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The Bulloch Herald Vol. I. CULTIVATING SUGAR CANE Department of Agriculture Sends Letters to Ordinaries* The question of the importance of growing sugar cane has been discussed, somewhat, in the leading papers of the state in the last five weeks, and to pro¬ cure information on this subject thus Department has sent oat circular letters farmers who have grown cane. We have found it almost impossible to ob tain such information as we desire, and yet, we have the names of several ers of thii product who have made some successful, as well as encouraging, re •alts. We only cite one instance as an ex ample- we visited the farm of Captain m T r a . ne8 U tv ’ ’ and found that be . bad , , la) 1>A planted :u sugar cane. Last year Captain James had 105 acres and henade 400 gallons per acre, and told hi 1 crop at an average of 25 cents per galoa, which wonld be fiOO per acre. The cost of manures was $6.00 per acu. Suppse we divide the amount of pro ductioi by one-half, then we receive $50 pe acre, or fonr times as much from cotton We re not an alarmist, nor do we ad¬ vise th production of one crop over an¬ other, at the time has come when we most istabiish markets for oar farm prodntg. The lumber and turpentine interest have rken up the time and attention of Sonthcn, Southeastern and South westen Georgia for a number of years, These adust ries have opened up a large srea •! land which will naturally be utiliad, and of course in the nature of s try . Ybat will we do with these lauds it a qtst^on of vast importance. We can cot aford to cultivate all of them in cottob^or the demand is not enough to affordthe farmer adequate prices to make i,v»pfitable. Undr these conditions we must look to the using of such crops as will meet with i decided demand to fill the de mandof oar own wants. Uuxnry. Right or Wrong. Difussing the right or wrong of luxur in The North American Review. Profrsor F. Spencer Baldwin, a Boston univrsity authority on economics, coma to these conclusions-. “ here are justifiable and there are nnjatifiable luxuries. that “n general it may be laid down a lxury which contributes to the effi eiecy of the individual in tbe widest sene and which does not impose on so cief for thm satisfaction of its demands anunwhoKAoine and degrading form of la lor is perfectly justifiable. “This sanction of luxury is not to be st etched to cover unlimited self in dilgence. The part played by rational sef sacrifice in the development of char¬ acter is not to be overlooked. Constant sef indulgence is demoralizing. “But in general a man has a right to spend money for anything that enriches and diversifies his life, and thus aids in the developing and rounding out of his personality, provided the labor that is required for the production of tbe arti¬ cles in question be agreeable and innoc¬ uous. “On the other hand, a luxury that de¬ moralizes the individual or calls for a noxious form of labor is unjustifiable. ” A Forget/nl Spouse. Mrs. Bilkins—1 never saw such a for getful man in my life aa you are. The clock has stopped again. Mr. Bilkins—That’s because yon for got to wind it. Mrs Bilkins—You know very well. Mr. Bilkins. that 1 told you to remind me to wind it. and you forget about it —New York Weekly in|ur*<i innocence. “That, sir,” exclaimed the indignant merchant, ‘‘is what I call a aratuitons falsehood.” “It’a nothing of the kind ' ” replied tbe unscrupulous salesman “I get a salary and a commission for telling that falsehood.”—Washington Star one Ear Better Than Two. A well known nrofeasor assarts that the smallest intervals of sound can be better dMbnftMWith d.et.ugauhed with one ear than trith both Dec. SMART AT SPELLING.' I A LESSON IN ORTHOGRAPHY THAT . WAS DEARLY BOUGHT. How n Couple of Shrewd Sharpers Won Thousands of Dollars by Working the Dictionary For Game Until They Were liron&ht to Grief. _r.£a=:— - - a “ What do yoa mean _ paper or mn . sic r inquired a smart young man who poses as an authority on all topics. “Music. Binging, of course/’ replied the man in search of orthographical in formation. “C-h-o-i-r,” responded the smart y° m) g man decisively. “Q*tt*i*r-e, ’’ chimed in a red bearded man wbo was bns y I°°Ling at some books. “You are referring to paper.** said the smart young man, locking sadly at the interrupter. “We were speaking about music.*’ “I mean music, too.’* said the red bearded man calmly: “q-u-i-r-e. losing in concert.