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SUBSCRIPTION SI.OO A YEAR. Rjesrmon Sf fPcDonafd, EDITORS - AND- PFBLISHERS. FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1895. Entered in the post-office at Jackson. <Ja., as Second-class mail matter, but First-class read ing matter in every respect. Al>\ ERTIBING RATES—LocaI reading no tices 5 cents jx-r line each insertion ; Obituaries sl.ooeach. Full schedule sent on application. REMITTANCES—ShouId lx- made by hank draft, post office money order or registered letter. Postal notes or currency not registered will lx* sent at owner’s risk. Published every Friday in the Year. THANKS. In our last issue we stated that those who had not paid lip their sub script ioti account by this issue of the Akoijs, would be dropped from our hooks. \\ e have given you fair notice by marking in blue pencil as a re minder of your indebtedness, and no one can find fault with us for the ac tion we now take. If you receive no paper this week you may know the cause. To those who have so kindly come forward and paid their accounts, we extend our most hearty thanks, and will use our best endeavors to merit their appreciation of our efforts in giving them a live, newsy, up-to date paper in every sense of the word. We have been very lenient, in fact, too much so, with our delinquent sub scribers, and as they have shown no disposition to settle arrearages, neces sity demands that we drop from our mailing list tlio.se who have been so negligent as to pay no attent ion what ever to our earnest appeals for a set tlement of their accounts. Mr. B. W. Wrenn, Passenger Traffic Manager for the Plant system, is dis tributing in Cuba, through his agents, a Spanish edition of 10,000 copies of the prospectus of t lie Cotton States and International Exposition. He writes that a special ship will sail for Jamaica about the last of March. NEGRO CHARITY. During the late cold spell the peo ple of Atlanta donated five thousand dollars to the poor of that city. The negroes got four thousand five hund red dollars of that sum. There are many wealthy negroes in the Gate City and they gave the pitiful sum of three dollars and fifty centsof the five thousand dollars, or the four thousand live hundred dollars which their race got. Negroes are a charitable(?) peo ple, and would doubtless do well in Africa, where the butter tree and bread are both spontaneous produc tions. THE NEW COURT HOUSE. It is the advocation of the Jackson Argus that rebuild a now court house. Its plea is for this step, that the old one needs repairs and besides Is inadequate as a court house for Butts county. If what the Argus says about the matter is true, we perhaps need anew building, but this is our emphatic statement: “Build no court house.” The old one is as good as we can afford at present. We can not have things as we want them these days, and for us to talk of building a court house when hundreds of peo ple in the county are without a cent of money, is something that should not for a moment be considered. The building of good dwellings should re ceive the attention of a people before the erec tion of houses for the holding of courts. Today one is painfully struck by the dilapidated ap pearance of farmers’ homes. Very seldom do we see any appearance of progress in the country, and a gloom seems to hang over the entire land. Several years ago we could see new buildings being erected in great numbers and we were then constrained to say, “The New South. But now all this is stopped—the building of dwellings is stopped, we say—and therefore let the building of court houses stop also. If our old one needs repairs, let it be re paired, but no more. And we wish to utter the wailing cry of this broad land, stop so much taxation—Flovilla Headlight. By the above it will be seen that through the colums of the Argus the Flovilla ‘‘Footlight” has at last found out that Butts county is agitating the erection of anew court house, and it proceeds to wail and gnash its teeth to a froth in frantic appeals to upset the project. Now there is hardly any probability of our building anew court house, at least for the present, but if there was, its completion would certainly be assured by the frantic efforts of the “Footlights ’ to prevent it. Here’s the consistency of its edi tor : He goes on to state that times are too hard for Butts county, which now has SIO,OOO in the bank, and an annual income of about $3,000, to build a $15,000 court house; but in his same issue he calls upon the “poor, hungry, poverty-stricken farmers,” who he says.are half naked, and haven't a cent on earth, to come for ward and rally round the pole, and let’s build a $50,000 cotton factory out