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AUGUSTA’S FINEST
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Our Shoes are standards of excellence ; they
are made by the most successful experts in this
country, and are worn by a majority of the par
ticular buyers of Augusta and vicinity.
A most elaborate stock of Fall Shoes is
now on sale. Visit here when in need of
footwear.
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COMMISSIONER O. B. STEVENS’
SPEECH AT RALEIGH FUEL.
OK GOOD POINTS.
HOW TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS
“Then hustle it on cieeK as quick as
you can and then call the carpenter
and go forward and heave up.”
Grain looked meaningly at Murray.
“Am I to take the fore deck, sir?”
“Yes; 1 appoint you acting mate for
three days, and Mr. Murray goes to his
room for that time for getting into
trouble ashore. Now, put some hurry
into things, Mr. Grain. I don’t want to
stay here longer than’s needful.”
Grain went forward about his busi
ness, but Murray, who looked some
what disconsolate. Kettle beckoned in
to the eharthouse. He pulled out the
pearl bag and emptied its contents on
to the chart table. “Now, look here,
my lad,” said he, “1 have to send you
to your room because I said I would
and because that’s discipline. But you
can pocket a thimbleful of these seed
pearls, just to patch up your wounded
feelings, as your share of old Rad el
Moussa’s fine. They are only seed
pearls, as I say, and aren’t worth much.
We were due to have more as a sheer
matter of justice, but it wasn’t to be
got. So we must make the best of
what there is. You’ll bag £20 out of
your lot if you sell them in the right
place ashore. I reckoned my damages
at £500. I guess I’ve got here £200.”
“Thank you, sir,” said Murray. “But
it’s rather hard being sent to my room
for a thing I could no more help than
you could.”
“Discipline, my 1yd. This will prob
ably teach you to leave photographing
to your inferiors in the future. There’s
no persuading me that it isn’t that pho
tograph box that’s not at the bottom of
tlie whole mischief. Hello! There’s the
windlass going already! I’ll just lock
up these pearls in the drawer, and then
I must go on the bridge. Er—and about
going to your room, my lad—as long as
1 don’t see you for three days you can
Planter Must Be » Good Business ?.Ian.
Improved Condition of the Southern
Farmer—Cotton Mill Industry.
“Here they arc, sir,” said Murray.
do much as you like. I don’t want to
be too hard. But, as I said to old Rad
el Moussa, justice is justice, and disci
pline’s got to be kept.”
“And what about the rifles, sir?”
Captain Kettle winked pleasantly. “1
don’t know that they are rifles. Y'ou
see, the cases are down on the mani
fest as ‘machinery,’ and I’m going to
put them ashore as such, but I don’t
mind owning to you, Mr. Mate, that I
hope old Rad finds out he was right
about his information. I suppose his
neighbors will let him know within the
next week or so whether they are rifles
really or whether they are not.”
which
The Buncombe cabbage, of
much is heard recently, is, according to
a Southern Cultivator correspondent,
one of the few old winter kinds of cab
bage that were to be found in Georgia
from 50 to 75 years ago and is especially
adapted to the cotton states on account
of the many years of acclimatization.
Cattle growing will help in very many
ways. Fill your barns with food and
your stalls with cattle. You cannot
I lake any mistake along here.
