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THE NEWS. G .i vy, Jones County, Meh.7, ’93. I’i'bi.ishkd Every Thursday. Subscription Prick, $1. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS. It may not be money in your pockets right now to l ave good schools and to send your children to them, but it will be money in your childrens' pockets bye and hvo. This is worth remembering. Congress has adjourned. As it would not do anything to relieve the financial situation, the best thing it could do was to go home. Not only did it do nothing to¬ ward this end hut it actually stood in the way of relief. The men who forgot their duty to the public because they were not re¬ elected presented a sorry specta¬ cle, and it iH to he hoped that they will never again be permit¬ ted to bob up in public life. Mr. Livingston lias brought himself into unpleasant notoriety through his salary grab. Does anyone imagine that ex-Congress- lmm Blount would have put his hand into the public treasury to takeout a month’s extry pay for which he had done no extra work, and to which lie was not at all en¬ titled, or that Congressman-elect Bartlett would do so? Living¬ ston, however, was always in pol¬ ities for the money there was in it. WEATHER PROPHETS. Hicks said that February 22 would lie the severest day of the winter, but February 22 was a very pleasant day. Some clouds hovered overhead, and toward night there was a light rainfall, hut we have had plenty of wo no days this winter. A spell of beau¬ tiful weather set in February 215. Many people pin their faith to Hicks as a weather prophet. They say he hits oil’ the Meatier with remarkable accuracy. Perhaps lie di.es make some very good gues- KOS, It is safe to say that we Mill have snow someuhere in the neigh¬ borhood of Christmas; that va¬ rious and sundry kinds of bad weather Mill strike us botween January and March; that the worst weather of the winter M ill occur in February; that a cold spell M ill come in March, ami per¬ haps as late ns April; that one week in July will he nearly chilly enough for overcoats, and that there will be a warm week in No¬ vember or December. These things occur each year, and the man who keeps a record of them could be¬ come as good a weather prophet as Ilicks. The News has before it Mr. Hick’s almanac for 1895. In this almanac Mr. Hicks makes weath¬ er forecasts covering every month in this year. We may be flying in tlie face of people who think wo are committing a sort of sacri¬ lege, but wo assert that neither Mr. Ilicks nor any other man can predict with any accuracy what the weather will he more than three days ahead, unless, as we have intimated, he is governed merely by ivhat has happened in tho past in regard to the weather. We presume the weather bureau at Washington is as well prepared as auv other agency to give weath¬ er forecasts. It has every mod¬ ern appliance of science to help it ; the employees are paid to do nothing but study the weather; and yet tho bureau does not at¬ tempt to make forecasts more than two or throe days ahead, and even then it frequently makes mistakes. This being true, how is it possible for Mr. Hicks or any¬ body else to tell us what the weather will be a year hence, ex- cept on general weather princi- pies? The News dislikes to Mr. Hick’s weather reputation in tins style, but it has to . be . done; , ; and the fact that Mr. Hicks is a preacher . makes , h.s , • imposition • ... on ! the people the more culpable. j A SOU1) CITY. The editor of Thk Nkws was pleased to observe, while on a brief visit to that city recently, that Macon was prospering and growing. There is no boom ; there is on the other hand more or less depression in business circles from the effects of the money panic, but the city continues to grow and business generally is in a very good condition. There never was anything like a mushroom growth or an inflated business activity about Macon—her growth is nat¬ ural and steady, and her business is conducted on safe principles. As a wholesale market, Macon oc¬ cupies high ground. Her whole¬ sale houses seem to have the ad¬ vantage of others in Georgia. We do not know why this is true un¬ less it is because they are safe, re¬ liable, enterprising and satisfac¬ tory in a business sense to a great¬ er extent than others, but we do know that Macon’s wholesale bus¬ iness is remarkably large, and that it is increasing all the while. Wo rather like the conservatism of Macon. There is no great hur¬ rah when well known people stop there—the fact is that the editor of Thk Nkws received