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Volume 7.
A GOOD OLD MAN
Whose death serves as a
TEXT FOR BILL ARP.
A MAN WHO COULD TELL STORIES TO
CHILDREN—THE YOUNG MAROO
NERS— THE PATIENCE WHICH
SHOULD I!E EXERCISED WITH THE
LITTLE ONES TO HELP THEM ALONG
IN LIFE.
From The Atlanta Constitution.
May ne Reid is dead. He served his
day and generation—a generation of
boys and girls, 'i’liey ought to mourn
for him, and I wish every one who lias
read his beautiful books could give a
dime a piece to build him a monument.
Mayne Reid did for them what Dickens
did for older people. He gave them
innocent pleasure and instruction with
it. There is no instruction so cheap as
reading, and no pleasure so lasting, but
the reading must be of the right kind.
How the children do love a good story
and liow fortunate is the faro’ly that
lias a good story in the household.
What a favorite with the little folks
and how happy it makes them to gath¬
er round aunty or an older sister, and
listen to some wonderful things that
happened long ago or away off some¬
where. W hen I was a boy theie were,
not inajiy story books and so we used
to go out to the negro cabins, or the
kitchen and get the old darkeys to tell
us stories, and they told us soir.e awful
bines too. I have listened to them tell
■bout ghosts and witches, and raw-head
Kid bloody-boues until I didn’t dare to
K ik round, and wouldn’t have gone to
big tiouse alone for a world full of
^■l. But ail that is buried in tlie
.... . . . . , times, . ,ue
111 ' the good and Hie bad. Otn
Htt-n now have betlei stones in the
- ■ Not the dime novels <»t blood
, ■lror, ^ but the loved pleasant iomani.es loi
men who clifldien.
, time Robinson Liusoe stood
l the boys own book, out now
,ve the ioung AUiooueis and
li-amiiy Kobinson, end all■
tieid s booksaud it ibiigiitgood
p, to lead ttiem rneii bntau\ stones
leasaiitly mixed up with
ijtrapliy and zoology and me
|ui<iy u> ontiivauce leani whether that a boy ne is
'M
a Geoigian who was lovul and lonoitd
iiL^M-m the 1 lent HuntusAidtl^Chl lhmnni nd llt niff Cli Lu u
1
pK est Lxiks vnes thot thH are full< full of f inc liicideiit de.it and .nd
lnstiuctidn ami «> mte tan i g U at
when a hoy begins to e. d e la. v
baldly stoji foi ~
aiouse aboy & Anibtoii.aid ,
lo go AWAjr off somewhere and fi^.it
lungs, but they get ove that u due
^.Tvnn U ‘i
and you eu«H can t find fh,d m.iay i mv wi.d wi'd hwists , lasts
now oiuside of a me u gaue. 1 he e
weie three .itt e bo>\s ii ' <>
heard about lexas and beais and but
falo and paiithe s in the iai we. t and
hey concluded to go a id.kill some of
’em and come back hcices bo they
got up a hatchet and all old gun an
—° 10 a st-.f l Id V Thvv ./uni ctmued
out the first . night . , and i had u,i a splendid i,,n,i
time in the wild woods below Home
S
coteiiouKli blistered and feelinu mi-ditv bad. They
of Texas Lois before tliev got
there Those were good boys,
better tha the average andjtheyn loved
their parents but they had been read
ing the young Marooners and they
wanted to Maroon some too, and they
thought that Texas wasn’t far off and
fn every'tree 8 "wuSf they Yome^ba/k
tho'nothing had happened, for 'ft about bked !
to Lave killed their mothers
two days, but after that they seemed
to think it a right big thing and show
ed that the boys had gum in 'em. I |
reckon there'never was a boy that
didn’t want to do some big thing and
be a hero. That is all right and very ;
natural. The men do too until they
get married t]p and of lifp settle raisincr down children to the |
luid i,,,...i struggle ctr,ur< o me. m sing «
and paying debU and that ukes the i
starch out of em and the lomance too. I
Its all fact, fact every day and eveiy
night. Thirty years ago I begun wait
ing on a little chapa.idwash.ng and Ins fin- h.s
face and tieing up bis toes
gers and teaching u ' i i
pretty soon fbey dou e nf
and tnen they f feb I.' 1
and kept on aw »y «P y° d d '
/,La'i°iiuvp ld
p,riiL;^r'SM ! , ,7h t t°heLT& .“, to hear “l>k ’em Jlui spell
l ea S
S-SSt
teacher, ee gM to he
mighty patient with children. Some
have more capacity ami some
more memory. Some are slow
and some are quick. It is not
the ismartest child that makes the ] ,
smartest man or woman. It is a pow-
CRAWFOKDVILLE, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd, 1883.
erful strain on some of ’em to keep up,
and the dull ones oughtent to be
crowded until they hate books and
dread the time of going to school.
