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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. TUKBDAY, APRIL 25. 1882. THE CONSTITUTION. Entered At the Atlanta Post-office as second-das mail matter, November 11,1878. Weekly CorfUUn, price #W# per «■»«■». Clubs of twenty. $20, and a copy to the getter up the club. WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, SIX MONTHS.81.00. ATLANTA, GA., APRIL 25, 1882. simultaneous attacks on the King’s English ota desire to serve the party, aa it emanates with a and the friends of Garfield. Such men can- 1 JommI that gave all the aid and influence within , . ... Its control to securing the election of the present not long command a controlling follow ing In iocumbent ’ Governor Colquitt has the good of any party—not even in the rather vindictive he democratlc pa-ty Bt Ueart he shou i d either re . and unrelenting and not altogether pure re-j nta this or he should .make It public and give his publican party. They are doomed to unpop- reasons therefor.’ i AMONG THE PINES. AT EASTMAN WITH ITS TURPEN TINE INDUSTRIES. Over 50,000 people now read THE WEEKLY CONSTITU TION. - Our aim is to have it go to every fiieside in the state'. Do you take it ? If not, send in your name at once. Don t force your family to borrow it. The more readers we get, the better we can make the paper. We promise that it shall be bet ter, brighter and fuller than ever before this year. Send in your name. Baptists are an important part of our body ]K>litic. Their clergymen arc able, active and intelligent They are a credit to the state and their meeting at Americus is one of the events of the year L Albany's artesian well is the sensation of the day in that town. The example set by it in lairing the well should be followed by nearly all south Georgia towns; and several are preparing to do so. Whatever the cost may be it will be as nothing compared to the benefits to be derived, especially if they are such as the Albanians claim. Sewnan is one of the Georgia towns which have taken a great start since the war. The necessity for energy and thrift has developed until now Newnan is one of the most prosper ous towns in the state. It is out of debt and lias money in its treasury—a fact not many towns can boast of. Its enterprises are re markable and well worth reading of. Goobers, pindars, gronnd-nuts, ground poas, peanuts; or whatever you may choose to call the leguminous plant which is so la miliar under one or another name, form the’ subject of one of Miss Juliet Corson’s enter taining gastrononiical articles which are to be recommended to Hie curious in such things. A complete bill of fare from soup to sweet is more than most people, we fancy, would think possible to make from the peanut; yet M iss Corson does it and in a way so appetizing the Georgia housekeepers may like to learn it, Tiik Mississippi improvement bill is still in the senate, and the senators who have spoken on the subjtfct give no indication of the re sult. Some want to raise the levees, while others think the channel should be deepened. Others would do both at the expense of the people, and nothing short of the final votes will show what the preponderance of senii- ment is. Mr. McPherson, of New Jersey, is iu favor of a lnrge expenditure of money, and he does not seem to care whether the most of it is put in levees or in channel improve ments. Mr. Vest, of Missouri, takes the brond Missouri ground that it-is the duty of the general government to keep its big stream off of adjacent lands, but Mr. Morgan, of Al abama, failed to appreciate Mr. Vest's law of the case. Mr. Harrison, of Indiana, does not think the government should go into the business of reclaiming lands. None of the eastern republican senators. have expressed their views; and the debate of this week will doubtless be very interesting. The effort to have a vote taken to-morrow* failed, and the bill will be called up day by day as unfinished business until the tide oI i discussion is-ex hausted. • • * ' VAGRANCY. We desire to call attention to the loose manner that our vagrant laws are enforced, It a great wrong to society and a fruitful source of crime. To this cause as much as anything else can be traced the presence of small-pox in our midst. The’number of va grants are increasing, and we never hear of an arrest even for this crime. We call upon the authorities of the city, county, and state to enforce the law against vagrants vigorously. The law is as explicit as it can be made, and applies to any person, black or white, who wanders about leading an idle life who being aide to work does not work and lias no visible means of living. The law treats vagrancy as an offense on account of the moral wrong and for the harm it does the vagrant as well as in jury that results to society. If a person has a settled home without means of subsistence, and cannot get work he is a pauper, and not a vagrant, and it is the duty of the authorities to aid them to live, and it should be done. A vagrant is no better than a thief, and should be treated as such. If the law was enforced, ns it should be, there would not be so many violations, and we earnestly appeal to those whose duty it is to press this law so as to put J a stop to it. Vagrancy has been a statutory offense from a very early day and was probably offense at common law. It is a crime that grows because