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m.rr.age
Mrso Amo Jones o„e of Soc.al
Circle o most charming young
Ud.es, to Mr. Ed M^nald of
Atlanta, the weddmg to occur
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Jones.—-Soeta! ** Circle ifew Era.
Classmate And Chum of Presi¬
dent Roosevek.
Rev. W. F. Price, who has been
called to supply the ohurch at
Bethany was a classmate of Presi¬
dent Roosevelt at Ilatvard Uni¬
versity. lie and the President
have remained last friends ever
since their graduation" Rev.
Price spent a week at the White
House recently.
Gdod for every thing a salve is used for
and especially recommended for piles
That is what we say of lie Witt’s Witch
Hazel Salve. On the market tor years and
a standby in thousands oi families. Get
DeWitt’s. Sold a'. J. a. Wright’s Drug
Store.
Williams-Meadors.
On Wednesday occurred the
marriage ot Miss Leri ora Meadors,
of Oxford, to Mr. Jarne* S. W li¬
liams, of Social Circle, at the home
of the bride’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. R. L Meadors.. Rev. W. K
Venable performed the ceremony.
Miss Meadors is a popular and
cultured young lady and has a
number of friends in this county
Mr. Williams is a prominent young
man of Social Circle and has a good
position in the mercantile business
there. The voung couple left im
mediately for Social Circle, their
future home.
Don’t forget the Crescent Come¬
dy Co., at the Opera House every
night this week.
State-Wide Prohibition.
At a meeting of the Ministerial
Association held this day, Novem¬
ber 5th, Newuan, Ga., the follow¬
ing resolutions were adopted:
Resolved : That it is the sens**
of this Association that now ts a
favorable time to agitate the sub¬
ject of State-wide Prohibition, and
appeal to the General Assembly of
the State for effective legislation
to accomplish the same.
Resolved : That t he pastorB of
churches in Georgia bs requested
to preach to their congregations on
this subject at an early date.
Resolved : That, the pastors and
the friends of the cause in Georgia
be urged to take such steps as may
be necessary to secure in their re¬
spective counties Ooventions of the
citizens favorable to State-wide
Prohibition, and by resolution, or
petition, or otherwise, instruct
their representatives in the Gener¬
al Assembly to enact such legisla¬
tion as will be calculated to ‘sup¬
press the manufacture, th“ impor¬
tation and the sale of intoxicating
liquors within the State of Geor¬
gia.
Resolved. That a copy of these
resolutions be given to the press,
and that the papers of the State be
requested to publish the same, and
also that a copy be sent, us far as
practicable, to every pastor in
Georgia, with the request that
co-operate in the movement
Use his best <ffort3 to secure
publication of these resolutions,
and such other matter as might
helpful, in his county papers;
also that every pastor do what
can to call a convention of the
ple of his county as above
ed.
Resolved: That a convention
the citizens ot Coweta county
favor State-wide Prohibition
called to meet in the court
in Newnau on the first Tuesday
December next to consider
matter and to take 9teps as
templated in the foregoing resolu¬
tions.
G. A. Nuwnaixy,
Chm’n. Min. Ass’n.
F. G. Hughes,
8ec. Min. Ass’n.
lem.
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Hoke ... bmrtb. s receotly ' elected
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' “ ff,™ ( u m ' t heSouth,
•ScXr^te d y a „ d con .
in,mi.
gration from Europe would bare
the effect, which to him seems de
sirable, of forcing a large number
oF negroes out of the ‘black belt
and'distributing them throughout
the country. H e says:
“In those sections of this State
and of other Southern States where
the whites largely predominate,
the negroes are more progressive
and industrious and make better
citizens than they do in sections
where the negroes are in the ma¬
jority. It would heip solve the
negro problem to distribute the
negro throughout the country, les¬
sening his relative proportion in
each locality to the number of
whites there.”
In order that he may the better
understand the subject from every
point of view, Mr. Smith is about
to make a tour of those European
counties from which he thinks the
best immigrants could be obtained.
Re thereby expects to get informa¬
tion that ho may be able to put to
effective use when he becomes gov¬
ernor aud can begin work on his
plans to bring immigrations into
Georgia. Tills plan has doubtless
been suggested to him by the
successful efforts made by b'or.th
Carolina to attract the better class
of white immigrants.
