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Y JOHN M. BROWN.
BAINBRIOSE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 19, 1908,
Yol. 39—No. IS-Si.oo a Year j
bank in the hands of a
inues to pay dividends,
iver should become a
• nt.
. it f judgo says beverages
r only one per cent of
. • a-s. That lets probibi
, which is a worse article
the.
wciser.
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2*.
-ley teacher says that
• pates play bridge whist.’
in breathless horror to
idy's slaughter.
;,, brewers la.st month set aside
D 0o«V l0 ° wdh which to fight
,h\ in Georgia, Alabama and
Misd.^inpi. We hope no brewers
money was spent in last week’s
IViritary in tins County—altho we
i/alore ol booze.
V
Mon
then
m >n
I,-,bister ha;-quit his church in
gomery because he declared
wa.- no religion in it. All the
reason a preacher was needed.
It
mistake to say that Mr,
i;rv;m has no good word for any
prominent representative
>f the
I)rmo vatic party, himself excepted.
very kindly o< the
11.
ia-
.ken
T!ie Macon News calls lustily
for saving.' banks. This illustrates
haw newspaper men pile up the
cadi since they can’t spend their
money tor drinks.
The Brunswick News says: “Any
way whiskey will make you just as
.Irmik now as it ever did.” We
wonder how they know?
No, no, Pauline Dear, they do not
tall out with the Democrat for what
we say about them. They are
too thankful lor the truly true
things we do not say.
North Georgia papers seem to
enjoy celling Chattanooga by the
euphonious name of JBoozanooga,
but the East Tennessee life saving
Nation is not a bit. discomposed so
long as the Georgia booze orders
toll m.
Harper’s Weekly says it we can
imagine the national administration
under Boss Tweed, one would get
a good id oa of conditions in Portu-
.- a ’- Thi s is generally the logical
result of wildcat Administrations
> ’’.ted witli graft schemes; which
ci growing in favor with ward j
i" 11 ians.
No sooner does a man recover
from the trying times of tie Christ
mas season than he’s asked to dig
deep for some Easter fixins.
How Is This?
A 'pecial from Washington to the
New York Work, published Sunday
says:
A fusion of the old Populist and
the n<--w Independent parties, the
ore headed by Thomas E. Watson
of Georgia and the other by William
R. Hearst of New York, Democratic
congressman from the West and
South learn will be actually effected
he
fusion ticket probably will be
Ilearst and Watson.
It is pointed out by these con'
gressnten that recently Ilearst for-
| mally declared that his Independence
The v oice of ’he robm is heard I p ar ty would not support Bryan, or
and the odor ol English violets-and | Roosevelt, or Johnson, but would
guano is in the air. Verily Spring have a candidate o‘ its own. About
The Democrat will club with the
Farmers Union News, the National
Union paper, for $1.75 per annum, before many weeks elapse and
to include a copy of Farmer’s
Tjnion Balletin on the home mixing
of fertilizers. tf.
has sprung.
Precedent, unwritten law. and the
desires of the people, we believe,
demand that Hoke Smith be re
elected governor of Georgia, and
under all the circumstances
we should very much regret to see
the same time Watson, in his weekly
Jeffersonian, published at Atlanta,
! advised the Populists to support
neither Bryan, nor Roosevelt, but to
put a candidate of their own in the
field. That Watson’s advice is
being accepted is shown by the fact
that the “Pops” of Kansas, in a
mass meeting at Topeka, demined
Welfare of The Child.
any oppesitian to his re-nomination i to endorse Bryan aud d reso ] a .
and re election.
The recent declaration by Mr.
Roosevelt that “the Republicans
must eitlier nominate Taft or me” is
significant. Mr. Belment beLieve-
that Mr. Roosevelt’s iuabilty to keep
his hands off indicates to many the
purpose of a stampede m the con
vention fo overthrow bis declaration
that he w .uld ^neither seek nor
accept a nomination.
