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GEORGIA NEWS! Epitomized Items of Interest Gathered at Random. Hay Leaver Thomasville. Secretary Hay left Thomasville last Saturday morning at 6 c’cock via the Atlantic Coast Line to resume his du ties in 'Washington. The secretary 1 renounces the climate of Thomasviiie second to none in the south. His health is greatly improved by lils stay among the pines. * * • Sanitarium for Hawkinsvilla. A movement is on foot to establish in Hawkinsville a modern, first-class sanitarium by a certain well known physicians of Pulaski county. The sanitarium will be fitted up with elec trical and modern appliances and wil! prove a boon to the people of this section and to Hawkinsville. * * * Inspection Orders Issued. General orders No. 2, relating to the coming annual inspection of state troops, have been issued from the of fice of Adjutant General S. W. Harris. These orders call attention to the de tail of Major F. H. French, of the Six teenth infantry, to inspect the Georgia troops, and his inspection will be made at the same time as that by "Colonel W. G. Obear, inspector general. * * * Fruit Growers to Meet. The Fruit Growers’ Association of the state will meet in Valdosta Febru ary 18-19. It is expected that the session will be one of the largest attended in the history of the organization. Rates of one and one-third fare have been granted on all the railroads. The com mittee is already busy preparing for them and the growers are getting their orchards into first-class order for in spection. Little “Georgia Magnet’' Arrested. Annie Abbott, the “Georgia Mag net,” and heroine in a number of sen sational episodes, has been under ar rest in New York city, where she is appearing at a theatre in a vaudeville turn. The “Georgia Magnet” is charged with purloining jewels to the value of $12,000 from Mrs. F. C. Bay ler, of vvaterbury, Conn., the home of the watches. Her manager, Theodore N Abbott, also well know r n in Georgia, was arrested at the same time. Both have been released on bond. * * • More Money is Needed. If Georgia is to have a building at the coming St. Louis exposition, such as has been proposed, considerably more money than has already been subscribed will have to be saised. This fact is developed in a report made a day or two ago to Governor Terrell by the active members of the Georgia commission for the Louisiana Purchase exposition. This report shows that less than $9,000 has been sub scribed so far, while nearly $30,000 is needed to carry out the plans in view. The subscriptions up to the present time have coble practically altogether from the part of the state, with the exception of one or two from middle Georgia. * * * Call to Democratic Committee. The state democratic executive com mittee has been called by Chairman E. T. Brown to meet in Atlanta on Mon day. February 29, at 11 o’clock a. m. The date of the meeting is compara tively an early one. Two years ago the committee met on March 29, a month later, and in 1900 the meeting wap held March 17. When asked about the date Chair man Brown said: “Everybody seems anxious to know when the committee is going to fix the date for the primary, and there ap pears to be no reason why the matter should cot be settled without any great delay. “But my particular reason for select ing February 29 for the meeting of the committee is that it is the fifth Monday in the month, a date on which it will be more convenient for most of the out-of-town members to be present, because there are usually no courts fixed for that day." Pulaski Farmers Plant Tobacco. The culture of tobacco on a large scale has begun in Pulaski county. J. T. Jones, who lives a few miles south of Hawkinsville, is now preparing to plant 6 or 8 acres of the weed. Ho has already sown his bed of the long leaf variety. Mr. Jones has interested with him in this project an experienced tobacco raiser from North Carolina, who expe rimented very successfully on Pulaski county lands last year. Mr. Jones says he can clear more money on eigth acres of tobacco at less expense than he can on fifteen acres of cotton at 10 cents average. Other farmers around him also an nounce their intention of taking up the tobacco culture at once. * * • Wants Change in Law. Governor Terrell will, in his next message to the general assembly rec ommend that some provision be made for legislators to serve during the in terim which exists between October and June, because if there should be an extra session of the legislature, or if the governor should die between Oc tober, when the elections are held, and next June, when the general assembly meets, there would be no one to take the governor’s place. The constitution of the state, in par agraph 1, section 4, article 2, says: “Members of the general assembly Bhall be elected for a term of two years and shall serve until their suc cessors are elected.” If the legislature adjourns in June and their successors elected next Oc tober, then the members of the pres ent legislature, according to the con stitution, are out of office. If the gov ernor should die between October and June, under present conditions there would be no successor, as the presi dent of the senate would no longer be president for reason that his term as senator expired when his successor as senator was chosen at the general elec tion. * * * “Cunjer” Doctor Gave Arsenic. After making a thorough analysis of the stomach of Sarah Mann, a negress of Ellington, Clayton county, suspected of having been poisoned, Dr. Edgar Everhart, of the Southern College of Pharmacy, of Atlanta, has reported to the authorities there that unmistaka ble traces of arsenic had been discov ered. Charles Mann, the husband of the deceased, Bob Middlebrook