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THE AMERICUS WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER: FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1898.
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AMERICU3, GA. JAN. 7, 1898.
THE NEXT COMMISSIONER OF
AGRICULTURE.
Although it iB early in tlie game to
make predictions, everything warrants
the prophecy that Southwest Georgia
will furnish the next Commissioner of
Agriculture in the person of Hon. O.
B. Stevens, of Dawson.
While strongly disposed to support
Hr. Steven’s candidacy, The News has
hesitated to do so until that gentleman
could acquit himself of charges con
necting him with a certain political
combine with which we are not in ac
cord. Having thonronghly satisfied
ourselves on this point, it gives ns
great pleasure to join with the scores
of other newspapers in this state that
are urging Mr. Stevens for the place.
Onra is a lifetime acquaintance with
. the gentleman from Terrell, and onr
esteem for and confidence in him is as
deep as onr knowledge of him is long.
So that, in the very basio qualifications
of ^public servant—honesty and in
- J tegrity—we know him to be all that he
should be. Added to this is ability
and experience, 4»th as an agricultn-
•j < rist and a business man, that pre-emi
nently fits him for the place. His own
success in these lines is the best evi
dence of tyose qualities, and, from a
ctly practical standpoint, his elec-
TiMi, it seems to ns, wonld bo most
fortunate for the state.
Hr. Stevens’ long pnblie and party
service also entities him torecognition.
- / He ha$ been a lifo-long democrat, and
i has several times sacrificed his person
al ambition to serve his party and pre
serve its principles. Mr. Stevens has
alsiL, served in both branches of the
lcgadatnre several times, and is thor
oughly familiar with public affairs. In
fact, he is, in every way equipped for
the position to whieh he aspires.
And Mat, but not least, his section
of the Jtate is clearly entitled to reoog-
atthe hands of the state democ-
It has alwa^be< n a democratic
old, and no man has worked
alotuly to keep it so than has
tevens.
at Commit t loner Nisbett The
nothing to say; about the
■not mismanagement we know
., fog, bnt even were he above re
oh, be wonld still have no strong-
claims on the plaoe thin can he
{ -‘id for Mr. Stevens. The latter is
ry way his equal; and, as we
, his superiot in point of bus!
llity and in practical knowledge
onk^M-tHture.
Mr. Stevens, as we happen to know
beyond the shadow of a doubt, is in
no political combine or deal that might
estrange those who wonld otherwise
•upport him. He is simply “toting
hit own skillet," and stands on his
own merits alone. Mr. Stevens has
entered the race with every assurance
of success. He has the hearty en
dorsement of a majority of the party
leaders in the state, and he will win
the confidence and votes of the iieople
as soon as he goes among them.—Ma
son Evening News.
DENMARK’S ABLE DEFENSE.
Wo have read with a degree of state
pride and personal pleasure the timely,
able and vigorous defense of the South
by Mr. B. A. Denmark, of Savannah,
protesting against the vicious attacks
recently made by the Manufacturers
Record against Georgia, onr so call in
iquitous laws and spurious business
methods. Mr. Denmark's article was
published in the Savannah Press of
Dec. 27 and is a finished state paper
teeming with troths and facts and has
the ring of patriotism in its entirety,
which makes tlie blood pf a loyal
Southerner tingle with pride to know
and feel that a few of the old guard
are left in this day ot greed and gain, ] press prices. He then adds; “Unless
when every other man you meet is wil- prioes advance materially by January
ling to sell his birthright for a mess of 15, there wiil, of necessity, he a large
COTTON PROSPECTS.
The December issue of “Cotton
Facta" by Alfred B. Sbepperson, is an
invaluable book. Mr. Shepperson be
lieves the present crop will reach 10,
3^9,000 hales. If the American and
foreign spinners should buy during the
season no mcjre cotton than required
for actual consumption in the season,
there would, he estimates, be left from
a crop of 10,300,000 hales, a surplus of
3’. 5,000 bales, and the stocks in Ameri
can and foreign markets wonld he that
much larger at the end of the season
than at its beginning. He does not
think the prospect for so compuritively
small an increase in stooks should de-
\
pottage.
