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JOB WORK. THIS OFFSCE IS THE PLACE TO BRING IT TO IF YOU WANT STYLE. BY JAYNKJS, SUBLOlt, SMITH & STUCK. TO THINK OWN BBLF BE TRUE AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THE DAY, THOU OANS'T NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANY KAN. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, MARCH 23, 1890. ._:_ NEW SERIES, NO. 61.-VOMJBXK Ii;-NO. 12 MONEY IN FARMING. I m prov i njr Worn-nut Land-Grow lust Out ion for Leas Than Tin co Cents. Tho farmers of North Carolina aro entering a now era. For yoars many of them have longed and waited for tho restoration of high prices, now a thing of tho past. Cotton, ono of tho main crops, will novor go much abovo G cents. It is down to stay. There fore, tho problem hoforo the farmers of this section is not how to raise tho prices, but how to grow tho orop tho cheapest. If, as Mr. D. A. Tomp kins advocates, tho farmers can form companies, grow, gin, and manufac tnre their own cotton and cotton seed into^uiishcd products, roady for any market, then they will realize tho highest prico possible for cotton. No doubt, in days to conic, thora will be a cotton mill and cotton seed oil mill oom bined with ovory cotton gin in every community whero Boveral hundred bales of cotton jiro grown. If Btioh woro tho caso to-day, it would bo well for tho farmors. Ilowover, in thc meantime, tho farmers must go on and make tho best of their cot ton as handled now. Tho cheaper it in grown and prepared for tho mar ket tho moro profit there is in it for tho producer. Tho old syBtcm of buying supplies to mako cotton with is out of date. Tho moro stuff a farmer makes, tho bettor it ia for him. So muon has been said in tho pa pers about the 2-97-oent cotton raised by Mr. E. W. Brawley, on his farm near Mooresvillo, that Mr. Caldwell, of thc Observer, suggested that I go and look into Mr. Brawloy's methods. This I did a few days ago. Mr. Brawley is a young man, a son of Mr. D. C. Brawley, ono of Iredell county's most successful farmers and substantial citizens. In Juno, of 1891, Mr. E. VV. Hrawley graduated from tho University of North Caro lina with honors. The writer had the good fortune to know him inti mately while there. His aims and efforts in college were toward scour ing a first-rate English education. Though he took no special course preparatory to farming, he never for once gave up the desire of his boy hood. To be a successful farmer was tho height of his ambition. After leaving thc university he spent several months traveling abroad on a tour of observation. Ho is a very methodi cal, pains-taking worker. He keeps accurate accounts of his work. Hi? booka are as essential to him as the books of a manufacturing concern are to the mill. Ile is his own book keeper. When he buys a piece of land, ho opona'an account with it and charges it with all that goes on it and credits it with all that comos off. In look ing over the accounts of one farm I saw a credit of 12 rails that were taken to another farm. In riding over thc farms I was Struck with thu neat and healthy look of thc land. Tho edges of every field were shaped and cleaned. It was evident from tho appearance of the noil that it is growing moro fertile year by year. On most farms quito the reverso is true. Mr. Brawley buys most of his land in a run-down condition for cash, and builds it up. Three years ago I rode over his farms with him. At that time lie had just, bought several worn-out farms. I remem ber one in particular an being badly washed and cut in sections by gul lies. I hardly know that farm when there the other day. The thin places have fattened and tho gullies have been filled and tho land levelled. To begin with, tho gullies were filled in, the fields plowed \leop with a two horse plow, and peas sown with a few hundred pounds of commercial fertilizer per acre. Mr. Brawloy's method of improving land is after this fashion : lie takes the poor land, HOWS it in rye, with 200 pounds of guano and a ton of lime per acre. The lime ?H put on in tho winter. In the spring thc rye is turned under. The lime keeps it from souring. After the rye, cow peas aro HO wu with 400 pounds of acid and potash per nore, Tho peas aro mowed and