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Our physicians will advise without charge, all who write us about 1 t& case Mk WE SWIFTlSP EOIFIOCO., ATLEANTA, GA. 1 t BRING YOUR t Job Worlz TO THE TINES OFFICE. listening for orders to advanc< every moment. I had a plug o: fine Virginia tobacco in in knapsack, I took it out, an placed it in the bosom of in3 shirt, and threw the .knapsacl away, clothes and all. Perhap I did wrong, in throwing awa3 everything I had, but it was m1 custom not to hamper mysel. with a superfluous load wher going into battle. Gen. Ker shaw was near his brigade, grant soldier he was. At four o'clocl the command was given, for ward.Wehad been waiting behind a rock fence, as we crossed ove this fence, we entered a larg4 wheat -field. As we marched forward. I discovered just it front of me, one of my company stiff in death, killed on the skir mish line. Thoughts flew througI my mind, thick and fast. Isola ted from me, was my dear coin pany, though in command of on( of the best Captains of the Con. federate Army, (generous and brave he was) others may be dead, and if I am spared through this firey ordeal of strife, I will not know, until the battle ends, who is killed and who survives. All at once we heard the order, by the right flank. What did this mean? We soon found out that there was a gap between the left of Hood's division and the right of our division McLaws. We soon moved up quickly our right on Hood's left. We theu fronted and moved forward. While we were making this movement, the enemies cannon opened on us with grape canis ter, men fell in great numbers. right and left. The heights and ridges occupied by the federals, were crowned with bristling ar tillery, grape and canister made great swaths in our division, you could see as many as a score fall at once. "Dixie" "Land of the orange and cotton bloom' thy sons were dying for thy cause, which they loved so well. We soon got near enough to use our rifles, and the fight was on. In the midst of the battle ou color bearer fell by my side. The brave Col. John D. Kennedy of the 2nd regiment was also woun ded. Eleven times he was woun ded during the war. Gallant soldier gone to his reward. The guns planted on "Little Round Top", the shells from them, exploded in every direc tion, the shelling was terrific. The batteries on the ridges were making terrible gaps in our line. Our brigade(Kershaw's)advanced against Little Round Top. It was considered the impreg ubale part of the federal line, and defended by Regulars, whc were the best fighters in the fed eral army. Men were falling in every direction, gap after gap was made in our line by shelli from the hills and grape and can ister from the ridges. The fight ing was furious. The enemy were reinforcing this point of their line, Little Round Top was completely parked with cannon. Kershaw's brigade pushed for ward, during the enemy upor their strongholds, when night with her sable curtain put an end to the bloody struggle. The ground was covered with dead, Iying and wounded, Confederates and Federals alike. The red earth of Pa., was made crimson. pouring from the veins of severa. thousand soldiers. The earth truly drank blood. Thus ended the second days fight at Gettys burg. Reader, I was spared, I was thankful to my Heavenly Father, who has protected me. through these sixty-six years o: my life. We drove those people on the second days fight as w( did on the first, but they still held held their strongholds." "Sc near and yet so far." Some time after dark my company came to the 2nd regiment. It command of our good captair who was also wounded he report ed three killed and six wounded on the skirmish line. We had not eaten anything since sever oclock in the morning; about lC o'clock we had our rations cook ed and we ate them. Readei what would you have called thal meal? dinner or supper. ] thought of my plug of tobacco, not a chew in six hours, i tools it from the bosom of my shir1 and I could almost squeeze the perspiration out of it, I took chew and put it by to dry. We were soon asleep, waiting for the coming day. The sur rose clear and bright over thi field of blood. This was the day that Gen. Picket made his for lorn charge upon the centre o: the enemies lines. Gen. Let parked his cannon, one hundred and forty-five in number. A one o'clock these cannon opene< their fiery mouths, sending theia shrieking missils of death, acros: the valley. Eighty pieces rec plied to ours from the heights For two hours, these two hun dred and twenty-five cannoi poured their iron hail