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BAINBRIDGE, AUG. 10,1901.
A Mitchell bounty man who li»<l
taken In* home paper mil of the f/osi
office for two vert*'* and then swore
lie didn’t know anything about hav
ing to |my for it, died the other day.
Two days afterwords word Was re
ceived from him that he had a very
nice journey* down grade nil (he War,
with it through train and no stops,
lie also reports the thermometer be
ing at since the flood and n6 rain
in '3000 years.-*-Camilla Clarion,
1 i he action of your bowel* Is not
*ih,- and regular serious complications
itiu-t he the fimil result DeWitt's Lit-
».« Hirer* will remove the danger, Bafe,
jilHiiMiiit effective, K. L. Hick*.
A Chicago justice of the peace has
s nteuced a young nian to save $100.
The youth was arrested for playing
baseball in the public street and for
the added misdim auor of advisiag
a police officer wtio objected to go
and jump in the river. As the lad
was playing during business hours
magistrate shrewdly opined that be
'was an idler, and hence the sentence.
jTlie culprit is to report at stated in-
f teryajs mid exhibit bis savings bank
aOccugt, sentence to be suspended as
Kffig |i'n hp shows reasonable progress
lofyitfc) "the agouq) illation of $100.
'J’lip seilte'pcc is 'u novelty in petty
ci'lnpna) ju'rin| rudenue, but it may be
tliu si||viitioV'ofW young man. It
wil| be better for* him jTmn » work-
{xigse sentence, at least.
A BLKSSINU in DIMit'ISK.
%fhen Bermuda gras* first made
its appearance iu Georgia it was a
most unwelcomed visitor.
Our farmers did not believe that
it was good for anything and ob
serving how rnpidly it spread they
became greatly alarmed. Many of
them tried to exterminate this new
grass and Were deeply disappointed
when they fonnJ that it defied their
most determined attacks,
They finally accepted Bermuda
grass as a visitation of a chastening
Providence and prayed that it wight'
not prove such a terrible calamity as
they anticipated.
To-day Georgia could afford to
pay many millions of dollars rather
than part with Bermuda grass. It is
worth a tast amount of money to
this stale and is becoming more valu
able every year.
The Augusta Chronicle quotes
Prof. S. M. Tracy, an agricultural
expert as saying:
“1 have been over a large portion
of Georgia, Alabama and Mississip
pi, the regions where the drought
has been most severe, and I find the
Bermuda pastures the only ones
which are able to furnish forage af
ter six weeks of scorching sun. Iu
fact, the drouth resisting characteris
tic of the Bermuda constitutes one
of its chief values In all regions sub
ject to severe summer drought. It
is the foundation of every really
good pasture throughout ‘the gulf
states region.
“It is essentially a rich land grass,
wud nowheie in the world does .it
cucoeed better than in the black
SLICING A BATTLES.
TMS COLORADO WAV OF TURNING
THE DANGEROUS TRICK.
.fumes White, Bryautsyille, Ind.. says
J)*A\ i t', WUctiiHpael Sidvfe healed run-A,
'niug mho* on IMth leg*. He hud suffer-:praise region of northeast Missis-
e<i h \eaMU Doctors failed to help him.
Get Dewitt s. Accept no iiuitutious.
'It. L Hicks.
T.ie BultiinoreJSun (i)eui.) says:
“Tbure appears to be no probability*
that» hi nation composed of capi
talists or of planter* will be formed
to monopolize the South’s production
of cotton. If every planter could ob
tain enough naofjiyr to pay off Ins in-
dobfednes*/1$ give.cojih for his farm
supplies# aud to put a aufljloieiit bal-
mm in bank io meet hi* expanses un
.Milffil, ithe creek and river bottom
land* in the oentral part of the state,
and on |.be ,p)f)iflt alluvial lands of
tbe delta.
'fin carvfui,feeding,tests made at
state experj/uqpt station, Bermuda
was found to be about per cent,
more valuable than tbe bcjBt timothy
hay'for both mules and cattle. J-lt
yield exceeds that of any qtlier grass
making ay ol equally gpod,quality,
and its thrifty growth, .where prop
erly cared for, has changed many
til In’ was ready to sell, the ^kxttb | |Ii«sh»tppi counties frojp ipiporterj
might always oliEffi’iV »fah- price for
its staple product. If is not likely,
however, that a syndicate of finan
ciers will bo organized to afiYanPO
thy immense sum of money lhafl
,would^be rey’iired to enable tbe
Southern pl^utci** to hold'their cot,.
itAn .'.•'definitely. The scheme would
it,,; „ rtaky one, both for the syndicate
ami tfAw jihuiters.”
IP Thomas. Bumtervtlle, Ala:
•i from dyspepsia when I
omi^MU* ,*** *>vspep S ia
Cum. I tool: nNKiral Pottles and can
•ligest anything.’ Jv.Hlel Dyspepsia
Cme i* tlie only pii^f»r^t»on ooutaimiig
all the natural digestive ffuids. It gives
week stomach* .<e{l’ice t !® s . onn k
their natural condition u
g: h- Hicks.
