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SEMI-WEEKLY TDIES-ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1014.
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CONGRESSIONAL POLITICS.
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The laay, stretchy time Is almost
here.
Go out and see how they look to
morrow afternoon.
Why haven’t you become a mem
ber of the Public Library?
Teddy lost his equipment but his
nerve stood him In good stead.
How would jour wife look going
down the street with sandals and
no stockings on?
Don’t tell your wife all your se
crets, she might tell them as soon as
she becomes a widow.
The girl who wanted six feet a
few years ago now wishes that six
leet was burled six feet.
In Mississippi tbey adjourned the
legislature to watch Ty Cobb play
baseball.
You will have to hand It to young
Gould. He has something that
money didn’t buy.
Don’t decldo yet for whom you
will vote, at least not until you reg
ister for you may forget It.
While local politics have not open
ed up In this quarter, there Is con
siderable stir In other parts of tho
State.
In the Sixth. Hon. Walter Wise so
far has everything to himself, the
Incumbent, Hon. C. E. Bartlett, not
yet having announced. If Mr. Bart
lett announces, It will be a pretty
fight, he having beat Mr. Wise by
only a handful of votes.
a the Eleventh, Judge Quincy Is
trying his measure with Hon. Ran
dall- Walker, with chances In favor
of Mr. Welker.
In the Seventh, Hon. Gordoe Lee
Is hesitating to see If he will have
an opportunity to run for Governor,
otherwise ho will be re-elected to the
House.
In the First, Hon. J. W. Over-
street, who had a taste of Congres
sional life when Congressman Les
ter died. Is measuring horns with
Hon. Charley Edwards, with chances
in favor of Edwards.
In the Ninth, Hon. John Ho'der
Is going to try out again with Hon
Tom Dell, with good chances of win
ning.
Judge Adamson and Hon. Dudley
Hughes will go back If they so de
sire.
Hon. Tom Hudson may try out
with Judge Crisp, In the Third.
In the Tenth, Hon. T. W. Hard
wick Is out, and Judge Carl Vinson
very much In, the race. There will
be some opposition to Judge Vinson,
probably Mr. Evans, who opposed
Congressman Hardwick last time,
but Judge Vinson has made the best
get-a-way, and with his great popu
larity and exceptional ability, will
be hard to overtake.
In the Second —T—
Old boy the team that plays the
post season with us will come Into!
the new Coast Line station.
THE LEGAL ASPECTS OF LEO M,
FRANK'S CASE.
Mr. C. L. Thompson Is the moving
spirit behind the White Way Instal
lation and If It happens, to him
win belong the credit.
(By Thomas E. Watson In Macon
News.)
From the sworn testimony before
the Jury, It was utterly Impossible
for them to have reached any other
verdict,
It Is said that Judge Roan, who
Mr. Felder says he Is in the rac* j presided, was not certain as to the
for the Senate to the end. So dose ggjjt gtrasK.
Tom Hardwick, and so will Mr. Sla
ton.
A Baltimore man lopped hie own
salary six thousand dollars per year
In order to set the proper example
which he Intended following with
his men.
Down In Thomas County and In
surrounding counties tbey are talk
ing mighty loudly about Hon. J.
Fondren Mitchell for attorney-gon-
oral.—Augusta Chronicle.
Jack Slaton Is evidently going t«
speak out when he gets good and
ready which Is Just as well as It
gives the politicians something
speculate on ad interim.
Jack Johnson, who Is going to
fight some time soon In Paris, Is re
ported in fairly good shape for the
bout. Don't wish him any harm,
but hope the other chap will lay him
cold for an indefinite spell.
Slit skirts are unpopular now they
say because none of the women who
care are wearing them to an extent
which will show their limbs. The
ones who do will manage to show
them anyhow.
Governor Colquitt Is going to dis
card the "watchful waiting” policy
and offers a reward of a thousand
dollars for an Invasion or Mexico If
that will bring the murderers of a
Texas dtlxen.
A Boston man had to be awakened
to die In the electric chair. He slept
to within fifteen minutes of his time
and It took about two minutes to
awaken him thoroughly. Pity they
couldn’t have done the job while he j defendant, was the case endedT By
was asleep. no means. It had Just begun.
vain, conceited, boisterous, lo
He did not hare to be. That was
none of his business. His duty
to see that the case was legally con
ducted, and that the jury was prop
erly Instructed as to the law.
It was for the Jury to pass upon
the evidence. If Judge Roan had
expressed any opinion, either way,
he would have committed reversible
error.