the land is sowed in wheat and clover, with 200 or 300 pounds of neid and potash. This gets the land on its feet again, as it wore. From this stage the land is improved more and moro by rotation of crops. Mr. Brawloy's system of rotation is now pinier test. Ho far he likcej it. lt is a six year process, Tho first year ?ptton alone ie grown on tipo land, t|ip tfocnnd year cotton and crimson plover, tho elovor hoing sown when tho cotton is worked for tho last tipio \ corn and pons tho third year, with a heavy spread of rough stable manure} small grain and red elovor tho fourth year; red clover thc fifth yoar, followed hy whoat and thon I pens tho sixth year. A person who knows anything whatever about land would bo convinced of tho wisdom of such a system of upbuilding if ho woro to seo the lino condition of Mr. Brnwley's farms. Cotton is Mr. Brawloy's main money orop. Of last yoar'o crop, ho has alroady sold 12-1 bales. To pro duce this crop ho grows all of his homo Bupplios. Bosidos cotton last y oar ho raisod: 888 J bu nh oin of whoat; suflioiont corn, oats, barloy, peas, clover and grasses for tho form hands and stook; 5,000 pounds of pork ; sold $800 worth of milk cows, and soils ten pounds of butter oaoh week. His purposo is to raiso onough for tho farm and have a small sur plus of each product for tho markot. Mr. Brawloy uses tho best and lateBt improved Inbor-saving ma chinery. Ilia plows aro largo and long. Thoy stir tho ground well and deep. Under his sheds I saw a drag, a disc and a cultivator harrow ; a guano distributor, which opens tho furrow and soattors the guano at ono and thc samo time, thereby Having a hand ; a corn plan tor, a reaper and binder, a grain drill, a mower, a broad-tired wagon, and near by a corn mil!, which grinds tho corn and cob both into a rough meal, used to feed cattle and hogs. Tho nutri ment in ton corn cobs is equal to the nutriment in tho grain from ono cob. Mr. Brawloy saves tho cob. It makes a lino food ?nd the mill ?B easily managed, and not costly. Ono of the moBt interesting fea tures of Mr. Brawley's work ?B tho way in which ho buys and UBCB his fertili/.erH. He buys the ingredients and mixes them himself,* having a house for the purpose. Most farm? ors buy their fertilizers ready mixed. Thoy pay from #18 to $22.50 per ton. I.aBt year Mr. Brawley's fertilizers cost him $1,008.82 laid down at Mooresvillo. Tho ingredients to make his guanos coBt (714.80, and freight on the same was $214.43, Besides his cotton seed meal cost him $72. Heneo the cost per ton was $15.78. With the aid of bulle tins from tho experiment station at Haleigh any farmer can mix his own fertilizers, and by so doing save from $!l to $5 per ton. Tho agricultural departments of tho State and nation aro for UV* benefit of .o farmers They finnis- all kiuus of valuable information on application. Mr Brawloy takes advantage of this fact and consults their bulletin? for infor mation and advice. Mr. Biawley hays farms UH an in vestment. Ho has proved boyotui a doubt that farm lund is profitable property. Last year be bought If acres of land for $150 and routed il out. Ho made 17 per cent, on thc money invested. Ho got one-third of thc crop and furnished one-thirc of the guano. In 1892 Mr. Brawley'i father bought 158 acres of land foi $800, rented it out for $100 ca?h i year until a fow days ago, when lu sold it for $1,200. He made over If per cent on tho money invested in f 113-aere tract of land purchased las year. Whon ho rentH, tho contrae demands that tho land bo improved His system of improvement is en forced. Mr. Brawloy farms with tenants They work under his supervisi?n When he says go, thoy obey. Ho i tho boss of tho farm. The tenant seem to bo satisfied ; thoy havo n desire to chango homes from year t< year. Besides making corn and moa and keeping cows, they havo a littl money every Christmas. This is not moro heresay ; it is true story. I spent Home time o Mr. Brawley's farm. Ho ia a farmei not a politician. Ho in satisfied wit tho world. It is true that Mr. Braw Icy had money to start on ; HO di many of the fanners who aro penni less to-day. How many of thoi mortgaged thoir land whon coito was 10 cents a pound? It ?B evidoii from Mr. Brawley's oxporionco tim there is money in buying small farm and renting them, provided they ni under the direct supervision of som good man. It might bo woll to sta! hero that Mr. Brawloy foods his ow Btook, catches and saddle his ow horses, startH his own fire, and tl: like. Negroes aro employed to wor on the farm, not do small I urns. It is mindi in Mr. Brawloy'a favc to know that tho people of Moore ville have uniiiiutpd faith i" ?"H ai ?U ail of his work, and especially his 2.07 cent cotton.