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About Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1884)
■4. * • CRAWFORDVILLE DEMOCRAT. V olume 8. THE SOUTHERN FARMER. Speoial Correspondence Democrat. Have the Southern farmers ever thought of the many different ways in which they are imposed upon ? One of the two principal ways is by the negro, and another is by bis owu race and color. If the average farmer would stop one moment, and eount the num¬ ber of, heads that are daily fed upon his place it would surpri*e him. I know of one planter who rents his land at unusually high rates, and runs two plows yearly, and gives out seventy-five meals daily. Think of it, reut land, buy corn,meatand guano.and work free negroes, and run only two plows Why eannot a man, with not an eye in his head, see there is no money for any body but the negro in this ar raDgemement ? He gets his lining,and some money and is out only a few months of yery inferior labor, and at the end of the year if his ration bill is not paid,he knows.he has nothing thelaw ean reach, so lie kicks up his heels, free as a bird knowing full well, that all the burden will fall upon the overbur¬ dened farmer, and he yearly robs his own family of comforts, to put them upon the negro. If we were to raise a heavy grain erop, we would have five dollars to our one, now, and then be more independent of the negro, as we would have less need for him and what work we did have for him, we could feed him at home. If we would plant less cotton, we would not be so much at bis mercy in chopping out time, when he wants his fifty or sixty cents per diem, and his three goed meals a day, for if the wnite man has to feed him, he must have a full plenty, but if he feeds himself, he ean live on a crust, or hoe-eake, and the grease out of one rasher of bacon, will suffice fora family of twelve, to live upon a whole day. It is a settled fact that when a negro finds a white family that are easy with him, and let him do as he pleases, that negro, will treat that family worse, yes, ten times worse, than he will one that requieshim, to stand up to his con¬ tract’ We often hear our Deople say, "I know he, or she is mighty trifling, but of you bear down on them, to make them do their duty they will quit, and leave you, the bag to hold,” Well, now, let me ask you one question : What use have you got for him if he does as he pleases,and slights his duty ? There is no money in him for you, if he does his whole duty, and if he only works as he likes, and when he likes, lie isKArtldeas to you, and will bring you R’debt at the end of the year ana will move away ana leave you, no matter how .indulgent you have been. Of¬ ten we hear one oi our farmers exclaim, “Uhl he could not make money, if he did not cheat his negroes. He ju.sr I ays them, what lie w nt< to, . nd keeps the balance. Now mere is no balance to keep if that negro has to work and make :t. The average’ negro does not actually do work enough to produce what lie consumes, and if you will show me a man who can cheat a negro out of the worth of nis labor, I’ll show you a man who will do foi any emergency. If you promise a negro sixty or seventy dollars a year, you first have to feed Him three mouths,and pay him too, and usually lie cannot do you work enough to pay for his rations, siill lie will want all these bad wet montln, just as tho’ be was earning it, and the flrst tiling you know he is away ahead of his wages. Then he does just as lie likes. You are afraid to say much to him or you will insult him, and lie will walk away, owing you, and you will never be able to get it. If be stays on working only half as he should he will still call on you for this little tiling oi that small sum. He wants soap aud soda |and fljur and tobacco, and you are afraid to refuse for fear of losing him, all the while the negro is laughing in his sleeve at you. He knows just where you stand, and he has a contempt for our way of m. na ging his race. He knows full well,how different it would all be if our positions of were reversed and held the reigns power like we do. We would have to walk a chalk line, or we would get out into the big road, and they would have no more mercy on us, than on an adder and every white man knows this is true. Whv it has got so now, if a man hires a cook for bis family he has to split up his little house worK and divide it out amonz two or three. One has to do tho washing, often another, the iron ing and then another the