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h\ K. Tatum, KBit or. VOL- XVI me 1968 i WILL SELL ONLY FOR CASH OR ITS EQUIVALENT , ’* v i* <•< A In order to do this successfully we realize that we must sell at great reduction, so you will find us at same old place at surprisingly low prices during this year. This 7 is neceessary to oijr buiness and we must stay by it. Cash or barter and good prices will be our motto ing 1908. . ). C. ROBERTSON 1 SUMTED-A RIDER MUSiIK REQUlftlil) until you receive and approve of your bicvclc. We ship al iTtfNDA?SM.'PiFp T C£nt &/ a ? ltTn advance, Prepay freight, and aliow IhN yAYS I LLh l'IilAL during wha.n time you may ride the bicycle and put It to any test you wish. If you are then not perfectly satisfied or do not wish to keep the bicycle ship it back to us at our expense and you will not he out one cent. FACTORY PRICES J“ rn,sh „ the grade bicycles it is possible to make I HVIWBI rniws.o at one small profit above actual factory cost. You save sio to $2 5 middlemen’s profits by buying direct of us and have the manufacturer's guar antee behind your bicycle. I>o WOT liL Y a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone at any price until you receive our catalogues and learn our unheard of factory prices and remarkable special offers to ridor agents. . YOU WILL BE ASTOIMSKEfI whe , n yoa I " eceiv F ol ' r beautiful catalogue and IVU WILL DC HdIVRIdREU study our superb models at the wonderfully Imv prices we can make you this year. We sell iheitigfcest grade bicycles for less inoney than any other factory. We are satisfied with Si.oo profit above lactorv cost IJI C \ Cl. lol) faA JLE 14S, you can sell our bicycles under your own name plate at ur prices. Orders filled the day received. I> HAND BICYCLES. We do not regularly handle second hand bicycles, but i a number on hand taken m trade by our Chicago retail stores These we "clear out rices ranging from to !$8 or ££lo. Descriptive bargain lists mailed free. S*O?I<;TTR ! 4h f e ‘', s ! imported roller chains and pedals, parts, repairs and vyAd 1 Cll BtlHßtwf equipment of all kinds at half the usual retail prices. *i#U HEDSETHCBMWTBSE-PIOBF 80 H'SEIMEUIIQ TIBES to jjL 77i4 regular retail price of these tires is p er but to-introduce we will L *‘* i = g ~ 1 ROMoLE TROUBLE FROM PURCTWffip SU> . i ia i two hundred thousand pairs now infuse. DESCRIPTION: Made iu all sizes. It islively vmlbßßePp f' 1 i \ i idin£ aldeand linedinsidewnli j pmousand which closes up small puncture without allow- |lf N fc , th th , L rnh ,_ r lug the air to escape. We have hundreds of letters from satis- 1 L v , and * uctur© gtrios “S” tied customers stating that their tires hayeouly been pumped ~ lltl T * P a i so rm cVrib usi * -.p once or' wice in a whole season. They Weigh no more than *jg, 1 ~_„v L t rim . u ttlnir This *'u ordinary tire, the puncture resisting qualities teinggivea MM gJZTII Vuttest any* oTltr by several layers of thin, specially prepared fabric on the make—SOFT. ELASTIC and tread. The regular price ot these tires 15&i.50 per pair,but for 10 > gv' I'IDIKO advertising purposes we are making a special factory price to the rider of only $4.80 per pair. All orders shipped same day letter is received. We ship C. O. P. on approval. You do not pay a cent until you have examined and found them strictly as represented. We will allow a cr.sh discount of 5 per cent (thereby making the pries &4.5f> per pair) if you ‘-••ml Fi’.ljb CASH WITH OhDKS ugl et-Ao.e this -.dv..u£. ng: w.H fai36 Send one nickel plated brass hand pump. Tires io be returned at OUB expense if for cuy reason tltey are not satisfactory 011 examination. We are perfectly reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a bank. If you order a pair of these tires, you will find that they will ride easier, run faster, wear better last longer and look finer than any tire you have ever used or seen at any price. We know that you will be so well pleased that when you want a bicycle you will give us your order. Y.’e want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this remarkable tire offer . nif ti KlO don’t buy apv kind at any price until you send for a pair 01 tit YZJU fVfLILkJ airtight Hedgethorn Puncture-Proof tires on approval and trial at tiie special introductory price quoted above, or write for our big Tire and Sundry Catalogue winch describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about half the usual prices. u .., r but write us a postal today. DO NOT THJNIC OF BUYING a bicycle &jkj eh'tji a tyv/aa a or a pair of tires from anyone until you know the new and "ipuderfiu offers wc are making. It only costs a postal to learn everything. V* rite it NOW. J. LMm CYCLE COMPANY, CHICAGO, ILL Thm> will be singing iit Union S iml iv afternoon. Everybody invited to attend and bring their books. 