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PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY THB A - J - 8 HO WALTER CO., Proprietor. _ Editor S. McCAMY Associate Editor TELEPHONE 18. . OFFICIAL ORGAN <>f fv,oet? n S e<, *i. State3 CircnI t and District Conrt3, Northwestern Division, North- ern District of Georgia. Terms of Subscription: One Year 8is Months Three Months .*1.00 at ££ e Da L ton - Ga -» Poatofflce for class Matter throusrl1 thft mailB as second G ^ ti * en will not accept whiskey ad- latent medicines of a ques tionable nature, and cure-all nostrums have no entry into these columns. DALTON, GA., THURSDAY, DEC. 16 PAY UP. The people are prosperous, and so is The Citizen. Many subscriptions are now due it, and our only authorized collector and solicitor, W. E. Franklin is now out. When he presents your bill, please pay it. You will feel better, and *e will we. If there are any who do not take The Citizen, now is the time to subscribe. You can't buy too many Red Cross stamps. * Prom all accounts, stovaine, the new anesthetic, is all to -the good, and then some. Bryan is going to visit Nicaragua. What's the matter with making him president of that country? Just two more days and we’ll be well rid of the “Christmas shopping” para graphs, for which we are duly thank ful. . ■ * Just think of the crowing that will be done by the first man who is op erated on for appendicitis and is given stovaine. » Mild in Rome’s water supply last week was probably stirred up by that whale of a catfish Jim Nevin failed to catch last summer. * . ^ The Macon News speaks of an old man who tanked up on near-beer and came near freezing. Must have been a mighty poor brand. - + “In Chicago there were 500 mar riage licenses issued Thanksgiving day,” to say nothing of the turkeys that ceased to live. 1 Next Saturday is Christmas. Think of the many thrills caused when that word was mentioned in your hearing when you were a little fellow with curls—or did you wear your hail’ bobbed short? It was a word to charm with then, and it has lost not one whit of its charm now, although you per chance have grown to man's estate. Remember how on Christmas eve you went to bed with the chickens, and it seemed impossible to close your eyes in sleep? Then again do you re member how you tossed about on the bed and grew so tired, while your bones seemed to ache worse and worse with every passing minute? And after you got to sleep—remember how you would awake with every sound and keep your eyes closed for fear you would get a glimpse-of Santa Claus and frighten him away? At last when you risked a single peep, don’t you re member how dark and cold it was and how you groped to the mantel and finally found your stocking packed full of good things? And didn't your heart beat fast when you got back under the warm covers and tried to guess what Santa had brought you? You could feel the shape of the fruits and “goodies” and the tin horn and the jumping jack; and then how many years was it before morning came and you were out of the bed prepared for the day? And such a day as it was! You shot firecrackers until your fingers, smelled like a powder factory; you burned your hands in a dozen different a reason for that. He has all day to vent his grouch against others and may be able to go to his home in a most cheerful mood. He' may have scolded the street car conductor, the waiter at his lunch room, those under him in the office and a long list of men in various walks of life. His wife is deprived of that privilege. The chances are that she has been cooped up at home all day, nurs ing her wrath without a chance to blow off steam until her husband comes home. Now it might be that the judge is a the increasing number and size of the stockings of young America, wise old Kris Kringle was quick to adopt mod ern methods of conveyance and car riage and he called to his aid the ever- ready Man in Gray to help him deliver his gifts and messages of Christmas cheer. Yes, wljen the antiquated mode of delivery was' no longer adequate for the purpose ol reaching the homes; when snow no longer furnished smooth highways for his sleds; when the mod em furnace closed his way of entrance to many firesides, old Santa asked the kind Man in Gray to help him dis tribute his gifts among the millions buttermilk. The output of copper in the United States in 1908 was over 1,000,000,000 pounds. Just think of the Lincolns it would have made! + —- A boy named Victor Victor won a speaker’s medal in Atlanta last week. With a name like that he ought to be able to outtalk any one. 4 . Poet Watson is insane, according to a statement of his brother. Be that as it may, he certaintly knew when it was time for him to duck. A Massachusetts minister wants to, know “Who in hell’ is Leopold?” If he will be patient until death comes he can probably see for himself. 