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DR.H.5I.5IOOKE DENTIST, Dublin, Georgia. - Office, No. 6 Leitch-Stubbs Building, f<P“Yonr patronage solicited. DENTAL NOTICE. DR. C.C. JORDAN TENNILLE, GA. Office over J. T. Walker's store Next to New Hotel. Dentistry in all its Frances Spe in Crown and Bridge word. ^^\lso in painless extraction o f lee lb E. NEW, M. D. Wrightsville, Ga. 1 am now prepared to sen d the people of Johnson ane surrounding counties in the practice of medicine, surgery and all disease of women. WHEN YOU GO TO MACON sTor AT THE Grey House, 554 Pine Street. Convenient to depots. Pleasant rooms well cared for. Rates are $1.00 and $1.50 per day. free: hack. STOP AT THE ZETTLER house > The best $l-a-day house in the city..... 353 Fourth Stkhet, : Macon, Ga. Mrs. A. L. Lettler, Proprietress. Morgan House. K>4 Fourth Street. Macon, Georgia. First-class Hoard. Rates $1.00 per Day. Notice to my Customers. I thank my customers and friends for past patronage and wish you a happy, prosperous new year. I can he found at my shop in the old Headlight office, I solicit vour work, such as repairing. staining , . . and , varnishing . , . old ,, furniture. - .. I have a nice line of samples and can eh as good upholstering as you can get else where. If my work is nor satisfactory k ft I am here to make it. I pay .a licenst K tax to do work i:i my line an 1 would ap preeiate vour patronage ' when von * need ■ a ivtlihiff ii> ‘ -V **“ ' ■ Ik ■ *’ r ■’ ~ j j Children Especially Liable. ^Bnrus, Bfnl and hmii-es if n-.'gl and cuts d are ft extreme! nsult i . c. j m ftl poisoning. Ohil Iren arc esjiecialh i ^Pr ■Ii' to sue! 1 mis! a >•» because m t so erne 1 ^^Balve Asa remei’v iVWitK Witch Haze pain, is nneqi~.;:! li. als 1. Draws tin* wound. out fire,stops Bewari j , tho soi l! of counterfeits Sure curt for p’lo.s. rs Witts VViich ll i/, ’ Siilv ’cor ••] my i.t! <lf eczema s ti -r >.w<» jili'-sictaiis gave ! r ^ up." writes .fames .N. VVe<,<i '■r.I.nd ••Tic* -ores wcj- -■>! I alu- “i! 1 two t fivu ■ dritss ■- :t ,t»v. .! H. Birch & Co. Dissolution Notice. The law firm of Kent & Hatch -r 1 wi¬ thin day dissolved by maiuai consent. Mr. Kent will wind up all the unfinish¬ ed business affairs cf th" firm. Kext & Hatches, Attorneys at Law. Tills January 1 st 1902. The Secret of Long Life Consists in keeping all the main or¬ gans of tho ho ly in healthy, regular uc tion, disease and in quickly Electric destroying Bitters regulat- deadly germs. stomach, liver and kidneys, purify th< blood, and gives a splendid appetite. They work wonders in curing kidney troubles, L-malo complaints, dyspepsia, nervou diseases, constipation, <un malaria. Vigorous health and strengtl nlways follow tiieirnse. Only 50c, guar antecd by J. H. Birch & Co., druggists Parties having houses or farms for rent or sale will find the columns c f The P.o cord of great service and hut little cos to them. Don’t Live Together. Constipation and health uevhr gq t( - gather. DeWitts Little Early Risers without pro mote easy action of flic bowels distress. T have been troubled with cos [ireness nine years,” says J. O. Green, Depanw, Iud. *’I have tried many reme dies hut Little Early Risers gi%-e best re mits.” J. H. Birch & Co. Wright,villi Record is steadily im¬ proving and says it will never tire in singing the praises of Johnson: Good. —Wnyncslxiro News. ! ■ for torpid liver. a torpid liver deranges the whole system, and produces 1 - SICK HEADACHEy— DvSOhngla iTLarfci^nC * fnwtivCflPSS /J Rhpn IllalISfll, ofillOW fint>/Cl/ aklddnu D*1 rlles< J™*** *1? 18 a*trial remedy for these Take LIVER No pills ^ will Drove Substitute! 3 T Iffi PASSING AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA i OF MR. and MRS. 4 JOSEPH BRUDER By Henry Irving Dodge. Copyright, 1901 , By Henry Irving Dodge. ryyyrrrrTrrrryrrrryrrrrw “Big Four” pulled into Beaver Mead¬ ows on the Rome-VVatertown division, and Joseph Bruder and his wife got down from the passenger coach that was trailing behind six “flats” of rails. Bruder was six feet four and broad, and his wife was five feet and narrow. Bruder carried a huge valise that cost a dollar and had done service, also an ax. Mrs. Bruder wore mitts and a plaintive, piquant smile. In her eyes there was a standing apology for the disparity in their sizes. This seemed to be a sore point with tho little wo¬ man, for she was ever on the alert for the quizzing glances of strangers, and if one should stand apart and glance at the odd couple he was sure to have his gaze arrested by a plaintive glauce from the woman which said as plainly as speech, “Please don’t make fun of us.” But the man never bothered his