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Tell Me Ye Winged Winds.
Home an i! Karin.
Raising Hogs.
I cee in your valuable paper that
aiccK-raisirig in the with is attract
ing ; nine atteiition. 1 have been
much interested, in reading the
cemniunications of your special cor
respondent, J. H. Moore, of Arkan
sas, and a; I am and have been ex
perimenting some in the business,
I will give you and your many read
ers my plan, especially in raising
an 1 fattening hogs.
lathe first place, 1 sow pasture
intended for spring pasture for
hogs, in red rust-proof -oats, say in
From the Coweta Advertiser.
Our Public Highways.
Tills question must 'at* kepi be
fore the people until a sentiment Is
made that will result in an entire
revolution. What we need is per
manent roads. It is a waste of mon
ey and time to simply make our
highways passable. Every dollar
expended ought to have reference
to the future. In ten years we ex
pend enough to got a long way to
ward roads that would last through
the generations. The present law
is a failure because it is based on
a wrong idea. Our legislators as a
'Fell me. ye winged winds
That around ray pathway roar,
Do you not know some spot
'Where mortals weep no more—
Some lone and pleasant dell,
Some valley in the west,
Where, free from toil and pain
The weary soul may rest ?
The loud winds dwindled in whisper low,
And sighed for pity as it answerd, “No! ,!
Tell me thou migty deep,
Whose billows round me play,
Know'st though some favored spot,
Some island far away,
doner.
(flUShson Count}’ Farmer Who Has
Solved the Economics cf Home
Production.
Our older was yesterday invaded
by Squire Kirk, of Madison county,
one of those thrifty, solid men that
are the backbone of the country.
“I see that you newspaper men
ar:-^jiew advising 11. • farmers to
1§|fltheir own meat anti wain and
I^Bcction,” ho ’Veil,
the war ns pa
pers, and in fuc 1 the :uv.- mi over
Turin
Senoia
Brooks
Vaughns
Griinu
The Carroll Free Press comes he
re the people of Carroll county in
sponse to a popular demand. With new type
NUMBER 2.
Leave Gridin
Arrive at Vaughns
ns pa-
thc pres.: all over
eorgia, were urging us farmers to
raise more cotton and buy our sup-
plivas there was mar.ry in if.”
‘•Why, is that true ?” we asked.
“Mover heard of it he fore."
“Yes, and most of the farmers
acted on this advice, and where are
they now ? Well, I kept up my old
plan of raising my own bread and
meat. For a few years these cot
ton farmers had more clear money
than I, but they soon began to go
backward and I caught up with
them again. I know one old tann
er who listened to them and sold
off every hog he had. Vv ell at the
end of the year he came to me and
remai'Ked:
“Squire, they say it costs us fann
ers twenty-five cents a pound to
raise bacon at home, and maybe it
does. But this year loo buying and
I ain’t got a dollar more in my
pocket or an ear of corn more in
joy crib than when I raised a half
dozen fattening hogs. 1 want to
start from you again and T
raised meat
ain’t had a backbone,
rib or a chitterling this win-
I just feel like one year of
life has been thrown away. I’m
going to raise hogs hereafter if I
’t get nothing but the chitter-
out of them.”
my family and wages
I don’t miss what the
I have a good range
my place, and when the
mass ripens my hogs keep in fine
order on the acorns. Every farmer
has enough shattered and rotten
corn to feed his hogs between mass
time and harvest, which would oth
erwise be waisted. I calculate for
my wheat and oat pastures to keep
my hogs for nine weeks, and they
will improve every day, too. I
then take them off and sow some
of the stubble fields down in whip
poorwill peas. In the meantime I
get enough slops and vegetables
from my garden to keep them go
ing. ^Yjm know it don’t take a
| whippoorwill pea long to ripen,
\ when I turn the hogs in on them.
[ They begin to fatten right away,
and by the time my corn fields are
ready for them they are in fine or
der. Here they have more peas,
pumpkins and nubbins left on
the stalk and begin to take on bacon.
When, they have these pastures
pretty well cleaned out I put them
the pen, give them a litLe corn
harden their flesh, and have not
plenty of bacon to do me, but
sometimes to sell to my tenants.
Besides, a farmer ain’t half living
in this country unless he has the
trimmings to feast on about Christ
mas. We enjoy them more than
anything we raise. For the life of
I can’t see where my meat cost
even two cents a pound. The
eat what otherwise would be
all I am out is the
looking after them.
Every farmer in Georgia can raise
enough meat to do him, and he
won’t be one dollar poorer at the
end of the year. On the other hand,
it is just that much clear money in
his pocket and a heap of solid en
joyment and good eating about
Christmas.”
