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THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1907. S.S.S. PDBELY VEGETABLE Not only is a medicine valuable for its ability to cure disease, but the wav in which it a fleets the system is a very important factor. When the -vstem is infected with the germs of disease as in Rheumatism, Catarrh, SVrofula, Sores and Ulcers, Skin Diseases, Contagious Blood Poison, etc., every particle of its recuperative strength is needed to assist in eliminating the poisons and impurities which are causing the trouble. It should not be dosed and treated with strong mineral mixtures and concoctions that further odd to the burden, by disagreeably affecting the bowels, producing indiges tion, or eating out the delicate linings and membranes of the stomach. The absolute vegetable purity of S. S. S. has always been one of the strongest points in its favor, and is one of the principal reasons for its being now the most widely known and universally used blood medicine on the market. It is made entirely of healing, purifying roots, herbs and barks of the for ests and fields. These are selected for their well known enrative properties, and are known at the same time to possess the qualities to build up and strengthen every part of the system by their fine tonic effect. Not only is 8. S. S. the king of blood purifiers, but it is the one medicine that may be taken with absolute safety by young or old. We guarantee it non-injurious and offer a reward $r ,ooo for proof that it contains a particle of mineral in any form. S. 3. S. is a safe and reliable treatment for Rheumatism, Catarrh, Scrofula, Sores and Ulcers, Skin Diseases^Contagious Blood Poison, and any nnd all diseases arising from a poisoned or impure state of the blood. It goes to the very bottom of these troubles, removes every trace of disease, enriches and builds up the blood and permanently cures where mineral medicines fail. If you are suffering with any form of blood disease write for cur book on The Blood and ask for any medical advice you may desire; no charge for either. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC COATLANTA, CA. Plates army. Tho commi-slons as made out were In the following order: ft. Cooper, A. S. Johnston, It. E. Lee, j. B). Johnston and P. T. Beauregard, J. E. Johnston remonstrated against this, claiming that he should have t-tood first, because he had been a brigadier general in the United Slates army, while none of the others had ranked higher than colonel. Apparent ly in consequence of this Lee was not ".or awhile appointed to any separate command in the field, and seems for a time to have been superintendent of fortifications and to have acted as military adviser to President Davis, and to have performed many of the duties pertaining to the office of Sec retary of War. J. E. Johnston, who commanded the Confederate forces in Virginia, was wounded at xhe battle of Seven Pines. May 31, 186": Albert Sidney Johnston had been killed at the battle of Shijob, April 6; and the command of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia having been held for three days by G. W. Smith, who was disabled by a paralytic stroke, ■was given to Lee on June 3. 1S62. Then commenced that, series of bril liant operations which Immortalized the name of Lee, and have gilded the rages of history with the most glo rious achievements of a patriot that ever tho world had to admire. Ths sun of the Confederacy went down at Appomattox on April 9. 1865, when Lee surrendered with his fight ing force of only ten thousand (10,000) men to Grant, who with one hundred end sixty-two thousand (1G2.000) sol diers hemmed in on every side Lee's handful of famished and half-clad he roes. Rather than sacrifice unneces sarily tho remaining few of his gal lant band Lee yielded to overxvhelm- >ng numbers. It Is beyond the power of human pen to fittingly picture the parting scene between Lee and his men at Appomattox. The deepest de votion nnd tenderost love existed be tween them. Tho great general and bis noble comrades mingled their tears legether. "Men, we havo fought through the war together: I have done my best for you.” were his Inst spo ken words to them. His memorable nnd affecting farewell address to tho Army of Northern Virginia was Is sued tho next day. Lee became president of Washing ton College, now called Washington nnd Lee University, at Lexington, Va„ in October, 1865, and there were soon live hundred students enrolled. Lee was superb as a soldier and grand as a citizen, hut in no sphere of life was ho nobler than when teaching tho young men of the South that peace both her victories no less renowned than war. He was struck with paraly sis on September 28. 1870. nnd died on the 12th day of the following month. Up was survived hv h!« wifo. three sons nnd three daughters. His death carried grief to every hearthstone in the South. The Southern heart never felt a greater woe. Lee died in the peace of God nnd in the hope of a glorious immortality. One of the greatest natural curiosi ties in Bibb County is Brown’s Mount, about seven miles below Maeon. It can he distinctly seen from this city, and presents a long high ridge of shell-stone, several hundred feet above the lied of the river. Tho ridge has much the appearance of the oyster r< i'N off the coast, 'flic whole mass rppears one vast conglomeration of sea-shells, the different genera and species of which may be distinctly traced, though some parts are of the hardest filn:. nnd others in various stages of decomposition. Brown’s Mount is the property of Mr. G. M. Davis. Macon’s well-known citizen, nod who for so many years was the faithful and efficient