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entered at Atlanta P. 0. as second-class matter.
Oregon has gone Democratic by heavy
gains.
The Catholics in Belgium have gained
11 new seats in the Chamber of Deputies.
Galveston, Texas, offers $12,000 of
prizes for the inter-State drill in August.
The latest society entertainment is
dubbed an "Early,” anti runs from 4 to
7 p. m.
It looks as if the Panama ditch must go
up. It has cost 150 millions and is only
one-seventh done.
The Rome Courier very kindly says that
The Capitol is "by far the most reliable
political paper in Atlanta.”
The Macon Telegraph says that Bacon
has gained 8 votes that were against him
in his last gubernatorial contests.
It is thought that the successor of Mr.
Manning, the Secretary of the Treasury,
will be Ex-Senator Henry G. Davis.
Why try to explain results incorrectly?
Better admit the truth. The Telegraph
ascribes Gordon's victory in Fulton to
money and patronage. The county was
naturally Gordon’s, as Bibb was Bacon’s,
and that is all there is in it.
A Colorado Congressmen, Mr. Hep
burn, said a sharp thing about Wheeler’s
Speech on Stanton, when he declared that
he was unwilling to put an indignity on a
man who at most had only violated the
good faith of history and possibly of truth,
but none of the rules of the House.
A Washington correspondent of the
Courier-Journal says that discontent
among Democratic Congressmen in both
branches with the indifference of the
President to party interests is on the in
crease. This fact is made manifest in
many ways, but in none more noticeably
and unerringly than by the conversation
of the wives of the Democratic Senators
and Representatives.
ATLAM AW vu alitv.
Looking over an old number of Har
per’s Magazine—December, 1875 —we
came across quite an interesting sketch of
Atlanta by Earnest Ingersoll.
That article recalls some vivid incidents
of our vital town. One building,it states,
in 1885, of all the commercial part of the
place, survived the flames. One of the
first men to return was Ben E. Crane. He
secured a cellar under the sole building
on Alabama street, paying $l5O a month
for its use, and began the produce and
grocery trade, increasing his income by
renting ground privileges of a few feet
square on ids sidewalk at S2O a month
each.
Soon the owner of a corner on White
hall street built a brick building with two
store rooms. Mr. Crane and another
moved in paying $3,000 a year each, and
giving half of it in advance, inorder to aid
the proprietor to go on with his construc
tion. The accommodations that rented in
1806 for $6,000, rented in 1870 for $1,500.
The record of these days reads like a
business romance. The dry goods men
who have since become merchant princes
with their half a million of retail trade,
l>egan, says that writer in a modest way,
and “bought thkik goods tied it in a
blanket almost.”
It was found that our dry, equable cli
mate is suited for keeping tobacco, and
the city has become a great tobacco mart.
The use of fertilizers has made the section
around a great cotton-raising region, and
so we must become a large cotton and
guano entrepot.
What is the up-shot of all this?
What is the lesson? Why that
our manifest destiny is to go forward—
that the croakers must dry up, and that
the same resources and agencies that have
raised the city from the ashes and im
pelled her to her present marvellous ad
vancement will carry her onward irresist
ibly. '
ATI. ANTA.
That careful and candid gentleman, Mr.
Sam Inman, was written to by the prohi
bition committee of Charlotte for informa
tion as to business being demoralized and
property depreciated in Atlanta by prohi
bition.
Mr. Inman says that he has conversed
with many merchants and thinks that
three-fourths of the firms in the city will
say that the trade of Atlanta is better than
it has been at this time in years. And
this is true in spite of the important fact
that the country is buying less grain and
provisions than for years on account of
the abundant home supply.
Mr. Inman sent out one of his young
men to count the number of stores and
note ths vacant ones in the entire central
part of Atlanta.
He found 715 stores by count, and only
31 good stores and 9 shops or cellar rooms
vacant, making a total of 40. Os the 40,
there were 10 recently finished and 16 un
desirable localities.
Mr. Inman thinks that Atlanta is to-day
one of the most prosperous and promising
cities in the Union.
THE CAMPAIGN.
Bacon carried McDuffie county yester
day. This gives him 16 counties and 40
votes.
