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itewnan. Ga., Friday, July 29th, 1887.
THE BRADY GUANO BILL.
the House Without Any Amend
ments.
Atlanta Constitution, 22d Inst.
The House has passed the Brady bill,
‘providing for pleading and proving a
failure of consideration of any promis
sory note or other instrument in writ-
ng, given for commercial fertilizers,
,uanos or manures, and to prescribe a
penalty for failing to state the consid
eration in the face of any negotiable
instrument given for the same.”
This was the special order in the
House yesterday.
When the House adjourned on Fri
day Mr. Smith, of Gwinnett, had the
door in support of the bill. In resum
ing, Mr. Smith said that the present
Taw was unjust, oppressive and unequal.
Manufacturers of commercial fert ilizers
outside of the State, shipped into the
State fertilizers that had not been m-
<pected. And while the Commissioner
of Agriculture had stated through the
public press that he had been careful
in inspecting and gave quite as close an
inspection of the fertilizers as the
chemist, yet there had been shipped
into Gwinnett county fertilizers that
had not been inspected or tagged until
i agged by those profiting from the sale
of the fertilizer. This was shipped
from Baltimore, via Sawannee to Law-
. renceville.
“Since Friday last,” he said, “I have
visited the warehouses of dealers in my
county. There are fertilizers on hand,
left over for another season, not in
spected or tagged, to be placed on the
market. Some of these fertilizers are
held so long that that the sacks rot off.
They are put in new sacks, tagged and
sold.”
Mr. Calvin, of Richmond, stated that
t he money paid for fertilizers was not
going out of the State. Outside of the
Southern States there are seventy-two
fertilizer factories; in the Southern
States there are sixty-seven, of which
nineteen are in Georgia. These 139
companies do business in Georgia, and
t he amount paid for fertilizers aggre
gates millions of dollars annually.
Mr. Calvin stated that he was willing
to do everything he could to give the
farmers standing at tlie bank. “My
opposition to the present law,” he said,
“is that it gives too much standing at
the bank. They may stand there for
ever and find out that the bank has no
money to loan to the moneyless man.
The farmer is compelled to pay these
dealers whatever per cent, they may
charge him in violation of the interest
laws of the-State. The only class who
are enabled to borrow money are the
guano dealers and merchants, because
they can afford to pay more for it than
the farmer. Farmers are forced to
purchase on the recommendation of a
man whom they have never seen,
and who himself never saw the guano
he recommends. Farmers cannot ob-
tain credit unless they sign a waiver
note, and waive everything except
their wife and baby, and dealers would
require those waived if they could. If
the fertilizer proves worthless, he is
•shut out and excluded from making a
defense. No man should be bound by
what ho cannot see or inspect. Any
other goods sold that were found de
fective would be shipped back to the
town from which they came, even if
shipped to Liverpool, at the expense of
the seller. The present bill, it is said,
is overturning an established custom.
Who, one hundred years ago, ever
heard or dreamed of guano? Fertili
zers should be sold on their merits.
This Commissioner of Agriculture does
not represent the farmers except for
the pay he gets. The fertilizer should
he reasonably suited for the use intend
ed. If the dealer knows his guano to
be impure and puts it on the market,
he perpetrates a fraud. All the scoun
drels are not engaged in the practice of
law. The farmers are not the only
ones interested in the bill. All the
people are interested in it. The failure
of the farmer is the death of all other
interests. The present bill is eminent
ly wise and just, and it will benefit
Georgia and lift her up.”
Mr. Atkinson said: “The question
before the House is uot the inspection
of fertilizers. That must stand on its
own merits. A practical business ques
tion is presented, upon the solution
of which depends the prosperity of the
farming and manufacturing interests of
Georgia. I was opposed to the origi
nal bill but favor it with Mr. Glenn’s
amendment. The hill in its present
shape is a good lawyers bill, but is
ruinous to farmers and man
ufacturers. It kt unfair to place the
farmer at the mercy of the guano com
panies, and equally unfair to place gu
ano companies in the power of the
farmers. The seller should not be
required to warrant practical results
when parties consent to a contract oth
erwise. Tilt seller only knows the
chemical ingredients of the guano. lie
sells it as containing such ingredients,
;md for this he should bo held respon
sible. If the buyer contracts for cer
tain chemical ingredients, and the sell-
ear can show he delivered what he
agreed to deliver, that is a compliance
with the contract. More defenses
can now be made to guano contracts
than to those for any other article, viz:
Failure of practical, results, not inspect
ed, and not ' containing ingredients
stamped on the sack. -Ill the manu
facturer of guano knows' and all he
Bpagosesto sell, are the ingredients and
their, proportions. The passage of
the bill must injure the farmer, be
cause it will require guano to be paid
for in cash, thus preventing its use, or
if not for cash, then for a higher price.
