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The Gainesville [ajle.
Official Organ of Hall County.
Official Organ of White County.
Official Organ of the City of Gaincxville.
Entered at the Gainewille Pontoffi.ee ae
Second-claw mail matter.
W. H. CRAIG,
Editor and Business Manager.
Thursday, March 17, 1898.
THE HON. SPENCER R. ATKINSON’S
QUEER POSITION.
It is Homething ho new to success
ful politics—even that of the latter
day Georgia variety—for a candidate
to bold fast to one lucrative office
while conducting an active and vig
orous canvass for another, that one is
strongly inclined to suspect the sin
cerity of those friends and advisers
of the Hon. Spencer R. Atkinson
who, we are told, could see no im
propriety in such a course. When
the candidate happens, too, as in this
case, to bestlf-announced —not called
on by any considerable number of
his fellow citizens to make such a
sacrifice, but his appearance as such
is purely an act of his own volition—
the incongruity of the thing becomes
more strikingly manifest. While
mere prudential and worldly consid
erations might dictate such a course
to a candidate—secure in one lucra
tive office, and reaching out eagerly
after another and a higher—it is not
certain that the people at large to
whom he appeals will not place that
construction on his conduct in the
matter which is justified by an every
day acquaintance and converse with
the world ; and which may be thus
briefly summed up : either that the
duties and responsibilities of his pres
ent well-salaried position are very
light, or that he, the incumbent, so
regards them; neither of which
hypothesis can be regarded as favor
able to a candidate’s prospects with
an honest-minded and, in general, a
hard-working and hard-run constitu
ency.
At the best, since many of the
people at large have an inbred suspi
cion that many of the high and well
paid offices of the State, if not sine
cures, are not over burdensome to
hold and discharge, it were better for
a candidate not to prove this fact too
clearly to them, as the lion. Spencer
R. Atkinson of the Georgia Rail
road Commission, seems now bent on
doing.
While there may be no established
law or rule in such cases, there un
doubtedly exists an unwritten law of
propriety, which, in the case of all
good and well-disposed members of
society in genera), including all aspi
rants to positions of honor and trust,
is fully as binding and authoritative.
In fact in a political as well as in a
moral and social sense a serious vio
lation of this unwritten code of
ethics is often visited with a severer
penalty than attaches to an infringe
ment of an actual law, with legisla
tive or ether sanction to uphold it.
In spite of this very evident fact,
however, the trouble in general is
that this unwritten code of ethics
has too often been found to have a
faint and feeble hold on many who,
of all others, should be most con
stantly governed by its requirements.
“Where self the wavering balance shakes,
’Tis rarely right adjusted;”
and it may be added, that its penal
ties are not always sufficiently grave
and immediate to have a deterrent
effect on individual ambition or
avarice.
Now, little as he may suspect it,
when a candidate writes and talks
ever so eloquently of retrenchment
and reform in public expenditures,
the growing and grasping powers of
corporations, of incorporated wealth,
of honesty and economy, and other
kindred topics of stump declamation,
he is chanting a psalm that belongs
to a different dispensation than the
one his own example inculcates.
Such psalms, in such a connection,
are not melodious to people who can
recall a time when things in politics
were far otherwise in Georgia. And
it may be said that until such no
tions as his example recommends be
got rid of, it will be vain to hope to
bring into practical operation all or
any of the reforms be talks and
writes of so eloquently. A healthy,
practical man will rather incline to
look upon all such declamation from
such a source as nothing more than
sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.
We don’t know who the advisers
of the Hon. Spencer R. Atkinson
may have been in this matter, nor
whether he really had any. But of
one thing we may be well assured :
they could not have been his real
friends, nor have given him much
worse counsel. Such an open, un
disguised display of an itching palm
does not take well with the majority
of people, even of those who might
easily be tempted on occasion to go
and do likewise. It is not an in
stance where it can be said that a
fellow feeling makes us wondrous
kind. On the contrary, the very
ones who would advise a man to
such a course, as well as those who
fail to see the impropriety of it, are
of all others the most likely to be
found loudest in condemnation of it.