head about wbat other folks thought. He was a woodehopper, and that's all lie knew or eared. Next to his wife he loved his ax, and It used to he his pride that he could put a kecu enough, edge on it to shave with. He used to lay his cheek foudly against the purple blade and pat it and call it his darling. And the ax seemed to understand him, for it would bark with quick delight when his giant arms swung it aloft and bite the maple and bury its nose to the point where the tempered steel joined the softer stuff. When Bruder got off the train, lie looked around in a sort of inquisitive, defiant way and put his hand clumsily around his wife and drew her shoulder over against his thigh. There was no one at the depot hut the agent, a vet eran iu the business, the tenure of whoso position had was before due 1 contributed o five toes j that lie years to the annual list of accidents on the road. Smith had heard that Bruder was coining to take the place of one of the striking woodelioppers, and it filled him with grave concern. Almost all of his relatives belonged to tiie strikers, and his sympathies were deeply with them. On the other hand, it fell to his lot to show ostentatious loyalty to tho company. Beaver Meadows was the chief v.oodiu up point of the road. l '° r “»«> tb e contiguous country yield ed nothing , from its stubborn soil save stnntol bcct . b and knottP(] U! aple. *nie president of the company that supplied the railroad with wood was Smith’s hacker. A nod from him would have dislodged that worthy from the comfortable uiclie that afforded him a comfortable living- So Smith was he tween the-devil and the deep sea. Ilis heart was with the strikers, his Inter* rst with the company. That’s why I 1 I 3 usually placid mind was tilled with perturbation when lie beheld the lum hering form of Joseph Bruder and the diminutive wife alight from tlie ea boose of Big Four. Binder had an arm as long ns his wife's tongue and could fell at a blow either kind of jackass, human or brute. Mrs. Bruder was the brains of the outfit. She look charge of tho money, when there was any. allowing Jo ;eph only enough for h 1'aeeo. (Mr' erwi-e Iso was „ teetotaler. * »:i till: whole, this s: range couple was declin’d j a combination to he avoided. No ono ever knew where they came from. On that score Bruder himself was silent, with a persistency that defied all the subtle influences of bucolic diplomacy, Surmise said he was on ex-convict, and as chapter and verse of Ids past j were not forthcoming this comfortable tlusory crystallized Into a very good counterfeit of fact. , When the woodelioppers learned that j Joe Bruder was coming to take Cy Sol den's job, they knew there would bo trouble, for they were a determined lot. There was an understanding, how* ; ever, a sort of feeling, although no words’had been spoken, that somehow Smitli would settle matters, and so it was determined Hint no one from among the strikers should meet Bruder at the depot and attempt by moral or nnisctilar force to turn him back, Smith knew what was expected of him by his friends and relatives; he also knew that the suspicious eyes of the president were upon hence the delicacy of his position. 'lie hated being "double faced,” hut lie had a very comfortable niche indeed, and times were exceedingly hard in those parts. He reflected with considerable disgust that it was quite unjust that he, who had no personal interest in the ,, matter, should he the one upon whose shoulders the task of adjusting the af fair’should be thrust. That explains why Smith was per turbed upon the arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bruder. It also explains why he alone was at the depot to meet the distinguished pair. It is an axiom that good luck always comes to tho lazy. Smith was a lazy man, which accounts for the piece of good luck which came to him on the morning of the arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Bruder. Bah Armstrong's two-year-old baby boy had died of cholera morbus a few days before, and the sorrowing par onts. who were. farmers, had put the little creature In a simple pine box and : were sending him down the road to be | hurled in the Armstrong Camden. family The bury- tiny ■ ing ground at West morsel of Humanity was at that mq ' raent restiug ,a t,K ‘ froightroom of the ; Reaver Meadows dep' t. As g, u ith limped down the platform toward Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bruder he looked through the open door of the freiglitroom and got his Inspiration. Then he accosted Bruder. “Waitin’ for Harris’ team, ain’t yer?” Bruder looked at his wife, and she said, “Yes.” “Goin’ ler work on the