The recent rlurry has had the
effect of getting business on a
sounder, saner, more conservative
basis. Wildcat schemes, of course,
suffered, but it was best for the
country at large that there be
temporary depression until folks
sobered down and got back to ap
proved business methods, with the
speculative feature either elimina
ted or else very much minimized.
John D. Rockefeller, it is said
has purchasecUa home at Augusta
and has decided to spend at least
three months every winter. John
D ought to pay a weeks visit to
Bainbridge—where he’d find plenty
of congenial spirits and a winter
Spring and Summer climate head
and sholders above that of Augusta.
tions favoring Watson for the presn
dency.
RECENT OCCURRENCES.
Recent occurrences in Georgia are
believed to have weaned Watson
completely from the Democratic
party. In the late gubernatorial
campaign he supported Hoke Smith
for governor, but since the election
personal and political differences
havp caused him to withdraw from
the Democracy and he is now regar
ded as one oi Gr vernor Smith’s most
active and implacable political
enemies.
While the Democratic congresss
men from the South and West,
particularly the South, believe that
Hearst and Watson have a fusion
cempact, none care to talk for
publication. They believe that
Watson’s influence is still more or
less potent in many sections and
hey do not care to challenge his
wrath.
Watson was the Populist candi.
date for president in 1904 and
polled 117,183 votes m 1896, he
was the Populist candidate for the
vice presidency on the ticket with
Bryan, who was the Fusion candis
date of the Democrats and the
Populists for president.
“While I do not believe that a
fusion ticket of Hearst and VYatson
or Watson and Hearst would poll
over 300,000 votes, said a congress
man tosday, “it is possible that the
bulk of these would come from
Medical science is now nearly
unanimous in its belief that colds
are acquired by infection just like
measles or scarlet fever. They run
through schools and factories and, doubtful states and weaken the
families. Folk who lead out door ; Democratic candidate.
lives and dwell m well ventilated j
houses are least susceptible to them GOV. Smith’s Record.
! if they do not underfeed or overs i
'ip i! is at his best when he , indulge in alcohol and if they do
tiling to fight or tight for
for dress-parade;
Hoke Smith is making a fine res
not pile on so much clothing that cord of letting the judgement of the
;e Washington and R. E.
lows up best in time of
y succeed in get-
' up before him the
make publics very
summer.
If th
tie Jot
will
g this
didn’t win in the
> for lack of votes—
what eLe. Let it go
Nlhany Herald pays a tribute
■ manhood and high principles
-U Roddenberry, and admits
F making a clean high-tor ed
-1>ai_rn. There is no intimation
A c e that he would not make a
1 cgressiuan in every respect
)r this reason alone if for no
’ - safe to say that he vrfil
oh the next representative of
' id in the National Congress,
people ot the sec ud are
.ai ' -lowly but surely aware
Iu v 'di wm is also very evident
- i number of Jittle political
•''and reports calculated to hurt
=*atleman.—Thomasville T>E.
he splendid armor of the human
skin is pampered and weakened.
Plenty of cold bathing aud exercise,
courts and jurors stand which is a
mighty good practice finding ample
frecedent in the Administration of
Much of the President’s popula
rity is due to just such addresses a>
that which he delivered last week
at the first formal opening of the
International Congre.-s of Mothers
The meeting took place at the White
House, and there were present no
table women from all parts ol this
country and of a number of other
countries. The importance of the
occasion wasn’t overrated by the
President. It is fully understood
that the Congress is doing a good
work, and that it is conceded that
it is entitled to every possible en
couragement. 1 n the course of his
a 'dre .s the President said: “Unless
the average woman is a good wife
and a good mother, unless she bears
a sufficient number of children, so
that the race -hall increase and not
decrease, unless she brings up these
children sound in soul and mind
and body—unless this is trne of the
average woman, no brilliancy
of genius, no material prosperity,
no triumphs ofocience and industry
will rvail to save the from ruin and
death. The mother is the one
supreme asset of national life; she
is more important by far than the
successful stateman or business man,
artist or scientist.”
