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Trucking Versus Fnrmlng.
'•Trucking” and farming are two dis
tinct occupations, but there is not a farm
tn all this broad southland that should not
have as d valued appendage an acre or
half-acre garden. A gardener is not al
ways a farmer, but every farmer should
be a gardener. Every farm of twenty
acres or more should have a garden of
certainly not less than half an acre. One
acre should be the minimum really, and
tills one acre, properly managed, will be
worth to any intelligent man of family
as much as any five acres of the farm
land in any of the ordinary crops. Qne
acre of good land kept constantly in cul
tivation with the various vegetables that
constitute ‘‘garden crops” will be worth
ordinarily to any farmer more than five
acres in either com or cotton. In fact,
a farmer should almost live off of an
acre garden. If it is managed properly,
it will come very near furnishing an av
?rage family with all the food necessary
or subsistence—either directly or indirect
ly. There is not a month in the year when
a southern garden should not supply some
eatables. At the worst season it may be
only turnips and collards or cabbages and
onions and potatoes and artichokes and
spinach, or kale that it supplies, but even
these things are life-supporting and sala
ble. An acre in either of any of these
things will pay more money ordinarily
than five acres in cotton or corn. In this
market to-day rutabagas are selling for
5 cents each, and large ones for 10 cents.
Common alze flat Dutch turnips bring 2
cents each. At 1 cent apiece there is
money in turnips. At 50 cents, even 25,
there is more clear money In artichokes
than in cotton or corn. Near a good mar
ket one acre of spinach will bring more
'•clear” money than live acres of cotton
at 5 cents per pound. We are merely re
ferring to those garden crops that are
grown in the winter, chiefly, of course,
crops such as tomatoes, onions, asparagus
and others, bring even more than' those
first named. One acre in small fruits will
pay a grower as much as ten acres, even
more, of such crops as corn, cotton or
It irtTlc morF cfiF6 and nicer
attention to details to make garden crops,
and then market them, but in the end it
pays more than ordinary farming.
Economy in Feeding.
Every one recognizes the need of econ
omy. Many believe that this is the rule
of their lives. Such people are endeavor
ing to accumulate all possible resources.
Strange to say, the majority who pride
themselves on their thrift fail in their
intentions. The feeders of live stock, as
a rule, do not fully master their work.
The average farmer, for instance, rears
a large number of hogs, und often feeds
this stock nothing but corn in the way of
grain during this entire life. A good num
ber of swine-growers fail to consider
Tight methods of building the framework
Os the hog. They do not realize that bone,
muscle, sinew and other elements of the
framework can be properly built only by
feeding in right combination oats,, bran,
mineral matter and other grain equiv
alents during the first four or five months’
growth of the swine. It is true that with
abundance of grazing and mineral mat
ter found in the hillsides fair success
is realized in some cases. With the same
favorable environments, right attention to
proper grain material would lead to the
realization of better results.
Method In one’s work makes n large
difference in results. Some men accom
plish more by sitting down and marking
out the plan of operations, devoting nn
hour each morning to this outline, than
many others who devote every minute to
“pushing their work." It is good policy to
guard in every way to prevent disease
in the swine herd. Great effort is nec
essary to check the plague In any form
after it is begun among the swine. A
variety of food administered according
to ths age and etngo of growth of the
hogs will do much to maintain good
health. During the frosty weather of
autumn and winter It is hnt>ortant to give
much attention to th© bedding of the pigs
and other young things. Much of ths so
called plague In the case of pigs is only
th© result of colds taken by exposure
to drafts, or by emerging from a nest in
a perspiring condition to the cold air.
If possible, thia sleeping-nest should be
broken up into small apartments, permit,
ting groups of not mor© than three in one
place. Uy this precaution one will have
less trouble at feeding-time In calling the
hogs out of their warm apartments. The
temperature Os every animal will then be
about normal, and each will come to its
food with the usual relish.
A waste of feeding is often observed In
too rich diet of corn, barley, rye, etc., for
the horses, dry cow*. brood-sows and ewes
•nd other stock not Intended to be fat
tened during winter months. Where such
■tore stock starts into winter in fair flesh,
an abundance of roughage requires but
little grain to support the unima] frame in
normal condition. At this season of the
year all periahaMe foods that cannot be
preserved against freezing'until midwin
ter should be fed liberally, as a rule, to all
clusecs of stock. However, in the case
of all animals that are for any reason re
duced tn flesh It Is economy to feed liber
ally during the autumn months to restore
to a thrifty condition before' the severe
winter seta in.
It is a mistake to neglect any of the
young things of the farm. At present the
colls and calves call for extra care. Qual
ity of rich food is not so much in order
as the right sort of food and shelter. The
coki rains anil the early snow nnd ex
posure to the night air do more to retard
growth than diminished food. Oats or bar.