It is a rule of business that as you in
crease the risk you increase the price.
Under this bill, if guano Is sold on
time, the price will l>e so raised as tore-
quire those who do pay for their goods
te pay also for goods sold to those
who do not pay. It is important to
farmers that manufacturers be at their
door to consume and increase the price
of their surplus products. This bill is a
blow at our own home manufacturers.
It increases risk and forbids tlie use of
notes given for their products, thus
limiting their capacity and prohibiting
their doing what is done in every other
business. Waivers are allowed in every
other business. In almost every mule
note this waiver of warranty is made,
and there is no defense open to buyers.
Tlie Glenn amendment perfects the
bill and makes it fair to all. When
the farmer proves failure of practical
results it puts the burden on the guano
company of proving to the satisfaction
of the jury that it actually delivered to
the purchaser the ingredients they
proposed to sell, and this evidence the
defendant has the right of contradict
ing.”
Mr. Watts—“I represent a county con
taining a population of fourteen thou
sand people, mostly farmers. I favor
the Brady bill because it proposes to
carry out a fixed policy, inaugurated
when the State proposed to come in be
tween the contracting parties and
analyze the fertilizer. In make no ob
jection to the analysis, and charge no
lack of duty on the part of the State.
These contracts are onerous, and the
remedy is to allow the farmer to plead
failure of consideration; place the guano
man in a position to reply that it contain
ed the ingredients he agreed it should
contain, and if he proves that, the far
mer should be bound to pay for it. Mr.
Glenn’s amendment perfects the bill.
It makes tlie guano man say what he
agrees to sell. If the amendment is
not adopted, the Supreme Court will
apply it any way to the act.”
Mr. Brown, of Cherokee, said that
the present law was passed when guano
was in its infancy, and is class legisla
tion. “Tlie contest,” he said, “is be
tween the guano companies and the
farmers, and we should protect the
weak. I favor the Brady bill and am
opposed to all amendments. The far
mer cannot tell when the guano contains
the necessary ingredients. God pity the
man. who applies to the Department of
Agriculture for information ! Tlie De
partment lias shown by the past that it
is unworthy of confidence, and has dis
regarded the law relative to tlie inspec
tion of fertilizers. Mr. Sessions told
me that a Marietta man had notified
the Department that lie had 200 tons
of guano, and they sent him the tags
and a bill for them. If the bill in
creases litigation, either the guano is
worthless or farmers are dishonest. I
am here to say that in my opinion the
farmers are honest.”
The bill passed by yeas 101. nays 5$,
and was ordered transmitted to the Sen
ate by yeas 120, nays L
point of anger. She replid: ‘I do not
worry over my business. It is a source
of pleasure to me. I believe that there
would be more happiness among wom
en if more of them were as busy as I
am.’”
The story points more than one mor
al. It shows that where there is a will
there is a way, and that women are
much more capable of managing busi
ness affairs than they are generally
thought to be. Every year they are
entering avenues for earning a living
which were before practically closed to
them. Every advance they make opens
the way for a further advance.. They
don’t get the same pay that men do for
the same work, but the time is not dis
tant when they will. .
Cutting Down Expenses.
Dakota Bell.
“Pullem,” said a Dakota real estate
agent, in a town which is enjoying a
boom, to his partner. “I closed the
deal with that man from Philadel
phia.”
“Is that so ?”
“Yes, lie takes the five lots and pays
$10,000. Let’s figure up and see how
we came out on them.”
"Well, they cost us $1,000.”
“Yes, and it took about $200 to treat
and entertain that man from Chicago
whom we tried to sell to.”
"And I let the St. Paul man beat me
out of $300 at poker in the hope of sell
ing to him.”
“Then I cashed a bogus draft of $250
for that man from New York, and he
skipped out without buying.”
“Then that Iowa man took up two
days of our time at S50 a day.”
“Yes, and said he wanted to think
about it before buying. And then the
St. Paul man I took home to dinner
with me, he stole silverware to the val
ue of $15, and skipped like the rest.”
