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H> r Uv Democrat.
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gg^ACGL’ST 3,1882.
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The Bainbridge Democrat.
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■ .hull adhere strictly t<> the above rales,
I*" depart from them under no circum-
fiiMss,i n:Vfkssioxal.
w. M HARRELL,
[torney At Law,
Rainuridge. Gkorom.
inn be found at McGill's office. All
L* futm-tcd to bis rare will receive
Tp|attention. Collections a specialty,
(toe 1. |wi2—6tn.
MEDICAL CARD.
M. i. Nicholson,
L removed to Twilight, Miller coun-
Ktorgia Office in J. S. OiftOfl’s
■ fcb.9,82.
MEDICAL CARD.
E. J. Morgan
|nremoved his office to the drug store,
,r)j occupied by I>r. Harrell. Resi-
* fta IVest street, south of Sliotwell,
L, calls at night will reach him.
CHARLES C. BUSH,
Ittomey at Law
COLQUITT, GA.
wept attention given to all business en-
iited lo me.
DENTISTRY ~
,C. Curry, D. D. S.,
fio he found daily at bis office on South
Ld nTce*. up flairs, in 15. .Johnson’s
llding. where he is ready to attend to the
pis of the public at reasonable rales.
dec-5-78
.1.. M. o’nbal
McGILL & O’NEAL.
|ttorneys at Law.
BAINBRIDGE, GA.
teir ofice will be found over the post of-
b, K. D0JSA|,SOX,
RVnON B. ROW Fit.
BOWER & DGNALSON,
jtorneys and Counsellers at Law.
bficc in the court bouse. Will practice
IDecatnr and adjoining counties, and
jewkere by special contract. n-25 7
OCTO R M. L. BATTLE,
_ Dentist.
Dec over Hinds Store, West side
rt house. Has tine dental engine, and
III have everything to make his office
st»class. Terms cash. Office hours 9
®. to 4 p. m. jan. I3tf
JEFF D. TALBERT,
ttornev at Law,
Bainbridge. Georgia.
"ill practice in all the courts, and busi-
M intrusted to his care will be promptly
tended to. Office over store of M. E.
~Mt & Son. feb.23,’62.
DR.LhTpE ACOCK,
sped fully tenders his professional sorv-
‘ to the people of Haiti bridge and viciui-
Iffice over store of J. I). Harrell & Hro
Menee on West end of Broughton
*t, where he can be found at night.
April 6,1881—
Ion?*© For Rent,
I hereby offer for rent that comfortable
’■Jence lately occupied by Mr. Fred
u, “. !• >s commodious, with all neccs
T ° u * houses, and splendid garden at*
, Apply to Thomas Scott, or the un
signed,
*>-• J. L Boyxtos.
HEMOVAL,
This is to notify my friends, patrons and
'* pubii* generally, that 1 have removed
"--I 8tore next to F. L. Rabbit’s on
*!h Broad street, where I hope to receive
mture, the congratulations and patron-
* °' ffi y friends. Thanking the public for
f “ Tors > and hoping a continnance of
t! »me, 1 am Yours Respectfully,
. J ACOB BORN.
Jan. 5. 1S82.
lainbridge Academy.
The above institution will begin on the
d m la - v in August, the 28th. A full
‘ able corps of teachers will bt eniploy-
. every endeavor made to give satis-
■id° n Hstronage of cititens gf Batn-
ge and the surrounding country solicit-
tuition as heretofore.
J7.6-'82,
Ref pectfully,
J. E WlTllEBSPOOS.
BY BEN. E. RUSSELL.
BAINBRIDGE, GA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1882.
| YOL. 11.—NO. 41.
“IDE DIGTITY OF FARMING.”
A SPEF.CII VEIJTEBED 1ST
( OEOAEI.UIIARLENJ MI A
NERI.l’N BEFORE THE DE-
CATl’R COUNTY AtiKlCLL-
TEKAL SOCIETY,
Macon
For special instruction in bookkeopin =
®* ng hip, business arithmetic, corres-
^ence, bill heading, telegraphy and
®enu business routine.
••McKay, - - PRNICIPAL.