throug] the heated air. Language can not express the intensity of this blood curdling, sullen thunder of these war dogs of destruction Reader, I did not see Picket's charge. Our division was stil occupying the right of our line we were not, near enough to seo the awful charge. It was soo: over. And at a frightful cost o the effusion of blood. Fate wa: against us. The battles around Gettys burg had ended. Later on i the war it was said by some one that Pickets division had give> way on a certain portion of th line of battle. A soldier wh< had been in the battles c Gettysburg, spoke and said, hol could that be, for it was a certail fact, that Picket's division wa buried at Gettysburg July, 1862 Some years after the war ended Gen. Picket disinterred the skel oins of these braves. ne k Prisoner of War Forty-One Years Ago. Reader, I write this sketch of iy prison life of nine months. ne month at Gettysburg and altimore jail, and eight months Point Look Out, Maryland, atirely from memory. If you ere over a prisoner of war. ] ave your sympathy. If other ise I ask your sympathy. Per aps it would not be out of place > preface this article with a brief ,count of the second day's fight Gettysburg, Pa., in which the riter took part. Reader, this ay be stale stuff to you, but it truth,, 'and truth is strangel an fiction." On the first day July 1863, our Brigade "Ker aw's" the oldest Brigade in ee's Army, was marching rap .ly through the town of Chain .rsburg, Pa., we heard the )oming of cannon in the dis nee. The advance column of ee's army and the advance of the ederal army, were fighting at ettysburg. The citizens of iambersburg took great pleas .e in guying us, as we passed rough their town, that their oops was getting the best of e fight. In reply we told them ey were very much mistaken at our boys was thrashing the derals. As the red sun was tting behind the western hills, remember the sun was unusu ly red; could it have been in cative of blood?) We halted on arsh creek a small stream four iles from Gettysburg. Why e halted there, I do not know, story does not explain the rea n. We could easily have made e balance of the distance in a ort time to Gettysburg. We on had our supper. Yes read we ate, sometimes. We were on resting our tired limbs on e soil of Pennsylvania. By : o'clock on the morning of the cond day of July, we reached ttysburg. (Oh, fateful battle ld) Although we whipped ose people, in the first day's ht, we did not profit by the [vantage. Reader do you know y? If not, I will tell you. tonewall" Jackson was dead. b! cruel bullets that took away tonewall" Jackson, the "blue rht" of the army of Northern irginia, who fell at Chancel rsvile on the eve of a great ctory, had he lived' to have tared- with us in the battle Gettysburg, we would wve won a decisive victory which ould have staggered the Gov ment at Washington, and the id would have been in sight. ee's army wept when Stone all Jackson died.) Reader, per ps you might ask the question, by so, I would unhesitatingly 1swer. His lightning like per ption, and his impelling rce of action, his great soul oald not have allowed his wea ed body to have rested on ensylvania soil. the night of e first day of July, 1863,. until a had occupied the ~vacant sights afterwards held by the ederals. He thought not of ipossiilities. But would have uid. It must be done. He had te get up and get about him as te soldier puts it. Some one is said that, Gen. Forrest was estioned, as to his success in ar, replied, that "to get there st with the biggest crowd." ckson never got there first with e biggest crowd, but always >t there first with the winning rowd. Gen. Mead hurried his oops from Pipe creek to Gett sburg all night of the first day July, and therefore got the Ivantage of position. At Fred icksburg, Va., in December, 362, we had the position on the ederals, and repulsed them with .1 ease. Position counts for .uch in war. Gen. Lee did not alized the loss of the great ickson, until after the battle of ettysbrg. But his magnani .ous spirit would not allow him criticise or censure any one, a took the responsibility of the ~sult of his failure, to drive the iemy from the heights of Gett burg. "His like we will never se again until the end of time." ardon me for disgressing. Now >r the second days fight at Gett burg. As I have already men oned, that we reached the round that was to be the field E carnage. We discovered uickly, that the Federals had it a us, as to ridges and heights, owever it was our destiny fight at Gettysburg. WE arched and counter marchec r some length