And it would be merely an instance
of poor, frail human nature asserting
itself to do so.
Had he consulted precedents, in-
stead of his “friends,” on a matter of
such delicacy, and been determined
by those only which should have in
fluenced the conduct of a man of
right feeling and discernment, he
would hardly be found stumping the
State around withone lucrative State
commission in his pocket while anx
iously pleading for another still I
more lucrative and honorable.
GRIM-VISAGED WAR.
The specter of war that has
hovered over the country for several
weeks is showing signs of vanish
ing.
Fifty milions were appropriated
for the national defense, at the sug
gestion of the President, and it has
been apportioned to the various de
partments of the Army and Navy.
The navy yards and ordnance works
have all been running night and day.
Troops and marines have been en
listed. Guns and munitions have
been shipped to many points on the
Atlantic coast. Forts have been
strengthened and fortifications
erected. Two new warships have
been purchased from Brazil, and
government agents are in European
markets trying to buy others.
Since 1861 such war preparations
have not been witnessed by this
country. It hardly looks reasonable
that all this is being done merely as
a measure of diplomacy—in other
words, a bluff—and yet, after all,
the most difficult thing to do is to
pull the trigger. It is pretty hard
r.ow-a-days for civilized people to
get to fighting. War with them is
the last resort, whereas in days gone
by it was the first resort. It used to
be a word and a blow. Now it is
the “blow” first, and then arbitra
tion. We are now going through
the blowing stages ; but it will blow
over.
There is a licking due Spain by
somebody, on the score of general
cussednesss, and we don’t believe
she will make much headway in
progressiveness until she gets it; but
this purely sentimental reason is not
worth the blood of one American
citizen.
So, let us have peace
But the jingo blood is pretty hot
all over this country, and there are
thousands and tens of thousands who
want to go right at it and smash
Spain’s guitar clear down over her
head. But let them sit steady in
the boat and keep their collars intact;
remembering in the mean time that
this thing of dying for your country
is something more than brass but
tons and brass bands. This thing of
dying for your country is a nice
thing Jn romance and poetry, while
you sit and read about it in a rock
ing-chair by a goodfire. At the risk
of offending our gallant friends,
the Piedmont Rifles, we will say it
were better to stay at home and dye
socks.
Ask some of our old soldiers who
have seen the human grist go into
the insatiable hopper—who have seen
the sheaves fed into the awful ma
chine of war.
But whether war or not, our coun
try will have shown to the world
that she is game—a thing which has
long needed to be shown, for there
has been an impression abroad that
the United States had rather trade
than tight. Another thing: The
administration will get the credit for
this assertion of the American spirit,
and the Republican party will reap
the benefits. As to the money be
ing spent in this little fanfare, that
is just to their fancy, for our friends,
the Republicans, believe in appropri
ations. That is one of their best
cherished tenets. It is the Demo
crats that follow the cold and rather
unpopular trail of economy in
handling the people’s money.
In this war with Spain the Repub
lican party will reap its first sub
stantial victory in the Congressional
elections next November.
A JUDICIAL RUFFIAN.
Judge John Berry, who presides
over the city court of Atlanta, lit
into Orth Stein, editor of the Look
ing Glass, in the dining room of the
Kimball House Monday, during the
dinner hour, in the presence of many
ladies, and beat him nearly to death.
He walked up behind Stein as he
was seated at a table, seized a ketch
up bottle, and felled him to the floor
with it. Stein was knocked nearly
senseless, but managed to draw his
pistol. This Berry took away from
him and used as a club to beat
Stein’s head to a jelly.
Stein is in a critical condition,
but Berry held court as usual next
morning.
