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«****S*#S*J«S***S8*SSS*S| l EY it HO LMES-1 HARL g Good New Goods, Low Prices* g --WE ARE THE LEADING DEALERS IN Hardware, Builders’ & Shop Material, Yf' Tinware, Stoves and Crockery. We cany an Klegant Line of FAINTS, Ktc. Send for our Color Card. Onr Specialty is Improved m ! AGRICULTURAL : : IMPLEMENTS, I In fact everything needed on the farm. Agents for CHATTA¬ NOOGA PLOWS,,1’lanet, Jr. Cultivators. McCormick Mowers, ^ Mitchell Celebrated Ore and Two-Horse Wagons. Turpentine ^ Mill Supplies, Steam Mill Fittings, Emery Wheels, etc. All Goods Guaranteed to be just as represented at time of sale. ^ 8«MSSS»iiSSS*»SSSSSS»*S» m HARLEY & HOLMES. | li Lsscollcs $ Grocery Company,! WHOLESALE DEALERS IN GROCERIES $ <$><$><§><$> tsiiimuscinis !INSURANCE BROKER.! <s> <e> Rre r Life and Accident* Renard Block, FITZGERALD, GA. sAx s^sssss^ssssssssssssssssss The Josey Drug Go. * A full line of Drugs, Patent Med- ♦ ,J icinesof all kinds, Druggists’ Sun¬ il dries, Etc., Etc. / r Toilet Soaps and Fine Perfumery. # The Finest Soda Fountain in Wire- m & Georgia. ,, m grass m Prescriptions Compounded Day or Night. | The Josey Drug Co. , South Grant, Fitzgerald, Ga. l*Lg»s *3 Oft X M* Ms t# P HELLO! HELLO! \#" J 4JV New Grocery 7 % * ^ For the ? X?v ^ On Pine Av., between Sheridan and Thomas Sts., * ^ .is Jtk A new and Fresh slock of Goods.as good as the bestcan afford—none rjt * ^ better to be had in the market and more coming all the time. Please Jk iEJC \ call and see mo proprietor and you will the receive front of prompt the building, attention. Look for the 3^,, < i•» ~ name of the on Yours Truly, ... * J. Es BENTZ. £ -~gJ? -<g ~^-0 -«-gI ^ ^ a rwwWwwwwtww*wwww4w * PATRONIZE MOME INDUSTRIES Do not give out your order for Nursery Stock until you come and see my stock and get prices Hundreds of men told me last winter they were very sorry they gave their order be¬ fore soolng'viv stock and getting my prices. So don’t get caught foot again. for I will $15.00 sell you No. 1 lune Uuddsfl Peaoh Trees for *35 .00 per thousand, and 3 to 4 trees per 1000. I will have stock in my yard on Sontli Main Street about the middle of October; so do not give out vourordor until you see me and my stock and get prices. y,.‘ M WINSLOW,Manager. F'ltzgerald Nursery Co- POMOLOGICAL ART. TRYING TO PRODUCE SEEDLESS AND THORNLESS FRUIT. Methods by Which Fruit Scientists Suc¬ ceed In Improving Upon Nature—Re¬ sults Have Shown That They Are on the Right Hasis—Slight Success With Apples. One of tho most important objects po- mologists thorniesH are striving for is to produce aud seedless fruits, aud from the results already obtained it is not nnlikely that the end will soon be real¬ ized. Seeds are not relished by the con¬ sumers of fruits, and if they could be removed we would enjoy our grapes without experiencing a dread of appeu- dioitis aud kir*irod complaints. Thorns are not in good standing among fruit growers, because they are constantly puncturing the beHt fruits and, what is equally important, the skin of the pickers. The thorns and prickles of plants and trees were un¬ doubtedly intended by nature to protect them from animals, but. that is no rea¬ son why they should be continued for generation after generation on the cul¬ tivated varieties. The gardener has no need for them, aud, for that matter, the trees and shrubs have none either. Our domesticated pears and apples were all derived from the thorny, wild varieties, and pomologists have succeed¬ ed in ridding them of these spikes and prickles by careful culture and selec¬ tion. Oranges aud lemons have not been cultivated in this country as suc¬ cessfully as pears and apples, and many of them are very thorny. The wild and sour orange trees of Florida are bris¬ tling with thorns, as is also the high priced king orange, one of the best of the mandarins. The wild lemon trees of Florida are so thorny that growers ques¬ tion the advisability of grafting the fine La France lemons on them. In Florida, however, the thorns of the orange and lemon trees have been greatly reduced by selecting buds from branches with the fewest thorns, and by continuing this process year after year tbe sharp spikes disappear. In Cal¬ ifornia nearly all of the orange trees arc thornless—not naturally, but as the re¬ sult of cultivation and selection. The thorns on blackberries, raspber¬ ries and rosebushes givo the