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LETTERS 'FROM '
TOE PEOPLE
WITH $17,000 GONE
To the Editor of The Tele
graph: The present agitation ot
the Sunday closing law, backed
up as it is by an intolerant ec
clesiastical tyranny, provokes
the indignation of every man
not willing to be made a slave.
The most bloody and heidous
crimes of history have been per
petrated under the specious
guise of religious propaganda ; n o Unce d Vice Pre8ldent W .
—St. Bartholomew’s Massacre T
President of Institution
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Near Americus Swears
Out Warrant Against
Missing Cashier, B. L.
Carter.
Americus, Jan. 8.—An estimat
ed shortage of $17,000 is an-
in France, the Inquisition in
Spain, the bloody reign of Mary
In England, and the Puritanical
blue laws of New England.
These ferocious atrocities, now
denounced by saint and sinner
were written in history by re
ligious, despotic cranks in cruel
attempts to make people think
and do as they thought and
did and the pulpit of today,
judging from its rule-or-ruin
dicta would if given the power,
re-light the fires of persecution
and bum as heretics those not
subscribing to its ipse dixit.
Fool fanaticism has reached,
its final and capped the climax
of cruel contrivance in the ab
surdities now proposed for law,
and the deposits of divinity seek
to subjuate the world, not with
the healing balm of Christain
charity but by a crude system
of barbarous, selfish restrictions
out of all harmony with our age
antagonistic to our institutions
and calculated to arouse, every
drop of fighing blood ip a white
man’s veins. •
J. Smith, of the DeSoto Banking
company, of DeSoto, several
miles from Americus, which in
stitution closed its doors this
morning, following a directors’
meeting. Cashier B. L. Carter
is the defendant in a warrant is
sued by Smith charging embezeie-
ment, and has not been yet ar
rested. He is reported to have
left DeSoto last Sunday, going to
his former home near Nashville.
Fred B. Arthur, of this city,
charged with accessory before
the fact in embezzlement on a
warrant by Smith, has made bond
for $2,000. Arthur’s alleged
connection has not been made
known.
Vice President Smith states
that he believes the depositors
will be paid in full, although the
stockholders may lose something.
The capital stock was $15,000.
FIT FOLKS MAY
NOW BECOME
SLIM QUICKLY
Be Moderate in Your Diet, Breathe
Deeply, and Take Tassco.
Break your Cold or La-
Grippe with a few doses
of 666.
If I had one foot in the grave
If a preacher dosen’t want to an d the other on a banana peel-
buy fresh milk for this baby on i nK and it was to be my last
Sunday nor ride in a street car word, I wou ld beg the City
or auto, nor read a newspaper Council to stand as a stone wall
nor take a soft drink, why that between the laboring element
is his business and no one will an d these fanatical Crusaders
kick if he wants to make a fool an d savp Sunday to working
of himself and do without any or pe0 pi e as a day ot harmless re-
all of these things. But simply cre ation and pastime,
because I do not see things | The demand of the day is for
f I 0m „ h ! S . p ? in i- 0f ,. vi ? W and , innocent Sunday amusement-
choose to act otherwise in matt-. baseball, concerts, movies, ete.
era npt intrinsically wrong, there They are coming and will bring
is no good reason between the 1 with them joys that will dance
blue skies and crab grass why \ n childhood’s happy eyes and
he should force me by law to throw a sweeter music into their
do as he demands.
It is probable there were many
pleasure resorts ’round about
laughter.
The pulpit is doubtless siecere,
but the mistake it makes is at
Jerusalem during Christ’s time, tempting to force others to think
yet we nowhere read of His (as they do. Let preachers
having them closed. The Master, preach and persuade, and then
scouraged the money changers'if they lose out let them take
from the temple, but He did not their medicine like men and not
,Aake a lash and drive them into it. g° whining around the earth
The divine appeal was to the
heart, conscience and intellect
and our Neros of the pulpit can
not find in His example any pre
cedent for their bloody butchery
.of human rights.