chairman of the board of comlssioners of Bihb County, and formerly an 1 1 or man of this city. II 1 has owned tiia since about fortv years, and it lias be?n In family fo’. sixty years. Mr. Thtv j says Brown's Mrunt is from 2,70 to 800 feet high. It is surrounded at the has P bv stones twenty feet high. Th» mount itself Is or dirt, tn, 1 some years ago when Mr. Davis wished to construct a wag on road to the top of the mount so he could plant a peach orchard he had to blast a way through the rocks. Cn the summit he has an orchard of thirty acr *s m E'btrtas and other pop ular vanth-s c f peaches and none bet ter are grown in this section. Mr. Da vis says his trees are seldom affected bv the wfittber and he does not have to use fertilizers of any kind. whose proud march of conquest ended with the death of De Soto in the spring of 1342, from fever, on the banks of the Mississippi, and to conceal his death as long as possible, his body was wrapped in a mantle and sunk at mid night in the middle of the stream. In addition to the foregoing anoth er very interesting thing can be men tioned in connection with Brown’3 Mount. Some years ago when the question of a water supply for the city of Macon was under discussion it was suggested that a tower be erected on Brown’s Mount in order to get suf ficient elevation, to put water in the houses on the hills in the city. A sur vey was made, and it was shown that the level of the water in a tower on J Brown's Mount would be on a level I with the second story of the building I of the Wesleyan Female'College, which we ail know stands on the crest of one of Macon's highest hills. It was pro posed to obtain the water from a great spring and a creek near the foot of the mount. This project, however, was n«t carried out. When the late la mented Prof. J. E. Willet was a mem ber of the faculty of Mercer University he would occasionally take the classes in geology to Brown's Mount to ex plore the earth’s formation and exam ine the conglomerated mass to be found there. The Indian mounds across the Oemulgee River, contiguous to East Macon are objects of curiosity even at the present day. Some years ago they were sought out by travelers and view ed with much interest. According to my recollection there are five of them: two arc on the Patterson place, and two are on the Dunlap estate, if that portion of the property has not been sold, and I believe Mr. M. J. Hatcher owns the land on which stands one of the mounds. The two largest mounds are on the Patterson farm. The dif ferent mounds are in a stnte of cultiva tion. It Is supposed that the mounds were used as burial grounds by tho In dians. The mounds are of considerable height and circumference. What is known ns the Large Mound Is about half a mile below the bridge. The top of the mound is one hundred nnd twen ty feet above the bed of the river. The shape approaches that of a cone flat tened at the top, which contains an area of nearly a quarter of an acre. The sides are covered with large oaks and hickories, but the summit is used as a garden. One. situated in a once secluded and romantic spot, is called McDougald’s Mound, because Captain Robert Mc- Dougald was buried there, by his own request, in 1809. At the time of his death he was in command of Fort' Hawkins. The grave is on top of the mound, and for many years it was en closed by a paling, on which visitors were in the habit of writing or cutting their names. About ten years after Captain McDougald died a brother of his was buried on the mound by his side. I have not visited the place in year* and can not sav if the fence and the graves are still visible. The Mc Dougald Mound is thirty feet high. A portion of one of the mounds was cut away for the track of the Central Rail road. Arrow heads and other evi dences of former Indian life have often been found about the mounds. The Fort Hawkins alluded to above was built for protection against the In dians about the year 1803 nr 1806. and during the war of 1S12 and the subse quent Indian wars was a place of some importance. History says the last gar rison stationed there was in 1819. the time of the first settlement of New Town, the beginning of the present beautiful and prosperous city of Ma con. In passing, it may be stated that there are mounds in other counties in Georgia besides Bibb. They exist in Hancock. Jasper. Forsyth. Butts. Early. Elbert, Cass and perhaps elsewhere in the State. In Early County they are in the nature of sacrificial mounds, one being seventy feet in height, and six hundred feet in circumference. This mound is covered with large forest trees, from four to five hundred years old. I learn from the same historical authority that ve.ars ago a shaft was sunk in the center to the depth of sixty feet, and at its lower portion a bed of human bones, five feet in thickness, and in a perfectly decomposed state, was passed. It has been said that hu man bones were found in one of the mounds in Blast ^iacon soon after the war. On the mount are remnants of for tifications. supposed to be Spanish, and constructed by De Soto on his march through here in 1540. Among the evi dences Of the occupation of Brown’s Mount centuries ago by white people is a dish-shaped cistern or basin built for holding water. It Is constructed of a hard, whitish looking substance like cement. !s fifty feet long, thirty- feet wide and five fe^t deep. Mr. Da vis says when lie first saw the cis tern. about forty years ago. it was open and otote white hut in recent years much dint has been was the basin by rains, and of lot. had a garden in the cement tacle which was constructed dashing Spanish explorer men ted into he has recep- by the than tour and a half centuries ago for th, purpose of furnishing water for the Spanish and Portuguese cavaliers and t..e others, who enrolled themselves as his followers wh»r. he sailed from Spain in April. 