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The Fort Valley Leaden. “ Official Organ of Houston County Leader Publishing Co., Lessees. R. M. Reynolds, Editor ami W. R. Biunium, Associate PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. Terras of Sul rlption: One year..... $ 1.1 Hi?: montlj* Three months Enterednaaecond-claaa mAlter Aug. 29,1906, the the noat-aftlce of at March Fort Valley, Oa.,under of Congwstt 8 1878, We~sail not gurautee the cation of any article sent later than Wednesday noon. TELEPHONE Valley, Ga^ August 14, 1108 ^ The Atlanta baseball club well at home and h—1 away. The convict business in gia “is rank: it smells to heaven. 5 In the era of airships it l U * e folks to get off t so much that nv as that Up to and including last urday Quitman received bales of cotton. A few days ago a man killed 31 rattlesnakes he Altamaha river. The was slightly over 8 feet long had 11 rattles. The legislature has passed law to the effect that hotels have clean sheets !.« r very Of course the law 7 does t the same okl bed bugs: But no one will believe the Standard oil traffic ever suspected that they half so innocent as Judge: cup says they must be to have beeti. John R. McLeans Post is opposed to Bryan R. McLean’s Cincinnatti er is for Bryan. That i« is called riding two horse* in op¬ posite directions. Mr Bryan says that * La Paloma” is his favorite tune. This will surprise folks thought his favorite turn? was it Waltz me around again Willie”, with the words and music by Miss Democracy. it The silly season is on, everybody can see by the ravings of the democratic editorials”, says the Pittsburg press, And if a Democratic sheet is’t handy, you may find in a Republican organ something just as goad. A paper in a good sized town in Michigan recently published this item: “The business man in this town who is in the habit of hugging his typewriter had bet¬ ter -quit or we will publish his name. n The next day 37 busi ness men called at the office, paid up their subscriptions and left behind them 37 columns of ad¬ vertising and told the editor not to pay any attention to foolish stories.—Grand Rapids Press. The fruit season for 1908 is practically at an end, the few re¬ maining shipments being made from north Georgia. Many in this section lost heavily, some made a little and a few made a great deal. The fruit was un-1 usually early, and several varie- j ties ripened at the same time something usual. Houston still 1 leads all other counties in num- j ber trees and peaches, and bids fair to hold it. The canning fac- j tories here did a rushing busi¬ i ness. I It should take Mr Bryan not lorn? to write his letter of tance. He has such an experi¬ ence in that direction. Kentucky is mistaken in ing possession of the only donkey that chews tobacco. There of them in other states. An antiseptic campaign fund is all right in its way, no but an ante-vp campaign is j both for. P arties are really ' , w John Tentple Graves who , j write direct to Gov Haskell i Oklahoma instead of j busy fofes. The Sranton, Pa., man recently married a codk may be happy until lie discovers she doesn’t know anything j darning socks. The “Springfield Republican ports Taf “never anyone”. Doesn’t he realize this eccentricity be ay lose the entire waiter and vote. Not on'y will Mr charge a dollar a word on hunting trip, but he will the right to shorten some of words Ib.y his own system spelling reform The superintendent of in Washington is planning cruisade against noises. If this crusade had gun while Congress was j session it might have been j preted as a personal attack ! Senator Jeff Davis or some boa instic orator A Subscription Love Letter. “Dear darling delinquent! precious in arrears! You are shyliDo you think we have out and gone! No, little plum., we could not get away we wanted to. We are at same old stand dishing out advertisers on sweet and bright expectations. They make an excellent diet, darling, with a little flavored with a word of ment to serve as a desert. are waiting and watering thee, our turtle dove. We to hetr thy gentle footsteps the stairway below and hear the ring of the happy dollar within our office- Dear one, we feel unusually sad and lonely without you, dear. Now, little pie crust, will you come? Do we hear you answer in a voice so sweet and beguilding, “I am coming,” or is it only the winds that around our office roar? We pause for further developments.