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Fifty Years Ago.
••resident Polk in the White House chair.
tVhile in Lowell was Doctor Ayer;
Both were busy for human weal
One to govern and one to heal.
•And, as a president’s power of will
Sometimn depends on a liver-pill,
Mr. I*o!k took Ayer’s Pills I trow
Por his liver. SO years ngo.
Ayer’s Cathartic Pills
'vvere designed to supply a
model purgative to people who
bad so long injured themselves
with griping medicines. Being
carefully prepared and their in¬
gredients adjusted to the exact
necessities of the bowels and
liver, their popularity was in¬
stantaneous. That this popu¬
larity has been maintained is
well marked in the medal
awarded these pills at the
World’s Fair 1893 .
50 Years of Cures.
THE MONKOK ADVERTISER
FORSYTH GA.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF MONROE COUNTY
$1. PER YEAR,
IN ADVANCE.
Knti'ivd in the postofflee at Forsyth, (In.,
as second class matter.
J FROM F B. EVANS, Editor.
FRIDAY MORN ING, MAY 28, I8»t
“JEFF” DAVIS’ DESK, tg
This Celebrated Desk Cannot be
Found in Washington.
Among the most valued and
hitherto most carefully guarded of
1 be United States relies in the war
department was what was known
is the Jefferson Davis desk. This
is the desk at which the celebrated
■confederate leader sat and attend¬
ed to pubic business when he was
secretary of war. Now the desk is
gone. So is ex-Assistant Secre¬
tary of War Doe, to whose care
the desk was especially commend¬
ed when .he received his appoint¬
ment.
Tt'was somewhat shabby at that
'time, but none the less cherisded
.as a war time relic. Mr. Doe called
.in a department carpenter and had
him fix up the desk in first class
style. It was admired all the more
and remained in its place until
shortly before it was time for Mr.
Doe to pack up and return to Wis¬
consin. Since then no trace of it
has been found. Another piece of
•war department furniture is also
.missing. This is a $200 wardrobe,
which was made according to Mr.
Doe’s especial instructions.
STAND AT THE HEAD.
Aug. J. Bogel, the leading drug¬
gist of Shreveport, La., says: “ Dr.
Ring's New Discovery is the only
thing that cures my cough, and it
is die seller I have.” J, F. Camp
-bell merchant of Safford, Ariz.,
•writes: “Dr. King's new discovery
is aTi that is claimed for it; it never
fails, and is a sure cure for Con¬
sumption,, Coughs and Colds. I
•cannot sav enough for its merits."'
Hr. King's New Discovery for
.sumption. Coughs and Colds is not
an experiment It has been tried
lor a quater of a century, and
■day stands at the head. It
disappoints. Free trial bottle at
all Drug Stores.
.Nice lot OT
lap robes, from 35c to
-$2.00, - JUSt i received • i
^
*0. J. Zellner's.
The best way to build up a town
is to stand by every man in the
place who does right. Whenever
a man is doing well do not tear
him down. All residents should
be partners, not opponents. In
all livelihoods the more business
does ... the
your opponent more you
will do. Every man who treats
his customers honestly, courteous¬
ly and fairly will get his share, and
•
the more business that can be se- i
c”red by united efforts the better
it will be for all. When a town
1 begins to die, and the more readi-;
ly ruin comes to all. Stand togeth- j
i er tor the advancement of every
citizen. If a man showes ability
! to prosper, do not pull him back
through jealousy or wei-h him I
'
down , through . , indifference.- . r rr ;
! Marietta Journal.
Pretty line of sum
mer neckwear, shirts,
Collars, Cuffs, etc. just ,
received clt C. J. Zell—
ner’s. J I
Keep off the flies by using wire
screen doors and windows which can
he had cheap at Bramble tt A lire’s.
2l-2t
A mammoth shipment of buggy
harness, saddles, bridles and leather
goods cheaper than ever, just re¬
ceived. Get our prices. Bramblett & Bro.
21-2t
Terrible Accident.—I t is a ter¬
rible accident to be burned or scalded;
but the pain and agony and the fright¬
ful disfigurements can he quickly
overcome without leaving a scar, by
using DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve.
Dr. W. P. Ponder.
When Baby was sick, wo gavo her Castoria.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria.
Get your laundry soap free by buy¬
ing drv goods, shoes etc., from J. J.
Cater & Co. 22-tf
A Mariatta young lady, forget¬
ful of the day of the week, got up
last Sunday morning, took the hoe
from its accustomed place and
began to work in the garden,
until she was reminded that she
was unconsciously doing violence
to a religiously trained conscience.
About three weeks ^0 a married
lady had been up a good at night
with a sick child, lost sight of the
day of the week, and the servant
seemed to be as forgetful The
lady began to ply the needle and
made three garments. Later in
the day she sent the servent to
town to get some groceries. The
servant came back and told her
all the stores were closed from
some cause or other. It soon
dawned on the good lady’s mind
that it was Sunday.