Mr. Denmark proves that our laws,
while not perfect, are equally as good
as those of the boasted Eastern states
where dwell the bondholders and great
insurance magnates, who havo to
rears fattened and grown richer be
cause ot the South’s poverty and mis
fortunes. Mr. Denmark takes up the
demoralized political pictnre so graph
ically distorted by the Manufacturers’
Record and eloquently compares our
righteons and peaceful citizenship with
the Homestead rioters and the Hazle-
ton troubles.
The Manufacturers Record refused
to publish Mr. Denmark's letter, but
gave publication to letters from Major
J. F. Hanson of Macon, and President
Samuel Spencer of the Southern rail
road, and other Sonthern men who,
it seems, on their way to fame and for
tune, have found it necessary to de-
olare against the old state which gave
them birth and the people who have
honored and trusted them.
Mr. Denmark is also a man of affairs
in Georgia, being president of the
Southwestern railroad, president of
the Citizens bank of Savannah, one of
the strongest financial institutions of
that city, and an able lawyer of dis
tinguished ability, enjoying a large ana
lucrative practice. He is considered a
safe, conservative business man and is
the peer of any financier of this conn
try, and may heaven.bless and prosper
him, for be made his money by honest
labor and legitimate means and did not
employ the trioks and methods of a
traitor.
The Tuus-Recoudbk in behalf ot all
Gebrgia and the South extends thanks
to the worthy gentleman of Savannah
for his oonrageoos protest against
those who would shackle ns and
have bfcldly slandered onr Southland
attempting as they .have to trail in the
dust onr politicals morals and finan
ciai honor. 4
THE PENSION SCANDAL.
Mabry, the Brnnswick express rob
her, is fast recovering and will soon be
taken to Brnnswick for trial. Poor,
l unfortnnate man! Why in heaven's
name didn’t they let him die? What
is life worth to Mabry and his Sadly
abled family now.
Bannertnakes a pretty
thesonth when it
value of property
it waa before the
were counted
reduction ifi the acreage of the next
cotton crop. As soon as such an in
tended curtailment of acreage is per
fectly evident, the spinners will un
doubtedly buy so freely as to speedily
absorb the (175,000 bales of indicated
surplus and to advunco prices to a
much higher plane.” Mr. Shepperson
takes the same view of the cotton far
mer's situation as were taken by the
Atlantajand Memphis conventions, for
he adds': “In the meantime, whether
prices advance between now and the
time for making preparations for the
new crop, the experience of this fall
should make it perfectly clear to south
ern farmers that they shonld next year
give less acreage to cotton and more to
food and forage crops. I have no
doubt,” ho concludes, “that if the
present crop had been 1,003,000 bales
less, the cotton growers would have
actually received considerably more
money for the smaller crop.”
BERESFORD COMES BACK.
A correspondent of the New York
World makes the following calculation
ancut the Federal pension scandal:
There were enlisted during the civil
war 3,100,000 separate men.
Two hundred aud ten thousand of
these deserted; 400,000 were killed or
died of diseases during the war; 350,000
were “hundred-day” min who never
went ou a campaigner into a battle. I
have not at hand the figures of the total
number of men who never left the
states in which they enlisted, so I omit
that huge figure. >
Sulistraoting the above figures, I find
that there were 1,040,000 soldiers alive
at the end of the war who under the
most extravagant pension policy might
put iu a claim.
Assuming for these the average death
rate; 3 per cent i>er annum, I estimate
303,000 soldiers now alive.
There are 700,000 'on the penaion
rolls—700,000 men who claim to have
served in the war!
Can any honest man refuse to vote
for abolishing this stigma npon cur
uatioual life after this showing?
J Mr. Hanna may find it necessary to
open hit bar/cl at both ends.
And now what is the matter with
Hanna?
There ean be no pleasure nor hzppl-
nets for persons whose liver or kidneys
an unhealthy. They are weak, tick and
Irritable, and find it burdensome to per
form work of - any kind. What they
need is thorough treatment with Dr. J.
