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JOHSH.HODOB8,Propr. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS. PROGRESS AND CULTURE. Sl.SO a Year tn Advanoe.
VOL. XLI.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, MAY Z g. 1911,
No. 21.
HEARD BROTHERS,
MACON, GA.
MANUFACTURERS HIGH CRADE FERTILIZERS.
Dealers in Plant Foods for all lands
Have this season moved into Our New Factory, which is construct
ed entirely of Brick and provided with SOLID CEMENT FLOORS
thus rendering it Absolutely Moisture Proof—Equipped with the lates
improved machinery.
You are invited to call and inspect our New Plant.
Special FORMULAE Manufactured to Order.
BUY DIRECT FROM THE MANUFACTURER
' and SAVE DEALER’S and AGENT’S COMMISSIONS.
Fanners’ ’Warehouse.
HUGH LAWSON, Sworn Wjjigher.
Bring me your Cotton and I will
treat you right.
Since building my warehouse I have more than doub-
ed the cotton receipts of the town, by a good market.
* Am ready for business. My connections are nou bettei
and I am going to try still to improve the market and make it
the best. ___________
* T, COOPSB Ferry GHa
Direct from Factory to Farmer,
X am selling several select brands of
Sec me before buying.
I can suit you in goods and prices.
IR. L.3MARCHMAU.
TIIE PLANTERS WAREHOUSE
Perry, Georgia.
CHAS. L. BATEMAN. Gen. Mgr. A. C. WaLTON, Asst, Mgr. H. L. wASDEN. Sec. & TreAs,
The Byron Warehouse Co.
COTTON FACTORS.
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Come to see Us. We,will do right by you.
Satisfied customers are our best advertisers.
EDWIN 8. DAVIS, P«S. »• J- 4 TreaS '
PLANTE? FERTILIZE* COMPANY
413 Poplar Street. Macon, Ga.
We handle all grades of Fertilizers and can make it to the
interest of the bulkers to consult us before pinch? sing for this
season. ||g
TRY OUR COTTON GUANO AND OUR CORN GUANO.
LOWIN'g, DAVIg, Pres.
FIFTY
HISTORICAL MYSTERIES
Albert Payion Terhune in New York World.
THE MYSTERY OF PRESIDENT
FAURE.
“FrancoislFelix Faure,President of
France, died at the Elyseo Palace to
night at 10:15 from an apoplectic
stroke.”
So ran a despatch, dated “Paris,
Feb. 16, 1899,” and published next
morning throughout the civilized
world. On the face of it, there seem
ed scant mystery iu the announce
ment. Faure was over fifty. For
some time he had not been in perfect
health. The tumult about the Drey
fus trial that had shaken Franco
had undoubtedly told on the Presi
dent’s nerves. So the world at large
accepted the statement. If many Pa
risians, journalists and Government
officials thought they knew better,
their voices were deafened for timo
by a threat of revolution that swept
their country. Faure’s death seemed
to some malcontents* on ideal chauco
for an overthrow of the republic and
a restoration ol tho old monarchy or
empire. The expected rovoluiiou
proved a mere fizzle. But by the time
France settled down once more to its
daily routine, other happeniugs hud
dimmed the earlier excitement over
tho President’s death.
.Theu—at first in veiled hint and
lotcr in n^oic hold, circumstantial
fashion—arose rumors that Faure
had not died a natural death. Some
reports^ strove to weave a scandal
about his fate; others talked openly
oi assassination. In 1908 the rumors
blazed forth into new and greater
publicity on account of the Steinhell
case. *
In May of last year the* beautiful
wife of Arthur Steinhell, an artist,
was found gagged and strapped to a
bedpost in her room. In the samo
house the murdered and bonnd bod
ies of her husband and her stopmoLh-
er jvere discovered. Mine. Stciuheil
told the police a dramatic tale of sev
eral masked and gowned figures that
had entered the house by night, kill
ed the two other members of the fam
ily, tied and gagged her and stolen
everything they could find. There
were odd features about the case; yet
for bin months Mme. Steiuheil ae-
mained an objoct of public pity.
