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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER, PUBLISHED IN THE POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS OF STEWART COUNTY, GEORGIA
REPORT ON COTTON.
The United States Census Office
will Publish Returns at Fre¬
quent Intervals During
Ginning Henson, and
in Time to beaf Im¬
mense Value to
the Producers.
Mr. L. C_. Toombs, of Lumpkin,
has been appointed a local special
agent of the Census Office t<» col¬
lect cotton-ginning statistics for
this county, and we join the Gov¬
ernment in urging the ginners
give Mr. Toombs their hearty sup¬
port and co-operation, thus enab¬
ling him to make prompt and ac¬
curate returns. We would impress
upon the ginners the fact that this
agent is a sworn officer of the Gov¬
ernment, and that their reports,
are forwarded as given to him di¬
rectly to the Census Office, at
Washington, without passing
through the hands of any middle¬
men. The information given is
held as strictly confidential, and
the operations of individual gin¬
ners are not divulged. Upon the
joint co-operation of tlie cotton
growers, ginners, and local agents
must depend the success of the
t
jpensus Office in this inquiry, and
Us ability to render thi# great ser¬
vice to the Southern people and to
all interested in the cotton staple.
Th« Census Office has demon¬
strated iu three reports,
the fact that the gippefs are ths
only reliable source of informa¬
tion, as to the volume of the an¬
nual cctton crop. This is very
oompliffientary to the ginners, who,
no doubt, will feel a pride in sus ;
taining the repntatiou earned.
In recognition of this interest
tfimwii by the gjnperg, and of } q
general demand for more frequent
reports through this source, Con¬
gress, in the act creating a perma¬
nent census office, provided for
the oolleotion and publication of
the ginning season. For the crop
of 1902 the office will issue three
reports; the first two will cover
the quantity of cotton ginned up
to and including October T8 and
Decomber 13, respectively; and
the final report will cover tlie to*
tol quantity ginned from the
growth of 1902.
Realizing that the collection of
the data for these reports js made
at a season when tile ginners' time
is greatly taxed, and appreciating
the necessity for prompt return#,
the Census Office has located, in
each county containing ten or
more ginneries, an agent, who will
visit each ginnery in the county
and seepre a report of the quanti*
ty of cotton ginned up to certain
dates. In undertaking the fre*
quent and hurried reports nptv
sought, it is of vital importance
that the returns he made with ab¬
solute uniformity, and that all be
received at Washington at one
time. This result pe’dd not bo
expected from individual request#
made by mail 5f 30,000 ginners,
at a time when they are engrogsed
in their ginning work. Further¬
more, the Census Office must be
kept advised of all changes in the
management and operation of
these establishments, and secure
returns from all new and revived
plants. To accomplish such re¬
sults, it becomes necessary for the
to have local representatives
who shall be charged with tlie
of keeping iu close touch
with the ginning industry in each
and of promptly reporting
the quantity of cotton ginned.
The statistics for tlie October
report will be collected during the
week beginning with Monday, Oc¬
tober 20, and ginners should keep
records ns will enable them
to furnish promptly tlie required
These returns will be tabulated,
and the result published within
week from their receipt at
Washington.
Cotton statistics collected through
the commercial system, however
accurately compiled, fall short of
the demand'of both producer and
manufacturer—first, in that as
they cover the quantity of cotton
marketed between September 1 of
one year and August 31 of the fol¬
lowing, they are not statistics of a
LUMPKIN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18. 1902.
9
Miss Ida. M. Snyder,
Treasurer of the
Brooklyn East End Art Club.
•• If women would p»y more attention to
their health we would have more happy
wives, mothers and daughters, and if they
would observe results They would find
that the doctors' prescriptions do not
perform the many cures they are given
credit for.
viaed “ In McElree’s consulting Wine with of my Cardui druggist and he Thed- ad
ford's Black-Draught, and so t took it and
have every reason to thank him foF a new
life opened only took up to me with restored health,
and it three months to cure me.”
Wine of Cardui is a regulator of the
menstrual functions and is a most as¬
tonishing tonic for women. It oures
scanty, ular and suppressed, painful menstruation, too frequent, falling irreg¬
of the womb, whites and flooding. It
is hood, helpful during when approaching woman¬
pregnancy, after child¬
birth and in change of life. It fre¬
quently have brings been barren a dear for babytohomes All
that years.
of druggists Cardui, have $1.00 bottles of Wine
WINE*CABDU)
crop grown in any one year; and
sfiP’dlfl, ill tlie liability jo effpf ip:
vofved iii statistics #o compiled,
Nothing short of official reports,
made sufficiently early to form a
basis of prices, will entirely sntis
fy jhe cottop ^rowey of m a t*ufacr
turer. It is gratifying to know
that the South has the assistance
and co-operation of the Govern:
liiept i|) bringing abopt tlie result
they desire—an undertaking the
success of which now depends up¬
on the cotton growers and ginners
thpmsejveg.