scouring, Then the cook must have the wood all ent up and put right to ber hand. Now they want just as high wages, as when they did all the house work. This di viding up is done at the white man’s expense, for the negroe’s benefit. They study to take every advantage of tbe farmer They consider it nothing wrong to cheat the white man. They look upon all they gain in this way as to much clear gain. It is nothing wrong to idle off the time, hired b^ the white farmer and it is certainly no hartn to take advantage of him, while he £r<£k lies sleeping, to rob nis ben roo3ts or into hta potatoes and stealing all These things are freq e y h p[» 8 all over the country and are ny n means of seldom .SSMSL-gSt o. tbe year comes, they will be hopelessly m volved in debt to the white man. When Christmas comts, perhaps employer, will object to the negroes CRAWFORDVILLE, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 21st, 1884, moving unless some other farmer will pay the debt and as sometimes they cannot find a white man, who is willing to thus burden himself, the first employer, will keep him another year in hopes of getting back this money jr<JW thjg a poof planj and n j ne y mes <mt of ten,will work out|bad^ jf he falls behind the first year, how can he fail, in doing so the second ? He will have to live the second year, and his wants will be as great and if any¬ thing his work will be worse, for he will look at it, “I wouldn’t git noth¬ ing no how. If I make anything it will go to pay for last year” and as a living is all he cares for, he will not try as hard to make anything the sec¬ ond vear, and often, he will be a little more in debt, and so at last tbe farmer has to let him go, at last more deeply involved tnan ever. Better Vet them go the first year they fall behind. It will never be any better with tbem.and only grow worse and worse for tbe farmer. No one has the slightest idea, how many idle negro women are sitting about, doing nothing. It has come to where you can scarcely hire one to cook and it you do you have to hire half a dozen to wait on her. They all are grander than the white ladies, and 1 k now personally of a case, where a gentlman hired a man to farm on shares for him, and he had to furnish the negro with provision from the flrst of Jannary. The white man was call¬ ed from home on busine* s, bis wife fell sick, ber cook had the toe-ache, and couldn’t cook, so she sent for one of these four negro women to come and cook dinner. They sent as reply, that it was “too cold ; they could not expose themselves.” Now tbe white farmer furnishing them house, fuel, clothiug, nrovisions, without any pay at all, only the prospect of a little work in the spring and refuse to cook one meal for his siek wife. The men of the South, should refuse to teed a race of people, who have resolved tc do only just as they are forced by sheerest necessity. Just let the negro men become as worthless to work as tbe women and they will be shipped out of the country and that would be the best thing that could be done. Why only quite re¬ cently one of these audacious jades re¬ marked publicly, “she won’t going to live under no white woman, nor even, where one stayed. She was going to live with a male man herself.” Negro women and the gang of negro children are breaking this country down. They are lazy, roguish and impudent, as they can live and our people put np with it, and say nothing. Why is it ? la it because we are too lazy to do our work, that we feed and pay some one to come into our houses and do only what tiie> want to, and when they wish to do it r and then give us their impudence every day ? Do we think that we in ike money by it V Then what is it ? Is it because we like the negro for nis looks or his scent ? for we certainly have him to feed and pay and then do ail the disagreeable work ourselves. I heard a lady say the other day when her cook failed to put in an appearance to get dinner, that site went into tier stove room and had to work hard one hour cleaning up, so she couid find same thing clean enough to cook n or with. Now what are our motives for suoinit ling to these impositions ? Tiie New England house-wives, would n >t stand our lazv idle nasty impudent cooks for one hour, and it puzzles me to think why we stand it. 1 have not exagera¬ ted the case, no, nor represented it one fifth as bad as it really is. Wny can¬ not our fathers, husbands, brothers send off this lot of bad rubbish and get us nica.e tidy, honest, dereot white ser¬ vants like the Northern housekeepers have ? It would pay ten fold better. W e could get good work and in proi>er time, be treated with respect, and not have persons of loose morals, no virtue and roguish as the days are long in our homes like we have now. It would not cost as much to pay a little higher wages for good work, as our cooks now 8teal from us. They w.ll not stay where they cannot steal. 