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BEATS CHEAP INTO
Atlanta’s Commission Trade Of
fers Some Suggestions.
IT IB SUPPLIED BY OTHER STATES.
h'ew Vork, Virginia, Ohio »n I Other
State* Fin I a Market Herr-Georgia
Might Well Supply It Hom* Figure*
Showing th* A.l»anlas« It Would Be to
the Fanner* to Ital.e Garden Product*.
"My firm,” said Mr. O. L. Stamps,
•Moe an ananal business in produce of I
$33,000. Tim bulk of it is shipped to us
from out of the state. Louisiana, Ala
bama, Tennessee, Virginia, Ohio, Mich
igan, Indiana and New \ork find a
splendid miM'.ul among the commission
nu n of the city.
These states sell us with a profit the
produce of their a' il. Ni w York ships
to Atlanta thousands of barrels of Irish
potato, i. and receives a good price for
them. Tennessee also ships us large
quantities of potatoes Cabbage comes I
to us at this ea-on of the year f< m
New Orleans and ar > id Mobile, Ala.
Early in the year we get cabbage
f om Virginia, but the supply there is
a, a ays exhausted by this time. Later
in the spring Florida will ship largo
quantities o cabbage to us. Nearly all
of our butter comes from east Tennes
see, as do our chickens and eggs. North
Georgia supplies tiie Atlanta market
with a fairer cent of the hist two
items. Onions we got from New York,
in tiie main. Georgia pretty well sup
plies the market with sweet potatoes.”
“Lint & Lovelace,” said Mr. Doolit
tle, their bo kkeeper, “have a large
trade in the various articles of country
produce you have mentioned. The
amount, of course, varies during the
year, according to the season. I have
boon figuring lor two days on the busi
ness of about a year and a half, and
have here the figures of an average
month’s business. More than 75 per
cent of the produce comes from other
states than Georgia. Nearly all of the
butter and eggs we handle come from
ca t Tennessee. 1 calculate that in a
month wo handle $-180 worth of chick
ens and SGOi) worth of butter. Irish po
tatoes are shipped to us from the north
and ea t and we send away monthly at
least $1)00 for that one item. We han
dle but little butter, but most of it
comes f rom Tennessee. I should say SBO
a month would be a good average. On
ions are an important item in our trade,
and they arc hipped to ns from Now
York almost entirely. Wo handle sl,-
SOO worth in a month. 'The money for
them goes to the east. The sweet pota
toes we handle wouldn’t exceed SIOO in
a month.”
Mr. T. A. Murray, of the Southern
Produce com cany, said that out of an
average week’s business of $350 nearly
0O per cent of articles sold came
Ironyho 4*i ; e. .N’ag’t (,Georgia
■implied some butter and eggs. Vir
flMina and New Orleans held the cab
bage market, ami east Tennessee had a
corner on butter, except what was sold
by the north Georgia farmers.
‘.‘Warsaw, Tenn.,” said Mr. E. B.
Stanley, one of the city’s best known
commi'-ion m n, “furnishes many At
lanta merchants with butter and eg-s
and chickeqs. This is a thriving tow n,
to ju t.,'-' from its daily shipments to the
comnii sion men oi Atlanta.
“My firm,” said Mr. Petty, of Petty
Brothers, did a business last year of
$35,000. Nearly the whole of it was in
at tides of country produce. We get
butter from east Tennessee, from Chi
cago and from the mountain counties of
Georgia. Yes, the Chicago butter is
fairly good it we get it in tune. It is
creamery batter. We ship Irish pota
toes from New York. Cabbage comes
from Mobile. Ala , Louisiana and Vir
ginia. Onions are shipped to us from
Ohio. Georgia supplies us with tur
nips and swi'-'t potatoes.”
Practically the same story is told by
all of the commission men, Os course
the aggregate amount of their monthly
sales differ in amount, but their sales
represent the same percentage of de
mand for the products mentioned. They
are articles lound upon every table. The
demand for them, of course, comes from
the people through the retail grocery
men, whom the wholesale commission
men supply. These represent..rive firms
qnotedigivo .<->m > idea of the volume of
business done by the comnii -s.o a trade
of the city. As can be se< n, thousands
of dollars pass through its channels
weekly. The bulk ot the money goes
out of the state.
If there is any practical suggestion in
this commercial side light it is this,
that here a tine opportunity is offered to
the productive class of Georgians.