1538. j n search of an El Dorado which \eas supposed to ex ist in the vast region then catied Flor- ida. If that De Soto basin on the top or Frown's Moun: could talk what an interesting story it might unfold of the tspaniai ^ s conquest of this section. ..is hunt for gold mines, his search for the fountain of perpetual youth, and the dreams of the brilliant receptions ih.it awaited him at the eonrt of Spdin on hi* return from his glorious expe dition’ And it might aiso tell of the dangers and hardships of favel through a country filled with hostile Indians, and picture the sufferings caused by sickness, and it might de scribe the final breaking up of ,amp on Brown’s Mount and the departure •f the explorers towards the West, As the Georgia fruit growers were in session yesterday the following may be timely and interesting: I gather from reliable sources that there are in the commercial orchards of Georgia about 17.000.000 peach trees, more than half of which are i> .ii'ir.g. It is thought that in a good ye he crop in this state is worth oxer i 000. The industry Is growing rapidly and yearly increasing in value. The hos: evidence that it is a richly paying crop is seen in the fact that growers are constantly increasing their hold ings by enlarging their orchards. Some growers make a fortune in a year, as we estimate wealth in the South. Ma con is right at the home of the peach, and a number of her citizens own ex tensive orchards from which they get a large revenue annually. Among some of these growers are E. J. Will ingham. E. J & P. D. Willingham. George B. 11. .T. Hat her. Fel ton Hitcher. Judge Wm. H. Felton. Barfield & Daniel Sttinrt Davis. Ralph Small. Clifford Orr and others. Pos sibly Mr. K. J. Wiilinghan-. is the larg est grower among the Maeonitcs: ho has an orchard of fifty thousand tro°s near Marshallvilie. and with his broth er. P. D. Willingham, owns sivtv-five thousand trees in the vicinity of Byron. The section of tlie state just to the South of Macon is noted for its great peach orchards and the fame of the fruit has extended all over the United States, and has reached even beyond the waters. This i* the realm of Queen Elberta: here she exists in finest form an^ flavor, dellghtine the eye and pleasing the t iste. She elicits 'he ad miration of all baholders, Air. S. H. THE STOMACH Humph, of Marshailvllle. was the first to produce this famous peach. The statement above that there are about 17.009.0 f '0 peach trees the commercial orchards may seem to be an exaggeration, but when we eonsid- j er there are 7.829.516 bearing trees on ! the lines of the Centra! of Georgia ' m . ~ , ... T Railway alone, the estimate of i7.ooo.- The Tome Treatment tor In- ono bearing and non-be;,ring trees, for i the entire state does not appear too ! digestion-Most Successful. FARMERS' IM TO ON A STRIKE hlbh. T was unable last ex-ening.to ob tain the exact number of bearing trees on ai! the railroads in Georgia, bur -he following estimate has been furnish ed to me. The figures for the Central and Georgia Southern and Florida arc positive: Central 7.S29.516 Georgia Southern 2on.ooo Plant System 300.000 Macon. Dublin & Savannah.. 250.000 Georgia 200,000 Seaboard 250.000 Southern 1.500.000 Western and Atlantic 3on.ono Atlanta. Knoxville & North'n 330.000 Wrlghtrvflle & Tennille 100.000 Total No. bearing trees... .11.279.316 If there should be sold from these trees 5,000.000 crates of peaches a year, at a dollar a crate, the crop would be worth 35.000.000. ATLANTA. Ga„ Jan.- 24.—The Na tional Farmers Union, in its second day of the annual convention here today, adopted a number of important resolu tions. Among these was one that the union shall establish a minimum price for the cotton crop of the present year at its meeting next fall, and that by its system of warehousing, it shall main tain such price. The dix-ersifleation of • crops was the subject of a resolution. A Household Remedv Which : wW< * c ? ,Ie . d u r >on i|> e farmers of the • 1 country to increase the variety of their Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills Cured * This Case. Is Useful in a Wide Range of Common Ailments. Loss of appetite, coated tongue, bad taste in the mouth, heavy dull head ache and a dull sluggish feeling— these are the symptoms of stomach trouble. They indicate that the stom ach is on a strike, that it is no longer crops and more largely to raise sup plies for home consumption. It was urged that farmers raise something which shall find a ready local sale each month of the year. The Farmers Union Press Association, organized Texarkana. Ark., last September, held its annual meeting today. Oniy rou tine business was considered. The convention will continue through Thursday. reliable | furnishing to the blood the full quota of nourishment that the body demands, hence every organ suffers. There are two methods of treatment, the old one by which the tjtomach is humored by the use of pre-digested foods and artificial ferments, and the new one by which the stomach is toned up to do the work which nature in tended of it. A' recent cure by the I have obtained from source some of the rich results of peach-growing in this section: A few years ago Messrs. N. Dietzen and brother near Fort Valley, cleared $24.