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88 lUE SOUTHERN WORLD, JANUARY 35, 1885. The Southern World. UU. "■—I" •• a.— 1 iHHued utand 15th of cacti Month. DR. B. M. WOOLLEY, Proprietor. W. G. WHIDBY,) H. H. JONES. [ Editors. R. J. REDDING, 1 TERttS OF SUBSCRIPTION I One dollar, per annum, postage paid. Subscrip tions can begin any time curing tne year. Sam- S le copies sent free to all who send us their ad- ress. RATES OF ADVERTISING! Legitimate advertisements Inserted at the fol lowing rates: Insldo pages, column one Insertion $6 26 % column one Insertion 12 00 1 column one Insertion 21 00 Last page or preferred position 26 per cent additional. Heading Notices 40 cents per line. All advertisements charged by solid Nonpa reil measurement, 12 lines to the inch. Adver tisements one inch or less, for less than one mouth, |2 per Inch. Special rates for large and long time advertisements. No extra charge for cuts, All transleut advertising payable strictly In advance. Advertisers uuirnowu to us and with out commercial standing will please remit with contract or order to Insure insertion. Estimates cheerfully and promptly furnished upon application. Persons writing to advertisers in the South- ishh World will confer a favor by stating where they saw the advertisement. Wo urge our friends to get up Clubs. Send for our liberal oilers to agents. Correspondence for our several Departments solicited. In sending in communications for any department, please mark the department It Is in tended for on the en velope. Personal letters to the editors should bo so marked; but all othor letters should be addressed to The SOUTHERN WORLD, Atlanta, Ga. ATLANTA, GA., JANUARY 15,1884. Table of Contents. Pass 81-Carter’s Btratogem Pea, page Illustra tion. Page 82—The Sto ry of Hose Darrel, by John Esten Cooke; The DeSaussures, a Historical Ro mance, by B. F. Sawyer. Page 83—The DeSaussures, a Historical Ro mance, by B. F. Sawyer. Page 8*1 -The DeSaussures, a Historical Ro mance, by B. F. Sawyer; What wo Need, by K. J. Redding; Crop Formula, by R. J. Red ding; Economy In Feeding, by R. J. Redding. Page 85—Extraordinary Advice—Don’t Take It, by H. H. Jones; The LoConto Pear—When to Put it Out, by H. H. Jones; The Norman Horse; Barns of Dillon Brothers, illustrated; How to Get a Good Book Free; Miscellaneous. Page 86—Southern and Southeastern Georgia, by II. H. Jones. Page 87—A New Enterprise for Atlanta, by W. A. II. Sclirelber; Astronomy, by Dr. C. A. Esta- brook; Advertisements. Page 88—Tab to of Contents; In Alabama; South ern Living Writers; Tho Rural New Yorker; Carter's Stratagem Pea; Cau’t Do Without It; Editorial Paragraphs. Page 8'J—Paul U. Hayno, by Prof. Henry E. llarmati, with two Illustrations; Miscellane ous, Page 90—The Fever-Fiond, (poetry) by Mamie S. radon; Lost Violets, (poetry) by Rosa Evangeline Angel; The Importance of Read ing; Did Child's Fust Long Britches, by Muda Hetnur; Training of Children; Advertise ments. Page 91—Advertisements. Page 92-Lovely Polly Hopkins; Lucy's Lively Letter; Lovely Leila; An Arcadian; A Boy’s Idea of Whisky; A Farmer Boy; An East Ten nessee Lass; Bright-eyed Bessie; Mlttle Mont gomery; Sweet Genevieve; Oscar's Note; Flo rida Bud. Pagku;:—Annie May Wing; Cheerful Johnnie; A Savannah Boy; Alabama’s Sweet Bird; Clev erly Caught; Paragraphs; Advertisements. Page 94—Advertisement#. Page 96—Advertisements. Page 96—Advertisements. The Live Stock Journal very truly re marks: “There is a good demand for all kinds of improved Btock, but the de mand for improved farmer’s wives is greatest of all. The country needs young ladies with courage enough to go out on the farm and do their share in developing the waste lands. The world needs more plain, honest girls who are not afraid of work and who desire to be a help not a hindrance to their husbands. There is none that men, in every condi tion of life, more highly honor than the ideal fanner’s wife.” I11 Alabama. When but a boy the proprietor of the Southern World often listened to one of the most eloquent divines of the age. He was frequently criticised for his at tractive style of preaching, and a char acteristic reply of his to such criticisms was that to preach efficiently you must have hearers, and all legitimate means to get hearers waB wise and justifiable. His remark was so just and true that we recall the recollection of it to remark that we want hearers in Alabama and the other States and we are determined to use all legitimate means to obtain them. We desire and fully expect to add at least 5,000 new subscribers to our list in Alabama during this year. More than this, we intend