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pnyis Your Garden a Failure?
Perhaps ifc is because you exercise poor judgment in the
selection of your garden seed s
Bippose You Try D. M. Ferry’s Seed
:# i this time for a change ? They are thoroughly reliable
and TRUE TO NAMK. In our experience of over 2<
years as a gardener, we have never seen their superior, as
we have tested them side-by-side with seed from the best
seed growers in America. 'Your child can buy seed of us
as safely as if vou were here in person. W E DON’T
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF HIS IGNORANCE.
You will be sleeping over Inst opportunities if you do not
TRY US ON GROCERIES
Tinware, Crockery and “sich” like. Remember, we keep nearly
everything — ask for what you don’t sei—most likely we have it. Come
around to see us, and leave your baskets, bundles, overcoats and
“sich,” and “swap jokes,” and if you need anything in our line,
we will be only too glad to serve you.
M B. F. REEVES.
matches for 5 CdltS —while they last.
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UNE L OF.. Farmers Supplies,
such as plow stocks, gears, plow hoes,
scroval hoes, etc.
A fall assortment of GENUINE EAS
TERN SEED POTATOES, onion sets,
and a fall stock of both staple and fancy
GROCERIES. Everything at bottom
.if * \ *> r % y j f
prices. I want to sell you, and will make
it to your interest to give me a trial.
I JNO. T. MIDDLEBROOKS.
tj. D. HIGHTOWER
CBssortp j. w. HIGHTOWER
icultural. Mechanical and Buiders’
ware, Farm Equipments, Water
Lies, Grins, Cutlery, Silverwares,
i non-rustible Tinware, China and
ware, Decorative Bric-a - Brae,
:ery and Queensware, wooden ware,
s, Holloware, Paints, Oils, Brushes
mm VvNdU*.
RONr;^
| MOUNTAIN
Route
Is the best line to TEXAS, ll.i
-fSWO trains daily from Memphis.
‘Reaches Oklahoma and Indian
Territory. Is the “True South
ern Route” to CALIFORNIA.
- Will sell tickets at greatly re
duced rates to Texas, Oklahoma,
and Indian Territory on February
4th and 16th. Write for hooks
and other literature of the west,
northwest and southwest.
I. E. Rehlander, T. I’. A.,
Chattanooga. Trim.
H. C. Townsend. G. P. A.,
Yarbrough’s Market.
HI have purchased J. R. Clmp
jmao’*i-Markot and am now in the
jCffsmeßs to serve and please the
public. Will keep on hand at all
pgHtea a full and complete line of
FRESH MEATS
of all kinds and also
I FISH and OYSTERS.
Will handle nothing but the first
Bjalities and will give prompt at-
Hpution to all orders.
W. C. Yarbrough.
Favorite Nearly Everywhere.
Coiidtijuition means dullness,
depression, headache, generally
disordered health. DeWitt’s Lit
tle Early Risers stimulate the liv
er, open the bowels and relieve
this condition. Safe, speedy aud
thorough. They never gripe. Fav
orite pills.
Jno. 11. Rlackbcrn, Ga.
Barnesville,
L. Holmes,
Milner, Ga.
FOR STOMACH TROUBLES.
“I have taken a good many dif
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ble and constipation,” says Mrs.
S. Geiger of Dunkerton, lowa “not
never had as good results from any
as from Chamberlain’s Stomach it
Liver Tablets.” For sale by
Jno. 11. Blackburn.
TO RENT —Two connecting
rooms suited for light house keep
ing. No children.
W. T. Respass.
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•'something just as good."
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THE BARNEHVSi®teIijfrWS-GAZETTE. *
MR. W.J, NEEL HERE
ROME CITIZEN COMES DOWN TO
BARNESVILLE TO INVESTIGATE
WORKING OF DISPENSARY.
Mr. \V. J. Neel, of Rome, spent
last Thursday in Barnesville in
vestigating the workings of our
dispensary system.
Rome and Floyd county are
now in the midst of a hot dispen
sary vs barrooms campaign, and
the Tribune of Rome, as the organ
of the anti-dispensary side, has re-
cently made some references to the
Barnesville dispensary, charging,
in large black type, double
column; scare-head articles, on
the first page and repeated for
several days, that the Barnesville
dispensary has never made a dol
lar profit; that it has, instead,
contracted a debt of SIO,OOO for
the city to pay, and the city has
experienced an almost unparalell
ed period of depression during the
years that a dispensary has been
operated; even going so far as to
charge the dispensary with respon
sibility for the recent failures of
our banks and cotton factory.
The Tribune proposed to pay the
expense of any reliable citizen of
Rome who will visit Barnesville,
if the facts, upon investigation,
are not substantially as charged by
the Tribune.
Mr. Neel is an earnest advocate
of the dispensary for Floyd coun
ty and against the thirteen bar
rooms now in blast there, and he
came to Barnesville to investigate.
