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fOL. XV. Vhile The Iron’s Hot. Mr Cleveland never lets the grow under i ids feet, and rass is hot he strikes tile the irdn for more\ bonds. He angreas second message to >nt in a i attention the ncress calling to ; [/that 0 Reserve is our treasury the wane, and should be a substantially bol •omptlv and There are adroit ref - ■ences to the possible collision ith England, and our pride , d W ar-like enthusiasm are ppea-led to with consummate r {. The message is a master liece of statecraft, and an un opular subject could not have een more opportunely sprung pon the country, or presented ith more finesse, There is no commendation of a bond issue so many words, but it re i finds us of a description by ’om Moore, we believe, of lie decollete dress which he leclared artfully revealed what [ so artfully concealed. The following comment of lie Jacksonville Times-Union ipon Secretary Carlisle’s report jay be apposite here : “We do not see that the re¬ tirement of the United Stater notes and treasury notes would do anything towards keening the gold in the treasury. If these notes were not paid out of the Treasury in settlement of claims against the Government, gold would have to be paid out. “It may be said of Secretary Carlisle’s arguments, as well as those of President Cleveland, I that under our present system of redeeming all forms of cur¬ rency with gold, they apply as well to a retirement Of silver as of greenbacks, The logical conclusion from this argument | is, retire every form of curren¬ cy except gold, and reduce tlie circulation to a half billion in¬ stead of a billion and a half, and the per capita to seven and a half dollars instead of twenty two and a half, or issue bonds to borrow gold to keep a cur¬ rency in this country. This is really the proposition to retire the greenbacks carried to its logical conclusion. It is not strange that Senator Vorhees expressed the belief that a res¬ olution declaring it to be inex¬ pedient and unwise to retire the greenbacks would scarcely re¬ ceive fifteen negative votes in the Senate. Anybody who thinks Presi¬ dent Cleveland is not a politi¬ cian, has not done justice to this great man—for lie is un •questionably one of the biggest men of the day, if not the very biggest in our country. Few men of Mr. Cleveland’s wall power have combined with it his ability as a politician in the better sense of the word. In the political battlefield he com bines the continuous pounding tactics of grant with the abler headjvork of Lee and the dra¬ matic iJackson. execution There of StonewMl is not another man in the country who in the kbort space of five days, could pave converted widespread cen Bure to enthusiastic commenda¬ tion from friend and foe, and in fhe followed fervor of the war excitement Unpopular it up with the m(^t message that could N submitted to the country, and at the same time put the onus upon the Republican Con¬ gress. The Republicans thought to dwadle along for three weeks f ? 'ft / ! f V ❖ \ a GA., SATURDAY, DEC 28, 1895. a|j;l their do party, nothing and then to embarrass adjourn » for the holidays with ^ the eclat of having discomfited the Qckits by an assault upon their English embassador and covert sneers at their duck hunting President. But President Cleveland saw their game, reinstated himself at a bound, and before the Re¬ publicans have recovered their wits he lays before them to be acted upon at once, before ad¬ journment, the financial prob lem of this country. Given plenty of time, it is a question that neither party is eager to tackle, but to have to dispose of it one way or the other in twen¬ ty-four hours, is enough to par¬ alyze Tom Reed’s presidential boom. If the Republicans go ahead and authorize a big issue of bonds all of their criticism of President Cleveland’s former bond issue is at an end, and in addition they will have done a very unpopular thing with the masses, On the contrary if they do nothing and leave the finan¬ ces of the country in a critical condition while they go home to frolic, they invite the condem¬ nation of the people for their inaction and failure to appreci¬ ate the country’s needs. Eith¬ er horn of the dilemma is a very uncomfortable perch to spend one’s Christmas holidays upon, and instead of going home in spectacular triumph, the G. 0. P. has had the tables complete¬ ly turned upon it, and President Cleveland sit down to his tur¬ key absolutely master of the situation, while his political an¬ tagonists have the bag to hold. As we said before Mr. Cleve¬ land is a consummate politi cian.