The Bainbridge democrat. (Bainbridge, Ga.) 18??-????, July 18, 1907, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextBAIHBRIDGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY ■ORRIBC JULY 18, 1907, | Vo!. 36—No. 39—$l.oo a Yoar. Here Shall the P*ss the People’s Rights Maintain VAGRANCY AND VAGRANTS. ! POTENTIALITY OF WO MEN. 1 ! an 1 i' (aim 1 '' HU : 'ax it m2 81 . r of the leading planters . i men of Georgia are be* ij i( i legislature to see if cannot b- done to clear va^rancv situation, d he the big City officials is do* damage to the state at large A .,U , e in a large manner re* !i for the small cotton cr *p n f in ^ pianter and lumber dealer wll ,, , [.roininent in the central part , ti.i late declares that much of liciT'ip is in a poor condition sun* |i,-e;iiise the negroes that in test tj’ -iiory won’t do the lira) W( , r l <i II,. declares that there is no ] 3 , k d farm hands but lack ot em„ | |ir ,. eill ,.ni oi the law which requires 8 ]i aaif hodied men to work. Con* dilioio surrounding l.un are not peculiar to his section. They are parts,it the state an., ate described w much the same as t' ose with uliji j, |), ,-atur county has for some tunc iic n familiar. Ti,, !cst informed among the plan- j,. r . up. ,,f the oyinion that the cities aii ,j t, lW -|js throughout the s'ate are not miking a serious and consceu* ti,, i~ effort to eosoperate with the nun; ,lionets by properly handling tli-,|m siion of vagrants. They are olthc opinion that a great deal ot a,)(,,| would result should the cities inaugurate a revival ot the recent agitation against vagrants and thus nerve in part to drive out both the loafer and his bad influence. To this inactivity and mdiffereuoe to a serious situation planters here attribute most of the unsatisfactory labor conditions now obtaining in ti, : gi i, and they express in strong l-;it,* their opinion that tte citizens o! the cities and to ,vns should offer tiiem more co-.opervtion in remedy* ii,g tlie evils from whicu ali alike :r. -utV-ring. They cannot under*, s'- i why business men do not take a i i grr interest in a condition of w eh hotli the farmer and the citv lm ,!i- ss man must both ieel the itl,, ;* in the lone vn? G. F. & A. RY, LOW Round Trip Rates TO LANARK FLA. fi' ket* Sold Daily 90 day Limit- h kets Sold Daily 15 Day Limit Tickets sold Saturday and Sunday, Limited for Return t ) f-dlovvimg Monday. ' 1 KV LOW KATES. ^ii’iday Lanark Special from ■lain bridge, Quincy,Tallahassee Intermediate Stations. Arrive Lanark 10:15 A. M. heave Lanark 6:00 P. M. b'r rstes call on Agent or write you nearest >■ h. McWilliams, Traffic Manager.. 4 'I.\ BRIDGE. GEORGIA. The Albany Herald, a paper which took due interest in Decatur’s pros hibition tight a id par cansequence grew a little uneasy about its own county’s course in case De«atur sac* ceeded looks like it might get en the pro side of the question, a tact we are pleased to note; for there’s al ways hope for a man to whom there is a sane side. Says The Herald: “It there a is man m Albanv wno has the least doubt that the good women r t this town are thoroughly aroused oyer certain prevalent evils let him come to The Herald office, and we promise to furnith some cons yincing evidence that may remove the doubt. During the past three days the euii or has been simply overwhelmed with messages expres sing approval of the protest made by this paper on Tuesday at the action ut the City Council on Mon day night with reference to . the prohibition question. Some of these messages have been written, while others have been telephoned, and still others have been delivered in person. They all point in one dir ection, and indicate that we are go- dug to nav, a shaking up in this old town in the next municipal election, wh ,‘ther the pending state prohibit tion bi'l is passed by the legislature or not. sucli a uizagrei "ties to : . V, *• ill: JUT OURS, NOT MINE. =~" A Simple Plan That Might PrvvsrT. Many Home Tragedies. “It is mine!” “I tell you, you are mistaken; ii is mine!” Divorce court. Which is a ter.-e way of putting the sad history of r^ny a marriage disagreement ov; r ; • .! *? ■> mm- and thine ami l..n ,. mi.-«.•:.* that follows. The way to settle ment is for boll. ; is ours.” Because of :! - - and thine the reeor rolled in blood, nations have fake . barriers of hatred ; : bocii . brother has fo'.i.'