Wjr mixed with bran, and this sweetened
with a mite of oil-meal, nod the addition
of bright hay along with ensilage or its
oquhaicht In roots, fruit or vegetables, m
right combination, mak anl e variety fm
young thtnss.
Camphor Trees tn Florida.
As there appears to be considerable In
terest manifested In camphor tree cul
ture iu Florida* would it not be well for
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.s' girl steps from
F / girlhood into wo
M manhood, she en
™ters a new and strange
country. A land of
promise and hope, yet
full of hidden dangers. Whether she will
find happiness or misery depends largely
upon the health and condition of the deli
cate, special organism which is the source
and centre of her womanhood.
The lives of young women are often
wrecked because of a mistaken sense of
modesty, which leads them to neglect the
earlier symptoms of feminine weakness.
These troubles unless corrected, develop
into serious chronic difficulties which be
come a dragging burden, ruining life’s best
opportunities and blighting all possibility
of happy wifehood and motherhood.
Any woman suffering from these delicate
complaints needs the health-giving powei
of Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. It
heals and strengthens the womanly organs;
stops weakening drains; gives vitality to
the nerve-centres, and restores perfect or
ganic soundness and constitutional energy.
It is the only medicine devised for this pur
pose by a skilled and experienced specialist
in diseases of the feminine organism.
Mrs. W. B. Duncan, of Arlington, Mo., writes:
“ I have used your * Favorite Prescription ’ and
am never tired of sounding its praise. When my
lady friends complain, I say ‘ Why don’t you take
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription?’ I told an
anxious mother, whose daughter (18 years old)
had not been right for five months, about the
medicine, and after the young lady had taken
two-thirds of a bottle of * Favorite Prescription ’
she was all right. She had been treated by two
of our best doctors.”
Dr. Pierce’s great thousand - page illus
trated book, “The People’s Common Sense
Medical Adviser” sent paper-bound on
receipt of 21 one-cent stamps to pay the
cost of mailing only. Or, a handsome
cloth-bound copy for 31 stamps. -Address,
Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
Middle Florida, particularly our own
county, to look into the matter.
The grqrying of the camphor trees in
Middle Florida is unquestionably beyond
the experimental stage; there ore trees
in Quincy 10 or 12 years old; the young
sprigs planted in Bloxham park and in
the yards of several of this city only a few
years ago Are large enough to be called
trees and they seem to take on a peren
nial growth.
The writer has not had the opportunity
to look up data as to the actual or poten
t<al commercial value of the camphor out
put—but can say that it is most valuable.
■Camphor is said to be one of the princi
pal ingredients in the manufacture of the
smokeless powder now used in the modern
armaments and muniments of war—and
it Is further stated that Japan has recent
ly obtained possesion of the Island of For
mosa producing practically the commer
cial output of camphor of the world. The
writer does not know upon what founda
tion these rumors rest, but there is
enough in the fact that the camphor tree
can be grown In Leon county to warrant
the investigation of its cultivation.—Ob
server in Tallahassean.
The Japanese .Morning-Glories.
For two years I have taken particular
pains with the new Japanese sorts of
morning-glory. A year ago I planted
them in open ground; the plants came up
slowly and weakly, and I failed to see a
single blossom on them. Last spring I
started the plants in pots In the green
house. Again they came up rather reluc
tantly, but finally mad© some fairly good
growth. In due time they were set in
open ground, and with much coaxing and
nursing I succeeded in getting them well
up to the trellis. While th© ordinary
morning-glories side by aide with them
were covered with blossoms and glory right
along, the Japanese did not give a single
blossom until only a few weeks before
frost made an end again of all the glory.
There is a material difference in the
shape of the leaf of the two kinds, that
of the Japanese sorts being three-lobed,
but in the biOom I have been disappointed.
I could not find that this was more brill
iant or in other ways superior to that of
the ordinary kindt. Unless another year’s
experience shall give different results, es
pecially in showing us that fine bloom of
which the catalogues and some of our agh
ricultural papers speak, I shall arrive at
the conclusion that the game is not worth
the powder.
, “Green Manuring;.'’
Question—On a field which Is sandy and
deficient in vegetable matter, I have a
fine stand of field peas, which promise to
make a luxuriant growth of vines. Would
you advise me to turn them under green
or not?