Some folks send their children to school
to get rid of ’em but my opinion is the
parents ought to help the teacher every
night. It shows the children how
much interest they leel in their educa¬
tion. It is a sign of a good teacher
when “tlie children get iimbi
ti0U3 to keep up and get head
marks, and bring their books home at
night and want to go to school if it is
raining a little. Wrap ’em up and let
em go. There is nothing that demor
alizes a school buy like staying at home
every few days and getting behind the
class. We used to walk three miles to
school, and we never minded it at all.
It was a frolic all the way there and all
the way back and we did have the best
dinders in the world. Deimonico never
had as good things as our mother used
to fix up for us. It seems to me so
now. A child’s life’s is full of ro
mauce and fun—the best sort of fun.
A child s dreams are splendid, but we
don’t dream now, hardly ever. I used
to read Robinson Crusoe and dream it
all over again. How I did long to be
shipwrecked on an island and raise
monkeys and goats and parrots. Slow
children, are generally sure children,
but they don’t show oil much. Daniel
Webster was most always foot in his
class, hilt when he learned anything he
never forgot it. Some boys are wild
aud restless and have no love for books,
but they, oughtent to be given up or
hacked or abused continually. If they
have good parents they will come to
themselves after while. Tney will sow
their wild oats and gather the crop and
get tireu of that sort of farming. I
was reading the other day about Oliver
Goldsmith, who l reckon was the worst
vagabond in all England, and was kick
ed about and abused by everybody, and
got iii jail, and sometimes slept in the
corner of tue fence and liked to have
perished to death, but he c a me to him
self at last and made one of England’s
best and greatest men. The three woist
boys that ever lived in ltoine are now
H ood men, splendid men, and are lion
01<jd and respected. They had good
parents. Give a dog a bad name and
everybody wants to k'ck him. Good
men ought to notice the bad boys sue
eiaily ai)d speak kindly to ’em and offer
t0 help ’em and make ’em feel that they
are not Ismuaelites. Some boys get so
much abuse at home and abroad tnat
they are astonished when a decent mau
„p C aks to ’em. Some folks give ’em
uo consideration, but want to see'em
to jail or to the calaboose, which is
l!l<; w • that (jai be lone for a
;U school, and that followed lmn to Ins
H* got to be a great man and
wa s tiiirlv years in congress and win
il :;e, ' fltor ’ anU om f,!, y wlle " 1,e lnade a
bitter speech against'the corruption of
the opposite party aud denounced their
jLelllil;flr , nd plundering by wnolesale.
one of his opponents replied by saying
be would remind the geritlem.in that
p rt , ac hers of morality should come into
Uie wllh cl, ' :ul that Ben
Frallklill said, -lie that would steal a
pin wouW steal a b '«S<' r a1 " 1 lle
askw} no quarters from the gentleman
011 tlult SCO re.”
So, boys, remember ami keep your
| iailds ck-an. Folks will forgive mis
c i 1U; f and a heap of other lings, but
woa , t for g ive meanness,
Ik ll Arp.
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GENERAL NEWS.
ABriel Review <>t What the Country is as
culled tor me Readers ot The Demo
Cral rrW, “ ° Ul ^ UeCS '
Paupers m Williamsburg, fs. C„ pay
taxes on property, but yet receive aid
from the county fund.
A stock company with $30,003 capi
tal has been organized to build a chair
factory at Chattanooga.
Knoxville, Tenn.. produce dealers
will handle before the season is over
sto ^ Lhan cott on :. T '‘ li s is tlie ouiy
f ,
crowded that it has been compelled to
refuse further admission until addition
al buildings are completed.
