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You can send thia to The '.. •>. - nal. Atlanta, in stain; s. or > ■ y ■ t.e Sample copies will l The cotnife year is going to -live with interesting handling.. To ■up with them you need the Atiatea \. ,>s 5 Journal. Aud by a s] e did ib. X biu.g arrancenieut, we r. > 1.., •■ ■ ■ to RivT you twelve month’s ten pt ion to both that nauer m J The Cbati'Toga News oTe”"y > “~~Tt ‘ $1.20. This is an unpandled combi nation and one you cauuot aft >r 1 to tu iss. Remember —it is always cash. THE CHATTOOGA NEWS. ME. NESBITT S ’ ; MONTHLY TALK : The Commissioner's Letter to i the Farmers of Georgia. 1 IMPORTANT MATTERS DISCUSSED. J 1 I'armei"> Again Warned Against Foolishly Inert Ing the Cotten Area, Which the Majo. ’y Now Seem Determined to Do. 1 The ?! m Who Sure <.<ls Tills Year Will , De the 'lan Who Plants Provision Crops 1 anil ell an Area In Cotton as He Can Prepare and Manure and Cultivate Thoroughly. Dl PABTMENT OF AgEICVLTVKE, Attaxta, Ga., March 1, 1896. Tho lai mers have been the recipients of su 1.: uch gratuitous advice on the cot- | ton are., question, that we almost hesi tate to aid another to the many warn ings, which have been thundered into apparei tij’ d• as errs. All the indica tions p .it tn a:i i:.i sei! c itton area, and 11 .vitl . andii'.g th ■ fact that every argum it h.. , Ik ;i exhausted to deter them :roin this Mly, the majority of farmer seem deter.nined to commit themsi ves irrev.ieubly to tho conse quimci of an over, helming cotton crop. 1 is perhaps too late to change the dot. rminati , 1 of tho large body of farmei , that, we have already endeav ored to accomplish by every means in our pov. ‘T, but we still feel it our duty to urge tho safe and more conservative course. If only a few men are in fluouced to choose tiio wiser plan, to them ;•’< least disappointm -nt and disas ter wil' be averted (t is immaterial what ear neighbor does; if is, in a large measir ■, im material to ns, individually, Wir t/. :■ the oott a me.i i,e large OT small. Let us narrow this question down t 1 th" bound:.. ;os of our own farms, and B ern let tn u.iei .0 it. We | may ; it i. w.. a. a ... t that the man | who Si ■•ce»d,i this uir is he who. r«.- ganlle : of onts.de iniluem i , eidmiy I makes up his mind to p... t po- : vin in er.ii , umple for ml p sei hie , needs, nd i "a a: mueli c .;t.m as iio | can a rd t shi y and cul- j tivai roirddy. L any event ho is I sieur.'. I 1 ■ : .r la . ■ 1 . high or I lew p ’, 1 .’ids 1 il -i en lie■ to i win, 1 lif tlii < .ni | fertilf ■ :. , •is so man- I aged t, at he .".ets th- r ield fr ui the so ,e 1 area. Iso 1. is m. stored the I ■<•!..; .Bn sful cotton pr< ducti >ll. li w • ’ - 1-n ti ..t t■ t -pr Ct. .il man this v aldo" s p: n as t> need no | ilemoi 'rat n W- can only stand cotton I.mt ■m. I lu>. di. vi’s.bored I, ' 11l s . . 7 ... . 1 . t.io t, to again 'tinge themselve.-. inti this sea of agri.-. ur:i : ■: ' lin.mcial troubles. It will I" t late aft‘r this month is pas 1 ;<> a 'r m de. :sion. Alter this we m f<'.'! eV <>■.:! 1 !i p >iicy, whatever that 1 yl. to the end. It is to bo i 1:. , 'd nit :,ie, if only a few. who are I now " ig on ill' brink 11 un.-er- f tamty. in; . turn back to the safer j ground of 11 " re carefully considered and ' sucee.- ,'ul business methods. A bale of I cotton and 50 bushels of corn to the acre can be produced with less labor and ' more 1 tit than the usual one-third of 1 a bale and 8 or 10 bushels of corn. These higher results are in tho reach of most south 11 farmers, and the system Which brings: hem about means emancipation from "bt, and a return of the pros- ' p.eritv to which we h»'-a i -.-- <.« m-- 1 c' | T— —— —— ■ t 1 1A Presidential Year ! j | is fliwaus Fun oi interest I And Tbis Year tbe People Elect Everything From President ‘Down. (.3 This Includes Congressmen, Legislatures and Almost Everything Else. You Must Have tbe News. | Atlanta (£mistitMfwn || t ‘Published at Atlanta, Ga., and Having © A CIRCUL ATION OF MORE THAN 156.000, chiefly among the farmers of the country, and going to more homes than any weekly newspaper published on the face of the earth, is The Leading Champion of the People in all the great con tests in which they are engaged against the exactions of monopoly. A THE CONSTITUTION IS THE BIGGEST, BRIGHTEST AND BEST X WEEKLY NEWSPAPER published in America, covering the news of the world, having correspondents in every city in America and in the capitals of Europe p) , ‘ and reporting in full the details of debates in Congress on all questions of public in- tcrest. Price $i per year. It is THE GF EAT SOUTHERN WEEKLY NEWSPAPER, and as an exponent of S nthern opinion and purveyor of Southern news it has no equal on the continent. T ' AN ENLARGEMENT OF TWELVE COLUMNS. To meet the demands iron i s space ior news. The Constitution has increased its size to \ • i_: pages 7 columns, making 84-columns each week. " ; • Y SPECIAL FEATURES found in any other paper «u x.cssaKC"j»rfj«a The Farm and Farmers’ Department, The Women’s Department, The Children’s < Department, L" V arc all un ler able direction and are specially attractive to those to whom these department 2 * ® . • are addressed. w Under the editorial management of CLARK HOWELL, its special contributors are witers of such world-wide reputation as Mark Twain, Bret Harte. Frank R. Stockton, > j. •! C andler Harris, Betsy Hamilton, and hundreds of others, while it offers weekly U service i:-nn such writers as Bill Arp, Sarge Plunket, Wallace P. Reed, Frank L. Stanton, Q , and others, who give its literary features a peculiar Southern flavor that commends it to q* every fireside from Virginia to Texas, from Maine to California. \ | STRAIGHT, CLEAN, UNTRAMMELED, g The Constitution salutes the free people who insist that the servants of the people X n v shall not become their masters. V *3 By special arrangement the paper publishing this announcement will be clubbed with 0 ' 7 The Constitution at the retnarkanly low rate announced elsewhere in this issue. g I SUMMER VILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, Mali CH 11. 1896 strangers. The foothold which the farm ers have gained in the past few years is due in large measure to a fuller under standing and a more general adoption of these principles, and it is to be re gretted that there is a disposition to de sert a well proven and assured certainty for a mere probability, however tempt ing. In the inquiry columns will be found a reply tc a Question which cov ers this whole ground. Indeed, the in quiries this month cover such a wide scope that there is little left to add in the way of advice beyond the caution to make the cultivation of our stand ird crops as shallow as is consistent w.th the controlling of all foreign growth. 11. T. Nesbitt. THE COTTON PROBLEM. A Pertinent Inquiry Touches the Very Root of the Question —Commissioner’s Answer. Question. —Please tell me why, if I have land, the stock and the supplies, I would run any risk in putting every possible acre in cotton, after I have made provision for ample supplies for home consumption ? I see a great deal of talk about reducing the cotton area, and I can understand that if a man has to buy supplies, or to curtail his pro vision crops in order to put in a big cot ton crop, he is working on a wrong ba sis, but when he takes neither of these risks I don’t see how he would make a mistake in crowding in every acre pos sible in cotton. Answer. —Your question touches at the very root of this cotton problem. If a man has taken the precautions you mention, ho has a right to put in every acre of cotton which he can properly cultivate. But just here is the diffi culty. There are hundreds and thou sands of acres of land devoted to cotton each year, which do not pay the cost of production, and in prop, rtion as the bales made on these acres go to swell, the general crop and thus reduce the average price, they, to tiiat extent, in crease the burden which their cultiva tion imposes. In the spring, the season 1 of hope, the farmer is to: > apt to over j estimate his own ability ami the fertil - 1 ity of his land, and when too late, hi i finds himself over-cropped and commit ted to the cultivation of acres which' had far better have been left idle, r -1 put in some renovating crop. Land, i which, with the aid of comm rcial fer tilizers, will produce only six or eight . bushels of corn, and less than a half : bale of cotton to the acre, will not pay I at present prices, or even if prices rule. : higher. Some time ago we published, the results of certain experim-nts, sh >w ing that in proportion as the yield to each acre was increased, the cost was reduced, and consequently the I profit that much augmented. In the contest for the prize acre of corn, the premium offered by the At lanta Constitution was awarded to the man who produced ITfi’o bushels on one acre at a cost of $9.70. The average yield in Georgia is J1 bushels per acre, and the average cost is about $5.00. The conclusion is obvious. If the addi tional $4.70, which is the difference be i tween $9.70 and $5.00, produced such a ’ ya.st increase, surely it was a good in f vestment. But in all probability this : did not represent the entire investment. 1 No doubt the land had been brought I into a receptive condition by a system I of gradual improvement and deep plow j ing, which enabled it to respond to the heavy application of fertilizers. If we select our land carefully, prepare it deeply and thoroughly and rotate our crops, using the legumes as renovators, we may by the application of all the j farm yard manure we are able to make and the use of potash and phosphates Tn combination' with the leguminous crops, gradually bring these lands to the point of profitable production. We certainly do not advise that a man plant his land indiscriminately in cotton sim ply because he happens to have the sup plies aud a surplus of well worn and overworked acres. Put some of the land you intended for cotton in peas, planting them in May. Destroying: Wild Onious. Question 14. —How can I get rid of ; the wild onions which infest my pas- | ture and ruin the butter and milk? I 1 have this trouble every spring. Answer .14.