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Vta =55 Vienna News TWICE-A-WEEK. T. A. ADKINS, JR., Ed. • Proprietors W. T. ADKINS, Z. ORLANDO COLLINS, Editorial and News Editor. Official Organ Dooly County, Official Organ City of Vienna, Entered at the Postbffice at Vienna, Ga as Second Class Mail Matter. Advertising rates furnished on request. The News will not be responsible for views expressed by correspondents, RATES ox subscription: Gnecopy one year— .....|i.oo One copy six months , .5° Onecopy three months as Published WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS 'PHONE No. is. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1902. Saynnnah is stirred up over proposed duel. Atlanta next. The Jackson Argus designates the author of the anti-free pass bill “Oom Joe.” h * And so Teddy has went back on the colored brethren. Bet he will be dining with one under a month The Atlanta Journal suggests canteen at close quarters as a rem edy to keep the legislatures nearer their work. The short session of congress Convened at noon Monday, Every member from Geotgiu with both Senators were predent to answer roll call. Can’t someone please arrange to get Sister Nation into n railroad wreck, or an explosion, or under a falling brick wall, or something of that sort. A. very safe way to judge ’ a city’s standing is by its real estate It real estate brings a good price, other things are most likely to be in proportion. The United States circuit court knocked the suit brought against the new Virginia constitution into a cocked hat. The court asked tome very timely questions, The legislature has been doing business the past week without a quorum. Twenty-five bills were declared passed while most of the members were bruising around town Hon. Tom Watson is entertain ing the people of South Georgia With some of his lectures. It’s a pity so brilliant a man was ever deceived into the. tomfoolerism of populism. England and Germany have formed sort of a collecting agency for the purpose of collecting a debt from the little republic of Venezuela It must, indeed, be a tough debtpr when theie two worthies have to join hands to get their money. If we could just be speaker of the house of the Georgia legislature for a few days, we would arrest every member we caught skylarking around town when he ought to be -at the people’s business. A few arrests would put an end .to the whole shumeful business, One ot our exchanges that cu rtains a grudge against the Sun- y newspaper says they learn the ildren cuss words and slang, ir instance, “Simple Simeon” is »de ont to be a very nasty, low ed fellow, learning the small y all sorts of naughty pranks A putting mischief into his head, jwn with Simple Simeon, V A COWARDLY POLICY. The policy suggested by some of the so-called leaders of the demo cratic party of just lying low and letting the republicans have a free hand in the hope that they will make some bad blunder, thereby giving the democrats an issue for the coming presidental campaign is too cowardly and contemptible to be entertained for one moment by an honest democrat. It is these men who give such advice as this who have wrecked the party; it they who are holding it down. In the history of this country, lias political party ever accomplished anything without a policy that stood for something, without mission to accpmplisb something? No never—nor there never will be It is the idea of these men make of the democratic party mere party of obstruction—merely a party to oppose anything and everything that the republicans put forward. This is one of the causes ot the party’s ruin today—one of the very first causes. Kick such fellows as these out and put up men who stand ior something, and who want the party to stand and do something, and not “lie low” to see what the other fellow is going to do. A suggestion which meets with our heurty approval has been made to the effect that all the fellows who voted for Joe Hall’s anti-free pass bill should, to be consistent hand back their tree passes they are now riding about the country on to the railtoads that gave them There is no law to compel these extraordinarily virtuous members to accept these free passes. One thing is very certain in the event the democratic party should wind up by placing Grover Cleve land in nomination as its next presidental candidate; and that is that the said candidate will receive in full and overflowing measure the opposition and viturbution of Col. Bryan. Not in stinted quant ities will it be handed forth, but by the barrel full, and without adul teration. A certain enterprising saloon keeper in Macon has fixed up an aparatus in his place of business which, by an electrical contrivance shows when the curtuin is 'going to be raised in the opera house after having been let down be- ween acts. By this means any one desiring a drink between acts can hie out to the saloon, load up and be warned two minutes before the curtain goes up, so as not to miss any of the play. The devil takes pains to make the rond to hell as easy and slick as possible. It must be awfully annoying to be so great and of so much impor tance that one cannot secure a moment of rest and quiet solitude J. P. Morgan says that bis life is so literally tormented out of him by the endless stream of callers who all have some business of impor- taRce about which they must see him. To a man who has never been outside the wiregrass region of South Georgia, it does not seem possible for one man to be able’ to assume so much power and respon sibility that thousands of fortunes and even lives depend upon his words and auctions. But it' is true, nevertheless. Never in the history of the world has any one man car ried on his shoundiers the great load of responsibility which rests on J. P. Morgan today. By his simple will alone—if he were so disposed to use it—he could render homeless and paupers thousands of fimilies in this country. No man but a giant could stand under the weight carried by this man. A DROP OF INK 21 ■SO WILL- D & HORNE ’S -PRICES ON- As will be Shown in Next Issue. Come, Look and Buy\. BARFIELD & HORME. PINEHURST, GEORGIA. The Atlanta Constitution’s Washington correspondent seems to think there will be no dearth of talk during.the present session of congress, but is very'boubtful of anything of consequence being done. It is said to be the game of the republicans to hold off the trust and tariff questions this ses sion so as to gain time to get their bearings. 3. - Surely the legislature will not defeat the uniform text-book bill. Such a law is one of the crying needs of this state today. It has proved a splendid success in every stale in which it has been tried, and the advantages to be derived from such a system would be found to be most beneficial to the public school spstem of this state. Uniformity of text books means better schools and an improved system of instruction. No argument of any consequence can be applied against such a law, while a great many very sttong ones can be made in its favor. Foils A deadly Attack. "My wife was so ill that.good physici an* went unable to help her,” writes M M Austin, of Winchester, lud., ‘-but was completely cared by Dr King’s New Life pills. They work wonders in stomai h and liver troubles, cures constipaticn sad sick headache 25c at -Forbes & Coke Drug Co: =$25.00 IN COLD CASH GIVEN MAY. WilA each pair of Shoes or Hat bought of us 4 ledween Oct, 15th, 1903 and Jan. 1st, 1903, the purchaser is entitled to a guess in our trade contest. Ihe one making the nearest connect estimate of the number of pieces of money contained in the glosser exhibited in our store, will get the jar and its contents. And we g^wrantcs (ho amount not to be less $25.00. In case two or more ^ jj(arsons guess the same, and that number being the nearest correct, the J money Mil be divided equally between them. Buy your shoes frcram the . -4* SHOE STOREv -4 and t get the jar of money. $25.00 in the jar. Remember we guaramihee there Respectfully, Lewis Bros. Geo. LOOK. We the undersigned filled the above described jar,,, no knows the number of pieces of money therein. I s - LASSETER, . MAX L.\ JXiBCES.