There is too much money in the
state treasury of Texas. The Govern
or has called an extra session of the
legislature, that the boys may Lave
some of it.
Ze bu,on W. McMorris, colored of
Newberry, S. C., has completed bis
an„ coiuse r cp ; in n mtU.une rmnlioinp at at A‘ XasJiv’lh* Asnv.ue.. Tenn ienm,
and will practice his profession m New
berry.
Boston’s four richest men are Fred
erick L . Ames . *15,800.000 ; John M.
ForbeSi , 12 ,ooO,0(W and Oliver Ames
and William G. Weld, $0,000,000 each.
There will soon be a Due hospital at
Austin, Texas. Bids for erecting it
have been called for, the cost of tlie
building not to exceed $10,000. This
dot “ s not diclude the price of the
^„, inlh3w „ hi „ gtoni ,„ fr „
jckr,
man named E.vtchuk, who lives m
Bessarabia, is more than one hundred
and thirty years old and still enjoys
perfect health and strength And yet
America is usually cons dered lhe :
home of imaginative journalism.
RAYTOWN RAKINGS,
AS PILE 1 !) UP FOB DEMOCRAT
READERS BY ‘*VIDETTE.”
CHOPS, NEWS ITEMS, EVERYTHING IN
GENERAL WITH A LITTLE SPICE AND
PHILOSOPHY THROWN IN FOR FLA¬
VORING.
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Special Correspondence Democrat,
—We have had a long dry summer
and we have had a long dry fall, suita
pie in the first degree for gathering
what crops were made, but very unfa
vorable for putting in fall crops, such
aa oats, wheat, turnips and the like,
if the people are denied a grain crop
thro’ Divine dispensation, they must
only live the closer, live within the
very lowest limits of their iucjmes and
they will be safe. One great fault of
0 ur farming part of the world, is that
in the spring and early summer, their
crops are growing and look flourishing,
their own spirits are bouyaut, and ttiey
gay to themselves and families, “my
crop is splendid, I shall make 10 or 12
bales of cotton, and twice over corn
enough to do me until corn comes
agttiu,” aud the result is they rush
a i, e ail and buy more by June than they
ought to have bought by December.
Then if a drought or any other disaster
comes upon the crops, they realize they
will hardlv make the half of what lie
first planned, and the result is they be
g j n to deny themselves and crawfish
i, a ck, and pass sleepless nights, and tor
nienting days studvmg how to make
f our bales pav eight bales of debts, and
;ls they are never able to solve this
problem satisfactorily, and the result is n
tormented mind, a lapped account
to be placed on that lapped account of
i as t year, and maybe a mortgaged home
V vith a few acres shaved off on the
ed ge to some man, who by chance lias
money enough to buy it at low figures
for the cash, that he may be able to
have a little money to buy actual nec
essaries, until such time, as some mer
chant will conclude to advance him a
fi-w dollars worth of provisions on the
strength of another new crop, then as
soon as he can get a credit account, he
pitches in again, nothing daunted by
hist year’s failure,and so on it goes from
year to year in just such a manner, and
taking all this together with tile de
moralized grade of labor, and the suici
md policy of the farmer in everything
pertaining to the management of his
business affairs, and if he can be called
successful I do not know what consti
t>mes thi/iks auccees. In-the spring.if a farin
he Will be*** to make, 10 or
i)Ur t by his extravagance, and he is all
tne better for it. If all should turn out
well, and lie makes li is fifteen bales he
is only seven bales better off. Then he
can pocket the proceeds of these, and
w itli money in hand, and a good credit
c . slilb lislied, he is the most imlepende.it
1UH „ on God’s broad earth. But alas!
