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the red sow and rigs.
A and B were two farmers, it makes
no difference where, and each of them
had 125 acres of a certain ot of land,
and it might be said on the south side
of said lot of land. The whole north
ern part of the lot was occupied by
another man. A and B’s farms were
divided from each other, so the evi
dence disclosed, by a fifteen foot lane,
and there was a gate at the southern
end of said lane, to be used by both
farmers as they came out or went in,
but to be kept shut, in order that the
cows, hogs and other stock might be
kept out of the lane. In some way
the gate was left open, and a red col
ored sow, a regular razor back, weight
about fifty pounds, eighteen months
old, with three red colored pigs, about
as arge as half grown rabbits, and be
longing to A, came into the lane and
subsequently got into B’s corn patch.
This happened three times, when B got
his dander aroused, put the red sow
and pigs in a pen and sent A word
that he could not get them until he
paid for the damage that had been
done. A then came to town and swore
out a possessory warrent, and both
parties hired a awyer, paying him ten
dollars to fight the case. An officer
went out and arrested the red sow and
pigs, (value $7.00) and B gave bond
for their appearance at court when
needed. When the case was called
both lawyers and a dozen woltnesses
were present, the law in such cases
made and provided was read, the wit
nesses questioned, and before the jus
tice could render his judgement both
lawyers suggested that the warrent
be withdrawn, the scot paid and the
hogs be released to A. So, there you
are, the lawyers fees $20.00, costs $7.25
and the affair stood just where it did
before the trouble. Each man paid 10
dollars for a lawyer, and each paid
$3,42% costs. So you see each man
had paid out $13.42 for nothing, abso
lutely, and went home chatting hap
pily and in a good humor. And think
ing of this case I wrote. “The old
saying that the homes of lawyers are
buile with fool’s money is true, to a
large extent. Some people won't be
reasonable and a good level-headed
man is needed to adjust the differences
and, of course, the laborer is worthy
of his hire.”
Was there anything wrong in that?
The level-headed lawyer always ready
to adjust little differences, assuring
their clients that certainly had a good
case, had ten dollars each that was in
the pockets of two fools the day be
fore.
And then, the gifted lawyer of the
Pearson Tribune, after he had read
the item quoted, happened to remem
ber the old saying “that an idle brain
is the devil’s workshop” and he pro
ceeded to read me a lesson declaring
that in an idle moment “satan entered
my brain and that I penned the para
graph, which adds nothing to the Note
Book.” I don’t see why for there are
some that has not heard the old say
ing which causes this discussion, and
1 have also shown how some fools put
their money into lawyer’s pockets.
No, Bro. Allen, Satan is not in my
brain, and has not been for forty years
I love the lawyers, the people, the
children praticularly, and last, but not
least by any means, my distinguished
friend of the Pearson Tribune.
She ought to know, for she had ten
to look a‘’ter.
I think I will have to move my
Wray chum to town.
There were soma uneasy people in
town Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-
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Mr. Blackeyed chum, Emma Bedsoe,
down near Nicholls wrote to me last
Saturday. She says she will soon be
picking cotton. •* t * * ""'
Ruth wrote to me last week and
then came to see me Saturdayi What
more can a girl do?
The gills arc beating the boys in
going to the army. The Red Cross
is filling up with a rush.
A preacher in Savannah last Sun
day compared the Kaiser to the devil,
with apologies to the devil.
The Kaiser has some good friends
in this country. Among them are
Tom Watson and Tom Hardwick.
Unis Sears came to see me last
week. She was in trouble, as the
baby of her sister, Mrs. Carter, had
just died.
Mary McGovern and Dollie Kirk
land came to see me last Saturday.
Mary is a Florida girl and Dollie is
a Georgia girl.
D. A. Smith, Jr., of Axson, is at the
King's Daughters hospital at Way
iross, with blood poison. Mother and
father with him.
Twenty-four of the boys did not
show up last Monday for examina
tion. That was a rather slim show
for a beginning.
