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COUEESFOUBSUCE.
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yVi 11 you allow one so linrtiblo ns my¬
self to write you a short letter, and it is
miller very enibiirrassiag circumstances
that I uudeitake the task. Koine four
weeks ago wo got our house and nearly
everything we possessed burned up—our¬
selves narrowly escaping. It. happened
in the night I brio and only for the roar¬
ing of the ilamcs three of my children
would have been cut off up stairs,and oh!
such lamentations you never heard.
Such as, “Oh. pn, wlmt aim'd we do?”
Cut thank heaven we all got out, only
with the clothing we retired to bed in.
A cold oast rain was boating upon us
and no shelter to go to—bare footed and
bare headed'; coats, pants, hats, shoes,
drosses—all burned. There we were at
the dark hour of midnight. No one
heard our ciics, for ail were asleep.
Chilled and wet we trudged through the
mud and rain to Bro. J. R. Thurman's, to
whom we made our distresses known,
and who kindly took us nil in and bid us
be wanned in our naked condition. All
we had swept away almost in the twink¬
ling of an eye. AH my hooks and even
the family Bible with our family record
were consumed. All my papers, deeds,
etc.; my musical library were all burned,
i feel like the children of God did when
the haughty Jews waged their scornful
heads in derission and said sing us one
Of the sweetest songs of Zion? My old
Sacred Harp is gone to ashes and how
can I sing its sweet songs in a strange
laud? But the dearest of ail books is the
old fashioned Bible, which contained our
family record. Our album with the pro¬
files cur loved ones was swept away by
the irresi: utile flames,and no more can we
look upon the faces of those loved ones
who have gone where conflagrations
come no more. I pi tty all who may meet
with such a sad misfortune as ours. I
thank God that we live in a Christian
land.
There is much sickness in this county
and many deaths. Among the fallen are
Dr. John Mo ore, of New nan, died of
pneumonia; one of the brightest intel¬
lects in the south. He had just been mar¬
ried one mouth to a day when he died.
Rev. O. W. Carter died on last Monday
with pneumonia ; a good man is gone to
bis reward. Captain W.j B. Richards, of
near County Line, was found dead in his
bed on last Monday morning; a brave
and good Christian gentleman is no more.
He was an uncle of Mrs. Ripples. I could
mention others but space forbids.
Pneumonia, grippe and measles are
raging to an alarming extent. Our doc¬
tors are going day and night.
The weather is very bad and farmers
.•are a long wave behind with their work.
Hove to read the Baknejs-Messengkr.
ft is a sprightly, newsy, juicy sheet.
We atl have a high respect for Miss
Witcher and felt grieved at the thrast
made upon her qualifications as a teach¬
er. She taught in this community .and
county for several years and always gar/e
perfect satisfaction. Ladies ought not
to be exposed through the public press.
It seems to mo that the grand jurors
.of Haralson county put a small estimate
on their presentments. It looks like they
are mighty cheap at five dollars. We
generally pay the printer in this county
((Coweta) twenty-live to thirty dollars for
publishing such documents.
Mr. Editor, you must excuse bad au
thogiaphy as I haven’t even a spelling
book.
Yours with good appetite,
Rjpi'UW.
SOME GOOD IDEAS ON FARMING,
Every farmer should haye him a big
compost heap put up after the plan as ad¬
vertised by J. W. Jones and others.
We can make our manure go a great
deal further by composting and it is of a
better quality when all hulked together
and the usual amount of cotton seed and
acid put in with them ro make it go
through a heat and ferment and take of
each others nature, There is a groat
deal lust by not utilizing our manure
right .lust as soon as wc clean up tlie
lots and stalls and put them in the coin
post heap, wo should fill them immedi¬
ately lrdf leg deop again with leaves and
straw, etc.
A compost heap'will go through a boat,
and get ready to be cut clown and put into
use in thirty days or less time.
Some will tel! you that composting is
too troublesome and expensive for the
difference, but we are satisfied that they
arc mistaken. Think about it just right
« nd 1 t!lil ' k that 3™ ' ri!1 decide that if a
manure pile is not worth close attention
and care in every respect that wo had just
as well try to farm at random as any otli
er way.
With big compost heaps annually to
put into well prepared soils in this heaven
blessed sunny laud of seasons and copi¬
ous showers we need not—if we cultivate
right—fear the annual result,
I think it is best as a general rule to put
our commercial fertilizers on our stub¬
bles or well rested lands and our com¬
post on our old attained or run down
lands, as compost has the lacking quali¬
ties of such lands. Compost is some¬
thing more than a stimulant. It has a
body and will build up land, while gnauo
has not much if any.
If every man had as big a compost
heap as friend Bush has got in propor¬
tion to the amount of stock, guano would
sell cheap and so would corn next fall.
I do not repeat the advisability of not
throwing out on top of the ground and
exposing to the air clay in much quanti¬
ties, if any at this time of year, just be¬
cause 1 have said it, but simply because
some seem to doubt it, l think I almost
know from experience that it is not ad¬
visable as well as other good authority.
