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W 7 A LICK OF FARM
IWORK HAS BEEN DONE
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gAD UONOITION OF FARM OPERATIONS
IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA. ‘
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rhe Ground 18 Thoroughly Soaked With
water, and Mules Can’t Stand in the
Fields. An Interesting Letter.
EpITOR DAWSON NEVYS-—I L.hought.
i would be nothing amiss to give you
s few dots from Lbe? “Swamps,’’ as this
part of Louisiana is called. I see in
The News that the farmers around
pawsoD are planting corn and doing
other farm work, and I .aee also in
gome of the communications to The
News that they are behind with their
work. It might be interesting to some
of them 10 know that there hasn’t been
4 lick done here in the way of farm
ing- :
It has been raining almost continu
ously for two months. We hayen’t
pad a fair day in six weeks, and the
gun has Dot shone but once in three
weels, and then only for an hour or
two. The ground is thoroughly soaked
#ith water. A mule can stand up in
the field only in places. One farmer
¢ried to plow whether or not, and his
pule bogged down, and the owner had
4o dig him out and roll him on hard
ground. The river bottoms aund low
lands are all under water. Red river
1 higher than it has been in years,
and farmers on the river are looking
for the levees to break. Old farmers
who bave lived here for fifty and sixty
vears say they never before saw as
. pueh rain and water.
There has been but very little gar
dening done. Some few have planted
cane, but planted it in the mud. The
qaw mills are standing idle, The
ground is so web logs can’t be bauled
10 the mills. The roads are in as ugly
a shape as [ ever saw them. It takes
a pair of good mules to pull 500 pounds
over them.
[ guess my Georgia friends will
think I have written The News a wet
letter, and so I have; but nevertheless
it is true.
But we are hopeful and looking for
ward to some beautiful spring weath
er. Our lands are rich, and if we can
oet corn planted in April and cotton in
May we are pretty sure of good crops.
Fall oats are fine. No spring oats
have been planted—too mueh rain to
plant them. J. N. HORTMAN.
Bellevue, La., March 23, 1903.
$7OO FROM TWO ACRES.
Syrup Puts a Big Wad in a
Farmer’s Wallet.
Hon. Russell Brinson of Decatur
county is taking a great interest in the
big cane growers’ convention to be held
in Macon in May, and is deing effec
tive work toward making it a success.
In a letter to the editor of The News
he says:
“My county is making rapid strides
along the line of syrup growing, and
the farmers find it more profitable
than cotton growing. For instance,
Mr. P. H. Herring, one of our growers,
raised two and one-half acres of sugar
cane last year and from that he made
66 barrels of syrup, selling the same at
30 cents per gallon. From the syrup
he received something more than
seven hundred dollars. - This beats ten
cent cotton by a long way.”
~ If you object to pills auld pellets,
take Ramon’s Tonic Regulator for the
spring ills. Ivis a dry powder and not
unpleasant to the taste. It acts direct
ly and effectively upon the liver, does
not gripe or purge, but clears the sys
tem of bile quietly and thoroughbly,
tones up the blood and puts new life
into the whole body.
Paine’s Celery
Permanently Cures Sick and
Nervous Headaches that
Make Life Miserable.
Sick and nervous headaches are amongst
the worst ills of life. The man or woman who
is subject to headache at irregular intervals,
goes through life bearing a load of misery
arfld wretchedness that is terrible to think
of.
Headaches as a rule, result from a dis
ordered condition of the nervous system.
Mental excitement, loss of sleep, bgc}ily
fatigue, and disordered digestion are exciting
causes. When the brain becomes tired and
debilitated, the whole nervous system is weak
ened, and headaches result. If the liver is
sluggish, the kidneys inactive, and digestion
deranged, headaches invariably follow. To
cure and prevent headache, the nervous sys
tem must be strengthened and vitalized.
I'he most persistent cases of headache, nervous
feebleness, and sleeplessness, are permanently
cured by Paine’s Celery Compound; it is the
great reconstructant of the nervous system.
