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Boiled Down and Dished Up, “A distant manner doesn’t lend enchantment tp one’s view of friend¬ ship.” Since we must all take time to die, why slwuld we not take time to live—to li\u in the large sense of a life begun here for eternity.— Ex. The Dooly county camp meeting wiH -bagirh,*>«•. Sat H.r< lay night before thy, tiidfd. ButuJ.iy, ip, July at tlm cfiinp ground 1'oiu miles north of Vienna. “Ami of what use,” cried the fe- in,ale orator, in a line outburst, of satire, “a tv wovieii in . tip's world? Ask any man, and what will he tell you?:” “My father says,” cried a small boy in the audience, “thud they are good to raise children, bis¬ cuit and hell!” Thp Coventor of Texas has ad¬ dressed letters to lh3jGovprnori» and Attorney-Generals of all Southern Slates asking them what date would be most convenient ty, them to at¬ tend a convention to consider.' the, qiieBtipn, of uniform legislation in Opposition to trusts. The residence of Mr. Whitley, the leading dairyman and . truck farmer of Dooly county, was con- sinned by fire Wednesday night, to¬ gether. with, a quantity of milk and butter and. a lacgo'new refrigerator. The loss amounts to £ 1,000 or £1- 200, with £400 insurance.—Ilawk- insviyy, IDispatch,, Mr> rfattie Wvipteii, died at her Iwme, i-(j;vr,To,vi r\<j, on Monday night , of * last week, and her mother, Mrs. Dope, (tied at Towns on the next dgy. Mra. Wooten was about 22 years of age and her mother about 5.2. The funeral services of both occurred Wednesday morning.— Telfair Enterprise. “The Lord has sent me!” quoth the missionary, immediately liq set fyot on the tropip strand. - Here a venerable,savage addressed his fel¬ lows: “Didn’t I tell you. the Lord w.ouldprovide!”bcexclaimcd. Then they fell to ate the missionary and thpii . simple faith was much eon- firmed by the incident. “.It may be an item not generally known,” says the Brunswick Times, “that the United States Supreme Court recently handed down an opinion to the effect that poultry running at largo is wild game, and owners of property on which chick- eps may trespass have a legal right t<? kill them. This is worth making a note of, now that.gardening is in fijll blast.” Charles ..II.. Marks,, while acting in tli® capacity of nurse at the Second Division Hospital of the Fjfth Army Corps at at Santiago de Cuba, used a few bottles of Cham¬ berlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diar rhoea found Remedy for diarrhoea and it to work like a charm. For £ale by Dr. G. II. Macon & Co., Druggists. Miss Harvey Atkinson, daughter of--Mr. Noah Atkinson, was drown- id,' .Wwtial Mr- George Hall, at a pic¬ nic at Snell’s bridge ontheOhoopee river, near Wrightsville, Tuesday. The couple, accompanied by an¬ other young lady, went boating on the river. The boat capsized and only one of the occupants escaped death.—Wiregrass Blade. Last fall I sprained my left hip while- handling some heavy boxes. The doctor I called on said at first it was a slight strain and would soon be well, but it grew worse and the doctor then said I had rheumatism. Ii continued to grow worse and,.I could 1 hardly get around to work. I went to a drug store and the drug¬ gist recommended me to try Cham¬ berlain’s Pain Balm. I tried it and one-half of a 50-cent bottle cured me entirely. I now recommend it to all s*y friends.—F. A. Babcock, Erie, Pa. It is for- sale by Dr, G. Ii.' Macon &«Co., Druggists. 0ur farmers have been very busy fbr- the pact two weeks harvesting their wheat and oats. They report their wheat crop fairly good and the oats that were sown in the fall were very good, but those sown since Christmas were almost an entire failure. Our farmers are beginning to realize more and more the impor¬ tance of raising these crops. There have been more mowers, reapers and binders sold here this year than ever before in one year. A great many farmers are preparing to save more hay this year than heretofore.— Ha wkinsvilie Dispatch. Don’t Bo Moan. A moan iimn in the most hateful creature on the face of the earth, and a Hellish man is mean wherever you find him. One of the host evidences of mean¬ ness is displayed in a man who, when approached by some public spirited citizen for the support of home public enterprise, asks “will cost anything?’’’ He. manifests still a meaner spirit when he tells that citizen who is trying to build up the townnw.d help 1 he very fel¬ low he is talking to, that he does not propose to take, any part in it because somebody is always coming around bogging for something and that lie is continually having to pay put his money to help along seipo- thing he gefs nothing out of. Indeed! what a sorry citizen you are, dear friend. You don’t know where your living comes from. You really don’t know what you do “get anything out of,” as you say. You are too blind am? too narrow to sOe what is helping support your busi¬ ness, build your home yonder, feed and clothe your little children who dignify you with .the fond name of “papa.” You are the biggest fool that walks the sidewalks of your town, and if, you, had your way, there wouldn’t be any sidewalks, because you don’jt get “anything out l,f them.” Yoai don’t see any need in churches,,.’you would close up the schools, annul the statutes, because you don't “get anything out of them.” You don’t see any use in flowers,' yqg would chop them up and plant corn in,,the front yard if your wife should consent because you don’t “get anything out of them. You despise music, you hate books, you won’t read the newspa¬ pers, and this very article which is intended for you will never reach your sordid, shriveled, atomic brain unless your liberal neighbor holds you by your coat lappel and rams it down you because he knows you are such a mean, little man. Don’t you see that the school ed¬ ucates people to build better houses, to raise better crops, to manufacture better goods, to bring more money into your town to help you? Don’t you see that the church cultivates the better side of men to make them kinder, gentler, more charitable, more loving so that everybody may wprk together for good to help you? Don’t you see that the laws are en¬ acted to regulate the relation and conduct of men for your prosperity and protection? Don’t you see that the flowers with their beauty and fragrance are placed on the earth to brighten the spirits of men who are stingy and erabid and mean like you? Don’t you see that sweet music is the greatest balm In God’s realm to soften the raging souls of men and to drive away tiie cares and crosses of a villain like you? Don’t you see your newspaper lending every effort day by day to the advance¬ ment of your community and hardly getting a living out of it all for, your sake? No, you don’t see it, you are too mean, and you never will be any better because you won’t read or listen.—Douglas Breeze. A young fellow’ owed a dollar. He had only seventy-five cents to pay such with, lie went to a pawn¬ broker and pawned the seventy-five Cents for fifty cents, lie then sold the pawn ticket for fifty cents. That gave him one dollar. Ife is said to have paid the debt. Do you think he made off the transaction? Did the pawnbroker lose, or how was it? Take a day off and puzzle over the proposition. It is as sim¬ ple as daylight.—Dalton Citizen. Nervous prostration is a term commonly used to indicate a weak¬ ened and debilitated state of the nervous systeui and a vitiated con¬ dition of the blood. Its symptoms are unusual nervousness, great irri¬ tability, and incapacity for physical or mental labor, and it is caused by errors in diet or hygiene. Dr. J. H. McLean’s Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier is recognized ev¬ erywhere, even by the medical pro¬ fession, as a superior remedy to counteract weakness of this charac¬ ter. Price 50c and .$1 a bottle. For sale by Lake *fc Ashley. “An Ohio man recently hanged himself from the top of a ladder. Thus are wo once more reminded that there is always room at the top.” | ELDER MATTHEW SIKES. “Brushy Crook." Editor Dispatch: Seeing the flaming account of tlm recent sing¬ ing convention at Brushy Greek church leads my mind back to twen¬ ty years ago, when 1 made my first visit to that place. 1 had heard of their fine meetings down there, so I, in company with old brother J. O. Towns, started for the yearly moot¬ ing. The first day’s travel brought us to the home of old father “Arcie” McMillan, where we spent the night pleasantly. I love to think of this good family and their old-fashioned home. A good many of this sort of homes were in Irwin county then, but they arc few now. That coun¬ try lias stepped up on a higher plane —more style and fashion. At this good home I saw five spinning wheels standing on the baekway and was told there were more in the kitchen. After breakfast we all struck out for the church, thirteen miles all on horseback. Old sister McMillan made that trip hack and forth every day on horseback. The congregation was large on Friday and grew larger every day. The richness of this meeting to me will never half be told. Their man¬ ner of worship was plain and un¬ pretending. Their songs were ear¬ nest and spiritual. I thought