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The Corn Has Been Shel!- ed Off. *. p Art oldCrtlrtred prpach'er was ask wh#fonw fua c.hnridi was getting cu, sv. k! his answer was, — • 'Mighty poor, flighty pocr, -Wltf i* rtmttfnible?” f>* W" i - ‘Do cieties. cieties! Pay is jist drawn all, do fatness and marrow f no ten jiv body and bones ob de t> v .-sse<l Cord’s Cody. We can’t do u -• i|n widrrtrtf-de cietv. Par is de i. mCitm -Gwky, wid sister Jones dfctuddx-isrown to run it. Sis- Williams must march in Iron! m> dc Daughters of Rebecca. Den 15 dp-Dorcases, de Marthas, de p itdgliters ob Ham. and Liberian •Well you have the brethren to it sip in tne Church,” we suggest '*No, sah. Par am tie Masons; si Odd Fellers, do Sons of Haro, • f r ,and de Oklaoma Promised Land : 'MgriniB. Why, hrudders by de t; de brudder and sister pays all be dues, and tens all de meetina, .:a_ s nuflin left for Mount Pisgah Lurch but jist do col>. De corn ,i,fA been shelled off, and frowed to .i. e speckled chickens. —The v.Lbristiaii Statesman. A Word About Going in Debt. 'I he coming of spring and ji.tV: paration for another crop is al t >£ dy being evidenced in town as vlas on the Farm. Large ship of horses and mules are ii'mag brought here to market •■ 'si. svy week, ami carloads of guano .'fire arriving daily. a.’ armers find it an easy matter tv. buy and sign legal papers to ure payment, which covers ev ‘Vj t'iing a man possesos or iv pacts to make, but the chances :*r> that on pay day this fellow would give just anything in his p rssesion if only he could repent at' his folly, if only he could have loomed in time to live within his . sur.ome, and to have held fast to which was then his own. hut in r.> was the property of another and in many instances w I'fl no worldly posession what -v to give evidence of thoconsid erfCuon for the passing of hisprop vty from him. f times are hard we must cur 'Us. 1 our expenses to meet the pinch Lt til the people learn to vote for ft*. :r own interest instead of for Vx-3 fellows who are administering 2.tv - pinching. It is for the interest <i> every producer to vote together, *o_d they must learn to do thisbe ■ ioce there will over be any pros perity for them. Turn around the cow and let tlbs other fellow do the feeding for a while, while we do some of the '.milking.—The Clinton Caucasian. ' Keep people in ignorance and yuc can keep them in slavery,” is nxz aphorism much quoted. Yet slaves of the press usually the rii. 03 1 educated, are the most slav vrttb on record. They sutler a slav that is both galling and humi v i.* ng, in that it destroys every c* <V impulse iu the breast of its viviv _n. It is not enough to edu -05- men to make . them free. Knowledge is power sometimes To make men inOontestibly aiac alisolutely free they must be n ■' &5e economically free and pro* rj.ii- ted by conditions and institu ti cn calculated to conserve and preserve their freedom. And un fS..'. this is done, no man can truly “a v that he is free —Mercury. ■&>T\e Minute Cough Cure, cures. That la what It was made for. Study of Political Economy Thirty years ago the professors in the Berlin university devoted 13 hours a week to the study of political economy, This amount of time is now more than doubled. The range of this subject has been extended and now includes such questions as labor rights, curren cy problems, social protective leg islation, economic meaning of ma chinery, and so forth. —Chicago Tribune. HUGE MILL TO BE ERECTED. City of Iliinisvill** (i: ts Uip Largest Cotton Factory South. Huntsvii i.r, Ala., Feb. ,0. —Final ar rangements l ave just been made, insur ing the erection at Huntsville of a cot ton mill of 200,0(0 spindles, three times as large as any like industry now in the south. The corporation that will erect Bud operate the industry is entitled the Merimac Manufacturing company of Lowell, Mass., having a capital of $2,- 500,000. The charter has been granted and the governor’s approval is affixed. Several prominent business men, headed by T. W. Pratt, have been work ing to secure the new industry for 18 months past, but special legislation was required to make possible its location in Alabama. All these matters have been attended to and tile contract papers are signed. A site will be selected from among several that are now under con sideration and ground will be broken within the next few weeks. The Merrimac manufacturing com pany operates an immense plant at Lowell and the new plant here will be an improved duplicate of the first. The plant will