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S. RUSSELL. BRINSON.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN
DEOATUR OOUNTY
AND BAINBRIDQE.
Bainbridge, Qa., December 18,1903.
TEDDY AND THE ••COON"
The appointment of Joshua E.
Wilson a negro as postmaster at
Florence S. C. following close be
hind the renomination of Crum
for collector of port at Charleston
recalls the case of Huldah Todd
which created so much discussion
some time since. Miss Todd it
seems was “personally (or politi
cally?) distasteful” to Senator Al-
lee, more commonly known as the
mouth piece of “Gas” Addicks.
Whether Miss Todd was merely
physically unattractive to his eye
or whether—as may be probable—
in his extreme youth he had lavish
ed upon her a consuming devotion
which she failed to reciprocate,
we d« not know; whatever the
cause the fact remains that she
was not pleasing in his sight
wherefore he besought his dear
friend Teddy to remove the eye
sore.
Through the reminiscent brain
of Teddy crept the thought that
the Addicks faction was the con
trolling Republican power in Del
aware and it would be a coup
d ctat to establish himself in the
good graces of the leader’s hench
man, Allee. So not heeding the
vigorous protest of the patrons of
the post office at Greenwood, Ted
dy smiled and graciously granted
the petition of the Delaware poli
tician, thereby calling down upon
his head the anathemas of the gen
eral public. Thus was one pre
cedent established.
Some time ago Roosevelt un
mindful of his promise to the peo
ple of Charleston insisted on the
renomination of Crum for collec
tor of the port. To say that the
opposition was strenuous is mild.
On November the nineteenth,
heaping insult upon insult, a ne
gro was appointed postmaster at
Florence S, C. The unanimous
protestation from the white resi
-dents of that city, combined with
the personal entreaties of the two
Senators from South Carolina fail
ed to move Teddy; no, his black
friend represented some force
which he deemed it necessary to
conciliate, hence the appointment
must stand. He weighed the in
fluence of the two Southern Sen
ators in the balance against one,
Allee, and to our humiliation,
South Carolina was found want
ing.
Another precedent set by a
president.
Consistency, it is evident is not
e national emblem in the pr.:s
t. Was it in the past?
The spirits of the Southern he-
es of the Civil War arise and
•nfronting Roosevelt and his
Panama Policy, say: “Inconsisten
cy.”
Huldah Todd with outraged
rights cries-inconsistency; and
South Carolina, voicing the feel
ings of the entire South, not in
this case only, but numerous oth
ers says, “Inconsistent and Un
just."
The republicans have selected
T une 2ist as the date for their
(invention. The democratic am
entum usually follows the repub
can convention, but it is the in-
mtion of the leaders to set a date
us year earlier than June 2ist,
11 is probable that both conven
tions will hold in Chicago.
A WORD FURTHER.
The World is not wholly degen
erate, and if one cared to look
closely into life there would be
revealed to him splendid results of
parental discipline. It is of course
to be deplored that there are those
who seem to be so little interested
in the welfare of their children
that no especial pains are taken to
tram the youth in the paths of
rectitude; and indeed, in most of
these cases the child but naturally
falls into the rut so long and stead
fastly trodden out by its parent.
To those the only remedy seems
the Reform School, for which they
inevitably fit themselves by their
own action as so many wandering
sheep and are driven by circum
stances over which they have no
control merely by reason of their
inability to see the result of their
action beforehand. The brute
nature is developed in them be
cause it is their strongest inherent
trait, and because they yield nat
urally to the dictation of that na
ture, it requiring no especial atten
tion to direct them into paths of
crime. It take® all kinds-of people
to make a world We say, and yet
there is much that could be done
with a view to making the world
better, that is often overlooked by
the people in a position to help
matters. Youthful depravity is
deplored, the miscreants pitied,
and the critic heaves a sigh and
settles back to the valueless view
point, dealing out criticism at so
much per, casting a gloom
over the state of affairs that makes
the reader shudder, lest the crimi
nal onslaught of the coming
generation prove too much for the
present regulation of the country’s
laws to withstand.
Is it not best therefore to take
as examples those whose lives are
above reproach, and point out the
paths by which the Deplored Ones
may attain the same existence,
insomuch as their capacity allows?
