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DOUGLAS? GLEBBNER, Ed. and Frcp
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WEEK L Y—Same rates as for the Dally.
Editor Grubb want? a hanging a
week in Georgia until they catch up
with the murderers.
If the legislature does not consider the
Bu Louis appropriation until it disposes
as the convict question, there is a poor
shewing for an exhibit.
It is said that all of the tax digests re
ceived so fir at the comptroller general’s
office show healthy increases in the
values of taxable property.
Rev. Hillis declares that the white
race “is only sprinkled with civilizu
•ion." Just so; and in addition he is
iaubed with jackassitiveness, declares
he Moutgomciy Advertiser.
The Boston Transcript thinks that
one of the unhappy consequences to fol
low the death of tlu» pope will bo the
visits of tint book agents with the only
H<tfrorized “Lase of Le® £111.”
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Somebody wants evidence of all the
prosperity ho hears about in this coun
try and the Philadelphia Ledger points
out that “wo imported $30,000,000 worth
of diamonds last year and 11,000 cases
more of champagne than ever before.’’
“The statement that I'ghtning struck
the statue of Henry Olay in Lexington
I« leading some would-be presidential
possibilities to hope their turn may
come,’’ says the Augusta Chronicle.
Maybe it will, if they wait as long as
Henry has waited.
In the craze for something new, Mrs.
Stuyvesant Fish is to have lions at her
dinner party. A lion at a dinner party
is not a new idea, but Mrs. Fish will
have real circus lions. Should the
lions also have Fish for dinner, it
would give farther eclaw to the affair,
BorelH’s comet has been as widely
discussed and as difficult to see with the
naked eye as President Roosevelt's
• searching investigation’’ of the post
office department scandals and exposure
and punishment of direlect postal of
ficials, says the St. Louis Republic.
In his ninety-three years of stormy
life Gen. Cassius M. Olay fought a
number of duels, but perhaps the most
reckless petformunce of his entire ca
reer was marrying a fifteen-year-old
girl when he was eighty-four. Yet it
helped largely to dispel the natural dull
ness that would hove filled the last
years of his life.
A Georgia paper says : “For the life
of 0 s we can’t see how a mini can plow
ab< sc all the week on half rations
and hen hitch the pack of bones up
and Irive five ;i): >,.< miles to meeting
on Uanday ano .. ho gets there
sing, 'JesusLov ■ f My Soul, L t Me
to Thy Bosom Fly.’ He hid as well
stop singing, for the Lord is not going
to furnish any such men with a pair
of wings.”
A Texas exchange printed the follow
ing in a late issue: “While visiting a
Waco > >n foundry l ist fall a farmer
ri-tni ,<d, when he saw the molten iron,
tir’’ .i last he had discovered a wav to
kL. boll weevil. Suiting the action to
tae word, he tonk abottle if weevils
from his pocke and began dropping
Iliem one by ..e into the seething n.
Last week h., wife happened to break
an iron pot she had bought lately, when
a live boll weevil hopped out and in
quired the way to the nearest cotton
patch, saying that lie had not had any
thing to eat since last fall.”
JURIES ARE RESPONSIBLE.
In view of the fact that August
taim of Spalding superior court
convenes next week, the following
editorial from the Augusta Chron
icle is both timely and appropriate :
Most Bible readers are familiar
> it h the story of Nathan and David,
which the former told about a
rich man with many flicks and a
nor man with only one ewe lamb ;
but when a gue«t cirne, instead ot
i tne rich man providing entertMn
' mont from his abundance, bo killed
the owe lamb of tho poor mm and
set it before him David was deep
ly aroused at such injustice, and
swore the perpetrator should die.
And Nathan said to David, “Thou
art the man.”
The story was only byway of il
lustration, and was employed by
the servant of the Lord to impress
a lesson upon David’s heart. This
leeeon is recalled to us when we
hear men denouncing the courts
and arguing the insufficiency and
inefficiency of the law in punishing
crims, as a justification for lynch
ing arch criminals.
