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the Eagle I’xxblisliing- Company. VOLUME XL. Andoe & Co., Never Carryover Remnants. The reason why is told below. This is our REMNANT SELLING season. In Knit Underwear we hate broken suits, Vests without Pants to match, or Pants without Vests to* match, or an odd Suit in small or extra size, and where such is the case we are making prices that sell them. "" IN HOSIERY the same offer holds good. We have a few odd Rugs and Hassocks left which MUST BE SOLD before our new stock arrives. In Curtains, we are offering the odd lots at about half price; some lots have one curtain only, others have snore. The prices range from 39c to $5.00 per pair. Some of these lots may be just what you want. How about a real good pair of Blankets at YOUR PRICE, to close them? We also have a few pairs of cheaper ones left. These odd lot prices hold good in Clothing, Overcoats and Odd Pants. We also have about a dozen Capes, Jackets and Reefers to go at just half price. Just received a new lot White Goods, Embroideries, Dress Goods, And Shoes. Come and see them, glad to show you. R. E. ANDOE & CO.. 14 Main St. Telephone £>. Waterman, Burnett & Co., EXCLUSIVE Clothiers, Tailors, GENTS’ FURNISHINGS and SHOES, G-JLIJSTES'VILLE, C3-JL. SEND US ONE DOLLAR- Cut this ad. out and send to us <*ltb(l.OO, and we will send you this —j Ml NE>V IMPROVED ACSK qtI.ENPAKLOH OHGAN, by freight C.O. D., nkjut to •isminitlea. You can examine it at your nearest freight depot, and WLf / X X’X if you find it exactly as represented, equal to organs that retail at fl 6.00 to (100.00, the greatest value you ever saw and far better than a | organs adi ertised by others at more •»<■, pay the freight agent .ar S JSMBWSW a • peelol 90 d»>, offer pries, (31.75, less the 11, or 130.75 aai freight ekargea. ■ SttMtffiSW £»-• -:■ L ’ $31.75 IS OUR SPECIAL 90 DAYS PRICE. vne-half the £ |l 1 , ~..- : -—— ~ • 77T7.L- price ahaxf ■ ed by others. Such an offer was never made before. TUC AOUC niICCA! i!»oneofthe«»»t4Brablßßß4!we«UttUßUin- i IHL Au Ml UUll.lt stru meats ever made. From the illustration WMF - ~MM|| rM*CTw*l shown, which is engraved direct from a photograph, you can form JJHv •• seine idea of its benutl'al appearance. Made from Solid h.»zAl':4 Quarter Sawed Oak, antique finish, handsomely ed and ornamented, latest 1899 StylOa TMt Ads V'IWII 6 feet 5 inches bi,.-?.. 42 inches long, inches wide and weight stops a. follows: Dlapataa. Principal, Dulclana, Slelodis, Celesta, Crcnana, Baaa (.’•■pier. Treble Coupler, Diapason Forte. Principal Forte, aa4 Tai Hasi m; 2 Octave Couplers, 1 Tone Swell, 1 Grand Organ Swell, 4 Seta I& Orchestral Toned Kescnatury Pipe Quality Keeda, 1 Setef 17 Fare sKM T. Sweet Melodia Reed’, 1 Set of 17 Charmlagly Brllliaat Caleate M Keeda, 1 Set of 24 Rich bellow Smooth Dlapaata Reels, 1 let es |>t>iuaaal MIWVi. <Wr r 2-t rieeblng Soft Relodlcus Principal Reeds. I *t"MtTsoo| / THE APUP niIPEA! action Consist of the celebrated |o■ 6MI rW*llW|MMib WIU IHu AuMl yULLII V"rl Reeds, which are only used iTofiartaerl IjEJy IAO BI ’WWm inthehlKhe>t grade instruments, al o fitted with Haw- * i==g*«A MW I -'ll I'llr: laoad Couplers and Toy Human-., also be*<t Dolce felts, lefttbersS | •-’ ’Bl i’ ].•'•• et.-,. hollows of the be-vt rubb.'. . ’.< th. 3 ply bellows st<»ck F ■ L'fj It ;!oi i '- !l i l E •!'! IliHp ' audfiva-t leather in valve-. THE ACME QUEEN!' SKIW I ’’W-T” P, finished " ith a l?xl4 beveled p.atc i rench mirror, nicked ! jsj|l K >' i|b'• I plated peani < va:ne> and ev« ry mode: n improvement. 741 I ■<'•’l * R ‘ L'‘ lift l ' PUBI9!fi II RMM< M.< t c. handsome organ stool and the baetorgaji L : ' ■HBMHs&| instruction bo, \ published. ijCllA. ,1 l/7//3Br-MMa| > IjWMIMSI GUARANTEED2SYEARS l MMJp, Acme Queen Organ .. e issue a v iif (on bndinj-year ; ilo' , k .mrantee. by the t.-nns and conditions es w hich if p.u t gives out u v revnir it tree of charge. Try it »»eEial- - Bl on th nr. Iwe V. ill re fur. i yov.r money it you are notfeg, ■ perti ctly satis: • I. aOC of thebe organa wll be aeld $31.75. Orderaivr.ee. Don't delay. OUR RELIABILITY IS ESTABLISHED ?f not dealt with us ask your neighbor about us, write the publisher of th < paper, or Met ropolitan National -p Bank, National F.