Gordon carried Fulton yesterday. This
gives him 13 counties and 32 votes.
Bacon is ahead 3 counties and 8 votes.
(ieneral Gordon spoke at Crawfordsville,
and Major Bacon spoke at Waycross in
the morning and at Blackshear in the
afternoon.
The information comes from the papers
that each gentleman will carry the county
where he spoke. This is the stereotyped
commentary of the organs, anil is expect
ed as a matter of course. The correspond
ents feel bound to whoop things up on
their side by this claim. The Capitol
offers a reward for the paper that will
state that its candidate spoke in any
county without expressing the confident
knowledge that he will sweep a victory.
CAPITOL CRAYONS.
Tri lyric, “The man of the 12th of May,” is
a ringing one.
Miss Robe Cleveland, the President’s sis
ter, has received $12,000 froir the sale of her
book, t.nd gets an income ofs7s a month from it.
The secretary es the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, Miss Missouri 11. Stokes,
places that society right on the woman suffrage
question in our columns to-day.
Larky Gantt, a Bacon man, gives evidence
of his candor, when he says that after two days
stay in Greene county, he believes that Greene
will go for Gordon. Larry will state facts as
he sees them, and he owes his influence to his
courageous candor.
Madame Janaubchex, the great tragedienne
curiously illustrates the ups and downs of for
tune. She at one time was worth half a million.
But in the last few years she has not been suc
cessful, and has lost her fortune until she is
almost penniless. She is out of debt and it is
said will make a last effort.
Technological education.
We bad not the space yesterday to speak as
fully as we desired of the technological examin
ations of the Colored Atlanta University.
Withont undervaluing the literary course, we
frankly state that the technological features of
this institution are its most valuable ones. And
we are equally frank to say that these features
present something for general imitation in all
our seminaries of learning, both white and col
ored.
Hewing and cooking are taught the females,
and the specimen of work shown demonstrated
the care of the teacher and the application of the
pupil. Garments of every kind, cut and made
by the pupils, were exhibited, while the
cooked food, the bread, cakes
and pastry wore good.
The males showed excellent instruction in
farming, gardening and the use of tools. Mr.
Sessions taught the former and Mr. Turner the
tool work. The display of products included flO
kinds of grasses, corn, oats, rye, barley, sugar
cane, fruits, vegetables of all kinds, clover, etc.
The work with wood tools was gratifying.
Forty young men showed a remarkable profi
ciency in their use, and displayed specimens of
their skill. A variety of articles made by them
was on exhibition. The boys showed also a fine
knowledge of using turning lathes.
This is on the right line, and should be
widened. It is proposed to add a printing es
tablishment to teach the boys about type.
The ooard of visitors was greatly interested
in this feature of the callege.
We repeat that the experiment is a most in
teresting oue and presents the solution of the
best practicsl education.
rippinc*tt’* Monthly Mngazine.
The June number of Lippincott’s Monthly
Magazine is largely devoted to the labor ques
tion. Mr. Fred Perry Powers foresees the con
ing of “The Industrial Republic,” under which
the laboring classes will get a larger share of
the fruits of their labor than they do now. “We
shall gradually alter our industrial organiza
tion,” he concludes, till in the coursa of years,
we shall find we are living in an industrial re
public, having in the period of transition got
rid of a great deal of economic rubbish, just as
our ancestors got rid of a good deal of political
rubbish.”
To the Experience Meeting, Martin Irons
contributes an autobiographical sketch, “My
Experiences in the Labor Movement,” written
with a frankness aud sincerity which make it
very entertaining. “Some Experiences of a
Working Girl,” another article in the same de
partment, is a powerful and pathetic appeal on
behalf of tbs ill-paid factory girls, by one who
has seen and suffered the wretchedness she
commiserates. “The experiences of a Street-
Car Conductor," is noteworthy from the
fact that the writer finds nothing
to complain of in his position, but con
trasts it favorably with the lot of thousands of
his fellow beings. Under the bead of “A Plea
for the Spoils System,” George Walton Green
gives an amusing burlesque of the reasonings
of the average political “war-horse” against
civil service reform. “John Tumor's Inven
tion" is a capital sensation story of the Hngh
Conway type. There is some excellent poetry.