-U. K. C. Hr, ant, in Charlotte Observer. J, lt. Hill, Vacksvillo, S. C., writes: have used Dr, M, A. Simmons' Liv Medicino for dyspepsia with hottor rosal than I had from a long trial of Zoilii Regulator, which I found not so goo Novor had any snob good results frc lllaok Draught used. Gen. M. C. Butler Reviews Its Workings In this State. - THE PARENT OF CRIMES. Bloodshed, Violence and Robbory tho Rosalt of Making South Carolina a Retail Sailor or Liquor. To tho Editor of tho Greenville Nows : South Carolina has received somo hard blows in hor past history, but thoy havo como from without, mid tho united front of hor whito peoplo has enabled her to success fully parry and ofton return thom. It has remained for her own chil dren, w.nto nativo ehildron, to in fliot upon hor tho dondliost blow of her existence. When sho was put in tho oatcgory of a whiskoy soller for gain, tho stool of humiliation and degradation wont to hor hoart and hor lifo blood lins hoon flowing in streams from tho wound over since. Tho last and saddest epiBodo of ibu disgraceful tragedy was reached, when a mother, an innocent woman, was shot down in hor own home in tho prcBcnoo of hoi* husband and lit tle children and sent to hor long ao oount, for what ? Had she commit ted any crime for which sho must bo destroyed liko a man dog ? lind ehe violated any law ? Had sho violated any wrong to justiy this rut hiena invasion of the sanctity of her house ? No, only tho "suspi cion" of wrong. What has dis gusted mo BO with tho so-called exe cution of this dispensary law is tho cowardico and imprudence and par tiality of ita oxecution. These gal lant and conscientious executioners generally select somo victim unablo to defend himself or herself for thc manifestation of their prowess and courage, and then proclaim through tho newspapers and from tho house tops how they had searched tina boase or that, this trunk or that, generally a dcfoncolcsa woman's, mid brag bow they had found and con fiscated for tho good of tho State and ita revenues, contraband whiskey and goode which tho State novor gets thc benefit of. They aro usually "samples," which aro conveniently appropriated by dispensary officials and divided among their friends and families. They have not dared to offer to search tho house of a MAN, who would meet throats at tho threshold with force enough to pro tect his castlo and repel tho insolent invasion with* ball and cartridge. Not much I This is a vory swooping stntoment, and I intend it to be. There may bo, and doubtless are, some exceptions who aro ontitlcd to exemption from ita scope, but tho exceptions provo tho rule. It will not do to Hay that tho dis pensary ia tho beat solution of tho liquor question. No problem, how ever involved or difficult, can ovor bo properly solved in thc blood of tho citizen. No law for public policy oan bo sound which destroys tho privacy and sanctity of tho homo and authorizes tho seizing and confisca tion of private property, and ita arbi tration among a lot of legalized ban dits. No administration can bc tol erated which abielda these legalized bandits in their sohemos of plundor and criminal invasion of privato rights. It will not do to bolator up thia imitation of a law of a European monarchy, tho Gotonburg system of Norway and Sweden, by saying it has diminiahed drunkonncsB. In tho first place, I don't bclievo thia is truo, but conceding thia, thoro arc somo things worse than drunkenness, bad aa that in. Among them aro mur der, corruption in office, perjury and falso pretences. Each of all those can bo charged to tho dispensary, and what ia worse, tho crimes com mitted in ita behalf, aa a rule, have beon condoned and tho guilty allowed to escapo. Tho blood of ita victims ia upon thc banda of t hone who have insisted upon