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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-07-10
BY T. LARRY CAN'T.

warehouses.
But all things considered, it is undenia-
bly, beneficial to any agricultural commu-
nifty to have a cotton mill established in
its midst. know of more than one farm
err in this county, living near mill, who,
on Christmas, make II a rule to invest
every spare dollar they save from the sale
Of cotton, and start the new year with
empty purses. They then sell, during the
year enough wood vegetables, and other
products from their farms to pay all
expense for making the next crop.
Spartanburg is one of the most prog
ressive counties in the south. Our farm
ers produce about 5000 bales or cotton
a year and our local mills consume more
than three times that number. We have
now in county about 30 cotton mills and
new ones arc being constantly built. 1
presume that four-flfths or more OF the
capital invested comes from the north.
With the exception of one or two small
factories, every mill built in our county
has proven a success, and profitable in
vestment. The result is that when a new
enterprise Is projected, there is no trouble
to raise all the outside money necessary
to start 1t up.
without intending any reflection upon
my agricultural friends In Georgia, I
must assert that, as general thing, the
farmers Of this and other upper counties
in South Carolina are somewhat leading
them in progress and enterprise. This is
attributable to the fact that the land
holdings in Georgia are generally too
large, and your people must depend main
ly on the negro for labor. In Spartanburg
county 1 can drive you for miles and
miles over certain roads and where you
find one man owning over one hundred
acres will show you three or four whose
land holdings range from 10 to 60 acres.
In comparison with middle Georgia,
there are very few negroes in this county
north Of the Southern railway. Those
small farms are owned and worked excfu-
slvely by white people, and it would sur
prise a Georgian to see how nicely man
supports his family from forty or fifty
acre farm.
1t is a rare thing to see field thrown
out. and washes and gullies are disappear
ing every year. Land is growing too val
liable to let 1t go to waste, and in any
desirable community a farm, with even
the crudest improvements, readily sells
for from SIS to $50 per acre. II there is
an acre OF land around Inman that can
be bought as low as ten dollars, do not
know where 1t is. The land here too is
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INMAN, S. c.. July 8.
have received several letters from my
old friends in Georgia asking me II the
building OF a cotton mill I'm a community
was really beneficial to neighboring farm
ers. ! must reply to this question with
two directly opposing answers: YES"
mo"
Here are the benefits that land owners
and an agricultural class derive from the
establishment of q cotton factory In their
midst: The prices OF surrounding land,
for an area Of some three or four miles,
IS considerably increased, its value being
certainly doubled, and in some instances
thribbled and quadrupled. This is attri-
butable TO the fact that a mill population
are non-producers OF agricultural products
and the farmer finds a ready market for
not only every stick of wood he cuts, but
all manner of vegetables and surplus
crops, much OF which would otherwise go
to waste. Again, those mills furnish re-
munerative employment to the families or
many farmers. know in Spartanburg
county Of a number Of land owners who
became involved in debt and being unable
TO pay out with their cotton money rent
ed their farms, moved their entire family
to a cotton mill and were thus able to save
enough money to lift the mortgages.
And Just here let me state that while In
some states and sections cotton mill peo-
pie are looked down upon" 1t is not so
in this Piedmont section OF South Caro-
lima. Many highly respected and promi-
nent families work in cotton mills, and
they hold their heads as high as any one.
Taken as a class, the cotton mill opera
tives of this section in department, dress,
morality and general bearing and charac-
ter will rank with the best agricultural
or village communities.
But the building of a cotton mill in an
agricultural community has also Its draw.
backs to a land owner, but these DO not
overbalance their benefits. In the hrst
place, a cotton mill naturally creates a
scarcity of labor on the farm and tends
10 advance the wages of field hands
Again, laborers within hearing of rae
tory whistle during the long summer
DAYS, insist on regulating their work
hours by the mill operatives, and which
IS a serious loss to farmers at the bus
Test season of the year. 1t is also a mis-
take about these mills paying farmers
a better price for their cotton. On the
other hand, 1 notice that the markets OF
Athens, EIberton and other interior Geor-
gia towns are several points higher than
our mills pay for cotton delivered at their
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-07-10
ARE COTTON MILLS IN A COMMUNITY
REAL BENEFIT TO THE FARMERS?

