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DOT'LAB GLEFBNER, Ed. and Prop
Georgia’s State troops number 4,-
581 ninn, not o Minting Governor
Terrell's colonels.
Tho B rmintftiirn News a«R.- :
“What is honesty?” A hard-pres
ed Georgia j >urnal answers : ‘lt is
keeping one's subscrip'ion paid up. ”
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Now the New York Herald insists
thattho people have some rights
that a president mast nut overlook
This is a now Northern view of u
Southern situation.
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“If”—soliloqu’z)< the Rome Tri
bune — “every Southern farmer
Would make a new year resolve to
raise enough hogs to supply his
farm with bacon, what a ’saving it
would be to the South.”
The Savannah Press says that the
Georgia legislature has the satis
faction of knowing that by holding
summer sessions it can never be
caught in the grasp of a coal famine
and have to burn the fonoe.
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Gne day last week one thousand
bales of Sea Island cotton were sold
in New York at 21% cents per pound
—said to be the record price. The
cotton was from the South Atlantic
States.
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The Savannah Press thinks that
the theory of the Washington Post
that there should be no laws to en
force the collection of debts is prob
ably indorsed by President Castro
of Venezuela.
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T mre is a Western town which
boasts of never having spent a cent
for public improvements, and the
result is easily told. Its population
twenty-five years ago was 6,580.
Its population today is about 1,000.
It got to be such a dead town that
people died to gat out of it.
The great powers continue to send
ships to Venezuela. Pretty soon
the combined navies of the world
will be in the Caribbean sea. Here’s
a chance for so«e enterprising gun
man to fire another of those shots
that are heard around the world.
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The Augusta Chronicle comes
squarely out in favor of working
convicts on the public roads. Rich
mond county has tried it, and as a
result she has the best roads in the
State, while millions have been add
led to her taxable values thereby.
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Capt. John Triplett has retired
from the editorship of the Thomas
ville Times Enterprise He was i
one of the most lovable and beloved
of the State editors, and had been <
30 long a member of the fourth es
tate, not only Georgia but the en
tire country will look upon his re
tirement as a distinct loss. But it
is not likely that he will stay out of
harness long, as he has already re
ceived a number of advantageous
offers in other fields.
The Albany Herald is seeing a
light. It says: “It is evident that
at the next session of rhe legislature
a bill will be introduced to establish
an agricultural college separate and
distinct from the State University.
Tae idea seems to bo abroad that a
faft'isr boy, or one who desires to
bee me an educated faimer, doesn't
dnd the conditions at the Universi
ty congenial and pleasant.*”
It is a great pity about the injus
tice that Banker Witham has quiet
ly and patiently submitted to in
having his name connected in the
Atlanta Journal with a Barnesville
bank that is in trouble. That es
timable proprietor of thirty banks,
weunderstand, doesn’t even know
where Barnesville is at; but with
the 150,000 damages that he expeuta
to get from the Journal he might be
persuaded to start another bank at
Barnesville, if he can get the place
exactly located in his mind.
Noting the fact that Mr. Cleve
land says that we ought to give the
negro a chance, tho Chattanooga
Times says he is right, but that this
doesn’t mean that “he should be
allowed to control the affairs of the
Southern black belt or that he
Liquid ba appointed to high office in
th >e sections where such appoint
iiii ats ’will only create bitterness
an 1 a harmful race conflict. If wo
Could only keep the negro out of pol
itics he would get all the chances
ae’s looking for.”
