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TMI: WEIiKLY LEDGER, II III i s 11 r 1 1 I.VKKV KKIO.W IIY flic Limestone I'rintins and rublishiiiR Co. Incorporated. $1.00 per Near. R. O. SAMS. - - Editor. ED. H. DeCAMP, Manager and Local Editor. who (In nut foulri- loliiin^otl Why tlim ,^11111'*' Iht* inimi' of V|i|ii»ni!»lIo\ |o tliiit of Sur- romlor? X" wondrr I lull llu'm l of llie l , osloni«v dt |Nirliiunit has Ihtii oonih'iniu'd North ns well us South There was no ilisgrnee alltiehed to our tiolile eonfeilerale leader tieneral Koherl K. I.ee w hen, for Ihe Iasi | inie, i'iii l.i in.1:11 is not responsihle for j | u> nuireheil at the head of l lie troops the views of correspondents. he had so often led to \ iclorv hut now to sfjich their arms liefore an l-KOM WASIIINti I ON Newsy llu tt ill.'l. t’orrespoi dents win* hute reirular news letters must fur nish their name. n.*i for puldieation. | enemy that admire,I lheir patriotism hut for'dent ideation. uiid*their valor. \|| eorrespondenee should he ad- | A .j 1 he ranie remain Appomattos ar. ssed to Kd. II. IM'amp. Manager I'or a eluh Ilf live new yearly siih-j serihi rs we w ill allow *•<* cents l-’iir a eluh o to the end I line It h •f |i» wi* yvill allow ijil.tKi l.otl 2d “ •' 2. do ;a» •• " d.Oo Now is the chance for a hoy or girl in each neighborhood to make a lit- I le 1 'hrisi mas money. Write for particulars to Kd II. I let 'amp. Manager. nil day. octoPiKK I 1 .*, ishi. ours through a hundred victories and must he a heritage for our children. SHEEP INDUSTKY. Contrary to all expressed convic tion- of republicans or fears of demo crat s.t he price of wool has eontimiod !‘I'** Property of the rich and poor to advance and sugar to decline sinct THE INCOME TAX. Even McKinley and Mill are now mum on the subject of the Income tax. It has been eliminated from campaign speeches by the republican side. An answer to the direct ipics- tion is evaded if it is possible todoso. Call it a populistic measure if you please. It appeals to every unbiased mind as just and proper. The gov ernment by its strong arm protects alike. In return, the government t.cttei I'lum 111'.Iltlpl.il II I . |< 'orrespolldene ol l lll I 1 I" 1 1. | \\ \>IIIS«. I11S, « I. I I • I lh< count 1 \ in dan '1 1 ol b. in It h d With money Ihul Will i.ml alioiil mi n par w ll h I lull 1 Ill'll III 1 III du y •• of '' yy i Id eat ha 11 k 1 ic w < 11 1 uum I ■■ a ■ d by many people noyy liyiii" ' ll •, 1 lamly 1-; it a dice i.m pet ieiid< 11 d by Solicitor lieeyi llu belli I hny ollieiaI of the I S lii.i nry dcpail incut he vi mi I layy. Iha I d, . 1 um says that any county aiithori/ed l>'. it- Slate coiislit ill ion to j ue houd may i-sue bonds id any denomination il plea-es. and that tlm<e honds will no) he suitjeet to federal taxation. The plain English of this decision is that any county may if its Stale const it ut ion does not prohibit is-in- bonds in deiiomimil ions of one d«,llar. or even fract ions of a dollar, and by making the interest nominal l he bonds yyoulil become circulat ing notes just the same as if they yveiv act ually issued as such, thus prael iea i I y mak ing the federal layy, yvliieh Congress at its last session refused to repeal. Give Us a Convention. Wninur, S. October. la. Mr. Editor—I see something said about a ennsl it ul ioual eonveiil ion in your valuable paper and that it is open for diseusion. so il may not be oiil ol reason for me to sny something on that line. I have often heard it expressed by the distressed that yvhat yve needed yyas mole inoin y . Noyy on this line let 11- look and see yvhat make- money so scarce If I were to judge I yvoubl say that there are two causes for the present oppression. I h* !:rst is that the layy - of our count ry are -o degrad ing liny not only bring oppri"ion but teach dishonesty to our poop:' . Now b t every thinking man on t'd- subjeet think and a<'l for the interi -t of his country and if In- dot -n tin n he yvill -ay give u- a convention and let us gel rid of I he hr t eau-'—which is the fiome stead lavy. It is nm of the yyorsl curses that ever cone on tour country a-all will admit that bad paymasters cause high priced goods, ll not only heats the noin -1 toiler out of his hard earn in. - out de prives others of any credit. Many individuals, through neec.-sily . have been driven to the yvall. (live u- a W1 allit.I < top MollrUll No. iH. I hi p»*.