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The total government receipts
for March were 244,761,500
which left a balance of $3,000,000
above expenditures. This is
less, than half the surplus for
Match 1903, The total net pub¬
lic debt, after counting the cash
in the treasury, is $915,422,001.
There is enough fighting ma¬
terial in the Democratic party to
whip the devil and all his cohorts,
but the pity of it all is, our backs
are to the common enemy--the
Republican party—and our fight
ing side is in action
brothers within our own
Monticello Courier.
Of course this means defeat
every time.
What a pity the heroes of the
navy sigh for political honors.
Dewey, the hero of Manilla, has
almost disappeared from the pub¬
lic mind since he offered himself
for the presidency and now
Merrimac Hobson, who kissed
himself into fame, has been de¬
feated in the Congressional race
in Alabama by Congressman
Bankhead:—Jackson Argus.
“I luvvo used Chamberlain's Stomach
and Liver Tablets with most, satisfacto¬
ry results,” says Mrs. F. L, Phelps,
Houston, Texas. For indigestion, bil¬
iousness and constipation those tablets
am most excellent. Sold by Lewis Drug
Co.
The editor ol the Marietta
Journal soliloquizes thus: “Pol¬
itics makes strrnge bedfellows.
Men favor a candidate in one race
and fight him in the next. Poli¬
tics can stir up more bad feeling
and create more enmity between
friends than anything else. If
religion could get the same hold
on men as politics does it would
revolutionize the w r orld.’’
At a meetipg of the Brooks
County Pair Association held i.i
Quitman last week it was decided
to make an exhibit of Brooks
county syrup at the St. Louis
Exposition this year. A com¬
mittee composed of Dr. W. A.
Davis, chairman; Jose ph Mafr
bett, R. L. Groover, L G. Stanley,
E. J. Young and W. T. Gaulden
was appointed to formulate plans
for making this exhibit with an
estimate of cost of same and
present the plans to the next
meeting of the association to be
held April 22.
Editor Jones, of the Aberdeen
(Miss.) Examiner, says “it must
be remembered that the substitu¬
tion of the blanket scars roll, for
the old knapsack, now adopted
by all nations, was introduced by
the Confederates in the first year
of the civil war; that they were
the first to employ torpedoes in
war, the first to build an iron-clad
and the first to use submarine
boats and torpedoes. The Con •
federate States was the most pro
gressive of all warlike powers in
the advancement of military con¬
veniences and appliances.”
There is too much nagging go¬
ing on in the Democratic party.
It is alright for a newspaper to
say all it can to boost its own
choice of candidates for the nom¬
ination, but it is mighty poor
Democratic policy to be nagging
and belittling other candidates
There has been so much of this
sort of thing done this year that
it is to be feared that the Demo¬
cratic nomination for the presi¬
dency will not be wb'rth having
by the time the convention meets
at St. Louis.—Albany Herald.
Serious Stomach Trouble Cured
I was troubled with a distress in my
stomach, sour stomach and vomiting
spoils, and can truthfully say that Cham¬
berlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets
cured me—Mrs. T. V. Williams, Laings
burg, Mich, These tablets are guaran¬
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ble of this character For sale by Lewis
Drug Co.
PRUSSIC ACID.
It I* th« Moat Deadly Poison
to the Chemist.
Said a well known
“There are very few people
fully understand the action of
drocyanic or prussic acid. It is
deadliest poison known to the chem¬
ist, and its manufacture in
form is absolutely prohibited by
law. The acid is made from peach
leaves and peach kernels, the latter
being onds, better known as b'itter alm¬
though a modified form of
it is evolved from wild cherry bark
and is used in sirups to subdue
coughs. The diluted form employ¬
ed for prescriptions is kept in a
of tightly closed bottle and case and
course is rarely drawn upon. Six
drops of prussic acid in half a glass
of water will produce death in a sec¬
ond, perhaps before the suicide has
time to set down the glass. Its
fumes alone will bring instant
death.
“The diluted prussic acid is com¬
posed of ferrocyanide of potash, sul¬
phuric acid, alcohol and water. The
proportions acid are about 2 per cent
and 98 per cent water, alcohol
and sulphuric acid. It is this enor¬
mous proportion of water which
gives which to it the name of hydrocyanic,
signifies nearly all water.
