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LOUIS J. BRISTOW, Ed. & Prop'r.
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Philadelphia is to have pneumatic
mail tnbes. New York is also to have
jihe same method of saving time in the
dispatch of mail matter.
Since the year 1S80 the Paris police
authorities have arrested as many as
OS 29,000 children who are being i
trained for begging and vice. ,, !
The Dallas News says that there are
flowers and bees enough in Texas and
cows enough to overflow a State like (
Massachusetts six feet deep with milk
and honey.
No man can read the names of Greek 1
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and Turkish persons and places without
r^dizing that there is bound to be
a high mortality rate among oomposi- ,
tore and proof readers. i
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r The Balkans have been well des- i
? cribed as "the lumber room of Eu- 1
rope." These "fragments of forgotten '
peoples" are found in profusion and }
confusion. But it is possible that con- <
?. tinental policies may yet be built out i
^ of dome of these loos<_, unattached
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} Near the Bast Tennessee coal yards '
at North Knoxville a father has made
a practice of ohaining an eight-yeari.: ?
. eld child in his cabin to keep it off the
**Som? rwv>r>le." says a local
? newspaper mildly, "think that the !
^ ' Humane Society should investigate the ^
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'9 Says Bradstreet's: "It is pointed 1
out, with probable accuracy, that not ,
a little of the disfavor with which <
wlrt Is termed .'Wall street' is re- I <
;* . girded throughout the country is the 1
tfr result of experiences with bucket shops
and so-called syndicates, and the ab- .
senoe of actual knowledge as to what the 1
legitimate stock market really is." <
"" It may interest young New Yorkers J
v whose careers have been pretty mnch J (
BfM' coterminous with the period of elevated
railways and cable roads to learn that <
? . vn correspondent of a daily newspaper !
I recalls the time, some thirty-five years j
ago, when moles or asses were used to
draw street can on the Sixth avenue i
road. The experiment was soon
abandoned,'however, as the hoofs of
the animals aforementioned could not
bear pounding on the stones, nor were
' $he amies capable of making a sport of ,
speed when a car was behind tim^
Truly, (the world moves, if the mules 1
did not . ^ j
; . A correspondent of Cycling Life
L: -writes from St. Lonis: "Every house
celled on recently, not only in bicycle ,
!^\ tat in other lines as well, emphasizes i
v.; the faot of an immense improvement
f? ,tile lest few jean in general conditions 1
in the South. Nowhere else in the
* country hnte the years of business de- j
. p*""" proved such a blessing in dis
guise. The iniquitous credit system
* which has been such a hindrance to
bttiiness in that section has received its
T deathblow. Bankers and brokers have
, been forced to discontinue loaning large :
amounts on growing or prospective
* crops. The planters have been forced
toneaah basis or something near it.
,,, Merchants are better able to disconut
*' .: their bills and are doing it" This is <
'jV-. true, s^ys the Louisville Connertv
Journal in oOrroboration. Except for ,
tiw floods there is no reason why the j
flmth cannot expect to prosper.
' Dr. Walter Xyiran,Surgeon-General :
of the United States Marine Hospital
Service, advocates the annexation of
Cuba as a sanitary measure necessary
to the welfare cl this country, because 1
it is the worst plague spot upon the
r asp and the source of nearly all our
epidemics. From the beginning of
V* the century until now there have been j
' only nine years in which this country i
ihae been free from yellow fever. It 1
has been proved that in twenty-three |
of the eighty-five years the disease
came from Havana direct, and in i
twelve cases from elsewhere in Cnba.
The source of its infection in many 1
other years is believed to have been
the same, but there is no positive evidence.
Since 1862 there have been \
twenty-six invasions of yellow fever. 1
EfcV Tk? sources of nineteen are absolutely i '
' known?sixteen from Havana, two ,
from elsewhere in Cuba and one from ,
i Honduras. Since 1893 there has been
bo yellow fever in the United States, i
)C which, the Chicago Record declares, is
l._ doe to the'extraordinary precautions
Fv> '*
f taken by Dr. Burgess, the United (
*' - States inspector at Havana, who will ]
not give a certificate of health unless <
he is wire that it is correct, and within
out his certificate no passenger can 1
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FARM AND GARDEN.
