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A THE POST-SEARCH LIGHT Published Every Thursday at Balnbridge, Georgia E. H. GRIFFIN Editor and Proprietor Entered -it thel'ostofllcein Bain- bridge, Ga., ns second class mini matter under Act of Congress March lHIh, 1WI7. Subscription Rates ONE YEAR HIX MONT1IH.- $1.00 50c Advertising Rates Advertising rate depends on position, number of insertions and other requirements, nnd will be furnished at the husinesH office. OFFIOIAI. OIUJAN OF BAINIIKinriK i COUNTY. TIIK Telephone No. 239 A man died at Hurtsboro, Ala. a few days ago at an age of 113 years. What in the name of com mon sense a man wanted to live that long in that town for is more than we can see. If it hurt it ought to have been moved long before that. It sure is spring alright. Notice that some of the boys have gotten so lazy or so bad behind with their fishing that they are using canned editorials instead of get ting off their own work. Five of our exchanges showed identically the same paragraph, letters and words to a dot. These fellows are fudging. I We have never thought for one moment that Senator Smith’s ambition would The Brunswick News has a| long editorial last weekjon “What one man Can Do”. We have seen one man do an entire com munity as easily as the guy did that drove his Ford all over Mitchell county re-charging lighting rods at $3 per rod. Also one man did the community of Grady county selling Indan claims right recently. Oh one man can do alright, do a plenty ; overtowering j lead him to let his name be used by the California crowd as ! against the Democratic leader, j despite what we may think ot 1 _ j * n many ways Senator Smith All the boys that want to go;is too wise to turn his back on fishing are now hanging around! the administration arid we dont the corner watching the move- think that he will. That was the ments of the teachers/ | pillow of his last campaign The press comment this past j When a guy begins to stall week on Judge Harrell’s candi-!around and tell you how hard he dacy was general and doubtless j lias to work and that he never very pleasing to that gentleman, gets out. Just watch him and in o a few days you will learn that Wanted to swap-Some old he went out and stayed a couple worn out winter underwear for on the river. He lied to get some B. V. D’s. Those interest- to goa-fishing and then liesabout ed need not hurry as the supply will hold out. Villa has got to die several times now and be resurracted to satisfy an exacting news hungry public. Poor gink he has a hard road to travel. The fish, the woods, baseball, the fish he caught afterwards. Case of lying “gwine and com ing”. If the state Road is sold and the legislatures spend the money what will we have then? To the Macon Telegraph. Can you place any restrictions around that money so that nothing but the the old smiling swimming hole' interest could be spent, in the all are in a big conspiracy to, event that it did not take it all keep the folks from working these ; to pay the bonded indebtedness nice spring days. of the state? Another week has passed and Senator Eakes, candidate for State Treasurer was in the city a ; no child killed on West street b short while this week, letting the | the sp eed-made auto lunatics boys meet the new State Treasur- , and an all wise p rovide n C e has er ' j been kind that long to our city. j How long it will be before the No Pauline dear, you dont, town is shocked by some occur- have to make that dress quite so rence on that street we can’t .-awful loud to make a noise like a tell- Ilovv long will this go on? dressed up girl Easter Sunday. Tone it down a bit so you can be seen. Now seriously folks, watch the ladies on parade Sunday and you can easily pick out the lady that “ordered off after” her Easter hat and dress from the] ones that left that money at home. They look a little slouchy, dont they? j The town and county will soon be in the picnic mood. The time is at hand when Bud and Sis wearing that white dress and blue sash. Shut your eyes you old skin-flini and let your mind wander back to the days when you were Bud yourself. The Donalsonville News dis- j Yet a few more days and the coufSbs valiantly on cows dying I dry laws of Georgia will take ef with the hollow horn but does not seem willing to go tar enough to say that a town knocker dies of hollow head, although the in ference is there alright. feet and then wonder how' long the people will be allowed to rest before the paid agitators will be urging something else new under the sun. They must perchance keep a bit of strife up to keep their jobs. It wont do for the A “Widow Woman" cured by Tanlac says one of their last people to be satisfied for they week’s advertisement. We have been wondering how the devil she got to he a widow unless she was a woman, ilave heard of a he-virgin but not a he-widow. Biennial sessions of the legis lature iis a proposition that is will not be able to stay close to the trough. Cole Blease says that a man ought to have a gallon of whiskey per day if he wants it. Might just as well add a couple of six- shooters, forty rounds of cart- moving slow but they are bound ridces and a Winchester ri fl e . to a me. The people demand work of that body and not politics being played by the day. In Rome, Ga. a man was fined $100 for picking a man’s pocket at a Carnival. Wonder if the Carnival