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■n-AGRICULTURAL n PRACTICAL A SI) SUGGKBTIYE. Under tliia head the following bit of rhyme waa many years ago published in the Old far mers’ Almanac: Neat Ik* your farms; 'tin long confessed The nea Vet farmer is the best; Each i*og and marsh industrious drain, Nor lei vile hanks detiie the plain, Nor bushes on your headland grow*. For briars a sloven's culture show. Neat Ik; your barns, your houses sweet; our paths he clean, your door yards neat: No moss the sheltering roof enshroud, No wooden panes the windows cloud: No siuk drains should above ground llow. Nor weeds with rankling jroisor. grow; Kut flowers expand and fruit trees bloom, And fragrant -tiruls* exhale perfume. Neallv enclose your garden round. Smooth, enrich,'a ul dear the ground; For if to taste and profit you incline, Beauty and use you always should combine. GET KIIt OF RATS. 1 lived twenty years in an old country house, and on three separate occasions I had an invasion of rats, not a single rat, hut a mlnny each time. The first time and tin* lir.-t notice of them was a Hurry in tin* pigeon loft, and on going to see, found eight rats in full pursuit. 1 got steel traps, etc., and caught several, but no diminution was perceptible, there was such a quantity about tiie place. J then tried the follovviiigexperiment: I got a box trap, and alter a deal of trouble and patience, caught a rat, and getting his tail under the door, tied a string to it, then pulled him out and shaking him till Jie hung his head quietly down, I caught him with my linger and thumb |,y the hack of the neck and cut off the siring. I next painted him all over with gas tar. except the head, which must not be touched. This is essential. When 1 had put as much tar upon ids as 1 could get to sii- k, I took him to his hole and let him run in, and saw no more of eith er him or his companions for that time, till a fresh colony came some years after, which was banished in the same way. Care must he taken not to hurt him, and it lar gets on hi* mouth, eyes, or nose, you must kill him and get another, as he must he able to run through all the holes in tin* house. 1 1 >IK TO CUT TKKKS. Mr. A. W. Checver has said it, and greatly to his credit all housewives will agree, that the man who is forehanded in hi.' wood providing, cutting far enough ahead to insure perfect seasoning before the fuel must go to the kitchen tire, is almost sure of success in whatever he undertakes. Without following up the suggestive line of reasoning by which this conclusion is reached we quote, from Tin* .N . JO. Farmer, the appended helpful advice: “flood, sound wood will be in the best condition to cut for fuel, or for durable lumber, if cut soon after July, but the stumps sprout poorly at that season, so the next growth is retarded, and consid erably weakened. The Stumps will start, but the young growth has little time to mature healthy wood, and a second lot of sprouts may start again in the spring. If woodland is to be cleared for cultiva ting, this early fall cutting is advisable. Most of the lire wood of the world is cut in winter, and taking the cost, of hand ling and the growth of the spiouts into account, this is the best time, but to have the best fuel, the cutting must not be de layed. “An old charcoal burner once said to the writer: ‘I would like to see you try to kindle a tire in a coal pit inadeof wbite birch cut in March or April.’ Now, there is no wood that will make a far mer’s wife look happier than will white birch cut in fall or early winter, and put under cover to season, it kindles almost like gunpowder, and makes a hot fire. But if cut late in winter, or in spring, alter the sup runs freely, and then left exposed to weather until midsummer, it will burn about as well as potatoes or a wet sponge. Cut the firewood then as early as possible, and have a year’s stock on hand, well seasoned, and under cover.” FERTILIZER LIMITATIONS. hand destitute of vegetable matter will neither absorb nor retain moisture, There is always a poor growth without suffi cient dampness, and this is an important reason why commercial fertilizers work better, as their advocates admit, “when used with barnyard manure.” 