Judge Berry has proved himself
a ruffian of the most contemptible
class and should be in the pen. A
few nights before this occurrence
Capt. J. W. English severely chas
tised Berry in the Capital City
club for remarks Berry had made
about his being a backer of the
Looking Glass. On the same even
ly Capt. English’s son met Berry
and still further thrashed him. The
Looking Glass, in commenting on
these occurrences, said that the Eng
lishes did right, and proceeded to
say some pretty salty things about
the judge.
Smarting under the consciousness
that he was regarded as a coward,
and knowing Stein to be an invalid,
the valiant judge took this method
of redeeming himself.
It was Governor Atkinson who
discovered that Berry was a good
piece of timber for the city judge
ship. No one had ever thought of it
before. He had been living in At
lanta for some time and was known
as a pretty fair acordeon-player—
but no one had ever imagined him
fit for city judge. Berry was from
Newnan—his father lived there; was
a banker we believe. It was said at
the time that Berry pere bad let
Billy Atkinson have some money
to run his campaign with in 1894.
It was supposed at the time that
these things enabled the «agacious
governor to discover superior judi
cial talents in the young acordeon
player.
OUR GRAND JURIES.
We take the following from the
Rabun County Tribune :
You will'notice th# last Grand jury
“hit us rather hard” when they reccom
mended the presentments be published
without cost to the county. This body
pays a deserved compliment to our county
officers and compliments the Hon. J. J.
Kimsey, our worthy J udge of the Superior
Court, in unmistakable language. For
these reasons and for the benefit of our
readers in the county we publish them,
and we do so, knowing that other coun
ties, within our knowledge, pay its news
papers from ten to fifty dollars for pub
lishing their presentments. We submit,
but “the laborer is worthy his hire.”
We are in a position to appreciate
the above. Our late estimable grand
jury openedits immense heart and
reccommended the re-election of the
presiding Judge, devoted several
inches of space in telling the people
who they wanted for next solicitor
general, spread considerable taffy on
the present solicitor, executed a
feeling panegyric on the Clerk and
Sheriff, enlogized their foreman, and
returned heartfelt thanks to “our
worthy baliff,” who had sacrificed his
own private interest and laid him
self on the altar of his country in
order to serve them.
But alack-a-day! How instan
taneously did the milk of human
kindness run day when they struck
their two excellent county papers!
They fixed the price of publishing
their three columns of feeling tributes
panegyrics, recommendations, etc.,
at the picayunish, starvation price of
ten dollars—worth at least thirty.
They seemed to forget, or they did
not know, that the Eagle and the
Cracker are as valuable institutions
as judges and solicitors-general, and
do as much as they for the moral,
religious, and pecuniary welfare of
the country.
It has become so universally rec
ognized that the country newspaper
is a free horse that most every one
not only jumps on and rides without
furnishing either blanket or saddle,
but feel enjoined to hit it a parting
rap when they come to dismount at
their journey’s end.
When our late estimable grand
jury fixed starvation rates for the
publication of their sweet and be
guiling recommendations as to the
personnel of our future judiciary,little
did they reck that it is man’s in
humanity to man that makes count
less thousands mourn. We shall
endeavor to awaken the concience of
our future grand juries and
make them mindful that these politi
cal panegyrics should be paid for at
obituary rates at least.
And we want to remind our late
estimable grand jury, and all future
grand juries, that their recommenda
tion as to who shall fill the elective
offices is downright impertinence.
It is none of their business; and they
have no right to spend the time for
which the people pay them two dol
lars a day in such work. They are
paid and take a solemn oath to. look
after the county’s interests, and they
had better spend their time in pur
suing those fellows who given in
their property at one-tenth its value;
and if they would address themselves
to this task they would find plenty
work to do.
A grand jury is a splendid thing.
It is the grandest and most dignified
institution among men. It is the
beginning and the end of the law. A
grand jury is the people. It has more
authority than the president. It
can indict the Supreme Court.
And what a sorry spectacle it is—
this small pettifogging and logrolling
as to who shall be county commis
sioner, and who our representatives
not yet in embryo shall vote for in
the legislature 1
It makes us tired.