If there is a man who can eat his
bread at peace with heaven and
man, it surely is that man who has
brought that bread out of the earth
by Ills own honest industry. It is
cankered by no fraud—it is wet by
no tear—it is stained by no blood.
It has long been a matter of won
der with sober minded people that
the secular press should sometimes
seem beside itself. This may in
part be accounted for by the follow
ing extract from a lecture by Dr. J.
M, Buckley on “Cranks“Adler’s
German Dictionary,” so says the
doctor, “was compiled in the
Bloomingdale lunatic asylum, in
the city of New York, at a time
is unfit to be
Hea. Our legislators as a
uctooer. uiie nmci, alter sowing, body seem to be afraid ofthisqu.es-
should be well harrowed and rolled, Horn An ad valorem tax is the first
so as to have the surface; penectly towards what we need. When-
smooth and firm, to prevent the ; ever this L taken we will begin to
roots of the plants from freezing du- al rapidly. Permanent
ring winter, and to prevent pulling i roads and turnpikes would turn
up by the hogs while grazing. j Georgia in to the fairest garden of
Say by the first of February, or j the world. We commend the fol-
sooner, I have a pasture ready for i lowing sensible and strong words
my hogs that will keep them in | f r0 m the Telegraph and Messen-
good condition until July 1. By
that time I have pasture No. 2 in
peas ready. When they eat the
peas off No. 2,1 have No. 8, ready—
peas. When they get through No.
3 I change them back on No. 2, the
ger
The importance of good roads
cannot be over estimated. Their
influence upon trade, and upon cap
ital widen seeks investment in real
estate, is practically unlimited.—
same vines having another crop,; This is a principle so nearly indis-
then back on No. 3, until frost kills
the vines. I then feed with corn a
few days and they are ready to
slaughter.
The peas I am now cultivating
are a new variety, or at least new
to me, having never seen or heard
of them until four years ago, when,
in passing through a field 1 saw one
stalk, or bunch, it being full of peas
while the other peas were not yet
in bloom. I thought no more about
the matter umil just before Christ
mas, while gathering corn, I found
the vine referred to, it being rotten
and fallen on the ground, the peas
being perfectly sound, i gathered
what I could find, put them away^Th use. Other cities, notably Pom-
thinking I would plant them the
next season, but did not -think any-
tmng more of them the season
ext year passed
yet planted, The
third year, in April, I was getting
my beans out of the drawer to
plant, when I discovered two of my
peas lying loose. I immediately
made diligent search, when, to my
dismay, the two kernels were all I
could find. I planted them in the
garden, at the outside of beans.
They both came up vigorous and
strong, and commenced bearing in
about six or seven weeks. The last
of June I had gathered 112 pods,
which I planted July 1. The second
crop from my two vines was about
equal to the first; the third crop
some less, which was not gathered.
I left them to see if the winter
rains would rot them. They came
out perfectly sound in the spring.
I gathered from the second crop—
July planting—a quarter of a bush
el. Last year I did not plant until
the last of June, owing to a destruc
tive cyclone which struck my farm
on the 8th of May.
Land planted last year was very
old and poor. I think six bushels
of corn would have been a fair
average per acre. I picked, I sup
pose, thirty or forty bushels, and
turned hogs on them—the hogs
gathered the remainder, after
which the vines bloomed heavily
again. I turned cattle on them,
thinking frost would come before
they would have time to ripen.
I give description of my new pea:
Color gray; if planted early, vines
run considerable; if planted late,
they bunch.
Now, Mr. JEditor, do you or any
of your numerous readers know
where or how this pea originated?
The color resembles the whippoor
will pea; the shape of the pea and
also the pod do net; when dry, it is
very hard, very easily crushed. I
intend cultivating this pea on a
larger scale this season, as I have a
good supply of seed. I will give
you results. J. L. Stewart.
Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.
Judge A. B. Longstreet claims
that his father invented and built
the first steamboat in America Ful
ton’s claim notwithstanding. The
boat, it is claimed, plied the river
above Augusta. Mr. Longstreet
was a man of moderate means and
was unable to perfect his machine
ry. He could get no assistance
from monied men, who considered
him demented for attempting so
wild an impossibility. He applied
to Governor Telfair for aid but the
governor was of the same opinion.
General Longstreet, grandson of
the inventor, says that this letter
to Governor Telfair is, or ought to
be, on file in the executive depart
ment of the state now.