4 A Pennsylvania legislator ’ burned to death by a cigar recently. This should prove a warning to all men to keep out of the legislature. 4 : Carelessness in the mail service no doubt accounts for the nonappearanee of that editorial copy promised by Shope when he left on his honeymoon Rumors that thirsty Georgians are hurrying to Milwaukee to get on the jury that the judge has allowed liquid refreshments have been branded as false. 4 Jive hundred gallons' of buttermilk were used to wipe out a fire that re cently threatened' a western town. Was the town worth the great sacri fice? : The South Georgia man who says there is money in honey might have truthfully added that there is also the devil of an ache if one eats too much of it. 4 — The “Suicide Queen,” after making 54 unsuccessful attempts on her, life, killed herself this week. Had she tried only twice more she could have boasted of her own 57 varieties. +— Senator Raytfer says Zelaya is a “highwayman, tyrant, usurper, mur derer, robber, coward, assasssin rail combined.” Mr. Zelaya will please consider himself thoroughly squelched. v- — shortage in the South Georgia mistletoe supply is another telling ar- favor of North Georgia, nistletoe flourishes' the year cl and the crop is always boun- Point News asks “Why rices like a pretty wom- News refers to this year s ,-er is simple. They are pride to every true eman. places, and stopped the fun only long enough to get a taste of that big, brown turkey; after which -you kept going till after dark. Then came the night and bedtime and you lived the good, old day over again in your dreams. After it was all over, remem ber how you thought it doubtful if you could live the long time interven ing between Christmas days? But before Christmas came you were just the best' boy in the world and wouldn't do any little mean trick *for fear Santa Claus would hear of it and put only fire coals and switches in your stocking. That was long ago with .some of us, but it’s safe to say that not one person living has forgot ten all of this. The mind of the writer goes back over the few short years to when he was a child hanging up his stocking and waiting for the customary annual visit of Santa Claus. Now he is mak ing preparations to hang up his son's stocking! • And, wonder of wonders, the contemplation of the pleasures of the little fellow when he gets a view of his stocking brings even keener de light than the childhood thoughts of the birthday ,of “The Prince of Peace.” Santa, Claus' visit is nearly due and then it will.be twelve long months be fore he comes again. Children will, without doubt, forget after a short time to be little angels; for Santa Claus will have departed and will not wield the good influence over them then as he does for a few weeks be fore Christmas. But what do you ex pect of the little, tots? There is an abundance of mischief in them and it has to get out in order- to permit their growth; and then they will tame down again by next Christmas. But while all this is extremely pleas ant to think , over, let’s consider some thing more serious. Christmas is synonymous with the words “peace, good will toward man” in every civilized country on the face of the earth; it is the one season recog nized'by every Christian nation as the time for universal rejoicing—the time to put away all grouches and scatter sunshine everywhere. The spirit of giving is in the air. The streets are filled with people hur rying around with wild looks in their eyes. It is buy, buy, buy, and it seems as if the more one spends the better one feels for having done so. But while you are buying, are you giving thought to the placing of your pur chases where they will do the most good? Is your spirit of giving in full accord with~what it should be at this time, or are you merely giving to your rich friends—swappings presents reck lessly with those who have little real need for them? If your gifts are to be made selfishly, 'twould be better not to give at all. Christmas is nearly on us. Only a few days of the old year remain, and it is time to begin' looking around to see what good you can do before the new year comes. Are you doin<f your share toward making the season pleas ant to your fellowman? terribly henpecked husband and hasn't whom he will make happy and to the the nerve to apply for a divorce him- countless firesides that he will make self; consequently, he wants to see joyous with Christmas cheer, just as many men as possible in the And yet, ju&t because Santa is a same boat with him, and he made this “rare old