And it makes us tireder to think
they would direct us to print a whole
wad of laudations and tedeums about
other fellows at rates that will
scarcely pay for the ink.
But we will not kick any more.
Having swaged our feelings we will
again take up the cross, and shall
henceforth, as of yore, endeavor to
fulfill our mission in magnifying
man’s virtues and minimizing his
faults—by rejoicing when the child
is born and inditing a “rest in peace”
when the curtain is rung down at
the close of the last act in the
tragedy of life.
THE GREAT LEVELER.
Politics certainly does level things
—brings the little man up and the
big man down. Everybody is on a
level from now until after the elec
tion. Men who would not dare ad
dress Col. Candler as “Allen” nor
Judge Atkinson as “Spence,” in
times of peace and piety, feel no
compunctions of conscience in doing
so now. The candidate has to bear
a great deal, and the ballot-pusher
takes every advantage of him, and
will call to him across the street,
talk in an animated strain and pass
on, feeling as elated as if he had
done something. The candidate
stands it first-rate, shakes hands, and
is glad to see him.
As soon as released from this one
the candidate is captured by another
voter, and he must be taffied and
cajoled, and his advice taken. The
candidate passes on, and this voter
goes his way, sometimes rejoicing
that be has been recognized so cor
dially by the prominent gentleman,
and gloats over the fact that some
one has seen them talking and will
think he “stands-in” with this aspi
rant for office.
Candidates are often abused for
debauching the free and independent
voter by promises of money, whisky,
or other desirable thing. The voter
is just as willing to be debauched,
where it is done, as the candidate is
to debauch.
Remember Pharaoh’s better-half
and Joseph, the ruler of Egypt. A
candidate will not chase a voter a
great while in order to pay him for
his vote.
Even the little country newspapers
get on the same extra-familiar terms
with the candidates and insist on
calling them by their given names.
They even go so far as to laboriously
grind out a 6-inch editorial telling
the people just what to do; they
tremulously await the explosion that
will follow their little eds., and are
surprised that nothing of the sort
takes place. In the manufacture of
public opinion they are flat failures,
for the voter goes on his gleeful way
and quite often casts his ballot for
the man who “sees” him last.
THE POPULIST STATE TICKET.
The Populist State Convention
held in Atlanta nominated the fol
lowing ticket and adjourned.
For Governor, Thomas E. Wat
son, McDuffie.
For Secretary of State, L. O.
J ackson, Decatur.
For Comptroller General, Ben
alilliken, Wayne.
For Treasurer, J. H. Taylor
Troup.
Commissioner of Agriculture, W.
L. Peek, Rockdale.
For Prison Commissioner, J. S.
Davitt, Polk.
For School Commissioner, B. M.
Zettler, Fulton.
For Attorney General, Carey
Thornton, Muscogee.
For Chief Justice, Walter B.
Hill, Bibb.
For Associate Justiee (Long
Term), W. R. Leaken, Chatham.
For Aasociate Justice (Short
Term), Claiborne Snead, Colum
bia.
The convention adopted a straight
middle-of-the-road platform, emphat
ically against fusion.
Will Watson accept ? is the ques
tion. He has declared for the past
several weeks that he would not. In
case he will not, he is empowered by
the convention to name the candidate
for governor.
JUDGE MEYERHARDT CALLS.
One of Colonel Candler’s many
callers at the capitol last Friday was
Judge Max Meyerhardt of Floyd,
to whom the colonel addressed his
famous letter criticizing some of the
political methods that had been em
ployed in the gubernatorial campaign
of 1894. It will be recalled that
Judge Meyerhardt gave this letter
to the Rome Tribune for publication,
and that he was somewhat severely
criticised by the press of the State
for so doing. Since that time the
judge has had very little to say in
the newspapers about his action, and
he has rested quietly under the
steady bombardment of adverse crit
icism. But as soon as he felt that
the time had come for him to explain
his position, he took a train for At
lanta, arrd when he reached there
promptly called upon Colonel Can
dler at the office of the secretary of
the secretary of state.
