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News-Herald j jp» Constitution, I 12 Months—sl.2s.J THE GWINNETT HERALD, ) the idwE, [ Consolidated Jan. 1,1898. Established In 18»». ) BRUMBY and SCHLEY. They came to the State Fair and have gone, but Rutledge & Clower's Spot Cash 'Store is still here, doing a rushing business, They push and rush business, only to see each month’s sales exceed the pre vious one. THEY ARE NOT GOING TO MOYE, neither are they “selling out at cost to go out of business.” The only excuse they have for selling goods cheap is because they BOUGHT THEM CHEAP AND WANT to SELL THEM. They buy good goods, and sell them on legitimate principles, and do what they claim to do- They have arranged some COUNTERS,St and will continue to give special bargains on these counters until January 1 st. • Everybody come and see them. Rutledge & Clower’s Cash Store, Ij.A.'WIREIfcTCiE'VIIjXjIE, - - GtA.. LATEST STYLES X3ST Fall Miriery Seeds Just received by MISS HATTIE MELTON. The ladies of Gwinnett county are invited to call ori me before buying their Fall and Winter Hats, as I have a very pretty line of these goods to show them. Respectfully, Miss Hattie Melton, BUILDING MATERIAL. DOORS—INSIDE AND OUTSIDE, SASH, SIDE LIGHTS, BLINDS. MANTLES, FLOORING, CEILING, BASE BOARDS, ' CORNER BOARDS, DOOR AND WINDOW FRAMING, MOULDINGS, LATHS, SHINGLES, LOCKS,HINGES,WINDOW WEIGHTS, ETC. All material complete for building a house. Atlanta prices duplicated and freight saved. J. A. AMBROSE & CO. Lawrenceville, Ga. Tvffi&DYSPEPSiA GU/ JOlii Try a 06111 e- : Who Is it that Suffers? Areyhu one of the Many ♦<(»( (Complain ? Chronic dyspi peia makes tJHs lift* a terrestrial purgatary fur many. To , enjoy life’s pleasures, to have $ eournf body, a vigorous iniiut, it is necessary ' 'ir the digestive Awers to be aft the full. Those who would enjoy the price-1 f. r phrWftMi bur of'" Vi •lit'cetion are "re«»ni*iem!e(l to Tyner’s Dyspepsia Ren < dy less bleßsiW7if^ ,,vl< T |, t lll6 * n *»^ fqrHigestWe troubles. Relieves indigestion*at j It is thebeft ..f alitr f, case* of dyspepsia if faithfully used. Sold by all druggists. iiiii'H.diiil cun’s wiirst, \ ’r**' v * ■ r -*. ... SVtKm* THE NEWS-HERA • * V TO THE SCHOOL AT HABBI3 ACADEMY. Trip, Ga., Nov. ft. 189 ft. Will the editor please allow me space to say a few words to the patrons of the literary school at Harris Academy ? A 9 it has suit ed them for mo to serve them an other year, I already feel an inter est in the school, and acknowledge my appreciation, and ask them to accept my thanks for the same. And-now, gentlemen and patrons of the school: I asiuyour hearty encouragement and support, as it is needed and required to*l ave a successful school. I ask your co operation, your sympathy and friendship, as it is essential to success. Let us come together with tenewed energy, and a burn ing ambition to do our whole duty in cultivating a taste in the hearts of our young for “the beautiful, the true and the good,” and re member that each has a separate duty to perform—the teacher, the parent, the pupil—and if one is discharged and the other neglect ed what will be the result ? Any thing hut satisfactory. Now, I appeal to you, for spur sake, for the sake of your children who will survive you, and the community in which you live, and ask you to stand together as a unit, for “in unity there is strength.” Throw no obs‘acles in the way, hut for (jo*’ sake give the teacher a fa.r chance, which they seldom get. And then his dutt r is to “Allure to brighter worlds and lead the way.” Solo mon says, “In all thy getting get wisdom.” Now without it life would be a faillire; let us strive for it, and thirst for it. ask for it from the right source, and be as willing to impart to others. “Good sense will stagnate; thoughts shut up want air,” says some writer, and I agree. Now, as time is about up, I ask all who are concerned in the school at Harris Academy, and feel an interest in the work at that place, to please meet me on Friday night, November 17, as there is some business of import ance to attend to. School will begin on Monday, Nov. 20, if it suits your convenience. Hoping to meet all, and asking you to ac cept my apologies for the above, I am, Yours ready to serve, J. A. Smith. MEADOW Last weeks letter. Shucking corn is the order of the day. M.J. Doby and son went to At