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TIFTON, BERRIEN CO., GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20,1896.
A Fatal Bead-Fall
Special sale of floe
MILLINERY.
At Pppular Prices, this week.
A veritable fen-’ f lovely hats,
stylish nciiii i of ■ iir competent
artists at temiitiiiL’ ’ices, such as
these: S0.5O, $3.00, $3.47, $4.78
and $5.67. All new styles and
fashionable shapes and materials
of the vdry best. This is a milli
nery event which will attract nu
merous buyers, as the values we
offer are extremely unnsual.
SEND US
Tour Orders for
DRESS GOODS,
SILKS, CLOAKS,
CARPETS,
SHOES AND
MEN’S FURNISHINGS,
Mother was a great lover of geese,
not for their own intrinsic sake, but
for the revenue derived from their
feathers; and I always thought that
the louder the goose cackletj the
deeper the place it occupied in her
housewifely heart.
1 was never partial to geese, and
especially to masculine geese, for we
had an olef white gander that was
the terror of my infantile existence.
I have worn blue spots on my sljm
shins for many a weary day, inflicted
by that gander.
Ganders never die. They may
grow old and grey in sin, but dead
ganders are as scarce, as dead grey
mules.
Well, that old gander was boss of
the bone-yard, and he knew it, aud
he never missed an opportunity of
showing his maliciousness toward
If I sat in the crib door, shucx-
me.
They will have our best attention.
Your money back, if not in every
way pleased.
EXPRESS PREPAID
ON ORDERS OF §5.00 AND OVER.
HOFMAYER, JONES & CO,
The Up-to-Date Department Storey
Albany, Georgia.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
R. A. HENDRICKS,
Attor:ney-at-L,a\v,
WILLACOOCHEE,
GEORGIA.
Collections and Criminal Laws a specialty.
(D20-V0 tf.)
DREW W. PAULK,
JUSTICE OF TIIE TEACE
1537 DISTRICT G. SI.
Collections a specialty. Office up stairs
lilding, South Grant St.,
in Paulk Building,
Fitzgerald, Ga,
JONATHAN B. MURROW,
A.ttornev-at-Law,
TIPTON. GEORGIA.
Prompt attention to all legal business. Office in
Timmons Building.
:tl<
n8-vS-tf
jyCollections a specialty,
C. C. HALL,
Attorney-at-Law,
TIFTON, GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given to all legal business,
—Collections a specialty.—Office over the new
Paulk building. v6n32-ly.
DR. J.A. McCREA,
Physician and Surgeon,
TIFTON, GEORGIA.
ing corn, and happened to hang my
foot outside the door, first news I
would know that unrighteous fowl
would fetch a dig, and I would get
up rather sudden and surprised like,
and stand on my hind legs and howl
for a much longer time than it takes
to tell this.
Through the crack of the worm
fence he assaulted my unprotected
feet, and he lay in wait under the
kitchen door-step, in the gloaming,
and smote me hip and thigh.
I used to throw rocks at him, and
ightwood knots, and corn cobs, anc
everything I could get hold of.
concealed minnow hooks in grains of
corn and fed them to him. I prayec
that forty million streaks of light
ning might strike him under the left
ear, but it did no good.
Ilis days were long upon the earth
and for ten generations, regularly
eVery spring, he had the plumpest
goose of last year’s brood for a mate:
and he strutted around and snatchec
the tail feathers out of the young
ganders who Uurtd pay auy attention
to her. When there were goslings
he cut up and cavorted like the fowl
fiend. (Copy-righted.)
I used to know a little song:
Prompt attention given to calls, clay or night,
Office at residence on Love avenue.
jyTvpnotD Fever a Specialty,
5-3m
DR. J. C. GOODMAN
Physician and Surgeon,
TIFTON GEORGIA.
Office—Room In the Tlfton Drag Store.
Residence ’Phone, No. .’1; Business, No. It.
