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Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-08-02


st. Petersburg, Aug. 1.-At
last the decisive battle of the cam.
paign seems to be in progress.
Having completed his enveloping
movement of the Russian posi-
ton, General Kuroki has ordered
simultaneously an advance from
all points against Hai-Cheng and
Lao Yang. Fighting is raging
on both fronts and still continues.
The latest reports contain moth
ing yet confrmatory of the ru-
mors that General Kuropatkin
has been defeated.
According to Kuropatkin's Of
fetal dispatches to the emperor,
the battle began for the possess
sion of the important position at
Slmoucheng, which is located at
the juncture of the Feng Wang
Cheng and Siuyen roads. Two
separate armies were launched
from the east above the two
roads, while third, under Gen.,
Oku, moved up east of the rail-
road from Ta-Tche-Kiao. to trv
to cut off the Russian force there
from Hai-Cheng. If the latter
move is successful, this force
will be crushed. A portion of
General Kuroki's army at the
same time advanced against
General Count Keller's position
at 1khavuen, east of Lao Yang,
trying the favorite Japanese plan
of outflanking him on the right.
Still further north, on the Saim-
atsza-Liao-Yeng road, the Japan
csc moved forward against Hout-
siatze, Is miles from Lao Yang.
At all points the Japanese en-
ployed artillery to the best of adj
vantage.
Genera1Kuropatkin's situation
will be desperate in the event of
his defeat. The keenest anxiety
is felt at the war Office for news
of the progress of the battle.
The general staff seems utter
ly dumbfounded at the number
of men the Japanese possess and
consequently Kuropatkin's state
ment that they are landing anoth-
err heavy force at the port of
Niuchwang adds to the solicitude.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-08-02

Mr.. E. T. James is on the
streets again after an absence of
two or three monts. He had
fever about 10 days after he went
to Atlanta and his convalence
has been quite slow. He looks
thin, but is steadily regaining
his wonted strength.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-08-02
Minority Stockholders Of Brunswick &c h
mingham Charge that Their RIGHT
. Have Been Ignored.

An atteWpt is being mad
prevent the consummation Of
sale of the Brunswick G BIZ
ingham to the Atlantic & 1
mingham, an announcements
which was made several mon|
ago.
There was filed this morn
in the United States court !
tition by Ensign, Oskamp & i
a corporation doing business
der the laws of West Virg
against the Brunswick & Z
mingham railroad, the BrsI
wick & Birmingham Consts
ton Company, the Atlanta
Birminghom railroad and
Atlantic & Birmingham q
struction Company.
In this petition it is asked d
the proposed sale of the
critics of the Brunswick
mingham to the Atlant
mingham be enjoined
grounds that the COM
a minority stockholde
owner of nine $1,0O0
been utterly ignoE
for the sale of q
& Birmingham
that they and
minority stock
dark, and thai
been consulted
time their
sold without
It is alle
cos
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the
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mats
WOE
cnaFge
Come q
not lees
and that
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made many
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II IS Claim
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Tor the sale Of tns
that by procedure
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Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-08-02
Russians Fighting Hard, But St. Petersburg
Admits that Kuropatkin's Forces
Are IN Grave Danger.

Hai-Cheng, August Ian ar
tilery duel ragged all day along
the whole front, but the Russians
hold their positions.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-09
A SOUTHERN BULL

when I was a student at the Uni
versity of Virginia. said Surgeon Gen
eral Rixey, of the Navy, "there used
to be an old man named Tom Crabbe
who cleaned my boots and ran my er-
rands
tom, one morning, came into my
room in an excited and gay mood.
My daughter. sir he said, has a
little baby. A fine child. Twelve
pounds in weight
When was it born?' said I.
90 This morning. answered Tom.
is it a boy or a girl?
DO you know, sir he said, I for
got. in the excitement, to find out
whether I was a grandfather or a
grandmother
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-09
HOSTETTER'S
STOMACH - BlTTERS
SHORT METER SERMONS.

