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THE NEWS
VOLUME XX.
THS ARBUTUS.
blossom of tha May,
Thou and the wind together
whatever, the almanacs say,
The spirit's brightest weather,
youth is gone and fancy flown,
thought doth little and dwells alone,
blooming foot-paths open a way
To many a long past holiday.
youth be flown and fancy gone,
The mind’s sweet memories may live on.
Only let the south wind blow,
1 hou and the South together;
l or thou and the balmy south wind make
The spirit’* brightest weather.
—James Herbert Morse, in the Century.
DRIVEN TO MARRIAGE.
i IIAT Hugh Colewood
ought to be the hap-
* piest man in Green-
Am ville was everybody’s
opinion.
He was young,
■* 2 handsome and well
u educated; then, just as
he was preparing to
fight his way to fame
with poverty arrayed
against him, he had
** suddenly been made
r. the sole heir the
* Q-wq to
fine old estate of his
eccentric aunt. Miss Betsy Colewood, re-
cently deceased.
What more was necessary to the hup-
piness of a gay young fellow like Hugh
Colewood? Nothing, it seemed to the
envious bachelors.
However, there were conditions, or
one, at least, in his aunt’s will which
caused him no little uneasiness. He must
love and marry the girl of her choce,oue
whom he had never even seen.
Hugh Colewood caught up his aunt’s
last letter to him and read, it again and
again,hoping to find some little loophole
of escape from thc galling condition.
But it was there in merciless black
and white. This is the part that worried
him:
“If you cannot comply with my wishes
for you to meet Ethel Wayne and love
and marry her you forfeit your heirship
to my estate. Ethel’s mother was my
dearest friend, and if you marry her
daughter it will be fulfilling my fondest
desires. You cannot help loving her.
“I could not rest in my tomb peace¬
fully and know that Ethel was not mis¬
tress of my estates, and you, dear boy,
the master. My lawyer, Mr. Cranston,
will arrange for you to meet Ethel, as he
is one of her guardians. You know how
thoroughly I despise old bachelors,there¬
fore, I give you warning that I will not
allow you to inhabit my houses and
lauds as one of that disagreeable, crusty
order.”
So had written the eccentric sifinster.
Hugh nibbled the ends of his mustache
impatiently as he poudered on the con-
ditions which the will imposed.
Hugh loved the Colewood estates, and
could not bear to think of giving them
up. Now, if the will had not specified
whom he must marry, but left the selec-
tion of a wife entirely to himself, Hugh
believed that he would have enjoyed the
romance of hunting .. for , a i-i br.de
He picked up h.s hat and rushed from
his room, going up to the hotel where
Mr. Cranston was stopping, while he
arranged some business matters with
Hugh.
“Hello, Colewood! Have a seat
said the lawver, scrutinizing the flushed
face and nervous manner of the visitor.
He was just wondering to himself if the
unexpected good fortune had turned
young Colewood s head, when his visitor
remaned: “You of that peculiar
are aware one
feature in my late aunt s will, Mr. Crans-
Light at once dawned upon the lawyer
and there was a twinkle in his eyes,
However he asked indifferently
“To what peculiar feature do you refer,
Mr. Colewood?
“ The one that absurdly commands me
to marry a, gu.1 that I have never seen
“Oh, that!” returned Mr Cranston,
“You are a lucky fellow, Colewood.
That’s the best part of the fortune.
“It’s the most exasperating part,’
Ilugh cried desperately “How can a
fellow love and wed to order?
“Well, it s a deal of time and bother
saved to the wooer, remarked the law-
yer, puffing “I have no doubt E.uel
W ayne will suit you better than any
selection you are capable of making
Hugh Colewood flushed warmly at the
lawyer s cool observation and he spoke
hotly. won’t suit The
“I’m sure she me,sir.
estate can go to charity for all I care. I
don’t love any woman and Ilovcruv free-
dom too well to thru,? marry yet awhile. I
don't want to be on any woman
for the sake of a fortune, aud I don't
suppose Miss Wayne cares two straws
•bout thc absurd conditions in my aunt's
will.”
“it is very likely although Ethel had
the greatest respect for the late Miss
Colewood, and was very caretulto humor
•II her vagaries,” retuiue l Cranston,
much amused over young Colewood'. ev-
ertemeut *'However, 1 hardly feel able
to state whether the girl would accept
Mis, Colewood a last great vagary m the
shape of her impulsive nephew or not. ’
-I shall not g,vc her the opportunity,’
nonsense and come to business. You
like your auot s estates, hut you cannot
retatn them wituout complying with her
wishes. You hive never met,he
whom your aunt has ehosen. Perna; s it
will be proved that you are neither of
you opposed to fulfilling the condition.
“At least, you must meet. I will ar-
j^nge that. Ethel will pass the summer
with my sister in the country, and I’ll
manage it for you to spend a few weeks
with them. Y’ou can very soon tell
whether tbe condition is wholly obnox-
ious or not. What do you say?”
