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THE COURANT AMERICAN. VOL. XIX. ICE NEEL ON peach industry. at the Adairsville Section Has Done This Year- N growing AND MARKETING rhe Luscious Fruit—Whv Do Not Qther Parts of the County Fol low Suit ? Editors Courant American: The rapid and successful devel of the peach growing m- L try in the northwestern portion fth is county within the past few ’ rs deserves special notice in our columns. Within five years Ljj. thriving infant industry, in a dius of three miles of Adsirsville, , as grown to such proportionsthat tis now almost, if not quite, a tai of the wheat crop grown in hat best wheat ar . ea in the count . y hinging beautiful and fertile )othcaloga Valley both east and , es t are ranges of red hills, for merly considered of little value, save for timber. Later it was found that good cotton crops could be grown on these hills. It was soon seen however, that cotton growing caused the soil to wash ofl and leave the hills bare and red with gulleys. When this condi tion was reacned, the small farmers who owned and tilled these hills begun to feel more and more the bitter pressure of poverty. Among these debt-ridden farmers was Milam Gunn, a worthy but a poor man, who owned a little mountain farm on the dividing ridge between Oothcaloga Valley, and Spring Town valley. He had mortgaged bis farm to a loan company fora few hundred dollars, and was looking forward with dread and fear to the day when the loan would mature. Some pioneer nursery man came along and saw’ the idaptability of his little farm for growing peaches, and prevailed on I him to let him plant an orchard on (it, to be cultivated and nursed on shares. Mr. Gunn engaged in the work heartily, and had the good fortune in the third or fourth year to gather and market a crop of peaches sufficient to pay off his Mortgage. From later crops he icquired considerable money and leeamc a lender of money himself. From this beginning orchard after orchard was planted by the farm er of that section, until now, the r td hills both east and west of >f Oothcaloga are thickly dotted 'ith neat and well kept orchards Eibertas, this being the prin ipal and most valuable variety [lown. 1 understand that over seventy ar loads of peaches were shipped rom Adairsville this season and pproximately the same number rom McDaniel’s station, about six ajles north of Adairsville. lam old that about 550 crates are ship 'n each car and that the peach powers obtained SI.OO per crate oo upward. This means that up lards of $40,000 were received for caches by growers in the commun •) around Adairsville. and nearly 1 similar sum by the community ir ound McDaniel’s station. It is f ld tha t from Plainville, Ga., a miles northwest of Adairsville, pull larger number of cars were 'PM over the Southern railway. hen it is remembeied that this j 1 Ustiy is just fairly begun, and Ij t m anot ier year or so trees young to bear now, will come , hearing, snd probsblv morp an double the yield of fruit in ,!'E' Sc communities, its magnitude " importance becomes apparent, 'e writer spent a day recently and around Adairsville, and h( f ast °nished and delighted at c n , tu prosperity which has cotne community in which he , 0 I childhood and early man ounri • better people can be it ■ 111 tbe s fate. Almost a score there?® were related to me, row;, st [ lk ; n g successes in peach ;ne , 'S la d been made by men I ohn \y r aS inf °rmed that Col. iallv Jray - °n an orchard par iad realized \ bearin K this year, landing *th ?3 ’°°°’ notwith rom hL h * loss of 2000 crates 'T lar vested a ‘ ,u * ' Tnmh,e > who •Ushels on b? h c at Cr ° P of 4,000 ea] ized from v fine valle y far m, he hills fr!” bls peach orchard on 3,000 altli' 18111 - 8 farm - about ’ althou S& it was said that CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. AUGUST i(. ]<><>o. only about 1300 of his trees came to full bearing this year. Mr. Frank Bray also had a remarkable success with his orchard, on the hill west of Adairsville. Messrs. John Johnson, Melville Cunning ham G. M. Boyd, Geo. A. Veach, Henry W. Gaines, R. D. Combs, Tom Turner, Price Turner, Casey, Newt Anderson and numbers of other good citizens in that com munity have gone into the business, and all whose trees were old enough to bear this year, received good prices and have comfortable bank accounts or fat pocketbooks. I will mention oneother instance. A little southwest of McDaniel’s station is a little mountain farm belonging to Mr. A. M. Kay. More than twenty years ago he purchas ed it from my father for a few hun dred dollars. The place is prin cipally a great red hill, with long sloping sides. On its top there formerly stood a tall pine tree, vis ible from Adairsville and used, it is said, as a signal point by Sher man’s army, during its march through that country. For a dozen years or more after Mr. Kay pur chased this place, its agricultural products yielded him barely a sup port. In fact he engaged in mechanical work between crops to supplement his income. A few years ago he planted part of the farm in a peach orchard. The first crop of any consequence, he gath ered, was in the season of 1898, and after paying