The Barnesville news-gazette. (Barnesville, Ga.) 189?-1941, May 22, 1902, Image 4

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BARNESVILLE NEWS-GAZETTE The Twentieth Century Country Weekly. Published Every Thursday by The News Publishing Company, IJAKNKSYIM.K, GA. SUBSCRIPTION $1 PER YEAR PAY ABLE IN ADVANCE. Entered at the Post Office Rt Barneavilie, On., rs second class mail matter. MAY 22. 1902. WILLIAMS FOR PRISON COMMISSIONER. Hon. Wiley Williams, of Columbus, who is a candidate for prison commissioner was in Barnesville a few days ago and met many of our citizens. Mr. Williams it very highly en dorsed for the position which he woks by the citizens of Columbus and by the newspapers of the state, and it is now freely predict ed that he will be nominated at the state primary, June nth. Mr. Williams made quite a favorable impression on the people here and he received many as surances of support. lie is well qualified for the place and is worthy of the confidence and en dorsement of the people of Geor gia. He ought to be nominated. (Communicated. i MURPHEY ADVOCATED NEGRO JURYMEN. Affidavits Offered to Prove the Statement. Editor News-Gazette : People are stirred up over poli tics in our section. There are quite a number of candidates who wish the honors of office, and of course, we consider and then take the best. We like Mr. Madden and he in a good man, but us country people are nearly all going to vote for Mr. Owen. I never saw the gen tleman, but as lve seems to be stronger than my friend Madden, we are going to vote almost solid ly for Mr. Owen. We want to beat Murphey and we have several reasons for wanting to beat him. My mind runs back a few years when Murphey was endorsed by the Republican Executive Com mittee of this congressional dis trict. May I ask how many negroes were on that committee? Yes, ,1 remember how lie herded them at his home all night long before the day of election, and how he armed them around being about the only white man in the bunch. 1 can also remember be ing at the trial of A. Cauthen, Hiram Matthews and Hiram Brown, when they were tried in Zebulon for killing Pink Lawrence, a negro. Murphey lived in At lanta at that time, but he w as em ployed to prosecute these boys. 1 remember how had he wanted ne groes on that jury and how glad he said he was because he lived in Atlanta, where he said he could have negroes on his juries. In his speech he advocated putting negroes on the jury and said that if that jury which was trying these boys didn't find them guilty, negroes ought to mob the members of the jury before they could get home. I can prove these facts by affidavits from members of the jury who tried the case. And he now wants the white people to vote for him in a democratic pri mary. Isn’t this enough to turn every white vote in Pike county against him? 1 have other farts of a different nature, which 1 want to present to the voters of the grand old county of Pike before the primary, but I'll stop for the present. I can establish every statement 1 have made, or will make, by affi davits of plenty of reliable wit nesses. S M. Howard. P. S. 1 live 1$ miles north of Barnesville and am fully responsi ble for all I say. S. M. H. MISS BLALOCK REPLIES TO MR. ROSE. Puts Forth Her Views in Defense of the Cause She is Advocating. Mr. Editor — Rumors greatly exaggerated are afloat, so misrepresenting me and my purposes, as to pro volte much needless discussion and doubtless inspired the article in your paper denouncing the establishment of an Industrial school for colored people upon my father’s planta tion. While I deplore the necessity, yet it affords me an opportunity, through a free press, of stating over my own signature just what J bail planned to do. Allow me, in the beginning to assure my friends of Upson and Pike that I am not here to force an issue, or to place in your midst an institution to which you may object. My one purpose is to aid every man, woman and child in my native and adopted county, but if my aid is not desired it is my 'pleasure to withdraw it. 1 am a Southern girl, as you all well know; born in Upson. 1 love the South; 1 love her history and her traditions. None can be more alive to her conditions and to her needs. Having given careful study of th<* conditions of affairs in her rural districts, and spent I the. best part of my life in the cause of education, the desire is | in my heart to bring the results |of my 12 years of training into active co-operation with the county authorities and patrons in improving the rural schools; nat urally my mind is centered upon my native county. It has always been my purpose to make my home on the old plantation, so I hoped to make that an industrial center for the white children in the community. Careful study of the subject has convinced me that industrial education is the need of the hour for children, whether in the east, west, north or south. For years we discussed moving Salem church, to the plantation, and there attempt to gather the few children in the neighborhood into a model school. Salem has been wisely moved into a community where there are a larger number of children. Then it occurred to me that a home school might be organized, indus- trial in its nature, which would