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8 THE SOUTHERN WORLD, SEPTEMBER 15, 1882. Published on tlso lat and lSUtofeaelt Montli BY TUB SOVTHEBN WOULD PDBLUUIJIO CO., ATLANTA, GEORGIA. Incorporated—Paid up Capital, 920,000. D, C. BALENTINE, President and Manager T. B. CARTMELL, Secretary and Treasurer. W. G. WHIDBY, Editor. L 8.'NEWMAN,’ J Contributing Editors. TERU8 OF MIBSCRIITIONl One rear, postage paid, 11.00 Subscription! can commence at any time during year. Sample copies sent free to all who send us their Address. CIRCULATION, - - 20,000 COPIES. BATES OF ADVERTISING l Legitimate advertisements will be Inserted at the following rates; Inside pages, each Insertion, per line • - 2Scts. Outside page “ “ “ “ • • t8 cts. Reading Notices “ SO cts. All advertisements charged by solid Agate measure ment. 14 lines to the inch. No extra charge lor cuts. The Southern Would has the largest circulation and Is the beet advertising medium In the South. TO CORRESPONDENTS.—It lsoarstm to make the Southern Would a medium for the dimiston of practical Information upon all Agricultural and Mechanical subjects, and to this end we Invite com munications upon all rural subjects, experimental results, crop news, domeaUc economy, etc., and upon topics of Interest to Mechanics, Manufacturers and Miners. Address all letters to SOUTHERN WORLD PUBLISHING CO., Atlanta, Georgia. ATLANTA, GA., SEPTEMBER 16, 1882. WEATHER BULLETIN la the Cotton Belt from Aug. 23 to Sep. 0. Observer's Ovfick Signal Service, V. S. A., Kimball House, Atlanta, Ga. AvAfax Av. Min HigttMax Low'ttMax Charleston...., Galveston Mobile Montgomery. Memphis 87 no 83 on 25th 93 an 25th 92 on 2d an 4th 90 on 25th 91 on 3d 90 on 5th 91 on30ih 76 on 8th 82 on 8th 77 on 30 87 on 28th 77 on 30th 82 on 28th 84 on 8tb 85 on 27 Mon 28th83on8th 91 on 27th]8S on 2d 92 an 27tb;77on 7th 89 on 27tb{78 on 3d Average maximum of cotton belt from August 25th to September 9th—87°. Average minimum of cotton belt from August 25tb to September 9th—72°. Note.—Average maximum means heat In the day; average minimum, heat before day. rainfall. Atlanta 2.89 ln.greateet fall .60 on Augusta.., ...4.92 in. Charleston 2.55 In. Galveston 3.41 In. Mobile 3.55 in. Montgomery....... .3.70 In. Memphis 2.43 In. Little Rock 3.98 in. New Orleans 8.78 In. Vicksburg. 4.21 In. Savannah 3.28 In. Wilmington .2.65 In. L30on " .54 on " .78 on “ 1.18 on 1.69 on " .67 on " ,81 on “ 1.49 on •' 1.25 on " 1.13 on " .67 on Aug. 29th •• 27th " 28th Sep. 7th Aug. 26tb " 28th “ 26th Sep. 8th •• 7th Aug. 25th 41.13 Total rain fall In cotton belt 41.33 Inches. Greatest fall at one place—Augusta—4.92 Inches. Greatest fall one day—August 26th—5.85 Inches. CHARACTER OF WEATHER—NUMBER OF DAYS. Offer. Cltar. Cloudy, ibfr. Atlanta 6 9 l Augusta 4 7 4 Galveston....... 5 7 2 Indlanola 8 2 7 Key West 7 3 5 Mobile 9 2 4 Montgomery...,. 8 4 6 New Orleans 8 4 8 Pensacola...» 6 4 5 Palestine. 7 1 6 Savannah 5 5 4 The South should develop her “small in dustries.” _ The South needs small farms instead of small farmers. Weeping Water is the poetical name of a town in Nebraska. Buying and selling bogs is the chief pursuit of Its testhetic inhabi tants. Some one has discovered that flowers may be kept a long time by putting them into an air-tlgbt glass jar, with a morsel of quick lime wrapped in oil-silk at the bottom. In this way they may be indefinitely preserved, if the jar is opened from time to time. The foreign production of sugar for this year is estimated at 1,765,000 tons, divided as follows: Germany 600,000 tons; Aus tria 405,000 tons; France 390,000; Russia 270,000 tons; Belgium 70,001 tons; and Hol land 30,000 tons. Everything leads to the belief that the production for 1882-3 will be considerable. The increased yield of wheat and corn and the larger production of provisions will, ac cording to careful calculations, save the South fully $100,000,000 this year as com pared with what was paid to the West last year for these foodstuffs. The prospect is certainly cheering, and the outlook for the South could scarcely be more promising.— Baltimore Journal of Commerce. It is clear that the South can invite popu lation for decades to come and still have room to spare. She can invite it with as surance, because she has the most munifi cent inducements to offer. Her lands are cheap, her soil yields the richest products, her forest are vast, her mines are exhaustless treasuries, and her climate is unsurpassed.