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THE POST-SEARCH LIGHT Published Every Thursday at Bainbridge, Georgia. E. H. GRIFFIN Editor and Proprietor Entered at the Postofllce in Bain- bridge, Ox., us second class mail matter under Act of Congress March IHth, 1897. Subscription Rates ONE YEAR *100 SIX MONTHS • r >0c Advertising Rates Advertising rate depends on position, number of insertions and other re<|uirements, and will be furnished at the business office. OFFICIAL OltOAN OF TUB MTV OF I1AINIIKIIKIK AND PKCATWB COUNTY. Telephone No. 239 Have you heard anything from Funston Yet? The Savannah Situation is be coming about as vexatious as the Mexican situation. Georgia will not be very much affected by the Mexican war. We got plenty of hogs and “Tatera” Fashion says that the girl with hips is in style again. What puzzles us is what did she do with them when they were not in style. If she did without them it accounts for the kangaroo walk. The mariners dream is nothing compared to the dreams that are being pulled off by the average baseball fan. Man when their pipes get to working good they can pull some real heavy ones. One of country exchanges had an article last week headed “Lady injured the back yard” and we have been wondering what that gink meant ever since we read that thing. We want it understood in the beginning that we will strenously object to the sending of “Blumey” Quim Melton or Dobbs to Mexico. These boys had nothing to do with war and we cant spare them in the summer season. The citizens have been kind enough to compliement last week’s issue of the paper very highly. We thank them all for any kind word. They go a long way and stimulate things all around like old wine. It is funny to see a big bull necked man being brow-beat by a little woman weighing less than 100 pounds. There is no need to ask who it was for we will not tell but we saw him get his’n. Stock raising is taking on great life in this county. It is the surest guarantee against war and famine. Our folks will be ready for anything that the times may bring forth. We are determined not to go hungry. Volney Williams of the Way- cross Journal won out in his race in Ware County for Representa tive. We felt sure all along that Vol would win until he exposed his picture to the view of the voters and then we got ‘scared’ stiff. It any guy could overcome that handicap, well he must a- run some. We gazed on that photo and wondered if the Ware County boys could see the good fellow behind that mug and elect him. Well they “tuk and done it”. What is the ‘‘Battle Cry of Peace”? Why Hog and Hominy of course. The well known slogan of the Albny Herald. For twenty years McIntosh has held that banner up as a light to all south Georgia. He is just now begin ning to see full fruits of his work. May his shadow never grow less. Have you read the ‘‘Revela tions of a Wife” that is going the rounds of the papers now? Read them and just wonder what Father could reveal if allowed to do so in the way of fancy “cus sing” when he gets that bill on the first for that Easter hat. Will mules go up or down now since the Standard Oil Company has adopted autos instead of mules? Always did like to see doctor take some of his own medicine and now that gasoline is high let the Standard pay the price. We dont believe they can do it and keep on in business. Shame on our old friend Car- anza. After we recognised the gent and gave him all the honors, the stinker went back on us. Next thing you know he and Villa will be holding a love feast out in the cactus brush. But they ought to stay there if they love their skins. Old John Herring of the Tifton Gazette has issued another one of his “Saturday poems in prose” and the way that fellow plays on the heartstrings of the folks with those things is a caution. One in his last paper was a perfect gem. We love to read them. Judge W. M. Harrell of Bain bridge will be the next Judge of Superior court of the Albany circuit. That is a foregone con clusion and we will all get ready to greet him as such. Some pretty nice fellows that have their eyes to the windward but we are just "bleeged” to have the Decatur man. — ' O What has become of the kid that you used to see with warts all over his feet and toes? Surely has not been transformed into a sissy with all the passing of years. Wart-footed kids always made good ball players and could locate readily the most carefully concealed jar of blackberry jam instanter. Senator Eakes, candidate for State Treasurer was in the city a few days ago shaking hands with the boys. The Senator is a very genial gentlemen and will make a strong bid for the job. The present incumbent has had about all the juice in the job that one man can well want and the people are receiving the can didacy of the senator with favor. The women we see are going to wear socks this summer. This has put us to wondering how the devil our wife is going to fare on this proposition as we both cant wear the same pair and at the last accounting of the he-end of household ward-robe we managed to scrap up two badly used and mis-matchedones. It looks power ful like somebody will have to stay home or get out of style. No other names were entered in the preseidential primary but Wilson. How is it that some claim there is opposition to him in the state when it is apparent ly not strong enough to center on some man that will oppose him. The president may not have pleased the folks in every thing but he has come mighty pleasing more people on many things that