, er terms, information'as to boarding
Ji'P'y to the principal- P. O. box
Macon, Georgia.
At the Grounds of the Decatur
County Eair Associtilion, at
ISn in bridge, Ga., on the 11th
of July, lstsS.
Mr. President and Gentlemen :—In
vited by your society to address them,
I appear before your to-day, but not
to iuflict upon you a lengthy speech.
A talker who monopolises all the talk
is ever a bore, and he who, on an occa
sion like this, would take up much of
your time, would be in equal bad taste.
Exchange of greetings—talk over
crops and domesticities—discussions on
public affairs, especially who shall be
Governor and fill the various positions
of Candidate; these are the themes of
interest and each one wants his sayso
and to bear the sayso of his neighbor.
Hut. in compliment to your invitation,
and out of refipect to the interesting
subject you have selected for me, I wilt
return to occupy a few miuutes of your
time.
The Dignity of Farming as a Profes
sion is the subject.
Its dignity, work, excellence, eleva*
tion in rank—whether considered in
trinsically or in comparison with the
other avocations—what can have more
excellence, and be more worthy of ex
alted consideration than that, which was
the first employment instituted for man.
no doubt to lighten the distresses ot
his fallen condition ! An employment
which feeds the hungry, clothes the
naked, and while thus supplying the
necessities of the world, furnishes the
substratum and in large degree the
fillings up of all progressive society.
The avocations of man have been di
vided into Professions Trades and Farm
ing. The term profession in the com
mon acceptation implies a calling or
avocation in which intellect is more ex
ercised than the physical. Trade is
the opposite and carries with it the idea
of muscular exercise as not only neces
sary to the effect wanted, but in greater
degree than the mental direction em
ployed. Farmiiig is always spoken of
as a separate and distinct avocation and
not comprehended under either term,
profession or trade.
In the first uses of civilized society,
but two professions wore recognised—
arms and the Church. The one origi
nating in self protecting necessities, the
other God appointed. Out of them
grew architecture as a profession. Be
yond the simpler coverings for habita
tions, strong places were wanted to pro*
tect what the strong hand had taken,
and Mansoleuins for honoring the dead
The Church wanted shrines and tem
ples to inspire in the darkened under
standings of the people, sentiments of
prayer and worship. Hence architect
ure as a profes.-ion, and its skilled men
Were the necessity of wealth and honor.
Laws and medicine were at first dis-
countel, but compe’ling respect and
recognition, have greatly played their
part in human history. From the be--
ginning we see the Physician as now
with martyr heroism defying contageon
and death, seeking out the hidden
cures of disease and then with patient
fidelity aud untiring research analysing
the secrets of nature lor remedies to
alleviate human suffering.
The Lawyer has been the High
I’riect of Justice and the champion of
freedom. To bis trained logic in
Statesmanship we maiuly owe the
chrystalization of rights when rights
have been won, and the construction
of constitutions to preserve rights.. He
has done more than any other Yo or
ganize Democratic principles, and build
into syuietrical form Republican insti
tutions.
Merchandising at an early time rank
ed as a profession ; and Merchants and
Bankers have been and are among
Princes.
More recent experiences have added
to the professions, Teaching and Jour
nalism. Twin and equal illuminators
of the world—let them continue, as
now, active and free, and there will be
no backtcard to human progress.
Engineering too ranks with the pro
fessions. It has taught us by its dar
ing and wonderful feats that there is
ncTimpossibilities to genius.
Also certain specialities connected
with Railroading and Manufacturing
are formulating themselves in the pub
lic mind so as to be named among the
professions—the distinction growing
oat of the idea, that superior faculties
of the intellect ate needed for their
parsnit, and because in the exercise of
intellectual use predominates the phy
sical.
Two reflections in this connection
strike me as per'inent. One is, that
while circumstances or the needs of
society make place for a profession its
rank in general estimate depends upon
the patents and character of itsjrota-
ries. The other is, that the profession
always furnishes the leaders of men—
leaders, sometimes, to oppress and de
base the people, oftentimes however, to
ehvate and bless. But with either re
sult, they are leaders, and that, because
the profession uses and trains intellect,
aud mind will dominate.
