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ESTABLISHED 1855.
O. H. B. BLOOD WORTH JR.
Editor
' O. H. B. BLOODWORTH JR
L. S. JACKSON. • Owners.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF MONROE
COUNTY AND CITY OF FORSYTH.
Subscription, Per Year SI.OO
Published weekly and entered at Post
office at Forsyth, Ga., as and, class matter
advertising rates
Display ads 1U? per inch up.
Reading notices, body type, 5* per One.
Reading notices, black laced type,
per line.
No ad accepted for less than 25?.
Anyway the income tax
bill provisions never touched
us.
o—o
A few mere beautiful days
of sunshine and the farmers
of Monroe will not be so fur
behind after all.
o—o
The loafer is generally the
knocker and scandal monger;
people who have business to
attend to have no time for
such things.
o—o0 —o
“Some are born obscure,
some attain obscurity and
some are elected to the Vice
Presidency,” says the Val
dosta Tift.
At last the United States
is to have diplomats selected
because of their qualifications
instead of by the size of their
pocket books.
o —o
Democracy has a rare op
portunity to put herself
•‘square” with the people.
Here’s hoping that they will
seize time by the forelock.
o—o0 —o
‘‘House Close to Police
Station is robbed,’’ says a
headline. People will take
these chances. Why don’t
they move farther away? —
Philadelphia North Ameri
can. *
o —o
Willtam D. Upshaw spoke
this week in Chattanooga on
“Rattle Snakes, Pole Cats
and Blind Tigers.” If he
can see all those things, he
has assuredly been upagamst
the real article and should
know whereof he speaks.
o—o
Fc r»yth people are not true
to their town or true to their
friends when they send away
to purchase those things that
they can get at home. Any
thing bought in Forsyth helps
the’town and helps every
body m the town.
o—o
James .1. Hill says that
soil and climate are the two
best assets the human race
will ever find. Having both
in abundance, there is no
reason why Georgia should
not. take first rank in all lines
of endeavor among the states
of the Union.
o—o
The Augusta Chronicle
says that nobody ever heard
of the high cost of living in
the days when a woman knew
it was all right to call on her
neighbor with an old shawl
thrown over her head and her
bare arms wrapped up in her
apron.
o—o
The Democrats have in
deed kept faith with t ie peo
ple in the tariff bill intro
duced Monday by Represen
tative Underwood. It re
niains to be seen whether the
representatives in the House
and Senate, who parade un
der the Democratic banner,
are Democrats in truth.
o—o
It was a beautiful spirit
displayed by the Glee Club
of the University of Georgia
in giving their concert before
the prisoners at the Federal
Penitentiary i n Atlanta.
Their college songs and ex
cellent music made the pris
oners forget their lot for a
moment. Such an exhibi
tion of humane interest in
the unfortunate speaks well
for the University and for
the students of the institu
tion.
The Awful Lot of the
Preacher and Editor
The preacher has a hard
time. If his hair is gray,
he is old. If he is a young
man he hasn’t had experi
ence. If he has ten children,
he has too many. If' he has
none he should have, and is
n’t setting a good example.
If his wife sings in the choir
she is presuming. If eh e
doesn’t, she isn’t interested
in her husband’s work. If a
preacher reads from notes,he
is a bore. If he speaks extem
poraneously, he isn’t deep
enough. If he stays at home
in his study he doesn’t mix
enough with the people. If
he is seen around on the
streets, he ought to be at
home getting up a good ser
mon. Is he calls on some
very poor family, he is play
ing to the grand stand. If
he calls at the home of the
rich, he is an aristocrat.
Whatever he does, someone
could have told him how to
do it better. He has a fine
time living on donations
which-never come in, and
promises which never ma
ture. Next to being an edi
tor it is an awful life. —Ex-
change.
