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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. GA., TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 23 1884. TWELVE PAGES.
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farms and farmers.
SHORT TALKS WITH FARMERS ON
FARM TOPICS.
Saudi Farms and Large-Bough Food for Btook???
Good] Tools--Seeding to Grass???Hydropho
bia Cured???Boa ly.Legs-Freaerring Eggs
???Hog Cholera???Farm Notes,
Small Fabms and Large.???This subject is
still undergoing lively discussion at tho bands
of the agricultural papers. Taking his turn
the editor of the Indiana Farmer says in the
jfew England states the proper size of a farm
for general cultivation ranges all the way from
fiity to 100 acres of arable land. In the south
the tendency is to cut up the great cotton plan
tation into farms of 100 or 200 acres, while
Florida insists that twenty acres is as much as
a man can cultivate profitably. In these mid
dle-western states, where our farming does not
run largely to grazing, wo have settled down
in the opinion that a farm of 100 acres, or a
quarter of a section, is tho proper size for
economical farming; but the northwestern
grain fields run up into the thousands of acres,
while the cattle and sheep ranches of Texas,
when any attempt is made to define their
boundaries, are even [larger than the wheat
fields of Dakota.
But this question must ultimately depended
on tho kind of producting we intend to devote
our labor and our land to. Stock raising or
pasturage in any form demands a large area of
surface, and as grass requires little or no cul*
tivation and live stock feed themselves a largo
part of each year, one man can as easily man
age 1,000 Bcres of grazing land as he can 100
acres devoted to grain growing. But even
grain farming under the most thorough culti
vation requires much less hand labor than it
did a few years ago, and tho improvement in
tools and machinery is diminishing in every
year.
But fruit growing and market gardening de
mand vastly more labor and attention than or
dinary tillage. A fruit farm of twenty acres
judiciously divided between apples, peaches,
pears and small fruits, will demand as much
care and labor as two hundred acres devoted to
miscellaneous farm products, or five hundred
acres in grass; and usually it will yield as
much clear profit as either. Tho objection to
market gardening and fruit culture, at tho
north, is that it gives employment and income
but a part of the year. Toobviato this diffi
culty, many have attempted to divide their
mon sense methods in treatment of diseases,
much might be gained for animals and men.
Good Tools.???Mr. W. D. Boynton, of Wis
consin, says every man and team on a farm,
must cost the farmer from $500 to $800 pei
year, reckoning fair wages and board for the
driver, and the expense of keeping tho team
in good working condition. How many
farmers there arc who lose from a third to one
half of this cost, by not having suitable tools.
They not onlv lose in tho amount of work ac
complished, out they lose, also, by tho work
being poorly executed, and. still again by tho
additional wear which poor, hard-running im-
f on ^ tcam# j 8 0 ftel
actual loss, which is in
curred by getting behind with the work, as is
always the case where insufficient tools aro
employed.
A friend of his told him last fall, that ho lo3t
$500 by trying to make on old mower last him
another year. The machine was constantly
breaking in one part or another, and ho war
obliged. to send quite a distance in order to ge 1
fiereut pieces replaced. This ncccssitat
haying in conse
quence. Ho had a lorge amount of gross and
some of it got over ripe, and nearly all of it
was injured more or less by bad weather. lie
was finishing his haying, when he should
have been harvesting, and there again he lost
heavily. Ail winter long his, stock suffered
from the effects ol musty, half-rotten hay.
Directly and indirectly his loss, caused by
using a poor machine, footed up to tho amount
he stated. His experience, though rather a
costly one, is not without its beneficial results,
for it led him into a wiser method of economy,
not only in regard to mowers, in particular,
but with all his farm implements.
Some arc not shrewd enough to profit by
such failures, but keep blundering along, year
after year, with the same mistaken idea of
economy.
Poor ploughs, worthless harrows, rusty cul
tivators, shaky wagons, and the like, will eat
up the profits of a good farm about as fast as
anything Mr. Boynton knows of.
Skkdixo to Grass.???It has been thought that
???ur climate is unfavorable to grass. This idoa
has prevailed so long that it has come to be a
firmly established belief. But like sotno other
tia
labor and attention between grain farming and
email fruit; but almost invariably such ex*
periments have resulted unsatisfactorily. Just
at the time tho corn demands cultivation, the
atrawberrio* must go to market without delay;
and when the harvest demands attention, the
raspberries and blackberries must bo picked
ana marketed daily; and at the same time that
the fallow must be broken and prepared for
the wheat crop, the peaches and pears are
pressing for attcutien and will not wait with
out serious loss.
It seems to him that grazing of sheep and
cattle might be made to work harmoniously
with fruit culture and market gardening. At
tho season when his fruits end vegetables de
mand bis undivided attention his stock ?are
taking care of themselves, and when tho winter
core of his stock demands his attention, his
orchard and garden aro quiotly resting under
tho snow.
