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Official Organ of Ben Hill County and City of Fitzgerald
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Local Readers 10 cents the line for each insertion. No ad taken for
less than 25 cents.
Campaign Funds Needed
The National Democaatic Committee is urgently in need of funds
to carry on the campaign. Victory is in sight, but it takes money for
orators and literature. Won’t you send us one dollar to add to Benp
Hill County’s contribution. Every dollar will be needed. A receipt
from the National Headquarters will be sent you. Those of the sub
seribers to the fund who have not paid their dollar will please do so,
as we must remit it now, if it is intended to do any good.
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High beef and low wages may contribute to a Democratic victory.
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The Oil Trust is **busted” and Gasoline 20c a gallo—O obring
back the Trust to me, to me, etc, (
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What’s become of the ‘“Money Trust” investigation. Its findings
might make good campaign literature,
Broom Corn For Profit.
In urging the growing of broom corn as a crop of great profit,
Dr. C. W. Bynham, a physician who has vetired to a 1000. acre farm
about 90 miles north of Littte Rock, Ark., said to the Board of Trade
ot that city that he had proved that Arkansas can beat I'linois and
Indiana in broom corn growing, He added:
“This year I have grown eight acres of perfect new dwarf brocm
corn and sold it at the highest price. This wioter I shall erect & broom
factory on my farm unless I change the plan and erect it 1n Little
Rock, shipping the raw product here. lam anxicus to demonstrate
that we can do better with brorom corn on land that is right for it than
we can with cotton, I figure it that cotton sells for $25 per acre,
with $5.50 added for seed, a total of $30.50. The cost of raising tl e
cotton is $17.25 per acre, with $6 15 added for ginning, a total of
$23.40. This shows a profit of only $7.10 per acre, while the profit
on broom corn is $67.90 per acre.”—Manufacturers Record.
Augusta Street Railway Strike
The heroes (%) of Augusta, murderers of the innocent, are calling
on the Governor to gug the Press of the State, It was opportune and
perhaps entirely within the law, that martial law was declared in
Augusta, and that the militia of the State be placed in charge of the
city for the protection of life and property. This act did not contem
plate promiscuous attack upon inoffensive citizens who, in the pursuit
of their calling might come within the reach of the guns of the militia.
The case of a small boy on a wheel, no stretch of imagiration could
have connected him with an act of trespass deserving to be shot. A
man, riding with his wife aad child, certainly could not bave been
mistaken for a menace to the peace of the community, and yet the
murderous guns put several shots into the vehicle wounding the man.
Whatever finding may be the result of the military investigation, the
people of Richmond county owe it to themselves that the guilty be
placed on trial and that a jury of the citizens of the county pass upon
their case. We are not ready to submit to the rule of the military nor
should the peovle of Augusta stand for the intimidation ot its wage
earners. Gov. Blease, of S. C,, to his credit has thus far refused to
call out the militia on the Caroiina side and it is said he is preparing
to institute proceedings to vacate the charter of the Street Railway
Company in the event the strike continues. This 1s one of the means
a State can resort to to enforce the franchise privileges of its public
carriers and is an equitable position in the interest of the public.
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The Desease And Its Remedy.
The Atlanta Georgian is a free lance in politics, a free lance
because its owner through the fortune of being the sole heir of a rich
father and the prospective heir of a very rich mother can afford to tell
just what he pleases regardless of the business end of the Newspaper.
The editorial writer of the Georgian is the son of one of the original
greenbackers, the first progressives in America. Filled with the am
bition to be of some real value to the masses that form the basis of
prosperity of the world, and given free scope to express the real
thoughts that may possess him, without reference to the business
manager, he out-herods Herod in his preachments against the forees
that make the burdens of the producer. In our own limited way we
have at times called attention to the fact that there is not sufficient
money to do the worlds business, but we have not charged any spe
cific agency with the burden of correction, or the motif for its exis
tence. The Georgian, rich in its own resources, lays the blame on
the banking system, Our banks are directored and oflicered mostly by
our neighbors and as a whole, they iike others, follow the line of least
resistance, the easy way to get on. That they take advantage of the
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customs and laws as they find them, no one can blame, our country
banks are merely a spoke in the wheel and are propelled more than
propelling. The system itself needs a radical change, one that will
offer relief directly to the producer without the intervention of
brokers and commission men. Money itself is not a thing of mystery,
its creation is solely in the havds of the constituted authorities, the
government. The fetich belief that its value consists of the material
in which the amount is expressed is the error that has played havoc
with the exchange medium of the world. The avenue used by govern
ments to get its monies into circulation have been limited to the pay
ment of salaries and pensions and public buildings for government
purposes. Aside from the great benefit to be derived through the
building of permanent highways throughout the country by the feder
al government, the expendicure necessary would so increase the money
supply in circulation as to provide a sufficient medium in circulation
to enable the natural law of supply and demand to solve the problems
now so vexing to the producers ot the simple necessaries of life. The
abuses of which the Georgian complains are very evident and the
remedy lies solely inan increased supply of real money, that the
Government alone can give.
