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TO THE YOUNG MAN.
If you were permitted to select the age in
which you were to live in this world, granting
that you have that privilege but once as is com
monly believed except by a certain school of
thought, commencing with mans first appear
ance in the world and passing through the suc
cessive ages, comparing their opportunities with
yours, no sane mind would exchange the twen
tieth century for any other period of man’s ex
istance on the earth. Never since creations
dawn has any generation started life with greater
opportunities before it. An age without caste,
breed or nobility except as downright merit
may crown one over another in the chase for
the crest. Doubt is dead, superstition discarded,
bigotry forced into bankruptcy, while religious,
political and social freedom are the actual heri
tage of all mankind of the western world. It is
the most beautiful, the most wonderful of all the
ages. Science has done and continues to
do things which only a few years ago were la
belled impossible, if indeed the mind was capa
ble of thinking at all of any of the great wonders
which we of this century daily witness. With
us the word “Impossible" is even now of little
reputation and we shall expect it to lose out
entirely in the next few years. We have further
learned that mental states make the physical con
dition and that the soul within moulds our ca
reer; that the will tears through walls of steel to
accomplish the thing once determined upon, and
that man, the image and representative upon
earth of the Great Builder, recognizes no bound
in the realm of accomplishment. Even dreams
now come true to him of brain, will and hands.
1 here is no excuse in this day for failures and
the boy of today who is the man of failure tomor
row will standbefore the bar of public opinion
stripped of every vestige of sympathy. No, it
is not limitation or lack of opportunity that will
prevent your carving your name on the stars.
The matter will be personal and you will not
escape it -by trying the baby act on the credit of
opportunity. Young man of this country, how
are you treating this matter, are you going out in
th is world a man equipped to master any cir
cumstance and condition that can arise? If so,
all is well and you will hear the applaudits of
mankind. Will you be armed and able to ride
ambitions fiery steed in the charge against ig
norance, increduality, discouragement, low meth
ods, grafters and rotten politics? If so your com
ing is awaited as a deliverer of the people from
a blighting curse. Are you in your school days
specializing in the art of character building, so
briety, truth, virtue and a greater manhood ? If
so the world has need of you and may your
coming to the common fold be hastened. Would
that there were no negative answer, but what of
those who do answer no and what will there
excuse be ? In our own County are no less than
five graded common schools and two of the
finest Colleges in all the State. No excuse to
ary that he is not attending school and no ex
cuse for those attending but failing to make
good. Young man, listen : your time is before
you, you and only you are shaping your desti
ny both here and hereafter. If you are not
making good, if you are not moulding the key
that unlocks the great storehouse of wisdom, if
you are not building the golden structure of
character, if you are not taking advantage of
every moment now to improve your position
and broaden and deepen your mind, you are
already a failure and the world don’t need you
at all.
All that we are trying to impress upon you
is this: Ihe world needs good, true and hon
est men of character ana ability, it is hunting for
them and will both honor ar.d pay them. It is
in your power to be one of that class. Don’t
squander your honor, don’t lmpovish your pow
ers, don’t wreck your life and body by v/rongtu!
indulgences or you will certainly and spe-'dily
!icy and fa
world it.a. accepts no excuse.
THE COFFEE COUNTY PROGRESS, DOUGLAS. GEORGIA
REACHING THE AGE LIMIT
Perhaps the lonliest time in an ac
tive man’s life is when, under our
present mode of thought and living,
he reaches the age when he must lay
aside active duties and sit down to
await the one call from which no
human being can escape, with no
other responsibility than to count the
constant swing of the pendulum of
time and knowing that each vibra
tion brings him closer and closer to
the Great Source to which he must
again become united. What will the
condition of your life be then? Only
.what you have made it as the mo
ments have chased each other in their
hurried flight from the time vou
reached the age of accountability to
that time when, for you, the great
clock shall cover its face in crepe.
What will you look back upon and
how will the vision affect you? Not
from your lips will the answer come,
hut from the sealed record of your
life. Some psychologist has said that
the Recording Angel does not have
the stupendous task as some believe
of writing down each and every word,
deed, thought and act of each human
being while in the flesh, but that the
soul, the real being of man at the
judgment, through the accompany
ing mind and of which it is a part,
furnishes the complete index and
record to the life lived below; that,
as a great stereotyped history, in
his every word, act, thought and
deed, through his mind, presented the
evidence upon which his destiny rests.
