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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. SPRING©” IRON-ALUM MASS. Th* product of Fourteen Gallons of the Best Mineral Water in the World Evaporated to a Mass. A Gift of Nature, and not a Patent Nediciao. The Finest Tonic and Appetizer Known. Cures Dyspepsia and In digestion, Headaches, Chronic Diarrhoea, Chills and Fevers, Catarrh and all Throat and Nasal Affections, Scrofula and Eczema, Habitual 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. 2TO Ctmi, NO PAT I DIKEY’S PAINLESS EYE WATER cures weak and Inflamed 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. DICKEY tV ANDERSON, Proprietors, And Manufacturers of the Above Remedies, febll-ly BRISTOL, TENNESSEE. J A. CRAWFORD, Georgia. R. N. HUDSON, Tennessee. Crawford & Hudson. CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. ale and LIVERY STABLE. East of Railroad, Near the Courthouse. ' OUR TI^R^OUTS AKE STRICTLY HO RSI'S AND MULES K LPT ON -'HiIBIV OUR ACCOMMODATIONS FOR drovers cannot be surpass hicks <2t BRBVARD, CABINET MAKERS. Manufacturers of and Dealers in FTTRXTITTTBJ! of SvjißT DJSCRIPTIOSr. UNDERTAKING A SPECIALTY. Caß Fnrmsti tie Most Humtilc Coin as Well as the Most Elegant Mel. JOB WORK PROMPTLY EXBCUTIO. „ . 016 Shop ou East Main Street, Cartersville, Georgia. 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.” ♦ • 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. - t ——- 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.