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The Bainbridge Democrat.
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BAINBRIDGE, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 15, 1883.
VOL XII-NO. 19.
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ffooDLASB, Feb. 5,1883.
Tour interest
r rreets your patrons in
,jon of Decatur county
% and always meets with a
ia d hearty reception.
the place from which
situated at the site
own as “Belcher’s
j s now a lively and
• settlement. Messrs,
tfoot A Bro. have estab-
^L c turpentine industry
’ l0 d ihe noise of many axes
btanl from “early morn till
tve - a ll over this beautiful
lani Mr. L is a young
,f much energy and enter
ed will also erect a steam
jll here in the course of the
when the wooden houses
re way to framed and well
jleu residences. The want of
erhas been a dissideratum in
mmupity for years, and we
]ii that the want will ere long
ipplied.
f jfnrt should be made to get
good school. We are civi-
but so far 1 have heard noth-
ipon the subject. Those who
net able to leave their off-
are abundance of the
ful" should at least endeavor
queath to them properly
iled minds. Show me a
unity dot tod over with school
and I will show you order-
11 behaved and intelligent
en. The rearing of a family
gh and important trust from
but it is often abused or
It neglected. Men and
len will frequently permit
of their bone and flesh of
flesh to grow up under their
ae and fig t ree in utier igno-
of their responsibility to
or Qod. The field of knowl-
ma.v be near but the youthful
is shut out from Its beauties
ie neglect of parents. This
i be remedied, and it is tc
ped that a flourishing school
soon be an established iffsti-
at Woodland.
•rmers are busy as bees fixing
nt Uieir crops. Let us hope
generous earth will make
prana lies groan in the fall
heir hearts dance with joy.
forgot to mention that we will
a Post Office here in a
lie of weeks—another evidence
Light loot 's enterprise,
ie Slough is booming yet but
iphtiy on the decline. At one
we thought that that part of
Bible about the rainbow was
no such thing,” as it verily
led that we should be drown-
spite of ourselves.
lre Anon. Palmetto.
9»»e Whiskey Figs res.
* Outer or \
e repost of the Commissioner
nternal Revenue shows the
fity of spirits wine and beer
e *nd imported in the United
ps, in the fiscal year ending
30th 1SS2, to be: spirits 66,
100 gallons, wines 19,000,000
ons, beer, ale etc., 14,500,000
"pIIs or 522,000,000 gallons,
would fill a canal ten feet wide
feet deep and 3C7 miles long.
B S this as the average annual
dtv drank, and putting the
to the drinker at $100 a gallon
^e whiskey, $5.00 for wine and
for the beer, the total
to the drinker, would be $916,
i 008 - This at $20,000 to the
would build 45,800 miles of
^ad; at $2,000 each it
Id build 183,200 churches ; at
80 each it would build 916000
•el bouses at 250,000 apiece it
Id pay for 3,664 -steamships;
-5.C )per acre it would purchase
;arnis of 100 acres each. It
jd would pay a yearly salary
^each of 200,000 teachers
nearly 23 years—it would feed
elothe all the children under
•ars of age in the United States
-ow ng one dollar a week for
h °£the iQ,000.00Q of children-
New York girl has made
,000 by a single oil transaction.
0811 °f it exploded and killed
nc h aunt .
Earnings ef Anthers.
Printer* Circular.
Anthony Trollope’s demise re
vives the surprising but groundless
accounts of the enormous eammgs
of popular authors. As the writer
was a man of surprising industry,
sending forth novel alter novel
with astonishing rapidity for a
long term of years, the fabulous
accounts of his earnings were the
more readily believed. Quite a
number of usually well informed
newspapers went so far as to tell
their readers that Mr. Trollope’s
books brought their author the big
sum of a half a million dollars and
over. No one knows exactly
what the recently deceased writer
got tor the fruits of his long labors
—certainly nothing like $50 J,000
—which figures, by the way, some
still more enthusiastic journalists
maintain represent the estate left
by Trollope ; that he was paid far
more—spending generous sums in
liberal hospitable living.
Comparatively speaking, An
thony Trollope was a popular
author; but in England, where he
had depended for his reading pub
lic as well as publishers, his books
did meet with nearly so wide a
sale as those of Reynolds, the
author of the “Mysteries of the
Court of London.” Trollope ap
pealed to the hundred thousand,
but Reynolds to the million. It
seems scarcely necessary to say
that, in point of popularity and
commanding pay from publishers,
Dickens was far ahead of Trollope;
yet Dickens’ euare fortune, real
and personal, after his decease,;
was easily covered by half a mil
lion of dollarc—of this sum fully
one-fifth was the proceeds of read
ings. Some of the Circular’s
readers can recall how liberally
Dickens’ readings in the United
Stales were patronized at high
prices—two dollars a seat-, Bul-
wer Lytton; whose Looks brought
him very large prices. left an es
tale known l*, be under $400,000
which included his large private
inherited fortune. Bulwer reaped
handsom3 returns lrom his writing
for the stage; altogether he proba
bly earned $200,000 by his pen.
