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News-herald i*E Constitution, jj 12 sl-25. THE GWINNETT BEKALD, i „, , . , , „„„ t,.e Consolidated Jan. 1,1898. Katablialietl in 1893. 7 " Every Well Men Hath His 111 Day." A doctor's examination might show that kidneys, liver and stomach are normal, but the doctor cannot analyze the blood upon which these organs depend. Hood’s Sarsaparilla purities, vitalizes and enriches the blood. It cures you when “a bit off” or when seriously afflicted. It never disappoints. Dyspepsia “My husband had dyspep sia ami Hood’s Sarsaparilla cured him. Our little boy was nervous and the baby had ulcerous sores. P cured both.” Mrs. Emma Hebe, Portage, Pa. Indigestion I could not eat for some months on account of distress and indiges tion. Hood’s Sarsaparilla cured me so that I can eat and sleep well.” M rs. G. A. Gumtz, Taylor and Walnut Sts., Wiimington, Del. Hood's Pills cure lirer Ills; tbe non-irritating and only cathartic to taka with Hood’s SarßaparHul FARMERS URGED TO GROW MORE WHEAT COMMISSIONER STEVKN* RK< OM MEXDS PLANTING LARGELY OK lIIIS GRAIN. AS TO SOIL AND PREPARATION Time Has Come For Georgia Soil Til ler* to Make a Radical Shift In Their Operations If They Would Prosper. Well directed diligence and industry are generally crowned with a suitable return. To carve out a perfect form, to frame a pure thought, to paint a beau tiful picture is worthy of the highest ambition. To do something, to cause two blades of grass to grow where one grew before, to act well our part, to know that we are not drones in the busy hive is an indescribable satisfaction. The boy who lands a single fish or traps hia first catch of birds, after a long and weary day of anxious toil, experiences a keener delight in the possession than he could possibly feel had the same work been accomplished by other hands. The same is true of the man who turns the fallow lauds and cultivates the respoP eive soil that he may enjoy his daily bread. Believing, therefore, that wheat culture in its broad sense would be an industry of vital interest to our farmers at this time, wo shall devote most of the space of our August talk to wheat. The exact origin of wheat may not be known, still we may reasonably conclude that wheat was among the fruits of the first garden When Hiram, king of Tyre, was building the temple Solomon sent him wheat; hence we conclude that this most esculent grain was very early in our history regarded as a most excellent food. The first public letter issued from the Department of Agriculture, after the present Commissioner had been in stalled, was an appeal to the farmers of Georgia to sow largely of wheat and oats. However, it is but justice to state that the Macon Telegraph nearly a year ago took up the wheat and grain ques tion, and offered prizes for the best es says on wheat growing. These papers were read at a convention held at Ma oon, and caked by that paper last Octo ber. The attendance was small, but the papers were good. Unusual as it may seem, this daily paper kept up the agitation in favor of wheat growing, making it a feature of almost every is sue, and a great many farmers were in duced to plant who had not planted be fore. A special point made, and in sisted on, had great weight, and that was that the negro farmer, who had a wife or daughter in a white man's kitchen, could make cotton at 8 cents per pound; while the white farmer could not make it for less than 8 cents. Therefore, there was a disas trous competition between the white and black cotton planter, and the for mer was going to the wall on low prices, while the latter was improving his condition, and continuing to swell the receipts at all the ports and all the markets. The white man must make a shift in his farming operations. In order to make this point oome home at once, and to give a zest to the start, the Macon Telegraph offered gold prizes for the best yield in wheat, and these prizes were awarded at a second wheat growers’ convention, which was held in Macon on July 12 of this year. The latter convention was largely attended and the report from the wheat fields was most gratifying. The honors went to Spaulding and Washington counties in the distribution of the prizes. One of the most encouraging signs of the times is the great interest in wheat and grain growing which has developed in the state within the last few months. It may be said, therefore, that this work has been fairly started; bnt much is yet to be done, and this department will oontlnne to contribute all it can to this splendid movement. A FERFBCT VARIETY OF WHEAT. Sinoe the growing wheat plant and ripening grain have so many enemies to encounter and climatic conditions af fecting the yield of wheat, it is all im portant to select a variety that can best withstand the many drawbacks inci dent to this grain. Hence, I will men tion some of the characteristics incident to a good variety of wheat. Get as early a variety as