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THE DEMOCRAT.
By John M. Brown;
OFFICIAL GAZETTE OF SHERIFF
ORDINARY, CLERK SUPERIOR
COURT AND COUNTY COMMIS
SIONERS.
E itered hs second class mail matter
«t Stambridge, Ga., postoffice.
Balnbridiff, Ga., Dec. 17, 1908
Prophet Spangler says that the
world will ^eotne to an end on the
'fourth Sunday of thisj month. So
it will—to the end of the month.
t wmm —
More than ll,OoO,OOo bales of cot
ton have been ginned. That argues
a crop ot about 12,300,0o0. That
is not a large crop and the price oi
cotton should be about 12 1*2 cents.
Tire Atlanta <J< nstitution thinks
the prohibition law ought to be
strengthened or amended, one or
the other.
Which ;eav8 us to believe that it
wi I be better to leave it just as it it
Bishop Candler said to the South
Georgia Conference the other day
that the panic had mi 'sed him.
* The reason, is self evident. His
salary is assured and he dosen’t
even have to have the trouble of
collecting it.
The chauffeur who elopedj with
Miss Speer, of Atlanta, is now su -
ing her parents for alienating her
affections upon which he places
the flattering value of $loo,ooo.
There is nothing more remunera
tive than the career of (matrimony.
The Bishop and his cabinet of the
South Georgia Conference ev dently
don’t believe in retaining^ any man
m a single pastorate over four years
if that long. They shifted 118 of
the preachers at the last Annual
Conference at Quitman.
The sixtieth Congress reconven*
ed for the short session Monday,
the 9th inst. It is not likely any
legislation will be enacted before
tho holidays. The Republicans
have a hundred million dollar de
ficit ih the revenues to provide
for, and there is talk of restoiing
the war taxes on coffee, tea and
beer. It never occurs to the Re
publicans to advocate economy in
expenditures.
“In a word,’- says a News and
Courier, “if Judge Taft wonld re*
lease the South from its political
isolation and erect in the South a
national republicanism of re3peo
table and substantial materials,he
has but to extend the application
of the principle of home rule to
federal appointments.”
And th >re is a big sight of truth
and sense to the Republican party
in the suggestion.
The eld soldiers complain at
Pension Commissioner Lindsey be
cause he has not yet sent out the
4th quarterly payment of their
pen*ions, being fearful they will
not get the money ia time for
Christmas. The fault does not
lay at the door of the Pension Com
missioner nor of-the Governor but
is due to the slowness with which
the people of the State are paying
their taxes this year. The Pen
sion Commissioner assures the
pensioners that tho money will be
forthcoming ju-t as soon as the
necessary amount reaches the
Treasurer’s bauds.
The South And Democracy
Sentiment among southern demos
cratsjthaA the time has come for the
democracy of the south to read a
declaration of Independence to the
democracy oi the north and east,
and to take charge of the affairs of
the party, in national matters to
growing rapidly, and the indications
are that by the time the next nation
ai conventions meets the south will
insist upon being given that reeog>.
nition to which it is entitled or know
the reason why. Many oi "the lead
ing democrats and democratic news
papers of the south are outspoken in
their advocacy oi such a course, and
others are joining the tanks almost
d v-ly.
In View of Christmas.
“The time draws near the birth of
Christ,” observes an exchange: The
Yaledde with its joys and pleas-
nres, its “dance and song a-d game
and jest,” is almost com'-. And
well it is tnat His festival oi sweet*
n€B- and light appears so surely ard
inevitably, tor in its tram are peace,
good “ ill and charity, casting al
ways a ray of tope and iaith upon
many a drear, desolate and despair
ing existence.
And yet there is another aspect,
one too sadly overlooked —an aspect
for seriousness, £fit for thoughtful
contemplation. On Christmas eve
one was born into this world to
“justify '.he ways of God ^to man,”
and though it may be very well to
celebrate H s coming we have, in
our headlong fashion and careiess
habit, forgotten the sacredness of th
occasion, and made it largely one of
foulness and carousal. r lhe columns
of the press on Christmas morn ar.a
a few days following are, almost a.
matter of course, filled with horror-
tying accounts of murders, deaths
and homicides with sickening de
tails ot drunkenness and vileness, ol
vice and crime gone rampant mad
The situation aifords an awiul ano.
maly of a holiday|most religiously ob
served in a manner most irreligious 1
That the flesh is weak we under
stand. Thai the world has not yet
reached the high point oi civilization
when men will not require the sat.
isfaction of their coarse and sensual
desires we honestly believe. But
that, for-this ceason, we should de
secrate [_the holiest of days, and
drench the holly _ and the laurel
wreath with the contents of the was
sail bowl we most vehemently deny.