A German aisle n I is l -raceuUly
. .pfl out that anails were aldeAo «ka»
iiuwense weights, and now a .B,touch
iiat-walist claims that tiiere are few.,
il auf, animals which have a highqr
appreciation of music than snails.
This naturalist is M. S. Jourdaitkand
lie any*: “Place some snails on a
pane of glas* and you will find that*
.as they move over it, they will make
musical sounds similar to those which
i person can jeoduue by welting liia
finger and then rubbiug it around a
ghss tumbler. Complete airs, be
points out, have been played ou tum-
' biers in this way," and lie expresses
the opiniou that quite as good results
can be obtained by using snails in
stead of fingers. It IS a ourious fact
that at least half a Joaen scientist are
now studying snails. The reason, ac
cording to one of them, is bedause
these little animals are extraordinari
ly s\ mnathetic and intelligent. In*
deed, so highly gifted are they sup
posed to be that a writer did not hus
iuue to ascribe to them a few months
ago the honor-of being “the precura-
.Ow of the wirelessMegrdphsystem."
to exporters of males.
“The rapidly growing apprecia
tion of its value is doing more than
fir/ other one tiling to develop the
fife stock industry of the state. The
Bermuda fields of Mississippi will
soMi i*i l 'tu , l the famous blue grass - re
gions of Stentueky."
A like opfnioiv of the value of
Bermuda grass haw beep given ly
many agricultural scientist*. It has
received a still better endorsement
by the farmers of Georgia and the
other southern atates to which this
once dispised and dreaded grass has
brought immense benefits. What we,
in our ignorance, regarded as a corse
not very lonir ago we now recognise
one of the greatest blessmgs
that has befallen our couutry. Long
jjlvte and wave tbe glorious Bermuda
grass which clothes so many Georgia
(fields. 1 ?
,0.,Q. Buck. Untrue. Ark., says: I was
troubled,wiifi constipation uutil I bought
Dewitt’* L\«Ie fj wiy Hirers. Since they
have lioen entirely eured of my old
complaint 1 recumiueud them. K. L.
Hwfca. »
UiiBstas to jw«;kso.>villic awn si.
AlUlSTISK.
Wednesday, August ilHtb,, >wa Plant
System-
Round trip Ir-fcui Uaiubridge $2 50
Leave Baiuliridge - - 8:00 a. m.
Arrive at Jacksonville • 4:15 p. m.
To St. Aug.mtine,Tate 15 cents ad
ditional. Don’t fail to visit Atlantic
Beach, the modern seashore resort of
the Soutii, 21 miles from Jacksonville.
Tickets good returning on all reg
ular train* including special tram
leaving Junksoiiville 9:00, Wednes
day July CI*t.
Call ou auy Plant System agent
or address It. L. Todd, - I). I*. A.
OrtWHq *M<t tiarttm or fw omvlmr
la OaUfas Ml lb* Heart of «b» W*V-
<11* Aft** IIS iMfrdul AtNalN
to HHk«.
“Did jw ever see a eww pOTfeber till
a rattlesnake with a knife?" said a
Colorado citlaen now In town. "When
I ttral went west, I penciled cattle oi»
tin? Sunaet ranch, one of tbe largest In
southern Colorado. 1 was a tenderfoot,
fresh from tbe east, hot no swell bead
about me. That saved oe a lot af
trooMar Tbe bays wen? dead wilting
to pot me next, erra to a U-year-okl
bvourlio never halter broken. Among
other things, f team'd bow to kU> a
rattler with a botvte knife, f killed
on# with a knife to ftiXh# toy standing
good. Wot after that a gun at a pitch
fork was good enough for toe,
“1 have seen a plainsman ride up to
a small sised rattler. Jump off bis horse,
kick at tbe waving head, avoid the
strike and as (be reptile eatoe down
place a heel upon Its neck, coolly take
a knife from bis baft Qhd dispatch M.
d Wave fiibo seen a itvc tatUer thrown
up an a haystack machine, and I have
Been the men working on that stack
jump, mu, tumble and slide to get
<iWay. They could not see tbe rattier!
that was alL In the open they would
have played with It
“A rattlesnake Is harmless out of
poll Kor that reason It wastes no time
uf setting hack info coll after the
springf. ft will not strike unless tt Is
perfoctl/ sure It can reach Its object.
Therefore tbe cowboy must get Into
reach of the snake’s spring. It can
spring half Its own length, and some
times more. Ot* course tbe larger the
snake tbe more coll*, nod the more
colls tbe more vlolonf the *Mke-
“Dtck Haynes was a young dare
devil who would go out of Ills wtrf Jo
piny-with a rattler. ' I have seen tiled
kill at leapt a dozen with a knife.,and
I saw him when be got such n close call,
that be dropped the. game and used a
gtf& forever after.
