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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION". ATLANTA, ft A.. TUESDAY JANUARY 5, 1888.
SUCCESSFUL FARMERS!
’the men who make money out
OF THEIR LAND.
A Sell of Honor From the Farm of «bo Coantry-
Tho Com-Balooro and their Work-All Borte
Of Crop# and How They Am Hada
to Pay-A Good Showing, Htn*
9 * incoeaaful farming is tho backbone of our
prosperity; When tho farmers prosper, all
men prosper. When frwqfog 4©c» not pay,
»othing|»y».
There arc many fanners who mako money*
every year. There aro men who have made
fortunes in their old fields, while other men,
with farms lying alongside, have grown poorer
every year. Why is thi*? By what rule does
,thc one man suecccd and the other fall?
Wc do not preeumo to be able to givo the
role. Book firmer* don't amount to much.
Newspaper fanners don't amount to much
more. Ho we will let the real formers talk.
In this article, and those that will follow, we
will piint tho actual experience of practical
formers, from which other fanners may get
hints that will be of vnlnc. We have a maw
«f interesting letters, and will print them,
week after week. The first installment we
print today.
A Prosperous Farmer.
Ct plain T. J. Jamca, or Jefferson county, ts one of
the cucceftiftil formers of the sotith. it Isa pleasure
to visit lain form and talk with him of Ids methods.
He says: ‘ ‘The first secret of success on the fo'rm Is
to diversify your crops. Without this, success ta Im
possible. One year 1 raised WO bales of cotton and
made less money than usual. I have reduced my
cotton crop to 200 bales which I Intend to raise
• SCO acres. Cotton In the best of money crops when
It Is a rurplus crop, but the inan who buys corn and*
wheat to make cotton with is doomed."
•'There is another thing about cotton raising that
every fanner ought to remember,” bu wen ton to
ray. “It corts about as ritieh to raise a bale on
three acres as to rabo three bales on threo acres.
Everything should br subserved, therefore, to on
riehlng the land. 7. expect to get two hundred
bales of cotton next year by cultivating two bun*
died acres. A ft w years ago I had to cultivate five
hundred acics to get thtvsamc yield. The man who
ralses'M* «>wt» bread nud meat, and has enriched
Ids land so that It will give roinetblng like a halo
of cotton to the acre, will find farming tiiubcst bus
iness he can engage In.”
•‘I notice a great many cattle on youi farm.”
•Tee, I buy several hundred eviry year, which I
fatten on my ranges and roll to Havanuali butch
ers. It pay* me better to turn grass nud coni Into
bccfthni; to sell it straight. Ho I joiek It all on to
the beef • uttlc 1 buy from my neighbors. It bents
cotton. I am breeding my cows to tine Jersey or
Devon bulls and grmllug my own herd up anil In
creasing It. If I illd not make a cent on-ray beef
rattle the enriching of my laud would pay mo for
keeping them."
•'You Ko a small pond there/' Captain James
said, as wo rode along, "and you notice a gang of
ducks feeding on it. That 1* a small matter, but It
Js my plan In farming. Wherever I find a placo
for sc me thing to grow I Mart It along. 1 raise over
a tboiiHiud ducks, chickens anil turkeys on my
place. ) have a {lock of about two hundred sheep,
adeem iliovcs of hogs. ! bare thirty seloetod
snarr'k In.'fi al to blooded MmIIIoiis. I propose to
take my ow n horses and mule*. There Is my or
" chart, uiy vineyard, my garden, my smokehotiHo
an-l my cribs. Yonder Ho my corn fields, my pas.
lutes undiny cotton rows. With thorn) 1 nut Inde
pendent, happy and prosperous.”!
"Your lands appear to be generally terraced ?”
•'Ye*. 'The policy of terracing mutt tacorao gon-
ertd v ben it l- fully understood. 1 have reclaimed
field after Wld by It. 1 go Into the deupost gulllos,
and tluow tip a terrace with a hillside plow, and In
a few yean have it laying level and beautiful. A
mofttfi’t rahi WoijRl not wash it hundrM fcet'ofjuy
3,fcfiarm of arable land. Every row holds Us own
water and absorbs It. 1 can stand two weeks more
of drought than must parch the crops on any farm
not to raced. If a hundred farmers could spend a
year oil this form and see what terracing has dona
for It, uincty-flvcof them would goto leveling their
land as toon as they got home." /**
Mr. rhllo Parsons, of Detroit, .Mich., a well
incur, publicist, writes for tl
Kol ert Rood, the young former
column last week, and says: "With a thousand
pitch young follows dUjrlbutcd through your state,
Georgia would bo a money lender In five year*.”
RKMARKAIILF. PROUHEtb
lVbat An F).*Ceorglnn la Doing for ifimsoll
. ■ * In Alabama.
