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r Good Advertising Indium, Dsvotsd to Local, Mining and General Information. VO!„ XIV—N T (). 42. DAIILONEGA, CiA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY >5. 190^ W. E. TOWNSEND, Editor and Proprietor To improve Old Fields. Having Some Fun. mmam DEALERS IN OO CD O Shoes. , Clothing. O £ Dry Goods, ^ o o Notions, S - & Hats GrocErieS. BARGAIN STORE. Anderson & Jones. | CLOTHING, fShoes, Hats, Furnishings, EDry Goods, Notions, Guns, Mines, Groceries. Clothing a specialty. They will sell you clothing for cash tat Gainesville or Atlanta prices. A| >nice line of samples and will take5 |your order for tailor made goods. ♦ JD^ATTLOISiEGii Livery Stable, Moore Bro*, Propr’s. Nearly ;»R (\vur the South uhl ; fields are seen. They are the re* ] suit of a style of fur mints that was 1 very general before the Civil War. i -While land was cheap and labor abundant it was considered far ! cheaper to clear lands and culti vate them continually until they became exhausted. They were then turned out on the commons ' and allowed to remain without any j attertipt for their restoration. Since the new style of agricul ture has come into practice in the j I .will gel a shovel. ! Booth a good many farmers have in ten minutes." j gone to work to reclaim those old abandoned fields and to bring them into a condition of fertility suf ficiently great to justify the cx- “Now, boys, I will toll you how we can have some fun," said Frank to his playmates, who had come together one bright moonlight evening for sliding and snow-ball ing. ‘‘What is it?" asked several at once. “You will see," said Frank. “Who has a wood saw?' - “1 have." “So have l," replied three of the hoys. “Get them, then, and you and iFred and Tom each get an ax, and Let’s bo back TM* Sjpace !Relon^«rtQ % MB pen sc of their cultivation. 0)ne of The boy® all alarted to go on their several errands, each .won dering of what irse wood-saws and axes and shovels could be in play. But Frank was much liked by all the best methods M reaping some the boys and they fully believed in ( profits from these old fields is to j break them up and plant them in yellow locust, that in a few years ! will prove as remunerativcias any portion of >the farm. The rapidly growing demand for durable Tunes l ing posts leads one to the belief what he said and they were soon together again. • “Now," said he, “Widow Brown, who lives in that little house, over there, has gone to sit up all night with a sick child. “A man brought her some wood that every acre planted will witbs today, and 1 heard her tell him in fifteen years yield a return of that, unless she got some one to j $100 per acre. This is a big item, | and it becomes still larger when i we consider that the noble cedar forests of the South have become i well nigh exhausted, and nothing ; will so well take their place ns io J oust forests. Another way of 1 restoring .them that may prove i profitable is to sow them with scaly-bark hickorynuts. (The trees will bear hickorynuts within lif- : teen years. The demand for I second-growth hickory for bent -Dealer in General Merchandise, % I > A H I jO iS' 'I'Xi; A. <e. A . .F1.NE SHOES A SPECIALTY.. Life in the Country. Young men in the.country even now sometimes behave that they are placed at a disadvantage in the race of life compared with the young men of the city. They re- j gurd the isolation of country Life, saw it tonight, she would not have anything to make a lire with in the morning. “Now we could saw and split j w p|, its,limited mental vision and that pile of wood just as easily as | j( S deprivation of many social en- \ve could make a snow man or her [ joyments, as almost intolerable, door step, and when she comes I |»,p e (iould be remembered that home she will be greatly | their iminediato contact with mi- prised. , tu»’e, i's green fields and great for- 4'ne or two of the boys said they , L ,p ltn ,i beautiful streams and did not care to go, but most of |.eometimes great mountains .is an them thought it would be fine fun. . education in itself and an ample I t was not a long and tiresome j compensation for the doss