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POST-SEARCH LIGHT
Pua'»nad Every Thursday at
i3a; ibr.dge, Georgia.
E. H. GRIFFIN
Editor and Proprietor
Entered at thePostofflcein Bain-
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matter under Act of Congress
March ISth, 1897.
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Tc ephone No. 239
Say Bub, if you have not used
your name this month, let me
use it.
You old skinflint, did you give
thanks or pet sore with the fel
low tiiat did.
An overdose of amusement
last week ought to leave the boys
all in good shape to take care of
the holiday business.
Well, take a little soap and
clean your old name. You got to
use it this month as sure as shoot
ing.
The show business was a little
overdone last week for sure-
Too much of anything will spoil
the cooking.
Roumania seem to have been
playing with loaded dice in this
war game and somebody switch
ed them on them.
The town has been very quiet
since all the brass bands of last
week. The hot air brigade were
even on a furlough.
The preachers are all fixed for
another year. We bet they
would like to know that as surely
that they will placed pleasantly
as they are to be placed.
Georgia bad only three counties
to go for Hughes and four years
ago 20 went against the ticket
and yet some have said that this
state was not at all satisfied with
Wilson,
Bub, break it to some people
that it a show comes to town that
they dont like there is no law to
make them go to it, nor is there
any law making them other folks
guardian about what they see.
Britt Craig has taken to air
ships. Well, we never have been
up in an air ship but we have
been a judge at a baby show and
got out alive. Now pick your hero
from the pair of us.
The most distressing feature
of the holiday situation is that
eggs are way up yonder in price
and you cant get but two quarts.
The egg-nogg proposition will
not be in good working order.
The justice court election
Saturday did not do much to
wards stirring up any excite
ment. Fred Strickland was given
the job as justice and we feel
that he will make a good one.
There was not as many turkeys
killed this year as last and there
will be less killed Christmas than
ever before. Folks just cant
have those lavish holiday dinners
now and they are backing up on
thejproposition.
The high price of paper has
played the devil with our old
Friend Nick Carter and Diamond
Dick, as well as handed Fred
Fear not and Frank Mernwell a
jolt in the neck. The excessive
price may do some good yet.
Some of the boys killed pretty
bunches of birds Thursday but
most of them prevaricate about
how many until they thought of
the game warden then they had
not killed but about half what
they claimed.
Some of the local merchants
that got stung by the movie
advertisers fake ought to have
been hit, especially those that
will try to hog the local papers
and then take up with every
advertising grafter that comes
along. This kind of a gink is al
ways the one that says advertis
ing dont pay.
The hunter that forgets to get
that license may think that he
is pulling off something but he
seems to have forgotten that
good sportsmen tavor the pro
tection of the game and they
will prevent taking advantage
of his cheap chicanery to save a
few dollars.
We cant give you any idea
how long the war will last but
we can tell you most accurately
how long a pot of collard green
cooked with hog jowl will stay
on the outside of the average
southwest Georgia cracker. The
same lenght of time that Pat was
in the army.
The Methodist conference was
on last week in Thomasville.
Certain towns hoped that certain
preachers would not be sent
them and certain preachers
hoped they would not be sent to
certain towns and as this is the
case it is an even break and
everybody pretty well satisfied.
When will Bainbridge have
that million dollar bank? It is
about time that she had a hank
ing institution in that class de
spite the closeness of so many
little banks all about us. They
are growing here now and we
will be glad to see that big an
institution here.
The Savannah Press still finds
room for thought when the pro
position come before them that
Kansas and South Carolina went
the same way in a national
election. Old South Carolina it
given a chance will live down
Blease just as Kansas did Jerry
Simpson and Mrs. Lease. Give
her a chance bud, just one more.
That Moultrie Dog that wears
glasses only uses them to find
some of the birds that the town
hunter lies about killing. He
dont need them on an ordinary
hunt. Moultrie is some famous
town with a “glass eye dog and
booze grafting hens” sure as
you live.
Come along now’ with that sub
scription and let the printers
have little holiday feeling too.
They are human just like the
balance of you although many ot
you act as if you thought they
were not.
What does Watson rear about
foreign missions so for. He dont
give them anything and other
(oiks that desire have a right to
give to them. It is none of his
business unless he donated him
self. Maybe it makes him sore
because they send money to the
foreign heathen instead of giving
it to the home heathen for the
Jeffs.
