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VOL VIII
QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
Commmissioncr Nesbitt’s In
quiry Box For the Month.
UUOn INFORMATION FURNISHED.
I'inman.l Otlw-r Ingr.'iUcnt* In Hnrdiroorl
mul Wlmt Tlmy a r « Worth How to
Hnrn n Kiln of I.inn- t., I!f r-«,l on the
I Hrin ns i\ FertllUnr-IL. Iwonil Saw
«luit lor \onti}( Fruit Trre», Itc.
Qitrhtion I.—[ have abundance of
corn ami moat to mulct! a cheap cotton
crop. Would you advi> ■mo to i:i'-r-a: o
rtiy acreage of cotton ? Yeti or no, and
Hive your reasons.
As'swku I. —My candid opinion of
nny man that wants to increase his
acreage of cotton at thistimo is, that he
is vory deficient in business judgment.
Too much cotton was planted in the
Houth last year, and had the sea; »ns
be 'ii suitable, tlio crop would have
reached 8,500,000 or 0,000,000 tales, and
d cents would have be-n the ruling
price for it. There is a disposition
among individual farmers to increase
thoir acreage in cotton on the ground
-—♦hue there will boa reduced acreage
planted and they will benefit by it. My
friend, this theory carried out by all
the farmers—and very many of them
entertain if, would result in the hugest
onip and the 1 >wcst price in the past
80 years. Contrast the condition of the
state at this time with its condition a
year ago. Note how much better con
tented and happier the farmers are, and
remember that the change was brought
about by reducing the cotton acreage,
and increasing the acreage of all food
crops, resulting in a fair price for cot
ton, mid bountiful provision crops of all
kinds. If we are to continue on this
road to prosperity, abundance and hap
piness, we must still reduce the cotton
acreage, and increase that of the provi
sion crops. If you want to return to
5 cent cotton, scarce corn, debt, dan
ger and destruction financially, the
surest anil quickest way is to increase
the cotton acreage, and 1:1 months or
less will suffice to put you there.
There has nevor been a time in tho
history of eottou culture, when a small
r -rouge was so essential to tlio prosper
ity of the south as tho present.
Tho cotton states need large provision
crops of all kinds and 10 cent cotton,
mid both can be hud by reducing, not
the acreage in cotton.
an, our condition next
fall with a KIOOO.OOO bule crop nqido,
corn mul meat scarce, and a war with
England on our hands! Your entire
cotton crop would not probably, in such
a case, pay your guano bills. On the
other hnud, imagine our couutiy over
flowing with provisions of all kinds,
with a 7,000,000 bale crop of cotton
made; then war or no war, we could
get along first, rate, and in the event
that the world was at. ponce, our cotton
would certainly bring 10 cents a pound.
No farmer need flutter himself that ho
can steal a march on his neighbors by
planting a big crop of cotton, while
everyone else reduces thoir acreage. If
it is in your mind to do this, you can
rest assured that it is in the minds of
thousands of others to do the same
thing. Consequently, to attain the de
sired result, each man must do what ho
knows to be right in the premises, and
tho outcome will then be assured pros
perity for himself and the state.
(Question 3.—Would you advise one
who is just beginning, to farm on tho in
tensive plan or in the manner usually
practiced ? Which would be the most
profitable and satisfactory?
Answer 2.— This subject has been so
fully discussed in the agricultural pa
pers that every farmer should be famil
iar with it. As yet. however, very few
work their land on the intensive sys
tem, though obliged to admit that theory
and practice are both in its favor. By
intensive-farming is simply meant bet
ter preparation of the soil, heavier fer
tilizing and faster working of the crop
when up. There is no question what
ever, and absolutely no doubt, that if
you will subsoil ton acres of land, put
upon it tho manure that you would or
dinarily put upon 20 acres, and culti
vate the crop twice as often as you would
the 20 acres, then the ten acres so
treated will produce as much as the 20
acres, as usually prepared and culti
vated. The above statement is an ax
iom that does not admit of dispute, and
ron and every other farmer in the state
can demonstrate the fact for yourselves.
