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County Directory. Superior Court Officers. W N Spence, Judge. 3V E Wooten, Solicitor General. E M Davis, stenographer. S E Cox, clerk. I Smith, sheriff. Court sessions Tuesday after 3rd Monday in April and October. City Court Officers. I A Bush, Judge. S S Bennet, Solicitor pro tem. S E Cox, i lerk. i Court sessions on 2nd Monday in January, April, July and tober. Commissioners— T. R. Bennett, Chairman, Wyatt Adams, A. B. Joiner, J. W. Everett, and G. Wood, clerk. Regular meet¬ ing second Tuesay in month. > Ordinary’s court every Monday J. G. Wood, Ordinary. County Officers. J. L. Stewart, Tax collector. G. T. Akridge, Tax Receiver, jonah palmer, Treasurer. Samuel Lucky, surveyor. Green Spence, Coroner. Board of Education. J P Heath, Chairman, Ga. Nat Bradford, Pelham, Ga. J T Glausier, Bacomon, Ga. W E Davis, Meigs, Ga J B Lewis. Camilla, Ga. J H Powell, C. S. C. Camilla, Ga. CITY DIRECTORY, Mayor—J. H. Palmer Mayor Pro-tem—M. O. Bennett. Conncilmen—M. O. Bennett, H. Dasher, Sr., A. B. Joiner, F. S. J. C. Turner, C. E. Watt. Clerk—J. L. Cochran. Treasurer—C. L. Taylor. Marshal—J. K. Hilliard. Night Policeman—Raymond HIGH SCHOOL DIRECTORY. Board of Trustees—J. W. Butler, L. Cochran, F. L. Lewis, A. R. .T. H. Scaife, W. N. Spence, J. C. Secretary and Treasurer, C. L. Taylor. Church Chimes. Methodist Churoh— ITarney and Stephens Streets— Rev. C. T. Clark, pastor. Preach¬ ing second and fourth Sundays in each month at 11 o’clock, a. m 7:30 o’clock p. m. prayer meeting every Thursday evening at 7:30 o’clock. Sunday school every Sunday morning at 9.45 o’clock, I. A.. Bush, superintendent. Ep worth League every Sunday af¬ ternoon at 3:30 o'clock. The pub¬ lic corially invited to att end all church services. Baptist Church — Broad Street. Sunday school every Sunday morning at 9:30 o’clock; J. L. Cochran, superintendent. The general pnblic welcome to ail service!. Presbyterian Church - Broad St. Rev. Archie McLauchlin, pastor. Preaching on the third and fourth Sundays in each month at 11 o’¬ clock and at night. Prayermeet¬ ing every Tuesday night. Sun¬ day school at 9-30 a. m. All cor¬ dially invited to attend these meetings. Early Risers * THE FAMOUS LITTLE PILLS. ^ For quick relief from Biliousness, Sick Headache, Torpid Liver, Jaun¬ dice, Dizziness, and all troubles aris¬ ing from an inactive or sluggish liver, DeWitt’s Little Early Risers are un¬ equalled. They act promptly and never gripe. They are so dainty that it is a pleasure to take them. One to two act as a mild laxative: two or four act as a pleasant and effective cathartic. They are purely vegetable and absolutely harmless. They tonic the liver. PtlMlID 0 *LyVt C, C. DeWitt & Co., Chicago SOLD BY LEWIS DRUG The Cotton Crop 1904*05. (By Hon. Martin Y. Calvin.) The agricultural and manufac¬ turing situation, for obvious rea¬ sons, was never so interesting or vital as now. The purpose of this article is not to give the farmers^ advice. They do not need it. The sturdy men who wrought out of chaos, who have restored to the South, in aggregate amount, the for¬ tunes which were swept away by war; who have grappled with, and successfully solved, a larger number and a greater variety of difficult problems than were ever thrust upon the attention of any body of men in the world do not need advice. But they do need to participate in, and follow, the discussion, now in progress throughout this country and Eu¬ rope, of the issues involved in the situation with which they are now face to face. A portion of the press seems to be apprehensive lest the true price of cotton, (by someregarded as abnormally high,) should lead to a greatly increased acreage in the plant this year. Before touching upon that im¬ portant question, I wish to empha¬ size the fact that the crop of 1904 ’05 will command 12jc to l5c, with 15o as the average price for the entire crops rather than 12^u. The lack of cotton, not specu¬ lation, fixed the price of the crop 1903-’04. A comparatively small crop will hold the true price steady for 1904-’05. It would be perfectly natural under labor conditions which prevailed fifteen years ago, that the cotton acreage would be greatly increased. Existing con¬ ditions forbid resort to such poli¬ cy. More than that, existing c< nditions, which are a matter of growth not accident will permit