** The smart young man's expression changed from sadness to contempt “You had better consult your diction ary,” he said with a sneer. “Never mind,” retorted the red bearded man. “My way of spelling may be a little old fashioned, but yon will find it correct according to Webster. You will also find it correct according to the Century Dictionary, and if I am not mistaken it is likewise given in the Standard. Your way is all right too. ” The smart young man gave a sniff of scorn. “Josh Billings and yon should have collaborated on a phonetic spelling book. ” “Look here." said the red bearded man. “I’ll bet yon $3 that Webster’s latest spells it ‘q-u-i-r-e. * " The money was put up and Webster’s international brought out. There it W as, “q-u-i-r-e, to sing in concert.*’ “I didn’t mean a verb. ” said the Bmart young man. glowing white around the ears. “Where is the noun ?’ They found that. too. although it was marked obsolete. Then the smart young man wilted. “I won’t take your money.” said the red bearded man. handing back tbe bills. ft 4 My name is Bell. George T. Bell. I have bad educational advantages which you probably never received, and i spent several months learning the different ways to spell that word. Sev¬ eral years ago I was on the secret serv¬ ice. My partner and I had been on tbe trail of a pair of sharpers who had a repertory of ‘con* games that would have made the oidinary bnnko man look sick. They were men of far more than ordinary intelligence and had the man¬ ners of cultured men of the world. The way we happened to get them waa a pure accident. “My partner and I were going down from Bt. Louis on a Mississippi river packet. There were about 20 of us in the smoking room talking find trying to pass tbe time comfortably. Just as a lull came in the hnm of conversation a young man seated ... at a table . ,, writing ... some letters looked up with a troubled air and said. ’Could any of you gentle men tell me how to spell “choir?” I am a little puzzled over it • < « What kind of a one do yon mean?’ asked severaL ♦ ft * Choir, to sing in concert' chirped the young man. wrinkling his brow as if to recall the proper orthography. ft ft t C-h-o-i-r. ’ said a scholarly looking man with glasses on. *ft * Q-u-i-r-e.’sang out a big, well fed 0 j d Iuan 0 ff in the corner. \ “ ‘C-h-o-i-r, ’ repeated the first man vvitli some emphasis. ‘I thought every fool knew that.’ *« ‘That’s all right,' said the old man off in tbe corner. ‘Money talks. I’ll bet yoa $50 that Webster spells it “q-u-i-r-e” too.’ “ ‘I’ll raise you 50.* said the first man. who was a cotton buyer at Mem phis. “ ‘All right,’ said the big old man cooll y Then the others joined in and bet him to a standstill. They put up about $500. Then they got tbe diction ary. and, as just now. the man who bet on ‘q-u-i-r-e’ won. the “My partner and I waited till money had changed hands, and then 1 8 aid. ‘Como on. Si.’ “I walked up to the young man and ‘Come with me; I want yon. I’ll ,how J 00 bcw t0 ®P«U cboir - Si c ° l * Jarad .he big old man and wa lealtaed ^ 4oml yo!I Mw „ w t wo trick, bnt they got fonr yean and a half apiece. That is one spelling school l have attended that uot every man goes to. That game is one which will catch nine educated men out of ten. You are all right, but you may still have some¬ thing to learn.* . Then the smart young man offered the usual invitation in payment for the information,—Washington Post AN HONEST ARTIST. He Would Not Pnfnt a iie Been Fo* a Napoleon. There was no love lost between the Emperor Louis Napoleou and his cousin, Prince Napoleon, whom fhe Parisians called “Plon Plon. ** The prince used to make abusive speeches against the em peror, which people were only too ready to repeat to him. “Let him alone, * Louis Napoleon would reply. “He is too well known. No one would turn me out to place him on the throne. “ The emperor was correct, for no one said a good word about “Plon Plon. “ He was commonly believed to have shown the white feather tu the Crimea and never exposed himself where the lead was falling. An English lady, who in her young days mingled with French society, tells in her “Foreign Courts and Foreign Homes" a story ns discred itable to Prince Napoleon as it is hon orable to a French artist, While the artist was painting the historical picture of the battle of the Alma, which the emperer had ordered, Prince Napoleon called at the painter’s studio to make known to him the facts, On leaving he said he wished the prom inent figure in the battle to be himself mounted on his white charger. ‘ He sent the horse to the artist so that he could paint its exact portrait When the pic ture was finished and invitations were sent out for a “private view.