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THE POST-SEARCH LIGHT Published Evory Thursday a* Bainbridge, Georgia. E. H. GRIFFIN Editor and Proprietor Entered at the I’nstofflee in Bain bridge, Oa., as seeond class mail mntter under Act of Congress March lSth, 1HOT. Subscription Rates ONE YEAH. 11.00 R1X MONTHS.. Wc Advertising Rates Advertising rate depends on position, number of insertions and other requirements, and will be furnished at the business office. OFFICIAL OHO AN OF TI1K C1TV OF HAINHKIIM1H ANI» IIKC'ATUK 00 UNTV. Telephone No. 239 The cold snap which shot here Saturday and Sunday not only put a crimp in the fishing: but it helped dad out a little Saturday on Easter buying. Only prolong ed the agony howevet If this vain and sinful world had never been punished, col lectors for Collier’s weekly would have filled the job. The flood was a maiden’s tear compared with their aggravating tendencies. Taxes, washer women and death are the only three certain things that we have ary record of. Can you dodge them? When Johnnie gets whaled out now dont know whether he has been run away to the ball game or lost the old man’s bait can. The moving game is beginning to get interesting now. It is funny how man folks will move before they will pay rent- A grisley hear could not make any more racket than a bunch of school hoys at the opening game of the baseball season. When a man lies to his wife about being out late he is laying the mines for trouble for every other one of the brethren that has to pull the same stunt. “Money troubles worry the Germans” says an exchange and it must be so. Bub have you thought about that same worry ing the Americans a little bit aiong about Easter? The Cuthbert Leader says that we ought to raise more and bet ter cattle. Well we are doing it and if our brother will come clown in Decatur we will show him things that will meet his ap proval. This is no bull either. The Waycross Journal-Herald says that a country lawyer took northern Mexico fifty years ago. That’s not news, they will take anything that is not nailed down except the Christian religion. The average shyster has taking ways. If senator Bankhead succeeds in removing some very obnoxious laws that have been thrown about the press of the country by a bunch of fool so-called reformers he will have done a day’s work that will net him mlich. Mark it closely. A warning has been sent out by the weather forecasting de partment of the govenment about fake forecasters. Now that warn ing may serve a purpose but we always thought that all of ’em were fakes, government and all. Who the devil knov r s that it is going to rain until it starts? Notice where a fellow has suc ceeded in raising a strain of blue hogs, that is the story as appear- in last week’s Cuthbert Leader. Some guys will make a blunder and give themselves away in spite of the devil. We had the same load once but ours was blue monkeys and yellow elephants, we got more liquor before we got the blue-hog stage. Old Brown over at Richland is still worrying about that Blind Tiger that keeps the boys on jump. What in the world is the matter Brownie, cant you depend on that tiger on rainy days? If you cant, let us know old fellow and we will send you a reliable beast, one that will even anti cipate your fishing trip and have the bait ready. The friends of the aspiring politicians have backed off the race for the Governorship and it looks a straight race between the Doctor and Governor Harris. The Georgia Mormons seem to be pretty active judging from the news reports in the various papers. Nearly every time you pick up a paper you see where some guy has been playing double in the state. Is that playing safe or bucking the luck? Poor old Florida, her senators and congressmen have all quit their jobs and are at home cam paigning. Their State house has about gone out ol busin ss as all A (latent medicine vender, a'of those bullies are out in the back districts cavorting around with the native voter and alto gether they are “up again it”. woman book agent a phonograph and a hen party in cohoots have solved the proposition of per petual motion. With Spring comes the red-bug and they are nasty little creatures says the Grady County Progress. Now we always did hate to hear a man kick and knock about any thing. If they are nasty little things they do keep you company and keep you busy. What’s the use of complaining? You dont have to go out and sit on an old log, you can set on the creek bank if you want to. EVIDENTLY AN ERROR. Some of these old broke down ginks are discussing whether a kiss tastes as good now as it did twenty years ago. What’s the dif, just an extra coat or two of varnish between the kisses? If one of them that we are too polite to mention did not look