Tho admlrablo arrangement of our railroads
has literally brought tho markets of tho cities
to our doors and invito us to greatly "
the productions of cur soil. But this
diversify
tthis will de
mand that while we cultivate fewer acres wo
should cultivtt!
congratulate
provement i
twenty-five years. _
In tho last ten years is to bo credited
tivatothem more thoroughly. He
ties . iho farmer or a decided im-
t in this direction within the last
9 years. Tho marked increase in
ops in the last ten years is to bo credited
ainly to tho better preparation of the soil and
tho greater care in pfanting the seed. Tho
more important question is not whether wo
shall cultivate large or small farms, but how
much labor can be economically put on each
acre we till T What our crops need is a deeper
seed bed and a more thorough pulverizing and
fining of the soil. It is a waste of labor to at
tempt tho cultivation of more grouud than can
bo tilled thoroughly. It is hotter to raiso sixty
bushels of corn on one acre than thirty bushels
each, on two acres.'
Hough Food ro?? Stock.???Colman's Rural
World says thero has grown quite an extensive
enquiry of late years as to the valuo of roii"h
food and comparatively Innutritious food do
mesticated stock of all kinds, in the matter of
feeding the cob with tho corn, and the value of
straw as feod, for instance. This has had
more thoughtful experiments in the eastern
states and older countries than in the west,
because land is of higher valuo, and every
product of tho farm necessary utillizcd.
. It is,however,more from a physiological than
an economical standpoint, wo would now
present it. In a work on this subject, publish
ed thirty years ago, we read: ???It is a well
ascertained law of the animul economy, that
ood, to be healthy must contain a consider-
???* i that is wholF - - J, ???
uglit
our cliinato is unfavorable to grass. This idoa
l como U
like souk
popular beliefs, it is utterly baseless. The
truth is we have never tried to
ly indices!
bus, Magcndle,??tne physiologist,
found that dogs, fsd npon sugar, gum arabic,
butter, olive oil and aorao other articles of a
rich or concentrated nature, ooch given to the
animal se]
soon lost t
came emaciated,
died invariably within the space of four or five
weeks. Fed upon superfine flour brood and
water, they lived unformly about seven weeks,
varying only a day or two. When fed upon
coarse or military bread, such as contained
cither the whole or a considerable portion of
tho bran the dogs thrived perfectly well, and
were found in no respect to sutler. The **0*0
trtuh has often been illustrated on ship-board
at sea. In many cases where the hay and
straw wero swept overboard, it has been found
that the animals in a few days, famished, un
less ??some innutritions substance, as the
shavings of wood, was mixed with tho grain
S iven them. The animals have been observed
i gnaw at the spars and timbers, or whatever
wood they coula lay hold of, and thus tho idea
was suggested, that tho grain alone was of too
rich a nature for their sustenance.
A week or two since the Wfstcrn Rural, re
lying to a correspondent who idsisted that he
-jsd known of cases of hollow-horn in cattUj
and knew they had not died of want, wrote in
the following interesting way on the same
point:
???The fact that an animal is fat is not' con
clusive evidence that some part of the animal
Is not starved. The most striking illustration
of this is in swine fed wholly on corn, for no
other animal is so nearly confined to a single
article of diet as the hog, and no farmer
Laving had any reasonable amount of ex
perience esn fail to notice tnat even this vo
racious animal will finally refuse the corn diet
furnished and will delve into the very bowels
of the earth to*katiate his cravings, or utterly
devour a board fence to satisfy the yearnings
of the muscular or vital forces. In fact the
very part which should net bo starved, jf the
animal is to be kept in a healthful condition,
is the muscular system. Chemistry demon
strates the fact that bone Is composed largely
of the phosphates, the lean meat of muscle of
notrogenous elements and the fat .of carbon.
Corn is carbon and for fat-forming food it is
pre-eminent, but upon a corn diet alone.uo
animal could subsist beyond a definite period
of time, and would die of starvation, ana so it
Would on any other one sided food. Food
which builds up one part of the system while
other parts are starved is certain to bring
about diseased conditions in time.
**We want to say to our correspondent that
from our standpoint what Is called the hollow
ness of a sick cow's horn only indicates one of
the symptoms of the difficulty. Were it a fact
that* noliow horn is a disease then the horns
might be knocked off and the cow eared, as
the patient would be by the amputation of m
gangrened toe in a human being. Did oar
veterinarians and doctor* come down to com
tiblc and in*
leparately with pure woter, that very
t their appetites, began to droop, be-
laciatcd, were attacked with ulcers and
& b k
grow grass.
Wo have some timothy and clover os a hay
crop, but so far as seeding down a meadow
with grasses, it has not yet been done, except
ing by nature, and a few farmors who have
learned a lesson by observing natural effects.