This time will certainly come to all,
and while life is pasting our way lets
live it so that neither the age limit
nor death itself can hold any fears or
regrets. However, we expected in
this article only to impress upon our
fellowman the great importance of
making good in this life, of using
every moment in the steady advance
ment of a better and greater man
hood one that can be looked back
upon in the day of old age and soli
tude without a regret or a remorse
that will not down with the soothing
solace that I did my very best. Your
very best cannot be accomplished
after the most of life is spent
and ths nightcap of time
drawn over your head; your very
best cannot be accomplished when
idleness, cards, whisky, ungoverned
passions and riotous living is used to
squander time. Every moment
making its eternal imprint on your
destiny and you are shaping that
destiny.
THE JURY SYSTEM.
The Atlanta Georgian has thrown open its
columns to the public in an effort to discover
wherein lies the deficiency in Georgia’s jury
system. In so doing it has been actuated by no
other motive than to find the truth. That a de
ficiency of gigantic proportion does exist, no
man familiar with our court procedure can deny
and in an impartial search for the fault, the Geor
gian, if it locates it and can suggest the remedy,
will save our state, not only great sums of money,
but wii! expedite business and guarantee to the
individual that protection of life, liberty and the
persuit of happiness often so rudely shaken even
in the face of a State and federal Constitutional
guaranty. Many great, brilliant and conscien
tious jurist of this State as well as learned men
of the bar have taken advantage of the Geor
gian’s request and have contributed very valu
able ideas on this subject, but it appears to the
writer that the main thread yet remains untouch
ed.
Before we became connected with this
paper and more than three years ago, while the
legislature was in sesson, we contributed a piece
along this Sine to the Atlanta Constitution and
we appealed to the legislature, then in session,
to give some relief to the State from its antiqua
ted jury system. Our opinion was then and is
now, that the fault ’ lies, not in the manner in
which a jury is summonsed, but in the selection
of the individual juror. As a preface of what
may follow regarding this system, we must con
cede that all men who are summonsed for jury
duty are not ahvaj's honest men. They are be
lieved to be so else they would not be put in the
jury box, but the mask some time is so success
fully used that the whole machinery of the court
is deceived. Still that is not the point we wish
to make and the error is not always by any
means a wilful desire on the part of a juror to
render a biased or erroneous verdict. The great
trouble is the failure of the system to furnish a
jury whose opinion is not fixed before the tria
begins and before any sworn evidence is intro
duced. In either a civil case or misdemeanor,
any juror is competent although he may know
a!! the facts, or he may have had either litigant
or par:y in interest rehearse every phase of die
dispute before he is selected at all as a juror;
yes, under this six hundred old Magna
v -.a; .er . ucece, a .nan may see, hear or dis
cover in a-y manner known, a!' the real and
immaginary facts surrounding a case and then
be sworn as a juror to fairly and impartially try
the from the law and the evidence. They
may be and often are sworn not only as a juror
to impartially try the case but after being ac
cepted as such, then sworn as a witness in the
case.
From what will that juror make up his
mind ? Will it be from the sworn evidence of
other witnesses or from what he, himself has
sworn as a witness? Will he render a verdict
as a witness or as a juror? If there is a conflict
between his evidence and that of some other
witness, which will influence him when he goes
to render a verdict ? These conditions are per
missable under the Georgia Jury System.
Why not then leave these questions to ar
bitration, the arbitors to be selected from men
familiar with all the facts and circumstances ?
Why not do away with the mock trial, operating
under a jury system dead in every other civilized
country but our own state. It simply lays down
the gap for bartering and rascality. It was the
first jury system inaugurated in England and
even that country has so long ago abandoned it
that you would be compelled to search the most
ancient Archives of that Nation to find a copy
of it. There are few less objections to the selec
tion in felony cases. The Solicitor General rat
tles off a few old cut and dried questions set out
in the criminal code and when he finishes the
answer is almost always “the juror is compe
tent.” The system in other States allow the de
fendant, at this stage, to ask the juror any rea
sonable question which would reveal any feel
ing, information or idea the juror might have
which would prevent him from rendering a per
fectly fair and impartial verdict and when he had
thus been fully and completely interrogated, if
he has an opinion in the case or if his purpose
in serving on the jury is in the least doubtful, he
is excused without requiring the State or defen
dant to exercise a strtke.
As to civil cases and misdemeanors, certain
ly no one familliar with any of the facts and
circumstances of a case should be permitted to
serve. We think that when these faults are
remedied, the jury system in Georgia will be a
great deal nearer perfect than it is today and
the higher courts of our State will find their
docket with fewer cases on them.
Georgia Product Day.