no public demonstration whatever, and we are informed that neither did Mrs. Grant or John L. Sullevan; but the citizens of Macon are al¬ ways courteous, kind and consid¬ erate in their demeanor to and treatment of visitors. In the re¬ tail stores one is not pul led about and argued with and confused over the purchase of goods, but is per¬ mitted to announce quietly what he wants, and then he receives, as before, unostentatious, gentle- manlyand business-like attention, and the goods that he is asked to select from are such ns may be relied upon for quality and dura¬ bility. He knows what he is get¬ ting, and he pays for it what it is worth—no more, but perhaps somet imos less. There is no shod¬ dy. The merchants of Macon do not run to seedy, second hand stuff, palmed off on the public as A. No. 1, and found out after¬ ward to be a very bad bargain at any price. It is largely this reli¬ ability on t he part of Macon mer¬ chants that has won and that re¬ tains the trade and confidence of the surrounding country. The people of Jones are among Ma¬ con’s best patrons. It is natural that this should bo so, when we consider that nearly every corner of the county is within easy reach of that city. Our people have long traded in Macon to a large extent, and they consider them¬ selves fortunate in having near at home so excellent a city market; and we may remark in this con¬ nection that in Thk News tie* business men of Macon now have a safe land pretty thorough me¬ dium through which to reach the people of Jones—one that they should use extensively. Jones county feels a sortofpro- prietory interest in Macon. It is proud of her growth,achievements and solidity, and it is in a measure responsible for them, since there are many people in Macon who went there from Jones, and who have helped to make Macon what she is. The Blounts, Johnsons, llardemans, Etheridges, Barrons, Julians, Bonners, Griswolds, Christ inns, Kingmans, Manns, Finnevs, Williams and others are originally Jones county people, and we think that Macon will ad¬ mit {that they are citizens worth having. The fact is that Macon is a Jones county city in a limi- ted sense, and this fact warrants gratification on both sides. May Moeop continue to grow and prosper. BRIGHT REMARKS. Hartfort Times: It seems to us that public interest was never moro flagrantly disregarded than at the present time, in branches of Congress. New York Evening Telegram: j The combination of f Reid -j and Ulatt makes a tine tom-tom, and it can be used for the purpose of drumming all tho Republican ras- cals into line in 189(5. Boston Traveler: Clearlv— except for the intervention of b imething which nobody now foresees—the party which will carry the country in 1890 will be a party with well-defined, clear- cut, practical theories of money. No party divided, as are both the leading parties now, can hope for success. Philadelphia Enquirer: Cuba is reported to be once more thrilling with a desire for freedom. Her thrills are, however, so fine-spun and attenuated that the world finds it difficult to sympathize with her. Jt is when a Cuban has a prospect of a long rent be¬ fore him that ho thrills to the full capacity of his nature. New York World: The assign¬ ment just made by one of the lar¬ gest sugar-planters in Louisiana is ascribed to his “failure to re¬ ceive bounty.” In that case his assignment is the best thing pos¬ sible under the circumstances. There is no room in this country for any ^business which cannot live except as a parasite on the public Treasury. Savannah News: Congress is resbonsihle for the low price at which the bonds were sold, If it had given the Secretary of the Treasury authority to issue gold bonds, the credit of the nation would have been a vast saving to the people in the matter of inter¬ est money. But Congress declined to give the authority, and at the same time it notified the Presi¬ dent that he must maintain the gold payments. It put him in a hole and then told him to get out of it the best way he could. Jt would give him no assistance, and when he got out his political one- mies and some of those who pre¬ tend to he his political friends searched their vocabularies for the bitterest words they could find with which to condemn him for the means he adopted to get out. Cougregationalist: From all accounts the Emperor of Ger¬ many is giving the world an ob¬ ject lesson of the troubles which befall a man whose opinion of his own importance is held in check neither by a perception of the true proportion of things nor by a keen sense of humor. The