The American climate is especially favorablo
to grass. If wo want a proof let us first look
at our roadsides, where, ns wo have personally
found, any observer may find a dozen varieties
growing permanently in spite of every unfa
vorable circumstance, as want of fertility, dry
weather, tramping, and weeds. In West Vir
ginia, Ohio, Indiana. Kentucky and Missouri
we may find natural meadows of blue grass
which equals the noted English permnnont
grass lands, and which aro now a contury old,
and as yet show no signs of failure. Further
west the boundless prairio has been covered
with perennial verdure, and still further mil
lions of cattle range over our vast pastures,
which have borne grasses of the most nutri
tious kinds for no ono knows how many con-
turics or tens of centuries. Interspersed
among tho mountains beyond tho plains are
sens of verdure in tho picturesque parks and
smaller valleys equally ancient, and which
bavo been green since the anciont days when
the soil was first formed for tho cooled rocks
which como from tho bowels of tho earth,
vomited amid fire and earthquake. So that
it cannot be the climate, but our want of tho
necessary skill which prevents us from grow-
;rass upon our fields. ???
e great troublo in tho way is, wo do not
choose tho right kinds, and wo do not sow
grass. Wo sow grain and put in grass, and
?? . ' ^tb. This is against all
wo look at tho grass upon
the roadsides we may learn a lesson that may
Wo shall find the grots covering the
olosely that tho soil cannot be soon.
??? find several varieties growing inter
mingled together, one maturing early and
others later all through tho season. Even at
this early period wo may find the first grass
to blossom. Poa annua roadr to flower, if not
already blooming. Then follows sweet vornal
grass, the sweetly odorous breath of the ver
nal spring exhaling from its foliage. Then
como tho June grasses. Poa pratensis and
Poa compressa, with their early herbage, and
the fescues of soveral specie#; several kinds ef
ogrostis; another usefuLPoa, the common fowl
meadow grass. Poa scrolina, and others follow
ing in succession, with tho not-to-be-forgotton
white clover crowding in among them for tho
place and living which nature owes it, but
which it will have whether or no. Do we
farmers grow grasses in this way? On the
contrary, wo try precisely the opposite course,
and sow ono grass and give that no kind of a
chance.
But wo aro gradually learning bettor. Sorao
of us have tried tho reasonable way aud have
met with success. Farmers aro now learning
to sow even the common timothy and clover
and treat it as a crop, that is, to proparo tho
a round well, as if for a crop of grain, and sow
10 seed alone and so thickly that tho ground
will bo fully occupied. Others aro mixing
several kinds, aud so precisely following the
example of nature, and tho more of this that
is done the more the example is followed. Wo
cannot dispense with grass. It is becoming
more and moro indispensablo to us every
year, and by and ty wo shall find the reason
why we have not succeeded earlier has boon
because wc have been blundering. Mixed
grosses, perfect preparation of tho soil, liberal
seeding, and sowing without any robber crop
to destroy it, will give us excellent gross fields.
Then we must learn to use these grass fields
well, feed them generously, and they will be
liberally responsive.???New York Times.
Hydrophobia Cubed.???I can give some faet#
which may bo of use to somebody, thereby
saving life. The timo between the biting of
on animal by a mad dog and showing signs of
hydrophobia is not less than mno days, but
may be nine months. After the animal has
become rabid, a bite ar scratch with tho teeth
upon a person, or slobber coming in contact
with a sore or raw place, would produce hy
drophobia just as soon as though he hod been
bitten by a mad dog. Hydrophobia can be
prevented, and I will give what is well known
to be an infallible remedy, if pronerly ad
ministered, for man or beast. A dose for a
horse or a cow should be about four times as
greot as for a person. It is not too lato to give
medicine anytime before tho spasms como on.
The first dose for a person is an ounce and a
half of elecampane root, bruised, put in a pint
of new milk, reduced to one-half by boiling,
then taken all at one dose in the morning,
fasting uutil afternoon, or at least a very light
diet alter several hours have elapsed. The
second dose same ns first except take two
ounces of the root; third dose the same ns the
last, to be taken every other day. These doses
are all that is needed, and thero need bo no
fear. This I know from my own experience,
and know a number of other eases where it has
been entirely successful. This is no guess
work. Those persons I allude to were bitten
by their own dogs, that had been bitten by
rabid dogs, and were penned up to see if they
would go mad. They did go mad aud did bite
the persons. , . .
Tne remedy has been used in and abmt
Philadelphia for forty years and longer, with
crest success, and is known as the Goodman
reraedv. I am acquainted with a physician
who told me he knew of its use for more than
thirty years, but never knew a ca*e that failed
where it was properly administered. Among
ether cases he mentioned one where a number
of cows bad been bitter! by a mail dog. To
half of this number they administered this
re medy, to the other half not. The latter all
died of hydrophobia, while those that took the
elecampane end milk showed no sign of that
disease.
gCALT Legs.???Your fowls hove the disease
known as the sealy legs. It is caused by
minute insects which burrow beneath the
scales on tbs legs and feet. Any application
that will kill these insects will effect a cure,
but coal oil will probably do the work quicker
than anything else, and it is always at hand.
