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About The Pickens County herald. (Jasper, Ga.) 1887-???? | View Entire Issue (March 19, 1891)
The Herald. One Year, , . $ 1 . 00 . Six Months, . . . 50c Entered at the Postoffice at Jnsper, Ga,, as second class mail matter • W. B. MIJHKV, i Ed I ton Ull'l A. L. TURNER. 1 Publisher* Jasper, (in., Thursday, Mur. 17, 1891. A Letter fro in Mr. Nesbitt. Atlanta, Ga, March 14. 1891. — To the Farmers of Georgia: In view of the almost unprecedented agricultural conditions, resulting Horn the long continued and heavy rains, the large cotton crop, the present and prospective low price of the staple, also the short crop and advancing price of grain, 1 •would offer the following sugges tions, which I think will be of some use in enabling us to meet a seri¬ ous cmetgency demanding our thoughtful attention. 1. The corn-planting season is upon us, and in the greater portion of the state it has been impossible to even prepare the lands Thc <at crop, usually so hugely sown anil growing at this season, has not except in a few instances, been put in the ground. It is now too late to put in anything like the usual area, therefore let me urge upon the farmers in “pitching” their crops to put in as large a corn crop as possible, supplementing it with the usual food crops. 2. As the time for preparation is so short, concentrate by prepar¬ ing deeply and thoroughly a small area, putting on this the fertilizers intended for a greater number of acres. Diffuse the tertilzers through the soil, as tar as possible, so that the crops may be better able to withstand the drought, which we may reasonably look for dnring the growing season. Then give rapid and shallow cultivation. 3. In planting, remember that the great mistake made by many farmers is the crowding of both corn and cotton. Give the plants plenty of room. r his also will prove a great safe guard against the effects of drought. Ot course the distance must be regulated bv the character of the soil, the amount ol fertilizers used, and the variety of corn and cotton used, that of compact growth and short limbs requiring less space than the larg¬ er limbed variety. Remember to depend on the floating labor is to take a great risk. There is so many other industries throughout the state drawing on this supply, that the farmer’s safest plan is to plant only what he is sure he can manage well. To sum up, plant an abundance of food crops for home consump¬ tion; prepare the land deeply and thoroughly; apply fertilizers abun dantly, diffusing it so that the plants may send out roots in all di¬ rections; give plenty of distance In the event of drought this plan will insure netter results than if the plants are crowded, and the roots, in seeking the fertilizers, tend all in one direction. The alliance and agrieultuaral clubs throughout the state will do good by taking hold of this subject, discussing it th u oughly and dccid- ing on prompt action. K. T Nesbitt, Commissioner. The latest news from the prize ring is that Kilrain whipped the negro George Godfrey' in 44 rounds. The special taxes heretofore re¬ quired from dealers in an 1 manu¬ facturers of tobacco and cigars uie repealed on and after May 1st, 1891 This is an item of general interest, and all who are concerned may know that the taxes arc repealed. No town has ever yet been built up by private abuse of tne leaders in public enterprises It is always best to stand by them fiimly until they prove themselves unworthy of public confidence, ays the Quit- mail Bress. 1 ’’. L. Stanton, ot the Atlanta Constitution, is an all-round news- piper man. When he is behind with his work he sometimes tran¬ scribes a sweet, pathetic poem with his right hand, edits the . Billville Banner with his left, and talks taf- fy to Ja visiting country editor, all at the same time. ’ Stanton is a daisv.—Lumpkin Independent. A town without a newspaper would be a dead place and yet there arc business men in every town who refuse to support their local paper beyond a subscription, and some not even a subscription.—Ma¬ rietta Journal. General John B. Gordon joined the Dekalb county Alliance last Friday. Larry Gantt ought to shake hands, across the “bloody chasm,” with the General now, and drink to his health in a flowing bowl of “pot-licker.”—Marietta Journal. There Was Only One. We want to know if Mrs. Min- eey has a sister. It is said that she writes the copy, sets the types and mails the Jasper Hekai.d be¬ sides conducting her household af¬ fairs faultlessly, Her doubtful half is out all the time gunning for delinquents.