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the Consolidated Jan. 1,1898.
EMtabliftlied In 189.*. )
HAVE YJ WEAK LUNGS?
Every Sufferer from Lung Weakness, Consumption,
Asthma, Catarrh or Bronchitis
Can Be Cured.
CoinpfeiiefMECounse
of Treatment
Consisting Four preparation
The S/ocum System
Nearly everybody you meet will re
gard it as a kind of insult to be asked
if they have weak lungs. All seem to
have a solid faith in the soundness of
their own breathing machine. In cases
of trouble they will admit there is a
"heavy cold,” "a touch of bronchitis,”
or even “a spell of asthma,” but as to
weak or unsound lungs, never, NEVER.
Even the poor consumptive, who scarce
ly speaks without coughing, whose
cheeks are wasted, hollow and bear the
hectic flush of doom, will assure you
with glistening eyes that his cold is on
the mend and he will be all right when
the weather changes.
It is simply terrible to think how far
we may be guilty by our indifference to
the lung troubles of those near and dear
to us. It is also a sad thought that we
ma* hug a delusion as to our own health
that we only get rid of when life itself
must pay the forfeit.
Nobody can afford to think lightly
of lung troubles. Nobody can afford to
be mistaken about their possible dan
gers. Nobody can afford to neglect
them, or “let them wear out,” or “get
better in the spring,” or any other tom
foolery that leads only to wreck and
ruin. Lung troubles don’t move back
ward. 1 Weak lungs don’t grow strong
by themselves —you must heal them
and strengthen them, and rid them of
the very earliest germs of disease, or
you are simply committing a form of
suicide. Either you must cure your
THIS BEATS THE JEWS!
Before buying your
SPRING- SUIT
Be sure to see us.
In order to call your special
attention to Spring Clothing,
we other a limited number of
Good Woolen Suits, guaran
teed not to fade, for the un
precedented low price of
■ ( r *£2.50! -
Only one suit to a customer
Remember, we have the
only exclusively new stock
in town !
Respectfully,
J. P. BYRD & co.
Everett Pianos,
| Harvard Pianos,
; Bush & Gerts Pianos,
Strich & Zeidler Pianos.
i . —— ——
‘ Any of the above makes of Pianos can be bought very
close for cash or on installment pivineots. There are
25 Everett Pianos now in use at the Grab jsvilie Seminary,
’ and are giving entire satisfaction.
j The Harvard Pianos hare the “Plectraphone” attach
i ment, by the use of which you can imitate the Banjo, Guitar
or the Mandolin. The new Opera House, Athens, Ga., has
a Harvard in use, and is very satisfactory.
Mrs. M. J. Perry, Carl, Ga., has just purchased a Har
vard Piano.
[ I also handle the “FARRAND & VOTEY” Organs, and
’ purchase them in CAR LOAD LOTS, having already sold
> four car loads this year. The Farrand & Votey is the only
I absolutely Rat-Proof Organ on the market, notwithstanding
J others claim to handle them.
« Prices and catalogues will be promptly mailed on applica-
J tion.
j HOPE HALE,
1 Athens, - - Georgia,
THE NEWS-HERALD.
lung troubles or THEY WILL KILL
YOU. That’s the whole situation in a
nutshell.
Never was there a cure for lung trou
bles equal to the newly-discovered Dr.
Slocum treatment. This forms a sys
tem of Four Remedies that are used si
multaneously and supplement each
other’s curative action. It cures weak
lungs, bronchitis, asthma, coughs, con
sumption and every other ailment of
the pulmonary region. It destroys
every germ that can affect the respira
tory system, and even in advanced
stages of lung trouble positively arrests
the tubercular growth, while it also
builds up the patient so that his system
is enabled to throw off scrofula, rheum
atism, catarrh, and other wastng dis
eases.
Thousands of cured cases already
prove these claims. Thousands of grate
ful people bless the discovery.
The Doctor wants everybody to know
the surprising merits of his system. He
has arranged to give a free treatment
(Four Preparations)to all sufferers. Full
instructions for use accompany each
treatment.
WRITE TO THE DOCTOR.
Write at once to Dr. T. A. Slocum
Laboratories, 96 and 98 Pine street, New
York City giving full express and
postoffice address, and mention this pa
per.
Delay only makes your trouble worse.
FARM WORK THE
LATEST IN YEARS
Commissioner O. B. Stevens Urges
a Reduction In Cotton Acreage
and Fertilizers Used on Cot
ton of One-Third at Least
From That Used the
Fast Two Years.
