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CHARITY may cover a muliitude
of sins but it won’t cover tne sinner.
ONE of the most pitiable sights
that can be met with is a white man
in conviet garb.
WHATEVER inay he the final out
come of the Thaw trial it is a com
plete expose of the rottenness of
high life society.
THE only offers of friendship tnat
the writer regards as an honor and
of which he feels proud is that of
child who is too young to have an axe
to grind.
THE papers that are pred'cting
treachery in Hoke Smith are those
who fought him so; and if they are
far wrong in this as they were in
forecsating his defeat all will come
out right.
SOME remedy for the tardy action
of the U. S. Senate ought to be found
and applied. America is a rapid,
progressive nation and something
more is due to the people than fool
ish wrangling for days and weeks at
a time over a question that a child of
ordinary inteligence could decide
in ten minutes.
Immigration “Pow-wow.”
Editor Johnson of the Henry Coun
ty Weekly wants to know what li
that immigration pow wow was about
in Macon last week. Simply this:
the farm labor in Georgia is so noto
rious unreliable and unsatisfactory
that the farmer who owns a home,
more land than he can work with his
own hands has come to feel the neces
sity of a class of help that will help.
A help that be will not have to buy
at twice its face value two or three
times a year. A help that means
more to him than the stiffening of
the muscles of a mule by forcing him
to his utmost speed while the driver
disgraces the beauty of anew top
buggy, when he (the driver) ought to
be splitting cord wood for somebody.
It was decided by that Pow Wow to
send agents to Ireland, Scotland, and
the northern countries of Europe who
are in sympathy with, and who are
familiar with the needs of the Georgia
farmer, and select laborers who are
able, willing, and competent to till
a place where ke is specially seeded.
We wish to remove the condition
mw existing "that| is causing our
rural population to move their fami
lies to the towns for the safety of
their wives and daughters. We
wish to see the time when a lady may
travel alone in peifect safety from the
mountains of Tennessee to the lakes
of Florida. Conditions can never be
any worse than they are now.
Old hunters tell us that when the
red fexes appeare the greys skidooed,
and so will it be in this instance.
OABTORXA.
Betrity
A Few Words to Those
Who Enforce the Laws.
If the grand juries of Butts County
and the city government of Jacks >ll
ii their attempts during the last t. n.
yeirs to suppreaa the hind timers had
exterminated the verinn from the
very Court Houee squar*- where the
Sickening odor of the vile traffic wi #
for years an offciiso to every law sbi- ,
ding man who spent a day in J tekson,
and then gone after the nigger who |
in all probability was selling the
stuff for some white man—pf'liat
policy h.d pern per-ued and ihenrii
liquor law had been enforced with
uubaised sentiment, ihen today there
would not have been a blind tiger
in Butts county It is so notoriously
true that society demands tna pun
ishment of the peity rogue who
steals a chicken from sonnones back
ya'd bscause ha is hungry while the
educated high stepping high stand
ing well dressed thief who boriows
your money or in some other way
gets your stuff and then wont, pav you
is countenanced and In many instan
ces patted on the buck an t pointed
out as a model c.f a business man anrl
a criterian for our children tocopy af
ter, that it is a wonder that each gen
eration is not worse than last. It
is bad tuste for any
one go to prayer meeting and
shout helallnjah, piay like the
Master was deaf, make prohibition
speeches when the opportunity ■ ffers,
and then go to Macon or Atlanta ti i
up on booze and make an ass of tom
self —, order a jug by express r.nd g> t
drunk every night until the next sup
ply arrives—,gamble, fi 4 1 1 1■. and do a
lot of things that are not v.-ry nice,
and then chase a hungry dug all over
town for stealing a hone.
You can not eradicate wild unions
by topping them, strike ai thei\ots
and the tops will die.
A CHANGE TO 60 TO THE
JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION.
For a Few Days Work The
Record Will Present You
With a Ticket Free.
The Jamestown Exposition 10 be
held in Norfolk Va., will open April
26th and close November 60th 1 his
exposition is in commemoration of
the first engiish settlement in Amer
lea, made at Jamestown in 100< by
Captain Johf Smith.
Preparations for the exposition
have been in progress for a number
of years and strenuous efforts are be
ing made to make this one <>f t lit- brst
expositions that have been held in
America up to this time. Every
state, and most of the foreign nations
will have their exhibits.
The Record offers any man or
woman in Butts county a chance to
see tie Jamestown exposition free.
Here Are Our Propositions.
Contest No. 1. To the one who
will get the most subscribers for t. e
Record between February 15 and
June 1 we will present, absolutely free
a round trip ticket, together with ,ix
days free entry into the exposition;
provided the total number sent, in by
all the contestants combined exceeds
one hundred.
Contest No 2. To the one wno will
get the most subscribers between
February 15 and June 1, we well pre
sent free one round trip ticket to the
exposition; provided the total num
ber of subscriber sent in by all the
contestants combined exceeds seventy
five.
Contest No. 8. The one who will
get the most subscribers between
February 15 and June Ist, we will
pay foroue half your ticket to the
exposition, provided the total num
ber exceeds fifty.
