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kJ6 > a The Bainbridge Democrat. Perms—s 2 a year. BAINBRIDGE, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 15, 1883. VOL XII-NO. 19. .K R^ing * wn,, & C*»' irnnitj- • 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,