If you are afraid to test it on a large
scale, try it on two or three acres in any
crop you please and I venture you will
thou be convinced. If then you admit
that my statement is correct, the ad
vantages of the intensive system will
at once present themselves to yon. Yon
can leave out half the land you have
been cultivating, letting it rest, or you
c;ui put it in oats to be followotl by peas,
thus getting it in good shape for an
other year. You will bo rid of half the
labor of hoeing, and you will be im
proving your land year by year, instead
of wearing it a*'* These would be tho
advantages gained Jp Jthe intensive sys
tem of farming, and it seems to me
they are sufficient to induce every
farmer to try tho plan. The profit and
satisfaction of 6uch farming would
naturally follow from the advantages
ga ; 'nd over the ordinary system pur
sued.
As you are a beginuer, take my ad-
THE CHATTOOGA NEWB.
▼Do, avoid the old ruts, and common?*
your farm life aright, keeping abreesfc
with all the improvements, that mod
ern thought and science and experi
ments hay developed, and my word for
it, you will find the occupation of farm
ing not only healthful and attractive
but profitable as well. Tho old order of
things ha; passed away. It is.no longer
p , ssi Ido to take a few crops from a farm
of virgin soil, and thou leaving it
scarred and eroded and almost ruined,
move further west to repeat the same
process on ot her soil. It is our interest,
therefore, to improve and not wear out
our farms, and this can lies', bo done by
adopting improvements in preparing
our land and cultivating our crops, in
other words, by intensive farming.
There are millions of acres in the old
countries of Europe, that after hun
dreds of years of cultivation, are better
today than when the original forest
growth was first cut cut from them,
while in this now country it would he
difficult to find many acres of farmland
as good as when first cleared, while mil
lions of acres have been rendered almost
worthless by careless cultivation. Let
us not forgot that our descendants must
look for a support to the same lands
that we are now cultivating, and that
therefore it is our duty, and should be
our pleasure, to preservo and improve
them. This cannot be done by the old
plan of shallow plowing over a large
area, putting the soil in the best possible
condition to be washed away by every
htpvy rain, but it can bo done and with
profit to ourselves by the intensive plan
of farming.
THE POSSIBILITIES OP OOP. SOIL.
But few of our farmers are aware of
the immense productiveness of the soil
when thoroughly prepared, highly fer
tilized and well worked. To encourage
and stimulate intensive farming, tlio
Weekly Atlanta Constitution last spring
offered a premium of SIOO an acre for
the best results from an acre each of
corn, cotton, sweet potatoes, water
melons and tdbacco. The following
farmers took the premiums offered:
For tlio best acre of cotton: Mr. W.
G. Cross of Bibb county, Ga., for 7,089
pounds of seed cotton, raised and gath
ered at an expense of $52.20.
For tho best acre of corn: Mr. G. B.
Crenshaw of Newborn, Ga., for 1761 N
bushels, raised at an expense of $9.70.
For,’tho best aero of watermelons: Mr.
V. Green of Wolf City, Tex., raised
1,198 large melons at a cost of $50.90.
For the host aero of tobacco: Mr. J.
S. DeJ'arnotte of South Fork, Ark., for
1,052 pounds of fine tobacco, raised at
an expense of $13.25.
For tho host aero of sweet potatoes:
Mr. W. S. Dill of Sandy Flat, S. C.,
529 b, bushels, raised at an expense of
$24.80.
There were some 80 or 40 contestants,
all of whom made excellent crops, but
those above mentioned were the best.
Now, in view of such results as these,
why will farmers persist in cultivating
12 to 15 acres to make live bales of cot
ton, when tlio same amount can be
made on two, or certainly three acres of
land, with much less labor, too, in the
hot summer weather. If Mr. Dill of
Sandy Flat, S. C., can make 529L J /
bushels of potatoes, then I am sure any
good farmer in Georgia can make some
where in that neighborhood. Let us
aim to diminish the number of acres
that we cultivate, but at the same time
increase our crops.
This can only he done by thorough
preparation of the land and judicious
manuring, combined with good cultiva
tion after the crops are up. Let ns not
strive to pnt in a large acreage to tho
plow, but confine our efforts to a smaller
acreage, better prepared, better fertilized
and better cultivated.
By this course, while our crops will
be increased, the cost of making them
will be diminished, and we will have
more land to devote to pasturage and
the raising of stock. It should be the
aim of every farmer to so manage his
lend, that year by year its fertility
would ho increased and not diminished
as is usually iho case.
Question 3. —Will the cotton acreage
bo increased, and why do you oppose it?
Answer 3.—As Commissioner of Ag
riculture I am in a position to know hot
ter than any other man in the state,
your prospective plans, and as your di
rect representative in the state govern
ment, I deem it my duty to warn you
against increasing the acreage in cotton.