- 000 from a 200-acre orchard, the net profit being 3120.00 to the acre. Mr. Ed. M. McKenzie, of Montezuma, by his first year’s shipment, cleared 32.000 above all expenses from fifty acres of peach trees. Mr. J. D. How ard of Lorar.e. from a five-acre orchard 4 of three-year-old trees realized $1,200. I tonic treatment is that of Mrs. Mary “CUT IT OUT” says the doctor to many of his lady patients, because he doesn’t know of any medicinal treatment that will positively cure womb or ovarian troubles, except the surgeon's knife. That such a medicine exists, however, has’ been proved by the wonderful cures performed on diseased women, in thousands of cases, by Woman’s Relief It has saved the lives of thousands of weak, sick women, and has rescued thousands of others from a melancholy lifetime of chronic invalidism. It will cure you, if you will only give it a chance. Sold at every drug store in $1.00 bottles. Try it. Mr. S. M. Mashburn of Barnesville, from thirty acres, sold *4.500 worth of fruit. This was a net profit of $133.00 to the acre. Mr. S. H. Rumph. of Marshallville. is one of the largest in dividual fruit-growers in the South. He has 200,000 bearing trees. A per son can stand on the veranda of his country home and see more than SO.OOO peach trees. It is said he received about $90,000 gross one year for his crop of peaches. He has over 20.000 plum trees. Mr. Rumph was formerly engaged in the nursery business from which the annual sales have reached as high as $70,000. Macon county, where Mr. Rumph resides, is the sec ond largest peach-growing county in the state. I know that in one season from Marshallville alone 450 carloads, or 240.000 crates, were shipped. The whole number of peach trees in Macon county is from 1,500,000 to 2.000.000. Houston County is the largest peaeh- growing county in the United States. Edgexx-ood Farm, the property of the Hale Georgia Orchard Company, at Fort Valley, formerly covered ' 1.000 acres, but more land* may have been added to this immense fruit posses sion. Some time ago the trees num bered 200.000. The orchard is located on a table-land 600 feet above the level of the sea. More than four hundred persons are employed in this orchard- There are over 3.000.000 peach trees in Houston. I well remember that one season 850 carloads of peaches were shipped from Fort Valley, or about 450.000 crates. At *2.25 a crate this would be over $1,000,000. In the neighborhood of £5fton is fine peach producing section. Cobb County Is one of the best peaeh-grow ing counties'in the State. Here Judge George F. Gober lives, and he is large ly engaged in the peach industrv. He has extensive orchards in Cobb.' Cher okee and Pickens countie.® Recently he made large investmentsffn orchards in and about Sumter County. I have heard it stated that in his orchards in North Georgia alone fie has more than 300.000 trees. There are many other large growers in the Northwestern part of the State, some of whom have orchards containing from 50,000 to 100,000 trees. The year 1900 was a popular one for the setting out of iiqxv trees: 2.000.000 were planted that year. It will interest Georgians to know that the Boston Herald pronounced the Georgia peach superior to that of Cal ifornia and to all others. The Chivago Record said: “The finest peach that comes to Chicago- is the Georgia El berta. richer than a bowl of fresh cream.” The New Tork Tribune said: "They are larger than the peaches pro duced for this market on the Delaware peninsula and in New Jersey, and by universal consent much more delicious than the Northern fruit." The New Tork World said: "The more North ern States of this country have long had a deep sense of their obligation to the State of Georgia for its devo tion to the cultivation of the water melon. This debt is now increased by the success of the Georgia peach crop which has this year been sufficient to drive out of the Eastern market the beautiful but tasteless peach of Cali fornia.” The Chicago Tribune said: "Fruit men agree in pronouncing the Georgia peach as by all means the best in point of size, flavor and firm ness that comes to this market.’ 1 In -writing of Mr. S. H. Rumph higher up in this article I should have stated that not long ago he bought the building on Cherry street now occu pied by Joseph N. Neel Co., and when he made the purchase he laugh ingly remarked to a friend that the amount invested in it represented a part of that year’s receipts from his peaches. I presume this store prop erty is worth from $28,000 to *30,000. Mr. Rumph has just erected a very beautiful residence in Marshallville. at a cost of about $25,000. xvhere he now resides, having removed from his country home near Marshallville. It Is Mr. Rumph’s expectation to continue in the fruit business the remainder of his life. Stackpole. of SI Liberty street, Lowed. Mass. She says: "I suffered constantly for years from stomach trouble and terrible backaches and was confined to my bed for the greater part of three years. I was un der the care of our family physician most of the time, but did not seem to get better. COLUMBIA. S. C., Jan. 24—More than four hundred delegates, represen tative of the very best In this 'State’s negro citizenship, were gathered In Wesley M. E. Church. Sumter and Ger- vais streets, at 11 o'clock this morning, when Richard Carroll called to order the initial session of the notable race conference xvhich he has been the prin cipal factor in promoting. It was most decidedly an Impressive assemblage. Probably never before were there col lected together at one time in this WRITE US A LETTER freely and frankly, in strictest confi dence, telling us all your troubles. We will send Free Advice (in plain, sealed envelope). Address: Ladies’ Advisory Dept., The Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. GAVE UP SUPPORTER “l wore a supporter for years, for my womb, which had crowded every thing down before it, writes Mrs.S. J. Chrisman, ofMannsville, N. Y. “1 suf fered untold misery and could hardly walk. After taking Cardui I gave up my supporter and can now be on my feet half a day at a time.’ no'; 1 ~ ! Stateso^ny negroes of the kind the house. My blood was impure and my Now that the rivers and harbors committee •of Congress has recom mended an appropriation , of $25,000 for improvements in the Oemulgee riv er between Maeon and Hawkinsville, a short review of some of the history of nax-igation on the Oemulgee may be interesting. Historical records tell us that the first steamboat to arrive at Maeon was named the North Caro lina. nnd it reached here on January 18. 