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Summerville, Gi., Oct. 21. 19J9
Hon. Boykin Wright says of the
new registration law: “The greatest
evil developed by experience in ev
ery section of the state was the
padding of the registry list with
illegal and fraudulent voters and
purchasable floaters in heated cam
paigns as the election grew to an
end. Usually in the excitement and
passion of these heated campaigns
both sides would be tempted to do
things, which in cooler moments. I
none could countenance or approve
of. The buyers and sellers of votes
usually do not come Into the mar
ket until the campaign is nearing
the end. It was thought, therefore,
that if the voters’ book be closed be
fore this market opened up, one of
the greatest curses to pure elections
would be obviated and at t.he same
time the rights of no citizen be in
the slightest degree abridged. For
a person who would not exercise his
right and duty to register, after six
months' warning by solemn provision
of law, should not have his neglient
omission stand in the way of an hon
est electorate and pure elections."
The popular Idea that the Ameri
can Indians are decreasing in num
bers Is dissipated by official figures
showing that there are more than
300,000 in the United States, says a
Washington dispatch. The Increase
In population of about 40,000 during
tile last two decades Is attributed
to the government’s constant effort
to uplift the Indian to the level of
modern civilization.
Business men of the country gon
erally are Ignorant of the fact that
Congress has outlawed chocks for less
than 11. Nevertheless, it is a fact.
The penal code adopted at the last
session of Congress puts a ban on
the small checks, and it becomes
operative on January 1, 1910.
The new law forbids the making, is
suance, circulation or paying out of
any note, check memorandum, token
or other obligation for less than $1
The law* appears to have bene pass
ed without discussion or considera
tion by either house of Congress, and
it Is said that the treasury depart
ment disclaims responsibility for it.
It was probably intended to stimulate
the sale of postage stamps and pos
tai money orders. Whatever the
cause, it is well to remember that
it will be a violation of tile Federal
penal code to draw a check for less
than one dollar after the first of
January next. Business men and
free American citizens will regard
this new law as a piece of unwar
ranted interefrenee with civil govern
ment. Still the law cannot be ignor
ed nor will it be safe to violate it
so long as it remains upon the Feder
al statutes.—Albany Herald.
England has just launched another
dreadnaught which is said to be "the
best ever.” Germany will probably
respond with another ship at the
earliest possible moment, in the
meantime the people foot the bills
and stagger under the increased taxa
tion.
The woman's nine hour law has
been signed by Governor Hadley, of
Missouri. It limits the employment
of women and girls in factories, res
taurants and such places to nine
hours a day. between 5 a. nt. and 10
p. m.
F'FALTH
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A Trying Year Upon Farmers,
! This has been an unusual year in
I weather conditions, and the most un-
I propitious for farmers and farm op-
I orations I have ever known. In the
(spring and far into the summer it
was excessively wet —necessitating
! some plantings to be done over the
third or fourth time as to corn and
considerable acreage left out entire
ly. Following this, came a severe
drouth, which caught the crops with
their surface roots in poor condition
to receive it. Finally came terlffic
i hail storm which left devastation
lin its wake. The worst by far the
oldest natives have ever witnessed
! It looked more like the trail of Sher
man’s army than anything else. It
; seems incredulous to state that it
! knocked windows sash out of houses,
! beat holes through the roofs, beat
green cotton stalks into the earth,
'cut large green corn stalks into gib
lets. shredded them and shucked and
shelled corn, killed birds, rabbits
chickens, hogs and yearlings. Yet
nevertheless, all of this it did and
more.
This has certainly been a trying
year upon farmers. Yet we can still
be optimists and look upon the bright
side of the panorama and be grate
ful that our houses and lives have :
been spared. Which is more than ,
some sections can say. God visited I
his people with calamities when they |
went out after other gods, whether j
we have been doing the same and ■
this is a visitation of Providence or
our destruction of the forests or a
disarrangement of natural laws I'm
unable to say. I believe some times
calamities come by natural disorders,
sometimes by man’s neglect of duty
and abuse of opportunities, and
sometimes by a direct visitation from
God for our meanness.