But the man who made more mon
ey by his literary labor than any
other British writer was Sir Wal
ter Scott. For one novel, “Wood-
stock,” he received $40,000. This
wa6 an exceptionally large remun
eration, it is true, but for a dozen
or fifteen years Scott earned an
nually, by his writings, from $35,
000 to $40,000. He managed to
spend it all and die poor. George
Eliot gained considerable sums
frojn her books; for “Middlemarch”
she received the same price as
Scott was paid for “Woodstock,”
$40,000—a bit of financial literary
history repeating itself. Lord Ma
caulay was well paid for his books;
the Longmans, of London, gave
him in one check—$100,000 for his
“History of England.” He proba
bly earned as much as $300,000
more from all of his other liteiary
work.
We have cited the cases of
phenomenally successful authors
—writers of a far wider popularity
than Trollope ever enjoyed. Not
one af them reached the $500,000
so ainlv set down to the recent-
deceased novelist. It may well be
doubted if any British writer ever
made half a million dollars by his
writings, Sir Walter Scott alone
expected. In America the earn
ings of authors, with the exception
of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe,
have been ludicrously small in
comparison with the sums paid to
successful British writers. S. L.
Clemens (Mark Twain), and sever
al less known authors, have gained
considerable money by publishing
their works on the subscription
plan and retaining the copyrights
in their own name.
“Jane*,” said a father, “I thought
you hated stingy people, and yet
your young man—”
“Why, pa, who said he was
stingy ?”
“Oh, nobody,” replied pa, “only
I could see he was a little close
as I passed the parlor window.”
Tke Whiskey Creditors Striiy w
Congress.
Washington, Feb. 1.—And now
the creditors of the whiskey specu
lators are beseiging Congress to
ease up on the tax. If all persons
oppressed by taxation should get
the idea of coming to Congress to
have their taxes postponed or
remitted, Washington would not
hold half their number. And if
one class is to find favor, why not
all ? Why the whiskey speculator
any more than the farmer, the me
chanic; or the poor man in gener
al?
These banker creditors of the
speculators in whiskey are mourn
fully telling Representatives that
ruin is ahead if the tax is not lift
ed. They went to secretary Fol-
ger to have him suspend the
collection. For answer he showed
them the law which said they
must pay. It confers on him no
discretion.
Did it ever occur to Congress
that mankind feels an interest in
whiskey that does not incline it
specially to the granting of great
favors to these speculators ? Could
Congress remit or even postpone
the payment of the tax which
whiskey exacts from thousands
and tens of thousands of men and
women who have become slaves
io it, it would be a merciful thing
to make haste to do it.
The speculators and their credi
tors have determined to put the
bill through, and it is to be done
at night—a very properly chosen
time. A night session is to be
demanded to do the work. It is
claimed now that the effort will
not fail. The creditois, it is said,
have bi ought the ten per cent, on
the $800,000 falling due Feb. 5
with them.
Let there be a record of the vote
when the question is taken, and
of the absentees as well. It will
be something to set conspieiously
before the people, and permanent
ly keep to be consulted whenever
the supporters of righteous legisla
tion, advancing civilization, and
the reform movement relating to
whiskey desire to know who in
Congress stood for them, and who
served the whiskey speculators.
Turpentine Interests.
An Atlantic Coast Railroad
official told a reporter of the Char
leston News and Courier Friday
that since the first of January no
less thaa two thousand negroes
passed through Charleston for
Georgia, under contract to work
fora year and that.the travel for
this purpose is greater than he
ever knew it to be. The cause for
this migration is apparent at a
glance. Forjseveral years there has
been a great demand for labor on
the timber and turpentine lands
of Georgia and Florida. Capital
ists who own large tracts of lands
are engaged either in cutting
timber and making turpentine,
and as their operations extended,
more labor was required than the
immediate vicinity could supply.
This year demand for labor is
chiefly on the line of the Macon
and Brunswick and the Brunswick
and Albany Railroads. The con
tractors get most of the laborers
from along t he line of the Wilming
ton, and Weldon and Seaboard and
Roanoke Railroads, and the migra
tion from these sections this year
has been so great that the people
in the neighborhood will have
some difficulty in getting labor
enough to plant and gather a crop.