To eat, to drink, to sleep is”not to
live; it is to exist on a level with the
fish and the swine. There is an ele.
ment of thought, ot meditation, in
the lines —
Devour and pure.
Sober, steadfast and demure.”
without which life is the empty shell
—the pearl within, has been with
drawn; .ind when the work of
Christ is under consideration the
effect should he that ot grave cheer
fulness and pleasure quiet, and not
ot frantic deeds and sinful acts.
Let us hope that with the coming
day a clearer vision will be caught,
when men will see how soon the
banquet cup is drained and realize
the value of calm reflection. Then,
and only then, will the meriy bells
oi Yule
“Ring in the valiant man, and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkr.ess of the land,
Ring In the Christ that is to be ”
The Enforcement Of Pro
hibition.
The Georgia prohibition law has
been before the Apnellate Court in
several cases lately. They bave des
cided some things that at e quite ims
portant. Among them are the fol
lowing;
1 They have decided that any
drink containing 4 per cent oi al
cohol is iMohibitei by the act of
lSJoL They decline to say that a
smaller p reentum may net be tound
to be within the comdemnation of
the prohibition law. The question
of the exact quantity that may be
tolerated has not yet been settled.
2 They define ‘■intoxication” to
be any effect on the brain produced
by the drink that will so fit affect
the operations of the mind as to at
tract the not ce oi other people.
This, of course, is not the words oi
the opinion, but it is the definition
in its analysis.
3 They have decided that a city
may impose a penalty for keeping
it; that is, tor keeping a blind tiger,
which, by the way; the court inci
dentally defines, and a' person may
be convicted t for keeping it lor sate
without proving any actual sales.
4 They have decided that cities
cannot collect a license fee tor the
sale of near beer from Confederate
veterans who have been exempted
from payment ot all business license
es, Here is a plaao where our law
needs some fixing. And Deeds it
badly.
5 Near beer will have to be pro
hibited. The temptations and the
opportunities for violating the law
are far tco frequent and too great
to be allowed to remain as they are.
Every place that sells near beer easi
ly Aiagtrsee a blind tiger.
The Fnd Of The World.
The world is coining to an end,
,andjthf.t within a short time. There
can be no doubt about th.s, for a
“prophet” has predicted it. While
many other prophets have made a
like prediction only to be afterwards
justly branded as false prophets,
this prophet is not to be placed in
the same category, for he -s Mr.
Lee J. Spangler, the famous New
York prophet.
Mr. Spangler has been in the pro
phesying business for quite a while,
and just about a year ago startled
the world by the prophecies he made
then. Among other things ha pre.
dieted that New Y§rk would be de
stroy.d by fire, that Turkey would
lose her Sultan, that there would be
innumerable earthquakes, that many
towns would be destroyed, and that
mothers.!n-law would be arraingn
against , daughter-.in- law. Seeing
bow these predictions hava come
true—the last one literally fulfilled
it appears that his latest prediction
is worthy of being given all credence
Prophet Spmgler was asked to
make some predictions in regard to
19o9, but he sadly shook his head
and answered that there won'd be
no 1909. In a ci culer which he is
sued to his friends and followers
for all prophets must have followers;
can’t be prophets without them,you
know—Prophet Spangler says:
“This world is as wicked as it was
in the d rys of fche flood and must
be destroyed. Heave* and eanth
must pass away. ' This world will
come to an end in winter in the end
of the month of December on a Sun
day, in the year 19o8. I command
you to go to Nyack, N. Y , where I
shall gather :he saints to meet the
bridegroom at his coming ” •
So that settles it. The hill and
tax collectors should take notice and
quit pestering creditors. What- is
the use, if the world is going to
come to an end before the first day
of next month? But thosa who owe
us subscriptions however, and would
like to wind up with a clean balance
sheet should make haste and pay,
for they haven’t many days left.
Also those who haven’t yet done
their Christmas shopping should
get in a hurry about. R. While the
exact date tor this great event is
not given the wording of the pro
phesy seems to point to the last
Sunday ot the year,which com s.afi
ter Christmas, so the usual and un-
usal Christmas presents will still be
in order.