fellow;” because he is clothed decision to discourage married men with a mysterious fancy and appeals who are thinking they have a right to the imagination; just because he sel- t-o obtain a legal separation from a dom comes, he" will he welcomed and wife who scolds them and does other praised at this Christmas tide. But things to make life disagreeable. the Man in Gray, his kind and patient Now while the judge holds that assistant, his modem sled and reindeer, scolding is no ground for divorce, he because his face is familiar, his visits didn’t touch on the inborn right of regular, his coming a matter of course, self-defense. If a man abuses an- goes on his constant* weary rounds im- other, the courts give the man abused sung and unblessed, the right to put a stop to the abuse; This is the fate of man in modem and as the law makes no distinction life. He is a hfachine in the great fac- between sexes, if a woman abuses a tory of civilization; he is a number on man he has a right to put a stop to the ledger in which the world keeps it, be she his wife or merely a well- account. ? meaning “friend,” Now that judge But, no! The Man in ‘ Gray shall would feel cheap if he found a whole- not go unsung; some may forget to sale scrap among the married people give him a smile of appreciation; some of his bailiwick, the men taking upon may lighten his* load upon his back by thelnselves the right to stop the abuse taking his gifts, and increase the bur- heaped on them by the merciless tongue den upon his heart by withholding his lashings of their sweet-tempered wives, just due of thanks, yet at this glad sea- ~ son there will he many who will ioin RED CROSS CHRISTMAS STAMPS, | with W ilbuf D> Nesbit in this tribute to “The Man in Gray:” A number of the Red Cross Christ-1 mas stamps that were sent to the local Th l_M an “ comes trudging down, drag stores for sale by the state com- AnThift^thiaerarou^the^to^n combination of edibles known to coun- mittee have not been purchased, and.l Ax ‘‘L hlther ’ thither, through the town,( . „ ’Despite the fact that everything pos sible has seemingly been done to throw countless barriers in the way of the on ward march to popularity which has been made by the greatest drink in captivity, buttermilk, still it is now rapidly falling into the place it de serves in the foremost ranks of popu lar American drinks, and bids fair, within a few years, of outdistancing all drinks that were formerly wont to sneer on buttermilk as the beverage of only the plebeian. Within the past few years_ butter milk" has been advertised for sale by leading soft drink emporiums through out the country. It costs the owners little, and once get a person to put his teeth in a glass of good, cold, fresh buttermilk, and that customer will de mand it in the future. The history of the evolution of but termilk, where it has risen from a fluid fit only 1 to be fed to swine to a top- notcher in its class, is interesting. In olden times after the butter had been jarred out of the clabber, the “leav ings” were turned into the hog trough and the pigs were given the biggest kind of a treat. One day a person (the failure of history to hand down his name is one of its most serious blunders) perceived the evident relish with which the hogs tackled the milk and decided to try it. Of course he en joyed it, and he straightway sought out the sensible people of his neighbor hood and made converts of them. The drinking-club (in those days there were no locker clubs) got busy and it was only a matter of time ( until every per son living in the country where but termilk was grown imbibed freely of the beverage. Turnip greens, corn bread and but termilk soon became the most popular haven’t yet become educated up to the point where they can appreciate the thoroughbred in poultry. It is interesting to speculate on what would have been the result had the show been an exhibit of fine stock in stead of poultry. Farmers all over the country (and the people of this section are no exception) are greatly interested in fine stock and much careful atten tion is now being-given to the raising of better stock each year, as the ex hibits at the county fairs go to show; but the absence of the farmer at the poultry show would indicate that he has no interest in bettering the chicken inhabitants of his barnyard. This, however, is bound to come in time, just as interest in better stock began grow ing until' it finally culminated in the desire of the farmer to surpass all his neighbors in stock raising. Did this failure throw a damper over the enthusiasm of the poultry men? Not much. They are fully determined to have another show next year—a show that will be bigger and better in every