—Eastman Hustler Notice to Automobile Owners. We make a specialty of thor¬ oughly impairing automobiles of all makes. Eberhardt Machine Works. Shop opposite C. of G. depot, Fort Valley, Ga. 873 4 r ----- \ #4 “HARD CLIMCH” GEORU WOOD FIBRE PLASTER Beats the world for holding and lasting qualities. Notice the keys! lock It and locks key ’as securely as it there were a on every lath. It never cracks, breaks or dis¬ integrates. In fact, it is the one and only real wood fibre plaster which gives lasting and guaranteed satisfaction. Itf a sold by thousands of tons all over the South. Don t consider using any other brand until you write us for information, prices, etc. V_J Ir’oxvi. v jl.UMBER, COMPANY Bryan Vs Taft r The campaign is now 7 ing to assume definite shape but there is every evidence that it is going to b unusually „ quiet . an ione. In fact, when the substance is boiled down, there are but very few points of difference between Bryan and Taft and thus far the campaign has been totally vo ^ 0 f bitterness and mud sling j n ^ The Republicans are trying to tantalize Mr Bryan by asking him what he has done with the “Sacred Ratio'’ of 10 to 1, and whysiveris no long a running mate with wheat. Qei the other hand the demo crate are assuming tfee aggresive and are asking the republicans to U name the trusts” that Roose velt has busted” and to state wfeat relief if they can, that the republicans have afforded from the grasping power of these giaut monoplies. ] The democrats are also making ■ an attack on the administration i departments in Washington, ; They claim that the great and j pondrous machinery of Department of justice has ac* oomplished absolutely nothing and that the trusts are as powful to-day as they were when Roose •velt entered the White house seven years ago- They are also making a ferocious attack on the management of the Pension Office, the Patent Office, and the Land Office. They are claiming that the Examiners in the Pen¬ sion office are refusing pensions to meritorious .'applicants on flimsy technicalities and on the (other hand are allowing pensions to many who have 11 never smelt j powder”. They are also making I attack the management of an on the Patent Office is designed to prevent people from obtaining patents, and point the fact that from 18 to 25,000 cases are pend¬ ing all the time, owing largely to the fact that these officials take up the time of the inventors in rendering trifling and frivo¬ lous actions instead of hastening the cases to conclusions. They claim that a patent should be put through in from two to six weeks instead of two to six months as : is now the case, and if some of the old fossils in the Patent office and other branches of the govern¬ ment were fired out, public busi¬ ness would be greatly expedited. The democratic platform con¬ tains a plank on patents and it is evident that they are going to try toeonvince the inventors that the Democrats will give him greater encouragement than the republi¬ cans have been doing. Houston led all other counties in peaches this year. She always did lead in other kind of peaches. We are glad to note the fact that the son of our neighbor edi¬ tor is one of the crack shots of the army. Houston has always been proud of Brother Hodges anyway, but is “sho’nuff” proud of him now for having given to Uncle Sam a young man of such sterling character and worth and who has proven such a credit to Georgia. AiOlYii kiy 'V*. . .. A0 . , . , . | u: today are but mere toys compared to flic human body. T his is one machine that must be given constant and iutelli gent care. Owe permitted to run tor far without skillful repair, the wreck is | just ahead j STUART’S BUCHU AND ?EIt | has repaired more human ias, rei ieved | cheeked the strain on weak parts and completely ( j the cause than any other invito ratmg cordial. It relieves kidney dis- ■ eases , catarrh of the biadoer, diabetes, dropsy, gravel, headache, loss dyspepsia, pain in the back and side, of appetite, general debility, neuralgia, sleeplessness, rheumatism and nervousness. STUART’S BUCHU AND JUNIPER positively re-; iieves these diseases. At all stores, igl.CQ j per bottle. Write for free sample. Stuaxt Drug Manufacturing Co., Atlanta Ga. ! Suicide in Perry -- ; Perry, Ga., Aug. 12.—B Pullen, a traveling salesman the , Atlanta , _ Paper j committed Wells suicide last night the hotel here. He 1 to his room last night and j leaving left a call in the office awa«e him at 5 o’clock this ing to catch the train. So George B Wells went to his to awake him, and not any answer, another man assisted in getting in room and found him sitting the floor leaning with his against the bed. Wells at notified the sheriff and the ner held an inquest. The requested the coroner to mon a physician. Dr. H. Holtzclaw was called in and : covered that Pullen had cut j throat on the left side, the artery and jugular vein bleeding to death- Before mitt ing the act he took an j j en vessel and placed it by and must have held his neck it, as it was half full of There was a large pool around He left a letter written at vile to his house, but this tained nothing discouraging; about $48 were found in h;s ing. Yesterday he mailed a ial delivery letter to his wife Mineral Mills, Texas. What letter contained no one knows. Mortification. *4 Of course, doctor, German ire seldom serious? I never met but one fatal case.” Fatal!” Yes. It was a Frenchman, j When be discovered it was measles that be had mortification In. , i Hooking the Wary Trout. Trout when hungry usually face current. This fact should he bered when approaching a bridge eddy where the “speckladibeautles to hide.” If possible. spots be approached upstream. It may a little more time to go around come back up, but “make haste ly” is said to be the first axiom trout fishing. As the stream warmer, the trout seek the cool and shaded places. They are to found where a cold spring bubbles Into the stream or where a creek enters. Often a number the same haunt Each additional fish means two more eyes to watch for the fisherman. One trout is all that Is nec¬ essary to give a danger signal by darting away. The rest immediately follow suit. To catch more than one, or even that in such a place takes skill in the use of the line. But who has said that trout fishing is not an art?