He told Colonel Candler that he
had been innocent of guile in making
public his letter, and that he had
done so thinking that it was simply a
circular announcement intended for
general distribution. He said he had
regretted a thousand times since that
he had caused the colonel any em
barrassment, and that nothing was
further from his intentions than this.
Colonel Candler replied in the best
of good humor that he entertained
no resentment whatever, and said
that he had never suspected that
Judge Meyerhardt had been guilty
of acting from ulterior motives. The
judge said that Floyd county would
oe found in the colonel’s column, and
he expressed his intention of voting
for him. The two had quite a long
conversation, and when they sepa
rated it w r as with many expressions
of good will on both sides.
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“Reporters” of moonshine stills for the
$lO fee paid them will lose their jobs if
the recent action of Congress in striking
out the $75,000 appropriation for that
item of expense stands. Congressman
Tate has been fighting for this for a long
time on the ground that the fee system
often causes innocent men to be arrested
and produces endless frivolous prosecu
tions merely that the informer may get
his $lO and the officers their fees.
—Canton Advance.
As usual, Brother Perry doesn’t
know what he is talking about. The
fee system does not cause innocent
men to be arrested, although we dare
say Mr. Tate “has been fighting it
on that ground,” as the Advance
says. Does not Editor Perry know
that the ten dollars are offered for
the destruction of stills? It has
nothing to do with the arrest of the
distiller. The reward is offered for
the destruction of the still. If a still
is reported and the officers find and
destroy it, the reward is paid. That
is all there is to it, without regard to
Mr. Tate’s method of fighting the
law.
This ten dollar fee is also offered
for the conviction of counterfeiters,
violators of the postal laws, and other
United States statutes.
It is a good law. It supplies an
implement for the suppression of
crime, a thing in which all good peo
ple are interested.
ARMING ALL AROUND.
It appears that all the nations that
can raise the necessary money are
adding heavily to their naval strength.
Our $50,000,000 seems big, but
some other nations are going much
deeper into the business of building
and buying warships.
It was stated at the opening of the
present parliament that England,
already possessed of by far the strong
est of all navies, would put $100,000,-
000 into naval improvements; but
this was not deemed sufficient. Hon.
George J. Goschen, the first lord of
the admiralty, presented Monday an
estimate which calls for $127,750,-
000, enough money to build fifty ships
as great as the Maine.
Russia is not permitting her chief
enemy to have a monopoly of naval
expenditures, and she comes up with
$72,000,000 for new battleships.
Japan, the rising star in the firma
ment of nations, is building more
warships than any oiher nation'except
England, and will soon have one of
the greatest navies in the world.
Germany and France are both in
creasing their naval strength, and
bankrupt Spain is picking up any
sort of old ships wherever she can
beg or borrow them.
The world is nominally in a state
of profound peace, and yet never be
fore in its history was such an enor
mous amount of money being ex
pended for the instruments of war.
Perhaps this is an omen of con
tinued peace. At least let us hope
so.
THE GUBERNATORIALISTS.
Hon. R. L. Berner opened his
campaign at Jackson last Saturday.
He also spoke at Lawrenceville on
Monday of this week.
Judge Atkinson will fire his first
gun at Hawkinsville Saturday, and
Col. Candler will open at Rome on
the 26th.
There will be hot times in Georgia
this summer.
“Johnny,” asked the Sunday school
teacher, “what do you understand by
the future state?” “Please, ma’am.”
replied Johnny, whose stronghold was
profane history, “I guess it’s a territory.”
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AN IMPORTANT DECISION.
The United States supreme court
last Monday rendered its decision in
one of the most famous cases ever
brought to test the power of a state
to regulate railroad rates.
It is known as the Nebraska max
imum freight rate case, and the de
cision in it follows closely the line
which the supreme court laid down
in the granger cases twenty years
ago.
