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BAINBRIDGE, DECATUR CO., GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MAY 18. 1901. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF DECATUR COUNTY AND OF THE CITY OF BAINBRIDGE. am Jones and the Elk3. ouvnal reporter called on Rev. Jones at the home of Mr. W. r j, t . Friday and asked him for view in regard the resolu- . ISSC ,1 by the Savannah Elks •sday night, Mr. Jones said: them that I’m the guest of mid have met several while „] they endorse thoroughly have said about the Elks. .. Elks of Wayoross have not eiiug in six months, so they and Wayoross being a dry t is impossible to keep an Elk allvu here. Elk that doesn’t drink is as ,,t of place in his lodge as a claiming fellowship with his it and says he doesn’t believe vrsion. . Elk lodge is the only lodge anything of which admits sa- epeis and liquor dealers into nvsliip. I got the idea the atolied out of a beer keg be' hey like heer so well, and that brewer was their daddy be- w kept his children so well d. Elk lodge that doesn’t haye it would be as hard to find locale a woman who didn’t looking glass. Women will minis and Elks will have |fact that saloon keepers and dealers make up a large j the Elk membership convin- that if yjju want to stay so li had better stay out ot mat |he Elks will take the temper- -dge I’ll apologize for what Id. It'the Elks will quit get |ky I’ll quit saying anything them—Wayoross Journal. The Oa. Southern Military College. The first term of this institution closes on next Friday. For a long time the people of this town have fell the necessity of a school in which its. patrons could educate their children at home without incurring the heavy expense of sending them away, which a comparatively small number of our citizens could afford. At last a spir it of progress took hold of the people and this long felt want has been filled in the establishment of an institution in which any conunuuityjcould feel a just prides. The trustees selected by the peo pie to inaugurate a system of public schools for the city have shown wis dom and prudence in the selection of a in'in to take the responsible position of pviucipal, and the success which has attended his efforts during the past nine months attest his efficiency for accomplishing the purpose of the school. The people throughout the county and elsewhere as never before in the liistorv of our town, have man ifested a common interest and pride by giving it a liberal pn'ronage, without which it can never attain the purposes of its establishment. The military features of the school lias done much towards its discipli nary management by instilling a sense of individual responsibility among the pupils. With another term under Us pies ent management the future success of our school will he assured, and Bainbridge will possess educational advantages which will he a credit not only to its own citizens and those ot the county but also to Southwest Georgia. XOTILB TO ThUHEHS. (regular examinations for li- leach in public schools ot County will he held in the at Bain bridge Saturday It commencing at 7 a. m. and at fi p. m. The questions on fcm i practice will he bused on [Methods—All who expect to •tuning year, or whose I have expired; rn ist he pres lo more special examinations given unless recoommended lioartl of Education. Robt Bowen, O. S. C. killkii at hoykin. TIlKsF \—s AOTUK. Mr. B. F. Grimes, while feeding the planing mill of the Babcock Lum ber Co., at Boykin, was fatally in jured on Thursday of last week. In some way the machinery of the plan er got reversed, casting a piece of timber back upon Mr. Grimes, from the effects of which he diet! the next day. He was a young man of good character* ami highly respected in tiis community. His remains were buried at Colquitt. - The President and the South. Krom tlic New York World: The Mobile Register reminds Pres- A Pointer for Unpaid Teachers. While the political office-holders in Chicago and the f&voied contrail- Tne Ogden Philanthropists. As yet we have seen nothing to indicate that the South is to he hen- efitled by the southern trip mode by Mr. Robert V. Ogden and his party a few weeks ago. A circular of the Get-Together Club has been Rent out containing an announcement of a dinner to be given on the evening of May 23, at which “Social and in dustrial Betterment of the South” is to be disc ssed by some of those who were members os the Ogden party. The leaders of the Ogden party have disdained any desire 10 dictate to the South the course she should pursue to bring about greater prog ress in her upbuilding. What they want, they say is to confer with leading educators and others in the South as to what 13 best to be done to bring about educational improve ment in the Southern states. But before they undertake to give advice would it not be well for them to make sonic sort of