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L v Series— Vol. IV-No 10
|rOF. W. W. DAVES
I HAS RESIGNED
■Hires from Head of Public Schools of Cartersville,
1 to Enter Business in Atlanta.
I -of W. W. Daves oh last Fri
night tendered his resignation
juperintendent of the public
>ols of the city of Cartersville
t ke effect on Febt urary ist.
is understood that Prof. Daves
move to Atlanta, where an ex
mt business position has been
[ered him. The resignation of
: Daves came as a surprise to
board at its meeting Friday
it, and its announcement caused
jy expressions of regret.
ro f. Daves has been at the head
artersville’s public school sys
-1 for thirteen years, and has
lered most capable and effective
.j ce to the community during
term. There are few better
ipped educators in the state
i Prof. Daves, and fewer still
e served one community so long
so generally satisfactoily, as
ias the city of Cartersville. Prof.
- es and his excellent family
e many warm friends here who
ily regret their going away, but
h for them the best of fortune
heir new home. It is not known
who will succeed Prof. Daves
superintendent of the city
illovved Up by a Littl e
Failure.
ome people get along beau -
lly, for half a lifetime, perhaps,
le everything goes smoothly,
le they are accumulating crop
and gaining friends and repu
gn; their characters seem to be
ng and well balanced; but the
uent there is friction anywhere
moment trouble comes, a fail
in business, a panic, or a great
is in which they lose their all
ley are overwhelmed. They
)air, lose heart, courage, faith,
e and power to try again—ev
hing. Their very manhood or
womanhood is swallowed up by
■a mere material loss.
This is failure, indeed, and there
■is small hope for anyone who falls
to such a depth of despair. There
is hope for an ignorant man, who
cannot write his name, even, if he
has stamina and backbone. There
is hope for a cripple who has cour
age; there is hope for a boy who
has nerve and grit, even though
be is so hemmed in that he has
apparently no chance in the world,
but there is no hope for a man
who cannot or will not stand up
after he falls, but loses heart when
opposition strikes him. and lays
lown his arms after defeat.
Let everything else go, if you
must but never lose your grip on
yourself. Do not let your man
hood or womanhood go. This is
your priceless pearl, dearer to you
than your breath. Cling to it with
all your might. Give up life itself
first.—Orison Swett Marsden in
success.
Mill Prosperous.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Etowah Milling Com
lany in Atlanta a few days ago the
bllowing officers were elected for the
asuing year: C. M. Maddox, presi.
f*nt, L. I). McKee, secretary and
‘easurer. Directors E. W. Brooke,
. J. Maddox, J. E. Maddox, L. 1)
cKee and C. M. Maddox.
The business was found to be in a,
ery prosperous condition and the
ilaries of the officials were given a
übstantial increase.
Senator Clay has inroduced a bill
i the senate seekingto secure a vaca
ion period each year for rural free
3elivery carriers which is of interest
:o many persons in Georgia. The bill
provides that after the first day of
July, 1905, they shall be entitled to a
e;tve of absence of fifteen days in
'aeh year exclusive of Sundays and
holidays; without loss of pay; and
hat all carriers who have not beeu
n the service one year lose pay and
hat all carriers who enter the service
übsequently to that date, shall
>e entitled to a pro-rata leave of ab
ence during the first year of their
ervice equal to one and one fourth
lays each month and a leave of
•bsence of fifteen days for each sub
sequent year of service.
i Even if some things refuse to go
lyour way, there are others things.
The Cartersville News
NEW OFFICERS ELECTED
Cauniy Commissioners Elect L. P. Gaines
as Chairman.
The new board of county
missioners began its year’s work
by the election of Hon. L. P.
Gaines, chairman, and Hon. R. J.
Raiden, clerk.
The board will meet on the first
Wednesday in each month.
Mr. Gaines is one of the new
members of the board, is well in
formed on the affairs of the county,
an excellent business man and will
make the board of commissioners
a splendid executive.
Mr. Raiden is in every way well
qualified for the clerkship of that
body. The board of commission
ers has some important work be
fore it this year, and that this
work will be well attended to no
one doubts for a moment.
Bill’s in Trouble.
We got a letter, parson, from my son
away out wes f
An’my ol 1 heart if heavy as an anvil
in my breast,
To think the boy whose futur’ I had
once so proudly planned
Should wander from ti epath o’ right
an’ come to such an end.