possible, as a few days, (some years,) means much with this erop. Some wheat will fall before ft ripens, while the stems of another kind will maintain an erect position until the grain is perfectly ripe. Select a variety with a strong and stiff stem; eeleot the wheat also that will best withstand the extreme cold weather. Other things being equal, get the wheat that has a thin ekin or bran. With these few suggestions, select yonr seed wheat and have it ready to plant in Oo- THE NEWS-HERALD. SOIL AND PREPARATION FOR WHEAT. A farmer may sow the best wheat and the bent varieties, and fail in his wheat crop, if he has failed in thorough preparation and continued good man agement of his soil from year to year. One of the chief objects is to keep the vegetable matter and mineral portions as near or as much on the surface as possible, so that the roots of the plants may strike out horizontally instead of striking out iu a more vertical direction. When they spread out horizontally, they form a kind of mat in the soil a few inches deep, which rises aud set tles down bodiiv when the ground freezes aud thaws. Hence the soil mav freeze a number of times during the winter and still your grain may not be killed, as the roots are matted together horizontally and the plants ure not thrown out of the soil. On the other hand, if the vegetable matter and fer tilizers be mixed with a good depth of soil, the roots strike deep, looking for the fertile elements of the soil, and they will be raised and broken by the freezes. Now, if we can break or turn over a few inches of the top soil, and then pulverize the soil below this stra tum, keeping the vegetable matter aud fertilizers near the surface, we will see a remarkable yield in the wheat crop. We can remember before the war most of our wheat was raised on newly cleared laud. We could not plow it deep, but simply harrow or scratch over the rough new ground and put our grain in. Then we had but little com plaint of winter killed wheat. Then nature did for us what we must do now. We must, as far as possible, restore the conditions of nature Then we had for the seed bed of our wheat the rich ashes of the burnt logs and brush harrowed into the thin stratum of leaf mould. The wheat might have been better in those days had che hard subsoil under lying the leaf mould been broken up with a subsoil plow, without having been turned above the rich mould. Then to repeat, keep the soil that is best, or a thin mellow stratum of rich soil, at or near the surface. Subsoil as the conditions may demand. SOIL FOR WHEAT. The question is often asked, why a certain plot of ground, that yields a good crop of almost everything else, will not produce wheat. And why ? Simply because the roots of the plants cannot find in that soil the proper ele ments of plant food to produce the wheat grains. In one soil the little roots find all they need for the perfect development of ihe kernels of the wheat, while iu another soil the roots send out their numerous little mouths in search of the nourishment they so much need but never find. It is not in the soil, and it must be supplied or you will reap in vain. The soil adapted to wheat is a so;} in which the predominating charac teristics are ion in aud clay, aud this is much improved by a large proportion of lime, furnished either by nature or man. Your soil must be dry, underdrained if necessary, as it is impossible to make a large crop of wheat if there is an excess of water in the land. Another feature in a good wheat soil is, that it must have an abundant supply of nitrogenous matter with sufficient phosphoric acid, potash and lime. If the soil is lacking in these elements, use plenty of barn yard manure. Do not be afraid to use plenty of it, and concentrate it. It is better to put ten tons on one acre than to spread it on two; you will make more wheat per acre and save more labor. Also apply plenty of wood ashes; this is very important, as these ashes contain phosphoric acid, potash, lime and solu ble silica, all essential elements in the constitution of the wheat plant. Dr. Lee of New York says, “I regard it as a fact of great practical importance, that wood ashes, even leached ashes, found on nearly every farm, contain all the earthy elements of this iu valuable bread bearing plant. ” The organic elements of the wheat form about 96 per cent of its substance. Mr. Todd tells us, that water and its constituents, oxygen and hydrogen, carbon and nitrogen, are the four elementary ingredients of all culti vated plants, besides their minerals. These are indispensable, and fortunately nature has provided an amount of car bon and nitrogen in the air, if not in the soil, more than equal to the wants of vegetation. Much of our lands have been run down by unwise cultivation and are well nigh exhausted. These lands need nitrogen and available phos phoric acid aud potash and particularly lime. To restore these elements to our wasted lands, sow cow