1 think while our law-makers are worrying their brains over some unimportant bills, they bad better study this subject of labor awhile and solve (if they can) the riddle of how one worker can support a family >f ten to fourteen and none ever work a minute, but tbe one man, and be play half .of his time and when he does work let it be of tbe very poorest grade. I wish to Heaven that tbe peo pie of the South would buy up some country and colonize the negro. Give him land and a year’s ^support and let him govern himself and then our eoun try would fill up with good, would honest, strive in dust nous workers, who to build np our country. Wei could lie down then at night in safety wi hout f ea r of being robbed or burnt out l>e f ore day. This is all true. Every white man and woman knows it is ten fold worse than represented. We have this horde of idle roguish vagrants to feed, whether we will it or not. Your corn, your potatoes your fruit, your hogs, your poultry, from all these, are contributions levied to support a set of lazy impudent jades, who sit up in the shade, laughing at you while you work making all these for tbeir benefit, and no doubt thinking all the while “there They ^ have lived all the winter on some far ^ hi3 meat burnt hi9 wood and spent his money and now just look «*■«* r* X.'T ■£;„“til reme dy for all this in our own hands, T hen wb y h^ute longer to use it. Vidette. DO SOMETHING. BOB XUBDETTB GIVES A LITTLE MORE GOOD ADVICE TO THE YOUNG. My boy, if you want to be somebody in the, world, you must begin somebody. You must have and assert an individu¬ ality. If you have a family tree that reaches to the stars, draw your pen through every name on the recoid un¬ til you come to your own, and stand squarly on that. A grand old ancesi ry is a splendid thing to have, and agrand father is something to be proud of. But your own ancestors won’t make you, my boy. Because they are dead, and the world of to-day wants live men. Nobody gropes in the graveyard except Victo¬ the mendicant student. Queen William ria traces her blood back to the Conqueror. Well, shecau't help it. She isu’t to blame for it, nor does she deserve any particular credit for it. Such a woman as Victoria, my boy, re¬ flects honor upon ber ancestors—her pure womanhood would honor them though she never were a monarch—nut I can’t see that her ancestors did her and great honor. Why you suppose you can only trace your ancestry back to your father ; why, your father is a better man, a better Christian, he wears better clothes, he lives in a better,house he has more luxuries and and conven¬ iences in life than was or did or had Willian the Conqueror, and so you are that much ahead of the queen. Look me in the eye, Talemacbus ; would you feel proud if you could proven that you were[a lineal descendant of the four Georgies? Certainly you would not. If you should have said yes, I siioull h ve advised you to stuff yourself and s. 11 yourself for a cigar store sign. If you assert yourself, my boy, that is all the world asks of j ou. If the world has work for you to do, if it wants you and needs you, it isn’t goingto bark up you. family tree. Who asked ab m. Lin¬ coln’s ancestors ? Who stopped in 1863 to ascertain if Grant’s family came over in tbe Mayflower ? What “old family” did the American people elect president in i8¬ 60 ? What great grand-fatlier invented the telephone ? W ho knows Brigham Young’s in >ther-n-law ? God bhssyo ir grand-father, my boy. Love liis mem¬ ory, honor his Dame, revere his teach¬ ings, but ion’t try to ware his slides to¬ day. You can’t run and you can’t climb in them. I tellyou, your nugh bor will question more closely the pedi¬ gree of tiie blooded horse, or the " -ik cow you want to sell him ?