped for a friendly word with any of
those whose admiration he coveted. He
managed to get a peep at their eyes out of
the corners of his, enough to let him see if
they were looking.
But there was a large part of the time
when he was’lucky if he could keep from
being actually shabby. He never was
sloppy, like his friend, Mark Twain, be
cause he hated untidiness, but he was of
ten threadbare. He lived with nothing less
than frugality, and the wonder of the
thing is what he did with his money.
His homes—the man moved at least
once a year—were always simple in the
extreme. He didn't spend his money in
their adornment. His wife and children
lived and dressed simply. His money
didn’t go in that way. He had no dissi
pations, so say both his friends and ene
mies. He did not drink, he did not gam
ble.
Most certain of all, he never saved.
That was the thing most remote from his
mind- If he made out to live from day to
day, he was doing very well—for Bret
Harte. And yet he always lived In a scrap
of a house, had no more furniture than
was absolutely necessary, and was in
need of borrowing from one week’s end
to the other.
A GOOD LISTENER.
Those rare ones who did know him in a
more or less Informal way never found
him a great talker. He was a listener. He
liked to hear miners talk, and those
who knew the mines, for from such peo
ple he drew the sources of his stories.
He knew little enough of the mines at
first hand.
He was not gifted as a conversational
ist. He never attempted to be witty. Joe
Spear remembers him as he, along with
“Old Zander,” used to come into Spear’s
store, on California street, and sit there,
afternoon in and afternoon out, joining
little In the talk that went on about him
He sat back and watched people and lis
tened to them, studying character in his
own quiet wav.
He never joined men in their ordinary
amusements. In the old Occidental, which
was frequented in those days as the clubs
are now, he used to stand back from the
table and watch from a distance while
others played billiards. He never seemed
particularly Interested in the game. Mark
Twain, ready to mix in anything there
was going on, played a great deal, and
well, and Harte would accompany him
to the billiard room, then —he would make
a wall flower of himself.
That was what Bret Harte was in all
lines save professional ones—a wall flower.
He never liked sports; he never liked
roughing it. He did not hunt, nor fish,
nor ride. When he went to the country
he staid indoors and read and wrote.
He and Anton Roman built a cabin in
the Santa Cruz mountains one summer—
somewhere near the spot that is now
Wrights. It was a rough and picturesque
place, lonely and romantic. The Harte
and the Roman families used to join
forces and go to this mountain spot every
week, to get away from the world from
Saturday to Monday. The place would
tempt a man to be out of doors if any
thing would; but Harte spent most of hts
time inside the rude walls poring Over
books and manuscripts. On Monday morn
ing he could be seen returning to town,
or sympathy.
Henry Clay was one of the few men
born great. I have ever regarded him
as one of the noblest illustrations of the
genius of our government that adorns the
pages of our country’s history. For his
grand life and marvelous achievements I
Jave ever cherished the profoundest rev
rence and admiration.
W. A. OSBORNE.
BRIGHT PROSPECTS FOR
STATE UNIFORMITY
LAKE PARK, Ga., June 16. 1902.
To the Editor of The Journal:
Never before in the history qf Georgia’s
public school system has there been a
more opportune time to legislate for the
public schools of Georgia than now.
With a people thoroughly aroused as
to the needs of our schools, and with
a class of high minded legislator-elects
who will make up the next Georgia as
sembly, which I hope will be presided
over by the ardent and untiring champion.
Colonel W. S. West, of Lowndes county,
who is the author and hopes to be the
finisher of his long sought uniform text
book bill, which will be brought up again
at the next session. With such men as
West and Mcßee and others equally in
terested in educational developments,
Georgia’s educational needs will be safe
in their hands. They will have the con
servative counsel of our newljr-elect state
school commissioner, W. B. Merrett, who
has given his whole life to the study and
work of education, and under whose su
pervision our public schools must ad
vance, both in efficiency of work and
thoroughness of system. All these of
ficials. having the safe guidance of that
staunch old Democrat, Governor Joseph
M. Terrell who will lead Georgia to higher
grounds in the executive realm of her
laws, Georgia’s next executive chief be-«
Inga man of high discernment of the
educational needs of the state, the people
of Georgia can look forward for better
legislation and education. The empire
state of the south is ripe for state uni
formity of school books.
