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W. O. Editor.
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Officia.l Orpn of Cort’ce County and City
of Douglas,
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for & pnaecotnvr attorney to
be id ham.
It sometime? happens that a
man fails toinaki money —other-
wise there would he no occasion
for his failure.
It is only wher. Uncle Sam’s
warships enter a harbor on a
mission of charity that they may
safely he ordered out. - Houston
Post
Our idea of a rea* nero is a man
who can look his wife straight in
the eye and tell her the truth, the
.vhole truth, anu nothing but the
truth.
When a woman wants to get
rid of her husband for an hour
she sends him up stairs to get
something from the pocket of her
dress.
There are things a woman will
not eat because they ruin her
complexion, but a man never re
fuses to drink anything for a
similar reason.
The Brooks county ham gotten
into trouble. Uncle Sam has de
clared that it must pass govern
nent inspection before it goes
nto another state.
Louisville Times: Congress has
refused to dam. the Mississippi.
As heretofore, the job will re
main in the hands of the pilots on
that shifty stream.
New York Herald: A Massa
iihusettes doctor holds that, des
>ite modern theories, bleeding is j
;he only way to treat patients.
,Vithor without the knife?
To uttterly confuse his critics,
Vice President Fairbanks is said
io have deliberately made two
wrinkles in his trousers and one
n his shirt-front. Detroit Free
Press.
Senator Tillman says that every
senator knows that negroes are
lot allowed to drink at the bars
in Washington’s best hotels. Of
course the senators know’ it only
•>y hearsay
Philadelphia Inquirer: Shont
says the Panama canal work is
now in such excellent shape that
,t can get along without him.
which puts it up to his successor
5o make good.
Berrien county is fifty years
..Id and the Nashville Herald
wants to have a gold dollar from
All of its subscribers in honor of
the event. The Herald deserves
the money.—Savannah Prss.
It is announced that one of the
scientists of the Geological survey
by distilling lime and quicksilver
together managed to obtain quick
lime and free silver. Col. Bryan
ought to look into this.—Ex.
A couple of French duelists
made the mistake of using Ameri
can revolvers recently. The
result was a badly wounded
Frenchman, and that is quite con
trary to the French code duello.
If President Roosevelt officiates
as judge at the proposed James
town exposition international
baby show the bravery of the
feat will make that San Juan hill
stunt look like playing jackstraws
The railroads have pretty gen
erally granted a ten per cent
increase- in wages, but that is
such a slight evaporation of the
moisture in the stocks that the
stockholders will not notice it.
T?w Literature of The Living.
»Vf have received a copy of
'?pe literature of The Living,”
' -r;en by our friend and broth-
C. A. Ridley, of Live
Oak. Fla. This book is whole
some to read, set in jewel of
truth and love, and filled with
gx>d things of life. We recom
mend that every one who wants
something good to read, send
Brother Ridley sl, the small
’ price of this good book and read
it. We know of nothing better
to say for the writter and book
than to quote from our beloved
friend and brother. W. D. Up
shaw. of Atlanta and the Golden
Age. He says; “The literature
of the living is a refreshing
I coinage in expession from the
j mint of the author’s genius. It
j beats with heart of an every day
j poet and looks out with the kin
| of a practical scholar.
Really, when we come to it.
that unique expression suggests i
an original and vital viewpoint
from which to weight the worth
of all Literature. Some men
write for money and and others
“glory’s read wreath,” but the
best thing that mind and heart
can think and feel are not start
ed into being by the wooings of
fame nor beckoned from their
secret chamber by the yellow
fingers of gold.
I knew the young author best
of all when I spent seventeen
days in his gracious revival
meeting in his great new church
at Live Oak, Florida. War is
said to be a time that tries men’s
souls, and College days and such
a meeting as we passed trough
at Live Oak are likewise times
of testing. In my honest judge
ment, C. A. Ridley has stood the
test, and I believe that he is en
titled to the privilege of naming
his book “The Literature of The j
Living.”
His influence among all classes i
in the thriving city of his adop
tion is nothing less than an in
spiration to men who would live
to inspire others.
When I asked him the privi
lege of publishing his first mas
terpiece in the “Golden Age,” I
shall never forget the character
istic reply that came to my office
in Atlanta: “Upshaw” he said,
“here it is—but make the prin
ter treat it kindly, for you know
this is the darling of my youth.”