— N. Y. South. There are in the United States more than eighty public libraries, each containing books to the number of 25,000. The total number of volumes in them is about 6,500,- 000. When we reflect upon this and then remember the hundreds of libraries of small er dimensions in cities and towns and vil lages, to say nothing of the innumerable private ones, we get some idea of the extent to which literature is cultivated by the citi zens. The want of the South is not so much capital as'diversified crops and improved implements of husbandry. The drying of the Southern sweet potato crop would be an immense saving in freight as well as in the supply of potatoes. The unprecedented crops of this year should stimulate the people of the South to diversify their crops for another year. There are 252 cotton mills in the South, with 1,237,409 spindles, 20,009 looms, 1,931 sets of cards, and $41,241,450 capital. Poultry raising is not one of the small in dustries it was once thought to be. The census of 1880, showed the United States produced $50,000,000 worth of poultry, or $65,000,000 more than the cotton and wheat products. France produces over $100,000,000. North Carolina has inaugurated a new thing in holding a Wheat Fair, at Salem, North Carolina. There were twenty-six specimens of wheat on exhibition, of the finest varieties and best qualities. The Fair was well attended and a decided success. We give on our first page a striking view of Cinderella, as she sita in front of the hearth in the kitchen, in ragged garments and disheveled hair loosely covered by a kerchief. Her posture shows humilia tion and despondency. Her hands are clasped on her lap and her eyes are appar ently fixed on vacancy. Her position is caught by the artist a moment before the chorus of the faries and the advent of Fen- clla, Cinderella’s fairy god mother. Mr. A Pope, lately general passenger agent of the Richmond & Danville System, has been appointed general passenger agent of the Shenandoah Valley, Norfolk & Western and East Tennessee & Georgia Railroads, with head quarters at Lynchburg, Va. He is a live and vigorous official. Mr. J. J. Griffin, Passenger agent of the Macon and Brunswick division of this system has re moved his office to Atlanta. Mr. Griffin is a courteous gentleman and a popular offi- At a recent meeting of the Physical Soci ety, Berlin, Prof. Christian! exhibited as samples of a new method of preservation, a series of organic bodies coated galvanoplas- tically. A mulberry leaf, a crab, a butterfly, a beetle, the brain of a rabbit, a rosebud, and other objects, were plated with silver, gold or copper, and showed all details of their outer form, down to the finest shadings. As to the process, it was stated that the objects to he preserved, being put into a solution of silver nitrate in alcohol, then dried and treated with sulphuretted and phosphoretted hydrogen, form good conductors, which, brought in the usual way into galvanoplastic bath, can be coated with any desired thick' ness of a metallic deposit. The Baltimore Journal of Commerce in its issue of September 2nd, publishes a valuable statistical paper on the subject of cotton manufacturing in the South. Georgia leads the van with $18,000,000 invested in cotton mills. The Jonmal of Commerce says: "While cotton manufacturing in the South is now attracting so much attention, it is quite cer. tain that it will develop still greater interest in the near future. There are even now ma.iy new projects under way which will doubtless result in adding a large number of new mills to the 252 already in operation, so that within a comparatively few years we think it perfectly safe to say that the South will have $100,000,000 invested in cotton mills, with 2,500,0000 spindles and fully 100,000 operatives, and in the not very distant future even these figures will be surpassed.” Employment for Females. Tux Southern World is an earnest advo cate of widening the avenues of useful em ployment for the ladies, and for giving them just compensation for their labor. It bails therefore with delight any new employment by which they may be enabled to support themselves and add to the wealth of the body politic. For this reason we have given prominence to all information attainable upon the subject of silk-culture. This is