The worst bankruptcy is to lose
heart.
It's waste of energy to spur rock
ing horse.
People who hope for the best do most
TO secure it.
The best way to silence conscience
is to obey it.
A stiff neck is often found under
jelly-like head.
Earth's harvests come from seed
thrown out to die.
Filling the hands will not stop the
ache in the heart.
Self-conceit knows nothing more elo-
quent than an echo.
The trouble with little sins is that
they never stay that way.
A good man is guided more by self
reproach than by reproof
The religion that scatters sunshine
is never wholly moonshine.
Count your mercies a 5 you do your
money and you will never be poor.
Tell your children white lies and they
will soon hand you back the other color
It is love that enlarges the least
deed and self that shrinks the greatest.
It's no use praying for peace when
you are tickling the business end of a
mule
When the preachers heart is full of
salary his sermon is likely to be short
on salt.
They who let their feelings govern
their faith generally let their greed
govern their gifts.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-09

what they lack in other directions. Let
our Government not forget that it re-
tains this outpost possession in the
midst of the Pacific; and if.the authori-
ties will not provide such a launch as
Mr.. KEENAN, suggests, a popular sub
scription would soon provide it. It
seems, moreover, as if the Midwayites
would be glad to have old magazines
and books sent to them. The Gov
eminent would probably undertake to
deliver all such contributions.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-09
LIFE ON THE ISLAND OF
MIDWAY WHERE HERMITS ARE

nailed that they were out of fresh vege-
tables and had only a weeks provisions
of any kind. This is a narrow margin
indeed.
WATCHED WITH INTEREST.
1t must have been a great disap-
pointment to them to see the attempt
to succor them abandoned. Mr.. Ken
nan says that they watched with evil
dent interest from their little hilltop
the effort and their knowledge of the
fact that the transport carried not
only food but mail undoubtedly con-
tributed to their ultimate dissatisfac-
ton. 1t is safe to say that they had
a good fit of the blues when the steam
er turned westward. Mr.. KEENAN, rec
ommends that the islanders be pro-
vided with a steam launch capable of
going out in any reasonab BILE wea Their
to meet transports or other vessels.
They have at present no suitable boat,
and it is neither safe nor comforta BILE
for them, hundreds of miles from the
nearest inhabited land, to be left in
their present condition.
ONE LUXURY.
Thev have one luxury-cable news
from all parts of the world severy day
but that is a poor conversation for
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-09
WIN. C. IRWIN & CO., LTn

AGENTS FOR Il
Western Sugar Refining Co., SAN
Francisco, Cal.
Baldwin Locomotive Works, Phila~
delphia, Pa.
NewalI Universal Mill Co., Many
facturers of National Cane Shreddegs
New York, n. z.
Paraffine Paint Company. San Fram-
cisco, Cal.
Ohiandt & Co., San Francisco, Cal.
Pacific Oil Transportation Co., SaM
Francisco, Cal.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-09