Unless our children are properly
cared for and trained we cannot suc
ceed as a nation. We may drift
along for a time but except men
and ^women are guided by right
principles and willing to Bear the
burdens that are inseparable from
a strong, healthy and prosperous
people we cannot reasonably expect
our government to be a permanent
one.
In the training ot children the
part taken by the mother is the most
important. It she understands hei
duties and is ready and willing to
perform them the people will be
healthy, thrifty, and will he guided
high principles and noble purposes.
The reason that the lives of so many
men and women are wrecked is that
they are not properly prepared for
the journey through life. They may
have had all that wealth could give
them in the way of education, food
and clothes, but they were not
provided with those traits of charac
ter which are necessary to a truly
successful life. Too often children
are permitted to follow tbeir own
inclinations. 1 hey have no real
religious and moral training and
no real aim in life. They are with
out the principles necessary to keep
iliem in the path of rectitude and
make them good and useful,
citizens.
If a mother is unfit fo*- thereupon-,
sibilities which devolve upon her
it is almost certain that the lives of
her children will be failures ir. one
or more or in all particulars.
Factory to Consumer.
light underwear, free use of water t ^ e asmented Governor James
inside aud outside of the body, and ^jjp on Smith. Apropos of which j
sleeping with wide-open windows present Govern n- in refusing to :
wiH help to resist the infection. j commute the sentence of death in |
S the Glover case, in refusing to accede i
Why is it that men toc'ay are : to'Vatson’s request and save a low j
skulking in alleys, creeping in be- ; °°<> brutally "' “‘on murderer
hind ue wlv erected part lions and from a well earned end on the
slinking around corue-s like hunted j gallows Bov. Smith performed a ;
animals to buy a drink of whiskey? public duty that deserves public
Why it is'--that more fuss is made j endorsement. He demonstrated
now over the sale of .quart ot thej*"* “..rage that entitles him to
, , , , , , • , v hearty commendation from alt lov-
dealtu dealing and virtue destroying ’ . . .
, ., , .1 j „ i ers of law and justice in Cieurgia,
fluid than was recently made over a. * _
, , ,■ .... from ail who desire to see a higher
whole river of it flowing with your . ®. j
approval, through town? It is be . j value put upon unman hie ,n this
cause of the true Christian religion. and section.
by do some think there is more “over deliberately and malicon*
J - - - — 1 ly shot to death a woman who had
down in cold |
place where she was •
employed necan<e of her intention ;
to sever their relations and marry !
another. Hurrah for Hoke!
ny UO some ItllXiJV true it IC .
i. i .v. lv shot to death a wm
immorality here than before. Be.
. , , , . spurred him. shot her
cause the mask has been torn nw a\: * . ’
a* K a a blood in the place *
The Florida Cba.r Factory of
Jacksonville whose advertisement
appears m this issue have started a
new system in th nr business which
will be heralded with pleasure by
! he general public. Their new plan
is to sell chairs direct from the
factory at wholesale prices, thus
eliminating the jobbers’ and“retail
dealers profit.
They have placed on sale 3500
chairs which include Parlor, Bed
Room, Library and Porch Rockers,
Dining room, Office and chairs of
every description at the wholesale
price.
Send for their illustrated catalo
gue, also their special L'lab offer.
Express Company Profits.
So commission will ever be able to
find out the extent of the profits made
oat of the carrying business in this
country, but the recent handing out of
$24,000,000 of surplus profits by the
Adams Express company reveals one
branch of it which has made many of
our multimillionaires. Within ten
years $36,000,000 have been paid to
shareholders of this company In addi
tion to regular annual dividends, which
may represent as high as 40 or 50 per
cent return on the capital actually in
vested in the business.
