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The Douglas Enterprise.
‘•'VOL. 18, NO. 13.
SALOONS CUT OUT COCA COLA.
In Retaliation for its Owner’s Ac
tivity For Prohibition.
A telegram from Columbus,
says:—An interesting report is
in circulation that the retail
whiskey dealers of Georgia will
cease to sell coca cola over the
Counter, as a retaliatory measure
against certain interests which
are alleged to have been active
in their efforts to have the Geor
gia Legislature pass a prohibition
bill. Already there are saloons
here that no longer sell it, and it
is reported that in other sections
of the state the movement to cut
out coca cola in saloons has reach
ed a more advanced stage.
The saloons here have been
handling bottled coca cola for
several years and hare been sell
ing large quantities of it. In
.recent years the demand for the
bottled product has greatly in
creased, While it is only a few
months before the prohibition
bill goes into effect, the saloon
men might be able to divert a
good many dollars from the coca
cola business. Many drinkers of
coca cola prefer it in a bottle and
in the business district the saloon
is where the bottled article is
mostly sold. It is claimed by
others, however, that the sale of
the beverage would not be sensi
bly decreased, for if the customer
were n* buy it from the
soloon could easily get it at
all drug stores. It is a (so claimed
that the saloon dealer would
queer” himself with his custo
mer, for while the boycott might
affect the coca cola interest it
would also deprive the customer
of getting his “dope” there. *
Not So Very Sweet.
Some one who would destroy
all that is sweet in the world if
ihe could, hands put the follow
ing:
“Young man, that beautiful
girl whom you worship as a pillar
unadulterated sweetness does
not contain even three ounces of
sugar. It has been shown by
analysis that a young person
weighing 150 pounds is composed
of 96 pounds of water, 3 pounds
of the white of eggs, a little less
than 2 pounds of glue, 34 pounds
of fat, 8 pounds of phosphate of
lime, 3 ounces of sugar and starch
7 ounces of chloride of calcium,
6 ounces of phosphate of magnesia
and a little ordinary table salt.’'
“There’s The Sheriff Now.”
While at Chatterton last Satur
day, looking for Charley Thomas
a negro who had jumped his con
tract, Dep. Sheriff, Anderson
caught the wrong negro. As he
.stepped from the train, a negro
standing in a crowd near by said
‘‘there’s the Sheriff, now. ’’ One
of the negroes, Ed White, broke
off in a run, and suspecting that
he was a criminal the Sheriff put
out after him, and after a short
race, caught him. He proved to
be a thief who had robbed Geo.
T. Bailey and a railroad caboose,
at Nichols. The negro, Ed White,
was subsequently tried and given
four years in the pen.
Gov. Smith says if the legisla
ture does not get through with
the Mfork he has cut out for it,
the members shall not go home
on the 17th, as promised. It is
likely there will be an extra ses
sion called when the present ex
pires.
SAID HE WAS JAILED FOR DEBT
Valdosta Man Asks Speer for Ha
beas Corpus Writ—ls Denied.
Claiming that he had been im
prisoned for debt and that he
had been held in a state of peon
age by D. E. Duggan, B. F.
Cowart of Valdosta, petitioned
Judge Emory Speer to issue a
w r rit of habeas corpus in his be
half. The petition, however,
was denied by Judge Speer Sat
urday.
The petition, which was ad
dressed to “honable” court, stat
ed that on July 24 Cowart was
locked up in the Valdosta jail
and that the next day he was re
moved to Hawkinsville, where he
was placed in the “common jail,”
having been detained there ever
since, without being taken before
any judge for “tryal.” The pe
tition states that D. E. Duggan
swore out a warrant charging
Cowart with cheating and swin
dling. Cowart claims that he
was “prosicuted” under the acts
of Georgia, 1903, page 90, and
that the acts “was unconstitu
tional because he is imprisoned
for debt.” The petitioner states
that Duggan is the manager of
the Cochran Cotton Mill and that
he was trying to force Cowart
and his family to work and that
same was peonage.
In reply, Duggan states in his
answer that Cowart made a con
tract with the mill and was to
pay $l5O in work in installments
of S2O, to be deducted from his
and his family’s wages. After
$45 had been paid in this way,
the answer states, Cowart re
fused to pay any more or work
any more and moved away. A
warrant was then issued charg
ing cheating and swindling and
Cowart was arrested.
When the matter was brought
to the attention of Judge Speer in
Mt. Airy, the petition for habeas
corpus was denied.—M ac o n
News. ♦
The Girl Dodged.
