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VOL. XXVI. What the People are Saying and Doing. DR. Q. H. CARTER Is Still After the Liquor Men and Hethods. If you are in iavor of poverty, dis sension, suffering, bloodshed and death, then on the Brd day ot March cast your vote for barrooms,and your contribution is made. But how can any man, who takes the second thought, be willing to do a thing so wrong in itself? A. tree is known by its fruits, and so any course of action in life is known by its results. What is the fruit of the barroom? It is bad and only bad. No man who thinks properly of this matter can, or will, vote to support the liquor in terest, There are only a few white men in Butts county who will go to the polls and vote for blood and death. So the liquor element were expecting suc cess through the assistance of the colored voter. But thanks to a kind Providence, the day has passed when the white liquor man can harness up his colored brother like a steer and drive him up to the polls and vote him for whiskey. Some of the most enthusiastic supporters of the prohi bition cause are found amongst our colored friends. They can neither be bought nor scared ny the liquor advo cate to support his feeble and ruinous business. Tliiß liquor campaign will have re sulted in much good to onr communi ty , because it has furnished an occa sion to bring our white and colored citizens closer together in contending for the best interests of our county. Henceforth the legalized liquor inter est is doomed in our midst because we have united moral forces enough to put it down. Let us all unite and vote down the liquor business first, and then everybody look upward, and soon pull all the dealers in liquor and drinkers to a higher plane. Then men who have wasted their money for strong drinK wdl supply their families with the needed comforts of life. The barroom is a great factory in which much raw material is used up. The boys of our land are the raw ma terial. Without our boys this fac tory must stop, The old patronizers of the business will soon be gone. Unless new recruits are brought in the business must fail. This fresh material must come from our homes. Father, if you want your boy done up in that kind of a shop, then go to the polls on the Brd day of March and vote for liquor. But if you have no boy of your own let me inform you that I have, and please do not go and vote to make my boy a drunkard and bring sorrow into my home. One says the blind tiger is worse than the barroom, and it is better, perhaps, to have barrooms and get rid of the blind tiger. This is a vain and deceiving argument. If we should have barrooms the blind tiger inter est will be multiplied two-fold. It is a lac j that the blind tiger nuisance is much worse in wet counties than in the dry. The barroom gets credit for the sin of the tiger, and so he es capes public notice, but gets in his dirty work all the same. G. H. Carter. Georgia cane syrup, also New Or leans open kettle, at Allen & Co’s. JACKSON, BUTTS COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, !Bqß. Indian Spring. Sunday was a charming day and the town was filled with visitors. Rev. G. H. Carter filled his ap pointment at the Baptist church Sunday afternoon and had an un usually fine congregation, many expressions of pleasure and apprecia tion have been heard from those who were so lortunate as to hear Mr. Carter’s sermon. Mrs. Carter and Master John Carter came down with Mr. Carter. Mr. George Collier and Mr. Whit Collier were at home Sunday. Judging from the quantity of rub ber scattered over the hillside above the spring, there must have been an explasion of a bicycle that Saturday afternoon. Miss Irene Daughtry and her guest, Miss Johnson of Griffin, were at the spring Saturday afternoon. Miss Rosa Elder has returned after a delightful visit to Tennille and Macon. Mr. Charles C. Smith and Shine Smith spent Sunday at Indian Spring. The friends of Mrs. E. P. Fears who just recently returned from Dr. White’s Sanitarium in Atlanta will be glad to hear that she is improving. Flovilla. Miss Lucy Dozier is visiting rela tives at Social Circle. T. O. Watkins of Atlanta has re turned home after a month’s visit to his parents. The three new buildings that are going up here now are begining to make Flovilla look city like again. Charley Niblett has been elected as marshal of Flovilla for the next twelve months. Several of Flovilla’s young people went to a valentine party at Cork last Monday evening. Miss Ola Buckalew has returned to her home in Dublin after a few weeks visit with friends here and at Paron. Misses Bessie Bloodworth and Lu cile Elder have returned home after a week’s visit to friends in Jackson, Literary Societies. The literary societies of Jackson Institute will hold their monthly meeting in the college chapel Friday, February the 25th. There are live societies of the In stitute, the “Sigma” and “Ciceron