of its earnestness as when the Apostles taught the people. Elder Young stood as a Monarch among his peo¬ ple—when he stood up the people listened. His regular meetings as¬ sembled the largest crowds of peo¬ ple of any man I ever knew. In fact, he was no ordinary man. His prayers were pathetic and touching, his thoughts deep and profound, his address pleasant and attractive, his manner courteous and kind. To know him was to love him. There had Ju^n a recent associa- tional action, separating this church and some others from the general correspondence, and in those days the action of an association was as the ruling of a Supreme court. Its decision was law to the churches, and this is why Baptists arc now moving every where to either reform or abolish associations. But the as¬ sociation had drawn the dead line between me and these good brethren and I dare not cross it in any official affiliation. This was one of the hard trials of my life. I saw the spirit of Christ there if I ever saw it anywhere. I saw and felt it as plain as Peter did at the house of Cornelius, but 1 must treat them as “the uncircumcised.” Ah, that as- sociational yoke has galled many a neck! And even now, some brethren carry the idea that for an association to drop a church is to make void its official acts thereafter. But this idea is fast dying oat. I wish that Baptists would be governed more by the spirit of Christ than by tradi¬ tional formalism. Before any act of a church or a member is made a test of fellowship that act should be tested—not by custom or tradition, but by the scriptures. The law of God “Is the only rule” in the house of God, and I wish every Baptist in this country would consider this. It is enforcing the laws of men in the house of God that plays havoc with the churches. But I have said so much in this letter that I didn’t aim to say, I will have to leave until next week a good many things 1 did aim to say or make my letter too long. M. Sikes. Mrs. Thomas II. Gaskins left last Saturday night attended by her physician, Dr. P. II. Askew, for Augusta, Ga., where she will submit to a surgical operation for the bene¬ fit of her health. Mrs. Gaskins has been troubled for several months with some dropsical trouble. All that could be done by the local physicians seems of no avail and it was decided last week to have a sur¬ gical operation. Dr. Askew re¬ turned home Wednesday night. Ho states that the operation was entire¬ ly successful and that the patient was doing fine when he left her Wednesday morning, and if no seri¬ ous results set in she will be able to return home in two weeks.—Berrien County News. “The mosquito isn’t the only bore that sings at his work.” uP m WORLD] Knows that the Peerless Remedy for Diseases of the Liver, Kidneys and Bladder is Dr. J. H. loLESi’S AND 1 8 ■ O B It has Cured Tiiousands of Des¬ perate Cases. Try It. PRICE, $t.W) PER BOTTLE. run SALE BY Dr. G. H. Macou & Co., Ocilla, Ga. Religious Notice, Rev. W. W. Stewart will preach in the Methodist church in Ocilla on the second Sunday in each month, morning and evening, and on the fifth Sunday, morning and evening. I will preach at Henderson’s chapel at 11 a. m. on the first Sunday in each month. E. F. Register. The Macon Telegraph says mill men are offering the wheat growers ninety cents a bushel for their wheat. Another offer is to take their wheat, receipt for it and ship them flour as they need it. In Bibb county, the Telegraph says, some yields will reach as high as thirty-fivo bushels per acre. The blue stem variety is the most popular. A young man in one of our elec¬ tric cars observing that a handsome young lady sitting opposite was looking at him very intently, and thinking that he might have im¬ pressed her favorably changed his seat to one by her side and said, “Haven’t I seen you somewhere?” “Well,” she replied, “I am not quite certain, but I think you are the man that stole our spoons.” He left the cars at once.- —Ex. On Tuesday afternoon of last week, Folk Mullis, the eiglit-year- old sen of Mr. J. Iv. I’. Mullis, who lives about eight miles from East¬ man, on the Dublin road, took the family horse as usual and went to drive up the cattle. In the drove was a Jersey bull which had never before given trouble, but when in the lane near the cow pen he vic¬ iously attacked the horse, and get¬ ting him hemmed in by the fence, gored him completely to death. The little hoy jumped off on the opposite side from the bull and es¬ caped unhurt.