Here is a ready, anxious, profitable
market for articles of produce that ev
ery Georgia farm can produce abun
dantly and successfully. It is a splen
did field right at the doors of Georgia
farmers, and in this era of 5-cent and 4-
cent cotton it is especially enticing.
COTTON.
I asked Mr. O. L. Stamps why Geor
gia could not furnish the commission
market of Atlanta with .he articles
spoken of.
"I know of no reason,” said he. “ex
cept that the farmers are rooted and
grounded in the cotton idea. They
have had it so long that they can’t get
rid of it. It's an old tradition. Why,
there’s uiucii mere money in raising
these articles that we have been talk
ing of, for wich a ready market can
be fount ail the year r juud than m
raising cotton at even a better price
than 5 cents a pound.
ONIONS.
“To illustrate: 1 know a farmer who
lives less than l’i) miles from Atlanta
who determini 1 to plant an acre in ci
ions instead of in cotton. Tiie result
amazed him. It is a*act that many of
the ooiunii-sion men here know to be
true that he sold iu one year s.'• '0 worth
of onions off that a-re’ If anything,
the labor of cult ration wr.s e<s T. e
cost of getting the .- ts was probab'y a
little great< r than th 1 cost' of co ton
seed, but look at the r suit. It is a
good aero of land that will produce a
bale of cotton. It is the ex ition A
bale o' cotton isn’t worth m r ~iau
S3O. Th.- man with the very b's: re
sults in cotton would have rewived $470
less profit on his one acre if he had put
it in cotton. The onions can be plant
ed closA together in rows, and the rows
THE CHATTOOGA NEWS.
nay be put close together. But that’|
just one item. Cabbage could be
ed here, too. There’s no better country
than Georgia for Irish potatoes, and
th-- huge pile of money that goes ou|
of the state every year for Irish pottfc
toes could be saved if the farmers would ;
plant potatoes for the market.
MUTTER MAKING.
“East Tennessee has every advant
age over Georgia as a butter producing
country because of the attention ano i
care they give to the preparation of
butter. If we get a consignment of
Georgia butter, it is made up of a dozen
colors of butter—some white, some pale |
yellow, some deep yellow. A Tennes- ;
tee shipment of butter Is one color, and
for thq reason that the Tennessee man
has a process of melting it all together.
What is the cost of shipping buttes
from Tennessee? “Well, it comes by
express, and I should say that the ex
press toll and the cost of canning would
amount to about 2 cents a pound.”
Mr. J. F. Petty believes in Georgia aa
a producing state, and says it could
supply the market here if the farmers
would only turn their energy and at
tention to it.
“I have an uncle,” said he, “who
lives just over the line of Fulton, in
Cobb county. Last year he planted a
quarter of an acre of ordinary farm
land in onions. I bought from him my
-B<*lf S4B worth of onions.”
“This merely illustrates what the
Georgia farmers can do in this direc
tion.”
“There is hardly an article sold by
the commission men of the city,” said
one ol the best known commission men
in Atlanta, “that the Georgia farmers
could not furnish us. Farmers from
other states ship us the articles ami
make a great profit off of them, and if
they can do it, why certainly, iu these
days of cheap cotton, the farmers of
Georgia can do as well. ’ ’
IRISH POTATOES.
“As fine Irish potatoes as can be
grown anywhere can be grown in Geor
gia soil. Magnificant cabbage can bo
grown here, and you would little think
it, but celery, as good as we get'from
Michigan, can be produced in Georgia,
All it requires is plenty of water. Our
Georgia truck farmers could produce it
profitably.
“The butter, chickens, eggs, onions
and other articles for which thousands
of dollars go out of Atlanta to other
states every week, should be produced
right around Atlanta.
"Why, if I had a farm, situated con
venient to a shipping point, I would not
tnink of putting my land in cotton. I
would run the northern and eastern
farmers out of the Atlanta market and
get some of the benefit of it myself.
There are not only some 30 or 40 com
mission houses in Atlanta which are
doing a thriving business, but there are
in Atlanta tour or five brokers who
represent big producers in the west,
north and e t and sell to the commis
sion men. These brokers get a good
profit on all their sales, the commission
man gets a good profit, then add to that
the cost- of shipping and the profit to
the producer and the article is neces
sarily somewhat expensive before it
gets to the consumer. There’s profit
ail along the line. Georgia farmers
who are located convenient to a market
should adopt this suggestion this year,
and instead of pinning their faith to
cotton try this. A good, ready and
profitable market can be found all the
year round.”
