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BAINBRIDGE. DECATUR CO., GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JUDY # IM1.
ONE 1)01.1. A It A TEAK
IN ADVANCE
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF DECATUR COUNTY AND OF THE CITY OF BAINBRIDGE. *
mid Woman Yota?
l9 t week’s Wiregtaw Blade
e following answer to the
"Should women be given
V” propounded by a fair
d,ian. Editor Bell’s an-
together unique and origi-
li a very sensible article,
ded “A Message to May:”
received a dainty little
m Adrian, signed “May,”
Hiding the following co-
women be given the baU
|f she wants it. We insist
woman be given anything
nay ask for, from a dual
a pug dog, from a bicycle
We wo ildn’t deny her
■if wo could, and couldn’t
luld—we’ie not built that
fair correspondent will
one and twenty summers
luscious of no reason why
not. don a pair of bloom-
hat and a starched shirt,
iu the political pow-wows
Ip with her mouth open tor
if the business will give
eal pleasure. It she wishes
deposit in the well of
lostln v an embroidered bal
l'd with sympathetic ink, on
silk, with a postscript at
i, and smelling of attar of
democracy—then next day
and insist on changing it,
objection. But to the
knowledge and belief the
toman had rather have one
forty ballots. The fact
(ioesii’t vote, early and often
ficie evidence that she
[ant to.
las been a great deal of
past few years about ie-
laiichisenrentjljbut we have
one really good, modest
Inmoritig for the blessed
jot' saving the country by
path of politics) and we
id to think that most of
,au Empress by Divine right.
The woman who is a,crown jewed
keeps off the grass, but the one who
commands neither love at home nor
admiration abroad, feels that she is
robbed of her “rights.” Give a wo
man youth and beauty and she asks
not political power, bat, when still a
maid, her mirror tells her that
she could not pass for five and forty-
in the moonlight, wheu her brace
lets slip over her elbow and a finger
ring would not. make her a gaiqer,
when she becomes e : ther a peramhtih t
mg tub of Unwholesome lard, or has
to pad her dinphram to oast a shadow,
she is apt to be morbidly sensitive
anent “the wrongs of her sex.”
Attend any female suffrage con
venrion and you will find more
wrinkles than roses. It is a start
ling aggregation of brawny fists and
big feet, of scrawny necks and fiat
bosoms—a nightmare for the artist,
the dispair of the poet,
The very fact that it has taken
forty years to bring woman such a
little way on the road to suffrage
proves that polities are foreign to
her being. She doesn’t have to em
bark in hitter crusades to wring con
cessions from those who live only 10
serve her—to whom wealth and
power are as bitter ashes and the
the mural wreath a crown of thorns
unless ill mined by her love.
The true woman who is really a
helpmeet to man; the woman who in
“first at the ciadle and last at the
grave;” the woman who meekly
obeys us while ruling i s with a gol
den rod; the woman who laughs at
us but loves ns; the woman, who
asks our forgiveness when we are
the offender; the woman who doesn’t
believe one-half wt tell her, yet
weuld make any sacrifice to serve us
simply asks for what she wan-s,
Bainbridge and Augusta.
Pursuant to an invitation received
by the mayor, Dr. Toole, a commit
tee of BatnbridgeVj capitalist wenv
to Albany Friday to confer with
others iu the bmidtng of a new rail
road from Bainbridge to Camilla, Ash-
burn and on to Augusta This road
will open up a new territory rich in
undeveloped resources, touching a
number of railroad towns, and will
prove of incalculable benefit to
Bainbridge directly.
Mr. II. C. Allen represented a com
mittee of the citizens of Bain-
bndgo. This gentlemen will
meet similar committees from
other points along ihe projected
line, Camilla, Sylvester, Ashburu
and other places. The work they
were specially called upon to
pertorm was preparing the peti
tion for charter aird ot,i:er prehmm
aryNoi'ganizatiou as proved to be nec
essary.
This is a road that' was bound to
come sooner or later, and thanks to
the enterprise of this body of men
wtio met at Albany yesterday it is
practically assured. Any one who
will look at the liiap will see at a
glance the opportunities for such a
line in the development of the conn
try through which it runs. There
are vast tracts ot mill timber that
will he thrown open, arid some of
the finest farming lands in the state
will be made available for profitable
cultivation, the road also running
through the famous peach belt.
But to come home with it. all, what
another road means for Bainbridge,
can only be appreciated bv looking at
what has been done by the two sys
terns we have already. Every new
outlet for our products is an incen
live to investors to come here wit!
their industrial enterprises, this
brings people, «liich means more
and when it is not forthcoming takes trade, increased values and genera
a quiet sneak and lyoks (in our in-1 prosperity. Let o ir citizens come
side pocket*) for circumstantial evi-! together and do everything to speed
deuce. It is usually the .woman
whose very presence makes one feel
o want to vote have failed ]j]j t , reaching for a picket fence that
lest endeavor to get, mar-. wants to head ^ a torchlight proces-
have been so unfortunate
|tie.l to the wrong “affinity.”
being a thing of. beauty
oy forever, the average
tlic progress of this enterprise.
