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VOLUME VII.
Plant a Home.
Young beginners in life’s morning,
Don’t forget the “rainy day ;”
Sunshine cannot last forever,
Or the heart be always gay.
Save the dime and then the dollar,
Lay up something as you roam—
Choose some blooming spot ot beauty
Some fair lot, and “plant a home.”
The Battle and the Result.
The result of the primary election
in Fulton county, on Wednesday
virtually settled the nomination in
the Fifth Congressional district.
Hon. N. J. Hammond was the victor
by over two hundred votes, and, as
he said he would do in case he lost
the county. Capt. Harry" Jackson
withdrew from the race. Speaking
of the matter the Atlanta Journal
editorially says :
Now that the beat and turnmoil ot
the political contest which has been
raging for some time past in this
Congvessianal district, especially in
this city, is practically over, we
breathe freer in the calm that suc¬
ceeds the storm. The contest yester
day between Messrs. Hammond and
Jackson was unprecedented in its
warmth, vigor, and in the stubborn
determination of the friends of both
the candidates to win the wreath of
victory for their respective favorite.
Almost every white vote in the coun¬
ty was brought out, and certainly a
more thorough canvass, a fuller ex-,
pression of the will of the people, in
a primary election was never had
before in Fulton county. The de¬
feated as well as the successful can¬
didate have good reason to be grate¬
ful to their friends and followers for
the enthusiastic support given, and
for the devotion shown to their re
spective interests. Notwithstanding
the peculiarly exciting nature of this
contest the election passed off in a
most orderly" manner, the incidents
that marred the prevailing order
were few and trifling, and our com¬
munity has reason to congratulate
itself upon this agreeable feature of
the day.
The field was stubbornly contested,
and Mr. Hammond, the victor, has
good reason to feel proud of his suc
cess. He has borne himself with
dignity and strength during the en¬
tire struggle, and accepted the prize
contended for with becoming modes¬
ty and a full appreciation o< the im¬
portance of the trust again placed in
his hands by a majority of his fellow
citizens.
To Mr. Jackson it is due to say
that he made a gallant, a brilliant
fight. His following was large, de¬
voted, enthusiastic, He held the
hearts of many ol his friends with
clasps of steel. 3old, aggressive,
strenously determined to win, with
great difficulties to overcome, and
many trials of strength and patience
and tact to meet and to master, with
all this it was certainly not at all a
matter of surprise that the final issue
of the fight was a perplexing puzzle
to the shrewdest philosopher in poli¬
tics, and that the scales of victory
should have long hung doubtful to
the last hours of the decisive day.
Despite the gallant fight he and
his devoted followers made, the bat¬
tle went against him, and by a ma
jority of about two hundred votes out
of a total of five thousand his reso¬
lute opponent won the hotly contest¬
ed field. This shows the closene.-s
and nature of the contest better than
words can show.
Being defeated, Mr. Jackson re¬
tires with with a grace exceedingly
pleasant under all the circumstances
and with a mastery of self and a pa¬
triotic submission to (he will of the
people which must commend him to
the praise even of his most deter¬
mined opponents, and to the warm
commendation of all who admire a
frank, fearless nature and the mo¬
tives teat illustrate a true democrat
and a true American. In gaining the
victory over himself he has gained
1 more in another and in an equally
| honorable direction than he has lost
in the loss of his political ambition.
He has borne himself manfully, and
in the remarks he made after the re
suit ol the contest was made known
CONYERS, ROCKDALE CO., GA., AUGUST 8, 1884.
a genial, bightoned spirit speaks,
which will some day be honored in a
befitting way and under more favora¬
ble circumstances.
Now let the Democracy be true to
itself in every contest, local or nation
al ; let good feeling and harmony pre¬
vail, let discord and vicious methods
be discountenanced and condemned,
let the spirit of patriotism be culti¬
vated and the deadly spirit of faction
crushed, and we shall see a new era
of government in our beloved coun¬
try based on sound principles of
and
Making: Good Bread.
