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Take JOHNSON’S CHILL & FEVER TONIC . Notice to the Public. We will buy all second-hand school books for cash, and pay all they are worth, for them. Gelders News Derot. Bibles from 50c up to $3.50 at Geld- er’s news depot. Look Here —We board and lodge you for $3.50 per week. Everything first class. See us. Brunner’s Restaurant. Wool Wanted. See us before selling your wool. Will buy in any quantity. Rousseau & Co. 19-4t Grant between Central & Pine. Why take Johnson’s Chill and Fever Tonic? Because it cures the most stubborn case o Fever in ONE DAY. Baling Press Wanted. Wanted to rent a hay haling press with privilege of buying same. 2nd hand power press capacity 10 to 12 tens per day. A. IC. Fisher. 13-2mo. Abbeville, Ga. Noficj to Public School Teachers. I will bold a general examination of applicants for teachers’ license in Fitzgerald, Ga., on Saturday, 29th inst., beginning at 8 o’clock a. m. All teachers who are now teaching in the public schools of Irwin county, or those who anticipate teaching, and whose license have or will expire within the next twelve months, are re¬ quired to take this examination. Very truly, M. Dickson, C. S. C. May 17, 1897. Ladies Who Suffer From any corqplaiqt peculiar to their sex—such as Profuse, Pain¬ ful, Suppressed or Irregular Men¬ struation, are soon restored to health by Bradfield’s Female Regulator. It is a combination of remedial agents which have been used with the greatest success for tqore than 25 years, oqd known to act speci¬ fically with and on the organs of JjSjT Menstruation. and recssvinjended for . such complaints only. It q«ver fails to give relief and restore the health of the suffering womaq. It should r ' be takeq by the girl Just budding iqto womanhood when Menstrua¬ tion is Scant, Sup¬ u. pressed, Irregular or Paiqful. and all delicate worqeq should use it, as Its toqic properties have a won¬ derful influence iq toning up and strengthening the systerq by driv¬ ing through the proper channels all impurities. “A daughter of one of my customers missed menstruation from exposure and cold, and on arriving at pnberty her health was completely wrecked, when until she was twenty-four years of age, bottle of upon Bradfleld’s my recommendation, Female Regulator,*___ she one pletely restoring J. W. Helldms, her to health.” Water Valley, Miss. The Bradfield Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga. ■OLD BT ALL DRUGGISTS AT St PER BOTTLE. CHENEY & BURCH, ATTORN EY-AT-LAW, Office— In Paulk Building, Grant Street, FITZGERALD, GEORGIA. WAY & JAY, • Attorney-at-Law, Fitzgerald, Georgia. Office— In the Slayton & Kern building on Pine avenue. E. W. Hyman, L. Kennedy, Of South Dakota. Of Savannah. RYMAN & KENNEDY, Office—I n Fitzgerald Block. State and County Taxes ’97. I will be in Fitzgerald, hours Georgia, eaeli at the Col¬ ony office during office the on day on the following dates for purpose of receiv¬ ing returns of tax payers viz: forStateandcounty tax for tho year 1807, Date. MAT. Tuesday... 4 Wednesday 5 Thursday.. 6 Friday...... 7 Monday. .. 24 Tuesday Wednesday. :y. Thursday* ■ 27 Friday...... 28 JUNE. Tuesday 1 Wednesday. 2 Thursday. ■■ 3 Friday...... f Monday..... 7 Tuesday.... S \\ ednesday, 9 Thursday... 10 Friday...... ii Monday... . it Tuesday ... 15 Wednesday. 1 ft Thursday... 17 After the above dates I shall positively close tny books, and all parties failing to give in their returns willappear as double defaulting and tbelr property assessed at L. value, in terms of the law. C. Roval Receiver or Tax Returns, Irwin County, Ga. Commissioner Henderson will be located at The Leader office on the above dates for the purpose of receiving property for taxation. April 16,1897. TOO MANY UROVYLERS. “Let Everybody Work Together,” Is a Correspondent’s Receipt for Grumbling. To tho Editors Leadkk. Since reading your issue of last week and attending the meeting at G. A. It. hall Saturday afternoon, in the interest of the colony matters, andG. A. R. meeting in the upper hall the same afternoon, my brain teems with so many thoughts upon all