greatest bother to floriculturists iu the north, and thero is a determined effort to get rid of them. The thorns give endless trouble to the pickers, and their remov¬ al might save many a puncture to deli¬ cate hands. There is an improved varie¬ ty of raspberry placed on the market to¬ day which is entirely thornless, but the trouble is that quality aud quantity of fruit have been sacrificed to the gain made in destroying tho thorns. Thero is little doubt that perfect thornless blackberries and raspberries will soon be obtained, for thero is a widespread move’ment among gardeners and seedsmen to accomplish this. The man who is fortunate enough to produce a variety that gives perfect fruit with¬ out the thorns will receive a pretty stiff price for his plants. Seeds are also unnecessary plant prod¬ ucts in these advanced days of horticul¬ ture, when gardeners propagate half their stock by cuttings, grafts and slips. Nature need no longer trouble herself about the fear of losing any of her types. The modern horticulturist is sure to preserve every ono of any value without gathering a seed. The California navel orange repre¬ sents the best type of fruit grown with¬ out seeds. Nature produced this orange as a freak at first, and man has taken advantage of it to propagate fruit of a high order. Half the oranges of Cali¬ fornia are grafted with tbe navel, and it is the most important fruit of the Pacific coast. Nature tried to produce twins in the navel orange, and one sur¬ vived only as a protuberance in the blossom end, while the other expanded into a well shaped fruit without seeds. These oranges are occasionally found with small seeds; but, as a rule^they are perfectly seedless. Several varitiesof seedless apples aud pears have already been produced, but tbe quality of the fruit is generally poor aud nearly worthless. They are called “bloomless” pears and apples and are exhibited more as curiosities than as the triumphs of pomological art. Neverthe¬ less, they are the beginning of a new era of apple growing, aud they represent the primary stock of seedless fruits which may produce in time the finest flavored apples and pears. The grape industry would be benefit¬ ed more than any other by the produc¬ tion of new varieties without seeds, and toward this end scores of fruit growers are working, especially in California. The idea is to produce not only table grapes, but grapes that will make fine raisins. Seedless raisins would prove such a boon to the whole civilized world that any other variety would be quickly run out of the market. There is a seedless grape of Corinth, which commonly passes as a currant, and the Sultana raisins of southeastern Europe are also seedless. But these fruits are so small that they cau never answer the purpose. What the trade wants is a large, seedless grape, with perfect aolor and flavor,-and to get,that it is necessary to experiment for years. —New York Journal. The Austrian Dynasty. The present emperor of Austria is Francis Joseph, who asaended the throne Dec. 2, 1848. He is of the royal house of Hapsburg, which has held the throne since 1282. Twenty-six sover¬ eigns of this house have ruled over Aus¬ tria. Rudolph I, tbe nobleman who founded this royal family, built a castle on the Habichtsbur^, or Hawk’s moun¬ tain, whenoe the name of the family. An authority on deaf mutes says that the ratio of deaf mutes to hearing is about 1 to each 1,600, according to which there are about 40,000 such per¬ sons in tbe United States and about 1,000,000 in the world’s entire popula¬ tion. JUST A BOY. Lawrence llutton’. Kcikiini.ccnce. of III. Juvenile Life lu New York. He was not a very prood boy or a very bad boy or a very bright boy or an un¬ usual boy in a»iy way. He was just a boy, and very often bo forgets that he is not a boy now. Whatever there may be about the boy that is commendable he owes to his father and to his mother, and he feels that he should not be held responsible for it. His mother was the most generous and the most unselfish of human beings. She was always thiuking of somebody else—always doing for others. To her it was blessed to give, aud it was not very pleasant to receive. When she bought anything, the boy’s stereotyped query was,“Who is to have it?” When anything was bought for her, her own invariable remark was,“What on earth shall I do with it?’’ When the boy came to her one summer morning, she looked upon him as a gift from heaven, and when she was told that it was a boy, and not a bad looking or a bad condi¬ tioned boy, her first words were, “Wbat on earth shall I do with it?” She found plenty “to do with it” be¬ fore she got through with it, more than 40 years afterward, and the boy lias ev¬ ery reason to believe that she never re¬ gretted thn gift. Indeed, she once told him, late in her life,that he had never made her cry. What better benediction can a boy have than that? The boy was redheaded and long nosed even from the beginning—a shy, dreaming, self conscious little boy, made peculiarly familiar with his per¬ sonal defects by theconstaut remarks to the effect that his hair was red and that his nose was long. At school for years ho was known familiarly as “Rufus, ” “Redhead,” "Carrot Top” or “Nosy.” His mother, married at 10, was the eldest of a family of nine children, aud many of the boy’s aunts and uncles were but a few years his senior aud were bis daily aud familiar companions. He was the only member of his own generation for a long tirno, and there was a con¬ stant fear upon the part of the elders that lie was likely to be spoiled, and consequently be was never praised nor petted nor coddled. He was always fall¬ ing down or dropping things. He was al¬ ways getting into the way, and he could not learn to spell correctly nor to cipher at all. He was never in his mother’s way, however, aud bo was never mads to feel so. But nobody except tho boy knows of the agony which the rest of the family, unconsciously and with no thought of hurting his feelings, caused him by the fun they poked at his nose, at his fiery locks and at his unhandiness. He fancied that passersby pitied him as he walked or played in the streets, and he sincerely pitied himself as a youth des¬ tined to grow up into an awkward, tact¬ less, stupid man, at whom the world would laugh so long as his life lasted. —“A Boy I Knew,” by Laurence Hut¬ ton, in St. Nicholas. A TRIBUTE TO ART. The Staid of Blllesia and the Beautiful Venus de Medici. Somewhere in Washington — just where is not necessary to the main point at issue in this short article on the de¬ velopment and undevelopmeut of art in the national capital—is a mansion pre¬ sided over by a woman of wealth and refinement. She is a most artistic wom¬ an, too, and in her house are some un¬ usually fine pieces of painting and stat¬ uary. There is also a Milesian maid, by name Maggie, who knows a deal more about housecieaniug than she does about sculpture, and Muggio has been trying for a long time to cultivate her taste up to the point of properly appreciating the painted and carved beauty with which she daily comes iu contact. Not many days ago the mistress aud the maid were going over the house with brush and broom, putting it in especial order for a musicale that was to be given to a few artists and fashionables, and the mistress observed that the maid on three several occasions passed by with cold neglect of cloth and brush a beau¬ tiful figure of the “Venus de Medici,” in an alcove just off the hall. “Here, Maggio!” she called. “Why don’t you brush the dust off this figure?’ ’ “Which wan, mem?” inquired Mag¬ gie with great innocence. “The ‘Venus’ there in the alcove, of course. See”—and the lady touched it with her finger—“you have left dust all over it. ” “Yis, mom,” confessed Maggie, “but I do be thinking for a long time, mem, that there aht to be something on it, mem. ” It was a delightful and logical excuse, perhaps, but the lady could scarcely ac cept it, and Maggie’s brush removed even the dusty. drapery she wished to leave.—Washington Star. His Grandmother. A gentleman once asked Uncle Daniel, a droll character in a New England vil¬ lage, if he could remember his grand¬ mother. “I guess I can,” said Uncle Daniel, “but only as I saw her once. Father had been away all 'day, aud when he came home he found I had failed to do something he expected of me. He oanght mp a rough apple tree limb and walked qp to me with it. Grandmother appeared on the doorstep with a small, straight stick in her hand, and instantly handed it to my father. ‘Here, Joe,’ said she, ‘lick Daniel with a smooth stick. ’ Aud he did. Who wouldn’t re¬ member such a grandmother as that?” Saw Through It. “Paokage, sir,” said the agent as Mr. Sharp came to the door. “There is $2 express oharges on it.” “Be kind enough to wait a momeut,” said Mr. Sharp as he disappeared