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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. BYRON, - - - GEORGIA. GUANG MULES,WAGONS,BUGGIES, WIRE FENCING, FAXtM IMPLEMENTS. We sell Baugh’s Fertilizers. 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. " , Saved Child Frtm Death. “After our child had suffered from se vere bronchial trouble for a year,’ wrote G. T. Rhhardson, of Richard son’s Mills, Ala., “we feared* it ha< consumption. It had a bad cough al the time. " r e tried many remedies without avail, aud doctor’s medicin- seemed as useless. Finally'we trie< Dr King’s New Discovery', and ari pleased ro say that one bottle effectei a complete cure and our child is agaii strong and healthy.” For coughs,colds horseness, lagrippe, asthma, croup. an< sore lungs, its the most unfalil&bl remedy that’s made. Price 50c tmi $1.00. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed Sold by II. M Holtzclaw.