The signs all point to this intention.
The sale of mules throughout this and
adjoining states, is much larger than
for some years past, and tho soles of fer
tilizer tags from this office, are almost
double what they wore, at this time last
year.
These facts and others that have
come to my knowledge, indicate with
certainty y. nr intention to increase the
acreage in cotton, and I want to warn
you while it is not too late, of the dan
ger of such action. I have been a
farmer all my life, am one still, and ex
poor t o continue in the same occupation
while 1 live; therefore I can write to
yon with a full understanding of your
needs and desires, and in entire sympa
thy with you in every respect. You all
know that in 1594 with a 10,000.000 bale
crop, our cotton was sold at from 4 to
5 cents a pound. You know also that
with a crop of about 7,000,000 bales in
1895 we sold our cotton at from 7 to 9
cents a pound, and it would have sold
for a still better price, but for the large
surplus left on hand by the enormous
crop of the previous year. Now like
causes will always produce like re
sults, and therefore, as surely a3 the
sun rises and sets, jnst so surely will a
10,000,000 bale crop of cotton for 1690
result in the ruinous price of 4 to 5 cents
a pound, whi>; on the other hand, a
crop of 7,000,000 bales, following the
present crop of about the same size, will
■ just as surely result in a price of 8 to 10
j cents, or perhaps more, per pound.
If you are working a 1-horse farm,
would you prefer to have at the end of
the year a scant supply of corn, potatoes,
syrup, meat, etc., with ten bales of cot
ton worth $250, or would you prefer to
have plenty of all kinds of provisions, a
bountiful supply of meat and seven
bales of cotton, worth from S3OO t 05350?
It should not take you long to make a
choice between these two propositions.
The first stands for increased cotton
j acreage, the last for restricted cotton
| acreage.
Again, look at the quotations now i:i
i tho New York market and you will
find October and November cotton fu
tures at least half a cent a pound below
prices for February or March. There
is no reason on earth for this, except
that the speculators have already made
up their minds that yon are bent on
planting a large cotton crop, and they
are forcing down the price in anticipa
tion of a big yield.
On the other hand, could it be posi
tively known that the next crop would
not exceed 7,000,000 bales, cotton would
today be bringing from 1 to 2 cents a
pound more tiiau at present, and the
quotations for next fall and winter
months would be still higher. If one
year of bountiful provision crops, with
a moderate cotton crop, brought com
parative prosperity to the farmers of our
state, which you will all admit is a fact,
what would be the result of ten years’
farming on the same plan? Why, my
friends, we would be the most prosper
ous and therefore the best contented
farming community in the world, and
our lands would sell for twice or three
times as much as they do now.
While then so near prosperity, let me
urge upon you, not to hinder our ad
vance by any acts of your own. Let us
not throw away the substance by grasp
ing at the shadow, (as did the dog in
tho fable, who, when crossing the brook
on a log, with a hone in his mouth,
dropped the bone to grasp at the shadow
on the water) lest Jike the dog we lose
the bone and fail to catch the shadow.
Let us press on in the way we marked
out last year. Let ns plant corn, oats,
potatoes, peas, sorghum and sugarcane
in sufficient quantities to insure us an
abundant supply, even though we
should have poor seasons. Let us raise
oven more hogs, cattle and horses than
wo did in 1895. This way and this way
only leads to prosperity and independ
ence.
Question 4. —Please tell me how to
improve my land so that it will become
more and more productive.
Answer 4. The suggestions from
this department upon this subject are
intended, of course, for the averago
farmer of the state who has no money
to throw away or to risk upon costly ex
periments, but who wants information
obtained from the experience of others
which can be put into practice cheaply
and effectively.
There are practically but two ways
of improving the soil.
1. Mechanically.—Draining, subsoil
ing, etc.
2. Chemically.—Adding plant food to
the soil in any manner whatever.
3. Every intelligent man knows
some of the advantages of drain
age; it makes the soil Warmer; it
keeps the plant food from becom
ing too diluted and leaves it in a
proper form for absorption by the plant;
it permits free access of air to the roots
i of plants; it hirings about a decomposi
tion of organic matter and prevents the
formation of hurtful acids. Therefore,
as one step towards improving the land,
drain all your wet lands where they ad
j mit of it. This can be done cheaply by
covered ditches properly located with
ten or 12 inches of rocks at the bottom,
, or if rocks are not convenient, pine poles
from four to six inches in diameter and
with the bark off will answer almost
as well. With the low places drained,
then comes deep plowing and subsoiling
for the higher land, which will enable
it to hold the surplus water of heavy
rains without washing and permit the
roots of plants to run down deeper in
search of food. Your low lands being
drained and your uplands subsoiled,
you have done about all that you can
do for the mechanical improvement of
your land. Os course all lands with any
inclination to wash must be terraced, for
no depth ot subsoiliug will alone pi-event
washing of the soil during very heavy
rains.