Answer—On sandy land in our climate
the best results ere not attained by turn
ing under a green cj-op of any kind. This
“green manuring,” ns it Is called, can be
done with advantage in more northern
latltudes.but should be avoided in our cli
mate, and particularly on sandy lands. By
turning under a heavy growth of pea
vines, say tn August, you would no doubt
do your land more harm than good. The
active fermentation of the green vines
would produce a sourness of the ground,
which would be injurious to the succeed
ing crop; and the upturned sol) would cer
tainly not be improved by the hot sunshine
of August and September, to which" it
would then be exposed. Leave your pea
vines to shade the land, while the roots
continue to gather nitrogen, and after
frost, when they are all killed, turn them
under and you Will have all the vegetable
matter that the leaves and stalks furnish
as well as the nitrogen accumulated by
the roots. Should you wish to sow the
field in oats, say in October, before a kill
ing frost, you need not hesitate to do so,
as the vines by that time will have reach
ed maturity and would not injure the land
by being turned under. Where you have
a choice, however, leave them alone until
a later date, if only for the reason that
the plowing will be easier after a killing
frost than before.—State Agricultural De
partment.
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Tobacco t» Florida and South Geor-
gia.
Mr. T. H. Shumate sold a portion of his
crop at 40 cents. The buyer of these two
crops was Mr. J. E. Stillman, for Little
Bros., of Jacksonville.
Mr. Milam estimates that he will net
about on this crop, and he gave very
little attention to any part of it, having
hired everything done.
Elsewhere we print an account of the
authenticated sales of the Plant City crops
and it is expected that the purchaser of
these crops, Mr. O’Halloran of Tampa,
will shortly* visit Bartow with a view to
buying up the product hare. Messrs. J.
11. Tatum and L. C. Tanner, representing
all t’aa finished tobacco—that lx, the last
fall’s crop which has been betuned and
buaxl—xurrted tamp.es to Tampa last
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK): THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1897.
week, and wherever it was exhibited it
was declared to be very fine and manu
facturers were eager for it. Cigars made
from it were equal, if not superior, to
the finer Havanas. The burning quali
ties, the color and the flavor were ah
that could be desired, and few, if any*
could detect the difference when put by
the side of imported goods.
We have it on good authority that one
of our citizens recently procured a lot of
choice Havana leaves and taking these,
with some of our Bartow leaves, to a
number of factories, the Bartow leaf was
nearly every time pronounced the choice
between the two lots.
At all events, it now seems clearly set
tled that 40 cents is the minimum price
for pole cured leaf, and there is every rea
son to believe that the bulk of the crop
will bring much more than that. Many
growers with whom we have talked say
that they are quite willing to engage in
the business permanently if they can sell
at 40 cents, and we feel fully warranted
in assuring them that they need never
expect less, provided, always, of course,
that due care is exercised in the handling
of the crop.
A Mr. Shaw, representing one of the
largest firms in the country, spent a day
last week in company with Mr. J. H. Ta
tum, looking at our tobacco, and he ex
pects to have arrangements made to re
turn and buy within a few days.—Courier-
Informant.
Regeneration of Fanning.
Henry Stewart.
Times have changed and the changes
seem to be occurring with a continually
accelerated pace by the very spree of the
accumulated impulse which increases
steadily. The man or woman, of fifty
years ago would find a totally new world,
if he or she were to reappear on the scene,
and the trouble is that many of us are to
day as far behind the advance in the times
the condition of things as if we had
sleeping with Rip Van Winkle. I
ad with much interest the remarks
subject by Dr. Gladden in Ameri
ca*. Agriculturist for Sept. 25, and wish to
note especially where I think he has miss
ed the true point of the situation, w’hich
just now confronts the industry of agri
culture. And when he writes in regard
to the great army of the unemployed who
waste their time in the cities and says
■their labor cannot be employed on the
farms until farming becomes more profit
able than it has been of late, I cannot help
pointing out what I think is a great mis
take, but one generally prevailing, and
the very secret of the present condition.
He forgets, or misses, the fact, that just
previously to making this statement he re
marked that the presence of weeds—which
this unemployed army might remove from
the land—ls one of the most effective causes
of distress in the industry of agriculture.
Just now we are all congratulating our
selves on the return of prosperity to the
agricultural interest. Alas, on what a foun
dation of horrors upon horrors piled, is
this prosperity based! It is not a true pros
perity at all. It is the accidental happen
ing of short crops, and threatened star
vation in some places, and in others act
ual slow torture for want of food to mil
lions of our fellow creatures, whose lives
waste away slowly, until want of food has
reduced the people to living skeletons,
clothed absolutely with mere skin. The
little children of Indld. have perished by
thousands for want of food which their
narents could not purchase on account of
the greatly increased pricea In th® wor d a
markets. And yet, knowing this, we are
joyfully congratulating ourselves and each
other on the improvement in the times and
the great advance in the price of our food
crops and claiming that is merely the ad
vance wave of a continuing prosperity!
