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THE POST-SEARCH LIGHT Published Every Thursday a* Bainbridge, Georgia. E. H. GRIFFIN Editor and Proprietor Entered at the Postofflce in Bain- bridge, Oa., as second class mail matter under Act of Congress March 18th, 1897. Subscription Rates ONE YEAR $1.00 SIX MONTHS 50c Advertising Rates Advertising rate depends on position, number of insertions and other requirements, and will be furnished at the business office. OFFICIAJ. OKf.'AN OF TIII3 ITI'V OF BAINBRIDOK AM) DECATUR COUNTY. Telephone No. 239 Everybody ready for the South -west Georgia Fair? Yep; Nonight’s “Sandman’s Story.” Tom Watson bossed the State Democratic Convention. Just so, Just so. Richland lost her ice plant last week. Brown of the News will now have to take his’n straight and out of a gourd. No mullet supper, no fight ia the way one of the denizens of Raleigh-town puts it now. Satur day night passed off very peace ful. Is’nt it remarable? Five fellows came in Friday and paid for their papers. The devil, the foreman and the editor survived the shock and are living to tell the tale. Marshal Davis of the U. S. Court found some of his old slave negroes a few days ago in Savan nah and the re-union was realy affecting from all accounts. Every Bainbridge citizen that can will take in the Fair atDonal nonville next week as they are all deeply interested in its sue cess. The boys have had swell time of it this week. The fellows put over the sturgeon supper had to sit in the gallery and eat peanuts. How the mighty do fall. The distant bay of the possum dog reminds a fellow that per simmons will soon be ripe and the possum and tater proposition will be well worth discussing. “Hog and Hominy” the banner that was long waved by the lovers of this section is at last becoming the banner of the pros perous and soon will be that of the faithful. Cole Blease threatened to con test the gubernatorial election in South Carolina. Now Cole, old boy just go to it and see if we care. An extra licking or two would not do you much damage. Postmastei at Sales City, Mitchell county charged with embezzlement. What a pity, the poor fellow must have been bet ting on elections with A1 Spence. The disloyalty to the Party in its hour of need will reap its own peculiar reward in the coming days both in the minds of men and the manifest of measures. Mark the prediction. One of our exchanges objects to having women on the jury be cause they would punish the ugly men and let the good look ing one off free. Has anyone heard Shelby Davis, Roy Powell or me kick on letting them serve on the jury? If so please rise and stand until you are c unted. “Let ’em serve, say we, iet 'em serve.” The man that imagines he is a political power has a slim pedestal to stand on and every campaign year brings this more to light but it does not keep down the ambitions of the would- be- warwicks. This editor is sure getting a touch of life now, has two little boys, two cats, one dog, one goat, one pig and a rooster to take care of while his wife is away. Outside of these, things are pretty quiet around the editorial home. The Southwest Georgia Fair and Home-Seekers edition of the Donalsonville News that has been issued this week in the way of a booster edition is some inter esting document along education al and agricultural lines. They tell us the lunatic asylum is full of men that thought they understood their wives but it does not take a Solomon to tell what ails them this time of the year or in the spring either when the millinery openings are on £ Waycross has a gas system in operation now that seems to have the edge on their old and reliable “Jet” but we warrant that it will not render any more valiant service than Jet has in days gone by. And now comes a fellow along and says that there was no Nathan Hale. First thing you know some fool will dispute the existence of Jess Willard and Ty Cobb if this devilish skepti cism keeps growing. How would like to be one of the prize animals at Donalsonville and get part of all that petting and admiration that one of them gets. Being decorated with rib bons and all such as that. They had a burning case at Cuthbert a few days ago. Now let us hear from Ohio on this matter again. It is the right of that state to discuss lynching as they are beleivers in the practice. The moving picture business has gotten to the point where we would like to see a six reel film entitled “The Mysteries of Macon” or “How Watson bossed the Convention” That picture would draw good patronage most anywhere except in Macon. Flaring headlines inform us that the Bull Moosers have en dorsed Whitman for Governor of New York. Now if Whit will keep quiet about it, few will find it out and it may not hurt him much. The campaign liar that ought to be put on exehibition at the Southwest Georgia Fair next week at Donalsonville really lives in Bainbridge, everybody will recognise him as soon as he is put on display. You know him? The banks of Valdosta show that they have five milliens dol lars hoarded up down there. Why dont they turn some of it loose and let it get busy? That’s the kind of change that does good and counts. Roy Powell of the Calhoun County Courier attended the State Convention this year and we felt safe just as soon as we learned it. Roy usually keeps his politics on straight and while not a shining political light he is a pretty steady old chap after ali. Notice where a friend of ours wants all reformers examined by a board of examiners before they are allowed to blow their game. The fellow that would ex amine T. Bosh Felder's bean and give him license as a full fledged reformer would be guilty of malpractice and would lose his job instanter. No politics to talk about now and we are compelled to talk about each other and our neigh bors. Going down the street a few days ago we heard a woman that seemed to have gotten the start on the balance of us. Savannah got a new preacher last week named Taliaferro. Wonder if they have worn out the crowd they already had down there? The wear and tear on a parson in the coast city ‘ ‘they do say is mighty peart”. The boll weevil has done an