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The Jacksonian.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BUTTS CO.
Published every Trtday.
S. E. ANDREWS,
EDITOR.
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Entered at the Jackson (Ga.)
Post Office as second class
mail matter.
The funner has always gone to town
to get information, but the town man
in the futur? will go to the country
to get his information. —Union News.
We wouldn’t like to be tried for
lunacy or indicted for a felony, but
would rather be most anything than
a sorry white man.—Fitzgerald En
terprise.
The Monroe Advertiser of June 21
iB a 112 oage Confederate monument
issue, and illustrates what is Dossible
for a country newspaper to accom
plish of properly supported.
Not Such Whoop La
Endorsement After All.
In the Muss Meeting last week the
endorsement, of the water and light
proposition unanamious as
gome people would try to make it
appear. Mr. J. T. Warthen who has
from the first been a water and lights
advaeate, echoed the sentiment of the
best citizenry of Jackson when he d<-
dared he would oppose any further
expenditure of money on the plant
Unless something more substantial
than promises were given as u guar
antee that every citizen who wants
water can get it without laying a
string of pipe across town at his own
expense. The town ought to be
made to furnish every nigger on First,
St. or uny,where else in town water
just like and under the same condi
tions that the gracious pete have, who
have, "with their shoulders to the
wheel pushed right ahead.”
O ye who have "stood under unjust
criticism,” why don’t you give the:e
niggers who drank your liquor, yelled
themselves hoarse and finally enabled
you by their votes to carry the elec
tion for bonds, why don’t you give
them water? "Unjust Criticism ’.
Indeed! Some people are so blinded
by their own rightenousness (V), ihsir
own good Morals (?), theirown exem
plary lives (?), and theirown conceit
that they couldn’t see the smut on
the old dragon’s cheeks if he were to
Stand grinning right in their faces.
We’ll Wake Up Will We?
Yes We’ll Wake up.
We are informed that the city at
torney is parading the streets of
Jackson boasting that the Editor of
The Jacksonian will wake up when
‘'We”—We presume he and ihe may
or—“get the Editor in the United
States court.” Well we presume that
that Is about the extent of his know
ledge, for we never heard him accus
ed of knowing much, but we will say
for the benefit of those, if any there
be. who don’t know the calibre of
this subject—this spoilt farm hard
who Baj s, if he were some
one else, that he would load a shot
gun with rlugs, jo down to the Jack
sonian and wipe out the whole busi
ness—that the court _ is the last place
they want to go. The United States
Court officials are not a crowd of cut
throats who will perjure themselves
Ito , gratify their own spleen. No
young man, you are mistaken. You
have fallen Into the hands of a bad
mob and the Editor is sorry for you,
HOT SHOT
Tom and Jerry.
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Say, old boy, surely they gave you
semething to make that big speech
you turned loose at the Court House.
What was it?
•‘Well, by G - - 1 guess all told a
bout $450. or $500.”
I thought so.
We are very sorry that the editori
al in last issue, wherein was drawn a
pen picture of some of Jackson’s
eeighty (avoirdupoise speaking) cit
izens, provoked such jealousy and
heated discussion among them
as to who was entitled to claim
ihe ownershipof the quill photo.
Don’t fret boys.
We know the snake and monkey
excursion is crowded, but before you
shall miss a seat we will stop at
Booseville and take on an extra coach
for your accomodation. If there is
yet a congestion you can transfer at
Mintjulip as there will be anew train
made up at this point wl-ich runs
without a single stop, nofeven a hes
itation, right into of the
doomed and damned. %
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The Jacksonian, “The Looking
Glass,” eh? The weekly periodical
formerly issued under the title of
“Looking Glass” was a social citrion
crow and invaded the private home
and dealt with private affairs and be
came a stenen in the nostrils of n
reading public.
The Lieksonian has never invaded
the homes and dragged before the
human race, nor exploited the domes
tic troubles of families as did * ‘ The
Looking Glass,” but It has and is en
deavoring to deal only with public
officials as they touch the citizens
they are intended to serve. Wo be
lieve a public office is a public tru?t
and should be so regarded by the
man who holds it. Many bt lieve a
public office is a private “snap” and
so use it. to further their selfish ends
and promote their private gait .
These characters are what is com
monly known as “grafters.” All li
ver the land they are being caught
up, tried in the Courts, convicted and
sentenced to serve in the penitenti
ary. Wa believe in a democratic form
of Government. We believe in a gov
ernment “of the people, for the peo
ple and by the people.” This is what
we are fighting for—this and nothing
less, nor more than this.
l’ut your hand on one single utter
enco of our sand show us where we
have demanded more than a square
deal and an honest cut of cards. If
I can get myself elected to an office
an appoint my kin folks as tax asses
sors and thereby have my property
assessed away below its value, and
others assessed at, and above its val
ue would you not charge me with be
ing a "grafter?”. How could Ibe
less than a "grafter?”
Graft is securing illegally or im
morally, an advantage over your
fallows. If a man steals inch by
inch more of the hand-stick than he
is entitled to and thereby throws more
of the weight of the log on the other
fellow than on himself, he is a ‘"graf
ter. ’ If by any means lam enabled
to throw more of the tax burden on
my neighbor than on .myself I am a
"grafter.” Apropos this statement
we will say we are endavoring to get
a copy of the assessment of the real
estate of Jackson for this year, and
if we are successful we will try to get
it published and it will sDeak for it
self. We can say that Tom it Jerry
has had his property assessment rais
ed. over the amount fixed by the
Council last year $7,000. None of
his adjoining neighbors have been
raised. However one has bsen low
ered. This raise does not include my
new office building as it does not
come into this years assessment.
