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NESBITT REVIEWS
HIS STEWARDSHIP
The Retiring Commissioner of
Agriculture to Farmers.
GRATEFUL FOR SUPPORT
He Gives a Brief Resume of the Inno-
vations and Retrenchments Inaugu
rated Since He Took Charge of the
Department Eight Years Ago.
Department of Agriculture,
Atlanta, Sept. 1, 1808.
As this will perhaps be my last
“monthly talk” to the farmers of Geor
gia before my successor takes charge of
the affairs of the agricultural depart
ment, I wish through this medium to
thank the people of the state and the
farmers more especially for the manner
they have “held up my hands”
i* my efforts to build up the agricult
ural interests of the state and to focus
public attention on some of the more
important agricultural issues of the day.
I am indeed grateful for the considera
tion and courtesy which I have received
from a large majority of my fellow citi
zens during my administration of the
affairs of the agricultural department,
and I feel that I owe It to myself and to
them to give a short review of my stew
ardship since they entrusted me with so
important work.
Notwithstanding the wise and beuefi- j
cent aims of its founders, some un
checked abuses had found their wav
into the agricultural department through
the inspection of oils and fertilizers,
duties simple enough in themselves, re
quiring integrity oi purpose rather than
superior skill and knowledge, but which
brought disproportionately large emolu
ments to the fortunate holders of such
positions.
In justice to my predecessors it should
be stated that the condition referred to
was the outgrowth of an unforseen
and rapidly increased consumption of
both oils and fertilizers, for which
no provision was made in the
staute law of the state. At leading .
central points like Atlanta or Savannah, <
under this system, as much as SB,OOO or '
SIO,OOO annually were received by indi
vidual inspectors of oils and fertilizers,
these two offices being at that time con
solidated. That is, one inspector re
ceived about as much as the entire su
preme judiciary of the state. In 1890,
when I took charge, the farmers, whose
interests were especially to be served by
the department, having found a few
tares amidst an abundance of wheat,
were in the front ranks of those who
were willing to tear down an institu
tion which had been built up mainly
for their protection and guidance. I
don’t think I am assuming too much
when I state that in the eight years of I
my incumbency the department has I
gradually been growing in favor with
the farmers and that my earnest efforts I
to make it effectively and actively use- |
ful to them are even now bearing fruit. |
The state legislature was in session
when I took charge in 1890, and I im- |
mediately suggested and urged the abol
ishment of the system by which oil in
spectors were receiving such exherbi- ;
tant fees. An act allowing them to re
tain only $135 per month out of inspec- i
tors’ receipts and requiring them to
make monthly returns to the state
treasury of all sums in excess of
this amount, was approved Dec. |
20, 1890, and since then by this in
novation SIOO,OOO from oil and 4125.000
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rrom rertmzers nave Been saved to tne
state and placed in the treasury.
In December, 1891, following the
same line of retrenchment, the fixed
salaries of the 12 guano inspectors were
reduced from $125.00 to $83.33 per
month, and only four of these were kept
on duty the whole year, the others from
four to six months. Here was another
saving of several thousand dollars. The
office expenses were also reduced by the
salary of one clerk $1,800.00 annually,
and although the office duties have
steadily increased until they have been
more than doubled and trebled, the work
has been carried on by the original
number of clerks, with a slight increase
of salaries.
During my administration the whole
plan of fertilizer inspection has been
revolutionized. The old plan was in
bulk, and before, leaving the factories.
The new bill, which is now the law,
was most carefully planned to give full
protection to both buyer and seller. It
provides that the inspecting shall be
done only after the fertilizer is shipped
to different points and put upon the
market in separate packages. The pro
visions of this bill are such as to place
Georgia in the lead as to the judicious
and careful supervision of her immense
fertilizer trade. This law, as compared
with those in force in other states, is
superior, which is evidenced by the fact
that many inquiries have come on this
subject to this department from differ
ent southern states. The Georgia fer
tilizer law has finally become the basis
for similar laws in her sister states.
Another important change has been
the removal of the state laboratory from
Athens to the capital, where the impor
tant work of analyzing every brand put
on sale in the state, is carried on under
the immediate supervision and inspec
tian of the commissioner of agriculture.
I This affords increased advantages and
facilities to the state chemist in his
daily routine work which has increased
tremendously since 1890.
