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ttQMINC' MARCH 12. 1908.
Vol. 39---Mo. IS—$!.oc t Yur
[prujt of the Sanctum.
The “i -eatless” marriage is at
Hmx- is “reform” right.
I won’t be another February
, ib five pay 'fays in'it for 28 years.
'll, < r i‘ note of prosperity in the
j. lo-ard in the “gee” and
“ban" of the farmer.
Juft about this time of thj year
t he fiiucteur gardener and the
industrious hen come to the parting
of the ways.
y r Williams J. Bryan says he is
cot seeking the Presidency, but it
» \<> ‘rile” him when an*,
otbei * 1 urgested as the Democratic
caul'. iJ-«
Since a cigarette is said to have
irted the big Tampa fire that city
11 probably join the throng that
Ids that cigarettes are harmful.
Theodore Roosevelt is behind
Taft, ami this means that Taft will
be nominate 1. Taft is a great man
ind a good big man.
Th* Atlanta papers have a good
deal to say about the empty cells of
tbat city ^inoe the prohibition law
went into .'fleet. “Empty cells,”
we presume means no honey.
When yon need a physician to
prescribe liquor for your ailment let
him prescribe it in ounces. Remem
ber it take< sixteen drams to make
an ounce according to druggist’
rule.
Our -ood fiiends in Savannah do
uot lee! just the same way about
their luck, r clubs as they did a few
dars ago—-hot about Judge Speer
either.
N an a^tonomer claims to have
dib. -vi red water on Mars. That
shows how the prohibition sentiment
is spreading.
The Georgia railroad commission
nts the railroads to show cause
why they propose to cut the wages
of their employes. The penalty of
being a public-service corporation
crows more severe every day.
Mr. Bryan went to Kentuckey
an 1 employed his influence on the
^eiiatarial deadlock with the result
tb it a Kepublican’minority soon after
clt<‘ej ti !e i r candidate. Mr. Bryan
certati'ily has pronounced political
influence—it never fails to bring
vietury to the Republican ticket.
Brunswick Journal remarks that
the mere mention ot an amendment
to the present prohibition bill will
revive hepe in the breast of many a
thir-ty one who has tired of the
“near beers.”
It must be pretty good stuff they
i‘sve in Brunswick. The Journal
• here says; “Judging from the
vfle :s it has on some, the “prohibit
tl '- r beer" has simply been swap-
F* n - the devil for the witch.”
en times become normal the
prospect is that passenger earnings
V;i; he still further increased,
lower railroad fares are
nown to mean increased passenger
tamings, the railroads will [not be
.oiig in getting into the swim. The
•-vuthern had thi foresight to see
hjw increasing receipts could be
*' ‘' r * d, and ii the returns for seven
^v'utbh and a half are even dupli-
- Bod .n the next seven months and
“ ‘-ail all other roads will soon adopt
' u Southern’s satisfactory policy.
THIS NEW CHURCH SECURED.
As It Will Appear Finished! The Cost of It
all In /Sight Without /ndebtedness.
Mr. Watson is not in a position
to enter his customary and usual
bitter complaints against the
Governor. He hasjvouahe.1 ior him,
and besides, the people generally
will not believe the governor’s
alleged effenses merits such com
plaints. Tommy, k* c-p quiet!
Verily, we cut some funny capers
in Georgia po! ties. Every few
years the people rise up and cry
“down with the ring.” Aud, then,
they forthwith proceed to create
another “ring.” And so it goes on,
year after year.
The government is going to make
a strong effort to rid the country of
anarchists. It is the duty of the
Secretary ot Labor and Commerce
to enforce the laws against them,
and the order he has given to the
various subofficials of his department
indie ites.clearly what his purpose
When a patient dies who is treat
ed by Christian scientists somebody
is arrested for having caused the
patient to die by the absent treat
ment. To be fair, when a patient
dies wh has been treated by a
regular physician, should not
somebody be arrested for having
caused the patient to die by the
present treatment?
The indications are that there will
be movements in several states in
the direction of prohibition during
the present year. There is a prohis
bition wave sweeping over the
country, and if it is dire; ted wisely
the prohibitionists will be able to
report great progress. If they don t
gnide it wisely prohibition may get
setback from whiofc it will not
recover in years.
the seven months and a halt
ending February 14, the passenger
earnings of the Senthern railroads
were increased $898,906 over the
receipts of the corresponding per od
of the previous year. The period
ended was, too, characterised
business depression which
In
just
by
affected a good part of it—a depres
sion that has cut down gross receipts
on all railroads. _
The Houston Post says that the
countenances >f the goats which
adorn the bock beer s.gns m that
city wear a benevolent and philan
tbropic expression. A closer tow ,
IT £x y asSr^!
wet when*all tlie rest of the South is •
croi nff drv.