Meantime, she seemed to be bent on
hunting down the murderers. Then
she was- arrested, charged with the
douqle crime.
At once there sprang into print in
more than one French newspaper in
sinuations that she was a sort of Gov
ernment spy; that the police had re
frained for half a year from arsesting
her on account of official influence;
that her wiles upon the visiting King
of Cambodia had caused that copper-
colored potantate to sign a treaty
highly advantageous to France.
But the most remarkable press ac
cusation was that President Faure
had been stricken; not at the Ely see,
but at Mme. Steinwell’s house; anti
—it was more than strongly hinted —
that he met death through poison ad-
minisseredjby her agency. Stories
were printed here and there that the
dying-President’bad been carried se
cretly by the police from the Stein-
heil home to the Elysee, a dubious
coroner satisfied, and hasty prepara
tions made for burial, in order to con
ceal traces of poison. Nor was an
alleged motive lacking. This suppos
ed motive had even earlier been voic
ed by the famous Heim Rochefort
when he angrily called to notice in La
Patrie that Faure had died mysterous-
ly “on the day on which the decree
for the revision of the Dreyfus affair
was to have bean presented and which
be would have refused to sign.”
From other sources, too, came the ru
mor that Faure was murdered on ac
count of his attitude toward the Drey
fus case, and that Mine. Steinheil was
the agent of the conspirators. It was
well known that other aud open at-
temps had been made at various times
to assassinate Faure.
Another Paris newspaper, L’Autor-
ite, declared Fauro had had warn
ings that his heart was we»k, and
that lie chose to commit suicide rather i
than to coutinue in fear of blackmail- 1
ers,. Other papers claim that the
Steinheil trial wus postponed until
Feb. 16, of this year, in order that the
ten-year Statute of Limitations might
then provent inquiry into tho mode" of
Faure’s death.
Gruesome details, that need not be
touched onjhore,were plentifully given
toward substaining each of ;he various
accounts of the tragedy. The general
impression still, in many circles, is
that Faure did not die a natural death
and that the official reports given out
concerning tho affair were untrue.
But whether the President of the
French Republic was lurod to the
Steinheil house and was there murder
ed, or killed himself because of polit
icql or other troubles, or whether iu
in truth his his death was natural—
none of these theories may ever bo
satisfactorily proven.
The End.
Matters in Congress.
The national legislative body now
in session in Congress is proving to
bo an unruly team. The Republican
majority in tho Senate cannot elect a
president pro tern. The insurgent
Senators have the hnlence of power
and led by Senators La Folletle and
Cumipihs were able to detent Senator
Grllinger, of New Hampshire, the
caucus nominco.
Tho Democratic House is well or
ganized and aggressive, and with its
powerful majority acting as a unit,
iB passing much important legislation.
It has passed the Canadian reciprocity
hill and the farmers tree list bill anil
these measures are now before the
Senate.
Delegations of farmers professing
to be representatives, are besieging
the Senate and the President in an
effort to kill i,ho Canadian reciproci
ty bill, but on the other hand there
are delegations from the West and
Northwest, including agricultural rep
resentatives, much more numerous,
urging the passage by the Senate of
the reciprocity act.
Chairman Underwood is confident
that a much more important tariff
program than has yet been piesented
to the lower house, will be passed by
this body, tho majority of whom it ap
pears an in favor of materially reduc
ing the tariff on wool, but are opposed
to so drastic a measure as admitting
it duty free. The wool schedule is an
important source of revenue to the
government, and to materially reduce
the tariff will increase this revenue
and will at the same time enable the
millions of wearers of wool garments
in the United States to dress more
elegantly and more comfortably-
The bill is of course objectionable
to the Wyoming Senator, whom the
late Senator Dolliver said was the
greatest shepherd since Abraham, and
a few herdsmen in the sparse settle
ments in the northwest. It will also
interefre with the Massachusetts fac
tory monopoly, but it will result iu
great benefit to ninty-nine one-hun
dredths of the population of tho
United States.