A Disgusted Tobbacco
Planter.
The Canal Scandal.
Notwithstanding President Roose
velt’s declaration that there had been/
no Panama canal scandal, and that
those who said so were everything,
from ungentlemanly deceivers to
outright liars, the indications now
are that this matter will be the sen
sation feature of the session of con
gress just opened. Once it is pried
open, against the reluctance of the
Repulican majority, there is no tells
ing what proportions' the scandal
may assume, for just as vehement
declarations as those ot the Presi
dent in denial are being made that
there was a “rake-off” by friends of
the administration to acquiring from
I the French company its canal rights
and selling them to this goverment.
A Plea For The Trees.
Down here in God’s country we
have practically finished the destruc
tion of our yellow pine forests, and
yet not one step baye we made in
the direction of replacing them.
There might be some excuse if the
lands bad been put to some ether
use, but new much of them has been
left jnst a3 they were when the ax.
man passed on! We have taken
kvvay to oar selfish uses the wealth
ot the land—and we have put noth
ing back. We have hacked and hewi
ed—and we have pot nothing back.
We have swept the land of its fruit
—and we have not even put back
the seed for another crop. Was
there eyer another people so waste
ful, so shortsighted, so regardless ot
their children and their children’s
children?
And can’t we do anything about
it? < ,
Wanted.
To rent a no. 1 Upright Piano by ! railroad station and no
a Music Teacher, oat of the city,
beginning first or January. For
particulars, addrees this office.
Bingen, Ga.,— Dec. lo, 19o8.
Editor Democrat —
Your article in todays issue ( n-
titled “Tobacco Wai Euded”—v. is
read with interest, especialy the c u-
cluding rem irks, “Decatur f.nd
Gadsden couut.es ought to organ ze
tor self protection leaving out night
riding etc.” There is no one vbo
loves law and order more than the
farmer; perhaps no other class as for
bearing, credulous, or long suffering
bat when the edict goes forth—“Let
the trumphets ail speak—give them
all breath, those clamorous harbing
ers of blood »<nd death” and the
farmer kn»ws he is fighting for th •
public good his valor then is uin
questioned. If any one will take the
trouble to read the Kentucky tobac.
co war, read how the colossal
thieves, Thos. Fortune Ryan and
John Stuart Mills, representing the
American aud European Tobacoe
jj’rust, divided the territory by coun.
ties, and even roads, and even when
7o nations of the earth were drawing
on this little spot of earth tor tobacco
and had been paying from 16c to-2oc
per pound, these two robber corpora
tion-, with several hundred buyers
in the field, reduced the prices of
Dark and Burley tobacco to 6c per
pound, then it was organization or
die—the American citizen, who corns
deemned them would have UBfnrted
the British flag in Philadelphia, or
Virginia when Gen. Cornwallis
marched t-.rdngh unmolested, like
many tones did and exclaim—“long
live the King!”—it seems to jthis de*
ponent that 'the erstwhile boasted
free. American farmer, has long
since been swept from the face of
the earth. True he is allowed to
raise meat to live to make,8c c.tton,
and one year in lour get enough
money to build more tobacco shade
and barns out of tobacco. A few
weeks since a delegation of wealthy
tobacco men from Gadsden county,
Fla., appeared before the “Ways and
Means” Committee of Congress, beg.
ging that the tariff of $1.85 be re
tained on imported wrappers. There
was not any danger of taking it
off, if the imported packer and
dealer wanted it to remain The
small tobacco grower never was con
sidered in the transaction.
One of these potentates confessed
that it cost 5oe per pound to raise
shade tobacco, another confessed
this crop had sold way below the
cost of production. There were
several flambeau spe f ches made but
there was one thing though they all
failed to say and that was why this
1908 crop,! he soundest and best ever
made, sold below the cost of produc
tion. True some ot us contracted
for quite a flattering offer this de
ponent contracted tor five years at
5oe per pound. Buyer now has the
contract and I have the tobacco.