Others of the big express companies
are paying large dividends. In one
way and another the official# of the ex
press companies are linked with the
railroads. It transpired last summer
that Harrimnn was a heavy owner of
express company stock and able to
manipulate the vast surplus of one
of the transcontinental corpora tions.
Aside from the question as to the rea
sonableness of the rates charged by
tbe express companies, there is a point
to consider in the duplication of the
work aud cost aud a diversion of prof
its under the present system. The rail
roads carry the express freight without
providing extra facilities. They could
handle some of the business themselves
and thereby add to their own profits,
which they claim to be so smull as not
to justify reduction in rates; also some
of the money going Into the $24,000,000
watermelon would have gone to the
postal department if we had a parcels
post system. Mr. Hill says that the
railroads are not making money enough
to keep their plants up to the capacity
demanded by the country’s business.
Charges are made that railroad de
mands for carrying the mails are ex
cessive in some cases. That somebody is
making big money out of the railroad
plants is shown by the express profits.
If part of those profits should go to
the railroad owners the roads and
eventually the whole people would be
gainers.
What the Steerage Brings Ui.
It is a common notion in this country
(hat the human movement to America
li made up largely of driftwood and
that the vicious, Idle aud even criminal
classes predominate. Some most horri
ble propensities are found.among our
immigrants, and It is the settled belief
that only by stringent laws and cease
less vigilance can we escape a flood of
undesirables.
Now-, race prejudice Is very strong,
and Americans are not free from it.
Because a few foreigners go w-rong it
does not follow that all immigrants
from the land represented by the few
are a bad lot. The European view,
based on hard facts, disputes this in
dictment. In the past Germany has
complained, with good reason, that all
the ablebodied young men ran off to
America. The steerage population
proved It. Now several European
countries are protesting that the bone
and sinew of the agricultural districts
are moving westward. Small farmers
and village tradesmen are emigrating,
and industry and agriculture are suf
fering. Both views cannot be right
We do get a percentage of criminals
aud paupers and would gladly cut
them out. But If we are getting the
kind of stuff Europe is anxious to keep
at home it is worth onr while to make
a sharp distinction and while snubbing
the wrong sort welcome the right sort.
There are more where they come from.
the coffin lid has been removed, an.
the putrifftction once unheeded i
now giving offense, lbe- ino r ;
death has been there all the tim
and now tbe desire for its reruov.
has accentuated tbe situation.
Governor Smith spoke to a large
audience in DeKalb county last
week and it is announced t_at he
will make a speech in each of the
congressional districts of the «tate
■ between now and June 4* He ought
Subscribe tor Democrat, to m ike a date for Bainbridge.
Undoubtedly the city of Portsmouth
might do worse than back up the propo
sition to purchase the birthplace and
boyhood home of Thomas Bailey Aid-
rich. Its associations are embalmed in
one of the Portsmouth boy's most de
lightful stories, and it would be a most
appropriate memorial of the poet and
story writei*.
Legal f . U&ementt
DECATUR SHERIFF SALE.
GEORGIA—Decatur Countv.
Will be sold, before he Court House
door, in the city of Bainbridge, in said
comity, during the legal hours of sale,
ou the first Tuesday in April next,
the following described property, to-
wit:
One black mare mule, with a white
mouth about six ye rs old, named
•Ida”:one dark colored mate mule,
= amed“Nit”; one sorrell mule abott
twelve (12) years old; Also one black
milk cow marked, swallow fork ndt
under-bit in each ear.
. All of the above described property
lived upon as the property of Defaul
ts- Satisfy a City Court fifa in f*rm
of Benton, Shinglei A Co. vs J. R. D.
Lastej.S. H. Haines, Frank Price, Ed
Williams, Jessie Sims and R. H.Lee.
This March leth, 19 8,
L. F. PATTERSON,
Sheriff.
CITATION.
GEORG IA—Decatur County:
To All Whom It May Concern:
Mrs. Fannie M. Terrell having in pro
per form applied to me.for permanent
Letters of Administration on the estate
°f P' _W. Dorch, late of said County,
this is to cite all and singular the
creditors and next of kin of said D. W.