To chemically improve the land,
there must be returned to the soil more
plant food than is taken away by the
annual crops.
To do this the farmer must bend all
his energies to the making of manure
in his stables and lots; he must haul
muck from the swamps and leaves front
the woods, with which to bed his stock
of every kind, removing and renewing
the bedding as often as necessary; he
must keep his cottonseed or exchange
them for cottonseed meal, which, with
acid phosphate and stable manure, he
must use in making a compost. This
compost should be applied liberally,
either broadcast or in the drill, and if
not enough to manure all _ the crops,
should be supplemented with sufficient
commercial fertilizers for that purpose.
In addition to this all small gram
crops as soon as taken off the land must
be followed by peas sowed broadcast,
and all land in corn must be sowed in
peas at the last plowing.
By these simple and inexpensive
means, with a common sense rotation of
crops, the fertility of the average Geor
gia farm, can not only be maintained
i but increased. ' 4
SUMMERVILLE. CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, Fi.B.»URAI' o, 1896
A OURAB r E DISEASE.
Chronic Catarrh is Pronouced
Curable b;y Dr. Hartman.
There aro an almost countless
: number ol remedies said to cure
chronic catarrh. The most of these
are of no use whatever, and many
worse than useless, being actually
harmful. A few are successful in
a small number of cases—those
which are very slight and easily
.urahie—cases which might al
most might get well by simply ta
king care not to catch cold again.
But of all of this vast multitude of
medicines it cannot be said that
there are more than two or three
which aro actually specifics, and
without doubt the most reliable is
Pe-ru-na. It always cures when
it is faitfully and conscientiously
used. It nut only cures catarrh
of the head and throat, but cat
arrh of the stomach, liver, bowels*
lungs, bronchial tubes, kidneys,
and in fact any of the organs of
tho human body. It is indeed a
dreadful case of ctitarrh, wherever
located, that Pe-ru-na can not cure
ur at least greatly help. It may
be procured at all the drug stores,
and it should be given a faithful
trial by those who have tried in
vain elsewhere to get relief.
A book on catarrh and catar
rhal diseases of 64 instructively il
lustrated pages will be sent free to
any address by The Pe-ru-na Drug
Manufacturing Company of Col
umbus, Ohio.
Threw Away His Canes.
Mr. D. Wiley, ex-postmaster,
Black Creek, N. Y., was so badly
afflicted with rheumatism that he
was only able to hobble around
w,ith canes, and even then it caused
him great, pain. After using Cham
berlain's Pain Balm lie was so much
improved that he threw away his
canes. He says this liniment did
him more good than all other med
icines and treatment put together.
For sale at 50 cents per bottle by
all druggists.
Editor Mclntosh, of the Albany
Herald, puts it this way to South
west Georgia farmers:
“i’he way to boom cotton prices
is to cut cotton acreage. Paradox
ical as it may appear, the less cot
ton the Southern farmers make the
more money they will get for it.”
Simon S. Hartman, of Tunnel
ton, West Ya., has been subject to
attacks of colic about once a year,
and would have to call a doctor
and then suffer for about twelve
hours as much as some do when
they die. He was taken recently
jnst the same as at other times,
and concluded to try Chamber
lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy. He says: “I took one
dose of it and it gave mo relief in
| five minutes. That is more than
anything else has ever Done f or
me.” For sale by all druggists.
The commissioners of Etowah
county have purchased a farm near
Gadsden for the purpose of keep
| ing the paupers upon the same and
: they will also build a stockade and
keep the county convicts m and
i work them upon the public roads
The little daughter of Mr. Fred
Webber, Holland, Mass , had a very
bad cold and cough which he had
not been- able to cure with any
thing. I gave him a2scent bottle
of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy,
says W. F. Holden, merchant and
postmaster at West Brimfield, and
1 t'le next time I saw him he said it
worked like a charm. This remedy
is intended especially for acute
throat and lung diseases such as
colds, croup and whooping cough,
and it is famous for its cures-
There is no danger in giving it to
children for it contain? nothing
injurious. For sale by all drug
gists.
