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GREAT OFFERS THE JACKSONIAN CLUBBING LIST Jacksonian and JOURNAL $1.25 Jacksonian and Constitution 1.50 GREAT OFFERS. SOUTHERN RAILWAY SCHEDULE FOR JACKSON. Local Passenger trains pass th Depot, at the times mentioned below. NORTH BOUND. No 17 6 41 A M No .7 9 :57A. M No. 15 2:82P. M, No. 9 8:48 “ SOUTH BOUND. No 18 \ 9 58 P M. No. 16 7 :38 A M No. 8 8:08 P. M No 10 8:08 *■ Q. W. KINSMAN Carriage & Wagon Mfgr. i ■—i ihiumutii i imr - v^iiswwn*—- austf Plantation Work in gen= eral. Horseshoeing in a Specialists Hands. Work done with Dispatch and Ac curacy and on Shortest Not* ice and at living prices FOR TEE CASH. Bay Situs 0W Now is the time to buy Dims Cheap. We will cell Single and Double Barrell Ihvech Loading 1 Shot Duns for the next 30 days for cash, lor less than they can be bought in tin market at wholesale prices. Corne and get a bargain il you want a gun. De % $. Joftnsoit go. C ASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bsugh! Local News. Judge Ham, who has been quite sick is greatly improved. Mrs. J. E. Folds of Wrens Ga. is the guest of relatives here. Miss Maude and Mae Letson of Towaliga were in the city Saturday. Mrs. T. C. Jones of, Stark was shop ping iii Jackson recently. Miss Eula Thornton spent Saturday night and Sunday with Miss Eloise Jones. Mr. Tom McKibben, of Eatonton was mingling with his many Jackson friends Sunday. Mrs. J. H. McCallum is spending a while, with her daughter Mrs. Stal worth in Atlanta. Miss Elon Tollison of McDonough spent the first part of the week with Miss Nina Harris. Messrs Asa, Lee, and Rufus Smith spent Saturday and Sunday in For syth with their father Mr. A. C. Smith who has been quite ick. Miss Louise Lamar, of Columbus is the attractive guest of her Aunt, Mrs. F. S. Etheridge. Miss Viola Slaughter left Sunday afternoon for Sparks after spending a week with her parents. Now is the time to get your horses in shape buy your stock food from A. Q. Taylor. Miss Eva Sasnett’s many friends will be sorry to know that she contin ues quite ill. Miss Tallie Jolly was a most graci ous hostess at a delightful informal domino party Friday evening, only a bout eight of ner friends being pres ent. Mrs. E. M. Boyd and little son, of Flotilla are guests of her parents Mr. and Mrs. McOune McMichael. Miss Willie Cooper spent the week end with her sister, Mrs. little in Ma con. Miss Bertha Dickson and Mr. Ja mie Hooten of McDonough were the guests of Mrs. J. L. Hooten Sunday. Miss Lucy Goodman visited Miss Lilian McDowell in Atlanta a few days last week. Mrs. Nora King who has been the guest of her sister Mrs. 'Brownley in Atlanta has returned home. Mrs. R. N. Etheridge, Mrs Andrew McMahon and Miss Lula Ham atten ded the Sunday-School Convention in Marietta asdeligates from the Jack son Baptist Bible School. Misses Mattisn Ham and Taliie Jolly went up to Atlanta Saturday to see Louis James in Shakespeare’s light comedy “Merry Wives of Wind sor.” Mrs. E. R. Merritt of Jenkinsburg was in the city Saturday. Mrs. Bertha Bryant visited relatives in Jenkinsburg Sunday. Mr. W. H.C. Hammond died last Fricay ar.d was buried Saturday at Worthville. ' Mr. J. W. Terrell from Flovilla was here Wednesday. LOST —Cow, pale red, no horns, weight about GUO, wa taken up Sat urday February 23 and is new at my home in FinchervJle, owner can have same by proving property and pay ing charges. P. P. Johnson, Finch er villa. While it is true that The Jacksoni an extends a 50? subscription rato to preachers, yet it is only when paid in advance. It looks like a 50? preach er to take the paper on a credit and then refuse to pay the full price. I have'located my barber shop in the Masonic building next door to the Jacksonian office. J. H. F. Reeves. Henry Clay flour at A. Q. Taylor’s. Mr. Sam-King, a Baptist Minister fromß. F. D. No. 1 was a caller oa The Jacksonian Sat. and settled up his arrears. We have left only 12 of J. A, Kim ball make of Buggies on hand. Better come qu’ck if you want a good buggy. Buttriil. Gresham & Cos. CJ ASTO A • Bears tN Miss Lester and Miss Ham teachers of Music and Elocution in the Jack son Public School will give their reg ular monthly recital Tuesday after noon Mar. 19th at 8.30 o’clock in the School Auditoriam, Get your market baskets at A. Q. Taylor’s 5 cents each. Rev.