The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, March 26, 1896, Image 5
THE WEEKLY LEDGER'.: GAFFNEY, S. MARCH 26, 1896.
rrrTnftS OF NATIONS f u<1 Z 11010 is a sn,a11 riot nf semicolons,
IIj I'/A* _ * iiyi^hcns and commas, and wo come to
newspaper the eudject of Dn
TALMAflE’S sermon.
Plsaemiastcra
0 f KD 0 '*’ 1 ^!^ to tJio 3Julti-
tndi- tad ta Accu-ato Uistory of the
T,me-Xhe Mo»t potent lofluence For
Oowl on EirtA.
WASinsfiTON, -drcli 22.—Newspa
per row, w it is hero in Wash-
inciou, the long ri w of olficed connected
wiih praniincut ji nrna].^ tlmingliout tho
landi pays m uncli attention to Dr.
Talaago they nir.y l;o glad to hear what
ho thinks vf them w Inio ho discusses a
jjjHcct iu whicli th wh !o (ujuntry is
intcrceteii. Bit ti tvas, “And
tho wheels wert full of eyes” (Ezekiel
a, 12)> “For H tho Athenians and
strainers which wero there spent their
timo ia nothin ' else but either to tell
or to hear seine new thing” (Acts xvii,
21 >- ,
What is a preacher to do when he
finds two tex s equally good and sug
gestive? In tidit j i rplexity I tako both.
Wheels fall of eyes? What hut tho
vbeolsof a''e’.e'j.ai'er printing press?
Otherwbcei au: Ijlmd. They roll on,
p n ]lingorcr : . : -liu!g. Tho manufacturer’s
\rhee!-hov itg’.iufls tho operator with
fatignes ar 1 : 11s (.ver nervo and inus-
• cld aod be ) and heart, not knowing
what it <1 Tr.o sewing machine
wheel see - in t th'; aches and pains fas
tened to i —t 1 :?.t • than tho baud that
more.-it, harp, r i .aii tlio ncedlo which
it plies, llv ry nu :a( ut ( f every hour of
there a:
evert liny of every month of every year
hundreds of thousands of
wheels' m-ah ah.'in, wheels of enter
prise, v' co f < f laird work, in motion,
bat they are eye h: -.
Kot ) tiie wheels of tho printing
press. Tl. ir •••.tira business is to look
and r ao:r. They a no full of optic
Bertf'. fr.ini a.xlo to periphery. They
wlila' those sl 'ircu of by Ezekiel as
fill] of eyes. Sharp eyes, near sighted,
fart’nht d. They look up. They look
dotv:;. They look far away. They tako
inti: in i-tiect and tho next homi-
flei'c. Ey a 11 criticism, eyes of inves-
tiga' on. iyi.; that twiukla with mirth,
qpe; gliAveriag with indignation, eyes
tender with love, eyes of suspicion,
0£s of hope, bluo eyes, black eyes,
p( :i eye a, holy eyes, evil eyes, sore
<yc>, political eyes, literary eyes, kis-
tcrieni eyes, religious eyes, eyes that
teo everything. “And tho wheels wero
full eiV ” ITT iu my second text is
tho x:: rld’s cry f; r tho newspaper. Paul
loseri? • a elti. s ef people in Athens
who spent their time either in gather
ing tho news or telling it. Why ospie-
[ ciallyin Athens? EccauKO tho moro intel
ligent peoplo Lccoino, tho moro inquisi
tive tlicy arc—not about small things,
but great things.
Geatailoxy of tl.c Ncvtfpaper.
The question then most frequently is
tho question now most frequently
asked, What is tho news? To answer
that cry in tho text for tho newspaper
tho centuries havo put their wits to
work. China first succeeded, and has
at Peking a newspaper that has toon
printed every week for 1,000 years,
printed ou silk. Rome fucceedcd by
publishing Tho Acta Diurua, in tho
fame column putting fin s, murders,
marriages and tempests. Franco .suc
ceeded by p. physician writing out tho
news of the day for his patients. Eng
land succeeded under Qucou Elizabeth
in first publishing the news of the Span
ish armada, and going on until sho had
enough enterprise, when tho battle of
Waterloo was fought, deciding tho des
tiny of Europe, to givo it one-third of a
column in the London Morning Chron
icle, about as much as tho newspaper of
our day gives of a small fire. America
succeeded by Benjamin Harris’ first
weekly paper called Public Occurrences,
published in Boston in and by the
first daily, Tho American Advertiser,
published in Philadelphia in 1784.
