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FARMS AND FARMERS. Short Talks With the Men Who Guide the Plow. QUESTIONS ON FARM TOPICS ANSWERED Ditching Wet Laud-Utilizing Bottom Lands. When excessive rainfalls, like those of re cent date occur, and crops on bottom lands suffer, we are prone to go to extremes and greatly undervalue them. These lands may be divided into three classes: those too wet for corn or cotton; those subject to overflow, es pecially from backwater, and those which are overflowed in such a manner as to be badly scoured or washed or covered with sand. What should be done with the first class, wet bottoms ? We spring this question now. because tins is the best time in the year to study drainingljpraetically in the field. Tho supply of water in the earth is approaching its minimum. This is shown by the failure of ■wells that are not supplied by bold “veins."{Springs also are comparatively weak. Tliis is true of those underground springs which do not come out boldly to tho surface, but expend themselves in spreading through the soil around them, and keeping them too ■wet. Now this wetting of the soil being re duced in area, by the limited flow of water in the spring, the exact position of the latter can be much more easily located than it can be in winter and spring when the land generally is wet, and water from underground springs dif fuse itself much more widely. Go over wet bottoms therefore in the late autumn months and mark all the wet points. These will be very apt to overlie the hidden springs. This is the first step'.to be taken. The next is to devise means for securing requisite depths of main ditch or stream, if not already present. Not less than four feet should be aimed at. A deep main ditch is the essen-- tial condition for draining bottom land suc cessfully. A four-foot deep main ditch allows a gradual slope to the bottom of side, or sec ondary ditches, and these may be three feet deep, therefore, at some distance from the main ditch. A drain ditch should always be three feet deep at its shallowest point, if possi ble. The water level, or water line, in the Boil will always be some nearer the surface than the bottom of the drain ditch. You can not lower it fully to bottom of ditch. Now, supposing main ditch sufficiently deep, and springs located, the next step is to cut side ditches or drains so as to tap tho springs. The plan we have found most success ful, is to cut the drains from springs or foot of hili, obliquely across the bottom so as to strike the main ditch at an angle of about 45 degrees —of course pointing down stream. The num ber requisite will of course vary. One for each spring, if these are present, in the absence of well washed springs, at a distance of thirty to fifty feet apart, according to wetness of soil. Other things being equal,tho deeper the drains, the father apart they may be. But if the land is at all wet in spring they should never be more than fifty feet apart. But sunpose the main ditch or stream can not be gotten deeper than a foot and a half to two feet. What then? Do not undertake to drain the land; you will be sure to fail. Put it down in grass. Herds grass or red top will grow on wet bottoms admir ably—indeed better than anywhere else. Ber muda also will do well on them, and if the soil is rich, will grow tall enough to be mowed, and make most excellent hay. Don’t try to cultivate these wet bottoms in corn, making a small, sickly stalk, with perhaps a nubbin on it. The grass crop will be worth ten times as much as the corn, without any labor of culti vation, after it has been well established. Clear, clean up and grub thoroughly all the wet bottoms on your farm. Do it now, whilst tliey arc comparatively dry’, and may be, at least scratched over with the plow, and then seed down in grass. If weeds come up in the spring, mow them down before they get large enough to smother the grass. Two or three mowings during the season will get rid of them very effectually. Do not be led away witli the idea that tho grass needs shade, and let the weeds grow. The grass needs all the soil, and its share of air and sunlight too. The second class of bottoms, those that are washed or scoured by rains; what shall be done abort them? The trouble may be avert ed in part by’ establishing barricades at the narrowest points where the hills jut in. The vcloei v of the wat . r can be checked by them, and instead of scouring a deposit of rich sedi ment secured. These barricades may be made by driving willow stakes in double rows and filling in between witli logs, brush, etc. The willows will grow and ultimately make a living barrier. Another precaution we have found valuable for ordinary freshets is to defer breaking such lands till late in the spring —just as late as planting may be put off. and thus decrease the risk of injury from heavy spring rains. Unplowcd land is not scoured near so badly as that which is plowed. Another precaution is to sow in rye at the last plowing of corn (which is usually late on bot tom land) and let it cover and bind the soil during winter and spring. But the barricades should be our chief reliance. For moderate rains a large ditch will serve to carry off the water without Its overflowing the land, but rainfalls occur every year or two which no reasonable ditch would guard against, and it is about these we are now speaking. The sub ject will be resumed next week. W. L. J. Mr. H. F. 8., Columbus, Ga., writes us at some length, comment ng upon the impracti cability of advice given H. 11. J., Milltown, Alabama, in The Constitution of August 16th. In said issue Mr. J. is represented as stating that he has 203 acres of land near his house that he desires to put in grass for pasture. We have not I*is manuscript, but think he said 2or 3 acres, and by mistake it was printed 203 acres. Mr. B. in his letter to us raises