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The Smax Pox Situation ol Georgia. The .email pox situation con¬ tinues fto give Dr. Harris, secre¬ tary of state Board of health, great uneasiness. Few people ih the state realize the extent to which the disease has spread. Nearly every county in mid¬ dle aud southern Georgia has been afflicted. Dr. Hopkins says the disease is not of such a mild type as is generally supposed, and he is of the opinion that the deaths from the malady in the State will average one every day. “I have performed autopsies on person# who have died of al¬ most every disease,” said Dr. Harris, “even leprosy, and there is nothing that I have ever seen that is as horrible as a death from small pox. It is too shock¬ ing to mention, and far too shocking for publication. If the people could know small pox as the doctors know it they would fly to vacinnation for refuge and proteotion.” It is strange that in an intelli¬ gent state like Georgia there should be opposition to vacinna¬ tion, and yet that is the only thing that prevents the disease from being stamped out speedily. County officials promise to en¬ force vacinnation and then fail to do so. They are afraid of an¬ tagonism, and the people of their own and other counties suffer. The state board of health has no authority to enforce vacinnation by penalty and the only thing that can be done is to threaten quarantine. That is effective sometimes in bringing the peo¬ ple to their senses, but it is not fair to those who submit to vac¬ cination, and if it wore general would paralize the business of the 6tate. The effect of vaccination was shown in Houston county. Fort Valley people had been living under enforced vaccination and when the disease spread ali over the rest of Houston county and there were hundreds and even thousands of cases, it went right up to the incorporate limits of Fort Valley and stopped. On the I2th of October Dr. Har¬ ris went to Albany on a tour of inspection, and found a negro who was visiting some relatives and who had smallpox. The au¬ thorities refused to enforce vac¬ cination. In a few ^weeks there were hundreds of cases in the town, ar.d it is said that at one time there were as many as five Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tome has stood the test 25 years. Average Annual Sales over One and a Half Million Notice! Look 'Tlxiss Way. I have formed a partnership with Mr. D. B Holton in the matter of Collections, Lumber, Shingles, Sash, Doors, Blinds, Mantles, Brackets, Banisters, Columns, Brick and all kinds of finishing material to build a dwelling, and we therefore solicit your collections and trade. We guarantee prices and just Treatment. Looking c’o-”ly to the interests of our customers in points of colle r -:i u= and sales. T - r e sell s'.rietly for cash as we pay cash for all Ma¬ terial. Yours for Business* Rachals Holton. & hundred. Finally vaccination was enforced, and recently it was stated that the city was clear of the disease. There is no saying how long smallpox will trouble the state. Nothing can stop it except vac¬ cination. for it is easily commu¬ nicated by clothing shipped from one part of the state to the other and proper disinfection is very uncommon. Dr. Harris tells of a man who had a broken leg in Iowa and who was placed in a house in which it w r as not then recalled there had ever been any smallpox. The man had not been exposed to the disease, yet in a few days he developed a case. Investigation disclosed that while lying on his bed the man had pulled a peg from the wall and f and in the hole a sma’l rag which he threw upon the floor. Still further investigation showed that twenty eight years before a man had smallpox in the house, and it 13 supposed the rag which the man with the broken leg had pulled from the hole in the wall had been used about the man who had smallpox. The disease can be caught by persons excavating graves of those who have died of the disease. Statistics show that only about 7 per cent, of those properly vaccinated ever contract the disease. The best physic. “Once tried and you will always use Cham¬ berlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets,” says William A. Girard, Pease, Vt. These Tablets the most prompt, most pleasant and most reliable cathartic in For sale by Lewis Drug Co. Rates to St. Louis. The South Eastern Passenger Agents Association at a recent meeting announced the follow¬ ing rates to St- Louis during Exposition: First. So-called season tick* ets will be on sale 1 daily, begin¬ ning April 25and throughout period of the exposition, with final limit of Dec. 15, on 80 per cant, of double one way fare. Second. Tickets bearing limit of sixty days to go on sale daily beginning April 25 and throughout the ppriod of the ex¬ position with a final limit of Dec. 15, on the basis of one and one third fares round trip Third. A rate was considered on basis of one fare, plus $2, for for round trip for tickets bearing a lir.it of ten days to go on sale daily, beginning April 25 and throughout the period of the ex¬ position with a limit of Dec- 15. A Blaat Fr#m Labouch*r«. I am not a connoisseur of philos¬ ophy any more than fine of poetry. Much that passes as philosophy strikes me as very poor stuff, and whenever I have formed this opin¬ ion about the writings of any par¬ ticular philosopher I have found that some other philosopher, fre¬ quently view. more I than one, takes the same suppose it is as easy to set up as a philosopher as to set up as a journalist. The first essen¬ tials—after pen, ink and papor— are a smattering of general knowl¬ edge and the power of concealing poverty of thought by grandiloquent obscurity of expression. A oew sys¬ tem of philosophy—and the fash¬ ions in such goods change almost as quickly as in bonnets—is generally constructed by clothing threadbare ideas in new words and phrases and contradicting one or more of the ac¬ knowledged masters of the craft, an¬ cient or modern.