lanta and Clarkston last week. Walter Withers is attending school at Luxomni. School opened the 80th. The prospects are that we will have a good school. James Davis wertt to Loganville Friday to see his daughter who is very sick with fever. Dr. Gaines, of Dewey Rose, vis ited relatives here recently. B. F. Askew is visiting relatives in HeDry county. The death angel visited the hone of Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Mewborn Thursday and claimed their oldest child, Eva. The little one was buried at Bethesda Friday. John Robinson awoke Tuesday morning about three o’clock and discovered that his barn was on fire. The family gave the alarm, and with the help of the neighbors succeeded in extinguishing the fire. The barn was an old one, and was filed with shucks. The crib, which was filled with corn, came near being burned also. The origin of the fire is unknown. TRIP. Last week’s letter. Everybody about done gather ing, and are now sowing wheat. Mrs.Mary-Ann Tribble, of Lo ganville, is spending a few days with relatives here. Martin Feagins has a little child that is very sick with fever. Misses Hattie and Ada Cooper spent Sunday night with their sis ter hern. Miss Minnie Loveless and broth er were here last Monday. Charlie and Otis Jackson, as Winder, were here Saturday and Sunday. Albert Bachelor, formerly of this place, but now of Eastman, is spending a few days here with rel atives and friends. Newt McConnel, who went to Texas about two months ago, ar rived back home last Monday. We now have a new mill at Trip, and will, in the future, have our bread ground at home. Emmet Williams, now in school at Auburn, was at home Sunday. The singing given by W. J. Trib ble Sunday night was quite enjoy able. Alex Davis, of Centreville, was here Saturday. Several of our young people took in tne Fair. It is reported that one of our young busiuess men has captured one of Walton’s fair maidens, and they are saying nothing about it. Justice court was on a boom at Bay Creek Saturday. Cols. Mc- Donald, Nix and Peeples, of Law renceville, abd Cox, of Monroe, represented *&e ipgal talent, while clients werethqre galore- Treasurer Jacobs returned from Atlanta Thursday, where Le went [to argue the Trip school case be fore the Supreme court. If some of our citizens would do | their duty, the moral atmosphere LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17. 1899. of onr little town would he im proved—especially on Saturday nights. rambling crowds are a disgrace to a commu nity, and the participants in such are violators of law, and ought to be punished. CRUSE. Last week’s letter. Our people are about done gath ering. 'Villis Fallow, of Indian Terri tory, is here on a visit. J. F. Minor, of Atlanta, is spend ing a few days here this week. J. W. Leug has accepted a po sition in Atlanta. Willie Rabern is suffering with a rising, caused from a bruise re ceived recently. E. T. Liddell, of Atlanta, was here Sunday. Rev. Keuuerly filled hie regular appointment at Zion Sunday. Wm.'Jordan has a fine school at Beaver Ruin Marion Brooks, who got hurt in Atlanta by a crazy negro, is im proving. The singing at S. P. Wright’s Sunday night was well enjoyed. Mrs. JohD Martin, of Atlanta, was here Sunday. The dance at John Yancey’s Friday night was quite enjoyable. Misses Leilortt and Callie Sim mons have returned home. I*K A DEN. Last week’s letter. R. C. Johnson has been very ill, but we are glad to say is much better. Miss Ellen Dickens and Darling Cofer, of Union Hill, attended our Sabbath-school Sunday, The farmers are about done gath ering their crops. E. M. Fleming has returned to Nashville. Several of our citizens took in the Fair last week. Will Johnston made a visit to friends and relatives at Wallace recently. Several of Lilburn’s young men were in our midst Sunday. Brand & Kiml rell have moved to the old Carroll stand. It will not be a surprise to any who are at all familiar with the good qualities of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, to know that peo ple everywhere take pleasure in re lating their experience in the use of that splendid medicine and in telling of the benefit they have re ceived from it, of bad colds it has cured, of threatened attacks of pneumonia it has averted and of the children it has saved from at tacks of croup and whooping cough. It is a grand, good medicine. For sale by Bagwell Drug Co. Mother’s Visit. ‘•The other day, on an electric car, a friend said softly: ‘I want you to notice this man two seats iu front,he evidently has his moth er down to the city on a little trip and is showing her the sights. His care of the old lady is some thing beautiful: I have beon watching them for time, and, oh I how lovely it is to see a man so tender and kind with his old moth er!’ Straightway it became a fas cination to watch in turn the pair who were too much engrossed with the passing scenes—one in point ing out, the other in observing—to know or care anything for watch iug eyes. The old lady’s shawl would slip a little too low on the thin shoulders, and her ‘boy,’ a man himself getting on in years, would carefully draw it into place. One arm was thrown protectingly across the back of the seat, resting with a re-assuring touch against her arm. “And the pleasure and interest, on the worn face 1 Well, it was a sight to warm younger hearts, and to make us wish that every good old mother might be blessed with just such a son, or with a kind lov ing daughter, who when skies are blue and air soft and balmy, would see that the dear old parents are taken into the midst of new scenes that a welcome iuvigoruting change might be enjoyed and a little of the care and thoughtful ness of past years be given back in a direction where it is so richly deserved.”—St. Louis Star. “I expect to be on hand for Congress,” writes Gen. Wheeler from Manila. What can be the matter with the little old warrior? Is there not fighting enough in the Philippines to suit him, or is he disgusted with the Filipiuo us an enemy ? It is very well known that Wheeler would rather fight than make laws, hence if he is voluntarily going to quit the field and come home to re-enter the cave of the winds in Washington, there must be something wrong. Or possibly the General has reach ed the conclusion that the fighting is about over.—Savannah News. His bum Was Savkd. Mr. J. E. I.illy, a prominent citizen of Hannibal, Mo., lately bad a wonder ful deliverance from a frightful death. In telling of it he says: “I was taken with Typhoid Fever, that ran into Pneumonia. My lungs became har dened. I was so weak I couldn’t even sit up in bed. Nothing helped me. I expected noon to die of Consumption , when l heard of Dr. King’s New Dis covery. One bottle gave me great re lief. I continued to use it, aud now am well and strong. I can’t say to much in its praise.” This marvelous medi cine is the surest and quickest cure in the vtforld for all Throat and bung Trouble. Regular sizes 60 cents and SI.OO. Trial bottles free at A. M. Winn j & Son’s Drug Store; every bottle guaranteed. 16 to 1 In the Election!. It is stated that when Mr. Bry an received from the ex-chairmau of th? Democratic State commit tee oif Massachusetts on Tuesday night a dispatch to the effect that Boston, which gave McKinloy 18,' 000 majority, had gone democratic by 7,500 majority, Mr. Towne, a prominent silverito who was pros** ent, said : “That shows where the gold democrats have been.” And does it not show that the number, of them is quite large ? And is it not probable that if sil ver is made a leading issue in 1000 they will be then just where they were in 1896 ? These are questions that are w orthy of the most careful consid eration by the democratic leaders. The fusiouists carried Nebraska on Tuesday. It is safe to assert that, owing to the popularity of Mr. Bryan, the democrats, without re gard to the silver question, voted the democratic ticket —gold dem ocrats as well as silver democrats. The election was astute one. Cun the gold democrats of Nebraska or any oter state be depended upon to vote the democratic ticket in the national election in 1900 if silver is the leading issue ? It is probable that the gold dem ocrats generally voted the demo cratic ticket this year, the election not being a natioual out". Doubt less their votes were chiefly instru mental in bringing Maryland hack into the democratic fold. It is doubtful if the silver ques tion played a very important part in the election in either Ohio or Kentucky. In Ohio the republic ans made a special effort to have the President’s Philippine policy indorsed, and they were successful. In Kentucky a large faction of democrats were bitterly hostile to William Goebel, the democrat ic nominee