-l y\ * 1 l> yy as mtiell eo*tler tli.io 11 oil llu ih pail ntes ayeraging id' 1, 1 • a, h day I,*‘lo\y t he nor oiiit III lu d temperature for the will a 1 low 1 -l In I In ii ty a - .1 gi to rill lieay y . ami in pl'iia di dim live rain ami yy I ml tot 01 mo tin Mlt and fMh. tin ainoonl id rainlall avi raged over I yyo im In loelmling the entire slate. VIaoy riyi 1 • ov• illoweil tbeir banks ami rulmd yybal was bdl of bnllnm land < inps, -neb as late eorn, eolton, peas ami mtiell bay I lu n yyas al-o a great deal of open ■'■iiiun blown out ami stained. I In re were ligbt frosts on the nioroin - of the I lib, 1‘Jlb and liltb; killing liosts in tbe ‘tip eounlry ” on llu morning- of the I lib 1'itb and Ifilb yvhieb ruined tbe greater part if not tin- yy bole of a very promising tup erup of eotton. The injury to ot In r crops is comparatively insignif icant. This early frost is more dis astrous as the season, in the loculi- law Mud will improve our credit and lie-win re t he frost occurred, is about we will have more immey. Today fifteen days late. There was generally an excess of Convention declined to mention the tin Wilson tnrilT bill lias gone into elTect. Tin wool men fought bard to get a protective taritT. The cry was that their business would be ruined; the wool industry dwindle, and sheep rai.-i ng i u t In I nit cd St at cs sisin he a t hing of t he past No sooner had the hill passed than 1 1 1, 1 f..,. j one for the whole country there was an increased uenuiml lor, should he supported according to the imposing a tax of ten per cent, on ability of each. State Hank Currency, a dead letter. , .1 ■> 1 1. The iirgumeiit Mud In Massachusetts, tin' Ifepubliean 1 t tins tm aimer would be nimls issue,t m a great eunven- ienee in remote seidioiis of the eoiin- w'iml at Idgber rates tluin Me Kin ley taritT. An impetus lias thus been given the sheep industry all over tbe coun try. As this occurs at a time when most product- ,*t the field and work shop- are shrinking in value, there is cause for congratulation. Tin republican- have again hud the wind taken out of tbeir sails by this reversal of their prediction. Instead of helping tbeir cause. it bits strengthened the chance for the dem ocrat- longer ho!,ling t be reins of gov ernment. <>ur bill side-, abandoned to sedge ami briars, should now be reclaimed ami made to yield a line return in fat inu! ton and profitable wool. it i- true, the scavenger cur is abroad in the land and fencing bits vanished -inee tbe stock law. but it detenninalion 1" revive this industry will push out the ouivuul tit less cost tbii" lieretnfojv our lands may be in- eln-i <1 w it b 'net l, r fencing. l ew animal- make such i|uick or -tieh rich return in fond and cloth ing as does 1 he sheep. If England and France make of it ii profit aid" it du-try where tbeir land- 11 r: -" valuable, why eau not we in .'-until Carolina make it more so. where we hiivi land that isebeapand abundant. 1 income tax. Heed and Harrison I avoided it. W hy? Heeause it is ! popular and it won t do to oppose j what is giving satisfaction. It is not | a southern or u western measure, but It meets under tbe | approval from Maine to California, and will grow in favor its it.- provis ions are rigidly enforced. try. as they would furnish the people with it local circulating medium, the lack of which is now fell, i- alluring, but not sound. Such money, nr sub stitute for money, once put in eireu- litliou could never be confined to the county in which it was issued, but would in it short time find its way all over tbe country, and the days of dis count—always paid by the poor man —would be renewed. No money, or what purports to be money, should NEW YORK POLICE. never be issued in this country that The l.exnvv eommit t ee enitt inties it - j* wort It a dollar it t its place of isstn'. investigations into the reported eor- but is discounted more and more the nipt ion, intimidation and blackmail- W gets from hnme «».„■ ex- . . pcnclicc of I hut sort should iie ipnte Ingas practiced by members of the ( . ni|ll .j. I.m „s have no dollars that New York poliee. 