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The Columbus Exposition in Fine
Shap:—A Splendid Track.
“Our exposition is going to be a
success, unless the yellow fever
scare should interfere.” This is
the way Colonel Henry R. Goet=
cbius and H. C. Honson talked to
a Constitution reporter yesterday,
and they were evidently in earnest
about the matter. In answer to the
reporter’s question as to the pres
ent condition of the exposition
buildings the gentleman said:
“All the buildings are nearly
completed and everything will be
ready on time. There will be no
delays on this acconn® and the ac~
commodations for exhibitors will be
first-clacs,”
Continuing the gentleman said :
“Tnereis no reason why the Colum
bus exposition should not be a
arand success. Of vourse the yel
low fever epidemic may keep away
a few who would otherwise have
come from a distance
to visit our exposition, but
we do not apprehend any serious
drawback on this account. In tact,
itisovera month before the exposi
tion will open, and in that time the
scare will most likely have disap—
peared entirely.
“Another strong reason that we
uave for our faith in the success of
the Columbus exposition, is the
fact that the present season’s crops
are the finest since the war, in all
the territory tributary to our town.
This is bound to helpus in every
way, and our exposition will of
course get its share of the benefit.”
“In answer to a question as to
the racing features of the exposi
tion the gentleman said :
“We have the finest track in the
whole country, at least some of
the best posted horsemen have told
us so and of course we are willing
to accept their judzment. The
track is laid out and curved on th
model approved by the highest
newsp: per authority in the coun
try and the racing attractions «f
our exposition will be first-class.
Andwe propose to do our level best
to have that verdict rendered on
the exposition as 2 whole.”
Messrs, Goetchius and Hanson
returned to Columbus last evening,
evidently satisfied with everytbing
in general and the Chattahoochee
Valley exposition in particular.—
Atlanta Coustitution.
Self-Help.
Boston Herald.]
A little fellew tunibled into the
fountain and managed to crawl out
before any one reached him. Pile
and llripping he was put to bed
when his mother requested the
young man to thank God for saving
him, Young Ameriea answered :
“ 1 held on to the gwasa, too.”
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And now there is to be another ex
citingcampaigp in Atlanta. Satur
day’s primary virtually settled the
nomination of a Sepnator for that
distriet by the election of Mr, Rice~
but three representatives in the
lower house of the General Assems
bly are to be chosen, and the pros
hibitionists and the antisprehibits
onist wil 1 proceed, it is presumed,
to fight their little war over again.
The late Miles G, Dobbins, a
man of great good sense, was once
asked the question, **Why do you
keep buying land; Mr. Dobbins ;
are you not afraid that you will
become land poor ?” lle sagely
replied : :
“God makes more people every
day, and I dou’t éée Him making
any more land.” 4
But Mr, Dobbins’ good sense
went further than that, ar:g‘l:ae de
veloped the manganese mines on
his lands until the shipping of ore
from Cartersvillé had become a'con
siderable industry.
After all,it is the deveeioper and
not the squatter, who reaps the
richest reward. It is the man who
“turns up something” rather than
the man who waits tor something
to turn up.
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In the manufacture of piano
keys the teeth of fifty thousand el~
ephants are used every year,
DAWSON, GA., \VEDNESbAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1888
BURTON,
ASPECIRE OF I'HE PAST AND
A STORY OF IHZ WAR.
Just £fter the Surrender.
Atlanta Constitution, )
Bill Burton was on the cons
federate side in o hundred fi -hs all
throu_h the war but he never kill
ed one of the enemy until atter the
surrender.
He was as brave as a lion;, but
he had a horror of bloodshed. Many
and many a time Bill would take
deliberate aim at a union soldier;
and then raise his gun and shoot at
random,
“If Taccidentally kill a man,”
he used to say, “I cap stand it,bat
I ain not going to pick out a fellow
and deliberately plug him. It may
be all right but I can't do it.”
The beys langhed at Bill's serus
ple,s but he was a good seldier and
never shirked his daty. Once when
a big fuse shell fell in the treuches;
and lay there spluttering about to
explode, he trequently piched it
up and pitched it on the outside of
the breast works where it burst
w'thout doing any damage. For
this ¢allant act his colonel offered
him a forty days" furlough. Bill
was strongly tempted to accept it.