the figures to 208, illustrating how easily mistakes are made. We advised Mr. J, to ap ply 30 two-horse loads of manure per acre and in addition a certain amount of commercial fertilizers, insisting that grass (winter) will not succeed on poor land. Allowing the number of acres to bo 20s, Mr. B. undertakes to calcu late how many loads of stable manure would be needed and how many tons of fertilizers, and how long it would take one wagon to haul fertilizers, and the inability of the county in which Milltown is located to supply stable manure enough, and so on. As stated above our impression is that tho number of acres was 2or 3, and it would have been easy for Mr. B. to carry out our advice. But if the fl gures had been 203, our advice as to how to set in grass would have been precisely tiie same. The mode prescribed is the only successful one known at present, and if inquirer has not means to fulfill his desires, ho must limit his undertaking to suit his means. We assume that our readers have common sense. W. L. J. W. T K., Limewood, N. C., When is the best time to kill old Held pi: 0 L lt.':..g v.hkhliave ben Standing a long time und have become too large and -■ tubby to be o'any ■: August is the best month for girding or belting pines. M. O. £., Newton, N. < : : I have a milch cow that has lw.l giving blood from oi e t at for two or three week". The other teat are ail right. Can you tell the cuu-c and give remedy? 6h< gives a quart or more at a milking, from that one teat, but it is too bloody t > use. There are four separate" glands in a cow’s adder, each corresponding to a teat. Inflam mation may exist in one of these glands with out extending to the others. This is the case with your cow. The causes of inflammation THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA.. TUESDAYJSEPTEMBER 13. 1887. are various. Not milking clean, especially soon afte^. halving, is a common cause of such trouble j feeding freely with certain kinds of feed which stimulate milk production, as cot ton seed meal, also induces it. Tho proper i treatment is to feed rather lightly, especially , of grain, and see that the bag is thoroughly I emptied of milk, night and morning. If prac- I ticable, let a calf suck the affected teat, as it i will draw the milk more thoroughly and with ! less irritation to the cow than a human hand I can do. W. M. J., wlnter Seat, S. C: 1 havd a mule that is | considerably swollen and seems to be weak in the loins; has but little use of his hind parts. Will you I please tel! me what is the matter with him and what so do for him. I he trouble is probably some affection of the kidneys, possibly of long standing and chron ic. If so, little can be done to cure it, but something may be done to alleviate. Feed on ' soft, boiled food, with a pint of flax seed meal I mixed with it once a day. Feed on green sue- , cnlent food, and let the,animal have free ac cess to water at all times. The more water an animal drinks, the less irritating to the kid neys and bladder will the urine be. A subscriber asks for the best contrivance for tethering stock, (horses and cows) so they cannot entangle themselves in rope. Will be glad to hear from our readers on this subject. Another asks for instruction to make a prep aration to entice wild bees. J. T. 8., level Land, S. C.:' 1. Tell me how to put up lot manure with lime; how ranch of each to make a goood manure, and about what time to put it and whether with slacked or unslacked lime. Will it do to mix stable, cow lot and trash manure with lime? I want a good manure without much cost. 2. Does sawdust help land materially; red stiff land? In hauling out good deal that is five or six years old with good deal of oak mixed, will it in jure the land any? M e answer the last part of your question first. It is always risky to mix lime with any of the richer manures. Those substances used as manure which decompose slowly, as leaves, straw, &c., may be mixed with lime to ad vantage, but stable manure, indeed animal manures of all kinds had better not be. If you think your land is very deficient in lime, and needs an application of it, you might mix slaked lime with the trash manure by itself, at the rate of ten bushels to a cord of trash. Do this six months before you expect to use it. After the lapse of four months, mix tho trash compound thoroughly with lot manure, and ibis mixture afterwards with stable manure. Managed thus the lime will have no injurious eflect upon the lot and stable manure. After the last mixture has stood a couple of months, it will be ready for distribution. All manure heaps should be put in pens, and wetted and well trainped when being put up. Proportion the lime to other ingredients, so that when compost is distributed, an acre may receive from three to five bushels of limo. 2. Sawdust has little or no manorial value. Pine dust when fresh may do harm if used in excess. When old it is harmless, and may answer a good purpose in loosening stiff soils, but it hardly pays for tho hauling. Leaves are much more valuable, and so is straw. W. P. W., Buursville, Ala.: 1. H ave 200 acres Alabama river bottom land, which was washed by spring freshet of 1886 to tl.e <layer "hard pan," all the top soil of 18 inches washed away. I want to know how to restore the land, and please say: First, can it be restored? Second, by what meansl 2. I have six acres clay peas, broadeat t, want to know: First, when shall I cut them? Second, how long shall I sun them? Thir l, how can I store them away to prevent moulding? 