The loftiness of his native |
mountains in North Carolina has
inspired the loftiness of his
thought, and the leaping beauty
of their crystals treams, cascad
ing and flashing in the sunlight
of Heaven, is speaking again in
the genial spark of his lectures
and lyries “Way down on the
Suwannee River.”
God Bless the “Literature of
the Living.”
Will D. Upshaw
Editor the Golden Age.
Atlanta, Ga.
Hampton.
Hampton was the Indian vil
lage, Kecoughtan. when the Eng
lish came to America. It is the
oldest continuous settlement of
Englishmen in the New' World
and is the repository of many
; historic treasures. One among
many is St. John’s Church, the
oldest public building in the
town, said to be the third oldest
church in the State. The Pem
broke Farm nearby is noted for
its curious ancient monuments
'of black marble. Hampton has
the first free school established
in America, the Symmes-Eaton.
This beautiful city is located on
Hampton Roads, just across from
the Exposition grounds.
The door of hope has no locks,
bolts or bars.
The Altamaha Grit Region of
Georgia.
The caption of this article con
stitutes the title cf number 17 of
the Annals of the New Yoik
Academy of Sciences, a volume
of 414 pages, of which 37 pages
are handsome illustrations of for
est, flora and stream.
The author of this work, Mr.
Roland M. Harper, is a Georgian
and a distinguished alumnus of
the state university.
Mr. Harper made a close per
sonal inspection of the territory
of which he has written so graph
ically and learnedly. In digging
down to the hardpan of Altama
ha, grit the author permitted
nothing of value or of beauty to
escape him. He took snap-shots
of forest, field and stream. Ha
caught sight of entracing views
on the Ohoopee river. He found
new beauties in cypress ponds.
He traversed the pine barrens
with eyes wide open, seeing much
of interest, but one of the most
notable objects he beheld and
pictured was a magnificient old
pine tree near Douglas, in the
county of Coffee. This tree
measured, at a point three feet
above the ground, three feet in
diameter , a circumference of nine
feet.
When the writer’s eyes fell
upon the beautiful engraving of
his monarch of the woods there
came to him the recollection of
an incident in which Mr. Berry
Benson of Augusta figured, a
few miles out from the national
capital.
Mr. Benson worships in the
woods Sundays and holidays.
He is distinctly a lover of nature.
Mr. Benson had been living wdth
his family for a year or more in
a Washington suberb. It was
his wont to make excursions into
the country round about the city
sometimes in company with his
entire family and household, in
clusive of a favorite dog and cat;
at other times, alone.
On the occasion in mir.d Mr.
Benson was alone. As he turn
ed his face homeward he thought
of old Hamburg and of Aigusta,
but most of all of the woods in
Carolina. In the midst of his
longings for the familiar woods
he came upon a pine tree, a
dwarf, but a tree that had cone
and was doing its best toLe a
real, attractive pine.
Mr. Benson’s heart pouadec
for very joy. He rushed ui> to
the dwarf pine and pattingknd
stroking it, said “Ah, I am jlab
to see you. True, you are ndas
big or as stately as the noblekld
pines down in South Carolina,
close by the home of ray
and of my maturer years, lit
you are a pine tree—com park!
with some I know', a tiny pile
tree, but you remind me of ther^.
I love you, God bless you!” \
How splendid the sentimenl
The volume before us reflect!
credit on the author through thi
scholarship and thoroughness
which characterize its evervt
page.
Martin V. Calvin.
In Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal.
The Housekeeper’s Part.
There is no doubt that the new
Pure Food law has lifted a great
burden from the buyer. The
Government undertakes to com
pel the man who prepares, mixes
or compounds our food to tell the
truth about it, and to keep out of
it what is actually harmful. It
is now only for us to know how
to choose among these foods
what suits our taste and purse.
There should also be more
study of flavors and brands, more
educatian of the taste, more will
ingness to learn the facts about
the new 7 food products that have
made their appearance in the
last quarter century, but have
not until now been sold under
their true names. We shall at
last have a chance to know
whether we are paying out our
money for nutrition or for flavor
or for what is rare and curious,
and we may govern our expen
ditures accordingly.—The La
dies’ World for February.
Rotten and Worthless Shows.