Take an old quart tin, fill it two-thi/4* full,
hold the fowl firmly with both hands around
the wings, and dip the feet and legs in up to
the feathers; hold them there a minute or so
until the oil penetrates beneath tho scales.
Repeat this every third day until the scales
begin to fall off; usually three applications
will effect a euro. When tho scales begin to
drop off do not attempt to hasten matters by
scraping or rubbing the legs; it will mako
them sore. Let the scales drop off, aud after
the coarsest are off rub tho legs gently once a
day with sweet oil or melted lard. As your
fowls ore nearly all aflected it would bo well to
whitewash tho house and wet the roosting
perches thoroughly with coal oil. Examino
j???our young stock closely, and treat every ono
ihot shows afiv roughening of the scales an
legs or leet. When next you buy fowls that
you arc not acquainted with, shut them up
apart from the other fowls until you arc sure
they are all right.
Pbeservixo Eggs.???Several correspondents
want to know how to pack eggs so that they
will keep good for winter use; and soveral
more have asked my opinion of on egg 1
serving recipe that was advertised in tho
Prairio Farmer o short timo ago. I don't
know anything about that partioulor recipe,
but this much I do know: Thero is no need
for anyono who desires to preserve eggs, either
for market or for homo use, to pay oue cent for
any recipe. All the egg preserving recipes
that are good for anything nave been publish
ed over and over sgain in nearly all tho news,
agricultural, and poultry papers in the
country, end if you send money to any one for
a ???sure method of preserving eggs so that they
can not bo told from fresh laid, tho chances
ore that you will get some one of tho old re
cipes, just os it has been published for years
or else with the addition of some useloss lngre
diont. One of my neighbors paid a dollar for
a recipe that had been published by every
poultry paper in the country; another $2 for
the salt method, and an Ohio woman paid $5
for 0 ???new and infallible method," which
turned out to be the recipe for tho old salt hnd
lime way that has been in use for years.
Simply packing in fine salt is the easiest and
best method for housekeepers who desire to
save a few dozen of eggs for winter use, and
for poultry-keepers who have only a small
number to pack for market. Cover tho bot
tom of a keg, cask, jar, hogshead, or what
ever you choose to pack in, with a layer of
fine salt two inches deep; upon this ploco the
eggs, small end down, and far enough apart
so that they will not touch each other or tho
sides of the receptacle; then put on anothor
two-inch layer or salt, then another layer of
eggs, and so on until the package is full. Tho
salt can be used over and over again. Eggs
packed in salt took tho first prize for nrcsorv-
cd eggs at tho recent poultry show in Birming
ham, England.
How to Git Rid* op Chick be Lick.???
If tho chickens are threo months old,
uso coal oil; rub a little under the
wings and into tho foathert on tho
underpart of the body. Examino tho
chickens in threo or four days and if you find
lico repeat tho application of coal oil. If tho
chickens aro roosting in coops, or houses, tho
insido of their habitations should be white
washed and tho roosts wet with cool oil. If
they are roosting in trees, romovo them to a
house, coop, or shed that has been cleaned and
whitewashed. Also provide a placo whoro
fowls and chickens can wallow in dry dust to
their heart's content. In tho poultry houso
there should always bo a largo shallow box
two-tbirds full of a mixture ot perfectly, dry
road dust and wood or coal ashes, with a
tweuty-fivo cent packogo ol insect powder or
carbolic powder mixed in. Two-thirds dust
to onc-third ashes is our ???rccipo." Besides
this insido arrangement there should also bo
some out-door wallowing placo. You hove
probably noticed that tho young stock, and tho
old fowls too, are in the habit oiloafing around
somewhere in the shade during a part of the
day. Well, right thero you want to spado up
a lew squaro feet of * 1
throw on a panful ol
stovo. Other correspondents who havo asked
for remedies for lico on chickens will please
consider that this answer is also aimed at
them.
Hog Cholera Remedies.???I had over two
hundred hogs, and had lost half of them by
* * * I then dipped ears of corn in
tag t
WOMEN AS CLERKS.
Commissioner John II. Gregory Shows Why Women
Have Tbue Far Failed to Beaoh Appoint
ment Through the Civil Bervioe???Tho
Probabilities of the Future, Bto.
Washington, September 10.???The following
is a copy of a letter written by Hon. John W
Gregory, of the civil service commission, on
tho employment of women in tho public ser
vice:
Does the new civil service system favor the ap
pointment of women to the public service?
