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The Fitzgerald Leadei
VstablisHed 1806 .
YOL. III.
E. W. RYMAN,
Office in Fitzgerald Block.
FITZGERALD
CHENEY & BURCH,
Office— In Paulk Building, Grant Street,
FITZGERALD, GEORGIA.
JAY & HENDERSON,
Attorney-at-Law,
Fitzgerald, Georgia.
Office— In the Slayton & Kern building on
Pine avenue.
W. F. THOMPSON,
9
CORDELE, GEORGIA.
DR. J. H. POWELL,
(Late of the Best American Hospitals)
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Specialist in Chronic Diseases,
Of tVIen and Women,
UHce, S. Grant street, near Magnolia. (Per-
. manently located.)
' 5 , C, A. I L> C* Mzendorf,
Suffice— In Slayton & Kern building, oppo¬
site Commercial hotel, Fitzgerald, Ga
Phone 31.
NICK RENKES,
DEALER IN
General : Hardware,
South Main St., north of Palace
Hotel. The only Northern Hard¬
ware store in the city.
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
-f===== AND
Fay : Taxes
Fornon-rosldent property owners. Small and
large tracts of land for sale. Enclose stamp
giving fullinformatlon,
F, WILLIAMS, SOM S CO, Fiujmld, Oi.
Heal EstateDealers.
IF
You want your Watch and Clock cleaned in
best manner for 50c, take it to Wettstein.
r 1 r-> you want best mainspring put in your
r" watch or Clock for 50c, take it to Wett¬
stein.
1 I f r— you want a good Hand or Crystal for 10c
take it to Wettstein,
« r you want other work in the Jewelry,
11“ Watch or it Spectacle Wettstein. line, at same reason¬
able rate, take to
i r- you don’t want to Day for alleged broken
1 r" jewels, or other fictitious damages, take
it to
Wettstein.
For Tailor Suits
CALL ON
E. J. DANCY J
Fine At-, Next Door to Commercial Hotel
A perfect fit g-uaranteed. A trial is all I ask.
All garments cut and made on premises.
Cleaning, Repairing and Pressing a Specialty
WHY (10 TO ATLANTA
To have your Eyes fitted with glasses?
You can save time and money by call¬
ing at Baldwin’s, the optician. Eye Specialist, Have
who is especially a graduate for examining the a
room
eyes. Headache, vision blurred, can¬
not by read by glasses. lamplight, Take can be chances, j-elieved
proper no
but have your eyes fitted with glasses
correctly. c. S. BALDWIN,
Two Dooas East of Postoffice,
jtzgerald, : Georgia.
the news, read The Leader.
[Hn___That HxaJ wp do
not send the
*80 unless paid for In
ier.
“MAN WAS BORN TO HUSTLE;.”
FITZGERALD, IRWIN COUNT'A GEORGIA, JANUARY 6, 1898.
Words of Praise.
Editors Fitzgerald Leader.
Enclosed please find P. M. 0.
for 75c, as subscription to Lead¬
er. There is no newspaper comes
to my table that I like better
than The Leader. It comes
the nearest my ideal of a sound
and useful medium of information
than any other. It seems to have
the right ring to it. “ Long live
Tme Leader.”
C. W. Conrad.
Indianapolis, Ind., Dee. 26, 1897.
Editor and People.
Personal kindness is very grateful
to a newspaper man. . It sooths him
and bears him up among the trials in
his profession, that tax every power of
bis mind, every quality of his heart,
and with their enormous weight
threaten sometimes to crush him to
the soul. Among all this he must act
well his part as a journalist and a
man. He cannot possibly avoid mak¬
ing enemies and be a successful, useful
journalist or a manly man—nor could
he avojd them if he were neither. As
an editor, worthy of the name, he must
publish things that will inevitably ex¬
cite the dislike or hatred of some one.
Some people feel sour toward an edi¬
tor because he is an editor—that is all
—and if they were asked why they
couldn’t tell. Others will not sub¬
scribe for a paper because they don’t
fancy some personal characteristic of
the man who publishes it; it may be
because he is poor (as they are, or if
not as they are, as they have been), or
because he wears poor raiment—and
even because he is not good looking.
If he has brains, and seems to be con¬
scious of it—as ail brainy people are
—though he never insinuates or an¬
nounces it in anything he says, they
dislike him for that; if he isn’t smart
and edits a poor, dry sheet, they say
the paper don’t amount to anything
and that he had better “ saw wood.”
If he is sociable they say he is “ too
fresh,” or “ too flip,” and if he is not
social they call him exclusive, or inti¬
mate that he considers himself super¬
ior to others and therefore is not com¬
municative with them. Some people
who, from some cause, get a distaste
for the editor therefore will not pa¬
tronize the paper no matter how good
it is, how cheap, or how well it is
liked by the general public, how
strictly the editor minds his own busi¬
ness, and when he comes in contact
with them treats them cleverly and
even does them favors. Those people
will show him no consideration, and
even exert themselves to cut his feel¬
ings by remarks they fcan make before
others touching him personally or his
paper, and out of his presence say
things to create ill feeling toward him
and cripple his business.