In going over this hail-stricken
section nothing was more demonstra
tive of ttie fact that the man who
kept up with his crop was the least
hurt. You frequnetly see farmers in
the summer through fancy prices be
ing offered to quit their own crops
and hire to their neighbors to clean
their crops out and the same process
in the fall in gathering crops. They
don’t seem to realize that while
they are making a dollar by working
for their neighbor they are at the
same time losing five at "home. I
never saw a good farmer who ever
found time to hire to any one else
but himself during crop season
Whenever you show me a fellow who
is engaged in farming that is contin
aully on the road with his wagon, or
i;i professional well digger or a Jack
legged carpenter, then I will show
you a very inferior crop of such
a person. Farming won't mix with
other avocations. If it is a success
It requires a person’s whole time,
thought and attention. 1 have heard
it stated that some men in this
hail storm section had been engag
ed in other occupations other than
their crops and had lost all. Maybe
this will cause us to realize that
there is as much in gathering a
crop as there is in making one, and
let us be like Uncle Jesse Williams
used to say of himself during hard
fought battles of the late war: “You
always found me there.’’ The farmers
have been hard hit this year, but
just give them a toe hold and they
will come.
J. V. W.
Janies R. Walsh, former bank pres
ident and then bank wreeker, has
I been denied a release by the court
of appeals from his five year sen
tennice to a federal prison. People
will applaud or condemn that docis
ion according to the light in which
they regard the original sentence.
Hut certain it is that when some rich
or prominent man is put behind pris
on bars every effort is made by his
friends to have him set at liberty
without regard to his guilt or inno
cence, and sooner or later they gen
erally succeed. It is all wrong and
creates discontent because of the
feeling that the law and clemency are
stretched in favor of wealthy crim
inal and denied the poor one. In the
eye of the law there should be equal
ity in practice as well as in theory.
The pleasant purgative effect ex
perienced by all who use Chamber
lain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets,
and the healthy condition of the bo
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Now is the time for you to be |
putting something aside for another
year. The proper place to put this!
' :s .n a good bank, and you owe it to
i yourself and family to put it in the
. best bank. The Bank of Lyerly is
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TAYLOR fc ESPY.
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1909.
A BOY’S CHANCE ‘
I
It is a great thing to take a boy
into one’s confidence; to find out his
tendency and help develop it. Ev-,
ery boy has some inclination to-''
ward some right thing. To discover |
that and give it force is doing more I
good in the world than one usually;
has the opportunity of doing. The '
way to do this is to take an inter-1
est in the boy, talk to him, encour- ]
age him , give him a book that j
touches upon his tendency.
There is too much lack of faith in 1
a boy. This comes from a lack of
understanding him; from not look
ing into him and seeing what the
outlook is. There is more chance
of doing good in'the world, right
; here on this boy proposition, than |
there is in all enterprises that one
may concoct. Very often a man will
see some untoward impulse in a
boy, and he forthwith makes up his
mind that there is no good in him.
i God doesn’t turn out such boys. He
gives every one of them an advan
tage if it is taken hold of in the
right spirit.
Next to a womanly girl the best
thing God ever gave the world is a
manly boy. But he must have a
chance; he must see his way; he
I must have sympathy and friendship.
, The ruin that is done for the lack of
these is amazing. There are even fath
[ ers who never think of these things;
who love their boys, but never get on
the inside of their hearts. It is a
great mistake.—Ex.
Right Cultivation Needed
Alarmists tlel us that in time the
population of this world will be so
great that there will not be food
enough to sustain it. That day, ev
en if it should come, is so far in the
distance that the prediction does not
worry people. On the other hand
there are optimists who assure us
that the food supply will always be
abundant.
Probably the truth lies between
the two statements. If imperfect
methods of cultivation are followed
so that the soil is worn out it will
not take long to get face to face
with starvation. Some ancient coun
tries have been ruined by such meth
ods and today in our own land there
are large tracts of worn out soil,
made so by bad farming.
But where good farming is follow
ed the soil retains and even increase;
its fertility. In England centuries
of bad farming so impoverished the
soil that 200 years ago the yield of
wheat was but eight bushels to the
acre. Improved farming has now
brought the yield up to thirty-two
bushels. Here in our own land bet
ter cultivation, the irrigation of the
semi-arid soils of the west and the
draining of swamp lands north and
south will result in such an increas
ed productivity of the land that the
fear of food shortage will cease and
the farmers, orchardists and stock
raisers receive greater returns for
their labor.
TAKE HIS MEASURE.
The all important question of the
hour in politics is not who has ambi
tion for honors but where is the
man fitted to wear the honors he
seeks.
