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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. Subscription Rates ONE YEAR *1.00 8IX MONTHS 00c Advertising Rates Advertising rute depends on position, number of insertions and other requirements, and will be furnished at the business office. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TUB C1TV OF BAINIIItlDGB A NO OKCATUB COt INTV. 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. . i *> — . ■ 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) Read Dress Talk No. 7 Do you find it difficult to secure Shirts that fit well about the neck and are otherwise comfort able? Try the Shirts We Sell We have hundreds of Patterns to select from in FERCALES, MADRAS AND SILKS ^ —= Prices . . - to $1.00 $7.50 Also Headquarters for the Famous Stetson Line of Hats as w r ell as Hosiery, Underwear. Gloves and everything else men wears. You can always depend upon finding the right style and quality here at the right prices. Geo. H. Fields “THE FASHIONABLE HABERDASHER” BAINBRIDGE. GEORGIA.