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About Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 14, 1891)
•THE DEMOCRAT* « THE Official Organ OF Taliaferro^ County. By Moore Bras. YOL. XY. "HE WAS “IN IT" AT LAST. They built a line church at his very door— He wasn't in it; They brought him a scheme for relieving the poor— He wasn't in it; Let them work for themselves as ho had done, They wouldn’t ask help of any one, If they hadn't wasted each golden min¬ ute— He wasn’t in it. A cairiage swept down the street qne day— He was in it; The funeral trappings made a display— He was in it; St Peter received Vm with book and bell. “My friend you have purchased a ticket to,—well, Your elevator goes down in a minute.” Ho was in it. BEAUTIFUL FARM HOMES, They Should be the Most Attrac¬ tive of All. THE BEAUTIES OF THE CROWDED CITY ®OurBoors by tbe Fast TKa SMTeHoBB Who Live in the City ara Not so well Fixed. There is no subject more impor¬ tant for a farmer to consider than the one why boys who are brought up on farms are usually so anxious to leave home. It is no doubt true that large cities possess an almost irresistable attraction to very many, but that does not account sufficiently for tlie giving up the almost certain tty of an independent, honorable, affluent and pleasant career for a chimerical prospect of great gain, or to settle down as merebants’s clerks, mechanics or hewers of wood and drawers of water in our villages, towns*and cities. In these days of daily newspapers, almost perfect mail communication, the electric tel etfr aph a adAst trains, tb< white k. : the man; and it is in his power to secure to liimself almost everything that makes life worth living. And just here is the key to the whole matter. There are a large number of farmers who seem to ignore the bright and beautiful side of life. To them grass was made alone for cattle to eat, not for men to look at and enjoy; to them flowers are weeds, books a snare, rest and comfort idleness and self-indulgence. They give their cattle the very best attention, but let their children take care of themselves and find their own amusements—a task as difficult under the circumstances as that giv¬ en by the Egyptians to the Israelites of making brick without straw. The home is comfortless; there is nothing to interest in the long winter even¬ ings; everything is dull, weary, mo¬ notonous, and the young generation are only too anxious to escape from it; and the only refuge seems to be the city, which swallows them up as greedily as the ocean its wrecks. The is obvious. Handsome, com¬ fortable houses—not merely a num¬ ber of furnished rooms, but comfort¬ able, home-like houses snugly em¬ bowered in miniature parks, with neat lawns and flowers and vegeta¬ ble gardens;' good common school education for the children, who ought to be taught the principles of growth and successful farming, thus classing it with the sciences; news¬ papers, music, an occasional visit to the cities to see what they are like and how disagreeable they are— such things as these will keep the children on the farm. This is no fancy sketch, but is consistent with the best and most profitable farming, for bore, as everywhere else, the best wins after all.—Exchange. A new “Lula Hurst” has come be¬ fore the public in the person of Miss Josephene Lord, of Lowell, Mass. At a recent exhibition she command¬ ed and the “unseen force” obeyed. At a seance, three canes, one of wood, another of glass, and another of steel, were made to stand upon the floor for five minutes in a verti¬ cal position. The sticks moved in any direction she commanded. Ap¬ parently bolding a stick lightly I**- j tween her fingers, no person present wns able to take it from her. A chair was moved across the floor by unseen forces, and the chair, with a lady sitting in it was lifted from the floor and placed upon a table in the same mysterious way. \ il? ^ t <v m ctnacrat rattnflrO 1 !y ■ # Coverment Loans. Those who denounce as absurd and impracticable the alliance proposi¬ tion that the government should loan money direct to the people • upon proper security shonld read this ex tract from French financial history, taken from “The Theory and Histo¬ ry of BanHng.” It has been remarked that from 1814 for many years the Bank of France was the bank of bankers rather than of the merchants. The position of intermediary between the bank and the great class of borrowers on a small scald should have been held by a class of independent