It is getting about time for
some little old cheap, nasty, dirty
carnival company to show up here
and besmirch the town with its
dirty work for a week. We hope
that this will not be the case,
however and if it comes, we trust
that the proper officials will ob
ject to its setting pegs here and
that it will be compelled to pass
on. We quote below an extract
from a letter written by a promi
nent citizen of Georgia: He says,
“we have recently had some ex
perience with perhaps as high
class carnival aggregation as
there is on the road, and every
body here who had anything to
do with allowing it to operate are
ashamed of themselves. These
fakes bleed the weak and super
stutious, they feed on those who
are less able to bear it. There
absolutely has not been a negro,
or a poor sorry white man who
has been able to pay his rent,
board or grocery bill since the
agregation left here. It, like all
others, was reeking with all kinds
of gambling schemes, schemes by
which it was attempted to get
something without returning any
value for it, part of it was pulled
up by the authorities and plead
guilty to gambling. They are
little less than highway robbers.
I say it was as good a one as there
is on the road, it was better than
the one that you had at your fair
last fall, in Macon, and better
than the aggregation that oper
ated the State fair.”
This a report coming from one
of our neighboring towns and we
do not want any such rot to land
in Douglas during this season,
and we have faith enough in the
city administration to think that
there will be no street carnivil
in Douglas this spring. We not
only hope that this will not be
the case in Douglas, but we trust
that there is not a town in Coffee
county that will consent for one
of these vile and malicous immoral
conglomerations of sorry and
worthless white people and ne
groes, to land in Coffee county
this year.
We suggest now, that if the
fairs of Douglas and Broxton cant
give more consideration to the
moral side this fall than last, that
they close their doors with shame
and never open again. And in
behalf of these fairs, we will say
that their shows were no worse
than are elsewhere, and many of
them better than the average,
but this only shows how low the
average has gotten to be.
Whatever good we cm do as
an editor or as an individual, we
ntend to do towards helping im
prove the better side of human
ity. We do not want to be harsh
or cranky, but we do want to see
the eyes of the people opened to
the improvement of our common
country along all lines that tend
to better mankind.
Will drinking keep on in Doug
las, will these rottan shows con
tinue to come, will gambling con
tinue in Douglas? Will other
rotten practices continue in Doug
las? We presume that they will,
rut we feel it our duty to call at-
Mention to them and we will do
to, as it comes to us as our duty.
We do not expect Douglas and
ktffee county to be the best and
Host moral place in the world,
ht w*e w'ant to see it equal to
aiy. The good people of the
tivns and county have it in their
hnds to make it better and bet
te every day. and we believe
tilt they will do it, and w'e be
like that Douglas and Coffee
cqncy will soon be known far
art wide as the most wholesome
plte to live in the state of Geor
gi
buglas, backed by Coffee coun
| ty,nd such good towns as are in
th<borders of Coffee county, is
sui to make a very large and a
vet prosperous town, and we
wat to be able to add a moral,
rel'ious and educational town.
(it off the bad and cling to the
goq and great thiugs will come
to i.
Aeceipt for pew rent is not a
pas,through the heavenly por
tals.
1 1
From the Missionary.
Your many readers will no
doubt be interested in a brief ac
count of our w T ork as missionary
of the Smyrna Association.
We will not go back further
than the first of January, 1907,
just one month, beginning the
first Sunday at Big Creek church
Appling county. We continued
one week preaching twice daily.
The meeting was a great success
in many respects. There were
eight happy converts baptised
into the fellowship of the church,
and many others expressed them
selves as having been greatly
benefited by the preaching of
the gospel.
Our next point was the grow
ing and interesting town of Nich
ols. Here we held fourth ten
days with splendid results, some
twenty made professions of con
version, several were added to
the church and a general uplift
morally and religiously were some
of the results of this services of
meetings.
We next visited Alma, the com
ing little city of Appling county.
Here we remained seven days
preaching twice daily. The cold
snap with some rain was some
what in our way, but dispite that
the Lord gave us a great meeting
at Alma. Brother J. W. Kytle
■s the beloved pastor here as well
as at Big Creek, and is a strong
man of God who will, with the
co-operation of his people, lead
them into fields fruitful and a
harvest white.
Rev. M. A. Love is the under
shepherd at Nichols and is an
able minister of the Word, and,
if we foresee arght, is going to
accomplish great good in his field.
He has the cooperation of a noble
set of Christians who rejoice to
see the work of the Lord prosper.
Below we give a summary of our
work for January: Miles travel
ed 279; visits to homes 156; ser
mons preached 49; address 4;
Prayer meetings 10; conversions
and redevvals 42; additions to the
churches where meetings have
been held 21.
Y'ours truly,
G. A. Bartlett.
Is Ben Tillman a Disgrace to his
Constituency?