Mrs. Henry Westrick, St. Clair, Mich., tells
of her release from suffering as follows:
_*“T have been troubled with dyspepsia and
sick headache for a number of years. About
every week I would have a bag’ spell of sick
headache, but since I began using Paine’s
Celery Compound, my dyspepsia is gone, and
I do rot have any more headaches. I feel
better than I have for years.”’
No Need Soiling the Hands with
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Made for home economy ; never disappoint.
Direction book and 45 dyed samples free.
~ DIAMOND DYES, Burlington, Vt.
Is one which is palatable, pleasant to take,
f er, f ect and can be relied upon to act gently, fbl;:
/ thoroughly, cleansing the entire system ot a
axatu)e impurities, Such a remedy is Mozley's
Lemon Elixir, It is a pleasant lemon tonic, acceptable to
the most delicate stomach, and acts thoroughiy upon the
bowels, liver and kidneys without the slightest unpleasant-,
ness. Sold by all druggists at 50c a bottle,
Mozley’s Lemon Hot Drops, without an MOZley S
equal for coughs, colds, sore throat and Lemon
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FORTY THOUSAND MEN TO BUILD THE CANAL.
Will Take That Number to C(;mplete the Big Ditch in Ten Years.
A Ventable Pesthole of Filth and Death,
“Climate will be the most serious
obstacle in the work of constructing
the Panama canal,” said Alfred Noble,
a member of the Panama commission.
in New York last Wednesday. ‘“‘The
canal commission, in its summary
of the difficuities, estimated the
climate a 3 carefully as it did the cost
of construction.
“Filthy municipal habits have been
breeding disease for centuries up to
the present time. When M. Leßlanc
told De Lesseps, on his firs: visit that
there would not be enough trees to
provide crosses for workmen’s graves
he was not far wrong.
“You know the dean of the medical
faculty at Panama divides the seasons
into the wet period, from April 15 to
December 15, when persons die of yel
low fever in from four to five days, and
the dry season from December 15 to
April 15, when people die of pernicious
feyer in from twenty-six to thirty-six
hours.
“The tropics and Jlth form a combi
nation that only moderate science and
Anglo-Saxon energy can hope to con
quer, and they will conquer.”
“Do you think any engineering dif
ficulty can upset the present plans ?”
was asked.
“No: the canal is perfectly feasible,”
CHEAP RATES VIA SEABOARD]
Special Train to the Chautauqua.
Low Rates to Other Places.
On account of the Georgia Chautau
qua, Albany, Ga., April 250 May 2,
the Seaboard will give a ratc of one
fare plus 25 ceots for the round t,rip.l
tickets good for return passage until
Mav 2. A special train will be run
from Columbus military day, leavingl
Dawson about 8 a. m. |
On account of the Medical Associa
tion of Georgia, to be held at Columbus
April 15 to 17, one and 1 third fare
plus 25 cents for the round trip.
On account of the annual reunion of
confederate veterans, to be held at
New Orleans during the month of
May, a rate of $8.95 has been authoriz
ed for this occasion.
On account of the Southern Baptist
Couvention at Savannah, May 5 to 7
inclusive, one fare plus 23 cents for
the round trip. Tickets good for re
turn passage until May 20 if desired.
The original purchaser of such tick
ets may secure by payvment of a fee of
fifty cents an extention of final return
by personatly depositing the ticket
with Joseph Richardson, special agent,
Savannah, Ga., between the hours of
8,4. m. and Bp. m. not later than May
20. Final !imit will be extended so as
vo reach original starting voiot not
later than June 1. .
Any other information in regard to
rates and schedules will be given with
pleasure by C. S. Beeland, agent, or
M. H. Morris, ticket agent. Their
'phone is 72.
: DAWN OF THE FARMERS’ DAY
Capital Reaching Out to Buy
Farm Lands.
From the Washington Times.
The price of agricultural products
will never again fall to a low level.
Capitalists, aware of the gituation, are
now reaching out to buy farm lands.
They koow there is no safer or better
invesment. Land cannot bura down.
