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THE ENTERPRISE
ESTABLISHED 1S65
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
By ENTERPRISE PUB. CO.
4.
L. L FLOWERS,
Editor and Manager.
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Gw., as second-class mail matter.
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Covington, Ga., Mar. 27, 1908
T
SELECT THE BEST MAN.
There is only seven more days
until the voters of Newton county
will be given an opportunity of ex
ercising their right of suffrage iu
selecting a nominee for representa¬
tive of this county in the State
Legis ature.
When the campaign opened there
were two, which seemed to 1 e very
important issues, namely, the
■whiskey question, aud the pay¬
ment of the old soldiers; and each
candidate has made his views plain
on these two questions, there is
now another question that should
come to the mind of every voter,
and that is, which of the four can¬
didates in the race will incsY com¬
pletely, and without fear or favor
perform the duties encumoent
upon him iu the offic .?
Every good citizen should lay
aside business on April 3rd aud de¬
vote themselves to their sacred du¬
ty of sustaining the candidacy of
the man whom he conscientiously
believes will best represent New,
‘)ou county in the General Assem¬
bly.
OUR CONGRESSMAN.
Next Friday the people of New¬
ton county will say by their ballot
whom they prefer as Congressman
for the Fifth Georgia District—Col.
L. F. Livingston, of Newton coun¬
ty, or Hou. J. L. Mayson, of Ful¬
ton county.
Congressman Livingston is the
oldest member of Congress from
Georgia, both in point of service
and age, and os a friend of his re¬
cently said, he has done more for
his district, his state and his coun¬
try than any other Georgia mem¬
ber, and that he has devoted his
time aud talents to this end rather
than to making speeches for the
Becord.
The Enterprise does not believe
that Col. Mayson. or any other
.man in the district, could do as
-much goed tor our people as a
•Congressman, as Col. Livingston,
and we are satisfied that the people
of Newton county—his home—will
give him a handsome majority over
bis Atlanta opponent next Friday.
For Sale.
Top, spring wagon, almost new,
with pole or shafts, at half price.
Suitable for school wagon, pod
ling and delivering.
S. L. G. BEDINGFIELD,
Covington, Ga.
V— *■ •».. .
MR. BROWN’S MISTAKE
Hon. Joseph M. Brown, late
railroad commissioner, has entered
the race for governor of Georgia
against Governor Hoke Smith.
In the opinion of The Enterprise,
Mr. Brown is making a mistake.
It looks like he has let some of bis
friends make a cat’s-paw of hiiu,
aud his campaign will be useless
and can serve no other purpose, so
far as results are concerned, than
to give certain interests and de¬
feated and disappointed politicians
an opportunity to vent their spleen
on Governor Smith and his admin¬
istration and to discredit him as
much as possible in the hope of
preventing him from “making
good” in some of the reforms,
which he advocated iu his last
f .
campaign.
The people have announced by
an overwhelming majority their
desire to try the experiment of a
reform administration, aud as only
one term ot the legislature has
parsed since that time aud as only
a part of the laws have been en¬
acted, the administration is enti¬
tled to a fair chance, aud we are
sure the people will give Governor
Smith a second term by u very
large majority.
Iu fact, if Candidate Brown car¬
ries a single county in the State it
will be a big surprise to us.
The Euterpris jbelieves that Gov
Smith has been faithful to his
trust in redeeming his pledges to
the people, and that Georgia's ap¬
preciative citizens will enthusiasti¬
cally stand by him for a second
term.
Senator Clay’s Plea For Horne
Industries.