banks it appears, in fact, to have been held by private bankers, and during the revulsion which accompanied the revolution of July, 1830, this class of establishments either disappeared or become inactive, so that a part of the usual machinery of commerce, never adequate, was for a time abso lutely wanting, and it seems impos¬ sible for the normal movements to begin again. The chambers therefore voted that loans should be granted by the gov¬ ernment for the relief of commerce to the extent of 00,000,000 francs, onehalf to be lent directly by a pub¬ lic commission, and the other to be used in establishing public discount offices in Paris in the departments. The loans were made at 4 per cent., and upon security, and the business would seem to have been managed with better success than could have been expected, for the 30,000,000 francs of direct loans made to indus¬ trial establishments and divided be¬ tween Paris and the departments with tolerable equality, the amount still unpaid in i860 and then set down as either bad or doubtful, was only about 900,000 francs. The dis¬ count officein Paris discounted to the amount of 20,029,000 francs. and «ccuri|ies averaging a little or more discount offices opened in the departments are not carefully re ported. Not Ruined Yet. While agriculture is depressed, and the farmers of the country have good cause to complain, the situation nevertheless has its bright side. According to the last census re¬ ports, there are 12,500,000 families in the United States. Of these 10,- 250,000 occupy farms and homes that are either owned or rented by them unincumbered. The other 2,250,000 own homes and farms incumbered by mortgages. This is not a bad showing. When over four-fifths ot the families of a country occupy homes that are not mortgaged, it is safe to say that the people lack a good deal of being ruined. But this apparent prosper¬ ity should not lead the thoughtless to believe that there is nobbing worse in store for us. The robber tariff, legisla¬ tion in the interest of the privileged classes, and the extravagance of bil hondollar congresses will, if allowed to continue, swell the number of mort¬ gaged homes from year to year, un¬ til they will make au appalling total in the reports of the next census. The very fact that matters are no worse should encourage us to make the fight for economic reform while the chanees for success are as good as they are now. It is no time for a policy of inactivity. A negro woman in a Georgia back county hoed cotton until mdday, and then lay down for a nap in the shade of a tree. She was barefooted. Suddenly a tickling “ensation on one of her big toes disturbed her slumber. She looked sleepily in that direction and saw a sight th3t made her teeth chatter. A huge black snake had swallowed the toe, and was acting as though he proposed to swallow the of her. As she gazed along the sleek back of the undulating serpent be seemed so long that his tail was the horizon. When she re from her temporary paraly she arose like a sky-rocket fired j and disappeared in the 1 timber with a blood-curdling { After being jerked through ! under brush for a.few rods the let go. The ( man may be j yet for all that we know to j contrary. “■IDsvcted to tlee gg pie < 3 -en.ere.ll 3 r.” CHAWFORBYILLE, GEORU^FlUDAY, AUGUST 14,1891. FARM REFORM. The question of reducing the acreage of cotton is widening and we yet hope for something to be aeceomplished by the move. Of course if only half the amount is raised the farmer will get about as much for his crop as lie now gets. Raise half as much cotton and twice as much corn as you do now and sup¬ plement your crops with a nice lot of hay and you will see a great change in this old country of ours. Labor is scarce and the farmer can better afford to raise more corn than he can cotton, because it takes less labor to gather it and some less to produce it. The corn in year crib and the pigs in your pen, you can be more independent about what you wiil do about selling your cotton crop. Georgia land prepared the same as for cotton and fertilized like it is for cotton—in other words • with as much labor put on it as is put Oil cotton fields, will make a great yield of good corn. Corn can be made in Georgia when the land is prepared right and cultivated generally it. a manner suited for corn growings Georgia farmer- make a greatmis take in not giving more attention, to grass and hay raising. There is money in these old srrass fields. As Conimis. Nesbitt says, the farmers of this state lose enough money and lime killing grass to make them rich ,f they would kill the cotton ami save the hay. imy We expect he is right. The crop well cared for would bo worth more money than all the cotton rais¬ ed on the same land and would cost 90 per cent, less than the cotton crop. 