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New Store! J
New Goods!
I
We are in business to stay.
Theiifore we have bought a
linewf goods that will mean
once ^customer, always a cus
tom^Su We promise to give
you ajwMr’s worth for a dol
lar.
Shoes! Shoes! Shoes!
SHOES OF ALL LEATHERS, ALL
STYLES, .ALL SIZES AND ALL
-PRICES. THE BEST STOCK OF
SHOES EVER BROUGHT TO IRWIN
TON. SHOES FOR THE BABY, FOR
THE CHILDREN, FOR THE GROWN
UP YOUNG PEOPLE, FOR THE OLD
-^N FACT, SHOES FOR EVERY
jßfeS AND EVERY AGE. WE ARE
/ >,7 C THE FAMOUS J. K.
/' J’K JE OF SHOES AND BY GET
WHaG ”e WHOLE LOT FROM ONE
^RIER, WE GOT THEM CHEAP
i . aND CAN SELL THEM CHEAP
ER. GOODS AND PRICES TO
PLEASE.
MILLINERY!
Miss Anna Hatfield, the buy
er for this department, will
leave Saturday, March 9th, for
the markets and will bring
back the most up-to-date line
of Millinery ever seen in Irwin
ton. The date of the opening
will be announced later. >
Yours to Please,
Emile Johnson,
Dry Goods
and Notions
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. BIG
SHIPMENT OF FANCY WAISTINGS,
COLORED SUITINGS, LINEN SUIT
INGS, GINGHAMS, PERCALES AND
CALICOES. LINEN. LINEN
LAWNS, SHIRTWAIST
LINEN, NAINSOOK, LONG
CLOTH. ALL KINDS BLEACHING—
IN FACT, ANYTHING IN THE DRY
GOODS OR NOTION LINE YOU
COULD WISH IS FOUND HERE AT
ROCK BOTTOM PRICES.
WORK OF CONGRESS
Bief Summary of Legislation
■Enacted by Lawmakers.
■NEY FLOWED FREELY
■ Fifty-Ninth Session is Brought to
■ a Close With Record of
■ Billion Dollar Mark
■ Passed.
1- fifty-ninth congress, which ex
■ on Monday, at noon, has been
■ liberal in the matter of appro
■ons. The budget for the ex
■s of the government for the fie
■^wear 1908 is in excess of sl,
» 0'1,000,(00.
The river and harbor bill alone
provides for an expenditure of $88,•
000,000, and this work will probably
come closer to the people at large
and have a more beneficial effect
upon business conditions generally
than any other government enterprise
unless it be the postal service
The appropriation bill also provides
for the construction of two new
battleships at an expense of about
$10,009,MX). It includes a raise of
salaries for cabinet officers, the vice
president, the speaker of the house,
senator- and representatives. Jt also
grants an increase to ambassadors,
ministers and consuls..
It cat t ies a loan of one million
dollars for the Jamestown exposition
and an appropriation for the Alaska-
Yukon exposition. It giants more
pay to the rural free delivery car
riers and increased remuneration to
postal clerks.
The railroads, the packing houses,
the exprejss companies, the high tariff
interests and the protectionists have
iittie to regret as the result of
bills enacted by congress the past
few months.
Not only were bills prit through
favorable to the “interests,” but rem
•dial legislation in the interest of the
people and urged upon congress by
the president, were not acted upon.
The epitaph over this congress might
be;
"I have (done much that I should
not have done, and I have left un
done those things I should have
d|bne.”
In the immigration bill and in the
sixteenhouit bill, for the protection of
railway employees, has this freak
oil legislation been resorted to by
tbL republicans to embarrass and as
to|md the i minority. In its final
analysis it means that five or six or
seFen members of a conference com
mittee practically assume -the jtower
of i legislating in place of the senate
anti house of representatives.
