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THE
POST-SEARCH LIGHT
Published Every Thursday at
Bainbridge, Georgia.
E. H. GRIFFIN
Editor and Proprietor
Entered at the Pontofllcein Bain-
bridge, Ob., as second class mail
matter under Act of Congress
March 18th, 1897.
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OF BAINIIItlDGB A NO OKCATUB
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Telephone No. 239
This paper carries from 20 to
25 galleys of actual locally gotten
up reading matter. Can you
want any more for your dollar?
We may not swat the fly but
there are some places here that
are called business places that
ought to be swatted.
Florida’s long drawn out cam
paign will soon close and it will
be a releif to the brethern down
there to know who is to be who.
Man, if it dont rain the black
berry crop will burn up and half
the country editors in the state
will go hungry.
Read the Grand Jury Present
ments in this issue and thorough
ly look into your county affairs.
Not a bad idea to keep up with
them.
The progressive order of
piflicated prevaricators seems to
be shrinking in numbers around
here while the political liars are
on the increase.
School Commencements are in
order all over the county now
and there is no use in talking this
county has has the best looking
bunch of girl graduates in it that
grace and commonwealth.
Quitman seems to have smote
us on that round last week. We
are very obliging and will go
back for more. Will get hair,
hide and all this time. Mark it.
Vacation time is at hand. The
time of the year designed to
separate you from what little
change the washerwoman and
tax collector has overlooked.
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Those folks over at Girard
seem to love a drink sure enough.
$750,000 worth of whiskey in
one raid. Did’nt know that there
was that much whiskey in the
world nohow.
Why would’nt a dipping vat
serve a good purpose every elect
ion year to dip the campaign liar
in and as well the defeated can
didates? Ever thought about
it?
Look out Atlanta, Jacksonville
had a man in that Irish Rebellion
and he came very near getting
shot. Atlanta surely must have
several on the firing line but its
dollars to doughnuts that neither
of them got shot-onlv half shot.
The kindly and generous ex
pressions the Thomasville Press
relative to the race of Judge
Harrell is very highly appreciat
ed by the friends of that gentle
man over here. Davis rarely
ever makes a mistake in boosting
good men.
It is to be hoped that they
dont throw that confisctated
[ booze of Girard into the river.
I Bainbridge would be most
I depopulated and Chattahoochee
become suddenly a metropolis.
Most of the fellows have to go
down there fishing anway.
The Repeal of the Bankruptcy
law is one of the principles of
the Democratic party that has
been sleeping. The law has
served its purpose and is now
only a method of evading debt.
The state furnishes ample pro
tection for the man that really
needs it from unjust creditors.
We are mighty sorry that
Thomasville is not in the Dixie
League. We love to wallop that
crowd for several reasons. The
most important being that they
are a good natured set of fellows
and take defeat in same spirit
that they do victory.
Macon is extending a great
welcome to the nurses this past
week. How many of them, the
best lookers did John Spencer
need or welcome. Five dollars to
a nickle the minute he saw them
parading he threw a fit to get
medical attention.
Sometimes a bit of pleasantry
can be so twisted and warped
that one wiil construe it to mean
something different from what
is intended. An event like that
is to be deplored of course but
can only come about through
•jupersensitiveness.
Our glass got broke into nine
or ten pieces last Friday while
preambulating around Quitman
but there is such a thing as even
ing up an old score and that is
what the local Glass will show
when properly looked into after
the next round with the Brooks
county Hams.
The Way, Marion Jackson’s
channel of filth and prevarication
seems to be issued regularly and
filled with misrepresentations.
The paper ought to be called the
character assin of Geoigia as it
has no scruples at all about lying
on any public man that does not
kow-tow to them.
We dont know' what the poli
ticians are going to do but we
know what they had better do
and that very soon. They had
better pass that bi-enmal ses
sions bill pretty soon before the
folks make them do it. If they
will make the sessions every two
years they will please the folks
one time.
We have seen the Birth of A
Nation, we have copped the
opening series of the Dixie
League, our cup of Joy is running
over and if we can just get two
good rains we will depart in
peace and quietude.
Attend the game of baseball
and be loyal to the home team.
It is good advertising if nothing
else. There is no better sport
when it is not carried too far and
allowed to interfere with busi
ness.
The Thomasville Press had
their entire editorial page taken
up last Saturday with that story
about the Girard liquor. Must
have worried “them old boys”
to see so much booze wasted.
Ifxune waste ai’nt it Davis?
When Harry Rose, the famous
supposed lobbyist went rambling
around the state left a path that
did not seem to smell much like
roses at all but more like a dis
infectant. Harry’s side line is
meddling and mam line is juggl
ing, he is the negative to Tommie
Felder’s positive. Get that old
Steven?
The Mayor of Philadelphia re
fuses to be interviewed by the
newspaper reporters and has
barred them from his office.