I tol’ him when he left us, only three
short years ago,
He'd find himself a-plowing in a
mighty crooked now;
He’d miss his father’s counsel and
his mother prayers, too;
But he said the farm was hateful, an’
he guessed he'd have to go.
I know thar’s big temptation for a
yougster in the West,
But I believed our Billy had the cour
age to resist,
An’ when he left I warmed him of the
ever-waitin’ snares
That lie like hidden sarpents in life’s
pathway everywheres;
So Bill he promised faithful to be
keerful, an’ allowed
He’d build up a reputation that’d
make us mighty proud.
But it seems as how my counsel sort
o' faded from his mind,
An’ now he's got in trouble of the
very worstest kind!
His letters come so seldom that I
somehow sort o' knowed
That Billy was a trampin’ on a
mighty rocky road,
But never once imagined he w r ould
bow my head in shame
An’ in the dus’d waller his ol' daddy’s
honored name.
He writes from out in Denver, an’the
story’s mighty short;
I jess can’t tell hismother—it'll crush
her poor ol’ heart!
An’ so I reckoned, parson you might
break the news to her —
Bill’s in the Legislatur, but he doesn't
say what fur.
Farm Coming- Back t<* Its Ow n
Things on the farm are changing,
as we already observe, if we
watch the barometer of social life,
that there is a tendency to get back
to the country. Fifteen years ago,
for instance, less than 50 per cent of
the population were moving country
ward; in 1900 the statistics show that
70 per cent were seeking out homes
in rural districts, and it is likely that
the population now going away from
the city reaches 75 per cent. At last,
with Solomon, they are discovering
that “all is vanity” in the cities; that
friendships are difficult, that neigh
bors don’t know thq names one of the
other, that noise, dirt, confusion are
there and the struggle to live is at
the desperate stage all the time.
The telephone, the trolley line, free
rural mail delivery —these are mitigat
ing the unsocial side of rural life,
and the beauty of nature is doing the
rest.—Opportunity.
The Goat,
The goat is an amusing beast
On circus posters nursed,
His head is the butt end of him,
He travels butt end first;
"Tistrue he feedeth on tin cans
And other bric-a-brac,
And wears a bored expression
And eternally says; “Ba-a;”
When he has quit this world of sin.
Eternally stopped buttin',
We greet him in our dining-room—
He comes disguised as mutton.
He has the cutest little tail,
A set of horns also;
They're each at different ends of him,
At the butt-ends, you know.
I would not care to meet a goat
And pat it on the head;
I hate trained nurses all the while
Tiptoeing 'round my bed;
My father and my mother, too—
I hate to have them scared,
The world ought to be freed of goats,
And then spread out and aired.
* —Houston Post.
A Quiet Election,
The recent city election was the
most quiet ever known in Cartersville,
only 42 votes being polled.
There was no opposition to the
nominees named by the white pri
mary in December, and therefore
there was no incentive to draw out
a large vote.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19. 1905
VALUE OF COTTON
Hon. Sam Inman Writes
Interesting - Letter.
SOUTH’S BIG MONOPOLY
The Pension System a Frightful
and Continuous Drain On
the South’s Purse,
While in St. Louis recently Col
onel Dudley M. Hughes, president
of the the Agricultural Society of
Georgia, in discussing cotton in
comparison with other staples in
the great Agricultural building at
the fair, asked Mr. S. M. Inman to
write him a letter giving his views
of the value of cotton as one of the
resources of the south.
Mr. Inman replied as follows:
“Col. Dudley M. Hughes,President
Georgia Agricultural Society—
My Dear Sir: You ask me to say
something about cotton, the great
product of the south. Few of us
without studying the question
realize what an important part this
staple plays in the financial and
industrial history of the world;
and the south holds the produc
tion of this great crop almost with
out a rival, furnishing nearly 8o
per cent of the world’s consump
tion, Limited by climatic condi
tions to our part of the union, the
cotton growers of America have
the most perfect agricultural mo
nopoly in the world.
“For forty years foreign lands
have, by governmental influence
and money, and by private capital
and money, and by private capital
and enterprise, tried to build up
cotton growing in competition with
the south. But the aggregate for
eign crops increase very little, and
to supply the ever increasing de
maud of about 300,000 bales a
year for an average increase in the
world’s consumption the world
must depend on our country.