patricular than the one which has just closed. The association went to a great expense to hold the show this year; hut the members will fish down in their pockets and meet the deficiency cheerfully. The association has already decided to hold another show and the pluck as displayed in the very face of seeming defeat is bound to he re warded. While the show was a failure in one sense of the word, it was just as great a success from another viewpoint. Those who made entries more than got back the value of the entry fee in points on chicken raising. Judge Lor- ing Brown, am expert, scored the birds and showed just where each fowl ex celled and fell short of another. The exhibitors, through this expert opinion, higher price for cotton than any other market in the state, but local buyers have paid more than any market in the country this winter. And It’s Coming, Too. The Atlanta Journal and The- Dalton Citizen are very strongly advocating a great national high way between Chiekamauga Park and Fort McPherson.—Savannah Press. And the highway is going to be a reality before any great length of time- has elapsed. Another Bondless County. Another county voted no bonds for road improvement last Satur day. And so travelers will con tinue to have many ups and downs. —Jackson Argus. Not having any outstanding bonds' ourselves, we can't afford to take the people of Butts county too severely to task. However, we don't hesitate to say that in onr opinion the voters made a serious blunder. “Uncfe Dick” Is Happy. The talk about Teddy coming back to oppose the president is all bosh. Taft is stronger than Teddy and the people seem to he satis fied and happy.—Darien Gazette. Uncle Dick speaks so confidently he must have been drilling some of his “loving kindness” doctrine into the head of the strenuous one. There Are Hogs and Hogs. Moultrie boasts of having the largest hog in the state. Depends upon the variety, whether it is anything to brag about or not.— Elberton Star. the time for their use is now becoming Wherever all the folks abide short. If you want to be in the fight The ^ Ian W Gra y comes to the door against “the white plague” this year, I „ Wlth messages both sad and gay— it is high time you were purchasing a Bu4 he to us 1S nothing more supply of these stamps. * Than J ust ^ Patient Man in Gray. Press dispatches tell of the use of j the .stamps at Washington. All mail 1 see him bearing through the rain going out from the White House bears As o^^rfully^ as in the sun; with it the message of cheer found on ma ^ bring news.of loss.or gain, these little stamps. While they have Bu4 day hj aa 7 ^ us task W- done - created no end of confusion because I Th6 slck man at the window smites so many people have the idea that they I As do the children at their play his accustomed When, prompt, whiles Appears the faithful Man in Gray. In winter’s cold and summer’s heat He marches down the thoroughfare, The trials of the snow and sleet Are but the things that he must bear— will serve the same as postage stamps, President Taft encourages the use of them in placing them on all his mail. Great Britain has put a stop to the use of the stamps, and Germany has a law making it necessary, if the stamps are used, that they be placed on the back of the envelope. The use to which the money derived. ... from the sale of these stamps is known ^ a S a ' ,ove 1S unfurled to practically every one. It is being No 5101113 kee P tmie nor trumpets used to prevent the spread of tubereu- ■ losis, the most relentless enemy of the Yet he hrmgs us .the outside world, human race, and one that claims more I ™ s unassuming Man in Gray: victims than any other plague known.. - *- The stamps sefl for the small sum The soldier onTifi tented field,, of one cent each. The investment is ™ «* ** * small, but the results of these small I Have , the same valor here revealed investments on the part of countless ™ 1S s * ou ^ soul wo ° y orks at home, people are far reaching and effective. At cottage door or mansion gate By using these stamps you show that He sto Pjh 411611 fastening on his you have lined up in the fight to rout the enemy of so many of your fellow- I ^ sometimes think among the great men. You show interest in those who Should stand the patient Man in are stricken with (the disease, and, I Gray, little as you may think it, the people , who receive your letters hearing these And now we send our & 1 . s afar— stamps think much more of you. 4 “THE MAN IN GRAY.”' And so from dawn to twilight dim I The happy ones, where’er they are, Shall keep a ’daily 'watch for him. [ Here's to that patient, toiling friend; May he have cheer on Christmas day— /r ' Of our good wishes Jet us send A portion