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-iHx£nnD qf- i-GIYE THE- -A TRIATi. ■ ■ 5 ; .. JOHN H- Lodges, Proprietor, Devoted to Home Interests end Caltore. TWO HOT,T.ATtS A Tear in Advance. VOL. XIX PEEBY, GEOEGlA, THITESDAY, SEPTEMBEB12,1889. —Thai wiiji-iis ib MACON, GA. m lEL § B m © esd, 5G &£• W fcr* m .©■ o = ljj rt m o o w p H s sa p SS 9 a* g © «r4 YE) ‘I Sanford’s Gns.no Bill Criticized. A.' *- dxxdo Mb. Edeeob: Allow me a email space in your valuable paper in order that 1 may Briefly review Mr, Sanford’s Guano B3L It is, in my opinion, the greatest Indig nity ever offered to the planters o£ Georgia, a slap square in the lace ; of every farmer id the state. This BIB proposes to put ns entirely at the mercy o£ one man, the State (Chemist. I suppose that he is man made of. the same Mnd of dirt that other men are made of, and subject to like passions and temptations, This guano bill is so framed^that the farmer who uses guano is a mere cipher, not being allowed to say a word; his lips are hermetically sealed: his judgment and integrity are boldly and unscrupulously set aside as not worth, considering, and all is left to the gentlemanly and infalli ble chemist^ and from his decis ion there is no appeal, blow, the chemist may be the silent partner of a half dozen gnano companies, or he may receive a fixed salary from them, and if so. he will make chemical analyses just. what the guano companies may desire and direct. Hr. Sanford may say the chemist is a Christian gentleman, and cannot be bought up. How does he know that he is honest? Is it possible to open the portals of his breast end there read the the kind of heart he has I Men in this covetous age go in the direc tion of their interests. As far back a§ the light of history shines the fact is revealed that men can be bought; they have been bought from Judas Iscariot down, and it is reasonable to suppose that they will continue to be bought until the final, consummation of all things. Mir, Sanford’s bill does not allow a farmer to go before a jury of his countrymen with his complaint, and if a thonsand farm ers of unquestioned integrity were willing to go into court and swear that a certain brand of guano was worthless, their testimony would he entirely disregarded, and the testimony of the chemist taken, his testimony crushing out of ex istence the evidence of a thousand farmers. This bill seems to regard the planters as unworthy, s set of scoundrels who cannot, tell the truth even on oath. Therefore, we must have the state chemist to tell it for ns. If all of the manufacturers of guano had put their heads together, they could not have drafted a bill that would have suited them bet ter. If the farmers of Georgia submit to such a law as this, they are a set of credulous, ignoble im beciles, who do not deserve to life in a civilized eoontry, much less a land of liberty. The bill smells like guano, to me. and must have been drawn up in the eatntmg- room of some gnano- factory. If we submit to innovation piled on fop of innovation; right after right swept away; we Will soon have no rights, and we will be a mere set of slaves to powerful moneyed corporations, "We will be entire strangers in the land of our birth, to the glorious inheritance be queathed to us by our liberty-lov ing ancestors. A people .who will allow their rights set aside merely for She purpose of protecting a i guano factory, are St instruments in foe Tianrlsrif gmn to teirdown the can liberty, and to rear, in its stead, the most galling despotism Shades ofthe look down with sorrow upon the .degenerate scions of a once fELnstrioTis race! •■/W tl | Emad, iffij It has neve «- ~ ! flw- -f « wltxu, ;E 1 made • srT whom' bare of at the the taxpayers. The planters, proper, do not want il The writer, has propounded this question to hundreds of them: Has the Bureau of Agriculture ever been any benefit to you? They unh esitatingly answer, “Ho.” . We pay fifty cents a ton for the inspection of fertilizers, when we believe that not one ton in a thou sand is inspected. A few years ago a lot of gnano went down the road that was not tagged, and the inspector sent onecf his .ereatpres down to tag it at the depots along the road where it had been depos ited- The tag man was in a great hurry, and at one of the stations he hooked the tags to a lot of bar rels containing Irish potatoes. Ho harm was done; the bit of paper was just as serviceable there as it would have