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Tie Haoilton II Journal
HAMILTON. GEORGIA.
AGRICULTURE,
ANNUAL REPORT OF TBE NATION
AI. « OMMINSIONF.R.
VfiritiUM Siijjgrx; Ioiim in Regard to Fariniuif
Interest*.
Commissioner Coleman, of the National
Agricultural department, in his annual re¬
port says the year which opened in gloom,
threatening the destruction of winter crops,
is closing with bright prospects of abundance
for man and beast, j reduced at a cost which
is not a burden to the producer, and to be
sold at a price which is not a barrier to the
poor consumer.
He says it has become more apparent that
a more intimate relation is necessary between
the several agricultural and experimental
stations and the department. The colleges
wero endowed by Congress. They arc without now
separately carrying on experiments which report
any central head through to
an 1 compare results. He submits that the
department should have authority to avail
itself of the peculiar advantages offered by
these institutions in order to test the adapta¬
bility of new seeds to various sections.
The law establishing the bureau of animal
industry he says, does not authorize the
slaughter of animals affected with conta¬
gious diseases. The characteristics of pleuro¬
pneumonia make it a difficult disease to ex¬
tirpate except by the slaughter of affected
animals and the slaughter or quarantine of
all that have been exposed. Such is now the
policy of most civilized nations. He de
scribes the serious effect upon our for
eign trade in life stock resulting from the
existence of contagious diseases among cat¬
tle, and says that the redueiion in the value
of cattle in the affected States has been enor
mous. the work , has
In the entomolgieal division
greatly increased during the year. Much
attention has been given to agriculture, and
the work in respect to silk culture has been
much extended. has
> The statistician of the agricultural department production a re
view of the course of
during fifteen years, which shows on esti
mated increase in corn of 37,(KM),000 acres, or
80 per cent; in wheat, of 30,000,000 13,000,000 acres, or
10S per cent; in oats, of acres, or
cent; in all taken together,
’ ^ at 7 et ?' or ’ 1 '
The rommii-sioncr say t , . y imnort- T
ant medicinal plants ai he p y 1
our climate, and cou d
and h . means
fection; wou i i : j
tC com.nissicno.LVs that Xr£ should
of forests. "Arbor days” sSould ho instituted,
the science of forestry should be taught in
schools, and the organization of local and
State forestry societies should be encouraged
In view of the continued destruction of
the timber on the preserving government lands, and the
importance of such portion DO of
forests ns are adjacent to the head spring U5 of
rivers, or which may be needed for climatic
or other reasons, he urges that the further
■ale of timber lands belonging to the govern
ment ought to be suspended until a survey
shall reveal what portion may be sold with
out injury to the country and what condition. ought to
be permanently held in the forest
The coimnis doner says that improved particular methods at
tention has Ite m site given to
of distributing He calls attention to
that feature of the law which anticipates a
report of experiments from those who receive
seeds, and rays it. a vast majority of cases
this design ot law is not met and is not likely
to be lie suggests for consideration whether
or not some systematic plan of co-operation
may not lie fixed upon between the deiiart
rueut and members of Congress by vt hicn the
former can have a better control over the
distribution of seeds than it now has, and
make the distribution a condition precedent
to a compliance with simple but important
requirements.
the .. woik . of . the . microscopical ....... division the ..
in
discovery of a method or detecting counter
feit butter, during and the says that the unparalleled in
crease past few years in the manu
facture and sale of various comjvounds,
fraudulently represented the destruction to the of public the as legiti- but
ter, threatens
mate dairy business—an interest of the
largest magnitude. It is not, he says, com
petition simulation with dairymen that is dairy deprecated, products, but
the of the true
the use of impure substances and the diahou
est, sale, at high rates, of products otherwise
of little value, practices which demoralize
trade, the buyer. defraud honest industry * and deceive
To protect the public from these deceptive
practices he earnestly recommends the prompt
passage of a law by Congress to prevent the
continuance of this business except under
such regulations as the nect S9 ties.of the case
demands, the enforcement of the law, if
thought advisable by Congress, to be placed
under the control ot the internal rsvenue de
pMtment
lu Pari, the passion is for stripes,
plain strioes, fancy stripes, Pekin stripes,
uossible’cor^jiudtiou possible combination oT^co^or^ml oi co.or and mile mate
rial.
NEWSY GLEANINGS
The pumpkin crop is the largest ever
known ‘
Insanity is said to be rapidly increasing
in Philadelphia.
American beer brewers use 40,000 pounds
of rice annually.
Wheat is lower in England than it has
been for a century.
It is proposed in Canada to render all debts
under £50 uncollectable by law.
The total value of real estate and persona 7
property in New Jersey is $565,500,087.
A Michigan man has invented a machine
with which he can fill 15,000 tomato cans in a
day.
A Nebraska stock raiser is, a local paper
says, stalls. building a barn to contain 8,750 cattle
An iron pier 3,166 feet in length is being
built at Boston. It will be the longest in the
world.
A $'>0,000 emancipation monument is to
rise ut Vicksburg by the dimes and dollars of
ex-slaves.