As a matter with sympathy and
charity from men, the editor would
gladly keep from print some things
that displease, items Aihich he thinks
it necessary to publish that he would
like very much to leave out. His
only proper course as editor and man
is to print what, as a publisher, he has
a right to print, what the public has a
right to know, and what it is right and
best he should print—doing justice to
all and injustice to none.
In small country towns he must be¬
come such a conspicuous figure and
target, and his life as editor and man
is so closely and inseparably linked to¬
gether in the people’s minds that it
sometimes makes his position there in
either capacity exceedingly trying.
The only way for him, in any and all
circumstances, is, while he is a journal¬
ist, striving to win and keep a worthy
place in each.
If the people would do the editor
justice in bis double life as journalist
and man, they must realize and re¬
member that he is each, in their jugd-
ments and treatments weigh each fair¬
ly, justly, mixed with the charity that
all human beings should exercise to¬
ward each other. On the other hand
the editor must meet the trials in bis
profession, and try to endure the
things be can’t avoid or cure.
City Plats at The Leader
ice.
They liad a baby show and gave
prizes in Cartersville the other day.
The three male judges, after render¬
ing their decision, took to the woods,
where they will remain until the
storm blows over. Pood is being car¬
ried to them under cover of darkness.
If you are catching the Ivlond.ke ,
fever here is an approved cure which
is vouched for by the McPherson
(kas.) Republican: Pick out a morn-
ing when the mercury » below zero,
shoulder a pick and go into the woods
before breakfast, dig a hole 16 feet
deep, come back to the house at night
and eat a piece of stewed buffalo robe
and . sleep , in . the , woodshed. , , , Repeat r, .
the dose as often as necessary.
Mining in the Klondike is being
carried on at a great disadvantage this
winter. A dispatch from Alaska
says : “ Mr. Lindsay says the output
of the mines will be greatly curtailed
this winter because of the scarcity of
food and light. Coal oil sold for $45 a
gallon and candles are as high as $150
a box of 100. Even if men were able
to work their claims they cannot get
light to do so.”
Great excitement prevailed in Rut¬
ledge, Thursday, over the finding of a
human skeleton on the farm of IT. C.
Bray, one mile from town. Last spring
Mr. Bray and his son, Claud, had a
difficulty with a black man named
Sims, and the Brays shot at him sev¬
eral times. The people thought at the
time they had killed the man. A
posse was organized and a search was
made for the body, but they could not
find it. L. T. Ozborn found the skel¬
eton, and it has been recognized by
three men to be the body of the lost
negro. Old man Bray has been ar¬
rested and his son will be.
The water famine in Kansas is said
to be getting very serious. At ErnpotL
it is found necessary to haul water
long distances. In other places they
have to haul water by train as much
as thirty-five miles. Emporia, by the
way, is the home of Editor White,
who became famous through his edi¬
torial, “ What is the Matter With
Kansas?” Editor White has proba¬
bly learned by this time, if be did not
knov it before, that one of the things
the matter with Kansas is lack of
water.—Savannah News.
The newly constituted pardon board
gives promise of doing good work in
the interest of the tax-pavers and a
strict administration of justice. It is
much easier for three men to resist the
pleadings of interested parties on be¬
half of criminals than it is for one man
to do so. The law and the facts, and
not sentiment, should govern in the
consideration of applications for par¬
don, and there are reasons for think¬
ing the board will be guided by these
considerations.—Savannah News.
Hog Cholera Incurable.
Professor Stalker, the eminent vet¬
erinarian of the Iowa State agricul¬
tural college, has no faith in the so-
called cures for hog cholera. He
says:
“ The most scientific doctor of the
present day can not give you a cure
for typhoid fever, pneumonia or chol¬
era. Swine plague and hog cholera
probably combine more of the symp¬
toms of these three diseases than any¬
thing else. While an intelligent doc¬
tor may, to some extent, lessen the
mortality from these highly fatal
forms of disease affecting human be¬
ings, be does not assume to know a
specific cure.
“ With the imperfect control which
we have over the conditions under
which pigs must necessarily be kept,
how much less are we to expect from
this treatment of this class of patients?
Strictlv sanitary police regulations
which will prevent as far as possible,
exposure to the infection will do more
to restrict this disease than all other
remedies combined.
“ When the public become suffi-
eiently informed on this subject to de-
mand that as adequate-provision shall
be made for protecting swine against
exposure as is now provided for pre¬
venting the spread of scarlet fever in
a well regulated city its practical dis¬
appearance will be but. a question of a
very short time.”
^,5 Big Heads.
