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VOL. XV—NO. 16.
Devoted to Local, Mining and General Information.
PAT I LON LG A, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 190
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Cheer Up.
Cheer up. The world is taking
your photograph. Look pleasant.
•Of course you have your troubles,
troubles you cannot tell the police
man. A whole lot of things both-
er you, of course. Business w r-
Ties or domestic sorrows, it may
he, or what hot. You find life a.
rugged road whose stones- hurt
your feet. Nevertheless cheer up.
It may be your real disease is
■selfishness—ingrowns sol fishness.
^ our life is too self centered. You
imagine your tribulations are
worse than others bear. You feel
sorry for yourself—the meanest,
sort of pity. It is a pathetic illu
sion. Rid yourself of that and
cheer up.
What right have you to carry tv
picture of your woebegone face
and funeral ways about among
your fellows, who have troubles of
their own? If you must whine or
sulk or scowl, take a car and go to
the woods or to the unfrequented
lanes.
Cheer up. Your ills are largely
imaginary. If you were really on
the brink of bankruptcy, or if
there were no thoroughfare
through your-sorrows, you would
«lear your brows, set your teeth
a nd make the best of it.
Cheer up. You are making a
<j ypottieiical case out of your
troubles and suffering from a self
inflicted verdict. You are bor
rowing trouble and paying a high !
rate of interest.
Cheer up. Why, man alive, in
a ten minute walk you may see a
scop' of peoplo worse off than you.
And here you are digging your
own grave and playing pallbearer
i into tin* bargain. Man alive, you
I must do your work. Smile, even
though it be through your tears,
which speedily dry. And cheer
up.—M i 1 w aukee .Tou r 11 a 1.
There are ninety counties in
Georgia which get more school
money from the state than they
pay the state. Are these ninety
counties going to vote to limit the
state's power to tax and so amend
the constitution that they may tax
themselves? We don’t bclivc
they will take the time to study
the far reaching effect of the pro
posed amendments. We sincerely
hope I lie people will vote against
these proposed amendments, and
thu- save the country children of
our state.—Alpharetta Free Press.
Indiana and Illinois lych ne^
gi’oes for ordinary murder, or
even taking the places of strikers;
hi,t if Georgians lose their self-
control sufficiently to lynch the
murderers of women and children,
Indiana and Illinois rear up on
their hind legs and howl about
“barbarism in the South.”—Cobb
County Courier.
Roosevelt lias Refused to
Save Neck of Negro.
Washington, Aug. s.—Presi-
dent Roosevelt has declined to iu*
terfere in the ease of John W.
Hurley, a negro confined iu the
jail of the District of Columbia
under sentence of death for the
crime of criminal assault, 1 he vie
tim having been a little girl four
and a half years old. The presi
dent has directed that the sentence
of (he jury be carried into effect
on August g(j inst.. as decreed.
At) application was made to the
president to commute the sentence
of Hurley to imprisonment for
life, it being alleged that the pris
oner was of mind so weak as to be
irresponsible for ft is crime. The
subject was referred to Attorney
General Mood. He investigated
the case and reported to the presi
dent today folly .as to the facts.
In rejecting the application for
the commutation of Hurley’s sen
tence President Roosevelt made
the following memorandum:
White House, Aiur. 8—The ap
plication for the commutation of
sentence of John W. Burley is
denied. This man committed the
most hideous crime known to our
laws and twice before he has com
mitted crime of a similar, though
less horrible character. Jn my
judgment there is no justification
whatever for paying heed to the
allegations tfiat he is not of sound
mind, allegations made after the
trial and conviction. Nobody
would pretend that there had ever
been such a degree of mental un-
smmdncso shown as would make
people even consider sending him
to an asylum if lie had not com
mitted this crime. Under such
circumstances lie should certainly
lie esteemed sane enough to suffer
the penalty fer his monstrous
deed.
I have scant sympathy with the
pica of insanity advanced to save a
man from the consequences of
crime, when unless the crime had
been committed it would have
been impossible to persuade, any'
responsible authority to commit
him to an asylum as insane.
Among the most dangerous crimi
nals and especially among those
prone to commit the particular
kind of offense there uro plenty of
temper so fiendish or so brutal as
to be impossible with any other
than a bruitish order of intclli
gcnce; but these men arc never
theless responsible for their acts
and nothing more tends to encour
age the crime among such men
than the belief that through the
plea of insanity or any other meth
od it is possible for them to escape
paying the just penality of their
crimes. :
The crime in question is one (o
the existence of which wo owe the
spirit of lawlessness which takes
form in lynching. It is a crime
so revolting that the criminal is not
entitled to one particle of sym
pathy from any human being. It
is essential that punishment for it
should be not only as certain, but
as swift as possible. The jury in
this case did their duty by recoins
mending the infliction of the death
penalty. It is to be regretted that
we do not have special provision
for more summary dealing with
this type of cases. The more wo
do what in us lies to secure certain
and swift justice in dealing with
these cases the more effectively do
wo work against the growth of
that lynching spirit which is so
full of evil omen for this people,
because it seeks to avenge one in
famous crime by the commission
of another of equal infamy. The
application is denied and the sen
tence will be carried into effect.
(Signed) Theodore Roosevelt.
Mrs. U, 1*. Farrow.
The wife of Colonel Henry 1*.