of time beforE -e got into position. In the eanwhile skirmishers were Lken from our Brigade, by comn anies; my company was tager -hich was Co. "D" of the seconc giment, which was the col ompany, I was one of the colo2 uard, I was placed there by thc Liented Captain Leonard W artlette of Co. "D" who fell II cont of his company leading ther i a charge in the seven days figh round Richmond in 1862. I was inth color corporal at that time Lt Gettysburg I was first colo: orporal. You see at once tha bat there was a considerable ap between, first and ninth rought about by the enemieL ullets, it was not a desirabli osition. As my company was laced on the skirmish line, I hac remain with the regiment. The skirmishers were deploy d in the front of our division rhich was McLaws." Hood: .ivision was on our right, front ag Big Round Top, our divisiot h'as in front of Little Round To] d through a peach orchard Thile we were waiting for thi ommand forward. I had hange of clothing in my knap ack. I said to some of the boy Lear by, if they thought I woul< mave time to chlange my clothing ;ome one answered that the: hought that it was a very risk' mndertaking. I decided not t< of a minnie ball, that pierced it, page after page, fully half way i through the book. I did remem- i ber at that time how far into i the book that ball- went, but : have forgotten now. It glanced 1 outward and entered his arm. 1 That book divine had been 1 a providential shield to that z good soldier. After being at j the hospital about - ten days, 1 a wounded comrade from Com- t pany "I" of the second regiment i and myself were ordered to re- I port at the town of Gettysburg; - strange order. I thought that a prisoners generally were always I conducted to prison by a guard. 3 But in this instance, there was 3 no guard. to hurry us onward..1 It was right laughable, to see a t great grand son. of General t Moultrie, of revolutionary fame, a and your humble servant going c alone to prison. If we had known c them. what we knew later, we f would have skipped, but alas, c we did not know. On the road., we met those good ladies again t on their kind mission, to the hos- s pital, with another supply of : good things for our wounded. t They inquired where were we r going. We told them. They I gave us some of the delicacies r which they had with them, and 11 informed us, if we were detained t' as prisoners any length of time, d to inform them by letter, and if c we needed any thing, to just let b them know. and our wants should b be supplied. We thanked them, c for their kind consideration of 1 us, bade them farewell, and went n our way. We soon reached the o old, apparently sleepy. town, I o say sleepy. for there was not s any signs of three battles having C been fought so near. My com- t' rades and I entered a shoe store, v and I purchased a pair of shoes. n We went on and reported at the : town jail. We were ushered in- s to the yard of the jail, with many r other prisoners. Nex*t morning 'I we boarded the train for Balti- 2) more. On reaching this city, q where a great many sympathizers t of our cause abided, marching t through the streets, we cut from h our Jackets, palmetto buttons, C and threw them along-the pave- a ments, pretty maidens and giis,. ti would picked them up as fast as a chickens eating corn. 1 do not n mean to infer, that they ate the d buttons, but picked them up as e auick as chickens would corn. t We were incarcerated in a p building inconceivable almost in o it construction. An expansive n rotunda,-with two large wings. t We prisoners of war, occupied b one wing. This was Baltimore c jail. We remained there the f balance of the month of July. c The water we drank -was warm. c We were fairly fed. The time 1 was monotonous. There was a ii young soldier, vio was a fine i3 singer, and in the lonely mid -t: night hours, he would sing some ti of his pretty songs. "It was just I twenty years ago" and "home s sweet home" were among the S number that he sang. It made a me think of my Dixie home far b away. The month of August e came. We were marched out one ,e afternoon to the river edge, and s got aboard of Steamer bound t: for Point Look Out. At day b light next morning we arrived at s our destination. We were r marched into an old field, grown a up in weeds, our abode for eight l\ months. We were on a point of f: land between the Chesapeak bay a and the Potomac river. Sentinels o were thrown around us. In a tV short time they had erected ag substantial prison, enclosing us I from the out side world. Tents v were furnished us, and