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The Fitzgerald Leader stablished. 18QG. /OL. II. JOHN B. VINCENT, Attorney-at-Law.. Lunberger Building, Cor. Pine and Grant St., ~itzgerald, : : Georgia. CHENEY & BURCH, ATTORN E Y-AT-LA W, Office— In Paulk Building, GrantStreet, FITZGERALD, GEORGIA. E. W. Ryman, JL. Kennedy, Of South Dakota. Of Savannah. RYMAN & KENNEDY, Office— In Fitzgerald Block. JAY & HENDERSON, Attorney-at-Law, Fitzgerald, Georgia. Office—I n the Slayton & Kern building on Pine avenue. W. F. THOMPSON, ArcK itec t, 9 CORDELE, GEORGIA. DR. J. H. POWELL, (Late of the Best American Hospitals) Specialist in Chronic Diseases, Of IVIen and. 'Women, Office. S. Grant street, near Magnolia. (Per¬ manently located.) W. J. LAYMAN & CO., Real Estate & Insuranc Agents Loans Negotiated. “rant Street, Fitzgerald', Georgia. Drs. C. A, & L< ff. Eoltzeniorf, Office— In Slayton & Kern building, oppo¬ site Commercial hotel. Fitzgerald, Ga 1-hone 21. PINE STREET Meat Market Carries a full line of Fresh and Salted Meats of every description. Armour’s celebrated Western Beef always on hand. Turkeys and Chickens bought and sold. H. L. BEAUCHAMP, Proprietor. WE List ■ Property ♦==== AND Pay : Taxes — petty owi. ers. Small and large giving tracts of s for sale. Enclose stamp full information. , , I 1 KIMS, SDK S CD, fiisjtnli, St, Real EstaleDeafers. OPTICIAN, Have your eyes fitted by John Ad- ams, a man that has had twenty-seven years experience. I have the best as- sortment of goods in the city. Gen¬ eral line of optical goods in stock. Lenses, spectacle and eye glass frames, cases, also opera and field glasses, tel¬ escopes. barometers, microscope, com¬ passes, etc. JOHN ADAMS, GRANT STREET, FITZGERALD, GA. li. For Tailor Suits CALL ON E. J. DANCY, Fine A h M Door to Commercial Hold A perfect fit guaranteed. A trial is all I ask. All garments cut and made on premises. Cleaning, Repairing and Pressing a Specialty WHY 00 TO ATLANTA To have your Eyes fitted with glasses? You can save time and money by call¬ ing at Baldwin’s, the Eye Specialist, who is a graduate optician. Have a room especially for examining the eyes. Headache, vision blurred, can¬ not read by lamplight, can be relieved by proper glasses. Take no chances, but have your eyes fitted with glasses eorrectly. BALDWIN, C. S. Two Dooas East of Postoffice, Fitzgerald, : : Georgia. “MAN WAS BORN TO HUSTLE” FITZGERALD, IRWIN COUNT!, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 2*3, 1897. Merry Christmas. It is with much joy we herald forth the words “ Merry Christmas” to our readers here and those living in the bleak and cold North. The year that will soon be behind us in the march of progress, has been a year of happi¬ ness for some, while others it has brought forth sorrow and regret. To those that prosperity has chosen to be with, we trust will be with you for years to come, and that you may al¬ ways be happy and in the best of health. To those who have had sor¬ row and business troubles, it is our ouly wish that, beginning with the new year they will be a thing of the past. “Trust in Him who knoweth that all things are for the best and your happy days will begin.” In looking over the files of The Leader for nearly two years, we can find so many things that bring up old memories. To be sure, two years is not long, but it is 730 happy days spent in the sunny South. For 100 weeks The Leader has gone to thous¬ ands of homes, and in all probability will go for more than 100 mole weeks. In going back Over these old papers we touch the strings of joy or woe which leads to the heart of almost every enterprising citizen in Irwin county. As an abler writer once said: “ None lie in the city of the dead, who have not had from us the rites of charity and grief.” The marriagfe bells have never chimed but stray echoes wafted through the press. None were born, or come, or went away, who have not passed in bright review along our columns. Out of these musty columns of ink and paper we could write the history of many lives. Done well? Yes, as well as we de¬ serve. Not much in the way of dross¬ ful wealth, but wads and loads and oceans of treasures in that happy bourne whence toil and trouble never come. Many people owe us; we owe nobody, hence w%have something to be thankful for. Possibly it might fetch us a few dollars to dun, rip