the favorable consideration of such policy. Regardless of what he might like to do, there is not a farmer in Georgia, or in any of the eight strictly cotton states, who does not know that it would be ex¬ ceedingly unwise to attempt the acreage of last year, much less an increase of that acreage. Very recently the writer was in conference with representative agriculturalists from every Con¬ gressional district in this state— observant, conservative, gentle - men each of them. In reply to inquiry on my part, each report¬ ed that it was practically impos¬ sible to secure requisite farm la¬ bor so far as the negro is con¬ cerned. and that for this reason, if for no other, an increase in the cotton acreage is absolutely im¬ possible. Another important view: Cur¬ rent discussion has impressed up¬ on the minds of the farmers the fact that, on an average, the crop of 1903-’04 was not a profitable crop. Why? Because three acres of land were necessary to the production of one bale. There is no money in cotton unless the yield per acre be one half to three-quarters of a bale— a 500-pound bale. This is now generally accepted as a fact. Is labor scarce, difficult to en¬ gage, because of wages or be¬ cause of antagonism between landowners and laborer? Not at all. The younger negroes, who today constitute the body from which farm help is to be obtain¬ ed, are in a transition state and averse to the character of work necessary on a farm. That work is in no sense exhaustive, but it must be regular and persistent from the day the orop is pitched till it is haivested. The situation in Georgia is du¬ plicated in each of the states. Existing conditions would alarming, I had almost 9aid ap¬ palling, were it not for the inex¬ haustible resources and the un¬ faltering coyrage of :he farmers. Rest assured, the farmers will compass the situation and sum¬ marily relegate to the rear every difficulty, every obstacle that stands in their pathway. How? First, By .'educing the cotton acreage. Second, By a more thorough preparation of the soil, each acre a seed-bed by skillful use of improved, labor* saving farm implements. I want to run in a right heie in order to say through labor saving farm imple¬ ments and machinery, wondrous ly improved during the past de¬ cade, the labor problem will easily, most satisfactorily, profitably solved. Third, By the use of the seed, the earlier and more pro lific varieties preferred Fourth, By adopting the check system of planting—four feet three feet generally; in many in stances four feet by four feetdn stead of the old system of three feet rows and two feet drills. Fifth, By the freer and more liberal, i. e., intelligent applica¬ tion of high grade commercial fertilizers, rich in food especial¬ ly adapted to the plant. Sixth, By the best methods cultivation. Chemists who analyze soil and fertilizers, tell us that phospho¬ ric acid, nitrogen and potash are the elements in which generally the soil is more or less deficient. A long series of careful experi¬ ments have demonstrated, be¬ yond all doubt that the three ele¬ ments named sustain to one an¬ other a relationship that is ex¬ pressed by 3/ r 1: 1 ; Availaole phosphoric acid is supreme importance to cotton. Soil conditions considered, nitre gen stands next; potash next. The thought is to get a balan¬ ced ration, and feed it to plants, according to soil, at the rate of 300 to 4Q0 pounds or 450 to 500 pounds per acre—a 500 pound bale of cotton from eaen acre being the standard, toward which every effort should be per¬ sistently directed. Every farmer will, of course, cling to the old and sensible prac tice of spreading over his land, and ploughing in, all the stable and lot manure he can command, and leaf mould according to his judgement. Existing labor conditions can not be changed. By and by, we shall have a full quota of to spare. Meantime, the gentlemen in Georgia, and cotton states, who cheerfully be¬ gun workjon the farm January, 1904. will make a crop, they will, as a rule, make home in adundance. I bring you the assurance a larger number of young gentle¬ men in Georgia have turned to farm werk this than at any time in thirty years. I have given considerable tion to this feature of the tion, and I know that what I stated is a fact. It means for our grand old A greatly exaggerated idea, to the crop of the eleven 1889-’90 and 