Items of Interest on Agricultural
TopicsMineral
Manures for Spring Crops. Working
Three-Horse Teams. Worms in
Seed Corn, Etc., Etc.
MINERAL MANURES FOR SPRING
CROPS.
To be effective mineral manures for
spring and summer crops must be ap
plied early. They need some 01 me |
spring rains to dissolve the fertilizer i
so that the plant roots can make use of
it. Besides, as weather and soil become
warm and dry there is less need
of the fertilizer, as the soil itself releases
more of its own fertility under
such conditions.
WORKING THREE-HORSE TEAMS.
The true economy of team work is
better understood by Western farmers
than by the average of farmers in the
East. It is to the Western farmer that
we owe the idea of cultivating hoed
crops with two horses, requiring no
stoppages, while the man may, if he
chooses, ride behind and manage the I
hoes, so that none of the grain is destroyed.
It is rather more difficult to j
turn two horses on a cultivator at the
and of the row. Therefore, this plan j
is best adapted to large fields where the :
rows are long. But three horses will j
an heavy plowing do nearly twice as j
much as will two horses. Now that
horses are cheap, it is the farmer's in-!
terest more than ever before to make
horse labor accomplish all it will, with
as little as possible of the much more
expensive human labor.?Boston Cultivator.
WORMS IN SEED CORN.
Mr. J. D. Griffin wqpts to know It
rolling seed corn in coal tar will prevent
worms from cutting corn. I say to
tfr. Griffin, I have tried this remedy two
or three times since I have been forming.
and find it does no good. They will
cut the corn just as bad when rolled
as if not rolled, me Dest ming you i
2an do to prevent them from cutting !
x>rn is not to plant your corn till about;
the 1st of June.
Then when you get ready to plant,
soak your corn the night before in !
water, and run your rows off the day 1
before you plant, so the hot sun will'
shine on the rows and drive the worms '
Into the ground. Plant in the heat of
the day, if possible. Tour corn being !
soaked, will come up in three or four :
lays. As soon as it is up well, bar it i
oft well with a short-turn plow, as
:lose as possible. This will let the sun |
?hlne into the roots, driving the worms
into the ground. Bud worms can't!
stand the hot sun. This is the best
preventive I have ever tried. M. W.
Sherrill in Home and Farm.
THE HEAD OF THE FLOCK.
Upon the kind of a ram employed will
depend the future crop of lambs to a
very great extent. As he is half the
Bock, it will be wise to get a good one ;
?not good individually, but good in i
the matter of breeding, says the Live
Stock Indicator. A grade ram costing
to $8 may be quite good individually,
but connected with his use there is a
great deal of uncertainty. He may
serve forty ewes, and the lambs from
this service have all degrees of makeup,
from the sixth generation down to
the present. Twenty-five per cent, or
jerhaps more, may be pretty fair lambs,
while the remaining ones will be undersized
and culls. Lambs sired by a
pure-bred sire will be more uniform in
size and quality, and will be enough
better to bring fifty cents per head
more than those from a grade sire.
This difference will leave the purebred
ram free of cost. This is oui view
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wnen tne e*w )xrv gi&ucs, on.. <<. *? vuV
Intensified when the ewee are purebred.
The breeder who has pure-bred or
high-grade ewes of a certain breed can
ill afford to breed to a pure-bred ram
of some other breed, no matter how
great the inducement offered. The
present writer handles some Of the
mutton breeds of sheep, but he has
never advised his readers to buy a ram
from him when they have ewes of any
other breed which are pure-bred; he
would not do it himself, and he would
not want anyone else to do it.
If we had a flock of grades we would
select the type of sheep wanted, and we
would keep in this line of breeding,
getting new blood of the same breed j
from year to year until we had them
practical'}- pure-bred.
SPRAYING FRUIT TREES.
