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VOLUME XIX.
F^r the Next Week
OVeV^ Fine plaid and stripe dress goods,
I will offui some extra bargains in dry goods.
double widths, only 10 cents per yard. I have the best line of underwear in town.
Heaviest fleece-lined undershirts, sold everywhere for $1, only 90c per pair. Best
men’s every day shoes only $1. Best tobacco 30c per pound. Children shoes only
50c per pair.
CHEAP CASH STORE.
MILLINERY.
Every hat an advertise¬
ment. Attractive styles
at unusually low prices.
m 7?ot some Patterns, but
«nwK ail Patterns-/0 and /5c
each, none higher.
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MAY BE VETOED.
Rumor That the Governor May Oppose
Wright's Dispensary Bill.
An Atlanta dispatch says : There
is a strong impression here to-
night that Governor Candler will
veto the Wright dispensary bill.
The measure received 96 votes in
the house and 26 in the senate.
The bill was sent to the governor
today, and he has five days to con¬
sider it.
This afternoon when asked if
lie had reached any determination
in the matter he replied that he
had not. He said that he had
utilized every spare moment dur-
ing the day reading letters that
were pouring in upon him relat-
ing to the measure. He said that
he had letters and petitions on
both sides of the question. Some
of them urged him to sign the
bill and others asked him to veto
it. He said that he was in a
quandary as to what to do, and
that he would not reach a decision
until he had read the bill careful-
ly and had mastered its contents,
The governor incidentally remark-
ed that judging by some of his cor-
Holiday
Prom jfrlington’s Sreatest P/oliday Store.
This is a holiday store from bottom to top. I have gather-
ed from the market the most comprehensive exhibit of hoi-
iday goods ever seen in this city or section. Visit my store
and see for yourself. From now until December 26 for ev-
ery $1.00 you trade with me you will get a ticket for a
chance at the $10 present. Everything in my millinery line
for the next CO days at a sacrifice.
Mrs. R. E. Layton,
ARLINGTON, GA.
ARLINGTON, GA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5. 1901.
respondence the retail liquor men
wanted him to veto the measure
and the wholesale dealers wanted
him to sign it.
A good many senators and
members of the house called to
see him today in connection with
his disposition of the bill, and
when they left they expressed the
belief that a veto was practically
certain. This belief is so strong
that some of the legislators who
have dispensary bills ave ex-
pressed a determination to take
them out of the hands of the tem¬
perance committees of both
houses and make an effort to rush
them through during the remain¬
ing few days of the session.
Mrs. Marie Louise Myrick ex-
hibited very bad taste at the Estill
banquet when she delivered a
harangue in the gubernatorial
terests of Pope Brown. Even
she was opposed to the Savannah
man, courtesy to her host should
have prompted her silence while
eating his oysters. But Marie is
a naughty old girl.—Sparta
hemian.
ANOTHER CANDIDATE.
Hon. James M. Smith, of Oglethorpe County,
Announces for Governor.
An Atlanta dispatch says: It
is stated here this afternoon upon
good authority that Hon. James
M. Smith, the Oglethorpe county
planter, has determined to
the race for governor, and that
early next week he will come to
Atlanta for the purpose of giving
to the press his official announce-
ment, and also to hold a
conference with some of his
friends, with the view of opening
the campaign. Yesterday Mr.
Smith gave a ’possum dinner at
his residence at Smithsonia, at
which about a dozen of his politi¬
cal friends in that section of the
state were present.
Here it was that the announce¬
ment was made that Col. Smith
would be a candidate. Among
those present were Senator J. M.
Holder of the thirty-third, Repre¬
sentative Harp of Jackson, Hon.
Polk Thompson of Oconee, and
Solicitor-General Dave Meadows
of that circuit. Col. Smith, it is
said, is worth $200,000, and that
he is willing to put up at least
half of that for the governorship.
He owns 10,000 acres of land in
one lump and plants extensively.
Col. Smith has been one of the
lessees of state convicts for a long
number of years, and much of his
wealth comes from working felony
and misdemeanor convicts upon
his plantation and in the con¬
struction of a railroad in his sec¬
tion. He has been a member of
the legislature and has also repre¬
sented his district in the senate.
Col. Smith is well known all over
Georgia, and his friends say that
he will make the race as the farm¬
ers’ candidate for governor.
Laughter a Duty.
Laughter is a duty and not a
very difficult duty, either, to
young people. It is not hard for
young people to laugh. They
should be encouraged to cultivate
laughter as a Christian grace,
never losing the art or allowing it
to fall into disuse. Let the cliil-
dren laugh at table, even giggle if
they wish to, rather than be
solemn and serious. People
should seek always to be cheerful.
To do what is right, obeying one’s
conscience, fills a heart with glad¬
ness and song, and laughter natu¬
rally follows. There is a mision
for humor. The woman who can
make others laugh may be a great
blessing to her fellow women.