The Jury having found Frank
guilty, Judge Roan refused a motion
for a new trial; the supreme court
affirmed his decision, and Judge Ben
Hill sentenced the condemned man
to die for the awful crime which had
bee» judicially ascertained.
He had been defended by the best
of Atlanta lawyers. It would seem
that he even employed lawyers be
fore he was accused.
Those lawyers exerted themselves
with desperate energy in behalf of
their client. I will not say that some
of their methods were unprofes
sional; but every one knows that
things were done In behalf of Frank
that have never been done In a mur
der case In Georgia.
practice at the bar which
covered 25 years of active exper
ience, I never knew any state's at
torney to be so brutally, persistently
and violently abused as Hugh Dorsey
was, by Reub Arnold and Luther
Rosser,
That both the solicitor and the
judge bore wltb this unprofessional
and prohibited personal abuse,
speaks loudly for the patience of
both Judge Roan and Solicitor Dor
sey.
There are some trial Judges, and
some solicitors, who would never
tolerate similar brutality from Ar
nold and Rosser.
After Judge Ben Hill sentenced the
will file an extraordinary motion.
Very extraordinary. Indeed. And
very expensive, too, no doubt.
Must our whole judiciary be held
up to the scorn of the world, as
odious, despicable, Ignorant of law
and deaf to a sense of justice?
If money enough can be raised to
make an exceptional case out of
Frank’s then every similar case will
become exceptional, If money enough
can be raised.
The Journal says there will be
nothing lost by one more trial, be
cause Frank will be convicted again.
If guilty.
By that process of reasoning, why
should not every man, found guilty
bo tried again? Why limit tho
principle and the privilege to Leo
Frank ?
The life of every man is supposed
to be equally dear to him; therefore,
every man who Is convicted of mur
der ought to be given another trial,
because, If he Is guilty he will be
convicted again?
Then why not give him a third
new trial, if he Is convicted a second
time? Why not a fourth new trial,
f convicted on the third trial?
You never could convict a defen
dant often enough to suit him.
Neither could you convict him often
enough to satisfy his lawyers. Their
zeal would never slacken, while the
money lasted.
It seems a burning shame that a
leading newspaper should Illegally
trespass upon the province,of jurors
and judges, denounce them, con
demn their oath-hound work, brand
them as false to law, to justice, to
their oaths; and then virtually Issue
orders dictating the future disposi
tion of the case.
If that kind of thing Is to be tol
erated In Georgia, we don’t need
court houses, solicitors, jurors, -wit
nesses, Judges and appellate courts.
What we need is a larger supply of
Arnolds and Rossers, a larger sup
ply of sensational detectives to work
"angels,” a larger supply of racial
fanatics who will say that because
this criminal Is a German, the Ger
mans will not allow him to be sub
ject to customary legal methods;
because he Is an Irishman, the Irish
will not allow It; because he is
Greek, the Greek will not allow it;
because he is Italian, the Italians
will not allow It.
Under such a spirit and practice,
we American Americans would be
the only people who would have to
submit to the prescribed processes
of our laws.
COFFEE
TAKE
T
THE DEMANDS FOR THE DRINK
SLACKENS EVERY YEAR WITH
THE COMING OF THE STRING
SEASON.
Why Is Is that the consumption of
coffee, a commodity used in practi
cally every home In the land, invar
iably declines in the springtime?
This question was asked one of
the large wholesale dealers In the
city yesterday, and would you be
lieve It, he was stunned? Anyway,
the price on coffee, save the highest
grade, as will be seen In the miscel
laneous markets. Is exactly $1 the
bag less than it was a few days ago,
but this will probably be of little
satisfaction to the consumer, who
does not profit since the retail prices
are not effected.
The great markets of Boston and
New York, the latter being of course
the leading market, have shown a
tendency to soften In prices since
the first of January, this being caus
ed by the basic law of supply and
demand.
The ternd has been -gradually
downward and within the period
mentioned some sixty points have
been clipped off the selling values
on practically all grades of imports
which supply Americans with their
dally "steaming cup” of aromatic
coffee.
With the approach of spring, the
demand which Is always brisk In
the cold weather, gradually slack
ens; as the hot months develop, the
Inquiry proves more marked, and
when the real heated term arrives
the selling end of the game Is at
the very lowest and dullest point of
he year—all hands are then buying
tea.
Local dealers estimate that the av
erage sack of coffee weighs approxi
mately one hundred and twenty
pounds. The decline In less than
ninety days has been slightly In ex
cess of II. The tariff has not, In
any manner, been Instrumental In
developing the decline.
WHITE WAT PROPOSAL
NOW OP TO THE CITY
.Jackson Street Wants it Right Away,
and City is Asked to Put Up Poles
—Bonds Are Received by Council.