TAM.ArooPA. Ala., January 2.—[Special Cor-
roipondcnco.—Ono uiilo anil n half south of
Alexander City. In Alabama, stands tho state*
ly mansion of Mr. J. J. (Irlintley, one of Tub
lapoota's inosUuccciwful fiirtuors.* Mr. (Irluis-
Icy moved to hip rresent homo, ten yoars ug»,
owe theuxatid dollars In debt Ills uow neigh
bors told him that ho could not possibly luy
for tho Disco, at tho same time volunteering
thounplrasuut information that tho nnn from
whim bo had bought it was compelled to sell
it and move, in order to escaim starvation.
The fonn was notonly very poor^liut sa lly in
need of repair. Twelve acres vm all ho found
enclosed, and the greater part of,the remain*
drr consisted of o!d exhausted • fields over-
■rown with scrub pines and
broommge. To uso his own
wotds lio "left tho main road, when moving,
approached flic bout*, a log oabin, through
the fields, and found hroomscdgo growing in
tho chimney woruera." Nothing da'itiLol,
however, he "nulled off Ida coat and rolled up
lila sleeves,” determined to win; and ho did
win, as the sequd will show. In order to ap<«
predate his management of this barren farm,
It should bo remembered that Ita uiaxinmni
production was then one bale of cotton to five
•ctes, aiid tn one particular instance twenty-
five acres, a few years before Mr. (IriutHlny'a
tuut hare, Produced only one bale. Tins mii
bud, one hundred and sixty acres, for which
be paid eight hundred dollars in
two iuatallmeuta, now produces fully
one-half bale of cottnu to tho aero—aouto por
tions make n bale per acre—and is rapidly
growing richer every rear. With,the in mus
accumulated on it, he haa erected and furnish-
cd a fine mansion, and purchased another vaI-
*' watde farm, for which he paid tlie cash, is out
of debt, has plenty to eat and to wear, and
haa money tn hjs pocket. Ho deligIra in
growing cotton as n specialty, but never fails
to mske corn enough and to spare. His lands
aro not adapted to litis latter crop but he man*
•get to raise, on an average, twenty bushels to
the acre. He never, in his life, bought a
bushel of corn or a |t.niml of moot, or UrJ fur
hi* own uv, and with tho rxtvptinn of a .in-
,1, inftt.nrr in nliieii ho Ixmrht ilrteea
«i. of turn. ha. invariably ,U|>i>hVl hi.
trnuta with |i>u\iaimi. frum hU oven
»rribBnd»inoki‘buuai>. Ilia aalrauf laat year’s
com nopainountcvl t’o live Uuinlrvil im'.hels,
not including what was mid tv hi, tcn.nU.
llol.apnrai advonito fm direrslded er.ii*.
»nd r..mc.,un.tly never bn vii imything that hia
laud will prudure. lie manure, li*avi1r. of
uuw, but rarelr urn-, mnimereial fertiliaona
- and then only for tbe ptirpo-e of t-vjierim-nt*
in*, lie la very careful t„ pen nil hi. «tock at
nl»ht, tbe year round, and keepionrbor has.
Wat of the time collcclintt and hominx' Uvriv-
nid tnmuutr. Ija. li msming the druppInM of
hia atock arc out under ahelter as quirk ai
prnclicaWr, one of Ids |wvul!sritie. b.'iue
never to allow manure of any kind
to bo exposed to rein or aun.hine,
when it can be avoided. The quantity of
manure ho pita from ait source, is no loss than
liny tons annually, which Is put info one largo
hattu a few week, before planting time, an I
there allowed to remain in one vast beep until
ready f-'r tur. Ifodocauot, like mot formers
nit It uut in piles on tbo land, but tukoi it
directly from the wagooa, and putt it Into the
jtairowa and coven it up.
In addition |o mbing his own proeiaimu, ho
mierahbown atork of all klndr, and geu-
rrally hoa two or three colls on hand to tail.
He la nrurwitlumt a pen of hogs, winter ot
aorrmer, sod Mil* core and meat every year.
Ho haa two fish poods, one fur cat ana one
for csrp, from which, in the last two yean, he
has realized something over three hundred
dollars. These ponds have the appearance of
natural formations, and the scenery near them
is quite picturesque—a romantic spot, just the
place for trysting and picnics—often resorted
to by the young people in tbo vicinity.
When asked by this scribe to state, in as few
words m possible, the secret of his success, bis
reply was: "Two words, industry and econo*
my, tell the whole story.
"My plan la to be constantly employed In
profitable work, in order to' add something to
whet I already possess, and never allow any
leak. I never buy anything if it can be
avoided, unless it can bo turned to good ac
count, and always manage to sell something.
Hdwerer, I roust say that much of my succew
la to be attributed to the teachings W my old
friend and employer, Hiram Warner, late
chief justice of tbe state of Georgia Last,
bnt not least, comes my wifo, who has done as
much to improve our commou lot as I have."