Another innovation which has made
the department the medium of commu
tating valuable information to the farm
ers throughout the state is the substitu
tion of plate matter, furnished to the
weekly press, in lieu of the circulars
and bulletins previously issued. The
“monthly talks” and answers to ques
tions containing practical hints on topics
connected with the farm, the garden,
the dairy, the orchard and kindred sub
jects, carefully arranged as to time and
season of the year, are published in the
weekly papers of the state. These go
to the remotest sections each month and
' thousands of farmers, who are practi
cally cut off from the usual sources of
information, are thus reached and placed
in touch with the busy world and kept
informed on many subjects most valua
ble in the conduct of their farm opera
lions. Besides these publications the de
partment has issued a handsomely illus
trated manual entitled “Georgia, a
Fair Field For Homeseekers and In
vestors,” and in addition to this an
other larger volume has been prepared
and tested entitled “Georgia, Her Re
•onrees and Possibilities. ” The latter
volume waa Intended as a sequel to
, “The Commonwealth of Georgia,” and
not only points out the various advances
made in the economic industries of the
state, but shows by an exhibit of
I the resources of every county through-
I out her length and breadth wnat
i her boundless possibilities are. Both
■of these volumes have been widely
! Circulated and widely read, and I be
lieve have been largely instrumental in
advertising the enormous advantages 1
i which our state offers to those seeking
. homes in a healthy section, where wise
laws are rigidly enforced, and where the
faithful laborer will in due time reap ,
the rewards of faithful work.
I To my record in the agricultural de
partment I can refer with a feeling of |
' just pride. The department has been
: elevated to a high plane of usefulness,
and the farmers throughout the state '
! are beginning to realize its importance j
and close relation which it bears to
j every line of their business. The oppo- '
: sition among them to the department, I
• once so pronounced, has subsided, nnd
< it is with gratitude that I point to ■
i the fact, that my staunchest supporters '
| have come from the ranks of the farm- I
■ ers, those who once so bitterly opposed 1
it. I trust .that the farmers will extend
■ to my successor the same cordial sup- ;
; port that they have given to me and j
that he will rise to the full measure of j
! the vast work yet to be accomplished |
through the Georgia department of ag- i
I riculture.
It is the farmers who keep the life
I blood of our country in fresh, healthy i
condition. The business of farming I
I feeds the whole people. It is the basis i
of the prosperity of our transportation
lines in railroads and shins, as well as i
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oi an tne money transactions of the
country. It pays its own taxes and
much besides that should be paid by the
monied powers of the country. It sends
the life blood coursing through the ar
teries of trade and commerce. It lies
at the foundation of the moral and po
litical power of the nation. Without
its sturdy support all that is beautiful
in literature and art, and even in sci
ence, would languish and die. Statis
tics show that but for the infusion of
fresh blood from the country into city
families the latter would die out in three
generations.
It has been said that the success of a
nation is measured by the condition of
its agriculture. Granting this to be
true, how all important that every
means, agricultural departments, ex
periment stations, farmers’ institutes,
agricultural and mechanical colleges,
agricultural societies, farmers’ clubs,
county and state fairs, in other words
every educational engine should be used
to elevate and broaden our agricultural
interests. I believe that Georgia is on
the threshold of a wonderful agricult
ural era. May her people, from the
governor down to the humblest citizen
within her borders, work harmoniously
and together to secure the advantages
which will accrue to each and every one
of them, when Georgia becomes a self
sustaining state, buying largely, per
haps, but selling more.
R. T. Nesbitt, Commissioner.
Sugar Beets.
Question. —Can sugar beets be grown
successfully in Georgia, and can the
sugar from them be manufactured in a
small way by the farmers.
Answer.—According to the depart
ment of agriculture, at Washington,
sugar beets can not be grown profitably
in the southern states. I quote you
what that department says on the sub
ject:
“Experience has shown that the sugar
beet reaches its highest development in
north temperate latitudes. So far as
the production of beets with high ton
nage is concerned, it is found that this
can be accomplished far to the south,
but beets grown in such localities are,
upon the whole, less rich in sugar and
less suitable for the manufacture of
sugar than those grown farther north.
It must be remembered, however, that
the expressions north and south do not
refer to any absolute parallels of lati
tude, but rather to isothermal lines,
which in many cases run obliquely to
the parallels of latitude, and in some
cases across them almost at right angles.
As a result of many years of careful ex
perimentation, it may be said that as
far as temperature alone is concerned
the sugar beet attains its greatest per
fection in a zone of varying width,
through the center of which passes the
isothermal line of 70 degrees Fahrein
heit for the months of June, July and
August.”
If the agricultural department at
Washington is correct in the above
statement, and they doubtless are, the
cotton states are debarred from growing
the sugar beet profitably, as the south
ern boundary of the belt spoken of as
suitable to their cultivation, passes
through the central part east and west
of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
lowa and Nebraska, and thence dips al
most due south to the boundary of Mex
ico. The same authority, however, says:
“There are doubtless many localities
lying outside of thts belt, both
[ north and south, In which the sugar
beet will be found to thrive;
but this will be due to some
exceptional qualities of the climate
or soil, and not to any favorable influ
ence of a higher or lower temperature. ’ ’
My opinion is that the sugar beet
would find suitable soil, temperature
and moisture in the valleys of our north
ern counties and on the plateaus of our
mountain ranges, but not elsewhere in
the state. The cost of growing sugar
beets is variously estimated at from
$30.00 to $60.00 per acre, and the value of
the crop at from $40.00 to $70.00 per
acre, according td yield and percentage
! of saccharine matter in the beets.
