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the Jacksonian. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BUTTS CO. PMbllslKd €wrv Trldiy. y S. E. ANDREWS, BDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Subscription SI,OO Per Yr. Advertising Kates Furnished On Application, CIRCULATION GUARANTEED All copy for advertisements and all copy Intended for publication must be In the office not later than Wednesday to insure insertion. Address all communications to The .Jacksonian. Entered at the Jackson (Ga.) Post Office as secend class mail matter. 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?” . jjjj Is your baby thin, weak, fretful ? Make him a Scott's Emulsion baby. Scott's Emulsion is Cod Liver Oil and Hypophosphites prepared so that it is easily digested by little folks. Consequently the baby that is fed on Scott's Emulsion is a sturdy, rosy cheeked little fellow full of health and vigor. ft 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.