imperial poet and composer who expects his critics to admire his work un- der penalty of the royal displeas¬ ure, the head of the state who suf¬ fers men to be threatened with arrest for treason because they do not rise and cheer when his name is mentioned, the ruler by divine right who turns aside prises and rewards from those who merit them to give them to his friends ought to he aware that tho world is laughing at him. Performan- ces of this kind make a man ri¬ diculous, whether he is king or a schoolmaster. HADDOCK High School HADDOCK STA., GA. Prepares boys and girls for any of the college classes. Book-keep¬ ing and penmanship a specialty. A practical education given at the lowest rates. Large and commo¬ dious building, with latest im¬ proved appliances. RATES OF TUITION AND BOARD: Tuition each department $2.00 per month. Board per month from $(5,00 to $ 10 , 00 . Music per month $2,50. For further information, apply E. L. Ray, Prim, or R. H. Bonner, Pres, of B. of T. APPLICATION FOR LEAVE TO SELL. Ordinary’s Office Jones County, Ga. March 2, 1895. Whereas Dr. T. A. White, as administrator of estate of Dr. Ben L. Holland, dec’d., applies for leave to sell all the real estate said deceased. Unless some legal oau8e lie shown to the contrary, an order will be granted by this court on the first Monday in official- April next. Witness my hand ly. Ji. T. Ross, Ordinary. FOR THE CAUSE OF TEMPER- ANCE. Whiskey! Ah that horrid curse! Is there just another worse? Think of the lives The monster drives Into the very jaws of hell. Yes millions, more than tongue can tell. ^ Even Chinese opium Is not worse than our rum. Both rack the brain And make insane So a any of our noblest men, Who’ll turn their home to a drunkard’s den. As to the one, we understand That China is a heathen land, Mid heathen night They have no light To show the horrors of their sin, But our Gospel shines on gin. Can one woman idlest nd? Can one sit with folded hand While she should see That only we Must buckle on our armour strong And tight against the whiskey throng? Our number’s small compared with theirs, But with our weapons—faith and prayers, And by God’s might, We’ll put to tliglit The wicked host. And then will come A blessedness to till our home. You can help your sons, Oh, mothers! Sisters, you can help your broth¬ Can end the woes By joining those Who form the W. C. T. U. And to the temperance cause be¬ ing true. Join the Union, oh you wives! See that the cause of Temperance thrives. Help stop the sale Of wine and ale And make America to know That barrooms, grogshops—all must go. A Member of the Haddock Station W. C. T. U. Macon and Northern R. R. Co. Time Tatole No IL TAKING EFFECT At 8.00 a.m.Sunday,Feb’y. 10, ’95 402 j STATIONS. | 408 Daily Lv. Daily A.M. Ar. p.m 8~80 Macon 7 (0 8 154 Ocmulgee St (5 5(5 8 40 M. D. & S. June. (5 50 8 48 Chalk Cut (5 41 8 515 Van Buren (5 87 9 13 Morton (5 18 9 17 Grays (5 13 9 27 Bradley (5 03 9 154 Wayside 5 55 9 42 Round Oak 5 47 9 5(5 Hillsboro 5 82 10 18 Minneta 5 10 10 25 Montieello 5 02 10 45 Machen 4 42 10 48 Shady Dale 4 39 11 Ofi Godfrey 4 17 11 85 Madison 8 53 12 00 Florence 8 87 12 19 Farmington 3 10 12 27 Bishop 8 03 12 8(5 Watkinsville 2 54 12 42 Sidney 2 47 12 50 Whitehall 2 40 1 00 Athens 2 80 1 10 pm G.C. & N.Depot 2 20 pm Ar. Lv. 7 00 a.m Portsmouth 11 45 p.m 10 45 a.m Washington 8 80 p.m 4 58 a.m New York 3 20 p.m Connection Mith Ga. R. R. at Madison, M ith South Western and main stem divisions of C. of Ga., also with G. S. &. F. and E. T. V. & Ga. for all Florida points. H. Burns, A. Shaw, T. P. & Frt. Agt. Traffic Mgr. t FARMERS ! • T « I pA RIWI F P Q I | i Send for a sample corv of THE ATLANTA i WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. SPECIAL PRIZE OFFER FOR 1895.4 Every (armor Is invite.! to enter the K rea. f t ¥ A prize crop contest for acre crons of Cotton. ( . Corn, Tobacco, Watermelons. Turnips. f I $100 4)1 UU.UU 00 CASH bnvlf ' Bunks n ° r prepare! j | : f 4 for crop rerort furnishcl free on application, ( i No entry fee require!. The offer is male in f i the interest of raising home supplies as well and f 1 .is to illustrate the agricultural resources j I r subscr!'be'rs subscribers. C * New^ubscrlbers New subscribers ve° the ] I benefit of any clubbing offers or contests 4 now running. Send in your own name and } six of your neighbors for full particulars. L THE CONSTITUTION, ! Atlanta, Ga. BEATS CHEAP COTTON Atlanta , S Commission _ . . 