He Also Urges a Large Increase of
Food Supplies Kor Man and Beast
For Home Consumption, as Well as
of All the Products of 1 li<- Fa 1 m (Ex
cept Cotton) That Will Bring s*pot
* Cash anti Large Profits In the
Markets.
Atlanta, April 1, 1899.
The year 1899 is a memorable one in
th& backwardness of all kinds of farm
work, preparatory for the coming crop.
The mouths of January and February
were almost entirely lost, and the un
stable weather into March, has retarded
the usual progress made in this direction
during last month. Under these cir
cumstances it is a fixed fact that all
crops of 1899 must be planted much
later than usual.
Even with the corn crop in South and
Southwest Georgia, most of the usual
planting in February was extended to
March, while much of the March work
of the corn crop in Middle, North and
Northeast Georgia, will of necessity, be
carried into April this year. But late
planting deep and thorough prepa
ration at the start, is much better than
slip-shod work and planting at an ear
lier period. Every intelligent farmer
knows that more than half the work
is done, in making, when a crop is put
in after this kind of preparation. But
there is one other reason why late Rant
ing and deep and thorough preparation
of soil should go together this year,
which I submit to your reflection.
I refer to a fixed natural law that
regulates the labor of farmers through
out the world, and enables them to turn
the sunshine and rain God sends us to
their own profit.
It is this: That the mean annual rain
fall in any give/i locality, whether 10
inches or 110 inches a year, does not
vary much, either in any given year or
series of years.
In most of the states east of the
Mississippi, we have had an excess
of rainfall, commencing last August
and perhaps ending with February, for
this reason the possibility or perhaps
probability of a drouth more or less
protracted during the growing season of
the coming crop would seem to be in
dicated; an additional reason why deep
and thorough preparation and late
planting should go together, both in
corn and cotton this year. Every weak
point in every terrace on the farm
should be looked after and repaired so
that rains that do fall during the com
ing months of crop maturing will be
consumed and utilized by the growing
crop. With perfect terraces, deep prepa
ration and shallow culture afterwards,
growing crops will be exempt from
drouths when compared to lands that
are un terraced.
We have now arrived at the cotton
planting month of April, the most
critical in the higtory of the entire
state, because on her agricultural pros
perity all other interests hinge or rest,
either languish or prosper, upon the
decision of the, farmers of Georgia
during this mouth touching the re
duction in acreage as well as in fer
tilizers of at least one-third from
that used the la6t two years, not only
in Georgia, but in all the other states
east of the Mississippi, and as snbstan
tial a reduction in the acreage of the
cotton states west of it. The imperative
necessity for the reduction will be seen
by a short glance at the crops of 1898
and 1899.
The crop of 1897 was 8,750,000 bales,
and sold for from 7 to 8 cents. The
crop of 1898 was 11,200.000, and this dis
astrous crop brought less than $11,000,000
more than the crop of 1897. In other
words, 2,500,000 bales of the crop of the
1898 crop were sold at 4.soper bale, weigh
ing 507 pounds; so much for making more
cotton than the world needs, and allow
ing the cotton spinners of Manchester
to set the pribe on the entire crop, and
the loss sustained on the present crop
is much greater than on that of 1898, as
many millions of it were sold at 3 cents,
and some of it even less than this.
There is now more than cotton enough
assured to supply the world’s needs the
present year, or until next September.
I know that the farmers of Georgia
have been surfeited with newspaper
advice in the management of their own
business for years, but in this instance
you are advised by one who will do
more than practice the precepts here in
culcated, both in the reduction of his
own acreage devoted to cotton, as well
as the quantity of fertilizers used by
him this year.
Georgia made more cotton than both
the Carolines in 1898 and manufactured
less of it than either, while the two
Carolines united consumed the entire
crop of North Carolina and reduced the
cotton crop of South Carolina 120,000
bales in 1898. Georgia uses one-fourth
of all the fertilizers used from Maryland
and Virginia to Louisiana, including
that used on the wheat of the first and
the sugar cane of the last! She has
Pitts’ Carminative aids diges
tion. regulates the bowels, cures
Cholera Infantum, Cholera Mor
bus, Dysentery, Pains, Griping,
Flatulent Colic, Uunatural Drains
from the Bowels, and all diseases
incident to teething children. For
all summer complaints it is a spe
cific. Perfectly harmless and free
from injurious drugs and chemi
cals.