in¬ doors. Presently he returned. “Just al¬ low me to throw this X ray on that pack¬ age, please.” The telltale light revealed three bricks carefully done up in raw cotton, and, unopened, they were returned to the would be joker marked “Refused.” —Washington Times. •jjr Mjr V' fa Some People do noth- ing but talk. We pre- frer to let our custo¬ mers talk in regard to our low prices and im- mense stock to select from. We have no competition that can duplicate our Prices. Remember we are the Pioneer and here-to- stay Hardware dealers of Fitzgerald, Ga. Our interests are identical with yours. We are here to assist in devel- oping this Garden spot of Wiregrass Georgia. HafetihaTe Co. i' '<• i r ’■V. ,-~- dr £ ^ [AJ 72 £l »£* O •: : tMiSiii iPiij VJP OS telf**-® 'a Ha ||l||,!liil ; TIFTON FOUNDRY 1 MACHINE COMPANY 4--MANUFACTURERS OF-♦ Iron and Brass Castings, Engine and Boiler Fittings, Inspirators, injectors. Lubricators, Jet Pumps, Steam Gages; Globe, Anglo and Chq Valves; Pipe and Fittings; General Machinery f.ace-Loathor and Mill Supplies; Pulleys, Oils. t®“Kepair Shaftings-a Couplings: Leather and Rubber Belt; and Lubricating Wo a Specialty. AGents for all kinds of Machinery. NOTICE.—Iron and brass melted six da ineveryVeek. a second-hand 50-horse power Engine for sale. Call on or address, for prticulars. R. S. KELL, Manager, Tifton, Ga. Notice of Special Election. 'VfOTICE of is the hereby city given of Fitzgerald, to the qualified Georgia, vo- ters that on Saturday the 24th dav of July, 1897, at the herinaf ter named polling places, a special election of the voters of said city of Fitzger¬ ald, will be held for the purpose of determin¬ city ing the council following be question, to to-wit: ‘’Shall the period empowered make a contract for a not exceeding twenty years, with such person, firm or corporation as it sees lit, for the use of water and light, or either by the city?” The polls will open at 9 o’clock in the forenoon and remain open until 4 o’clock in the afternoon. The polling places will be as follows: First Ward—Colony Headquarters. Second Ward—Whitchard’s store, corner Oco¬ nee and Thomas streets. Third Ward— Fitz¬ gerald Leader office. Fourth Ward—Store room on southeast corner of Lee and Pine streets. No person will be allowed to vote at said election who has not registered for the same. city Any election person otherwise for qualified said to special vote at may register clerk the election, with the mayor or city at city hall at any time between this date and 5 o’clock in the afternoon of July 19,1897. Dated at Fitzgerald, C. this C. GoodnOW, June 2’i, 1897. Mayo* For Tailor CALL ON E. <J. DANCY, Fine At-, M Door to Commercial A perfect fit guaranteed. A trial is all I All garments cut and made on premises. Cleaning. Essairin? ini Prssaine a «y*i SPA t We are located on thel corner of Central Avl and Grant St., \n ourl own brick building^ Our Mammoth Stock of fir. Is full and Complete, and embraces * Tinware, Builders’ Material, Farm Machinery, Stoves, - Crockery, Mixed Paints, Slielf - Hardware, Wire Screens, Etc. In fact we keep in stock everything known to the Hardware trade: MILL ■ SUPPLIES A Specialty. Bicycles . Of the Best and Latest make. Court House Removal Petitions. The attention of all male residen of the 1537th district (the district 1 which Fitzgerald is located) is invite to the fact that petitions asking tl ordinary of Irwin county to call a election of the voters of Irwin count to vote on the question of the removs of the court house from Irwiuville t Fitzgerald, are now ready for signr tures and can be found at variou places in the city, where every one i earnestly requested to call and sign a, tnce. Don’t wait for a member o obe committee to call on you, but ste in and contribute your mite by voluu tarily signing the petition. Petition; can be found at the following places First Ward: Colony headquarters Clare & Co. and L. O. Tisdels. Sec ond Ward: S. M. Whitchard. J. II Stalker and M. H, Plopper’s, also Col ony bank. Third Ward: City hall Rymau & Kennedy, Sam Fleming! Cheney & Burch, Way & Jay, Peiper’s grocery, Rew’s stand, Leader office, II. G. Taylors, Denniston’s drug storey T. S. Price & Co.’s, Smith & Whit; man’s real estate office. Clark’s furnl iture store, Savannah Shoe stove and Wilson’s real estate office. Com. T Wanted— Horse and cattle hide, Apply Lascelles Grocery Co., Renard block, Fitzgerald, Ga. 22-tf