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THURSDAY. JAN. 31. 1907.
OUR LIGHTWOOD FIRES.
We have had some ugly and dis
agreeable weather in this part of
the world the present week—and
yet, bad ns it has been, it is much
better, as the old woman told Sid
ney Smith, than no weather at all.
The law of Compensation is a
general and universal one. We
cannot always enjoy the sunshine
and the balmy breath of spring.
Some days must be dark and
dreary. But even then, there is
no room for repining, among a
people as favored as ours.
We will venture to say there is
not a home in Screven that has not
been ablaze with comfort through
these cheerless days, nor a single
family that has suffered the pangs
of hunger. Indeed most of us
have too much to eat. Just think
of that, and compare our Jot with
that of thousands of others who
hunger, and suffer, and die from
cold and want!
Surely the Lord has beeu good
to us. Just think of the bright
and cheerful fires in our homes,
these raw, rainy, wintry days.
Come in out of the cold, if you
will, damp and chilled, and wea
ried—and as you open the door,
yea, before you enter, see the
bright and ruddy glow of one of
our old-fashioned ligbtw'ood fires;
and then sit down in an easy
chair in front of it, and gradually
thaw out, while one of the bairns,
perhaps, crawls up on your knee,
and nestles there—and find it in
your heart, if you can, to grumble
and repine at providence.
Yes, the Lord has been good to
us. We can all have fires in the
cold, raw weather, and there is al
ways something to eat. And if
there is one picture of comfort and
domestic happiness that shines
forth more brightly than any oth
er, it is that of the blazing hearth
within, when the storms beat hard
and the blasts blow cold and win
try upon the outer world. You
have been riding along, perhaps,
some cold and chilly night, and as
you turned a corner in the road,
there shot forth into the gloom the
bright rays of a blazing hearth
from some home by the roadside;
and as you passed by, you saw the
children gathered around the
cheerful blaze—and your heart
warmed within you as you thought
of another scene like that, await
ing you, perhaps, at the end of
your journey. That is a picture
of comfort, and peace, and joy,
that no master’s brush can surpass
or copy.
Yes, the Lord has been good to
us, in giving us something to eat
and wherewithal to be clothed—
and most of all, at this season of
the year, in furnishing us the fuel
for these good old lightwood fires
—these bright and cheerful fires,
that some folks do not have.
Throw on another chunk there,
Bill, my boy, and let’s have a
rousing good ’un.
The j Telephone’s agricultural
iartelJMrt|^Jyear_still / sounds
“taffies
Congressman Oversteet's Speech.
Congressman J. W. Overstreet
made his maiden speech in con
gress last Saturday, and received
the congratulations of many mem
bers of the Houae on his effort.
Mr. Overstreet spoke on the agri
cultural appropriation bill which
the house had under consideration.
The Telephone gives below some
extracts from the speech:
Mr. Chairman, I desire in the
brief space of time allotted mo to
make some remarks on the pending lay
bill and in a general way facts to I feel
before this house some
impelled from a sense of duty to
set forth. During the short time
I have been a Member of this
House I have painfully observed
that the great agricultural inter
ests of this country have been neg
lected by Congress and are suffer
ing at the hands of our Govern
ment. How it is that this great
industry, the foundation stone up
on which rests all our national
greatness, has not received proper
recognition from intelligent Rep
resentatives in Congress is beyond
my understanding. The oldest,
the most dignified, and the most
independent of all the vocations
among men, it deserves better
treatment at our hands; but I want
it understood in the beginning of
these remarks that I am not ask
alms of the National Treasury. My
people did not send me litre for
that, but they expect of me that I
shall demand their rights upon
every issue raised whereby their
interests are affected, an l I will
ask nothing more and shall be
satisfied with nothing less.
There are Members here who are
not acquainted with the cotton in
dustry. They should be willing to
hear the testimony and act upon
it, of those who know the needs of
the farmer. An industry that in
creases the wealth of the country
six hundred and fifty millions an
nually , an amount almost suffici
ent to pay the yearly expenses of
this Government, deserves the
most careful consideration at our
hands. A parsimonious toward polic?
adopted by the Government
the cotton planter can not but be
detrimental to our manifold and
diversified industries. By way of
comparison, these United States
may be likened unto a great, com
plex piece of machinery, blit so
nicely and of precisely constructed
that if any its smallest parts
are out of gear the whole machine
ry is thrown into confusion and
disorder. The cotton producing
states compose a part of this Com
mon wealth, and, in my judgment
not so insignificant a part as the
votes of Members of this House
would seem to indicate, and when
ever you vote down a measure that
is calculated to benefit a portion
of this country you not only section, do
harm to that immediate
but you are helping to retard the
prosperity constitution of this great country,
whose you are sworn to
defend and support and whose
every interest it is your solemn
duty to protect. I can scarcely be
lieve that there is a gentleman
here who would intention!y do an
injustice to these people whose
chief dependence is upon tiie pro
duction of cotton, but they certain
ly do not understand tlie situation.