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve.
The Best Salve in the world
for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers,
Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter,
Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns,
and all Skin Eruptions, and postive
ly cures piles, or no pay is required.
It is guranteed to give perfect
satisfaction or money refunded.
Price 25 centss per box. For Sale
by all Druggists.
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Arcadian Ginger Ale,
Healthful, pleasant, delicious. Sold I
by Dr. Ponder and Alexander Bros, j
A beautiful shipment of English j
porcelain at prices that will surprise j
you, iit Bramblett A Bro's. 20-2t!
-
Grain cradles, scrapes and fenders
cheap. 21-2t Bramblett A Bro.
SEWING MACHINES.
We have a White and a binger!
n t; id e 1 a 1 ui a c h cap !°Xe v! T beelfusSk i
Call at the Advertiser office. :
CASTOniA.
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j There will he an entertainment at
“Bazemore Academy” the first
Wednesday night in June. All are
| cordially invited to he present,
i The Epworth League met at Miss
Ella Turner's last Tuesday night and
au interesting program rendered.
j There will be no meeting next week
j a b church. Us i neS s meeting will be held
at the
“IT’S A TROUT DINING.”
Visiting at Milieu, my host and
self were made free, by the Milieu
C lub, to fish when we would Spring
l ak, ‘- A'e miles from their pret¬
ty town. The first day was windy—
cool, so we caught nothing. Two
gentlemen, one directing some dark
,
ies building a bridge a hundred yards
away across the canal, the other
farming near, had watched our up
country artistic fishing touches, anti |
quietly passed from us to the lake, j
An hour later, they came by us
lounging in the shadow of two moss |
a»d leaf covered water oaks whose
circle of shade was over a hundred I
feet in diameter. They were headed
with several fine trout they had just
trigged, for a canvass tent where the
bridge darkies nooned.
I suggested to my friend that to
J“.v He said, their “They trout was are going our fish to feast chance.
on
thMn trout t , iemselves , you ; alul
they are tlie sort who would be in¬
sulted by apropoeal to buy of them.”
So we turned over in the mossy,
# ras8 y shade of the huge trees,doing
our best to feed on air and shadow.
Iu half an hour, a voice in twenty
feet of us said: “You must come to
dinner with us down at the tent. No
excuse. It is ready—waiting for you.
There, that’ll do; no more excuse,
please. Come ahead — it’s a trout
dining. I’ve come for you.”
And lie got us you may know.
The table was a wide slab set on
logs in front of the negroes’ canvass
tent; plates here and there on either
side, a large tin pan full of trout in
the center flanked by hoecakes and
cups of bubbling coffee.
Ilid’st ever eat a pompano broiled
best at Folsom’s, Atlanta ?
“Nothing better.”
So I thought till 1 tackled these
hoecakes and cups of coffee and two
pound trouts, fresh within the hour
from Spring Mill lake, fried with
bacon flitches by darkey bridge
builders in the thicket of live oaks,
—the birds’s songs and whistles gurg¬
ling without the shadows across the
breaks of sunshine and the sleeping
waters.
My host, Dr. W., constructed of in¬
tellect, too much heart, fun, grace,
and goodwill, was silent for ten or
twenty minutes, his palate absorbed
in a wonderment of exquisite taste.
Then he paused long enough to say,
“Can’t he beat,” and was in the big
trout pans again and again. Poor
fellow! he was a middle Georgian,
just catching on to trout right out of
the water, cooked by down-country
darkies, liis will fixed “not to be
‘left’ ”—and he wasn’t.
Presently the bridge-master said
to a tall, still faced darkey with.
twinkles of humor splashing
black face,“Abe, strike a tune or two
from your banjo while we are eating
—the other boys will see we lack for
nothing.”
So Abe, solemn as Moses, tuned
his banjo, and picked a sprightly lay
accompanied by his voice. It took
me back to “the old plantation days."
The old “big house,” the many “nig¬
ger cabbins,” the broad farm lying
along the river, the “corn-shucking
songs and suppers,” the out-bursts of
“nigger laughter,” the utter devotion
of the slaves to their owners and to
“Missus’ Chilian,” their “ ’possum
Elder Wm. Tennison
OF BUFKIN, IND.,
Tells of the Great Benefits Derived From
Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure.
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EABT DISEASE of long standing is
not easily cared, bat it is curable.
Elder Wm. Tennison writes: “I was
afflicted for thirty-five years with heart dis
eas^ufact^roubled with it nearly all my
lfe: 1 ^lnk It heredi¬
Dr. tary as my father was
Miles afflicted with it. I have
suffered great distress,
my heart palpitated to
"Restore* such an extent as to
Z Health A shake my whole body.