, The latter part of your question is
! fully answered by the Washington de
: partment as follows:
1 “On account of the elaborateness of
the process and the costly nature of the
machinery which is necessary to pro
duce beet sugar, even in a small way,
it is not believed that it could be profit
ably made in the way indicated. The
department has no knowledge of any
successful beet sugar factory of this
kind. There is no country producing
any notable quantity of beet sugar in
which home apparatus costing only a
few thousand dollars has any appre
ciable influence on the outnnt of sugar.
Russia has oeen cnea »s au exception »■
this rule, but the average annual output
of each factory there is in round number-
$,000,000 ponndz, representing an aver*
age consumption of 25,000 tons of beets.
It would not be right to encourage the
attempt to manufacture beet sugar in
any such way; nor should the expecta
tion be excited among our farmers that
they will be able to make a crude arti
cle of sugar which they can dispose of
to a central factory for refining pur
poses.”
The cost of a firstclass beet sugar
factory, with a capacity of not less than
300 tons of beets per day, will be from
$225,000 to $250,u00. In 1896 and 1897
the world’s production of cane sugar
amounted to 2,747,500 tons, while of
beet sugar the output was 4,960,000 tons.
In that year the beet sugar made in the
United States amounted to 40,000 tons.
—State Agricultural Department.
Best Season to Cut Timber.
Question.—When is the best season
of the year to cut timber for durability?
There seems to be various opinions on
this subject.
Answer.—You are entirely correct in
the statement that there are various
opinions on this subject, and even in
this age of education and enlighten
ment men may be found who will con
sult some out of date almanac to find
whether the moon and the signs are
right before they will cut timber of any
description or for any purpose. Os
course such guides are worthless and
are simply remnants of past supersti
tious in which our ancestors believed,
but which modern science has proved to
be false. There is, however, a proper
time to cut timber where durability is
desired, and the reason for It ft plain
and simple. “Other things being equal,
timber will naturally last longest if the
tree is felled at a season when the wood
contains the smallest amount of sugar
or starch, or other matters fit to feed
fungi and worms.” So says Storer, the
best authority that could be quoted on
the subject. At what time of the year
then is the tree in the condition indi
cated ? Why plainly when the sprlpg
and early summer growth is completed
and the winter’s store of starch, sugar,
etc., is exhausted in the making of
leaves, twigs, fruit, new wood, etc. Con
sequently the late summer and fall are
the proper seasons in which to cut
timber. An eminent authority says, ,
that when timber is cut in the spring,
when the sap is rich in sugar, the fer
mentative process changes the sugar
into an acid, which is the very first stage
of decay, and thus early started, can it
be wondered at that posts and crossties
do not last as long as they would if cut
when these conditions could not possi
bly exist. In 1860 in Virginia a fence
was set with posts split from an oak
cut when the leaves were of full size
and vigor. Twenty-two years after
wards these posts were taken up and re
set elsewhere and most of them are
doing duty yet after being tfted
more than 80 years- Hqd these posts
been cut in March or April they Would
not have lasted over ten years at the
utmost. Away back in the time of Ju
lius Caesar it was found that ships were
not durable when built of timber from
trees that had been cut down in the
spring. And the Roman architect, Vi
trurius, held that “trees should never
be felled in the spring. ” While at that
time the want of durability in spring
felled timber was attributed to wrong
causes, still the effect was well known,
and the people were notified of it.
Now as regards cutting timber to be
used as fuel, doubtless the winter is the
best time for that purpose, for as an
eminent writer on the subject says
“any given number of sticks of cord
wood that have been cut in the winter
would naturally weigh more and con
tain more combustible heat producing
matter than the same number and kinds
of sticks cut in the summer, after the
starch, etc., had passed out from them.”
Another valuable point is that trees
cut in the late summer will send up but
few shoots and sprouts as compared
with those cut from December to March.
This is important to those who wish to
destroy any particular kind of tree, or
to clear land. To sum up:
1. Timber for posts, rails, building
purposes, etc., should be cut in the late
summer and early fall.
2. For fuel cut in midwinter, and up
to the putting out of leaves in the
spring.
3. Where you wish to prevent shoots
and sprouts cut in midsummer. —State
Agricultural Department.
The Peach Crop—Canning Factories.
Question. —Can you give me some
idea of the size of this year’s peach crop
and its value to the growers? I mean
its net value.