1 have been called old logvish for insisting that farmers should not put much faith in the so-called phosphates. It seems to me foolish to follow any system so expensive and risky, and which tends to make in creased dryness in the soil, when expe rience teaches that moisture is so essen tial. lam satisfied that much drainage is an evil, ami coupled with this comes the phosphate craze. It should be the aim of farmers to increase the vegetable matter in the soil. Thousands of acres of land in the older States have been made unproductive, if not barren, l>y the exhaustion of vegetable matter. NEIGH HO REV ADVICE. Farm ami Garden.] (.'rapped II an Os. —One of I he best rem edies for this trouble, is the simplest and easiest, to procure. Whenever you take your bands out of water, wipe dr/, and while yet damp, rub well with corn starch or clear starch powdered. A I’okm of Burns. —Burn's Poems, ‘‘The Auld Fanner's New Year’s Salu tation to his Auld Mare Maggie,” has been printed and circulated in the form of a tract amongs the Glasgow carters and cabmen, in the hope that the kindly feel ing so beautifully expressed, may make them more thoughtful and humane to wards their old Maggies. Always H andy.— Meit a teacup full of lard and a bit of beeswax the size of a hickory nut, in a tin cup, and them pour into a tin box which has a lid and keep covered. It will be useful for any pur pose where a salve is needed.As it is very healing and soothing and cost but a trifle. 1 have kept it in the house for twenty vears. and would not le without it. It is especially useful i' the winter time. ashino Fi lid. — One pound of wash ing soda, quarter pound of unslacked I lime, -or a teacup full of good white- , " ash . one gallon of water. Boil up and then set aside to settle. Use 1 tea-cup i toll to each boiler of clothes, and it will take out dirt and stains with almost no ! rubbing: and I have never thought that it injuted clothes in the least, I have never found any machine or soap equal to it for lightening the labor of wash- j ing. ( oai. Ashes,— \\ hat shall we do with fie coal ashes is a problem with mauv. ■ Made into an unsightly pile in the back yard, they are disfiguring, and a trail every time one looks that wav. I make I them into garden walks. Have the coal fitter taken out to a path ami the cinders 'ifted there each moaning. No one walks in the garden much in the w inter.and bv 'bring yon will have tine hard paths • well settled by frost ami snow, which are I muddy or grass-grown. We are prepared to grind corn at the < urtersvilie Mills, and will be ready to grind wheat in seven or eight days. We solicit your patronage: give us a trial. |t < rn meal always on hand at wholesale. I Mh.NKR, Oal-I.OVV.w fo •>, ISB4 ( ot'R vxT allows liberal commis , its agents. Write forteims he ‘‘iiegin work at once, entire. BEDFORD’S SPEECH IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Mr. Bedford, of Colorado, is railed the “Rad- Headed Rooster of the Rockies.’’ He signalized his llrst apjiearanee at this session of Congress in a ten-minute speech on the River and Har- Isjr Bill, which was quite unique. Bedford’s Hobby is to unload the treasury vaults and get the money out. First, he dwelt on the necessity of its distribution, and then said: “I wish to see whether you Democrats have the nerve and the heroism and the courage to do what is right in the next four years. I recollect walking down from this Capitol when Garfield was inaugura ted, with one of the most distinguished Senators from the South—l mean up the avenue from the Treasury Department—and he said: ‘There is no use talking aliout it, you Republicans have this country for twenty years,’ and in six weeks were all together, pulling out each other.s ears from the coast of the Atlantic, where the sun stops to take up the dew-drops, to the coast of the Pacific Ocean, where he stoops to cool his heated axle. [ Applause. j That is what you arc going to have now. What was the campaign you fought last year? What was the sum and substance of it all? The great Republican party that had conquered the most magnificent army on the face of the earth—our Southern friends— came out with a broad declaration floating all over the nation with one single objection that was suspended in the sky bke a magnet, and that was that Grover had kissed a widow one day too late. [Great Laughter.] Was not that the whole substance of the campaign? Then the Democrats, to equal it up, to cover it over on every side, came out with the magnificent issues that another candidate for the Presidency had kissed a maiden one day too soon. [Renewed laughter.] Was not that a beautiful issue to present to a great nation by two great parties of this country}; The result of it was that the great rr ass of the people preferred the widow on tiie ground that she had more information and ex perience on that subject.” [ Renewed laughter. | DRUNK A RIFS WIVES. There never was a time when sympathy, be nevolence and philanthropy were so active as now, hut life is still full of situations which seem incapable of alleviation. Take the case of drunkard’s wives, and especially the wives of those drunkards