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Official Organ Ben Hill County'. Can*! Move Morse Morse Not Able To Be Moved Yet Atlanta. Jan. 24.—Charles W. Morse still is at tne post hospital iu~fort McPherson, too ill to be moved. Ever since President Taft commuted his sentence last week, •the ex-banker has pleaded with his physician. Dr. A. L. Fowler, to have him removed to a private hospital, but without success. “While Mr. Morse has been mentally uplifted by the president’s action in his case.” said Dr. Fowl¬ er today, “his physical condition ^ would be dangerous \3r Dr. Fowler said that there was no hope for Morse’s ultimate re¬ covery and that whatever improve- ' * ad occurred had been due to ntai stimulus provided by ctcj* * tiii commutation of his sentence. Morse has been so ill that Dr. Fowler would not permit his per¬ sonal attorney, Thomas B. Felder, to see him, although Mr. Felder has called at the hospital several times for the purpose since his last successful trip to Washington. Price Of Cotton Takes On Another Advance The Old Crop Months Show a GeJn of 22 Points New Orleans, La., Jan. 24.— The price of cotton took on a stiff advance today on a quiet market. The old crop months were sent, soon after 1 o’clodk, 21 to 22 points over yesterday’s close, while Oc- tober scored an advance of 18 points. The market closed 14 to 18 points up. The gossip of the exchange was that spot interests were buying quietly but largely. Futures rose in the early trading because of the huge spot sales in Liverpool, that market reporting transactions in the actual cotton amounting to 18,000 bales. This was taken to mean that English spinners themselves be¬ lieved that labor troubles among the mills were over. Spot markets in the cotton belt felt the effect of thi« improvement and several of them marked quota tions up from one-sixteenth to one- eighth of a cent a pound. "ten I Hill Drawn From the Hat Pensioners in This County Won't Have To Wait For Money Ben Hill County was one of the sixty lucKy counties drawn from the hat Monday, when Governor Slaton proposed to Commissioner Lindsey that, instead of keeping the Confederate veterans in all the 140 counties waiting two weeks longer for their money, to use the $550,000 that was already on hand, as far as it would go, and forward each county’s share to them imme¬ diately. Commissioner Lindsey approved the idea, so on Monday afternoon in the Governor’s office the names of all the 140 counties were placed on seperateslips of pa¬ per and Captain Tip Harris drew from Ihe receptacle until there had been enough drawn out to absorb the money in the treasury. There were sixty counties drawn out, Ben Hill being among the lot. Ben Hill’s portion of the $550,000 is $3,270, and the old vets in the county are congratulating them¬ selves upon the fact that they live in a lucky county and therefore wont have to wait two weeks long- er for their pension. FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY GEORGIA, JANUARY 26, 1912. Little History Of The American Stale Bank A hen is not supposed to have much common sense or tact, yet every « m e she lays an e gB she cackles forth the fact A rooster hasn’t got a lot of in- tellect to show, but nevert e i.gs most roosters have enougigooc sense to crow. The busy little bees they but*. bulls bellow and cows moo .in watch-dogs bark and ganc ersquac s. and pigeons coo, so Elbett n bard says, therefore to ® t tae public know what we aie oing, vve will haveto tell you turn ie columns of the Leader especia y those who have not yet begun to do business with this bank. We starred the bank with only $1,000 on deposit—This was Sept. 28th, 1910, a little over a year ago. At thc end of the first month, our deposits were only $5,000 but we were not discouraged for we had a principle we were fighting for and we knew success would come our way after awhile. We wanted a bank where the farmer could invest and all those who were not for¬ tunate enough to become stock¬ holders in the other good banks of Fitzgerald when they were first organized. We first placed our stock generally among the most substantial farmers of Ben Hill County, got our diiectors most'y among the farmers and being a State institution, we made it possi¬ ble for the people to borrow money on their real estate at a reasonable rate of interest. No wonder