GOLOEST MARCH IN 25 YEARS
A Greek workman, In Pennsylva
nia, making one seventy per day, got
word that he had Inherited seven
million. He tried to spend a part of
quaclous, pseudo-detective, one W. J.
Burns, was employed ' to hunt for
new evidence! To hunt?
If that was the purpose of his em
it In a -week of excitement and 1 ployment, why wasn’t he engaged
■nally managed to get rid of twenty-1 before Frank came to trial? Or
thraa dollars. The disposition of
fhs small remaining balance la gtOl
a aource ot some worry to him
while the motion tor new trial was
pending?
The lawyers announce that they
Atlanta, March 25.—The govern
ment bureau here declares that up
to today this ' has been the coldest
March Georgia has known in the
past twenty years. The mean aver
age for -March up to now has been
52.6 degrees. The coldest March
Georgia haa ever had was In 1891,
when the average was 47 degrees,
but since that time It has never fal
len co law as thlB season.
The average for the llrst twenty-
two days of this month was 44.2, so
that even If its gets a great deal
warmer during the next week. It will
keep the average still low. Mr. Von
Hermann does not think It can pos
sibly get warm enough between now
and -Atprll first to bring the March
average up to anywhere near nor
mal.
The cold, however, haa been
healthful and stimulating, both for
humans and for the crops. The fruit
particularly, which It was first fear
ed the late snow would Injur*, has
been helped materially.
Mr. C. L. Thompson last night, at
the meeting of the Council, submit
ted a proposition which would mean
the Installation of a "White Way”
for Thomasvllle, from the Madison
Street corner to the A. C. L. station,
on Jackson street. The plan was for
the property owners to pro-rate the
cost of the posts, lamps and neces
sary wires, and for the city to In
stall them. The matter was dis
cussed and finally referred to the
Water and Light Committee, for
report. It being the duty of that com
mittee to ascertain the possibility
of furnishing the current from the
plant, and the city's pro-rata cost In
Installation.
Mr. Thompson asked that tho city
remove a certain tree stump which
had been left in the street near the
property of Mri. T. >3. Mitchell,
Dawson Street, and the matter will
be attended to at once.
The fire horses are going to be
tried out on the water wagon. This
was decided upon, after It was as
certained that the city needed more
mules for street work, and the ap
parent uselessness of the fire horses
was dlscussd. Mayor Beverly face
tiously remarked that If they ran
away, when the fire alarm sounded,
that they wouldn't take anything
more than the water wagon to
fire, which wasn’t so bad after all.
The bonds of the recent Issue, with
the legal certificate of the firm em
ployed to certify to their absolute
correctness, were received yesterday
and the Finance Committee was au
thorized to dispose of thdm at once,
In order to Insure the Immediate
beginning of the School building.
After the usual routine work, tho
body adjourned at nln* o’clock
mis
GREATEST EIIIL
FOR THE AMERICAN INDIAN,
AND THIS WILL BE THOR'
OUGHLY STRESSED IN THE
SCHOOLS AND OTHER INST I-
TUTIONS.
Washington, March 24.—A warn
ing against whiskey 'as the greatest
present menace to the American In
dians,” has been addressed by Com
missioner Sells, of the Indian At
tain Department, to each employee
in bis service. This note of warn
ing will be read in all the Indian
schools on April sixth.
Commissioner Sells pleads with
all Indian service employes to set a
good example to the Indian to ex
ert himself against this “worst en
emy.”
SUBSTANTIAL IMPROVEMENTS
MADE BY MANY TOWNS
TAX NOTICE
STOMACH TROUBLES
Ragland Write* Interesting
Letter on This Subject.
Madison Heights, Va.-Mr. Chas. A.
Ragland, of this place, writes: "I hare
been taking Thedlord's Black-Draught
for indigestion, and other stomach troub
les, also colds, and find it to be the very
best medicine I have ever used.
After taking Black-Draught for a few
days, 1 always feel like a new man. 1
Nervousness, nausea, heartburn, pain
in pit of stomach, and a feeling of full
ness after eating, are sure symptoms of
stomach trouble, and should be given the
proper treatment, as your strength and
health depend very largely upon your
food and its digestion.
To get quick and permanent relief
from these ailments, you should take
a medicine of known curative merit.
Its 75 years of splendid success, In the
treatment of Just such troubles, proves
the real merit of Thedford’s Black-
Draught Safe, pleasant, gentle In action,
and without bad after-effects, It Is sure
to benefit both young and old. For sale
everywhere. Price25c. Kcia
Third and Last Round.
