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Friday, Nov. S, 1909
THE FLIGHT IN COTTON.
Fifteen cents for cotton is marvel
lous, but unless tanners ol the south
use discretion i' means ruin to the
present system of funning which lias
been builded up in the cotton belt since
the reign of five cents cotton. Only
the fact that the south is becoming
independent by raising its own sup
plies accounts for the slendid price of
the great staple. If the cotton farmers
were not raising a fairly good supply
of corn and hay and did not have a
greatly increased amount of livestock
they would full fur short 1 f the present
high figure when thud want to market
cotton
With an nir of independence in the
c luntry they tiro simply monnrehs of
all they survey. Their supremacy
lies in the fact that they are diversify
ing and giving attention to corn oats,
hay and livestock. Even at l."> cents
for cotton farmers cannot nITurd to
discontinue planting other crops.
However, hero is where danger lien,
swoot danger it may lie true, but after
all this is often the most bitter kind.
Mr. Farmer, you should not be fooled
into curvlc . ly disregarding the wel
fare of the home, for you must raise
things needed at home. It may lie
eight cents cotton next year. And
another thing: This lli cent* cotton or
it may be Id cents, in a farce. There
is no b gic.tl reason for it. Twelve
cents is good, the rest is speculation.
It may he that the mills are buying,
but it is to till speculative contracts.
One groat trouble lies in the fact that
* peculators of the north are planning to
take away millions of hard earned
money from the south by speculation,
pure and simply.
Plant your out crop, preoaro to ruise
home supplies and doit l be dazzled uy
high priced cotton.
1 nc oun-Piav in i he Road.
There is a law in Georgia, a strenuous one, against pointing a gun ot any
kind at another. There is one a little stroner against gun play on the high
way. And there is yet another that imposes strict prohibition against hand
ling a rill: except at such an elevation that it will beyond peradventure go
skyward to such an extent as to prevent any one being hit by it a mile or so
away.
But here in Baldwin county wc ate told that men ride over the public
highways, armed, not with a pistol, or shotgun, but with a modern rifle. [1
is further declared that this weapon has been deliberately aimed at others,
three rimes in one day, so it is stated, auto parties being forced to stop at
the point of the rifle. This is lawlessness. We don’t know who did it, we
are not 1 oncerned in it. We don’t own an auto, we seldom have the chance .
to ride in one, but occasionally we can get to out on tits country roads, A
rifle ball is no respecter of persons, it will as willingly kill the poor pedestri
an as it will the man in the auto. It will even travel across the fields and
1 ry the toiler col I in death, leaving the widow and the orphans helpless and
alone.
We don’t like to see such an impediment placed in the path ol pro
gress. It tniy be teams are atraid ol automobiles, but we don't believe an
owner ol a machine in Baldwin countv would endanger the lives of others
and certainly gun plav on the highway is not commendable. We are not
censuring whoever does this, but we are pleading for a better recognition of
the rights ol others, for upholding the law, for the general advancement ot
mankind. We trust that wc shall hear no mere stories of this kind. Think
of the possibilities behind that rifle. 'I hink that it means a fate of the most
undesirable kind lor the man who handles it, it may mean death for the man
ahead, or worse than all that it may mean death for some innocent person,
perhaps a mile away. Desist in this practice; if practice it be, take a con
servative view of the situation and make the best of the condition that
comes with progress.
Hold up Demonstration
Made on Mr. W. A. WaKIer
THAT SPANISH SHIHDLE
THANKSGIVING DAY.
This in the month jn which there is a
day set apart for national thanksgiving,
though u cheerful heart is thankful
every day. It is a good thing, how
ever, for the people to bo reminded
periodically of the fact that as a notion
we have much to be thankful for, and
whether we celebrate the day simply
or with enough turkey and stuffing to
invito indigestion, let us murk it bv a
resolve to bo better farmers and better
citizens than ever before. None of us
are t o hum'*’e (r] o >scure to exert a
wholesome influence, day by day. If
we do nothing more thaii greet our
neighbors with a cheerful face and a
kind work we shall shed a benediction
over an entire community. Let us
therefore give thanks not only upon
day of the year hut every day of
our lives.