ian” societies of the collegiate de partment, the “Pansy,” of the academic department, the “Busy Bees” of the intermediate, and the ‘ Alpha” of the primary grades. Three private meetings are held each month in their respective rooms and presided over by the teachers in charge. Every fourth Friday exer cises are given. The entertainments consist of recitations, declamations, concert speeches, dialogues, songs and drills. These entertainments were estab lished not only for the benefit and instruction of the pupils, but a pleasure to the friends and patrons of the Institute. By our presence we encourage our children and offer incentives to the teachers who labor with them day after day. Shop coal for sale, Apply to Dr. J. W. Crum. FROfl HIGH FALLS Comes an Echo for Prohi bition in Butts. The question of bar rooms is being agitated in Butts county, prompts me to make a few remarks on that line. While I dont live in Butts county at this time, yet I have a great many good friends in old Butts. Butts county is the scene of my boyhood days, and many a happy day have I spent around the old log school house near Antioch church. Butts county is the home of many a good and worthy citizen, and I can remember hearing the old men talk about groceries, at “’Possum Trot” and “Nigger Heel,” and of the old sot drunkards that use to lie aronnd them and fight chickens, gamble and do all kinds of devilment that could be thought of. And not the thoughts of some body trying to get up barrooms right in the face of our grand old men, our noble boys and girls, which are in a few years to become the hope of the country,it makes the very blood rnn cold in my veins. It cant possibly be for the good of the country as there is no good in it. But, for the love of money is the root of evil, to sell whisky is a scheme for some body to make money, at the expenses of some body else. Whiskey has been the cause of more poverty, more goo * *;>m n gone to the grave prematurely, more ragged, and baerfooted children, than any thing else on this earth. S?tan has already a strong enough hold on this sin cursed earth, without adding more to his mighty power by stimulating a man with whisky. The fire from the infernal regions. Whisky is one of the many ways by which the old Devil has to make poor weak men do just as he wants him to do. It will make a man kill his father, mother, brother or any body else, he will mistreat his good wife, who looks to him for support and happiness, otherwise he would not. Whisky is the mighty ward which satan puts in the hands of his subject to cut and slash, and put to flight the happiness of his household. There are trials enough in this world to contend with, without adding fuel to the fire. I have heard men say that they didn’t caie who drank liquor, just so they didn’t bother them. But if they don’t bother them they will somebody else, and that will cause strife between the parties envolved, and som'etimes the result is, that these are widows and orphans, as the fruits of theis folly. And then there is a trial, and a gallows built, and a man hangs be tween heaven and earth, and his soul has taken its flight, we know not where. I don’t make these remarks to hurt anybodies feelings, or to injure anybodies character, but I write ac cording to my own understanding. Now will every man thae loves his country, ge to the polls, and vote against the sale of wnisky. It is strange how men can go to Africa and catch a tiger with two eyes, and can’t catch a blind one in this country. Yours for soberness, C. L. Edwards. For Sale. My house and lot for sale or rent. W. W. Logue. Patillo Dots. Editor Argus :—As I have not seen anything from this part of the coun ty for some time I will try and give you a few happenings. The farmers are making a great stride to make another big crop of cotton and corn as they are haul ing guano and cotton seed meal, with a rush and turning up the ground in a hurry. I think they will get 4 cents for cotton instead of 5, as they did last year. Uncle Wash Oliver, the pioneer preacher, visited Patillo Saturday and preached a very able and feel ing sermon to a large congregation of people at the school house Saturday night. Uucle Wash’s sermon seemed to do a great good, and he was so impressed with the Patillo people that he gave them an oppor tunity the next second Saturday night in March to hear him again with the unde: standing that the people furnish an organ to help out the singing. Squire T. P. Bell said that he would furnish the organ. We expect a very large crowd and a good meeting next second Saturday night, Uucle Wash Oliver is one of the oldest preachers that we know, he being 74 years of age is hale and hearty and active. He says that he has good meetings all the winter and has taken into the church about 400 up to date. We expect great good from him at Patillo, and may he live many years yet to do good for him self and others. Patillo school is still on a