The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-23
AT THE PAN-AMERICAN.
Georgia MnrbIe-MaiI Service Before
the War-CuItivation of Rice.

Georgia MnrbIe-MaiI Service Before
the War-Cultivation of Rice.
Buffalo. July PA few. weeks ago
a famous New York sculptor visited
the Pan-American Exposition and was
especially attracted by the wilderness
and fine grain of a block of marble in
the Alabama exhibit. He examined it
closely and Immediately wrote to the
quarry for information. The result is
Mr.. Roscoe German. the able commits
sioner from Alabama, has had several
visits from other sculptors and a de-
mand is already created for the marble
of Alabama. 1t is well known that the
famous sculptors paid a great deal of
attention to the quality of the marble
they used. 1t is a historical fact that
the father and grandfather of Phidias
were sculptors and handed down to
their illustrious descendants the secret
of the location of a quarry of pure
white marble on the Island of Paros,
| to the purity and quality of which they
| attributed much of their fame. If Ala
| bama marble should stand the test to
which it is now being submitted in
| New York by several sculptors, Mr Cor
| man says she can furnish all the sculp-
| tors in the United States with all they
will want for many generations. Ex-
| perts say the Alabama marble is equal
| to the finest brought from Carrarra or
| Paros. Commissioner Poole is very
| much gratified with this, as we'll as
with the most admirable way in which
| the Alabama exhibit has been installed
| and looked after on the Pan American
| grounds.
Our lumber is also attracting con-
| siderable attention. We are daily re-
ceiving letters from all over the North
| making inquiries about our farm and
timber lands. and l believe that Ala
bama will reap a harvest by the small
investment of a $4,000 exhibit at this
| Exposition.
Col. j. b. Brownlow, representative
of the postoffice department at the
| Pan American Exposition, recalls
| significant circumstance with reference
to the South in connection with the
mail service. He says: when the
war of 1861 began money was due citi-
zens in all the seeded states for car
rying the mails. Under resolution of
| Congress payment was forbidden ex-
| cept where parties having claims could
prove continuous and unconditional
| loyalty to the Union. Several years
ago Congress rescinded this resolution
| and provided that in all cases payment
| should be made without reference to
the question of loyalty or disloyalty.
Alexander H. Stephens, vice president
of the Confederacy, supported Douglas
| for President in 1850. After the cleo
| ton and before Georgia seeded Mr..
stephens wrote letter to Hon. Steph-
| en- A. Douglas. He never received a
| reply. He said himself he was sat
| istied his letter was not permitted to
| go through the mails in Georgia, else
he would have received a response
Before Tennessee seeded letters of w.
G. Brownlow to George d. Prentice
of the Louisville Courier Journal and
other men within the states, which did
not secede. were opened in East Ten
nessee postoffices and sent to the Con-
federate authorities at Nashville. OF
this fact Col. Brownlow has indubita-
BILE proof. The postal clerks on the
line of East Tennessee and Virginia
and East Tennessee and Georgia Rail-
road threw large packages of the
Knoxville Wing into the rivers OF East
Tennessee as the trains passed, saying
mo Lincolnite newspapers should be
circulated. 1t is proper to add that
when my father made complaint to
Hon. John II. Reagan of Texas, the
postmaster general in Mr.. Davis cab
met, he strongly condemned the out
rage. My father never believed Judge
Reagan capable of countenancing any
violation of the law regarding the
mails. The course of the Confederate
postmasters in East Tennessee refer
red TO was not without precedent
While Jackson was President the post
master of Charleston, S. c.. refused 10
deliver to subscribers anti-slavery pub
locations. and in so doing. was sus-
tanned by Postmaster General Amos
Kendall n Connecticut Yankee, "a
Northern man with Southern princi-
PIES as his enemies called him. These
"reminiscences of postal service in the
South in 1861, illustrate the truth OF
the adage inter arma leges silent"
Prof. Knapp said to-day to your cor
respondent: Something like fifteen
years ago the culture OF rice with mod
ern machinery was introduced on the
prairies OF Southwestern Louisiana.
All the modern implements and ma
chinery employed on the large wheat
fields of the Northwest have there been
successfully used. From Louisiana IL
has gradually extended to Texas. The
Gulf coast rice belt is the only portion
Of the world where machinery is extern
sively used in the cultivation of rice
With the employment of machinery
some difficulties arose. The same care
lN AN' ilhAAilHh anu nhnullnk or the
grain could not be exercised as was
formerly the case by the hand process.
As result, the breakage In the milling
Of rice was a large item. creating a loss
Of from twenty TO forty per cent In
the gross value OF the product. Three
years ago the Department OF Agricul-
ture attempted 20 remedy this difficulty
by means Of the importation OF rices
better adapted io cultivation under the
AT "a
riey of the japanese rlcos known az
the kiushu. This almost entirely RENE
died the diinculty that had formerly
prevailed The result WAS 20 crafty
ing 20 the department that am now
rolnR again 40 arf what rlcra can hn
found in tho ola World shat may De-
rfiii better adopted 40 enc rice helt az
thr South
There nro enough lands along ihs
CUR D9nHf and Atlantic D0HHf uow ldla.
hl0h ran hr devoted 40 rrf and pnl.
dues au tle rice that Hc c0paugls Dol