Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-04-30

e-third of mans good luck is ambition
and the other two-thirds is hard work.
There is one thing that can be said in favor of
the big hatn Observation-Disclosures an opportunity for
quiet snooze hidden from the eyes of the preacher.
1t is not possible to defnately determine
whether cigarette smoking effects the brain or not
can't find any one with brains who will smoke
them.
Judging by some of the political news coming
out of Macon just now we doubt if Ananas would
not be considered too truthful to be admitted as
member of the liars club.
Governor Smith still keeps meeting his
friends, and opponents well, face to face. He
speaks out openly and fearlessly and everywhere
he goes he is greeted by large and enthusiastic
audiences.
When YOU read a whole column concerning
straw votes that favor any one candidate thruout
you can put it down that the whole lot is n made
to order mess and not worth anything as '!rcal'
news.
Smith and Brown are candidates in Georgia,
and Johnson is trying hard to get the demo-
cratic nomination for president Now, where
will Jones come ing-Augusta Herald.
Most of the Joness will come in June and
vote for Hoke Smith.
1t is almost and assured fact that Secretary
Taft will be nominated by the Republican National
Convention at Chicago on the first ballot 1t is
l.; hot
gates pledged to him, which is IA more than is
necessary to choice. If Taft is nominated with
out second ballot against such men as Speaker
Cannon, Governor Hughes, Senator Knox, Vice
President Fairbanks and Senator Foraker it will
evidence clearly the power of the office holding
element when it comes to selecting Republican
candidate for President.
Some people will be greatly disappOin ted
have already suffered disappointment and dread a
relapse at the absence of the state money depart
ment at the bottom of the 9Th and 9th columns of
the front page of the Atlanta Constitution That
little department was started there for a purpose
and would have done good service for Fittle joe"
if the State money had been forth coming.
A travelling man visiting the betting desk of
the Constitution was told tthat all of the money
posted with the paper to be bet on Mr. Brown had
been taken and that no additional funds for that
purpose we're ON hand''
If Southern farmers plant an abnOrmally large
acreage in cotton this spring, as usual, and big
crop is gathered next fall, to whom can they look
for support during the selling months next winter?
The buying, speculative and consuming world will
be combined and organized to hammer prices be-
low the cost of production. The banks will turn
deaf ear to enteates for loans on cotton until af
ter the debts contracted to make the crop have
been iquidated. The time to prepare for freedom
and independent action next fall is RIGHT NOW
The man who can do and won't do is likely to wish
he had before another New Years rolls around.
Cut the cotton acreage before it is too late-Cot-
ton Journal.
During the year 1909 there will come the cen
tenerares of number of great men. The year
will stand out as containing the one hundreth an
niversary of a group of famous men, .Since the
beginning of the nineteenth century every year
has witnessed the birth of number Of then and
women whose names are enrolled upon the scrolls
of history as having become great in various WAYS.
but 1909 will witness the greater number of anv
year thus far.
Among the names of men who will have been
born exactly one hundred years we find:
Felix endessohn-Bartholdy, the great
German musician, born February 5, 1909.
Edgar Allen Poe the famous American poet