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ns miKiiLE m t ul«r I th'.Jih fh« Mil'arftrvvili po»to !W •4K mu!! muttor. All this week - , news in Th News nnil when you sec it ii The News you know it’s s< That means reliability. Best advertising medium In tills aectinm of Georgia, largest circulation in Baldwin county of any papeil J. C. Mi A L’LI FI H. E. MrAULli- Editor. K, Associate. ADVERTISING RATES:—Display 2‘, cents for inch, spec in! discounts for time an I space. Kcidiag m.ticcs five cents per lire brevier, each insertion. Subscription $1.00 Per Year. 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. Smashes all Records. As an all-round laxative tonic and health-builder no other pills can e-irn- pare with Dr King’s New Life Fills. They tone and regulate stomach, liyer and kidnevs, purify the blood, streng then the nerves, cure Constipation,Dys pepsia, Biliousness, Jaundice,Headache, Chill? and Malaria. Try them. 25c at All Druggists. 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. D. W. Brown UEALnn I2SX COFFINS ANLVCASKETS | Well Equipped in this Department and Carry a Full and Complete Line •’Phones: Nos. 65 and 2541 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 Kills to Stop Tha Fiend- | The worst foe for 12 years of John of post- Dp ye> of Gladwin, Mich , was a running | ulcer. He paid doctors over $-HH) with- j out benefit. Then Rucklen’s Arnica t Salve killed the ulcer and cured him. well-kept Gores Fever Sores, Roils,Felons. 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More than that: The dealer is authorized to say that it the clothes are not right, or not satisfactory, your money will be refunded. Hart SchafFner & Marx jw, S. MYRICK & CO. m —. — ■ A U