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2 was written by W. J. Barton, a little South Geor gia preacher, who as dear old Colonel Dunlap used to say, is “not afraid of poverty, the poor house, death nor the devil.” Here is the opening sentence:, “The time has come in the bounds of our asso ciation when, instead of reports on temperance, we should organize, go to work and dethrone the bar-room power. The territory of this association is so cursed by the liquor business that it is doing more harm than all other evils combined.” And the major part of the report is incorporated in a ringing circular issued by this same little preacher just before the election in Wilcox county. It is so strong that we give it here as a trumpet call to other men and communities to quit merely “resolving” and go to work—consecrated, ever lasting work—and victory will come as it has come in Wilcox and Irwin. This is the circular that started the work: Stop! Read! Think! The census report of the United States for the year 1900 shows that the State of Maine, a prohi bition State, is the poorest of all the states in nat ural resources, yet it has more money per capita in is savings banks, more homes owned by its work ingmen, a less number in its prisons, and a lower per cent of illiteracy, than any state in the union. Take Georgia: The principal keeper of the peni tentiary says there are sixty out of every 100 con victs in the penitentiary from the counties which sell whiskey. He shows that out of the four lead ing counties which sell whiskey there is one in the penitentiary out of every 319 of their popula tion. While out of four of the leading dry counties _______.______ - __ _ fc: W'' W fl' q — ■ »■ . ■ ■ ; ■ - ' ■ - , THE “OLD CORNER SALOON” A place that has been supporting the schools and feeding the penitentiaries. there is one in the penitentiary out of every 1,898 of their population. Nearly six times as many from wet counties as there are from the dry ones. Six negroes in the penitentiary from whiskey counties to one from dry counties. The superintendent of the asylum says that fifty per cent of the crazy people come from the few counties which sell whiskey. He says when the war closed there were in the asylum forty-four crazy negroes. Now there are 845, and says that most of these came from the counties which sell whiskey, an increase of 400 per cent in forty years. Mr. Strauss, in his work on “Insanity, Its Causes and Effects,’ gives the instance of sixty-eight males and forty-seven females addicted to the habit of whiskey. To them were born four hundred and sev enty-six children, one hundred and seven died in convulsions; three of them suicided; ninety-six were epileptics; thirteen were idiots; nineteen died maniacs; thirty died paralytics; three were born deaf and dumb; nineteen deformed; and the re maining two hundred and five were born with a well developed taste for strong drink, and not one healthy body in the entire number. Men say that it will hurt the material progress of the county to take whiskey out of it. This is untrue. In the year 1895 the comptroller general of Georgia says the taxable property decreased in round numbers $17,000,000, and that $14,000,000 of this decrease was found in the forty-nine counties which sold whiskey, leaving only $3,000,000 in the eighty-eight dry counties, and says furthermore, that a steady decline was found in every wet county. The Golden Age for September 27, 1906. You hear it said that it will cripple the public schools. This is not so. The state gets about SIOO,OOO from the whiskey business for school purposes which will only give each county about six hundred dollars, and the peo ple of Georgia spend $14,000,000 for whiskey, and get back $90,000. Let me have the money spent in this state for whiskey, and I will educate every child in the com monwealth free. % IIW' iWPS • , Or- A SCHOOL HOUSE IN FITZGERALD. Since saloons have gone out, the loyal citizens viill erect large brick buildings. Wilcox county barrooms pay into the state school fund $2,200, and the county gets back S6OO. How will it hurt the schools to close out the bar rooms? Take towns which are near to Abbeville and see how they have grown without the whiskey busi ness. Look at these: Mcßae, Eastman, Dublin, Waycross, Cordele, Vienna, Tifton, Moultrie and others. They have some of the finest schools in the state, and no whiskey to support them. Remember your boys when you vote on the 13th. Those bars must have drunkards to run their busi ness. Have you one to give them? The Big Four for Our People. (We clip an editorial with the above caption from The Douglas Enterprise. It was so “un thought, unsought and unbought ’ ’ by us that we feel like giving it full space. We thank Editor Bryan for his generous words, counting it at once a com pliment and a privilege that The Golden Age be looked upon as a necessity in every home.