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VOL. XXVI.
E. 11. BORDERS AVEDS.
Marries Miss Susie Tatum of
Atlanta.
Jackson social circles were greatly
enlivend Tuesday by the report in
the Atlanta Constitution of the mar
riage of Mr. Robert H. Borders to
Miss Susie Tatum.
Mr. Borders is a very popular young
business man of this place and his
intention to marry was known to very
few, if any, of our people. The re
port was, therefore, quite a pleasing
surprise.
The following account of the mar
riage appeared in the Constitution on
Tuesday morning last.
She was young and beautiful. He
was tall and handsome. They loved
each other and they laughed at pa
rental objection. Now they are mar
ried —pretty Miss STusie Tatum, of
187 Alexander street, and Mr. Robert
H. Borders, of Jackson, Ga.
Yesterday she asked her mother for
the last time if she could marry the
man she loved, and her mother told
her that she could not. Miss Tatum
is a young girl of high spirit and lov
ing Mr. Borders as she did, left her
home and met her lover at the Marion
hotel. Together they drove to Dr.
Landrum’s and were quietly merried
at that minister’s home on Spring
street.
Last night the happy couple tele
phoned their best wishes to Miss
Tatum’s parents and left for a tour
through Florida.
Mrs. Borders is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. R. P. Tatum, of 187 Alex *n-
street. She is a beautiful young
lady who has always had many ad
mirers, but of them all she has given
her heart to Bob Borders, a young
gentleman from Jackson, Ga. They
have been engaged to be married for
some time, but Mr. and Mrs. Tatum
objected to the union.
Mr. Borders is at the head of the
grocery firm in Jackson, Ga., known
as the R. H. Borders Grocery Com
pany. He is a well-to-do business
man and besides his attractive per
sonality he lias the good qualities that
make itp a man.
For some time Miss Tatum has
been in the office of Major R. J
Guinn, county school superintendent,
as his assistant. She went to her
work yesterday morning as usual.
She did not tell her mother that
Borders was in town, but before leav
ing asked if they could marry. Re
ceiving a negative answer, she de
termined to marry him anyway. She
telephoned him of her parent's.de
cision, and they agreed to meet at the
Marion in the afternoon and marry.
At 5 o'clock they met at the hotel,
and Mr. I). H. Scoville, manager of
the hotel, and Dr. Montgomery went
with them to the residence ot Dr.
Landrum, wiiere the ceremony was
performed.
After the marriage Mrs. Borders
telephoned to her mother that she
had married. Mrs. Tatum was al
most prostrated at the news and be
came so ill as to go to bed. She tele
phoned her blessings to the newly
wedded couple.
The bride wrote her mother a letter
from the Marion telling her how hap
py she was and how sorry she felt be
cause her mother couldn’t be at the
wedding. The couple left on the
10:55 o'clock train for Florida.
Fertilizers.
Cailjon J. R. Carmichael for your
Guanos, Acids and Cotton seed Meal.
He carries only the best and most
popular brands.
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JACKSON, BUTTS COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY n, 1898.
TIM BUCK TOO
Philosophizes on Cotton and
Gamblers.
Modena, Ga., Feb. 1,98.
Editor Argus: —Your Uncle Tim
will again pen you a few thin ideas
to let you know that we are still a
kicking, though slightly disfigured.
First, we will state that Bill Mc-
Kinley’s prosperity has not reached
our town yet, and we have got so
used to his adversity that we have
quit looking for anything better.
Our farmers are busy hauling out
guano to make a big crop of 5-cents
cotton, that does not pay for raising.
Now I’ll endeavor to advise the farm
ers generally, and I am sure they
will heed my advice. First, I want
every farmer to buy all the guano he
wants, and then plant all cotton and
no corn, or if he should plant any
corn to plant it on the poorest land
on the place; to buy anew wagon, a
new buggy and as many young mules
as he wants, on credit, and to mort
gage his wife and children, with the
other live stock on the place, for the
payment of the same ;* to attend all
political meetings, s and to talk poli
tics until everybody is satisfied, and
you yourself disgusted; to run for
any and all offices in the gilt of the
people, and to do and act just as you
please. If you do not I, your Uncle
Tim, will make you.
' I once knew a man whom I will
call Jones, but that was not his name.
He bought a piece of land and re
quested four or five of his neighbors
to go with him to select a spot to
build on ; so after viewing the land
over some suggested one place and
some another. “Well 4 ” said Jones,
“I diffeFfrom you all. I have select
ed that spot over there as the place
to build, and I’ll be d—d if I don’t
build there.” And so it goes. Guano,
mules and wagons would sell should
cotton go down to three cents per
pound, while the mortgage record of
each and every cotton raising county
is burdened more and more each year.
I will tell you of another farmer,
whom I will call Snooks, for short.