Furrow, postmaster of this city,
died at her summer cottage at
Porter Springs, Lumpkin county,
Tuesday afternoon at about 4
o’clock, after an illness extending
over several weeks. Fat ly in July
Mrs. Farrow was taken ill but
gradually unproved until it fort
night ago, when she was stricken
with paralysis from which she
never recovered. Iter Jmsband
and children were at her side for
weeks before death came to her, as
were most of her grandchildren
and her brother, Dr. Simpson of
South Carolina. She was (!8years
of age, iind a native of South Ca
rolina, where she resided until
about the time of the war. She j
was a sister of former Governor
Simpson of South Carolina. She j
j is survived by her husband mid j
| two daughters, Mrs, John A. :
Whitner and Mrs. John Cooper of ,
Atlanta. The funeral and burial 1
will occur m Atlanta tomorrow. ■
Mrs. Farrow was a type of the
finest Southern womanhood which j
| the aristocratic days of the ante- ,
j helium times boasted- an earnest,
i sweet spirited Christian, a domes- |
j tie queen, gifted far above many j
| women in mental qualities and in- 1
tellectual attainments, and adorned j
i with all the graces of true and re- :
j fined Southern womanhood. Her !
departure lias caused intense sor- ;
row.—Gainesville Engle, Aug 18th. ;
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W. B. rOWNSEND, Editor and Propnuu 1
AT
What “Slick” Williams Had
to Say About the Bill.
Dr. Luttrell of Washington tells
tins story of Isaac Williams, gon-
j orally called* “Slick" Williams.
! who was elected to the Tennessee
j legislature seyeral years ago, says
the New York lb raid. The newly
! elected member could not read or
| write, although he was an exceeds
! ingly shrewd business man and
had obtained an enviable local
I reputation for success, which had
| culminated in his newly acquired
i honor.
! On arriving at Nashville fpr the
j first time, Williams happened to
j catch sight of several of his fob
I low legislators, whom ho had met
! at various lime, during the politic
1 cal campaign, sitting round a tabic
| in what he though! was the legis
lative hall, but whiclj was really a
j restaurant. He at down with
them ard the waiter brought the
; bill of fare. 'The old gentleman
; looked at it carefully for several
! minutes, not wishing the others to
know that In; couldn’t read, red
; then slappe ! his hand on the table
I and shouted:
“I’ll never give my sanction to
I this bill as long as J live!”
Better Wake Up.
Say, friends, have you over
1 thought about how utterly indif
ferent wo are becoming, how little
■ attention we give to God’s cause?
If you inafe not, it is time you
were thinking a lit11 1 on this line.
Judging by our actions (and that
is all we have to j idge from) in
our daily walks of life, wo hardly
seem to know or realize that we
are dependent upon Him who
1 reigns supreme, but seem to think
that we hold the reins of life with
in our own clutches and can guide
whatsoever and whithersoever we
will. When we go to church-how
long do we retain within our minds
the sermon we listen to. How
many of us leave the sermon 111
the church, right where we found
it? We had better wake up to a
■ sense of our duty before some
dread calamity is sent upon us to
remind us of our utter neglect.— 1
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Dea ler in
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General Merchandise.
■Buck to the Cabbage Patch.
One c»f the distinct features of
j the ago is the tendency to return
j to agriculture. Whore a few years
ago tlia farmer boys were rushing
to the cities to crowd the profes-
j .‘-ions, there is now a decided move
in the other direction. The nat
ural reaction that must always ful-
j low a movement so radical in some
measure, accounts for tile disposi-
| tion to return to the soil for a live-
i libood, but there is more,
i The agriculturist has become a
professional man. The college and
| the university have added a special
| course for his benefit, and given
1 him a degree. He is a botanist
! mid a chemist, and scion ;>• lias 1
taught him to take 111 the jaded 1
and wornput farm, and with inlol- |
, ligenee cause it to blossom like the I
j rose. The dispiriting labor which
j hedt tin- form of the elders and
{ sent the lads scurrying cityward
j has been lightened by devices that
| better accomplish 1he end sought.
The long hours are shortened,
i and the farmers finds time to in-
! diplge in the enjoyments of life.
This new condition, added to the
j fascination of independence, has
turned many men from their pro
fessions toward the country, car—
j rying with them the mannerism
I of their class until the exterminu-
j tion of the chin whiskers is threat
ened by tie Prince Albert coat.—
* Now York Butcher
Bless the Georgia Honshu.
! lie action of the Georgia house
o( representatives in passing the
helder bill authorizing ordinaries
of the counties to commit to tho
Georgia Industrial Home tlie
wait, of their respective commit-
uilie-i at the small charge foe
maintenance of $00 a year Will
commend itself to tho people 0If
Georgia everywhere. It is -grati
fying to know t hut tho bill was
passed after a Brief statement by
Representative Felder of Bibb
county.
Surely not in the broad land has
there ever been organized an elee
mosynary institution on a basis
mor- thoroughly philanthropic.
11 was Fouinlet Mum ford’s .idi a
that care should bo taken of the
little one who, through parental
poverty or neglect, or through ac
tual orphanage, having over them
the protecting wing ‘of neither
church, order, or civil organiza
tion, should be given a chance in
the world. He has provided that
chance and in Hie course of five
years he has assembled at the In
dustrial Home nearly 150children
eiijo\ ing the advantage of oppor-*
tunity and has cared for them
wond musty.— Macon Telegraph.
Patronize those who arc liberal
enough to advertize iu their home
papu.
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