If the courts are powerless to
punish white murderers, who have
any sort of standing in a communi
ty, why is thia so? Who constitute
our courts? Is the law at fault, or
tfie men who are charged with the
duty of administering It?
When a man charged with mur
der goes into our courts for trial is
not the law providing punishment
plainly set out by the lawyers and
the judge? Is not the punishment
that is prescribed adequate for the
offense? Is not the opportunity for
decreeing the punishment fully
given?
We are obliged to answer, “Yes,”
to all these inquiries.
Thou wherein do our courts and
ths law fail? Why are not murder
ers punished in our courts? Why?
BECAUSE JURIES WILL NOT
RETURN VERDICTS OF GUILTY I
And who constitute our juries?
The saino men who go talking
about the inefficiency of our courts
and the failure of the law to mete
out punishment.
Juries are not fooled by the spe
cious arguments and sentimental
pleas of counsel for the defense.
They know when an unlawful kill
ing has taken place, and when
guilty men confront them.
Why do they not return verdicts
of guilty, and demonstrate the
maj >sty of the law and the efficien
cy of our courts?
Why will they se’zi upon any ab--
surd and improbable theory fur
nished them by the prisoner’s law
yer as to a cause for “reasonable
doubt,” and avoid the necessity of
doing their duty.
It is not a pleasant thing to
return a verdict of “guilty," but
men are not sworn in the jury
box in murder cases with any view
of furnishing them pleasure. They
have a duty to perform, a duty to
society, to law and order.
Why should men shirk that duty,
and then make excuses for a mob,
because of the inefficiency of our
courts ?
The final arbiter in our criminal
courts is the jury, and the men
who mock at the efficiency of the
law makeup our juries. What is
needed is more backbone in the
jury box.
AND NATHAN SAID UNTO DA
VID, “THOU ART THE MAN !”
THE MEMBER FROM SPALDING.
The Albany Herald has this point
ed remark to make, and it is a mat
ter of general observation :
“The people of Georgia will find
it necessary after awhile to pay
more attention to the election of
members of the legislature. It is
getting to be so that it Is almost im
possible to get a measure t hat is in
the interest of the people through
the two houses of the general as
sf nibly."
We agree fully with the Herald,
but> arc glad to take this occasion to
state that Spalding’s representative
is cue who has been true to the de
mands of the people of the State
and in accord with the sentiments
and convictions of his constituency
on every question that has come up,
so far as we have been able to ob
serve. Not only that, but he has
been eno of the foremost and most
aggressive and fearless champions
of all reform measures that have
b eu brought “ofore the house.
Mr. Fiynt is making a record of
which ho and his friends may be
proud.
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England to Try Again.
The English people seem determined In
their eu >ru to recapture the cup which
the Americana have held for so many
years. To this end a new challenger -s
being sent over and the races n«xt month
will determine which is the better boat
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WHO PAID FOR THE TARIFF LAWS?
Children and fools spfiak the truth,
according to a proverb, and t-te
Philadelphia Record pointedly sug
gests that the American Economist
must be one or the other, fur it
asks if a revision of the tariff would
not “involve the violation by the
government of a contract of agree
ment with certain producing inter
ests of the United States—namely
the Dingley tariff?" This moves
the New York Tribune to remark
that it never expected to see the
friends of the tariff admit whet ii•
opponents often charge, that the
tariff “is an instrument in a nom
ine role 1 bargain, ... a stipu
lated price paid to certain business
Interests for value received. That,
of course, is the view taken of the
tariff by the men who put up the
m oney to support the American
Economist. The Tribune goes on
to ask what producing interests
rendered valuable consideration
“which gives them the right to
look on a law of the United States
as a contract which the United
States has no right to revise at will?”
If the Tribune can gat hold of a list
of the contributors to the Rapubli
can campaign fund in 1896 it will
L ar 1 with what purties the Dingley
ti riff is a contract and what the
ccnsileradon given was.
A HAIR-RAISING ACIT.
The French have some variations
on “looping the loop,” says the
New York Tribune. The record
sensation is the “deathly circle
over the lion’s cage.”