Seventeen bushels of wheat is the pro¬
duct from one grain of seed in three years
on a Dakota farm.
They have golden streets in Salisbury, N.
C. The macadamizing is being done with
gold quartz worth $15 a ton.
New Among York the thirty-two members of the next
State senate there are sixteen
lawyers and only one farmer.
A Chinaman at Sacramento has established
a factory for manufacturing idols and devils
for use in Chinese processions and temples.
An Eastern paper records a case of blood
•S
c0 a new dis¬
ease.
BurmaH, against which England ha> '
M°M gone
oa ’ scat ‘
tered ovor a territory of 1H0,:>00 square
miles.
The German government has discharged
ull the women who were in the postal tele
graph and railway service, on the ground of
unfitness for public business,
“Bread-services'’’ are being held at some
places church in bringing England, each person attending
one or move loaves to b«
distributed among the poor and unemployed
The Life-Saving Service.
i HIM VKKAHI.E SHOWING FOR 1885
'Hie annua, report of Mr. N. J. Kimball,
? c end superintendent of the life-saving ser
y . s j„ )W ; that at the close of the last fiscal
i tablishmsnt embraced SOJstati
j year tee o ms,
| r>7 being on the Atlantic, tlrrty oight on the
, i a p os seven on the Pacific and one at the
j falls oC the Ohio. Louisville, Ky. The num
h (, r of disasters to documented vessels within
t ho field of station operations during the
year was 250. Tli re were on board these
vessels 2,v05 persons, of whom only who ten received were
lost. The shipwrecked persons
“s" "aluelf
™ that Of their
* •£*»“*''' ‘S W SL. tfiiiw Of "this
o^ V.^fioss *’
sir * vice [ tejP,th^stna is uio smallest f Ufa test w tv e Jer thin eiicacnca ix- the chcd scone Sice since of (he us its
fff eral extension, except m the year 1880
. Jargo^s
"
} f'arg?r d ir ng
| y^ar w wa-> a .aigu than tn.m in in miv anv I prev pievious ous
; year except the last preceding. he follow
j " l S statement gives a sununaiy of the sta.la¬
! j! Csof the service, from the introduction ot
■ bsL ea ';, y rL*J? .° s l° f 11° ue as V e ° v
; inodes , 183 . lost at the wrecks , of the t Huron
; ! Metropolis, w inch are leally not eliarge
able to the service: t otal number of disasters,
^'. to M ‘ al a ' al ' “f a J ua of °/ P/°^ rt - v J™ saxed, 1 ™*’ $ *&’ 06 ,
ill’'*?'} ^, total f ota uu J . ub value er ot of P ersons P ro P erty 1 " v lc ^ f v t ®5}.? ’ f o’1^' ’la¬
total number , of , persons saved, ~o,-J 0 , total
number of persons lost, 4>» ; total number of
Pri sons succored at stations, 4,829.
Pirates Capture a Steamer.
tHE CAPTAIN STABBED AND THROWN
; The British steamer Greyhound, Captain
c - W. Sieder, trading between Hong Kong
an d Pakhoi, left the former port recently on
<> f . her . re g ular , tr . ‘PS . with ... 120 passengers
I
and a general cargo. miles southwest When the of steamer Hong Kong was
about seventy
about forty scattered apparently innocent vessel passengers suddenly
who were over the
opened fire with revolvers ou the unsuspect
! ingoffii*ers. The captain attempted to reach
the chart room to arm himself, but was met
I with a volley from overboard. the pirates and The was stab
bed and thrown only
other white officers on board were the first
' and second mates and the chief and assistant
. engineers. The chief officer and the assistant
! engineer were forced at the point of a re
volver to work the vessel, while the others.
with the remainder of the passengers and the
Chinese crew of twenty-five men,were placed
tn the hold, and the hatches battened down.
The pirates then ransacked the steamer,
The vessel was turned about, and
when about forty miles from Hong
Kong three junks came alongside, took off
junks containing property taken from the
I taken in‘th^ootrTge.^TlKr'iirislni^^'ha'v^'t^en Cant * %vhere l wiU bably
be beheaded. n? they pi - 0
,
BEECHER ON BUSINESS.
An Interesting Discourse on
Practical Affairs.
The Foundations that are Necessary to
Every Man’s Success.
In the course of a recent sermon
Itev. Henry Ward Beecher said:
“Men who live righteously have all
the secular things necessary to happi¬
ness. Obedience to divine law and
secular prosperity go hand in hand.
There is no directory in the world like
Solomon’s proverb. One would think
Solomon had lived in New York, for
you will find there all you know and a
good deal more. Every man to be
successful must have a foundation.
He must have health, strength and
common sense, which is the most un¬
common of ail. He must have nidus
try and good management. lie must,
confine his work to his capabilities,
A man six feet tall can reach higher
than a man only five feet in height no
matter how hard the other may try.