—Gumming Clari- on. Brother Thomas so far forgets his manners as to call us names because we passed through Daw- so iville and di 1 not stop to see him. The fact is* we passed through the town on Sunday when it was raining like*blazes and we coil'd not possibly take time to stop and hunt himTip how¬ ever much we might have been in¬ clined to do so. We arc going to visit him sometime this spring, though, and get a few points about how to successfully run a large and influential newspaper. The summary meeting out of justice to the eleven members of the Mafia at New Orleans last Sat¬ urday may cost the U. S. govern¬ ment a good there round be sum of with money, It¬ if indeed no war aly. The Mafia was a secret soci¬ ety which took unto itself the pow- cr to pass and execute the death sentence upon any person that hap pened to’incur the displeasure of anv of its members. Assassina¬ tions accordidg to the most approv¬ ed Italian plan had become so fre¬ quent that some time last year Cap¬ tain Hennesey, chief of the police force at New Orleans, made vigor¬ ous efforts to ferret out and punish their crimes. For this lie was ...rassinated by the hand of the Mafia, After seFferal months of-preparation the authorities be¬ gan the trials of several of the Ital¬ ians against whom there was ample evidence to convict, but in the tace of all the evidence the jury which had been bribed by friends of the murderers, declared them “not guilty.” 'I hen the citizens i f New Orleans, in the name of outraged justice rose in its might and the assassins met a sp.cedy death. Of course the Italian government will ask a heavy indemnity and back its claims with the dogs of war, and Uncle Sam will have tpfurnish the music or pay the piper. A Pessimistic View. Faom the National Reformer. The country is prosperou s! Jay GonJdjhas gone into Wall street and again turned millions of dollars of the wealth of the nation into the pockets of’himself and co conspir- ators. The railroad reporta mark¬ ed increase ingtheir net earnings, t hey are able tojpay salaries fifteen rang¬ ing from one dollar and cents a day, to) one hundred thousand thousand dollars a year. The “Big" Four” beef is making lots of money. New trusts are be¬ ing formed and Capital is combin¬ ing to spread its tentacles fields that have hitheto been unoc copied. Banks are paying good dividends and constantly adding to their surplus. Loan Associations are gathering in the farms of the farms with a rapidity that indicates unprecedented prosperity (tor the Loan Associations.) Insurance companies are constntly - adding to their he people —the . assets. in- dustnal masses are producing wealth as they never dul producing t while VountiV olheis are arc ni’incr pros" ^ '' B ’ YeJ, - the - is -. , . porous; prosperous in prosperous in railroad combinations; prosperous in trusts; prosperous in class laws upon the staUite books; prosperous in wealth and luxury for the few'prosperous in poverty andtdistress 1 for the many; prosper- ‘ wickedness . , , „„ id , u i P. „ ous in , a. - porous in suffering and anguish; prosperous in the (.people; groans*and ago- ny.of a suffering prosper- ous in tramps and homeless fami- l . lies; yes, th; country is t prospering toward anarchy and revolution pro- voked by a soulless plutocracy. I'KESs J’AIUGKAI’JD. ■o From the Marietta Journal. If do not Wish . Other , you hit them. If to hit you, do not you strike the first blow and get a hard¬ er one in return, bear it like a man. The world has scant sympathy for anyone that provokes a fight and then whines because he is worsted- * From tin; Atlanta Constitution. No town in Georgia should be content to rest under the reputa¬ tion of not being able to support a newspaper. * * *■ From the Jackson Herald. Is it any worse for one faction of the Alliance to sit in secret judg¬ ment upon the other faction than it is for the entire Alliance to sit in secret judgment upon the de¬ mocracy of the ninth district. • » Alpharetta * From the Free Press. Governor Northern’s traducers arc secretly hard at work-to lower him in the estimation of the people; but, as the' boys say, “you can’t down a Christian.” Govejnor Northern wall very likely be his own successor in office. The peo¬ ple are well pleased with his clean administration. • * * From the Fort Valley Enterprise. Because Harry and Larryvof the Southern Alliance Farmer, are demagogues, they seem to think that everybody else is or will be. Mistaken gentlemen; some few may follow you, but Governor Northern will not be led or driven into such paths. Very popular, Early very small, Kisers, very the pill good. Do Witt’s Little for constipation, A. Richards biliousness, sick headache Dr. W. Talleyrand’s Remarlrable Career. Talleyrand has been dead fifty-two years. Tho first volumes of the memoirs ho left are issued. He himself forbade their publication until thirty years after his death, and at that date his literary executors found a further’postponement necessary. He was thought to be tho depository of more secrets than any other man of his day, with greater power over the reputations of more men, living and dead. Naturally these memoirs were long awaited with a singular mixture oJ curiosity and alarm. The career these memoirs portray was qnil remains unparalleled in modern Europe for length and variety of dis- tinguished settee. Beginning with Gouis XVI, from whom he received his first appointment, and from whom he went later with a letter to the king of England, Talleyrand served in all eight known masters—besides a