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itterpriot VOL 1-NO 9.0 T[IOMASVJLLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 27, 'SS9 $5.00 PER ANNUM 5. C5 U ^ CD 2 n w o 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. S’ 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.