Alas for us if this is true! What hu
mane inhid can gather satisfaction from
such a situation? It is not in any way any
proof of the recovery of our Industry from
its former depression. Quite otherwise;
and the remarks of Dr. Gladden go to show
this to be true. He finds no indication of
improved work on the farms. On the con
trary his intelligent mind wonders wheth
er or not the prevailing weeds will not
drive many farmers off their land and
make them more recruits for the great
army of the unemployed. And he Is right.
I can corroborate this statement that the
present condition of the farms everywhere
is far below that of thirty or forty years
ago. The culture of the soil is hardly
worth the name of It It is not culture. It
is simply wringing from the unwilling soil,
indeed, the unable soil, the last shred of
its fertility. Agriculture is in a depressed
condition simply because there is not labor
sufficient bestowed upon the crops. What
It wants Is that enterprise by which the
farmers shall go into the cities or else
where and compel the laborers to go to
work in the fields and remove these greedy
parasites by which the crops are eaten up
or crowded and starved to early death.
Everything in all other industries has
advanced of late years and every step in
this progression has been to make human
labor more effective and cheapen its pro
ducts in proportion. Everywhere we see
this extension of all industrial enterprise
by the general cheapening of the products.
All but agriculture are enjoying this
marked prosperity due to improved pro
cesses. It is true that his improvement
in mechanical construction and appliances
has thrown out of employment thousands
of men and horses, and so far as the lat
ter are concerned it has borne heavily
on the farmers, who have lost millions of
dollars in consequence. But .this loss nas
been a general gain, for the substitution
of machinery for the mote costly horses
has largely increased the common wealth
of the nation in the economy of time and
labor and material thus secured.
When we leave the cities, the wharves
of the seaports, the machine shops, the
mines and every great center of industry,
and go abroad into the fields we find still
the old-fashioned ways in vogue. There
are few improvements except so far as
the mechanic has aided the farmer in pro
viding labor-saving implements and ma
chines. But the weeds, the wastes of ma
nure, the misapplication of labor, In short,
every old way of not doing things, still
existing to make the farmer’s labor In
effective, we cannot doubt but this alone
is the cause of the distress of agriculture
and of the poverty and consequent distress
of the farmers. What would have hap
pened had there been full crops in Europe,
and no famine in India! Wheat would
have fallen to 50 cents or less, possibly, a
bushel, and of course other products would
have been correspondingly cheap. Then
we should have been considering the
causes of this depression, and those of us
who know why it Is would have been try
ing to convince the unhappy farmers that
before agriculture can become really pros
perous it must advance to the front in all
those ways by which only human labor
can become prosperous; by improved cul
ture of the sot), the total eradication of
all parasites—weeds included; the use ot
the best tools and live stock; in short, the
total regeneration of our industry and the
placing of it on a level mechanically and
scientifically with all other industries.
The Value of Beggar Weed.
An exchange tells of the great value of
beggar weed and gives direction concern
ing Mme as follows:
It should be cut when three feet high,
ICUREFITS
When I tay I cure I do not moan merely to »top
thorn for a Utue and then hare them return again. I
mean a radical cere. I have made the di»e*ac of
FITS, EPILEPSY or FALLING SICKNESS a life
long stmb. I warrant my remedy to cure the worst
caaea. li»csn»a other* have faded ia no reason for
not now receiving a cure Send at once for a treatise
and a tree Bottle of tn; infallible remedy. Give Lx
preas and Poatoftce address.
Prof.W.B.PEElE.F.B.,4CeiaiSt..l(BwT(iti
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I A a prominent physician says: “I
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I/ II \ I 1 *) studied the so-called easily-
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| | long ago came to the conclusion
R a little Pearline would ren-
der ordinary nursing bottles the
safest utensils of them all. I firmly believe that children
properly fed and cleanly fed will avoid the majority of the
difficulties which they encounter during the first two years of
life. I believe that if every feeding bottle was washed with
Pearline, many innocent lives would be saved.”
Surely, this is a matter to interest every mother. Nothing
so thoroughly cleanses as Pearline. 546
and cured thoroughly two or three days.
The weed after mowing makes another
crop, matures its seed and yields the rich
est pasture until it is killed with frost.
Horses and cattle fatten on it until the
holidays. Farmers who have paid no at
tention to this plant do not know what
they are losing. Introduced on the lands
and properly managed it would render
South Florida ah earthly paradise.
Orange trees at this place fertilized' with
nothing but beggar weed and corn stubble
have made the most marvelous growth,
and have leaves’ to-day . five inches long
and three inches broad- If our beef cattle
ran in fields of beggar weed instead of
pine woods, we should have but little call
for Chicago beef. This plant opens the
way for successful farming on pine lands
of Florida without other costly fertilizing
as nothing else ever has. One man states
that he increased the production of his
corn field from ten bushels per acre. to
thirty, with beggar weed alone. How
long it takes us to learn to get along!
