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Summerville, Ga., May 13, 1909.
lion. J. Pope Brown of Pulaski
county, will lie treasurer of
Georgia to succeed the late R. E.
Park. He was tendered the ap
pointment Monday by Gov. Hoke
Smith, anti has accepted, lie wil
take the oath of office and assume
the duties of treasurer some time
within the next ten days.
Commissioner of Agriculture I
G. Hudson says the recently pub
lished report to the effect that
the sales of commercial 'fertili
zers in Georgia this year were
1(10,000 tons in excess of lasi
ytar’s sales, was incorrect and
misleading. “As a matter of
fact," lie says, “this year's sales
■will be very little, if any. more
Ilian last year. I think the con
sumption will be practically the
same. Our report shows that
last season there was sold in Gcor
gia 842,775 tons. This year’s sales
will not go much, if any, above
that figure. Certainly there has
been no material increase.”
In one county In Kansas there are
(500 automobiles owned by farmers
and 225 owned by business men and
others. One little Kansas town re
cently received two solid train loads
of autos and more than half of them
had been sold to farmers by agents
before they were unloaded. A few
years ago the Kansas farmers were
hcraled by tin press as owning more
buggies and surreys than any set of
agriculturists on earth, and now that
the auto has come to stay, the old
sunflower state seems determined to
keep her farmers In the lead. The
same writer says the Kansas farm
er owes his prosperity to dairy and
poullr.' p'l.ducts.
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A Petersburg, Ind., dispatch to
the Washington Post says: After
ten years of persistent, effort David
R. Nicely of that city has perfected
an arrnngemont by which he believes
the day van bi made 24 hours long,
and ho has applied for patents. He
has made convex and concave lenses
of enormous sizes, which lie will
place on towers, 1,000 feet high, 1,000
miles apart, and with these he ex
pects to supply daylight many hours
after night has fallen. To keep the
lenses at a proper angle a clockwork
apparatus is to bo provided, and with
the lenses so focussed as to let the
light in concentrated rays pass from
one to the other, he expects to give
daylight al) the time.
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Cost of Wars.
Italian war, $300,000,000 and
45.01X1 lives.
Prussia and Austria war, $333,-
(XX),(XXI and 45,(MX) lives.
Russia and Turkish war, sl3;>,-
000,000 and 250,000 lives.
France and Prussia war, $4,-
(XXI,(XX).IMX» and 190,000 lives.
Russia and England war. $2,-
(MX).(XX),(XXi and 750,(KM) lives.
United States war of the re
bellion, 1861-5, $7,400,000,000 and
830,(XX) lives.
History says “the loss oi the
war of 1812 was one in eighty
five, Mexican war one in twenty,
war of the rebellion one in seven.
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The state convention of the Kann
era' Union will nieef this year
in Maean. Julv 22-23-24.
HEALTH
INSURANCE
The man who Insures his life Is
wise for his family.
The man who insure.* his health
ia w ise both for his family and
himself.
You may insure health by guard*
ing it. It is worth guarding.
At the first attack of disease,
which generally approaches
through the LIVER and mani*
feats Itself in innumerable ways
TAKE -
Ms Pills
And »av« your health.
ATTACKING THE SOUTH
Ever since the failure of the
radical Republicans to make a
Kiiceess of their efforts to Afri
canize the South after the war,
the dream of the fanatical South
hater has been to cut, down its
representation in Congress. Nev
er a session of Congress is allow
ed to pass but what some ven
omous solon introduces a bill
looking to cutting down the Con
gressional representation of those
States which have adopted suf
frage laws to prevent the domina
tion of their local governments
by ignorant ami venal negroes.
At one time it was ('rumpacker
who di<l this: then it was Keifler.
and this session it is Bennett, of
New York, who introduces a bill
lopping off about thirty-five
members from the number to
which the Southern States are
now entitled. The South and
West are growing in population
and wealth more rapidly, pro
portionately than the East is
growing: lienee tin 1 fearful ones
in that section look forward to
the inevitable time when, by reas
on of such growth the control of
the government shall be wrested
from the small coterie in New
York an<l New England which has
dominated the government since
the South was driven from the
Union in 1861.
This prospect furnishes zest to
th<‘ sectional unfriendliness which
has smoldered in the breasts of
a few irreconcilable,s at the North
ever since the war, and the suf
frnge laws adopted in this sec
tion give a pretext for the intro
duction of laws which are really
intended to counteract the nor
mid growth of power in the south.
Sectional envy is the inspiration
of su-h laws, whatever may be
the arguments offered in support
of them.
