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THE A2D OBSEIIVEII S UNDAY, JFX3BII O.ARY 23. 4.. 4 The Satt V (Reprinted by "Permission of the Sat , ut day Evening Post) t I XOBODY- suspected that ..the thing Lad any intention of happening;5 :t sneaked Up on the wary and surprised ihe ?Bllant. ' It must have ben ne of those -..eontlng events which! ; cast their shadows behind. But every post mortem prophet in the State can now '; predict that Georgia went dry..' t - , Some have good reasons, many have good excuses, and all have . good ; storfes.' Here is a story that they do ? not tell, but It fits: , :; I. , , r Uncle Josh "Turnrow rushed in ' breathless from the. stable-lot and in- -terrupted his wifejurhile she. was iook , ing breakfast.. ':. ' U ' , Mandy, oh. Mandy P What da you think! That dodgasted old mutey, cow has done et op the grindstone." - did not glance up fron the ' l ye so,' Josh; I tole- ye sx?. thi war; when the GeorgK r ,n lelt'toddyly ; inclined he i p to the grocery store and his horse. In the back room would be a1 number of barrels i against the wall; barrels - With . . m; ' ."aed brass y.,- ' U knew N . " " tj'th i ' the i ... u 4.- ITS PAINS URIC jH Rheumatism is in reality an internal inflammationi lit is caused by an excess of uric acid and other irritating foreign matter in the blood, which has gotten into the circulation ' because of indigestion, chrome bowel disturbance,, weak kidneys, and a general impaired and sluggish condition of I the system. The refuse or waste matter of the body, which should be carried off by the usual avenues of bodily drainage, is left in the system because ef these irregularities, and it: ferments and sours : forming uric acid and other impurities, wliich are absorbed into the blood. i J j r - j Then this vital fluid loses its powers of nutrition and healthfulness and becomes a weak, acid-laden stream, which, as it circulates through the body deposits the poisons and acids with which it is filled into the muscles, nerves, joints and bones. This causes inflammation ana soreness, and soon the Dcuajwvu umi iciiuui, auu jtviiuuuuitism is esiaDiisnea m tne I rnt . - m X . ; . 1 .i i i ne progress 01 uncumatism is usually gradual; day after day the! blood continues to distribute the uric acid throughout the oouy, ana siowiy dui sureiy tne4 disease ' grows J worse. ; The little pams tugpng at : the muscles, or . wandering from joint to joint, which were the first symptoms of the disease, now become chiionic and cause r more intense suffering, the muscles become tense and drawn, the lubricating oils and fluids which aid the joints to work smooth ly! and easily are gradually destroyed by the continuous stream of acrid matter from the blood, and after awhile the limbs may become stiff -and useless. " I ) you can never conquer this deep-seated disease with external treatment, such as plasters, liniments, blisters, etc. These may afford temporary' relief and the pain, and for this reason should be used, but as they! do not reach the blood where the real cause is located, should hot be depended on alone to effect a cure. The disease is rooted and grounded in the blood and must be driven from its stronghold there before permanent ' ; ' . ' relief can be had. p jp r y tTT A DI r changes the sour, j acid-burdened blood to a rich, r UiAE-L.1 y ILKn I DL,tL, healthy stream, which quiets the excited nerves, 1 , v r ! eases the throbbing muscles and painful joints, and filters out of the circulation the irritating matter which is causing the pain and inflamma t ion. When the blood has been freshened and purified by S. S. 8., it circulates to all part; of the body, and gradually nourishes back to a healthful state those different members tha have been impaired because of the weak, imnutritious condition of the blood. S. S. S reaches inhented as well as acquired cases of Rheumatism arid .completely removes th( trint from the blood. SDecial book oh Rheiimntism anrl unv modiM 1 . X , i i lie 01 me ;An ; -Inquest on -the (Georgia "Saloon . - By, HARRIS DICKSON, , i Several .years afterward "local op tion'' laws were enacted, the ; first ever passed in the'South. if not the United States. Under these laws each county might determine by election whether or not liquor should be sold. , Almost at once the different ' counties bean to hold elections, and In a decade 12R out of 145 counties in theState were dry. Agricultural communities almost without exception j voted against the sale, carrying the smaller towmf and cities within their limits. The lar;r cities remained wet ' 1 This concentrated the liquor traf lie In the cities. . By means of raliroactr, express companies, telegraph and tele phone communication, these city deal ers were enabled to defeat the law in the smaller counties by making tho country express office and depot lit tle better than an .adjunct to the city bar-room. The jug trade vetoei the local option law. j This aroused the greatest wrath and Indignation, but the people were help-; less. Most of them were Democrats, and the ; Democratic party i; etoo, 1 pledged to the local option prlnciolc. In ' 1898 certabi r Prohibitionists, headed by the Chancellor ot thfe State University, determined, to (make a straight fight for State Pro Vibl'fon. By alMment with leading 1-iJ.i ;- M.e lohiltilionits furnished ihi inandidale for 0vernor, hoping that .Iha co:nbi ration would overthrow the -liquor traffic. Honorable Seaborn Wrisht. ot FIm1 county, was select d ;tr i.i.k s1tho race. He stumped' thH; tate : hmughout that aggressive ntd hla ilc campaign. , At l his time 126.000 n4r were ired voters, the iarsjtnt; cve wn in th State of Ge vU. Du?k negtoes differ i-the 'd'wkj talio to i ! r. ; The Prohibitionists 'Were do l. l. 1 by about 20,000 votes, and have c claimed that a large majority " white vote was cast for their Enter Hoke Smith. I 31 their defeat most of the j ilonists returned. to the Dem r uty. where they normally be-'-r vu and began to work for State Ion within the party. ; . x this State prohibition with wrty maintained the local op k in their platform -)n other. ' ie party stood for county op i I - gainst. State prohibldoni The $ . , terests, allied . with the j rail' ' y : trough the politicians then . 4 L successfully resisted every o change this. As a! matter liauor dealers " seized J 9on ' l.option .' lifepresexver .and ' i: j: , t aggressively. - . tle Hoke Smith, exj-Secretary erior under President Chsvc long been a leading figuts Jo s of Georgia. In 106, a a for the gubernatorial. noraU - , headed a strong movemen . ie political powers of i tiif chi developed Into " a Jrevo vefitable ' landslide, wlpmg ontrolling faction. lly Governor Smith is a Iowil but against the sale1 of li does not drink. It and does T 71 AND ACHES CAUSED BY ACID IN THE BLOOD pains and aches commence: the comfort from S. S. S., a purely vegetable blood purifier, is the proper treatment for Rheumatism. . It goes down into the blood and attacks the disease at its head, and by driving out every particle of the poison and strengthening the blood, cures Rheumatism perma nently. Being a perfect blood purifier, S. S. S. , :. mmf.mmy. ttv'fr m frv a n a fta f -y-rT CfOlriO- CQ...PAnY9 ATlAflTA, C Bottle - - .- .- not use It on his table. When a mera lad at college, he organized ; iho Knights of Jericho and '-made a ca.i palgn for pledges' among the young men of the universities in the State. These were total abstinence pledge to last as long as a man i remained member of the order. In his campaign for Governor he told the people he was a local optioit Ist and adhered to the view of al lowing each county to settle this question for Itself; but In a local op tion election he voted against the sale. He was not one . of those local op tion Ists that wanted an 'opportunity to allow the stuff to be sold. lie said, however; if the State passed a ProhW bition law he would sign IU His frien x say that in this race Governor Smith ranmoney, out of politics;; he drove out . the agents of '.the' liquor dealers and the corporations chased th;m Into a hole and stopped upthe hole. These two interests had always been in combination, and he placed them in a position where they were afraid to spend money in the campaign. 17m denounced the use of money to hlr? wagons or ward heelers, to buy votes, or for any like purpose. He did not allow his- friends to use money, ana demanded legislation that would re quire every candidate to show what money he had spent how he spent it And where- he got it from. That paral yzed the Uquor Dealers Association, although' he was not doing this with a view to Prohibition. ; The GaI in the Fountain. i THE Honorable Hoke Smith Js a man of means. He is part owner of a large hotel, the handsomest in At lanta, if not in the South. And there by hung a taleor many tales. Tlfore was a gorgeous bar at the hotel, and a trickling marble fountain in tl.e centre theref. The bar wa all right, and the' fountain was not so bad. but there was a "gal in the fountain." Sh3 was not an ordinary gal in ordinary clothes, but a bewildering gal, in no clothes at all. Robed in Oriental imagination