who develop a ruffianly brutali ty under the influence of liquor. It would seem surprising, when one considers the sullering of these poor yyomou, that there are not more cases cf husband-murder. Butin fact the victims of wife-beaters rarely seek revenge, and as a rule tney encourage their tyrants by a submissiveness which is the despair of magistrates aud philan thropists. Not a day passes but a score of tram pled w ives refuse to testify against their brutal husbands, aud some of them will even perjure tliomselves rather than assist the law in punish ing the crimps committed against them. Avery startling instance of this tendency is the case of tiie poor w oman whose eyes were deliberately put out by her fiendish husband, yet who evi dently would not have informed against him but for the action of her neighbors. And what a flood of light is thrown on the lives of a whole class of women by the remark of one of these neighbors that sjhp did not interfere before, be cause she thought McCorron “yvas only giving his wife an ordinary heating.” Every policeman and Justice knows that wife-qeating is really as common in a certain grade of society as this remark indicates, and probably nearly all these men of experience would say that it is hopeless o try to stop it, because the victims nearly al ways lake the part of their oppressors, in the end. This fact, for it a fact, is roaly the knotty point in the problem, Nor is the explanation simple, but many sided. There is the question of love, w hich with woman is often very master ful. The wife-beater may he “a decent man when sober,” as the atrocious scoundrel, McCar ron. is said to have been. Then he is usually the bread-winner. The wife, if she has children, dreads the intervention of the law, because if her husband is “sent up’’ she and her children must starve. Again, if she testifies against her brute, she knows that when he is reelased he will avenge himself on her. Of course the first natur al question is, why do women not secure divorces from such husbands? There are many reasons. A large proportion of the beaten wives belong to a church which does not recognize divorce. Many of them, again, are so encumbered with children that they would not know how to sup port themselves. As to inventing penalties which will protect the women, the method is of doubtful possibility. Whipping would clearly express the view of society, no doubt, but would it render the relations between man and wife any tenderer? If a man is brute enough to beat a woman, and the woman is so situated that she cannot or will not deliver .herself from the tor ment, it is very difficult to eflect a reform. So ciety might undertake to divorce such couples arbitrarily, as jtdoes indirectly in many States by making a felon of the wife-heater, and mak ing felony ground for divorce; hut then it de prives the wife of the means of support, and this tends to deter many victims from seeking re dress. It is indeed a very d.fficult problem, and thus far no state or nation has succeeded in solv ing it satisfactorily, though certainly it is a question which ought to he settled, since the existing state of things is a disgrace to civiliza tion. An Even Thing. Wall street News.] lie was the attendant of a railroad lunch counter at a station in Indiana. The other day a stranger cal’ed for a enp of coffee, the attendant glared at him for a''moment, and then began to spit on his hands. “What’s up?” “Going to have revenge on you.” “What for?” “We-were in Wall street together ten years ago. You advised me to buy rail road stock, and then unloaded on me and brought me down to S4O per month.” “Well, don’t get mad about that. It wasn’t a year before a chap unloaded coal oil on me, and I’m braking on this train here for a dollar a day.” Buist’s and Landreth’s garden seeds at Curry’s. Call there and secure your sup plies. I'eas, beans and corn at Curry’s drug 1 store. Go to Curry’s Di ug Store xor Landreth’ reliable garden seeds. Buists warranted garden seed at Curry’s j drug store. UNCLE PLATO ’L ARMS I)E SUBURBS, j Code Plato to the ajPattle clerk. — Ross, ain’t ver got some er itish yer sorter truck what can swaje a mighty hackin’ cough? I done got ter dat pass whir I can’t git no res' day er night, an’l come down de street des now snortin' des like one o' dose yer freight trains w’en de track AVit. Id s’ natally 'larms dem, subu’bs w’en I opens up. AjTtible clerk— Inflammation of the luugs, I presume? Cncle I'lato shoo I Wuss’u dat, honey. Hit’s information ob de whole haslet. Man gimme a dram, eu' dat aint no good. Den de ole o'man, she tuck’n slap a mustard plaster ou me. en dough it burnt like a dog a’trottiu’. hit ain't no