Answer.—We can only approximate
the size of the crop, and as the returns
are not yet reported can only form a
partially correct idea of its value. Be
sides the large amount sold at home,
and the thousands of bushels wasted
from inadequate shipping facilities, and
the long continued rains, there were
shipped from Georgia 2,300 ear loads of
peaches. As each car contains 600
crates of 3 pecks each, this represents
450 bushels to the car, in round num
bers 990,000 bushels in all. It is gen
erally agreed that at least one-third of
the fruit was wasted. The demand for
crates was muoh larger that! the sup
ply. The peach erbp matures and is
marketed in a very limited tims, and
the delay in securing crates caused a
heavy loss of the most saleable peaches,
while thousands of bushels, of second
quality, were either fed to tpe pigs or
suffered to rot on the grotmd. Had
there been canning factories and evap
orators conveniently located much of
this loss could have been prevented,
and instead of paying larger sums the
coming season for canned and evapo
rated peaches shipped into the state
from outside sources, the home demand,
always *a steady one. could have been
supplied by our own people. Canning
factories can be so quickly erected that
even after the crop has become set, and
a fair estimase of its amount is thus
rendered possible, enterprising workers
may get everything in readiness for
utilizing the surplus fruit, should the
promise of the crop justify the outlay.
Under the conditfons surrounding our
peach production, Georgia being the
largest producer and shipper in the
Union, it will certainly pay to “gather
up the fragments, that nothing be lost. ”
We trust that in the future adequate
arrangements will be made to utilize as
nearly as possible every bushel of Geor
gia’s truly wonderful peach crop.—State
Agricultural Department.
Longbow strings were of plaited
silk and worth five times their
weight in gold.
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TIRED HOUSEKEEPERS.
AU Run Down, Weary and Week,
Morning, Noon and Night.
If one were to ask all the nervous,
fretted, jaded, fagged-out women,
who work day after day, hardly able
to keep on their feet—if a person
were to ask them what the trouble
was, one would say dyspepsia,
another nervous prostration, another,
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tarrb. Thousands of people have
chronic catarrh and do not know it.
They realize that they are sick, but
they do not suspect that their disease
is chronic catarrh. If they have ca
tarrh of the stomach, they call it
dyspepsia; if they have general ca
tarrhal debility, they call it nervous
prostration ; if they have catarrh of
the liver or kidneys, they say they
are bilious or have kidney disease ;
and if they have catarrh of the pelvic
organs, they name it female weak
ness. The truth is all these organs
are subject to catarrh, and the land
is full of toiling women, half invalids,
who have chronic catarrh in some
stage or form of some of these
organs.
Miss Frances Fugel, Marcus and
Anderson avenues', St. Louis, Mo.,
writes of Pe-ru-na as follows: “I
wish that all who are afflicted with
catarrhal troubles would hear of your
treat remedy. I cannot be too
grateful towards you for your kind
ness to me.”
Any woman who desires to learn
all that is known in regard to the
difficulties and illnesses peculiar to
her sex should send to Dr. Hartman,
Columbus, Ohio, for a free copy of
his book entitled “Health and
Beauty.”
Admiral George Dewey.
Dewey’s great naval victory on
the first day of May, his 100 days’
wait for troops to possess Manilla,
and the final assault and capture of
the beleagured city after peace had
been declared, but unknown to him,
stamp him the one commanding fig
ure brought forward by this war.
Aside from the brilliant daring
which won the first great victory, it
.will not be forgotten that the long,
tedious wait and siege, complicated ■
with insurgent treachery and German
meddlesomeness, required the utmost ‘
patience, endurance and tact—quali- (
fications which the American 1 admiral ,
developed in the highest degree. ]
Dewey demonstrated not only that
he is a fighter of rare courage, cool- j
ness and judgment, but that he is (
also a man of executive force and a
diplomat.
Others have won honors in this
war. Sampson’s naval campaign in
the West Indies was worthy of the
best efforts of the best commanders.
Schley’s intrepid dash and daring at
Santiago in the immediate absence of
the commander ranking him will live
as one of the naval feats in history, i
The name of Hobson, as the personi- j
fication of personal bravery, will ring i
in song and in story. But George j
Dewey will stand out as the greatest |
figure in this war. He fought the 1
first battle and the last. He got the (
first applause. He will get the last.
His name will live when others are
forgotten, if any shall be forgotten.
Shortest Term in Congress.
Charles F. Booher, a democratic
candidate for attorney general of ,
Missouri in 1900, enjoys the dis- i
tinction of having served a shorter
term in Congress than any other
man, and of being the only man ever
seated in the house without a certifi
cate of election. It is the theory of (
the house that when a men ber is ;
chosen at a regular election he is
entitled to pay for a full term, 1
whether he lives through it or not.
It is a fiction of the house, also, that
a member elected to fill an unexpired
term serves from the moment of his
predecessor’s death. Mr. Booher
profited by this arrangement, and
drew more than $1,300 for the week
he held down his seat in the house.
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Commissioners’ Sale ot Land.
GEORGIA—HaII County.
By virtue of an order "granted by the Superior
Court of said county at the July term, 1898, of
said Court, in the case of Sampson Mooney, W.; I
A. Wood, and J. R. Boone vs W. A. Brown, for
partition, as Commissioners named in said or
der to conduct the sale, we will sell at the court
house of said county, on the first Tuesdav in j
October, 1898, at public outcry, within the legal ;
hours of sale, and for cash, all the mineral in
terest in that part of lot of land, No. four, in I
the Bth district of said county, containing for- ;
ty-three and one-fourth acres, also in that part
of lot of land No. five, in the Bth district of
said county, containing forty acres, more or
less, adjoining said part of No. four, forming
together the McClesky mine, with rights of
way, wood and water.