He knew that a certain little woms
an down in Georgia was erying her
eyes out for his sake, and he knew
that several tow headed little boys
and girls would be very glad to
see him, He drew bishand across
his eyes, and then looked at his
colone! with a smile.
“J can’t go home now,” he said
bluntly “Every man is needed
here, and I feel that it is my duty
to stay.” .
That was Bill Burton_all over.
He was as gentle and self-sacrifiea
ing as a woman, and le was afs
laid of nothing. He came out of
the war without a scratch, and
fogted it all the way from Virginia
to his little farm ia Middle Geors
¢ ia, where he buckl: 1 down to work
to make a crop for his wife oand
bahies.
Oae day he had to go to Atlanta,
tle brushed himself up as well as
he could, but he had nothing to
wear axcept hiz old Confederate
uniform. Money wos scarce with
Lim, and ke had not been able to
buy a suit of store clothes,
Bill vever thonght about hig ani
tormeand it d'd not attract any at
teution in those days, Scveral of
his fellow passengers on the train
wore their faded grav suits. They
were in Bill's fix—they bhad no~
thing efse to wear,
The triin jogged along without
anything to disturb the trip until
it was within a tew miles of Atlan
ta; Then a crowd of federal sols
diers got op, and in a few mitutes
they began to make it unpleasant
for the veterans in gray.
It was the custom at that time
for the tederals te cut the eonfed
erate buttons from a gray unitorm
whenever they saw a man wearing
it, but Bill and his triends had been
out in the country all the time,and
they knew nothing of what was
going on, WWhen the: soldiers
started through the cars, whacking
oft the confederate buttons right
and leit, the vietims of this rou:h
and insulting treatrient hardiy
knew what to do. The unexpected
ness ot the thing, and the presence
ot a large number of armed men
caused them to submit, as they did
pot want to have a row it it eould
be avoided,
~ Bill Burtton’s face turned whi e
when be saw what was up, and his
eyes shone with a strange glitter.
With mighty eflort to control him~
selt he arose from his seat and went
into the bagzage car, hoping to es
cape pursuit.
He was mistaken. In less than
five minutes half dozen big fellows
in blue followed him,
“Here's another Johnny with hi
buttons on,” said the leader, an
as he spoke the words he made a
swoop with his knife. g
A button dropped on the floos.
Ounly one—it was the last button
that any federal soldier ever cut
from Bill Burton’s gray jacket!
Betore the knife reached the
second butten a pistol shet rang out
‘Shhl'p and clear, and the big soldier
witn his knite tell dead, shot
l through the heart,
The train was running at the
l rate of twenty miles au hour, but
‘ Bill didu’t care for that, He made
a wild leap and rolled over and
| over when he touched the ground.
I The tederals fired a volley at
| him, but every bullet missed its
mark. and mm halfs minute lLe
was on his feet making a ran for the
woods, |
" The train was stopped and a hot
chase was made; but the darinz
fugitive escaped, There was a
racket at head quarters over the
affair; aml several attempts was
made to captore the brave confed
etate, but without success, and in
less time than a year the matter
was torgotten, and Bill retnrned
home and went to work on his
farm,
Bill is one of the happiest and
most peaceable citizens in this bail's
wick, and vo shadow of care or
remorse rests upon his pleasant
face, :
Not lonig ago an old friend was
talking to him about the hutton
episode.
‘I never could understand it,
Bill,’ he said. ‘You would let
men shoot at you duaring the war,
and spare them when you had the
drop on them, and yet you killed
that fellow when he tackled your
buttons.”
‘I don’t quite understand it, ciw
ther,” replied Bill. ‘I just know
that T couldn't help it. The thing
struck me as ths meanest and most
cowardly outrage that one maun
could eccmmit upon another, and ]
boiled over with race. There was
a red mist betore my eyes, and
before I knew it [ had kiiled him.
*‘Would you do it azain, Bill?
‘I don’t know that I would,’
answered the farmer thoughtfully.
‘A man can’t always tell what he
would do until the time comes.
But I con tell you this—it has
never bothered me a bit. I have
thought about it often and tried
to teel sorry, but I had to give it
up. It may scem strange, but a
heap of smmall matters hurt my
conscience worse than that affair
does.’