^Drinking-pan for Fowls.
mlt to keep the
behest
put:.Me as to have become axiom
atic. It is older than our civiliza
tion. The Roman empire brought
the principle into favor more con-
spiciously than any nation that
preceded or followed it, until the
advent of steam as a motor. The
Roman reads were the finest of
their class the world lias ever seen.
The Apple ii Way, that magnificent
structure twenty feet wide and
three hundred and fifty miles long,
exhausted the public-treasury in its
creation. Yet the road was bipM
and was in perfect .repair seven
hundred and- fifty years later.—
TMm Yet remains a portion of it
peii recognized the principle, if we
may judge of the specimen that
yet remain. The influence of these
perfect highways upon the most fa
mous empire of ancient times can
not be calculated. It is, however,
reasonable to suppose that they
were the result of experience, and
built in obedience to a policy pre
viously proven to be sound.
In modern times we find the
principle accepted eyerywhere.—
The old countries indorse and
in some sections of this, it is also
recognized. The valley roads of
Virginia, the turnpikes of Mary
land and Kentucky have long since
proven the policy which gave them
place. Railroads themselves date
back and rest upon the original
principle. Wealth and knowledge
spring from the contact of man
with man. As a general rule for
tunes are made quickest, where as
sociation is unobstructed, and con
tact most freon . The most rap
id accumulation of useful knowl
edge comes in the same way. Any
system therefore which promotes
extensive association, any system
that removes dificulties from the
way, benefits the people who are
within reach of its influence. There
is no more powerful promoter of as
sociation, the instinct of our spe
cies, than good roads, and it follows,
the better the roads, the nearer
complete the association, the finer
the results. It is not exaggeration
to say that a city cannot progress,
whose ways are choked and dificult.
If the principle which recom
mends good roads is sound, and it
has never yet been assailed, every
man in reach of it should be its ad
vocate. Taxes paid to secure and
preserve it, return,in increase of the
land adjacent. No matter what
sum is expended, as long as work
continues to bring improvment, the
mony is well spent.
Where weary man may find
The bliss for which he sighs—
Whose sorrow never lives,
And friendship never dies ?
The fond waves rolling in prepetual 11 ow,
Stopped for a while and sighed to answer
“No !”
And thou, serenest moon,
That, with lovely face,
Dost look upon the earth,
Asleep in night's embrace,
Tell me, in all the round
East thou not seen some spot
Where miserable man
May find a happier lot ?
Behind a cloud the moon withdrew in woe
And a voice, sweet hut sad, responded
“No!”
Tell me my secret, soul,
O tell me, Hope and Faith,
Is there no resting place
From sorrow, sin and death ?
Is there no happy spot
Where mortals may be blessed,
Where grief may find a balm,
And weariness a rest ?
Faith, Hoj.e and Love, best boon to mor
tals given,
Waved theii bright wings and whispered,
“Yes, in Heyvw'A •
uyra Incantata.
BY THEODORE TILTON.
Within a castle haunted,
As castles were of old,
There hung a harp enchanted,
And on its rim of gold
This legend was enscrolled :
“Whatever bard would win me
Must strike and wake within me,
By one supreme endeavor,
A chord that sounds forever.’’
Three bards and lyre and viol,
By mandate of the king,
Were hidden to trial
To find the magic string
(If there were such a thing),
Then, after much essaying
Of tuning, came the playing;
And lords and ladies splendid
Watch as those bards contended.
The first—a minstrel hoary,
Who many a rhyme had spun—
Sang loud of war and glory—
Of battles fought aud won ;
But when bis song was done,
Although the bard was lauded,
And clapping hands applauded,
Yet, spite of the laudation,
The harp ceased its vibration.
The second changed the measure
And turned from fire and sword
To sing a song of pleasure—
The wine-cup and the board—
Till, at the wit. all roared.
And the high hall resounded
With the merriment unbounded!
The harp—loud as the laughter—
Grew hushed at that, soon after.
The third, in lover's fashion,
And with his soul on fire,
Then sang of love’s pure passion—
The heart and its desire!
And, as he smote the wire,
The listeners, gathering round him,
Caught up a wreath and crowned him,
The crown—hath faded never!
The harp—resounds forever!.
Josiar.
The New York Herald, which is
giving mere attention to matters
in the southern states than ever
before, has tins to say of the south :
“The tide of southern prosperity,
which set in but a few years ago,
is steadily rising, and there is every
sign that j| will continue to rise.—
The southern people have gained
exerything and lost nothing by
turning from political turmoil to
industrial activity. With slavery
they never could have advanced
to their present prosperity. Their
gain of material wealth more than
offsets the loss of their slaves. The
country has every reason to re
joice over the progress the soutV is
making. Increase of southern
wealth is increase of national
wealth.”