After completing his work and
procuring his statement published
elsewhere in this paper, he talked
interestingly of Barnesville and of
his visit.
“1 was never in Barnesville be
fore,” said Mr. Neel, “and per
sonally knew only one or two per
sons when I came. I have been
greatly gratified at the reception |
accorded me, and am charmed
with your city. If one had be
lieved the Tribune’s report, he
might have imagined that Barnes
ville lmd practically been wiped
off the map by reason of the dis
pensary. But I find a wide awake,
growing town, equipped with
modern utilities and full of life
and hopefullnoss.
“Rome is a splendid town in
spite of bar-rooms, and I am thor
oughly loyal to my own city; but
candor compels me to say that 1
see much greater evidences of
growth and prosperity in Barnes
ville according to population, than
in Rome. If a dispensary will
do as much for ns as it appears to
have done for you, I shall be
glad. You have a city to be proud
of and 1 rejoice in your progress.
“The reception given me in my
efforts to get the facts about this
dispensary business lias been most
gratifying. Every man to whom I
presented the matter, signed the
paper gladly. 1 believe every
business man in town would sign
if opportunity allowed, but my
time is limited and I have only
sought officials of the city, though
other prominent citizens who
heard the statement read, asked
permission to sign. When Mr. J.
W. Stafford put his name to it he
said that every man in Barnes
ville ought to be allowed to sign
in order to rebuke such slanderous
statements against the town. I
certainly feel under obligations
for the cordial reception and co
operation accorded me, and I re
turn to Rome with a statement
that ought to be ‘knock-out
drops’ to the Tribune. I have never
seen a city so unanimous on any
question.
“1 may make out a hill against
the Tribune,” Mr. Neel laughing
ly remarked on bidding good-bye
to his Barnesville friends, “for
the expense of this trip, and it
ought to pay it sure.”
Mr. Neel made friends quickly
and rapidly in Barnesville.
Bad (Joughs
“ I had a bad cough for six
weeks and could find no relief
until 1 tried Ayer’s Cherry Pecto
ral. Only one-fourth of the bottle
cured me.”
L. Hawn, Newington, Ont.
Neglected colds always
lead to something serious.
They run into chronic
bronchitis, pneumonia,
asthma, or consumption.
Don’t wait, but take
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral
just as soon as your cough
begins. A few doses will
cure you then.
TfefM lint: 2Sc., 51k., sl. All dnjfists.
Cou*uU jMt doctor. II bo Mjri talc* it.
then do Mhe mmyt. It bo tells yon not
to take It. then don't take it. He knows.
Leave tt with hint. We are willing.
, , J, C. AYER CO.. LowetL Mass.
PARTRIDGE EGGS.
Said lo Be More Nntrltlun. Than the
Dirtlx Thein.elve.
‘ Few persons are aware of the fact,”
said a well known physician, “hut it is
true, nevertheless, that the egg of the
partridge is one of the most nutritious
things in the world. They are not used
for eating purposes except in very rare
cases, and th r, n it generally happens in
remote rural districts. I have known
negro families in the state of Louisiana
during the laying season to live on the
eggs of partridges. And they would
flourish handsomely and grow fat on
account of the rich properties of the
eggs.
“These eggs, of course, never find
their way into the market because they
are never taken from their nest except
by such persons as I have mentioned,
and they rob the nests, I suppose, be
cause their principal food supply comes
from tills source. Quail meat comes
pretty high in the market at all times,
and the average man will And it more
profitable to spare the eggs and wait
for the birds when the hunting season
rolls around. These men would pass
100 nests in one day without disturbing
an egg. The sport of hunting the birds
is an additional incentive.
“The average negro does not care so
much about this aspect of the case. He
figures that the white man, having the
best gun and the best dog, will beat
him to the bird. So he goes after the
egg. One partridge will lay anywhere
from 12 to 20 eggs, and a nest is a good
find. I know of many families in rural
sections who feast on these eggs in the
laying season. I have tried the egg
myself as an experiment. I found it
peculiarly rich. It has a good flavor, is
very palatable and in fact is altogether
a very fine thing to eat. Really I be
lieve that the egg lias more nutrition
in it than the fully developed bird, but
of course, as one of the men fond of
the game in the field, I would like to
discourage the robbery of the nests.” —
New Orleans Times-Demoerat.
HUSTLING FOR BUSINESS.
Mon* or l,enn of It Done In New York
Lawyer*' Offices.
“Get a move oil! That’s the great
modern motto,” said a New York law
yer who has been practicing in the
local courts for the last 25 years.
