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to the tourist, but the few who cent, of solids in solution, the below the level of the sea, that it have sailed o.i and explored this Dead Sea holds lrom 24 to 26 per takes the name of Wady-eti-Nar, sea's shores [such as Cady, Mas- cent., or five times as much. The or the Fire Wady. At last its terman, Lynch, Molyneux, Costi- water is very nauseous to the taste dreary couise brings it to the pree gan, et. al. j testify to its exceeding and oily to the touch, leaving on ipices above the Dead Sea. into perilousness and terribleness in the skin, when it dries, a thick which it shoots its scanty winter the strongest of crafts, its vicissi- crust of salt, But is is very bril- waters; but all summer it is dry. calm, the bant. Seen from faraway no lake The imagination of a prophet who earth looks more blue FOR SALE The Nat ional Collection Agency of Washington, D C., dispose of the following judgments : tudes of storm and sweltering heat, the danger of on the treachery of the of all heart medicines is Miles’ Heart Cure. fleart disease made my feet ai so that they had to he eed in several places. One tie of Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure ped me and twelve bottles rked a complete cure.” amjss Trusty, Barnard, Mo. D*. Miles' leart Cute 6s new strength to the heart, ulafes the circulation, stimu- c th 4th. uarantce. jand of Promise (TO AND FROM) .y Rev. C. O’N. Maktinmai.e. ARTICLE XLIV. TURKEY' [Continued] Z in the feet or ankles from a weak or diseased -a heart that cannot keep fever and the treachery of the beautiful. Swim out upon it, and i circulation. The blood j Bedouins. at a depth ot twenty fee: you can ettles in the lower limbs The waves when disturbed beat count the pebbles through the the watery portions ooze on a boat like sledge-hammers and transparent waters. I he buoyancy into surrounding tissues on shore likethunuer bolts. There die Dead Sea is well-known; it ig bloat and swelling, are distinct traces of several * s difficult to sink the limbs deep leart must be strengthened beaches or terraces of stained and enough for swimmingjif you throw milt up before the dropsy greasy and very friable marl and :l stick on the surface, it seems to te cured to stay; and the rubbish below, indicative of for- rest there as on a mirror, so little mer levels of the sea. Lieut.' of actually penetrates the water. Lynch states: “At times it seemed ^ be surtace is generally smooth, as the Dread Almighty frowned die heavy water rises not easily, upon our effjrts to navigate a sea, but when in storm it does rise,die the creation of His wrath. There waves are immensely powerful.” is a tradition among the Arabs This we tested for ourselves, that no one can venture upon this We sat on the water, vve floated sea and live. Repeatedly the on its surface without the move- fates of Costigan and Molyneux ment ot a limb, we stood in the had been cited to deter us. We water to necks and trea^d on it prepared to spend a dreary night with the greatest ease, without upon the dreariest waste we had slightest tear of sinking—though ever seen.” He further speaks of some of us couldn't swim a lick | being “in the midst of a profound anywhere. But the movements in * . e “ , K® stlon restores , anc j aw f u | solitude,” and says the water were very slow because Sold by druggists on ,,-phe curS e of God is surely upon of the great density,and no plunge this unhallowed sea." It is like a! was indulged because of possible vast caldron into which the sun I injury to the eyes, or if indulged pours its intense heat and makes 1 by some it was with eyes tightly the air stifling. Every twenty- shut. In this instance, looking on , four hours the Jordan pours about was not believing; but, experienc- 3,000,000 tons of water into the ing the tacts stated, we had all Dead Sea, and as there is no out- previous doubts dissipated fully. i let but by evaporation one can 1 But you may be sure some of us I easily see what a part the sun ! had taken the precaution before plays in carrying off the great sur-. hand to carry bottles of fresh wa- ; plus of these bitter and imprisoned ter from Jericho thither, so that, j waters. I after our Dead Sea bath we could On this Dr. G. A. Smith finely ! nnse off the sticky feeling and save ! says: “The Dead Sea receives, be- j irritation. Others not