In the Monthly Cossip, W. H. Babcock’s ad
vances startling views on the Mormon question,
and there are other bright discussions of ciFr
rent topics.
A Divoratly of Pnromita.
Cities having the greateat diversity of pur
suits or interests are the most proaporous.
The community that comes the nearest sup
plying all ita wants is the most independent.
Without a diversity of interests and pursuits
they are necessarily dependent upon others, not
only for luxuries but for many of the actual
necessities es lite.
With their investments and interests all in
one direction, thep are kept comparatively poor
by a constant, never-ending drain upoa that one
interest.
If the one interest fails, or proves unprofita
ble. all fails. They have nothing to fall back
upon.
A diversity of pursuita neceaaarily carries a
wide production of now values. It is a common
sense business policy that never fails to enrich
.those wise enough to adopt it, aad never fails to
keep in comparative poverty those who reject it.
THB EVENING CAPITOL: ATLANTA. GA. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1886
Its adoption is political economy reduced to
practice in business, in every-day life.
Its rejectton or neglect, is the violation of a
natural law that never fails to punish the offen
der.
Let us illustrate our position. A striking ex
ample of the wonderful prosperity which never
fails to follow a diversity of pursuits may be
seen in the case of the eastern, middle and older
western States. They diversify in its broad
est sense.
The unwise, dependent and costly policy of
concentrating all investments, or practically so,
in one interest, is strikingly illustrated by the
Southern States. We do not diversify. We
“put all our eggs >n one basket,” sell only one
product, and with the scant proceeds buy lux
uries and necessaries as far as our money goes,
and the balance on a credit.
Our policy, saves at the spigot, and pours at
the bung.” We persist in concentrating, and
remain poor and dependent.
They reverse this rule, and grow rich at our
expense.
In 1880 the value of manufactures produced
in the city of New York was $472,000,000.
In 1880 the manufactures of the States of
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor
gia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Kentucky,
amounted to $316,000,000.
New York City employed 227,000 hands, and
paid $97,000,000 in wages.
The twelve Southern States named, employed
204,000 hands; wages paid, $48,000,000.
A difference in favor of New York city of
$157,000,000 in value of manufactures, 23,000 in
number of hands employed, and $49,000,000 in
wages paid.
New York city produced an average of $2,078
per hand, the twelve Southern States, $1,549
per hand, a difference of $529 per capita in fa
vor of New York city.
Average wages per annum for New York city
$471, and for the 12 States, $235.
But the main point which we desire to im
press upon the reader is the amazing fact that
one Northern city produces $157,000,000 more of
new values in the form of manufactories in one
year, than 12 Southern States.
It requires no labored argument to show that
the diversity of Pursuits so wisely adopted, and
so energetically pursued by New York city, is
enriching her at our exnense. The remarkable
growth of the city of New York in wealth and
commercial power, dates from the time in which
she engaged largely in manufactures, in the
production of new values.
Modern cities, especially interior ones, cannot
be built and maintained a growing, prosperous
condition, upon the jobbing of imported values.
If they would place their commerce upon a solid
foundation, they must diversify their interests,
they must create new values, and wherever their
manufactures And a market, their commerce
will surely follow.
Permanent prosperity cannot be maintained
In the traflic of imported values. The out-go
is larger than the income. It is a policy that
pulls down faster than it builds up.
The dominance of the city of New York in
commerce and wealth, is due to the hundreds of
millions created by her manufacturers.
The withdrawal of this great interest would
bankrupt her, even withall her fabulous wealth.
We will have more to say on this subject.
(The above was handed us by an intelligent
gentleman and fluent writer, and we gladly give
it space.— Ed.
CAPITOL SALMAGUNDI.
A aANDSOMx widow, with a figure like the Venue of
Hilo and Madonna-llke features, la soliciting subscrip
tions for General I-ogao’s book at the capital. It 1s
said that she has had astonishing success.
W. A. Nsmocxs, one of the Detroit Tribune owners,
has been remarried to his lately divorced wife, and they
have gone to San Francisco, which will le their future
home.
Editor Cahitol: Dear Sir—As Gen. Gor
don is running for Governor I will give you a
piece of poetry to print. As I am a reader of
your paper I would like very much to see some
thing about our great candidate, and give him a
little lift. You will please accept and oblige,
L. W.
THE MAW or thk 12th or MAY, 1864.
