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Summerville, Ga., July 22, 1909
It looks as if Congressman Gordon
Lee will be in the next congressional
race. Well, Lee makes a mighty good
congressman. Then he is a good
friend to newspaper men. —Marietta
Journal.
Tlie Georgia State Sanitarium for
the Treatment of Tuberculosis will be
located at Alto, Ga., near Mt. Airy,
on the Southern railroad, according
to the decision of the subcommittee
named for that purpose. 'I lie sum
of $25,000 has been appropriated by
the state for this sanitarium.
The Texas Brewers’ Association
says it will pay SIOO,OOO to charity if
it cannot prove that "dry" states
consume more liquor than wet
states. That being the ease, says an
exchange, it is difficult to understand
wliy the brewers do not all join hands
and become enthusiastic workers for
the extension of prohibition.
Sentitar Johnson has introduced a
bill In Hie senate making it unlawful
for any person, firm or corporation
to sell any commodity for a lower
price In one section of the state than
In another section. The first offense
Is made punishable as a misdemean
or and In case of a foreign corpora
tion, the second offense Is punisha
ble by ousting from busineses In the
state. Domestic corporations may suf
for a revocation of their charters for
second offenses.
Tlie Galveston News says. The in
vestment of $17,000,000 in tlie cot
ton manufacturing Industry of the
South during a period of six months
is perhaps without precedent. It sig
nlfles a purpose to occupy tlie point
of greatest strategic advantage in the
battle for the world’s markets. Scare
ly less well circumstanced than New
England states in respect to European
markets, the Gulf states will have
very material advantage over them
in respect to Asiatic markets the mo
ment the Tanaina canal shall be fin
ished.
S, G. McLendon, suspended chair
man of the railroad commission, ad
mitted before the Investigating com
mlttee on Monday that he had sold
$5(1,000 worth of bonds of the Ath
ens Street railway making $1,500 on
the transaction, lie claimed he actec
In the Interest of the people of the
state in Ills efforts to find buyers for
the bonds In order that the road
might boa success.
A great deal is Just now being
said about changing our methods of
electing judges, and there ate man. ‘
objections to It. but is there any
method less objectionable? We
doubt if there is. It seems to us
that it would tie bent to let the pres
ent method alone, at least for awhile,
and especially so in view of the fact
that at the last general election the
people adopted a constitutional amend
tuent for the purpose of purifying the
ballot The last legislature passed a
registration law for the same purpose
and these laws, if let alone and en
forced will go a long ways towards
accomplishing the purpose intended
It is true that they do not suit the
politicians but they do suit the peo
ple and with an honest ballot the
elections of our judges is safe in the
hands of the people.—Cartersville
News.
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The Election of Judges.
The Grecian philosopher, Aristotle,
was anything but a demagogue. He
was an exceedingly wise man, per
haps the profoundest intellect of the
ancient world. Yet this Grecian sage
declared that no one man, no mat
ter how gifted naturally or culti
vated by education, was capable of
making a wiser decision on any sub
ject. whatever than the common mul
tude composed of all the people. This
opinion of Aristotle finds expression
in the modern adage that, “No one
man is wiser than all men."
Why does not the principle apply
to the selection of judges? In Geor -
jia they are elected by the people.
It is now proposed that the selec
tion of judges be taken from all the
people and be given to one of the
people, namely, the Governor. Who
is it that will contend that any one
man —although he be Governor —is
better able to select a judge than all
of the men who constitute the peo
ple of Georgia.
If our folks are wise, they will not
allow any change. Let the system
remain as it is. As long as the
people choose their own judges we
may be certain that the corpora
tions will not own the judiciary.
One of the crying evils of the day
is that those judges who are not
elected by the people are making
decisions which deprive the states,
the federal government and the peo
ple themselves of their legal rights.
The lawyers will tell you that the
books are full of Judge-made laws.
The Federal Judiciary to the extent
of about seventy per cent, is filled
up with corporation lawyers appoint
ed by one man—the President. If
the Federal Judges had been selected
by the people, we never would have
had those infamous decisions which
have created such profound disgust
and Indignation from one end of the
country to the other. —Watson’s Jef
fersonian.
Selling Cotton Futures
President Barrett has ruled that
“a member of the Farmers' Union
who sells his cotton when it is in
the ground does so in violation of
the Constitution and laws of the un
ion.”