the ignorant and vicious see vagrants living without work, leading an idle life, strolling from place to place, and they follow the example, and while living from hand to mouth, generally steal everything that comes in their way. They have no ambi tion to keep themselves clean, and generally their haunts arc the filthiest places in the city, and they breed disease and death. Work is plentiful, and any one wanting it can get it, and the idle part of the community should be put to work at once. Will the mayor and police commissioners take this matter in hand at once? The grand jury could do no better work than to thoroughly sift the crime and shake up vagrancy in ail its ramifications TWO PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBILITIES. The Arthur-Keifer-Robeson combination is losing ground daily, and in the course of another year its nhscrnpulous methods and inherent unsoundness will have put its chief altogether out of the range of the presidential lightning.' There is nothing in Mr. Arthur. He is a snob socially, a wirepuller of the New York variety politically, and a light weight intellectually. As for morals or conscience lie probably does not lay claim to anything of that nature! Mr. Robeson who speaks for hint in the house is a man who jnst meets his notion of a political leader, and Senator Lo gan in the senate wins his approbation by his ularity first and overthrow in 1884. But they may be strong enough, chiefly on account of the power of federal patronage, to prevent the j nomination of Mr. Blaine; and this may result a compromise candidate. The republican party has heretofore been controlled by good jKjliticians—men whocould be depended upon put the best foot foremost; and there are not lacking wise men who think they see in the situation the nomination ot Mr. William Windom as a candidate who would be ac ceptable alike to stalwart and half breed—to Blaine and to Conkling. On the democratic side many eyes are cast towards Graystone, where lives an ol,d man ho deserves well of his country, but whose tenure of life is by no means to be depehded upon until March 4, 1889. Then, too. Mr. Kelly remains in control of Tammany hall, and iiis determination to fight Mr. Tilden re mains as firm as it ever was. Mr. Bayard and Judge Field have their friends; but the same old limitation will exist in 1884, namely, New York is to be the president-making state, and a man will be needed who can carry it. Possibly Mr. Tilden could, in spite of Mr. John Kelly, but it is almost certain that Mr. Abra ham S. Hewitt could carry the state against Windom, Arthur, Blaine or any other man. He could unite and enthuse the. party, gain the support of heavy interests that have here tofore fought under the enemy’s banner, and bring out the vote of a state that on a full and fair division lias always been democratic, PARTISANSHIP IN POLITICS. Our esteemed contemporary, the New York Times, which is severe, dogmatic or liberal as the wind may happen to set, has had its at tention called to certain comments in the Georgia papers in regard to the murder of young Walter Rountree, and it says that the position of The Constitution in respect to this murder, in view of its usual fairness and liberal tone, is inexplicable. After giving an account of the murder, the Times recurs to the remarks of The Constitution, and says they are inexplicable “on anything which would not leave the most liberal organ of the Georgia democracy open to the charge, of having forsaken its advanced stand to wal low with its less enlightened contempora rics in the ancient slough of bour“bon- m.” With respect to the position of The Coxsti tution we will say this to the Times, that every liberal sentiment that has ever lound utterance in these columns—every protest against the spirit of sectionalism which the republican leaders are still ready to invoke— has found a ready and hearty response in the democratic party of Georgia. This has been made manifest in a hundred different direc tions, so that the editor of the Times must necessarily have observed at least a few of them. There was a time when even the Times was wont to toy in its humor ous column with the sentiments of fraternity, threatening, indeed, to make a serious mat ter of them at some time in the near future. We remember, however, that the liberality of the Times vanished whenever the bosses cracked their whips. In regard to the comments made in these columns on the Rountree murder, we are frank to say that they cannot be explained to the editor of the Times. Having no sort of conception of the difficulties by which the people are surrounded, or of the nature and extent, of the problem which must be solved, and solved peacefully, and in the in terest of both races, it is not possible for the editor Of the Times to even faintly appreciate the situation with which we have to contend In New England the problem would long ago have been solved by force of arms, just as sonic unfortunate spirits attempted to solve it-in the south; but we have chosen a longer, a juster, a more peaceful way. We have chosen a way that will eventually bring the most important factor in the problem to a full understanding of the nature and duties of citizenship, and then the problem will no longer be a dangerous one, But, in the meantime, to return to the sub ject of liberality, why should The Constitu tion be