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VOL. XVI. NO 3. ADEL, BERRIEN COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY 1st., 1904. $1.00 PER ANNUM.
THOUSAND D’ED ON SLOCUM,
Only 179 Escaped from Excursion
Steamer Without Injury.
Nc-v Y*rk. June 25.—That Up¬
wards i f one thousand persons
p wished in the burning of the
eursion steamer General Slocum
is n< \v practically certain.
According to an exhaustive re-
port made by Police Commission¬
er Schmitburger on the number
of dead, missing, injured and mi—
injured in th* disaster, it appears
that 948 bodies have been
fejvd And that 03 persons absolu¬
tely known to have been aboard
the Vessel are still unaccounted
for, bringing the total of the dis¬
aster up to 1,031.
Those injured number 179 mid
of the throng of fully 1,500
embarked on tlm excursion of Sr.
Mark church, but 236 escaped
without injury
The report is the result of a
minute inquiry by a corps of 100
patrolmen under the direction of
the inspectors. In the course of
the inquiry much valuable infor¬
mation was secured from survi¬
vors which will be used in the
investigation by the district at¬
torney to fix the responsibility of
the disaster.
A thorough examination to day
of the hull of the Slocum by Cor¬
oners O’Gorman and Berry and
Inspector Albertson resulted in
tire discovery in the locker in
which the fire started of a num¬
ber of barrels which had contain¬
ed kerosene and lubricating oil.
The coroner's inquest will be
continued on Tuesday and on
Thursday the hearing by the fed¬
eral grand jury will be opened.
Wants New School Building.
Tifton, Ga., June 24.—The
town of Willacoochce, in Coffee
county, has prepared a bill to be
introduced in the Georgia Legis¬
lature at the approaching session
to amend the town ^barter so as
to authorize the issue of fl0,000
in bonds, to bo applied to public
improvements, The improve-
meats contemplated are a public
Bchiiol building, an electric light
and waterworks system. Hus . .
is
a pluekv venture for a town the
size of Will'aCoochee, , but its cit-
enterprising . . and , will
iZens are
, .
mPr, ’ VCme
U k '
Good Spirits.
Good spirits don’t all come front j
Kentucky. Their main source is i
the liv.-r made —and in the all Blue the Grass Line spirits Stale j
ever
could not remedy a bad liver or
the humired-aiid-one ili effects it
produces. You can’t have good
apints and a bad liver at tlie same
time. Your liver must be in tine
condition if you w ould feci buoy-
ant, happy ami hopeful, bright
of evi, light of step, vigorous and
successful in your pursuits. You
can put V vour liver in fine
tion usins Green’s
Flower the greatest of all
icings for the liver and
and a certain cure for dyspepsia
or ii idigestion. lt has been a
orile household remedy #or over
thirty-five years. August Flower
wdi make and’thus your liver healthy and
netive insure you a lib
oral supply of “good* spirits.”
Trial size, 25c; regular bottles
Toe ,0t. Alaliauv. At all druggists.
.lUnew leather suit cases
and baud J. H. Keunoa.
V. / 0 Jtl
t 1 FI
A V / AF $ / ' ♦
BILL FOR A CONVENTION.
A Revision of the Constitution
Will be Asked For.
| If the bill introduced by Rep¬
resentative Martin \ . Calvin, of
Richmond county, passes, a con¬
stitutional convention to revise
the constitution of the state will
meet at the state eapitol on the
Wednesday in January,
1005.
FVr this purpose no appropri¬
ation of £50,000 was asked in tin*
bill this morning.
The bill, as introduced, pro¬
vides that after the passage of
this ••'(>{ the governor shall issue a
proclamation calling for a con¬
Ktit u< ional convention. It is
further pr .vided that at the com-
election, m October, 1904,
the voters of the state shall ex¬
press a choice for this conveu-
by Voting “Convention'* or
“No Conventkm.”
It is also provided at the same
election the delegates to the con
ventiuu shall be elected. . The
delegates shall be elected on the
ratio of one to every 12,000 pop¬
ulation in each senatorial district,
which will give to lha convention
181 members. This will he the
first constitutional since the fa¬
mous “Bob Toombs” convention
of 1877.
The Cost of War.