we succeeded and at the end of our first year, we were able to show $90,000 on deposit and willing to compare our record with any other bank in this section of the State! Wo built our vault unusually large and strong, bought the best Oil rglar proof safe on the market equipped our bank with every modern convenience so as to handle the business with care and dis- patch. It has paid us for the public now has confidence in our manage¬ ment and the care we manifest in their business. Our directors are men who have lived around Fitzgerald a long time and who are recognized as being its leading citizens in whom the people have implicit confidence. While our first year’s business was delightfully surprising to us even though we expected much, we are going to make 1912 even better. It will take work but we enjoy work around at onr bank nothing worth while comes without earnest effort. The safety of our management has been commented upon many times by the public. We have never had to sue a note and hope we never will be obliged to. The public has been very kind to us and we take this occasion to thank them gratefully. We will •ontinue to use our best efforts to please our customers and also to contribute our share totbegiowth and development of Fitzgerald and surrounding county by lending money to the people at reasonable rates. Watch us grow in 1912 and also help us grow. We will appreciate all you do for us. Very Truly Yours, American State Bank, “The Bank around the Corner.’’ Lost Two promissory notes; one for $100 on H. B. Boyd, due with terest 15th of October, next; the other for $105 due October 1st, next, on Revels, and II. B. Boyd for securitor. Finder please re turn to It. I. Kirkland and re¬ ceive reward. SEMI-WEBKLY % ...V Loving Remembrance Of Mrs. Robert Vincent Bowen | “There is is transition, no Death! What so | “^^"" 1 ,^, Whose portal we call death.” Death to her was not terrible, q er lifelong she had been see ki n g for the Unseen; now she is with Him whom her soul loveth. Is that terrible? She took leave of life without a j f ear> \\ ith a heroism born ot her faith, in Jesus of Nazareth | s he approached the end; she pass- e d over the great divide fearlessly, as one w h 0 knocks at the gates of eterna i m0 rning. Some one has said, “Wisdom in the man, patience in the wife bring peace to the home, lis true. With her never-ending patience, with a gentleness born in the heart Of a Christian wife peace reigned supreme. She was a peculiar gift from Heaven to the man by side she walked for more than half a century. The long and close as-oeiation makes the more severe, but much of the sweetness of her life was due to the love and affection lavished up- on her by her life’s companion. . Would it be like God to create such beautiful unselfish loves ]ust for a life time here? Would it be like H:m to let two souls grow so closely together that a tew day separatiou means loneliness and pain, and then wrench them apart for eternity? W hat^ is mean ■ y such expressions as, risen er, sitting together in heaven y places? Tuey mean recognition, are love, not enjoyment. dead; they Our go \ovcAi on living, ones they are near us always, and Go has said “We should know eac i other there. Mother! We have all known her, not in the same person ’tis true, bnt the same glory frames eacn separate face in the aureole of its own Divinity. As a mother she gave the best there was m her'whole . . . b e in k being charged with the love o i dariU" tor Me here. From this ^-o - ovew i take take Irtsii (rcli! coma co°ra“e e every every day: u. y from her strength xn^ke^ure of your own strength, from *- derness gather compassio , from her steadfastness gam the .... that . leads , • onward A i unwnrd me . ~ r ,... nr „ an nr ) < facing each day bravely and know that in spirit she is with you. She was a friend. It costs much to be a friend, there is nothing else in life, except motherhoed, that costs so much. She looked for the best in others and gave the best to be had. She bore life’s buftetings a ith a gentle patience and sought to raise those with whom she came in contact to a higher iife. She was filled with love for hu¬ manity because she knew by ex¬ perience of the love of Christ, She Sweat A Candidate For Senator From Fifth Waycross, Jan. 24.