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The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-08-15

a little farm buggy. a little the worse for
wear and tear true, but good enough for
Charley Moses, or any other Georgia far
ner, just the same.
1t is all very well to see Il Georgia con-
gresham in the halls of the big building at
Washington, and it is all very nice to see
him on dress parade around at the stump
SpeaklngS when the people are shouting his
praises, applauding his elOquence and laugh
H. at his jokes-all these things set him
forward as Il public man, a thing known TO
al men, aud yet nothing of himself known
10 any man.
Go to his home, See him as the simple in
diyidual, the private citizen, the husband,
the father, the man, then you have the
story of his life that bears the bloom and
the color.
Behind the public life of the Georgia con-
gresham, or the public life Of any man,
there is Il story to be told of his home, his
family, his neighbors his friends his bust
ness relations, and all that, never dreamed
Of by the reckless world of politics.
am telling now this story rs it is learned
Of Congressman Charley Moses, OF the
fourth. 1t Is not Il story of the congressman
himself 1t is the story of his associations
at home.
Being such story, let US leave the con
gresham our Of it entirely; leave him, II
YOU please. out in his little old farm buggy
in the grove driving in from the little town
take out his horse, let us go i'll and make
ourselves at home under the comfortable
shadow Of his plantation residence.
Killing chickens for Dinner.
There is i terrible runpus in the back
yard. Dogs are barking and negro servants
are raising Cain about something.
Evidently there is II catastrophe of some
kind out there that arouSeS the entire
neighborhood. Bang, bang, so the stones
against the plank fence, and now there Is
dying scream on the part of Il chicken,
and the realization dawnS at last to remind
one of the chaseS he has had for the big
acknowledged, half grown rooster, when he
was boy and company came all of Il
sudden for dinner. II is simply Il ease of
killing chicken for dinner for be il under
stood down here in this good land of Geor-
ga. particularly in this good land of Coweta
county. Georgia. they kill chickens for a
congrcSsman's dinner pretty much in the
s@mp old style they always killed them for
the average Methodist preacher or any
ether common. everyday. ordinary man
But. before you have fairly driven the
little old rhyme from your mind that comes
with the Thought Of Squealing chickens:
xiii chicken for the meeting down town
tonight.
De preachers in de- big 'ouSo now" etc
before you have driven such memories fair
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man to he the father of six children.

man to he the father of six children. He
is just thirty-seveu.
lie married Miss Blanche Hall. the beau
tiful daughter of DIR. j IL. Hail. the eInl-
ncnt and well known pastor OF the Newman
BAPTIST church. Miss Hall married Mr..
Moses when she WAS just sixteen years Old.
She was the prettiest girl in ali middle Geor-
gia, and certainly one of the most talented
and accomplished. She was Il very FORTUNATE
young woman, too, III those DAYS ~ nav
so deserving a young school teacher as
Charley Moses. of the Newman High school,
to pay court to her and win her love.
Professor Moses wasn't long out OF COZ
lcgc in those checkered days. lie had just
graduated down at old Emory college, along
with Tom Watson and Il lot OF other DIl@hC
young Georgians, who have worked 1l,ih
selves to the front since that time, ana htd
taught school for a year or two. lie was
not a rich Young man, which Is clearly Yerl-
fed by the fact that he was teachlnS
school. but he had ready mind and Il Will
ing hand, and Miss Hall knew 1t.
They married and settled down Oh tlell
little farm, to which, by frugal means, the
husband has been able to add to from year
to wear, until he now has more IMAM ii
thousand acres. -.
OF the six children, Coral, the pretty lit
tie elevcn-year-old daughter, IS the Oldest
She is a beautiful child, very like her mana.
some mother. wthall of the genial nature or
both father and mother. III IS Always sun
shine when she is around.
Next is Ansley, a promising lad of mne,
named for his grandfather Moses, VINO was
the first democrat to represent CoWeta c0uh-
ty in the state legislature after the trouble
some days of the war.
The next child is james Hall aged seven
uo * nossessed with the family good looks
and has the promise of any young boy
no no, further developed than he is in age
Charles L. Jr,, is full of life e, IT., lie is
one of the rvelicst Of all the children and
has has a barrel of fun in his little soul al,
ready IF 6 1r04p2 d 'nF lust h0" as amy amy
country lad loves to do if he has the right
Kind Of grit in him. Charley is i've years
Hugh is only three years old. lie is as
bright as a shining new silver dolar. lie
is one of the favorites of the pets
Little Blanche, the youngest OF the chi-
dren, is a sweet and sad-faced httle baoy
of a girl. She is the child whose sickness
kent the congressman at home so long last
year, causing some of his political oppo-
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SOMETHING PRACTICAL.
The state Geologist IL Pursuing a Sensib