any bet ter twenty years ago than he does now we will wager that he can only guess how one did taste 20 years ago. Dont believe that he experienced it. If you see a fellow moping Ha ve you bought your Easter l about, looking like he lias lost all —id ye\ ■ There may be a man or I he had in the world. Dont get two -anx'Hd that has not yet pitiful and sympathise with him. bought thv’ lrs hut there is no The gink just wants to go fishing woman on Hh that has not. and cant think up any lie that -o- will get him off from his work The Macon Ne» s uses a column ‘ for a day or two. editorial on the subject what "“will Bryan do” w.hen three worua would answer the .question, ‘‘Do the Democrats”. The High Price of Gasoline.' is giving some of the boys some thing to worry about sure enough. Even the mule is beginning to give the traction engine the ha- ha. One of local attorneys received a fee this past week that was a corker. He defended a fellow on a charge of vagrancy and was paid off in cat-fish. There is some talk of getting Tom Watson to deliver the Memorial Oration in this city on the 26th. If they get him, it will be something worth hearing as no man is better posted on the traditions of the South than Sir Thomas and his ability Las an orator is unquestioned. The Bainbridge girls with their reputations for beauty have about edged everything else off the platform. Honest now, we have The verdict of the general public is that booze is going to be so hard to get after May 1st, that the moderate drinker, the man that does not care for it, the fellow that can take it or let it alone will give it up. The man in the most danger from it is the guy that keeps letting it alone. •Judge Harrell went out over the circuit last week to see the boys, taking with him that genial smile, old cracker handshake and the good wishes of his folks be hind hint and with these he met a very warm reception all over the circuit. If a man ever went out with solid backing of his homo-folks Judge Harrell is go ing before the people of the Al bany Circuit thus armed and we believe that it will be a powerful lever to him when asking the men of the other counties to come to his banner. See where Arthur Moore is go ing to preach at Thomasville. Now you Thomas county sinners you are going to near a man talk that knows you, knows how to reach you and one that will LOVE you into going out to his meet ings. You will find no club there to meet you, but a hearty hand shake, a smile and a ‘‘come again” atmosphere that will make you go again the first chance. Arthur will do you good fellows, and here and now we ask the Thomasville papers, to meet this gospel peddler half-way and you will have the biggest meeting in the best looking set in the world. | s j r that our mint beds are still I budding but that will in no way We want you to know, be gad j Thomasville that you ever had A fellow named Jim Tom Ginn I interfere with our observance of o? Bowman, Ga. is a candidate for Roads Commissioner of Elbert County. That guy’s op ponent better go him one better and take the name Tom and Jerry or else he is a beat man. the prohibition law. A little mint bed in the corner of the year is no sign of anything like intern perance in the house beyond, is it? We are positively not going to comment on women’s clothes any more in this paper. We dont think it good taste and besides there i3 not enough of them to discuss. And the shadowy sub stance of female garb is growing less each day and why need dis cuss something that is passing out of existence anyway. The Atlanta women are mad because the merchants have put a stop to their carrying goods home and keeping them several weeks and then sending them back. What on earth that bunch of old hens could want is hard to see. If they cant tell in a few hours whether a garment pleases them or not they need a guardian instead of clothes. and one that will do more good, leave a better feeling in your city than you ever enjoyed before. All this comes too, from the righteous spirit dnd the loving of Arthur Moore. You better give him a big building over there for when he gets tnac ‘‘hallelujah lick” to working it takes some room to hold the folks that want to hear him. Brilliant? no, Espe cially learned? no splendid de livery? not especially. But the out-lovingest man that ever went into a pulpit and the foiks just naturally cotton to him and the message of love and cheer that he brings. Give him space and he will fill it with hungry folks from I all classes. It is inconceivable on any other basis than that of error or over sight that the railroads of Georgia which are petitioning the state railroad commission for a revision of the Georgia rates should have put into their petition j|a request for rates which would