1 be work goes on. M( ,( ,| ( illar- in California as well and the revelations are distressingly as in Maine and in all the interven ing slides. Money that bit temp,'riil tire from .lanuary to July, tbe greatest departures both above and below the normal having occur red in Mar,b. after the first of.Inly the temperature averaged about nor mal until the second week in October when it became much cooler. There were some wide tluetuations in the temperature, the most notable of i j the innocent sutfer fur the guilty. ' It seems to me that the political wagon has been greased everywhere except where it needed it. If w* had the laws our fathers handed down to us in those gmul old days when it man could go to bis neighbor and say. I want ifi.'iiUHi and get it without a word only write and sign a note and get the money and go on bis way ivjoie- , ing we be better olf. Now what does it take? It takes something like March rJilh to aOth. 1|lis; 'pile first thing a man has to when freezing water prevailed over ,| u is m,.. ,\ |> (> r C a- the the entire state, destroying praeti- m „ v |,e and if lie is so Illckv us to eally the entire fruit crop, and doing | un : ( . j, the first word be savsis Id,ml mueb other damage. All vegetation. kno V | will let you know su,-l. a time, ind when the time lias ex- which bad iittained eonsidenible SEEING IS BELIEVING. Ti i four g'l'c.'it powers of Europe, England. T'rai 'c. Uuss’ui iind Italy an iiwiik, tut he advantages to be de- rivi-d troin a I'l'isi' wateh over the war now in progre Japan. Tbe time ba- passed for a thirty sickening. Sworn protectors and en forcers of tbe law became violators in letter and in spirit, and yet for years have bebi full sway, umvhippcd of just ice. It is time that ihe ‘ Mon is bearded in bis den." All honor to the com mittee that has acted so courageously in unearthing and bringing to ligbt some of the dark deeds of the police of t be met ropolis. Etta Jane Notes. [<'orri'-pondenee of Tun l.niiimi; Ell \ .1 \xi;. (let., Hi—My list lit ter didn’t itppear in Tut: l.i:n<ii:u. I suppose it must have found its way into the wiiste basket for which it was perhaps better tilted. Hy some means there has been some irregularity with the mails between this place and (iatTucy City, and if thuse wlm are «'oniieeted with it were uidy iiwiire of the fact they are likely to be eidled by the Host id atltboralies. Several paekages have failed to como to time and some have failed altogelber. Tbe frosts have eonie to time and •tation has yielded tn its iiitlii- enei'. Our people an- gatliering their crops with all their might. ’Ihe crops are seriously damaged by t In- between China and ! recent storms, especially is this so with tbe eotton. Much of it is blown out of the bolls and all of it more or less stained with dirt . year-war to hen possibility among) Sickness still prevails in many enlightened nations. No longer are places though not any serious eases have a t. n years siege. ; on band that I know of just now Hows and arrows, spears or even ihsi-ariU led muskets will not we to have a ten years sit,... , . I be burning of .Messrs \\ lusonant 1 A Webber's ginho.isc. mill and machinery, on Wednesday night of tiiodein warfare. And if China has | last week was a serious matter with .o, nothing 1 • 1 — e with which to arm her j H'***' gentlemi ii and especially is s „ .... . , ... .. 1 this so when we consider that the million- to oppose the pushing, well- | .1 1 • , . 11 1 jiropertv was the hard earneit ilollars avail in bas to be diseoiinted to be spent may be a good thing for tlie briikers and money changers, but it would be a very bad thing for tbe pco|;h'at large. The Host < Uliet department people say there was no polities in the oHi- eial notilieation to all po.-t masters at free delivery’ otliecs. that hereafter all substitute letter earriers must be nominated from the eligible list: va cancies in the carrier force must be filled, when practicable, by the pro motion of ihe senior -ub-titute: re moval and new employments of elerk- and carriers must b" reported to the First Assistant Host mastei' (ietieral as soon as made, and that no carrier is to In* removed except for cause, and upon written charges filed with the H. n. !».. and full opportunity given him for defense. Ail the same it has caused much talk among !he iiolitii'ians. It will, if properly ear- ried out. deprive l in-post mast ers of l 1,• power of appointing their subor dinate. fbe theory bits always been that t he appoint mein - were mad,'at the Hostoliiee Department, the I'ost- ma-ter merely making recommenda tions. but as those rci'onimenilations were alwtiys accepted by tbe depart ment the postmaster praotiraily nitide t be appoint nient s hi ms, If. fbe p ,-t- master will cease to be a power in polities if tbe new rules be rigidly en- foreed. Secretary Carlisle won bis first wrestle with tbe sugar planters, a- it was getiueraliy supposed he would, the court having dee lined to issue the Mandamus asked for, on t lie gmuii ity st i * growth and crops that were planted j,.,.,, M| . | t lllls | 0( ,k ( .