“If we keep out of debt and mar
ket this crop wisely, without the
pressure of debt, we ought to ben
efit enormously as time goes on
from this great treasure. This
year’s cotton crop, including the
seed, sold for $650,000,000, besides
furnishing the mills north and
south with all they need. We ex
ported enough to bring $350,000,-
000 gold to this country. This is
one-fourth as much gold as Cali
fornia has produced since the dis
covery of the precious metal there.
“Six hundred and fifty million
dollars was enough to buy every
bushel of wheat raised in the
United States and leave $150,000,-
000 to the good.
“It was enough to buy and pay
for half the corn crop of two and
one-fourth billion bushels grown
in the United States, The corn
crop is the only one of the great
crops that exceeds in value the
cotton crop.
“lowa is the greatest corn grow
ing state in the world, and pro
duces one-eleventh of the total
corn crop of the United States,
yet, this year, after growing her
corn and wheat crop, Georgia sold
her cotton crop for $80,000,000,
enough to pay cash for every bush
el of corn grown in lowa.
“It should encourage us to feel
that back of us we have this im
perial money producing crop; a
perpetual inheritance hedged about
by climataic conditions and pro
tected from world competition
which threatens the other crops.
Once free from debt, let us stay
out of debt and control our own
product, and we will see no more
5 or 6 cents cotton crops.
“The Jquestion may be asked
with such advantages, why does
not Georgia and the South advance
more rapidly in wealth? I reply—
our people are advancing and the
increase has been great during the
past three years, and this advan
tage is in the face of a tremendous
drain which is not apparent to
every one.
“Though the operation of the
tariff and internal revenue, it is
estimated that the South pays S3O
-a year toward the govern
ment pension bill. This sum is
transferred to Northern states and
the mountainous districts of the
South, and helps enrich them,
Georgia's proporition of this pay
ment is some $4,000,000, equal to
half her state’s debt, paid every
year. If it were paid by the state
as a direct tax it would probably
raise a political revolution, but
this drain goes on so silently that
WINS 111 HONOR
Former Bartow County
Boy President Senate.
IN STATE OF ARKANSAS
Hon- Webb Covington, of Pine Log,
Wins Remarkable Success
at Age of Thirtv-three-
A former Cartersville citizen has
been elected to the presidency of the
Arkansas senate. A special from
Little Rock says:
“Hon. Webb Covington and Hon.
James A. Gray, both natives of Geor
gia, have taken high rank in the Ar
kansas senate. Mr. Coxington is
president of the body and Mr. Gray
is chairman of the judiciary commit
tee.
“President Covington was born in
Dawson county, Georgia, 33 years ago.
He worked on a farm and received
a common school education in the
public schools of that state. He early
decided to adopt the practice of law
as his profession and studied with the
firm of Baker A Heyward, ofCarters
vill* , Ga. He was admitted to the
bar in that city just after passing his
eighteenth birthday. He removed to
Arkansas in 1890, settling in Clarks
ville, Johnson county, where he has
since lived. He is now a member of
Cravens & Covington, his partner be
ing Congressman Jordan E. Cravens,
one of the best known and most
prominent men in the state.
“Mr. Covington was raised 16 miles
from Cartersville, at Pine Log, where
he now has a number of relatives re
siding. His father was John H. Cov
ington, of Bartow county, Georgia.
“Mr. Covington was elected presi
dent of the Arkansas senate under
very peculiar circumstances, which
goes to to show that he is very popu
lar wherever known. The democratic
party of Arkansas is divided into
what is known as a Davis and anti-
Davis factions. The senate is in the
neighborhood of ten majority of sen
ators opposed the policies of Govern
or Jefferson Davis. Senator Coving
ton has long been regarded as one of
the governor’s chief lieutenants, and
for that reason it was generally be
lieved he could not be elected presi
dent of a body so largely opposed to
his friend. He managed his compan
ion singly ana alone, and his personal
popularity soon overcame many per
plexing obstacles. The caucus was
held Monday and Senator Covington
was <ygc.ted byfa large majority, many
sfiopposed to. Gover
nor Davis giving him their support.
“He*is an able and corageous man
and a fine parliamentarian. His
friends predict for him a notable ca
reer as president of the upper branch
of the Arkansas general assembly.
Important Law Point.
