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Great Carnival In New Orleans.
New Orleans, Feb. lO.-New Or
leans practically suspended busi
ness today amd turned out more
than half its population with a
multitude of visitors to receive
Rex, the king of the carnival, and
his royal suite. His majesty
came up the river on the United
States ship Ranger early this af
ternoon with scores of gaily dec
orated river craft in his wake and
amid the thunder of cannon and
the screeching of steam whistles
landed at the head of Canal street,
where an immense crowd of peo
ple greeted him.
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EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS,
The ice king hovered over
several days this week. He ne^
forgets where we live.
food. It gives instant relief and neve] ■
fails to cure. It allows you to eat al
the food you want. 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 stocn*
ach, relieving all distress after eating.
Dieting unnecessary. Pleasant to take.
It ean’t help
but de yen good
Prepared only by E. O. DeWitt & Co. .Chicago,
TheSl. bottle contains tunes the 50c. siza
It is said that we always have
•‘good roads in good weather, anc
bad roads in bad weather. ’’
Whether we ever have good roads
or not, we do know our roads are
bad now.
Acworth Bank Robbed.
Ac worth, Ga., Feb. 10.—Safe
blowers got in their work here yes
terday morning.
About 2 o’clock the safe of the
Lemon Banking company was
blown and about $5,000 in gold
and currency, a $5,000 Georgia
state bond and a large amount of
stock certificates were taken.
The loss falls heavily on the bank
and community.
Your uncle Jim Smith is some
thing of a sawer of wood himself,
Gainesville’s two big cotton
mills will soon be turning out
cloth. Then things will “hum,”
sure enough. It will be powerful
good music, too.
Gainesville has a few “Oom
Hall’s,” herself. They are pr
good watchers of the treasury,
and a sure way to treat a case of Sore
Throat in order to kill disease germs
and insure healthy throat action is to.
take half a glassfull of water put into
it a teaspoonful of
Mexican Mustang
It looks like the nigger* Rucker,
is going to hold on to his job. He
is of the same color as Booker.
Pink Morton was most to pink.
Albany is going to have her big
chautatiqua again this year,
have heard that Gainesville
had one.
once
Bill Nye’s Criticism.
It was in ’Frisco when Peter
Jackson, the colored pugulist, was
a feature in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.’
Bill Nye was to have lectured at
the Baldwin theater, but was
greeted by so small an audience
that he excused himself and went
over to hear Jackson talking of
the pearly gates to Little Eva.
After the performance L. R/Stock-
well, the veteran actor, met Nye
in the lobby of the theater, and he
exclaimed:
“Hello, Nye 1 l What do you
think of Peter?”
“Well,” responded the humor-
est dryly, “anatomically he was
In all probability the state and
county primaries will be held in
June this year. This puts it at a
rather busy season for the £ farm
ers. July would suit the people
better.
It looks like they all want to be
sheriff. Some some say there
isn’t much in the office, if you
judge by what they got out of it.
xnent and after doing this pour some on a soft cloth, and wran/
around the neck. It is a POSITIVE CUBE.
25c.* 50c. and $1.00 a bottle.
IT MAV BE YHII have long been troubled with a nmning
11 IIIH I Dlu IUU sore or ulcer. Treat it at once with Mexi
can Mustang Liiiua ent and you can depend upon a speedy core. .
Keep at work for Gainesville.;
Every good word you speak in be
half of your town will help it
grow.
Atlanta’s street railways have at
last been allowed to consolidate.
Atlantan’s must now get up a
new issue to be injected into their
municipal campaigns.
For a perfect fit go to
C. H. SAUNDERS
Moved to Daniel Building, oyer Mrs.
J. E. Jackson’s store.
“The Artistic Tailor,’
Clothes cleaned and pressed or
short notice. Also
LADIES - SKIRTS
eleanep and pressed. All work giuj
prompt a entaon.
It looks like, after all the blow
and bluster to pass a depot bill,
that Atlanta is as far from get
ting a new depot as it was before.
We have never believed the rail
roads would tie themselves up to
the proposition.
ance Agent.
Office No. 1 State Bank Building,
Sell, exchange and rent all kinds c
eal estate. Haye in hand anythin*
ou want in this line. Will make it
onr interest whether you want to se
r buv.
Will insure your property against
loss by fire in old reliable and prompt
paying companies
once
Oil wells are being bored ir
several places in .Georgia. Nc
doubt some one will soon make e
rich “strike” in Hall*-as we al
ways keep up with the*procession
Touched Bank For $1,000,000.
Detroit, Feb. 11.—Vice Presi
dent Frank C. Andrews, of the City
Savings bank, which has been in
the hands of State Bank Commis
sioner Maltse since this morning,
was arrested yesterday and ar
raigned last night on the charge
of “wilfully, fraudulently and
knowingly” securing from the
bank, without security and with
out the knowledge of the directors,
a sum exceeding $1,000,000.
Gainesville’s new railway—rfche
Charleston, Augusta and Ghatta-
nooga Air Line—-hasn’t been; en
tirely lost in the shuffle. It will
be here some ttay, even if it don’t
come exactly on schedule time.
J. B. Thomson,
South Georgia is going to stand
by-Estill, reports of the politic
ians to the contrary notwithstand
ing. And north Georgia isn’t
going to be far behind herself.