Bill Burton is an old man now,
and his pathway in lite is one or
pleasantness ind peace. Ina closet
in his house hangs “an old gray
jacket, with one button missing.
Some times Bill tkes it out, and
looks at it lovin_ly.
‘I wish I had that other buttoa.’
he has been heard to say to lhig
wite. And that is all he cversays
about it, unless some one Questions
him,
i
The averaze con tiina of the cot
ton ercp thronzhout the state is
eightyrine. The conlition of the
erop is one voint less promising
than that ot the crop of 1887.
Rust is deinz decided damase on
whic sandy soil, chiefly in south
west and east Georgzia,
Trusts ? Trusts? What are they
anyhow? Well, a trust is a mon
opoly.established for the purpose of
making larger profits, and this is
accomplished by decreasing the
cost of production end increasing
the price to theconsumer, Sug
ar Trust is an example. It has
lessened for the trust the cost of
manufactured sugar half a cent
per pound and has increased the
‘priee to the public another half cent
per pound. See how it works ?
The tarmers of this county mmt!
act in covcert it we ever (‘xp('('ti
to get retief from many oppressive |
burdens. This can be accomplishs |
ed through organization; hence,
every man that tillsthe soil has|
a great interest in our Order There
is a power in uniteq action that is
irresistible when directed aright,
and the Grange can be used as a
medium by which we may speak to
our lawmakers in a manner that
will commaud respect, and receive
a fair hearing, not asa political
organization, but from the fact
that the principles laid down and
tanght by our Order underlie all
true statesmanship, and it properly
adhered to will revolutionizs partis
san poltics iand finally the political
atmosphere of our entire eovntry.—
Miltou Trusler, Master Indiana
State Grange.
RS O G
Congress is getting after the baz
ging trust. Mr. Breckenridge has
introduced a bill in congress to al
Jow importers of bagging a draw
back or rebate equal to the duty
~on the same during the continua
ltion of the bagging trust. It is
| hoped that this bill will become a
| law before eongress adjourus snd
the bagging trust sat down on.
. Fhe farmer ars bound hand and foot
i by the gredt monopolists. and con
gress should adopt some temporary
. measure for their relief.
Win cns Relction to Society Through the
Grange.
By Mgs. F, M, KiMBaLL,
“No Grange shall be organized
or exist without woman,” was the
emancipation to the women cf the
farm,
Sonething more than a silert
appreciation of this compliment is
demanded of us. Earsest and
cheerful work alone will bring to
us the advantages the Order has to
bastow, The pivot on which all
our intevests turn is home. It is
the center of the world’s thought,
the leading objects of humanity’s
ambition and love. The family is
the material and mor:! basis ot the
State, and to insure prosperity to
the nation the home and family
must be sacredly regarded. This
work has ever been accorded to
woman., The Grange confirms the
old=time theory; confers on her
new powers, and sanctions her efs
| forts in every worthy cause that
i has for its object the strengthening
of democratic ties and the improve
ment ot our dwelling places. But
the word home has a broader sigs
nificance than the four walls withs
{in which we eat, sleep, and mingle
\ together. 1t not only includes our
; honses, but our gardens, farms,
| neighborhood, and is only bounded
! by the outer circumterence of our
L country, ‘lie preservation of our
Ciustitution through the ageney of
the Grance devolves alike on men
and women. The work of the Sua
bordin te Grange is the connecting
lin< between the home duties at
the fircside and the more public
Cduttrg of our country. Woman’s
inte est in the home, the Grange,
anl country are identical with
ma 'z, aud can vever be dissevered
fron hiz. Her heart alike responds
to harmony and is pained by dies
¢ . ‘Lhe same beneticent ]aws‘
p ctect and tiie same cruel ones
appress both him and her. She
has won golden words of praise for‘
ier untiring devotion to her fires
s des home, She must win it, too, ‘
for an unselfish devotion to the
Grange, and though a concentras |
tion of influence restrein her sous
in public as she has done in private
li‘e; check national sins as she has
repressed private ones, It is clear
that the Grange has stimulated to
intellectual activity those who have
cone within its influence. The
slamberine genius of a hundred
thhusand women has been awakens
el, and through the perfection of
their works have proved thewslves
the peers of the highest lady of the
land. Fhe papers bring us news
that from one end of our grand res
public to the other the pen of the
farmers’ wives and daughters is
busy; their voices are heard in ads
vocacy of those principles that
made our Order a necessity; their
influence is felt in the cause of tem- I
perance and moral reform. We
hear ot them in county couuncils
with timely words of wisdom, and
in Grange anviversaries, with ada
“dresses and poems, instilling’ new
lite into the Order,and with a hap.
py felicity embellishing the prace
tical, routine duties ot the hour.
