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We Don’t Want the w0r1d.... and it fenced in and white-washed, therefore we are con tent with a very small profit, on the stuff we sell—and that is nearly everything. If you are not already one of our hosts of smiling customers, suppose you try us once on Groceries, Crockery, Tinware, Stationery of every description, Confectionery, and every other kind of “erries,” and you will exchange that woe-be gone countenance of yours, to one of pleasing smiles. Are you of the “sopping persuation?” If so, try our Maximo Gomez Cuba Molasses. It, can’t be hindered in its “goodness.” Do you chew tobacco ? If so, you should try our * "Black Mammy” Chewing Tobacco. It is “rich and waxey.” B. F. REEVES. i We keep nearly everything--Ask for what you don’t see--Most likely we have it. A Good Maxim-- “BUY EVERYTHING AS CHEAP AS YOU CAN, BUT DON’T BUY A CHEAP THING.” It’s a good rule for a business house to live up to, and you can’t do better yourself than to make it your own maxim. Following this rule has done me more good in a business way than anything. I can sometime save a little money in buying, by getting a little off-grade of goods, or a little light weight, and not many would ever know the difference, but I can’t afford it. I buy the very BEST goods, and give the BEST values. lam not selling ut cost, nor do I want your goods at just what they cost you—every one must have a living profit—that’s all 1 ask. I Have a Full Line of Groceries, farming supplies, and also varieties of SEED IRISH POTATOES. Mine are the very best Eastern stock, and you run no risk in plant ing them. Don’t forget 1 handle Cotton Seed Meal and Hulls and all feed stuffs, and am anxious to serve you in any way. Jno. T. Middlebrooks. J.D. HIGHTOWER, successort<> j. w. HIGHTOWER DEALER IN Agricultural, Mechanical and Buiders’ Hardware, Farm Equipments, Water Supplies, Guns, Cutlery, Silverwares, Lisk's non-rustible Tinware, China and Glassware, Decorative Bric-a - Brae, Crockery and Queensware, wooden ware, Stoves, Holloware, Paints, Oils, Brushes etc., etc. Agt for Derring's Binder, Mower & Rake Forsyth Guano Factory. The Virgin ia-Carolina Chemical Company are manufacturing High Grade Fertilizers at their Guano Factory and Oil Mill at Forsyth this season. The factory is under the management of Messrs. Pres ton Maynard and Robert Reid of Forsyth. They give the mixing of these goods their personal at tention. They use nothing but high grade chemicals in the man ufacture of the goods. The am monia in these goods is derived from cotton seed meal und sul phate of ammonia. The bot&sh is derived from imported Muriate of Potash. The available Phospho ric Acid is derived from llone Phosphate. They do not use Ger man Kainit or a filler of any kind. They are making the best manipu lated goods I ever sold, perfectly dry and free from lumps. 1 am shiping car loads of these goods to many towns in Middle Georgia every day. The farmers appreciate these goods from the fact that they can be distributed through Gantt distributors, which are now used extensively all over Georgia, much more easily and evenly than any blood or taukage goods can be. 1 feel that every business man in Forsyth as well as every farmer in Monroe county ought to appreciate the efforts of the Chemical Company in making as high a grade fertilizer at their Go to Woodard and Bethune’s. They have anew shop opposite Mitc hell's stables, and are prepared to do all kinds of repair work. We have 2 forges and are prepared to do horse shoeing. We also have have a first class painter and woodworker. We solicit your work. We have newly overhauled buggies and wagons for sale and for rent. WOODARD & BETHUNB, Bartlesville, Ga. factory in Forsyth as they make at any other factory owned by them. The work at this factory gives em ployment. to a large number of people. I hope at an early date that the Chemical Company will enlarge their plant at Forsyth by adding an acid chamber and mak ing acid phosphate as well as all other grades of fertilizers. This would give employment to hun dreds of people and help the town and county. Call at Preston Maynard’s bank and Watts & Alexander's ware house, see samples and get prices of these goods before buying else where. * We sell in addition to the goods made at our factory at Forsyth, Animal Bone Fertilizer, Blood Guano, Blood and Bone Guano, and Blood and Tankage Guano manufactured at Macon, Atlanta, and Newnan Georgia. We also sell Nitrate of Soda for top dress ing on wheat and oats. The farmers of Pike will find these goods at the warehouse of J. L. Hunt, Barnesville and those of Spalding will find them with Grif fin it Mitchell, Griffin, and with M. F. Swint, Orchard Hill, J. If. Reeves, The Rock, Beeves & Louis at Delrey, Ga. 1). J. Proctkr, Agent, Virginia-Carolina Chemical Cos. Forsyth, Ga., March 20th, 1002. n AM S T TOBACCO SPIT UUIN I and SMOKE Your Llfeaway! You can he cured of any form of tobacco using easily, be made well, strong, magnetic, full of new life and vigor by taking