There is much to be said in fav¬
or of Mr. Smith’s projact. There
is, also, something to be said
against it. The chief thing to be
said against it seems to us to be
that it is not an udquate solution
of the problem. A good class of
immigrants may readily be induced
to settle in the South. This has
been again demonstrated in the
case of the bringing over of the
Wittekind and some hundreds of
desirable immigrants. But can
they be brought over in volume
sufficient to press out of the South¬
ern States any considerable num¬
ber of the negroes?
Let ns take the case of Georgia
itself. There are now something
like 1,100,000 negroes in that State,
constituting nearly 47 per cent, of
the total population. It is con¬
ceivable that 100,000 white agri¬
culturists could move in from
Europe without displacing more
than a handful of negroes, aud the
negroes displaced would be, we
think, chiefly those that now own
small farms. A very large num¬
ber of small farmers could be lo¬
cated in any part of the Southern
States without exerting any ap¬
preciable pressure upon the pres¬
ent population, because of the large
quantity of idle land. If itnmi
grants of the laboring Mass are at¬
tracted here, it will probably be
found that they will go into the
various lines of industrial work,
thus leaving the negroes compara¬
tively undisturbed.
As to the contention of Mr.
Smith that the negro is more in¬
dustrious and energetic where he
is a small majority of the popula¬
tion, this is true, and it is tin
doubtedly desirable that the ne
groes be scattered more evenly
throughout the country. It would
be better for them, better for the
whites. The way that immigJa
tion will aid this result, however,
will be. not b/ its own pressure
upon the black population, but by
reason of its contributory pressure.
When once immigration begins,
there will inevitably follow an era
of tremendous industrial activity.
This will attract laborers of all
sorts as well as small farmers and
gardners and manufactures from
the North, East and West. The
result of alt these accretions in
population will be that the negro,
feeling the crushing competitive
weight of superior skill and an en¬
ergy, inventiveness, aud imitative
force that he can not hope to
match, will be driven to seek em
ployment in other sections of the
country.
Another effort Mill be to miti- j
the white element. Give to Geor
gia .n increase' of a million .bit*,
give L her , population of two ml'.
white, to one million blacks,
»„d the race problem loses half its
significance. Gire her four whites
t0 „ ne black , n„d it would .cry
.ike,y disappear.
-Mr..Smith', suggestion is at
least m the direction of hope and
light.-Ex.
THE CREEK INDIANS.
By Mrs. Thomas Taylor.
In 1848 my father, Col. Elmore
bad occasion to go to Reading,
Penn., in the interest of the of the
Bank of the State of South Caro¬
lina, of which he was president.
I accompanied him as far as Wash¬
ington, where I was to stop with
my aunt, Mrs. Dixon H. Lewis
of Alabama. I was 19 just from
my alma mat er. Whilst. hero I
made the first fee I ever earned
I copied the papers necessary to
get the payment of $141,055.91 to
the Creek Indians, due them
from the United States govern¬
ment.
In 1820 three parties were repre¬
sented in a council, which met at
Indian Spring, for the purpose
of extinguishing titles of Indians
to certain lands in the State ol
Georgia. These parties were the
United States, Gi.»rgia and the
Creek Indians.
The Georgia commissioners
claimed indemnity for losses by
war previous to 1802. Some
classes of these property claims
the Creeks disallowed. And they
proposed that the president of the
United States, Mr. Monroe, should
be arbitrator, he “to decide upon
adjust and settle in such manner
under such rules, regulations and
restrictions, as he should perscribe
and that the decision and award
shall be binding and obligatory
upon the contracting panties.”
Mr. Wirt, attorney general consid¬
ered this adjudication to be final
with, then president, Mr. Monroe
the “arbitrator.’’The three parties
signed the contract. The Georgi¬
ans claimed $280,000. "Mr. Mon¬
roe, after iuvestingation, put the
sum at $108,944.09.
The price for the land was $450,
000. The Creeks stipulated that
they should recieve direelty $200,
000 and that the Georgia claim
should be settled out of the re¬
maining $250,000. After paying
Mr. Monroe’s “award” of $141,
055.91, was still in hvnds of the
United States in trust of the Creeks
But the Georgia claimants were
dissatisfied, and after repeated
attempts finally, in Mr. Jacksons
term obtained the reopening, of
the matter, and an act of congress
under certain exactions concerning
examination etc., for the payment
of this $141,055 91, to Georgia.
The money was paid to Governor
Wilson Lumpkin, the requirement
of the act. was not complied with
and the proceedings of the exami
nation were not filed.
The Creeks had sent Indian del
egates year after year to Washing¬
ton, vainly seeking a settlement
with the United States government
This was the situation in 1848.
