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Democrat. [tE1:HH—$ 2 A YEAR, BAINBRIDGE, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 8, 1883. YOL XII-NO. 22, S'tooch on Southern . ^ ...How Daniel Martin lie- Ul! ' r ;! ) ">ote---The Need of More j Better Schools. hashing!gon’s birth day, V'Vu'a;. llaygood delivered lih iu Washington City Lm. the Mi»«*on Telegraph and prints in full. The ^ an extract from the ■ ,r ihilitv to write one’s name ' lo * read" coarse print imper il j s n o good proof of fitness This sort and degree of r . v , maV exist with absolute of the merits of the nH involved in popular elect ee give a fair specimen, hwn from life. There is not a U ( ,f fancy or burlesque in it. |r nearly eight, years I have had |mv employment a colored man ml character and supe- ir oualities. lie is above the 0, r,. of bis race in intelligence; j ; ' a hout my own age ; be can liis name imperfectly and lie p a little. You will miss the jut in my story unless you hear distinctly in mind that this 1. Daniel Martin by name, has ;Ja Republican ticket every i since lie was made a voter, that lie so votes to this day. mesliow how well qualified a a may he to be a voter who just write his name and read ore sign. The day before the es and . Til don election, icl was ploughing m a little | near my house. One of the ,ents asked him: “IIow are going to vote to morrow, Un- D&niel ?” The Southern negro vr delivers a grave judgement bout coining to a full pause in itever engages him. One eon- ueuce is lie conies to a great by steps. Moreover, he thinks aetaphor and speaks in para- So Daniel came to a full in his plowing, and sticking plow deep into the ground, de- red himself as follows: ow, Mr. Longstreet, you see plowin’ along dis furrow here ; plow dis furrow all de time, I ;e dis furrow too deep and I t plow do balance of de patch.” ip street admitted the force of statement. The philosophic t continued. “I think things a swine on dis way ’long tgh; (loro ought to be a ge. Wharfore I’se gwine to for Hayes to-morrow. ® next day lie and I went to county town and voted. He for Hayes, that there might a changeI voted for Tilden there miglit.“be a change,” we were equal before the tlh to such a man about the tion, the currency! You had ‘'ell talk to him about, hori- parallax aud spectrum 10re ^ no question so burning e United Slates to-day as this: at can we do with Daniel Ju in politics—the white cl and the black Daniel ?” tidng is more certain than t:ie South cannot, unaided, the emergency that is now her. 5 are told that Northern ! . v is sending hundreds of sands every year into the to help do this work of edu- n p That is true; and this otic and Christian benevo- !s appreciated to the fullest best people. Heaven M them—the Peabody’s, the ? > Vanderbilts, Seneys, N and others as generous, A not so rich. They have a good work indeed. Chil- children will have them in -'ting remembrance. ^ this should be considered as into the question of the ■ ot ' the Southed whites to Ue work that is upon them 11 Ls the ability of the white c ' that is to be inquired into, they pay the taxes.) Nearly ic tt °ney sent South since 1865 for educational purposes has been devoted to the education of the negroes, especially the great sums expended by” the churches and benevolent societies of the North. This is not regretted; we do not envy the negroes the help that Providence sent them. They need it sorely and we rejoice with them. But this method of help good as it has been, left the white people, thousands of them, as poor as the negroes, to struggle with (lieir own burdens without the help the negroes had, and left to the white people who were a little bottle off, the burden of their own responsibilities inth e matter of education and the payment of the taxes for such public schools as they had, dividing it with the negroes who paid next to no taxes, and yet had help that they had not. Nothing less needs proving than this: Xhcre must be more schools and better; more teaching and better teaching. This will cost money, a great deal of money, more than these impoverish States can raise. Whero it is to come from ? From individuals ? But a nation cannot depend on individuals to do a work almost too great for the whole people. From churches and other bene volent societies? They are but aggregations of individuals and societies, representing but a part of the people, cannot do a work that belongs to all. It is the duty of the whole na tion to help, for a time, the States with their heavy burdens. Is it %etter for this nation to leave these millions of illiterate people with ballots in their* hands un taught, than to help the States carry a load that is crushing them? Is it better for this nation to en dure. these evils that are now upon us, and to brave the greater evils into which they are growing, day by day, than to spend a few millions, paid into its treasury by the people, and to do this for the benefit of the people—that is for its own benefit. This duty of helping the States educate these millions of