w character to deliver and collect
Georgia for old established manufacturing
wholesale house, $900 a year, sure pay. Hon
esty more than experience required. Our re
ference, any bank in any city. Enclose self-
addressed stamped envelope. Manufactur-
rs, Third Floor, 334 Dearborn, St„ Chicago. 16
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Of
It is a pleasant feature of this, our
secoud annual gathering, that we meet
in this historic city, named in honor of
Raleigh, the gallant gentleman whose
attempts at colonization on Wokokon
and Roanoke islands blazed the way for
the first permanent English settlement
at Jamestown. His name, and those of
Cavendish, Greenville and Drake, are
closely interwoven with the early his
tory of North Carolina, whose shores
were made romantic by the birth of
Virginia Dare, first child of English pa
rentage horn on freedom’s soil. At Alla-
mance sons of the old North State
poured out the first blood that was shed
in resistance to unjust taxation, and
from Mecklenburg county went forth
that ringing defiance to tyranny—the
forerunner of the grand declaration
whioh proclaimed the birth of the great-
republic. On every page of American
history the name of North Carolina
shines with undimned luster, and the
fame of her hardy sons will never be
forgotten so long as men remember
King’s Mountain, Yorktown, Gettys
burg and Appomattox. The spirit of
enterprise, too, is abroad in the old
North State, and she walks proudly in
the van of southern industrial progress,
which, in the last few years, has made
such rapid strides. In suoh an illustri
ous stats, and under such favorable aus
pices, we have come with joy to share
the hospitality of your generous sons
and lovely daughters.
Our last annual meeting was held in
New Orleans, the greatest cotton port
and the fourth grain market in the world
—the commercial metropolis of fair Lou
isiana, who leads her southern sisters in
the production of sugar cane and rice.
At that'meeting we spoke of the condi
tion of bankruptcy and demoralization
into which the farmers of the south have
been aimlessly drifting for years, and I
urged yon, the commissioners of the cot
ton growing states, to call npon your
people to change their methods of farm
ing. We stated also that the work of
reformation had begun, and that the
people of the cotton states were in better
condition than in former years; that
they had lived more on home supplies;
had been to less expense in making their
crops, and had received much better
prices for their products, had reduced
their debts and wore more hopeful for
the future. It was stated, moreover,
that the crop of 1S99 and 1890 was going
to cost more to market it than did the
crop of 1888-1899, and it was urged that
we sound a note of warning by telling
our farmers to make small bills; buy for
cash, if possible; plant largely of food
crops, and reduce the acreage in.cotton
even below that of last year. We also
said that, if we would again curtail the
use of fertilizers and the acreage iu cot
ton, and produce only 8,000,000 hales
next season, we might expect not less
than 9 cents a pound for onr cotton.
With pleasure was noted the great re
vival of manufacturing interests in the
south. The necessity was urged of
teaching onr children in the schools the
elementary principles of agriculture—
facts that have been ascertained by prac
tical tests at efficiently conducted ex
perimental stations.
The improved condition of southern
farmers, reported at onr last meeting,
continues with some additional better
ment. This is especially true of the
farmers of Georgia, who have harvested
more wheat this year thau in any year
since 1865; more, it is claimed, than iu
any other three years since the civil war.
More attention, too, has been paid to
raising supplies of meat, and many a
smokehouse, filled with ham, bacon and
sausage from hogs fed and slaughtered
at home proclaims the southern farmer’s
growing independence of the packing
houses of the west. The peach orchards
of Georgia have this year been a very
helpful factor iu that state. Although j
the orop, as a whole, did not prove as
remunerative as early indications prom- 1
ised, yet the money which it put into j
circulation was of great benefit during
the dull season. It paid many thou
sands of dollars to laborers employed in
gathering, packing, canning and ship
ping the fruit. The total number of
carloads shipped this season from Geor
gia will not be far short of 2,500.
