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1'[IOM ASVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 15,
35.00 PER ANNUM
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Open Letter.
We have heard
people wonder why
it is that at Lohn-
stein’s you can al
ways find more
customers than at
any other place in
town.
This question we
can easily answer :
The people like to
trade at Lohnsteins
store,
1st. Because they
receive every possi
ble attention and
consideration from
the proprietor, as
well as from the
salesmen.
2nd. Because
they find a better
selection of goods
at Lohnstein’s than
at any other place
in town, and
Last, but not
least, because a dol
lar goes farther and
reaches deeper at
Lohnstein’s than
anywhere else.
Politeness,square
honorable dealing,
excellence and
great variety of
stock, small mar
gins v and quick
sales; These are the
cardinal reasons for
our flattering and
unprecedented suc
cess. And the good
work still goes on.
Come and see us
this week. We
will divide profits
with you. *
Dry goods, cloth
ing, shoes, hats,
complete in every
department. Bar
gains in every line.
They are waiting
for you. Come and
pluck them.' It
will pay you.
TK1K EDITOR.
BEFORE.
Who in his snnclum sits up late,
And strives, with sentences of weight,
To set to right affairs of state ?
The editor. Admire him I
Who deeply molds the public thought?
For money who can ne’er be bought?
Who always for the right has fought?
The editor. Respect him !
Who notes what great men do and say,
And files obituaries away
When they shall die, to print uext day?
The editor. Revere him !
Who giv >s us cure for cough or cold,
Who suffers patiently and long
And seldom uses language strong?
The editor. Don’t chide him!
Who ignorance must ne’er confess,
Who knows of all things ijiorc or less
or what lie don’t know sure can guess?
The editor. Consult him !
When youthful talent seeks to rise,
Who views its growth with friendly
eyes,
Its merits quick to recognize ?
The elitor. Oh, bless him!
AFTER.
Who dotii good judgment sadly lack,
Who lias of taste not e’en a smack ?
Who sent my little poem back?
The editor. Confound him I
— Echangc.
• ill,
The Great Leader and Benefactor,
132 BROAD ST.
Tobacco Culture in Gadsden Coun
ty. Florida—How the Work
is Accomplished.
Editor Times-Enterprise :
To make tobacco culture a success,
one must have tome experience, no
matter how much he might read on
the subject. However, I will en
deavor to give your readers a des
cription of the “modus operandi.”
The first thing to be done, is to pre
pare the “seed bed,” which is com
monly done in the fall of the year. A
low, rich spot of ground is usually
selected, and then the trees, brush,
etc., are cut down and piled on the
place for the bed, and a quantity of
the surrounding timber is also cut
down, and piled on the bed, which is
left to dry until January or February,
when the “seed bed” is fired, and all
the timber and brush is thoroughly
burned to ashes. As soon ns the bed
gets cool, it is thoroughly grubbed up
with sharp grubbing hoes, and finely
pulverized, and immediately the
tobacco seed are sown. All this is
done ns rapidly as possible, after tho
bed ’ is burned. In a month the
young plants begin to appear, and in
another mouth they are large enough
to transplant, provided the weather
hasj been favorable, and the beds
properly looked after. Frequently
the young plants have to be sprinkled
with Paris Green, - to destroy the
worms. If there is anything that
worms aro fonder of, than tobacco, I
have never seen it, The planters
have to keep a close watch for these
pests, or they will eat the last plant,
and this warfare on the worms must
be kept up until the crop is made and
carried to the barns. The tobacco
worm is the great draw-back to to
bacco culture. But I must say that
I believe the tobacco worm is a bles
sing in disguise. Were it not for
him, tho farmers would soon raise
more tobacco than the market would
need, thereby bringing the price so
low that it would not bo a profitable
crop to plant. Before the plants arc
large enough to transplant, tho land
for tobacco should be thoroughly
prepared, and well fertilized, if it is
not fresh laud, by a liberal use of
cotton seed, stable manure, or good
compost. Guano is used but very
little for tobacco, as it is injurious to
the smoking qualities and flavor of
the cigars
The rows for tobacco should be
three feet apart, aud the plants should
be set about two-aud a-half or three
feet apart in the drill. The plants
should be set out as early in the
spring as possible, though fine tobacco
can he grown from plants set out ns
late as the fifteenth of June.
From all the early settings, two crops
can be made, but from tho late set
tings only one crop can be made. As
soon as the plants are us large as the
hand, they should be worked with a
hoc, by loosening the dirt around the
roots, and hilling it up slightly. The
young plants should be gone over two
or three times a week, and all the
young worms caught and killed, and
all the eggs of the tobacco fly should
be destroyed. This is a very tedious
piece of work, and as I have already
stated, it is the great drnw-baok to
tobacco culture, but there is no other
way of getting rid of the worms,
without injuring the tobacco also. It
is considered a good days work for
one hand to worm two acres of tobac
co, therefore six acres is
called a crop of tobacco for one hand,
and he does well to keep it worked
and wormed without outside help.