As has been said before, the buy
ing of cotton from the farmers be
fore It is picked and in some cases
even before it has been chopped, is a
hedge on the part of speculators to
depress pricese this fall, says The
Farmers' Union Guide. Here is the
way it worked. Enough cotton is
bought to supply the demands of
the mills through the first two or
three months beginning at or about
September. Then when a farmer
brings his cotton to town the demand
has been supplied and he is told
“cotton is off and will go lower.”
This causes the ones who have not
sold their cotton to get a case of
"cold feet," and it is calculated by
the speculator that the cold-footed
ones will rush their cotton to the
market and sell for anything they
can get. The speculator buys all
the cotton he can and stores it in
central warehouses, and if he has
enough bought in to squeeze a bet
ter price out of the spinner he does
so. If you don’t believe this, just
look at the price of cotton today and
compare with the price of three
months ago. There Is a difference
of sls or more a bale. Os course
the ones who held their cotton can
get present market prices; but how
about the poor fellows who had to
sell at 8 and 9 cents a pound?
In future the governor of Georgia
will not have the right to suspend or
discharge a member of the railroad
commission, and the finish of the Mc-
Lendon case which ever way it goes,
will see the last of its kind in this
state. Hereafter, impeachment pro
ceedings will be necessary to sus
pend or remove a commissioner from
office. The attitude of the senale
on this question was conclusive
ly shown Tuesday when Senator Ir
win's bill taking the power of sus
pension from the governor came up
for passage. The bill passed by a
vote of 29 to 0.
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THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1909.
MEETING OF COMMISSIONERS
, The regular July meeting of the
• commissioners of roads and revenues
- was held Monday with all the
> members in attendance.
j The contract for grading the Cot-
- ton hill road was awarded to Geo.
• Morton and T. A. Weathington for
! $443. There are three sections of
• the road and separate bids were re-
- ceived for each section.
i Mr. Morton was awarded the con
i tract for grading the Ball Mountain
• hill road, and also the new road
from Harlow crossing to the Sum-
, merville road near E. Montgomery’s.
■ His bid for this work was $243.00.
. T. A. Weathington was given the
■ contract for grading the new road
s from the Harlow crossing to top of
• Cotton hill, his bid being S2OO. A
> number of bids were received by the
■ commissioners, ranging from $443 to
i SI3OO.
I At the June meeting of the com
. missioners a petition was filed ask
ing the board to discontinue the
public road from Garrett grave yard
i running east toward Summerville
s to the district line. A number of
■ citizens in that section object to the
- road being discontinued and a coun
. ter petition was filed Monday to this
' effect. The commissioners refused
t the petition to discontinue the road.
; At the last meeting of the board
, the commissioners asked Judge Bel-
- lah, the county attorney, for an opin
. ion as to whether or not the the
■ county treasurer is entitled to com
. missions on the funds derived from
; the sale of the court house bonds.
I In a written statement to the board
- Monday Judge Bellah said that in
r his opinion the treasurer was enti-
I tied to a commission on these funds
: and cited a number of decisions to
i sustain this position. Some of the
: members of the local bar take the
■ position that the treasurer is not en
titled to a commission, and in order
to get a decision on the question from
the supreme court Judge Bellah sug
gested that a friendly suit be brought
It seems that the question has nevet
been passed upon directly by the
supreme court and the county com-1
missioners will probably bring suit in
. order to get a decision from that
body.
Acts, Not Words.
"While standing in front of the
i court house Friday morning, I heard
i Mr. Bolan Glover tell this story:”
> “ ‘When 1 was receiver for the
> road, an engineer got drunk twice
■ and I discharged him. A short
i time afterwards, as I was on my way
f to dinner, the unfortunate fellow came
• to me with the story that he was
hungry, his wife and children were
• hungry and that there wasn’t any-
I thing at his home for dinner. I told
I him that it was his fault and that I
' couldn't reinstate him. When I
reached home and sat down to the
' table, 1 couldn’t eat a mouthful for
thinking of that family, although
mother had served me a nice meal.
" T left the table, hunted up the
man, placed him back on his engine,
I gave him money to provide for his
family, returned home and enjoyed
my dinner.