Clay thrown out now and exposed to sun
and air will most assuredly get as hard
almost as a atone aud is bound to injure
production for the present crop if no
more.
Oi course nature acts through the dif¬
ferent seasons and reputs and places
back our unwise blunders in many in¬
stances, but it must he admitted that
every time we butcher up the earth in
any way that iv can’t act and do its per¬
fect natural work iu production, we aie
impeding and delaying the thing that we
should he trying to assist in coming
forth. The clay, in my judgement, is
placed by and through the wise laws of
nature in its owi. natural element and
will best serve her own law if let alone on
the bottom.
Some think we i.eed compulsory edu¬
cational laws covering families as well as
schools, which is a good idea, more es¬
pecially so far as the farm is concerned,
for some farmers will never strive, nither
by brain work or bodily labor, to make
anything like a decent living. I reckon I
would serve as an average man for indo¬
lence and non-attention to business, and
I know that I farmed altogether at ran¬
dom and to no good for fifteen yeais of
my life, after my dear old industrious,
energetic father, who laid a noble exam¬
ple in that snd every other respect, turn¬
ed loose to battle through lifo for my
#e If.
Just because I did not take the proper
consideration as to what farming was
anil pride in it as I should, I really
thought he made a mistake in telling me
to continue on the farm, more especially
when I would go to town or tho cities I
would conclude that us horny handed sons
of toil must have been born out of season
to shove and toil in drugery work for the
balance of mankind to lay up in appar¬
ent idleness and laziness and feast upon.
But the most of this almost entirely er¬
roneous idea was all for lack of a proper
conception as to what the beauty of a
farm life was.
The state experimental farm is good as
far as it goes, but some how it does not
appear to cover the whole ground in en¬
couraging and enlightening the whole
masses of farmers. But every lodge
should also constitute an agricultural
club and be prepared to properly keep
into effet its most beneficial teachings
and discoverings.
G. W. M.
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.
Death has been partial to the Efty-first
Congress, taking to date 11 ropresenntu
lives and] senator from its menthol
ship.
V
Mr. Cleveland has shown his hand on
the financial question by writing a letter
against free coinage. Time will tell
whether the tail will be able to wag the
dog, or the dog the tail.
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It may be positively stated now that
Mr. Henry Watterson will have no "pull”
with the administration of Gov. Hill,
should the latter gentleman ever be fort¬
unate enough to have an iidininslrution
°f the lmtioal kind.
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Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Ih.rrison seem
to occupy precisely the sable position on
silver legislation, and it now looks very
much as if both of the old parties would
nominate anti-silver men next year. In
that case free coinage will have to select a
standard-bearer of its own. if it expects
to enter the fight, which it unqnesriona
bly does.
V*
Representative-elect Jerry Simpson,
who is iu Washington, has not been very
favorably impressed with the present
House of Representatives. Nor have the
other people of the country.
And now the negroes are threatening to
boycott the World’s Fair, because they are
not represented in its management. This
thing is getting monotoraous. Isn’t it
about time for hard hovse sense to take
the reins, in order to save as from the rid¬
icule of the entire world?
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Deadlocks in Senatorial elections, which
are very expensive to the states in which
they occur, will never be heard of when
United States Senators are elected by di¬
rect vote of the people, as they should be.
Bribery and attemted bribery will also
disappear, to say nothing of the general
advantage of bringing the Senate nearer
to the people.
V
The farmers’ organization of Arkansas
have now a single head, which'seems to
reverse the adage that “two heads are
better than one.”
V
Verily this is the age of paper. Exper¬
iments made by officials in the German
army have demonstrated that a horse
slice made of layars of parchment paper
cemented, and pressed together in a hy
dralic press, is much more durable than
an iron shoe.
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Here’s another reason why ordinary
people should oppose trusts: John E.
Parsons, the New York lawyer, who or¬
ganized the sugar trust, received what is
thought to have been the largest foe over
paid to a lawyer in this countiy—$400,
000. Although this enormous sum came
primarily out of the pockets of the sugar
refiners, it will eventually have to be
paid by the sugar consuminers, and every
render of this paragraph will have to pay
a portion of it.
V
“Old-nriu-afraid-of-silver” is the name
some people, have given to ex-President
Cleveland, and from all accounts it fits
President Harrison equally as well.
V
A bill to amend the laws relating to im
magration and naturalization has be- n
frvorably reported to the House of Rei -
resentatives. Some changes in tho pres¬
ent laws are needed, hut in view of the
gerat importance of the subject and the
nearness of adjournment it would per¬
haps be wise to pospone the matter until
next session.
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The time is rapidly approaching wht n
a good nuiuy pinch-back statesmen will
hid a long and exceedingly reluctant fare¬
well to the joys and sorrows of public life.
The number worthy of even a passing re¬
gret may he counted upon the fingers of
one hand, and there will be five fingers to
spare.
CAMPBELL’S
HARDWARES!
Cedartown, Georgia.
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