A grower in Leesburg said since the freeze
he had sown peas broadcast and plowed
in the crop, and made his treqs grow r
as well as when he put on SSO per acre of
commercial fertilizer, Peas are an excel
lent crop, but for several reasons I pre
fer beggar weed.—Leesburg Commercial.
The Value of Barnyard Manure.
In a newspaper bulletin of the Ohio
Agricultural Experiment Station (No. 172)
giving the results of experiments with fer
tilizers on the clay soil of one of its
sub-stations, a table was given which in
dicated that barnyard manure had pro
duced increase of crop to the value of
$2.50 per ton of manure in the three crop®
of a five-crop rotation, leaving the resid
ual effect on the two grass crops yet to
be ascertained.
By an unfortunate lapse of memory,
however, the mistake made of com
puting only half the quantity of manure
actually used, as it had been used on
two crops, in three years, namely,
corn and wheat, at the rate of eight tons
on one plot and four tons on another on
each crop, making a total application to
the two crops of sixteen tons and eight
tons, respectively, and reducing the value
of the increase due to the manure to about
$1.25 per ton. dxiu ;
The matinre used in this test chad been
accumulated from horses and cows in an
open barnyard during the winter and
summer previous to its application, and
Was under, rather than above, the aver
age open yard manure in quality.
A similar comparison of manure and
fertilizers has been made at the central
station, beginning immediately after the
relocation of the station in Wayne coun
ty, on the same crops, corn, oats, wheat,
clover and timothy, grown in a five-year
rotation. Four wheat crops have now been
taken in this rotation; thi;e® crops each
of corn and oats, and five crops of hay,
the meadows thus far being mown but
once a year. Five tracts of land are in
cluded in the test,- each tract containing
thirty plots of one-tenth acre each, and
so managed that each crop will be repre
sented each season after the first rotation
is completed.
At this stage of the work only partial
results can be given,’ as a full rotation
would include five crops each of the ce
reals and ten*crops of “hay; but It may be
useful to note the results already obtained,
which are as follows, the value of the In
crease being computed on the basis of 33%
cents per bushel for corn, 25 cents for oats,
66% cents for wheat, $3 per ton for straw
and stover and $8 for hay: Plot No. 18,
16 tons manure per acre In two applica
tions; value of increase per acre, grain.
$3.88; straw. $1.77; hay, $12.07; total, $17.72.
Plot No. 20, 8 tons manure per acre in two
applications; value of increase pqj acre,
grain, $2.81; straw, $1.36; hay, $8.73; total,
$12.96.
It will be observed that in this test the
smaller application of manure has been
relatively the more profitable, but this
may not be borne out by subsequent re
sults. At the sub-station there has been
but little difference thus far in the appar
ent effectiveness ton, whether used at
the four-ton or at the eight-ton rate per
acre.
The results show an immediate recovery
of about $1.25 on the average in increasb in
crop, at recent prices, for every ton of
manure used. But the long continued ex
periments of Lawes and Gilbert at Ro
thamsted show that not more than one
half to two-thirds the possible increase
from barn-yard manure is recovered in the
first crops grown from it. We may, there
fore, safely offset the residual effect of
the manure against the cost of application
and consider the immediate increase as
clear profit.
In another experiment at the central sta
tion potatoes, wheat and clover are grown
in a three-crop rotation, and in this test
the increase from manure applied to po
tatoes has reached $2.50 per ton, potatoes
being valued at 83% cents per bushel.
Barnyard manure is relatively deficient
in phosphoric acid, as cpmpared with am
monia and potash, and the experiments of
the Ohio station indicate that phosphoric
acid is the constituent most needed on the
majority of Ohio soilp. but that it only
produces its full eflfebt In the presence of
ammonia and potash. The price of acid
phosphate has fallen during recent years
until It can now be bought for delivery
anywhere in Ohio at prices, which bring
its actual phosphoric acid below 5 cents
per pound, and as the sprinkling of acid
phosphate or superphosphate on barnyard
manure Is believed to have a beneficial ef
fect in preventing the waste of ammonia
from the manure, it would seem that the
use of acid phosphate in this manner might
serve the double purpose of preserving the
ammonia of the manure and increasing the
effectiveness of both its ammonia and pot
ash.
Experiments on this point are now in
progress at the Ohio station.
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Slain by Poison.
Not the poison that the covert assassin
administers in the drink, the food, or
some other guise, but the poison of ma
laria shortens the lives of myriads. There
is a safe and certain antidote. Hostet
ter’s Stomach Bitters, which not only
fortifies the system against malaria, but
roots out its seeds when they have ger
minated. Dyspepsia, constipation, rheu
matic. liver and kidney trouble ar S con
quered by the Bitters.—ad*
JAMES EDWARD MACFARLAND.