job, ain’t yer?” Again Bi nder looked at his wife, and again she said, “Yes.” “Well, I'm right glad ter see yer,” said the unconscionable diplomat ef¬ fusively. “I tell yer, we’ve been havin’ great goin's on aroun’ here.” Again Bruder looked at his wife, and again she said “Yes” softly and press¬ ed a little closer under the shelter of his mighty thigh. “Between you and mo," continued the Wily Smith, “these woodelioppers I mean the Beaver Meadow fellers," he hastened to cxpluiu as a slight con him that any siuruporMhe^craft'wouili not be welcome—“don't know when they’re well off.” He paused, and Bruder looked at his I wife, but she remained silent. “Of course I ain’t got nothin’against these men here, and it may not sound well cornin' from me, me bein' in the employ of this corporation, as ain't sup¬ posed ter show no partiality, but seems ter me these men is a little unreason¬ able. Yer see,” he went on as neither Bruder nor his wife spoke, “times have been pretty hard around hero, with crops failin’ and a good deal of sick¬ ness in the neighborhood, and I think these men ought to been glad to got steady employment. Of course they’re really in the power of the company, cos they ain’t got no money, and the officers knows it, and so they cuts down their wages. Now, some of ’em finds out that the big fellers Is mailin’ dead loads of money, and so they makes a big kick and goes on strike. So the company Jest shuts down, and 1 heard the superintendent say as that they was goin’ to start a process of starvation. Of course I don't want that to go no further," “Did the company treat tho men fair?” asked Mrs. Bruder. “Of course It did,” said Smith quick¬ ly. “Ain't they got a right to pay their money out any way they like? Couldn’t these men pick up and leave if they didn’t like it?” Most of those men has their own homes, hasn’t they?” asked'Mrs. Bru¬ der. ! “Yes, they lias," said Smith, “but if they keeps 011 this way they won’t : have no one left in their homes.” Then ho added as lie walked toward tho of¬ fice: “Ye’d hotter come In and sit down. Harris’ team may not he here for an hour yet. They generally conies ter moot the down train. ‘Big Four’ is waitin’ here for it ter pass.” lie adroitly halted the couple in front of the open door of the freight room, and Instantly the maternal eye of Mrs. Bruder caught the little coffin. "Whose is that?” she asked. “That’s Cy Seldeu’s baby,” said Smith, lying heroically. Mrs. Bruder looked at her husband, then hack to Smith. “What ailed it?” she asked. “Cholera morbus?” Smith drew closer and Ipwer.ed his yoiop a lilt. “That’s what they give out.V he said, “but between you and me it didn't have enough ter eat.” Just then Smith found sudden bus!- j ness in the ticket office, where be re- j nialned until he heard the booming of the down train, when lie went cut on to the platform to pass up the mails. Ho lingered for a moment and watch ed “Big F'>or” pull out fren the rifl¬ ing: then h" look• I all nr imt. Then ■ wan Hu line in slgln. : II iV.i yer tin If."Rill:”. ’ :j r,,, t( | v it I;.: If* dn/.eu si'riUers .it).iked and listened, “j didn’t do nothin’, and ' I don’t kn0 w nothin’,” snapped Smith. “They : come, and they’re gone, ain’t they?” ■ And then to modify the rebuke the good i soul continued In a tone that smacked suspiciously of tenderness as lie puffed . his pipe reflectively in the darkness: “Strange; I used to know those folks years ago—didn’t know it till terdny— they was n good deal younger then— ' just married, I gucs§—they were pact* | fy ^oii't poqr-had a little baby that dled-1 know, but folks aroun’ there said the little thing died—cos It didn’t— 1 get—enough—ter eat.’’ It Wan n Dream. When n certain divine was a younger mnn , 1IU ] chaplain at the University 0 * Pennsylvania, like other ministers fin e( ] that position lie was much troubled over the apparent lack of nt tention from the students during the morning exercises in the chapef. The exercises hardly ever continued f or more than fifteen minutes. Some of the students were ltt the habit of taking their books into the eliapel and studying there during the services to make up for their tardiness of the night before in not preparing their les s 0 i«s. The young chaplain was desirous of breaking up tlio habit, so one morning preceding his customary five minutes’ address lie spoke as follows: “Young gentlemen, last night j dreamed I was here; In the fliapej ad¬ dressing you. And as l spoke I saw every eye fixed upon me. every man attentive, while In all the chapel there was not a hook opened, and then 1 knew It was a dream.” German Scotch. <‘A good story conics from Sydney,” BayB the London Globe, “where letters imve been received from two American business firms asking whether com- ] municatious to Australian merchants should he written in English or ‘in the language of the country.’ ■ “It recalls an astonishing tradp olr j oulnr received a short tin ,10 pgo l>y p business firm ill Glasgow from a Qer: man manufacturer, also written iq what his versatile clerk had apparent taken for the language of the | Iy eoun try. It was Id the best ‘kailyard’ style and spoke of a ‘niuekle consignment_ 9 ’;, chemicals.' ” •'* , l AN OPEN LETTER. J. W. A. CRAWFORD, WAGONS, BUGGIES, HARNESS, SADDLES, IMPROVED FARMING IMPLEMENTS, ETC. WrightsvillE, Ga., January ist, 1902. F)EAK SIR :—A happy greeting to you and your every interest. Wishing that this may be the most ' P ros P i'ous , life, I take this method of informing . e .. y ear °* your that I have used effort the you every to meet ‘ nterests ot m >' customers. By buying my goods by the carload with the cash, I will keep all kinds of Farm fools, and will guarantee better prices than any one else can make in my town. Come and get prices, and that will convince you. 1 have just bought a carloaJ of Buggies, and a nice line of Harness, Saddles, Bridles of all kind, and the prices will be right. I have a carload of first class Wagons of any size. Cook Stoves from $ 6.00 to $25.00; anything in that line you may want. 1 will keep anything in Farm Tools, such as Spades, Hoes, Rakes, Manure Forks, Club Axes, Picks, Collars, Duck and Leather, Hames, Hame Strings, Traces, Back Bands, Singlettees, Plows of all kinds, one- and two-horse. We have three makes of Dixie Plows, from £>1.25 to $1.75 each, ueorgia Ratchet Stocks with solid back brace 75c., Haymon 85c., Farmer’s Friend Plows and Fittings of all kinds, three Chilled Dixie Points for 25c. Steel Plows of all kinds at prices which cannot be equalled in Wrightsville nor surpassed by any town. 1 also carry the only stock of Shelf Hardware here, and can give you almost anything you may want in that line; also anything generally used in mechanical too!s ; and at prices to suit the times. I am prepared to give you first class repair work, as 1 will be in my shops this year and superintend the work, and will see that you have prompt services and first class work. I*will add one more man to my store force, which will enable me to give my time to shop work. And 1 will state to you here that 1 have always appreciated your trade, and will ask you if consistent to give me your shop work and your trade in my line, and 1 will promise you to use every effort to make it pleasant and profitable to you. I will offer to those who give me their cash trade this year an Eighty Dollar Buggy and Harness. For every dollar’s worth of cash trade in my store I will from January ist to November ist issue a ticket which will entitle the holder of that ticket to one chance at the Buggy and Harness. It will be drawn out November ist, and the drawing will be made perfectly fair to all. I will also give away a One-Horse Wagon, complete with body and seat, and it will be drav n tor on November ist, in the same manner as the Buggy and Harness. I he tickets for it will be issued at the shop for every 50 cents worth of work done for cash at the shop from January ist to November ist, 1902. Call and see us. I have a small present for each customer who trades with us. I think I will enable you to keep better up with your business than you have been heretofore. Call for the present, as I may forget unless my attention is called to it. Thanking you for your kind words to others about me, I beg to remain very truly yours, J. W. A. CRAWFORD. Child Worth Millions. j 4 My child is worth millions to aw," says ! Mrs. Mary Bird of Harrisburg, Pa., "yet I would have lest her by croup had I not purchased a hi trie of One Minute Cough i Cure. “One Minute Cough Cure is sure ! care for coughs,croupand throat and lung which trqnbles. A immediately. 11 absolutely safe cough cure acts The youngest I child can take it with entire safety. The little ones like the taste and remember j how often ir helped them. Every family should have a bottle of One MinuteCongli Cure lmndy. At this season especially it Ruiy be needed suddenly. J II B.irc.li, On 1 m V Nobility Recommends Nervine. 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For stile by druf fl.-U. \l To the Farmers • • • of Johnson and Neighboring Counties; It will pay you to have your Cotton Weighed and Stored -AT THE ...Farmers’ and Merchants’.. BONDED WAREHOUSE OF WRIGHTSVILLE. It is it Bonded warehouse and the Manager is under a heavy bond....... R. R. MARTIN, Manager. JOB PRINTING OF ALL KINDS