they were f< soon dotting the prison camp. b Wells were dug and pumnps were l1 placed in them. The water was f: horridly bad, it was impregnated y with copperas. We had one n pump of water out of dozen or more, of which, the water was a much better. Cook houses were I built, with messhalls perhaps a hundred feet in length. nine of t these buildings were erected, y each fronting a street, containing v a division of prisoners. The :a number of prisoners kept aug- f menting. In a short time there N must have been at least, nine t thousand. The weather was s quite warm a.t that time. Hlow- t evr we got a breeze from the -f bay. as the gates were -opened in i the day, but closed at night- a There were no trees with their y ubrageous branches, to shield C Ius from thelheated rays, of the e burning sun, no birds to sing t their sweet songs, to be wafted r by the gentle winds, toward the E beautiful skies. Everything r around us, made the sunlight sad. c My good friend and comrade of ICo. "1" fell in with some Virgin- 1 ians. fine fellows they were too, a he tented with them. It was i my fortune to be thrown with a t Georgian two Lousianians and a i soldier from Texas. My bed < fellow was the soldier from1 Georgia. As cool weather camei on we were looking about to see if we could increase our cover ing, we had only a blanket; my Georgia comrade caine up with a piece of an old tent, we sewed the blanket and piece( of tent together. We were then prepared for the coming winter, but we had nothing to lie on, but some sand, which we obtained from the beach of the bay. . Later on when winter was int full blast. Yes, winter came min double force. with its piercing, better cold, which filled our pri. son home, with intensified gloom. 1 We thought we would try and in- I crease our comfort, substituted some sea-weed for the sand. We tried it for a bed one night, the next day we carried it back and placed upon the briny waters of 1 the bay. Reader, it was some thing that would never dry. I Ihad written, to one of those ladies( I met with at Gettysburg, and 1 elderly lady she was, stating< hat I was ver muc-h in ed of Ii haps forty wagon-loads were F borne to Richmond, Va., and buried in her historic soil. 1 The bones of these, her gal I lant sons, are now mingling with E- her blood drenched soil. The fourth day of July came, nothing i eventful occurred on that day, with us. We were still fronting E the enemy. We had failed to I drive them from their strong positions, and we thought per adventure, they might attempt to assail our lines. But no such thought entered their brain, from Gen. Meade down to the privates in his army. We waited patient ly. but those people did not move. Everything was quiet not a gun was fired during the day. Men were detailed to bury the dead, which was of great importance. to give our dead comrades a decent burial as far as circum stance admitted. Poor fellows, they were wrapped in their blan kets and laid away at rest; await ing the resurrection morn. About dark it began raining I was taken quite sick. I reported my condition to the Captain, he advised we to go at once to the hospital, where the wounded of company was, I did so. About nine o'clock, I heard troops marching. In walked my Cap tain and several of the boys, one being the tallest man -in Co. "D" who always stood at the head of the company. I got up from my bed of straw and n quired of the Captain what was up. He replied that Lee's army was retreating. I said to him, if that be the case, I won't stay here. Oh, no said the Cap tain, you are in no condition to go, you may get worse on the retreat, and be left in the mud. You stay here, and when you get better, you can see after these wounded boys of ours. With this the poor fellows entreated me to stay with them. Reader. I wilted and staid wilted nine months. The Captain reasoned in this way. It will be unwise for you to undertake to keep up with the army. In a short while you will be parolled or exchang ed. I then consented to stay, thinking that discretion better be used. The Captain gave us "greenbacks" federal money, and so did the private who always stood at the head of the company. They bid us good bye, and we were left within the. lines of the enemy. Both of these men, Captain and private are dead now. And if good deeds count for anything in the great beyond: the spirit of my noble Captain is in that "beautiful land of rest," I hope that the soul of the private who always stood at the head of Co. "D" is there also. On the next morning, the fifth day of July. The Army of Northern