The newspaper did not suddenly spring
upon tho world, but camo gradually.
The genealogical lino of the nowpaper
is this: Tho Adam of the racowas a cir
cular or news letter, created by diviuo
impulse in human nature, and the cir
cular begat tho pamphlet, and tho pam
phlet begat the quart* rly, and tho quar
terly begat the weekly, and tho weekly
begat tho semiweekly, and tho semi-
weekly begat tho daily. But alas, by
what a struggle it camo to its rirosrnt
development! No sooner had its power
been demonstrated than, tyranny and su
perstition shackled it. Thero is nothing
that despotism so fears and hates as a
printing press. It has too many eyes iu
its win < 1. A great writer declared that
the king of .Naples made it unsafe for
him to write of anything but natural
history. Austria could not endure Kos
suth’s journalistio pen pleading for tho
redemption of Hungary. Napoleon I,
trying to keep his iron heel ou tho neck
of nations, said, ‘‘Editors aro tho re
gents of sovereigns and tho tutors of na
tions and am only lit for prison. ” But
tho buttlo for tho freedom of tho press
Was fought iu tho courtrooms of England
and America and decided heforo this
century began by Hamilton’s eloquent
plea for J. Peter Zenger’s Gazette iu
America, and Erskino’s advocacy of the
freedom of publication iu England.
These were the Marathon and Ther
mopylae in which the freedom of tho
press was established in tho Enited
States and Great Britain, uml all tho
powers of eartli and hull will never
again bo ablo to put ou the huudcniTs
and hopples of literary and political des
potism. It is notable that Thomas Jef
ferson, who wrote the Declaration of
American Independence, wrote also: “If
I hud to choose between a government
without newspapers or newspapers with
out a government, I should prefer the
latter.” Htung bysonio base fabrication
coming to us in print, wecomn to write
or speak of tho unbridled printing press;
or, oui new book ground up by an un
just critic, we come to write or speak of
tho unfairness of the printing press; or,
perhaps, through our own indistinctness
utterance, wo are reported us saying
Ht tho opposite of what wo did say,
. to
spear, or write of the blundering print
ing pros; or, seeing a paper filled with
divorce cases or. cciul scandal, wo speak
and write of the filthy printing press;
or, seeing a journal, through bribery,
win el round from ono political side to
the other in one night, wo speak of the
corrupt printing press, and many talk
about the lampooury, and tho empiri-
cism, and tho* sans culottism of the
printing press.
■An Kvertastiiig; Blessing.
But I diBcour.se now ou a subject you
havo never heard—tho immeasurable
and everlasting blessing of a good news
paper. Thank God for tho wheel full of
eyes. Thank God that wo do not have,
like tho Athenians, to go about to gath
er up and relate (he tidings of tho day,
sinco tho omnivorous newspaper does
both for us. Tho grandest temporal
blessing that God has given to the nine
teenth century is tho newspaper. Wo
would havo better appreciation of this
blessing if we knew tho money, tho
brain, tho losses, the exasperations, tho
anxieties, tho wear and tear of heart
strings, involved iu the production of a
good newspaper. Under tho impression
that almost anybody can make a news
paper, scores of inexperienced capitalists
every year enter tho lists, and conse
quently during the last few years a
newspaper lias died almost every day.
The disease is epidemic. Tho larger pa
pers swallow tho smaller ones, the
whale taking down CO minnows at one
swallow. With more than 7,000 dailies
and weeklies in the Unit' d States and
Canada, thero are bat d!i a half century
old. Newspapers do not average moro
than five years’ existence. The most of
thorn die of cholera infantum. It is high
time that tho peoplo found out that the
most suecessfal way to sink money and
keep it sunk is to start a now: paper.
Thoro conics a timo when almost every
ono is smitten with tho nev.>; aper mania
and starts one, or havo stock in ono ho
must or die.