this dimpled nymph In bronze, with out spread arms and intoxicating smile, perched herself above the scintillating waters unconscious of the gaze that her Innocence attracted. ! And she was the woman in the case. Upon every stump throughout the State and in the columns of the press, this unoffending vision of delight was made the sport of Jest and the sub ject of sarcastic comment- Perspiring humorists pilloried the Owners of the hotel as partners .in the liquor traf fic and contamlnators of youth. Luck ily for the gal, she had eyes that saw not and ears . that refused ; to hear. Home said she was artistic, some said she was brazen which is pretty near the truth.. She v might f well have drooped her lid and drawn the shim mering veil of water around her. -1 The primaries .iresulted I in a sweep ing victory for Honorable! Hoke Smith and a complete vindication of the gal; against f our opponents they carried 122" out of 14 S counties. ; This revolution placed! in power very joints swell, the flesh grows svstem. j JOINTS INFLAMED AND, SWOLLEN. Six years ago I had a severe attack of Inflamma tory Rheumatism. I was laid up in bed for sin months, and tbe doctors I had did me no rood They changed i medicines every week, and nothing they prescribed seemed to help me. Finally I left off their medicine ind began the use of S. S. S. My knees and elbow joints were swollen terribly, and at one . time my joints were so swollen and painful that I could not close them when open. I was so bad that I could not! move knee or foot; in fact, I had one of the severest cases of Rheumatism I ever heard of. I was getting discouraged, you may be sure, when I began S. S. S., but as I saw it was helping mo I con tinued it, and today I am a sound, well man, and I have never had a return of the disease. 8. 8. 8. re lieved the swelling and inflammation, purified my blood and cured me of this severe case of Inflammatory Rheumatism after everything else had failed. I have recommended it to others with good results, and know that it is a sure .cure for Rheumatism. ! ; I I R. H. CHAPMAN. 1353 Mt. Vernon Ave., Columbus, Ohio. - largely the same element that had supported State Prohibition In 1S9C. together with a -younger set of poli ticians grown up since that time and who favored reform; The Legislature elected in -that camaplgn, as was af terward developed believed over whelmingly in Prohibition. ! For many years the rumor; passed cuKrent throughout Ithe State i that a shrewd agent of the liquor Dealers' Association had beeT employed to go into each county and do- missionary work for the" Senatorial "candidate fa vorable to their interests. Hepald no attention to the lower House." , There aro 41 Senators in ithe State of Georgia, and ! 23 sconstltute; a. ma jority. Senators froim the six feities might safely be relied upon to sup port local . option; that left only 17 to be looked after. ( Having secured his twenty-three the missionary rested easy; whatever! drastic 'legislation the House might propose jthe Senate would block it i I -; jl J Possibly the liquor dealers were too confident in 1996, poisslbly they went to sleep; but, somehow or other, the L D. A. slipped a c6g and failed! to get the necessary twienty-threei t ".; After, thls election I and before the passage of, the Prohibition bill; things happened in'r Georgia.! . ., r - First, and I loreroos, people j began to suspect a change In thfir owii opin ions; and In no class, was this ! more radical than In the younger men. It may be said that the younger ele ment throughout the South is in fa vor of reform. In no part of Amer ica has the drinking habit 'so notice ably declined. This is not a revolu tion; it is an -evolution. More and more do their, employers demand so briety;, the bar is an impassable, bar rier to professional and commercial success: j ' i As a rule, they are inot opposed to reasonable and proper juse of Uquor -only to the abuses. They resent the unpunished violations jof law by the liquor interests "that control the very officers charged with' the duty ot sup pressing them. They .protest against the Amalgamated Dive-Keepers' League, organized to secure Immunity from the decent laws bf every state. They feel indignant at jthe' roughshod manner in which the ward, boss tram ples the right of respectability. Many of these young men believe that li quor may be a very excellent thing in Its place, and that there ought to be some means of dispensing it for proper purposes. They even jregret the in conveniences which may result from general prohibitory lawjs. ; But, under