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THE* POST-SEARCH LIGHT Published Every Thursday at Bainbridge, Georgia. E. H. GRIFFIN Editor and Proprietor Entered in tlie Pnstofllce in Bain bridge, On., as second class mail matter under Act of Congress March 1 Si Jr, ]S!i7. Subscription Rates ONE YKAIi 11.00 8IX MONTHS.. oOe Advertising Rates Advertising rate depends on position, number of insertions and other requirements, and will be furnished at the business office. OFFICIAL OIKiAN OF UAINJIKI1MIK COUNTY. Telephone No. 239 Fellow in an adjourning county tried to run for an office without announcing in his home paper. He got two votes, he and his broth er’s. Moral; you can not skin the printer and get by. Lady, turn down that peddler that comes to your door and you will not make a mistake. It does not make any difference what you need, try your home mer chant and you will get it at bet ter rates. The guy that goes to Europe on a pleasure trip is like the fel low that patronises a Mail Order House. He gets His’n but gets it in the neck. The wise man will trade at home all the time. The state and congressional politics will now take the front and the boys will get busy. The campaign closed in Bain bridge very quietly and no one had their feelings hurt except the men who got defeated and they did not show it very much. A game and gentlemanly set of loosers. This week marks the end of the greatest subscription contest that any weekly paper has ever had on in this section. The prizes have been {worth working for and their value will live long after the contest is over and for gotten. The old Macon Telegraph is handing out some mighty wise dope on the lynching business and has about convinced its readers that lynching is a mighty poor business policy for a state to follow. It is a dangerous thing for a state to get a reputation as a murderous section from,a com mercial standpoint. Is it fair for a woman with short skirts to wear these striped Bilk hose? That’s what we want to know. Great guns; they say that the skirts will be worn shorter this year than they were last year. It cant be did. Fear of pneumonia will prevent. Never sass a grass widow young man. Play safe for if she takes a notion to get you she will do it. Did you ever see one fail. If it gives Valdosta the big head to have the Atlanta Base ball Team to begin spring practic there what would she have if Ty Cobb were to pass through the town? Judge Harrell’s candidacy for the Judgeship of the Superior Court has been receiving very flattering comment all over the state as well as the circuit in question. The very best line ot stuff that we have now for the paragrar.hers is the Spring Garden and Springs Poets. The wise man of this clay and time looks well at any subject be fore he juumps to conclusions. Do our voters do this often? F* ther 18 ' n close line for his n. Teddy wants war, Bryan wants Millinery openings are on the peace and they are both against ist now for the next few weeks. Wilson. That about shows them Everybody works father. up as well as anything. They both want Wilson’s job and dont And now will come the state | know how to get it. They are at campaign. Who will and who [are at a loss as to an issue. wont is about the most important i question that will confront the boys in the next few weeks. The Quitman folks are going to erect a hospital and they are making an effort to get it ready in time to take care of the lame ducks that will accrue as a result of their county and city primary. If our meat will just hold out until black-berry time we will spit in the very face of the boll- weevils. The average man faces one grave danger in black-berry season. He has to sleep with all his clothes on or his wife will swap them for the first bucket of black-berries she sees. An exchange says that lawyers think better when they smoke. We dont doubt it all for while the smoking proposition is going on they will think of all the stunts they pulled off in the flesh. They will think sadly of a few of them we hope. Georgia will soon be shook from one end to the other over the coining state primary. Let the Democrats get together and see just what kind of set of state officials that will best serve old Georgia. The city of Bainbridge can take some very valuable lessons from the west side of the county in their solidarity of purpose on anything? No Pauline we are never ask ed for free advertising and then slighted when a little printing comes that follows as a result of that free advertising. Nope we never are. The way that some of the boys have {accepted the verdict ot the people at the polls last Wednesday reflects credit them. It takes a good man to accept defeat in a broad spirit and some of the boys here have come up very broad. Some men are never satisfied with what the people give them. They will gobble up everything sight and then want more. Selfish ambition isj a trait that marks its own for the slanghter. It may be long delayed but will come in the end. SETTING FORTH THE COUNTY The Big Booster edition of the Post-Searchlight will be is sued next week and they will be moiled free all over the section. It has been our purpose to get everybody interested in this edition but it seems that those that will get most benefit from it are a little slow about getting in their matter. We hope that people will appreciate this effort on our part to issue one of the largest editions of Decatur county matters that has ever been sent out, We believe that the outside world is hunting good towns and sections and our county represents just what they are looking for. He have the schools, the churches and the transportation facilities that is needed by every man hunting a home. We are anxious to send these