great number of ■ others who were at one' time or another said to have him secretly in their pay. lie became president of the Constituent; assembly which organized tho French revolution. He was sent to London on a secret mission with a passport from Danton. He was minister of foreign affairs under the directory, under tho consulate, under Louis XVin and under Louis Philippe. In diplomatic skill and success contem- porary public opinion held him the first man of his period—that is to say, for half a century the first man in ljurope. As to real influence on affairs, it is doubt-1 ful if any minister since can be said excep-1 ta have exerted as much, with the tions only of Bismarck ai)d Cavour. Even i they did not cover so wide a range, or deal with such a bewildering variety of i negotiations, extending over so great time, and furthering the views of so many masters.—Whitelaw Reid in Cen¬ tury. - Tattoo Marks Irremovable. It has often been claimed that tattoo marks may be removed by pricking over them goat’s milk. This is a mistaken j idea. Chemists and others have for years experimented with various preparations in the hope of -discovering some agent to wholly remove india ink marks from the human skin. Nothing, however, has as yet been found that will remove a por¬ tion even of the objectionable marks, un¬ less, possibly, the attempt be made im¬ mediately following the tattooing proc¬ ess. At Mount Washington University hospital, Baltimore, an experiment was some years ago made in the presence of the writer upon the forearm of a noted character of that city who died there. Befpre his death the man granted per¬ mission to the students of the university to experiment as they saw fit with hi* dead body. One of these students, curi¬ ous to learn everything possible connect¬ ed with the practice of tattooing, cut from tho dead man’s arm a strip of skiu upon which a coat of arms appeared. Be¬ neath the skin the design remained visi- ble. By degrees the flesh was removed, the design in india ink still remaining in sight until finally the bone was reached. After a thorough sponging for the pur- P 0 * 3 °f removing the blood and pieces of re^nacuuiHuu ouu«ji|nw>w. section of the micruui; ting away a small bone the india ink mark was found to have not penetrated beyond. —Boston Commercial Blllletm- - Knots on Trees. In the barks of our forest trees are conti ‘ metl a multitude of latent buds, which are developed and grow under certain favorable conditions. Some trees possess this property in a remarkable degree, and often, when the other parts are killed down by frost, the property of P ushi,1 R out latent buds into growth preserves lwoonwi-oo the f V»li life of - fkn the plant: These buds, having once begun to grow, adhere to the woody layer at their base, and nush out their points through the MEMORY. Out through the trees you rode that day, To keep Uw tryst that our lirairti had made; Or wae it a chance that I want that way. And met you there in the (bade* Along the lano with no hivak of sky, Together tvo measured our horses' pace, And the shadows carne through the tranche; high Over your downcast face. Was it true what you told me then, sweetheart, In tho golden glow of the days that potted, Was it faiso what you said when ‘twos time to part From a dream too sweet to last? To-night you sit in the candle's glare And greet the man that they say you'll wed; Is there no thought of the summer there, Or the old, old love long dead ? The violin's playing that old love time Makes me think of the past again, The tender words in my fancy croon And 1 see you now -as then, When out through the trees you rode that day. To keep the tryst that our hearts had made; Or was it a chance that I went that way, And met you there in the shade? —Kate Mosterson in Texas Siftings. A Wonderful Shoe Shaped Violin. The Paris Figaro announces the sale of one of the most curious violins known to the music fanciers^f the world. It is now on exhibition in Paris, where the American tourist can take a peep at it for a few centimes. It formerly be¬ longed to Paganini, the great violinist, and at first sight merely presents the apjieurance of a misshapen wooden shoe. Its history is curious. During the win- ter of 1838 Paganini was living in a maison de saute called Les Neothermes, 48 Rue de la Victoria. One day a large box was brought here by the Normandy diligence, on opening which he found inclupetj two inner boxes, and, wrapped carefully in several folds of tissue paper, a wooden shoe and a letter stating that the writer, having heard much of the wonderful genius of the violinist, bogged, as a proof of his devotion to music, that Paganini would play in pub- lie on the oddly constructed instrument inclosed. At first Paganini felt" this to be an im¬ pertinent satire, and mentioned the facts, with some show.of temper, to his friend, the Chevalier cIq Baride. The latter took the shoe to a violinmaker, who- converted it into da remarkably sweet toned instrument. Paganini was pressed to try the shoe violin in public. He not only did