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THE CAIRO MESSENGER.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9 . * 9 ° 4 .
F. J. WIND, Editor tod Proprietor.
Published every Friday at Cairo, Thomas
county. Georgia.
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Filtered as second-class matter .Januuary
1901 at the post office at Cairo. Ga„ under
Act of Congress of March 3rd. 1879.
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Advertising rates reasonable, and furnished
upon application.
Bavaria wishes to depose
Rino- Otto will be mad when
he heais of this.
Of all the candidates mention
ed for Governor, Howell does
Hon. Clark Howell of Atlanta
suit you?
President Roosevelt has re
sumed boxing. Probably get
ting ready to box congress
around some.
Pennsylvania trains are now
operated upon the block system.
That two foot snowfall blocks
th:-m.
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Steam heated office bnildings
are said to produce pneumonia.
Those that are not heated pro
duce profanity.
Countess Czaykawski has been
granted a divorce, No one can
blame htr for getting rid of a
name like Czaykawski.
Nan Patterson should try to
get on her next jury some of
those farmers who have been
sending her proposals for mar
riage..
Dr. Robert S. McArthur
wants the Panama canal renam
ed the Roosevelt canal. What
office is the doctor an applicant
for?
The Japanese will probably
have an opportunity to learn to
swear when General Stoessel
makes his farewell remarks to
Port Arthur.
Ex- Queen Liliuokalani is
thinking of writing another
book. It will be different from
her last book, which was writ
ten without thinking.
J. Pierpont Morgan believes
in keeping the boys off the
street. But this does not apply
to boys with money who wish
to play in Wall street.
The dowager empress of
China is building for herself a
§4.000,000 tomb. She might
add to her popularity by occu
pying it just as soon as it is
finished.
The Japs are firing from bal
loons at Port Aathur. War is
hell, but it is rather queer that
the hell falls upon Port Arthur
from the upper regions.
An automobile in Florida was
wrecked by a dog Friday. The
auto seems to be going to the
dogs even earlier than the cynic
predicted that it would.
The best cup of coffee, says a
noted chief, has oil on its sur
face. For goodness sake, is
there nothing in the world that
the oil trust does not get into?
Bulgaria has just about $ 8 .-
400,000 worth of new guns.
Evidently those European pow
ers which are getting up an ar
bitration party forgot to invite
Bulgaria.
The Baltic has taken a Christ
mas rush of New Yorkers to
Europe. The Baltic fleet is rush pre
pairing to take a Christmas
from the Seuz canal over to
Port Arthur.
Circuit Attorney Folk has
brought Boodler Ed Butler to
taw, and Ed will have to stand
trial. Butler is fully convinced
now that the report about Folk’s
taking a vacation was a mistake.
A London autograph dealer
says that the full name of
Charles Dickens was Charles
John Huffman Dickens. But
Dickens was never full enough
to use all this name, fortunately.
Those who happed to be in
the neighborhood of Wayne and
West Broad streets yesterday
afternoon shortly before 4
o,clock were horrified to see a
man at the top of a sixty foot
telegraph pole, swinging help
lessly on a mass of wires, while
flashes of incondescent fire were
seen to exude from his nose and
ears.
For a few minutes the man
screamed with agony, but final
ly only slight groans were heard.
Spectators were horrified but
were powerless to render assist
ance.
A fellow employee of the man
suffering the tortures almost of
death, who was on another pole
clammered down as quickly as
he could and climbed the pole
where his companion had been
working a few minutes before.
He gave the name of the man
as Robert Lee Frazier, who is
employed by the Western Un
ion Telegraph Company, as a
linesman.
The man who was engaged
with Frazier climbed the high
pole, passed a rope around the
unfortunate body, just beneath
his arms, and while ready hands
held the end trailing from one
of the cross arms, Frazier was
lowered to the ground.
RECOVERED CONSCIOUSNESS.
As the limp, and seeming
lifeless body had been lowered
about half the distance to the
ground, he was seen to move,
and finally regained conscious
ness to such an extent that when
he reached the ground he was
able to talk. He was too weak,
however, to stand alone ^and
was carried to his home in a
wagon. The city ambulance
had been summonsed, but Fra
zier refused to ride in it.