An Important feature of the pres
ent session has been the failure to
pass any extensive legislation affect
ing the railroads. The LaFollette
bill, providing for a reduction of $7,-
OOO.OOiO per apnum in the payment to
railroads for carrying the mail, was
int induced in the senate as an amend
merit to the postal appropriations bill.
It was defeated in the house, and
aftel a bitter struggle .in the confer
enceA committee was reduced about
s4,o'W,OC'<> anniially.
Sc lator Aldrich attempted to kill
the enatured alcohol bill, but enough
rept ilicans joined with the demo
crat to reserve to the farmers the
righ to operate their own stills for
the hanufacture of denatured alcohol
for ctomestic use.
Delpite the demands from all sec
tions! of the country for tariff re
visiol, there will be no effort at re
visiol, it has been definitely decided,
untillafter the next presidential elec
tion. p
Ampng the measures which have
passel, it might be mentioned in re
capiti Uation, are those prohibiting
camp tign contributions from corpora
tions, the exclusion of Japanese coo
lie labor, granting the government the
right of appeal in criminal cases un
der certain conditions, an investiga
tion iato woman and child labor and
the ratification of the Santo Domingo
and Algeciras treaties.
FRYE AND THE DAM BILL.
Maine Senator Causes General Laugh
Among Dignified Solons.
Senator Frye, of Maine, startled the
senate Saturday. He was on his feet
making a report from his committee
on commerce, on several bills, when
he suddenly raised his voice, and ex
claimed:
“If I can get immediate considera
tion for that dam bill I will promise
the sen te not to report another dam
bill thii session.”
Amid a general laugh the bill was
passed nd a dam will be built across
certain shoals in the Savannah river.
COLLEAGUES GREET BAILEY.
Texas Senator Arrives in Washington
to Take Up Duties.
Senator Joseph W. Bailey, of Texas,
I upon entering the senate chamber
about noon Sunday;, fresh from the
scenes of his sensational trial in his
j^tive ^ate, resulting in his exonera
political Vindication, was
■ hearty, trij^ily greeting by
COUNCIL CAN PROHIBIT.
Judge Speer Renders Decision Re
garding Right of Municipality to
Cut Out Sale of Booze.
In a decision Monday Judge Emory-
Speer, in the United States district
court, at Augusta, held that the city
of Valdosta, Ga., had a perfect right
to pass an ordinance prohibiting the
sale of liquor in its corporate limits.
The opinion is the result of an appli
cation for injunction brought by E. E.
West and others, of Florida, that
would restrain the council of Valdosta
front passing such an ordinance.
Counsel for the applicants fully stat
ed the grounds of his bill and was
then asked: “Is that all?” His re
ply being in the affirmative, Judge
Speer delivered his opinion, which is
in part as follows:
“This is a bill presented by E. E.
West and William b. Roberts, resi
dents and citizens of the state of
Florida, in which they pray for aid,
as stated by their counsel. This is
that this court shall grant an injunc
tion restraining the majority of the
municipal council of the city of Val
dosta from enacting an ordinance pro
hibiting the sale of intoxicating liq
uors wilhin the corporate limits of
that town. They are not directly in
terested in the sale of liquor them
selves, but incidentally they claim
that their property is benefited by
the traffic. One of them "is a hotel
keeper, or is interested in a hotel,
and, presumably, there is a bar in his
hotel, or if there is no bar there, his
receipts are augmented by the bibtf
lous individuals who flocked to Val
dosta to allay their thirst.