'We will take potatoes, chick ens. eggs, pigs or any old thing ns ful to a man of family on sub scription. Deliver to this office and you will be allowed market 1 rices and receded for same. rf>.. I-- GECi filA IESI LATIiHE. Debate Still Rife Over the Convict Leace Cyztem. A; 1. nt a, July 17—Objection to leas ing ihe convicts of the state devel oped en ail sides Thursday morn ing when the Holder convict measure v a- of: crt and and a decided tendency, if to kas-g at all, to limit to one year the icase and by ts.at means throw tlie Question for final settlement upon tiie next administration with its new 1 gislation. Mr. Holder, of Jackson, the author of the measure, ottered an amendment which will reduce the proposed lease from five years to one year; provide h i' a separation of the races by work ing the white convicts on the state lnrm. near Milledgeville, and other humane reforms. Mr. Eoyd, of Spalding, spoke for his bill calling for an appropriation of SIO,OOO, with which to install a cotton seed oil refinery plant at the Georgia School of Technology. Limit of Appropriations. That the limit, of appropriations for Lie sessions of the general assembly for 190 Sand 1909 Las been reached has been made evident by the state ment of Chairman Murphy Candler °f the house eommittee on appropria tions when he exihibited his books, Hmwing that there are pending appli cations for $570,779,53, when the net ro\ ( nre cf the state for the year of 19* 8 ov r expenses and appropriations already made b* only $45,750. A hill by Senator Weaver, of the f ( r:y-f‘r?t district, which is aimed at k o Standard Oil company and all cor- UTatums which do nc-t tolerate com -1 kk ;) j hut stifle all opposition by cut rate prices, was favorably repou el by the house general agricultural committee Thursday afternoon. This measure prohibits the reduc ticn of prices on all commodities when so reduced for the purpose of driving rut competition. There was a lively ei cos ion on this bill,, but it was finally adopted by a unanimous vote, it niece:- n per alt y upon any one —‘firm or corporation —which violates this measure. - The committee also reported favor ably He bill by Mr. Trent, of Heard, to muzzle all dogs, and to make it a mis: demos nor to kill a muzzled dog. At the session cUthe senate Thurs day appropriation bills giving the Uni versity .of Georgia SIO,OOO for the re modeling cf Old college at Athens and $5,000 for the equipping of the Carne gie library at the Georgia School of Technology were passed. The banking committee of the sen ate held another meeting on Thursday morning for the purpose of perfecting the Decn banking bureau bill. The bill, according to the report of the committee, lias about been perfected, and r.o doubt will be submitted to the senate at an early date for their con sideration. Atlanta, July 13— Slowly but surely the house of representatives is going on record, through the speeches made on the floor of the house, as being in opposition to the lease system for the care of the convicts of Georgia and in favor of working all of the convicts on the country roads or some of them on farms to support the others worked on the i*nads. A vote on these questions, it has been decided, shall be taken soon, when it is supposed debate on the measure, its myriad of amendments and substitutes will be at an end. In the meanwhile the joint com mittee from the house and senate to investigate the convict lease system of the state, the prison commission ot Georgia, its officers, employees, and the lessees of the convicts will be organised and the investigation begun, gun. The house, by a unanimous vote, declared in favor of the Felder reso lution calling for this committee, over (lie Shaw resolution, following the plea of Mr.' Shaw that the Feluer substig TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY JULY 24 tato be p^ssef}. The Felder calls for a committee of five from t & house and three from the senate to compose this committee, inste: and >f three and two as proposed by toe Bhaw resolution. After an hour’s sess'on‘fim.da-a the senate adjourned until 12 o’clock on Monday morning. Immediately rfter the confirms-tic n of the journal, Senator Peacock : ,Av cd that the action of the senate in Concurring in the resolution of Mr. Shaw, of the house, be reconsif.t ed. This motion was carried, and the rf o!ut>.