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DAWSON, GA. Jax. 2nd, 1895.
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Tue friends of Secretary Carlisle arve
trying to groom him for the next presi
dential race.
A SUMTER farmer was in Americus the
other day who said he had not bought a
pound of meat for his farm since 1869,
O~k of “the original Atkinson editors™
remarks: ‘A politician in office is a
very differant man from the pu’it‘ci:m
hunting office.”” What has our brother
been trying to get?
TexAS is said to have gone mad on
the cotton question. Its people are re
ported as determined to produce such
large crops of the staple that planters
elsewhere will e forced to abandon its
cultare. Mgt
Tue Indians may be dying oud, but
the Choctaw pation took a fresh start a
few days ago when a squaw presented
her husband with a batch of four lusty
boys. The group weighed twenty two
and one-half pounds, and at last accounts
were all doing well. i
WHEN an Armenian maiden attains
her seventeenth year and is not engaged
to be married she must undergo strange
pflnishment. She is forced to fast three
days, then for twenty four hours her
food is salt fish and she is not permitted
to quench her thirst.
A wWESTERN man has applied for a pat
ent for a method of kissing by telephone.
The darlings need not be frightened. If
all the rest of the world goes back on
them the newspaper boys will stick to
the ‘good old way so popular with the
gentler sex.—Dalton Argus.
Tie divive right of kings received a
shock a week or two since, when King
Humbert, of Italy, was netified by the
commune of Rhemes, Notre Dame, near
Aosta, in the Italian Alps, that if he did
not produce his titles to be cosidered an
elector, as a landowner in the commuune,
he would lose his right to vote.
WaiLe all of our people are complain
ing of the low piice of cotton, all seem
to be glad that flour is cheap. A west
ern paper reports that wheat is selling at
froml9 to 23 cents per busbel at Portland,
Oregon, and some farmers have allowed
their crop to remain uagathered in the
field, because the price -vill not pay the
cost of harvesting. The western farm
ers are doubtless glad that cotton is low,
because they can buy clothing cheaper.
And soo it goes.
Tuae Massaclhiusetts Board of At_{riéult
ure issues an anoual catalogue of aban
doned farms for sale in the state. This
year's catalogue shows that of the 400
farms listed in the catalogue of last year
150 have been soid. Most of them have
sbeen purchased for farming purposes,
the average price being $1 50 an acre,
and the average 100 acres in extent. Most
of the abandoned farms sold in New
Hampshire and Vermont were purchas
ed for use as summer bomes,
Tue Charlestorn News and Courier
correspondent who proposes what he
calls a ‘‘ten-cent cotton league,”” has
apparently overlooked the fact that ku
kluxism, or whitecapism, 1s unlawful;
or else he has not a very: great respect
for the law. He proposes to bring about
a reduction of the cotton crop by insti
tuting a'¥éigh of terror and b inging the
b rycott into play against any farmer
who disregavds the league’s orders to
reduce his cotton acteage. The plan
won’t do, and is not worthy of more
notice than a prompt and vigorous con
demnation.
PosTMASTER (FENERAL BissgrL has
received from the postmasier at Okolona,
Miss:, a leterr wnich inclosed another
letter received at the Okolona postoffice
November 26. © The inclosed lotter was
postmarked at Mobile, Ala.,June 29,1863
It was carried by a 10c. Confederate pc s
age stampywhich had oeen cancelied vy
the Mobile pustmaster. The leiter was
written to a captain in the Confederate
infantry, and related to some surgeon’s
hospital. The old yellow envelope was
fairly well preserved, though i* had
broken, shxiugh on the edges. The let.
ter will go into the new museum recently
established by Mr. Bissell in the post
office department. |
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A woMAN sheriff is oue of the nove,'-‘
ties of Indiana. She makes a good one. l
MORE EXTRAVAGANCE.
The seal fishery arbitration seems to
have been a costly affair after all.: Fhis
country was represented by a large num
ber of legal lights, each receiving a fee
of $lO.OOO and an additional $5O per day
for incidental expenses, which netted
them the snug little sum of $13,600 each
for their labor on the commission.
It now develops that Mr. E. J. Phelps
aud Ml, J. C. Carter were not satistied
with this princely sum, and complained
to Secretary Gresham. Upon such com
plaint Mr. Gresham sent the folio ving
note to the ehairman of the committee
on appropriation:
“Mr. E. J. Phelps and Mr. J. C.Carter
think they have not been sufficiently
compensated for their services as ¢ un
sel betore the Behring sea Tribunal of
Arbitration, and in view of their eminent
ability, the time they bestowed on the
case, and the great importance of the
questicn involved, I agree with them.