You can give them the tobacco and
you keep the contract and then lose
out. or give them both contract and
tobacco and get skinned. Perhaps
I would not refer to it but I know,
the honorable County commissioners
will soon adjudicate upon the assess
ment of land for 19o9. Now I do not
think there is one on the Board who
won’d willingly do an injustice to
our hnmblest citizen Our worthy
^Tax Collector imforms mo that some
of -the laud Districts m Decatur
county are assessed at $3.oo per acre
while we in Attapulgus District are
assesse I $5,oo because we have to
bacco shade, and raise high price
sun tobacco. I sold a crop of snn
tobacco this year, above the average
in qaality, at the magnificent sum
of 6c cents per pound.
1 have my shade crop on hand. I
hear the top price now is 10c. If
every thing else I made had burned
up with all my stock, vehicles and
plows, it would not hurt me as bad
as my “slfpsup” on tobacco. When
I was a boy, I paid faxes upon the
land I now live upon, $33.oo about
187o; tor 19o8 the tax on the laad
alone, to different owners, is $67.oo
Then cotton sold at 25«, and yon.
could hire all the cotton pickers you
wanted; you can’t hire one at any
price—they aie all in the tobaoeo
packing houses, aud have gotten
above picking cotton. True $5 oo
valuation is a small amount, Bear a
oae here
wants to sell at $5.e0 for the entire
District, is not-fair espeetaXy to the
@J. M LAING.I
It is custom every year to spend a month *n
New York and Baltimore, watching the markets fo* *
the newest goods, I did this this season and while th 3
secured an up to date line of very stylish
Fall and Winter Ccods.
AH New Tli s Seasons Goods
and at prices in keeping with the times. There are lot’
of merchants not buying a dollar’s worth of new goods
on account of so hailed “hard times”. I, however 5 con
eluded that if I didn’t buy Icouldn’t sell them; so I bot
4 Full Line of Good, Clean
Merchandise.
. That I feel sure wiill appeal to you. and therefore in
vite an inspection of the same. Regarding prices 1
WILL Sell Them For LESS,
As i pay Cash and Sell for
( ash and my expenses small,
These expense items cut a big Figure in the
price of goods.
Remember i handle a General line ef goods,
consistingot,
Dress-Goods, Notions, Vie n
and Boys’ Clothing, Hats,
Caps, Ladies Long Coats
Skirts and Underwear.
Shoes Our Specialty,
All Prices suit the Times
Will appreciate an inspection of our Goods
TO VJOtS TO PIjEsS.SE
J. m. LUNG,
Phone 2k6
i
small growers ot tobacco,
New York connection. I
am a pessimist and ought to be
chloiofornied, but it will not take
long to convince any one that I have
as valuable tobacco ia/m for the size,
16o acres, as in this tobacco territory
Give me loo acres of good cotton
land in middle Georgia, .or 60 acres
in Nprth Texas, and I’ll give the
Democrat $5o.oo cash for this free
advertisement and they get my 16o
acres. More anon.
T. A Cunningham.
with no | fhe Cause of Many
guess I j
Sudden Deaths
There is a disease pi^ .g . t‘«
country most dangerous bt Cutiscsou ctp
■ —i hi n «n vw fcivf, Jfanvs'idea.
dea in, are c. lsed
bv it—bear di»
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writes: "I picked up from my door
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soon became very much Interested.
My little girl of five years of age had
been troubled for a long time with
loss of appetite, extreme nervousness
and undue fatigue. She was all run
down and in a very delicate condition.
"This little book was very compre
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method of extracting the medicinal ele
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eliminating the obnoxious oil which Is
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flesh and strength, and she does not
take cold half so easily.
“I am extremely grateful for the
good it has done her, and I hope other
mothers who have weak, delicate or
ailing children will be benefited by my
experience and Just give VInol a trial.”
Lardlen Ctobtry.
Horseless carriages, wireless telegra
phy, and now lardless cookery! Lard
has, from time immemorial, held sway
in the kitchen, but it has one fatal ob
jection—it is indigestible. Nine-tenths
of the indigestion with which the Amer
ican nation is afflicted is due to the use
of pork and its by-product—lard. ,
Recognizing this, The N. K Fair-
bank Company, Chicago, have placed on
the market a vegetable oil cooking fat,
Cottoiene, which can be used in every
way that lard or butter can, and which
makes delicious, digestible and nourish
ing food. It is recommended by physi
cians, even to invalids, and it is cheaper
than lard, one-third less being required.
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:omes that unpleasant
:ompelled to go often
md to get up many t
light. The mild and m ' • f /
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sample bottle of this wonderful ne» -
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