an industry that is light and pleasant and re quires but little outlay of capital. Its great advantage lies in the fact that while a large institution on a grand scale will not pay, a thousand small ones will. One of the greatest needs in ourtowns and villages as well as'country homes is, remun erative labor for women; this need is met by this industry. We are glad to note that the ladies of Cotton Gin Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, of Cotton Gin, Texas, are agitating the es tablishment of a “Silk Culture Association” like their sisters in Mississippi and other states. We bid them God speed and call their attention to the letter of Miss Nellie Lincoln Rossiter in another column on this subject. Each one of the Southern States should have a “Silk Culture Association.” A Cotton Syndicate. S. R. Cockrill, of Pine Bluff, Ark., vice President of the Cotton Planters’ Associa tion and of the Farmers’ Congress, through the columns of the Baltimore Journal of Commerce suggests the building of cheap one- story spinning mills on the railroads, and with steam power to make yarns, and double the value of our cotton. Instead of paying A, B and C as middle-men, amounting to millions of dollars on every crop, we pro pose to pay everything as toll to the spin ning mills, and make yarn to send to the European mills, instead of lint cotton. We are not able at present to furnish ma chinery for our spinning mills. We can furnish the ground and buildings, and pro pose to the owners'of the great factories at Manchester to send us the .machinery from their machine shops for these mills, and take pay in stock in our mills, and we guar antee a dividend of eight or ten per cent, on their stook by mortgage on cotton planta tions. The important results to us as plant ers are: 1st, we-sell our bales of yarn at 16 to 20 cents per pound, making $75 the price of a cotton bale, instead of $45 now. Our spinning mills in our climate will not coat one-third of what they do in the city of Manchester;' hence, the chances for large dividends, as the sum will be less to pay on. We propose to guarantee ten per cent, divi dends on their stocks. They are therefore at par from the beginning. A correspond ence is now going on through the American consuls at Manchester, Liverpool, London and Bradford, preparing for the “cotton syndicate.” ROAD LAWS. The economic advantages and elevating influences upon civilization of good roads cannot be gain-said. The question of good roads comes home directly to every one. Good roads are of practical utility to the farmer, the merchant, the manufacturer, the professional man, the laborer and the man of leisure. It would seem then that a mat ter of so much importance to all classes would receive instant attention and secure from the best minds in the country, a plan that would result in the best kind of roads. But it is not true. Year after year the same old system is kept up in the South. Just before a court convenes the farmers and laboring men are summoned from their farm and labor to throw away from three to five days in “ working the roads." The boss of the section, and the county road com missioners have little practical knowledge of making a good road. The point to be attain ed is simply to put the road in such a condi tion that the Grand Jury will not present it. The first rain afterwards the road is almost impassable. The people are taxed to but very little profit. What is needed is a law that will makx good roads instead of half way patching up old ones very near impassable. It woul be far better to levy a tax sufficient to have good roads made under the direction of a competent engineer. The fault is with the people at last. They quietly sleep on without taking action. The season of the assembling of legislatures is at hand, and the people should be moving in the matter of securing good roads. If a general law can not be had, get one for your county. The people of Putnam county, Georgia, are a progressive people. They have perfected a road law for themselves which they will ask the next General Assembly to pass. The provisions of the alt are: The election of a road inspector by the Grand Jury, to serve for one year, receiving a salary of $260 per annum, giving bond in the sum of $500 for the faithful discharge of his duty. He in spects the roads and bridges of the county and notifies the Road