«Each has received $lO,OOO, the govern
ment paying all expenses. The appro
priation made by congress to defray the
expenses of the tribunal has been practi
cally exhausted, and I recommend that
an appropriation be made to enable tle
department to pay each of these gentle
men $15,000 in addition to the amount
they have already rezeived.”
Upon receipt of this letter a section
was added to the bill granting these two
gentlemen $15,000 each, making a total
of $28,500 each for their services- Re
member, when you read the above, that
these outrageous bills are being paid
with 4} cent cotton and 35 cent wheat.
UNIFORHM TEXT BOOKS.
We notice that the committee on edu
cation reported adversely the bill to
provide uniform text books for our pub
lic schools.
At every session of the legislature for
’several years efforts have been made 10
! have the state adopt a uniformsystem
1 of books to be used in the public schools.
The book agents have thus far been able
to defeat these bills, and yet no real
meritorious legislation is demanded in
‘the state.
~ The school tax is a very heavyone on
j the people, and especially npon the poor.
And the frequent chan:es to suit the
whims of teachers render the tax a great
er hardship. The prices are extraordina: i
ly high—out of proportion to everything
else. Puablishing houses are making for
tunes, and nearly all of the a have gone
into a syndicate to keep up prices.
Now, if the state would provide that all
the schools should use the same books,
and that no change should be made
within five years, the state school com
missioner could go into the market and
get these publishing houses to bid for
cont: acts. In this way the price couid
be reduced probably fifty per cent. Then
let the state furnish the schools at actual
¢Hst, or let the county commissioneis buy
directata fixed price.—Gwinnet* Herald,
NINE young bacheiors employed in a
Bloomfield (N. J) hat factory, who had
been laid off for the reason that they had
n>» families to support. paraded that
town the other day, three abreast, and
wearing badges inscribed: “We fell in
the soup on account of you, my dears.”’
“T must have a wife.”” “No wife, no
work.” Out in the cold world fol being
unaarried.” If the nine young hatters
can g« t no other work, says the Philadel
phia Kecord, they can at least work up
on the sympathies of the softer sex; and
if they shall put the right finish to that
job it may turn out to be the best pay
ment that fortune ever threw in their
way.
GGUATEMALA is the latest nation to try
its hand at pulling the sacred tail feathers
of the American eazle. It seems that
Mr. W. 11. Argall, an American citizen,
owns some land in Guatemala. Recently
the jefe politico of Guatemala appropri
atedgsome of Argall’s real estate and
when the latter questioned the legality
of the proceeding thejgt'(:fthrew him into
jail for his apdacity, had him flogged
and kept him a prisoner for nearly two
weeks. The jefe is simply horriG. It's
no gentieman. Pret y way indeed to be
a treating of Argall!
WHEN the county elections are over in
January we will have a rest from politi
cal excitement for a year at least. The
people have been sarfeited with it in the
last twelye months. The battle opened
in May and was kept hot until November.
Then there was a lull, ani now the in
terest is warming up. The fact is, the
people will have to come down to busi
ness this year. Hard times ana scarsity
of money will demand that every man
look after his business affai:s closely.
REPRESENTATIVE BryAN's bill to
limit the term of ' the president to one
administration is said to be very popular
with the congressmen. .
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Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder
World's Fair Highest Award.
FEEDING HORSES TQ HOGS.
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There are said to be 200,000 horses
running wild in Nevada, Idaho, lowa
and Wyoming this winter. Horse raising
on the plains is no longer a paying busi
ness. The prices the horses fetch will
not pay their transportation to market.
Whether it is elestricity, the bicycle, or
what not, that has displaced the horse,
the fact remins the days of the horse in
general use have passed, and horseflesh
gr)ws cheaper every year. A Sioux
City dispatch says that Mr. Schneck, a
New York banker, who owns a ranch
pear that place, recenfly bought 1,000
range jhorses at Fergus, Mont., for %3
eacli and is killing hem and feediug the
flesh to hogs. . The flesh is boiled in
oreat cauldrons. The ranchman claims
he will get more from his hogs than he
would if he had invested the amount
paid for the horses in corn and fed that
to the hogs.
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Tuk latest bit of political gossip is
that Bill Venable, president of the state
sena‘e, is being groomd for congress.