3. Are cotton seed hulls valuable as a fertilizer, and if so, how should I use them? 4. I have a grove of forty acres covered with black sandy soil, covered with blackjack and scrub post oak. Bo you know any variety of grass suitable for pasture that would grow upon it if fertilized; if so, what is it, and what fertilizer should I use? And what variety of grass would make hay on sandy; oil by fertilizing, and what so t of fertilizer slouldbc used? What kind of rye will grow on similar land? 1. If a recurrence of overflow and scouring does not take place, it is possible to restore the land described. The first thing to be aimed at is to get something to grow on tho land to furnish a supply of humus. If anything will grow upon it spontaneously, at first, so much the better, as that will diminish the cost. To foster growth, however, whether spontaneous or induced, the land should be brought into fine tilth. Break it up deep and thoroughly; roll and harrow as often as may be needed to this end. The time to do this is regulated by the growth which is expected to follow—if weeds, do it in early autumn. They come up readily on fall plowed, but not on spring plowed land; on wheat fields, but not on spring sown oat fields. If clover is to bo the work, plow in February; if peas,break up at any time in early spring. If weeds come up spontaneously on the land, let them alone until they are dead, don’t plow them under green. Tho hard, woody stems are needed to rot slowly and to open the soil. If plowed in green, this mechanical action as an opener, is reduced to almost nothing. In case where weeds will grow, as said before, let them alone the first year. The following win ter, turn under quite shallow, so as to mix them with upper layer of soil, Soil forming must go on by slow degrees, and must begin at the top. If clover has been grown success fully in the neighborhood, sow it down in that crop the last of February. If clover does not thrive in your vicinity plant the land in peas the last week in May. Don't sow them broad cast, but plant in drills, three feet apart and plow once or twice to keep land from crusting and running together. If you wish to hurry up matters, manure peas, with 100 pounds of “Ash Element,” per acre. This is a cheap fertilizer and has a marked effect on peas. Let the peas mature, and about the first of November sow in rye. After the rye ripens put in peas again, and rye will come up, without further seeding, af ter the peas are laid by. This treatment con tinued two or three years, tho land will be ready for ordinary cropping, but should not be run heavily in clean, cultivated crops; should be sown in small grain, and alternate every year. If clover will grow on the land, it will be the best of all crops to bring it up. I f there is danger of scouring from freshets again, set land in bermuda, as soon as it has been enlivened by a growth of weeds and a crop of peas. It will hold the soil and en rich it at same time, and with proper after treatment give good cuttings of hay. 2. Cut soon after blooming, as soon as wilted put in small compact heaps, exposing as little surface to sun and dew as possible. The next day put three of these heaps in one, taking same precautions as at first. If weather is good let them remain in these heaps until cured enough to house. If weather threatens put tlu in in bulk and let them heat; then tear down and expose to air so the moisture may pass off. Heating will discolor them somewhat, but not seriously im pair their value. Indeed, some hold that to put them in bulk as soon as cut and let them lieat, and then open up under shelter and let them dry off is the best way to manage a crop of pea vines. When water cannot be squeezed out of a pea vine by twisting it, some claim ,t may be stored away without dancer of spoiling. In view of tho trouble of curing pea vine hay. it would be better to put them in silo. Drilled corn and paa vines together make most admirable ensilage. Third, cotton seed hulls have some, but not much, manurail value; they rank with leaves as formers of humus. Their chief value is as an opener for civile, sticky clays. They rot too slowly to yield up their plant food much the first year. They may be used as bedding in stalls, answering well for that purpose. About a garden they serve as g.n excellent mulch. Fourth, such soil is not (adapted to grasses. Os winter or perrenial kinds, tall meadow oat grass would probably do best ,if the trees are thinned out, but the laud would have to bo heavily manured ever year. Cotton seed or cot ton seed meal the first year and nitrate of soda or some other nitrogenous manure, with a lit tie kainit and phosphate as a top-dressing after ward. Well rotted stable manure would an swer in place of above. Bermuda grass will grow on such laud as you have if the trees are thinned out sunshine may reach the surface in part, but its growth will not bo strong unless heavily manured. Would not adqise attempting to raise winter grasses on very sandy lands, better to use drilled corn, the millets, peavines and rye. We know of but one variety of rye grown in the south. Some speak of a white and black rye, giving preference to the first, but we never noticed any special difference. Prosperous Putnam. Eatonton, Ga., September 10.—[Special.] There once lived and movMl and had his be ing here, a gay citizen, who was known as Bill Pike. He was careless and improvident—a hanger-on around the skirts of Providence. But from morning to night he kept the town a-roar with his wit. and his humor. Thus it happens that, although William has been dead several years, his name is still a house hold word in Eatonton, and in Putnam. His happy bits, his queer conceitstand his droll sayings keep his memory green. Not a day passes that he is not quoted from. He was a man, I take it, who would have been dear to Shakespeare's, heart, a gay, rollicking fellow, who flouted caro with his irrepressible humor and his inimitable jests. It will be long be fore any community will look on his like again. Once on a time there was a race riot in Ea tonton. The negroes had taken possession of the polls, and their success was such that their confidence took the shape of insolence