and snort on this auspicious occasion, but we shall not try it. >Ve need the money, the Lord knows, but from long years of experience with quent subscribers and others, we are inclined to think that only the devil knows whether we will get it. This will fall under the eye of many a sub¬ scriber who knows he owes us and is able to pay us. We leave him alone with his chewing tobacco and con¬ science. Once again. A merry, merry Christmas to all, At the beginning of each of con¬ gress, with a considerable show virtue it is announced that liquors will not be sold or served in the capitol restuarants. The spasm of goodness on the part of the congressmen usually lasts about three or four days. At the current session, however, it is said to have passed off in less than thirty- six hours. On the first day the statesmen slaked there thirst with milk, soda water and various carbon¬ ated mineral waters; but these soon proved too thin drinks, and the faces of the guardians of the nation began to take on a look of worry. At the beginning of the second day the mem¬ bers took suspicious looking draughts from cups. It might of have been “cold tea,” and it might of have been something else. The strain was so great that before night plain, straight whiskey was being called for and served. The House and Senate have both now authorized the dispensing of liquors in their restaurants.—Savan¬ nah News. The Chicago Post thus quotes a lady of that city as to bow she found a sermon helpful: Our minister preached a sublime sermon on Sunday. I did enjoy it so much. And right in the middle of it I hit on how to have my black serge fixed over. The whole scheme came like a miracle, and will work out no end of swell. That frock has been of such a torment—I have had no good of it at all. It hung in the wardrobe, a reproach and a waste of material. Sermons are so benefi¬ cial. You really ought to go to church oftener. I am ashamed that you missed that one last Sunday. LASCELLES IN MEXICO - The Great Adventurer Is Now In the Land of Free Silver. MRS. LASCELLES WITH HIM l*oses As a Man of Extensive Business, but Who Has Had Reverses Which He Will Overcome—Some Big Contracts in Sight. The flight of Sidney Lascelles alias Lord Beresford, from this city last July has been located at least twenty-five times or more in different parts of the world. This time it is in the city of Mexico. The whereabouts of Mrs. Lascelles has been known to The Leader for quite a while, as she has been in communication with Judge Moore, of this city, in regard to her father’s estate. The following special appeared in the Atlanta Constitution of last Saturday dated at City of Mexico. It says: Among the notable visitors in this city at the present time is the notorious Lord Beresford, otherwise Sidney Las- eelles, who has but recently been par¬ doned out of the Georgia penitentiary by Governor Atkinson, of that State. About five weeks ago Mr. and Mrs. Lascelles, registering as from Monterey, made their appearance here and se¬ cured quiet apartments with an Amer- can family who had preceded them. It was not until the lady fell in a swoon while heading an American newspaper that the identity of the couple became known to their hosts. The paper an¬ nounced the death, in a little town in Georgia, of Mr. Alexander Pelkey, the lady’s father. Upon her recovery she told the story of her life. She was tile petted and only child of a wealthy citi- zer of Rhode Island, who had gone to Georgia to invest in some rising real es'ate. There she met Lascelles, wir- ning and polished, and though she knew te had been in the penitentiary for high-rolling, she looked upon the pardon which the governor had given him as a complete vindication, and de¬ spite parental objections married the gay lord, since which time she had not seen her father. Now that he was dead she became the sole heiress to his pos¬ sessions. In the meantime Lascelles had not been idle in the city. He had made the acquaintance of those in charge of fed¬ eral district affairs, and was so full of schemes of municipal improvement that he began to catch the official ear. He had extensive bundles of letters from dealers all over the United States, showing that he had been engaged in extensive works which claimed their attention. It is true that these letters all referred to pending negotiations, and