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The Blackshear Times
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THE Times ITtit.mttiNi; Co.,
Blackshear, Ga.
“Thi* ItlnckvWwr Tine." and the Savan
nah Wm klv News, IxUh olio y asr, for $1.76.
riutxKTibe now)
A bully )H a coward when corner
<m1.
Liberty mid license uit* antithetic
al, The luitcr destroys the former.
Do not try to control others in
matters in which you claim liberty
f..r yourself.
Government by the people docs
not mean the government of the
toob.
When honesty is the child ol policy
it is n bustard. Honesty is the off
spring ol conviction. Ho who makes
policy Ins guide is apt lo lie led
antniy ami overtake ruin.
“When an American has lost his
nolf respect us u citizen and as a man,
ho is demoralized, and cannot be
trusted with the money to pay for u
dinner." It is Oliver Wendell Holmes
who says this, and in addition to the
authority oi his name, it carries
with it the force of truth. Now,
whut is it to lose one's “self ro-poct
as a citizen und as a man?'' Wo
lose oar self-respect, -‘us n citizen/’
when wo fail in obedience to the laws
which, ns voters, wc had a share in
iramiug. We lose our sell-respect,
-‘as a man," when, in thought, word,
or deed wo forget our obligations to
Ood's moral law, “to do unto others
as we would be done by,"
A sectional contest in congress
does not necessarily imply a contest
between the sections. Po'ilical fire
works at the capital are natural
features of the national annual enter
taiomont, ond il, through reckless
rtvss, our representatives, occasional
ly, singe each others faces, the
people can afford to laugh at their
antics, conscious that they are* paid
for the performance. It is quite
probable that with the growth ol
local material interests, and the
increase of local prosperity, but little
generi*l enthusiasm will bo aromod
by the discussion ol mere “side
issues,” The time for tiic natiounl
pulse to l>o quickened by the rumbling
of the wheels of party war chariots
is distant, and tie drama of the
congressional stage will attract us
only in the few hours of leisure at
our disposal. The heat ol sectional
strife at Washington will scarcely be
Belt beyond its limits sufficiently to
render tho temperature unpleasant '
and the cditoiiul contingent will ,
prove equal to any emergency that
may arise
We have had, so tar, a phenom
enal winter, or more truthlully, no
wiuter at all. The wood and coal
business has. doubtless, been the
reverse ot a success, und the dry
goods ami clothing establishments
bare provided for a soa-on that has
not cubic to t'tuo. The absence
rain is beginning to be severely telt
in maay sections ol the country, and
p.easant though the weather is, U i
doubtful il it is as conducive to the
general health as a cooler a linos
phere wou!»l be. Blackshear and its
vicinity are beginning their prep
arations (or g;m(cn operatioas, and
if, as is often the ease a mild winter
winds up with a late lingering spring.
and untimely trost*, there may be
trouble ahead lor amaU ur vegetable
growers. The more knowing ones
don’t generally place itnplcicit eonfi
deuce in fie dork o! the wcathei
Thcaghts f;r the New Tear.
pJen-c county enter? 1 upon the
new year, fraught as it must be with
manv unanticipated public and priv
ate result-, with lair prospects «nd
renewed hopes. “Sufficient tor the
day is th<-. evil thereof.” To nutie*
iftatc misfortune is to get a double
•lose of it, il it cornea to us. To
allow our hopes to range over too
high a plane for our ahflity is to
invite disappointment. To lie con
tent with the dead level ol the past
is not worthy of onr traditions Hut
logo forward in the path of duty
with hunih'e reliance on the love of
God, ond His blessing on the labors
that await ms, and with our aims
pointing steadily towards improve
inert in mental, moral ond material
status is to take coun-el of wisdom,
and we can well aff'rd ti await with
patience and hope whatever destiny
the future may contain.
The woikof the farm is, in its
nature, more or less, routine, yet not
necessarily monotonous sameness.
Perhaps mistakes were made last
year Unit . xpenemc will teach how
to avoid tins. Kx|X‘tience is, in lact.
the farmers' best guide. Observa
tion, too, will have satisfied him oi
the benefits that accrued to a neigh
bor Irom die adoption of means and
appliances in the shape of improved
implements, more elaborate system,
and a more careful economy by the
selection of new methods. There
cannot be monotony when Nature is
our mistress. Every fresh view of
her face reveals shudes. and varieties
and contra.-ts that niu-t lie studied to
render us familiar with her humor
and caprice.
Pierce county is the homo of the
farmer, and agriculture its
employment, nml means of support.
The earth is therefore our nursing
mother, and Gml our
Bcneluctor.