Death of the Last Survivor of the
Mason-Slidell Incident.
Washington Special to Chicago Post.
The last survivor of the Mason-Slidell
incident, the most exciting international
episode of the late war, James Edward
MacFarland, has just died in this eity. He
was with the Trent party which went to
England to enlist that country for the
cause of the late confederacy, but was in
tercepted on the high sea; taken from a
British ship, confined in Fort Warren for
a short time and afterward surrendered to
British custody by this government.
It will be remembered that Mr. Mason,
of Virgina, and Mr. Slidell, of Louisiana,
were selected by the confederate govern
ment as ambassadors to England and
France, respectively. Thfey took as secre
taries Mr. MacFarland and Mr. Eustis.
After the war Mr. MacFarland returned
from Europe with his associates. He set
tled .on, a sugar plantation in Louisana,
where he resided until about twelve years'
ago, .when he removed to this city, and
has lived here ever since, with the ex
cerption of a brief time in 188®, when hfe'
was’ one of the representatives of the
United States at the Brussels exposition.
Mr. MacFarland was born in Peters
burg, Va., sixty-eight years ago, and was
connected with the best families in the
south. Gen. Winfield Scott was his great
uncle. He was an intimate friend of the
late Justice L. Q. C. Lamar, of the United
States supreme court.
Uses of the Lemon.
From the Boston Traveler.
Juice of the lemon Is one of the best and
safest drinks for any person, whether in
health or not. It is suitable for all stom
ach diseases, liver complaint, inflamma
tion of the bowels and fevers.
Lemon is used in intermittent fevers. It
will alleviate and finally cure coughs and
colds, and heal diseased lungs, if taken hot.
Its uses are manifold,, and the more we
employ it internally, the better we shall
find ourselves. Lemon juice is anti-feb
rile, etc. A doctor in Rome is trying it
experimentallv in malarial fever with great
success, and thinks it will in time super
sede qtrtWftie.
MOSLEY’S LEMON ELIXIR.
Its Wonderful Effect on the Liver,
Stomach, Bowels and Kidneys.
A pleasant lemon drink, that positively
cures all biliousness, constipation, indi
gestion, sick and nervous headache, kidney
disease, dizziness, loss of appetite, debili
ty, sleeplessness, fevers, chills, pain in the
back, palpitation of the heart and all other
diseases caused by disordered liver, stom
ach and kidneys, the first great cause of all
fatal diseases. 50c and SI.OO per bottle.
Sold by druggists. H. Mozley, M. D.,
Atlanta, Ga.
A Ranker Writes.
From experience In my family, Dr. H.
Mozley’s Lemon Elixir has few if any
equals, and no superiors in medicine, for
the regulation of the liver, stomach and
bowels
W. H. Magness, Pres. Nat’l Bank,
McMinnville, Tenn.
MOSLEY’S LEMON'HOT DROPS.
Cures all Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness,
Sore Throat, Bronchitis, Hemorrhage, and
all throat and lung diseases. Elegant, re
liable.
Twenty-five cents at druggists. Prepared
only by Dr. H. Mozley, Atlanta, Ga.—ad.
NICHOLAS LANG.
3f) Barnard Street, Savannah, Ga.
My wines and liquors have been con
sidered the best In quality and price of
fered to the trade.
Convince yourself by sending me an or
der, with the following prices enclosed:
Best quality 1-year-old rye whisky, $1.50
per gallon.
quality 3-year-old rye whisky, $2
per gallon.
Best quality 3-year-old rye whisky, $3
per gallon.
Best quality 4-year-old rye whisky, $4
per gallon.
Best quality 1-year-old gin, $1.50 per gal
lon.
Best quality 2-year-old gin, $2 per gal
lon.
Best quality 3-year-old gin, $3 per gal
lon.
Best quality 1-year-old com whisky, $1.50
per gallon.
Best quality 2-year-old com whisky, $2
per gallon.
Best quality domestic port wine, $1 per
gallon.
Best quality domestic Catawba wine, $1
per gallon.
Imported Port wine, $2, $3, and $4 per
gallon.
Imported Sherry wine $2, $3, and $4 per
gallon.
Without charge for package.—ad.
MACON MENTION.
Roadmaster of the Central Resign*.
Minister's Trip Excite* Comment.
Macon, Ga.. Nov. 14.—J. c. Aderholt.
for the past five years roadmaster of the
Central railroad, has resigned his position
to engaged in private business. B. J.
Milan has been appointed as his successor.
