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The Gospel of Peace. (Continued from Page 1.) pen and the glut of the ‘labor mar* ket is relieved. Instead of labor leaving the country and going to town to find emplopment, the re verso would be true. lake the surplus laborers away roni the cit and manufacturing centers, and wages for that remained would rise —for only a given amount of labor will be used, no matter if there be half a dozvii application for each place. Let five of them loavj and the remaining one can then force his employer to pay him living wages. His better pay enables him to purchase more things to satisfy the wants of himself and family. When he purchases these things the farmer will be the seller, and be benefited in turn. “No one will be wronged and no one w ill suffer, except the one who has lost his privilege of robbing his fellow man. “Thus can conditions be so changed that labor may live in con tentment and peaco, reaping where it sows, and dwelling beneath its own self provided shelter in the full enjoyment of the sweets of in dependence. Brother Gasche, in (he forego ing, tells us how far land reforn will go toward solving the present industrial evils. We all know how injurious to the well beingof the nation is the rule of the trust, is the money trust. Rockefeller makes $3,000,000 in one day on one transaction on wall street. To do so, he mortgage in advance the labor of 3,000,000 men for one day. Three million men must work one dav for nothing that Rockefeller may be the gainer thereby by $3,000,000. And whence is Mr. Rockerfeller’s pow er to do this derived? Through th i ownership of the natural monop oly ; and it is the mission of the People’s party to undermine Mr. Rockerfoller’s power to extortion by distroying his monopoly. Is the game worth the effort? if you believe it is, you will pro ceed at once to organize your forces for the coming great strug gle. On tho outcome of that strug gle depends the future of ihe race. The signs are muliiplying that it will be a struggle to death. The rule of a despotism is as relentless as it is ruthless and unscrupulous, and tho foe we must meet is a des potism of privileged wealth. Nor will the struggle be confined to one section of the country alone. From the four quarters of the earth come the rumblings of discontent. Nearer and nearer tb.ey come, and mingled with the sound is heard the heavy tramp, tramp of the army of the oppress ed on its way to Btorm the citadel of wealth. But many of that army will fa'l before the fire of the enemy ere it reaches its goal, while the rest will march over the bodies of the hire lings of wealth to plant again the banner of liberty on the battle ments of the oppressor. It is ever thus with revolutions; and wealth and privilege were ever blind to logic and rea son. If the greater danger which threatens the peace of the world can be overturned and the struggle made a bloodless cup, the Mercury will hail the change with delight, and its prayer will be: So be it. But there is a limit in the endur ance of great goveumental abuses as there is to the power of oppress ion when pitted against the strength of an outraged peo pie. Let the watchword be Onward; And let it repeat from post to post, untill the cry has circled the earth, and peace—peace for the masses— has once more been declared at Warsaw. The Law of Selfish ness. The greater part of the “cussed ness” in this world of ours has grown up from the fruitfull soil of selfishness. The germ might have been in the heart of the first man, but it has grown to be an eu o rmous tree that casts its shadow into every nook and corner of our lives. Selfishness is the worst sin of the human heart. Every one of the ten commandments is a dart cast at the sin of selfishness, its creed is the “survival erf the fittest” and in its mad race for self-ag grandizement it shrieks to these in the rear, “The devil takes the hind most.” With the tentacles of An octopus it possesses the spirit of the devil and the heart of a miser. It is the parent of our competitive svstem, which distroys more wo men and children than the famous Juggernaut. The law of selfish ness, upon which is founded our competitive system, is all right for the strong but it strangles the weak. In the settlement of all econ omic questions the law of selfish ness, a spirit which has been fos tered during all tne rolling centur ies of the past, is the factoa which pr esents the greatest obstacle to progress. We sometimes think the pro gress toward a higher aud better civilization is slow, but you cau uo more have immediate change than you can at once pro duce 6uch changes iu the human heart. I believe that the world is getting better. The shackles of political and religious superstition which have bound the people to systems that ground out their lives are being rent asunder. We no longer burn witohes, nor people 0 illed “heretics” We have repudiat ed the theory of the divine right of kings. We have shot to death chattel slavery, aud the day is coming when every from of human slavery will be wiped from the face of the earth. The spirit of inde pendence is growing in the hearts of