Nor has womanly modesty sufiered l
by this vew awakening, but so far |
as increased knowledge has been ap
plied to the improvement of her
home,tier family and her surrounda
ings, 8o far has her own nature des
veloped in all the graces of a pure
‘ womanhood,To woman, the Grange II
| is an educator in a way that no \
- other society ever attempted. Nor
will the influence of this diseis
| pline cease when they who now efis
;j()_\' it shall have tolded their hands
| to rest, but it will reach forward
Cinio the distant future, when the
i girls and boys of to-day, imbibing |
lth(-, enthusiasm of their parents,
shall carry forward with riper ex.
' periences the grand work we shall
| soon lay down.
| The limitless opportunities tle
| Grange presents to women, if seize !
g ed upou, may convert the social
; convent of ths isolated farmshouse
Jinto & charmed resting place,
' when youth and age may find pure
% pleasures and more satistying enw
| joyments thaw the busy centers of
| life afford. The resources of the
Order are so varied that every
taste my be zratified. Has she a
love of literary labor? A broad
field opens before her, in which
she should work to instruct the
fathers, mothers and ehildren of the
farm. Do her domestic tastes pres
domnate? The numberless obser
vations and experiments she is cons
stantly making should be carctully
gathered “‘for the good of the Oi
der,” to communicate to her sisters
on Grange day; thus helping tae
inexperienced to attain to her own
exalted standard of domestic life.
The most trifling duty, if it cons
tains the germ of a new thuoght,
should not be overlooked, for,**He
who seeks to pluck the stars may
lose the jewels at his feet.” Has
she a soul attuned to harmon)?
The Grange choir offers her the
gladdest pastime, and the sweet
songs may be brought to the fami
ly hearthstone, and many a darke
winged care banished by them,
while the lisping voize of child
hood joins in the sacred work
of homesmaking. Is she imbued
with a spirit of devotten?
The spiritual wants of
het nature are not forgotten.
Does she delight in merry-maks~
ing? The festive days overflow
with gladness, and the otherwise
dull routine of farm work is so
hroken by them that the wear and
griud of perpetual toil as softened
and made light. Has sorrow laid
its heavy hand upon her? Fraters
nal hearts enfold herin their syms<
pathies. Does she lack that knowl
edge so essential to guide over the
rough places that all find on the
road of life? Every Grange has
its members qualified 10 advise and
aid. And while she reaps a spirits
ual and material harvest ot others’
experiences every matron “in turn
is pledged to contribute from her
store of kuowledge for the good of
others, This is the highest form
ot eooperation, and every one how~
ever humble, has capiwal to in-
vest, v
““The smallest wave of influence
set in motion,
Extends and wideus to the cter
nal shore.”
Woman's mission in the Grange
that underlies our social, civil and
rolitical institutions, 1s that devel
oping and maturing of a taste in
our youtn for the pure pleas®res
of country life; cultivating in them
habits ot industry, economy and so
briety,combatting the modern idea
that manual labor is degrading, thus
strengthening the pillars on which
rests the superstructure of our gov
ernment,
A forced growth of the mental
powers and a forgetfulness of the
moral nature is one of the com
monest errors of thie age, and (alle
loudly for the counteracting ins
fluence of the Grange, storing the
minds of the ysuth and knowledge
of the classics to the neglects of
temperance, industry, filial respect
and honesty; giving them the op-~
portunity for social excitement
rather than instilling in their
young minds a love for the
healthful pleasures of bome life;
giving them access to poisonous lits
erature to the exclusion of useful
reading; nurturing a passion for
exterior display and a disregard
for honest labor, is the tendency of
the time which the Girange may, if
it will, correct.