showing as Jo what material help they propose to give? It is apparent that if they do uot propose to contribute anything they have no excuse for offering ad vice. If they make contributions of money—contributions that would be helpful to the common schools or the institutions of higher education, they would be justified in asking to be admitted to the councils of those who direct the South’s educational matters. We do not know whether or not the members'of the Ogden party oh served the fact, during the Southern trip, that if it were not for educating the negroes the South would he able to provide just about as satisfactory common schools as are to be found | lia11 ? * lhe Prosperity of the South, persistent as the Oh leago rebool the North. The providing of' and t,lat tb<! 8 llarantees tbe ^ on ' teachers, they might find a way to idem McKinley that everything he 0 rs ailtl al | kltl(|R of boodlers were saw at the South was calculated to j getting their tnonev, the school teach- impress upon him the fact that “tliis,^^ W t*ro told that there were no is a white man’s country,” and 'that t funds available for paving their sal- “the prosperity he ro freely speaks j Rf1e(1 and they would, then fore, hate about is the result of the white man’s j Wtt) t, But the Chicago school teacher n| - peais to know a thing or two out side the school room. The ten diets found after an examination that fully $235,000,000 worth of property was escaping taxation. It was not known whether the assessors were indiffer ent, incompetent or had been bought off. A committee of the teachers, however, waited 011 the assesrors, pointed out the property and de manded that it he taxed, so that the city’s revenues would he sufficient io pay them their salaries. The assess ors refused. The matter was taken to the Slate hoard of equalization,* where another rebuff was met. Then the courts were resorted to, and only the other day the teachers won the suit, and orders were issued to the local assessors to take note of this property as one of the city’s assets. By this contest $5,000,000 have been addeded to the citv’s revenue, and it is safe to assume that the po liticians, even, will risk no more fights of this kind with the tenders, but will see that their salaries are promptly paid. Nearly every other city in this genius for government.” In proof of this fact' the Register notes that the officials and commit tees who received the Presidential party and the crowds that welcomed him with enthusiasm were made up of white men, and that the banquets he attended and the speeches made to him were everywhere managed and made by white meu. And it suggests that the Presidents logical mind must see that what has been done “is not an accident, but the nat ural order ot tilings, which 110 man can upset.” In view of this, our Southern con temporary thinks it would be a very seryioable and patriotic thing in the President to “declare himself in fav or of a white man’s government in the South.” This, it says, would not only be bold and fight, but it would “take the negro out of politics, where lie is but the victim of designing men, and would srraigfciteo him lip as a negro for a future much more re spectable and much more satisfactory to all persons than the future that now opens before him.” It is probably not seriously expec ted by anybody that Mr. McKinley colll(ty 18 following Chicago's tx.im- is capable of doing a thing like this, ■ pIe o( - overlooking millions of del lurs It does not harmonize with his char-1 worth of taxable property while cum- noter. He would probably say, if pl a i„j n g 0 f scarcity of revenues. If forced to speak on the question, that lhu unpa|d employes of these mimic- negro labor has contributed poten- ipalitic-H are as smart and plucky and cools for the negro, who com.i - stitution an to citizenship and suf ute very little to the school fund, prevents the common schools from being made as efficient as they other wise would lie. And the North is as responsible for Uie presence of the *i.:» . 1... .4 u We see no reason why the first yeajT of the twentieth century should not be marked by an extraordinary prosperity in Georgia. There nothing that menaces progress negroes in this country as the South, and is wholly responsible for making them citizens before they were ready for citizenship. It is but right therefore that the North should help to beat the burdeil winch the ne groes impose upon the South. The fact should be kept in mind that the South has not asked tor any help. She will continue to hear g her burden without complaining, hut y 0 jif she has to hear it alone it would far as one is able to anticipate from [ b « bat that «>'« W0l,ld ti »‘ * 1 unalloyed pleasure in being told by part - cs are |tishiutr, !iuntin a ,_ —, . .... passing on lot of land' “P*™ 11 * U,08e wh,c ‘‘ have uun,e rn 0 231 i„ the 27th district of | commercially important. the county. Also on lots 226 : fr,,,t K rowers w,l! 1,1 u11 prolmbilitv II situated in the 27th dis-| obtai " l ,nw8 a " ,i tl ' C,e " ..closed i» my woods pas- | • profit In cotton as well. In the Brinson*. ' This notice ‘ meantime every manufacturing plant seems to be flourishing and more are terras being built 1,1 many localities. The . . , 8prmcrcondit.onsthcstatew.il (1| „ | unalloyed pleasure in neing torn i,y „ ' t:mhy i'*™'-L h.