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Summerville, Ga., Feb. 4, 1909
It is estimated that during the
past few years the wealth of the
South has increased at the rate
of three million dollars per day.
Chattooga county has shared in
the increase and our people con
fidently expect the good work to
go on.
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Following a conference be
tween Adjutant General Mickle,
of the United Confederate Veter
ans, and members of the execu
tive committee, having in charge
the arrangements for the coming
reunion, which will be held in
Memphis, announcement was
made that June 8, 9 and 10 were
the dates definitely decided on.
It is probable that there will
be no agricultural college-on
wheels as has been planned by
Dr. A. M. Soule, and the profes
sors of the state College of Ag
riculture for the coining spring.
Indications are now that the train
will be abandoned for the pres
ent year, because of the proba
ble inability of the dean and othei
attaches of the state agricultur
al college to accompany it on
its rounds.
Gov. Hoke Smith has issued a
call for a meeting of the new’
board of trustees for the State
turbcrculosis sanitarium. They
will meet in Atlanta February 11
at which time an organization
will be perfected anti first steps
will be taken toward establishing
the new institution.
i -ft 1 T
No question lies closer to the
prosperity of the farmers of the
South Ilian that of good roads.
It is a mistaken idea that bonds
for road purposes constitute a
burden on the farmer. They lift
more expense off his shoulders
than they entail ,if the proceeds
are judiciously spent Bad roads
are a heavy tax on the farmers;
they pile it on him in the way of
wear and tear on machinery and
stock, and make it more expen
sive to market the products of
the farm. The losses to the farm
er in this way are greater than
the interest on bonds and a rea
sonable sinking fund would be
Urban communities can well af
ford to pay their part of the ex
pense of better roads, because
of consequent advantages that are
apparent to the man of intelli
gence. In a word there is no ar
gument against good roads, the
arguments is all on the affirma
tive side. If the agricultural
classes will exert their influence
on the side of road improvement
they are sure to reap the biggest
reward; and no opposition to
such improvement will come from
the cities -Chattanooga News.
HEALTH
INSURANCE
The man who insures hie Me Is
wise for his family.
The man who insure* his health
to wise both for his family and
himself.
You may insure health by guard
ing it. it is worth guard, .
At the first attack of dtoeane,
which generally apprise i—s
through the LIVER and mani
fest* itself in innumerable ways
TAKE —.
Tutt’sPills
And your health.
NEW COTTON MILL ASSURED
The prospects for the erection
of another big cotton mill in Sum
merville are growing brighter ev
ery day and it may now be statec
with reasonable certainty that the
mill will be built
Nearly all the money necessa
ry to build it has been subscribed
The citizens of Summerville have
succeeding in procuring SIOO,OOO
of stock for the new enterprise
and E. W. Sturdivant is now in
Greenville, S. U., conferring with
Messrs. McKinney and Walker as
to the advisability of-going ahead
with the amount already sub
scribed.
As has been stated before these
gentlemen proposed to furnish
half the capital to build a $250,-
000 mill at this place if the peo
ple here would raise the other
half. Jt was decided to accept
this proposition and a subscrip
tion committee w r as appointed
about the first of December to
see what could be done in the way
of raising this stock.
This committee has succeeded
in securing SIOO,OOO of stock
and if tin’other 825,000 cannot be
raised it is now proposed to go
ahead and build a $200,000 mill.
Mr (’. I*. Neal received a tele
gram from Mr. Sturdivant Tues
day stating that this proposition
was satisfactory to Mr. Walker
and that he would advise his
associates to accept it.
As soon as Mr. Sturdivant re
turns from Greenville it is ex
pected that the matter will take
some definite shape.
The fire losses in this coun
try for the year 1908 amounted
to the grand total of $137,000,-
000, an increase over the year be
fore of about $20,000,000. The lar
gest single loss was the destruct
ion of the Parker building in New
York City, when the insurance
companies had to pay $369,000 on
tin'building and $1,907,132 on the
contents. The lire insurance com
panics received in premiums
$270,000,000 in 1908, thus leaving
them a great profit after pay
ing the enormous losses of the
year.- Exchange.