cramming it down tho throats of unwilling peoplo. Two of tho highest officials of tho State havo boon openly charged with having j "lined their pockets" with dispensary monoy, and no satisfactory ovidonoe baa boon produced to disprove it, Scarcely a wcok passes without tho itisulosu.ro of somo flagrant shortago or corruption among tho dispensary officialB, and HO tho carnival of orimo runs riot in thc State The truth of history is, that this monster humbug waa foisted on tho Stato under falso pretences. It waa a sop thrown out to tho Prohi bition Corborus-tho sincere and car nost temperance peoplo fell into tho trap and let up in tboir warf aro upon tho liquor trafilo. A whiskoy ring, headed by time-sorviug demagogues, beoame ontronohod at Columbia, with outposts in almost ovory county, backed by an army of subsidized officiais, armed *ith tho roady ro volvor and Winchester to shoot down all opposition, and right thoroughly have they dono their work. Unof. fending men and women havo boon waylaid by a swaggering, irroBponsi blo constabulary, and shot to doath. The private baggago of ladios has beon Boarohed without oven probable cause, improperly confiscated on sus picion, and convortcd to tho uso of disponaary oflioials, contonts of trunks divided among thom as highwaymen divido their booty and plunder. Tho homes of families, tho most irre proachable, havo boon violated and invndod by bandits sustained and Bupportod by tho powers of tho State, and yot they tell us this ?B thc best solution of tho whiskey traffic. Whatevorof disgraco and discredit that baa horetoforo alt ached to whis hoy selling by individuals has boon condoned by transferring it to tho Stnto. It U made rospcotablo by putting on it tho imprimatur of tho State's authority and by making tho Stato tho vondor of whiskoy to her own children to debauch and dog rade thom. A now funotion for a sover eign Stato hithorto supposed to bo tho enemy of a degrading traffic and the guardian and protector of tho wolfaro of her citizons. It has even boon Christianized by members of Chriotian churches being omployod to sell tho vile stuff to monibors of their Hook. Under tho rulo of looal option tho cause of temperance was making most satisfactory progresa in al! parts of tho State when this mon strous fraud was launched by tho Legislature and enforced by reckless demagogues and Hngsters in opon defiance of the sensibilities and wishes of tho pcoplo. Tho bloodshed in this misorablo crusade against tho rights and liberties of tho citizen will have to bo atoned for some day. Tho sincere advocates of temper ance, tho ministers of tho Gospol, thc good women, woro moulding public opinion-tho only Bafo guarantco of Buccess in any movement-against tho saloon tradio in whiskoy. They wore gradually advancing their lines of attaok in all parts of the Stato and making it impossible for even blind tigers to oxist, whon thoy unfortu nately, and I think foolishly, fell inte tho trap sot for them by tho dispen sary ringstcrs, and were thrown bael for years in their good work. The) have renewed their light, and ma) God speed them in their warfare. I have never believed in tho elli cacy of prohibition as a remedy foi intemperance, but na botweon that and tho dispensary I would support prohibition every day in the year. ] would take tho purchaso and sale ol whiskoy out of tho hands of Stat? oflioials where it ia sapping and min ing tho very foundation of sociot] and degrading thc high and Haere* functions of government. I wonk take this dangerous power out of tin banda of everybody, Governor, Boan of Control, dispensers, constables ant all, and roturn to tho good old Dcm ooratic doctrino of home rulo, looa self-government. Lot the people o each municipality, community, town ship, county decido for thcmsolve whether they will have prohibition local option, high license or dispon aary. Why not ? Aro tho peopl not to bo truated ? Wrench th graap of the ring from tho throats o tho pcoplo. Turn them looao to do cido for themselves. The boat gov erned pcoplo aro those who aro loan governed. Popular sovereignt moana tho rule of the people, not Ut rulo of a dispensary whiskoy ring. Tho HO-callcd reform mo vern cn was inaugurated on tho theory tba there waa a ring