Professor Yates has his two assistant
biologists out in the upper part Of the
state. One is surveying the marble fields
and the other is Investigating the corundum
deposits.
Both of these are valuable resources and
have not been studied by the state geologI-
cal department.
Il shall investigate the coal deposits my
self" sad the stale geoogist tuesday.
He was Just back from Washington where
he had been to close his connection with the
Smithsonian institute, and brings his family
to Atlanta I'VE will study the economic
resources first Georgia has valuable mar
bic deposits, but the extent it not known.
My purpose is to trace the beds and get
an accurate and thorough study Of the
marble, embody this i'll a pamphlet, and
then we can furnish any one who is inter
ested in marble the very data that would
be desired. The same plan will be adopted
to corundum. Georgia has considerable
corundum A shrewd Massachusetts man
bought a corundum mine i'll North Carroll
ma some years ago, and has been making
money out of his deposit. Some Of our
Georgia people might be doing the same
thing. My assistants are trained men and
are making good progress.
Professor Yates will get in the field him
self soon and as stated above, will devote
his attention to coal. He wants to utilize
the department in Il way that will show
some practical results to the people who
own the lands containing mineral deposits
and ores He will first report on what
there is of value in the state and where it
is with suggestions as to the development,
and later the scientific history can be writ
ten.
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cedars, with large white columns running
up the front yeranda, green blinds show
ing off in striking CONTRAST with the white
everything i'll strict accordance with the
southern architecture of the days gone
by.
Far out, to one side, was an old-fashioned
gInh0uSe as sway-backed as the old fam
lily bay mare; little TO the right, the horse
lot with the usual number of c0rncrlbS and
stables, surrounded by apple trees all bend
ing down TO the ground with their pom
derouS weight of juicy red and yellow, and
making ones mouth moisten with IL
thousand desires as the squishy-squash of
the cider mill sounds clear in his ears with
the mere thought of the harvest soon to
come.
Back down the other way spreading as far
as the eye could see, was Il splendid grove,
TWO white gravel roads winding their way
through the Verdant lawn beneath the
giant white oaks and post oaks and cedars;
down the green and shady slope an old gum
spring where group of little darkies had
collected with buckets and large gourdS
playing truant, till their patient mammies
screamed out with many threats for them
TO come long home dis very nstep;" far
out beyond the shining tishpond in the
valley upon the top of neighbOring hill
an Ole churchyard surrounded by ccdars,
the family burying grounds for generations
past, Just far enough away TO look lazy,
reposetui, dreamy and inviting and adding
much 10 the picturesque beauty of the
place-not flaw upon the picture, every
thine as lovely and enhancing at nature
could have painted it.
MarSe Charlcyll he heah terreckly, sub
He's gwina ter town on er little business
but / har i'm say he gwine back. ter con
srcss ternight, an ! low ne be comm home
Ic 'ong, ease ne ain pack is trunk yit
1ou Jes git out an 20 i'll de big 'ouse. You
see Aarse Charley wouldn't have ter be
gwine back Ter congress 70 de crops laid
by de lack CT dis, but dey done called er
eNtry session and he 'beeged ter go-dc
l-awsee, yon' comes Marse Charley now, 70
| done got de words out er my moufe''
Sure eonugh. down one of the roads that
led TO the little town of Turin, which is
about mile away from the farm on the
Chattanooga, Rome ami Columbus railroad.
came the congressman from the fourth in
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GEORGIA EXCHANGE NOTES.