for governor. If the party had been united the demo cratic ticket would have been suc cessful. Is there anything in Tuesday’s elections which encourages the be lief that the chances of the demo cratic party would be better next year with silver as the leading is sue than if it were given less prom inence than it had in the last na tional election ? That is a ques tion to which a great deal of con sideration will be, aud ought to be. given between now and the meet ing of the Democratic National Convention. —Savannah News. An exchange tells this little ro mance of the first man in Georgia —Gov. Candler: “He was teach ing school, and amoug the scholars whose upturned faces greeted him from the rows of desks was one of a rosy-faced lass. He soon felt the pow’er of the frank, innocent girl eyes, and lost his heart. t The object of his love was t(je' , l»ung to be approached with thtrrooject, and her continued presence in the sohool room was a menace to his happiness. He was sorely dis quieted, toe, with persistent long ings to possess the red lips and feel that he had a proprietorship over them. Finally, he decided to write to the girl’s father His letter, iu substance, was: ‘I love your daughter. She is too young to be made love to yet. Take her out of my school until I can come to ask her of you.’ Iu time he sought her out and won her. Could a prettier, sweeter romance be conceived ? It is not to be won dered at that so high-minded a young man makes so honored a public official in his latter days. He is well worthy of emulation. They Are All There. Take a walk through the ceme tery and you will pass the last resting place of the mau who blew into the muzzle of a gun to gee if it was loaded. A little further down the slope is the crank who tried to see how close ho could pass in front of a moving train. In strolling about you see the modest monument of the hired girl who tried to start the fire with kerosene; and a grass covered kuoll that covers the boy that put a corn cob under the mule’s tail. The tall shaft over the man who blew out the gas casts a shadow across the boy who tried to jump a moving train. Side by side the ethereal creature who always had her corset laced to the last hole, and the intelligent idiot who rode a bicycle nine miles in ten min utes, sleep on undisturbed. At repose is the doctor who took a dose of his own medicine. There with thd top of a shoe box driven over his head is the rich old man who marriod a young wife. Away over there reposes the boy who fished ou Sunday, and the woman who kept strychnine with powders in the cupboard The man who stood in front of a mowing ma chine to oil the cycle is quiet now, and rests by the side of the care less brakemau who fed himself to a 70-ton engine; and over in the corner of the fence in the potter’s field may be seen the bleaching bones of the man who triod to whip the editor. —Knoxvillir Trib une. Chancellor Walter B Hill, when the University trustees met in At lanta a few days ago, offered to lend his law library to the Univer sity Uaw School, at Athens, if the trustees would provide for its safe keeping. The trustees eagerly ac cepted lhe offer, and it was made known to the Law School a day or so ago. The use of this-library will be of great aid to the students as it consists of over <SOO volumes, and resolutions of thanks were sent to Mr. Hill. "MANIFEST DESTINY’* IN 185 S. Tim story is going tho rounds that an old scrap book, musty and yellow with age, has come to light revealing the fact that the late .Gen. Henry R, Jackson, of Geor gia, was an ardent expansionist. It appears that he not only approved the annexation of the territory that became ours as a result of the Mexican war, but intimated that he would like to see the annexa tion of Mexico itseljf, as well as of Cuba. These sentiments were ex pressed by Gen Jackson in the Georgia house of representatives on November 23, 1858, in the fol lowing words: “Responding to the call with which I have been so highly honored.address ing an audience so largely composed of the public men of Georgia, it will be naturally expected that I shall direct my remarks to matters of public con cern, (tic public policy of the country, state or federal. The controling feat ure of that policy for the future, in all probability for the immediate and pressing future, will be, in my judg ment, the