M|LL EIGHT THE CENTRAL.
smn.
Sure, give’em the ballot if they
want it, but methinks tfiey don’t
want it.
•d woman is almost in-
kt faded wall flower. W i
Ito ace a maid iu love, with
Mpoct of making a landing,
lAif.il woman after whom
ittSM as though they’d like
or a sweet faced woman
|w, sympathetic voice tliAt
hearts of men with a
than a mgleV call to war,
fc I 'r female suffrage !
Pro an who looms up in a
KIIOOHS-SOIVULL
Columbus Enqulrcr-Smi
It seems that, the general impress
ion which has prevailed in Columbus
that the Central of Georgia Railway
Company either owned or controlled
the Georgia Pine Railroad is a uiis
lake. The Enquirer Sun learned ves
terday on high authority, in tact
from a letter received in Columbus
from a man who knows what he is
talking about, that the Georgia Pine,
the correct name of wliich, by the
wuv, is the Georgia, Florida and
Alabama Railway Company, is still
owned entirely by its original stock
holders and builders. The writer of
yMarried, at Milton, Fla , on July
3rd, 1901, Mr. J. L. Rhodes to Miss
Lillian E- Sowell, both of Wallace,
Ala.
The groom is a native of this'eoun-
ty, having been reared in the vicini
ty of ltliodesville and being a son of
Mr. John Rhodes of that place. He
is a young man of sober and iudus-1 t)ie | etu . r re f,. IT cd to above stated
like a Grecian goddess j trious habits and was for some lime f llrt her that the G. F. and A. was
parade, who can at a i connected with the public schools of i |)ow |, eln g extended south of Bain-
|om her eyes set man’s very I this county. The bride i« a popular bri ^ ge illt0 p’londa, that inaide of
Mid bring li ra to her ] youijg lady of Wallace, Afc*., having I , w0 wte j< 8 active work would be be-
«an transform an humble m el Mr. Rhodes since his recent res ! „ (|f| f . xu , r „| rt , g the road north frow
a h ippy home gildedlidence at that place. She is of a | Arlington to Lumpkin, and also that
’l glory, who can splendid family and will no slo'jHt J tlJt , building of tl»o iiue from Luntp-
li'i-’.-and play the lover I prove a worthy and happy oompan tin to Columbus would be pushed to
■in ; lifetime, and raise a i 0 n to her fortunate husband.
The Seakch Light j fins the friends
of the couple in this county in wish
beets that the .world will mg for theta many years of prosperi-
e ’l a-whooping if she
huatle down to the polls
DEATH AT BRINSON.
Alexander Stevens Haynes waa
born in Russellville, Crawford coun
ty, Ga., in 1845 and died at Brinson,
Ga., July 3d. 1901, aged 55 years
and a few months. His remains
were laid to rest m the Mt. Zion
cemetery uenr Brinson on the fol
lowing day.
He had for a long time, covering
a period of fifteen or twenty years,
been a constant sufferer, but his af-
fiiiftions were borne with that forti
tude and patience which seldom
marks the life of man. It was never
his disposition tocomflnin and even
his last and greatest affliction passed
without a murmur.
Whether ns citizen, soldier or
friend, lie was always found at his
post ready to follow the paths of
duty, lead where truw might. In all
things he manifested that eonsis
tency which commands the respect
and sanction of the world. He was
honest, sober and kind. In faot, no
man more fully held the confidence
of hia acquaintances than did- he.
He was a mason. For the greater
portion of his life he was a resident
if Bibb county, Macon, Ga., at
which point lie lias many relatione
and friends He hud lived at Brin
son only about two and one-half
years and held the position of book
keeper for Mr. McCulley at the time
of his death.
He leaves a wife and one son, A.
S. Hayes, Jr„ to whom will go out
the sympathies of all who are ap
prised of his death. He has gone to
reap the rcwhrd of tlie faithful and
the just, and rests within that city
whose streets are paved With gold,
where afflictions do not come and
where the faithful pilgrim rests
when life’s tiresome journey is com
plete. "
ELIES MORSE THAN MOH(tlTT<»F>.