The population of Egypt has in
creased uearly 3,000,000, or 43 per
cent, during the last fifteen years.
LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY. APRIL 14, 1899.
taken the lead in the “ail cotton” craze
folly. For the past two years, until the
meshes of the spider web mortgages
woven around her hospitable homes by
the crop of 1898 that brought disaster
and ruin to very many, have redoubled
their meshes on very many more in
1899.
But Georgians have an almost iufii
uite power of active potential endur
ance and energy, and their helpmeets
are in every wav worthy of them if
their work were shown to them.
A farmer near Atlanta bronght 100
fine turkeys here lately and sold them
for cash as quickly as cotton for $lO5 to
the retail trade, a sum equal to sevjn
bales of cotton at 3 cents! They cost
absolutely nothing but care and protec
tion while young. They live on insects,
bugs and plenty of corn, and corn never
.ought to be sold off the farm in Georgia
until after it has been fed to pigs and
turkeys, worth 6 and 154 cents a pound,
at least, dressed. The cotton bales cost
$8 a bale to pick and cover per bale after
it is made, leaving a net balance of $49.
The farmer fancies that the bagging
pav» for itself, but there is a tare of 92
pounds deducted on all cotton exported
—deducted from the price of every bale
of cotton, w hether consumed at home
or in Europe.
A half million turkeys raised by the
farmers’ wives will be a labor of pleas
ure, leaving three-fifths for home con
sumption and two-fifths for the market.
Dressed turkeys can be sold in the
cities at from 10 to 15 cents per pound
through the winter and early spring
months, and paid for on delivery, by
using systematic business methods. Ev
ery city, town and village will furnish
a market for them
The freight on such products would
be from 10 to 15 cents per 100 pounds
from any county to any city in Georgia.
Why should Georgia depend upon
Tennessee for her dairy and poultry
products, and on the west for nearly all
of her mutton, beef and pork supplies?
The only answer to this is that the cot
ton producers of Georgia have been ex
pending their entire energies on cotton
for two years past, much to their own
sorrow, and have had no energies to ex
pend on any other product of the soil.
A half million bushels of sweet potatoes
can be disposed of in the same way at a
stipulated price before shipment, and
spot cash on delivery, and millions more
for home consumption, as well as to fat
ten pork and poultry. They retail today
at $1 a bushel in Atlanta, and in almost
every other large city in the state, and
never sell below 50 cents, and farmers
would not be compelled to market them
at the lowest price, as they always are
with cotton.
It has been the custom for many years
for farmers’ wives to have a "cotton
patoh’’ to supply them with Christmas
cash for family necessities or luxuries,
but alas, like the large body of labor
who "work on shares," nothing or next
to nothing has been left of their
“patches” after the picking and bag
ging were paid for. This year let her
‘‘cotton patoh” be substituted with a
flock of 100 turkeys. She will find
pleasure in raising them and seeing
them grow up. At an average weight
of 10 pounds dressed they will net in
spot cash over SIOO, equal to four bales
of middling cotton at 6 cents on the
plantation, besides helping in a email
way to reduce the volume of Georgia
cotton that has well nigh ruined Geor
gia the past two years. By the end of
this month an approximate estimate of
the coming crop will be arrived at and
by the last of May the statisticians will
be able to give the exact acreage in cot
ton planted, the amount of fertilizers
nsed, and on these two as basis give
their estimate of the coming crop in
bales for 1899 aiifl 1900; the Neils
among them giving a large margin to
their guess work, in the interest of the
cotton manufacturers of the world, and
by this means robbing the cotton pro
ducers of the south, as they have done
in the crop of 1899. Already they are
boasting and assuming that the small
grain crops destroyed by the severe win
ter in Arkansas, west of the Mississippi,
as well as in Georgia and states east,
will now undoubtedly be planted or re
planted in cotton. If these predictions
come true in Georgia or Arkansas it
will be hailed as a snre omen for another
large 4-cent cotton crop, and irretrieva
ble ruin to the cotton producers. But
we have an abiding faith in the cotton
producers of Georgia and we shall con
tinne to cherish it for one or two months
longer. Georgia farmers learn nothing
from didactic instruction, like school
children. The intelligence of the aver
age agriculturist is as broad and his
mind as clear as his city merchant
oousin. What he wants are cold facts
in plain language, and these he can deal
witli and master as easily as they are
presented to him. Debt, debt, for many
years has put him in the position of the
most stubborn criminals a century
ago. When they were enclosed in a
tank, chained to a pump, and water ad
mitted at a ratio faster than he oould
pump it out, unless he worked with ail
his might, with no volition of his own, he
was left for a given time to make his
choice between pumping and drowning,
the guards ahke indifferent which he
preferred.