Fully described in the petition in said case;
to be sold as the property of said parties.
G. H. PRIOR" Commissioner.
B. H. VVHELCHEL, Commissioner.
R. SMITH, Commissioner.
This Sept. 1, 1898.
Speeds per Second.
The snail, one-half inch ; a man
walking, 4 feet; a fast runner, 23
feet; a fly, 23 feet; a fast skater, 38
feet; a carrier pigeon, 87 feet;
locomotive —sixty miles an hour—Bß
feet; swallows, 220 feet; the worst
cyclone known, 380 feet; the
Krakatoa wave —at the volcanic
catastrophe of August 27, 1883, in
the Sunda Islands—94o feet: the
surface of the globe on sea level at
the equator, 1,500 feet; the moor,
3,250 feet; the sun, 5 1-2 miles; the
earth, 18 miles; Halley’s comet in
the perihelion, 235 miles; electric
current on telegraph wires, 7,000
miles ; induction current, 11,040
miles; electric current in copper
wire armatures, 21,000 miles ; light,
180,000 miles; discharge of a Leyden
jar through copper wire one-sixteenth
of an inch in diameter, 277,100 miles,
which is said to have been the
highest velocity measured. The
Wave.
The closing of the war finds the
treasury full of money, as a result of the
sale of bonds, The Republican poli
ticians, however, have on hand any
number of schemes for spending it.
Should the next Congress be dominated
by that party the immense funds in the
treasury would quickly be disipated,
just as was the tremendous surplus
which Mr. Cleveland’s first administra
tion left in the government coffers.
A CRITICALi TIME
DURING THE BATTLE OF SAN
TIAGO.
Sick or Well, a Rush Night and Day.
The Packers at the Battle of Santiago
de Cuba Were all lleroea. Their He
roic Effort* in Gelling Ammunition
and Kationa to the Front Hared the
Day.
P. E. Butler, of pack train Xo. 3,
writing from Santiago, De Cuba, on July
23, says: “We all had diarrhea in more or
less violent form, and when we landed
we had no time to see a doctor, foi it
was a case of rush and rush night and
day to keep the troops supplied with
ammunition and rations, but thanks to
Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diar
rhea Remedy, we were able to keep at
work and keep our health; in fact, I sin
cerely believe that at one critical time
this medicine was the indirect savior of
our army, for if the packers had been un
able to work there would have been no
way of getting supplies to the front.
There were no roads that a wagon train
could use. My comrade and myself had
the good fortune to lay in a supply of
this medicine for our pack train before
we left Tampa, and I know in four cases
it absolutely saved life.”
The above letter was written to the
manufacturers of this medicine, the
Chamberlain Medicine Co., Des Moines,
lowa. For sale by M. C. Brown & Co.
There is more gold in the national
treasury than there has been at any
other one time in ten years. The high
point was reached on Friday, when the
stock on hand amounted to a little more
than two hundred and one millions of
dollars. It is said to be not unlikely
that the record mark will be reached and
passed before the payments for the new
war bonds have been completed. Only
about two-thirds of the proceeds of the
bonds have as yet been paid into the
treasury.
female weak
ness and so on.
The fact is,
however, that
they nearly all
have the same
disease, and
that disease is
n h r n n i c ca-
Little
Pimples Turn
to Cancer.
Cancer often results from an im
purity in the blood, inherited from
(fenerations back. Few people are en
tirely i ree t»om some taint in the blood,
and It is impossible to tell wheti it will
break put in the form of dreaded Can
cer. what haS appeared to be a mere
pimple or scratch has developed into
the most malignant Cancer.
“I had » severs Oaaoer which was at first
only a few blotches, that I thought would
sbon pass away. I was
treated by several able
gF W physicians, but ip spite
I their efforts the Cah-
I w cer spread until my con-
dition became alarming.
W /j® jw After many months of
ft jw treatment and growing
u ' .reSfF steadily worst, 1 de
—tJ 4 J olded to try S. S. 8.
which was so strongly
AfflSf ViaEiiSMjt'? recommended. The first
yWay’Hßk bottle produced an 1m-
Zs-Vl B9® Movement. I continued
the medicine, and In
W ’KF 13 *55 four months the last 11>
wIA w] y tie scab dropped on.
« X p r Ten years have elapsed,
and not a sign of the disease has returned?*
R. F, Williams,
Glllsburg, MiBS.
It U dangerous to experiment with
Cancer. The disease is beyond the skill
of physicians. 8. 8. 8. is the only cure,
bedaoae it is the only remedy which
goes deep enough to reach Cancer.
