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■ i '■: .iji: :„ HnHHPTTr: • |>:<'S!-iit. i : I!11 Board o! Kdueation. I.ivi< 1 who is warmly my personal friend, is tlio Vice-President of the Loard. The other leading members of the .ociety hero were generally present, i ve ;<f their daughters, with your niece, (who a very bright, girl,) divided the first honor. They are all my t; and 1 had no motive to otlencl f ■ %n if 1 had not undeistood the p; -priotle.- of the occasion. The sub stance ot i?u remarks by me was this: That it is only in Christian countries where women < the position they are jnstl> entitled to, and in Christian communities they are the companions of their husbands and equal in social posi tion and in other important respects. In Pagan countries, in Mohammedan coun tries, for instance, they are slaves rather than companions, and have but few rights that are recognized by their hus bands or by men generally. 1 was not drawing a contrast between any particu lar religions, hut I was drawing a con trast between the status of woman i:i a Christian country and her station in a community not Christian. For instance, Jewish women in the United States, a Christian country, occupy an infinitely higher position socially and otherwise than the Jewish women in Turkey—a Mohammedan country. And, after re lerring to these advantages, l stated that they all ought to feel proud that they were born in a Christian country, and that remark applied to all females who enjoyed the privileges of a Chris tian country as contrasted with the privi leges of a Pagan country or a Moham medan country. All intelligent people who were present understood my re marks and my meaning perfectly, and no exception was taken whatever that I heard of. After the dispatch was pub lished and had returned to Atlanta in some of the papers, Mr. Mayer called at my house to see me in reference to it, and assured me he had not heard a single Jew who was in the slightest panic- j ular displeased ar the remarks to which the tlisp tch referred. \Uu have there- j lor> judged correctly of my motives ami my sense of propriety when you penned [ jour editorial and 1 cordially thank yon for it.” It is.a pleasure to us to make the state ment clearer than we made it last week, bv this extract from Senator Brown him- ; eeit, tor sometimes a strong prejudice is excited by matters of this sort, which, if unexplained, do injury to all who are concerned. We print, the dispatch mere- ; Jy to emphasize the correction and to i give an example ot how great a tire a I in lie matter kindleih. J ■ n m a lonely Ilf.*, a H||Vn cr to the lost mate, never that day, except as a feeding As the time cotues around to feed rfjie chickens and turkeys, he darts into his lonely shelter for his bite. Xo mat ter how quiet you may be, he will come with a rush and a flutter for the morsel he knows he will get. He has a keen sense of humor, too. It an old hen with a young brood is turned loose, be will circle around and above her, darting about like a hawk, to see her squall and light. lie is devoted to the turkeys, roosts with them, goes with them and comes back with them, but for all that, he can’t resist the fun of playing hawk, to see the young ones dart and hide. During the long. ooU winter, pigeon would he found hf.viing close to a friendly old turkev he , n : ::• io side of her, a lien the 'term "■ ; i aging nd toiler praise be h sail!, tl pidgr’. : would alight from I th.c limb next day dry and comfortable, ! while her own feathers would be crusted with ice and show. IS it became too fa miliar in its attentions, she would peck and squulk occasionally, but the pigeon understood her old-fashioned ways, and in due time would draw nigh quietly and get the shelter he wished. Some times we get uneasy lest he has left us, but suddenly there is a whir and a flutter and pigeon is at its little window, wait ing for us and the bread crumbs. Its little humble life is a constant les son to us. It is so cheerful, so nice and tidy with its frequent baths, and the careful placing of its jaunty feathers af terward. It has no kith or kin to bright en its existence, but it is content with it-: surroundings, grateful for attention, devoted to its friends, and every day acts out a lesson of contentment and duty that is very refreshing. We cannot wonder that the dove of the Bible was made to symbolize the holy, the true, the confiding, the faithful. Even the Spirit of the Most High alight ed on John the Baptist in the guise of a modest, humble little dove, and Almighty God was “well pleased” to make ifi a messenger, a bearer of good tidings, to the man in the wilderness whom the multitude came out to see. What other fowl of the air was so honored, and what other was ever so deserving? CartkksvillE, Gv., July ?th, ISSS. Editors Cor rant : My attentiou has just been called to another article by Brutus in the Car tcrsville American of this week, and, by way of reply, I make this proposition: If Brntus will write one more article and sign his own name to it in order that the people may know who he is, I will shake hands with him across the bloody chasm, and will admit that with a little more venoiu, a little more political aspirations, and a little more pecuniary inducement, he might have done better. Yours respectfully, A. W. Tit*. Was* sphere a xr> her work. caption of an article we by a tdy. The ar >l' the I; tpci-r ve lady U, ’ u : ’ wf ‘ • ; ' : V . : “ Uas n;TV ??’ yrk 111 ' "■ i 111 th < ■ iStSOIPi 1 your I’:it her'?’ ’ u:m- -nt. like tilt- lit : -■ to try it on your and never ex- for Woman’s Rights, we propose to be dismissed from Pliurcli business or accountability by any such plea as this, nor do we suppose you could find a church in Georgia that would dare to establish such a code, in dealing with the female members of the church. As before stated, we take the high ground that woman has work enough of her own to do in this world without as suming that which she has no need to undertake, but should a necessity arise for bar services, we are very sure she could handle every dollar of church money with as much security to all con cerned as any man on the roll of mem bership, and in our opinion, she would greatly improve matters if her business sense was oftener applied to the tangles and difficulties that oftentimes harrass and impede church progress. Suppose women should decline to assist in raising money for church purposes, the male members would most iikely understand the difference very soon, and it is a ques tion as to how much she ought to under take under such hindrances as are un ceremoniously applied by some of her own sex. *.i SWISS SOLDI Eli _l/. lf r a }’o TO .” In the first issue of the Atlanta api tal we find these words : "Representative Felton, of Bartow county, is opposed to enacting a law to compel the return of property at its true value.” We are not apprised as to the real source of this falsehood, therefore we charge it on the editor. Where has he the evidence that Representative Felton opposes the return of property at its true yalue ? Point out the spot and the words. Representative Felton is as anxious to have the property of the people returned at its true value as any other honest man in the State, but to arrive at that value, he prefers to take the oath of the men who own it rather than the exactions of a lot of petty officials who are more in terested in getting their own per diem out of the returns than in doing justice either to the owner, or to the State. Unfortunately for our State, many of its bad laws and much of its unjust taxa tion and unfair legislation is attributa ble to the fact that public opinion is largely controlled by tne hirelings ot corrupt political bosses and the supple tools of unscrupulous speculators. Georgia has been unfortunate in keep- ing to the front a squad of writers who are always found on the side of extor tion and monopoly, and who turn up on one side as rapidly they turn their coats to the other side whenever profit and pecun iar}* promotion leans from one side to the other in the jostle of events. Represen tative Felton has made no eifort to pro tect dishonest tax returns, the “Swiss soldier always to let,” to the contrary notwithstanding. Proper Treatment for Coughs. That the reader may fully understand what constitutes a good Cough and Lung Syrup, we will say that tar and Wild Cherry is the basis*of the best remedies vet discovered. These ingredients with ;>everul others equally as efficacious, en ter largely into t>r. Bosanko's Cough and Lung Syrup, thus making it one of the most reliable now on the market. Price 50 eta. and SI.OO. Sold by D. W. Curry. ROES IT PA TT Under the rules the article on “Does Farming Pay,*’ from brother Green, of Muscogee Grange, goes to the agricultu ral department in this issue. We are al ways glad to hear from any one who thinks fanning pays. We have been considerably mixed in our belief on that subject of late years, but keep on trying to see “pay” in it. May it come to every farmer. —Southern Cultivator. As we scanned the columns of the one of our most valued ex above caught our eve lik<> ri-.g chick-..- f*>r demand- ;h-:n : - ' ;: Th- firm- HhH9BhBBSHBHP?iifor IT": kl.