H. MeLean’s Liver and Kidney Balm.
Thle nmedy U recognised by many of
the best medioal authorities at without
a peer for the cure of disease# of tbe
kidneys or liver. It npldly drives out
diseased oonditions and restores health,
rigor and cheerful spirits. Prioe 8100
a bottle. For sale by Davenport Drag Co.
Woke Lord Is Thoash t t«* So 11 (dills Wear
tli. Town ot Flisx.r.ld-
Fitzgebald, Go.. Jan. 4.—Monday
was tlie^sy set for the hearing before
the ordinary of the appointment of an
administrator for the estate of Alexan
der Pelky, deceased. A caveat was
filed by Judge A. J. Crovatt of Bruns
wiclf, Go., who is tbe attorney for Mrs.
Lascelles, aud the case was set fur
Jau. 10.
Joseph Pelky, brother of the de
ceased, was ou baud with his attorney,
aud from all reports wishes to' he np-
K luted administrator. So far no will
s been probated and Mrs Lascelles
will get the eutire property, as she is
the only legal heir.
Tbe report that Lnacelles was in
Montgomery ia verified by a statement
from a gentleman that he mef him on
on a train going towards Montgomery.
It is thought that he is biding here in
Fitzgerald.
FLORIDA HAS A FREEZE.
xTHE WOMAN AND THE SPHINX.
The mystery of womanhood is full
of deep unanswerable enigmas. Why
should women be compelled to suffer
simply because they are women? Why
is it that the source of their highest ioys
i s at the same time the cause of their
greatest wretchedness, The very attrib-
— utes which make it
possible for women
to be happy wives
All Early ▼•(•tablM Killed In. the Vu
elulty of at. Au* untue.
TrrcsjrnXK. Flu., Jau. I—There hat
been a severe freeze in South Florida.
The mercury dropped to 30 degrees.
Tender vines and vegetables are
scorched, bat the damage is light.
There was ice iu exposed places, bat
in the vegetable growing regions mi
Merritt’s island. Beaut’* Narrows and
White Oity, there was no material dam
age duue. Orange trees sustained no
injury whatever.
The mercury dropped to 35 degrees st
St. Augustuie. Alt early vegetables in
that i suin/are destroyed. One thous
and boxos of oraugea. on the Knox and
Beedes groves south of here, are sup
posed to be frozen o', the trees.
The mercury'a lowest point at P.ilni
Beach iu the past 24 hours was 33 de
grees above zero.
Slanagar (IrMHS t,» Halt.
Cincinnati, Jau. 4.—The Times-Star
announces that William G. Green, gen
eral mnuarer of the Baltimore aud
Ohio railway, is to retire from that po
sition to surened S B. Oallawuy as
president of the Nickel Plate Kaiiway
company. |
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Modern Treatment of
Consumption
The latest work on the
treatment of diseases, written
by forty eminent American
physicians, says: "Cod-liver
oil has done more for the con
sumptive than all other reme
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of lime and soda are regarded
by many English observers as
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Scott’s Emulsion
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in a partially digested form,
combined with the Hypophos-
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remedy, a standard for a
quarter of a century, is in
exact accord with the latest
views of the medical profession.
Be sure you get SCOTT’S
# All druggists; 50c and $i.ool
SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, NfW York.
mm win——————<r
and mothers also ren
der them liable to the
utmost physical misery
and pain.
The sufferings of
body ami mind caused
by some weakness of the distinctly femi-
nine organs arc so almost universal
among women that the question might
well lie asked: ” Is this Nature’s punish
ment for tlie crime of being a woman ? ”
The true answer is No! These suffer
ings are neither natural nor necessary.
They would not exist if the organism
was'healthy. No woman ought to en
dure such troubles. There is no need of
it. Dr. Pierce’s Favori Prescription is
a perfect and positive re for feminine
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Help is at hand for those who choose to
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is successful when all else has failed. Af
ter the abhorrent local treatments of the
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It is the one tiling that can always be
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It giyes health and strength to the spe
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It is the only medicine of its kind in
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makes baby's coming sufe and compara
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than' any other like medicine. Get it at
your druggist’s and do not be persuaded
to take a substitute.