not to completed work, but they were sufficient to prove that ho was a man of affairs. The news 0 ? his father- in-law’s death came in good time, for it afforded Lascelles an opportunity to talk of landed possessions in various States of the American Union. He em¬ ployed an English barrister to open ne¬ gotiations with the representatives of the estate in Fitzgerald, Ga., and based upon this coming wealth, Lascelles has been heartily welcomed into local of¬ ficial circles. There was one notable feature about Lascelles’ presence, and that is, while he made himself at home at the British consulate, and affected great fondness for the French, he avoided the head- quarters of United States Minister Powell Clayton, and the American col¬ ony in general. It was only within the past week that Lascelles’ record has leaked out, due to a chance meeting with an Alabama gentleman, who had known him in Fitzgerald. “I have no disposition to deny my identity,” said Lascelles, “but I would have preferred quiet until my wife’s mourning for her father’s sad death was over.” With admirable Sangfroid, Lascelles has met the whispers which have reached the ears of his Mexican friends. He explains that he is a man of large business affairs; that in the course of immense transactions he has had re¬ verses; .that full settlement will set him straight again, and that he will return to the United States and put his sland¬ erers into something worse than Belem, All this is told with so much self-pos- sessidn and plausibility that it is be¬ lieved, and the former Lord Beresford is living in clover. Mrs. Lascelles has the utmost faith in her husband and fully believes that he will come out on top. Ex-Buteher Weyler says “ Cuba is lost to Spain.” He should have read American newspapers and learned the true facts long ago. Confederate Bead in >>’1800118111. Under the caption of ,l A Message to the South,” the Chicago Times-Herald of a few days ago had the following pretty article: “A modest corner in Forest Hill cemetery, Madison, Wis., lias been known as “Confederate Rest” ever since 1863. The winter of 1862 con¬ siderable numbers of confederate pris¬ oners were sent to Camp Randall, near Madison. The change from the sunny South to the blizzards of the North swept the poor fellows away rapidly, and the camp was soon aban¬ doned as a prison. The dead were buried in Forest Hill cemetery. For nearly thirty years the graves of these American soldiers have been looked after by Mrs. Alice Waterman, a southern-born lady, who went to Mad¬ ison in 1868. Often and indeed reg¬ ularly in these later years flowers have been sprinkled upon the confederate graves by the Union veterans on Me¬ morial day. “A few years ago Mrs. Waterman, highly respected by all the people, died, and, and at her request was buried with “my boys,” as she called them, in “Confederate Rest.” Now' it is proposed to erect a monument to her memory and the memory of “her boys,” one that will bear the name of the noble woman and each confeder¬ ate sleeper there. What adds inter¬ est and pathos to this proposition is the fact that two Union soldiers have undertaken the task, one of whom, Major W. F. Oakley, of the Seventh Wisconsin, lost one arm at Rappan- onck Station in 1862, and the other. Capt. Hugh Lewis, Company A, Second Wisconsin, lost an arm at Second Bull Run. Both are still men of energy, and can be depended upon to carry the work to a successful issue. “There will be many to 'aid them— many in the ranks of the Union ve\ emus. The monument, without doubt, will be ready for dedication the year that Wisconsin is half a century old —1898. Its dedication will be another message sent to the South—a message of peace, good will, fraternity, Amer¬ icanism.” It is an extremely handsome action on the part of the two Union soldiers of Wisconsin, Major Oakley and Cap¬ tain Lewis, to thus interest themselves in and to undertake the erection of a monument to Mrs. Waterman and the confederate dead who lie buried in Forest Hill cemetery, Madison, Wis. They must be brave men themselves, must Major Oakley and Captain Lewis, as well as good-hearted men, to thus spend of their time and their money in the perpetuation of the memory of deceased strangers, probably known to them only as “destroyers” of that Union which they themselves fought to uphold. But