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□ Sri*; WASHINGTON LETTER. Our Regular Correspondence. The Pension Commissionership scandal was the event of last week in Washington. On all sides" de nunciations, vigorous or mild, are heard of General Sickles’ course in the matter, some of the most severe being uttered by his com rades of the G. A. R., who seem to be moved rather by the pain ful amateurishness of General Sickles in giving them away, than by any regret or disapprobation of the bargrin and sale methods which he and the G. A. R. gener alljg---according to the General- adopted. One thing is certain as a result of the scandal: that whether the president did agree to remove Commissioner Evans in return for G. A. R. suppsrt or whether Senator Scott of West Virginia made a promise that he would do so without authority from the President; or whether General Sickles does not tell the truth about Senator Scott’s asser tion(as the letter declares); in any case, President McKinley wil not now dare to remove Mr. Ev ans for months or years to come whatever he may have intended to do before Generala Sickles sprang into the arena. As General Sickles was once a warm support er of Commissioner Evans, some curiosity aspto the quarrel between them has been aroused. It seems that this reculted over the mean ing of a law on which Mr. Evans and General Sickles were unable to agree and which was referred to Attourney-General Griggs for construction. Mr. Griggs decided in favor of Mr. Evan?’ conten tion ; hence, the quarrel, South Carolina proposes to test the qonstitutionality of the exac tions of the law requiring the state to take out special licinses both as wholesale and retail li quor dealers on account of its dispensary system. Briefs have been filed by the Governor and Attourney-General of the state with the commissioner of Internal Revenue, asking a refund of taxes previouoly paid and the remission of all others in the future. The actual sum at present issue is less than $5,000 but the principle is, of course, far reaching. The en tire dispensary system of South Carolina is managed by a board of commissioners, consisting of three persons elected by the State Legislature, with Columbia as its headquarters. This Stat6 dispen sary distributes supplies to the county dispensaries, and those in turn are manrged by county dispensaries or agents, all being under the board of State Commissioners. The liquors are sold as property of the State and the profits accrue to the state. The salaries of all the officials of the dispensaries are fixed by law and do not depend upon the amount of their sales. In the brief filed by the Commissioser. of In ternal Revenue on behalf of the state it is contended that there is nothing in the laws of the United States authorising the collection of internal revenue taxes which even impliedly authorizes the im position of a tax against a State, or its instrumentalities of govern ment, and that such an act con taining any provision taxing the instrumentalities of the State government would be to that ex tent unconstitutional. It is con tended further that the property of a state and the means and in strumentalities employed to carry its laws into operation cannot be taxed by the federal government, and an opinion of the late Judge Cooley on this question is quoted. If the claim is rejected, as it will ■ probably .be, the matter will be appealed to the courts. Bank-Wreckers Gone Free- That is a record unique iu the history of the national executive department which Hr. McKinley has made. In the four years and a third since his first inaugeration the president has given freedom by pardon and commutation to forty- five wreckers and robbers of banks. Sometimes there have been sen timental reasoning for clemency Again, there has been the sugges- tionof political expediency. More often the exercise of executive mercy has appeared in explicable The number of thieving banx officials pardoned by Mr. McKin ley is about one tenth of the num ber sent to prison. Is it true that this class of offenders contains so large a propostion of men who do not deserve what, the law gives them? It seems that a new chapter stould be written in criminology showing in how much finer clay than the rough burglar is worked the stealing teller or defaulting cashier.