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Men’s Summer Underwear $1.00 values reduced to........... 83c 75c values reduced to............. 55c 50c values reduced to .!.... 42c ELASTIC SEAM DRAWERS Per pair 41c Bags and Suit Cases $3.50 values reduced to. $2.50 $4.00 values reduced to. $3.00 $4.50 values reduced .to.’.. $3.50 $7.00 values reduced 'to.; $5.95 TrunKs $ 5.00 kinds reduced to . $4.00 $ 6.00 kinds reduced to .$5.00 $ 7.50 kinds reduced to.., $6.25 $ 9.00 kinds reduced to. $7.50 $10.00 kinds reduced to. $8.00 Men’s Oxfords $6.00 values reduced to $5.50 values reduced to $5.00 values reduced to $4.00 values reduced to $3.50 values reduced to Boys’ Oxfords $5.00 values reduced to $4.00 values reduced to $3.50 values reduced to $3.00 values reduced to $2.50 values reduced to $2.25 values reduced to....... Infants’ Oxfords $1.25 values reduced to $1.00 values reduced to....... 90c values reduced to Misses’ and Children’s Oxfords $2.75 values reduced to $2 $2.50 values reduced to $1 $2.25 values reduced to $1 $2.00 values reduced to $1 $1.75 values reduced to $1 $1.50 values reduced to $1 $1.25 values reduced to. 1 $2.50 quality at $2.00 quality at $1.75 quality at $1.50 quality at $1.00 quality at 75c quality at,. THE ALBANY DAILY HERALD, ' FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1906. Thirty prominent Albanian fined for using too much WATER. Serves them right, they should use Flint Rock It’s a Ginger Ale. And there is no fin-e for using too much. Made only by GEORGIA BOTTLING IIS, 1 Albany, Qa. ALBANY SINGE AGENCY. 3NES Offico SO. Manager 122. TELEPHONES i\ F. 0. Ticknor, Manager. Directors: Jno. D. Twiggs, S. B. Brown, M. Weslosky, J. R. Whitehead, T. M. Carter, A. W. .Tucker, Largest and Oldest In surance Agency in South Georgia. Representing 25 of the largest and strongest Insurance Companies in business. Insurance against Eire, Lightaingand WindStorms. Large Lines, Special Haz ards, Gin houses and coun try property solicited. SOMETHING NEW ! A passenger launch in the creek above the dam DID YOU KNOW that you can take a trip up the creek in this launch for twenty-five cents, that you would give dollars to take if it wasn’t so near home. Don’t be afraid, it is steady and safe, an expert engineer to run it. Special rates to picnic parties. T. M. NELSON. Large soft lump coal, 2,000 pounds to the ton. • ALBANY COAL & WOOD CO, SPEECH OF HON. J. S. Hr Hon. J. S. Davis, cashier of the First National Bank of Albany, was among the speakers at the banquet telven by the bankers of Atlanta to the visiting bankers during the recent convention of the bankers of Georgia and Florida, held in Atlanta, and several requests having been made for copies of his speech, he has furnished It to The Herald for pub lication. The speech follows: Mr. Toastmaster and Gentlemen: Breathes .there a man with soul so dead, Who to himself hath never said, This Is my own, my native land! If such there be," ho Is not to be found among the banker? of Georgia or Florida. I count myself fortunate in that I am privileged tonight, in this pres ence, to exploit my knowledge of a subject which has been an ever-present thought through many mouths. For every banker In the South has been, either a willing of unwilling, assistant to the Hon. Harvie Jordan, without having his name on the payroll. ■ In his effort to ably second the Cot> ton Growers Association, in Its laud able undertaking to get a quid pro quo for the cotton product of this sunny clime, the average banker has worked overtime. In furnishing for the grow ing crops and financing the holders of the marketable staple, the banker has presented an appearance strongly suggestive of the strenuous attitude ofthat doughty, fabled hero, Atlas, as he is pictured laboring under his pon derous load, upholding the earth. I do not by any means wish to con vey the idea that the hankers -want the earth, for lately they are very like the little boy who, being very fond of cakes, partook so largely that on be ing asked by the waiter If he wanted more said, “No, I don’t want them I Is got." An intimate association with King Cotton does not impress the idea that he is altogether like 'olid ;Klng Cole, for he is not always a merry old soul. And I am violating no confi dence when I tell you that the course of the cotton market Is like that of true love, in that it never runs smooth! 