All subscriptions to be counted
must be paid in advance at SI.OO per
year, and must be new ones.
No one will be allowed to win in
more than on contest, so state be
fore you start which you want to
enter, contest one, two, or three .
Now get busy and seeure a trip to
the exposition, and avail yourself of
the opportunity to see aristocratic
010 l Nirgiuia. historic Richmond and
beautiful Norfolk by the sea.
"THE IDIOT" OK M. 0.
A Suppressed Chapter of “Coffee
and Repartee” by J. K. Bangs.
Glorious Times Coming, When Each
Passenger Will Be Paid For Riding
on the Street Cars —Morris Chairs,
Desks and Carnegie Libraries to Bo
Provided —Tha City to Pay the Bill.
“I see.” said the Idiot as he folded up
the morning paper and sat on it so that
his fellow boarders might not come
Into possession, “that the municipal
marshmallow and peanut brittle plant
at Uobokus lias been sold to the caiuly
trust, and the dream of comparatively
free and absolutely pure marshmal
lows and peanut brittle under the con
trol of the city fathers has turned out
to be a mere bit of bankrupted irides
cence."
"It’s nil Iridescence—the whole mu
nicipal ownership scheme.” said Mr.
Brief, the lawyer. ‘‘lt's a bubble with
out even the soap.”
“Oh. I don’t think that.” said the
Idiot. “Soenis to me it’s a pretty good
scheme, only they ought to make !t
comprehensive. What I want to see
is the day when the municipality owns
everything that now tills the Individ-
BACH PASSENGKII WILL HP. PKOVIDED WITII
A UOUIUS CHAIIt.
uul with care, from the toothache and
appendicitis up to the trolleys, theaters
and theosophy. I>ld you ever think,
Dr. Squills, of what a fine thing It
would be to operate* on the body politic
for :t case of municipal appendicitis?”
“I have never let uiy mind dwell
upon so fertile a field for thought—no.”
said the doctor. “It would be rather
difficult, wouldn't it?"
“I suppose it would," returned the
idiot. “I suppose it would be next to
impossible to etherize the whole city
government before you began to grap
ple around in Its insides after the of
fending vermiform, but if it could be
doDe wouldn't it be line? Just think
of getting rid of all the useless and in
flamed members of the body politic as
easily as man now sheds his personally
conducted trouble with his innards.”
“Do you really believe that govern
ment could run the trolleys as well as
they are run by individuals?” asked
Mr. Brief.
“If they couldn’t they’d better go out
of business," said the idiot. “I don't
see why they can’t run street railways
as well as they run the street manicur
ing department. And think how nice it
would be— how much envy, hatred
and malice would disappear—if the
people owned the trolley! For instance,
when you and I see Mr. J. Willieboy
Duckington hiking up the pike in his
automotrouble”—
“His what?” demanded the lawyer.
“His automotrouble,” said the idiot.
“It’s a machine run by gasoline that
breeds trouble of its own power. When
we see old Willieboy scooting along in
his car you and I turn pale pink with
envy because we haven’t anything of
the kind to keep us awake nights and
before the police courts of all the coun
ties ’twist Cattaraugus and Kenne
bunk. We’re too poor to pay even for
that long and tolerably consistent
scent that lies In the trail of it, and we
gnash our teeth to think that we never
can get our pictures in the Sunday
papers because we shall never own one
of those machines. But if we as citi
zens of this metropolis owned the trol
leys it would be different. When the
Green avenue and Gompers square car
goes-by we would look at its brilliantly
lit electric Interior and smile with sat
isfaction. ‘That is my new Wilming
ton,’ we'd say to our country cousins
who were visiting us. Then we'd nod
politely to the chauffeur, and he’d stop
and take us aboard, and by and by
the conductor would come through and
"hand us all a nickel”—
“Whnt in thunder are you talking
about? What on earth would the
conductor hand you a nickel for?" de
manded the lawyer.
“For riding on the car, of coarse,”
said the idiot “That’s the scheme,
isn’t it?"
“Oh, is it?” laughed the lawyer.
“Well, I guess that’s the way some
people look at it What Is your pre
cise idea of municipal ownership, any
how?” .
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Is your baby thin, weak, fretful ?
Make him a Scott's Emulsion
baby.
Scott's Emulsion is Cod Liver Oil
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Consequently the baby that is fed on
Scott's Emulsion is a sturdy, rosy
cheeked little fellow full of health and vigor.
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ALL DRUGGISTS; SOc. AND SIXSO.
i "Why.” said the Idiot, “as I under
stand the propaganda of the M. O.
people as expounded on the editorial
pages of the sporting extras of the
New York Evening Brisbane and the
Chicago Daily William Randolph, mu
nicipal ownership menus the grabbing
of everything in sight that has a cash
register and a meter attached to it.
’ sending the original owners to jail for
1 life and managing what’s left for the
benefit of the people. In the case of
the trolleys all the enormous profits
derived from the nefarious practice
now In operation of carrying a passen
ger ninety miles for a nickel are to be
turned back to lioi pollol In the shape
of annual dividends with blue trading
stamps with every dollar’s worth.
which on presentation at the office of
any gas company in the United States
will entitle the bearer to free gas for
the rest of his natural life.