“Unecle Lon” Livingston will see about
this later. It would be great fun to hoar
Livingston and Venable ina joint debate.
Lon doesn’t care for buzz-saws. He never
hesitates to rush in where angels fear to
tread. And hé is not to be set down in
that other class, either. Livingston soon
makes the other fellow’s tongue hang
ont of his mouth in a political race. His
work for the appropriation for the Atlan- j
ta exposition made the city solid fori
him. Next year the exposition will
spread glory a fo t deep over Atlanta,
and in 1896, when Livingston comes 1o
make his race again, he can point to what !
that $200,000 did for the fair. |
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A New York butcher has announcrd
that at a date to be fixed later he will be
gin serving horse flesh to such of his
customers as may desire it. It appears
that there is nno law to prevent the sell
ing of horse meat, or donkey meat, or
the meat of any other healtby animal,
pe ple may desire to eat~. In Europe
horse meat is eaten, and it may be that
the New Yorkers’ desire to imitate Eu
ropean customs has led the butcher 10
Lis innovaticn, In Asia they eat rats,
Maybe afterawhile we shall see the New
Yorkers aping Asian customs.
Tur young ladies who attend the Oli
vet (Nize)j College may be called “‘stun
ners’ without disparaging their accom
plishn «nts or perverting the figures of
speech. The other day they organized
two football teams and had a game in
tbe dininzg room. They kicked down
the chandelier, broke the windows and
mashed the breath ont of two of the
party. They were tired after the game
and wished to sleep late the next morn
ing. To provide for that irdulgence
they stole the college bell, which had
been in the habit of waking them at 6:30
a. m,
In the Laurens county chaingang a
boy has been flogged so severely, accord
ing to a grand jury report, that his
stripes have ulcerated and may produce
blood poisoning. If tl e Laurens county
people do not look out their chaingang
will win as unenviable a reputation as
the Atlanta police station, where is was
charged last week thai a small boy was
brut:lly beaten by a detective, to force
him to confess a crime of which the trial
jury found him innocent.
Davip B. HiLL is about the coarsest
man in public life. A few mornings
since he found a large basket of hand
some roses on his desk in the senate
chamber. He called a page and told
him to carry the flowers away, with the
remark: “People send flowers to corpses,
and lam no corpse.”” The friends who
had tried to compliment one of the dead
est political corpses America ever knew
must have f-1t like they had been kicked
by a jackass.
T A Cuicaco preacher recently eloped
with the wife of one of his flock and left
a note asking the prayers of the church,
We would call that a little cheeky even
for a Chicago man. #
Suer Cana! Electric Lights.
The value of electric light as a saver
cf t:me and money is strikingly illus
¢rated i, a return made of the average
time occupied by ships in passing
through the Suez canal With the
electric light the jecurney is accomplish
ed in eight minutes under 20 hours
Without the light 31 hours and 24 min
wtes is the time usually required.—
London Sun. ,
' In Hi*> Element. R
Attendant Professor Pithon, the
naturalist, has got the d. t.’s tonight.
Imagines he's surrounded by all sorts
of queer snakes.
Head Physician—ls he greatly terri
fied? i
Attendant—Not at all. He's sitting
there, with a sweet smile on his face,
classifying them. —London Telegraph.
A Cotto ilizer. |
otton ertiizer |
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Purchase only such fertilizers for cotton which contain at
least 3 to 4% actual potash.
For Corn, Fertilizers should contain 6 » Potash.
Poor results are due entirely to deficiency of Potash. ‘J
We will gladly send you our pamphlets on the Use of Potash, ‘
They are sent free. It will cost you nothing to read ithem, and thev will save you
- dollars. GERMAN KALI WORKS, o- Nassau Street, New York. 1
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nevertheless, and will 3
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lead in kowy Prices this Seasof
I saved the ex enses of a trip to New York, and this more
will be given to my custemers in low prices on
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and a full linc o Geperal Mer:handise, f“_‘JtOCk in eve 3’
department is complete, and I ask an opportunity to convifiee
you that I canjsave you money. ;!
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J. W.FK.TOWREYHE
MARY’S LITTL= CAMERA.
A little camera Mpry had— b
She did not thing it wrong—
And every place thit Mary went
She tock the thig: along.
'Twas of the insta ane!us kind.
"Twould take thdightning’s flash
Or anything more mu%y than
The miser takes s csh.
She tried the camef onja fly
And caught it as § i@,
And of the busy, bg:zig bee
she got a splendid vigy.