men. False systems, smong an intelligent people, will fall of their owu weight. Popular intelligence means popular liberty, and it is the silver lining on the cloud that now hanges bo darkly over the horizon Mistaken Idea. *' 1 Seme people say Populists want an unlimited amount of paper money and to ridicule the position of Populists ask why collect any taxes, why not issue money year after year to run the gov ernment. Populists never advocated an unlimited issue of money, unless their demand for free coinage of gold and silver may so be construed. The goldbngs might as properly be called advocates of an unlimited amount of money, for they want to coin all the gold that may be mined and they don’t know but the fabled mountain of gold may be discovered. Populists always have favored a limitation of the amount of mouey. They know its value de pends upon its volume. And by the way. no one knows that the value fixes the value better than the contrac tionists —they know that every turn of the contraction screw squeezes more value, and therelore more labor and property into the dollar. About the year 1856. Germany, knowing the in fluence of volume on the value of mon ey, demonetized gold, not because gold money alone was depreciating, but be cause all money. by reason of a great increase in gold production and coinage was depreciating in purchasingpowen- Ih at is to say prices were advancing, and the man with a fixed income, such as the money lender,-saw the purchas ing power of his income decreased day by day, and feared from the wild re ports of the amounts of gold taken from the ground in California, that the pur chasing power of his income as well as of his capital would dwindle to a small fraction of what it had been. No, the Populists do not and never did advocate an unlimited issue of paper money. They favor the increase of the money volume to an amount that will bring that prosperity which the masses so justly deserve, and which has been denied to them by those who know so well the means of regulating the gen eral level of prices. The demand of the Peoples party is that the money volume shall bo speedily increased to not less than fifty dollars per capita Had this demand been granted twenty five years ago it would have been well nigh justice, but now, after twenty-five years of paying anuualiv double the products on interesj, taxes and trans portation charges that justice required, to demand only fifty dollars per capita is practically a relinquishment of a large portion ofthe equitable claim of the people against plutocracy.—Mis sours World. MaII li i .ic u . Question. —We are torui-ng a Hub <> farmers wild a View to lmuiuiaciunia our guanos instead of bunny rcui tue dealers. P.ease give us all mformation you call about the various materials used in the manufacture, where we can buy the same, wnat they ai-e worth and how to mix. Answf.k.—ln reply to your inquiry as to the price of fertilizer materials, eta, will recommend that you refer to brok ers in these goods. Even the largest fertilizer companies find it to their ad vantage to buy from the brokers, who make it their business to keep con stantly informed by wire of all the vari ations of prices of the various materials used iu the manufacture of commercial fertilizers. I recommend that you write A. A. Smith, Temple Court, At lanta, Ga., H M. Tuckw &Cos., Charles ton, S. 0., and J. M. Lang So G*., Sa vannah, Ga. My latest iqquiries show that acid phosphate can be bought iu Charleston, S. C., at $6.00 per ton (2,000 pounds) in large lots, guaranteed per cent of available phosphoric acid. Dry blood is wortfc SI.BO per unit of ammonia, delivered iu Atlanta. Iu other words, if it shows 18 per cent of ammonia, it is worth $38.80 per ton, delivered in Atlanta. Tankage is worth $2 per unit of ammonia, iu Atlanta, and 10 cents per unit of bone phosphate. Murate of potash containing 50 per cent of potash is worth SI.BO per 100 ponnda. Kamit is worth $9.50 per ton, and u is about 12 per cent potash. Both rtie lat ter prices are at Charleston ex vessel. Mr. A. A. Smith is a reliable broker, and can sometimes even sell you cheaper than you can buy in Charleston, freight added. Freight to Atlanta from Charles ton on most fertilizer materials is $2.57 per ton. In buying for home mixture, I would advise that you stipulate the acid phee phate be dry aud screened free from lumps. Also, the kainit yen buy be fresh. Old kainit often turns into hard lumps. I would advise against the purchase of tankage unless it be fine ground, as it would be impossible to pulverize th ordinary sort without special machinery. By following out the direefictM, put ting your materials down in layers, one upon the other in proper proportions, then cutting down with hoes and spades and passing through a screen and then mixing thoroughly again, yon ought not to have much trouble in muking np a good fertilizer. In case you buy and need further in formation, will be glad to supply any 1 cau.