He was a good, honest, faithful work
er, and a man who was strictly hon
est in his dealing, -but he tried the
all cotton business until he could not
meet liis ooligations, and while his
creditors did not doubt his honesty,
they doubted his ability to pay. A
few years ago he hitched up his old
ox, Buck, and went to his merchant
to buy more guano. The merchant
looked oyer his books and saw that
said Snooks was due him for the gu
ano used the year before, so he told
Snooks that he would have to have a
mortgage or personal security to sell
aim any more guano. Snooks asked
him if he would take Buck and the
cart as security, and he said he
would. “Well" said Snooks, “I will
so out and see Buck, and see if he
will stand for me. So he walks out,
pulls off his hat and makes a very
polite bow to old Buck and says:
“Friend Buck, I have stood by you
from calfhood up, and I always
thougnt my credit was better than
yours until to-day. Now 1 have come
to ask you to stand my security for
one ton of guano. Say, Buck, will
you stand?” —slapping the old ox in
the flanks with his hat. The ox be
came frightened at Snooks’ demean
or, kicKed Suooks down, jumped up
and bellowed, and broke off for home.
Suooks, as soon as he recovered, re
ported to the merchant that Buck
said he would be hornswoggled if his
name ever appeared on any man's
mortgage for guano, and that Buck
had become so offended that he had
ran off and left him to wHk home.
SnooKs followed Buck home and tooK
him loose from the cart and told his
wife that old Buck had more sense
♦
than he had about this cotton and
guano business, and that he had
made up his mind to never mix any
more dirt with cotton seed again, so
long as cotton sold for less than 10
cents per pound, but would plant ev
erything that would feed either man
or horse, and he stucK to it, and to
day SnooKs is out of debt and has
plenty to live on and some money to
loan his neighbors. He says that he
gives old Buck the credit for it all.
Our next hero will be farmer No. 2.
He was an old cotton farmer, and
went at it on a big scale, ha£ a nice
home, and a very large, old-fashioned
smoKe.house, where once were swung
up 25 or 80 fat hogs, but of late years
no home-raised porkers ever entered
the door of that smoKe-house. One
morning he woko up to find that
someone had dug a jreat big hole un
der the back part of said house and
gone in and stole all the meat he
had. He hurried off to one of his
neighbors at once to tell him of
his misfortune. The neighbor asxed
him how much meat the thief toox.
“Oh, well r ” said the farmer, “my
wife had about half of a shoulder that
she was saving for company, but
what troubles me is. I am afraid the
scoundrel will go off and tell it.”
Yes, let the farmers do as they
please, raise as much 5-cent cotton as
they want to, while the gamblers in
Wall street, N. Y., and Liverpool,
will make more money in one day on
cotton than they, the farmers, will
in a whole year. But tjp* gamblers
have the advantage of t,io farmers.
This enlightened, Christian govern
ment pays men big salaries each year
to Keep up the agricultural bureau,
to keep the gamblers fully posted as
to how much guano the farmers used ;
how much land planted in cottoq and
its prospects for a crop from the day
it is planted up to the last bale to be
gathered and sold. I would not play
with them. They hold all of the
trump cards,and they have seen your
hand as soon as the shuffle >vas made.
There is no need to beg, for if you do
the last deal will be worse than the
first. You have either got to give uo
the game with a loss of 75 or 80 dol
lars to the mule, or bucK up to them
a few years longer, when they will
lean you money to run the farm a
few years for tnem while they hold
the title to your lands, to maKe you
work harder, and to plant more cot
ton for them.
Now this picture is not overdrawn.
Anyone has only to look around a
little to see the truth of the same.
When we look at the situation of the
cotton state right square in the face,
we naturally exclaim in the lan
guage of one of the old apostles,
“Confound them all, clear back to
their great-granddaddies, and this
government with them."
This world is very unevenly bal
anced. The north and east have had
the south down ever snce 1866, and
they keep on hitting us in the short
ribs, and sticking their fingers in our
best eye. They will put a coon like
Rucker into some fat office and squall
out at top of their voices, “Prosperi
ty! Prosperity!" which other people
and the balance of the coons fail to
see. These blatant hypocrites have
got the gall to look old Peter in the
eyes and to tell him that they are
more righteous than he, and t open
the gates and pass them in, and to
never again question his superiors.
As ever, in haste, your uncle,
Tim Buctoo.
Photographs strictly cash.
J. B. Guthrie , Photographer.
AVHY IIE CHANGED.
A Texas Editor Changes
From Anti to Pro.
The Argus receives among its ex
changes the Whitney Messenger,
edited by D. S. Mayes. The current
issue of that paper discloses the fact
that a prohibition election is soon
to occur in the Whitney district. It
also discloses the fact that since 1898
two other elections have been held
there on the liquor question, the
first having been won by the antis
and the next by the prohis. In the
preceeding campaigns Editor Mayes
was a strong anti prohibitionist, but
he has changed his opinion and is
now acting with the prohibitionists.