The circle de la inort itself, which
is no novelty, consists of a circular
cycling track, which, while per
formers ride round it, it is slowly
raised, the centre remaining on the
ground. Eventually the cyclists
ar a displayed tearing round what
looks like the inner surface
of a basin with no bottom.
At Neuilly Fair the circle is to
rest on e> lion’s cage. When the
track is raised the roof of the wild
beasts’ house will at the, sama time
slide off. Thus ths cyclists will, as
usual, bo disclosed riding round
the side of a basin, but they will b 3
worse off than if the latter were
bottomless, for beneath them lions,
under the whip of a tamer, will roar
and rage, and a slip or the bursting
of a tire would mean for the wheel
men a fall into the den of wild
beasts. Tne manager of this show
proudly claime that it will be the
most blood-curdling on record.
From a Republican Viewpoint-
St. Louis Globe Democrat.
As an evidence that the bleach in the
Democratic party is as wide in 1903 as
it was in 189 Gor 1900, Mr, Bryan’s
speech in Chicago on Saturday last is
of national interest. Bryan will never
lead the united Democracy again.
Cleveland is not likely to get the nomi
nation next year or any other year, al
though this is far from being certain.
It. is reasonably certain (bat somebody
who stands nearer to Clevelaudism
than to Bryanism, whether this
is to be Cleveland or somebody
else, will get the nomination of 190-1.
Bryan's expressions, through his news
paper and in public addresses, frequent
ly and emphatically repeated, show that
he will oppose that candidate. It is
reasonable to infer that though Bryan
is far less influential in his party than
he was two or three years ago, he has
still a good many followers who will be
guided by him in their attitude toward
their party’s candidate. Even with a
united party, the Democracy is in the
minority in the United States. Under
the best possible conditions for itself it
would have great difficulty in making
headway against the Republi
can party. The Republicans
have a popular president, a congress
whicn has made a good record and the
prestige which courage, ability, pro
gressiveness, activity and victory com
mand. In every aspect the situation is
adverse to the Democrats. The Re
publican party, ever since its return to
power, has governed the country wise
ly and successfully. The Democracy
has no policy which is calculated to
win the popular regard. It has no
leader whom any considerable body of
the American people respect. The con
ditions all point to a big victory for the
Republicans in 1904.
BETHANY~BROTH.
Bethany, Ga., July 29—The crops
are doing very nicely around here, and
most of the farmers are laying by.
P. T. Horton is the first to get through
laying by
David Nunnally, who has a position
with Smith Bros, at Concord, spent
Sunday here with his parents, Mr. and
Airs. G. S. Nunnally.
The entertainment at T. E. Drewry’s
Friday night was well attended by
boys, but on account of rain the girls
could not attend, there being only two
girls present. Misses Minnie Bank- and
Ruby Beanchamp.
Most everybody around here has had
ripe watermelons and mushmelons.
Well, I hope to meet all the corres
pondents at the reunion Friday.
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THE TRAGIC SEASON-
la common parlanca and in the literature ot romance, w 3 are accus
tomed to hear of tho “languid days of summer. ” Tuo general conception
ot the summer season is that, of a period of quiet repose, of listless and
supine languor, of dreaming away the hours of the lengthened days and
doing nothing more taxing than to plan tor endeavor when the more in
vigorating season of autumn and winter returns. The heat of the sun
seems, in theory at least, to preclude the thought of strenuous activity,
of ardent endeavor and the display of high passions. This, we say, is
the theory. This is what we read in the novels and books ot poetry, but
it is far from what we see all about us. As a matter of sober fact, as
pointed out by the New Orleans State, the summer season is the most
tragic of all the seasons. la tho matter of suisides, homicides, lynch
ing<, and all that class of frightful crimes that lead up Io the death pen
alty, the months of June, July, August and Saptember, doubtless figure
more frequently than all the balance of the year combined. We have
seen no statistics compiled by competent authority bearing upon this
question, bat a cursory reading of the telegraphic columns of the news
papers of the day seems to be sufficient to confirm the truth of the
question.