Virginia wended its way southward. Looking from the hospital door, I discovered Gen. R. E. Lee sitting on his horse, Travelear, he was the last Confederate soldier, that I saw that morning. About thirty minutes afterwards, Hancock's corps of Meade's army, passed in front of the hospital. I took medicine and in a short while I was feeling much better. As soon as I was sufficiently able to assist in caring for our wounded boys. I did so. I made myself generally useful the short time I staid there. Three of my com pany was badly wounded. Two lost a leg each, and one was shot through the lungs, the oth ers were not so badly wounded. Our brigade lost dreadfully in killed and wounded. Right hear, I will say some thing about Gen. J. B. Kershaw, He was the first Colonel the second regiment had. He also was our second Briga dier, and lastly our Major Gen. of McLaw's old division. A su perb soldier he was. I will men tion an incident. A soldier of his brigade, was severely wound ed, in the campaign of 1864. The Gen. rode up hastily in the rear of his old regiment. Shells were flying thick and fast, tearing the earth in every direction. Ad dressing this soldier, said to him I am sorry you are so badly wounded, I hope you will soon get well. Speaking to the offi cer in command of the company, See that he is taken out of this place at once, and rode away. I merely mention this occur-ence to show what manner of man he was. Some years ago his noble spirit took its flight across the mystic river. He is now resting "under the shade of the trees" with Jackson and Lee. Reader I have digressed again. Some ladies came over from Baltimore, for the purpose of administering to the wants of the Confederate wounded, (Noble women). They brought with them every thing that was nice and savory, for the Spoor fellows. It was sad privi Slege of mine, to share in the - burial of three soldiers of the second regiment, who died i-n - a few days after thd battles. We iburied them in one grave, wrap 1 ped in their blankets. There - was some sad sights that I wit nessed. One poor fellow who ,had his lower jaw torn from its -socket, he did not live long. An other with a leg amputated, 1 arteries broke in some way, and ,could not be taken up. Poor 3 oung soldier, he bled his life ~away- Reader, I will not weary f you, mentioning any more of a these sad sights. I was strolling over the ensanguine battle field, -viewing those formidable heights I met a wounded Mississippian, .belonging to our division. I said a to him, friend and comrade, I see that you are wounded in the arm, left arm it was. Yes said f he. But let me show something 7 that saved my life. He took a from his left breast pocket a bible, s no doubt given him. by his dear .mother. I did not ask him, who .was the donor of this precious -gift. He handed it to me. I noned it and followed the course lothes, and some tobacco, which vas a scarce article in prison. The dear old woman, promptly, ent me what I desired, and sev ral dollars in federal money. ;he was my friend, peace to her acred dust. We were guarded >y a brigade of New Yorkers, .nd reasonable men they were, re suffered no harm at their tands. It was said by some of he prisoners, that others look ng through the cracks of the ence at a pile of coffins, one poke to another standing aside, .ddressing him as "Johnnie Zeb" come here and let me show ou your "wooden overcoat:" 'es, a good many of the poor fel ows got their wooden overcoats here. We were given only wo meals each day, breakfast nd dinner, no supper, a cup of offee quite thin, and tive small rackers or a half loaf of bread r breakfast. For dinner, a cup f bean soup and five crackers rith a slice of pickle pork al rnating with a cup of carrot up with a slice of fresh eef. We 'did not complain of he qaulity of food we had eader, but, oh, my, the quantity. 'or supper, we drank a double ortion of copperas water, and iflated ourselves with air, re red to our humble couches reaming of our breakfast the ming morning. Tobacco was ard to get, and sometimes we ad to exchange a cracker for a hew of tobacco. They were at ar. The only thing that cheered ie in my seclusion from the world ut side, was "Dixie" and her lorious cause. Time went luggishly by. My friend of o. "I" came around sometimes. > see me. I reciprocated his isits, he was always a gentle ian, in war and in peace, in rison, and out of . prison, he bill lives. An unseen hand has rotected him all these years. 