the . present : system, they , regard -the sale and abuse as Inseparably linked, creating a - traffic theoretically toler ated by law, but practically superior to it ' - '- : -.". I The dive-keepers of the South have made the Prohibitionists of the 8outh, more than all other Influences com- bined. These low loints often, protected by men the business men who politics of the country. have been too higher up in dominate the This sinister power has been too offensively active In the election of sheriffs, mayors, chiefs of police, district ; attorneys 4 officers from constable to governor! yea, even ths judges ofj our courts upon the platform of non-interference with their traffic; ' Officeholders whose bread and butter depend upon it are forced to make promisesUtacit, if not express and to keep these promises upon pain of political death. So much for what the young' men are thinks Ing. ..v.' ;,;. : t'nT'..: The railroads or Georgia began to weary of their liquor alf lance. They felt the effect of so many wrecks, the loss of life and property, due in a con siderable degree to drunken reckless ness among their employees. It is difficult to tell whether! this feeling started at the top or the bottom; of officialdom. It probably where about the middle began some- and worked both ways. There is, perhaps, no class of men in the civilized world, man for man, which is soberer than the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Big-hearted, generous arid liberal as they are, yet they knowj how to be convivial without carousing, and good- natured without artificial; stimulus The Bottle and The Throttle, i ! J "WIIY " said a conductor running into Atlanta, "if I suspecjted that my engineer, was not sober would 'not even let him run this train to the near est side-track. I'd ringl him down right here on the main line, and out flagmen, and wait until juiother en4 gineer could- be got f If jthe firemen were drinking the Engineer would run; on the first side track and kick him off the engine. Our business is too dan gerous to take chances." I (l ' The superintendent cannot com plain, for back of this engineer arid conductor stands the Brotherhood and the O. R. C. 80 the transcontinental line of railroad must' be topped, i The American locomotive engineer has in his keeping mllllonf of human lives and millions of money. v To his eternal credit; be it said that the-instance, is rare' indeed where he hesi tates to sacrifice his own life and save his passengers. Upon the! steadiness of his nerya and the clearness of his eye depends the safety 6f helpless people. He chose between the bot tle and the throttle and jcorked up the bottle for good and all. This is true of conductor, brakeman and flag man, of every working part of that perfectly-organized machine. i That engineer will not touch the lever or turn a wheel until he knows that every member of the drew Is sof ber, and that of the train Which Is to meet him' at the next switch. It mati ters not whether he pulls la load of cattle or a load of railroad presidents; sobriety is a condition precedent-to his moving. , The influence of these men has per-: meated every pore ot railroad opera-; Won, and Is felt by every throughout the land.- mechanic The business man is beginning to count the cost and the draiii of whis key waste. Every dollar spent in that! way would otherwise go for (shoes and hats, for clothing, echoolboolU. and to pay those bad accounts whteh he an nually charges to profit andi loss. The net earnings of all the railroads in the United State will pay the na tion's drink bill 1 for less . than sixty days Prohibition Maine lias more individual depositors in herj savings banks than ' she has registered voters. The business man prefers customers, who patronize the savings-bank rather than those who patronize the other institutions. . ' , " .' He keeps sober himself, requi his clerk to keep sober and he keeps up a mighty lot of thinking. - ' ; The business man knows that the money and effort now Invested In li quor could be put to more, productive uses. Prior to 18 1. there was a hand some bar-room on Marietta street. Its Aown" "elHng liquor and went he 1 resuurant business. Two y into ears Yaffil ' j Ccnuino arter5s little Livep Pills ! Must 0ar Stgnsitura of 1 v. inaeziucsr. rca ctsieus rcatiurjmss. F:aTc:nauYti. rca c::nPATiaa. rr4 iswf tni. rcannccKfixxif TsysU5sy5S later, when Atlanta reversed itself, he did not! re-open bi& saloon, but kept on with ;his restaurant. Today he is lb ,be worth a quarter of a reputed million. One of. the. big saloons