Coming Across.
State railroad commission is well
pleased with its efforts to expedite
the settlement of railroad claims
In a statement issued by them
states that they has evidence of
marvelous improvements in this
feature of the service, and that to
their requests upon the roads for
in ormation as to adjustment ot
overcharge and loss and damage
cla’ms many interesting replies have
been received from the companies
They say that during tne last three
months of last year the Southern
sett'ed 6,829 claims, amounting to
$120,000, representing 80 per cent
of those filed.
A similar report from the A, B.
and A. shows that during the same
period 2,445 claims were presented
and 2,233, aggregating a value of
$19,579.21 were adjusted, and that
only 212 were left pending.
Another report from the Atlanta
and West Point shows that claims
are being more speedily adjusted,
the general manager writing that he
has instracted all agents to give
such matter precedence over all
other business,
SHORT EDITORIALS.
Double Murder and Lyn
ching.
Two negroes, Curry Roberson
and John H.nry, were ljnched last
week and their bodies burned near
Hawkmsville charged with the
murder of Mr. and Mrs. Warren
Hart.
One of the negroes confessed and
said the motive was robbery. Rober
son and Henry were arrested
Wednesday following the discovery
of the body of Warren Hart. His
wife was lying near by in a dying
condition.
Mr, Hart had been killed as the
result of a blow on the head, ap>
parently made by an axe. Mrs.
Hart was seriously beaten and was
found unconscious. She died Wed
nesday night without having re
covered consc ousnees. The negroes
were quietly taken from the county
jail and carried some dictance from
the town, where they were hanged
to a tree.
The lynching party consisted
of a number of men who concealed
their identity with masks. A.ter
th** hanging the bodies were cut
down aud inciuerated. After this
the p-vsse quickly dispersed.
While the murder was committed
!' ,r Robbery, the marderres faild to
dud #800 conseiled in the house.
Cheerfulness begets cheerfulness,
in business as well as in everything
else.
Spring, real spring, was ushered
in by March down here in Gcd’s
country.
Taft s nomination by the Republi
cans now seems to be about as
certain as that of Bryan by the
Democrats.
The state will probably hear so me
lively campaign speeches when Gov
ernor Smith goes on the stump,
whether another candidate appears
oi not.
In spite of tome throughly erudite
opinions to the contrary, Judge
Speer seems to have made good in
his locker club opinions, as far as
Savannah is concerned.
Those who arw advocating op
position to Governor Smith for a
second team have heretofore been
great sticklers for party custom.
They now want to defeat him
sfimplyto gratit their personal hatred
of the Governor. But he will serve
four years m the Gubernational
chair, if be lives.
The brewers and iiquor people or
distillers have parted company
they say. The brewers believe that
prohibition in the south is due
largely to the liquor traffic. They
calculate that by starting a campaign
of education in toe aenth to show
the difference between iiquor
aud beer as beverages that they
can relieve the public mind of the
prejudice that exists against beer.
They have probably waited entirely
too late.
The pow*:r of advertising is told
by a manager of the toilet depart
ment ot a large New York depart
ment store. “We have six different
makes of one article,” he said, “and
they are so near alike in quality
that even experts cau’t tell the
difference between them, yet we sell
as much of one as we do of all Jthe
others together, just because the
manufacturer is everlastingly ad>
vertising it. The other five sell in
proportion to the amount of ad
vertising given to them. If there is
any difi erenee in quality it is in
favor of the poorest seller.’ 1
It seems quiet nfins—ary for the 1
j Arr.i.Saioon League and aii friends
of prnhibition, clean government
and clean officials, to be active in
some parts of Georgia. We know
of candidates who have annooneed
on platforms that appear on the
surface to be wholly free ^from the
“taiied-ring,” bnt who really are
“running nnder cover.” However,
we reiterate, “by their past records
shall ye know them,” and the
“uncovering” of such is daily coming
to pass and their masks will be
completely torn off at the ballot
box; or we are much mistaken in
the great majority of Georgia’s
voters.
You can fool bhe people for a
little wnile but it don’t last long
now a-days
The District Executive Committee
have ordered -the Congresional
Primary for this District on the 4th
of June—the tame date fixed by the
State Committee for the State
Primary.
At the meeting of the District
Committee • communication from
Hon. 8. A. Roddenbery, ot Thomas
county, who will be a candidate in
the primary, was read.
Asking that the oommittee take
especial note of the recommendation
of the State Congressional Committee
in regard to an accounting for all
campaign funds used by candidates
in their race. When it has been
shown tbat j any money was spent,
either by the candidate himself or
with his knowledge or consent be
shall be declared iceligiable for the
office.