One thing that makes the outlook bet
ter still is the certainty of another short
cotton crop, whicn_promises even better
profits during the coming season. There
seems to be good reason for the hope
that the all-cotton craze of 1898 will not
again seize the farmers of the south,
who, from sad experience, should know
that the thing of greatest importance is
to raise, first of all, food supplies, and
cultivate their cotton within a profitable
limit. Our export and import trade for
the year closing June 30, 1900, was the
largest ever known. This is due mainly
to the increase in exports of manu
factored goods for the domestic pro
ducts, breadstuffs, provisions, cotton and
mineral oils exported, the value of
which was §765,361,798, while above
hat of the previous 12 months, is below
that of 1397 and 1898, whou our oxport
of domosfcio produots amounted to $807,-
818,581. In that year we exported the
prodigious total of §32-1,703,060 of bread-
stuffs, a figure which wo have not
roadbed since. In the matter of ootton
exports, however, there has bean a clo
dded improvement; and it contains a
valuable hint to the south, for during
the past 12 months wo received §241,-
600,165 for onr cotton, or §83,053,321
more than for the previous year, al
though we shipped over 3,000,000 bales
less. The farmers got more for a short
crop than they would have received for
a large one, and it is needless to point
out that the cost of harvesting, market
ing and shipping the crop was materially
reduced. This is on the right line. Onr
people should always so manage as to
have the balance of trade in our favor.
The wonderful progress made by the
south in cotton manufacturing still con
tinues. According to figures collected
by the Boston Textile World, the north
had in 1890 exactly 12,721,341 spindles,
while the south had 1,828,982. Now
the north has 15.242,554 spindles,
while the south has 5,815,429. The in
crease in the south for the last decade
is, therefore, 217 per cent, aud for the
north 19.S per cent. South Carolina
comes third in the Union, after Massa
chusetts and Rhode Island, with 1,794,-
657 spindles; North Carolina is fourth,
with 1,429,540 spindles; Now Hampshire
fifth, with 1,343,923, aud Georgia sixth,
with 1,218,504.
If The Textile World is correct in its
figures, then South Carolina stands first
among the southern states in the num
ber of spindles; North Carolina, which
we know is first in the number of mills,
stands secoud in the number of spindles;
while Georgia is the third cotton manu
facturing state of the south, uules the
product of her mills exceeds in value
that of either of her Carolina sisters,
which was the case in 1890. But what
should especially please every member
of this convention is the fact that the
whole south is marching on to the goal
of industrial independence. For the sea
son of 1899 and 1900 tbe south, for the
first time in its history, fixed the price of
cotton. If the growth of the cotton mill
industry in the south continues at- its
present rapid rate, with the consequent
increased consumption by the southern
mills, we may confidently expect that
the south will henceforth be able to fix
the price of her own great staple. There
is, as yet, no sign of a check in this de
velopment, which, even in the time of
business depression, was marvellous. Of
course I am most familiar with my own
state. There the growth of the cotton
industry since the beginning of the pres
ent year is beyond all precedent.
Twenty or more new mills are now in
process of construction. One of them is
the great cotton factory at Gainesville,
Ga., which, when fully equipped, will
represent an investment of §1,000,000.
The possibilities of the soil and cli
mate of the south are such that ours
ought to be the richest section of the
Union. Considering the overwhelming
disasters that were the outcome of the
great civil war. and the difficulties that
have beset onr people since its close, the
farmers of the south have done well.
For their long and heroic straggle of 35
years, and for the difficulties which
they have overcome they deserve all
praise. But the success of some up-to-
date southern farmers, where the best
methods have been employed, has been
hardly less phenomenal. This is a day
of progress on all lines. The farmer
coimot afford to be behind the maim
faefcurer. Old methods must give way
to better and newer ones. When some
enterprising farmer proves that soil of a
certain kind can be made to produce 40
50 and over 60 bushels of wheat to the
acre, and with a largely increased profit,
PrQtiy
Children
“We have three children. Before the
birth of the last one my wife used four bot
ties of MOTHER’S FRIEND. If you had the
pictures of our children, you could see at
a glance that the last one
is healthiest, prettiest and
finest-looking - of them ail.
My wife thinks Mother’s
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and grandest
remedy iu the
world for expect-
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Written by a Ken
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prevents nine-tenths of the
suffering incident to child
birth. The coming mother’s
disposition and temper remain unruffled
throughout the ordeal, because this relax-
I ing, penetrating liniment relieves the
usual distress. A good-natured mother
i is pretty sure to have a good-natured child.
