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The Miller County Liberal vol. xv. p ■■■■■■• SBBMMMKB «■■■• WBHMWBBW effiSKOD S3K» OB I Have Moved In one of the new Wilkin Buildings and I you will find me here at all times. I am, in a | place where I can work and give you better ser vice than ever. Having no fuss or excitement I to bother me and will make all jobs good, that I hasn't come up to what was expected. I am I here for buisness and to stay and you will find | here at all times a first class line of everything pertaining to the Jewelry Business. I have equipped my repair dep’t with Tags | and Circulars. Nothing can become misplace d I or lost. Remember I guarantee satisfaction and will make good anything I sell. YOURS FOR SERVICE | GUESS I The correct number of pieces in a n 18 size El- g gin Whole Model complete watch and get a Big Ben clock FREE. All you have to do is to call | around and see me and. give me the number yon | belive in. No trick. Come over on White Way ■ and see me. EDWIN J. HUNTER. Local Paragraphs. Surely April has been the month of shower? in the year of 1912. Col. B. T. Castellow of Cuthbert is spending the week here mmg. ling with the many voters attend, tog Supremo eouit. Mr. and Mrs Wm Smith of th* Belleview community were injtown yesterday. A considerable amount of hail fell iu thia a ction Saturday and Monday. Due marriage has been announ •ed to be so’einuized in this city during the month of June; and Dame Rumor knowingly assertn that two ceremonies will be per formed here, and that two of Col quitt’s fair girls will he taken otti er cities more anon. Mr and Mrs John Cook were here Monday, guests of their son, Mr Roy Cook. Snperioi court convened Mon day. Large crowds have been here this week. The most eminent editor on Heart's papers, Biisbane, fre. qaently tosses bouqeets Io the weekly press; but the Atlanta Georgian, the newest Hearst dai ly, has eut off ths weekly exchan ges. This is i.ot inten led as a klcki for ws do uot miss the Geor gian ... Cuthbsrt Leader- Maks the printer your partner, Vos and he can do more for the hmineaa good of the town than and any other one man.— Mer- Journal. If a man could always be as po lite te his pwn wife a, he tries td •fee tq (onae other man's wife, there gppld be more smiles than tears In this old world we are living in. 4-Greensboro Herald Journal. Getting rich quickly is not al ways digcqlt, but it is a'ways dan gerous—Youth’s Companion* Wkether state prohibition cap prohibit is to be answered by the United States Supreme Court in a case thet arose under the Tenne aee law against the manufacture of ijqqor. Adi filler wliu believed that he eould keep on making whis. key if he sold none of it inside the state has been sentenced to impris, onjaent, He has appealed to the United Btatee Supreme Court against what he regards as a re striction on interstate commerce. —Youth’s Companion. Constant fault-finding is like sand in the sugar. It lessens the sweetness of life and sets the teeth on edge.--Youth's Companion. As we ge to press we learn of the sad death of Mr Eager Shef field. A fitting notice will appear a onr next iasds. There are a few citizens in C 1- quitt who would have all mon pos sess the powr'i of forgiving, Y.s, these “few” citizei s would have you forgive them for nnj incon sideration on their part towards you: but Ob! how anxious they are that you consider their own neces sities. Well “Forget and forgive it will help you to live But no man can help you to die” is the advice of Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the great authoress. -We belteye Windrow Wilson will sweep the state. Georgians will be loyal to their own former fellow citizen. Here is one idea expressed by Senator Hoke Smith “Mr. Underwood is not running for President in the United States He is only to be voted for in Geor gia for President, while he is real ly runtii<ig_for Congress from the Burmingham district. Do we wish a S mthern man nominated fcr the Preaidecy? If so, we should lay aside personal feeling, quit wasting support on a man who is not rellr in the rase, and give our support to the one] Southern man who can ba nomi nated, and that man, every impar tial person must concede, is Gov snor Wilson.” IS IT FAIR. Mr. B 'Belt, in his platform for the Legislature, says he favors abolishing the Law under which they collect thes3.ooCommutation tax He has now a oircqlar heZore the people ihowing according to Mr. Moody’s figures that in order to raise the approximate sum of $3200.00 dt-rleyed from this oommu’atlon tax it will require a levy of only 1 3-b mills on the whole of tar taxable property cf the county to reinburSt the Ireaatny for thia enm. Ris argument in defense of bis platform sounds good but he bat failed to show the actual results should h*’ ever get the law abi lished. He argues that a man will bav? to be worth $2500.00 before his law would effcqt him. But he doesn't tell you that abolishing this law would practically relieve approximately 75 per caul ot the negro road tax. In other words approximately four hundred negroes in this coun ty pay this $3 00 oom nutation Mad tax, wh ch amounts to $1200.00. They alec pay $2.00 on the sloto.oo or $2 00 advalcrem road tax, a grand total of SI4OO 00. Under Mr Beach’a way of arranging things you will readily s a e that the S2OO 00 now t aid f lt:a a levy of 1 3-8 mills which amounts to $1 37 1-2 on taxable property as given in by m-grors a grand total of $337.50 as compared to$1400(K) now paid. Think over it fellow citizens and see if you can jm.