Agriculturists have for some time
past been discussing among themselves
the advisability of taking strong measures
to protect their faithful servants,
the bees, against the fruit growers, who
spray trees when they are in blossom,
and this poisons not only the bees
themselves but their luscious product. J
It seems difficult for fruit-growers to 1
understand that they gain little or
nothing by spraying the trees when
they are in full bloom. It is rarely that
any harm is done at that stage. The
numerous enemies of the orchard work
earlier and later, but for some reason,!
a sentimental one. perhaps, for even
insects may be possessed of sentiment, i
the full bloom stage is much more free !
from their injurious attacks than people
generally suppose. Some apicul-)
lurists claim that the blossoms are at
such times wholly given over to the
bees and such claim is quite consistent
with the usual benevolent methods of
our ever watchful mother nature, who
makes provision for all of her dependents.
There have been many instances
where most injurious effects have followed
the use of honey made from nee-1
tar sipped from flowers that had been j
ipxayed with poisonous compounds.
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The Agricultural Experiment Station
in sending out their Duncans taxe
special care to caution fruit-growers
against spraying trees that are in full
bloom, but. notwithstanding their
warning, there are hosts of men who
sprinkle the exquisite blossoms with
poison regardless of consequences.?
New York Ledger.
THE USE OR THE HARROW.
In dry sections of the country the
harrow is second in importance only to
the plow and in connection with the
disk harrow in a few cases the plow is
dispensed with.
I try always to have in mind those
under different conditions, for I know
that in very wet sections the harrow is
not needed nearly so much, for after
plowing rains will compact and level
the ground, and in cultivation weeds
grow so fast that the harrow will not
destroy them. In rocky ground the
harrow would often drag the rocks upon
tVio til-ante anrl in vorv Rfljndv ETOUnd
in a dry windy section the soil needs
to be left rough, so the harrow is not
needed so much there.
But I think in most sections it should
be used much more than it is. On our
soil, which is almost without sand and
inclined to crust over after rains and
dry weather being rather the normal
condition we are coming to use the
harrow more each year, almost dispensing
with the cultivator in some things.
To be effective it must be used at the
right time. This, in a wet country, is
sometimes simply impossible while
with us it is generally our own fault
if not used there.
There is but little of the time at any
Season of the year but what the harrow
follows the plow the same day. Then
if the plowing is much before seeding
or planting time the ground is harrowed
at intervals to destroy any weeds
starting and to keep the surface loose
to prevent rapid evaporation or moisture.
Plowing for wheat commences in
June immediately after harvest if
ground is not too dry, and seeding seldom
commences until October, so more
than one harrowing may be needed.
If favorable weather most of the
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the winter and the same use of the
harrow is had.
For corn and sorghum known as Kaffir
corn, Milo maize, etc., the ground is
harrowed just before planting and as
many times afterward as needed, and
can be done before corn gets too large
and where the ground is smooth and
free from trash this can be done much
later than the inexperienced would suppose.
For millet and sorghum for hay we
do not plow the ground but cut with
the disk and then using the common
harrow, the sorghum seed being sown
before disking, the millet before or after,
owing to how deep we wish to disk.
?J. M. Rice, in Farm, Field and Fireside.
RAISING LAMBS.
Regular feeding and a stady growth
make good wool and good lambs. Exnazwtc
ot?im that thev can tell at about
what period of growth the sheep had
been kept upon a poor range or short
rations by noting with a micrcscope
the thin places in the wool staple.
While sheep will get more sustenance
from poor land, and at the same time
do the land more good than any other
stock we may possess, it must rot be
forgotten that they will also repay
liberal feeding. Food wisely fed will
always come back to us doubled, if fed
to a good animal.
If lambs three or four weeks old are
fed lightly at .first on bran and ground
oats, gradually increasing their ritions
as they become accustomed V> eating,
they can be materially helped in their
growth. Better err in having them a
little hungry than to give too much
and have them off their feed for a week.
Separate the pregnant ewes from all
the others at least a month before
weaning time, and give some bone making
food and plenty of exercise Corn
and confinement will make large lambs,
perhaps, but with little strength or vitality.
The larger the portion of oats,
wheat bran and clover hay which can
be got Into the rations, the better.