There is no element of risk in holding
it. That investment has taken money
by the millions away from New York
It will not return in the same volume
as heretofore. The era of of whilom
cheap grain will never return. The
eastern fellows, for many years favor
ed by class legislation, no longer have
the advantage.
In time an intense feeling between
the urban and the rural population
may develop. The ruralist will be held
responsible for prices vhat will be fixed
by patural causes, and not by combina
tions, as will probably be charged.
Has Both a Name and Pedigree.
The postmaster at Keokea, Island of
Maue, Hawaii, has resigned, and the
fourth asslsta.nt postmaster general o
far has bden unable to fied any one
who will take the place. The salary
iss2 a year. The retiring official,
David Kapohokoakimohkewoenah, is a
lineal decendant of the great King
Kalitapakamikokiweatoha, who, ac
cording to tradition, was “yery fond of
missionaries’’ and partook of a good
many.
Makes a Clean Sweep.
There’s nothing like doing a thing
thorouchly. Of all the salves you
ever heard ‘of Bucklen’s Arnica Salve
is the best. Itsweeps away and cures
burns, sores, bruises, cuts. boils, ul
cers, skin eruptions a.d piles. Iv's
only 25¢ and guaranteed to give satis
lfact.ion by Dawson Drug Co.
answered the distinguished engineer.
“It should bs open to commerce in
ten years, with the aid of modern ma
chinery and from 30,000 to 40,000
men,’’
“Where are those men to come
from ?”’ was asked. :
“Principally from Jamaica. The un
shilled laborers must necessarily be
negroes, and the negroes of Jamaica
and other British West Indian colonies
are infinitely superior to those of the
other islands.
“The blacks of Santo Domingo, for
instance, are practically worthless.
Loafiag is a part of their religon. Ja
maican unegroes are almost immune
from yellow fever, and engineers who
built the Jamacia railway extension
in 1896 tell me they are good workmen
—that is, comparatively speaking, of
course.
“Yes, 40,000 men may be more than
this labor market can furnish, but in
any case [ donot believe American ne
groes should be employed. 7The num
ber of men needed will depend on the
amount of machinery. Owing to the
climate I imagine machine will replace
hand work whenever possible, even
with the cheapest labor. I should say,
1n any event, 30,000 would be the miri
mum.’’
NO BOOZE FOR BARTENDERS.
New York Saloon Keeper Forming
Total Abstinence Societies.
A New York barkeeper, now the
proprietor of a place of his own, is gc
ing te deliver a lecture one evening
this week on the subject, ‘‘The KEarn
ing Capacity of one Cigar.”” The bar
keeper in questicn is a teetotaler, He
dispenses strong drink to others, but
does not indulge in it himself. Fre
quently his customers ask him to have
a drink at their expense. He iavari
ably replies, “Thank you, I'll have a
cigar.” Suiting the action tothe word
he takes a cigar from a box and puts
it into his pocket. Then, when the
customer has paid for his drink and
the cigar the barkeeper returns the
cgiar to the box, to doduty over again.
For five years the barkeeper has kept
a record of the number of times he has
taken ‘‘a cigar” (the same obne). He
finds that the invitations have averag
ed eight a day during the whole period
and that his cash receipts from the
one cigar were $1.096 50. The occas:
sion tor the delivery of the lecture will
be the formation of a barkeepers’ total
abstinence society. There ought to be
a lesson for consumers in all of this.
THE GINSENG CRAZE.
Sells for $250 an Ounce. Only 25
Acres Planted in United States.
From the New York Press.
Twenty-five acres are said to com
prise the commercial ginseng growing
area of the United States, much of it
being in two counties of New York.
George Vanderbilt has planted a fine
garden of the root at Baltimore. Two
farmers in Ohio raised on onec-third of
an acre a crop that brought $15,000.
A farmer of this state who had been
raising cabbage at $2 a ton drove into
town with a small buggy load of gin
seng for which he got $l,OOO. There
are 460,000,000 Chinese, and all who
can afford it use ginseng. The mys
tery of the root is its wide variation
in price. While some sells readily st
$4 a pound there are species that bring
$lOO an ounce. Consul Wilaman says
he has seen Mandarin ginseng that
was worth 135 times its own weight in
silver. The regular price is from $5O
to $250 an ounce. The craze has ad
vanced so far in this country that a
monthly magazine called the Ginseng
Garden has beern started in advocacy
of the culture.