Large financial interests arc
said to be behind the movement
for the restoration of pence in
ibe Far East. The Washington
correspondent of the Brooklyn
Eagle learns that “interest rates
are being affected and the inju¬
rious influences of the war are
spreading beyond the combat¬
ants. They are hurting the men
who make and break kings. It
is getting more and more difficult
to finance large enterprises. It
is said that the war is not only
embarrassing the projects of Eu¬
ropean capitalists, but that it is
having a bad effect on railroad
construction and other industrial
iolerprises in the United States.
Powerful corporations and indi-
viduals are bringing their influe-
'
ence to , bear to end , hostilities,
1 hose who understand the tre-
mendous power of the corporate
, money interests . believe , . that ,
they will eventually ”"' succeed m
S,OPI)l " Stl ' e w “ " ot
impossible says tin,* Troy Record.
If the capitalists shut, down on
Russia it will have to yield. Its
indebtedness makes wluily in-
dependent action impossible,
Nevertheless, there will be much
sharp fighting before peace is ar-
ranged. The Japanese are going
to make the most of their oppor-
tunities, and thus avoid being
out of the fruits of vic-
tory as they were ten years ago.
Brutally t Tortured.
A ease came to light that for
persistent and unmerciful torture
has never hee„ equaled. Joe
of Colusa, Calif, writes.
“For ao years I endured insuffer-
able pain from Rheumatism and
relieved me though 1
tried everything known. I came
across Electric Bitters and it’s
the greatest medicine on earth for
that trouble. A few bottles of
completely relieved and
me.” Just as good for Liver
Kidney troubles and general
bilitv. Only 50c.
guaranteed by ' S. P.
1 druggist,
GREAT DEVELOPMENT.
Second and Eleventh
Show Good Growth.
A Brunswick citizen who re-
cent]y made a trip through the
second and eleventh congression¬
al districts writes as follows of
their great development:
The gain of (he second district
in population from 1800, 160,000,
to 1900, 226,000 was 37b per cent.
The gain in the eleventh district
from 1890, 157,0097 to 190 >, 227,-
000, was 43and one half per cent.
. "Thus have these two districts
grown from those wi;h the least
population to the two with the
largest population in (he state.
This rate of increase is
ed in the period from 1-000
1904 over 100 per-cent single
crops vvf 1 0 acres, many crops
ranging from 50 to 100 acres, 5 Jo
20 acre crops common through
the sugar cane area, Small sta¬
tions shipping many barrels of
syrup per year.
Large areas devoted to fruit
culture, other large areas to
water melons and canteloiipes.
Hay raised in bales and surplus
shipped in many counties of the
two districts. Increased interest
in all classes of live stock, in¬
creased quantity and improved
qualify. Pecan orchards coming
in bearing, diversification of
crops, numbers of cities increas¬
ing largeh in population, in man¬
ufacturing and wealth.
Prosperity evidetJ in better
homes, better outbuildings, better
teams, schools and new and beau¬
tiful Court Houses.
And \et this fourteen years of
prosperity is but a commence¬
ment of a mmement which for
the balance of the present census
period will astonish even partici¬
pants in it when gathered in stu-
tsstics of the next census.
Over a thousand miles of rivers
in these two districts have w ithin
their swamps vast areas of hard¬
woods of almost endless variety,
suitable for furniture, for car¬
riages and wagons, for plow' and
reaper and mower frames, for
handles of all classes of tools.
The utilization of the unsight¬
ly yellow pine stump by distill¬
ation, and sale of its products,
wood-alcohol, turpentine, cross
ties, tar charcoal, comes just
when it is needed to clear our
fields and thus permit the use of
improved machinery. The way
is being paved for us by the agri¬
cultural department to utilize a
vast source of wealth in our
sweet potato crop converted into
starch, into alcohol money crops.
Georgia’s great ports must reap
the benefit of this wonderful
growth largely. The surplus
must find a market through this
gateway to the world’s markets,
We are keeping pace with
growth and development of
SouLn whose climate is worth
raore th ,, " n , her . „ soll . > »“<! ' v,,os
sml 1S suited for a vast and
agriculture,
, No T p city b&own.
“For years fate was after me
continuously” Verbena, writes F. A. Gul-
ledge, Ala. “I had a
terrible case of Piles causing 24
tumors. When all failed Back-
leu’s Arnica Salve cured me.
Equally goo, 1 f„l- Bums and all
aches and pain?. Only 2oc at S.
