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ADVERTISE IN Tilt Wajeross Herald, IT IS THE BEST ADVEBTISIIB MEDIUM IS Tim ncnoi. SUPPLEMENT. FOR NEHT dob'S-Pianting CKLU RT THE HERRbO OFFICE, I CITY PRICES. VOL. XIV. WAYCROSS. GEORGIA. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 17, 1892. NO. .‘i Gome and See! I Family Groceries, Confectionary, Efuits, CANNED GOODS. ETC.. At A. R. BENNETT’S, IS SIMPLY IMMENSE ! Call ami gel his prices for Christmas Goods! OFFICERS OF WARE COl'NTY. Warren Iott—Ordinary. W. M. Wilson—Clerk Superior Oomt. 8. F. Miller—Slaeriff and Jailor. K. II. Crawley—Treasurer. Joe I». Smith—School Commissioner. J. J. Wilkinson—Tax Receiver. T. T. Thigpen—Tax Collector. J. W. Booth—Coroner. c«mntyCommissioners—W. A. Csson. W Davidson ami I>. J. Illacklmm. Address, Waycross, Ga, CITY OFFICERS, WAYCROSS, «A. Arthur M. Knijtht, Mayor. Aldermen, W. A. McXiel. W. W. Shaq* J- H. Gillon. J. O. Justice, R. II. Murpliy. Mil. A o Ou CQ O U- o iSosrd meets Second Saturday in month ' at illt p. ni., at High School building. CO UJ lem Johnson. LaJ 2C >' .w.\.'.NU->v- Christmas! The City Bakery V. sad A. M. Lidge. No. 393 F. ad 4th Wedneday* i. A. I*. English, A. M.. j w."m7£ h. R.d, ¥ BIaACKSHKAR CHAPTER NO. 9, R. A. Meets at Masonic Hall. Plant Avenue. lst Friday in each month__at_7JO p. WAKF.KIF.LD LODUE SO. itt t K. of P. Meets every Monday night at T:U0 o'clock. ; Liwther, K. H, and .*> BROTH EBUOOD FOCO MOTIVE ES- 1W* to announce to the |hn»j»1c of Waver surrounding country that their Full Line of Christmas Goods . Hnitherhood all, Reed S3 ■h month at 10 a. IS ON HAMD. Fruits, Statioi r full line of Con fee Fruit C’nkos, Twn, Fire Works, Wo want Small Profits and Quick Sales. Fresh Goods Received IVTKRNATIOMAI. ASM). MACHINISTS. Waycmm Lmlge No. 74.W. T. Brewer, M. M., C. T. N. Syfcui, Secretary. Meets 2d and 4th Saturdays each month at B. L. K. hall, WAYCROSS RIP1.ES. 'oiupany —. 4th regiment Georgia Volnn- J. Mel*. Farr. 1st IJei leers. Cant. J. MeP. Farr. 1st Lieutenant, J. 11. Gillon; 2d Lieutenant, T. O'Brien; Secretary. John Hogan; Treasurer. W. B. Folks. ReguV*UiMmthly meeting 3d Than- day ofeaeh^kfiMh. Drill nights Tuesday 1 Thursday of each week, 7:30 p. in J. H. HELLER, Proprietor. ( Meets every Monday evening at 7: . i J. A. Jones. N. <!.; D. Williams, S WAYCROSS LODGE I. O. O. P. 7:30 o’clock. Secretary. His Monthly Talk with the Fanners of Georgia. DEPARTMENT OF AoniCTLTl'RF., Atlanta. Ga. Dec. 1. 1891. Tho year of 1892 has nearly passed away, and as we take a retrospective view of our lalmrs. our successes and our defeats for this year we find much food for earnest thought. It isonr dntv to consider and weigh well the grave responsibilities which surround us. and in making u arrangements for another ask ourselves if our efforts have been conducted ou the right lines? Have we conducted our farms on common business principles? Have we fathers, with a perfect system of labor. trained and disciplined, pushed the ex* hausting process to snch a degree, and the consequences of our following this destructive policy are so serions that today we find ourselves confronted by conditions which we innst meet ana conqnor or own ourselves defeated. These unsatisfactory methods, do not meet the demands of our more - enlight ened age. They are wrong from any standpoint, and* with hired labor they are absolutely ruinous. *' ’ debt is it possible for r~ gatn I have already stated, costs under our £ resent methods more than it will bring i the markets. Let ns study this ques tion thoroughly, consider onr surround ings. examine carefully the condition and requirement*, of our lands, count the cost and then apply ourselves dili gently to the task of ascertaining which a • of Vu °-n , methods, which crops will pay the — w — -srgest yield from the smallest j ,ii,.;,i^r\.i« UiHtur <iAt*nnin«<l area at the lowest cost, but havi I largest dividends. Having determined : consult the ever imp: I “supply and demand,’’ and in disposing i of them did we exercise the business j acumen which enabled us to market I them to the liest advantage? Is it not Kvea la tb* Heat »r Battle They Do Thing* with a Flourish. For another hour or more my neigh bors, the communists, who had been reinforced, gave pause to the Versa!!