The trained politician is gifted in
the art of throwing his best side be
fore you and by a studied manner
will catch the unwary in a snare
set for such.
No man asking for public office
of trust and honor at the hands of
the people should be allowed to es
cape the most rigid test of fitness
for the place he seeks.
Take his measure!
Is he broad, tall, strong?
Does he live among great thoughts
and with pure emotions?
Is he thinking and planning for
the good of the people or promotion
of self?
Does he handle the weighty ques
tions of state with a show of ease
indicative of brain power and self
control?
Whatever be the social qualities
of a candidate there are other
things to be considered before your
vote is cast.
Does he represent himself well?
If not he would not be a credit
able represenative of the people.
When men join the army they are
required to measure up to a pre
scribed standard.
Suppose we try the measurement
plan on candidates when they come j
before us for office.
Take his measure and see if he is
"big'’ enough for the place he
wants. —Cartersville News.
Contentment is not always a desi-'
rable thing or an evidence of wisdom
Some people are content to live in a ■
hovel and to lead an idle shiftless life
day in and day out the whole year
i through. They would better have a
spirit of discontent that will not be I
, appeased until the hovel is discarded
for a neat comfortable dwelling, and
I idle shiftlessness gives way to in
dustry and order.
J MANUFACTURERS BLUFFING I
Declaring that the threatened cur
tailment of output by cotton mills'
,on account of high-priced cotton is
■ a “humerous bluff,” Charles S. Bar
j rett, president of the Farmers’ Un
: ion, has issued a statement calling on
j the members of that order to hold
their product for a higher figure than .
I that now prevailing.
Mr. Barrett takes no stock in the
I assertion that the mills cannot op
j erate at the present prices. He :
i maintains that for years they have
; been making enormous dividends on
low priced and moderate priced cotton
Why they should complain and threat
en to curtail when cotton operates
according to the laws of supply and
I demand, and when they can still
make a reasonable dividend, he pro
fesses inability to understand.
President Barrett also states that
the farmers, having sold enough cot
ton to meet their pressing debts, are [
in a better position to hold for a
better price than at any time in j
their history.
“It is probable we will have the:
shortest crop, in proportion to de- j
mand. since we have been raising
cotton,” declared Mr. Barrett, “and I
am convinced our people are deter
mined to get a fair return for their
labor, even if that necessitates hold
ing for several months.”
President Barrett’s statement is as
follows:
To the members of the Farmers’
Union: The South is producing
this year probably the shortest crop
in proportion to demand, since this
section began to raise cotton. As
we advance in the season all interests
are more thoroughly convinced of
this fact. At the final accounting,
the crop may be shown to be much
shorter than even the present es
timates of the extreme pessimists.
“Your ability to hold is stronger
because you have been raising your
foodstuffs at home. You no longer
have to buy of the necessities of
life as heavily as in former years.
Next year I look to see this advan
tage materially furthreed. To that
end, I call on you to put yet more
in practice the doctrines of diverfi
cation and raising of home supplies.
"The laws of supply and demand,
so glibly quoted to us in the past,
are such that cotton is worth more
than it is now bringing. The world
needs our product. The mills in the
United States and in Europe need it. |
They are abie to pay a higher price
than is now being offered. They
will pay it if we exhibit the ordina
ry business sagacity to hold our
staple until they become convinced
of our intention to secure a fair
price.
“Do not be alarmed by the hu
morous bluff to the effect that mills
in this country and Europe are threat
ening to curtail productions because
of present prices. They cannot af
ford to do so. About the . most ex
pensive piece of machinery to lie
idle is a modern cotton mill. And
the ones in America and Europe are
not going to lie idle, so long as the
demand for cotton cloth and weaves
is as steady and as difficult to satis
fy as it is today.
“In past years the mills have made |
enormous and swollen dividends on'
low-priced cotton. They may make ■
less on cotton this year, but they
can buy all the cotton needed for
their purposes at 15 cents a pound
and still declare reasonable profits.
I confidnetly assert that the cloth
market will follow the cotton market
with sufficient fidelity to bear cut
these statements.
“Your cotton is worth a higher
price than it is now bringing. The
welfare of yourselves, your wives and
your children, the commercial inter-1
ests generally of the South, dictate
that you resist the impulse to put
more cotton on the market. In so do
ing, you are simply playing into the
hands of the speculative element,
the professional price depressors
with whom we have been at war for
many years.
