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BARNESVILLE NEWS-GAZETTE The Twentieth Century Country Weekly. Published Every Thursday by The News Publishing Company, BARNEBVIIjIjK, GA. SUBSCRIPTION $1 PER YEAR PA Y ABLE IN ADVANCE. 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 f 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. Ladies: k. We are too busy with orders in our millinery department to have a second Opening. You will always find in our department the very Latest Novelties as fast as the styles APPEAR, and at prices no competitor can touch. Don’t buy your MILLINERY until you see ours! Remember, we are HEADQUAR TERS for MILLINERY! A. L. MILLS. We give green Trading Stamps.