of the work, buggy spokes, ax handles, job for seven strong and healthy I g,, iet j c8 0 f the city, the dolights of etc., is continually increasing. In hoys to saw, split, and pile up the j p, c theater, the charm of the clubs, six or eight years after sowing ; widow’s half-cord of wood, and to | t h e inspiration of.tbedycenm, the 1 these bichory groves might be j shovel a good path. ' thinned out and a largo number j When they had done this, so would not go, proposed that they of hoop-poles could be -aceurea great was their pleasure that one that would pay the cost of all the of them, who had at first said he ! work that has been done. But. while all this profit, may i result, the largest profit would be ! in the renewal of fertility of the soil. Nothing will do-so much to bring about this restoration as the subsoiling which the hickory roots would give the soil, and also the pleasant whirlpools of society and the instructive cotcrtaiument of the museums. But for all these seeming de privations the young men of the should go to a carpenters shop country enjoy advantages which, near by, where plenty of shavings j n n)aiiy respects, are superior to those which the young men in the could he had, and that each should bring an armful. They all agreed to do this, and when they had brought The shav ings, they went to their several mulch which the hickory leaves homes, more than pleased with the would form .upon the surface, feu of the evening. Where the hickory sprouts come j The next morning, when the up thick upon the surface they tired widow returned from watch- will hold the leaves and not per- | by the sick died and saw what mit them to be -swept away from 1 was done, she was indeed surpris ' off the land by the wind. This ! ed, and wondered who could have .mulch would soon bring about a ; been so kind, virgin fertility. ! Afterward, when a friend told city enjoy. Their very isolation leads them to habits of careful reading and thought, which will bear fruit in the future that will bo lasting and profitable. They do not see so many ex to mm I ob jects, but the domain of the iotel lect is rendered more luminous by original thoughts.— Kx. CITY DIRECTORY sumtiQK court. 3rd Mondays in April and Octo ber. J. J. ILimsey, .Judge, '-Cleve land, Ga. W. A. (Charters, Solici tor General, Dalilonega, Ga. COUNTY OFFICERS. .John 11 till', Ordinary. John II. Moore,Clerk. dames M. Davis Sherilf. K. J. Walden, Tax Collector. James L. Healan, Tax Receiver. -V. It. Mix, County Surveyor. Joseph.B. Brown, Treasurer. D.O. Sfiuv Coroner, CITY GOVERNTIRNlT. It. H. Baker, Mayor. Aldermen: nE. 8 Strickland, |J. E. McGee, W. B. Townsend, E. B. ■/Vickery. T. J.^mitb. W. P. /Price, Jr. Win. J. Worley, Cloak. Geo. W. Walker, Marshal. RELIGIOUS SERVICES. Baptist Church — Rev. W. C. Taylor, Taster. Services Sunday at LI and at night. Prayer meeting Thursday night. Sunday School at f) o’clock. Methodist—Services every Sun day atill and at night. ,Rev. J. D. Turner, iPastor. tPrayer meeting every Wednesday night. Sunday School at 0 o’clock. ■Presbyterian-—Services only on 1 Jst and 3rd Sundays. D.J Blackwell, pastor. Sunday School a..ui. In the pine regions of the-SouM, | b*r l “’» » <*»» *>m ** er “ rMS ' an old field turned out soon be comes covered with young pine trees that grow up and protect its surface from the burning rays of the sun. The accumulation of prayer, “God bless the boys. ' was enough of itself to make them hap py- HI Hew Slants on (iollege SL RUIN' a DAILY H ACK LINK to and. from G aiiiesyille. FARE, HS1-5Q- C. W. SATTERFIELD, Dealer in FAMILY GROCERIES j\ N I) Greneral Merchandise. Anderson & Jones have one of the best lines of clothing ever brought to IJahlonega -best pat terns and latest cuts—up to (late goods in every respect. ’Notwiths standing the advance in prices they bought at last years figures which enables them to make their prices Mr. Elbert Patterson, the one- right. For cash you can get goods , armed confederate soldier of New a t ail tl below Gainesville and At- pine straw upon the suifaco at ts : pj r j ( jg e> | )as i n!l!n awarded the con- Linta prices, but you Deed not ex- j as a much, and