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THE CARROLL FREE PRESS, CARROLLTON, GA. Geo. W. Harper. One of the greatest needs of the age is a broad, comprehensive in telligence. We will never attain it unless we put ourselves in a lemon squeezer and sqush the prejudice out of our carcass. If we could do so and not retain a drop of religious, politi cal, sectional or any other kind of virus, instead of shrinking up we would expand and spread like a “green bay tree.” Rev. Perry Merrell, of Roopville, and 1 were chums in our young boyhood days (we are young yet.) W e have chased the rabbit, possum, coon, lizzard, rat and other danger ous animals together, and when we were not engaged at that we were wrestling- There was never an unkind word between us, but when the war closed Perry happened to line up on one side and 1 on the other. Politics were hot in those daysjand for nearly a year 1 thought Perry chock full of “dog-gon mean ness” but Perry was honest in his views and it was 1 that was full of the aforesaid meanness—or political prejudice. Our friendship never wavered but how hard it was for me to concede that Perry was hon est in his politics! That same intolerance clings to lots of us yet. Smith men think Brown men are fools, and Brown men have the same high opinion of Smith men, in some cases. When we lose sight of measures and pin our faith to men, or ate tor one man simply because we are against the other, its a aiire symp- ton that we have our carcass satur ated with the same trouble 1 had when 1 was thinking my friend Perry was like he was from pure “cussedness,” There never lived a purer- man than Perry Merrell and he was that way when 1 thought he ought to be strangled. Some may be today like I wms then, if so, squeeze it out. Its dangerous for a voter to be so in a government where the voter is supposed to rule. If we act from our prejudice in stead of our mature judgement after mature study, without prejudice, we will always remain in “the gall of bitterness and in the bonds” of those who can stir up our prejudice. Wear no man’s collar, wear your own, but if you want to “save your country, save yourself, save all things,” and want all to bless you, for your country’s sake get prejudice out of you and wear your collar intelligently, judiciously and patriotically. The best a voter can do is as aforesaid and vote for the man most competent for the job. If we want a house built we don’t let our prejudice interfere, but if we want our grand old ship of state remodeled, either by taking from or adding to, we sometimes let our prejudice do away with all judge ment, throw our collars to the wind, tamely let some man put a collar on us and vote us like sheep and employ men to work on the old ship that don’t know anything more about it than a pig knows of heaven. Until we run politics as we do our private business “pop-in-lays” like mys It will breaK in and try to tack all kinds of “planks” on our ship of state. Some candidates I see have “planks” they propose to tack on that : s already on, and one that has been so long that the ; “memory of man runneth not to the contrary.” Such won’t d -, for if successful the old ship will be sunk to the bottomless pit in a few years. s There is no kind of ship but has its capacity. Go over that and the ship and all on board will perish. One Legislature will tack a "plank” on the ship and up jumps a patri d who is out and clamors for its repeal before we know anything of its merits or demerits. I wonder if it would not be wise to try a law until we knew some thing about its merits? We do everything else so why n f, t law? We have hundreds of laws we don’t obey and some of them splendid laws. Disrespect for one law cools our love for any law. This is the road to anarchy. How many of us are on the road? ! What matters it if it is your I “native land” if we continue to ignore law? As much as we boast j of our civilization no one’s life or 1 property would be worth a snap if it was not for law, and our “native land” would be drenched in blood in a short time but for law. It is not wise to disobey any [law, for it breeds contempt for all law. and a contempt for all law breeds anarchy and anarchy breeds rapine, arson, robbery, murder and chaos. As people “multiply and replen ish the earth” questions as great as the increase is, arise. As roilroads, manufacturing of all kinds and other interprises in crease, so laws will have to be made to fit and regulate our varied industries. Tnis can’t be done by a set of pygmies. Men whose souls are so small that they could travel a thousand years in a mustard seed and then leave vast territories un explored, would be like ticks in a tar bucket trying to lump out, and would make no more progress. How can we make laws to apply to all our industries and not hurt any? How can we have them so iust and equitable that all classes will love and respect them? The questions of the present day and that are looming up in the near future are no more to be compared to the little questions arising in the days of Washington than Roosevelt is to myself. (The reader can re verse the last sentence if he desires —there is no law against it,) Its our duty to our “native land’ to squeeze out all ,partianship and vote as we please, of course, but try to get the man tnat fits the iob best. At the same time let’s let our neighbor do the same. Let us soak our skulls in oil so our brain can expand. Then we can see good in the other fellow that has an opinion differing from ours. Let us not stop our paper because Copyright 1909, by C. E. Zimmerman Co.