- Mr. Willingham, Rev. Mr. Wiggins, Commissioner Maddox and Mrs. John Lyons visited the Public School at different times the present week, and made interesting talks to the children. Mr. Maddox stayed the entire day Tuesday and inspected the School from every standpoint. He was very mu;h gratified with the way the school is being conducted, and was confident that Jackson never had such a school as she now enjoys. He told the children to work hard for the prize offered by Mrs. Settle through the daughters of the Confederacy of Jackson. Dr J. B. Hopkins, spent Sunday with his brother Dr. S. C. Hopkins who was recently stricken with appendicitis. Norcioss, Dr. is [rapid ly improving and expects to be out soon. Fresh vegetables at A. Q Taylors all the time, come to see him. • DR. R. J. BINGHAM WILL DELIVER AN ADDRESS AT THE METHODIST CHURCH. Dr. K. J. Bigham will deliver an address Friday night at the Methodist Church nuder the auspices of the Epworth League. The subject for his Ucture will be “Wonderland”, showing some of the revelations of the telescope, the micro scope, the X ray, and of the bottom of the sea. • This promises to be a great treat to the young people of Jackson. Don’t miss it. MR. W. T. POWERS. Our buyer has had years of experi ence in the buying of Dry Goods Shoes, and Millinery, the Eastern markets are as an open book to him and experience has taught him where to buy the best and when to buy at the lowest ebb of prices so when you come to our store to make your pur chases, you get ncombination of style and a full supply of economy. A glance through our stock this spring is like a trip through Fairy Land and costs you nothing to look. We shall exoect to see you at our Opening and for many days there after. Very Respcfc. The Jackson Mercantile Cos. REV. G.W. WILLINGHAM. Rev. C. W. Willingham who has accepted temporarily, the call of the Jackson Baptist Church, has after earoestsolicitation. agreed to give the readers of the Jacksonian an article on .Japan. Besides being an able minister of the gospel, Rev. Willing ham is full of information on many subjects, especially Jupun, he being a returned missionarv from the Japan fields. His consent to write for the Jack sonian will gladden the hearts of the Jacksonian readers, which have grown so NUMEROUS Ml over Butts Count.'.. Wo are hoping, after awhile to carry on our list of writers, others who will furnish our readers with readable matter. MILLINERY AND CRESS GOODS OPENING. The announcement of spring open ing of the Carmichael - Etherigde- Smith Cos will be found on first page. The opening occurs on 1 hursduy and. Friday March 2ist and 22nd. . MURDER OF BILL STOKES EY UNKNOWN PARTY. Bill Stokes a crippled nigger who lives on Mr. R.D. Ogietree’s was mur dered with an axe Wednesday night. Rcbery is euppoetd to have been the motive. THE COUNTY'S DEBT. Mr. Editorln your last issue ap pears an editorial that is likely to make a wrong impression, and know ing your desire for a fair play, I ask to put a few things in your columns, that is only just and right that an im partial public should know, in order to render a righteous judgmont, There is two sides to this question. It seems that somebody is trying to imagine that our present Commiss ioners are trying to repuiate an hon est debt. The argument to which I refer was made on the assumption that there is such a scheme on foot, and the argument in itself is sound, the premises being false, makes it unnecessary and misleading and it all falls together. The truth about it is our present Commissioners are in a hole that they did not dig. They are honorable high-minded men, and no amount of abuse, or law suits can force them to violate their oath of office, or bow the knee to the money power, by betraying the trust the people have placed in their hands. The framers of our Constitution and our legislators did not make the law that guards the people’s money in the hands of their public servants for an idle or ineffective purpose, that the grand jury is asking these men to disregard. The spirit of persecution and intolerance being persued a gainstthesejaaen, Asburry,Gaston and Maddox reminds the student of the bleening Martyrs in the reign of Henry the eighth when one man was executed for being a Catholic and an other for not being one, and yet otners because they were neither. Does a Commissioner have a right to create a debt on the County for any purpos.? Can anybody sign a note and thereby bind the County? Could the Commiss'onera have levied a sufficient tax rate, in 1906, to have paid this debt? If so, why didn’t they do it? If not, how in the name of common sense could the present Commissioners do so? If the County is not legally bound for this debt, and you were one of the present commiss ionera, would you assume it and pay it, law oi no law? Why should any one resign to submit this question to the people? This was the request the Commissioners made to the credi tor , and every one of them, including the County Attorney, agreed to vote for its payment if the creditors would not sue. Then why should they re sign? There is no necessity for try ing to inject politics in this matter, there is too much at stake. The