ttO-TO-BAO, that makes weak men strong. Many gala ten pounds in ten dsys. Over 600,000 cured. AU druggists. Cure guaranteed. Book and advice FREE. Address STERLING REMEDY CO.. Chicago or New York. 417 Kodol Dyspepsia Care Digests what you Mt* BARNESVILLE NEWS-GAZETTE, THURSDAY, MARCH 27?W02. The Boy and the Bear Cub. There is a sort of indescribable fascination in having a real wild animal as a pet. A dog is well enough in his way, and so is a cat, or pony, or a squirrel; but where is the boy that would not thrill dear down to his boots with the idea of having a pet bear, or a pet cata mount? Well, such tilings have been but it never turned out one half so nice as it seemed at first. Thereby hangs a little tale. A certain ardent sportsman, a friend of the writer’s, went to the Adirondacks last summer on a hunting excursion. While there he and his party killed an old she bear and captured her cub, a little roly-poly of a beast, about the size of a Newfoundland puppy. Now, this sportsman had a boy at home about four years old, whom he had promised that he would “bring him something” when he returned from his trip. So he concluded that this cub would be just the thing. It was so young and so very little that he thought there would not be the slightest trouble in taming and training it. Of course, the boy was delighted with his pet, just as he would have been with a puppy, for he was too young to know or think anything about the “wild animal” part of it. It seems that the father came in for that sentiment and took a real pride in the fact that his boy had a sure enough live bear for a pet. Everything went along very nicely for a while. The boy and the cub had a; mighty good time of it, romping in the yard. In fact the cub acted ! pretty much as a puppy would have done under the circumstances. But as the months passed the cub grew very fast and it was not long until it was as big as two or three puppies, and it got to be pretty rough, too. Not maliciously so, but in play, for it could not be expected to know just how far to go in its romp with a boy. One day when the boy and the bear were having an unusually good time on the lawn and there was nobody in particular about, the family were alarmed by a series of shrill screams from the boy, and it was noticed, even in the excitement of the moment, that the screams were growing fainter and fainter. It seems that the “hired man” was the first to reach the scene, and he was just in time to rescue the boy from being hugged to death. Perhaps the bear did not know exactly what lie was doing. He might have thought he was giving his little playmate a particu larly strong evidence of his affection, but if nobody had heard the boy’s screams there would certainly have been a funeral at that house and the little fellow’s epitaph might have been: “Died of too much Pet Hear.” —Colorado Weekly Times. How John Brown Was Captured. Miss Jennie Chambers, a schoolgirl of Harper’s Ferry at the time of John Brown’s raid, writes in Harper’s Magazine (January) of the actual capture of the old abolition leader: “When the call came from the marines to surrender, Brown cried out ‘No.’ The men outside brought up a ladder and swung it, end on, as a battering-rain against the door. The door began to shake and give way; as they looked they saw Brown, musket in hand, standing close to the door. Coppic, near him, called out ‘I surrender.’ Brown said, ‘That's one.’ Thompson was killed. Mr. Resin Cross, one of the prisoners, told us afterward that lie saw Stevens lying on his back, and knelt by him asked if he was hurt. Stevens said, ‘Yes; I have four buckshot in my breast.’ Mr. Cross had asked Brown to send him out with one of the raiders to explain to the citizens. Brown let him go, on condition that he would return. It was then that Stevens was shot. Stevens was picked up and carried into one of the houses, and in the intense excitement one of the citizens pointed a gun at Stevens while he was lying on the bed. Stevens gave him such a piercing look of contempt that the man seemed paralyzed, and he dropped his gun to his side and went out of the room. Stevens asked someone to lift him to the floor, saying, ‘Don’t let them shoot me in bed.’ Miss Christine Eoitke threw herself between Stevens aud the mob that was rushing into the room, and kept them from shooting him again. While Brown was on trial in Charleston, he turned to Mr. Cross and said: ‘Mr. Cross, one word: If things had been different, would you have returned to the engine-house according to your promise to me?’ Mr. Cross answered, ‘Yes, I would.’ Brown said, ‘I am satisfied.’ “All the prisoners agreed afterward that they could not help admiring Brown’s iron will and unparalleled bravery. At last Mr. Cross said to him, ‘Are you not Osawatomie Brown?’ Then lie answsred, ‘Yes.’ This was the first the prisoners knew of it. Presently the cry‘Surrender!’ rang out over the musket-shots and shouts. Brown said nothing. The blows of the ladder had loosened the fastenings of the engine-house door to such an extent that the prisoners could see the uniforms of the marines outside. Brown tried again to fasten the pole of the engine against the door. Then came a tremendous crash and a loud shout. One of the men in uniform, Luke Quinn, sprang into the breach, and instantly was shot down. He was mortally hurt. Another marine, Rupert, fell before the last volley of the raiders. Then Lieutenant green rushed in through the door before the raiders ceuld fire a gun, and slashed at Brown with his sword. Others came after him, and Brown was twice wounded. Then it was all over. Brown and his survivors were made prisoners.” "A Little Nonsense/’ Etc. Advice. —When in doubt, if possible, get out. —Puck. Only Once.—“Professsor, do you expel students often?” ‘‘No, only once.” —Pennsylva- nia Punch Bowl. Explicit.—Stranger “Aw, how'll I go to Blank Street from heah. me boy?” Boy: “I s'pose you'll do it wit' tie same duck waddle dat I saw yer cornin’ 'long de ; street wit’ jus’ now. ’-Chicago Daily News. No Need to Hurry.—Traveler (in haste): “Am I in time for the next train to Mudbank, porter?” Porter: “Plenty of time, sir; ten-fifty tomorrow morning.”—Tid-Bits. Not the Cause. —The provincial barber remarked the sparcity of his customer’s hair. “Have you ever taied our special hair wash?” he said expectantly. “Oh. no, it wasn't that that did it.” was the customer's crushing reply.—Tid-Bits. The Best of Reasons.—“ Why do you bring this to me?” thundered the weary editor, thrusting the manuscript back into the hands of the poet. “Because,” replied the bard, timidly, ”1 have no stamp.”—Boston Post. Advice. —K. Z. One: “ And now, sir, having paid the fee you require, what is your ‘incomparable method that enables anyone to save SSO a week?” A. Beat: "Get a job that pays you SSO a week and don't spend any of it.”—Chicago Daily News. A. Graphic Account. —Little Montague: “I was awake when Santa Claus came, Dad!” Father: "Were you? And what was he like, eh?” Little Montague: “Oh I couldn’t see him; it was dark, you know. But when he bumped liimself on the washstand he said ” Father (hastily): “There, that'll do, Monty. Run away and play.” London Punch. His Way —A musician, brought to despair by the poor playing of a lady in the room above his own, meets her in the hall one day with her three-year-old child, and says, in a most friendly manner: “Your little one plays quite well for her age. I hear her practice every day.”—Tid-Bits. His Observation. —"He says I should call between vun and tVo. " "Well, if you'll wait a few minutes; he's just gone to lunch ” “Ah! In zat case 1 suppose he vill be back at vunee. In America time eez of more importance zan digestion!"—Puck. His Poor Luck. —First Tramp: “Did he git anyt'ing in dat house?" Second Tramp: “Naw! Dey was ilat sort o’ folks dat believes dat charity begins in de woodshed.”—Puck. A Humorous Display.—A New York druggist had a window display of brushes recently that made many people stop and laugh, if not buy. It was two dolls, made to represent mother and son, tire boy stretched in approved fashion across the old lady's lap. and in her hand, held high, a hair-brush. Over it was the legend “I find your hair-brush good for raising the heir.” Not at all bad!-Ex. Limitations of Genius. —The man who wrote "Twinkle, twinkle, little star," had the. satisfaction of seeing the little star follow his instructions.-The New York Sun. Similar happiness was vouchsafed the author of “Roll on, thou dark and deep blue! ocean, roll!”—The Boston Globe. Nor must the equally delighted gentleman who cordially said, “Blow, blow, thou winter 1 wind!” be forgotten.-The Cleveland Plain Dealer. But. alas for the person who wrote “Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight!” * Time didn't do it.-The Chicago Tribune. Af f lfJwes ~!Z1Z!Z Z j .!Z ——!— —— r— —t— WHY are they GOOD and CHEAP? I GOOD because made of best Bessemer steel, B heavily galvanized —last a lifetime. H CHEAP because woven by improved machinery H in immense quantities. H Delivered in rolls all ready to stretch and staple. Every rod guaranteed. Sold everywhere. If your dealer hasn’t them, write to AMERICAN STEEL & WIRE CO., ■ Cliicai[o-New York— San Francisco—Denver. ( H LIFSEY IN CHARGE. ASSUMED CONTROL OF THE POST OFFICE AFFAIRS HERE SATUR DAY-EMMETT W. ELDER IS ASSISTANT. Mr. B. A. Lifsey, who was re cently appointed postmaster of Barnesville after a warm contest for the place, took charge of the office last Saturday and is getting ready to do everything possible to give the constituents of the of fice a fine service. He is more or less familiar with this kind of work as he was postmaster at Meanesville for several years, and no doubt will make an excellent official. Mr. Lifsey has secured the ser vices of Mr. Emmett W. Elder as his assistant and he also assumed his duties Saturday. Mr. Elder has been assistant before and he was also postmaster here for four years under President Cleveland’s second administration. He is thoroughly familiar with the work and is reaiiy an expert in hand ling mail. His friends are glad to see