But when she tried t» §tch a boy
Who o'er kis schiodl@ks pored
The instantaneous podss failed—
She was completely ffored.
The times when he beghn a task
Were very, very few,
And when he did begigshe failed
Since heso soon waghrough.
—James Cistle in Hoig and Country.
A DOCTCR’S PRESIRIPTION.
One Case In Vhich the Patient lWould
Rather Jight Thas Take It.
The man flom the [amaracks had
been standing iround tjie Brush Street
station so long that th{ policeman on
duty conclude¢ he woull tackle him on
suspicion, so le crossq the street and
approached the man ganding on the
sidewalk.
““What are y»u doinjhere?”’ inquired
the officer.
““Nothin,”’ was the fuiet response.
““What are yeu goin to do?”’
“Nothin. "’
“What are ycu after?
‘‘Nothin.”’
“What do you want?
‘“Nothin.”’
The officer was gettin tired.
““Well,”’ hesaid sargtically, ‘“why
don’t you take it and g
“I am, soon’s that u’?l gits ready
to start.’’ '
The ofiicer locked athis victim cu
riously.
“That’s all right,”’ laghed the vis
itor. ‘I ain’t goin to dal the street
car track ner a house nd lot ner a
church steeple. 1 ain’t3t no use fer
’em up my way. I live piece up here
onto a farm. I've bed workin fer
five years tryin to life anortgage on
my place. It’s the heavidliftin [ ever
undertuck. Got it W’ at last,
though, and felt good, b} the doctor
said I needed rest andy change of
scene. Told me I'd bett{ come down
to Detroit and do noth for awhile.
That’s what I'm doin now You’ve seen
me at it. You’ll do fela witness in
case I need one. I've beedoin it since
the train come in this mdin. It’s the
hardest work lever doi -I’d ruther
lift mortgages. = I'm goithack soon as
that train starts. If thqdoctor says
anything to me, I’ll givelm a lickin
that’ll make him think it and change
of scene restored me tdtrength and
health in a supprisin mhner. Now,
you g’'long about, your bihess, and I'll
tend to mind,’’ but thefficer talked
with him till the train ¥ and was in
vited to come up an:gend a week
with him. —Detroit FrePress.
It May Do as Mucjr You.
Mr. Fred Miller, of Irg, 111.,, writes
that he had a Severe Kipey trouble for
many years, with sevd pains in his
back and also that his pdder was af
fected. Hetiied many|called Kidney:
cures but without aj good re=ult.
About a year ago he begf:he uselof Elec
tric Bitters and foungéhéf at -onee.-
Electric Bitters is esped4ly adapted to
cure of all Kidney anj.iver troubles
‘and often gives almost ifant relief. One
‘trial will prove our Eement. Price
only 50c for large botti. At Sale Davis
‘ Drug Co’s. | "
} Fresh car load of Alajan line just re
!{ceived at Dawson Varityyorks.
Headache bad? Get Dr. Pain Pills.
£
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ca {
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means so much more than §
you imagine—serious and §
fatal diseases result from*
{ trifling ailments neglected.
| Don’t play with Nature’s
greatest gift—health.
: If you are feeling
¥ out of sorts, weak
| and generally ex- §
‘ Br 9 hausted, nervous,
| OWHS have no appetite
’ and can't work,
begin at oncetak
| ing the most relia-
I ble strengthening W
ron medicine,whichis
Brown’s Iron Bit
ters. A few bot
® tles cure—benefit
comes from the
Bltters very first dose—iz
won't stain your
teeth, and it’s
pleasant to take.
Dyspepsia, Kidney and Liver
Neuralgia, Troubles,
Constipation, Bad Blood
Malaria, Nervous ailments
Women’s complaints.
Get only the genuine—it has crossed red
lines on the wrapper. All others are sub
stitutes, On rece’}pt of two 2c. stamps we
, will send set of Ten Beautiful World’s
' Q Fair Views and book—free. :
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Valuahle City Property
I offer my Rosidence and Store
House on Muin street for sale cheap.
All modern conv nience.
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For terms and and particulsars call
[On or address
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‘ Forsvth, Ga.
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Skins Wanted
I will pay for otter skins from $2 00 tor
$5.00, beaver $2.00 to $4.00, Raccoon 100
to 80 cents, skunks 20 to 40 cents, grey
fox 20 to 50 cents, red fox 40 to 80 cents_,
mink 20 to 50 cents, wild cat 10 to 25
cents, Bring or send to
J. L. BUNCH, Shellman, Ga.