in a few years the t[ . uct ()f CH1TyinR (he ma ji from fertility of the soil will be pur- ; thut ,,i uce to" Dawsotiville, com tially restored. | mencing 1st of July. He carried Steps should be taken to rid t he ^ oijglit years at one time by sub country of such evidences of un— contract. This time he gets it thrift and disregard for the prir j direct from the department under lpary principles of a successful 1 agriculture as old fields. The South ought to have arbor days 1 every year. There should be an 1 intelligent movement in this di ! rection, and the devastations ! that have been made in the past ; should be repaired. The soil is a machine that converts its plant- food into bread grains and grasses j for the sustenance of man and j beast. It produces the raw ma terial for our clothing, and gives ! us the means whereby we may 1 1 ivo. It indirectly feeds, clothes Mr. Tate’s bill and receives more for it. Heretofore all the mail contracts in this county were let to noi: resident8 companies. Now contractors have to live, on the route. Our contractors get more for their work and it scatti is much more moucy where it justly be longs. T. .J. Smith & Bro. have receiv ed their spring stock of clothing— the largest stock in Dahlonega. Don’t place your order till you see ! their complete line of mens, boys ... 11 1 • _ i and youths suits made to fit and .and shelters us, and such a machine , 3 ’ 1 the verv latest styles. 1 hey come imjuires to be carefully guarded, ; ( , ircct fn)m Ujc tnamifacUU ’ers and ■kept in good repair and in a work- ^j ac .; t . | )t 'i c( . s a ix* right—selling as ing condition.—Southern Farm cheap as Gainesville and Atlanta Magazine. 1 prices, or any other clothiDg house, is now. poet them to sell yon goods as cheap on time. They represent one of the best clothing houses io the country and cun take your measure and have your suit taler made for about one-third less than others can-get it up for you on ac count of having the work done at the house they buy all their cloth ing, besides having your suit made and returned in live to eight days from the time it is or dered. The following is from a Texas editor, whose name we do not know: “The sorriest ciws on earth is the cuss who will sit around and cuss his town. If we lived astride the north polo we would call it home and woitld be ready - to boost it up. uf we couldn’t say anything else good about it, we would say that our ice bill didn’t come high. We wouldn’t live in a town we had to cuss while the world is as big as it Mot Fatal. "No Matter What "Doc tors Say—We Know That Heart Trou ble in M any Cases'Can Be Cured. TIicto arc seven main features r r1t 'heart disease, viz.: (1) Weakness or Debility; (2) Klieumatism or Neuralgia; i(3) Valvular Disorder; (4) Dilation; i(5) Enlargement; ,(6) Fatty Degenera •tlon; (7) Dropsy. Documentary oVitlua«Q wil prove thousands of so-called "Incurables" have ’been absolutely cured by Dr. Miles' New Heart Cure. Patients often lmve no iden their dis ease is heart trouble, but ascribe 'it tWt Indigestion, Liver Complaint, etc. 1 lere are some of the symptermst Shortness of breath after exercise. Smothering Spells. Pain in Chest, left Shoulder and arm. Discomfort in Lying on one side. Fainting Spells. Xfervotai Cough. Swelling 'Of Feet anE Ytnkle*:. Paleness of Face and Lips. Palpitation. Nightmare. Irregular Pulse. "I have gr^nt faith in Dr. Miles' New Heart Cure, and speak of its merits whenever opportunity presents. I can mow go up and down stairs with ease, where three week/; ago 1 eould iuirdly »walk one bloek.” One year llnt>»r.—‘*1 inn still in good herflth; the Heart‘Cure did so much for me, that I (lad it a far greater medicine tiian you Claimed tt io lie.”—S. D. YOUNG, D. D., t»‘J7 North Pine St., Natchez, Miss. Money back If llrst bottle fails'to'beneftt. •T-iT>titti Write us and we will mall J: IUjTj voii a Free Trial Package df Or. Miles’’ Anti-Pain Pills, (the Now, Scientific Remedy lor Pain. Also Syuap-- lom lbank for our Specialist to tSlagnos« your ease and tell you what is wrong and how to right it. Absolutely Free. Address: DR. MILKS MEDICAL C®., LABORATORIES. ELKHART, INI*.