It pays to feed lambs before they are
weaned all the grain they will eat when
on good blue grass or clover pastures
with their dams, and it pays especially
well if they are on dry feed. Any certain
amount of grain will put more
weight upon sucking lambs than upon
any other animal.?The Silver Knight
VINES FROM GRAPE CUTTINGS.
Though the grape vine roots more
freely from cuttings than any other
wood, we cannot advise any one who
wishes but few vines, and those for
home use. to depend on this slow way
of getting them. All the best varieties
can be bought by the single vine for
from five to ten cents each. Mo6t dealers
will let you have a dozen assorted
varieties at the dozen rate, which is
still low. If you root and cut this
spring, you are likely not to get as well
rooted a vine a year bence as you can
buy now at less price than your own
vines win nave men cost. ii uihrs
several years for a grape vine from cutting
to get into bearing. Each of these
years your cutting vine started this
spring will be a year behind in bearing,
as compared with the one bought now.
But if you want to start the vines, the
best way is to prepare the cutting several
weeks in advance of the time to
plant. .Cut each piece three buds long,
leaving the bottom cut just at the base
of the bud, which should be removed.
Then heel in the whole cutting so as
to keep the bud back at the top. If a
clean cut is made opposite the middle
bud, merely showing tte bark, it will
callous, and roots will issue from the
cut place more readily. Plant in dry,
warm soil, but without manure, so soor
as the soil is well warmed. Set the
cutting slanting lengthwise in the row.
and leave the unner bud Inst at tbe sur\
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face. This WU leave the lower bud j
not more thai. ?ee or four inches deep j
1 where the soil is warm. The roots will *
; then put forth in tim* to supply the j
! leaf with moisture when the bud starts,
i Ninety to ninety-five per cent, of such
cuttings will grow and be good plants
: next year. Do not be disappointed if
the bud does not start until June.
| Usually both the middle and upper bud
j will grow. Two plants can thus be
made from one cutting. If a cutting
can be got with a small piece of twoyear-old
wood on it. cut smooth ou the
lower, it will be more sure to grow and
j will make a stronger vine the first year.
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BUI tUl) MUU Ul |naui, <u>v.
and well eared for two or three years,
will be vigorous enough if not allowed
to tear the first year it sets fruit nor
to overbear afterwards.?Boston Culti- i
vator.
ATTACHED TO HIS REGIMENT.
Stories of* Regular Army Veteran Who j
Wouldn't G the Service.
The old soldier's a: tachment for regiment.
company and officers is not without
its compensation, or he presumes ,
upon it and is indulged. A gray-haired
veteran, though something of an incorrigible,
would have his offending met
with a leniency at which the younger
; soldier or war recruit would marvel.
Indeed, it is the fact that not a l'ew old
soldiers of the past owned their regiments,
cr believed they did. and acted
up to their belief. Jack Carpenter,
"H" Company, Third Infantry, had that
belief as strong as any man who ever
wore the blue in the ranks for sixty-five
consecutive years Superannuated for
; year's, ae wouia dot mst- a uuaiaitv,
i but at the end of each enlistment he
would get a dispensation ii-om the war
department, and take on again "just to
stay with the old Third." A veteran
1 of the Mexican war, ne :*erved faithfully
during the civil war, and in 1863,
with his regiment, was sent from the
Army at the Potomac to help quell the
draft riots in New York.
The regiment, having sucessfuly accomplished
its mission, gave a ball on
Governor's Island before departing for
the front. Jack Carpenter, as neat a
looking soldier as ever pipe-clayed a
belt, along with a veteran comrade,
Mullaney, was detailed to look after the
i gentlemen guests in their retiringj
room. Carpenter met every batch of
guests with elaborate courtesy
| and. conducting each to a sideboard,
effusively protested that
each had better take a nip
, before "jining" the ladies. Jack
i the host, courteously drank with each
1 group or squad of visitors, and finally
he and Mullaney, who had been equally
hospitable, got Into a dispute. Forthwith
Jack repaired to the ballroom to
. find his captain and have the contro!
versy settled. The ball was at its
j height, with the band playing a langu- !
oroys waltz, while the floor was filled
, with dancers impatient for the go-note
of the music. Just at this interesting
moment Private Carpenter, "H" company.