I read and all I heard. I find it quite a task to collect them so as to write you under- standingly all I wish to say. But the name of “Nincompoop” suggests itself to us as quite appropriate to “street commissioner growlers” here in Fitz¬ gerald. We have too many of them, and have had since the colony was first formed. Their disease is chronic, and they find fault and growl at what¬ ever may be done or whoever may do it. At the meeting of colony members Saturday afternoon there was some good talking by those who have tried, to their utmost, to bring Fitzgerald where it stands to-day—the youngest city in southern Georgia and the most prosperous one. Still, these uiucom- poops, or growlers, who will insist that Fitzgerald is out of it, were nowhere. They produce nothing, add nothing, and don’t try to be anything but just growl. In speaking of this nincompoop, I am glad The Leader won’t stand a slap in the face or allow such igno- minous slurs upon our city and the old soldiers’ colony to pass by unno¬ ticed. Now, if each and every one in the colony and city who are constantly kicking and grumbling about this or that would just stop and devote as much time to helping in building up, and endeavor to make the colony and city prosperous as they might do, then would the wheels of progress turn more rapidly, and to much better ad- vantage, but, like drones, they want to hang around the hive and live on the honey the other busy bees make. I have been thinking that perhaps the 22d of last December might have Something to do with this grumbling and dissatisfaction, there may be some who think perhaps if the suu shine of that day had been brighter in their path things would now be better and more prosperous, but I believe in letting the majority rule, and forever hold your peace. Now, you are well aware of the G. A. R. hall matters, of the loan that has been made, of the outstanding bills which were presented, and said to include all the liabilities against the building, etc., etc., and of the in¬ creased amount since the loan was placed, and of the misunderstanding caused thereby. And in consequence of all this, a committee of five were chosen to investigate, etc. So Satur¬ day afternoon the l’ost met in regu¬ lar meeting, and as this committee came to report, the Post took a recess. Mr. Holland, chairman of the commit¬ tee, made the report, without going into detail, to explain all it's merits or demerits. It was a good report, stud Mr. Holland and committee deserve much praise for their work in getting at the bottom, and the facts in the case Still, here we find the same nincompoop on the alert and ever ready to growl. Now, I, with very many others, sin¬ cerely believe, with just a little vim and push, the G. A. R. boys can have and retain the best paying property in this city. Just a word more and I will not tire your patience longer. Now, if the G. A. R’s. will only work and do what little they can, don’t be afraid, be- cause you can’t do it all, but do some- thing, and then our business men would do a little (for them) each, and the citizens a little, they would all he benefitted directly or indirectly there- by, and then complete a structure that would be a credit to the city and all the people. I would be much pleased to hear from you, Mr. Editor, on this or these questions, 1 am yours for enterprise and progress. Pusher. Owing to lack of space the above letter was omitted last week.—Ed. Georgetown, Ga., May 25.—(Spe¬ cial to Macon Telegraph.)—The peo¬ ple here was surprised yesterday when the announcement was made that Mr. IV. T. Flinn, of Americus, and Miss Dora Ogletree, of this place, were man and wife, and that the ceremony was performed last December. The min¬ ister who performed the ceremony was asked by the contracting parties to keep the matter a secret until notified to disclose it. Mr. Flinn came down from Americus yesterday and to-day he and his lovely bride left on the train for their future home. GARISH BOOK BINDINGS. They Arc In Bad Taiite and Are Disliked by Bookworm and Scholar. Books have a right to bo, first of all, books, not purveyors