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\’OL. XV—NO.
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DAHLONEGA, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18. 1901
One Dollar Fer Annum
W. B, TOWNSEND, Editor and Proprietor
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Largest, Best k Cheapest Stock
Ever Brought Here.
Abundance of Dry (roods and Groceries.
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DAHLONEGA
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The Editor,
Getting Brightness Into Our
Liyes.
An Editor strolled through a grave* '
yard gray,
Hince lie had nothing better to do
that day;
I'or the Sherill he took from the edi
tor poop
His whole blamed office the day be*
fore,
And so the Scribe through the grave*
yard took
His weary way, when he chanced to
look
Ha a tombstone high and broad and
white—
A positive hurting to the sight!
ie drew close up and read the name
andsomely chiseled on the same,
The Editor gave his beard a twist
- nd said, “I think lie’s on my list,”
>0 suiting the aetion’to the“vvord
0 hia memorandum straight re
ferred.
Hut d row led, “1 knew it—why, look
ye here,
I He owes, by gum, for seven years !”
- 11( 1 then he said some things in
Dutch,
I * il ' f it isn’t recorded that lie boo-
hooed much.
—Lawson A. Fmr.ns.
Selfishness is darkness. It shuts
us up iu the tight little box of our
own lives. Uuselfiness gives us a
wide circle of interest and delight.
What we do for others hasys much
to do with our happiness as what
we get for ourselves, .lust think
how many joys a man may have
who is not confined to his own
reasons for rejoicing! (Remember
how Jeanic Deans blessed the good
lady who helped her, saying:
“ When the hour of trouble comes
—and seldom may it visit your
loddyship—and when the day of
death comes, that comes to high
and low—long and late may it he
yours, O my leddy! then it is not
what we havo done for ourselves,
but what we have done for others,
ihit we think of most pleasantly.”
And this truth is for all hours,
though it he most clearly mani
fested in the hour of extremity.
Doing the most for others is doing
06 of the principal elements of i the best for ourselves. If you
l V to life and property iu our j have never made another life
pciety jg iho indolence and the : bright, you know not how much
Jusequent stupidity of many of J brightness can come into your
r d disposed. There are ma- j own. It is no wonder Paul and
0l *s persona who are harmless ' Silas rejoiced at midnight, with
FD Jccause they are afflicted with i their feet in stocks, and praised
J S'Tmuf laziness.—Philadelphia God, for tbev had been doing good
■ d all day.—Ex.
Railroad and Farmers.
No two occupations ought to be
more in accord than agriculture
and railroad transportation. The
first is the basis of all durable
prosperity, because it feeds and
clothes mankind. Railroads are
the arteries of commerce and the
handmaidens of agriculture. No
two agencies of human activity
lire more closely Related than those
of production and transportation.
They are members of the same in
dustrial body, and bear the same
relation to each other that the
stomach does to the limb^ that
the water does to the ship, that
the soil does to vegetation, and
that the light of the moon and
stars does to the beauty and
brightness of the night. Rail
roads havo advanced agriculture
more rapidly than all other agen
cies combined, They have multi
plied production almost beyond
calculation. Wherever they have
been built they have dethroned
famine and installed plenteous?
ness. They are the greatest fac
tors of human progress and civili
zation, and through their instru
mentality and efficiency they have
added more to the wealth of the
world, to the comfort of mankind
and to the sum of human enjoy
ment during the past half-century
than has been done through all
the previous ages.
In the United States there are
more than 1,000,000 square miles
that have been made habitable by
the construction of railway lines.
There are 2,000,000 persons that
have found employment in agri
culture in the wild and treeless
plains of the United States.
Throughout this whole prairie
region there were less than 42,000
farms on ranches in 1850. These
have been increased to more than
1,000,000. The farms in 1850
were confined to the watercourses
and to the ocean shores. Now
they occupy all the level or roll
ing territory of this vast region.
In 1853 there was not a single
farm in cultivation in the terri*
tory now embraced in North and
South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas,
Oklahoma, Arizona, Montana,
Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho gnd
Washington, and but J5T in Min
nesota and 878 in the whole of
California. By the aid of raiL-
roads much of this region has been
converted into the most produc
tive grain-growing territory in the
world, and at the present time the
United States is the largest grain
and meat producer in the world,
ns well as the largest exporter of
these products.
Railroads have a double reason
for fostering all kinds of indus
tries along their lines, and es
pecially are they interested in fos
tering agriculture, because agri
culture give freight, passenger
traffiic and induces immigration.
Agriculture has more to gain
from their successful management
than any industry. It should he
the ardent and compelling desire
of all railroad companies to hoi Id
| up and establish on a linn l'oiin-
| dation every branch of husbandry
1 that can be made profitable to the
tillers of the soil. So intense is
the intererst in this direction man
ifested by some of the best rail
roads that monthly crop reports
are sent to their general offices
I and intelligent men are paid to
; do this work in an intelligent
, manner.