'fc-Jwlts ■ We need more clover, grass.' ryo and barley crops with which' to raise stock that we now buy; and we need An ore peas, potatoes, obufas, our country than any political reform that any party can bring about. We wish it distinctly understood that we favor the reforms as set down in Democratic doctrine With those reforms and reforms in our system of farming the masses and all classes in the South will pros per. THAT DISPENSARY. There is some feeling in this coun¬ ty favorable to the establishment of a dispensary similar to the one in operation at Barnesville, this state, to furnish liquor to who all want it for medicinal and other purposes. In most all cases those who desire the dispen¬ sary are those who are opposed to or not very ardent supporters of pro¬ hibition. Some prohibitionist favor the dis¬ pensary and are discussing it in a quiet way. , They favor it from the fact that it will break up blind ti gers. The most of the dispensary advo¬ cates argue that it will be better to have tlie spirits sold by commission¬ ers who are bound to have purer stuff than that handled by blind ti¬ gers, and even better than that which is shipped to the county or from barrooms. Their argument goes on to show that there will be less drink¬ ing and less desire to buy liquor than now. That it will he better than barrooms. The latter we agree with them about, but prohibition is far better than a dispensary unless it is in the hands of very superior officers. It is hard for a man to refuse a friend liquor when the law does not rigidly prohibit him selling it. If the people of Taliaferro want a dispensary they should so express themselves by vote. We favor pro¬ hibition first and the dispensary second. IIeketofoke the jurors who were summonsed by courts and excused were not paid for the loss of time i for that day, but there is a bill m the legislature, that will pass, that provides for the payment of such ju¬ rors. It is a good law. The Atlanta Herald is a hammer 3nd is one of the newiest daily pa¬ per* in the state. Joe Carter’s hand writing on the wall can lx* seen in the bright news department. The paper at all. declares that it is for no party J inhabitMpi =— IS. os A Peculiar B fill in Macon Co' THEY CAN'T Lift IF THE HEAT. They are Fowl lb-pits of South Georgia, W h luo lumber la Talk about- kp^t bugs, your big bugs, your 11 f bugs, or any other bugs, but j T. M, Williams, who owns and rl |t Lav mill niuo miles from Ogletliorj >5| to the front with a bug that J. Taps the climax of bugology. *ff ^ffiot little, hard, black bug, witlijg on the middle of his 1 k 1 His a little larger than a horj Hilts home is in Mr. Wrlli:,: ' pW pit, where the burning slabs], h> a red hot fire for months at a When the heat is so intensely a man cannot stand within tiojfeot of the pit, these little bugs, I swarms like bees, are crawling up tf sules^f lottldcring the pit, buzzing amo ua coalfl > and rest*-' ifortably in the adhere «| I f J wo,,W rofcsj^n tored- lwp ' *' . ’*•' M ' *" hot pit, and vv 1 « »*' ‘ at 1 < m When taken away from it, Mr. Mbrought some ofthemtoO.^ fr* to.show Dr. Crumbloy, ano t* It' * »" 1 a > was * er . v '°t, the;; 0,1 1 u rWohmg town able to kick win**, l leached here. mill, Wllon seventy-f caught gl Carried from tire to pit, the they will re: n Jliately jfben on lin¬ ing turned the mill stops, the 111,; si the “devil bugs,” as Me. SUtt- them. die out as mo but new if one* soon M ,IS * and -c , fbting it can be sa vs ■ / . his mill and convinced by at seeing for thetng® fe.