«l up tbe ‘ ,n ; , . 1 *' gardens, weie and seen bow to proi'eed -o ruined. I here was an,., her eold-wave , ( .„„ 1 .. s back at tbe appointed with frosts about the mtddle of May. . aml Ml , sits (ioxvll !im , writes domg si,gin injury to crops, and some , t „ suil llu . law. and unseasonably cool weather early ... ‘ xl)( . 11Si . s :imi inll lt , s ' * .1 uml lit* siirns with flnw^r ami all. 1 Iiriv \\a> Irss than tm* ji>ual Xow who is to hlami*? Mr. I> is only amount of rainfall up to .Imif 17th to pnitortin^ himsrlf. f’ant hlanu* tin* JSth. wilh s <lroii«rht roiulitions uian that borrows. A Inm^rv man after tlie ’Jut b of May. During July . | I!|S j, ot an) | |, M) k what it does, showers were numerous and timely, j, t . |k , w thousands of dollars out of and during August and Slept cm her (lie farmers pockets, for recording there were excessive and damaging mortgages and filing liens, all uu ae- rains throughout t be eastern half of cmnt of tbis one vilanous law. which the st: while, at the same time there were portions of the western half tbat needed rain. There were few bail-storms and no very destructive ones, and until the storm of September 2<ith to iSth, but little injury to crops was caused by winds, fbe storm of (tetober Sth and IM It did some damage principally by flooding boUom lands. Killing frosts on thr I !tb to Ifitli of October in the western portions of the state, cut all late crops in i bat sect ion. fbe eolton crop was about an aver age on the acreage. Its condition up to t lie lirst of.I uly was on the whole, poor, but the fields were well worked makes the rieit richer, and poorer, so may Mod speed tile | >1 ,1 Ii' the day when we will get rid of this one law. We may say the second cause i- by overproduction of eotton. Now let us see bow this conies about. First the renter goes to the landlord to get a farm. The landlord iiujuires how much it will take to run him. He (tbe renter) at once says ijwn.OO. so you see the landlord makes his cal culations and says you must tend so many acres in cotton to pay expense.-, so that forces the renter to plant the same. We can not blame the renter, nor eau we blame the landlord for he lias to meet expenses. Another mis- ainl clean. T rom July on, the plant jj lk e the farmers make is useiug n r- made rapid growth and began to fruit ,j|j z ,. rs | have thought it would bring heavily. Ibis condition was sits- (•otton down to tivi* cents. It is my tamed throughout tnc season in the opinion if the world could be eon- we-icrn portion of the state, while in viiieedtbal fert ilizer is a di-advant age the eastern half its condition deterhn j„,| M , long run and would make:; rated rapidly during August and Sep- half crop wit bout it they have ju-t t.-e the crop w it Ii t >a !<■ s as much motley, supp, thi s year Is ten million fert ilizer and the next year live with out it. I believe it would bring just sis mueb money si-the fen million, for there would be room for eompeii- Mon as it is there is no competition and where there is no competition any kind of farm product.- i- cheap. So we have drifted ill to this eliamiel and the disease is on us and the only remedy is to have a convention sin,l isnd t be disease And then !>■! sinned sind progi’cssive Japanese, she bad better make terms and learn the 1, -son that i- now patent to all. The nation that is up to the times in tin- vsil sin-hil< ,'t nre. and is well supplied with improved appliances, hoth otTeii- sive and defensive, has si vantage ground in tlm light that she is apt to hold tot he end and which will hasten j t he end. Woe to that nation that is now caught unprepared. She must pay th, penalty as did France in the Franeo-Hrussiaii war. file short contest in the harbor of Uio de Janeiro was not sufficient to test in act iistl conflict theefficiciicy or ilieflieietiev of t In of thrift and energy. Hoth of these gentlemen have worked their ways through life so far. and sire doing well. Asa imn liaiit Mr. Whisoiisint hits I,eeii :i s11s ami as si ineehsinie Mr. W ebber lists been no less So. Miss Jessie Strain is s'ltlering witb a sore t iii'oat. Mr. John Estes finished msiking j molassi's yesterday. Me made I’d*, t gallons in all atul some of them sire i very fine for home made. Mr. Willis McAbcc. of Lawn, bad bis home raided last Saturday night and bis family forced to find refuge in (light . Me wsis not at In,me at the time. The .