-luic of the Hank of Comm.re., Chicago; or German exchange Bank New York ne any railroad or express company in Chicago, W. h... a capital .f aver MM,000.00. occupy entireToA. e>t business bloeks in Chicago and empl y over MO people in our own building? VWSkZLOBGASS AT 00 Ind op; Pl OOb. Jl-c.oo and up; also everything in musical instruments at lowest wholOMleiprices Write special organ, pium and musical instrument catalogue. Address, ww™» prives. >'rite tor free SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO. (Inc.), Fulton, Dotplainetand Wayman Sts., CHICAGO ILL SEND NO MONEY innKS a. , A H r I■ ■ ■n.Tr to US,and we will send M Mvl 150 you OUR HIGH-GRADE BURDICK SEWING MACHINE ■feOHnUl 4>| IjL C. O. D., sebject to examination. You can examine it at yoar near- <3IBiV § ® eat freight depot and if found perfectly satiafaetery, exactly as ■MbHV S I I ■ represented, equal to maehiaea others sell as hUrh as $60.00, MwffMl V aM 1 M and THK GREATEST BARGAIN YOV EVER HEARD OF, pay . 1— yonr freight age.t Our Special Offer Price sls 50 •nd freight charges. The machine weighs IX ___l—_ pounds and the freight will average 75 cents for each 500 liWI Bad miles. CIVE IT THREE MONTHS TRIAL in MmJiM I "-<£■!ißU IPI your own home, and we will return your (15.50 any day iou are not satisfied. We sell different make, and gradw of ••Ing Machine, at (£.50.(10.00.111.00, (IS.OO and up, all of which are fully described in Our Free Sewing Machine Cat alogue, but 5i5.50 for thl. 7-DRAWEK BUKDICK f * io the greatest value ever offered by any house- ■ ■WtrnEfiMnl THE RURniCK every modern improvement, every** 3 *! I ■ t 1 nW Bawl inc punuivit poin( of every hlgh . pnkde machine f I 1 made, with the defects of none. Madeby the heat malaria America. B SOLID OAK CABINET, BKNTCOVEB. Latent 1599 Skeletaa frame, piano IlJr A I poliih, finest nickel drawer pulls, restsoni casters, ball bearing Ibß adjustable treadle, genuine Smyth iron stand, finest large high i— m arm head made, positive four-motion feed, self threading vibrat 'I— v->: ~ --—-! " -*- 1 A A ing shuttle, automatic bobbin w inder, adjustable bearings, pat-; J- Oaf ent tension liberator, improved loose w he. I. adjustable pres.-er foot, improved shuttle carrier, patent needlebar, I »:g> f patent dress guard. *- J K GUARANTEED ihrlichtMt running, most dnr- r W~ •bl. and acarwt noiseless machine made. Krerr known <<*:X C ‘ -J?-'- . ' ■■'■■' attachment Is fomi-hed and our Free Instruction - **---7 -**" Book tells just how anyone can ruu it and do either plain or any kind of fancy work. A 20-YEAH GUARANTEE is sent with every machine. "-ws-^ra^ - IT COSTS YOU NOTHING 2\ ? £ e and examine this machine, compare it with those your storekeeper sells at —— ■ S4O. OO to SSO. 00, and then if convinced you are saving S3O-OO to $35.00, pay your freight agent the $15.50. WK TS BETI'BN TOFU (IS.M if at aay Urn witkla three months yas say yea are sot anti,fled. ORDER TO-DAT. DON’T DBLAT. (Scars, ar, thoroughly reliable.—Editor.) WRITE FOR FREE CATALOGUE. SEARS, ROEBUCK A CO.. CHICAGO, ILL. | THE GAINESVILLE EAGLE. It rests with you whether you continue nerve-killing tobacco habit. N WEWMj removes the desire for tobacco. out nervous distress, expels ■ ■ mMET tine, purifies the blood, jl I L > , A*l.sw.. stores lost II uOOboxes makes you I H | sVs*sold. 400.000 in health, nerveW U cured. Buy andpockev^^i' jWJLy B TO-BAC from book. as FjgPw IJP’your own druggist, who ” Mat ASSfcz*will vouch for us. Take it with at" A>*a will, patiently, persistently. One UfcAgi 'tt box, SI, usually cures; 3 boxes,St.W, guaranteed to cure, or we refund money. Sterling Remedy Co., Chleago, Montreal, New Tors. HP K;C■_ v _ HAi.. UALSAPA Cleansei and beautifies the hair. Promotes a luxuriant growth. Never Fails to Bestore Gray Hair to its Youthful Color. Cures Bcalp diseases & hair falling. 60c, and SI.OO at Druggists Ohfcheßtcr'a English Diamond Brands fENNYROYftL i-iLLS 0 Original and Only Genuine. A 4/ safe, always reliable, ladies ask f >ru ?gi tor’Chichester 8 English Brand in Ked and Gold sealed with blue ribbon. Take tW - v | / *“ flftions and imitations. At Druggists, or send 4c. I <•» in stamps for particulars, testimonials and \ ’©s O Relief for Ladlem” tn letter, by return /r MalL 10.000 Testimonials. Name Paper. Chfeh eater Chemical Co.,Madison Square, J old by ail Local Philodu.. Pa. ELECTRO- SILICON Shines Silverware Surprisingly without Scratching. Sample sent if you say so. It’s unlike all others. Box, post-paid, 15 cts. in stamps. It’s Sold Everywhere. The Electro-Silicon Co., go Cliff street, New York. DYSPEPSIA “For six years I wa» a victim ofdya pepsia in its worst form. I could eat nothing but milk toast, and at times my stomach would not retain and digest even that. Last March I began taking CASCAKETS and since then 1 have steadily improved, until I am as well as I ever was in my life.” David H. Mtnipnr, Newark. O CANDY m %, \y CATHARTIC TRADE MARK REGISTERED Pleasant. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. Do Good. Never Sicken. Weaken, or Gripe. Ibc. 25c. 50c. ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... Sterling Remedy Company. Chicago, Montreal, New York. 311 MA TA Din Sold and gunrnnteed Iy ai l drug- RU a IU*DAv gists to ( < KF. Tobacco Habit. S C. Dunlap, jr. W. V. Wall. Dunlap & Wall, Life and Fire Insurance, Gainesville, Georgia. N.C. White & Sod, HOTOGRSPHEBS! 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. 1 Cv* OTTON i i and will con a tinue to be the money crop of the South. The planter who gets the most cot ion from a given area at the •east cost, is the one who makes the most money. Good culti vation, suitable rotation, and liberal use of fertilizers con taining at least 3% actual Potash jvill insure the largest yield. We will send Free, upon application, >amphlets that will interest every cotton planter in the South. GERITAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St., New York. J Cotton Coed { j Sroe <43 £ k With The Atlanta Semi-Weekly . Journal to every one sending one F J dolL r for a year’s subscription. Jackson’s African Limbless Cotten. k grows Bto 12 feet high, and is said k J to produce double the quantity F ordinary cotton. It costs nothing te*F k try it. The seed are scarce, but k J The Semi-Weekly Journal has J F secured a quantity and offers to any F k one sanding one dollar .for a year’s k 1 subscription 500 of these seed free. J Tjatmage, £ { Cpurgeon, 4 SieGcher, j A collection of select sermons by k F these great divines sent free to any " k one sending one dollar for a year’s 4 0 subscription to The Semi-Weekly k Journal. v Cam Jones' JLetters. & r Sam Jones writes regularly for The 4 Atlanta Journal, and his letters ap- Q pear in the Semi-Weekly edition. jtgents Wanted > Cvery where. <<£ t t A live agent wanted at every town k and hamlet in the south. Liberal 4 . commissions to agents and extra k F inducements in the shape of attract- v k ive prizes to those who send large 4 J lists of names. f In Addition to J J Commissions T F In addition to liberal commissions * k agents who send us 100 cash sub- 4 J scribers for a year before next May k F ist, will receive a bonus of fl<. " k Those sending 50 will receive sf. J J Extra fifties or hundreds in the same a F proportion. Send the subscribers F along and keep account of them. N The Semi-Weekly £ J JOURNAL, j Atlanta, Georgia. v _ F Established in 1860. GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA, T£t EX-CONFEDERATES AND PENSIONS. President McKinley in a speech before the Georgia Legislature in At lanta, December 14, 1898, daring the Peace Jubilee, expressed the opinion that the time had come when the United States government should share in caring for the graves of the Confederate dead. This expression was favorably commented on by the press in every part of the country. Later an effort was made to place the ex-Confederate soldiers on the government pension roll. This caused Confederate camps all over the South to rise up and enter a most vigorous protest against such action on the part of any represen tative. Such public expressions of the sentiment of the ex-Confederate soldiers, who are still among us, has brought forth more favorable com ment than did the expressions of the President. Then, too, they have caused the Northen press to review the pension roll, and to discuss it, and to bring out truths and sen timents connected with it, which; have heretofore been passed unmen tioned by all partisan writers on thia] most important subject. For instance the New York Qut-j look, a republican journal of recent! date contained the following ed itorial which, to say the least of it, is interesting reading matter : I “The suggestion made in somt] quarters that ex-Confederate