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THE SEARCH-LIGHT
8. WELL BKIMl
EDITOR ADD PBOMUETOB.
Official Organ
Decatur County and Bainbridge
Entered in tbe Pont Office, at.Bainbridge
ati second-class matter.
IlAIKBftIDHZ, Ga., FeBRUART 13 1903
Mr. Roosevelt is about the big
gest accident that has yet struck
the presidential chair.
The Bainbridge Search Light is
one of the brightest papers that
comes to us.—Darien Gazette.
Teddy may yet butt into a brick
wall if he keeps up his present
pace and doesn’t puncture a tire
some where.
When the legislature meets
next June, cheesecloth mother-
hubbards and palmetto fans will
advance m price.
Geoigia needs better public
roads, and Decatur county needs
them just about as bad as any
other county in Georgia.
Just stand pat and see Bain*
bridge grow; we have the best
town in Georgia, if it is a little
smaller than some others.
Just a few more days and Con-
gress will adjourn; in the mean
time the people will hold their
breath ant! wait in silence the
coming of the end.
With spirits of turpentine sell
ing at 64 cents per gallon, the
operators should breathe easy. It
has been but a few years since
spirits sold for 18 cents.
It is said that Mr. Hcarst neith
er smokes, drinks, nor chews; and
the Valdosta Times is of the opin
ion that his chances for the presi-
dcncy arc thereby reduced.
Quincy, Fla., had a jail delivery
last week through which several
desperate characters secured their
freedom. At last accounts the
prisoners were sti'l uncaptured.
That statehood bill will hardly
be recognized by the time it gets
through the House. It seems to
be a case where the republicans
fear the addition of a few electoral
votes to the democratic column.
But then the question is not
troubling us much.
Within the past three months
Georgia cane syrup has received
more advertising than within the
past six years before all combined.
The manufacture of the very best
article by our farmers will be suf
ficicut to uphold this reputation
and increase the demand each
year; while if the poorer grades
are put on the market as adulter
ated or otherwise to the exclusion
of the better grades, w_ can not
hope to keep up the reputation.
Let our farmers increase both the
grade and the quantity of their
syrup.
Those papers which have been
casting about for the most availa
ble candidate for the democratic
nomination in 1904, have about
reached the conclusion that he
will not only come from New York
but that he will be Judge Alton
B. Barker. At tbe same time
there appears to be a disposition
on the part of the leaaers of the
party withhold any suggestion
at this time It may be that a
political Moses will proceed from
the ranks to lead tbe democratic
jo-v o victor •
MR. ROOSEVELT AND MR. ROOT,
Secretary Bilihu Root in a recent
address declared that Mr. Roose
velt had appointed' fewer negroes
to office, than did Mr. McKinley
and others of his predecessors in
office, and from this standpoint he
is greatly surprised that people
continue to cry out against these
appointments. As to the asser-
tion that Mr. Roosevelt has ap,
pointed tower negroes, we are not
posted; but we do understand why
the people continue to relute the
idea of social equality which the
president is trying to force upo"
the southern people, Mr. Roose
velt need not expect because he
appoints fewer negroes to office,
that he has removed tbe principle
of this unrighteous practice of
appointing men to office who are
not acceptable to the people whom
they are expected to serve. It is
not against the appointment of
negroes to office wherever they
are acceptable to the people, but
it is against the thrusting of men
into these places where they are
not wanted by the public, that
we are protesting. It may be true
that Mr. Roosevelt has appointed
fewer negroes to offices in the
south, if so, it is nothing more
than could be expected of a man
who should be striving to arrive at
the needs of his country. Intelli
gence, conservatism and justice
are supposed to be gaining ground
and it this be true, we should ex-
pect more of our present chief ex
ecutive than of his predecessors.
We are clamoring that the presi
dent appoint only to office such
white men as are acceptible to
the community at large in which
the office is situated; we contend
that less should not be required
of the negro applicant for a
similar office. Let appointments
rest on the capability, respecta
bility, and acceptability of the ap
plicant for the office. Whenever
this is done the president will
cease to be censured, the public
will no longer be outraged, and
there will follow a more closely
knitted union of the people of the
two great sections of our country,
IMPROVE YOUR OPPORTUNITY.
Many people lose heart if any
cloud bedims their sky. Unless
all nature smiles benignly and
things are constantly coming their
way they get the blues and com
plain constantly about their hard
lot. We read recently in the New
York World an account of the
superintendent of a large hospital
there which ought to be an inspi
ration to boys and young men to
do their best at all times under all
circumstances. When Michael J.
Rickard was 16, a truck ran over
him and one leg was amputated.
He began active life with no edu-
cation, with one leg gone, with no
friends. But he had resolved to
be of some use in the world.