Mr. Grimsley is a native of Meriwether
county, Georgia, where tiie writer knew him
m&tty years ago. During the late war ho was
a lieutenant In tho 41st Georgia regiment, and
did good service for the "lost cause." HU old
friends in Georgia and elsewhere, no doubt,
will lie glad to hear of ills prosperity In this,
tho laud of his adoption. Fb. M. M.
Middle Georgia Farmers That aro Happy.
Forsyth, Ga., October 30, 1883.—Editor!
CouKtitutim: Yours of the 27th Inst., request*
Ing me to give you tbe names of six or eight
successful farmers of our county, with their
methods of cultivation and other matters, has
been received, and I hasten to reply.
Mr. W. H. If. Bush commenced forming im*
mediately oiler tho war on perhaps 200 acres
of what had always been considered poor pino
land. He plants after careful preparation;
makes* free, judicious uso of fertilizers; cm*
nloys improved methods of cultivation, and
Iinm had wonderful success. He has raised flue
crops of com, wheat, oats, cotton, turnips,
etc. 1 have heard tho following estimated
yield of his crops: Corn,’from three to five
barrels per acre; wheat, fifteen to twenty hush*
via per acre; cotton, two*thIrds of a bag per
acre. He does not glvo any special attention
to stock raisinL', yet 1ms fino hogs, and ralaos
poik more or Icrs every year. His farm is in
a fino condition—improving from year to year,
and I auppoM its market value is twice what
it was twenty years ago. lie is worth from
810,0C0 to ♦l&.OOH, and a largo proportion of
this pro{H*rty is the accumulation or tho laat
fifteen years.
Mr. John Aliercroinblo lias succeeded well
in the cultivation of tho soil. Ho has corn to
stll every year. He rarely foils to realize a
Lag of cotton for every two acres. Ifo ralsoa
wheat and outs. He too prepares well before
planting and cultivates skillfully. His form is
naturally rather productive ami ho has been
able to make his fine crops without using for*
iilirrrs to any great extent. Hoh worth ten
or fifteen thousand dollars, the greater part of
it made within the ]>n*t few ycars.
Mr. Andrew Zcllntr livca in a acctton of
Monroe that Is remarkably productive. Tho
soil of his farm is especially adapted to tho
product lou of corn and wheat. Jio makes n
(•ktilful use of his natural advantages and pro*
tents a fine example of a thrifty former. Ho
makes good crops of cotton, corn, wheat and
outs. Hells bacon and grain. His form is con*
stkntly improving in value and his estate i.i
accumulating year by year. I would CHtiunto
hia taxable property at from seven to ten
thousand dollnrs, at least half of it the result
of bis good management.
Mr. Woodbiidgo Ituniblo eara.i homo at the
close of the war about twenty-one years old,
with nothing in thp way of worldly pa-iscss-
lens, lie bought a horse, coniu»\iu->wi rentm 4
hud, cultivated skilfully, always raised
iKupply of corn and meat, with nil tho cotton
ue could. In a few years ho bought
n farm near Forsyth that was considered poor
laud ; went to work on it; has made lino crops
of com. wheat, oats and cotton; has pxld for
it, and improved it uutU it is now worth double
ih'igrui 1 ! "rfr
•*wr. .lames Hutton, our representative in tho
!i.st hgislatnre, and Mr. Simeon Zutlnor aro
additional examples of what ran be doue by
imltiMry, diligence and good management in
the cultivation of tho soil. The suno goner il
statdiirnts as to methods of preparation, culti
vation nud management are true of them as of
the others. They are all tillers of the soil,
they depend on tbeir farms for a support.
They are all accumulating.*' They live in neut,
comfortable homes, with pleasant surround
ings. Their gardens and orchards furnish
them imhought luxuries well nigh every month
in the year.
None of throe formers strove mentioned, and
very few of our comity, aro making any sjkj-
rial Ht'nrt at raising stock, tjufto n tMtnihorof
our fanners raise a supply of good well fattened
pork; havo cows enough to furnish them an
abundant supply of milk nud butter, and raiso
mules and hoiaes, hut perhaps not enough at
tention Is paid to these things. Nothing is
Acne in our county in tho way of cultivating
grursrti. ('oni|mnitivoly few formers arc Inter
ested In sheep husbandry.
Fruit Is abundant in our county, ospocUUy
apples, iMiiehrf, pears and grapes. Peaches
were plentiful with us thin year, lYoin May till
October, and many of our former) are now sup
plied with apples more delicious than wo cm
buy.
1 could greatly extend tho list of thrifty on
tnpriiting formers in our county. There are
doubtless ninny more marked instances of sue*
cus that have not cpmc under iny ohaervation.
1 have just selected names that I am well ae«
qiiuluD d with around ine within a circle of
ten miles. 8.
Fortunate Farmers In Southern Georgia.
Fort (IAlien, Ga., November 5, 1883.—
Fditois ('oustitutioti.—Your favor of tho 27th
of October came duly to hand, and 1 have
been waiting to see several parties boforo an*
awning, ns 1 wished to cct-a brief outline of
their o|K'iations, but ubuo of thpso whom l
wished to see have been in town, sol will
write what 1 know personally of their method
(if forming, success, etc.