Oril Mancil, a Coffee county boy but
now of Detroit, Mich., came in to see
how his Uncle Jim was getting along,
last Saturday.
George Lairsey’s letter was mis
laid, and when I went to get it to
publish, this week, I couldn’t find it.
He’ll write again.
Big Bud Fussell, Myrian and some
other Bussell's were in town last Mon
day. Bettie is reported to have a
new fellow last Saturday.
Some of the boys who filed exemp
tions was because of the submarines
and the ocean, but the first army went
over without any loss of life.
Thelma Bledsoe wrote me last Sat
urday that she hadn’t forgotten me. I
am glad of it, for I was just about
to conclude that she’d quit me.
Sallie says August is a bad month
for young babies, and if the little
things rae let lie on the hot pillows
too much their necks will be scalded.
Some of my friends from the coun
try express the opinion “that Ger
many will whip the United States.”
She certainly will, of all the boys are
exempted.
Will Nipper’s young wife has been
trying to eat all the water melonh in
sight, out on No. 3. First thing you
know I will be going out there with a
bottle of quinine
Mary Starling, of this place, went to
see her uncle, Aaron Starling, who
livies near Valdosta week. She
wil be gone a week or more, or as
long as they will let her stay.
A Waycross couflc were at my door
last Wednesday morning before I had
my eyes open good. I hurried up,
put them in double harness and they
caught the 7:30 train for Waycross.
Bill Right was here last Monday.
He has been to Thoipasville and other
points, and only stopped to see if
Tonnie was in my office. She was not,
but will be as soon as she can get
here.
A regular subscriber told me this
week that he read “the legal adver
tisements in The Enterprise regularly,
but never read the Note Book or any
thing else.” And that accounts for
his ignorance.
Bro. Hubert, of the Douglas Bap
tist Church, was booked to preach at
Pearson, this week. It is hoped he
filled the appointment, and that Bro.
Allen, of the Tribune, was present at
each service.
The boys and girls all over the coun
ty report that they are “busy picking
cotton, and can’t come to see me.”
Well, I can go out there and sit in
the corner of the fence or under the
persimmon tree.
No, sir, the people of thisi country,
as a general thing, don’t care if the
United States is whipped or not. All
the care for is to keep out of the
army. Application for exemptions
shows this to be true.
Just as regular as the time runs
around, Georgia Wilcox sends in her
subscription', and just that regular 1
am reminded that I have a jewel of a
chum down at McDonald. 11 ju.i
can’t do without the Note Book,” and
then she says “answer soon and a
long letter.”
Mrs. Talley and another lady friend,
were around town Wednesday trying
to raise money for the benefit of the
tabernacle out at the mill. This is a
good cause, and the ladies were reas
onably successful. They have services
out there every Sunday afternoon, and
want to see their friends and others.
Tom Watson advised opposition to
the select draft law, and then advised
those who opposed it to raise SIO,OOO
to give him to narry the case before
the supreme court. Everything Tom
does has money In It for himself an
the supreme court Will uphold the law,
as it has alreadv done, in the sixties.
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You ought to have seen the picture
at the Enterprise Theatre last Wed
nesday. It was, “There Were and
Nine,” a lesson the savior gave (to the
world, and was well played. I see
all the pieces played at this theatre
and have seen none but good ones up
to this time. Whenever Ido I will let
you know.
I had a postal from Mattie Vickers,
149 Peachtree Circle, Atlanta, this
week, but she did not say anything
about watermelons. Maybe they “are
I all gone, but she ca ncome, bring
friends down here, and eat persim
mons, this fall. Half ripe persim
mons will make girls mouth look like
she was whistling.
Wilcox county has voted against tax
ation for schools. If the question had
been left with the negroes to decide it
would have gone in favor of taxes and
TH* DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, AUG, 18, 1917.
MRS. CHAS. PEDFN
GAINS 27 POUNDS
WAS TWICE EXAMINED AND
EACH TIME WAS TOLD OPERA
TION WOULD BE ONLY HOPE
CASE IS REMARKABLE.