Krani tin* rh.UdelpUia Medical Journal,
A number of investigators recently
have called attention to the import
ant role played by insects iu dissem
inating. diseases. Because of their
great numbers and active habits tii«-s
are, 110 doubt, thfe most dangerous
insects in this respect. Aftbr feed
ing 011 the expectoration of the tu
berculous, 011 the faces of typhoid
patients or oilier infective material
they carry disease germs into limn
tuerable places and deposit them not
only by direct contact with their Sl-
llimoiiglity uookeH or washed it flies
have been allowed to come ip con
tact with them, and should be pro
tected from'pies after preparation
for use.
|°y bsHes fit to wear the
M American sovereignity,
ty.
r^s her preferences. She
|at every law that does her . -
written upon the sand, that 1 ^ ar f
ion ti.of r 1 . j 1 one months salary to the teachers ot tlie
' " that fa ' 18 to 8 uard her public schools of Decatur county.
1 to nameless death. Saved j Kobt. Bowen, 0. 8. C.
oi'iJ’s wisdom and circled june2#-2w Bainbridge June 28, 1V01
a speedy completion. The G. F. A.
people also state that they will vig
orously contest the Central)?: effort
to secure a charter to build from Ar
lington to Columbus, as they already
nave 3 charter, obtained about a
year ago, and covering practically
tlie same route as set forth iu the
Central’s petition.
First-class Job Work executed at
this office.
Railroad Consolidation,
Nftvttnnnli I’row.
There was a short meeting of the
stockholders of the Savannah, Flori
da and Western railway this morn
ing at tlie office of General Superin
tendent Denham of the Plant Sys
tem for the purpose of merging six
of the lines of the Plant System un
der one nnme. The following are
tlie lines merged:
Charleston and Savannah Railway
Cqjnpuny.
Brunswick and Western Railway
Company.
Alabama Midland Railway Com
pany.
Silver Springs, Ocala and Gulf
Railroad Company.
Tampa and Tbbnoiosassa Railroad
Company.
President Erwin said, after the
meetng that the roads will continue
to be known as the Plant System
and that the consult lulion was in
the name of tlie Savannah, Florida
and Western railway.
Mr. Erwin said there was nothing
to give out in connection with the
consolidation except the fact that it ,
had been made.
Some of the lines which are oper
ated as u part of the Plant System
are not included in the present move.
The roads omitted are the Florida
Southern, Sanford and St. Peters
burg, St. John’s and Lake K istis,
Ashley River, Green Pond, W-.Iter-
boro and Brauchvilli*, Abbeville
Southern, and Winston anil Bone
Valley.
Below are the gross earnings of
the Plant System’s five best lines'for
tlie nine month’s ending Mm- h 31
.Ins year:
Alabama Midland 60s.HOB
’rqnswitflt and Western - • 616.071 . .
0 arlastiui and jiavnnnab • - 674,310
Say innali. Florida ami Wot tern U,92R/)0by 1
S. 3., 0. and s', - - - - HJM8S
A11 of these roads made an in
crease in net ■ earnings for the nine
months except the Silver Springs,
Ocala and Gulf. The total net in
crease for these' five roads for tlie
period named was about $415,800, '
indicating that for the fiscal yiar
ending Juno 30th, they will show a
total net increase of about $552,000.
One object sought to be- accoift-
amitiieh new hailhoaii.
S
thy little bodies, but ly their excreta
and tlie dust formed by the crumb- pbshed by the consolidation is torn-
ling of their dead bodies., Restait- plificalion iu accounting. It may re
ran is infested with flies are a special ""l 1 m additional economy,
abomination. The danger from tin* *«H a!™ » simpler matter 10
source is not small, and as the sum l«»sc the consolidated property
uier is now on 11s in good earnest should that be deemed desirable,
with hordes of these pests, it seems
desirable that everything possible
shall be done to limit the amount of
mischief done by them. More ef?
feetive measures are needed for de
stroying flies and preventing their
multiplication. The war on mos-
q itoss by our sanitary department
iu Cuba has shown wlmt can be done
tn exterminating insects, and the pro
Asiibiirn is to have yet another
iw'w,jrqad!
At bn enthusiastic mass meeting
held in this city on Tuesday after-
noou. at which cany | romment b - s
n'r* men of Ash bum, Sylvester and
Camilla we* - present, it was decid-
dod that a railroad should be built
psratious which are already being from Ashburu 1“ Bainbridge via.
Svlventer and Camilla.
The following gentlemen wpre ap
pointed ou a committee to secure
charter for the road:
Messrs. J. 8. Betts, J. S.^Shmgler,
and G. B. Gorday, of Ashlmrn; M.
J. Sloan, J. S. West berry and J. 'L
Tipton, of Sylvester; S. S. Bennett,
W. N. Spence un i J. C. Turner, of
Camilla. —Ashburu Jo irual.
made in several different places in
our coontry to carry out the Cuban
tuelfibds show that the people are
willing to act as they are shown the
best ways- Until some successful
method lias been devised for exterm
inating flies special care should be
taken to prevent their access to spu
tum, pus or other infectious material;
fruits and breadstuff* should be