and bull dozing. In this way a riot was precipitated. The negroes deserted the polls, rushed into the suburbs and camo marching back, armed with shotguns and pistols. In the course of a very few minutes the whites had cleaned them out. Their retreat from the town took the shape of a panic. The loader of the negroes was a crooked-legged negro, and he managed to es cape, galloping out of town with the speed of a horse. Weeks afterwards, this leader, whose name was George, was hoard of in Greene county, where ho was engineering a colored revival. The marshal of Eatonton, Sandy Suther, to gether with a posse which included Bill Pike, determined to capture George. It was night when tho marshal and his posse arrived in tho neighborhood where George was holding forth, and they soon found that lie was conducting services in a negro church. Tho church was surrounded while George, was leading in prayer. When lie got through, he stood up and began to “line" out a hymn. “I will arise and go to Jesus,” he remarked wit h unction. “Well,” said Pike, who was at the door, “if you do you will go byway of Eatonton.” In talking with the farmers of Putnam I was glad to find that many of them take a practical view of the tariff question. They feel that towns and communities can only be built up by means of factories and oilier in dustries, and they know that farmers cannot have adequate homo markets until this build ing-up has taken place. “If you travel about in the country much,” said a farmer friend, “yon will find that not only have the best lands been taken up, but the'old fields that were once used for cow pas tures and cattle ranges are now making good crops.” “Well," said I. “this means that the county is prosperous and giowing.” “Os course that is one way to look at it,” said my friend, “but there is another side. Doesn't it all mean more competition among farmers? I don't take much interest in the newspaper discussions of tho tariff, but i* docs seem to inc, that the building up of industries and factor ies would give employment to a large class of our population, v.’lii. h is now piddling around on the farms. I think protection, which now prevents the pauper labor of Europe from competing with our manufacturers, wili even tually prevent another class of pauper labor from competing with farmers, by giving em ployment to thousands who are now compelled to dig their living out of the ground, in a lazy and an aimless sort of way.” “But,” said I, “bow about the tariff taxes that you read about in the newspapers?" “Bosh!” exclaimed the farmer. “Every thing I buy—my clothes, my tools, my eroek eryware, everything—is a great deal cheaper than it was before the war, when, as I under stand, a low tariff was in operation.” “At the sumo time,” said I. “the probability is that a majority of the farmers of Putnam county are in favor of free trade.” “That,” said my friend, “is because they do not take tho trouble to consider the matter. They.liave inherited free trade ideas, and they stick to them. With slavery before the war, it was natural that the south should bo for free trade. No other policy would have b< ett con sistent. But the situation has been changed, and the people will have to change too. There is no doubt about it.” There is another evidence of the progress that Putnam has made, and that is the growth and development of the dairy. An immense amount of the finest butter is shipped abroad from Putnam. The pioneer in this business is Mr. B. W. Hunt, whose energy is something phenomenal. His experiment with Jerseys has been a costly one, but pluck and patience have done their perfect work, and his Jersey daily farm, in the suburbs of Eatonton, is not only a source of pleasure, but of considerable profit. Mr. Hunt’s dairy is a model. It is built over a bold spring, and the pure water running through insures a temperature that never varies more than four degrees winter and summer. J. C. 11. LITTLE BUT LIVELY. Chlcngo Tlmrs: A»Phlla<lelphia republican paper has an article on “What Keeps the South Solid.” But the quickest way to find out is to listen to For aker, Fairchild, Tuttle, Clarkson and other partisans of their kind. Kaehi’itte American: “Aim high,” istl.e Savannah News' advice to young men. This is the same old chestnut that the girl sprung on the fellow who kissed her oil the chin. Xorrletoun IhraM: A Georgia pnp r says that Mr. Wheeler, of Hancock county, cut a watermelon a few days ago, and when opened it displayed a dls tictiy formed “W” on both halves. This must have been one of tho melons tliat will “W” up. Morton Courier: Gross is usually green, but there Isn’t anything green about a glass widow. Jlorton Courier: It is a little singular, to say the least, that after a man has been painting the town led he alv ayi looks blue. Indi<i'.i"i:oli*.» nllnel: “For insulf ing ami mobbing democratic presidents the republican party are fully entitled to all the dishonor that accrues from such proceeding” ricJW>.iry Herald: “The Ch o igo Times says Gen eral Tuttle now wants to fight the south from the floor of the senate chamber. This would be better for the south than if he fought them in the Held. He couldn t st. ai their cotton.” Chleufio Tribune: “The six i n 'els reported as hav ing been se< n lately in Tenso-see have not been visible tirany one si ice their first appearance. It is si’.sp-.ted ti nt a. wr n ax they found out where, they were they took to the woods.” Duluth Co'itiiophcr: The reason they speak of r. round million Is because few men ever get that much on the square. .Son«i A-us: There Is nothing consolatory for the patient eilfciiirg from a event cold in the b ad t i idi told that ■ cohls always ittaelrtbe weakest spot.” Hutliiifiliiii Free Pra A Buillngton girl 1:-. learning to play the cur. et, and her admirers speak of hei as "il.e fairest flower that blows.” , A Big Show Without Liquor. Atlanta is a dry town, and the Piedmont exposi tion will be the first great show e'er given in America without liquor on the grounds. This will insure good order and will discourage swindling and pickpockets. It will be interesting to see how a great exposition will succeed in a prohibition city. EXPOSITION NOTES. The Great Attractions to be Seen at the Coming Piedmont Fair. A CHANCE TO SEE THE WONDERFUL. It is well for every man and his wife and children to see the world once in awhile. Men and women, and especially young folks, stag nate when they stay in one place all the time and never see anything but their own neigh borhood. Now you have the chance of your life to take a trip and see a world of sights at least cost and in least time. It is to go to the Piedmont ex position, which opens in Atlanta October 10, closing October 22. What will you see there? 