Newspaper Page Text
ATHENS, GEORGIA. TUESDAY MORNING! FEBRUARY 18,1890.
VOLLVm NO. 11
tificia] and chemical kinds bv
tnanufoctn rei a. From the fact that tire
■*“*9 °* plants and woods contain near
ly* 1 * oftheirmineral constituentsex-
oept a Te»y small portion that has bees
lost in the process of combustion, it is
na i rally to be expected that the best
res Uu mar always be looked for from
th< u*» of them as fertOiaen.
kOwever, Says The New
Yon Wnrik, occasional cases when tbe
application of ashes is disappointing,
for the soil may be either too rich or
too poor to receive any considerable
benefit from them. This may arise
from tbe fact that the soil alreadv een-
tains all the aaceetery mineral elements
or it may be so deficient in vegetable
mold as to make them virtually useless.
As a genera] rule, however, on average
farms a liberal dressing of ashes mat be
used not only for immediate benefit, but
with beneficial results fora succession
of years.
It is common to estimate tbe fertiliz
ing value of sabes chiefly by the potash
a*d phosphoric acid they contain, and
to consider leacbed ashes useful onlv
(or their mechanise! effect on tbe soil.
It, however, frequently happens that in
tbeir leached oonditien, when tbe pot
ash has been extracted, they exert an
influence almost ss marked as that pro
duced by tbe same quantity of mnleach-
ed ashes on another field. This arises
from the fart that the soil of the field on
which they were used was not deficient
m potash, but greatly needed lime and
phosphor-* acid which the leached ashes
•ull retained and which are as necessa y
for plant growth a- ootash. Now, as
ftrthe* contain sorb Q -re lin»# «hto po*»
•sh, it is quite lik«i] that we often gi»e
to potash the credit that really beionga
*° lime and phosphoric scid^As com
mercial ashes are usually made from a
variety of woods, It may he of interest
to stole that the popular idea of tbe
greater value of those from hard woods
itia the main correct, although the in
feriority of those from soft wood is ow
ing about as much to the small qnanhty
produced as it is to deficiency in qual-
ity.
s t well-to— o farmers North and South,
•ad there are plenty who growl at their
1 *t._ Intellect, skill and good sense, are
imlividnal, and they are not sectional
• geographical.—Baltimore American.
How often have oar young men been
told to “aim high. Shoot at the top it
von ait the stump.” These admoni
tions an all well enough, bat they fail
to tel. oar yong men what to do in case
they miss the stomp.
Better shoot to hit something and
use a common sense gun in all cases.
We know boys who can tell you jnst
what is the latest styles in fancy bail
dress suits, can say eawnt and shawnt
with an accent equal to the French
masters, but giTe us the boy who can
tell „when t „to^ turn the churn around
by tue lire in cold weather. They al
ways get there in life, and yon seldom
hear of such a boy committing suicide.
STILL HANGS FIRE.
•rises as to tff-cto upon the Order. At lb*
cor-cia.-i-m was a single line in small type,
be^mniug “Later” (also in em«ll type.)
announcing that in all probability tin-
scandal was a fa’se allegation. Let the
armrr keep a weather iye on these sort ol
tbirgs and on all papers that “make
haste" to publish damaging reporta abou
the farmers’ movement—especially upon
•hroe papers that advise and once him to
tell cotton when hie leaden say “bold.”
Whenever these things appear in tbe pa
vers let him settle in his mind “An enemy
tts’h done this," unifli he sets effldal in
formation through his official organ, tbe
Goiloa Pia=t, («>( course all the farmers
take it and read it,) or the Times and
D»m«>crat-
3. Upon the action of the farmer rela
tive to srsreb* u-es. The merits of th*
scheme base been exhaustively dtacosaeu
and demonstrated. Tbe question of coun
try warehouse* is settled. They will be
built and operated beyond denbt. On*
thing only remains to be seen—whether
they wDl be built and operated by tbe
formers, for the benefit of the farmer, in
by individuab for tbe money there Is o
.ultra. Money is in siaht to-day for the
construcitin i.f a warehouse in Orancr-
hurg just as soon a* the formers abandon
the project. Commercial mi-ds are sharp
«.ou*h to see profit la it as sa investment,
and this profit would accrue to the bolder
of stick, whether ha lived is town or oa
the remotest farm in the remotest district
of the c Uaty. Bat if the stock did not
pay a cent dividends, the farmer iavast <r
would b- handsotnley paid in the enhano-u
P*ice of cotton In the ware house, borro*
money upon it for present need*, and
wold it "far the rise.” Thus be gets the
benefit of rise in price instead of specula
tor—and, more than all els*, he is in a po
sition to nave a say as to the {Mice.
