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Mznerald Enterprise.
BY THE
FGERALD PUBLISHING CO.
: RCER e~ Edioe 824 Magagets
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9 ' "Thursday, May 3, 1906. S
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® Pull for Fitzgerald or pull out. ‘ :
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| The bill collector is abroad in the land and
here is no smile on'his face.
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B A. Georgia daily makes this statement: ‘ln
the insane asylum of Gremany more thana
a third of the patients owe their condition to
#strong drink.”
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If you doubt that the revolutionary action of
the state democratic committee has made thou
ands of votes for Hoke Smith,go ask the people.
You have something to learn,
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1 Marcus Luke, Jr., the newly elected clerk
“of the superior court, was over from the capital
today mingling with his Fitzgerald friends,
which practically includes .everybody here.
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There are plenty of white voters in Ga. who
_will gladly accept the terms of the state com
-~ mittee; to put -Hoke Smith up as the nominee of
the democrati¢ party by an overwhelming ma
~jority.
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The young shade trees set out last winter
are dying rapidly. Every one of them that is not
dead could be saved with a bucket of water and
the cutting away of the grass from around
them.
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: The tax reciver of Wilcox county will be at
the Southern Mercantile & Building Co.’s store
on Pine St; May 15th, for the purpose of receiv
ing taxes from Fitzgerald people owning prop
erty in Wilcox County.
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> Yes-sir-re¢ we can take that pledge, and
. we believe that enough of the rock-ribbed,
" true and tried will take it to smow under the
candidates who appear to be playing the second
fiddle to Hamillton Mc Worther in this campaign.
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. Alyin Brown, the hustling manager of the
“Williams Store, is enjoying the hot weather in
trying to keep up with the demands on the bar
gain counters which are being raided daily,
~ while Mr. Williams is in New York firing in
bargains by every freight.
" Inone or two instances the Constitution has
found opportunity for exploiting some mistake
" of a Journal correspondent. For several issues
~ the paper devoted almost its entire editorial
. page toa discussion of the matter in box car
- letters. Imagine what would have bappened in
* the Constitution editorial room had the Irwin
" ville fake report been reversed as to gubernator
g: nial candidates.
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The action of the state Committee has
~ aroused the Hoke Smith supporters in this
_ section to redoubled energy and they are making
" a noise like determination—a determination to
rebuke the men who were willing to use-their
~ high offices to further the interest of certain
candidates as against other honorable aspirants
in the party ranks.
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: Editor Pendleton denies again that he voted
for Palmer and Buckner, as has been so often
? charged and as often denied. Mr. Pendleton is
_ the kind of a democrat that the editor of the Ea
terprise is, at least, we were the same sort of
democrats when Palmer and Buckner were
nominated. We did not think much of Bryan
. ism, but voted for him as the party nominee,
- just like we are going to vote for the men nomi
nated at Macon on Sept. 4th.
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The Southern Railway Co. has blocked the
_ collection of the district school tax.
. In Henry county seven out of fourteen
;Ei'f-*;s_""chool districts voted in favor of local taxation.
. The McDonough school district had even gone
_ so far as to build a handsome new brick school
- house on the strength of the vote in favor of the
. plan. When preparations were made to collect
" the tax an injunction was filed by the Southern
~ Railway, charging that the bill was unconstitu
. tional. .
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. Every ballot cast in the state primary must
have at its head the following pledge:
“By voting this ticket I hereby declare that
I am an organized Democrat, and hereby pledge
myself to support the Organized Democracy,
ghfitate and National.” :
| :_.,»,,i%allots’without the ‘heading will not be
counted. That’s dead easy for us. We were
":-t.!_uogat. when 3 majérify Of the
B o 8 ere schioud Toys.
THE EXCHANGE NATIONAL BANK
' The Exchaige Bank of Fitzgerald which
has been a state bank the few years of its mar
velous career will soon become a national bank
under the abovename. - The matter was deter
_mined last Saturday at a called” meeting of the
-stockholders. : :
. The capital of the new bank which was
Tecently increased from $25,000 to $50,000 will
be $lOO,OOO with a surplus of $50,000 making a
total of $150,000 as against a $25,000 start four
years ago. ;
Certainly there is nothing more interesting
in Fitzgerald’s history than th'e evolution of her
banking facilities.