THE HARVEST OF 1902-
Prosperity in the agrlcu turui
Nwtiiji™ has a poreut ir flu mc-ron «-li
lines of trade aud industry, an 1 tbe
harvest ut 1902. a< corning to Dun's
Review, secured more abundant
! cr ips than over best ro in tho na
. lion’s history O. c round outsail
records were eclipsed, and few year
surpassed the last in the quantity of
wheat her vested. Yields of hay,
potatoes and other vegetables were
liberal, while the movement of cot
ton indicates that only two previous
crops were larger. Heretofore in
seasons of enormous production,
the grower has been compelled to
s>ll at. such low prices that profits
were low, and much of the surplus
grain was used as fuel because no
market could be found Not so
with tho present overflowing barns,
however, for high prices are readily
paid, and foreign purchasers will
absorb any excess above domestic
requirements. Already the outgo
of corn is exceeding the correspond
ing period a year ago by a large
margin, and when transporting fa
cilities become adequate the exports
will increase. Meats have been
scarce because of the previous short
corn crop, and quotations ruled far
above all lecant years, but the situ
ation is steadily improving in this
respect Leading imported articles
of food have not enjoyed the high
level of prices for domestic products,
although the world’s crops of sugar
and coffee are smaller than in the
previous year.
COLLECTION OF DEBTS.
The Washington Post has oome
to believe that it is a waste of time
to pass laws to enforce the collec
tion of (’eVs. The Post thinks it
hin xpedient t > get up such stat
utes. It contends that the last law
for the collection of debts should be
wiped off the statute books, leaving
the credit business where it should
rest, on the basis of personal honor.
The Post admits that it does not
look to see ihis change made at an
early date. Many years will be
requirrd to uproot the old system.
Mmy men can .remember when the
law allowed imprisonment for
debt. In the last Georgia legisla
ture there was an effort made to
provide more stringent laws for
the collection of debts and to re
peal the regulation which protects
the wages of a laborer from garn
ishment. It was argued that a
great many people took advantage
of the present exemption and es
caped the payment of their debts,
while its abolishment would not
injure any deserving man who,
through sickness or other misfor
tune, had fallen behind. From
every part of Georgia petitions went
up to the legislature urging the re
peal of the garnishment law, and
such a strong showing was made
before the judiciary committee that
a favorable report "was made upon
the bill.
It is evident that the position the
WashingtonjPdst takes is directly
in antagonism to this. It is urged
that the repeal of the exemption
act would improve the credit of the
laboring man. The friends of the
old law believed that it would not
do to extend his credit in too many
instances. A change in that direc
tion would hardly be desirable.
Men of small means who are de
pendent on salaries or wages for
the support of their families, only
receive credit according to their
reputation for honesty and prompt
ness and this will give them all the
credit they need.
Tho idea of Washington*Post
is, howejver, that laws cannot en
force the collection of debts.,
Honor, after all, it says, is the only
basis of credit, and all credit shoffld
be put on tiiat basis. It was argued
in Atlanta that if the garnishment
law was repeled it would chiefly
benefit the smaller justice courts,
and tho merchants, alter all, would
not be very largely the gainers
The trend in Georgia seems io b ) to
pass more sti ingent acts to inforce
the collection of debts The
Washington Post i-uvs that less
credit should be given and that the
only safeguard for the prompt and
sure collection of money is the
personal character of people who
owe. Viewed in this light, then,
laws for the protection of the mer
chant would only succeed in adding
litigation without increasing the
receipts of the bill collectors.
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The Columbus Enquirer-Sun says
that the president is “wrong, pig
headed and foolish.” While this
doesn’t seem to fullv cover the
ground, we’ll let it go at that for
the present.
MIE LOGICAL '.ONOLUBIUN-
The Memphis Scimitar thus dis
cusses the Indianola postoffice
affair:
“If the president carry to its logi
cal conclusion the policy that he has
pursued in the ca<e of tho Indianola
postoffice, we shall see an auto
cratic control of tbe people’s inter
est iu the public offices such as no
European sovereign, save tbe Czar
of Russia, exercises at this time.
“It he can close any postoffice at
will and force tho people of tho
community where it is located to go
to any point, however distant, that
he may choose to designate, why
can he not close the custom housa
at any of our seaports if the people
displease him or in any way go
counter to his ideas?