All small cities contain a number
of individuals who suffer with a
chronic case of “ big hend.” These
individuals are of no earthly use to
themselves or community in which
^ they live. For some mythological rea-
they have fostered and developed
an idea that thev are a little better
^ theip ne j ghbors . They ho]d
themselves as the egpecial annointedi
^ containing all that iss ^ in .
tellectual, and even in some cases re-
ligious. Dignified to a fault, exclu-
at u e to the extreme, and it might be
Died, foolish to a fullness. W hen
one investigates b the cause of the above
conditioilj t he my3tery grows grcater)
for, as a rule, sucb individuals descend
from families that occupy the com¬
monest station in life, and as to per¬
sonal merit, they have none. With
no lineage, no especial knowledge or
experience, having neither traveled or
read understanding'^, one is forced to
look over these specimens of useless¬
ness with a great degree of curiosity
and even question the claim that God
made all things for a special purpose.
Were this a plague period, the mission
of these individuals might he easily
accounted for. The Almighty in his
greatness would hardly wish to con
deinn his people to a more severe pun¬
ishment than compelling them to have
a few of these perverse, supercillious
egotistical idiots among them. Pos¬
sessing neither brains nor influence,
their head has puffed up like the soap
bubble, and will not stand touching
for fear the beauty will disappear and
its shallowness be apparent.
Klondike Reports.
It is becoming evident that many of
the reports respecting gold discoveries
exaggerated. in the Klondyke The region are greatly
purpose of the
false statements is doubtless to enable
speculators who have claims there to
sell them at a big profit and to help
recently formed. Klondike mining
companies and engaged freight in transporting the mining
passengers fo
country are not averse to having ex¬
aggerated reports of the richness of
the mines published. those
Statement recently made by
whose reliability localities is vouched for, really say
that only in two have
rich mines been found, namely, Bo-
nanza and Eldorado creeks. Gold
has been discovered in other locali¬
ties, but not in such quantities they as to
justify a statemant that are very
profitable mines.
The hope is expressed, will be discovered, of course,
that new diggings Klondyke
and the gold yield in the
region will surpass that of California
in tlae latter’s deal, palmiest days, but which there
is not a great as yet, upon
to blase such a hope. It is stated to
be ft fact that nine out of ten of all
gladly whd have reached Dawson City would
return to the places they oecu-
pied before they were attacked by the
Klondike fever, if they could. It is
eveii alleged that wages are not as
high as been increasing reported, and demand that, ow¬ for
ing! to the
wo irk, wages will go down rapidly
nejft summer. There doesn’t appear
to be much inducement, therefore, to
go!gold hunting in ‘the Klonike.
Those oth/er who are earning a living in any
take, occupation would make a mis¬
in all probability if they should
go fortune hunting in the new gold
field.—Savannah News.
tBaid a business man a few bays since,
“Why don’t you fellows boom the town
out- ana country? Why don’t you tell about
big crops and vacant lands, our
far ming facilities, the best in the world?
what Why dou’t you let the have, outside and know
a fine country we how
cheap our land is? My dear fellow, that
is ijust what we are doing, butyou know
thje best ball battery in the world can¬
not win a game unle. s they are well
supported in the field. Neither can
newspapers backed boom a country the businas unless they
abj well by men.
Why don’t enthusiasm you display by your acts the as
much and confidence in
country as your words would imply?
Why don’t you boom your business?
Why don’t you use our advertising col-
utans to invite patronage? Don’t you
know that a full advertising page is the
best story that a paper can tell for its
tpwn? It shows that the business inter¬
ests of the place are in the hands of
live, energetic men, and that that class
men make a live town. A newspa¬
per reflects its town as truly as a mirror
records the lineaments of the face, and
if it boastfully says our town has fifty
business houses when its columns show
than half the number, the verdict
the thoughtful reader is, that the
business of that place are spiders, and
houses webs, where only the un¬
are caught; that it is a cold, sel¬
greedy town, and they don’t want
have anything to do with it. The
wishes that every firm in town
give us an ad if it is a small one,
uidn’t cost more t han 50 cents per
month, It can’t make your business
worse, and we are sure it would do
good. Patronize your home paper
show to the world that the busi¬
men are not the “sleepy” kind that
in Fitzgerald.
J. B. a. F. KNAPP, KNAPP,"
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positive, and there is a superior quality tmd finish f
to these goods which find nowhere else. *
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East Pine Avenue, Fitzgerald, Ga.
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QREETING • •
1897 is now numbered with the
past. Its sunshine and shadows
nave been added to the record of
u what once was.” The milk that
has been spilt will not be cried
over, but rather serve as a
for the New Year that is now here.
Despite the hard times of the
past year, we have done a profit¬
able business, in fact far beyond
our be expectations. attributed Our success
can to three item^
of general interest, ' viz :
Goods of firs 1
as Low represented. prices.
Liberal advertising, and by so
doing we have aided our worthy
city papers, whose editors work
early and late for the upbuilding
of the City of Fitzgerald and Ir- •
win county at large.
To our many patrons in this
and neighboring counties we wish
to take this opportunity to thank
one and all for past favors and to
solicit your future patronage. It
will be our aim to make 1898 a
record-breaker in low prices, so
keep Co., known your eyes, on T. S. Price &
as
The Empire Store
^ FITZGERALO BLOCK.