Dunlap aid Tloip
INSURANCE AGENTS.
R. SMITH
FSRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT, ANfr
SURETY BONDS.
Rome’s dispensary fight would
lead one to believe that town- is
a powerful muddy place from the
amount of mud being slung
around.
The “log roller
OFFICE:
DUNLAP BL’DING.
Phones 35.
new fife and vigor by taking MO~TQ-BAG,
that makes weak men strong. Many gain
ten pounds in ten days. Over SOO. OOG
cured. All druggists. Cure guaranteed. Book
let and advice FREE. Address STERLING
During the last year Paris con
sumed 800 tons of snails. The an
imals are bred in Burgundy and
Savoy, where they are kept in in-
closnres formed of tarred palings,
which they cannot climb over,
MONEY TO DOAN.
Tq procure real estate loans for
rs time, payable in .installments a
sr cent interest. Call and see ns.
Dunlap & Picked
Gainesville, Ga.
Mr. Terrell knows a live wire
when he sees one. He didn’t dare
tackle Mr. Guerry in joint debate.
Constipation or diarrhoea when
your bowels are out of order. Cas-
carets Candy Cathaftic will make
them act naturally. Genuine tablets
stamped C. C. C. Never sold in
m druggists* sec.
Saved Him From Torture.
There is no more agonizing trouble than
piles. The constant itching and burning
Elberton had a $100,000 fire last
Sunday. It pays to have a good
fire department all the time, and
Gainesville is singulary blessed in
this respect.
make life intolerable. No position is
comfortable. The torture is unceasing.
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve cures piles
at once. For skin diseases, cuts, burns,
bruises, all kinds of wounds it is un
equalled. J. S, Gerall, St. Paul, Ark.,
says: ** From 1865 I suffered with the
protruding, bleeding piles and could
find nothing to help me until I used
DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. A few
boxes completely cured me.” Beware of
counterfeits. Robertson & Law.
RateSr
Bess—“I’ll tell you a secret if
you’ll promise not to repeat it.”
Nell—“All right. What is it?”
3ess-‘T’m engaged to be married.
Nell-“Oh, there’ll be no harm in
my telling that. No one would be
lieve it,
Your uncle Allen tried that one
eye on the Charleston exposition
this week. Both are still doing
business at the same old stand.
For the Housewife’s DesK.
A series of gayly covered books,
bound \n scarlet leather, are found
in the smart stationery and leather
goods shops. They make nice pres
ents for the busy housewife, who
has to observe system and order in
the management of her household,
as her husband does in the running
of his business. These books are so
prettily hound that they make a gay
showing on the writing table of my
lady, although there is nothing friv
olous or flighty about their con
tents. A large flat hook is the din
ner record. This is an aide memoire
to the hostess, who cannot be expect
ed to remember whom .she invited
and who declined and accepted her
invitations during the dinner giving
season. The recipe book, the house
hold expense book, the expense book
and all the other handy and busi
nesslike arrangements to facilitate
the smooth running of the modem
home are to be had in convenient
form. ik - --- — ~ -~—~
The Negro's Alleged Friends.
Washington, February 10.—
The second caucus of the house
republicans to consider the ques
tion of action looking to reducing
the congressional representation
of the southern states which
abridge the suffrage was held in
the h8ll of representatives tonight,
but a quorum was not present
and after two and a half hours of
discussion the caucus adjourned
until next Monday, without ac
tion. It requires 101 republicans
to constitute a quorum of the* cau
cus, and at no time tonight were
over ninety-five ^ republicans in
attendance.
For a clear complexion, bright spark
ling eye and vigorous digestion, take
Prickley Ash Bitters. It puts the
system in perfect order. Dr. F- E.
DIXON & CO.
■Chicago Daily News,
Fire has destroyed millions ot
dollars worth.of property in dif
ferent parts of the United States
this week. The man who pays
the most insurance premiums is
always least hurt.
and 11 % I
at 8:1° 8 i I
For 3cnea I
and 1
____ Georgia
undersigned. I
A. G. fA«® oS I
6. P- 1
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Gen’ll |
Athens, j
S. F. J
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J. A. 1*** I
C. T- ‘ 4 - I
ing Atlanta at 3:00
m., and Charleston
11:00 o’clock p. d
ules, dates of sale
tickets ask agents
road or the w—
C. C. McMnuN,
G. A. P. D.
Augusta,
S. E. MaghJs,
Gen’l Agt.
Atlanta.
E. P. BonnKR,
U. T. A.
Macon.
L. H. Hitt,
U. T. A.
Atlanta. Ga.
If you haven’t a regular, healthy movement of the
bowels every day, you’re ill or will be. Keep your
bowels open, and be well. Force, m tbe shape of vio-
« m. 1 f» _ ill tr. /I n n (va«*A11 a Tho flmAntn.
Estill is climbing up at a Irate
that surprises some of the boys.
Why, he is hardly f started yet,
and you had better "get on to the
band wagon before it gets too
crowded.
lent physic or pill poison, is dangerous. The smooth
est, easiest, most perfect-way of keeping the bowels
clear and clean is to take
CANDY
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in The Cracker. They appreci
ate your trade enough to ask for
it and, besides, those represented
in these columnsjare reliable and
will treat yo a right.
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