Train the youth, by encouraging
within him that which will in time
give him greater happiness; bring
him to the acknowledgement of
the evil he commits by the results,
and endeavor to show what good
would have been accomplished
with sg much energy expended in
the opposite direction from which
the evil came, By confronting
him with a list of horrible crimes,
and treating of him as one already
damned, he begins to believe that
additional crimes will not add to
his punishment hereafter, and
commits them accordingly. This
does not encourage wrong doing,
nor do we believe even in leniency
when the crime has been cofti-
mitted, but we do believe that
more good can be accomplished by
dealing more with the remedy than
with the cause, which is already
well known. J. W. W.
SALE O
Profit Sharing Construction Boi
BaiaWge Tmynte & Fiot^j
Bainbridge,, Georgia.
Capital $60,000; Paid up $25,000; Bonds $35,on
CHARTERED UNDER THE LAWS OF GEORGIA.
Bonds £ioo e^h, bearing eight percent annual interest, payable May and Nove h
issue. Bonds bear dSe November ist, 1903. Including the eight percent interest bo a
earnings of the company, and bear the same dividends as the stock. Interest and divid
May and November ist at First National Bank, Bainbridge, Ga. Life of bonds 20 year 1
interest of bonds'secured by first mortgage upon the plant. Money arising from saledl
only be used for constructing plant. 011
M. D. POWELL, B. F. HAVENS,
Pres, and Gen. Manager, Vice President,
Bainbridge, Ga. Bainbridge, Ga.
DR. C. W. BILFINQER,
New York, Chemist and Supt.
F. S. JONES,
Cashier ist Nat. 1
Bainbridge^ |
T. B. HAWES,
Sec’y & Att’y.
The Cypress Lumber
Shingles, Tanks, & House Fii
properly manufactured
APALACHICOLA, F LORI
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H. H. CHEATHAM, M. D.
GENERAL PRACTICE.
Permanently loeated oyer HlckB' Drugstore
Speelal Attention given to diseases
Eye, Ear, Nose, and Tbroat.
Bainbridge, - - Georgia.
An exchange says that every
paper in the state should publish
the fact that burt corn is a sure
cure for hog cholera, and adds: It
was first discovered by a distiller
in Peoria, 111. It was thrown to
the hogs and eaten by them. Be
fore that time a number had been
dying each day with cholera, but
the disease immediately disappear
ed It is so simple a remedy that
it can be easily tried.
Bobby Walthour, the invincible,
wiih his team mate, Munroe, won
in the six-days international bicy
cle race last week, defeating
Leander by forty yards. The dis
tance made was 2,318 miles and
three laps.
PROFESSIONAL.
PHYSICIANS.
.DU. I. H. HUNTER,
Physician and Surgeon,
Chattahooobee, : , Flonda.
Office at Residence.
Speolal attention given to diseases ot chil
dren and to Genlto, Urinary, Venerial and
Sexual diseases.
DENTISTS.
DR. R. W. JACKSON,
DENTIST.
Office on Broad street, over Allen A
Company. Telephone 94.
DR. H. D. WILSON,
DENTIST.
Office rover Mart Clothing
pany’s store.
Com*
JOHN R. WILSON,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law
Bainbridge, : Georgia.
Collections a Specialty,
H. B. SPOONER,
Attorney at Law,
Office Opposite Democrat Building,
Bainbridge, : Georgia.
Atlantic Coast Line Railway]
Florida and Cuba.
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Leave Bainbridge going East—-1:50 a. m., 5:00 a. m., 1:00 p. m -
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for New York, Boston and Baltimore.
Through Pullman Gars on all through trains and to '"few York, 1
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W J Craig, - W H Leahy, ,
Gen. Pass. Agent, llivsion Pass- , j
Wilmington, N. C. - . „
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WB.RT STREET, BamW*
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RUSSELL & FLEMING,
Attorneys at Law.
Offioe over Bainbridge State Bank,
Bainbridge, : Georgia.
HARRELL A HARV8FIELD,
Attorneys at Law,
Office oyer Bainbridge State Bank,
Bainbridge, Gtorgia.
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Livery, Feed,
AND
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Bu sees meetsall trains and traasferpsaaengers promptly 0 "
the city. First class teams and truatj driyers. «.
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