While his amputated leg was heal
ing he made himself handy around
the hospital. When it was healed
they gave him a job there. He
was not afraid of work. From one
post to another he was promoted
till now he is acting Superintend
ent. A hospital superintendancy
was not his chosen vocation, but
he made the most of the oppor
tunities he found, and his success
is the result. Its secret is tersely
told by one of the physicians there
who said: “Rickard not only
knows every brick in the hospital,
but he knows what mortar there
is between the bricks.” For
young men with two legs, with
good educations, who are inclined
to be despondent over their lack
of success in life, there is a lesson,
says the New York World in
Rickard’s rise. Be thorough, be
obliging, be patient, make the
most of every opportunity, and
success will come.
The Philadelphia Record very
befittingly characterizes Mr. Han
na’s ex-slave bill as “an evidence
of outrageous insincerity, and cal
culated to do a great deal of dam
age at this time,” The Record
points out the danger of Mr.
Hanna’s bill in that it will cons
tinue to excite false hop’s among
the negroes of the South.
BAINBRIDGE DYE WOI
Expert Workmen. - - Prompt
[Moderate Charges.
It is our desire to control the dyeing of Bainbridge and were
only excellence of work will recommend us to the pubffl
Hats Cleaned - Clothing Alter
and Re-shaped. - and i
Give us one trial and we will please you,]
In the old Express Office Graves buildin
Phone 157.
Remedies for Smallpox
And Scarlet Fever.
It is doubtful if Gov. Terrell
really intends to push the suit of
the state for the recovery of cer
tain lots of land set aside in 1843
for school purposes, and concern
ing which nothing has since been
done, except in a few instances.
The state might reclaim these
lands, ur at least an occasional lot,
but we are not satisfied that she
would be doing the proper thing
These lands were set aside at a
time when the state did not thiwk
enough of them to pay to look
after them, they were settled by
squatters, and many of them have
passes down to other generations
and through the hands ' of many
innocent purchasers. It
Sulphate of zinc, one grain; fox
glove (digitalis), one grain; half a
teaspoonful of sugar. When thor
oughly mixed, add four ounces of
water. Take a spoonful every
hour. For a child smaller doses
according to age. The disease
disappearing in to hours.
Another Recipe.
Take five cents worth of cream
of tartar and put it into a pint of
water, stir it up and give the pa
tient a tablespoonful of tbe mix
ture every four hours. The same
dose twice a day will act as a pre
ventative to those exposed. This
remedy will cause the disease to
would j disappear in 3 days.
LOOK NEAT!
indeed appear a hardship for the
state to set idly by for three score
j years, with a lull knowledge of
her claims, allowing innocent pur
chasers to go ahead paying taxes,
improving their lands, etc,, and at
this late dav enter suit for their
recovery. We do not approve of
this plan of the state entrapping
its citizens So far as this county.
is concerned, the state has no!
claim, as by special act of the leg- 1 —.,
islature the lands were transferred I
to the Oak City Hook and Ladder Sbavino parlor,
You can do so oy having your
Clothes Cleaned and Pressed at
the immiiisE rum club.
LADIES WORK AND *
DYEING A SPECIALTY.
Phone 25.
Rear Oak City Drug Store.
Co., of Bainbridge. The state has 1
had ample time to press her claims'
on these lands, and we do not j
think that matters should be dis-1
tarbed by the filing of these suits I
for recovery by the state; j
Vfojet to Post Office,
•Sharp Razors, Clean ZSowets,
Sood and Polite Parkers to
Servo the Pulic.
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"INPER new management
Motel Wtainmai
BAINBRIDGE, GA.
Elegant Equipments Throughout.
Steam Heat.
Private and Public Baths.
The Leading Hotel of the Cii
EDWARD HOFFMAN,
Proprietor.
A. L. Townsend,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Bainbridge Oa.
Will practice in all the courts of Decatur countv. I11
Court of the state and United States District Court. Ai(
employed in criminal cases except in exceptional cases.
In real estate business I return for taxes, rent, collect rtl
real estate for clients. Have over 30 houses in hand for real
render experienced service to clients in this line. I kiw*|
jumpers. /
PHOITE 113
CONGRESS
HALL ,RAJL_Q-Qj
The most up-to-date place in town.
FRESH OYSTERS
Daily. Served in any style.
’Phone orders receive prompt ati
Mixed Drinks a Specialty. QUICK LUN
Pabst Milwaukee Beer on Draught _ At all houjfl
E. BLUMENSTEIN, Propriel
BRACK1N & CO,
Livery, Feed,
Sale Stables,
M D
Broad Street, Ltainbrii
Busses meetsall trains and transfer passengers promptly to 811
the city. First class teams and trusty drivers. Call 8t
’PHONE 5fi.
BRACE
I 3 JVISTACBA SPPtlTTt
Greatest Health Resort in Florida.
Salt water and mineral water baths. Water famous for c®
chronic cures of Stomach and Kidney Troubles.
Spie-did fresh and salt water fishing. Good accommodations in
tages Table supplied at alt times with fish and oysters m adaUj”
a good market affords. Mrs. K. A. Oliver, of Bainbridge, Ga**
positiou of Assistant Manager at tbe Hotel Beaeonaoie Bates*
T. H- H il. Prw»Het«r. T fr 6-PPE$