. “I replied wU I l .J 0 Hugh, „ a8 r 1 who ? dT i had se : now thank cooled J<>“.
off and was trying to take a business
view of tbe strange situation.
your weak* later Hugh Colewood was
AND INDUSTRIAL
speeding away from Greenville on the
morning express, bound for a little town
among the blue hills of Virginia.
When he stepped from the train he
was disappointed to find no one waiting
to convey him to the country home of
Mr. Cranston’s sister, a distance of eight
miles.
ra ?;; ], v ^ t0 the stat ‘ on and
-
1 ne station agent hurried forward to
meet the driver, who was a slender
young girl, with bright dark eyes and
hair as golden as the June sunbeams
touchiug those hills.
“Is Mr. Colewood of Greenville wait-
ing here to ride out to Mrs. Thurston’s?”
inquired the fair driver in a sweet voice
which won Hugh's interest at once.
“I am here and waiting, thank you,”
returned Hugh for himself,smiling pleas-
antly as he came forward on the station
platform,
“I came to drive you to Mrs. Thurs-
ton’s,” she answered simply,
“Shall I take the reins?” he asked, as
they started away.
“No, thank you; I like to drive,” she
answered,
“It was too bad for you to take so
long a drive for a stranger,” lie re-
marked, as he stole a side glance of ad-
miration at the girlish form in dainty
blue,
“Oh, I don’t mind the distance at all:
besides, I rather had to come,” she re¬
plied. “I did wish to go with the young
folks,who are having a picnic this morn-
ing over on Laurel Hill, but Uncle Jerry
was sick,and of course he couldn’t come
for you.”
“Then Mrs. Thurston and Miss Wayne
never drive, so they made a virtue of
necessity and sent the last resort of the
place,” and she laughed merrily.
“It is too bad ray coming prevented
you joining the picknickers,” he said.
“I shall not he able to forgive myself.”
“That’s nothing. I am enjoying my¬
self now too well to think of Laurel
Hill,” she returned brightly.
“Thank you, and at the same time let
me assure you that I, too, am enjoying
myself excellently well,” and Hugh
bowed to the young girl, whose eyes
dropped beneath the warm light of ad¬
miration in his blue ones.
“I hope you will enjoy your visit,Mr.
Colewood,” she said, to change the sub¬
ject. “I know Mrs. Thurston and Ethel
will do all they can to make your stay
pleasant.”
“Thank you; I’ve no doubt Ishall find
it pleasant,” returned Hugh. “You,too,
are one of Mrs. Thurston’s summer
household, I suppose?”
“Yes,” with a smile. “You see I am
a distant relative to Mrs. Thurston; then
Miss Wayne is my cousin and exercises
a kind of cousinly guardianship over
me, which no doubt is very necessary.”
“So you are Miss Wayne’s cousin? I
do not remember hearing Mr. Cranston
mention you. I did not expect to have
the pleasure of meeting any ladies but
Mrs. Thurston and Miss Wayne.”
“How unkind in Mr. Cranston not to
prepare jou for this meeting 4 ” and there
was a roguish gleam in her eyes which
Hugh did not see. “I had up to date
regarded Mr. Cranston " as one of my J very : J
best fr.ends . . . but to ignore . me so utterly,
when he knew I would ^company
Cousin Ethel here, ooks like downright
mtent.onal >1 neglect.”
on have not given me the pleasure
■ of knowing your name,” said Hugh,both
amused aud pleased with his pretty dri-
ver.
“Oh, I’m a Wayne,too,” she answered
laughingly “Ethel Estella Wayne,
variously nicknamed, as you will observe
later on ”
Two Ethel Waynes! Here was a real
| surprise for Colewood Why had Crans-
, ton not mentioned that strange fact to
j will If the only Ethel half Wayne animated referred and to in the
was as gen-
erally captmtating as the one by his
suie Hugh thought it might be an easy
matter after all to obey that condition
which had so vexed him.
Colewood received a cordial welcome
at Mrs Thurston s pleasant home. He
found Miss Wayne to ‘e a tall, dignified
girl of abou twenty-three, with coal
black hair and deep gray eyes She was
as unlike her little merry-hearted cousin
| as it was possible to be
Yes. Hugh decided that she was just
; such a woman as his eccentric aunt would
j be likely to select as theiwife of her heir.
In the weeks which folio we 1 Hugh’s
amval he saw a great deal of Miss Wayne
although much of her time was divided
between her taste for literature and in
remonstrating against the innocent
j pranks of her cousin,
: It did not require a long time for tbe
vouug man to realize that he could never
lor e Miss Wayne as the man should love
j .he girl whom he intend, to marry.
| He made another important discovery
—that his life would be a failure without
the little cousin to furnish daily sunshine
and wifely cheer for his own home.