In a recent letter to an Atlanta
manufacturer, Senator Clay, whose
head is generally level on most im¬
portant questions, has taken a
strong stand forborne industries, a
subject that is now being discussed
a gieat deal with a view to the
betterment of conditions in the
South. He says: i t I have often
been mortified to see our people
go away from home and buy
foreign goods when the same class
of goods could be purchased at
home, probably much cheaper,
if we wish to build up the South,
we must patronize our home in¬
dustries. We ought to organize
life insurance companies in the
South and keep the premiums paid
on such policies at home, with our
own people. We ought to manu¬
facture two-thirds of our cotton
crop, give employment to our
surplus labor, and cease to go
abroad to buy what we need to
wear. The South has a magnifi¬
cent climate. We can work twelve
months in the year. We are
adapted not only to agriculture
but especially to manufacturing,
and the South ought to become a
great manufacturing section. We
ought to sell abroad instead of
going into foreign markets to buy
what we eat and wear. We ought
to give every possible encourage¬
ment to our home industries. In
this way we will increase pop¬
ulation ; we will give employment
THE ENTERPRISE COVINGTON Ga
to labor, and we will become
most, thrifty and prosperous
tion of the entire country. It
amazing sometimes to see how
different our people are in
to home industr.es. We ought
never go abroad to buy anything.
We can produce anything we
to eal, and can manufacture
thing we need to wear.
action will surely have a
telling effect.”
Store Competiton A Blessing.
The competition between
wbich the “Trusts” will never
able, happily, to do away
fortunate for all who buy,
course, for it assures fair prices.
And it is also fortunate for
merchants themselves, in that
induces enterprise, alertness,
affords constant incentives to
better things, and results in
stores, better service, better
wards for real merits.
The newspaper ads.
interestingly, the phases of
competiton which make this
an interesting shopping
They show the strivings
popular favor among the
chants--the real concessions
are willing to make to secure
Eltnuud Burke wrote:
that wrestles with us
our nerves and sharpens cur
Our antagonist is our helper. >
And so long as this 13
will be forever—competiton will
a good thing, and will not
away from us.
MAKING HOME HAPPY.
h undreds of poor restless H’O
men. who are wasting their
in striving after some imagined
pleasure beyond their reach, might
be making themselves and others
happy would they turn their
attention to the creuling of a
pleasing home.
It may be said in reply that an
attractive home in these days
necessitates and outlay of money,
and that only these who have large
incomes can enjoy such a spot.
But this is not the fact.
A real desire for such a home, a
willingness to work for it, a
determination to possess it, aud a
\ery small outlay of money will
create the home of beauty.
Ten cents will purchase any one
of a half dozen magazines contain
ing practical hints to woman
possessed of simple rooms.
How much better spent are the
ten ceius and tue hour devoted to
reading and studying up on the
subject of home decorations than
the hour passed in restless dis¬
content, or the perusal of exciting
fiction or vicious tales of scaudal
iu the dailv news
One of the first indications of re
finement and cu'ture is the
appreciation of an attractive
home.
It 19 a noticeable fact that
savages and all primitive tribes of
people neglect and ignore the
home, while decorating the body.
American Iudians lived in filthy
hovels, painting their fac8
and apparelling their bodies with
gaudy decorations.
The wage earning and pro¬
sperous African all too often de¬
lights in expensive clothes, but is
content to live in a dingy hut.
In America and Jamacin this
difference of the colored people to
a well-kept and attractive home is
one of the most discouraging
features of the race problem,
until the emancipated colored
woman develops a taste for good
housekeeping, neat rooms ai)( j
wholesome cooking can the race be
said to progress toward real
freedom.
Hundreds of white women, how¬
ever, are to be t >und who have had
all the advantages in race and
education, yet who prefer to
decorate their backs rather than to
furnish homes.
Yet always it indicates an un¬
developed nature: a relic of the
savage. There is no slavery more
terrible than slavery to dirt and
disorder.
The influence of a clean, orderly
and attractive home on mec and
children is incalculable.
A pretty and orderly home is a
step toward morality and religion.
One often hears women in miser¬
able, disorderly and ill-kept homes
talking of heaven.
But what are the characteristics
of heaven supposed to be?
Can one imagine a topsy-turvy
heave;;? Would not the very first
rule of heaven be order? And
Beauty and cleanliness would be
indisp?nsable.
If we did not find these things
in heaven I am sure we would
complain that we had been led
there by false promises.
Every home should be a small
heaven. It should be made a spot
toward which the tired and hungry
toiler turns with sweet anticipa¬
tions of rest, comfort aud satisfied
longings.
It should appeal to the eye, and
to the heart and soul.
Does your home so appeal dear
lad}?
Are your windows softly draped
with clean curtains even if they
are only of the most inexpensive
stuffs.
