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THE POST-SEARCH LIGHT at E. H. GRIFFIN Editor and Proprietor Entered sit the I'oHtofhro in Bsiin- bridee, Oh., us second class mail matter under Act March lHlh, 1897. of Congress Subscription Rates ONE YEAH $1.00 SIX MONTHS 60c Advertising Rates Advertising rate depends on position, number of insertions and other requirements, and will be furnished at the business office. OFFICIAL O ltd AN OK TUB CI'l V OF HAINBBlDflK AM) IlBCATCR COUNTY. Telephone No. 239 Published Every Thursday Bainbridge, Georgia. What makes the wild cat wild? Well, if we cant have a circus we ought to have a game of marbles anyway. “Carrying coal to Newcastle” was not as an expensive past time when that adage was coined as it is now to carry coal anywhere. Radium cost one hundred thous and dollars a gram. We cant get along with less than a pound so why figure on it? Snow in Illinois this week, Just a forerunner of the storm of Wilson ballots that are to fall in less than a month in that state. Have not been able to trade off the summer underwear for an overcoat it means that the ten cent stores are in line for a customer. Had a drum and bugle corps here last week but that dont take the place of a brass band and an elephant. Just got to have them, that’s all. It is freely predicted that we to have some warm politics two years from now. The last dose was so expensive that we thought the boys would desist a little bit. If the folks would stop and figure on just what joy there was in a real old fashioned possum and tater dinner they would quit wanting high powered automo biles. Not meaning to cast any reflec tions on any one but we would like to why the sale of soap so sadly decrease right after the first cold snap. It is not a sug gestion either but a fact. Sometimes a call down does a public servant good, it lets them know that they are not all the cheese. It has to be done often with some that we know that are not elective. Well now it is not long before wc will know what Wilson’s majority is and what states he did not carry. It is safe to as sume that he carried most of them but he might miss a few. John Boifeuillet, Macon’s Own, left this week for London to be gone until next summer. England may have her royal bloods and all that but in all her blue book she dont list a prince of John’s class. They dont grow 'em. The rains descended but too late to do the “taters” and cane much good this time, although the garden proposition is looking up now. Our neighbor has a good one and while we dont know how much good that will do us, still we are glad he has one. We can live out of tin cans and paper bags but we are not pop-eyed about it. Kind of a case of being used to it Watson intimates that the Pro gressives nominated him first in stead of Teddy that he would have accepted. We sure are sorry that they did not do it for we would like to see Tom allied with somebody long enough for him to get a torch. Paper has gotten so costly that we learri that the government is not going to make any more money out of paper, They are going to use something very much cheaper, frankincense and myrrh and “sich” as that. It is a funny thing that some people will never forgive you if you make a success out of your business. They get real sore be cause you have robbed them of the chance to abuse you for a failure. That’s our experience with some that we know. Luck is a funny thing after all. Know a fellow that would not hire an office boy because they made too much noise. Got a girl and by jinks she was a “whistl ing gal” and now he abuses his luck. Well, the fellow did have a righteous kick. There was a bunch of new things to happen last week. Big lot of liquor poured out in the streets in Savannah was one of newest recorded. The boys down there must all be dead or that boose would not have been so carelessly handled. No printers there all is our only conclusion. Man in Racine Wisconsin worth fifty Thousand Dollars cuts woods says the enormous head lines of the dailies this week. If there is any glory in that we got ours for we have been cut ting wood every since we were ten years old never had a dime. Dont it make you mad as the very dickens to get your monthly bills paid and then look up at the calendar and see it is again about the 25th, and only a few more days until another first. Bub dont it keep you busy dodging them things, them bill collectors? Bub says that when you get a couple of drinks of the stuff the tigers are selling around Bain bridge that if you cant kill your neighbors baby or get a preacher to shoot you will hunt the town over after a chance to cut the choir leaders throats. Some stuff that works on a fellow that way. The Valdosta Times lias gone to rhapsodising about sunsets. Bud did you ever see a sun rise? That’s much more soul-inspiring. Try it. You can hear the birdies sing and learn the value of labor. Some job to get your rags on in the early morning. It is right funny to see some certain fellows here in town that have only girl babies looking in show windows at baseballs and footballs and such as that trying to carry on a bluff. If they dont quit stalling during business hours with that kind of stuff we are going to tell who they are. Howell of the Cuthbert Leader says that Fleming of the Early county News has gone into the millinery business. Thought he had been in that business all the time. Howell will find his rations more regular if he got into it but nobody loves a bachelor or a .fat man. Uncle Nat wont talk to the Newspaper men in their official capacity any more it is give out. Well he cant tell Ithem anything they dont know’ any more than he could the folks. He did not succeed in keeping them from finding him out well enough to keep 'him from being re-elected. When a man gets to where he dont w’ant to see the newspaper men his political funeral is on the program for immediate occur rence. South Georgia lost the place on the W. &. A. Commission just as we expected but Bub it was not because we did’nt have the material. Seems like uncle Nat would have recalled