Reflection# of tv JJacholoi'.
Half the battle is concealing
from the other feilow that you be¬
lieve you are licked.
The only wrqdqngmftn who does:
n’t fuss about an eight-hour sclietL
ule is the burglar in summer t'ilDP.
The law has no penalty for steal
ing a heart, because the punish¬
ment of having it left on your
hgpds is eppqgh.
There isn't much difference
in the way a real smart girl treats
men from the way she treated doll
babies before she grew up.
It's a pretty sick woman that
won’t get up out of bod to go down
and receive a caljertlmt she know#
wiH have a choice bit of scandal.
—New York Press.
The Strike is Sett tad,
Washington, Oct. 16.—The great
anthracite coal strike is settled at
last. A commission of six persons,
with a seventh, Mf- PftVTOll P,
Wright, as recorder, will adjust
differences betwemi operators and
miners. President Mitchell of the
miners 1 union will take the neces¬
sary measures to call tlie strike
off. The President will urge im¬
mediate resumption of mining and
operations arc expected to begin
next week.
Announcement that tho great
strike was off was made by Secre¬
tary Root with exuberant good hu¬
mor at the Wiiite House shortly
after 1 o’clock.
Perils of Civilisation.
Some time ago, wo heard that a
German explorer found in a re.
mote nook of the West a tribe of
Indians who lived in a state of na¬
ture, practicalfy raimentle##, and
who were virtually free from dis¬
ease nf any kind. Another tribe
was invaded by cowboy# who per¬
suaded lln-m to wear store-clothes,
and, presently, they were decimat¬
ed by maladies hitherto unknown
to them. And now wo learn that
the Navajo Indians, originally in
superb health, are plagued with
stomach troubles because, it is
supposed, they use a process clvili*d
biead-making known to
man and a pernicious eliemic.il
compound. Civilization is a glo¬
rious thing, but, like living in
New York, it comes high.—Augus¬
ta Chronicle.
FARM HASI) AND
GOING?
A Florida man who has
traveling in the West, the
of groat farms and
ranches, brings back the
startling information that
farm hand is doomed, and
the farm horse will disappear
him. Indeed, the Florida nW»
quite sure that the passing of
two necessaries of the farm has
ready begun and is quite well
vanned. Machinery is taking
place of man and beast,
engines and electrical motor# a
doing the work formerly
ed by hands and horses lie
and they are doing it at a
saving to the farmer. We learn
from our Florida friend that u
cently per footed traction
which gets ils power from
line, is proving very popular on
the big farms. This engine
small, compact and easily man¬
aged. It is not half as large as
the old-style steam traction en¬
gine, but is twice peaiioniioaf as strong find
very much moj-p
will pull a gang of five or six sub¬
soil plows, such as are usually
drawn by two horses each, and,
because of its steady, untiring, mi:
balking work, will accomplish
more in a day than could be done
by ten horses and as many men;
and it requires but thfep pipp jo
run thfllitMe engine, Nut only will
it pull plows, but it will run the
reaper, binder, thresher, feed cut¬
ter and other machinery, and when
the train harvesting i§ oytq: it will puil
a of wagons from the farm
to the market.
With the substitution of ipq
tffiinp labor for iinimtv! labor,ftlmre
is no necessity for the farmer to
employ hands to get up at 5 in (he
morning and feed the hors#!, jp
anticipation (if iWf »>afd ;dgy’s
work, tiipce po jmfsp# gfo |i«fca §a=
ry, AH the farmer has to*do is to
pour some oil in the tank of the
machine, strike a match, and his
motor is ready for jlie doxy before
jt. The post of the gasoline trac¬
tion engine is about $1,000, bpt lif¬
ter the first pust the expense is
slight as compared with the keep
of horses.
It may be true, as opf Florida
ffipptl concluded, that farm hands
and farm horses will become fewer
year by year on the great farms of
the West, where machinery ean be
profitably employed. In this sec¬
tion, however, we expect to see the
“hired man” and the ‘critter” pp ;
gaged for mapy year# iu tilling the
soil. The tendency in other than
the great prairie sections, as shown
by the recent cepsps, is rather to
wards email farms than great ones.
