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m THE ALBANY DAILY HeRALD: THUR8DAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1900. ■■ For Men A large special line of beautiful Four- in-Iiands, 2 3-4 inches wide, ad vance spring styles in both light and dark colors, popularly TtC\ priced at «^v/C j Regular line of exquisite Ascots and Four - in - Hands, light and dark shades, stylish patterns, were ft A 75c, at 25c Men’s Socks 15c We offer this week extra good quality • socks, a regular 25c value, New Neckwear Advance Spring Styles ' • For Women We are displaying" now a new ship- . rnent of advance spring styles of the celebrated "Keiser” neckfixings of white washable materials. This lot contains stocks, turnovers and collar and cuff sets. Turnovers, worth 25c, at 15c Q pi each, TWO for . Pretty new styles in stocks, variety | of designs. ^ ^ ^ Exquisite collar and cuff sets are shown, dainty effects, at $1.75 d*1 Qft and [ Replying to Criticisms of President Harvie Jordan, Government Statistician Says “It is No Use.” Attractive Prices of the White SeJe ’ The special white sale prices still continue. The most judicious buyers of this section have been eager to take advantage of these remarkable values. If you have not, you are not getting your money’s fullest capacity. Remember, whether you come to buy or to admire, you are welcome. Sr Uhe Quality Store Hof may er, Jones & Co, C°he Quality Store To plant unreliable seeds is to bury money. It is also a waste of money to pay too much for good seeds. It will be a satisfaction to you to buy fresh seeds of guaranteed reliability, and to get them at fairest prices. We handle none but-seeds supplied by growers who can be trusted. We shall appreciate your patronage and believe that you will iu due seeson appreciate the quality of the seeds supplied. Hoggard Drug Co. . Phone 75. J08EPH B. DAVIS, President, JNO. R. WHITEHEAD, V.-Presldent. R. H. WARREN, Sec'y-Treat. COUNTY POLITICS. OF GEORGIA. Capital Stock 4>100,000.oo ■ 1 ' Now open end ready tor business at Southeast corner Washington streets, Albany, Ga. SOLICITS APPROVED LOANS ON REAL ESTATE. CONSERVATOR OF PROSPERITY. ot Broad and PAY8 INTEREST ON TIME DEPOSITS. CHARTERED to give surety anl act as executor or administrator | ... HI oerforo) all the functions of a s itely managed Trust Company Buy fresh Lime, Cement, Fire . Brick, Fire Clay, Fire Tile, Lathi, |;. Shlngles, all kinds of lumber and ■ mouldings, Sash, Doora, Blinds, Glass ’an'd Putty. Mantels, Grates and Tile, ’■Vail Paper ana Paints at C. D. SMITH’S. ■ Brinson & Co.. Wood and Coal, ’Phono 3G7. Prompt service. Patron age solicited. ALBANY BRICK CO —MANUFACTURERS OF— BBIOK. . Annual Gapicltft J| The Democratic Executive Committee Called to Meet Next Saturday. About nil tho county politics we ever have in Dougherty Is over the election of county officers, and, of late years, most of our county officials have had no opposition and hut little stir has been occasioned by the biennial elec- * tlons. This year, however, it seems that the monotony Is to he broken, and the indications are that we are to have one or more contests. A recent decision of the Supreme Court clearly establishes that the of fice of Clerk of the Superior Court and the office of County Treasurer are two separate and distinct offices and that they can not he legally held and filled by one man. Heretofore, for more than twenty years past, the of fices of Clerk and Treasurer have been consolidated, hut this Supreme Court decision breaks up this arrangement and this year there will he a contest over the office of Treasurer. And, with the Ice broken, there may be con tests over some of the other county offices. It has been the. custom in this county to pull off the primary for the nomination of county officers early In the spring, so as to have it out of the way of the state campaign and re lieve all parties concerned of any em barrassment that might arise from conflicting interests or personal pref erences in state and county politics. In keeping with this custom, the / chairman the County Democratic ! Committee has called a meeting of the committee for next Saturday for the purpose of considering the ques tion of ordering an early"primary for the nomination of county officers. The committee is also to elect, at this meeting, as will be seen hy refer ence to yie call which is published elsewhere in today’s Herald, a mem ber of the Executive Comraitteee of the Second Congressional District, to fill the vacancy caused'by the death of Capt. Richard Hobbs, who had rep resented Dougherty county on the committee and had been the faithful and efficient chairman of the commit tee for a number of years. The county political pot has already commenced to simmer, and if the ex ecutive committee at its meeting on Saturday orders an early primary, the candidates will be hustling in earnest before the end of February. Washington, Jan. 31.—Having taken notice of the criticisms upon.his office by President Harvie Jordan, of the Southern Cotton Growers’ Association, and others, Director North, of the Census Bureau, today declared that he hoped Congress would relieve him of all further work in connection with cotton statistics. “It is the most disagreeable and an noying work I have ever known," said Mr. North today. “Those reports are gotten up for the benefit of the South ern people, hut they seem to he de voting all their energies toward dis crediting them.” A telegram from a planter in Lou isiana, received today, charged Direc tor North with doing a great injustice to Southern planters by keeping back the weight of bales and enabling a certain cotton speculator “and his dia bolical crew” to rob the South. In answer to the allegations made by President Jordan yesterday, 1 Direc tor Nprth said: "These cotton ginning reports were established by law for the benefit of the cotton growers, and I had believed they were effective to that end, but the representatives of the growers, like Mr. Jordan and Mr. J. A. Taylor, president of the Cotton Ginners’ Asso ciation, seem determined to do every thing In their