to the Man in Gray. ♦ OFFICERS TO BE COMMENDED. AN IMPORTANT DECISION. An important decision reached by a Missouri judge is that a wife has a right to scold her husband, and the husband cannot get a divorce ifierely because of this.' Read what the St. Paul Pioneer Press has to say of the decision: A Missouri judge has decided that a wife has a right to scold her husband, and that the exer cise of that right is no ground for divorce. The full opinion of the court is not at hand, but a layman, if he is a married man, knows well that the court’s de cision is based on a law that is higher, by precedent and prac tice, than any mere legislative en actments. It is backed by both ethics and reason, and will pre vail, regardless of support, or lack of it, from the bench,. If the man never did any scold ing there might be some, reason for his insisting that his. wife should not indulge her desire in t-feat- direction. The husband may not be a scold at home, buj; there is Familiarity is fatal to fame. The old stars that blaze in the sky from age to age, and nightly keep their im memorial vigil over our fields and fire sides, shine with unappreciated glory. So long, and with such regularity, have these lamps of the sky lighted our pathway in the night that their Chief of Police J. C. Fincher, in value, glory and .splendor excites no an article to the local papers this week, praise and little comment. But when makes the statement that during the some infrequent visitor, like Halley’s year 1909 not a member of the police comet, with his long firey, blazing tail, force has drunk one bit of whisky flashes athwart our sky all eyes are while on duty.* If this is fame, as turned upon him and all beauty and | Chief Fincher says, and he is in the praise is ascribed to his wondrous best possible position to know, too shining. What matters it if he is a much praise cannot be accorded local foreigner to our solar system; if he officers. does threaten the possibility of dire de- -Now it is severely against the rales struetion to our little world if it should of the police department for a member come within the sweep of his flaming of the force while on duty to drink tail? Still, because of his rarity, the any intoxicant; but it is probable, as newness of his face in the sky, the dis- Chief Fincher says in his article, that tinctness of his difference from the this is the first year the rule has been other members of the heavenly fireside, obeyed strictly by the members of the this wanderer and tramp through heav- force. Chief Fincher has served the en’s homeless way. attracts and holds city for 18 years, and ■ he makes the the attention, receives and enjoys the statement that the record this year praises of men, while the “faithful is far better Than it has ever been watchers from the celestial dome” go | since he has been in the service here. Chief Fincher’s card, in full, fol lows : Editor Citizen: In regard to our police force for the year 1909, I am proud to say that there hasn't been any whisky drunk by any of the officers, to my knowl edge, while on duty. This is-the best record since I have been working for- the city—about 18 years. Mr. Britton, Mr. Carr and my self and Judge J. A. Longley have run the police court without hav ing any ''hard feelings or words with each other. I am proud to say that I think we have all done our duty as we saw it for the best interests of the city, and hope the record for 1910 will be as good. J^C. FINCHER, Chief of Police. 4 try folk. Now, it is not our purpose to make our readers hungry, but the above sentence was necessary in the sadly' incomplete history of the great drink. While it was an easy matter to inter est the people living outside the cities in the new drink, it was impossible to get the city folk to taste it. For years these people missed half of the joy in eating by refusing to try buttermilk. At last came a great awakening over the entire country. The. fates that had conspired to keep buttermilk in the background (probably because it was the nectar of the gods of Olympus, for every one will concede that to be a fact) somehow lost their grip and the great drink came into its own. Now, in addition to giving delight to thousands of the followers of Epicu rus, buttermilk has recently shown that it was put on earth for even another purpose. Several days ago a big dairy in a small western town caught fire. For a time the entire town was in dan ger of going up in smoke on account of a scarcity uf water, when some one happened to think of the large supply of buttermilk in the dairy. To make a long story short, after 500 gallons of buttermilk had been poured on the flames, the fire was extinguished and the town was