For a man who lives to take
the antagonistic side and to kick
on everything, we name Senator
Ben R. TiDmam, of South Caro
lina, as the prize winner. We
are glad that we have not a man
representing our own beloved
state, who makes himself the
largest for so much adverse criti
cism.
Before the Cartoonists are
through with Tillman, he will be
in bad light over this common
wealth of ours. Gregg, of the
Constitution, cartoons him with
a pitch fork, a pistol and a rope,
and makes it appear that the
said Tillman is a bad man.
Some of his utterances have
been unbecoming a National
Legislator, an 1 we trust that he
will curb his tongue some what
in the future. Every body in
the South believes that Roose
velt did right in dismissing the
Brownville troups, except Till
man, and when he was governor
of South Carolina, he did the
same thing at one time.
The Thaw Trial.
A plea of insanity has been
entered in Thaw’s behalf. By
the time the trial ends the whole
country can enter this same plea
and any intelligent court would
sustain it. Why do the best
daily papers besmirch their col
umns with the details of such
trials and crimes ?
We are glad to see the Atlanta
Georgian giving so little space to
the sensational side and that such
cases as Thaw’s only get in pure
ly as a matter of news and with
out large headlines and so many
pictures of the people who are
interested in this case.
Some of the English newspa
pers insist on regarding Swetten
ham as a martyr. The really ser
ious aspect of his affair will not
become apparent to some Brit
ish minds Punch has taken it up.
—Washington Star.
Eastman Wants Cheaper Freight
Rates.
The business men of Eastman
have lately perfected the organi
zation of a board of trade to be
devoted to the advancement of
the commercial interests of this
county. Upon investigation it
was found that interstate ship
ments could be billed to Mcßae,
twenty miles below Eastman,
and localed back to Eastman
cheaper than the shipment could
be made direct to Eastman, or
that the same could be done as
to Dublin. Steps have been tak
en to have this state of affairs
immediately remedied.
Eastman is on the main line of
the Southern as well as being
connected with the W. and T.,
giving Eastman the advantage
over both Dublin and Mcßae
from the freight rate standpoint,
and it is thought that Eastman
has not been getting what it is
entitled to along this line, simply
because the business men have
not been informing themselves
and taking steps to have this
discrimination corrected. It is
now proposed to maintain an ef
fective business organization and
to get everything to which East
man is entitled not only in freight
rates, but along every other line.
The officers of the board of
trade are: President, C. M.
Methvin, editor of the local pa
per; vice president, M. H. Ed
wards, merchant and banker;
secretary, G. T. Mcßae, mer
chant.
Twelve Years Long Enough.
I think that twelve years is
long enough to wait to do any
good thing, and I feel impressed
to give the following truth to
every reader of this paper.
Twelve years ago one of my
sons was struck with a fit, and
they continued for one year.
I went to Dr. G, W. Julian, who
then resided in Pearson, Ga., but
now in Tifton, for advice. He
fixed up some medicine, and I
gave it as directed, and my son
never had another fit.*
I was so glad until I continued
to talk about it. I met Rev. Nead
ham Harrell of Douglas, Ga., and
he told me that one of his daught
ers had fits, and Dr. Julian cured'
her.
Eight years after this I met
one of my old friends that knew
of this but had forgotten what
Dr. cured my son and was going
to find out.
That caused me to think, that
I ought to have it published so
that some other parents’ hearts
might be made glad as ours were.
So, I thought I ought to do this
not for Dr. Julian’s sake for he
was not in the trouble that I
was in.
Notwithstanding, I think a s
much of him as any man, that I
know. I do this hoping that some
child’s usefulness may be protect
ed and some parent made to re
joice as I was.
I would have given up all, that
I had for him to have him cured,
if I had have known that it could
have been done, but it only cost
me $1.25.
Now, if any one that has this
trouble desires to ask me any
questions about it, I will gladly
answer them. Address,
Rev. Charlie purvis,
Kirkland, Ga.
Route 1, Box 20.
Coffee’s New Commissioners.
Coffee county’s new Commiss
ioners took hold last Monday and
went to work with a will. They
are among the best men of the
county and will endeavor to do
what they think is right and the
interests of Coffee county is still
in good hands.
Dublin Courier-Dispatch: The
two organizations that are doing
more for the farmer than all else<
combined are the Southern Cotton
Association and the Farmers’ Co
operative and Educational Union.
There is not a state in the Union
that has the advantage of Georgia
in location and fertility of soil and
it is therefore appropriate and yet
singular that Georgia should be
the headquarters of both ©f these
organizations.