-. T ANARUS, to wheat all cash The cotton fIHHjHHF- fertilized and tin* drouth A hale to 1 acres was con- lucky, and many a poor man did |not make one to seven, and even higher xhan that in some very dry localities, where a bale to two acres was the small est return expected when the seed were planted. Out of that poor yield taxes had to come, guano bills were paid, and the little left was dribbled out to the mer chants who had taken the risk on the crop, jointly with the farmer. The man who had worked, watched and suffered all the year, had nothing, if you take out the fact that he lived under a shelter and picked up a scanty subsistence, much like his poor mules and cows did, around and about. While the drought was at its height, one farmer of our acquaintance made an effort, raised some cash, bought a lot of rust proof oats and put them in, with hired labor —a big crop ior the farm and his finances. The seed came up well, and were fine grazing in November. A January freeze killed the last sprout. The money, seed, were all gone—not a seed left. Here was industry, economy, good judgment and money, and here was the result. Not dismayed, the poor far mer put his teams to hauling wood in the hard weather, worked hard, paid a dollar a clay to the teamsters, and gath ered a little money to put in another cotton and corn crop. lie harvested his little crop of wheat in June, 1881 (spared by the disastrous freeze), between show ers, and when it was threshed lie was offered, as a favor, GO cents ( ?) a bushel for it. lie worked that crop of cotton and corn assiduously. Every dollar he could raise or his wife could raise by her but ter, chickens, etc., went to pay for the extra hoeing. In July the drought came, and you all know the result —simply nothing. To add to these disasters, his tine stock of hogs that the fanner’s wife had raised on milk (and we have a feel ing recollection of how heavy the buck ets were) took the cholera in September literally vanished from the face of the earth, except two p*or old dilapidated sows, who emerged from the deadly epi demic, minus hair, minus flesh, and mi nus hearing, and of course he could make no meat at home. Here was no lack of industry, economy, good judgment, but the money was absorbed, all gone on the farm, and fatally and finally disappear ed. were still to pay, guano had to be paid for, supplies had to be paid for, and there was no recourse but the hank and its regular per cent, monthly to start another crop. Now, when some dandy In a city turns up his nose at the farmer and sends a communication to a newspaper to “assess that land, make it pay more tax, that farmer has perjured himself,” don’t you know there is one woman could see him follow a plow a spell and not feel sorry for him Y When you see a crop growing on a piece of land, don’t set that down as a profit until you find out what has to be paid out of it before it even belongs to the owner himself. Cotton at nine cents a pound will pay nobody that expects to settle his honest debts. There is a screw loose somewhere and it must be tighten ed, or the machine will break up. When a farmer’s stuff is plentiful he gets noth ing for it, when it is scarce he gets no more, but if he has to buy, because of no fault of Ills own, won’t he, to use a hun ter's phrase, “smell the patching!” But, says one, you should not write this way, you discourage farmers. You would have us then tell a dying man he is on the sure road to physic ;i Health, or we must try to convince a poor frighten ed child that pulling a tooth don’t hurt, or any other fiction that is simply intend ed to cover up the truth and veil a false hood. It is just such prevarications that ire disgusting our boys with farm life. They read the farm accounts on paper, they try it, and try it honestly, and they are disgusted with the farm and the falsehoods, and the people who tell them. No, boys, there is no fun in such efforts, and it is just only this that keeps some folks at the business, viz : It is better to struggle, to suffer and to continue to try, rather than do worse—just as it is more honorable to be a very plain, honest poor man. rather than be a well-dressed rogue and dead-beat on society. STOSS MAS'S RAID IS IS<: 4. We were attracted to an article in the Atlanta Constitution ot last Monday with the above heading and read it through with unabated interest —for it was spici ly written —only to find Stoneman made a feint and did not get to the writer at all. We had an experience similar in many respects, except it differed in one particular, he got to us, and the of his arrival will endure Hnile memory lasts. close of July, ISG4, was an omi iious, threatening time. The fighting foround Atlanta had been heavy and des- Iperate. Joe Johnston had carried his pinny safely into entrenchments and was L-eady to give battle whenever opportu nity offered. To we refugees, ifear the ■ity of Macon, everything was uncer tain and unreliable is to news. During the last week iff July, the conscript ''in ters had visited our place and drafted the overseer. It seemed to be about the last