peas after grain, and turn them unaer iu the fall, first having broadcasted barnyard manure, ashes and lime; continue this plan for a few years, and your lands will grow richer and richer, and your harvest will be larger and larger, and the farmer more independent as be grows older. It is a well established faot, that without nitrogon in some form it is impossible to grow one kernel of good wheat. It has been said by high authority, that a quart of urine from a horse that has been fed on grain contains nitrogen enough to supply a bushel of wheat. Do we appreciate the money value of this animal product? Fill your barns, stables and lots with some good absorb ant—such as straw, cornstalks, leaves of the forest, pulverized charcoal, swamp muck, and at the proper time compost them, all the product of the farm, and you have a most suitable fertilizer for your wheat. “To Throw Good Monet After Had Will but increase my pain.” If you have thrown away money for medicine that did not and could not cure, why should you not now begin taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla, the medicine that never disappoints? Thousands of peo ple who were in your condition and took Hood’s Sarsaparilla say it was the best investment, they ever made, for it brought them health. HOOD’S PILLS cure sick headache, in digestion. To eat with Appetite, Digest with Comfort and Sleep with Tranquility, take a dose of Dr, M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine occasionally. LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 15,1899. HOW THE PRICE OF COTTON ISTO BE RAISED BY THOSE WHO RAISE COTTON. The resolutions passed by the Troup county planters, merchants ! and bankers in mass meeting at j LaGran’ge, in which they show their deteimination to control the price of cotton, read: The farmers, merchants and bankers of Troup county having this day met in pursuance of a previous call to consider some plan of co-operation among the farmers, whereby an adequate price may be obtained for the pres ent cotton crop, suggests the fol lowing: •‘l. The present crop shall not be put on the market for a price less than 8 cents per pound. Going Back to the Fame. “Did you ever notice how many farmers have quit their homes in recent years aud moved to town ?” remarked a gentleman on the street coeuer yesterday. “I have not only noticed that,” replied a companion, “but I have also noticed that a great many are more anxious to get back than they were to come away from the farms. A once well-to-do farmer came to me yesterday and asked of,l could tell him where to find a job. He said he had been in town nearly a year, and in all that time he had not averaged a half dollar a day. He had always been a good farmer, but when he found himself with a family of six chil dren he had decided that the coun try was no place for them, and he determined to move to town and give them the advantages of good schools. But when he got here he found nothing to do. A number of his neighbors had also moved into the city and abandoned their farms to negro tenants All of them, he said, regretted the step, as they had been sorely disappoint ed m the conditions in the city. Few of them found any employ ment at all, and those that were more fortunate were glad to earn 50 cents or a dollar a day, while their wives had to support the family as best they could by run ning boarding-houses. “My friend volunteered the in formation that he was going l ack to the farm as soon as he could. He said he had rented for the year, and could not get away at once, but he declared if he ever got fixed on bis farm he’d never leave. He thought it would be better next time to employ a gov erness for his children rather than break up and come away from the best life a man can live. I ex pect from now on to see an exodus from the towns and cities to the farms, rather than from the farms to the cities.” Worth Forty Dollars A Gallon. After years of futile effort the wreck of the steamer “Arabia,” a stern-wheel boat that was lost iu the Missouri river iu 1846, near Parkville, Mo., has been located. The “Arabia” carried a cargo of 400 barrels of Kentucky whisky, aud men have hunted for it- in vain for over 60 years. It was not until last fall that the discov ery was made. Previous to that, the search bad been conducted in or near the river channel The channel of the Missouri is con stantly changing, and for this reason uo wrecks are ever found in the bed of the stream; they are covered up by made land, washed down by the spring floods, and over them grow crops of grain and grass. The wreck of the “Arabia” was located by sounding rods in a corn field a mile away from the present river channel, and buried under 82 feet of soil. Over 160 acres of land had been sounded and exam ined before the strike was made, the search being conducted by a syndicate who knew there was a fortune in the cargo if it could be recovered. When the “Arabia” was sunk the whisky it