How—with the descriptions given
why sh >uld not Farming be dignified
as a profession ? It demands intellect
ual exercise in the broadest and most
comprehensive sense and can employ
talent in its every veisatility. The in-
intelligent farmer must understand
seeds and soils—the elements of fertili
zation and the nature of plants; he
should be wise in climamic and atmos
pheric changes and their effect on veg-
tation. He should know animated na
ture as well—know of breeds and blood
and what can come from crosses and
culture. In fact, he should be conver
sant with all the systems and mysteries
of nature and be wise in application,
besiles, he must kaow how to cootrol
and direct labor—how to train men,
how to organise, systematise—how to
govern. He must understand prices'
and markets—the relationship of sup- ,
ply and demand and the influences that
bear upon them. Id truth and in deed
he must be merchant, politician, states
man and philosopher. The usual isola
tion of his position renders in needful
that he act as Physician among his
employees and prescribe for their simple
ailments. So too, he must be be their
Legal Adviser and thus naturally tha
principles of Law and the requirments
of Code are learned. Yes; and why
should he not practice the Divine call
ing ? Teach from the Authority, moral
precepts and duties. “.Allure to
brighter worlds and lead the way.”
There is really no calling demanding
such varied and comprenensive talents
—such varied and comprehensive
knowledge; and the effort, upon the
man who will intelligently pursue his
business, is, that he will become thor
oughly trained and fitted, for any of
the exalted positions of life, whose ex
ecutive and administrative ability are
needed. As illustration of this, I may
say, that in a neighboring State where
farming has ever been held in high es-
teniate and duly honored within my
time, there have been three occupants
of the Chair of Slate who have had
their training upon the plantaticn—
were essentially and ody farmers.
They, as Governors ranked with the
best—peering the most illustrious
statesmen of a most illustrious age.
Our present executive is another in
stance of high position attained and
honors worthily worn by one whose
best distinctions grew oat of his con
nection with the farming interests ol
Georgia. Yes; and when best pleased
with contemplations upon the worth
and excellence of our section and class,
you would name a recognized represen
tative fit culture and capacity, whose
name will more readily suggest itself
than Bloxham of Florida—Governor
and Farmer,
But, the most important point in
this discussion is, in what spirit should
Farming be' adopted and followed as a
profession to make it a success ? 1
answer in the same spirit aud in the
same manner that any other profession
is adoped when success is attained.
The majority of those who adopt any
or all of the avocations of life do so
merely to gain their daily bread and
meet pressing wants, or to shine a lit
tle with reflected light. If they dream
of success or honor or high attain
ments, it is as a dream only ; there is
no effoit to make the dream a reality.
They have failed to see that purpose,
resolve, effort, lofty purpose, stern re
solve and constant effort are necessary,
heDce, to them, life is bnt a drag with
small or iil results. One in twenty,
perhaps, is a decided success; he has
taken his calling felling that it honors
him and he must honor it; he has
taken it with a purpose and clings to
it with a grasp that refuses to be
loosened; neither pleasure nor ambi
tions, if they direct, can tempt him.
He will resolntely hold his selected line
and look alone to his selected object
nntil after success shall have been
achieved.
We have had, daring this year, a
notable instance of this prSessional de
votion to a specific object, when the
strongest possible circumstances urged a
diversion from it. I allude to Dr Hay-
good, President, of Emory College,
when elected Bishop he modestly but
firmly turned from the high honor. He
had fixed it as his object to make his
college a great seat of learning and he
would not renounce his object, though
seeing higher duties demanded the re
nunciation. This is the spirit with
which a man should take his avocation
and lay out the work of life.
Now, in this spirit, let a young man
take farming as his profession. Let
him fix his purpose upon some object
or end to which all his efforts are to be
directed. Is it reputation for success
merely, or wealth, position or power
atnoDg men ? Whatever it may be,
let him drive to it, deny himself for it
and in all the details and generalisms
of his work tesibly adopt means to ends
and he will succeed.