The Massachusetts Ploughman
very truthfully asserts that the art
ot making good bread is one that
every woman should be proud to
possess. The progress which has
been made during the last 25 years
has been very great, especially in
New England; but there is yet room
for still further improvement, for
even now the rule is that the daily
bread of the masses is not up to that
quality which is best adapted to the
promotion of health. That the con¬
stant eating of poor bread causes
dyspepsia, is a iact too well known
to require any further evidence to
prove it, and that dyspepsia is a great
cause of irritability is also a well
known fact, therefore, in a household
where poor bread is the rule, unless
the members of it have unusually
good dispositions, unpleasant contro¬
versies will be likely to occur.
Were we to give advice to a young
house keeper we would say, make
yourself master of the art of bread
making, and thus not only promote
the health of the members of the
household, but also aid in preventing
unpleasant words caused by a disor¬
dered stomach.
Our mothers had not the material
to make good bread that we have ;
the yeast that they used was not as
well adapted to the making good
bread as that which is now to be
had in the grocery stores of the cities
and large towns ; or, which any wo¬
man can now learn to make herself
from potatoes.
The test of good bread is not in
its lightness, or its color, but the eon
dition it is in while being masticated.
If it sticks together while being
chewed it is not good bread, whats
ever may be its other conditions, but
if it readily divides and crumbles in
the mouth, it is an indication of good
bread, because it readily absorbs the
saliva which is so important to assist
digestion.
There is quite as much art in ba¬
king bread as in preparing it for the
oven, for to have it good, it should
not only be put in the oven when
risen just enough, but it should be
put in an oven just the right tem¬
perature ; should the oven be too hot
or too cold, the bread will not be as
good. To bake it well it must be
carefully watched, and if one side of
the oven bakes faster than the other,
as is frequently the case, turned as
often as is necessary to have it bake
even. It requires experience to show
when to take a loaf of bread from the
oven to have it fully baked, and yet
not done too much. Some persons
believe that the bread is very much
improved if when taken from the oven
it be at once covered with a linen
cloth, and kept coyered until. But
we did not pen this article to give
instructions ; our object is to call at¬
tention to the subject, hoping that it
may encourage improvement, and call
out some of the experts in making
good bread to give the details of the
best methods of making the various
kinds of bread.
Advice to Young Farmers.
The humorous Bob Burdette, of
the Burlington (Iowa) Haweye, of¬
fers the following advice to young
farmers who have less knowledge
than experience, and but little of
either:
This month is a good time to pay
the interest on your mortgage and
renew the notes you gave a year ago
It is also a pretty good time to take
the notes you unwittingly gave to
the cloth peddler last Christmas un-
dor the impression that you were
only signing a contract
Look after the bean poles you had
left over from last year. You will
look a long time Before you find any.
They have gone partially into the
insatiate maw of the all-devouring
fire-place, and neighbors have stolen
the rest.
Raise chickens. If you have a nice
little garden, by all means raise
chickens. Your neighbor’s hens are
the best one to raise. You will find
them from 5:30 a. 111 . until 6:20 p. m.
on your lettuce, onion, radish and
flower beds, You can raise them
higher with a shot-gun than anything
else.
N. B.—Always eat the hens you
raise.
P. S.—Cook the liens before eat
q n g.
P. SS.—Before eating the hens,
that is.
lf ago od horse shows symptoms
of going blind, and is developing a
few first-class spavins, it is time to
sell him. Sell him out of the coun
try, if pcssib.e. Beware ot the I)ea
cop who has a little blazed faced
pacin’ mare, he wants to trade for
just such a boss.
Eternal vigilance i3 the price of the
potato crop. About ten hours a day
devoted to crushing potato hugs
saves the upper part of the patch for
you. By the time you will be so dis¬
gusted with everything pertaining to
potato culture that you couldn’t look
a potato in the eye without a feeling
of nausea, and as for eating one—but
this enables you to sell the whole
bushel without a pang.
Young hens lay more eggs than
old ones. This is because the giddy
young things have nat yet learned
their value. In a few years they just
know how to stand around on a
strike when eggs are $1.75 a dozen,
and then rush out and work double
time when eggs are so common the
tramps won’t eat them.
Who Wouldn’t be a Farmer.