Tbe failure of farmers to respond
promptly to this schema must be due lu
failure »f proper parties to canvass it- Tan
snares from each Sab-Alliance in tha
county would build a warehouse, and yet
the m.lter crags. One merchant in the
town would have stored 500 bales with ns
and ret we wait
Finally the measure of resnlts for this
year wtll be largely determined la tha
next two months by oar action upon the
three points mentioned; bat cap daily
upon the contracts we make for advances,
■ud upon the building of a warehouse.
With shorter liens or atore accounts, long
er credits, undivided confidence and effort,
and a ware bouse, the farmer is iuvinctble.
With patience and intelligence persistence
his case will reach tbe higher Court after
awhile—transferred from tbe realm of
m*-re Assizes, hie power and dignity hav
ing beau properly “sired op" i-i tbe oom-
int-rcial and legislative mind, in the realm
cf Equities will receive u attentive bear
ing, and be get what he ask* far.—J. W.
Stokes, in Times and Democrat
•ml tiro, averaging net $45—tbe $23
making $1,200, and the net on the IS
acres being $174.
I planted Peterkin seed, hybridised
with tbe Jones big boll.
GEORGE T. MURRELL. Eorroa.
*VHY FARMING LH)£3 NOT PAY.
FARMERS’ WIYES.
Idleness and carelessness are often
causes of much of the nnaUractivenes*
of life on the form. “Anything is good
enough for a former’s wife,” and peo
ple who do not respect tbeir calling.
*oon cease to he themselves respectable,
cor lack of appreciation, tbe wife is
apt, even if ia her girlhood she was
neat, to become slovenly and carries*
as to her appearance: This antidines.*
in herself reacts in her borne, nntil sel
fishness and disorder prevails. Coder
*oeh influences, the bright and sparY-
ling girls reach an uninteresting ma-u-
nty and then a repulsive age. They
become possessed of the idea, more per
nicious than any other that ever entered
the heart of woman, that anything will
do at home, or is good enough for the
family. They live, as tbev tell you, “a
dag’s life,” bat without a'thought that
they are in any way responsible for,
their wretchedness.
Another ill grows ont of the flnanrte)
relations af tbe former's wife. As a
rule, the husband makes the purchases,
even to procuring his wife’s dresses!
while she rarely, or never has, the con
trol of a dollar. Sometimes she frets
and worries about things which her
husband cannot afford, aud which she
would gladly do without, if she under
stood h was circumstances, and not the
arbitrary dictum of her husband, which
made the economy necessary.
By this system, there is developed in
the husband, even of the nobler type, a
narrow-minded tyranny and petty penu-
rionsneas. The wife remains a child in
finance, and if she is entrusted with tbe
shopping, she does it awkwardly and
unwisely. At times, she feels keenly
the deprivation.
Isolation is another detrimental ele
ment in the life of a farmer's wife. In
thinly settled communities, this is ane
of the worst troubles she has to contend
with. The nearest neighbor may be
miles sway, and the daily routine of
farmhouse work, sa healthful as the
background of tbe picture, becomes
gloomy and monotonous wbea not
touched with the colore of interest, or
brightened by the light of intercourse
with friends. In families Hying ten
miles distant, the man will go to town
about a hundred times a year to sell his
grain, get the mail, and (thongh he
would not like to own it) to learn the
news snd talk politics on the street.
The wife goes, perhaps twice a year,
takes the ch.ldren with her to "give
The higher we climb .ae farther
tb**u we can see. Tbe mo-c 1 write
•be more 1 car. see that whi-b might be
written on the above inexhi istoblesub-
; eCt . The conclusion of these articles,
according te promise, has been reach*.
*: last, and 1 know no better way of
using this last column than for the pur-
pc«e of recapitulation. In it all I base
£nlr furnished a text from which a
tr ,ii article might be written.