One of the first is Mr. W. B. Hathaway, who
re nunc turd fur tiling on what wo form poor
pine land, for which he gave from seventy*
five cents to one dollar per acre.’ When tho
war t loacd it left him a poor man, not being
worth exceeding five hundred dollars all
told. Ho was young, stont, and possessed of a
strong will, he taught a lot of land, '^30 acres,
for which he gave $2.00. Ho then hired
two or three negro men, and commenced to
char land, not having as much as he wanted
t« work opened, lie fiist set apart a sntM*
elent part of his land to raise his corn, oita,
ambcrcuud peas upon in abundance at home,
which ho has continued to do to this day. af
ter watds planting what cottou ho could culti
vate, which liaa iieen his moneyed crop. 11U
motto haa ever been to feed his land well, and
by Judicious manuring has brought hb laud
up to eighteen to tw*euty^fivo bushels of
coin, and seven to fifteen hundred
founds of iced cotton to the acre, wheu origi
nally the land would not have produced more
tbntt five bushels of coru. aud from 2iK) to 403
peunds of seed cotton. * He uow own* several
plantations. Ue rents uow a Urge proportion
of his land. Home he still works on thoahtre
aytUm, aud a portion by monthly sad day
labor. He baa made farming a succor by hb
energy aud application to his business. It is a
tmt to go tn his home and see everything
around him fat and sleek, and you would
relish his home-made hams and other delica
cies of bis hospitable table. Ho b worth
romewlitre about $40,000 to $30,000. Then
there are J. B. Grims.’ey. John H. Jenkins, \V.
B. Jenkins, Frank Mckiuucy, IS. A. Turnip-
seed and A. I„ Foster, and l could name winy
others iu our county who have made money
forming. Alnioid in every iashiuee where o.ui
bss made money, he has done so by making
all or nearly so as possibledtthe articles cat-
iuilm) iu the plantation. All cotton will uot
do.
This last reason two gcutlcmrn of our town
made with two plows $2,50) clear off of writer-
melons alone. I am thoroughly convinced
that in diversified forming lies the success of
OVT taloved state.
If you wish I will try and write you again
wrhen I have ar opportunity of ra«dug the
parties and getting ttuir methods of cultiva
tion, etc. Ycur fr.cnJ,
T. E. Srsiozir.
nr
Home Good North Georgia Farmers.
Crawford Spring*, Catoosa county, Ga.,
January 3.—It has been truly said that East
Tennessee formers live better than any formers
in the world. The writer knows it to be a fact
that he believes in good eating and raises as
many products suited to tbe table as any other
man. And Georgia hat hundreds of just as
thrifty farmers as Tennessee, and some of them
live right hero in Catoosa county.
Of tho number I will name, C. W. Gray
leads with the most fine stock and self-sup*
parting form, with a well constructed and well
stocked fish pond, a splendid concrete flower
house filled with choice flowers. Mr. Gray b
a man of indomitable energy and a practicable
farmer.
The Church brothers come next with fino
hones, good hogs, a good form with plenty of
every thing around them without buying
through middle men to get yellow corn and
bulk meat from tho northwest.
Thomas If. Williams and Thomas A. Wil*
Hams aro both *thrifty old formers surround
ed with all tho necessaries of life, raised on
their own farms. These gentlemen are also
wealth producers, and make money forming
on the plan of rotating their crops, and don't
knew anything about having to buy western
meat and bread. They have money at inter-
c*t».but didn’t make it making, cotton or buy
ing guano to put on their land, hut made it
raising hogs, sheep, cattle, and colts, on a sell*
sustaining form, and loaning money; tho
things that nay in north Georgia.
G, I*, ami if. F. Harris are young formers of
progressive ideas, and lead in hay, gross, clover
and wheat, and wear out their wagons haul
ing their products to maricct by tho carload,
and carry the money hark home to loan to
some safe man who don’t make a business of
buying a yankee ax handle to put in his ax to
cut down a nice hickory in front of hb
door that will mako the name kind aud ju*t
as good.
Catoosa county has many good practical
fanners that 1 could name, and what they aro
worth, and how they make a good living, and
how they made most of their money, and how
they make it yet, but I don’t think it necetf*
sary, for we sco and know that to live . well
means to make what we live on; to 11 vo easy
means to mako that which wo need ; to live in
dependent means to make voor own bread and
meat; to live hard on the form means to buy
everything, tojivc ontaido of your income,
and idau t a big cotton cron means that form
ing don’t pay nohow. This has been demon
strated in the gable end of Georgia, and men
have profited by tho experience of others, and
know too well that the al) cotton or tho all
anything clso won’t pay. Much can ho said as
what to plant and how to nlant it, and I must
say that tho forming people should read more,
aud compost more, iilaiit leas aud cultivate it
better, and also study the soil aud see what it
If: best adapted to.