And this is not all. Many of
the best-equipped railroads now
1 have established along their lines
, model farms, where they teach
J how to produce the staple crops in
! the beet manner and at the least
I cost. The Great Northern Rail-
! way, under the management of
that greatest, of railway managers,
J. ,). Hill, observing that the cat
tle produced along tho lino were
not up to the standard demand by
the best eattle markets, bought
and distributed 400 high-bred
bulls, and the result is that the
cattle now in the territory tra
versed l>v this line rate higher than
the cattle produced in any other
part of the Northwest. Mr. Hill
also adopted the policy of foster
ing not only agriculture, but all
manufacturing interest along the
line of the Great Northern Rail
road. He hauled lumber at nomi
nal prices to build towns. Ho
gave the people living on his own
line the lowest freight rates and
charged persons living on compet
ing lines less than those living on
his own line. The result is mani
fest. The Great Northern Hail-
road lias built over (500 flourishing
towns along its lines. Agricul
ture everywhere is prospering, and
the production of wheat and lum
ber and stock surpasses probably
that on any railroad in tho West.
The history of the success of this
road shows how intimately con
nected are the relations between
agriculture and transportation.
The same may be witnessed
along the line of the Illinois Cent
ral Railroad in Mississippi. Twen
ty years ago the Yazoo bottoms
were almost uninhabited. The
gloom of the forests and the rank
ness of the land repelled at set
tlers, notwithstanding the soil was
of unsurpassed fertility, but under
the wise management of that sys- ^
tern the Yazoo valley has become
the greatest producing region OJ1
the line of that road in the South.
Lands have increased in value
from 81 per acre to $20, 810 per
acre, and the railroad, as well as
the planters, arc reaping the bene
fits from the liberality and good,
hard common sense displayed by
the 'managers of the system.
What was unfruitful lias been
changed into joyous fecundity;
what was a gloomy wilderness lias
been converted intosmiling farms-;
the hideousness in .the landscape
has been turned into blooming at
tractiveness.
The condition of the region in f
West Tennessee around Humboldt,,
Gadsden, Milan and other places
on the Loudisville & Nashville
Railroad and Illinois Central
Railroad have been turned during
the past 20 years into one of the
most fruitful m the South. Ber
ries, fruits and vegetables are
grown in great abundance, and
though the encouragement of the
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W. P. PRICE, Jr.
Dealer in
FAMILY
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General Merchandise.
around Norfolk, Va., and the
fruit-growing region of Florida
and the peach and watermelon
districts of Georgia have been
built up by the co-operation
railroads and satisfactory freights j of the transportation companies
they now reach distant markets. I with the growers of fruits and
Before these low freights were | vegetables.
given, though the lands were fer - j
tile, the people were poor. A few j
dollars were received annually i
from the cotton crop; a few hogs
were driven to maijcet; a little
corn was sold each year for about
20 cents per bushel, and though
the country had great possibilities,
they were not revealed until these
railroads came to its relief. There
are now 8100 in circulation in the
fruit-growing region of West Ten
nessee whore there were 85 lire- j
However well the railroads may
do and however liberal may be
their policy., there will always he
grumblers in every condition of
life. The farmers grumble, the
railroads g r u m b J. e, laborers
grumble, professional men grum
ble, but" observation and experi
ence show that the railroad man
agers are in the main as justly
free from criticism for non-per
formance of duty as any other
class. They make free contribii-
vious to 1870. Farms have in- j tions to almost everything, not
creased many fold in price, the i even excepting churches, schools
comforts and pleasures of the j and the demands of every public
farming community have been ! gathering by giving reduced rates,
multiplied, and the beauty and j Their managers are, for the most
attractiveness of the country are ' part, always public-spirited.
manifest to everybody who travels
through. What made this pros
perity possible? Jt is the ability
of the truck-growers to ship their
fruits and vegetables to distant
markets. The Louisville & Nash
ville Railroad has often in one
year shipped over 10,000,000
They can no more afford to break
down and ruin a profitable in
dustry on their lines than a far
mer can afford to cripple his
horse. To increase their carrying
capacity is the principal aim of
all wise managers of railroads.
To destroy the prosperity of the
the manufacturers,
pounds of fruits and vegetables farmers, the manufacturers, the
from West Tennessee to points J miners or any other clasps by ex-
outside of the State. The country j tortionato freights, whose.business
increases the quantity of freight
or the number of passengers car
ried, is like tearing down the
edifice of their own prosperity.
The main problem that ail ways
cojifronts tho good railroad m^m-
age.r is how best to build up the
prosperity .of the country through
which its lines pass, and at the
same time to keep the equipment
up to a high standard and pay
reasonable dividend to the stpok*
holders. If such ,a manager dis
charges his duty to his company
he must give adl possible oncour-
agement to the building up pf new
industries. He must stimulate
enterprise and development. Ho
must hold out inducements to im
migration. Neither of these
things can he done if extortionate
freight rates and passenger charges
are made. Such a course in tins
management of any railroad
would be suicidal, and no stock
holders in any railroad company
would sustain* board of directors
that should be governed by such a
narrow policy. It is a most, for
tunate thing for the farmers, stock
breeders, planters and truck-grow?
ers that freights are being reduced
all oyer the United States. This
reduction comes as the carrying
capacity of the roads is increased
by using larger cars ajjd heavier
engines. The rates on ordinary
freight now jaru not half as great
as they were 25 years ago. In this
gradual reduction the farmers
come iu for their full share of the
benefit?