power to discredit the reports and thus destroy their value, and under these circumstances I do not. believe it worth while for Con gress to continue to apporprlate $250,- 000 a year for the collection of re ports in the interest of the cotton growers when these men are dissat isfied with the results. No effort to show that the reports are inaccurate, misleading or manipulated has been successful. The methods of the of fice have been exhibited to-representa tives of the growers and its records scrutinized by them, and they have not found it possible to put a finger upon a single error either in method or result. There has never been a leak from the census office since the system was established. % “Mr. Jordan now attacks the director because he refuses to deviate from the regular methods of promulgating these statistics at the demands of pri vate parties. Any such deviation made upon the personal responsibility of the director would necessarily sub ject his methods to suspicion and these estimates have ever been ijsed. They are only approximate and there fore possess no statistical value. For the director to ma ;e them public on his own volition at the den and of the cotton growers would be _ nu improper at this time at It would be to make them public at the demand of the cot ton speculators If the demand hap pened to come from that quarter. “With regard to the publication of the census bale weights, to which Mr.' Jordan also alludes, I can only say that actual weights of more than 3,000,000 bales of cotton grown in 1905 have been secured by the census of fice, and that tdditional returns cov ering 2,000,000'J more weights are dally reaching the office. The com putations necessary to secure correct /erage weights from these returns are enormous In amount and delicate In character. With our utmost energy we shall not he able to complete these computations before the last of Feb* urary, and yet 1 am daily In receipt of telegrams from the South stating that hy beeping back the weight ot bales I am enabling speculators to rob the South." Director North concluded with the remark that "all these circumstances have caused me to pray that Congress might relieve me of tills work ” MACON SPORTSMEN TO PROTECT BIRD DOGS. Club Formed to Apprehend and Prosecute Dog Stealers. Macon, Ga„ Feb. 1. — So prevalent has become the stealing of valuable bird dogs In Macon that the sports men of the city have organized them selves into a club with the view of de tecting and prosecuting the rogues. The club begins with a'membership of fifty, each of whom pays an initia tion fee of $5. The money thus accru ing Is to be used in offering rewards of $50 each for the arrest, with suf ficient evidence to convict, of each dog thief. Within the last few months hundreds of pointers and setters of high pedigree have been stolen, and it is suspected that there is an organ* tzed band of thieves at work. Tomatoes and Okra, Corn and To matoes, 2-lb. cans, 3 for 25c. Phone 70. W. E. FIELDS. FAIR ASSOCIATION FINED FOR GAMBLING. Judge Little, of Columbus, Says No Man in Georgia Is Big Enough to Run Over the Law. Columbus, Ga.. Feb. 1.—In the Su perior Court here yesterday afternoon Judge Little assessed the Columbus Festival and/ Racing Association $350 ns a fine for keeping a gambling house during the recent fair in this city and warned the association that if ar raigned again on this charge he would Impose a fine of $1,000, the limit. Gambling was carried on under the grandstand at the fair, and «'t was charged, that it was with the permis sion of the authorities, the idea being to make Columbus an “open town” during the week. In passing sentence, Judge Little said that no man in Georgia, not even the governor, was big enough to run over the law. He said that the com munity could do without fairs if they had to have gambling as a feature. The festival association and Presi dent Loewenherz, in his official ca pacity, were Indicted jointly, but the cases were severed yesterday, and that against the association was tried. A few witnesses had been introduced by the state, showing that gambling existed. A plea of guilty was entered. The case against President Loewen herz was passed and, it is understood, will be eventually dropped. ROOMS TO RENT—Three upstairs furnished rooms, two of them con necting rooms, hot and cold bath, for rent; gentlemen preferred. Ap ply to Mrs. Ida M. Hicks, Flint street. l-3t New Partnership Announcement is hereby made that E& R. Jones and Clayton .Tones have formed a partnership for the practice would very probably impair the public '• confidence in the Integrity of his work., of ,aw and to ea f aga tn the „ real es ; I have therefore declined to accede to j tate business ' wlth ° mces at 7 ’ 8 and 9 Davis-Exchange Bank Building, the style of the firm being Ed. R. & Clay ton Jones. Their services ore respect fully tendered the public. these requests unless directed by Con gress to do so. “The estimates of cotton remaining to he gipned, whose publication Mr. Jordan demands, are obtained by the census office at its mid-January can vass, for the purpose of enabling it to determine what counties need not be canvassed when the final canvass takes place in March. Whenever the estimates show that there is no more cotton to be ginned in a county or that the amount is insignificant, no final canvass, is necessary. Posses sion of this information enables the census office to save from $8,000 to $12,000 in the cqst of the final canvass and that is the only purpose for which Finest “Triumph” Water melon Seed. For sale, about 100 pounds of the famous “Triumph” watermelon seed, saved from melons weighing not less than ipO pounds each, grown by the late J. D. Wooten, of Dougherty coun ty. Melons were raised in 1904, and seed are perfectly good for the com ing season. 50 cents per pound. Ad dress MRS. J. D. WOOTEN. 114t Sylvester, Ga. You may buy higher priced Break fast Bacon, but none better at the price—16c lb. A shipment of 5 and 6 lb. strips and 9 to 13 lb. sides just tn. Phone 70. W. E. FIELDS. Fof All Wko Work. $1 a Garment. C. R. Davis & Co.