soldiers should be added to the pension list is grateful as a sign of the final passing 1 of ancient animosities and the final] triumph of the feeling of nationalityn but the Southern press is showing] great wisdom in putting aside, almost! without exception, the suggestion as! improper. All that remains of the] lost cause is a splendid tradition of I heroism. The tradition is of price-1 less value to the South. It enriches! the life of the Southern people, by 1 the sentiment and poetry which cornel with it; and to put the Confederate] veterans upon the pension list would go a long way toward ing that sentiment and blarnng the memory of heroism which the South! now sacredly preserves. The indis*! criminate extension of the pension system in the North has cost the] country an enormous amount of mon-j ey, but it has coat the North still more in the sacrifice of a noble sen timent. It has gone far to blur the fair memory of the heroisms of thir ty-five years ago. “That there ought to have been a generous provision forthose who were in any way disabled in that—tre mendous struggle may be taken * r granted- -this country is never otherwise than generous—but the mechanical and unscrupulous way in which the pension business has been handled, the vast commercial element which has entered into it, the con dition of semipauperism which in too many cases it has introduced, have wounded the country at a very sen sitive point. We may be rich enough to pay $145,000,000 a year on the pension account; we are not rich enough to capitalize in money that heroism and sacrifice which are the expression of the spiritual life of a people. We have done a host of men irreparable injury, as those who know anything about the practical workings of the system realize, and we have lacked the courage to deal honestly and frankly with the whole matter. Leading public men have all along said privately about the system what they have not dared to say publicly. When Senator Hawley declared that the pension system would makes wars so expensive as to end them he held out a gleam of hope which, unhappily, has not been real ized. The same wholesale business methods which have degraded the idea of the pension and have gone far to vulgarize the position of the pensioner will undoubtedly be applied in the case of the men who have served in Cuba and Manila. It is not too early to raise a voice of protest, and to call for a sound, wise, honorable pension system which shall make, by its discrimination, every bestowal of a pension a badge of honor.” A two or three weeks course of Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine will so reg ulate the Excretory Functions that they will operate without any aid whatever. The California Legislature has an anti-cartoon bill before it. Mean while the cartoonists are giving their attention to the men who are sup porting the measure. Consider that our anger and impa tience often prove much more mis chievous than the things about which we are angry or impatient. 1 I How much you read is of less con sequence than how much you think about what you have read. | "P/tto'—w J | Garmlnatlva f 9 Oawmf Mljr SaAr'a jUVto." J 5 •• 1 S LAMAR A RANKIN DRUG CO.i J • I can not reeommeai Pitts* Car- f F minative too strongly. 1 mast aay, y P I owe my baby's life tn It 6 £ I earnestly ask all maskers wtea ? £ have sickly or delicate ekiMrea fast > y to try one bottle and see what tho A f result will be. Jf < 9 Mas. LIZZIE MUNLAY. • Johason's Station, Ga. J £ ** J J PM*’ OarmlnaHvG J J !• hr an AramMlM. £ i pfuoc, »s nam } For sale by E. B. Dixon A Co., Gainesville, Ba. URSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1889. Porto Rico Worth Having. i ;• Whatever objections may be urged ■ against the Philippines, the island of s for to Rico is certainly worth having, i The reception given Gen. Miles and i Our army by the people of Ponce, the £nost populous city of the island, 1 shows that the people are heartily tired of Spanish dominion, and will » gladly accept annexation to the United States, rather than con- 1 tinue to suffer from Spanish oppres i sicn. 1 Porto Rico, in fact, is likely to ' occasion our government less trouble 1 *than either the Philippines or Cuba, i As soon as the Spaniards depart from - the island, the United States can set • fep a form of government there