1 have endeavored to •how that the
■fov.rnuivtit at Waahiugtoc ia run In a
manner that ia unfriendly to the inter-
trii of the farm; that the restricted vol
ume of currency furnished by tbe gov
ernment it insufficient to transact the
gested for Congress.
Mr. H. C. Hunter is breaking up some
land where be sowed oats last foil. The
oats was entirely gone after ‘’ruling
there till Christmas.
Some of the best farmers complain of
tbe cut-worm in tbeir wheat.
Jag Tavern is rejoicing over the pros
pect of a broed-gnage railroad.
The Masonic fraternity has built them
a nice hall close to Chandler’s court-
ground.
Miss Kula McFdl, of Anderson, S. C.,
will teach school at Apple Valley.
Died at his home in Apple Valley,
Tonie Sims, aged If.
Last week at the time the Herald was
issued some highly sensational reports
were flying around which reflected upon
the integrity of Solicitor Russell—name
ly, that he bad been indicted bytftm
grand jury of Oconee county for mat-
practice. Feeling certain these reports
were untrue, we declined to notice
them. As to how these rumors orig
inated, whether from an evil intention
or gross ignorance oa the part of certain
parties in Oconee county, it is net nec
essary to inquire. It is sufficient to
know that the facts completely and en
tirely vindicate Mr. Russell, and leave
his name as an officer of the law and an
honorable and upright man without a
stain.
BAST COUNTY. *
Mrs. Amanda Crawford and Mrs.
Rachael Satterfield are dead.
Tbe Hartwell bank is loaning fann
ers money to pay for their supplies.
Messrs. J. B. and E. B. Benson have
determined te tear down their store
building and erect a largo one of brick
on th* same site.
Miss Lanra crow, of near Daniels-
rille. is teaching a class in music at
Ur. E. M. Chitenden’s.
Maj. J. 6. Walton is very low with
cancer.
Some of the Hart county Alliances
meet three times a week.
Mr. WiUiam Baty.of Franklin 'eoan-
ty,hae bought Mr. Larkin Clark's form.
Mr. Asa E. Brown and Visa Addle
Pullalnare married; also W.N. Bason
and Miss Aggie Algary.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean has engaged
Mr. Fred Wiebens, of Hartwell, to wnte
a aeries *of articles descriptive of his
European Bicycle Tour. They win be
profusely illustrated by pictorial en
graving?.
B. F. Edwards says that he raised
545 pounds of lint cotton on one acre
of land near tbe old gold none *u Hart
county. He used 150 pounds of guano
and 6 wagon loads of stable manure.
Tbe rows were five feet and a half
apart.
ELBBBT COUNTY.
There are seventeen Alliances in El-
County.
Mr. and Mrs. John W. MeCalla are
visiting Baltimore.
- Miss Emma Barden is rapidly recov
ering from the effects of her late aeei-
deat.
Kli Perkins will visit Elberton on the
34th. *
What is the trouble with the Monday
mails? The Atlanta snd Athens Sun
day papers ought to get hero at noon
Monday, but are always delayed till the
evening train.
Mr. Don Blackwell has s finger tied
up on each of his hands. Theinquiries
as to the cause have been so numerous
that he bad had a reply card in largo
letters hong over his counter, to which
be points when the question islasked.
The card reads: “One of my fingers is
cut. and tbe other is sore.”
Mrs. Wm. Rice, died on Tuesday of
child-bed fever. Mrs. Rice resided
near Rehoboth church, in Hart coun
ty.
Col. Mattox says if the G..C, A N.
road is built on his side of tha creek, it
will develop bis water power and make
it equal to tbe Augusta. canaL
ONWARD
SOME OF THE GOOD RESULTS OF
THE FARMERS ALLIANCE.
WHOTXSOHH ADVICS TO FABUSES AS T3I
BAG IK a NSW teak’s OPEKATIOS.
This case bas been pleaded in the Courts
of Equity for s hundred yean agonc, but
without avail. At last tbe farmer bas re
alized that resolutions sad declarations of
rights are fuiit* nnlcss backed by substos-
i sl demonstration* of power—tor half a
cemu.-y he has annually resolved, tt-edeed
and lived and paid just the same. Upon
his own motiou the case has been trans
ferred to tbe Court of Am'X'S, where bh»
power will be ganged and his abii.ty to
enforce his demauds demonstrated.