The letter was referred to the
j committee on resolutions, which
immediately retired for consultation
and later reported resolutions and
rule# for the government of the
primary. •
That part of their resolutions cm -
bodying the request ot Mr. Rodden
bery says:
“That each candidate ior congress
shall file with the chairman of this
committee a sworn itemized state
ment showing the amount of money
spent in his campaign, and from
what sources procured and how, on
or before the 11th day of June, 1908
and no candidate shall be declared
nominated who fails or refuses to
comply therewith.
“No candidate shall oc declared
a nominee of the party if it be made
to satisfactorily appear to this
committee that he has used money
or other things of value to employ
workers at the polls or in advance
of primary, or that he engaged in
buving votes to secure his nomina
tion; and this provision shalf* apply
even where such improper use of
money or other things of v-lue or
the baying of votes is done by the
friends of such candidate with his
knowledge andcoBsent.”
Boys and Switches.
The arguments that are often
heard m favor of and against whip
ping in schools cannot be judged
by any fixed rule. Flogging may
ruin one boy aud make another. It,
depends upon the temperament of
the boy and the punishment that is
administered.
The once common schoolmaster
who flew into a rage at the slightest
provocation, and flogged his scholars
unmercifully, exercising neither
judgement nor forbearance, was an
abomination. As a rule, the modern
idea that the best that is in a boy
can be brought out by an appeal
to hie better nature needs argument
to vindicate it, though tt.ere are
instances where a judicious applica
tion of hickory warmth w.ll accom
The Lot .or Clubs.
Fortyfour persons, indicated f or
retailing liquor with >.it paying tb<
government tax, pleaded guilty u
the TJmte J States court last week
and were released upon parole of
honor, which they signed a open
court, and by the term# of which
they promised to pay the government
assessment and to surrender their
licenses to the city of Savannah,
and never again to be connected
W1 -h h locker club. Many of those
who pleaded guilty were men in
other lines of business, who never
engaged in liq i-,r traffi.- and who
were simply members of locker
clubs.
Judge Speer deliyejed a talk* in
the nature of a temperance lecture,
concluding wh:ch he said:
.-w—
“You are not aU of tfee offenders
by many. You are but the advanoe
guard under the Satui a&lian stand 1 *
ard of Bacchus, and you have met
a most disastrous defeat. advice
to you is to go snd sin no more.”
The government assessment ran
ges from $100 to $800.
If the kicker club men of Savannah
bad any idea that they bad safely
entrenched themselves where court
nor minor of the law could reach
them, their awakening must have
been painful when the decree of
Judge Speer dug them f>rth and
baled them before the bar of justice.
If “teror to evil doers” ever had a
more genuine application in one
place than another, or all the others,
the place thereof is Savannah, Ga~,
and the inspiration Judge Emory
Sp^er.
It is evident that the’ locker clul
doesn’t present a safe way to evade
the law prohibiting the sale of intoxi
cants in this state. That is made
clear by the final disposition of the
locker club cases. If there had been
any defense for the men indicted for
operating locker clubs it would have
been offered. There was none, and
therefore the parties indicted had to
• plead guilty, and take themselves
out of the business of selling liquor
in this state, and keep ont a# long
as there is a prohibition law in
Georgia.
ADMINISTRATORS SALE.
GEORGIA—Decatub Count*:
By virtue of an order of- the Court of
Ordinary of said County, will be sold at
public outcry, on the first Tuesday in
April, 1908, at the Court House ia
in said county, between the usual hoars
of sale, the following real estate situate
in Decatur county, to-wit:
Ail of that certain traci or parcel
of land situated lying and being in
the Fifteenth (15tb) District of
Decatur county, Georgia, aud des
scribed as follows, to*>Ht: Begin-
ing at the southwest corner of lot
ot land number three hundred and
sixty eight (368), and tbence running
along the south land line east six
hundred and (660) yards, thence
running north paralled with the
west land line of said lot to a point
half way between the north and
south land line of said lot, theuoe
running west parallel with the south
and line of said lot to the west land
line of said lot, aad thence running
south along the west land line of
said lot to the starting point; the
same being seventy five acres, more
or less, in the south west corn r of
lot ol land number three hundred
and sixty eight (368) in the Fiftlw
teenth (15th) District of Decatur
county, Georgia.
R. GRlVFIN, Administrator,
Estate ofSallie Griffin.
The Mayor of Gamavilte must
have been missing bis breal^ast be
cause of a late cook, as he has issued
an order stopping negro meetings
plish reforms not to be wrought m at 10 o’clock at night. It wouldn’t
any other possible way. p© a bad idea for Bainbridge’s Mayo*
to follow suit. There’s no goo
midnight meetings and “fore da
dobs.'- 1
