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TWO WINNERS
A Griffin Business Man is
Willing to So Name
Them.
A. A Wright, of Qailly. >tr?et, the
well-know u jeweler, is of the opinion
that Doan's Kindey Pills and Doan's
Ointment are two winners. He has
tried both and states his opinions of
them as follows:
“I nun certify to the efficacy of
iloan’s Ki<lney Pills. My back
and was s<> bad that I could not stoop
and straighten and could nardly hobble
around, while it pained me constantly
night and day. I used every remedy I
knew about but without finding any
thing to do me good. The secretions
were very scanty and thick and my kid
neys were very much out of order. I
saw Doan's Kidney Pills highly recom
mended and I went to Brooks Drug
Store and procured them. To my as
tonishment they'gave me relief within
twentv lour hours. A continuation of
their use made as good a num of me as 1
was twenty-five years ago I Can also
speak n good word for Doan's Ointment.
I hud itching hemorrhoids so bad that
I was in misery, The first application
of Doan’s Ointment relieved the itching
and from the positive relief I obtained
f rom its use I have no hesitation in re
commending it, as well as Doan’s Kid
ney Pills. I never expected to feel us
well as I have since I used th< >e two
remedies.”
For sale bv all dealers. Price 50 cents
per box. Foster-Milburn Company,
Buffalo, N. Y., sole agents for the
United States.
Remember the name, Doan’-, and
ake n > substitute.
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Griffin, Geo rtf In* August iC> 1904.
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ROUND ABOUT.
Uity Notes and News From This and
Adjoining Counties-
From Friday’s Daily.
REFORM IS NECESSARY.
Old Tariff is a crooked chap
With vices deep embedded;
Yet to him Miss Democracy
Is anxious to be wedded.
For, like the fair sex, she would try
With winning ways to storm him;
The dear girl wants to marry him
In order to reform him.
Dr E. R Anthony is laid up with
a sprained knee,
LaGrange Graphic: ’“Editor
Douglas G'essner recently delivered
an able, patriotic address on the
aubjeoi of “pie’ before his corres
pondents' reunion.''
Some open bolls of cotton are
appealing in this neighborhood, and
some ‘ll bales are being brought
in to *>u sold before the rush of new
bales boars the market.
B. C Randall and G. Willis went
down to Macon last night and will
sail from Savannah Saturday on a
trip to Philadelphia. H. H Bass,
W. T Scott and Otis Crouch will
leave tonight and join them in Sa
vannah. We wish them bon voyage.
Mrs J, L. Sohaub, who has been
spending some time here with rela
tives, -Till return to her borne in
La Grange today. Mrs. Schaub
used to live in Griffin many years
ago, and her visits here are always
a source of much pleasure *o her
many friends.
Prof Chas M. Neel, formerly of
Griffin, and recently of Jonesboro,
has be?n called to Barnesville to the
famoni boys’ school of that city.
Prof. Neel is one of the most promi
nent educators in Georgia and well
qualified for the position to which
he has beep called
Rev. G. F. Cuthrell, of the Chris
tian church, returned last night
from Fayette county, where he has
been engaged in conducting meet
ings at several different places, He
states that Rev. 1). A Brindle nnd
himself will begin a tent meeting at
Concord Sunday morning.
Provisions are advancing rapidly.
Sugar has gone almost our of sight,
while flour is up 50 cents to 11.00
per barrel, and meat is two cents
higher than it has been. Meal and
corn have advanced ten cents a
bushel, and still higher prices are
expected. The News and Sun has
always advised raising plenty of
supplies at home.
From Saturday's Daily.
the driving cloud.
“O prithee note the driving cloud,
‘Tis up there in the sky.”
‘‘Why driving?” ’Cause it holds the
rains,
Ami that’s the reason why!”
The Griffin Banking Company’s
bnilding has been repainted in gray
bond color with greenback trim
mings.
