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‘THE N35WS
Gray, Jo.ves Co. April 4, ’05
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Subscription Price, $1.
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.
Hotter times are ahead, and
not very far ahead. Paste that in
your hat.
Thk"Nkwa is for Jones county
first., last and all the time. Are
you for The News?
Jones is a good stock county.
It is said tliat the best mules in
Georgia are to be found in Jones.
Atlanta’s latest sensation is a
police hoard row. Put the lot of
them in the lock-up, and give the
people a rest.
Therc'is going t<> boa great ex¬
hibition in Atlanta next fall. Is
Jones county going to make any
so rtjif an exhibit!
The boom for McKinley and
liigh protection is not growing in
G • irgia, notwithstanding the
nursing it. is getting from the At.
1 mta Constitution.
Over in the Tenth district Mi.
Watson wants an early special
election; but Gov. Atkinson says
lie doubts if Thomas can order tl o
election to suit his own interest
exclusively; in fact, the Governor
thinks he will have something to
say in the matter himself, and lie
proposes to order the election at
the most convenient time to all
t he people. Thomas lias*otruck a
Hlllie.
A YANKEE JOB.
Tuk News in very glad to see
that, the Hawaiian government
has,been requested to recall the
gentleman whom it sent us minis¬
ter to this country. That gentle¬
man’s mninjohject at Washing¬
ton seems to have been to promote
annexation of Hamaii to the l oi¬
led States, und in that work he
lias ignored tho officials of our
government, and has consorted
with and aided a lot of Republi-
cans who have no official connec*
(ion with the administration, and
uhose purpose it has been to em-
ha Trass tin administ.ratioii and
secure the annexation of Hawaii.
It cannot bo doubted tliat it ex -
President Harrison had been re-
-elected, and if he had been back¬
ed by a Republican congress, Ha¬
waii would perhaps now be a part
of the United States.
In the report ho made on Ha¬
waiian matters while minister to
tliat country, Hon. James II.
Blount showed conclusively that
his Republican predecessor, Mr.
Stephens, was in a conspiracy
w ith the commander of a United
States warship to overthrow the
Hawaiian government and get
Hawaii annexed to this country;
and it was equally clear that this
conspiracy was known to the Har¬
rison administration. When Mr.
Cleveland became President the
second time, lie effectually cheek¬
ed this movement, and^hns since
noted on the idea that the people
of Hawaii aught to manage their
ow n affairs.
There are some very enterpri¬
sing yankees in Hawaii. They
have purchased large sugar plan¬
tations there; they have managed
(o gain control of the Hawaiian
government, and their next stop
was that of annexation to the
United States, ho as to get the
bounty that this country gave on
sugar. It was purely « mcrcena-
ry movement on their part, and
the question w hether or not we
wanted or needed Hawaii was not
considered. We may add that, it
was ii movement entirely in keep¬
ing with meddlesome and selfish
character of many yankees. A
Democratic congress has since
abolished the sugar bounty, but
these enterprising yankees hope to
got it re-established by a future
Republican congress, and they
hojH- also to bring about annexa¬
tion as soon as we have a Reput r
liean congress and a -
President.
This is about all there is in the
Hawaiian question, so fares it re-
Jatcs to the United States.
THE NEW PARTY.
-
The now political party that is
being organized with unlimited j
an.l unconditional free coinage of
silver as the only plank of its
platform will not amount ^
much, and one reason why it will
not is that it will have only one
plank; another is that that plank
will be unlimited and uncondi-
tional free coinage of silver. ;
No one-idea party can succeed I
in . this country. I he silver .. quos-
tmn may be a very interesting
and in some of its aspects ‘ a very
important one, hut there are oth-
er equally interesting and impor-
and , t . .
taut ones, some iu are \ as -
lymore interesting and important.
Silver is onjy one branch of the
financial question, The main
branch is the tariff. The tariff
ouestion 1 has 1 ‘ for ^ years been the
most important before the Amer-
K-an people, and notwithstanding
it has probably been settled for
several years, it is still the ques-
tion of paramount importance. If,
for instance, Mr. McKinley should
be the next Republican nominee
for president, the tariff would
again be the leading issue, as Mr.
