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VOLUME 11.
Attention Everybody!
WE HAVE THIS DAY REDUCED OUR PRICES GREATL!!
All Repairs Will bt Lm* than BMtto&Ni
This is Done in View of the Hardness of the Times. We Keep
on Constantly a HEAVY STOCK OP WESTERN WAGONS,
STUPE BAKER, KENTUCKY, and other Makes, which we Will
Sell Cheaper than Ever Before.
If You Want the Best Wagon you can Buy on any Market Buy
The Celebrated JONES WAGON.
Made here. One and Two-Horse. SOLID STEEL AXLES, BABVIV PATENT WHEELS.
We defy tlie world to heat ns in this line. These Wagons wlir last loftg^f.'nin lighter, and 100
better than any. JJtffTRY ONE OF THEM. Come ar write te ue.
R. H. Jones Ac Hons Manfg. Cos..
dlO-ly CARTERSVILLE CtORCIA. “
New Spring 1 Goode!!
I beg leave to inform n.y customers and the people of Bartow county and surrounding country
to tiie fact that my new goods are all in auu it is conceded hy ail that I have
Th.e Largest Shook,
Tko Handsomest Display,
AND
Tko Lowest Frioss
That have ever leen heard ol in UartenmUe. 1 have all the new styles and novelties in
HATH AND BONNETS.
Come and see for yourselves that I have <|eci<iedly the handsomest stock I ever had and am
selling cheaper than von have ever purchased lucti goods before. Thanking vou for your most
liberal patronage and asking for a continuance of the same. I am, Most Respectfully,
MIHH 13. >l. PADGETTE,
Over Mays * Pritchett’s, Carterevilte.
t ome and make your selectiona before the stock is depleted.
Slightly Damaged Goods!
Hundreds of Knives—Eighty Different Varieties, from a
Ladies’ Penknife to • Cowboy’s Toothpick.
NINE
THE GOODS WILL HE SOLD DOG CHEAP—AT HALF NEW YORK COST.
fi® 1 Come and make your selections before they are picked over.
Bk M. FATTIIsIiO-
“Charlemagne,”
Will be ou exhibition at the stables of Crawford & Hudson after the 15th of
M a rch, 1886. “Charlemagne” is a beautiful dapple gray, and is heavily but sym
metrically built. Thne interested in fine stock should not fail to see him.
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Constipation, Amenorrhoea, Menorrhagia, Leurcorrhoea and all Fe
male Weaknesses, Diseases of the Urinary Organs, Cholera Infantum,
Ac., Ac.
Price SI.OO for Large Size Bottle; 80 cents for small Size.
Ask your druggist for it. If he should not have it, and will not
order it, then address the proprietors and it will be sent by mail,
postage paid.
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Eyes in a few hours, without pain or danger. The best Eye Water in
the World. Price, only 25 cents per bottle. Ask for It. Have no other.
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And Manufacturers of the Above Remedies,
febll-ly BRISTOL, TENNESSEE.
J A. CRAWFORD, Georgia. R. N. HUDSON, Tennessee.
Crawford & Hudson.
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THE CARTERSVILLE (’OUR A NT.
CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY. MAY 6, 1886.
PROGRESS IK FARMING.
Woaderfal Socmm In SovthWMt Georgia.
Dear Coirant — Did jou ever travel
from Maooo to Amerksus on the railroad
in the month of April ? If you have not
made such a trip at sach an auspicious
season, you have lost one of the greatest
treats that ever waa granted to a lover of
the beautiful, and especially to an admirer
of successful farm life.
A few days ago your correspondent
made the journey into that favored sec
tion, and, like the Queen of Sheba, I
found “the half had not been told.” We
stopped at Marshalville, Macon county,
after a short run from Macon. With
the invigorating spring sunshine on the
emerald foliage and verdure, the soft,
warm winds and delicious atmosphere,
fairly thrilling our nature with the beau
ty of the outlook that, like a panorama,
steadily unrolled itself as we whirled
along ou the well ballasted railway, that
la perfect in it* accommodations and ap
pointments for travelers.