“When I was admitted to the bar,”
he went on, “there was a great idea of
the dignity of the profession. A law
yer would about as soon have paraded
Broadway carrying a sandwich sign
calling attention to his legal ability as
he would have thought of hustling in
any other way for business. The thing
to do was to rent an office aud sit in it
until somebody came and dug you out
of the dust and spider Webß and asked
you to take a case, ,
“The march of progress has changed
all that. Every law firm in tills city
hustles for business. I don’t mean
that the big men of the firm chase
around after clients. Of course they
don't. But the firm does a lot of
shrewd planning ahead. It schemes in
a particular fashion of its own to widen
its sphere of usefulness—to itself.
“Of late years one of the expedients
adopted has been the taking into the
firm of young college graduates who
cau give a reasonable guarantee that
they will bring business. College men
know of this custom, and many of
them shape their life at the university
accordingly. They are after friends.
They want to be popular. They want
to be able to ‘swing’ as much of tbe
future legal business of their fellow
graduates as they can.
“A chap who can bring business of
that sort is taken in on a good salary
even when he is the veriest tyro at
law. lie’s expected, of course, to do
what real work he cau and to study
hard. But the salary is for the pull lie
can exert over his fellows.”—New York
Sun.
Animal Intelligence.
In a circus in Paris a lion was given
some meat shut up in a box with a lid
to it, and the spectators watched to see
Whether the liou would open the lid or
crack the box. He did tbe former,
much to tbe gratification of tbe com
pany.
In the London “Zoo” a large African
elephant restores to his would be enter
tainers all the biscuits, whole or
broken, which strike the bars aud fall
alike out of bis reach and theirs in the
space between the barrier and bis cage,
lie points bis trunk straight at the
biscuits and blows them hard along
the floor to the feet of the persons who
have thrown them. He clearly knows
what lie is doing, because if the bis
cuit does not travel well he gives it a
harder blow.
Irou In the Sixteenth Century.
The cost of the railings around St.
Paul's cathedral (claimed by several
Sussex parishes, but really made at
Lamberhurst. a parish partly in Kent)
Is recorded in the account books of the
manufactory as having been £11,202 Os.
(>d. Tin* total weight was 200 tons.
The amount of employment given may
be conjectured from the statement of
Richard Woodman, one of the Marian
martyrs burned at Lewes in 1557, that
he had set a hundred persons to work
for the year together.—London Specta
tor.
Sober Second Thonicbt.
“I thought I was riding into office on
a wave of popular enthusiasm!”
“Yes?”
“But after I’d paid the bills I felt as
if I’d footed it in. so to speak.”—De
troit Journal.
One Kansas law says the personal
property of a dead man, when not
claimed by relatives, shall be sold at
auction.
Prudeneo is common sense well
trained in tbe art of manner, of dis
crimination and of address.
Our Greeting.
’ -'y - -■ *
The Old Year is gone—the New Year is here. We
wish you v.-ell as the years change. We greet all our
friends with good wishes and are ready to make them
happy through substantial savings and increased benefits
both to them and to us, and at the same time thank them
for their patronage during the year that ha3 just gone.
Beginning with the new year, turn over anew leaf in
your flour department and buy the best —Brand Milled
AZ-I-LE. Guaranteed absolutely pure.
M. M. ELLIOTT <S CO.
Barnesville, Ga.
PETITION FOR CHARTER
GEORGIA, Pike County.
To THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SAID
COUNTY:
The petition of the Barnesville
Manufacturing Company shows as
follows: —
1. Petitioner is a corporation of
said county, duly incorporated
under a charter granted by the
superior court of said county,
with its place of business in or
near the city of Barnesville.
2. Its capital stock now consists
of $93,180.00 common stock, and
$40,250.00 preferred stock, making
a total capital stock of $139,390.-
00, all fully paid in.
2. The stockholders of said
company at an annual meeting re
cently held, passed a resolution
providing for the re-organization
of said Company and for reducing
the* above stated capital stock to
$100,000.00, all to be common
stock on the same footing and to
be issued in place of the old com
mon and preferred stock; also to
issue $25,000.00 of new preferred
stock and $25,000.00 of new sec
ond mortgage bonds, and to sell
same at par for the purpose of
providing funds for said Company,
which resolution is here to the
court shown.
4. Wherefore, petitioner prays
for the right, power, and author
ity to reduce the above stated capi
tal stock to $100,000.00 to he di
vided into 2,000 shares of the par
value of Fifty Dollars each, all to
he known as common stock: to
abolish the distinction between
the old preferred and common
stock and retire same, and to issue
the new common stock above pro
vided in the place of the old com
mon and preferred stock in the
proportion provided in said resolu
tion ; also to issue new preferred
stock to th(> amount of $25,000.00
and sell same at par, the same to
he preferred both as to its divi
dends and assets of said Company,
and guaranteeing the payment of
()% non-cumulative dividends to
its holders before any dividends
are paid on the common stock,
thus making the total capitaliza
tion of said Company $125,000.00,
consisting of $100,000.00 common
and $25,000.00 preferred stock as
aforesaid; to hereafter increase
the capital stock of said Company
to any amount not exceeding
$200,000.00 by issuing other
common stock or other similar
preferred stock to such
and in such proportions from
time to time as the exigencies of
the business of the Company may
demand; also to borrow money
and issue notes or bonds therefor
and secure the same ,by mortgage
or deed of trust on any or all of
the property of said Company;
and to have such other rights and
powers as may he necessary for
the purpose of carrying out said
plan of re-organization as contem
plated in said resolution.