of whimsies in oolor and design. \x matters aro at this moment three-quarters of the new books look more like some st -augo en¬ tree at a feast than like everyday edi¬ bles. You take up one, und it lids the air of a curious ragout; thero aro un¬ known fragments of design floating in a sauce of queer elemental color. (Tho next one hus an air as honest as apple sauce at first glance; ’tisapalegreeuish thing, but presently you see that the trail of a serpent is over all its border. And who can hope for content from a dish thus garnished? Again a book, and this one burns bright red and yellow, like a pudding on fire with cognac, which is all very well for a pudding. Another has a cover which looks like a resisting beefsteak pounded by the stern hand of fate in a boarding house; another reminds you irresistibly of coffee wherein qhickory has too much inserted its diluting aid and cream is missing. But,’first and last, the new book* aro ever more prone to resemble small plots of deceptive stage verdure than honest, simple souled books. It is impossible to help doubt¬ ing the value of the literary pasturage to be found in such inclosures. Fortu¬ nately ono is sometimes most joyously deceived. Authors have little “say” concerning the garb of their volumes, and often—good luck to them—they ri6e superior to the mechanical makers of books and rejoice the souls of their readers in spite of tho bindings. And it must be repeated that in the present bizarre and excessive fancies in binding there is seed of abounding hope for the future. Publishers are groping for something; few of them know what. But they will learn, and the world will bo made glud by a genuine revival in the lovely old half forgotten craft of bookbinding. In that happy coming day there will be great honor for the men who lead the taste of this country to¬ ward better things in bookbinding, sim¬ pler and saner and more sincere.—Bos¬ ton Transcript. QUESTION OF LUCK. A Citation That Clinched the Other Side of the Argument. “I bate to hear people ray there’s no such thing as luck,” remarked the mel¬ ancholy Mr. Dolittle. “I don’t see why, ” his wife rejoined. “Because it isn’t true,” ho retmfued with asperity. “A man can go on try¬ ing and trying and never get along, and some other person Will go ahead and tnrnblo into good things without making any effort whatever. ” “Hiram, no great man has succeeded without hard work.” “That’s the kind of talk you always hear. But nine times out of ten it is all owing to the opportunity that presented itself. Fortune just seems to lie in wait to kidnap some men. Look at Sir Isaac Newton. His name is handed down from generation to generation. And why? Simply beoause ho was sitting under a tree, and an apple happened to drop on him. Yon can’t pretend that a man is in a position to claim superior merit simply because, through no ac¬ tion or preference of his own, he gets hit in the head with an apple, can you?” "No, Hiram. ” “Then don’t tell me about there not being any such thing as luck. ” “It seems to me that you've chosen a poor example in support of your argu¬ ment. The case of Isaac Newton goes to show that the difference is in the people. If it had been some men that I know of instead of Newton, the first thing they would have done after the apple fell would have been to go into the house and moan for the arnica bot¬ tle; then they would have spent two or three hours of precious time talking about their bad luck.”—Washington Star. Clocks With Nerves. There is one disadvantage about very tall buildings which is being noticed by the occupants. It is perhaps a small disadvantage, but still is worth consid¬ ering, as it involves some annoyance to those who have not made provision for it. The trouble referred to is the stop¬ ping of pendulum clocks by the vibra¬ tion of the buildings. Many a pendulum clock that has kept accurate time for years in old fashioned low structures has refused to run at all when moved into some one of the new tali steel framed buildings in the lower part of the city. On the lower floors of the buildings the clocks run fairly well, but when higher up in the buildings they become more whimsical and on the top floors will not run at all.