Third United States Infantry,
stalked in. unsteadily, face flushed, but
determination stamped upon it Captain
Andy Sheridan, his company com-1
mander, espied him, and fearing some i
outbreak, sought to hide him from the j
j cfowd of gayly garbed ladies. Carp en- j
| ter detected ifim and exclaimed:
; "No you don't, sonhy, you don't hide
from old Jack Carpenter. I am after
knowing who ranks in the cookhouse;
do I rank Mullaney or does Muilaney
rank me?"
After the war Carpenter accompanied
his regiment west and took station at
Fort Lyon, Colo. There, so well advanced
in years, he was practically exI
cused from all duty, only being re|
quired to show up at Sunday morning
i inspection, so he might be kepi: on the
muster roll. This he always did, looking
as soldierly and clean as if he were
a toy soldier instead of a war-worn
i veteran of two wars and scores of in1
dian expeditions and scouts. It so hap
pened tim second Liieutenam ixhiu
, Hamilton, a grandson of Alexander
Hamilton, was assigned to duty at Fort
Lyon and to the command of Carpenter's
company. A rosy-faced, beardless
and confident youngster, Hamilton
went out to his first Sunday morning
inspection at Fort Lyon. He went
down the company front, looking over
each man with a scrutiny that he
hoped would impress the men with the
belief that, he was an old hand at the
| business. In turn he took each gun
and inspected it. He came to Carpenter,
looked him over, took his gun, inspected
it, and, returning it to him, said
i patronizingly:
"What is your name, my man?"
"Jack Car-pen-ter," was the answer,
i delivered with the faintest suspicion,
to those who knew him, thai old Jack
had been early at the bar at the sutler's
! store;.
"Well," continued Hamilton, all ionoi
cent of olense, you are the cleanest
man in tie company."
"Sonny," with a snort, ejaculated old
Jack. "I was in the army before you
were borr."?Chicago Times-Herald.
/. Modern Appian Way.
! Before long there is to be a magnificent
driveway or boulevard stretching
along the shore of Lake Michigan from
: Chicago fo.Milwaukee. Most oi the
j towns along the route to be followed
have done something within their own
limits to make easier the accomplishment
of the great undertaking. Milwaukee
has built two miles of roadway
like that at Chicago, and has given it
the same name. Sheridan drive. Waukegan
has done as much. When all
the gaps in this road are filled it will
rival the finest in Europe, both in construction
and scenic beauty. _
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PHILOSOPHER TISITS TENNESSEE j
CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION.
MUCH PLEASED AT WHAT HE SAW
And Proceeds To Give the Poblie the
Benefit of HI* Observation*.
Will Go A grain.
Man never gets too old to learn, and
if he i3 a giod learner he is a good
teacher. Shakespeare says "knowledge
iathowinfr with whieh wpflvto heaven."
ami as heaven is where we all wish to
go, it becomes ns to acquire knowledge.
Lord Bacon said "knowledge is power,"
and so it was a" day well spent, for I
learned much in one day at the Tennessee
Centennial?so much that I am
going to return very soon and take
more time and acquire more knowledge.
I sometimes think it a great
pity that by the time a man becomes
lit to live his time is out and he has to
die. If the oid men who have made
good use of their time and talents were
given a new lease?another three score
years and ten, and had the vigor of
their youth restored, what a world of
wisdom would they accumulate. We
would all be Solomons and write proverbs.
What farmers we would make;
what inventors; what teachers; what
preachers; what scientists. Maybe
providence cut us down to 70 years
for fear we would learn too much of
His mysteries and once again eat the
fruit from the tree of knowledge.
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X wa? rumiuauu^ suvui uito <tuuc
listening to the earnest discourse of
Colonel Killebrew, who has charge of
the Nashville, Chattanooga and St
Louis and the Western and Atlantic
railroad exhibits at the exposition.
Now there is a man who as Paul said
to Timothy magnifies his office. It is
like going to school to hear him explain
and expatiate and philosophize
upon things that ordinarily would attract
no special attention. If every
man in charge of a special exhibit had
his enthusiasm the exposition would
not only be a grand success, but
would diffuse more knowledge among
men than any similar display has ever
done.