that 1 Vill )9 in every way acceptable to 1 the inhabitants of the island. Little ■ opposition to the plans of this gov -1 eminent is expected from the cit -1 jzens of Porto Rico, and in the years 3.0 come it will be one our most •yalued possessions. The population rof the island is now about 800,000, ■bout one-third of which are negroes. rThe island covers an area of ■,600 miles, and the soil is fertile and *very productive. The climate is - delightful both in winter and sum- Jtner. The are now only about 125 piles of railway in operation on the island, but other lines are projected, ;|ome of which are in progress of building. There is plenty of room rfor the investment of capital in Railroad building on the island, and hew lines are needed to facilitate the fpandling of the immense crops of j coffee and tobacco. Leslie’s Weekly Sn the course of an article about FPorto Rico, says: £ “In 1897 the United States im Sported from Porto Rico commodities Valued at $2,181,000 and exported to iPorto Rico commodities to the value rof not quite $2,000,000. The total twalue of Porto Rico’s imports was 16,000,000,and of its exports $14,- . 00,000. The western part of the •island produces an abundance of the finest coffee m the world, and its Average annual export is nearly 170,- IyOO cwt. With the annexation of Porto Rico we will be in possession, therefore, of one of the best coffee Land tobacco-growing countries in the The finest Havana cigars are .made from Porto Rican tobacco, of ♦which 7,000,000 pounds are annually Porto Rico is also one of the cheap sources of supply of cocoa nuts and bananas, producing both of these by the millions. Its location makes it very available for coaling and outfitting station for the United States vessels, and it is the general impression that whatever the terms of peace with Spain may be, they may include the cession of Porto Rico.” This statement will give some idea of the value of the island to our government. The largest cities of Porto Rico are Ponce, with 50,000 people, San Germain, with about 32,000, and San Juan, the capital city with about 23,000. Under the control of the United States, this beautiful and fertile island will blos som like the rose, and her people will advance to a much higher state of civilization. Mrs. Nancy Hitchcock, Sanfordsvile, Ga., writes: My husband, Elder D. S. Hitchcock used Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver for indigestion, and think its med ical properties far exceed Zsilin’s Reg ulator and Black Draught. Same Other Day. There are wonderful things we are going to do Some other day; And harbors we hope to drift into Some other day. With folded bands and wings that trail, We watch and wait for a favoring gale To fill the folds of an idle sail Some other day. We know we must toil if ever we win Some other day, But we say to ourselves there’s time to begin Some other day. And so, deferring, we loiter on, Until at last we find withdrawn The strength of hope we leaned upon Some other day. And when we are old and our race is run, Some other day, We fret for the things that might have been done Some other day. We trace the path that leads us where The beckoning hand of grim despair Leads us yonder out of the here, Some other day. Don’t wreck a life! From girlhood to womanhood the monthly course should be regulated with Simmons Squaw Vine Wi»e or Tablets. New Rebels. The New York Sun is fait ly foam ing at the mouth. The anti-annexa tionists, it says, are “not only in revolt against the party in power, but against the c< untry itself.” Do you hear that, Senator Hoar, you hoary-headed rebel you!—Gasterne (Me.) Argus. ■ « I Mother’s Trusted Friend, Simmons Squaw Vine Wine or Tablets, Prepare the System for confinement, shorten labor and make child birth easy. We never realize how much we are capable of enduring until the test comas. Last Slave Auction. The last great slave auction held in this country occurred just a year and a half before the war—viz., in October, 1859, at the race track in Savannah. The slaves were the property of Pierce Butler, a pic turesque and prominent figure at that day in Philadelphia society, who is to-day remembered as having been the husband of Fanny Kemble, the actress, reader and author. His family name was Mease, but he in herited a fortune in lands and slaves from his