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BARNESVILLE NEWS-GAZETTE
The Twentieth Century Country Weekly.
Published Every Thursday by
The News Publishing Company,
BARNEBVIIjIjK, GA.
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Entered at the Poet Offiee at Barnesville,
Ga.. an second class mail matter.
MAY 1, 1902.
COME TO BARNESVILLE.
It is announced that Rev. Sam
.Tones, Rev. Len G. Broughton,
Hon. Seal) Wright and probably
Rev. Sam Small will speak in
Barnesville, sometime during May
in the interest of Hon. Dupont
Guerry in his race for governor.
It is not yet stated on what day
they will speak here, but ample
opportunity willbegiven for thor
oughly advertising the time.
Such an able and interesting array
of speakers will doubtless draw an
immense crowd of people and it is
certain that they will be enter
tained when they get here and lis
ten to a discussion of the men and
measures of this campaign. As
Sam Jones says it will bespeakin’
that is speak in’ and everybody
will want to hear it. A cordial
invitation will be extended to the
people of the entire surrounding
country.
Barnesville now lias one nation
al bank nml two stub- bunks, all
well equipped for business.
Barnesville bus not had time to
talk politics lately, but the citi
zens will vote when the time
comes.
County politics is quiet, except
among the candidates themselves.
Most of them are good men and
the people know how to discrimi
nate in voting.
Terrell is a good man, but we
prefer either of the other candi
dates for governor, because we
think they are better men than he
is for the position.
It is generally conceded that Es
till and Guerry have both made
heavy gains during the past few
weeks, while Terrell has lost heav
ily in some sections.
Barnesville got in deep trouble i
but she worked heroically to get
out and at the same time tried j
hard to take care of the interests
of all who were suffering on ac
count of her calamity.
Farmers have been putting in
some very sat isfactory work since |
the pretty weather began. They
had a hard time the first of the
year but everything is more favor
able now. They deserve success
and we hope it will be a prosper
ovs year for agriculture.
An English artist has been given
a commission to make a bust of
King Edward, which leads the
Charlotte News to remark that
the busts to which Edward was
accustomed in his salad days were
not of the plaster variety. We
would suggest, however, that
there was some resemblance in
the fact that he probably always
got broke when so engaged.
Monroe's Fire Fiend.
Atlanta, April 26.—Phil White,
a negro arrested in Atlanta, who
is wanted in Monroe county to
answer the charge of arson, will
he held in jail here for some weeks.
His detention here is due to an
order from Governor Candler, who
has been informed that it would
hot be Bafe to send the negro to
Monroe county at this time.
ADVERTISING A STATE.
Scheme to Place Colorado’s Advan
tages liefore the East.
There is a scheme on foot to ex-
I pend $50,000 or more in the near
future for the purpose of exploit
, ing the state Colorado. The
promoter is R. l|. presi
dent of the chamber of commerce
of Denver. In a recent interview
Mr. Malone said:
“I believe in advertising the
whole state and not any particu
lar part of it. One of my favorite
'schemes for such a purpose would
be to raise a fund of about $50,-
000, communicate with some of
the eastern advertising specialists
whose handiwork appears in the
leading magazines and have them
prepare a series of articles on
Colorado for publication in the
leading magazines.
“The advantage of having an
eastern man write to eastern peo
ple is great. We western people
cannot know what would most
appeal to the eastern mind. Points
of scenery, climate, customs and
other items, which might he stale
and hackneyed to us, would be of
special charm to an easterner.
“Therefore I say let an eastern
man tell about us and our state to
the eastern people.”
“Advertising is a salesman in
tin' guise of printers’ ink. See to
it that yours is well dressed and
well spoken.—Printers’ Ink.
Laziness Microbes.
Don’t 1)0 in too big a hurry to
condemn the person who won’t
work. It may be that we have
been in the habit of calling lazi
ness, and regarding as nothing
short of a vice, is really a disease
which the poor fellow cannot help.
There is a possibility that certain
specialists in Cincinnati will
shortly be able to demonstrate to
the world that a disinclination to
work is the result of the presence
in the system of specific microbes.
They are now studying the case of
a young man who has done noth
ing for ten years. He has been re
garded as hopelessly lazy; so lazy,
indeed, that the doctors became
interested in the cast 1 and deter
mined to ascertain, if possible,
what was the matter.