extension of our national ter ritory. The further proposition de ducted from this is equally clear that the chief hope, as well as the chief dan ger, of the south must be sought in the bearing or this principle of territorial expansion upon her domestic institu tions. “The public opinion of the civilized world lias been rapidly coming to tlie conclusion of late that the peculiar re lations existing between us and tlie Island of Cuba, and more especially (lie states of Mexico, can only result in their annexation. The change of pub lic sentiment upufl this question among our own people is worthy of note. Many of us can remember the violent opposi tion which was made to the annexation of Texas; yet who would now he wil ling |o see I he once ‘bone Star’ strick en from our national banner ? At the conclusion of our late war with Mexico when it was proposed to purchase new territory, the idea met with a like re sistance, and yet who would not now exercise all the power of the national grasp to retain our golden states of the Pacific ? Nay, did our American army now stand as it stood ten years ago in the Mexican Capitol, who among us would advocate the policy of surren dering what we might properly have held under the laws of nations by tile right of conquest ? “To extend American territory lias been styled onr ‘manifest destiny,’ and erroneously in so far as it would seem to appropriate to ourselves what we simply share in common with the lead ing powers of the earth. “There is no fact better established in history, than that so soon as a dom inant empire instinct with its own pe culiar principle of civilization ceases to expand, it begins to decay.” Whatever may be thought of Gen. Jackson's concluding words as to their bearing upon the Amer ican republic, it is certainly true of all the empires known to histo ry, that wlion they ceased to ex pand they began to decay. This Woice’out of the past captivates at tention if it does not carry convic tion. The “manifest destiny” of the present day expansionists has been derided as thp cry of a new set of degenerates, but it here ap pears that the expression and the sentiment behind it are as old as 1858 and older.—Macon Telegraph. Chamberlain's Pain Balm Cukes Others, Why Not You ? My wife has been using Cham berlain’s Pain Balm, with good re sults, for a lame shoulder that has pained her continually for nine years. We have tried all kinds of medicines and doctors without re ceiving auy benefit from any of them. One day we saw an adver tisement of this medicine and thought of trying it, which we did wiUi the best of satisfaction. She hjfVeed only one bottle and her shVi ildor is almost well.— Adolph .L. Mii.lett, Manchester, N. H. For sale by Bagwell Drug Co. COTTON MILL LABOR. The Manufacturers’ Review of , Birmingham, after canvassing the , cotton mill situation in the south, reaches the conclusion that the time is not far distant when the ; supply of white labor will be ex- ; hausted. That point, it is assert- , ed, has now been pretty nearly 1 reached in the cotton manufactur ing sections of North and South Carolina, and also in some of the Georgia mill towns. Even uow a new mill has to give closest atten- , tion to its labor supply; and new , mills are being projected every month, almost every week, in the Carolinas and Georgia. The Re view says that at present mill man agers in the Carolinas are sending agents into Georgia and Alabama, aud even to the upjk| portions of Mississippi, to secure for new a supply of labor. There are ut present approximately 500 cotton mills in the south. During the next few years, probably within five or six years unless all signs fail, that number will be duplica ted. The southern people want more mills, and are building them as fast as they can. But the Re view assetts positively that the white labor supply cannot stand a duplication of the present demand upon it. Within the next five years, it is predicted, there will be such a scarcity of white labor for the mills as to cause a sharp rise in wages. Then where is the labor for the additional mills to come from ? Why, from the black race, answers the Review. It takes no stock in the claim that the negro cannot be made a good operative. CHEAPESnOUiiI^Q HWtiEHCEV!.nr All coons may look alvire, hytHhey are not all alike, and sh-ere are many <*uick and intelligent indi viduals