My father and I entered the par
lor of tlie Mess, where we were
staying on Capitol Hill, adding
our company to curious conclave
of forest men, presided over by
the Alabama senator, engaged in
an “interview”.
There’s your man, » J exclaimed
Mr. Lewis ro the interpreter, Scott
a half-breed. If fie will get toget¬
her the papers and fix up your
matters I will see you through
the senate.
lhe situation was explained to
my father, who became greatly
interested, Mr. Lewis remarked
to the half-breed Scott, that he,
Mr. Lewis, had played with their
men in the great ball game of the
nations in 1829 and this being re¬
peated to the semi-circle of black
dressed savages, some smiled an
Indian smile, some snapped their
eyes, and 1 believe none was
ideal enough to reduce that giant
Mr. Lewis, from 480 ponnda avoir-
THE ENTERPRISE. COVINGTON GA
dupois to a light weight ball run¬
ner.
This last lot of 1,000 or 1,800
red men had camped near Mr.
Lewis’ home en route to the Ar¬
kansas reservation.
1 didn’t think these people look-,
ed happy in the disguise of coat
and trousers!
Preparing the paper® to be printed
in pamphlet form, involved resea¬
rch among the tomes in the con¬ •i
gressional library, the successive’
treaties, investigation and reports,
on Indian affairs. This mvovled
my, too, in an interesting, fatig¬
uing and remunarative way.
My father asked if I would tran¬
scribe the passages, which he
would mark in the big books, to
come across the street in Mr. Lew¬
is’ funny shaped specially built
carriage; it was like a sofa on
wheels without doors. I thought
I thought I was delighted to do it
but during the days my father was
at Reading and 1 sat in his room
writing the whole day long to be
ready at his return, I had a chance
to get tired aud have a headache.
But I got something else, besides.
The thousands of dollars paid to
my father, of course, went partly
in distribution among men who
worked under his supervision and
for printing.
I also got my “award.”
I own still the wardrobe of a
bedroom set uhich preceded me
home. lt was filled with oil!
what not? The things to delight
a girl—cameos, mosaics, books,
laoes, silks, etc., and a card of in¬
formation, “The Daughteas Fee.”
I keep,too,the package of papers
I prepared for the printers; and
the sense of having a hand in get-
1141,055.91 from the treasury of
the United Stales to the Indians.
And the happiness of being asso¬
ciated with a public spirited man
in getting a big right for his help¬
less people.
In the thirties we made a jour¬
ney from Columbia to Alabama.
Incideutrof that journey began
our enthusiasm, which till streng¬
thened by the lore of Catlin’s Indi¬
an colledtions between 1837 and
1840, when Col. Elmore was cong¬
ressman and the family in Wash¬
ington. In 184S was the culmi¬
nation in this job. Fifty years
after that journey I used two bas¬
kets on the plantation for my eggs
Tile baskets were made of tow
colored strips cf cane lathed and
strong as steel.
They were bought on a bridge
over a Georgia river from tmo tall
lithe squaws who belonged to the
tribes whose claims we were aim¬
ing to have satisfied.
I remember the awful dense for¬
est through which we wended our
way in carriages, the baggage ful
lowiug in wagons, the negro boy
Jim, who as dark came on gallop¬
ed away do find us lodging; and
get the kettle boiling for baby’s
tea. So dreary, as night deepened
upon our cortege. Ahead the
light w’ood torches moved and smok
ed as hostlers changed horses for
the public stage at a shanty, in
the wild woods—the swaying trees
throwing shadowa, the horn sound
ing out into the desolate wilder
ness to hunt for friendly echoes;
the huge yellow and red coach,
swinging oif on the old time C
spring and otherwise left loneli
ness unbearable, except for that
Jim had stumbled upon a house
somewhere in t$ waste, and that
the water was hot, and baby’s
laments could be hushed, sleep
wauld come, and last, that the
sun would rise again in the heav
ens.
E°GAR R. GUNN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office 28 Slat Building.
Special Attention Given Collections
Covington, Ga.
J\ D. MEADOR,
t
LAWYER,
Will Practice in all the Courts.
Offices 15 & 17 Star Building.
Covington, Ga.
Need a good cathartic? A pill is best.
Say a pill like DeWitt’s Little Early Risers
About the most reliable on the market.
Sold at J. A. Wright’s Drug St ore.
The Pastori Extend Invitation.