The seven hundred and fifty
delegates in atendance upon the
annual meeting at Atlanta of the
Georgia Farmer’s Educational
ami Co-operative union pledged
themselves not only to wear cloth
ing made of cotton while engag
ed in their farming operations,
but pledged themselves to pro
duee this year all the corn, meat
and other supplies necessary to
carry them through the year. It
was decided to consolidate all of
the farmers' cotton warehouses
in the state under the manage
ment of a certain organization.
Four lecturers iwll be sent to all
sections of the state during the
next few months to appeal to
farmers generally to raise their
supplies and to wear cotton
clothing on their farms.
MAN
Man’slife is full of crosses and
temptations.
He comes into this world with
out his consent and goes out of it
against, his will, and the trip be
tween the two is exceeding
ly rocky. The rule of the contra
ries is one of the important feat
ures of the trip.
When he is little, the big girls
kiss him; when he is grown, the
little girls kiss him.
If he is poor, he is a bad man
ager; if he is rich, he is dishonest
If he needs credit, he can't get
it; if he is prosperous, everyone
j wants to do him a favor.
If he is in polities, it’s for pie;
I if he's out of politics, you can't
I place him, and he's no good for
j the country.
If he does't give to charity, he
is a stingy t-uss; if he does, it is
' for show.
If lie is actively religious, he
is a hypocrite; if he takes no intei
est in religion, he is a hardened
sinner.
If he shows affection, he is a
soft specimen; if he seems to cart
for no one. he is eold-blooded.
If he dies young, there was a
great future ahead of him; if he
lives to an old age. he has missed
his calling.
The road is rocky, but man
love* to travel it.—Life.
COUNCIL MEETING
A Tax of SSOO Placed on Near
Beer
The first meeting of the new
council was held at the Mayor’s
office Tuesday afternoon.
Mr. B. 0. Henry was elected
mayor protem, and Mr. T. P. Tay
lor, treasurer.
The property tax rate for the
year 1909 was fixed at 33 1-3
cents on the hundred dollars, the
same rate as levied last year. The
street tax will also remain the
same as last year—s2.so.
It was ordered that all dealers
in “near beer’’ pay a tax of SSOO
per year. A tax of $25 per yeai
was also placed on all dealers in
cocoa cola. Short order restau
rants will pay a tax of $5.00, and
beef markets S2O.
An order was passed authoriz
ing the mayor to spend $25 to
convict any one of selling intoxi
cating liquors within the corpor
ate limits of said town.
The election of a town marshal
was deferred until the next meet
ing of council.
Judge Mose Wright has an
nounced that he would resign the
.judgeship of the Rome circuit to
make the race for congressman
of the Seventh district. Governor
Brown will be called on to ap
point his successor on the bench,
and the friends of W. S. Rowell,
of Rome, are preparing to work
to land the unexpired term of
Judge Wright for him. —Mariet-
ta Journal.
Congressman Lee
Congressman Gordon Lee has
an abundance of common sense,
and not so mush oratory, but
when the occasion demands it the
rich English flows from him vol
ubly and ripples as pure and
clear as the mountain streams
which inspire it.
Speaking in favor of his bill
for the restoration of the Damas
cus church in Gordon county,
which was destroyed by Sherman
the congressman said:
“The same qualities that made
good soldiers made
enterprising citizens, and there is
an inspiring difference between
this section today and the battle
blighted region of forty-four
years ago. The smoke of facto
ries and foundries, the hum of
the machinery of industries, the
fertile soil well tended, yielding
abundant harvest, all announce
the progress we have made and
all now proclaim the blessing of
peace; and my people today love
this great republic as devotedly
as if they had never loved an
other whose memory they still
cherish.”—Dalton Citizen.
Time, Not Space.
Mrs. Frink was a trusting soul
and rarely questioned the opinions
of others about matters concerning
which they were supposed to be in
formed. One day she came home
with a new pair of shoes under her
arm. “Got them at Bride’s,” she
explained, “and they’re the best I
ever bought you.”
“What is so very good about
them ?” inquired her son, for whom
the shoes were intended.