In its present status ths case comes np
from tbe deckel of ’89. with the endorse
ment “ointiuUed." It has been ’contin
ued’’ upon motion of both parties thereto,
but not on tbe same lines throughout,
dome points have been definitely settled—
•hey are unaltered facts ia the calender of
1889, vrhauvvr history in 1890 may write.
Note s few of the most prominent:
1. Contrary to all precedent and pred-c-
tion, the farmers h»v« stuck together the
past year. They have done more—they
naTe acted cracertedly. consexvativeiy, in
telligently. True result* are ah«»rt of
wuat they mi*ht have be*.; but they
bare been directly proportional to the pre
valence of concerted action—and, I am
petsuaded, are far short of what 1890 will
snow. Tbe farmer’s ability to “suck*’ is
a demonstrated tact.
2. The farmer’s ability to control his
prod net, and oemand a fair price for it in
the markets of the world, even uud«r tbe
unfavorable conditions of hut year, is a
settled question. There is no wiping out
tbe fact that, notwithstanding tbe large
crop, aud tbe manipulation of a sbriaktug
volume of currency in the interest of spec
ulation, the cotton crop Ju»t harvested bas
anli for an »v-raxe of $5 more per bale
tban that of a y.ar since ’81. This, too,
ia (see of existing dispru|>ortioos—«. g.,
tbe crop of 1881 .gxerated only five aud a
half miJion bales as against near Seven
ana s half millions tor last year. To pur
chase the crop of 1881 there was currency
ia circulation to the amount of $11.48 |*r
capita; to purchase the last crop, there
was o«Jy $6.10 ;>r capita, or ie»s.
It is .eneral iy admitted by candid ob
servers in Wall street and out of it that the
farmers’ movement was tbe principal fac
tor in making up this result. If such re
sults can be wrought out of such erode
material, with an eavioitmmenl inauspi
cious, what may not tbe farmer reasonably
hope for the preseat year? TMpsfibH<-
ties contingent alone upon c>»aerated ac
tion (tor wise leadership is assured) are in
spiring in tbe highest degree
3 Tue mercantile and manufacturing
world has changed ns attitude toward the
farmer. Every line cf goods {n evny lme
of business has been subjected to the cluera!
s*cunty ; and “what are tbe farmers go
ing to do?" figures in «yety busings cal
culation. The contemplation welLaigb
takes one’s breath. Ia this not worth all
the labor, all tbe trouble ?
Gct-eral inquiry into the first cost of com
modities has been stimulated, and the peo
ple at large instructed as to tbe wide bis.
tus between rush and time prices. There
vaults st Washington exceeds the
hordes of all other nations combined,
lu.tead of this money In such vast
amount >y ug there in idleness or oaned
out su security of U. S. bonds it should
be let out to th# fanner* on landed se
curity at a>»ut cost of issue and not
given into the baud* of a favored few
who delight to use its concentrated
power to oppress the people who are so
patiently supporting and speeding the
government- Tbe government ia so
run »* to depress the prices of every
thing sell, aud brings about an in-
oreaa# ia the prices of everything we
bur. No class can prosper that buys in
the highest anrl sells in tbe lowest mar
kets ia the world.
There has been little or no legislation
fsr the benefit ot the farming class and
very much that has been detrimental to
it. I ho remedy for this is to demand
•ucti legislation a* will save the farstera
from impending bankruptcy, aud to en
force this demand send tnen to repre-
ssst u* who know our necessities and
knowing them will have the manhood
ts maintain eur r-gnts. It is folly to
think for a moment that permanent
success can be achieved on the faros
when general conditions prevail that
positively force the farmer to pay trib
ute greater than can be produced on the
farm after feeding himself and family.
We have shown that the farmer feeds
aud clothes the world and yet his food
erops and cotton and wool crops are
sold for a price less than the actual cost
ef production The «vils that afflict the
cotton raiser South overtake Ilia corn
sad perk ratters Northwest. From
Maine to the Rio Grande and from Key
West to Vancouver island the same
causes exist and tbe same hardship*
overcome. In the vast length and
breadth of this highly favored country
th# hi* ilia.masses are pleading for de-
fsnUvilla, Ark., were learned tonight
from the brother-in-law of the murder
ed girl, who resides in this city, and
who has jnst returned from the scene.