When history tells her story
Os the noble hero band,
Who have made the green fields gory
For the lite of their native land.
How grand will be the picture
or Georgia's proud array,
As they drove the boasting toeman back
On that glorious 12th ot May, boys,
That glorious 12th ot May.'
Orokos.
Then hurrah while we rally around
The hero ot that day;
And a nation’s grateful praises crown
The matt of the 12th of May, boys,
The man ot the 12th of May.
Whose mleu Is ever proudest
W hen we hold the toe at bay !
Whose war-cry cheers us loudest
As we rush to the bloody fray!
'Tie Gordon’s, oar reliance,
Fearless as on the day
When be harried his grand defiance
In that charge of the 12th ot May, boys,
In thst charge ot the 12th of May.
Who, who can be a coward.
What freeman tear to die.
When Gordon orders forward,
Aad the red cross floats on high!
Follow hie tones inspiring
On. on to the field awa-,
And we’ll see the foe retiring
As they did on the 12th of May, boys.
As they did on the 11th of May.
This is no time for sighing,
Whste’er our fate may be;
'Tis sweet to think that, dying.
We will leave our country free:
Though the storms ot battle pelt her.
She’ll defy the tyrant’s sway,
And our breasts will be her shelter,
As they were on the 12th of May, boys,
As they were on the 11th of May.
Atlanta, Ga., May 28, 1886.
OUR GEORGIA EDITORS.
Quaint Nation* and Witty Quip* •(
The State Preen Leader*.
C R. FENDLKTON.
The State campaign for the Democratic
nomination for Governor is being run in
defiance of all precedent, and almost at
the cost of decency.
COL. ESTILL.
New Orleans has a “club on wheels,”
that has just bought an -elegant buffet car
with demijohn attachment. One of the
rules is that no teetotaler need applv for
membership. •
If Brother Felton is preparing to be an
independent candidate for Governor in
the event of Gen. Gordon’s nomination he
had better lie husbanding his strength
and eloquence.
K. T. BYINGTON.
The Thomasville Times seems to take
great comfort from the fact that Georgia
will soon commence shipping "the green
watermillion” Northward. The aches
and pains which this deceitful fruit car
ries with it are regarded rather as a provi
dential recompense for the wrongs the
South has endured.
Important Announcement to the
Public.
The “Baltimore .Syndicate" takes this means
of informing the public that it has decided in
order to meet the wishes of a considerable num
ber of persons who have heretofore negotiated
with the company for the purchase of homes, to
modify the terms of payment so as to bring the
purchase of its elegant homes within the reach
of a larger number of the people than the terms
heretofore established permitted.
To this end it now announces that it will sell
any of its homes upon the cash payment of SSOO
and permit the balance of the purchase money
to be paid in monthly instalments.
THE BALTIMORE PLACE HOUSES.
These elegant residences need not be de
scribed in detail. They are so generally well
known that to enter into a description of their
plan, with the innumerable comforts incident to
their construction, their health fulness, compac
tion of arrangement, their high temperature in
winter and low temperature in summer; the
completeness of their sanitary arrangements
aud the dozen and one features which can
alone be appreciated by practical use, to
describe which in detail would
occupy more space than is necessary or the
limits of this communication will permit. It is
sufficient to say here that Nos. 9, 11, 13,15, 17
and 19 of the block are for sale. Either of
these can be purchased for $3,500 subject to a
ground seat of sllO redeemable at any time
within a 1000 years. The ground rent system
is universal in the North, is the secret of almost
every merchant and mechanic owning his
home, without which this ownership might be
impossible. We prefer to sell in fee. Every
purchaser thus far has purchased subject to a
ground rent. The fact that he can carry a re
deemable ground rent at so low a rate of inter
est as 5 per cent, which is all he pays, is the se
cret why every one thus far has purchased sub
ject to a ground rent. At all events the compa
ny will sell either in fee orotherwisejustasthe
purchaser may desire. Now a few words about
the business part of the transaction. The com
pany will sell any of the houses above mentioned
for $3,500, subject to a ground rent of sllO per
annum. It will take SSOO cash, and will allow
the remain? $3,000 to be paid in monthly instal
ments of S4O, with six per cent interest on the
deferred payments, interest ceasing on each
payment as made. It will take, say, seventy
two months, or just six years to pay off the bal
ance of purchase money at S4O per month. Now
let us see what the total annual charges are:
Twelve monthly paymenu S4BO
One year’s ground rent 110
“ average interest 90
“ tax 72
“ Insurance t>
Total for one years7s7
It will be observed that every charge of every
kind is included in the above.