“Why, the salesman said that you
I could walk farther in them than in
any others without getting tired,
and 1 said that you couldn’t walk
very far just now on account of
your knee, you know, and he said
that he meant farther for the same
distance. So I bought them, and
here they are. Save the string,
please.”
She did not notice the smile on
her son’s face as he undid the pack
age, and he was spared the trouble
of explaining. Y outh's Compan
ion.
faGrybodys
ylfeagazine
A STAR SERIAL BEGINS
NOW
There is an article in this number w ith
a big jolt in it. DON’T MISS IT.
You know some of the things
Everybody's has done. THIS IS
ANOTHER.
There is a story by the “ Pigs Is
Pigs ” man that is one long ache of
laughter, and back of these special
features a big, fine Everybody's
MacAZtna.
ELECTRICITY.
Why it la Difficult For the Layman to
Understand What It Is.
“What is electricity?” is a favor
ite query with people who desire to
“get a rise” out of a scientific man.
And when he fails to answer it in
the same simple fashion that <he
might treat the question “What is
a biscuit?” the questioner cries out:
“Aha! You profess to know all
about electricity. Why, you can’t
even tell what it is!”
Now, to “tell what a thing is”—
that is, to define it —is to state its
relations with something more fa
miliar. The particular familiar
thing that the questioner is think
ing of in this case is ordinary mat- |
ter. Heat has been explained to I
him as a vibration of material par
ticles. Light, he has been told, is <
a wevh motion in the ether, and he :
understands the ether to be a kind
of matter or a substance resem- I
bling matter in some particulars.
It is not to be denied that no
such simple general relationship
can be stated between electricity
and matter. But, this being so, it
would be just as correct to say that
we do not know what matter is as
that we do not know what electrici
ty is. As a matter of fact, we do
hot know what matter is, and the
latest plausible theory of it builds
it up on an electric basis, so that on
this theory the idea of electricity is
more fundamental than that of
matter. Unfortunately our senses
have been evolved by contact with
matter and are trained to detect
only matter. Electricity they know
only secondarily, through its action
upon matter —the light or heat that
it causes matter to give out, the at
traction that it causes certain sub
stances to exert, and so on. To the
man in the street, therefore, matter
is familiar, and he demands a state
ment of the latter in terms of the
former, illogical though this may
be. After the scientist has stated
all this the reply comes back, “Yes,
I understand all that, and it is
most clear, I am sure, but tell me,
then, what is electricity anyway?”
Another source of confusion to
the lay mind is that scientific men
do not always use the word “elec
tricity” to mean the same thing.
The engineer often employs it to
express the thing that the theoret
ical electrician calls “electric ener
gy-”
To find the energy of electricity
—that is, its ability to do work —
the electrician multiplies the quan
tity of electricity by the potential
or tension under which it exists.
But to the engineer this product
itself measures the thing that he
calls “electricity.”
The work that a pound of water
may do by falling a foot is one foot
pound. The water is the same after
falling as before, though its energy
is less. So to the electrician a
quantity of electricity at 100 volts
is precisely the same as at one volt,
though the former is able to do a
hundred times as much work.
This difference in meaning causes
thousands of disputes among stu
dents. “Electricity is a form of
energy,” says one, “just like light
or heat.” “Oh, no!” is the reply.
“It is not energy at all, though it
may possess or convey energy.” One
disputant is talking about the elec
tricity of the physical and the other
about that of the engineer; hence
their dispute is merely a matter of
definition, though they do not know
it. What wonder that some people
are still content to regard the whole
subject as a civilized Mumbo Jum
bo ?—St. Louis Republic.
A Disciplinarian.
Miss Hobson was most popular
with the two young and unmarried
members of Centerville’s school
board. They did not propose to
have any change of teachers in dis
trict No. 3.
“Do you think Miss Hobson pays
quite enough attention to disci
pline ?” suggested one of the elderly
married school committeemen one
day.
“Discipline! Why, of course she
pays a great deal of attention to
it,” asserted Ed Porter hastily.
“We never had anybody else be
gin to pay as much,” said Henry
Lane. “Why, one afternoon I was
in there at No. 3. and Miss Hobson
(pent the whole time —every min
ute of it—preserving order in that
schoolroom.” —Youth’s Companion.