and George Shaw, all negroes, have been held in the Clayton county jail awaiting the result of the investigation. The Mann woman died a few days ago under sus picious circumstances, and the coroner insisted upon an investigation and sent the body to Dr .Everhart for analysis. According to report, Mann and Mid dlebrook were suspected of having in duced Shaw, who pose 3 as a sort of negro “conjure” doctor, to poison the Mann woman. It also seems that Shaw had been suspected of similar practice on former occasions. The story told by the negroes is that the woman was suffering from some kind of nain, and the conjure doctor gave her a drink of whisky. Her death followed in a few Hours. In the qualitative analysis that followed un mistakable signs of arsenic poisoning were found, and the charge of murder against the three negroes is expected to follow. Otherwise the stomach was found to be in a normal condition. Does Not Affect Georgia. The decision of the supreme court of the United States in the case of South Dakota vs. North Carolina, where it is held that the bonds of North Carolina must be paid by that state will have no effect on the bonds which the state of Georgia repudiated about twenty years ago. When the announcement of the de cision was made it w'as understood that Georgia could be made liable and forced to pay the bonds which had been repudiated by the Georgia legis lature. In the North Carolina case the state was owner of a majority of the stock in the North Carolina railroad, which stock had been pledged as security for bonds issued. The people buying the bonds presented ten of them to the state of South Dakota to be used for educational purposes, and South Da kota filed suit in the United States court to collect the money for the bonds, the North Carolina officials claiming that they had never been asked to pay for them. The supreme court held in its de cision that che railroad could be sold to pay for the bonds. Governor Ter rell states that the decision would not apply to Georgia, because the sover eignty of the state was involved when it repudiated its bonds years ago, while the state of North Carolina own ed a controlling interest in the rail road which had issued the bonds. The bonds repudiated by Georgia were not secured by any personal property of the state. REYES COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT. Special Envoy to United States is Signally Honored bv His Countrymen. A private dispatch received in Washington from Eeuna Ventura a«f nounces that General Reyes was elect ed president of Colombia on February 2. Gonzales-Valencia was elected vice president. General Reyes, who is still in New York, said he had received unofficial information that he had been elected president of Colombia on the date named. i^HEDfORBSV g|6IAMAU&f!Tj! w^hstTpatiohJl* |ir« Constipation is nothing more i£Ll US than a clogging of the bowels rang and nothing less than vital stag jk nation or death if not relieved. * jgp If every constipated sufferer M A could realize that he is allowing I jgj poisonous filth to remain in his I H system, he would soon get relief, fa H Constipation invites all kind of fl ■ contagion. Headaches, bilious- 1 I ness, colds and many other ail- I n ments disappear when consti- I ■ pated bowels are relieved. Tiled- H | ford’s Black-Draught thoroughly 3 3 cleans out the bowels in an easy R I and natural maimer without the ■ §7 purging of calomel or other vio- 9 ■ lent cathartics. B M Be sure that you get the origi- a Bk nal Thedford’s Black-Draught, M 43 made by The Chattanooga Medi- W W cine Co. Sold by all druggists in ■ 25 cent and SI.OO packages. Koriran, Ark., Mkt '>«, Iffftl. I cannot recommend Tliedford’s lUack- j* H Drauirtit too highly. 1 keep It In my house t HR all the time ami have used it for the last fi SB ten years. 1 never gave my children gj ffl any other laxative. 1 think 1 could W H never bo able to work without It M on account of being troubled with « constipation. Your medicine Is all that keeps me up. wjgg. e. h. McFarland, j THE MLANTA CISmOTiONV Great New Offer Upon SReceepts of Cotton at All United States Ports From September Ist, 89Q3 3 to Rrlay Ist, 1904, Both inclusive. Contest Opened Jen. 18th, 1904, Cioses April 20th, 1304. DIVISION OF PRIZES. For tho exact, or the nearest to the exact, estimate of tho total number of Bales of Cotton received at all United States ports from Soptombor Ist, 1903, to May Ist, (904, both inclusive S 2 500.00 For the next nearest estimate 1,000.00 For the next nearest ostimato 000.00 For the 5 next nearest estimate, $25.00 oach fiiR.OO F°r the lO next nearerit estimates, 12.00 oach 126.00 For the 20 next nearest estimates, 10.00 each 200.00 For tho 50 next nearest estimates, 5.00 oach 260.00 For tho 100 next nearest estimates, 3.00 each 300.00 $ 5,000.00 Additional Offers for Oest Estimates EVladc During; Different Periods of tho Contest. For convenience the time of the con test is divided into estimates received by The Constitution during four pe riods—the first period covering from tne beginning of contest to February <j 10, 1904; second period, from Febru ary 10 to March 1, 1904; third period, March 1 to 20; fourth period, March 20 to April 20, 1904. We will give tho best estimate received during each period (in addition to whatever other prize it may take, or if it. take no prize at all), the sum of $125.00. The four prizes thus offered 5 1 25.00 each amount to S 500.00 Conditions of Sending Estimates in This Port Receipts Contest. Subject to the .usual conditions, as stated regularly in The Constitution each week, the contest Is now on. Attention is called to the following summary of conditions: 1. Send SI.OO for The Weekly Constitution one year and with it ONE ESTIMATE in the contest. 