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SATURDAY. JUNE 1. 1901.
Tliit morning's eon nehored In a oool
diy In May.
The Texaa oil boom is evidently a gen
uine thing.
Huzitig at West Point seems to be a
sort of spontaneous combustion.
Mr. Oarnegle will not mako $10,000,-
000 gilts every month In tho year.
The fellow who can’t talk nntll he has
renmrkod, "It’s hot," has been in exile
today.
W here ootton has been wa*hed np by
thu recent heavy rains, It le not too late
yet to plant oorn.
Sir Thomae Upton le oe hard to keep
down ai an Ohio offloe seeker. He la
leae anooessfol, however.
Mr. MoKinley knows how-to talk to
the eoldlen, and he never falls to arouse
great enthusiasm when addressing them.
.The Confederate veterans are advano
lug on Memphis today. And Memphis
hue her hospitable arms wide open to re-
oeiee them.
The omet resort* are palntlngnp their
ancient sea serpents, and the tuual
•'woU a ithentioated" stories will soon
find tl.cir way Into tho public prints.
The oountry would like to see the peo
ple ot South Carolina turn tho grand
stand play of Seuatore Tillman ami
MoLicrin tbgood aooount by dropping
both of them.
It seems to be settled that Georgia'!
rlflomn i will never shoot ut Sen Girt
•gain as long as the annual oonteats nro
held un ler the aueploea of tho Now Jer
sey State Rifle Association.
Unole Sam’a collection of battleships
and cruisers Is increasing rapidly, nud
with the launching of every new one
• the Monroe dootrino beeomes more for
midable In the eyes of Europe.
The grand jnry of Lowndes oonnty
has Indicted a lot of the oltizens of Val
dosta fir gaming, tlioir olTcuso being
that th .y engaged in a game of "set-
hack” for cigars.
The joint debnto in the Cuban const!,
tnttoual convontion continues. Tho pil
triots seem to dread a filial' vote on the
Platt amendment, although convinced
that Its aooeptauoe is inevitable.
The psople of South Carolina ought lo
get together now and, instead of allow
ing themselves need by Tillman and Mo-
Lanrin in their grandstand play, refuse
vindient on to both of them and elect
two bolter men to fill their places in the
United States Senate.
Iionry Lewis Morris, a descendant of
Gouvoruear Morris, a signer of the Deo-
larnMoii at Independence, has just pur-
phased for $70,000 a piece of property In
New York which was sold by hls father
|n 1863 forfilfiB. The property is lopated
pit One Hundred and Forty-ninth street
Third Avenue. ' When the 18fi3
"er was' made there were only eight
uft and the Harlem river
NOTHING EQUALS OtB NATIVE
GRASSES FOB HAT*
We And the following in the “Capitol
Gossip" of the Atlanta Constitution:
AmUUnt Oommlwloner Wright, of the ftgrl-
cultural department, hae been bombarded with
lnqulrlen from many flections of the state
within the last two or three days about wheat
hay. It seems that tho wheat In many sections
•f the state la nearly ready to be cut If it la to
be sold aa hay, and many of tho farmers want
to know where they can find a market for it.
Oaptain Wright has seen several Atlanta firms
Who handle- grain and hay, and they have
agreed to take hold of It and do what they can
with It. He is answering all tho inquiries! with
regard to the matter that como to tho depart*
ment, and for a time It kept him busy.
Here wo find evldenoe of the foot that
we have farmers in Georgia who are
blindly running over a good thing that
is a dead oertainty as a profitable crop
and money maker, in' A vain effort to
reaoh an uncertain "something better."
Wheat hay may tie very good and
there may be profit In it where tho
crowfoot and crab grasses whloh we
hare throughout Southern and Middle
Georgia are not of indigenous growth,
bnt why plant wheat, millet or anything
else for hay where we have native
grasses that require no seeding and that,
when glvon a ohanco, make the very
best of hay?
The Herald knows something about
hay. It didn't learn what It knows
abont hay In a single year or for noth
ing, either. In 1805 this paper Inaugu
rated a haymaking campaign in South
west Georgia and paid some round cash
premiums, at the pioneer hay day ear-
nival held In Albany,, to the farmers
making the beat exhibits of hay from
native grosses on a given number ’ of
oorel. The farmers who were indnoed
to oontost for the Herald premiums
that year demonstrated that hay from
onr native grasses was one of the most
profitable crops that oonld be prodnoed
In this oountry.