All we ask is that this Congress
take hold of this question and co
operate witli us in maintaining a
steady and stable price for our pro
duct. This may be done in many
ways. The opening up of new
markets for our cotton goods would
tend to diminish the surplus that
now remains under present condi
tions, and would thereby cause the
price to of be regulated by the natur
al law demand and supply. A
change in the method of issuing
monthly bulletins by the Depart
ment of Agriculture showing the
condition of cotton would also help
I believe in maintaining a steady
prieo. The bulletins should be is
sued weekly or daily, perhaps, and
give to the cotton grower and the
legitimate trade the information
in installments, as it were, instead
of withholding it until when it is
given out to the public such ex
citement is produced among those
betting upon the result of the esti
mate that the fluctuation in prices
ranges at ouce from twenty to fifty
points above or below the normal
price, according as the report is
“bullish” or “bearish,” as it is
termed. The planter feels obliged
during all seasans of the year and
every day in the week (Sunday ex
cepted) to put his cotton upon
market in large or small
as the case may be. lie has to
meet his obligations when they
fall due. He knows when they
mature, and cotton has to be sold
to be converted into money for this
purpose.
And just let me say that the
Empire State of the South has not
been laggard in her contributions
to the general prosperity nor in
those developments which mark a
free and great people. (Jotton is
her greatest crop, and in 1890 she
gave the country a crop valued at
$62,750,000. In 1902 this had
swollen to $69,000,000, in 1908 to
$89,000,000, in 1904 to $92,000,
000, and in 1905 to $108,000,000.
In 1905 the census reported gumed
LteHiteMrttthOOO bales, as
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Mr.
the woods probably, bocIWw^^H of the^M
% shortage in the history ydflH
you and deliver the goods to tin^H
want them. There’ll come a 1
when you can’t get the fertiliser. MflH
of people who short are buying thev did from last “for^H spruj a -
to come up as we*
do all we can to fill these orders but
able to fill them all. We have the goo
vour door and wo have them now. Call at our of
fice and get our prices. This, at least, will do no
harm. Ask for “Plant Food,’’ “Cotton A Corn,’
and “Truck Grower.” Ask for the last report of the
Georgia Experiment Station on these. Th“ proof of
the pudding is the eating thereof and the proof of
the value of commercial manures is this impartial
analysis. We guarantee every bag and wg guaran
tee the price. If we don’t sell you as cheap as the
other fellow we would expect no business.
Screven County Oil Mills,
i E. M. Henderson, Manager. '
the production of cotton Georgia
ranks second.
*
So much for the district that
lay in General Sherman’s pathway
on his celebrated march to the sea,
and nothing now remains to mark
his route. Such rapid recuperation world
from desolatjo" and ruin the
had never seen before and I doubt
if it ever .will again. But, Mr.
Chairman, this marvelous progress
has not been with the aid of the
Government. It has been wrought
out of the loins of nature by the
brain and brawn of southern man
hood in spite of governmental
favoritism toward manufactures
and large corporate interests, In
spite of the fact that the law-mak
ing power of this country has nev
er recognized the rights of the
“man behind the plow,’’ has never
consented to give him a square
deal under the Constitution and
laws of the land, but has left him
to work out bis own salvation with
the intellect and muscle that the
God of nature gave him, I say, in
spite of all these things, he has
made progress and added uii
told millions to the wealth of this
country, and under more favorable
conditions q,ncj more just aud
equitable laws his prosperity would
have been tenfold greater than
now.
But, sir, the plain working peo- Hi®
ple, who are the mainstay of
nation’s wealth, are reading the
dispatches that arc sent from this
capital giving a daily record of
what Congress is doing, and they
will demand a more satisfactory
reason than has yet been given why
the Members of this House, with
the impetuosity of young school
boys, rush about in wild confusion
eager to increase their OWU pay
and in the next breath turn an un
willing ear to legislation designed
to benefit the honest voters who
sent them here. It is not right,
and the day of reckoning will
come when the people will rise up
in their might and hurl from pow
; er tip? unfaithful Representative
who legislated ifi his own selfish
interest people and neglected whom he the interests .elected
of the was
to servo,
THE TEN TRAVELERS.
Ten weary, footsore, travelers.
All in a woful plight,
Sought shelter at a wayside inn
One dark and stormy night.