These be parlous times of
strenuous activity. The laboring
classes (among whom I am
which) are worked to a frazzle
and even then hardly make
buckle and tongue meet. The
daylight whistle summons the
merchanic and the little factory
girl to hard toil every morning
of the week. The push and
seeking laws to enforce fads
and fancies which they lacked
the abiltty to sustain in public
debate. If they persist in their
efforts to supplement their in
tellectual deficiencies by closing
everything else that people will
either have to go to church or
stay at home, they *will pro
voke such a revulsion in public
sentiment that many of them
will not have a membership
large enough to meet God Al
mighty’s final requisition for the
salvation of Sodom.
Do your best, gentlemen, come
grind of brain and brawn are j strong intellectually, be reason-
sensations, to which the well; able an d I’ll gladly go to hear
fed and sleek parson is a strang
er and for these little two-by
satraps to say that these work
ing people shall not on one day
of the week have the harmless
refreshments and innocent en
joyments which others have
every day is a shock to every
principle of right and reason
and deserves the condemnation
of all liberty-loving people.
you but when you thunder
“It is either come here or stay
at home and have nothing but
psalms and songs,” you rud
this poor sinner the wrong way.
For God’s sake gentlemen ot
the pulpit, if you are not strong
enough to draw the world with
cords of love, don’t drag it to
your temple in chains.
George F. Wooten.
Fat persons, particularly those
from 10 to 30 pounds above nor
mal weight will be interested to
learn that they may easily reduce
their weight without starvation
diet or tiresome exercise.
This can be done by being
moderate in your diet, so that
you will not over-tax your as
similative organs, by getting
plenty of fresh air, by breathing
deeply and by taking Tassco
four tjmes a day.
Tassco may be obtained from
all leading druggists in 5-grain
tablets, take one after each
meal and one before retiring at
night. They cost little, are ab
solutely harmless, are pleasant
to take and are designed to re
signed to reduce fatty afccumula-
tions in the system wherever
located.
A few days’ treatment should
show a noticeable reduction in
weight, the flesh should become
firm, the skin smooth and the
general health improved, in fact
your footsteps should even be
come lighter, your work seem
easier and a lighter and more
buoyant feeling take posession
of your whole being.
Every person who is 10 or 20
pounds over normal weight
should surely give this treatment
a trial. Your will probably find
that it is just what you need.
People Ask Us
what is the best hair tonic. We
always recommend
HAIR TONIC
We know the formula and it
is a good one. Sold only by
us, 50c and $1,00.
MILLS PHARMACY
Callahan Bldg. Bainbridge, Ga
RUB-MY-TI8M—Antiseptic, Relieves
Rheumatism, Sprains, Neuralgia, etc.
GUANO
Any Grade
Supplied.
PRICES LOW
WRITE
NOME GUANO GO.
DOTHAN, ALA.
Phosphate
Parker-McCaskill Furniture Co.
Funeral Directors and Embalmers
Calls answered in city and anywhere in sur
rounding- country. A full assorted line of metal and
wood Caskets in colors of Black, Grey, and White
A large line of childrens Caskets and Robes carried
in stock.
Motor Hearse for city and country use at the
same price charged for horse drawn hearse. Com
petent Funeral Director always in attendance day
or night.
OUR AIM IS TO SATISFY
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Parker-McCaskill Furniture Co.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS
Day Phone 229 BAlNBRlD'iR. Ga. Night Phone413
The Mecca
E. S. PROWS, Manager.
We have opened an up-to-date, modem
and splendid amusement parlor in the
building formerly occupied by the Imperial
Theater, next door to the Bainbridge
State Bank. The amusements will be
Pocket Billiards and Bowling
We wish all to get the right idea in the
beginning about the game of Pocket Bil
liards. It has no association with any of
the so-called pool room games and is play
ed by the very best people of the country.
We will have
Nice Tables for all the Ladies
and they can come at any time and take
the best kind of exercise as well as be
amused. Ours is a real amusement par
lor and only for good folks.
The Mecca
Broad Street
Bainbridge, Ga.
White Spanish Seed Peanuts
The very best for the purpose
of marketing.
At 61c Per Pound
Get yours while you can %
them, well selected.
THE EMPIRE COTTON OIL COMPANY
Bainbridge,
Georgia.