-n of Mr. Shaw was then tabled. Senator Peacock, in explaining Lis motion, stated that in his opinion the Felder resolution called for a me e thorough investigation of the charges cf the penitentiary committee against the prison commission and the condu it cf the convict camps. * The resolution of Senator Feld r having been concurred in by the heus'e without amendment, will be the resolu tion under which the investigation of the joint committee of three from the senate and five from the house will be conducted. * The remainder of the session was taken up with the reading of hence and senate bills for the second time. Atlanta, July 20. —At present there are three prominent measures pend ing on the convict question. The fi w ?t is the Holder substitute, which pro vides for the separation of the races by putting the white convicts at the state farm, near Mffteclgeville, and by leasing out the negro convicts for not over one year at a time, . and hoping for a solution to the lease system. Another is that of Messrs. Candler and Alexander, of DeKalb, with many other indorsers, which provides ior the convicts to be divided; some to he placed upon farms, who are to work, and by the fruits of their labor make enough to support the otlr ra who are to be employed in placing in good condition the roads of the state. The third is by Mr. Fulbrig'. t cf Burke, which proposes that the lease system be abolished entirely by i:nv? ig every county work its own eonvk ts ,on the county roads; that when ae county does net want them the pri >n commission is to lease the co- v ts to another county, but the con: Uv yielding tn get no returns for the :• r-- vices In. th^.'-a-00-’ } b:°hhir g time- cf - one minutes tie house ch Saturday met, organized, #ad prayer, hoard house bills read for the Fret time; received the reports cf standing com mittees, read heuso and senate bills tor a second time; passed A score ot local house bills and adjourned. The Georgia senate alter five days of unusual activity, adjourned on Fri day until Monday morning at 12 o’clock. During the pa r t week the senate passed the Felder resolution calling for the appointment- cf a joint, commit tee from the senate and house to in vestigate the charges made by the pen itentiary committee against the prison - commission, and the numerous convict camps in the state. This question occupied the attention of the senate more .than.did any other one issue dur ing days of the past week. President Flynt will appoint the senate mem bers of the committee to aj:t with the committee appointed by the house. In addition to the discussion of the convict question, the upper branch of the legislature passed the three house j bills making appropriations to the State Normal school, at Athens; the the University of Georgia for the re- j pair of Old college for a dormitory, j and to -the Technological school to equip the Carnegie library. The ag gregate of these three bills calls for j 530,000. > The waterway bill, giving certain ; companies the right of eminent do-j main, was defeated. The two most sensational features ; of the past week in the senate was the open charge by Senator Overstreet that lobbying was being, carried on, and the attack made on Andrew Carnegie by Senator Wilkes. Atlanta, July 21.— -Monday Mr. Wright, of Floyd, was the first to speak on the convict bill, and declar ed that he was in favor of-the punish-, ment of criminals, but that he wanted the state to punish and not farm out j this task to private individuals. He •declared the Georgia lease system was no*w nothing but a money-making proposition. “The people, press and pulpit are against the lease system, I believe, fifty to one.’ He asked that the people of Geor gia be allowed to vote on the ques tion. He turned his volleys upon the Holder substitute and riddled it, declaring that the‘separation* of tne races meant the state farm for the white men, and lease or road work for the negro. Slowly, but surely, the house i§ moving away from the lease system idea, and more and more is becoming changed to the plan to work all of tne convicts on ti e state roads and on state farms. There_were several amendments of- Official Groan of J>ade (Viunty. i'ero 1. :l: bulk of which looked to this ted. ~ The senate ceDM tn erdrr by Presi-ent Flynt Monday at noon. Sen 2 tor Fieed immediately moved tfca* the cr.'