The angel of prosperity winged his
Wight over Jackson and suddenly de
cended on my little nigger house in
Dark Town, the lot where I live and
my office lot. Here is neighbor
Frank Etheridge with a lot adjTL
me on the east with a front on lbift.
St. of 45ft. and a front of 70ft on
Holly St. and I have only an 18 )t
front on Third St. The an.gel of pros
perity refused to abide with him.
My lot (vacant) is assessed at $lB.
3S. a foot and Frank’s at $lO. a foot.
My Neignbor Fossetc on the west is
no more valuable than last year.
Why does their property not in
crease in value as mine? They must
not pay the preacher as willingly as
I. Take all my neighbors where I
live. Brother Jolly’s property has
dedreased while the others are no
more valuable than last yearr
Other property is underfire protec
tion and can use water for domestic
purposes and it has not increased in
value. My home property has no
water for fire protection, except by
!• ing about 850 ft. of ho3e, nor wa
ter for domestic purposes, yet it hi s
been increased. Why increase mine
with oi t thi 8s advantages ai,a not ir -
crease the other fellow who has the e
advantages?
The Council was appealed to as I
did last year, but while they reduced
it last year they refused this year
Other reductions made by them last
year was followed this year, but not
in my case.
Why not in my case? I am unab e
to say, but I will say that since t! e
action of this same council last yeai
I wrote the Square Deal Circular
Tom and Jerry column and dug up
one of the members of the Council
to the queens taste.
My property, though increased o
ver last, year is not as valuable as
lust year. * Why ? Because my prop
erty is not in as good repair now as
lait year and the tax burden it will
have to carry is gre iter. Will
Siine one explan to me why my
propelcy has enhanced in value this
year and my neighbors property have
not, but to the contrary one’s has
decreased?
The Griffir. News says: "one of the
attractions to draw the crowd to At
lanta on Coronation Day will be 17
new animals and 13 fowls at the
Gress zoo. Royalty has always been
under obligations to entertain the
people.”
"Our life is a book to which we add
daily, until suddenly we are finished,
and then the manuscript is burned.
In this diary we set out, meaning to
write one story, and write another
To tuan back to the beginning i& only
to wonder and be sad, but to compare
the second half of the volume as it is
with what we vowed to make it, is to
be lashod with nettles.”
What Do We Know?
yin May. 1848, I was in a stage in
of Georgia, riding from Sa
vannah to Augusta,” writes Edward
Everett Hale in the July Woman’s
Home Companion. "The driver was
going to turn up an avenue for a pas
senger, and I ask him to let me get
out. While he was gone I cut this
and that shrub or flower which were
new ta me. Among others I cut.
some spleudid steins of Adam’s Nee
dle, Yucca filimentosa, the first I had
ever seen, for you see this was very
near the time of Noah’s flood. In a
little while the stage came back and
I got in. I broke off a large bunch
of the blossoms. I distributed the
others among the other passengers
and threw the rest of My prise away.
His old lady passenger whom we
had picked up while I was botanizing,
cried out that I ought not have
thrown them away. She would have
been glad to take them to her daugh
ter, who had never seen any before.
This is to say, here was a baautiful
plant which grew within two hundred
yards of her front door and which she
had never seen.
“Now I do not mean to have any of
the ‘dearly beloved' who read these
words ignorant of the beautiful crea
tures which grow within twenty miles
of them. Dear Dr. Asa. Gray once
said to me that I might drop him
anywhere in America from a balloon,
and if the nice people of the planta
tion would bring him one hundred
of their native plants he would tell
within twenty miles of where he was,
I mean to have the readers as well
acquainted with the twenty miles a
round them as Doctor Gray was.”
CASTOR IA
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The Kind You Have Always Bought, and Vqs > e en
in use for over 30 years, lias borne —~ oignature of—
and has been made under his per
fj: sonal supervision since its infancy.
/'CcccAIAC Allow no one to deceive you iu this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and ** Just-as-good’* are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children—Experience against. Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare
goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep..
The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
The Kind You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
THE CENTAUR COMPANY. 77 MURRAY STREET. NEW YORK CITY.
Dr. catkins’ Stock Powders
They are the cheapest and Best that
Money can buy. They have proven to be
just what they are advertised to be.
They have given perfect satisfaction
in every instance, and are always guaran”
teed, or money refunded.
MADE BY
Dr. J. B. WATKINS,
SOLD EVERYWHERE. Jackson, Ga.
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Autry and Erichsen, Tonsorial Parlors.
Where can there be found
for a town the size of Jackson]
a barber shop that, for excel
lency in every respect, one!
which will surpass the parlors
of Jno. Autry and Albert
Erichsou? They are the very
cleverest and best fellows go
ing and can, either of them,
give you such service that will
tickle you to death. Besides
they have Jim Blackburn and
Lem Whitten with them and
they can’t be beat as workmen,
nor excelled for cleverness as
men. The shop is kept in
ship-shape condition. A shop
run, and work done by white
men is far superior to the
[hops we are accustomed to
liud run by that class of citi
zens that know but little about
cleanliness It is real pleasure
able to be shaved by a white
man, who is clean in work and
character as well as cantrast
with a workman otherwise,
Mr. Autry is a loyal member
oi the Presbyterian church
while Mr Erichsen worships
at the Methodist Church The
other two named are lovers of
the Baptist church.
Jackson should be proud of
such men and the character of
business they do. Mr, Autry
has already bought him a
home in Jackson, while Mr*
Eriohsen is on the lookout
for one. Patronize them and
you will go there again