Now let us see for a moment what the actual
strain is on the purchaser, and that after all is
the hue and proper test which one must apply
to himself in testing his or her ability to pur
chase. We have seen that the total annual
charges of every kind and character aggregate
per annum $757, or SO3 per month. Now
the purchaser during the time that he is
making these payments and securing his invest
ment is at the same time securing its fruits, for
he is occupying the house and thus saving the
rent that he would otherwise pay. Now put
ting the rental value of these houses at $45 per
month (and they are generally conceded to be
worth SSO) he ought, injustice to his purchase,
deduct the rental value from the total annual
charges, for until he owns his home, the rental
value should be deducted.
The calculation would accordingly stand
thus:
Total annual charges 757 00
Annual value 540 00
Annual strain on ourcbaaer 217 00
It will thus be seen that the annual strain on
the resources of the purchaser are just $217
or SIB.OO per month. In other
words, the purchaser of one of these houses
as compared to a tenant paying $45 per month
rent is just SIB.OB per month more to
pay than the tenant, and in consideration of
Baid payment the purchaser gets back every
month S4O clean and clear as a credit on his bal
ance as purchase money.
He pays SIB.OB a month more, and at the end of
six years has his home, whereas the tenant, as
above illustrated, has just exactly seventy-two
rent receipts, and liable to be kicked out if he
should fail to pay the seventy-third. Let us
now go a step farther and
FIND OUT WHAT THE HOUSE ACTUALLY COSTS
the purchaser.
His first payment wass 500
Six y«ars, $217 each 1,302
Total costsl,Bo2
These figures may seem remarkable and their
accuracy may perhaps be doubted by some. It
is sufficient to say in reply, that the company is
prepared to guarantee their correctness.
It will thus be seen, that the people of Atlan
ta have here presented an opportunity of which
it may truly be said is unprecedented in any
city in this country. There is no clap trap
about this announcement. The figures are
given and their accuracy guaranteed by a com
pany of responsibility. *
Bring your architect with you and let him aid
you in making an inspection of the property
and ask him for an honest dispassionate judg
ment. Ask him what it would cost you to du
plicate the house, in hard cash. Ana after you
have asked him these questions and have re
ceived a satisfactory answer, then go and ask
snch well known and respected citizens
as Dr. Brockett, Colonel Goldsmith,
A. P. Tripod. Col. Avery, I. C Bandmann,
Capt. Rust, all of whom have lived in the res
pective houses which they have purchased,
from two to eleven months, and ask them and
their wives and their visiting relatives and
friends whether they are delighted with their
purchases. The writer is sure that there is not
one but what is charmed with his purchase.
Ask them what temperature they experienced
last summer, and they will be apt to tell
you that their homes were charmingly cool. Ask
them whether they suffered from the severe
cold of the past winter, and they will tell you
that, if anything, their bouses were at times too
warm. In brief, ask them, if you choose,
whether you ought to buy or not, and act accord
ingly.
SPRING BTRECTOB “PARK PLACR" HOUSXS.
There are six houses left for sale on Spring
street: No. 1 has been sold to Miss Hanna; No.
5 to Wm. A. Wimbish; No. 7 to James A.
Gray; No. 13 to Mrs. Fannie McCandless. Nos.
3, -41, 15, 17 and 10 are still for sale. These
houses will be sold for $2,350, ground rent S9O,
redeemable at any time. SSOO cash, balance in
monthly payments of S3O. Total annual char
ges:
Twelve monthly paymentss36o 00
Ground rent a- • •• 00
Average interestft ... 55 50
Tax 33 75
Insurance 4 56
Total annual charge $543 75
Or about $45 per month.