I Ho resolved to let Miss Wayne have
one-halt of his aunts estates and the
orphan asylum the other. He
marry tho girl of ms own choice, pro-
«ded he could win her and boldly tight
h,s own way tnrough life
| .troll Having .long so the decided Hugh feeling set out for a
river, more manly
j for his msolve
, He came suddenly upon a tattle Sturc
UK,evmeyn,ok
| “Wait, Estelle,” he called, for she had
■ started to run away, “f shall leave to-
morrow, and I have something to say to
youwhityrjtm musthear.”
The telltale flush which swept over
! face^and neck at his words might have
given some hint of an easy surrender.
However, in a moment she had regained
that customary piquancy which had
more than once exasperated Hugh.
“I’d be sorry to have you leave us
with any burden on your mind,” she
said, provokingly.
“It is needless fer me to tell you why
it was arraeged for me to meet Miss
^ ayne here, he said, unheeding r.«jr
light words. “Y~ou know, I suppose.
“Some slight idea, I believe,” she rr
turned, fingering her book,
TOCCOA, GEORGIA, SATURDAY. JUNE 11, 1892.
-‘Well, I may as well tell ymithal
that condition in my late aunt’s will can
never be fulfilled.”
“And why not?”
“Because I love an other,” he cried,
passionately. “Oh, Estelle, can you not
see how tenderly, how ardentlv I love
“ 0b ’ Hu S h! vvould v ? u m3rr >' * P° or
~
girl . wheu have chance to
you a win a
dignified bride and retain those princely
estates?” she asked.
“Yes, darling. I prefer you with
love in a cottage to the wealthiest woman
with all the estate in the world!”
“Rash statement, young man.”
“It is true. Do not torture me long-
er, Estelle. Can you not love me a lit¬
tle?”
t l ‘^°- , }
“ Then you do not love me?”
“I m alraid I do.”
‘Do not meek me, Estelle.”
“I am not mocking you, Hugh,” in a
very sweet voice.
“Then you do love me a little?”
“No, not a little, but very much.”
He would have caught her to his
breast, but she eluded his arms, crying:
“Oh, there’s Uncle Cranston!” aud
she rushed forward to greet the little
lawyer, who had approached them un-
seen.
“It is useless for me to ignore facts,”
said Mr. Cranston, pleasantly. “I did
not mean to overhear your conversation,
but I arrived unexpectedly and thought
I’d hunt up my spirite here and su» prise
her. I see you understand each othei
pretty clearly.”
“Yes, sir,” said Hugh, bravely; “I
have decided to enjoy love in a cottage
with this dear girl rather than keep the
estate with Miss Wayne.”
“Love in a cottage! Ob, that’s too
good!”
And Mr. Cranston broke into a heart/
laugh, in which the girl finally joined
him.
“Will you have the goodness to
explain what amuses you so much in my
statement?” asked Hugh, not a little
nettled.
“Pardon me, Colewood. But really
you are the victim of your own blunder?”
“Blunder? I don’t understand you,
sir?” returned Hugh.
“Of course not,” aud the lawyer
laughed again. “This spirit, whom you
took to be the unimportant little cousin,
is in reality the Ethel Wayne referred to
in your aunt’s will. I did not tell you
that there were two Ethels, so while she
was driving you over here you jumped
to the conclusion that Miss Wayne at the
house was the Ethel.
“You see I have been told all about
your amusing mistake. Ethel would not
explain her real identity with the girl
whom your aunt had selected for you,
”
anti, as the other ladies believed you
knew, you-have remained the victim of
your own mistake.”
Six months later the condition in Miss
Coleman’s will was cheerfully obeyed.—.
*
Boston Globe.
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; ho raost abundant deposit are
itoaled oa the slopes £ of the hills which
robab , yf , t e sUores ot thc old
lagoons. An expert ,,L can tell from the
externl i apI " , e!ir of the ground ' , where
the rich a ‘ its are li | M i, to be
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friable nat aad CQasists of 8ttnd aud
gypsum; while the lower-the costra-,
rocky fragments conglomerate of clay, gravel
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j ; it J be suow Vnite, sulphur, lemon,
s * yioIefc bIue and some tiraes
brow n Uke raw sugar.-Blackwood’s
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„ Bananas.
j Flour From American Repub-
1 The Bureau of the
lies is informed that a new use has been
j found for bananas which will greatly add
to the value of that fruit. In several
places in Central America flour is now
being made from bananas, which, undei
chemical aa.lysis is found to
more nutriment than rice, beans or corn.
A manufactory on a large scale is being
established at PortLimea, Costa Rica—
Washington Star.
TfJftOIIGTI 1 11 llUUUU GFORfttA UJUmU-teil.
Interesting Notes Gathered From Here
and There Over the State.
dedtoted imposing citTwith
° ceremonies ’
*
The Georgia Bar association, met in
Macon last Wednesday morning in their
ninth annual session. Something over
ono hundred lawyers were in attendance
from all over the state.
* * *
The Southern Travelers’ Association,
at their recent meeting at Indian Springs,
after a discussion, decided to take in as
! partners the merchants and mamifactur-
; ers, and to call themselves the Georgia
and Traveling Men’s Associa-
tion.