airing its liberality, or discussing the necessity of unity and harmony between the sections, in the presence of the preparation for restoring republican fraud and corruption in the south by an administration which drew its power and patronage in the lottery of as sassination? Even a few republican papers are deploring the humiliation of Virginia, which has been accomplished by cor rupting the federal civil service, and similar movement is on foot in Georgia—a laughable movement, to be sure, but still of sufficient importance to show the animus of the administration. No; the liberality of The Constitution will keep until the country has disposed of this renewal of blackguardism and partisanship ia the white liouse-has been effectually disposed of. In the meantime, as the Times must perceive, partisanship in politics, when it endeavors to crawl in at the back door, must be met by partisanship. The above was submitted to Governor Colquitt. We preface what he had to say with the simple statement that while the Telegraph and Messenger did aid in *he election ot Governor Colquitt the present management and the present editor bitterly opposed him before election and have lost no chance to criticise him since. The governor said: “I have not seen the articles to which yon allnde, and do not care to dignify them with a reply since you have brought them 10 my attention.” “You have nothing to say?” “I do not like to answer even in response to an inquiry such absurd and ill-natured insinuations. You may say, however, that I have never said one word to Judge Simmons on the subject of the race. have never written him one word or had a tine from him. I have never authorized any one else to consult with him. I have never spoken to Governor Brown or General Gordon on the subject. I have not seen Governor Brown since he came to Georgia and don’t know when I shall see him While' Jadge Simmons is my friend and gentleman whom I esteem most highly I have never expressed a preference for him. Is this a full enongh answer? If not make it fuller, if possible, 'here is no use answering these rumors. First, it was Mr. Stephens to whom I had offered the suc cession. That failing, it was Judge Simmons, This falling, it will be some one else.” You may say further,” said the governor earn estly, "that while I do not claim from my position any single right that the humblest voter does not have. I shall never admit that it restrains me from the rights of the proudest citizen. When the candi dates for the nomination are before the people, if I have a choice I shall not hesitate to express my preference, and to emphasize that expression by all legitimate means. This is my right as a citizen It is inv duty as a citizen, and I shall net be back ward in asserting it when the proper time comos.’ FEWER FERTILIZERS. We present below a table of guano receipts at depots all over iho state. The figures are furnished to The Constitution by the railroad agents at the several stations, and lnay be retied on as correct. While only part'of the ’ground is covered, the re turns come from so wide a territory that we are sure the average is a true one. Some of the returns are made as follows: “Acworth—Received 1881, 533 tons; 1882, 275 tons; estimated will'sell, 130 tons; R. W. Mitchell, agent.” IThe heavy increase at certain points is explained by the fact that new railroads have been built At Roswell,for example, there are about 400 tons increase—which Marietta would doubtless decrease if we had the Marietta returns. These points tend to increase the differ ence between the two years rather than diminish It will be seen $at the decease in north. Georgia is about forty per cent; the decrease in middle Georgia is about forty-two per cent; the decrease in south Georgia is hardly perceptible: the percentage of decrease in the state is about twenty-five per cent. .The heavy returns from south Georgia lower the general per cent of decrease very much. After a careful study of this table we should estimate the percentage of decrease over the state at thirty-three percent. The heaviest decrease is shown in the strip of territory between Athens and Union Point, and in the section between Cartersville and Dalton. We give the table below, properly summarized and divided: NORTH GEORGIA, GOVERNOR COLQUITT EXPAINS. The following extract is taken from the Colum bus Enquirer of a late date: A short time ago the Macou Telegraph and Messenger stated in direct terms that Governor Col quitt had made a bargain with Judge Simmons o that circuit, by which the latter was to succeed Gov ernor Colquitt in gubernatorial honors. In the same paper of yesterday we find this statement: It is more than suspected that Governor Colquitt is anxious to barter away his succession, if, indeed the contract be not already closed with one or more persons. He never denied that he had specially offered it to Mr. Stephens, nor has he or any of his friends taken occasion to refute the more than rumor, that he had made a similar offer to Judge Simmons, -of this circuit. Gover nor Brown has been purged of any connection with this affair. The rumor is and has been rife for a long time that more than one gubernatorial aspi rant holds a sort of parol contract with the gov ernor and his friends, or both, for the succession and many very good people put faith in it. It has created some discussion, one of the results of which has reached us in a very authentic shape, to the effect that there is a written contract to the same effect still in existence, or rather a copy of it; that it was drawn up by a very enthusiastic adherent of the governor, when the latter was in great political stress, and that a prominent politician has a copv •f it.