“When 1 wrote to you about two years
go, I was indeed an invalid,” writes
Mrs. Elbe Mabus, of Mabus, Choctaw
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suffering. At times I had a sensation of
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“ I have been taking your medicines,
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and will heartly recommend them to all
suffering women.”
Any woman who would' like to know
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MANY ARE AFTER MABRY.
Almost Cortaln That tlio siluloc Express
A gout IVIII Uo A rr.it. J.
Brunswick. Go.. Dee. 31.—Express
Agent Mabry's shortage foots up oYei
$13,000. When his safe was opened not
one cent was found. He made a clean
sweep of $14,500 iu three separate pack
ages, end possibly secured other smallet
•mounts.
With sank succeeding hour Mabry’e
shortage has grown iu interest. Bust
ness men and persons iu every walk ol
life talk ot notiiing else. The sensa
tions of other days have been eclipsed
and the topic ol conversation is Mabry’s
act aud his probabble capture.
The Southern Express .company has
refunded to tbe S» Jiiuah Banking aud
Trust company 810,000, taken by Ma
bry, wbioh they had shipped to two
local banks.
Brunswick is flooded with expresi
officials and Pinkerton detectives. , All
are after Mabry, and a liberal reward
has beeu offered for his apprehension.
Every vessel leaving port has beeu
searched, end the river has been alive
with chartered boats employed to carry
searching parties for Mabry. It is be
lieved by thore ou the inside that be
will be caught.
NESBITT ON COTTON AREA.
C.iuimW.I.cr Hmi a Flan to Sol,, tIt.
Slut’ll lHscuttfd rroblam.
Atlanta. Dec. Jl.—In the monthly
crop report just issued by the state ag
ricultural department, Commissioner
Nenbitt has this to say of the cotton
problem:
Tlie difficulty in the way of controll
ing tile area iu cotton is the fact that for
generations we have been studying the
habits and peculiarities of this, onr
money crop, aud it is tbe one crop which
we kuow how to groxv. It has always
beeu our money crop, and we hesitate
to engage in experimental work ou
other lines.
It seems to us, however, that the so
lution of this much discussed problem
is a very simple cue, and the plan, ii
universally followed, will ,01100 anil for
all set at rest the queetmu of how muoh
cotton the south cau afford to raise The
answer is, as much as she can produce,
after she lias provided for full haras aud
smokehouses; for plenty of home sup
plies from field, orchard, garden, poul
try yard and dairy—and has thus learned
the qft repeated lesson of liviug at home
aud working on a cash basis, to 'pay at
you go, aud go os you pay.’ "
CAR BREAKING IS CHARGED.
Two White xr.n Arre.t.,1 at Albany Wot
nobbing ■ might Train.
Albany, Go., Dec. 31. — John A.
Greer, a white man, who haa lived all
his life iu Albany, and Htury Jackson,
a young mau of Leesburg, who is well
connected and was at one time marshal
of that place, are under arrest here
oharged with breaking open and rob
bing a freight car. W. P. Briggs, agent
of the Central road at thle point, awore
ont the warrants ou which they were
arretted.
Thursday night a car forming part ol
a freight train ou the Central rood com
ing from Macon to Albany, was broken
open end robbed of several casea of flue
liquors. Detectives went to work oil
the case and fonud that the goods had
been thrown from tbe car wbeu thi
train stopped at a railroad orosaing I
mile above Albany. They fonud suffic
ient evidence to warrant the arrest ol
Greer and Jackson, who have not yel
furnished bail
Klao Ghoa OlipiU SaUlnL
Peking, Jan. 5.—The Ktao Chou difll-
eully was settled at a conference of tbe
Tseng Li Yemen, (Chinese foreign
office) whioh made the necessary aoa-
ceteious.
child Hamad la 11..tb.
Anniston, Ala, Jau. 5.—The 8-year-
old child of J. A Reaves was burned to
death hers, iler clothes caught from a
grata.