.dd b.c. 1 r. dissension a ; ! d hr-c < because men L.... contended L that which is not theirs, but “ours. Organized sedlshm. - in oar nav has manifested itseif -i % i. e corporation spiders tbut k.v.c* sp-rca < their w-ebs far and wide, controllii: • the avenues of approach, watchin - for'victims with th 'r many facet n: eves, gathering to i temscives winu is not theirs, hut “'curs.' The world is ours. Sky and earth—ours.. Sunshine and shade—ours. Flowers and birds—ours. Fruits and fertile fields—-ours. And the Master of us all taughr cm t© pray, “Our Father.” Ladiesand gentlemen, evervwher Is needed this doctrine of “ours”— In the family, city, state, nation, world. The solution of all earth’s proh lems is wramted up in the one say ing: ‘•'Everything is ours.”—Milw ink* • Journal. When There LS N«. Hope. Here are a few simple rules by which a man may determine wheth er or not his attentions to a girl are in vain. If she asks him for the fan which he has been carrying home from the theater, she isn’t in love with him. If she were, she would forget the fan and give him a chance to call and return it. If she fondles the flowers he gives her. she is interested. If she lets them wither in the box, his case is hopeless. If she often pleads a headache and “can’t see him” he would be.ter call elsewhere. When she yawns and says she “can’t think of anything to say” it is time for him to go away and stay awav. When she forgets to ask him to •come again and says “How do you do?” when he says “Goodby’ and Z. Kobren, Practical Shoe-maker, ^°P in Berry Building, 1 do?” when ne says ~~ T_ Sht Democrat Office.! J° \Y3rUU work done with neatness ’ through her father’s hart, there is no patch. hope for him. . .. AT THE JUDGEMENT BAR. Editor Stovall, ol the Savannah Press, was an interested spectator in the prohibition proceedings, at the meeting of the temperance corns mittee of the senate for the cossids eration of the prohibition bill od Wednesday of last week, and he de scribes the occasion as a “prohibition love feast.” The opening paragraph of a two and a half .column report of the meeting by Editor Stovall lollows: “Tha hearing before the senate temperance committtee in Atlanta Wednesday afternoon turned out to be a prohibition love feast. The galleries were filled with ladies a«d several ministers went up from the large cities to preseat the orthodox view. Senatoi Knight, of Berrien, first called the committee together in the senate chamber, but the crowd wa& too closely packed for comfort. So the mass of people was transfer red to tin big hall ot the nouse, and even there every seat was occupied. The committees from the senate and house sat on the right and the left of the chair; members of both houses seemed to be on hand, and large deles gations from the cities made the crowd a great one. The local option men were listened to patiently and sometimes their remarks were puncturod with applause; but tbe prohibition speakers were cheered to the echo. The ministers were interrupted with cries of “Amen Brother!” When it was urged that peoole had invested a large amount of mone\ in breweries and this props erty should not be confiscated the audience was inclined to greet the argument with laughter. It seemed to tickle some of them to think that the people in '.he cities ui.ght lose a considerable amount ot money. The prohibition speakers address*, ed their appeals' rather to the emo tions and to the sympathies of the people; the local option men gave iacts and figures which were received with attention, bui did not seem to provoke enthusiasm. It reminded one ot the debate in South Carolina, several years ago, when Senator Butler said he had the^rgument but that Tom Watson had the crowd. A Happy flan * Is Amos F. King, of Fort Byron, N. Y., [82 years ot age;] snnoe a 6ore on his leg, which bad troubled him the greater part of his life, has been entirely healed by Bucklen’s Arnica Salve; the world’s great healer of sores, burns, cute, wounds and piles. Guaranted by all druggist. Price 25 cent6. There is said to be a derth of cir cus clowns. Now if Hark Twain and George Ade cared to help out, what a time the people could lave.— Savannah Press. What’s the matter with Johntems p’e Graves? Trouble is one thing that develops a man and' fits him to ai preciate h.ippiness. It is funny how % much easier it it to see your mistake after you have made them than belore. A bill proyiding for a home for the feeble m ; nded has been intro duced in the legislature. Self pres 83rvation is the first law ot nature. A flemorable.Day % One of the days we remember with pleasure, as well as with profit to our health, is ti e one on which ve became acquainted . with Dr. King’s New Life Pills, the painless purifiers that cure headache and builousiaess, and k*ep tbe bowels right. 