undermine some of the foremost of Georgia’s growing industries. For instance, it must have been through some oversight that the railroads asked forrateson meat trom Moultrie to Atlanta, which are higher than those charged on similar shipments from Chicago to this city; or that they are seeking rates on apples by the carload from Habersham county to Thomasville, Ga., which are in excess of those charged from New York state to the same point, some three times the dis tance. Certainly careful discrimina tion and a desire to assist and help build new and growing Georgia industries could not have dictated such proposals as this. Discussing the problem that con fronts the railroads and some of the requests submitted in their petition to the railroad commis sion, The Savannah Mcming News says: Two things maybe said about the proposed revision of the railroad rales in Georgia. One is that the railroads have to live in the face of increasing cost of niateriulsof many kinds and increasing wages paid employees. The other is that it would be rank folly to fix such rates upon many farm products that Georgia is just beginning to produce in considerable quantity, in a policy of diversified farming, as to interfere with that policy. The railroad commission is going to endeavor, if it does its duty as it surely will, to reach such a con clusion as to rates as will both en able the railroads to make a living and enable Georgia farmers to con tinue to raise,increasing quantities of crops other than cotton, to put more of their efforts into the cuttle industry especially. . . . The The whole thing is a matter of bus iness, and it is the commission’s business to find out what rate changes would be fair to railroads and to public. The News is certainly right in its conclusion. The whole thing is, purely, a business proposition. The astonishing part of it is that the zailroads themselves should have exhibited such scant business acumen as to have in cluded in their petition request for rates which they must know cannot stand, and the effect of which must be to discredit, in a measure at least, the whole peti tion for revision. Wouldn’t it pay the railroads to revise their revision petition be fore it comes to hearing, elimin ating such rates as would un questionably hamper and injure young and growing Georgia in dustries and which violate rather than conform to the “long and short haul clause” upon which, to a large extent, the petition is said to be based? fortunately, whatever the rail roads may do about it, the whole matter is in the hands of the rail road commission, a sound busi ness organization, and final solu tion of the problem will no doubt be reached, as The News sug gests, upon a basis of fairness both to railroads and the public. i he commission, of course, in its dealings with the problem will look carefully to the proper protection of Georgia’s agricul tural and other industries. It may be said, however, that the railroads might come nearer to getting what they want in the matter ot reasonable rate revision if they were not, either by ac cident or design, unreasonable in their request.—Atlanta Consti tution. Laying all jokes down, It dont make any difference whether you agree with him or not Tom Wat son is handing out some good stuff to think about on the foreign Mission business. If all the money that is sent to wild-eyed pagans were put into hospitals and the sick and maimed in this country taken care of things would be great deal better. Everybody get ready now, get off to that Music Festival and spend a lot of money to hear a bunch of high-priced dagoes sing foreign stuff. Sphagetti-jugglers as an actress recently remarked Bainbridge. An apt term and just a Crackers idea about such music. Folks go just to be seen for not one out of forty know any more about that music than a goat. WITH THE EXCHANGES This is a great old world. No matter how dark the night, you can always know that the light will come with the morning.— Monroe Advertiser. Oh most wonderful perception and while expounding this great doctrine why not advance that wonderful fact that the longer we live the older we get, that we will live until we die unless some fool kills us. Nothing like knowledge. Who would have ever thought that daylight fol lowed darkness. “The needle, Watson.” Mr. Fullbright’s friends are now seeing visions of his bulky form presiding in the attorney generals office at the capital after the next election. Strikes down this way that Cliff Walker is doing fairly well in that office, thank you,—Thomasyille Press, Henry Fullbright is one of the strongest and best men in this state and the idle chatter of Tom Felder and Echilberger will in the end make Henry’s worth to the state more visible Henry’s manhood, courage and