A month ago Rev. M. B. Wharton raised
SI,OOO to devote to rearing an orphan,
Zephyr Wynne, of this city, whom he was
to take to a Virginia orphanage. There
is much talk about the fact that, the girl
is still here, and Wharton and the money
are- in Virginia. Inquiry is being made
why this is so.
Fever Scare Over Chicken Pox.
Palmetto, Fla., Nov. 14.—There was great
excitement on account of a suspicious case
of fever reported in Braidentown. The
agent of the state board of health notified
Dr. Porter, who arrived to-day and pro
nounced it a case of chicken
HORACE WHITE ON MONEY.
CLEAR-CUT ANSWER TO THE MON
ETARY COMMISSION.
Advocates Retirement of the Green
backs and the Adoption of an
Elastic Banking Currency Based
Upon Business Assets—Thinks Sil
ver Hollars Should Be Redeemed
in Gold—Silver Dollars Regarded
as Metallic Greenbacks.
Washington, Nov. 14.-r-Horace White,
whose book upon “Money and Banking”
has attracted so much attention, has sub
mitted some clear-cut answers to the in
terrogatories of the monetary commis
sion, regarding improvements in the cur
rency system of the United States. Mr.
White is an outspoken advocate of the re
tirement of greenbacks and the adoption
of an elastic banking currency, based up
on business assets. He declares that the
silver dollars should be redeemed in gold
and that in a financial sense, there is no
difference between the several forms of
government fiduciary circulation, of which
silver dollars are a part.
“The latter,” he declares, “are metallic
greenbacks.” He does not believe that the
amount of circulation presented for re
demption would be any greater than at
present if silver were redeemable in gold.
In answer to the questions regaining the
maintenance of the gols standard, Mr.
White says: “I would recommend the re
demption, retirement and cancellation of
aTI legal tender notes, as a first step.
Probably the silver certificates and silver
dollars would thereafter remain at par
with gold, like the outstanding thalers
of Germany, and would not be presented
for redemption in any considerable amount
being needed, like the smaller silver coins,
for circulation in retail trade. After the
retirement of the legal tender notes we
should be able to see better what to do
next.”
Question—For the purpose of facilitating
the use of existing silver currency, what
do you recommend as the smallest denom
ination of United States notes and bank
notes which should be put in circulation?
Answer —Ten dollars at first, but this
should be made a matter of experiment,
the object being to determine the dimen
sions of the field of circulation which will
absorb the silver currency, leaving the rest
to bank notes.
In regard to the legal tender notes, Mr.
White’s responses are as follows:
Question —On what ground, if any, would
you favor the gradual but entire with
drawal of the treasury notes of 1890, and of
the United States notes?
Answer—On the ground that there is no
certainty, and can be no certainty that the
government will always redeem them in
gold. Redemption or non-redemptlon is a
political issue to be fought over in elec
tions and must remain so as long as this
kind of paper Is outstanding. More un
certainty is always a drawback to busi
ness prosperity. Failure of redemption
would be bankruptcy, public and private.
Question—ls it shall be decided to retire
the United States treasury rfotes, how can
lit be done without adding to our bonded
I debt ?
Answer—By cancelling all that are re
ceived at the treasury for taxes or present
ed for redemption or all so received over
and above the government’s necessary dis
bursements.
Question —How, In that case, can pro
vision be made for maintaining an ade
quate amount of currency available for
purposes of business?
Answer—Provision will be made auto
matically in various ways, viz: First, by
retaining the gold produced by our own
mines; second, by importing gold from
abroad; third, by the issue of national
bank notes. Prior to the civil war, the
government gave itself no concern about
providing currency for purposes of busi
ness, yet the supply was never deficient.
Question—ls it be thought inexpedient
to fund the United States notes how can
they be redeemed with an assurance that
bank currency will take their place?
Answer—The assurance is found in the
fact that in every case where a currency
vacuum has existed it has been filled by
bank notes. This was the case in the
panic of 1893. The process of taking out
notes might be made more expeditious.
That is a matter of machinery and of legal
regulation. It is perfectly certain that if
there is a profit in issuing bank circula
tion, it will be issued. If there is no profit
in it, we must conclude either that the
law needs amendment, or that the demand
for currency is slight.
Mr. White believes that in process of
time it will not be possible to rely upon
natiohal bqnds as security for bank notes
issues, because of the extinction of the
public debt. In reply to the question
whether any safe and practicable plan can
be devised for using other securities, he
says that he thinks not.
He believes that 50 per cent, of the paid
up and unimpaired capital of the banks
should be the limit of the note issues and
that a cash reserve should be held for
their redemption, the same as now provid
ed by law for deposits, viz.: Twenty-five
per cent, in reserve cities, and 15 per cent,
elsewhere, with the right to keep three
fifths of said 15 per cent, in the reserve cit
ies. There is no difference between deposit
liabilities, so far as the bank itself Is con
cerned, and no reason why the reserve
should be greater or less for the one than
for the other. The reserve should consist
of gold and should be in the vaults of the
bank or in a clearing house depository.