1829. In command of Capt. Salter. The arrix-al of the boat was hailed as the commencement of a new era in the commercial life of Macon and the beginning of a new epoch in the his tory of Oemulgee navigation. The Ma con Telegraph, which had then been in existence two years, made this men tion of the coming of the steamboat up the river: “Many of the people along the banks were alarmed at the smoke and noise. Some mistook the noise for a roaTing lion: others for the sneeze of an elephant. Some pro- ted it was the his«ing of the sea- serpent, or the groaning of an earth- I quake: others thought it was ‘war. pes- | tilence and famine, but the most gen- i ral opinion was that it was the Tar- I iff coming in propria persona to eat I up our cotton and corn, and to drink up our rivers, and that was an In- ■ fringement upon State rights. There j complexion pale. I suffered from flashes of heat, followed suddenly by chills. I had awful headaches, which lasted from three to four days. I could get but little rest at night, as my sleep was broken and fitful. As a result I lost several pounds in weight and became very nervous. “I was in a wretched condition when Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills were brought to my notice by a booklet which was left at my house. I started to take the pills at once and began to 'gain in weight and health. I was encouraged by this to keep on until I was cured. My friends and neighbors often re mark what a changed woman I am j and I owe it all to Dr. Williams’ Pink i ■Fills.” ! These wonderful pills have been used : State and the race needs most. Governor M. F. Ansel and Judge W. C. Bennet addressed the gathering to day. Booker T. Washington xvill be among the speakers tomorrow evening. NEW YORKSUN KNOCKS wants to chasten them, correct their evil practices, and properly sterilize them to the public use. In that direc tion he has certainly made tremendous progress, and the public at large ■wishes him well. He ought not. how ever, to let a lot of crazy but too capable imitators in the several States usurp and pervert his oxvn functions when by a xvord of friendl/ counsel he could so easily restore them to sanity and common sense. From the New Tork Stln. An interesting problem in the rail road situation is presented in the South. It differs from that which is Cured of Lung Trouble. ’It is now, eleven years since I had a narrow escape from consumption,” writes C. O. Floyd, a leading business man of Kershaw. S. C. "I had run down in weight to 135 pounds, and coughing xx-as constant, both by day and by night. Finally I began taking Dr. King's Nexv Discovery,. and con tinued this for about six months, xx-hen my cough and lung trouble were PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM Clcar.nrs and btautifiei tho hair. lYomotea a luxuriant growth. ITrvcr Fails to Restore Gray Hair to its Youthful Color. Cures scalp diseases A hair falling. C0c*apd 31.U0at Druggie with the best results in the treatment ! observable pretty nearly everyxvhere of stubborn cases of stmach trouble ■ else only in being more acute. Busi- and as they are a poxverful blood build- i "ess has wholly outgrown the capacity er nnd nerve tonic they are useful in a i of the railroads, and both business and xvide range of diseases, such as anae- ■ the railroads are being seriously hurt, mia. rheumatism, sciatica, neuralgia. | Take the Southern Railxx-ay. as an in- nervous headaches, and ex-on locomotor ; stance, in 1895, in a year of great pros- ataxia and partial paralysis.. peritj', the number of tons carried one Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are sold by mile was 1,098,932,884: last year the all druggists, or sent, postpaid, on re- number of tons carried one mile was cqipt of price, 50c. per box, six boxes 1 4.488.915.839. The figures are almost $2.50. by the Dr. Williams Medicine j beyond comprehension. They are elo- Compan'y, Schenectady, N. T. quent of the growth and prosperity of I the Southern States, but they are otni- .' I nous as regards the Southern Railxx-ay i A well equipped, effectix-o railroad. Joseph Willet and others. This was in j transporting, for Illustration xve xvill 1819. They built the first three boats on Sxvift Creek, and sent them to Da rien loaded with cotton. At the same time "mountain boats” xx-ere coming to Macon from Henry County, up the river, xvith.dxty or more bags of the fleecy staple, and xx-ould take back merchandise of x-arious kinds. The coming of the North Carolina put new thought into the minds of citizens, and two enterprising men, Messrs.- Charles Day and James R. Butts, decided to build a stern-wheel boat exclusively for the trade of Ma con on the. Oemulgee. They construct ed the -‘’Pioneer,” of timber obtained in the woods surrounding Macon, and carried a load of cotton to Darien, xvhere they procured the machinery for the steamer and returned to Maeon with a big cargo of freight. The late Albert G. Butts, of Maeon. x\-as a brother of Mr. James R. Butts, an’d was interested with him in Oemulgee navigation. The "Pioneer" was a financial success, and xvithin three years from the time of its maiden trip. January 30. 