all expenses and giving one-half the net profits to the nurseryman, who furnished him trees and part of labor, he had to his share about SISOO. This year he had a much larger num ber of bearing trees, and it is said he will get $7,000 or SB,OOO for this year’s crop. This is a remark able instance. One crop is worth many times more than the entire original cost of the land. Now what are the advantages to our country from this diversification of our industries ? I learned that during the month or more of gathering and market ing fhe peaches, every man, wo man and child in all the country round about could get employment at renumerative wages. The pro ceeds of this year’s peach crop found lodgment not alone in the pockets of the growers, but every laboring man and his family got some of it. The crate factory and its employes got a portion. The railroads and ice factories got a part. So that all are sharing in the general prosperity. The peaches are grown on lands not very valuable for agricultural purposes. The yield of wheat, oats, corn, hay and cotton in that community is not diminished, and thus anew source of wealth is opened up. This industry adds 1 irgely to the wealth of the com munity, without impairing other sources of wealth. Will the business be overdone? I am told that our peaches come to market after the south Georgia peaches are largely exhausted, aud that the peculiar excellence of the north Georgia peach is such as to defy successful rivalry. So anx ious were buyers in northern cities to secure the north Georgia peach this season that they sent buyers to Adairsville to buy the fruit on the trees or at the depot,sometimes as many a* fifteen agents being in the village at one time. Of course it is not wise for one to put all his eggs in one basket, and it is to be hoped that our people may not be come so excited as to put all they have into peach orchards. Let us welcome every step towards diver sification of our industries. The more they are diversified the weal thier we will become as a people, and the less we will feel the loss of a cotton crop or a corn crop, or the shutting down of mines. When one industry is crippled, others will be thriving. One suggestion and I close. It seems to me that fruit canning and fruit drying plants should accompany the fruit growing industry. By that means much fruit could be utilized which cannot be shipped during the fruit season, but the dried and canned goods could be sold during the winter. Let me add an inquiry to the closing suggestion just made. Why is it that this end of our county from Allatoona to Carters ville has failed to engage in this industry ? It is claimed that our red soil with the iron in it would make the very finest of peaches. We have shipping facilities at Al latoona, at Bartow, at Emerson, at Etowah switch and at Cartersville, Ga. Might not some of our big mineral companies profitably plant a portion of their mineral lands in peach orchards, and when the p*o- fit drops out of iron and manga nese, as it sometimes does, find a profit in their peach orchards I am hopeful of a better day near at hand for our people. Let us all help each other and rejoice in each other’s prosperity. Very truly. J. M. Nkel. BRYAN’S REVISED PLANS- Probable That He Will Visit Many States But Will Not Speak. Chicago, Aug. 11. —W. J. Bryan’s visit to Chicago has practically re sulted in an understanding that he will travel almost as much during tile present campaign as he did in 1896. The first inclination on his part was to avoid the making of many speeches this year, but there has been such general pressure that it is understood that he is now in clined to yield and to visit many parts of the country. There is no positive promise that he will par ticipate in the campaign in other States than New York, but th probabilities are that he will go from that state to Maryland, where there appears to be great anxiety for his appearance. After that he is likely to make a general tour of the North Mississippi Valley States including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, etc. No authorized statement has been given out to this effect, but there is no doubt that this is the present tendency—that indeed the plan is practically decided upon. In New York it is expected that Mr. Bryan will speak only in the larger cities. The Silver Republicans origi nally expected to notify Mr. Bryan of their nomination of him for the presidency at the same time that the Populists make their notificat ion at Topeka, Kas., August 23, but this purpose has been changed, Their notification will cotne later and the probabilities are that it will be made at St. Paul or Minne apolis. T. M. Patterson of Denver will make the speech notifying Mr. Bryan of the Populist nomination at Topeka. There will be no not ification to a vice presidental can didate, as, in view of Towne’s de clination, the Populists at present have no candidate for that office. Mr Bryan said to-day that he probably will remain in Chicago until after next Wednesday. He will make a brief speech at a pic nic of the Irish societies, to be given on that date. THE FEVER IN HAVANA. Amounts to Little Compared With Preyious Years— Eleven