awful lot of damage in this county and it will now be a case of hog and hominy sure as you live. The farmers of this section have been slow learning it but they have come to the conclusion that the weevil is a living menace to well filled dinner pail. There are some men that you can agree with one hundred times and then disagree with them once and they forget!all but the one time you did not agree. That kind of a man is what you call an overbearing fool and one that cant agree with himself twenty four hours on a stretch. Laying all jokes aside now when is that circus coming to town? There is not one bit of use in delaying that thing any longer. Got a ten year old kid that wants to see it. That’s all the interest we have in it but that is very important interest at this writing. The guys that had so much money to put on Hughes have made their absence very con spicuous so we learn. That is usually the way. When the show down comes the men that pre tends to want to bet two to one on Hughes hunt the tall timbers It is no even bet as sure as you live. Dont it amuse you to see a smart Ferdie get the fishy eye from the ladies when he has stood on the corner all more than an hour especially for them to admire him. If it were not for the law against cruelty to animals not many of these things would be at large. Just suppose that all tennis players had to run up against a six pound axe and a cord of four foot wood to get that exercise they seem to feel that they so fondly need. How many of them will play tennis then? A fellow reading Johnny Spencer’s paragraph last Tues day entitled “Go toot Doc” is well convinced that said Johnny at one time in his life had a ter rific attack of what the wise guys call “puppy love” but what me and Johnny know was the real thing. Atlanta eats six hundred bar rens of flour per day says the Journal. We hope to goodness that some of that flour will get into some biscuits when we have to go there again. Old wasp nest light bread aint fit for a south Georgia gent to eat at no time of the year. On being asked what is cruel and inhuman treatment we can only define it by saying that arresting a coon for a skin game and jailing him when possums are ripe. If there is anything more inhuman than that we don’t know it unless it is to steal a fellows “last drap” on Sunday morning. A woman was held in Italy by the authorities as a spy because of her good looks. Now what would become of a bunch of Decatur county beauties were they to wander into the spaghetti country. They would all be con victed it good looks was all the evidence needed. If it was not a dangerous thing to compliment a red-head ed man we would call attention to the great improvement in the news columns and editorial work of Thomasville Times-Enterprise here of late. A good paper and getting ‘ 'gooder” is the facts of the matter. From a daily stand point they beat them all into this point with fresh news. Fellow was fined ten dollars last week in Quincy for the 4 ‘illeg al impounding” of a hog. Does that mean to “scuse a man some thing concerning of a hog” or is it a new term in the legal lore of hog-lifting? McFarlin ought to be more explicit in his terms. Know now that he is a member of that Silk Stocking Club. The Donalsonville High School opened up a few days ago with 220 pupils, a good corp of teachers and a most satisfied bunch of patrons in Georgia. The west side city makes a big showing along educational lines every year. What’s the secret? is it the teachers or the patrons or both? Some say both and a good town behind it all and that sounds like it. The hardest man on the world to clear before a Decatur county jury is a man that is charged with wife-beating. The Decatur jury has little patience it seems with a man under that charge and it takes about a minute to convict one after thp jury goes out. The sooner that a man learns that he is not living in the stone age the better off he is. They claim that thin girls will be all the rage this winter. Enough to make a man rave when he gets a half-Nelson on a bean pole that needs weather boarding as bad as some of the sistern we have seen with this new rigging on. Never make one of a plump healthy, South Georgia girl dont care how much style you fling in. It has never been our purpose to ignore anybody but when a gink expects this paper to allow its columns used to abuse the Democratic Party they are in for a big line of silence. This is a democratic paper and is not a free channel for any political scraps of any man or set of men. Cane grindings will soon be gin in this part of the country. Every time we go to one we have a deep feeling of sympathy for the guy up in the mountains of North Georgia, Tennesse and North Carolina that know not the joys thereof. If there was not an an immense bunch of the popula tion of this country foolish the whole business would move down here in God’s country. The women are to wear longer skirts this fall. There now, you derned reformers you see what you have gone and done. A set of liars that really did not think the women were going to let them be longer or else they would have kept their mouths closed. Always some fellow that spoils a good thing. Think what tun it was to follow a short skirt five blocks and then when it turned around you saw in it a woman fifty years old and not a chicken like you thought it was. What fun. The Atlanta papers seem to fairly despise peace. The elec tion was hardly over before they had to get busy and start a row between Watson and Dorsey. There was no need to hurry as Tom would not wait long until he tried to get in the saddle and no man that can be elected governor ot Georgia will ever be little enough to fetch and carry for Watson or any other man. Any effort to Watsonise the Democratic party will fail} The people will not follow off after any man in to the Republican party. It promises nothing for our part of the country. The real reason of northern attack on the party is because the South is reckoned with by the administra tion. The women are wearing over alls in some sections. Why not let them, wear them, they do most of the work anyway. No objections have been filed