Now, for instance, when we paused
to look at some tobacco that was hanging
from the rods he said: "That tobacco
grew on very poor land. The
best tobacco always grows on poor
land." Indeed it seems providential
that poor land is good for something.
The sandy, gravelly land of Granberry
county, in north Georgia, grows
the finest tobacco in the world, and it
commands the highest price. The
soil is not rich enough to give it a
dark color, and hence it is pale and
sickly, and has the consumption, so to
speak. This tobacco grew upon land
that is 80 per cent silica?sandy land
?poor, white land, as your Bartow
county farmers call it?you have lots
of it down there. I have seen it, and
it can be bought for a song, but there
is more money in it than in your val1
?n/1 ?ra? Wtnmii TV>a sand
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that is in Florida soil will make tobacco
growing a success there. I have
been experimenting in tobacco growing
and curing for years, and know
w hereof I speak. There are thousands
of acres in north Georgia that are just
suited to it, and ail those poor white
lands in Cobb county are just waiting
for it. Some of that land along our railroad
that will not grow corn high
enough to shoot an ear or make a tas
sel, would grow the most aristocratic
tobacco.
We paused again to look at some
little pyramids of broken rock, and I
learned that it was phosphate?a recent
discovery in counties contiguous
to the railroad. "There are millions
of it and millions in it," said the colonel.
"As is usual, these discoveries
were accidental. Some mineral experts
were prospecting for zinc, and
were at a loss to account for these sinirular
deposits. They have had them
analyzed, and they are pronounced by
reliable chemists to be the very finest
grade of phosphate rock, rnnning
from 64 to 85 per cent, and some of
the strata are twelve feet thick, and
underlie thousands of acres. There
are no phosphates in Florida that will
compare with them, and most of it can
be mined with a pick?a single hand
taking out six tons a day."
After inspecting many kinds of ores
and minerals such as iron, maganese,
bauxite, gold,silver, octire, corunanm,
etc., much of which was from our
county of Bartow, we were shown tne
greatest variety of useful and ornamental
woods that has ever been exhibited
in this country. And also the
variety of farm and garden products is
admirable. Just think of one farmer,
on a little plat of twenty-five acres exhibiting
seventy-eight specimens that
were grown upon his farm. Seventyeight
different products, useful for
man or beast. And another man se :ds
specimens of sixty different woods that
grow upon his laud. Theu there are
several hundred botanical pictures of
the flora of Tennessee that were ga*hered
and painted and framed by
General Kirby Smith. But it v ould
take too much space to describe or
0
even to catalogue the hundreds of
interestings things in this magnificent
railroad show. It would make a good
exposition of itself. Of course it has
cost money?much money to get up
such an extensive collection, but it indicates
the far-seeing policy of Mr.
Thomas, the best railroad magnate of
the south. For two years past he has
had in his employ Colonel Killebrew,
who is without doubt the most efficient
and best educated teacher and promoter
of agriculture and mineralogy in
the state, a inau of large and liberal
enterprise, a cultured scholar who can
talk science with the scientist and J?,
practical farming with the humblest
farmer. He had charge of both these ft.''
departments in the first Atlanta expo- fejj
sition. He has traveled mule-back
over Mexico, inspecting the silver
mines for their owners. He has more
recently invaded the homes of the set- ,
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northwestern states and communed vf.?
with them about our climate and lands j*.$.
and laws, and they listened to JiSai
him gladly, and the result has
been the location of 1,500 families
along the line of this railroad from
Nashville to Atlanta. Fifteen hundred
families within the past two ran
years, and the cry is, "Still they come."