1899-1909, has into the public mind. It is that the crop of 1897-’98 ed to 11,199,994 (480 bales and that of 1898-’99 gated 11,274,810 (489 bales, but the average yield year, the eleven years, was than nine million bales. So tiu with ths two large crops ed, the actual average yieldj year, the eleven years, was 8,816,117 bales. With the most favorable sons, the crop of 1904-’05 can possibly exceed ten million if, by chance, it should that number. The world’s necessitous de mand is nearer twelve than eleven million bales. The gravity of the situation, it relates to the cotton ers ot the world, was voiced the King of England, in his cent stated address from throne. His majesty touched upon the scarcity of ton and the unpromising for a large crop of American ton during the year under con¬ sideration, and probably for to ten years to follow No anxiety need be felt in country as to the renewed and re¬ doubled efforts which all proposes to put forth to grow own cotton, She cannot American cotton: that is genous to our soil, Europe tried cotton culture in 1861-’65. made then, as she can again make, cotton of a certain and grade, but it is lacking in the high quality of the American grown staple. 1 repeat an encouraging and controling fact: During the de¬ cade, 1890-1900, while the in¬ crease in the number of consumed was 61 per cent, the in¬ crease in the number of produced was only 29 per cent. Those figures are far from be¬ ing meaningless. In closing this article, I to stand uncovered in presence of the young gentlemen in Georgia and the South who, having put their hands to plough, will not turn back. immediate future of great perity and usefulness them. The slogan is: A acreage; one 500 pound bale, least, from each acre. Martin V. Calvin. Augusta, Ga., Feb. 18, 1904. HUNTER, PEARCE & BATTEY, Cotton Factors. Over 30 years experience. Expert Handlers ,gni Sea Island As well as * Upland Cotton. Liberal cash Advances against consignments. Money loaned to^cotton shippers on Approved se¬ curity. Large dealers in Sea Island and Upland Bagging, Sugar Cloth, Twine and Ties. WRITE FOR TERMS, 126 East Bay St. Savannah, Qa. Georgia Shell PPPANQ ■ CUrtllO Georgia Paper Shell. Paper Choice Lot of young trees for Winter and Spring Deliv¬ ery. One or two year old seedlings from finest va rities of nuts grown in my groves. Fine Trees BUDDED AND GRAFTED from my very best varieties. 20,000 “Commercial” seedlings for budding and grafting. Call and see my groves and nurseries. Write for catalogue and for Special prices on large orders. G..M Bacon DeWitt Ga. Smallpox Remedy. The following was sent to the Liverpool Mercury by Edward Almee: ‘ I am willing to risk mV reputation as a public man if the worsff case of smallpox canndfc be cured in three days, simply by the use of cream of tartar. ‘ One of of ounce cream tartar, dissolved in a pint of water and drank at intervals when cold; it is a certain, never failing reme¬ dy. It has cured thousands, never leaves a mark, never cause's blindness and avoids tedious lin* gering.” The foregoing remedy has bee it tested on this side of the water to a limited extent only, but with the same favorable result, it is said.—Memphis Scimitar. Tendency of the Times. The tendency of medical science is toward preventive measures. The best thought of the world is being given to the subjeot. It is easier and better to prevent than to cure. It has been fully demonstrated that pneumonia, one of the most dangerous dis¬ eases that medical men have td contend with can be prevented by the use of ^Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. Pneumonia al¬ ways results from a cold or from an attack of influenza (grip) and it has been observed that this remedy counteracts any tenden, cy of these diseases toward pneu¬ monia. This has been fully prov-; en in many thousands of cases in which this remedy has been used during the great prevalence of colds and grip in recent years and can be relied upon with im¬ plicit confidence. Pneumonia often results from a slight cold when no danger is apprehended until it is suddenly discovered that there is fever and difficulty in breathing and pains in the chest, then it is announced that the patient has pneumonia. Be on the safe side and take Cham¬ berlains Cough Remedy as soon as the cold is contracted. It al¬ ways cures. For sale by Lewis Drug Co.