•* than JrJfS <s prill yourpwu. •. When J ’.ear & tail:’: about his ancestors, I begin to think he needs them very much. And 1 always feel sorry for a man who 'lied before he was horn, and lives only in the deeds and words, . f ins great grand-lather. Don’t die out two or three generations before you b -g ; , iuy 4 boy. Live youi own life, if it ki.io ymi. I have kuowu some men who were very proud ol then ancestors Woose ancestors would have been mo-t dismally ash..nied of them. Pride >f ancestry ! It is dust under your lee. compared with pride of pos¬ terity. You never in ail your life felt that pride in your gi a -grandsi #Jwho fougui at Bunker llill and shive rd at Valley Forge, mat y> u will feel in your first hoy, even when he is three days old and has nothing to show lor himself but flannel and winkles, When a mm on lus way to a drug store for ten cents worth of paregoric meets tiie younger man going to the furniture store to buy a $35 cab for bis first, lie cannot repress the smile of pleasant pity that curves his older lips. But bless you, it doesn’t hurt the young man a particle. He ean stop right there in tiie street ami give his ol ec ueighbor points on tiie treatment arid culture of children. Don’t waste vour pride on your posteri¬ ances¬ tors, my boy. Save it for your ty. They will be in better circumstan¬ ces and live in better times. While your ancestors came over in the May¬ flower, a leaky old tub of a sailing ves. sel, that lauded tiie pilgrims and then went straight away for a cargo of si wes to laud in the West Indies, your chil dien will go across in a Curiarder, first cabin, faring sumptuously, and only ten days out. It is enough for you, my boy, to know that your ancestors were good, brave, honest, hard-working Christian men and women. For the rest of it, do you live your own life and live it so that you will honor them aud add new luster to their good name, but don’t, my boy, I beg of you, don t try to “boost” yourself up in tbe world on what they did long before you were born. Do something yourself. “How may burglars be kept out of the house ¥” is a question that will soon come up before the Goosetown Debating Society, to be disc tissed. We think it might be done by leaving all the valubles on the front door steps all night. - McDuffie county.,Ga.,July 2o, _ 1Rft 1W3-- , Dr. W. M, Pitts has been our regular family physician for thirty year willing- . e have raised eight children, and ly bear testimony to WsskiU as a P™ 5 * ticing physician. We have used his Gamut ative mi* our children Mart J. Stockton. -.------- Mr T C A., of Atlaritr, desires to bottles of which affected an entire cure wilhout any loss of time change of diet or tne use of any Internal medicine.” D. r BULLS I J For the Cure Bronchitis,Crou$ of Cough^' .Colds,] Hoarseness, Influ - enza, Asthma, Whooping Cough, In¬ J cipient Consumption and for the re liefofconsumptive persons in ad van-I ced stages of the Disease For Sale by all Druggists.—Price, 25 Cents. NOTICE. Reflect and Remember That E. K. BOONE, contractor ami builder is located in Crawfordville, and would respectfully solicit a liberal share of patronage from the building public. Satisfaction guaranteed as to workmanship, etc. Will make esti¬ mates on either brick or frame build¬ ings. M AH communications addressed to attention. me this .Motto place^vilf receive Prices to prompt suit : the hard times. j. w. Him Attorney at Law, CRAWFORDVILLE OA WILL practice in all State and Fed¬ eral Courts. Any business entrusted to his care will receive prompt personal attention. COLLECTIONS A SPE Cl ALT Y. Office in Mitchell Building. NOTICE. ll/f !VL ESSltS. CROAKE& O’KEEFFE, Assignees of George W. Overton, announce to the public that they are closing out tbeir stock of dry goods at cost. Also, notify all parties to come forward «t once and settle their notes 'atnl'aouu'toi** -ii tl 'ey will be pbced iti the hands of an attorney for Collection. Sharon, Ga., Jan. 18th, 1883. “WIP3D OUT.” The Story of an Atlanta Boy as told by His Father. TRUTH IN A MITMIUI.I., Mr. Frank Joseph, lives at 24,i Jones street, Atlanta, and has a promising about l»>y of six summers. When the boy was three years of age a peculiar swelling was discovered on lus neck, /arious liniments, poultices, etc were applied without, a per¬ ceptible effect. The swellings increased, although internal and external remedies were used, continually. Becoming alarmed, a physician was e illed In who at once pro¬ nounced it a genuine case of well develop¬ ed scrofula. He, used all the various rem¬ edies usually resorted to by the. medical profession in such diseases,butother glands became affected, and finally they discharg¬ ed large quantities of matter, and slough ingot'the parts presented a ghastly sight. The boy became quite feeble walk. and greatly During .emaciated, and nn >ble to a period of over two years his condition be¬ came more perilous—the hair fell from his head, and lie rapidly lost his eyesight. cared During all this time lie was properly treated for and treated, and was also at New Medical college for three months, yet his condition steadily grew miraculous worse. Now comes the almost restored,the escape hair of this stopped lad. His falling eyesight off, was tiie glandular swelling subsided, the horrible ulcerated surfaces healed, the whole system was re¬ novated and cured sound and well, all by the use of onlv one single bottle of B.B.B.