to deserve and keep them by special efforts to promote the varied interests of the great State of Alabama—an Empire within itself in natural resources. Our Mr. R. W. Beck, of Birmingham, will let the good people hear from us, and in person put before them some of the merits of the South ern World. It will be our purpose to promote the interests of agriculture, manufactures, mining, education, industrial progress and immigration. Mr. Beck will visit the various sections of the State, attend meetings of agricultural clubs, visit educational institutions, manufactories, mines, and all places, public or private, where he may be able to obtain informa tion and co-operation from those in charge, and from time to time make known the results to our thousands of readers in every section of this broad land. Give us an audience. Give us a few thousand new subscribers, and we will introduce to you thousands from the North, South, East and WeBt, whose acquaintance it is well to cnltivate, and you to them. It will materially aid the progress of our great Southern world, and of the grandest but yet too little known part of civilization. Give us from 5,000 to 50,000 subscrib ers and we will add millions of wealth by immigration and capital directed to you. There is a general cry of over-produc tion in almost everything. When re cently some sage remarked that “all great men were cranks,” the incorrigi ble and irrepressible Joel Chandler Harris replied: “Yes, bnt the great trouble with the country is an over-pro duction of great men.” But amid all this there is one industry of which it cannot be said there is an over-produc tion—poultry and eggs. Observe the prices obtained for them for the past few years. Why not devote more attention to the poultry yard? Among all the small industries where is there a greater opening than poultry ? Mittie Montgomery, of Howard, Ga., contributes to the Letter Box of the Youth’s Department an extremely in teresting letter. She states that her father made 1,115 pounds of lint cotton on one acre of ground, and killed two hogs that netted 750 pounds of meat. She points the moral of this by asking, “Why go West?” Let all our yonng readers note the products of their own farm and give us the result. The Alabama State Agricultural So ciety meets in Montgomery on the 3d of February next. Why do not our seedsmen ofier pre miums for the best garden? The report of Hon. J. T. Henderson, Commissioner of Agriculture of Geor gia, of crops in Georgia, is a comprehen sive document and full of interest. The average yield of cotton in the State is given at 158 pounds of lint cotton, classi fied as follows: North Georgia, 150 pounds; Middle, 168 pounds; South west, 129 pounds; East, 170 pounds; Southeast, 175 pounds. The yield in bales is estimated at 752 000 bales, and the average price per pound 0)4 cents. The average yield of corn for the State is given at 10.6 bushels per acre, and the total yield at 28,765,700 bushels. The average price per bushel, December let, 1884, for the State, 71 cents. The total yield of oats for 1884 is estimated at 6,385,000 bushels; the average price, December 1st, 71 cents. The average yield was 12 02 bushels per acre; 56 per cent, of the crop was sown in the fall and 28 per cent of that winter killed. The average yield of wheat in the State was 7 bushels per acre, and the average price 71 cents. The yield of sugar cane was 147 gallons per acre and of sorghum 41 gallons per acre. Rough rice gave an average yield of 29 bushels, and sweet potatoes an average of 88 bushels per acre. The average of clover is 2 tons and of other grasses 2)4 tons of cured hay per acre. The average acre age of the present crop of wheat is 60, and of fall oats 80. Last year the farmers were beset with excessive rains and long droughts, which necessarily accounts for much of the low yields. Yet a careful study of the facts in the report cannot but convince the intelligent farmer that his best poli cy is in intensive culture and diversified farming. We desire to impress upon all the readers of the Southern World the fact that our aim in devoting so much space to the letters of children is by this means to teach them to be close ob servers and to express themselves clear ly and succinctly. In addition to this we hope to make it the means of creat ing a better feeling among the residents of the different sections of a common country, and thereby of mutual improve ment and advancement. We trust the “ grown up children” will not forget to encourage the juveniles in letter writing by promoting the circulation of the Southern World. What is the value of $1 compared