And right well would this
apply to the lot of the poor
down trodden editor. If he
writes anything about a per
son he is trying to curry fa
vor with linn; if through in
advertence he leaves his name
out of the paper, he bus
something against him; if
he supports a man he’s bou
ght; if he’s conservative he’s
an old fogy, if he expresses
new ideas, he’s hairbrained ;
indeed no matter what he
does the people are never
satisfied.
Since we’ve had the paper
we’ve tried in every possible
way to give ail the news, to
leave out nothing worthy of
mentioning and to accom
plish whatever good we could
for Forsyth and Monroe
county and yet, only this
week, it has reached our ears
that certain parties are an
gry, real angry, with a capi
tal A., because we “refuse”
to put their names in the pa
per. Dear, dear mistaken
creatures if you only know
how Inii'd we have tried to
get news of interest, how we
have endeavored to put in
every little local item, you
would see how unjust is the
accusation. In fact in the
cases in question the editor
himself has every Wednes
day morning for about a
year been to members of the
families of those who are so
hurt and have asked, nay
begged, for news and with
the reply each time: “I
don’t know a thing.”
So far as the columns of
the Advertiser are concerned
we haven’t a thing against
a living soul, they are open
to everybody aud we have
never left out an item of
news when we knew of it.
We regard the paper as Mon
roe County’s, not ours.
Remember, we want to
publish the happenings and if
somebody else’s party geta
in and yours is left out, its
because she told us and you
didn’t.
We’re sorry that we cau’t
please everybody; all we
can do is to try to give the
people the best paper possi
ble and to do our duty as we
are given to see it.
Truly do preachers and
editors have a hard time.
And perhaps this applies to
lawyers, doctors, merchants,
teachers, housekeepers, ban
kers and all others as well;
perhaps, it does.
Every son of Utah who is
eligible to vote,but who does
not exercise the right, will
be compelled to pay a poll
tax of SB under the terms of
the bill passed by the state
senate. The tax will be as
sessed against women as well
as men.
Congressional
Free Seed
Alas!
And did the senate pass
•A bill
To kill
Free seed?
It did, indeed 1
This is no joke—
No more can Hoke
Aguatue 8.,
And our M. C.
Send ub b’gosh!
The seed of squash,
And other “subs”
Alack, alas 1
It’s mighty tough—
Our garden stuff
And all our
Flowers
We’ll have to grow
From seed, you know,
For which we pay—
Aiaek the day!
—Banks County Journal.
A pplendid lament, but
alas, alack, the provision to
do away with the free seed
did not pass, the House
members toook it off in Con
ference and so the dear Ccn
etituents will continue to re
ceive these little tokens of
love and affection from their
dear Congressmen.
The sending out of the
seed is not without its ad
vantages; it sometimes let’s
you know that you have a
Congressman still in Wash
ington, but bo far as any
real service is rendered by
this practice, we’re unable
to see it.
Some people there are,
perhaps, who plant the seed
and raise monuments of let
tuce, radishes and squash to
keep the memory of their
Congressmen green and fra
grant; but the practice seems
to us to be a ruthless and
extravagant waste of the peo
ple’s money. And by not
killing the appropriation for
the purchase of garden seed
the Democrats lost a glorious
opportunity to show the
country that they were real
ly and truly trying to re
trench in the matter of ap
propriations.
Most people are of the be
lief that the Government
raises these seed for distri
bution ; when as a matter of
fact they are bought from
private concerns, at enor
mous expense to the tax pay
ers and so far as we can as
certain they serve no purpose
except to help out some eas
tern seed concerns, furnish
jobs for those persons who
address and paste 011 the la
bels in Washington and re
mind the dear constituent
every nowand then that the
Congressman’s secretary is
still on the job in Washing
ton.
The money thus wasted
could be far more effectively
used. So, we’re “agin” free
seed.
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the elements the absence of which
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convert it into rich red blood and
material necessary for overcoming
natural body waste.
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or keep them in your room. Take
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We know what Rexall Dyspepsia
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we not certain Rexall Dyspepsia
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Forsyth Thu Store Georgia
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