Thero are some things that if let alone will
adjust themselves. 1 never tire of reading
how to form for profit, for I know I*ain almost
c-crtaiu to learn something from the reading.
Wo have to keep studying and changing to
meet tho many changes or climate, soil and
markets. The truth b wo nover get dono
learning. I tee farmers nil over the country
ruining their farina with turning plows, roll
ing the field as close to tho fonco as they can
get it for tho hrlan ami bushes, making m>v-
ernl middle furrow that may cause a wash or
nt least a weak placo in tho field. Why not
roll it to tho center and have no iniddlo fur*
row, or roll towards tho top of tho hill and
have fewer middle furrows, anil also avoid
packing the fresh plowed ground tit tho cor
ners.
1 know of ono former in this county that has
a good farm, ami niukes it tatter-every year,
by turning under nil tho grain vegetation lie
can in the foil, mid says ho would rather pay
cue dollar per day for huuds to plow it in the
foil, than to pay twenty-five cents iu tho
fpring. This former rolls his fields to tho con*
U r or to tho highest part of tho field as tho
case may ho. j
l Harry HUP* Ami
CraWIGRD. (la., Dccemb^KH.—[Special
Visit to PfoicBluff, the far^HTHarry IlilffsIS,
tinted on l^ing creek, ten miles of Lexington,
in Oglethorpe county, will convince the visitor
that he b a* expert n planter ns he bn railroad;'
man. This splendid form composes i)t)0 acres,
und is one of the best managed, under the di
rections of its owner nml Mr. J. B. Johnson,
tho superintendent, in the state. Tho pro
ducts or the farm the present year wero
bales of cotton, nearly 1,000 barrels of c
and all necessary supplies of a farm for the
forthcoming year. Mr. Hill lias been forming
for three years, nml the.profits have approxi-
mated $10,000. Ho uinlccs the raising of Hue
bogs, Plymouth Rock chickens, nml honey a
speciulty. He has now 110 hood of fine,
hogs ready 1° be slaughtered. lib cat*:
tlo comprise tho Jerseys and Devon, and*
be * lins cows that give from 31 to 5 gallons j
of milk daily. Ho has uow on hnud thirty
reveu old hams. Ho rubes the Cutswold and
Merino sharp, nml hb flock b perfectly
splendid. l(o 1ms on hand of tho last year’s
product BOO iKiumls of lnnl and fifty pounds of*
honey. Many ofhIs fino cattle tiro registered’
and hb fine hull White Oak b a prodigy us a
fine animal.* , 4
The Planter* Full-IIamled.
AMiANY, Docemtar 30.— [Special.]—S-> for
as can be learned after prettvdiligent inquiry,
nearly every planter in this section will be-
E ln tho new year with n Bill complement of
amis. The numbor of negroes who form ou
their account, and some of whom own the land
they cultivate, b steadily on the increase in
Dougherty. Mr. 1). L. Mayo, of Mitchell, re
ports that in hb neighborhood tho planters
have about all tho help they need.
Farm Notes.
ftptaln L. Gentry, of Meriwether county,
made eu a two-horse form this year thirty
hales of cotton averaging over five hundred
pounds to tho bale, three hundred bushels of
com, twcuty*six bushels of wheat, two hun*
(lml and fifty bushels of oats, and flve thous
and pouuds of fodder, syrup and potatoes suf
ficient to do him another year.
II. Haricston Davis, in Carroll county, killed
two big hogs last Monday which were about
twenty-two month* old aud weighed 500and Kid
pounds,IK*) pounds net. lio has killed this win
ter seven head,all about twenty-two months old,
which made iu tho aggregate £,814 pounds of
net pork, averaging 402 rounds. No spccUl or
extra ruins wero taken in fattening.
To Kkcoubaok ToracciS Plaxtinu.—Com
missioner Henderson, of tho agricultural de
partment, is determined that tho farmers of
Georgia shall have an opportunity of planting
diversified crops, lie says that the all cotton
theory has proved a failure, aud that the only
wav to mako •farming a "paying business is
to diversify the crops. To enable them to do
this he intends to redouble hb efforts to sup
ply them with seed of all kinds adapted to the
soil of this state. Ue has ordered twenty-five
pounds of tobacco seed, and when it conics
lie will issue it out to the for
mers of Georgia. Conimiadonfer Henderson
cays that he has rnado inquiry with reference
to tobacco culture, and b satisfied tj>»t tobac
co will grow nlmost anywhere in north Geor
gia. As he intends to posh tobacco pbuting,
and encourage it' in every way that he can, he
a*>ks that any one who has any information
upon the subject of planting, cultivating, gath
ering and curing the cropt to communicate
with him at their leisure, so that he can be
able to give out reliable information from his
depsrtnicnt, to those who detenuiuo to givo
the ventures trial.
