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THE POST-SEARCH LIGHT Published Every Thursday at Bainbridge, Georgia. E. H. GRIFFIN Editor and Proprietor Entered ut theI’oHtofllccin Hnin- brid^e, Oa., ns second cIuhh mail matter under Act of Congress March mb, 1887. Subscription Rates ONE YEAR 1100 SIX MONTHS 00c Advertising Rates Advertising rate depends on position, number of insertions and other requirements, and will bo furnished at the bustness •fflee. OPKICUAI, OKOAN nf TIIK CITy OP HAINHIttlKIH AND DBOATUB OOtINTV. Telephone No. 239 The attack of Cyclone Davis of Texas on the memory of Jeff , uavis and Bob Toombs will cost l his seat in Congress as sure as 'shooting. They call him Cyclone out there, everywhere else they call him Darnphool. Speed limit on the streets of Bainbridge 100 miles an hour. “Now do your darnedest.” Vol Williams of Wa.vcross says that we shan’t sell the road and Bud Anderson of the Macon Telegraph says we shall and we are in a h of a fix. Wish these boys would hurry up and give us their orders after settling it between themselves. The spring season has brought out all the beauties of this section and if it will just rain a bit we would have the prettiest one on earth. The Empire of Decatur has no inter-county strife to hold it back and for that we are duly thankful. Have you heard the whippor- will yet? Do you know what it means? Nor do we. If a boy loses all his grand mothers the first week of base ball how will he get to the other games scheduled later? War with Germany and Mexi co seems probable. Let's write them another note and let them tell us to go to the devil again. Thomasville newspapermen take heart: Picnic season and blackberries will soon be here. Just hold out a few more days boys and all will be well. Rev. Arthur Moore is having a wonderful revival in Valdosta this week. His friends here watch his work with great in terest wherever he goes. And now things are going to get lively down in the 11th, dis trict of dear old Georgia for con gress. We are putting our little mazuma on one Bill Thomas as the guy that will walk off with the persimmon. Mark it Ferdin and. The police ought to arrest every bicycle rider and auto owner that starts down the street ahead of the fire wagon when the alarms are turned in for fire. Right here is where another awful accident is going to take place pn a very short while. Heard a man standing on the corner abusing folks about speed ing autos very tremendously a few days ago and in the short space of two hours saw him speeding down West street forty miles an hour. Consistency thou art|still a jewel. Fredie looked real cute Sunday on the public square with his palm beach suit and near pana ma hat. But not quite as snippy as he thought he did. If some of the young sprouts knew just how they did look arrayed out in their regalia they would swap places with a calf. Did you ever see a man with ragged breeches, no shoes or socks on with a high collar and a flaming neck-tie teasing the breezes? Well, that’s your uncle Nathaniel Harris looking for a platform to base his claim for the governor’s office on. It is one painful memory that we will always have. We were not able to get over to Thomas ville Sunday see Davis ofthe Press arrayed in all his Easter regalia. Friend told us that he had a polkadotsuit, redtieand “yaller” shoes on and we missed it all. Duckworth says that he dont want any of Tom Watson’s sup port and he will not have it He says that he wants Democrats to back him up. Go to it Bub, a poor democrat is worth more to this earth than the best Republi can, Bull Mooser, Populist or Socialist and you are picking mighty good.' company. folks that are real anxious to go to the war now because the wise guys that know just how to run that war has shoved them all off of the hoards. The President has given Germ any a week to answer. If Germ any is like us on this fighting businss she would make up her mind quicker than that to say “let’s dont”. J — i Bryan has gone to Washington Very little room is lett for the >f° that he can bc close antl em ‘ bdrass the President as much as possible. No wonder that the Democrats of his home state would not let him go as a dele gate to the National Convention. He has not been able to explain his betrayal of Champ Clark and It is cruel thing Irom every j lis f a j lure t0 t . arry 0 ut his in- standpoint Gerald to have ail structed delegacy, your arrangements made to go, a-fishing and then have it rain. I « t T , , . , , m. ... • , . , ^ A Jersey Judge has ruled and l he bait just wont keep at a , at t „ .. . fu . jj * ’ been sustained that a man must . not defend himself when attack- “ o——— ed. That he has not tight to 'Thomasville ha9 cut out the j fight when he js hit. That may sale of Pistols in that burg. If go very well in Jersey but we are they will stop the sale of that sorry for the guy that figures on cheap whiskey over there, they that when he hits a Georgia will be in our class as a town of Cracker a wallop. It may bethat spotless virtue. Get that Davis, .after a man is eaten up by these spotless. | Jersey mosquitos that he has not o 'energy enough to fight when he ; is hit though. The Griffin News and Sun be gins talk this week about open- air courting. If that guy does not call autoing open air courting we hope he does not mean to imply that only this spring weather brings it about. The most “openest” courting that we have ever seen is the auto and tango variety. The Darien Gazette enters its forty-third year this week and may the Good God grant them, both paper and Dick Grubbs many more years to teach kind ness and love as the highest es sences of religious virtue to the people of Georgia as be and