W'hen years of trial come, years of
failure in crops, which must happen
from seasons or providential calamities
or from other causes begotten of mis
takes, or errors of judgment, natural to
the wisest, let him not despond; if he
endures manf illy the years of famine,
he will rejoice in the times of plenty.
Success in the end, will crown his
effort^.
The greatest temptation to an ener
getic aud enterprising young man, who
we will suppose correctly started upon
the regular work of a farmer, to divert
him, is in the speculative spirit of the
age. Booms are sounding their glo
ries upon every side and it takes a
steady nerve and cool brain to forego
running after one and then another, so
rich are they, in promises of quick and
multiplying success, but the temptation
should be resisted. To yield is more
or less to ungear one’s legitimate busi
ness and lo untrain himself. Patient,
persistent endurance and energy in his
own line is the line for him.
I do not wish, however, to be under
stood as objecting to new enterprises,
nor do I wish to cofine the young men
of the South in choice of an avocation
to restricted ideas. But I do rejoice
when I see one possessed with in
telligence and character choose farming
in any of its many special traits as a
profession, and when choice is made,
judgment, taste and capacity having
guided the choice, I insist upon his
adhering to it with determined pride
and fixedness of purpose.
Inclination and capacity must be the
criterions of choice, and while it would
be best for more of our young men, I
mean particularly those whom mind
and force of character indicate as future
leaders among the people, to take to
the fields, yet I rejoice that there are
new avenues of employment opening
every day, so that every variety of in
tellect and of taste may be fully
exercised. The more diversified the
employment of a people the more full
will be that development that consti
tutes progress. Every mine that is
opened in the South must give us sat
isfaction, every factory that is built
mast gratify us, every new enterprise
started mast increase hope in the
bosom of every enlightened man. We
know the South is filled with the rich
est minerals, especially the two richest
and best of all, because the most need
ful, iron and coal. We know this sec
tion is the best field for the manufact
uring work, because there are no hinder
ing frosts. We know any and every new
enterprise may find here the skill to
use them to profit. We know too the
more general and varied the work of a
people the more interest will be excited
in and toward a country. So that to
diversify business and multiply employ
ment, there is large hopefullness of
increased life. We see the worth of
population, the enlargement «>f old cities
and the building of new ones. We see
more market for farming prodnets, more
prosperity to the farmers. We see
more call for Railroads and Steamboats
more profit to all the old accustomed
classes of our people, more work
for merchants, mechanic*, lawyers,
doctors, teachers, preachers and every
body. Y<*s, this is progress; quicken
ed by diversity, the motive powers of
society, motion is life, life is growth.
Bat while this general view pleases me,
I can but rejoice tfiat the physical char-
cteristics of the South will ever make
farmiug the leading occupation of the peo
ple. It is the best of all, indiBpensible to
ail.
An agricultural people, becomes less
massed are less subject to excitements and
impulse, more reflective, more virtuous and
therefore more conservative. Their in
terests are less effected by panics and
financial prostaations and hence tbey make
a balance wheel during periods of wild
speculation and overtrading. Their labor
results moving with the seasons, are
quickest in recuperation and become power
ful lactors in the re-establishment
of society, when resolutions have over
thrown the institutions of a people.
How happily we hake realized this recu
peration power. Daring the^st ten years
the world has looked upon the South and
wondered. We have been an astonishment
to ou-selves. Never has there been such
uprising after so great desolation in this
Southern land. Besides the destructions
of war. What injuries bare been sustain
ed trom the Aversions of society, bad
government, public thefts, excessive taxa
tion ; and yet the South has prospered.
The farmiug interests leaned upon by
all other interests, bearing most of the
bnrdons of the whole has had its own
Bpecial difficutieg to meet; fleecings from
frauds in fertilizers, usurious intent for
money, and still more exhaustive usuries of
credit prices for supplies; and yet it has
prospered and to-day is lifting heself with
joyfulness and pointing to the future with
hope.
This goodly prospect we. as farmers,
owe mainly to climate, soil and staples*
climate the most beneficient, soil the
most varied and productive, staple the
richest and most needful to man. These
are ours and will continue ours.