'<wiBsW«we out together one Sunday.
It waSyvarm,s(Kl as we rode be fanned
ht» face wcjfhhl* sombrero. Soddenty
be cla ppedu on his bead and
started bis broncuftyn a lope. ’Watch
me get that plscm.’ u^lmuted.
“Ittftjr gprds to cor /t<^t was a rat-
tler. 'Tt Wak trying to'getaway, but
we beaded It In an Instant anAjrero off
our bott^ia. It Immediately coi,'>M,^>tKJ
then'I <4?® tbe biggest snake I^hdge
ever seea It was a diamond rattier
and about 20 years old. It bad the
ugliest bead I ever saw, enormous In
size, and with a mouth that reminded
me of a bulldog’s Jaw. Dick stopped
Just long enough to size up Its length
so as to get an Idea of Its spring, and
then went In on tL
“Tbe strike came like a flash of light
ning. Tbe snake struck the ground
with a sound like tbe cracking of a four
borae whiplash In tbe hands of an ex
pert Dick just saved himself by
throwing bis body luck full length.
The snake colled again before Dick
couH get to It. 1 got onroui and call
ed to hint to shoes ft.
"•^■figfa tba Aral one *bat ever struck
«c gae and sroi he raid, 'and I’m
going fa ha V tha,t pretty bend.’
“Jhc (Bttli-r* jca* bOfilde Itself with
rage. Jt lay. col! vpon wU ot smooth,
glisteuiog length, (thawing the long
feneb and powerfhi spring la resurve.
GW of the colls two more of body
Obd neck rose straight lb the air. and
above all that black, venomous bead,
with glowing eyes and forked tongue,
waved, slightly, wurlly. to aud fro
“Dk-k stepped In again, more cap-
(km<dy. He reaclMvl-the knits nearer
And'yef* bearer to tlinf swaythg 'bead.
t Jittew be was getting too close, but I
feared to speak to him. Then came the
strike. With that marvelous dart of
speed Dtck's knife flashed and tbe
snake lay scfu.'ttBiflg, a beodleaa thing
upon the ground
“ ’Let's get to camp.' raid Okck. ‘It
got me In tbe thumb.*
“We Jumped for the atNWles and
started on a mad run for borne. Dick
rode with bis thumb on the saddle
boro and bis knife to. tils other band. .
"It she begins to swriL off sbe
comes.' sahJ be.
“We reached tbe ranch, and while
Dick poured down . Whisky we exam
ined tbe thumb. Wtricdilld And tsitb-
fng. not tbe slightest wound. The snake
bad struck tbe handle of bis knife, ami
tttte strength and sudilenness of tbe Im-
jpaet made Dick lose bis nerve. It was
.S good thing for til in. He never went
gftor « rattler again without a long
blew Sort Sun.
Professional Cards-
DR. S. J CHESNUT.
Physician and Snrgecn
Treats diseases of the Eye, Ear,
Nose and Throat.
All calls promptly attended,
OFFICE OS
Broughton Street.
Mss au (be Warn.
«ee a Wisconsin into cla tots to
ksvt solved the perpecnai tnodoo prob
lem."
“That's Mtbteg- | bare a model of
* perpetual motto* nvariMra at my
bouse nasr "
“Doe# it work nmmMlyr
-“From the -stondpoisk dff
motion, you bst tt does."
“Have you gtoeo « « «MM
•vtpUBe."
1. E.
Contractor and Boilder.
JiAmillbGti, 9A.
Bids Buhtnitted on All Kinds of
BRICK: or ; WOOD ; WORK.
IS-1 {/'
R. J. ROONEY,
Contractor and Enildor.
Estimates cheerfully furnished on all
. . classes o! building. . .
J. W. BURNEY,
SIltZifllPBffiP ftl^D BUILDER
BAINHKIDGE, GEORGIA.
gSTAgenf for Hind wood Mantels,
Doors, Sash and Bln ds. and contracts
for tiint-clas* Cement. Sidewalks.
Fresh Meats
All Kinds
AT MY NEW
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ON WATER STREET.
JETE H. POWELL
.Montgomery, Ala., or T. J. Bottoms, 4° yeu e&B ioT
-r j» a TJiom-i-vill.* Gs “’Jlmml#. aud ti waa 3 graaa aid Sa
T. F. A, Thom, win, «4. '^whatbdgy' fltonAk
TOMB STONES.
-AND-
Do you contemplate erecting a monument
or tomb (tone, ot- in any way im
proving j our cemetery lot? If
so. write me at
r .„ CUTHBERT, GA.
I will submit designs and prices aud
will call at yo lr home to see you. The
best work of all
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f. G. SPEARMAN,
Cothbert, Ga
To the Public.
I nave a’ very large spring and sum
mer pasture near town where I will take
cows at morning and graEe them duriug
the day. returning same at night, for the
sum of $1.25 per mouth.
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