In the South the great plantations
years ago are being broken up
into small farms that are cultivat¬
by families. Machinery to re¬
place animals cannot profitably be
employed on such farms, Menu*
while jt is a fact that tlie South¬
ern farmers, and especially those
of Georgia, are keeping up with
tlie march of progress in the use
improved and lujior-saving de¬
vices for the preparation of their
lands and the cultivation and har¬
vesting of their crop#. The day
may come when Dobbin will be
turned out to grass for good and
all, and when the automoble will
ail the plowing, grinding, haul¬
ing and carrying tho folks to meet¬
ing, but the time is not yet.—Sa¬
vannah Morning News.
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THE PROSPERITY WAVE.
_
Accord.ug . tlie New Yovk oor
ri's jKiiulenL 1> tlie Pli i lnd‘-l ph ia
Press tlie opinion is rapidly gain¬
ing ground in that city that the
crest of the wave of prosperity lias
passed, and that tin-country is at
t: "' ginning of ;l period of d>
pt'ession. There *s i. t appear
he ve O T good ground fur this
°P>iiion. Jt seems to lie the result
Pa ^ ier °f a feeling of depression
6 rmv ' u g °ut of the coal strike and
labor trouiiles, and of ti e
difficulty in getting money to enr
ry on speculations on the scale
that they have been conducted
during the last year or two. The
tight money market has continued
longer than it was expect'd it
would, and there lias been a wry
general fall in the prices of stocks.
It is not believed, however, tlial
there ha# been any decline in the
intrinsic value of stocks. Shrewd
buyers have been saying for months
that stocks were too high, and that
there would have to be a decline.
No doubt this belief 1ms been shar¬
ed by bankers, and they have put
up the interest rate in order to
speculation. When stock
encounter difficulties
jn, getting money for gambling in
they begin to give expres¬
to gloomy views as to the
of the
Then* im doubt been ll great
tunny labor troubles of one kind
and another during the last year.
Only those which assume large
proportions pro mentioned In the
public prints. This unrest of labor,
however, is undoubtedly due large¬
ly to the combinations which an pi.
tnl >§ 111! the while making, and
from which Immense fortunes are
made. In the recent strike in Nmy
Orleans, for instance, it wn s open¬
ly said hy the strikers that there
had been recently put upon the
Street car system of that city
many millioiis.of additional bonds
and stock, and that, ton, without
any improvements that increased
the earning value of the property.
They felt that the interest on these
additional securities was to be
made by increasing the burdens of
labor. They felt that if the own¬
ers of the property were itiuking so
much by their financiering they
ought to share their prosperity
with their employes, That feeling
is apparent all over the country,
and it is at the bottom-of the un¬
rest of labor.
If it could be demonstrated that
the coal operators were not making
more than a fair profit on their in¬
vestments it is doubtful if it would
be difficult to bring about a set¬
tlement of the coal strike. It is
asserted that the coal operators,
get enormous rates of freight on
coal. The statement is mude that
while the rate8 on other kinds of
freight have been reduced more
than 22 per cent, within the last
ten years they have been reduced
only a little more than 7 per cent,
on anthracite coal.. There is no
doubt that capital is largely re¬
sponsible for the unrest of labor
The thought is thrown out in
connection with the opinion that
the crest of prosperity lias passed,
that the action of the Democracy
of New York in putting the plank
in its platform favoring govern¬
ment ownership of the Pennsylva¬
nia coal mines is having a very de¬
pressing effect upon the public
mind, bocause it seems to fore¬
shadow troublous times in tlie
near future. It is difficult to see
why that should foreshadow trou¬
blous times. The discussion of
government ownership of railroads
and telegraph lines was in progress
before the present wave of pros¬
perity came, and it is pretty cer¬
tain that the suggestion that
government acquire the
cite eonl mines will have nothing
to do with causing it to pass.
It is stated that there are
in New York who are turning their
stocks into cash in expectation of
hard times. It is doubtful if there
is any truth in that statement.
Such statements are matte for stock
jobbing purposes. With good crops
and all the industries running at
their fql\ qipftoity, tliut there hard is no rea
atm fnr saying times are
to be expectod in the near future.
—Savannah Morning Nows.