Just what reasons, pathological, psychological or other, may exist
for the apparent connection between hot weather and the criminal in
stincts and passions in men, it is difficult to determine ; but whether or
not the connection exists, true it is nevertheless that as the temperature
rises, as recorded by the thermometer, of the evil influences in man’s na
ture seem to most active and evident in the various crimes of a
more or less atroclois character that we see recorded in the daily print.
The old law terms and the idioms of our language, snob as ‘in the
heat of blood,” “hot tempered,” “hot headel,” “in tht heat of debite,”
and many similar expressions of current conversation, seem to confirm
the theory of some sort of subtle connection between crime and heat,
and the facts as they appaar every day leave small room to doubt that
passion is affected by meterological conditions—or, in other words, that
crime follows a rising thermometer, June was abnormally cool during
the early days, but along towards its end iho heated term set in, and we
hear of terrible scenes of mob violenca in Belleville, 111 , and Wilming
ton, Del. The governor of Alabama, milled, doubtless, by the absence
of mob violence in bis State as a result an abnormally cool June, gave
out an interview in which he declared that lynchings had become al
most obsolete in his State. Scarcely had ths ink dried upon the
newspaper containing hie interview—hot weather hav.ng
existed several days prior—when a nameless c r ’me was
committed in his State, a negro was lynched, and a sheriff wounded
while endeavoring to afford protection to his prisoner. And so every
paper that we read is filled with accounts of crimes of high and low gde
gree, in numbers such as we only hear of when the san’s burning rays
heat up atmosphere, earth and human passions.
The great benefactor ot humanity will be the man who will invent
some cheop process by means of which the fierceness of the sun’s rays
may be tempered over largo areas, without producing some countervail
ing disadvantage Heat seems to engineer lawlessness, and if that bo
true the best way to restore order is Io reduca the temperature, just as
in certain forms of distress the only hope of effecting a cure is to banish
tee causes that produce the fever. In the that are to coma it may
indeed be well within flbe btrands of powlts.Uty that “more lee and fewer
crimes” will become a slogan for a future school of economics.
FOB STATE EXHIBIT
AT SLUMS FAIR
Bunbar Resolution Has Pass
ed Georgia Legislature.
(50,000 HAS BEEN APPROPRIATED.
Measure Wilk Now Go to Senate and
If It Passes That Body Georgia Will
Have Splendid Exhibit—Passed by
Vote of 89 to 71.
Atlanta, Jbily 29.—The Dunbar reso
lution, appropriating sso,ooo’for a state
exhiibt st the Louisian State Purchase
exposition in 1904, passed the house
this morning by a vote of 89 to 717-
The m-easure now goes to the sen
ate, and if it passes that body Georgia
will have a splendid exhibit worthy •
the state and its resources at the £t.
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LIBERTY BILL LACONICS.
Liberty Hill, Ga., Jiflv 29 —
Bev, J. A. Wright, of Zebulon, filled his
regular appointment here last Saturday
and Sunday.
J. J. Taylor and family spent last
Monday with W. Z. Gardner and fam
ily , of Semper.
Liberty Hill had a good game ol
baseball last Saturday and will soon be
ready for any of the teams that will
run up against them.
The farmers of this place are abo jt
through laying by their crops, and I
will tell you they are small.
BBUSHRT BREVITIES.
Brvshky, Ga., July 29—Mr.
and Mrs J. A. Maxey, of Atlanta, are
visiting relatives here.
Mrs. W. A. Jester has been quite in
disposed for several days.
The Misses Beel’s house party was
very much enjoyed last week.
Mrs. R. D. Ogletree has been added
to the list of sick ones this week.
At last the farmers are about through
work for several weeks.
We hope to attend the reunion Friday.
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S. B. SAWTELL,_
Over Postofflce Real Estate Agent
Notice to Debtors anti Creditors.
All persons having demands against
the D. A. Thomas, late of Spald
ing county, deceased, are hereby notified
to lender in their demands to the under
signed, according to law, and all persons
Indebted to said estate are requested to
make immediate pa> in nt. .1 uly 27, 11)03.
D. G. THOMAS,
Administrator D A. Thomas Ceceased.