Joltioe T. R. Mills held his regu
lar monthly session of court yester
day ; the most important case
being that of a cow tresspassing on
the premises of a neighbor.
A, O Gay, of Union, accepted a
banter and a purse yeaterday to have
just one side of his whiskers cat oil.
If bis folks like it, he will have the
rest out off later.
Hon. J. J. Flynt returned yester
day afternoon from the meeting of
the State Agricultural Society at
Hawkinsville, where he made a fine
address on “The Farmer and the
Law.”
Our admiring farmer friends con
tinue to bring in worm-eaten cotton
bolls to prove that the crop is
ruined, but what we want is a pres
ent of a nice new bale to prove that
we are not.
The morning train to Carrollton
was filled yesterday with returning
excursionists who went down to
Tyhee Mmday. Many went'from
here. They report Thursday att
being the biggest day known to that
resort during this season.
A stock of goods belonging to
Early Lifsey, at Lifsey, was destroy
ed by fire Monday night. The esti
mated value of the stocr was about
#l,Boo, partly insured. The origin
of the tire is unknown but supposed
to be the work of an incendiary or
robbers, as some goods wore found
nearby the premises Tuesday morn
ing.
Rev. vV. A. J. Noles returned
yesterday morning from Indian
Springs camp meeting, which he
reports the best during the fourteen
yoers he has been in attendance.
Rev. M. Dunaway was there in
great spiritual power, and if he can
postpone another engagement he
has promised to come to Griffin in
about ten days and open up a pro
hibition tent meeting near the
Griffin Mills.
Miss Sullivan and Miss Prothro,
two beautiful young ladios of
Pedenville, are the guests of Mrs-
George Coppedge.
If every person knew that it is
impossible to sink if one keeps his
arms under water and moves his
legs as i* lie were going upstairs,
and that one may keep this motion
up for hours before fatigue ends it,
there would be few casualties
Such is the fact. Except where
cramp renders motion impossible,
the man who gets an involuntary
ducking has small chance of drown
ing. He can generally keep afloat
until rescuers appear. The people
who drown are those who franti
cally wave their arms out of the
water and lose their self-possession.
From Sunday's Daily.
ONCE IN A WHILE.
Once in a while the sun shines out,
And the arching skies are perfect blue;
Once is a while 'mid clouds of doubt
Hope’s brightest stars come looking
through.
Our paths lead down by the meadow
fair,
Where the sweetest blossoms nod and
smile,
And we lay aside our cross of care
Once in a while
Once in a while within our own
We clasp the hand of a steadfast
friend;
Once in a while we near a tone
Os love with the heart's own voice to
blend;
And the dearest of all our dreams come
true
And on life’s way is a golden mile,
Each thirsting flower is kissed with
dew,
Once in a while.
Once in a while in the desert sand
We find a spot of the fairest green ;
Ouoe in a while from where we stand
The hills of paradise are seen ;
And a perfect joy in our hearts we
hold---
A joy that the world can not defile:
We trade earth’s dross for the purest
gold
Once in a while.
Rev. W. U. Rtndrick reports eight
additions at the protracted meeting
at Vauehns.
The mercury stays so high these
days that it excites suspicion of a
quicksilver trust.
Misses Carrie McMullin and Opal
Elder, of Macon, who are spending
a month with Mr and Mrs. Young
Gray, at Gray’s Crossing, were in
town yesterday.
A very successful protracted meet
ing at Friendship Presbyterian
church, in West Pike, conducted by
Revs. W. P- Hemphill and W. E.
Dozier, closed Friday night with six
additions.
T J At first a high cough, all in
LaOll) R.S your throat. You neglected
J/ it. Now it is down deep in
your chest. That means a low cough, a lung cough. Ayer’s
Cherry Pectoral heals the torn membranes.
The Peruvian.* Sacred Number.
The Peruvians cared nothing for any
of the supposed mystic properties of ei
ther three, five or seven. To them the
four was sacred, and around it they en
twined the main features of all their
religious ceremonies and queer beliefs.