—Chemical Department. Growing Irish Potatoes. Question. —Can two good crops of Irish potatoes be grown in a year? If so, how can it be done successfully? Answer. —Take good, sound early po tatoes, cut into single eyes and plant as early as the ground cau be worked in February or early in March. With or dinarily favorable weather, the new crop of tubers will ripen in eight tit ten weeks. As soou as the potatoes are ripe, dig them and allow them to dry a day or two in the shade, then ent t© a single eye as before. Place the pieces in pans or boxes containing dry sand. This takes up the moisture which might check the growth, or destroy the sets. Allow them to remain in the sand for, say 10 or 12 days, or until eyes begin to start, when they are ready to plant as before. I would advise the second planting to be covered or mulched with straw, leaves or pine needles not less than 6 inches deep. The mdlohing should be done after a good season if possible. I have iu the above manner grown very successfully two crops of potatoes yearly. In fact, I regard the second crop the more valuable.—State Agri cultural Department. Convict Inspectors Named. Montgomery, Ala., March I.—Gov ernor Johnston has reappointed the old board of convict inspectors to serve the ensuing two years. It is composed of the following gentlemen: President, S. B. Trapp: Captaiu E. W. Booker and Dr. W. H. Blake. Gainesville, Jefferson & Southern Railroad. SAMUEL C. DUNLAP, Receiver. Time table No. 12, taking effect 5. 50 a. m., Jan. 6, 1899 Mill's LINE NORTH BOUND. Between Social Circle jSOUTH BOUND Read Downward and Gainesvil | e R flad Upwarj First Class. First Class. i tt\ —- 93 9' *5 83181 STATIONS. 82 84 86 92 p 4 . S "£, ' y l“" y ! ' -r e *r sa- only only Sun J Sun Sun] Sun Sun B ifn only 7 $ 2 a m a m p m Lv. Ar. am pm a m r' § HOG 11 00 450 SOCIAL?CIRCLE 915 3 30 S 20 ? 2 11 15 11 20 505 GRESHAM 855 310 905 0 ST. 1130 1140 526 MONROE. 835 2 50 8 50 = g 1145 11 Sn lit CAMPTON 815 2 30 835 jj p 1158 h Join l.- BETHLEHEM 800 215 822 2, 5M n 1456 30 740 130 £ 94 ~ 1230 s 1576 48 MULBERRY 7201 19 p JH 88 - 2177 03 HOfeCHTON 710 55 S' ex- 108 § 2407 23 HICKORY TREK. 645{ 30 ‘ l9 Sun p- jL 640 1 15 255 730 BELLMONT 640 10 25 J 645 KLONDIKE' 635 10 20 J J® * 650 120 740 CANDLER 63010 15 7 1 710 145 . 3808 00 GAINESVILLE. 6109 55 640 1? am Pm P “ pm| A r. Lv. a m am a W 87 9 85 | 83] 81 j jß2j 84 Bft 102 8> No. 82 will run to Social Circle regardless of No, 83. No. 84 will run to Social Circle regardless of No. 81, No. 83 will run to Winder regardless of No. 84. No. 84 will run to Winder regardless of No, 83. No. 92 will run to Social Circle regardles of No. 91. JEFFERSON BRANCH. Time Table No. 12, taking effect 5.50 am., Jan. 6, 1899. NORTH BOUND Between Jefferson and SOUTH BOUND Read Downward Bellmont. Read Upward. First Class. First Class. 89 87 STATIONS. qq Daily Daily Tjaily Lawy except except except ex ept Sun Sun Sun *-un j P. M. AM. Lv! M. A~m7 " 11 35 650 JEFFERSONI 810 11 10 12 00 615 PENVERGRASS 748 10 43 12 25 640 BELLMONT 730 10 25 PM - *A.M. Ar. ___ v.P- M. A. M. 89 I 87 | iBBT9<H •V No. 90 will run to Jefferson regardless of No. 89. Palmer’s Cream Liniment —ls the best Liniment on earth for r '^' Rheumatism, Sprains, Bruises, Cuts, Stings, of Pois* onus Insects, Stiff Joints, Toothach, etc. Cures the pains of Burns immediately and gives in stant relief in Headache. For Sprain?, Swelling 01 the Joints, Saddle or Collar Galls on Homs, m er’s Cream Liniment can not be equaled. It is put up iu 4 ounce bottles, (the ns al 600 size) and retails for 25c. Prepared only by - H. R. PALHER & SONS, (Successors to Palmer & Kinnebrew.) DRUGGIST’S AND FEEDSMEN, 105 CLAYTON ST., ATHENS, GA. ““ - - w This splendid three piere stt'C mahogany finish'frcmep, upholstered in *J De silk figured damask fir sl2 50. Wo carry the largest stock of Furniture, Car pets, Rugs, Mattings, ana Draperies in Atlanta and guarantee lowest prices. P. S. CRUTCHER FURNITURE CO.. 53 and 55 Peachtree 3t.. Atlanta Ga. Worth Wnltlngr For. During a performance at at the Tyne mouth Aquarium, a couple from Old Hartley were among the audience. When half time arrived, an attendant placed on the stage a board inscribed with the word “Interval." ‘‘W’at’s that, Geordie?” asked the wife. Geordie spelled the word. “I-n, in; t-e-r, inter;v-a-l, interval." "But w'at is’t?" "Aa diwent knaa, lass. The foaks is aall gannin oot; bnt we’ll stop to see it!" —San Francisco Wave. Many Fires In Xew Orleans. New Orleans, Feb. 28. — Fires oc curred in 35 of the swell residences of this city. Two buildings were destroyed, and the losses are heavy. The cause of the fires was the crossing of primary and secondary electric light,wires. Remarkable Whist F. H. Johnson, W. W, Beckwith, * A. Weller, Mr. Tracy and Mr. f ai "" were playing whist at Holihan’d inn Derby the other night when.a deal ** made in which each player received full suit of cards. It is said that hands have been reported only tnf times, twice fn London and on# New York.—Hartford Courant. In 1660 the great fire in burned over 436 acres, destroying least $35,000,000 worth of property 1872 the Boston fire burned over acres, at a loss of $1,000,000 ana If the same fire occurred today, would cost, at the very lowest stillia ' w $100,000,000. In 1893 the loss £ acres burned over was overt® 000,000.