If he owed his creditors SI,OOO they
■ever offered to take 1,000 turkeys for
the debt, nor 2,000 bushels of sweet po
tatoes; if they had selected the potatoes
he would have taken 20 acres of his best
land, planted it with this "apple of the
The elegant reception and lunch
to be given the university alumni
in Athens next June is being ar
ranged for. The committee of
Athens alumni, Messrs. C. M.
Strahan, Harry Hodgson and T.
W. Reed, who are in charge of the
affair will take all the necessary
steps to mako the occasion a most
enjoyable one.
Among every thousand bachelors
there are 88 criminals; among ev
ery thousand old maids there are
ten hundred wanting to marry.
earth.” worked at it with the irresist
ible and untiring energy of a Georgian,
■hipped the 2,000 bushels promptly on
time to lift the mortgage, and bank the
other 2,000 carefully for the spring
market, at 75 cents per bushel.
But his creditors accept cotton only
on all debts due them. All other agri
cultural products are valueless. Cotton
alone brings spot cash, say they, and
yet the south in past years has paid ont
millions annually for sun cured grass
to feed the stock engaged in making
cotton to glut the cotton markets of the
world with. We have already shown
the utter impossibility of the farmer
ever being able to cancel that SI,OOO
mortgage with cotton, by the actual
sale of seven bales at 3 cents per pound,
counting only the actual cost of picking
and covering it, if to this were added
the cost of picking, chopping, hoeing
and cultivating, we leave others to com
pute how much of the net proceed* of
that seven bales would be left to credit
that SI,OOO mortgage with.
Let those who blame even the all cot
ton farmer put themselves in his place.
All cotton producers in Georgia and in
all the other old cotton states east of
the Mississippi have been too much on
the “all cotton” plan in the past years,
with Georgia far in the lead. We have
tried faithfully to make this matter
plain in cold facts and figures, and the
necessity of raising not only au opulent
abundance but a superabundance Of all
food supplies for man and beast, not
merely for home consumption on the
farm, bur for every product of the farm
that will find a spot cash market in
every village, town and city in the state,
and at more remunerative prices than
cotton ever brought. A few only of
these have been indicated by us, because
every farmer can supply many addi
tional products that will bring them the
hard cash for himself.
The farmers of Georgia are the poor
est people in the state, I meau the cot
ton raising farmer A woman cotton
mill hand can make S3O to S4O per
month, and has more money than the
average farmer has seen the past two
years. He has been trying to olothe
the world at his own private expense.
He sold m 1897 and 1898, 2,600,000 bales
of his best cotton at less than 1 cent a
pound He has been doing even more
charitable deeds than this in 1898 and
1899, but at heavy cost to himself aud
family.
The facte are before you; the remedy
is in your hands. If you heed them
now the wrecks of the past two years
may still be repaired. But if the farm
ers of Georgia are saved from hopeless
bankruptcy and ruin it can only come
to them by a reduction of the acrege in
cotton aud in fertilizers devoted to the
production of ootton this year of at
least one-third of each.
O. B. Stevens,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
Treatment of Krult Trees Injured by
the February Freeze,
Question. —To what extent did the
February freeze injure the fruit trees of
Georgia, and is there any treatment for
frozen tree ?
Answer. —The unprecedented oold
wave that swept over the state last Feb
ruary greatly injured fruit trees in
many sections of the state, and it is
highly important that such trees should
be properly treated at once, that the
damage may be overcome as much as
possible.
Peaches, plums and figs have suffered
most, while apples and pears soem to
be very little damaged. Of the peaches,
the Alexanders aud Tillotsons are the
most injured. All of the other varie
ties are greatly damaged, but to a less
extent.
In a great many oases the Hatsuma
plum was nearly killed to the ground,
while the Abundance and most of the
other varieties are not so much dam
aged. The damage seems to be confined
almost entirely to the bearing trees.