saved. Nqw, in considering the loss of 500 gallons of buttermilk (read it again) the question naturally arises as to whether the town was worth the great sacrifice. • While many will claim it was, it is safe to say that not one will fail, in considering the question, to think of the number of glasses of but termilk that 500 gallons# would have made and there will be enough water to flow from the mouths of them to have wiped out a fire 500 times as large as the one pompletely routed by the but termilk. :—f_ A SUCCESSFUL FAILURE. If the hog is of the human variety therefore learned many things about I we very seriously doubt the truth of chickens they never could have learned Moultrie’s claims. We have some that through their own observations. won’t take a back seat for any. The Citizen stands ready at all times to help in every possible way the Dal ton Poultry association. Realizing the ultimate good that will come of the movement, we are glad the association is not to fall through and we don’t j hesitate to predict the success of the show next year. 4- ♦♦»+♦+++♦ + ♦♦♦ + +♦+ + + +++-+♦+♦ + 4 + EDITORIAL POTPOURI. + + i ^ | up m arms. ♦+»♦♦»■♦♦♦ + +♦♦»+♦♦»+ + ♦♦+♦♦+ Present Arms I Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, of New York) predicts war between the sexes unless women are allowed to vote. Why, Mrs. Belmont’s sol dier’s would find themselves sur rounded in no time.—Marietta Journal. A strange feature connected with such a waf would be the ladies worih? have to surrender as soon as they were Not Always. Heavy feels the head that wears the red nose.—Griffin Herald. The Herald, donbtless refers to the morning after. At times it feels, ex tremely light. Our Faith Is Shaken. Miss Rose Cleveland, sister of the late Grover Cleveland, has come out strongly for woman suf frage.—Macon News. We thought better of the family than that. Latest, Not Last. The last issue of The, Dalton Citizen was unusually bright. Edi tor Shope is married now and has somebody to keep' him straight.— Augusta Herald. The Herald means <£ latest” rather than “last.” The fact that the editor of The Citizen is married doesn’t natur ally carry with it the idea that The Citizen will suspend publication. on forgotten and unsung. Thus we are led to philosophise, as we sit in the twilight looking out the window upon # the busy streets and see the many who pass along. The happy, busy throng of men, women and children are hurrying here and there, and the spell of the coming Christmas is already upon them. It is betrayed in the elastic steps; it is writ ten on. their cheerful countenances; it beams in their smiles; it is accented in the tones of their voices. Trudging j along among this happy throng that we see from the window we see a “Man in Gray.” Over his strong ‘ shoulder is | flung a big leather hag, heavy with gifts of love and messages of joy. His merry whistle rings out upon the chilly air, as here and there he leaves a pack. And thus he lightens his load by adding | to another’s joy. In and out he goes, this Man in QrajL welcomed to the door, but not wipin'; welcomed for [ Lynch has been chosen to head the what he has and Wrings. Day in and National league next year. A man day out, comes and goes the familiar with that name ought to be president figure. He is the medium of exchange ; j of the “outlaws.” the courier with> sealed orders from distant parts; hejis the indispensable I The Augusta Herald speaks of 2,000 assistant of Santa Claus. When this Pole I being on strike in Massachusetts, business of Sant/ Claus'had grown to They|‘e probably holding a Donuy- such tremendous 1 , proportions, due to j brooblf air in miniature there. / J tm sSafl The first annual show of the Dalton Poultry association held here last week was probably patronized by fewer peo ple than any other exhibition ever held in this city. It is probable that less than three hundred, all told, including paid admissions and those passed in free, visited the show’—fewer people than there were birds exhibited—and the cause of this failure from a financial standpoint is something the .promoters of the show are now trying to figure out. Fully six months prior to the open ing of the poultry show a band of en thusiastic fanciers met at the court house and, at an enthusiastic meeting, organized the Dalton Poultry and Pet Stock association, deciding at the same time to hold a poultry show, in this city in December. Many fanciers who were not present at the meeting later took stock in the association, and the enthusiasm as manifested by the mem bers was enough to seize every one who heard of the movement until the entire country should have become inoculated with the fever. The newspapers took it