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Boiled Down and Dished Up
Albany has quarantined against
Richland, on account of the small
pox (?) scare.
Mr, F. II, Taylor, Wilcox’s pop¬
ular and efficient surveyor, was in
the city Sunday.—Rochelle New
Era.
What you want is not temporary
relief from piles but a cure to stay
cured. DeWitt’s Witch Hazel
Salve cures piles, and they stay
they stay cured. R. B. Allen, & Co.,
Oeilla, Ga.
The enforcement of tho law can
neither fall far beklad fear ad vase*
far ahead of public sentiment.—
Montgomery Monitor.
The HelevrskHustler, with Mr. I).
II. McIntosh as editor and proprie¬
tor, has made its appearance. It is
a neat and 1 well edited sheet and we
wish it success.
J. A. Schear, of Sed&^ia, Mo.
saved his child from death by croup
by using One Minute Cough Cure.
It cures coughs, colds, pneumonia,
lagrippe and all throat and lung
troubles. R. B. Allen & Co., Oeilla,
Ga.
We are reqpestted to state, that
there will be all-day singing at
Pleasant Grove church on the first
Sunday in November.—Rochelle
New Era.
There is a w«maniin New Jersey
who is the second wife of her hus¬
band, and employs his first divorced
wife as her cook. Such an exhibi¬
tion of bravery is seldom equaled.
What is Kodol Dyspepsia Cure?
It is the newly discovered remedy,
the most effective preparation ever
devised for aiding the digestive and
assimilation of food, and restoring-
the deranged digestive organs to a
natural oonditiou. It is a discovery
surpassing anything yet known to
the medical profession. R. B.
Allen & Co., Oeilla, Ga.
Col. A. L. Hawes, of Bainbridge,
is out again, having recovered from
the wound in the head inflicted by
a son of Capt. Hammond, in Thomas¬
ville, a few weeks ago.
We are told that Mr. W. II.
Culpepper who has about 250 bens
is getting about’fifteen dozen eggs
a day. The eggs are quoted at 18
cents a dozen in Savannah—Camil-
la Clarion.
Why experiment on yourself with
remedies of doubtful utility when
you can get Chamberlain’s Cough
Remedy, which has stood the test of
time? Twenty-five years’ sale and
use hae proven that remedy to be a
prompt and certain cure for colds.
It will cure a cold in a day if taken
as soon as the cold has been con¬
tracted and before it has settled in
ihe system. Sold by Dr. G. H.
Macon & Co., Druggist.
Most of a woman’s troubles are
in keeping her skirt just right.
When sbe is out for a walk she is
all the time holding it np, while in
the sitting room she is continually
pulling it down.—Moultrie Obser¬
ver.
Douglas wants the state legisla¬
ture to give it more light and water,
while Willachoochee asks lor red
liquor. If the two could get what
they want combined, and put up a
sugar refinery in their midst, the
result would make a fine toddy.—
Tifton Gazette.
During the whiter of 1867, Mr.
James Reed, one of the leading
citizens and merchants of Clay,
Clay Go., W. Va., struck his leg
against a cake of ice in such a man¬
ner as to bruise it severely. It
became very much swollen and
pained him so badly that he could
not walk without the aid of crutch¬
es. He was treated by physicians,
algo used several K—' ‘
.
is ill ment
and two and a half gallons of
whisky in bathing it, but nothing
gave any relief until he began using
Chamberlain's Bain Balm. This
brought almost a complete euro in
Week’s time and he believes that
had he not used this remedy his leg
would have hud to be amputated.
Pain Balm is tinequnled for sprains,
bruises and rheumatism. For sale
by Dr. G. Jtf. Maeon k Co., drug¬
gists.
Milas Williams, was adjudged in-
sane Tuesday at Abbeville and car¬
ried to the asylum by Sheriff
Gibbs. This makes the seventh
person carried from «ki„ W ilcox county
;to the asylum this year two whites
and five colored.—Rochtflle Kew
Era.
A Trip Through North West Irwin
and South West Wilcox.
A few days ago the writer start¬
ed on a trip through north west
Irwin and south west Wilcox, a
section of the country once familiar
to us, though not being through
there for the last eight years, we
found everything changed to such
an extent that we were at a loss
near the entire trip. Hundreds of
acres that were then pine forest are
now glowing fields of corn, cotton,
sugar cane, etc. We met a few of
our old time friends and many
strangers, In speaking of the great
changes we- were asked what the vot¬
ing population of Irwin was ten
years ago. We tokl them about eight
hundred. Then they asked what it
would be ten yeans from this date.
Our answer was,, about ten thous¬
and, at the rate it has increased for
the last ten years, and that seventy-
five per cent, of them would he
white industrious, intelligent, thrif¬
ty farmers. Mark our prediction.