Deaths. New York, Aug. 13. —A Herald dispatch from Havana says: August opened with 35 cases of yellow fever in Havana. There are 59 cases in the city now, four of the patients being Americans. There were thirty deaths from the fever during July. Up to Sunday the number of deaths for this month was eleven. Yellow fever cases this year have been principally confined to the lo cality west of Central park, known as the New City. Scarcely any cases have appeared in what has heretofore been known as the "yel low belt” in the vicinity of the arsenal and wharves. This is accounted for by the fact that a great deal of sanitary work has been done in that part of the city this year and electrical disin fectants were constantly used. Con fidence is expressed by the author ities that there will be no general fever epidemic, as the imrnunes are widely scattered. The condi tioh is regarded as normal as com pared with other years when im migration reached the present fig ures. The cases are largely con fined to Spaniards and Canary is lauders, many of whom have come to Havana in the last six months. It is expected that the cases will average one a day during August. This is usually the worst month. Men in the sanitary and street cleaning departments are actively at work in the infected district. Colonel Black has ordered the electrozone plant to run night and day. All suspected cases are sent immediately to the hospitals. The marine service hospitals insist that all baggage for the United States must be disinfected. Usually this is only required for baggage going to the southern states. No yellow fever cases are re ported among American soldiers. I WhX**U LJ Best ( 1 >ujzh Syrup. Tastes Good. Cw ij M In time. Sold by druggists. HU WHAT FARMERS TALKED ABOUT. Gossip of Meeting of State Agri cultural Society ITS GROWTH IS STEADY. President Brown's Methods Meet With Success-Mrg, Felton’s Fine Talk. Dublin, Ga., Aug. 12. —Last Thursday afternoon witnessed the close of a two days’ meeting of the Georgia State Agricultural Society, by far the most interesting annual convocation held in a number of years. Under President Brown’s management, the society has been gradually but steadily gaining ground the past five years. The programme was interesting from start to finish. President Brown adopted the idea of having one sub ject thoroughly discussed at each meeting. So the two days’ session, with the exception of two or three hours this afternoon, was devoted to the discussion of ‘‘The needs of the Southern farmer.” Former Governor Northen, Mr. W. G. Cooper of the Atlanta Journal, Mr. F. F. Wright of the department of agriculture, Dr. H. C. White of the State College of Agriculture and Col. R. J. Redding, director of the Georgia Experiment Station, and Hon. W. L. Peek; each read care fully prepared papers on the sub ject. It will be at once seen that there was afforded ample opportunity to prevent the evils w hich a ict the farmers and the remedy therefor. The general consensus of opinion seemed to be that two of the great est needs of the farmers of the south are self-reliance and organ ization. Each paper was freely discussed by delegates and a number of cap ital speeches were delivered. Among the debaters were Dr. J. B Hunnicutt, Mr. John Goodwynand Capt. John Cobb. On Wednesday night, by special invitation aud'at the urgent request of the citizens of Dublin, Mrs. W. H. Felton, an honored ’'life mem ber” of the society, delivered one of her characteristically charming and instructive addresses. Mrs. Felton pleaded eloquently for uni ted action in making country life more sufferable. The trend should be toward the country rather than toward the cities. She argued with great force in favor of free rural mail delivery and the construction of neighborhood telephone sys tems. She instanced a case where one man, with the co-operation of his neighbors, had inaugurated a circuit at small cost. It would be a great thing for Georgia if a few more good wo men, with the ability and convic tions which distinguish Mrs. Fel ton could be induced to speak out on these vital topics in various portions of the state. Just a little effort along energetic lines would result in guaranteeing to quite ev ery militia district in Georgia free mail delivery and a neighborhood telephone system. Something must be done, quickly done, to make life in the country more sufferable and enjoyable, else the mainstay of the towns and cities will be a thing of the past. Mrs. Felton was listened to with rapt attention. Her address made a most favorable and deep impres sion. Hon. Harvie Jordan delivered a strong speech in advocacy of or ganization among the cotton grow ers of the state. He is engaged in a good work, and is meeting with success wherever he goes. Mr. Kimbrough of the Georgia Experiment station gave a capital talk on the value of the cornstalk shredder and his method of plant ing oats. The readers of The Tele graph are familiar with the savings which the shredder gives to him who uses it on his farm. Mr. Kimbrough’s experience is that, to drill oatson properly prepared land, using a fertilizer distributor for that purpose, as well as for apply ing the fertilizer, is to secure a good crop beyond a peradventure. The convention enthusiastically and unanimously indorsed the ac tion o c the executive committee in the matter of the state fair at Val dosta October 29th, aud November sth. The convention concluded its la bors yesterday afternoon. The Powder. *sr Absolutely Pure Makes light, flaky, delicious hot biscuits, rolls, muffins and crusts. Makes hot bread wholesome. These are qualities peculiar to it alone. 