An interesting law point is involved
in two cases carried up from Bartow
superior court. The cases were tried
before Judge Fite, who held that
where a party engaged in playing, bill
iards, the loser paying for the game
ail parties engaged in the game were
guilty of gambling. The point is a
new one and will have a far reaching
influence if sustained by the supreme
court. The cases are carried up bu
Attorney W. M. Graham, represent
ing the defense.
many are not aware of it, and it
will go on when the last man who
fought against the union is dead,
and perhaps when all his children
are dead.
“The defeated in modern wars
have usually paid the penalty, but
this is the most ingenious, insid
ious, silent and enormous penalty
ever laid upon a defeated people;
in the aggregate, a far greater pen
alty per capita than ever Napo
leon laid upon those whom he
crushed, or the Germans exacted
from the French.
“Had it not been for our natural
resources and energy, we would
never have stood up under it. But
in spite of all this, things are com
ing our way. We are getting out
of debt, we are doing better farm
ing, more manufacturing and learn
ing better how to market our crops.
“We are manufacturing 2,000,-
000 bales of cotton a year, adding
easily $100,000,000 to the value of
raw cotton. The future is bright
with promise if we are but true to
the high character, the indomitable
energy and great souls of the
fathers and mothers, who, coming
out of the most desolating war in
modern times, found the country a
desert and brought it to its present
position of greatness and prosper
ity, Sincerely yours,
S. M. Inman.
“P. S. —Since this letter was
written the goyernment report of
exports showed the value of cot
ton exported for the year ending,
July 1 was $370,000,000. This is
$27,000,000 more than the com
bined value of all the grain, bread
stuff and meat products exported
from the United States for the
same period.”
DEAD IN DENVER,
IS MISS MILNER
She Left Cartersville Many Months Ago in Search
of Health in the West.
A WAR M ROAST
The Adairsville Banner pays its Respects to
the Present Jury System.
The following spirited editorial is
from the last issue of the Adairsville
Banner and will no doubt be read
with interest all over Bartow
county:
Is the average pet it juror capable of
well and justly performing the duties
which devolve upon him?
In the answer to this question not
only is the facility of the judicial
mechanism of the state deeply invol
ved, but by its very nature, also, are
the rights of the people either abrid
ged are given that latitude which
justice demands, and which the wis
dom of the law dictates they shall
have.
That there are abuses in our jury
svstem, no well informed man will
deny; that the law itselt, in not hav
ing an educational test for jurors,
and in not obliterating some of the
antiquated court forms of precedure,
particularly in criminal cases, must
also be conceded. The court form
which requires a juror to swear that
he lias neither formed nor expressed
an opinion as to the guilt or innoce
nce of the prisoner at the bar,” is a
rotten farce, unworthy to be assoc
iated with modern forms of judicial
procedure. The idea that an in
telligent man can reside in a com
munity where a foul crime has been
commited, the details of which have
been published by every newspaper
in the land, without forming or ex
pressing an opinion of the affair, is
preposterous. And any man who
claims to occupy this position is an
ignoramous, void of decision of char
acter and wholly unfit to sit in the
jury box where a man is being tried
for his life.
We liaye jury verdicts every day
which prove the truth of this asser
tion: men are sent to prison who
should not be sent there, and men
are given their liberty who should
be in the penitentiary. The prime
fault is in the failure of the law to
provide a standard of intelligence by
which every man is to be measured
before being allowed to serve upon
a jury. No ignorant, uniformed man
can make a competent juror, and'he
should not be allowed to serve.
Another burning shame in this
connection which shohl be abated by
the law makers i* the .gathering qf
“prfessional jurors” which swarm to
the various country court houses like
buzzards around a dead horse. The
state of Georgia not only expends
much money each year because of
ignorant jurymen, but by the same
cause many a culprit goes unwhipped
of justice whe should be doing time
for the state.
Tommy's Suspicions.
My daddy says that when he was
A boy, he never cried
Nor run away from school to go
A-swimmin’; never tried
To cut a licking; never failed
To do as he was bid—
(Well, maybe daddy didn’t then —
But grandma says he did!)
“I never tied a tin can to
A dog's tail in my life!”
Says daddy, “An’l never carved
My ’nitials with a knife
In great big glarin’ capitals
On the piano lid” —
(That’s what he told me sollumly—
My grandma says he did!)