There is a funny case before
the English courts at present.
The wife of a laborer sent her
little daughter Laura to carry
her father’s dinner to him at a
stone quarry a mile away. She
had on a red shawl, and in cross
ing a field a bull charged her.
To escape him she dodged behind
a tree, and in his rage the bull
failed to see the tree and crashed
into it and broke his neck.
The owner of the bull has sued
the laborer for the value of the
animal,claiming that if his daugh
ter hadn’t worn a red shawl she
would not have been pursued.
The father has begun a suit
against the owner of the bull,
claiming that if the bull had been
a cow he would not have pursued
and that being a bull, and pur
suing, he frightened the girl to
the extent of 5 pounds.
It is going to be a question to
puzzle the lawyers. Perhaps
they will agree that if Laura’s
father had ceen dead she wouldn’t
have been carrying him his din
ner, or if the bull had been in
the next county he wouldn’t have
seen and pursued the girl. Sure
ly, if there had been no field, no
girl, no father, no red shawl, no
stone quarry and no tree or bull,
things couldn’t have 'happened
as they did.— Ex.
Douglas, Ga., August 10th, 190?.
GOOD BYE BOOZE.
The Governor Signs Bill and Wit
nesses Sing the Doxology.
Atlanta, Aug. 6. —Marked at
the top of the state prohibition
bill in large red ink figures is
this significent inscription.
“No. 23.”
It just so happened that the
state prohibition measure, to
which the Governor has affixed
his signature, is Senate bill No.
1, but is No. 23 on the executive
docket.
The meaning will hardly be
lost. Long before the hour fix
ed for the signing of the bill,
prohibitionists began to fill up
the Governor’s reception room
and when the bill was carried to
him at 10:20 o’clock, there were
over 300 people there, including
many women.
The Governor did not sign the
bill at once, as he wanted first to
read it over carefully and it was
taken into his private office and
the door closed.
At 10:35 o’clock, the door of
the private office was opened and
the crowd rushed in, that is all
who could get into the small
room. The rest remained in the
reception room, looking over
shoulders.
At 10:40 o’clock, Gov. Smith
took up the gold pen given him
for the purpose, and affixed to
the bill “Hoke Smith, Gover
nor.” *
This was- the last act in mak
ing the state prohibition bill a
law and it is now on the statute
books.
Three loud cheers were given
for prohibition and the Governor
by the crowd. Then some one
started the Long Meter Doxol
ogy, and while the crowd joined
in: “Praise God From Whom
All Blessings Flow,” the crowd
gathered around the Governor
and warmly shook his hand.
He was all smiles and remarked:
“This is the happiest day of
my life,”
He did not look like a man
who is reported to have signed
away $60,000 in putting his name
on that bill.
He turned the gold pen over
to Mr. H. Y. McCord, who stood
near him when he signed it, and
Mr. McCord will present it to
Emory College.
Among the well known prohi
bitionists who were gathered in
the Governor’s office when the
bill was signed, were Rev. J. L.
D. Hillyer, Senator Hardman,
Senator Knight, Seaborn Wright
of Floyd, J. B. Richards, secre
tary of the Anti-Saloon League;
Dr. Walker Lewis, J. W. Greer,
of Waycross, Dr. A. R. Holderby,
Rev. H. W. Joyner, R. J. Guinn,
Enoch Giles, R. A. Flanders, S.
J. Flanders, Prof. W. A. Bass,
W. H. Terrell, G. H. W. Ham
mond, Dr. M. J. Cofer, Alfred
Herrington, W. W. Gaines, J. E.
Wilhelm, J. B. Reynolds, J. T.
Floyd, William Clifton of Mcln
tosh and many others.
The price of marriage licenses
remain the same $1.50. One
girl in town says that is enough,
and if her young man can’t raise
the $1.50 she’ll pick cotton for
boodle enough, to help him out,
as soon as it opens. Now, that’s
the pluck that wins out!
TIME 15 MONEY.
Don’t Throw away Your Employ
er’s Time and Money.
There are a great many people
men and women, who work for
wages, by the week or month,
that do not hesitate to waste the
time for which they are paid.
This is not in obedience to the
law that the “laborer is worthy
of his hire,” but it was antici
pated in another law which says
“no person must expect some
thing for nothing.” In other
words, if you want pay for your
time you must work—you mnst
give value received, and then, if
you accept presents and favors
from any one except a parent,
friend or relative you may be
sure that something is expected
in return, a smile, a kind word
is often accepted in return for
an appealing look or glance of
the eye. But what is mostly ex
pected from those that are paid
is full and complete value receiv
ed.