Pavo, Wednesday, March 4, from
9 s. m. to 4 p. m.
Harwich, Thursday, March 8,
from 9 a. m. to 2 p. m.
Patten, Friday, March (, from
10 a, m. to 12 m.
Thomasvllle, Saturday, March 7,
from 8 a. m., to G p. i
Merrillville, Monday, March 9,
from 9 a. m. to 12 m.
Coolldge, Tuesday, March 10.
from 9 a. m. to S p. ;
Meigs, Wednesday, March 11,
from 10 a. m., to 4 p. m.
Ochlocknco, Thursday, March 12,
from 10 a. m., to 4 p. m.
Ellabelle, Friday, March 13, from
10 a. m. to 12 m.
Thomasvllle, Saturday, March 14,
from 8 a. m„ to 6 p. m.
Metcalfe, Monday/ March 1(,
from 9 a. m. to 3 p. ;
Boston, Wednesday, March 18,
from 9 a. m. to 3 p. m,
win be In Thomaavllle at the
court house every day, from March
19th to May 1st, when my books
will close, after which It will be
Impossible for me to accept any re
turns.
All city property must he return-,
ed by street and number. All land,
out of town by lot and district
numbers. Please don’t ask me to
copy your returns from old digest,
as I must have a full description of
all property, and signature of par
ty making returns.
Respectfully,
F. a NORTON, T, R-, T. 0.
Columbus. March 25.—The Indus
trial Index says In Its Issue for this
week;
"Sixteen cities and towns in the
Southeast have just begun to make
public improvements or are actively
preparing to do so, as shown by the
reports this week. In most In
stances the funds have been provid
ed by bond issues, the improvements
including paving, sewer and water
works systems, school buildings and
electric light plants.
Prominent In the reports Is the
number of important contracts
awarded and new banks established.
Of much Interest is the awarding of
a contract for establishing a 2100,-
000 meat packing plant at Moultrie,
Ga.
All In all, 11 may he stated that
very probably there la more con
struction and Industrial activity In
the Southeast now than ever before
at this time of the year.
Among the Items of construction
work to be done, as reported tnls
week, are: Apartment houses, two,
Augusta and Atlanta, Ga., and Jack
sonville, Fla.; sewers, 3100,000, Au
gusta. Ga.; 350,000 bridge and |20.-
000 bridge, Escambia and Santa
Rosa counties, Florida; bank build
ings, Miami. Fla., and Metcalfe, Ga.;
church buildings, Adel and Augusta,
Ga.; LaFayette, Ala., and Clear
water and Tampa, Fla.; fraternal
building, West Point, Ga.; hotel
building, Clearwater, Boca Grande,
Gulfport and Tampa, Fla., club
houses. Atlanta, Ga.. and 3t. Peters
burg, Fla.; paving. Clearwater and
Plant City, Fla.; factory building,
Rome, Ga., and Jacksonville, Fla.;
warehouse, Florala, Ala.; road con
struction, Coosa, Hale and Marion
counties, Ala., and Hernando county,
Fla.
Construction conrtcast have been
awarded as follows: Bank building
extension and remodeling, Mllledge-
vllle. Ga., and Ocala, Fla.; church
buildings, Athens and Commerce,
Ga., and Gainesville, Ala.; frater
nal building, Atlanta, Oa.; school
buildings, Vienna, Ga., and Wild
wood, Fla.; pacing, Alexander City,
Ala.; railroad passenger station,
Thomasvllle, Gs.; apartment house.
Atlanta, Ga.
New banks have been organized at
Columbus, Metcalfe and Rhine, Ga.,
and Thomaston. Ala. A 3190,090
trust company has been chartered
at Winder, Ga.
A total of 19 new ocrporatlons
were organised during the week,
with minimum capital stocks aggre
gating $469,500.”
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OIL 01 FEET
IN ORDER TO MAKE MAN GIVE
COMBINATION OF HIS SAFE IN
LOUISIANA FAILS, .AND BOB
BERS ARE BEING PURSUED.
Cheneyvtlle, La., March 25.—City
and county authorities today are
seeking the whereabouts of two
fiendish robbers who' poured hot
greece on the feet of William Lyles,
the proprietor of a stare near here,
in a desperate efTort to make him re
veal the combination to bta Iron
safe. The men were frightened away,
after Lyles had. become unconscious
as a result of their torture.
The safe is said to have contained
several thousand dollars In cash.
Physicians called into attend
Lyles pronounce his condition as
serious.
NUT NOTES
The 1914 meeting of the Georgia-
Florlda Pecan Grower’s Association
Is announced for May 27-28 at
Thomasvllle, Ga.
