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iVt R* 60. 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