on .Decatur streetthe objective point of the riot - is now being converted into a bank. i The ministers of Georgia, with scarcely! ah exception, are making the temperance question a religious issue. They turn; over their churches to lay men for its discussion and arrange the freat meeting. They are behind this movement to a man, and, especially in the rural districts, are the real lead ers of pnblic . thought. The. negro, ! like the poor, is with us always! HI presence enters into every political question,1 and is a con trolling factor in many. - The people of Georgia are realjy becoming very much alafmed over the magnitude of their nego ' question. They- are more and -. morel impressed with the idea that not only the North, but the South, has not been dealing' with' this ques tion as It should.. ' Georgjav has spent si vast sum of money for negro education, teaching him -to read andwrite. and a smatter ing of gracimar, . then turning . him loose. Just aft mufh a savage- when he comes but of school as .'when he en tered it. I They realize now that they must teach him the A B C of civiliza tion. They; cannot exercise "the same control, over him' hat they, did in for mer years.! Georgians feel that liqour ought to b ; kept from the negro. Just as it Is kept from the Indianthat it destroys him. This spirit of keeping liquor fromf him is as much a sym pathy for! the weaker race needing protection as it is a measure of safety for the whites against" that weaker race on account of the incitement to crime thai tomes from! the use bf 11- quor. Good Negroes and Bad Whiskey. THIS negro is a- "hUd unable' to re strain ; himself, and the whites must take' such temptations away from him. Yet, in the cities the whites now turn him over absolutely to the bar-keeper, with no restraint upon him. and the greater portion of his earnings pass over the bar, . ; ' These dive-keepers .sell ' him ; the meanest of adulterated whiskies. One firm was heavily fined in Atlanta for manufacturing' a celebrated brand of Scotch ' whiskey in their cellar. These fighting stuffs are sold to the negro the kind of stuff that would make a rabbit spit in a bulldog's face. Build a negro church on" one hill and a white church on the next one; they will sing and pray for a genera tion without the slightest conflict or 111 will? Take the pulpit out of each and substitute a bar. and the dragon's teeth raise atl once, a crop of fighting jmen bent upon each other's extermi nation. ' 'ft I tt:- " " The negro; vote cuts a decided fig ure. Sixty days before the Legisla ture met a local option election was held in a, county where there wa3 a large majority j of negroes. The li quor dealers paid their taxes and were preparing to buy their votes to put liquor back into the county. This ex cited the whites and Intensified hostil ity to local option. The cry was raised, local 'option won't do any lon ger, because- the liquor dealers will come down to our dry counties where there are negro majorities, pay their taxes and put. liquor back into their hands. Ior years Georgia . has been laboring to get the negro out of poli tics, and the j whites revolted at- the danger of theil liquor dealers lugging him back for jthe purpose of putting Into' his hanis something that made him .a public;;, peril. There were a good many people in- Georgia who concluded, for, this reason that local option was not ganger safe. If The Lesson of tho Itiots. I 1 1 IN THE yesr preceding the Atlanta riot there were ;21.000 criminal cases in the Recorder's Court of the city; IS.000 of thebe were negroes, 5,000 being negro women This showed, to the astonishment of the people and the country at; large, that the propor tion of crlmej to the - population was greater w Atlanta than in any city of the Union.1,; . - f -Uk :y ' 'Just before the riot there were two cases of assault by negroes upon white women; In the, excitement which fol lowed several k pothers were; reported. While many Of ithesj rumors were un true, yet they, served to inflame the people."' , :; ? . ! This riot was j brought about, as many believe,; by the negro saloons on Decatur streeti ahl the congregation of negroes at llow dlvea The mad purpose at the 'j beginning was to go down to these dives and tear them 4n Pieces.' These;) establishments were closed for a number of days; and the people of - Atlanta , discovered that there was scarcely a need for a Recor ; der's ' court. ;;! 