naturally thin, similar to the soil in Gwin-
nett, Hall and other Piedmont Georgia
counties.
And another noticeable fact is that land
owners here are generally clear of debt.
and make their farms self-sustaining.
Like unto other sections. I'VE have the
poor always with u.s.; but as general
rule our farmers are well-to-do and pros
porous Many of them have a bank &C
count or have no trouble to borrow money
when they need II. leading merchant
of this county recently told me that he
knew the financial condition of every
farmer within eight miles of his store, and
with the exception of few young men
who had not as yet finished paying for
their farms there was not a mortgage re-
corded against a single farmer.
There are not better or more intelligent
farmers In the south than Georgia can
boast, but what your state most needs TO
reach that high stage of development she
so richly merits, Is for your large land
owners to carve up their plantations into
small farms and sell them off on easy
terms to industrious white men. This pol
icy would greatly increase the value OF
the remaining land and add both to the
wealth and population of your state.
In Spartanburg county land readily rents
for one-third of all the crops produced,
and desirable low grounds being one-hah.
4
white tenants, and do not stand RESPONSE
BILE even for the guano that goes under
the crops. Ny renters keep up terraces
and the lands improved, and they can buy
all the supplies they need on their own
account. One OF them, who runs q one
horse crop, has several hundred dollars
loaned out at interest.
In my next letter will tell The Jour
nal readers how easy 1t Is for any town
or community to secure a cotton mill, IL
they will only go to work with the proper
energy and In the right way.
There are no new developments In our
state campaign. AS I predicted In my
initial letter to The Journal, the hardest
ticks are passed between Messrs. Evans
and Latimer. But as the campaign prog
resses, the speakers Will warm up" and
would not be surprised to see one or two
personal encounters before the end. OF
the senatorial candidates. Col. r. S. Hen
derson married a sister Of Mr.. Tom Rip
ley, Of Atlanta; Ex-Governor Evans is a
nephew of Captain William Gary, Of Au-
gusta, and ex-Congressman Latimer is a
brother Of Mr.. w. A. Latimer of the well
known Augusta cotton firm Of Garrett &
Latimer.
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GEORGIA DELEGATES.
Continued.


Applications for appointment as asso-
ciate delegates to the coming session Of
the Farmers National Congress continue
to come in, and the lists received In the
last few days are published in this issue.
Several hundred appointments have been
made direct by the governor, so that the
full list up to date numbers about l'VOO
delegates from this state. Those coun-
ties not yet reported can send their lists
either TO me or to Governor Gambler:
Colubia County-A w. Smith. Appling;
w. w. Hamilton, Grovetown; r. L. Neal.
winfield; T.. II. Dozier, Goldman; X. T..
Ramsey, Hagen; J. c. Auliff. Appling
Gordon County-S. II. Browne, Resaca;
w. H. Moss, Sugar Valley; q. T. Gray
Calhoun; ]. B. Erwin, Paramount; Char
lev Banno, McHenry; George Harlin, De-
cora George n. Broddgen. Decora, w. R.
Jones, Resaca; j. o. Everett, Sugar VAL
ley; c. L. Easley. Tunnel Hill,
Thomas County-E. L. Neel, ]. G. Bev-
erly. brownsville; DR.. NJ. r. Mallet, j.
b. Everett, Charley McRea, J. j. Wilson,
]. w. bucket. John Neel, Boston; DR..
Harris, Pavo; Hon. J. B. Roundtree,
Barwick; George NJ. Dekle, Ozell; N.
r. spangler, II. L. Watkins. Boston;
Robert Alexander, Thomasville; w. B.
Rotenbery, Cairo; Abe Foreman, Pavo;
w. w. Greene, Ochlockonee.
Habersham county-E. Martin, Cornelia
B. F, Colbert, Cornelia Tom III. Ellard,
Turnerville; Thomas Spencer, Clarksville;
Glenn Davis, Toccoa; T1llman Perkin, MT.
Airy; Tom Rucker Ivy. Baldwin; w. l.
Middleton, GAINESVILLE; g. w. Mcconnell,
Pole; Frank Stevens. Mt. Airy; l. L. Cand-
Ter, Cornelia.
Miller county-C. c. Miller. Eugenia; r.
F.. Hardy, Eugenia; James Cheshire, COL
Quit; w. S. Bush. ColQuitt-
The following are individual applicants
made from their respective sections:
T. ]. Perry, Dublin, Laurens county; w.
A. Garner, Dublin, Laurens county; w. b.
Parker, Conyers. Rockdale county; w. II
Dennis, Monticello, Jasper county.
Dodge county-Colonel John F. Delacy.
Eastman; L. NJ Peacock, Eastman; W. Z.
Paul. Eastman; J. c. Rogers. Eastman; J.
G. Rawlins, Eastman; John r. Giddins,
Eastman: Hamilton Clark, Chauncy; Ben
Harrell, Eastman; B. II. Harrell, Engle-
wood; T. p. Wilcox. Englewood; Ben
Burch, Eastman; Walter Clements, East
man; ]. d. Faucet Yonkers; Axam Phil
lips. Yonkers; c. w. Rawlins, Eastman;
G. w. Bowers, Eastman; L w. Peacock.
Eastman; Job Herman, Eastman; Hamil-
ton Clark, Eastman.
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Village Communities and Farm Lands