! The patient is kept in a strong, healthy
' condition, which the child also inherits.
Mother’s Friend takes a wife through the
i crisis quickly and almost painlessly. II
assists in her rapid recovery, and wards
off the dangers that so often follow de
livery.
Sold by druggists for $1 a bottle.
THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO,
ATLANTA, GA.
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expressly for expectant mothers.
after deducting the necessary expense
of bringing his land up to such a state of
productiveness, no other farmer with as
good soil should bs satisfied to pursue
old methods, or be content with a yield
or from 10 to 15 bushels to the acre.
Let ns hope for active, vigorous, persist
ent competition on this line among all
the farmers of the south. A friendly
rivalry will do much to increase onr ag-
ricnltnral products, and build up the
wealth of onr section. In nearly ail
sections of rhe Cotton States the greater
proportion of the beef and—butter con
sumed iu onr towns come; from the
north and west. So long as this is the
case, there will be an urgent call for
improvement.
In view of the fact that the per capita
production of the farmers of the south
is only §177, while in New England it is
§317, aud in the west §519, we venture
the suggestion that there must be some
thing in oitr system which needs im
provement. Might not some changes iu
onr farming methods bring about the
raising of mere grain and grasses, more
vegetables and fruit, more aud better
beef cattle, more milk, butter and
cheese, more pigs aud sheep, more ready
money 7 in the pockets of onr farmers,
more prosperity to the agricultural
classes; hence more plenty, contentment
and happiness among all classes of our
population?
Active, continuous, iutellgent snper-
vision of all the labor on the farm is
necessary to^ success. Every farmer
should keep an account with his land,
charging it np with all that it costs him,
and giving it credit for all that it pays.
The same business methods which make
the successful merchant or manufactu
rer, will make the successful farmer.
No bank stock or railroad shares, city,
Btnto or government bonds, will pay
suoh heavy interest on the investment
as a well managed farm. One of the
great needs of the day 7 is the formation
in every county of a farmers’ institute
or club, in which may he discussed the
best methods of agricultufeTthe latest
and best machinery for labor-saving,
and other things of interest and profit
to the farmers. Industrial education is
as necessary to the farmer as to the me
chanic. Nature studies should form a
prominent part of the cirriculums of onr
public schools. From the kindegarten
to the university, the pupil should be
taught to know something of nature’s
ways, and in special schools the farmer
should prepare for his profession, just as
the physician, the lawyer, the preacher
or the mechanic does for his. This is
day of machinery, the proper handlin
of which demands education. Nowhere
does machiuerv pay better than on the
farm, provided it be wisely bought and
judiciously managed.
There is a much more general use of
farm machinery in the west than in the
south. This ought not so to be. A farmer
can no more afford to be behind the age
than can a man engaged in any other
business. In the physical as well as in
the spiritual world growth is life, stag
nation is death. The old methods will
no longer do. If southern farmers know
not the methods by which their breth
ren of the north and west grow prosper
ous and rich, then must they learn. If
capitalists from the outside should come
into any large section of the south and
buy up onr lands and rent them to our
people, those sections would be in the
condition of Ireland. To yon, Southern
Commissioners of Agriculture, I appeal.
Let ns urgo the farmers of our respective
states to work npon strict business prin
ciples, to live within their means, to
shun debt as the open door to ruin, aud
to feel that it is their duty to their fam
ilies, to their country and to their God
to improve the opportunities given them.