so fortunate I sides the Jordan, four or five I waited till they arrived a short smaller streams, but has no issue while thereafter at the Jordan . | or relief for its waters, except 1 where another bath was taken to We drove under a broiling af- tbroU g b evaporation. This is raised to enormous proportions by and always haunted the austere and weird, Ezekiel, tilled the Wady of Fire with water from under the threshold of the temple,water that came up to the ankles, and then to the knees, and then to the loins, and then became waters of swimming,a torrent that could not be crossed. And the bare banks, that the sun blisters, had very many trees on the one side and on the other. And these waters went down to the 'Arabah, and went in to the sour waters, and'the waters were to be healed. And the Dead Sea was to swarm with fish, and it shad come to pass, the fishers shall stand 14)011 it from Engedi to En eglaim. But in the midst of the vision there is a curious reservation of a utilitarian kind, the fens and the marishes thereof shall not be healed, they shall be given for salt - salt which under the Old Covenant the Dead Sea ever supplied, for house or temple, meat or sacrifice, and still sends up to Jerusalem by the long camel trains you see traversing the coast from Usdum to Engedi. But the vision opens out again. And by the torrent upon the banks there of, on this side and on that side, shall come up all trees for food, whose leaf shall not fade, neither GEORGIA R L Lewis Millon 82.03 Will James W T Cockrell Molena 58.90 Adrian ♦84.78 Galloway Bros Monroe 21,48 LI) Wlnt sett Atlanta 84.88 Warren A- Huff Rochelle 40.00 Gilbert A lb 'wilt Atlanta. 18.88 O It lioviin Savannah 28.63 .1 11 Rodgers Baxley 18.99 Mrs K Baer Savannah 90 25 Lewis A Mi rphy Calhoun T1 DO M T Lamb Oribb 88.20 ALABAMA M is A R 8m til Cottage Mills 88.1 1 8 L Durden Aufnugnvtlle ♦ 42.11 8am llurst Dublin SI 14 R I, Clements Brockton 128.84 I. 11 Turner Klherton 84.85 .T P Hurst Clayton 88.08 K 1, Brewer Glenn 89 111) B P Larnbee Florence 201.96 Reeves Bros A Co Griffin 10.00 U II Caudle (loodwater 113.50 .1 8 Gregory John 44.14 .1 II Kingiy Gordon 357 88 1<TiUlk r. l/USO J S Mills .ludson 1 jimlsuy 92.46 8.26 Head A Warren Carr A. 1 >0 Gum Springs Hardaway 188.70 140.26 \\ arson tv 1 litliiu 11 T Daniel 11 untsville 12.50 btmuunnii Springs 99.05 W T Harrison A Son Killed 28.16 CL Monsb*.) 1 joflialr ?s 85 W .1 Henderson 1 mfavette 220.00 K O Brown Macon 79.10 1 M Honey Linden 250.00 .1 B 8tiles Meriwether 21.80 .1 W Hand Mobile 82.26 THE Send Bids to NATIONAL COLLECTION AGENCY, Washington, D. C. 9). PALESTINE: ^ Lut [the Lake of Dead Sea] To Bahrj Lot, or eminent is introducing into Cali lorn in should also be experimented with by Southern nut growers. The English walnut has not done well in California, and the Gulf stales may prove a better field. Then there is the butternut. Ac cording to Burton II. Albee, who writes in the American Nut .lour mil published at Petersburg, Yu., the butternut tree will grow in waste places about the farm where other nuts will grow. It is a rapid grower, requires little attention, irnoon sun over the steep down rades between Eriha [Jericho| to i f erven t heat which prevails in le Dead Sea. or as the Arabs | ^ sunken vall during the all it, Bahr Lut, which means; er part of the year . The ex _ the Lake of Lot. ow P eas ‘ tracted moisture usually forms a int to come to a halt on the low I ha/e impenetrable to the eye for ground beach of the northeastern more than a few miles, but some shore ot this wonderful body ot water. The surface of the sea is ; 7290 feet below the level of the Ylediterranean, while “the bottom >f the sea consists of two submer ged plains, the one 13 feet below rhe surface and the other 1300 feet below,” and the depth of wa ter varying according to the rain fall. It has a clear and greenish- counteract the Dead Sea salt bath. “And Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah sul phur and fire—from Jehovah, from the heavens—and He overturned those cities, and all the Circle, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the times vast columns of mist rear ground. And Lot's wife looked i themselves from the sea, heavy i clouds are formed above, and thunderstorms, the more violent for their narrow confines, rage, as the torn coasts testify, with light ning and floods of