RAISING FOR MARKET.
The Georgia farmers who sell their
products to the commission men are
very few. The few who do sell their
products do not make a business of rais
ing for the market, but finding that
they have more than is needed for home
consumption they dispose of the sur
plus. Within a short radius of the city
there are a number of thriving and
prosperous truck farms, but they never
deal with the commission men. They
have their own delivery wagons and sell
direct to the consumer. In nearly every
instance they have thrived. There is a
progressive farmer, near Moore’s mills,
11 miles from Atlanta, who, three
years ago, gave up the planting of cot
ton for truck farming and made more
in one year from the lat ter than he did
in three from cotton. Ho now has a
paying line of customers in the city.
ROOTS OF CORN.
Question 3.—Please tell me to what
depth the roots of corn penetrate, and
to what depth should one plow to pro
duce the best crops?
Answer 3.—This a very far reaching
question, and covers an area which we
cannot go over in a paragraph. As to
to the first, corn roots have been known
to !■■ scend to the depth of niue feet.
This, of course, was under most favor
able conditions, bat rhe fact is authen
tic. Tin answer to the second clause of
your question is that the depth ot plow
ing should vary according to the qual
ity of the land and the distance of the
subsoil from the surface. It is bad pol
icy to turn up large quantities of clay,
and therefore all characters of laud
cannot be plowed alike; but the
soil is opened aud pulverized to the
depth of 10 or 12 inches the crop
stands 10 chances to one against injury
from drought. We have in mind a
piece of very ordinary land in our own
county, the breaking of which was
done last spring with a oue horse plow,
followed by a subsoiler. It was ma
nured heavily, and the yield was 436
bushels ou 10 acres of land. Wherever
• we see the twisted, yellow leaves of
corn during a drought, the condition ia
due more to shallow plowing than to
dry weather. The beneficial effects of
deep preparation are never more plain
ly marked than on a crop of corn dur
ing a drought. I saw daily during the
past summer a field of corn which fully
illustrated the wisdom of deep plow
ing; side by side were the rows, one
green and vigorous, the others twisted
and yellow: the first, deeply plowed at
the outset, the second merely broken ou
the surface, according to our u sual short
sighted system.
SUPPLEMENTAL CROPS.
Question 4.—Farmers are advised to
supplement their cotton crop with other
paying crops. Will you mention some
that southern farmers can engage in
profitably? I don’t m -an castor beans
or hops or a-, vth ng • .-e with which we
are uitacqu tinted, but something that
we know suits our soil and will sell
, well?
Answer 4.—We have had several
questions on this line, and for reply
would refer our correspondents to the
commissioner’s regular “talk.” for this
month, and also to the facts g:ren_ in
another column from ex-Governor Nor
theu and several different commission
merchants of Atlanta.
CHATTOOGAVILLE, GA.
As it has been some time sin-’ 1
I written you, will now write;
probably I might have something
that would be news for your many
readers.
The health of our community is
very good at present. J. L. John
son Las been sick but is now well
again.
We have had some extreme cold
weather and lots of snow. The
boys, I think have nearly extermi
nated the rabbits. Mr. R M. Ray
killed 37 in one day last week and
it was not a very good day either
for rabbits.
We have a fine school at Walnut
Grove church: wo have had over
100 pupils. The settlement is al
most a unit for Prof. White. The
pupils are a unit on both of our
teachers. Miss Guthrie is beloved
by’ all.
On account of the snow the mail
failed one trip.
I noticed K. R. Foster’s letter in
the News. He seems to think that
times are as good and prosperous
here as at any time since the war,
especially with the farmers; lie
says the hard times is only’ imagi
nary and not real. I see adver
tised for sale, 16 lots and parts of
lots of land for sale for tax, what
is the matter with them farmers?