** the fsmm the reason. The honest artist said the bonse should remain W the,prince wish ed. but no rider would be on it. “Tell the prince I have never yet painted a lie ” The hint was taken. The prince ordered the horse to be rubbed out. ——- They Were Not Relatives. The author of “Twenty-fivejiears lugEvas ia British Guiana” says that once camping out with companions there. and that some of them had not his ao quaintance with the woods: At last we turned into our hammocks, and I was dropping off to sleep, when I was roused by the most infernal bark jug and roaring. Attracted by our fire and singing, a troop of bowling ba boons had come over the trees and were making night hideous by their yells. Shields who was not acquainted with the brutes, shook my hammock violent¬ ly and whispered “What on earth is that?” Not very well knowing what I was saying, i replied. -Tiger, " “Are thev very near?” "Very.” said I. aud. taking advan tage of a loll in the cborne. I dropped 8 1 Poor Shields lay awake half tbe night, expecting to be devoured by wild beasts. He W as sleepy f and cross in the morn . * . Rr d<r " „ q asbed ‘ bim if he bad . . he bab on8 { wer@ fcaboon were th ? ‘ an awfnl noise thev make I Bnt . . savin" . >t bnow •’ ^j d Bridges on - TmI)athetical y i v “I don’t belong to the SDecieB •• ** a v ' _ Fresh Laid. A lady who did not appear to be in a very good temper bounced into a cer* tain grocer’s shop the other afternoon, „ “J 8 your father at home?” she asked of the small boy behind tbe counter. “No’m.” was the reply. “Anything I can do for you ?” The lady hesitated before remarking: “I've called to complain about tbe eggs I obtained from your father thia morning. He told me they were fresh laid, and”— “Did be get’em from tbe window?” asked the youthful salesman. “Yea.” “Then it’s all right, ‘aa—they’re fresh laid.” “But I aay they are not. ” “You’ll excuse me. ’m,” said the youngster, endeavoring to be polite: “But 1 ought to know. They came in a crate yesterday. I unpacked every one on ' em an laid ’em there in the window only tbiB morning. 80 I knows they’re fre.b laid, aod that aettlea it "-Lea gen ltn« . THE LUCK OF A HOUSE A SUPERSTITION WHICH SEEMS TO BE BUILT ON FACT. Person* Who Erect Costly Man* ■ions For Their Own lev Ever Live to Oeenpy Them—if Not Death Then Disaster Bari the Doors. An instance has lecently occurred of « well known man refusing for super stitioos reasons to live in a beautiful bonse he had built until some one else. a perfect stranger, had occupied it for some little time, If ever there has been a superstition that appears justified by solid fact and precedent, it is that which prevails about the building of a house. Few who erect costly mansions for their own use ever live to occupy them. An ill fate seems to bar the doors of these abodes upon which has been lavished so much thought and money and hope. Sometimes it is death and sometimes it is ruin that overtakes the owner, Bo widespread and mo powerful is this strange superstition that one finds even an intellectual man like Lord Salisbury insisting on leaning to strangers for sev eral months the beautiful home which be has had erected for himself at Bean lieu, on the Riviera, before he will con sent to occupy it himself or to permit any member of bis family to cross threshold. Lord Salisbury, however, has only to round him in London to find ample for the adoption of such ex aud at first sight nnneees precautions. The completion of Revelstoke’s palace in Charles coincided with the bankruptcy of great firm of Baring Bros., of be was the principal, and it baa ever Bince an exquisite monu to the futility of human hopes and involving him in rain and com pelling him to dispose of it to Mrs. Mackay, of “Bonanza” fame, Tbe Marquis de Santnrce, having pnrehased the neighboring house from Lady Granville, spent a fortune upon the reconstruction and adornment of the interior. But before the work was completed he in turn was overtaken by the terrible disaster which befell the Anglo-bpamsh of Murrieta, of which he was the chief director, and he bad no alterna *J ve bnt to 8611 tbe bonB0 to Mr W * W “ s i? The r * downfall . „ of , Hudson, _ . the , railway ^ king, occurred at tbe same time as the completion of the great house he was bavlD K built for hmiself at e Albert 8 ate entrante to H y de P a /i' ^ b ‘ le the 8alfle ,nanner Baron Albert Grant witnessed . , the . piecemeal . , sale , of . the _ gor genus palace he had erected at Kensmg ton, but was never destined to occupy. This is why there are. comparatively. •> fr* »•» mmnom of a palat.al char acter eltber ,n Loudon or tbe <*>nntiy. adegnate meana »" d m ■“** of el,llGr * * 7 ", or coo ? try residence J prefer , as a rule to purchase bome « tbat ng new ones. j * y g at all they, in general, cause t to take the form of additions to or alterations of edifices no longer new. Even then the owners endeavor to safeguard themselves from the possibil ity of danger by letting their residences the express ■ purpose, as they say in Franc ®- of ‘‘wiping the dust from off the plastered walls. ” Nowhere is this superstition more powerful than in Bavaria, where many of the most picturesque spots, especial ly in tbe mountainous districts, are adorned with fairylike piikces. Noneof them has been entirely completed, for