Dorch to be and appear at O.dinary’a
Office on the first Monday in April 1908,
and show cause, if any they can, why
permanent Administration should not,
be granted to said Fannie M- Ferrell on
said D, W. Dorch estate.
Witness my hand and official signa
ture. Maich 9,19(8.
T. B. Maxwell,Otdinary.
ADMINISTRATORS S A LE.
GEORGIA—Decatur County:
By v irtue 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 in
in said <iount>-, between the usual hours
of sale, the followrfhg real estate situate
in Decatur couyt.y, to-wit:
All of thatyertaiu traci or parcel
of land situajpd lyin'gand being in
the Fifteenth (15th) District of
Decatuj>^ouniy, Georgia, and des
scrib&d as follows, tos«Ht: Bogin-
iiig at the southwest coiner ol lot
ot laud number three hundred and
sixty eight (368), and thence running
along the south land line east six
hundred and (660) yards, thenca
running north paralled with the
west laud line of said lot to a point
half way between the nor;h and
south land line of said lot, thence
running west parallel with the south
and line of said lot to the west land
line of said lot, and 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 corner of
lot of land number three hundred
and sixty eight (368) in the Fifth*
teenth (15th) District of Decatur
county, Georgia.
R. GRIFFIN, Administrator,
Estate ofSallie Griffin.
CITATION.
Toall wh om it may concern:
Fa ; nle M. Ferrell having In proper
form applied to me for permanent let
ters of administration on the estate of
DW Dorch, iate of said county this is
to cite all and singular the creditors
and next of kin of said D W Dorch to
be and appear at Ordinary Office on the
first Monday in April 1908, and show
cause, if any they can, why permanent
administration should not be granted
to said Fannie M. Ferrel on sa ; d D W
Dorch estate.
Witness my hand aud official signa
ture. this March 9, 1908.
T. B. MAXWELL, Ordinary.
United States Court.
Unquestionably things: of great inter
est to tbe world are taking place in
China, and it is unfortunate that accu
rate information of what is occurring
in that vast population is impossible of
attainment. What we do not know,
and what it is of the utmost impor
tance that we should know, is whether j
the discontent arises from lack of that I
to which the people have been accus- i
tomed or an awakening desire for high
er standards of life.
There Yet.
Bcott—My wife’s mother has visited
OB only once in five years. Mott—
That isn’t bad. When do you expect
her to pay her second visit? Scott—
Oh, she hasn’t got through her first
7*1—New York Telegraph.
In the District t'onrt of the United
States for the Southwestern D vision of the
Southern District of Georgia,
In the matter of F A Preston, doing
business as The Stanse] Company, Bank
rupt.
To the Creii or of F A Psesto:., in the
Conroy of Decatur, -aid Dis’rict a Bank
rupt.
Notice i- herein- given that on the 13th
day of March. 1908, the said F A Preston,
doing 1/UMue as the Start, ei Co , was
duly adjudged bankrupt; and that t first
meeting of his creditors Wiil te heitl in
Decatur County C»urt Hou^e Bainbridge,
Ga., on the 24th day of March, 1908, at
nine o'clock in the forenoon, a'. w! i h time
the said creditors may attend, piove tbeir
claims, appoint a trustee, examine the
bankrupt and transact such other business
as may properly come before said nee ling.
The bankrupt is required to be j resent.
At Va’dos'a, Georgia, thi 1 3th day of
March, 190S.
WILFRED C. i .N*ii.
Referee iu ‘ru; cy.
M. E. O’Neal, Bainbridge, Ga.
Artorne) forth? ..pt.,
Then She Talked.
Reporter- Well, I’ve interviewed her.
Editor-Did she talk without restraint?
Reporter — I should say ait! She
wouldn’t say a word until her husband,
and told her to keep still.—
Inquirer,
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
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