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UMBER 25. BAINBRIDGE, DECATUR COUNTY, GEORGIA FRIDAY APRIL 3 1903. . $1.00 YEAR IN ADVANCE, ©ffldal ©roan of Decatur Count? anb tbc Cit? of Batnbrlbae. DIER’S experience with SMALL-POX. EN TLY we were very much entertained by an old sol dier’s account of his experience with that cutaneous dis ease which has visited our tow., during the past few months. Our friend who was attached to Lee’s army in well known in Hainbridge. The narrator explained that captured while on a scouting expedition. For almost e languished in a northern prison. His sleeping apart- roonTten by seven and was occupied by six other prison- a hio-h fever for several days he developed small-pox. On iis “bunk fellow” who was frightened to destraction, he is bed and walked to the hospital. T he firtt night was a ost extreme torture. His bobv was racked by the pain of 1C , vet he was forced to sleep in a canvass tent (in Febru- t about three feet wide which was also a resting place for lent. The next morning he told the attending physician, prisoner also, that if he did not give him better quarters ave. The threat of being shot by the gua-d was no draw th was the lesser of the two evils. He was finally remov- hospital that held eighty small-pox patients. He was giv- ine whatever but was left to recover if he had the vital ist unaided the attack of the disease. week he learned that the prisoners who had been cap- him were to be paroled. He immediately informed the at he intended to get up and go to his quarters, get his h were not bulky by any means, and leave the prison with , The doctor told him that it would mean almost certain out in the cold in his then weakened condition. (He had two slices of toast and a little coffee each day for a week.) irobable death rather than certain continued torment, ; clothes he then had on, and donning his only other avail ig he went to head quarters to have his name placed on the st. When he presented himself to the clerk of the depart- s informed by that official that he was not “himselt.” lent was most emphatically denied by our narrator but all . The clerk in proof of his position turned to the prison pointed to a certain paragraph where our friend read that had died of small-pox and been buried on Thursday of the Of course there was no refuting such an argument, rned that the exchange list had already been prepared and too late. The most painful pa>rt of the whole affair was turned to his tent and found all his comrades jubilant over t of their early release, and he, of all the number who had ler for 24 months, was to remain indefinitely longer in his dition. Later in the dav however a message came from that one of his comrades was too sick to take advantage arge so our friend’s name was substituted^ and he reached erate lines just in time to hear of Lee’s surrender. /omen Need The Ballot. nen are the conserva- homes. They must power to protect the hey are, to a degree sel ler realized by the av- 1, the guardians of pub- private morals. They iven every means to ful- nction. Their principal are those interests ive upon a low state of id private morals-the ers and dealers and the lts of natural wealth, the hosts of the ignor- lave not yet gained an understanding of the ming of Americanism. ;ht it be said, paraphra- iral Bragg’s eulogy of ■cveland, “We love their the enemies it has made.” Mcllroy in April Nation- trial spin of the Sham- ■he new Cup challenger lomas Lipton, all who the maneuvers declare 'ew boat is the fastest of P challengers. The de- shortening her keel made JE much better than thd Mr. Marconi Rivalled. Dr. Lee DeForest an American and a graduate of Yale University has succeeded in convincing the United States Government that he has a system of wireless telegra phy that far excels Marconi’s in efficiency. A few days ago Dr. DeForest sent a wireless message from Annapolis to Washington to the president in which he stated that he hoped to be able to send similar greetings from the Phillis pine Islands to Washington with in eighteen months. The plans are now maturing for the con struction of trans Pacific stations. There will be stations in Hawaii and southern Calitornia and in Manila. A station will later be placed at Hong Kong, The stretch of water between Manila and Hawaii is the longest in the world. The steel masts at these two stations will have to be 250 feet high. The one at California will be 210 and in Hong Kong 175 feet. The cost of establishing the system will be in the neighbor hood of $182, 000.00. The inven tor hopes to be able to send mes sages at the rate of 28 words a miiftte. Dr. DeForest is only 29 years old and worked his way through college taking the degree of doctor of Philosophy. The American Fuel Com pany. Judge Spence held a special session of court this week to grant two charters one of which was to the American Fuel Company. This is one of the largest corpora tions that has evef received a charter in Decatur County. The paid in capital is $100,000.00 with the privilege of increasing it to one million. We are informed that the full amount of the capital allowed will be subscribed within the next few months. The presi dent is Mr. William Morrison a wealthy brush manufacturer of Troy N. Y. *Mr. R. G. Hartsfield of this city is the Secretary and general counsel. Mr. Morrison is the inventor of the process of manufacturing the fuel. He came south