Here is an item for fruit men,
from the McDuffie Journal: “Mr.
James L. Hardaway informs us that
many of the fruit trees at Stockton
place, near Thomson, have been
killed by the application of coal tar
to the roots. He thinks the tar was
extended too far up the bodies of
the trees. We hope his fears may
prove groundless, for his is the
finest and most valuable orchard in
; the county, and its destruction will
prove a heavy loss.”
Things has come to a pretty pass
The whole wide country over,
When ever married woman has
To have a friend or lover ;
| It ain't the way that I was raised,
And I hain’t no desire
To have seme feller pokin’ round
Instead of my Josiar.
I never kin forget the day
That we went out a walkin’
An' sot down on the river bank
An’ kep' on hours a talkiu ;
He twisted up my apron string
An' folded it together,
Jen' said he thought for harvest fime
’Twas cur'us kind o’ weather.
The sun went down as we sot there—
Josiar seemed uneasy,
An’ mother she began to call ;
“Loweezy ! oh, Loweezy!
An' then Josiah spoke right up,
As I was just a startin'
An’ said, “Loweezy, what's the use
Of us two ever partin'!”
It kind o'took me by surprise,
And yet I knew ’twas cornin'—
I'd heard it all the summer long,
In every wild bee’s hurnmin’ ;
I'd studied out the way I'd act,
But law! I couldn't do it :
I meant to liide my love from him,
But seems as if he knew it.
An' looking down into my eyes
He must a seen the fire,
And ever since that hour I've loved
An' worshipped my Josiar.
I can’t tell what the women mean
Who let men fool around ’em,
Believin’ all the nonsense that
They only say to sound’ eib;
I know, for one, I've never seen
The man that I'd admire,
To have a hangin after me,
Instead of my Josiar
“Wrong none by doing injuries,
br omitting the benefits that are
your duty.”
It is not death it is dying, that
alarms one.
The only rose without thorns
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out a neat and handsome paper, which
o credit to the county at home and
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Breakfast at Whitesburg.
Turin
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Sargents
Whitesburg
Atkinson, T. O.,
Carrollton
COUNTY CHURCH DIRECTORY.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL.
Corinth. 1st Sunday and Sunday night;
Mt. Zion, 2nd Sunday and Saturday be
fore; Bethel, 3d Sunday and Saturday
before—'V. E. Tarpley, pastor.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL. SOUTH.
Carrollton, every Sunday in each month;
—W. J. Scott, pastor.
THE FREE PRESS
Will keep you posted upon the leading events
of the day, especially Georgia affairs. We in
tend to give the news if industry and energy
can get it.
New Hope, 1st Sunday and Saturday be
fore :~Paul's church 2nd Sunday and Sat
urday before; Whitesburg, 3d Sunday
and Saturday before; Mt. Carmel, 4th
Sunday and 3<u unlay V-iore; Pierce's
j Chapel,fist Sunday, 3p. m.; Hutchinson,
2nd Sutdav, 3 p. m.; Whitesburg, 3d
I Sunday night—W. H. Speer, pastor.
i Shiloh, 1st Sunday and Saturday be-
i fore: Bowdon. 2nd Sunday and Saturday
; before: Mt. Zion, 3d Sunday and Satur-
I day before: Old Camp Ground, 4th Sun
day and Saturpay before; Stripling's
Chapel, 5th Sunday and Saturday before
—M. W. Arnold, pastor.
THE FREE PRESS
Will always be found the true and unflinching
friend of the people, opposed to rings, cliques
or combinations, if any such organizations ex
ist, for the purpose of deceiving, misleading, or
thwarting the popular will.
PRIMITIVE BAPTIST,
Tallapoosa, 2nd Sunday and Saturday
before: Poplar Springs, 3d Sunday and
Saturday before—E. Phillips, pastor.
Bethel, 1st Sunday and Saturday be
fore : Hopewell, 2nd” Sunday and Satur
day before-; County Line, 4th Sunday
anil Saturday before—J. D. Hamrick,
pastor.
MISSIONARY BAPTIST.
New Lebanon, 1st Sunday and Satur
day before; Oak Grove, 2nd Sunday and
Saturday before—W. N. Carson, pastor.
Carrollton, 1st and 3d Sundays—E. B.
Barrett, pastor.
THE FREE PRESS
Will be free and independent in all its expres
sions. It will not stoop to subserviency in any
form—it will not “bend the pregnant knee that
thrift may follow fawning.” While it will be
Democratic to the core, it will not hesitate to
criticize the actions of the party when in the
wrong.