* *
Uncle Sam’s red boxes are upon, the
corners of the streets of Americus, and
the free delivery postal service is in opera-
tion. Americus is happy over this pro-
gressive. rgely indebted movement, to the for influence which and she is
- a ef-
^ or ^ s Speaker Crisp.
The tax equalization law is not very
popular in Newton county. It is said
that a petition will be sent to the next
legislature asking for the repeal of the
equalization and the local registration,
law. It is also probable that these two
issues will be brought into the legislative
race in the county.
The governor has received a letter from
Judge A. L. Miller strongly urging th8
offer of a reward for the arrest of Will
Bell, the negro boy who kil’ed Deputy
Sheriff B. F. Wilder in Macon some
days ago. The sheriff has personally
offered $50 reward for the capture of the
murderer, and Wilder’s brother has
offered $100 more. The governor issued
a proclamation offering $250 reward.
This put§ $400 on the murderer’s head.
There will he no Chautauqua this year.
That has been definitely decided. For
this summer the beautiful Piedmont
Chautauqua grounds will be unaccupied
save for an occasional picnic party or for
such exercises as the visitors at Sweet¬
water Park may hold there. While this
announcement will create no surprise, it
will be read with regret by very many
people through Georgia. The Chautau¬
qua has been the means of much pleas-
u re and profit to the people of Georgia,
and it is sincerely hoped that auother
season will find it continuing its good
work.
* *
Tbe colored citizens of Atlanta are ar-
ranging for a big celebration next July
^ Piedmont park. Military companies
Rome, Macon and other places will
the city, and will be reviewed at the
P ar ' c Governor Northern A prize drill
between the cojnpauies will be the spe-
C1 a ^ lea * ure ;’I .“ a y» an< ^ fo00 will be
.
There e wiS^also’be a ‘ so be g° good ocl TSse & orse radn* racin g and
a splendid , barbecue , It promises to be
a grand success, and no effort will be
.pared by the colored people to make it
mch.
The law providing for teachers’ insti¬
tutes vided in each county on Saturdays, pro¬
also for institutes to last one week,
to be held at some time in the months of
June, July or August. A large number
will be held in June, and some [of them
will be very fine. The attendance of all
the public school teachers of the county
is required by daw. The commissioner
is arranging to concentrate the institutes
for four counties at Athens. He has made
arrangements for board at the Rock Col¬
lege normal school at the rate of $2.50 a
week. This is with the understanding
that teachers will bring pillows and
sheets.
* * *
The comptroller general is sending out
county tax executions against the Cen¬
tral railroad, the Georgia Southern and
Florida, the Atlanta and Florida, the
Macon and Atlantic, the Macon and Bir¬
mingham, the Angusta, Gibson and San-
dersville and the Marietta and North
Georgia. All these roads are in the
bauds of receivers, and they have failed
to pay the county tax required under the
recent decision of the supreme court.
The taxes cannot be collected from re¬
ceivership roads without an order of
court, but the comptroller general is
complying with the law in issuing the
executions. The executions are sent out
to the county tax collectors, with in¬
structions to confer with the county at¬
torneys, and get them to apply to the
judges for orders on the receivers for the
railroad taxes.
The Georgia railroad has declined to
pay the Richmond county school tax of
23 cents on the hundred dollars. This
tax is levied on all property in Richmond
county under the act of 1872, authorizing
such a levy. When the railroad county
tax act was passed in 1889, it provided a
separate arrangement for taxing railroads
by counties. Tbe comptroller general
was in some doubt at first whether he
should include the railroads in the school
levy, but Attorney General Anderson ex¬
amined the question and said the Rich¬
mond school tax was clearly a county tax,
and the railroads would have it to pay.
Since then th-: tax his been held up by
the case in court. Now they decline to
pay it, saying that they are under a sep¬
arate arrangement. They also object to
paying 7 pt-r cent, interest on deferred
payments of taxes.
The GeorgiaEditoT* In Texas,
Texas is going to show the Georgia
editors such hospitality as Texans can
alone show when the press gang from
this state goes westward on its annual
tour. Within a fortnight the Georgia
Home Weekly in Press annual Association convention wil. asse m^t e at
.
-^ rer transacting
come before the e uore, ey
L Their trauaportation^t, Georgia,
en s „ cure ' d over the states " of
Alab;Una Mississippi Louisiana and
Tex , s a nd thev will go further up into
region* of JrtWtr Cs’.i*
for ia. While in Texas the Georgia
editors will live upon the ‘‘fat of the
land.” The city of Dallas has extendel
them an invitation to stop over and en¬
joy an entertainment.
Spencer Exonorated.
Just as evervoody at all familiar with
the case expected, Mr. R. L. Spencer, the
vice president of tue Merchants’ and
Miners’ bank, of Tallapoosa, arrested for
high misdemeanor, has been tried and
found not guilty. Mr. Spencer was ar¬
rested when the bank failed, charged
■with having borrowed too much money
from the bank. There is a law making
’t a high misdemeanor for any bank offi
cer to lend to one man more than 10 ptr
cent of its capital stock. Mr. Spencer
was not an active officer of the bank.