- PRAIRIE DOGS KILL SNAKES. Thar Li Rat. tiers Bat Ara Their Match. It is often remarked that owls, prairie dogs and rattlesnakes live amicably together in one hole, which the prairie dog is supposed to have prepared. In order to test the question of the peace- ful relations between the dog and the lUt "effort b> dracnul the Boolean! M»Le an old army officer tells me that holding their own | he once turned a rattier loose in his at the beginning of each year to overlook these important questions? In onr anxiety we are liable to forget that the farmers obligations are not confined to the narrow circle of his own farm and home, hut on each one rests, in part, the duty of feeding and clothing hut oth< this id suffering t« wants have the h and trades, and »1 while helping us, dneers, whose daily to lie supplied. It. is io me farmers that these teeming millions turn, not onlv for their meat and bread, but for the clothes which they wear, and the farmers alone can tinn1 nee them. This is their supreme right, and thus to against the Versaillist fire from the i room, says the Scientific American, church of the Trinity and the berricedc I Opening the rage of the prairie dog oa the rise of the Kuo Lefeyettc, | ‘he little fellow at once came oat. and writes Archibald Forbes la the Century, i ran back and forth immediately ie The honee at the right hand corner of! front of the reptile, which was colled the Rue de 1m Cheussee d'Antln end the ' ' vi ‘ h heed poised ready to strike thr Rue Lafayetto—the house whose pro jecting gable was my shelter—hail caught fire, to my disquietude and dis comfort; but before the fire should seri ously trouble me the impending crisis would probably be " THE G. G. GRACE GO. SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS AMONG THE CHURCHES. Ladies’ Jackets, Blazers, Capes. Diets Tirings Serges, Bilges, Henriettas, Cashmeres, Retlfortl Cords, Flannels, Ladies’ Cloth, Whip-Cords, All-wool l’laids, Laqdsdown, Silk Warp, Henrietta, Brilliantines. Write for samples. ritKABvrKniAN niunru. William* Street, Rev. W. S. Porter, Pastor. Services on every Sabbaths except the first, at U oVIoek a. m. anil 730 p. o’clock. Kabliatli school a Sunday. The Earnest Workers i Wednesday afternoon. METHODIST rilVIUTf . I Church Htnri. Kev. <1. W Mathews. Small. China, I ^‘7?.V ’ Faille, Bengaline, ; Moire. Figured and Changeable Silks, Featherine, Gimps and Bniids of All kinds. CRACK KPMTOPAI. rilUKClI. V inter IVndleton a ml Mary Street. Services 11 a. m. and 7:00 p. tu. Sum School t» a. m. BAPTIST niPRClI. Klizaltelli street, Rev. W. II. Scruggs, Pasto Preat-hing even' Sahliath 11 a. iu. ami i. Sunday S»-l«ool every Sabliath 3 p.r n m. a Prayer Meeting every Thursday 7:30 p. i more furious waxed the firing all around. About the opera house it was especially fierce. 1 hail glimpses of fighting at close quarters in the open space before its rear front, and I could discern men shuffling along behind the low parapet of its roof. They carried packs, but I could not see their breeches, and was not therefore wholly certain that they were Versalllists. A woman had joined me in my position behind the gable — a woman who seemed to havo a charmed life. Over and over again she walked out into the fire, looked deliberately about her, and came back to recount to me with ex cited volubility the particulars of what she had seen. She was convinced the soldiers on ths roof were Versaillists; yet, as I pointed out to her, thedrapeau rouge still waved above the statue on the summit of the lofty building. The people of the hotel in our rear clearly shared her belief. Gathered timidly in dog. The snake followed the dog’ movements with its head. The dog’i eyes were constantly directed toward the snake's eyes. After a time the movement of the Furious and • snake’s head from side to side grew slower. It seemed to have In-come fused or dizzy from the continued exer cise. With a quick spring the dog seized the snake’s neck close to the head and bit it viciously. He continued biting the snake along the spinal cord from