TJio course of proceduro is al iut mis:
AEtirniynum has an agricultural or
scientific or political or religious idea
which ho wants to ventilate. IT lias no
money of his own—literary men teldom
have. But lie talks of his ic. as among
confidential friends until they Lccorno
inflamed with tho idea, and forthwith
they buy type and press and rent com
posing room and gather' a corps of edi
tors, and with a prospectus that proposes
to cure everything tho first copy is Hung
on tho attention of an a-.miring world.
After awhile one of
ers finds that no gn at
been effected by this daily or weekly
publication; that noithir . an nor moon
stands still; that the wurM on ly
ing and cheating and stealing just as it:
did bcToro tho first issue. Tho aforesaid
matter of fact stat']-:holder wants to sell
out his . took, hut nobody w ants to buy,
and other stockhofi] r.s get ini’tcied and
sick of newspaporilcm, and an enormous
bill at tho paper factory rolls into an
avalanche, and the primers refuse to
work until back wages aro i aid up, and
tho compositor bows to tho managing
editor, and ti.o managing editor bows to
tho editor in chi; f, and t : •.< editor in
chief tows to tho din vs, and the di
rectors bow to tho v, rid at 1 ..•go, and
all tho subscribers wcmlcv whv their
revolution
paper doosu t
havo to learn
T!-
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cute rprito
agricultural <
political idi a
ter charge up-
columns ahi a
for any ono w
tilth n a
college
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cf tho Matter-
press I,. I.
it is folly to tiy tho si
horn.
Comcn Tlirouj;!! Ftra.
To publish a new. paper requires tho
skill, tho precision, tho bohlne.s, the
vigilance, the strut, gy of a commander
iu chief. To edit a newspaper requires
that one bn a state.man, an essayist, a
geographer, a statistician, and in ac
quisition em yclop-iliac. To man, to
govern, to propel a newspaper until it
shall bo a fixed intitution, a national
fact, demand moro qualities than any
business on earth. If you feel like start
ing any newspaper, secular or religious,
understand that you uro being threat
ened with softening of tho brain or lu
nacy, and, throwing your poeketbook in
to your wife’s lap, start for some insane
asylum before you do something des
perate. Meanwhile, as tho dead news
papers, week by week, aro carried out
to tho burial, all tho living newspapers
givo respectful obituary, telling when
they wi re born and when they died.
The best printers’ ink should givo at
least one stickful of epitaph. If it was
a good paper, say, “Peace to its ashes.”
If it was a bad paper, I suggest tho epi
taph written for Francis Chartreuse:
“Hero continuoth to rot tho body of
Francis Chartreuse, who, with an in
dexible constancy and uniformity of
life, persisted in tho practice of every
human vice, excepting prodigality and
hypocrisy. His insatiable axurico ex
empted him from the first, his match
less impudence from tho second.” I say
this because I want you to know that a
good, healthy, long lived, entertaining
newspaper is not an easy blessing, but
one that comes to us through the lire.
First of all, newspapers make knowl
edge democratic and for tho multitude.
Tho public library is a haymow so high
up that few can reach it, while tho
newspaper throws down tho forage to
our feet. Public libraries are tho reser
voirs where tho great floods aro stored
high up and away off. Tho newspaper
is tho tunnel that brings them ciowu to
tho pitchers of all tho people. Tho chief
use of great libraries is to make news
papers out of. (treat libraries make a
few men and women very wise. News
papers lift whole nations into the sun
light. Better havo r>0,00<),0U0 peoplo
moderately intelligent than 100,000
solans.