—This inquiry comes up with unerring regularity every spring and we understand from experience the annoyance of having to throw in the slops gallons of milk, ruined by the flavor of the onions which the cows have eaten. These plants are among the first to appear when the spring av<lather begins to encourage vegetation and for this reason, as well as from the fact that cattle are fond of them, milk cows should not be turned into a pas ture in which they have gained a footing The cows, so long deprived of tender green food, will eagerly seek out the oni ms and devour them. The only plan we know of is to plant some crop of superior growth, such as cowpeas or crimson clover, which has a tendency to supercede the onion growth and to cut this crop before the “buttons” on top of the onions have time to form. By this plan we accomplish a twofold purpose. Tho onions are prevented from forming additionaljxfots, and the “buttons” can not mature to be scattered for another crop. If a cultivated crop is planted, this will also tend to destroy the onions, tho roots being plowed up during the course of cultivation, but the process of eradication is necessarily a slow one. If either of the above plans (or hot 1, because a cultivated crop may como af ter the German clover), is adopted, we must not expect to be at onco success ful. Where the onions have taken pos session of tho land, it may be some time before their destruction is entirely ac complished.—State Agricultural De- * pul’tment. Strawberries For Sandy Soil, Question 10. —What kinds of straw berries shall I plant on a light sandy soil, with clay subsoil? I would prefer the large varieties. Would sawdust be a good mulch? Answer 10.—Sharpless, Bubach and Triomphe de Grand are all good varie ties, and will succeed if you will fertil ize your land heavily with stable ma , nure and ashes, and put it in good order by deep plowing aud thorough harrov.’- 1 ing. Sawdust makes a good mulch, re garded only as a mulch, but is an abso lute injury to the land when you have to plow it under, seeming to render the , land sour for some time afterwards. ■ Where it can be obtained, pinestraw or any other straw makes a much more de sirable mulch, as it soon rots, and when 1 plow’ed under adds much to the fertility ’ of the soil. I would advise you not to ‘ use. the sawdust.—State Agricultural QUESTIONS I AND ANSWERS Commmissioner Nesbitt’s In quiry Box For the Month. MUCH INFORMATION FURNISHED. How to Rid the Henhouse of Lice—The Best Early Pea For the Family Gardea and the Best For a General Crop—Ger- ' man Clover Not Adapted to Spring Sowing, Etc. Question I. Every spring lam troubled with lice in my hen house; please tell me some cheap remedy for preventing it ? Answer I.—Apply kerosene, or kero sene emulsion liberally to every portion of the house, including the roosts. You can do this with an old whitewash brush or a mop made from any old sack. Repeat the application once a week for three or four weeks.—State Agricultural Department. Burning a Kiln of Lime. Question 2.—1 write to inform you that I wish to burn a kiln of lime to use on my farm as a fertilizer. How shall I arrange to burn it, and how long will it take to burn a kiln with wood. Answer 2.—Lime may be cheaply and profitably burned on any farm where limestone is abundant. Lime may be burned in kilns or cheaper still the stones may be piled in a heap and burned, something after the manner of burning charcoal. In the latter case, as arch is made of the largest stones at the bottom of the pile, and the cavity under the arch is filled with well seas oned wood. Lay the stones loosely, and immediately above the arch, place a layer of wood, then a layer of stone, and so on until the pile is as large as you want it, then cover the entire heap with earth, leaving an opening at the top for the smoke to escape. A short chimney increases tho draft and is de sirable on that account, as the wood must burn freely. Start the fire be neath the arch and regulate the draft by opening or closing the mouth of the arch. The wood should be dry to burn briskly. By the time the wood is con sumed the stones will be calcined, but should be left until entirely cool.—State Agricultural Department. The Best Early Pea. Question 6.—What do you consider the best early pea for family garden ? What is the best for general crop ? Answer 6.