Sheriff Latham, of Bibb county,
and posse of four deputies 6hot
and fatally wounded Elisha
Thrasher, the 20-year old brother
of Outlaw’ Bart Thrasher, near Big
Spriugs. in Bibb county, Tuesday.
The Cherokee county farmers
alliance will hold a two days ses
sion in Centre, on the 7th and Bth
|of February.
Common School Teachers Exami
nation Dec. 6th 1895.
(The conductor will dictate the
following twenty words to all ap
plicants, and require this part of
the examination completed in the
time stated above.)
1, hygiene, 2, diagonal, 3, occur
rence, 4, ambiguous, 5, gratuity,
6, classical, 7, deleble, 8, indelible,
9, emphasis, 10, maintenance, 11,
supersede, 12, stomach, 13, tympa
num, 14, potatoes, 15, tobacco®, 16,
sacrilege, 17, abstinence, 18, aieli
fluous, 19, annually, 20, canvasser.
. READING.
W1 lat are the ultimate purposes
of school work in reading?
What are the three elements
employed in reading?
What training should be given
the voice?
Distinguish between punctuation
and articulation?
Name four points that need spec
ial attention in teaching reading?
State two conditions for good
oral reading.
Have you evor tried the combi
nation of word, sentence and pho
nic methods?
Put the proper marks of inflec
tion and emphasis of the follow
ing quotations: “If I were an A
merican, as lam au Englishman,
while a foreign troop was in my
country, I never would lay down
my arms, never! never! never !
“It isn’t the secret I care about,
Mr. Caudle. It’s the slight.”
Indicate your reading of the fol
lowing passage and place the pro
per diacritical marks:
“Not a drum was heard, not a
funeral note, as the corse to the
rampart we hurried, not a soldier
discharged his farewell shot o’er
the grave where our hero we buried.”
Do you use any supplementary
reading? Have you seen the
Young People’s Reading Circle
Course?
WRITING.
When tho conditions are favora
ble, what advantages has the front,
position over the side position in.
Yvriting?
Os what benefits aro movement
drills without the pen, or with u
dry pen?
Explain how you would give pu
pils a correct idea of the vibratory
action of the muscles of tho fore
arm.
Describe any exercise, which, if
followed, will materially aid in
strengthening and enlarging the
forearm muscles.
In starting a class in penman
ship, what would you teach during
the first two weeks?
What advantages has the arm
movement over the finger move
ment?
Write a set of capitals, grouping
them according to similarity in
form
What place does shading occupy
in penmanship.
ENGLISH GRAMMAR.
Our birth is “but” a sleep and a
forgetting. “E’en” from the tombs
the voice of nature cries.
Parse the quoted words, and tell
what kind of sentence.
“Though your duty may be hard,
Look not on -it as an ill; If it be
an honest task, Do it with an hon
est will?”
The above is what kind of a sen
tence? Define.
In the above question 2, tell
which are the independent clauses
and the kind and use of each de
pendent clause.
“(Happy) must be the State
(Whose) ruler heedeth more The
(murmurs) of the poor (Than flat
teries) of the great.”
Analyze the above.
In question 4 parse the words
in parenthesis.
“Dr. Watts’s (statement that)
birds in their Pttle nests agree,
(like) too many (othirs intended)
to form the infant (mind,) is very
far from (being true).”
Parse the words in parenthesis.
In question 6 tell the kind and
use of dependent clause.
Use “as” as five parts of speech,:
explaining each.
Compare the following adverbs:
well, ill, much, nigh, far.
Write the following verbs in the
perfect indicative, third person,
singular: bet. burst, do, eat. flee.
fly, flow, lie (to recline), set, sit.
GEOGRAPHY.
Give diameters and circumfer
ence of the earth. Name the con
tinents, oceans, and live seas.
Name the two large rivers in
each of the five continents, and
give the direction of each.
Explain the cause and direction
of the trade winds and tides.
Give the width of each zone.
Why are the tropics and polar cir
cles so located?
Why does the sun’s heat vary
with latitude? Wliat causes the
change of the seasons?
Draw a map of Georgia; write
in proper places names of the
boundary States and locate on the
niE.p the five large cities.
How many States and Territor
ies in the United States? Name
tbe Territories.
Name live of the important Eu
ropean States, and give the capital
of each.