2. Send 50 cents for The Sunny South one year and with it ONE ESTIMATE in the contest. 3. Send $1.25 for The Weekly Constitution and Sunny South both one year, and send TWO ES TIMATES in the contest—that is, one estimate for The Constitution and another for The Sunny South. 4. Send 50 cents for ONE ESTIMATE alone in the contest IF YOU DO NOT WANT a SUB SCRIPTION. Such a remittance merely pays for the privilege of sending the estimate. If you wish to make a number of estimates on this basis, you may send THREE ESTIMATES FOR EVERY SI.OO for warded at the same time estimates are sent. If as many as ten estimates are received at the same time without subscriptions, the sender may forward them with only $3.00 —this splendid discount being of fered for only ten estimates in one order. A postal card receipt will be sent for ALL ESTIMATES RE CEIVED WITHOUT SUBSCRIPTIONS. Where subscriptions are ordered, THE ARRIVAL OF THE PA PER ITSELF IS AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT THAT YOUR ESTIMATE HAS BEEN RECEIVED AND 13 CAREFULLY RECORDED. 5. The money and the subscription and the estimate must come in the same envelope every time. The estimate, the money and the subscription go together. THIS RULE IS POSITIVE. Secretary Hester’s Figures Covering the Period of the Contest. TOTAL PORT RECEIPTS. BALES IN COTTON CROP. from Ist September to Ist Mnr (inclusive) i 8 merely for your information and I. rriTT - u ersenu of following year. The period covered by this not the subject of this present contest. It is I wn StASUB. contest. priven only ns an additional aid to an intelli gent estimate*. 1897- 8,333.882 I 1,199,994 1898- 7.093,45 ' I 1,274.840 1899- 6.843,1 34 10,383 422 1900- 0,346,312 9,43G,4iQ 1901- : 7,218,179 10.680,030 1902- 7,373 627 10,727,559 The figures above are certified by Secretary Henry Q. Hester, of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, who will furnish the official figures to decide this contest. Address All Ordersto THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Atlanta, Ga. NEWSY CLEANINGS. Radium was successfully used in a recent case of partial blindness. Target practice for the warships o? flic United States Navy cost $1,300,000 Curing the year 1903. Fifty years ago the English Govern ment employed about 2000 women; now it engages 20,000. Mina Alix, of New York, broke her skull and ribs looping-lhe-loop in a circus at Madrid, Spain. The 200 boilermakers at four of the largest shops in Chattanooga, Tenn., went on strike for an eight-liour day. Between thirty and forty scientists to work under Government auspices have gone to Texas to light the boll weevil. Scarcity of cotton lias caused the eight mills at Concord, N. C., with SS,- 000 spindles, to run but four days a week. Governor Yates has filed a protest against the Illinois State tax of fifty two cents on each SIOU, claiming that it is excessive. During the year 1903 the British mercantile marine sustained 1483 cas ualties, of which 318 were complete wrecks. The loss of life was 318. After having spent more than twenty years of his life in State Prison, Ben jamin W. Clindbonrne, of Thoniaston, Me., was pardoned by the Governor. By the settlement for $40,000 of the last tunnel claim, the New York Cen tral Railroad has paid out for the Park avenue tunnel wreck about $1,240,000. During twenty-four hours one day recently the Fire Department of Chi cago, 111., was called on to light sixty tliree fires, most of them resulting from overheated furnaces. The Board of Estimate, New Y'ork City, authorized condemnation pro ceedings to acquire Fraunce’s 'Tav ern and voted $750,000 to erect a tier-’ police headquarters building. TWO GRAND ICON SOL ATION OFFERS. First —For distribution among those estimates (not taking any of the above 188 prizes) coming within fiOO. bales either way of the exact figures 3 1,000.00 Second —For distribution among those estimates (not taking any of the above 188 prizes and not shar ing the first consolation offer) com ing v/ithin 1,000 bales either way of the exact figures 1,000 OO Crand Total 37,500 OO In case of a tie on any prize estimate tho money will be equally divided. Often The Kidneys Are Weakened by Oyer-Work. Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood. It used to he considered that only urinary and bladder troubles were to be P traced to the kidneys, but now modern science proves that nearly all diseases have their beginning in the disorder of these most important The kidneys filter and purify the blood— that is their work. Therefore, when yourkidneysare weak or out of order, you can understand liow quickly your entire body is affected and how every organ seems to fail to do its duty. If you are sick or “ feel badly,” begin taking the great kidney remedy, Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, because as soon as your kidneys are well they will help all the other organs to health. A trial will convince anyone. If you are sick you can make no mis take by first doctoring your kidneys. The mild and the extraordinary effect of Dr. Kilmer’s Swanip-Root, the great kidney remedy, is soon realized. It stands the highest for its wonderful cures of the most distressing cases, and is sold on its merits by all PT-'iV }v ' T druggists in fifty-cent and oue-dollar size ftnßjiKSly bottles. You may have a sample bottle nomo of Swamp-Root, by mail free, also a pamphlet telling you how to find out if you have kidney or bladder trouble. Mention this paper when writing to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Bing hamton, N Y. Don’t make any mistake, but remember the name, Swamp-Root, Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, and the ad dress, Binghamton, N. Y., on every bottle.