“I have just finished my third bottle
of Tanlac and have gained twenty
seven pounds,” was the truly remark
able statement made by Mrs. Charles
Penden, residing at 550 Mill street,
Huntsville, Ala. Mrs. Penden is one
of the best-known and most highly re
spected women of that thriving little
city, where she has made her home for
a number of years.
“W’hen I commenced taking the medi
cine,” she continued, “I only weighed
ninety-eight (98) pounds; now I weigh
125 pounds, and never felt better in
my life. For years I have suffered
with a bad form of stomach trouble,
constipation and pains in my side and
back. At times the pains took the
form of torture and I was twice ex
amined and each time I was told that
I had appendicitis and that an opera
tion would be my only hope. I had
fallen off until I only weighed ninety
eight pounds and was so weak I could
hardly get around.
“I had no appetite at all scarcely,
and what little I did eat would cause
gas to form in my stomach, which
gave me palpitation of the heart, sick
headaches and a dizzy feeling about
the head. When these spells came on
me I would get awfully nervous. 1
worried about myself until I could rest
and sleep but little.
“I had fallen off until I was almost
‘skin and bones,’ and my strength and
energy were slowly leaving me. I
had a dread of the future and could
see nothing but the operating table
and knife. I had a perfect horror of
an operation, but had made up my
mind that it was either life or death,
and prepared to submit to it. I had
made all preparations for the opera
tion and called on my sister to tell
her good-bye, as I did not know wheth
er I would live to see her again or
not. My sister begged and plead with
me not to allow them to cut on me
and told me to wait and try a good
tonic for a while. The next day as I
returned from the consultation room
I thought of what she said, and as I
had heard so much about Tanlac I de
cided to try it as a last resort and
stopped at Gilbert’s Drug Store and
got a bottle. Of course, I had lost
heart and had no faith in the medi
cine, but to please my sister I made
up my mind to take it, and, oh what
a happy day that was for me!
“I never returned for the operation,
but just kept taking the Tanlac. Right
from the start I began to feel better.
The medicine seemed to take hold
right at once. It had a soothing ef
fect, and in a few days I felt no pain
at all. I was so happy over the
wonderful improvement in my condit
ion that I sent for my neighbors to
tell them how much better I felt. I
sent and got another bottle of Tan
lac, and have just finished taking my
third bottle and feel like I have been
made all over again into a new wo
man.
“As I have said before, I now weigh
125 pounds, and my improvement has
been so rapid that none of clothes are
big enough for me. I will have to
make them all over again. I now
have a ravenous appetite and my hus
band says I am simply eating him out
of house and home. I have even gone
back to my coffee, which I was told
not to touch. Those terrible pains in
my back nad head have all disappear
ed and I sleep like a child. I am no
longer nervous, and I get up
mornings I feel refreshed, cheerful and
bright. I am now able to attend to
my household duties, and I feel as if
I had started life all over again. My
I husband is highly delightel, and my
recovery is the tak of the neighborhood
I I do nothing but rejoice all day long
'over the recovery of my health and
!praise Tanlac to everybgdy
“I feel so grateful for my escape
from the operating table and the knife
that you may publish what I have
said; you may, if you wish, tell other
women suffering as I was, to come
and see me and I will be glad to tell
them all about my case.”
Tanlac is sold exclusively in Doug
las by the Union Pharmacy; in W’illa
coochee by Quillian’s Pharmacy; in
Nicholls by the Johnson Pharmacy;
in Pearson by Dr-;. Joe and C. W. Cor
bett; and in Braxton by J. H. Rod
denberry; in McDonald, Lochridge &
Lawton; in West Green, Mack’s Drug
store.
education. It seems that the white
people do not care as much for relig
ion and education as the negro does,
and i tis regrettable, too, for the ef
fects will be seen with sorrow in after
I years.