The Paster* of Covington in
their looming, weeklyWnfarenoe extended on Mon¬
day 0>nhiy to the Pas¬
tors of the a cordial ’and
ntgeiii in'viutfeti ‘to Tneefc with:
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v». i Lewis—Pace
On Thursday evening at 5:30
the marriage of Rev. H. D. Pace
to Miss Olhe Lewis solemnized at
the home of the bride. The future
home of Mr. and Mrs. Pace wifi
determined the meeting ■. .i
.be after
of the General Methodist Confer¬
ence, which wiljl be held in Mil
ledgeville nextjwe&k.
GOOD RURAL SCHOOLS.
Extrads from Address of Hob. Thos. G. Lawsoa.
Let it b* remembered, that in Geor¬
gia the greater bulk of the property
lies outside the towns and cities.
Many of its proprietors reside in the
toWns, but the property itself lies in
the country, where it may become
subject to that servitude which it
owes to every institution that tends to
improve the country.
On the first Impression It may ap¬
pear unjust to require Individual pro¬
prietors who do not. reside in the
country districts to aid in the support
of two arts of schools, one for the
country and the other for the towns.
But that which contributes most to
the value and security of property is
an enlightened citizenry. Every dol¬
lar expemied in the support of good
schools is an investment in property
as well as in brains, and if education
is sufficiently diffused to raise a com¬
munity tc a higher intellectual and
moral level its effect will conspicuously
appear in the enhancement of values.
Besides its contribution to the in¬
herent qualities of a man, and its
power to evolve all that is good and
great in him, education induces a
craving for better things. An edu¬
cated family will never cease to labor
until it secures an elegant home and
attractive surroundings.
Every community of educated peo¬
ple must have a sightly academy; the
crude, primitive building is soon de¬
molished and a modern structure, hav¬
ing respect for comfort and elegance,
rises in its place; it must have a
church in which the people may as¬
semble for worship without shame
and mortification; it must have good
highways for the sake of convenience
and economy; it will surround itself
with an atmosphere so pure and
wholesome that vice and criminality
can not breathe it and live. Every
avocation will feel a new impulse, and
every individual, remembering the
old conditions now giving way to the
new, will realize the poet’s song “that
men may rise on stepping-stones of
their dead selves to l^igher things.”
Such a community is an anchorage
to every one reared within it, and an
invitation to every home-seeker to cast
in his lot there. What follows? Lands
appreciate in value, population be¬
comes more dense, more stable, and
more contented, and the facilities
of inter-communication are mul¬
tiplied. Good schools, therefore, pro¬
mote material prosperily and non¬
resident proprietors have no cause to
anticipate the depreciation of their
property by the imposition of a school
tax. The tax should be high enough
to secure a teacher of first-class
qualifications for each grade, and to
furnish to every child of school age
honest and earnest schooling.
An adequate school system for the
country would arrest the tendency of
so many people to remove from their
country homes to the towns. Under
existing conditions people can not be
censured for seeking the superior so¬
cial and -riucational advantages of the
towns, from this movement, how¬
ever, the country schools suffer in¬
calculable loss. Their most trust¬
worthy support is gradually drained
away.
Its effect also upon the material in¬
terests of the people is perhaps no
less disastrous. The grand old home¬
steads—the crown ancl glpry of a re¬
ceding civilization—the oTd mansions,
hallowed by the memories of our
fathers and mothers and around
which cluster the joyous recollections
of our childhood, are fast falling into
decay. Schools fall off in patronage
or become extinct, churches lose
their membership, mechanics and arti¬
sans sink into idleness or seek em
ployment elsewhere, ami the general
tone of the deserted community fftpses
into depression and apathy.
Those who remove to the towns are
generally of the thrifty class whose
presence and influence in the coun¬
try are the most valuable; they are
the people who are foremost in local
enterprises looking to the betterment
of their communities, and young peo¬
ple who aspire to improve their con¬
ditions and who, if held in the country,
would become its most active and in¬
telligent agents in working out its
reformation. The loss of these enter¬
prising spirits—most valuable because
they do aspire to a better future, be¬
cause they are hopeful aud optimistic.
•—is more serious than we are apt to
supi>ose.