his paper have for the near half- century passed. An optimist is a man that can look at three duces and imagine they are as good as three kings then have sense enough to not bet on them, says an exchange- Wonder if that guy ever sat in with three deuces and pay them down in any such way? Volney Williams is rearing about them not selling gasoline on Sunday in Way cross. We thought that he run his machin ery in the office with electricity. If that guy has an auto it ought to be investigated and arrests made. lie has heretofore been posing as an honest man. What is the cause of so much quiet ness in Atlanta. Cant Marion | Jackson get up another recall Judge Fred Foster is dead, the , ... state is sorrowful for this grand election and give us another Mud .. . „ x . , , old man of the House of Repre- BatnrThe town is going dead „ . ,• „ „ -... . .. ” sentatives was as full of the with so much quietude. I milk of human kindness as it The hoys that have been beat ing the air about the county commissioners have succeeded in demonstrating beyond all ques tion that folks differ on matters and that is about the sum and substance of their argument. Tis a little hard to work for two dollars per day and get shot a- settmg. Folks cant all agree on any subject. Some more printers ink will demonstrate that the older we get, the longer we live. DELAYED BUT AWFUL WHEN IT CAME Well, it happened. The long expected automobile accident. The good God has been kind to this town hut on last Friday after years of abuse of this kindness this goodness ‘was withdrawn from us and a young boy, the only son of a family was run down by a car. Many and various excuses have been given for the accident but if the simple town ordinance that is in force but not enforced had been observed that a car must blow at a crossing this young boy would not haye been knocked down and dragged like a log twenty or thirty feet. Oh yes, those concerned are very sorry and would not have run over the boy for anything in the world, they are bowed in sor row and pain over the accident but the poor boy is in the hospi tal all battered up. For months this paper has begged and implored the public to back us up in the cry for the enforcement of the protection laws that the people have. We have told time and again what would happen and even almost threatened. Some of the sneer ing ones have said that it was born of demagogery, because forsooth we did not run a car. But had our lamentations, be they crocodile tears or otherwise had they been heeded and looked into, this boy would not have been injured and these men would not now be worried over the accident. They are sorrow ful and suffering almost as piuch as the boy and all because the general public has not been taught that they most observe the speed laws and traffic rights. We don’t blame the drivers for violations of the traffic law, because they have been so Num erous that they have not been taken seriously. But the COM MUNITY of Bainbridge is re sponsible for this accident and it ought to have to pay for it. When the officials punish a speeder, he goes out and gets comfort from others. When the citizens that walk complains, the auto owner sneeringly remarks that he is just sore because he does not own an auto, and he goes and gets comfort from the other auto owner, WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THEM. In the event that this country declares war against Germany every un-naturalized German in this country will be a public enemy and the government will have to take them in charge in- stanter. They will be in the way unless they are put on the public roads and made to work just like the Germans did the Belgians. If war should come our suggestion is that instead of feeding these fellows for nothing put them to work and let them build a high way from New York to Miami and one from Washington to San Francisco. Serve to them a little of the same medicine that was served by them to the Belgians. This Highway would serve as an object lesson and a monument to German millitarism and brutality for ages to come. They and all their sympathizers in this country have wanted war and now if they are going to have it let them feel the weight of their own iniquity. Perhaps it wont be so very funny to them with about two million of their fellow citizens at work on our roads. ‘Once a German al ways a German’ is a safe motto and those that pretend fealty to the American government only do so until they can get some fact they think will be worth something to Germany. A man can feel young again by just watching the young folks getting off to their summer picnics now. Did you ever see a bunch that looked like they were going to a hanging. That’s the way some of them look in their high heel shoes. What is the use of going to a picnic in any such shape as that? Governor Peck, the author of "Peck’s Bad Boy” is dead and all America is sorrowing over it That man caused ye scribe to get more whalings than did the ‘‘ole swimming hole” or the neighbors cane patch. As a moral preceptor Peck was a bad partner but as a fun-maker he was loved by all. The Houston Post wants to know if there is not too many lawyers. Yea bo, there are too many shysters in every clime but only a very few lawyers any- Lillian Russell says it fortune to be beautiful \J have long been wondering whence came our hard wj old girl we thank ^ J that burden from us and 1 us see why we are so dad lucky that if it wasraininl we would not have a Jl catch it in but a fork, some body will just tell Roy Powell over here at ton butted into his hard luJ will be satisfied. Roy jg ed and it could not come] his good looks. The men of Bainbridoe • very much on their good i‘ if you