which waa Btifiin and throttling tho pcoplo in tho frc oxerciflo of their sovoroign powei Why erect another ring on tho ruin of tho ring thou existing, if it eve had any existence? If thoro is ni tliaponaary whiskoy ring in exiatcne why not let tho pcoplo havo a chane to decide in their looal primaries The roform, farmers movement, need roforming. Wo were promised lowe taxea, higher l?ricos, gonoral poact prosperity and happiness, a sort e political, financial, social clymun What havo wo realized? The faro era have been reformed into fou cent cotton, and inorcaao of asacBi mont of property, higher taxea, blood abed, riots and rascality. Tho rt formera need reforming. Tho phoi phate interests bolonging to ali th people of tho State, paying into thoi treasury under the operations of th former ring from two hundred t threo hundred thousand dollars ai nually, relieving private property t that extent from taxation, havo bee practically destroyed, all in tho inti reata of reform. ?The dispensary wt to supply thc deficiency; wo were t get anywhere from a half to a mi lion dollars profit from tho sale < whiskoy. Whore aro those profite Buried in tho pockets of somebod; The poople, tho taxpayers, havo nt received it. And yet aomo poop ding to tho dispensary as a hi? moral, economical institution, a pal acoa for many of the CV?IH undi which we woro struggling when tl "reform movement" was launched I purify tho atmosphere. In th i B O? ncction wo might paraphrase tl celebrated apostrophe of Mada Howland, and flay : "Oh reform, ho many crimea havo been committ* in thy name." M. C. BUTI.KR. -. To rcstoro tho clear skin and brig oyo, tho alort gait and souud health, u Dr. M. A. Simmons* Liver Mediojne, BLACK HEN'S BLOOD Georgia's Fair Name Stained by a Dreadful Crime. THE WORK OF LYNCHERS. Poured "toad into the Bodies of Tied nnd Holpless V ri Honors, Sus pected of Arson. PALMETTO, GEOEOIA, March IO. Twenty mon, armed and masked, rode into this littlo town this morn ing nt an carly hour and put to death four negroes, fatally wounding one, shot another and broko tho arm of a seventh man. Two others, who were of tho crowd upon whioh tho bullets wero showerod, miraculously escaped. These unfortunates wore under guard of threo men, awaiting tho hour of 9 o'clock, when they woro to have a Loaring before a jus tico of tho peace on the chorgo of arson. William Cotton, tho leador of tho niuo men, confessed some time ago that a conspiracy bad boon en tered into, whioh resulted in two in cendiary fires hore in February, and, on tim ovidoncc, tho mon woro to h?V? b??ii tried. Tho doad aro, William Cotton, Jr., Harrison. Hudson, Ed. Brown, Honry Bingham. Fatally wounded, John Bigby. Woundod, John Jameson, Georgo Tatum, arm brokon. Ison Brown and Clem Watts, tho other two membors of tho gang, escaped unin jured. After the inquest thoy were turned lcoso and loft on tho train for Atlanta. Tho town is quiot to-night under tho protection of tho Capital City Guards, of Atlanta, and a posso of scventy-fivo well-armed citi/.ons. CONFINED IN A STONE HOUSE. Tho negroes wore confined in tho office of tho Johnson warehouse, n onc-Btory stone building, just noross tho track from the Atlanta and WcBt Point depot. Thoy wore ar rostod but. yesterday, woro tied to gether with ropes, nnd wore passing tho night under tho protection of threo guards, sworn in for that pur pose. Thoir preliminary trial was so', for 9 o'clock this morning. About 1 o'clock thia morning 20 .nen, mounted and masked, rode up to tho warehouse and dismounted. Without waiting to announce them selves to the guards within they enH?y forcod tho door of the ware house and n second later stood in tho oflico of thc Johnson Company, where the negroes woro lying on tho fioor around tho fire. Tho guards were covered by Winchesters, and, with hands up, wero marched to ono side of the little room and stood against tho wall. SHOT DOWN LIKE DOGS. Thc negroes, who woro frightened into silence by the bursting of tho door, now realized thoir peril. Scream after scream wont np from the vi "tims aa they Baw tho glonm of fircanun in tho dim light from tho firc-placo. Thoir appeals for meroy were unheeded. A short, hoavy-Bot man, whoso features woro complotoly concealed by a