illiterate people is a national duty; for na tional interests are involved in it. It is a national duty,, lor it must be done ; the States most deeply involved cannot do it and the nation can. It is a national duty for the plain, historical reason that the nation, as much, made these millions of negroes citizeus and voters before they were pre pared for their new duties and relations, and in the very act of doing it, and by the very method of doing it, largely took from those who are now caUed on to prepare them for their new duties and relations the ability to do it. The men of the South who have accepted the issues of the war in good faith may well use the lan guage of the Hon. W E Forster, of the English Parliament, in reply to the radical wing of the party: ‘You demand universal suffrage; I demand universal education to go along with it.” Universal suffrage we have, and in the South, as to the large ma jority, illiterate suffrage. There is no remedy for the evils of this state of things ; whether by re pressions within the States where the trouble is; whether front force of anv sort with these States. There is no remedy that leaves out the school house and the school-master. Ethical education is sorely needed: but ethical edu cation will make slow progress without the education of good schools. Sensible and just men are not now discussing slavery—that is passed out of the argument. They are not discussing the relative blameworthiness of the sections. Doctrinaires and narrow and bit ter men do that. Sensible and just men say: “See here, this multitude must be educated; it concerns us all; the nation is endangered by this iirnorant ballot, these Southern States cannot carry this tremen dous weight, this- burden no longer theirs in any exclusive sense, but now the burden of us aU. The nation can bear it' and bear it easily. Let the nation forthwith get about it” A SOFT SOAP RACKET. The Old Man Helps to pat np a Job and Gets the Worst of tt “You 6ee,” said t^e bad boy to the groceryman, pa like6 a joke the best of any man you ever saw, if it is on somebody else, but he kicks like a steer when it is on him. I asked him this morning if it would not be a good joke to put some soft soap on the front step, as the letter carrier would slip up and spill himself, and pa said it would be elegant. Pa is a Demo crat, and he thinks that anything that will make it unpleasant for Republican officeholders is legiti mate, and he encouraged me to paralyze the letter-carrier. The letter-carrier is as old a man as pa, and I didn’t want to humiliate him, but I just wanted pa to give his consent, so he couldn’t kick if he got caught in his own trap. You see ? Well, this morning the minister and two of the deacons called on pa, to have a talk with him about his actions in church, on two or three occasions, and they had a pretty hot time in the back parlor, and finally they settled it, and were going to sing a hymn when pa handed them a little hymn-book, and the minister opened it and turned pale and said “what’s this ?” and they looked at it, and it was a book of Hoyle’s, games, instead of a hymn-book. Gosh, wasit’t the minister mad? He had started to read a hymn and put the arnica. O, but she did go through the air like a bullet through cheese, and when she went down the steps bumpty-bump I felt sorry for ma. The minister had got so he could set up on the sidewalk, with his back against the lower step, when ma came sliding down, and one of the heels of her gaiters hit the minister in the hair and the other foot went right through between bis arniand his side, and the broom liked to pushed his teeth down his throat. But he was not mad at ma. As soon as ho seen it was ma he said, “Why, sister, the wicked stand in slippery places, don’t they,” and ma she was mad and said for him to let go her stocking, and then pa was mad and he said “look-a-herei you sky pilot; this thing has gone far enough,” and then a policeman came along first he thought they were all drunk, but he found they were respectable, and he got a chip and scraped the soap off of them, and they went home, and pa and ma they got in the house some way, and just then the letter carrier came along; but lie didn’t have any letters for us, and he didn’t come onto the steps, and then I went up stairs and I said “Pa, don’t you think it is real mean, after you and I fixed the soap on the steps for the letter carrier, and he didn’t come on the step at aU,” and pa was scraping the soap oft’ his pants with a piece of shingle, and the hired girl was putting liniment on ma, and heat ing it in for palpitation of the he quit after he read two lines where it said, “In a game of four- ;L f art > and P a / a ^ “Ton dam 1 .1YAA 111 V>A T t-Vi lfl AY» T ' 1 1 A 111 handed eucre never trump your partner’s ace, but rely on the ace to take the (rick on suit.” Pa was trying to explain how the the book come to be there, when the minister and the deacons started out, and then I poured the two quart tin pail full of soft soap on the front step. It was this white soap, just