A fujso impression is abroad that
newspaper knowledge is ephemeral bo-
cause periodicals aro thrown aside, and
not ono out of ten thousand people files
them for future reference. Such knowl
edge, so far from being ephemeral, goes
into tho very structure of tho world’s
heait and brain and decides tho destiny
of churches and nations. Knowledge on
tho shelf is of little worth. It is knowl
edge afoot, knowledge harnessed, knowl
edge in revolution, knowledge winged,
knowlcdgo proji-etcd, knowledge tliun-
derbolted. So far from being ephem
eral, nearly all tho host minds and hearts
havo their hands on tho printing press
today and have had sinco it got emanci
pated. Adams and Hancock and Otis
used to go to tho Boston Gazette and
compose articles on the rights of tho
people. Benjamin Franklin, Do Witt
Clinton, Hamilton, Jefferson, Qnincy,
wore strong iu newspaperdom. Many of
tho immortal things that havo been pub
lished in book form first appeared in
what you may call tho ephemeral period
ical. All Macaulay’s essays first appeared
iu a review. All Carlyle’s, all Raskin's,
all McIntosh’s, all Sydney Smith’s, all
Hazlitt’e, all Thackerary’s, all tho ele
vated works of fiction in our day, are
reprints from periodicals in which
they appeared as serials. Tennyson’s
poems, Burns’ poems, Longfellow’s
poems, Emerson’s poems, Lowell’s
poenu, Whittier’s poems, wero once
fugitive pieces. You cannot find ten lit
erary men in Christendom, with strong
minds and great hearts, but aro or havo
been somehow connected with the news
paper printing press. While the book
will always have its place, the newspa
per is more potent. B* cause tho latter is
multitudinous do not ccucludo it is nec
essarily superficial. If a man should
from childhood lo old ago see only his
Bible, Webster’s Dictionary and his
newspaper, ho could bo prepared for all
tho duties of this life and all tho happi
ness of the next.
A 7iiirror of L!fo.
Again, a good newspaper is a useful
mirror of life as ir- is. Ic is sometimes
complained that new. papers report tho
evil when they ought only to report the
good. Tln-y must report the evil as well
as the good, or how shall wo know what
i.> to bo reformed, what guarded against,
what fought down? A newspaper that
pictures only tho honesty and virtue of
society is a misrepresentation. That
family is 1 sc prepared for tho duties of
lifo which, knowing the evil, is taught
to select tho good. Keen children under
the impression that all is fair and right
in the world, and when they go out into
it they will bo as poorly prepared to
struggle with it as a chi hi who is thrown
into tho middle of tho Atlantic and told
to learn howto swim. Our only com
plaint is when sin is mado attractive
and morality dull, when vice is painted
with great; headings and good deeds are
put in obscure ccrners, iniquity set up iu
great primer and righteousness in non
pareil. Sin is loathsome; make it loath-
seme. Virtue is beautiful; make it beau-
til ul.
It would work a vast improvement if
all onr papers—religious, political, lit
erary—should for tho most part drop
their impersonality. This would do bet-
t' v justice to newspaper writers. Many
of the strongest and best writers of tho
country live m il die unknown and aro
denied their just fame. Tho vast public
never learns who they are. Most of
them aro on comparatively small in
come, and after awhile their hand fur-
mniug, and they are without
li i; to die. Why not, at least,
k: It ghvays gave additional
licit* when yen occasional-
d to acme .significant article
L'Tew York Courier and En-
\7. W., or in Tho Tribune H.
Thu Herald J. G. B., nr in
II. J. lb, or in Tho Evening
B., or in Tho Evening Ex-
Wbilo this arrangement would be a
fair and just thing for newspaper writ-
e::-, it would be a defense for tho pub
lic*. It is viinetinies true that things
damaging to privaio character aro said.
Who is responsible*? It is tho “we” of
the editorial or veportorial coltmftu.
Every man in every profession or occu
pation ought to bo responsiblo for what.
Ik does. No honorable man will ever
write that which he would bo afraid to
sign. But thousands of persons have
suffered from tho impersonality of
newspapers. What can ono private citi
zen wronged in his reputation do in a
contest with misrepresentation multi
plied into twenty or fifty thousand
copies? An injustice done in print is il-
limitably worse than an injustice done
in private life. During loss of temper a
man may say that for which he will bo
sorry in ten minutes, but a newspaper
inju::ieo has first to bo written, set up
iu type, then the proof taken off and
read and corrected, and then for six or
ten hours the presses are busy running
elf tho issue. Phzity of time to correct.
Plenty i f time to cool off. Plenty of
time to repent. But all that is hidden
in the impersonality of a newspaper. It
will be a long step forward when all is
changed, and newspaper writers get
credit for the good and uro held respon
sible for tho evil.
'I ho Mont I’oti-nt Influence.
Anothir stip forward for uowspaper-
iloin will bo when in our colleges and
universities wo open
preparing candidates
chair. Wo havo in
medical departments, law departments.
Why not editorial departments? Do tho
men who will climb up without such
aid into editorial power and efficiency.