—London Truth. A Breslau Court Incident. Breslau was the scene of a pain¬ ful passage of arms between a judge and a prisoner recently. “You’re an impertinent scamp,” said the judge. “Sir,” hissed the prisoner, “if you were not a judge I would give you a thrashing for that.” “If you care to hear what I am going to give you,” replied the judge, “ft is three days’ imprisonment for unbe¬ coming behavior.” "And, talking of unbecoming behavior," said the prisoner, “what do you think of a judge who sentences a man before consulting a jury?" The jury ac¬ quitted the prisoner. Relief in One Minute. One Minute Cough Cure gives re¬ lief in one mipute, because it kills the microbe which tickles the mu¬ cous membrane, causing the cough, and at the same time clears the phlegm, draws out the inflammation and heals and soothes the affected parts. One Minute Cough Cure strengthens (he lungs, wards off pneumonia and is a harmless and never fail¬ ing cure in all curable cases of coughs, colds and croup. One Minute Cough Cure is pleasant to take, harmless and good alike for young and old. Sold by Lew¬ is Drug Co. Congressman Hepburn's Seat. Congressman Hepburn of Iowa is nearly always unlucky in drawing a seat, but of late years he has been able to retain his old seat, the mem¬ ber drawing it always exchanging with him. When he first entered the house he drew about the worst sent in the lot. As he sat down there he was grumbling inwardly over his bad luck, when he looked across the hall and saw the discon¬ solate face of the man whom he had beaten for the nomination and whom he succeeded in congress. Then he thought, “I’ll bet that fel¬ low would be satisfied with even this seat,” and at once ceased to feel bad about his luck. Da Witt's*T.°.tSalve For Piles, Burns, Sores. ILLINOIS CENTRAL R. R. WORLD’S FAIR ROUTE Will sell daily during March and April .. Cheap Tickets . . ...TO... California, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Colorado And other points in the West and Northwest. No Transfers. Free Chair Cars Double Track Railroad. For Guide Books, Rates, and all information Address Fred D. Miller, Traveling Passenger Agent, No. 1 Brown Building, Atlanta, Ga. NOTICE:—One good family and farm horse for sale on easy terms. Apply to T. B. Beck. Ha high Lamar, The Leading Blacksmith, Corner Scott and N. Broad Sts. Is prepared to do first-class work Blacksmithing. General Repairing. Horse=shoeing, | and . . When in need of work call on me. Southern Mutual Life Insurance Association ' Home Office 305-6 Century Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. ALLEN D. CAND: EP, President. H. W. BELL, Treasurer. fiO. N. HOLDER, Secretary _____ The only Company offering to the public absolutely sound and reliable Insurance at actual cost; The only Company authorized by its charter to write Insurance on its plan; And the only Company operating on this plan in this State, the payment of whose policies is guaranteed by a deposit ol securities in the State Treasury. Any other company offering a policy similar to ours is doing a business nnau thorized by its charter and the payment of its policies is unsecured either by. deposit of securities in the State Treasury or otherwise. A policy ia The Southekn Mutual is as safe and sound as a United State* days, bond, aud aud is paid, not only in six sixty or ninety dollars days after thousand, proof of while ilmdi, the buc “old in thru line’ costs you to ten on the companies The charge you 582. New York money you pay it does not go to Chicago or of neve- t-» r-.n.riv but evory dollar of it remains in Gi«rgia aud nearly all it in your own cou.uj in the hands of one of your o-vjj - u.jzens, who is under a heavy bond, guarau tood by tho Fidelity and Depot ' .'onnmny of Maryland, of the strongest one surety companies in America ; a,.tl is paid out, not i i extravagant sa’nrios a h expenses, but only to tho beret ' 1 widow and orphans of your nright-.r yourself, when death claims j„ a No surer provision pan bo made for im comfort of one's family when he n lead, aud you may die tomorrow. Who knows? “In the midst of life we i . in death.” Leon Perry, Dist. Agent, Camilla, Ga. FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE AGENCY. LIFE—Protect your family from want by securing a policy in the Mutual Life Ins. Co., of New York. Careful Investments, Have made this com¬ Liberality to the Insured, pany the Prompt payment of claims, Largest, Strongest and The most liberal form of policy, Best in the World....... Loans to the Insured ***** M. £>• Ilttsli, Agent. In the Baltimore fire the Continental Ins. Co. suffered losses likely to amount to $750,000 or 2800,000. Vice-Pres. Lanning with a foice of four adjusters is in chargo aid every obligation will be promptly met. The Continental’s net surplus after the payment of these losses will exceed six million dollars. Assets Jan. 1, 1904, $14,197,177 63. Fire, Rent and Tornado Policies Written. The Rochester-German Ins. Co , Assets over $1,509 000 of Rocnester, N. Y. Liberal, Conservative, Reliable. M. E. BUSH & CO„ Agents. \ Notice! ...the... | \ “ Camilla Pressing Club, FIRST-CLASS WQRK •<__Your Patronage Solicited by A. W. WILLIAMS, Practical Repairer, Cleaning, Dyeing and Pressing Gent’s clothing of all kinds. [/J7 I dye any goods any color. Speolal ser clothing clothing ’ Ladies’ Ladies’ a a specialty. specialty. Flint RiVer & North-eastern Ry. Co. Ijffeotl ve February 4tl» 1004, 10(60 a. m. No. 3, No 1 Daily Miles Miles No 2 Daily No i A. M. STATIONS DM 10 30 0 Lv Pelham Ar 25 4 30 10 35 1 Wilma 24 4 25 1100 6 Maples 18 4 04 1108 9 Hinson 15 3 56 1112 11 Florida 13 3 51 11 17 13 Akridge 11 3 43 11 25 15 Sale City 9 3 35 1140 18 Tuton 6 3 20 12 00 24 Ar Tichnor Ar 1 300 25 Doerun 0 Connections: JVo. 1 Pelham Ga:, Atlantic Coast Line. No 2 Tichnor Ga., Georgia Northern By. J. W. Byrd, Gen. Man. D. M. Rogers, Gen. Su t.