There are times in one’s experience
when a bit of fun is better, more
a means of grace, than a serious
sermon would be. There are
times when the best help we can
give a friend is to make
laugh. The wise man says: “A
merry heart doeth good like a
medicine.” A hearty laugh would
cure many a sickly feeling, drive
away the blues and change the
whole aspect of life.—Ex.
Judge Sheffield and Blind Tigers,
The Liberal-Enterprise heartily
i ndorges the action of Judge Shef-
field in not allowing those con-
yicted last week of operating blind
tigers to pay a fine in money. The
people of the county have said by
their votes that they did not want
the sale of whiskey licensed in our
midst. To permit blind tigers to
operate from one court to the next
and then allow them to go free by
paying a small fine is to almost as
effectually thwart the will of the
people as if they were granted
license to run open barrooms.
Therefore the most effectual way
of stamping out the blind tiger
curse is in pursuit of just the
course adopted by Judge Sheffield
last week. We know he has been
censured by some of our people,
those who desire to bring all pos¬
sible odium on our prohibition
law and hence delight in the
knowledge that the blind tigers
are flourishing in our midst. But
we believe that with a large ma¬
jority of our people the Judge’s
action has but served to strengthen
him.—Cuthbert Li beral-Enter-
prise.
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Time to Raise Pork.
It is favorable tim# for south¬
ern farmers to raise pork. They
have a peculiar advantage over
the pork raisers of the west, es¬
pecially in a year of short corn
crops, for there a short corn crop
means a short hog crop; here it
does not necessarily mean the
same thing, because southern
farmers are not restricted to corn
for pork production. In fact,
there is a distinct advantage in
growing and feeding crops other
and more certain than corn. Corn
is the best known feed for putting
fat on hogs, but for no other pur¬
pose. Pasturage and not grain
crops is fa* better for growth, and
growth is far more than half the
hog. On account of scarcity of
the corn and consequent
scarcity of hogs in the great hog-
producing northwest pork is now-
high and must remain so for at
least two years. Therefore, those
who have hogs to market will f l0
them more profitable than if
corn crop had been a much
one.—Texas Farm and Ranoh,
You Know What fou Are Taking,
r.^,T Chill Tonic nyOU because , e0rcra the ' 8 formula ^ s ‘*
j plainly printed on every bottle
mg that it is simply Iron and
ine in a tasteless term. No cure
pay. 50c, in 10-26 lyr,
NUMBER 50.
STANDS BY COUNTRY EDITORS
House Refuses to Pass Bill Which Would
Reduce Income of Newspapers.
Atlanta, Dec. 2.—The house
appears to be friendly to the coun¬
try editors, for it turned down
the request of Mr. Copeland, of
It alker, to reconsider the action
of Friday in defeating the charter
notice bill.
It refused to pass the bill, the
effect of w hich would be to reduce
the income of newspapers, whose
cause Mr. Wilson, of Clay, feel¬
ingly championed.
Mr. Copeland, of Walker, mov-
ed to reconsider the action of the
house in defeating his bill to re-
duce the time to publish applica¬
tions for charter from four weeks
to one.
Mr. Bower opposed reconsidera¬
tion and said aside from the fact
that these notices should be pub¬
lished four weeks so as to let the
people know what unusual pow¬
ers were being conferred upon ar¬
tificial persons, it is a thrust at the
country newspapers.
Mr. Wilson, of Clay, said it
was an unnecessary fling unselfish at coun¬
try editors, the most
and underpaid class of people in
the state. “Why, they are paid
off in cabbages and turnips,” he
said. “If they got $4 per diem as
we do, they would feel rich. They
send you a paper for all the year
with all the local and state news,
and as much general news as they
can give, and take their pay for it
with a load of wood in summer
when they don’t need it. Some
of the members here owe their
seats to these editors. I under¬
stand that the gentleman from
Walker owes his seat to the county
editor, and I expect to see him
jumped on when he returns,
home.”
Mr. Copeland rejoined that he
was not the product of cabbages
and turnips. They may pay the
country editors in south Georgia
on cabbages and turnips, but up
in my section we pay th r jm m
gold and silver. Other states, in-
eluding New Jersey required ir.
publication. These companies go
elsewhere bec,„ use it ig eg**, aml
quicker to get charter* In other ,
states than in Georgia, He wt..
willing to the charge U.
r me issue the sum# as now fu¬
four issues.
Mr, Morris, of Cobb, inquired
if the law did not require to pay
for so much per insertion, and if
as Mr. Park asked, three-fourths
of the cost was in the original
c omp»»itiou. tfceir profit woui 1
not be entirely cut off.
The motion to reconsider w f
lost Uy a vote of 85 to 54.
Pile-ine Cures Piles!
Money refunded if it ever fails.