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Blackburn’s Police Patrol.
Oglethorpe Jtclio.
A. bill introduced in the legisla
viure by Representative B. R. Black
burn, of Fnjton couuty, providing
fora police patrol in each militia
district of the state may develop in
to a measure deserving more serious
consideration than is at present be
lug given it.
If enacted the bill will create i
-state police force of some 10,000
men whose duty it shall be to patrol
their districts at least once a week
iat the detection of crime and ap
prehension of criminals and to cap
tare all vagrants or other persons
without visible means of support.
The compensation of these officers
will consist of being relieved of road
duty or road tax and being allowed
the samp fees ,as received by sheriffs
iot making arrests. "
While we have not seen it so sta
tad, it is presumed that these offi
<’.ers will supersede the district bail
iffs and perform the duties now in'
■cambent upon those offioers. If this
is not a provision of the bill it should
ho.
One feature of this bill strikes ub
■as being a good one—that iB, that
there shall be a patrollment of the
distriols for the detection of crime
In other words, it makes it the da
t,y of these officers to be on the alert
for infringements of the law and to
apprehend the infringers, and not to
wait, as is too much the custom
with officers at present, for some
-one to hunt them up and report
crimes and demand the arrest of
criminate. With this new feature
introduced and carried put by ar
resting officers there could but be a
lessening of crime and surer appre
oou si on and punishment of law
breakers. w
^ We do not believe otfr present
Uws intend it should be so, hut it
has beoome generally the custom of
bailiffs and constables to take no
lotioe especially of lesser crimes un
less a request or demand is made of
.hem by some other party to do so.
lots of lawlessness may bemommit-
■ «;ed in their presenoe, even, and fro-
ptently of their knowledge, and yet
r,liey wait for warrants to be sworn
mt by citizens before they will
nake any move in the matter.
If Mr. Blackburn’s bill seeks to
-- rreot the evil arising from tlii
misconception of duty upon the part
arresting officers, it is worthy of
■serious consideration. If, nnder the
■ law he proposes, .these officers are
' made to accept it as their duty to
1'arret out lawlessness and bring the
iw-breaker to justice without any
lemand or aid from any oue, and
:hoy sljohld perform that duty
lithfully, we will Bee a decided de
base of orime in the state.. If the
•iminally inclined are made to feel
•iat they will not be shielded by
■ fe feniency of their friends, or
t iybe their fear to take steps look-
to their puniahment, they will
- • j far less ready to break tlm laws,
When we first saw mention of
’vis bill we were inclined to consid
er it an impraotioxble and unreason
able measure, but after considering
* l ire closely its provisions and pur-
... ^jsos, and probable results, we think
setter of it. We don’t know but
ihat_it would be wise to enact it in-
lavi-.
The Wages of Sin.
"At the old fashioned inns and res
it irahts in Sweden it is customary
< > charge less for women than for
^neu, on the theory that the;: former
ilo not eat so much. At .some ho
ts in Sweden a map and a wife are
■ charged os one and one-half persons
•it .they occupy the same room, A
sband and wife may travel as one
-• id one half persons by railway, and
hmo by the post routes, furnishing
iueir own carriage.
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It is estimated that the recent
<- action in the state of New York
~ a vi the republicans $360,000 and
■ he democrats $140,000. If the fig
ures are approximately correct, the
/campaign funds were hardly excess-
jive. It will be noticed, by- the way,
; that the republicans spent about $3
for every $1 spent by the democrats,
'f&e democrats fight for principle;
tke republicans fight with boodle.
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Startling But True,
'‘If every one knew what a
fgraad medicine Dr. King’s New
if.-ife Pills is,” writes D. H. Turn-
. Dempseytown, Penn., “you’d
sell, all you had in a day. Two
v.-r<9eks’ use has made a new man
• erne.” Infallible fer constipa
tion, stomach and liver troubles.'
at Boltzclaw’s drug store.
Macon Nows.
A strong man lays the foundation
of .a great fortune. Its automatic
accumulations enable his immediate
descendants to give more time and
thought to the graces and ‘luxuries
of life than he had either time or in
clination for. The third generation
is most likely removed from the ne
cessity of effort, provided with the
means of gratifying every whim and
passion, and burdened with a leisure
which creates an omnivorous and in
satiate appetite fop diversion, says
the Detroit Tribune.
Sane and simple pleasure soon
lose their savor to one so situated,
whether man or woman, and the
search for new sensations and expe
riences^ leads in only one direction
after these have been exhausted. In
addition to this inevitable tendency
must be counted the myriad oppor
tunities and temptations which sur
round the dwellers in great capitate;
It is a trait of common human
nature tp grant itself indulgence,
whqin away, from Jbome, which
would be sternly denied in the
community of residence, and in New
York, Paris, London or Berlin no
one is, or at least no cue need be, at, ^eem not to profit by the experience
home in the sense which implies re
straint. In such vast and congested
cities, where fainilies may live across
a four-foot hall or a twolse foot al
ley from each other and remain per
fect strangers, all who choose to
have it may enjoy the oonsoiousness
of license that implants impulses of
deviltry in the breast of the man
who is 1,000 miles from home.