•siusc. I understand, was some old fetid. Jim siud John Blanton wt-re the intruders. Too mtleh lawlessness is tolerated in this ■ country anyhow, sisul too many pco- far ma hut no steps t into court. i! may surpri told tlisil the p< eantlidate: triels, yet FTeopb' to be are running in :>(>'.! ('ongressioiial <lis- Sliell is the filet. Cllilir- <•1. >f t be populist ,'iini- psiign eommitte,'. tsike- ss very rosy view of the situation. Me said: ••(Mir gresitest gain will be in tbe West and South. W resent it ives from states in wbieii w, have never su,'eel',led befoi'e. notsdile Illinois. Iiidtatia. Wiseonsin. .Niielii- gan and .Minnesota. In thirteen out of fourteen states West ol tbe Mis-is- sippi river, which have heretofore bt ell r. itubliesin. t b, , .. u .,,,,1 einimrx any no« . too many pro- pljn-e, mul lirin,,.- ol t Hose si sit ‘ ‘ ’ 1 pie are foitiul to uphold :ets,,f this .h moerat m party will lie in t h, lent warfare. ' , * r ' ; kind. In other wotvls tliey take law ) tioti of a verv insignitiesinl populists will eonie out, either in the first or second place, and in ni>of those slates the posi- liiird parly.” The stealing of postage stamps t>resit Hev. <». M. Boyd preached sit Mil- from the Bureau rtf Engraving and son’s <’hapel hist >und;iy. Mis t< \t print ing. which wsis discovered hist wsis. “Me being <lead yet speaketh. week, may result in a big seandal. the world and , JUs diseotirs,- was si powerful warn- |s im|Missible sit this time to -ay metits used in moth haps it will be dilh rent with tbe two! into their own bands, nations now engage,1. j gentlemen ! (*f all the great powers Brittain lias most sit stake. Her | vast empire eneireh Hoor policy esin only be protecte,I by etjuiptnentH ing to his hearers w ho were forcibly iv- ' min,let!of the iutliieneesof tbeir lives on others. Whether for good or evil of tin highest order. WHAT'S IN A NAME. A great deal is in a name. Some ottr stets live and our characters stre i photographed on others and run on I down the cvelcs of coming ages mak- we almost reverence from association , U|) n||p P1 .,. ( , ri | f oP ,.t,. r nity. and perhaps as many others we abhor, t though they sound pleasantly to ot her , ar>. There are family mimes that ! ,ave come down to u> from the ,’em uries sind have heroine mellow to' "iir eiir- tinit to ot hers are harsh and roiiji. 'flu i iigain there sire names that halve g,,ii, into history. We use i. i.. s. . - How’s Tins. W e oIT,t on, Iit’iidred dollsirs re- wsird for any ease of ('alarrh that raimot It, cured by Msill s ('atarrli ( nr,'. E. .1. ( MENEY A’ (’(>.. Hrops.. To ledo (>. bow many liave been stolen. 'I’luit will not be known until all the post masters who Inive mad" re,|uisiiions for stamps sin,-," tin- lirst of la-t July liave been beard from and their ac counts ,'becked. Three men are al ready implicated, tsso of tbem gov ernment employe,--, who sire now in jail, and the third an outsider. It seems that there mu-t !,• something wrong about the method of filling postmasters’ mpii-it ions, as tbe stealing was done by sending tbelli a smaller number than they ordered: also, from the fact that tbe theft was discovered through tbe thieves otfer- M the undcr-igiied have known ing stamps for sale sit si big discount E. J.< heiiev for tbe last l.'t years, and M,. ,, iii prose and we measure them believe him perfectly honorable in all in poetry and they become the eiir- business I rsinsaetions and timineially rmd coin of t be statesman, the politi- j "I'l’' »'* < »rry out any obligation made eian. the college graduate or the *'■' 11 ^ West A- I max. Wholesale Drug- graded se||o,»l child. Mow sweet the . rjsts T-tb do.o. W aiding. Kinmin ^laratlion. Thermopyla 1 ,v Marvin. Wbo|, -ale Druggists. To- Mamis.