grandfather, Major Pierce Butler of South Carolina, on condi tion that he should take the latter’s name. Butler’s inveterate passion for gambling got him into financial difficulties. It is said that he lost $26,000 in a single hand—four deuces against four kings held by his oppon ent. Finally, to meet his losses, Butler was forced to sell hia slaves. There were 988 of these in all. The sale took two days, and netted $304,850. Butler had chosen a good time to sell. A year later his negroes would not have been worth a dollar a head. But the sale would have been more profitable had it not been announced as one of the conditions that no division of families would be permit ted. Hence, in order to secure a good slave, buyers often had to take with him infirm or aged relatives. Out of this limitation grew a memo rable tragedy. Tom Pate, a well known Vicksburg trader, bought at the sale a man, his two sisters, and his wife, with the guarantee that they should not be separated. Disregarding this, Pate sold the sisters, one to Pat Somers, a brother trader, and the other to a resident of St. Louis. What legal right, the negro had in the south were well protected. Somers was told of the guarantee, and he sent the girl back to Pate and demanded his money. A quarrel was the result and Somers was shot dead. Two days later bis nephew killed Pate, and died from the wounds received. The feud was kept up until every male bearing the name of Pate was wiped out, and then the war liberated the sisters, who were alive in St. Louis in 1887. - ... Bearing down sensations, internal heat, and female weakness are cured by Sim mons Squaw Vine Wine or Tablets. Well Fixed Pensioners. It appears from investigations which have been made that, fully twenty per cent, of those drawing pension, from the state are holders of considerable amounts of property. Their assessments range from S9OO to SIB,OOO. In other words, they are much better off than the average tax payer. No doubt all of these pension ers were good Confederate soldiers, but it doesn’t follow that the state should contribute to their support. They are well able to take care of themselves. But all of the pensioners who do not appear on the books of the tax receivers are not indigent. It is doubtful if half of them are. There fore it is a mistake to regard all of those not on the tax books as indi gent and to continue to pay them pensions, if it is proposed to allow pensions only to the indigent. No doubt many of the pensioners are either earning wages sufficient for their support or could do so if so dis posed. Therefore, in order to arrive at those who should receive pensions a method different from that followed by Representative Brandon should be adopted. An investiga tion should be conducted in each county. This should be done in jus tice to both tax payer and the pen sioners. There will, of course, be a great deal of opposition to dropping any of the pensioners from the list. That is to be expected. And the pension ers are not to be blamed for object ing to be stricken from the roll. They have become accustomed to the addition to their incomes, and wdl find it rather hard to give it up. The legislature is to blame for not providing for the payment of pen sions to indigent only. There is no use, however, in wasting time in dis cussing a mistake. The thing to do now is to remove from the pension roll all of the pensioners except those to whom the state intends to pay pensions. That can be done only by making a thorough inquiry into each pensioner’s ability to take care of himself. Salaries of United States army officers are as follows: Generalsl3,ooo Lieutenant general 11,000 Major general 7,500 Brigadier General 5,000 Colonel 3,500 Lieutenant colonel 3,000 Major 2,500 Captain, mounted 2,500 Captain, not mounted 1,800 Regimental adjutant 1,800 Regimental quartermaster 1,800 First lieutenant 1,600 Second lieutenant ... 