An advertisement before us
says:
“Wanted—A young man with
good habits, sober and industrous
who understands book-keeping.
No cigarette fiends, pipe smokers
or booze drinkers need apply.
Good wages, ten hours and sure
pay.”
Now, in the same paper we
see others of the same kind, and
the reason is plain. If a man
pays a book-keeper, clerk or print
er, $3.00 per day, or any sum,
for ten hours work he expects
full time, and does not want a
man that will stop five minutes
in every hour, to make a cigarette
or fill up his pipe. Time is money,
if you work for a man, take his
time for which you are paid you
take his money. To sum up: If
you will smoke and take five min
utes every hour to make a cigar
ette, in ten hours you consume
fifty minutes time, and should de
duct that from your pay. If you
receive $3.00 per day, or thirty
cents an hour, at the close of the
day you are due your employer
twenty-five cents. These are plain
facts, appealing to all young men
to refrain from habits that do
them no good and their employ
er harm and injustice.
Needle and Brush Club.
The Needle and Brush Club
met on August Ist at Mrs. Oliver
Deen’s home and she entertained
on the varanda and the change
in the temperature made an ideal
afternoon for the members.
Nearly all the members were
present and three visitors. Af
ter sewing and chatting an hour,
the business meeting was called
to order by the President. The
minutes of the previous meeting
were read and approved. No
further business the meeting ad
journed, after which delicious
cake and cream were served and
the Club was invited to meet
with Mrs. Arthur Brooks on
August 15th.
Mrs. F. M. Appleby, Sec.
The Milltown News has been
enlarged to eight pages. The ex
pectation of a new county and
the prosperity of that section has
made Lem put on another sheet.
No more kicking, if you please.
Gov. Smith has signed the state
prohibition bill and it is the law
of the land.
: 1 00 per A’:num
Beautiful Northfield.
By alexis D. kendrick, pastor.
| I think it impossible to find a
, prettier place or more congenial
associates than Northfield. It
J was here that D. L. Moody was
born and lived most of his life,
and upon the sumit of one of the
hills, beneath the sod, rests his
mortal body awaiting the day of
resurrection. The Northfield
Schools are here, the great Moody
schools for young ladies are loca
ted here, also one for boys. The
schosl for boys is open all the
year, and the girls’ school is open
nine months in each year.
The Bible Training School is
open about eight months in each
year. One feature of the boys’
school and also the girls’ school,
is that every pupil is required to
work two hours each day. All
the work is done by the pupils,
even the cooking and washing.
As I expect to speak Sunday
night after my return home on
my trip, and at that time I shall
speak more in detail about the
schools, I will say no more on the
subject now.
The General Conference opened
Friday evening at 8 o’clock. The
opening prayer was led by Dr.
L. G. Broughton, of Atlanta, and
the sermon was preached by Dr.
F. B. Meyer, of England. His
subject was “Sin.” The attend
ance is large and the indication
is that we will have one of the
best conferences in the history
of the movements.
The services begin at 8:15 a.
m., and from five to six services
are held daily. Dr. G. Campbell
Morgan, of London, speaks daily
at 9 a. m., except Sundays and
Mondays. Among the speakers
for this conference are; G. Camp
bell Morgan, England; Dr. L. G.
Broughton, Georgia; Prof. James
Orr, Scotland; Evangelist W. R.
Lane, England; Rev. Dr. Goodell,
New York and a score of other
prominent men from different
countries.
There are hundreds of people
living in tents and rustic cottages
but the larger number of visitors
board at the hotels, Seminary
buildings and private homes.
We have people from almost
every State in this country, and
a number from other countries.
We have about twenty-five from
Georgia and others are expected
from there next week.
Next year I would like to have
a large number of our Douglas
and Coffee county people come to
Northfield, and on my return I
shall be pleased to give any infor
mation in regard to arranging
for a company to come next year.
N. A. Burnside Called to Door and
Killed by G. W* Gillmore.
G. W. Gilmore, a prominent
resident of Baxley, shot and kill
ed N. A. Burnside at the latter’s
home last Friday night. At the
time of the shooting Gilmore was
dressed in nothing more than his
night clothes. After retiring he
was told by his wife that Burn
side had insulted her.
Gilmore was greatly enraged
at the statement of his wife and
without awaiting to fully dress
he walked over to the home of
Burnside. Arriving there he
knocked on the door and asked
to see Burnside and when the
latter came out he shot and killed
him.
Gilmore is now confined in the
jail there.