Moreover, he had papers showing that
the money he had borrowed 'from the
bank was borrowed from another com¬
pany and borrowed for the Georgia-Ala
barna Investment and Development com¬
pany, and further, that the notes were
bought by the bank when chartered.
Nobody ever believed Mr. Spencer guilty.
He was tried several days ago, and was.
of course, released and fully exonora’ed
*
Georgia Melon Outlook.
Georgia’s watermelons are ripening
rapidly under these summer suns, and
within a week the first carload will start
from the melon fields for the north or
west. The acreage is estimated to be
25 per cent, short this year, but the out¬
look for the yield is splendid unless the
present drouth continues. Mr. J. L.
Hand, of Pelham, will probably be the
heaviest shipper from Georgia. He has
600 acres planted. By June 25th the
season will be at its height. The Nash¬
ville, Chatanooga and St. Louis hasmtde
more thorough preparations to handle the
crop this year than ever before, and that
line is said to be paying more attention
to the melon business than any other line
outside the melon-growing territory.
The vegetable crop on the coast is im¬
mense. Chatham county has thousands
of bushels of potatoes ready to ship.
One farmer, who has 100 acres planted
in potatoes, expect to ship 6,000 barrels.
Several carloads have already been for¬
warded to Cincinnati and Chicago.
* X
An Important Decision by the School Com.
miasioncr.
The state school commissioner has de¬
cided ao appeal case which involved an
lm portant point, and one of ve-y general
application. It turns upon the right of
a county school board to use its discre¬
tion in apportioning the school fund
among different schools in a school dis¬
trict. The Stephens High school, of
Crawfordville, has received, heretofore,
$500 a year from the school fund. That
was the whole of the amount allotted to
that school district. This year the coun¬
ty board of education saw fit to give
$125 of this money to another school.
The management of the Stephens High
school objected to this, and appealed
from the decision of the county school
board to the state school commissioner.
He says the law is very plain It re-
quires that there shall be at least one
school in each district, aud there may be
more, if the board of education thinks
the interests of education demand it.
The matter is in the discretion of the
local board, and the state school com¬
missioner will not interfere.
Railroad Humbling*.
The deepest interest is taken by all con¬
cerned in railroads in this inspection trip
which Samuel Spencer is making over the
Richmond Terminal’s properties. Drexel,
Morgan & Co., are approaching the work
of reorganization in a manner so differ¬
ent from that of their predecessors in the
undertaking, tliat it demands attention.
Their very first move is to send their fi¬
nancial and railroad expert out over the
systems to examine their physical condi¬
tions, and to form a general idea of their
earning capacities. The Olcott commit¬
tee may have obtained official reports,
from the general managers and traffic
managers and treasurers of the systems,
but the public is not aware of it,
Mr. Spencer’s report will contain inter¬
esting reading every one believes, and
both the Danville and the East
Tennessee officials are wondering
if fie will have much to say about
consolidation. Plenty of guessing is
going on as to how the 42,000 shares
of Central stock will figure in the reor-
ganization. Mr. Olcott’s committee put
down $220,000 of Central stock as owned
outrignt by the Terminal, and 4,000,000
controlled “through the ownership of
the Georgia company’s collateral bonds
and stock.” Some think that the Ter¬
minal will make a deal and wash its
hands of fbe Central stock. Others pre¬
dict the opposite, and expect to see the
Terminal route that majority block of
stock.
THE DANVILLE VICTORIOUS
Iu One of Its Legal Bouts with the
Centrai.
Judge Speer, at Macon, Ga., Monday,
rendered a most important decision in the
Central-Danville litigation, and the
Richmond and Danville, in practical re¬
sults, drew the first blood A claim was
presented of 825,000 for crossties against
fhe Central. Judge Nottingham, the
master, held that the Richmond an Dan¬
ville* was a necessary party defendant,
because it bought the ties while operat¬
ing the Central. The Central’s attorneys
claimed that the Richmond and Danville,
should be made to pay for the ties. Coun¬
sel for the Dinville had bought the ties,
yet the receivers of the Central had used
them, and should therefore pay for them.
This position was fully sustained by
Judge Speer, and he signed an order
striking the Richmond and Danville
from the record as a party defendant to
this intervention. The effect of this de¬
cision is to relieve the Danville from
liability for more than $250,000 of sup
posed claims against it.
North Carolina’s Crop.
The North Carolina state department
of agriculture prepared, on Monday, its
crop report up to June 1st. It is as fol¬
lows, tion, showing percentages of the condi¬
and is based on reports of 1,200 cor¬
respondents: Wheat 93, oats 69, rye 89,
rice 84, cottou 81, corn 93, tobacco 94.
sweet potatoes 94,clover 92,fruit60. Tbe
quality of farm labor is reported at 80 per
0fHt«
THREE-CENT C0T10N.