here on my shoals, which is the best place in paradise for such a scheme. Now, if a county with already money enough to build it, cannot erect anew court house, how in the name of crea tion are the “busted” farmers going to fill the “Footliglit’s” shoals full of cotton factories? “Consistency, where is you at?” The graud jury presentments came in too late for publication this week, but will appear in our next issue. CAN’T TELL THE TBI'TH. A preacher came at a newspaper man in this way : “You editors dare not tell the truth. If you did you could not live ; your newspapers would he a failure.” The editor replied: “You are right. And the minister who will at all times and under all circumstances tell the whole truth about the members of his church alive or dead, will not occupy the pulpit more than one Sunday, and then he will find it necessary to leave town in a hurry. The press and the pulpit go hand in hand with the whitewash brushes and pleasant words magnify ing little virtues into big ones. The pulpit, the pen and the grave stone are the great saint-making trium virate.” And the minister went away very thoughtful, while the editor turned to his work, and told about the suprising beauty of the bride, while, in fact, she was as homely as a hedge row. Very few people seem to rightly appreciate the value of the columns of a newspaper. Some people think it nothing more than an editor’s duty to mention favorably every little change in their business—free of course—forgetting the columns of a newspaper are the editor’s stock in trade—just as much so as a mer chant’s bacon, flour, calico and shoes. What would the merchant think if the editor would say, “I would like to have -a few yards of your goods; of course I don’t expect to pay for it, because I patronize your store.” He would think the fellow an impudent fool. Still, there is just as much rea son in it as to expect to utilize the columns of a newspaper to foster your own business interest without pay. And still other good men don’t think it necessary to pay their subscriptions —by no means in advance—hut often wait six, twelve, eighteen and twenty four months, and then very often get ruffled when asked to pay it. Now, we want to submit—how is the editor with no capital going to manage to run a paper without the cash in ad vance. It may be a very small matter to many people, hut it is a moment ous question with the poor editor. We don’t want to lose any subscri bers, hut must insist that they pay in advance if they want our paper. When Washington was President— As cold as an icicle! lie never on the railroad went, And never rode a bicycle. He read by no electric lamp, Nor heard about the Yellowstone, He never licked a postage stamp, And never Saw a telephone. Now in these days it’s come to pass All things art with such dashing done; We’ve all these things—hut then, alas! We seem to have no Washington. —Pike County Journal. That’s what’s the matter, Brother Lee. We have no Washington nor anything else that is of any benefit to the people. Why we know men who pretend to be honest even indorsing stealing and saying a man who will not steal the people’s money when they have a chance is a fool. Great God! what are we coming to? Is it possible that a man can betray a trust reposed in him and not be assassina ted? We must have the referendum and initiative idea in our government. Isaiah T. Montgomery, chief com missioner for the colored exhibit in Mississippi, has added to his list of ssaistants Rev. Samuel Elevins of Monroe county. The fourth or silver party is a little too previous. Wait, gentlemen, until the democratic party declines to adopt a silver plank, and you will have plenty of company. There are now about five hundred men employed on the grounds of the Cotton States and International Ex position. It is expected that most of the buildings will be done by June 1. LETTERS OF DISMISSION. GEORGIA—Butts County. \\ he'reas, J. H. Carmichael, administrator of E. S. Wynn, represents to the court in his peti tion, duly filed and entered on record, that he has fully administered E. S. Wynn’s estate; this is therefore to cite all persons concerned, heirs and creditors, to show cause, if any they can, why said administrator should not be dis charged from his administration and receive letters of dismission, on the first Monday in June next. This the 4th day of March, 1595. J. F. CARMICHAEL, marS-8m Ordinary. MARCH SHERIFF’S SALE. GEO.KGIA —Hu ts County. \\ ill be sold before the court house door in Jackson, said county, on Aral Taesday in March next, within legal sale hours, for cash the following described property, to-wit: Tea acres of land, sit u&ted, lying and being in the 552nd Dis trict G. A/., said county; said ten acres in northwest corner of W. A. White's land, and bounded as follows: On the north by lands ot J. A. Dodson; e,ast and south by lands of W. A White; west J. M. T. Mayo. Levied on as the property of W, A. White, by virtue .'