tli© color of the step, and then I got it spread I went dpwn in the basement. The visitors catne out and pa was try ing to explain to them about Hoyle, when one of the deacons stepped in the soap, and his feet flew up and he struck*bn his pants and slid down the steps. The minister said “great heaven?, dea con, are you hurt ?. Let me assist you,” and he took two quick steps and you have seen these fellows in a nigger show that kick each other head over heels and fall on their ears, and stand on their heads and turn round like a top. The minister’s feet slipped and the next I saw he was standing on his head in his hat,-and his legs were sort of wilted and feU limp by his sides, and he fell over on his stomach. You talk about spread ing the gospel in heathen lands. It is nothing to the way you can spread with two quarts of soft soap. The minister didn’t look pious a bit when he was trying to catch the railing. He looked as though he wanted to murder every man cn earth, but it may be he was tired. Weil, pa was paralyz ed, and he and the deacon rushed out to pick up the minister and the first old man, and when they struck the step they-went kiting Pa’s feet somehow slipped back wards, and he turned a summer sault and stuck full length on his back, and one heel was across the minister’s neck, and he slid down the steps, and the other deacon fell aU over the other three, and pa swore at them, and it was the worst looking lot of pious people I ever saw. They aU seemed mad at each other. The hired girl told ma there was three tramps out on the sidewalk fighting pa, and ma she took the broom and started to help pa, aDd I tried to stop ma be cause her constitution is not very strong and I didn't want her to do any flying trapeze business, but I couldn't stop h*r, and she went out with the broom and a towel tied around her head. WeU, I don’t know where ma did strike, but when she came in she said she had a palpitation of the heart, but that was not the place where she idjut, no more of this, or I’ll maul the liver out of you,” and I asked him if he didn’t think soft soap wouldn’t help a moustache to grow, and he picked up ma’s work basket and threw at my head as I went down stairs, and I came over here. Don’t you think my pa is unreasonable to get mad at a lit tle joke that he planned himself ? The groceryman said he didn’t know, and the boy went out with a pair of skates over his shoulder. —Peck's Bun The New Steamer. The Columbus Times says the new steamer soon to be placed on our river will be a model of beauty and convenience. She vtill be one hundred and thirty feet long by twenty-six feet wide, with twentv-two state rooms. The stock has all been taken, and the boat will be constructed and equipped at once. The stockhold ers propose to have her qn the Chattahoochee ready for business by the 1st of July. The gentlemen at the helm are steamboat and river men of long experience and know how to handle a craft. Business men all along the line of the river have stock in the new boat. Messrs. B. F. and T. A. Marcrum, Geo. L. Lapham and C. E. Hubert are the prime mov ers and largest interested in the new boat, and we wish for them and their associates the fullest success. We welcome all enter prises that tend to the benefit of our city or its citizens.—Eufala Bulletin. C hants of Tu lsdom. WhileWMU Times. “Better is a dry morsel and quietness therewith” than washed down with Jersey lightning. “A wise servant doing housework shaU boss the whole family. “Ex cellent speech becometh not a fool,” yet if he is rich his words are applauded all the same. “A fool hath no delight in understanding” the path to knowledge. “Better is thepoor that walketh in his integri ty” than the rich that rideth a fool ish hobby. Rob not the poor be cause he is poor,” but slam socie ty’s door in bis face because he bat^no money. “Boast not thy self of to- morrow,” neither be ashamed of what you left undone yesterday. Columbus enterprise has taken the direction of a new steamer for the Chattahoochee river. It is supposed the steamer wiU be ready for a trip by the first of July. Wiid Oats. They who sow wild oats will reap wild oats. Our young friends do not believe this, but it is true whether it be believed or not Boys often begin this sowing at an early age, without any thought of the reaping. They have an idea that it is “spoony” to be “good,” that it is “soft” to be careful to keep clear of all that is wrong that it is manly to chew, to swear and to swagger; that it is “smart” to be careless as to what parents and teachers wish. Young men fancy that they are proving their independence by staying away from the Bible class and throwing out doubts about Christianity. They_pride them selves on being “out of leading strings,” on their ability to choose their own company, and to judge for themslves how they will spend their evenings and where they will pass their Sabbath. Their noses take an upward curl at the men tion of the “pioue young men who hold on to Sunday-school and prayer-meeting. They have gotten beyond this! Now in