| There are some people to whom life
| on an island possesses particular at
| fractions To certain temperament
| there is a fascination in the feeling of
| isolation that comes to the jewellers
on a piece of land that is swept by the
water on every side. 1t is probably
true that the average islander cherish
es an unusual affection for his home.
This we all know is the fact about the
people of far away Pitcairn, for exam
pie, whose life is about as remote and
| unexcitfng as anybody's.
EXCEPTION TO RULE.
An exception, however, will have to
be registered in the case of the dwell
ers on Midway Island, "a tiny posses
sion of ours in the Pacific Ocean, where
the cable makes landing and where
ten or twelve men and one woman
were at last accounts the sole inhabi-
tants. In the Outlook of a recent date
Mr.. KEENAN, describes the visit he made
to Midway, if by the word visit is un-
derstood a three hours stay a short
distance off the unattainable shore. In
formation about Midway has not been
voluminous, and for that reason Mr..
Remnants description is worth read
ing; while he makes at least one sug-
gestion of Importance regarding it.
SO REMOTE.
Midway, as most of US perhaps
know, is the Pacific cable station be-
tween Hawaii and Guam. So far is it
west of the former that a government
transport leaving Honolulu on a given
date, bound for the Philippines, does
not reach Midway until five days have
elapsed. At first the little island seems !
like a drift of snow in the midst of |
the seas. 1t lies low in the ocean, its ,
highest point being only forty-three +
feet above the tides; and its extreme !
length is about two miles.
VEGETATION SCARCE.
Vegetation is scarce. there being no
trees and only a few scanty bushes. |
on the highest ground a fiagpole has |
been set up and from this the Ameri- /
can emblem is displayed. There is a /
little group of buildings near the shore, !
built for the accommodation of the /
dozen inhabitants. and on the west |
ward side where landing must be
made if at all, lies a lagoon, enclosed
by one of the typical coral reefs of the
Pacific seas.
DIFFICULT TO LAND.
On the day of Mr.. Remnants visit
there was a considerable motion to the |.
water and two boats that We're sent
from the transport on which he was
vovaging had hard work attempting
RI reach the mouth OF the lagoon, a
narrow passage between tempestuous
barriers. For three hours they kept .
I'D the effort, for the islanders needed
the ton of provisions and several
months mail they carried; but at the
md of that time they abandoned the
ask. wearied and discouraged, and the
ra nsport was headed westward after
licking up the small boats and their oc- I:
NARROW MARGIN.
Time. it appears, was precious. and
r was known that the Midway people :
,ouId summon a tug from Honolulu
With provisions. Yet at the time OF /:
"a islanders Sigr-t
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-09

Little Margie-My papa is a great
reader. Is yours? Elsie-No, guess he
don't have to read. He says mamma
speaks volumes when he comes home
To- a
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-09

Drafts and cable transfers on ChaMM
and Japan through the Hongkong amA
Shanghai Banking Corporation aaA
Chartered Bank of India, Australia ama
China
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-09

Correspondents: The Bank Of Cas-
tornia, Commercial Banking CO., M
Sydney. Ltd, London.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-09
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NOW OPEN!
AT
kapioDani Park

THE AQUARIUM WILL BE OPEN
IN Week days from 10 o'clock a. m. to
.. m. and from to $3.50 o'clock p. N.
On Sundays it will open at L D. m.
ADMISSION will be FREE on
Thursdays. On other days a charge
win be made of 10 cents to adults and
cents TO children under fourteen years
D. age.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-09

Commercial and Travellers Letters IN
Credit issued on the Bank OF CalsAazsn
MIA and n. NJ Rothschild q @s1z.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-09

Agents for the sale OF Travellers
Checks of the American Express Coma
pany.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-09

head these words from Mrs. f. G. Munro
her photograph. ''-'0 '''idS
suffered greatly with Indigestion and
txneDiIlty LOT a long time. Sleep did not re
II dtes s, me; and was in very bad state One
S I'm my trends strongly recommended Ayers
tIon 1 made up my mind to try it. To NV
gre eaia surprise, had not taken one-half a
way only took three bottles. and I can
now now honestly say that I am entirely FREQ
rom an OF my old troubles, and consider
IhyseI1 perfectly cured. Ayers SarsaparilIa
IS certainly Wonderful blood medicirie
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-09

Interest allowed on term deposits ss9
the following rates per annum, ytMs
Seven days notice, al 2 pc cent
Three months, at 3 per cent.
Six months, at S1s per cent.
Twelve months. at 4 per cent.
TRUST DEPARTMENT.
Act as Trustees under mortgages.
Manage estates, real and personal
Collect rents and dividends.
Valuable papers, wills, bonds, akA~
received for safe keeping.
ACCOUNTANT DEPT.
Auditors for corporations and pvaz
vate firms.
Books examined and reported ON.
Statements Of affairs prepared.
Trustees on bankrupt or involves
estates.
Office. 924 Bethel street.
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT.
Deposits received and interest allows
ed at AZ per cent per annum, In Me4
cordance with rules and regulations.
copies of which may be obtained en-
application.
INSURANCE DEPARTMENT.
Agents for FIRE, MARINE, LTBW
ACCIDENT and EMPLOYERS LA
BILITY INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Insurance Office, 924 Bethel Street.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-09
Bishop 4 Co, Bankers
Es.cABLIsHED IN las
BANKING