Experiments that have been made In
Donghorty and adjoining oountfea show
that an average of two tons of good
merchantable hey per core can be made
In a fair season when three onttings of
the grass can be had) and when It is
considered that the orop is one that has
to be neither seeded nor worked, the
profit beoomea apparent. There is no
other orop that can be prodnoed In this
country at so small a cost, and yet the
yield por acre oan be converted Into
more money than can be realized from
the same land planted In oorn, wheat or
ootton.
At tho hay day carnival ajd street
fair held In Albany last November hay
from onr native grasses was exhibited
that was prononnoed by competent
jndges to be ot as good quality as the
Northern and Eastern produot known as
Timothy. Slnoe our farmers, or some
of oar farmers, we will say, have gone
to making hay from onr native grasses,
they have improved the quality of the
prodnot eaoh year, and there Is ready
market for every bale prodnoed. Last
year's orop sold for from $19 to $1S per
ton, and thoee who had good bay and
kept it nntll spring got more for it.
Taking the ooat, yield per sore and
market prioe all Into consideration,
there Is no hay orop that can be pro
dnoed in this oonnlry to eqnal the na
tive grasses. When .properly handled
these grasses make a hay that is as
pretty, as sweet apd essentially as vain-
able as the best Timothy, and there Is
more elear profit In making this kind of
bay in Sonthwest Georgia than there is
In most of the orops grown in this sec
tion.
According to an annonnoemeut from
Berlin the Powers in interest are gener
ally agreed that the oustoms of China
shall hereafter be paid in gold, whioh
will be equivalent to doubling the pres
ent duties pnyable in silver. Tho exist
ing rate of dnty on imports to China is
fivo per cent., and under this exceedingly
low rate the revenues collooted In 1890
amounted to $19,800,000. Lost year the
revenues were considerably reduced by
reason of(tlie disordersliu China. Secre
tary Squiers, of the United States Lega
tion at Pekin, calls attention to the
grntifyiug fnct (that American cotton
goods, drillings and the like are out
stripping English competition. In the
tlireo northern porta of China American
trade has absorbed 80 per cent, of tho
total impotts.
Since his letters to Scnntor McLaurtn
have beeu|pnhUshed, some of the Demo
cratic papers in'.Georgia are calling on
Hon. T. O.lCrenshaw to resign the of
floe of Railroad£Oommissioner, whioh
was given to him as a Democrat by a
Demooratio administration. Bnt these
papers don't know Crenshaw.
THE NEGRO AS A PRODUCER.
The Atlenta Journal of yesterday
afternoon publishes the following special
dispatch from Kingsport, Tenn.:
The spirit of discontent is brooding among
the negro race of thlR localit j and an organiza
tion is being formed to induce an great a num
ber aa possible to colonize in Porto Rico, or
aome of the island concessions. The proposed
colony of Tennemee negroes will engage In
agricultural pursuits and if possible, better
their condition. One leader said: "Our people
had better no useful and self-supporting than
Ifo lire in towns and cities. We can be pro
ducers."
There is a wholesome sermon in the
above for the negroes if the South. The
blaok man, truly, oan be a producer,
and there await him in the field of ugri-
onltnre, happiness, prosperity and ulti
mate wealth.
The "leader” qnoted in the Journal
dlspatoh gives to his people a motto that
might In all appropriateness be framed
and given the place ot honor in the
home of every negro family in the
South: "Our people had better he nso-
fnl and self supporting than to live in
towns and cities. We ean be pro
ducers.”
It is folly, however, for the negro to
become an emigrant, turning hls steps
to Porto Rico, C'nbn, Liberia, Hawaii er
olher distant lands. By this time, the
darky should realize and be willing to
admit that nowhere will he find friends
as staunch as ho has in the white peo
ple of thu Sonth, whose tolerance of bis
shortcomings will not bo equalled by
the people of any other oonntry or sec
tion. Even onr northern triends are be
ginning reluctantly to admit that the
white people who wero formerly the ne
groes’ masters are now their truest
friends and most generons benefactors
and cannot the ex-s'.avo conoede as much
as the Yankoo, who is slowly bnt cer
tainly "oomlng round" in spite of the
unreasoning prejadioe in whloh the
civil war steeped him?
Let the negroes be producers, bnt let
them stay at home. Oars is the great
est agricultural country in all, tho
world, and the fertile fields of the cot
ton belt will respond as generously to
tho oall of the indnstrions darky as the
soil of any land on earth. The sonth
ern negroes who are farming on Intelli
gent lines are prospering and making
good oltizens. They are hnying farms,
and Improving them year after year.