Young trees from nursery stock to 2 year
orchard trees have escaped with little
damage. Unfortunately the principal
injury is to the trunk of the trees. The
bast tissues and the cambium layer of
the bark are frozen and blackened from
the surface of the ground up to 12
incbeß or more, and in a few oases the
bark is loosened from the trees. Us
ually, however, there are about 2 or 3
inches of bark on one side of the tree
that escaped freezing. This green streak
of bark is usually found on the
south side of the tree. In some sections,
however, it is found on another side.
The twigs and limbs are apparently not
so badly damaged. The wood just be
neath the buds is browned, and some of
the twigs killed. In my opinion most
of these trees may recover and be re
stored to a fair condition. This, how
ever, is a question. Many will undoubt
edly die in the course of this summer.
Trees that were badly weakened from
the San Jose soale, or from the depre
dations of other insects, or from neglect
or otherwise, in most cases were killed
beyond a doubt and should be dug up at
once. The work of restoration can be
greatly aided by cutting the trees back
severely. Each grower must determine
for himself how much must be out
away, according to the extent and the
location of the damage. As a rule, at
least one-third of the growth of the
limbs should be cutoff. In a few cases
it will be wise to cut the limbs back to
stnbbs about 24 inches All badly dam
aged limbs should be taken out entirely.
Tnis prnning will reduce the surlaoe to
be fed through the roots and will stim
ulate new growth of health'- wood. If
the tree lives at all, it will regain rap
idly its vigor and retop iself during the
growing season and be prepared for a
fruit crop next year. In doing this
work a smooth, clean cot should be
made with a saw or sharp pruning knife.
The cut surface should be [fainted over
with white lead to exclude the air and
prevent evaporation. This work should
have been done in March. However,
it is not too late yet, and should be done
at once. Several prominent growers
have already commenced the work.
Prompt action in this work may save
yonr trees.
Neither should cultivation be neglec
ted. The trees need the best of atten
tion now more tliaa ever. Orchards
should be thoroughly cultivated during
the season as though you expected a big
crop of fruit, if cultivation is neg
lected, a little hot sun and dry weather
Will tell a doleful tale.
State Extomolocubv.
The trade in the metal buttons,
in which Germany once played an
important part, is now almost
entirely monopolized by the Japa
nese.
Montgomery county’s coroner
has held seven inquests in that
county since Jan. 1. The strong
grip of death and the murderer's
avenging hand have been playing
a very conspicuous part of late
and the people are determined to
draw a check rein on the murder
ers ut the April Superior Court.
Willie Garner the First Victim.
Tlio following is taken from the
Mason County (Tex.) News, and
i« published in the News-Herald
at the request of relatives in this
county.
A pall of gloom and sadness
overspread our fair city last Sun
day evening when the words went
forth that “Willie Garner is dead !”
011 Friday ho was at school, seem
ingly in good health, read until a
late hour Friday night and re
tired. Saturday he complained
of a severe pain in the head; grew
worse Saturday night and died at
2p. m Sunday. I)re. Grandstaff
and Baze did all that medical skill
could suggest, but their efforts
were powerless against the malig
nancy of that terrible scourge,
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis.
Willie Garner was born in Ma
son, November 28rd, 1881, and
was raised in our midst. From
infancy he was a favorite with old
and young alike. He was a model
of politeness and impure was over
known to cherish id*er than feel
ings of high regard and affection
toward him. He was a devoted
student, always respectful and
obedient to his teachers and it
was his ambition to graduate from
Mason High School at the close
of tlte present term.
In all the relations of life his
walk was chaste and circumspect,
and parents often pointod to him
as an example of rectitude worthy
of imitation by their children.
His devotion to his parents was
most deep and sincere, and his
affection towards brother and sis
ters was most beautiful to con
template. His young life was in
deed full of high promise, and a
career of unbounded usefulness
lay out befbre him which, alas!
so soon was cut short by the cruel
hand of Death.
In the presence of a largo con
course of weeping friends and rel
atives, funeral services were held
at the Southern Hotel by Rev.
Jesse King, after which the re-j
mains were borne to the Gooch
cemetery followed by the longest
procession ever seen in Mason.
The tonderest sympathies of all
our people go out to the discon
solate parents, Mr. and Mrs. R.
11. Garner, and the family, in
this hour of their irreparable loss.
AN UNSTABLE CROWD.
Mrs. Mary Ellen Leuse, Sockless
Jerry Simpson and Coin Harvey
appear to be very wavering in their
faith. These shining lights a lit
tle while ago held to certain prin
ciples which they declared wore
necessary to the eternal salvation
of the country. They were pio
neers iu the populist party and
occupied front seats in the de
mocracy, as constructed at Chica
go less than three years ago.