Mr. Presideut and Gentlemen; We
have reason to rejoice. “The lines are
falllen unto ns in pleasant places, yea. we
have a goodly heritage.” Let qs then re
joice, and when rejoicing, let us not for
get to be grateful for climate, soil and sta
ples are the benefactions of God.
The Convention.
Qafacy Herald.
Till the counties were represented, on
last Wednesday, at Tallahassee, »t the
First Congressional District Convention,
by the best classes of citizens of each
county, excepting Walton, Homes, and
Taylor counties, which had no represen
tatives, owing to circumstances which we
are gratified to state do not. in the slight
est respect, affect the Democracy of their
peotile. The delegates came up splendidly
from all the counties in representation.
There weie but two names before it, that
of the able and eloquent McWhorter, of
Santa Rosa, and our true and tri.-d friend
of the people, who tor three terms has been
chosen our Representative in Congress,
and who has served with marked ability
and efficiency. As soon as it was defioite-
ly known what counties were present it
was very evideut that a two-thiids majori
ty was for Davidson. The friends of Col.
McWhorter made on able and gallant
struggle for their distinguished choice,
whom all trne democrats would be delight
ed to honor, which attracted general atten
tion for its pluck, and ability, but there
could be no gain-saying of the fact that
Col. Davidson possessed the heart aud
soul of his constituency, and it fonnd ex
pression on the first ballot by a vote of
89 to 41, 88 votes were cast for Gen. E. A.
Perry, the distinguished President of the
convention. Immeediately upon the an
nouncement of the result the friends of
Col. McWboter moved to make it unan
imous which was done The closing proceed
ings were marked by the adoption of resolu
tions, and an eloquent speech of acceptance
from Col. Davidson, and enthusiastic and
appropriate speeches from Gen. Perry and
Mr. S. R. Mallory, of Escambia. Its work
was over in a few hours, and the conven
tion is to be congratulated upon its quick
solution of a nomination which is general
ly attended with unnecessary delays. It
has presemed a candidate selected npon
the first ballot, andAbe democracy of the
First District commences the campaign of
1882 with a solid front and a united ac
tion, and with a candidate, whose populari
ty and ability and experience, upon the
hustings, is second to none within the
limits of the district. Let us close the
ranks and march with a firm and steady
tread to victory in November.
We shall publish the proceedings aa soon
as received from the Secretary.
The Methodist Episcopal churches,
North and South, unite in a centenary
conference, which will be held in Baltimore,
December 25tb, 1884. to celebrate the
famous “Christmas Conference,” which was
held in that city December 24th, 1784.
WIT ANH WISDOM.
A night gown is nothing bnt a nap sack
The farmer is happiest when there is a
full crop. So is a hen.
“Darling this potato is only half done.”
“Then eat the other half lore.”
Smoking and chewing are two evils, and
ye who select the former chews the lesser.
An obituary notice in Dtahc’oses touch
ingly—“he leaves thirteen wiudows Sod
fiity-four children.”
Out West the agents take care of the
Indians, and the Indians reciprocally take
hair of tlte agents.
The man who stops his paper to econ
omize ought to cat his nose off to keep
from buying handkerchiefs.
Irish epitaph : “Erected to the memory
of John Phillips, accidently shot as a mark
ol affection by bis brother.”
Recent boarding honse statistics leads
to the concision that butter was invented
by Mr. Strong, of Ancient Greece.
When a man gets so lazy that starva-
t’on itself won’t drive him to work,yon will
usually find him running for office on a
labor reform ticket..
“I want one of these long felt hats, papa,”
said a pretty girl to her father. The in
dulgent father forked over the money, and
her head now fills the long felt want.
An Irishman giving his testimony in one
of our courts.a few days since, in a roit
case, said: “The first man I sawcomming
at me when I got up, was two brick-bats,
bedad.”
An Ohio girl was vaccinated between
the shouldeas in order to be odd, but she
fooled herself. For twenty-eight days no
young fellow could put his arm around her.
The flat hat that is so prevalent at this
time is liked by ihe young men who wear
it because they can reach over the edges
and hold it on with their ears when the
win 1 blows.