The farmer serves his generation best
who brings his land to the highest state
of fertility 7 and productiveness, and will
be praised accordingly 7 as he makes it
yield 30, 60 or 100 fold. Let ns impress
upon them, also, the important truth
that variety of products means increase
of wealth. In the great cotton belt, es
pecially, do they need to be warned
against putting all their trust in one
crop and neglecting others. If we were
called npon to point out the state whose
lands command the highest prices, wo
wonld pnt our finger ou those whose ag
ricultural products and occupations are
the most varied; where stock farms,
dairies and creameries abound; where
all the grains and grasses give food
to man and beast; whose market gar
dens, truck farms and orchards supply
the great cities of our country 7 with ve ;
etables and fruit. Those states iu which
lands sell at lowest figures are the ones
in which King Cotton, with despotic
sway, throttles all other crops and in
dustries. And yet when the farmer
raises his own food supplies of every
kind, and plants his cotton on
well calculated basis.£>f supply and de
mand, it is the greatest money crop iu
the world, a gift of God, which, right
ly managed, will make its people rich,
and bless the Land that gave it birth. So,
whatever our greatest crop be—sugar
cane, rice or tobacco—let us add thereto
all the cereals aud grasses, the raising
of the best breeds of stock, that onr
horses and mules may be strong to la
bor, our cattle such as yield the best
beef and milk; uur other farm animals,
sheep, goats, swine and poultry in good
condition, to supply the varied wants of
man. Then, with dairies to supply the
richest milk, and ereamories to turn it
into butter and cheese, we of the south
shall have the greatest farming country-
in the world.
Progress must be the watchword of
the farmers of the : oath, and progress'
consists in finding out the best methods
and adopting them. Let the farmer
diligently give attention, and what he
has learned for himself let him teach
his children at home, and then send
them to school, where that edneation
can be continued and' enlarged. No
other profession brings man into such
close communion with nature, and
through nature man can best look np to
nature’s God and hold communion with
the source of all light and life.
General Phil Cook, one of the most
gallant of the heroic men who, ip the
times that tried men’s souls, so nobly
illustrated Georgia on the sacred soil of
the Old Dominion—a man who had bcen^
farmer, lawyer, soldier, representative
in congress and secretary of state of
Georgia—when asked what line of busi
ness required the greatest exercise of
intelligence, unhesitatingly replied:
“That of the farmer.” Cicero, the
great Roman orator, senator and far
mer, considered agriculture the noblest
occupation of man. Indeed, the first bus
iness to which the Creator Himself ap
pointed man, was farming: “And the
Lord God took the man aud put him
into the garden of Eden to dress and to
keep it.
A high calling is ours, farmers of the
south Onr land, the fairest that e’er
the sun shone npon, with beautiful di
versity 7 of mountain and valley 7 , hill and
dale, watered by noble ’ streams, with
uplands cooled by mountain zephyrs,
aud coastal plains, tempered by 7 breezes
from the Atlantic and the gulf, is great
in her developed resources, greater in
her possibilities of soil, climate and
Varied productions, but greatest of all in
her people of heroic mould, so ready to
defend the right and grap ..e with what
ever difficulties beset their path; law-
abiding, conservative and God-fearing
to a degree not often seen iu these days
of social unrest and gloomy skepticism.
In onr rural population i3 the best hope
of the south.
Finally, let us so train and educate
onr boys and girls that they may 7 love
the old homestead aud be attracted to
the farm, with its snowy cotton aud the
golden grain; its meadows filled with
well-bred, well-kept stock; its orchard
laden with luscious fruit, its streams so
guided and directed by 7 a master hand
as to irrigate, when necessary, each
thirsty piece of ground; its farm imple
ments of the best make, and kept in the
best condition; everything about the
place indicating thrift, prosperity and
refinement.
Ferguson’s Turn Came.
Mr. Ferguson, back from Europe
told his adventures at the Porphyry.
He had been warned against the cap
tain of the Bulgouia, who was a fine
example of the traditional old sea dog
whose brutality and profanity were
considered as the efflorescence of sea
manship. Ferguson was at first death
ly sick, but he managed to stay 7 on
deck. He saw the captain coming, and
he hailed him: “Good morning, sir.
Isn’t it pretty rough?” To which the
captain answered: “Rough? Why in
mischief shouldn’t it be rough the first
day out, you blankety blank?” etc.
