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The SammerYille News Published Every Thursday. BY THE NEWS PUBLISHING CO. 0. J. Espy, Editor and Manager. Terms of Subscription: One Year SI.OO Six Months 50c Three Months 25c Advertising Rates will be Made Known on Application. Entered at the Summerville Post Office as Second Class Mail Matter. ’Phone No. 6. 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. ——l - —————— 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 cf 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