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THE SEARCH-LIGHT
A LIBRARY.
It is a source of mortification to
many of the people of this place
that so little interest is taken in
^ our library. We would ask that
, the reader who has gone this tar
Decatur County and Bainbridge article will not throw .t
down fearing that it is a plea tor
8. RUSSELL BRIMS#!
KD1TOB AND PKOPBirrOB.
Official Organ
Entered in the Poet Office. at^Hainlirntge
u» second-claes matter.
Bainbbikoe, Ga., February 27, 1903
Macon gets $306000 for a Fed
cral building.
m t m
Attend the Syrup Growers'
Convention at Macon, May 7-8-9-
A six day bicycle race is on in
Philadelphia. It is a test of bull
dog endurance.
Mirabile dictu, a southern paper
has actually found something to
commend in Senator Quay.
Judge H. b. Tompkins, a dis
tinguished lawyer of Atlanta, died
in that city Wednesday afternoon.
The citizens of Baldwin county,
Millegcville county seat, decided
this week not to have a dispensa
r y-
The Czar of Russia will proba-
bly be asked to name the three
arbitrators in the Venezuelan
affairs.
Molten lava is pouring from a
volcano in Mexico and people for
fiftv miles around ar~ panic
stricken.
One of the very best exchanges
on our table is the Moultri;- Ob
server. It comes to us this week
with a new caption.
The Czar or Russia has an
nounced his intention to frown
down upon any act of war ot the
Balkan States against Turkey.
Dothan seems to be rather daffy
over the ‘act that they now have
a county of their own. It is
Houston. We congratulate you.
The terms or thirty of the Uni
ted States Senators expire rn
March 3. Sixteen of these have
been elected to succeed them-
selvea.
The Cypress Lumber Co., of
Apalachicola, sustained a severe
fire loss last week. Their dry
kiln and many thousand tect of
lumber were consumed.
Striking miners in West Vir
ginia had a pitched battle with
officers of the law Wednesday re
sulting in the death of five of the
strikers and many others were
wounded.
funds. It is not. The plea we
are making here is for help from
the funds of interest and enthusi
asm which we all possess in a
greater or less degree and we are
made richer by the use of these
funds than by hoarding.
A person can go to the library
at any hour of the day and ninety
nine times out of a hundred will
find none except the librarian
there. We do not fully realize
how fortunate we are. The town
of Quitman has a public library
that is open only for two or three
hours twice a week and ihey take
a great deal ot interest in it des
pite this handicap, while our libra
ry is open six days in the w< ek
from early morning until evening
While we cannot expect to in
cuicate a love for literature in the
minds of those who have grown up
thinking that the summum bon-
um of human knowledge had been
mastered when they finished the
blue back speller and the red back
grammar and the pink back arith
metic. These persons in thJr
own way have mapped out their
lives a:.d it is impossible to broad
en their sphere of knowlege and
consequent usefulness, but to
those who are fond of treasures of
the ages that lie within our grasps
let them take an interest in the
library, visit it frequently and if
possible spend halt or three quar
ters ot an hour there. The place
is comfortable and it will add to
the room an air of brightness and
take away that feeling of alone-
ness that is apt to kill the impulse
in the minds of the youth of town,
of visiting the place.
It is for the generation that is
growing up around us we are plead
ing. When the boy of sixteen of
today becomes the man of fifty he
will have in his heart a most grate
ful feeling for the town, which in
his youth taught him there is a
wealth of knowledge and pleasure
in books that he could find no
where else on earth, roam where
he would. If he is not given this
impetus for reading while young
it can never be acquired. There
are in the school here a number
of young people who if only they
realized, would be only too glad of
the Bpportunity to revel in the
classic beauty and finish of Wash
ington Irvings works on the pathos
and rich humor of4the universally
admired Dickens, while others
would find in the biting sarcasm
his companions Socrates, Plato,
Hugo, Shakespeare and all the
other great minds that ever lived.
Another true philosopher re
marked that it was all a mistake
to speak of man’s life as being of
three score years and ten. Each
man has the privilege of living
housands of years for the thoughts
we have should be the measure of
the time we live. We have all an
tiquity to draw from and revel in,
we can expand our minds with the
philosophy of Aristotle, with the
virtues of Aurelius, the achiev
ments of Charlemgue, the beauties
of Shakespeare or the metaphysics
of Kant. Let us arouse in the
town a more apparent activity
the field of literature, and inspire
in those who are coming after us
a wholesome love for the great
things that lie freely at our doors
North Carolina ha-: had a trag
edy equal, in its horror and in the
comment it is receiving, to the
Tillman-Gonzales affair of her
sister state. North Carolina how
ever is more unfortunate as 1
bea utiful woman’s good name is
also implicated.