The first placeof importance we reached
was Fort Valley, and there we saw the
dneat hotel that is located in any small
town in Georgia— grown to the
sbioand importance of t I city. A little
i£ the rear of the town was |*>intod out
■We fittest-serbufban residence 1 irr lower
Georgia, owned by Mr., Harris, of Fort
Vzllejr. wire see* evidence#
of thrift an<i progress, and nowhere waa
discovered a fence around a cultivated
held. Your correspondent would not pre
sume fcoetake her judgment against that
of wise people, but “no fence” seems to
have been the Aladin’sLamp for farmers
in that seefion. Miles upon miles of cul
tivated land stretched out before the eye,
Aid except an occasional ditch —the banks
of which e wre ofteu set in vigorous Le-
Conts pear trees—there were no bounda
ries or enclosures. Indeed the healthful
change was discovered near Griffin, and
it seemed as if the soil —the globe itself —
had returned thanks for the removal of
the oid worm fences (formerly bristling
with encroaching briars and ugly sprouts)
by blossoming into a miracle of neatness
and vigorous cultivation. I verily be
lieve the ground heretofore encumbered
by these dilapidated and
which are now clean and cultivated up to
the very limits of the road-way, will
yield enough to re-fence the whole ex
panse, if such a thing were necessary.
As the eye rested on the regular rows
of newly planted corn and a land
of dark loam was disoernable to the eye
from tie rapidly moving train, where
upon the soil was black with very rich
ness and which, under the inspiration of
the hew order of things, will soon blos
som like the rose, into wealth and beauty.
The money hitherto expended on fences
can now be spared for better mules and
better implements, and no renter is de
terred from a contract for land to rent b} 7
the sorry fences on an otherwise desira
ble farm.
As we progressed into Macon county,
the beauty of the situation increased.
The buildings improved, the orchards
grew more plentiful and the small fruit
and vegetable farms were frequent and
thrifty. The newspaper item about a
marvelous crop of radishes has been cop
ied into many Georgia papers, but for
fear some have not seen it, I was told by
reliable parties that a gentleman in Ma
con county planted an acre in radishes
this season and in sixty days after he
sowed the seed he had in his purse three
hundred dollars of clear money as profit.
He will make thousands on his straw
berries—just now coming into market—
and yet he is not compelled to expend a
penny to enclose these valuable crops
from outside depredation of stock.
Unless I am greatly mistaken, the re
moval of fences will make the beginning
of the era success in farming here and
elsewhere. The old fences in these fa
vored sections are devoted to the enclos
ing of pastures, where owner and tenant
can protect their stock from straying and
at the same time provide water and pas
turage for all, while the timber hereto
fore devoted to fences can be saved for
firewood or sold at a profit.
The workings of the “no fence” law
in Macon county has been most satisfac
tory. Everybody prospers—none more
so than the crop renter, who takes pari
of the crop as pay. A friend, one of the
largest land owners of that section, as
sured me that the tenant was the man
most benetitted. Asa result he showed
me the fruits of last year’s labor in a sin
gle instance:
A colored man w r as furnished with two
mules, with implements, a house, and
land enough to cultivate with that much
stock. No expense to the land owner
was incurred beyond the supply men-
tioned, the owner of the mules having
no blacksmithing bills or repairs to pay
for. The force that worked this sample
crop consisted of the colored man, a me
dium hand (hired by the tenant) and the
tenant’s wife and two children —one girl
about grown and a lad. After the cotton
was picked, ginned and delivered to the
owner’s warehouse, there were thirty
three heavy bales, one half ot which was
placid to the owner for rent, me of the
mules, etc. Besides this cotton, which
brought in so much ready money, there
was an abundi n *e of provisions to pay for
all supplies that had been advanced, and
not only enough corn and fodder to make
the crop this year, but to pay for the
making of the thirty-three bales, the
tenant providing all the mule feed dur
ing the year.
On Saturday afternoon I saw the town
fi led with colored people, who came in
to buy spring clothes and necessaries, and
L did not see a ragged one, or a loud
mouthed one in the whole gathering.
All wore good clothes and were mosc Or
el' rlv and law-abiding in their conduct.
These renters live on the same farm
for consecutive years, and it is said that
the colored people of Marshallville are to
the front on prohibition and every meas
ure of reform that engages the attention
ot the white race, and are useful mem
bers of the community. They are all de
lighted with the “no fence” law, for they
are saved an immense amount of worn
on enclosures, which were only a very
temporary benefit to themselves in the
best of times heretofore.