Ferguson went below. The next day,
again ou deck, he saw the captain
watching him. Ferguson had learned
his lesson. The captain broke tbe si
lence, “Weil, sir, you are looking better
today 7 .” Ferguson roared out, “Why in
mischief shouldn’t I be better tbe sec
ond day out, you blankety blank?” etc.
The captain put out his hand, “Come
into the cabin and have a drink, and
won’t you sit at my table?”—Boston
J ournal.
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Dr. S. Weir Mitchell is au
thority for the statement that nerv-
!ii| ousness is the characteristic mal
ady of the American nation, and
statistics show that nerve deaths
number one-fourth of all deaths
ni recorded, the mortality being main
ly among young people.
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■ NERVOUSNESS,
in American Disease.
Johnston’s
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QUART BOTTLE.
is the grand specific for this great
American disease, because it goes
straight to the source of the weak-
ness, building up health and
strength by supplying rich, abund- jiii
ant food and pure blood to the
worn-out tissues, roustng the liver
to activity and regulating all the |iii
organs of the body.
“The Hichigaa Drag Co.,” Detroit, Mirh.
Livercttes the famous little liver pill*. 35c. UN
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DANIEL, SONS & PALMER. Milien, Ga.
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MOBLEY BROS.,
FOUNDERS
MACHINISTS,
Wayne boro, Ga.
CASTS TTTIESIDlK.'SrS ana A 7 SITAYS,
done onshortnotice.
Dealers in Grist Mills, Cotton Gins, Pressees,
Feeders and Condensers and do all kinds of En-
glne and Boiler repairing. BnildingGin Brushes
and repairing Gins a specialty. All kinds of ri-
We get upailkinds of mouldings, Window and door
junell’Sg—bint
Machinery of all Kinds.
Sandersville. Ga.
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Saw Mills, Engines,
Boilers, Fittings,
flowing machines.
THRESHING
TVl^VO ill :vES, Ace.
Gin Repairing, a Specialty.
Orders from Burke county given special attention.
On all work sent iu by 1st of June next, I will
FREIGHT ONE WAY!
All work Guaranteed.
pay
We Don’t Intend
-TO HAVE--
Bargain Sales.
veather
Thousands
NOW IN USE
And Giving uni- ersal Satiefac-
tion.
ELDREDOE B’
Sewing Machine,
The Lightest Running.
Perfect in Detail.
On rainy days but when the
and our plans fail to operate in unison we
have them to fair just about as well.
The fact is that the kind of Bargains we
hold out at these special sales is encugli to briDg.' people out in spite of most any kiud of
weather. People come for our Bargains with a regular Klondike eagerness. This week
we are offering special Bargains iu Secretaries, Book Cases, Couches and Sideboards in our
high grade goods, low piiees and easy terms put {us still in tlia lead.
FLEMING At BOWLED,
904 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, GA.
Mrs, M\ Wells.
Dealer in —
Fashionable Millinery, Noyelties, & Notions,
FLOWERS, FEATHERS, RIBBOJVS, Etc.,
Waynesboro, : : : Greorgia*
The ladies are cordially invited to inspect my stock before they
buy elsewhere. \ou can save monev bv buying goods at home.
Don’t forget it. oct.s.isss.
Machinery.
COTTON
GINS,
GET OUR PRICES BEFORE BUYING
ENGINES.
D0ILERS.
Double-Thread, Lock Stitch.
Automatic Bobbin-Winder
Self-Threading Shuttle,
Latest Improved Attachments
SOLD BY
S. BELL, Waynesboro, Ga.
July2S,19C0—
COTTON .t
PRESSES
SEED
COTTON
ELEVATORS
SAW
MILLS,
GRIST
MILLS „
ETC., ETC.
Or anything in Mill Machiuerv or Mill Supply Line.
We operate Machine Shops and Foundry,
Mallary Bros., Machinery Company,
MiLCOlT, O-^..
Mention this paper. mayl 9,1900
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