The court holds that a state has
the power to regulate freight rates,
but it cannot fix them below a reason
able limit without conflicting with
the fourteenth amendment, which
prohibits the taking of property with
out due process of law.
It appears that the Nebraska law
in question made a reduction of nearly
30 per cent, in rates for state traf
fic. The court held that if this re
duction were enforced the roads could
not earn a reasonable return upon
their capitalization.
The court did not touch specifically
the question of reasonable capitaliza
tion. The counsel for the state, how
ever, argued at length that the rail
roads in Nebraska could earn a good
return on the actual value of their
property. They contended that in
fixing reasonable rates regard should
be had to the actual cost of railroad
property or what would be the cost
of duplicating it, and not with regard
to inflated capitalization.
On the other hand it is contended
that if the capitalization of the rail
roads in Nebraska is not honest the
state is itself to blame for it, and that
the capitalization has passed into the
hands of honest investors. It was
argued that the rights of these honest
investors should not be sacrificed to
enable the state to overcome the re
sults of its own neglect.
The Nebraska case has caused as
much general comment and discus
sion as any of its kind that has ever
gone into the courts.
AN EXCHANGE D!- COMPLIMENTS.
We clip the following from the
Atlanta Commercial of last Sunday :
The gubernatorial situation re
mains unchanged.
Hon. Bob Berner came to town
yesterday and left last night.
Mr. Berner called on Col. Candler
and they had quite an interesting
liable word-sparring contest.
Mr. Berner said : “Colonel, when
I came in to see you last I thought it
was to shake hands with the next
governor of Georgia ; now I come to
let yon shake hands with him.” -
Col. Candler assured Mr. Berner
that first impressions were always the
best.
The scene was amusing to those
who witnessed it.
The Cincinnati Commercial-Trib
une (Rep.) says : “Fitzhugh Lee
may leave Cuba as consul general,
but if Spain gets rid of him in that
capacity, she should make his ac
quaintance as a major general of the
United States, with an American
army behind him.”
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fied by warm shampoos with Cuticura Soap,
and occasional dressings of Cuticuba, purest of
emollients, the greatest skin cures.
(uticura
Treatment will produce a clean, healthy scalp
with luxuriant, lustrous hair, when all else fails.
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oy “How to produce Luxuriant Hair,” mailed free.
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Ilit Finest Plow Un lartb
S. C. DINKINS & CO.
Ai’c A-g-entss For
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THE HANCOCK ROTARY DISC PLOW,
Manufncturecl by
THE SOUTHERN AGRICULTURAL WORKS,
ATLANTA, - GEORGIA.
This Plow is a breaker and pulverizer at the same time—a wonderful combination.
It will scour perfectly in the stiffest red land. You can set it to cut from four to twelve inches
deep, and it will do it—wet or dry. Where land is broken with it, one-third more corn, cotton or other
crops can be produced with one-half the quantity of manure. It fixes land so that it will catch water
and hold it for plant in time of drouth.
Three horses will draw the Hancock Plow with more ease than four horses will draw a medium
sized mold-board plow.
It is the cheapest plow on the market, taking its durability and simplicity as a basis; but such fact
will be fully realized by every farmer as soon as they see the plow in operation.
This plow will break from two to three acres of red clay land a day, and pulverize it thoroughly be
fore turning it loose.
This plow can be seen at our store; and we will also have a representative who will exhibit it and
its working at the different farms throughout this and adjoining counties.
S. C. TDITsTTCIKTS <& CO.
HON. HOWARD THOMPSON.
During the week Col. Howard
Thompson, candidate for Congress,
has been here mixing and mingling'
and getting acquainted with Gwin
nett people.
On Tuesday at the noon hour of,
court he spoke to a large audience in
the court house and made a most
favorable impression. He is an affa-1
ble, genial, whole-souled gentleman
and is fast making friends, and will ,
give his competitor a lively race for
the nomination.