neck to tail, the first bite having practically ended the snake's life. When the dead reptile was swung to and fro from the bars of the dog’s cage the animal tried to ward it off with hit fore feet. These actions convinced the officer that the dog appreciated the dangerous qualities of the snake. This observer also thought that snakes did not strike adult dogs when living with them, because the boles were too small to maneuver in. them belongs the lever which moves th« world. Do we realize the magnitude of the undertaking? Is it not our dntj not onlv to supply onr needs, but to ilyt .... meet this demand which the world makes upon.us, and are wo pursuing Eystem which will accomplish this work? To understand this question more thoroughly let ns go hack thirty years. At that time there were fields in every section of onr state that, without fertilizer, yielded Urge returns. With ordinary preparation and fair cnltiva tion we reaped abundant crops of staple productions. 1 energy to produce the best results Select some good agricnltural publica tion. nothing hotter than “The Southern Cultivator" and its contemporary “The Southern Farm,” lioth published in At lanta, and as yon sit around your fire We had pauses or woodland partnres, which furnished our meat at an I ilmost nomi nal cost, and a content© , thoroughly controlled lalior system Prosperity and contentment smiled 4 i every side. Then came the devastations of war and an entire change in onr system of labor. After this, from necessity often, but as truly from mistaken farm meth ods, the tenant and retiring system began, and also the pernicious and false, and I should say, easy and elastic plan of securing advances to the fnll. nlative system of farming, me ease with which jredit coaid lie obtained * i cotton and the impossibility of securing it on any other crop, and the cheapness KNEW HOW IT WAS HERSELF. Aid Or da rad a Chair That Weal* Held Up Two Parsons. A substantial-looking countrywoman ^ __ went into a Woodward avenue furni- the porte cochere, they were crying j ture store the other day. says the De- “Bravo!" and clapping their hands, be- j trolt Free Presa, and asked to see a par- cause they hoped and believed the. Ver- . lor chair. saillUts were winning. “How’s this one, madam?” inquired The woman was right; they were j the clerk, setting out a weak wicket Versaillist linesmen whom "" WE CAN! the parapet of the opera house. There was a cheer; the people of the hotel rau out into the fire, waving handkerchief* and clapping their liands. The tri color was waving above the hither j portico. The red flag waved still on ! the farther elevation. “A ladder! a j ladder to reach it!" was the excited cry i from the group behind me; but f« i moment i chair and shook her affair. She shook head. “How do yo« like this heavier one?" he asked, dragging up another style. She shook it and shook her head. Then he shewed her a lot, each a lit tle heavier than the one rejected, and all were pronounced too light. “Good heavens, madam," exclaimed Udder - WAS) procurable. At i Ute ex»sperat«d cleric, "do you wunt an Tlic handsomest line of Jet Trim mings in town. HIVE YOU AS SEAT We Don’t forget ns when you think of buying Shoes, are agent for Zeigler’s, aud they are the liest. THE C. C. GRACE CO ■THE RACKET? e pleasure in informing HERALD OFFICE waited, there darted down the i iron-seated brick chair with boulevard to the corner of the Rnc i foundation?” Halevy a littl* grig of a fellow in red “Yes, that’s it, that’s it, she said lands have influenced many farmers to produce a money crop, rather what they hoped would Is? money crop, to the exclusion of those food crops so absolutely essential to the __d. and I may say, .calling. Granted that w the resnlt of our losses from a most destructive war and the wiping out of old established customs, success, comfort perpetuity of this system Wiping Oil! OI om F«»ui»lieu I iiaioum, it is equally true that it has established temporary methods which have well nigh bankrupted us. Time has effectnnlly demonstrated the folly of continniug an agricultural policy whk*h ha* brought us only ilis- •Bcy — .