“Mr Glover little dreamed that
this story would ever appear in
print, but it illustrates too good a
point to omit.
“This calls to mind the note So
licitor Pope Hill, of Macon, wrote
just before committing suicide, in
which he said, that man's inhu
manity to man was the cause of
it all.
The above news story is taken
from the Marietta Courier. The
moral stands out so bold that few,
even those hearts that have been har
dened in the fight for the almighty
dollar, cannot grasp its meaning. It
is that true happiness comes not
from wealth and its environments,
but through the Commandment, “Do
unto others as you would have them
do unto you.”
Sympathy for those in distress,
for the afflicted, for the home where
poverty reigns is alright, as far as it
goes, but counts but for little in life’s
battle. Do something—do it NOW.
Standing on the bank of the river
looking at a man drowning in the
swiftly flowing stream, the while tell
ing him that you are sorry he is
there, does not save him. Jump in
and go to him with help.—lend him
a helping hand. Acts, not words, will
bring him to shore. Deeds and not
sympathy fill the mouths of the hun
gry.—Calhoun Times.
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Mr. L. A. Hix of Dirttown was here|
j Tuesday. j
LOK INTUITION.
A Girl Who Was Able to Read
Beneath the Surface.
By MARY WOOD.
Above the shrill whir of the crickets
rose the hum of feminine voices. Un
der the green apple boughs the ham
mock convention was in full swing.
Miss Maybrick called it a hornets’ nest
and preferred the doubtful coolness of
the piazza. But. then, she was a col
lege professor, too Superior to appre
ciate the joys of the younger set.
Jane Carew, however, sometimes
agreed with her. This afternoon she
hid her face behind a book, while girl
ish fancies carried her far above the
swaying leaves up into the perfect
. blue of the July sky. How lovely na
ture was this summer, bow full life of
I new delights!
Miss Maybrick’s name brought her
I back to earth again—Miss Maybrick,
the one cloud in her sky.
“Oh, yes, she approves of him,” saucy
Madge was saying. “She can put up
with bls sunburned face, roughened
hands and the general boorishness of
a farmer. But I suppose at her age
any man is acceptable. To tell the
truth, I have almost reached that con
dition myself in this man forsaken
spot.” And she shook her head in
mock despair.
“Jane agrees with her,” some one
added a little maliciously. “She never
seems to mind sharing his attentions
with her.”
A book went down with a crash and
angry spots of scarlet glowed in Jane’s
cheeks as she said defiantly: “John
Staunton is not a boor. He is a gen
tleman. Just because he scorns to
talk the twaddle that men usually
think good enough for us girls you
vote him a boor. He often makes me
ashamed of the little I know, and the
books he lends me have opened up a
new world, a world bigger and better
than all the flirting and shams and
heartaches that go to make up so
ciety. No wonder he likes to talk to
Miss Maybrick. She’s worth the whole
lot of us when it comes to knowing
the things that are worth while!”
The girl stopped short with a gasp
as she realized the horrified hush which
j had fallen on the circle. "Oh, what
have I said?” she cried and buried her
face in her cushions.
But Madge’s gay voice was tender as
she stroked the brown head. “You’ve
read us a lecture, Janie, dear,” she
said gently, “but I fancy we needed it
a bit. It's horrid to talk about one of
your friends the way we talk about
Staunton, and we ought to ask your
pardon. As for Miss May brick, she’s a
stuck up old thing, and you’re ever so
much nicer than sho in spite of all she
knows. Just wait till Cousin Alex
comes next week and see the new
world that he opens to you. He is '
really literary and writes things for
other people to read.”
Jane’s face was still hidden. She
was battling to overcome her tears
and even harder to drive out of her
heart the unreasonable Jealousy of the
older woman that somehow had crept
into it. The time had been when she
would have scorned her as a rival, but
love had made her humble. Youth and
beauty seemed of small weight to cast
into the scales against years of scho
lastic training and study.
Cousin Alex came. He was a slim,
dapper young man, with an important
manner rather at variance with his
size. But he had away of retailing
old jokes that made them seem new
and a stock of compliments suited
to every age and was therefore greatly
In favor among the guests at the
sleepy old farmhouse. As befitting his
pretensions as a journalist he rattled
on unceasingly about books and litera
ture. He knew this man and that
book, and, above all, he was one whose
name should some day stand foremost
in the world of letters. The date was
not yet set, but he spoke of “his novel”
mysteriously, even reverently, and his
feminine audience was accordingly im
pressed.