—Augusta Chronicle. Think of the Rothschild crowd investing $15,000,000 in Mexico a country that is “degraded” by the silver standard! What are we coming to?—Atlanta Con¬ stitution, A gang of counterfeiters ha ve been operating in Atlanta for some time. They made silver certificates until their leader, Keener, was placed under ar¬ rest A new gold mine is being de¬ veloped in Dawson county, on the Etowah river, by Messrs. W. B. Fry andF. V. Moose of Auraria. The property is owned by J. E. Martin and Messrs. Fry and Moose will give the riv^r bed a thorough test. The mifle is christened “Ella Lee.”— Ex Two of ihe first blue birds seen this year showed up Sun day. They evidently came from the for North, as there is uo|doubt that the blue birds of this section were annihilated last winter. These straDge mel¬ ody makers are lords of their survey and only the chilling blasts of wiuter can cover their retreat.-Center (Ala ) News, Those birds are on their way to hordfof “mmigrlnte that are coming to enjoy the blessings of o qr divinely favored state. r moons T. will come in December, j/Adventists , .- f say eav.fhis this has not occurred since the com¬ ing of Christ, 1,896 years ago — Rome Tribune. Insanity Tabooed. Tll6 foil ••» ving ?tory is told of J 0 i ln Biennan of Steveus Point ‘ criminal ^ iavver “fanner The sto py gops a who bad killed his wife in the nor 'then part of the State sent for Mr. Br&5.ina.il tO d8lPttd lliui, . Offering . to deed him his farm if he would tike the case. Brennan want¬ ed his pay in advance, and so the farmer made over the prop erty to him. Ihe murder was a most brutal and cold-blooded and Biennan knew tha, , , One, there was but one piea that save his client from a ... , , - lire Sentence, ^ ana r . mat S as . sanity. The trial was one of the fiercest ever fought in a Wisconsin court. The attorney for the defense occupied a whole day in his closing address t:0 the jury, and the effort was a masterly one. Thejuiy found the man insane, and he was sent to Oskosh. Once there, he improved rapidly, and in a few weeks was discharged. Plis first act was to sue Brenan for the tue recovery xecoveiy of oi his ms orooertv piopeity, on on the ground that ne was insane at the time of deeding it. In the face of his own argument that the man was insane, Bren nau could do nothing and the farmer won his case Brennan has blacklisted insanity as' a defense for murderers.—Mil waukee Journal. The flonroe Doctrine. From Mr. Monroe’s message to Congress in December, 1823: “We owe, therefore, it to can¬ dor and to the amicable rela¬ tions existing between the Uni¬ ted States and the allied pow ers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety. With the existing col¬ onies or dependencies' of any European power we have not interferred and shall not inter¬ fere, but with the governments who have declared their inde¬ pendence and maintained it, and whose independence we have, on great consideration and just principles, acknowl ed, w r e could not view an inter¬ position for the purpose of op pressing them or controlling in any other manner their destiny (by any European power) in any other light than as a manifes¬ tation of an unfripndly dispo¬ sition toward the United States. JAMES MONROE. The leading newspapers of the nation are very nearly unani mous in support of the Presi dent’s message and the enforce¬ ment of the Monroe doctrine as applied to the Venezuelan boun¬ dary dispute. Only four of the big dailies are outspoken against it: The New York Journal of Commerce, the New York Post, the New York World, and the Boston Herald.—Ex. gome of the eminent New York financiers say they would not be surprised to see the coun ^ We” E compared,by the coinage of the silver bullion now' lying idle in the treasury, it would start the country on the road to prosper ity, which will be reached when tile mints are thrown open F to Silver and we . begin to enjoy . a u the benefits of bimetaiism.— Atlanta Constitution. ATTUHTTAXTH ;d\ i i\ 4 l VnTUDUDTl I A |i, ) ] 111/ *'k)ll.».iLj A A \ .?J f 5 ^11. \ » i u/ e - Commissioner Nesbitt’s Inquiry Box For the Month. YES? IMPOETANT IxTi OEitATICST. Destroying Ca«> 1 >rt"e—Harnessing and (.faring: a Mule In the I’Zow—Ilmv to Prevent Smut In Wheat—Keeping Wee¬ vils Out of Corn—When to i'.aut Oato, Etc.