— Botanic Blood Balm—which cap he had at $ 1.00 per bottle. Sold in Crawfordville by Dr. K. J. IlEID. M a Q Pilijfg U U iImark I til Emm AMERICA’S CHIEF STOMACHIC els, whether In children oradultn. Promntlv relievlnff Infan¬ Dysentery, Diarrhoea, ( holera Mortnu, Aaaw*a, Cholera Acidity of tum. Hur, Grinin* I'airiH. FlatuMhey, and N« Headache the Stomerh, Hearthurn.Skk rvou* DYSPEPSIA. niw) all deranmmentt of tho fttomarh «J»<5 *»y be in of the luteetlne* change Bowel* from rolaiatlon or a of food or water. NORMAN’S NEUTRALIZING CORDIAL Is as pleasant and harmless as Iilaekb«rrv Wine—contain* no Opium and will not consti¬ pate. 8pocteIlr recommended lor He* 3 lckne»* and Teething' Children. German and English Directions on each Bottle Price 25c. and $1.00. Large she contains six times as much aePtmalL Bold by all Druggist* and Dealers in MedJdnea ■nrp. EXCELSIOR CHEMICAL CO., 8ol» Propr’tori. WALHALI.A, a. O. U S A. BEND A 2 C. STAiU* FOB UTTLS BOOK, Clinavd House. Athens, Ga. ’ A DCLIN\RD, - - Proprietor. , _ Porters at Each Train. Commercial Rat... Large 10111 111 Dill Oil S Sample ROODl^ j oure ml at textivk XEV nvE servants, Number 12. 1883. Iff! :o: TheGeorgia Chemical Work® Up -**•£ #4 ■'> ' --V-- 4.4 jr' Y “ T~:' : 1 -:. . v \ %.i ii |ys * v#ggs u I ■ -jfr. N —•*-*: Again offor to the Consumers of Guano their well known and relUUlo brand MASTODON GUANO! LOAYE’S* GEORGIA FORMULA ACID PHOSPHA1E WITH Oil WITHOUT POTASH. Also, K.AIN7T of our own importation. PURE GROUND BON E. LAN PLASTER, NITRATE OP SODA, COTTONSEED REAL and ALL FEfl TILIZING MATERIALS. Correspondence solicited Trom all who want first class Guanos. Special Brands made when desired. Address Geoiioia. Chem¬ ical Works, M. A. STOVALL, Treasurer, jan 25 om Augusta, Ga. Cheapest Carpets in Augusta. OCK LARGER AND PRICES LOWER THAN EVER BEFORE. rplIE |_ largest Stock Bo nth. Moquet, Brussels, Window Three-Ply Shades, and Ingrain CarpePt, fcUMw Mats, Crumb Cloths, Window Curtains, Window Coruiees 4 n<t Poles, Canton and Cocoa Mattings, Chroiuos. Write for samples. James G. Bailie L boas.. Sept. 14, ’83. jy. 713 BROAD STR***. * \ ? RUFUS CARTER & CO S €M k OEYKn. SUCCESSORS To %\ holesale "ffll a c c o^is i% ^ • • Library Building, Augusta, Ga, TOBACCO EXCLUSIVELY AT WHOLESALE ONLY. the when leailing We orders arc the factories are only large, tobacco in enough Virginia merchants to and Justify. North in We the Carolina city guarantee of and Augusta. ail can our sell geodw.to Wt direrl represoM fir* {Mag m i on. We are personally acquainted with nearly ail tho manufactories In Mm n a and Southern.part of Virginia aud are sole agents for SitulU's 4 p. T. W. COSKK11Y, President. J. T. NEWBERRY, Caftkfa*. Planters Loan & Savings) Bank, Augusta, Georgia, CAPITOL, nil paid up ■ $100,000* Collections Carefully Attended to and Promptly Remitted for. Doafte *a at parts of tiie world for sale. Interest Allowed on Deposits in the Savings Department. DIRECTORS. I-333«“ v S,5,°“ ER ' VV.’.affiffl'- JOIINT. MILLBK ’ II. KOWEEr. D Ii. WEIGHT, If. IS. KING, W. M. JOItDA N, -THE Great Furniture Palace of Augusta* WE take pleasure in announcing that we have moved our elegant stock of fmi turn, to 840 BROAD STREET, old stand of Myers & Marcus. VTe h«w thW la««i rtMft filled to overflowing with the MOM ELEGANT and BE8TA SHORT EJ) j .hTtRES, ever offered We compete with any market or any dealer in STYLE, (JUAUrr UK PRICE ppTf’ir The The hummIv increase ^ in our business is what nas caused us to !»«?♦•• m ten. We now NK . SX SXO RE and FINEST STOCK IN GEORGIA, Write forcatalogue or call and see ua. J. L. BOWLES & S3 840 Broad 8rebt,Augus'a, Ga I l, M * LG UD) Crawfordville, m m Ga. —DEALER IN— ! Fine Wines Liquors, Cigars, Tobaccos, I have attached to my saloon a splendid ___ „ - H r 11 j Jacc 0 f business forward their headquarters and settle. when, m our o*rn. a m * uested to come •* I -