out to the world for it’s inspection. Watch for your edition and keep it, for there will be some facts in it that will be hard to gether again. Bring in your advertising if you want to get into something that will give you results. Help us make this issue what it ought to Tommie Thompson of Quincy, the broad and genial is seems has shied his hat into the race for the senate from that section. Tommie is some old warm cam paigner and wish him well. He will make that district a mighty good senator. He has the dignity that is neccessary to maintain the job. See where 0. M. Tillis, a Havana citizen and business man, one of our next door neigh bors is in the race for Senator from his district down there. Tillis is a good business man and will make a splendid official if he is elected. His experience in busi ness and commercial affairs of his section fit him for the posi tion to which he aspires. His friends Jin Bainbridge and De catur county wish him well his undertakings. WITH THE EXCHANGES Baptist Lakes Lowndes county has a set of lakes that disappear and reap- very mysteriously. We might doubt this, but we see a Baptist be, a panoramic review of De-1 preacher vouches for the story catur county and Bainbridge. and Baptist preachers are author ity on deep Waters.—Savannah Press. Yep; we have had ‘em too, but ours took the shape of monkeys and elephants. Come on now boys and let’s put that Decatur county man over for the Judgeship. The other men are very nice men, good lawyers, splendid gentle men but it is just our time. We have the candidate with the ability, the friends and the record that will ,re-dound to his favor. The old county must have some Calomel Salivates and Makes You Sick Acts like dynamite on a sluggish liver and you loose a day’s work There’s no reason why a per son should take sickening, sali vating calomel when 50 cents in this country, but we don’t see You every now and then hear the modern girl sigh for the H. M. T. Buggy. — Times-Enter- prise. Now when a guy gets that sentimental is time to look into his condition. Old men live in the past and we have had some doubts about this fellow’s age for a long time. A scarcity of goats is reported It was a man i n pu:.,, who became very rich to his own business And* inclined to think that th had many relatives came immensely rich b v t promises and and always prompt at all appoi ntm J pays.-Darien Gazette. ^ Tending to your own has always been very but few folks will ever The Boosters are p] anili mimstrel show as a bene 1 the local Basebnil Assn-i The show will be p U; . shortly and every loya) {■ be expected to help' ma ^ financial success. There is plenty of talent Booster club and those in c of the minstrel believe ih ey stage a home talent show will compare favorably win minstrel shows that have i Bainbridge this season. From beginning to end Boosters Minstrel will be Nothing that has been si here by road companies wj copied. From the time tain raises till the last ni the Boosters Minstrel wii original. Bainbridge is planning to ha team that will cope wit comers this season. Re@i to whether we land a ben the Ga. State League or not city will have a corking team to represent her. All several good players have lined up and when the yells “Plav Bawl” Bainhi Krill be ready with bells on. Practice for the minstrel begin shortly and the show be staged as quickly as pa In addition to being for a cause the show will be wort support on it’s merits alone. buys a large bottle of Donson’s Liver Tone—a perfect substitute for calomel. It is a pleasant, vegetable liquid which will start your liver just as surely as calomel, but it of these honors and Judge Bill does not make you sick and can Harrell will wear them wrjth due I not salivate, dignity and responsibility. Let’s ! Children and grown folks can put him over folks. jtake Dodson’s Liver Tone be-j cause it is perfectly harmless. The county primary demon-L Ca,omel is a dan £ erous drug. | strated the power and influence i “ !S mercury and att acks your The spring fishermen are all belivers in preparedness and it you dont think so just look in the back of the next buggy or car you see bound on a fishing trip. Henry James, the expatriated author is dead. All America con demned his expatriation and would never forgive him. He lost half of his effect when he pulled that stunt. The report of the State Tax Commissioner says that the policy of the state state should be to reduce taxes. This we thought was it policy all the time but that they merely shelved it for the time being. A woman suffers more for her ideas than any human being on earth. We know a girl with a six foot has an idea that she can get it in a three shoe and she is paying dear for that same idea Notice her Sunday when she came down in front of the Post Office.- The latest diagnosis of the marriage evils lias demonstrated that divorce runs in families. Kind of a disease like and one with a taking effect. This must be a fact as the divorces usually takes the other woman’s hus band. and Blind The excitement of county politics has blown over and we will now get at the work in front of us of getting the very best spring business headed this way that we possibly can. Shall the folks sleep over their opportunity for Spring tiade. Business is dull indeed when they cant get up a new revolu- The Pistol "Toter” Tiger” have gotten on rough ! f' on in that dear country of Mexi- roads now and they can hardly U’°- If they cant fight they are travel in any community. The! miserable. Old man Diaz, the day of the boot-legger is fast I iron-handed was the man to coming to an end. There will j govern that country and when soon be a final wind up. Their I he was overthrown a bad blunder existence and business