“By exercising business foresight
at this time, you simply reap ad
' ditional money to yourselves, addi
tional millions to the South. Your
duty is clear, your duty as well as
your self-interest.” —Atlanta Consti
tution.
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IN THE DIAMOND FIELDS.
Editor News:—
It may be of interest to some to
say a few things about the diamond
mines in Arkansas. Located about
130 miles from the city of Little
Rock in a south easterly direction,
in Pike county, Ark., is a spot which ,
has aroused the interest of several
1 nations. And being in reach of the
place I took advantage of the oppor
tunity and made a visit there last
Saturday, the 16th. Murfresboro,
Ark., is the nearest railroad point,
i being a couple of miles from the pipe
of the prehistoric volcano which is
traced by the perodetite for a mile
or more around. Passing between
two hills and coming to a level place
which was partly formed by nature
and partly by plowing and dragging
off the blue ground which was once
a moltering mass in the depths of
I the earth and was forced up
[by the eruption of the volca
■ no. Supposedly by steam pressure
This space is about 150 feet square i
lor octagon shape and is the sup- I
posed funnel or pipe of the volcano. !
According to reports many diamonds
! of small size have been found here, i
The largest weighing about 7 1-2 c. !
and would cut about 2 1-2 to 3 !
c finished diamonds.
I saw lots of the crystal which
have bene taken from those mines
among which were some very pretty
little diamonds in the rough. I was
permitted to go over the mines with
out restriction, accompanied by one,
Mr. E. L. Parker, who told me that
many thousand dollars had been
spent in buying adjoining lands. The
main mines being owned by Little
Rock men. He also said that a
great deal had been said about the
delay of the work of development,
showing me the machinery that has
just been installed and stated that
same was (unlike most machinery)
very hard to get as it is very little
needed, but that they now have in
one washing outfit they expect to
work up a few yards of the perod
tite and determine the paying possi
bilities of the mines and if same
proved a paying proposition a suf
ficient outfit for working the mines
rapidly will be installed and work
will be begun in earnest stating that
a large number of diamonds are in
demand at a higher price since all
the mines of the world are now
practically exhausted, except the
South African mines. While there
lis lots of doubt expressed by out-
I aiders all the people of Murfresboro
I seem perfectly confident as to the
genuineness of the mines.
Yours truly,
A. L. MURPHY.
ROAD NOTICE.
GEORGIA, Chattooga county.
All persons are hereby notified that
if no good cause is shown to the con- j
trary, an order will be granted by !
the Board of County Commissioners
of Roads and Revenues of said coun- j
ty, at the regular November term, I
1909, establishing a change in public
road. Rome and Summerville road, I
as marked out by the Superintend
ent of roads for Coldwater district,
commencing at the Van Pelt place
i and running in a northern direction '
! about 300 yards and intersecting the
main road near the residence of M.
S. Henderson, also leaving main road
again about 400 yards above M. S.
Henderson residence and running in
a northern direction about 1-4 mile
intersecting the main road again near
the line between Holland and Hender
sons.
Running through lands of Van Pelt,
M. S. Henderson, Holland Bros.
Given under hand and seal this 18
day of October, 1909.
J. T. JOLLY, Chairman.
E. N. MARTIN, Clerk.
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CITATION
Georgia, Chattooga -county.
To all whom it may concern: Mrs.
Jane Hendon, having in proper form,
applied to me for permanent letters
of administration on the estate of L.
M. Hendon, late of said county, this
is to cite all and singular, the credi
tors and next of kin of L. M. Hen
' don, to be and appear at my office
1 within the tinfe allowed by law, and
■ show cause, if any they can, why
permanent administration should not
be granted to Mrs. Jane Hendon on
: L. M. Hendon’s estate.
j Witness my hand and official sig
nature, this 4th day of Oct., 1909.
J. P. JOHNSTON, Ordinary.
The entire road-bed of the Central
tral of Georgia railway between Ray
mond and Chattanooga has been
laid with heavy 80-lb steel rails,
with the exception of a short strip
between Newnan and Sargent, and
this gap will be closed in a few days
About forty miles of the track south
of Chattanooga has been ballasted
and the work is being extended as
rapidly as possible. This division of
the Central has an able and efficient
superintendent in the person of Capt.
J. J. Cotter, under whose supervis
ion the road has been put in first
class condition. —Newnan Herald.