that could bo made, unless they took B the boys under sixteen and the old in their dotage. But we were ■w"d to believe that a largo force was Sfißready for home defense, and as there a lull In tnc around Atlanta wK began to hope we woulu be able to the enemy. On Friday evening tve discussed matters and things with a lot of neighbor ladies who came over to hear our latest news. We had sent a servant woman over to the city to bring their mail and ours, and were all very easy in mind for aforesaid reasons, when the messenger rushed in breathless, and evidently in great fright. As soon as spoech was restored and her agitation subsided, she told of a courier rushing past her on the covered railroad bridge (the other bridge was gone), crying out to all he met or overtook, “Run —the Yankees will soon be on you!” It is still fresh in our minds how we laughed at that poor darkey’s fright, assuring her there was not a Yankee south of Atlanta, while our territory was brimful of gal lant Confederate soldiers who stood for our security and defense, and 90 well had the newspapers impressed us with the belief that we were entirely honest in our statements. Our neighbors returned home. We ate an early supper and retired to rest without a single thought of a Yan kee raid. The night was hot and sultry. The house was without a pane of glass and we slept with the big, heavy shut ters open, because fresh air was a neces sity in those hot dog days in the healed term. The short night was quickly spent and our liege lord arose with the dawn to get the doors open and enjoy the early morning air. The mil Ker pro ceeded to the cowpen to attend the cows, followed by her sou, a lad of twelve or thirteen, whose business in life it was to flourish a whip and keep the calves in subjection while his mother did the milking. In a few minutes the boy came flying back to the house, his eye-balls strained and his whole body in a tremor. As he and his mother approached the cowpen they found it full of Yankee soldiers, who had tethered their horses in the en closure while they slept on the outside and who were now strapping on their 1 saddles to swoop down on Macon, four miles distant. Before the boy became composed enough to tell the story, the cavalry came rushing down the road, sabres jingling and canteens rattling against their pistoi cases and other ac coutrements. With a word of command added to an expletive, our better-half was ordered to the gate to give directions as to the roads to and from Macon, the number of troops in the city, where horses could be found, etc., etc. The questions were answerd and ofl' they dashed, and our heart sank within us. A hasty toilet and a hastier break fast made the beginning of a memorable day to us. The woods were soon swarm ing with the blue-coats and about nine o’clock the cannonoding began. The musket shots became as frequent as fire crackers, and the drunken marauders were very annoying. Those Jones county people had a weakness for peach brandy in ante-bel lum times, and the soldiers added terror to our former dismay by becoming very drunken, noisy and boisterous with each other. Such oaths, .such brutal lan guage, and such reckless handling of pistols we never seen before ! Finally, one moae decent than the rest, spoke to us in a guarded tone of voice, “I’ll play guard for you to-day: our men are dogs and might do you mis chief.” All day long he marched up and down the hall, and to this day we feel that God sent him to us, a present help in time of trouble. Late in the afternoon, while a squad of soldiers were seated on the fence reading and com menting on a package of old letters cap tured at a neighbor’s house, the firing seemed to draw nearer to us. The ap proach became more marked aud dis tinct, until one asked another, “ What does that mean?” In a second an officer dashed up on a horse covered with foam, crying, “Men to your horses, for your lives!” In less time than we can tell it, the stillness of the grave settled down on a scene of the wildest, noisest confu sion that had prevailed all day. Night came on but no one appeared to speak a word of cheer, and the “creek bottom” was glowing with a thousand camp fires all deserted, but where the enemy was, or who was pursuing, or what had be fallen Macon, was unknown to us. All night long we kept watch. The wives md children of our neighbors lay on pallets made over all the floors. They had crept in after nightfaii for sympathy and protection, or more prep- j erly to he with us and each other after a j long lay of intolerable suspense and mental suffering. About nine or ten o’clock next day, a Yankee officer, as we judged him to be, on a horse dashed through the woods, soon followed by a soldier in a different uniform on foot. The latter crept