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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. SUBSCRIPTION hates, ONE YEAR........... n.oo months. ,50c six months .. 25 THREE Filtered as second-class matter .Januuary 1901 at the post office at Cairo. Ga„ under Act of Congress of March 3rd. 1879. tin* 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. _ 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. . as the 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. ——i I-? 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. r s * 1 s a CANE MILLS The Best Cane Mill on the Market today is the suiherlaiMl Mill Twenty Sizes and Styles for Steam a Horse Power TO and THREE ROLLERS. Catalogue and Net Prices on Application. D. T. Sumer land, Machine Works and Foundry, Bainforidge, : Georgia. Be sure and ask for the Sutherland Mill. It is the best _