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Free Premiums! ABSOLUTE LY FREE. Here is the best offer ever made by a country newspaper. The Argus is going to give away FREE some beautiful pieces t China Hnd* Glassware to every subscriber who pays up all past dues and a year in advance F R E E April 18th At the present price SI.OO a year. Also all new subscribers will be entitled to one of these premiums that will be an ornament on anybody’s table. They are something that can be used for many things by every member of the family. As we only have a limited number of these dishes to give away we would advise you to come early and get one as soon as possible. First cmie, first served. There’s no strings tied to this offer. You will find it just as we say. So come at once and get one of these handsome, useful presents while they last. Delay is dangerous. THE JACKSON ARGUS, Jackson, - Georgia. 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A really high* grade fertilizer is a good, common-sense investment, but a cheap fertilizer is an expense. When you are ready for your fertilizers call on our agents. If your nearest fertilizer agent doesn't handle our goods, take it up with us direct Furman Farm Improvement Cos. ATLANTA, GA. For Sale by R. T. Smith, Flovilld, Ga. Don’t Suffer! " I had been troubled, a little, for nearly 7 years, writaa /Are. L Fincher, in a letter from Peavy, Ala., “but I wt not taken down, until March, when I went to bed and had to have a doctor. He did all he could for me, but 1 got no better. 1 hurt all over, and I could not rest At last, I tried Cardui, and soon I began to improve. Now Ijun in very good health, and able to do all my housework. Cardui Womans Tonic You may wonder why Cardui Is so successful, after other remedies have failed. The answer is that Cardui Is successful, because It is composed of scientific ingredients, that act curatively on the womanly system. It to a medicine foe women, and for women only. It builds, strengthen*, and restores weak and ailing women, to health and happiness. If you suffer like Mrs. Fincher did, take CarduL It jyUI surely do for you, what it did for her. At all druggist* Wrrntu UAm‘ Advtserr QwC Chtaannq Medidat C*. Cl tor Anno! hwCwftcae. Wok. "Hesse Tre*t*nl kx amen. WHY DID THE GRAND JURY RECOMMEND THE ABOLISHING OF THE CITY COURT? They Should Have Made Their Reas on More Explicit. The Grand Jury in their general presentments, recommended that the City Court ot Jackßon and the City Court of Flovilla be abolished. Their grounds were “on account of an enactment by the last legislature amending the law governing our city court, and other information furnished.’’ The amendment re ferred to, I suppose, wa* allowing the solicitor to get his fees out of the fines and forfeitures, instead of a F R E E salary paid out of the County Treas urery. At least three fourths of the city courts in the state, not only allow the solicitor fees, but in addi tion to this the counties payout of the treasurery into the flue and for feiture fund, to be paid to the officers of the court, $6.00 per month for each month a convict works on the public road, from the city court. If you abolisli the city court the solicitor general of the superior court will get for trying tiie same cases the same fees that the solicitor of the city court is now getting; the only differ ence the solicitor general will spend his somewhere else and the solicitor of the city court will spend his here. But why didn’t they give us that other information, the people have a right to know. It is not fair to the officers of tiie court for them to withhold t!i is information. You have for your judge one that is as ableasany in the state; no county in Georgia can boast of one that is better. He is not only duly quali fied, but is absolutely honest and tinpurclmsable, and is just and fair to all alike. They did not treat him right in not saying where tiie blame was. If the solicitor lias not done his duty they should have said so, and if he lias stolen any of the money they should iiave indicted him. But [ noticed in the report of the county commissioner lie said that both the city court and the superior court had furnished to the county in labor 5,389 days in convict work, and that these courts had cost the county $9,430 30. I wish he had showed just what each court cost the oounty. The report of the solicitor of the city court showed that this court had only cost the city for year ,1912 $2,644.80, snd had furnished to the county 6,460 days of convict labor, counting2o workingdayspermonth. I suppose some of this was counted off for good behavior, then I suppose the commissioner only counted the days that he worked them. The showing makes the city court fur nish about all the convicts from the courts in the county, and if the courts cost