—Of the wrinkled varie ties American Wonder, McLean’s Little Gem and Nott’s Excelsior are all excel lent. Os the smooth kinds, Dan O’- Rourke, Alaska, Early Philadelphia are all good. The wrinkled varieties require a richer soil than the smooth, and are not quite so hardy. For a general crop there is no better pea than the Cham pion of England. It is a vigorous grower and requires stakes at least four feet high. It bears abundantly, and the peas are wrinkled and of fine flavor. Be sure to try them. The Everbearing is also a good variety and does not grow as high as the Champion of Eng land.—State Agricultural Department. Inject Warm Antiseptic Remedies. Question B.—What can I do for a cow that has retained a part of the after birth after calving? She eats heartily and does not seem sick. Answer 8. —If the animal seems well and has a good appetite, it is probable that you are mistaken as to her having retained a part of the afterbirth. Make sure that such is the case by a local ex amination. If you are correct, it is too late now to remove the afterbirth by hand, and all that can be done is to pre vent, as far as possible, the evils likely to result from the decomposing mem branes, by making injections of warm antiseptic remedies into the uterus. A 1 per cent solution of carbolic acid will answer, used daily for a week or ten days. If there is no fetid discharge from the vagina, and the cow appears to be doing well, I would recommend no treatment for the present.—State Agri cultural Department. Use Kainlt and Potash. 'Question 9. —I have some fresh land between two ponds. I have planted it three years in cotton; it does not exactly rust, but sheds leaves and forms dry up some. lam thinking of using kainit on it. What quantity per acre ought to be used, and how appEed, alone or with acid? The land makes plenty of weed. Is there any objections to using salt with compost composed of lot manure, cottonseed and acid phosphate? Answer 9.—Your land being between two ponds would indicate, perhaps, that there is too much water in the soil for cotton. Could the ponds be drained, i or at least considerably lowered, the soil would probably be remedied, if the in jury results from a saturated subsoil, the application of kainit will not remedy it. If caused by a deficiency of potash in the soil, the remedy is plain. To each acre use 50 pounds of kainit mixed with 150 pounds of potash. Should thia application produce a marked improve ment in the condition of the cotton this year, you may feel sure that the trouble has been caused by a deficiency of pot ash in the soil, and next year increase the kainit. There is no objection, but decided advantage in using salt in the compost heap. The compost, though, that you propose to make, will be defi cient in potash, and I would recommend the addition of kainit to make it a com plete fertilizer.—State Agricultural De dartment. FOR YOUNG TREES. Coal Ashe* Mak* an Excellent Malate. Sawdust Can Also Be Vied. Question B.—Will coal ashes heaped up about six inches around young apple trees, injure the trees in any way? Is fresh sawdust a good mulch for young fruit trees ? Answer 3.—Goal ashes make an ex cellent mulch for young fruit trees, and you can pile them around your young apple trees with perfect safety. Saw dust can be used to advantage as a mulch, provided it is not worked into the soil. Hard -wood saw dust is prefer able to that from pine.—State Agricul tural Department. Planting Irish Potatoes. Question 22.—Wishing to plant at least two acres in Irish potatoes, I wish to know the best varieties, how to prepare and plant the land, how to fertilize, etc. Answer 21.—The best answer I can give to your questions is to copy from a most valuable bulletin recently issued by the Georgia Experiment Station on the subject of Irish potatoes: 1. “The best varieties for the first or spring crop, given in the order of their maturity, are Pride of the South, Early Rose, Beauty of Hebron, Carman No. I and Peerless.” 2. Preparation. “This should be deep and thorough, and the rows trenched six or seven inches deep by means of a subsoil plow.” 3. Seed Pieces. “The most expedi tious way to prepare seed, is to quarter tubers weighing from 3 to 6 ounces, without reference to eyes.” 4. Distance. “Rows three feet apart, and pieces 12 inches in the row, is the safest distance.” 5. Depth to Plant. “Four inches deep in a thoroughly mellow, subsoiled fur row, may be regarded as the standard.” 6. Time to plant. “The earlier the spring crop is put in, the better, pro vided late killing freezes are avoided. The second, or summer crop, will ma ture if planted as late as the middle of August in most parts of the state.” 7. “Cultivation should be rapid and thorough, and on a level. It does not pay to ‘ ridge up ’ with a hoe, nor on a large scale to mulch.” 8. “Harvesting should not be done (unless for extra early sales) until the tops are dead, as the tubers continue to grow as long as the tops are alive. In gathering, the sun should not be allowed to shine on the tubers any longer than can be avoided.” 