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THE PHAKCKMK 41'UriO.l .
U|VI.\U HER *OB.
The Search-Light. | — , —
—— 1 • The New York Journal takes the! It is not an ordinary lawyer who
BAINBIHD lit, Jt>LY <17, 1901. j v j ew that the nn»u■; of reducing the can overcome a woman’s reluctance
When Eve brought w.m to ^ mankind.. * oul ' 1 ’* "wrjeentttion m congress, to tell her age. The Detro.t Free
O.d Adam called her wo man, I lieca .se of the disfranchisement of Press reports one of many failures in
Hat when .she wooed with love so kind., the negro, has been disposed of by that line of effort.
Professional Cards-
Hu then \nononncH.i her woo-man;
Mm now wiili folly and with pride.
Their hUnhands' |N>i'kut* trimming.
The women are »o full of whims
1 hit men pronounce them wini-meu
• -Exchange.
the census figures on race and educa
tion.
It hsjs: “The only southern states
front which returns are at hand as
yet are Alabama and > Arkansas. In
Alabama, out of * total of 413,862
A London paper, having described j * nen of voting age, there are 108,035 tion.
a children’s excursion as a “long, illiterate negToes, or a trifle over j “I beg your pardon, madam. I
wince scream of joy,” was called to one-fourth of the whole. If,'there-! mean how many years have you
Account the other day by a corres- , for®, Alabama should disfranchise all | passed?”
“And what is yo'ir age madam?”
was the attorney’s question.
“My own,” she promptly answered.
“I understand that, madam, but
bow old are you?”
“1 am not old, sir,” with indigna-
D& S. J CHESNUT.
Physician ar.d Surrecn
Treats diseases of the Eye, Ear,’
Nose and Throat.
All call* promptly attended.
OFFICE ON
Broughton Street.
pondeiit, who said that a scream of ‘ w illiterate negroes, which no-
could be long, but not while. The body proposes to do, (for the posses-
editor thereupon justified himself by »'<>“ of property wo lid let in many
urging that “a line is often associated of them), and if it were to he p.m-
with a cry.” jished for it by a reduction of its rep-
. —- tesentation on the lines laid down
None; the years have passed me.”
“Mow many of them have passed
you?”
“All. I never heard of them stoj *
ping.”
“Madam, you mi.st answer my
Bitwik tkiWKit,
BOWER&b
• Ai-orneyg.^t.
bainhkiijge, 6
A New Jersey, minister haseon-| by t, “ i fo " rlee,,tl ' it question. I want to know your age.”
elude I that a man’s soul as well as • ,08e tW0 of ,t " ni "‘ ! re l’ r ‘‘ 8un ' ‘ I don’t know that the acq taiii-
his heart can be hnst reached through I UtiveS 1,1 00,, B nJM an ' 1 lwo of il * tanoe is desired by the other side.”
his -tdmauli, says the tndianaHU " ,eve1 ' ‘ ^lwlor! ‘ , V 01 * 8 ’
Hentinol. The other day he anno :nt-
« 1 that every person attending morn
ing services last Sunday should bet
give, a free dinner ,n the vestry of tbfc w,,oIe ’ ,f Arkansas dlsH-Ah-
the church. The experiment was Uhl#ed a11 it,< uolw * d ll,:itr * u * jt
highly successful. The attendance' mi * bt ltf8e one of iw ,L T<^"
was increased, and the order of the
dinner floating into the church irn-
pai'ioe added fervor to tht> proceed
ings. It is now announced that the
rxjieriiuenl will be continued.
A correspondent of the New York
<8 111 expresses the opinion that the
, Alabama const! tntiijnal convention
•lias started a revolution “which is to
“I don’t see why you insist upon
“In Arkansas, out of 318,83b men ! refusing to answer my question,”
over 21 years old, 39,092 are colored j Ka id the attorney uouxiugly. “I am
Illiterates) not quite onb-eiglilh of ail re 1 would tell how old I was, if I
wer* asked.”
“Nobody would ask you, lor every
body knows you “are old enough to
know better than to be asking a wo
man her age, so there.”
An the attorney passed to the next
question.
A RAUIXIi HOAHIXO H.OIH).
Washed down a telegraph liue which
Chas. C. Ellis of Lisbon. la., had to re
pair. “Standing waist deep iu icy wa
ter,” he writes, “gave me a terrible
cold and coui'h. I grew worse daily.
Finally the best doctors in Oakland
Neh.. Sioux City and Omaha said I had
Consumption and could uot, live. ’J hen
I begin using Dr. King’s New Discovery
and was wholly cured by six bottles.”