They believed the earth to be a square
divided into four parts and suspended
from the heavens by four cords- one at
each of the four corners. All of their
cities were quartered by four principal
streets running from a square in the
center. They held four annual feasts
In honor of the moon, the “silver sister
of the sun.”
To them eternity was to be divided
Into four periods of time, each com
posed of four times 4,000 years, and at
the end of each of these cycles the sun
is to be blotted out of existence. They
prayed to the four winds, or to "ye
gods that dwell at the four corners of
the earth.” To them the rains came
from four enormous heavenly turtles
that vomited dampness, and the four
winds from the lungs of the four gi
gantic caryatides which stand at the
four cardinal points of paradise. The
above are but a small portion of the
fours alluded to in the legends of the
Incas.
An Antelope Thut Dwells In Swnmps.
The general idea of an antelope pic
tures it as a swift runner, fleeing in
graceful bounds over stretching brown
plains. There is an antelope in the
Congo region, however, which rarely
ventures to the upland, but actually
lives in water, spending practically nil
of its time wading around in the
swamps and feeding on swamp growth,
such as papyrus and other water
plants.
This swamp antelope represents
among animals what tL.- heron and
other wading birds do among birds,
and like these wading birds the swamp
antelope has extraordinarily’ long and
thin legs, while its hoofs are wonder
fully long and spread out almost as
wide as bird’s claws when the animals
Wade in the mud, thus supporting them
on the soft bottom.
These swamp antelopes are by no
means small animals, but belong to the
larger forms of their species. A full
grown male is as big as the buck of the
fallow deer in Virginia.
Gotklolhm of Venice.
A tourist writes: “Like most char
acteristic objects appertaining to Ven
ice, the gondola is suitable to the place.
Even as the hansom cab suits London
or the rickshaw suits Japan or the
jaunting car suits Ireland, so the gon
dola is the vessel for Venice. You can
not separate the lagoon from the gon
dola. One completes the other.’’ The
gondolier is a man given to many oaths
and imprecations, of which the most
terrible is. “Thy saint is a rascal who
does not know how td make a decent
miracle.” The gondoliers are not as
much given as they used to be to the
singing <if the sonorous verses of Tasso
by moonlight in their musical patois.
Occasionally an outburst of melody
is secured by a traveler's coins, and
there are always singing, playing and
dancing at the inevitable festa.
lUiikleik Bell* to Swarm Bees.
It is a foolish notion to suppose that
the ringing of bells or “tanging” of tin
pans will cause a swarm of bees to
settle, says Country Life In America.
The real origin of this custom dates
back to the reign of Alfred the Great,
who, in order to prevent disputes re
garding the ownership of a swarm, or
dered that the owner should always ring
a bell when his bees swarmed, and ever
since then the good farmer’s wife has
been rushing out with ringing bells
whenever the bees swarmed, and the
fact that they settled verified, in her
own mind, the belief that the bell did it.
Force of Habit.
Speaking of force of habit, some
years ago there was an iron railing
around the capitol grounds at Wash
ington. The appropriation bill provided
for a watchman to close and lock the
gates every night at a certain hour and
open them at a certain hour every’
morning. In the course of time the
railing or fence removed, but the
gates swung between their Egyptian
pillars for a long time, and all that
time the watchman came and went
regularly, closing and opening the
gates according to law aud drawing bis
salary.
Spalding County Camp.
No. 519. U C. V. Aug. 19. 1904.
All members of the camp are re
quested to meet at the city hall of
Griffin at 11 o'clock a. m. Aug. 27,
1904, to arrange for a state meeting
at Rome, Ga., on 14th and 15th ot
September, 190-1. A full attendance
is very desirable.
Thos. W. Thurman, Commander.
T. P. McDowell, Adjutant.
Registration Notice,
I will be in office al M & P.