I also see 8 town lots advertised
for sale, all for tax. What is the
matter if is it only imaginary. I
believe there was about 21 fifas is
sued against parties in this district
for tax, and I believe Seminole is
about as good to pay as any dis
trict in the county, and we have
ten districts. Now multiply 21
by 10 ai.d you have 221 tax fifas
for Chattooga county, but we must
not look at it as a fact- We must
imagine it all false. Now if we
can make the levyingofiicers think
that they have no fifas, wo will bo
all right; we must just imagine so
anyway. I reckon our tax collec
tor was just a joking, and did not
mean anything by issuing the tax
fifes, Mr-,Foster, says ” u arc ac
cumulating property. What has
the farmer got that he can get
value or equivalent in money? We
might put up land at public sale
worth S2O per acre, and it would
not bring $5, and so with a good
horse or mule. In good tmes
when money was more plentiful
SIOO or $l5O and now it would not
bring $25. There are some few
men who have some corn, meat
and peas to sell but ve cannot get
money for our produce If we have
cotton to sell we can get about
the cost of production; still Mr.
Foster would have us work more,
oat less, and imagine that we are
all right. I know a man that
bought a wagon several years ago
he paid SBO for it, one bale of cot
ton paid for the wagon. Now in
time of a democratic administra
tion with extremely low tariff, it
takes two bales of cotton to buy
the same wagon. Is this prosper
ous times for farmers, or the spec
ulators? The most of us are farm
ers in Seminole district, and we
I plow, hoe, reap and sow, and all
‘ these kinds of things, and yet our
; hats are all flopped down for lack
of money to buy a new one; our
coats are ragged and all in strings
and no money to buy a new one
with. Our pants are patched on
top of patches and no money to
buy clothes to make a new pair.
Our shirts are worn out and though
cotton cloth is cheap, I know peo
ple that have no shirts to wear
next to their skin, all for the lack
of money to buy with. Mr. Foster
says all who work are prosperous.
Now if he can only show us how it
is then I will begin to imagine
with him, we are told that it is
over production that we are mak
ing too much, and then some say
to diversify'your crop* and make
less cotton, but I find that every
thing has gone down, that a farmer
raises just the same as cotton, so I
have concluded that it is not over
production at all. but the demoni
tization of silver from time ininie
i niorial we have had gold and silver
money as our standard money un
til 1873, then bonks broke, mer
chants failed. Just like we see
■ now. everywhere. Silver after a
i few years was partially rtrnnmi-
I tized and business of .11 kinds
i moved on as-—usual until 1893,
I th n half of our money standard
and the higg.-st half was knocked
j off the table and lost in the repeal
of the purchasing act of the Sher
• man law, it was called a cowardly
! makeshift and repealed uncondi
-1 tionally, and our representatives
; have not done anything yet for
the relief of our once prosperous,
but now unhappy people.
G. A. Ragland,
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA. FEBRUARY 27.1895.
FUTURE OF POPULISM.
Its Policy to Be Decided Upon at
a Kansas City Convention.
Kansas City, Mo.. Feb 18 —A;
lively time is expected h.- re in tl
convention of the National R< form
association Feb. 22. whei it nif !•
in annual session. The future
p licy of the populist party in re
gard to financial and other nat
ional questions will be decided.
But two factions of the populist
party, the one which is loyal to the
Omaha platform and the other
which would like make new depar
tures. will he well represented, and
they are expected to clash and
make things lively.
There will be a discussion on
the question of establishing a nat
ional reform press bureau in
Washington. H. E. Taubeneck,
of Washington, chairman of the
national committee of the people’s
party, will speak on the problem
of getting independent telegragh
news for populist papers. J. H
McDowell, of Nashville, president
pf the association, will speak on
the power of the press. Gen. J. B.
Weaver will speak on the necessity
of unity of action by all populist
papers.
Will Get SI,OOO Reward.
London, Feb. 18. —The body of
Walter Schull, who was a cabin
passenger on the North Gorman
Lloyd steamship Elbe, was recov
ered today in the English channel
off the headland of Dungeness
county of Kent. A reward of sl,ol'o
had been offered by the friends of
Mr. Schull for the recovery of his
body.
That Needle Story.
It is g' ing the rounds of the
press again. Here it is:
In January, 1835. Lovina Isher
wood, of Bath, N. Y., then a girl
of fourteen, swallowed a needle.
Ever since then the needle has
been journeying to and fro through
the body. When she was sixteen
years old she felt it pricking in
lor too Two years afterward it ’
made itself felt under her knee,
and came so near the surface that;
every one thought it work its wav i
out, but it did not. It turned and ■
started on a new trip. Several j
years passed before it was felt i
again, In the meantime the girl!