any president we have had. Bill Bryan, Teddy and the whole pack to the contrary. Of course any man that is not a Democrat will find fault with him. It is not expected that a Republican or a Bull Moose ot any opposing element to the principles of Democracy will agree with hun. Blakely pulled off some big do ings last week that gave her folks and her neighbors some thing to talk about for a while. ■ ' ———O — ■ Our time and our man is what we mean in announcing Judge Harrell as a candate for Superior Court Judge and we will win. Mark the prediction now. Decatur county will show a marked improvement this year over any previous year. The people have been at work down in this direction. We dont always meet the ap proval of the other fellow but if we meet with a ^satisfied feeling from ; within we are on a safe ground- If Funston will do a good job of catching Villa like he did Aguinaldo he will be blessed by every body. He got that Filiuno on very short order. ■March is still cutting up a {bit. IF we dont get by it pretty <iuick some of the boys will have to go furthersouth where their cloth ing fits the climate. Quim Melton went on the good ro&cli? trip last week. It any body could set that bunch of pathfind ers a pace this local sport can pull the stunt. Havana burned up last Thurs day night they had started the construction of a new town down there.' Live and progressive folks do not sit down and mourn. Fishing time is right here. If you dont know where to find a few certain Bainbridge mer chants at |this time of the year, try the river. With Villa, the Boll weevil, the itch and the state campaign go ing on in the country our folks will find enough to keep them busy working and talking for the next few months. Senator Sherman has been en dorsed by the Illinois Republi cans for the Presidency and that has set us to wondering what he will do with it. It is a title “full of sound and furv, signify ing nothing”. “Ladies with or without hips” wanted for models read an adver tisement that we have seen late ly. It might prove embarassing to a modest editor but we would like to see how one looked with out hips. Bill “says as how he is getting even with Rockefellow” for when the price of gasoline went over two-bits he lett his Ford in the barn and .dug up old Dobbin’s harness. This may suit Bill but it is playing the devil with the social aspirations of “niaand the girls” Villa shot Americans with American made bullets. Now if the government will do the wise thing it will conscript the powder and ammunition dealers first. They are the bunch that profit out of the little game called war. The Dupont Powder Company made fifty-one million dollars in one year. Now we suggest in all seriousness that they be required to send the starving Belgians and Serbians some of that change. The water situation in Bain bridge is receiving careful con sideration just now at the hands of the city Dads. If they will carry out their idea of making all pay tor their water and their wastage of water, the price will go down in a very short while. The Elbert County Grand Jury has endorsed Solicitor-General Tom Brown for Congress. No\v if a guy cant win with the good old-fashioned name of Tom Brown tacked onto him he ought to loose. We dont know a better one unless it be John Smith for campaign purposes. News item in the Macon Tele graph headed “Suffragetts to Speak”. Wonder if they ever quit long enough for it to be news when they start again? Ghosts of the past still haunt us as of old. Sid Tapp has broke out again into the lime-light. Put out the fire and call the dogs. David R. Francis of Missouri, 1 the Boss Kidder of America has I been sent to Russia to handle the I Czar. Dave is some foozy with I that line of talk land will get I away with it in a hurry. The Lee County Journal in a long editorial advises the voters of that county to vote for the best man. There is plenty of him and such advise is super- fulous. This we can prove by every candidate in Lee County. Florida politics are getting very lively now. Some of the boys are lining up strong at the start. Here’s hoping that our neighboring county of Gadsden gets whatever she wants, what she needs and whatever she feels that she ought to have. Our in terests lay {close with hers and we wish her well in everything. Old Gadsden has been pretty hefty in Florida politics in past years and we dont think that she has iost any of her prominence. Tut, Tut, Oh Me, Oh My. Sam Hewlett charged Tom Felder with doing nothing but parade up and down Whitehall Street. Well if Tommie hopes to catch any of the girlies with that mug of his’n they will have to be blind-folded and backed up to him. His rise to fame has been fraught with more skinnings than the one Tom Watson handed him at the Underwood conven tion. Senator Eakes, one of the best known and clean men of the state is running for State Trea surer and with good chances of election. The Senator was in Bainbridge last week and while mixing with the voters made a good impression. The people will likely make a change in this office as the present encumbent has been connected with it for 30 years. Too long for one man to hold a job of this kind. He is bound to get negligent. Mr. Eakes will run well in the county of Decatur as has some very warm friends here that will in terest themselves in his behalf. Is’nt pitiful to see some of the women who are so anxious to at tract the attention of the men that they will invite their sneers and derision. Bainbridge has a few that will dress