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The Cotton Worm.
Reports of the appearance of the
cotton worm conic from all parts of
the South, and the farmers are wisely
preparing to attack their enemy be
fore his hosts are multiplied. Large
quantities of Paris green have been
shipped from Macon within the past
few days. In case of the cotton
worm an ounce of prevention is'worth
many pounds of cure. Pro apt ap
plication of well-known exterminators
on the first appearance of the worm,
will effectually prevent serious dam
age to the cotton crop from this pest.
The Louisiana crop has been
threatened most this season, and the
farmers of that state are alive to the
danger. Mr. Byrd, the state commis
sioner of agriculture, has issued a cir
cular giving instructions to the farin
as to the use of poison on the
worms. Paris green, London purple
and white arsenic arc all ell’ectivc,
hut the common opinion of farmers is
that Paris green is by far the best ex
terminator. Any of the ordinary
agents employed for the destruction
of cotton worms are deadly poisious to
man and beast, and therefore must be
used with great care. Commissioner
Byrd recommends Paris green and
gives the following directions for its
safe and effective application:
“It is used in three ways—first, in
liquid suspension; mix one pound of
pulverized Paris green with forty gal
lons of water, and put this on one
aorc by and with a large watering pot,
or from the barrels placed in a wagon,
by use of spray pumps. In either
ease the mixture must he kept well
stirred, since Paris green is not soluble.
water, hut is held median icatly
suspended; a little flour just soured in
a bucket of water and then added to
the mixture, gives it a greater adhe
sive power.
Second—Dry, mixed with some de-
luent, as cheap flour, yellow ochre,
fine clay, plaster or ashes. A little
dextrine is sometimes added to in
crease adhesiveness. One pound of
Paris green is mixed with twenty-five
pounds of the dclueut.
This mixture, used during showery
weather, is sifted over the plants by
hand through coarse sieves.
“Third—The finely ground Paris
green is dusted from an oblong sack,
made of coarse muslin, attached to the
end of n long pole carried by a man
on horseback. In this wav it, is easily
anil cheaply distributed; the only ob
jection is that, as ordinarily per
formed, more Paris green is used than
is necessary. Care should he taken to
keep man and beast on the side from
which the wind is blowing, so as to
avoid inhalation of arsenical dust.”
SYRUP FROM MELONS.
An Interesting Experiment and Its Result.
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The commissioner says if these rules
are followed on the first appearance
of the worm there is no danger to the
crop. A common mistake is using too
much. Paris green, thereby injuring
the plant. The proportions given in
the above directions may therefore
serve a useful purpose. —Telegraph.
Pension Abuses-
Commissioner Tanner has made an
other ruling which may materially in
crease the pension grab. Heretofore
the rule has been that proof of the
origin of the disability of an applicant
for a pension must be made by the
evidence of a commissioned officer, an
orderly sergeant, or two private sol
diers. Tanner now rules that the
testimony of one private soldier alone
will he sufficient. It would not be
difficult, under this rule, for two un
principled privates to collude and di
vide the pension money between
them.
It is quite evident that the tax-pay
ing people of the country arc to have
saddled upon them fur many years a
great and constantly increasing ex
pense for pensions. The number of
pensioners already reaches nearly half
a million, and where it will stop un
der Tanner’s rulings no one can tell.
It is much to he hoped that public
sentiment at the north will he aroused
by these abuses to the necessity of im
posing a check upon the increase of a
tax which must prove a serious bur
den to tiie people of the whole coun
try, and oue especially hard to hear
by a section which receives none of its
benefits.—Atlanta Journal.
Hai:r.e.m, (tA., Aug. 20.—Editor
Moring News: For the benefit of
those of your readers who may he in
forested in the melon industry, I send
you herewith tbc results of an experi
ment which I have just made upon
the watermelon, for the purpose of
determining the quantity and quality
of syrup possible to be obtained there
from.
A well developed, ripe watermelon
of the rattlesnake variety, weighing
twenty-five pounds, was cut, and all
the juice from the red portion passed
through a cloth filter to separate it
from the pulp. Ejeven-and-a half
pints of juice were thus obtained.
The juice was then evaporated down
to a rich, red syrup of the usual con
sistency and again measured. One
twentieth of the original bulk, or
.5.75 of a nint was the result. Dur
ing the boiling a red scum formed on
top of the liquid which was carefully
skimmed off. The quality of the syr
up was excellent and compared favor
ably with a good grade of cane syrup.
