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Buttons, new Ornaments of all kinds.
New Mexican Bands, the latest trimming.
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STORE KEPT BY TflE POPE’S SISTER AT RIESE, ITALY.
The illustration shows the interior of the humbin little bazaar or general store con
ducted by the sister and brother-in-law of Pope Pina X. Theresa Sarto wns poor when she
nrnrriud Signor Parolin. and when the family increased it became necessary to also increase
Ihe income. I'hus it was that the bazaar was opened. The young men behind the counter
are sons of the Parolins and great favorites with his holuiesa.
SOUTHWARD WAVE OF WRITE MIGRATION
Baltimore, Md , September 28.—
Special to News and Sun.
•‘Those who have witnessed the set
tling up of the West, the Northwest, the
far North, and latterly Oklahoma and
Indian Territories, are now directing
their attention to the advance guard of
the greatest immigiation movement in
years. This refers to the influx of Nor
thern and Western people into the
South and Southwest. To the close ob
server it would seem that the forces
that builded up the West and North
west, peopling those vast domains with
the best blood and brawn of the over
crowded East and central West, are now
uniting for a greater work in the South
west.”
“The claim that it is impossible to at
tract white immigration to the South is
contradicted by the experience of every
man who has kept in touch with South
ern development, is refuted by every
authoritative statement of statistics, in
cluding the findings of the federal cen
sus, and so obviously untenab’.e as a
proposition that it should excite amuse
ment rather than apprehension. I wrs
identified with immigration work in
the West twenty years ago. The foun
dation work was laid twentj years ago.
So it is in the South. We expect the
next ten years will bring us due reward
for our work.”
These statements are made by men
acquainted through personal experience
with successful immigration work in
tha West, and who now are applying
well-tested, practical methods to the
peopling of the South with thrifty
farmers and other settlers. The field
of the one is west of the Mississippi;
the field of the other is east of that
river. Their utterances reflect the
spirit of a score of letters published in
thp October number of the Southern
Farm Magazine of this city from of
ficials of Southern and Southwestern
railroads engaged in the task of finding
suitable homes in the South for thous
ands of men from the North and West
and elsewhere who have begun to real
ize the wonderful opportunities for
them in the South. Nearly two years ago
analysis of the population figures of the
census showed that there was a greater
movement of white* to the South than
from it, and at the same time that the
negro population was diffusing itself so
rapidly that nearly 1,0(10,(100 of the
8,840,000 negroes in the country then
lived outside the South. Since the cen
sus was taken’this movement of whites
to the South and negroes from it has
been accelerated, and the reasou for it,
as far as the whites are concerned, ap
pear In the letters from the industrial
and immigration agents of the Southern
railroads.
These are not theoretical. They give
definite facts. They tell of more than
75,000 Northern and Western farmers
settled during the years be
tween New Orleans, La., and Corpus
Christi, Texas ; with 3,000,000 acres oi
farm land. 80b,000 of them irrigated for
rice, brought under up-to-date agricul
tural methods; of 1200 farmers from
outside who, during the past year, pur
chased ana settled upon lands on the
lines of one railroad south of the Po
tomac and east of the Mississipni; of it
being possible to draw an approximate
ly straight line 100 miles long through
three Virginia counties in the so-called
black belt without probably crossing an
acre of land owned by a negro,.and of a
large percentage of the farms thus
crossed being lound in the hands oi
farmers from the North and West;
and of an old field in Georgia trans
formed within a twelve month
into a flourishing settlement of four bun
dred people, with another colony
of 200 persons from Indiana and Ohio
not faraway, and of the incoming to
various points of individual farmers
merchants and mill men. In Halifax
county, Virginia, there ara more than
200 families of well-to-do people from
the West, while many men of foreign
descent or of foreign birth are to be
found around Petersburg and Farm
ville and in the Norfolk trucking sec
tion. The application of wheat harvest
ing machinery to the rice fields, which
has revolutionized methods there,
has been very potent not only iL at
tracting immigrants upon that particu
lar bend, but also In helping to de
molish the the theory long held, espec
ially as to cotton, of the essential im
portance of the ne-ro in Southern agri
culture. Thousands of whites unac
customed previously to the Southern
conditihns are actually reinforcing
other thousands of Southern whites in
demonstrating the falseness of the
theory. Thes? incoming whites are
not confining their labor to such South
ern staples as cotton, tobacco, sugar and
rice, but are <xt mding the area of
trucking, fruit raising and dairying. A
most significant fact following their ar
i ival is that one railroad station which
did a business of but $875 for the whole
year of 1883 did a business of $987 in
shipping milk alone in the one month
of June.