TIIE EVIL EFFECTS OF COMMISSIONER K£S-
BITT’S STATFMKNT POINTED OCT BY
EX-COMMISSIONER HENDERSON.
Toths Farmers of Gforgia:
1 Having « ntered the race for Coir,mi sioner
1 of Agriculture, I propose in this letter to lay
I be:. 10 the farmers of Geor*.a, my view* in re-
card to a matter of vital importance to them,
1 re. er to the cost of raising cotton to the av-
•rage farmer, and to the bad policy (to give it
no worsen name) of promulgating to th-. world
erroneous views as to the cost of raising tbe
tie cv s aple.
!n h s interview of March 13th, published
broama t through the land. Commissioner
Nesbitt states m effect, that cotton can be
raised in Georgia at a cost of from 3 to 31-2
cents p r pound.
These asteunding statements, widely copied
and qno ed, caused comment and discussion
aU over the state, and not only in the s’ate,
but oyer the United States and the world in
all i otton circles. Here comes tlie official agr -
cnltur il head of tie greatest cotton growing
state in the south, and says that Georgians
can and do raise cotton at 3 1-2 cents per pound,
leaving in it,even at present unprecedentedly
low prices, the handsome profit of loo per cent.
to the grower.
Had such a statement come from a ring of
speculators on the Cotton Exchange in Wall
street, bent on “bearing” the market so as to
make a profitable deil for themselves, the
world would have understood their motives
aud laughed at, tho’r statements; but,coming
from the Commissioner of Agriculture of
Georgia, the wor'.d is bound to hear with
respect and credit th? statement; credit it,
ye , the speculators will cred t it, the spinners
and manufacturers of New and Old England
will credit it; they are.eager and anxious to
credit it; it means largely increased profits
and handsome dividends to them- But w 11
the farmer of Georgia credit it?
He who counts in his humble homo the cost
of his cotton finds, that after denying him¬
self and family all luxuries and many neces¬
sities, that he is still heavily in debr, and the
mortgage is still upon his farm, his house, his
mule, his cow and the meagre furniture in his
cottage. Pathetic words those, when one com-
pre hends the whole situation—“the cost of a
pound of cotton.”
Hut not only does tlie farmer take alarm
when he hears the words of ill-omen come
from the Department created by him and for
his protection, hut our public-spirited mer¬
chants and cotton men raise a note of alarm
ns soon as tho unfortunate statement comes
to their ears As soon as he hears of it, Mr.
Samuel M. Inman, the well-known ai.d sue-
cessful cotton buyer—identified with cotton
inteiests all of h s bus-iness life, an honored
citizen of whom his city, his state and section
are proud,—he writes a letter to Mr. Nesbitt
and tells him that this statement, coming as
it does from one in his important position,
“carries a weight and responsibility that is of
vast importance.” It wM be telegraphel to
every important cotton market in Europe an^
America, and used in cotton circu ars and re¬
ports. It will be a ‘bear’ argument for still
further lowering the price, and will te quoted
as an authority for years to come.”
It is hard to calculate the damage done the
farmers of Georgia, Ihe merchants and others
holding cotton, by this ill-advised assertion of
the Commissioner, this season; but the end is
not yet, it will be used by the spinners and
speculators to bear down the price of the grow¬
ing crop about which the hopes of tlic toiling
masses now cling. Ha has“builded better
than he thought,” if it was his purpose to kill
off tho only money crop of his people, but I
have the charity to believe that he knew not
what he was doing.
Mr. Inman then asks Mr. Nesbitt for the fig¬
ures on which he bases the remarkable state¬
ment he had made. 5Vhen calls l to “taw” I y
Mr. Inmen, Mr. Nisbitt begins to lay stress
upon the fact that it will require years of > are-
ful preparation of the soil, of intensive farm¬
ing and heavy fertilizing, before 3 1-2 cents
cotton can bera’sed. He then gives the figures
of the State Experiment Station on a it tie
garden plot highly manured and backed by all
the wealth and resources of the nation. He
also gives the figures and experience of Cap¬
tain Corput. a wealthy farmer, who pays cash
for everything he needs, who has by intensive
farming brought up his land to a high state of
fertility, and in consequence makes a fine crop
and a handsome profit. Co'onel Nesbitt is
telling the farmers of Georgia nothing new
when lie te Is them that big crops can be raised
by the intensive system of culture. It has been
“ding-donged ” into his ears in season and out
of season by the agricultural journa’s and so¬
cieties, by the general press and by the De¬
partment of Agriculture under my adminis¬
tration, for many years past.
But now comes Fir Oracle, and with the air
of a man promulgating a new and important
fact, informs the world that from a bale to a
bale and a half per acre Can be raised in Geor¬
gia, And at a cost not exce t ding three and
A HALF CENTS PER POUND.