Commissioners to have the roads worked when they require it. This is a step in the right direction, but it does not go far enough. An entire change of the present road law is needed. We will never have good roads until the system is changed. THOROUGH EDUCATION. While nearly every educational institu tion in the land announce that they give thorough instruction it is yet a debateable question -whether any institution does give a thorough education. It is obvious that a large majority cannot do it. Their curricu lum may be full and the course thorough, as far as it goes, and yet, not reach the true definition of thorough education. Much of the education is superficial. We do not blame the professors and principals of these institutions for this, as our present systems are due mainly to the demands of society. Mnch that is learned at school is never put into practical use, but for this the teacher is not to blame. The fault lies in the fact that children are not educated thoroughly for their profession or calling. If they receive a superficial education that will enable them to shine in society that is deemed sufficient. No reference is had in their instruction to their life-work. If we would have trained thinkers and trained workers, they must he thoroughly trained to think and thoroughly trained to work while young. It is gratify ing to know that more of our young men are being trained up os workers than in pre vious years. There is hope for the country in this. The logic of events points with pro phetic skill to the learning of trades in the future, as a part of the education of our youth. Intelligent, skilled and trained labor is the hope of the land. The education of our girls and boys is not complete or thor ough without the knowledge of some trade. These views are suggested by the excellent and timely address of Prof. J. M. McBryde on Agricultural Education. Pre-eminently is it Importan t that he who expects to devote his life and energies to the cultivation of the soil, should he thoroughly prepared for his high and noble calling. “Many are called, but few are chosen ” to he farmers. The range of knowledge to be attained by a farmer is far wider than that of any other calling or pursuit. Others may shine out with more seeming brilliancy, but they are but stars while farming is the grand central sun around which all these stars revolve. We invite special attention to the views of Prof. McBryde. They are strong and are presented with much ability. Road Righto. There has been considerable controversey in regard to the rights of the road and we are glad to be able to give a few points in reference thereto. They are as follows: If a farm-deed is bounded by, on or upon a road it usually extends to the middle of the roadway. There are few exceptional cases, but ordinarily the farmer owns the soil of half the road and may use the grass, trees, stones, gravel, sand, or anything of value to him, either on the land or beneath the sur face, subject only to the superior rights of the public to travel over the road, and that of the highway surveyor or other similar officer to use such materials for the repair of the road; and these materials he may cart away and use elsewhere on the road, yet he has no right to use them for bis own private purposes. No other man has a right to feed his cattle there or to cut the grass or trees, much less to deposit his wood, old carts, wagons and other things thereon. The owner of a drove of cattle which stops to feed in front of your land, or a drove of pigs which root up the soil, is responsible to you by such law as much os if they did the same things inside the fence. No one has a legal right to pick up the apples under your trees, although the same stand wholly outside the fence. No traveler can hitch his horse to your trees on the sidewalk, without being liable if he gnaws the bark or otherwise in jures them. You may untie the horse and remove him to some other place. If your well stands partly on your land and partly outside the fence, no neighbor can use it ex cept by your permission. No man has a right to stand in front of your land and whittle or deface your fence, throw stones at your dog, or insult you with abusive lan guage, without being liable to you for tres passing on your laud. He has a right to pass and re pass in an orderly manner—a right to use the road but not to abuse it.—At.