U. Williams drug store.
HON. JAMES M’KENZIE
Won fame For Quinine Biil ar.d
Was Called “Quinine Jim,”
Hopkinsville, Ky., Tune 25,—
Hon. James A. M_*Keuzi*», former
congressman from this
died at his home at Oak Grove
today. lie was 04 \vnrs old and
known everywhere as “Quinine
Jim.”
Prominence came to Mr. Mo¬
Koozie through Ida strenuous and
successful championing: of the
bill, of which he was the author,
to take the tax off quinine. The
speech which, through its humor,
logic and earnestness sent that
measure thre ugh the house and
put the drug within the reach ot
thousands who hud been unable
to use it before on account of the
prohibitive income tax upon it,
ll- as printed in newspapers all
over the United States and was,
quoted by politicians for years
after.
Judge J. Soule Smith, w ho died
recently in Lexington, was not
only one t f Mr. McKenzie's
closest friends, but was bound to
him by Masonic tics. Both had
been grand masters of the order
in Kentucky, Mr. McKenzie
held the, high office from 1890 to
1801.
Moultrie’s Bonds Sold Weil,
M'Uiltrie, Ga., June 24.—That
Moultrie's credit stands well in
the financial world is proven J>y
the high price paid for her school
bonds. The issue of $25,000 sold
for 825,010. The bonds were sold
to John Nureen vfe Go. of Chicago.
The sehool board will close the
contract for a new school buil¬
ding at an early date.
Iceland, cut off from tho rest
of the world, save for slow mails,
is to be linked toother countries
by means of .vireless telegraphic
connection with tiie Shetland
islands. This is to follow the
action of the Icelandic Parlia¬
ment, as its last session, in voting
a yearly subsidy of $9,880 for
twenty years for that purpose.
Change of color is one of the
best indexes to the emotions of
the fish. When the fish is sick
its color is apt to be faint, while
when in health, angry or breed¬
ing the colors stand oul brightly
and vividly.
Arsenic exists normally in
man and animals, in the skin and
its appendages, the thyroid and
mammary glands, the brain and
the bones. In the other organs
it has been found only in slight
traces.
Help I Help!
A erv which goes Up out of the
midst of great Calamities , ... , like ,
floods, famine, pestilence, the fires of
and tornadoes. In case
Fires end Tornadoes the Help is
Prompt and Certain, if you pre-
nave ♦nin.Vont yourself before the
»■ a
loss or damage by fue and
storms in the companies repre-
seated bv US. Go.
Caksox, Banks
Tax Notice.
The tax books for the town of
Adel will close- July 1st, 1904.
Those who have not given in
their town taxes are requested to
do s.. Before this .U c,
A Vi ’
Clerk i and tieas.
BAPTISTS MEET.
78th Annual Meeting of Eche-
connee Association.
Macon, (la., June 25—The 78th
annual session of (lie Eeheconnee
Association of Primitive Baptists
will be held in this city at the
Fair Grounds, September Id, 17
and 28. 1 lie meeting will
held with the Bethlehem
ol I?ibb countv.
The association comprises some
twenty or more churches and the
three days’ session of the meeting
will betaken up with the reports
Hie churches and church bus¬
iness.
Many prominent ministers of
the faith are expected to be in
attendance and the sermons which
will be delivered dining the asso¬
ciation will be strong in every
detail.
The associations are always
well attended and it will be 1111 -
possible to obtain seating capacity
in Bethlehem church, therefore
the association will hold its ses¬
sions in Cabaniss Hall, Central
City park.—Macon 'Telegraph.
THE GLUTEUS MAXIMUS.
It In the Stronttent Muncle In the Ha¬
inan Dotty.
The strongest muscle In the human
body is the gluteus^ maximus. Hardly
a movement of the lower extremities
can be made without bringing it Into
i£Vi"L“2 “S
bone. It assists in carrying the leg for-
ward and outward in walking, and
without its aid ty>y movement of the
nod}' from the hips would be Impossi¬
ble.
As it is the strongest, so is it also the
'largest muscle we possess. In the full
grown man it can exert a force of 110
pounds to the square inch of its section
in tlio thickest part.
Another strong muscle, which is sit-
uated in the calf of the leg, is capa¬
ble of sustaining seven times the
weight of the body. The great tendon
which is inserted in the heel hone, call¬
ed tendon achilles, Is also of singular
strength. When removed from the
body, it has sustained a weight of
2,000 pounds, yet sometimes by the
sudden action of the muscles of the
calf, to which it belongs, it has been
snapped, across.