just how many counties he carried above Macon when he made that ap pointment. Fair in Atlanta that had lived and fought together for 28 years tried to get a divorce a few days ago. That old guy was getting pretty frisky on that buttermilk they are selling in Atlanta now to try and break in the divorce Court at this stage of the game. Bub went to Albany to that circus and not only saw the cir cus elephant but the day after he came home he had .a menagerie of his own. “Them old Albany boys" sure do handle a bum brand of stuff on circus stays sure as you live. Never again. Well, there is one thing about this women suffrage business, it will do away w'ith the old saw about a poor man’s luck being “male calves and girl babies”. The girls can sell their vote and the demand for beef is in keep ing with the demand for milk. Times change and adages dont fit long. A bank bought a church in At lanta. Sorry to see that many churches are bossed by bankers now that delight in charging high rates of interest so they will be able contribute liberally to the churches. This is only done in foreign countries though. Bainbridge has one of the most valuable things on earth in her little park, and it does a fellow good to see work being done on it. Looks like it would be a magnificent idea for the paths through it to be paved through. It is the only thing in the city that seems to be given to the kiddies. ■ ■ ■ -O — Just another little snap and then back bones and spare ribs. The only time of the year that we are sorry for Rocke feller, the guy that offered a million dollars for a new stomach. What good will all his money do when he has no stomach that can take such as this and a few blue stemcollards along on a Saturday night. The Greeks have about sewed up the restaurant business, the Irish all the police jobs, the Jews all the clothing and what little is left of the liquor business, the Dutch the baker business, the Italians the banana business and we want to know what is left for the Cracker to do except run the politics of the country. "Liquor in Autos worrying At lanta police” says an exchange. We thought all the time that it was liquor in folks that gave most of the trouble. Our first intimation that an auto ever got lit and killed his wife or child or indulged in any of those little murderous past times that a man does lit. Something like forty of the best weeklies in this state and Florida have had to put their folks on notice that they would be compelled to raise the subscrip tion prices of their paper one that sends out anything at all now is obliged to keep in touch with the excessivly high prices of the stock at this time. Several little private fights were staged last week but no damage was done to any of the scrappers. The signs are right for it and we see no reason why any one should want to interfere with a little private fight. Of course if one gets public and more than two take a hand in it, it is time to interfere or invoke 'the ordnance against scrapping 1 without license. Some folks despise peace and they are never happy unless they are ripping scabs off of old sores and keeping the people generally stirred up. We have some he- gossips in Bainbridge that could make some old hens we are ac quainted with sit up and take notice. John Sharp Williams of Miss issippi has done the party more good than any man in it by his wonderful speeches and marve lous grasp of the subject matter of the campaign. Williams is by far the greatest statesman that is in public life today. A mental giant that reflects glory on the south in every way. Some of his speeches are literary classics. Eating beefsteak makes men immoral it is now. claimed and we have at the same time learned why we have been short in our allowance. Rather a funny law for right at the same table with us sits a nine year old boy that if his morals are to be judged by the amount of steak he eats, he is “sure some Don Juan”. Place a juicy steak in front of a man and a law on morals and see how he will hesitate in making his choice and how quick that beef steak will be “et”. The fastest man in the race for the poor house is the poor boob who is trying to make a living and his wife gets social bug in her bean. It has sent many a poor devil to the grind rock and we could point out a few in this dear old town. Not a roof over their heads and their entire mind and soul set on play ing at “ceeciety”. It is enough to make the angles weep to watch some of them. Never did like to be a fly in the milk but this way the Demo crats have of asking Georgia to put up money to spend in the doubtful states and then after the election they are forced to see all the big honors and offices go to the doubtful states to keep them in line. It just makes us wonder and wonder sadly, what is our loyalty worth to us after all. We give the doubting Thomas all the money and all the honor and all the job and the darn fool keeps on doubting and no wonder folks are beginning to think that the doubter is the best remem bered at the pie pot. There are more poor crackers in Bainbridge that try to act rich than there is in any town in the world. We have some folks here that dont even own the home they live in, nor have one months living ahead that wont carry a package to their own homes if it isogiven to them. We have some that try to do society that have not paid their grocery bill in 3 months and the poor boobs think that every body dont know they are frauds and pretenses. Oc casionally you will find a mother that goes almost naked to let a gum-chewing little daughter put on pretence. The first thing any body knows we are going to break loose here and tell the truth. Alderman Laing stopped over in Albany to see the circus Fri day, Alderman Lane went up to see one in the same town. Quite a number of promienent citizens went up but we poor devils had to stay at home. That is just what we are growling about now. These fellows that can go off and see them dont seem to care whether us school boys see one or not. Not exactly trying to point a moral but there is many a poor little school kid in