What little he knows will be garn
ered in by the press boys whether
he wants them to do so or not.
A Mayor that is so little does
not know enough to give a re
porter a decent story so why
need the boys worry.
| We received our first copy of
the Florida Record published at
Tallahassee last week and it is a
most magnificent publication
and seems to be battling for the
best interests of that state. Its
editorial columns indicate that it
will not be led off after strange
geds but will hew right square
to the lines of pure and undefiled
democracy.
The prohi law, if not being en
forced is making a lots of noise
like one that is receiving con
sideration. Laws must be en
forced, they good or bad to even
demonstrate what they will do.
The enforcement of a good law
will make it permanent while as
well will the enforcement of a
bad law bring about its early
repeal.
Tommie Watson is making
some side-swipes at M. L. Britain
that are going to take root and
bear fruit if said Mr. Britain
dont answer some of them. A
public man cant answer every
thing that is said of him but he
can answer those that do reflect
on his manhood and honesty in
office. Thrice has Watson charg
ed him with misappropriation of
school funds and cites Augusta
and Savanah as proof and Britain
is still silent.
The representatives that voted
for the new prohibition law have
been watching the result of its
operation with interest. Know
ing full well that the day of
the whiskey drinker passed
when commercial necessity and
financial soundness demanded
its eradiction it would have to
go, they merely answered the
call of the people and sent it the
way that they need now to send
its side partner in all crime, the
pistol.
The sale of the state road is
going to prove a cog that will
choke down all the other matters
of legislation until settled. That
road will not be sold until a
method whereby the proceeds
thereof will be safe-guarded
from extravagant appropria
tions.
The Savannah crowd both pro
and con had better come to the
general aseembly with a re
ferendum attached to their con
tentions if they want any con
sideration. If they would put
their matter up to their own
people before the session they
will save the state money and
relive the guys that are having
all their bull to read.
Macon has organized forces
and gone down after that Capitol
and here and now we wish to
say that they are going to come
mighty near getting it too. Any
loyal south Georgia citizen cant
well with-hold his support from
the movment and every represen
tative that is elected ought to be
asked his position on the matter.
Macon is the central point ot the
state if they are not the winners
they will strengthen themselves.
78 members of the House are
already pledged to the bill.
It is not our business to defend
the price that any amusement
business charges its patrons but
for the information of a few that
have been growling we will say
that on looking at the advertising
in 25 exchanges we find that
every one of them charged the
same admission fee that Bain
bridge did for the Birth of A
Nation. In the course of time
when the picture gets common
it will of course be reduced in
price and smaller towns will get
it. A high-grade picture will
naturally cost more in small town
with limited territory to draw
from than it will in a large one
but in this case there seems to
have been no difference.
The Senator that Attacked
Bill Harris because forsooth he|
dropped down to shake hands
with the boys is a plain un
varnished fool, a belly acher.
Since when has it been that a
man’s right to mingle with
voters was denied him because
he holds an office. Bill Harris
was welcomed at Macon and if
some of the boys consulted him
what the has a Nevada
Senator got to do with it. He is
a qualified voter and has right
to go Democratic conventions
even in Nevada if they had sense
enough out there to hold a real
old convention of democracy.
Wont be so very long now before
they will have another on in
Georgia and we here and now
extend to the muchly discussed
Harris an urgent invitation to
come down and if he wants to
go as a delegate will have him a
proxy at any time. The Nevada
Senator can come too if he likes
but he would have to go to school
a while before he would be com
petent as a delegate if his recent
conduct is indicative of his
education. We will at least teach
him manners and how not to
meddle with things that dont
concern him.
The editor of the Tallahassee
True Democrat is mad with one
of the candidates for Governor
because he had a bottle ot beer
in his hand at a meeting of the
Press Association in Florida
several months ago. Why the
devil didn’t the candidate give
the beer to the editor and stop
his bellyaching. Don't any candi
date know that lie can’t have a
bottle of beer and an editor not
have one without causing a row
We thought at one time that
Georgia had rotten politics, but
Florida skins us forty miles. A
paper of that size that can't find
more than an incident ot that
kind to belittle a candidate for
governor is hard run for
thunder. Suppose the candidate
had drank the bottle of beer,
would it have made the editor
drunk? We are surprised at our
Tallrhassee contemporary tor
basing his attacks on such a
incident.
The Bainbridge School closes
tomorrow after a very successful
years work. It has clone splendid
ly and while we don’t agree with
the methods entirely we are not
slow to recognize the fact that
we have a good school here and
that all the teachers have done
good service. They are above an
average as a corps of teachers
and it is no flattery to give them
due credit. The only criticism
that we can offer is that being
teachers they ought to bear in
mind that they are public serv
ants and that they should invite
rather than resent criticism.