Charles I. Lott and Miss Iva Hatten,
both of this county, were married last
i Monday, at the office of Wallace and
Luke, by the writer, in the presence
of two or three friends. The license
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substitution. We are determined it shall
was written in June, so I imagine
Miss Iva kicked Charles and then they
made up. Of course, I don’t know
about this, and they have my best
wishes.
Mary Ellen Smith, down near Ses
soms, says “she is stlil watching the
Note Book to see if I went to see that
pretty girl at Wray, last Sunday.”
No, I didn’t go, but she wrote me the
sweetest letter last Monday you ever
saw, and what is more she is coming
to see me soon and go to the show
with me. What are you going to do
about that, Mary?
Filing these exemptions, after be
ing found fit for the army, for the sole
support of a wife or mother, will make
these boys walk a chalk line. If they
fail to support their wife or mother,
and complaint is made, they will be
taken off to the army so quick it will
make their heads swim. They are
paid S3O a month, board and clothes,
these are morb, perhaps than they
ever received before.
Bill Hursey was in town Monday.
It will be remembered that he lost his
wife of forty-two years about one
month ago, and he is all broken up.
Poor ol dfellow, I can only suppose
what sorrow he endures. When a
close companion and friend drops out
it causes a big vacancy in one’s heart,
but when a faithful, loving wife, who
helped all along ife’s trail, raised the
boys and girls, they are all gone, then
she goes, I imagine he feels like all
has gone.
Two of my pretty chums say they
“are coming to towm soon and stay
all night, go with me to the show and
have a big time.” I see what that big
time is, after the show, for they are
certain to be thirsty and want to stop
at all the drug stores, to see which
jhas the best ice cream and pea-nut
sandwiches. It will cost 40 cents at
each drug store for them to decide,
and there are four stores the will be
80 cents, that is, if I do nothing but go
along, pay their bills and don’t have
anything to do wfith ice cream and
soda water. But then —well let it go
at that.
My little fried, Ruth Bailey, wrote
me last Saturday that she “had all
the doll things cleaned up and the play
pretties washed up, expects to make a
new playhouse soon, and I must come
out and play with her.” Sure, I will,
and I’m going to bring my dollies
and my rubber bear, and I don’t want
her to make me sit in one corner with
a black cloth over my face and make
me be the booger man, like Mandy
Floyd did. And she hung up one of
her dresses before me, and made the
| other children pay two pins to see me.
'And when I dodn’t growl an dmake a
; lot of noise, she came ’round and kick
[ed me in my side. And I hugged her,
too, ’cause booger men always hugs
pretty girls, and she liked to be hugg
ed too, and so do other girls.
The John Flannery Company, Sav
annah, Ga., has the best equipment
for the handling and selling of cotton,
and is prepared to make liberal ad
vances on consignments.
winiPiniiNFi) ° nCoffcc
IvlUllDl LUnIIDU County Farms
AT 5 1-2 PER CENT
We make farm loans at 5 l-2 percent in
terest and give the borrower the privilege
of paying part of the principal at end of any
year, stopping interest on amounts paip, but
no annual payment of principal reguired.
J. W. QUINCEY
FARM LOANS TO SUIT
YOU ON BEST TERMS.
You will find it to your advantage to see
me if you wish a farm loan. I can give you
any kind you desire, and with the least ex
pense, If you wish an ordinary farm loan
I can place it for you at 5 1-2 or 6 percent
interest at from sto 10 years, with the
privilege of paying the principal at any an
nual interest paying peroid, if you prefer to
do so, thus stopping interest.
I can also make you a twenty year loan
under same method as loans which will be
made under the Federal farm loan system.
If you will let me know what you want in
the way of farm loau I can please you and
save you money.
f. wTdart
The Kimball House
Atlanta, Georgia
J. L. DINKLER, Pres, and Mgr.
400 ROOMS, RUNNING WATER, HOT AND
COLD. 150 ROOMS WITH PRIVATE BATH.
Most Centrally Located Hotel In
Atlanta
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