5' V-Oj ; v v r- och were tlie 'appalling tacts sud denly thrust Upon the .people of the State who had -been taught to believe that Atlanta was one of the best-regulated cities" in 1 the ( South, with a low percentage of -crime'. t Idter, the city council, "at the in stance "of big liquor1 dealers, put a f Tsvy assail sasTassi I totaksassagaxv number of ' these negro saloons, hack en Decatur street. Indignation spread, and the people of the entire State roused themselves against the traf fic. A feeling of uneasiness sat like some grim spectre ;t beside every hearthstone in the land. They dread ed the time when another riot 'might start, spread from city to city, caus ing a calamity too terrible for con templatlon. Men who had never be fore ; been Prohibitionists placed themselves squarely, in . the ra.tk. Manufacturing Interests m Georgia were seriously affected - by the fact that, after the payment of their ne gro laborers and ome of the whites, as well on Saturday nights, their fac tories were practically unable to run on .the Mondays and Tuesdays follow ing.- -vh:,:--'- TlMi 2eorgla Jug Trad'. ' ' WIKX a train left Atlanta bound for a trip through the parchlhg. des ert "there would be stations where thW express-messenger shouted j "Jugs offt and the unloading began. Little Jugs, hig Jugs, medium Jugs; white .Jugs, brown Jugsv whiskey Jugs, wine Jugs, gin Jugs; JugVfor. black an white and yellow men, women, arid children; Jugs to the right of them. Jugs to 'the. left of them. The volleying and thunder ing came afterward. ' ' "Now look here." said thetroh5 bltlonlst to the liquor dealer, "we have voted to let whiskey alone and to let. you alone; but you won't let us alone. We are willing for you to sell it In Macon or Atlanta, but we do not want It sold here. -You send your secret agents around through ' the bushes, evading our. laws and filling our ne groes with cheap' whiskey. " If .'you do not quit it we are' going to v.lpe you out in Atlanta, and everywhere else." -' .' '"'-y-':ij'r0-. The liquor dealers did not quit: so the Prohibition horse 'got his tall over the dashboard and ran away. Dispensaries were never adopted as a final solution of the. question. , They were used as a Jimmy? to pry the sa loon out of middle-class cities. They supplied liquors with reasonable guar antee of purity, prevented disorder at the place of sale, end the profits ap pealed to large property holders In the cities who wanted - to reduce their taxes. ? 1 .i -y. xt'-. - ; j &i'rr: ' In Rome, where there are ' three white men-t one negro, the dispensary-demonstrated that the negroes consumed more liquor than the whites. They spent at least half .of their earn ings in the dispensary. This . could easily be shown by reference to the books. .. , f . ; The dispensary opens at sunrise and closes at sunset. Nothing but chemi cally pure whiskey can be -sold. Three commissioners are elected by the grand Jury, one in eadh year; the com missioners, select manager and' clerks. The books are Inspected by the. grand Jury at least three times a year. Whis key is - sold at bar-room prices, not cheaper. , Rome, Georgia, a city of about 000 people, , formerly, received 'in. sa loon licenses about !$9,0Q0 annually, from thirteen bar-rooms. Last year the net profits from the dispensary were $50,000. There Is very little graft, the sale being watched too closely, and is too vigilantly supervised. ; v". )". The performances of the blind ti ger are both singular and plural; He is likewise, shrinking and evasive. In the country town; some old,-crip pled negro, perhaps, will have a bot tle of mean whiskey ?ln Ihs-l'oot-leg for sale : to - any man ' who won't tell on - hlm.';Jr"v;'T ''xt-H--l Perhaps there may be a ramshackle store V; bearing ; the , innocent A sign, SOAP, 10cn; but that brand of soap is not a part of the cleanliness which Is next . to godliness.- No human face Is visible in the "store; no goods are displayed upon its shelves and no scales are on the counter; The pur chaser must go in alone, deposit his coin and wait After a discreet period of patience he passes Into the tear room, where, on the head of an up turned barrel, he finds his package of "soap." - : . The Sunshine of Cotton Court Alley. OLD Aunt Creasey weighed three hundred; fat and black and happy, she sat at the alley corner; and 'tended her peanut-stand. Many a worried business man stopped to buy, just for the cheer ' she gave him. It certainly .was a tonic to hear Aunt Creasey laugh.' . Hello, mammy What you doln't" Always the same, reply: ."A-sellin goobers an' a a-spreadin' Joy." .Then she'd laugh from toes to : red ban danna Aunt Crease laughed. Her am ple bosom shook like a bowl overfull of