1 .1 our towns anti villages the work
of supplying tho needs of the farm is
chiefly done. While the county scut
of local government, is specially con
cerned to keep a watchlul eye upon
the outer world, while attending to
the local business committed by the
county , to iu c orge.
In this duty let the town ol Black
-heat .n not. ii inieres s ait
not sc t . i > 0(5,1 • IC - V arc " 011 1
cal With those of her county; sue
the focus of county interests, and the
\t.dtUo »>r the aimj ol wo ns in
tho He ds of old Pierce. At the close
-I this may Blackshear , bear
year
testimony to tho growth of her
eofln.y by her own advancement
material prosperity and mental
lire. Sptratf, mtsert; eocete,
filters.
Maybe okra fibre may prove an
instrument in tho hands of the
or to enable him to smash the
trust. Mr. TV. K. Sudlmv, of Man
fhtvter, England, reports to the
Commissioner of Agriculture of S uth
Carolina that lie can produce okra
fibre at a cost ol one cent per pound.
He says he can make a machine
will not cost more than an ordinary
cotton gin, which will separate okra
fibre thoroughly and thus enable the
farmers o l the slate lo prod me n
valuable crop at stead
Abamloned rice fields, lie
would grow okra luxuriantly. As
the use ol okra fibre, Mr. Su.llow
ihaiitean be sul»titute»I
successfully lor juic in all ils
forms. There is much
mnnilestcd in the Mitiject,
ami the farmers aie eMdcnt y i.i
earnest in their tight against the
and another “trusts, combinations
and monopolies.
The Blair Bill.
The passage of tho Biair eduen
tional Bit! by the present Congress is a
consummation devoutly to be wished,
The I’ublic School system, us ilius
trated by results in the several
for from approximating a reason
able expectation on the part ol even
ils strongest cdrocates, ami, central
matron or no, cannot be worsted
charging the Secretary of the In
tenor with the administration of a
fund lor educational purposes
much needed as a reenforcement of
means at the disposal of the sever
states.
There can be no object ion to the
details of the school system of each
state being annually reported to the
Secretary ol the Interior. Education
is, in fact, a national interest, in a
sense than a State one, oo
i he principle that the “mailer iuteic.-i
'.a involve*! in the greater. Copies
of school b>->ok“ U“C*1 are to to be filed
in the Interior Department.
our text b<»oks. in our pa bite schools,
determined by any intelligible
Icism ill the State, or m the selection
uninfluenced by the material induce
meats offered by powerful publishing
concerns?
Pol.tical machines are a
we grant, nisi centralization not to
be sought as a blessing, but the
danger ol a growing illiteracy is a
greater evil, and far more threaten
ing in its aspect lo the liberties ol
the. future than the very slight
advance towards centralized power
likely to accrue Irom the passage ol
the Blair Bill. The Jia/ttmore Sun
is, perhaps, unnecessarily alarmed.
Liberty end Thought.
'•Liberty is often a heavy frurJen on
a man Il involves tout necessity
for perpetual choice which is the
Kind of labor men have always dread
^ In common life we shirk it by
, H ., )ich tilka Uie place
cf Kclf . (let , rmin:ili , ni . In poIitics
But an American citizen cannot
thus evado the responsibility
the buideu ol cause is individual
well as aggregative. An American
citizen cannot bo ignorant, either, as
the subjects of an old world mon
archy are ignorant politically. Lite
itself is here an education. Election
days, national, state and local, are
school days in ,-pite of »?, Our
neighbors talk, and we are oblige to
hour. Even ihe intangible gas of a
wirepulling candidate has an enligut
n a mimi above
the grade of animal instinct, The
thinking machine is nature's gilt to
man, and may dog with the rust ol
neglect, but, however imperceptible
its motion, it does grind out thoughts,
good or bad, sound or rotten, that
influence our actions, and the object
ol the schools is to feed it with mat
ter that, shall enable us to act as in
telligent beings. The Aineiican cit
izetn’ responsibility to his God is
hoavjcr m „ ny *^ iban
l)iat of q,,, of a monarchy,
for he shares the responsibility of the
^ fla wc ,, a8 lhBt ol lhe , sub „
R jg a|| , )(lsh |h|g inoat(linff
ubou ^|, e >> S€l r Van fa Q | i| ie people;’’
the , magistrate . . , . in a „ Republic is „ a
nilcr of „ UJ le> a8 long 09 he
^ Uu> offlt!C> #ntl tlu , peo|llc 0we
him CVCfl mort . ainplo ol!e()iencc tban
^ t f<| t , u> f( „. „ 0 j§
their own creation. Hence the ne
eexaity for the e\crci.-.e of plenary
thought on the part of an American
in casting his vote, and the
vulue of education a< a leeder to the
thinking machine. At the threshold
of th<> New Year we should oil that
machine carefully.