A PLAGUE OF THE NIGHT.'
itching piles and other rectal
TROUBLES EASILY CURED BY A
NEW AND HAKE METHOD. ♦
A Remarkable Number of Cares Hade by
f r - tbe Pyramid Pile Curs.
About one person in every fdur suf
fers from some form of reotal disease.
The most common and annoying is
itching piles, indicated by warmth,
slight moisture and intense, uncon
trollable itching in tho parts affeoted.
The usual treatment has been some
simple ointment or salve which some
times gives temporary relief, bnt noth*
ing like a permanent cure can be ex
pected from anoh superficial treatment.
Tho only permanent cure' for itohing
piles yet discovered is the Pyramid
Pile Cure, not only for itching piles,
but for every other form of piles, blind
bleeding or protruding. The first ap
plication gives instant relief and the
continued use for a short time causes a
permanent removal of the tumors or
the sunll parasites which -cause the
intense itching and discomfort of itch
ing piles.
Many physioians for a long time sap-
posed that the remarkable relief afford
ed by the Pyramid Pile Core waa
because it was supposed to contain
cocaine, opinm or similar drugs, bnt
such is not the case. A recent careful
analysis of the remedy showed it to be
absolutely free from any cocaine,
opium, or in fact any poisonons, inju
rious drugs whatever.
For this reason the Pyramid Pilo
Cure is probably the only pile care ex
tensively recommended by physicians,
because it is so safe, so prompt in the
relief afforded and so far as known the
only positive care for piles except a
surgical operatiou.
In one year the Pyramid Pile Core
has become the best known, the safest
and the most 1 xteneively sold of any
pile cure before the public.
Nearly all druggists now sell it at
50o and $1 per package.
Address tbe Pyramid Co., Marshall,
Mich., for book ou cause and cure of
piles and also hundreds of testimonials
from all parts of thq United States.
If suffering from any form of piles
ask yonr druggist for a package of
Pyramid Pile Cure and try it touight.
Cliaritscoa mhuh nm urftt.%.
Charleston. Jan. I. — Promi
nent society people here have begun
raising money by popalar subscription
to have Iloyt’s "A Stranger I« New
York” return to Charleston, to show
Miss Crane, the leading iadv. that the
city ia iu full sympathy with her in tha
recent seuaatiop at tiie Citadel hop. Il
is further proposed to give Miss Crane a
grand ball, with leaders of the 400 as
chaperones, but with the elimination of
Mra Lewis, who raised the row. Strong
efforts are being made to get MissCrans
to return for the performance and the
ball. .
Indian* Uffilra Information.
Raleigh, Jan. 1.—The eastern band
of Cherokee Indians who live in North
Carolina has filed a memorial to ths
United States supreme court, their
status, or rather tbeir lack of ons, be
ing given as ths cause. The fsdera)
court ten years ago held that they were
citizens of North Carolina, anu the fol- .
lowing year they Incorporated the east
ern band. Now the United States cir
cuit court of appeals says they are a
tribe of Indians, ami not citizens either
of the United Stales or North Carolina.
I’b» Muck Mini* in Open*
Asheville, N. (1, Jau. 1.—Ths first
animal show of the Interstate Poultry.
Pigeon and Pet Stock assuciatiou wilt
opeu Imre Tuesday tied continue three
days. S|teciai excursion tickets will be
on sale iu iho Carolines, Virginia, Geor
gia and Tennessee.
Ul* Kirs* At WMeliiii S t 1111.
Washington, Gt, Jau. 4.—A most
disastrous fire occurred here. Ths loss
is estimated at $30,000; insurance sbom
tbe same. The stores of R. H. Woot-
ten, A. Franklin and the magnificent
King building were completely de-
CLOSING OUT SALE,
CASH.
We will sellout entire stock of
FURNITURE AT COST,
Call and see us. we mean business. The people of Americus never
have had an ooportunity of buying furniture at!, the prices we are
now offering.
Remember the place, No. 103 Cotton Avenue, Americus, Qa.
Americus Furniture and Undertaking Company,
C. C. HAWKINS, Ma«ag«r.