The young man in the ease lias
bis counterpart, in greater or less
numbers, in about every commu
nity. It was bis habit to sit. in
the sun in the winter and in the
shade in the summer and whittle
st icks. When at home he would
sit around the kitchen reading a
little book, playing with the cat
or twirling his fingers. Semi-oc
casionally he would go a fishing,
if somebody would get the bait
for him. But under no circum
stances could he be induced to
perform any sort of work. His
type will be recognized by practi
cally everybody, and certainly by
the bread winners.
As stated above, certain doctors
have taken his case under investi
gation. They hope to chase the
bacillus- of laziness to its lair,
isolate it and find a specific for it.
Some of them apparently are pretty
well convinced, from a careful
study of the case, that laziness, as
manifested by this young man, is
a germ disease. Should this prove
true, then it must follow that
laziness, as manifested every
where, is the result of germs,
since the patient under treatment
is perfectly normal in all other
j respects. There is no peculiar
phenomena in his case to make it
j exceptional. He is simply a type
of the lazy person.
It is to be hoped that the Cin
jcinnati doctors will succeed in
their quest. If they can catch
“lazy bug” and provide a lethal
dose for it, they will confer an
inestimable boon on mankind.
And there will be literally “mil
lions in it” for the discoverers, for
there are many laziness microbes
exerting their baleful influence
upon the race every day of the
year —Savannah News.
OABTOniA.
Betntha Th YOU Ha Mwjp BflUjttf
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THE BARNESVILLE NEWS-GAZETTE, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1902.
A DROLL CHARACTER
"COUNSELOR” NOLAN WAS A WIT
OF THE NEW YORK BAR.
Some of the Qn.-tlnt Sojliik* of Till*
Pletnre.qne Lpbbl I.iKkt. Wlio Kr
Y’rnrn Kept Gotham’. JmlKe. and
Lawyers Langhlnic.
In f>. book entitled “The Rnrrister”
Charles Frederick Stansbury has
brought together the best of the anec
dotes of Tom Nolan, who was known
popularly among members of the New
York bar as “Counselor Nolan.” For
many years the counselor kept judges
and lawyers of New York laughing,
and at political conventions he was one
of the important. If not serious, attrac
tions. The counselor was himself sui
generis. His drollery was individual.
Some characteristic stories from Mr.
Stunsbury’B collection are here set
down:
At a political convention a friend
asked Nolan:
“Isn’t it strange, counselor, that
your friend Croker, who is such a
mighty power down your way. does not
get a nice political job for himself?”
The barrister drew himself up, look
ing his inquisitor over from the corner
of his eye, and then replied, with se
verity: “’Tis a peanut brain you have,
Clancy, to ask me that. Is there anny
job he hasn’t got?”
Judge Horace Russell told the follow
ing story: Nolan once had a client
whose name was Mrs. Moriarlty. After
her case had been placed upon the
calendar Mfs. Moriarity appeared ev
ery day in Nolan’s olHce with her elev
en witnesses. Finally the case reached
the top of the calendar, and Nolan was
on hand to try It. The opposing coun
sel asked for a postponement. Nolan
fought the postponemeut with great
eloquence, laying much stress upon the
fact that Mrs. Moriarity had been put
to enormous trouble and expense of
coming every day to his office with her
eleven witnesses. Judge Dugro, who
was sitting, was not convinced ap
parently by Nolan’s perfervid oratory
und granted the adjournment. Then
the barrister arose.
“Your honor,” said he, “has seen fit
to grant a postponement of the case,
and, while I humbly submit to the rul
ing of the epurt, yet I would like to ask
your honor to do me a personal favor.”
“Certainly, counselor, with pleasure,”
replied .Judge Dugro. “What is it?”
“Go you to my office,” thundered the
barrister, “and inform Mrs. Moriarity
that this case has been postponed.”
Witty and keen as Nolan was, he
once in awhile got the worst of an en
counter with a witness, as the follow-
inp Incident illustrates:
The plaintiff, Mr. Foley, was suing
Mr. W. for damages sustained by care
lessness of defendant in allowing his
donkey to escape from bis stable and
trespass upon plaintiff’s lawn. Foley is
in the witness box.
Barrister Nolan (for defendant)—You
say that Mr. W.’s animal caused all
this injury to your property?
Foley—Yes. sor.
Barrister—Where did you first see
this donkey?
Foley—Tied up In defendant’s stable.
Barrister—Where did you next see
him?
Foley—On me premises.
Barrister—How* do you know it was
the same donkey ?
Foley (emphatically)—lf I saw yez
tied up in the sthable. don’t yez sup
pose I'd know yez whin yez got loose?
The barrister excused Mr. Foley.