When he commenced scream
ing, and it was discovered he
was in contact with a live wire,
a message was sent to police
head quarters. Supt. Garfunal
and a Morning News reporter
hastened to No. 3 fire station,
where the great portable tower
is kept, and were soon at the
scene of the accident. The man
was being lowered, however,
when the truck arrived.
Frazier was badly burned
about the hands where he touch
ed the live wire, Just the
amount of current which he en
countered is not known, but
phvsicians state that if he had
remained on the wires a few
minutes longer life would have
been extinct.
Frazier and a fellow work
man were detailed to rvpair a
wire at the pole where Frazier
was shocked, from which the in
sulation had been worn to such
an extent that the pc le had been
set on fi r e the night before. In
some way Frazier allowed his
hand to come in contact with
the live, while his foot was on
another, completing the circuit,
thus subjecting him to the hor
rible torture through which he
went.
Those who witnessed the ac
cident, declare that blue flames
were seen to issue from the
man’s mouth, nose and ears, and
that smoke rose at times when
he would change his position in
his convulsive efforts.
When the man reached the
earth he was a pitable sight.
His face was drawn and his
hands were burned to the bone
in several places. Dr. George
Norton, who was present, order
ed him placed in the ambulance
and carried to the infirmary, but
he refused to get in the ambu
lance, his wife securing a wag-
on, in which he wa< placed and
carried home.
It was almost a myricle that
Frazier did not fall to the ground
as soon as he was stunned by
the first shock, but the net work
of wires held him remorselessly
against the current which was
gradually killing him when he
was rescued. The name of the
workman who rescued Frazier
could not be learned, as he left
the scene immediately, although
many applauded his brave act.
—Savannah Morning News.
Two Enemies.
Though two substances of
comparatively recent discovery
are beneficial to the human race,
when used discretely, it is assert
ed that no two agencies have
been more destructive to man
kind. We allude to morphine
and cocaine. Never was man
or woman so bedrugged than
the people of this epoch, and
never was there such a preva
lence of substances that injure
or pervert the nerve and moral
nature. One of these of these
substances leads not only to
pysical and mental decay but
notably to lying and theft. To
one of them is ascribed a horri
ble crime that lynching is sup
posed to be a remedy; but the
men who violate one law are
not justified by similar lawless
ness. The New Orleanse Picay
une declares that one of the
significant evidences of this
transformation by drugs “is seen
in the numbers of men who do
no honest work for a living, but
spend their time in absolute idle
ness and in the indulgence of
their depraved appetites, when
net actually engaged in crimi
nal acts. These men are sup
ported by women, by their toll
ing mothers, wives and sisters
or else by the unfortunate crea
tures who devote the proceeds
of their lives of shame for the
maintainance of such debased
and worthless males.”
Some philosophers contend
that the invasion of the labor
field by women is compulsory,
on their part, because men who
ought to support them have be
come degenerate from drugs.
What all this demoralization
will end in no man can tell; but,
unless there be radical reforms,
it must be deplorable. We have
made immence strides in mate
terial things, in discoveres, in
wealth production and the like,
but the moral advance is not so
marked and, if the charges be
true, we have, as a race, degen
erated and that the enemies who
have done this deploring thing
are insidious drugs, they are
responsible to a large degree.
—Augusta Chronicle.
A correspondent of the Balti
more Sun the other day took
that to task for intimat-
ing editorially that the Rev.
Charles Wagner, author of “The
Simple Life,” had departed by
example from the precepts of
his book since he had been in
this country, Parson Wagner’s
theory, it will be recalled, is bas
ed upon the utmost symplicity
in al). the relations of life. The
Sun’s editors, in reply to the
criticism, recall the fact that Par
son Wagner, ever since he has
been in this country, has been
in the center of a whirl of ex
citement. ile has had special
trains, has ridden in dashing
automobiles, has had seven en
gagements for receptions, din
ners and lectures, and has
preached syndicate sermons and
has been introduced by the pres
ident of the United States.
Does this look like simple life?
the Sun asks. It certainly looks
more like a strenuous life such
president admires. .
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The Atlantic Coast.