—New York World. Senator Mason’s Thrift “I was standing in the lobby of the Auditorium in Chicago,” re marked ex-Congressman P. J Somers over in the Plankinton lobby recently,says the Milwaukee Sentinel, “talking with Senator William E. Mason of Illinois, when a trampish looking fellow came rushing in, and, addressing him, said: ‘Billy lend me $10; I havs a chance to make $8 in 15 minutes.’ “Billy went dow in his trousers, fished up a $2 and a $1 note, and passed them over to the man. “ ‘I want $10 to make the deal,’ remarked the man as he stretched fourth his hand for additional fi nancial aid. ‘ You said you could make $8, didn’t you?’ “ ‘Yes.’ ‘Well, you’v made$3 and I’m $7 ahead. Seel’ “The man saw the ppint and regretfully withdrew.” It Dazzles The World. No discovery in medicine has ev er created one quarter of the ex citement that has been caused by Dr. King’s New Discovery for Con : sumdtion. Its severest tests have been on hopeless victims of Com- sumption, Hemorrhage, Pneumo- nsa, Pleurisy, and Bronchitis, thousands of whom it has restored to perfect health. For Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Croup,Hay Fever, Hoarseness and Whooping Cough it is the quickest, surest cure in rorld. It is sold by. H. M, 3jb,..Perry, Ga., irantees satisfaction or re. . le mqney. Large bottles 1 $1. Trial bottles free. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was sup posed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease,and prescribed ocal remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treat ment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be constitutional disease, and therefore requires a constitution al treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the mar ket. It is taken internally in dos es from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system hey offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address, F. J. Cheney & Co. Sold by druggists, 75c. Toledo, O. Hall’s Family Pills are the best. A dispatch from Binghampton, N. Y., says : Ail accidental dis covery of Elmer McCroy promises to revolutionize tool manufacture throughout the world. For years scientists and others have been endeavoring to discover a process for tempering copper. Recently Elmer McCroy, a 17-year-old lad of Hollstead, while at work in the vicinity, made the discovery, how it was done or what the pro cess is will not be told until such steps have been taken as will in sure to McCroy the benefits of his discovery. Friends of McCroy say that the government has a standing offer of $6,000 for the man who will furnish it with a sucsessful formula for hardening copper and McCroy intends to win the prize. \ i ; “I wish to truthfully state to you and the readers of these few lines that, your Kodol Dyspepsia Cure is the best and only cure for dyspepsia I have ever come in con tact with and I have used many preparations.” John Beam,/West Middlesex, Pa.” No preparation equals Kodol Dyspepsia Cure,as it contains all the natural degestants It will digest all kinds of food and can’t help but do you good. At Holtzclaw’s Drugtore. Some women who are not nat urally pretty make up for it in other ways. Followed Editor’s Advice. The Columbus Enquirer- lias received the follawing le from an appreciative subscriber, telling the effects of following the advice given by the enitor: “I and my my father have been reading your paper for fifty years or more, and I wouldn’t miss a copy of it for anything—it would not seen natural to do without it. A year or two ago the paper had a nudiber of pointed editorials urging farmers to raise everything they needed at home. ‘What’s the use of buying anything,’it said, ‘while you can raise it at home?’ Well, that thing,struck me. Pretty soon I needed some corn whiskey, for medical (and other) purposes, and I made it. I have just finished working out the sentence. I guess you all meant well,but you didn’t know what trouble you were get ting your readers into.” Water boils at a temperature of 213 degrees, but having been brought to that temperature, it can not be made any hotter. The reason of this is not generally understood, and yet it is quite simple. Boiling is only another name for steam-mak ing, the agitation and bubbling be ing caused by the escape of the steam into which the heat has con verted the, particles of water. It is the escape of the steam that pre vents the water from getting any hotter than 212 degrees, for it takes heat away with it, thus keeping the temperature from rising.