SSSMlood
(Swift’s Specific) in the only blood
remedy guaranteed Purely Vegetable.
All others contain potash and mer
eury, the most dangerous of minerals.
Books on Oance? find blood diseases
mailed free by Swift Specific Company,
Atlanta, Georgia.
RUDY’S PILE SUPPOSITORY
is guaranteed to cure Piles and Constipation,
or money refunded. 50c per box. Send for list
of testimonials and free sample to MARTIN
RUDY, Registered Pharmacist, Lancaster, Pa.
For sale by first-class druggists everywhere, and
in Gainesville, Ga.. by Dixon & Co. Call for
free sample.
N. C. White & Son, ~
HOTOGRftPHERS!
Gainesville, Ga.
All work executed in the highest style
of the art, at reasonable prices. Make
a specialty of copying and enlarging. Gallery
Northeast Side Sauare.
iPILES R p°L v E s_ Su"posito'y |
3 is guaranteed to cure PILES, R
B and CONSTIPATION (bleeding, itching, protruding, kg
■ inward), whether of recent or long standing, or ni- ney B
■ refunded. It gives instant relief, and eff-cts a radi< al B
■ and permanent cure. No surgical operation required. B
B Try it and relief your sufferings. Send for list of testi- g
■ moniaU and free sample. Only 50 cts. a t >x. Pur sale R
■ by druggists, or sent by mail on receipt of price.
| MARTIH RUBY, Reg. Pharmacist, Lancaster, Pa, j
For sale by E. E. Dixon & Co., Gainesviile, Ga.
Call for free sample.
Rice Racks
Will be found at Dow Martin’s
Stables, Near Depot, MAIN
ST. Use Phone No. 8, and he
will come for you quick. Meets
all trains. Hacks first-class.
Sleeplessness
ESPECIALLY FREQUENT IN HIGH ALTITUDES.
How it May be Overcome in Any Climate.
From the Chieftain, Pueblo, Col.
1 While the Rocky Mountain region is
• justly famed for its salubrious climate, and
is becoming more and more the mecca toward
1 which pilgrims are traveling from all parts
, of the world that they may fill their weaken
ed lungs with its life-giving ass, yet there
) are ailments in that climate as in any other,
one of the chief of which is sleeplessness.
• This is due to the rarity of the air which on
. some constitutions is too stimulating to the
nerves. In some cases patients are com
pelled to remove for a time to the sea level
’ to escape the high nervous strain. As sleep-
I lessness is not an uncommon accompaniment
to certain nervous conditions (in any dim- j
1 ate) the story of a woman of Pueblo, Col.
may point a moral to others, who have had
’ a similar affliction.
i The woman came to Pueblo thirty years
ago, when the town was a frontier settle-
5 ment, and Indians were by no means un
usual visitors, bands of Ute’s often passing
through on their way from the mountains
down to the plains to hunt buffaloes.
; She had been in go<xi health, until a few
years ago when at each recurring spring
time she became debilitated, weak and lan-
- guid. Her strength left her, she was listless
f and lifeless. This, too, in spite of the stimu
lating effects of the high altitude. The most
serious difficulty, however, was sleeplessness,
1 which she could not cure. The long weary
, watches of the night told on her health and
' she dreaded the approach of night. This
, lack of sleep weakened her strength and
} brought on extreme nervousness, until she
was a physical wreck.
’ xAs she could not well take the long jour
ney necessary to a change of climate, she
sought for some nerve restorative, that would
build up the nervous system, and thus ena-
JOHN MARTIN,
NACOOCHEE, GA.
REAL ESTATE.
Mines and Minin" Lande,
Faims and Farming Lands,
Timber and Wild Lands.
SOLID INVESTMENTS AT
TEMPTING PRICES.
Correspondence Invited.
A. K. HAWKES
RECEIVED
GOLI MEDAL
| J
1 rj u. E A* N 3 C:
Highest Award Dipi&sra as Honor
for Superior Lens Grinding and Excellency in
he Manufacture of S ertaclcs and Eye Glasses,
jold in 11,000 Cities and Towns in the U. S. Most
popular Glasses in the U. S.
e ESTABLISHED 7870.
BA u TlO IS
Mr. Hawkes has ended his visit here, but has
appointed M. C. BROWN & CO. as agents to tit
and sell his celebrated Glasses.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger Trains.
In Effect August 7, 1898.
Ves. jNo.IB Fst.Ml
Northbound. N0.12.Ji0. 38 No. 3<J
Daily iiatly. 1 Sun. Dally.
Lv. Atlanta, C. T. 750 a!i2 00 m 4 85p 11 50 P (
“ Atlanta, E. T. 850 a jOO p 535 p 12 50 a
“ Norcross 930 aj i 6 28p 1® a
“ Buford 10 05 a .. I 708 p ....... -
“ Gainesvillb. . 10 35 a; g 22 p 7 48 p 82p a
“ Lula 10 58 af2 42 p! 8 08p 240 8
tr. Cornelia 11 25 af3oo p 8 85p I
v.Mt. Airy 11 80 ai I 8 40p ....... .
