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THE POST-SEARCH LIGHT Published Every Thursday at Balnbridge, Georgia. E. H. GRIFFIN Editor and Proprietor Entered at the I’ostofflce in Bain- bridge, Ga., as second class mail matter under Act of Congress March lHth, 1HS7. Subscription Rates ONE YEAH -$1.00 SIX MONTHS 50c Advertising Rates Advertising rale depends on position, number of insertions and other requirements, and will be furnished at the business office. OKKICIAI, OltdAN OK THE <TTV OK HAINBRIDUK AND DECATUR COUNTY. Telephone No. 239 • It looks like as fast as Tanlac cures them up, the Autos kill ’em out. The chautauqua took on a very political aspect this week. Both Hardman and Harris on the pro gram. Georgia will fare well under a business Governor, she needs and must have one as soon as she can get him. Blackberry season is drawing nigh and our sense of independ ence is rising high. That is a poetical fact. The wrinkle in Dad’s brow be gins to lengthen out as Easter draws nigh. Poor Dad, his is a few days and full of Millinery Bills. Senator Vardaman, the Idol of Mississippi has proven to be one of clay since he shown such an attitude towards the administra tion. These pretty days a man can enjoy himself easily. Drink a cold bottle of Chero Cola, get the fish bait ready and whistle for BilJ. That’s ail. The actual thing of making money has long since gone by. If you get a good living you old kicker you will do well until this over. The scarcity of copper seems to have reached Bainbridge. We have not been able to collect a penny lately on old advertising advertising account. Come across Bub; Flint River got another victim last week. That old river takes a terrible toll for the many favors that it renderes this community. Those'things will happen how ever. Pauline speared one of those new creations last Wednesday at the Ladies shop and broke out down the street just as the bliz zard came down from the North. Did Pauline go back to the fire? Nary a bit of it. She stayed on that parade until the sun went down on “tother side of Flint River”. How a man can snarl at Tom Watson and jump in the political bed with Tom Felder is more than we can understand. We dont love Watson but can trot in his company with a more content ed feeling anyway. The people had a chance to hear Dr. Hardman, the business man talk last Saturday here. He is a bt siness man, it is time that business cut some figure in state sff i?rs and the Doctor made a 8,11- ndid impression. He is not id"‘ 'i of a word slinger, a man o' deeds never is. The folks like hi ?■ ' r - ; 11 take care o. him handsomely. | The folks here have had a big time for the last week chautau qua around. It at least got the baby question worked up when the contest on babies took place last week. The recent show down of Wil son has exposed all the political buzzards in the city of Washing ton. Noticeable was the fact that all the real big Republicans and Democrate lined up behind Wilson while the pollywogs drift ed off in hopes of an issue. Give us the man that loves his country first and then his party. Gardner, the Big Gink from Massachusetts that has caused considerable comment by his war antics’showed himself a man when it came to a show down. He has the reputation of honesty. When you get a petition from the New York folks wanting money for the Belgians and Serbians dont you feel like re ferring them to the ammunition factories and powder companies. They ought to contribute liberal ly to them. Governor Harris came, Doctor Hardman came, They were both heard by our people and now they are both gone. If any body wants to know who will get this county and will ask us we will tell them. Legislators all over the state are declaring themselves on the state capitol removal bill. The action of the bill will not be final for the people will have to pass on it. Their ratification ot the bill would mean that the central city would get the plum. President Wilson has about placed his back to the wall now and will go to scrapping in dead earnest. It is about time to lick those greasers anyway. They are a nation like some folks you know. Cant stand good treat ment. Randloph County has raised up at the legislative '(investigating committee that looked over their county convict system. ‘‘Scused them” of getting drunk before the investigated. Better be glad they were brethren for they might have seen more to con demn. The friends of Hon. Joe Hall are reading of his accident with great regret and many of them have been wishing that the old man was back in Atlanta with his eye on the state treasury. He did good service in that capacity and also killed more fool bills than any man ever serving there. A little snap and ginger is be ginning to creep into the editorial page of the Quitman Advertiser. It is beginning to have opinions and express them. The paper is improving and it is an addition in its new form to any exchange table. Somebody on it has been converted evidently. Bulloch county had thirty four candidates electioneering in 40 Ford cars says the Statesboro News last week for county offices. Wonder what they had in those extra six Fords. Persuasion or pot-licker? The Empire of Decatur, the Kingdom of Thomas and the Principality of Grady is the way it has been expressed recently owing to which ever county you are running for office in. But the statement just about covers the possibilities in the three best counties that are now populated. Read of the stunts and strife in other sections and then see what the folks in these counties are doing and you will be glad that you are living in the big trio anyway. Wouldn’t swap them for any similar amount of terri tory on earth. The job of county Warden has JUDGE