I On the whole, the number of repre— 1 Positively guaranteed for Coughs, Colds
AI 1 — 1 - j '
tattves and one of its nine electoral
votes, or it might not lose any.
“Taking these figures as a guide
it appears probable that if all the
southern states should follow the ex
ample ot Louisiana and Mississippi,
tbe’nurolier of voters disfranchised
would not be great enough to cause
any reduction of representation in
(Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland,
. . „ .. . Kentucky, Tennessee or Florida,
spread over the whole Union.” Tbe,^ mig||t bl . 8 , 08H of one nj( , m .
u uth, l.e gays, “begina to dawn upon ^ ^ w Nortl , Caro!itia Wld
the other states that Alabama’s de-,,^ and • lw0 in 8oulh Carolma>
tri ,n<( for an educated vote is what M| „ m8lt)pi and
the wliobf country wants and is I , ,
J. E. MATHIS,
Contractor and Builder.
It AINU RIDGE, GA.
Bids Submitted on All.Kinds of
BRICK: or : WOOD : WORK.
131 tf
R. J. ROONEY,
Contractor and Builder.
• •
Estimates cheerfully furnished on all
. . classes ol building. . .
J. W. BUHNEY,
RT[D BUILDER
BAINBKIDGE, GEORGIA.
jQPAgent for Hardwood Mantels,
Doors. Mash and Bln ds, and contracts
for first-class Cement Sidewalks.
sentativcs cut off throughout the i ' T lud “ U , Thr ^ t “"f L,,n “ t,,,,ui ' leB by K.
1 , , , , ,, , . , L. nicks, trial bottle free. Trice 50c
and #1.00.
Flll-ULVI IOV HV SEX COLOR.
The census bureau lias issued a
bulletin du the population by sex,
general nativity and color in ’ 1900
iii the J district of Columbia, Florida.
District 0/Columbia—Males, 132,-
004; females, 140,174; native born,
258,599; foreign boru, 20,119; total
ready' 10 as It of her legislators.
*vu|«w.*4» f in favor "“t -outb hardly txoeed twelve or
only Of What Ali*(>ama has done, but' hirteu|I . Jt ig BOai . oeIjr Jikely lhat
}.. Nvor of ever/state where theed-1 lhe reJ)ubIiwaiJ pmy wi „ lake up
test ,s applied, has already, BUoh ft prickly iMlw for 8ncb * *roall
taken p|,>iv»," If so, we are indeed |retMruB >*
/nuking pro'fresj',-—MaconiTel?gr»ph. j Whereupon thy Birmingham News
i»avs:
Another Victory for the shirt waistj “This issue has not really existed
for nen! If lias heretofore achieved j|pf years. Northern republican i keoigia and Hawai. hollowing is
successes in the churches, the hotels platforms make the threat to reduce 11,0 6umnWV by states:
end restaurants and theuteis;'now it 1 the soifth’s representation, and the
the filhblonuble wedding itndef mun Jike .Congressmen Crunijracker
jxu ijiymL'uUOii. At Belvidere, N. J( Ipropoe# jt in,congress, but that isflie
■1 bo otiiv'i' day s “farlnonable olriruh <epd of ft. /Seqfllble and conservativei wUitAS, 151,532; native white, 172,-
svaldiQg” mpgiirWo. The morning| northern mew W.ali.fe .that the negro H12; foreign parents, 21,929; foreign
Was warifl) and both men and women suffrage question is a rionlhem qnes-
«>f tb»< audjcoov .appeared ib Ahirt^ au j thut tlao sonkhv wIkmiIvI Mettle it iu
wnisU It is not etVJWd In tl* 6 dis-l^y^ wa y t President fyLcKmley
pitches that the Ulilde .4*»d groom , [g hituself opposed to any intb.-fer-
ivore shirt waists, so it W to !#* lufwr- ( ence by the federal gOtiemgiCiit bi
ed that they did not, buft adhered to (this matte?.
the conventional ooslutoerf. A-t all j “There will be no reduction of the
events, a start has been made, and j south’s representation if every south-
wheu men of the audience begin fO jW . u disfiunchises the ignorant
w*ar shirt waists at fashionable 1 pegro. From a political standpoinf
church weddings it will not be long 1 there is too jitlle for the republican
In-tiro grooms will kneel at the altar pany to gain, while n« action would
111 aisnllar attire in s unnier. kill off all cimuct’wf planting a while
— -» - ~ - — repnhlioau party lit the south, since
Although the difference isMO slight it would arouse mww juolional ani-
thnt it is not noticed lb the gait, nu»-ity.”—Macon New*,
nearly everybody in the world limps
a little, far nearly everybody’s left
leg is shorter than the right. A child’s
legs at its birth are shorter than its
arms. The teg bones lengthen chief
SIIVE.X VEAHs l.\ HER.