McKinley would no doubt insist
that a system of high protection
should replace the present Demo¬
cratic law. There are other very
important questions that must
come before the people in the next
presidential and congressional
campaigns, and the party that
says in plain terms that it has no
opinions as to anything but sil¬
ver and that its only aim is to se¬
cure the free coinage of silver
without limit and without condi¬
tions will have but comparatively
few followers, and those follow, rs
in the main will be cranks and
fanatics; and the election of a
president and congress committed
to such a platform would throw
the country into a state of chaos
and demoralization such as it 1 as
never yet known.
A one-idea party is bad enough,
but it is much worse when that
single idea is a mistaken one.
The new party affects to favor bi-
metallism, but in point of fact it
wants silver monometallism, ai d
is organised mainly iu the inter¬
est of the silver mine o.vners,
vould be about the only ( airiers
in a pectin ary sense by its sue-
Cess. There are not in this c >un-
try a great many monon etallists,
b it there are more silver nu wo¬
rn dallists than gold mouometal-
lists. The gold inonoinetallists
are mainly in the Republican par-
ty; the silver monometallists in
the Ropulistjparty. The Demo-
cratic party is for bimetallism,
Tho m-w party’, nieces.
inevitably hung the country to
silver monometallism, and no
greater public calamity could bo-
fall the country.
The Democratic party is still
and will continue to be the party
of, for and hv tho people.
OUR CONTRIBUTORS.
The News has been strongly
impressed with the fact that
Jones is a county of very intelli¬
gent people. The contributions
offered by Jones county people
for publication in The News go
far toward proving this. We have
been overrun, so to speak, with
communications for tho paper,
and for much the greater part
these communications have been
sensible in thought and excellent
in expression, showing a good
mind and a good education.
The News has not been able to
print all of these communications
and it takes this opportunity to
sav it w ill print them in their
turn after they have been found
suitable fora newspaper like ours.
It must be understood that wo
cannot publish all kinds of arti¬
cles. The News is not a large
paper, though we shall always trv
to get all of the news into it, but
wo do not offer that as the
reason why every kind _______
cannot lie printed in it; it will Ik*
recognized that a weekly now-spa-
per must confine itself mainly to
local topics and local news, and
therefore in the interest of its
subscribers, who pay for the pa-
mainly in the expectation of
t!io home now*, it must
permitted to line some care in
printing only that which its pal-
roM wont Vo will say, hmvov-
er, that nearly everything we have
received for publication has been
of thif) chlirac t,,r, and we thank
th „ good peop]( , of JonM vfirv
much for the kindly interest thus
man j feflte d in a Jones county
terpri-0 tliat is illtmK i 0(U o be
b(|th ft gourcc of ]iving to iu owu .
er and a benefit to the county.
Ag h#g h „„ n ^ & pap ,. r ]ik „
our> ghould , )(? j j aud niain .
‘
, ly local . , in ■ its character, , we have ,
trio.1 to make it so. and we ex-
pect . to . continue ,■ on that line, In Ti
g(JI1(;ril j 1HJW8 Q f t| l0 wor M we can-
t , to compoto verv exten-
8 j ve j y w jt|, the weekly editions of
i •
1 g 1 ° f J h ge *
news each week. , In local , news,
<m the other had, no other publi-
Cft ti, m ca n hope to compete at all
w ] k |, ]ot-uI ,m-\ V s ) ni,<*r Where
‘ wookly of th.- dai
U H u para g raph concerning
JonftH county> The NkW8 giveB
8evorttl co]umn8 . We romtu . k( , (]
in tho firHt mimbpr of Thk
NeW8 that this would 1st essen-
tinlly u local newspaper; we pro-
pose to establish and maintain for
it that character, and to make it
a fireside necessity to the county,
We trust our friends will con-
tinge to give us the county news,
and that they will make it as con¬
cise as they can, consistent with
clearness and all of the facts.