afford training for a limited num ber of students from various parts of the county, modeled after the co-operative settlements; estab lished and successfully operated in cities. This Home should be a radiat ing point for all noble and uplift ing ideas, with the motto, “Learn ing by doing,” simple home in dustries will be taught looking to the establishment of better homes. Girls would be taught domestic science, nature study, how to care for plants and animals, how to utilize many things which go to waste on almost every farm. The first thing necessary was to organ ize the movement, to swepre legal recognition. Today there is in every commu nity, not only a school for white children, but for colored as well. The negro is being educated and there seems to be no way of stop ping it. It is an easy matter for a colored teacher to find a suffi cient number of pupils for a school. Our state money, which the Southern white man has paid, goes to the maintenance of said schools. It is a generally accepted fact by all who have studied the question that if the negro is to he educated, he should receive Industrial train ing he should .be trained for the farm, not away from it. Without doubt they make the best laborers in the world, but all must realise that the South needs better t rained agricalturists, not farmers who have been taught Latin and Greek, but who have been taught the dig THE BARNESVILLE NEWS-GAZETTE, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1902. nity of labor, who have been taught to prefer honest toil to idleness and depravity. It is no longer a question as to whether the negro should be educated, he is being educated, there seems to be no prospect of discontinuance. Their education should Vie properly directed for education may be a person’s ruin or salvation according to the nature of the education. Indus trial education for the negro is no longer an experiment. It has been tried, and proved successful. One cannot seethe work at Hamp ton, Va., at Tuskegee without feeling that Industrial training together with the peaceful har monious spirit, which these insti tutions stand for offer the best solution of the problem which has yet been suggested. That we are confronted with the greatest prob lem of the age, no one can ques tion, what its final out come will be, hot even the most inspired prophet can guess. The only thing we can do is to do the best we can today letting the things of the future take care of themselves. That the people of the South can ever consider social equality—let no fond philanthropist even imagine. Most of all it seems that we need in each community a strong moral leader, one who will live and teach the Christ spirit of love and harmony. We live side by side with these dusky skins in many rural communities it is unsafe, but to those of us who love our old homes —and do not care to be driven from them, if there can beany influence brought to bear in the community, which will relieve these conditions, which can train the idle hand, which shall teach the negro habits of morality, thrift and industry and teach himhis place in the com munity, which shall teach him self-respect and self-reliance, is it not our duty to aid him to such an end? When the deed to the old Blalock homestead was put in my hands I followed my father’s example and hired a negro tenant. It was never my purpose to estab lish a large school for four or five hundred pupils who should study Latin and Greek. It was the pur pose of my tenants to establish an Industrial Homo modeled after the same principles I had planned for the white school. A cJhter from which helpful thoifehts should radiate, where a few Toys and girls each year could be taught not theories —but where they ATTENTION To physical warning's will it often prevent a serious illness. When there are JEaK oppressive fullness after eating, bitter risings, belching, headache, dizzi ness, nervousness, with AW Jto* physical and mental slug- Ihßkgishness, prompt atten t TjVI tion should be given to II the condition of the diges- JSJ ajlnL vJ tive and nutritive svs terns. Not all these symptoms will occur at ■ once or in any single S case, but any one of them ■ vj / W indicates a disordered r y' Jj condition of the stomach | I f and other organs of diges- N } j tion and nutrition. I A prompt cure of these conditions will be effected I by the timely use of Dr. Ilf Pierce's Golden Medical U // Discovery. It heals dis eases of the stomach and other organs of digestion and nutrition, perfectly and permanently. Many (-Z diseases, seemingly re mote from the stomach, have their origin iti a diseased condition of the organs of digestion and nutrition. "Golden Medical Discovery * cures through the stomach diseases which have their origin in a diseased condition of the stomach, and hence diseases of liver, lungs, heart and other organs are cured by use of the " Dis covery." It contains no alcohol, neither opium, cocaine, cr other narcotic. It is a true temperance medicine. Accept no substitute for "Golden Med ical Discovery." There is nothing else "just as good." "I was a total wreck—could not sleep or eat." writes Mr. T. O. Beers, of Berryman. Crawford Cos., Ma "For two years 1 tried medicine from doctors but received very little beuefit. I lost flesh and strength, was not able to do a good day's work. I commenced taking Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, and when 1 had taken one bottle I could sleep, and my appetite was wonderfully improved I have taken five bottles and am still improving.” Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets cure con stipation by curing the cause. They do not beget the pill habit Collier Co’s. Weekly News. If All the Ladies in Town /hould Come Here For Their /UPPERS AND /HOES We believe we could please every one of them, and we would have the trimmiest looking lot of feet in Barnesville to be found any where in the whole country. We do shoe a large share of them, but we often wonder why every lady and child doesn’t come here for their shoes; we believe they would, too, if they only knew the superiority of our shoes. We never saw finer made shoes. Ladies’ Shoes and Sandals in all the latest “kinks” of fashion. The heels cut a big figure this season. Our’s are the Colonial, Cuban, Wurtenburg, Common Sense Opera. New things to show for the commencement and dress wear. Ladies, $1.75 to SB.OO. Children, SI.OO to $2.50. J. C. Collier Cos. ™ 1 Clothing and Shoes—East Main Iwo stores < x>ry Goods, Millinery —West" should learn by doing work on the farm —ploughing, hoeing, caring for chickens, cows, etc. Where they should be taught car pentry, brick-laying, wheelwright ing, where the girls could learn house-keeping work by doing it, where all could learn the divine lesson of cleanlines, and could partake of the Tuskegee spirit of harmony and peace. Thus the work began without means, for I had not a penny, nor the promise of one, to carry it forward. In order that the idea could be car forward it tmutf be'organized, have legal recognition. I came to my home, and my neigh bors in a spirit of love and loyalty with a desire to aid in working out the problems which confront us. I have told my story as simply as I can —that you will send it with out prejudice and accept it in the spirit in which it was written I earnestly pray. We are all seek ing to be followers of the meek and lowly Jesus, o f Him who gave us the lesson of love and charity and in His Name my idea has been conceived. Annie E. Blalock. “Rest Haven” Upson Cos. Ga. May, 20th 1902. Register If you desire to vote in the pro mary, June sth next, be sure to register this week. The books close Saturday night. The rules of the executive committee provide that only those who register this spring can vote in the coming primary and these rules will be rigidly enforced. Call on Maj. Hunt at his office in Chambers Hardware Store or on Judge J. IV . Means, at Zebulon. Books will postively close Satur day night, May 24 t h. Frank M. Stafford, Chairman Deni. Ex- Com. OABTOniA. the /} Th Kind You Haw Hlwais Bought COLLIER CO’S. WEEKLY NEWS Commencement Fixings... for the misses’, young ladies and growm-up folks. Thought the matter over—decided to have for you everything that’s on the fashion sheet. Better come in to see wdiat’s what for the occasion. They are pretty things and proper, too. 72-inch white organdies, thin sheer fabric, with out a f10w,... 50c 50-in. w T ash chiffon, one of the prettiest as well as the most serviceable fa brics on the market,... 35 tO 65c 30-in embroidered swiss, something new for light wear 65c 80-in. wide sash ribbons, pink, blue, white, cream, soft finish,... 50c Elbow mits, in the fancy lacey effects, White and blacx parasols for the com mencement occasions, $1.50 to $3 We have got a way of knowing how 7 to trim a hat to suit your dress. Have somewhat of an idea of the fitness of things w r hen we buy Millinery and dress material. There’s a harmony in all—you’ll admire yourself and feel as though others admired you. It don’t take such an awful lot of money to dress well when you know where to trade. There’s a knack in knowfing how to furnish you a hat like ours at the same price. J. C. Collier Cos. ctarug S West side Main st—Dry Goods, Furniture. u iv lifts j -g agt g j t j e a j n street—Clothing, Shoes. P. S. We sell corn, meat, flour, lard, hams, sugar, etc., payable in the fall for the usual bank rate of interest. Come to us, we want to supply every one. Almost Daily.. new goods are coming in our house. We have just received line of WASH FABRICS in all the linen effects —prices ranging from io cents to 40 cents a yard. These are the most stylish goods that are worn this season. Just received anew line of black dress goods, Brilliantines and Melrose, the latest weaves for skirts. All the new styles in belts, rib bons, appliques, laces, embroideries, srlks, white lawns and colored lawns at prices that no competitor can undersell. Shoes and Slippers. We have a big stock of shoes and slippers—all styles— at reasonable prices for reliable footwear. 38 pairs slippers, in black and tan, heel and spring £? heel, worth ifl.oOpair, toclose them outquick, only O w Light Weight Hosiery. Nothing adds so much to a ladies’ summer toilet as a pair of dainty open-work stockings. We have them in all styles. MILLINERY. Millinery is Our Specialty. New Styles Coming in Almost Daily. We are the Millinery people in Barnesville. Yours for business, A. L. MILLS. We Give Green Trading Stamps.