None but men are hired. These
get an average of $18 a month and
rations. The naval store trade
and the constantly increasing de
mand for rosin and spirits turpen
tine give an impulse to labor in
this respect coupled with our in
exhaustible forests where the
article is found and manufactured.
There are in this city at present
two factories where turpentine
stills are made, and the demand
is as great as the supply. In ad
uition thereto, is a large factory
where barrels are .made for this
trade, and the institution is work
ed to its utmost capacity. The
naval store trade and the manu
facturing of article, for the turpen
tine business has had an unprece
dented development here in the
past three years.
IHE SOUTH VS. WEST.
Col. Be relief’s Letter to tke Tour
Its of Virginia Ke-iaforeed. ~
Baltimore Sun.
Mr. N. Y. Randolph, a well-
know Virginian and a successful
business man, has written a letter
re inforcing the recent letter of
Col. Robert Beverley advising the
young men to stay at home. We
give the main points of Mr. Ran
dolph’s letter, as the suggestions it
contains may be profitable to other
Southern young men oiitside of
Virginia: •
“I am comparatively a young
man, came out of the war with a
bad “cavalty horse,” and tried to
buy a better one from Beverley
for Confederate money after
General Lee’s surrender, but he
declined the transaction. I traded
him for one branded “U. S.” and
took the chances. Got my parole
one day, and hitched my horse to
a plow the next and went to work
to make a living. Hard work, I
tell you, at first; but you soon get
used to it. I made a little money
and saved it. Hard to do—harder
than making it, by far. Since
then I have traveled over the lar
ger parts of this country—not for
pleasure, but businesss—and
wherever I find a man succeeding
it is by hard work. On a recent
trip to the far West I traveled
over 7,000 miles in seven weeks,
worked all day and traveled all
night most of the time. I met a
few people who worked for a liv
ing. No. 1 was a graduate of Yale
College, who went west with a
few thousand dollars and lost it.
He was keeping toll-gate at $2
per day. One dellar in Virginia
will buy as much two in Colorado.
Nevada, or any of the mining
States. "No. 2 was a Virginian
who raised money enough at home
to get west. Present occupation
“cowboy,” wages, $30 per month
and found. He lived out on the
plains with the cattle. He had
been months without seeing a
living soul except his assistant.
Had just come in, several day’s
trip, to get provisions. No. 3 was
a machinist from New York, work
ing m .the mines, often in water
six to twelve inches deep; wages
$2.75 and 3 per day. And so it
goes. Ask these people, “why do
you stay ? Why don’t you go back
East? The answer is; “I came
West against the advice of my
family and friends, and I would
rather work it out here than incur
the mortification of going back a
failure. But I would advise any
young man who can make a living
at home to stay there.”
“Of course some succeed and
amass fortunes, and they are held
up as examples of what can be
done—is done in the West. Just
as many succeed at home, with
less work and fewer hardships, and
when a competence is attained
have the benefit of good society
and the comforts of civilization for
thenselves and their families. I
am confident from what I have
seen that the young man who will
stay at home and make up his
mind to work will make more
money with less labor than he
could in the far West I must say
for the people of Colorado that I
saw less drinking than I do in the
East, and a finer looking and bet
ter behaved set of people would
be hard to find. Denver is a beau
tiful city, and has one of the
finest opera houses in the country.
The climate is delightful, but so is
Virginia; and any argument you
use for going West is also good
for staying at home.”
A Columbus lady sent for a
piano tuner to see what gave her
instrument such a sad tone. He
came and removed four marbles,
two spools, six buttons, two
coppers, and a dozen hairpins from
the instrument, and the sadness
went away.
“How are you, Smith?” said
Jones. Smith pretended not to
know him. and answered hesitant-
inglv, “Sir, you have the advant
age of me” “Yes, I suppose so.
Every one ha6 that’s got common
sense.”
Aa Extraordinary Advertiser.
“I would like to have an adver
tisement inserted.”
This isTa slogan that would res
urrect a dead man behind a news
paper counter, and the clerk turn
ed as if moved by an electric
current and ejaculated:
“Yes, sir; want the top of the
column, I s’pose ?”
. “No; lam not particular,” said
the advertiser.
“Want it inside, next leading
editorial!”
, “Either page will answer,” re
plied the other.
“Want a cut of death's head
and marrow bones »to make it at
tractive, or a portrait of the
advertiser with long hair and a
turn-down shirt collar ?”