When the Bowen Bankiog Company was
organized, with a capital of $25.000 the subscrib
ers to the stock put to shame all precedents by
planking down at the meeting the long green
and the coin of the' realm before .the organiza
tion was completed or a cashier selected. Since
that day the institution has been a success. Its
growth and development has been startling. It
required onlya few months to demonstrate
that $25,000 was too small a capital and it
was doubled and the name.changed to the Ex
change Baok and now it 'is doubled wp
again and the ‘pame changed to. the Ex
change National with a surplus iwice as large
as the original capital, atd counting capital and
surplus, an increase of 600 per centin four years
with deposits amounting to a quarter million.
When has such a thing happened outside of
Fitzgerald? : 2
A savings department will be instituted
an 4 per cent interest, compounded duarterly,
will be paid on savings deposits. '
- The officers of this new national bank are:
Robt. V. Bowen, President. '
Marion Dickson, Vice President. .
J. B. Clements, = o
. Eugene W,.Stetson, Cashier.
J. D. Dorminey, Asst. * .
Direcrors—R. V. Bowen, E. F'. Chambless,
M. Dickson, J. B. Clements, E. ‘T, James, W. R.
Bowen, H. M. Warren, J. D. McLauchlin, J. J.
Dorminey, W.T. Paulk, L. O. Tisdel, E. W,
Stetson,
The bank is rnder the executive manage
ment of E. W. Stetson who has proven himself
to be a euccess in his line. He is young and
smart and has had the training neccessary to
make a successful banker. :
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Editor Mercer still believes that--Snuth
Georgia is entitled to furnish the governor;
that she has plenty of good gubernatorial timb
er, and that the best way to elect a South Geor
gia man is to vote and work for one of the candi
dates from Atlanta this year as a majority from
this section have done for several years past.—
Tifton Gazette.
The best way, John, is to elect the manwho
will make the best governor. The man who
stands for the things that over-shadow section
alism. We are anxious for South Georgia to
furnish the governor, but we cannot afford to
sacrifice other things more important. Time
will come in the near future, John, when we can
join issunes and send to Atlanta a governor
from South Georgia, who will represent the best
there is in the politics. .
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The state executive committee had the
right to prescribe whatever rules it deemed
proper and best for the party, and the people
have the right to resent any action of the com
mittee they deem improper or wrong. Froma
partyman’s standpoint we regret the very un
usual and arbitrary action of the committee but
as a supporter of Hoke Smith, we would not ask
them to undo any thing they did. The people of
Georgia, as a mass, love fairness, even in a dog
. fight. They will rebuke bulldozing, arbitrary,
high handed tactics and if it were not a fact
that already a very large majority of the demc
crats of the state favor Hoke Smith for governor
they would, we belive vote for him now in a spir
.it'of resentment, Watch the effect and see if
we haven’t prophecied aptly.
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WHAT THE COMMITTEE DID
AND WHAT IT DID NOT DO,
The state commitiee did—
Order a very late primary—August 22.
Adopt a rule which It hopes will keep the
populists out of the primary.
Restrict the number of delegates a county
may send to the conventien to twice the
number of its legislature members.
Give the caadidate for governor who carries
a county the right to name his own dele
gates tothe state convention,
Give Macon the state coavention,
The State Committee Did Not—
Adopt the revolutionary rule providing for a
“majority"” instead of a “‘plurality’ vote
before any candidate can have a county’s
delegaticn.
Provide for the election of delegates to the
- convention by ballot at the polls.
Provide for a challenge toor a pledge of any
. one who may wish td participate in the
prinfary.