their hearts they know that “the saints” are right and they themselves are wrong. They have no idea of going on in the neglect of God and religion all their lives. They expect to “have a good time” while young and later in life to turn over a new leaf, and to come out all right in the end. They are sowing their wild oats. But who is to reap what they are sowing ? And what shall the harvest be ? “Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he alone reap.” Character is forming. It is formed in youth. Men at thirty and forty are commonly what they are at twenty, only ripened and hardened; and at twenty they are to be what they were at fifteen, only more set. From the quarries that are dug under Jerusalem a fine creamy lime-stone is cut that is soft to the knife or chisel when first taken out, but that hardens into solid rock when exposed to the air. So it is with us. In youth we readily take shape under the influences which we invoke; in manhood we find our characters are set. We stamp our souls while young and plastic with the impress that they are to bear in after-life. Let our young men understand that sowing wild oats in youth means a harvest of sorrow and sin. Even if repented of, the old seeds are there, to be fought and bewailed as long as life lasts. Better—far better—is it never to sow seeds of evil. No man ever regretted that he began to serve God in his youth. The Railroad of the Future. Tallahassee Floridian. For Florida, is a line fromjsome point on the Transit road, either at Waldo or Gainesville running West to the Chattahoochee river or Bambridge, and from thence to Chattanooga, in as direct a line as possible. A road like this would open the Western markets to East and South Florida, whereas these markets are only reached now by roundabout way, unsuited to perishable products. Practically the whole of Florida is at present tied on to the Eastern markets, which are only reached by way of Savannah and Fernandina. A much married man resides at Simmons Gap, in this State, whose matrimonial record is reaHy extra ordinary. He is eighty years of age, and has had the extreme felici ty of being married nine times, his ninth wife now supporting his declining years. Fifty-three chil dren are entitled to call him father, and at a recent family gathering, over three hundred of lineal desegndent were present Judge Powell says that Prohibi tion in Newnan, Grantville and Senoia is about to break ftp the County Court of that county. Mix It Perry Home Journal. From the standpoint occupied as a post for observation during the past seven years, we have reached the conclusion that a di versity of interest and pursuits is the only way by which Georgia can eryoy the practical fruits of beirf& in fact what she has long been called, the Empire State of the South. Being naturally an agricultural country does not neccessarily in dicate that cotton shaU constitute the only crop from which the pro fits of agriculture shall accrue, for bitter experience has taught our farmers that only iu imagination does the profit from the cultiva tion of cotton show itself when provisions are purchased for con sumption on the farm. Experience further teaches that the farmer who makes liis farm self sustain ing and has some product for market at different periods of the year is the one, and the only class of farmers, who can demonstrate that there is clear money in the business. We do not claim that every farmer in Georgia can profi tably raise corn and meat for sale, but we do say there is no just reason why they should purchase these neceessary articles for home consumption. It is our purpose to tell each farmer the exact proportion of the different crops he should cultivate but simply to call attention to the fact that none who plant cotton and seH nothing else, buying pro visions at credit prices, have ever found the business to be profit able. No man who intelligently en gineered a'truck farm ever gave up the business in disgust, or declared that there was no profit iu it. The same can be said of stock-raising, where the land is favorable to such an enterprise. But. above all farming lands should be improved in fertility each year they are cultivated, and a manure that costs each year more than the land on which it is put could be sold for, and does not leave it any richer at the end of-the year, is not oftly worth purchasing, but is actually damag ing the farmer and the land on which it is put. Manure is em phatically as legitimate a product of the farm as cotton, corn, oats or potatoes, and he who annually purchases commercial fertilizers and raises no manure on the farm, will never reap the profits that will render him independent. In commercial circles the suc cessful men are those who meet the demands of the tirade, and the great diversity of the commodi ties handled indicate the varied wants of the people who are sup plied. Any merchant who would ignore the wants of his market in the selection of his stock of goods, could not evade bankruptcy. In manufacturing there is also room for great diversity, and recent developments have proven conclusively that many of the wants of domestic life can be suc- cesefully manufactured in our own state. In this line the field is extensive, and the more the industries are diversified, the greater will the benefits to our state and to our people. *CHARLES C. BUSH, Attorney at Law COLQUITT, GA. Prompt attention given to all business en trusted to me. JNO. E. DONALSON, ~~ Attorney and Counselor at Law; Office in the court house. Will practice in Decatur aud adjoining counties, and elsewhere by special contract. Feb’y 15, 1833. D* MCOIlt, M. O’HBAt McGILL & O’NEAL. Attorneys at Law. BAINBRIDGE, GA. • Their office will be found over the post of-' fice. D r MEDICAL CARD. £ . 