“ Toccoa 1158 ai 330 p 1 925 a 1
“ Westminster 1281 mi 1 4OS a .
“ Seneca 12 52 p 4is p 1 .. 482 a I
“ Central 146 pj 1 452 a
“ Greenville... 234 p-5 22 p 845 a 1
“ Spartanburg. 337 pj 6 10 p 687 a
Ar. Asheville. .. 600 pj j 945 a
- i ‘ __ -
“ Gaffneys 420 p! 044 pj 715 s <
“ Blacksburg 438p;7 00 p -. 785 a '
“ King’s Mt.... 503 pj I 7 58 a
“ Gastonia 525 p 8 20 a
Lv. Charlotte .... 630pj 8 22 p 925 a
Ar. Greensboro 952p10 48 p 12 10 p
Lv.Greensboro 10 50 p
Ar. Norfolk 7 35 ai ,
Ar. Danville 11 25 pllsl p .... |BS p ,
Ar. Richmond ~. 640 a 640 a 626 p
Ar. Washington | 6 42 a 9 85 p
” Baltm’e PRB 803 a 11 35 p
” Philadelphia 10 15 a 286 a
“ New York ■i2 43 m .. 623 a J
Fst.Ml Ves. No.ll
Southbound. No. 35 No. 37 Daily
iDaily. Daily. I
Lv. N. Y.,P.R. R. 12 15 a 4 30 pj s
“ Philadelphia. 350 a 655 pj
“ Baltimore.... 631 a 920 p £
“ Washington. 11 15 alO 43 pj -■■■■■. ■
Lv. Richmond ... 12 61 ni 12 01 nt 12 lOnt .
Lv. Danville 615 p 5 50_a: 605 a ~,....
tv. Norfolk . . . .10 00 pj
Ar. Greensboro .... 650 a
Lv. Greensboro ! 7 26 p 705 a 732 al
Ar. Charlotte .... |lO U) p 925 al2 05m ......
Lv. Gastonia ! 10 49 p 112 pj
“ King's Mt.... 1 138 p
“ Blacksburg .. ,11 31 pl 6 45 a 206 p;.
" Gaffneys 'll 46 p 10 58 a 224 p 1
Lv. Asheville... I 9 00 p • 829 a
“ Spartanburg Jl2 26 all 34 a: 315 p
“ Greenville.... 125 al2 30 pj 430 p ;
“ Central | 525 p *„i 7 '
“ Seneca 2 36 a 1 33 p 555 p
“ Westminster I j6lO p „ ‘
“ Toccoa 325 a 2 18 p 650 p .^ nr *‘
“ Mt. Airy I 735 p T’Ta
“ Cornelia f 3 00 p 740 p 685 a (
“ Lula 4 15 a f 3 18 p ! 814 p 657 a
“ Gainesville.. 435 a 337 p 840 p 7 20a
“ Buford 912 p 7"48a
“ Norcross 5 25 a 943 p 827 a
Ar. Atlanta, E. T. 6 16 a 4 55 p 10:10 p 930 a
Ar. Atlanta, C. T.I 5 10 a 355 p 9 :i0 pj 880 a
ifOBCROSS NOOX TRAIN.
I Daily Except Sunday.
i Lv. Atlanta, central time 112 0
Ar. Norcross, eastern time 1 15 p
Lv. Norcross, eastern time 2 20 p
Ar. Atlanta, central time.. 2 20 p
“A” a. m. “P” p. m. “M” noon. “N” night
Chesapeake Line Steamers in daily service
between Norfolk «Ad Baltimore.
Nos. 37 and3B—Daily. Washington and South
western Vestibule Limited. Through Pulln an
sleeping cars between New York and New Or
leans, via Washington, Atlanta and Montgom- i
ery, and also between New York and Memphis,
via Washington, Atlanta and Birmingham. First
class thoroughfare coaches between Washing
ton and Atlanta. Dining cars serve all meal?
en route. Pullman drawing room sleeping cart
between Greensboro and Norfolk. Close con
nection at Forfolk for OLD POINT COMFORT
arriving there in time for breakfast.
Nos. 85 and 36—United States Fast Mail
runs solid between Washington and New Or
leans, via Southern Railway, A. & W. P. B. 8.,
and L- & N. B. 8., being composed of baggage
car and coaches, through without change for •
passengers of all classes. Pullman drawing
room sleeping cars between New York and
New Orleans, via Atlanta and Montgomery.
Leaving Washington each Wednesday, a tourist
•leeping car will run through between Wash
ington and San Francisco without chanue.
Pullman Drawing-Boom Sleeping Cars between
Asheville and Atlanta. i
Nos. 11, 37 , 38 and 12—Pullman sleeping cars i
between Richmond ami Cliarlotte, vi i DanvLie, >
•outhbound Nos. 11 and 37, northbound Nos
38and 12
FRAN K S. GAJs NON, J. M. CULP,
Third V-P. & Gen. Mgr., Traffic M’g’r.