* “If this is not true, it will be an easy matter for the governor to set himself right in the premises. The charge cannot be taken as an attack upon the chief executive prompted by any motive save that Witn the Turpentine and Timber Ken—95,000 Acre* of Land Occupied by 13 8tlll»—A 300,000,000 Feet of Lumber Shipment—Pouring Ho ney into Carolina—A Great Mill. Place. 18SI 197 1882 568 Maxey’s 200 M0 90 531 301 175 228 133 100 120 221 136 100 50 1,800 15 375 475 Logan Valley 9 35 3 208 96 135 50 110 20 Duluth 800 30( 867 S7^ 810 27-! Ringgold.. 150 275 .. 500 143 MIDDLE GEORGIA. 90 800 200 1,010 310 199 -Norwood .... 367 _ 319 322 Crawford ville. 350 125 597 1,342 732 70 100 Milner .T 875 !50 75 295 30 1,015 1,169 1,891 900 : 1,253 623 Lovejoy 425 -1.000 625 600 460 290 210 105 700 150 900 190 East Point 272 160 Senoia - LhjO "arrow - 800 Union Point 375 Perry - -1.4£0 Puckett's Station - 230 SOUTH GEORGIA. Blackshear. ® Walthourville - 2a Walker Station 29 Arlington -1*2P9 Ilawkiusville 2,510 Isabella ? Albany <9o Onseley 49 Winchester 02 Talbotton 0 Leesburg- 21o Brown's 192 Longview Jo Valaosta 500 Graham’s- J 10 Americus. 4,600 Cochran — .1,039 Waycrqss- „ 20 Dawson— 2,000 Hollywood 30 McVille. 176 Cuthbert 1.130 A NEGRO LOVE SONG- 780 600 135 1,006 230 240 20 16 1,000 2,220 110 575 55 105 700 245 275 95 510 30 1,570 755 100 2,009 15 100 1,570 From the Century. Track in de paff whar rabbit bin play’n’, (Hey, my Lily! go down de road!) Han’ me down my walkin’ cane, (Hi, my Lily! go down de road!) Hey, my Idly! de cow done lowed, (Go down de road—go de down road!) Hit’s wet on de grass whar?le jew bin po’d, (Hi, my Lily! go dowa de road!) Mighty long way froo de narrer lane. , (Hey, my Lily! go down de road!) Eu KlUdee holler tike callin’ up rain, (Hi, my Lily! go down de road!) Hey, my Lily! de chicken done crowed, (Go down de road! go down de road!) Sun gone down, en moon done showed, (My Lily! my Lily! go down de road!) Han’ me down my walkin’ cane, (Hey, my Lily! go down de road!) Big owl holler: No use stay’n’! (Hi, my Lily! go down de road!) Big nigger tote de little gal load, (Go down de road—go down de road!) ’Kaze too big a turn, make ntgger leg bowed, (My Lily! my Lily! go down de road!) Han’ me down my walkin’ cane, (Hey, my Lily! go down de road!) De boys an sing en keep on say’n’: (Hi, my Lily! go down de road!) Nigger will drink fum ’n’er nigger’s go’d, (Go down de road—go down de road!) En some folks git w’at dey ain’t never growed (My Lily! my lily! go down de road!) One man los’ w’at ’n’er man gain, (Hey, my lily! go down de road!) You git yo’ shawl en han’ my cane, (Hey, my Lily! go down de road!) —Joel Chandler Harris, J (“Uncle Remus.”) Special Correspondence of The Constitution. Eastxan, Ga., April 20.—This tittle village is sit uated In the heart of the turpentine and timber region. About it are clustered mills and stills, and sitting on the piazza of its hotel, em bowered in perfect masses of honeysuckles, one can gather a deal of interesting information on these two great industries. I was so stimulated by the stories 1 heard, that under the invitation of Hon. John B. Johnson 1 left a most charming com pany and took a turn through the forests. WITH THE TURPENTINE HEN. A drive of three miles brought us to the still of Peacock, Manning <fc Co., the largest or second largest in the state. This company is working sixty lots—over 12,000 acies-and last year sold 990,000 worth of turpentine and rosin. The process by which they work is so simple that it scarcely seems worth while to ex plain. The crude gum os it comes from the boxes emptied into the stilL From one side of the still come a flow of water, bearing ill its volume the spirits of turpentine. This falls into a barrel, and the tur pentine separating it9elf from the water by its greater tightness floats to the top, whence it is drained into another barrel and sent to market. From the other side comes the bulk of the gum mixed with the debris. This flows into long boxes, bottomed with sieves. The clear fluid drops through the sieves into lower boxes, whence it is ladled into barrels. When it has cooled this fluid solidifies and becomes the rosin of commerce. It ia not with the process, however, but with the result of the turpentine industry that I wish to deal. Here is one still that saps the trees of 12,000 acres of land. The gum exuding from every tree of this large area is fed to this one concern. In three years it will have exhausted this 12,008 acres, as it does not pay to work a tree after the third sea son. Mr. Royal, one of the proprietors of this still, informed me that there were thirteen stills in Dodge county alone. These stills are draining 95,000 acres of land, and in three years will have exhaust ed them. In every three years the stills now run ning in this county will strip 100,000 acres. As Dodge is said to furnish one-eighth of the “crop” of the state, there are about 800,000 acres now •boxed” and will be exhausted in three years. It is easy to sec that in a few years the whole terri