Clear type, black ink and white
paper are good enough for me,”
was the response.
“All right; want head-line in
type an inch longer than Jenkins’
ad. in next column, or will you
have it upside down, or your name
in crooked letters like forked
lightning all ov<_r it ?”
“No; a plain, straightforward
advertisement, in space of four
inches, will answer my purpose.”
“Good enough. Want about
ten inches of notice free, don’t
you ? Family history, how your
grandfather blacked Washington’s
boots once; mention yourself as a
member of a circulating library,
church, fire company, co-operative
store, base-ball club and other
important positions.”
The customer said he did not
care for any notice.
“Of course,” said the clerk,
“you want a paper sent to each
member of the firm, one for your
self, and the privilege of taking
half a dozen copies off the counter
for the next year or two because
you advertise ?”
The gentleman expected to pay
for his paper, and asked the price
of the advertisement.
The delighted clerk figured it
up, and then asked:
“If we send you the bill around
in about a year, you can tell the
boy when to call again, can’t
you
3”
“No, I will pay you now,” said
the other, taking out a roll of
bill.
“Ah! you want seventy-five per
cent discount and twenty-five per
cent, discount and twenty-fiVe per
cent, off for cash ?”
“I am ready to pay a fair price
for value received. Tell me your
regulai rates, and here is the
money.”
A beautiful expression spread
over the wan face of the worn
clerk as he murmured:
“Stranger, when did you come
down, and when do you expect the
Apostles along ?”
Josh Billingx in the Role of a Peddler.
Josh Billings thinks the charity
of this world a conundrum, and he
gives it up. One snowy afternoon
this winter, he saw a thinly clad
man trying to sell a couple of lead
pencils at the foot of the stairs of
an elevated railway station, im
ploring each passer by to purchase
as he was starving. Seven passed
without buying; “Josh” was the
eighth and he bought them and
passed on to the Fifth Avenue
Hotel. Soon, having an errand at
the Gilsey House, he thought he
would try his luck selling pencils
on the way. He took the two he
had bought, pulled up his coat
collar and his hat brim down, and
set out in the dark. At Twenty-
fourth street, he stopped a bene-
volentlooking pedestrian with:
“Please buy my two pencils for ten
cents apiece ; I am starving, I
have not had anything to eat for
twenty-feur hours,” etc. The man
pushed him aside, saying gruffly.
“I can buy three for a quarter
down the street,” and went on.
Three others baing appealed to,
did about the. same. At last he
slouched into the Gilsey House
and tried the dodge on a man at
the bar, who tossed him a quarter,
saying: “Take that, old man, I
don’t want any pencils.” Then
“Josh” revealed himself and told
the story of his experience as an
amateur pencil-seller, to the great
amusement of the assembled com
pany. i
Georgia Timber Lands
OonstUuiion.
Various of the northern contem
porarieshave recently called at
tention to the rapid destruction of
American forests. Their articles
were of a very gloomy character.
We believe that estimates have
been made predicting to a day
when the forests now existing
would entirely disappear, and
along with these predictions were
a number of suggestions as to how*
American forests might be per
petuated. The warnings of these
newspapers have not been without
effect.
It is now stated that a number
of enterprising manufacturers-and
captalists of the north and west
propose to take time by the fore
lock. Anticipating the rapid des
truction of forests in their own
section they have sent «gents to
Gorgia and other southern states
with money and instructions to
buy up every tract of timber land
that can be obtaintd even at prices
much above their present market
value. The immense holdings of
Georgia land and lumber Company
have already been made the sub
ject of comment and controversy,
though the purchases of this com
pany have no connections with the
new movement.
We learn that 30,000 acres in
one lot, in northern Georgia, have
been secured by one of the agents
of these manufacturers and capi
talists and there have, no doubt
been other transactions, of like
character which are not likely to
reach the public. The public, as a
matter of course, lias no direct con
cern with such matters just ?.t
present, but the time may come
when every Georgian will be in
terested in preventing the des
truction of timber that now pro
tects the fountain head of our
streams. The legislature of New
York has just passed to a third
reading the Adirondack forest bill,
which is intended to protect the
Adirondack woods, and ih the
course of time the necessity of a
similar measure will press itself
upon the attention of Georgia leg
islatures.
Meanwhile, if the owners of
Georgia timber lands are to part
with this species of property, and
if we have plenty and to spare just
at present, they should hold it at
something like its real value. It
will be easy enough, doubtless, to
prevent the wanton destruction of
our timber when the necessity
arises.
