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u the Hamilton Journal.
VRE THE FARMERS OF GEOR¬
GIA INCREASING IN
WEALTH.
This is an important question, of
great practical value and ought to be
carefully considered.
Governor McDaniel in a recent in¬
terview with a Constitution reporter
says: “The man who says that Geor¬
gia farmers are getting poorer every
year simply does not know what he
is talking about.” Gov. A. H. Ste
phens said: “Every sun that has set
upon Georgia since the war found
her farmers a poorer people.” Upon
this great question these “great
lights” differ and surely lesser lights
may give an opinion.” Gov. Ste¬
phens was surely right and it is a
lamentable fact. What has brought
about this state of things and why are
the farmers not prosperous? It is a
fact patent to all that the rich are get
ting rich and the poor poorer. This
is due to a considerable extent to the
legislation both of the United States
and the several states. Never in the
history of the country was there such
greed of gain, such huge monopolies,
trusts and combinations, and in the
operations of these coiporations the
few get the result of the labor and
industry of the many. The price
and value of very few articles are
left to the legitimate law .of
supply and demand, but wrong
and speculation in some form ap¬
pear in every trade and business.
Hence, labor, whether in the farm or
elsewhere, does not reap its legiti¬
mate fruits. But atfer all that may
be said of these public wrongs and
unjust legislation other causes have
contributed to the want of prosperity
in the material interest of the coun¬
try. Farmers have the right to com¬
plain of many things, but the diffi¬
culty and depression are mainly with
themselves. The want of prosperity
is not owing to the high price of
goods or the necessities, for they are
lower now than ever in the history of
trade, but it comes in thunder tones
that credit, over-trading, lack of in¬
dustry, bad management, want of at¬
tention to business, want of prompt
payment of debts has done the work.
Gen. Toombs was right in his efforts
while a member of the Georgia leg¬
islature to abolish all collection
laws. Pay as you go is the high
way to success and prosperity. Crop
prospects are illusory and mislead
most farmers into the pitfall of debt
and insolvency. It is easy to imagine
a fine yield and trade and buy on
that basis and when the year ends
the balance sheet shows the debtor
side the largest and insolvency the
result.
Some one may say that the tax
book shows and increase in values
but these books do not sho w the • in¬
crease of indebtedness which far out¬
weighs any apparent increase in val¬
ues. Suppose the cash system was
suddenly adopted, the country would
be ruined. About eight-tenths of
the farmers could not make a crop
for want of means. They buy every¬
thing on a credit and if supplies are
not furnished the plough must stop.
The farmers alliance can do much to
remedy this state of things. Will
they do it ?
Ploughman.
THE INTERNATIONAL LESSONS
Mr. Editor: — 4 t is a gratifying
fact that the International Sunday
School Lessons are taught and stud¬
ied on the same diy over the civil
ized world. It furnishes living evi
dence that the son of righteousness
has r * scn healing in his beams
and that the world of mankind is
progressing in the right direction.
These International lessons are
simple but wise, and presents divine
truth in a very attractive form and
anything that aids in their study is
worthy of consideration. Among the
many helps the comments by Rev.
H. S. Hoffman, published weekly in
the Journal are very valuable. These
comments do not propose to furnish
answers to the questions,but facts and
explanations which enable you to
give the answers. They are worthy
of c reful reading and study. They
alone are worth twice the subscription
price of the paper. Look to it.
S. S. Worker.
WOMEN AS JOURNALISTS;
Mrs. Frances Willard, president of
the Woman’s Christian Temperance
union recieved a large vote in the
conference of the Northern Metho¬
dist church, for the position of editor
of the Christian Advocate, the official
organ of that church. The present
editor is one of the brainiest men in
the church, and his re election was
doubtless prompted by the dictates
of sound judgment.
Mrs. Willard, however is a very tal¬
ented woman, and would have filled
the position well. She is a great re¬
former, and this would have been a
discount on her usefulness as editor
of the Advocate. We do not dis
count the importance of the temper
ance work as a part of the field of
religious endeavor, but if Mrs. Willard
had been placed in control of the pa¬
per, it is likely that she would have
given attention to it at a sacrifice of
other important branches of church
work.
Mrs. Willard’s candidacy for this
position calls our attention . * to »u the
large number of women who have en
I tered the journalistic field, and sue
ceeded in it. Some of our leading
papers, political and literary, are in
charge of women, and are being man¬
aged by them with the best of judg¬
ment and with signal anility.—Co¬
lumbus Enquirer.
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A Smart Dog*
From the Augusta (Me.) Journal.
Are dogs intelligent? One would
certainly think so could he have seen
the deed performed by a shepherd
dog 000 belonging to Mr. C. C. Hunt, 7 of
this city. The other day a horse ran
away } and tnrned down the sireet
wheie Mr. Hunt resides. The dog
was lying on the door step, but when
the . horse .... sight he started , for .
came in
the street. Facing the horse, he
. leaped after the , bridle . till ... he succeed- ,
ed in stopping him. Sitting down in
front . of , , him , he , kept , him . there , till ,,
the owner arrived on the scene. At
first the dog doubted the man’s right
to interfere, and ctitically watched
him. At last, evidently becoming
convinced from the man’s actions
that he was the legitimate ovmer, he
quickly trotted back to his domicile.
