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WINDER WEEKLY NEWS Published Every Thursday Evening Robkrt O. Ross, Editor. G. D. Ross, Associate. Entered at the Postoffice at Winder. Ga. as second class mail matter. SIJBSCU 11‘TION KATES One Year, - - * Six Mont Its. - 60 Three Months, - * Thursday, August 6, 1908. ACT (H A DOG LOVER. New York —Following an idabo rate funeral today Judy, j fox ter rier, owned by Mrs. James G. Ross m:m, Atlanta, Ca., who,is stopping at the home of her mother, Mrs. A. R. Kune, Brooklyn, will be buried in a day r two in the cem etery for dogs near West Plains. Judy died on Thursday of paralysis. After an undertaker had embalmed the Uid.v it was placed in a small coffin. Children of the neighbor hood, who bad played with Judy, were invited into the parlor of the Lane residence to have a last look at the dog. Some of them brought (lowers. Several of the children, acting as pallbearers, carried the coffin out to the street, where it was placed in a white hearse, which was in waiting. The body of the dog was taken to an undertaker s shop, from where it is to be removed lo the cemetery near West Plains. We suppose Atlanta is proud of tliis freakish inhabitant, who be came imbued with the Atlanta spirit a few years ago and permit ted a man to share a flections with her fox terrier, but we deny that Georgia has any interest in a woman guilty of such sacrilegious tomfoolery as the above. We pity the man who is tied to a creature of this kind and would be pleased to give hubby lessons in the artistic use of a Ikhl slat. The most di gesting scene under the sun is a childless woman fondling and kiss ing a ribbon-bedecked blamed little old d*>g. (An exchange asks: “Now, who will carry (ieorgia —Graves or Wat son? ’ Neat her. Reformers must do things by de grees. The advent of the sheath skirt should have satisfied Repre sentative Glenn. It comes to us on good authority that some of our county nominees will have opposition at the October elections. Wo can t foretell just ‘the Mnd of curves those who con template making the race intend to pitch, but the early closing of n trance to the county primary is be ing freely discussed. With state polities in the scrambled mess that it is and the disfranchisement ques tion and the negro in the garni', late suppers and night rides in Jackson are not at all improbable. A petition is being circulated by relatives of R. L. Vanderford ask- iug for hi* pardon, and as a result his notorious crime is again being aired in the Gwinnett papers. Sev eral of the jurors who heard the evidence have refused to sign the petition and Vanderford s wife has made affidavit fluff he acknowledged his guilt to her. , The general pub lie is familiar with the ease and we don't care to go into the details further than to state that a petition for pardon and a counter petition is now being circulated. PRESS COMMENT ON LEASE SYSTEM While thonfUghly disgusted with the whole convict lease system, we cannot coincide with those views which seem to hold that the h -secs should provide Florida water baths for a lot of negro convicts —Augusta (’hronielc. The state is in danger of being made to suffer at the hands of well meaning fanaticism. “Behold what a great matter a little fire kind let he —Fort Gaines Sentinel. t If the stories told by the witness es in tin convict investigation are to lo relied on, eold and cruel Li beria has lost its fame. But when it comes to believing the testimony of the averagi ex-conviet or dis charged guard or wardtn, we arc very slow and incredulous. Much of the testimony is so patently un real >i table. —Mad ison Madisonian. If this system is as vile and base as it now appears, Georgia cannot afford to accept a revenue from such a source. If the reports are untrue, we must know it, that Georgia’.- name may be vindicated. Eiberton Star. We arc in favor of wiping the whole thing out, and commencing anew, after probing to the bottom ami punishing every man who has been guilty of unseemly conduct in connection with our present diabol ical system. —Fayetteville News. And the people are being treated to a great deal of sentimental gush. Some <*f them are forgetting that the Georgia penitentiaries are filled with the hardest criminals of the state, and they are sent there to he punished.- -Me Du flic Progress. Before we finally make up our minds on the convict question leTs wait and hear some testimony from other sides. The prison commis sioners will be heard from later, and they will make a defense worthy of consideration. —Ocilla Star. It must l>e remembered that our criminal class in Georgia is of a very low order mentally. To be punish ed for crime is no disgrace to them —rather it exalts them in the estimation of their class. Confine meat has no terrors for them, and all that they really dread is work. To take this class of criminals and attempt to punish them by confine ment in “a comfortable and well ordered penitentiary," where the food that is given them is better than they have been accustomed to, where “all the modern eon veil* ieiiees' , are provided to give