Statistics— In compiling the “Common¬
wealth of Georgia,” as far back as 1885, I pur¬
posely refrained from giving the cost of pro¬
duction of cotton then selling at about 10 ceuti
perp und. Iliad figured the cot t a* thattimeat
about 8 1-2 cents per pound, hut refrained from
giving it, believing it would h vean injur ous
effect on prices. (Se> Commonwealth of Geor¬
gia, page 300). At the same time I U3ed every
effort to show tlie farmer that the intensive
system would pay handsomely. See in the
same book, pages 301 to 363, instances of heavy
returns on farm crops o every descript on
from all parts of the state, under a system of
high culture. Fee also on p ige i 67 the report
of the committee of which I was chairman, in
awarding the prizes in the contest for
the best acres of corn and cotton offered
by the Geo. W. Scott Company, In
that contest the highest yield was 3 1-2 bales
per acre, tbe lowest X bale per a< re, the high¬
est yield of corn being 116 1-2 bush' Is per acre,
the average b ing 81 bushels. Whilst the com¬
mittee commented on the handsome profit to
be derived from such high culture and urg d
it upon the farmers, they took care at the same
time to show that the farmers throughout the
state only raised a b ile to 3 1-2 acr. s. No, Mr.
Editor, t be farmers of Georgia k now these
facts just as w 11 as tbe Hon. Commissioner
himse f; he is not telling Hie farmer anything
he did not know before; but 1hat farmer is
doing the best he can under the severe condi-
t ons of life upon him, under the burden of
time prices for everything that he needs to
make his crop; usurious interest charges add¬
ed to the unjust burdens of the robber tariff
make it impossible for him, strain every nerve
ns he may, to change h : s method or to make
more than one-third of a bale to the acre, or
to make it at a less cost than 8 1-2 cents per
pound, ishepperson, the great cotton stati«ti-
cian, writing in Nov. 1891, stated that cotton
selling at that time for about 81-2 cents was
undoubtedly below thc cost of production.
No, the average farmer of the country cannot
raise it for less, and God forbid that thoie who
should befriend and protect him, should try
to beat down and cheapen the products of his
labor by putting the world on notice that he
can raise for 3 1-2 < ents what costs him 8 1-2
cents. I can hirdly believe that this great
wrong agiinst the farmer of Georgia is inten¬
tional on the part of the Hon. Commissioner,
but if not intentional it is surely a blunder,
which is little less than a crime.
Respectfully, John T. Henderson.
A Railroad for Sale.
The Illinois Central ha9 an option un¬
til June 18th on tbe Louisville, New Or¬
leans and Texas Pacific. President Fish
has called his stockholders together to
decide whether they shall buy. He says
that the system can be bought on a basis
of paying for all securities, $5,000,000 iu
money, $20,000,000 of Illinois Central 4
per cent bonds, being part of au issue by
a pledge of the purchased securities.
The remaining $5,000,000 of bonds to be
retained bv the Illinois Central
/uwaya aayertits your gooa c | ana your
fc»Ue*a wilt -
N UMBER 23.
BIG DAY IN ROCHESTER.
Harrison and Flower Make Speeches—
250,000 People Present.
Monday will ever bo a memorab’c day
in . the hist 'ry of It Chester, N. Y. Never
before has the city been so crowded and
never before has it entertained such dis¬
tinguished company. J Pub ic and private “
bu “ oe '» WaS m « u *P®?ded , , and . everybody . ,
, took a hOildftj. , it is estimated that fully
250,000 people took an active part in
the various demonstrations. Of this
number fully 100,000 came from the sur-
rounding country. The president was cn-
ttuaiaatically n„ received everywhere ____, and ,
was compelled to bow his acknowledge-
ments to almost continuous cheering,
The weather was bright and fair. The
feature of the day was the dedication of
thc handsome monument in Washington ®
e ^ ^ Dor the .oldiers j*__ and sal-
ors of Monroe county “who died in de-
fense of their country. Speeches were
made by President H&rriaon and Govcr-
Q 0 r Flower,
NURSERYMEN MEET.
Ail Enthusiastic Convention Ilebl in
Atlanta.
The American Association of Nursery¬
men met in the house of representative
at Atlanta Wednesday, and, after the
usual addresses of welcome aud the usual"
response, went at once into the discussh n
of nursery questions. In the absence of
the president, Mr. J. Va, Lind’ey, of
North Carolina, Colonel N. H. Albaugh,
of Tadmcr, O., presilei. The ass >cia-
t:on is a fine body of men, representing
all land parts to of California. the country, One from New Eng*
of them, Mr.
Fell, is from England. Others were from
Canada and the northwest, and a greit
many were from th” middle states, The
president, Colonel N. H. Albaugh, is the
president of the Albaugh-Georgia Com¬
pany, which has headquarters at Fort
Valley. 0».
RICHMOND & DANVILLE R R.
Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Division.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains, in Effect Way 15th, 1892.