It must be admitted that thus far lower women
have obtained places under this than under tho
old system. Out of 331 appointments to the classl-
fled service, made under the civil service rules,
since July 16,1883, not Including tho special pen
sion examiners, only 32 have been females. It is
already generally known that tho civil scrvlco ex
aminations for clerkships are open alike to men
and women; that all tho applicants are examined
alike, marked by the same rules, and plnced.it
they pass, on common registers
for certification to the appointing
officers. The heads of tho departments,
when notices of vacancies are received by tho
commission, If no mention of tho sex required
were Included In tho notice,tho four names graded
highest would be sent without regard to sex, but
thus for all the requests except two, for names to
fill vacancies, havo contained the significant
words, "males 0 or "females." The two requests
In which no sex was mentioned wero recalled, and
the omission corrected. Tho wroug, therefore. if
wrong there be, lies not at the door of tho civil
service commission, nor yet at that of the system,
unless it be claimed that the system has relieved
the appointing powers from the pressure, aud left
them at liberty to select for the scrvlco such per
sons as they deem best. No explanation has, u
yet, been given of tho reasons of this prcfercnco
for male clerks, but it Is hinted that under the old
system an undue aud Inconvenient proportion ot
female clerks was pushed upon tho departments,
and that tho heads of these departments aro now
using llicir opportunity to even up tho force.
Jt is true that excessively large numbers of female
clerks and copyists are found In some bureau*.
One member of congress Is said to havo procured
the appointment ot forty women from his district,
and few men In power were able to resist tho
importunities of women who claimed to be In
found powerless as a means of winning places.
It Is said also that the bad conduct of sorao ???
nted prejudices againr
ireaus, while In other o???
9 chiefs of divisions And,
.worthy women has created prejudices against fo-
???malo clerks in some bureaus, while in otbe^^H
tho difficulty which the MM
or feel, in enforcing order and industry among N
male clerks, renders them hostilo to any Incrcadff
of such clerks. 8ome of those who appreciate at
the highest the service of many capable, industri
ous and altogether worthy women found in the
departments. stilUfcel reluctant to ask for the ap-
polnemcnt of unknown women whose names may
Went there fiom the lists of tho civil service com
mission, but doubtlessTnuch of this will chango
wl <n the superior character and ability ot tho
w< men brought forward by tho civil service ex-
an iuatlons shall become known. Many of tho
hot examination* hove been passed by women,
at cl tho books of the commission contain at this
time tho names of many who would bo an honor
to the service. While these women are not supe-
1 ior to the best of those now In tho dojairtmont*,
they will certainly be found better and more ca
pable than hundreds who, under tho old system,
wcio thrust in without examination, and too
often without merit, by the "Influence" of sym-
pathe tic congressmen, or of others high in Author
ity. There is no general prejudice against good
I female clerks, and as far as Is known tho heads of
tho executive departments aro disposed to do full
justice to tho women, and to give them their
Of thO SOr-
scrvlco system
during to tho officer* a
clttt of women whose capacity, Industry and good
MMi||||Mii|aiajHAMMariaMjbtlng chief of a bu-
conduct will prove to auy doubting
rcau or division the sterling valu<
men???s services.
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iff ol
TIIE JIlWISH NEW TEAR.
Saturday's Observances nt the Atlanta
Hynnguguc???ltiibbl Jacobson's Lecture.
Saturday morning the observance of the Jowhh
New Year was continued. The congregation met
at tho syuagoguo at nine o???clock and tho services
continued until nearly half past twelve. They
consisted of a scries of readings from the scrip*
tun * slid the prayer book, with a lecture by I??r,
jneotenu and the ceremony of blowing of the
trumpet. The reading was partly in English and
partly In nebrew. Most of tho Hebrew waa rather
chanted than read by tho rabbi. It Is supposed
that the scriptures were thus delivered to the poo-
>rn in that the scriptures were thus delivered to the peo-
VwL,,, plo in tho olden time. The frequent interaperslon
,. and of music by tho excellent choir added greatly to
them among the hogs. They ato it greedily,- ' flute
nnd iu a week nil wero on tho road to rccovcyr
Anothor remedy I have used successful is 11
Another remedy I havo used successful is that
of feeding corn in tho ear, which baa been
charred black.
Farm Notes.
This is an oxcollcnt year lor red clover, tho
two cuttings yielding much hoaviqf than
usual.
Maino farmers who attend the state fair have
got in a way of ???camping" on tho grounds.
Tho Worden grape is said to be as good as
the Concord and to ripen eyer earlier than the
Hartford. #
Mr. Vaughan, an American, bought the best
bull at Lord Wiltou's salo of polled cattle,
paying $10,050 for it.
???Timothy" grass took its namo from Tim
othy Hanson, of Maryland, who introduced it
in this country from England.
Tho Messrs. Kendall, of Bowdoinham, Mo.,
have grown eighty acroa of oats this year.
They estimate tho crop at 2,500 bushels.