tory will be exhausted. I asked Mr. Royal what he would do then. "Oh, we Will go into new territory. We came from North Carolina, where the supply had been practically exhausted. When this is used up we will go into Alabama or elsewhere. We buy no land, but merely lease it, paying the owners one dollar an acre for the turpentine rights, our lease covering four years.” “Are the most of our turpentine men Carol! nians?” “Almost entirely. Of the thirteen stills in this county there is but one owned by Georgians, I sup pose this proposition holds good through the state.” Here’s an interesting state of things. In Georgia we own immense and valuable forests of pine. They stand untouched until there is an irruption of strangers, and then every tree is scarred and pours out its riches, not into the hands of its owners, bu t of strangers. Let us see how it works by taking the still we arc discussing. This company of Carolinians occupy 12,000 acres of land owned by Georgians. In one year they sold S90.000 worth of turpentine and rosin taken from this territory. In the four years for which it is leased they will get 8250,000 from the sale of its products. In return for this they pay the Georgia owners 812,000 rent Most of the superintend' ents and hands they employ come from Carolina- all that I saw. The company has a store of its own, from which its hands are supplied. Their busi ness is done in Savannah by a Arm (Peacock, Hunt & Co.) that came from Carolina. But tittle of the money made by the proprietors of the stills is invested here the most of them say frankly that when they have exhausted this territory they will seek now fields. The surplus of wages received by the hands above their actual expenses, is presumably sent back to their homes in Carolina. So that the 812,000 rent is abou t all of the 8250,000 taken by this compa ny off its leased land that is left with the Georgians, except the investment made by one of its proprietors Mr. Royall says there are 95,000 acres of land oc cupied by the thirteen stills in this ebunty. Omit ting the 12,000 acres drained by his still, there are say 80,000 acres held by the other twelve stills in Dodge. If he gets $90,000 a year from his 12,000 acres, as he did last year, the other 80,000 should yield 8640,000 more, which, added to his 890,000, gives 8730,000 as the value of the turpentine and rosin taken out of Dodge last year. Of this the land owners get—33 cents per acre being one-third of the 81 paid for four years’ rent—about 832,000 on their 95,000 acres. I was furnished with an estimate showing that Dodge furnishes one-eighth of the turpentine crop of the state. If this is so, there was taken out of Georgia forests last year nearly 86,000,000 worth of stores, from about 750,000 acres, on which there was paid to the owners a rent of about 8250,000. The bulk of this enormous income goes to strangers who come for three seasons and are gone, while the pittance goes to the Georgians who own the land, who must improve it and de velop it alter the visitors have gone. I do not blame the enterprising “tar-heels” for taking advantage of the situation. On the con trary they deserve all praise for their enterprise, only state the case that Georgians may understand it Our forests are being robbed of immense riches, of which the men who own them get the smallest fraction. The 12,000 acres worked by this one com pany yields in three years (for the fourth year is practically valueless) 8250,000 at least At eight bushels to the acre (the average corn-yield in Geor gia) this is as much as they would give if planted in corn for three years. If the land was rented to make corn or the owner would charge one-third or one-half of the crop as rent To the man who makes the turpentine crop, of equal value, he charges less than one-twentieth Every barrel of crude rosin rolled on the platform was worth five dollars to the turpentine men—of this, the land-owner got twenty-five cents. The business of turpentine making is very profitable, Mr. Johnson informs me that Mr. Peacock said his still made 835.000 clear money last year. There are several Georgians who, noting the prof its made by the “tar heels,” are going into the bus iness themselves. I heard of a half-dozen large stills put up by Georgians lately—notably, one by Captain Bill Tumlin, in Clay county. WITH THE TIMBER HEN. About a mile to the left of this still is the saw mill of Colcord, Bacon & Co. It is an immense establishment With the new mill just completed its capacity will be 55,000 to 60,000 feet a day. Two years ago Mr. McDonough at Surrency led the Georgia mills with an average record of 31,000 feet a day. Mr. Dodge has, on St. Simon’s island, a mill that cuts 60,000 feet a day. His lumber camp, near here, employs over 100 mules and hall a hundred hands. Mr. Keppard is building a mill on the Satilla that will equal in capacity any of these. The timber-cutting business in Georgia is increasing very rapidly. Around the Colcord & Bacon miU is settled a vil lage of about 50 honses. The company has its own railroad penetrating the forests about eight- miles. The new mill is fitted up with improvements by which the logs are taken automatically from the saw and the debris moved by an endless chain over the platform and dumped into the fire-pit It also hasan engine that burns the saw-dust as fneL The company has 12,000 acres of