1S3, there xx-ere sex-en say. 10,000 tons of freight a day, can do its work xvell and earn its fixed charges, a just and proper dividend for its shareholders, and provide for its reasonable betterments. But if the 10,000 tons a day is suddenly increased to 15.000 -tons a day the res'ult is very different. The road xvill transport the tonnage, it is true: but under vastly less efficient conditions and at greatly increased cost. The margin for its betterments xvill disappear first: its dix-idend xvill go next, and unless it can get a new and large capital its property xxrlll become depreciated and its credit impaired. When we add to these conditions the increase in the cost of everything that a railroad has to buy, the enormous adx-ance in the price- of engines, and of all kinds of cars, and the formidable demands of labor, which have every where been met, it must be apparent to tlie most casual obserx-er that the outlook calls for very serious consid- eratio** In t* circumstances one would sup pose that the administration of a rail road had a sufficient burden imposed on it—capital to be raised: almost other steamers plying the Oemulgee : superhuman difficulties of operation to between Maeon and Darien, and in be overcome, ex-ery hour strained day time the number Increased, and occa- an< I night to satisfy, in some fashion. sionally trips xvere made by boats from Savannah and elsewhere. By 1837 the business had become exceedingly pros perous and steadily growing. There xvere two cotton barges on the ri\-er with the poetical names of Bonnet O’Blue and Lalla Rookh. And while I am on the subject of the river it occurs to me that the fol lowing geographical and historical points fn connection xyith the Ocmul- ee might be interesting: I have the authority of Mr. John C. Butler. Ma con’s only historian, and a most ex cellent one. ■ that the name Oemulgee is of Muscogee oriign and derix-ed from the Indian "Oe” or “Och” xx-hich sig nifies xx-atcr, and “mulgee,” boiling or bubbling. The name was applied from the many springs that xx-ere found along its course and whose pure wa ters flowed into Its channel. The streams in Georgia were all clear wa ter until the country began to be thickly settled, the forest cleared and the land plowed. My first information concerning the origin of the name Oc- mulgee is different from that given by Mr. Butler. In my boyhood days xvas told that once upon a time an Indian xvas crossing the river at a shallow place with an ox and a mule and while driving them he exclaimed: "Ox-mule-gee!” and in the course of time the name became Oemulgee. How- ex-er, I guess Mr. B'utler is- right about it, especially as geography and history agree that the Oemulgee rises in Fulton and Gwinnett Counties. One head spring was traced, at an early date, xvhere now the large and thriv ing city, Atlanta, the capital of Geor gia, has been built up around it, and the old National Hotel, which former ly stood where the "Whitehall street viaduct noxv is, marked the spot of that spring. "The other txx - o streams head in Gwinnett: the three unite northwest of Monticello. about fifty miies above Macon. The course of the ri\-er is south for one hundred and fifty miles, xx-hen it heads almqst into a semi-circle and unites with the Oco nee in Montgomerx- County, about thir ty-two degrees of latitude. The dis tance by water from Macon to the sea is estimated by all of the old nax-I- gators at not less than four hundred miles." When modern Atlanta finds climbing of trees, and a picking ; out that she is at the head of the of flints, and had not the boat made I Oemulgee she will set Lon Lix-ingston s escape, it would have been hard to ! to work to get a million dollar ap- xx hat the consequences might hax-e | propriation to open up the river been." The North many of the peop Carolina afforded of Maeon their oportunity to take a steamer ride upon the xvater. tion from Atlanta down in this tion. The North Carolir. from Cape Fear rixe made hut one Dip. rival in these waters • ame to Macor. and I think it Prior to its ar- about forty flat- bottomed boats, propelled with poles in the hands of men. xvere used on the Oemulgee ; n carrying from four to se\-er, hundred bags of r-otton on each trip from Maeon to Darien, and ] would r---tiirn with about seventy-five t«r« of freight. Th» fi"«t persons here i to engage in the building of such j good." boats w«r« E. McCall, David Fiapders, 1 Bank. the public demands. Not at all. On all ‘sides there is an insistent clamor for lower rates for all classes of trans portation': the legislatures everyxx-here are being invoked, and successfully in voked, to attack the railroads, to cut dovji their tariffs, to impose all sorts of penalties for car shortage and for inadequate service, and to harass in every conceivable xx-ay the trice un happy railroad, executive. What is going to come of it all? In the case ©f the railroad we ha\-e instanced, we suppose that one hun dred millions of dollars could wisely and justifiably be expended upon it at once in view of actual and prospective conditions in the Southern States. Where is the money to come from? The fact of the matter is that transporta tion rates in the South are much too low; they have been reduced in fever ish haste in the desire to encourage the countless new industries which have sprung up, and in the overzealous effort to help nexy communities to get on their feet. The consequence is that the earn ings which for nearly ten years have been devoted to enhancing the effeiency of