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ROBERT L. DUKE
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Official Organ of Spalding Connty.
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District of Georgia.
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A GUY WE LIKE
Is James Jonathan Joy,
We never heard him shout “Oh
boy!”
A GUY WE LIKE
Is Edward McCoy,
Never says anything that would
our customers annoy.
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A lot of folks are too busy watch¬
ing ofther folks to watch their step.
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The druggist probably could tell
something about the modern girl who
is the pink of perfection.
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Anything which puts a check on
extravagance will help a man to have
something to check out of the bank.
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“Don’t worry,” says Chauncey M.
Depew. Chauncey is right about it.
Worry will kill one quicker than
work.
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It sometimes shocks a man to dis¬
cover how few of his supposed friends
are ready to help him in time of
trouble.
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Persons who check against their
health without doing anything to in¬
crease the deposits regret it sooner
or later.
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The Savannah Morning News, as
well as the rest of us, rejoices to
know that grand opera will displace
the bunco probe and the murder farm
and the German proposals on the
front pages of thiree daily papers in
Georgia.
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READ YOUR PAPER CAREFULLY
A great many of the newspapers
in this State are making a practice
of printing some of the “news of
long ago” in their publications. The
News and Sun is one of these and
finds that it is very a interesting
feature. Editor Turner, of the Bul¬
loch County Times, in printing this
old news has made a very interest¬
ing discovery. It is that people read
the newspapers very carelessly. He
says:
«« Apparently the average reader
gives little effort toward an intelli¬
gent understanding of what he reads
in the news of the day. This fact has
been more forcibly impressed by in¬
cidents coming under our knowledge
during the recent past. Since about
the middle of March this newspaper
has been carrying a department
which chronicled the incidents of
years long past. These items have
been grouped under the heading
M Events of Twenty Years Ago.” The
newspaper credit has shown that
they wore copied from the States-
! boro Sufficient News understanding of a corresponding to every date
one, and yet our friends tell us that
4heae items are frequently misun¬
derstood. For one, Commissioner R.
J. Kenneday tells us that objection
baa been made to him against the
letting of the convicts to Decatur
eoiinty and
chaingang. That thing happened
twenty years ago, but somebody has
carelessly read of it and somebody
understands that it is of recent
occurence. Somebody else was amaz¬
ed to read that the Central Railroad
had a force of 600 workmen building
a roadbed between Statesboro and
Register. That,' too, was news of
twenty yean ago.
“We are going to continue the
publication of this old history, but
we want our friends tp get clearly in
their minds that it is not intended as
news. It is published only for the
purpose of reminding our readers of
the passing of time.”
The News and Sun, like a number
of other newspapers, has had simi¬
lar experience. It is very frequent
that people fail to read the headlines
and thus think they are reading
something that has just happened. A
lady in a Northern city who formerly
resided here wrote friends the other
day, being terribly distressed about
something that happened twenty
three years ago, thinking it was a
recent event, Occasionally people
call the attention of the editor to a
big mistake that he has made. A
great many people fail to read the
headline and get all confused, which
shows that they are not as careful
readers as they should be. Some of
the older citizens have read about
some, friend of the long ago being
here and rushed around to the edi¬
tor to inquire who he is visiting.
Some of the younger citizens read of
a marriage that occurred years ago
and worry us with inquiries as to the
parties.
The man who publishes a news
paper has to be very careful of the
matter he dishes out, for half of it
is going to be misunderstood. Read
your newspaper carefully, headlines
and all.
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Says the Savannah Morning News:
The question of dividing Florida
into two States and the revival of
the old-and-dead question of making
two Georgias grow where one has
been growing pretty well, thank you
for a century and a good deal more,
are now to be overlaid and eclipsed
by the question of making five States
out of Texas, according to the alleg¬
edly original plan when the State
was moved out of Mexico. That
wouuld. if accomplished, give Texas
ten United States senators instead
of the two she now has, anyhow—
and provided Joe Dailey doesn’t come
back as one of the senators of one
of the proposed new States it might
help some”
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GIVING AWAY POTATOES
Conditions are certainly all awry
when a farmer will give away, to
consumers, over five hundred bushels
of potatoes and even advertise the
distribution in advance, as was done
at Bridgeton, New Jersey, just a few
days ago. The farmer, one of the
best known in that section, said he
preferred to give them away rather
than sell for twenty-five cents per
bushel. There were no strings, and
the distribution was made to all
comers, in not more than one bushel
lots.
While this distribution was going
on, consumers in cities only a few
hours ride away, were paying as
high as thirty - five cents per peck
for potatoes of no higher grade. The
cost of transportation could, not be
more than five or six cents per bush¬
el, so what becomes of the difference ?