«ify yourself in supporting a man on such a plat, form. ■ Yon is <o sevre H. Drew Roberts. Club Entertained. Mrs E. B. Baugbn entertained the club Wednesday afternoon in a delightful manner. Mukdames B. P. Coachman, N L Stapleton, S. M Watson, R. H. Saunders, W. C. Dancer, F. D. Bush, and Harry Stein were pns. ent, Mrs Stein, one among the bright est members, won the first prize in a Biblical contest and another ot th* highly accomplished mambar COLQUITT, GEORGIA, -WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2.'/ 1912. Trestle Damaged. Traffic along the G F. & A. Ry. was greatly retarded Monday when it was f.mnd that the railroai tr. stl." across the “Big Drain’ just below Buy km was so b idly in jured by the recent rains that tin trains cool I not pass over it. The Norih bound and South bound met as near as possible an the mnil and passengers were transferred from one train to the other. x Boykin Items. Every one is wishing the rain would cease. Toe heavy rains of ths past few days are making the farmers feel very much discourag' d A good many of onr citiz. ns are attending court in Colquitt this week. Miss Matlie Lou Stamper ac companied by Misses Gertie Hatch er and J je G rimes and Sidney Par rot spent a few days last week vis iting her relatives in Jakin. Messrs R .land Middleton am Eager Lunsl'i rd of Thompson I’own community were welconn guests here Sunday after noon. Miss Trudie Hatcher spent a fey days last week in Bibcock. - | Mr Albert Knighten of Benev olence v'sited his sister Mis. 0. E Hixon n few days ago. Mrs. S. L. Dean and Mrs. Hirttii, Parrot spent Thursday in Bain bridge entertained in a dental office Messrs Jim Guess and Mauric Valentine of Eldorendo were pleas ant v : sitors here Sunday afternoon Mis. fl. Z. Clifton has been .vis iting relatives in Colquitt. Mr. H. D. Dean of St Marks Fla. is spending few days here with home folks. We are sorry to report Mrs. Johnnie Nalls is on the sicklist. Little Miss Ossie Cook of Col riuit is spending a few days with her cousin Lura Harrell. Miss Luna Mae McDonald pass ed thru here Sunday evening en |route to her school at Pondtown. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Rawls are the proud possessors of a baby girl. The little one will be chris tened “Jimtr ie”. Mrs N. L Stapleton won the priz in a contest of original conum druins. After the contests a luncheon of two courses was served, the first consisted of chicken cioquetts, to mato sandwiches with Mayonaise dressing, stuffed dates. sarnt< ga chips, piekies end crackers, the second, strawberry si ort cakes. Mrs Baughn is n charming hos tess and the members left under obligations to her for a most pleas ant afternoon The Lost Ship. When the survivors from the ilifateil Titsnic, the finest steamship ever built reached New-York, many facts and heart rending incidents were made Known. Sixteen hundred and thirty-five huttian beings went down just after midnight Mondty morning, the 15th hist. Surely bjaut'ful angels wardens stood holding the pearly gates aga f r the passage of the lirsVc spirits whose bodies found a grave in the boltim of the Atlantic. The accident seems to Live been caused by the crew believing the litanio uusinKable. Although warned that ice bergs from the frozen Arctic regions were drifting Southward, the crew iu their mad desire o breaK th * record for swiftness Ou the maiden trip of the Titania heeded not the warnings. U hen the members of the band were last seen they were standing Knee deep In the water playing “Nearer My God To Thee.” Seven hundred and forty-five survivors were picked up by the Car. pathisi, the steam ship which rescued those who were io life boats or in rafts. Six of those rescued died from exposure. B low we reproduce from the Atlanta Journal an estimate of the wealth of some of the men who perish* 1, and the experiences of some wtio were picKed up. ESTIMATED WEALTH OF TWELVE LOST AMERICANS IS $191,000,000 l< hn Jacob Astor, head of f!:e house of Astor in Am*nca. society leader and one of the richest if not the richest land owner in the United States,..sl2s 000000 ienjimiu Guggenheim, son of Meyer Guggenheim, and a member of the Smelter trust .... * 10 000000 George D Wick, Youngstown, Ohio, a cuai and iron mag- nate 5,000,000 [sidor Straus, merchant and philanthropist; member of the firms of L. Straus & Co., R. H. Macy & Co. and Abraham & Straus .. 5,(00,000 ieo’-ge I) W idetter, of Philadelphia, s m of P. A. B. Wide- ner, society man and promoter of many enterprises and traefion schemess,ouo,ooo Harry Elkins Widener, his son 2, OX),000 V-lhur Ryerson, of Philadelphia 5,000,000 William C Dulles, member of an old Philadelphia family 2,500,000 0. Duane Williams, Philadelphia.. 2,000,000 Frederick Sutton, Philadelphia... 