On Monday of last week Mr.. Frank Wilder.
young man living near Forsyth while cross
Ing branch discovered a very large snake of
the moccasn variety. In dispatchng the rep
tile he discovered numerous other little moe
casinS surrounding him, and with n large
stick he immediately began wholesale
slaughter of snakes. When he had counted
the slain after the battle. he found they num-
bered thrty-one including the big snake
The little ones were no doubt the oTsDring
of the large snake, but were Of considerable
size. nevertheless
About six years ago Mr.. J. J. Fount ain
moved to Irwin county without a dollar. He
bought lot of land containing 400 acres on
credit and went TO work. This year all that
land is paid for plenty of stock the smoke
house full of meat. plenty of corn and fodder
in his barns. together with his crop OF 0ats
off thirty acres. He has four-mule farm
of which he has paid out only ST for help
outside of his own boys. and has bought So. %
worth of goods on credit.
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Master Charles L. Jr. Master Ansiey.
pents to say ugly things about his absence
from the halls of congress. The httle chlld
has never recovered from that attack OF
miningetis. and is paralyzcd slightly by the
stroke. The doctors say she VIII be ali
well of it as she grows Il few years older,
however, and the parents have taken nope
that she will not be an invalid all her life.
A Walk Over the Farm.
The Moses farm has 1000 acres III 1t :.
II is a long stretch of country III one OF
The finest sections of Coweta county
According to the system OF farming
adopted by the Georgia congressman most
of the land is rented out to tenants now
while he is in congress, but before he was
in politics he ran twenty plows and worked
all his land himself.
He divides the crops with the tenants at
the harvest time.
One of his rules on the farm is to require
tha hands to raise enough grain and food
crops to run the farm. He requires this
for the reason that he doesn't care to have
to he running the hands AT the stores from
wear TO year when they can make just as
GOOD home runs themselves.
He gets about $50 or POO bales of cotton
each season from the farm. He owns his
own grist mill, srinds the corn for the
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Master Hugh.
Miss Coral.

the gate. is out in the backyard Dragging
on the days gone by, and the watermelons
they used to raise in those golden times,
and you can hear him talking louder ana
louder to the younger generation OF darkles
that wait about the place, till finally he
winds ND his heated debate by saying aloud
thai the watermGlons Oh the back veranda
for dinner "ain't gosJ enough for company
no how" and it seems clear that he thinks
he will be disgraced-he, Sam Moses, will
be disgraced if those watermelons go on his
marster's table. And yet, later, you won-
der what must have been the warermeons
they used to grow in Uncle Sans palmy
DAYS if these were so disgraceful.
All of these trifling things just as echoes
in adyance--echoes that sound promising
in the extreme: echoes that whet up a Won
dcrful appetite to man sitting i'll the coy
parlor; echoes that must often sound III the
ears of II congressman away off yonder i'll
Washington at some high-priced hotel dis
turbng his peace of mind by day, ma king
hideous his unsa.tistied dreams at night.
BY the time these plantation echoes have
died away upon your ears, the little bright
faced children of the congressman ana ms
winsome wife make their appearance III
the parlor, and the visit begins to take on
its real pleasure.
Now. then YOU are right in the circle OF the
congressman's house and home. Everything
is life and light.
The little fellows climb over your knees
and ask many questions about TINS or about
that. and get off many bright things ike
children will do-all children. They run
for pictures; they know many of the lead
ing congressman by sight of their pictures.
calling their names as they turn over the
pages of some paper given to sketchlnG by
caricature.
The Moses Family.
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neighborhood, just as he gins the cotton
for the neighborhoOd has two large engines
for these purposes, and runs large saw
mill over in the pines beyond his house.
He does the thrcshing for the neighbour
hood. too, and in fact, is Il kind OF neigh
borhOod man.
He has his farm lands divided up in the
following proportions: Three hundred acres
for cotton, 300 acres for corn, 200 acres
in pasture lands, six or seven acres in
grapes and about the same amount in fruit,
apples, peaches pums and the like.
He runs no store accounts, pays Tor every
thing as it comes, pays his hands regularly,
never crowds Il tenaI3 at the end of the
year because he cant pay out, joys along
peacefully and happily, no matter how the
world runs.
Far out across one of the large fields a
dozen negroes were hauling grapes to the
house from the six-acre vineyard on the
HILL
The grapes are used in making wine and
the Georgia congressman gives away to his
ncighbors each year jugs of the best kind of
old domestic wine, made from the purest of
grapes and kept for several years in his eel
lars.
He does this as a kind of hobby, or lazy
habit, caring nothing for it himself, and
his family being strictly opposed to wine
drinking. 1t is just something to engage his
attention when the crops are laid by, and
something for his friends when they come
to see him.
The Old Herbert House.
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Weather Crop Bulletin No. 10.