carried was worth 75 cents a gallon. Today there are men in New York ready to pay S4O a gallou for the same liquor, the advance in value being due to its improvement in quality brought about by its 53 years of “aging.” at S4O a gallon, allowing for leak age, etc., the whisky is now worth about $1,250 a barrel, or $600,000 for the entire cargo. ’ Mrs. Sallie Harrison, Ridgeway, Ga., writes : Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Med icine cured me of Sick Headache,Swim ming Head and Sour Stomach. I gave it to my children and find it better for them than anything 1 ever tried. The Zeilin’s and Black Draught 1 used did not have as much strength as it has. “2. Until that price is reached the bankers and merchants are to advance such amount on all cot ton received by them as will meet ths immediate demands of the farmer storing said cotton in the warehouses and as security hold the receipts of such cotton u::til a sale is deemed advisable. “8. The great between the raw material and the manufactured goods is proof conclusive that; the present price of the staple is but little more than half its value. The surplus ou hand is of such low grades as not to be of much value save for the very coarse fa brics and should cut no figure as against the present high grade. A PATHETIC PORTRAIT. There is a peculiar portrait in Washington which has created much interest among those who know of its existence. Its pecu liarity is that every year it has been changed to show the changes which time would have made in the original. The portrait is by a Washington artist, and is that of his wife, painted mauy years ago when she was a young bride. A few years after the portrait was painted tbe young wife died, and so great was the grief of the artist that he determined to keep her likeness with him all the time,and to do so he decided that year by year he would change the portrait so as to make it grow old with him. Every year, on the anniversary of his wedding day, the artist locked himself in his studio and changed the lines of the face of the portrait, adding what he thought would make the difference of one year. There have been mauy an niversaries of that marriage day, aud consequently many changes iu ttie portrait. Today the picture is that of an old woman, the hair turned gray, the face wrinkled aud pale, but still beneath the marks of time, as made by the brush of the artist, can be seen the early beauty of the bride and the attractiveness of the young woman. Quite a sensation has been caused at Rome by W. M. Bridges’ announcement that he had been called to preach, and would do so whether the Baptist church re stored him to full fellowship or not. Bridges was Floyd county’s school commissioner, and has twice been convicted of embezel ment. The first time the case was appealed, and a new trial secured. He was agaiu convicted, and for the second time the case went to the Supreme court. It was argued once, but the judges have ordered a second arguing, which is to occur in October. Before his troubles Mr. Bridges was an or dained Baptist minister, but he was expelled both from the minis try aud membership. Sunday morning he attended services in the North Rome Baptist church, and there made a statement to the effect that he was sorry for the way iu which he had acted toward his church and asked to be re-in stated. The church went into con ference aud Mr. Bridges’ request was tabled. He then announced that God had called him to preach, and that he would do so, irrespect ive of the church’s decision. He then said that he would preach iu that church Sunday evening, and notified the janitor to have the building opened aud lighted up for him. After he left, the church once more went into conference and gave strict orders to lock the church and not allow Mr. Bridges to use it. It is said that a guard was placed at tho door, but this is not substantiated. Upon learning this Mr. Bridges announced that he would preach in the Congrega tional Church Sunday evetiing.and a tremendous crowd was out to hear him. He states that he is go ing to preach, regardless of the wishes or desires of any of his for mer congregation. To the Good Women of Georgia. In the free library for working people, now being built by Hon. S. B. Price, Mayor of Macon, there will be a Women of Georgia section, composed entirely of books contributed by those ladies of the state who favor the educa tion of the working people on the plans proposed by Macon’s mayor. Every lady in the state is invited to send a book to Mayor Price, Macon, Ga., to be placed in that section, which should be made the most complete aud attractive in the library. We hope every lady iu our vi cinity will promptly respond. “4. There is no such thing as over-production of cotton while more than half the human family is iu rags and tatters, as a result of arrested distribution. “We, therrfore, call on the far mers of Georgia and every cotton growing county in the south to meet at once and organize similar associations and force the price of our principal product to that fig ure which will remunerate the in dustrial classes of the south and to that end ask The Atlanta Cou stution, l’he Atlanta Journal, The Macon Telegraph, The Montgom ery Advertiser and other papers in sympathy td publish the fore going. ” From the Far North-West- Mr. R. T. McConnell, of Trip, received a letter from his son in Wyoming last week, and with the letter were a number of newspa per clippings which may prove interesting to some of our readers. Bid BOUNTY WARRANT. Robert Grant came in from Chugwater yesterday with the skins of forty-one wolves and twelve coyotes. His bounty war rant will be for .