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pbopkibtor.
icial Organ
r County and Bainbridge
ti ,, rost Office, at Bainbridge
as s ecoml-class matter.
•IPtiE. GA.
March 27. 19011
roads in a farming conn
ins civilization, and where
is arc poorest there the
are the most illiterate and
Elbert Hubbard
-g
Macon Telegraph has ins
its size oy one column and
very glad of it because it
s another column of some
3 ,ost readable matter pub-
ii the state.
hope ot every country lies
|y in the farmers. They
men who fight freedom’s
-intellectual and otherwise,
he farmers are prosperous,
idy is prosperous who cares
-The Philistine.
now it is the Republican
Fairbanks who is said to be
r his faith in the republican
of the South for a nomina-
i election to the presidency,
unds fair for the weasley
:an pape rs.
Georgia last week had a
of yellow dust which it was
was sulphur. We had a
of white on Saturday which
ht have interpreted to be
akes of manna, had not
investigation proved it to
g ants.
Georgian’s editor, Mr.
, is rather sore on the sub-
:he editor of the Constitu-
r. Clark Howell, and he
misses an opportun’ty to
m. He frequently stabs
e has not the opportunity
■lo can’t find the party who
ted an atrocious murder in
limits, and the people of
ork City are giving this
ie horse laugh. To our
t is better not to find the
er than to find the wrong
did our great metropolis
Wolineux affair.
im promises to have one of
t baseball teams in Georgia
mmer. They have secured
vices of two of the pitchers
re on the Cordele Champ-
team last summer. Bain 1 *
will have to wake up and
vork if she expects to put
diamond a team of which
a H be proud.
bomas Lipton says if he
succeed in lifting the
a, > cup with his new yacht
will throw up the sponge
1' and acknowledge that we
best man,” We trust
e Hitherto all admired
an will not endeavor to
' ela borate excuse for de-
-ase he does suffer from
an piowess.
01 the best equipped steam-
aes in the North had a ter.
C . aderU last Friday. The
!. mer Plymouth of the Fall
lne was struck during a
•another of the same com.
b °ats, a freighter, fand six
s "ere killed in the wreck
"° bIame h « not been
a "y ones rfoor. both
Were badly damaged.
THE PANAMA CANAL.
The Panama Canal Treaty has
at length been ratified and to the
South this news ought to be espe
cially welcome. It means that the
lines of traffic to the eastern mar.
kets will Jbe diverted our way.
The South Atlantic and Gulf
S aes will be several thousand
miles nearer the canal and conse.
quently that much nearer to the
eastern markets than our New
England and North Atlantic broth,
ers. While this fact might not
have been of so much importance
several years ago, before the Uni'
red States planted tire Stars and
Spines in tfie Pnilippines and be.
foie tiie Japanese government
realized the helpful influence of
Western migration, today it means
a practically new market for the
output of Southern fields. It
means that on account of freight
facilities we will be justified in
establishing factories tor the man.
ufactureof goods that will find
ready sale in the f ar East The
people of Japan are very anxious
for our raw cotton, but we can
make the cloth and send it there
getting an equally good profit on
the investment and at the same
time give employment to many
Southern laborers. The opening
of this canal will mean that the
country will need more ships to
handl^ the commercial traffic and
the South can make the vessels as
easily as can the North. This
will be realized and a new indus.
try established in our southland.
From a commercial standpoint
this canal will De as much to the
South as the cotton gin was to
our agricultural section and as
much as the Herty method of
turpentining will prove to be to
the naval stores industry.
The fascinating fact about the
Roman Pontiff is not his great age
but his great usefulness and en.
joyment of life at that age. Most
nonagenarians, centenarians and
the like are full of aches antf pains,
of complainings and bitternesses,
are tottering about waiting to die
a burden to themselves and a nui
sance to their friends. For half a
century they have been practically
dead, have talked only of what
they used to do and of the good
times that used to be and of the
degeneracy of the times that are.
A certain interest attaches to their
ability to bid defiance to death,
but otherwise they are “not in it”
so far as the world is concerned.
But here, in this wonderful man,
life has been not to hold death at
bay but to defy old age itself. For
what is old age? Not mere years,
not even the physical condition,
but the decay or the departure of
the living spark that maintains
the youth of the mind. With some
of us old age sets in with the first
pair of trousers and the cessation
of that infantile mental activity
which fond parents and flattering
friends always call precocity. Some
of us are born old—how many of
us are able to keep our faces
steadfastly to the public after
forty?—Collier’sAVeeklv.