^pointment and defeat in the past, yet in some cases from apathy, in others from a spirit tarn of iles)»air. We see onr farmers plunging each year deeper and deeper into the whirlpool of ruin. Seeking and gaining the consent of their patient and hopeful creditr— thev brace themselves foi work, and by increasing cotton ’ ’ hop** to l breeches—one of the old French lines- i eagerly. “You see my girl Susan has men breed. He was all alone, and ap- j got her damps onto steady company peared to enjoy ths loneliness as he I this fall and he comes every night, and took up bis post behind a tree and fired j between ’em they’ve broke down every hi* first shot at a communard dodging i chair in the parlor, and now before I’ll about the inteseectlon of the Rue Tait- I have my brand-new sofy smashed or bout When la * Frenchman not j the engagement busted I’ll get a chair dramatic? He fired with an air; he strong enough to carry two if I have to fired again with a flourish, and was mortgage my bouse and farm. I was a greeted with sheering and hand-clap- gal once myself and know how it is.” \ ping from the “gallery" behind me, to m which the- little fellow was playing. Then he beckoned us back dramatically, for his next shot was to be sped up the their new . .. their only money crop, vainly hope to retrieve their failing fortune*. This new work is only new a* far as the season is « “ cerned. It is a new year, hut it is 1 same old methods, the same old hop the same old efforts to * crop on credit to pa; •■•"thematic*.- r _, easily demonstrated than this; that a farmer cannot purchase supplies on time to make cotton at present prices. s>In nine cases ont of ten the losses are so great that he finds his obli gations have lieen increased rather than ihmhed by the honest but mistaken ■et-STORE.*’ FALL AND WINTER GOODS Have arrived. We are carrying a frill line of Clotting, Dry Ms, Shoes, Hats : Ci[s ; Ifc.itc. Which we will sell at tlic I.owr-4 iWihle Prires. Mtn'i, Suits any «!»-, /rom W.50, tr.Otl, *!>.oo nul up. ItlAck Double-Brwtul Suit* fur only »S.00, worth $I.'!..Vl. Wo will vllyou l-AOta from :>0c. to »7.bf>. Sinslr Couta in erwy atylc from (1.50 up. VoUof nil kind, at cnmwpnnilingly low prier*. Mon, OrerCont. from £>..-K>tnt1S Hoys' Over Coil* from tl^Sfr np. Youth." ami Il.y»’ Clotking Double or ItrKmtnl at lh« lowwt prii-o. Hatanf all kind at tbu Iowmt Prim. Onr lino of Ladir.’ Jac'.Tt.. Hair Capm and Antra Capra, Wrappers »nd all kind, of Ladira’ Wniatx. Ladin* and I lent.' Rubber Gnnda and ail kind, of l*ndrnrear. RACKET STORE, pllIt *"•»•. Int iiir t« Vistira FinijanCi. THAT we do the Finest Job Prmt- ing, at the Lowest Prices, and use the Best Stock in this sec tion. Come and see us. In any other city in Georgia, and at as low rates. We Use The Best of Stock. Rue Lafayette at a little knot of com munists who, from a fragment of shel ter at the intersection of the Rue La- fitte,. were taking him for their target. Then he faced about and waved hi» comrades on with exaggerated gesture* which recalled those one sees in s blood-and-thunder melodrama, the com munist bullets all the while cutting the bark and branches of the tree which was his cover. Ah! he was down .Well, he had enjoyed hi* flash of reck- Anything in thr Printing Line VISITING CARD TO A POSTER The wonum by my side and I darted across and carried him in. W< might have spared ourselves the trouble and risk; he was dead, with a bulV* through his head. a lesson from the cook. You are slor- enly, whereas she washes her face three 'or four times a day. . „ House Girl—No wonder. The fellow who comes here to court her is a chio» ney sweep.—Texas Siftings. Cat* HI* Xwk Tttt W*y. “I fell into tho pond to-day, and it was up to my neeld” said Walter. ,f» mid Jack. “The water flu the pond Isn’t more than a foot j. . ; “Ah, but 1 went in bend llrat,” •»* - ; Walter.—Hupet-m Young People. •YonnK jATCOX—Trarel ImproreA onu - - no, Mb* Flypp. - ' i; > SliU Flypp—Indeyd! Why don’t |Wn i r |,tra»Al.'llrj JAyoox?>Brooklyn Llfn. Tb. VUII .