had to pay any fine for their automatic stunt of pocket- picking. if Robin dont get clean ed at one of those things, the devil is a (Dutchman. The more hell he can kick up, the more delighted Cole would be to pardon him. And to think that South Carolina will have that thing again for Governor. to With the Americans after Villa, the German after Bryan, the Catholics after Tom Watson and Teddy after the Republican nomination we ought to have a real lively summer. A regular red-bug time. A movement is on foot for Language reform in China. The good graces know that they need it bad enough if ever any country did. It is so darned confusing there that rat-eaters dont under stand what each other aie talking about to say nothing of any one else getting next. Reform China’s language by all means. .Make" it so a guy can ask, for his' otvn shirt at the laundry without starting a controversy. Go to it boys, you have Eichel- berger denying an interview in the Savannah Press. Now when Ike'v sidesteps a chance for publicity some strong power is behind him. Why folks he denied charging Tom Felder with being hot-air artist, denying about the most truthful utterance that ever fell from his lips since he invaded Georgia. Governor Harris has messed himself up in a bad way in the appointment of one judge over night at the behest of Hamp Me Whorter. Why should he not please Sir Hamp,? Were they not railroad attorneys for years together? Judge Little refuses to keep his mouth shut and has ex posed the whole deal. If Governor Harris decided to make that ap pointment in the short space of one night he at least made an improvement as it usually takes him always to make any kind of of decision. Shoot the big guns and ring the fire bell. The Atlanta police has at least arrested a monkey for burglary. Brave officers, they have never gotten a man yet but being believers in the Darwinian Theory they will depend on evolution. For a bunch that can never apprehend anything but a fallen wonan to get as much he- monkey is going some. Oh, the same officer that shot the 10 year old boy should be allowed to arrest that monkey and parade through White-hall street with him, Comrades in full dress. Judge Johnson of the Apala chicola Times has announced for re-election to the Probate judge ship of that county. The demo crats of that county will do well to hold fast to this democrat of the old school. They are the salt of the earth politically speaking and getting mighty scarce. Old Johnson is a true-blue democrat from principle and not political expediency, the old Henry G. Turner type, that puts honor and decency of purpose above every job in the gift of the people. Franklin county will do her part to encourage young men of to day to cling to the ideals of their fathers by supporting this old war-horse whose battles for the party in his young days meant much for us of this day. He and Henry McIntosh of Albany are about all left of this old element that are still in harness. Going along the street a tew days ago we picked up a bank ruptcy notice that was sent to a hospital. A fellow taking bank ruptcy on the folks that had per haps relieved his suffering or that of some of his folks. The idea of it struck the scribe as rather in dicative of the perverseness of human nature.' How a man could take that step on a man that had helped him. We dont see. Every doctor in the country will be patient with a man that tries to pay him. That man need not have taken that precaution to keep that doctor from suing him. He could have easily paid him one dollar each week, the doctor would have waited on him, even a number of years, if the bill was big and he paid a little every week. Now just how much faith can be put in the man would pull that kind of a stunt? Do you suppose that he ever thought how it would look for him to take that step? Maybe not. Evidence of good intent to pay has satisfied every doctor that we ever knew and we think it woilid have this one. ONE OF THE CAUSES. Much has been said about the lynching evil in this section and many reasons have been sent out for it. The most damaging rea son is politics. It does not make any difference how honest and sincere a man is, how pure are his motives and clean his convic tions are, the press, perhaps the pulpit, and the opposition will impugn and abuse him or his cause and if he gets in office this attack goes on with out abating and our orators, preachers often times and our papers very nearly convince our young that there is no man or governmental idea honest. They are taught in this way to disrepect the law and its representatives and when times come that offer avenues to show this disrepect they dont wait a moment to do so. Public men in this STATE of GEORGIA have [gone from one end of it to another in the past 12 years and held forth that doctrine that no man can be honest and have an extra clean shirt. If any man accumulate any more money than he can at one dollar per day, he is a thief and rogue. We may rear back in holy horror at this statement but it is true. They charge and the people have sustained some of them in public that every man who has any income at all is a thief and liar. Such foul preach ments in this state by demago gues, both on the hustings, in the press and pulpit have led our people to look on all state govern ment as partisan graft rather than a protection to society. Read and listen to some of the preach ing you get in all the lines of this and you will see the truth of this statement. DIRTY politics have invited utter disregard for law and the shadow thereof until lynching has followed, more de cidedly in recent years. WITH THE EXCHAlSc Tom Felder says there is more liquor in Atlana than in Louis ville or Cincinnati. We have no doubt Torn has sampled the product in all three places.