A Denver dairyman has a cow ho claimes
ives ton gallons of milk a day. No ono will
ispvte the fact that this is a good ???claim."
Ten acres of red clover is sufficient pasture
for at least fifty bogs, and is superior for that
purposo to any other kind of grrts except
alfalfa.
In France, eggs are sorted and sized by pass
ing them through a ring. The average sized
ones must enter a ring four centimeters in di
ameter; tho small ones must enter a ring'tbree
centimeters.
An Ohio lawyer Insists that the theory that
the ago of a treo may be determined by count
ing the rings in a cross section is correct. In
his practice he bat often verified a surveyor's
date by counting the rings on ???hacked" 'trees.
Balt in their food when cooked, for poultry,
is a very proper seasoning, but salt given in its
raw statedf deleterious it much or it is eaten
by fowls. We do not reconfmend its uso in
any form save mixed with their mash of scald
ed meal and boiled vegetables.
11UILD1NG FOR THE GRAVE.
i Cat-
A Mnn Who was Hurled Saturday In
fln of Ilia Own Making.
Mr. J. I. McAlister died Friday at
Duluth and was buried in Atlanta Saturday.
He was formerly a citizen of Atlanta and was
Mr. W. E. McAlister's father. There is a very
interesting story connected with bis death and
burial that The Coubtitution will be pardoned
for printing. Mr. McAlister was a 'most wor
thy man end when he lived in Atlanta was a
carpenter at the planing mill of Longley &
Robinson. Ho was not a man of
much property and being of a
turn of mind determined
save his heirs a small sum by making his own
had nothing else
frugtl
save hi_ _
coffin at odd times when he 1
to do. lie secured some good poplar
and made two coffins, one Tor his wifo &uu vuo
for himself. His wife died soon after and was
buried in the coffin her husband had provided
for her. For five years the other coffin has
remained at Longley k Robinson's. Fri
day when Mr. McAlister died his son had the
coffin taken out and carried to
Patterson k Bowden???s, where Mr. Bowden
dressed it in an appropriate style. It was a
very handsome case and being nicely veneered
was as good looking as a mnn could deiire
and was snch a coffin as usually sells for sev
enty-five dollars. It was sent to Duluth and
Saturday the remains were brought to Atlanta
in it. 51bny stories are told of men keeping
their coffins ready for use, but U is not often
that a man really makes the narrow box that
is to be his last resting place.
An Elector.
Taixahamsk, Fla., September 19.???R. C. Long,
one of the democratic electors, has resigned from
the ticket and bis alternate, John O. fiaint Clair,
has been chosen elector by the state committee.
the interest and "impraaivcncM of the ceremony.
the lictubk or tub fabbi
was eminently practical and appropriate. Ho took
for bis text the Uth aud 10th verses ot the 10th chap
for of Numbers which read as follows:
???And IT ye go to war In your land against tho
enemy that oppresaeth you, then ye shall blow an
alarm with the trumpets; and yo shall bo remom-
bored before ibo Lord your Ood, and ye shall bo
saved from your enemies.
Also In the day of your gladness, and In your
solemn days and in the beginning of your month*,
yo shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt
offerings, and over tho sacrifice* of your peace
offcrltigs; that they may bo to you for a memorial
before you Ood: 1 am the Lord your Ood.
Dr. Jacobin said that tho Hebrew names for tho
day indicated that it w??* "a day. ot memorial"
I sml *lso ???a day for blowing the alarm." It is a
day of memorial, tho beginning of a new year
when we can look back over tho year that 1* gone
and *co what ha* been given to us and what has
been taken from us. H Is a time for calm reflec
tion. It Is a time to consider
whether by our lives wo have como nearer
to Ood or drifted further away Irom him. But bo
ride* being a day of memorial it Is a dnjr for
blowing tho trumpets. Few of us In this enlight
ened time believe lu an empty ceremonialism, hut
there Is a deep significance in this blowing of the
trumpets which la so emphatically enjoined til tho
text. One of the great lessons U teaches us to-day
Is that ws should not labor to
ourselves, but togetherIn .earnest
sympathy. It la *poor way to Uve, simply to at
tend to one???s own business and to let other folks
attend to theirs. That man Is poor, though he
possess a million seres oI fertile land, who sows
sod reaps for himself stone. The blast of these
tiumi-cts should swakeu these Jews, who while
professing faith In Judaism oontrtbute nothing
toward suy congregation, and never communicate
wlUi any except In time of distress The trumpet
blast I* not commended for private sacrifice*.
They should be offored In seemly silence and not
proclaimed with trumpet*. But when all the con
gregation ta gathered end the general offering is
made to God tho trumpet blasts are acceptable.