parts or the STATE
1t reads
Weather Crop Bulletin No. 10.
AS rule rain has been abundant the
past week in all parts of Georgia, while
the temperate e has been moderately coo
general Improvement in the condition
of crops has resulted. Late crops, especial
ly. have been benefited, while early crops,
particularly on dry upands, have suffered
more or less of permanent injury. Bottom
corn cane and upland rice have been
greatly improved except for some washings
in wetter bottoms. A rapid growth of the
cotton plant has been stimulated, but rust
has been induced in some cases. In the
matter Of taking on fruit reports are var
liable. In some sections fruit is forming
rapidly and well: in others there is com
plant for much shedding The peach crop
of Georgia is very nearly Il failure this
year. There is somewhat more promise
of pears, and grapes are fairly good. The
second crop of melons will soon go forward
to market.
To consider the various sections of the
state more in detail, we find in the north
west Il week of daily showers and Il highly
satisfactory Improvement of all crops.
Some upland cornfields have been so So
riously burned by the drought that the
yield will be greatly cut off Bottom corn
however, bids fair to make heavy crop.
Cotton has advanced wonderfully, and in
some localities is reported up to the aver
age-for this date. A good pea crop is in
dcated, and much turnip seed is being
sown. The same complaint is made of
peaches rotting. Apples promise little
better.
Cotton is doing well'' tells the whole
story of how it has been benefited by good
wetting showers during the past week in
the northern section of Georgia. The
present condition of cotton appears to be
pretty fair, taking into consideration the
bad beginning earlier in the year The
stalk is small and cotton by no means is
as good as the average of past years; but
nevertheless, at present is blooming and
fruiting i'll a wonderful way, and the yield
will be far above that which could have
been possibly anticipated earlier in the sea
son. Rains have also very much improved
corn, cane, sweet pota toes and all other
growing vegetation of any kind Whatsoever
Corn on bottom lands is in the best
condition; uplands it was too far ad-
vanced to be very much improved. Melons
are generally abundant. For fruit this has
been a very bad year.
Under the influence of occasional showers
and an average amount of heat and sun
shine all crops have rapidly improved in
the northeastern counties. Cotton has re-
gained much that was lost during the
earlier part of the season and now bids
fair to give somewhere near an avera &c
yield. Corn is in most excellent condition
and large yield is assured. Fodder is
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the sentiment about it, has a history that
is thrilling.
Away back in the early days there was a
great colony of South Carolinians to come
to Coweta from Newberry. $. c., and
among them was Colonel Tom Herbert.
He built this old house, and for a long
time lived in it with his family. He went
back to South Carolina afterwards and the
place fell to the Moses family.
The Herberts and the Moseses were re-
lated 1t is Il picturesque Old cabin of Il
place.
To Congr an Ok Cart.
They use OK carts ii great dead IN the lower
section of Coweta county and since Farmer
Moses became congressman he con-
tinues to live up to his raising. as they
say in Georgia. He finds the OK cart, that
is to say with such an excellent OK as old
Pete, who is full bred Jersey, to pull the
cart, very convenient
When he had packed his trunk and was
ready to go to the train to take depart are
for congress, he went to the front veranda
and called two negroes from the ginhoGse,
one to shine his shoes and the other to take
his trunk to the depot.
a half hour later, | looked from the par
Tor window and saw the congressman's two
by four trunk with 4 cope tied about it
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C0NGRESSMEN'S HOMES.
SOMETHING ABOCT THE HOME
LIVES OF OUR PUBLIC MEN
The Family of Hon. T.. l.. Moses-The Hon q
Near Turin-A Young Bride and Her Boy
Lover Carve Their Way to Success.
''HellO, who lives here?"