Moreover, in New York there are
men still young who, by the growth
of the city in size and opulence,
have been almost unconsoioiiBly sur
rounded by invitations to vice in its
most attractive form. Resorts that
reeked of respectability a decade or
two ago have chunked, by almost
insensible degrees, into the haunts
of sin, and the oenters of the fast
life of the town have spread north
ward, absorbing sections not long
ago consecrated to the habitation of
the elite. It is not to be won do i.
at if some whose early homes iind
associations were there have b«u:
overtaken aud overwhelmed Sr
subtle influences of a. changed en> i
ronment in accustomed places. Far
ther yec, the sense of privilege and
immunity which wealth bestows has
been heightened by intercourse with
foreign aristocracies to whom that
sense is a legal heritage. All these
causes have operated concurrently
to relax the standards of right liv
ing and obscure the moral lights of
our plutocracy, but neither a New
Jersey charter, the cunning of. mer
ger-making nor the greed of voting
trusts have served to reduce the
wages of Bin. A society that defies
eternal laws must pay the penalty,
by eventually giving way to anoth
er, either found in better ideate or
doomed, like itself, to ultimate de
struction.
The Man Who Dabbles in Futures.
Albauy Herald.
A recent special to the Herald
from Ashburn tells of the suicide in
that town of a prominent citizen, a
man respected and honored. Our
correspondent says it was another
case of a poor man dabbling in fu
tures. The market went the wrong
way, and in an effort to save what
he had already risked, the specula
tor plunged deeper into the mire,
Finally, with the bulk—possibly all
—of his worldly possessions' gone,
he ended it all with a shot from his
pistol. A widow and five children
are left alone in the world with the
memory of the husband and father’s
tragic end as a heritage, and the
worldly possessions which werq in
part rightfully theirs are perhaps
entirely swept away.
It is a sad caBe, but the story is
not a new one. How many men go
to fill the suicide’s grave after los
ing their all in the mad whirl of fi
nancial speculation no man knows.
And if hot suicide, the speculator
finds at the end of his foolish frolic
with fickle.fortune either disgrace or
privation—perhaps both—for him
self and his loved ones. Yet men
IF 1 !!
of others. Beardless youth and men
past the allotted three score and ten
risk their savings, or money borrow
ed here and there, on the strength
of a dream of sudden wealth.
The winner wants more, and the
loser wants to retrieve that which
he has lost. Neither is satisfied.
Both follow the bright bubble which
floats temptingly before their eyes,
and finally both go together over
the precipice at the foot of which
lie ruin and death.
Lord Kitchener has given many
reasons for his conviction that a sol
dier should never marry. His latest
is that the terrible anguish of officers’
wives was a' proof that, like priests,
soldiers ought to be celibates. Lord
Kitchener said this recently to an
officer's wife, who answered: “Then
you think that my husband ought
not to haye married me?” To which
Lord Kitchener replied graciously!
“Thanks to you, I change my opin
ion for one case.”
Not only has William Waldorf
As tor .failed to secure a title ini
England, but he has reoently been
denied the poor boon of using
“Honorable” as a prefix to his name.
Only sons of peers or members of
legislative bodies under the crown
are permitted to call themselves
honorable.” It is said Mr. As tor
was directed to drop the prefix by
order of the King himself.
Asleep Amici Flames.
Breaking into a blazing homo,
some firemen lately: dragged the
steeping inmates from death. Fan
cied security and death near. “It’s
tiiat way when’you neglect coughs
and colds. Don’t do it. > Dr.
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against all "throat, chest and lung
troubles. Keep it near and: avoid
suffering, death, and doctor’s bills.
A .teaspoonful stops a late cough,
persistent use..the most stubborn.
Harmless and nice’ tasting, it’s
guaranteed to satisfy. Price 50c
and $1.00. Trial bottles free at
Hpitzclaw’S Drugstore.
The Springfield (Mass.) Republi
can says: “While a vice president
of the Oifcy Bank of New York is
pessimistically speaking of the fi
nancial situation and outlook, with
a weight of words that have at
tracted wide attention, the presi
dent of the bank is having plans
made for a $1,000,000 dwelling-
-mpo, to be located at Fifth avenue
u 1 Seventy-second street on a lot
tjr which he paid $860,000.
The United States patent office
has issued letters patent for an am-
idobenzoflavine produced by trans
forming the nitrotetraamidoditolyl-
phenylmetban of amididitolyphenyl-
methan into pentsaraidoditolphenyl-
methan. Our only excuse for men
tioning the mattor is that we are
mad with the. linotype operator for
what he did to'us yesterday.—At
lanta Journal.
Stops the Cough amt Works of f
the Cold.
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets
cures a cold in one day. No cure,
No pay Price, 25 cents
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while using the remedy.
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- Try it and he convinced that
it is a wonder aud a blessing to
suffering humanity. w*
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a Vt** ? _J
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Ever, stop to think why he ap
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Nin.e times out of ten it’s be
cause his clothes bother him.
His. coat collar bobs up to his
ears when he sits down; or the
hem in his trousers lias an insane
desire to rust on his ankle bone.
Perhaps ’ti;l simply the vest that
caiiSes the trouble, and when it
taps him oil the lower extremity of bis left ear the “Fidg
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