It is very refreshing for one who
has spent his life in the country, to
read the poetic effusion of suburban
writers on the independence and de.
lights of reral life and scenery. We
may he pardoned if we attempt to
give a pencil portrait of the novel¬
ist’s ideal—a home in the country
We may possibly get the poetical and
practical mixed, but we shall cling
to the truth like the old man of the
mountain to Sinbad the Sailor.
How delightful in early spring¬
time to loiter beside purling brook¬
lets and gather daisies and forget
me-nots ! How pleasant to watch
the playful lambkins in the meadow,
and have the heaving bosom of your
trousers hutted up to the hack of
your neck by the father-in-law of the
lambkins! How merrily the robin
sings its matin, and the whippoor¬
will echoes its vespers in the grove !
How joyful the rosy-cheekcd plow
boy, as he sits down to scratch his
sore shin and put an umbrella cover
on his nailless toe! What rippling
peals of laughter are heard from the
farmer’s daughter, when her ham
colored beau falls over a cow in at¬
tempting to kiss her under her corn
silk bangs! How gently the soft
zephyrs move the tiny leaflets, as if
by angel hands, while the house dog
drowns the cat, as she explores the
contents of the cream jar !
The oriole warbles its happy songs
of praise, and the humming bird sips
nature’s nectar from the golden cups
of the honeysuckle! All earth and
air and sky are hushed and calm, and
there is no sound to disturb the far¬
mer as he hunts for a hot-headed
bumbelebee in the left leg of his
trousers !
Happy indeed is he who possess
so many noble animals ! The great
plow-horse, in the majestic pride of
his strength, with his tail over the
line, and tramping down one row of
eorn and plowing up another, is the
farmer’s pet; while the brindle bull
in the orchard, which gored the far
mer’s wife to death, still wears a
corset on his horns and her hoop
skirt on his shaggy neck.
And then on the beautiful sabbath
j morning, the happy farmer, with
j piety in his heart and dog-leg to-
NUMBER 22.
banco in his pocket, starts to the
quiet House of God with his family,
in an old lumber wagon, to pouf forth
praise and tobacco juice! He sits
on the spring seat and drives like
Jehu, while the boys sit tlat down in
the wat on.
Yes, dear reader, the country is the
place for health and weath. In the
country you will not find the kid
gloved dude in immaculate cuffs and
sin-stained simpering soul ! No,
nothing hut innocence will be found
You will find instead the sunbrown
ed hero of the poet’s fancy, who
wears No. 10 boots beneath a No. 5
hat, and fastens his collar to his
waistband to keep it from jumping
over his head when he sneezes. He
thinks he is a dude when begets his
yellow dogskin gloves slipped over
the warts on his hands, and they fit
like a eirons tent would fit a camel.
He is not a dude, but an aleck, and
he smells like v. tanyard stretched
over a clothes-line.
Such are a few of the beauties of
agricultural life! Who wouldn’t be
a farmer?
Farm and Stock Notes.
The value of the butter made in
the State of New York annually is
estimated at over $56,000,000.
An apple tree in Mercer county,
Ivy., has borne fruit for sixty seasons
without a failing. Five feet from
the ground its trunk is 10 feet 9
inches in circumference.
A writer in Vick’s Magazine says
he destroys May beetles and other
bugs by using brush for building
fires on . dark evenings. The bugs
are attracted, fall in the fire and are
thus destroyed.
Radishes may be had on the table
till late in the season. The best
mode of growing them is to put
plenty of wood ashes on the location
make the soil fine and endeavor to
have them grow as quickly as possi¬
ble, which makes them crisp and ten¬
der.
The practice of feeding young
calves only twice a day is injurious
When running with the dams they
take their food at short intervals,
and, being in a growing condition,
should be fed not less than three
times a day, and oftener whenever
possible. Young colts especially
should not be kept from their dams
longer than four hours at a time.
Beans are one of the crops for
which it would be thought that salt
was not needed. But an old farmer
informs us that little sprinkled on
the rows of beans just as the plants
are corning up makes them more
vigorous and greatly increases the
profusion of pods. The salt proba¬
bly acts on the soil, releasing plant
food that would otherwise remain
inert.