[ DMlh-. ABC*!. There is a curious idea lingering in some places that when the death of a person is imminent the fastening of the doors of the room or house hinders pain fully the departure of the soul from the body. Take an instance or two. A gentleman, writing forty years ago, has stated that when he was curate in Exeter, he called upon a parishioner who was on his deathbed. The wife told him that she thought her husband would have died during the previoua night, and that consequently she hail unfastened every lock in the house. The same idea prevails in the north as well as in the west and southwest of England. In partial connection with this custom it is interesting to note that the Jews at Gibraltar, on a death oc curring at any house of theirs, pour away all the water contained therein, on the supposition that the angel of death may have washed his sword in it. effort he has made to releai**? himself from the relentless grasp of debt. Let resolve on different method*. Onr* _ _ in honorable calling, and farming is juat a* much a business a* _ selling “I m v>rry." said Mrs. Bronstone, in the heat of the marital spat, “I'm sorry 1 ever married you." “Maria." replied Mr. Bronstone, re proachfully, “haven't I been a good husband to you? Haven’t I carried bundles and done shopping and staid -home nights? Haven’t I—’’ and here his voice was choked with sobs of self- pity. “Haven't I gone to evening mu sical receptions with you whenever you asked?" But he could get no further. In a passionate excess of remorse Mrs. Bronstone hsd flung herself into his arms and was begging forgiven* good*, or mining ores anil require* far more study and preparation. Let no man think that he can snccesitfnlly embark in it without some previous preparation or knowledge of even its simplest duties. To the man who farms because he loves it and not^sim- ly because he can gain sides these long winter night* read study the result* which are Iwin^ obtained in every section hv live nu I wide awake farmer*. The day with ik is passed when we can do nnperfu i.d work, liecanse the clement* once • * abundantly supplied by onr soil ar • from unwise and careless, msnageuien* greatly exhausted. Anyone with ordi nary intelligence aud energy can on rich land dig a support from the soil. Onlv intelligent and properly, direct d skill can wrest success from onr charge ’ condition. Bnt here science come* onr aid, points ont tne trouble Rnd.snv jests the remedy nnd common sens- tells us that we have the conditions f-r success in onr grasp if we will only con trol them. Science say* there are cer tain element* necessary to the growl •• of your crops, supply those in grester qualities than your crops require an! you keep np the fertility of your land*. Common sense sill's you hav# a monopoly on a crop which is alaolntely necessary to the world, keep it in proper bound- and your independence is secured. Bnihl np a small acreage each year by •» careful eystem of rotation, green vr«*p* and manuring. Take a few acre* hi. every spare moment haul out the scrap ings from lot- stable and fence corner*, also from rich spots in your wood: Now and during the winter tndnths i* the lime for this work. It ha* been demonstrated that stable manure spread on Mho land and allowed to remain duriug the winter has produced 70 bushel* of corn per acre. The same inantity plowed under in the spring same season yielded only flO bushel* Acre. Pnrcliaso your said, cotton seed meal and potash now. t a>«d duriug the had weather mix the**? ingredient on a tight floor in the proportion of fit* ponnds meal. 1.200 pound* acid and pounds German katnit. You will sa«.» from $4 to 8-7 per ton. have a first* clai * fertilizer and know just exactly whr» yon are using. Or you can take acio. cotton *ocd meal and stable manure in ie following proportion* and have > irtilizer equal, if not superior to an- ..a the market; Acid. «30 ponnds. stable manure, (i75 ponnds. cotton *«ed meal. 225 pounds, or green cotton seed. pounds. When land is deficient K potash add 200 i>onnds of kainit. In this formula deduct 75 ponnd* each, ui green cotton seed ami "table mauiir- and 50 pounds of super phosphate. Again let me warn yon not to lie led into the mistake of raising too mneh cot ton. Don’t lie tempted to leave the only true plan to success, that is nlenty * of food supplies, and then all the' cotton m can cultivate without having .to •rrow more than it i* worth to make it. The present condition of the -cdftnn market is sufficient proof of the number able laws of “supply ami demand.” Tlic theory that we cannot produce tubuiurh cotton is entirely exploded by the -ex periences of 1891 and 1892. In '9l wc produced the biggest crop on record., and the price fell far below the cost pro duction, and many farmers.