Mbs Goss was missed daring the
night sad a search was made, but
without success until daylight, when
her mutilated corpse was found about
300 yards from the hease. She had
been assaulted and than murdered.
The whole neighborhood soon gath-
HAT AND GRAIN.
any other. Th* clever occupies the
land the first year almost exclusively;
the following year it becomes thinner,
and the timothy forms most of the crop
each year afterward. Then its place
is gradually token by red-top, bine-
grass, or tbe more common wire grass
natural to all the sailers and middle
states.—American Agriculturalist.
As to the period when grass should
be cut for bay, nature shows ns that
tbe most delicious and nutritive mor
sels for calti* are from young grass, in
May and Jose, when tha herbage is
eaten with avidity, and on which the
animals thrive, while tbe secretions of
milk are copious and sweeter—having a
savor and a flavor deUgbtful to the
senses, especially when converted into
what is called “grass butter.” This
being so, then tbe nearer the hay re
ared, and search for the murderer be
gan at once. Suspicion pointed to Cor
rect, who had been arrested around the
house the night before in an Intoxicat
ed condition. From his wife it was
lenrned that he came home early in the
morning drunk and informed her that
be he had murdered Mis* Goes, at the
same time threatening to Ull her if she
did not keep bis secret.
Without waiting for the alow pro
cess of the law the infuriated people
took Corvett to tbe scene of the mur
der, and with an axe eat off his arms
and legs and aerated Us head from his
body. When Mias Goes’s brotber-in-
Mw left, the mob was preparing taQcre-
mata Corvett’s remains.
THREATEN HI3 LIFE
litfcivss.'iroui this body of death.
With brave hearts and weary bands
they are toiling on, toiling on. hoping
and praying tor better, happier day*,
looking ahead with eager eyes to catch
th* first glimpse* of the blessed dawn
of prosperity morning.
M»y God in Heaven deliver ns from
democratic and republican parties
if their aims snd objects in going
to the nations eapiiol is accom
plished simply ia defining (tarty lines
end. in scrambling ovm’ parliamentary
tactics, while the people who entrusted
them with their welfare and liberty are
at iisuie rtr&ining under grievous bur-
dent that oppress and gauling jokes
that bind. They expect something bet
ter ef our lawmakers than that they
should spend precious time in trying
to teat members snd breaking up quo
rum*.
Hew long will we be afflicted with
members who think more #f IllUbuster-
ing in Congress than of wants and ne-
csssitie* of the toiling milUons at
home?
We hav# given some figure* on the
cast rt producing cotton, and placing
the telling price at 10 oenta per ponnd
have shown, we think, that there is no
money in the production at that price.
We have discussed tbe tenant system
and proved that under existing eircum-
stance* and custom there is no money
ia that kind of forming, either to the
trbatit or land owner. Then again of
th« obstacles ia the way of a perfect
labor system that good fond, good aea-
*ou and good management could not ef
themselves make a crop without good
itnsl relationships, and lose the sweet
attractiveness of home life, which des-
>ite every want, might still be theirs,
if they knew how to secure it. The
question is asked are there any reme
dies for these ills which sadden the
lives in so many homes in our land?
The most obvious answer is. education;
first of the practical kind, and the a as
opportunity offers, mere general cult-
an economical meaapre of the
ure as an economical measure of the
highest importance. There should be
colleges of domestic economy for girl*,
where the proper preparation of food,
eare of health and dwelling, and house
hold thrift should be taught.
The better educated the farmer is, the
more likely will be be to recognize the
rights of his wife—her righu to as
pleasant a home as his means will af
ford; her right to social intercourse; to
a control over the house and personal
tbe haymow while they are good for
something, and there is no under
growth springing np among sithcr of
them to make up for the lees on tbe
stalk, as is th* ease with some grasses.
Plants ef any kind cat when green and
juices aosd .more time and sunshine
to properly cure than that after the
stalk* are hardened. Mistakes are oft
en made by taking tbe rustling of tbe
dry leaves ef early cut grass as an in
dication that the whole plant is dry
enough te put in th* barn. Clover, es
pecial! v, ia apt to be misleading in this
way. If yon have or can get at a patch
of the common brakes that are dean
and not rusty i* will pay yon to eat
tL. . _1 _ ..,1 Is skm L — an
tus between cub sod time prices,
will be no steps backward from this
point.