The Resemblance.
A promising young merchant re
cently presented his better half
with a handsome piano lamp as a
birthday gift. He was much flat
tered when she told him to give it
his name until he asked her rea
sons for so peculiar a proceeding.
“Well,” said she. “you know,
dear, it has a good deal of brass
about it, it is handsome to look at,
requires a g. >xl coal of attention, is
remarkably brilliant, is sometimes
unsteady on its legs, liable to ex
plode when only half full, flares up
occasionally, is always out at bed
time and s bound to stroke.” —
London Tit-Bits.
The Facts About Pe=ru=na. 1
Is Peruna an alcoholic beverage in disguise? Is it possible to use Peruns
as a substitute for whiskey? Do people buy Peruna and use it as a toddy, or
a bitters, or a bracer?
It would be the easiest thing in the world for any one to demonstrate the
falsity of such statements. Let any one go to the drug store and purchase a bot
tle of Peruna. Let him undertake to use it as a beverage, or take this remedy in
doses considerably larger than those prescribed on the bottle. Would the result
be alcoholic intoxication? Nothing of the sort. Let any one try it and see.
Peruna is a medical compound quite heavily loaded with medicinal ingred
ients. If taken in doses larger than prescribed it would produce a positive
drug effect No one could take it as a beverage. If any one doubts these state
ments, try it and see. We know that Peruna cannot be used as a bever
age; that it will not intoxicate; that it cannot be used as a substitute for
liquors. We guarantee that PERUNA CONTAINS NO CHEAP WHISKEY—
OR ANY OTHER WHISKEY, for that matter.
It contains a small per cent, of cologne spirits, absolutely essential to dis
solve and hold in solution medicinal ingredients, but the drugs contained in
Peruna prohibit its use as a beverage. It would be the easiest thing in the
world for any one to demonstrate this if they chose to do so.
Peruna is sold everywhere. THE INGREDIENTS ARE PLAINLY
PRINTED ON EACH BOTTLE. It has been said over and over again that
chemists have analyzed Peruna and found it to contain only cubebs and
whiskey. Now we challenge any chemist to demonstrate any such statement.
Let any one who has even a smattering knowledge of chemistry purchase a
bottle of Peruna and see whether or not it contains whiskey, find out for him
self whether or not it is composed of cheap whiskey and cubebs. Os course,
cubebs is one of the ingredients of Peruna, but there are many other ingred
ients. It contains hydrastis canadensis, corydalis formosa, collinsonia, and at
least four other medicinal ingredients. To be sure, no chemist could so ana
lyze Peruna as to be able to identify the various medicinal ingredients. This
is beyond the ability of any chemist. But any ordinary chemist would be able
to say that Peruna is heavily loaded with medicinal ingredients of some kind
in addition to cubebs.
Now why are these statements repeated when their falsity could be so
easily demonstrated? Simply because there is continued hostility toward Pe
runa on the part of the medical profession. Very likely the magazines which
took up the crusade against Peruna and denounced it as a cheap beverage
were misled by statements of the medical profession. Probably they were
sincere in their attitude towards it. But now, after all these things have been
said and refuted, it would seem to be in order for such people to use a little
fairness and common sense in the matter.
Every time any one says that Peruna is nothing but cheap whiskey and
cubebs he is telling a lie, an absolute falsehood. Most people intend to speak
the truth. But the prevalent habit of repeating other people’s statements,
without investigation as to their truth, has led many well-meaning people to
say these false things about Peruna.
Used according to the directions on the bottle, PERUNA IS A SAFE
AND RELIABLE CATARRH REMEDY, but, like any other good medicine, 41
taken in excess of those doses, it will produce drug effects very unpleasant to
the person who takes it.
It is therefore up to every honest person to quit making such statements
concerning Peruna, or acknowledge that he is repeating slanders about which
he knows nothing. Cne might j ust as well say that Castor Oil is an intoxicant;
that if tauten in large enough doses it will operate as a “booze.” If people
never tried to see, but simply repeated such statements about Castor Oil, the
majority of people would come to believe them. It is no easier to demonstrate
such a statement about Castor Oil than it would be about Peruna.