immodest and loud as old Satan would want them to just to get the men to notice them. Poor little weak minded things they dont know that they are pitied by the men rather than noticed. When that kind ot a woman dies the world is relieved on all sides. We have some here and the pitiable thing about is that everybody knows who- they are so plainly and so notorious have they become in that method of trying to attract the men. Colds Quickly Relieved Many people cough and cough— from the beginning of Fall to Spring. Others get cold after cold. Take Dr. King’s New Dis covery and you will get almost immediate relief. It checks your cold, stops the racking, rasping tissue-tearing cough, heals the inflammation, soothes the raw tubes. Easy to take. Antisepic and Healing. Get a 50c bottle of Dr. King’s New Discovery and keep it in the house. “It is cer tainly a great medicine and I keep a bottle of it continually on hand.” writesW. C. Jesseman, Franconia, N. H. Money back if not satisfied but it nearly always helps. (1) WITH THE EXCHANGES Better babies means betttr men, remember that please.— Rome Tribune Herald. Who are you hitting at anyway? Talk what you are talking about. The Bainbridge Post-Search Light comes to us this week in the form of a twenty-eight page Booster edition. It contains a most complete write up of every interesting subject and enterprise in the city of Bainbridge and De catur County with many hand some illustrations. It is the most complete extra and best arranged booster edition we have ever seen produced in this section. With a wide circulation it will surely prove to be the most valuable advertising proposition ever turned out in the interest of De catur County. Bainbridge and Decatur County will never be able, no matter how well they treat him, to compensate Editor E. H. Griffin for the valuable service he is rendering with his splendid paper.-The Thomasville Press. O What has become of the old fashioned boy who spit on his slate and wiped it out with the elbow of his coat?—Macon News. Out in the back yard down on his knees trying to skin the neighbor out of his white alleys in a marble game. Where did you think he had gone? Mother Goozle to Date Sing a song of vichy, Leaving out the rye; Four and twenty glasses wouldn’t Make you bat an eye; Fill yourself with soda-pop Until you nearly burst;? That’s the stuff to tie to After Maythefirst. —Savannah Press. Why sing a SOng of vichy, And leave out the rye? Four and twenty missed Will only make you cry; Leave out the soda-pop And try old dynamite, Might be better might be worse Anything will do after May 1st, When the law-makers get to prohibition of tne fithy weed, right there we are going to split with them, for there isn’t any thing that is any better than a good cigar at the right time, and especially when you have stopped smoking.— Thomasville Times-Enterprise. You just wait a little Bub; our friend and world redeemer Tommie Felder will get to that. It is just a question of what the inducement will be, that’s all. Drinking beer, says the a burg South Side Welfare sociation, causes bow l e g s ( let us hasten to add, drink the Grand Old Buttermilk J cornfeds.-Macon News, i don’t make you bowdegg* will make your pocket book | flim-flammed and lantem-j a , Wont Pay The government of Colon has appropriated a large sum encourage silk production in t country.—Macon News. Ti this silk culture many tirr.es it wont pay. The girl takes a the old guy with the big Pl after you give her the hose Brave Speaking of the man i walks right up to the cann ( mouth, there is L. C. Ro sa the Spearville News, r writes: “We are willing to lend w assistance we can through column for better babies, have never seen one yet what could be improved, Kansas City Star. We dare 1 to come to Bainbridge and it. He will soon find out wh boss it he does. A Sweet Disposition A few seed escaped the eye the neighbors’ chickens, bui soon as they sprout they will trampled down by the neighb children. So It’s all the sa in the end.---Macon Ne Spring sure must be a nig mare to a man with that si grouch. 400 pounds of lead i the Ocmulgee river is the o remedy that we can offer anything like him. “I just hate for you ne’ papers to tell your true opin about gossips for it happens be my opinion and I fear v much my wife is one of th things.” said a prominent n yesterday. He has determii also to institue some reformat ideas at once, and see how tl work.—T h o m a s v i 11 e Tim Enterprise. That husband n have good cause to worry he ought not to have to be Solomon to know whether M< is gabbing gossip or not. If will keep still at meal time i listen to her chatter he will so find out. We have some o here that will tear up a charac in less time than a cat can sha a rat anti enjoy it as much. Are You Wasting The Price Of a Titan Engine? ' | 'ITAN engines run on kerosene. Average cost of gasoline so far this year, 16.9 cents per gallon. Average cost of kerosene 7.7 cents per gallons Gasoline costs over 100 per cent more than kero sene. Gasoline is going up steadily. Kerosene i* not. At present fuel prices Titan engines, using Vero* sene, save their owners about 1.1 cents per horse p«jwer per hour. 1 Are you running a gasoline engine ? What horse power is it ? Figure what you’d be saving if you had a Titan keroa .o e ( engine. Rather surprising, isn’t it? How long would it take that saving to pay for a Titan engine of the same size ? International Harvester Company of America (bewpanud) Titan kerosene engine* ere told by