25 cents at al, drug stores. CIGARETTE SUCKERS. Mr. John Murphy, superintendent ot the Pittsburg Railway Company has issued an order forbidding em ployes from using cigarette. He is tbe head ot the company that hauls over tw« hundred and twenty fiye million people per year, and be says his duty to protect them has impelled him to issue the order. He says that his own observation and that ot his twelve superintendents, is that persons addicted to the use of cigaretts, especially young men, are most careless is their duties and less able to perform them than men usiDg liquor in moderation. And he adds this remarkable statement which we wish could be read by ambitious youth in Georgt*: “I may also mention that in seventeen years’ experience as man* ager of publie utility corporations I have had occasion to promote many ot our men from the rank of conducs ters and motormen to officers, and in no case has a man using whiskey come up to the requirements.” There are young men who use the cigarette wondering why their ser vices are not demanded. The above statement from a practical railroad man answers the question without a doubt. JFIe is no preacher *r sen timentalist, but a hard headed man who giv$f his life to railroad work, and his views are based upon long experience. The truth is that other things being half way equal, a bus iness man prefers a young man not afflicted with the cigrrette habit. Of course there are capable and honorlabe men who smoke oiga r ettes, but the average man is seriously injured by.it and the more thar, average man wil' afier awhile teel the bad effect if he keeps up the use of cigarettes. The only safe thing for a young man is to shun cigarettes as he would coffin tack. Long Live 1 ne King! if the popular cry throughout European countries; while in Ameri ca, the cry ot the present day is “Long live Dr. King’s New Discov ery, King of throat and lung reme dies!” of which Mrs. Jula Ryder Pane, Truor, Mass., s-ys: “It never tails to give immediate relief and to quickly cure a cough or cold.” Mrs. Paine’s opinion is shared by a ma jority of the inhabitant of this coun try. New Discovery cures weak lungs and sore throats after all oth er remedies have failed; and lor cough and colds it’s the proven remedy. Guaranted by all druggist. 50 cents and $l.oo. Trial bottle free. ‘ CHILD RAISING. The Georgia legislature proposes to tackle the question ot child rasing, and the fact inspires .the V T aldosta Tiroes to observe: “More attention must be paid to the rearing ot children hence, more more attention to the training ot mothers and fathers. ‘Natural de- piavity’ and ‘the original sin’ breaks out where parental duties and re* sponsibilities have been thrown aside. A fine thoroughbred horse, turned over to a shiftless, careles negro, would sooa become a plug ot tbe commonest sort. On the con trary a plug of unpromising appear ance, with the right sort ot training, mav soon be brought up Lo the thoroughbred standard. The poor, the criminal and the degenerate will always be with us, but there is plen ty. ot room for improvement in the training of the youth of the land to become the future fa h .rs and moth ers. • There is more ignorance than anything else in the canse whidi we frequently attribute to ::hauce or ill fortune. PRICE OF CONVICT LA BOR. Theaprice of conyict labor ?s in creasing at a rap'd rate, nnd some ol the parties who leased Georgia convicts under tbe present lease law made large profits by subleasing them. The present law in this state was framed in 1903, and it puts the price of convicts at 1175 a year. Representative Holder, of Jack son county, wh o is chairman of the house committee on penitentiarv, has intrr duced a bill which looks to the settlement of the lease question for another term and raises tl e price of convicts to $40 a month. The Savannah Pre^s is our authori*, ty for the statement that some of the convicts are sub-leased tor $47 a month, and Alabama has recently leased a number ol convicts for $45 a month. If this is true then th * proposition by the Holler bill to .ncrease the hire iu Georgia to $4o is not exo bit ant. The significance ut the ruling price for convict labor is that eon- tratcre, and mill men and others having work to do are willing to pay more for convicts tnan tiny won d think of offering lor live lab>*r. \Vben the cost ot guarding, bousing and feeding the convicts is added to the monthly wage ot $40, convict labor seems to be pretty dear, hut those who have work to do are wiL ling to pay it becauce they know they can depend upon it. CATARACT OF THE EYE. The Causation and the Treatment of the Disease. A cataract is a dbntuuig or ‘de creasing transparency of the chrys- tailine lens of the eye. This lens serves to refract the rays of light. It is composed of- a soft material inclosed in a transparent membrane called the capsule. The loss of transparency, which causes the cataract, may reside in the substance of the lens