We found tho corn crop of the
whole section the best for years,
cotton about two-thirds of a crop,
sugar cane and rice somewhat cut
oil by the late drouth, sweet pota¬
toes fairly good.
We passed the farms of the
Walkers, Averys Basses, Newtons,
Covingtons, Whiddons, and others,
of Irwin county, who seemed to be
prosperous and Jiappy, every one
remarking: “I have made a plenty
to live on another year.” At Aunt
Mary Henderson’s, the uncle Nas
Henderson old farm, we struck the
old Iiawkineville and Thomasville
road, a road we traveled in 1857
when moving to this section from
upper middle Georgia. It was along
said road that we saw our.first wire-
grass. While traveling this road
our mind went back to our youth¬
ful days, when the country was so
thinly settled that people living
twelve or fifteen miles a part were
considered close neighbors. The
country then abounded in deer and
turkey and all other kinds of game,
and when one neighbor visited
another he always carried him a
venison that he killed on the way,
as a token of good friendship. The
gun used in those days was the old
flint and steel rifle. A man with
niswl about bis person would
have been considered a black leg
and would have no more been ad-
mitted in society than a bear.
While meditating upon all these
things, our mind went back to the
old land-marks of that section,
to-wit, the Walkers, Clements,
Whiddons, Hendersons, and others,
who have all passed over the river,
and we who were then the youth of
the land, are now the old men and
women. By tliis time we had
reached Wilcox county, where we
began passing the farms of the
Pates, Spradleys, Raineys, and
others, who are all thrifty farmers,
like their neighbors in Irwin.
About three o’clock p. m. we ar¬
rived at the home of Mr.
I). L. Rainey, where we were made
more than welcome, and, after be¬
ing insisted upon just a little, we
consented to spend the remainder
of the day and that night with him.
After resting a while, we visited the
town of Amboy, a station on the
Worth and Pitts railroad, consisting
of one store, postoffice, warehouse
and ginnery, all presided over by
Mr. E. J. Story.
Mr. Rainey is one of the most
thrifty fanners of his part of the
county. We were shown his corn
cribs, two of which we found filled
to the roof with corn, and
odd head of large fat hogs for this I
winter’s slaughter. took|
Early in the Jn6 ruing we
leave of on" boat and traveled in an
easterly direction through a good
section of the country, arriving at
the home of our friend, J. B. j
Smith, where we were kindly re-
ceived and taken dinner. Every¬
thing seemed to lie in a prosperous
condition around Mr. Smith’s,
After spending a few pleasant hours
witk our friend, and especialy our
old friend and comrade* Rev. Law-
son Smith, an old one-leged Con¬
federate soldier, who left a leg in
Northern Virginia in the sixties,
and receiving a few new subscribers
for the Dispatch, we took Oeilla leave ‘and of
our host and started for
hdme, which place We arrived at
about sun down, feeling that it is
good £ to take an outing 4 among the
farmefg occasi lly . arc
now k ac k ^ - our sanctum, at the
routine 'duties of aft humble
M.
Going Back to tho Farms.
‘‘Did you ever notice how many
farmers have quit their homes in
recent years and moved to town?”
remarked a gentleman on the street
corner yesterday.
“I have not only noticed that,”
replied a companion, “hut I have
also noticed that a great many are
more anxious to get back than they
were to come away from thu farm,
A once well-to-do farmer came to
me yesterday and asked if I could
tell him where to find a job. lie
said he had been in town nearly a
year and in all that lime 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 children he decided
that the country was no place for
them, and lie determined to move
to town and give them the advan¬
tages of good schools. But when
he got here he found nothing to do.
A number of his neighbors bad 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 in 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 their families
as best they could by running board¬
ing houses.
“My friend volunteered the in¬
formation that he was going back
to the farm as soon as he could.
He said he had rented for the year,
and could not get away at once,
but be declared if he ever again got
fixed on his farm he’d never leave.
He thought it would be far better
next time to employ a governess for
his children rather than break up
and come away from the best life a
man can live. I expect from now
on to see an exodus from the towns
aud cities to the farms rather than
from the farms to the cities.”—
Macon Telegraph.
On the 10th of December, 1897,
Rev. S. A. Douahoe, pastof M- E
church, south, Pt. Pleasant W. Va.,
contracted a severe cold which was
attended f?om the beginning by
violent coughing, lie says: “After
test) rung tp a number of so-called
‘specifics,’ usually kept in the bouse,
to no purpose, I purchased a bottle
of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy,
which acted like a charm. I most
cheerfully reemmend it to the
public.” For sale by Dr. G. II.
Macon & Co., druggist.
Are You One of Them?