-a-. Seven I, do (f [ I'llllllge I hem hut and not through t he sy-ti-m of eheeks in use at tlie Bureau of Engraving and Hrinting. Every mother should know that croup eau he prevented. file lirst sympton of true croup i- Iiom'-, ii, -s. This i- followed by si peculiar rough cough. I f < bsimberliiin s ( oiigb ie iu- i years, and is of exeellent tpiality. Its condition wsis ipiite uniform over the entire state. Early planting made t he best ero'). file pea crop wits not sis good sis usual, although the acreage was somewhat larger. Its condition was fair and promising until the middle of August after which Iwcame divers ified, generally deteriorating, with a promise of a very ordinary yield, es timated at 1*0",, of si full crop. There was planted in many coun ties. a smaller acreage of rice than ususil owing priueipsilly to a sesircity of seed, hut the crop grew well and returned a good, remuners.tive yield, will , I,','t rep- afj,.,. jillowanee is made for the loss .’rom the September storm. After allowing for exceptions, sor ghum was a full crop of a superior ipiality. The acreage was up to the average, if not larger. file toharro crop, where cultivated, did fsiirly well although ttie weather wus not entirely favorable, hut it proved to he st paying crop. (ira—es made all their growlh af ter the July rains set in. yet the usual iimoimt of forage was saved. A ! slip- y ield of this important food crop was. perluips. in excess of the average. Irish pot sit oes did not do so well. Small grains were more or less a failure, except that a few counties prod'icd the largest oat crop ever known there. The weather condi tions were generally adverse to wheat and the yield, eoiiseijuently. very poor. It wsis a poor year for truck farms an,I gardens, hut during the summer m,,ntiis vegetal,les were plentiful. The adverse weather eoliditions can he briefly summerized thus: Th, March freeze; May and June drought: August and September ex cessive rains; Sept,'miter, hurriesins: (i,■»,»lier. Hoods stud early frosts. It v.i.s on the whole, a fairly prosperous year f ,r farmers, for there was si plenteous yield, hut they sire greatly discouraged by the prevailing low prices for their products, especially eotton. J. W. Bai’kii, I tire,'tor, S. < ’. S. W'. S. ('olrtuibia. S. ('. Met. l.'tth. IK’.H. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—) .atest U. S. Gov’t Report assess Powder Absolutely pure The Young People’s Bureau. E! > r M ■ )'«-1, W H tu v, r w ui n<- and ii* .'tri- of all who knew cliiblreri - diildren wi!i an-, m - . him itb s-cd! We uneovir t < in that holds his memory and - m frst- grstnc, i in mort al fi I Is t lie boiiu - , .f si who l<,\",i Mii'sijab t'ieero Ban,*!. W’e ant ieipat <• t lie pleasure that tli- sk< teb will alTord those w!ios,'« y, - kindle >vitb reverenee and joy at tlm niiiue of one whom we now erow n a- onr hero. Me never fought bis coun try’s biittbs nor waved her flag in victory, but he who “stirred up oth ers t,, noble and religious imita'i >u receive i be greaterglory after ,1, sit b. And what harder battles can be W ei V xt.,.., Sunday, fought than those of self, a resigna- ,j;,- a ' , :,i\ Maud, lion ,*1 that whieli all m,*n lov,* mo.-t / xi-it, '! \ii-v |.. .. ,ra i'-.ai’s last Sttn- (t. the nerve and vigor it takes to ! ( |., v Algood News Notes. 1 '',rr< -p,mdence <>f Tin: I.i.imck. | \ *. « < let. 11’,. — Bev. U. J. - .•;. i. v eent at Macc- ' it ure i x ami Sundsty. famiix" visited • > - 11, iiriet ta last B How, I t' ,k in the !: " a x Springs last week. A. (. Harris and Alfred • '-it:i g fi'iends in this ' ' >:,turdav atid Sunday. M,— • ;. . i I 'i a:,*: Baymoth ' ..t.’.-ir. visited friends • ■ - n. ' . - - "t ion la-t Sat urday .11 " mdax. Me ;ml'n vesome ot our old B - would i .<■ for ihem to tiiake ti., ir visit- iptite often. W of 111' Beaver Dam -ci • ■ d id- i Mi-- ( ssrrie. su, ei life s eon,lifts. I he fait h to wi‘ id Al P . d '■! mighty weapons against sin! Mur ton. visit,o Christian soldier was gii'ded with “sword and helmet, shield and hrand and trU'led in the <';iptain ol his -al- vatioii.” Elder Barnett wsis horn May ’ilMh. IMS. near (’i*,tar Springs. Mis early education wus limited, hut by noble push he ascended t he moun tain-top and was claimed to be one,if the grandest self-educated men of ids day. I le was often termed 1 he “ Bib lical Mracie ’ so well grounded was In- B. \. ! of I'lif- I.. < iary and family las; Min,lay. Miss. Antoine,(• Blanton and her si-ter. Mi-- Mini,!' were at Macedo nia last Sunday. When it on ms to match horses, W . D. Byars i- b ird to turn down. Me Inis a "harming pair of grays Mint esirrx a huggy -r, fast and esisy that it almost takes your nival h. Me will c.xciiang t! uu f • a pair of good mules or Sell. Mile of "U " old Ii says he wants somebody - .■ r! an I somebody s girl lie must get. Ju<lai‘ fmni the way in tlie know ledge and truths ,,i the . j.,. ..y^jns .x ii la-t Sun,lav. we be- Mis gigantic brain grsip- li, \e Im wd! _■ t ue. Mr . J.A iiarri- dek list, scrip, nr, ■ pled witii my sterious testeliings. und ! i . . i but i- improving, what was too minute for mm to ravel . , • , . , i John l.i nuer K;! u u a ral,id-dog last out Im ipimtly a, pled as st t rust-| ^ tu ,| lV ina lilt;,' child. Mope emltlsiz,uied i Messrs, x. W . Smith uml T. ,,n his diiixvn eurtsdn, “Thou -halt j Mtt-kx xv it to 1 ' i" :.