Having taught in both south and north
Georgia, I can truly say the culture and
development needed by the mountain boy
and girl Are the same developments need
ed by the south Georgia boy and girt
At Dunwoody, in DeKalb county, in 1899,
I found a book that had just been thrown
out of the schools of Berrien county adopt,
ed as a text book in DeKalb and on
coming back to south Georgia in 1900 I
found a book just adopted here that was
used in the schools of north Georgia. So
I say a book that is good for north
Georgia is equally suited to south Geor
gia.
Again, I found up there a first reader
that under no circumstances should have
cost over 20 cents, but just because the
book was published by no other publish
ing company and adopted in only one or. <
two counties and an inferior book in
make up, was sold for twice that price.
These facts are appalling and the peo
ple of Georgia are suffering under the
heavy burdens of enormous prices they
have to pay for their school books.
J. M. PATTEN.
Income
doesn’t make prosperity if the outgo Is bigger.
Did you ever figure out what sickness costs you
per year, doctors’ bills, medicine bills, etc.,
to say nothing of the suffering. Rheumatism
strikes like a knife in the back if left alone.
With Perry Davis’ Painkiller the terrors of
this disease are headed off. Painkiller relieves
muscular crampa. lumbago, neuralgia and
sciatica. 25 and 50 cents.
his arms full of copy ready for publica
tion.
There was one short period when he
was able to live in fairly smart style—
for then. That was when Swain made him
his secretary at the mint. The mint was
on Commercial street, where the treasury
is today, and he was given apartments
across the street from his place of busi
ness.
One day Harte received a visit from z
some swell English acquaintances. He
went to Swain and asked for money to
entertain them with. Already he had a
touch of the anglomania that developed
so greatly later in life.
“I’ve spent all my salary,” Harte said.
“Can't you advance me enough with which
to entertain these people?”
“How much do you need?” Swain asked.
“Five hundred will do.”
"Five hundred is yours.”
Harte took the amount and sallied forth
to attempt sociability. He was nothing of
a good fellow, but he was determined to
make a bluff at being one for the nonce.
The next day Swain met him making
the rounds with his smart Englishmen.
Harte cut Swain dead.
It was such things as that that caused
him to be remembered as “not 'one of the
boys.” “He was always so terribly so
ber,” one of the old-timers said. “In
those days you had go into a saloon now
and then to be popular."
George Merrill, one of the few men in
town who has a truly friendly word for
the lonely genius, says that he was a
domestic man. keeping closely at home,
where he read and wrote persistently.
Harte was by no means a religious man
in the usual sense of the word. He was a
thinker and a philosopher, but he had
no use for churches. What his real creed
was nobody seems to know. He was
far from orthodox, at any rate.
Even his old friend of California, Mark
Twain, was estranged from him. Mark
and he had shared a pipeful of tobacco
when they could not raise the price of
two; they had dined together over one
loaf of bread when the price of it was
all they could afford; and after that they
learned to forget each other. The dif
ference was finally adjusted when Fred
Stockin*, a mutual friend, went east, met
Twain and brought the two together.
But taken throughout his life, Harte had
little ability for making friends, and still
less for keeping them.
He was alone even to the last. In his
English country home he lived in seclu
sion. The best known of all California's
literateurs was her least jrnown man.
Can Keep Eggs Twelve Year*.
From The London Mail.
M. Louis Parlscot, an eminent French
chemist, has discovered a liquid which he
claims to be capable of preserving the
freshness of eggs for a period of twelve
years. A year ago he placed a large num
ber of these delicacies in the liquid, get
ting a magistrate to witness his act and
seal the tank with his official seal. A few
days ago the tank was opened in the
presence of his worship, the eggs being
found to be in excellent condition. Four
eggs were selected at haphazard out of
the tank, and on being boiled were eaten,
the magistrate pronouncing- them to be
excellent and possessing a delicious flavor.
Another triumph for the inventor happen
ed the other day, some eggs which had
been in the liquid for four months being
successfully hatched, eight out of the
twelve placed under the hen proving fer
tile. M. Parlsot states that he can pre
serve eggs with his preparation at a cost
of 15 cents per 1,000.
Marketing.
• ' Tit-Bits.
Woman—These fish don't seem very
fresh.
Fisher Hawker (growllngly)—Wot you
wants is fish caught to-morrow, and 'ave
’em today.
Best in the South.
Charlotte Observer.
The Atlanta Journal, the best afternoon news
paper in the south, will on June Ist begin th«
publication of an edition every day, a Banda;
morning issue being added to the present
splendid evening service.
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