Washington, D. C. Washington, D. C. j i
W. A. TURK, S. H. HARDWICK,
Gen’l Pass. Ag't , Ass'tGen'l Pass. Ag’t., i
Washington, D. C. Atlanta, Ga. j
ble her to get that sleep and rest without
which she could not long endure the strain.
She at length found this in Dr. Williams'’
Pink Pills for Pale People. She said to the
reporter: by the time 1 had taken one box
of these pills, I not only felt stronger but
to my surjirise found that I could sleep. ’
I “ 1 have taken four boxes now and can take
a long nap during the day aud sleep soundlv
all night.
“The medicine not only takes away that
weary depressed feeling but creates a buoy
ancy and exhilaration that does not pass away
when one stops taking the pills.
“ I am forty-nine years old and about thirty
years ago I began to be troubled with gather
ings in my head. The trouble continued until
I was unable to hear a sound through my
right ear aud my left ear was badly affected.
I bad no idea that the pills would benefit my
ears but they evidently did as my hearing is
very much improved.
“I consider Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for
Pale People a wonderful medicine. Tha
address of the woman is: Mrs. 11. L, Graham,
214 E. 4th St., Pueblo, Col.
State of Colorado, 1
County of Pueblo, j
Subscribed and sworn to before me thta
6th day of July, 1897.
George W. Gill,
(SEAL) Notary Public.
All the elements necessary to give new life
and richness to the blood and restore shat
tered nerves are contained in Dr. Williams’
Pink Pills for Pale People. They are sold
in boxes (never in loose form, by the dozen
or hundred) at 50 cents a box, or six boxes
for $2.50, and may be had of all druggists ot
directly by mail from Dr. Williams* Medi
cine Co., Schenectady N. Y.
F JWyT
v l, v The most fascinating inven.
I I > tin of the age. Alvaysrendy
'y to entertain. It requires n<j
yV ) skill to operate it and repro
i duce the music of bands, or
yj chestras, vocalists or instru
tjgrj mental soloists. There is
nothing like it for an even
ing's entertainment at home or in the social gath
ering. You can sing or talk t<» it and it will
reproduce immediately and as often as desired,
your song or words.
Other so-called talking machines reproduce
only records of cut and dried subjects, socially
prepared in a laboratory; but the Graphophone is
not limited to such performances. On theGrapho
phone you can easily make and instantly reproduce
records of the voice, or any sound. Thus it con
stantly awakens new interest and itscharm isever
fresh.' The reproductions are clear and brilliant.
Graphophonesare sold ior§iOuc
Manufactured under the patents of 8411, Tainter,
Edison and Macdonald. Our establishment is head
quarters of the world f«»r Talking MaJchines and
Talking Machine Supplies. Write for catalogue.
Columbia Phonograph Co., “Dft’t 30,"
919 Pennsylvania Aveni|e,
Washington, - - - -'D. C.
NEW YORK. PARIS. CHICAGO.
ST. LOUIS. PHILADELPHIA. BALTIMORE.
WASHINGTON, BUFFALO.
A BARGAIN!
Here it is, and it is the
Best Opening you’ll
Ever Strike.
100 acres of laud for sale, on the
Gainesville and Clarksville road, 3
miles from Longview.
This is all splendid land. 35
acres fresh land in cultivation, bal
ance in fine timber. Two branches
run through the place, and there is
considerable bottom land.
There are three houses on the
place. One is a nice new frame
house with three rooms and an 8-foot
hall, nicely built and ceiled and
painted, with lightning rods on
same. There are a good well and
spring at this house, and a pasture of
3 acres sown in grass near the house,
with wire fence around it.
There is a good box house with 2
rooms in yard, and a good box house
with 2 rooms on farm.
Two roads run through the place.
All is good, strong, rich land.
There is an orchard of 150 j well
selected fruit trees—apples, peaches,
and pears—in their seventh yeiir.
I
This place can be bought .
cash, and wil' give bond for
titles. Balance on easy terms.
The fruit on this place will p&y f<>r
it in three years.
For particulaas write or call at this
office. I
j
5 M-J College?
f! . Main Builc Ac.
w & - jymM,
DAHLONEGA, GA. j
A college duration in t reach, f all.j A.8.,
U.S., Normal and Business Man’s courses.
Good laboratories; healthful, invigorating < li
nt :te; military discipline; good moral and
religious influences. Ch- apest t>oard iin the
State; abundance of country produce; exjienses
from 875 to $l5O a year; board in dormitories
or private families. Special license course for
teachers; full faculty of nine; all under the
control of the University. A college prepar
atory class. Co-education of sexes. The insti
tution founded specially for students of limited
means. Send for catalogue t > the President.
Jos. S. Stewvrt, A.M.