Commissioners have been forc ed to defend the honor of the county before the courts, without any choice, and they do not deserve the censure of those for whom they are fighting. Nobody wants a creditor of the coun ty to loose his money and would help pay the debt,but it is very unreason able to expect our present Commis sioners to take their own estates, their life time work and pay a debt for the county, when they did not even borrow any money. Any pri vate citizen has the same right to pay this debt that the Commissioners have. Why don’t somebody do it. A Citizen. MRS. W. N. NELSON WELL KNOWN IN BUTTS COUNTY DIED THURSDAY 7TH Mrs. vV. N.Nelson who died 7thint in McDonough was Miss Martha Ann McGough a member of the well known McGough family of Butts Cos. and the wife of the late Judge Win N. Nelson who for many years was Or dinary of Henry County. Judge Nel son and also his wife who was his cousin were descendants of the iiius irious family that produced Englands great naval hero, Admiral Lord Nel son of Trafalgar fame, who plucked the naval pinions from the wings of Napoleon causing his ambitious schemes to finally cal lapse. Mrs. Nelson was buried in McDonough Cemtiary Mar. Bth. The highest military rank in England is not field marshal, but captain gen eral of the forces, and can only be held by the sovereign. WHY THE CONFEDERATES WOULD DIE FOR GEN. LEE. AN INCIDENT. Dear Mr. Watson : Tour beautiful tribute to General Lee, on his birthday, haß prompted me to give a personal incident which illustrates the cause of the devotion of Lee’s Army to their noble com mander. In the latter part of the summer, or fall of 1864. while the siege of Richmond and Petersburg vfas on, a part of Grant’s Array had been mass ed and a successful charge made against the Weldon Railroad just south of Petersburg, A. counter charge by the Confeder ates had been auccesstul to the extent of re-capturing the railroad, but had not pushed Grant’s troops back far enough to re-capture all of /the lost ground, and, therefore, a part of our men were engaged in throwing up new breastworks between the railroad and the position then held by the en e my. Near the old gas works a citizen had a two or three-acre patch of corn in roasting ear. Gen. Lee ordered a guard to watch over that corn night and day to pro tect the citizen’s property, The writer, then a mere boy soldier of the 45th Georgia Regiment, was helping in the work. Goaded bv that craving feeling that every old soldier remembers, that comes to one who has not had their appetite satisfied for weeks I decided to risk the bullet of the guard and the punishment of army discipline in the determination to get some of that corn. Leaving the workers for a short time I made my way through th* thick undergrowth and over the fence and secured two roasting ears. Returning along a path through the undergrowth 1 stopped, struck a match, collected loaves and twigs and scon hud a small fire. Having removed the shuck, I had my two ears of corn standing on end baking one side at the time, by the coals. I was stooping to turn my corn, when I heard a horse walking behind me. Turning around—great heavens I General Lee had brought "Traveler” to a standstill, while he sat there like a statue. Now every old veteran that reads this will know exactly what I expect ed. To be ordered to headqar f ers for punishment. But that noble old Ro man did nothing of the sort. With his face all wreathed in smiles, he looked first into my fright ened countenance, and then at my corn, and with a slight pressure of the bridle rein with the left hand, causing "Traveler” to slightly sway to the left,while with his right hand he gave me the most graceful salute I had ever seen In return I gave him the mo9t grateful, though not the most graceful one, I had even seen. The grand old hero pulled his horse from the path, a sad expression pass ed over his face, and I believe he said, “My poor boys ere starving 1’ 1 ate my half-cooked roastingears and with appetite partially satisfied, went back to work, determined to stand by General Lee until death. Ofren, in all the years gone by. 1 nave asked inystlf, "Did I do wrong? Did General Lee do wrong?” My conscience answers, no. And if the man who owned that corn is yet alive and should see this, he will answer no. He had the power to punish and he fcad the power to pardon. When the final history of that great struggle is written, I hope something of this incident will be re membered as an inspiration to those in authority in the ages to come. This personal incident made me a better man in after years, as it taught me not to condemn myfeliowman un til I knew what prompted the act. Watsons Jeffersonian. W. F. Smith. Flovilla, Ga. OA9TOHIA. Bear* th* * i,nd Alwafl BOiglft