Time demonstrates that those
lights were either not very strong
in their convictions, or else they
are incapable of holding to a con
viction very long at one time.
Mrs, Mary Ellen is out iu an in
terview in which she deals harshly
with some of her old political as
sociates; Sockless Jerry does not
hesitate to criticise and condemn
the action of his erstwhile politi
cal colleagues, while Coin Harvey
has flung up the job which was
given him of managing the desti
ny of the great party which was
founded by Thomas Jefferson.
The recent happenings are not
i-ad omens for democracy. Neith
er of these illustrious wind-batters
added any strength to it. On the
contrary, their influence and ap
proval was rather against the or
ganization, for it has been known
all of the time that the element
represented by Lease, Simpson
and Harvey was a restless, waver
ing element—clamoring for tem
porary expedients With not a
great deal at stake, they wanted a
change in policies, caring dttie
whether it brought better or worse
conditions. They wanted anything
“or bust,” nor wanted that little
long.
A few more slab-off's of this
kind will add greater strength to
the party. The skies are bright
ening daily and there is hope
ahead fora rejuvenated democracy
in 1900.—Valdosta Times.
A Manilla dispatch says that
Aguinaldo and his followers would
be willing to accept an American
protectionate of the' Philippines
similar to the English control of
the native Indian states. Well, are
we not impressing it upon the Fil
ipinos that we mean to govern in
the Philippines about as England
governs in India and Egypt? Mean
time, if Aguinaldo and his follow
ers have learned their lesson suffi
ciently, all that they have to do to
get their protectionate in short or
der is to stop fighting and stack
arms. —Savannah News.
Our Jury System.
Editor News-Herald : Please
allow me space in your columns
to give my views on a subject
which I consider very important,
to-wit: That of our present jury
syskm. Now, in the first place,
I believe there are more than 800
competent men in Gwinnett coun
ty to sit upon a jury, and I say it
is nothing but right and justice
that they should be there.
I believe that there should be
separate traverse and grand jury
boxes, with separate names in each
box. If you will notice there are
twogentlomen that served on the
last grand jury now drawn for the
petit jury, September term, to trv
parties they helped get true bills
against. Is that right ?
There should be two traverse ju
ry boxes, or a partition in one, and
when a name is drawn out of one
it should be put in the other, and
remain there until the first box is
empty. That would give to all
the rights they are entitled to, and
would stop so much of this “pet”
business that is being carried on
today. And the candidate that
will pledge himself to the people
of this county that he will intro
duce in the legislature a bill
to that effect will get a two-thirds
majority. Mark the prediction.
You may put it down that the man
who will fight such a measure is in
league with the schomers and
cliques that infest our country to
day. * *
The White Farmer’* Burden.
Speaking of the white farmer’s
burden in Georgia the Covington
Enterprise makes the statement
that “hardly a day passes without
some one loading his wagons with
corn, to begin farming for the
year. This means that he must
continue Jto buy corn every day
until fall and pay a big price for
it; and then very little will be
raised, because the idea is preva
lent among many that cotton will
pay better than corn.”
Continuing, our contemporary
states the cold, clammy fact that
“our merchants buy nearly all of
the corn that is now being used,
in the West, and pay freight, dray
age, storage and incidental ex
penses on it, and then have to sell
for a profit.”
The natural conclusion of this
observing newspaper is that “this
is the reason that so many of the
farmers find it so hard to get
along and make a comfortable
living for their families. If enough
corn was raised by each farmer to
supply his own ueods, ho would
find it easier living for himself
aud in a short while would be out
of debt. No mau can thrive and
mako money when he is compelled
to buy the very things that he
could easily raise on the farm,
and it is only a question of time
that he will be head and shoulders
iu debt. Many may disagree with
us, but time will prove that those
who raise their own supplies at
home will be in better shape
than the man who makes the store
house his smoke house aud pro
vision pen.”
Cotton is the white farmer’s
burden in the south. It should
be cast off, in the diversification
of crops. A little in wheat, a lit
tle in oats, a little in corn, a little
in cotton, a little in this, that and
the other crop that can be success
fully grown in the south is the
way to lighten Ihe load. It will
not bear so hard on one place.
The season is well advanced.
The last opportunity is to increase
the corn crop and decrease the
cotton acreage on the former es
timates for this year’s planting.—
Macon Telegraph.