—Judge J. L. Sweat, one of the state’s best- known attorneys, is a candidate for senator from the fifth Georgia district. Friends of !iis have been insisting that lie become a candi¬ date and have announced him for the position. As a representative for Ware, Judge Sweet has al¬ ready done much good for this county. He was for a number of years judge of the Brunswick judicial circuit. This being Ware county’s time to name the fifth district’s .senator, much interest is being taken in the matter. A de* tailed announcement of Judge bweat’s platform will be given lived The ini only Corinthians, 13-13. society to which she Mor*ed was The Kingdom of ^ oc| , a socit t compose o ^ e st men and women, wor ,n ^ ^ ie cst encs, \vi 1 '® 1 ^ , motives, accort mg o pnncip es. ice eeps i . Book in which »- «corded the ™ aQ .V e ®* s o ^ \ !e,e " an ac a ° me in» ie.ii ’ w ien on. untay mornin„, . _ lourteen i sie wen ° ' swer 0 * s na ‘L ’ l ^ ou p 00l j aD * ai 1 . , t ou ia>. )eui^ ai i i u few w* ■L 7 enter thQU inJo the joy . , ,, ° t ly. on. .. ers was a comp e life . The three eie^n s of a complete life ° r ^ kght ; ^ proportion, ‘ j of the life nt n work. In Him 8h eglori- bed the common everyday ,, jork u u nc 1 ‘ er w * ecaus ® J . ^ailv with 5 * wise uge ()f . , , f comDC - , •* God the second ‘ ’ e.ementjn ~ . ^^Uie * , J » if mam, ni ^ ^ wi hout whioh ^ ^ a , ong death} death f victory. Love ^ ^ ^ and the dlvinee i einen t makeg comp i ete | ife . God is * In faer sweefc submissive God an(J M humanitv i ay ie ^ , e jt ^ how the life rentle sQ kindj SQ sub . ^ wedded such a power for ^ be fe ^ not onIy in her own family circle, but reaching far out and taking hold on the hearts and lives r»f many whom she little dteamed she touched? She let go of self. In the eternal life there is no greed. Over There is neither “mine” nor “thine,” aU ‘ thin<TS r are f or a n. Lett . n of Uie UQWO rthy thtass-preteDSe. worry, <1,.content, God ; iove au d faith she be- came an inspiration ot strength a raarvellous Messing to many. ^ ^ to hye as closely as we can Christians such as she, ™r we cannot uvo un worth lives in the constant presence ot such nob i e beiri'^s Her life was an inspiration; her death a benediction. She was the shadow of His virtues and the echo of Hi s wisdom. And as she enters now into the joys of that “country from whose bourne no traveler returns” we bow our heads in reverent silence and humble submission, and < ur hearts swell with a sympathy and a new have sense suffered of fellowship for all who a like sorrow. K. B. M. Mr. Earl Jones, of New York, is spending several weeks with the family of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Jones. W. H. Babbitt Dead ! All that was mortal of W. II. Babbitt was interred Thursday at Evergreen Cemetery, following the funeral at the United Brethern Church, conducted by Rev. J. L Leichliter. Mr. Babbitt was a/i aged man and the end had boon expected for many weeks. He has been a resi- 1 old soldiers of the community. Besides n sen in a distant state, ; the deceased is survived by his wife, who also is in very feeble health. VOL. XVII. NO. 6 Recall, Initiative and Referendum Not Worth a Whoop! Says Barrett, Unless the Farmer Learns to Distinguish Between the Politica.1 Fakir And the Genuine Statesman. ()gj cers an d Members of the Farmers’ Union: The representatives of the Farmers’ Union now in Washington looking after legislation in which every American Farmer is interest- ed, expect to secure definite results this session. We will probably ^ wet reforms for which we have long been contending more quickly the raost optiraistic of us iniaj;ine Certainly, we will procure . them all, just as soon as the average congressman learns the farmer is j n earnes t demanding them, and that he will not be put off by the "lad hand, free seed little petty job evasion, or a or two for the brethren, But we are not going to advance one inch farther along the road until we learn to smash out of existence the old school, hypocritical politician, with his little bag of inherited, or acquired tricks, and pin our faith to the man who takes the large view, the sincere view. L W ant to impress these facts upon the farmer at what is practically the outset ot what promises to be one of the most exciting sessions of re¬ cent years. I can illustrate what I mean very easily with two little stories. The first is ^ a