1. An exposition covering eight acres of solid exhibits of every article from a candy stick to a steam engine—the latest wonders of science in every department. A day in these buildings is a liberal education. 2. A building devoted to cattle, 600 feet by 100; a building devoted to poultry, 203 by 200; 300 stables for horses; swine, goats, sheep, etc., in abundance. 3. Tl.e collective county exhibits of a dozen counties, showing the resources of each county in agricultural and industrial products, ladies' handiwork, live stock and every tiling raised in the county. 4. The richest epitome of tho south’s riches ever shown in collective exhibits from the citi ies of Birmingham, Anniston. Decatur, Tusca loosa, Gadsden, Rome and Tallapoosa. Tho Richmond and Danville railroad, tho Marietta and North Georgia railroad, the East Tennes see road and the Florida Southern road. Each of these collective exhibits will cost, thousands of dollars, and you will see tho grandest show of southern riches ever made. 5. An art gallery with 400 pictures from tlio best living artists, and twenty paintings from Mr. George I. Seney’s gallery, which ranks with Vanderbilt’s. One of these pictures cost $40,000 (forty thousand dollar's,) and the twen ty cost over a quarter of a million dollars. 6. President Cleveland and his wife—Presi dent Cleveland will make a speech one day— watch tho sham battle and review the troops next day, and he and his wife will bo ready to shake hands with you all the time. Don't miss or let your children miss seeing tho first democratic president ever south and Ids beau tiful and clover wife. They will always re member having shaken hands with these great people. 7. A magnificent sham battle covering 75 acres with four batteries of artillery, ten com panies of cavalry and 5,000 infantry. The president and his wife will watch tho battle which lasts two horns, and hewill then review the troops and hold a public reception. 8. A torchlight procession witli 10,000 young democrats in line, tho city illuminated, and the very skies lit with the splendor of the scene. This will be the sight of a life-time. 9. The grandest firework displays over given in America. One feature will boa living wall of fire 140 feet long, 40 feet high, roaring and sparkling like Neagara. These displays will last two hours. You have never dreamed of anything so gorgeous. Tho pictures of Presi dent and Mrs. Cleveland will be shown in fire in mid air, surrounded by thousands of rock ets. 10. Tho illumination of Kennesaw moun tain. The whole mountain stands out like a picture in red light, cannon boom on its side, and 5,000 rockets are fired by electric match from its center. Pictures of General Johnson and General Sherman will be displayed in lire against the skies. >Sueh a spectacle as this illuminated mountain has never been seen. 11. Bicycle races, on which man can beat horses running. Balloon ascensions in which you can go 1,000 f et up in a balloon and bo landed back safely. 12. Horseraces every dr.y, bringing horses from all sections of the country. 13. Governor Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia; Governor Richardson,of South Carolina; Gov ernor Bob Taylor, of Tennessee; Governor Seay, of Alabama; Governor Perry, of Flori da; Governor Gordon, of Georgia; each with his military staff of forty mounted men. 14. The city of Atlanta, tho best city in the south, and the building in which wo make and print The Constitution, the best paper in the country, and shako hands with the men and women who make it. 15. A vast numberof amusements and sights which we cannot enumerate. Everything from the old fashioned circus to a flying jenny. A solid two weeks of instruction and amuse ment. Now all this will give yon enough sights to talk about for years—will be an education to yourself and children and will show you more in three or four days than you could-get by traveling four or five months. Now, what does it cost? First, the railroad fare is lower than ever before. From no point it is more than one third the regular rate. It is one cent a mile each way, and from some pointaeven less than that. If your railroad station is a hundred and fifty miles fioßi Atlanta the fare cannot be more than three dollars for the round trip, and may he less. 2. It costs you only fifty cents to see evciy ■ thing on the exposition grounds—twenty-five cents for children. This includes seeing the fire-works, tho balloon ascensions, the sham battle, hearing the president speak, shaking hands with him, the races, and everything on the grounds. Yon can stay on the grounds all day long, if you want to, even until 10 o’clock at night, when the tire works will be closed. It costs you only fifty cents for the day and night, and your children twenty-live cents. 