“Another interesting fact about
prussic acid is that its presence can¬
not be discovered in the body. Its
action is directly upon the blood,
which it turns black. It then rap¬
idly evaporates, and in a few hours
the blood returns to a condition in¬
cident to natural death. This is
why postmortem examinations on
prussic acid suspects never result in
a discovery.”—St. Louis Republic.
Galway's Four Gates.
In the ancient city of Galway
there were four gateways, with pro¬
tecting towers. These gates looked
north, south, east and west respec¬
tively and were built to ward off at¬
tacks from the four warlike and war
each loving tribes that dwelt around. On
gate was a motto, alliterative
and pregnant with meaning. The
north gate bore this inscription,
“From the ferocious O’Fla her.ties,
good Lord deliver us.” On the west
gate was, “From the murderous
O'Muddems, good Lord preserve us.”
The prayer over the south gate read,
“From Lord defend the devilish us.” The O'Dalys, good and
eastern
last gate bore for its motto, “From
the cutthroat OTvellvs, good Lord
save and keep us.” But the gates
proved very little protection against
the four terrible tribes, and “fero¬
cious O’Flaherties,” “murderous
O'Maddens,” “devilish O’Dalys” and
“cutthroat O’Kellys” frequently
stuffed their philabeg pouches with
the good mi gold of the Galway
burghers. ,
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Longevity of Animals.
Statistics of the longevity of ani¬
mals may not be very accurate, Jmt
they the larger are interesting of reading. Among is
species cattle there
some for approach to uniformity. Thus
the horse and donkey the ex¬
treme limit is about thirty-five years
and for horned cattle about thirty.
For the dog it is given as twenty
five, while sheep, goats, pigs and
cats are grouped at fifteen. Among
birds the disparities in length q£ life
are very remarkable. While a goose
may live to he thirty years of age,
a sparrow- twenty-five and a crow a
hundred, ducks, hens and turkeys
die of old age at twelve. The palm
for longevity is divided between both the
elephant and the parrot, which
often pass the century. The swan
and the eagle are also very long
lived.
The Sale of Cut Flowers.
The sale of cut roses in the Unit¬
ed States amounts to about $6,000,
£00 per year; carnations, $4,000,
000 ; violets, short $750,000; chrysanthe¬
mums, a season crop, $700,
000. The annual production is es¬
timated at about 100,000,000 each
for roses and carnations and 500,
000,000 for violets. These arc the
four leading flowers in the United
States, and among leads, them the carna¬
produced tion undoubtedly and as it cheaply can be
sold more
than the rose, and its keeping qual¬
ities are very much greater.
An Apt Illustration.
Wife—What is meant, John, by
the phrase “carrying coals to New¬
castle?” Husband—It is a meta¬
phor, my dear, showing the doing of
something —I that is unnecessary. Wife
don’t exactly understand. Give
me an illustration—a familiar one.
I Husb and—Well, if I was to b ring
you home a "book entitled “How to
Talk,” that would be carrying coals
to Newcastle.
Sure Thing.
“Rather a clever poem,” said the
“Do editor, handing know back the manuscript. of
you who is the author
those lines?”
“Of course,” replied the proud fa¬
ther. “Didn’t I tell you my 6on
wrote ’em ?”
“But are you sure he did ?”
“Sure! Don’t you suppose I know
his handwriting?”
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Among a \r the V Kolanans "i ° U of Bengal i
engagement gagement is a matter of minutes
only. A lad sees the lass of his
choice carrying a fuil pitcher from
the weli. He steals beliind her and
lets fly an arrpw between the crock
and the arm that holds it. It is as
if he should say: “Go on, beloved,
without fear. My bow shall protect
thee and clear for thee a road
through ill life.” If the lass thinks
of the lad’s suit, she continues
her journey and takes no notice,
but if, on the other hand, she be fa¬
vorably disposed when she reaches
the arrow she daintily raises it be¬
tween her great and second toes and
offers it, with a low bow, to her hus¬
band, as he is from that moment.
No country in the world has such
hemia. abnormally long courtships as Bo¬
cially Among the peasantry espe¬
and engagements lasting fifteen
call twenty years are so common as
to for no remark whatever.—
Family Doctor.
Couldn’t Bluff Him.