."Most Precious Book in the World”
On I pril 24, a biblo wns sold in
Aew York city for 850.000. p>i a
long time—from time immemorA/li—
the Bible has bo.'n known as the
“most precious book,” hut when
Henry E. Huntingdon ofLos Angeles
paid the above sum for a copy of it
it made the allusion doubly true.
I he work bought wns one from the
valuable collection of book sold bv
the estate of the late Robert M. Hoe,
the builder of the famous newspaper
printing presses bearing his aame.
He purchased I ho book fifteen years
ago for 820,000.
1 he two volumes of this celebrated
Bible just sold contain 6 41 umnnber-
ed loaves without signatures or catch
words. Two of tho orignal leaves,
howev6r, are missing, but they have
been perfectly replaced in lac-smile.
The book is what is known in tho hi-
bliographic world as the “forty two-
lino Gutenberg Biblo,” as all tho
pagos after the sixth leaf contain for
ty-two lines' to tile pngo, the preced-
ingleaves having forty and forty-one.
It is addrned with 123 finely painted
and illuminated initials, many con-
taining highly finished marginal dec
orations of ornaments, birds, flowors,
fruit, monkeys and grotesques in the
best style of renaissance art, painted
ornamental capitals and running titles
of the books in blue*'and red. The
printing is in Gothic type and double
column, and the binding is of oak.
Most ot the Gutenberg Bibles were
printed on paper. It has been said
that probably 180 copies were so print
ed. Thirty volumes were printed
on vellum. There are about twenty-
seven paper copies known to be in ex
istence, but five of these only contain
a single volurnn. The Bible, as it
left the press of Gutenberg and Fust,
in Mainz, was in two vol urns. The
book bears no date, so that the exact
year is not positively known. It is
tho first book printed from movable
types.
Ot the vellum copies, which were
haudsomoly ornamented with illumi
nated capitals and othor figures, sev
en copies are said to be in existence.
One of these is owned by J. Pierponfc
Morgan, another is the one which has
just been sold;
The sale was made at an appropri
ate time—on the eve of the day set
apart for the Americaln ter centenary
celebration of the King James trans
lation. The book was the first pro
duct of the partnership of... Gutenberg
and Fust and was begun abotlt 1453
and finished in 1455. The first
Gutenberg Bible that over came to
this country is in the Lenox library,
New York city. It was purchased by
James Lenox in 1847 aud created a
stir in .the book world. He paid
$2,500 lor it, at that time considered
a very exorbitant price. The record
price for a religeous book prior to the
recent Hoe sale was that of $24,750
for a copy of the Mayance Paalter of
1459,—Macon Tolegraplx
The Columbia S. Cl, State proclaims
the important fact that “the Federa
tion of Women’s Clubs gained two
thousand pounds while it was here
last week.” As we do not happen to
know whether the ladies otthe South
Carolina Federation of Women’s
Clubs are stout or thin, we are natu
rally somewhat uncertain as to the,
effect of the Statesi observation. T If i
they are stout, they will go no more
to Columbia. If they are thin, the
State has stolen a march on the rest
of the Palmetto commonwealth, for
the Federation will never meet any
where else than in the capital.—Al
bany Herald.
The question of importance to tl
Democratic partyof Georgia now isn
whether Smith, Terrel or any one el
shall fill the unexpired term of San
tor Clay, but whether or not its ma
dates snail be observed. Its prim
pies are ot greater interest to the - pe
pie than the success of any man c;
possibly be.—Cordele Dispatch.
The County Fair is one of the best
educutors from the farmers’ stand
point, and is a stimulus—-for farm
improvement and increase of produc
tiveness. " ,
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