Locate and tell what it is: Am
azon. Rome, Calcutta, Nile, Carac
as, Cairo, Vesuvius, Ganges, Mis
souri, Oconee, Chattahoochee,
Seine, Mississippi, Thames.
HISTORY.
What nations made discoveries
wiihin the present limits of the
United States?
What part of the United States
did each nation claim?
Name the thirteen original colo
nies in the order of their settle
ment.
What two great evils made Geor
gia a wealthy colony?
What is meant by the Blue Laws
of Connecticut?
What causes brought on the Re
volutionary War?
What is meant by “Alien and
Sedition Laws”? “Monroe Doc
trine”? “Gadsaen Purchase”?
Name some of the causes that
led to the Civil war.
Why was the War of Secession
not closed by a treaty?
What is meant by an accidental
President, and how many has the
United States had?
ARITHMETIC.
Reduce 67,581,713 squaro inches
to acres, etc.
At 24 cents a square yard find
cost or plastering wallsand ceiling
of a room 20 ft. Jong, 16 ft. wide,
and 12 ft. high, allowing for two
doors, each 3x7 feet, and three
windows each 2f x 5 feet.
On the outside the brick work
of a store is 50 ft. long, 80 ft- wide
and 20 ft. high. Find exact num
ber of perches of masonry in the
wall, allowing for two doors, each
6xß ft and 6 windows, each 4xß
ft. walls 14 ft. thick.
A vat is 8 ft. long, 5 ft. wide 6
in. wide, 3 ft. 6 in. deep. How
many gallons of water will it hold?
How many square yards of tin
would line it?
A bought 75 bbls. of flour, and
B increased his stock of flour 28
per cent by buying 16 per cent less
than A. How many barrels did B
have after his purchase?
hat is the gain or loss per cent
when |of the cost equals 4-5 of
the selling price?
What must be a jobber’s list
price of axes, costing him $7.50 per
dozen, that a discount of 20 per
cent, 10 per cent, and 5 per cent,
will net a proiit to the jobber of
10 per cent.
On March Ist a planter gave a
commission merchant his note for
$240.00, payable November 16th,
after date, with interest at 1 per
c nt per month. How much mon
ey did he receive?
B invested $1,796.00 in 6 per
cent stock, quoted at broker
age i per cent. What annual in
come did he receive therefrom?
What rate per cent on his invest- !
ment.
THEORY AND PRACTICE OF
TEACHING.
\\ hat is the true teacher’s spirit?
State four responsibilities resting
upon the teacher in small or large
part.
State definitely two ways of
meeting each responsibility.
State two reasons whv how to i
stud\ is more important than what
to study.
State five indispensable persona l
habit 3 for the teacher. "Why so 9 1
“A teacher who has ceased to b* 1
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report
Rpy&>
AB&&WTEE.Y RE
an active student has lost the secret
of his power.” Why?
Why is special trail ing necessary
for the teacher? Two reasons
State four ways of self-training
m professional ways.
State a just view of education.
What is meant by the pouring
in process? What is meant by the
waking-up mind? Compare the
two.
Durant, Miss.
Office of J. S. Rosamond.
Messrs Lippman Bros ~ Savannah.
Gentlemen —While in San An
tonio, Texas last spring, I saw your
advertisement of P. P. P. (Prickly
\sh, Poke Root and Potassium) in
the paper for the cure of rheuma
tism, and thought I would try a
bottle, finding such groat relief
from it, on my return home I had
my druggist, Mr. John McClellan
to order mo a supply. Aftov tak
ing, I think ten bottles, 1 have not
had a pain or ache since, previous
to that I suffered for twenty-live
years, and could not get the least
benefit until I tried P. P. P., and
therefore, take pleasure in recom
mending it to all. Yours truly,
J. S. Rosamond .
He Spanked the Mayor.
Creston, 10., Jan. 28.—Mayor
Renshaw of Afton made a caustic
remark to Councilman Swain in
the Council meeting today. Swain
laid on the Mayor and suc
ceeded in getting his head between
his knees. He then proceeded to
administer punishment. The conn •
oil immediately adjourned.
Catarrh is a constitutional dis
ease and cannot be cured by local
applications. Hood’s Sarsaparilla
it a constitutional remedy; it cures
catarrh because it purities the
blood.
Hood’s Pills are purely vegetable
and do not purge, pain or gripe.
Sold by all druggists.