been anywhere else. Those tags are very eontehient, they can be hitched to one thing as well as another, and are worth as much hitched to a barrel of lard or potatoes as to a sack of guano. A few years ago a guano agent at this place had a lot leftover, the sacks rotted off, and he sent to the company for more sacks; the com pany sent them* but they were of an entirely different brand; the agent was instructed to resack it at once and ship it to Borne, Ga., as the new brand was very popular up there. The company also sent tags, and hiie agent hitched them on, and by that simple operation the guano was magically .changed into the new kind at once. TeriLy, these tags are wonderful things. Under the laws of Georgia certain words can be put on a sack, and this wonderful tag hitched on, and it will transform- a sack of coal or sand into a first-class' fertilizer im mediately, if not sooner. Some people, and Mr. Saurord is one of them, are clearly of the opinion that sve farmers cannot gef along without the Bureau of Agriculture, and those wonderful tags. Thou sands of practical farmers differ with Mr. Sanford, and they are witling to try to male a living with out thebureau'or tag. Sink or swim, I am willing to risk It. How, in conclusion, let me say a few words to the alliancemen. Take the business of the country into your own hands. Send your own men to legislate for you; have all- laws repealed that are obnoxious to you; have enacted such laws that you desire; do not risk your enemies, such as are always on the side of corporations. Don’t, I frtt- plore.you, risk men who are op posed to your going into court with your complaint, before a jury of your countrymen. Do not risk those that are in favor of the one man power. You are the back bone and sinew of the country. All other classes are. mere pen sioners upon your country. The farmers produce the suste nance of life, and furnish the ma terial out of whieh our raiment is made; they cause the earth to bring forth its fruits, upon which all classes are dependent; they own the country, and they should con trol it. Mr. Sanford is sot con tented with drafting a bill that for bids our pleading failure of con sideration, and driving us entirely from our courts, but his bill for bids a jury to set upon our eases in court, and this places us entire^ ly at the mercy of one man, the state chemist; but he has gone fur ther, end now is in favor of, de priving ns. of the privilege ox ,the . I ■ They are fat and. sleek, making a splendid living, and they know the entire lay-out is a humbug, and ewes its existence to the ignorance and credulity of the people. While those two worthies are engaged in this contemptible humbug, I have often wondered whether or not they could look each other in the face without laughing, Alliance- men, the practical, clear-thinking men of jhe country are in your ranks, and X beseech you to stamp this fraud out of existence, and as soon as possible. I will not pursue this hateful subject any further. I turn from it with s heart swelled with Indig? nation and grief. To see attempts made by one of our number to drive the farmers from our courts, and from the ballot box, also, I feel like exclaiming from the bot tom of my heart, “and thou, too, Brutus.” Plain Basher. TSe Country.. Growing Rich. “It has been stated,’’ said Comp troller Wright, “that the eities-qf Georgia are growing rich at the ex pense of the, country. There was never a more mistaken idea. The tax returns this year show that the counties where there are no towns or cities have increased in value more than any others. This is es pecially noticeable of the counties situated in the lower part of the state which are known as thb wire- grass countios. The reason of it is the turpentine stills and saw mills have greatly increased the value of the lands, and it has been found that where the woods! have been cleared, the ground yields a crop which is surprising. These reasons together have made a won derful increase in the value of property.”