$lB5, which is the largest amount paid at one time since the now law has been in op eration. In addition to the state's bounty he will receive a snug sum from the Swan Land & Cattle company, on whose ranges the animals were killed. DAMAGE BY WOLVES. Trappers may have forgotten that there is an extra wolf bounty of twenty dollars for each grown wolf killed and five dollars for each pup wolf killed within a circle including all the following ranches: (Then follows a long list of ranch owners.) The wolves must be shown to one of the above signers before taken from the trap or place where killed. ON LARAMIE PEAK. A merry party made a success ful ascent of Laramie peak Satur day, August 19th. After proceed ing nearly one quarter of the way on horseback, they left their horses and proceeded ou foot. Arriving at the peak at exactly 2:00 p. m., the party rested a short time, en joying the inspiring and magnifi cent view which may be had from the top, which is nearly two miles above the sea and a mile above the plaius below. Wheatland and the farms the flats, as well as the ranches along the river, were plainly visible, aud formed a pret ty panorama stretching out from the rocky stepes of the mountains to the prairies of Nebraska. One of the unique > xperiences of the trip waa a snow storm on the peak. About noon it became cold and blustory, and at one o’clock it snowed hard fir 10 or 15 miuutos, On the summit and on the way down many curious and interesting things were found, among others there being beauti ful golden green moss and some ferns five and six feet in height. ENCOUNTERED A GRIZZLY. On Wednesday David Doty was brought to the Wyoming General Hospital at this place from Pied mont, Wyo., badly injured in a hand-to-hand fight with a grizzly bear. Mr. Doty was out huntiug fifteen miles from Piedmont Mon day. when he suddenly came upon three grizzly bears. One was an old she bear, and she attacked Mr. Doty before he had an oppor tunity to defend himself. His left side was horribly lacerated by the animal’s teeth, and five of Mr. Doty’s ribs were broken be sides several bad cuts on his hip and his head, made by the ani mal’s teeth and claws. Mr. Doty managed to got away from the savage beast, and getting his rifle into position fired a shot at her, but he does not know with what effect. Mr. Doty then escaped and not withstanding bi» serious injuries managed to walk to his cabin where he was found, and the fol lowing day was brought here for treatment. Mr, Doty thinks the old bear must have hud some cubs close in that vicinity, as the an imals seldom attack anyone until they are attacked or wounded themselves. Mr. Doty is sixty-two years of age, but he is getting along as well as he could expect, considering the narrow escape he bad.—Rock Springs Independent. A Tragedy in Beal Life. “It’s a queer world,” said a New York physician, as he laid the morning paper aside. “What prompted the original re mnrk?” asked a visitor. “Well, I was just reading an ac count of a stabbing affair, And it suddenly occurred to me that I had known the man who did the killing.” The doctor Bettled back in his chair, and the visitor waited for the story. After a few mo ments it came. “When I first began to practice, I did an immense amount of char ity work. Every fellow does that at the start for experience, and la ter he keeps it up for humanity’s sake. I had pretty good success with children and made quite a name down in the tenement dis tricts—and incidentally spent a great deal of my pocket mouey on my patients. “One summer a woman began bringing a Bick bahv to me. A small boy, about 6 years old, al ways came with them and seemed fairly strong aud well, but the ba by was a pitiful little thing, with a thin, white face and big blue oyes with a look of pain in them. The woman seemed an ignorant, honest soul and generally wore a thick, dark veil to hide a black eye or great blue bruise. It is easy euough to figure out a thing like that, you know, but she never spoke of her husband or com plained, so I didn’t ask any ques tions. “She brought the baby often, and each time it looked more waxen and scrawny, but I couldn’t find out that the child had any disease, and all tho symptoms pointed to a lack of nourishment. '“At