habitants each; that represents in it's
history the value Of small farm holdings
and community of interest as to schools,
churches, business houses, etc, among
the fifteen houndred people who are truly
proud of the homes, their farms and their
many advantages.
They are a unit in all proposed munich
pal improvements, and while there is no
wealth to boast about, there are neatly
painted houses, nice flower yards. spacious
lawns and fine drinking water for the peo-
pie who are thus clustered together, and
everybody seems to be doing we'll f1nan-
cially. 1 was told that nearly everybody
had small farm contiguous, and at the
end Of each. year generally had some
money in bank to start the next crop
out of debt.
There was no discord, all coud pull to-
gether with a hearty good will, everybody
is ambitious to have a. clean-worked crop
and a good-looking, comfortable home for
the family, without selfish rivalries.
Farming under such conditions must be
satisfying and the young people are con-
tent to remain in the village and walk
along in the steps of their fathers and
mothers instead of rushing away from
the old homestead in disgust because of
its isolated dizziness and lack of progress.
So far as 1 can judge the way to agri-
cultural prosperity in the south lies In
the way OF small farms and village homes.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-07-10
CHAMBERLAIN Is HURT
IN ACCIDENT TO HIS CAB

LONDON, July s.-The colonial sec
rotary, Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain, was
somewhat severely cut on head yesterday
morning as a result Of a cab accident IN
Whitehall.
The secretary's hanson was passing
through the Canadian arch when the
horse slipped and Mr. Chamberlain was
precipitated forward with great violence.
His head struck and shattered the glass
front Of the cab.
When extricated it was seen that Mr.
Chamberlain's head was badly lacerated
and bleeding prOfusely.
A policeman helped the secretary into
a cab and accompanied him to surgeons
office.
Mr.. Chamberlain was taken to Chartng
Cross hospital, not to the surgeons office,
where his injuries were dressed.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-07-10
INQUIRY DEPARTMENT.
stump Sucking Hog.

w. B., SEWER, Ca:
Please give a remedy in your valuable
paper. The Semi Weekly Journal for
for what I call a stump-sucking hog, one
that will suck the end of rail or suck
the ground. Any information Will be
highly appreciated.
Answer-The trouble is doubtless caused
by a species of indigestion from whlch
hogs suffer. some times due to improper
food or worms. In other cases 1t is due to
the formation of a habit, for which no
cause can be assigned. The best treat
ment is to place the hog for a while in
pen made of close fitting plank with
plank bottom. Give a variety of food IN
limited quantities. Fix up mixture Of
half bushel of salt, charcoal and ashes
into which mix an ounce of powdered sui
phate OF iron. Recovery will usually take
place in a short time and the habit cured.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-07-10
THEFT OF FIDDLE
BROKE OWNERS
HEART
WHEN HIS VIOLIN WAS STOLEN
is SAID WoLINIsT 5oTT DIED
FROM SHEER GRIEF AT
HIS LOSS.

NEW YORK, July Jean Joseph
Bott's s. 900 Stradivarius violin which was
stolen eight years and for the alleged
larceny of which Victor s. Fletcher was
sentenced to a year in the penitentiary.
will be exhibited in Recorder COTS court
today. A subpoena has been issued for
Mrs Bott and 1t is the intention of the
district attorney to return the violin TO
her. Bott is dead-killed, IT is said, by the
loss OF his favorite instrument.
Fletcher has been granted new trial
and the indictment against him probably
will be dismissed. The violin was traced
TO a pawn shop where 1t was left on the
day IT was stolen from Prof. Bott.
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a. m.-The Hour Of Melancholy.