$8o,000,000.00 was the modest
sum which the last congress ap
propriated for the improvement of
our navy. This is one form of
expenditure however that very
few public spirited people kick
about. With this money five new
battleships are to be constructed.
The Vermont, Kansas and Min
nesota are 16,ooo ton ships, while
the Connecticut and the Lousiana
are to be 13,000 ton vessels. A
good deal is to be expended this
year in target practice.
THE DANGER THREATENING THE WEST
WITH LOCAL/ APPLICATION.
A very threatening sociological
condition has developed in Kansas
and the other wheat producing
western states, The farmers who
are wealthy are yearly moving
into the cities to gain educational
facilities for their children and en
joy well e rned ease. While the
purpose of the removal to the 1 ity
is laudable, yet the effect on the
country is hurtful in the extreme.
It is apt to cause the country dis.
tricts to be populated by. the poor
and shiftless class who have been
so unsuccessful that a move has
been impossible, and the children
of the farmers who have gained
wealth nevvr return to the scenes
of their c ildhood. The West is
apt therefore in a few decades to
be populated with a class of people
who will be?r theinevitable stamp
of failure and ignorance. They
will be discontented and non pro
gressive and the children of these
people will be an exaggerated
imitation of their parents.
The remedy for the evil is sim.
pie and yet it will probably be
some years before the necessity of
the step will present itself with
sufficient force to the minds of the
people for it to do any real good,
because it means the expenditure
of money, To establsh good rural
schools would obviate the neces
sity of the farmers going to town
to gain educational advantages.
The lesson which the West must
learn is not, one in which we have
won our diplomas or certificates
ot graduation. We have many
districts in our state where the
oducational advantages have not
reaohed a stage of enviable excel
lence. The salvation of the agri
cultural lands of our country is
the perfection of our rural schools
and the sooner we invest our
commonwealth funds in the enter
prise the sooner will we draw our
dividend of useful and high mind-
'ed people.
^ ^
The Moultrie News grows better
with each issue, yet we thought
upon seeing the first issue that
there was not much room for im
provement.
The Albany Chatauqua this
year bids fair to be one of the
best in its entire history. The
advertising committee is doing
splendid work. Military day will
as usual bring the largest crowd.
There will be thirty six companies
in the parade, and Gen. John B.
Gordon will be the orator of' the
day.
Byron Bower, a member of the
legislature, has invented a wat-r
motor. There are some member
of the legislature who have very
little to do with water.—Carrollton
Free Press.
But the Free Press will please
observe that this particular mem
ber of the legislature knows all
about water—he lives right by a
running river.—Atlanta Constitu
tion
Mr. Roosevelt’s determination
to appoint Dr. Crum to the collec-
torship of the Port at Charleston
in opposition to the best judgment
of his political advisors and the
will of the Senate, will be allowed
to proceed unhampered. Dr. Crum
in years agone was turned down
by a republican president for just
reasons; but Mr, Roosevelt haR no
doubt suddenly reached the con
clusion that the Doctor has as
much right to hold office as any
one else. And who knows anyway
but the Doctor is the president’s
private medical advisor.
The above cuts represents only a few articles
carried by the
HUNTER-BAGGS
furniture do.,
JSainbribge, <Sa.
COTTOU SE
»T—I'
We will pay 25 cents per bushel of 30 pounds
for sound dry seed delivered at our Mill,
West Bainbridge, Ga.
WILL EXCHANGE
75 pounds Cotton Seed Meal for 100 pounds
•CottonSeed*'
BAINBRIDGE OIL MILL.
J. M. DIF FEE, Manager.
BRACKN & CO,
Livery, Feed,
Sale Stables,
AND
Broad Street Bainbridge, Ga,
Busses meetsall trains and transfer passengers promptly to any portion of
the city. First class teams and trusty drivers. Call at our stablea.
’PHONE 66.
BRACKIN & CO
BRIDGES & ROGERS
BRINSON, GA.
BAKERY. - - RESTAURANT.
MEAT MARKET
Sandwiches, Lunches. Hot Chocolate and Bon
Bons at all Hours.
Stall fed Beef on foot or by thfe quarter.
GIVE US A TRIAL.
BRIDGES & ROGERS,
BRINSON, GA.