stealthily towards the house, sometimes behind a tree, then darting to another oak ahead of him. file Confederates were told, as we afterwards understood, that our valley land was full of Stone man’s men who were throwing up breast works for a battle, and this foot soldier was reconnoitering to find out their po sition and numbers. All that day the home guards passed and repassed the house, while the boom of cannon and roar of musketry from the engagement of Gen. Iverson’s troops with the enemy could be distinctly heard. Next day, Monday, about 2 o’clock p. m., the captured Federal troops, with Stoneman, passed down the road from Clinton to Macon,and the cele ebrated raid was over. Except the chick ens, fruit, eatables, etc., and a fine horse, we lost nothing, but such a time of sus pense and mental dread words will never be able to describe. 12X1'EKI3II£NTAL FAllMs. Cement, Ga, July 1, ’SS. Mu. En iron: Two propositions arc beyond all cavil—first, that upon our agriculture we must depend for exist ence, our wealth and consequently our power and influence, and secondly, that great, vital interest is not, by very far, as prosperous as it might me and should be. ff this is true, or even in a great measure true, then is there wrapped up in the foregoing sentence a portentous truth that should stir the energies of our peo ple and ('all into active play all the pa triotic concern of our leaders and the in stinct of self-preservation of our entire population. We sTiaTUnot stop to discuss the proposition or pay even passing re spect to the argument so often hea-d, “that farming docs not pay, and cannot be made to pay.” Let the share of the farmer’s toils that falls to his lot be what it may, nothing can be more self-evident than the fact that the world is living on his surplus, and without it must perish. With this fact staring us in the face, why the farmer’s calling is not more highly honored and esteemed, why his interests are so disregarded by statesmen and those charged with the common weal will always be a mystery. Every eliort that provident and earnest minded men in our iand have made to advance our agriculture has met with sneers and op position. It is a standing jest with mem bers of our congress that we have a de partment of agriculture, and to exalt that department to the dignity of a cabi net appointment is treated with utter contempt. Here in Georgia we, too, find much of this slight and want of recognition. In stead of finding our own department re cognizod and fostered, we often hear un friendly feelings, and menaces, and as much honor as the labors of that depart ment have conferred on the state in the opinion of judges out of our borders, we are mortified to see a certain backward ness on the part of so many of our own people in giving a helping hand to the very agency of all others in our economy that will most subserve the best interest of the commonwealth. This indifferent or unfriendly spirit must be changed for one ot active sympathy and co-operation. As the farmers labors are most valuable and indispensable, and our stake in them greater than in that of any other, it would seem that common sense and natural self-interest and self-protection, would wake on our part an earnest zeal in be half of those labors. The problem is, how can we best support and subserve the fortunes of our agriculture. The an swer is ready: By the ascertainment and the dissemination of valuable pro cesses and facts we expect to see the far mers interests and avocation advanced. No one doubts that in our tillage present processes are defective, and that there are hundreds of problems of vital inter est awaiting solution that involve mate rial and primary results to the yalue of millions. What can be said in excuse of the fact that it requires three acres and a half of land in Georgia to produce a bale of cot ton, that our yield of wheat is less than seyen bushels to the acre, our beggarly crop of corn is only about ten bushels an acre, and that we must blush as we re cord the crop of oats at about nine bush els an acre. Where neighborhoods in Georgia have had the spirit and enterprise to read books, organize agricultural societieXand maintain these organizations as they should be, such a sad and sickening showing as the census makes f6r us in the staples mentioned are laughed at. Why should not the same better plans which some few of our farming neighbor hoods have adopted, be general, and bless the 3tate throughout our borders with improved results. One great and con trolling cause for this disparity in the results of farm enterprise and labor, is the want of light. Poor men who must use, and use stren uously, all the information they have to meet the necessities of their families and conduct them. Every day labors