the county as shown by commissioner’s report, $9,430 30, then the superior court costs the county $6,785 80. Now if it is expense they are after, why not abolish the super ior court, or abolish them all, then the judge of the superior court can have more to tell you about in his charge in regard to the increase in crime. I wonder if the commission er and the Grand Jury think that our courts should be run for the only purpose of furnishing convicts to work the roads. The Grand Jury in the close of their presentments calls attention to the fact that a great deal of crime is being committed In the county, and calls on the citiz ns to help apprehend them. After they are apprehended what will you do with them? You will have courts to try them. When tin* city court was es tablished there w as on the docket of the superior court 150 misdemeanor cases more than t hat court could try. These cases liave been traksferred to city court. A great many of these have been disposed of in the city court, many of them nol-proxsed because there was no evidence to convict. These parties no doubt were nearly all guilty, but for the fact that the indictments were from rwo to ten years old. the witnesses had either moved away or made up with the accused, which made it im possible to convict. These guilty parties escaped punishment because the superior court did not have time to try them. Only jail cases could be tried. The poor devil who can’t give bond is convicted ami punished, is he should be, but the more fortu nate criminal that can give bond goes unwhipped of justice. Two boys in Atlanta, two years tgo, held up an old man ami robbed dm. One gave bond and is free 'oday. because the courts did not have time to try him. The other participant in the crime went to jail, was tried and sentenced to a number if years in the chain-gang and is there now Abolish your courts and criminals can walk your streets and public highways unmolested and un tried. Now It has been rumored that a great deal of tire opposition to the city court was brought about by the influence of tiie Central Georgia Power Cos. O. course the Grand Jury was net actuated by this in making their recommendation, but the fact still remains that it would inure more to the benefit of that company than to any interest in the county. There are now pending on the dockets of the city court about eighty cases against said company, in which parties who live, and a great many own homes on the pond of said company, are plaiutifis, and if this court is abol ished tiiese cases will by operation ot law be transferred to tiie superior court, and tills court holding only two courts a year, and witli more othor business accumulating than it can try. the plaintiffs would never get their cases to trial. If the cases are tried in the city court,“and are carried up by bill of exceptions, they will go to the Court of Appeals, This court keeps fairly up witli its business, whereas if they are ever tried in the superior court they will go to the supreme court, and this court is always at least a year behind with its cases. So you can readily see how it will be a benefit tollthis company, and what a hardship it would work on these people oht on tiie pond, a great many of whom have all they have made in their lives invested in their home that they have or will have to move awav and leave if conditions do not get better there, and witii no courts to appeal to can never get, any redress, Its the history of the corporations to run the courts and politics when and wherever they can. This court they can’t’run, therefore they want it abolished. But 1 don’t believe that any corpo ration, however large it maybe, will ever dominate our representative, fur I am sure that in J. H. Mills we liave a representative that will stand by the people whenever he finds their interest is involved, regardless how large the corporation that may op pnse him. or that may be opposed to the courts. Of course I am not charging the Grand Jury of being influenced by this corporation, but opposition no doubt indirectly caused a great deal of opposition to the court, but I do think the Grand Jury should have been mor explicit in its ctiarge, arid placed it where it belongs. Also tell the people which court your information involved, the City Court of Jackson or Flovilla. The officers of these courts iiave a right to know, as well as the people. It’s not right to indict all of the officers of both these courts in your general presentments without putting Hiehi on notice what you are indicting them for. Your indictment is too general in its terms. If there is any tiling wrong done 6ay what it is and who done it. How can these parties defend either themselves or the courts on a charge like this. Another example that has come to my knowledge since I commenced writing this