1 __. TaCie CL* fers Some Suggestions. IT IS SUPPLIED BY OTKEB STATES. jifew York, Virginia, Ohio and Other 8t%t«* F.ui a Market Here—Georet* Might Weil Supply It—Some Figurei Shewing the Advantage it Would lie to the Farmer. .0 Ital.e G .r J. u Fro loot.. "My firm animal ” said Mr. O. L. Stamps, “does u an “ business m produce of bulk of , it . , is shippo .. . — $35,000. The . from out of the state. Louisiana, Ala- bama, Tennessee, Virginia, Ohio, Mich- ' igau, T Indiana and New Vnvk \oik find find a * splendid market among the commission men of the city. These states sell us with a p-oflt me produce of their soil. New York ships to Atlanta thousands of barrels of Iris potatoes, and receives a good price for them. Tennessee also ships us large quantitles ... of , potatoes. * * Cabbage comes to us 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 largo quantities of cabbage to us. Nearly all of our butter comes from east Tenues- 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 got from New York, in the main. Georgia pretty well sup- plies the market with sweet potatoes.” "Lint & Lovelace,” said Mr. Doolit- tie, their bookkeeper, “have a largo trade in the various articles of country have mentioned. The amount, of course, varies during year, according to the season. I have been figuring lor two days on the bnsi- ness of about a year aud a half, and have here the figures of an average month’s business. More than 75 per cent of the produce comes from other states than Georgia. Nearly all of the butter and eggs we handle come from cad Tennessee. I calculate that in a month we handle $480 worth of chick¬ ens aud $600 worth of butter. Irish po¬ tatoes are shipped to us from the north and east and we send away monthly at least $900 for that one item. We han¬ dle but little butter, but most of it comes from Tennessee. I should say $80 a month would be a good average. On¬ ious are an important item in our trade, and they are shipped to us from New York almost entirely. We handle $1,- 200 worth in a month. The money for thern goes to the east. The sweet pota- toes we handle wouldn't exceed $100 in a month.” Mr. T. A. Murray, of the Southorn Produco 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. Yir- giuia and New Orleans held the cab- bage market, and east Tennessee had a corner on butter, except what was sold by the north Georgia farmer*. “Warsaw, Tenn.,” said Mr. E. B. ! Stanley, one of the city’s best known commission men, “furnishes many At- j lauta merchants with butter and eggs' and chickens. This is a thriving town, to judge from its daily shipments to the commi-isiou 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 aud from the mountain counties of Georgia. Yei, 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.” is told by Practically the same story Of all of the commission moil, course the aggregate amount of their monthly gales differ iu amount, but their sales represent the same percentage of de- mand for tho products mentioned. They are articles found upon every table. The demand for them, of course, comes from tho people through the retail grocery men, whom the wholesale commission men supply. Those representative firms quoted give some idea of the volume of business done by the commission trade of the city. As can bo 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 can produce abun- dantly and successfully. It is a spleu- 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- _ gpa could not furnish the commission market of Atlanta with the articles *P°, } , n °“ . “° reason ,, sald ., h , ex cept that the farmers ’ are rootedand, ; grounded Save m the cotton idea. They had it so long that they can t get rid of it. It s an old tradition. Why, ra f 8 these articles that we have been talk- u s’."™" sfs. than pound. price o cents a onions. “To illustrate: I know a farmer who lives less than 20 miles from Atlanta who determined to plant an acre in on- j ions instead of in cotton. The result ! t^CMlinV^ion ^ , the commission men men here know Know to he be true that he sold in one year $g 00 worth , * he la J?