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-/ of relief to the weary, sufferer wJio is mgYmark of- a lif^saver who is never has* beeh cimng the ills of men, Women t fv r ? v yV : * ' v » - . eentury^M^SS DysR^Jsiav -Malaria^ Chills and Fever, Liverand kidney Troubles,-'Gehefaf Debility and Weakness have succumbed to its power. If you are-threatened with sickness, Browns Iron Bitters will prevent the trouble; if you.ha&e a disease of long standing, Brovins’ Iron Bitters will eure yom Yc>U cimfeelyourselfgeUing wetl. - of Browns >iit You take 'owns'lroir Bittersiy Browns’ Iron Bitters FLOWERY BRANCH. Mr. A. C. McCormack has .re turned from South Georgia where he has been enjoying a pleasure trip of two weeks. Capt. W. W. Parks, who has Been sick for some time, died on Wednesday and was buried Thurs day, in Laurel Hill cemetery at this place. " We extend to the bereaved family our sympathy in their bereavment. Mr. R. S. Reed has moved to this place from Buford, Ga., and will establish a meat market on Broad street. Esquire J. A. Mooney has moved into his new house on the corner of Broad and Mitchell streets. Mr, Cliff Liddell is having some additions made to his residence on Gainesville street. Colonel W. R. Chamblee has been here seyeral days this week on business Miss Eugenie Davie is having her house on Pine street repaired inside; ' Flowery Branch seems to be on a boom, but it is* not caused by 4he McKinley prosperity which he promised the people. Mr. E. K. Smith, editor of the Flowery Branch Journal', is on the sick list and we-did not have airy paper last week. Embossed in Gold. To buy and reproduce famous paint ings involves an expenditure that could hardly be bourne unless, as in the case of The Youth’s Companion, the enterprise is sustained by the ap proval of more than five hundred thou sand subscribers. The Youth’s Com panion souvenir calendar for 1898, a series of charming' figure-pieces, faith fully copied in colors and embossed in gold, is recognized as one of the richest and most costly examples of this form of art. Yet every new subscriber re ceives it without additional charge. Moreover, the paper is sent free to new subscribers every week from the time it is received until January, 1898, and then a full year to January, 1899. The popular price of The Companion, $1-75 a year, and -the character of its contents, make it a paper for every household: Exceptional attractions are promised for the fifty-two numbers to be issued during 1897. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Hon. Thos. B'Reed, Rudyard Kipling, Lillian Nor- dica, John Burroughs, W. D. Howells, and May O’Reil are prominent in the long list*of eminent contributors named in The Companion’s annouhcement. which will be sent • free to any one addressing THE YOUTH’S COMPAN ION. 205 Columbus A,ve., Boston, Mass. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers,* salt rheum, fever spres, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, and positively cures piles, or no pay re quired. It is guaranteeed to give per feet satisfaction or money refunded- Price 25 cents per box. For sale * by M. C. Brown «fc Co. Died in Atlantal - The remains of Miss Sali| who died at the reside^;, brother-in-law, Mr. George*', in Atlanta Thursday more.; sumption, were brought to! yesterday and interred iii cemetery, the funeral being! by Rev. J. M. White. TM was born in Eumpkin, wi* many friends and relatives I Royal makes the food pare, wholesome and delicious. Somber and Terrible Was the Scene at the Moment of Totality. Mrs. Mabel Loomis Todd, writing in The Atlantic of an eclipse seen in Ja pan, says: “Just before totality, to oc cur at 2 minutes after 8 o’clock, I went oyer to the little lighthouse/ taking up /my appointed station on the sum mit, an ideal vantage ground for a spec tacle beyond anything else I ever wit nessed. Grayer and grayer grew the day, narrower and narrower the cres cent of shining sunlight. The sea faded to leaden nothingness. Armies of crows, Which had pretended entire indiffer ence, fighting and flapping as usual on gables and flagpoles with, unabated fer vor, finally succumbed, and flew off with heavy haste to the pine forest bn the mountain side The French man-of- war disappeared in the gloom, the junks blended in colorlessness, but grass and verdure suddenly turned strangely, vividly yellow green. ' “It was a moment of appalling sus pense. Something Was being waited for. The very air was portentous. The flocks of circling sea gulls disappeared with strange .cries. One white butterfly flute tered by vaguely. “Then an instantaneous darkness leaped upon Hie world. Unearthly night enveloped all things. With an inde scribable outflashing at the same\sec- ond, the corona burst forth m Wonder ful radiance But dimly seen- through thinly drifting cloud, it was neverthe less beautiful, a celestial flame beyond description. Simultaneously the whole northwestern sky was instantly flooded with a lurid and startlingly brilliant orange, across which