Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-08-06
Official Organ Of Ben Hill County.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1908.

This is great weather for air ships. 1t is said
that there are great fOcks of them in places.
fitzgerald Oh
A man is known by the enemies he makes.
Some men couldn't make an enemy or anything
else worth the while.
Pull 10 fitzgerald or
Patriotic insanity is the latest Line 'em
up and let's see who they are.-Fla. Times
Union.
Evidently that is what Tom Watson is trying
to affect.
TO fitzgerald or
Six thousand people are homeless, millions of
property and several hundred men, women and
children have been burned to death in western Can
ada, by forest fires, said to be the worst in
the history of the country. The fires are called
brush res and are very much like the prairie fires
Of the west, except the scrubby brush makes a hot
ter and disastrous fire and one that is harder
30 combat 1t is the greatest casualty of the year
Speaking of casualties, this country is perhaps
as free from all sorts of calamties and catastrophes
as any country in the world In the same papers
in which we read of the great brush fires in Canada
we read Of the loss Of life and property by the
foods in North Carolina and the typhOOns on the
other side of the globe.
rtzQcad Pull Out.
Referring to the oppressive weather the Macon
News of yesterday says:
''The temperature for the month has been a
few degrees shy. 1t has not been far above93
at any time, but it has felt more like 100.
stake yesterday afternoon, for instance. At
that time the temperature was SO, but General
Humidity was working. Ninety three with
humidity at II, makes it much warmer than
sc degrees and humidity taking vacation.
And that is the reason you have been feeling
SO warm and sticky this week"
Tuesdays Enterprise took notice of the fact that
the mercury ranged really low, although the wealth
er was oppressively hot, humid. Tuesday
night about ten O'Clock, the change set in, and
since that time, while the thermometer has ranged
higher than it did Sunday Monday and Tuesday
the weather has been pleasant, or less Oppres
Sive
Pun fol- Fitzgerald o
The following extract from The Springfield
Republican indicates that the menace of the
pistol oter is not peculiar to any one section
invading the cultured precincts of MaSsachu-
sets with the facility that marks its deadly
activities in the state of Georgia
The sooner the lower courts of MaSsachu-
sets, the Springfield court included begin
to apply to offenders the full strength of
the law against carrying loaded weapons
the better for all honest folks. No good
citizen, not an officer of the law, totes a
loaded revolver about with him. Men
who do this carry the weapon for no
worthy purpose, and should be promptly
recognized as q menace to society, and
dealt with accordingly. They should be
adequately punished just so far as the
police can discover them This is both
common sense and such safeguarding as
the people are entitled to.
Comments of similar tenor are frequent in
the newspapers of Chicago, New York and
Philadelphia.
In each of these cities, and in others where
attention has been given this phase of the
subject the man who violates the law by
carrying concealed weapons is recognized as an
enemy to the public welfare, and very def
mite factor in increasing the statistics for HON
icide.
A close and intelligent study of the subject
would be of extreme interest since it would
probably disclose the fact that we annually
sacrifice more lives to the hip-pocket fend
than have been lost in many of the minor wars
of history
The evil lends itself to relativelyeasy Grad.
lotion. If statues against this offeuse, and
they exist in each state, were enforced with
impartial regularity, the next ten years would
witness the extinction of barbarous practice
that pillorieS America before civilization fax
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