More or less unwillingly Jane was
complelled to listen to many of these
predictions, for “Cousin Alex” at once
developed a fondness for her society.
Perhaps certain glances that Staunton
cast in his direction added zest to the
chase. Perhaps it was the elusive
fashion in which the girl received his
advances. Certain it is that a week's
time had earned him the very fitting
name of “Jane’s shadow.”
Yet to Jane herself each day seemed
to bring more unhappiness. Staunton
came as often as ever, but at sight of
Alex by her side he left the laughing
group to chat with Miss Maybrick iu
intimate aloofness. And as the girl
saw the door to the beautiful new
world closing because the hand of him
who held it open was withdrawn the
pain and weariness of her old frivo
lous life seemed almost past bearing.
Her eyes were more wistful than she
knew one evening as she saw a tall,
muscular figure swing up the walk
with the easy, confident stride of the
man who was master of his fate.
Staunton’s face softened as he met
them, and, though Cousin Alex Ham
blin was on band, as usual, he settled
himself on the top step with the air
of a man who had come to stay. The
brown eyes were downcast now. but a
shy blush of pleasure still flushed her
cheeks.
There was always a visible air of
constraint between the two men, but
Hamblin rose manfully to the occa
sion. Here was a most longed for op
: portunity to prove to Miss Jane that
I Staunton was but a boor of a farmer,
after all. and no match for a man of
I the world like tiimself.
| If the older man detected his half
| veiled tone of patronage, he only
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smiled quizzically. Indeed, his posltloi
soon grew more untenable than that
of his adversary. As the conversation
ranged from books to men and back
to books again Jane saw, with a thrill
of pride, that Staunton more than held
his own. What is more, he held bis
temper, a precaution neglected by the
other.
At last the talk fell upon one of the
recent novels, a book of unusual
strength and breadth of view. Jane
had read it several times, for it had
seemed to point her to the new life she
longed to live. Staunton was silent, as
though in unspoken condemnation.
Thereupon Hamblin became an enthu
siastic defender and openly scoffed at
his lack of appreciation.
A shadow crossed the moonlit porch,
but the three did not see Miss May
brick till her voice broke in on the
controversy.
“You would not expect Mr. Staunton
to criticise his own book, would you?”
she said calmly. Then, as her ear
caught Jane’s low exclamation of won
der, she added in a tone of surprise:
“Had you not guessed that he was an
author, Miss Carew? I heard that you
defended him very eloquently one aft
ernoon in the orchard and said a good
word for me too. For that I want to
thank you.”
Staunton’s face was turned toward
the blushing girl, and in full moonlight
Miss Maybrick could read Ills secret.
If it sounded the deatbknell to some
hope In her own heart, gratitude to her
companion made her lead the bewil
dered Alex for a walk down the lane
and a gradual restoration of bis self
confidence.
“And I have to thank you. too, Jane.”
Staunton said tenderly.
j But he took her down to the orchard
and told her in his own way.
"How did you guess that I was not
the farmer I pretended to be?” with a
hint of wonder under his gladness.
Jane raised a face radiant with the
realization that the new world was
opened forever. "Just because you are
•you,” she said joyously. “Love is not
always blind.”
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A Chromatic Love Affair.
"Marooned!” muttered the villain,
turning white and striking his fore
head.
Violet, pearl of women, bad refused
him again.
He lapsed into a brown study, won
dering if be were too green to win
any woman’s love. Perhaps she ob
jected to bls prematurely gray hair,
or could it be that the cardinal virtues
of his rival outweighed his old gold?
The hero entering, black as a thun
der cloud, readily solved the mystery.
“There’s a yellow streak in you!” he
cried. "In the hope of winning my I
betrothed, Violet, you have jilted •
Alice, and It has made Alice blue!”
The villain rose, madder than a hor
net. purpling with rage beneath his
tan. But before be could speak the
hero had pinked him with his sword.
Violet screamed. Terror caught-'er.
But her lover soothed her.
“Red of him at last,” he murmured,
folding her in bis arms and kissing
her cherry lips as the crimson sun
sank in the west, partially obscured
by the London smoke.
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