PIN CUSHIONS.
Men are prone to ridicule the wo-
men for having curiosity. We
ture the assertion that when the
heading of this meets the optics
of at least some of the rougher sex
they will be somewhat disposed to
glance below to see what is said on
a subject so novel. Women
ally have a love for their own ] in
ci shions, and there is not meie
than one out of ten who has n< t
in her work basket or in sorre sac-
rod corner in her trunk or bureau
drawer one made by hers df in her
g rlhood days; one’given her by a
dear friend or one n a le by the
hands of a dead mothrr.
It would be interesting to mai y
feminine waders of Tin News to
know who owns the oldest of our
subject that the county contains.
Who could best fin d Out who real¬
ly does, ye editoi’s “Big Ike” or
his “Smart Alex?” Or how about
H. J. Stewart? He ia a good one
to look up sub c.fibers,
Thu Tittle pin cushion, though,
that we aro-to write of is a baby
one lately moved to modest sim-
„1„ Gray fro,,, tho tow,, of Fort
Valley. Brown haired “Nell ’
brought it when she came. “Aunt
Lizzie” says in that place there is
an aged and feeble lady whose
pleasant past time is making pin
cushions and donating them to
friends. It was kind in her to fasli-
ion one for the little motherless
girl. A plain affair it is, made of
fabric cheap, and it is only a fiw r
inches wide and just, a bit longer,
a tiny braid is tacked on either
end to use in hanging, How at-
tractive it is when Nell winds the
braid about her tapering fingers
and skips about the house like a
merry bird exhibiting the little
token of remembrance to every¬
body. Our wee Ann thinks it is
the greatest toy of all. Mamma
made Ada Belle one not a bit like
the other but a pin cub ion all
the same. How appreciative she
"as when it was first completed,
But alas! The unselfish sister
won grew dissatisfied and yearned
to exchange with Kate after she
had seen hers made of black vel-
vet and trimmed with gilt braid.
Next Miss Alice, a comely maid
in her teens must have a pin cush¬
ion. So to work she went to man¬
ufacture one of worsted red
and p’aid. It looks well enough to
be sure but her ambitious n fifl tore
°hUs tor one ED ■.
And now if one would build a
house at Gray would the example
widen and spread like Nellie’s pin
cushion? How* we’d like to
and know,
LETTER FROM FIG. ,'
Fig, Jokes C'o,,Ga.. Men 26
Mh. Editor:—I t: seems that
yon have correspondents from ul-
most every portion of the county
«* c «pt thw, anti are not willing
for the garden spot of old Jon.to j
«° ^ defftuIt - for jt is llf,r ‘' Kom "
of the hest n,,d moBt P«xluctive
lands in tho cmint > r lio > nr ‘ d ar ‘
*>"ned by the very best, most in-
tellig.-nt and successful farmers,
our county t can boast of. W e have
»o use for a J. I\, and the unwel-
come bailiff makes his rounds but
ODCe a y < a r, and then to collect a ;
few unpaid 1 tax ti-fas from some :
■
Un l m ‘ '. v Degrees.
0l,r post-oflice is five miles West
of Clinton, and Oakland
my is situated in a beautiful grove
nearby. This school is presided
over hv Miss * Lula ' Little ’ -i ^ Br . ldll _
at ,° of Mac,,n - Hh,: lias a ful1
Hcl|:;ul und her pupils well
* n kand - I do not believe there U
a better disciplined school in the
C0UI,t v 11 a 1 this ’> but much cm! ‘
-
't i» due, however, to that worthy
, young lady and excellent teacher,
| Miss Kate Morgan, of your town,
who laid the foundation for their
future success,
I will say nothing about our
pretty young ladies, but refer you
to “Ike Goins.” He can tell you
how pretty they arc more eloqiu nt
j ly than I can. . and
Owing . to
excessive ram
c °ld weather but little farm work
has been done. But little guano
has been bought ly farmers in
this section. Wo have made up
our minds to buy less, and raise
m< re corn, oats, peas, potatoes
&c., and leas cotton, and “live < n
the products of our farms,
We have a ‘man in the neigh-
borhood that can impound nn e
! stock to the square foot than any
man in Georgia. Woe'to the un-
lucky cow, hog, pig, sheep or goat
that passes his way.