insanity and violent death overtook the brilliant and accomplished- King Lnd wig. who conceived their design, but unfortunately perished before their completion. of Nor even have the builders many of the splendid structures that adorn the French metropolis been more fortu uate. Thus M. Jules Grevy had scarce ly completed the construction of hi* lordly mansion in the Avenue d'lena when the scandalous behavior of his aou-in-law. Daniel Wilson, overwhelm ed him with disgrace and compelled bim to resign the presidency of there public amid a perfect humcaneof pub lie obloquy. The Empress Eugenie a only aister, the late Duchess of Alba, had not occu pied the lovely palace erected for her in the Champs Elysees more than a few month, before A. was eelted with a anddm lUiuan and di«l than in * man- No. 45 ner so mysterious as to give rise to ru¬ mors of foul play. The building was subsequently pulled down. * Another equally unlucky house Is that now owned by the widow of the late Baron Hirsch. Situated at the cor¬ ner of the Rue de U Ely see and of the Avenue Gabriel, it was erected by the Due de Moueby. He had not occupied the house more than a few weeks before it was the scene of a daring burglary that covered its noble owner with ridi eule. Two months after, his daughter died there so suddenly and under such strange circumstances that the duchess would uot consent to remain longer in such an ill omened house.—London Mail, DOWN EAST CURIOSITY. One Instance In Which It Was Not Satisfied. It tabes a down east man to ask ques¬ tions, but once in awhile one of tbeis finds his match. Jonathan overtook • gentleman who was traveling on horse back, notwithstanding the fact that lit ba< * oDe * e 8 His cl, fiosity wa* ^^w^tow be chinch to meet with c m jgf or tnne “Been in the armv y ‘ I eness?” wa* aDZ : 0 ni inonirv • travaLT * returned “Fit a duel p'baua V' “Never fought a duel, sir ’’ “Horse tbrowed you off. 1 guess. o» of tbat aort ,, No notbi of t h e bind ** Jonathan tried various dodees bnt „ tQ no pffftct At }afit a ] rooP t out ol patience, he determined on a direct in¬ quiry aa to the nature of the accident ky which the gentleman bad come U lose his leg. “I will tel* yon,” said the traveler, “on condition that yon will promise not to ask another qnestiou. ’* me “Agreed, agreed 1“ exclaimed tbs eager listener joyfully. “Well, .sir.” remarked the gentle¬ man, “it was bit off!” “Bit off 1 ” cried Jonathan. “Waal, I declare; I’d just like to know, powerful well, what on arth bit it off 1”—Chris¬ tian Endeavor World. a Famished Cat’s Prudence, At Osage City Mrs. C A Stodard wa8 cleaning n p her garret when by jn eang the family cat got into an 0 ]^ trank filled with clothing and was B j, at tight and fast. Just 30 days j ater j^ ts Stcdard was in the garret a g„j n an( j heard the cat’s feeble cry f rora the trunk. When the lid was lift ed. the cat had just strength enough fc« climb oat. H had torn the clothing in tfae trnnk aU to piece8 in ita c i awill g aJJ( j jj a( j g nawe( j the sides nearly through in several places. But perhaps tbe most singular circumstance wai found in tbe manner in which the cal took care of itself after securing liberty, Mr8 Stodard 8et befote it a bi difih of milk and a big dish of water. It wonld lap a little of each and then lie down fur a few minutes, when again it would partake sparingly of the milk and wa¬ ter, and thia proceding it continued through the whole afternoon. If that cat bad been a human, doubtless it would have swallowed all that was placed before it at one gulp.—Kan sat City Journal. The woman who speaks her minu freely on all occasions had been telling the sad eyed stranger to whom she hail been introduced what she thought of Mormonism. Her remarks were elo qnent and acrimonious. She had a flow 0 f language which never failed and was fortified with facts which could not be refuted. He listened patiently till she bad finished aud then said meekly, “Yeg, madam; I’m n Mormon myself.’ “j don - t care,” she exclaimed. though her face reddened a little. “A ma n ought to be satisfied with marry j ng one wom an to wait on him and b browbeaten by him.” . “j don > t browbeat anybody.” he re¬ gponded reproach fully. “it doesn’t make any different whether you do or not. No man has any business to marry two wives. ” “I agree with yon perfectly, madam.” “Ha 1 You admit it.” “Yes’m: no man ought to have two wivea If he takes more than one, he ought to stick to odd numbers and have three, five or seven. Itobviateatheae c^ity of a man’s mixing in. In case of a family dispute it provides for a deciding vote and prevents a deadlock.*’ —Washington Star. The first British recognition of Besse¬ mer’s work came from the Institute of Civil Engineers, which awarded him a gold Telford medal for a paper on his Heel process read before it in IMS.