“Nine raon?s,nn more,the landlord said
“Have I to offer you:
To But each of ninth eight a single bed.
the must serve for two
A din arose. The troubled host
Could only scratch his head,
For of those tired men no two
Would occupy one bed.
The puzzled clever host was soon at ease —
He was a man,
And so, to please his guests devised
This m ogt ingenious plan :
1 A | B | O [ 1) | E | F | G J 1 1 | 1 |
In room marked A 2 men were placed
The third was lodged in B,
The fourth to U was then assigned,
Tha fifth retired Hi [), J
In E the sixth he tucked away.
In F the seventh man,
The Anti eighth then and to A ninth h» in G and H, jfJ?
ran.
Wherein the hosLns J hjftfrjta itfKpjfaB
Dam(s) I ho bilr. to^MH
your liver does if it’s
poisons the bils overflows into causing^ the blc^H
your system,
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
GEORGIA, Screvkn County:
To Whom it May Concern: Britton
Mims and Jno. O. Maner having in
proper form applied to me for perma
nent administration upon the estate of
T. 8. Mims, deceased, this is to
cite all and singular the creditors and
next of kin of said T. S. Mims to
be and appear at my office within the
time allowed by law, and show cause
if any they can why permanent ad
ministration should not be M^ner granted
Britton Mims and Jno. O. on
said deceased’s astate.
Witness my hand and seal this, the
7th day of January, 1907.
J. C Ovkkstkbbt, Ordinary.
Poor, But Rich.
Once in New England, says a
writer in the Outlook, 1 was driv
ing with an old farmer, and some
of the men of the neighborhood
came of prominent under criticism. fn the Speaking village
a man
Tasked, “Is be a mail of means ?”
“Well, sir,” the fanner replied,
“fie ain’t got rich.^^^Jj much mo but
he’s mighty landj^v|||||
got much ricbjfera^ JmBB
mighty
1
Si
for a momeRKiJpi
“You, see,
money, and he
land,‘but still fie is .use
he never went to bed owing any
man a cent in all his life. He
Jives as well as he wants to live,
and he pays as fye goes; he doesn’t
owe anything, and'lie ain’t afraid
of anybody; he tells every man
the truth, and does his duty by
hipjself, his family and his neigh
bors, hio word j* as good as a
bond and every man, woman and
child in the town looks up to him
and respects to him. No, sir, he
aJpT got much land, but still he
is a mighty rich man because lie’s
got all he needs and all he wants."
I assented to the old farmer’s
deductions, for I thought them
entirely correct. When a man has
all he needs and all he wants, and
has a good name, he is certainly
rich, and when he lacks these
things he is certainly poor.
The Grip.
“Before we can sympathise with
other?, we must have suffered our
selves.” N° Qff e can realize the
suffering attendant upon an attack
of the grip, unless he has had the
actual experience. that There is prob
ably no disease causes so
much physical successfully and mental agony,
or which so defies med
ical aid. All danger from the grip,
however, may be avoided by the
prompt yqe of Chamberlain’s
Cough Remedy. Among the tens
of thousands who have used this
remedy, not one case has ever been
reported that hffs resulted in pneu
monia or that has not recovered.
For sale by G. M. Overstreet – Co.,
druggists, Sylvania, Ga.
Hurst Items.
We have about seventy pupils on
roll now.
HttlejjAile Rev. A. L. Brantley was here
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apt
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STATE OR BUSINESS
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iat your Property is Worth, or in what Town, City, State or
Territory it is Located.
If Tdid not bare the ability and Tacilities to sell yonr property. I certainly Could nut afford to pay for this
advertisement,. This “ad” (like nl' my other “ads”) is practically sure to place on my list a number of new
properties, and I am just as sure to -elf thane properties and make enough Jmoney in commissions to pay
for the cost of these “adv,” and mate* ft good profit besides. That is why i have so large a real estate
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Why not put your property among the number that will bo sold ns a result or these
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and a field force of men to find buyers. estate—and
I do not, handle all lines usually carried by the ordinary real estate agents. I must sell real
lots of it—or go out ot business. Ten assure you I am not going .out of business. On the contrary, I expect
to find, at the close of of the year, that, I have sold twice as many properties as l did the past year, but it
will first be necessary for mo to “ jisl” more properties. I want to list yours and sell it. It, doern’t matter
whether yon have a tmrm, a homo Without any land, or a business; it doesn’t matter what it is worth, or
where it is located. If von will fill out the blank letter of inquiry below and mail it to me today, I will tell
you how and why l min quickly convert, the property into cash, and will give you my complete plan
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If you want to Sell fill in, cut out and Mail today.
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SYLVANIA GEORGIA.
DIRECTORS:
\V. A. Mallory, R. W. Nunnally, J. J. B. Morel, Geo. M- Overstreet,
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