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The Jacksonian. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BUTTS CO. Published every Trtday. S. E. ANDREWS, EDITOR. !! 1 Subscription $i oo Per Yr. Advertising 'Rates Furnished On Application. 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. f & 1 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. % 1 ■ -* ——♦ 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 f. ... A’Sk .. >l. .. - l 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. m * dddddddddddddddd 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