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numrv ullixli iu.no f Published Every Thursday Evening Rorkrt O. Ross, Editor. G. 1). Ross, Associate. Entered at ths Postoffice at Winder, (>a. as second class mail matter. St; 11S( 1 1 v’ 1 I TION lv ATI :s One Year, - - - ♦ *-0f Six Months, • i,(l Three Months, Thursday, July 2, 1903. As the veao go by the g!or:ou Fourth Incomes nnrc generally cel ebrated throughout tin south. Georgia senator.' haven t iouiul it necessary to follow the example of Philip and hie thenisdve- to the mountains. I hey will not go to Chattanooga on a tour ol inspection of the state road; A rattlesnake with filly-six rat tles and a button is reported from Florence county, says the Augusta Chronicle. Yen, Pink Flanigan, of ■Winder, claims to have seen the snakt* and counted the rattles. Well the new county agitation lias begun in the Georgia legislature and discussion pro and eon is go ing the rounds of the press. \\ iu der is not in it this time. Suppose she is content to he recognized as the business center of thrci coun ties. Some of our good friends have advised us to keep quiet on certain subjects. We have given the mat ter serious thought and have fig ured it out that the quietest plan on earth is a cemetery, and as we are not running the Tombstone *>a zcite, live issues are likely to he discussed at any time. The weather man on the Atlanta Constitution has stumbled upon a unique invention and applied for a patent. It consists of a round hole in the lit iiii of the merry widow hat large enough to admit the handle of an umbrella. In ease of rain the Umbrella will serve as a protection to part of the hat . Of course the agricultural schools of Georgia must be supported, but why straddle the burden on the farmers by placing a tax on fertil izer tags, as has been suggested? Wo hear a groat deal about what G-e-o-r-g-i-a is doing for the edu cation of the fanners' hoys, hut it is always you, Reube, who arc culled upon to pay the freight. We would suggest a special tax oil fol -de-tol oik-a cloaks, long-handled oye-goggles, golf-balls, poll parrots and pink-eyed poodle dogs to de fray the expenses of these institu tions. „ -1 he house passed Monday, by a vote of lIU to 2, the bill by Mr. Adams, of Chatham, making it a misdemeanor for any person in Georgia to hereafter charge for a loan of money any more than A per cent per month. This i- the most timely hill which has been intro duced in the Georgia legislature in years. The average citizen has no conception of the contemptible methods the shyloeks in our larger cities employ to get unfortunate victims in their clutches that they may exact a pound of flesh. At a grand jury investigation,in Atlanta it was shown that a negro washer woman had borrowed 85 from a shyloek. At the time of the inves tigation she had paid him some sixty odd dollars and still owed the cuss according to his 1 K>oks over sls. The Anti-Saloon league mad * a most unfortunate selection of a standard-bearer in Tennessee when the eloquent ex-Senator Carmack succeeded in inducing it- rs to champion his cause for the dem ocratic nomination f*>r governor of that commonwealth. Carmack was opposing for an imiorsi nient term the most popular executive Tennes „ has had in years, and, besides, this insurmountable obstacle, the , \-senator had made enough polit -1 ir;d enemies in the state during pi’e- * : vious contests to and( feat him lqr the senate long before he adorned him self with the little whit • badge. The nomination of Governor I’at t< rson to succeed himself was no ■ ti st of the prohibition sentiment in Tonne.- e, though the pn- and public seem to so consider the out come. Senator Carmack's sincerity was openly attacked, it being e< .o nion knowledge that be has not I been a total abstainer and generally believed that he was espousing the prohibition cause for political pur pose.