Ben Hill Superior
Court in Session
Ben Hill Superior Court open
ed the fall term Monday morning
Judge George delivered a strong
charge to the Grand Jury and
especially urged them to look into
the county’s expenditures and to
see that the public funds are law
fully expended. He also called
their attention to the duty of ex
amining the records of the various
Justices of the Peace and to see
that the same do not exceed the
lawful charges to litigants and the
county. The charge to the Grand
Jury is generally considered above
the average delivered to anv Ben
Hill County jury. The Grand
Jury organized with, Mr. H. M.
Dodd as foreman and Mr. C. A.
Newcomer as clerkand T, 3. Ran
som as Bailiff.
GRAND JURORS.
McGlamory, M. G.
Davis, R.
Paulk, Jas. Jr.
Gaff, Larkin
Dodd, H. M.
Pool, W. A.
McCall, A. W.
McMillan, Geo.
Clark, P. F.
Secarbrough, J. W.
Fitzgerald, Tharp
Lee, R. E.
Evans, W. U.~
Newcomer, C. A.
Harris, F. W.
Williamson, A. L.
Murray, V. D.
Lee, O. D.
Ewing, A. B.
Strange, J. C.
Denmark, A. H.
" Robitzsch, W. H.
Holtzendorf, C. A.
Barrentine, J. M.
Value of Confederate
Money
Gen. St. Clair Mulholland, vet
eran and historian of the Civil
War, tells an incident showing
the utter worthlessness of Con
federate paper money at the
close of the war, says Every
body’s Magazine.
Shortly after Lee’s surrender,
says the general, ‘'l was a short
distance from Richmond. = Two
Confaderate soldiers were going
home to become men of peace
again. Gne had a lame, broken
down horse, which he viewed
with pride.
“Wish I had him, Jim,” said
the other. ‘‘What will you take
for him? I’ll give you $20,000
for him.’ -
‘““No ,’ said Jim.
“Give you $lOO,OOO, his friend
urged.
“Not much, replied Jim. ‘I
just gave $120,000 to have him
shod.””
A Frigia Atmosphers, 7
“Where you been?”
“Been to call on that Bostond girl.
And say!”
“Welll”
“Whenever I ca¥l on that girl I al
ways feel like I had been farthest
north.”
: Doubtful..
“Jones is extremely attentive to his
wife.”
“Still very much in love with her,
eh?”
“Either that, or he is afraid of her.”
~--Boston Transcript.
Mileage Case Befo:e
Commission Oa
Friday
Thursday and Friday of this
week have been set apart by the
state railroad commission for the
mileage book Learing, which be
gins Thursday moruing at 10
o’clock,’
This hearing will be the second
to be held upon the petition of
the traveling men for an order re
quiring the railroads to pull mile
age upon trains. At present th¢
roads compel the exchange of
mileage for tickets at stations,
The tirst hearing was held sev
eral weeks ago. Before a decision
could be rendered a kill was in
troduced in the legislature cover
ing the points made in the petition
of the traveling men.
In order that the legislature
might act first the commission
delayed a Jecision on the petition,
The bill was passed by both houses
but was vetoed by Governor
Brown. Then the traveling men
filed a request with the commission
for a further hearing, the date for
the same bing set for Oct, 10.
1t is the purpese of the com
mission to bave an ‘exhaustive
hearing. Representatives of the
traveling organizations and the
railroads will be present. 1n ad
dition the commission has sum
moned five station agents and five
conductors as witnesses. These
come from different roads. The
public will also be entitled to be
heard.