NORTHBOUND. No. 88. No. 10. No. 12
J ABTEBN TIME. Daily. Daily. Daily
Lv. Atlanta (E.T.) 1 40 pm 8 60 pm 8 06am
Chamblee..... 9 24 pm 8 40am
Norcross....... 9 35 pm 8 52am
Duluth........ 9 47 pm 9 04am
Suwanee....... 9 57 pm 9 15am
Buford........ 10 10 pm 9 28am
Flowery Gainesville..... Branch 10 24 pm 9 42am
3 03 pm 45 pm 10 03ain
Lula.......... jl 13 pm 10 27am
Bellton........ -1 15 pm 10 30am
Cornefta....... :1 42 pm 10 51am
Mt. Airy....... i 1 16 pm 10 55am
Tocooa......... *2 20 am 11 19am
Westminster... :2 57 am 11 56ara
Seneca........ ‘l 17 am 12 15pm
Central........ 1 50 am 3 20pm
Easleys........ 2 18 am 1 46pm
Greenville..... 6 08 pm 2 44 am- 2 11pm
Greers......... 3 14 am' 2 42pm
Wellford....... 3 33 am 3 OOnm
Spartanburg... 7 04 pm 3 54 am 3 i3pm
Clifton........ 4 13 am 3 40pm
Cowpens ...... 4 18 am 3 44pm
Blacksburg..... Gaffney....... 4 40 am 4 09pm
5 01 am 4 27pm
Grover......... 5 11 am 4 37pm
King’s Monnt’n 5 2S am 4 55pm
Gastonia....... 5 52 am 5 20pm
Lowell........ 6 05 am 5 31pm
Bellemont..... 6 16 am 5 39pm
Ar. Charlotte...... 9 10 pm 6 40 am 6 00pm
SOUTHBOUND. No. 37, No. 11. No. 9.
Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Charlotte...... 9 45 am 2 20 am
Bellemont..... 2 42 am
Lowell......... 2 52 am
Gastonia....... 3 04 am
King’s Monnt’n 3 27 am
Grovtr......... 3 43 am
Blacksburg .... 3 53 am
Gaffney....... 4 10 am
Clifton........ Cowpens...... 4 4 42 45 am
am
Spartanburg... Wellford........ 11 43 am 5 5 23 00 am
am
Greers......... 5 42 am
Greenville...... 12 36 pm 6 10 am
Easleys......... 6 38 am
Central........ 7 10 bid
Seneca......... 7 58 am
Westminster.... 8 17 am
Toccoa........ 8 55 am
Mt. Airy....... 9 30 am
Cornelia....... 9 33 am
Bellton........ 9 58 am
Lula.......... 10 00 am
Gainesville..... 3 41 pm iC 28 am
Flowery Branch 1 1 02 am
Buford........ am
Suwanee....... 11 15 am
Duluth........ 11 25 pm
Norcross...... am
Chamblee......
Ar. Atlanta (E. T.) 5 05 pm
Additional trains Nos. 17 anl 18— Lula ac¬
commodation, daily except Sunday, leaves At¬
lanta 6 15 p m, arrives Lula 9Wpm. Return¬
ing, leaves Lula 6 00 a m, arrives Atlanta^ 50
am.
Between Lula and Atli ns- -No. 11 daily, ex¬
cept Sunday, and No. 9 daily, leave Lu'a 8 15 p
m, and 9 35 a m, arrive Athens 10 00 p m and
1120 am. Betuming leave Athene No. 10
daily, except Sunday, and No. 12daily, 6 15pm
and 7 07 a m, arrive Lula 7 55 p in and 8 50
a m.
Between Toccoa and Elberton—No. Cl dai¬
ly; except Sunday, leave Toccoa 11 40 a m
arrive Elberton 3 20 p m. Returning, No. 60
daily, except Sunday, leaves Elberton 5 00 a m
and arrive* Toccoa 8 30 a m.
Nos. 9 and* 10 carry Pullman Sleepers be¬
tween Atlanta and New York.
Nos. 87 and 38, Washington and Southwest¬
ern Vestibnled Limited, between Atlanta and
Washington, t hrough Pa lman Sleepers be¬
tween New York and New Orleans, al-o between
Washington and Memphis, via Atlanta and
Birmingham. Observation car between Wash¬
ington and New Orleans.
Nos. 11 and 12, Pnllm&n Buffet Sleeper be¬
tween Washington and Atlanta. local and
For detailed information as to
through time tables, rates and Pullman Sleep¬
ing car reservations, confer with local agents,
or address,
JAS. L. TAYLOR, W. A. TURK,
Gen’l Pass. Ag’t. ABs’t.Gcnl. Puss. Ag’t.
- Atlanta. Ga. Charlotte N. C.
C. P. HAMMOND, Ga.
Superintendent. Atlanta,
W. H. GREEN. SOL. HASS,
Gen’l Manager. Traffic Manager,
Atlanta, Ga. Atlanta, Ga.
LEWIS DAVIS,
ATTORNEY AT JUA W
TOCCOA CITT, GA.,
Will practice in the oouutie* of Haber-
*ham and Rabun of tha Northweatern
Circuit, and Franklin and Banka of the
Western Circuit. Prompt attention w.il !
be given to all btuineas entrustea^co him.
The collection e# debt* will have spec¬
ial attention.
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