<of two lax fas L sued by the tax collector of jßutts county in favor of said state and county, against W* A. W hit®, tenant in possession, given written notice. Levy made by Zach Hardy L- C., 552nd District, said county, and turned over to me to advert:**. This Feb ruary 7, 1895. J. (). Beauchamp, fbB-4t Sheriff Butts Cos. BEATS CHEAP COTTON Atlanta’s Commission Trade Of fers Some Suggestions. IT IS SUPPLIED BY OTHER STATES. New York, Virginia, Ohio and Other States Find a Market Here—Georgia Might Well Supply It—Some Figure* Showing the Advantage It Would Be to the Farmers to Raise Garden Products. “My firm,” said Mr. O. L. Stamps, “does an annual business in produce of $35 ,000. The bulk of it is shipped to us from out of the state. Louisiana, Ala bama, Tennessee, Virginia, Ohio, Mich igan, Indiana and New York find a splendid market among the commission men of the city. These states sell us with a profit the produce of their soil. New York ships to Atlanta thousands of barrels of Irish potatoes, and receives a good price for them. Tennessee also ships us large quantities of potatoes. Cabbage comes to ns at this season of the year from New Orleans and around Mobile, Ala. Early in the year we get cabbage from Virginia, but the supply there is always exhausted by this time. Later in the spring Florida will ship large quantities of cabbage to us. Nearly all of our butter comes from east Tennes see, as do our chickens and eggs. North Georgia supplies the Atlanta market with a fair per cent of the last two items. Onions we get lrom New York, in the main. Georgia pretty well sup plies the market with sweet potatoes.” “Lint & Lovelace, ” said Mr. Doolit tle, their bookkeeper, “have a large trade in the various articles of country produce you have mentioned. The amount, of course, varies during the year, according to the season. I have been figuring for two days on the busi ness of about a year and a half, and have here the figures of an average month’s business. More than 75 per cent of the produce comes from other stater, than Georgia. Nearly all of the butter and eggs we handle come from east Tennessee. I calculate that in a month we handle S4BO worth of chick ens and S6OO worth of butter. Irish po tatoes are shipped to us from the north and east and we send away monthly at least S9OO for that one item. We han dle but little butter, but most of it comes from Tennessee. I should say SBO a month would be a good average. On ions are an important item in our trade, and they are shipped to us from New York almost entirely. We handle sl,- 200 worth in a month. The money for them goes to the east. The sweet pota toes we handle wouldn’t exceed SIOO in a month.” Mr. T. A. Murray, of the Southern Produce company, said that out of an average week’s business of $350 nearly 90 per cent of the articles sold came from outside the state. North Georgia supplied some butter and eggs. Vir ginia and New Orleans held the cab bage market, and east Tennessee had a corner on butter, except what was sold by the north Georgia farmers. “Warsaw, Tenn.,” said Mr. E. 11. Stanley, one of the city’s best know:a commission men, “furnishes many At lanta merchants with butter and eggs and chickens. This is a thriving town, to judge from its daily shipments to the commission men of Atlanta.” “My firm,” said Mr. Petty, of Petty Brothers, did a business last year of $35,000. Nearly the whole of it was in articles of country produce. We get butter from east Tennessee, from Chi cago and from the mountain counties of Georgia. Yes, the Chicago butter is fairly good if we get it in time. It is creamery butter. We ship Irish pota toes from New York. Cabbage comes from Mobile, Ala., Louisiana and Vir ginia. Onions are shipped to us from Ohio. Georgia supplies us with tur nips and sweet potatoes.” Practically the same story is told by all of the commission men, Of course the aggregate amount of their monthly sales differ in amount, but their sales represent the same percentage of de mand for the products mentioned. They are articles found upon every table. The demand for them, of course, comes from the people through the retail grocery men, whom the wholesale commission men supply. These representative firms quoted give some idea of the volume of business done by the commission trade of the city. As can be seen, thousands of dollars pass through its channels weekly. The bulk of the money goes out of the state. If there is any practical