up -and. thoroughly advertised it, while the members continued to boost it on every hand. With success in sight, the time for the opening of the big show rolled around only to have it fall flat and prove to be something that didn’t in the least seem to interest the people of this paft of the state. It couldn’t have been that the people were afraid of the price, for the un trance fee was only 10 cents, and with the high price cotton was bringing the farmer was fairly rolling in wealth. Then, it couldn’t have been that the ex hibits were not up to the standard, for there were hundreds of chickens being shown and the scoring of Judge Brown showed conclusively that many of the entries wore Capable of carrying off blue ribbons at any poultry show. Tlio only reasonable explanation that can bo give for the failure is, tlie peo ple of this section are not interested in the breeding ofJfaney. poultry. They 7 “The Good Die Young.” The Washington Herald does not believe that Speaker Cannon or the secretary of agriculture will ever resign.—Savannah Press. And Uncle Joe is sure to live to a ripe old age; so what’s the use? The Sly Young Thing! The dry weather has affected the mistletoe crop in this region. . But, in case of emergency, mistletoe by suggestion will do just as welL Albany Herald. Isn’t Brother McIntosh the devilish young thing! He’s Been There. Chauncey Depew says he knows of a man who got a liberal educa tion while waring for his wife to put on her hat.—Dalton Citizen. Hope it was an education along the line of being more liberal in ' his judgment of her hat—Elber ton Star. More likely it was an education in the use of new and hitherto uncoined “cuss” words.—Orange (Tex.) Daily Leader. It doesn’t take a very shrewd person to guess that the editor of the Leader is a married man Scored a BuIIseye. - When a newspaper uses a col umn of space telling people to shop early, it’s a 10 to 1 shot that it is very hard up for something to print.—Dalton Citizen. That’s a good shot anyway.—Elberton Star. Beaten To It. Soon we’ll have to drop half the advice and simply say: “Shop.”— Atlanta Journal of Wednesday. And Thursday evening the Georgian I beat the Journal to it and headed its column of paragraphs with the one| word. v - Prolonged Absence^ Explained. A financier says that “A dollar today is doing twice the work it did three generations ago.—Co lumbus Enquirer-Sun. Law Should Be Enforced. There is no denying the fact that most of the crimes committed in Georgia can be laid at the door of the worthless vagrant and vaga bond, aided by the boozq man law against this class of criminals should be rigidly enforced. With the proper effort the -vagrant class can be reduced very considerably. —Darien Gazette. The Gazette never fails to put in a hek against the vagrant, and a better subject to knock could not be fouqd. Dajlton’s Mayor-Elect, Hob. Paul Trammell has been elected mayor of Dalton. Mr. Trammell has many friends in Gordon county who warmly con gratulate the city of Dalton on securing the service of so able and efficient a citizen to act as mayor. He is one of the leading business men of North Georgia, and Dalton may well be proud of him.—Cal houn News. It is good news to learn that onrlratW S P eak " The city, absent Mass are bard at wo A S % - not “loafing.’ Now Aw, Shut Up! that J. Pluvius has got started, he may get busy at short intervals and make up for lost time. We are still about ten inches short on our average rainfall in this region.—Albany Herald. Just think of the people who lived during Noah’s time and quit your growling. Mail Service.Sure. The ultimate consumer of war den seeds is getting all that is com ing to him now—if his congress man and senator is a thoughtful man.—Macon Telegraph. The Telegraph seems to have unlim ited confidence in the .mail service even during the Christmas rush. Records Crooked. The home market cannot be sur passed. Jackson has had the best cotton market in the state this fall. Butts County Process. straight. Dalton has not only paid And Editor Vaughn, Too. ° dorous r sklulk had some- ? to say about crazy people here from MilledgUle, etc. If we Just had a f e bZ77 T 011 ' SMv “' s - BeM”! H. tab and others we would soon Si a Iar g er , better and liver city.—Eatonton News. FdTSV 116 , ab ° Ve il WOuld seem that feelffils ai rfiT in;{ured som * one’s- ~ modest y Prevented his Milledgeville. andt lood “ ° f that. a ° ood ’ llve one at Chicago telephone girls must ^ °P their rats, puffs must sfnn • ’ tur> ’ e te.. and S^h a Se f'“' In -•ompany htends ! he teIe P h °“ “hello -K reporl ,1,! " ,, ‘ ' 101 P 1 ohibition. Jr miv u the meMS of for him the mmm w * ^ “rsv; free to would feel nominate another in 1912