I.nd become Mrs. Durham Timi.
it was felt under the shoulder
blade. Two years later Mrs. Dur
ham felt it near the right elbow
Four years afterwards it assailed j
Mrs. Durham’s right knee, and an ;
attempt was made to cut it out.!
but it got away. So it had been ■
going over since, but last week it ;
was felt m her left leg, and a doc-:
tor succeeded in cutting it out. It'
was headed for another upward
i journey.
A Jack of All Trades.
The Rev Mr. Bedell, who used ’
to preach in Calhoun county, Ga
was what is called “jack of all
trades.” While ho was living at !
Newton it. is related of him that a
young runaway couple seeking to
get married came to the ferry at
that place and called for the ferry
men, when Bedell responded to
their call and put. them across the
river. While doing so the young
i .nan inquired for a blacksmith, as
Ihe wanted some repairs made on
i his buggy. Bedell replied :
“I am a blacksmith and will re
pair it.”
[ The young man next inquired
; for a hotel to stop at. Bedell re
plied :
“Come with me: I keep the ho
tel and will entertain you.”
The next inquiry was for the
clerk of the court of ordinary in
order to procure a marriage li
cense. Bedell answered:
“I am the clerk and can issue
you a license.
He finally inquired for a minis
ter to perform the marriage cere
mony. The man of many occupa
tions was again equal to the emer
gency, and informed the would-be
bridegroom :
"I am a minister, and will per
form the ceromony for you.' - —At-
lanta Constitution.
Ten Negroes Drowned.
Way< toss, 'la . Feb, 18. —
reported hero ‘that ten
were drown d Saturday at the.
Florid. Cnntral and Peninsular i
railroad bridge over the SatilL ’
river. To ■t • r.i.’ - n .. -: i
got so cold th.i bey - i:G in try
ing to ■ t aslu c
The farmers oi W illon conn ty j
met at Monroe Tuesday to decid l '
what should be <1 ne in regard t >
the high price of guano and the I
low price of cotton. It was re- 1
solved to reduce thecotton acreage
one-fourth and not pay more than ;
$16.25 per ton for fertilizers and
not to use much of it at that price.'
Mr. L. E. Overman, of Chicago, '
has purchased $10,000,000 worth
of coal lands in Ohio,
MORE SOUTHERN MILLS.
New Cotton Plants to Be Erec
ted to Head off New England
ers.
Atlanta. Feb. 20. —President
•lac- b Elsas, of tie Fulton bag and
’“tt n mills, announced today
that he has just closed a contract
for the erection of a new 25,000
spindle cotton mill. His present
capacity is 15,000, so he will have
10,000 in all.
Dr. J. D. Turner, president of
th- exposition mills, also an
nounces that an entire new mill
to bo devoted to the manufacture
r ? sea island goods will be erected
In. his company at once This
v ill be a 20,000. spindle mill.
It looks as if the southerners,
seeing the impending influx of
N4w England mills, propose to
carry just as much of this proper
ty as they can. Both es these con
cerns have made big money and
a..c making it annually.
-That the blood should perform
il« vital functions, it is abso/uteh
ae. ussary it should not only he
pure hut rich in life-giving ele
ments. These results are best ef
fected by the use of that well
known standard blood purifier,
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla.
Tillmanites and Conservatives.
Columbia, S. 0., Feb. 19. — Mod
erate conservatives and Tillmanite
leaders held a conference here to
night. Their purpose is to avoid
bitter campaign over the consti
tiKional convention.
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News Cullings.
Jason Swanson, a young farmer
I - n T J O
iof Sugar valley, Gordon county,
I committed suicide last Wednesday
;by hanging. He was newly mar
’ ried and no cause is known for the
1 act.
, Fred Doug'as, the noted negro
( leader and orator, died in Wash
] mgton lust Wednesday. He was
j born a slave in Maryland, but es
| caped to New England in 1838-
I He was worth about $150,000.
The ministers of Port Huron,
j Mich., have signed an agreement
i that they will no longer bury any
| one on Sunday.
The cold wave of last week that
! struck Florida is thought to have
' been more destructive with the
I orange groves than the previous
ifreeze.
South America has the greatest
unbroken extent of level surface of
i any country in he world. The
Llanos of the Orinoco are so flat
that the motion of the rivers can
I scarcely be detected over an area
of 200,000 square miles.