The reason which he gives for the
change is one of the best we have
ever seen and we present it to our
readers a set forth in an editorial in
the Messenger:
In the present campaign our ener
gies and ballot will be against the sa
loons and for prohibition, and instead
of numbering our reasons therefor to
the extent of fifty we will ascribe it
to one, and that one responsible to a
change of heart wrought by our
conversion from an adversary to a
follower of the Lord Jesus Christ and
our uniting under His banner and
with His people by joining the
church. The change came in the
ordinary occurrence of events and in
changing our heart we changed our
opinion from an anti to a pro.
To every man of a higher type
there conies a solemn hour when bis
heart, wrenched but a short while
ago In convulsive agony, turns in
in sudden exultation of spir : t to vir
tue. The transition is as strange as
that b/ which a man passes from
system of relief to another, or from a
higher pitch of anger to a melting
forgiveness of all offenses. This sol
emn hour, in which virtue is born
into life, is the sweetest ever known
to man. He feels as though the body,
with all its weight of ills, were lifted
away from him, and enjoys the mys
terious bliss of having no contradic
tion within. His chains fall from
him—nothing in the wide world can
affright him now, though but a short
time since all things filled him with a
shivering awe. That is a great hour
when the angel is born in a man,
when anew world appears upon his
horizon, when all obstructive clouds
are swept away and virtue, like a
very sun, pours light and warmth in
upon his heart.
As stated, this light—this change—
brought a different view of the whisky
question into our mind. Before,while
we advocated temperance and prac
ticed it, and pitied the wretch that
did not or could not, we voted for sa
loons and whisky and all the attend
ing evils without feeling the responsi
bility individually for the results of
them. We felt then that every man
was the architect of his own character
but now we are aware that if Jesus
Christ is the architect no stumbling
blocks and thorns' will beset a man’s
pathway. His character will be his
all and his footsteps will not be guided
into the pitfall of vice, and he will
have a yearning to see his fellow-man
removed from the dangers of them.
The above of course is our experience
as well as of all other Christians, and
will not be accepted by the outside
world as being of any especial merit.
In quite a number of counties
throughout the state candidates are
announcing themselves for county
offices. They are acting on the idei
that the early bird gets the worm.
DAMAGE SUIT
For SIO,OOO Filed Against
the City by Knowles.
The beautiful streets and sidewalks
of Jackson have been the pride and
the boast of our people for some time.
No town, it is claimed, can show a
more splendid array of lovely streets,
and yet for all this our city is con
fronted with a damage suit for $lO,-
000 for injuries alleged to have been
sustained by O. B. Knowles in Feb
ruary, 1897, from falling into a ditch,
or washout.
The accident is said to have hap
pened on Third street, our brag thor
oughfare, and jo a pedestrian, too.
The suit was filed on tne 2nd day
of February, and a copy of the decla
tion has been served on Mayor Mad
dox.
Col. Y. A. Wright will appear as
attorney for Knowles, while the city
will be represented by M. P. Hall.
For the benefit of the ourious, the
declaration in this suit is reproduced
here. It reads as follows :
GEORGIA—Butts County:
To the Superior Court of said
county.
The petition of O. R. Knowles
shows:
1. That the town of Jackson is a
municipal corporation chartered by
the laws of Georgia and of said
county.
2. That said corporation has in
jured and damaged your petitioner
the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars by
reason of personal injuries sustained,
as will appear specifically in subse
quent paragraphs of tnis petition ..
8. Your petitioner shows that he
is permanently injured, and has and
does now suffer great bodily pain and
mental agony, and will continue so
to suffer for the remainder of his life;
that his age is years.
4. That the cause of said injuries
was a fall into an excavation in and
adjacent to the sidewalk of said de
fendant town on the day of
. 189 .
5. Your petitioner alleges that he
was injured as follows: On or about
the day of February, 1897, when
walking in an eastern direction upon
the public sidewalk in the town of
Jackson, and between the residences
of J. R. Sains and F. Z. Curry, your
petitioner was precipitated and did
fall into an excavation extending in
to the said public sidewalk, which
said excavation was about four or five
feet wide and four or five feet deep.
That there were no lights along or on
said street at the time, and petition
er was wholly ignorant of the exca
vation.
6. That your petitioner was by
said fall and precipitation injured in
his back, and by such fall his lower
limbs were paralyzed, his back was
hurt, his spinal column affected, and
his procreative powers lessened,
7. That from said injuries he did
for a long time suffer great mental
anguish, and does to this day so suf
fer, and will continue to so suffer
for the remainder of his life.
8. Petitioner charges and shows
that he was wholly without fault at
the time of said injury ; that the said
town of JacKson detendant corpora*
tion was negligent, careless, and
wholly at fault in said imury.
Wherefore, he prays that procesa
rnay issue requiring the said town of
Jackson corporation, defendant afore*,
said, to be and appear at the next
term of Butts superior court to
swer petitioner’s complaint.
Y. A. Wright,
Plaintiff’s Attorney
NO. 6.