—Ex. “I am indebted to One Min ute Cough Cure for my present good health and my life. I was treated in vain, by doctors for ung trouble following la grippe ! took One Minute Cough Cure and recovered my health.” Mr E. H. Wise, Madison, Ga. At Holtzclaw’s drug store. Geo. Sickles says he is willing to lead another army to fight for pensions. No doubt of it; more fighting means more pensions and so runs the endless chain.— Macon Telegraph. You Enow What You Are Taking When you take Grove’s Taste ess Chill Tonic because the for mula is plainly printed on every jottie showing that it- is “imply Iron and Quinine in a tasteless form No cure, no pay. Price 50c > every time j you“ W- Lumber, Sash, Doors, COPYRIGHT f Trimmings and all kinds of mill work and builders supples from oiu superior stock. Builders and contractors will find that they get a superior grade of lumber and workmanship n their line at lower prices than they can get elsewhere. ZE3I_ L. IS GO., ’Phone (87. FORT VALLEY, GA. THIRD AND POPLAR. THIRD AND POPLAR. We Are Not fnly the Cheapest, but Al>o tli^ Host Re«jutl)le Whiskey Housy la Oeorgia, Our line of business is largely one of confi dence and therefore you want to deal with peo- pe who will not make misrepresentations. We guarantee everything we.sell j:.st as represent ed, or will cheerfully refund your money. For $3.25 we will deliver four i- ull quari s of our famous Anywhere in Georgia, express prepaid. Packed in plain box: money refunded if not satisfacto ry. Another good thing we offer is a pure Kentucky Sour Mash—the DAxtfsc Bookk—at $2.40 per gallon, also delivered, express pre paid, anywhere in the otate. We are sole agents for the famous Kennesaw Mountain Com Whiskey, best in Georgia, only $2.00 per gallon, and are the only people in the south selling a pure, seven-year-old Mount Vernon Sye at $1.00 for a full quart, or $3.50 pe■- gallon. Everything else just as cheap: we have goods from $1.25 per gallon up. Complete stock of everything. Send, us a trial order. No charge for jiigs. SAM & ED. WELCHaELbAUM. Wholesale Liquor Dealers & Distillers’ Agents. , 451 Cherry Street, Macon, Ga. Kndal Digests what you eat. This preparation contains all of the digestants and digests all kinds of food. It gives instant relief and never fails to cure. It allows you to eat all the food you warit. The most sensitive stomachs can take it. By its.use many thousands of dyspeptics have been cured after everything else failed. It prevents formation of gas on the stom ach, relieving all distress after eating. Dieting unnecessary. Pleasant to take. It can’t help but do you good prepared only by E. G. DeWitt & Go., Chicago vthe $1. bottle contains 2% times the 50c. size. BRING US YOUn JOB WORK. SATIS FACTION GUARANEETD. When 1 you come to M^icon call at my repository and see the most complete line of Vehicles ever shown in Macon, including every size in FARM WAGOINS from one to, aix-hor.-e. In pleasure vehicles everything from a Road Cart at $17.50 to the most handsome Rubber-Tired Victoria at $750 00. In Automobiles: “Locomobiles” for two and four passengers; u Auto- rettes” for one passenger. Our Locomobiles are guaran teed to run from ten to fifteen miles per hour on country roads,regardless of hills or sand,at a cost Ofl cent per mile. When you need anything on wheels write or call. . THIRD AND POPLAR. ER’S. THIRD AND POPLAR, Agt. I am better prepared than ever to supply your wants in Hardware, Stoves, Cutlery, Tinware, WOODEN WARE, farming Implements, Hi#! m'sms, fill. II buy goods for spot cash, anybody in Macon. und therefore I sell as low as 308 - r HIPD STREET. NEAR POSTOFFICE. YOUR name ano address on postal^ CARD MAILED TO W.M/TAYLOR, jACKSORj GA.AND I WILL DRIVE ABOUND AND LEAVE-. YOU A SAMPLE COPY OF n - — PGULTRY&ERALD j DEVOTED TO POULTRY, PIGEONS A PET STOCK j ^ AND THE BRIGHTEST, BEST, UP-TO-DATf *| OUT-ON-TIME POULTRY PAPER IN THE SOUTH J Special Offer:—To all who pay us $l,u0 strictly in advance for tb® Home Journal we will send the Georgia Poultry Herald one year Free.