Bank building every day from 8:30 to
4:30 o’clock for the purpose of register
ing voters for the prohibition election
to be held on Sept. 12, 1904. My books
will close on Friday, ihe 26th of this
month. Registrars will take charge of
registration books on Saturday morn
ing, the 27th inst., for the purpose of
qualifying said voters. This August
9th, 1904. T. R. Nutt, T. C.
No Stomach Trouble
After you take Drake's Palmetto Wine
week. Cures to stay cured. A trial bottle ctef
it you write to Drake Formula Co.. Chicago
POPULIST GATHERING.
Reduced Rates for Big Meeting tn
Atlanta, Ga.
Clem, Ga., August 20.—The state
convention of the people’s party will
meet in Atlanta, Sept. 1, and a large
attendance is expected.
The railroads have granted reduced
rates for the occasion. The delegates
will take certificates froi? the selling
agents and have these certificates ap
proved by the state chairman, and
vised by Chairman Joseph Richard
son, of the Southeastern p assenger
association. The holders of these cer
tificates can secure return tickets at
1 cent per mile.
Hon. Thomas E. Watson will ad
dress the members of the party at
that time on the issues of the cam
paign from the standpoint of tho Pop
ulist party, and there will be other
features.
SAVANNAH HAS BIG FIRE.
Mohr Bros.’ Factory Is Burned—Loss
of $40,000.
Savannah, Ga., August 20.—The
pants and overalls factory of Mohr
Bros., on Broughton street, west, was
destroyed by fire at 10:30 o’clock last
night. The loss is said to be about
$40,000, fully covered by insurance.
The fire was an unsually hot one,
and the flames flared high. For a
time it looked as though it could not
been confined to the Mohr building,
but the firemen prevailed against it.
Opelika’s First Bale.
Opelika, Ala., August 20. —Opelika
received the first bale of cotton Fri
day, 11 days earlier than last year.
It was brought in from A. M. Buchan
an’s place in the upper part of Rus
sell county. It was classed good mid.
dling and was bought by the Alliance
Store at 11 cents. The bale weighed
532 pounds.
Bloodhounds Purchased.
Dawson, Ga. .August 20.—0 nac
count of the many recent attempts at
burglary in this city, Scott Beaton has
purchased a trio of registered English
bloodhounds. The dogs will be used
to detect criminals when their ser
vices are needed in rhe city or coun
ty.
Knd of Bitter Fight.
“Two physicians had a long and
stubborn fight with an abcess on my
r ght lung,” writes J. F. Hughes, of
DuPont. Ga, “and gave me up.
Everybody thought mv time had
come Asa last resort 1 tried Dr.
King’s New Discovery for Consump
tion. The benefit I received was
striking and I was on my fee ; in a
few days Now I’ve entirelv re
gained my health.” , It conquers all
Coughs. Colds and Throat and Lung
troubles. Guaranteed by Carlisle <“fc
Ward and Brooks Drug Store
Price 50c and #I.OO. Trial bottles
tree,
Lone Winded Orators.
Edmund Burke's greatest speech Is
generally considered to have been the
one on "Conciliation with America.”
The report of the speech, supplied by
Burke himself, runs to as many as
thirty-two pages. It contains over 30,-
000 words. It. therefore, could not
have been delivered under less than
five hours. It is curious, by the way,
how long winded all tpe great British
orators were in Burke's time. The
older Pitt was the first to indulge in
long speeches in the house of com
mons. After he had delivered one of
these famous orations he was hailed
by crowds outside the house with en
thusiastic cries of “Three hours and a
half! Three bonus and a half!” "Just
as if a man can talk sense for three
hours and a half,” remarked the cyni
cal Chesterfield, who happened to pass,
by.
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Senator Hoar's Condition.
Worcester, Mass.. August 20. —Sena-
tor George F. Hoar was still alive early
today. He was given a little opiate
last night to insure rest. It was
admitted that his condition continued
very serious and the members of the
family have remained constantly neat
him.