BANKING DEPARTMEs
Transact business In ali depertxsa4az
OF banking.
collections carefully attended e.
Exchange bought and sold.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-09

do not get much benefit from nm ~ SUr
1000 You keep thin and weak: are
tired all the time, and vour re-. o.
are IN bad way. Why not strenotben
your digestion and get rid of Vou-
debility? J"uG
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-09
ONE LUXURY.

They have one luXury-cable news
from all parts of the world severy day
but that'is poor compensation for
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-09

They who let their feelings govern
their faith generally let their greco
govern their gifts.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-09

When the preachers heart is full of
salary his sermon is likely to be short
on salt.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-09-06

Savoyard, the great Washing.
ton Correspondent, has written a
sketch of Thomas E. Watson,
from which we take the follow
ing extract:
In this blessed land of ours
no party has yet the custody OF
our fortunes that was not, al
the time, sane, however unsafe it
might have been. That our
people and our government will
go the way of everything human
degenerate and DECAYS
quite likely, and when that time
comes our posterity will elect
presidents like Eugene Debs and
Thomas E. Watson, but there is
no danger of it at present, and
let all good men hope thai such
a thing will be long deferred.
HERALD OF CALAMITY.
"Tom Watson is the product
of five cent cotton in Georgia,
just as Jerry Simpson was the
result of corn used for fuel in
Kansas. Both were the hera1ds
of calamity and the representa-
tives of popular discomfort.
Five cent cotton was the greatest
blessing to the South since the
invention of Eli Whitney. 1t
diversified farming. 1t brought
the truck patch in fashion. It
made an industry of the culture
of fruits, melons and berries.
It dignifed the cowpea and re-
vealed the significance of the
goober. 1t filled Southern
smokehouses with bacon and
Southern cribs with corn. 1t
taught thrift and frugality. 1t
developed physical energies, slim
ulated self-reliance, enforced
self-denial and aroused all the
moral and mental faculties. 1t
did more-it dotted the cotton
states all over with cotton mills.
Politically, Tom Watson is a
protest against benefcence and
the universatility of Almighty
God. AS a political economist
he is the relentless enemy of the
actual and the inevitable.
And just as the South would
never have spun a bale had
cotton always fetched 10c,-
never gone into the bacon and
corn industry--so Kansas would
have remained content with
corn and sunfowers if corn had
continued too valuable to burn
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-09-06
SavOydrd'S Estimate Of Watson;
The Product Of Five Cent Cotton,

The boil weevil will not have
done it's Office till it drives hun
dreds of southern communities
to the production of cheese,
butter, beef, mutton, poultry
and eggs, that now only know of
these products by report. And
so everything has it's compensa-
ton. If corn fuel and five cent
cotton inflicted on the South and
West the Populist party they
made restitution by diversifying
the industries of both sections.
Calamity in seeming, actually
they were fortunate with both
hands full.
WATSON AS A CANDIDATE.
The other day the Populist
party met in convention and
nominated the Hon. Thomas
Watson for president and made
a platform demanding political
and economic chaos. It was the
last grasp of agrarianism. In
1880 the party helped to elect
Garfield; In 1892 it helped to
swell Cleveland's majority in
the electoral college. In 1896 it
it absorbed the Democratic
party. That was the year it
nominated Tom Watson for the
vice. presidency and got very
sorry for it before the campaign
was ten days old. In the reign of
James II. religion was political
issue in England, and the King
tried fusion of the Catholics,
the Puritans and the Quakers
against the established church.
That sort of thing was no more
illogical or impossible than the
political fusion headed by Mr..
Bryan in 1896-The Democratic
party had always stood for indi-
vldualism; the Populist party
was the child of paternalism; the
silver Republicans were specula-
tors, plungers on the political
course; the Debs sans culottes
were menace to law and
enemies of society. Watson had
associated with Bryan in Con.
gress and believed he was Just as
greata man as his chief, or a
little the rise of it. This was
evident throughout the cam.
paign, and it greatly EN- barrass'
ed Mr.. Bryan when he found
himself between a plutocrat
from Maine and Jacobin from
Georgia.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-09-06
FitZQcrdld'S Great
Cotton |nduStrI
Some Interesting Information Conceninz
New Cotton Compress and the
Cotton Oil Mills.