—New York Times. He Responded. The late archbishop of Canterbury had a favorite dog named Watch. Once, as he lay on the mat at the open door of the chapel, the archbishop read impress¬ ively this sentence of the Scripture lesson, “What I say unto you I say unto you all—watch.” The dog sprang up, came forward and lay down before the reading desk at his master’s feet. One hearer at least heeded the lesson and responded.—Congregationalist He Got the Place. Great Editor—You have your theory, of course, as to how newspapers should be conducted? Applicant (fresh from college)—Not the slightest, sir. Great Editor (amazed)—Is it possible? My dear sir, you can have your pick of any department in this office—that ie : if you have not already arranged with a museum.—Buffalo Times. A Sprinting Match. Governor — You’ve been running ahead of your allowance, Jack. Jack—I know it, dad. I’ve been hop¬ ing for a long time that the allowance would strengthen up enough to overtake me.— Household Words. JOHNSON’S CHILL AND . FEVER TONIC Cures Fever In One Day. Welcome News to Persons Suffering From Chronic Diseases. lira. Jansenius, of the Columbus, Ga., and the’ Montgomery, Ala., sanitar¬ iums, at request of their many pa¬ tients in Fitzgerald, have located a branch office at the corner of Pine and Thomas streets, which will be the foundation of a sanitarium they in¬ tend to locate in this city. They use the Massage and Vapor Bath treatment, and there ill be no need of going, at great expense, to Hot or any other medicinal springs, to cure chronic ailments. The above treatment is now used by the foremost physician's of Germany. France and this country, and is the only sure and safe method of eradicating diseases of long standing. Following are some of the diseases we treat: Rheumatism, lumbago, sci¬ atica, swollen joints, paralysis, syph¬ ilis, blood and skin diseases, lung liver and kidney complaints, gastritis, dys¬ pepsia, malaria, nervous prostration, debility, corpulency, mercurial poison, the morphine and liquor habits, fe¬ male complaints and irregularities, dropsy, spinal diseases, catarrh, dis¬ eases of the eye. ear. nose and throat. Give us a call. Respectfully, Dns. Jansenius. Office Ilodrs: For ladies, from 8 to 11 a. m. For gentlemen, from 1 to 4 p. m.. and evenings frpm 7 to 8. Take JOHNSON’S CHILL & FEVER TONIC. School books and school supplies at Gelder’s news depot. Persian insect powder 10c, at Geld¬ er’s news depot. First Class Table Board by the week at $3,00 at Brunswick Restaur¬ ant. Letter presses, copy books, blank books and general office supplies at vLIdst’s news depot. First Class Table Board by the week at $3.00 at Brunswick Restaur¬ ant. Legal blanks and Georgia forms for justices at Gelder’s news depot. Webster’s unabridged dictionary, worth $3, only $1. Send in your or¬ ders. Gelder’s news depot. Why take Johnson’s Chill and Fever Tonic? Because it cures ! he most stubborn caseo Fever in ONE DAY. Legal Notice. To the Honorable Allen D. Candler, Secretary of the State of Georgia: X. The petition of Geo. W. Parrott, Sr., I. Cheves, Geo. W. Parrott, Jr , W. S. Thomson, Jacob Haas, B. P. O’Neal, William Scaudrett, W. 11. O'Neal, J. T. West and T. A. Scott, re- pectfully show the following: First.. That Geo. W. Parrott, Sr., Geo. W. Parrott, Jr., and Jacob Haas, are residents of the county of Fulton; B. P. O’Neal, VV.S. Thomson, William Scandrett. W. B. O'Neal and I. X. Cheves are residents of tho county of Dooly: and J. T. West and T. A . Scott are residents of the county of McDuffee, all being in the State of Georgia. have associated Second. Your petitioners themselves together and desire to the incorporate a railroad company under general railroad laws of the State of Georgia, under tile name of "The Dooly Soutberd Railway Ootupauy. Third. The length of said road . as near as can be estimated, will be about thirty-flve miles. direction Fourth. The general and location of said road, and the principal places through which it shall pass, are to