So do men climb up to success in other
brandies by sheer grit. But if we want
learned institntious to make lawyers and
artists and doctors and ministers, wo
much moro need learned institutions to
make editors, who occupy a position of
influence a hundredfold greater. I do
not put tho truth too strongly when I
say tho most potent influence for good
cn earth is a good editor and tho most
potent influence for evil is a bad ono.
Tho best way to ro-euforce and improve
tho newspaper is to endow editorial pro
fessorates. When will Princeton or Har
vard or Yale or Rochester lead the way?
Another blessing of tho newspaper is
tho foundation it lays for accurate his
tory of the time iu which wo live. We
for the most part blindly guess about
the ages that antedate the newspaper
and aro dependent upon tho prejudices
of this or that historian. But after a
hundred or two years what a splendid
opportunity the historian will havo to
teach tho people the lesson of this day.
Our Bancrofts got from tho early news
papers of this country, from tho Boston
News-Letter, the New York Gazette,
and The American Rag Bag, and Royal
Gazetteer and Independent Chronicle,
and Massachusetts Spy, and the Phila
delphia Aurora, accounts of Perry’s vic
tory, and Hamilton’s duel, and Wash
ington’s death, and Boston massacre,
and tho oppressive foreign tax on lux
uries which turned Boston harbor into
a teapot, and Paul Revere’s midnight
ride, and Rhode Island rebellion, and
South Carolina nullifaction. But what a
field for tho chronicler of tho great fu
ture when he opens tho files of a hun
dred standard American newspapers,
giving the minntia) of all tilings occur
ring under the social, political, ecclesi
astical. international headings! Five
hundred years from now, if tho world
lasts so long, tho student looking for
stirring, decisive history will pass by
tho misty corridors of other centuries
and say to the libraries, “Find me tho
volumes that givo the century in which
the American presidents wero assassinat
ed, the civil war enacted and the cot
ton gin, tho steam locomotive and tele
graph and electric pen and telephone
and cylinder presses wero invented.”
Front Wheel of the I.ord’s Chariot.
Once more I remark that a good
newspaper is a blessing as an evangelist
ic influence. You know there is a great
change in onr day taking place. All the
secular newspapers of tho day—for I am
not speaking now of tho religious news
papers—all the secular newspapers of
tho day discuss all the questions of
God, eternity and the dead, and all the
questions of tho past, present and fu
ture. There is not a single doctrine of
theology but has been discussed in the
last ten years by the secular newspapers
of tho country. They gather up all tho
news of all tho earth hearing on reli
gious subjects, and then they scatter tho
news abroad again.
Tho Christian newspaper will be tho
right wing of tho apocalyptic angel. Tho
cylinder of tho Christianized printing
press will bo the front wheel of the
Lord’s chariot. I take tho music of this
day, and I do not mark it diminuendo
—I mark it crescendo. A pastor on a
Sabbath preaches to a fow hundred, or a
few thousand peoplo, and on Monday,
or during tho week, tho printing press
will tako tho same sermon and preach it
to niillicns of people. God speed the
printing press! God save the printing
press! God Christianize tho printing
press!
When I see tho printing press standing
with tho electric telegraph on the one
sido gathering up material, and the
lightning express train on the other sido
waiting for tho tons of folded sheets of
newspapers, I pronounce it the mightiest
force in our civilization. So I commend
you to pray for all those who manage
tho newspapers of tho laud, for all type
setters, for all reporters, for all editors,
for all publishers, that, sitting or .stand
ing in positions of such great influence,
they may give all that influence for God
and tho betterment of the human race.
An aged woman making her living by
knitting, unwound tho yarn from tho
ball until she found in the center of the
ball there was an old piece of newspa
per. Sho opened it and read an adver
tisement which announced that sho had
become heiress to a largo property and
that fragment of a newspaper lifted
her from pauperism to affluence. And I
do not know but as tho thread of time
unrolls and unwinds a little further
through tho silent yet speaking newspa
per may bo found the vast inheritance of
tho world’s redemption.
.Tceus shall reign where’er tho sun
Does hi.s successive journeys run,
Hi.i kingdom stretch from shore to shore
Tiil sunS shull rise and set no more.
A HELPFUL DEVICE.
Convenient For Lifting (he Carcass When
Dressing a licef.