Beech Spring Bubbles.
Messrs Ira and Wm.Davis were the
guests of Mr. W. F. Crutchfield last
Sunday.
Mr. F. P. Crutchfield came home
last Saturday and will stay until Sun¬
day,when he will return to LaGrange.
We hope that Robie did not be¬
come* angry when the limb pulled
her hat off when she was going from
church.
Warm and clear. Farmers are
glad to see warm weather, as they are
behind with their crops.
Miss Lilia Nelson has the mumps.
We hope she will soon he well.
Mr. Sidney Babb, of Bethany,
promised to visit Blue Spring's farm
ers’ alliance soon. We will gladly
welcome him. A. P. N.
Recent investigation in the value
of cotton seed hulls as paper stock are
alleged to show that 72 per cent at
the very highest grades of fibre may
be extracted. What an important
factor this is in discussing the chances
of paper manufacture at this point.
Some 35 per cent of fibre can also be
obtained from the stalks of the cot¬
ton plant, now left to rot in the field.
A force of hands is at work in the
corporate limits of Fort Vally on the
Atlanta and Florida railroad. The
grading will be completed by June
15 and by July 1 the coal burners will
be dashing into Fort Valley fresh
from Georgia’s capitol.
When you speak of the wolf he can
no t be far off. When you have a
hard cough and a severe cold, be
ware, take care! That dread < i c J n "
sumption may not be far off. Use
Warner » s Log Cabin and Consump
ti Remedy in time and rid your
self 0 f that danger 1 wo sizes. 50
cents and $1.00. All druggists.
How Carbon Making is Guarded.
The first carbons were the product of a
mixture of common coal coke, sugar,
straw, coke from vegetation, charcoal,
lampblack and plumbago Now, or graphites, or
other similar materials it is gen¬
erally the result of a mixture of the only
direct products of coal and petroleum. A
great deal of silica is also found in them
frequently, and to this fact is due the
hissing sound and unevenness of light,
The silica becomes fused, and, forming
in globules on the upper carbon, drops
down on the lower ones, with the result
stated.. All these difficulties had to be,
or are being, mastered, and that accounts
for the secrecy thrown around carbon
manufactories. As an Instance of the
strictness of this, the rules and re &ula
turns of the Davis Carbon company, of this
city, may be quoted rt is a co-operative
Institution, employing forty men, every
one of whom must own at least one sjbare
0 f the stock. Two boys are employed, one the
the son of Mr. Davis and the other
son of one of the workmen. Then no of boy
ca n be employed unless he is the son a
stockholder. The visitor to these works
enters a 14x14 room, the office, and looks
around At one corner is a doorway
opening into a narrow hall, which in turn
opens into one- of the departments.
Reaching this, he finds a somewhat em¬
phatic “thus far, and no farther,” and he
is compelled to stop
“Even stockholders, unless they are
also employes, are denied this privilege,”
said Mr Davis “Then there is one room
which is entered only by myself and son.
That is where the finishing touches are
put on to the mixture For instance, the
product of to day will be In, ready for use
to-morrow I would go then, in the
afternoon What and put on the finishing knows. touches.
these are, no one Under
the by-laws of the company I deposit with
the secretary-treasurer, in a sealed pack¬
age, the formula for this mixture It is
to be opened only in cases of ® mer
gency In case of my tr , or
even such serious illness that I could not
be on duty for several days, then, on the
vote of the stockholders, I will order the
seal b**oken and the package turned over
to some one selected to succeed or relieve
me. ”—Globe-Democrat.
How India Rubber Grows.
Now we come into a forest of rubber
trees, which can be detected without the
eye of an expert, for they are all scarred
and dying rapidly fiom the wounds of the
hunter’s machete. The rubber hunter re¬
minds me of the boy who “killed the
goose that laid the golden egg.” Each
tree can afford tip; lose a.certain amount of
juice per year and still live. When one
of these fellows, however, makes a dis¬
covery, only a few months suffice to place
his bonanza in the ranks of the many that
have gone before The consequence is
one may traverse these immense forests
from end to end and never meet a virgin
tree. The fifty ordinary 100 specimen of Nicaragua
is .from To' feet high, averaging
about two feet in diameter. The bark is
white and the leaves oval, with a slight
inclination downward. The cuts are made
about two feet apart and extend from the
ground to the first branch, channels being
scored in the side to lead the juice into a
bag, held at the bottom.
The average yield of a large tree is from
five to seven gallons of a milky fluid.
This is placed in an open with vessel and mixed
in small proportions the juice of a
plant found near the rubber tree called
the wisth. which hastens congelation.
After this operation is complete the pro¬
duct is baled up and shipped north, to be
refined and further prepared for com¬
merce. Another tree very similar to the
rubber, and often mistaken for it, is the
cow tree. This yields a liquid very much
like milk in color, consistency and taste.—
Nicaragua Cor. New York Herald.
Japan’s Mint in Pull Operation.
Two years ago the Japanese govern¬
learn ment how sent a committee is made to Philadelphia to
its mbit and conducted.
On the route the committee examined the
San Francisco mint. Japan has now a
mint in full operation at Osaka, and in re
meinbrance for favors its commissioners
0 f the new Osaka money making
factory.—Chicago Herald.