PERMANENT MAGNETS.
The Simplest Way of XaffnetUlnK a
Bar of Steel.
The simplest way of magnetizing a
bar of steel is that known as “single
touch.” The bar to be magnetized ia
laid on the table and the pole of a pow¬
erful magnet is rubbed from ten to
twenty times along Sts length, always
in the same direction. If the north
pole of the magnet is employed the end
of the bar first touched will also be-
come a north pole, while the opposite
end, at which the magnet is lifted be¬
fore returning, will be a south pole.
There are other and more complicated
methods,' known as “divided touch"
and “double touch.” in which two and
even four magnets are employed.
A steel bar can also be magnetized
by placing it within a coil of insulated
wire, through which a galvanic current
is circulating. The magnetism induced
in this way, however, is weak com¬
pared with that which can be procured
if the same strength of current is em¬
ployed through the intervention of an
electro-magnet.
“Hamlel” at Elsinore.
Shakespearean commentators have
wondered why the poet placed the
scenes of “Hamlet” at Elsinore, in the
island of Zealand, whereas the Danish
prince lived and died In Jutland. But
the municIpa i authorities at Elsinore
discovered in their archives that an
English company was acting in their
town in 1587 or 1588, and among the
names of the actors are several of those
who were acting with Shakespeare in
ventureB in Denmark, and so Shake-
gpeare became well acquainted with
Elsinore and when he wrote “Hamlet”
naturally placed the scene in a place
which he knew by description rather
than in a place of which he knew noth-
in s- -—--
Natives of Central Africa
ma ^ e butter out of the butter
tree.
Subscribe for the News.
ARE NO TRAMPS IN GERMANY
Poor Have Many Privifeges, But
Cannot Become Vagrants.
(From The National Magazine.)
, today the lot of the lu boring
man in Germany is in many re-
spects better than that of ours.
The German state rezognizes tile
right of every man to Jive—we do
When the German laborer
becomes old or feeble the state
pensions him honorably, In Ger-
many the laboring man can ride
on the electric cars for 2 cents—
we pay 5. German ,/ettie9
public baths, public lauudrv
establishments, big parks, free
concerts and many other feature#
which soften poverty—although
they do not remove it.
The cora 11 ary to this is that
the emperor permits no tramps
to terrorize his highways. The
police are organized for rural pa¬
trol as well as city work, qihI
every loafer is stopped amt made
to give an account of himself. In
England Vagrancy has been $
a public nuisance for generation#
—with us it has become of late
years almost a public danger.
Germany has no tramps. The
man who is without work in Ger¬
many finds no inducement to re¬
main idle. A paternal govern-
ni'ent sets him to Such hard work
*.»* finds it decidedly to his interest
to seek some oilier employment
as scon ns possible.
An exchange says that the peo¬
ple who need religion are: The
man who lets his horse stand out
in the cold all day without ft.
blanket, on ; the man who growls
like a wild beast when his wife
asks him for money; the woman,
who is not what Bhe ought to be;
the minister who is looking for
an easier place and higher salary;
the man who walks the streets
with his hands in his pocket*
while his wife carries the baby;
the man who keeps five dogs and
says he can’t afford to take the
home paper.
Cured of Chronic Diarrhoea After Ten
Years of Suffering.
“I wish to say a few words isi
praise of Chamberlain’s Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy,”
says Mrs. Mattie Burge, of Mar¬
tinsville, Va., “I suffered from
chronic diarrhoea for tfeii years
and during that time tried va¬
rious medicines without obtain¬
ing any permanent relief. Last
summer one of my children was
taken with cholera morbus, and I
procured a bottle of this lemedy.
Only two doses were required de¬ to
give her entire relief. I then
cided to try the medicine myself,
and did not use all of one bottle
before I was well and I have
never since been troubled with
that complaint. One cannot say
too much in favor of that won¬
derful medicine.” This remedy is
for sale by all druggist.
Splendid Home for Sale.
On account of leaving Adel, I
offer for sale my house and lot.
Five room house and barn. This
is a bargain for somebody.
M. M. 'Newberry.
Farm Loans Promptly Made.
Our facilities for making leans unsur¬
passed . Time 5 year#, but borrower'
t may pay in w hole or part any year abet
j stop interest. ELLIS & ELLIS.
Padrick Building Tifton, Gft.
Prompt attention given all written
quiries,