9. Fertilizer. “Six hundred pounds high grade acid phosphate, 252 pounds nitrate of soda, and 150 pounds muriate of potash per acre—in p.ll 1,000 pounds applied either all under and mixed with the subsoil in trenching, or half under and half over, after covering the seed, but before the furrow is entirely filled, is suggested as the most reliable form ula.” 10. Preservation. “The spring crop cannot be independently kept in this latitude with any certainty. The sec ond or fall crop can be kept by storing in a dry cellar, with a cool, uniform temperature. It is also well to barrel them; they should never be stored in' bulk.”—State Agricultural Department. Fl anting Saidy Land In Cotton. Question 16.—1 have a piece of sandy, very sandy land, which has been in cot ton for several years. I would like to put it in cotton again, bu* am at a loss as to the right kind of fertilizer to use. I know that the land needs vegetable matter. Would it pay to haul leaves and plow them under and then apply commercial fertilizer, or how shall I manage it, so as to produce a paying crop of cotton on it ? Answer 16.—Hundreds of acres of land in the state jnst as you describe have been cropped and recropped in cotton until the humus is exhausted, and the quality of the land is such that it will retain neither fertilizer nor mois ture for any length of time. While the hauling and plowing under of the leaves would doubtless supply the hu mus in large measure, it would be an expensive process and the increase in the yield of cotton would scarcely pay for the outlay. A cheaper and more reasonable plan would be to plant the land in a renovating crop—cowpeas, for instance—which would supply the hu mus and at the same time yield a return for the investment. These should be fertilized with phosphoric acid and pot ash in equal proportions. When the hay is cut turn under the roots and stubble, going deep enough to bring up a little of the clay to the surface. The object is to change the mechanical con dition of your soil and the clay will tend to accomplish this by binding together the too loose surface. The humus will furnish the moisture absorbing and moisture retaining ele ment, both of which will prevent the leaching out of any fertilizer which may afterwards be applied. Unless some such plan as this is pursued, there can be no reasonable expectation of making profitable crops from these hard mn acres. The mistake which we have repeated year after year has been that we have appropriated every available element of plant food that we could wring from the soil, while of the ferti lizers, which we have applied, nothing remain.? after the crops are gathered be yond a little insoluble phosphoric acid and potash, which in the case of sandy land, such as yours, is soon beyond the reach of the crops.—State Agricultural j Department. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report Powder Absolutely pure COTTONSEED FOR PIGS. A Serie* of Experiments Show That It Will Produce Sickness and Death Question 4.—ls I cooked cottonseed meal, or the whole seed, would it not then be good food for pigs ? Answer 4.— ln Bulletin 21 of the Texas Experiment Station, there is re ported the results of a series of experi ments in feeding pigs with cottonseed, and the conclusion reached, is, that no matter how prepared, whether boiled or roasted, cottonseed fed to pigs will produce sickness and death. The boiled seed was a little less injurious than the roasted, the latter being almost as fatal as the raw meal. The cottonseed was not fed alone, but formed only a part of the ration. In from six to eight weeks the first symptoms of sickness appeared, the animals became dull and moping, and lost appetite. In 12 to 36 hours they became restless, staggering in their gait, breathing labored, sight defective skin showing reddish inflamation. The fatal cases all showed “thumps”—spas modic breathing. Finally the animals dropped down suddenly—sometimes on their bellies, sometimes upon their haunches with forelegs well apart to keep from falling over—almost always with evidences of acute internal pain. At death a quantity of bloody foam comes from mouth and nostrils. These pigs were fed by the side of pigs that had corn instead of cottonseed, and the pigs fed on corn remained perfectly healthy.—State Agricultural Depart ment. Marvelous Results. From a letter written by Rev. J. Gunderman, of Dimondale Mich., we are permitted to make this ex tract : “I have no hesitation in recommending Dr. King’s New Discovery, as the results wero al most marvelous in the case of my wife. While I was pastor of the Baptist Church at Rives Junction she was brought down with Pneu monia succeeding LaGrippe. Ter rible paroxysms of coughing would last hours with little interruption and it seemed as if she could not survive them. A friend recom mended Dr. King’s New Discovery it was quick in its work and high ly satisfactory in results.” Trial bottles free at H. H. Arrington’s Drug Store. Regular size 50c. and SI.OO Fertilizing Elements In Unleaclied Ashe*. Question 7.