1,400 Chaplain 1,500 Believe nothing against another but on good authority; nor report what may hurt another, unless it is to be a greater hurt to others to con ceal it. Hl .OO For Annum in Advance. Gathmann's Gun. Louis Gathmann is the name of a Chicago man who claims to have in vented a torpedo gun which is capa ble of vast destruction. Gathmann’s gun has been accepted by the War Department over the adverse recom mendation of the Ordnance Board, and we shall soon know by practical tests more of its power for destruc tiveness. It is a huge gun, being forty five feet in length, weighing fifty tone, with a bore eighteen inches in diara eter. The shells, or torpedoes, which it fires, weigh 2,000 pounds, and it has a range of ten miles. This is the very thing that explos ive-dealing inventors have been ro >t ing around for these many years, observes the Atlanta Journal, and if Gathmann has really invented a gun that will carry a 2,000 pound pro jectile of a high explosive litre gun cotton or emmensite ten miles, his fortune is made and we are measura bly nearer the millenium, for it will help make war impossible. The claims which Gathmann makes for his gun are not of a mean order, lie says that the destructive force of the projectile which his gun fires is equal to that of. all the 12-inch guns in the United States, at a range under 3,000 yards, while, if the range be more than 5,000 yards, the de structive force of his 18-inch gun is equivalent to that of the entire num ber of Uncle Sam’s 10-inch, 12-inch and 13 inch guns put together. If a shell containing one ton of gun-cotton be fired at a city three miles distant and exploded on alighting, the result must inevitably be only a hole and a heap of ruins. But the possibility of firing a ton of gun-cotton that dis tance needs yet to be demonstrated. The government has risked $50,- 000 on Gathmann and his gun. Battleship Maine. Philadelphia, Feb. 16.—The anni versary of the blowing up of the bat tleship Maine in Havana harbor was marked here with the beginning of work on the powerful man-of-war which will bear the name of the his toric battleship, the destruction of which did much to precipitate the war with Spain. The new Maine will be built by the Cramp Shipbuilding Company, and at the company’s yards at 11 o’clock yesterday the first pier of the keel was laid. The Maine will be a sister ship to the Ohio and Missouri. She is to have a speed of eighteen knots, with a length on load water line of 388 feet and a beam of 72 feet 212 inches. She will have a normal dis placement of 12,500 tons and a draught of twenty-three feet six inches. Her bunkers will be large enoagh to carry 2,000 tons of coal and her complement of officers, sea men and marines will be about 600 men. The Maine’s armament will consist of four 12-inch breech loading rifles, sixteen 6-pounder and four 3pounder guns and a few smaller pieces. The 12-inch guns will be of 40 caliber, and of the new high power type de signed to use smokeless powder, with a muzzle velocity of 3,000 feet per second and firing an 850 pound shell. Each gun will have an energy of 48,- 000 foot tons, equal to the penetra tion of four feet es solid iron at the muzzle. The builders will endeavor to have the new battleship ready for launch ing on February 15th next year, and to haye her ready for st rvice on the third anniversary of the sinking of the Maine in Havana harbor. A Bullet in His Heart 37 Years. Morganton, W. Va., Feb. 18.— William B. Smallridge, who died a few days ago at Glenville, in Gilmer county, carried a bullet in bis heart for thirty-seven years. He was a member of Co. E, First West Virginia Infantry in the civil war, and in September, 1861, while marching through Gilmer county, was shot by some one in ambush, the bullet en tering Smallridge’s chest at the lower point of the scapula, on the left side, passing thence directly through the left lung into the left ventricle of the heart. The force of the bullet was so broken that it did not penetrate the inner wall, but the regimental surgeon pronounced the wound fatal and left Smallridge to die. He did not die, however, but was sent back up the Little Kanawha River in a skiff to his home in Glen ville, where be recovered and has since lived. A few weeks ago while on his deathbed, he asked Dr. G. O. Brown to make an examination of the wound after his death. This Dr. Brown did and found the bullet im bedded in the heart. Surgeons pro nounce it the most extraordinary case on record. There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: He that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; hut he who thinks him self the wisest man is generally the greatest fool. > NUMBER 8. Millions for Navy. Washington, Feb. 19.