so, but performed upon it some of his most difficult fantasias, which facts, in the handwriting of the violinist, are now to be seen on the curi¬ ous violin. A Smart Youth. One enterprising youth made tho phe¬ nomenal record of “knocking down” a day while in charge of a construction train, which, it need hardly he said, is never supposed to carry passengers. Under the rigid rules of the average auditing department it is doubtful whether money turned in from such a source would be accepted' by the presid¬ ing Solons. But the carrying of passengers fell under, _ the _ eye of tho construction de- i a followed. Dis- charged for this violation of rules, our promising financier re-entered tho ser- vice on another division of the road, where his industry and patience were rewarded in time with a train. It would appear that lie stood better in the confidence of his superiors than in that of his fellow conductors, the more cynical of whom expressed doubts about the company’s ever getting the train back after he hail left town with it.—Frank n. Spearman in Har- per’s Weekly, A Storm Wave*. A great storm wave is jieculiar to cy- c Ws ' Attho . ... center of ,, the , disturbance , mercury in a good barometer may lower by three lne.ies taun that in a Sllu d;ir lu ^j-' a ‘ nu:it 011 tin* verge of the i lusi.i owing to tho uunmution °, f atmospheric pressure consequent on t ie ro ^ atl( ^ n t;le ilir wheel; and as nat ' nre abhors a vacuum, the sea in the vort< -'^ rlsos i | 1,ovo its usual level until CT'^bbrium i., restored. Inis storm w; u o advances with the hurricane, and rolls m upon the l>w land like a solid wall. In the Backergunge cyclone of 1876 the storm wave covered the land at the eastern end of the Ganges delta at heights varying from ten to forty-five feet, as measured by marks M on the trees. One hundred thousand lives were lost on this occasion.—Chambers’ Journal. y —--- Queer Things in the Dead Letter OlHw- A bootblack's outfit, a wood saw, a hat I)ox, a gold headed cane, snuff boxes, gold, silver and bronze medals, coins of all kinds, countries and ages are among the curiosities collected. The metal ba¬ sis for a set of false teeth is in one of the cases. It was unclaimed, and came to the dead letter office several years ago. A short time since an old gentle¬ man who visited the museum recog¬ nized the ^remains of liia former set of false teeth. He had sent them to a den¬ tist, he said, for repairs, but lost sight of them entirely. As ho had bought a new pair he said he had uo use for the old ones, so they remain in the dead let¬ ter office.—Washington Cor. 8t. Louis Globe-Dein ocrat. Too I.o ud. Tailor’s Boy — Does Mr. Highstyle board here? • Woman—Yes, little boy. Tailor’s Boy—Well, here’s a new pair of pants for him. \Yonian—You can’t leave those here, little boy. There’s a very sick woman in the house, and we’ve got to he abso¬ lutely quiet.—Munsey’s Weekly. A 11 night. “See lieah. Cadley, did you call me a common assl'” “No, Suobbutton, I said you was an uncommon ass." “Aw, that’s different. I cawn’t stand having anybody call me common, y’ know.”—Ejiock. --- In 1755 a wave sixty feet high drowned 60,000 people at Lisbon, and in Scotland a boat 1-ii-^oF ad on Loch T .iiAh Lomond T .nr>ir»*in wuc was purninl carried forty yards inland by a wave which was suddenly formed on the surface of the kx-’h by the same cause. —THE— PICKENS COUNTY HERALD, The Spfciesr and Newsiest Paper in NORTH GEORGIA. Chock full of Home News. Has a large circulation in Pi >kens and surrounding Counties. Subscribe now, and keep posted , on the different topics of the day. o ONLY $1.00 PER YEAR--STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. O -O Th’ Herald PEOPLE’S PAPER, and the working clrsrcs will £rd it to be I the theirjsteadfast friend in.a'icases and under al! circumstances. »f“We will taks in payment any kind of FarmjProduce ntccncr.t prices. Address, THE HERALD / Jasper, Ga. j I CO sa srasrsta a E se«.--ae*|5a CO CD J Successors t" (ROBERTSON & EDWARDS) Have a complete stock of DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, HARDWARE, ' CONFECTIONERIES, Kc fcj Kte._ j^-FURNITUkE A SPECIALTY. •All our goous at Lowest Bricks. $y*At 11 e T. G. Simmons old store. Country Produce taken in exchange for Goods. We keep a good grade of guano. —Conic and boy your— Drugs and Fancy Groceries ’AT THE r ■HBI ISBETJEE: I I keep a full line of.family Medicines, Drugs, Paints, Qils,)Toi- let Soaps, Window. Glass, Diamond Dyes, Colognes, Blacking,'Shoe Polish, Blue Stoned Coppeias, Salts, Sulphur—In fact everything usually kept in a FIRST CLASS DIU G STORE. Also a fine line of Tobaccos, Cigars, Cheroots and Snuff, all of which he will seli cheap for cash. I still offei my professional services to the people of Jasper and the sur- rounding country. C'alls promptly attended to. Charges reasonable. W. A. Richards, M. B. m 3 Tmi cu -3=1 ..! THE ,q . m 'A a @ ffliS V- - v © nqs lot kept h // / //ON ./insist YOUR (/'StorekeepeI ^''Getting SENDTOUS •11 T Them;-,- _ Box2IO, ^HOLfOKE, •=*> FOR YOU Mass.