town and the county that could have gotten as much but hardly more pleasure out of seeing that show than either one of the fellows that went in a car.” Us boys” are literally going to “hant” these fellows until they let us see a show too and that is all there is to it. warns. UP MISTER. Mr. Citizen did you know that more papers are suspending over the country now than has ever been before and that for lack of stock? Did you know that your county will stay in the back ground without a paper to push the advantages of the section and you cant afford to ignore this situation. But did you know that if sit down and expect that paper in your county to run without subscription money that it cant do it. The Post-Searchlight is regarded as one of the best weeklies in the state and it has a large circulation but it cant keep these just on your best wishes. It takes a bit of your long green. Friends in and out of the pro fession have placed it high among the weeklies but you must do your part to keep it there. Mr. Advertiser you can not reach your trade nor keep up a paper by running just one little adver tisement eacn year or just when the spirit moves you. If the people here want a good weekly they will have to wake up and bear in mind that it takes money to run a good paper and it cant be done [on good wishes alone. This paper now has about 2000 unpaid subscriptions expiring in the next three months and un less they are reneweded in ad vance a big portion of them will be cut off because the cost of paper is so high and tnat we will not be able to carry them twelve months without the money. Just a simple business proposition. It paid after January 1st. they will have to pay $1.50 but if paid now they will be carried for the usual $1.00. WILL YOU PAY your subscription now and save that extra fifty cents or are you going to neglect it and have your paper cut off or have to pay that $1.50? Do you want a county paper of this standard or not. WITH theIm Sometimes we soliloquise in these columns and hit some man or woman right betwixt the eyes when we are only generalizing. When we get ready to go on the war path in dead earnest we name the game we are after. But otherwise when we [hear a yelp we know that a random shot has hit some body. For this class of game we have only to say live in peace with your own conscience and it wont hit you so hard. It is the knowledge that that the cap fits you and you feel that you ought to wear it, hence the howl. We dreamed a tew nights ago that a long legged farmer came walking linto the office with a fresh country ham for our use. Just as well dreamed that we had an automobile but it is no harm to dream. We dreamed about the collards the night be fore. All that dream stuff dont amount to any thing though. Blumey said that he dreamed well he did not ihave money enough to get to Jacksonville on nohow so what good did it do him to dream? BUYING US I will buy all the hogs that you have for sale and will pay as good prices as you can get. Any farmer with a bunch, small or large that wants the best cash price can get same by notifying me. G. A. Perkins. R. F. D. Bainbridge, Ga. boro should have 1 t0 try to prevent auhorities keeping J away from the are not surprised thal ed. Negative resultj be expected in connj any movement con c J movies.—Savannah pJ KW a K en0 u SUrpns edal that bunch will do 0 | ihats where that col tor lives that said hi know what to do J of liquor, Such gross] on the part of an A cates that they W jll 1 with anything. Somebody told^thl that this paper wasn’J the one published i n 1 city. That may be, J theless the same erstwlj flint has been beggj ng | ing ever since we starf ness.-Valdosta Times] We thought that darr" lived here. When did to Valdosta? An anonymous subsciL the editor a quart bottle) made whiskey. We do| what to do with the put it on the shelf machine oil and gasoil we can think where ell longs. —Svvainsboro Fori No wonder the Chrisl ligion has such a hard til a man will lie like that] provocation, gain or hop] ward in sight. As tend we are we would not ... such a thing at a long-- public. HOW IT HAPPENS Where was the exploa why, is the big mysterj bany just now. About! in the morning Albania:] awakened by a loud ex[ which is said to have] the houses in some seen the city, but where was] plosion? The police imml gave the banks and jl stores the “once over,” b| were all O. K. People aj that hour said it sounds boiler explosion or an ur| heavy blasting charge, one knows where or was. The same explosion mul frightened off that majon the boys up there assu the Decatur county man} get for Judge. Bet a nil was one of those rusty olf that has been buried there for safe keeping. Sloan’s Liniment for Neuralgia Aches. The dull throb of neuralgia is quickly relieved by Sloan’s Lini ment, the unversal remedy for pain. Easy to apply; it quickly penetrates without rubbing and soothes the sore muscles. Clean er and more promptly effective than mussy plasters or ointment; does not stain the skin or clog the pores. For stiff muscles, chronic rheumatism, gout, lum bago, sprains and strains it gives quick relief. Sloan’s Liniment renuces the pain and inflamation in insect bites, bruises, bumps and other minor injuries to child ren. Get a bottlr today at your druggist, 25c. (2) Pat Griffin deserves a tor his love for childre heart is just bleeding days because the circus slow in getting into so that the children can s animals. Hope he will n< to wait much much Ion see this boon come to the his loved town.—Grady Progress. Did you ever get up 4 o’clock in the morning, the depot and find a soft brick bats to sit down ( watch! them unload a circ 1 you did not you are not a of Georgia and have no i vote. Any fellow that h had that joyful pastime early days won’t do to tr high places. Now when misses that part of his k he has been robbed and t all there is to it. A Lawrenceville boy open a post office box an a newspaper to read, pharetta Free Press doesn he is much worse than lows who refuse to subsen their county paper but ? u neighbor’s paper and iea -Walton Tribune.