Dr. J. W WILLIAMS,
DENTIST ,
CORDELE GEORGIA.
Office—Bank Building, Room No. I, up stairs
FULWOOD & MURRAY,
Attorneys at I<aw*
Y TIFTON, - GEORGIA.
” , Prompt attention given to all legal business.
HfOFFicE ik Tirr Buildino.
W. N PITTMAN,
Contractor and Builder,
TIFTON, GEORGIA.
Estimates on all kinds of buUding famished.
J. H. TIPTON,
Attorney-at-Law,
Prompt attention
nets.
to
ail legal bus!
(v5n43-8m)
Dr. R. T. KENDRICK.
Physician and Surgeon,
TIFTON,GEORGIA.
Diseases of women a specialty
and with an experience of more
than 30 years, ask a share of pub
lie patronage. Office over J. J
Golden & Co., Drug store.
“O, lookce, lookee here,
O, lookce, lookee there,
O, lookee, lookee, way over yander;
For don’t you sec
That old grey goose
A-smilin’ at the gander! ”
I UBed to sing it, whistle it, hum
it, and dream about it The air was
weirdly pathetic and appealed to my
inner soul.
Mother didn’t relish the hymu,
nor the tune, either, to any alarming
extent, and ehe generally ordered me
to get out the minute I began to
pipe—
“O, lookee, lookee, lookee here,
O, lookee, lookee, lookee there—’’
and, like a dutiful son, I generally
got out at once.
One day I conceived a project by
which I might slaughter a whole
covey of partridges at oue fell swoop.
I had been killing sparrows by set
ting a plank on triggers; and I ar
gued that if half a dozen sparrows
were slain by a single plank, a whole
host of purtridges might be crushed
by one fall of a shutter.
With me, to conceive a scheme
was to put it in operation. That is
how I came to get my heels locked
behind my neck, and couldn’t get
them undone; but of this another
time.
I went lo theJint room at the gin-
house and secured a big shutter. It
under the shutter and for a consid
erable distance around it.
Then with u malignant leer of
Respective triumph I stole away on
tip-toe, bumming—
"O, lookee, lookee here,” etc.
The first day I went to see about
my scheme I found some of the bait
goue, but the birds were shy and
would not come near the formidable
ooking trap.
Next day I went, and still no sign.
But that afternoon mother said:
“Son, I’m going up in the field to
wring broom-straw this evening, and
I want yon to help me.”
“Don’t run off, for I’m compelled
to attend to it this evening.”
“No’m.”
“You be ready ‘when I call you,
now, and don’t fool around about it.”
“Well’m.”
But I thought I’d get a peep at my
dead-fall as I went, and when we
came near the plum orchurd I lagged
behind and finally got on a stump so
I could see it
“What are you doing ?”
“Looking to see if my trap’s down.”
“Where’s the trap ?”
“Yonder by the plum orchurd,
and—Whoopee! It’s down, and
bet I’ve got a whole drove of part
ridges,” and 1 dashed off through the
briars ut the top of my Bpecd.
Mother came on more leisurely,
and I had time to take in the situa
tion before she came up, but I was
afraid they were not all deud and
some might get away. I jumped
around when I saw the bait was all
goue, und at last I raised the shutter
carefully.
Horror of horrors! As I peeped
cautiously under it I saw the tip of
a white goose feather, and honeyed
expectancy turned to the gull of dis
appointment, and I wished I was
dead und gone to Alabama.
Just then her majesty appeared on
the scene.
“How many did you get ?”
"Dunno’m.”
“Haven’t you looked ?”
“Yes’m, hut I didn’t go to do it. I
declare I didn’t,” I whindled.
“Didn’t go to do what ?”
“To—to—to—”
She had raised the shutter and
there lay that winked old son of
Belial of a gander cold in death. He
woe mashed as fiat as a fritter, and
he hardly knew what did..