by the Bainbridge Loafers clubs that we can learn of. Stand on the public square most any day and you will see just how many of them have to wear them in a way in Bainbridge. Ohio is getting so rantanker- ous and so like the terrible south ^bout lynching that it is time to put them out of the Union if we prescribe to them the same treat ment they wanted to give Jus in years agone. Killed a Sheriff’s little daughter and came near killing him because he kept a mob away from a negro prisoner. Tom Watson thought he took “off a biling” last week sure enough when he called on a Democratic Convention to re pudiate the democratic party. Tom says that the Democratic Executive Committee can not call a Democratic Primary. Might as well be a fool and say that a Methodist bishop cant call a Methodist Conference. When his “biling cools” he will find that there is little real syrup in it. Delinquent Brother let this sink into your skin. Paper costs us one dollar per day more than it did a month ago to send this paper our. You want a paper, you want a good paper in your town and you can’t get it unless you will tote fair with it. If your paper is cut off just remem ber the high cost makes us cut off everyone that fails to respond. We can’t help it and it is easy to avoid by just slipping us that long delaved but dearly beloved dollar. Occasionally you see where some fellow rises up and says that tne boll weevil is a dream, a myth, a scheme on the parts of fellows to seel certain brands of cotton seed. This unworthy sus picion is now costing many men in this county lots of hard money. Years back when this paper would preach on the boll weevil text and try to impress the danger, men would come in and accuse us of being in partnership with fellows trying to dig them by selling cotton. Sometimes bought experience goes a long ways but this cost too much to be reslished. The old line democrats when they read of the threat to not en dorse the Rational administration in a Democratic State Convention get stirred up and are ready to get down to hard pan again and fight the party’s battles in the state once more. This half demo cratic. half socio-populist organiz ation we have cant live and prosper and sooner or later we will have to raise the real demo cratic flag and fight it out. Our party is mongrel party is more for office and less for princi ple each day. Tom Watson is now in belly-, aching because John Boifeuillet helped his old neighbor and fellow townsmen for governor? Nat Harris. If John had not help ed the old man he ought to have been kicked out of the state. Watson has aroused the dislike of his neighbors so that no man he advocates can carry McDuffie county and he thinks that every other man should hate his neigh bors. The writer was not for Harris by any means but they will have to get up a better charge ‘against John for us to turn him down. We have always had county pride and will always tear our shirt for the home man whether it suits Mr. Watson or any one else. We despise any man that cant help his .home man but expects his home man to help him. tne state nus several old . :es ’ sev eral of the oial it seems sad that eA oUWlowsthafc the trough should fel by not allowing them t 1 off the doings of the k have in mind a very a! chaffeur two years a J! not even allowed to 3 a druggist or a grocer?] tnp. Gee, how the ^ fallen. In fact the «. after years of J would not even allow t along in his Ford. It has suddenly u some of the boys that swing counties just want to in elections v cracker has got that fool voting for who he wants Mr. Big Man cant p rom i indiscriminately like he do. Threats of high and displeasure cuts very l ltt ]| with him now. In the poor cracker knows mi issues and politics than „ Man and he is still learnin Cracker reads his pape. Big Man reads only thi lines of his. In the yeai by the country voter town and consulted Cm Bill about his politics bufl few more years Curbstoi will have to go see patron rural route to learn of measures and men. The time will soon beoi when we can have a real era tic party in Georgia am our partv primaries. The| parties can have theirs i] want to and it is to be hoi the Executive Committeel stiffen up its back and down the gage of battle bolters, the loosers, the Re cans and the Fusionistsaw a real fight for Demo supremacy. The party now Mongrel shape can have or purposes above office ge If one wing is in power am fusion element leans their they want to admit them counci], if the other gets in do the same and it is now to draw the line. No man o to the men of the other pi having their primaries as do in other states but it is for Democracy to stand for thing else than electing a or two men to office. Notice where a fellow tol Tift county folks that the weevil was 90 per cent s Brother Herring, you can your readers that man LIE! must have had an axe to g Friend Herring drop down and see hundreds of acres < cotton and not a bale to hundred acres and then tell folks that he is a bald faced of the water. Any man that go about the country telling lies ought to be ham strung, your folks Brother Herring if they listen at that man govern their planting aecordn they will repent of it «»j cloth and ashes and the next that gink comes there it * county economy to ride down the Canon” on a rai - your people further r Herring that it is the sa sternest and most des reality they will ever W e -_ them to write the farmers o- county and they can boo man out of their county says the boll weevil i= cent scare. There Is more Catarrn Is' of the country ihan 'M ®j , * i put together, and for : eat. ■ posed to be incurable. y fj! local remedies, and by con. no a to cure with local treatroen . r iJ( it incurable. Catarrh J a tonal' greatly Influenced b> cons* cor j: dltions and therefore ten >* arrt ji tional treatment. Hall a cheneJ cine, manufactured bj r _ ct;t uM Co.. Toledo. Ohio, « a -» - a i remedy. Is taken toternallf f SaJ# thru the Blood on the - of the System. One H-r ty p-at ® ward is offered for an Seal Catarrh Medicine fails tc cu - circulars and testimony ^ c o&i F. J. CHENET & CO u Sold by Drugg.sty n ,p5t;» Hall’s Family Fills M -