Firmly am I convinced that the abol
ishing of fences in Bartow would bring
to the relief of land owners here a large
and contented class of tenants, who would
soon see the immense benefit that would
insure to themselves individually, and
who, in many cases, are troubled so much
now all the year round with poor fences,
and their crops so endangered as to make
farming a trial and a loss under present
conditions, provoking trouble to every
body and dissatisfaction with owner and
tenant during the whole twelvemonth.
The country from Griffin to Macon was
at one time since the war as unproduc
tive and poverty-stricken as any part of
Georgia. Now there seems to be a mighty
uprising of energy, which crops out in
improved cultivation, neat, tidy farming
methods and a general repairing of homes
and outbuildings in every locality. We
need *uch an uprising here, and with al'
the drouths, flood a and disaster?, there
is in Cherokee Georgia the basis of wealth
and the “ground-sills” of successful
farming.
Macon county makes one think that the
Almighty pinched oil a bud of Paradise
and transplanted it here on earth—now
blossoming in fragrance and beauty. But
with all such advantages, there would be
no progress if one-fourth of the time of
the farmers was consumed in building
miles of fencing to keep out a few shab
by cows in the vicinity, supplemented by
a score or so of razor-backed swine.
We have energy, industry and pluck in
abundance, but I verily believe it will be
pp-hill work until we shake oft these
fence annoyances and expenses and thus
redeem the land from the greatest tax
that rests on farming and farm efforts.
YIBITOR.
♦
LIST OF JURORS DRAWN FOR JULY
TERM BARTOW SUPERIOR COURT.
GRAND JURORS—FIRST WEEK.
’ A A Vincent, George W Rogers.
W A Bindley, R W Satterfield,
James A Keever, J unes H Gilreath,
A K Hudgins, S Venable,
Jaiae* R Joltey. James M Shaw,
Charles H Smith, James H Williams,
Singleton Maguire, SC Prichard,
W E PueYetl, • Johu A Stover,
John PStegall, W A Gllau,
J J Johnson. Robert M Patillo,
Joshua Bradford, J B Shelhorse,
Thomas M Webster.
• RAND JURORS— I THIRD WRKK,
W A F Stephens, George W Lock ridge
L V Wilson, Wm L Rowland,
B O Crawford, P G Collins,
A.C Shelton, George H Waring,
J-t) Wilkerson, V M Turnhn,
I C Waldrip, J P Hawk*,
I C Lewis, / Wm Brown,
Ljvi I) Jolley, . . . R C Rowan,
r M Ford, John Collins,
Wm L Adams, / ' OU Glasgow,
James T Jolley, Joel TL’ouyera,
Fontaine Whitaker.
TR A VIRUS JURORT—FIRST WEEK.
J P Alexander, W T. McMakin,
T J Rogers, James M Hall,
George H Aubrey, George L Harris.
Allen Martin, Joel € Rogers,
James T Hicks, Jesee J Brawner,
Herbert M Milam, George W Waldiup,
J B Gaines, HT Culpepper,
John D Ford, John 1) Goode,
John w Dysart, WmT Lipscomb,
J C Kerr, A F Morrison,
C P Sewell, J W H Burns,
B J Lewis, J A Sbinall,
Robert L Saxou, W W Stokes,
A L Burrow, F P Meadows,
W L Bradley, J D Carpenter,
H J Findley, Clias S McCormick,
A J Layton, J M Williams,
Joel Powell, T J Beil.
TRAVERSE JURORS—SECOND WEEK.
Robert C White, Henry Bailey,
James W Maxwell, Wm Fortinberry,
Thomas J Vaughn, J W Johnson,
John A Terrell, H B Barton.
H H Milam, John B Mulliuax,
W E Quarles, J C Milam,
J 8 Ramey, J H Walker, jr.,
E C Adcock, Jackson 8 Upshaw,
J L Smith, W M Hawkins,
W m H Blalock, D A Attaway,
F A Milam, Wra T Kitchens,
Frank M Daniel, J T Phillips,
Wm A Jackson, C W Cunningham,
J H Leeke, Gdorge H Ileadden,
Wm J Alexander, C A Wikle,
F M Bridges, J M Gwinn,
Sam’l D Waldrup, C C Wofford,
J E Lawless, P B Mayfield.
TRAVERSE JURORS—THIRD WEEK.
George W. Me Dow, W B Venable,
R L Gaston, MP Maxwell,
James W. Rich, M W Holland,
Berry Kitchens, John L Lewis,
Jack Word, David M Turner,
C F Johnson, Joseph 0 Tumlin,
L C Crow, Wm Akin,
J B Smith, J E Blalock,
Roberts Taff, Thomas Arnold,
John A Goodson. L D Munford.
