The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1896-05-11
ARP HAS A VISITOR.
Professor Tucker Of the United States
Labor Department.
SAMPLES OF FANCY AND OTHER WORK.
Gathered to Compare by His Depart
ment With the Primitive and
New Methods, Cost, Etc.


know very much about it until we go be-
hind the scenes-behind the screens as it
were-and see what is going on. The 10
inGs of congress as we read them in the
papers are very noisy and exciting. but IL
Is mostly routine work and tells us moth
ing of what is going on in the various de-
MISUNDERSTANDING and Industrial. We
used to get the patent office reports that
had a world of curious information and
explanatory pictures, but they seem to
have stopped coming. And there were
books on agriculture and horticulture and
pestiferous insects and books that told
about cattle and sheep and all the diseases
10 which they were subject. All these
used to be distributed among the people
like the garden seeds are distributed, and
pretty much for the same votc-catching
purpose. but they cost a big lot Of money,
and now are given only to the scientific.
The men of science make but little noise
in the world. They care but little for
fame or fortune, but they are ever at work
studying nature and solving mysteries and
lcssening the burdens of life 1t does seem
to he a dispensation of providence that
great mon care but little for money. What
they discover or invent soon becomes COM
mon property / am not sneaking Of the
small man who takes out n patent on
fish hooks or hairpins. but Of great men,
Ike Jenner ard Pastcur. Agassiz, Fulton,
Watts, Newton or Morse.
But | was Eliminating about n visit |
had today-a visit from Professor Tucker,
the United States agent for the labor de-
partment. lie came TO find out about how
the silk business was conducted in Geor-
gia fifty years ago SO | told him how
my father i'm 1881 got some morus multi
cauls cuttings from Washington and in
two years had several acres Of young trees,
and then built "A house, forty feet square
and two stories high. and filled it with hur-
die frames and got some silkwornf eggs,
and when they Matched the worms soon
filled the house and eat UP all the null
berry leaves and wanted more. We got
enough from a neiEhhor 90 finish up with,
and we boys were glad enough when tho
nasty things began TO wrap up in their
mummy-like shrouds
But my curiosity was excited. What
does the United States want to know all
this for? So he explained by saying that
his department is comparing the old with
the new-the primitive methods with the
modern-aud the cost Of each, and which
was the hest aud save more happiness, and
other economic questions He had leather
grin fun OF samples Of the handiwork Of
the women Of western North Carolina and
northeast Georgia. Every little square or
scrap was pinned TO "a printed sheet, that
gave the name Of the weaver and her age
and residence There were samples Of
wooden and cotton and linen and silk, sam
pies of linsov and jeans and counterpaneS
and quilts and wagon sheets and curtains
and table cloths. and some Of them were
gems Of beautiful fabrics, and IN those
mountain counties the humble people are
stiu spinning and weaving in the old
fashioned way and are happy In many
families their handiWork is piled up on
the shelves and clothes presses, awaiting
the marriage of sons and daughters, 20
WHOM, tEc, were to. - given es bridal
specimens of silk sewing thread and iiaN-
thread that were made at home. lie
found good people up there who seldom
bought anything and were able 10 give a
stranger good bed and plenty to eat ana
a sincere hospitality. lie told me or an
old man i'm Rabun who said he never fen
out with the United states until the reve-
uur officers began to sneak around his lit
lie still where ne had been making peach
brandy for nifty years ard had the respect
of his Maker and his neighbors and he toid
them that the United States Wascnt hls
enough TO stop him. for the right TO make
il was handed down 20 him from ms falhei
ana grandfather lie said they threatened
him every time they came about, but ne
kent two pitchforks in the house-one I'M
der the front door and the other at the
head of mis- bed, and they dde0t uare ~
arrest him. But after worrying WIN lltih
fnr three Years things kept getting hotter
an" no. .,,1 3, Iid for ne was get
~ p"', 49, i 7,,,t.d T., live in peacc. but
.-'7 O'' - '.,,.,,,',.,.nt that would let "A
~ va = """ -. ,.,nr man
rch man sun ana" '"' i..,, ~,
These bis distllierlcs, SAM Ae' 9NlH'i' wy
Government out of more tax money JHdh
IN mr. ,,,.,oushiu. stills Tut together. All
go ~ ~ 4, 4, Iri,s the storekeeper.
tht9 H"Nt 10 "' p W. N-,,,,l, carolina that
sold $500 gallons In one year anu HINO'
paid a dollar of tax ON d. ite l"lu ~
lessor Tucker that the revenue men
-, ~, forty rtiHs in that
"a, ar Inn. H. his knowledge
REGION 4"9I ,,...,l ,l,.,t wore. etiu
there WEI. ahoui 81 i'". oL -
running ON % small scale. lH' '"9S soi t14
hike. tLc .ian-.r of it.' said he and tho
lhI 'il',i ,t. ,,a,t ~ lie country
gencfauS ltdN'7 '''' - IN, ~
ass soon as ne po-h.'7 '"a
mountain people are Hot as honest an"
honorable MS they used Go b.. and II al.
r. mis- bribe-tal.ine business Tho
.,..,,.+ r.. D.. ashamed of IL 90
Ohiteu 0'o''7 80 l. t,,,,.l..iI,1. i, ,..r,-
The professor StiA u ~ Hil ~
vince those mountaIueeis VINO are seventy
dve miles from market that II is wrong
- ,.,,,..r+ choir corn into whisky when
20 0o''<J'I lam mix, three gallons ana
one "u7Htt 1,,,.,r.,l d,,ii,,s, ,,,.,tb
they can hdu' -, - ~. c,,,,t
gal 81 d.