About the first to the middle of
June the tobaecq stalks must be
topped,” or it will go to seed, and it
must have all the “suckers” pulledofT,
or they will take tho strength from
tho stalk, thereby decreasing the
flavor and value of the crop.
The “worming” process must be
carried on without fail, even if the
topping and suckcriug has to be left
undone. It will not do for tho far
mer to leave the crop to the mercy of
the worms, for if he does, ho loses all
the work he has bestowed upon the
crop, and the tobacco also. I will
say just here, that the hotter and
dryer the weather becomes, the less
trouble the worms are, but in cloudy,
rainy weather, if the tobacco is not
wormed rapidly, they will soon eat up
a crop. As soon as the lower half of
the stalks begin to turn yellowish, it
is “ripe,” and must bo cut, without
delay.
0f all the crops I have any knowl
edge of, tobacco will wait the least
without a serious loss to tho farmer.
When tobaccq needs work of any
kind, it needs it to day, and very
often it is too lute to wait until the
next week. Ab fast as tho stalks arc
cut, they arc carried or hauled to the
nearest ham, and carefully laid in
the shade. In a large crop of tobacco,
the harvesting is an interesting and
exciting timcT About 9 or 10 o’clock,
or just as soon as tho dew dries oft,
the “cutters” arc put to work, with
large, keen, butcher knives, who go
ahead, and with one quick lick with
the keen blade, lays the stalk to one
side, and makes for the next ripe stalk.
From four to five cutters arc goner
ally put to work at once. These five
cutters can cut the tobacco faster
than thirty or forty hands can carry
it to the barns. Iusidc of the barns
all is activity and rapid work. The
carriers lay the heavy stalks cacetully
on long tables or cloths spread on the
ground, and on either side of the
barn are men “spearing" the stalks,
while others are rapidly bearing them
away to another part of the barn,
when it again changes hands, and is
finally hung on the tiers or joists in
the barns, where it is left to cure. It
must be borne in mind, that from the
time the tobacco is cut, each and
every one that handles it, must do so
with care, in order to keep from bruis
ing or tearing the leaves. After it
has hung in the lower part of the
barn for foul or five days, it is again
moved to a higher portion of the
barn, thereby making room for the
next cutting. In three or four weeks
the leaves are cured, when the stalks
are taken down and the leaves taken
off. As fast as the leaves are stripped
from the stalks, they are tied into
hands of thirty or forty leaves, and
then packed into boxes, where it re
mains until it is sold.
After the tobacco leavt s tiie farm
ers hands, it is again gone over by
the buyers, who have it assorted
according to quality, and taking all
the best leaves for wrappers, and the
short and poorer grftdes for fillers.
Mr. Editor I will close this article by
saying, that if you, or any of your
readers should at any time visit
Quincy, I will he glad to show' you
the beauties and attractions ot this
par! of the “Land of Flowers.”
With best wishes for all of my old
friends in Georgia, I am yours, with
high regard. J. W. J.
Quincy, Fla., Oct 10, 1889.
Tho Mexican Congress Almost Sure to
Grant Concessions.
St. Louis, Mo., Oct. n.—Advices
from Mexico say that the bill to grant
a concession to Henry E. Ferguson
and William H. Ellis, two colored men
from Texas, who propose to colonize
lands ip the states of Ojaco; Gurrero;
Vera Cruz; Michocan and San Luts
Potisi with negroes from Texas and
other American states, has passed the
lower house of congress with but one
dissenting vote, and has gone to the
senate. It is believed that the • bill
will pass and be signed by president
Diaz, Ferguson and Ellis expect that
20,000 negroes from Texas alone will
move to Mexico and raise cotton on
these lands, and that many thousand
industrious blacks, skilled in the culti
vation of cotton will follow them from
the states cast of the Mississippi river.
The press almost unanimously takes
exception to the action of the govern
ment in granting the concussion, in aid
of the negro immigration scheme.
Solid.
Wc take the following comple
ment to Col. A. P. Wright, from the
Camilla Clarion:
When you want to get down to the
solid truth about a country, go and
talk with solid men. Col. A. P.
Wright, of Thomasville, is one of our
granite foundation men. He has
made a solid fortune since the war by
solid work aud solid judgment. He
showed his faith in Mitchell as a
solid county, by taking her short
time and low rate bonds at par. lie
has loaned thousands of dollars in
this county and is not afraid to do it
ftgW»A • '
In response to our question as to
the outlook for tho future of this sec
tion, ho said that the outlook was
good, for he thought that our plant
ers were in better condition than
they have been for years, and he
cited in support of that opinion that
the Bank of Thomasville had loaned
the past year one hundred thousand
dollars to planters, who said that they
did not wish to run accounts in the
stores on credit; that a majority of
those loans had been promptly paid,
and when the same parties asked for
new loans it was with the statement
that they had plenty of corn anil
other Supplies with which they could
carry on their farming operations tor
the coming year. Tho new loans
have been asked to aid them iu the
purchase of lands for themselves or
their children, or for making perma
nent improvements on their farms, in
the way of better houses, or for the
more securely putting away crops al
ready made.