him in the office again. Mr. J. G. Harris, who has held the office for two terms, and Mr R. L. Swatts, who lias recently been assistant postmaster, retire with the best wishes of all the patrons of the office. The Collier Cos. Opening Monday, Tuesday and Wednes day of this week were the days of the spring opening of the J. C. Collier Cos. This enterprising store was de corated in elegant taste and ar tistic ideas prevailed throughout the immense stock. The show windows were especially beauti ful and no one passing by could hardly resist going in and see the mammoth offering, the company had displayed. In the millinery department the goods displayed could not have been surpassed and due to all this, Mr. J. C. Collier, the president of the Collier Cos. states, that the business the firm hadnled during the opening was immense aud beyond expectation. OASTORia.. Bean the A The Kind You Han Always Bought Two of a Kind. Guest—What a splendid dinner! I don’t often get as good a meal as thts. Little Willie (son of the host)—We don’t either. The word “mfle” comes from the Lat in “mille," a thousand. A thousand paces of a marching soldier made the Roman mile. I Coughed “ 1 had a most stubborn cough for many years. It deprived me of sleep and I grew very thin. I then tried Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, and was quickly cured.” R. N. Mann, Fall Mills, Tenn. Sixty years of cures and such testimony as the above have taught us what Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral will do. We know it’s the great est cough remedy ever made. And you will say so, too, after you try it. There’s cure in every drop. Three tilt*: 25c, Sic., SI. All dm*ji*ts. Conan 1 1 roar doctor. It ho uji Uko it. then do a* ho *oy. If ho tell* you not to toko it. than don’t toko it. He know*. Leave it with him. We are willing. i. C. ATEK CO.. Lowell. Haas. Mr. Matldux Buys NeAV Home. Mr. P. H. Maddux has bought the house and lot on Holmes street, know as theG. E. Huguley place and has already moved in. This is one of the best homes in the city and Mr. Maddux is quite fortunate in purchasing it. The Cook house on Thomaston street, formerly occupied by Mr. Maddux is unoccupied. A PRINTER GREATLY SURPRISED “I never was so much surprised in my life, as I was with the results of using Chamberlain’s Pain Balm,” says Henry T. Crook, pressman of the Ashe ville (N. C.) Gazette. “I contracted a severe case of rheumatism early last winter by getting my feet wet. I tried several things for it without benefit. One day while looking over the Gazette I noticed that Pain Balm was positively guaranteed to cure rheumatism, so bought a bottle of it and before using two thirds of it my rheumatism had taken its flight and I have not had a rheumatic pain since.” For sale by J.mo. H. Blackburn. Choir Practice. The choir of the Methodist church are requested to meet at the church, this (Thursday) even ing as a full rehearsal is earnestly desired. Music for Easter will be practiced When you wake up with a bad taste in your mouth you may know that you need a dose of Chamberlain’s Stomach & Liver Tablets. They will cleanse your stomach, improve your appetite and make you feel like anew man. They are easy to take, being sugar coated, and pleasant in effect. For sale by Jno. H. Blackburn. No more trouble with shoe bills. Brown's Blue Ribbon School Shoes. For sale by Morris Jacobs. They Work While You Sleep. While your mind and body rest Cas carets Candy Cathartic repair your digestion, your liver, your bowels, put them in perfect order. Genuine tablets stamped C. C. C. Never sold in bulk. All druggists, ioc. Presbyterian Cliurch. Services at 11 a. m. and 7:80 p. m. The pastor will preach at both services. Beginning next Sunday the second service will be neld at 7:80 instead of at 4 p. in, A cordial invitation to all. CASTORIA. Bean the _A The Kind You Have Always Bought Lawrence—Barager. Mr. Fred Barager and Miss Mag Lawrence were married Wednesday evening, March 26, 1902, at 7:80, at the home of the bride on Ann street. The groom is from Sus quehanna, Pa. It was quite a romantic marriage as they had never seen one another until the groom came down last Wednesday. He telegraphed to her to meet him at the train that morning. It was quite a surprise to every one. Only a few friends and rel atives were present. They will leave Friday for the groom’s home in Pennsylvania. They were married by Rev. G. W. Grice, who with many other friends and relatives extend best wishes. CASTORIA. Bear* the _A The Kind You Have Always Bought Millinery Opening. The millinery opening of Mr. A. L. Mills was a beautiful one and attracted much favorable comment. The ladies having in charge this department did them selves great credit in the artistic trimming and arrangement of their Easter novelties. A hand some line of hats, bonnets and spring headgear of all kinds was in evidence on this occasion. The store was tastefully and beautiful ly decorated for this event, and all together it was one of the swellest affairs of its kind this seasou.