.itg cf U.i, ro!! Ik* dispenses with. Governor T T ol:e Fmilt’s mesrage th the ?crate- rs to' vU.y i e disc Im:god Governor elect Jos: ph M. Brown from his posit"on of railroad c: rnmisrioncr whs read. Nv * tun was taken by he senate: it is c gppauat wi kof many that the rbsfur “be dropped.” President Five I mined the following as members of the ccnvict camp in vestigation committee: T. S. Felder, from the twenty second district; J. It. Brock, from the forty Fourth district, and 7. E. Hayes, from the thirteenth, district. . The: senate general judiciary com mittee reported favorably on Senator Feick 's employers’ liability bill Mon day eflernocn. WILL FIGHT FGR GEORGIA. Republicans W Endeavor to Carry State for Taft. Hot Springs, Ya., July 23. —The re publican national committee will make a fight to carry Georgia for the re publicans, if the advice of Judge Taft. is followed. This wish was expressed by. Judge Taft co a delegation of Virginia re publicrns who visited him t ) urge fer one grand rally of Virginia republicans to be held here before Mr. Taft quits the place in September for the activities cf the campaign. Thfs delegation was headed by Representa tive Slump, oi" the ninth district, who is also chairman of the republican state executive committee. Judge Taft look 3 with sonye favor on the ral ly and will, upon his return from Cin cinnati, consider fixing a date in Au gust for its occurrence. He coincided with the view express ed by the delegation that good poli tics'dictated that an active campaign be made not only in the Old Domin ion, hut also in North Carolina and Georgia. “If I have any influence with the national committee,” .fudge Taft is quoted as saying to the and legation, “a fight will be made in there states. HOWARD 13 BEING ROOMED. % Alabama Mar. fv'ey Be Nomir.ee cf th 2 Km nt Fa.ty. Chicago, July 23. —While the bulk of delegates to the convention of the independence party, which will be call ed to order Monday next, will not ar rive until Saturday or Sunday, a small advance guard already on the field has started gossip of presidential candi date possibilities. Among those now here are W. F. Diffendcrfer, memb.r of the national committee from Oklahoma, and James B. Drake and M. W. Howard, na tional committeemen frem Alabama. L. A. Fealcy, of Alabama, will be on the scene Saturday with his speech, urging tne convention to choose Mr. Howard, who is a former congressman, as the standard-bearer cf the new par ty. Another candidate whose good showing in the gubernatorial race in Massachusetts has made him the fa vorite of many .of the delegates is Thomas H. Hisgcn. If Hisgen is select ed a strong effort will be made to j place Howard’s name second on the ticket. NEW R'OAD FOR CCLUIVfBUS. Proposed Shorter Lire from that Place to Montgomery. Columbus, Ga., July 23.—At a meet ing of a committee from the Colum bus board cf trade, appointed to in vestigate the advisability of building a railroad in a westerly direction from this city, it *vas decided to apply for a charter for the Montgomery and Columbus -railroad. The proposed road will be 78 miles, long and will extend due west from Columbus to Montgomery, Ala., via Crawford, Marvyn, Society Hill, Tus kegee and other towns. The road would be shorter to the Alabama capital by 22 miles than any existing route and will also shorten the distance to New Orleans and Mo bile. It liis not yet decided whether the road will be steam or electric. Wha'e Caught in Death Trap. Portland, Me., uly 21—While two hundred members of the summer col only at Ogynquit, a shore resort, stood on the beach watching it, an enormous whale, seventy feet in length, thrash ed itself to death in the shallow water of the fiats. It is believed that the whale chased a school of fish into the bay. Suddenly it struck the treach erous flats a hundred yards from the beach and ran high and dry. The tide was fast ebbing and the whale was iiuable to move. Dinner to Ambasador. Berlin, July 20.—Professor Paul Haupt, of Johns Hopkins university, of Baltimore, gave a dinner to intro duce the American ambassador, Da vid Jayne Hill, to university and lit erary circles or" AVege table Prc p arailoa tar As - imitating thelood and Reg ala- Ling the 5 taiM<±s and Bowels of *3t\K\xrs-*^frm£N ■ ii Promotes Digestion,Cheerful ness and RestXoatains neither Opium,Morphine nor Miner.it. Not Narcotic. /Isocipe of Old PrSAk'L'U. PfrCHhil Pumpkin SetiL " Alx.Senna * PuchtU*. Sells - j Anise Sftd *. j l Uppt rmuit - / fJi * f farm Seed - Oerifiuf Sugar . niMeyrsa* Flmner. J A perfect Remedy for Cons tipa doru Sour StGinach.Biarrhoca, Worms .Convulsions .Fevcrish ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. tilC w unite Signature of NEW "YORK. *•• At St uro a]t)\ ? old EXACT COfr V or WRA PPE R . 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