Any one who takes Peruna knows that such statements are false. To say
that Peruna is cheap whiskey and cubebs may constitute good material for
jokes on the vaudeville stage, but there is no excuse for any one who pretends
to he truthful saying over again this oft-repeated falsehood.
Buttermilk a Life Saver.
A French medical man advises
people to drink buttermilk for long
i life. He says that the lactic acid
dissolves every sort of earthy depos
it in the blood vessels, keeping the
veins and arteries so supple and free
running that there can be no clog
ging up, and hence there. is no de
posit of chalky matter around the
joints or of poisonous waste in the
muscles. It is -the—stiffening and
hardening of the blood vessels
which bring on old age. Butter
milk is likely to postpone it ten or
twenty years if freely drunk. A
quart a day should be the mini
mum, the maximum according to
taste and opportunity.
The Disturbing Telephone.
“The telephone has destroyed all
the privacy of society,” said the so
ciety girl. “It breaks in on every
thing. Nothing is sacred to it. You
may be saying your prayers. The
telephone. Or in the midst of your
bath. The telephone. Or doing up
your back hair or, worse of all, a
delightful man may be making love
to you, when k-ling, k-ling, k-ling!
The telephone breaks off the thread
of his theme and he fails to resume
it.” —New York Press.
The Nature of the Beast.
Mrs. Gunson was entertaining a
visitor when Nora appeared at the
door of the drawing room.
“Plaise, mum. will yez tell me
phat yez want done wid th’ oyster
shells yez left from lunch ?” she in
! quired.
“I wapt them thrown away, of
I course,” replied Mrs. Gunson.
“Yis, mum. But Oi didn't know
' phere to throw thim,” replied Nora.
“Do they be’ ashes or jarbridge ?”
Judge.
Beare the /7 ltle K,!l<l YoM HaVB tiwa, ' s B ° UgK
There is not any better salve than
I DeWit's Carbolized Witch Hazel salve
I We hereby warn the public that we
j are not responsible for any injurious
I effects caused from worthless or
\ poisonous imitations of our DeWitt's
Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve, the
j original. It is good for anything where
I a salve is needed, but it is especially
I good for piles. Be sure you get De
; Witt's. Sold by Summerville Drug Co.
Hoarse coughs and stuffy colds
that may develop into pneumonia over
night are quickly cured by* Foley’s
i Honey and Tar, and it soothes in
i flamed membranes, heals the lungs,
land expels the cold from the system.
Sold by all Druggists.
Soldier Balks Death Plot
It seemed to J. A. Stone, a civ
il war veteran, of Kemp, Toxas,
that a plot existed between a
desperate lung trouble and the
grave to cause his death. “I
contracted a stubborn cold,’ he
writes, “that developed a cough
that stuck to me, in spite of all
remedies, for years. My weight
ran down to 130 pounds. Then
I began to use Dr. King’s New
Discovery, which restored my
health completely. I now weigh
178 pounds.” For severe colds
obstinate coughs, Hemorrhages,
Asthma, and to prevent Pneumo
nia it is unrivaled. 50c and SI.OO
Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by
Summerville Drug Co.
The man who never forgets
that he is a gentleman has a pow
erful weapon of defense in the
battle of life.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the 7/ fT/
Signature of
Shake Into Your Shoes.
Alien's Foot-Ease, a powder. It
cures painful, swollen, smarting, ner
, vous feet and instantly takes the sting
| out of corns and bunions and makes
walking easy. Try it today. Sold
everywhere. Sample Free. Address.
Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y.
C-A-STOH-X-A-*
Bears the The
ligu-tura *
~ of
Pneumonia Follows LaGrippe
Pneumonia often follows lagrippe
but never follows the use of Foley's
Honey and Tar, for lagrippe coughs
and deep seated colds. Refuse any
but the genuine in the yellow pack
' age. Sold by all Druggists.
CASTORXA.
Beers the kind Vou Have lim Bought
Signature j
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We have mules aud horses fur
sale. Will sell for cash or good
note.—Lyerly Fruit Co.
For Indigestion.
* Sv H * Relieves sour stomach,
palpitation of the heart. Digests what you eat