—Ed itor.) Every farmer who desires and can take a daily paper should take The Atlanta Georgian. It stands for higher and purer daily Journalism. They should take The Golden Age of Atlanta, edited by AV. D. Upshaw. The Golden Age is rather an innovation in Journalism and stands for the mental, moral and religious upbuilding of our com mon country, and no family should be without it. It is non-sectarian, listing among its writers the prominent men in different denominations. Mr. Upshaw is making this new paper fill a long felt want in all homes, and especially among those who do not desire a denominational paper. Subscribe for it and keep it in your homes for the boys and girls to read. Brother Upshaw is a young man and not married, but he has educated more girls than any man in Georgia that has girls of his own. The Cotton Journal should be in the family of every farmer in the Southern States, and should be read by every farmer. The time has come when the farmer must farm intelligently and must read to keep up with the times in an agricultural way, and there is not a paper published that will be worth more to the average farmer than the Cotton Journal. Subscribe for it, read and keep it in the house for your wife and children to read. It only costs you 2 cents each week and you will chew 5 cents worth of tobacco and think nothing of it. Take all these three good papers and read them and then be sure you get the Douglas Enterprise. We want every family in the county of Coffee to take and read The Enterprise, and we assure them that we will give them a good and interesting paper. The Enterprise stands for everything that is right and against everything that is wrong. Items of General Interest. In Denmark girls insure against becoming old maids. In 1899 the number of automobiles in France was 1,672; in 1905 it was 21,524. V«*-' A plant for manufacturing artificial marble was recently established in Catania, Italy. Cuban tradesmen have been holding mass meet ings to urge the adoption of American money. Chile was the first South American state to build railways, of which it now has nearly 3,000 miles. Ireland will have a system of land telegraph lines by October. It has just been connected by cable with England. It is estimated that nearly 4,000 acres of cedar trees are cut down annually to provide the mate rial for lead pencils. According to an official report, there has been only one case of corporal punishment in the prisons of Ireland for thirteen years. Malaria used to kill 15,000 persons a year in Italy. In 1902 state quinine was introduced, and last year the mortality fell to 7,835. It is estimated that the actual cost of keeping only a moderately expensive liner at sea is $2,300 a day, and this does not include insurance. The railway service in Italy is in such a bad way that it will take $300,000,000 to bring the state lines (8,137 miles) into full working order. The chewing gum habit is increasing. According to the last report of the gum trust, about 572,000 pieces are masticated in New York City each day. The patient fisherman has recently been put to a unique use in France where an enterprising busi ness house conceived the idea of placing mammidth advertisements on the backs of numerous disciples of Walton, who sit for hours side by side ion the banks of the Seine. R. T. Lowery has the distinction of being the only peripatetic editor. He is the publisher of “Low ery’s Claim,” formerly issued from Nelson, B. C., but, as the Canadian postoffice has excluded his paper from the mails, he has taken to the road and is issuing his paper from wherever he happens to be. Newspapers are beginning to flourish in Italy. The first in circulation and enterprise is the Ev ening Courier of Milan, with 12,000 circulation and an equipment of American Hoe presses. The Tri buna of Rome is next in circulation and influence, with an output of 100,000 copies daily. A recent report of Governor Magoon, of the Panama Canal Zone, shows that last May twenty three new schools were already in operation on the zone. Two more are to be added, and the present attendance of eleven hundred will then be increased to fifteen hundred. The native population has wel comed these schools, and there have been compulso ry education laws passed by five out of the six municipalities. It wiil be of universal interest to note that there has been recently invented by Daniel Drawbaugh and Dr. P. E. Gamble a substitute for coal. It is said that this new substance, composed of chemi cals and a fibrous matter, burns freely, gives off heat, does not clinker and lasts longer than the mined coal now in use! Although this sounds almost Eutopian to the lay mind, it may mean the beginning of a great revolution in the fuel situa tion of the world.