while Major Oakley and Cap¬ tain Lewis and the deceased were on opposite sides in the great intercine struggle, Major Oakley and Captain Lewis had no doubt experience of and acquaintance with the courage of the southern soldier; and, now the “un¬ pleasantness” is long since past, and that each side has come to recognize the honest convictions of the other in the cause for which they respectively stoop and the courage with which they fought and died for those convictions, admiration has replaced rancor, and sectional bitterness has given way be¬ fore a return of human kindness. Of that admiration of honesty and bravery, and of that human kindli¬ ness tow’ard fellow-soldiers, Major Oakley and Captain Lewis, of Wiscon¬ sin, are giving a noble example; and there is no ex-confederate anywhere, nor any southerner who will learn their action, but in his heart will “rise and bless” them for their courteous comraderie. The probabilities are that there are southern soldiers who would like to show their appreciation of the beau¬ tiful action of Major Oakley and Cap¬ tain Lewis by contributing a trifle to the furtherance of the purpose which those gallant Wisconsin soldiers have in hand; such contributions, it will be carefully observed, are not solicited, directly or indirectly, but, were they offered, the chances are they would be received and devoted to help on the work. The suggestion is the Times- Democrat’s; but whetherjit be worth taking up must be left to the decision of southern soldiers themselves.—N. O. Times-Democrat. J. 11. G. F. KNAPP, KNAPP, : Editors and Milks NO. 51. R it * m v > (jr gitsgemlfc grafter. * | % Sou, * =♦= $ The Leading Newspaper of Wiregrass Geo- * gia. $1.50 a Year. Book and Job Work a * Specialty- # sfe 5§S sk ste sfs % Jjs $ ± A sis sfs s$s s$S $ !§S \ r: Store! nl v!> M, Baldwins Jewelry 'V* 'i' M. PIONEER JEWELER, M, T® ^ ¥ Has the best and largest stock of Jewelry in Fitzgerald: Solid Gold Goods and lots of them. See our genuine Opals, set in Kings, Pins and Earrings! Sterling Silver Novelties—Latest Designs! @§11® 6 each! We have We Rogers’triple-plated have Teaspoons at 75c No. 12 Knives set of 6 and Tablespoons Forks for at S3 $1.25 25 per per set set of Jijj| per ; -Y- of six. Bee our Ladies’ Guard Chains! W A Card To The Public: # No No Rolled Gold filled plate sold sold for for Solid Gold Gold! filled! Every article sold for just what » # _________ r ____________________ r „. gold You will not buy a Rolled plate natch chain from us that the 2£ ■” ' “ 4 weeks unless you take sand paper to do it ! Come and look -V- get our prices, and you buy 1 No trouble to show goods! m First-Class Repairing Done! :V/: Our Motto: The best work at fair prices and a pleased customer! W — ----------- X' Two Doors East of Postoffice. Mondays t Here _ The Holidays will soon be here, and of coursejtliat boy of yours will need a nobby suit for a Christmas present. What is nicer for your boy than a suit of clothes or a nice pair of shoes? Make him a present.of something that is of value and which will do him service. It is money in your pocket. Perhaps the men folks are in need of a new suit, pair of pants, hat or shoes. E a present above all others, ■ || ^ Our Holiday Pripes. Mens’all-wool suits, were $15.00, Holiday Price -ftf> $12.00. sk Mens’ ail wool suits were $12.00, Holiday Price Yj X $10.00. Mens’ all wool suits $10.00, Holiday Price were j; $8.00. Mens’ all wool.suits were $8.00, Holiday price $6.00. Mens’ all wool suits were $7.00; Holiday price $4.00. Boys’ all wool suits were $2.00; Holiday price $1.50. the Our city. assortment AH of Boys’ and Childrens’ suits is the largest in ^ we ask is a visit. No trouble to show goods. _■ Jones : Clothing: Co. & Fitzgerald, Georgia. ®TAsk for our Store when in town. Kb? I ►j JOSEY’S DRUG STORE. 4 \ I am located on South Grant Street, where l can be \ found with with a full line of 3 I I P GCGCGC 3 3 3 % P 3 p 9 Of all kinds, Druggists’ Sundries, etc. In fact I am better prepared to serve my patrons than ever before. I Remember I keep in stock a fine line of 3 Toilef 5oaps If Perfumery. Prescriptions Carefully Compounded Day or Night. I JOSEY’S DRUG STORE ■ South Grant Street, Fitzgerald, Georgia. FRED R. BIGHAM, Contractor # Builder. Plans and Estimates Furnished on Short Notice. Address Lock Box 8, Fitzgerald, Georgia.