'here was a young soldier from aryland, who had been taken uite sick, he was taken out of ae prison camp, and carried to e hospital. Before, leaving, owever, he told my comrade of o. "I", that he expected a valu ble box of provisions from Bal more, that he, my friend, could ppropriate it, he and his mess Lates. I think the Marylander ied. The box came filled with itibles of every variety, ham, rkey, light bread, cetchup, ickles and a intermixture of ther good things, too tedious to iention. My good friend ever oughtful, invited me around to is tent, to partake with him. f the luxuries. We ate care illy and left no scraps for the ats, but fortunately, reader, the ats were conspicuously absent, ad they been there, they would ot have had held any hand the game. For several monthas aousands of boxes were shipped the prisoners from Baltimore. That a blessing it was, to have uch friends, among strangers,. ome bad fellows one night made charge upon one of the cook oses carried off boxes of crack rs, meat and other things. The ntire camp of prisoners, had to affer for the wrong doing of ose unthoughtful fellows. We ad no meat to eat for some con derable time. That was the rivation we had to endure with at complaint. The month of arch came 1864. I said to my -iend of Co. "I" see here, our id uniforms are getting right Ld and thin. Won't you write > Mrs. H- and see if you can et her to send us a suit each. [e answered me in this way. I rould cheerfully write the letter r the much needed clothing, ut the trouble is this, they wont it letters be mailed now going :om the prison camp. I replied, ou write the letter, and leave the atter with me. I unfolded my lan to him. He saw the point t once. I will explain the trick. [ere it is. One of the Louisianians who nted with me, was acquainted Tith some of the New Yorkers, Tho guarded the prison camp. I sked him, if he would do me a vor. Yes he said, certainly I ill. The letter was already writ an. Friend take this dletter aid . and have it mailed out at lie Point, by one your New York riends, and you will confer a indness, which I certainly will pprecate. He did so. Within a eek, my friend and comrade of o. "I" and myself, received, ach a nice grey suit: "It is bet r to be born fortunate than ich." Sometime after the war nded, my friend went to Balti aore on Mercantile business, he alled on our esteemed friend rs. H-. If living may God less her. If otherwise, may he be numbered with the blessed a that everlasting home beyond he skies. Some of the prisoners udertook to tunnel themselves ut off prison, they made a fail tre of their attempt. One morn ag the latter month of March, I iad just eaten breakfast, when I tood in the presence of my hon red comrade and friend of Co. 'I" of the old second regiment f South Carolina volunteers. ood news, good news for you a friend. Oh,what is it? said I. Ye are bound for "Dixie. in the orning. Reader, I was com letely overwhelmed with joy. leader, did you ever know how o appreciate gladness. The luds of despair rolled away, hich had so saddened the sun hine of my prison life. Am I o go away from this place and >e where the beautiful roses >loom. and view again the neadows green? Could it be a eality? I will anxiously await .d see. Sure enough we were o be paroled.~ that is our divi ;ion of prisoners. Welcome norning I said within my heart. )h, may time hasten its speed, hat I may leave this place for ver. The next morning we were narhedl to the steamer New York, she was loosened from her moorings, and the good steam ship moved.blithely down the bay ladened with eight hundred or a thousand rejoicing hearts. The next morning we cast anchor off Fortress Monroe, for what pur pose I know not. Some mis chievous fellow aboard. circu lated a report, that we were to be conveyed back to Point Look Out. His ruse was so monstrous lyabsurd. I did not for a moment give it credence, but some of the boys took the rumor seriously. We lay at anchor that day and night. The next morning we hoisted anchor, and steamed up the James river to City Point. where two steam boats were in readiness to bear us on to the Capital of the then young -na tion. About midday we reached Richmond. The inhabitants of the war shakened city, were on the banks of the river awaiting to welcome us back to Dixie land. Old men and Matrons, Maidens, boys and girls, with their well filled baskets, greeted us on every side. Some one has said that the most tender thin they ever heard, was the bleat of a young lamb. Reader, that per son had never been shut up in prison for a long time, and de nied the privilege of hearing a woman's voice. And if he had and to be suddenly turned loos: from confinement, and hearing all around him. Mr. have some thing from my basket, wont yon I know you are hungry, Mr. wont you, wont you. Think of those sweet voices around. entreating you to have some thing, holding it in their pretty hands, food pre pared no doubt by themselvesex - pressly for you. Reader, the bleat of that fellows young sheep would not have been in it.