“It was right funny,” said Uncle
Hosea, telling of the orchestral con¬
cert. “A smart aleck lookin’ feller
set in the middle, an’ all ter oneet
the little man at the end o’ the line
hit the big drum a sassy rap. Well,
the smart aleck feller shakes a little
stick at the drummer, an’ what does
he do but hit her up ag’in just to
show ho was as good as tlie next
man. An’, by jinks, he didn’t take
no hack talk, or, rather, no orders,
from the smart aleck man, because
he jest kept on a-whackin’ that big
drum in spite o’ the boss’ shakin’
that stick, as if to say he'd catch it
if he didn’t quit. Yes, sir: I gloried
in his spunk, if lie was little. An’
at the end o’ (he tune he whooped
it up on that drum harder than ever. 1
A little man fer nerve every time.”
—Judge. ..................
Wanted to Know.
Bertie—Pa, a little stream is a
streamlet, isn’t it?
Pa—Yes, Bertie.
Bertie—Wgll, pa, is a cutlet a lit¬
tle cut and a hamlet a little ham and
a giiplct a little gim and a pam¬
phlet a little pamph ?
Pa—Oh, go away, Bertie! I want
a little quiet.
Bertie—Well, why didn’t you say
you wonted a quietltst?
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Camilla, Georgia. ■ Pelham, Georgia.
WHAT ARE WOMEN?
Weaker or Stronger Than Men or
sentially Different?
If we fully admit the idea of
merely man as through a citizen toleration, by right and
we
at once to the most interesting of
all questions—the inherent likeness
or unlikeness of the intellectual
of the two sexes. Are women,
Tennyson * 7 said, only “weaker men,
whose w J 09e intellects are and to + presumably ours “as
moonlight unto sunshine and as wa
ter unto wine?” Or are they, as
sometimes maintained, really the
fitron f especially L J in the moral
quali ieg? 0r , t 0 take a third possi .
bility, are they essentially different
—different, for instance, as poetry
is different from algebra? So that
it becomes absurd to say either that
poetry is better than algebra or that
algebra is better than pnetry.
We have here perhaps a genuine
clew. To put this in a concrete
man’s mind intellectually conceives
the idea of a house and* makes an
abstract plan of it, as architect; this
is the intellect, the first of our three
groups of powers. Again, men do
the actual building, the matter of
bricks and mortar, th%. grappling
with the sheer nature forces. Thus
the man builds the house, but wom¬
an makes the home.
The difference between a house
and a home is the added psychic el¬
ement. It is a matter of feeling,
yet here feeling, we will all admit,
is the vital matter.
This is merely a simile. We have
not used it to arrive at the platitude
that “woman’s sphere is the home”
and that consequently she should
keep out of politics. On the con¬
trary, we hold and by this instance
sought to illustrate that into every
completed elements work of humanity all
three should enter—the in¬
tellectual, or spiritual; the element
of concrete feeling, or psychic, and
the material and physical—and that
in general men will supply the first
and the third, while women will
supply ly. ' the second.—Harper’s Week¬
Read the Enterprise.
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Hi« Synonym.
A Chinese boy who works in a
Philadelphia laundry and. who is
studying English had occasion the
“young jAher day to write who a is letter hi3 Sunday to the
woman
school teacher. Not wishing to be¬
gin his letter in the stereotyped way
with “Dear Miss,” for he considered
her worthy of something special, he
took his English dictionary to look
up an equivalent for the word “dear.” -
His teacher was much surprised
and highly edified when she opened
the letter. This is the way it began :
“Expensive Miss.”—Youth.
The Devout Heir.
Years ago a millionaire died in
Paris. At churchy while the priests
dead were reciting the prayers for the
over the body, all the mourn¬
ers were edified by the fervor with
which one of the heirs was reading
out of a book which he held in his
hand and which was supposed to be
a collection of prayers for the de¬
glance parted. A neighbor, happening to
at it, discovered that the lit¬
tle volume was nothing more nor
less than a copy of the civil code,
open at the chapter on successions.
When Birds Face the Wind.
The arboreal sparrows, vireos and
many other smaller birds usually sit
upon nests built on horizontal limbs,
with the head from the trunk, and
when the nest is much elevated the
position is usually chosen so that the
sitter will mee the prevailing wind.
Birds will nearly always when on or
off the nest face the wind, and if ob¬
servations are taken nearly all birds
on the nest will be found in one po¬
sition if a strong wind is blowing.
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When you take Groves Tasteless Chill
To lie because the formula is plainly
printed on every bottle showing that it
is simply Iron and Quinine in a tasteless
form. No Cure, No pay. 50c.
Wanted— One second hand
10x15 Gordon press with throw
off: must be in A1 condition:
send description, price, etc., to
Printer, Camilla, Ga.