Now that the cotton market
and cotton situation is being dis
cussed up every newspaper in
the south, and every little town
is clamoring for the prize as the
best market, it may be timely to
mention few of Fitzgerald's
facilities for handling the worlds
greatest fabric crop.
A number of daring, am bitious
buyers, fire-proof warehouses,
ginneries, cotton seed oil mill,
cotton factory and cotton com.
press combine to make this city
one of the most active cotton
markets in south Georgia.
The Fitzgerald Compress Com
pany last Friday put in operation
one of the largest cotton COM
presses in the state of Georgia.
The machinery has a capacity of
twenty-five hundred tons, (5,OOO,-
600 pounds, and under press
ure of seventy pounds of steam
exhibits a capacity of eighteen
hundred tons. This is a most
remarkable economy of power,
and assures the patrons of the
press good service at reasonable
charges.
There was, on the compress
platform Friday evening, one
hundred and sixty bales, which
were pressed Saturday. The
compress employs thirty men,
under the direction of Supt. &c.
E. Bailey, and is considered
a most important addition to the
industries of Fitzgerald, keeps
at home, as it does, large shar
of the money that would Other
wise be paid out for freight
The Cotton Oil Mill desc
a place close to the compress
promoter of commercial ac
ity. The mill is under the
sonal direction of Mr.. II.
Meakin, and up till last Sal
day morning had ginned threN
hundred and seventy-fve bales
since Aug. II, and has purchased
a large per cent of the seed from
it. The oil mill started up Fri
day, and is running smoothly.
A short mention of the work
done and commodities produced
by the mill cannot but be inter-
esting to the many people who
have never had an opportunity
to visit one of these busy places.
The ginnery is a two-story
affair, accommodating, in the
lower story, the machinery
that transmits power to the
ginning and baling machinery on
the upper floor, where four
seventy-saw gins produce forty
bales of frst-quality lint every
twelve hours.
From the ginnery, the seed is
carried by spiral conveyor to
the seed storehouse, thence by
another spiral conveyor to the
mill proper, where it goes first
through a special gin, which
frees it of any residue of lint,
which becomes what is called
Inter" Five of these gins
are in operation.
The shining black seed then
goes to the huller, and is Invested
of it's shell, which becomes the
cotton seed hull of commerce,
Thence the inner meat is carried
to the mill, where it is ground
and pressed in "cake-former"
into brown, oily-looking slabs,
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-09-06

Miss Tessie Lloyd, of Fayette-
vile, is visiting her brother, DR..
L. c. Lloyd, at Mr.. Babst's south
of the city and will remain here
two or three weeks.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-09-06

Miss Eva Campbell is visiting
her sister, Mrs. E. J. Dorminy.
DR.. D. B. Ware is conva1escent
and able to be out of his room
some, although his contem plated
trip has been postponed.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-09-06
Miss Hang
Or

Miss Julia B.
1anta, who has be
ciple of the high
in the city Saturday !
having been detained
cident that derai1ed B
train about FIVE miles
Corde1e. After beln
school yesterday aaa
expressed hersel1
pleased with the cut
ensuing school yeaE
Fitzgera1d's sche
equipped as any
seen in a town Y
is stopping !