E e READY BUILT
fence -,s best
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It’s a better fence than any other you can get or make, no matter
how much you spend or how long you work at fence building,
and tlie big saving of it is that it comes ready-built from tile
factory—ready Don’t build to stretch and staple as soon as your posts are set.
another rod of fence without going to your dealer’s
aud examining the
■'A AMERICAN Field FENCE
and Hog
You are bound to buy it if you see it, because it speaks for itself
of strength, endurance, economy— the fence that fences If your
dealer .
hasn’t it, write to
AMERICAN STEEL AND WIRE CO.,
Chicago, Sail Francisco, New York,
Denver*
I Ihn
List of Jurors lor October Term
Stewart Superior Court,
Grand Jury.
J II Stokes, W H Tatum,
J L Weathers, J M Richardson,
E S Tucker, A B Ilawkes,
D II Hobbs, W A Long,
A C Owens, C S Majors,
A G Shepherd, II W Elder
J T Patterson, M D Tatum,
J M Stevens, J V Cast’cherry,
T L Morton, B L McKolroy,
M Corbett, W B Williford,
T F Garter, S A Spivey,
B L Wood, W II Seville,
M j Morton, J M York,
J J Thompson, S O Walton Sr.,
J M Wade, T 1) Morton.
PrriT Jury, 1st Week.
J A Wood, Z T Hobbs,
P T Waller, .] T Warren,
Frank Kirk&ey, J N Davis,
James Webb, Henry Wilson,
T B Lawson, J It Turner,
W J Wilkinson A C Trotmau
F L Wimber 1 y, W S Murgnn,
Henry Lynch, B F.liart,
Marvin Mathis, T J llurks,
F E Morgan, E II Wright,
Eugene Thompson W F McCurdy,
J A Richardson, B F Durham,
Porter Thornton, Horace Morton,
H G Turner, Preston Majors,
W H Tandee, B F Rouse,
W H Newman, R S Bell,
J P Trammell. C J Perkins,
Wm Cho#nut, C E Pickett.
Pettit Jury, 2nd Week.
G W Usher Sr, F P Peek,
J B Burgamy, I’etei C Brown,
J W Trot man, W M Bartlett,
I S Webb, D T Pope,
W T Chosuut, Jas T Williams
C T Davis, A P Mathis,
J T Turner, A P Holder,
C A Siirles, J R Rass,
T M Turner. J R Banks,
B F Turner, J J Rogers,
J It Tompkins, S A Harris,
Fred Ward, J J Clark,
E B Pickett, 1 W Moore,
T P Terrell, A F Holt,
J A Wright, W O
W M Sears, R I) Goolsby,
Jesse Spivey. Z T Hancock,
J T Summer ford C C Geeslin.
Wilhemstadt, Curacoa, Oct. Hi.—
The troops of the Venezuelan gov¬
ernment have been repulsed while
re-attempting to occupy Coro, cap¬
ital of the state of Falcon, and
sustained heavy losses. A schoon¬
er, with sixty men on board, was
sunk.
An engagement was fought at
three hours from Caracas,
Saturday. The government force
was defeated, losing 112 men. The
revolutionists have almost com¬
pletely encircled Caracas.
The British cruiser Indefatiga¬
ble', arrived at LaGuayru Sunday.
Other British vessels an? to follow.
The United Stales gunboat Ma¬
rietta has returned to LuG.tnn ra
from Curacoa.
Serious events are predicted for
this week.
Atlanta, Oct. 151.—Gov. Candler
received the report of the
trustees of the stale asylum for
the insane at Milledgeville. The
trustees ask for an impropriation
of $5140,000 for 1903 and $360,000
for 1904. The asylum is still over
crowded and there an* applica¬
tions on file for the admission of
§82 white and 108 colored patients.
The number of patients in the asy¬
lum has increased in many in¬
stances to turn out of tho asylum
the harmless 'but incurable luna¬
tics because of lack of room.
Terms, $1.00 Per Annum
NO. 35.
Are you a subscriber for the Home
ami Farm? If you are a farmer you
should be. There is a vast amount of
valuable and useful information to be.
found in twelve numbers of it. Wo
will furnish Home and Farm and The
Independent to any subscriber for one
year for $1.25.
BUY THE
SEWING MACHINE
Do not be deceived by those who ad¬
vertise a $60.00 Hewing Machine for
$20.00. Tliiskind of a machine can
be bought from us or any of our
dealers from $15.00 to $18.00.
WE MAKE A VARIETY.
THE NEW HOME IS THE BEST.
The Feed determines the strength or
weakness of Hewing Machines. The
Double Feed combined with other
strong best points makes tlie Blew Home
the Hewing Machine to buy.
WriteforCIRCULARS allowing ferent Sewing styles Machines tha dif¬ of
we manufacture aud prices before purchasing
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