“And I paid a $10 drunk and disor
derly fine for the Milwaukee man.”
“We mustn’t forget to figure in about
$50 for livery bills.”
“No, nor $25 for spending half a
day to go to church with that Boston
man.”
“And put down $100 for advertising
and $50 that I had to pay Jones for
keeping still when he accidentally
overheard me tell this man we sold to
that the marsh just behind the lots was
an artificial lake put in by the city at a
cost of $30,000.”
“Let’s see—total $2,050—profits $7,-
950. That won’t hardly do—we’ve got
to make more than that.”
“Yes, we must cut down expenses on
the next deal somewhere. I guess we
had better not spend time going to
church with any more men.”
One Woman’s'Work,
Savannah News.
A paragraph in tlie Horning
few days ago concerning a young lady
in Columbus who, having lost her fath
er, is successfully conducting the busi
ness he left, attracted the attention of
a gentleman residing in Macon. He
writes an interesting letter about some
successful business women he knows,
and calls special attention to one whom
he says is known in all parts of the
State.
It seems that in a middle Georgia
county a number of years ago a strug
gling manufacturer died, leaving a
widow and several children. The lady
had not been trained to business, and
was totally unacquainted with the pe
culiar occupation of her husband. She
determined, however, to assume the
management of the manufactory and
to operate it without seeking other aid
than that of legal adviser. She at once
made herself familiar with the pecuni
ary details of her business, and then
tonk steps to improve the plant of the
manufactory. She chose her superin
tendents and employees with consum
mate skill, and soon the machinery was
humming as cheerfully as when her
husband was alive. She watched every
point, spending money or economizing
where necessary. She advertised the
products of her manufactory in every
Southern State, and the result was
soon apparent. Orders were received
as rapidly as they could be filled. Her
plan was to send out none but first-class
work, so that when she gained a cus
tomer she retained him, She is now
the possessor of quite a handsome for
tune, to which her business permits her
to make increasingly large additions.
The Morning Macs’ correspondent
says of tills lady’s domestic life: “Her
home is one of the most delightful I ev
er visited. It is not extravagantly fur
nished, but I cannot imagine a place
more thoroughly comfortable. There
are several children. The oldest, a
daughter, has been educated in the best
schools, and is a sweet and sensible
girl. The youngest children are all in
The Paper Bag Industry.
Beyond those immediately interested
there is no adequate conception of the
vastness of the paper bag business.
There are four houses in this city, em
ploying each about fifty or sixty boys
and girls, and running two or three cut
ting and pasting machines and printing
presses, that turn bags out by the hun
dreds of thousands every day. The
demand is said to be greater than the
>u pnlv. The orders are not confined to
this city alone, but come also from dif
ferent towns. A new and ingenious la
bor-saving machine, that has been test-
! ed and worked admirably, is now being
acs a s set up in one of these establishments
and great things are expected of it.
Straw, white and manilla are the papers
mostly used, and black ink. Many of
the larger grocery houses and variety
stores have their special cut blocks from
which their advertisements are printed.
One of the bag factories also turns out
handles for packages, but this is a mo
nopoly under patent rights.—Mac York
Times.
Mourning for the Dead.
Our mourning customs are not Chris
tian; they are thoroughly pagan. The
black dress comes to us from ancient
Greece and Rome, and the time for
wearing it is almost the same as was
prescribed in those countries. Gener
ally, the more pagan a nation the more
terrible its manifestations of mourning.
The Indian savages howl and wail and
pierce the flesh with arrows and sharp
stones. The Hawaiians paint their
faces black and knock out their fore
teeth. In the Fiji islands the customs
are too horrible for description. The
Chinese are forced to mourn by law,
and they go so far as to employ mourn
ing women. In Arabia the men pre
serve a stolid silence, while the woipen
scream and tear their hair and throw
earth upon their heads. The Persians
and Syrians cut off their hair and rend
their garments. These few instances
illustrate the pagan character of these
ceremonies. Still the custom of wear
ing black is so deep-seated that it will
be difficult to get rid of.