Tutt’s Pills
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A torpid liver deranges the whole
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DOG DAYS, THE MOON AND
CONJUNCTIONS TANGLED UP
Professor Snider Demonstrates That- He and Hicks r
Are Right and Marbury is Al! Wrong.
J. B. Marbury says the moon has
nothing to do with the weather; but
hold on, Mr. Marbury, let me show
you. Don’t you see the full moon for
the last of July was wet and Ihe last
quarter, August the 4th, was wet and
the new moor, on August 11 th was wet?
Now, don’t- you see t-herejare three wet
moons the first three weeks ot dog days
and they have proven themselves to be
very wet, for on the 7th of August,
which was Sunday, the reason why it
iained so the full moon, dog days and
the conjunction got all tangled up to
gether and it caused atmospheric dis
turbances and was followed by heavy
rainfalls over Georgia and other places?
Now, Mr. Marbury, don’t you see the
next three moons following the last
three weeks of dog days are dry ? Now
watch aud see the last three weeks of
dog days how the raintail will decrease,
for we are on dry moons for the next
three weeks of dog days. Os course,
there will be some rain, but notice how
much dryer the last three weeks will be
than the first three weeks of dog days
were.
I have taught the Griffin people to be
lieve in the moon and it would be very
hard for yon to change the Griffin peo
ple. You might change the Atlanta
people, but you had just as well try to
A LAW BY MR FLYNT
COVERS THE SITUATION.
Hon. Joe Hill Hall Points Out How Country Districts
Can be Protected Under Present Statutes.
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HON. J. J. FLYNT,
Who had a Law Passed in 1902 That
Would Give County Poitou
Since the horrible murder of the
Hodges family near Statesboro and the
lawlessness which followed when state
troops allowed their guns to be taken
away from them by a mob and made
themselves a joke among military
critics, there has been no little discus
sion as to methods to be employed that
would prevent such crimes as Reed and
Cato were guilty of and protect people
in the country districts.
Many have been the plans suggested
and many have been the laws which the
legislature have bom urged to pass, but
according to Hon. Joe Hill Hall, of
Bibb, it is not new laws which the peo
ple need but the application of laws
now <>n the statute books.
“What’s the use of making a new law
when we already have one which covers
the situation exactly and which would
prevent such horrible affairs as the ex
termination of the Hodges family’”
It was in this manner Mr. Hall greeted
a Macon News reporter when called
upon and asked for an opinion as to the
best method of protecting the lives of
people in the rural districts.
“All this talk of reviving the old
patrol system is simply rot. We might
just as well argue for the revival of
slavery. There was a bill introduced
in the legislature in 1902 along this line
by Mr. Blackburn and I fought it all
the way through. It was defeated by an
overwhelming vote, which showed that
the people did not; want such legislation.
Laws of this kind which create offices
for irresponsible men to go about and
make cases for the sake of getting the
costs would cause trouble and keep the
country in a turmoil. I said then that
such a law would raise hell in the coun
try and I repeat it.”
At this point Mr. Hall searched among
the books on his shelves and pulled
down a volumn of the laws of 1902.
“Now while all this talk is going on, ”
continued Mr. Hall as he turned to
page 104, “we have a law in our books
which covers the situation exactly and
which if applied to the different coun
ties would remedy the evil complained
of. All that is necessary is for the
grand jury to recommend to the county
commissioners that action be taken and
the people will be protected. But this
will cost money, and some commission
ers think more of the money than they
do to giving protection to the people in
the country districts.”
The bill which was passed and which
is now a law was introduced in 1902 by
Mr. Flynt of Spalding and is as follows:
turn a black elephant white as to
change the Griffin people, lor they
know that I have made many predic
tions by the moon and hit so accurately.
Now, Mr. Marbury, come down,
come down, and get on the right side,
and we will believe in you stronger.?