physical comfort, would be simply putting a premium on crime. To coddle criminals who have committed heinous crimes,for which their necks should have been broken if full justice had been given them, lis a mistake. Tudor our new law ibis class of criminals are to be worked nomore than ten hours a day,same number of hours as honest people and poor women and chil dren are being worked in the mills. I'ndor our new law this class of con victs mav not be worked under ground, which is too hard and dan gerous —this must l>e left altogether for good, lamest, law-abiding men for whom no mawkish senti mentalism is raising its voice. Why lie more concerned over detcstahU criminals than over the condition of honest, law-abiding people? Why put a premium on crime by making its punishment a physical comfort and pleasure to the convicted criminal, greater than Ik enjoved Indore? —Augusta Her ald. ‘ ' The memliers of the legislature who have been shot to pieces for drunkenness by the paragrapliers of tlie state press have been exoner ated by a committee appointed to investigate the ma’ter and the charges of John T. Moore, of Ma con, branded as wholly unwarrant ed and absolutely falsi*. Now, boys, apologize and in future weigh well your testimony besore you? become character assassins. With the Paragraphed. - • There is about as much chance for Georgia to go Republican, Popu list or Independent as there is for Atlanta to win the pennant thb year. —Marietta. Courier. An exchange says “a woman in Philadelphia kneads bread with her gloves mi,” Well, if some of our subscribers dont pay us a visit soon, we ll need bread with our shirt on and our pants on, too. —Soe ia Gircle Sentry. ’ ( antelopt—can t, eh? It we had the rigid partner we would show you,” -ay- our .-tenograher. — Fitzgerald Enterprise. Is she red-headed, freckled, and wears a“merry widow hat, Brother Mercer? —Tallapoosa Journal. Kansas used to be the state that was inot noted for freakish polities, but it appears that Georgia now has that enviable distinction. —Colum- bus hedger. If you are a democrat be one; if not, get into some other party and I quit masquerading as a democrat. — 'Columbus hedger. Though list'd foi centuries in oaths in all Kngli.-ii speaking courts, “So help me God” will no longer lx 1 heard in the Louisville police conrt. Judged. W. McGee decided that it was so often and so flippantly repeated each day that it became sacrilegious, and be ordered the clerk to strike it from the form. He says that he will follow that plan for the ifst of his term. — ville Times. The merchant who thinks he can succeed without, advertising lacks wisdom and w ill soon be a forgotten quantity- —Kx. There are county weekly papers all over the state who have in bold typo at the bead of their papers “Democratic Organ," and would, tight a local county candidate of the Republican or Populist party to a standstill, but when Taft and Tom Watson rame out for president they totally ignore their bold type head ing and write long-winded editorials in favor of Mr. Taft and Mr. Watson,! and actually expect their readers: to believe, they are good old line j democrats- Such polities makes us sick. Re true to your Democratic organ in tlie national as well as your county elections and urge your democratic county and state to give Mr. Bryan its loyal support. Our paper is now, and has been the; oltieal democratic organ of this eolin- 1 ty for over 2o years and we w ant to tell everybody we are supporting Mr. Bryan for president and hope to see the democratic nominee carry | our county, state and Tnitcd States’ for president.—Cherokee Advance. : The court of appeals has handed down a decision which puts a stop to the flooding of the mails of Geor gia with whisky advertisements and solicitations for orders by firms out side tin* state. Since the prohibi tion bill was passed the whisky firms in near-by states have made this territory a dumping ground for their literature and personal ap peals for patronage. Men who never used intoxicants in any form have received familial personal let ters praising the different brands of whisky and asking the privilege of sending a sample order. The de cision as handed down by Judge Russell ends this mode of procedure and it is the opinion of some of the best lawyers in W inder that it is far-reaching enough to cause the discontinuation of whisky adver tisements in the newspapers of the state. It is now'against the law for whisky firms to use the mails for the purpose of soliciting orders in Georgia, and it seems to us that the advertising in the papers would l>e a violation of this ruling. With officials and a strict enforce ment of law, (ieorgia is all right. The New and tTp-to-Uate . 0 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. - mßsm ffJi Y p*£ss In every line, WOODRUFF MACHINERY is in a class by itself, embodying every improvement known in mechanics which makes one machine supe rior to another in durability, convenience, economy and speed of operation. Write us for prices on the Best Machinery on earth. 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