1 have found the Royal Baking Powder superior ' to all others. — C. Gorju, late Chef, Delmonico’s. I tIOYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 100 WILLIAM ST, NEW YORK. people of Dublin and the railroads lof the state were thanked in elo j quent language for hospitalities j shown and courtesies extended the delegates. FIRED ON AMERI IANS- * Russians Make a Ghastly Mistake at Yanir Tsun. New York, Aug. 13. —A special cable dispatch to the Evening World, dated Che P'oo, August 9UI, via Shanghai, says: “A terrible mistake occurred at the taking of Yang Tsun. Rus sian artillery opened fire on the American troops. Before the mis take was discovered many Amer ican soldiers had been killed or wounded by the Russian shells. The Fourteenth took part in the attack on the Chinese trenches. As the Chinese fled the legiment entered and occupied one of the Chinese positions. A Russian battery some distance off did not notice the movement. It opened fire on the American troops. The Russians were quick ly notified and ceased their firing. A Helpless Child- A weak and puny child is badly handicapped in the battle of life. It is isolated from the healthy en joyments of its little fellow beings. It cannot partake either of their play or their sturdy work and pro gress in the world; its whole life’s embittered by incapacity and weak ness. Any woman who expects to be come a mother ought to know what Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription will do both for her own health and safety during her time of trial and also to insure her in bequeath ing a fair measure of health and strength to the prospective little one. Georgia Cotton Crop- Americus, Ga., Aug. 13. —Cotton will be coming into this market at a lively rate this week. Up to last night twenty-four bales of the new crop had been marketed here, and local warehousemen count {upon 250 to 300 bales this week. The fearful drought of the past ten days has given a black eye to the bright prospects existing up to that time. The cotton stalk was full of sap and has been withered and burned under the intense heat. Large fields hereabout are blistered with the heat and rust, and in some fields wagon loads of forms of young boils can be raked off the ground. Even the past week has witnessed a great change of the crop prospect here, and even with better prices prevailing the farmers are feeling a little blue. About 80,000 oales were handled in Atn ericitsthe past season, but just now it is not believed that this year’s receipts will be as large. HfcPUBLICAN MEtTING- Executive Commituse Called to Meet on the 18th. There will be a meeting of the re publican executive committe of Bartow county at the court house Saturday August iStli, 1900, at 2 p. in., for the purpose of perfecting plans for the coming campaign, the selecting of anew chairman and other important business. The following is a list of the committee as selected at mass meeting in Jan uary; Cartersvjlle—W. L Good win, Greene Robinson, J. T. Trib ble, A. C Demry, Wade Robinson, |J. D. Goode, D. Smith. M. Doyle, •A. Collins, B. Dorsey, E Perkins, iG. W Townes, Geo. McDaniel. Stilesboro.—R. H. McGinnis, W. T. Ha. ev, Joseph Harverson, Al len White, Frank James, Joseph Lowery, T. H. Powell. David Gar ner. Kingston—J. H. Rogers, Vir gil Wooley. Taylorsville.—Nat Carroll, Richard Greene. Adairs ville.—R. L. Franklin, J. P. Dyar, Henry Rowland, A. J. West, J. C. Jackson. Emerson. —James Chad wick, Bedford Brown, Silas Park, J. Darnell. Allatoona.—Carr Sum mer, H. I. Pendley. Stamp Creek —C. A. Bishop, M. McElwee. Wolf Pen. —T. H. Martin. W. Akerman. Ch n’n. W. C. Savington, Sec. Cramps, Dysentery, Cholera Morbus, Diarrhoea, and, indeed all bowel complaints quickly relie ved by Perry Davis’ Pain Killer, a safe, sure and speedy cure, for all the troubles named. Every reput able druggist keeps a supply. Each bottle has full directions. Avoid substitutes, there is but one Pain Killer, Perry Davis’. 25 and 50 cents. A Cautious Judge. Kansas City World. In a case before a Paris court in which a popular actress has had to appear as a witness, the judge seems to have shown considerable diffidence about asking the lady as he was in duty bound to do, what was her age. Evidently he con sidered that such a witness would be a direct incitement to perjury, The way in which he got out of the difficulty was ingenious. He asked her her age before she had been sworn. “How old are you, madam?” he asked. After a little hesitation, the lady owned to being 29 )-ears of age. “And now that you have told the court your age,” continued the gallant judge, “you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.” HAVE YOU TIHEI) TH AT XEOPOLIT AN ICE CREAM VT WORD’S, ITS DELIC IOUS. NO. 48.