£ TOlIl 0UI* COITSSpOllu*
piltQ 1 *”*
j The Schjcl Tund
mtor h LACK 8HBau TlMES.-In
view of the evident dissatisfaction
ab ,, u t ( be public school lund lor la.-l
voar W ould it not Ik* in order lor the
‘
untv offlocrs tn replv , n your
unin!(f to the following questions?
jj- all appropriation, per capita,
ma j e on the face ol the return for
114 children of school age in Black
; f .| loar on j vicinity, tor 1889, what
btcomCH 0 { the surplus arising Irom
I tho (ucl that „ n!y ha| . that numbe r,
a pp roX j matelyi go fo school ?
Many think that this per capita
fund is available the year round, and
that it lies in the bauds of the tress
| urer lor that purpose. Of course the
treasurer can only pay it out or or
ders officially bearing the authority
‘'snat . 1 know,
l "° ! ,u ‘C*- - or
ll,0,v u,a -' ^ "° suc ^ surplus, lliere
“ l0 Hiany iu the county who are not
* u ® c ‘ et M' conversant with public
^^^of r, - bt of ‘ g«d“ t0 UMhe^vurt lh ! c<>u ^ l,0U f e l °
examine . t e > *> 1 . > or taems*' ves.
>r tbo botllllt “ l ! ‘ u an official
returD should Ik? published,
Ensures.
Hole-in-the-wall, Pierce county,
January 4. 1890.
For one dollar you will wire this
r < *l'*’ r werv week f> r iwelve months.
^SnSw W°“ r
p or onf . dollar you will receive this
p.v ,r: very wt^li for twelve months.
Blackshear ' . A ca. d emy.
Tln- unexpired term of Uri: rsééiom-wi- lvpt‘ll ’ ‘
)Ionday Llorning- J mxuary 13 1890.
The term will be Five Mnntha, allowing llr‘ pupils, emvring, t‘n- lwnvlit of the
Public School Fund for four months, the pamms arc to pay llu‘ tulvinn fur the fifih
month, which will be one dallnranll filly couls, (SL303 and will be (luv at the expira—
tion of lhe fifth month. This cnubll s all pupils to go! fivv munflu sclumlmf-Z {“l‘ $145“
Tako advunmgc of this cheap term, and send \‘uur ohildn-u. l'upilx mm enter at
any time, but would be glad to have all enter the first clay, n in imp )rmnt.
[9,,AIJ. pupds over the school age will be charged u moderate tuitionffik
11’ OB]. G. {MITCHELL Jr. , I’I'im‘l/ml.
1“"9’13 131ncks] Lear. (J‘s eorgiu.
Have Your Pictures
COPIED & ENLARGED
I am located in my tent on Court
bones square, and am prepared to
your old laded pictures in any style
and size, and at reasonable prices.
Come and see my samples. All of
my work guaranteed to give satislac
tion.
W. J. GARDNER,
decl4Gm. WaycrosS. Ga.
POINTS OF SUPERIORITY OF
The Damascus Plow-
1st — The mould-bo ml is cast on polished
iron plat- h, included und is herder than
the highest tempered steel. It will, in
sandy soil, last ten time: as long as
a cast-iron mould-hoard, and will scour
in sticky soil where a cast one will not
2nd.—Most one-horse plows are top heavy;
the Damascus has most of its weignt
h- low the top of the mould-board, and
whether at work or standing still it
will stand up of its own aejord. It
runs lor this reason v-ry steady and
easy f *r the plowman.
3rd.—The shape of the standard makes it
less liable lo chg than oilier plows,
ltl>. —Th* draft is known as a “cenwe
draft" and on tho ‘‘Damascus’’ is as
much so as is that of a polo ot a two
horse wagon.
£lh.— There is no head of the beam holt or
obstruction of anv sort lor trash to
hang to.
Oth.—There is room for tra-di lo run ofl'
to the left as well as to lhe right of the
standard.
7th.—The beam is adjustable on the shifter
between the handles, so as to turn it
to or from the land, so the exact centre
of draft may be found.
8th.—T he handles are so placed that the
plowman walks in the furrow diiectly
behind the plow,
Oth.—From the thickness and compact
arrangement ol the castings it i. ti e
strongest one-horse plow in the mark
< t
lOlli.—The handles are fastened directly
to the standard, which takes all strain
off the mould-board and landside, and
brings the plow under perfect control
ot the plowman.