— Macon Coun ty Citizen, Their P^L. sad Land. The heartIcsslL 1 '' ovo!tin S Russian cruul * ty meted out tlie Jews, on vim 1 of their faith, is causing Hpr to look to America as theA Bty of Refuge.” These Jews, lost without ex ception, prefer ‘erica, where they have been led te felievo that they would be alIowe*$ A ht! be Hftm0 Hghts from as everybody else, a exempt military service, I which they arc especially averse! (people, The Jews, as ; are accti tnulators and nod Croducers, and it may yet become j Lhard nut, like the Chinese questioJ ■ for the National government to t# g ttk m deciding as to the, vZthdom of th ,/whoie351c influx of pauper Jews. The Jewish el nient in the United states is a very t afe, desired and re¬ spec ted one, as i tnow stands, and the restrictions a jplicable to others will apply to its i iwldcn and great ex pansion. Sav® Ha y The Telfair E(&' r P nMe « a y« : good price which [hay always corn mands should att r.ret the attention of the planter. I t is not only a usc ful product on th ; ^ arnj > ^ ut a source of some r- ;venue. Three or four tons of hay t ° the acre is not an extravagant estir an< ^ a ** yield, there eouhi tie realized 875 to $85 per acre. TJ 4s matter deserves more seriou- cot! deration now' than heretofore, since >tton has declined irt price. We are satisfied that with a small expo; iditure of muscle, hay could Ire madi t quite a supple mentary crop, ItHgi:; nedect of what world calls “td nil things” that keeps many from laining an inde position i p pecuniary point view. Remer ter the divine declaration, ‘'W - A^ath despised the of small In Russia a dnl rd s corpse . is safe. The ,have a super that if the throw tnrow the me aew dead rain. . axjjmtothenveritwill I enily at peasants were an *ted for disinter body of woman who intoxication, . . . in a state oi it iritoi e Volga. and north of us the crop is small and poor. Georgia will have, a Normal School but not before she needed it —or something to benefit the com¬ mon schools. -V special stated last week tha Pres, llarrison had gone “grabbing.'j Wo wonder if he is “grabbing” at straws this early, since the Blaine boom has been started. Fhkk silver takes better all over the Union than any other plank that has been mentioned for the Demo¬ cratic platform. Tariff reform comes next. What a gathering there will be next year when the old gold-bug Republicans are sent to the soup pail. Some are predicting that cotton will go down to two cents a pound unless the production is decreased. Good cotton has sold in Georgia at three cents per pound and the coun¬ try w,-s not ruined, but then the far mey' .unde t.hcir'nieat and corn at home. M \ you K. T. Brown, of Athens, has been invited, by Pres, L. !,. Polk, to make a scries of speeches in Ohio. Col. Brown is a good one and says lie will stick to Democratic principles and talk Alliance doctrine the farmers of tire Buckeye State. Puns. Livingston says: “With re¬ for tire third party the folks in Georgia ought not to be fool¬ by that cry. It a time conics for third party to he born. God Al¬ will attend to that business. never led you into a mistake and never led you into the brush. time may come when I may advise yon to leave the prett¬ ies, but for God’s sake, do a h the II ,1 "7 scoop*. The now constitution was adopted by nearly 100,000 majority, and Brown was elected Governor by 25,000 or 30,000. The people's par¬ ty voted about 10,000 tickets. The Senate will stand—-Democrats, 27; Republicans, 10; People's, 1. The House—Democrats, 09; Republicans, 17; People’s, 12; Independent Demo¬ crats, 17. Many of the Democrats arc farmers in symalhy with the Alliance. The Democrats of Georgia, wheth¬ er they be alliancemcn or non-alli ancemon, should got together and work harmoniously for tlie deliver¬ ance of the government from the hands of those who have well nigh destroyed it. It is not the part of wisdom or patriotism to quibble or wrangle over minor issues. Our common country requires the best service of every citizen to save it from ruin. Reform is the watch¬ word. Let it be genuine and last¬ ing —Quitman Sun. A» air luvontment. Is one which Is guaranteed to bring you satisfactory results, or In case of failure a return of purchase price. On this safe plan you can buy from out advertised Druggist a bottle of Dr. King's New Dis¬ covery for Consumption. Jt Is guaranteed to bring relief In every case, when used for any affection of Throat, l.ugs or Chest such as Consuption, Inflammation of Lungs, Bronchitis, Asthma, Whooping Cough, Croup, etc., etc. It Is pleasant and agreeable to taste, perfectly safe, and can always be depended upon. Trial bot les free at Ur. It. J. Heid's Drug Store. Georgia Crop Report. The crop report figures of last, month have been given out officially the returns lieing all in. In North Georgia cotton is 79 and corn 99; in Middle Georgia cotton is 8fi and corn 90; in South West Georgia cot¬ ton is 90 and corn 97; in South Geor¬ gia cotton is 94 and corn 109; in East Georgia cotton is 80 and corn 95. This makes an average of cotton 85 and corn 96. .Merit Will*. We desire to say to our citizens, that