Ernest W. Childs, of Mercer
University, spent last Saturday
and Sunday with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. S. Childs; aho W.
S. Childs, Jr., of White Oak
Academy. Walnut Creek.
ADMINI.STRATI)R’S SALE.
authority of an
Jo 1 ? 0 8 ,P 0,ir .V’ f ()rf ' l ‘ II | ir v ‘ 1
.
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in Clinton, said county, on the 1st
Tuesday in May, next, wilhin tho
legal hours of sale, about, 2b( 0
acres of land in Jones count v, Ga.,
belonging to the estate of Dr. Ben
L. Holland, deed., for the
pose of paying debts and for tlis-
tribution, which will he sold in
lots as follows: One parcel of SOP
acres, more or less, known as tho
Jarrell place, near Five Points.
more or less, known as the Gres-
hnm place, adjoins the Jarrell
place. One ] arc el of lSbOacres.
more or less, known ns Dr.
land’s home place, with dwelling
situated situated thereon, adjoins
the Ocmulgee river, Mrs. Loyd,
Hodge and others. One parcel of
100 acres, more or less, known as
the Towles place, adjoining Ocmulgee the
home place and «tn the
river. One parcel of 460 acres,
more or less, on Falling creek,
known as the Mill place, adjoins
Glover, Gresham and
AIso one parcel of 20 acres, more
or less, known as the Hearndon
parcel. Plenty water and pine
timber. Very ordinary tenant
cabins on all these lauds. Terms
cash. T. A. White,
Administrator.
J C. Barron. M. 0. Greene.
BARRON & GREENE
Agents for Buying and Selling
Land.
Cooperating with ex-Gov. M . ,T.
Northen, of Alanta, manager of
the Emigration and Investment
Bureau.
Parties having land for sale are
requested to confer with us, either
j in person or A by letter, Clinton
Barron Greene, ’ or
j Gray, Ga.
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Information Given on a Va*
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REMEDIES FOIL ‘‘HOLLOW H02N. ii
Katnlt In th© Troper I'orm of Totavh Tor
fi.mtly rtoiU, und Muriat© anil .sulphate
of I'otaslt for ftolis—?oat« Ollier
V* ry Intprs*tiR£ New© Whioh Will !!•
Worth Heading.
Department of Agriculture,
Atlanta. March i, ib96.
farmers, Qur; , T:0; in , mixing ,._i uotico fertilizers that you at adyiso homo,
to avoid patting together ingredients othor.
t f, at act injuriously few hints on eaoii guide in
Please give ma a as a
homo mixing.
Answer 1 —Tho following are some
Qf tbo maiu
potuffi salts can bo be mixed with all
fertilizers, but if largo amounts are
“ixed with some mineral manures, as
floats. the mixture may cake. if allowed
to stand too lou" This can bo avoided
by adding a small quantity of woods
ea rtb, muck or sawdust whoa the mix-
turo is made, Acid pho3phato3 should
not be mixed with lime, marl, ashes,
floats, bone meal or anything that con¬
tains carbonate of iimo or caustic lime.
Ammonia salts, or organic nitrogen
compounds, as blood, tankage or fish
should not bo mixed with caustic sub¬
stances, such as building limo or wood
ashes. Nor is it well, unless wo wish
to hasten decomposition, to mix those
nitrogen compounds with carbonate of
lime, floats or mavL If Wc wish to com¬
post those substances together, wo
should cover • the heaps with woods
earth, which will prevent tho escape of
! | the ammonia.
Acid phosphatas can be mixed with
organic matter and aro espocialiy fitted
for preventing the loss of ammonia iu
compost heaps, unless tho heaps con¬
tain a large quantity of hmo.when they
should not be used.