Among the emigrants from the
country are thrifty landlords who sur¬
render their fertile and wealth-pro¬
viding farms to the control of the un¬
skilled and improvident negro. Soon
thereafter his buildings and other im¬
provements become dilapidated, his
lands washed, his live stock deterio¬
rates, and a lack of thrift, industry,
and intelligent oversight mars the per¬
spective in all directions. Deteriora¬
tion and decay are written on every
object that meets the eye. The only
effectual cure for these evils is a
thorough system of common schools
which makes the country as desirable
for residence as the towns. And sure-
'For years I starred
centbottleofKodoIDvZ:;^' what that bottle Si!. °*
Georgia could benefited ^ 1
it and not buy.
in two months I went v > Uk
wort as machinist i n three S'
ftHWelUnd use a little occasionally hearty as J ever waf't 5 1
blood g^oV as I r “
purifier and Prosper.^ a * a
live long and
boding Ga Aug. 2T ‘ N> Co,
, i ; 1908 *d Kodolij
here at J. A. Wright’s r ,
«l? store,
JAS. P. COOLEY,
M ATTORNEY
At Uw,
C<Hriogto 0> Gj_
Ofc. M4,
Subscribe for The E ntebpj,
2 ™ eSf^tS moderate ta*
tfieir support
Again the existing system of,
mon schools owing to the mea
brevity propriation of the for school its support Z i r
half term k Z
a system, and therefore
elicit a sustaining interest and
siasm on the part ™
of its benefit
It is so well known to be inadJ wj]
and inefficient that it is
to grow enthusiastic in its 8 jJ
Make it a whole system and vnH
at once, I think, witness a revoli
in sentiment .. and action.
ill then The n
w espouse it because it
sesses inherent elements of aticce
• Their pride, their ambition i
self-respect will unite in its 1
because it is worthy and becain
costs them something. Their
for education will burst into Same
they will be amazed that then
ever delinquent toward a duty so
perious and sacred. Conti
neighborhoods will rival each oth
provision for excellent and
equipped, schools, and thus fts
will spread. They will seek caj
and conscientious teachers—not t
incompetents who follow the pr
sion because they think it am
job, or because they can find nofi
else to do—but teachers of sa
manly, and robust character, 6l
cultured and honorable men aid
men, thoroughly qualified to train
mind and mould the character, a
make an impress on mind and 1
and conduct with enduring engendered] force]
A public spirit thus
work miracles. It will become al
tegral part of all occupations, a
pirations, and all ideals. It is i
tially a new birth.
The propriety of local taxation
the be argued A also long from trial the of neffissj the esj
case.
system assures us that if eJai
is to become universal, if a;!
young the people responsibilities are to be qualified of j
sume ci
ship, if illiteracy is to be driven] <j
our borders, an improvement oj
system is imperative. People
erate fortunes can patronize the I
ing-schools, or secure for tel
and daughters a scientific and!
these cal education schools at the not universiiij access*
are
vast numbers of the laboring i«|
the means of education are!
brought to their doors, they &l
derive any direct benefit ftoml
And yet the State owes the sas*
to them that it owes to the m
and wealthiest of its citizens. I
Every child born within is entitle®
diction of the State
out discrimination to like Pj" 1 ®
and immunities. Each one s&fl
least and its be laws, taught else to read how its can conj th*
be justified in demanding oM*
them from all? Children,
ents are unable to furnish the*
primary education, are in a 1
a
the wards of the nation, *
money expended in their eis
not wasted, for the ranks ®
illustrious and most use * JI
recruited from the nurseries
hie country homes. ins®
Good schools are the
by which we discover ta.*>
arc the diviner’s rod, and u .
planted in the remote cow
_
tricts we have reason to
they will enrich the nat!03 A
talents now ! ’
ing hidden •
obscurity. said notlm* ,
So far 1 have ®j
ing the effect of education
for nia-. „
ture which must, the rlIB ■
come, continue to be P
cupation of our country educa
this employment every
is a radical centre of 5
instruction this occupation to his nature neigbfejj ,, ,
tious and helpful, and
which the exercise or
m
Tore!bought, and the w r *^
cation of the principle* -
yield better returns. ^
Who does not envy - .
of him who stands » y
nature’s laboratory *' of
daily witness the me P ion
accords (0 J
the fashioning D''
and unchangeable o* a
form and marvelous clouds ^
who “maketh the
bestows upon the b’ 1 b flg>
excess 0 e
ground an the K ^
looks out upon ‘ V
a
and the grandeur oi t&*> ...
there is income no occupatto^ to n u ‘ ^ of
larger none, c011i j ., M
sources, and e
which the world ts 0[ :
for comfort and sus » , u'
Why is it thought „
and forethought of agri are n*, j to
the pursuit k>ok u i~ & ( p
pleasure to industry^ ^ ^ •' r
beautiful by bapp.
filled with a lW
people? "Man m,. ^ s| al
made the country- ;t ’
use and beaut ”} W
back to Him in ‘ its 1 [ b
praise perfume and of thunt^* Jowe ^