The lecture concluded with wholesome advlco
to the congregation at to the duties of
tho new year. In urging the faithful
observance of all dutlca the raublsald, ???As we aro
better men we shall lie better lareelltes. As we
strive to live better live* In this new year at Its
close we shall be better busbauds, better wives, if
that be pornible, more careful aud more useful
fathers and mothers, nobler men and nobler
women.?
blowing Tine trumpet.
| T After the lecture there was solemn raiisid
and the chanting . of the scriptures
the service In Hebrew by the rabbi. Three times
the congregation roae, and be blew each time
three blasta on the trumpet, or hom, dedicated for
Hint purpose. The service was very Impressive.
It was followed by singing fn tho usual flue stylo
of the choir which served the synagogue. A prayer
was then ofleretf for all those
??? who bad been bereaved by death
'during the past year, they rising wherever they
??? happened to sit in the congregation. After an
other bjrmn the benediction was pronounce 1.
I The synagogue was quite full, aud thouuh the
services were nearly three hours and a half long,
they were followed with tho closest Interest
throughout. The afternoon waa spout quietly at
their own homca by most of the congregation. At
6 o'clock the new year passed away and they re
sumed their regular business avocations on the
second day of the year 5645.
SPEAKING IN TIIE MOUNTAINS.
Jmlga Lester's Mission for the National
Ticket In North Georgia.
Yesterday afternoon Judge Lester, hi* one arm
adorned with a duster and a well worn valtsc In
bis hand, wended hi* way to the passenger depot.
When asked bis destination he replied that he
was going to Pickens superior court which will
meet to-morrow. Court week is a great time for
the gathering of the people ??? * ???
counties and Judge Lester has
nity to put in some good work
on the Cleveland ana Hendricks . -
the people of north Georgia and will give them
feme wholesome campaign food. There arc
a good many republicans in Pickens and the sur
rounding conn tit*. It fs rumored that Mr. 8. A.
Parnell will to'on hand at Jasper during court
week to make a speech for Blaine and Logan. It
Is not im proto hie that a joint dlscuwloii
mry occur between him and Judge
Lister. Tbs Judge to willing,
A Rat filter Killed.
September 16.???A
r from
ci baa token this opportu-
1 work as elector at-Urge
mdricks ticket. He knows
Cl at, Texas, September 16.???A negro rsv-
isber, escaping from Brazos count;
bought refuge in ibis place last night,was cap
tured and shot by unknown parties.
CHAMPION SNAKE STORY.
Two Stories of Wonderful Encounters With
Reptiles.
From the Eatonton, Go., Times.
As Captain James B. Darsey and Mr. D. F.
Morrisan were on their way to tho captain???s
ferry this morning, they noticed that the
wiregrass was somewhat beaten or pressod
After following tho trail for several hundred
yards, to their utter consternation and sur-
S riio they espied tho ynonster rattlesnake of
10 season. Thoy tackled him with a
lightwood knot or two, when tho snako
commenced hissing and rattling, and actually
raised itself up to tho height of at least six
feet and sprang at them, tumping about its
own lengtli. They had to hustWfarther away
and resort to powder and lead. Tho first shot
took effect m one sido of tho snake???s neck,
which only seemed to enrage him. Ho
tinued his standing posture, making several
more leaps toward his adversaries, making a
faint nolso somewhat liko the hollowing
of an alligator. They iinall
after firing somo ton round .
wounded him so badly that he could not movo,
and soon finished him with clubs. On meas
uring the snako it was found to bo ten feet and
eleven inches long, seven inohes across tho
head, twenty-two inches around tho body and
twenty-three rattles, a button and a button
hole. Captain Darsey says if he had not hm.
a little of the ???odium vitoa" at the ferry whon
thoy got thero, ho and Frank would scarcely
have survived tho terrible conflict.
. TIIIBTT-FOUR IN A BOW.
From the Columbus, Ga., Times.
A strange story comes to us from ono of the
counties below hero, and if it wore not for the
fact that fact is moro itrange than fiction, we
should feel a hesitancy about relating it. Tho
story is this: A gentleman having boon at
worx in a field some distanco from iiome
carried his dinner with him. Whon
como he took his bucket and went in a piece
of woods near by, and close to a crock, to oat
bis dinner. After finishing the meal ho sat down
on a log to rest awhile beforo resuming his
work. While thus engaged, happening to
g lance at au old decayed stump just before
im, he saw a snake???s head protruding from o
hole. Ho immediately seized a long polo and
* uujq???var. In a short timo mo DiiuHo, nuir Boo
ing him, crawled out and os lie did so the
g entleman killed him with a well-directed
low, (seeing then, to his horror,
ithat it was that most dreaded rep
tile, tho rattlcsnako. Toll is aston
ishment another camo out and was also slain,
and another, and another, until thirty-four
had been counted. Whilo still watching tho
holo lie observed that the last snako had only
been wounded and bad crawled off and was,
apparently, writhing in tho agunios of death
somo distance ofl on a sand bar c&usod by tho
overflow of tho creek. Ho immediately left
his post and advanced towards the hideous
roptilo to dispatch him. When ho reached
tho spot tho snako was appa
rcntly dead, Looking down oi_
tho smooth sand near by ho saw, to his utter
amazement, tho words ???no moro" traced
thereon in plain, distinct characters. Ho
looked at tho snako and he looked at the
words. Ho saw that a capital N should havo
been used in commencing a sentence, and ho
mado the correction, then, seized with a sud
den superstitious fear ho hastened homo and
told hia strange story. We givo it to tho pub
lic for what ft is worth. Alter all, tho snako
may havo lied; perhaps tlioro was no 11
BUSINESS AND TRADE.