^ more especially those who leuight their pro visions are yet straggling to pay off the •bligations incurred in making that crop. In *92 by reason of reduced acreage and unpropition* season*, the yiekfhas fallen below the average, au l now that tbi* fact is established l*eyopil controversy, we see the price bonndim* tip in spite of speculative effort t«> de press it, and notwitlistanding the fact that we have no more money in circula tion than we had one year ago when there was a popular theory tliat scanty of money and underconsumption, and not over production depre***il tin- market and was the cans# of the- di*aj>- tronsly low price. Had the majority of farmer* by pur ging a sound agricnltnral Hicy been able to hold this year’s crop. *li»t is the crop of *92, thev would now lie reaping the golden harvest aver which the spec- nlators are rejoicing. It is true there farmers who liy raising an abun- ice of provisions, reducing the cotton „. v i and ny careful methods increasing the yield while lessening the cost, are Kn cultural „ hard living it, who studies business a* well j most enlightened methods, who appliee the gained from the brainwork researches of others as well as that gleaned from bis own observation ami experience, who uses brain force as Well as physical strength—to this man, nature opens her store honse and store honse and poors ont her treasures. In studying her laws shall realize that each year we ot duty to our land as well as to onr fami lies and ourselves. We shall find that We cannot continue indefinitely to draw plant food from the soil, and expect that ■oil to remain in fruitful condition. Taking even a small quantity each year wears ont and depletes, and while this depletion may not be aotfcMhle at the ■tart, a gradual reduction both,, m the plant growth and yield of fruit .must take place, and each succeeding year marks a lancer decrease in the produc tive power of the land. Let ns illus trate; When a cotton planter puts hi* usual 200 ponnds of fertilizer to th. acre, he has among other elements pot in 4 ponnds of ammonia. «id when lie realizrfthis usual acreage of one-third of a bale to the acre, he has removed fnmi the soil iu the seed alone. 12 i*«uud» of ammonia. In other words he each year takes off in the seed alone 8 pounds more of ammonia than be supplies, and the land has to make np the deficit. Ceuld there be stronger argument against our present methods. ' today reaping tho lienefit from tbei wise forethought, lint unfortunate)j they are the exception. The talk th» cotton has gone ont of the hands of the fanners, and they are compelled to-aee their crop, the resnlt of mnch anxious thought and weary toil, enriching others instead of themselves. I/efr* ate urge you in planning your crop* for to to rememiier that when we glut the mar kets of the world. we have to accept gnch prices as the bnyer sees fit to givf, bnt whe* we have onr snpplie# ami a cotton iViip jnst sufficient to meet the d^ mand* of trade, we can. to a certain extent, dictate the price. Don t allow yourselves to be altered into false meth’- oda by the present high i*rice of cotton. This will he my last talk with the fanners liefore the opening of the new tear. May they realize the grave re sponsibilities which it brings, and by a wise and careful policy, use its oppor tunities to their own best advantage. * R. T. Nesbitt, Commissioner. • Amateur Actress (who Intends • to adopt the stage as a profession).—No. Mr. Kersmith, I cannot marry you, nor any man; it would interfere with my e have Cawker (entering store)—Let n a bottle of arnica, please. Dealer—This isn’t a drag store. Cawker—I know that, but you have a sign in your window which soys: “Bi gfclers’ supplies."—Judge. :Ci-, • :;*L