1 . M organ Has removed his office to the drug store; formerly occupied by Dr, Harrell. Resi dence on West street, south of Shotwell; where calls at night will reach him. DENTISTRY. I . C . Curry, D. D. 8., Can he found daily at his office on South Broad street, up stairs, in E. Johnson’s building, where he is ready to attend to the wants of the public at reasonable rates. dcc-5-78 DOCTOR M. L. BATTLE, Dentist. Office over Hinds Store, West sido coert house. Has fine dental engine, and will have everything to make his office first-class. Terms cash. Office hours 9 a. m. to 4 p.m. jan,13tf DR. L. H. PEACOCK, Respectfully tenders his professional serv-i ices to the people of Bainbridge and vicini- ty. Office over store of J. D. Harrell & Bro Residence on West end of Brough tori street,where he can bo found at night. April 6,1881— JEFF. D. TALBKRT. WM. M. HARRELL; TALBERT & HARRELL, Attorneys and Counselors at Law; BAINBRIDGE, GA. The above have formed a copartnership under the firm name of Talbert & Harrell for the practice of law. Will practice id all the courts of the Albany Circuit. Office over Barnett’s store; August 14,1882; ALBERT WINTER, Real Estate and Collecting Agent; BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA. I will be glad to receive the patronage ef all who have property to sell or rent, rol collecting to make. All business placed in my hands will receive prompt attention. I will look after wild lands, investigate titles; pay taxes and protect from tresspassers. 1 propose to make the collection of bad claims a specialty. The worse the elaini the more attention I Will give it. Correspondence solicited. Aug. 1-, 1882. THE SOUTH-WEST GEORGIA LAND AGElfCVj Russell & Brown, Ag’ts. BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA; The ship canal bill that passed the Florida Legislature has been approved by the- Governor. The bill provides that the company shall not receive any donation of Florida lands from the United States. It is now probable that Florida will be cut in twain by a canal for ships. The new freight depot at Way cross will be a fine building, 150 feet long, finished in modem style and famished with all the latest improvements. It will have a 350 feet platform, and will be the model of others yet to be built by the Savannah, Florida and Wes tern Railway. Connecticut has 1,055 clergy men and 1,180 bar tenders. Offer to buyers the. following briefly described Real Estate—improved and unim proved in the 14TII DISTRICT OF DECATUR COUNTT. Lots of Land Nos 157,266,217,216,133, 301; 175, 9, 225. 28. 1.5TH DISTRICT OF DECATUR COUNTT. Lots Nos396, 394, 391. 17TH DISTRICT OF DECATUR COUNTT, Lots Nos 71, 396, 338, 343, 392, 321, 241. 279, 174, 287, 264, 165 166. 20TFT DISTRICT OF DECATUR COUNTT; Lots Nos 35, 149, 173. 21ST DISTRICT OF DECATUR COUNTT Lots Nos 217, 374, 97. 103, 1, 115,163.107; 175, 309, 267.243, 320. 336. 27TH DISTRICT OF DECATUR COUNTT. 260, 216, 176, 58, 59. These lots are all full, having 250 acres in each, and Will be sold in lots to suit tha purchasers. We also have control of a large quantity of lands in the counties of Jtfiller, Early. Baker. Mitchell and Irwin, besides a num ber of desirable lots in the city of Bain- bridge—improved and unimproved. Parties wishing lands for turpentine, timber, farming or other purposes, will find full description and all necessary informa tion in onr hands. N. B.—Non-resident land owners will be faithfully served, their lands leased, returned, looked after and protected against trespassers, and if for sale, advertised and sold for a reasonable charges. Business respectfully solicited aud satisfaction guaranteed. D. A RUSSELL & BROWN, Beal Estate Agents, Bainbridge, Go. A RARE BARGAIN Is offered in that splendid River plantation known as the J. W. Latbrop & Co place on Flint River—containing 1250 acres—300 of which is the finest River Bottom land and produces 40 bnsbels of corn per aere. Lying near the mouth of Spring Creek on the ' river is the key to the finest stock farm in Georgia, being fenced thus on three sides. A boat landing, fine drainage, good water, healthy, an inexhaustible timber supply and a good neighborhood are among its numerous attractions. The price Is extreme* ly low because owned by people who have no use for such property. For farther in fer ma tion address this Agency.