personal experience l I approached a well-known Con- ^ south ,,„ mE thc recent SKsioll> an[1 asM Wm „ he were going to support the bill calling for a general parcels post, Quickly as lightning he said: “Barrett, I’ve got a nice job for a kins- man ot yours.” I told him I wasn’t hunting jobs for my relatives, and asked him again if he were in favor of a general parcels post. “Certainly you know I’m with ^ you fellows,” ^ he answered. “But tell ^ ^ ^ a ^is post," I demand- ed. “ I favor some form of a general parcels post,” he lia-dly replied. That was as far as I could make him commit himself, and yet that man has the entire confidence ot his district, thousands of his farmer stituemts believe he loses sleep devising COll- Another ways to advance their interest, ^ story: I received a few days ago a letter from an influen- ^ thanking mp for the efforts we arc putt i„g forth in beh alf of certain measures. Among them he also specified a general parcels post. “Go ahead”, enthusiastically, “we’re backing you up. The pol- itician> are not go ; ng to fool us any longer. We’ve let them do that long enough. But I do wish you would concentrate your energies getting the recall. We on want to be able to turn thc rascals out when they deceive us.” This brother proceeded to tell me that his especial representative was a simon-pure friend of the farmer, wno could al- ways be depended upon to help whenever help was needed, and whose smcer ity was unchallengeable. That same highly recommended Congressman, the “farmers’ friend” the paragon of sincerity, told me ia the presence of several witnesses that he could not support a general parcels post bill. I asked him if he were not satisfied that at least eighty per cent of his constituents, want such a measure. He said he was. I am in favor of the recall. I am in favor of the initiative and referendum. I have voted for them as long as I had the chance, and I will continue to vote for them until we enact them into law, arid that will be at an earlier date than the average man hopes. But what earthly good will the recall do such farmers as those I have mentioned, the constituents of these two precious patriots? If they can pull the wool over the eyes of the farmer in the absence of the recall, they can do it just « easily when the recall is operative in Only the leaders of the farmers who try to get things done in Washington, know the bunccm.he and gold-bncks handed out eonsis- ten tW to the man ot the acres by the politicians. There Hre a few good> siron g, upright, sincere men in both branches. But the majori- t y proceed upon the theory that the best way to continue to hold of- (j ce cc is to trade, juggle, Hatter and mislead the man whose vote is the tirst necessity toi ornce holdino aoiiiin^. That is why I say that though 1 heartily advocate the recall, ini - tiative and referendum, as aids to direct government by the people, t hat none of them are worth a whoop unless the farmer learns to dis- . tinguish the. political fakir from the statesman. We can’t put off our responsibilities as intellgent thinkers and voters upon any convenient legislative device. The American poop* thought they had founded genuine democracy when they decreed they wouldn’t have a king, ora hereditary nobility. They are still in voluntary bondage to the faking politician. The farmer is an especial offender. Until he learns to sep¬ arate the political sheep from the goats, the recall, initiative, refeien- dum, direct election of senators, or anything else will only partly emancipate him—for, according to present indications the politicians can work their little bluff game as easily with as without these handi- caps. Charles S. Barrett. Washington, 1>. C., .Ian. 24, 1912. Notice To Grand And Traverse Jurors GEORGIA BEN HILL COUNTY. By order of Honorable W. F. George, Judge of the Superior Court in and lor Ben Hill County, notice is hereby given that all jurors, grand and traverse, need not appear at the October adjourned Term of said Su¬ perior Court, to be held on the first Monday in February next. All parties and witnesses are hereby notified that there wij j J, e j ury issues disposed of at this adjourn- ^ ^ * i:i Jed anri all deiruirers pending will be disposed of by Court ui Said time, This January,25th., 1912. D. W M. Whitley, . i the Superior * v in and for Ben Kili County.