white handkerchief, acted ns loader. Ho cursed tho blackB into silence for a moment and told bia men to got ready. After looking at each negro ho commanded them to got up. Tho trembling, crying wretches, tugging at their ropes in a vain effort to got away, obeyed tho words of tho mob's loader. A last appeal for meroy went unheeded and the word "Fire!" rang out in tho littlo room. Tho volley lilied thc room with iiro and smoke, and tho negroes foll in a heap on thc fioor. Tho noise awak ened the littlo town, and ns the lights began to twinkle in windows boro and th oro a second volloy sealed the doom of thoflo who wero fortu nato enough to oscapo tho murder ous firo of tho firflt charge. As tho mob m ado ready to depart, throe or four mon with pistols sont bullets into tho prostrate forms on tho fioor, and inside of ton minutes aftor tho crowd had entered Johnson's ware house, on their murderous errand, they had completed thoir work and woro on thoir way to safoty on tho backs of fleet horflos. THK CITIZENS AEOUBEI). Soon tho oiti/.cns began to arrivo at tho warehouse, being undor tho impression that tho guards woro ho ing murdered by tho negro prison ers. When tho horror of tho affair was presented Mayor Ars.old tele phoned Gov. Candler at Atlanta of tho occurrence and asked for nome militia. Ile thou doputizod soventy* live citizens to prcBorvo ordor and, arming thain with rifles, plnocd thom on duty in difforont parts of the town? -^_- " ,, i i rrTTT".. .- ---- Daylight in tho warehouse re? vealed a sickening scene. Blood covered the floor, and tho walls were indented with bullets from Win? chesters and other arms. Wives and children of the negroes, to whom tho nows of tho tragedy had. spread on rapid wings, knelt by tho bodies of their dead and endeavored to con sole tho wounded. Tho crios of the negro families filled tho room and sent a shook through tho hoarors. JUKY OK INQUK8T. Doc-ors bent over the woundod and administered to their wants at intervals until noon, when friends of tho injured carno and removed thom to their homes. Tho dead, whoso bodies woro horribly mangled, ro maiu?d where thoy were until shortly aftor noon, when a coroner's jury was empanelled. In tho ab ssnoc of Coroner Dunlap Justice of tho Pence Cummings summoned tho jury and conduotod tho inquest. Clem Watts, ono of the ncgroos, who miraculously oaoapod hoing shot, was tho first witness. Ho said : "I was at tho warohouso and a crowd of masked men, about twenty, carno. Thoy ordored the guard tc throw up thoir hands. They made them ioavo tho guard room. Thc loader thon ordered his mon to fire on the prioonors, first counting ono two, throe. Tho mon aftorwardi loaded and fired again." Guard Baker testified that the mol fillod tho room and tho guards won forood to tho wall. "Tho loader of tho mob gave r count and tho shooting began. The) had pistols, shotguns and Winches tor rifles. They did not stay ovo: five minutcB. I do not know whiol way thoy came or wont whon tho) left." J. J. Connor, tho guard examined said : "I was guarding tho priaonora About 1 o'clock a orowd of maako? mon can.o in tho room by forcinj tho door opon and moved tho guard bnok. Tho prisoners woro com manded to lino up and then th order to fire was given, whioh wa obeyed. Thoy shot and roloado* and shot tho second timo. Th room was filled with tho maske mon. I do not know tho number. The jury thou ronderod a verdloi which reads : "We, tho coronor'? jury, ompan oiled in tho casca of the deaths c Harrison Hudson, William Cottoi Jr., Ed. Brown and Henry Binghan find that they carno to their doat from gunshot or pistol bliot wound from a crowd of masked mon to tli jury unknown, . a little aftor mi( night, or on tho morning of tho IGt of Maroh. J. T. BULT.AKD, "Foreman." CAU8K OV TIIK LYNCHING. Tho town lina boon visited by tw incendiary fires sinco February and tho citizonB have boon afraid I rebuild, owing to oft->ropoatc threats of tho nogroos that thc would do tho aamo thing again. Tl county authorities have been acth in their efforts to apprehend tho ii oondinricfl, and yesterday arroatc tho nino negroes above mentions William Cotton had confessed I Dr. H. h. Johnson that ho and oig! companions bad conspirod to hui tho town and loot tho stores. Tl