John A riood, Wm M Smith,
Wm K Green, W R Mountcastle,
G B Foster, Th. mi as J Kay,
J T Layton, R W Smith,
Meridith Brown, .T W Maxwell,
George F Freeman, Henry Burrough,
N W J arrett, Z B A ycoek,
Thomas J Owen, Robert M Collins.
TRAVERSE JURORB—VOURTH WEEK.
SAG.lreath, J L Smith,
VV B Woodall, B Lumpkin,
G Harwell, W E Teat,
Thomys J Taylor, John H Shaw,
R J Reagan, John Bobo,
T It Turner, James G Broughton,
J C Dunlop,’ Thomas J Elrod,
S T Dodd,. F C Watkins,
W O Lumpkin, S W Bradfleld,
L C Franks, M C Nelson,
John F Roes< ' James M Mahon,
Stonewall N Dobbs, J J Boston,
Eugene Munford, H P Gilreath,
Fred Henderson, Alfred Wofford,
John H Johnsey, L J Barrett,
James W Layton, J C Raiford,
J E Hall, E B Elrod,
W A Neel, R N Hudson.
JURORS FOR CITY COURT—JUNE TKRH.
J O Hubbard, B A Barton,
David Latham, J A Stephenson,
J P Alexander, W E Quarles,
Eli B Richardson, S M Rhea,
John H Walker, jr., Eli Barrett,
J A McCanless, W L 1 Lipscomb,
G W King, J M Arnold,
Joshua Bradford, TJ Rogers.
TO FLORIDA IN A SCOW.
The Remarkable Voyage Undertaken by
an Arkansan and His Family.
A New Orleans special says: A bar
pilot just arrived from Port Eads brings
the following singular narra’ive: On
Tuesday the lookout noticed a singular
looking craft, with two sails and a jib,
making its way down to jetties to sea,
but paid no particular attention to the
stranger. The vessel proceeded out in
the Gulf, and notwithstanding there
being a heavy sea on at the time she got
about five miles off shore when the pilot
boat Underwriter, commanded by Cap
tain Burdick, caught sight of her, and,
seeing the remarkable condition of mat
ters proceeded to render assistance.
Upon reaching her it was found that
her rudder was broken, and the vessel
was in an unmanageable condition. She
was an old-fashioned scow or flatboat,
three feet in the water, fifteen feet broad
side above, a little pointed forward and
square astern, with two short masts and
a jib. The calking was oozing out of the
seams and aha had no bulkheads or
strengthening braces, or any similar de
vice of marine architecture. The living
things aboard were one man, his wife,
two children and a dog.
These adventurers had come all the way
from som* interior point in Arkansas on
their way to Florida, without knowledge,
or even a chart, chronometer, or maritime
appliances. There was no water aboard
and hut little provisions, but instead
thereof a large stock of modern cheap lit
erature. When rescued frem their dan
ger, of which they seemed to be oblivi
ous, the Captain’s wife was engrossed in,
Tennyson’s poems, while the skipper was
absorbed in the closing pages of Henry
Janie’s “Bostonians.”
Captain Burdick took the vegsel in tow
and brought it into the jetties, thus un
questionably saving the lives of four hu
man beings, who must inevitably have
drifted on to destruction. Captain Bur
dick declares both man and wife in his
opinion “a little queer.” They both
seemed indifferent to their great peril
and declared their be'ief in thfcir ability
to run along shore and obtain provisions
when necessary. Their objective point
was Florida, and the Arkansan said he
had been for four years at work on the
boat in which he was determined to cross
the Gulf of Mexico.
The Atlanta Constitution says that a
lively sensation is now developing in the
United States Marshal’s office, which
will be ready for publication in a few
days.
AN INTKRESTIIfG BOOK.
Extract* from J. B. Gormu’i Ckaraaiag
Book of Trvels “Around the World in’B4.
Atlanta Eveuing Capitol.j
The author begins and ends his voyage
at Atlanta, going out the front door in
New YYrk and returning by the back
door at San Francisco, traveling six
months, going east ail the time. lie
leaves New York in February, ISB4,
land* in Liverpool, gees London, Paris,
Riaa, Rome, Naples, Soicily, Malta,
Egypt, Palestine, through Suez canal,
Red Sea, Indian Ocean, to Bombay—2,-
000 miles through India by rail, then
south tp Ceylon—through the Straights
of Ealacca into the China sea—from
Singapore to Hong Kong, Canton, Amoy,
Soochow, Shanghia, Inland, Sea of Ja
pan, and from Yokohama to San Fran
cisco across the Pacific ocean.