Open All the Time.
While so many openiongs are in pro
gress [ wish to remind the public that
my watch repairing and jewelry shop
is open every day in the week, and
that I do the best work at reasonable
prices. F. P. ALLEN.
A Prominent Minister Recommends Ckam
" berlain’s Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy. |
Rev. Fraacis J. Dayidson, pastor of!
the St. Mathew Baptist church and
president of the Third District Bap
tist Association, 2731 Second street,
New Orleans, writes as follows: *“I
have used Chamberlain’s Colie, Chol
era and Diarrhoea Remedy for cramps
and pains in the stomach and fouand it
excelient. It is in fact the best cramp
and colic remedy I have ever used.
Also several of my parishiczers have
used it with equally satisfactory re.
sults.” For sale by Dawsoa Dcug Co.,
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Parrott.
A PORTO RICAN VIEW
OF STRENUOUS TEDDY
sst L nany
Diablo, published in Porto Rico,
prints the following concerning Presi
dent Roosevelt. It evidently has an
‘ exalted opinion of the chief executive’s
‘ strenuosity: ;
~ ““Many wild and ferocious reports
reach this island about the fondness of
President Roosevelt for hunting, his
streuousness, his fondoess for the Af
rican negroes and his general wildness
of nature. Born and reared as he was
on the far western prairies of that new
and wild country he is naturally very
fond of bunting, and during the early
days of his career he killed many pan
thers, bears, mountain lions and other
wild beasts. Hunting was then his
business, with literature as a side line;
now, however, he hunts for the fun of
it. He was never known to take the
game unawares. He inyariably blows
his horn and assembles his pack with
much eclat and noise betore marching
forth to dare the beasts of the forest
to mortal combat. They know he is
coming davs beforehand. Itis related
that once upon a time he visited the
bear preserves of Mississippi and slew
many bears. One very large and fero
cious bear was caught in a trap by
some smaller hunters and tied to a
tree for the president to kill. When
President Roosevelt arrived on the
scene he refusad to stab or shoot the
bear, but ordered it dispatched with a
club.
“This incident gives the lie to the
report that the president is blood:
thirsty. Insome portions of the states
they have an animal or beast whicu
they call a trust, which scems to have
so far escaped che deadly aim of the
president. But our latest advices
(December 10, 1902,) lead us to the
opinion that a number oi them will be
killed before the rainy season sete in
to make the hunting grounds impossi
ble. Public sentiment seems to be on
the side of the president in his deter
mination to rid the country of this
beast.”
The Diabhlo comments at considera
ble length on the race question, de
claring that “President Rooseveli is
the first president ever elected over
the states that invited colored states
men to dine with him at the white
house, which is the presidential resi
dence.”
The Diablo closes its article by de
claring that President Roosevelt slew
a southern senator by the name of
‘Carmack for speaking against him in
public.
Big Congregations at This Church,
The question of the full church has
been solved in the English village of
Hunton, where the church is crowded
every Sunday. A former rector left
a certain sum in his will which was to
be inyested and the income diyided
among the six families who attend
church the most regularly during the
vear.
By some sudden sound she drops the
vase upon the floor. She is nervous and
may be told that nervousness is a luxury
which only a I~
rich woman can \__,-~/
afford to indulge c
in. Nervousness g “w "
has cost many a &G r .
woman her po- o
sition. Some- : :
times whensom- W . L
en run machin- \““ 5
ery the price of FEEEE. '
nervousness i$ »d i
mutilation,—a 1
finger lost or per- e
haps the whole ‘
hand crushed.
Nervousness in
women is com- ;
monly but a
symptom of
womanly disease. : ; S
It is useless in 5
such cases to
“doctor ” for the
nerves alone.
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which attack the 5
delicate woman
ly organism and s :
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