The Inner Life
Of Old Age BAE
By Professor FELIX ADLER g%fi i _»
HEN the physician speaks the whole world listens. He
is the CUSTODIAN OF HEALTH, the savior of
life, and life and health have never been rated more
: highly than in this age, when the confidence in another
life is_abating. He is the alleviator of pain and a kind
of father confessor and priest. He is reticent, and the<eal on his lips
makes him a professional expert in KEEPING HIS OWN COUN
SEL. ' : ;
No wonder, then, that the whole world listens when the physician
speaks, as Dr. Osler has done in his “Counsels and Ideals,” a somewhat
scrappy collection of his writings. The author seeks to impress splen
didly idealistic views of life. The student, he urges, should not con
sider his life as a business, but AS CONSECRATED SERVICE,
and the practice of his profession not as an art, but as a science. He
enjoins travel, friction with other minds and what he quaintly terms
“quinquennial brain dusting”’—that is, he should go back to school, as
it were, every five years. ‘
He advises, too, the threefold classification of cases into the clear
cases, the doubtful AND THE MISTAKES. To have a private
notebook, in which we would put down our mistakes in plain black and
white, would be an excellent method for all. -
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SUCCESSFUL AND THE UN
SUCCESSFUL MAN LIES IN THE POSSESSION OF THE POWER
TO, LEARN FROM HIS MISTAKES. @
The attention paid to Dr. Osler’s remarks on old age was as re
markable as the remarks themselves. They eclipsed for a time in the
newspapers foreign and home news of the greatest interest, for thou
sands and tens of thousands of people have come to regard this life as
the only one, and with grim determination THEY WANT TO
KNOW THE FACTS aboutit. There is something heroic in their
attifude. The beginning and end of life have ever been enshrouded in
darkness, and now if a deeper shadow has fallen on it, if only twenty
years are worth dignifying with the name of life, they want to know
it. So when the PHYSICIAN speaks they listen.
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Then, too, though he spoke only of science and literature, Dr.
Osler expressed a real tendency in the industrial world. The old,
nay, the middle aged, are ecrowded out, and those who can keep up the
pace and even with feverish energy ACCELERATE IT are pre
ferred. This is one of the gravest problems of modern civilization.
There is a third reason, the prevailing physicism, that maintains there
is a complete parallelism between a man’s physical and his mental
sttength. But this is not completely true, and there is no reason why
we should capitulate and consider that OF NECESSITY mental de
cline follows on physical. : ‘
Some men blossom early, some late. There is no reason why we
should not blossom late, or, if we have already blossomed, should not
have a SECOND TIME OF BLOSSOMING. The synthetic pow
ers of the mind, which we call judgment, depend on the store of expe
riences that we have gathered, and this we cannot learn from text
books, BUT FROM LIFE ITSELF. p .
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Men sometimes picture life as a gradual.ascent of a hill followed
by a descent. I would rather consider it as a steady riding from one
terrace to another into the higher, freer air. Old age is friendly to
our MORAL growth. It frees us from our carnal passions ; it brings
peace and increases our disinterestedness. It is the time of being, not
doing, and what are all men’s doings, their universities; their railways,
their canals, their industries, but the GROVELINGS OF PETTY
BEINGS on the ant hill? - -
Old age may not be able to do anything, but it may bring a radiant
presence into the household. It may take a second youth by identifi
cation with youth, and then we shall learn to distinguish between the
outer shell, all withered and scarred, and the beautiful INNER LIFE.
I say this may be. I know that there are plenty of old men who are
old fools, but it depends upon what sort of old age you will have.
As you approach old age approach it as you would the altar with a
gift, for if you can do little the intent to serve is more than'the actual
service. : -
AS PENELOPE SAID TO ULYSSES WHEN HE RETURNED FROM
TWENTY YEARS OF WAR, “IF THE GODS WISH, THEY CAN 8O
TRANSFORM OLD AGE THAT IT WILL BE THE FINAL ESCAPE
FOR MAN,” AND WE MAY REGARD IT AS THE LAST AND THE
HIGHEST AND NOBLEST TERRACE OF OUR LIVES. :
Make Leaders of the
Captains of Industry
: By Professor F. W. TAUSSIG of Harvard Univ‘ersity
: S it conceivable that he who directs an industrial enterprise
with success and thereby gains a fortune may be induced to
labor WITH EQUAL ZEAL and efficiency in public busi
ness? Can the great capacities of the captain of industry be
turned directly and unquestionably to the general good ? Certain it is
that some at least of the great industries of modern times would be
carried on to greater advantage for the community if conducted as
public enterprisess UNDER ABLE MANAGEMENT. Here is the
essence of the problem: Can able management be secured? -
We may feel reasonably sure that for ja considerable proportion of
those who have the gifts of leadership the attractions of public service
are powerful enough. Given oppartunity for the exercise of these
gifts of leadership and the leaders OF TzEE RIGHT STAMP will
not be lacking. : ;
The best hope for improving the machingry of government lies in
lengthening the terms of service for the administrative.officers; in re
ducing the. number of elected officials .and enlarging the appointing
power; in simplifying the machineyy /£ municipal and state govern
ment, PERHAFS OF THE FATIONAL GOVERNMENT AS
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~ FORGOT, AS USUAL.