As a counter irritant. Senator
Money, of Mississippi, has intro
duced a resolution directing the
Attorney-General of the United
States to submit to the Supreme
Court all available information
pertaining to the incorporation of
the Fourteenth Amendment into
the Constitution of the United
States, in order that the legality
of the processes employed in
bringing about the declared re
sult may be inquired into judi
cially. 11 ; s a fact well known
that the legality of the adoption
has always been clui'lenged by
some <>f the ablest jurists in the
country, inasmuch as the Consti
tutional requirements of a ratifi
cation by two-thirds of the States
was accomplished only through
unblushing compulsion and fraud
It would be interesting to note
what action would be taken by
the Supreme Court of the United
States were the question put di
rectly up to it to determine
whether a result accomplished by
force and fraud, and perpetuated
by the same means, becomes sane
lifted by the lapse of time. It is
most improbable that Senator
Money’s resolution will be per
milled to pass, for it would be
most embarrassing to the Repub
licans should the court he called
upon to give dispassionate eon
side-ration to all the facts connect
ed with the writing into the Con
stitution of those amendments
that were forced upon the coun
try by Federal bayonets.
The probability is that both
Mr. Bennett's bill and Senator
Money’s resolution will be “chlo
torined:” but we may look for
Mr. Bennett, or some one else, to
revive the issue the next time the
Republicans are driven to desper
ate straits to put through some
measure which is especially ob
noxious to the people. New Or
leans States.
Unreasonable.
An old "eiine.--, e darkv was ar
rested, charms! with stealing a pig.
The evidence was absolutely conclu
sive, and the judge, who knew (he
old man well, said reproachfully,
“Now, Uncle llastus, why did you
steal that pig?’’
"Rek.ise mah pooh fambly wuz
starvin', yo’ honnah,” whimpered
the old man.
“Family starvin '!” cried the
judge. "But thev tell me vou keep
five dogs. 11 ow i's that. uncle?”
“Why, y<>’ honnah,” said Uncle
Ra.-tus reprovingly, “you wouldn’t
s’pect mah fambly to eat dem
dawgs!”—Argonaut.
H'S Message.
Excitement is of n the cause of
strange telegrams, as well as of oth
er strange manifestations.
A man who had been one of the
passengers on a shipwrecked vessel
was rescued almost by a miracle.
On arriving at a place from which
he could send a telegraphic message
he forwarded (lie following dispatch
to his brother:
"I am saved! Try to break it to
no wife.”
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1909.
VERDEN, OKLA.
A Letter from an old Chattooga
County Boy
Dear Editor: —Every now and
then 1 see a letter in your paper
from Texas or Oklahoma. Some
telling about the fine country
and what they like and others
the reverse. 1 see the Red Ran
ger telling it pretty scary about
Dallas, Texas. I guess he exag
'•rated a little, but said a lot tnat
was about true. We were in Tex
as two years, but are now locat
'd at Verden—about halfway be
tween Chickasha and Anadarko.
This is a very pretty country.
The land is a red sandy loam and
very productive. 1 think this is
the best corn country in the
southwest. The Washita river
runs through the valley a Geor
gia man who lives near me said
he made 83 bushels of corn to the
acre, on 26 acres. I would think
about half that amount would be
an average crop. .
There are lots of Georgia peo
ple here. I meet up with them
often. I tell the people land is
too high here. You can’t buy it
unless you have plenty of money.
1 mean you can’t pay for it. Ybu
buy anything you want in Okla
homa whether you have the cash
or not, so you have a pretty good
face. Deeded land sells from
S4O to SIOO per acre, according
to distance from town, railroad,
improvements etc.
Wages are high, also and ev
erything in proportion. But as
some fellow said from Texas, ev
ery sweet has its bitter. The
wind blows and the sand does
too.
The people are alright here on
schools. They have compulsory
education ami you have to send
so many months in a year or pay
i fine. A small country school
mar me has eleven hundred dol
lars in the treasury. With the
amount of school land on hand
Oklahoma can run her schools a
long time without taxing the peo-
P l ''- ~
This is a fine stock country. 1
have seen some of the finest
horses here I ever saw, and hogs
and cattle. Alfalfa grows well
hi re and is a paying crop when
the weather is so you can sow it.
It’s about knee high now. Corn
is looking very well. Most people
have worked their com except
where they planted over.
1 see in your paper people are
getting a late start in Georgia in
farming. This has been a dry
spring in Oklahoma and is dry
Corn is worth 60 cents, pork
vet, except local showers/
6>_>, flour 3.50, and other stuff in
proportion. Mules and horses
are about like they are in Geor
gia. Cattle are higher. It’s no
trouble to sell a good cow for SSO
I would like to be at some of
those all-day singings that 1 am
hearing about in Georgia.
If you people in Chattooga are
ever out this way hunt us up.
