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The Summerville News Publiah&d Every Thursday. BY THE NEWS PUBLISHING CO. * O. J. Espy, Editor and Manager Tbkmh of Subscription: One Year. 11.00 Bix Months Thr ■-.e Months Advertising Rates will be Made Known on Application. Entered at the Summerville Post Office as Second Class Mail Matter. 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. - • —•*— • 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. ■ II ■ 1— 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. - * » 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. The News’ Job department is prepared to do all kinds of com mercial printing in a neat and attractive style. Come in and let us figure with you on your printing. A PRETTY VERMONT HOME. Capt. Hutchinson is a Stanch Friend of Peruna, X sr \ Made so by Personal IlilA’k Experience. ••' HUTCHINSON. ' W® // MONTPELIER, VT. fSggggl, , £ gMW W A Hi w-wfe LU L- all. IM I A _ ■ r ■ ■ -,-v I -- ■ The Home of Captain Hutchinson, of Wont .P^s^l_ V _ t 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. Can Now Eat Anything. 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 now completely cured, and can eat any thing I want to without any of the dis tressing symptoms. I can now enjoy my meals as I used to do, and it is all due to Dr. Hartman and his wonderful medicine, Peruna. »>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.