The hour of waking is the individual day
of Judgment. 1t is then, If ever, we are
absolutely honest with ourselves. At that
moment the condition of our souls, our
minds and our bodies appears to us in the
true light. Unconsciously we go, as 1t
were, into the confessional. The average
man is ashamed. His character, which by
and by he will dress up for himself and
for the world, is naked; looking at himself
as in glass, he perceives his life with all
its shortcomings. With the real he con-
trasts the ideal In the end he declares
himself, quite frankly, miserable sinner.
8 a. ni.-The Hour of Inspiration.
The action of rising from sleep affects
the nature Of man like the rising Of the
sun, which quickens the spirit of the earth.
The mists Of melancholy disappear. Be-
hold a new creature, refreshened and res
olute. The body is strong, the heart full
of courage, the mind aglow with inspira-
ton. 1t is the moment of Municipality. In
resuming the functions of everyday life
man puts behind him his true self and as
sumes the part of that role which IL Is
necessary for him to play in the world.
He becomes filled with ambition. There
was neutrality-suspicious., when his old
nature died. But since then the night has
passed. The new day gave birth to new
man. This man is fired with determine
ton. He sees himself In all things a con-
queror.
9 a. m.-The Commonplace Hour.
It is the fact, however, that the hero
ism Of the heart dies away previously in
the commonplace atmosphere of the daily
life From the sunshine of dreams we en-
ter into the fog of very ordinary routine.
The man who can resist this influence Is
a genius. The average man steps down
regularly every morning from the pedes-
tai that his imagination had created. He
meant to fight invincibly; as a matter Of
fact, he drifts miserably. He intended to
be one; he becomes part of machine.
The landscape which, surveyed from the
heights, appeared level, he now finds
rugged and uneven. The advance he has
mapped out-the going from here to
there, which is real achievement-nov
seems prodigously difficult; nay, impossi-
BILE. At all events, not worth while.
The great mind, seeing only the goal,
is not in the least disturbed by the details.
the apparent obstacles that lie in the way
and to which the mind that is not great
succumbs.
1t is like this:
The layman, seeing the great buildings
of a city, the undulating country, the wide
expanse of desert, broad rivers and soar
ing mountains, cannot even in magma
ton picture the railway that to the
trained calculations of the engineer is
certain of construction, not withstanding
difficulties.
So the average man, seeing in his daily
life brick walls. ups and downs, unproduc-
tive periods, abysses, immeasurable bar
riers, stands still in despair and is amazed
when he sees the end of his dreams really
accomplished by others. Standing still
or, let US say, walking In a circle Yes
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-07-10
NINE OF THE JURY
WERE FOR RUSH

MEMPHIS, Tenn, July S.-A Scimitar
special from Jackson, Miss, says:
The jury in the Rush treasury embez-
element case was discharged by Judge
Powell at noon yesterday after being out
since Saturday.
They stood to 8 in favor of the defend
ant, Rush, who was released on bond.
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INDIAN TRADING POST
DESTROYED BY FIRE

GUTHRIE. Okla. July 1.-The town Of
White Horse an old Indian trading post
off the railroad in Woods county, was de-
stroyed by fire yesterday. The loss is es-
timated at 100000. A Phillips. farmer,
was fatally burned.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-07-10

5000 Steel Range sSl 90
Our free circulars give Gut
prices of everything.
Stoves 50. 40, Dinner Sets
s.. As, "A pieces Plated Table
Sets 81 90.
PADGETI FUR. CO.,
Augusta, Ga.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-07-10
EvERY HEALTHY BOY

likes to get himself into places OF danger.
Hence bruises, strains and spratns. Mother
scolds and brings out the bottle Of Perry Da-
Wis Painkiller and rubs II on the injured spots
with an energy and frequency depending on the
Painkiller to take out the soreness. There is
but one Painkiller, Perry Davis. Price $50
and Soc
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Subscribers are requested 70 ad-
dress ali inquiries for information !
on subjects relating 70 the farm.
field. garden and poultry 70 the
Agricultural Editor. All inquiries I
win receive prompt and careful at !
tention- No inquiries answered BY
mail Please address Harvie Jordan.
Agricultural Editor. Monticello. Ca
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-07-10

Il Is better to attempt suicide in shall
low water. so that IL you change your
mind you can wade out.
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Moods of a Day II
A STUDY OF THE
AVERAGE MAN.