A Post Card That Wasn’t Mailed and
a Wasted Jourpey.
."The cxperience which befell an
absentminded young man who for- -
got to mail a postal intrusted to his
care should furnish a horrible warn- .
ing to all similarly inclined, Leav
ing the house of his sweetheart one -
night, a postal card was thrust into
his hand. : '
“Now,” said the girl, with the '
usual admonitory manner character
istic of such occasions, “you are sure
that you will not forget to mail this
postal card? It is very important
indeed. It is a postal to my dress
maker telling her to use cluny lace
on my new buff gown instead of va
lenciennes and to button it up the
front instead of the back. Now,
you will not forget to mail the card,.
will you?”
“No, no,” said he, “I won’t; of
course not; I never do, you know.”
And, fully impressed with {he im
portance of his errand, he buttoned
up his coat and walked off. :
But .the chase for the last home
going %rolley car completely drove
the sartorial epistle out of his head,
and he slept well that night, uncon
scious of the all important amend
ment to be sent to the dressmaker
about the buff gown. It was only
when seated over his work the next
morning. about 11 that some star
tling remark of the typewriter
brought back the epistle to his mind.
“Good” heavens,” he exclaimed,
jumping up from his chair, “I forgot
all about it, and Madeline said she
especially wanted the work done on
her gown today!”
Without waiting to dry up the
flood of emotionalism in the breast
of the stenographer girl he dashed
out into the hall, spied the -office
boy’s bicycle and ‘was out on the
road. The dressmaker lived far out
in the suburbs. The careless man
determined to lose his noon lunch
hour rather than disappoint the girl
he loved best in the world and, like
‘a2 mad thing on wheels, flew off.
'About two blocks away from the
‘hard earned goal he felt in his pock
et for the postal. It was gone! A
few minutes later he stood a trem
bling, ahject wreck before the
haughty modiste.
“Miss,” he began, “Miss L. says
she don’t want the valenciennes lace
on the back of her dress, and she
wants it buttoned up the front.”
“T know,” said the modiste, smil
ing sympathetically back at him.
“She just phoned me all about it.
She said she knew you would forget
to mail the card.”— Philadelphia
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- A Scotch Editor.
Alexander Russel, the famous
Scotch editor, conducted a powerful
Liberal newspaper. For his strenu
ous advocacy of the faith his admir
ers in Edinburgh presented him with
$B,OOO and some silver plate. “What
is your coat of arms?” asked an ad
mirer at the meeting, with one eye
on the plate. “My shirt sleeves,” re
sponded Russel. There was some
fruth in the witticism, for when he
became editor of The Scotsman Rus
sel’s salary was £7O a year. His du
ties were many. He had to read the
newspapers, select and abridge arti
cles, Teview books, report meetings,
compile a news summary and write
the leading articles. After enumer
ating these items the proprietor add
ed, “And lastly the attacks.of our
political adversary will be expected
to produce your retort.”
Mot Just the Same.
It ‘seems that this boy’s mother
was born in Canada, but the little
fellow is a mnative of the United
States. To tease him his uncle calls
him a “little Canuck,” which never
fails to provoke vigorous protest.
Coming home from Sunday school,
the -boy tackled his aunt with the
question: =~
“Aunt Bess, why is people bap
tized P
She attempted to explain, but un
fortunately touched a tender spot
when she said, “Willie, you know
you were born in original sin.”
Willie regarded this as a variation
of the hateful accugation so often
made by his uncle and indignantly
blurted out:
“>Deed 1 wasn’t. I was born in
Pittsburg. I’'m an American!”—
Pittshurg Dispatch.
Then There Was Trouble.
A well known man sent his office
boy out to his homeé in the suburbs
with a message for his wife to the
effect that, being detained at the of
fice, she was not to wait dinner for
him. The lad gave the message to
the lady herself, who asked him in
and regaled him with a piece of cake
and a glass of lemonade. :
“So the master is very busy, is he,
John?” she remarked quite casually.
“Yes’m,” replied the boy. “And
he was in a very great hurry to get
on with it tao.”
“Was he?” A
“Rather. Why, as he got into the
cab he threw nic the kéys @nd told
me to lock up evérything safely. He
couldn’t even wait fo do thmt him
self,P~London Chronicle. °