—No. 3 MOVING 5 0 you will surely need some new things. Maybe a rug or carpet, or a few curtains or drapes, or a new piece of furniture to brighten up some room. Whatever you need, come around to our store, look at our ex= cellent stock, and you will find lots of nice things. You won’t have to wait weeks—=perhaps months—-or pay freight charges when you buy here. S.C.KYTIE Carrollton, Ca. DEADLY POISONS. Nearly One-half of Those Known Ar« Chemical Rarities. “There are only about 160 rleadb poisons known to science,” said an expert in poison lore the other day “Of these 160 quickly fatal drugs one-third are alkaloids, nnd more than a score are complicated animal and vegetable poisons not yet fullv classified. Nearly half of the totali number of known poisons are chem ical rarities—not things that ever pet into the coroners’ reports. Of these 160 kinds of poison 1!) per cent act directly on the brain or on the spinal cord, either by bringing on unconsciousness or by stimulat ing the mind to such an extent that delirium follows; .5(4 per cent affect the respiration and only a little more than -1 per cent the heart pri marily. Nearly -10 per cent are irri tant poisons, and the rest have s mixed action on the human body. Arsenic, for example, produces al most the same symptoms as Asiatic cholera; phosphorus produces jaun dice, and strychnine’s effects resem ble a case of lockjaw. All theso symptoms, of course, are those that precede death when a fatal dose has been taken. “A good many of these pbisons are dangerous to manufacture. Mer curic methide, for instance, brings madness to those who work too long at making it. A gas rises from it that is not immediately fatal, but that causes temporary insanity, which may, of course, become per manent. “Potassium bichromate is another dangerous chemical and one that i* used in large quantities commercial ly. The workmen who breathe in the dust that rises from the manu facture of this deadly poison finally lose their noses. For that reason those who work over this chemical have their faces protected by respi rators. Even then the dust is so fine nnd insidious that they do not es cape entirely, and many suffer from painful affections of the skin. The horses that work about the factory where this potassium bichromate is made on a large scale are mostly lamo The dust gets into their hoofs and caiises sores. Cyanide of potas sium looks so much like sugar that the workmen it the factories where it is made keep their mouths band aged to help them resist the temp tation to e*t soma af it. Jowett and Tennyson. On one occasion Tennyson was Jowott’s guest at the Master’s lodge, Baliol, with a few other men, nnd after some good talk the poet had retired early to his room. Next morning at breakfast Tennyson was in a silent mood, but as the men were rising from the table he said: “Jowett, after I left you last night I wrote a few verses. I am not sure that I have ever done anything bet ter. 1 will read them to you.” Jowett, preparing to go off for his day’s work, replied hastily: “Oh, no; thank you, Tennyson. I’ve no time for that sort of thing just now. I am very busy.” For Rent Three room house, close in, Apyly toJ.L. Kaylor. Foi Sale One 42-inch corn mill in good repair, also one sawmill, For prices apply to A. R. Spence, Carrollton, Ga. 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If he or your neighbor is wrong see if you can’t reform them in a nice gentlemanly way. Argue thequestions with them. Argument sometimes convinces the man argu ing that he is wrong himself. Geo. W. Harper. Prints for People all Over the South. Occupies 5000 Sq. ft. floor space. b/wT which/. /rJ- ADAMSON & JACKSON, LAWYERS, Carrollton, Ga. (Foreign capitalists loan money on first-class terms for five years at 6 and 7 per cent. See me if you want money. R. D. JACKSON. HAMRICK & THOMASSON LAW'YERS Carrollton, Ga. Rooms 1 and 2 Bass Building. W. H. BISHOP, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Calls promptly filled day or night. Residende, Cedar St. Phone 139. Office in West Building up stairs in room formerly occupied by Dr. J. F, Cole. Phone 311. Carrollton, Ga. When the stomaoh fails to per form its functions, the bowels be come deranged, the liver and the kindneys congested causing num- orous diseases. The stomach and the liver must be restored to a healthy condition and Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets can be depended upon to do it. Easy to take and most effictive. Sold by W. L. Worthy. MONEY TO LOAN I »m prepared to make loans'on improved farm lands in Carroll County, at 7 and 8 per cent interest on terms of special advantage to farmers and others owning farms. The principal is repayable In annual Install ments of one-tenth of the amount borrowed and interest is charged only on the amount actually at lntere»t. Loans are made for a period of five years and there |is no commis sion oharged for making hut a reasonable sum for abstracting title, If you are in need of money nnd have Improved farm lands to offer as security. It will pay'you to consult me. L. Z, DOKSETT. Hoop Building, Carrollton. Ga. Fresh Ruta Bega seed. Fitts Drug Store. A few shares of Fourth O © o 0 g District A. & M. 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