be as follows: be¬ ginning at or near Kiehwood; Southern or some other point on the Georgia and Florida Railway Co,, between Cordele and Unadilla. ull being in the county of Dooly and .Stated Georgia, and running southeasterly throughout its entire length in the a general Georgia and Alabama Railway direction, crossing at ornear Pinia, in Dooly county, or at. some other point between Cordele, in Dooly county, or Rochelle, in Wilcox county, and continuing on in tho general direction indicated, to a point at or near Irwinville, in the county of Irwin, or to some other point in said county, on the Tiflon and Northeastern Railroad, be¬ tween Tifton, in the county of Berien, and Fitzgerald, in the county of Irwin, all being in the Stateof Georgia. The counties through which it will pass are Dooly, SVitcox and Ir¬ win. Fifth. The amount of capital stock is to be WO,<100.00, divided dollars into each, five all hundred of which Bhares stock of ono hundred is to be common stock. Sixth. The numberof years said corpora¬ tion ls to continue is eight, with the right and privilege of extending the same at that time according to law if so desired. Seventh The principal the office of of Dooly said cor¬ poration is to be In county in the Stateof Georgia. petitioners intend good Eighth. Your in faith to go forward without delay to secure subscription to the capital stock, construct, equip, maintain and operate said railroad Ninth. Your petititloners four further weeks notice show that that they have given of their intention to apply for said charter by the publication containing of this the their Sheriif’s petition advert in the newspaper se- inentsin each of the counties through which said road will probably theflllng run. of once this petition, a week for tour weeks before ■■ appears by affidavits of tho several editors below attached wherefore they pray to be incorporated un¬ der the laws of this state under the name aforesaid with all the powers, franchises, privileges and imunities guaranteed such eor- porations under the Constitution and laws of tho Stateof Georgia. Thomson 4; Whipple, Petitioners’ Attor¬ Geo. neys. Pak-hott. I. X. Cheves. W. O’Neal. G W Pakkott, Jr. II. P Jacob Haas. Wm. B. O’Neal. Taos A. Scott. WM. SCANDRETT. JohnT. West. W. S.Thomson. State of Georgia, Dooly County. Personal! appeared before the understgued, I. X.Cheves. B P. O'Neal and Wm. B. O'Heal who, each being sworn, say that the names signed to the above petition for incorporation, the are the genuine signatures of persons named therein, and that the matters therein set forth are true to the best of such affiants’ knowledge, information and belief. I X. OHF.VKB, B P. O’Neal. Wm. B. O’Neal. Sworn to and subscribed to before me this May 18, 1897. Lee B. Jones, N. P. D. C., Ga. , ‘ ‘ , j cs: AQI-PINI: BIGYGLES. @gggeggggw «$39,505 ' . h _--._ $39.50;; w 6% The G [“i“ n 1 . ’ ‘55 HSAPQUARTSRS FOR 5:": .S'I‘ATWNERY, BLANK BMKS and SCHML BO0KS. i ' SOLS AGSNTS FOR IRWIN COUNTY: Princeton Bicycles, $50 00 SAFES’too’ggggEggglzgggt; W9 33“ Bicyc‘eé 0“ '“Stal‘ment- m:n:;::s' W956“ Sterling" Bicycles, $100 ()0 Alpine Bicycles, : $39 50 Waverly Bicycles, $60 (N) Irwin Sheriff Sales. State of Geokoia, j 8S Irwin County. I * Will be sold before the court house door in Irwinville, Ga., on the 1st Tuesday in June, 1897, within the legal hours of sale the follow¬ ing property, to-wit: Two hundred andsixty- flve hundred acres of laud, being part of lot number district one and sixty-six in the Hearn 6th of said county, and known as the place the same being levied upon and to be sold as the property of J. Y. Fletcher, to satisfy U executions issued from the county court of said county, one in favor of Henry W. Jones for D. the Adair use of Jeff McCarty Kirkland, one in favor fa¬ of A. and Bros., and one in vor of the Citizen’s bank of Vafdosta, agraiust J. Y. Fletcher, property pointed out by plain¬ tiffs’ attorney. Defendant notified as required bylaw. Levy made and returned to me by Win, Rogers, county bailiff. This 28th day of April, 1897. R. V. Handley, Sheriff I. C. Legal Notice. YI7HEREAS, Vt It