HAMPTON RETURNS HOME.
Has Not Decided Yet to Write a His
tory of Cavalry.
Columbia, S. C., Nov. 14.—Gen. Wade
Hampton arrived here to-day from Wash
ington, and has taken up his residence at
Millwood. In regard to the published
statement that he would immediately be
gin writing the history of the cavalry of
the Army of Northern Virginia, he said
he had no such intention. He had been
urged to undertake that arduous work,
but had not decided to do so. Gen. Hamp
ton expressed himself feelingly about the
result of the election in Maryland, which
will result in Senator Gorman's retire
ment.
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They also relieve Distress from Dyspepsia,
Indigestion and Too Hearty Eating. A per
fect remedy for Dizziness, Nausea, Drowsi.
isss, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Coated Tongue
Pain in the Side, TORPID LIVER. They
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Colds, Coughs, Sore Throat,
Bronchitis, Pneumonia, Swelling of
the Joints, Lumbago, Inflammation,
Rheumatism, Neuralgia,
Frostbites, Chilblains, Headache, Tooth
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one to twenty minutes. NOT ONE HOUR
after reading this advertisement need
any one SUFFER WITH PAIN.
Railway’s Ready Relief is a Sura
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ONLY PAIN REMEDY
That instantly stops the most excruciat
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Congestions, whether of the Lungs, Stom*
ach, Bowels or other glands or organs,
by the application.
When Used Internally—A half to a tea
spoonful in half a tumbler of waty will
in a few minutes cure Cramps, Spasms,,
Sour Stomach, Heartburn, Nervousness,
Sleeplessness, Sick Headache,
Dysentery, Colic, Flatulency and all in-*
ternal pains.
60c per bottle. Sold by Druggists.
RADWAY & CO., NEW YORK.
BIS SURE TO GET RADWAY’S.
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yjffjk without pain, speedily and permanently '
c/Je « All Druggists sell Abbott’s
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LIPPMAN BROS.
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I Our friends from the country will M
find that we have the nicest goods
at prices lower than any other IB
house in Savannah.
We want you to visit us H
and be convinced.
MMIII CLOTHING CO., I
121 Broughton St., west,
JOHN W. PARKER, Manager.
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Cleanses and beautifies the hair.
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r 1 fhirrn scalp diseases & hair falling.
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BANK CLEARINGS KEEP ROOMING.
Savannah's Percentage of Inereaaci
Greater Than Any Other Port.
Savannah’s bank clearings continue td
Increase every week. According to Brad
streets report of the clearings in. 87 cities
for the week ending Thursday Nov. 11, Sa
vannah shows $4,223,859, an increased per
centage of 39.7 over the corresponding
week last year. This Increase is larger
than at any other port in the United
States, except Galveston, which has in
cluded in its statement other items thart
clearings, and is not included in Brail
streets totals.
Out of the eighty-seven cities there ard
only twelve which show decreased clear
ings. The following list of the cities alonfl
the coast, with the amount of their clear
ings, will give an idea of the remarkable
improvement at Savannah in comparison
with all other ports:
New York, $802,043,925, an increase of ll.<
per cent; Boston, $118,139,845, an increase
of 12.3 per cent; Philadelphia, $66,750,179,
an increase of 4.7 per cent; Baltimore,
$17,835,705, an Increase of 10.5 per cent; New
Orleans, $10,208,671, a decrease of 6.4 per
cent; Richmond, $2,629,418, an increase of
1.1 per cent; Norfolk, $1,000,973. a decrease
of 7.4 per cent; Jacksonville, $218,568, a de
crease of 7.6 per cent.
ALGER ILL WITH TONSIDITTS.
Hi* Condition Improved, Rut Won't
Be Out for Several Days.
Washington, Nov. 14.—Secretary Alger,
who Is ill with an attack of tonsilltls, is
reported much better to-day. It will be
some days before he can resume his of
ficial duties.
Sunday Services at BrniiKwick.
Brunswick, Ga.. Nov. 14.—Rev. R. C»
Gilmore, the pastor, being absent, Super
intendent G. A. Orr of Glynn’s schools
filled the pulpit of the Presbyterian church!
to-day. Mr. Orr is a Methodist minister,
but feels closely allied to the Presbyterians
by reasai of his mother having been a
very devout one.
At the First Methodist church a series
of meetings is being held under the direc
tion of Miss Emma Tucker of Atlanta,
Miss Tucker has made the meetings foB
the past week of great interest to the gen>s
eral public. V
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