“The mayor and council of the city
of Valdosta having the right to regu
late and grant licenses, presupposes
the right to refuse them or to re
voke them. I think it will be a most
excellent thing for the property of
these gentlemen, and for the property
of everybody' Jn Valdosta, and in
Lowndes county, and for their moral
status as well, if the city council (or
other city councils) would prohibit the
sale of intoxicating drinks, would
stand steadfastly to that prohibition
and enforce it rigorously by due pro
cess of law. I believe it would do
more to solve the urgent and vital
problems which are pressing on our
southern people, do more to decrease
the volume of vagrancy and crime,
give the farming and manufacturing
interests of the country reliable and
industrious labor, save the unprotect
ed women of our country from the
horror of wrongs which shake the
whole nation, and more to restore us
to the simple life and genuine old
fashioned Americanism, safety, con
tentment and peace than all other
causes put together. And this will be
the last court, that I am aware of,
which will entertain an application
of this sort to interfere with the city
government, in any measure which
may stop the traffic in intoxicating
liquors.”
NO ENGINEER AT THROTTLE.
Freight Rolled from Siding to Main
Track and Collision Resulted.
With, no engineer at the throttle,
freight train No. 81 drifted from a
side track to the main line at Howell
Station, near Atlanta, Monday morn
ing, and was crashed into with such
force by incoming Southern passenger
train, No. 143, that five postal clerks,
a negro passenger and one of the
conductors were painfully hurt, and
both engines badly damaged.
As is usual the freight train was
side-tracked at Howell Station that
the passenger train from Greenville
might pass. While waiting'for the
latter train to put in appearance, En
gineer Davis made his way to the tele
graph station that is but a few yards
distant from the place of the wreck,
and was there at the time the collision ।
took place. ।
The siding on which the freight ।
train lay is a good deal elevated above
the principal track, and, with no one
at hand to apply emergency brakes
or resort to some other expedient, it
rolled slowly to the main track, when |
the passenger train swept down on it j
SENATOR BACON APPOINTED
By Governor Terrell to Succeed Him
self for Interim Term.
Governor Terrell of Georgia has ap
pointed Senator A. O. Bacon to suc
ceed himself for the interim term
between March 4 and the meeting of
the Georgia legislature in June, at
which he will be elected United States
senator for another term of six years.
in a letter to Governor Terrell
Senator Bacon stated that lie had
found ample precedent for such an
appointment.
WAR NEWS FROM THE SOUTH.
Forces of Nicaragua Take Two Hon-.,
duran Towns in Easy Style.
Advices from Managua, Nicaragua,
state that forces of the Nicaraguan
government have captured, without
resistance, the Honduran towns of
Conception and Maria. They also
took Corpus Christi, after hard fight
ing. No details of the engagement,
however, have been received.
A Most Valuable Agent.
The glycerine employed in Dr. Pierce’^
medicines greatly enhances the medicinal!
properties which it extracts from native
medicinal roots and holds in solution
much better than alcohol would. It also
possesses medicinal properties of its own,
being a valuable demulcent, nutritive,
antiseptic and anti ferment. It adds
greatly to the efflea cy of the Black Cherry
bark, Bloodroot, Golden Seal root, Stone
root and Queen’s root, contained In
"Golden Medical Discovery”in subduing
chronic, or lingering coughs, bronchial, |
throat and lung affections, for all of which
these agents are recommended by stand
ard medical authorities.
In all cases where there Is a wasting
away of flesh, loss of appetite, with weak
stomatffi, as In the early stages of con
sumrftihn, there can be no doubt that gly
cerine/acts as a valuable nutritive and.
aids Mie Golden Seal root. Stone root.
Queers robt and Black Cherrybark in
promoting digestion and building up the
flesh arMlsfrength. controlling the cough
and bringing about a healthy condition
of the whole system. Os course, it must,
not be eiftjected to work miracles. It will
not cure winsumption except in its earlier
stages. It will cure very sever£..jteti?
Bate. hang-<TTi. ciirontc. coughs, brqn.ctua.l
and nrryrigearTbn^^
tlrnnfFwuCToarsehess. In acute cougm.
it isnot so effective. ITls in the lingering
hang-on coughs, or thosoof long standing,
even when accompanied by bleeding from
lungs, that it has performed its most
marvelous cures.