— Savannah Press. Now you don’t mean to insinuate that the Don Quixote of Democracy in Georgia is in actual personal acquaintance with the taste of the horrible stuff. He from whom emanates all purity and glory. Oh no, not him. Thomas sprinkled thd water, previously blessed Dutchman on Brown all, given and forgotton. Dpi the poor man, look whl he finally fell into. ’ If, as reported, the ladies are to wear socks this summer, we are curious to know how they going to make ’em stay put.— Macon Telegraph. You are to curious. — Newark American. Hair pins man, hair pin. Whadye got a noodle for if you don’t use it? You heard about the fellow who put a bottle of Tanlac in his Ford car and woke up the next morning to find it had made a Packard of it?—Thomasville Times-Enterprise, Keep on and you will tell a lie directly as sure as shouting. The State Central School De pository matter is taking up the attention of the State School Board of Georgia. Representa tive Griffin could have gotten that bill over at last regular ses sion of the General Assembly if this same state crowd would have helped him instead of waiting until this late day to ask for same. Every one of them knows too that this bill is still pending and a bill that will pass all the legal perusal that is necessary. They must have found out that the people want it and want to get on the band wagon. The meager moneys that our old veterans receive are a dis grace to the state the size of Georgia. The peanut politician has his eyes now on the school matters and has forgotten the old warriors. He speeds and caters to the coming voter and not the old man that is fast pas sing away. Shame on any state that will dole out a few dollars to these old men in the shadow of the Beyond. They did their best when it was their time to do and now they ought to be more carefully looked after as long especially as other extravagarces eat up money that would help and sustain them. A tiny girl baby was found in Adairsville last week just after it had been buried alive by it’s mother or some other relative who was probablo asham ed of it’s record. Poor little thing—guess it was the result of a last summer’s tango party —Richland News. Man vou are getting awful. Ain’t you never ashamed of yourself when you get so sassy and impudent. Don’t you know that our tango- ers are our “elect ’or “elite” as town folks say? You shant be allowed to wear a wrist watch just for saying such things. So there, “There may be greater nuis ances than a half-baked man two-thirds stewed, but we can’t recall any of them right at this minute.” — Macon Telegraph. All right, here’s one of 'em: The fellow who at home is a loud-mouthed prohibitionist, but while visiting in neighboring towns stays pickled on blind- tiger booze. — Dalton Citizen. Now Let poor Brown of Wheel er county alone. Did he not have the immaculate and im mortal Chief Maz.uma Tommie Felder in that police court de fending him? The moment that Bishop Candler i s 0p j compulsory educati , n * be possible that the good! fears Brother Asa’-' sales might be curtailed suit? — Dalton Citizen, you want to see thatl squirm that is now in the lay your profane hand rights of Coca Cola. Kil will have you broken on tli and insulted publicly. Stark of Jackson county to put a little tax on Cot, he was immediately u| and his committe let out i and touch not that source of revenue if youl escape if you would escaf wrath of Tommie Feldl Eichelberger. You Going All the ladies’ things exhibited in Owenton toil and Saturday.— Owenton} News-Herald. Nope, wifi let me. Ed Jerger is goi] We Have ‘em Tcj We have seen the type i The Macon Telegraph mind when it says: “It us when we see some fellol couldn’t buy axle greesi wheelbarrow swell up al red in the face over tha cost of gasoline.—Monti Advertiser. He is the saml that raises hell about bonl cown for school purpose! never paid a dollar’s tax] his life. Close to the guJ edmolians of the tariff andj saw a boat or a custom Yep he is here too, in fai] is his native town. ORIOrt LODGE AoJ F. & A. M. Meets Every First Third Thursday Nig Out of town Brethren Espe| ly Invited. GEO. H. FIELDS, W. M. Introducing Dress Talk No. 2! FOR SALE A good 250 acre farm at $7.50 per acre. Located just two short miles west from Faceville, Ga. about 90 acres in cultivation. Variety of soil—Stiff clay, bottom and fine loam. An excellent spring with good fall suit able for driving a large vane for irrigation. — SEE ME QUICK — J. B. L. Barber Office opposite Court House Hamil Bldg. BAIN BRIDGE. : : GA ()UR new line of Palm Beach and Crash Suit: is by far the nobbiest we have ever shown ant it will be a peculiar taste that we can not satisfy. We will please you in lit too no matter what your build. They are the lightest, coolest and most comfort able suits you can wear during this hot weather. PRICES to $10 But you’ll pay from $1.00 to $3.00 more else where for the same quality. (to. if. 3iiIds The Fashionable Haberdasher.