The tint of “Stavas/ii? Flrrmrrs” nVf be
continued week' after %reek. He will be glad to
hire any practical fanner write us briefly’ any
thing for this department that will help his
brother fanners, or any practical comment on
what is printed here.
Necessary Information.
From the New York Times.
Hotel clerk—Excuse me, air, bat you are
Colonel Blood, aro you not?
Colonel Blood—Yes, rah. •
Hotel clerk-From Kentucky?
(VliMiel Blood—Yes, **h.
Hotel clerk—Roam 444?
Colonel Blood—Yes,
Hotel clerk-Thank*. colonel. The three bottles
attar Ltd to the wall of jrour room are baud rren-
•dro; their content, are to be need In cam of fire
only.
CONGRESSMEN ON LIVE ISSUES.
Boston, December 30.—A banquet given by
tho Boston merchants’ q&ioctatioa, at which
several distinguished senators and representa
tives of the United States were present, was a
notable event In the club libtoiy of Boston.
The dinfier, which was a masterpiece of culi
nary art, occupied some four hours, and the
post prandial exercises four hours more. The
invitations issued to the guests who were ex
pected to speak, nominally confined them to
7 ‘the leading national issues of the day,” but,
as night work on, there was more or leas strag
gling from the main points until near the end.
Home ignored one or more of the "vital" issues
altogether, and confined themselves to what
was evidently their strongest point.
The discussion partook largely of the nature of
a congressional delate, each man pressing his
own opinion forcibly enough, hut without a
common agreement on measures for the
amelioration of the evils inveighed against.
When tbe cloth had been removed the in
tellectual exercises were opened by President
W. B. Wood, who made a brief address eulo
gistic of the integrity and charity of Boston's
business men. He then introduced Governor
RoMrwon. who was greeted with three cheers
and a tiger, as Indeed, wore all tho succeding
speakers. Tho governor extended ,* cordial
welcome to the distinguished visitors present,
who, olthongh they may not have taon
favored by birth within tho borders * of
MossacuK-tts, yet cannot have lived in the
United States and not ha.ve known of Massa
chusetts ami of Boston and her merchants.
There are times, even in Boston, when a gov
ernor counts for soincthiug, but not on this
occasion, and it will bo gratifying to hear from
these gentlemen out pf tlieir largo information
and experience, who have so kindly come to
our chief city to speak freely on tho great
topics that they must, as public men, bo im
mediately engaged in. For me it might be
raid: "Hilence Is golden” and "speech is sil
ver.” As the discussion is to turn some what
upon tbe "questions of currency, and as wo
have still the old fashioned idea that a gold
dollur worth 100 cents is better than -ex
silver dollar worth only 83, we' shall
of course follow out the description, and a
great deal more by silence than wo do by
speech from the governor.
Senator Edmunds opened bis speech by a
facetious reference to New England weather ■
unexpectedly propituous on this occasion. He
raid:
The Aindnmontal Idea of a bankrupt In a fair di-
vbiou of the o»ct*. The constitution of the United
State*, which made u> all citizens of every state tn
which wc chose to tnke our abode, has given every
citizen a positive j “ ' * “
place* hi* domicil
of cJli/en to citlxei., .
to zcclal In -tltuilous, there is no *uch thing a* Rep
aration of interest. There H one unity of citizen
ship. of Atnoilcau Industries, American rights aud
orth thinking of. When m
jc&loulc* aud discords that seem to he threatening
srciety-ln all parts of the globe, wc may ta assured
that it grows out of tho ftmdnuieutal sentiment of
intrinsic discontent. There is no genulno dUcoii-
tent iu any considerable part of the body of society
thnt.doc* not have roxno naujl origin of justieo
and tiutli to stand upon.
The speaker urged the capitalists among his
hearers to closely investigate these signs of
demoralization,with the end tbit tho cium
therefore may he removed,nml that the relation
between employer aud employed bo strength
ened upon the bn*is of justico and right. Mr.
Edmunds also urged honesty among manu
facturers aud square dealing in nil trades; aud
raid if it ho a crime for min
to get possession cf another man's
money or goods by any kind of
concealment or misrepresentation, is it an
other tiling for n man to sell to Ills neighbor as
some of our British friends very often do, a
picco of cotton cloth that is represented to
have so many ounces iu tho yard, but about
half of which is made of chalk or glue?. Now
if wo could .wrovldo a bankruptcy system
that would enter iuto tho morals of trade
for* cAh, and should bo inspired .with
tho principle fhnt Vhat ' 1$ good be
tween consumer and lender is good between
buyer nml seller—the thing that you sell, hav
ing to ta the thing that you.buy yourself and
the thing you buy, having to bo always the
thing that you expect to buy, then it would bo
n good thing for tho country. It might boa
good thing, hut it would not quito do for tho
sort of pcoplo here among us to mix up
tho. question of bankruptcy with tlio
relations of buyer und borrower und lender.
Tho principle is one that eutcrj into every
business relation, nml that priuciplo is square
dealing, and when you have got that principlo
cairied into effect, you will huvo rnado a great
advnnee in tho progress and order of society.