5,00,000 Charles M. Hays, president of the Grand Trunk railroad one qf the most noted railroad npa in the county 3,000,000 Henry B. Harris, owner of the Hudson, Hairia and other tbeatsrf 1,000,000 ffifti'odo.ooo Col. Gracies Story. Colonel Grade tol 1 ot how he was driven to the topmoat deck when the rhip settl'd, and was the sole survivor after the wave that swept her just before her final plunge had passed. ‘I jumped with the wave,” said he. “just as I have often jamped with the breakers at the seishore. By great good fortune I managed to grasp the brass railing on the deck above, and I hung on by might and main. When the ship clunged down I was forced to let go, and I was swiiled around and around for what seemed to bs an eternal time, Thon I came to the surface, to find the sea a mass of tangled wreck age. “Luckily, I was unhurt, and easting about, I managed to seize a wooden block floating nearby. When I had recovered my breath I hecovered a large canvas and cork life raft which had Aisled up. A man, whose nam< I did not learn, was struggling toward it from some wn ck ge to which he had clung. I oast off and helped him to get on the raft, and we then began the work of rescuing those who had jump ed into tile sea and were floundering in the water. Thirty Aboard Raft. “When dawn broke there were thirty of us on the raft, standing xnro deep in the icy water, and afraid to move lest the evsnky craft be. overturned. Several unfortunates, benumber and half dead, besought us to sav them, and one or two made and effort to reach us, bnt we had to warn them away. Had we made any effut to save them, we all might have p risked. Numbed By Cold. 1 The honrsthat elapsed before we were picked up by the Csrpathis were the longest and most terrible that I ever spent. Praetieally without any sensation of feeling because of the ioy waler, we were al m >st dropping f’om fatigue. We were afraid to turn around to look to see whether were seen by passing craft, and when some one who was facing the wind, stated that a ship was ceming, one of the men broke into hysterics,” Col G.acie denied with emphasis that any men were fired apon, and declared that only once was a revolver discharged. “This was to intimidate some steerage passengers,” he said, ‘who had tumbled into a boat before it was prepared for launching. This shot was fired iu the air, and whet, the foreigners were fold that the next v-ould be directed at them, they promptly returned to the deck. There was no confusion, an Ino panie.” Col. Graeie was in his urtb when the vessel smashed into the berg, -ind was aroused by the jar. He looked at bis watch, be said, and found it was just midnight. The ship sank with him at 2;22 a. m., for his watch stopped at that hour. “Before I retired,” said UoL Grack, ”1 b»d a long talk with Charles H. Haynes, president ot the Grand Trunk railroad. One of the last things Mr Haynes said is this. ‘ The White Stat, the Cuarad and Hamburg-Atneriean lines, are levoting their attention and ingenuity in vising with the other, to at-J :ain the supremacy in luxuiious ships, and in making speed records, i The time will soon come when this will be cheeked by some appeal.; mg disaster.” “Poor fellow, a few hours later be was dead.” News From Route 3. Most all the nice of this part of the county are attending court this week. We are glad to know Miss Linda Grimes is Vetter. She has been on the sick list for some time. Mr Jim Kimbre! called on his best girl Sunday. Miss Bettie Grimes is still with her home folks. There was a large crowd at Sun day school Sunday P. M. Mhs Jessie Grimes is visiting her sister Mrs J. S. Thompson of Colquitt this week. Miss Ruth Grimes was with her home folks Saturday and Sunday. Mr Will Johnson ha? got the big head this wiek. You can’t guess how come it, why the mumps. Mies Orsie Williams of Colquitt has b u en with her little friend Miss Jessie Gri nes tor the last few days. Master Griggs Giimes has had the smiles all the weeK He saw his sweetheart Sunday. Misslmone Grimes is in town courting this weeK. Saydont throw me in the waste basKet and I will come again. Rose Bud. Mayhaw News. The burners are geting badly behind with their crops around Maybaw. They have a nice hay crop. Mr I. A. Bush and wife went off on a visit last Tuesday and will return home Sunday afternoon. Mr Bruton Davis and Mies Jes sie Grimsley passed through our burg Sunday. The sing was very dull nt flat creek. Suadny. Mr I. A. Bush has a rabbit proof garden, for it is overflowei with water. To keep fleas from biting you, first catch them, pull their teeth out or mussel them and to keep the rabbits from bothering your garden catch them, and stick a sharp stick through his head. Regular Correspondent. The Storms. The wind and rain Wednesday, the 17th inst, wrought much dam age co the farmers the roads and to Ute telephone lines in this section. Then again Saturday and Sunday mornings the rain descended in torrents and was again accompan ied by heavy gusts of wind. The top of the new depot in Kestler was blown away. Farm «ers cannot plough tn their fields. Streams are so swollen that travel in automobiles, wagons or bnggits is much hindered. It has V een years since South West Georgia has been visited by such incessant rains. Wheat Advances 10c A Bushel. Chicago.—Ten cents a bushel advance in the price of wheat was • the worst crop scare in the United 1 States since 1907. More than four cents of the big rise took place in about as many minutes of bedlam on change. Again and again the price receded only to jump once more up to the high figures which had started the nerves of even the' most harden'd plungers >n the 1 pit. The strain continued with but slight cessation till the jang ling gongs at the close cl ared the epeculat from the floor. Mr Mrs Wash Perry are entain isg a wee little girl. No,3j