NEW TREASURY ARE
0FF11ERS ON THE JOB
Averring that the team was afraid, a
party coming into Mifledgeville last
Friday morning stopper! Mr. W. A.
Walker, who was driving his auto, us
ing a rifle in the demonstration of the
right of possession to the street for
passage. It is stated that Mr. Walker
was some 60 or 70 yards away and ha I
already stopped the machine. Chief
Lawrence, it is understood, was inform
ed bv the party in question that if Mr.
Walker had come forward any further
be would have fired.
No case has as yet been made. Hut it
is quite probable that the affair will be
aired before the grand ju y w ich is in
session tbs week.
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Washington —Two new treasury offi
cials were sworn into office Monday.
Lee McClung took the oath as United
States Treasurer and A. Platt Andrew
as director of tho mint.
TO THE PUBLIC
The New York World has made ar
rangements whereby part of its Sum-
day edition can reach the town and be
placed on sale in advance. If you arc
not already a regular reader, please [
give vour newsdealer an order at once,
and he will deliver advance reading
matter before Sunday,together with an
exchange check. On placing your or
der, he will inform you of the plan for
furnishing you with the regular news
part of ihe paper on presentation of ex
change checa.
Roasted coffee 12 1-2 cents per pound
at W. H. Leonard’s.
Lot of old news papers for sale.
Apply at—T1IE NEWS OFFICE.
lor Rent.
Mr. John M. Edwards’ oid home place
about 1 miles from town possession
given Jan. 1. For furthci particulars
a >ply to Miss Bessie Edwards.
20J Liberty St.
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Many public speeches may be cornpar-
o I to a wheel —the longer tho spoke the
greator the tire.
Wearenoyor satisfied to have our
happiness on tho instalment plan. Wo
want it all at once.
When tho blacksmith start to doctor
up a broken-down wagon he doesn't say,
“Stick out your tongue.”
And folk did come to town to see the
circus, they always will.
C >tton picking is almost over in this
section, hut it’s not so elsewhere.
Tho Department of Stntu of these
United States of America seldom has
cause to transmit information to weeks Pecan growing, is very profitable
ly newspapers, but The News is in r— around Milledgevillo.
ccipt of detailed communication con
cerning the famous so-called Spanish
swindle through which it is declared
that thousands of dollars lias been oh
tained from people in Uiis country. It
it a clever seneme, purporting to have
as its most attractive feature a pretty
girl, an imprisoned Cuban patriot, who
is dying, and a priest, who is a friend
of the family. Back of all this
fortune, closely guarded, and one fourth
of this goes to the “distant rolativi
recen iug the communication. All ne
cssary to plav a part in this program
to furnish sufficient funds to transport
the priest um) the pretty girl to Amur
ica, “the land of tho free.’’
Of crurse. we don’t expect anybody Ncw York,-While the statement
who reads Ihe News will be fleeced, Dhat New York spends a million dollar s
but we comment on this to show that L j ay f or drinks has often been quoted
the toparttu tit of .Slate is always busy | ( 0 iJjoato that this city is more addicted
looking after its own particular branch 1 1>( ) | 0 ]jquor than the ordinary communi
ty the government, oven if we don’t tv. the fact is that n*»t more than tiftv
50,000 DRUNKARDS
IN NEW YORK CITY
City Spends Million a Day For Drinks
—Proportion Seems Larger But
Is Duly One Per Cent,
nt Podulallun
don’t
hear much about it. The warning given
should he heeded, for it is not only true
of the case in particular, hut there are
other swindles also that might be care
fully avoided, speculating in cotton for
Th ■ liar is always t
naked truth.
When you can’t tcJ i
tell anything.
The rural mail-box is
office on une leg.
There is no place i
pantrv for family jars
Did anybody ever
willow why it docs ill
shimud of the
thousand persons out of this community
of nearly five million are habitually in
temperate, or only about one per cent
of the population, according to figures
presented by Mr. H. F. Fox an autho
rity on charitable and philanthropic
subjects,beforelthe Worcester Economic
Club.
truth, don’t I
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If you art* ever iiesten it will be by
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A wishbone won’t do a man mn-q
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backbone.
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