Gwinnett is conceded tube “mit-i
sionary ground,” and neither one of j
the candidates have as yet anything !
like a “dead cinch” on the vote of j
this county, so the “wise heads” sav. >
Quite a strong pressure is being j
made to induce Col. Tyler M. Pee
ples to enter the race, and in case he
yields, his friends say he will, of
course, get the solid support of this
county, and muddy the waters in
Jackson and Milton.
As the race is not yet fairly begun,
other entries may be made.—Law
renceville News.
The governor of Texas reprieved a
murderer, but the sheriff went ahead
and hanged him all the same. He
made all his arrangements before the
reprieve reached him and he did not
want to disappoint the assembled
constituents, so the criminal was
hanged anyway.
In England every prisoner is
guaranteed the right “to communi
cate with his solicitor before trial.”
A man recently ar-ested in London
for a felony can neither read nor
write and is dumb. Can he be con
victed legally ? asks the Chicago
Times-Herald.
S*
i Weak i
j Lungs I
* s
$ If you have coughed and 3
to coughed until the lining mem- 3
to brane of your throat and lungs 3
to is inflamed, 3
* Scott’s Emulsion j
to
$ of Cod-liver Oil will sooths, 3
to strengthen and probably cure. 3
The cod-liver oil feeds and 3
to strengthens the weakened tis- 3
$ sues. The glycerine soothes 3
to and heals them. The hypo- 3
to phosphites of lime and soda 3
to impart tone and vigor. Don’t *
to neglect these coughs. One 3
to bottle of the Emulsion may do 3
to more for you now than ten 3
to can do later on. Be sure you 3
to get SCOTT’S Emulsion.
® All druggists ; 50c. and SI.OO. W
to SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York. ■
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n ENGINE and
soil Probably Need Repairs
GAINESVILLE IRON '.V.I-A -.,
From Extreme Nervousness.
THAT no one remedy can contain the
elements necessary to cure all diseas
es, is a fact well known to everyone.
Dr. Miles’ Syxtfm of Restorative Remedies
consists of seven distinctively different
preparations, each for its own purpose.
Mrs. L. C. Bramley, 37 Henry St., St. Cath
erines, Ontario, writes: “For years I suf
fered from extreme nervousness and annoy
ing constipation, developing into palpitat ion
and weakness of the heart. I was unable to
sleep, suffered much from headache, pain In
my left side, palpitation and a constant
feeling of weakness and prostration. I began
using Dr. Miles’ Nervine, Heart Cure and
Nerve and Liver Pills and the Anti-Pain
Pills to relieve sudden paroxysms of pain
and headache. I soon felt much improved
and the pains and aches and weariness left
me. I then took Dr. Miles' Restorative
Tonic and am now restored to my former
good health."
Dr. Miles’ Remedies p r
are sold by all drug-KK »».. . 5 3e
gists under a positive rmies -a
guarantee, first bottle eg®
benefits or money re-t_ Restore JaS
funded. Book on dis- o t.|,
eases of the heart and
nerves free. Address,
DR. MILES MEDICAL CO.. Elkhart. Ind.
Wanted
TELEPHONE POSTS.
Persons desiring to furnish Posts
for Telephone Line from Gainesville
to Dahlonega and Porter Springs—
-35 posts to the mile, 20 feet long,
and 4 inches in diameter at small
end, clear of bark, along road by
Murrayville and Bearden’s Bridge—
will please call and see me at the
post-office at Gainesville, or write to
me. Chestnut posts preferred; then
post-oak or white-oak.
HENRY P. FARROW.
I Good Shave.
LEE PARNELL, Barber.
ARLINGTON BLOCK.
Hot and Cold Baths.
First-class Appointments.
FOR
the coming saw mill and threshing
seasons’ work.
Let us do them for you.
Our prices and terms are right.
A full line of
Saw Mill and General Supplies
on hand.
Come to see us before you buy.