3. There will bo sandwich stands and res taurants all over the grounds. At no place can you bo charged more than fifty cents a meal, while sandwiches with milk and coffee can be had from ten to twenty-five cents. Yon can get breakfast, dinner and supper on the grounds, and in no eases be charged more than fifty cents a meal. If you bring your own pro visions you will find plenty of places in which to spread them out, picnic fashion, and eat without any cost. Tlicre are public buildings for public comforts free to everybody. 4. The exposition has engaged a large num ber of rooms in the city in which five or six or seven cots are placed. The charge for a night’s bed at these places will not exceed fifty cents a night. By making up a party of six or eight you can take all the cots in a room at fifty cents a piece, and each cot will take a grown person and a child. 5. The exposition committee has canvassed the city thoroughly and lias a list of boarding houses, and private houses, where strangers can be accommodated, with the price at each house. These prices are low, except at tho most expensive hotels, where they run up to from three to five dollars a flay for each person. (>. If visitors ilesiro to camp out, they will find a number of places where they can be pro tected without any charge. In short it has been the aimof the committee to make this a cheap exposition, so that all tho people could come. They have guarded every where against extortion. They have got tho railroads down to tho lowest point ever known. A good meal for fifty cents, including six or eight dishes, besides a desert is very low,while ti n or fifteen cents will buy sandwiches and coffee and milk enough for a meal. Detectives Lave been employed to protect visitors against any sort of swindling. There will boa ful police force on tho grounds day and nights,and the exposition will have several offices open all the time tor information and the comfort o visitors. Now Thk Constitution advises its friends to come to the exposition. It is really the chance of a life time, and you will always re gret having missed it for your own sake and that of your family. If you cannot come yourself lot your wife and children come, and when you come remember you will find tiie latch string on the outside of The Constitu tion door. Wo would be glad to see every one of our 110,000 subscribers with their families face to face and shako hands with them. You will be glad that you camo for you will seo more in less time, and at less cost than it was ever given people to see before. Wo print below the principal events so that our readers will know just when to come: The nrcYct.K racks are on Tuesday, the 11th, Wednesday, tiie 12th, and Thursday, the 13th. Two hundred bicycles will also be. out with the torch light procession on the night of the 19th. Horse R aces.—There will bo horse races every day, beginning Tuesday, the Hili, and closing Saturday, the 22d. The Fireworks Display.—There will bo special fireworks exhibition Wednesday, tho 12th, Friday, tiie 14th, Tuesday, the 18th, and Wednesday, the 19th. The Balloon Ascensions.—The balloon ascensions will take place on Wednesday, tho 12th, Friday, tho 14th, and Monday, tiie 17th. These ascensions will be made by two balloons which will make a race to tho clouds. Ono carrying a lady and the other a man, and tho winning balloon will receive a prize. Tho lady will jump from the balloon at tiie height of five thousand feet, and tho man hanging from his balloon, will perform difficult gym nastic feats in mid-air. The Illumination of Kennesaw Moun tain.—These illuminations will take place on Tuesday, October the lltli, and Monday, Oc tober the 17th. I’liKsinuNT Cleveland's Visit.—The presi dent and Mrs. Cleveland will reach Atlanta Monday night, October 17th. Tho president will speak on Tuesday, the 18th, and hold a reception at the grounds. He will review tho troops on Wednesday, tho 19th, and review tho torch light procession that night. Tub Sh am Battle.—Tho sham battle will occur at half past ten o'clock the morning of Wednesday, tiie 19th. The Knights of Pvthjas Drill. —This drill will take place on Thursday, the 20th. The exposition will bo open at night, for three nights, Wednesday, the 12th, Friday, tho llth, and Tuesday, the 18th. Tho dates of these features tvill not bo changed, and you may rely on their being correct. The expo sition will not ho open Sunday. The awards will bo made and tho stock displayed every day in the ring fronting the grand stand. There will bo amusements for every day, such as circus, baseball, gun club shooting, etc. The Constitution offers one piece of advice in closing: If you do not come until the presi dent and Mrs. Cleveland are here, leave home so as to reach Atlanta Sunday night. You can then spend Monday examining tho exposition and seeing tho wonderful show, and on Tues day and Wednesday enjoy the sights on tiie ground. Tho exposition itself is worthy a full day’s study. You will bo able to find board and lodging. Atlanta is a great city, and every house in the city will bo open, and all tho surrounding villages and towns have opened their houses. There will bo room for all. EXPOSITION NOTES. Another Big Building for the Expiisltion. It xvas thought that tho directors had mot all the demands for space at the exposition, but they decided yesterday afternoon on putting up another large building. The now building will bo for tho benefit of tho poultry, pigeon, and pot stock show. It was hoped that this show could be made in tho ag ricultural hall, but tluit, is already crowded to its utmost. Tho new building will be a hun dred and fifty feet by two hundred foot. Tho present, intention is to build it with an open court in the center which will be decorated with gravel walks and flowers, for the display of poultry in fair weather. It is possible that this plan wilt bo changed and a. lantern roof put over tho open court and lit at. tho sides witli glass windows. Tiie chicken men throughout tho country should appreciate this special compliment of a big building for their