burning part of tho programmo w successfully oarriod out, but tho fi spread so rapidly and tho buildiii] went up in Hames BO fast that th woro unnblo to obtain anything fro tho storoB. Dr. Johnson got tl names of tho eight accomplices frc Cotton and on this ovidonco tho wu rants wcro sworn out. Gov. Candler has issued a proel mation offering a roward of $600 f tho apprehension and delivery of t first member of tho unknown mc and a further roward of $100 f each additional person so implicate with ovidenco sufficient to convi This is tho largeBt reward tho lr allows. [Tho latcat dispatches from Pi motto say that all is quiot and further trouble is oxpootod.] M AUCH, APRIL, HAY. These aro the Months In Which Purify Your Hlood. TIds is tho season whon your bloo( loadod with impurities, accumulated d lng tho wiutor months from oloso c finement, ri?h food, and othor can* Tiloso impurities must bo drivon fr your system or they may brood sorh diseaso and causo untold sufTori Hood's Sarsaparilla is tho greatest i host blood purifying medicino it is T siblo to obtain. It is what tho milli tako in tho spring. It will purify i onrioli your blood, oroato an appot tono up your system and give you BOU robust health. .-?*)..*?<- ? ? A chair which Lincoln had usod his homo wa i Bold at auotion in N York for $200 to tho Lincoln ol of Chicago, . .... . ?. Highest of all in Leavening Poi QUEEN 81 ? NS PEAG E T R EATY AU War Negotiations Closed-Tho Exchange of Treaties the Last Step. MA niuo, Maroh 17.-The Queen Rogont has ?ignod tho troaty of peaco between Spain and tho United States. The signed troaty will be for warded to tho French Ambassador at Washington, M. Jules Canibon, for oxohange with tho ono signed by President McKinley. Tho Queen has signed tho acor?os dissolving tho cortes, convoking tho now parliament and authorizing the payment of arrears of pay to tho re patriated troops. Th'i Spanish government baa con cluded a loan of 30,000,000 pesotaa with tho banking house of Urqunjo. The money was handed over yester day and will ho dov?tod to paying tho orroars duo tho Spanish troops which havo sorved in Cuba. M'KINLKY QRATlPIBD. THOM AS VILLIS, QA., March 17. Tho news recoivod by tho Assooiated Press that tho Queen Regent of Spain had Bigned tho nonco troaty of ratification was telephonod promptly to tho President. Tho Prcsidont was muoh gratified at tho fact that this last stop necosaary to tho ond of hoBtilo relations with Spain had hoon takon, though never doubting suoh would bo tho outcome. Ladies desiring a contented and happy old ago should uso Simmons' Squaw Vino Wine or Tablets, commouoing at 10 years old and continuo during "chango of lifo." War May Close at Once. WASHINGTON, Maroh 17.-Ad vicoB havo boon recoivod from Manilla which indicato that tho cli max may occur at any hour. Tho officials hero aro very well ploased with tho condition of affairs, but will not at present discuss tho do tails of tho dispatohes. Tho indica tions aro that tho hostilities may ond within a very short timo. The navy department is taking stops toward tho formation of a mos quito ileot for tho Philippines. Tho conditions now prevailing in Luzon indicato that for a long timo it will bo necessary to maintain a strict polico of tho coant and inland waters. Tho latest political goBsip is that thc burly Spoakor Rood and tho ro doubtablo Rough Rider, Govornor Roonovelt of New York, aro op posed to MoKinloy and will do thoir worat to dofcat him for tho Presiden tial nomination in 1900, Roosovelt to bo tho opposing oandidato. Recd "don't liko MoKinloy, no how ; all expansionists look alike to bim." Popo T.oo had to submit to a surgical oporation last wook. For yoars a cyst had boon forming and it was nocossary to uso tho knifo. Ho was much rollovod and is now improving rapidly. Rov. E. E. llosa, L.L. D., editor of th? Nashville Christian Advooato, has bcon tonderod tho Presidency of tho University of Georgia. His friends aro urging him to romain in his prcsont plaoo, whore thoy Bay ho is nocded nt this timo. John T. Glonn, ono of tho loading lawyers and most distinguished oiti Z.OIIH of Atlanta, died suddenly in his bod last wook in that oity. - Mushed ohooks, throbbing templo, nausea, laasitudo, lost appetite, sallow oomploxion, pimples, blotches, aro warn ings. Tako Dr. M. A. Simmons' Livor I Mediohio., T-er.