land, on which owns the timber-rights. Like the turpentine men, the timber cutters lease the land, paying about 81 an acre for the right to ent the timber. The Hon. Clint Bacon told me last year that Geor gia shipped 300,000,000 feet of lumber. This was sent all over the world. Some went to 3pain, a good deal to South America and a great deal up the coast. As the rate of 3,i 00 feet to the acre—a fair average I he-* Hove—100,000 of Georgia Umber lands W0re stripped to supply one year’s shipments. All the mills run ning then fttc HtithttiS KCaV I suppose: The huge mills that ttfb being added will therefore swell the above amount. The one new mill of which 1 now write will strip 4,000 acres a year or more. It is lair to say that the taw mills ot Georgia will take the timber from 125,000acres of land during the present year. The demand for cross-tics atone is enor mous. The pineries of Florida and Alabama are drawn on by the southwestern and Mexican roads, aud this section is largely supplying the ties for the new roads built in and about Geor gia. As pine sections fail, elsewhere— and they are failing everywhere—the de maud on the Georgia barrens will increase. It requires little foresight to see that in a few years, our timber-lands will be almost entirely denuded and that on which the forest is left will be very valuable.. tion of the old fort and the magazine. The brick arch over the latter is remarkably well preserved. BINDS OF PROFT. THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR FORESTS. Talking to Dr, Bacon, to whose courtesy we are indebted, he said: “When we have once eut over an acre of land, it cannot be retied on;for timber again. We cut all but the small trees. It Is uncertain as to when these will be large enough to cut, and even when they are, it will be found that they stand too few to the acre to pay for the cutting. So that the acreage we strip annually may be considered as acreage gone, so far as timber is concerned.” You usually cut trees that the turpentine men have already worked?” Yes. We cannot lease land any other way. The owners understand that the turpentine rights will bring a dollar an acre, and leave the timber rights just as valuable as ever. They, therefore, let the turpentine men have the trees first. We usually follow them about one year." “Is the timber as good after the turpentine has been taken out es before?” “There is probably no difference. Some persons hold that as a tree stands looser on its base after it has beeu ‘boxed,’ it is swayed more easily by the storms, splits or strains. They call it ‘wind-shaken.’ But there is probably no difference in the timber." “How long will the forests lost in Georgia?" “I am unable to tell. They are being cut very rapidly and the cutting is increasing. We aie fixed here for enough timber rights to keep us run ning many years after our present acreage is ex hausted.” Of course the direct advances of the tim ber cutters make fearful holes in the forests, but I’m inclined to think equal ravages are made by the “still” men. As follows: In boxing the trees, a large portion of the lewer inner surface is exposed and covered with thick rosin. The stock men set fire to the woods every year for the purpose of buruiDg off the wire grass, and letting a fresh young crop come up for their cattle every spring. As long as the turpentiners work the trees they pro tect them from the fires by keeping a space cleared about their roots. When they quit them the grass grows up close, the exposed surface of rosin takes fire, and the tree is killed. Therefore, where the timber men do not follow the turpentiners closely there is a terrible loss of trees. It is manifestly impossible that the timber men can keep up, as there is about seven acres occupied by stills to one occupied by cutters.and the propor tion between the two is being widened yearly. The loss from fires may therefore be expected to in crease, even over what it has- been. We saw in a short drive hundreds of pines thus ruined—many of them large enough, as Governor Brown reflectively remarked, “to make thirty rails to the cut—more if it was a butt cut.” On every side there is waste and lavish habit. There seems to be tittle appreciation of the value of the pineries, or of the haste with which they are being denuded. In fact many of the people wish that the process could be hastened. Mr. A. B. Purdom. of Wayne, said to me, “As soon ns we can get rid of these pine forests we will become prosperous. Already we are feel ing the effects of the clearing off process.” Mr. Johnson said: "The turpentine and timber business demoralizes our people. As long as money grows on trees they will not look for it in the ground. When the pines are gone and the lauds cleared into farms we shall improve. Our soil is good, our climate perfect, and even now we arc at tracting settlers. We have a fine colony here from Gwinnett county who are pleased and prosperous. Dr. Bacon said: “The soil from which we are cut ting the timber is good. While it is not very rich it is capable of high improvement. It has enough clay to hold whatever is given it. This section has many special advantages that will attract atten tion.” There is no reason, however, why the millions locked up In these trees should be wasted—still less why it should be left to strangers to take them out. If the profits made in handling the turpentine