The latch string hangs on the
outside.
Yours Respt.
GEO. D. MORTON.
Remember the school meeting
at the Hiles Hall Friday after
noon and be sure to attend.
It is just as easy to throw roses
as stones and a lot more satis
factory.
Alcohol and Tuberculosis
There is no more fatal error in
which the tubercular patient may
fall than that alcohol retards the
waste of the disease; aud yet it
is very common error. How often
we have heard it said of some
man. “Well he had to drink li
quor because he was consumptive
and the doctors told him lie could
not live without it." It is even
held by some to be a preventa
tive measure—if there is con
sumption in any branch of the
family a weak person is told to
take toddies and milk punches to
keep it off. Instead of keeping
it off. it is much more likely to
bi ing it on. for alcohol wrecks
the nerves and paralyzes the
defensive function of the white
blood cells and lung tissue. It
is upon this quality in the blood
that we must depend for resist
ance to all sorts of contagious or
infectious disease, and from that
reason habitual drinkers are more
liable to them than others.
The fact is that alcohol will
neither prevent tuberculosis, nor
nt ard its progress, nor cure it.
Indeed, by impairing and weaken
ing the digestive functions of
the body it tears down the last
defense and nbs the patient of
his chance of reeoverv.—Georgia
w. t. c. r.
SOUTH SUMMERVILLE.
J. ('. Scoggins and family spent
Sunday with relatives near Penn
ville.
Mrs. P. C. Cash was indisposed
the first of the week,
first of the week.
Mrs. Mahan of near Raccoon
is on a several days visit to rela
tives here.
Mrs. H. A. Mathis and children
are spending this week in Rome.
We are glad to welcome the es
timable family of Air. Denton who
moved Tuesday from Lafayette
into the new residence of Mr.
Broom on Congress street.
Mrs. S. E. Strange and daugh
ter, Miss Madalene, were called
Io the bedside of the former’s
father, Mr. Al Hughes, at Rock
Springs Friday. They returned
Sunday and report Mr. Hughes
some better.
Miss Julia Johnson is adding
much to the, appearance of her
neat cottage on Union street by
putting on a new coat of paint
and adding seme improvements
on the roof.
Allen Strange and wife were
visiting in Trion Saturday and
Sunday.
NOTICE
I will be at New Antioch next
Saturday and Sunday at the reg
ular hours for services. Let all
the members be present.—T. J.
Ratliff.
NOTICE
Ail the members of Chelsea
(.'amp No. 333 are requested to be
present next Saturday night, May
15111. Business of importance.—
Bruce Perry, Secretary.
WAYSIDE
Born to Mr. and Mrs. S. P.
Smith last week a girl.
Miss Tennie Hendrix was the
guest of Miss Trudie Bullman
Sunday.
Mr, F. M. Dodd and family of
Bolling attended Sunday school
here Sunday.
Will Martin and Alfred Mar
low of Gore were visiting 0. D.
Bulhnan Sunday.
Miss Georgia Alexander of Sum
merville was visiting Air. and
Mrs. Will Alexander last week.
Mark Brown spent Saturday
night with Arney Hendrix.
Mr. Doster and family, of Mar
tindale, spent Sunday with the
family of S. P. Smith.
Mr. Pearce and wife of Trion
spent Saturday and Sunday with
(Ittss Pearce.
Mr. Simeon Palmour, Jr., and
.Master Ross Smith of Spring
Creek attended Sunday School
here Sunday.
There will be an all-day sing
ing at Spring Creek next Sunday
Everybody invited to come and
bring well filled baskets.
"Billie."
Tha Plant's Eyee.
The eyes of a plant are in the
leaf. The upper and lower sur
faces of leaves are covered by a
thin, transparent skin, which in
many cases can be peeled off easily.
When examined under the micro
scope this skin is seen to consist of
innumerable compartments, or cells,
many thousands of which are found
on a single leaf. They contain a
clear, watery sap, and their shape
is such that they behave like or
dinary convex or piano convex
lenses, the rays of light which fall
upon them being converged and
brought to a focus in the substance
of the leaf. According to Professor
Haberlandt, these cells enable the
plant to perceive the difference be
tween light and dark and set up a
stimulus which results in the move
ment of the leaf into such a posi-.
tion that it can obtain the maxi
mum amount of light.
Fruitless Effort.
A certain venerable citizen of a
Pennsylvania city entertains no
high esteem of his eldest daughter’s
musical abilities.
There being a guest one evening,
the old gentleman was, to his dis
gust, compelled to spend an entire
evening in the “parlor,” while his
daughter accomplished her whole
repertory for the edification of the
stranger.
“Ah.” said the latter, turning to
the old man when one selection had
been achieved, “there are some
songs that will never die!”