Lookout Inn. near Chattanooga,
has been sold under a decree to
satisfy creditors for SIOO,OOO.
Buckien’s Arnica Salve.
The Best Salve in the world for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt
Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter
Chapped Hands, Chilbins, Corns
and all Skin Eruptions, and posi
tively cures Piles or no pay re
quired It is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, or money re
funded. Price 2ocents per box.
for sale by 11. H. Arrington.
The Oxley Stave Mill at Valley
Read was destroyed by 7 fire on
Wednesday night the 15th.
The man who eats because he is
hungry is, thus far, on a level with
the brutes. The man who stops
eating the moment his hunger is
appeased is the wise man. Nature
needs no more food than she calls
for. Continued excess brings about
indigestion or dyspepsia, with loss
of flesh, strength, sleep, ambition
and mental power; and an accu
mulation of aches, pains and many
dangerous local maladies.
The stomach now can do noth- 1
ing alone. We must appeal to
some artificially digested food
which can also digest other fojds.
That is to soy, we must use the
Shaker Digestive Cordial. The ef
fect is prompt and cheering. The
chronic pain and distress ceases.
Appetite presently revives. Flesh
and vigor gradually come back,
and the sufferer recovers . But he
must be careful in future. A trial
bottle for 10 cents.
Laxol is the best medicine for
children. Doctors recommend it
in place of Castor Oil.
Ninety per cent of the farmers
around Lincoln have meat, corn t
and syrup enough to make the *
next crop on and are out of debt.
Helen Keller's Benefactor,
j Among the notable benefactions
of John T. Spaulding, who died in
Boston recently, was the education
of Helen Keller, the deaf, dumb
and blind gild, whose fame has be
come international. Some years
ago he gave $30,000 to seven young
men employed at the United States
Hotel. The story of this was pub
lished all over the world, and
brought him begging letters from
even the Russian steppes. (\i hol
idays he was in the habit of filling
his trousers pockets with $5 gold
pieces until they bagged at the
knees, and then going around dis
tributing them among the porters
who had done him tittle kindness
es. He wired a! ruined merchant
before the flames of the big Ghica*
ga tire had been extinguished :
JDraw on us for $100,000.” It is
said that the then ruined man is
today one of the wealthiest men in
Chicago.
Did You Ever
1 ry r Electric Bitters as a remedy
for you troubles? If not, get a
bottle now and get relief. The
medicine has been found to lie pe
culiarly adapted to the relief and
cure of ail Female Complaints, ex
erting a wonderful diroctinfluence
in giving strength and tone t<> the
organs. If you have Loss of .\ ppe
tite, Constipation, Headache,
Fainting Spells, or are Nervous,
Sleepless, Excitable, Melancholy
or troubled with Dizzy Spells,
Electric Bitters is the medicine
you need. Health and Strength
are guaranteed by its use. Large
bottles only 50 cents at 11. 11. Ar
rington’s drug Store.
“Josiar,” said Mrs. Corntossell,
as her husband caine in from feed
ing Die pigs, “what is the Monroe
doctrine?” “The Monroedoclrine
Mandy,” he replied, after a mo
ment’s thought, “is a principle
which lays down thet jes’ because
wo don’t put both foot in the trough
ourselves is no sign thet we’re go
in’ to incourage others to do il "
Washington Star.
The Discovery Saved His
Life.
Mr. G. Caillouette, dniirgi-l
Beaversville, 11l , says: “To Dr.
King’s New Discovery J owe my
life. Was taken with La Grippe
and tried all the physicians lor
miles about, but of no avail and
was given up and told 1 could not
live. Having Dr. King’s New Dis
covery in my store I sent for a
bottle and began its use and from
the first dose began to get better,
and after using three bottle was
up and about again. It is worth
its weight in gold. We won’t keep
store or house without it.” Get a
free trial at H. 11. Arringtons
drug store.
An effort will be made soon to
have the receivers of the Central
railroad dismissed and the entire
assets of the concern turned over
to Thomas and Ryan.
Gen. Porter shot and killed En
nest Troy, at Hot Springs, last
Wednesday.
Coal is now being shipped from
the Warrior coal fields, in Ala
bama, by water to the gulf at Mo
bile .
Awarded
Highest Honors—World’s Fair.
■DU
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MOST PERFECT MADE.
A pure Grape Cream of i'artar Powder. Fiej
from Ammonia, Aium or any other adulterant
40 YEARS THE STANDARD.
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