The behavior of the Thomas
ville Editors last week we learn
with pleasure was most circum
spect in every way. Thank you
boys, w’e will not have to use
any time making any apologies
for any mishap you made. Your
behavior howevet makes us
know that no subscriber came in
unsolicited during last weak and
paid you five dollars. If they had
this would have been another
story.
We desire to call the attention
of the readers to the new Com
pulsory Educational bill. Com
missioner Bradwell has published
the bill for the information of the
citizens of the county and every
one of them ought to read it care
fully study it. The bill is a pro
tection to those children that are
denied the right to attend school
and made to work while they
ought to be at school.
It is to be hoped that Savan
nah will succeed in getting that
Altamaha river bridged before
long as it will give the folks all a
chance to learn more of their
chief port city. Many, many
autos from this side of the state
would pay regular visits to
Savannah but for this very rea
son. Savannah is so intermingled
with our people and their pros
perity the counties along the
southern tier ought to take hold
on this proposition.
The Lee County Journal wants
to know why the driver of an
auto is never to blame when he
hits a man but the man on the
ground is always at fault. Well j cords would have been made be-
Bub, it is this way. The auto fore if purchased,
owners have to hang together
HOG STEALING
AGAIN.
Some few weeks ago we had
an editorial on this subject and
since its publication we have
found out that hog stealing was
more general than we had any
idea. The following suggestion
has been handed into us by a
reader and it seems to offei some
remedy if made into a general
law. The evil ought to be stopped
if there is any possible chance to
stop it.
“Having notice a remedy for
hog stealing in the Atlanta Con
stitution dated November 26th,
have decided to ask if it would
not be advisable to make it a
state law or a county law as is
thought advisable by the next
legislature.
It the seller was required to
report all sales to some county
official would keep for public in
spection an alphabetical list of
names of sellers whose report
gives the marks and brand of all
stock sold and to whom and
when sold as well as the P. 0.
address of the seller. The same
report being required of the
purchaser, showing the address
of himself and that of the seller
and the date of sale. All persons
selling in an incorporated town
or city any animal butchered
should be required to make a re
port to the marshall and the
buyer should be required to
make the same report giving all
necessary date. This applies to
butchered stock only. Persons
killing stock for home use need
not make any report as such re-
and sustain each other or hang
separately if they cant fool a
gullible public. There is a free
masonry among the gas-murder
ers that public opinion dont
seem able to do much with.
Tom Eason’s suggestion that
the office holders pay up the
shortage of the Democratic
National Committee is not with
out good bottom. They will get
all the cream and they ought to
be willing to foot the tail end of
the bills. Brer .John I). Walker
should go after them and quit
trying to use the weekly press
as a collecting agency. Brer John
has his eye on a job and he might
come across pretty hefty himself.
He has never been known to
take so much interest in anything
unless Brer John figured pretty
strong in the pie.
Watson says that he will let
by-gones be bygones. Yep; we
reckon he would like lor us to
forget what hell he has tried to
kick up in the ranks of the Demo
crats. There will be another
election before long and Tom
wants bygones to be forgot be-
We suppose Watson sees now
how his conduct about dragging
a dead woman’s name in a cam
paign lowered him in the minds
of the people. In his former trial
he had a lots of sympathy ex
tended him and the men on the
streets would express the wish
that he got oft. Now since his
filthy methods of campaigning
are known, these same men ex
press the wish that he be sent to
the penitentiary. He abused all
the sympathy that was ever ex
tended him when he stopped as
low as he did in this last cam
paign. A self respecting man
would not notice any man that
would drag the grave of a woman
into the poltical sewer to bolster
up a rotten campaign. His sins
are on his own head. His cheap
attempt to play martyr will avail
him nothing. No man with the
fire of a martyr in his breast
would stop to the level he did
and he cant fool any more people
except the crowd that he has by
the goosle all the time. The
treedom of the press is in no
danger so far as Tommie is con
cerned but license is. Grave rob
bing is notone of the freedom’s
cause he sees that the Democrats
are not going to put up with his j that the press desires with,
gang in their primaries any
more. If they are not kicked
out by the party heads the party
deserves defeat the next time.
It can not succeed when it harbors
traitors. Tom would like us all
to forget his dirty low method of
dealing with the grave of Mrs.