consist of many buildings, including a bleaehery, printing mill for printing calico, a dyehouseand machine shops. Print cloths, ginghams, sateens, velveteen and fine dress goods will be among the articles manufactured. The employes will number something more than 5,000, more than half of them necessarily skilled workmen. NO FUEL AT BIRMINGHAM. Several Large Fnnuices Compelled to lht.nlc Tin- r Fires. Birmingham, Ala, Feb. 20. —The pro duction of pig iron in this district has been cut down quite a bit by the fur naces banking their tires on account of a scarcity of coke and coal. The Ox moor furnace, three furnaces at Besse mer and also furnaces at Ensley City have their fires banked aud no iron is being made. Each day that the fur naces are idle cuts the production down considerably. The furnaces are making more than 175 tons of pig iron a day, and with five of them out of blast it can be easily figured as to the amount of pig iron that will be missed. The demand for the product is exceedingly brisk and orders are oil the books of the various com panies which will be shipped on for at least four or five mouths yet. The ex port trade is just as active as it has been and the great advance in iron is being given by the foreign buyers as well as by the local purchasers. The cut in the production is likely to advance the mar ket some again. LAST OF VOLUNTEERS GO. War Department Issues Orders Dis charging Troops in tile Sou ill. Washington, Feb. 20.—The war de partment issued the following state men : Orders have been given for the mas ter out of the following volunteer regi ments: At Savannah, Ga.—Third Georgia; Batteries A. B, C, D, Maine artillery; Two Hundred and Second New York volunteers. At their present camps at Augusta, Ga., aud Greenville, S. O.—Third Ala bama, Third Connecticut, Fifth Massa chusetts, Thirty fifth Michigan, Fif teenth Minnesota, Fourth New Jersey, Two Hundred and First New York, Two Hundred and Third New York, Tenth Ohio. First Rhode Island, Sec ond West Virginia. Tnis order discharges all tho volun teers remaining in the United States. NEGRO VOTE ELIMINATED. General Assembly of North Carolina Limits Suffrage. Raleigh, Feb. 20.—An amendment to the constitution of North Carolina, limiting suffrage, has been adopted by both branches of the general assembly. It will be submitted to a vote of the people in August, 1901, at the same time state officers are voted for. The avowed object of the amendment is to eliminate the ignorant negro vote. To do this educational, property and poll tax qualifications are prescribed. But this is made ineffective as to white people by the further provision that any person can vote who was entitled to vote on Jan. 1, 1867, or any time prior thereto, or whose ancestors were so en titled to vote. Mrs. Gleason Not Guilty. Augusta, Ga., Feb. 20.— The jury in the case of Mrs. Gleason, charged with •ending obscene letters through the mails, has returned a verdict of aot guilty. PRESIDENT FAURE IS DEAD. Apoplrxy Carries OfT thf Chlrf Magis trate of France. Paris, Feb. 17. —M. Felix Faure, pres ident of France, is dead. He succumbed to a sudden and unexpected attack of apoplexy. His family and several mem bers of the cabinet were about him when the end came. The dying statesman realized the situation and bade wife and children a most affectionate farewell. Francis Feiix Faure, sixth president of the third republic of France, was born Jan. 20, 1841, in Paris, and was the son of a cabinetmaker. When quite young he married the daughter of M. Beiluot, an attorney at Amboise. Al most immediately afterwards he settled at Havre as a commission merchant and soon became a leading ship owner. During the Franco-Prussian war he was captain of the mobiles of Seine- Infeneuro, in which capacity he took part in the skirmishes near Havre, being recommended by Admiral Mou chey for the Legion of Honor. He greatly distinguished himself by the promptness with which, at the head of volunteer firemen, organized by him self, he extinguished the conflagrations started at Havre by the Communards. In doing this he was slightly wounded by a shell. In August, 1881, he offered himself as a Republican candidate for parlia ment in the Third district of Havre and was elected. He was appointed under secretary of state for the colonies in the Gambetta administration formed in No vember of that year, and held the same office in the ministries of M. Jules Ferry (1883), M. Brisson (1885) and M. Tirard (1887). In May, 1891, he became minister of marine in Dupuy’s cabinet and was ap pointed vice president of the chamber of deputies, a position to which he was several times elected. On the retirement of M. Casimir Pe rier, who resigned the presidency Jan. 16, 1895, he was chosen president by 430 votes as agaisiit 361 given to Henri Bris son. M. Emile Loubet, president of the senate and formerly premier, has been elected by the national assembly to suc ceed the late M. Faure. ONLY FOUR DAYS REMAIN. The General Assembly Is Now About Ready to Adjourn. Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 18.— There remains of the present session of the general assembly only four more days About 500 acts have already passed both houses. About 50 of them are of a gen eral uature. Only two of these 50 are of especial general interest—the law pro viding for the holding of an election to determine whether a convention shall be held to frame anew constitution for the state, and the law providing for a system of dispensaries in Alabama. This latter is a general law with cer tain counties excepted, but the excepted counties contain 28 of the largest coun ties of the 66 in the state, and 21 of the remainder already have prohibition laws, and, therefore, do not come under the provisions of the dispensary act. Seven teen counties will, therefore, try the dispensary system on a plan essen tially different from the Carolina plan, in that in Alabama the municipality and not the state is the poprietor of the whisky dispensary. ; Several important bills are still on calendars. The senate has not yet passed either the general revenue bill or the general appropriations bill. The present session has been generous in its grants to towns and counties of permission to issue bonds for sanitary, road and school improvements. The bill abolishing the court of county commissioners of Jefferson and provid ing for the appointment by the governor of a board of revenue for the county has passed the senate. Governor Johnston has vetoed the bill which proposes to exempt from taxation I for a period of ten years all manufao -1 luring concerns which may be erected i in the state within the next ten years. SECRETARY IS RESTRAINED. Fight Ov-r Railway ( barters Assumes an Interesting Phase. Atlanta, Feb. 18.— The fight over the petitions of the Georgia Northern railroad for an amendment to its chap ter conferring the right to extend its line from Moultrie to Thomasville, Ga., took on another complication and as sumed anew and interesting phase when a petition was presented to Judge John S. Candler to restrain Secretary of State Cook from granting the amend ment. The application for injunction was presented by Attorney C. J. Hayden of the Tifton, Thomasville and Gulf rail road, who has made strenuous efforts to prevent the secretary of state from granting the amendment asked. The petition for injunction was re fused by Judge Caudler, after hearing the argument in the case, but a rule nisi was granted, calling upon the secretary of state to show cause why the injunc tion applied for by the Tifton, Thomas ville aud Gulf road should not be is sued. A hearing was set by Judge Candler for Feb. 22. A Family of Six Drowned. Charleston, Feb. 20 A terrible story of suffering comes from Robbins, on the Pee Dee river, in Darlington county. A negro named Ned Bostic found that the water of the river was rising around his house. He got an old boat and placing his family, consisting of his wife. Emily, and his 'children, Ben. Rollins, Burrell and Irene in it, he tried to reach a point of safety. As heneared the bridge on the Wilmington. Colum bia and Augusta railroad, the boat went to pieces and the entire party perished. "Pitts’ —- Carminative Saved My Baby’m Uta.” ¥¥ LAMAR 6. RANKIN DRUG CO.. I can not recommend Pitta' Car minative too strongly. I must say, I owe my baby's life*to it. I earnestly ask all mothers who have sickly or delicate children just to try one bottle and see what the result will be. Respectfully, Mrs. LIZZIE MURRAY, Johnson’s Station, Ga. ** Pitts’ OatrimmativQ la sold by all Druyglafm. PRICE, 2H CURTS. PHYSICIANS TO DETERMINE. Question of Locating the Prison Farm Site Will lie Decided. Atlanta, Feb. 22.