If such charges is a legitimate cost
of distribution, it is time the ques
tion were taken hold of in all seri
ousness.
When the producer cannot secure
a sufficient price to pay cost of pro¬
duction, yet the consumer must pay
* price that is so say the least not
low, it is high time to look into the
matter. Maybe no one is profiteering,
but certainly we are working in a
■ very wasteful way.
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The Means of Support.
(Savannah Morning News.)
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The Thomasville Times-Enterprise
preaches an economic sermon for
personal application, an inspiration¬
al address in a few lines, in this par¬
agraph:
“If Sarah Bernhardt can appear
on the stage as the youthful hero of
a play, it looks like any man with
two good legs, youth and prospects,
could at least get in the limelight.”
It doesn’t make a particle of dif¬
ference what “support"—take the
expression in any sense you please,
Mme. Bernhardt doesn’t care—the
veteran actress may have, it doesn’t
matter if she ia a genius from the
force of her innate ability and her
experience and her early and
exceptional training—the <prin!cip|le
Editor Jerger is enunciating from
the example of the great Frenchwo¬
man is the same. The “divine Sarah”
works under the severe handicap of
physicalaffliction and extreme age—
but she is a shining success; she
would have had justifiably excuses,
if anybody has defensible reasons for
"quitting.”
If this woman nearly four score
years old with one limb amputated
can through tenacity of purpose, de¬
of will, vital enthusiasm
in her work as an artist, keep on
a success, winning more laur¬
els and rendering more fine service to
the thousands who see and hear her
can make a liberal living from
profession—what has any able
young, fairly well endowed
to offer in extenuation of his
when he gives up and de¬
that everything’s against him
he cannot make a living for him¬
.
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Extolling Georgia.
(Macon Telegraph.)
Several weeks ago, students from
States attending the Bus¬
University at Bowling Green,
were requested to speak
the virtues of their respective
J. T. Wilkes, of Adel, was al¬
the task of extolling Georgia.
the interesting points he
were as follows:
When the civil war came, Georgia
an immortal record in blood
the pages of history. She gave
first troops to the Confederate
and so eager were these
to enter that they became the
“firsts” in the State—the First
of Georgia Volunteers, the
Georgia Babttalion and the
Georgia Regulars. She gavie
regiments, 36 battalions, three
and 47 brigadier
There were 262 battles and
fought on Georgia’s soil.
Georgia’s loss was heavier thaln
of any other State. At the be¬
of ithe war, she stood sev¬
in wealth; and at the closet she
thirty-ninth.
Among her patriots were Howell
president of the provisional
Benjamin H. Hill, confi¬
adviser of President Davis;
Toombs, secretary of State;
Alexander H. Stevens, vice pres¬
of the Confederacy.
Benjamin H. Hill was expelled
college in his senior year, Mr.
continued, about three weeks
graduation exercises. During
exercises Hill got a box and stood
it out in front of the university
started speaking. He was such
eloquent orator that everybody
ithe speakers inside and went out
heat him. ‘
Bob Toombs was responsible for
establishment of the first rail¬
road commission in the world.
When Texas wanted a president
for her republic, she sent to Georgia
Mirabeau Lamar; when she
wanted to put a dam across the Co¬
lumbia river, she sent for Lamar
Lynden, of Athens, Georgia. When
Mississippi wanted a man to plan
secession for them, she came over
and borrowed Georgia’s L. C. La¬
mar. When , Louisiana wanted that
wonderful piece of engineering work
done in New Orleans, to keep the
Mississippi river within its banks,
she sent for Lamar Patterson, of
Macon.
When they wished to reform the
city administration of New York, they
, of Atlanta, to
the wor they wanted
Hudson tunneled, they sent for
liam G. McAdoo, of Marietta.
Then followed a very good
sition of Georgia’s fruits,
game, products and natural resources
in general. Mr. Wilkes ended his
that are probably all too truthful as
regards some people who have not
taken as much time and trouble as
the young man from Adel to learn
of their native State:
{‘He had chased the festive scarab
On a donkey with an Arab
Through the land of Cleopatra and
the Sphinx;
He had skirted the Canaries
And the shores of Buenos Aires;
He had climbed the Mongol sum¬
mits of the Chinks.
“There never was a hotter,
More persistent old globe trotter
Found at any time or place on any
) map;
In travels wide and weary,
The equal couldn’t be found of such
a chap. j
“But the funny thing about him,
Although you could not flout him
When he talked of Hong Kong, Pet¬
ersburg or Rome,
Or talked at length of Borgia
And the dress of any rajah,
He knew not a blessed thing of
Georgia—
And that was the idot’s home.”
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Repairs and Roo f Painting
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The romance of a girl who slipped out of a modern
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