Is youi table neat and your !
couch comfortable and clean,
is there a rug or two on the well
kept floor, and a soft paper shade
over the glare of the lamp? And !
is your bed neat, and is there
clean towel by the wash bowl!?
Does the home invite or repel
the weary traveller.
Yv hatever else in life you cannot
do, you can make such a home if
you will.
Perhaps you will say that you
are so unhappy because of the in¬
different husband, who is never at
home, that you have no heart to
keep things up.
But that is no excuse. It is
much more romantic to be miser¬
able in attractive surroundings
than in squalor and dirt.
Make yourself a charming little
bower, and then sit down and be
miserable if you like.
Perhaps you will be so enter
\Oi.r work in be.mif,.
ing your house that you will for
get about being miserable. •
And perhips your husband will
forget to be ne^lige jt.
Anyway, try the experiment.—
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
FROM MRS. ARMOR.
Philadelphia, March 6 , 1908. J
Dear Comrades:
There is one thing that is more
important just now than almost
anything else; it is this: To see
that 'he right kind ot men are
nominated in our primaries that
are already being held and that
will continue through June.
I have no words strong enough
to sufficiently impress you with
your duty in this matter. As
much as in you lies, with voice
aud pen and prayers, see that no
man is nominated to Hou.v* or
Senate in these primaries who is
not a staunch prohibitionist. The
Columbus W. C. T. U. has set a
fine example in having cards
printed au«l going out into the
highways and bywavs. to get the
voters to sign them pledging them¬
selves not to vote for any man
w h° will not stand by our pro¬
hibition bill.
The liquor men are moving
Earth and Hell to elect men to the
next legislature, who are for 1
liquor. If they.succeed it moans de
feat for the armies of the living
God and loss to His cause in a !
' thousand ways. R emember the
liquor men met at New Orleans
recently and pledged a million
dollars to defeat the prohibition
aw. Theycaunot do it unless
we rest in a sense of false security. |
We must be up and doing.—
Qur Next Legislature.
“'Jhe next legislature should be
filled with representives who wear
no badge of service other than de¬
votion to the state and their
fellowmen. You know who are
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few days and are marked at lowest spot J
H cas ^ prices which we are willing for yon!
compare values o e ed i
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J| citner m or any other market;
W I by bargains
any* name, cut prices, special only
<1> or an Y other name. We hi
© leas °n you have not bought more goods
m of us you have not tried us.
t Yours truly,
very »
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really moved by the desire to
or who serve chiefly some machi
or corporate master. Let
sttive to make ours a model
good government in the inten
of all the people of our state,".
Important!
If your would preserve the pi
hibition iaw intact, rememb
that every man who aspires
to 9 tand buy it. The liquor i. it
if they catch us napping, will pi
out corrupt men for the ltji
lature. Keep your eyes open i
the while. No man must goi
the legisature who is not so; ii'
on this question. M.H.
Dogs and Infsction.
Dogs can carry infection along ij
them, as was clearly proved at Cl
stantinople In 1865 when a single i
tmal. entering the city from an inli
ed district, started a cholera epid“ A
that killed more than 50,000. Thedi
a valuable chow, was taken into I
house by a dragoman, and a fewtoi
later he and all his family weresttt
en down with the complaint, vli
spread thence to all parts of the cS
even the sultan's palace being inn? L
Badly Expressed.
Clergyman—You can. however, m
fort yourself with the thought ft
you made your husband happy vS
he lived.
Widow—Yes, indeed! Dear Jacks
in heaven until he died.—Judge.
Oniy Wan ted a Chancs.
She—I see where a fellow marridj
girl on hie deathbed just so she cm
have his millions when he was g*
Could you love a girl like that? Hi
Sure I could love a girl like tB
Where does she live?— Puck.
Discretion.
Singleton—Have you decided baby. vlj ^
you are going to call the
man? Wedderton—Certainly. 1 11
going to call him whatever my *1
names him.— London Tit-Bits.
Early impressions are not east
erased. The virgin wax is faithful!
the signet, and subsequent imprest
seem rather to indent the formers
than to eradicate them.
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—Come to see Cohen aud!
goods at cost.