Give Your Boys Habits of Order.
It is a mistake for mothers to
allow their boys to be disorderly,
and expect their Sisters to wait
upon them. Boys can be taught
order just as readily as girls.
Mothers would save themselves a
vast amount of time and trouble
if they would begin with their
boys while they still have perfect
control over them and while hab
its are easily formed, and, provid
ing a place insist that everything
should be put in its place. Order
would then soon become a matter
of habit. If many mothers had
the time which they spend “pick
ing up alter boys, it would give
them leisure to read the family
papers, into which now, they have
scarcely a chancejto glance. How
many husbands ever think of con
veying a discarded garment furth
er than the bed or first chair, while
to brush and put a garment up foi
future use would be an undream
ed-of-thin it is only A the boy
grown into the man. A wife can
not instill order into her husband;
it is too late; the trite illustration
of straightening the crooked tree
would be appropriate,but we for
bear its repetition. It is a work
that must be done for the boys.
“My mother is awful fickle,”
said little Ellen to Mrs. Smith,
who was making a call. “When
she saw you coming Hp the street
she said:—“There’s that horrid
Mrs. Smith; I hope she is not com
ii»g here,” and a minute later she
told yon she was real glad to see
yon.”
True Heroism.
In one of our sleeping cars there
was an old bachelor who waa
was annoyed by the continued
crying of a child, and the ineffect
ual attempts of the father to quiet
it. Pulling aside the curtain and
putting out his head he said:
“Where is the mother of that
child ? Why doesn’t she stop that
nuisance ?” The father said very
quietly: “The mother is in the
baggage car in her coffin; I am
traveling home with the baby.
This is the second night I hare
been with the child, and the little
creature is wearying for its moth
er. I am sorry if its plaintive cries
disturb any one in this car.”
“Wait a minute,” said the old
man got up and dressed himself
and compelled the father to lie
down and sleep while ho took the
baby himself. That old bachelor
stilling the cry of the baby all
night was a hero. And the man
who, for the sake of others, gives
up a lawful gratification in his own
house, or in the social circle, is as
great a hero as though he stood
upon the battle field.
Providence in Oregon.
“I never advise a man to leave his
own town," he said to the small crowd
surrounding him at the Union Depot
the other day ; “ but if any of you are
bonod to change location, Oregon is
the country to go to. I am now on my
way back there, and there's nothing
you can ask about Oregon that I can,t
tell you.“ How’s the climate?” ‘‘Sup
erb. It’s never too hot nor too cold-
Providence watches the weather
out there like a hawk.” “Lots of
Injuns ?”
“Yes; but they can’t do any damage.
Providence always gives the settlers
warning, or else leads the Redmen
into a trap*”
“Some hard cases oat there, aren't
there?”
Not very hard. When a man gets too
Lad Providence kills him off.”
“How did yon lose your leg?” asked
a hack-driver, as the conversation flagg«
ed.
‘I’ll tell you abont it. I've mentioned
Providence and Oregon in the same
breath, and 1 want to prove that
there is a special dispensation eat
there. I was going up the Dclros roe£
to a grist mill one day last September
when I found a four ounce bottle of
chloroform in the road. About a mil#
farther on I met a grizzly bear as
as a steer. I had bo weapon and
I knew tha. I was boxed up. To ran
was useless, and no living man ever
looked a grizzly out of countenance. I
always try to make the best of evfry
situation, .and when' I found myself
coroei ed I opened the bottle of chloro.
form and inhaled sufficient to make me
unconscious. While in this state 4hf
bear made a breakfast off my left leg,
and I never felt one single twinge of
pain.”
There was a sensation in the crowd
and all pressed nearer
“When I came too v he had disappe
ared, and just at that time the Red
Talley coach drove up. Providentially
two of the passengers had fallen over,
a precipice, so that there was non
inside. Wheo a we got to Brown’s Hitt
we found a surgeon there who bed
been chased in by (the Indians that
very morning, and he fixed me up is
an hour. I saw.the band of Providedaa
all through it as plain as I see that ho
tel over there,”
“Did Providence get that eork leg,
for you?” inquired a mean maa near
the door.
‘Certainly it did. I lay in bed for two
months, and when I took the stage tat
Portland we came across the body of a
stranger who bad been mardered by
highwaymen. He had a oork leg, and
it was just my fit. This is the identical
leg, and let me add in conclusion that.
I haven’t began to give Providenoe aid
Oregon half tbeir just does.”
Shliner’s Indian Vermifuge will destiny
and expel worms It is reliable. It is
cheap. Only 25 cents a bottle,