schoi
ifest
burin
shall
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iThe sons are bright, and man-
yi
\ed interest in their mother’s
St is her intention that they j
clia
large of the manufactory as ,
soon ak they are prepared to do so. I
Beggar’s Day-
Throughout the length and breadth
of Mexico Saturday is known as “beg
gars’ day,” when, under special counte
nance of church and State, mendicants
of all degrees and both sexes levy de
mands upon people with the utmost
confidence. Out of their coverts and
lairs they swarm in incredible numbers
—the blind, the halt, the lame and the
lazy—and before sunrise on the morn
ing aforesaid tlie streets are literally
filled with them. First they make a
tour of the shops and markets, and the
obliging merchants, in anticipation of
then- coming, have laid by a store of
small coin for the occasion. To ivfu.se
rest of the week. Then they hie them
selves, with their rags and crutches, to
the sanctuaries, and afk - mass is over
and the churches deserted they patrol
every street, leaving not a house unvis
ited or a person unsolicited.
A Sunday-school teacher asked a little
girl of her class if she had been bap
tized. “Yes,” said the little girl; “two
times.” “Two times? Why, how could
that be?” “It didn’t take the first
time,” said the little girl.
A writer in a scientific paper asserts
that the critical period in a man’s life is
between the ages of 20 and 30. We
always had an idea that he begins to be
critical about six weeks after marriage.
A lover of statistics has discovered
that your wife has to put in 19,90S
stitches every time she fashions a hand
made shirt. And even then it doesn’t
fit.
A little fellow who had never eaten
frosted cake, asked at the table for a
piece of “that cake with plastering on
it.”
“You and Jones don’t seem to be as
thick as you were. Does he owe you
any money!” “No. He wants to.”
It cannot be truthfully said that the
fraudulent coffee dealer doesn’t know
beans.
THE DAYS OF YORE.
H. S. EDWARDS.
A stone falls in the azure lake,
And, sinking to its pearly floor,
Sends swelling rings far out to kiss
The pebbles on a distant shore.
Thus mem’ry’s depths olt idly stirred
By smiles like some we’ve known before,
Break forth in thoughts that wander back,
And linger ’mid the days of yore.
A leaf that on the river’s breast
Goes slowly drifting with the tide,
Is borne by whirling eddies back
Within the parent shade to glide.
So many a wearied wanderer,
Exile on a foreign shore,
Returns on swift, dream-loosened wings
To greet the happy days ol yore.
The cloudlets of a summer sky
That melt in tears upon the main,
’Neath sunny smiles forget their grief,
To float serene in Heaven again.
And human hearts unlock their gates,
When sorrow’s reign is almost o’er,
And let the olden joys stream in
From out the golden days of yore.
It is a Pleasure,
writes Mrs. Eliza Ann Smith, of Ver
million, Erie Co. Ohio, to tell the ladies
everywhere that nothing surpasses Dr.
Harter’s Iron Tonic for all irregulari
ties. “It cured me when the physi-
d.”
cians and all other remedies failed.
The policeman should watch that oth
ers may not prey.
The Mind Cure.
The theory of the mind cure may do
for some hysterical cases, but for chron
ic bowel troubles, croup, colic, diarrhoea,
dysentery, Dr. Diggers’ Huckleberry
Cordial is the surest and best cure.
Keep it.
A man’s funny-bone, we presume, en
ables him to “laugh in his sleeve.”
The Little Orphan.
Mrs. Seago, one of the trustees of the
New Orleans Orphan Home, gives Dr.
Riggers’ Huckleberry Cordial for the
relief of all bowel troubles. She never
suffers herself to be without it.
The horse General Sherman rode on
his march to the sea has been sold in
Madison county, Ohio, for $17.50 anti
was considered dear as a relic at that
price.
In Brief, and to tlie Point.
Dyspepsia is dreadful. Disordered
liver is misery. Indigestion is a foe to
good nature.
The human digestive apparatus is one
of'tlie most complicated and wonderful
tilings in existence. It is easily put out
of order.
Greasy food, tough food, sloppy food,
bad cookery, mental worry, late hours,
irregular habits, and many other things
which ought not to be,-have made the
American people a nation of dyspeptics.
But Green’s August Flower has done
a wonderful work in reforming this sad
business and making tlie American peo
ple so healthy that they can enjoy their
meals and be happy.
Remember:—No happiness without
health. But Green’s August Flower
brings health and happiness to tlie dys
peptic. Ask your druggist for a bottle.
Seventy-five cents.
Catarrh
E.S. BUCHANAN,
DklER IN DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES,
SNEAD’S ODD STAND, WEST SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE.