were to judge ft way they hog all the seatel park on Sunday afternoons] the band concert is going ( is with a feeling of shai we noticed five of these last Sunday afternoon fl„ w with men and the ladies ing up. Getjup, you lazy d, and show your manners wh you want to or not The girls gobble the benches week and the men-folks on I day and our ladies have [ little chance to use them at! Our men dont mean to be sol hoggish but they are a “| fergitful” it seems. Sooner or later it is goi be shown that we have much to fear from Eng] we have from Germany mercial ways. It seems Hoke Smith is one of the few southern senators that| his eye on this end of the and his position is not wii solid basis either. On and after May 1st it be unlawful tor any man tod a ear on West St that cant | hi9 car sixty miles an hour, beautiful race course folks living on it think is a i shall not be disgraced by | plodding old slow car. He be able to knock the feathers | of a chicken without br his neck, cut off a dog’s tail i his fender and never bobblel inch too high or too low, will be denied entry on the i course. A bunch of fool nayers live on that street i fear their wives will live I long this is done to keeptheii a state ot nervous terror I provide business for the una taker. None but the Aristocrj of Disregard shall he allowed use this street with their hi powered cars. Another week] Bill Thomas is in the race for Congress from the Eleventh dis trict and now “chillun” you are going to see some lively doings down in that section. Judge Bill is some campaigner, a Cracker with a smile and a handshake that reaches in under a guy’s shirt and takes hold on lum. We are for him right now because If every man in Bainbridge! was he that said there was only will resolve himself into a com- fifty cents in actual money in was possible for a man to be. It b * s heart is in in the right place mittee of one to see that viola tions ot the speed and traffic laws are punished our women that are mothers can breathe easy in the future. Atlanta and as every man in the city had to have that four bits each dav to get a meal so every body there had to hustle. A great and grand old character. V One gang says and swears the L. & N. railroad wants the W. & A. sold and then the other gang rises up and swear that if you dont sell it you are in the pay of the L. & N. and there you are. Did you ever see such a bunch of patriots in all your life. We can prove by every advocate each way that the L. & N. is behind the other way and it seems that we are not able to get away from ten. Judge Fite must think that his contempt rulings are as dreaded as the ancient scourges of Asia. How any man can get in his court without feeling a contempt for the man is more than one can understand. He is a disgrace to the judeiary of Georgia, a rotten grand stand player and a stench to our legal machinery. Perhaps he would like to jail us for that. And some fool has suggested that thing for Governor of Geor gia. |A judicial parasite that ought to removed from the bench. and because further we feel that the 11th district is entitled to real congressman. Governor Harris appoints Bob Hodges on the court of Appeals bench and said Bob is a good lawyer. How it happened that a good lawyer got this job is some thing that we dont understand. As a matter of fact we cant see how a good lawyer can afford to hold it at the price it pays for if he is qualified to fill it as it ought to be filled, some corporation will hire him for five times as much pay. The job is a stepping stone to private life and bankruptcy and for that reason we have not been able to learn in reality what a man can expact out ef it. where. A sure enough real law- hut in theiy er > as contemplated by Black- name of God where is this boy ! stone is an addition to any com- j nd his parents going to get j munity but the modern, greedy, j comfort. | grasping kind that is getting in J p asse d and no child killed on tl Ilow long. Oh how long before ! tiie majority is a menace. One of I street, a mercy for which thef the life of some child will be sac- these is just that much too many, j sidents are very thankful, rificed to the Moloch of Gasoline anu Speed Craze. People ofBain- bridge, your officers con’t enforce these laws until you are willing to back them. You will curse the police for not arresting the other fellow for speeding and curse him equally as fervently if he arressts ycu for the same offense. You will soon pay the penalty for your negligence. Ted O’donnell is painfully injured. It may be that his injury will call a halt and save the lives of others, but it is awful hard to demand the life or limb of a mothers son to point a moral or adorn a tale. W ho are we blaming for this 1 accident? Every man in Bain- j bridge whether he drives or walks. If you see a man speed ing, report him and see that he; is punished. If you see a man j fail to blow at a crossing report him and have him fined. He! may get mad and sore, but you | may be the means of saving j some life by so doing. We have no unkind word to say of any man connected with the accident, for by their sadden ed faces we can see how they feel. Being good men, they are suffering agonies. If all are sure that they will be punished, then all will be careful to observe the law. . Bicycles have arrived at the Motor- Bicycle Co. Hurry! Hurry! Read Dress Talk No 41 Get under one of those Nobby Straw Hats | we are selling at $1,50 to $4.00 You will find a straw hat a lot more comfort able as well as decidedly more becoming than a| stitf derby. We have Panamas, too—the genuine hand woven kind. Imported Bangkok’s and Leghorn’s j PRICES $4 to $6 (£p0. % Jftplfrs The Fashionable Haberdasher.