The super sensitiveness of the
average teacher is very plain and
they lose sight of the fact that
when folks never think enough
of a school to criticise it, it is a
poor school and has no support
for there is no interest in it. The
school is supported by money
from tax payers and any tax pay
er has a right to his opinion be it
a good one or a bad one. This
paper is proud of the school but
it has offered the candid criticism
that they have too many public
entertainments during the term
of school and the people are kick
ing on it and in so doing we have
brought down some vials of wrath
on its head. This does not keep
us however from recognizing that
splendid work has been done by
the school and that the teachers,
all of them are justly entitled to
the appreciation of the patrons
of the school. Prof. Thomason
and his helpers have done well
and the public feels they have.
MEDICINE AND
POLITICS.
In last Thursday’s Telegraph
is a letter from a former drug
user that is the most remarkable
document that has been publish
ed in Georgia in a long time and
it shows just what darn fools
that our wisest folks think they
are at times. The enforcement
of the Harrison drug act is in the
hands of a bunch of revenue of
ficers that dont know any more
about the sufferings of the poor
devils that are addicted to this
drug habit than a ram-goat.
The activity of Bud Blalock, a
penny-politician of the pea-nut
variety in this business is caus
ing death and suicide on all sides.
This law ought to be handled by
men who are well posted on the
uses of drugs and its effects and
etc and here are being governed
in this manner by a bunch ot
politicians. Drug users are not
criminal, they are not under in
dictment for any violation of the
law but this man is treating
them with a sight more
severity than he has the blind
tigers and moonshiners and
when he has slaughtered enough
of the poor devils he will then
call himself a great REFORMER
and announce his candidacy for
governor. Bud sends out a 75
dollar a month deputy that he
has picked up for his usefulness
as a henchman to lecture the
most learned ohvsicians on the
application of this law. Some
thing ought to be done for these
unfortunate people, other than
drive them to suicide. They are'
just as deserving ot pity as any
afflicted class on earth but they
will never get it at the hands of
thepoliticians. The Harrison drug
act will reduce the increase of
drug users but it was not intend
ed to kill out those that already
have the habit like dogs.
Stop using this danger,]
drug before it salivate
you! It’s horrible!
You’re bilious, sluggish* COn ]
pated and believe you need *
dangerous calcfmel to start V i
liver and clean bowles.
Here’s my guarantee! Ask vil
druggist for a fifty cent bottle!
Dodson’s Liver Tone and takl
spoonfull to-night. If j t ^ I
start your liver and strait
you up better than calomel
without griping or making j
sick I want you to go back to t
store and get your money.
Take calomel to day and
morrow you will feel weak a
sick and nauseated. Don’t lo™
a days work. 1 ake a spoonfull
harmless Dodson’s Liver Toi
tonight and wake up fe e |i
great. It’s perfectly harmlel
so give it to your children al
time. It can’t salivate, so j|
them eat anything afterwards
IT IS TRUE
that the usual sale of a remedy
is the best evidence of its merit.
One of the most success!
preparations in use for thf
disease is Chamberlain’s Couii
Remedy. S. W. McClinton, Blal
don Springs, Ala., writes, “Oil
baby had whooping cough asb
as most any baby could have u
I gave him Chamberlain’s Cougi
Remedy and it soon got hid
well.” Obtainable everywhere
CO NOJARTHERl
The Evidence is at Your Owa Doc
TRADE MARK
Rheumatism Powders
are guaranteed to give relief
from rheumatism. They are un
usually large sellers. Sold only
by us, 50c and $1.00.
MILLS PHARMACY
Callahan Bldg. Bainbridge, Ga.
Bainbridge proof is what yoi
want and the statement ( of thii
highly respected resident-; wil
banish all doubt:
Mrs. J. W. Harrison, 50!
Planter St„ Bainbridge, says: “1
had a dull, heavy pain in thi
small of my back all the time!
I had headaches and dizzy spell:
and black specks floated befori
my eyes. I also had rheumatii
pains in my limbs. My bai
was so stiff and sore, that
could bend or lift anything,
was gradually getting worse.
Doan’s Kidney Pills greatly re-
heyed.”
Price 50c at all dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy
—get Doan’s Kidney Pills-the
same that Mrs. Harrison had.
Foster-Milbum Co., Buffalo,
N. Y.
For Your Child’s Cangh
If your child has a cold, nose
runs or coughs much get a
small bottle ot Dr. Bell’s Pine-
Tar-Honey syrup. Its a pleasant
Piue-Tar-Honey syrup, just what
children like and just the medi
cine to soothe the cough arid to
check the cold. After taking,
children stop fretting, sleep good
and are soon entirely well. In
sist on Dr. Bell’s Pine-Tar-
Honey. 23c at your druggist. (1)
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BAINBRIDGE. GEORGIA.