A world's convention of anar
chists is believed to be on foot ai.d
it is feared that after this secret
meeting the crowned heads of
Europe will not be so safe. Last
year there were a number of mira
culous escapes. It is to be hoped
that the present year will pass
with as little fatality among those
who rule.
King Edward of England has
announced his intention to send
the priceless gifts received by
Queen Victoria on her jubilee, to
the Louisiana Purchase Exposi
tion to be placed on exhibition
This is‘he kings personal contri
bution towards the success of
America’s greatest undertaking of
this character
MELTON
and
The Southern Railway is fol
lowing the example ot the larger
roads of the North and the work
of laying a double track from j Thackeray a joy that is unex-
Washington to Atlanta has been’celled. All these may be found
started. j in the library and they will be
Hound by the young people if the
Carnegie never does things by
piecemeal. He has now endowed
a chair in one of our western uni
versities for the training ot libra
rians. Now let us have compul
sory education to train people to
read the proper things, Carnegie
must feel terribly conscience
stricken that some people still
read Homer. Surely he should
stop this thing.
Dr. Broughton in his sermon
last Sunday at the Baptist Taber
nacle in Atlanta denounced the
recent Euchre tournament of the
Daughters of the Revolution in
the most bitter terms. He said
the ball room in the Kimball
House had been converted into a
regular gambling dive, His ser
mon has created considerable ex
citement in Atlanta.
On February 19th one of the
most horrible - ccidents of recent
years occuired in Newark, N. J,,
The Virginia Scciety of Atlan-j M j -o, r-"r— - j a street car with over a hundred
, , ’ „ . 1 older persons would only visit the 1
turns gave the people of the Cap:.l l; , c , school chi.aren was cut into by a
, _. B r ' 1 1 ; library more frequently and let j . , • , £ ,
tol City of the state a great treat', , , . passenger train and eight of the
* _ ; there be a kind of life m the room. 1 , . ..... J*
this week. Thos. Nelson Page : >, ., . , . .- . ! number were killed. Scores were
, , , , _ _ ® It would not be a waste ot time,
delivered a eulogy on R. E. r-ee ; . , , .• . .
„ ! Instead ot marclnhj
at the Grand. ! , , ,
down the streets in a
NEW
Shoe Store
o x=:E£TE3D
JANUARY 27.
In Store Next Door
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
NEW
BICYCLE SHOP
OF
STANSELL BROTHERS,
Next Door to Argus Office.
We are prepared to repair Bicycles, duns, Pistols
Locks, Umbrellas, Electric and Door Bell
Work.
Scissors, Knives and Cutlery of all kinds sharpe
Bicycles To Rent.
STANSELL BROS.
, I severely injured. It appears to
. * I have been no ones fault. The;
_ ,,,,,,, , , • . . , / brakes refused to work on the cat
Rev. ]. W. Roberts who has - fashion wandering aimlessly' . . , .
.... , . ,1 , , , 1 i as it was going down grade and
occupied with such distinction the around the same block, why not , ... ...
1 ’ J ’ the track was suck with ice. The
victims were terribly mangled.
office of presidency of NVesleyail ■ go to the library for a while and
College at Macon for the past five then take a boo.: and go to the
yeans, announces that he will resign river bank and lead. This would
in May on account of poor health, show your young acquaintances
that an interest was being taken
Surgeons have been engaged
in mending the jaws of a dtad'y
cobra in the zoological gardens of
New York. We would appreciate
it if these same doctors worn
come South a little later in tl
year and endeavor to break som
of our rattlesnake jaws.
The United States Cane Exper
iment Station has been definitely 1
located at Waycross and it is be
lieved that much of the cane will
have to be obtained from the sur
rounding counties as the capacity
of the plant will be 50 tons daily.
Next year it is expected that the
government will plant a large tract
of land in cane in order to experi-
depraved because he had as ment in the culture. . jfl
in the library, and at the same
time this would not destroy com
panionship with your friends.
Take them also.
Emerson said that he felt the
a t he lived in could not be bad
BRIDGES & ROGERS
BRINSON, GA.
BAKERY. - - RESTAURANT-
MEAT MARKET
Sandwiches, Lunches. Hot Chocolate and Bo"
Bons at all Hours.
Stall fed Beef on foot or by the quarter.
GIVE US A >IAL.
BRIDGES f OGERS,
BR1NSOU, GA.