—Ollier Matters of Interest, Question l.-I enclose a plant which is getting common in the pastures and fields of this section : Please name and teli how t0 * et rid o£ ' ifc - B. M. Answer 1. —The enclosed specimen w jj d Carrol (Dancus Carola). It is found in nearly all the states, oast of t£le Mississippi river, and is rapidly spreading over the entire country; seeming to thrive on all soils and in all climates. . It flowers from June to September. The seed are distributed by becoming attached to animaus, and thus beiDg carried about; or remaining on the plant until winter, are blown consid erable distances by the wind. The J n permanent pasture, mowing the plants as often as the flowers appear, eventually destroy them. Or the root may be cut off several inches be low the surface of the ground which will usually kill them at once: Or the plants may be pulled by hand when the ground is wet: this is P™ 15 ^ the gurest way of gettingrid o{ tllig weed< The wild carrot is not often trouble some in cultivated fields. Question 2.—I send you some bugs which have been eating my cabbages and turnips. Please name them aud tell me how to get rid of them. L. Id., Taylor county, Ga. Answer 2.—The bugs are Harle¬ quin Cabbage Bugs (Murgantia His trionica), so called from the gay, harlequin-like manner in which the black and yellow colors are ar¬ ranged upon their bodies. It feeds upon cabbage, turnips, radish and mus¬ tard plants, and its ravages as a rule are confined to the states south of Pennsyl¬ vania. The first eggs are hatched out in Aprii or May aud this brood at once bo gins its work of destruction by sucking the sap from the leaves. They are timid and quickly hido behind the most convenient stem or leaf of the plant they are feeding on. In this section there are several broods each season. The most efficient remedy is to de¬ stroy the brood that lives over winter When they congregate upon the mustard or radish plants. Then they can be de¬ stroyed very easily by the application of kerosene by means of a common water¬ ing pot. If these bugs are thus destroyed early in the season it will almost entirely pre¬ vent injury later. These insects fly but little and are thus not apt to come from neighboring fields. All bugs and eggs which may be seen on cabbage plants should be picked off aud destroyed. Clean cultivation and burning of all rubbish in and about the garden are important preventive meas¬ ures. In the spring and fall many of these bugs may be trapped by laying cabbage or turnip leaves between the rows; the insects will harbor under these aud may be collected anil destroyed each morn¬ ing. Quesion 3.--Give me some advice about harnessing and gearing a mule in the plow ? D. Answer 3.—The following article contains much good advice on tho subject of harness. “It may appear trifling to make allusion to the har¬ ness of a plantation mule as it is ordinarily so scant, but, be that as it may, there is quite sufficient, when not properly adjusted, to be responsi¬ ble for a large mortality among planta¬ tion mules. In coasidering this topic we will have to include almost the whole gears, es¬ pecially that used in the plow, and we will commence with the bits, or rather the fitting of the bits which is important. The points to observe are, that they fit the mouth and are neither too wide nor too narrow. Tho mouthpiece requires fitting with care; it should be about the breadth of two fingers above the corner teeth. They are often placed so high in the mouth as to cut the angles of the lips; the angles should not even be wrinkled. Collars.—Fitting a collar for draught purposes is a point of hygienic import¬ ance. The main things to attend to hre, that it has an even bearing on the shoulders; that it is deep enough be¬ low, so as to avoid any pressure on the windpipe and the blood vessels of the neck; that it does not pinch from sidg to side, and that the traces should not be attached to it too near the point of the shoulder. The evils of a badly fit tingcoilar are great, such as collar galls or sore shoulders; congestion of the brain from pressure on the jugulars preventing the return of mood from that organ; and partial suffocation from pressuro oil the wiiidtSips. Collars of ail varieties have each their votaries, tut we consider none SUlkin!'”hJC .7.