NEW GOODS,
EverythingBelected with Care and BOUGHT FOR CASH. -.Vo will Duplicate
Atlanta Prices in anything in the Dry Goods line, j
NOTIONS AND NOVELTIES
Of all kinds; also a full line of
300TS, SHOES, HATS,
And a General Line of |
GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS.
I also carry a full lint of
C10CKERY AND GLASSWARE.
MY GROciRY LINE IS COMPLETE.
PURE GOODS AT LOW PRICES
“SELL” IS MY MOTTO.
Come and see ie and bo convinced. If yon don’t buy yon will be treated politely. W. C.
Grace is with th.house and will be pleased to see his old friends.
E. S. BUCHANAN.
WHAT SHALL WE DO TO BE SAVED?
HOW/ CAN WE SAVE MONEY?
The latter I cnivegulate; tbe former I can assist you in.
I have on handi large anil well selected stock ol SPRUNG GOODS, and they must be
sold. My stock of
SPRING CLOTHING
Is complete and wil lease tlie most fastidious. Come and see them. Boys’ suits from $3 to
$12.50. Men’s Suits’om ?7 50 to $20 All I want is a chance to show them;—the goods will
sell themselves.
Mv line of i)RY (OODS consists of Ginghams. Lawns, Muslins. Dress Linens, Table Dam-
lc, Checks, Bleachjgs, sheeting Shirting—in fact, everything and anything 111 tlie way ol
staple Dry Goods aniNotions. , , . ,.
A big line of Men and Boys’Straw tints; can t be beat.m town for style or price. Also,
a handsome lot of Mil’s soft and stiff Hats.
I sell the best han-made Shoe in town for the money—both for Gents and Ladies My
stock was selected witi care and comprises all the late novelties and styles. A large lot of
medium grade Shoes J ways on hand.
GROCERIES.
My stock of Grocens consists of Corn, Meat, Flour, Meal, Syrup, Sugar, Coffee, and ev-
>ryihing needed to reirih and sustain the inner man. This departm-^Lis replenished every
week and all goods sc. are guaranteed to be fresh and sound, or money reiundeu. \Vi.l
sell low for Cash, or Or Tmfi for approved paper.
Get my prices beforibuying elsewhere; I can make it to your advantage to do so.
Greenville StrecV
J R.i HERRING.
ECZEMA ERADICATED.
Gentlemen—It.is due yti to say that I think I am entirely well of eczema after bavin »
taken Swift's Specific. I has been troubled with it very little in my face since last spring.
At the beginning of cold wether last fall it made a slight appearance, but went away and
has never returned S. S. S', n'doubt broke it up: at least it put my system in pood condition
and 1 got well. It also benefit'd my wife greatly in case of sick headache, and made a perfect
cure of a breaking out on mylittle three year old daughter last siunmer.
Fatklnsville, Ga., Feb. 13ij8S6. Rev. JAMBS V. 21. MORRIS.
Treatise on Blood and SkitDiseases mailed free.
The Swift Specific Co., Drawer3, Atlanta, Ga.
a MHMB
MY SPRING AND SUMMER STOCK
IS COMPLETE.
SUITS FOR MEN, BOYS AND CHILDREN
IN ENDLESS VARIETY.
PRICES GUARANTEED LOW AS THE LOWEST.
SUITS MADE TO ORDER.
GEORG E SVf U S E ,
38 WHITEHALL STREET. ATLANTA, GA.
BADGES, w. C. AYCOCK
MEDALS,
BANGLES.
ENGAGEMENT RINGS,
ETC., ETC., ETC., ETC.
MADE TO ORDER
BY
never knew a better tempered woman, j to give would be a bad advertisement,
W.
I asked her if worrying over business
did not sometimes irritate her to the
for among these professional mendi
cants are many good customers for the
E. AVERY.
THE JEWELER.
WHITE3BURG, GEORGIA,
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MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IX
DRESSED AND MATCHED FLOORING, CEILING AND ROT
LUMBER, LATHS, SHINGLES, ALL KINDS OF MOULDING!;
SAWED AND TURNED BALUSTERS, BRACKETS,
SASH, DOORS AND BLINDS, ETC.,
My Blinds are wired with patent clincherwire machine, which never breaks’loose
respondence solicited and special prices given on bills for buildings. Write
discounts on Sash, Doors, Blinds, &c. . - *