last one morning 1 said to tiie mother that I believed the babv was starving, and I didn’t intend to allow her to leave the office till she had told the truth about the affair. She looked stub born for a moment and wouldn’t answer, but then tears began to roll down her bruised, discolored cheeks and she confessed that she didn’t have enough food to give the baby. She worked hard, but her husband drank and took every cent she made and beat her every day in the bargain. She was fond of the brute iu spite of all that and told me a long story about the heavenly nature the fellow had before he begau to driuk. “Finally I told her I would give her a quart of milk every day. I wouldn’t give her the mouey, because I didn’t covet the privil ege of buying bad whiskey for her hußband, but that I would pay the nearest milk depot to supply her with a quart a day. That would feed the baby and leave some for little Joe, who didn’t look so well eh he did when the two first begau calling on me. “After that I did not hear any more about the caso for a week or two. Then my friends turned up again. The baby looked worse than ever, and the mother’s face was a patchwork iu blue and green but little Joe was quite rosy. I didn’t understand it. The baby was in a bad condition and I did what I could for it. After I left my office I went down to the milk depot. The man said my woman had had her quart of milk every day. “I puzzled over the thing that night. The next morning the trio were at my office. The baby’s blue eyelids were closed and I thought at first it was not breathing, but found a faint flutter. I couldn’t see any reason for such a state of things, so once more led the wom un into my private office and shut the door. Then I said : “ ‘Now look here. There’s a mystery about this, and you’ve got to tell me what’s the matter. That baby's starving to death, and I want to know what you’ve done with the milk.’ “The woman looked scared and turned pale botween the bruises. Then she gave a sort of wail and jumped up, still holding the baby. “ ‘No, the baby didn’t have the milk!’ she said in a frantic sort of way. 'I gave it to little Joe. There wasn’t enough to feed them both, and Joe began to get sick, and I loved him better than I did the baby. I ain’t had a crust to eat myself, but I couldn’t let Joe die. The baby is only a girl, and if she does live she’ll be unhappy like me, and I don’t like her like Ido Joe. I thought both of them were going to die, and I couldn’t live without Joe, so I gave him the milk and just let ba by have a little. Maybe you think I ain’t suffered watching the baby, but I couldn’t spare Joe. Some day he’ll be a man, and I’ll be proud of him. A man cau do any thing, but a girl would do just what I’ve done. Joe shan’t diet’ “She was screaming the words out., and seemed almost crazy. The thing was awful. It made me feel heartsick. “‘Why, you idiot,’l said, ‘why didn’t you tell me ? I’d have looked out for Joe, too.” “Just then the baby opened its eyes—great, uncanny, weird eyes in the tiny face It stared at me in a miserable way that made my heart come into my throat. Then all the light died out of the eyes, but they still stared. “There was nc use saying any thing more to the mother. She sat. down and looked at the baby in a quiet, stunned way. Then she reached out and put an arm around little Joe and held him tight. I told her I would keep on payiug for the milk as long as she wanted it, and sho and Joe and the baby went home. “I never saw them again. When I went to the house they had gone, and no one seemed to know where they had moved. Joe’s the fellow who hftß just murdered a man in a Bowery saloon. I wonder what the girl would have been ? It’s a queer world.”—New York Sun. LOCAL OZOB4. Special to THE NEWS. Last week’s letter. The rainy season is about over for the present. Fodder pulling is about all the go here now. Lindsay & Tribble are preparing to gin cotton here this season. Road-working is very common in this section. G. W. Cowsert’s singing school closed at Bay Creek last Saturday with a nice candle-light march and good speaking. George W. Boss is quite unwell at this writing. Some few from this place went to Lawrenceville Tuesday. Emory Camp has returned to the piney woods. BRADBX. Special to THE NEWS. Last week’s letter. The entertainment we spoke of last week will be on the nights of the fourteenth and fifteenth of this month. Arthur Partridge and Miss An na Lankford visited relatives in Bermuda last week. Miss Avis Johnston has returned to her homo in Suwauee, after a pleasant visit to friends hore. G. W. Johnson and wife, of Gar ner, visited the latter’s parents here Sunday. The lake on Mr. Lankford’s premises is a very popular place for the fair young bathers. R. H. Fleming and daughter, Miss Cebel, visited relatives in Luxomui last Sunday. The Braden Mutual Aid Society mot according to appointment last Saturday night. The subject dis cussed was, “Resolved, That