crop of Georgia, and the wages drawn by those who handle it, could be kept in the country on which the trees grow, and left in the hands of those whoowu the laud, it would furnish all the capital needed to develop it. Some of the best of the tar-lieels, notably Mr. Peacock, will settle here when they are through, and invest their profits. This is some compensation, even while the most of them frankly admit that they can make more by going into new territory and taking from the forests the treasures the natives never suspected them of holding, or suspecting lacked the energy to go after. Mr. William Pitt Eastman, after whom the town is named, said: “It is a pity that all our forests could not be managed with the prudence and foresight shown by the Dodges. They own 300,000 acres to which no turpentiner is admitted. Thev use only the largest trees and protect the smaller ones. The people have had' so litttle experience, however, that they naturally made mistakes. Ten years ago 1 told the people in Liverpool that not a tree in these forests had been cut. This was true. There were then 400 people in this county. Now there are 7,000. We will keep several of the Caro linians who arc here iu the turpentine business. While most of them will leave, many will build here. We aim to get a strip of five or ten miles along the railroad cut out for farms. As soon as the trees are cut the land can be cultivated. The pine root shoots straight down like a beet root, and the plow can run within a foot of the stump. In a short time the stump is tightwood and can be bum ed. Iu ten years this section will be the Flanders of America as Mr. Fort predicted long years ago. Its progress already has been wonderfnL It is worth noting that these lands on which the turpentiners pay 81 for four years rent, and the timbermen 81 for one years rent, or in other words, from which the turpen tine and timber alone Eells for 82 without expense, are returned at a valuation of 81 per acre to the tax assessor. So the owners may not lack enterprise after all! H. W. G Where Wesley Preached. From the Brunswick Advertiser. On Monday we went over to St. Simons Mills to attend the funeral of Jessie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Forsyth. After the service the body was carried to the burial ground at Frederica. While at the burial ground, a huge oak tree was pointed out to 113 as the one under which Mr. Wesley preached. This monarch of the forest certainly bears the marks of great age. It evidently has with stood the storms of many years, but it is now fast going to decay. We noticed also a house in the grounds formally used as a place of worship, whose age we are afraid even to guess at. The roof has rotted away, but the walls are still standing, and strange to say, while the wood is perfectly decayed, the plastering, though considerably tarnished, is as sound and free from cracks as the day it was put on. On returning to the Hamilton (the boat that carried us over) some of our party not yet being ready to return, we had an opportunity of examining some of the A SeW ttuatilCM In Atlanta, Combinin* Eatbetlctam ftnd UiMlueMu Birds with fine feathers sell well,” said a Wall street dealer in the tiny creatures, “and the demand for them is steadily increasing. Cultivated people delight m the companion ship of birds, and nothing is more calculated to call out a lady’s latent enthusiasm than the sweet notes of a canary.” ... How long have you been in the business?*' Like so many o'thcr good tilings we were gathered here by the exposition, and pleased •is others have been, we have concluded to stay. Atlanta we find to be a fine point to sell from, as well as a good point in which to concentrate supplies. »Ve make ready sales and obtain good prices.” •riiE different frathebs. What varieties of birds have you got?” We have first, canaries at $5 a pair; a good singer will bring $3.50. Then we have mock ing birds at $10: Java sparrows at $5 a pair; larroquettes at from $10 to $15; red birds at : rom §3 to $5, and a large variety of native forest birds at almost any price we can get for them. These latter we get mostly from Ala bama.” „„ Whence do you get your supplies?” Through Charles Reiche & Co., of New York. These birds though belonging to very different sections of the globe are really all raised in Germany.” THE SOURCES OF DEMAND. For which variety do you find the greatest demand?” “Canaries have the best sale, as they are the best singers and the best understood. After them comes the mocking bird, which is capa ble of higher cultivation than the canary, the greater demand for which, however, comes from northern tourists, who take them home as a curiosity and a surprise. Then there is occasional demand for the fancy birds. Yes terday a well known Peachtree lady purchased ra pair of beautiful white Java sparrows, and ordered a pair of gray Javas. A McDonough street lady purchased through us a magnificent. red bird,” Who arc your heaviest customers?” The ladies of the wealthier and middle* classes. Often young men buy birds to* present to their lady friends. A victim of “Rejected Addresses” the other day, sent the false but fair one a parrot—for the pur pose of talking her to death, I suppose. The canary, however, generally fills tne idealized measure of the young man’s souL Negroes?' No; negroes never buy birds, the barn-yard: fowl