I lifted up my voice und wept as I
felt of my pantaloons, and then I
hit the ground kerblitn 1
“You little rascal!” Her voice
was thick with emotion. “Kill my
geese!” She raised the shutter. “I’ll
teach ycu how to kill my geese !”
Kerwhop! the shutter came down on
me. “I’ll make you set dead-falls 1”
8ho was getting excited. “All you
think about 1” She had got on top
of the shutter. “Always studyin’
up some meanness!” Patter, went
her feet, as she danced np aud down
on the shutter, und I felt like a house
had fallen on me, and just as I got
so flattened out I couldn’t holler, the
shutter was thrown aside, und, grab
bing the old gander by tbo neck, she
wore his corpse out on me, and the
feathers flew.
Next day I was sitting on the
fence wondering if two snukes were
to start to swallow each other what
would happen, when I absent-mind
edly begun to whistle-
Pecans and Persimmons.
A great deal has been written
about planting soft-shell pecans and
makiug a grove that in ten years
would pay u good profit, But WAV.
Lyon, of Glenlyon Grove, on Lake
Winnehaba, Fla., lias discovered a
much more speedy and profitable
way to get a pecan grove. Three
years ago ho secured Borne fine pecan
grafts from near PuntaGorda and
put them into a few big hickory
trees on )iis place, and this year he
has a fine crop of delicious pecaiu
nuts.
Now, here is a money crop, easily
grown and gathered and marketed,
that becomes its own cultivator, etc.,
at the end of three years, and without
mishaps, producing each year a fine
crop ot soft shell pecans. These
grafts passed safely through the great
freeze of ’94, so there is no danger
from that source. Mr. Lyon has
also had remarkable success in graft
ing some of the choicest Japan per
simmons on his common persimmon
trees.—Ex.
Wp can supply YOU with the Latest
in “Footwear."
Men’s, Ladles, Roys and children, at pri
ces that surprise you. We have ad
vantages over any Shoo House in this
sootion. Having “2” stores,
Albany and Dawson, Ga., neces
sitates our Buying in LARGE
QUANTITIES , and by buying
and selling for tlio Cash,
and “10” years experi
ence in the— ,
Shoe Business.
Electric Bitters.
Electric Bitters is a medicine suit
ed to any season, but perhaps nioro
generally needed when the languid,
exhausted feeling prevails, when the
liver is torpid and sluggish and the
need of a tonic and alterative is felt.
A prompt use of this medicine has
often averted long and perhaps fatal
attacks of bilious tcvers. No med-
icino will act more surely in counter
acting and freeing the system from
the malarial poison. Headache, In
digestion, Constipation, Dizziness
yield to Electric Bitters. 60c. and
§1.00 per bottle atJ. J. Golden’s
Tifton, and W. A. Crabtree’s Sparks,
Tlio OIBclul Vote.
Secretary of State Chandler has
completed the official returns for all
the districts of the State, and the
vote in the Second for GriggB, Peter
son and Sibley was as follows:
0.
l’.
s.
Baker
. 616
27
62
Berrien
. 619
140
196
Calhoun . ..
404
148
61
Clay
. 199
629
179
Colquitt
. 361
47
269
Decatur
. 006
592
392
Dougherty .
. 378
119
24
Early
. 601
201
372
Miller
. 302
23
169
Mitchell —
. 431
183
234
Quitman .. ■
. 162
203
74
Randolph ..
. 660
330
177
Terrell
.. 866
370
171
Thomas
. 667
602
284
Worth
.. 513
270
398
Total....
. 7464
3868
3036
Marvelous Results.
From a letter written by llev. J,
Gunderman, of Dimondalc, Mich
we are premitted to mako this extract:
“I have no hesitation in jecomending
Dr. King’s Now Discovery, as the
results was almost marvelous in the
case of my wife. While I was pastor
of the Baptist Church at Rives Juno
tion she was brought down with
pneumonia succeeding La Grippe,
Terrible paroxysms of coughing
would last hours with little interup-
tion and it seemed as if she could not
survive them. A friend recommend-
wo think it to your advantage
to do business witli us.