I was going to speak about tho tariff, hut as
usual, when I get up to do anything, I go Into
bankruptcy nt once.” [Loud applause, during
which the speaker look his seat.]
Senator Wm. B, Allison, of Iowa, favored tho
national bankrupt bill, and might say ho was
one of tho few senators who had believed that
the law should bo suspended and not repealed.
There will'ta no ditlleulty on Hint question.* Tho
tariff Is a larger queMSonsnd coining from an ag
ricultural state, it might ta supposed that there was
a shadow of difference of opinion there and in
Massachusetts. 1 think I can say to you that I be
lieve tho prevailing opinion In my stato Is in favor
of encouraging the manufactures of our country,
•ml that so tar os legislation can pro|K*riy accom
plish it Is our duty to take care of American* labor
rat hta than the labor of other couutrlcs.
Senator Frye, of Maine, denounced tho
silver dollar ns a coined lie. Ho urged tho
beneficence of a protective tariff, aud earnestly
advocated the fostering of tho carrying trade
with subsidies, if necessary, and and an appli
cation of tho surplus to this purpose.
lion. J. Randolph Tucker, or Virginia, de
clared the only power tlio federal government
had to tax was to raise a revenue for tho sup
port of the government. Wo hsvo free trade
between the states. If this has been a bless
ing here, why shouldn't it ta a blessing when
between all countries of the world?
The protected infant industries, ho
thought, had lived long enough to
to have reached their second childhood. God
save us from a tariff that destroys American
shipping. Let any mau in America buy
any encli anywhere, and sail It under Ameri
can registration, and tho yankco would rival
tho Athenian in filling all the seas of tlio
world with tbo Amcricau Hog. On tho silver
question be said whether tho government
can make 80 cettts equal to ono dollar Is a ques
tion in arithmetic, lie thought wo should
wait until the nations of the world bad settled
what to do on the suljcet, when It would ho
time for America to settle tho question for
itself,
Hon. J. V. L. I.indlay, ofJMarylatd, said
that as long ns human nature is constructed :is
it is, as long as tho dual government of the
states of the United States is as it is, free trade
is simply impossible. Baltimore believes with
Boston in discontinuing the coinage of the sil
ver dollar, and Baltimore sympathizes with
Boston In its efforts to pass a national bank
rupt law. He advocated national education,
autaidized if need ta, as an absolute necessity.
It i* Mvrn Brrrsn to take proper care of a
Cough or t old from Its incipicncy, by using
promptly Dr. Jayne's Expectorant, than to run
any risk of developing a fatal Pulmonary Af
fection. This well known curative is equally
effective in the primary stages of Consumption,
Asthma aud Bronchitis.
Fertilisers,
We take pleasure in calling attention to the ad-
Tciti.Hnu ntof Mr. Clarence Angler, in regsrd to
tls popular fertilizers, M 8tcrUnr’ guano. "Lock*
wood" cotton grower and “Steulna” acid plux*
phstc. There goods have been sold extensively
ihiooghom the south for the past seven years, and
A srortaman. returning from the marsltes. wh«n
sskrd if be had shot anything, said: “No, but I gave
the birds a good serenading.”
I have used Darby’s Prophylactic Fluid in
my practice for a number of yean. .Vs an ap
plication to the throat in Diphtheria and the
Arginitn form of Scarletina I think it is a
remedy of great value,—N. 8. Babbitt, m.
North Adams, Mass.”
Contagion and infections diseases have never
been known to spread when the Fluid was
used freely.
EX»BAdf8
MOST PERFECT MADE
. forest u6 streniut Hstonl Trait TU.ore,
TonUlo, Lem' , Orange, Almond, Rose, .to,
Rstptu delicately aud naturally as tbo Irult.
- DANGER SIGNAL.
When a perron gives you counterfeit money ho
perpetrates a crime against tho law and your pecu
niary interests, but when ho gives you an inferior
and dangerous medicine iu the place of one of rec
ognized and well known curative properties ho com
mits the blackest of crime, for lie conspires against
your health and life. . _
Tbe New York Herald, Sept. 21, 1885, rays: "To
indorse a counterfeit medicine Is to injure the man
ufacturer and the buyer, and the buyers will soon
» away from a counterfeited medic!iAs that they
worthless. Manufacturers of counterfeit arti
cles fail because they have not tho experience and
apparatus or the large manufacturer to produce tho
same curative results. The largo manufacturers
have the utmost Incentive, while they aro protected,
to make their medicine as perfect and curative as
possible."
. For example, take the experience of Simmons
Liver Regulator, prepared by J. II. ZelUn & Co., of
I'hiladclLliia. Their firm has devoted years of time,
employeaTthexnost eminent chemists of the land,
and spent thousand*ofdoliars in bringing their med
icine to tlio perfection it has attained. They ex
pended a large amount of money iu bringing it to
the attention of the i>cople, and its use has made
feimmons’ Liver Regulator widely popular. In order
to make money from tho great reputation grained by
Kernanmka. Nassau Co., Fla.
claimed for it. The last bottle and two
package* did me no good and wero worso
than nothing. I see It is nbt put up by J.