He visits at Stratford, Shakespeare’s
birth-place and sepulchre. In Trinity
chureh, “We turned up oaken seats, un
der which were moss curious carvings
three hundred years old. On the poet’s
tomb, I read this inscription :
’Good friend for JesuS' sake forbeare
To dig the dust encloased heare;
Bleste be the man tl at spares these stones
And curst be he that moves my bones.”
The author gives a wonderful descrip
tion of London. lie says there are rail
roads running under the ground, on top
of the ground and over tire top of houses,
by which four millions of people are
distributed from center to circumference
of this vast metropolis.
“There are no street railroads in Lon
don ; there are thousands of cabs, omni
buses and handsdms; I like the London
hansom. It is a very convenient and
stylish turnout. It is a two wheeler,
with the driver'dressed in livery, sitting
high up behind, the horse’s head is on
a level with his eye, and the rein* by
which he is directed are pulled over the
top of the vehicle. The shortest enrves
and turns may be made in the most
crowded thoroughfares.
The author’s account of Paris is even
more interesting than that of London.
Visiting Versailles, Louis XIV pakce,
which cost two hundred millions of dol
lars. He saw one hundred acres of gar
dens witli fountains playing in them.
“ What grandeuer, what magnificence
and beauty we beheld that day, can he
better imagined than discribed.”
He visited the morgue, that awful
house of the dead, where the bodies of
people who die mysteriously 7 are exposed
for identification. “We looked through
a grating and saw the hats and clothes of
dead men and women hung all around
the inclosure. There was a body half
nude laid on a marble slab, with a jet of
cold water pouring on it. People came
and looked through the bars, cast a
glance at the clothing and walked sol
emly away.”
He says there are no street cars In Pa
ris. either, all omnibuses and four wheel
ers. Ilis description of the palaces,
operas, monuments and the indescriba
ble champs elysee’s are grand. In hu
mor and graphic description he often ap
proaches >lark Twain, hunting his new
trowsers from London at the railway
station, dining at a fashionable hotel, and
many other incidents are full of interest
and enjoyment.
“Paris is a walled city. She has had
to fight her battles at her very gates.
England fights here abroad.”
Leaving Paris for Rome and Naples,
via Mt. Cenis Tunnel he describes the
oountry, railroads and Fountainebleau :
“If no other name but that of Joseph
ine had been associated with Fontaine
bleau it would never have perished in
history. Its famous old park of vener
ated trees, with a grand avenue sweeping
through them, its pretty hedge and gar
dens, its bright lawns that look as if
they had been swept and brushed every
day, its stately lanes of poplar trees, are
marvels of symmetry and beauty.”
The author compares the ladies of
Genoa to our Southern girls.
“Many of them are very fair, with
blue eyes, hut the black, brown, dreamy
ones are most dominant. They robed
themselves in a cloud of white of beauti
ful illusions, and with their long flowing
veils these Genoese women do look so
charming. In the park at night, under
the gas jets, leaning on the arms of
their beaux, they looked like so many
snow flakes flitting about. I should like
to remain a week in Genoa amidst this
freshet of loveliness and beauty; but it
would be difficult to make up one’s mind
here—they are so pretty, so much like
our Southern girls, the girls of America,
by the time a man could mak a up his
mind he would fall in love with some
body else.”
The author’s ascent of the leaning
tower of Pisa and the crying of a baby in
his hotel are very amusing. He said
“that baby’s squall was so natural, so
homelike, it was all the English he
heard in Pisa.”
MISS FOLSOM AT MEDINA.
The School-Girl Days of the President's
Future Bride.
From the New York World. |
Medina, N. Y., April 24 —Miss Frankie
Folsom, who is to marry President
Cleveland, was for a number of years af
ter the death of her father in 1875 a resi
dent of Medina, and a good share of her
preparatory education was obtained at
the Medina high school. Mrs. Folsom’s
mother, Mrs. Harmon, lived here tor
many years with her two sons, Homer
and Milton, Frankie’s uncles, who oper
ated a large mill at Shelby, which was
destroyed by tire. After this Milton con
nected himselt with the George T. Smith
Flour Machine Company, of Grand
Rapids, and is now very wealthy, Homer
is in business in Boston. YY r hen Frankie
was a child she oten visited friends in
this place, and after the sudden death of
her father she came here with her moth
er, and for some years they resided with
the Harmon family. At that tender age
she was a beautiful girl, with large, ex-
pressive eyes, a dazzling complexion, and
a graceful and self-possessed bearing.