They are not worrying abont polities,
and are sending their ehildren to the
oonntry schools,—sohools maintained
largely oat of tuxes.pald by white prop
erty owners.
Let the negro he a producer. Let
him prodnoe ootton and oorn, hogs and
oattle, potatoes and poultry, and twenty
other orops. Let him think more of
digging the stumps out of his fields
than of attending political meetings,
and snoh things as emigration sohemes
and colonization movements will be un
heard of.
The consumption of sngar has in
creased tremendously and has donbled
for the world in fifteen years. Great
Britain consumes eigbty-six pounds of
sugar per head of population a year, and
the United States sixty-five pounds; the
two countries easily lead all others in
sngar eating. An English medical
writer dlsoonrses on the health-giving
qualities' of sugar. It oreates energy
and maintains strength. The authority
referred to in the “British Medical
Journal” oonolndes that the. increased
height mid weight and the improved
health of the English people in the last
half oentnry are dne largely to the in
creased consumption of sngar. The in
ference is plain that an important fac
tor in Anglo-Saxon superiority, in the
greater energy and push of the raoe, is
tho habit of eating more sngar than
other nations do.
ANOTHER DISEASE.
The doctors continue to discover new
and new remedies for old dis-
So many disease germs and
deadly baoteria have been developed
within the last few years that we are
just now beginning to learn what a
very dangerous thing it is to be alive
and moving abont Ih the world.
The latest disease, or its discovery,
oomes from Chicago. It is “skoliosis,
or "school roomsiokness.” "Skoliosis,”
says Prof. Snder, “Is caused primarily
by hard work in the school room." He
is very mnoh afraid that the disease will
make serious inroads npon the eonstitn-
tioh of yonng America. "We must do
all that is possible,” he says, "to stop
the spread of this disease, which will
cause cnrvatnre ot the spine, and ottior
ohronio ailmentB.” Regular out-of-
doors exercise he recommends as tho
best preventive.
The fathers and mothers of the pres ;
ent generation never suffered from
"skoliosis,” and did not know anything
about It, and the Savannah News ad
vanecs the explanation that maybe it
was because muny of thorn had to walk
from one to fire miles to school and
baok fire time.-, a week, lugging a lot of
books at'd a dinner pail, thereby scour
ing the proper nmonnt of out-of-doors
oxeroise to prevent an attaok of the ail
ment.
Governor Alien received a rousing re
ception npon his return to Sun Juau yes
terday, the demonstration showing that
tho people of Puerto Rico have not yet
lost confidence in the United States
government. Governor Allen stated In
a speeoh delivered to an audience of
5,000 in front of tho palace, that “since
hls visit to Washington the wishes of
the people of Puerto Rtoo are better un
derstood, and that he bronght them
hope, oheer and encouragement.” All
of which sounds well, and is probably
more or less gratefnl to the ears of the
natives, bnt their satisfaction would no
doub. be greater If a little of the en
couragement promised had already been
handed them In the Bhape of tariff con
cessions on their export products.
The Minneapolis Times says: "Mut-
terlngs of the forthcoming tariff war in
Congress are already heard in Wash
ington. The growls of protest over the
proposed reduction in the tariff duties
on Cuban sugar will develop Into a roar
all along thu line, nnless present signs
fail. The beot sngar interests of the
West and the cane Huga r interests of
the South are organizing for action, and
they hope to enlist all other protected
industries in their eanse. It is easy to
believe that with a liberal Caban tariff
as a starter the oanse of reciprocity and
fair trade is likely to gain a tremendous
momentum in the next Congress nnless
it is oheoked at the start."
Dr. Edward Everett Hale tells how a
curious error Crept into the translation
of tho Lord's Prayer into the Delaware
Indian touguo. Tho English translator
had ns an assistant an Indian who knew
Eugllsh. “What is 'hallow' in Dela
ware?" asked the translator. The Iu-
dian thought he said "h illoo," and gave
him tho eqnivaleut. Therefore the
Delaware version of the Lord's Prayer
reads to this day: “Our Father, Who
art in Heaven, hallooed he thy namo 1”
Tho announcement that Shnmrock II
can be repaired within six weeks' time
and that tho onp races will only be
postponed one month on account of
the unfortunate accident to the new
ohailenger, will occasion general satis
faction in thelUnited States and Great
Britain. The first of the races, accord
ing to the amended programme, will
coour on September 81.