11th,- -The wearing parts of the land-ide
and sh ire are material thoroughly chilled, and
ail of the and workmanship
are of the be-t.
12th.—Tl is the only genuine chill'd plow
ever put upon the market at about the
price of common cast-iron plows.
MANUFACTURED by
ROLAND PLOW WORKS, Baltimore,
- KOR * ALE nY -
A. P. BRANTLEY A CO.,
RLACKSHE\R, ga.,
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F LlIC, _ . . & AcCHlOnt .
11*0,
JLHSO -o
AGENT,
YVAYCROSS, GA.
ZeO- Nothing but first-class Com
panics repn-sentud.
iNsnuNUK effevtetl on all class o!
property at lowest rates, deel4!y.
THEN & WATERS
— DF vLFRS IX—
GcilGr^l MGrCll9.IldiS6,
BLACKSHEAR, GA.
—:oo:—
Our Jeweler, J. M. Waters,
Ad trt » n kinds firing.
elicits your work at lowest
prices for cssh.
Sewing Machine Supplies,
—SUCH .18—
PARTS, ACCESSORIES AC
Furnished on short notice: needles,
oil, bands, spooler-rubbers kept
on hand all the time.
Terms Cash, or country pro
duee. Give us a trial.
octlO ly.
HENRY A. M’DQNOUGH )
--DEALER IN-
General Merchandise,
Patterson, Georgia.
Carries in stock everything lor the Farmers need, and sells at prices
to defy competition. My stock consists < f
Dry Gooch, Groceries,
Hardware , Boots,
Shoes, Hah, Caps tye., Sc.,
IN FACT, everything usually kept in a first-class Country Store, lnun a
cambric needle to
SHIN 1 IUII HIV
MONEY SAVED TO THOSE WHO BUY Of m m < a'
H. A. M’DONOUGK mr
J
Patterson, Ga.
dccltJ ly.
BRANTLEY, SESSIONS & GO.,
MARIETTA, O-JL.
The Largest Store In North Georgia .
Imported Novelty Suits,
Foreign and Domestic
Dress Goods,
Plaids and Trimmings.
Silks and Velvets,
WooleilS
Hosiery # and Gloves,
RRANTLEY, SESSIONS & CO.
novIStl
JOHN A. STRICKLAND,
-DEALER IN
General Merchandise,
Country Produce Ac.
BLACKSHEAR, GEORGIA.
nov 21 ly
the hues rniLiiiii; iiiiimv.
IS PREPARED TO DO ALL MANNER OF
JOB WORK, PROMPTLY A^3)
AT REASONABLE PRICES. Nothing but FIRST-CLASS Work done,
Patronage solicited. BLACKSHEAR, GA.
MRBER I - L WHIP . V
m3'1’ntroniz" Mr. JOHN AIDRIDGE'S
BR [{BI‘IR SIILH’. in tho n-ur ul‘ (In: ICX
dress ullict‘, if )(m w.n.l u gum} rhuvv, (-u'.
T. L. ACOSTA & 60.
Large and varied stock of (-lmtcu
FANCY & FAMILY
GROCE R 1 ES,
Every thing nccdvd (or the table.
B?BOIALTY IN FIND onnw-
1N0 QOBAOOO It CIGARS.
PRICES LOW !
Satisfinctmn guurnnivcd
BLACKSHEAR, GA.
GO TO
\Y. E. Lockhart’s
—For FIRST CLASS
GROCERIES
Fancy Patent Flour \
A Specially.
The Celebrated Gravely Tobacco
and “Daily Grub” Cigars always in
stock
Highest market ptice paid (or al
country produce.
BLACKS A EAR,---GEORGIA.
Exterminate the Roaches.
Larkin’s Ligliining Roach Exierminatcr
the best on the market. For sale by
A. 1*. BRANTLEY & CO.
Advertise in The
Times.
Ladies Wraps,
FRENCH MILLINERY.
Furnishings, Fine Slices,
Hats.
Mail order department unde- the per
ns ‘ supervision of one of the firm.
5STKcquc.-ts for Ramp'eg and prices,
prompt attention.
HOTELS.
BROWN HOUSE:
NEAR THE RAIL ROAD DEPOT/
Blackshear, Ga
Special conveniences for Cummer
cial Travelers.
Urs. Allen Brown, Pro’s.
STRICKLAND ►
-< HODSE.
— Cppoute the lepet—
Blackshear, Ga.
1° business part of the town, Terms
reasonable.
J. W. STRICKLAND.
Proprietor*
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