The “utterly utter” kind of talk hns in
fected the street gamins, one of whom
after picking up a more than usually fra
grant cigar stump, exchmed to his friend:
•‘Jack this is quite too positively bully.”
I never pretended to know a thing that
I no not,” remarked Brown. “When I
don’t known thing, I say at once ‘1 don’t
know.” “A good cause,” said Fogg; “but
how monotonous your conversation must
be, Frown!”
“My dear, yon really do smoke too
much,” says Madam B. to her husband.
“See, you have just finished another pack
age of tobacco 1” “.Excuse me, my love,
but do you happen to know when I begun
this package?” “No,” “Well, then?”
“Yes,” said the injured party to the
owner of the dog,” “I kuow the dog was
only in play when he bit about half a pound
of fleeh out of me. Certainly he was ODly
in play! And I was only in play when 1
took an ax and made hash of him. Only
in play, sir. Nothing to get mad about 1'
Some people are very hard to convince.
“Why, I thought yon were dead,” said a
gentleman to a neighbor. “Well,yon see
the report was Rise,’’ was the rejoinder.
I don’t; know about that,” continued the
man obstintley, “the person who told me
never yet deceived me, and I can’t say as
much for you.”
“Charlie, have you got a hooked nose?”
“Yes, darling.” answered Charlie, smiling,
“I’m afraid it is a little liable to that
oriticism.” “Well, I never should have
noticed it,” she added indignantly, “if that
horrid Spriggs girl across the way
hadn’t told me to ask you if you wouldn’t
like to sell it for a syphon.”
He read in a newspaper paragraph the
statement that “The child is father to the
mar,” and straight way went and asked his
mother if that was true? “Yes. sou.” she an
swered. “It may seem a little strange to
you, but it's true.*-Well, mamma,” respond
ed the inquisitive youth, “why is it if I'm
papa’s father that be always licks me and
1 never lick him?”
Liberal Advertising Pays.
There are still a few people, here and
there, who are not clear in theirown minds
that newspaper advertising pays. Prob
ably tbey have never tried it only in some
halfhearted way. In advertising also, the
old maxim applies, “What is worth doing
at all is worth doingwell.” If you want
large profits, advertise largely. Let your
self be known and heard from, some of
the most successful business men have ac
quired their fortune by intelligent nse of
he newspaper columns
Said one of them to a friend about to
start in business, “pay as much for adver
tising as you do for rent and you will suc
ceed.”
There is no more in this than would oc
cur to some at first sight, lake the case
of a merchant.- His rent, clerk hire, in
surance and other expenses are nearly as
much upon sales of say $25,000 per annum
as upoD sales of double that amount. The
sagacious merchant appreciates this, and
he concludes that it will pay a big profit
to make the extra sales of $25,000, and so
he calls to his aid the powerful leverage,
the press, and the people in after years
talk of his “geod luck” amassing wealth.
Tue luck lay in his liberal advertising
bills. The business man who desires to
succeed will do well to study the methods
and heed the counsel of some gf the world's
heaviest rdvertisers.—Coiambus Enquirer.
The Wheat Harvest.
AtUrKia Cbwtituiion.
The men bearing cradles and the clat
tering army of reapers have no# reached
Michigan: Wisconsin and southern Min*
nesoth. In a month more the great worK
of dread gathering will be ended in Man
itoba—the Work that was begun in Georgia
and other gulf states in May. And all
through tbq vast wheat belt the crop hea
turned out handsomely. In OregQn» too,
the yield is abundant, add if there is any
exception to the sweeping blearing it must
be looked for ifi California, where dry
weather has been rather too prevalent for
local good.
The cfop is now So nearfy gathered that
the statiscians have resumed business at
the staDd. The first day of July was the
first day of the new Crop year. The men
of figures put the supply on that day,’
visible and invisible, at 40,000.000 bushels.
As spring wheat has become very prom-.
i8ing, they claim that the year’s crop will
certainly be 480,000,000 bushels; it may
exceed this amount 50,000,000 bushels,
and,it cannot welt be less. The estimated
supply is therefore 520,000,000 bushels.