Prof. Finley Ellingwocd. M. D., of Bon
nett Mod. College, Chicago, says of gly
cerine:
” In dyspepsia it serves an excellent purpose.
Holding a fixed Quantity of the peroxide of
hydrogen in solution, it is one of the best
manufactured products of the present time m
its action upon enfeebled, disordered stem
achs, especially if there is ulceration or ca
tarrhal gastritis (catarrhal inflammation or
stomach), it is a most efficient preparation.
Glycerine will relieve many cases of pyrosis,
(heartburn) and excessive gastric (stomach!
acidity.” , . .
"Golden Medical Discovery’ enriches and.
purifies the blood curing blotches, pimples.- ,
eruptions, scrofulous swellings and old sores. .
or ulcers. „ , „
Send to Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo. ) -
for free booklet, telling all about the native
medicinal roots composing this wonder.u»
medicine. There is no alcohol in it
Pope Leo Xlll.’s Little Mistake.
The late Pope was once giving an
audience, when his attendant, through .
some oversight, neglected to intro- j
duce, by name, a very stout lady who- '
approached the throne. The Pope,
however, took the situation for grant *
ed. “Votts etes une bonne mere de
familie chretienne, n’este-cepas?” he
asked gently.
In a horrified whisper, an attendant^!
intimated that the lady was unmar
ried. The Pope, with a smothered
gasp, sat back in his chair, turned Iris
face away and laughed. He composed ,
himself, however, so quickly that the J
lady, whose knowledge of French wasl
not particularly good, never realized^
his Holiness's faux pas.—Bystander.
ANYTHING BUT THAT. I
“Why did you break your engage- I
ment with Miss Fluiphie?V / J
“She couldn't ..uWt.
“Why. you knew tha^B
“Yes, but ’ in- t'JJ m< MM
that she intended to >1
land Leader.
WISDOM.
Stranger (in Yaphank)—T^H
to be given here next, week
be suppressed. Would you be vw
to start a crusade against it?
Local Minister —Who are yo Fma^
I ask?
Stranger—l'm the advance agent! —1
Fuck.
AN OPTIMIST. |
Hawker. —I am going to take a va '^
cation now for two weeks.
Walker.—ls that so? Isn’t It queer
that your employer should let you go
now, just at the busiest time of the
year?
Hawker.—Oh, well, they’ve got.
another man in my place. They told
me I needn’t come back. —Somerville
Journal.
DOING NICELY.
The doctor —Well, how is the pa
tient getting along?
The Female Nurse—Oh, very nice
ly, Doctor. He kissed me, to-day! —
Yonkers Statesman.
It is a great reproach to us as a
nation of horsemen and horse lovers
that while our London cabmen are
perhaps the best drivers in the world,
our society coachmen are probably
the very worst—Cavalry Journal.
COFFEE THRESHED HER
15 Long Years.
"For over fifteen years,” writes a
patient, hopeful little Ills, woman,
“while a coffee drinker, I suffered
from Spinal Irritation and Nervous,
trouble. I was treated by good phy
sicians, but did not get much relief.
“I never suspected that coffee
might be aggravating my condition.
I was down-hearted and discouraged,
but prayed daily that I might find
something to help me.
“Several years ago, while at a
friend’s house, I drank a cup of Pos
tum and thought I had never tasted
anything more delicious.
“From that time on I used Postum
instead of Coffee and soon began to
improve in health, so that now I can
walk half a dozen blocks or more with
ease, and do many other things that
I never thought I would be able to do
again in this world.
“My appetite, is good, I sleep well
and find life is worth living, indeed.
A lady of my acquaintance said sho
did not like Postum, it was so weak
and tasteless.
“I explained to her the difference
when it is made right—boiled accord
ing to directions. She was glad to
know this because coffee did not
agree with her. Now her folks say
they expect to use Postum the rest of
their lives.” Name given by Postum-
Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the
little book, “The Road to Wellville.'”’
In pkgs. “There’s a reason.” I