—The question of the location of the prison farm at Mil ledgevilie, Ga., and also whether the farm is t © be finally situated in that town, is now left to the decision of Dr. James B. Baird of Atlanta and Dr. Wil liam O’Daniel of Ballards, Ga., formerly state penitentiary physician. Both professional men were agreed upon by the board of health at Milledge villo and by the state prison commis sioners to determine after accurate ex amination whether the present contem plated location of the farm buildings in that town would tend to pollute the waier from which the town gets its supply. Injunction proceedings instituted by the citizens ef Milledgeville have been stopped pending the decision of the ex perts. GRAND LARCENY CHARGED. Members of tile Late Fourth Tennessee Under Arrest. Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 22.— H. L. Snyder of the late Fourth Tennessee regiment aud M. A Wall of the Third Mississippi are under arrest here on a charge of grand larceny.it being alleged they robbed John Boswick, another sol dier, of $135. While at the stationhouse, Sergeant Robert Green of the late Fourth Ken tucky regiment made charges against the two soldiers, charging them with holding him up at the point of a pistol in this city last Saturday night and robbing him of $23.00. The two men make a denial of the charges. They came here from Atlanta, though their homes are in Dixon, Ills. New Railway Commissioners. Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 22.—Gov ernor Johnston has nominated for asso ciate railroad commissioners for the en suing four years Senator E. A. CafFey of Lowndes and Representative Oceola Kyle of Morgan. They are to succeed Hons. Harvey.E. Jones of Mobile and Ross C. Smith of Jefferson, whose terms expire on March 1. There were 40 or 50 applicants, prominent among them being Hons. John W. Tomlinson of Jefferson, Horace Hood of Montgomery and P. T. Hudmau of Lee. Discharged Soldier Killed. Macon, Ga., Feb. 22. Harry W. Walp of the First territorial volunteers was run over and instantly killed by a Central railroad engine at the trestle over Monroe street. Eyewitnesses of the fatality say it appeared to them that Walp waited until the engine had al most reached him and then deliberately threw himself across the track. Denby Starts For Manila. San Francisco, Feb. 22.—The Japan ese liner American Maru, which sailed today for the Orient, carried nearly $500,000 in freight and treasure. Among her passengers was Charles Denby, a member of the United States Philippine commission. |\ 1 ANY people have bad blood. *’ ’ That is because their Liver and Kidneys are sluggish and fail to carry off the waste matter. When this happens the blood is poisoned and disease sets in. To keep your blood pure take Mil McLeans Lhferdl^Wßdni a quick relief and sure cure for disorders of the Liver, Kidneys and Bladder. Thousands use it in the spring especially. Your druggist has it. Only SI.OO a bottle. THE DR.J.H.MCLEAN MEDICINE CO. ST. LOUIS, MO. For sale by Winder, Drug Cos. £ r l 15.10’S SB, The Greatest Remedy In the World For Burns, Scalds, Spasmodic Croup, Eryspelas, Chilblains, Poison Oak ==and== Old Sores. If your Druggist or local Dealer does not keep it, send cents in P. 0. Stamps or silver for a bottle to MRS. W. H. BUSH, Winder, Ga. The World *£ Almanac and Encyclopedia for 1899 . HI AND Illustrated History of the Spanish- Arnerican War READY FOR SALE EVERYWHERE JANUARY Ist, iS99. i ogefchot t with The Battle Calendar of the Republic* Compiled by EDGAR STANTON MACLAY Historian of the U. S. Navy. jMji* THE STANDARD AMERICAN ANNUAL. PRICE 25 CENTS. Postpaid to any address, ft THE WORLD, Pulitzer Building, 7 NEW YORK. Overdue Steamer Arrives. Brunswick, Ga., Feb. 20.-The over due Mallory line steamship City of San Antonio, F. D. Avery master, from New York, has arrived in port safe, with all on board well, after the roughest voy age in her history. Part of the cargo was damaged. The vessel is being rap idly unloaded and will sail Tuesday morning on her regular trip to New York. The engines need slight repairs. Veterans Form a Company. Atlanta, Feb. 20.—Georgia will soon have as a part of the National guard a company composed of confederate and federal veterans. The petition for the formation of such a company comes to Governor Candler from Fitzgerald, Ga. The governor has referred the matter to the adjutant general of the state, who will issue the necessary rifles. Claim of Lawyers R fused. Savannah, Feb. 18.—An order signed by Judge Emory Speer has been filed in court here, refusing the claim of Messrs. Harden, West and McLaw of Savannah and J. W. Weed of New Jersey for sl6,* 000 for the part they took in the Central railroad litigation. The special master awarded them a fee, which they re fused to accept, and the court has re fused to override the master’s decision. They represented John S. Tilney, a stockholder in New Jersey. __