—Circle Magazine. Our Pygmy Ancestors. The armor of the knights of the mid¬ dle ages is too small for their modern descendants. Hamilton Smith records that two Englishmen of average di¬ mensions found no suit large enough to fit either of them In the great col¬ lection of Sir Samuel Meyrlck. The head of the oriental saber will not ad¬ mit the English hand nor the bracelet of the Kaffir warrior the English arm. The swords found In Roman tumuli have handles Inconveniently small, and the great mediaeval two handed sword is now supposed to have been used only for one or two blows at the first onset and then exchanged for a small¬ er one. The statements made by Ho¬ mer, Aristotle and Vitruvius represent six feet as a high standard for full grown men, and the Irrefutable evi¬ dence of the ancient doorways, bed¬ steads and tombs proves the average size of the race certainly not to have diminished in modern days.—London Hospital. Great Musician’s Eccentricities. Dolls were. the Idols, after his be loved instruments, of Domenico Dra th ® king of the double bass. ^ a d a huge collection of these pup¬ pets dressed In various national cos tumes, and wherever Dragonetti went the dolls were sure to go. That was only one of thlB eccentric genius’ pecul iaritles. He would never play unless his dog were in the orchestra, and no body would have got a note out of unless he had been p erra itted to sit in the orche£;tra next to the gta door. .___ This —.. was a precaution to , enable him to save his wonderful Instrument case of fire. The instrument itself he brought from the monastery of St Pietro when on a visit to Yineenza, and when he died he bequeathed it to St Mark’s, Venice, to be used at solemn services.—London Standard. LE6AL ADVERTISEMENTS Georgia Houston County; To all whom it may concern; I. T. Woodard, Clerk of the Su Perior court of Houston countv. Administrator on the estate of i Willie J. Thompson, having ap ' phed for leave to sell all of the | lands of said estate for the pur ! I pose of distribution and to pay the debts of said estate. This is therefore to cite all persons in¬ ' terested to show cause before me j a t tho S pJ^ September Term 1908, of a j g ran t et p Witness my official signature this August 4th 1908. S. T. Hurst, Ordinary. GEORGIA—Houston County. W. A. Peytoa has applied for guardianship of minor child of Luther Doles, deceased. This is therefore to cite all persons con¬ cerned to appear at the Septem¬ ber Term 1908, of the court of Ordinary of Houston county, and show cause, if any they have why said application should not be granted. i Witness my official j!" nature t’.i August 3rd, 1908. Sam T. H Ordinary. x ^ ; - e debtors and creditors; fc j,^ estate 0 f Willie J. Thompson i deceased, will present them prop- 110 erly attested; and those indebted sa ^ estate will make payment perior Court of Houston county, Administrator on said estate. 6 t. GEORGIA— Houston County. To whom it may concern; J. R. Miller, Administrator of Estate of E. E. Miller, deceased, has applied for an order dismis¬ sing him from said trust as ad¬ ministrator, representing that he has fully discharged his trust as Administrator. This is to noti¬ fy all persons interested to show cause on or before September 7th 1908 why the order prayed for should not be granted. This the 4th day of August 1908. Sam T. Hurst, Ordinary. | Birmingham Sf tlaniic Railroad SCHEDULES Effective August 16,1908 DOUBLE DAILY SERVICE NORTHBOUND Lv Brunswick 6 30 am 6 00 p m ii Way cross 8 15 a m 7 55 p m i i Douglas 9 55 a m 9 25 p in Ar Fitzgerald. 10 55 a m 10 25 p m Lv Thomasville 7 30 am 645pm, << Moultrie 8 38 a m 7 50 p m << Tifton 9 48 am 9 00pm Ar Fitzgerald 10 45 a m 10 00 p m Lv Fitzgerald 11 00 a in 10 30 p nx it Cordele 12 35 p m 11 45 p m. ii Vienna 12 54 pm 12 04 a m it Manchester Oglethorpe 1 55 p m 1 15 am ii 4 03 p m 3 30 a m • I Senpia 5 40pm 5 25 am Ar Atlanta 7 55 p m 7 45 a m SOUTHBOUND Lv Atlanta 7 45 am 8 00pm Ar Senoia 10 02 a m 10 18 p m a Manchester 10 40 a m 12 00 n’t a Oglethorpe 1 50 p m 2 35 a m tt Cordele 3 15 m 4 15 a m a Fitzgeral p d 4 30 p in 5 35 a m Ar Tifton 5 40 pm 7 00am it Moultrie 6 48 pjm 8 10 a m ii Thomasville 8 00pm 9 20 am Ar Douglas 5 40 p m 6 50 a m it Waycross 7 15 p m 8 25 a m ii Brunswick 9 15 10 20 a m p m ing Pullman, drawing room, sleep¬ and cars between Atlanta Thomasville on trains leaving asville Atlanta 6.45 8.00 p m; leaving Thom¬ p m. Close connec¬ tions at Atianta for all points East and West. Electric lighted, vestibuled trains. 44 The Standard of Excellence in Passenger Service. f l W. H. LEAHY, Gen’l Pass. Agt., Ga. J. R. ROWLAND j Atlanta, Traffic Manager.