''Hello, who lives here?'
"Alarse Carbohydrates Charley Moses,
suh.'
AS the old negro spoke he dropped his
AK upon the pile of stove wood he was cut
ting up out in the grove, and with that
simple faith and Incompatible courtesy
common to all the black-faced citizens of
the south who have survived the slavery
days of long ago, stepped forward, instic-
lively raising his hat and taking hold OF
the reins of the horse.
The old darby gently lead the lazy nag
little to one side and cut the buggy,
this being the most cordial invitation Known
to the race for a stranger to light AIN!
spend the day"
1t was a tempting invitation, to be sure.
There stood an old-time southern farm
house little way up the HILL shaded by
the dense umhrage of large white oaks and
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she Ia the Boss"

Congressman Moses with becoming grace
when compllmented for the neatness and
the successful management of his farm
smiles and taking hold of his pretty vife's
tiny hand declares she is the one that
bosses the place" Whatever there IS of
credit, she deserves it, whatever there is
to be criticised. blame me. | sometimes
think | am only in the way on the farm
she knows so much better than / 10 how
to manage it. Why, things are getting
along much nicer since | went off to con-
greSs, so far as keeping things up nicely
about the place is concerned. than when
was around here all the time.
Calling ell the little children up 20 him
and bouncing them high into the air be
slowing many fond speeches Ipon his Young
Wife. and giving old Uncle Sam n.any Il
word of instruction about the harvest the
hansome congressman from the fourth
lcapcd lightly into his old farm buggy and
clncklng to his nag was soor 81 seding
around the gravel road pen aath the tall
white oaks to the depot.
lie was off to congress.
REMsEN CRAWFORD.
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rafting off to the depot on That irrcpregssi-
bic OK cart, with old Pete between the
poles and old Walt, a faithful I'D negro of
the place, sitting in the cart. 1t was
something out of the usual run of things.
Georgia congressman sending his trunk
TO congress on an OK cart would make
anybody laugh.
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cabin, built after the olden style, with
large logs dovetailed at the end and thus
piled on each other to form compact
building.
In this house once lived Colonel Tom
Herbert, the father of the present Secre-
tary Herbert, of the United States navy,
from Alabama. 1t is peculiar house for
the birthplace of a cabinet officer, and the
old ramshackled house. which would have
been on the ground long ago had not Mr..
Moses kept it patched together just for
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Formulas.

CoiClcl II. j. Rcdding, director of the ex-
pertinent station, gave an Interesting talk,
giving a number Of feed formulas for fatten-
ing oxen, fattcning hogs, horses at hard work
ana mich cows. He Illustrated the formulas
on the black Board, anaiyzing their compo-
Sittou. Mis- ta,l was welt received.
The experience meeting was very inter
csting and Spiccd with occasional SalieS of
wit Quite a number engaged in the dis
cussion cropping out Of the varied expert
enceS of the members.
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CROPS OF GEORGIA.
The Outlook for the Crop Seems Excellent
The Condition of Affairs In tho State.

The weather crop bulletin issued yester
dav contains interesting information con
corning the condition of the crops i'll al
parts of the state.
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The Old Herbert House.

Down the hill from the residence of Con-
gresham Moses is an old house, sort or
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Stone Mountain, August 9.-(Special.) THE
attendance on the convention was iargeiy aug
mented by arrivals yesterday evening,
4 letter was read from Senator A. II. Col
present, and conveying to the body his keen
appreciation of the work of the society and
its members. The letter in the SEMI
tors happcst "Ha.lelujah'' style.