11. ZclIIn A Co., and not genuine, and w
waste of money to buy it. 1 would ta
glad to get the tairc and genuine. Send
indon-cinent of tho thousands who have used it.
If you wont Fimmons’ Liver Regulator see that the
flnipgist gives yon the genuine— not something lie
claims is “just as good,'” aud because ho makes
more off it.
rnsylg wky ly nx rd mat
Articular Rheumatism Cured—The Doctor
Endorses It.
About tlx weeks ego I was attaekod with Aftiotv,
Isr Rheumatism in mjtnnklcs.Fhces and hips. For
three *weeka 1 was under the usual treaimout for
siipaBgigiBayiwBiB
ment pnd put me exclusively on the uso of Guinn’s
ilomer Blood Rcnewcr, and in ten days after I be
gan the uso of it, with tho exception of a littlo stiff-
ik » about my joints, all other symptoms of tho dis
ctsehad POMcd off, and I now feel entirely well
m ain. I would state that for a number of yean I
have suffered from occasional attacks ofrheuma-
tbm and have tried various courses of treatment,
tut have found nothing that acted so promptly and
Ilcasantly a* Guinn’s Floncer Blood Renewer.
MR8. M. 8. TUCKER.
Griffin, GO.
As the above case of Mrs. Tucker was treated by
myrelft I do most chcerfrilly certify to tho correct*
ness of her statement. I used Guinn's Pioneer
Blood Renewer after tho ordinary treatment of
rheumatism had failed toYontrol the diseaso.
• J. L. HTEl'lIENSON, &f. D.
Marvelous Effects Noted by a Druggist.
Macon Medicine Co.—I tako pleasure in stating
that I hove seen some very marvelous effects from
the we of Guinn's Pioneer Blood Reuowcr and
cheerfully recommend it.
„ GEO. B, BROADFOOT,
Griffin, Ga. Druggist.
Bold in powdered form, easy to pfawro at homo,
with or without spirits; small ilzo 25 cents, largi
size 91.00, mailed to any address on receipt otprloa
Liquid fonn, small Mm 9L00, largo Mat 9L75.
nov 23 d & wky
OUR PAGE WITH FARMERS.
A NECESSITY TO THE PARMER.
Combined Crusher and Grinding
Mill—Patented December
20tli, 1885.
This machine is intended Tor crashing and grind
ing steamed bone phosphates and land-piaster
rock, marl, corn and cob for stock*food, corn for
bread, cotton seed, etc. Manufactured by A. A.
Deloach A Pro.. Atlanta, Go.’
By Us use the farmer con make his fertilizers at
home, st onc-tenth the cost of commercial fertili
zers. 11c can thu-i afford to use au increased quan
tity, enrich his soil, and make farming a grand
success. Any roan or industry, with five hundred
dollars capital, can make ten dollars per day, at
any railroad depot in the United States, by grind
ing the above minerals, apd «elUnjr them to farm
ers. or by composting and selling tho compost. A
half dozen small farmers can otub together and
buy one machine to grind for oil.
It ts simple, strong, and has no cogs or springs to
get out of order. A rhunk of iron thrown lnto.it
will ta passed over without injury to tho machine
and any common laborer cau attend to tt. It ta
■PThese composted with three tons of crashed
cotton seed, stable manure, richtnp earth or muck
would give four tons of as good or better fertiliser
thirty-two or
• market *arol w ith a rn
^^HoNI.Y 9150 PER
What Is to prevent the farmer, then, from making
two bales of cotton or fifty bushels of corn per acre,
by using ihi* machine, as cheaply ashe now makes
ouc-ihirdof a talc, or ten bushels of corn? There
•ro thousand* of marl and muck beds from New
Jersey to tbe Rio Grande that have never been util
ized for the want of a machine that would grind
the marl without injury, by reason of the sulphur
l ulls, or pcdult’* of sulphurct of iron contained tn
it. These would break or ruin an ordinary mill.
to
A marl bed on the farm or in the neighborhood
of a dopet can ta made to yield an annual income
«»r from 11,500 to 92,000 by the use of one of these
machines.
Phosphate rock is worth from five to six dollars
per ton at Charleston and Beaufort, 8. C. Plaster
o»ek is worth five dollars per ton st SattivtUe, Vo.
Marl exhtain thirty-one counties tn Georgia and
In like proportion* in other.states. Rates of freight
ran be ascertained from your depot agent. There
is money in it.
■ 1'rioe complete, 9150.00. Send for circulars of this
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themrelves. aud that the some am condncted with
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all prizes drawn in The Louisiana State Lotteries
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over 1550,000 ha* *inee»bceu added.
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il 000
90.000
25.000
25,000
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