The executive committee of the
National Nut Growers' Association
lias set the date for the next conven
tion. which is to be held at Thom-
asville, Ga., for October 28, 29, and
30th.
North America Is the only conti
nent where pecans are grown, there
fore the world Is Its market. Unlike
fruit, there is no necessity for care
ful picking, handling and storing.
The nuts are easily gathered and can
be held for a considerable time, to
be sold when desired.
There are few more attractive
propos’.lons, financially and other
wise, than a grove of fine-quality
pecans. While it takes practically
ten years, to bring a grove’to a good
bearlr.fc age, the ground can always
be cultivated while the trees arc
reaching maturity and the cost of
the grove reduced In that way.
There Is no way in which ‘.he gen
eral public can be more easily reach
ed. or more favorably Impressed
with the value of nut trees than by
their general use for ornamental
purposes. Aside from any crops pro
duced, they embody more of the de
sirable features of a street and yard
tree than do those commonly UBed,
which produce nothing but leaves.
Judged simply on the score of beauty
of tree and foliage, they rank high.
SUFFRAGETTES
ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT THEY
WILL HAVE PARADE IN MAY,
THE LIKE OF WHICH HAS NOT
BEEN EQUALLED.
Washington, March 25.—Promi
nent Suffrage leaders today declared
that the pageant to be staged here
by them on May ninth, will surpass
anything of the kind ever seen in
Washington. The parade will be
divided Into many sections, divis
ions for dentists, business' men, pa
per box factory girls and "home
makers” being added to the already
long list today.
The "home-makers’’ division will
be In charge of Mrs. Harvey W. Wi
ley, who Is the wife of the famous
pure-food expert.
Another Interesting section will be
the cavalry division. In which many
distinguished horse-women will ap
pear.
LAW NEEOEO TO PROTECT
Irresponsible Persons Often File
Complaints Which Prove Untrue,
But Wreck Untold Damage,
No more beautiful shade tree Is
known than the English walnut.
They make comparatively no litter,
have a pure white bark on trunk and
branches, very closely resembling
that of the silver birch, and bear a
heavy foliage with a rich, glossy
leaf. They are almost immune from
Insect pests, a certain alkali sap
which they possess serving to drive
away the parasite which are so ruin
ous to the chestnut and nearly all
other fruit trees.
••••••
Many Inquiries sre being male at
this time in reference to the various
associations of nut growers. Fol
lowing Is a list of the officers of the
three associations, any of whom will
be glad to furnish information In re
gard to their respective organiza
tions;
••••••
National Nut Growers’ Associa
tion—Chas. A. VanDuzee, President,
St. Paul, Minn.; .W. N. Hutt. first
Atlanta, Mch 25.—The enactment
at the coming legislature session of
Georgia of laws to protect the life
Insurance companies and similar or
ganizations in the state against the
filing of Irresponsible law-suits by
Irresponsible persons, will be strong
ly urged, according to announce
ments made here.
The proposed change In the law
Is one that would protect business
concerns, but at the same time
would not be a fence behind which
weak or Improperly managed or
ganizations could hide. It would
make it impossible to throw a busi
ness concern Into the hands of a re
ceiver, without the siring of an In
demnity bond by the petitioning
creditors amply sufficient to cover
all possible damages. It would pre
vent, It Is stated, the wrecking of
legitimate business concerns, and
would help make Georgia a desira
ble business state.
It is declared that there is a laxi
ty In the present state Insolvent
laws, and that practically all the
northern states have already adopt
ed measures similar to that above
described. The idea Is one that has
been commended by many Georgia
editors, but It will be placed before
the Legislature this year In definite
shape for the first time.
T. S. Price and Sons have moved
their Ten Cent Store from tho build
ing next to the Southern Bell offices
to the store of the Thomasvllle
Press. The Ton Cent Store will
have the entire front part of the
building, which has been made at
tractive for their stock.
Vice-President, Raleigh, N. C.; E. J.
Kyle, second Vice-President, College
Station, Tex.; J. B. Wight, Secre
tary, Cairo, Ga.; Nathaniel Brewer,
Jr., Treasurer, Newport, Fla.
Northern Nut Growers’ Associa
tion—T. P. Littlopage, President,
Union Trust Building, Washington,
D. C.; W. C. Demlng, Secretary,
Georgetown, Conn.
Oeorgla-Florlda Pecan Growers’
Association—B. W. Stone, Presi
dent, Thomasvllle, Ga.; W. W. Bas
sett, Secretary, Montlcello, Fla.
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Opposite Times-Enterpriae Office
Thomaaville Georgia.
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all written Inquiries.
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