“The expected improvements in the
public service will lie along the better
ment of cars, an increased urbanity on
the part of the motormen and conduct
ors and a far greater regard for beau
ty iu all rapid transit matters. As I
understand the situation as to the first
improvements, the cars are to be larger
to begin with, better ventilated and
without straps. No car will be so
small that anybody will ever have to
stand in or out of rush hours. Each
passenger will be provided wfth a Mor
ris chair on a swivel, with a writing
desk and an electric light attached, sta
tionery and typewriters to be had on
application to the conductor. At one
end of each car there will be a Car
negie library and a reading room, with
all the magazines and weeklies on
file, and at the other a buffet where
soft drinks will be dispensed by the
best mixers the politicians can drum
ui>. In the advertising panels that run
around the walls of the car. Instead of
these being merely friezes of patent
medicines, face powders, breakfast
foods and corsets, elevating literature
will be printed by such authors as
Dicky Davis, Ella Wheeler Wilcox and
Henry .Tames, with a college graduate
on the rear platform to explain the
paragraphs of the last named author
to those who do not understand reform
ed rhetoric. Ladies will be escorted to
their seats by bellboys, and every car
will have a chaperon, aided by a com
petent bouncer to see that attractive
looking shoppers, dainty little widows
and others of the female persuasion are
able to travel a block without being
ogled off the car by vagrom drummers
and lads from the smoke regions late
ly come into possession of their fa
thers’ hard earned savings.
“All the motormen will be put
through a course of instruction in good
manners, so that when a lady on a
street corner holds up her finger as a
sign that she would like to got aboard,
instead of cutting her dead, as many
of them do at present, and going ahead
as though the company didn't want
any passengers, they will stop the car,
lift their hats like a pack of Chester
fields, gather up her bundles, call her
attention to the weather, express the
hope that her family are all enjoying
good health and see to it that she gets
inside the car without falling on her
face or sitting unexpectedly down in
the lap of an entire stranger. The
.conductors will he similarly trained,
only they will be rather better edu
cated than the man on the front plat
form. I can think of no better way
to show what the conductors will be
than to say that they will resemble the
modern policeman, that fine flower of
the municipal ownership of the con
stabulary.
"You know what happens if you ask
a policeman anything. He at once
touches his helmet In respectful salu
tation, flicks the dust from the breast
of his blue coat and places himself en
tirely at your ‘service. Anything yon
want to know he tells you with a
pleasant smile or with an expression
of deep and pojgnant _regret Informs
you that he is not at the moment In
possession of the information you seek,
but will find out at the earliest pos
sible opportunity and send word by
special delivery post if you will kindly
give him your address. All of you
who have had that experience with a
policeman will know what to expect
from the municipal ownership con
ductor. The city fathers as represent
ed by their commissioner of trolleys
will take the same care In the selection
of the men that they now take through
the police commissioner in the selec
tion of the preservers of the peace, so
that we may rest easy as to the su
nerior morale of the force.
(To be con ti ued next week.)
Legal Advertisments.
Administration.
GEORGIA. Butts Countv.
Notice is hereby given to all persons con
cerned, that Julia Readen of said County
and State, departed this life intestate and
no person has applied for Administration
on the estate of said Juliajßeaden, that Ad
ministration will be vested in the Clerk
of the Superior Court, or some other lit and
proper person, after the publication of this
Citation, unless valid objections are made
t.o his appointment.
Given under my hand and official Signa
ture this 4th day of Februuary 11*07.
J. H. HAM. Ordinary.
For Administration.
GEORGIA. Butts Count>.—
To All whom It Maj concern.
W. A. White, Jr. having in proper form,
applied to me for permanent Letters of Ad
ministration on the estate of B. S. White
late of said County, this is toeitealland
singular the creditors and next of kin of
B. S. White, to Tie and appear at my office
within the time allowed by law, and show
cause if any they can, why permanent Ad
ministration should not be granted to W.
A White Jr. on B. S. White’s estate.
Witness m.v hand and official signature
this 4th day of Feb. 1907.
J. H. HAM. Ordinary,
For titles to he made.
S. O. Ham. transferee, having made ap
plication for titles to he executed to him.
to certain lands described in the bond for
title thereto attached, purporting to he
signed by Mrs. Julia Andrews late of Butts
Colint# deceased •
The said application alleging that said
land has been fully paid for, all parties
concerned are hereby notified that said ap
plication will he heard before the Court of
Ordinrry at the March term of said Court.
This Febuary 4th 1907.
J. H. HAM, Ordinary.
For titles to he made,
W. B. Cochran, transferee*having made
application for titles to he executed to him
to certain lands described in the bond for
title thereto attached, purporting to he
signed by S. A. Biles, late of Butts County
deceased.
The said application alleging that said
land has been fully paid for, all parties con
cerned are hereby notified that said appli- .
cation will be heard before the Court of
Ordinary at the March term of said Court.
This Feb. 4th 1907.
J • H • HAM, Ordinary,
Goodwin the Liveryman.