A Southern road, owned and
controlled by Southern men, is
the Atlantic Coast Line, where
recent 25 per cent, divident has
“astonished the natives, j* The
prosperity of this great system is
an object lesson for the whole
country. Plus sagacious and con
servative management, the Coast
Line has drawn its marvelous
profit from Southern development
and'the future promises to far
surpass the past. We have no
doubt that the Coast Line will
continue to help in the great in
dustrial and agricultural expan
sion of the South. As the South
prospers so does the Coast Line.
The managers have every personal
as well as patriotic inducement
to foster this section and they
will do it undoubtedly.
We congratulate the Coast Line
managers and stockholders. “May
they live long and prosper 1 “ And
mav we all at the South prosper
with the.—Savannah Press.
Left at the Post.
(Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune.)
Teacher--,Boys, you must all be
good and industrious, and there is
no telling what High position you
may attain. Even the presidency
is within yonr grasp. Now, all of
you who will try to behave as boys
should who have a chance to be
come president, stand up.
All aroso except Johnny Jones.
“Why, Johnny, don’t you want
to be president? ? ?
“Yes. ma’am. J J
“Why don’t you stand up,then?’
U No use. I ain’t got no chance.
I’m a Democrat. 1 ?
Keen Retort.
(Chicago News.)
He was one of those men who
show the animal nature by for
ever growling over their meals.
“You should be glad to have
such a nice wife,” said the little
woman across the table.
“I don’t see why,” he snarled
“You were husband-hunting
when you bagged me.”
His wife smiled sardonically
“I used to think I was hus.
hand-hunting,” sheietored, “but
now I think I must have been
bear-hunting.”
A Square Meal.
A round shouldered man with
a round face and a round head,
wearing a round straw hat, en
tered a restaurant round the
corner. He partook of soup in
a round dish, a round roll, a cut
from a round of beef with round
potatoes round it, and some
round dumplings, followed with
a round roly-poly and some round
Dutch cheese afterwards. He
finished up with some round ap
ples, and then said he had had
a square” meal.—Philadelphia
Bulletin.
Glory.
(Houston Chronical.)
Littie Herold—My mother is
a Daughter'of the Revolution.
Little Mickey—Dat’s nuttin’.
Me fadder is a Son of Jonadab.
‘-I’m afraid, Johnny,” said the
Sunday school teacher, rather
sadly, “that I shall never meet
you in the better land.”
“Why? What have you been
doin’ now?”—Pick Me Up.
Bright Bits,
—Cholly—“So Miss Tartun
loosened up and said a good word
about me did she? J 5 Archie—
u Yes; she said that when one got
better acquainted with you one
found you were not half as big a
fool as you appeared to be.’’—
Chicago Tribune.
—Jack—“Col. Blank is the
finest after-dinner speaker I ever
beard.” Tom' ( ( Indeed 1 I wasn’t
aware that he had any ability in
that direction at all. J 5 Jack—
“Well, he has, all right. I have
dined with him several times, and
a f ter dinner he invariably picks
U p ^j i0 checks and sayS: (( That’s
a q right, my boy I’ll pay the
bill.’ ’’—Chicago Daily News.
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THE HOKE 01 VTHOL
To Thin People , f
Let us advise you to take Vinol* The
reason it is the best strength and flesh
creator is because it actually contains
all the medicinal elements taken from
genuine fresh Cods' Livers, without oil
or grease. These combined with organic
iron and other body building ingredients
create the greatest flesh, strength and
tissue builder known to medicine. Try
it on our guarantee. Respectfully,
WIGHT & BROWNE, Cairo, Ga.
Mill Supplies
And
Steam Fittings
I am better prepared than ever to dol all
kinds of work in my line.
Harry J. Hart,
Tinner and Steam Fitter,
CAIRO, GEORGIA.
Repair work of all kind done at reason
ale prices.
J. L,. Oliver,
Undertaker & Pnnerai Director
keeps on hand a large and complete
line of coffins, caskets, bural robes
and undertakers supplies.
We furnish our hearse free of cost
with coffins costing $15 and upward.
Office phone - • - 12
Residence - - - • 47
Shoe Facts
If you are having trouble with
shoddy shoes, put your feet into
a pair of the • ,
Brown Shoe Co’s
Shoes. They are best by every test.
e have the most complete line in town to select from, in
all shapes and leathers, for
Men, Women and Children.
We invite comparison on these well known Shoes.
J. L. Oliver,
Exclusive Dealer for Cairo.
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