among them. This is to be seen in the fact that there are so many competent and successful carpentprs, masons and other skill ed laborers with black faces. It is possible that the blacks may be made good operatives, and that mills may be profitably run with them. It is probable, too, that the time is not far distao i when the white labor supply be exhausted and the mill oW me will have to look to the black ra for their help. But in that evont'f there would have to be exclusively white mills and exclusively black mills. It would not be practica ble to have the two colors in one mill. Racp prejudice would pre- vent them from working togother upon equal terms, or, in fact, up on any other terms. Especially is this true when it is remembered that women and girls as well as men and boys wprk in the mills. The impossibility of white and black operatives getting along to gether in harmony has been shown in several r«cent instances in cer tain mills in this state. There is or.e largo cotton mill in Charleston that is being operated with colored labor. A mill to employ colored labor exclusively is being built in North Carolina. These experi ments are expected to demonstrate the value of th« negro as a cotton mill hand. The Charleston expe riment. has been now in progress for more than a year, and reports respecting it are of an encouraging character.—Savannah News. QUESTION ANSWERED. Yes, August Flour still has the largest sale of any medicine in the civilized world. Your mothers ami grandmoth ers never thought of using anything else for Indigestion or Biliousness Doctors were scarce, ami they seldom beared of Appendecitis, Nervous Pros tration or Heart Failure, etc. They used August Flower to clean out the system and stop fermentation of undi gested food, regulate the action of the liver stimulate the nervous and organ ic action of the system, and that, is all they took when feeling dull ami had with headaches and other aches. You only need a few doses of Green’s Au gust, Flower, in liquid form, to make you satisfied there is nothing serious the matter with you. Sample bottles at Bagwell Drug Store, I,acre mev ill, R. O. Medlock, Noroross, Smith & Harris, Suwanee. THE kino of the crops. In our own suction wo are so ac customed to think of cotton as king that we find it hard to n-n Li. ize that the king of all crops artlm United States us a whole is ooru, the cereal which originated and is peculiarly at home on the Ameri can continent. The corn crop of 1898 was worth $552,0518,428, while the cotton crop for the same year was worth only $819,491,412. It is true that the acreago devoted to corn was nearly twice as groat, but so was the value of the pro duct. In Ainslee’s Magazine for Noli vernber John Gilmer Speed pre sents the following interesting showing of the acreage, yield and value of our more important crops for the previous year: “In 1898 there were 77,721,781 acres planted in corn and the pro duction was 1,924,184,600 bushels with a value of $552,028,428. “In the year the wheat acreage was 44,455,278 acres, pro ducing 675,148,705 bushels, and the value was $892,770,820. The value of the oat crop was $186,406,- 864; of the barley crop $28,464,- 859; of the rye crop $11,875,850; of the buckwheat crop $5,271,462. The cotton crop was the product of 24,819,584 acres, and was worth $819,491,412. Here we see that the total value of all the bread making cereals only exceeded that of Indian corn by about 11 per cent., while tho value of the cot ton crop was only about fifty-sev en and one-half per cent, of that of Indian corn.” “There is no better barometer’ by which commercial men and in vestors can be guided,”, says this writer, “than the size and value gpf the corn crop. The present year promises to be the greatest (f>rn season ever known. The acreage is larger, the yield is lur ger and the price is likely to be good. This means a tremendous lot to the country at large, but it has a peculiar significance in those states particularly devoted to the cultivation of this cereal. In Kansas, where only a little while ago every kind of calamity was anticipated, the corn crop is more abundant than ever before, and there is actually a boom—a boom in ‘bleeding Kansas.’ The poets are making verses to celebrate the great good fortune which has come to a people who were persuaded they were oppressed and down trodden. Here is a hint for the depressed, all-cottou-planting farmers of the South.