A tripod illustrated by Rural Now
j Yorker deserves attention because it
provides an efficient substitute for tho
pulleys and windlass and other couveu- i
ieuces of tho slaughter pen. This tri- I
pod is formed of three straight poles, 14
feet long, with a diameter of about 5
inches at tho larger cud. These are
joined near the upper end by a five-
opportunities for
for the editorial
such institutions
legal and healing professions demand
more culture and careful training than
the editorial or roportorial professions?
I know men may tumble by what seems
accidt nt into a newspaper office as they
may tumble into other oceupationu, but
it would bo an incalculable advantage if
those proposing a newspaper life hurt an
institution to which they might go to
learn the qualifications, the responsi
bilities, the trials, tho temptations, tho
dangers, the magnificent opportunities,
of newspaper life. Let there be a lec
tureship in which there shall appear the
leading editors of the United States tell
ing the story of their struggles, their
victories, their mistakes, how they work
ed and what they found out io lie the best
way of working. There will be strong
Manning R. Khankland.
Manning R. Shunkland, who died a
fow days ago, was the oldest clerk in
tho employ of the United States. Ho
occupied a position closer to senators
than any other because of tho confiden
tial nature of his duties as executive
clerk in charge of tho secret business of
the senate. He was appointed to a clerk
ship by his friend, tho late Colonel John
W. Forney, when the latter was occupy
ing the office of clerk of tho house of
representatives, in 18(50-1, and when
in July, 1801, Colonel Forney became
secretary of tho senate ho took Mr.
Shankland with him to tho north wing
of the capitol, and thoro tho latter re
mained J15 years, proving himself a
thoroughly worthy official.—Philadel
phia Press.
ChrupiT Than Alimony.
“It’s all wrong,” said tho old man
from the country. “Young men nowa
days spend too much money on the young
women in whoso eyes they are anxious
to find favor. Courtship is altogether
too expensive. ”
“On tho contrary,” returned tho man
of the world, “it is comparatively
cheap. ”
“Comparatively!”
“Yes. It’s a lot cheaper and more
catiafactory than paying alimony.”-—
Chicago Post.
sd
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up the case as
formed that my
r r.vicE ror. lifting a carcass.
eighths inch bolt in a three-fonrths inch
hole, thua allowing tho outer poles to
be separated to a distance of C feet or
moro at the bottom. Thirty foot of five-
eighths inch rope aroused. This is giv
en ono turn vertically about tho joining
of the poles above, as to prevent slip
ping when tho two ends of the rope bear
unequal weights, as in cutting down
the carcass. Slip knots formed at tho
lower end of the ropes receive the two
pins of the roller, care being taken that
tho roller shall lio horizontal and re
main so during the ascent.
Tho roller is mado of hard wood,
about 5 inches in diameter and JJ4
inches long, from shoulder to shoulder.
Six inches additional at each end aro
cut down to a diameter of ^ inches
next the beveled shoulder, while the
outer end is nearly A inches in di
ameter. Tho pins for the ropes are 8
inches apart, and between these pins
two holes are bored through tho roller
at right angles to each other and a few
inches apart, in which hamhpikes aro
used.
When the animal has been killed and
partially skinned, t he tripod is set up
over it, tho center polo to tho rear, and
the pair of other poles forward. Tho
pointed ends of tho roller aro inserted
under the largo tendon just above tho
hock joint, and these being sloped in-
Mrs. Laura E. Mims, of Dawson, Ga.,
says: “A small pimple of a strawberry
color appeared on my cheek; it soon
began to grow rapidly, notwithstand
ing all efforts to it. My
eye became tbrtihJj'
inflamed, and was so
swollen that for quite
a while I could not
see. The doctors
said I had Cancer of
the most malignant
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THE ROLLER OF HARD WOOD.
ward tho carcass cannot slip off oven
when sawed asunder. Tho ropes aro
hung on the forward sido of tho roller,
that the handspikes maybe used iu that
direction. The animal is raised a few
feet and held in this position by a stick
laid across tho ropes, and tho dressing
proceeds. The disadvantage is that the
roller soon passes out of reach from the
ground, but this is met from below by
the use cf a box on which tho operator
stands while using ti.o spikes. When
fully dress, d, the forequarters maybe
cut away singly. The hind quarters are
lowered within easy reach and both tak
en off at once.
Appiyirc Manure.