First, then, better schools are
the foundation stone upon which
neighborhood betterment must
be built" No need to go farther
in search for the cause of our
poor farming and farmers, when
we find that over 90 per cent of
our people get no schooling be
yond the seventh or eighth grade
of our common public schools
and that these are run for less
than half the year. But a longer
school term or a hig school, ora
college education is a difficult
problem for pecple who make a
yield of sixteen to twenty bush
els of oats, fifteen to eighteen
bushels of corn and 175 to 200
pounds of lint cotton per acre.
Progressive Farmer.
WHERE -SEDAN CHAIR- IS USED
The 3-Century-Old Vehicle is Stlll Seen
on May Day In Knutsford,
England.
X smersaase
The news that there is a woman still
living who rode 4n a Sedan chair is a
reminder of the fact that there is one
town in England where & Sedan chair
is still used. It is at Knutsford, in
Cheshire—the “Cranford” of Mrs.
Gaskell. Every May day Knutsford
arrays itself in gala attire. Sports are
held on the village green, the May
queen is elected and crowned, and—
in order that no aspect of antiquity
should be missing—the Sedan chair is
produced.
Whatever may have been absolutely
the latest date at which a Sedan chair
was used, the chair, at any rate, had
longer life than most forms of public
conveyance. For it appeared in Eng
land as early as 1581, and in London
fiftty years later, when Sir Francis Dun
comb obtained the sole privilege of
letting and hiring them. Thus the
Sedan chair was in use for roughly
three centuries, and how many hand
soms are likely to be carrying passen
gers in 2133, which will be the tercen
tenary of their introduction?—London
NEW SPELLING IN ENGLAND
Board of Reformers Are Planning to
Deliver Lectures Throughout
the Country.
A campaign in favor of gpelling re
form is to be conducted in Londor
and the provinces in the autumn and
winter.
Mr. William Archer, under the aus
pices of the Simplified Spelling soci
ety, is to conduct a lecturing tour on
his return from the east, and lectures
will also be delivered by many other
well-known men throughout the coun
try.
The lecturers will advocate the re
form of what they regard as the pres
ent “chaotic spelling,” which they de
clare is so remote from pronunciation
that it is no guide to the English lan
guage at all, and tends to degrade our
speech.
The soclery desires to fix a standard
of pronuncriation of the English lan
guage tbroughout the empire.
It hes been stated that the English
peozie over seas, particularly in Aus
tralia and South Africa, are deviating
so seriously from the general stand
ard of speech prevailing in the mother
country that the time might come
when visitors from these parts of the
empire might fail to make them
selves understood in London
Mr. Tate, director of education in
Melbourne, has suggested several
gpelling reforms to which effect has
been given in the official papers is
sued by his department. Discusgsions
have taken place and the council of
public education in Melbourne is ad
dressing a letter to the president of
the board of education in London urg
ing upon him, in the interest of edu
cation, the necessity of a general
adoption of a simplified reform spell
ing.—London Daily Graphic.
FRENCH PAPERS FOR SALE
Thief With Valuabkle Historic Docu
ments on His Person Arrested
in Madrid,
A French subject has been arrested
in Madrid after trying to sell impor
tant historical documents stolen, with
out doubt, from some museum O
French official center. The arrest
was made by policemen, who had the
man under observation, under the pre
tense of being probable buyers.
They found upon him the ratification
of the secret treaty of peace between
Louis XIV. and Philip IX. of Spain.
This treaty, commonly called the Py
renees Treaty, was signed in 1659, and
terminated the war between France
and Spain. In virtue of it Louis mar
rled the Infanta Maria Teresa, Phil
lip’s daughter.
Another document contains the mar
riage articles, in which the princess
rencunces all rights to the crown of
Spain. Finally, the man exhibited a
parchment signed by the. emperor,
Charles V. The documents present all
the appearance. of authenticity. The
two former bear royal sgeals and the
signatures of Maria Teresa, Louis
XIIV. and Philip IV.
The prisoner’s body is covered with
tatooed designs in colors, beautifully
executed. He has deep scars on botb
his wrists.
New School Sanitation Plan. :
A new lidea in school sanitation has
been tested by the medical director of
Dartmouth college. About five years
ago he began making bacteriologic ex
aminations of the air of the college
halls and recitation rooms, and soon
found a great periodic variation in the
number of bacteria colonies that de
veloped on the culture media exposed
in the usual shallow open dishes. He
then adopted the plan of disinfecting
with formaldehyde any room showing
more than thirty-five colonies of clus
ters of any kind of bacteria to a dish.