Wilson but no gentlemen will
ever forget that a Georgian drag
ged a dead woman into political
fight. Bygones, Bah;
CHARITY AND THE
PRESS.
We have kept a tabulated ac
count of the ammout of free ad
vertising space we have been
asked for in the past five weeks
and it runs over ONE THOUS
AND DOLLARS. Most of these
are charities and not one single
one of them them has sent one
penny offering for publication.
WHY DONT they ask the banks
to give them money in the name
of charity or the merchant to
GIVE THEM SHOES or other
merchandise in the same name.
It is rotten disgusting to think
that our charities would feed on
the weekly press like this it the
publishers would per mit it.
Several auto manufacatureshave
asked for modest amounts. But
think that so much free stuff is
asked of the country papers and
stock costing four times what it
ever cost betore. Did we accept
any of it. YEP, the same amount
that any citizen would donate to
a charitable enterprise out of his
hard earned money and when
we used that amount in the name
of charity we stopped right there.
WE WOULD like to see some of
these same charities ask the
banks to accord them the same
treatment that they ask at our
hands and the banks are public
institutions and we have wonder
ed would they get mad with the
banks were they to refuse and
threaten a boycott. Charity that
floats at the expense of the
county papers is not charity at
all, we would not fall for it.
Is’nt it funny to observe some
of the brethren throw a fit when
a crap game is mentioned, dance
a Fiji dance when a quiet game
of stud poker is proposed, pitch
a convulsion at the mention of a
little old game of skin but sit up
and take notice when some bro
ther gambler bumps the cotton
market for a few hundred. What
hypocrisy to carry into a church
pew. And did you notice that
same church sister turn up her
nose when she sees a common
“gamboleer" smile most gracious
ly at brother Jones as he takes
up the collection at the services.
Bro. Jones is the guy that pulled
down twenty thousand on that
recent rise in cotton and deserves
that smile for being no piker. It
is rotten to see the conduct of
some our moralists along this
line. '
>
If these recruiting agents were
to come through this country
with a good negro band like the
Silas Green band that was here
Friday night they would lead off
all the negros and half the white
folks.
Bill Ainsworth and Tom Wat
son are at each other. Thank
goodness they are for so many
people can rejoice at the demo-
lishment of either. Bill wants all
the money and power of the un
iverse invested in him and Tom
wants it all place at the disposal
of the Jeffs. “Sick him Tige, eat
him Bulger.”
Now lady, this is serious. Do
your little shopping for the holi
days early and help the merchant
of your town out that much. In
the summer time he dont m nd
tearing down half the goods he
has in the house to show you
after you have bought a spool of
thread but when he has sbnw
that patience with you all sum
mer now come across and help
him out a bit during the holidays.
And you lady that makes it a
habit to come up town every
morning and evening you ought
to get yours in ample time and
not wait until late Saturday after
noon of the 23rd to get your
little holiday things. Make this
a mutual beneficial affair and the
merchant will appreciate it and
be glad to see you come instead
of wanting to crawl under the
eounter when you come in.
Tom Watson was acquitted of
the charge of mailing obscene
stuff and justly so for his matter
was only clippings from books
that were copy righted and that
had been passing through the
mails for years. Tom says that
he is being persecuted and we
wonder what he was doing to
Wilson when he was dragging
his wife’s grave in into a cam
paign. If that is not persecution
there was never such a thing and
as being Tom is so glib at perse
cution he ought to take his own
medicine and not growl over it.
Tom will persecute anything or
anybody under the sun and now
he yells because he got a dose of
what he has served so often to
others. Tom has never opposed
any one but always has persecut
ed every one that crossed him
either in capacity as an editor or
a hired attorney. The ghoulish
occupation of grave robbing is
worse than any persecution that
Tom has ever gotten.
The Red Cross stamp sale will
soon be on. It is a worthy pro
position but is it wise for citizens
of this country to pay for humane
work being done in countries
that are at war and care so little
for their citizens as to have them
shot up for nothing. If the
American Red Cross and the
American Grub were withheld
from Europe that war would not
last very long. It a foreign
country will destroy its own
citizens we can not see why this
country should take any care of
them. The Red Cross work in
the attempt to prevent the spread
of diseases is a worthy one but
they spend much money to heal
or take care of a wounded sol
dier, get him well only to send
him back into the same trench to
get him again. A funny piece of
humane work.
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