■Will wonders ever cease?” inquiio
the friends of Mrs L. 1'ense, of Law
rence. Kuu. They knew she had i.eeu
, ly by additions to their ends, caused unable to leave her bed in seven years
l Hv the coutiuual formation and ossi-' 0,1 ac- ormt of kidney and liver trouble,
. th-ation of cartilage there during the nervous prostration and inmer.il del.ili-
. , . .1 if ,r ti.^u ty; but “Three bottles of K.betriu Bit -
. period of growth. If one of these 1 .. .
1 * ^ , tero enabled me to walk, she write-.
,. cartilage caps bo injured it may make . la0( j j„ three months 1 felt like » new
. the leg shorter, or if one of them be j ^er^on.” Womou suffering from Head-
n imul.ited by luflatuiHation it may; ache. Nervous .ess, Sleeplessness, Jlel-
rcsnlt iu the leg being lengthened. | anoholy, Fainting aud Disay Spells will
The cartilage caps, ot epiphyses, as“ 4 blessing Try i». Sat-
” r . . . istaotiuo i3i gaarnuteed. Only oOc at K
thu peysioio^wti call tlR*ai, are con-1 ^
stuntly stimulated Ui young people .
by their active exercises, aud thus
tliev
, You ean never cure dyspepsia by di-
grow rapidly. If an equal j eiing. Whac your body needs i- plenty
1 *«. ,*k"' '■rllf^'^.SKdi'SJS'lsU.KS
each leg the growth would la: equal. Dyspepsia v.iu-e wi.t. It. contains allot’
. , . the natuisl di^estauts, hence ui-.»t di-
and one lag woul-1 never be shorter every class of food and so prepare, . ^ ..,»»»
than the other. This, however, is > r <”• thit uanire cau use it iu uouri-hiim Little Eirly Risers, compel your liver
die b»dy 1 od replaelug the wasted tis- a „d bowels to do their duty, thus giving
l.ractlollly impossible, and that is sues, thus gp'iug life health, strength, you pure, rich blood to recuperate vour
, a nave olood and gmd healthy iH>dy. Are easy to take. Never it'ripe.
why nearly everybody mps. appetite. K L. Hicks, jj Hicks. * ^
wliite, 10,520; tutal colored, 87,186.
Florida—Males 275,236; females,
253,296; native born, 504,719; for
eign born, 23,882; total white, 297,-
383; native white, 278,076; foreign
parents, 24,044; foreign white, 19,-
257; total colored, 231,2u9.
Georgia—Males 1,002,201; fe-
TOalos ; 130; native born,2,203,-
928; foreign born, 12,403; total
white, 1,181,1,09; native white, 1,-
169,088; foreign parents, 24,913;
foreign white, 12,020; total colored,
1,035,222.
The foreign born element consti
tutes nearly three fifths of the popu
lation of JHawai a’nd comprises main -
)v Chinese and Japanese.
The next largest proportion of
foreign born are in Illinois, one-fifth,
and Idaho, a little over one seventh.
The population of Illinois is 98 per
cent white, Idaho, 95 per cent white,
while the white element constitutes
oyer one-half ihe population df the
District of Columbia, Florida and
Georgia. 'The colored clement in
Hawai is 56.6 per cent of the whole
population.
In Illinois the foreign white per
sons of foreign parentage represent a
little over one-naif the entire popula
tion; 40 per cent in Idaho, 18 to 20
per cent in Delewure, District of
Columbia and Hawai, over 8 in Flor
ida and less than two in Georgia.
Those famous little pills. DeWitt’s
Fresh Meats
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AT MY NEW
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JETE H. POWELL
Practice in tbe St&u
aud Justice courts
Okfick :
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Old Sea'
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ATTORNEY-AI.
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and.
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Attoney at
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JOE. H. GIL
Attorney at
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courts, except tbs criminal
city court of Decatur
Public in office.
JOHN C. G
ATTORNEV-i
bAinbridge.
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1 nave a* very large sprint' and snm-
mer pasture near town where 1 will take
news at morning and graze them during
tho day. returning same at night, for the
sum of yl.28 per month.
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