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e Fitzgerald Leader
1S96.
s Asrited
Fall Stock of the
Latest ress Goods ami
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We have some pretty things in
Broadcloth and Beavers at
to please you.
Our patterns and colors are of the
We are feel proud of that our selec-
and we sure we can
you.
Rats aixd Caps!
Speak for themselves if they are
given the chance.
Blankets and Comforts !
Why sleep cold when you can
a good Comfort or Blanket for
than a dollar ?
Remember to call for your tickets
the Sewing Machine with every
purchase.
P. NORTH & CO..
Phillips Block, 3rd Door West of Cor.
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CLOTHING
And Gents’ Furnishing Goods.
Mens' good Cotton-made Pants only............ 35c
Good 75c Cptton-made Pants.................. 65c
$1.00 Cotton black Pants .................... 70c
1.25 Black l 3 ants........................... 90c
75c Black Pants.............................. 50c
75c Cotton-made Pants....................... 50c
Boys’ 50c long Pants........................ 40c
Boys’ Pants at Cost. Jewelry 25 per cent off.
$9.00 Trunks will go at....................... $6 50
8.50 Trunks will go at....................... 6 oo
7.25 Trunks will go at....................... 5 50
6.00 Trunks will go at.................... 5 00
5.25Trunks will go at....................... 4 00
4.50 Trunks will go at....................... 3 50
3.75 Trunks will go at...................... * 2 75
75e Hats at........ ................. 49c
$1.00 Hats at...... %
1.25 Hats at......
1.5(' Hats at...... .................SI 15
1.75 Hats at.... .. ........... 1 35
2.00 Hats at...... 1 50
Mens’ Suits and Shirts > Telescopes, Valises and Trav¬
eling Bags, and Mens’ Hats of all kinds, latest style,
all of which will be sold regardless of cost for cash
only.
Oijio Clotijiijt*
. East Pine Avenue.
FRED L. BIGHAM,
oiitractor # Builder.
s and Estimates Furnished on Short Notice.
Address Lock Box 8, Fitzgerald, Georgia.
ET Our prices on all classes
of Job work.
“MAN WAS BORN TO HUSTLE."
FITZGERALD, IRWIN COUNTY, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 17 , 1898 .
THE FITZGERALD LEADER.
l-!;BLXspiJD JB.VBRV THURSDAY BY
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Official Official Newspaper iX^wspaper of of Irwin City of County, Fitzgerald, Georgia. Ga.
81.50;, Sub?orijption Six months, RatesO 7oc; Three ne copy, months, one year 50c.
Tiiims--Invariably Job advertising in advance. made known
and rates on
application. Your patronage solicited.
A Good Trade.
A Lima, O., editor has made a very
important discovery; He has learned
from Berlin and other unnamed
ces that the United States is going to
take theSmilippin es and trade them for
Canad m The war-like v preparations
Great Britain is making have refer¬
ence to this project. So the Lima
editor declares with the emphasis of
double leads. Who would care to dis-
pute a double leaded article so soon
after election, and one written by an
Ohio man ?
It is a trade worth making. They
would hardly oppose territorial growth
in'that direction. There would be no
problem of goyernment involved in
taking in the Canadians. They are
our sort of people. A swap of the
8,000,000 or 10,000,000 of ail sorts of
Philippine islanders for 5,000,000
of Canadians would be a great bar¬
gain for this nation. And such an em¬
pire! It would extend our boundaries
to the Artie ocean, include all of the
Klondike, and make this an imperial
country in extent.
If Great Britain is willing and Can¬
ada doesn’t object there probably
would not be the slightest dissent to
such a proposition. The Ohio editor
has evidently not ascertained what the
Canadians think about being swapped
for a lot of South Sea islanders. The
ouly possible objection that could be
raised to this pleasant proposition is
that we are likely to annex
some day anyway. But it- is worth
something to get the Philippines into
good hands and be relieved of all re¬
sponsibility for them. It is to be feared
that the Lima story is too good to be
true.—Sioux City (la.) Daily Journal,
,12th inst,
Two Sides to the Picture.
