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1 (Cnffrr (Emtuty JJrnyrras. Published Every Friday Afternoon T. A. WALLACE, Editor E. S. SAPP, Business Manager J. E. BARTLETT, Mechanical Mgr. Pending Application to be Entered at the Post Office, Douglas, Georgia as Second Class Mail Matter. - SUBSCRIPTION PRICE One Year . - , SI.OO Six Months, - .50 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 0 j 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.