rain. To the j everlasting evaporation is due the j bitterness of the sea. All rivers contain some salts, and all lakes blue cast, and stretches southward. w j tbout j ssue to the ocean become, for forty-two miles, with an aver se-e width of eight miles, the Moab back as they fled to Zoar and be came a pillar of salt. And Abra ham looked down upon Sodom and Gomorrah, upon all the land of the Circle, and saw, and, behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace" [Gen. 19:24- 28. | According to Dr. Smith, “Some have identified these words as the description of such an erup- mid will yield abundantly.” ed; it shall bring forth new fruit 8ouu , timi . bjM . k , pushed according to his months, because | Mome testimonials from reliable their waters issued out of the I sources, showing enormous yields Sanctuary, and the truit thereof j f,. om even 1.00 pecan trees, which shall be for food, and the leaf j staggered belief,especially in those thereof for bruises and sores. | who u W „„t want to believe. I [Lzek. 47:1-12.] So there is noth- b ,,| uw ttll item from the Mash ing—nothing too sunken, too use- vilu , Herald,telling of a tree less, too doomed [here on earth] | neur thm .. lt is not possible for but by the grace of God it may be redeemed, lifted and made rich with life.” (To be continue I.) Nut Culture. so important a paper to publish such facts for truth, so near by, if they were not true, without being brought to redicule. The tree is in Berrien county. The article says that “this tree has a spread of branches of I2.‘l feet and a trunk in consequence,more or less briny, i tion as that ot Vesuvius upon But the streams which feed the Pompeii. But there is no need to Dead Sea are unusually saline;' invoke the volcano, and those are they flow through nitrous soil, and 1 more in harmony with the narra- they are fed by sulphurous springs, j tive, who judge that in this heavily Chemicals, too, have been found I bituminous soil there took place in the water of the sea, which are 1 one of those terrible explosions not traceable in its tributaries, and 1 and conflagrations, which have probably are introduced by hot | some times broken out in the springs in the sea bottom. Along ! similar geology of the oil-districts not som ,. other Imsh that, would do the shores are deposits ot sulphur of North America. In such soil as W ell or better! Why spend so , in a word, on the lowest spot anc j petroleum springs. The sur- great reservoirs of oil and gas are Imu; h labor in cleaning oil'grou le earth s surface, and ami a roun( jj n g strata are rich in bitu 1 formed, mountains rising precipitously on the eastern shore from 2500 to over 3,000 feet, while on the west side are the grand and lonely-look- jjng but not so high hills and crags •of the Judaean mountains. On this shore we stand about 3800 feet below Jerusalem and 1300 feet below the Mediterranean level on the scene of lonely desolation yet strange fascination. Encircled as How ninny miles of ditch banks circumference of seventeen feet at have you! If you have !) ditches averaging -00 yards each, you have over t wo miles of ditch banks. What are growing there? Usually nothing profitable. How much labor do you spend cleaning these off every year? Very much, with no returns. I have been thinking recently that such land might lie planted in hazle nuts or butter nuts. They grow well in Georgia around bottoms—would they not grow well on ditch banks? If so, we might plant them there and let them stay and bring many bushels of profitable nuts in place of Hie elders and briars, which now in fest, them to no profit; or is there and suddenly discharged each year which bushes that would perpetually minous matter, and after earth- by their own pressure or by earth quakes lumps of bitumen are so quake. The gas explodes, carry- j yjejfl a „ abundant harvest* If you it is with purple-tinted mountains, often {ound floating on the water j ing high up into the air masses of have any other suggestion to save is is a thing of beauty and delight, as tQ j usti fy jts anc j ent name of the oil which tall back in fiery j this waste, give it to the public, yet no living thing is in its waters, Asphaltitis. [Bitumen is petroleum rain, and are so inextinguishable no human habitation is on its j hardened by evaporation and oxi-1 that they will float afire on water, shores, no sailing