The farmers” homes, through our
organization; presents the grandest
possibilities for reforming prevail
ing social errors. Here is found
the “‘golden mean” between enslavs
ing poverty and enslaving wealth,
Here labor and rest may clasp
hands, and the fitfu. fever of spec
ulation finds no vietims.
By-and-hy, when eur politicians
are at their wits’ end to barmonize
the interest of capital and labor,
wh=n our social science reformers,
our phiosophers and philanthro=
pists, who look with dismay upon
the increased defiance of law, unw
certain where to Jook 'for
remedy, when our prisons and ree
form schools are uncomfortably
filled, when the leaven of the
Grange will permeate the loat of
society, and the uncrowned queens
ot home,our Matrons who are taith~
ful to their trust will reap the ve.
YOI. V. —-N0: 11
ward of their labors,—brothers and
sisters will alikle rejoice that the
permanency of our institutions is
assured, and a grateful people will
reverently exclaim: “Behold what
the Grange hath done!” What hag
been accomplished compared with
its grand po;gfbilities, is as the first
flagh of midnight to the sun's mer<
idan glory. The falfillment of thig
promise rests with the sisters not
less than with the brothers ot the
Grange.
ei A AR i inc it
Mg, Privus Joxes, of Georgia;
always gets in the first bale of cots
tcn. He has a theory and a plan
on which he hopes to free the cots
ton of the danger of cotton worms;
and the dumage always inflicted by
the September storm: It is to has
ten the maturity of the crop and
in his effort all planters ought to
wish him the greatestsuccess, One
of s plans is constant improve—
.ment of the seed.: He made twens
ty-seven bales to the mule last year,
and will do better this year, If the
cotton planting can be so conducted
as to get the crop on the market a
month earlier it will make a won=
dertul differerce in all kinds of buss
iness in the South.
Tre negrcesfi? the North and
West are rapdly dividing on pols
itical questions Upward of one
hundred of them have notified the
Nuational Democratic committee of
their willingness to speak tor Cleve<
land and to meet any colored Re~
pui)lic:'m in discussion, from Fred
Douglas down. If the southern
negroes would oaly listen to reason
and learn how they are robbed by
a protective tariff, they would to #
man "eave the Republican party and
vote the Democratic ticket.
Gexerazn Jayes L. Curris the
Ameriean party nominee for the
presidency, lives at Bridgeporty
Coun., with an office in New York
city. He is interestedin iron and
steel manufacturing in New York
and New Jersey, is 66 years of age
and reported to be worth $2,000;
000. ite was a know-nothing im
1854,
G SR e
We advise the authorities o
Pioneer 1. & L. Compaay not to
expel a man from their company
on the first proot of his having been
drunk. It wont des It would de
plete tke ranks and there would
be no other material to draw from,
—Lufaula Fimes.
s g
The south has raised another big
corn crop this year, larger proba~
bly even than that of 1887, whick
wag the best on record. This
means the keeping at home of mils
lions of dollars which in former
year went west for provisions and
corn. Southern farmers will soont
be as prosperous assouthern manu
facturers.
The total visible supply ot cottont
for the world 1s 1;051,823,0f which
664,223 is America’s, against 1 ,3_44,
458 and 728,390 respectively, last
year. Receipts of cotton at all ins
terior ftowns 642; receipts from
plantations, 6,615 ; crop m sight;
6,917,760.
Irall appropriation bills pen~
ding should become laws there
would still be a surplus ot several
millions te add to the $110.000;
000 now in the Treasury vault.
The Republican dodge about adefi
ciency will not work this year.
“Wiar to do” is the questiou
perplexing the Republican mind,
The Chieago platform declared
against any change in the tarift in
shape of retuction. The candidate
tor President in many public
speeches has said that the platforne
met his views. The Republican
Senators, however; as soon ag the
Mills bill reached that body gave
it out that they would prepare a
tariff bill and report it as a substis
tute. And then the trouble began.
They can’t agree among themselves
and on Wednesday made an open
confession of weakness by asking
the Demoerats to agree to au ad+
journment for two weeks in order
that they might have more time o
which to come to an agrcement.
The Democrats of course declined
to agree to this request, and so the
matter stands.,