Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-12-29
THE INSIDES OF A NUGGET.

According to prospectus and advertisements
the company had paid 100000 cash for it's rich
mine; had been urged to sell for $4OO,O0O; offer
ing of it's capital stock had resulted IN oversub-
scriptions by eager investors to the amount OF
1000 shares; copper magnate was seeking TO
get control; various well-known men were inter-
ested. The chance of lifetime was presented.
According to investigation by 1ugubrious
stockholders, the company had no rich mine and
had not paid 100000 or any other considerable
sum for it; had not been offered 100000 or any.
thing whatever oversubscriptiols to capital
stock, prominent directors and negotiations with
copper magnates were mere Pigments of promo
ter's florid imagination; assets worth about half
the price of a ticket home; chance of a lifetime
for the promoter, who had cheerfully embrace
ed and conveyed it to parts unknown.
This is simply little story of real life in
these good times when nearly everybody has
money, and many cannot be convinced that gen.
tlemen having mining stock that is sure to dou-
BILE in value next month would not pay large
sums to the newspapers to find people to take it
off their hands-that Isl many cannot be conv1r-
ed except by experience. Saturday Evening
Post.
Our local editor has unintentional1y done the
Bowen Telephone Co., grave injustice by stat
ing that the several accidents resulting IN the
loss of one of the fire horses and fine horse for
Mr. J. C. Boney were caused by guy wire to
telephone poles. Neither of the accidents waEe
caused by the phone wires. Manager J. P.
Manning tells the Enterprise that the Bowen
Telephone Co., has not single guy wire in any
of the parks. AS rule they placed along
side buildings or fences, where they will be the
least in the way. We regret very much the in
Justice done the Bowen Telephone Co., in this
instance. Considerable street talk has been in
dulged about the responsibility of the Tele-
phone Co., for the dead animals. 1t seems that
the unfortunate accidents we're both caused by
the city wires supporting the electric light
poles.
The Saturday Evening Post has the follow
ing f1attering(?) comment on Georgia's senior
senator.
Senator Bacon tries to do the same trick on
the Democratic side, but Bacon is only journ-
eyman. He isn't licensed undertaken. The
trouble with Bacon is that he has too many wrds
for his thoughts. Hale can wet every eye in
ten-minute discourse when he is good and gloom
nv. while Bacon can't say Woodworking" in
less than a page of the Record, When Bacon gets
under way he wades out into morass of Ian
guage aud slowly sinks from view. 1t is long
and painful dissolution. Each time he is engulf-
ed by his participates and iu6uities, his complex
sentences and his howevers and neverthelesses
and on the other hands.
Still Bacon isn't harbinger of woe. He is
an all.round harbinger, and harbings on any
subject that is uppermost. He strolled jaunti-
1v into the Senate few months ago and raised
an impressive fore6nger during a lull in the dis
cussion. Then he said Mr.. President" and
was off, and no human power could succor him.
He talked in rings, in rectangles, rhombuses
and rhom boids, up aud down, across aud thro.
He wound himself up in the threads of his argu-
ment and never did get unwound. He crisis
crossed and catercornered, balanced his part
ners, allemanded left, swung to the centre and
back again for an hour, and thep with his bald
spot cleaning under the stained-glass ceiling OF
the chamber like the dome of the Congressional
Library in the setting sun, he concluded by
saving: "Of course, am not very familiar with
this discussion and do not know what phase OF
if has been under consideration, nor do know
what measure it appertaius to, and |, therefore,
leave, It to those who are more familiar with "
csla ct ey any mistake, put remember the
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