The Crowley (La.) Signal gives this
pen picture of a man who has accumu¬
lated his wealth by a life of mean pe¬
nuriousness and all uncharitableness
toward his fellow creatures:
“The way to get rich is to trust no¬
body, befriend none, get all you can,
stint yourself and everything that be¬
longs to you, be a friend of no man,
let no man be a friend of yours, be
mean, miserly and despised for some
twenty or thirty years, and riches will
come to you as sure as disease, disap¬
pointment and death, and when pretty
near enough wealth has been accumu¬
lated by a disregard of the charities of
the human heart and at the expense
of every enjoyment, death will finish
the work and the body is buried, the
heirs -will dance and fight over what
you have left, and the spirit goes
where? To, the devil. How do you
like the plan followed by many?”
This is true, very true; but what of
the man who has passed through life
with no heed to the morrow; making
no provision for that inevitable rainy
day which, sooner or later, comes to
all? Age creeps /)n apace. He has
lived and js living from hand to mouth.
Thrown by unmerciful disaster out of
a job, he seeks a position whereby he
may support a family, but however
active and competent lie may be, if he
has- passed, or even reached middle
age, his quest will be vain. What
cares the private firm or the public
corporation if his heart is overflowing
with the milk of human kinduess; if he,
has failed of success in life because of
his abounding charity to his fellow
man? Not a whit. The only ques¬
tion with them ife, has the applicant
the youth, the alertness and the ca¬
pacity to prove a proff able servant to
me for a series of years, at the end of
which, when time shall have frosted,
his head and stiffened his limbs, he
can be turned adrift and his place sup¬
plied by a younger, and more robust
slave to the lamb of labor?
Our Crowley contemporary must
admit thaX there are two sides to this
question, and that however hateful the
pictures he has drawn, the reverse side
does not show an alluring one. Though
not altogether apropos, the reply of a
character to his friend in one of How¬
ells’ novels is here suggested. The
one remarked: “Well poverty is no
crime.” To which the other replied:
“No, but a great deal worse."
Fortunate the man who can strike
the happy medium between extrava¬
gance and penuriousness; whose - hand
is open, proportionately to his means,
to the appeal of melting charity, yet
who is never unmindful of the claims
upon him of, mayhap, a wife and
children. The gift is more to be de¬
sired than that of oratory or poetry,
and a few 7 there be who possess it.—
New Orleans States.
The Way to Reform.
The periodical outcry against the
private use of public moneys is assend¬
ing again from various quarters. It is
a good thing to employ in political
campaigns—an “argument” within
reach of the “outs” in nearly any lo¬
cality, no matter what their politics, if
they are a mind to use > it. Little is
heard of it at other times, or the abuse
might be remedied. The remedy is
easy enough if the people choose to
apply it.
It is no secret that the practice of
taking interest tor deposits of public
funds and putting it in their pockets
is wide spread among custodians of the
moneys of the people. It is confined
to no party and to no locality. State,
county, municipal and school treas¬
urers do it. We hear the matter dis¬
cussed with much heat in campaign
after campaign. Only a year ago a
candidate for treasurer in a northwest¬
ern Iowa county made his campaign
on a pledge that he would pay this in¬
terest money into the public treasury
He was a straightforward man in all
respects and one who does as he agrees.
He was defeated. The same promise
has been employed in Chicago and in
other places to influence the voters,
with the same results in many insta’n-
ces.
To put a full stop to the custom the
people have only to imitate the prac¬
tice of the federal government in its
dealings with postmasters and scatter¬
ed receivers of public moneys. The
government designates the depositories
of these funds and in lieu of the cash
accepts evidences of their deposit.
When the postmaster or other agent
has put the government’s money into
one of these depositories his liability
for it ceases. With the handlers of
local moneys the case is different. They
are under heavy bonds and are held to
rigid accountability for every dollar
that comes into their hands. There is
no safer place to keep the money than
in a solvent bank. The, selection of
these places of deposit devolves upon
the treasurer. It is a matter of knowl¬
edge and judgment. If a bank in
which public funds are placed fails
the treasurer must make the deficit
good. The taking of interest on the
funds to cover his heavy and unescap-
able liability and to recoup his.pros¬
pective aud in some cases actual losses
is a resort that has some color of foun¬
dation in equity. The people, like the
famous jury, “have had some of the
pork.” Hence their tolerance of the
system.