The cohesive force does exist, then,
amnugtb* farmers; and tbe stupendous
momentum of the coherent boby of farm-
j ets against any and all combinations dr-
expenditures ; to an opportunity for im
provement; to an understanding of all
matters of interest te himself, and to a
share of his time and affectionate con
sideration.
The cultured man respects himself so j
highly fiat he considers nothing too j
good, that is within his means u> ob- ;
tain, for tbe woman be bas chosen to
rule bis horns, and to be the mother of
bis children.
The educated woman will recognize
all the spiritual and physical righto of
her family. She will manage more eco
nomically, govern more wisely and
wtvk more advantageously, besides
having a better time in doing it. In
every profession there is progress. Ev
ery class of society is looking toward
the light, and this is especially noticea
ble among women. The signs of the
times are hopeful, in that everywhere
in the civilized world women are evinc
ing a desire for a better knowledge of
vised for tbe fanners’ hurt bas been start
lingly Illustrated. But let the*farmer not
forget that his ose is still res adjudicate
non—it is “continued" upon the docket of
90; It ia still pending, it sdecision or pro-
areas toward final adjndidation this year
will depend upon the fidelity of the farmer
Ibrnozhout the year, of course; bnt will
ruary. Then laid off in five-foot rows,
very deep. Put down fifty bushels
green cotton seed per acre; measured
acres twenty-one rows to task. Covered
the seed lightly with board on plow
stock. Let stand nntil 6tb of April.and
pat down 100 pounds of Georgia State
Grange fertilizer to the measured aero
on top of the seed. Then 1 put foor
forrows, with seven-inch tarn plow, t*
the bed, moderately shallow; opened
for planting with small short boll
tongue. Dropped seed by hand thirty
inches apart in hills; covered with log
drag on the 10th of April; then on the
1st of May, before it was fairly up,
plowed very shallow with twenty-aix-
inch sweep, four farrows to the row,
and replanted; stand poor. On May
20 plowed every other middle very
shallow, and pat in the aiding farrow
200 pounds of the following mixture:
Equal quantities cotton seed meal, arid
phasphate and kainit to the measured
acre. On the first of June same in tbe
other middle, going behind each plow
ing with hoes, and chopping anything
that should not remain in cotton; going
over three acres per day the hand;
thinned to stand, which was never very
good. On the 12th of June pat four
furrows to every other middle with
26-inch sweep, very shallow; on the
24th four furrows to every other mid
dle with 26-inch sweep, very shallow.
WasniNOTwr, Feb. 14—{Special.—
Ed Marlow, a colored man, recently
moved into a Hole shanty at No. MM
H. street southeast with bis wife and
child. The boose had a dilapidated
look, but it was for rent cheap and
Marlow toek ft. It was a little wooden
affair, white-washed enfold*, and it
■toed ahakingty on four legs that raised
it abort eight Inches tnm the ground.
The few poets that supported it were
half-rotted away and it seemed that a
stormy wind weald Mow it over.
Lately Marlow noticed that the stench
with which the bouse had all the time
■owned saturated had become mom
powerful than ever. He went out and
looked nnder the boom. Under earn
corner, forthect from the street, were
three small rough wooden boxes.
Ha pulled th* nearest one ont, and
wa* almost overpowered from the stench
that came froes It. The box was of thin
boards, and the top waa loosely fastea-
(bnmabont the year, of course ,
depend particularly, and more than all
else upon three things *
1. Upon tbe business engagement the
farmer makes during the next two month*.
If be fall into tbe old rut and makes con
tracts tor advance payable November 1st.
as heretofore, tbe movement will be shorn
of half Its power. It ia tbe universal
The statement is made that an old,
wornout Mississippi plantation was
bought for a song by a Northern man,
and that in two years be made it pay
$10,000 m strawberries alone. Tbe in
ference is that “brain is th* thing to
plow Into the Southern ceil.” While
this is true of the South, it is squallr
true of all soils. It is the man behind
tbe form who makes or man it, and
this tact cannot he confined to any sec
tion where agriculture baa its many
victims and few successful followers.
Tb* British former 1ms brains, bn^be
has been crippled by for-
l»b*r to do the work.