strength of character would not allow him to bow to these two peanutters and hence they would destroy him. Time will show the measure and the shadow of the men more accurately than poli tical gossip for purpose. Watson says that Bryan of Florida tried to throttle the Pro testant voters of certain organiza tions in that state. If Tommie produces the goods and lays the facts before the Florida voters he will make Mr. Bryan do around right lively to hold his job. The political dopsters who make their daily bread by hang ing around the Associated Press headquarters in Atlanta and her ambitions would be favored sons at so much per, filled the colums of the helpless dailies about the state, a few days ago with the startling announcement the Walter Andrews of Atlanta, is to be elected to the senate from Fulton and has kindly consented (or words to that effect) to ac cept the presidency of the next senate(?) The dispatches would have you believe that there is nothing between Mr. Andrews and Fthe senate and presidency except those insigneficent (?) honors. It would be real inter- ing to the masses of Georgia to know just how much that boost cost Mr. Andrews. But the still more interesting part of the farce would be for Mr. Andrews and the Atlanta dopsters who daddied the job to know just what the Masses thought of Mr. Andrews and his spot light bubble.—Thomasville Press. We dont know whether Walter will get the job or not but we will bet a million that if he does he will reflect credit on himself, his county and his state. There is nothing supercilious about the man, a plain, simple Georgia gentleman that has done good work for his county and city. An earnest genial gentleman and sincere. The state could go farther and do worse than have him president of the senate While it is South Georgia s time for the honor and we must and will get it, still we must not be little as worthy a man as Walter Andrews to get it. Women serve as coc souri cities of over 5 (J tion. Now, how woulj to have the strong ar „" law reaching out f or y ! shape of a woman 5 ) Tribue. Pitch anothe instanter and get pulled she was good looking an. was ugly as a suffrage! run like the devil. Tha doctrine ain’t it bub? In a speech at Cuthl Hardman declared fori sessions of the legislate doctor will find it one ofl popular planks of his * other candidates couldl their popularity with th| by speaking out on tl line. —Dawson News! worry. Uncle Nat wi| priate this plank as so« car, ‘‘make up his mind”, is popular.—Early Count] Certainly, and if you other platforms that y<j installed just make him . they are liable to be col and he will straddle vengeance. FAIR EXGHAI A New Back for an Old l)d Bainbridge Resident Made j Back Strong. The back aches at tin a dull indescridable making you weary and i piercing pains shoot acr| region of the kidneys, an the lions are so lame that! is agony. No use to rub i a plaster 10 the back kidneys are weak. You ] reach the cause. Follow ample of this Bainbridge Mrs. A. B. Cliett, 527 Street., Bainbridge, sayl kidneys weie weak and I trouble with the kidney I ions. 1 noticed dropsical! ing in my feet and my baij sore and lane. I kept worse all the ime. Donl ney Pills, procued at the Drug Co,, gave me great! fit and I have never had s<[ trouble since.” Price 5oc at all dealers, simply ask for a kidney —get Doan’s Kidney Pill] same that Mrs. Clietl Foster-Milburn Co., Bu| N. Y. IN BANKRUPTCY District Court of the United I Southwestern (Division, Soul Districtof Georgia. InBankrul Notice oi Application for Pi^ In Bankruptcy. In the matter .’of Sheldon Hi Bankrupt. County of Decatur, II To the creditors of the above f bankrupt: You are hereby that the above mentioned bal has fil"d his application foradii from all the debts provable ini ruptcy against the said Sheldon! son. j The said application will be I by the Hon. Emory Speer, dul tlie United States District Col said division and district, at the f States Court House, at ValdosJ the 8th, day of May 1916. All creditors of said bankrul notified to appear at the tinif place stated, and show cause, I they can. why tlie prayer coniuil said petition .should not be grant! Dated at Valdosta, Georgia| til, day of April 1910. Cook Clayton. CJ By D. B. Small, Deputy. Colds Quickly Relieve Many people cough and cou from the beginning of Fa Spring. Others get cold cold. Take Dr. King’s New covery and you will get al immediate relief. It checks cold, stops the racking, ta J tissue-tearing cough, heals inflammation, soothes the tubes. Easy to take, Anti and Healing. Get a 50c I of Dr. King’s New Discover: keep it in the house. “It 15 tainly a great medicine keep a bottle of it continual! hand,” writes W. C. Je^ eI Franconia. N. H. Money bar not satisfied but it nearly al' helps.