One of the most interesting signs of the upward
move is the inauguration of a Georgia Product
Day. This move portrays the trend of opinion
among men of initiative mind and progressive de
sires. It reminds we Georgians of a fact, some
times forgotten, that we live in a great State and
one so eminently fitted by nature to be the home of
an independent people. We seem to have been
specially provided for in the divine plan of distri
bution, and through its liberality we were made
capable of producing within our own borders al
most if not quite everything necessary to the full
support, maintenance and happiness of a homo
geneous people. We have not always by any means
done our best, therefore we laud the spirit of any
move whose aim is to reveal the agricultural possi
bilities of the State and at the same time encourage
our people to get back in nature’s lap and make an
Douglas’ New Paper.
We have received the first issue of
the Coffee County Progress, publish
-led at Douglas. It is neatly printed
and clean as to news matter and has
one of the best editorial pages. Those
behind the new enterprise are T. A.
; Wallace, editor and our old friends
J. E. Bartlett and E. S. Sapp. Two
good printers and an editor makes a
good line up. We wish the Progress
success. Willacoochee Sun.
The first number of the Coffee
County Progress is just out. Attor
ney Wallace is the editor and Lige
Sapp is the business manager. We
know Lige to help him
run the Douglas Breeze —and we wish
him good luck. —Nashville Herald.
The Coffee County Progress, of
Douglas, is the latest in Coffee coun
ty journalism. Col. T. A. Wallace
is the editor. Our opinion of him
has always been that he is fair and
square, and fully capable, and there
is no reason why The Progress and
The Enterprise cannot work to;
getherfor the betterment of Douglas i
and Coffee county, educationally, in-1
dustrialiy, and otherwise.—Douglas
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Enterprise.
We are in receipt of the initial
number of the Coffee County Pro
gress. It is bright, newsy and neat
ly printed paper and reflects great
credit upon those who have launched
this new enterprise in the hustling
little city of Douglas. Baxley Ban
ner.
hes we are going to play to the'
gallery, but only when that august I
space holds all the people of Coffee *
county. Admission fee, one dollar;
n .thing doing on less than a full
house. Royal flush and four aces no
good.
Telephone No. 192
King’s Maiket
\
When you need a god rich,
juicy steak, nice rost, pork
chops, ham, sausagi or any
thing in a first-class narket.
Call 192
King’s Market
Ward Street |ouglas, Ga
independent living. May the originator of Georgia
Product Day live to see the time when each of the
365 days on the calandar will represent not only the
kitchen, pantry and the dinner table but every ar
ticle necessary to the comfort and progress of our
people, and may this move prove the awakening.
We live in a great country, lets be
a great people and set the pace for
coming generations.
Do you need progress or does the
old fashion way suit you best? We
have the patent right for no other
purpose than to furnish you with it.
Are you tired of politics? Have
you witnessed the dirty game played
by unscrupulous persons seeking only
their own promotion until the better
manhood within you rebell ? Have
you had your hand shaken and blis
tered by the pimp tnd have you been
hugged, confided in and had whis
pered in your ear tie most deadly
secrets ? Have you earned that you
are the most importait man in your
own locality (until eah of the others
come along)?
Have you discoverd that bosses
and office holders lo 7 e you better
than their own souls ? You say, no!
Then you don’t live ingood old Cof
fee. s
Parks’ Shw.
The Parks show cotinues to be
the center of amuseient for the
people of Douglas th; week. The
show is of a very higlclass and the
people are showing teir apprecia
tion by filling the tentrt each per
formance. The price )f admission
is so reasonable that no one feels
like missing a perfonance unless
prevented by some othe reason than
fifteen cents.
Baptist Chuih.
Sunday services: Pitching at 11
a. m. and 7 p. m. bjthe pastor.
Morning subject, “ThtLord’s Ser
mon:” evening subject,‘Departure
from God.” Sunday chool at 3
p. m. Meeting of theß. Y. P. U.
Monday at 7:15 p. m. rayer meet
ing Wednesday at 7 p.n. All are
cordially invited to attei these ser
vices.
Evangelist Findlay Goss Meeting.
Rev. A. B. Findlay hajust closed
a very successful meetir in Doug
las. Services were coructed in a
tent near the A. B. & Alepot. The
meeting has been closed-mporarily,
but will be renewed lation.
Rev. Findlay was a ago
appointed evangelist foihe Smyrna
Association, and he willonduct re
vival services through<t the dis
trict, same being comped of Cof
fee county and parts ( Ware and
Clinch.