™.r-lv all kind — Son*" „h., “» *«« mg, or in any 1 h * 0 should do for the betterment of t)ie «i''ce lost its force, and that party is nuson. 1 Deserved or parties violating , will lie prosecuted in IT! May 15, 1901. E. G. Piper. Ill K OF I AX HKI'EIYKH. confidence of the people in the man ufacturing possibilities of Georgia is steadily increasing and there is scon to he a very large increase men t in our taxable values.— Macon News. Lkin affections will readily disap ■u of sickness I was unable to I’ii'cntuieuts as advertised and* ar i 1(t iug i»e Witt’s Witch Hazel honn the public that I will g rt | vt . Lookout for counterfeit*. If i c e. that I tailed to reach ym , g el Jj e Witt’s voii will gel good results. condition of her people. Certainly men who ride through the South 011 railway train, and stop a day or two at each of a half-a-dozen places, can not form as correct an idea of the edu cational needs of tile people aa the meu who have lived ail their lives in the South and made that ami kin dred matters subjects of study.—Sa vannah News. uk Monday, May 27th ave. Tuesday, " 28th Wednesday, -• 29th |Jli!l. Thursday, “ :(0th iu. Friday, “ 31st Monday, June 3rd A. P. Long, Tax Receiver, If people only knew what we know about Kodol Dyspepsia Cure, it would be used in nearly every house hold, as there are few people who do not s ffer from a feeling of fullness It is the q nek and positive after eating, belching, flatulence, get their money promptly,— Hous ton (Tex.,) Post. JIM AftDEHSON KIH.I.II. Jim Anderson, colored,‘died lust Friday from the effect of a uoi.nd- inflicted by Mr. Jim Baggs a few days before with a hoe. Mr. Baggs and Anderson were both working for Mr. Geo. Davis 011 Ins farm near Branuliville. They had a disagreement about some work. They were chopping notion at the time and both had hoes. Anderson advanced uu Mr. Baggs and tried to strike him wi h a hoe, when Baggs laised his hoe and simek Andei.on on the side of the head, inflicting a wound, the effects of whiph produced death three days afterward. The difficulty was witnessed by Mr. Geo. Davis, who exhonoratea Mr. Baggs from all blame.) Baggs came up to Camilla and no tified the sheriff that he was ready to give up at any time he should he wanted. Mr. Baggs is a very quiet, the “solid South” by the dynamics i a " d ba « b **-» married about a year. Hi* many friends regret the necessity for the homicide but are satisfied that he is blameless.—Camilla Clarion. frage must be observed And yet it is very noticeable that all of the old Republican shibboleths in regard lo the rights and wrongs of the negro have been dropped. Mr. McKinley 110 longer refers, in mes sage or speech, to the virtual sup pression of the bulk of the negro vote in several of the Southern states. Neither he nor any other leader of Ins party has taken issue with Dr. Parkhursl for Ids declaration that the immediate enfranchisement of the freed slaves was a terrible blun- d> r —“one of those blunders that are worse than crimes,” lie might with truth have said. The formula of Tiiad Sievens under which this crime was committed—“So many niggers, now making 110 effiort to revive it, The most.tbal can be expected of •Mr. McKinley is that he shall treat the old sectional issue as dead and buried, as he is doing in his speeches, and shall try to aid in breaking up of new issues and by a more sedu lous selection of white men for office. More than this Mr. McKinley will not do just yet—if ever. K.-tlUAk .WITlfc. . cure for piles. R. L- Hicks. Lost, strayed or stolen from my home 4 miles so'.uli of Fowllowu on the 4ih day of May one cream color ed mare 7 or 8 years old with black sour stomach or waterbrash, cause.! all( j U j|, branded on the left i Th.E.k.^7.^. lol o< r\T “r, l 7 | advertising tor Uam Jones and he lfl whioh, with no aid from the stomach, mt * a,, ‘^ a sul ^ a ole reward will be I reaping the profits. Sam knows a will digest yotr food, certainly can’t paid. Miss Euza Ward, th.ng or two about human weaknesses, help but do you good. R. L. Hicks. 1 Fowltown, G* Mr. W. J. Baxter, of North Brook, N. O., says lie suffered with piles for fifteen years. lie tried main rem edies witli no results until he used DeWiu’s Witch Hazel S.-ilve and that quickly cured him. R L. Hicks. I can furnish your material for the wood work in your buildings. Eterv- liiug cheap for the cash. Reid jfc Sons. First class Job Work executed this office. at