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SEARCH UQHT. S. RUSSELL. BRINSON. morroH *no mor. 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 isanWaHHMMBHBHnnHBBWHHaWMI 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. -Double Daily Passenger Ser -TO TROY, OZARK, DOTHAN, ELBA, BAINBRIDGE, THOM VALDOSTA, WAYOROSS, SAVANNAH, CHALELfl BRUNSWICK, JACKSONVILLE AND ALL FLORIDA POINTS.* Through Pnlman Sleepers Port Tamps to New York rii ] Coast Line, also via Atlantic Coast Line and Southern R’y- To St. Lonis, Cinoinati, Louisville, Chicago, Kansis City, Birmingham, . Nashville, New Orleans, and all points East and North Leave Bainbridge going East—-1:50 a. m., 5:00 a. m., 1:00 p. m - Leave Bainbridge going West—2:20a. m., 11:55 a. m. .. Connections at Savannah with Ocean Steamship Line and U-« 1 for New York, Boston and Baltimore. Through Pullman Gars on all through trains and to '"few York, 1 Philadelphia, Washington, Richmond and and F~H Quarantine Regulations between the United States and tie Jr Cuba was raised October 15th. therefore, there will b® j* hereafter on passengers traveling between Havana and the Dm*I For furtherjinformation, call on nearest Ticket Agent, or aadrs* W J Craig, - W H Leahy, , Gen. Pass. Agent, llivsion Pass- , j Wilmington, N. C. - . „ H M Emerson, lr»- T J Bottoms, Trav. Pass. Agent. Thomasville. Qa> Stuckey & Coxj Livery, Feed and Sale Sta&fy WB.RT STREET, BamW* FIRST-CLASS RIGS, GOOD 8URRIES, POLITE D" FOR OCCASIONS. Transfer business ’Bus meets all Boats and Railway trains day and night - * • — 7 ’Phone 104 yonr wants* 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. wago n will tranfer baggage eitherway. service SOTPEt & ^ BRACK1N & CO, Livery, Feed, AND Sale Stables, Broad Street, Bambrldg V Bu sees meetsall trains and traasferpsaaengers promptly 0 " the city. First class teams and truatj driyers. «. PHONE 66. BRACKS 1