“You’re right,” growled the old
man. “Al v daughter puts in a good
deal of her time trying to kill ’em,
but unavailingly. sir, unavailingly!”
—Harper’s Weekly.
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A PRETTY VERMONT HOME.
Capt. Hutchinson is a
Stanch Friend of Peruna, X sr \
Made so by Personal IlilA’k
Experience. ••'
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Chronic Catarrh and Throat Trouble. 5
' “It gives me pleasure to write you this letter at this time on account of the ' >
' good your Peruna has done me when I was quite done up with a very bad cold.
“I could hardly perform my ordinary duties, but from the use of Peruna
I am almost restored to health. \
“I am quite convinced that it has helped me from chronic catarrh,to i
which lam subject. It has also benefited my throat. i'
2 “I can truly recommend it as the best all-round medicine it has been my ;>
' privilege to become acquainted with. Os this I am quite convinced from mj ?
'» own experience.”—Capt. Lemuel M. Hutchinson, Montpelier, \ t.
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Mr. J. W. Pritchard, Columbia City,
Ind., writes: “I am pleased to say that
I have been of catarrh of the
stomach by Peruna.
“I could hardly eat anything that
agreed with me. Before I would get
half through my meal my stomach
would fill with gas, causing me much
distress and unpleasant feelings for an
hour or two after each meal.
“But, thanks to your Peruna, I am
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thing I want to without any of the dis
tressing symptoms. I can now enjoy
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»>lt has been one year since / w«s
DR. GEO. B. WOOD
Optometrist and Optician
309 Broad street, Rome, Ga.
Examines Eyes thoroughly
Relieves Eyestrain, Headaches,
tired and inflamed eyes, or de
fective vision.
Every kind of Spectacle and
Eye Glasses Sold
Does lens grinding aud gives
best service to be had. Dupli
cates any lens and repairs glass
es promptly.
Everything guaranteed. Ab
solutely reliable.
Don’t ruin your eyes and un
dermine your health. ‘See Dr.
Wood at once.
Discharge from Guardianship
GEORGlA—Chattooga county.
F. S. Lee, guardian of Fannie
T/Lee, has applied to me for a
discharge from his guardianship
of Fannie T. Lee. This is there
fore tc notify all persons concern
ed to file their objections if any
they have on or before the first
Monday in June next, else he
will be discharged from his guar
dianship as applied for.
Tliis Aiay 3rd. 1909.
J. P. JOHNSTON, Ordinary.
H. D. M ALLICO AT
Dealer in
f Fresh and Cured Meats
Breakfast Bacon, Canvassed Hams, Skinned Hams
Nice Fresh Steaks, Roasts, Stews, Pork Chops
Sausage, Etc.
Soft Drink, Tobaccos, Cigars
cured, and 1 am all O. K.. yet, so 1 know
■, 1 am cured.”
t A Nervous Breakdown.
e Mr. Lewis Zim, editor and proprietor
of “St. Augustine Meteor,” writes:
t “Any man in public work finds at
t times that he is under a peculiar nerve
li strain. I found that with it I tost my
h appetite, and my Torain seemed to work
a unceasingly during waking and sleep
ing hours, so I was tired and worn out
n in the morning.
■- “Tonics and invigorators were sug
i- gested and tried, but nothing was of ben
y efit to me but Peruna. That is cer
-11 tainly a remarkable medicine. I was
d restored in three weeks to my normal
healthy condition, my appetite returned
s and my sleep was refreshing.”
Twelve Months Support
GEORGlA—Chattooga county.
Tennie Mclntosh having made
application for twelve months suf
port out of the estate of Thomas
Mclntosh and appraisers duly ap
pointed to set apart the same,
having filed their return,' all per
sons concerned 'are hereby re
quired to show cause before the
court of ordinary of said county
on the first Monday in June,
1909, why said application should
not be granted.
This 3rd day of May, 1909.
J. I*. JOHNSTON, Ordinary.
TRANS
Farmers are very badly behind
with their crops on account of so
; much rain.
Bro. Burgess filled his regular
. appointment at East Armuehee on
last Sunday.
Miss Fanie Price is indisposed.
Ben Joe Robinson and Jimmie
Coulter were visiting at Trans last
Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Jessie Wyatt was visiting
at Trans last Saturday night.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Clement were
shopping in Rome last week.
John Keown of Alabama was
mingling with friends here last
week.
The singing at East Armuehee
has been changed from the first
I Sunday to the fourth.
The young people enjoyed an
entertainment Saturday night
given by the Misses Rush in hon
or of Miss Rubie Coulter of La
fayette.
Mesdames L. P. Keith and W.
Price were shopping in Lafayette
Monday. PAT.