From this experiment it is found
that about 5 per cent, of the juice, or
2? per cent, of the entire weight of
the watermelon may he converted in
to a good grade of syrun, and that,,
too, at small expense. It would ac
cordingly require 20 gallons of the
juice, or about U melons of 25
pounds each, to make one gallon of
syrup. While it might not be profit
able to grow watermelons exclusively
to he converted into syrup, still a
large surplus crop, such as we have
had this year, might be profitably
disposed of in this way. The smaller
melons, too, which cbuld not find
ready sale could thus lie utilized.
These considerations, taken together
with the fact that labor at the season
required is abundant and cheap, may
give to the thoughts herein suggested
some economic value to the farmers
of our southern country..
Otis Ashmore.
Two Points in Doubt.
The Farmer’s Alliance has inaug
urated a great work. It has gotten
the farmers together and made them
united anil hopeful. It has made
some wise deliverances and worked
out some practical reforms. It pre
serves as it has secured, the sympathy
of the people and the opportunity it
has for good is immeasurable.
But in our opinion the Alliance will
make a mistake if it tries to (fix the
' price of commodities or endeavors to-
cut out a political campaign. The
price of cotton for instance is settled
in the markets of the world. It is
controlled by the amount of the yield
in America and India, by the stock on
hand, by the demand lor the staple
and by the state of trade the world
over. It is one of those things that
must settle itself in consonance with
complex laws and changing conditions.
The moment an effort is made to cor
ner the crop and hold for certain fig
ures the world will commence hunting
for a substitute for cotton, just as we
are hunting for a substitute for jute,
or people will find new countries to
grow it. This kind of policy is doubt
ful and dangerous.
Wc do not blame Alliancemen for
going into politics to the extent of en
dorsing good men for offices. It is
their right and duty to see that the
proper men are nominated or elected,
whether their candidates lie Alliance
men or not, But combinations for
the purpose of elevating men for gov
ernor arc not wise and will bring the
organization into disrepute.—Augusta
An Extinct Race.
They are passing away—the old-
fashioned negroes of the ante-bellum
South—and the places which knew
them once will soon know them no
more forever. They will, in a few
years, he entirely supplanted by a
progeny little like their ancestors.
The old plantation—“de white folk.-/
house”—the happy negro quarters
the family tics which hound the two
races together in bonds of affection
and tender consideration which one
must have experienced to appreciate
gone—all gone !
“Old massa,” “old missus,” and the
young “massas" and “misses.” What
a happy family! And who, than the
old family servants, ever mourned
with more unfeigned grief the break
ing up of the family when “ole
massa” died? Alas, it always fell
upon the former with a bitterness
born of the uncertain fate which
awaited them afterward.
But they are fast dying out; the
old plantation songs have faded from
lips on which alone they were once so
musci.nl, which no other conditions
may ever realize. Did you ever see
the long li no of family servants—fifty
or a hundred or more—follow the
coffin which bore “ole massa” to his
last resting place?
Down in flu conitielil,
llcnr ilnt nmuriilul .souml;
Ail lie ilm-kii-s ion n-i\ orping,
“.Vnssii's in ili- eolil, rolil grtinnil."
Talk about the negro dialect! No
writer has ever approximated it un
less he was horn and reared on the
old southern plantation from child
hood to age.
And Christmas times “bofo’ de
war.” The happy hearts in the “ne
gro quarters” were up and singing
like the lark before the dawn of day,
for the “aunts” and uncles”—those
monarchs of that realm which has
no succession—had been awake half
the night “waitin’ for Christmas.”
Were those the days of slavery and
barbarism, when white and black
alike were happy only because they
were ignorant?
But who would exchange these
brand new days for the old ? These
days when the “colored ladies and
gentlemen” wear bangs, or carry a
razor or the cigarette ?
.Still, it is sad to think of a com
plete dying out of a race, one of the
most interesting iu the annals of time
—one peculiar to itself, and which
can never be reproduced. As the
Indian passed beyond the Rocky
mountains to die away on the western
plains, so this race, as it was known
of yore, is passing over the dividing
ridge of the two generations, to lie
known no more.—Times-l’nion.Maok-
sonvillc.
A Marvel in Mechanics.
ITom tin- New Orleans Daily ,'stati-i.
Mr. Abram S. Hewitt, who has just
returned from a lengthened visit to
the 1’aris exposition, says that the
When Women Should Marry.
ITiiin tin- Hospital.
Probably tbc best time for the aver
ago woman to marry would be any age
between twenty-four and thirty six.
ft is not said that no woman should
marry earlier or later than either of
these ages; but youth and health and
vigor are ordinarily at their highest
perfection between these two periods’
Early marriages are seldom desirable
for girls, and that for many reasons
The brain is immature, the reason is
feeble, and the character is unformed.
The consideration which would prompt
a girl to marry at seventeen would, in
many cases, have little weight with
her at twenty-four. At seventeen sh
is a child, at twenty-four a woman.