or in the inclosing capsule, hut most com monly in the substance of the lens itself. It may be what is called idiojiathic”—that is, due to no ap parent cause—or “traumatic,’' due to direct injury. Lt may exist from birtli, but most commonly comes on late in life, at or after the age of sixty years, and is caused by some not 1 yet well understood degener ative change in the lens substance. The usual term for this form is “senile ciftaract,” although the name is not well chosen, for often it occurs in individuals otherwise vig orous and giving no other manifest signs of senility. It sometimes occurs in those suf fering from Bright’* disease or dia betes, hut m*re commonly afflicts those who ar^ otherwise seemingly in perfect# health and who present no other signs of malnutrition. Heredity seems sometimes to be an active cause of the opacity of the lens, but how it acts is as great a mystery as many other facts of the hereditary transmission of personal characteristics or of tendency to disease. It may indeed be that heredity has no part in the causa tion of the disease,, and its suc cessive appearance in parent and child may be a mere coincidence. Both eyes are usually simultane ously affected, although the disease mav occasionally be more advanced in one eye than the other, and rare- lv one eye alone may be affected. In the latter case, however, the cat aract is more commonly due to acci dent. Operation for the relief of this condition is Hsuallv not undertaken until the cataract is “ripe”—that is, until the loss of transparency affects the -entire lens. A person with simple cataract is blind only so far as the distinction of objects is con cerned. but still retains the percep tion of light. If the sufferer is un able to distinguish between light and darkness, there is some othei disease present. There are three kinds of opera tion for the relief of cataract, but this is not the place to discuss their relative merits. The choice will de end uoon circumstances and must 5 left* to the decision of the sur geon. A fair degree of vision usually obtained from o pc ratio u.- TWELVE YEARS LONG ENOUGH. The Albany Herald, Congressmai Griggs political makei and preserve fertile past twelve years, is gracious enough to make tbe following eou* cessions to the democratic party and tbe people ot the 2nd congressional district: •‘Judge Gris^g* is now sevv’ng his sixth t*wm in congress, and since his first term he has been unopposed by any democratic candidate. I n- der these circumstances, neither Judge Griggs nor his friends have any right to complain if Judge Rou- denberry or any other citizen ot the district, with political ambition, should come to the front and contest with him for tin* honor which has been so long confened on him by the people. And it is well enough that all public servants should be given a ‘try out’ before the p.-ople now and then, and those who are elos< st to our present able and effi** cieut congressman know that he is perfectly willing to be placed in the balance of public opinion with any man in the district who mav have designs upon his seat in congress. The field is an open one, and the man who defeats Jim Griggs before the people of the second district will deser/e the honor to which he sss pires.” Ali! Thanks, awfully. Now let us have a clean, clear show down of the merits, qualifications, habits and moral worth of the opposing cands idates, without acrlmonioiio debate and personalism—except insofar as will illustrate the personal fitne-s o unfitness <:f the two gentlemen seek ing the honor* of t he position—an ,J idge II >'ld< ob r v and his follow ing will have'no cause of p, lvaen sion. On with tli" dance! HOPE » THE A VICTIM OF LA GRIPPE. Mrs. Henrietta A. S. Marsh, 769 W. 16th St., Los Angeles, Cal., President Woman’s Benevolent Ass’n, writes: “/ suffered with la grippe for seven weeks, and nothing 1 could do or take helped me until I tried Peruna. H I felt at once that 1 had at last secured the right medicine and 1 kept steadily improving. Within three weeks I was fully restored, and I am glad that 1 gave that truly great remedy a trial. I will never be without It again.” In a letter dated Augnst 31,1904, Mrs. Marsh says: “I have never yet heard the efficacy of Peruna questioned. Ws still use it. I traveled through Ken tucky and Tennessee thre9 years ago, where I found Peruna doing its good work. Much of if is being used here also.”—Henrietta A. S. MaTsh. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio, T. P Stucfcey, COFFNS A AD BURI/L HAVANNAH, FLA., Full sloe at way* »o hav’ » r »

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The Bainbridge democrat. (Bainbridge, Ga.) 18??-????, July 18, 1907, Image 1