4 The banker, however, In pursuit of that altruism that characterizes the profession, ddes what he may to help others, recognizing the obligations im posed by the reciprocal relations sus tained by banks and the public. Po litical economy must be rewritten and due recognition given the fact that’ banks.are not parasites but producers. If he who makes two bladfcB of grass grow where only one grew before is a benefactor, surely the banker that provides the easy, gradual and profit able, marketing, preventing congestion or atrophy, should share in the credit of the benefaction. In a spirit of pa triotism the banker rises to meet the commercial crisis, protecting values to the end of saving his country, and he “who saves his country, saves all things and all things saved bless him.” The beneficence of co-operation was never more clearly demonstrated than ill the hffly alliance between planter and banker to protect the silver fleece of the South from the rapacity of the commercial Jasons. Knight errantry furnished champions who sought to right the wrong, but modern chivalry expresses itself In a determination to see that none shall wrong the l-tght. So, in every department of life, but especially In the bankers’ guild, It is our Interest to safeguard principal ps well as our principle to regard the in terest. . This Southland of ours—the fairest of ten thousand and altogether love ly— a land of sentiment and sense, whose past history is an epic, In which are Imbedded lyric gems, holding the soft suggestion of soil and sky. A land In which Nature's form and face are fair, friendly and full of grace. In no other spot doth the heavens so luminously declare the glory of God, or the firmament so delightfully show- eth His handiwork. In the hieroglph- lcs of winding stream and embossed characters of mountain ranges, God has here written In Nature His mes sage of love and mercy to man, to the Interpretation of which the Rosetta stone of a grateful. heart must be brought. In confirmation of history, this land of song and story Illustrates the fact that the best types of civiliza tion the earth has enjoyed have al ways been expressed In the lives of agricultural people, supporting such industries and commerce as hre agri culture’s natural concomitants. No greater boon to the people of this Southland could a beneficent Creator have given than a practical monopoly In the production of cotton. To tills we owe the fact that this Is ‘a “Land of Cotton,” and through the warp and woof of its history, this silver thread shines with Increasing lustre. Its present position among the Important products of the world Is only a proph esy of the future wenllh and greatness of our section.' As our Inimitable Grady poetically said: “Cotton is a royal plant. The whole world attends with Interest upon Its birth; and the music of fall ing rain drops on its leaves Is hoard around the world.” It. Is both food and raiment, and has elevated the South to tho lucrative position of be ing clothier to tho world. In fact, as soon as tho missionaries shall com plete tlielr servtce to humanity and the benighted heathen shall wake up to a knowledge of their hideous naked ness, it will require 20,000,000 bales of American cotton annually to meet tho demands of consumption. Then will there be something doing In the South sure. Every field will bo liorticultu- ratedj and tho music of humming spin dles and scuffling looms will bo heard in the InnS, and prove as sweet as the song of the mocking-bird that makes melodious the moonlit air, In 1870 I was privileged to listen to an able address by the South's greatest post-bellum orator, Hon. Benjamin H. Hill. With that prescience that char acterizes one Inspired by genius, after picturing the desolation of the ruined South, lie sketched most graphically her glorious future. He said: ' “Though Priam Is dead and Troy has been sacked, yet there are more than a thousand Aeneases, and on as many Tlbers so many Romes shall rise." The work of rehabilitation and res toration, begun under such dire diffi culties, but under no shadow of doubt, has slowly progressed and the temple of the South’s prosperity Is being grandly erected, Incorporating frag ments of the broken arches, and col umns of her past glory. As It rises Its magnificence fascinates the eye that Its magnitude attracts. The South occupies the' va.utage ground, the strategic position of all, in the competition for those things that make for contentment and wealth. In fact, every physical con dition that could minister to health and happiness obtains, and our people are proving equal to the demands of the situation, agriculturally and In dustrially. See the awakened giant, girding himself to meet the emergen