Nin-ate of soda can be mixod with all
other materials, but wVm mixed with
highly dissolved phosphates and nit¬
rates aud orgauio met tor, tho mixture
1 j should bo kept dry, or loss of nitrogen
will occur.
In composting, it is of tho greatest
importance that the ammonia does not
escape. Acid phosphates, as mentioned
above, help to conserve the ammonia
The compost heaps should be kept cov
ered with oarth and under shelter.
Large amounts of potash salts mixed
with compost are desirable only where
decomposition is to be retarded.
Nitrogen i3 tho most costly element
of plant food, and to its injudicious and
extravagant use can bo traced much of
the loss from the use of fertilizers. By
planting clover and psas, which liavo
tho power of absorbing nitrogen from
the air, tho expense may be much re¬
duced.
Phosphoric add and potash must be
added to our soils if a full crop is ex¬
pected. Ic i3 true that they are present
in all soils, but are insoluble, and there-
fore unavailable. Small quantities on-
iy are dissolved by the soil water and
plant acids.
It is bost to apply both
acid and potash some time bsforo a
is planted. As there is Httlo
from leashing, they should bo.
under. Sandy and limestone
Tl 2
sufficient quantity. This can only
determined by experiment,
Kainit is the proper form of potash
gandy soils, muriate and sulphate
potash for stiff soils. Potash is espe-
cially valuable for fruits and vegetables
of all kinds, tobacco and potatoes.
Nitrogen should bo applied at the
time mo3t needed by the plants
the growing season as a top dressing,
| otherwise it will loaoh out with the soil
water,
Question 3.—Wh-’t is the proper
treatment for "hollow horn?’’
Answer 2.—This is a much misun-
derstood subject. The old plan of bor-
| j | n g the should horns not and be pouring thought In of. tarpon- Ex-
tine
amine the animal for other derange-
| ments of the system. The horn is to a
certain extent naturally hollow, and
this is no indication of disease. An ex-
perieuced cattleman says that the
tongue is the seat of the disease, and in
nine cases out of ten, when an animal
is supposed to bo suffering from "hoi-
low horn,” if the tongue is pulled out
over the under lip it will be found to be
filled with little black heads aud flesh
worms, which will rise above the sur-
face. Take a dull knife and scrapo
theso off gently, then put on salt and
black pepper, mixed, this will bring ue
the saliva, and in a few hours the trou-
ble will be over. He says he has never
known the remedy to fail. Of course
the animal’s head must bo secured to a
tree or post before it can be treated. A
groat many cattle owners advocato do-
horning, not to prevent "hollowhorn,”
but to reduce the number of injuries J
from , goring the herds, well
among as
as to the persons having charge ol
them.
question d — rf, Would ,, you advise . the
sowing of a th-rd crop of oats at this
season, the first two plantings having
been killed by the cold weather?
Answer 3.—We answer unequivo-
cally yes. even as lata as the middle ot
March. But there are several points tc
be oonsMerivl and met in the lato fow-
ings, which «!o not apply with
force to the fall and earlier
crops. In the flr.it pl.:ce, a quickly a
luring seed should bo selected, the la
ihoul.l bo good, tho prepa .tions aifl
manuring thorough, the so. ugheava
Tho iiiiportaucJ of eacH 11 ®’ ese poinfl
will be appreciated MT no 'e rerifl
that the plants have only a shojtff&£| hiMPW
iu which to develop, or to
food, and therefore every aid should fl
given to hasten and perfect their ma|
turity. The land in which the former
crops wore killed is, if it was well pre-
pared, in splendid condition to receive
the third sowiug, which, with the fer-
- r at once '
Question 4.—In T feeding horses, will
the results as a food, pay for cutting it
up instead of feeding it uncut?