—Atlanta Constitution. The Boston Herald mak§s this observation: The frequent fail ure of manufacturing establish ments In the protected industries of the country since the great vic tory for protection last autumn ought to convince the most preju diced and obtuse that the present form of protection does not pro tect. The number of republican business men that it has already persuadedjts ominous of a ehange that is likely to he the More radi cal the longer it is deterred. A London shoemaker has in vented a boot to make small peo ple appear tall. The invention is an odd and ingenious one. In stead of tacking six inches on to a person’s heel, a] pair of; entirely false feet, made of cork, is put in to the shoes. When the wearer gets into them, he or she is raised according to the inches of cork. Of course, in this Invention the original foot is made to combine with the cork one under the leath er in such a manner that the line of demarkation is not perceptible. The size of the foot is sacrificed, it is true, and a larger boot is neces sary with the cork “elevator” than would be the case naturally. Badgers advanced the idea that jute could be raised by Ge farmers and woven into ba* here at home. And, . since the cultivation, of jute in this sec tion and in the manner proposed, has been a live topic. Mr. Badg ers has given*, the question mueh thought, and has made many in quiries about the cultivation of the article. He Is so favorably Impressed with the Idea that ft can be grown in this section that the . firm of which he Is a member, Badgers, Worsham <§r Co., intend to devote a considerable amount of money to make a practical test of IL - , While off on his recent summer trip, Mr. Badgers visited Wash ington City and the Department of Agriculture, where, he ■ learned many interesting points that will assist him in the development of his plan. . x ; The following will be of inter est: , , _ • _• “Ante will grow in any of the Southern states adapted to ramie. It will not thrive in very sandy soil but in lands of alluvial bottom or in flooded valleys, or ; in high moist, sandy loam. Alluvial mold is favorable to its growth. The land for this crop must be well broken up in the field until the soil is thoroughly, pulverized, deeply exposed to the sun and air and manured. March and April are the best months at the South. Harrowing is necessary both, be fore and after sowing. It is well to sow after a rainy day. The seed is sown broadcast from twen ty to thirty pounds per acre. From the the time of sowing to the timS of harvesting, say about four months, the only work to be done is to keep the land clear of weeds and .to thfn . out the ja that grow too thiekty. This work is done by hands going through the field, and facilitates the groth of the plants. i ,,„ __ * “Jute must Be cut while the plant is'in flower,'beenase the fi bre is then more glossy and less woody; the cutting of the stalk can be done either "by a mower or a case-knife. The stalks are left in the field three or four days until the leaves Ml off and ere carried to the deeorticator. :. • “Jute when sown broadcsst at the rate of twenty-five pounds of seed per acre, gives eight stalks eleven or twelve- feet; high, to the square foot The 44,000 square feet of an acre will, therefore, give 350,000 stalks, which average abotrirone and a half pounds of marketable _grod.net to the hun dred stakes, or 5,200 pounds of jute fibre, worth two cents per pound, yielding $104 per sere. ofa" The Yew Postal Cards. But few are aware that iameim+ portant'ehanges trail be made' soon in the style, quality* Cpaventeuce; etc., of the United State, postal cards. The changes, however, are in favor of the publie, and will be appreciated. ,:VZ..z ' -P.T ? cards.in the new contract are svk> perfor in quality to those fn ffife old one, and besides the .public will be afforded better feejKfTpg for the addition of two new sizes; of Cards. -Size Ho. 2 measures 212-18 fey 4§ inches, and weighs I pqjjndA 12 ounces a, thousand, tha cost tof this card will be 37 cents a thou sand- Size Ho. 2 is of the same 5 ounces a thousand. Size Ho. 3 measures 3j. by 6§- inches and. weighs 9 pounds 1 ounce a thou? sand. The contract price is 50 thousand. a ' 1- The estimated number of casds- to be required during the four ‘ is 2,— 060,000,000, at a cost of $800,000.- Thereduetfon in cost for the four years w21 amount to full ! as compared to the price in 1 The postage on the es?- ed- for during the four years amount to $20,000,000. Tha tract will require 7,000 tons of pa-, per, or an average of about six see a man on business who i not for from his own home, started out on. this - mersed in profound the merest accident in Ms i ings he came .to his own i He .paused in front of his had evidently original purpose in for when his son ring, lad whether his father After as fits French ;.A* . ie EE E?Aot-c