A Madison, Ga., young lady and
one of her young attorneys have
formed a partnership to give the
attorney a case. She proposes to
begin a breach of promise suit and
to employ him as counsel. If he
wins the suit, she will then marry
him in payment of his fee,
A man who knows the value of
■ advertising has summed up his
conclusions as follows: “A man
m? - ■. uy, and a man may lie, and
a man may puff and blow, but he
can't get trade by sitting in the
- iad '. .vuiting for “uslness to
grow. ’
Th directors of the Atlanta
i Ex 1 Mtn>n y.. I b- by the
IcommilU-e on agriculture to offer
■■ prizes, aggi gating
! for '.;.c e st t elve ct'Uiitv displavs
Im toe ugricult»ral department
The flr.->t priz - will be "1,500 and
■ the twelfth will b
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Remember HOOD’S CURES,
News Notes.
The South Carolina legislature
has made an annual appropriation
of for the state militia.
It is reported that Lewis Red
wine, Atlanta's defaulting bank
cashier, is dying with consump
tion in the Columbus, Ohio,
prison.
Robert F. Craig who shot and
killed A. M. Womble in Chatta
nooga some days ago, was released
from custody on a $15,000 bond
last week.
Mrs. Hunt, the woman who
headed the movement against Col.
Breckinridge in the Ashland. Ky ,
district, died in Lexington last
week at the age of 76.
The thirsty souls in South Car
olina just across from Augusta
have been shipping whisky across
the river in tin cans and labelled
"tomatoes.” A keg of beer was
also found in a barrel of sugar.
A new marble company has been
organized at Gainesville.
A. S. Dyer, of Young Harris, lost
his stock of goods by fire recent
1y-
The residence of J. D. McCarty,
of Clarkston, was burned last
week. Loss $4,000.
During the recent cold blizzard
Atlanta had 54 fires in 45 days.
The suffering of the firemen was
terrible and many of them had
hands and feet badly frozen.
The contested election case in
Gwinnett county, in which the
Democratic candidate for repre
sentative was trying to oust the
Populist, was decided recently in
favor of the latter.
Uncle Jerry Henderson, a prom
inent citizen of Cedar Bluff, Ala.,
died at his home at that place last
week at the age of 80 years. He
was an uncle of the Henderson
Bros., at Fullerton, Ala.
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Alias Beatrice Harraden, author
of “Ships That Pass in the Night,”
is living in a secluded manner on
a ranch near San Diego, Cal. She
is seldom seen on the streets of
that city, ami does not encourage
visitors to her country homo. Her
health is delicate and all her
strength is given to liter ary work
Sarsaparilla wins its way
“ “ into the confidence of the people
by the good it is doing. Fair trials
guarantee permanent CURES.
The payment of pensions to sol
diers under the old law will begin
12th of March, so says Capt. John
son clerk in the executive depart
ment, who has charge of pension
matters. Captain Johnson further
says that he has received a good
many enquiries about the new law
and there seems to be a good deal
of misunderstanding about it. He
says the intent of the law is clear
ly to pension only such veterans
as are in extreme poverty.
One of Elberton’s prominent
hardware firms offers $lO in gold
to the Elbert county farmer who
vill raise the largest hog by Dec.
20.1895.
Tour Family
should be
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KOLBITESTHBEATEEN,
But If They Want Trouble Gov.
Oates Has It in Stock,
Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 21.
Today news reached this city that
Kolb was preparing to carry into
execution his threat to establish
a dual government in Montgom
ery, the legislature having failed
to pass such a contest law as he
demanded. Gov. Oates was called
on at noon at the executive office
and asked concerning the rumor.
“I’ve not heard of Kolb’s pro
posed dual government, but if he
and his friends attempt it I shall
act firmly and promptly. If they
are seeking trouble they can get
it. I shall maintain the majesty
and supremacy of the law.”
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Strength.— U. S. Government Report.
One Woman’s View of Trilby.
To the editor of the Atlanta
Journal:
The Trilby Evening has been (
very much discussed and was
largely attended . No book of the
day has excited more general in
terest or has been more talked
about, and yet w hen we take away
the rainbow hues and fairy like
mist with which Du Maurier has
enveloped Trilby by his wonderful
power of expression, what have we
left? A very poor, sad spectacle
of womankind, who does not even
say she is sorry for the sins of the
past and in plain, Unadorned En
glish, what good can the present
generation gain from the study of
this character? Will it help men
or women either to be purer, holier
and better? Ido not see how it
can do so.