Until our Tanners make a total revolu
Uun in all their affairs, will’be they will never
„e successful, but a failure and
IieV er amount to anything. If our
farmers would have some system in
u, e ir labor, would raise enough of eve
rything to eat on that farm to make it
S elf-sust:nning, Would practice economy
fl „.n January to January,we might Have
tlie assurance that we would become
oae of the most prosperous people on
earth, aud why not ? Twelve months
are not long. 'Ve had better eat bread
and water one year and then he inde
’ than swim in plenty 1 of bought
, . . , f t iced
mead for one year and then he slaves
hoeingTor some S
day, and dines Bumptiously every “din
tier time,” aud m the fall he sits out
where he can watch the streets and de¬
l»t, and if you are later than he thinks
you ought to be. he plucks you by the
‘ "Ji‘-n can yo!u :ni n„ 1 in Jmat ootiion
Hiat you owe lim, and how much will
shall Areally in a few days, and screw
pounds of meat to finish gathering the
crop on ?” and your Heart is m your
mouth for fear He will refuse for if he
should you do not know what you will
do, tor the good wife told you she had.
boiled the last bit yesterday for the ne
groes dinner,, and you know no otbre
meicliant will want to ,ouch you
tff^nll^^S^S,
Y 011 nave, . au ana d you vou have iiave no no securitv security
offer ftn other merchant. Call this
i{ wH , b ut it seems to me
that I had rather eat bread and water W
‘jTo . we ,. onP .eT dreas three “Sr vears than
w^lmutd anyor tlame t Yd hi
nat Urn merchant,
i3 not iQ tau lt ; he is only want
ing his money which has been used in
your service. He is only doing what
the farmer never, never, never does—
that is looking out for his interest.
(consequently he is not to blame; it is
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M
*er a ‘„iii • 1 trelaM/Tn 8 - /
• •
debt, tin* . wil ... make
e near
enough to come out anddiis wiife ave
? ! « that r a i i^ewVo knew it cjmu /iul.rm nj« t ho aoiu d oqt. out
wile
It has turned out just like I said it
would,” and thus it goes on. No
change, fairuel no thought of one. Every
tl inks his neighbor worse off
than liimself, and that lie is the one
who should begin a change when my
dear Vie. is it is all of the farmers
who am in a sad flight and all should
begin a change so deep, so broad, that
it covers every detail of their business,
and until this is done we may lqpk for
no better times. It does not pay us
anything that Georgia is reported to be
in a flourishing condition railroads, on account
of her many miles of her
mines of gold, silver, coal, iron, lead,
® *Tactorie8 and mills, and all other
farnSers—the s t tff public prosperity, when the
backbone of all this—are
enciphered vergejof bankruptcy,. witli bebts, For and any are state on the or
country to build on a solid basis of pros
pefiljj.the in amosperouscondition,or farmers of that state it is must no avail be
to tile farmer. What matters it if for¬
eign ^ie\e!op capital does come Jinto our state,
and her resources? It is no
sign of the prosperity of the farmers,
not our capital, it is not our
if ! Iff Therefore we are not the bet
Jr. or it.
Jesse Darden made this year on
’ e horse farm about a mile from
town, nine bales of cotton and
so B* WtL, gfce twenty horse or thirty plowed bushels furrow of corn, in
evei a
th cultivation, lie old hire a neigh
W to t ike his force and plant one field
ot otton for him—one days work for
th neighbor’s hands. One negro man
did all the plowiug. Of course he had
to-lfijie shopping judges extra. Mr. If it D. had would rain¬
ed competent say
have made sixteen or seventeen bales
as well as the nine now made. Mr. J.
D. is an advocate for deep plowing in
thelspring and while your cotton is
Hindu. plowing He says a wet year any sort of
will do, cotton will grow any
war almost, but a dry year test the
qtn stiori. In ray next I may state some
of, Im advantages of this system of
farming. More anon.
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31! '-^r% ^TcP . i v : t rx
5, iiighs. Colds,
Hoarseness, Brora Croup, Influ
cjfipicnt ;#iza, Asthma, Whooping Cough, In
Consumption and for the rc
SAkefofeonsumptive persons in advan¬
ced stages of the Disease For Sale
lby all Druggists.—Price, 25 Cents.
Thomas Fulton,
CRAWFO RDVILLE, GA.
—dealer in—
Fancy and Family
Groceries,
. i OVlSfONS.CANN El) GOODS, LARD
■ A MS. FLOUR, MEAL AND FARMING
lJil’LIMENTS OF ALL KINDS.
Terms Strictly Cash
7 KV.Kr OT) HAND A LAO TI1E FIN
EEHT till A .YDS Ot'TOBAUUO, CIO AHA,
AND ANU FT A.