-Latest U. S, Gov'* Report Pow?sr ?mr PUKE Officers Fight to Donth. HOT SPRINGS, AUK., Maroh 16. A shooting occurrod hero ot 6.80 this ovoning whioh resulted in. th? death of fivo mon and tho sorious wounding of ono other. Tho killed aro : Thomas Tolor, ohiof of police ; J. E. Hart, oity detective ; Thoo. E, Goslco, polico sergeant; John Williams, son of Sheriff Williams; Louis Henkel, driver of a browory wagon. Ed. Spoars was shot in tho nook and may dio. The shooting grow out of tho mayoralty oampaign undor way hore. Sheriff Williams was a warm sup porter of tho rog ular Domooratio nominee, whilo Tolor, Hart and Goa lee woro supporting an opposition candidate. Early in tho aftornoon shota woro exchanged botween Sheriff Williams and his Bon John on tho ono sido and Sorgeant Goelco on tho other, but no ono was injured. Af tor this both parties dotormined to havo it out. Tolor, Hart and Gosloo woro walking eouth on Central avonuo at about 6.30 o'olook, when they met Sheriff Williams and his two sons, John and Coffoy, and Ed. Spears. No ono can toll who fired the first shot, but in a moment thoro was a gonoral fusil lado, in which forty or fifty shots were oxchanged. When it was over Tolor, Hart, Gosleo and Henkel, a non-ootnbntant, wore dead, and John Williams was mortally wounded. Ho died an hour lator. Louis Ilenkol attomptcd to separate tho combat ants when tho fight opened. Ho was shot in tho hoad and died in stantly. Tho mayor, immediately after tho shooting, appointed Judgo L. D. Bonding ohiof of polico. Deputies wore sworn in at once and all saloons woro ordcrod closed. There is littlo factional feeling outside of those engaged in tho shooting. Order was oasily restored and tho city was soon quiet. Tho Bhoriff and his son Cof foy aro undor arrest and no further trouble is anticipated. Sheriff Williams was riot present when tho battlo occurred, but soon appeared, and on learning of tho death of his son bcoamo frantic with rago. About 20 minutes after tho main battlo anothor affray ocourred near by in which four or fivo shots wcro fired. In this fusillade Detective Jim Hart went down with tho wholo top of his skull blown off. All of tho dead mon loavo largo families. Constipation of tho bowols may bo oasily cured by a few doses of Dr. M. A. Simmons Livor' Mcdioino. Tho Now York Financial Nows has beon looking into tho rich South ern highlands and is wonderfully, but not unduly, impressed with tho groat possibilities of thc South. "In tho mountain region," it says, "cov ering tho contor of tho States east of tho Mississippi, extending from tho Pennsylvania lino to northern Alabama and Georgia, and embrac ing an aroa of somo 160,000 squaro milcB, is more natural wealth, moro basis to sustain a denso population and profitably employ it, than can probably bo found in any million milos of land lying in a solid body olsowhoro in tho world." $100 REWARD- $100. Tho readers of this papor will bo pleased to learn that thora is at least ono dreaded dinoaso that soionce has boon ablo to euro in all ita stages, and that ia catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Curo is tho only positivo ouro known to tho medical fra ternity. Catarrh hoing a constitutional diseaso, requires a constitutional troat mont. Hall's Catarrh is Curo takon inter nally, acting directly upon tho blood and muouoiiB surfaces of tho system, thereby destroying tho foundation of the disoaso, and giving tho patient strength by build up tho constitution and assisting naturo in doing its work. Tho proprietors havo havo so muoh faith in its curativo pow ors, that thoy offor ono hundred dollars for any caso it fails to ouro. Send fe" list of testimonials. Address, F. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggist, 75o. nail's Family Pills aro tho best. Sonator Chandler of Now Hamp shire says tho issuo of 1000 will bo a fight against tho trusts. Ho says that if tho Republican party doos not allign itself on tho sido of tho pooplo and against tho trimt combi nations it will bo in dangor of do foat. A hundred years ago tho Ha waiian islands were said to havo had 400,000 population ; now 80,000 is a. high cptlmato.