- only. While prohibition was shoved to the forefront by Carmack, 1 and the \\ . C. 1 . I . and the Anti j Saloon League had the women and childrep parading the streets sing ing religious songs on election day, the Tennesseeans never lost sight ol other important issues of the <imv paign, and it was these issues which sent Carmack down to defeat and not the fact that lie tried to ride the popular prohibition wave into the governor s chair. because of past deeds organized labor wa rmed up against the c-x-senntor al most to a man and there were oilier political elements which had griev ances agaLpst Mr. Carmack they wen anxious to s ttle. It is unfortunate that leaders of the temperance cause will persist in | attempting to boost the waning po litical fortunes of candidates fur office who are already burdened with enough unkept pledges and inconsistences to sink them into ob scurity. When prohibitionists have learned to stick to the furtherance of the measure they wish to pro- j mote and refrain from all eagerness, to indorse men for an office which can neither give nor deny prohibi tion, their cause will resume its steady advance throughout the south. This question has been in- i jeeted into the -gubernatorial cam- i paigns of Georgia, Florida and Ten ! ncssee and in each instance the candidate endeavoring to ride it into office has met defeat-. 'i'lie nomination of Fattersqn to | succeed himself as governor of Ten nessee was no test of the strength i of prohibition in that state. SWINGING ON THE GATE. ll has been suggested to us that the reason so many Winderites are tormented by Hies, they per sist in leaving their front gates wide open night and day. One irate citizen calk'd at our office and while pleading with us to sound tlie riot call against open gates in Winder, exhibited his bruised and lettered shinlxmos as an evidence that the open gate is a menace to a long-suffering public. We would give his ex net words, hut for our religious scruples and the fact that paper easily burns. —Winder News. There’s a remedy for this trou ble, brother. Advise your ps ple to adjust their gates so as t* have them swing in, instead of out. There is no move prolific cause of profanity than this out ward-swinging gate nuisanee.— Toeeoa Record. But you ve got to have some consideration for the love-sick swains who do their best court ing swinging on the gate. —At- lanta Georgian. Never knew before why the ma jority of our trout gates drag at the bottom. The real danger in managinga store, nowadays, is that it will get into a rut. The merchant who is afraid to make a <*mise; who dreads the day his hills fall due; who is afraid to “spare money fur adver tising,’' who devotes most of his time to watching little things, to worrying about trifles —he is in danger. In effect, he is trying to found and build a store on his fears, not on his aspiration; on misgivings, not < n confidence. lie forg-t- that f air is a destroyer —not a builder; that misgiving will pull down that which confidence would build to completion. It is a dangerous thing to left* r a -tore with a lot of baseless fears of what might happen; to dread what might follow the cxerei-e of ordinary agj ressivene. sand ent-er pr>, . [ Aider such conditions, the merchant v policy it adf is the wor-1 ( -al.imit.v that could happen to the store. ►Such a policy places a store in the portion of d-pending upon lo cation chances of various kinds; and upon the patronage of those puiple who do not read advi rtisir.g Thes-, however, are so scarce in this city tlg.it if they all patronize one store they could not support it The merchant who advertises adequatley builds upon his hopes not his fears, Confident and aggress ive advirtising makes store-man-, agement a huisiuss lit for men men of nerve, resources, red bloyd. —Augusta llerail. KNEW WHERE TO USD THEM. refVerson, Ga., duly 1, 100N. Editor Winder News: Will you kindly announce through your pa]>er that, owing to the great number of ladies and children who will throng the streets of Jefferson on July Ith, (reunion day) many of tuc same being oil horseback and in vehicles drawn by dangerous horses, that the managers of the reunion deem it nothing short of a duty to the public, if not to‘the protection of life itself, to decree that the running of automobiles either in or along the streets through which the parade will pass will be strictly prohibited. J. A. B. Malmffey, Chairman. A. .1. Bell, Secretary. Prosperity Notes. (Industrial Indesc.) Down in Savannah a company has been formed for foreign shipping and will operate steamships to Eu ropean ports. The earning of the Central of Georgia railroad for the tirst week in June show an advance over