The Louisville Courier- Journal (Dem.)
says: “Cisneros, oneof the members of
the Onbau Constitutional Convention,
informs that body that he is in reoelpt
of letters from New York advising the
oonvent-lon not to accept the Platt
amendment and assuring him that pub
lic opinion in the United States would
support the convention in rejecting It
It is entirely probable that Mr. Cisneros
has reoeived snoh letters. Nothing has
been more clearly shown in the lost two
or three years than that there are a
number of Americans who are always
most aotive whenever there Is a chanoe
to oppose their own country."
The criminal who undertakes to kid
nap Thomas A. Edison mast ne«d£ be a
daring one. The great electrical
wizard is full of surprises, and the
world is only aware of half thu schemes
that live in his brain. The prowler who
ventures to enter the Edison lionse
or the Edison yard never knows when
his foot or hand will connect with a
thunderbolt that will kuook him into
tho land of obliviou. Thomas A. Edi
son has too many tricks'np his sleeve to
he a fair mark for kidnapers.
The suicide of Bresci, the Italian ns-
sas-siu of King Humbert, surprised no
body. If there was surprise at all, it
was because the doomed man waited so
long before ending his miserable exist
ence. Solitary confinement is tho most
terrible of all punishments, for it mad
dens the brain, wrecks the body and
leaves the prisoner’s spirit crashed and
broken.
Treasurer Park will soon know what’s
what. Some folks will feel powerful
sassy when the snprjme court hands
down its decision in the mandamis case;
then some others won't feel qnite so
and OLD
PEOPLE
Bad Circulation ia the cause of most of the ills that come with old age. With
advancing years there is a decline of strength and vigor—the machinery of the*
body moves with less speed and accuracy. Because of the weak and irregular •
action of the heart the olood moves more slowly, becomes impure and loses much
i of bodily ailments. Cold feet, cmiiy sensations up ana aown tne spine, poor
appetite and digestion, sorenes? of the muscles, rheumatic pains, hard and fissured
fa( -i- - - ? _ . . - * k- — I ' mtin anil /\4l, n. nn«Ae nf tlia
body—' „ _
healthy blood and imperfect circulation. .
the building up and purification of the blood, thus adding strength and tone to
the vital organs and quick, healthy action to the circulation.
S. S. S. being strictly a vegetable blood remedy and the best tonic, makes it
the most valuable and efficacious of all medicine for old people. It is free from all
mineral ingredients, and mild and pleasant in its action. It cures blood diseases
of every character, even those inherited or contracted in early life. As the system
gets under the influence of S. S. S. there is a marked improvement in the general
health, and as richer and purer blood begins to circulate through the body the
appetite improves, and there is a softness and elasticity about the skin that you
have not noticed for years ; sores begin to heal, pains in muscles and joints grad
ually cease, and you find thnt it is possible to be happy and healthy even in old age.
Our medical department is in charge of physicians who make a study of blood
and skin diseases. If you would like to have their opinion and advice in your
case, write them all about it and you shall receive such information and advice at
you want. This will cost you nothing. . Others have found our medical depart
ment of great benefit to them—their cure beinjj much more rapid as the result of
some special directions .received from our physicians.
Don’t be your qwn 'doctor when you can get medical advice free. Book on
Blood and Skin Diseases mailed to all who desire it. 4
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THE FARM LABOR PROBLEM.
Said a prominent Southwest Georgia
farmer to a Herald representative yes
terday: “In spite of some unfavorable
weather conditions, my crop has held
its own, and I look forward to an abund
ant harvest in the fall. Many of my
neighbors have been less fortunate, so
there is much for me to be thankful for.
But I am greatly worried by the farm
labor problem. I make it a rule to
plant my cotton early. Chopping time
in my fields oomes, consequently, before
my renters are ready to work their own
orops, and I am enabled to hire them to
help me ont at an important stage of
my year’s operations. This spriug.
however, my first planting was killed
outright by the wind and cold, and I
was forced to plant a second time
Now, my tenants are busy with their
own cjops and cannot spare the time to
hire to me, and the consequence is, my
fields are suffering from laok of atten
tion. There are thousands of negroes
throughout tho country-hundreds of
them right here in Albany—who are
without employment, but who cannot
be induced to accept good wages on the
farms.”
The experience of this farmer is simi*
lar to that of many others, in fact a 1 !
who are dependent to any considerabb
extent on'day labor. There are thous
ands of idle men and boys, nearly all of
whom are negroes, in our towns and
cities, and not a few in the country.