She at once became belle of the younger
society of town, and her beauty won for
her many admirers. Miss Folsom had
many young lady friends, although she
was very discriminating in the selection
of her intimates, and had few con
fidants. At school, although she
was not particularly brilliant in
any one branch, her standing was always
among the best, and she seemed to possess
the faculty of retaining everything which
she learned, and was noted for her fund
of general information.
After Mr. Cleveland had straightened
out the affairs of her father, which Oscar
Folsom left in a very tangled condition,
Miss Frankie and her mother returned to
Buffalo. She still corresponds with a
number of the young ladies who were
the intimates of her girlhood days.
The Dawson Manufacturing Company
is now making a lot of walking canes of
old plank and posts taken from the stock
ade at Andersonville. They are shipped
North, w here they find ready sale at from
$2 to $3 each, as relics of “the late un
pleasantness.
A NEWSPAPER OFFICE IN JAPAN.
From the Pall Mall Gazette.]
r I he otfice of the Xichi-Xichi Shinbun ,
a Japanese newspaper, is thus described:
The feature of the Shinbun office was its
type case—for there was only one of body
type. And such a type case! It is divid
ed for utility into two sections sloping
toward an alley five feet wide. Each
section is four feet wide hy thirty feet
long—four by sixty feet. There’s a new’
case for you! This is divided into small
compartments of boxes, into which the
type is laid in regular piles, several piles
in a box—with faces all tow’ard the com
positors, mostly boys, big and little.
Each holds' a wooden “stick” with brass
rule. The type or all of a size; the
“stick” is not set to the measure of the
column which is twenty ems pica, but to
about half the measure—it being the
business of the other workmen to impose
the lines in columns, take proof, and
make up forms.
Now, then, the type-setting. Armed
with sticks and rule and copy, the dozen
compositors read the last in an earnest,
sing-song way, each rushing to some boi
far or near for the needed letter, then
back ten or twelve feet to the needed
one; all are on the lived y move, rustling
and skipping to and fro, right and left,
up and down, chasse, balance to partners
swing the corners, up and hack, singing
the copy, catching one letter here, anoth
er there, prancing and dodging, hum
ming and skipping—a promenade, cotil
ion, Virginia reel, racquet, and ail-hands
around upon the same floor at the same
time and the same dancers in each—a
perfect maze of noise and confusion, yet
out of contusion bringing printed order!
It was a sight to he seen.
“How many different characters are
there in this case, anyhow/” We asked
our guide. Then our guide asked the
printers, and none could answer better
than say: "Nobody knows, sir! Nobody
knows—many thousand.” Later on we
repeated the same question to a more in
telligent person, who said: “At least
50,000.” That will account for the re
markable size of the case and the racing
to and fro of the compositors.
Just why they intone their copy all the
while was not made so clear—other than
the remark that it was the custom,
i’oko monopolizes the Japan newspaper
business, there being only one other
potut—Kofu—in Eastern Japan where
newspapers are printed. The masses of
the people are able to read in their own
way, but comparatively few can grasp
the full flow of Chinese characters. In
point of illiteracy, the statistics place
this nation at only seven per cent., or
next to Bavaria, which is the lowest on
the list.
CATHARINE COLE AND JUMBO.
New York Mail and Express.]
Catharine Cole, one of the best known
literary women of the South, was In the
city a few days ago to attend a dinner of
the Sorosis Society. She is a handsome
blue-ayed woman, past 30, free from
many of the hysterical, flamboyant ec
centricities that some female writers pos
sess. A reporter met her at Barnum’s
sliowio company with a fashionable cir
cus party.
“Porfjr Jumbo! here is only his coun
terfeit presentment,” she said gazing
upon the stuffed animal.
“Did you ever see Jumbo alive?”
“Yes, the worst fright I ever got in
my life was from Jumbo. I was in Eng
land, and visited the Zoological Gardens
frequently. That before Jumbo be
came noted for having the ‘moost,’ as the
Mahouts call it—bad temper in English.