use. Tho entries for poultry are coming in daily, and arrangements willin' made for six thousand coops. There will be wire aviar'i s constructed for tho caged birds, pigeons, and I is.nicls, under the Kimball house, will enter fifty different varieties of caged birds. Mr. Lawson, the famous tobac conist, says lie will beat the record on caged birds. Dr. Carpenter, who lias several hundred canaries, will also make an entry. Tim entries of pigeons will bo unusually large, fanciers from half a doz< n states having already applied for space. Tim poultry and pet stock building will bo one of llm chief attractions at Hie fair, and of course there is an opportunity for fine bleeders everywhere that cannot bo beaten. Will Carry Torches. Berrien county promises to send at least one good company. Mr. E.C. Munnerjyn write sfrom Bainbridge: “VVo favor your plans and will do all we call to aid so noble and worthy mi enterprise. We Imjie your highest, expectations will be realized and will do the best we know how.” Colonel Robert T. David, of Griffin, writes: “Spalding will have one or more companies in line upon that important Occasion.” Colonel S. I*. Gilbert, of Columbus, says: “I am heart and soul with you asayoung dem ocrat and an cx-Atlanta man.” Powder Springs sends a list of tiie twenty five young men <4 tho company which has been formed, and about ten others who will bo Jieio without fail. Mr. J. G. Camp, who has liceu made captain, writes: “1 trust that the occasion may boa triumphant success in every sense, of the term, and that, it may redound to the la ting glory of the Young Men's Demo cratic. league. I beg to assure you that no company in that stupendous procession will labor more zealously to accomplish the lauda ble objects of that occasion tiian tho gallant and manly ‘boys’ whom I shall command as captain. There will be, norm of deeper patriot ism or loftier conceptions of the grandeur of the occasion.” Colonel George C. Grogan, of Elberton, says: “The banner democratic county could not afford to be absent. Os course we will bo there. Will forward a number of companies and the names of the captains in a few days.” Thirty Excursion Trains From Pennsylvania. Mr. C. 11. Wells, the editor of Dixie, who is just back from a two months’ tour through Pennsylvania, says: “I learned in Pennsylvania that at least thirty excursion trains would be run to the ex position. In Harrisburg three different parties are advertising for names of all persons coming to tho Piedmont exjx sition for excursions which will Im run by each of them. I saw one of the umn and bis list had already gone up over one hundred names. In the little town of Milford, Pa., 1 saw another man who had registered over thirty people for a. trip to the south to see the exjiosition. The matter is talked of in every Pennsylvania town, and a very largo number of Penn.sylvaniaiH will comedown. Mr. Bartlett, of Portland, Me., several time a millionaire, is organizing a par ty to come from that city. - -•—————- A Twenty Years' Experience. 770 Bboadway, N. Y., March 17,1886. I have been using Allcoi k’h Porous Plas ters fur 20 years, and found them one of tho best of family medicines. Briefly summing up my experience, I say that when placed on tiie small of the back Allcock’s Plasters fill the body with nervous energy, and thus cure fatigue, brain exhaustion, debility und kidney difficulties. For women and children I have found them invaluable. They never irritate thoskiiiorcau.se the slightest pain, but cure Horn throat, cronpy coughs, colds, pains !u side, back or chest, indigestion and bowel com plaints. 0. D. Fredricks. IN TIIE JUNGLES. A Two Months’ Hunt in the For ests of Brazil. BIRDS AND REPTILES THAT WERE SEEN New York, August 22.—Clarence B. Riker, of 8 luth Orange, a member of the American Oml thological society, his just returned from two' months of bug nnd bird hunting in the foresta of Brazil. “My wife and I,” said Mr. Riker to a reporter to day, “went by steamer from hero to Para, at the mouth of tiie Amazon. There we changed to u smaller steamboat that took us up-the river 500 mileft to Santarem. There we took canoes and were pad died by Indian Loys through miles of narrow chan nels (hat wind in and out through a vast region of flood© 1 torcst. After we hud gone as far as u e eouhV in canoes, an ox cart was backed hub deep into tho water, and we transferred ourselves and l>aggmfe to it. We then r »de along well benten paths extend ing for miles through magnificent timber. Tho dense foliage made a perfect shade,' and she paths were r.s hard as o.ir roads. When wo’ arrived at the plantation which we had decided to make onr headquarters, we found a comfortable house with concrete walls, a tiled roof and ham mock beds. The planters have fowls, swine and cattle, and raise the principal vegetables and fruits that we have, and the seeds of the palm tree aro made into various nourishing dishes. One of tho staple articles of food is a fish called pirarucu. It is dried for market and resemldes codfish. The na fives live almost entirely on bananas and fainha, a course meal made from the mandloen root. Many oi the planters raise sugar cane und from it make whisky to supply tho rubber gatherers. Tiie fer mented juice of the palm is another drink umk! by the natives and a delicious wine is made from a fruit called caju. an I also from juice extract.