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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 BEST TRUSS EVER USED I CAPITAL PBI7.E, •73.000.-W Ticket. Only OS, Share, In Proportion. LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY CO ••We do hereby certify that we supervise the on rangements for all the monthly and quarterly drawings of the Louisiana State Lottery Company, and in person manage and control the drawings themrelves. aud that the some am condncted with honesty, fairness, and in good (kith toward all par ties, and we authorize the company to use this certificate, with fac similes of our signature* at tached, in ita advertisementa.” COMMISSIONERS. - We the underigned banks and bankers will pay all prizes drawn in The Louisiana State Lotteries which mny be presented at our counters. J. H. Oglkbby. 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