He is the most ardent and . ?s|
the most successful colonizer in all ,$jH
the south. He is the best talker I
ever listened to, the most earnest, convincing
and entertaining; and yet he *3
has no land for sale nor any interest
in the sales. His work is for the t,
railroad and for humanity. The
condition of thousands of those west- r c
ern settlers is most pitiful. Think of
100 horses selling at auction for $87,
less than $1 a head. Think of 1,000 Vfjm
selling for less than $3,000. And so .
these people are closing out and eom. . '^53
ing to Tennessee and G *>rgin and buy- Ving
small tracts of land within easy
reach of the railroad, and in flyy
years time tnese i,ovu iaiumes wm -5?3B
probably ship their products of grain ? j ^[5jl
and hay and meat and males to an
amount that will give for each family
an average of $100 in freights to the
road. This alone will make $150,000
per annum to be added to the freight ^
business of the road. This is Mr. .
Thomas's far-seeing policy. Within jfla
five years' time it is expected that . *
10,000 families will be located?transferred
from the cyclones and dronghts
and blizzards of the west to the <- -JU
climate of the south.
We see that the SeabcT -t line is
now pursuing the same policy. The . ~U
Georgia Southern and Florida railroad 1
began it years ago, and improved *
Cyclonetta as an object lesson to emigrants
to show them what codld be
done. It was a successful experiment, -^23
. ad Mr. Sparks showed his wisdom v
and sagacity, but the road's creditors
forced it into the courts and crippled . -ft
its resources, and even made war upon . Z
Mr. Sparks for his so-called extrava- ;*
But I had only a day to spare at the /
centennial, and all of that was spent * 1
in one building, for I could not get :
away from it. It is a thing of beanty,
as well as of interest and instruction,
for the ornamental work that graces ,
the arches and pillars and cornices is Jj
most lovely and elaborate?a master's ?
hand has planned and executed. There, a
too, is the plaster bust of Mr. Thomas JjHS
and his handsome portrait on the
wall, that were presented to him by JH
his employees as a graceful tribute
and an evidence of their devotion to
him. What a blessed thing it is in
these days of strikes, and wrecks, and
receivers and of war to the knife between
capital and laborer, to find a
man?a magnate?who controls thousands
of men, doing it so peacefully
and considerately, and at all times . 9
sharing their respect and their devoI
shall return again next week and
take in the exposition. I wish to
spend one day in that Parthenon, the
most exquisitely beautiful gem of
architecture I ever saw, and its walla
are adorned with paintings?great 'IB
works of art by the modern masters, '*
and that many of them that cost thousands
of dollars, have been loaned by
their owners to encourage the exposition
and implant a love of art among ??
our people. Let everyone who can go
visit this admirable exhibition. x<ec every
family man take his wife, or his Ufa
son, or his daughter, for it will pay in unfl
the long run. Sidney Smith said that a',
the companionship of a beautiful and
virtuous woman was a classic education.
Just so it is an education to
visit the exposition and study these
object lessons and listen to the sweet *v|
and soothing music and rest under the
shade of the trees.? Bill Arp in At- r|B|
lanta Constitution.
PAPERS QUICKLY FASTENED.
Staple Fastener Feeds 150 Staple*
Without Replenishing,
A new staple fastener for fastening .%
papers together, which Is always ready '* rlH
for use and can be kept full of staples,
^ ever one is used, Is
o-i a great time saver. '
Mli It has a spring coil
which holds about
A])> ? Il9 150 staples when
filled to the end of
^ tbe 00,1 in the cen"
\ tor nnd as each
I ' one is used the $
center of the coll jtM
can be filled out at leisure. One blow
on the top of the fastener cuts the pa- ['ME
pere, drives the staple through them,
clinches the staple through the papers,
and feeds the next staple, all ready for
the next bunch of papers. This is a ' ira
great improvement over the old styles,
which took from one to three blows of . s.jjM
the machine, besides adjusting each
staple separately by hand. ;3|
In the Hebron section, Marlboro
county, owing to the recent severe hail r
storm, farmers generally were compelled
to plant their cotton entirely
over, and the oat crop was completely
destroyed. .
Governor Ellerbe announced poaitively
that there would be no extra aeadk>n
of the Legislature. He also sajpa * -.-jS!
that the constabulary will not be abol- '
ished as published.
Gen. M. C. Butler announces that?h? <
would not be a candidate for the Sena- ? '
torship or enter politics if asked by every
living thing in the State.
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