for years we have been selling Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption, Dr. \, ;W jj f( . pm*, iiuckien's Salve and Electric Bitters, arid have never L handled remedies that Sell as ^ well, or that ^ SU(;h I)nlvmal ufactfara . J We , lon#t to guarantee them every time, and we utand ready to refund the poreiuue price, if natfefaetory result** *> not ***"; thelr "*• rem have won their great popularity purely on tlwir „ lf;rltR . Dr. K. J. R^id'* Drug Store. There will be more cotton made this year than wo can get a good price for. Worms are in the Alabama cotton fields and the fleecy staple crop may be ,,- it shorter still. G 0 T TUERlt 151,1 >in Cures 4 to stricture. 3 days. Guaranteed not to cause If used In time is a preventive sire 75 eta. a bottle, the samn a* other St. prepara¬ Modi, tions. Prepared by tire 1511 clue Iltimnmol* Co., Washington, & Bird, (Jrawfordvi!l?,'<Ja. tiu. For sale bv Home Council. Wo t»kfi pleasure In calling the ntten turn of mothers to a home cure for all diseases of tlie Stomach and Bowels, a medicine so long needed to ent ry children lug. aafeiy through the critical stage ol Teeth PITTS’ CARMINATIVE I* an Incalculable blessing to roothm an# child lttsan liuttgnt relief to colic of Infants, suffer much a discuses the first with four which infant! their life- at It glvesswcct month* ni rest to the alcA and fretful child, ft strengthens and build* up the weak give* nujieltte and flesh bowel*, to the puny, corrects, drain (mm tilt cures Diarrhoea and Dvsenbsiy A panacea for the children Try on* bottle. It costs only, TWENTY-FIVE CENTS A BOTTLE ---AUGUSTA ■ IIA.M LAC.YJm'i . —- Mais OvnoK and Work *. ■ 13 Jaokson St., Augusta, (In. First f!l?.ss WorK (lUHranteed h tUi li J® SKKOKE of Leaves, p: - ASTHMA. ASTHMA.'. Barks, and Saturates Pastiles Paper, ' in caused try a specific poinon i» ASTHMALEfi Will 1U , • (ire IiUkk! (often hereditary),* % i 1 ASTHMA ELIMINATES POISON. It *11(1 Is a DESTROYS SPECIFIC anU"' the if; m answer* No lonjf required list of or months of treatment, i lorn i , :• .pornore.rnv resorted to. We only aik any one suft'erin# from A 1 tin .* fiW 1JOSEB of Anthmalcne. We make |aip J\$riat SSoftfe to Ufiodie |$affer ing cJrorfj fftid. sJerrifefe MaFaS^. 1 tSTSENI) u« nir nan ■n a p'lstil card nitd we will mm! enough ol Dr. Tali', ,V lliinalcnc lorlimv power over l lie ill- ease, stop the spasms end giv. i poml is re*!, and prove to you (no mailer how bad VUUi* (■-. ") that A87KMALE8E CAB CURE gasping AST.IiM/e for ■ breath “l vou fur ni-.-.i fr./ U<) li ii".':- lire/- iliftn. - t your St-nd Ini',,in - or full it in n *;h,iir and port nil nfyliC oftn in vour riarm‘ a •ddrcee on u postal card. 1HZ HQ, TAFT 9R0S., mVICMi CO., ROCHESTER, N. f. Wf U5S THIS .S ONK OF THE 40 STYLES WHICH WE MAKE No. 1 66, STAR OEAR SPINDLE BODY. If ATVRAL WOOD FDTISH, OM FAXIfTED. Built on Honor. Entirely different from Cheap Weatarn Work. Live Dealers wanted. Territory given. . ... KINGMAN, STURTEVANT & LARRABEE ~-:} CARRIASEIHD 8LEI8H BUilJatfc-___ ■EM PFftBfAU.L SA lALgfiilEa* BINGHAMTON, N. Y. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report. Vy ijLjHb (C-W 1 til -. [fm IrH it/ ^aa. a*-. "e. r tCw ABSoitiUmY pwe EASY mmuc a» e . - a» e at +3 PRAcTIcALE tr , £ LY* & TSfilE aro matvlna a opoolalty this season of m caii PARAGObfcHARNESS. / wo our , Made of the pINEST STOCK and the very Best WORKMANSHIP. Such n harnooa $25. % cannot bo boo,/tit for Ico than at retail. But wo nr wimn B , ^ ^ In to Sell $ sample 16 order ono . ouz person 50 for to fs . introduce r *& ,et ao only a H!w ^ it, to <9 A tp;* il ■9 BPfe ■ THE DEMOCRAT* IS THE Best Ad’rt Medinm, IN Georgia.;} Middle $ 1.25 Per Year NO. 83. We would like to know of tha Montezuma Record what it would do with two white parties in Macon county and the South when the ne¬ gro Republican party would lick them both ? 9 •jrxxitso. -llHimfiicfiin 1 wi GRANITE and MARBLE MONUMENTS,~ and STATUARY. --iMEOItTKIt DllUtCT.---- t ONTIUO l'Ult (or Iliitlillilg Mime. AOISNT VOll- CHAMPION IRON FENCE CO., (RjrThe Host In tire World. New Designs! Origins' it ign.fi! LOW PRICKS. Scud for them. Oflicu and steam Works, 529 & 531 Broad St., AUGUSTA, II#. All Work Guaranteed, mjts'o n'rtmyt-zBst-TWk.)■ “mmram i Tp no i-a .iii «j mi us J v m^x.’x’xa o ! COTTON 1 WITH LATLST I VIP ROVE MEIMT9 t l-rr „f I'n lftht, ><!l«r nlof. 1 . for ijHlcb doll very upfin t*eo«tpt of <,rd«r«. ’ OSCOOD” U. S. Standar WAGOSii Iwumuo E - o n» o o not:x!nun