ThO Best ill CrawfOPdvillC,
GIVE ME A CALL WHEN YOU
AHTKcS, 0B rmv "*
Also a large stock of Crockery at re-
1 HAVE ON HAND A FULL 'STOCK
OF FANCY CANDIES Ol ALL KINDS,
Thomas Fulton.
NATIONAL HOTEL,
ATLANTA, GA .
-ir -w- I OCATiJD nr»T in tv IN THR rJIKCvJSM f’FYTER I OF Ur THE J ins
4fger , city, onlv one block from Union pas
depot and the depot of the Georgia
Pacific aud East Tennesee, Virginia and of
<i e (,r « ia raikoacs, in tlie same building
°‘ e hoW - YT'vvh h nTV 1 r<JI o/Vietor ' r " t ° r -
KIllG HOUSE.
STONE MOUNTAIN. GA,
10 Mile* From Atlanta.
opened to summer guests on the 1st of
aw
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without reservoirs. For
style, convenience and cheapness, our
1^^— toke the lead, prices 813.000
Uope i aD seals A Armor,
Greenes'ooro. Ga.
Number 48
REMEMBER jn this age of Sluirp Competition, when e ery
line of Business is crowded to its utmost ca¬
pacity, Hie merchant must not only (ill his store with goods calculated to please
the people in both quality and price, but he must announce his
Bargains and Inducements
Clearly and forcibly to which the public. give I am satisfaction prepared thin each season to meet the wants of
o people in a manner must, to and every patron. My
NEW AND SEASONABLE GOODS!
.ireful Will selections meet the expectations styles and desires of tlie most economical purcl.i.sfcr, being
of tlie latest
In All Departments
No branch of my business receives more careful attention than my
Comprising Elegant Patterns, Latest Styles, Unique Novelties, with ail k| P.X
Trimmings to match. My goods wore PURCHASED FOR CASH, and 1 nt .
give he benefit of the
DISCOUNT TO MY CUSTOMERS
It will cost you nothing to thoroughly convince yourselves that such fs really true.
I only ask that you call and see foi yourself.
Dutch Bolting Cloth of all Numbers.
Polite Attention Shown to All.
MILLER’S CORNER. AUGUSTA,' A
THOMAS AKIKTiS *
Crawforcbille, m O
-DEALER IN—
Fine Wines, Liquors, Cigars, Tobaccos,
• {•
BILLIARD ROOM IN CONNECTION WITH BAR.
Owing to short indebted seleotJ»*«. to I «on requested "MireatM to •twnipfllled forward and to sol! settle strictly for easlv
nd all those me are coine their Recount at
nee or I will laf fore,ed to put them In the hands of ail attorney for uolleetion. -
hank my customers for past favors and invito them and mv new friends to give me
“ call. THOMAS AKiNS.
'tim
GU’iSSYiOTED BAl „
Augusta, Ga.
el liar This three bar Is 'n tlia'ehnrge'of and Rn experlened keeps hand bar tender the finest who whiskies was at tire hrundies, Central Mo
years who always on wines,,
elminpalgnes to be found in compounded the city. All the best Bar. mixed drinks, morning drinks and
appetisers of all kinds are at this
When in Augusta if you wish a delightful beverage call nttlio
GLOBE HOTEL BA I rv .
oct fi-om Amnirda. Ga.
*
FRANKLIN,
Cotton Commission Merchant,
AUGUSTA, GA.
Liberal Advances Made on Consignments.
sep2t
Fullerton’S Mew Light House
COOKING STO VE.
It has la-on remarked by 1*if who hava
seen finest, the largest, “New Light House,'” that it is tlie
ami liand-'iuest stove tliey
liave ever seen for (lie priee. Write U> D.L.
FULERTON. Augusta, Ga., for particulars
2
VV c keep in stock the
“Ktar Omni,”
Milk CanJ, Milk Buckets. Milk
Pane,Brass top Bhovels. Tonga, and,
And Irons, and all ports ctf
KITCHEN UTENSILS.
D. L. FULLERTON,
aep21hm AUGUSTA. GA.
SPECIAL NOTICE
On * a and -j after Unnf {September rxin 1 1st, cf TTS'V my
books will be closed and ail those in
debted to me are requested to como
forward and settle their account at
OllCC. H. FLI NT
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