cannot pause to hunt for the better way. When the grass is threatening to overwhelm the crop, the plow cannot stand still in mid furrow to let the toiler conduct an experiment. This is the wish of the thinker, the painstaking searcher after truth, who though foiled in its pursuit time again, returns to the search till suc cess is reached. While this noble work is progressing, the mind which grasps it must not be distracted or paralyzed by fears of failure and loss. It takes money, too, that the masses have not to ri-k spare. The liberal and enlightened course of foreign governments teach 11s how valuable the results have proved of field experimentation. The good that Liebig, Bouccieault and especially that great man, M. Georges Ville, of France, have conferred on the world by their labors, ■ exceed in benefit, ahd should exceed in 1 honor, the proudest achievements of the ! blood-stained warriors of their day. We must follow, even i. at n gresu distance, the noble example up i -by ir / 1 and the government- that kq • hem a; their grand work A . phi r • •••• proud of his home and lab. in the country, with no hope or a-pi tien bey ond what springs Irom his acres, 1 would bog my brother fame .•> unite in demanding from our state ;h. aid that is so essential in the presen Ypress condition of our tiling :Geo „> we need and must have is <v C'CfffaoTO experimental <*-itmn fn.. body of patriot- . . the Georgia State Agricu:-u-ai . have appointed aeomm.:* e m , rialize flic iegislatur- tr -y : ’ s-ich f§ station. They modestly ask a fraction, ..mlonly a small fraction, of the fund that N rais ed exclusively out • : taxation. They, and they only, w ill , y 1 nr treasury this year fully ysl), > w hich comes of a tax on the fertilizer- they are compelled to use on their c aps, a small part of this money they ..-a to have loaned to them for the establishment of an experimental statson, win e labors will repay the amount a hundred fold; In five years after such a help -hmilil be supplied to us, we have no!y-doubt. th. r bv the additional light tSjf would on furnished our farmers we would ■ a difference of at least fury millions n 1 la results of our cropping for a single year. We have carefully made the estimate, based on the most reasoned Jo uni modest data, and have not a doubt that the profit would reach a far higher figure, it Is impossible, Mr. Editor, in the compass of a single communication, to nuke a fair exhibit of the great good that would be secured to our agriculture by the estab lishment by th state, of ago at agricul tural experimental station. The good of such atownnls everywhere, when fiirly made, has be m great and indisputable. Let your humble correspondent appeal, and earnestly, to you to lend your in fluence and that of you- journal to this indispensablo i: om?u re. Baktow. THE NEW I’OSTAL LAW. The following is the new postal law which took effect the first of July : 1. Sealed letters to go anywhere in the United States for two cents on each full ounce or fraction thereof. The full ounce weight applies to drop letters delivered to anv one where th 1 carrier system is not in operation. 2. Registered newspapers sent by pub lishers or news dealers, one cent per pound, to include regular and specimen copies. Ollier papers sent for each four ounces or fraction thereof. 3. Articles in newspaper.; may be marked with pen or pencil to call atten tion to them, but no words or figures can be used. This is not allowed to pub lishers sending papers by po: id rates. 4. A special stamp costin ; ten cents and put upon a letter going to any place having 4,000 population accor Hug to the United States census, and to other places that may hereafter be specially dei igned by the department, will be immediately delivered by a special me uger, pro vided the recipient liv within one mile Of the postoGeo oi its static in largo cities. Letters arriving after midnight not thudelivered. - Lady Churchlll’B Canvass*. London, June 27. —The eff orts to de feat her husband in the canva ■ : = ■ 1 ariia ment in Woodstock have* so work upon the feelings of Lady Randolph Church hill that she has declared her intention of making a thorough canvass of the borough herself in person. ", he K pgli di people, for the ffret time ii hi dory of their country, will have an opportun ity of hearing an American lady expound the politics of the nation. Lady Church hill arrived to-night, and drove a tandem through the town. She'was enthu-ia ti cally cheered by the populace, and at several points the crowd became so thick that it was with difficulty that the driver managed to keep from running people down. Lady Churchill was formerly Miss Jennie Jerome, the daughter of Mr. Leonard Jerome, of New York. 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