The following from the Amerieus
Times-Recorder illustrates well the
contempt in which an editor holds
one of the class mentioned. It
says:
“No honest man or woman who
ever intends to pay their subscrip¬
tion will take offense at a respect¬
ful request for the mouev they owe
a newspaper. To refuse to take the
paper out of the postoffice because
you are notified to pay up after
getting it for one year or more on
a credit is a species of meanness un¬
worthy of any reputable citizen.
Thanks to a kindly fate we haven’t
got many such on our list.”
DeWitt’s Little Early Risers acts
as a faultless pill should, cleans¬
ing and reviving the system instead
o f weakening it. They are inild
and sure, small and pleasant to
e > an ^ entirely free from objec-
U° lia ^ e drugs. 1 hev assist rather
compel. R. B. Allen & Co.,
0cllla ’ Ga<
On raising big melons this year,
Lake Park, swept the field, Out
0 f a dozen prizes offered for the
j ar g e8 t melons Lake Park got eleven
of them, while one went to Wilcox
county. The first seven prizes went
to Lake Park, the eighth to Abbe-
ville and the others to Lake Park,
The winners at Lake Park were W.
R. Manning, and Messes. Lliers and
Zeigler. The melons ranged from
110 to 150 pounds each.—Valdosta
Times.
W. M. Gallagher, of Bryan, Pa.,
says 1 : “For forty years I have tried
! Various bough medicines. One Miu-
ute Cough Cure is best of ad.” It -
relieves instantly and cures all
throat and lung troubles.* R. B.
! Allen, & Co., Oeilla, Ga.
Does It Pay?
W. P. Walker, of this county,
who won the first prize in the
Macon Telegraph’s wheat contest,
has given his method in preparing
the soil, the kind of fertilizers used,
and time of seeding. The paper is
pronounced by the Telegraph the
most valuable contribution that lias
been given to the press in many
years, and we have been laying off
to reproduce it for some time past,
but find we will not have space,
so condense the important points,
Mr- Walker prefers to sow just
after the first freeze or killing frost
! in November. If the wheat be sown
in October it is more liable to be
killed in the early spring, He fob
lows cotton with wheat. If the
stalks be large, be runs a drag over
them and then plows them up with
a scooter. Does not remove the
stalks from the plat. His practice
is to broadcast all fertilizers. Stable
manure in cases where cotton seed
meal and hulls have been fed, is ks
good as the best. He does not use
commercial fertilizers. He regards
acid phosphate and cotton seed meal
—two of acid to one of meal—most
excellent.
Grows the purple straw variety,
and is very careful in the selection
of seed. As a preventive of smut,
he puts one quarter of a pound of
pulverized bluestone into a gallon
of boiling water. Stirs till the blue-
stone is dissolved; then pours the
mixture over a bushel of wheat,
stirring till every grain is wet.
T his he follows an with application
of slacked lime till every grain is to
itself. Ilis rule is to sow the wheat
upon the fertilizer, turning under
with a common turn plow. This
covers seed to the depth of three or
four inches. He then brushes the
ground as level as possible. Last
year he raised 350 bushels of wheat,
valued at $350; 12 tons of straw,
$72; 14 tons of hay, $140—making
a total of $562. The expenses were:
Seed wheat $14, preparing land, $7 ;
commercial fertilizer, $17,60; barn¬
yard manure $52,50; harvesting,
$10; threshing $35—a total of $136.
leaving $426 to represent the
its of one months’ work and eleven
months’ patient
News.
Uistnark’s Iron Nerve
Was the result of his splendid ,
health. Indomitable will and tre !
mendous energy are not found
where Stomach, Liver, Kidneys, and |
Bowels are out of otder. If yon
want these qualities aud the suc¬
cess they briug, use Dr. King’s New
Life Pills. They develope every
power of brain aud body. Only
25c at Dr. G. H. Mac on & Co.
Druggist.
Eld John Hendry, who has been
serving the Moultrie Methodist
church in the absence of pastor Badd
is one of the oldest men in this
section of Georgia and is probably
the best preserved man to his age
m the state. Though seventy-eight
years old, he reads his texts and
lines out the hymn’s without glass¬
es, and preaches with the ability of
a young man. His bearing is un¬
impaired, while his hands are
steady almost as when he was a
boy. He carries himself erect and
walks with a firm step. His mind
is nimble and his memory is in per¬
fect tact. He has lived at his pres¬
ent home near Morven in Brooks
county for seventy years, and has
all the prominent men and impor¬
tant events of this time well in
mind. He is most interesting
talker, since he is a living, walking
history. Nearly his whole life has
been given in the service of God.
He began preaching in 1842 and for
the last 57 years has preached con¬
stantly. He can today preach a
sermon that is hard to duplicate by
the young college bred preachers of
this day.—Moultrie Observer. 1 hat’s
all true; and our good old friend is
one of the staunchest democrats that
ever lived, Go l’s choicest bless-
ings rest upon such men.
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