the scenes of nature are more attrac tive than the art of man.” The judgos declared the burden of the argument with the negative. The subject for next Saturday night is, “Resolved, That there is more pleasure in pursuit than in pos session.” “He that is warm thinks all so,” but many people are always cold because of poor blood. They need Flood’s .Sar saparilla. CKUSK. Special to THE NEWS. L*Bt weeks letter. Pulling fodder, picking cotton and making syrup is in full blast. We are glad to say that very few of our people have to attend court. Prof. Williams’ school at Pleas ant Hill closed last Friday. Clark Hopkius went to Oakland last Sunday. The death angel visited the home of Jasper Bowen on the 29th ult. and carried away his little three year-old son. The infant of J. M. Summerlin died on the 29th ult. Our sick are all improving. The musical at R. L. Jackson’s was quite enjoyable. Mrs. Wright has returned to Mobile Ala. B. K. Robertson had the misfor tune to lose a good horse last week. The singing at M. D. Corley’s Sunday night was quite enjoyable. E. M. McDaniel, of Luxomni, and sep, Eli, of Chattanooga, ■■ -:rs Vr- t ostBSSIj News-Herald |ani> Journal semi- [ § aJUUI Hell, WEEKLY, [ I Only $1.25. fa Dm CTnJ ora CTO f* rrr. rr=i rm rm rs vs r*=i r=i VOL. VI—NO 47 were here last Sunday. Collier Knox, of Montgomery, Ala., was here last week. Misses Mamie and Lizzie Dun can have closed their school in Cherokee county and returned to their home near here. The singing at G. P. Wright’s Sunday afternoon was enjoyed by a large number. Prof. Harmon’s school at Beaver Ruin closed last Friday. Leo Hopkins visited his brother at Lithonia last Sunday. John Massey is wearing a long ’smile this week. It’s a girl. We are sorry to learn of so many of our young people going west. Homer Mason, of Atlanta, is visiting 0. D. Hambrick, of this place. Billie Talton was recently mar ried to Miss Roxie Nash. POSSUM CORNER. Special to THE WWW 8. Last week’* lettor. Picking cotton is the order of the day now. The infant of Mr. and Mrs. John Jordan died Saturday and was buried Sunday at Camp Creek cemetery. The family has our heartfelt sympathy. Nawt Garner and wife have re turned home, after a week’s visit in the city. J. S. Garner after a sovore spell of yellow jaundice, is somewhat improving. Miss Veima Garner visited Miss Maggie Garner, of Luxomui, Wed nesday. Miss Dollie Huckaboy, of New born, visited Connie Garner re cently. Mrs. B. 11. Jones, of Norcross, has accepted the school at Garner Academy for another year. Mrs. Jones is an up-to-date teacher, and the little ones are rejoicing over her coining back. Misses Ellen Goza, Connie and Velma Garner, Messrs. Melworth Lunsford, Darling McDaniel and Pink Britt all attended Sunday school at Mount Vernqp Sunday. Miss Bertie Jones, one of Nor cross’ sweetest girls, was the guest of the Misses Garner Wednesday. Misses Velma and Maggie Gar ner anticipate a trip to Atlanta, Anuestown and other places scon. The singing at Mr. Goza’s Sun day night was highly enjoyed by all present. The entertainment at the Acad emy Saturday night was a great success and enjoyed very much. Floyd Garner, of Atlanta, is vis iting his father here this week. Mrs. F. F. Livingston, Towns. Ga., writes: I have used J)r. M. A. Sim monH lover Medicine and 1 know it cures Sick Headache, Dyspep sia,Liver complaints and Constipation. I think it stronger and better in every way than Zeilin’s Regulator. Closing Exercises at Yellow River Prof. P. L. Lindsay’s school closed at Yellow River with a fair attendance. He has taught a very successful term and will teach tho school here another year. The school closed with n spelling match and a few recitations at night. Miss Nora Simmons gave the au dience a nice recitation, which was enjoyed very much. A Visitor. Letter List. List of unclaimed letters re maining in the post office at Law renceville, Ga., Sept., Ist 1899: Females—Mrs. Mary Bell, Miss Viola A. Butler, Miss Mary Davis, Miss Mollie Mayfield. Males—R. B. Bradley, H. P. Cason, Enoch McCullor, Peter Nichols, F, M. Powels, Johnson Rogers, W. A. Thompson, W. D. Upshaw. All of which, if not called for in 80 days, will be sent to the Dead Letter office at Washington, D.C. W. C. Cole, P. M. EASE AND DISEASE. A 3hort Lesion on the Meaning of A Familiar Word. Disease is the opposite of ease. Webster defines disease as “lack of ease, uneasiness, trouble, vexa tion, disquiet.” It is a condition due to some derangement of the physical organism. A vast ma jority of the “dis-ease” from which people suffer is due to impure blood. Disease of this kind is cured by Hood’s Sarsaparilla, w'hich purifies, enriches and vital izes the blood. Hood’s Sarsapa rilla cures sorofula, salt rheum, pimples and all eruptions. It tones the stomach and creates a good appetite, and it gives vigor and vitality to the whole body. It reverses the condition of things, giving health, comfort and “ease” in place of “disease.”