gelatine. ,V... ; -. , :, ' "Lord, honey!" shed say "DIs la what you call one of dem lulla-by bosomshah, hah, hah I" . If that purchaser were dry and wise, instead of "buying peanuts he would slip Aunt Creasey half a dol lar. Whereupon she .would produce for him out of that lulla-by bosom a bottle of very good whiskey. . It was a pity i for the law to d is turb Aunt Creasey, . who had mad ? herself the sunshine of Cotton Courr Alle'. y-.i-. . Matters were in this shape when the Legislature met. There had been prac tically no agitation for a State prohibi tory law. v It was totally unexpected by the f : Legislature surprised the oie State, and no part -of it more than the Prohibitionists themselves. Two incidents conspired to bring 1 it about. Sain Jones, evangelist, had lived and labored in the county of Bartow, town of Cartersville, battling for Prohibi tion all his life, gam had a prejudice against liquor, which he thus express ed: "I bate whiskey; I hate it! I'll hit it, as long as I have a fist; I'll kick it as long as I have a foot; I'll butt it as Jong as I have a head. I'll bite it as long as I have any teeth and when I wear my ; teeth out I'll gum It to death!" Them was his senti ments.:; But Sam was dead", and no one could take his place. ' The liquor men determined It was a. good chance for them to vote whis key back Into Bartow county. So they called a liquor election. It looked like trying to rob the dead.. The Prohibi tionists were dismayed, . but ; went tt work with the energy of despair. Fighting : with . teeth ind claws, they went through the campaign, i i They won by a vote of. 1,71 to 84. That was a revelation to both sides, and to the State. Such a majority was never before heard Of. . j Pretty soon afterward the Prohibi tionists plucked " up courage 4 and de termined to vote liquor out of a dyed-in-the-wool liquor strong-hold Lown des county, of which Valfiosta Is the county-seat. That was a short fight, but hot, and to a finish without ' gloves and no rules. ( Women and children paraded and prayed upon . the 'streets. At earloiawn of '1 election day a (Cont(nT?e4 on Page Three.) snxa ksowitswu. - . Tmit'i lUtrMi of Cobabs m4 V Copb ta - t . ; . : OAPOULCQ. Ukm. mmltrt mrrr. Fiitr W.ll. KlncPructi.. Kslelfh. or by mall from tbe Tarraat Co., 44 JLJiidaoa . street, York. ........ CHESAPEAKE S OHIO . nAiiLrjAYvr Sconic iloutD to ilia West TWO PAiJT VESTIBULE TRAlXs Throogh Pullman Qeepers to Lou. i : : vlllc, Cincinnati, Silcago y " ' rand SS. JLfmla. 1 Lv. Illchmond. 2:00 p. ra. 11:00 p, m. LV. Cliar'sville ; 6:20 pruu 2:li a. m. Lv. Lynchburg ;i 4 :C0 p; m. " - Ar; Cincinnati.. 5:2 a. m. ; .5:00 p. nv Ar. 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Elizabeth Grimes, late of. .. Raleigh, N. C, the undersigned here by notify all persons having- claim against said Elizabeth ' Grimes! to" ex hibit the same to William Br Grimes as such executor at.- Wake County' Savings Bank in Raligh. N C on o? before November 12th, 'd 9 08, or -this notice will be pleaded ln bar of their.' recovery. All persons indebted to 6aid Elizabeth Grimes are hereby not!- . fled to make prompt payment to : said - ; William B. Grimes jas such executor. .'. This November 9th. 1907. , - -, . WILXIAM B. GRIMES. S. F. MORrJEO-AI... , Executors of Elizabeth Grimes, flee'd. t LXI FOR JSALK. - -By virtue or a decree of the Superi or Court of Wake Conuty, made in the cnee of M. E. Gooch,- administrator of If. H. p; ' GooCh. deceased, and others, ex parte, t will sell by auction for cash on the premises at IS o'cIocU M. on y:y":' " a -. '. , &.VTURDAY. MARCKj 14. 190. a tract of land .containing J.0 acres, situate in Oak Grove township. .Wbkv county, adjoining the lands of John Beck. Elijah Husketb; Esra Terrell and R. H. D. Gooch tracts, being part oi the land formerly owned by Sandv Penny, and belnr ownea by R. II. D. . Gooch at the tlrre of his death., SaJ. Is made for assets. Vi; For further particulars .apply' to M. E. Gooch, Raleigh. R. F. IX No. . J. H. FLEMING. 2t-aw-lmo , ' '-Commissioner. , -Executors Cv'c. Having qualltted ' rr. 2sicutor "of Lucy C. Capehart, dac3i.sod, icte ' Of Wake county. N. C. this Is io noti.y ail persons having claims s.&l;t th es tate of said deceasetl tc: shlblt th::C to the undersigned on Oi' .j2;o "J ."an vary 16th. 1909. or this, jict'c ill pleaded in bar of recover;. V-i'i 1. make Immediate paymen;. ; , This 11th dv of Jan'- ' . i VAN D. i:.v i 1. I wk-S wks. 1
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Feb. 23, 1908, edition 1
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