cies of a day whose bright mom Is flooding the earth with its radiance. Of course, our mineral deposits are of vast importance; our timber re sources are furalBhlng a large and satisfactory increment to our Increas ing wealth, but In our agricultural possibilities lie the Btrength and'hope that make the future so alluring. Mineral resources have their limita tions and sure exhaustion, hut agricul tural possibilities grow brighter through the years of their utilization. The same soil tliqt fed the teeming millions in time of Pharaoh is still producing an annual harvest, true to tho generous nature with which God endowed it. So, when forests and mines shall have yielded up their present, stores of wealth to man’s In satiable cajoling, tho fallow fields of this section shall have renewed their youth under Intelligent system of cul tivation, and prove to be an expression of nature’s exhaustless bounty. Our cotton crop, with all of its by products, averages now $700,000,000 annually; more value than the output of all tho gold mines of tho world. A foundation broad and sure upon which this people may rear a prosperity built after the similitude of the palace of Aladln, for we have an Aladin’s lamp, more potont than that of the Imagina tion, a composition of gold and enter prise that shall till this “land of cot ton” with enchantment and make it a country of peace, plenty and wealth. W. R. Ward, of Dyersburg, Tenn., writes: “This is to certify that I have used Orino Laxative Fruit, Syrup for chronic constipation, and it has prov en, without a doubt, to be a thorough, practical remedy for this trouble, and it is with ploasure I offer my con scientious reference.” Hilsman-Salp Drug Co. NOTICE. In the future our offices will be In the Woolfollc building, room 7. H. A. PEACOCK. 21-lmo L. W. tfELSON. HI8 MASTER'S VOICE ” Victor Talking Machines :Sold on easy payments. 1 ;New Records each month.! Just the thing to take with! !you on your summer trip.! [Consult the Oracle. !We invite you to hear the! [latest records. Book & Music House. :: THE BEST ADVICE is always the right kind of advice. ■ • When you have eye trouble and need glasses and need the ser- rf a scientific optician, ^ou vices ot w&nt to go to one you know. j ■ are the leading opticians and you ,, get the very best of service that is to be had in the South. Eyes scientifically ezamined free. Phil Harris, Leading Optician. D. UNDER THE OPERA HOUSE. Three Million Women Who May Manton Patterns Are Loyal To “Dressmaking at Home” No other magazine in the . woman’s field can replace it. The Dressmaking Pub lishing Co. wishes to increase its patrons to five million and therefore offer the following inducement for subscribers: Any lady buying two May Manton Patterns and paying 30c • additional will get' the magazine to her address for one year. This offer is’ only for a limited time. I want to see every lady in Iber. this city to be a subscri D ■ I1VMIIIIIIIJ Agent for May Manton {Patterns. FOR RENT—A desirable cottage on Pine street; possession given at once. Apgly M. A. Blum. tf The Well Known Firm Mr. J. Davis & Co. Dissolves. As stated above Mr. J. S. Coles has decided to retire from the firm of C. R. Davis & Co'. This necessitates a dis solution and consequently a sale. The entire stock must be converted, at once, into cash as nearly as possible. With the season just in its height, with this great 'stock to select from and the known character and quality of our goods to guide you isn’t it the part of wisdom to supply yourself for some time to come. It is needless for us to eulogize our goods here—ask anyone who has put them to the test. We’ll risk their opinion Owing to the nature of this sale and the extremely low prices we must make these rules and shall adhere strictly to them without exception? NO GOODS CHARGED. Nothing Sent On Approval. Any Article Exchanged. Or Money Refunded If Not Satisfactory. Sale begins Saturday, June 23rd. A partial list of the good things follows: Here’s Where a Dime Makes a Noise Like a Dollar a Ladies’ Oxfords a Straw Hats $5.00 values reduced to $4.25 $4.00 values reduced to $3.25 $3.50 values reduced to $2.98 $3.00 values reduced to $2.55 $2.50 values reduced to. $2.15 $2.00 and $2.25 values reduced to. .$1.85 grade reduced to ... .$3.85 grade reduced to .. . .$3.30 grade reduced to ... .$2.85 grade reduced to ... .$2.25 Felt Hats grade reduced to ... .$4.00 grade reduced to.... /. ... .$3.50 grade reduced to ... .$3.00 grade reduced to. ... .$2.65 Shirts quality at -. ....$1.65 quality at ....$1.55