—Macon Telegraph. Tllf Ft T v cost Is the m&u,lucti. ippinee nearing itaend ? . Dewey this the affirmative. If he I influents gn public sentif*! * will be exerted in favor of r ing permanent possession o islands. In an interview in aft'’, '* - 't v j>hi!“ rt •ho our of th Ad mi A. opinion, the "Philippines, uw. , rapidly dropping out of the n i, rection. The Tagales are begi} 1 ning to see that it will be better' for them to be under American protection, and consequently they aro deserting Aguinaldo’s stand ard in large numbers. It may be, that the Admiral speaks a little too strongly when lie says the insurrection is very near its end. Agtiinaldo Appears to be still making a pretty .good fight, and those who are returning from Manila do not seem to think the end of the war is yet in eight. Still, the Admiral ought to be ex cellent authority in respect to the feeling among the insurgents. If he is right, and the end of the in* surrection is apparent, no time should be lost in establishing a stable and liberal government itt the islands. And the greatest care ought to be taken in tbe selection of officials. Men should be chosen who would give the Filipinos a good impression of our govern ment, and who would assist them in gettiug an understanding of matters pertaining to government. They should lie permitted to man age their own affairs as soon as they uro qualified to do so. There is no reason why this government should oxtreise more than a pro tecting care over them after they have been prepared for self-gov ernment. —Savannah Nows. 4 No Right to Uiii.inbss. The woman who is lovely ir_ form and temper will alwa 1 ' friends, but one who would b' a9 * five must keep her health, sg’eak, Sickly and run dpg-j —- bF Mer'vsrtl', abi) Irrltafile. constipation or kidney troiru. impure blood will cause pimpic blotohes,skin eruptions and a wretcheu complexion. Electric Bitters is the best medicine in the world to regulate stomach, liver and kidneys and to pu rify the blood. It gives strong nerves, bright eyes, smooth, velvety skin, rich complexion. It will make a good look ing, charming woman of a run-down invalid. Only GO cents st A. M. Winn A Son’s Drug Store. Them is in Berlin a man who is the proud possessor of a timepiece which is considered to be the most •marvelous piece of rnechanicism that humau skill ever put togeth er, says the New York Herald. In genuity and human skill have been brought into operation, with the result that a watch has been constructed which measures less/ than one-quarter of an inch in di ameter, or one with a face of about tbe size of the head of a large tack or nail. The case is made of the very finest of gold, aud the whole watch weighs less than two grains, Yroy. In Troy weight it takes 480 grains to make an ounce, and 12 ounces constitute a pound, or 5,- 700 grains are contained in a pound. This wonderful pie««j)X. mechanism weighs only une-2880th part of a pound. So great a curi osity was this midgit considered that its owner paid $1,946.60 for it, aDd he would not sell it for twice that amount. The numerals on the face are in Arabic, and if the hands were put end to end they would not measure 5-34ths of au inch in length, the large one being less thau one-eighth and the small one less than one-twelfth of an inch long. It has besides, iust as an ordinary watch or clock, a second indicator, which is about as large in diameter as the small hand is long, aud the hand of this second indicator is less than one sixteenth of an inch in length. The numerals are engraved in red to be more easily discernible. It is constructed on the most im proved plan, being wound by the stem and set by ptflling the stem out a short distance. Used by British Soldiers in Af rica. Capt. C, G. Dennison is yell known all over Africa ascomman der of the forces that the famous rebel Galishe. Und*Tj date of Nov. 4, 1897, from Vry -1 burg, he writes: i “Before 1* last cam ’ R? ,gn , ,sFere.l t h> ,a ? tltv Chamber)?: jTj* Fholera and Diarrhoea r ffich I used 1 myself whi with bowel ‘ complaint, unify, 4 ,iven to- my men, and in evei. °£ise it proved : most beneficial,” For sale by i>ag4 1 well Drug Co. An Indiana man planted 20acres , of former marsh land in cabbage, ) aud at present market rates he will receive SB,OOO for l)is crop.