“Let us suppose, for ex'inple,
that he should ro col-
lector of the port, at Naw York or
New Orleans, and the people who
have business at the custom h-'-use
should bring such a pressure to
bear upon tho appointee as would
cause him to resign—would the
president close the port*, until the
importers should consent to accept
the official of his choice?
“We do not think that even he
would go as far as that, and yet he
would have as much right to do that
as hehadtoclcsethe Indianola offic- 1 .
We do not attempt to decide
whether he has a constitutional
right to do either, but the one act
would be no morearbitrary and con
trary to good public policy than the
other.
“In other words, is the president
of the United States to have and to
exercise the power to punish the
people of a community as he may
choose, whenever they happen to do
something that does not accord
with his views on any question of
political policy?”
THE PSIOE OF HEALTH-
It is wise not to be too dogmatic
in regard to the conditions of
health. In view of the omni pres
ent microbe and the prevalence of
food and drink adulterants and of
inescapable foul air and poisonous
gases, it may be too muon to say, re •
marks the New York World, that
any man may have good health if
be is willing to pay the price for it.
Yet there is a broad basis of truth
in the proposition. Dr. Lorenz, in
one of his many pregnant talks, an
swered a question as to his own su
perb vitality by saying : “I order
my life from hour to hour. I know
how much nature can do, and meet
her requirements.”
His regimen includes a cold bath
every morning, followed by vigor
ous exercise and deep breathing of
fresh air, a “steaming cup of coffee
and several crisp, hot rolls,” suc
ceeding after dressing by a second
breakfast—a substantial meal of
soft boiled eggs, chops or ham and
lea.
After this breakfast, at 8 o’clock,
he walks briskly in the open air for
half an hour. He eats a hearty
luncheon and a substantial dipner
“at strictly regular intervals,”
takes three or four hours of recrea
tion in the evening, and sleeps
soundly for seven hours—which he
find more refreshing than twelve
hours of broken repose. He does
not drink w’ne nor spirits.
This regimen might not suit
every one or be possible to all. But
by adhering to what he fiads re
quisite to keep him in .condition
the eminent bloodless surgeon
shows that he is willing to/ pay
nature’s price for health. < -
Lord Bacon embodied the same
wisdom in his saying that “a man’s
own observation of what he finds
good of and what he finds hurt of is
the best physic to preserve health.”
What is commonly lacking is the
sense and the moral courage to
stick to the habits and rules that
make for health.
President Roosevelt, of “eon of a
Southern woman” fame, has turned
his back on the people of his mother.
He has queered himself with the
white people of this section is well
as the negroes, and this pretty well
covers the population of this sec
tion, notes the Athens Banner.
The Savannah Press, in speaking
of the new Georgia colonel, para
phrases thusly :
“When I first put my uniform on
I said when I looked in the glass,
’Twas one to a million if any civilian
My face or my form could surpass.”
Mr. Bryan is making $50,000 a
year, just to show that he didn’t
have to be president in order to earn
a living.
! REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY. 1
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god's will.
I ‘I asked the New Year for some motto
sweet,
Some rule of life by which to guide my
feet;
I asked ami paused. It answered, soft
aud |ow:
•God’s will to know.’
“Will knowledge then suffice, New
Year, I cried;
But ere the question into silence died,
The answer came: ‘Nay, this remem
ber, too,
God’s will to do.’
“To know, to do, can. this be all wo
give
To Him in whom we are and move and
live?
No more, New Year? ‘This, too, must
be your care:
God’s will to bear ’
“Once more 1 asked: -Is there still more
to tell?
And oneeagain the answer sweetly fell;
‘Yea, this one thing, all other things
above.
God’s will to love.’ ’’
A Jews’ Estimate of Jesus.