Blaok Hen’s Eggs-
A few days ago a woman went
into a grocer’s, says the San Fran
sisco Call, and said :
“I want three dozen hens’ eggs.
They must all be laid by black
hens.”
The grocer said:
“Madam, I am willing to ac
commodate you, but you have got
the best of me this time. I don’t
know how to tell the eggs of a
black hen from those of a speckle
or white hen.”
She said:
“I can tell the difference mighty
quick.”
“If that’s so, madam, will you
kindly pick out the eggs for your
self ?”
She did so, and when the three
dozen were counted into her bas
ket the grocer looked at them aud
said, suggestively:
“Well, madam, it seems as tho’
the black hens laid all the big
eggs ?”
“Yes,” she said, “that’s the way
to tell them.”
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VOL. VI.—NO 25
Politics and Spoil
The organization of powerful po
litical parties is natural and ine
vitable. It is just as natural and
inevitable that the more numerous
the duties intrusted to the state—
that is, the greater the spoil to be
fought for in caucus and conven
tion and on the floors of legisla
tures —the more powerful, danger
mis and demoralizing they are cer
tain to be. Were these dutiescon
fined to the maintenance of or
der and the enforcement of jus
tice, it would be an easy mat
ter for the busiest citizen to give
them the attention they required.
When to these duties are added
the management of agricultural
stations, the inspection of all kinds
of foods, the extirpation of injur
ous iusoctß, noxious weeds, aud
contagious diseases; the licensing
of various trades and professions,
the suppression of quacks, fortune
tellers, and gamblers; the produc
tion and sale of sterilized milk,
and the multitude of other duties
now intrusted to the government,
it is no wonder that he finds him
self obliged to neglect public ques
tions and to devote himself more
closely to his own affairs in order
to meet the ever-increasing bur
dens of taxation. Neither is it
any wonder that there springs up a
class of men to look after the du
ties he neglects, and to make such
work a means of subsistence. The
very law of evolution requires such
a differentiation of social functions
and organs.
The politician is not. therefore,
the product of his own love of
spolition solely, but of the neces
sities of extension of the duties of
the state. There is uothing more
abnormal or reprehensible about
his existence under the - present
regime than there is about the
physician where disease prevails.
As long as the conditions are main
tained that created him, so long
will he ply his profession. When
they are abolished he will be abol
ished. No number of citizens’
unions, or non-partisan move
ments, or other devices of hopeful
but misguided reformers to abolish
him can modify or reverse this
immutable decree of social science.
A4MJIN AI.IMVH IHIt.
The dispatches from Manila in
dicate that Aguiualdo’s army will
not hold together much longer.
His soldiers are tired of the fight
ing, having become satisfied that
they are no match for our troops.
There may be two or three more
engagements, and then, it is prob
able, the war will be over practic
ally. What is apprehended is a
guerilla war which may last for
years. The mountains offer a ref
uge for the malcontents, and from
their strongholds there they may
carry on a very annoying kind of a
warfare.
It is probable,however, that such i
terms will be made with the Phil
ipinos that practically the whole
population will accept them. In
that event the guerilla warfare
would not last very long, not hav
ing the approval and support of
the people. The thought has been
thrown. out that, being of a re
vengeful nature, the Philippiuos
would never live up to any terms
they might accept from us. It is
doubtful if this is a correct view
of the Philippino character. The
better opinion is that having been
thoroughly conquered they will
have tar more respect for us than
if we had contented ourselves with
holding Manila.
It is doubtful if any more troops
will be ordered to Manila before
it is known with certainty wheth
er Aguinaldo will be able to con
tinue the war beyond a few days.
Extraordinary efforts are being
made to get the President to call
out all of the 100,000 men author
ized by the army bill, but he re
fuses to even consider the matter.
Those who are chiefly pressing it
upon the President are seeking ap
pointments in the army either for
themselves or their friends. The
President knows, however, that if
he should put the country to an
unnecessary expense he would les
sen his chances for being his own
successor. Before the President
will order a further increase in the
army he will satisfy himself wheth
er Aguiualdo’s army will go to
pieces or hold together and become
more formidable than it has yet
been.—Savannah News.
The London papers still contin
ue the warfare agaiust the long
hatpin worn by women. Many de
clare that its use should be forbid
den by law.
, Dartmoor, which occupies one
fifth of the county of Devon, ia
r the largest tract of uncultivated
laud in Europe.