article: “A little negro about 13 years old, whose mother is now in jail awaiting trial, went into a car at the depot and broke open a crate of oranges and stole several. He was arrested and put in jail, and will be tried in the next day or two, so will his mother, and if convicted will very likely be sent to the re formatory. If you had no city court in which lie and his mother could be tried they both would remain in jail until August court, as it seems no one will go on their bond. These | two only, will cost the county in jail fees a dollar per day. This saving to the county in jail fees In the course of a year is a great saving, as the city court clears the jail once every two mouths of all the misde meanor cases. If the city court is abolished it will los to the people on the Ocmulgee ami Towaliga rivers who liave cases in ald court at least one hundred ami fifty thousand dollars, besides the damages that may result here after. besides under the acts creating the city court,where a suit is brought <>n an uncondition contract in writ ing and there is no defense filed you can sel all 'iis property and put the money in nis pocket and you cannot collect a dime out of him. lam sure that our representative will look to the interest of the peo ple, and not act without due pre caution. Although it costs money to run the courts civilization de mands that we have them. Citizen. The Home Kitchen. Paint your kitchen walls and wood worn white above tlie wainsc<>ath>g It keeps soiled hands away Its cheerful brightness is always invit ing. One quart of turpentine added to one-half gallon of L. & M. Semi- Mixed Real PAint makes 3 quartsof the highest grade of pure paint, and it is enough to paint a kitchen and two more rooms. For outside paint ing the very highest grade ot long life paint, is made by adding three quartsof pure Linseed Oil to each one gallon of L. & M. Semi-Mixed Real Paint.—Sold by Nowfon-Car michael Hardware Cos., Jackson, Ga.-(Adv.) Chamberlain’s stem bits. Buy it oow. It may s* UM. SAM LEE Does the BEST Laundry work in the city. Patronize Sam, and help a home industry. All work guaranteed to be the best. Laundry sent in by Parcels Post on Tuesday will be ready lor delivery wlieu you ccme to town Saturday. Next to Leach &g Company’s Stables, JACKSON, - GEORGIA. _ ■.gp m 1 . II | ■ - ■ UNDERTAKING S. H. THORNTON, LICENSED EMBALMER. Full line of Caskets and Robes to select from. My careful personal attention given to all funerals entrusted to me. Calls answered promptly day or night. DAY 'PHONE 174. NIGHT 'PHONE 193. JACKSON, GEORGIA. When You Paint Use pure paint an <* Use Pure LINSEED OIL to add frOv / Mlliillliifli. H§!§; to it at one-half the cost of Paint. i PURE PAINT Is made with WHITE LEAD, ZINC and I 1 LINSEED OlL—that’s the way the L.& M. SEMI-MIXED I] 1 REAL PAINT Is made. bl\ But ALL the OIL needful to make the L. &M. PAINT // Vi ready for use is NOT put into the Paint when it’s pre- I If pared for the Consumer who buys it. I I / The ADDITIONAL quantity of OIL is put into the Paint t by the CONSUMER, as by so doing he SAVES MONEY. Therefore —buy 3 gallons of LINSEED OIL with every 4 gallons of L. & M. PAINT and MIX the OIL with the PAINT. r' ■ ■■ —■ i I—.. ■■ i—. m ■■—■■■ ■ If the Paint thus made costs more than $1.40 per If the Paint as you use it is not perfectly satisfactory — X, f Then return whatever you have not used , and get back ALL you paid | for the WHOLE of it: and besides, the money you paid to the Painter, j For Sale by Newton-Carmichael Hardware Cos., Jackson, Georgia: Make Us Prove It We dare not exaggerate to you. We are dependent upon your patronage. To get it we must have your trust and confi dence. We make the following statements with a full under standing of what they mean to us. You are safe when you believe in these statements. For the Bowels If you only knew as much as we and those who have used them know about Rexall Orderlies, you would be as enthusiastic about recommend ing them as we ar-. They taste just like candy. They act so easily and ao pleasantly that the taking of them is a pleasure. Even children like Rexall Order lies; and you kc .? that if a medi cine appeals to a > arid, it will appeal to grown-ups. help chase gloom, dispel biues and make you feel happy by their splen did tonic, cleansing and strengthen ing effect upon the bowels.—They act to free the svstem —and keep it free- —from the distress and ill feeiing that naturally results from irregular and inactive bowels. Rexall Orderlies do this quietly, without griping or causing nausea, purging or excessive looseness. They act to overcome and remove the causa CAUTION’. Please bear in mind that Retail Orderlies are not aold by all draft* gut*, lou can buy Retail Orderliea only at Tha Retail Stores. 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