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(Communicated;) tismg at New Holland Sunday. Mr. T. H. Jones had a wood chopping Monday and got a very nice chance of wood cut. that bespeaks clothes character. The styles are original and distinctive; the many new F it; the tailoring gives them a high class merchant tailor effect. There is a dash and swing to our suits that you D find in the ordinary ready-to-wear. Prices range from $10.00 to 25.00. Our line of Furnishings and Hats are unsurpassed, offeii you everything that is new and stylish. Every article that leaves our house must be satisfactory your money refunded. r upon. I propose to lay bare your extravagance and waste of the people’s r money, and also your failure to protect r them in their use of illuminating oils • and offer ^ou this opportunity of pub lic reply. 1. In £he meantime please answer explicitly the following questions in an open letter: Bow many fertilizer inspectors have you employed since taking charge of the department of agriculture? What are their names, their places of resi dence, their terms of service, their sal aries and their traveling expenses? How many nave you on duty now? 2. Why have you repeatedly refused to give this information when re quested. 3. As these inspectors are paid from a direct tax on fertilizers, and as the surplus from this tax goes to the school fund fund of the state, does not each unnecessary inspector diminish the school fund to the amount of his pay? 4.. Why, id your pamphlet, purport ing to contain the oil law, do you omit a most important section in regard to inspection in bulk, which reads as follows: “In all cases where oil is inspected in bulk, before said oil is put into barrels, it shall be the duty of the inspector to either see the oil so inspected put into I barrels on which he has put his official brand, or else he shall again take sam- j pies frbm among the barrels into which I said bulk oil has been unloaded, before I . he shall place his official brand upon j said barrels.” This section is for the protection of I consumers of oil against frauds and j adulterations; why do you not charge I your inspectors with the importance of j its enforcement? Why do yon allow! them to test from the tank ear, brand j the empty barrels and leave them in the hands of the oil companies? j 5. When you engineered this bill I through the legislature, why did you I strike out the following protectiye sec- j tions of the old law? - I (a) ‘5When the oil inspected shall I stand a higher test, the inspector shall I designate the same by his brand.” j (b) “Inspectors shall inspect from time to time oil in the tanks of retail J * dealers, whether previously inspected a or not, and if the fluid is below the I standard, the same shall be seized.” | * I was in the senate when this bill was under consideration and know its J j history. You remember that, through mutual friends, you sought my sup- j j and as a final ar- 1 Wont Have. Any Ham In The Senate. Editor Cracker:—I do not know from whence your reporter derived the j information upon which he based the statement in your last issue that I. was “seriously considering” entering the race for the Senate from this district, j Whatever the source, it is wholly er- I roneous. I not only am not consider ing “entering a race” for this or any I other office, but could not accept if I nominated nor serve if elected. That you and other partial friends may understand why I am thus pos itive I beg to say that by a contract j made several months ago with the largest Lyceum bureau in this country I have obligated myself to devote my j entire time for the next three years to the lecture platform, and as the com pensation guaranteed is much beyond what I could hope to receive from any political office it wonld require a sacri fice which I am unable and unwilling to make, to say nothing of the bad faith which wonld be involved in set ting aside that contract. Believe me, I am not unmindful or [ unappreciative of the compliment im plied in the suggestion, and, I beg through you to thank the friends who by letter and otherwise have hastened to assure me of their support, but for [ the reasons stated can not avail my self of their kindness. I am as al ways a Democrat loyal to the old land marks of the party and undismayed by passing fads and follies as I am un shaken in my faith in its destiny and future hope to be able in the days to come as in those past and gone to raise my voice here and there in de fense of the time honored principles of which it is the only hope, but this from the ranks, with no hope of re ward other than the consciousness of duty done. Sincerely, H. W. J. HAM. Gainesville, Ga., April 3 1902. All Important Factor. The Georgia Cracker is preach ing harmony to the people of Gai nesville. An effort to harmouize the people of a small city or town is a large undertaking. Harmony is the all-important factor in the upbuilding of small cities and towus, but it is generally the scarcest article to be found in <such places.—Monroe Taibune. NORTH OCONE We have had some very cold weather this week. The farmers in this communi ty are getting along slowly farm ing. Wheat is looking well m the section. ■4 The public road through by J. A. Bufcterworth's has been Worked out very nicely. The school at Stovall’s acade my closed last Friday, The children received a nice treat. The prize winners of the school were Miss 3Eula Smith, Clifford Jones, Dillard Jones, Fletcher Butterworth and Bessie May Sto vall. Miss Lizzie- Eberhart - visited Miss Pollie Chandler Sunday. Mr. Henry Jones and family visited his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Jones, Sun day. . ■ Several of the people of this community attended the bap- port of this measure, gument I was told that one of my best friendswould receive the position of state oil inspector if the bill became a law. My reply was that I would not vote for the bill if my own dbn was to be benefitted by it. Yours truly. R. T. NESBITT. wish to avail yourself of g& uine bargains come to s me. I have all sizes, a can fit any and everybo , I have some special values in Men sand A petition has been circulated and liberally signed this week asking the authorities of the Southern railway to build a covered platform or other structure near the tracks at the depot for the protection and comfort of pa trons of the road at this point. As matters now stand there is no protec tion afforded patrons in getting on and off trains there being some dis tance of open space between the de pot and the railroad tracks. Atlanta’ s Popular Clothiers, sjWhitehall Long distance Phone . 2845. Mail orders have « prompt attention j . . : 4 ...... ' ' •.