A Country Gentleman correspondent
writes as follows:
1c seems to mo that tho practice of
drawing manure to fields and placing it
in small conical piles has nothing to
commend it. This method is often em
ployed when tho manure is wanted iu
spring for top dressing, but usually
there is a sod field that can use the ma-
r.nro as scon us made and will moro
than double in value to a spring crop by
making an increased vegetable growth
for the soil. When tho manure is put cu
tho surface of a field intended fur a
plowed crop, it is only a source of fertil
ity. When it goes on the sod or on
ground intended for wheat and grass, it
helps tho sod to furnish a greater store
of plant food. If it can bo spread even
ly on the surface, ten loads per acre do
more to increase the fertility of the farm
than 15 loads used on bare land.
The truck patches get too great a share
of manure. There should bo rotation
with clover hero as well as in other
fields, and then one part of tho farm
would not ho robbed to feed another.
The chance of an abundant yield of
“truck” is enticing, but in tho end the
manure will give best returns on the
thin portions of fields where tho sod is
or promises to bo light. Evenness iu
fields is most desirable, and wo should
look to the barnyard manure to secure
it. Heavy applications on a small area
or the plowing under of manure aro not
calculated to make the best returns iu a
series of years when tbo supply is rela
tively small.
Corn and Cob Meal.
The Texas Farm and Rauch says:
Don’t waste tho corncobs, but if able
get a corn and cob mill and grind both
together. In nutritive properties tho
combination does not differ materially
from tho corn unmixed except in the
greater proportion of fiber and a some
what smaller per cent of flesh forming
principles. For cattle especially, it is
good and economical, tho mechanical
notion of tbo fiber compensating for lack
of protein. Tho entire plant of Indian
corn, except the stubble, should bo util
ized os food.
Cotton Crop of IRflft.
Tho cotton crop of 1895 is estimated
by tho department cf agriculture at a
little ever (57 per cent of that of 1894,
or 0,375,000 bales cf 500 pounds each,
against 9,51)0,000 Laics last year. But
the mean farm price of cotton is 7.59
cents agaiu.it 4.9 on Dec. 1, 189-1.
A. N, WOOD,
BANKER,
does a general Banking and Exchange
business. Well secured with Burglar-
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Safety Deposit Boxes at moderate
rent.
Bays and sells Stocks and Bonds.
Buys County and School Claims.
Your business solicited.
Grain and Provision Market.
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PIEDMONT AIR LIN2.
Condensed Schedule of Messenger Trains.
Northbound.
Vo.
No. 38
Fst J,.
No . 6
No. 12
No. IS
Jan. 5, 1896.
Daily
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K Sun
Lv. Atlanta, C. T
1.’ Dim
11 13 p
7 50 a
4 35 p
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loo p
10 1 . a
8 50 a
5 35 p
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Norcross.
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ti p
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4 33 a
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3 io a
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b IS p
0 18 a
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7 00 a
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7 32 a
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Gastonia ....
7 33 a
5 2s ji
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S ’JO p
»33a
6 20 Ji
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12 0j a
1 :.0 p
11 25 p
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1.1 33 It
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No. 35
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Gastonia
11 30 |i
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King’s Mt...
1 32 p
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10 40 a
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Greenville....
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4 50 a
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'■A’a. at. **r"’|i. iu. ‘*M” uoun. ••N” night.
Non. 37 ami 3H—Washington and Southwestern
Vestlhulo Limited Through 1‘ullinan sleepers
between New . ork and New Orleans, Ti* Wash
ington. Atlanta and Montgomery, and also bo-
tween New Yo and Memphis, via Washington,
Atlanta and Birmingham. Dining cars.
Nos. 33 and 3<i-Unitcd Stales Fast Mall. Pull
man sleeping cars between Atlanta, New Or>
leans and New York.
Nos. 11 and 12. Pullman sleeping car between
Richmond, Danville and Greensboro.
W. H. GREEN,
Gen’l Supt.,
Washington, D. C.
J.’L CULP,
Traffic M’g’r,
V shlug a, D. O.
W. B. RYDER, Superintendent, Charlotte,
North Carolina.
W. A. TURK, S. H. HARDWICK,
Gen'l Pass. Ag’t, Ass’tGeu’l Pass. Ag’t.
Washington, D. 0. Atlanta, Qa.