It was in the old superior court be
fore Judge David McAdntn and a jury,
and the barrister was trying a case on
behalf of the plaintiff In a negligence
suit against the Twenty-third street
crosstown railroad, which was con
trolled by Jacob Sharp, who afterward
gave the name of “boodle aldermen" to
the world. On rising to sum up on be
half of his client Nolan launched forth
Into an attack upon Sharp, who had in
no manner appeared in the case. Rais
ing his voice to n pitch that coaid be
heard by citizens in the City Hall park,
he concluded his peroration as follows:
“And who, glntlemen of the jury, is
Jacob Sharp? 1 will tell you, gintle
men. He is a man so lost to all his
slnse of ethics aDd the rights of man
that for the sake of palthry prospec
tive dividends be would run a railroad
up your splue and make ties out Of
your ribs!”
Wheu the bar of the city of New
York gave a dinner at Delmonico’s in
honor of former Justice Abraham R.
Lawreuce on his retirement from the
bench, one of the remarks Nolan made
was:
“There’s Recorder Smyth. He’s a
good Judge, a foine Judge, but he
thinks ivery man ought to go to prison
at least wauce.”
Nolan on one occasion was a candi
date for a municipal office, and in the
course of his canvass he asked a wo
man of his acquaintance if she would
use her influence in obtaining for him
her husband’s vote. "Sure. 1 will,”
said tbe woman. “Are we not ever
lastingly grateful to you ever siuce you
got my busbatid ofT for stealing a gun?"
“No. no, my dear woman,” cried the
barrister, “not for stealing a gun, but
for the alleged stealing of a gun.”
"Alleged be bothered.” replied the
woman. “Come up stairs and I’ll show
you the gun.”
Once arguing a case in behalf of
clients who were sailors and while in
tbe midst of an exhaustive display of
nautical scholarship Nolan was inters
rupted by tbe court:
“How comes It, counselor, tbat you
possess Bucb a vast knowledge of the
sea ?”
“Does your honor think,” responded
Nolan, “that I came over in a hack?”
Sa* Refaction.
It happena quite* frequently that the
self made man baa a Mu who la simply
tailor made.—Puck.
J. W. CABANISS, President, C. H. HUMPHREY, Cashier,
President Exchange Bank, Macon. 6 Years with Bank of Millen.
Citizens Bank of Barnesville,
BARNESVILLE, GA.,
*
With Paid ud Capital of $25,000
Is now ready for business and solicits the patronage
of the public. The business and professional
men and farmers of this city and section are in=
vited to call and examine our banking facilities.
Every Accommodation
Guaranteed Our Patrons.
The parties backing the Citizens Bank are worth
$2,000,000 or more and hence it
lias Strongest Backing of any Bank in
Middle Georgia.
We want your account. Come to see us,
C. H. Humphrey,
Cashier.
Speed Madness.
The significant feature of the case
was, however, its manifestation of
the mania which we may call speed
madness, which seems to possess
a considerable part of the commu
nity. This is a craze for going
faster than the law permits. If
the legal maximum were only four
miles an hour law-breakers would
probably he satisfied with a speed
of five miles. If it were increased
to sixty miles an hour not one of
them would be happy until he was
moving at the rate of sixty-one.
To pharaphrase an historic saying
too fast is just fast enough. The
passion is one for forbidden fruit.
It is not that the fruit is sweet or
that they are hungry, but simply
that it is forbidden. It is not
that they so greatly care for driv
ing, or that high speed has a fas
cination for them, but that they
love to feel that they are violat
ing the law—doing what they have
no right to do. —New Aork Tri
bune.
Tlie Four D's.
Charles Spurgeon once said that
there were three great enemies to
man—“dirt, debt and the devil.”
He might have added one more and
and included dyspepsia. The evil
results of this disease could hardly
be exaggerated. It's effects are
felt in mind and body, and are as
far reaching as the effects of tbe
curse that was laid on the Jack
daw of Bheims which was cursed
in ‘, eating, drinking and sleeping,
in standing and sitting and lay
ing.” The good effects of Dr.
Pierce s Golden Medical Discovery
are most marked in aggregated
and chronic cases of dyspepsia.
It enables thh stomach glands to
secrete the necessary quantity of
digestive fluids, and this at once
removes that craving or gnawing
sensation so common to certain
torms of indigestion. It tones
and regulates the stomach, invog
orates the torpid liver and give the
blood making glands keen assimi
lative power. “Golden Medical
Discovery” cures ninety-eight per
cent, of those who use it. Dr.
Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are supe
rior to all other laxative medicines
when the bowels are obstructed.
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure
Digests what you eat.
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