A far stronger and better book,
in fact, I consider it one of the
very strongest books of the day, is
“The Golden House,” by Charles
Dudley Warner, published by Har
per Brothers. In the character of
Edith, we Lave a beautiful, brave,
true-hearted woman, who is on a
plane of purity and worth so far
above poor Trilby that one repre
sents a burst of sunshine, the other
a ray of darkness.
And yet all the world is discuss
ing Trilby, and again I say what’s
the good of it? One Woman.
Bad Fix,
The Populists and Republicans
who are in control of the North
Carolina legislature have employ
ed a large number of door keepers,
laborers and other attendants
than was ever known before. Yet
in North Carolina, as elsewhere,
when they were trying to get into
office, the Populist orators de
nounced from every stump the
extravagance of the Democrats in
having created useless offices.
This sort of thing is seen in every
state where they have gained pow
er. Under their control the gov
ernment of Kansas cost more than
before, and besides was involved
in numerous small scandals caused
by the efforts of the Populist of
fice-holders to line their pockets.
In Colorado it is said that even
the furniture of the public offices
were stolen, and the Populist su
perintendent of education has been
obliged to confers to petty steal
ings by false entries in his expense
account. It will always do to
watch pretty closely men or par
ties who seek office under pretense
of superior virtue. This is the
most convenient of all pretenses
and the easiest to assume.—Macon
Telegraph.
Chauncey M. Depew receives
$ 100,000 a year as president of the
Vanderbilt railroads. Burke Cock
ran of New York makes about as
much from th® practice of law.
While Governor Stone held of
fice in Missouri two years he par
doned 107 convicts in the state
penitentiary.
The French Loans.
They still do some things “bet
ter in France.” Among the mat
ters in which tho younger republic
excels is tho marketing of its se
curities —the placing of a popular
loan.
The details of the great loan to
pay tho war indemnity to Germ ;-
ny of $1,000,000,000 are known t<>
all the world. The money had to
be paid in gold or silver, but the
government of the prostrate nation ’
did not buy or borrow it of tho
bankers, home or foreign. An ap
peal was made t© tho people, and
the money was supplied from their
savings on tho greatest popular
loan ever made.
In 1872 a second loan was offer
ed, and at the time appointed time
tho thrifty people formed in linn
and hold their places all night for
a chance to invest. Tho subscrip
tions were for thirteen times the
amount called for, and tho rentes
were allotted among tho subscrib
ers pro rata. There was a similar
experience and similar scones in
1891. The routes are in denomi
nations of 100 francs (S2O) ail
upward. The French 3 per con s
were quoted yesterday at 103 85 —
a premium exceeding a whole
year’s interest. It is estimal d
that one-half the families in Fra >. o
have money invested in tho pu
funds. The practice not only <- , -
courages thrift among the peopi ,
but it gives them an interest in
the government, which is a sour' ■
of strength to tho republic.
This country is much rich- \
than France. Its natural resoun -•
are vast greater. Wo produce no -
ly one-third of the world’s anno..'
yield of gold and silver. Our cot
ton, food products, oil and other
articles of consumption and export
are of enormous value compared
with those of any other nation.
The deposits in our savings ba •
last year were $ 1,739,006,7'.H.
Those in New York and Massa< ' -
setts alone exceeded $1,000,000.00
The assets of the building and loan
associations, representing mainly
the investments of the people ■■ f
small means, amounted to $150,-
667,000. The assets of thirty-two
life-insurance companies do ; :ig
business in New York amount to
$971,857,224. The fire insurance
companies of the United States
hold $331,196,000 of assets, exclu
sive of premium notes.
This is not a nation that shoe 1
be forced to pay an extortion,, <,•
rate of interest- It would not do
so if a loan were offered to the
people, as is done in France. —New
York World.
Improper and deficient care of
the scalp will cause grayness of
the hair and baldness. Escape
both by the use of that reliable
specific, Hall’s Hair Renewer.
• Sam Jones’ Grandfather.
Cartersville, Ga., Feb. 21.
Rev. Samuel G. Jones died here
last evening in his 91st year. Tho
deceased was grandfather of R< v
Sam Jones, the evangelist. I‘e
has lived in Georgia since boyhoc d.
He was the father of twelve chil
dren, eight of whom survive bin .
Rev. Mr. Jones was born in Abbe
ville district.
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