boom and could not be any other way, with Prof. C. Owen as principal and Miss Irene Banks as assistant at the helam you may not expect anything else of them ; they have about 100 pupils in attendance, and they are at work and think the children are advancing very rapidly. Patillo school is second to none in the state (vve think) and if Jackson and Barnesville don’t look out she will be trying to get pupils to come out and hear and take ad vantage of Patillo school. So look out Jachson and Barnesville, vve will be turning out A. B. Scholars here soon from the Antioch. H. A. Crawley, the saw mill man of Unionville, finished sawing a fine lot of logs for J. J. Thornton, to-day and will take up his mill to morrw and move off ; and leave Thornton a lot of as fine lumber to sell as there is anywhere in the county, And guess we all can get some good lumber it we have got the money. A great lot of Patillo p ople went to Rnobeth Sunday, to meeting W. J. Harrison carried Miss Irene Banks and they report a fine congre gation. They went to Mr. Walker Dukes for dinner and had a nice time. Some of the boys say Miss Irene talked so to Billie that he could not sit straight and he came back with a smile on both sides of his face. Our Mayor and councilman, Mr. T. P. Bell, went out to Jackson Mon day to start the court house, so he says, but I don’t believe him, for he has gone over there I don’t know how many times, to start that court honse. and I don’t see any house yet, but I know he will start it after a while foa he says he will and what he says he will do is going to be done. When it gets started I know he will be glad for it nas been a great worry to him, and he says to other comers: I think he is still afraid that those Flovilla people will get it yet and then he could not go to Jack son so often. If this don’t find its way to the waste basket basket you will hear from me again. Pete. A SUGGESTION On the Question of Road Improvement. Mr. Editor: If the -condition of the roads is a test of the civilization of the people, then the county of Butis mud take a bacK seat in a comparison with the county of Jasper on the east and Spalding on the west. Outside of the economy of having good roads, every citizen of Butts county ought to feel his pride enlisted when our neighboring coun ties are so far outstepping us in this pnne requisite of an advanced and in telligent people. Now, it would seem useless in these hard times and with our present high, taxes to broach this subject and I would not, were it not for a very practical suggestion made by Mr. J. C. Jones of Stark, by which it is thought that we can accomplish this highly desirable end without much expense. The plan in brief is for the county to buy a road machine similar to the one used in Jasper and instead of hireing hands to build the roads ©r having convicts to work them, to hire one man who should be an ex pert to manage the machine and go with it from one section of the county to another, notifying the road hands of each iocality when he would be on their part of the road. The regular road hands w r ould then turn out, bringing from four to six mules as might be needed for the machine and picks for those parts of the road too rough for the machine. The plan, also contemplates the members of each section taking turn about at boarding and lodging at their homes the expert as he passes from one lo cality to another, thus doing away with all expense except the purchase of the machine and the pay of an ex pert to manage it. And it is sup posed that before long some men on each section would become expert enough in its management to do aw T ay with even this expense. By begin ning at the town of Jackson and work ing two or three miles on each road leading out from it, it would give all the people some good road to travel over in coming to town and would prevent it being used too exclusively for the benefit of any one portion of the county. The cost of the machine is slight compared to the enormous amount of work it can accomplish in a short time. Wherever the p'an has been Deen discussed among men of practi cal judgement it has met with un qual ified endorsement, and I hope our grand jury about to covene will take the matter under advisement and reeommend it in their presentments* by so doing the country people will feel that their interests are not being neglected while a fine court house is being built to adorn Jackson. Hop ing this article may bring the matter to the fro.it and provoke further dis cussion, I am yours for better roads. Countryman. rieavy bales. Our business houses enjoyed very heavely sales last Saturday. The Argus learns that the sales of the Globe store reached a total of SI,OOO, and that this house made a cash sale to one man a Flovilla of $252. It is the same old story, Jackson is the leading market in Middle Georgia. I and the people come here because they ! find it to their interest to do so. NO. 7.