floated clouds slightly darker, like flecks of liquid flame, while the west and southwest gleamed in shining lemon yellow. It was not like a Sunset; it was too som ber and terrible. ” W. R. Canning The Monroe Gnano Cod turned oyer their warehdl ton seed meal and hull basil city to W. R. Canning & I are prepared to fill all orders., die ail business given them, j Professor Charles t Shields, who withdrew a Presbyterian church bj the row raised over his I petetion for license fort! ton Inn, occupies the] harmony of religion ad in the great University.] years old and of aristae] age, being the grandson! Henry Shields, of Virl has broad views on evd and is beloved by all I him. I Notice. I have this day sold my interest in the firm of Manahan Company to W. Manahan, who will continue the busi ness in his own name. L_ N. Manahan. Gainesville, Ga., Nov. 4, 1897. Confirming the above, I respectfully request a continuance of the patronage so generously bestowed upon the old firm. W. Manahan. Gainesville, Ga., Nov. 4, 1897. Absolutely Pure ROYAL BAKINQ POWDER CO., NEW YdRK. THE MOUNTAIN MAID, fee Mad a Natural Anxiety, Which She Made Manifest. As my horse, puffing like a porpoise, drew me and my buckboard up the last sharp acclivity of the mountain road that led out into the pass between tbs summits rising on either hand he .would have exercised his privilege and stopped a moment to .blow, but 100 yards ahead of us I saw#, bright bit of calico gleam ing in the morning sun, and, driving on, 1 came up to a buxom mountain maid sitting on a stump at a point where a fo^tp^th leading u-pf from the valley met the main road. -‘Good momin,” she said before I had a chance to stop, and there seemed to he an anxious tone in the voice. - : “Good morning,’’ Iresponded^#hd 1 was on the point of asking her how far it was-to the next place, a favoriteman- ner of starting a conversation on moun tain roads, when she broke in. “Air yon a preacher?” she asked. ’“‘No, ” I answered, with a smile, for I had never been asked that question be fore. “Nor a squire?” “No.” WeHr "Jim Martin’s ?comiii ? along this away party soon now, an I wna jis* axiii eo’s thar wouldnit be no mis takes.” “I don’t quite understand your ex planation, ” I said, completely in the dark .as-to what she was trying to get at. “I reckon not, but I ain’t takin no chances, an I thought I’d better stop you While I had the chance. ” “Thank you, I’m sure, but if you will tell me whht’s u^L^y be abj|j| know what you are talking about. ’ ’ She laughed good naturedly. “Well, you see it’s £his a-Way,” she said. “Jim, he’s been, a-courtin an a-sparkin round me' fer about two ye’r now, an last night he popped an says ea how ef I r d. be here this mornin ez he come along we’d go down to Logville an git hitched, an Jim’s mighty onreli- able, anlikeV not ef we got tbar an the preacher ner the equire warn’t thar I’d Jim in the mind ag’in, so I The Cracker is always for Gainesville and its best energies will be expended in advancing.the interests of the town.- Watch The Qracker ajid' Gainesville I ‘ The cold wave stre/ .with full- force, and ^ has been, slaughtered. H sign for the future isjj were thousands to slanlf - Dr. T. J Watts, Barnesville, Ga., Dear Sir:—I take pleasure in stating that one box of .Watts’ Eczema Oint-' ment cured me of an eruption caused by poison oak, removing it entirely in Yours, three days. Chas. M. BbIttain, Student Mercer University. Barnesville, Ga./Sept. 9, 1897. In case of colic or pain in stomach or bowels, Dr. Tichenor’s Antiseptic 'gives; relief in a few minutes. ■ uzepia Announcement. The following ticket has been an nounced to be voted for at the coining municipal election: For Mayor,-J. B:-Gaston. For Aldermen : First ward—Z. T._ Castleberry. Second ward—E. E. Kimbrough, • / Third ward—J. G. Hynds. . . Slocum, M. C., the great Chemist and ientist, will send free, three bottles of his newly discovered remedies i 1 ':-" to sufferers. * never gifc^ kinder thought mebteyop. might be the | squire er the; preacher an I didn’t want i you to git aw&y. Lx you meet Jim any-: wheres. dowh. * i$ad, don’t tell him you seen me, fer’I don’t want him skeert. ’ Waihington Star. cures Editor Georgia Cracker.—I have dis covered a reliable cure for consumption and all bronchial, throat and lung dis eases, general decline, loss of flesh and all conditions of wasting away. By its timely use thousands of apparentlyhope- less cases have been cured. So proof positive am I of its power to cure, that to make its merits known, I will send free, to' any afflicted i reader of youi paper, three bottles of my Newly Dis covered Remedies upon receipt of Ex press and Postoffi^e address All Sickly Women Should consult the leading specialties in all female diseases. Dropsy, fits and blood poisons, and the opium and morphine habits, quickly cured at home. Cancers remoyed • in ten days without knife or caustics. No charges till cured. Fifteen years success. Dr. gW SENT BY MAIL ON RECEIPT OF PRICE. For sale in Gainesville byBi