These results are those of a class of
settlers who have been attracted to the
South through letters written by pioneer
friends. Such letters are part of the
vigorous campaign for immigration
upon which the leading railroads of
the South have entered. For example,
one road has arranged for co-operation
of its Southern agents with about a
thousand agents in Illinois, Indiana,
lowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska,
North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and
Wisconsin for the handling of intended
settlers. This is a part of the general
scheme of giving widespread circula
tion to the simple facts regarding
Southern conditions, of advertising
extensively special low round-trip
rates and of running hon.eseckers’ ex
cursions two or three limes a month.
Immediate effects of these plans appear
in the crowds passing through such
gateways as Memphis, Kansas City and
St. Louis, one party of 3,000 persons
having left the last named city on six
trains within two hours one night last
( month. Again, the rice harvest in
Louisiana attracted 1,000 homescekers
and investors, while there are colonies
or individuals in the desire to enjoy the,
full advantages of participation in the
development of the South's farming,
mineral, manufacturing tjnd commer
cial resources. Not the least significant
phases of all this are the organization of
bureaus of Immigration, the growing
inclination of Southern boards of trade
anti other business bodies toward libcr
rility in advertising the opportunities of
their immediate neighborhoods and the
movement to the South of real-estate
men who have prospered in the West.
Advancing values of farmlands in
the cold and uncertain climate of the
North and West and a better under
standing ‘on the part of the farmers
there as to opportunities in the South
are bringing thousands of experienced
tillers of the soil, men who are able to
purchase when their wants are suited,
and who, the vastly greater
chances in the .South to men of energy
and thrift, are not slow in taking ad
vantage of the low prices of land to be
come desirable and useful citizens, and
are being welcomed bj' tlie people of
the South, who realize that an addition
to the white population there means the
betterment in every respect.
For Over Sixty Years.
At Old and Well-Tried Remedy.-
Mrs. Winslow s Soothing Syr ip nas been
used for over sixty years by millions of
mothers for their children while teething
with perfect success, it soothes the child
softens the gums, allays all pain, cures
wind colic, and Is the best remedy foi
diarrhoea. Is pleasant to the taste. Sold
by druggists in every part of the world.
Twenty-five cents a bottle. Its value li
Incalculable. Be sure and ask for Mra
Winlow’s Soothing 8/iup, and take no
other kind
Men’s Suits!
Getting anxious about you Fall Suit?
Most men are about now.
Men don’t buy until they’re ready, and a vast
number get ready all at once.
We will soon be busy, of course, but we will nev
er be too busy to wait on you.
If you are of a quiet disposition, and want to buy
comfortably, come a little ahead of time. Come now.
We are proud of our handsome new $lO. SiaU.
sls and S2O Suits.
Smart as can be—and carefully tailored inside
and out.
We can fit any man that hasa right to expect a
fit and some who haven’t.
L. W. GODDARD & SON.
LICENSED EMBALMERS.
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All deftdls In funerals and directing have our careful artention.
Telephone 73, two calls. 3 and 5 Solomon St.,
GO TO THE
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For IRON KINO rftnlZ CTOVEC
and FARMER GIRL LUUIk JIV VEd
Steel Ranges and Stoves of all kinds.
Guns Guns Guns
The largest and best assortment on the market.
Don’t buy until you get our prices.
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Old Quaker
to his boy :
“Nathan; it is not what thee reads that
makes thee smart; it is not what thee
eats that makes thee fat; nor wlu t thee
earns that makes thee rich, but what
thee SAVES.”
This saving-habit may be acquired
through the steady use of a savings ac
count in our bank.
SAVINGS BANK OF GRIFFIN, Briffln.Oa
Weigh Your Cotton!
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EXCHANGE WAREHOUSE
We are making improvements on warehiusd and wagon yard We
will appreciate your patronage and do the beat we can for vou. Eugene
Ogletree will be with us. B
GRIFFIN & MITCHELL.
THE LANIER SOUTHERN BUSINESS COLLEGE i
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