Wshave shewn that railroads play
• a aacive part, though indirectly it may
be in sppressins th* farmer. When
coin leaves the Northwestern farmer’s
Lauda at 15 cents per bushel, and ia
lauded at eur ;depots at 60 cento per
bushel, there ia a email amount of 300
per cent scattered along the line some
where. The powers of money in rail
road lyndicate* is like the power of
aiooey ia all ether kinds of combina
tions; the tendency is te build np the
•troag and oppress the weak. The cea-
iutsen in the rural districts pay tha
los* ia freight, tariff to commercial cen
ter* beeauae th# lees sustained there is
added ts the way freight bill else
where.
w * hav* tried te make plain the fact
December 1st or 25th. Many decisive con
flict* of history bare been virtually deter.
mined before tbe cnlmiualing struggle was
reached. Qettjsburg was practically Inst
and woo two days before the magnificent
charge of July Si, no less than BalakUva,
of this eounl
surveyed.
which it so vividly suggests, as immortal
ised by Tennyson. Sedan was but the se
quel of events transpiri ng for a decade pre
vious oa both skks ths Rome. And so
let not the farmer be deceived by this hill
in tbe fighting. Both parties are, or
iu me ugniiUM- ouiu (mucs arc, or
should be, now maneuvering for position,
snd once established and fortified, with
impregnable salients in llye shape of liens.
Yankee soldier. The form was not nat
urally rich, and the General, who had
sank much money oa it, parted from it
gleefully. He came to town and tokl
lie friends with a chuckle of triumph,
»a.t he had “gotten even with one
Yankee, and proposed te leisurely be
hold that unhappy man ttarve to
dentil.” Tb* Yankee was a bard worker
himself, and had an industrious family.
The form was aursed, well manured,
diligently cultivated, and planted for a
variety of crop*. Instead ofstMrtng,
the Yankee grew rich, and theex-
Confederate General lived tong enaogh
to know that she form bm had*
good for nothing, waa oneof th
valuable and productive in
Brain is tbe thing te plow In
soils of all aecrioos. Intelligent*
ba backed by heowmiy. thrift, um
and an adoption of mean* to en
very often Lapp*** that men wl
oeod in sserchamlfoiag prog
forming, when applying:
tive talents to tbs new pursuit-
money naturally at anyxnmg
they undertake, because they are eqnip-
tbat other rules and customs and laws
*11 meditate against tbe interests of the
f»rm, and that somebody else always
P u the lion's share of everything that
i« going about.
That there are no laws to regulate
•ml improve the miserable system of
labor we have; that fanners who would
divine unity.
give labor a jnst and remunerative re
ward for service* rendered, are two
efton the victims of evil designing,
®e»n, trifiling whites, who will aot
work themselves or allow ottmrs to do
*o> if it lies within their province te
prevent. ~
Devil are
farm and
Tbe crown of all faculties is common
iiise. In this age called by some wri-
r» tbe “Brain age,” strange as it
—interests.
>*w hear the conclusion of the whole
matter. The formers are not asking
charity ef any man or any set of men,
“*f only want such laws enacted as
7"' bring present relief and present
future embarrassment, and with God
overruling all things above and with
the generous soil beneath, he will joy-
frlly f*«i umi cloths the world.
Gao. T. M-
tt undertake. Such men are crowned
r, with that wonderful faculty common
It sense. Other young men bear off tbe
!* medals otoor high schools and State
universities, and go back te battle on
tbe high plains of life the admiration
of a host of friends, and sink into obliv
ion, as it were, a miserable failore.
How often have you beard the ex
pression “a drone in school, bat a suc
cess in borines*.”
There is such a thing as a common
sense shoe. This shoe bas a heel and
this heel has a broad base and from
this broad base the shoe gets its name.
This common sense shoe will always be
found right side np, and so will the
common sense man or woman.
This age needs men of oommon sense
worn. Ten years ago I commenced to
manure it. Soil is sandy, mixed a lit
tle with clay in spots; subsoil yellow
day, varying from six inches to three
feet in tire twelve acres.
The following is the cost:
Work, plowing and hoeing $ 90 80
Cotton seed for manure 120 50
Guano (600 pounds to acre).... 7V 30
Cost of picking 19059