with the influence in the family circle of twelve month’s read ing of the Southern World? •‘Can't Do without It." A subscriber at Columbia, La., in re newing his subscription to the South ern World, writes: “ I can’t do with out the Southern World, bo I enclose $1 for another year. I don’t want to miss a single number. I have kept all of last year’s issues. My wife thinks “ The DeSausnures ” is the best romance she ever read, and I like it myself. Long may the Southern World flour ish.” Our readers will surely appreciate the poem in our Home Circle entitled “ The Fever Fiend.” The gifted author is a born poet. Her description of fever is realistic and brings before the minds of all who have grappled with the " tor turous fever fiend ” the counterpart of their own experience. The increase within the past month of over 1,000 names to our liet from the State of Louisiana is a gratifying evi dence of the prosperity and popularity of the Southern World. The lady readers of the Southern World are invited to read the double column uotice on the ninety-first page of “Flower Seeds Free.” Secure your flower seeds while the opportunity is pre sented. Uncle Remns favors the ova-produc- tion of hen fruit, if it is possible. Southern I.tviiiK writers. We begin in this issue the first of a series of papers, under the caption of this article, from the pen of a distin guished scholar. Our first paper is properly devoted to the genial poet and popular author, Paul H, Hayne. In our next we will give a fine poem from the pen of Hayne, written especially for our columns. The papers are prepared with care and will be highly interesting. It will be a capital time to subscribe for the Southern World in order to get the whole series. The Rural New Yorker. The Rural New Yorker, of New York, is a standard publication of re cognized worth. It is a favoiite everywhere because of its genuine mer it. The Southern World and the Rural New Yorker, with seven packets of choice seeds will be sent for $2.50. Carter’s Stratagem Pea. Our first page illustration presents in full relief one ot the new varieties of vegetable seeds sent out as a premuium with the Southern Wobld and Rural New Yorker. We will send the South ern World and the Rural New Yorker one year, with seven packets of seeds to one address for $2 50. The Eclectic Magazine is one of our most valued exchanges. It is a long established and excellent periodical which gets better as it increases in years. The January number is the be ginning of a new volume, and we com mend our readers who desire a magazine of solid worth to send to E. R. Pelton, 25 Bond street, New York, for it. Terms, $5 per annum; trial subscrip tion three months, $1; single number, 45 cents. The Southern World and the Eclectic one year, $5. • It will interest all fruit, flower and vegetable growers to learn that thj£ American Garden, of New York, has been sold to E. H. Libby, the well known agricultural journalist. Estab lished in 1872 as a quarterly, the Ameri can Garden has become a handsome monthly magazine, and a leader among horticultural publications. Under its new management it is an independent, illustrated, beautifully printed magazine, still ably edited by Dr. F. M. Hexamer and numbering as contributors many of the most successful fruit growers and gardeners in this and other countries. The coming volume will be greatly im proved in many ways, and worthy of the earnest and hearty support of all who love fruits, flowers and nice gar dens, and all who make a business of their culture. The price is only $1 a year, including some choice seed and plant premiums. Published in New York, and Greenfield, Mass. The Baltimore Manufacturer's Record sums up the industrial development of the South during 1884 as 1,865 new en terprises with over $105,000,000 capital stock. Tennessee shows the largest number of enterprises, 250; Kentucky the largest amount of capital, $21,760,- 000. The Chronicle, of Augusta, celebrates its centennial this year on a grand scale. Sixty thousand copies of the centennial edition will be published. We wish it success, and hope the genial Patrick Walsh will live to witness another cen tennial edition of that sterling sheet. The Southern World and the Rural New Yorker will be sent to one address for $2.50 per annum. This will include the seed distribution of the Rural New Yorker of corn, Johnson grass, Rural Bicolor tomato, King Humbert tomato, Carter’s Strategem pea, Prince of Wales pea, and Green Flageolet bean. The patriarch of the American press, the venerable William H. Moore of the Angusta News, ia preparing for amillen- * celebration.