Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1882 — HOW THEY PARTED AND MET. [ARTICLE]

HOW THEY PARTED AND MET.

(Atlanta Constitution.) About thirty years ago Judge Cincinnatus Peeples found it necessary to order a tanner out of his law office, in Hall county. The tanner was a poor, ahiftleas fellow, named Wilson, and shortly after drifted to Atlanta, where he secured work at fifty cents a day. In 1868 Judge Peeples went to New York on important financial business for the state. He was directed to the great banking house of R. T. Wilson & Co. He sent in his card, and after waiting a while was ushered into an elegant office. A fine looking man introduced himself as Wilson, and reminded the judge that he was the poor tanner he had ordered out of his office many years ago. Judge Peeples, thorouguly astonished never dreamed that this ex-tanner was at the head of the bank, but thought he was probably related to the proprietor and had secured a clerkship. Mr. Wilson iDvited the judge to dine with him, and at 5 o’ clock the judge found himself in one of the finest houses on Fifth avenue. While awaiting his host a superb lady entertained him, and Judge Peeples was overwhelmed with the conciousness that the day-laborer had really become the great banker. He then became uneasy, for fear he should drop some allusion to the humble origin of tbe husband of the splendid lady to whom he was talking. At length she*said: “Judge Peeples, where do you think I spent the two happiest years of my life?” The judge thought of Paris, Saratoga and Venice, but was hesitating wh n Mrs. Wilson said: “Why, at Papa Wilson’s log cabin, in Hall county, where my husband took me when we were first married.”

An Important Potato Experiment. —Dr Sturtevant, of the New York Experiment Station, lately addressed the members of the Elmira Farmers’ Club in an interesting, common sense manner. In his remarks he referred a 3 follows to some of the things demonstrated in potato culture: “Take a potato, peel it heavily, and plant the peeled potato in dry soil. The shoots will grow. This shows that the potato shoots penetiate further within the potato peelings. We observe that the plant is feeble in early growth and late ip formation of tuber. Now plant large flat pieces of potato. We observe at date a good growth, moderate formation of tubers. Now plant single eyes cut deeply. We observe that these form vigorous plants and early and prolific tubor formation. Plant now potato shoots laid in the ro\v: we observe very early formation of potato, and prolificacy, with modera.e leaf growth. What io these facts indicate? This, tbat the depth of the cutting of the eye has more influence on the crop than the size of the seed. In like manner, as we investigate the potate crop, we see marked indications at date—at date, for we are not reporting results, but progress—that single eyes, cut deeply, are superior for seed in every respect to pieces of potato or whole potatoes. That tha deeper the cut the earlier and better the crop, and that hence large potatoes, if preferable for seed, probably derive their advantage from the eyes beiDg deeper than are the eyes from smaller potatoes, for long sprouts give us earlier potato formation than short*sprouts, and the eyes have certain analogical resemblance to the shoots which they originate. Should harvest confirm these early indidations, then we can broadly claim that the farmers in New York State, if all should adopt these facts into practice, would, in saving 1,600,000 bushel of seed potatoes, gain much in the amount of the crop realized.