1t Is in that way the day is passed. The
average man becomes lost in the great
forest of Routine. He follows the easiest
paths. AS for the packs he must carry
he is always on the lookout for others
who will bear them for him. The conquer
or of the early morning has become the
shirker of the MONDAY hour.
6 o. m.-The Hour of Contentment.
Somehow or other the day passes. That
1t has passed seems to the average man
very much to his credit. II he has done
nothing else. he has killed time, and he is
conscious OF that pleasant glow of self
righteousness that is the reward of ac-
complishment. Having been once in the
confessional this day he does not now
stoop for retrospection. On the contrary,
he is in the mood to gloss over things.
They might have been worse. He feels
himself as good as his fellow men-prob-
ably better. AS for the resolutions of the
morning he has forgotten them. A revolu-
ton is not to be effected in a single day.
After all, there is still tomorrow.
p. m.-The Hour of Enjoyment.
To the laborer belongs the reward OF his
toll. 1t is night now and the average man,
throwing off all cares and anxieties. is
bent on pleasure. For this hour he has a
favorite maxim-"We only live one hfe,"
or, he says, Let us eat, drink and be
merry, for tomorrow we die
Whatever the blinking eyes OF early
morning looked at with repulsion now
seems the most enchanting. Nothing is
more certain than this-that after hard
days work relaxation is necessary.
Relaxation-that is to say, a letting go.
One cannot be forever counting the cost
Of things.
So the average man follows his inclina-
lions What will anything matter hun
dred years hence?" he asks.
No answer being forthcoming he is de-
lighted. Clearly there is no reason why
he should not enjoy himself, regardless
of everything.
In this man you could hardly recognize
the champion who started out in the
morning to slay heaven knows how many
giants and dragons. He has put on his
armor and is feasting at the giants table
and caressing the dragons. This man who
saw himself in the morning as he really
was now sees himself in all the glare and
enchantment of the footlights and is am
ply satisfied that he cuts fine figure on
the stage of life. He is, in fact, splendid.
Something whispered in his ear that with
tomorrow will come the hour Of melan-
choly.
He knows of no such thing.
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Official Organ Of Southern
Cotton Growers Association

The SemI-Weekly Journal Is the ON
cial orFan OF the southern Cotton
Growers Protective Association. the
only official paper OF that organi1a-
ton. and hereafter all ofncial com
munfcations Of the aEsociation's ON
GERS. and all matters pertaining 70 It's
a1airs viii appear IN these Columns. ,
The Journal also invites members o. ,
the association and cotton growers and
farmers generally 70 use It's columns ,
for the expression o. such views and
suggestions as may be Of interest and
value 10 the agricultural interests OF
the south.
The Journal win devote each week
two columns. as requested ~ the as
sociation. 20 q Cotton Department"
IN which VIII appear the official COM
municatiors Of the association and
such statistical and Other Information
as bears upon the work o. the asso-
citation and all matters OF interest 70
southern cotton growers
The age-herald., 1902-01-03
A WHOLESALE GROCERY CHANGE The Old-EstabIlshed Firm of Williams G Marks Sell Out to the Tyler Gro- cery Company.

The wholesale grocery stock and busi- ness of Williams & Marks, at 2o25-27 Nor ris avenue has just been purchased by the Tyler Grocery Company. The new firm Is composed of MT. w. F. Tyler and MT. Victor S. Gage, both of whom are well known throughout this district
 Mir Tyler was for q number Of years purchasing agent for the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company. and this position has given him broad business experience. He was with the Tennessee company up to the first of the month, at which time he resigned to engage li the wholesale grocery business.
 Mir. Gage was in the grocery business in Birmingham Q number of years ago, but sold out his interest to travel for a large wholesale grocery concern. After travelling for several years and acquiring a wide acquaintance through the South, he became connected with the Western Grain Company of this city and he was with the company at the time of the form ation of the Tyler Grocery Company.
 This new company will enlarge the stock carried by their predecessors and will use every means to make the Tyler Grocery Company one of the most complete whole sale grocery establishments in the Stnte. In addition to regular line of groceries and produce they will carry Krugan & Company's Indianapolis goods and the famous Reliable brand of breakfast bacon, pig feet, ham and corned meats of all kinds.