Mr. Marbury, do you know anything
about Rev. Irl R. Hicks? If not, let
me tell vou a word about him. Mr.
Hicks says the moon brings rain and
storms and various changes in the
weather, and if any man- ought to know
what he is talking about it is Irl R.
Hicks, for he has studied the moon
twenty-five years or more, and I fiave
studied under him for fifteen years and
I know what Hicks says goes, for he is
the best weather prophet in tne world,
and lays all other weather prophets in
the shade and takes the cake.
Hicks is our captain that telle us of ths
coming storms:.
Storms may come and storms may go,
But Hicks is right and that- I know,
And if you would believe in him,
You would get right, I know.
Now come again, Mr. Marbury, and
tell us through the Atlanta Journal
why the moon lias nothing to do with
the weather. Yours truly,
A. L. Snider,
Griffin Local Weather Observer.
Section]. Be it enacted by the gen
eral assembly of the state of Georgia
and It is hereby enacted by the author
ity of the same, that from and after the
passage of this act the commissioners
for roads and revenues of all counties in
this state having a population of over
15,000 people, according to the census of
the United States, shall have the power
upon recommendation of the grand jury
to employ one or more persons to be
known as “inspectors of roads and
bridges,” providing that nothingin this
act shall affectjcounties having overßo,-
000 pcpuiation already having such sys
tem as herein provided.
Sec, 2. Be it further enacted that it
shall be the duty of such inspector to
examine routes for new roads and re
port thereon, to make careful and con
stant examination of all existing roads
and bridges of the count}' in which he
is employed and to report the condi
tion of the same to the commissioners
as often as may be ncessary and as
often as may be directed by said com
missioners, to guard and Look after the
county chain-gang a.id capture escapes
therefrom and to do all such things in
reference thereto when and as directed
by said county commissioners.
Sec, 3. Be it further enacted that the
sheriffs of any county which employs
such inspectors, shall on the request of
the commissioners,appoint them deputy
sheriffs and as such they shall have '
power to make arrests for any violation
of the criminal laws of this State as»
other deputy sheriff*, but as to all ar
rests, such inspectors shall report to
the sheriff of the county asother deputy
sheriffs report.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted that
when more that one inspector shall be
appointed in any county the commis
sioners shall have power to designate
one ot them as “chief inspector.”
Sec. 5. Be ii> further enacted that the
commissioners are hereby authorized
to pay such inspectors such salaries out
of the county treasury as they may
think right and proper.
Sec. 6. Be it further enaeted that the
inspector shall be employed subject to
be discharged at any time by the com
missioners for any cause whatsoever
satisfactory to them.
Sec 7. Be it fureher enacted that
said inspector or inspectors shall be un
der the control of the county commis
sioners and such rules as said commis
sioners make in accordance with this
act-
Sec. *. Be it further enacted that all
laws and parts of the laws in conflict
this act be and the the same are
hereby related.
It will be noticed that under sec
tion 3 these inspectors may be employ
ed by the sheriff of any county as depu
ties and that while they are called in
spectors of bridgesand roads, they
in reality county police.
Air. Hall declared that to merely ap
| point deputies and allow them to de
pend on costs for their salaries would
be the cause of constantly having the
country districts in turmoil and that
it would be possible under the law
that was once proposed for deputies to
summon citizens to their assistance,
get drunk and avenge personal griev
ances against negroes or any one else.
On the other hand by employed in
spectors at a regular salary and have
them patrols in the country districts,
much of the lawlessness would be pre
vented and the people given more pro
tection.
“All the patrols in the world will
not eliminate murder and other crimes
said Mr. Hall. “The best governed
cities in the world, to say nothitg of
the'country districts, find it impossi
ble to prevent burglaries and murders
and to say that the old patrol going
about in twos and threes would do
what a police force cannot do,is absured.
We have a good law and it is now up
to the grand juries and the commis
sioners of the different counties to
take advantage of it.”