Appropriate to this Chris'mas
season with its thoughts of the
Christ child, and its spirit that was
born into the world with tbe Prince
of Peace, is a brief statement, of the
character of the Min of Galilee by
R ibbi A. J. Lyons, of New York
The rabbi was speaking of Pau'
Heyse’s play of “Mary of Magdala, ”
or Mary Magdalene, and of the
overshadowing but unseen presence
of Christ in the play. Then he said
this of Christ:
“Thenlay centers in the person of
the great teacher and preacher from
Nazareth in Galilee nineteen cen
turies ago. He was a man of im
measurable love, tenderness and
pity. Upon his lipif dwelt wisdom,
simple enough for childhood and
vet sublime enough for the sage.
He preached a morality that has
never been transcended. Better
still, he practiced wliat he preached.
He went about at cost of any sacri
fice to himself, doing whatever good
he could at all times, in all places
and to all kinds and conditions of
people,”
Is not this a good life by which
to pattern our own, a good spirit to
nurture and encourage among men?
Had the Wrong Address.
One of the most distinguished of
Washington clergvmen was seen
the other day walking uncertainly
along First street northwest, just
south of the entrance to the Sol
dier’s Home, says the Washington
Star. He held a slip of paper in his
hand, looked at it every little while
with a puzzled expression on his
face, and then turned to stare ab
sently at the open fields all about
him.
A mounted policeman rode up to
him after a little and asked : “Can
I help you, sir?”
“Maybe,” answered the venerable
doctor. “I’m looking for a house
up in this neighborhood some
where,” and with that he handed
his slip of paper to the officer. “It
is No. 2816 First street. To guide
me I’ve written after the number
that the house is on First street near
the corner of Ninth. But I don’t
see how there can be any corner of
First and Ninth streets.”
The policeman was as much puz
zled as the clergyman. A letter
carrier who passed just at that time
was accordingly taken into the con
sultation. The three were studying
over the address when the minister
folded the paper with a strange
faint smile and began to walk back
toward the city.
“Have you found the house?”
When he comes to filling the of
fices in the South the President has
turned his back on the business in
terest and made the colfer of a man’s
skin the test of his ’fitness Tips is
what tLe Charleston ’ News and
£ Courier jhinks.
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REST RAMBLES. J
Best, Ga., January B.—Snow
flakes visited us just a little last night.
Miss Nellie Johnston was the highly
honored guest of Miss Winnie Driver
near Fayetteville a few days last week.
O. O. Norton is the champion hog
raiser of Fayette county. He killed two
someiime ago, one weighing 400 pounds
and the other 393. How is that for
meat for 19 )3?
Prof. Luther Ellison began his school
here Monday with very good attend
ance. Also Miss Lewis began her
school at Mt. Springs.
Master Otis Holcomb and James
Irvin are quite sick with pneumonia.
SIOO Reward SIOO.
The readers of this paper will ba pleased
to learn that there is •» least one Ur. aded
disease that science has been able to cure
In all its stages aud that is Catarrh.
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cure now knewn to the medicinal fra
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disease, requires a constitutional treat
ment Hal.’s Catarrh Cure is taken in
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by destroying the foundation of the dis
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building up the constitution and as
sisting nature in doing it i work. The
proprietors have to much faith in its
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asked the letter carrier, catching
step with the clerg man.
“No, 1 haven’t iound the house,”
w.‘9 the ans ver. “I find that the
address I had written down is the
twenty-eighth verse of toe six
teenth chapter of the First Epistle
to the Ccniuthians.
Walesca's Acquisition.
The following very complimen
tary article appeared in a recent
issue of the Cherokee advance, of
Canton, Ga.:
“Rev. C. M. Verdell, formerly of
Griffin, the new pastor at Walesca,
is one of the most gifted and cul
tured members of the North Geor- j
gia Conference. A university pro- |
feeaor, a college president and a
man of wide and v tried attain
ments, he has but few equals as a
scholar in the State. As a preacher,
he stands in the front rank, and
could fill any pulpit acceptably.