Fifty-three millions of people will consume
41 bushels each, or 238,000.000 bushels.
To this amount tidd 59,000,000 bushels on
account of seed, etc., and we have the heme
consumption fixed at 300,000,000 bushels.
The surplus is thus 220,000,000 bushels.'
Frofn this deduct 50,000,000 bushels on
account of visible supply on July 1,1883,'
and there will be left 170,000,000 bushels
to be exported to countries that do not
make their own bread. This is a very
handsome surplus. Our heaviest exports
of wheat were 178.000,000 bushels in 1879-
80, and 186,000.000 bshcls in 1880-81.’
Last year we sent across the water 120,-
000,000 bushels. The Uuited Kingdom
requires 192.000.000 bushels, and the Eng
lish crop.which is not promising, is now
put at 72,000,000 bushels. 'The shortage
will therefore be 210.000,000 bushels
As the Russian crop will not be an aver
age one, the United States may be able to'
find a market for one-lialf of its surplus in
English ports. Our surplus bids fair, how-,
ever, to exceed 200‘000,000 bushels, and if
it does, cheap bread is in sigh t for twelve
mon ths, and no small amount of resultant
prosperity and general contentmeut.
A Harmonious Convention.
Atlanta Constitution,
The temper of the convention on yesterday
was admirable. A more thoroughly good-
natured and harmonions convention was"
never assembled in Georgia, preceded by a
contest.
None of the bitterness that has appeared
in certain newspapers, was apparent in the
convention, and the attempt to create dis-'
satisfaction over the action of the conven
tion has certainly failed. It was harmony
and nothing but harmony, that was the
spirit of the toast of the delegates. There
spirited points here and there and determ.'
ined fighting for favorites as there should
have been, but after the majority rule was
once passed and the resalt made clear,
there was a very near approach to a love
feast-deadly opponents of Mr. Stephens
urged that his nomination be made unani
mous, and one declared that be wanted no :
better platform than Alec Stephen’s name.'
The convention will doubtless finish its’
work to-dsy. It may be that an attempt
will be made to reconsider the two thirds'
rule, and that a ballot may be had on the
governorship. There is certain to be d
pretty sharp tussle over the race for con-'
gressman-at-large, though we hope a short
one. Io all that is dooe we invite the'
harmony and good bnmor that character
ized the session of yesterday. Another
day like that wlil eend t’le canadidates to
the front,backed by an enthusiastic and
harmonous democracy, and the old-time'
majorities will be rolled up. The Constitut
ion has avoided bitterness in the cam:
paign. W e have been urged and provok-’
ad into saying some things that perhaps
had better been left unsaid. In all that
we have said, however, we have bad the'
good of the state and of the party first in'
our mind and we are glad to see that the'
convention is on the same line and bas put_.
principles above men and harmony above'
prejudice. Twelve hours more of harmony
and the state can rise np and thank th4
delegates for a great and patriotic work:
Using Anisin Horticulture.
Dr. Macgowan has sent Professer C. V;
Riley, of the agn •ultural bureau at Wash
ington, from Han Chow, an account of *
carious nse made of ants in that part of
the province of China. It seems that in
may parts of the province of Canton
the orange trees are injured
by certain worms, and to rid
themselves of these pests the inhabitants
import ants from the neighboring hilts.*
The bill people throughout the summer aud
winter find the nests of two species of
ants, red and yellow, suspended from thfl%
branches of varions trees. The “orange
ant breeders” are provided with pigorgoSt
bladders baited inside with lard. The
orifices of these tbey apply to the entrance
of the bag-like rests, whep the aDts entef
the bladder, and, as Dr. Macgowan express-'
es it, “become a marketable commodity ai
the orangeries.” The treess are colonized
by olocing the ants on their upper branch-
‘es, and bamboo roddare stretched between
the different trees so as to give the ante’
easy access to the whole orchard. This
remedy has been in constant use' at least
since 1640 and prodably dates from a much
earlier period. It is certainly a new way
of utilizing ants, which as a rule are des
ervedly considered a nuisance by the’
horticnltarist.
The house fly kaoweth his buzz
and doetb it.-