No one who has seen these homes will hesitate
to admit that they are cheap at S3O per month
rent.
Assuming this to be true the actual cost of
the house would be as follows:
Total annual chargess 543.75
Annual rental value 380.00
Annual strain ... $ 183.75
As it will take a little less than 62 months to
pay off the balence of purchase money, the ac
count will stand like this:
Cash payment $ 500.00
$183.75 per year tor 5 years and 2 months.... 949.37
Tatal cost ot h0u5e51,449.37
These figures must be their own demonstra
tion. It would be downright supererogation to
attempt to give them additional force by fur
ther argument or illustration.
The man who can’t, after due reflection, un
derstand their force and potency ought not to
bother his brain about buying a home, but
ought to continue as a tenant.
The company hepes, after haring made these conces
sions. to be able to at once dispose ot its remaining
houses. In two or three years >ney will doubtless be
worth half again as much. Kvery indication shows that
these bouse* are situated tn the coming residence sec
tion of the city. N» portion of the city ha* such a
beautiful prospect before it. Whether there be any ad
vance er not, there will surely be no retrogression. So
that a purchaser not only secure* a boms tor Us family
In away that can hardly strain bls resources, bat he
has In addition aa incentive to save, coupled with the
fact that he is securing an investment wMch affords him
every reasonable expectation that after it la ocse paid
for it win be worth more thaa the original purchase
money, to say nothing of th* years ot rent that he ha*
saved to himself aad family. Person* desiring to nego-
Ute should call on pr*mi*e*or addres*
J. a. Bosnmaa. ProdMaa.
COUNTY TAX.
Two-thirds of the time allowed by law to make state
and county tax returns has pissed, and not more than
one third of the tax-payers have given in. Unless the
Comptroller-General extends the time for me, I will be
forced to close my Books on the Ist day of July. I hope
not, but it does seem to me now that the list of de
faulters f r 1886 will be by far the largest ever made
out in Fulton county. Respectfully, etc.,
J. O. HARRIS,
State and county Tax Receiver.
TTAF
MY BOOK is now open for Collecting City Tax, and
the City Council have athorized me to give a dis
count of 2 percent until I have collected one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars, and then the discount closes.
D. A. COOK.
May 15,1886. City Tax Collector.
BOMB A CABBOLLTON RAILROAD
Time Table No. 6.
Taking effect Sunday, June Sth, 1886, at 6:30 a. m., for
the government and use of employes only.
(Central Standard Time.)
19 SOUTHBOUND TRAINS. | NORTHBOUND TRAINS.
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Sun only D. ex Sun ? D. ex Sun Sun only
Stations.
NoB No 6 No 4 No 2 » Nol No 3 Nos NoT
p. m a. m p. m a. m • a. m p. m a. m p. m
5:30 8:30 5 :20 8 :10 • Lv. Rome. Ar. 7 :40 2:30 8:00 5:00
5:36 8:36 5:28 8:17 2 Holmes. 7:30 2:26 7:43 4:44
5:45 8:45 5:38 8:27 5 Holders. 7:20 2:18 7:29 5:29
5:52 3:52 5:52 8:40 7 Chambers. 7:05 2:05 7:22 4:22
6:05 9:05 6:04 8:52 10 New Bethel. 6:53 1:517:114:11
6:13 9:13 6:13 9:02 12 Summit. 6:47 1:42 7:05 4:05
6:18 9:18 6:18 9:10 14 Brooks Junct. 6r38 1:33 6:57 3:57
6 :25 9:2f 6:24 9:15 15 Lake Creek. 6:32 1:25 6 :53 3:53
6:35 9:30 6:40 9:28 18 Dyars. 6.18 1:11 6:42 3 ;42
T :00 1000 7 :0' 9:50 22 Ar.Oedrtn. Lv 6:o< 1250 6 :30 3 :3C
p. m a. m p. m a. m a. m p.m ». m p. m
J. H. TURNER, Supt.
The Georgia Boom.
For The Capitol.