Bsfv, v\j9| So distressing was it I
. , . .
could Only with great¬
est difficulty compose myself to sleep. About
two years ago 1 began taking Dr. Miles'
Heart Cure. The first bottle gave me no
perceptible benefit, but after taking the
third i began to feel much relief and i con
tinued for some months. I have good rea
SO DrAiiks’ e Smedii U Se sofflTy a ai e i n dmg
gists under a positive guarantee, first bottle
benefits or money refunded. Book on Heart
and nerves sent free to all applicants.
DB. MILES MEDICAL CO.. Elkhart, Ind.
and coon hunts.” their irrepressible,
contagious merriness: had come in
Abe’s song and manner to make me
a^lKW attain, till the trout seemed
dan( l in r in nerve, vein, bone, and
muscle.
I think, though, it did not atfect
I)r. W.’s trout that way—rather they
seemed to be all the while leaping
throURh his lips i ike net meshes, shv
ing into considerable stomachic hid¬
ing places. But the “hurrah” was in
his face all the same.
“That’s a good one. Abe,” said Mr.
L. “But give us the one I told you i
to play and sing.”
A smile broadened over Abe’s face, j
which the other darkie’s shared
but he struck into it. serious as a
judge:
“You may plant your cotton.
Or plant your corn,
But you’ll heap it all up
In Marse John’s barn.
You may wait 'round de house-,
And he very kind,
But on big settlement day
You’ll come out behind.
Oh! its hard—its hard
To be a nigger to work for wages
And can’t git yo’ money
When it’s due.
You may work for this
Or work for that,
Or work for wages
Or part oh de crap,
Or wait on de bossman,
An’ be very kind—
It makes no dif’runce,
You’s coinin’ out bellin’.
Chorus.
You may run on de railroad,
Or work on de freight;
May rise in de mornin’
May be a little late.”
Here poising his banjo, big end up,
on his knee, lie recited the words:
“Yo’ wife git up in de mornin’,
goes to ole marster’s cook-pot, gits
breakfus, goes out and milks dem
cows, come back and makes fires in
all de rooms, an’ sweeps up. Jest
’bout den day’s er breakin’. She
goes call ’em, says “Mars John and
Misstiss, git up! day’s er breakin’.”
Then giving his banjo a swing and a
twang threw the very ecstaey of
humor into the notes of these two
lines and chorus:
“But it makes no dif’runce—
You’se er cornin’ out bellin’.
Chorus.
Oh! it’s hard, it’s hard
To be a nigger to work for wages,
An’ can’t git yo’ money
When it’s due.”
\Ve were in an uproar of negro
minstrelsy before we knew it—the
real, no charcoal about it—just the
. ] artlcl the pathos and hu¬
ummxec <b
mor and music and acting of the
pure negro. There is nothing like it
in all the earth. The white man
blacked isn't in it.
When the house subsided,some one
said, “What do you call that, Abe?”
Furtively glancing at Capt. R.’s
the only farmer among us, he
“It’s name ‘De Farmer,’sir.”
R. W. B.
ELECTRIC BITTERS.
Electric Bittern is a medicine
suited for any season, but perhaps
more generally needed when the
languid, exausted feeling prevails,
when the liver is torpid and slug¬
gish and the need of a tonic altera¬
tive is felt. A prompt use of this
medicine has often averted long
and perhaps fatal bilious fevers.
No medicine will act more surely
in counteracting and freeing the
system from the malarial poison.
Headache, Indigestion, Constipa¬
tion, Dizziness yield to Electric
Bitters. 50c and $1.00 per bottle
at all drug stores.
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Big Cut prices in all lines at Sharp’s.
All grades of rubber
and cotton hose, noz¬
zles, couplings, etc, at
C. J. Zellner’s. It
We will Dresent absolutely free
anew 1897 bicycle (either ladies’
or gents’ wheel) in exchange for a
favor we wish attended to in For
syth, aiso another for attending to
same in adjoining townships. No
agency or selling business, We
prefer those acquainted with many
young people now studing music.
For full particulars write, The
Columbia Musical Ass’n., 216-218
Third . Street, I hiladelphia, .
South
Pa.
'*•*““
For Sale.
500 pounds new honey comb and
extracted. riank Wilder.
Don t fail 7777 to see ~ OUi .. attractions ill
dress goods just received, at Sharps
W. P. PONDER,
DEALER IN
PURE DRUGS, MEDICINES,
AND Druggists* Sundries.
.....A Complete Line of.....
Toilet and Fancy Articles, Perfumery, Combs,
Brushes, Face Powders and Preparations for
the Teeth.
CIGARS,
IMPORTED KEY WEST AND DOMESTIC BRANDS.
Choice Line of 5 and no Cents Goods, Always Fresh..