vessel brightens i dat j on . The bituminous limestone, Some times brine and saline mud two feet above the ground, and nine and one half feet at live feet from surface. If is said to bear from 12 to 15 bushels of nuts an nually; and although they are un improved or common variety, they never sell for less than 15 cents per pound, and bring from >5*70 to >5*00 annually for the crop. The tree is between sixty and seventy years old.” Who can doubt this statement. It is true. If is also true that 100 trees like if would bring at least #5,000 income every year. It, is also true that 100 t rees of best budded fruit, will yield better than that if planted now. It, is also true that .5*5,000 10 or 15 years hence will be as helpful as it, is 1 now. It, is also true that the ma- tnighf be planted jority of people will never believe its surface, a place of ill-omen and a brooding terror. Its history opens with the iniquity and de struction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and closes with the fearful massa cre of Massada. As the Rev. Wm. P. F'inney graphically and rhythmically puts it: ■•I looked upon a sea, And lo! ’twas dead; Although by Hermon’s snows And Jordan fed. How came a fate so dire? The tale's soon told: All that it got it kept And fast did hold. All tributary streams Found here their grave, Because this sea received, But never gave. O sea that's dead! teach me To know and feel That selfish grasp and greed My doom will seal. > And, Lord, help me my best, Myself, to give, That I may others bless, And, like Thee, live." The sea looks fair and inviting which burns like bright coal, is the so-called Dead-Sea stone from which articles are made and offer ed for sale in Jerusalem and Beth lehem. The floating lumps prob ably are from petroleum springs in the sea-bed. These springs were evidently more common in ancient times than now. Gen. 14:- 10 says the Vale of Siddim was wells, wells, i. e., full of wells, of bitumen.] At the southeast end a ridge ot rock-salt, 300 feet high, ruus for five miles,elsewhere there are deep saline deposits, and the bed of the sea appears to be cov ered with salt crystals. [The salt are ejected, and over the site of the reservoirs there are tremors and subsidences. Such a phenom enon accounts for all the state ments of the narrative.” He also calls attention to this remarkable coincidence: “It is in accordance with the grace of God, making that first which was last and that last which was first, that this awful vale of judgment, to which its inhabitants sometimes gave the name of Hell, should be the scene of one of the most lively and stupendous hopes of prophecy. To the north of Jerusalem begins the torrent-bed of the Kedron. It this; lienee the greater opportunity for the wise man who c an see afar off ami who has patience to wait. A. S. Jones. EXCURSION RATES VIA CENTRAL OF GA. RY. Kate of one fare* plus 25o for tho round trip will apply aooonnt the following occasions: To Nashville*. Tenii., Fisk University Summer School, Juno 28-Aug. 2, 1906. Tickets 011 Hale June 24, 2(1 and 27, 1906. To Nashville, Tenii., Summer School Vanderbilt Biblical Institute, June 14- Aug. It, 1905. Tickets on sale June I I, 12, 18, ID, 20, 21, July 2, 2, 4, 1005. To Oxford, Miss., Summer School University of Mississippi, June 14-July 2(1,1905. Tickets on sale June 12, 18, 14 20, 27, July 11, 1M and 85, 1005. To Tuscaloosa, Ala., Summer school, June 1(V—.1 uly 28, 1005. Tiokets on sale June 15, 111, 17, 10, 24. 28, July I, 8 and 10, 1005. To Knoxville, Tenn., Summer Mohool, June 20-July 28, 1005. Tiokets on sale June 18, 10, 20, 24, 25, July I, 8, 0 and 15, 1005. Tiokets account of all the Summer schools mentioned above, will be limited to 15 days from date of sale. However, extension to Sept. 20, 1005, can be ob tained under customary conditions. To Asbary Park, N. J., account Na tional Educational Ahs'u., July 8-7. Low rntes via all rail, or via Savannah mid Steamship Lines. Tiokets on sale via nil rail Juno 20th to July 3nd, In clusive; via Savunnah and Steamer, June 28th to 80th, inclusive; stop-overs allowed at New York on return trip. To Baltimore, Md., United Society Christian Endeavor International Con vention, July 5-10, 1005. Low rates via all rail; also via Savannah and Steamer. Tickets on sate all rail, July 1st to 4tii, inclusive; via Savannah and Steumer for Steamship: sailing