—1 would like to know ] the fertilizing elements in unleached wood ashes, unleached hickory ashes, cottonseed meal and acid phosphate. In burning bones or dead, animals, what plant food, if any, is lost ? Answer 7.—Unleached oak and hick ory ashes probably vary but little in composition. They contain, when pure, from 5 to 7 per cent potash, and 1 to 2 per cent phosphoric acid. Cottonseed meal contains from 5 to 7 per cent ni trogen, 1 to per cent phosphoric acid, and 1 to per cent of potash, acid phosphate, from 10 to 16 per cent phosphoric acid. In burning bones or dead animals, we lose all the nitro gen which they contain, but we retain all the mineral elements. Burning such materials, therefore, is a wasteful method for making them available as fertilizers. The better plan is to com post the dead animals with muck or stable manure, cutting them up if large. A thick layer of mu :k should be placed under and on top of compost ( heap.—State Agricultural Department. i A canvass among the druggists of this place reveals the fact that ' Chamberlain’s are the most popu lar proprietary medicines sold. > Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy es -1 pecially, is regarded as in the lead > of all throat trouble remedies and as such, is freely prescribed by physicians. As a croup medicine r it is also unexcelled, and most fam -1 ilies with young children keep a bottle always handy for instant , use. The editor of the Graphic i has repeatedly known Chamber -1 lain’s Cough Remedy to do the ; work after all other medicines had t f ai ed —The Kimball BD. Graph j ic. For sale at 25 and 50 cents ; per bottle by all druggists. i I At the Cole City convict camp Gilbert Kendrick, a convict was ’ billed by another convict, Ed Hart. L The two negroes were sent to the ,I penitentiary from Bibb county for > ■ burglary and were sentenced for 1 i twenty years. NEWS NOTES. The Towns county republicans have selected McKinley delegates to the district convention. Quite an interest in fruit culture is springing up in and around La Grange. Last week Judge F. M. Longley put out 1,000 peach trees of the Elberta variety. Two little children of Cynthia Connelly were stolen from their home, at Calhoun by gypsies. A pursuing party recovered them near Tunnel Hill. While Hying kites with a crowd of boys at Atlanta Friday, Robert James, a 15-year-old boy, fell from the top of an old planing mill which stands on the corner and broke both his arms. Morrell Lambdin, the 6-year-old son of A. M. Lambdin, of Bartles ville, had his jugular vein severed with an old time Masonic sharp point, Friday, while playing, and he quickly bled to death. Five suits have been filed in Cobb county against the Southern railway for injuries to parties sus tained in the Fruithurst excursion train wreck at Austell last Novem ber. The amounts asked for ag gregate $90,000. Last season Ike L. Hall, drug gist of West Lebanon, Indiana, sold four gross of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem edy and says every bottle of it gave perfect satisfaction. For sale by all druggists. While Mrs. James T. Nutall, of Atlanta, was riding into the city on a Decatur car last Wednesday afternoon. Hulbert her tiny infant babe, died in her arms just before she reached her destination. The lady was on her way to the oilice of a physician when the little one died. All last winter Mr. Geo. A.Mißs of Lebanon, Conn., was badly afflic ted with rheumatism. At times it was so severe that ho could not stand up straight, but was drawn over on one side. “I tried differ ent remedies without receiving re lief,” he says, “until about six months ago I bought a bottle of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. After using it for three days mv tism was gone and has not return ed since. For sale by all druggists. Deputy Collectors Kellogg and McElmurray have just returned from Murray county, Ga., where they broke up eleven distilleries. The “moonshiners” became incens ed at the wholesale destruction and jumped at the conclusion that Joe Crunkleton was the informer, but the officers say he was not, but the moonshiners sent a 19 year old boy, Andrew Wellborn, to kill Crunkleton. The boy slipped up to the house and fired at Crunkle ton, as he, wife, ten year old daugh ter and baby boy were at the sup per table. He missed Crunkleton and killed his daughter. Wellborn fled to the mountains. Awarded Highest Honors—World’s Fair* * CREAM BAKING pmma MOST PERFECT MADE. A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Free from Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant 40 YEARS THE STANDARD. Ko 53