HARRELL’S become to be about the most im portant one in the county. The legislature ought to pass an act making their term of office long enough for one to finish a bridge or a road if they start it. It is too big a job to be changing every year or dependent on the whim ot a county commissioner that wants to play politicis. Such an important place should be made more permanent. This edition is presented mere ly to show some of the possibilites that this town and county offer the outside world. The lack of time and the co-operation that we expected has cut its size somewhat but we feel that we will send out a commercial mes sage that will be read with inter est by the homseeker all over the union. The moral of the issue is ‘‘Come to Decatur county” we need you, we want you, and will welcome you. The people up in North Georgia, the territory traveled by the state road dont like the idea of being bottled up and no other road allowed to penetrate their territory. Can you blame them. Ought all competition be denied them just to keep the state road in the hands of the politicians? As now confronting them, as long as the state owns the roads they are bottled up. Will they have to be sacrificed to the balance of the state. That remains to seen. Notice were Shelby Davis of the Thomasville Press has given up the Chairmanship of the Democratic executive Committee of Thomas County. Davis has served his folks in many capaci ties but we are sorry to note that few of them ever paid him any thing for his services. He really deserves something at the hands of his folks that will buy a few old-fashioned country dinners. He would rather have that than all the mazuma. The lecture on Better babies was well attended by those that did not have any babies. Just as the lectures on how to raise children are attended by old maids in large numbers. The average mother with babies, not poodles is usually too busy to go and listen at a man gab about how to raise babies. When said man can tell a real mother one thing about how to raise babies, said man is going some. Said man cant convince any one that he knows much about it either. The spring season is opening, the music of the birds getting more cheerful and the songs of the crickets more tuneful. Makes a fellow think of the day back yonder when he hitched up his daddy’s horse in the spring time and went out to take her driving on a bright springtime Sunday alternoon. You can see her now as she came down the steps, white dress with that blue sash about her waist, never was vision more rare and beautiful. White dress pleated like with enough cloth in it to hide her neck and ankles, nothing modem but just old-fashioned sweetness. A couple of miles drive to the old church yard, vou with Her, have Her all to yourself and that devilish kid-brother cant watch and tease after you are gone. Oh Lord, how the voung folks of today have missed the best there ever was in life. Picking a few violets along to help you out while you are trying to tell her about it. Why does a fellow have to get old anyway? Started out to write on the joys of spring but decided to quit for fear that old Davis over at Thomasville or Powell at Arlington would quit work when they got to thinking about those [old days. Boys can you get your mind off of that white dress with blue sash onto ( one of these no-wasted proposi tions of this day and time? J TIME NOW. There is a time in the life of every man that he can receive consideration of his fellow man if he will just ask for it. His time comes and he must take advant age of it, orlelse it is gone for ever. This is the time that Judge Harrell must run for the Superior Court Judgeship and bring that honor to old Decatur county. The people of the circuit want to give the man the honor and his old friends are very anxious to have him ask for it and get it. While the position does not pay much, it is a place that carries with it dignity and considera tion and any County is proud to have the Judge as a resident. Few men are closer to the average citizen than Judge Har rell. few have as much of the milk of human kindness in them as this same man. He is affable and approachable and every man can reach him. He will make an admirable official and we want him to get into the race and win. He will win before the people of the circuit because of these virtues and that fact that he is well known. The city is trying to stop the water leakage of the city. Not a bad idea and when they find that they have done that, they should then see to it that all parties pay alike for their water. They shoud also inaugerate a system where by that when a man finds that he has a leak, that he can notifiy city [superintendent, who will send him a plumber and they should also see to it that the plumber will not have abslouie control of the price he is to charge for the work, a scale of prices to protect all, both citizen and plumber. There is no great need to kick on the effort they are making to stop the waste of water for any one knows that when that is done all will get their water cheaper. The new law is alright and a few months will demonstrate that to the satisfaction of every one but they should amend the law by giving the citizen protection when he tries to obey that law. If he find to his leak, tries to get a plumber, he should not be pen alized for trying to obey the law. An amendment would be very much in order. It would carry out the plans of the council and at the same time aid be of much ser vice to the citizen. Our plumbers are not clipping bonds for past time it is true but they are only human and can take advantage of the fact that the present ordinance throws all on the mercy of the plumbers. CAPITAL REMOVAL. The removal of