is deemed ex pedient and for the best interest of the Wadley and Mount Vernon Railroad Company that its rail¬ road be extended by the bulldingof a branch railroad from Rixville, Kmanuel a point on the railroad of suid company, in county, Georgia, to the town of Fitzgerald, in Irwin county, Georgiu; said through extension or branch railroad to be built tho counties of Emanuel, Montgomery, Laurens, Telf'are, Dodge, Wil¬ cox, t;offee and 1 rwin, or any one or all of said counties, as may be by the directors of said company deemed feasible and to the best in¬ terest of the Wadley and Mount Vernon Rail¬ road Company, so as to connect the present line of said railroad company at Rixville, Emanuel county, with the town of Fitzger¬ ald, in Irw.n county. Therefore, be, and it is hereby resolved by the board of directors of the Wadley and Mount Vernon Railroad Company, in meeting assembled, that said railroad be extended by the building of a branch railroad from Rix¬ ville, a point on the line of the Wadley and Mount Vernon railroad, through the counties of Emanuel, Montgomery, Lauren,., Dodge, Telfair. Wilcox, Coffee and Irwin, or any one or all of said counties, as may be the di¬ rectors of said company deemed most feasible and to the best interest 01 the Wadley & Mount Vernon Railroad Company, to the town of Fitzgerald, in Irwin county. Georgia. The length of said extension or branch railroad, as near as can be estimated, will be about 8eventy.five(75) miles, and* the general direc¬ tion of same will be in a southwest direction through the counties above named, or any one or more of them, from Rixville, Eman¬ uel county, Georgia. Georgia, to Fitzgerald, in Irwin county, further It is resolved, by the said board of directors, that notice of the building of the extension or blanch railroad above designated be given by publication of these resolutions once a week lor four weeks in the newspaper in which the sheriff’s advertisements are p ub- ' listaed in each of the counties through wh Ich Raid extension or branch railroad will probably run, prior to the time the right to build said extension or branch railroad is sought to be ex¬ ercised. Resolved further by said board of directors, that this resolution be entered in the records of its proceedings. This 24th day of April, 1897. I, G. D. Tvaor. secretary of the board of di¬ rectors of the Wadley and Mount Vernon Rail¬ road Companj\ do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original board resolutions unanimously passed by the of directors of the Wad¬ ley and Mount Vernon Railroad Company, as the same appears of record on the minutes of said directors’ meeting. Witness mv hand and the seal of said com¬ pany, this the 24th day of April, 1897. G. D. Tysor, secretary. Palace Rotel, Wm. H. Smith, Prop. Cor. Jessamine and Main Streets. We are now making special rates to our fel¬ low colony members from the North. When you reach the depot here have the hack driver take you to the Palace Hotel Everything new and strictly first-class. A. T. CURRY. Notary Public, COLONY BAJNK, Fitzgerald. Georgia Drs. C. A. & l C. Hotadorf, Office—I n Slayton & Korn building,'oppo¬ site Commercial hotel. Fitzgerald, Ga Phone 21, DR. J. H. POWELL, (Late of the Beet American Hospitals) Specialist in Chronic Diseases, Of Men and Women, Office, S. Grant street, near Magnolia. (Per¬ manently located.) E. NICHOLSON, Auctioneer, East Pine Avenue, FITZGERALD, GEORGIA. Is now prepared to give rates on short notice. Satisfaction Having had fifteen years experience, perfect is guaranteed. For rates and hills call at LEADEBoffice. I Have Lately Brought Petroleum — Prince, The famous trotting-bred Hamble- tonian Stallion, of the New York Trotting Register, to Fitzgerald, and parties wishing to engage his services for the season of 1897 may call on me at livery the round-top barn barn east of Van’s on East Pine Avenue. HENRY INGLES. For Tailor Suits CALL ON E. d. DANCY, fine At*, Next Boor to Cuntrcial Hotel A perfect fit guaranteed. A trial is all I ask. All garments cut and made on premises. Cleaning. Repairing ud Pressing a Specialty.