the property no 'longer exist, and only the expenditure of new and stu pendous capital can 'better the situa tion. Had a more reasonable and less optimistic adjustment of rates been obserx-ed the road would have been in a much better position to provide the expansion of its capacity, which has become essential. As it is now It is threatened with a compulsory reduc-, tion of rates that are already inade quate. a threat of which 'the immedi ate effect is only to prevent the road from obtaining the capital it so urg ently requires. President Roosevelt is in no degree responsible for the undue and onerous prosperity of the South, but he is re sponsible for the general insanity on the subject of the railroads which all sorts of communities betray every where throughout the country. He has too lightly esteemed his own influence, and especially the contagion of his ex ample. Indeed, there can be no man ner of doubt that he must feel that the people are now ox-erdoing it. that they are going much further than he ever intended that they should go. If he will abandon himself- to a few mo ments’ reflection he will see that the results are bound to be infinitely xvorse for the South than for the Southern railroads. A misled and infatuated people can bankrupt a railroad corpor ation without any great difficulty, but how are they going to Indemnify themseix'es for thp Infinitely greater damage that they Inflict on :hem- selx-es ? A wise and timgly word of adxfice from President Reesex’elt would do more good at this juncture than any thing else that can be imagined The popular belief 1s that he would like to wreck ail the railroads, and there i* a x-ery general determination that be shr.il riot lack help. Mr. Roosevelt, of course, entertains no such ambition. congress formally set forth as axio matic the statement that every ship is a missionary of trade, that steam ship lines xx’ork for their own countries just as railroad lines xvork for their terminal points, and that it is as ab- Three years ago thp Trans-Mississlpt surd for tho United States to depend upon foreign ships to distribute Its products as it xx-ould be for a depart ment store to depend upon wagons of a competing house to deliver its goods. This statement is the literal truth. American Ships' Competition. entirely gone and I was restored to my "Moreover, it must be remembered normal xveight. 170 pounds.” Thou- that American ships do not have to sands of persons are healed ex-ery year, i contend merely against the subsidize- Guaranteed at all drug stores. 50c and $1.00. Trial bottle free. Experience of Roof in His Tour Desires To Create Another Infant Industry at Ex pense of People. WASHINGTON. Jan. 23.—President Roosex-elt’s message in support of ship subsidy was received and read by both houses of congress today. After the reading in the house the message xvas || ___ ___ referred to the committee on merchant 1 the present European lines. The South marine and fisheries, from which ai American republics now see only our mail subsidy measure has just been j xvarships. Under this bill, our trade reported. In the senate the message ■ friendship xvill be made evident to was sent to the committee on com- them. The bill proposes to build largo tion of their foreign competitors. The higher xvages and the greater cost of maintenance of American officers and erexvs make it almost imperative for our people who do business on the ocean to compete on equal terms with foreign ships unless they are protect ed somewhat as their fellow country men xvho do business on land are pro tected. We cannot as a country afford to hax-e the xxages and the manner of life of our seamen cut down, and the only alternative, if we are to have sea men at all, is to offset the expense bv gix-ing some advantage to the ship it self. “The proposed iaxv which has been introduced in Congress is in no sense experimental. It is based on the best and most successful precedents, as for instance on the recent Cunard contract with the British Gox-ernment.■■ As far as South American is concerned, its aim to prox-ide from the Atlantic and Pacific coasts better American lines to the great ports of South America than merce. The president calls attention to the "great desirability of enactment of legislation to help American ship ping and American trade by encourag ing the building and running of lines of large and swift steamers to South America and the Orient.” The urgent need of our country’s making an effort to do something like its share of its own carrying trado on the ocean, has been called to his at tention, the President says, in striking fashion by the experiences of Secre tary P.oot in his rece.it South American tour. State aid to steamship lines, the President says, is as much part of the commercial system of today as state employment of consuls to pro mote business. The President dis cusses the bill noxv before the com mittee and says: “It would surely be discreditable for us ' to surrender to our commercial rivals the great commerce of the Orient, the -great comeree we should have with South America, and even our own communication xvith Haxx-aii and the Philippines.” The urgent need of our country’s making an effort to do something like its share of its own carrying trade on the ocean: the Pres ident says, has been called to our at tention In striking fashion by the ex perience of Secretary Root on his re cent South American tour. "The facts set forth by Mr. Root are striking, and they cannot but arrest the attention of our people. The great continent to the ’South of us. xvhich should be knit o us by the closest commercial ties, s hardly in direct commercial com munication with us at all. its