- 'We were escorted to the Capitol square, by several regiments, with bands playing "Dixid. When we reached the Capitol we fronted. Reader, then. came one of the most imposing scenes that was ever witnessed. The presi dent of "the storm cradled -na tion" leaning upon the arm 'of Gen. William Smith, Ex-Gov. of Virginia, who escorted him down the line of liberated soldiers, as hp passed along, you could hear the cheering greeting, soldiers I welcome you home, soldiers I welcome you home. What -joy swept through our hearts. It was indeed an -impressive sight long to be reme'mbered. After at short respite of twenty-one days, we were declared exchanged We. promptly reported to our:-. commands. and ready to fight . Grant's ponderous army in the wilderness. The' confederate ells are heard no more. "Dixie" flag guides no more the eharging I lines, it is furled forever. . No camp fires are made now. No~ roll call of companies are heard now. "But may we all be there . when the roll is called up yon der. - OLD RocK. The pill that will. will fill the bill. Without a gripe. To cleanse the liver, without a quiver. Take one at night.. DeWitt's Little Early Risers are small, easy to take, easy and gentle in effect. yet they are so certain in results that no one who uses them is disappointed. For quick relieffrom biliousiess, sick head- - ache, torpid -liver, jaundice. dizziness and all troubles arising from an inac- - tive, sluggish liver, Early Risers are unequalled. Sold by The R. R. B. Lor yea Drug Store. A Bonded Warehonse. Editor The Manning Times: I read with interest what you had t say ju your paper this week about the proposed bonded warehouse for cotto. It is a subject that I have read consid erable about in the Atlanta papers. (for in Georgia the bonded cotton warehouse forms an important purt of the business fabric of the cotton growing region) and from what I gather about them as then I do not think anything which has been suggested in the interests of those interested in marketing cotton promise,^ greater possibilities of good for all par ties concerned than these warehouses Had one of sufficient size and prop erly managed been operated iri Man ning last season the farmers in this ter ritory could have deposited their cot ton. had it in insured and upon the certificates of deposits obtained money enough from the bank to pay - their debts or satisfied their creditors and instead of selling their cotton at 8tc. per pound as much of it was sold it could have been sold for 15 to 17c. per pound just as easily and think of this immense gain which would have been saved to the farmers and inciadentally to the merchants who advanced to them. As no such system was in operation the debtor farmer had to sell his cotton' in -- October and first of November at de pressed prices (for the bears are thoroughly familiar with the cotton farmers obligations for October and November and know just when .to put down the prices) consequently many a farmers closed the last business year very much in debt who might have paid out and had some thing to begin -- this year with could he have held his cotton. Then too the farmer who holds his cotton anyway by patronizing the warehouses can for a small sum have his cotton insured and safely stored where the product will always be in perfect condition when he desires to sell, instead of being wvet and damaged by lying on the ground as is the case where cotton is kept in the usual way. Not least of the advantages of the wareouse system is that you mention ed of having salesdays for cotton when the conditions of the most will warrant it and attracting a number of buyers of course the best prices would result. Let the business men of our town and the farmerswho espect to sell cotton at Manning get together on this matter and if they act at once the system can be inaugurated this season. Yours truly. JESSE S. PLOWDEN. Manning July S. 1904. Mothers, hearken while I tell' What will make your boby well "TEETHINA" cures them of all pain And gives them rosv cheeks again. Yes. "TEETHINA" Overcomes and Counteracts the effects of Summer s Heat, Aids Digestion, Regulates the Bowels. and makes Teething Easy. Csts 2. ctns at Druggists.