One line day 1 attired myself in anew
dress with an exceedingly large bustle,
as was the style then, and in my rounds
diopped in at the Zoo.
“I was walking around in the garden
when suddenly L felt myself lifted like a
feather into tlie air. 1 tried to scream,
but could not. I didn’t have the time.
The power that raised me aloft had me by
the bustle, and I could hear that frail pro
tuberance crushing together as if a moun
tain had mashed it. Then I described a
semi-circle and was let down, bustle and
all on the w’alk. I heard a shout of mer
ry childish voices and Jumbo passed
with 20 or 30 children on his back. It
seems that I was just in front of him and
quick as thought he seized me hy the
bustle of my dress and carefully lifted me
to one side. His gentle squeeze of my
bustle broke it into a useless wreck, and
I lost five pounds of flesh from concen
trated fright. It took me an hour to re
alize exactly what happened and take an
inventory of the smash-up. I neyer w ent
back to the Zoo any more. lam now as
a Texas cowboy is about Indians. He
likes them better dead. So do I ele
phants, I always bustle to get away
from these mastodons when I see them
coming.”
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A CORK TREE IN ELBERT.
From the Elberton (Ga.) Leader.]
On a recent visit to Ruckersville we were very
much interested in a curious tree which i* amon?
the shade trees on the front of the old Rucker
place. It is called the cork tree, the bark of
which is very rough and thick, being to all ap
pearances the precise material out of which the
corks are made for bottles, jugs, etc. It is sup
posed that corks are supplied from the bark of
this tree. We were surprised to find any of the
species in Elbert county, and we doubt if any
other can be found in the State of Georgia. The
bark is an inch thick and grows in deeply mark
ed ridges, and you only have to cut off a piece,
and bite or cut it, to be satisfied that it is the
veritable cork.
Our esteemed contemporary is yery
much mistaken when he claims for El
bert any very great excellence over many
of the other counties of the State. We,
as journalists, are willing to allow all
other portions of our State that excel
lence to which they are so justly entitled,
at the same time claiming all we are en
titled to, and seeing to it that others do
not rob us of that to which we are justly
entitled. Many years since the Depart
ment of Agriculture at Washington dis
tributed a lot of the acorns of the cork
tree through the South, which our peo
ple planted, and these trees can now be
found in various places, one or more of
which are in this county.
[Ed. Courant.
About 25 boxes of laundry soap offered
at a bargain by Curry the druggist.
if you want a box of laundry soap at
much less than the usual price, call at
Curry’s Drug Store.
Curry offers a job lot of laundry soap
at a big bargain.
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Clingman’s Tobacco Cake and Cling
man’s Tobacco Plaster; sold at Curry’s
> Drug Store.
NUMBER 14
THE COST OF COTTON.
S. B. 11. in the Coweta Advertiser pre
sents the following figures and facts on
the above subject. lie says:
I have some close figures to present on
the subject, which are correct; for I am
a farmer myself, and have experimented,
counting up the cost, and know whereof
1 speak. At the present price of guano,
150 pounds per acre, costs $2.25. It costs
$1 to prepare the land for planting; for
cotton seed 10cents; for labor to plant 25
cents. We plow our cotton about four
times, which will require one and a half
days for one horse to do the work. The
co6t of plowing $1.50; it will take two
hoeings at least, which would require an
ordinary hand three days to perform the
work of hoeing; at a cost of 50 cents per
day, amounts to $1.50. The entire cost
of cultivating one acre is $G TO. The
average produce of one acre, throughout
the state of Georgia, is 500 pounds seed
cotton or 16G 2 3 pounds of lint, at 40 cents
per hundred for picking 500 pounds,
would amount to $2; cost of ginning said
cotton, GO cents; total cost per cere, ready
for market, is $9.35. Say three acres
vielded 500 lint, at a cost of
$9.35 per acre amounts to $28.05 per bale.