Whitesburg, 1st Sunday and Saturday
before; Bethesda, 2nd Sunday and Sat
urday before; Eden, 3d Sunday and Sat
urday before; Beulah, 4th Sunday and
Saturday before—IV. W. Poop, pastor.
Aberleen. 1st Sunday and Saturday be
fore ; Bethel, 2nd Sunday and Saturday
before—J. M. D. Stallings, pastor.
Mt. Olive, 2nd Sunday and Saturday
before: Providence, 4th Sunday and Sat
urday before—J. P. Little, pastor.
Bowdon, 3d Sunday and Saturday be
fore—Jno. A. Scott, pastor.
Bowdon 1st Sunday; Pleasant View,
2nd Sunday and Saturday before—T. A.
Iligdon, pastor.
METHODIST PROTESTANT.
Carrollton, 2nd Sunday in each month
at the Presbyterian church--Dr. F. H.
M. Henderson, pastor.
Antioch, 1st Sunday and Saturday be
fore; New Hope, 2nd Sunday and Satur
day before; Smith's Chapel, 3d Sunday
and Saturday before; Bowdon, 4th Sun
day and Saturday before—Juo Thurman,
J. M. M'C'alman, pastors.
PRESBYTERIAN.
Carrollton, 4th Sunday, I)r. Jas. Stacy,
pastor.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
New Bethel, 1st Sunday and Saturday
before, J. A. Perdue, pastor.
Enon, 3d Sunday, G. Hardegree, pas
tor.
Williams', 2nd Sunday, Beersheba. 3d
Sunday, Hethany, 4th Sunday—R. J.
Miller, pa-sror.
THE FREE PRESS
Will give prominence to local news. It will
be a “map of busy life, its fluctuations and
vast concerns.” Every interest of the county
will receive attention, for we intend to have “a
chiel among you taking notes and faith he’ll
print ’em.”
JOB WORK.
tism of woman is always
The Free Press office has a nice selection of
job type and as soon as its job press arrrives,
it will be prepared to do job workas cheap and
neat as can be done anywhere. No public spirit
ed man will send work out of the county, when
he can have it done here, just as well. The
way for a people : to prosper is to keep their
money at home. We ask no favors. If we dont
do your work as cheap and as well as it can
be done elsewhere, then dont give it to us, and
we will not complain.
COURT CALENDAR.
Carroll superior court. 1st Monday in
April and October—S. W Harris, judge.
J. M. B. Kelly, clerk. J. M. Kewiit,
sheriff.
Court of ordinary, 1st Monday in each
month; For county purposes, 1st Tuesday
in each month—R. L. Richards, ordinary.
JUSTICE COURTS.
CARROLLTON.
714th District, G. M.. 2nd Wednesday
in each month—E. B. Morrell. X. F”
G S Sharp, J I\
LAIRDSBORO.
“i.lth District, G M, 2nd Friday in
each month—W L Craven, X P., John K
Poop, J P.
BOWDON.
111th District, G M, 3d Friday in each
month VY H Barrow, N P., nabez Miles!
J P.
WHITESBURG.
682nd District, G M, 3d Fri.lrv in each
month—Richard Benton, N John
O'Rcar, J P. ’ ’
WADDELL.
04btli District, G M, 3d Saturday in
each month—J M Cobb, N P., G T Bow
don, J P.
VILARICA.
642nd District, G M; 2nd Saturday in
each month—Marcus A Turner, N P J
D Stone, J P. ’
MOUNT CARMEL.
729th District, G M; 1st Saturday in
each month—R B Jones, X P., J T Nor
man, J P.
COUNT*- LINE.
129rih District, G M; 2nd Saturday in
each month—L Holland, V p w h
Richards.jp. ’ ” ,y B
TURKEY CREEK.
1240th District, GM;2nd Saturday in
each month—J M Ellison. J p. 3
KANSAS.
1152nd District, G M: 1st
each month—P H Chandler,
Spence, J P.
SMITHFIEIJ).
1006th District, G M:i?t Saturday
each month—Ransom smith J P ”l
Thurman, N P. ’
NEW MEXICO.
moth District, G 31; Lst Friday
Ccich month—J x > \ sic 5 ' \ p t
Jones, J P. ’ r '' J
/
LOWELL.
1163rd District, Gil; 3d SaMmDv
I'ihmions, N P., 0
X 0(1(1, x,
FAIR (LAY.
1122nd District, G j Jf; 4th Frid-iv
ich month I W IvJ?, .. ™‘T
, G j
each month—J W Carroll, N P
IV llliamson. J P.
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