-d from the pulp surrounding the cocoa bean. This drink is universally liked by foreigners, but for the others one must nequuo a taste. Tbovc are vary .few niosquitoes, but . there are some things worse. The inocoeiie, an almost microscopic insect, clings t” the th .41, and if not removed by rum or lemon juice, causes severe Initation. Large vampire bats often fly hi one’s face at night. They are four times the size of our bats. Many natives boar scars from their teeth. Tarantulas were frequently seen on tho veranda and sometimes in the bouse. Their bite is not emisidered deadly, but the minute Lairs with which (hc’r barb is covered are poisonous and oauseteiTible c itation. If left the doors of Hio house Open at night, large loads weighing a pound und a hall ap;c -e could hop in. tine night niy wife was tiw.dreged by n ariiig ..onto tin tnal moving in the room. We could sue nothing, but from tiie sound we wore sure tt must lie a tiger, or nt least a wildcat. On striking a light it turned our to be a *l>ossun>. Alligators were plenrll'til in tiie brook near the house, and n deadly snake called the sira citeuis frequently found crouchingin the paths of the forest. We captured a boa constrictor twenty two feet long. 1 a'tlesnnkes arc numerous on tiie campos or open plains. Leaving ray wife at the plantation I made excursions Into the forest in search of birds and insects. 1 generally went with three or four other Americans and several Indian guides. At night the Indians would make a thatched bouse out of paint leaves. When thirsty wc would cut the root of tiie iupereba, which is hol low and . 011111.11- nearly a pint of water. Giuue was plenty. There were wild hoes, tnpiis, monkeys, wild turkeys, peccaries and a great variety of Itlrits. We frequently saw the trucks of jaguars near our hut, but did not meet any of them. Toobtu it sonio rare s| ectnicitsol biidswo penetrated fur into tiie depth of tho forest. 1 utensurud one palm leaf und found it to be forty ibet in length. There were rose wood, mahogany, and many woods not found else where. In tie flooded districts 1 saw sloths hanging upside down and feeding on the leaves of trees. Numerous butterflies, brightly colored, and bird.-, with brilliant plutunge abound. And on lite banks of the rivers nt even in;.-1 saw thousands of whiteegres. 1 was very su ■> ■■■'slid in coil, e.t.iug. ns 1 brought buck over titilt idrds, 10.000 Insects and tbo skeletons of nut-eaters, sloths, American tigers, ser pents and many other animals. I obtained a i.ow amt five arrows captured in a light between rubber packers and u tribe ot J'arb.tlntln Indians, who hud attacked tliom. These Indians nie perfe. tl.v wild, and live In tiie .'e ■)> lece.- tiie forest. Tiieyaro cannibals. 1 also brought home a young tiger. Its mother wits shot while Icediug on an ox which slio had killed. To keep tiie tiger company 1 brought a largo coat In or spider monkey. He wascauglit wbeu young, and is now entirely domesticated,” One J’rogrcsH. As stages are ipiickly abandoned with tho completion of tailixiads, i:> the lingo drastic, calliiiitic pills, eoniposed of crude and bulky medicines aro quickly abandoned with the intiodm lion ol Hr. I’iorce’s “I’icitsant I’urga tivo ITHets.” which uro sugar-coated, and little birgor than mustard seed, but composed of highly < .'iieentratcd vegetable extract... By druggists. THE SEPTEMBER DRAWING. The following is a list of the fortunuto snb scribcrs, with their postofliecs ami the prized drawn: 1. J. D. Alexander, Thomaston.Ga 4100 00 2. F. C. G ilsby. Hill-lion , t.u 1.1 IX) 3. 11. K. Browning, McAithur. Go 25 00 4. N. B. Jolmson, Weatherford, Texas 10 00 5. Win. R. Itynll. Marvin, Ga 10 00 6. T. J. Davis, Ocala, Fia 0 00 7. VVm. Roberts, Union, f.Hss 5 l;0 8. Lizzie Kcunedy, Kennedy, N. C 5 <0 9. J. E Maguire, Lithonia, Ga 6 00 10. John Moody, Viin Eaton, Miss 5 txi 11. W. L. Jones, Litteobi, Ala., high arm nine,bine. 12. W. L. Adams, McDonald, Ga., low anunia cliinc. 13. J. A. Ricks, Snapping Shoals, Ga., Constitu tion gun. 14. J. Wesley Brown, Gravella, Ala., Waterbury watch. 15. Wiley T McElroy, J’elzer, S. C., Waterbury watch. Ift. W. K. Hines, Rosebud, Ala., Waterbury watch. 17. M. A. Smith, Eufaula, Ala., Waterbury watch. 18. Edward L. Wyatt, Le isvillc, Texas, Waterbury watch. lit, F. M. Aw, Marquez, Texes, Watt rbury watch. 20. H. B. Reynolds, Barlow Bend, Ala., Waterbu ry watch. 21. G. H Haigler, Iluynt svlllc, Ala., Wateibury watch. 22. A. 11. Moore, Creighton, Ga., Waterbury watch. 23. L. M. Hendon, Menlo, Ga., Waterbury watch. 24. Robert I'. Tatum, Rising Fawn, Ga., one y«n a subscription to Weekly. 25. W. E. Rlsir, Alpine, Ala., one year’s subset ip tlon to Weekly. 20. W. T. Tucker, Zachary, La., one year s sub scription to Weekly. 27. J. F. McTyer, Terese, Ala., one year’s sub-crip tioiiito Weekly. 28. W. F. Woodilir, Gainesville, Ga., one year's subscription to Weekly. 29. T. !’• Moore, Odd Fellow's Hull, Tenn., one year’:! subscription to Weekly. ::o. M. B. Herring, Winterville, Ga., one year's snb.-'crlptlon to Weekly. 81. George E. Thornton, Preston, Ga., one year's subscription to Weekly. 32. H. Edwards, Arkadelphia, Ark., one year's subseripllon to Weekly. T. T. Leasure, Kingston, 0., one ycui A sub scription to Weekly. 31. Mary F. Wesley, Margaret, Texas, one year's sufo'-ripllon to Weekly. 11. F. Row, Dalton, Ga., one year's subscription to Weekly. J. 11. i'urgereon, Pattison, Texas, one yeat's sub si rlpt lon to W eekly. 87. L. K. Elder, Duck Town, Tenn., one year’s subscription to Weekly. 38. T. E. Stribling, Walhalla, 8. 0., one yea, s sub sei i plion io Weekly. ::9. Dr. B. J. Hunt, Oak Hall, N. Y., one year’s sub seription to Weekly. 40. Mrs. M. L. Sealy, Bronwood, Ga., one year's sub-'ription to Weekly. 4t. Geoig 8. Hmidcn>.ui, Birmingham, M,- , one year’s subsedptlon to W< ekly, 42. Ed Colenmn, Haddock nation,Ga., one year’s subscription to weekly. 43. L. p. Carroll, Ozark, Alo., one yeur'seubscrlp* tlon to Weekly. 41. O. G. Baker, Nettleton, Mo., one year's sub scription to Weekly, 4 >. D. E. Gaskin, Wlllueoochee, Ga., one year's subscription to Weekly. 4G. A. <!. Jepoii, Florence, H. C., one je-s sub scription to Weekly. 47. J. R. Mcßride, Oakwood, Texas, one year’s subscription to Weekly. 48. J. F. Clark, Mcßryde, Ga., one year's suburip- ton to Weekly, F. H. Stbkd, W. B. Candler. Managua. 7