Mr. Stephens thought the farmers of Geor
gia to be poorer than they really were at the
close of the war, immediately after emancipa
tion. I have been reading, by electric light,
the glowing accounts of some of the popular
newspapers of our wonderful “ progress ” in ag
riculture. The “intensive system” has been
exhibited in a rosy atmosphere to the delighted
gaze of the world. Each succeeding week we
are duly edified as to the marvelous achieve
ments of “Uncle Steve," or some other phenom
enal “ nigab,” as quoth Captain John Smith of
Virginia fame, in the wav of making crops.
Julius Greaser and Peter Pumpkin, with very
old mules on very poor land, and sometimes
with one-eyed oxen which have had
their tails split for the “hollow
horn.” Pile up mountains of cotton bags and
hillo ks of luscious yam potatoes, with all the
et ceteras of prosperous farms.
Now, Mr. Editor, “enough of a thing is
enough—too much is a dog’s mess.” Audi
alteram partem. With your permission I pro
pose to present the other side of the question,
and to show that our farmers are growing
poorer every year, and that the free “niggahs"
as proprietors, tenants and farmers, are “no
good,” as the Dutchman says. My position is
this: There can be no prosperity for our coun
try until the land holders live upon their estates
and utilize the negro or a wage laborer by di
recting him in all his operations and subjecting
him to constant and strict superintendence.
In the meantime let amatuer farmers
and pampered, kid-gloved editors, with
their polished pens and slick
tongues, decorate the holiday scenes and fes
tive exhibitions they find in their rural excur
sions and glorijy “the progress” of • people
who are sweltering in the dungeons and dust of
a system of profitless labor and profound de
spair—a people panting and ready to faint in
tie stifling fumes of free-niggerism!
The fact is that there is as much “progress”
and “prosperity" among the naked dependents
of the Brazilian coffee patches as there is among
the lazy, thriftless negro tenants of our South
ern cotton patches. To confess the whole
truth, there are white people who emulate the
virtues of Cuffe to a degree, and who would
doubtless be glad to dispense altogether with
the robe de chambre. Veritas.
s. s. s.
This Great Medicine Cures a Bad Case
of Poisen Oak in Clarke County.
Last Sunday, while at Mr. T. F. Hud
son’s, the great hay and carp man, who is
perhaps better known than any farmer in
the State, we noticed that his son, DeWitt,
seemed to be skinning off at the hands.
Mr. H. called the little fellow to him and
showed us how the skin, even on the
palm of his hands, was coming off in
flakes and a new skin appearing under
neath. He explained that several years
ago the child was badly poisoned with
poison oak, and every spring he broke out
and suffered greatly, He had applied
every known remedy to relieve the suf
ferer, and employed physicians to attend
him, but with no avail. "In fact,” Mr.
Hudson continued, “it seemed like to go
in sight of a poison oak vine would cause
the eruptions to break out afresh. After
trying everything else, I read in the Ban
ner-Watchman so much about the S. S 8.
blood medicine that I determined to try
that also, but must confess that I had lit
tle hope in it. But, as you see, its suc
cess has been wonderful. It has driven
every particle of the poison from my
child’s system, and is now putting a new
skin on him. He is thoroughly cured,
and the 8. S. S. did the good work. I
believe that it will drive out any kind of
poison from the blood, and its effect on
DeWitt proves it. There are a great many
sufferers from poison oak in the country,
and to such I can knowingly recommend
this great medicine. It not only effects a
certain cure, but seems to put fresh life
into one.”
This is onlv one of the numerous in
dorsements of S. S. S. that has reached
us, and we publish it as information to
those who are suffering with poison in
their system, it matters not from what
source it comes. This discovery in regard
to curing the effects of poison oak is of
great importance, as it gives a certain
remedy for a most common and aggrava
ting affliction, for which no permanent re
lief had ever been known. The S. S. S.
is certainly the king of blood medicines,
and is as Harmless as it is solvent for the
eradication of impure blood from the
system. Athens Banner-Watchman,
April 30th.
CAPITOL FUN.
Bagley—This is an age of invention,.
Clara. Have you heard of Dr. Bell’s dis
covery’’
Mrs. B.—What did he diccover?
"He discovered that the human voice
affects fluids—water for instance. I don't
exactly see the drift of the discovery, but’
it is very wonferful.”
"It is, indeed; and I have discovered
just the opposite, that fluids affect the
voice—whiskev, for instance. Have you
ever noticed that, William?” ■
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