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THE GEORGIA CRACKER, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1902
milch cows, and have an ample
supply of good butter and milk.
A shrewder, yet more candid
sincere, ' cordial, hospitable and
refined people never lived upon
God’s universe.
They are noble and generous,
and possess in tHe highest degree
all of the natural qualities which
go to make the best type, of men
and women/in the Whole world.
The ^ mountains are peculiarly
adopted for rearing great and good
men and women. ,
Where can we find in the world
a more gentle, generous, noble,’
learned gentlemen than our great
ly beloved Ex-Chief Justice lio-
gan E. Bleckley, or a man with
Georgia than there is real ignor
ance and heathenism in North
Georgia. I believe m* missions,
and more especially do I believe
in home missions, but your cor
respondent has been wrongly in
formed.
‘There is refinement, learning,
reverence, genuine religion, far
beyond the. knowledge of those
not intimately acquainted with
the grandest people in Georgia—
the mountaineers.
“They are wiBe as serpents and
harmless as doves.” *
Churches and schools are going
up all over the mountains, and
the time'will soon come when a
new era will dawn for these grand
good, generous, noble people of
the mountains, < and their off
spring*.
FLETCHLK M JOHNSON,
in Wesleyan Christian - Advocate.;
COTTON.
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Jon every acre you plant.
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Is positively and absolutely without an
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Tlants Cotton, Corn, Peas, etc., as well
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We prove it in your own field at our ex
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A. Defense of the Mountaineers.
Gainesville, Ga.,Feb. 5, 1902.
pear Editor.—I am more than
jrprised at an article in the col
ons of the Woman’s Home Mis
ery Society, in
^29, ultimo, in
M QttlPfi .APB vSof?h 3 is
1% (jTfi I I I I I ]||f II crop is only
JJlIUJLIJUL VVi Hi just begin-
-. ning to be
appreciated.- Wood’s Descriptive Catalogue
tells all about it as a forage crop for seeding
•with Gpw Peas. Also about all other Southern
forage crops including Teosinte, Sorghums,
Pearl or Cat-tail Millet, Rape, Beggar Weed,
Vetches, Soja Beans and Velvet Beans.
Catalogue mailed free upon request.
T. W. WOOD & SONS, Seedsmen,
RICHMOND, - - VIRGINIA.
the Wesleyan
regard to the
|eople of the mountains.
I The people of the mountains of
lorth-East Georgia are not liv-*
Lg in a state of “degradation,
loverty and ignorance.”
I There is less degredation in the
fountains of North-East Georgia,
tan there is in the cities of Geor-
[ia, and if any one will take the
[rouble to investigate the facts
bey will find this true. Every
where in the mountains yon will
lad refinement the rule—refine-
bent, it is true, frequently, with-
bt cultivation. *
I don’t believe ;■* any human
king ever visited a. cabin in
jforth-east Georgia, which was in
tended as a dwelling, where twen-
y people ate and slept, and the
looking and sleeping all done in
me and^the same room, and no
fecreemer, high* up m the moun
tains where “mountain grandeur
and heavenly 1 purity kiss each oth
er. ” Yet he never recited a lesson
in, or attended a university, .until
after he was seventy years of age.
True, Judge Bleckley is w an ex
ception, but a majority of the
people of the mountains are gen
tle, refined, moral and piods.
By more cultivation and proper
missionery work their condition
might be benefitted, but no part
of Georgia is making more rapid
strides in the educational lines
and church work than is North
east Georgia. North Georgia Ag
ricultural College at Dahlonega
has accomplished more good in
the past twenty-five years than
the State University. Young
Harris has accomplished untold
good, and the schools at Hiawas-
see, Demurest, Baldwin, Cornelia,
Rabun Gap, Clayton and , Gaines
ville have been and are still doing
a most noble work:
There is more atheism and in
fidelity in Middle and Southern
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
AND DEALER IN'
All kinds of funeral furnishings,
nice teams and prompt attention
given to all calls, either day or
night. Parlors and ware rooms
on South Bradford street di
rectly in front of court house,
GAINESVILLE, G A
Found to Contain Alum and Ground Rock.
The - Health . Department of New
York has seized several tons of Sweet
heart Baking Powder, made by the
Southern Soda Works, of Nashville,
Tenn., found upon sale in that city.
Samples of the baking powder were
analyzed and found to contain alum
and ground rock. It was declared
dangerous to health and dumped in the
dock.
This brand of baking powder has
been placed upon sale in several stores
in this vicinity where it is retailed for
25 cents a pound or even higher. Its
value may be judged from the fact
that it was being retailed in New York
at 4 cents a pound.
on their produce, and buy such
things as they know they can sell
and make a profit on the goods,
for which they exchange their
produce.. These people of the
mountains are a very shrewd peo-
ple, and he “who Bhoots one for a
fool, wasteth a load.”
They live on a good, plain,
Traps Marks
Designs
Copyrights &c.
* Aiivone pending a sleeted and description may
onickly ascertain car opinion tree whether an
invention is probably patentable. Communica
tions strictly confidential. Handbook on Parents
3ent free. Oldest agency for securing patents.-
Patents ‘.aken through Mun» & Lo. recei7j
special nctice s without charge, iathe
pa have traveled all over Jlall,
Lumpkin, Dawson, Forsyth,
(Vhite, Union, Towns, Rabun and
Habersham counties, and have
frequently -been through other
nountain counties, but I have
lever met with any such condi
tions, and I can state without
oar of contradiction that there
t Commissioner of,, Agriculture
Stevens says the people of Geor
gia should pay more attention to
raising apples. The northern and
northwestern part of the state is
particularly adapted to apple cul
ture.
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