The Failure of the ltludakopf Brothers In
New York.
Nkw York, Bsptembar 10.???Simon Rind
skopf, Morris Rindskopf, Raphael Duohavar
and Jacob Rosenthal, comprising the firm of
Rindskopf Brothers k Co., wholesale clothiers,
doing business ot No, 168 Broadway, and who
have been in business nboiit forty yoars, filed
nu assignment to-day for the benefit of t L *
creditors to Jacob W. Mack.
Tho 'total amount of prcforcnccH n about
$88,V71. Morris Rindskopf. of tho firm, is
woll known for his cliaritablo bequosU to tho
poor of tho city, llo is treasurer of tho united
Hebrew chant let, and also of iho Jlobrow
orphan asylum. Simon Rindskopf is also
highly connected and well known. Assignee
Mack is secretary and treasurer of the Nathat
manufacturing company.
Rindskopf Bros, k Co. organised In Gin
riniinli in 1854, and moved to New York in
I860. Thoy wero among tho largest clothing
houses in tho country. They hnvo never be
foro failed and havo enjoyed the highest
credit. Raphaol Birtbinan, of tho firm, is a
director in tlio Importers and Traders??? and
Fifth avenue banks, and tho United States
Life lnsursnro company. The liabilities aro
estimated at $90,000, and the actual assets aro
$101,000. Tho firm called on ite friends for
largo sums a week ago, as it has suffered
heavily from the stringent mouey
market. Their frionds agreed to
tide them over. On close investigation the
firm felt justified in accepting help. This in
vestigation was made, aud alter consultation
with their attorneys, Stories k Meyers, 18
Wull street, it was deeided that friends should
not bo imperiled, and au assignment was tho
best for aU consented. They w??ro forced to
this by tho foct that a largo interest wus In
jeopardy, and efforts to secure it were unsuc
cessful. Rindskopf Bros, k Co., who have fil
ed on assignment, are the firm about which
rumor* wero current yesterday. They havo a
force branch house in Cincinnati. The firm
he* been rated at $200,000 to $500,000, with
credit very high.
Tire llualness Failures,
K zw York, Heptember 19.???Business failure*
throughout tho country, occurring daring last
week, aa reported to It. G. Dun k Co., number
for the Unitedfllatcs, 196, and for Canada 23;
total 210, compared with 220 last week. Tho
number is nearly identical, and tho distribu
tion of failures about the sumo c?? in the pro-
FARM FOR SALE.
PARK OF 185 ACRES IN THE WESTERN
part of Newton county, 7 miles of Covington
and within three miles of Presbyterian, Methodist
or Baptist Cburchts. Lie* well and ta well water
ed and suited to Cotton. Grain andl tbs Gramas,
with gram and clover lots started. Ninety acres???
liioiiUy Irish, In high state of cultivation; ten acres
fn bottom. Tine pasture. Stock law In opera
tion. Four room dwelling wltb*lw.?? tenement
house*, ail new. Flue water. Fruit has never
teen known to fail. Eight months scho ??l conve
nient. Payments easy. J. A.COwAN.
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X IS suit .0 MMWPMXSOW,fMe Agent* for the
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JUST BACK
Wc arc just home again from New
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Our new cutter is one of the most
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Our new goods for the fall and
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CLOTHIER AND TAILOR,
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CONSTITUTIONAL SCROFULA.
A girl In my employ ban Lmi cured of what I
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Bwift's Bpccfflc* J. O. MCDANIEL,
Allatoona, Ga., July 25,1861.
TETTER FIFTEEN YEARS.
Hftllt'tBpeclOo has cured roe of au ob-timito
Tetter of fifteen yes re???s standing. L. COOK,
Palmetto, Ga., July 18,1881*
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R. M. STRICKLAND, M. D..
CaveBprlng, Ga.. July 28, 1884.
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A young lady who waa troubled with Tetter and
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A negro on my form bu been cured of a fearful
case of Blood Poison by the use of three boillcsjof
Bwift's Bpedflc. ANDREW J. HOWARD.
Forsyth, Ga., Atig. 5,1884.
ETTER FOR ELEVEN YEARS.
Bwift???s Bpedflc has cured me of Tetter rrom
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Dawson, Ot., Aug.??, 1881.
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