the capital from Atlanta to Macon has become a living issue that will not down. Years ago the Atlanta papers would cartoon the country leg islator with bills bulging out of his pocket but now instead of making fun of him they wine and dine him to the limit, The burden of population and taxation being more tributary to Macon the peo ple want it moved to that place. That is, they want a chance to pass on it. Atlanta influence having become in a way adverse to the general welfare of the state such a movement is gaining momentum. If Atlanta is not adverse to the balance of the state, it had just as well be for every body thinks that it is. The rube is no longer kow-towing to the Atlanta capitalist and the more closely this matter is look ed into.by the unbiased citizen the more he desires that the voters pass on it. The capital was put in Atlanta by a former gener ation, fifty years ago, the present generation that is now bearing the burdens want the right to have something to say about it. The Post-Searchlight does not mean to say that the majority of the people want it changed but we do say that a great majority of the burden bearing element want to see it put before the people. This is a fact, the At lanta papers can hoot as much as they desire. If the matter is put up to the people Atlanta will have to cut loose an awful big barrell Or else she will loose it sure. We have nothing against Atlanta, but we do think that her mortgage has about expired and our interests lay in South Georgia and therefore we sym pathise with the movement. Geor gians want the right to oc casionally say who or what city shall get the great benefits that are to be derived from being the capital and as well how many folks will be convenienced by the change. It will be some scrap that will follow when the issue is put up to the people. Cuthbert seems to have a plentiful dose of the Carnivals. Cuthbert is not by herself in this matter. When you see one of these companies on the road for the purpose of improving the morals of any town or leaving any money there jay-birds will sing in moonlight. A very noticeable thing about a man’s serving the county as a Commissioner and that is, if he makes a careful commissioner he will get beat for a second term. That very custom seems to be standing in the way of men offering for the place. It is a very commonly said that this is the case. Without any intention to dis cuss local matters it does seem that man who will serve his county for the pitiable sum of two dollars per day ought to get a little more consideration at the hands of the people. Rheumatic Pain Stopped The drawing of muscles, the soreness, stiffness and agonizing pain of R'peumatism quickly yield to Sloan’s Liniment. It stimulates circulation to the painful part. Just apply as directed to the sore spots. In a short while the pain gives way to a tingling sensation of com fort and warmth. Here’s proof —“I have had wonderful relief since I used your Liniment on my knee. To think one applica tion gave me relief. Sorry I haven’t space to tell you the history. Thanking you for what your remedy has done for me.”— James S. Ferguson. Philada, Pa. Slaon’s Liniment kills pain. 25c at druggists. f3) WITH THE EXCHtt A wife dosen’t need machine. She can see thJ her husband without! trouble at all.— Macon 11 Yep and if she is dressed, the latest style he r ' through her just as easy old gal has nothing on that game. With gasoline at forty * the dealers will certainly! to make the purchase of it, transaction, to save th-’m from ruin.—Thomasville \ u Eenterprise. Why so much! cern old friend. Don’t Flivver burn lightwood-h Let’er go on to four doll she wants to. I will bri. Dobbin over and give you Ride a hobby anyway it is] cheaper. Seems like somebody’s j slate got smashed at the state executive committee g ing in Atlanta. Those dei lanta papers didn’t breatL word of it, either, and the! faithful Albany Herald nevj much as whispered it to i Early County News. Yepl a few more are liable to hitf umbilicus and the vest pod The genial countenana Editor E. LI. Griffin of the! bridge Post-Searchlight ligj up the dark corners of j sanctum last Friday aftei The Editor regrets having | out when he called. The of such an editorial page as | carried by the Post-Searcn carries the inspiration with] and we should liked to ija« our share while he was hei Thomasville Press. Many tin old man. We called to did a few new ideas in peas, a pone and jowl, blue stem colli and ‘‘sich like.” Knowing! we • do that no man is so f up on these matters as you I Other editors we notice di* women’s wear while yourj suit seems to be mens eats Brooks county birth-mark j never wears off, eh? He Had, Duns Also! An exchange says that a| scriber once receiver through the Post office, aid made him mad. He went to | the editor about it, and thee showed him a few duns own—one for paper, one for ( and one for fuel, and sed others. “Now”, said theedij “I didn’t get mad when came, because I knew than had to do was ask reliable ge^ men like you to come and me out, and then I could us all of them.” When the i scriber saw how it was he rel ed, paid up and renewed | another year. MONEY TOJ-ENP On improved Farm Lands in Decatur and Gadsden I Counties. On five or ten years time. Can be paid back | in annual installments if desired. Address for terms and particulars R. G. HARTSFIELD, Attorney At Law, Balnbridge, Ga. LOST—One snuff colored mare mule, weight about 900 lbs. branded S on left shoulder. Left my house about March 4th. Finder will return to J. C. Grimsley, Iron City, Ga., ond receive reward. DR. E. C. SMITH DENTIST Gold Bridge Crown Work I $3.50 ' $4.00j Set of Teeth $5.50 Teeth Extracted Without Pain. Office Belcher'Block