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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. &SI ANTED—SEVERAL BRIGHT AND HON- wS est parson, close to by represent bounties. us Salary as .liaiiaKcrs &KK) in this ami Uma-iide, a year and expenses. Straight, Position no more, no less salary. town. permanent. It is Our references, any bank in any mainly offloc work self-addrussed conducted at homo References. 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