-He is also a thorough-going and
efficient pastor, and, with bis
strong good sense, has the habit of
succeeding wherever he goes. We
congratulate the people of Walesca
on having the services of this ener
getic and accomplished Christian
gentleman. Mr. Verdell is also
-aid to be a fine lecturer and plat
form speaker.”
The Prosperous Baptists-
The First Baptist church . held its
first conference o f the New Year
• > ednesday night, at which reports
of all the committees and t ranch
organizations were read. So good
was the showing of the finance
committee that it. will be read out
in church this morning, that all
the members may rejoice as well as
the faithful who attend the prayer
meetings. It shows some $3 500
raised and disbursed, with no debts
impending and $1.98 in the treas
ury. There has been an increase
in membership of about forty,
mostly through the Sunday school.
The vacant lot on Poplar and Ninth
streets, next to the old Hanieiter
place, has been purchased and ar
rangements are being made to be
gin the erection of a pastorion
thereon in a short time.
Ten New Year Resolutions
A Chicago minister suggests the
following ten resolutions for bis
church members that members of
churches anywhere might well con
sider :
1. Pray fervently in secret at
least once every day.
2 Read at least one chapter in
the Bible every day.
3. Attend religious services regu
larly, not spasmodically.
4. Give systematically at- least a
tenth—give joyfully and generous
ly-
5. Take at least one religious pa
per and read it, not skim it.
6 Buy and master at least one
good book every month.
Think and speak well of oth
ers, never otherwise.
8. Desire earnestly to be the
means of saving some unsaved per
son.
9. Forsake every hrbit that
stands between the soul and its
larger growth in Christ—liquor
drinking, tobacco, gaming, excess
ive theatre-going, gossiping, whin
ing, etc.
10. Cultivate a cheerful aud con
tented disposition. Emerson, in
one’ot his essays, says: “A good
intention clothes itself with sudden
power.” In turning over your new
leaf this year be sure that no evil
intention shall rob you of your na
tural heritage.
A Marvelous Invention.
Wonders never cease. A machine
has been invented that will cut,
paste and hang wall pap >r. The
field of inventions and discoveries
sebtns to be unlimited. Notable
afaiong great discoveries is Dr.
Icing’s New Discovery for conaump
rtion. It has done a world of good
for weak lungs and saved many a
life. Tnousands have used it and
conquered grip, bronchitis, pneu
monia and consumption. Their
general verdict is : “It’s the best
and most reliable medicine for
throat and lung troubles. Every
500. and $1 00 buttle Is guaranteed
bv Carlisle & Ward and Brooks
Drug Store. Trial bottles free.
Child Burned With House.
Valdosta, Ga., Jan. 10.—A tenant
house on the farm of H. T. Dampier,
a few miles west of the city was
burned Friday morning, and with it a
small negro child. The parents of
the child Here away at work, and did
not discover the fire until the house
had nearly burned to the ground.
A Scientific Discovery
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the nervous tension, while the in
flamed muscles of that organ are
allowed to rest aud heal. Kodol di
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stomach and digestive organs to
transform all food into rich, red
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Morning sickness, or nausea arising*
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As pregnancy advances, the breasts en
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Undeveloped breasts, hard-caked <
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IN THE SOUTH.
The Passenger Department of the
Illinois Central Railroad Company is
issuing monthly circulars concerning '
fruit growing, vegetable gardening,
■ stock raising, dairying, etc., in the
I States of Kentucky, West Tennesse. ,
Missippi, and Louisiana. Every Farm*
■ er, or Homeseeker, who will forward
i his name and address to the under-
. signed, will bo mailed free. Circulars ,
Nos. 1.2, 3, 4 and 5, rt nd others as they
are published from month to month.
FRED D. MILLER,
Traveling Passenger Agent,
Illinois Central Railroad, i
Nl, Brown Bld’g. ATLANTA. GA.
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