This custom has been continued, and
the result has been quite striking, the
cases of epidemic colds, influenza and
bronchitis, among the students having
been reduced about one-half.
An Applied Definition.
E. Trowbridge Dana, grandson of
the poet Longfellow, who was recent
ly married in Cambridge with a beau
tiful ritual of his own composition,
said the other day to a reporter:
“If all couples gave to marriage the
profound thought and reverence that
my wife and I give to it there would
be fewer mismatings.
“The average married pair, it some
times seems to me, are like the
Blinkses.
“‘Pa,’” said little Tommy Blings one
day, ‘what’s a weapon?’
“‘A weapon, my son,” Blinks an
swered, ‘ls something to fight with.’
“*Then, pa,’ said little Tommy, ‘is
ma your weapon? ”
Men and Women of World.
The total population of the world is
now'estimated at 1,700,000,000. This is
based upon the most recent censuses,
which all civilized countries now take,
with a careful estimate of the number
of inhabitants of uncivilized lands.
The proportion of the sexes is known
for 1,038,000,000 of these, the ratio be
ing 1,000 males to 990 females. The
ratio varies considerably in different
places. In Europe there are 1,000 men
to 1,045 women; in America, 1,000
men to 964 women; in Asia, 1,000
men to 961 women; in Australia, 1,000
men to 967 women. .
Trying Ever Since.
“So your vacation is over. Where
did you go?”
“Nowhere.”
- “Why, I thought you had a fine time
all planned out.”
“So I had, but the first day my va
cation began, my wife asked me to
match some samples for her.”
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FRESH EGGS IN GOOD DEMAND
Little More Attention to Details win
Result in Profit, Repaying Time
and Labor.
(By PROF. A. G. PHILLIPS, Kansas.)
The demand for eggs seems practi
cally unlimited, more especially for
the better grades. The growth of the
storage industry has tended to equal
ize prices by increasing the de
mand in summer when fresh eggs
are plentiful and supplying the defi
ciency in winter when fresh eggs are
scarce.
Since the demand is greatest fur
the best grades, it seems obvious that
a little more attention to details will
result in a profit amply repaying the
extra time and labor involved.
It is not the purpose here to enter
tnto any discussion of the ways of
increasing the production of eggs, but
gimply to point out the possibilities
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An Excellent Egg Candier.
of profit as a result of extra care in
handling and marketing the eggs now
produced; the extra profit is to be
made by obtaining the top retail
price, and, as consumers become
acquainted with the product, by ob
taining a premium of from one to five
cents per dozen over the regular prict
pair for ordinary eggs.
In order to obtain top prices fo
eggs, they must be uniform in size
uniform in color, and uniform iLI
quality. The uniformity in color is
not always important and depends on
the market; uniformity in size ex
cludes small eggs and unusually large
ones as well; while uniformity in
quantity calls for absolutely clean eggs
that have been gathered promptly
after being laid, kept under the best
possible conditions, and marketed not
more than three or four days after
they are laid.
TEACHING HEN GOOD LESSON
Poultry Gate as Shown in the Illustra
tion Will Save Cussing and
Garden Truck.
Barrels of perspiration may be
saved by the poultry gate shown
herewith, which is reproduced, with
the article from the New England
Homestead. Whoever has uninten
tionally acquired the hen chasing,
hen-cussing habit may ecure himself
with this little device.
In the fence, preferably at a point
near where the fowls are fed, a little
door about 10 by 12 inches is hung
on the inside of the yard, so as to al
ways swing shut without springs. It
is stopped from swinging outward by
the peg shown at the right.
Mrs. Hen, returning repentant from
the garden, will poke her head into
every mesh of the fence in her efforts
to rejoin her happy compani(or &
gate will thus allow her e
without excitement or commoti
thelord of the harém from th
owner,
But another advantage. may be
gained by using the gate in connec
tion with the laying pens. If the two
gates are used, one opening inward
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fa front of, the nest, the other openx
ing outward at the back or the side.
so that the hens may go to another
yard after laying, the poultryman
may know which heas have and have
not laid. Thus he may avoid the
trouble usually connected with ordi
nary trap nests, :
Breeders for Next Year.
This is the season of the year to
buy your breaders for next, as now
the large breeders are selling at bar
gain prices in order to have the room
veeded for the growing stock. 5