B. F. L., Emmerson.
Answer 4.—Wo are often very dire-
lect in our duty to our work animals,
and thus incur absolute loss. This is
true not only in regard to providing
proper shelter, but largely in our meth-
ods of feeding. In the north and west
almost the universal custom is to feed
cut hay, and the small amount of labor
required is more thau compensated for
by tho effect upon the animal. As an
illustration of this, the experiment sta¬
tion in Utah from the tenth of August
to tho twenty-first of December fed, ad
libitum, to two lots of work horses, cut
and uncut hay, reducing the lots iu the
middle of tho period. Tho result was
that in tho first period the lot fed on
cut hay gained 99 pounds, and that on
the uncut 62 pounds; in the second pe¬
riod the lot on cut hay gained 75 pounds
and that on uncut lost five pounds. At
no time in our history has the study
ami adoption of proper methods been
more imperative. Let ns adopt every
detail of farm economy that Inlands
the strength of our farm anil^H eoiL or
improves tho condition of our
HOME FERTILIZERS.
Tho Formula for Mixing? »§ Gtren by th®
Georgia Stata ChewUt.
It has always bean the policy of tho
department to encourage the purchase
of fertilizer material and mixing at
homo. By this polloy not only does tho
farmer make a fertil.zer adapted to hie
soil, if, as he should, he studies its
needs, but also develops tho economy of
carefully saving the manure of the j
farm. |
Compelled to save in every quarter.
If we wish even comparative success,
let all endeavor to adopt the least ex¬
pensive method of fertilizing and irn*
proving this land. In this connection,
the following reply by Dr. George F.
Payne, the state chemist, to an inquiry
for formula and as to the cost of mate¬
rial, will be found of interest:
Farmers can save money by clubbing
together and buying acid phosphate iu
bulk for cash and making their own
fertilizers. It is difficult to farm sue- -
oessfully in most sections of Georgia
without the use of fertilizers, but it is
all important to securo the best fertil-
izers at as close figures a3 possible.
Acid phosphate can now be bought in
bulk for cash at *8 50 a ton. Cottmiseed
meal can now be bought in l^^Bfor or^pot¬
cash at $15.00 a ton. Muriate
ash can now bp bought in 12-ton lots
for cash at $12.00 a ton.
At these figures the materials for an
average fertilizer of the market will be:
1,400 pounds acid phosphate (contain¬
ing 14 per cent available phosphorio
acid) at $8.50 a ton, $5.95.
520 pounds cottonseed meal (contain¬
ing nitrogren equivalent to 8 1-2 per
cent ammonia) at $15.00 a ton, $3.90.
80 pounds muriate of potash (contain¬
ing 51 1-3 per cent of potash) at $4 2.00 a
ton, $1.68.
Making a total of 2,000 pounds at a
cost of $11.85, containing the following
percentage of plant food per ton:
Available phosphoric acid, 0.80 per
cent.
Ammonia, 2.31 per cent.
Potash, 2.0(1 per cent.
If you desire a full strength goods,
t!i e following formula will prove satis-j
factory, being made of the materials
you wish to use:
Acid phosphate, 1,200 pounds, cost!
about $7.80, 8.40 per cent available 1
phosphoric acid. Nitrate of soda, 250
pounds, cost about $5.00, equivalent to
2,87 per cent ammonia. Kainit, 300
pounds, cost about $1.80, 1.80 per cent
potash. Mix marl or rotten leaves,
pounds. Total pounds, 2,000. Total
cost. $14.60. i^^pdcl
If you wish a cheaper fertil
more of the last ingredient. I
sire a stronger one leave out the last
ingredient. Muriate of potash is a
more concentrated form of potash than
kaiuit; au< ^, costs loss for freight and for
tains about 13 per cant of potash, and
muriate about 50 par cent,
To estimate tho full cost, the freight
a «dphos]^iate and muriate o;
Freight will vary according the labor to the required length
of the haul) and also
*° mix the fertilizer.
ing ■ Tlle out “fixing the is best materials done by iu spread layers
on top of each other and cutting
through the layers with a hoe and mix-
lug as the compound is cut down.
The use of a bricklayer's sand screen
enables one to make a better mixture,
So many local dealers are reported thii ai
not intending to handle fertilizers
season, that some such plan may bl
accessary in some sections,
Very respectfuliv.
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c