from Savannah oil July 1st und 1th. To Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo, Ool., account International Ep- worth League Convention, Denver,Col., ! July 6-9, 1905. Low excursion rates. Tickets on Hale June 29th to July 2rd, 1 inclusive. To Buffalo, N. Y., annual meeting Grand Lodge, B. P. O. 15., July II 16. | Low excursion rates via all rail and via I Savannah, Steamship to New York, 1 thence rail. To Portland, Oregon, LewisaudClark ; Centennial Exposition, June 1 -Oct. 16, 1905. Low excursion rates; tickets on Hale May 28-Sept. 80, 1906, inclusive; fimil limit 90days from date of sale, not to exceed Nov. 80, 1905. ridge is the Jebel, or Hashm,! sweeps past the Temple Mount, Usdum. The Arabs take salt from ; pas t what were afterwards Calvary this and from the Lisan on the an d Gethsemane. It leaves the other side. All dredging brings | Mount of Olives and Bethany to up crystals of salts.] To all these the left, Bethlehem far to the I said in an article last, week that every important newspaper advocated the planting of pecans. Below will be found a little clip ping from the old reliable Macon Telegraph on this subject: “The cultivation of the pecan nut is becoming a profitable indus try in Georgia and other Southern states, and the outlook for the crop in this state for the present year is reported to lie favorable. Our progressive farmers recognize that there is money in pecans and other nuts. Mr. J. B. Wright, of Cairo, speaking before the Georgia Horticultural Society recently, said: ‘Granting that a wise selec tion of varieties has been made and that you take good care of your trees, you will not regret the day you decided to become a nut grower.’ An Old Coweta Citizen Dead. Mr. David Nolan died at his home here about 2:80 o’clock Thursday morning. He hail been in feeble health for several months but seemed to be getting along very nicely Wednesday evening. He was eighty-six years, two months and twenty-five days old, being born on March 28th, 18111, in North Garolina, moving to Georgia when alxmt ten years old. He was twice married, seven chil dren born by first wife, five of whom survive him. They are J. T. Nolan, J. It. Nolan, J. Y. No lan, W. T. Nolan and J. H. Nolan. His second wife died two years ago in April. Mr. Nolan was for a long num to do his Master’s bidding. He icver took a very great interest in polities, except when it came to the matter of selecting between a prohibitionist and a non-prohibi tionist, when he was a constant supporter of the former. The Iwdy was interred in the cemetery at this place Thursday evening. Rev. J. W. Bailey, his pastor, conducting the funeral ser vice at the Methodist church at 4:80 o’clock.—Senoia Enterprise- Gazette. 1 solid ingredients, then, precipitat- r jght. It plunges down among j is in Louisiana, where a company j ed and concentrated by the con-! the bare terraces, precipices and | was recently organized with a cajn- stant evaporation, the Dead Sea crags of the wilderness of Judaea | tal of #200,000 to establish a pecan owes its extreme bitterness andj—the wilderness of the Scapegoat, nut nursery and put a half million buoyanev, While the water of the i So barren and blistered, so fur- trees on the market every year, ocean contains from 4 to 6 per I nace-like does it become as it drops The pistacio nut which the gov- j her of years a leading member of ft is said that the largest grove j the North Georgia Gonferenoe,and of cultivated pecans in the world 1 during old war times and long be fore was constantly in the work, covering some of the largest cir cuits in the conference. Those who are most familiar with his vork speak of it in the highest terms, and say he was ever ready Found a Cure or Dyspepsia. Mrs. 8. Lindsay, of Fort Williams, Ontario, Canada, wlio lias suffered quite a number of years from dyspepsia and great pains in the stomach, was advised by her druggist to take Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. Bite did so and says, “I find that they have done me a great deal of good. I have never had any suffering since I began using them.” If troubled with dysptmsia or indigestion why not take these Tablets, get well and stay well? For sale by Holt & Oates, druggists, Newnan, Ga. Mrs. Z. Greene, of Newnan, Is spending some time the guest of her father’s family, and her many friends.—Senoia Enterprise-Ga zette.