According to cotton futures for Septem
ber, October and November of this year,
will enable us to get the whole amount
of 6 cents for middling cotton or S3O per
bale, a profit of $1.95 per bale. Suppose
our entire crop to be storm cotton, like
last year’s and the price cut 5 cents per
pound, we will receive $25 per hale, a
loss of $3.05 on the cost of growing the
weed. The above figures are the cost to
those who own land. Now let us sec
what it costs the land renters to raise tin*
fleecy staple. You will remember the
tenant performs all the labor, pays for
All the guano, and gives a fourth of his
cotton to his master, for rent. Well it
coats him just $28.05 per bale on land of
his own, and • fourth more on land of
some one else, which amounts to $7.01 1 ,
more, and that amount added to $28.05
(the. land tords cost) makes $35.1X* 1 ., or
About 7 cents per pound, a loss of from
one to two cents per pound. To those
who deny the above statement, I only
ask of them one thing, and that is to
count up the cost before you judge or
condemn.
A WHD ABOUT BASE BALE.
ftAvatmaii Slewed •
Base l*ali is% good thing in its way.
It is a healthy sort of an amusement, and
as long a.' it is kept out of the hands of
those who would like to use it in an im
proper way for making money there can
be no particular objection to it. But
even t healthy and harmless amusement
may not be without its drawbacks. To.)
much of it may be demoralizing, and
there are indications that we are having
too much base ball for the good of young
men and boys who haven’t either the
money or the time to enable them to
gratify their appreciation of the game.
Employers in many cases find it dilli
cult to get their employes to give proper
attention to their duties. The minds o'
youths especially are so wholly taken up
with base ball matters that their service s
in many cases are almost valueless.
Neglect of duty is not the whole of the
demoralization that is noticeable. Young
men who have small incomes ire often
forced to make debts, and to put oil [lay
ing overdue hills, in order to meet the
base ball demand upon their purses. Of
course this demand is not heavy in the
estimation of those who have well-filled
purses, but there are many, very many,
among those who make it. a [joint to wit
ness every game who frequently find
some difficulty in getting the necessary
quarter of a dollar admission fee.
We haven’t anything to say against
the game, or the way that it is conducted,
but people who think about such things
can hardly fail to see that base ball
players in three or four months (ran earn
more than the best teachers in the pubi c
schools, more than college professors and
even more than the average professions !
man in a year. Too many of the boys
and young men of the country have
their attention drawn away from the
occupations in which they are earning a
bare living and directed towards the
career of a base ball player. Of course,
there is only a limited demand for good
players and hundreds of young men who
are neglecting their duties for base ball
are only preparing themselves for an idle
and profitless life.
The number of brick to be used in con
structing the new State capitol is 16,000,-
000. Their average weight is live pounds
each. E-timating 30,000 pounds to the
car, they would fill 2,666 cars. These
make 100 trains of twenty-seven cars
each. Arranged one after the other,
without any intervals between them, but
including engines, they would extend
over a distance of seventeen miles. The
iron work would require 135 cars, as its
weight is 4,000,000 pounds. The soie
work would require 900 cars, or thirty
five trains, which would extend over a
distance of six miles. The other material
to be used would fill a sufficient number
of cars to extend over a distance of twen
ty miles, if the 16,000,000 brick were
placed end to end, allowing no fraction
for the space between them, they would
extend over a distance of 118,000,000
inches, or 10,666,666 feet, or 3,555,555
yards, or 1,020 miles. All the figures
here given are not strictly correct, but
they are nearly enough so for the pur
pose had in view—that is, to afford an
idea in the concrete of the magnitude of
the new capitol.
The Atlanta Journal has this to say
about Congressional digression : “It does
not take much, sometimes, to provoke
Congressmen to laughter. During the
debate in the House on the contested
election case of Hurd against Romels,
Mr. Robertson, of Kentucky, made a
speech for Mr. Hurd, in the delivery < f
which he became a good deal excite 1.
Feeling thirsty, he called a page and
a*ked for a glass of water. “Does a gen
tleman from Kentucky ask for water?”
exclaimed a member. “The prohibition
millennium must be near at hand ” Of
course everybody laughed uproariously.
The hilarity was increased when Mr.
Robertson, feeling called upon to apolo
gize, said he did not often call for water,
and he hoped his offense would be over
looked this time. Then he drained the
glass and went on with his speech.
Go to Curry’s Drug Store and get a
whitewash brush when you begin your
spring cleaning.
Paints, oils and varnishes, at bottom
. prices at Curry’s Drug Store.
A job lot of laundry soap at a sacrifice
at Curry’s Drugstore.
If you want a box of laundry soap at a
great bargain, call on Curry the druggist.
Clingman’s Tobacco Ointment, sold at
urry’s Drug Store.
Pipes in cases suitable for presents at
Curry’s Drug Store.