In skimming the cream off from
milk there should always be milk
enough skimmed witli the cream to
give the butter, when churned, a
bright, clean look. Butter churned
from clear cream, with little or no
milk in it, will usually have an oily
or shiny look. This shows that the
grain of the butter is injured, winch
affects the keeping qualities of the
butter.
There are some plants grown in
the garden that are gross feeders.
Such plants will appropriate any
quantity of manure that may he
given them. Cabbage, celery and
asparagus are such, and in order to
pusli them forward rapidly there is
nothing superior to an occasional
application of liquid manure, follow¬
ed the next day by a hoeing. The
more such crops are worked the bet¬
ter.
Recently a farmer who had plow
ed up a fence row" relaid the fence
i after seeding with timothy and clover
j It was a rail fence, laid worm fash
j ion, and under the rails, where the
heat of the sun was shaded, the grass
was vigorous and at least three times
as large and thick as it was where
no shade was had. This burning up
! of the plants by beat, perhaps, ex
plains some failures in grow ing
j grass seed without caution.
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the following remedy for the corn
grub: “Take one part common salt,
and three parts plaster of Paris; mix
well and apply about a teaspoonful
around each hill. It will he found
to be a sure protection, The mix
ture should not come in contact with
the plants, as it may destroy them.
This method has been tried repeats
edly, and when properly applied has
never failed to be entirely success
full.”
The Superintendent of the Uni¬
versity of Wisconsin Experimental
Farm states that for three years past
he has grown Lima beans without
poles or stakes by persistent pinch¬
ing hack after they reached the de¬
sired height—about that of common
bunch beans, lie is confident the
crop is very perceptibly earlier and
thinks it is increased in quantity, the
plant being checked in its growth of
vine, expending its energy in fruit
production, The Fruit Recorder
states that on its farm some were
so treated and they were loaded with
fruit.
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Proverbs in Cookery.
In making any sauce put the but¬
ter and flour in together and your
sauce will never bo lumpy.
Whenever yon see votir sauce boil¬
ing from the side of the pan you may
know that your flour or corn starch is
done.
Tepid water is produced by coins
bining two thirds cold and one third
boiling.
To make maccaroni tender put it in
cold water and bring it to a boil. It
will then be much more tender than
if put in hot water or stewed in mil k.
The yolks of eggs bind the crust
much better than the whites. Apply
it to the edges with a brush.
Old potatoes may he freshened up
by plunging the .11 into cold water be¬
fore cooking.
Never put a pudding that is to be
steamed in anything else than a dry
mold.
Never wash raisins that are to be
used in sweet dishes. It will make
the pudding heavy. To clean them
wipe in a dry towel.
To brown sugar tor e:Mie» or pud¬
ding, put, the • ug.-ir in a peHe'”Iv dry
saucepan, it the pan is th • b .--t bits
wet, ’h • sugar will burn and y< u > id
spoil yi.iu’HHiicep?n.
(bitints and steaks may be fii< d
sec I * as broiled, but they .mist lu* ( u
jn i» >t butter or lard. T ie gre-iui i>
lint e to igh when it throws on ».
bltn-i'i n-noke.
'1 o lied potatoes Miccessf.d'y :
When the skin breaks pm.r <>.T the
water, nod let them finish in their
own steam.
In making a crust of any kind, do
not melt the lard in the flour. Melt
ing will injure the crust.
State News.
Baldwin county’s bonded debt is
$31,000.
Jackson county votes on prohibi¬
tion on Aug. 9.
Valdosta now has three drug stores
and five doctors. ,
A well sixteen feet deep will get
water in Jug Tavern.
The young men of Whitfield are
organizing district agricultural socie¬
ties.
During the past ws ok there were
23 deaths in Augusta, of which 10
were white and 13 colored,
Fifty thousand gallons of water
are held by the Savannah, Florida
and Western Railway thanks at Way
cross.
Rev. W. W. Wadsworth, formerly
pastor of the First v ethodist church
in Athens, will go into the n wspa
P- r business,
Wild mint will keep rats and mice
out of your house.
Lime sprinkled in fire-places dur¬
ing the summer months is healthy.
Oil paintings hung over the man¬
tle are liable to wrinkle with heat.
Old boot tops •ut into pieces of
the required size ai nl lined, miku
good thick iron holders