PRESCRIPTIONS.
Two questions you should ask yourself when
your doctor hands you a prescription to have
filled,
WHO Will fill this correctly ?
Yy HO use ^ res ^ ar *d Pure drugs ?
We make a specialty ef compounding Physicians’ Prescriptions
and Family Recipes from the purest and best selected drugs and
chemicals.
ODE SODA PLANT Is kept clean and at all times as cold as the
North Pole. We keep on hand YVelche’s
Unfermented Grape Juice. Take a bottle home with you, it is far more
healthful than Lager Beer or Porter. Remember most of the churches
are using it for sacrament Our chocolate and cream is simply im¬
mense. Tiy it.
It is always a pleasure to have you coll and inspect our goods.
You can not do better than trading with us if you are pleased with
FIRST CLASS GOODS.
Weigh a dime in the palm of your
hand, and if you derive more plea¬
sure from its possession than you
would from giving a square to a
hungry tram,}, your religion lb- not
worth shucks. Some people are
very charitable—when there is an
opportunity to get their names in
the paper. But such deeds do not
count in your favor. It is the
unostentatious, every day kind that
will balance the scales of justice
to your credit. The old negro
minister hit the nail on the head
when he said: “I think a man has
got a mighty slender chance of
heaven, dat holds on to his piety
but one day out of seven. Dat is
foremost at de meeting house for
startin all de tunes, but lays aside
his Tigion wid his. Sunday panta¬
loons.
New Home Sewing
Machines and all parts
of any kind of sewing
machines at C. J. Zell
ner’s. it
Drink Arcadian Ginger Ale. 20-tf
We call attention to the change of
W. P. Clements’ advertisement. Mr.
Clements is makihg a great cut in
prices and his trade justifies it.
The election was carried for the
sale and purchase of city property to
erect a suitable city hall and work
will begin at once.
Mr. John Peterson. Patoutville,
La., was very agreeably surprised
notlongago. For eighteen months
he had been troubled with dysen¬
tery and had tried three of the best
doctors in New Orleans, besides
half a dozen or more patent medi¬
cines, but received very little relief.
Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy, having been
recommended to him, he gavs it
!a j trial and to his great surprise,
a th ree doses of that remedy effect
j permanent Cure, Mr. Wm. Mc
Namara, a well known merchant of
the same pj ace> j s we lj acquanted
with Mr. Peterson and attests to
to the truth of this Statement.
This remedy is for sale by Alexan
, ti
tier r>ros.
SANDERS & EVANS
•-AND-
Rent Agents.
Forsyth, Georgia.
FORSYTH.
We have a pleasant and handsome little
city of about 2,500 Inhabitants, TO miles from
Atlanta and 27 miles from Macon, two first;
class markets. Fruits and vegetables of
every description grow here.
CLIMATE.
The climate cannot be excelled. The nights
are cool and days warm during the summer.
In winter the thermometer never goes to
zero.
Our people are the best the state affords
and a kindly welcome is extended to all who
come to make their homes with us.
HEALTH.
This city is situated In a rolling or mod¬
erately hilly country and is extremely
healthy.
The water cannot be excelled and comes
from a sparkling cool spring. The city has
just built an extensive waterworks plant,
the capacity of which will more than supply
a city of double the size of Forsyth.
We need a good electric light plant and a
movement is now under way that will In all
probability give it to us.
We challenge the world for a more healthy
and solubrious climate or a better or more
congenial class of people.
Forsyth is In the center of the state and
surrounded by no sand plains or swamps.
We will be glad to give you any informa¬
tion if you will enclose stamp.
1 Five room frame house, good location
good well water, nice large garden, and cen¬
trally located; will sell for cash or on time.
2 A 21a truck and dairy farm, fence, 1 mile from
Jacksonville, Fla.; 12a under etc.; all 5a In horn- good
mock, house. barn, fruit,
condition ; price $1,000, part cash rest to suit.
;} Ola mosty hommock. on Oomoka river,
3 miles from Ormond, Fla., in one Florida; of the plenty most
beautiful winter resorts
of wild orange trees. A gift at $500.
4 100a homestead claim In Dee county,
Fla., with small house, 2 barns, cheap. about 10 a
clear; will sell this claim dirt
5 A farm of 162a, near church and school
In Russellville district, 125a in'cultivation,
5 room house, small barn, well, 2 cabins, well wa¬
tered with springs and on public road,
3 miles from railroad. Great bargain If sold
quick. Only part cash, required.
« A complete safe, outfit for cash a restaurant, and in
eluding range . linen, register fur
a full line of kttern ;n and dining room
nn iture. Situated In one of the best towns in
Ge orgla. if Can sold be bought cheap for cash or
on time at once.
A number of other pieces of land for sale;
particulars for the asking.