The public is not without responsi¬
bility for the growth^of the system. It
has the rem'edy in its hands in the as¬
sumption of responsibility of a differ¬
ent sort by choosing the places where
the funds are to be kept and relieving
its agents of accountability when they
have so placed them.
I have for sale a few choice pigs of
all ages. Call at Lee Hotel. tl*
Any size, one or two horse wagon
desired, at the Indiana Vehicle Store.
Wanted: —To trade a residence lot
for a horse or for lumber. E. II.
of the Indiana Vehicle
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For Sale or Lease
Well equipped planing mill end variety
works, on G. & A.’ R. R, Aiso elegant
resident on 5-acre tract 921. Terms
easy. 1* Jno. Ledbetter.
For all the news, read The Leader.|
j. a. Kstvr: j- Editors and Publishers
NO. 46 .
T. S- PRICE b Co.,
FITZGERALD BLOCK.
AT THE
Eippire Shoe Store
Saturday and Monday, Nov. 19 and 21'
Look Below for Prices!
On Monday we Sell Everything in Stock
at a Big Reduction.
Dress Goods,
We have just received a large assortment of
Fancy and Patterns in Dress Goods. Everything «
new stylish.
Gleason Wool Fancy Plaids 35 to 50c per yard.
All Plaids, 50 to 90c per yard.
Brocaded Brilliantine, 50 to 75c per yard.
The latest shades In Plain and Fancy Silks
for Shirt Waists only 65c to $1 00 per yard.
SHOE DEPARTMENT-Special Sale.
Saturday and Monday, October 29th and 31st, any pair '
of Shoes in stock at cost. Remember this sale is for
Saturday introduce and Monday celebrated only. We take this means to
our lines of Orr and Battle-Ax
Shoes. Look below and and see what your money
will buy at the
Empire: Store.
50c will buy Ladies Dongola High Shoes, Ox¬
ford Ties, black and tan, Childrens’ Spring
Heel Button Shoes.
75c tip will School buy Shoes, Mens’ Working and Shoes, Boys’ brass
Misses’ Slippers in black
and tan.
81.00 will buy Ladies’ cloth top lace and button high
Shoes, Gents’ black and tau Dress Shoes, and
Misses Lace and Button School Shoes.
82.00 will buy the finest Ladies’ Dress Shoes, silk
vesting tops, Gents’ Battle-Ax Shoes in black and
tan, Marcy Bros’. $3.50 Cordorous, and Ward well’
Hand-Sewed Dress Shoes.
HfEemember hand shelf-worn. this is all new stock—nothing sptid-
or
Your as Money-Savers,
T. S. Price # Co.
THE WARS IS OVER
But the J ON ES CLOTHING COMPANY have declared
War on High Prices and will, for the next 30 days sell Cloth¬
ing and Gents’ Furnishings at prices that will make would-be
competitors low. Our green with envy. Look over and note prices be¬
goods are guaranteed as represented :
i j price-list:
a
Mens’ all wool Grey Suits,$ 4 OO
“ R u tt c rtrv
o OO
<< k a a 6 OO
Si << a a << IO OO
m I “ a a (i 12 OO
a 3 Mens all wool Brown Suits 5 OO
........ “ 7 OO
-j
fly it it a u s 10 OO
i K a a
m m 3 it it u r 12 OO
■ a Mens’ all wool Bl^ck Wor-
| sted Suits, = : : : 7 OO
111 a Mens’ all wool Black Wor-
| | Boys’ sted long Suits, : Suits : : : 9 2 OO OO
^ ft pants :
II s (( it ' it m 3 OO
a
a “ it 4 OO
Ml I .. ts 5 OO
I « Cl II 7 OO
Boys’ knee pants Suits 50
ill it it it : 75
m i< c. r i oo
II r if t f 25
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FITZGERALD, GEORGIA.
WAR ON HIGH PRICES I *
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Drew & Henderson. 1
Are now located in the Twyman Block, 1st door west of m ■
the Postoffice. We are now prepared to sell you Groceries I
cheaper Flour, than ever.
Corn Meal, Bacon and Salted Meats c2 specialty. *
Our store room is now stocked with ever t wn to
the grocery trade. First-class goods and low prices tell *
their own story. Call aud see us. i
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