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BD1T0IS AND PEOMllETOE.
Official Organ
Decatur County and Bainbridge
Entered in tbe Post Office, at Bainbridge
as second-class |matter.
Bainbridoe, (Ja., May 22n 1003
The Grand Lodge Knights of
Pythias of Georgia met in Atlanta
this week.
The Waycross Journal favors
Hearst and Harrison tor president
in 1904. Is there a second ?
The man who claims that the
world owes him a living, ordina-
rily could earn a fortune while he
waits.
The passing breezes are fanning
lightly the soft-tinted cheeks of
the Georgia peach as it ripens in
the sunlight of beginning sums
mer.
The reception given General
Gordon at New Orleans is conclu
sive that the people have not lost
their reverence for this battle-
scarred veteran of the Confederay.
The kind of agricultural educas
tion the state needs, is one that
educates, and the officials of the
University of Georgia seem to
have suddenly had this proposi
tion hurled at them.
When the democrats shall have
side-tracked Mr. Bryan and Mr.
Cleveland, we shall expect them
to turn their attention to the ses
lection of a proper and available
man for the leadership of the hosts
of the party in 1904. •
That Indianapolis chambermaid
who refused to make the bed oc
cupied by Booker Washington,
seems to have been caught up in a
whirlwind of greatness. She will
no doubt alight on the lecture
platform—in Atlanta.
It is already intimated that an
effort will be made at the June
session to repeal the franchise tax
law passed by the legislature last
fall, and which the railroads and
telegraph companies are now
laboring so assiduously to divert,
by cutting down their usual re
turns under the pretense that they
have heretofore included the val
ue of their franchises in their re
turns.
At the recent Cane Growers’
Convention held at Macon, State
Chemist McCandles made an en
thusiastic speech in favor of a pure
food law for Georgia, and by so
doing he has met the approval of
a vast majority of the intelligent
communities of the state. Mr.
McCandles heartily endorsed the
Pure Syrup law, and declared that
the legislature should go to the
extent of organizing a regular de
partment for handling and enforc
ing a general pure food law.
Sam Small, the best all-round
newspaper man in Georgia today,
has assumed the duties ot edito
rial paragrapber on the Atlanta
Constitution, made vacant by the
resignation of Tom Loyless. Mr.
Small has from time to time been
connected with the Constitution
for many years and has been emi
nently successful in every branch
ot newspaper work that he has at
tempted. The paragraph column
of the Constitution will bear every
ear mark of the work of Mr.
Small.
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION.
In a recent speech before the
Cane Growers’ Convention at Ma
con, Ga., Secretary of Agriculture,
Jas. Wilson, declared that our edu
cational system was wrong, remind
ing us that too much attention
was given to recruiting the profes
sions and too little to preparation
for intelligent pursuit of agricul
ture.
In the course of his speech Sec
retary Wilson disclosed the fact
that although agriculture is the
pursuit of more than hdf the peo
ple of the nation, less attention is
paid to its study by our institu
tions oLlearning than is paid to
the professions, and he declared
that the schools and colleges are
overcrowding the professions, un
til the average professional man
and brain worker earns less than a
stone mason. He declared in no
uncertain tones that such a system
must be changed. He said that
where educational institutions pre
tend to have agricultural depart
ments connected with them, they
put the departments in a loft and
tell the youth that, he must wait,
wait until he can reach up that
high before he can have it.
No greater truth was ever spok
en. The fact is that the rising
generation should be taught to
look upon agriculture as the most
independent and desirable voca
tion of the land. Our people
should learn that educated farm
ers are needed. It cannot be ex
pected that the present drift city-,
wards can long continue. There
must be some means of furnishing
supplies to others, and vegetables
and other foods will not grow
without the attention of the farm
er. The farmer is a king unto
himself,he works when he chooses,
his table is supplied from his own
storehouse and the cattle on an
thousand hills are his. In the
fullness of his independence the
boy ot the land should be taught
that to till the soils which with wa
ter from the skies produce abund
ant crops should be no mean
ambition.
Young men everywhere need to
be to taught to apply to farm life
those principles of business judg
ment that lead to success in any
one other of life’s pursuits.
In the presentments of the
Grand Jury of this county, else
where published today, is sounded
a note of warning to the road com
missioners of the county, and en
dorsing most heartily the conten
tion which this paper has con
stantly urged for five years past,
that our public road system must
be improved. We hope that
these commissioners will profit by
this note and that the roads will
be put in as good shape as possi-
sible with the facilities at hand
and keep them so. Good roads
are much needed in Decatur coun
ty and the earlier the task is be
gun, the sooner it will be accom
plished.
The Valdosta Times declares:
One of the new fads is men's
socks for women. There is a ru
mor prevalent that some wives
wear the trousers but no one im
agined that the socks would be
appropriated. If the women con
tinue the iuvasion of the wardrobe
of the men there will be mighty
few articles of wearing apparel
that a man can call his own. His
hat, shirt, vest, coat, collar, tie
and socks are gone. He has re
maining his chewing tobacco and
suspenders—not much of a lay
out for a cold day.
Grenada
Drug Co.,
E. J. WILLIS,
Sole Owner.
Purity, ^
Accuracy Dispatch. $
Registered 'Men
in Charge: :: ::
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We [call your special at
tention to our
Prescription
Department.
It being the best stocked
one south of Atlanta.
c^Mercks’
^Chemicals
: : Exclusively ^Used.: : JR
When your prescription is put np at
this store you oan be sure yon
have exactly the ingredients pre
scribed and oomponuded by men
with scientific and practical knowl
edge of
PHARMACY.
ft
We carry a com
plete line of : : :
Patent Medicines,
Toilet Articles,
Sundries,
Soaps,
Perfumes,
Cigars and
Tobacco.
We are the acknowledged
le aders in dispensing of
Hot and Cold
Goods delivered promptly.
MELTON & DUKES’
Edwin Clapp and
James A. Banister
53 SHOES
FOR MEN,
Are a little ahead of anything else in Bainbridge.
+ 4*
The Dorothy Dodd
is the best wearing woman’s shoe in the
world and always gives satisfaction.
From Man to Child
we have the best fitting, neatest, easiest
wearing shoes for the least money.
You" are invited to call at
Melton & Dukes,
Bainbridge, - - G&
THOS. J. WILLIAMS, Manager.
J. T. LANE,
Iron City, Ga.
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the McCormick whenever he wants a binder, reaper, n*
rake, com binder, busker and shredder, or other ha**
machine, because he prefers machines that meet hb nf
ments—machines that give him satisfaction—machin#
art worth every dollar that he pays for them.
H will help your forming buiineu to read the McCormkt fod
MODEL MACHINE.” which b mailed free.
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