—The naval appropriation bill is practically com pleted save in minor details, and all its essential features were made known today. It appropriates a total of $44,158,605, divided under the following heads : General establish ment, $13,236,440; bureau of naviga tion, $505,125; bureau of ordinance, $3,143,124; bureau of equipment, $2,- 615,455; public works, yards and docks, $454,442; bureau of medicines and surgery, $192,500; bureau of sup plies and accounts, $3,220,432; bureau of construction and repair, $3,273,- 407; bureau of steam engineering, $1,207,900; Naval Academy, $217,- 120; marine corps, $1,366,971; in crease of navy, $11,192,402. The item of “increase of the navy” covers the amount given for the first year on the three new battleships, three armored cruisers and six small cruisers authorized by the bill. Al though the ships have been decided upon, the text of this provision has not yet been agreed on. It will follow’the recommendations of the secretary of the navy with the total cost recommended by him, viz, $3,500,000 each for the battle ships, $4,000,000 for the armored cruisers and $1,141,800 for the small er cruisers, these amounts exclusive of armor and armament. The $11,192,402 carried for jthe ships in the bill is divided as follows: Construction and machinery, $5,102,- 402; armor and armament, $4,000,- 000; equipment, $2,000,000. The Norfolk navy yard receives an appropriation of $645,697, the naval station at Key West $112,520, naval station at Port Royal $145,000. Patents. The Keystone has this to say about patents : The applications for pat ents during the year 1897 outran the record of any previous year. Inven tion is certainly not on the decline, and the man with an idea and a model is in stronger evidence than ever. In no time in the history of the Patent Office has there been any sign of a marked relapse in inventive ingenuity—here and there perhaps a parenthesis, as in times of panic and trade stagnation; but as a rule each year as it came along added Ire cruits to the army that never halts in the march of progress. The fol lowing table marks the line of in crease for each decade since 1840: For the ten years beginning 1840 the average is 1,186.9; for the |,en years beginning 1850 the average is 3,884.2; for the ten years beginning 1160 the average is 11,724.5 ; for the ten years beginning 1870 the average is 20,259.5; for the ten years begin ning 1880 the average is 33,443i9; for the eight years beginning 1890 the average is 41,479.0. From the character and number of the patents granted in 1897, it; is evident that the fertile mind of the inventor is fructifying in every field of endeavor. Ingenuity is not ex clusive. It isolates nothing. It covers every imaginable form of de vice, and has its improving hand jon every type of tool, machine, ment, or apparatus helpful to indus try or contributory to the comfort and convenience of human kind. To be Unveiled in May. The Georgia monument in Chicka mauga National Park will be dedi cated between the Ist and the 10th of next May. The Kentucky monument will he dedicated on the same day as the Georgia. General 11. V. Boynton, the chair man of the National Park commis sion, was in Atlanta Tuesday. The object of his visit was to ar range to have the dedication of the Georgia and Kentucky monuments in the Chickamauga Park to take place on the same day. After a brief conference between General Boynton and Captain W. S. Everett, chairman of the Georgia memorial committee, the two gentle men called on Governor Allen D. Candler to consult him in regard to the dedication. Governor Candler stated that it would be agreeable to him to have the dedication of the Georgia monu ment take place between the Ist and 10th of next May, and General Boyn ton wat requested to ascertain what day between those dates it will be convenient to have the Kentucky monument dedicated. The legislative act raising the Georgia memorial and making an appropriation tor the erection of the Georgia monument at Chickamauga park was passed about three years ago. The sum of $25,000 was appro priated to erect the Georgia monu ment and the markers of the lines of battle at Chickamauga park. CURE rheumatism by taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla,which by neu tralizing the acid in the blood perma nently relieves aches and PAINS. If Grip thr«at«ns use Dr. Miles’ Nerviae.