- and l Tift on know hereafter.” Mur hiographeim l: ''‘ '•. l; ! v ” il B. i.. -mitii went to ( niton hist ,-ay-. “Elder Barnett was surely a Saturds.yon i.usi, m. S. Stuart, a niu-ical chart agent man p >.-, ssing extraordinary gifts, and otu'was his ahilily to clot he Ids rush of ideas in the best and choicest T'oin ''eiin Stl'i ‘i 1 XX itli J. L. ('larylast P.' i..> night. Mewassup- , plving the public scm, .|- with charts , r,-- that the English language af- ' ' ,, , si .s ..id • h A numbuggery. fords. Mis counsel so wise sind <lc- \\ , n > n, ver, > if suclj Ii!„ rate xx a - always earnest h J,r.v, <1 | eiui.a- h •> ;r .in!!.- - no ,1s. and os? ami ids intercourse with tin xx rid pe,cully o;:i* count ry -’bools \\ t* .. . i . i. think ,,t.f tr > <•- se-t'-l wisely when wa- fruit nil tn making men w i— r amt , . ..“ t Ilex l, l'l.-eu toanja' >pluat tliepUMllC l-Hter. Let us men lion t hi-.pisod, M . h ;, (1 )tI ; os,*. in our sultject s ministerial life. * >ne i i r.,• id: i. : _ • Imre Sunday Saturday night while resting at si! 1 *’' fr’mtid s house he picked up “Haradise ! Lost and Begained ” and wsis so dt cjiiy K. Stuart’s Gin und Buchu Cure- all ki<! i my and urinary iniincr-e l in its grand and nove! ; j P()U |,|,.-. I Stuart’s Gin and Buchu ,mpt h-of beauty that he was lost t .j t,-miter cutirely on si,'count ot much rain t h.'it estused rot. rust and shed ding with si eonse<|Uciit loss of the plai t - vitality, as well as causing grass sind weeds to defy the cultiva tor stud the hoe. Lite planting suf fered most. Taking the aggregate er ,p of the stjUf, it promises to he somewhsit less tlisin that of the previ ous year, a few places report it si bet ter one. The aerestge of corn wsis Istrger than for some years, and the weather, on rid of the causes the whole, extremely favorable until will oct well itself, the givsiter portion of the crop was us (oe a line and luiy what mude. so tinit the corn crop is tin- W e can pay for and pay for what w.- lotilttelly the largest produced in |„, v> For fesir I may Worry - tin- reader I will elose hy ssiying I hope some I,rot her reader who i- aM,- to give the sllhjeet justice will take Up t hose hints. J. L. Scaki:. •airi 1 ' >u n h !ig circiimslsi nces. rime ('tin haek pain under cam,' for retiring and the volume wa- -h .ui'l n tuetani ty laid a-ide. <>n th, next Stuart s Gin and Buchu day Sundsi.vj We were astoni-iied to h* ar our -ernioniz"r in , luei,ls;ling. hi- ' \! -plot,' verbal im the poems of Milton; the ' residing of t iie pn viou- eveiiing hud ujinje an indeliltle in.- pr, -si,»n on his very plastm and r< - teiitiv.' memory. At llu time of I'ild, r Barnett’s death lie was pn-lor of Ellmt hel eliureh. hut in how many eh ll rein s does the cello of hi- voire resound, in how many hearts docs !ii.- Ieaehing- live, and how msiny of iii- ,'barge will shine in eternity a-j- xv- genet’s.! ,i '>i!ity. • •Is in his crown! Me died Sep,, in am I brick dust < III g met . XX ;■ deposit. Stuart's Gin and Buchu ('nr, - Ni'usea. imadaebe and sotjr -t oni'mli. Siuast’s Gin and Buchu Cuiv- ealafrii ami i'ltlamation of bladder. Stuart's G’n and Buchn ('u,vs iiicont inuance of urine and I'-Uli. I■'7J. in I;,' town of Shelby We Stuart s Gin and Buchu (’sav- r! u.'i.s,: :*• pains, mss <»f| sle, p ami ta rx• ss-tn -. Goucher Jems. Mnf, l|t;K S. ('.. Met. —As papa is a subscriber to your • "pe” and we enjoy residing it, so tune! . thought I would give jou si few dots from this corner. Farmers are busy gathering tlmir crops and making molasses. Mr. Horace Lipscomb, who has been quite sick with fever at tlie home of bis brother-in-law. Mr. Ital- leitgcr is eonvalesilig. Miss Hlive MeKown. of Mercer > <k. spent last week with Miss lola Lipscomb. Mrs. Eiigeuist Mitrpli. of Rich Mil! and Mrs' J. H. (iafTncy. of Anniston A la.. have heeti visit ing relsit iv* - lu re. Mr. J. B. Brown is having Ids house repainted. The I'nion meeting was In Id at <iettchor last week and was very in teresting. Bev. M. Brock sitpplies the ehtireh. The congregation sit irge acreage of"sweet potato Motieher Inis recenly pureha-ed an were plaiited. and the average organ for the ehurcli. Wishing Tilt: I.ki„;i:i< very much slice,’ess. I will close. I., is. rs m- in tliiddi of taking stimul.uits o'; id. such as hro- m'ni •- pr j'.ti'a'i'ti.