Remunerative employment awaits
them on the farms, but their services
are not procurable,
The same trouble seems to exist in the
Middle West, for some of tho great
grain producing states are offering $3
per day for day laborers. The trouble
there seefas to be a lack of unemployed
persons, while here the diffionlty lies in
the fact that the unemployed are too in
dolent to become toilers in the fields. It
seems a great pity that shiftless, lazy
negroes cannot be compelled to go to
work when their services are impera*
tively needed.
Oapt. William Hall, of the United
States marine corps, has been complete
ly exonerated of the oharge of cowardice
preferred against him by Minister Con
ger. The finding of the court martial
has just been promulgated by Rear Ad
miral Remey, and the finding has been
approved by the Navy Department.
Oantaiti Hall commanded the United
States marines who figured in the de
fense of Pekin, and it was his conduct
on that memorable occasion which
prompted Minister Conger to prefer
charges against him. The courtmartial
decided that Qaptain Hall wds guilty of
nothing more serious than an error of
judgment.
Tho striking machinists seem to be
gaining ground all along the liue, and it
is hardly to be doubted that their de
mands, in nearly all cases, will be fully
met. President O’CounoU", of the Ma
chinists’ Association, expresses entire
satisfaction with the present state of
affairs, and is apparently confident that
the outcomo of the strike will be all thu'*
the machinists could reasonably desire.
P. T. Barnuui found oat that the
American people like to be humbugged,
and ever since he made his discovery
known, mankind his been hard at work
devising means to discover how many
different ways there are of accommodat
ing the dear people.
Is It “Rot!”
From tho Macon Telegraph:
The Nashville Amerioan says that
"the talk ot the menace of negro rale in
the Sonth is simply rot.” It was not
"rot” but grim reality until the South
ern whites banded themeelv-s together
to a man and made a determined fight.
Slnoe then the grim reality has forced
itself to the front again only in occas
ional spots, aB at Wilmington. N. O.,
three years ago. Should the white
Sonth stick together to a man nntil the
end of the chapter, it is fortunately
quite tree the menace of negro rnle will
not be serions, bnt what if the white
Sonth should disintegrate and form two
strong white political parties, as reform
ers, both Southern and Northern tell ns
mast be done for the nuke of onr own
freedom and good local government?
What will beeome of I he Nashville
American's “rot" in that cbbb? It is a
simple faot that should bs patent to the
dullest comprehension that the white
men of the Sonth most either stand to
gether politically or plaoe snoh restric
tions on negro franchise as will enable
them to divide with safety.
F ir a man holding a State office, as a
Democrat, Tom Crenshaw has made
a pitifully bad break. His letter
of resignation as railroad commis
sioner ought to have preceded his
letter of commendation of Re
publican policies. It would not hart
him with his new friends to request his
resignation. He should now be gra-
oionsly extended the coveted pose of po
litical martyrdom.—Sparta Ishmaelite.
Now the head-liner of the Atlanta
Constitution has gone to sp-lling syrnp
with an "i." It is perhaps safe to say
that be is not an indigenous Georgia
plant. He Is evidently an exotio and
would not know a Georgia oane field
from a Maine cranberry bog.—Albany
Herald.
It is safe to say that the man who
spells syrup with an “i" has taever
ohewed sngar oane, or ponred its pro-
dnet over a stack of buckwheat cakes.—
Thomasville Times-Enterprise.
The two Presbyterian general assem
blies of the country have been engaged
in a disonssion of the oreed dnring the
past week. At the Southern Assembly
at Little Rock the creed seems to have,
held its own, bnt in the Northern as
sembly at Philadelphia the revisionists
have knocked great holes in it.
Whatever the crop conditions may
be throughout the country, oertain it is
that in this immediate section the oat-
look in the, agricultural field is^ not
what the farmers had hoped for and
had a reasonable right to expect as the
result of conditions existent early in the
spring.
The Park mandamus case will go into
history as'oue of the most notable legal
battles that have occurred in the courts
of Georgia. Some of its features have
been rather suggestive of "grand stand
playiBg," but the issue invplved is of
sufficient importance to justify the tan
gle of legal red tape whioh is now in the
hands of the supreme coart.
A Budapest professional beggar who
died recently had amassed the very com
fortable snm of £43,000. This he be
queathed to the University of Pressburg,
where he had made mnoh money in his
early days by swindling.