An unthinking brain cannot be a phil¬
osopher and a man without genius
cannot produce poetry, of which we
have ten thousand instances,
“A man’s first aim in life is to build
himself up. And the building of one’s
self is the result of proper industry;
frugality and economy. We are not
here merely to enjoy ourselves. A
right Christain life limits men’s de¬
sires for pleasure, wealth and prefer¬
ment. Half of the failures in com¬
mercial life are the result of greedi¬
ness. Men are not content with mod¬
eration—with what belongs to their
abilities. Seeking to do more than in
them lies, they fall to the ground.
There are many men whose energy
and ambition drive them over all ob¬
stacles. They don’t stop to consider
the rights of others, but rush through
the crowd knocking one man down
and treading on another’s feet. Thou¬
sands have no sense of equity between
man and man, but by and by they are
destroyed by the very impulse that
urged them on their haughty, lordly
career.
“Moderation prevents over-action
and hence prevents reaction. Men
eat and are stupid. They drink and
are excited. Their reflections are like
the reflection of the sun upon the
waves. The moral constitution of the
world is in agreement with right liv¬
ing, and whatever one seeks he can
seek better by conforming to the moral
laws of God’s kingdom, Moreover
the laws which apply to individual
life apply to society. If a community
fails to heed them the same punish
ment follows. It makes all the differ
^ world what sort of a com .
munity a man lives in. If you go
down into a community of individuals
where , fights c * , . and , quarrels * . J* prevail you *
cannot expect to find peace and happl
ness. What kind of a place is that for
yourself or your children , 0 r i>Utliyou
® BQ a ‘ community J of tastefulness ’
sobriety and godliness you are lltted
up. Hence it is that no man or class
of men has a right to maintain a nuis
ance of any kind. When we go forth
to drive out the nuisance we are not
meddling . what ... lSJQOt . , Dusmess.
in our
j t doeg concern us an d it is OUr right °
to interfere. We ^ cannot always ac
COmpllbh v, all that . l>e vp «-mild AOuid lik« li 9 L to ac ac
complisb, it is true. We cannot COD1
■■
pel a man to go to church, but we can
“« k *
school. W e can come so near to it at
Moral and virtuous men
the bills of criminals.
“Men who pander to animals in¬
stincts are dangerous to humanity.
They are dangerous to your children
and mine. You remember the old
fable about a man selling his soul to
the devil—the poorest bargin the devil
could make by the way. But vvMie
no man probably ever sold himself to
the devil at wholesale, many are soil¬
ing themselves to him at retail. When¬
ever you violate the great fundamental
canons of morality you are selling
yourself. There are men in Brooklyn
who are seeking prosperity by sacrific¬
ing purity and morality, thinking that
they will succeed by disregarding di¬
vine Jaw. Many believe in the Bible,
but not in its contents. The Bible
says rectitude is prosperity, but tdiey
don’t believe it. Do you believe speak¬
ing the truth at all times is essential
to your prosperity, young man? No, a
little evasion now and then is consid¬
ered smart. Y T ou ridicule the blunt
country youth, who blurts out the
truth at all times. ‘He is green.’
“Men say they will first amass for¬
tunes by evasions and deception,, and
then they will join the church. They
can’t do it while building up their
properties. Oh, no! Why, a business
man in New York persuing such a
course would bankrupt himself in a
week. No mistake should be made in
the cases of men who are successful
in their wickedness. When such do
prosper it is because of some qualities
in their natures which are really good.
In what is called prosperity there is
often not a particle of true enjoyment.
There are thousands of men in dingy
shops who are happier than others in
palaces. I don’t believe bloodsuckers
of gold are happy. I would rather be
a healthy, respected poor man than
the richest in the world, whose name
is only another for gold, so far.
as happiness is concerned.”
Wliat Constitute., Good Bread..
Dr. Coan says in Harper's Weekly.
Graham brendis fit only for the stom¬
achs of herbivorous animals. A good.:
flour must coni lin all the nutriment
and none of the inert silicons covering
of the grain. The best flour, then, is
made from a peeled wheat, wheat from
which the outer bran coats have been
removed before pulverizing it. But
such flour will not be white. And
why? Because it contains the gluten
and the phosphates which form the
exterior shell of the grain. The glut¬
en and phosphates are essentials of the
most nutritious bread. Now what do
we get in the fine white flour which is
the popular thing with most consum¬ i
ers? We get a good food, but one
which has been plundered of a part of
the phosphates and the gluten, and one
which is therefore less nutritious and
less strengthening than that made of
the whole grain, less the silex coating,
the peeled wheat flour. The whitest
bread is mainly composed of starch,
and starch, while a valuable food, is
not one which is sufficient in itself to
furnish the ideal bread. Magendie
proved, once for all, that bread made
from the entire wheat was more nutri¬
tious than that made from refined
flour. He fed dogs upon white bread,
and they died; he fed other dogs upon
bread made from the whole grain, and
they lived in health.
A Practical Suitor.
lawyer, and . She , a
-“ e was a c “ ee * i 5 r
woman 0 f rironertv 1 1 Said he 1
,uer^ nur .
“Weil ugh,’’ one ‘deed’ will be quits ‘
€n 0 he said "if you wiU put it in
my name.”—New York Journal.