commer cial relations being almost exclusix-ely with Europe. Between all the princi pal South American ports and Europe lines of swift and commodious steam ers, subsidized by their own goveVn- jpents. ply regularly. There is no such line of steamers between these ports and the United States. In conse- quenceyiur shipping in South American ports is almost a negligible quantitv; for instance in the year ending June 30, 1905, there entered the port of Rio Janeiro over three thousand steamers and sailing x-essels> from Europe, but from the T*iited States no steamers, and only sex-en sailing vessels, two of which were in distress. One prime reason for this state of things is the fact that those xvho now do business on the sea do business in a world not of natural competition, but of subsid ized competition. State aid to steam* ship lines is as much a part of the comercial system of today as state employment of consuls to promote business. Our commercial competi tors in Europe pay in the aggregate some twenty-fix-e millions a year to their steamship lines—Great Britain paying nearly sex-en millions. Japan pays between three and four millions. By the proposed legislation, the United States will still pay reiatix-ely less than any one of our competitors pays. THE COLD DAYS is very hard on one whose system is weak or run down and blood in an impoverished condition. You take cold so easily and unless promptly attend ed to will result in something more serious. If you xvill build up and for tify the system with A Thousand Dollars Worth of Good. A. H. Thurnes. a well known coal operator of Buffalo. O- writes: “I haxe been afflicted with kidney and bladder trouble for years, passing gravel and stones with excruciating rain. I got no relief from medicine until I began taking Foley's Kidney Cure, then the result xxas surprising. A fexv doses started the brick dust like fine stones and noxv I hax-e no pain across n y ktdne.es and I fee! like a new man. It has. done me $1000 xvorth of H. J. Lamar, near Exchange ; Nothing could b» further from I-is de- j pepsia. Indigestion. Costiveness. ‘•Ire tvn»n to wxenk mojr railroad. He t iouanest, Female lit* and Malaria* HOSTETTER’S STOMACH BITTERS you have the surest preventix-e against Chills and Colds.. It aiso cures Dys- Indigestion. Costiveness, Bil sized steamers of sixteen knot speed. There are nearly 200 such steamships already in the xx-orld’s foreign trade and ox-er three-fourths of them now draxv subsidies—postal or admiralty, or both. Will Encourage Ship Yards. "The bill will encourage our ship yards, which are almost as necessary to the nation's defense ^s battleships, and the efficiency of xx-hich depends in large measure upon their steady em ployment in large construction. The proposed bill is of importance to our navy because it gixujs a considerable fleet of auxiliary*steamships such as Is now almost wholly lacking, and also provides for an effective nax-al reserve. "The ■ bill provides for fourteen steamships, subsidized to .the extent of over a million and a half from the At lantic coast, all to remain to South American ports. It provides on tho Pacific coast for twenty^wo steamers subsidized to the*extent of two millions and a quarter, some of these to run to South America, most of-them to Ma nila, Australia and Asia. Be it remem bered that while the ships will be oxvn- ed on the coasts, the cargoes will largely be supplied by the Interior and that the bill xvill benefit the Mississippi valley as much as it benefits the sea board. I have laid stress on the bene fit to be' expected from our trade with South America. The lines to the Orient are also of vital importance to commercial p~s;.i- billties xvhich are unlimited and for na tional reasons'it is imperatix-e that we should have direct and adequate com munication by American lines xvith Hawaii and the Philippines. Pacific Lines Threatened. "The existence of our present steam ship lines on the Pacific is seriously threatened by the foreign subsidized lines. Our communications xvith the markets of Asia and with our own pos- v sesstons in the Philippines, no less than our communication xvith Austra lia. should depend not upon foreign but upon our own steamships. The. Southxvest and the Northwest should alike be served by these lines and if this is done they will also gix-e to the Mississippi valley throughout the en tire length the adx-antage of all trans continental railways running to the Pacific coast. To fail to establish ad equate lines on the Pacific is equiva lent to proclaiming to the world that we have neither the ability nor the disposition to contend for our rightful share of the commerce of the Orient: nor yet to protect our interests in the Philippines. It xvouid surely be dis creditable for us to surrender to our commercial rivals the great commerce of the Orient, the great commerce wo should have xvith South America, and even our oxvn communication with Hawaii and the Philippines. “I earnestly hope for the enactment of some law like the hi!! in question "THEODORE ROOSEVELT. "The "White House, Jan. 23, 1907.” NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Examine label cn your pa per. It tells how you stand on the hooks. Due from date on the label. Send in dues and also renew for the year 1907. Resignation Capt. W. T. Dixon. ATLANTA, Ca.. Jan. 23.—The re signation of Capt. W. T. Dixon as cr.v*,. mander of the Chatham Artillery o* Savannah, has been received and ac cepted by Adjutant General Harris The election of his successor will occur at the Chatham armory on the nighl. of February 20th. From present indi cations R. J. Havant will succeed hint *s captain of .the Chatham Artillery,^