Where a girl has intelligent parents,
the seven years between seventeen and
twenty-four are the period when mind
and body are most amenable to wise
discipline, and best repay the thought
and toil devoted to their develope-
meut. Before seventeen few girls
have learned to understand what life
is. They cannot value what is best
cither in the lather’s wisdom or in the
mother’s tenderness. When married
at that childish period they arc like
young recruits taken fresh from the
farm and workshop and hurried ofl to
a long campaign without any period
of preliminary drill and training, or
like a school boy removed from school
to a curacy w ithout being sent to the
university or to a theological hall.
Who can help grieving over a child
wife, especially if she have children
and a husband who is an experienced
and possibly exacting boy-man. The
lor of his love soon cools ; the vision
ary bliss of her poetical imagination
vanishes like the summer mist ; there is
nothing loft but disappointment. and
wonder that what promised to be so
beautiful and long a day should bo
clouded almost before sunrise.
A Railrnati in the Holy Land.
The preliminary surveys of a rail
road to run from Jaffa on the sea
coast in Palestine to Jerusalem, and
thence to Bethlehem, have just been
completed, and a party of engineers
have started from London for the
Holy Land to lay out the route. A
company has already been formed to
build the road, in which a number of
English and French bankers are inter
ested, From all accounts it is a pure
ly business enterprise without a trace
of sentiment of religious fervor.
The travel iu the Holy Land of
late years has been increasing steadi
ly, and it is believed if lirst-class rail
way accommodations were furnished
the number of tourists who annually
visit Jerusalem from all parts of the
earth would soon he trebled.—Ex.
To the Front.
■ AS ALWAYS,!
Two marriages have recently taken
place which resulted in very compli
cated relationships. In Pittsburg,I’a.,
William Gaeuf married his step daugh
ter. I lis former wife had been the
widow of his brother. The present
(Mitchell House Block.)
Has just opened up
to the young and old
gents the handsomest
line of shoes ever of
fered in our city, in
all styles, from the
narrowest to the wid
est lasts. Patent
leather shoes, hand
some line of gents’
toilet slippers and
full line of ladies’,
misses’ and children’s
shoes.
thing that struck him flic most in the I Mrs. Gaeuf, therefore, is the step
department of arts was the process I mother of her brother,and her husband
Chronicle.
United States Fish Commissioner
McDonald claims to have made the
discovery that the black spotted trout
“lias traveled over tbc main divide of
the Rocky Mountains, 11,000 feet
high.” Ho liases his conclusion upon
the tact that they arc an Asiatic and
Pacific fish, and are to he found only
exhibited there for making frames for
locomotives and cars of all sorts from
sheet steel. The frame is cut out of a
sheet of steel by hydraulic pressure,
and Mr. Hewitt is of the opinion that,
while the style of car frame now in
use rots and becomes useless in about
ten years, the Jicw style of frame will
lie in excellent condition after a hun
dred years use. Tho manufacture of
cars and locomotives generally, there
fore, promises to he revolutionized
shortly, under the influence of this new-
process.
No one would be surprised if Boh
Toombs, late of Georgia, or W. I,.
Yancey, the nuto-bellum leader of
southern democracy, had altered the
following sentiment, but only to think
it came from Senator J. .1, Ingalls, of
Kansas: “Tho conscience of New
England was not thoroughly aroused
to tho immorality of African slavery
till it ceased to he profitable, and the
, North did not finally determine to de-
‘“‘he Yellowstone park cast of the 8t the tem it th ,. catoucd
mountains. This is a pretty steep fish thcir industry and political suprern-
story. Lx. [ aC y,”—Timc3-Union, Jacksonville.
is her brother's step-father, brother-
in-law and uncle. Mr. Gaeuf is his
wife’s uncle, step-tathcr and husband.
The other marriage is that of Mr. Al
bert Phillips to Miss Ella Clayton, in
Red Hank, N. J. The bride’s father
had previously married one of Mr.
Phillips’ daughters. He is therefore,
both Mr. Phillips’ son-in-law and
father-in law. Mr. Phillips’ daughter,
who married Mr. Clayton, is her fath
er’s step-mothcr-m-law, in fact, Mr.
Phillips and Mr. Clayton are step-sons
of their daughter’s, and each of the
wives is the others step-mother. Peo
ple who are fond of making out rela
tionships can study these cases.
The Agricultural Society adopted a
resolution requesting Governor Gor
don to set apart Thursday, October
17th, us a day of special thanksgiving
for bounteous harvests ami protection
from epidemics ami destructive storms.
The State Farmers’ Alliance at Macon
adopted a similar resolution. There
fore throughout Georgia on the 17th
of October special thanksgiving ser
vices will be held.
Mitchell House Block.