° r of estivation was lesl The cost of getting the sots was probably a little vL. greater than the COSt of COttOa seed, , but loot. look at a . th the „ result. Tf It is a , gOOu acre Of land that Will produce a| ^ °l C0 ** 0n ’ lt * the exception. A bato of cotton im . i worth more than $30. This man with the very best re- suits m cotton would have received $470 less profit on his one acre if he had put it in cotton. The onions can be plant¬ ed close together in rows, and the rows may be pat clow together. But that's ju,t uuo itom. Cr.blago could be rais¬ ed here, lev. There's no better country than Georgia for Irish notafooe, ami the Luge pile of money that goes out 0 f t| le g t at e every year for Irish pota¬ toes could be saved it’ the farmers would plant potatoos for the market. CITTTEU MAKING. “East Tennessee hi s every advant¬ age over Georgia as a butter producing country b cause of the attention and care butter. they give to the preparation of If Re get a consignment of Georgia butter, it is made up of a dozen Co ors of butter—some white, some paie JtllOW, Some deep yellow. A TeuncS- see 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 ox press toll and the cost of canning would amount to about 2 cents a &iGeorgia pound.” ^ j F Pe tty believes as R prodncinR 8tate> aud gayg it could supply the market here if the farmers vnuld only turn their energy and at- **“5"“ nnclc/ . gaid he> .. who Jives just over the line of Fulton, In Cobb county. Last year he planted a quarter of an acre of ordiuary farm land in onions. I bought from him my- gylf ^ worth of onious .. “This merely illustrates what the Georgia farmers can do in this direc- tiou.’’ “There is hardly an article sold by the commission men of the city,” said one of the best known commission men in Atlaifta, “that the Georgia farmer i 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 cau do as well.” Irish potatoes. “As fine Irish potatoes as can be grown any where can be grown in Geor- gia soil. Magnificaut cabbage can be grown here, and you would little think it, but celery, as good as we get from Miciiigan, can be produced iu Georgia.^ All it requires is plenty of water. Georgia truck farmers could produce irPM- profitably. onions “The butter, chickens, eggs, and other articles for which thousands of dollars go out of Atlanta to other states every week, should bo 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 run the northern and eastern farmers out of the Atlanta market an 1 get some of the benefit of it myself. There are not only some 30 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 aud east and sell to the commis- sion men. These brokets get a good profit on all their sales, the commission man gets a good profit, then add to that the cost of shipping aud 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 ai t prosperous truck farms, but they net deal with tho commission men. Tin have their own delivery wagons and sc.l direct to the consumer. In nearly every instance they have thrived. There is ,i progressive farmer, near Moore’s mills, li miles from Atlanta, who, three years ago, gave up the planting of cor¬ ton for track farming and made nier.) in one year from the latter than he did in three from cotton. He now has i paying line o:’ 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 3.—This a very far reaching question, and covers an area which wo 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 authon- tic. The answer to the second clause of your question is that the depth of plow- ing should vary according to the quai- ity of the laud aud the distance of the subsoil from the surfa ce. It is bad po ; • icy to turn up large quantities of clay. and therefore all characters of land cannot be plowed alike; but where tho soil is opened and pulverized to the depth of 10 or 12 inches the crop stands 10 chances to one against inju; ' from drought. We have in mind i piece of very ordinary land in which our own county, the breaking of was done last spring with a one horse pic followed by 4 a subsoiler. It was i anr6d hea ^ and the ield was - bnshelg ou ot lalld . Where-, we see the twisted, yellow leaves corn daring * a drought! ° the conditio, tlia m, due raore t0 ghallo w p i owing w dry / weat her. The beneficial effect- d r aration are never more pi,in , ^ than of corn a drought. I saw daily during U, t snlnmer a fieId of corn wh ich fully S“ tr *r "ZU™ one and yellow; the first, deeply broken plowed at the outset, the second merely usual on the surface, according to our - r sighted system, SUPPLEMENTAL CROPS. Question 4.—Farmers are artviso'i to BD PP lement their cotton crop witl. t paving crops. Will you mention :• that southern farmers can engage u» or^ps'o/anything “m something with^vhioV;- are unacquainted, but \v”. we We KUOW know snirs 8UllS nnr OUT soil SOU and ana •'* well? Avswfr 4_Wo V»nvp had -CVU) ques tio,is ou this line, and fat . I would refer our correspondents to t commissioner’s regular -talk” tor tin mouth, and also to the facts giv.-n iu another column from ex-Governor Noi then aud several different coxnmi - don merchants of Atlanta.