have placed human life too cheap for the folks to stand. was made. Mexico will not obey other than a .man of blood and iron. of the second term precedent in this county. It has been a lasting custom almost to give any man that tries to do his duty a second term in this section. The custom is an old one and one with virtue in it. Mayor Pierpont of Savannah says that he will enforce the liquor laws in Savannah after May 1st and that the council is behind them. The Mayor and Council of Macon took a notion to do that stunt instanter and they did it. Why does Pierpont wait? His position is silly and only taken to clog state legisla tion. If he claims he can enforce these laws right NOW just as easily as after May 1st. If he had done that December 1st he would have found himself sus tained by the legislature but as he sees fit to take issue \yith them as to the dat? of the effect of the present liquor laws how can he expect them to back him up? banes. Take a dose of nasty calomel today and you will feel weak sick, and nauseated to morrow. Dont loose a day’s work. Take a spoonful of Dodson’s Liver Tone instead and you will wake up feeling gaeat. No more ousness, constipation, slugglish- ness, headaches, coated tongue or sour stomach. Your druggist says if you don’t find Dodson’s Liver Tone acts better than the horrible calomel your money waiting for you. how it can be true when men are getting married every day.— Macon News. No goats eh? You have no such thing as a country editor in your section? Pretty little mule Round as a ring. Was 8 years old In the spring; Three white feet and The other brass. One eye out and The other glass; Head bulged out And ribs caved in, A darn good mule The State Executive mittee of Florida saw! change some of its recent! ranged primary rules. The lowing was inserted by then recent meeting that sounds old Democratic doctrine. The democratic executive mittee of the state of Florid making up the rules for the primary, incorporated thefd ing provisions; “No voter shall be a mei of any secret organization* attempts in any way to infill political action and purpose which organization will jn him in refusing to support of the The Post-Searehlight never likes to roast anybody’s way of making a living without just cause but we want to prove by Walter Brackin himself that the production Peck’s Bad Boy at the Callahan Theater was about the punkest of theatrical exhibi tions that ever came down the pike. The man that poked that thing off on Walter Brackin must have been some hot-air merchant in deed and in truth for Walter can hold his own with the best of them in the distribu tion of warm atmosphere. He will be forgiven because of his getting something real good here in his last? “The Twin Beds” ■ otherwise we would advise his I enlistment with Caranza. Watch Child’s Cough Cold’s ruuning of nose, conti nued irritation of the mucous membrane if neglected may- mean Catarrh later. Don’t take the chances—do something for your child! Children will not take every medicine, but they Dr. King’s New Discovery and without bribing or teasing. It’s a sweet pleasant Tar Syrup and so effective. Just laxative enough to eliminate the waste poisons. Almost the first dose helps. Al ways prepared, no mixing or fussing. Just ask your druggist for Dr. King’s New Discovery. It will safeguard your child against serious ailments result ing from colds. (2) Hard Luck We’d like to meet John Henry Short; ‘Tis rumored that He has a quart. —Macon Telegraph. We fear that you; Will have to thrist; You see, we met John Henry first. —Columbia State. Now John Henrys’ A wise gink, Told us that he Did not drink; Never did nor Never would, but Liars will knock On wood. For the fix he’s in. Hoisted on us by Roy Powell, bjlj j of the Arlington Courier. Wond- i nom * nee °f the party. ' er if they ever heard of any such |“ No voter sha11 beintluena thing up there as shooting a man > voting for or against [any c cold off the bat for downright dat ? on account or any re ! 1 . 1 cussedness. test or on account of any re!i| belief, denomination or sect which the candidate is affilial The adoption of these caused a great furore and nat ly so, for they constitut radical • departure from honored customs. The resu! that the state committee again and rescinded the action. This was a wise The adoption of the rules i first instance was a mistake would have led to serious ei glements. They were sue could not have been justifa even if justified would have beyond the power of the to enforce. The further religious are kept from politic the fe lt is true the rules them-" were aimed at keeping this thing out of politics, but the suit would have put it intou all the more strongly. - * 1 ’ Banner. HOLLY CAMP NO. 28. Woodmen ojje World Meets Second and Fourth Monday Nights. VisitinffSovereigns Always ■ Welcome. [U. E. O’ neil council commander. i. h. Hancock, clerk. The Hon. Potipher Peagre becoming disgusted with She was young, she was pretty and she wore pink stockings. A fitful gust of March wind hit her squarely as she passed the Demp sey corner, lifting her skirts in the manner of an umbrella being turned inside out. And every political situation. He kno«i .man within tw-o blocks turned is a great man but try, 2 s his back, closed his eyes and as he will, he can not con* wished he had never been born! anyone else to his way 1°* ^ —Macon |News. ing.—Darien Gazette. What’s the use of lying. You it is an awful hard thirt know that every cuss in two convince a fickle public of! blocks got h‘s eyes fun of sand, “sability” says the negro P* The Devil sends the wicked wind er that blows our skirts knee high A better power send the sand | Subscribe for The Post-S* 1 that goes in the bad man’s eye. Light.