good. Den I up an’ 'low dat I'm git somer dat Swee* Gum and Mullen, kase den I know ’zactly w'at I'm do’in’. Swee’ gmn trees grow right back or my house, eu' last season der was a bunch er mullen growin’ right at my front door. Swee gum good, kase I done try it, eu dey ain't nothin more s’arehin dan mullen tea; eu when dey are .iung tergedder eu mixed up right, deyer boun' for to do de wuk. Dey tol’ me hit's dat 'ar kind truck w t ef you des shake it at a man, he feels hope up. Gimme a rial un it, boss, ef I'll git tuckcn wid one of er my spells w'iles I'm er sL.udin' >er, I'djar some b dem ar bottles down. Uncle Plato g<ot his “vial” of Tayloi's Chero kee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein.and is no longer troubled with his ••spell” of coughing. Wiser people than the old darkey might profit by his example. Send a two cent stamp to Walter A. Taylor, Atlanta, Ga., for Riddle Book. Amusing. Leaders | of Low Prices. HEADQUARTERS FOR Dry Croods, tllotll ing% Shoes, Boots, Etc. SCHEUER BROTHERS. Prices Push up the Trade* OUR BUYER Will leave for Mew York in a few week*. We shall have, I>3' the First of next April, the LARGEST, NI CEST ami CHEAPEST Stock of Goods ever exhibited in Cavtera ille. ROBERTS <& COLLIN’S Are still carrying: one of the LARGEST AND BEST ASSORTED STOCKS OF FAMILY GROCERIES to be found in all North Georgia. Tlieir g-oods are all first-class, aud, being: firmly estab lished on a strong: financial basis, they are amply able to success s fully cope with any and all competition. They feel thankful to their numerous patrons in the past, and respectfully solicit a continuance of the same. To those who are in doubt as to where they w ill purchase their supplies, they desire to say : “ You can do no better than to call on ROBERTS & COLLINS, Feb. 5, ’BS. West Main Street, Cartersville, Georgia.” V. L. Williams <& Cos., DEALERS IN S ro>-i:s, TIN-WARE, CHINA, Giass-Ware, Lamps and Window Class, Sash, Doors and Blinds, MANUFACTURERS OF TIN AND SHEET IRON WARES. Roofing and Grnttering a SxTecialtv. Price paid for Cotton Rags, Beeswax, Tallow, Etc. WROUGHT IRON RANG-ES ! Every one in need of Ranges, should come to see us before buying elsewhere. We can aud will sell you a CHEAPER RANGE THAN ANYBODY. No use in paying a long price for a Range, when FORTY DOLLARS CASH Will buy you a SIX-HOLE WROUGHT IRON RANGE, with outfit of vessels. Come, and he convinced that we mean business, V. E. WILLIAMS &, CO., Cartersville, Georgia, Feb. 5, 1885. Leaders of Low Prices. THE CINCSNftATi WEEKLY ENQUIRER for’Bs, Will have no superior in the newspaper world! 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The Daily Enquirer Is printed every day in the year and mailed postpaid as follows: 1 Mo. 3 Mos. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Sunday and Daily $1 50 $3 75 $7 00 sl4 00 Daily exc’ptSun.. 125 325 600 12 00 Any three days ... 05 175 325 15 00 Any two days 45 1 25 2 25 4 00 Any one day 24 65 1 25 2 00 JOHN R. MrLEAX, Proprietor, Cincinnati, Ohio. Sht4frrSfegun. An Independent Newspaper of Democratic Principles, but not Con trolled by any Set of Politicians or Manipulators; Devoted to Collect ing and Publishing all the News of the Day in the most Interesting Shape and with the greatest possi ble Promptness, Accuracy and Im partiality; and to the Promotion of Democratic Ideas and Policy in the affairs of Government, Society and Industry. Rates, by Mail, Postpaid: DAY, per Year $6 00 DAILY, per Month 50 SUNDAY, per Y#ar 1 00 DAILY and SUNDAY per Year - 700 WEEKLY, per Year .... 100 Address, THE 8 VS, Serr York. City. ST. JAMES HOTEL. Special Attention to Commercial Travelers. Tabie Supplied with the Best the Market Affords. ATTENTIVE SERVANTS. Si>ecial inducements te parties -eeking summer resorts. Correspondence solicited. DR. R. A. McFERRIX, Proprietor. febs-ly Cartersville, Georgia. ! THE COURIER - JOURNAL FOR 1885. AN ORGAN OF I hive Issues, Living Ideas & Moral Forces AND AN ENKMY OF | Monopolies, Oiigarchism and the Spirit of Subsidy , as Embodied in THAT THIEVING TARIFF. rpHE COURJEIi-JOI'RNAL, IS THE AC- L knowledged representative newspaper of the South, is Democratic in politics, and lirst, last and all the time is Lora reduction of the war taxes, as levied on the people by the tariff now in force. Ihe Weekly Courier-Journal is without a superior in the world as a great family and po litica newspaper, and during the year 1885 it will strive more zealous,y and hopefully than ever lor its political faith, not neglecting, how ever, the imiuite variety of choice miscellany t.iat causes it to be so great a favorite in the fam ily circle. 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