™ from skin secretions, which if allowed to remain on the collar, becomes hard and routfli, and thou produces irrita tion. To keep tho shoulders in good condition and prevent galling—prosam ftgthat the collar fits—it is a good rale t,o have the drivers bathe the shoulders with a little cold water each rims the collars aro take!5 ol This coald easily J . do,la at tho , drinking trough when , “ 8 the mules are being watered. Backhands and traces. No part of the plow gear produces so much perma nent injury or loss as tho backhand, The importance of the proper adjnst moot of the backhand may b3 some what appreciated, when we state that on one plantation, within our knowl edge, eleven or twelve lino mules were lost from paralysis of the hind extrem ities, duo to severe and continued pres¬ sure on the spine over tho loins. It is not an unusual sight to see mules hitched to the plow with the hack bauds over the loins, bohind the last rib, where there is the least sup¬ port to tho back, not only pulling, but lifting the plow with this, the weakest part. As a matter of fact, tho only proper fuuo ion of a backhand is to prevent the traces falling amongst the animal’s feet when tho tension is taken bff thorn. Placing the backhand beyond tho last rib is a r.ios • dangerous procedure, and is the cawie of the death of many a val¬ uable mule. The trace should have a straight pull from its attachment to the hames to the single trace; thero should be no an¬ gles in it at all. If there are, it is an indication of undue proasure on the back. If thero is a necessity for any portion of the back having to bear weight, the band with blocks on either side of the spine, or that which carves over the spine, is preferable to the plain backhand, as the one has no direct bear¬ ing on the spinal column; the other has. More attention paid to the proper gear¬ ing of our animals would often prevent serious loss. Question 4.— I have lost several head of youijg cattle lately. They swell on the neck or loins, look dull and droop • ing, refuse to eat, are constipated, uriuo high colored and have died in fromlil to 24 hours. What is the disease and what can I do for it? K. Answer. —From your description your cattle have diod of anthrax, a disease known in different lo¬ calities as “bloody murrain.” “black leg,” “black tongue,” “ebarbon,” eta It is a common disease, attacking not only cattle, but other animals as well. I remember in 1253, when the “black tongue,” as it was called, swept over Florida and South Georgia, killing a number of cattle aud almost extermi¬ nating the deer, which at that time were very numerous. A gentleman from Florida told me that during a day spent in the woods looking after his cattle, he counted over SCi dead deer, aud saw oth¬ ers walking about aimlessly, rendered tame by the disease with which they were suffering. The causes of this disease are usually traceable to stagnant ditches, swamps, etc. the water in which has been low¬ ered by a long period of drouth, also to food or water that has been tainted with decaying animal or vogetable mat¬ ter and contagion. Tho disease is most common in flat districts, where during dry seasons ponds aud pools of stag¬ nant water are found aud the decompos¬ ing vegetable matters are exposed. This is essentially a disease of the blood and is practically confined to young cattle, rarely attacking an animal over two years of age. Ia this disease, prevention is better than cure, as there is little hope of sav¬ ing aii animal after the disease is con¬ tracted, a few hoars usually bringing a fatal termination Three drachm dose3 of chlorate of potassium, dissolv¬ ed in water and given every three hours, is good treatment, and if the animal is weak give in addition whiskey and qui¬ nine. Change the pasture at once, when this disease appears, to one on higher ground if possible, and with purer water. Sep¬ arate the sick animals from the rest. Bury deeply all cattle that die, or bet¬ ter still, burn the carcasses. The sheds or stables where animals have been confined should be thorough ly cleaned and sprinkled with quick lime, aud the woodwork, walls, etc., washed with a solution of chloride of lime, four ounces to a gallon of water. 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