suggestion in this commercial side light it is this, that here a fine opportunity is offered to the productive class of Georgians. Here is a ready, anxious, profitable market for articles of produce that ev ery Georgia farm cau produce abun dantly and successfully. It is a splen did field right at the doors of Georgia farmers, and in this era of 5-cent and 4- cent cotton it is especially enticing. cotton. I asked Mr. O. L. Stamps why Geor gia conld not furnish the commission market of Atlanta with the articles spoken of. “I know of no reason,” said he, “ex oept that the farmers are rooted and grounded in the cotton idea. They have had it so long that they can’t get rid of it. It’s an old tradition. Why, there’s much more money in raising these articles that we have been talk ing of, for which a ready market can be found all the year round than in raising cotton at even a better price than 5 cents a pound. ONIONS. “To illustrate: I know a farmer who lives less than 20 miles from Atlanta who determined to plant an acre in on ions instead of in cotton. The result amazed him. It is a fact that many of the commission men here know to be true that he sold in one year SSOO worth of onions off that acre. If anything, the labor of cultivation was less. The cost of getting the sets was probably a little greater than the cost of cotton seed, but look at the result. It is a good acre of land that will produce a bale of cotton. It is the exception. A bale of cotton isn’t worth more than SBO. This man with the very best re sults in cotton would have received $470 lpss profit on his one acre if he had put it in cotton. The onions can be plant- Id close together in rows, and the rows SCIATICA CURED. Wm. Priee, Luttsville. Mo., writes: “I was afflicted with Sciatic Rheumatism, and had lost the use of one arm and one leg for nine years. I went to Hot Springs, and also tried different doctors, but found no cure until I tried Botanic Blood Balm. It made me sound and well. lam well known in this commu nity.” See advertisement elsewhere. Thompson Bros, sell 27 pounds N. 0. Brown Sugar for sl, and 25 pounds White Sugar for sl. may be put close together. But that’s just one item. Cabbage could be rais ed here, too. There’s no better country than Georgia for Irish potatoes, and the huge pile of money that goes out of the state every year for Irish pota toes could be saved if the farmers would plant potatoes for the market. BUTTER MAKING. “East Tennessee has every advant age over Gt u-gia as a butter producing country because of the attention and care they give to the preparation of butter. If we get a consignment of Georgia butter, it is made up of a dozen colors of butter—-some white, some pale yellow, some deep yellow. A Tenues tee shipment of butter is one color, and for the reason that the Tennessee man has a process of melting it all together. What is the cost of shipping butter from Tennessee ? “Well, it comes by express, and I should say that the ex press toll and the cost of canning would amount to about 2 cents a pound.” Mr. J. F. Petty believes in Georgia as a producing state, and says it could supply the market here if the farmers would only turn their energy and at tention to it. “I have an uuole,” said he, “who lives just over the line of Fulton, in Cobb county. Last year he planted a quarter of an acre of ordinary farm land in onions. I bought from him my self S4B worth of onions.” “This merely illustrates what the Georgia farmers can do in this direc tion. ’’ “There is hardly an article sold by the commission men of tlieoity,” said one of the best known commission men in Atlanta, “that the Georgia farmers could not furnish us. Farmers from other states ship us the articles and make a great profit off of them, and if they can do it, why certainly, in these days of cheap cotton, the farmers of Georgia can do as well. ’ ’ IRISH POTATOES. “As fine Irish potatoes as can be grown anywhere can be grown in Geor gia soil. Magniflcant cabbage can be grown here, and you would little think it, but oelery, as good as we get from Michigan, can be produced in Georgia. All it requires is plenty of water. Our Georgia track farmers could produce it profitably. “The butter, chickens, eggs, onions and other articles for which thousands of dollars go out of Atlanta to other states every week, should be produced right around Atlanta. “Why, if I had a farm, situated con venient to a shipping point, I would not think of putting my land in cotton. I Would runr Ihe northern and eastern farmers ouc of the Atlanta market and get some ot the benefit of it myself. There are not only some 80 or 40 com mission houses in Atlanta which are doing a thriving business, but there