5. And petitioner further prays
that the powers, rights and privil
eges heretofore granted it be con
tinued and that an order be grant
ed further amending its charter
in conformity herewith and con
: ferring upon it the new rights
| powers and privileges herein
prayed for.
W. W. Lambdin,
Attorney for petitioner.
Filed in office, this Jan. 21,
1901.
(Signed) J. B. Mathews, C. S. C.
A true copy. —(Signed) J. B.
Mathews, C. S. C.
Chronic Constipation Cured.
The most important discovery of
recent years is the positive remedy
for constipation. Cascarets Candy
Cathartic. Cure guaranteed. Genu
ine tablets stamped C. C. C. Never
sold in bulk. Druggists, ioc.
GROWING SWEET POTATOES
Some Important Points About This
Valuable Crop.
It is not too late to bed sweet potatoes,
of which every farmer should have a
good supply for his family and stock;
for there is nothing grown which is *
more general favorite for the table,
while hores, cows, hogs and chickens
can be fed on nothing more fattening or
more relished by them. An acre that
will produce 30 bushels of corn will
readily afford 200 bushels of sweet po
tatoes. Yields of 600 bushels to the
acre on some Georgia lands have been
reported by the Experiment Station at
Griffin.
Plants for setting out may be pur
chased from those who keep them for
sale or they may be grown for chat pur
pose. The beds should be prepared by
putting stable manure at the bottom to
the depth of 2 or 3 inches and then cov
ering it over with 2 or 3 inches of sand.
After the seed potatoes have been cut
lengthwise they should be placed in the
soil with the cut side down, and having
been laid close to each other without
touching should be covered to the depth
of 2or 3 inches. While they should be
kept reasonably warm and moist, care
must be taken to avoid any excess of
either heat or moistnte.
When the sprouts have attained a
height of four or five inches, they may
be carefully separated from the tubers,
one at a time, with the thumb and fin
ger, so as not to disturb the potato, for
if this be uninjured, it will in a short
time send up other shoots.
Select Carefully.
No diseased tubers should be selected
for planting, for if thrifty slips are se
cured, they will grow very rapidly.
If weeds spring up, it is better to re
move them by hand, since the use of the
hoe may injure such tubers as lie near
the surface. The cultivator can be used
between the rows to exterminate the
weeds, which should be kept out of the
field.
The tendency of the vines, as soon as
they are two or three feet long, to take
root at many of the joints aud thus
propagate new tubers is well known.
This should be prevented by carefully
loosening those vines from the soil
either by hand or with a wide fork.
But in doing this every precaution
should be used to avoid bruising the
vines.—State Agricultural Department.
The Cause of It.
“May I ask, sir. how It is that yon
and your brother are so bald?” inquir
ed the inquisitive barber.
“Well,” replied the customer, “I’ll
teil you if you’ii promise not to say
anything more about it.”
“Oh, certainly, sir!”
“Well, it’s because our hair has fallen
out” "TrfiLll
Thousands Have Kidney Trouble
and Don’t Know it.
How To Find Out.
Fill a bottle or common glass with your
water and let it stand twenty-four hoursHjl
sediment or set
tling indicates an
unhealthy condi
tion of the kid
neys; if it stains
your linen it is
evidence of kid
ney trouble; too
frequent desire to
pass it or pain in
- . — t h e back is also
convincing proof that the kidneys and blad
der are out cf order.
What to Do.
There is comfort in the knowledge so
often expressed, that Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-
Root, the great kidney remedy fulfills every
wish in curing rheumatism, pain in the
back, kidneys, liver, bladder and every part
of the urinary passage. It corrects Inability
to hold water and scalding pain in passing
it, or bad effects following use of liquor,
wine or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant
necessity of being compelled to go often
during the day, and to get up many times
during the night. The mild and the extra
ordinary effect of Swamp-Root is soon
realized. It stands the highest for its won
derful cures of the most distressing cases.
If you need a medicine you should have the
best. Sold by druggists insoc. andsL sizes.
You may have a sample bottle of this
wonderful discovery
and a book that
more about It, both sent
absolutely free by mail,
address Dr. Kilmer & Home of Smunp-Boc*.
Cos., Binghamton, N. Y. When writing men
tion reading this generous offer in this paper.