- • ,piuni. spirits, et •.. will Iind ; ■ • . !- : . t hat one and wa- interred at Elhi'tlicl. .-lullI n,""t again at Jesus’ feet. . - Matters From Maud. I,',,;Te.-p«indenec of I in-: Li:t>oi:k. _ M UU. S. Met. lli.—We are ettjoy’mg loxi-ly weather for pieivin. cotton. I’l, • farmers on the l•'u!•!:a<•" lands have sieeepted the eotton p: • ing — ^ s11 hi and William (ireen i- -,, right i >r Id- lay - - :’k hy produr • hdjgh'ed will* the pickings that he 'it to (i I dos ’of: will quiet i!m m rv, • * ion , if t he -toniach giv. - ,m at .■ lit, amis is one up nil D BITHi; ..I .y till irrita- •k stoinaeh); Ms,II ternallx ('atari’ll * ure ix taken in- edy is given freely a-s ot. a- th "h',|<| ........... acting directly Upon the becomes hoarseor eveiistfler! h'.-eotlgii " 1 ’ * * ' ' hlood and mueoiis surfsiees of the Inis developed il will prewitt theat- j,n • he ! ,. m Hri"" 7'»c. per hollle. Sold Ini,. 2.’t and .»(• ", ul hot tie- lor sal, ler he »j »*> all Itruggists. TestiinoniuU free, j hy W. B. Duple. There is no medicine so often ne">l- ed in every home so admirably adapt ed to the purpose for whi"!i it is in- fended. sis ('hamIterlnin s Ham Balm. Hardly a week passes hut some tm 'ii- her of the family luis need of it. A toothache <»r hcadaelu may I," "tired hv it. A touch of rheumatism or neuralgia quieted. The severe pain of a I,urn or scald promptly relieved and the sore healed in mu"!i les- ': i.. than when medieine Ins-to It, -. til for. A sprain maybe promptly tr, ited before inflaiiisition set- in. which in sures a cure in al,out one-third of th" time otherwise require']. ( ut- und bruises should re,'"ive immediate treatment before the parts b< " line swollen which can only he dme when Haiti Balm is kept at hand. A sor, throat may he cured betore it be comes serious. A troubles,tine "<,rn may be removed by applying il twice a day for a week or two. \ lame back may be cured and several days of valuable time ssived or a pain in i In* side or ,’best relieved w it bout paying si doctor bill. Hroeur,' a e> ut hot- ents, Mood's Sarsaparilla possesses great tb' sit once and you w ill n v,» r, givt I curative value. You should TRY IT* | H. Yur Sale by V\. B. ihsHi". DECULIAR in combination, pro- * portion and preparation of ingredi- bad a im, ,alight picking l.a-t niglit but wc f'ar t hat Jack l•'r,,-l lo'tlx t he tield. W. Y. Elliott had an encounter with rsihid dog tlie ot tier day H"n:* ids I, ni.-c. He noli i that his dogs quit the eliase of the hare aii,| a\oj U d t lie st rang,' dog. By tlii-tim" th. ,|,,g was making straight to Eiliutt. win, seeing the danger, mad" xvar w it Ii -tones. After knocking t In dog down twice his nerve began to fail. I'li.-n ivtreat seemed necessary and In retreated. The dog fled and mad" its , -cape. Multc a mimher of our people at- t,'inie,I the enmpmeeting at Bock Springs N. ('. Some of the hoy- wvre atb cte,| Ity King Alcohol more than hv grace. Mow long w ill such tilings Ih-! Hrof. N. M. Curdell. of <'lierry viHr N. ('.. and W. M. Hut man. ,,f Sws'in S. ('. -pent Saturdsiy-tiight at Maud, on tin ir way t,| <,ras-y Hmid win :', tin Hrof. cmdu,ded a singing servi", . "umlay . M «• learn of the death of BnJ Scrugg- caused Ity a pisio! sin,:. Herhaps the particulars \vi!l co.i' out in I his issue tin,lei t i." < , verd c|. Msty t he ' tiesit ! -ml n 1 ss I! • ■' 1 l i: * ,|i-t res - e, i . tin •. It May Do as Much for You. M ;. I'red Miller, of I rvii 1 i: ^ii'i! - I hat he had a Sex •> ■ t!'nibie for iminy year-, will, — x- pair s in his back and also vit'.; - Idsi Id, r was niTected. He I ried m -,, "ailed Kidney cures but wiin'if! any '.mmI r,still. \b<>ul a year n. ■ in- began Use ,,t El,*,'trie Bit!"!*' s' d found relief at one,'. Ele'dricBi ' '- i- "-p""i:illy adapted to ettr, -d :: K i,lm y and Liver 1 r.tubh - ai d • ■ i■ giv. s ;,lnn,-I in-tsilit reli. f. (• Ink w i:' pr. ,x >• our -t at •unlit. Hr • -.e.ly for large bottle. At U. B. Du Hr, - Drug More. mg a i!'",- Ihc.v. earryki.g otT all im- ptirili, - I'l'im tin kidneys sin,l liver, thereby making purs' blood. S.tld b\ W. B. DuHre. Druggist. L. BAKER, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDEI DiC A LICK IN Sasli, - BiintSs, < Doors] -it! ■! !! '.x Building Materials. plans am! -perineal ions tor built dig- made ,,n short not lee. yrr. n S 1 A P j If X intes f,J ■ !. HEELER. I keap cull . Hi . ; '.LER. j tii,- way < : - jAut'S ■. 'ni f., PEELE1