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The Search-Light. 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 BUTCHER - SHOP 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. 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