those for the corresponding week last year. This is the tirst week in a long time that gain has been hown. Iron mines around Cartersville are resuming operation, as are other industries in that section. Athens Mattress and Spring Bed ! Company will proceed with erection | of anew plant, the estimated cost of which will he §SO,(KM). Machinery has been ordered. The Georgia Railway and Electric Company, Atlanta, has given in its ■ property for taxation to the eonip | trollcr-general of Georgia at $>S,- l All, 500, an increase of SISOO since 1007. Last vear the company voluntary increased its tax returns from $:’>,000,000 to $8,000,Q00. ; A stream of northern and wust ; ern gold is already begining to flow into Georgia to swell the bank ac count of the peach-growers and this money, amouting to several million dollars, is contributing its 1 part to improve general business conditions over the state. One poach grower who has 30,(XX) trees estimates that when his orchard is ! full grown it will bring him the j handsome income of SJ ,00,000 1 yearly. Foundry and Machine -Works That runs every day in the year, and does first-class repair work, -and builds new and up-to-date machinery. DRAG SAW smcuMiu p ■it . V ‘S,/ ! ' 'I .. * f2 j? •/ T(’ •Bf MOM—— .in i— — uat+dCtii-** --*—fc— mt i ■■■ ■— ■"* -"u ■■ — rmi . ni ■ m II L wboßiu?rr machinery 11 ■ 88WFF MM & ra>CF CO., fefer,6a. 1 Lari mill styMM WOODRUFF HARDWARE & MANUFACTURING 00. f ' . Winder, Ga. • With the Paragraphed. Three of the biggest piano man ufacturing concerns in the country have been merged into a harmonious trust. —Luwreneeville News Herald. The sheath skirt is causing con siderable sensation in some places. It has not apperaed in Columbus I yet, and if it as had as pictured it l is to he hoped that it will not — Columbus Ledger. The legislature now in session will he pretty apt to tackle “near beer” in more ways than one. — Marietta Journal. Can’t somebody tell a right good joke to relieve the seriousness of the situation. —Campbell News. ben Broughton, pastoi of the At lanta Tabernacle church, proposes |to get his hair cut. Well, that will no doubt he an improvement; es pecially if he still persists in talking through his hat. —Toeeoa Record. j Marietta is also the home of “Nap'' Rucker. —Atlanta Georgian. A Massachusetts church has cash registers at the church doors, with | a request that attendants pay as they enter. The presumption is the machine shows “the amount of your contribution-' ’—Fitzgerald Enterprise. We want to notify the Savannah Chamber of Commerce that our waste basket is full and their lieer and wine literature is in the way. — Marietta Courier. The Marietta Journal admits that the legislature would be a very dull body without Joe Hill Hall. — Augusta Chronicle. Soon after the flection it was thought that Governor Smith re ceded more votes in the late pri mary than in the primary of 1906. This L an. error, as the official rec ords will show. Two years ago he received fOl ,790 votes and in the late primary 95,919. —Danielsville Monitor. Taft lias caused it to he given-mut that lit- is opposed to tipping. And yet he tips the beam at three hun dred and odd. —Augusta Herald. If Willie Hearst gets a daily in Atlanta and Tom Watson keeps the Populist party alive, won’t there be dear old times in Georgia polities ere long? —Sylvania Herald. Hon. Van Deadwyler was elected Ia delegate to Denver from the Bth [congressional district. There is not ; a man in Georgia that will have a j better time or that will be truer to the principles of democracy than lie, i Clarke County Courier. All-Day Singing At Bellmoßt. s T. C. Hayes, that noted singer, jot Hartwell; .Jessie L. Smith, of I Gainesville; 11. B. Mathews, of ’ Pendergrass, and many other good j singers from the adjoining counties ! will hold an all-day singing at Bell j moot the lirst Sunday in July. v Everybody invited to attend. ! Bring your spng books, and a bas i ket. Gainesville Midland will give one fair, round trip, on both lines. Arrivals. Born to Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Lay, a boy. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Wiliam Dunnahoo, a girl. Born tp Mr. and Mrs. Erast us Perkins, a boy. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Jim Foster, a girl.