are in Atlanta four or five brokers who represent big producers in the west, north and east and sell to the commis sion men. These brokers get a good profit on all their sales, the commission man gets a good profit, then add to that the cost of snipping and the profit to the producer and the article is neces sarily somewhat expensive before it gets to the consumer. There’s profit all along the line. Georgia farmers who are located convenient to a market should adopt this suggestion this year, and instead of pinning their faith to cotton try this. A good, ready and profitable market can be found all the year round.” RAISING FOR MARKET. The Georgia farmers who sell their products to the commission men are very few. The few who do sell their products do not make a business of rais ing for the market, but finding that they have more than is needed for home consumption they dispose of the sur plus. Within a short radius of the city there are a number of thriving and prosperous truck farms, but they never deal with the commission men. They have their own delivery wagons and sell direct to the consume:. In. nearly every instance they have 4 drived. There is a progressive farmer near Moore’s mills, 11 miles from .Atlanta, who, three years ago, gave r p the planting of cot ton for truck farming and made more in one year from the latter than he did in three from cotton. He now has a paying line of customers in the city. ROOTS OF CORN. Question 3. —Please tell me to what depth the roots of corn penetrate, and to what depth should one plow to pro duce the best crops? Answer B.—This a very far reaching question, aiid covers an area which we cannot go over in a paragraph. As to to the first, corn roots have been known to descend to the depth of nine feet. This, of course, was under most favor able conditions, but the fact is authen tic. The answer to the second clause of your question is that the depth of plow ing should vary according to the qual ity of the land and the distance of the subsoil from the surf ace. It is bad pol icy to turn up large quantities of clay, and therefore all characters of land cannot be plowed alike; but where the soil is opened and pulverized to the depth of 10 or 12 inches the crop stands 10 chances to one against injury from drought. We have in mind a piece of very ordinary land in our own county, the breaking of which was done last spring with a one horse plow, followed by a subsoiler. It was ma nured heavily, and the yield was 438 bushels on 10 acres of land. Wherever we see the twisted, yellow leaves of corn during a drought, the condition is due more to shallow plowing than to dry weather. The beneficial effects of deep preparation are never more plain ly marked than on a crop of corn dur ing a drought. I saw daily during the past summer a field of corn which fully illustrated the wisdom of deep plow ing; side by side were the rows, one green and vigorous, the others twisted and yellow; the first, deeply plowed at the outset, the second merely broken on the surface, according to our usual short sighted system. supplemental crops. Question 4.—Farmers are advised to supplement their cotton crop with other paying crops. Will you mention some that southern farmers can engage in profitably? I don’t mean castor beans or hops or anything else with which we are unacquainted, but something that we know suits our soil and will sell well? . Answer 4. —We have had several questions on this line, and for reply would refer our to the commissioner’s regular “talk” for this month, and also to. the facts given in another column from ex-Governor Nor then and several different commission merchants of Atlanta. 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Guns, 25 per cent, below cost. cy—Ty *> K? -^P~ c S } ~ c ir~ c S r K 3 ~ x Ci J ~ x V~ c^ J "'S’ sfe Remember that I will keep a full supply of Fancy Groceries, such as Sweet Potatoes, Irish Potatoes, Turnips, Cabbage, Pigs Feet, Mackerel, Pickles, Sausage, Figs, Dates, Prunes, Lemons, Oranges, Apples, Onions, Candies, Canned Goods, etc. Sweet Potatoes and Turnips Wanted! will Sell Warn h lit Box al tel. I will Sell Drugs and Medicines as Cheap as any House in Jayson. Of course I have a great many goods which I can’t mention in this space, but come and see me Dont listen at what others who are interested in selling their own stuff tell you, but come and see for yourself. You need not buy $lO worth of goods to get a life size picture from me. You cein get these pictures by paying me cost for them. Don’t forget that 1 keep up my Drug business. Paints, Oils and Glass. A big lot of School Books just received. Yours truly, J. W. 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