possesses charms enough for them.” AS A BUSINESS INDUSTRY.. What is the prospect for developing the" bird trade in Atlanta?” “The sale of birds is an assured success. The demand is constant and growing. The breeding of birds for the market is a subjec worthy of attention. Everything in the cli mate is favorable to such an industry. To show you the possible money that is in it. I. have, in the last breeding season, made ironi-. the product of one pair of canaries $30; and. found ready sale. At the same rate $000 could! have been made from 20 pairs. Now if some one would take up bird raising, there is no doubt hut lie would find in it abundant profit. Careful handling and watchfulness will give the same return here that it does in Ger many.” A BIRI* COLONY. A few miles from Atlanta there is an old pine tree where birds of widely different feather congregate. On the highest (mint of the tree a yellowhammer has established its- nest; immediately under it a sparrow-hawk is providing for its young; whilestill lower down a white-headed wood-pecker has made itself comfortable. They seem to think that the tree is wide enough for all,and work with a zeal and industry which might well be imitated by some human drones. Farming in the Wiregrass. From the nawkinsville, Ga., News. During our rambles in the lower country recently, it was our pleasure to spend a night with Mr. Allen W. Smith and family, in Wil cox county. We arrived at Mr. Smith’s about sunset, and hearing a terrible popping and cracking in the woods, we asked the cause. “Oh,” said Mr. S., “that’s the boys penningthe- cattle.” At this season, and until fall of the year or “turning out time," Mr. Smith pen about six hundred head of cattle on his place- every night, and he is now using the milk and butter from about thirty or forty cows. By a system of cow-penning Mr. Smith manages to thoroughly enrich about 4 acres of land yearly,. and tlie effects of the manuring can fie seen for twenty years or more. He has one of the most productive farms in Wilcox county,and- the finest corn we saw on our trip was grow ing on his place. Besides renting out several, small farms on his place, he runs a two-mule- farm of his own, and his is one farm that is-, made self-sustaining. Seeing evidences of a large quantity of butter milk about Mr. Smith’s place, we asked him how lie disposed of it. “Why, I make my meat with it. and: my mules are foolish about it, and will drink all they can get. The mules ‘whicker’ for it, and I am compelled to watch them to keep - them from tearing down the pens while the- hogs are being fed. I tell you my muleskeep fat on butter milk.” She Wanted a Squeeze. From the Americus Republican. She spit out her wad of gum and entered a. store on Jackson street. The esthetic clerk laid aside his “What Oscar Wilde Knows- About Sunflowers,” which lie had been pe rusing with diligence, and giving the tips of: Ins moustache a twirl with his spotless fin gers, gracefully approached the fair form,, . and, leaning over the counter, articulated sil very phccnetica interrogating as to whether he- could be of any advantage to her in breaking the monotony of tiie situation. She gazed on the fair-haired apostle of the beautiful for a moment, and reaching down, drew a bundle from under her arm and said: “Well, here is a pair of shoes that mother sold eggs and- buyed for me. But I’ve learned about girls- being squeezed to death with corsets, and I tv ant ter swap these.slioes for one to see how it would seem to be squeezed once.” „ Un organized System of Stealing. From the Savannah, Ga., News. A very large quantity of cotton seed in sacks has been kept stored at the old Balti more steamship wharf by the Savannah oil company. Frequently during the past two months, when the clerk came to work in the morning, he would find a number of sacks missing, and the seed which they had con tained scattered over the ground. Notwith standing efforts were made to find out who were perpetrating these thefts, no clue could lie obtained until Saturday night last, when a colored man was arrested on suspicion This fellow, it is believed, is one of a gang of thieves that have been systematically robbing the place. In all some five hundred sacks have been stolen. It is hoped that this arrest will lead to the capture of several others. That Affectionate Hog. From the tarnesvllle, Ga., Gazette Monday morning last, Mr. W. B. Johnson,, of Atlanta, rode into town on horseback. Following his horse was a half-grown red hoc. Everywhere the horse went the hog would follow, and at no time would he allow the horse to get out of his sight. Mr. Johnson says the hog took up with his horse in Carroll county, and has followed him for over one hundred and twenty-seven miles. When the horse stops the hog lies down near him On being turned into a lot or stable together the ,S runtin S language just as it he thought the horse understood everything he was saying^ When Mr. Johnson rode off Monday aftefnoon the hog followed just as a colt would its mother. Dodge County’s Choice. From the Eastman Times. r v?° n ." O' ® acon > of Bibb, has -a strong" following for governor in this county. In- aeeu. from recent conversations with several prominent citizens of the countv, we are led- xow, lei n, see .ton! the supply o! tlmbe, tonne. deleSSofoSeiS SSXonS-Stoioundk?' te Sun Ihfn oSmI?! elment 2S-* "" indistinct PRINT