He said that it was a good omen,
for our people by so doing showed
their confidence in the future growth
of their section and its properties.
He said that he thought the Alliance
organization had done great good in
inculcating economy among the peo
ple; that where credit was almost
universal, now it was a hard matter
to sell good men goods on time, and
if our people would pursue the course
they had for the last year, in ten
years the people of wliat was termed
the “wire grass,” would bs a rich
people, for you can recollect this sec
tion was formerly called in derision
the wire-grass. That when he came
to this section thirty-five years ago,
taking a point on the Chattahoochee
and runuiug a line east until it struck
the Flint river, including Dooly and
out east to Liberty, all south of such
a line was called the wire-grass coun
try of Georgia. But the future
would show, ou account of its liealth-
fulncss, generous soil, the case with
which the lands were cultivated, that
before thirty-five years more passes
away, that on its bosom would rest a
mighty population, rich in wealth
and other resources, and that it
would be the empire section of the
Emmie State of the south-
This is encouraging a-id the people
appreciate such testimony.
Tho Yardmen Still Out and No New Mon
in Their Placet.
Atlanta, Ga.. Oct. ii.—The strike
among the yardmen of the Central
railroad, which was inaugurated last
night, is still maintained, though ef
forts aie being made to adjust the dif-
fererffces between the employes and
employers. The former demand an
increase of pay which they to day de
clared mustbe forthcoming before they
would return to work. The yard con
ductors demand $1.33 instead of $2
per day, and the couplers $i,75
instead ot $1.50 per day. New men
were put on to-day, but after a few
hours work they quit and joined the
strikes. The road is reported to have
made an attempt to induce negroes to
take the place of the yardmen, but
without success, owing to theawewith
which the former regard the strikers.
ENGINEERS HELP THEM.
The engineers refused to take out
trains made up by negroes. The
strikers now number about Thirty
three men, but have shown no dispo
sition to Offer violence. While hanging
about the yards to day they submitted
to the police sent to disperse them
with the utmost good humor. It is
rumored that they will be joined by
the yardmen of the Western & Atlantic
road, whose pay is no better than their
own, and there is reason to believe
that the strikers expect rc enforcement
from the employes of that road.
Should daylight revive their confidence
the negroes may go to work in the
Central yards in the morning.
Let Advertisers Read.
From the Pulatka Herald.
A single page in a single issue of the
Century, taken for advertising pur
poses, costs $500; in Harper’s, 8400;
in other prominent magizines, from
$too to $320. A yearly advertise
ment of one column in the Chicago
Tribune costs $26,000; in the New
York Tribune, $20,554 for the lowest,
and $85 950 for the highest rates; in
the New York Herald, $36,203 tor the
lowest, and $39,500 for the highest
priced columns. These papers, it is
said, are never at a loss tor advertse-
ments. And yet people will kick when
they pay ten cents a line for a special
local in the Palatka Herald.
They arc having fears of a “water
famine” iu New York city. Yester
day Mayor Grant was informed by
one of the lending engineers of the
city that nt present the Croton water
shed is inadequate to supply tho
demands, and that a plan for bring
ing water from the Passaic watershed
has become an absolute necessity.
The present yearly loss to the
city from death and sickness, preven
table by an abundant water supply,
is estimated by a board of engineers
at 818,872,655,
Next Friday will be observed by
Leon Odd Fellows’ Lodge as memo
rial day, Twenty-three Odd Fellows
sleep in the cemetery at Tallahassee,
and on the day named appropriate flo
ral offerings will be placed upon their
graves. An interesting programme
will be adopted and carried out and
the day observed by the lodge and its
friends
Now Going on
-AT-
LBVY’S
ModsMss.
Our Mr. Levy
having closed out,
while in N ew York,
large lots of
Hurt His Feelings.
Town Topics.
Maude—Did the doctor say there
was any danger to be feared from
having your fingers amputated?
Jouah—lie said I would never feel
well again.
Ethel—O, I saw such a sweet
match safe this aiterneon.
George—What shape was it itt?
“It was in the shape of a marriage
certificate."
The French government announces
that so far the American exhibits at
the Paris exposition have been award
ed 53 grand prizes; 199 gold medals;
271 silver medals; 218 bronze medals
and 220 honorable mentions, and the
list is not nearly completed.
-IN-
Walking Jackets,
New Markets,
Modjeskas.
ALSO A LARGE LOT OF
Misses’ and Childrens’
Cloaks & Reefers,
direct from the
manufacturers, we
feel confident in as
serting that our
Prices
on them are
FAR BELOW
the cost of manu
facture.
Call early before
the choice ones are
picked over.
Levy’s
Mitchell House Block