My daddy brags a lot about
The way boys acted when
He was a boy, (Gee! but they must
Have been most angels then!)
He says he never dared to peep
Beneath the cakebox lid —-
(Well, maybe not; but, anyway,
My grandma says he did!)
“I never cared for circuses
An’ brass bands an’ such things”
(Say honest! that’s just what he said!
“An’ tops an’ devil slings;
I never waited after school
To lick some other kid.”
(He says he never done those things-
But grandma says he did!)
Say! but my grandma’s mighty wise;
She knew my daddy when
He was a little runt an’ says
He was a terror then!
He says he never cut up none
The time he was a kid —
(1 know I ought to b" lieve him, but
My grandma says he did!)
—Lowell Otus Reese, in Leslie's
Weekly.
The Etowah Milling Cos., of Car
tersville, wants to buy shucked corn
in any quantity, or small, Call
them up over the telephone, write or
go to see them.
“I hear she is to marry an old
fellow with a million dollars.”
“Her idea is that she’s going to
marry a million dollars with an
ole fellow attached." —Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
Published in
the Best Coun
ty in Georgia.
Old Series —25tli Year
Miss Annie Milner died Monday
morning in Denver, where she had
been for many months for her health
The information came in the form
of a telegram from Judge Milner to
his son, Mr. Watt Milner, and caused
widespread sorrow among the many
friends of Miss Annie and her family.
No further information has been re
ceived, but it is understood that the
body will be placed teinporialy in a
vault in Denver,and it is probable that
the other members of the family, now
in Colorado, will spend the remainder
of the winter there.
Miss Annie Milner was a young lady
of especially sweet disposition and she
had hundreds of warm personal
friends in Cartersville, where all
her life had been spent.
THE COUNTRY EDITOR.
Should Not be Criticised if Errors Slip Into
His Columns.
The Indianapolis News hrsbeen re
buking the editors of weekly papers
for their slovenly English. The ed
itorial pages of these weeklies it
holds to be a disgrace because of the
carelessness with which the sentences
are constructed, and in proof thereof
a number of phrases, sentences' and
paragraphs are cited. For all of these
the News insists, there is no Excuse,
since the writers have so much time
in which to prepare their copy and
read their prooof. “The work was
done,” says the News writer, “free
from the pressure that drives the
writer for the daily papers, with
much mole time for revision veorreet
ion and deliberation and felso for
proofreading.”
But how does the News writer
know? Does he imagine that .the
editors of weeklies have nothing to
do but to write editorials? If that ir
itis opinion he has sadly betmy t ,d
his ignorance. The editor of a coun
try weekly, while lie, probaltly does
not do everything about tin* office, as
did his predecessor of fifty years ago,
generally has a multitude of duties
which in the case of the city daily
editor are performed by others. He
is the boss of the shop, and every de
tail of its business must at least come
under his eye if it is not performed by
his hand. The chances are, therefore,
that, though his paper is issued but
once a week, the country man is a
busier man than his brother of the
city daily. '
Good English is always "to be de
sired, but it is in vain to criticise
when the circumstances are not un
derstood. There may be some indo
lent and indifferent editors of week
lies, but the strong probability is
that every one of them is doing his
best and is as much entitled to credit
as th~‘ other whose sensibilities are
shocked by seeing in print those
grammatical errors which he was
taught in school to avoid.—Colum
bus (0.) Dispatch.
Woman I 'Society
CARRIE GaRNER JONES.
The Music Club will hold its riex
meeting at the home of Mrs. Felton
Jones on January 21, at 2:30 o’clock,
every member is urged to be present,
as the officers for the ensuing year
will be elected on this afternoon.
The musical programme that was to
have been fiven at Mrs. W. W.
Young’s will be rendered.
Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Crouch enter
tained the officials of the First
National Bank, with an elegant din
ner last Tuesday night.
Miss Kaliie May Akin returns homo
from Calhoun this week.
Mrs. Elizabeth Garner left for Texas
last week.
After a visit of two week's to Mrs.
J. W. Jones, Mrs. Lamar Quillian
leaves Saturday to join her husband
in Memphis.
The Etowah Milling Cos., of Car
tersville, wants to buy shucked corn
in any quantity large or small. Call
them up over the telephone, write or
go to see them.
During the twelve months ended
with last March there were in London
490 known cases of infants suffocated
in bed.