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THE AMERICUS WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER: FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1898. THE TIMES-RECORDER Daily and Weekly. Thb inucia Kkoordeb Established 1879. Tb<i Avzaicus Tibbs established ljtw. CONSOLIDATED. APRIL, INI. Incorporated January 1891. SUBSCRIPTION BATES: I i Daily, Ow* ybar ;! V .1600 DAILY, Ow* Month Wkkkly. On* Ykab 1.00 Wkklt^Six Months Address ail letters, and make remittances payable to THE TIMES-RECORDKR, AmegcuH.Qa. MARTE LOUISE MYKICh Editor and Huslaess Manarer. Editorial Room Telephone 99. fti THIS TUlKn-KECOaUKU 19 THK Official Organ of the City oi Ameticus. Offlci 1 Organ» f Sumter County. Official Organ of Waster County. Official Organ of Lee County. Official organ of the Railroad Commission ot Georgia for the Third Congressional District 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. | plMMH»WIWI8>l<M>X 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 dies put together.” It also says t " The hypophosphites of lime and soda are regarded by many English observers as specifics for consumption.” Scott’s Emulsion contains the best eod-Uver oil in a partially digested form, combined with the Hypophos- phttes of Lime and Sod*. This 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 weakness and disease. Help is at hand for those who choose to take it. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescrip tion will infallibly cure womanly ills. It is designed for that purpose alone. It acts directly and quickly on tlie organs involved and restores them to health and vigor. This is proven by the triumphant record of tens of thousands of cures. It is successful when all else has failed. Af ter the abhorrent local treatments of the doctors have proved useless, the “ Favor ite Prescription ” does its marvelous work, bringing comfort and happiness. It is the one tiling that can always be depended upon. It giyes health and strength to the spe cial organs and nerve-centres; heals in flammation ; stops weakening drains; promotes functional regularity, and vc- sto-- thr normal, vigorous and painless condition which Nature intended. It is the only medicine of its kind in dited by an educated and experienced physician. It is the only medicine which makes baby's coming sufe and compara tively painless. It has had a larger sale 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 Co., Miss. “ I could not describe all my suffering. At times I had a sensation of bearing down weight low down across me. I also suffered a great deat with :ay back. I could not watk any great dis tance without pain. Had constant drain, a frequent desire to urinate; also had palpitation of the heart. After receiv ing your advice, began treatment with Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription, and ‘Golden Medical Discovery. I kept this up several months and am now in the best of, health. Many thanks to you and your wonderful medicines.” “ I have been taking your medicines, and they always help me,” writes Mra. Sallie Whitaker, of Livermore, McLean Co., Ky. “ Mine was a very had com plicated case of female trouble, but I do believe I would have been in my grave if it had not tyjen for your wonderful medicines. I have taken ‘ Favorite Pre scription,’ ‘Golden Medical Discovery' and ‘ Pleasant Pellets.’ 1 suffered mostly with my head and lower bowels, espe cially at my monthly periods. I would have to go to bed and use hot applica tions ami drink all kinds of teas. I had three of the best physicians I could get. One doctored me for twelve months and I was worse when he quit than I was when I began with him. Tlie other only helped me temporarily. I will always speak well of Dr. Pierce’s medicines, and will heartly recommend them to all suffering women.” Any woman who would' like to know more ubout this medicine and about her own physical make-up should send St one-cent stamps to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y„ to pay the cost of mailing only on an absolutely free paper-bound copy of his looo-page illustrated book, “The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser; ” or, ji stamps for cloth-cover. 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.