—Eastman Times. Joe Lee, the Chinaman who came to this city several years ago and who has been running a shop on Savannah avenue, was married last night to Georgia Thomas, a negro girl, the ceremony being performed by Judge Tom Cook, who, before agreeing to tie the knot, consulted some of the lawyers and satisfied himself that such a marriage was not illegal. To a Times reporter, Joe appeared timid on the subject of his marriage, but finally said: “Melican girl no mally Chinaman; I mally finest cullud girl in town— she a good girl.” Then after a pause, he added, “She sho’ is.”— Valdosta Times. Brave Men Fall Victims to stomach, liver and kid¬ ney troubles as well as women, and all feel the results in loss of appe¬ tite, poisons iu the blood, backache, nervousness, headache and tired, listless, run-down feeling. But there’s no need to feel like that. Liston to J. W. Gardner, Idaville, Ind. Ho says: “Electric Bitters are just the things for a man when he is till run down, and don’t care whether he lives or dies. It did more to give me new strength and good appetite than anything I could take. I can now eat anything and have a new lease on life.” Only 50 cents, at Dr. G. H. Macon & Go’s Drug Store. Every bottle guarantee). “The man who thinks he can make a success of anything he un¬ dertakes is apt to he an unsuccess¬ ful thinker.” FOURTH STREET DRUG STORE. NEW FIRM! NEW GOODS! NEW PRIQESI Dr. G. H. Macon & Co.„ ____<>|>BNF.1> A NfifV AM) FIRST ('LASS -— — DRUG STORE AT----- OCILLA, GEORGIA* Tlieir store is ologiintly.flttod and furnished and their stock new, fresh and of tin? nest quality, it consists of Pure Drugs, Chemicals, Standand Patent. Medicines, Per turnery. Fancy Goods and Toilet Articles, -THE FINEST 5c. CICrAK, IN THE MARKET.- STATION FJIY,. Writing Paper, and Envelopes, Plain and Fancy Hexed Stationery. Writing Tablets,, Pencil Tablets, Pen Holders, Pencils, Mucilage,. Writing Inks,.Fine Pens. They make a specialty Family oi Recipes. Compounding Physician's Prescriptions and CC3.I,L -fl-ITD SEE THEM:.. You i, re invite-i to roll-ami Inspect their stock. Tiny will U>,pttei*u0'to Make your ac- quaint,:i'ire mill will trout you courteously whether you wish to pure huso or not. Your pat- rtmaso is always appreciated, no matter now small your puri.-husns you may rest assured it. will be our constant aim to sell you the best goads that can he obtained and at reasonable prices. IG6 Goirt Soda Water, Milk Sliakes and Goco Gola. 2-3-tf J. i. HARPER. L. B. TUCKER,, HARPER & TUCKER, DEALERS IN OCILLA, GEORGIA. w E beg to announce to our friends and tha public generally in this and adjoining counties that we are prepared to supply their wonts in all the lines montiotied below: DRY GOODS, DRESS GOODS, READY-IMAGE CLOTHING, LADIES’, GENTS’ AND CHILDREN’S SHOES, NOTIONS, ETC., FAMILY GROCERIES Of all kinds, fresh and good. Tobacco, Cigars and Snuff, big stock to select from. Farming and Gardening Implements. In fact, we have at large and varied stock of goods suited to the wants of the people of this section and we are selling them at live and let live prices. 7-2-tf HARPER. & TUCKER, TIFTON SOUTHEASTERN R. R. -aoiniEES' cox.oitT'sr na.'cr’X'E-" LOCAL TIME TABLE No. I* It. H. TIFT, President. W. <). TIFT, Vlce-PivBidtwt. Gkxkuai* Offices: Tiftojt, Gkokgia. No. 7. No. 8. No. 1. P. M. > I.EAVK. Altai VK. P. M. F. M. P. M, 3 10 cc cc 0 .......Tifton, Ga.......... 25 12 15 ti 25 R 10 3 22 o; oc 15 5 f. ......Hrishton, Ga......... 20 12 00 6 10 5 S6 8 SO cc oe 8 f.... ......Harding, Ua......... 17 11 51 C 01 l5 45 3 50 o: ao 45 14 f .......Pint-Ua, Ga......... 11 11 St 5 41 5 20 3 55 w ?c 01 it; ............Mystic, Ga.......... 9 11 2.5 5 35 5 23 4 (Si rg c© 1 .'. 20 f..........Fletcher, Ga......... 5 11 14 5 23 5 12 4 20 so SO 25 ..........Fitzgerald, Ga. 0 11 0(1 5 10 5 00 A KIUVE, A. M. Trains Nos. t, 2, 3 and 4 run daily, except Sunday. Trains Nos, 7 and 8 run on Sunday only. (f) Flag Station. Trains stop only on signal. All trains make connection with the Plant System and Georgia Southern & Florida at Tifton, and the Georgia & Alabama at Fitzgerald. F.. P.oATitiGHT,’Traffic Manage tv. 1 is I i mg mm ms -sS HMp) IIP I Ii M I - ’ Ii ■ V v, a u P'.s m 'p.ff m tea m I ^Siisip I are recognized the world over as representing the highest type of excellence in bicycle construction. j; 1899 Models $50.00 and S35.0Q, Send for IS99 Catalogue. Agents wanted In open territory MONARCH CYCLE MFG. Chicago. CO.» Lake, Halsted & Fulton Streets, Branches—NEW YORK, LONDON. HAMBURG. Send 20 cents in stamps foya dock of Monarch Playing C a r < Is, Uln^trut i m? Jossill. Bartlett “ALL ROADS ARE ALIKE TO A MONARCH.” Pines? Effective December 19,1897. hi“? No. 2. No. 4. No. S.