Our line is nlways up to date with tlio
Latest in Shoes, Hats and Men’s Fur
nishing Goods. We ask for a trial or
der and promisi Prompt Attention.
The Cash Shoe People,
MUSE It COX CO., Albany, Georgia.
From the State of Worth.
McKinley’s elected, ’bout us I ex
pected, climbing up the gold bug
stair.
Mr. W. L. II. Alford killed a
small deer Saturday. It was the
fourth one lie has killed this season.
Mr. C. J. Jenkins has made and
gathered fifty bushels of corn und
a stack of fodder from one acre of
land this year. Who can beat that?
Mr. R. T. Walker hus bought the
J. L. Jenkins place nsur Parkerville.
Mr. Jenkins, who has been attending
to business for Judge F. F. Putney,
on the Hines place near Aoree, will
move to the J. E. Crossland place, in
east Dougherty, Mr. Putney having
recently bought lL
Messrs. Jenkins & Wulkcr are
moving their gin, grist and saw mill
from Magnolia to their place near
Parkerville.
Bill Graham, a negro, was found
deud on S. II. and E. A. Strom’B
place last Sunday, the result of hem
orrhage of the lungs. Puck.
The Whole Story
Of tlia groat sales attained and great cures ac
complished by Hood's Sarsaparilla Is quickly
told, It purlilcs and enriches the blood, tones
the stomach and gives strength and vigor. Dis
ease cannot enter the syitein fortlfled by the
rich, rad blood which comes by taking Hood's
Sarsaparilla.
Hoad’s Fills cure nausea, sick headach, indi
gestion, biliousness. All druggists. 2Se.
ed Dr. King’s New Discovery; it was
‘ " ‘Is
uick in its work and highly satis-
actory in results.” Trial bottles
Briggs Carson & Co.
INSURANCE
Tifton, Georgia.
Office in Timmons LulJirg.
was so heavy that I could scarcely
curry it; but by much toil and travail
I managed to drag it to the edge of came me, and I suddenly real ized that
the plum orchard, where the birds
used.
Carefully adjusting the triggers, 1
scattered bait libei.. )y under them,
”0, lookee, lookee, here,
O, lookee, lookee there,
O,- lookee, lookee, 'wav over yander
For don’t you see
That old grey—”
The memory of that tragedy over-
the edge of the rail hurt me where I
was sore, and the whistle died away
on my lijis, —Montgomery M. Fol
se ut, iu Rente Tribune.
free at J. J. Golden’s Tifton, and W.
A. Crabtree’s Sparks. Regular size
60c. and $1.00.
The report of Dr. Powell, superin
tendent of the state asylum, shows
that during the past year 882 white
Preaching Appointments.
Elder 0.0. Thrash of the Western
Association will (D. V.) fill the fol
lowing appointments in the bounds
of the Pulaski Association:
Zion Hope, Friday, November 20;
New Bethel, Saturday and Sunday,
November 21 and 22; Pleasant Hill,
Monday, November 23; Providence,
Tuesday, November 24; Mars Hill,
Wednesday, November 26; Rooky
Creek, Thursday, November 26;
jsSWS
Ty Ty, Friday, November 27; Cor
inth, Saturday und Sunday, Novem-
v.
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her 28 and 29; Bethlehem, Monday,
November 30.
men and 209 colored patients were 1 —Major Hkssncr of tho Georgia
received at the asylum, while 802 j Southern will have another big ex
cursion party from West Superior,
Wis,. to take down over his line.
or
either were discharged died
eloped. The number of patients
now in the institution is 2,002. The
expenses of the asylum for tho year
were §284,094,38. The estimated
cost for maintaining the institution
for tbo present year is §280,000.
They come to look at South Georgia
lands. The major says that by tho
1st of December 11,000 aoyes of land,
located near Tifton, will be sold to
Lv we-seeker;). Maccu Telegraph.—