three years ago and was impressed with the amount of waste material around the turpentine stills. With true inventive intuition he took a sup ply of this refuse to his northern home where he went through a number of tests and experiments in his laboratory until he found ingredients that would combine with this refuse and the energy that has been useless in the smoke and drippings from the re fuse will now be made into the most perfect fuel known, By means of this process the compa ny will be able to manufacture a fuel that will be much less expen sive than coal, will be more easily transported as it will be made in regulation size blocks and will give forth just as much hd&t and burn equally as long as anthracite. The manufacturing plant will be placed in Savannah and the order for the machinery has been placed with a company in Saginaw Mich. The plant will be able to begin operations within the next sixty days, The General Offices will be located here and will be under the supervision cf Mr. Hartsfield. The Company will be a splen did thing for every one, as the turpentine operators will be able to get a good price for a by-prod uct that was formerly considered absolutely worthless If the great expectatations fructify there will never be any dread of a coal fam ine in the south. Our only regret is that the company was not in duced to locate its factory here. The freight rates were not low enough however though Mr. Hartsfield exerted consideiable effort to get the plant for our city. McClure’s For April. McClure’s for April is a most attractive magazine. The cover design is by Frank Vincent Du- mond and is appropriate for the Easter month. The illustrations in this number are above (he aver age and the short stories are very pleasing. Stewart Edward White has a Blazed Trail Story in this is sue. There is a very excellent ar ticle by John LaFarge on Hogarth the great English artist. The reproductions pf some of his fa mous paintings are especially pleas ing. In this number Miss Ida M. Tarbell c ntinues her history of the Standard Oil Trust. Baseball Prospects For Bainbridge. The new management of the Baseball Association of Bainbridge is rapidly organizing for the coming season which is to commence in the early part of May. There will be a:: endeavor to raise $500 00 from the public-spirited citizens of Bainbridge to secure the most brilliant series of games in the history of this city. A subscription list will be circulated in a few days. Bainbridge wishes to put a team in commission that will cope with the teams o f other cities of the State and to far eclipse last year’s showing. The management is now trying to secure a large tract of land known as the Jackson vacant lot on West St. Mr, L. O. Jackson with his usual public spirit, is considering leasing these grounds to the Association, so that the baseball park will then be more accessible to the city. Dr. Toole has accepted the appointment as official umpire for the Association, and the management is trying to secure such brilliant, players as Will Soloman of Macon, Daniels of Ala,, Chet Clarke of Albany, Capt. Dickinson of the U. of Ga, and other members of the University Team who desire to spend the entire summer in Bain bridge. There will be notably among the last year’s team Capt. Hunter, Fred Goodwin, Jack Bower, Wade Gaulding, Norman Gauldmg, Rol and Bower, Warren Waters, James and Blanchard Huff of Columbus, Oscar Groover of Thomasville, and other players. Maj. T. S. Hawes has been appointed official scorer. Arrangements are being made with the 4th Regiment Band - to furnish music af each game. A Band Pavilion will be constructed next to the grand stand. This year at every game Bainbridge will have fair sponsors. With the new park, new players, new uniforms, and brilliant games, Bainbridge will have a baseball season of which the Bainbridge citizens will be proud. t Election of Captain is advertised for the first of May, Manager, 1903. A New Road. Forty of our leading citizens met at the Court House on Thurs day evening and a most enthusias tic body of men it was. The mat ter for general discussion was the possibility of getting the Hawkins- ville and Florida Southern to ex tend its railway line to this place. We are as enthusiastic over the prospects as any one can be. there are untold possibilities for Bainbridge and this is especially true if we become a railroad cen ter. The President and the Gen eral Superintendent of the H & F S were here at the meeting and they assure us that if Bainbridge will raise $15,000.00 and give ter minal facilities, the work of grad ing will begin at this end of the line within thirty days. This is the greatest thing for Bainbridge since work on the G F & A began. If our citizens appreciate the ex cellent opportunity they will waste no time in subscribing the sum needed. The H F & S c£ji do more for us in the way of lower ing freight rates than almost any road in the country for it crosses five trunk lines and it will there fore give us unlimited competi tion in rates. The lines that the proposed road crosses are the Southern, Central of Ga , Sea board, Atlantic Coast Line, and the Brunswick and Birmingham. Now is the time for Bainbridge to wake up and if we don’t then we will sleep in obscurity for many a weary year and some other town that realizes the opportunity will grasp it. On Tuesday night there will be another meeting of the cit izens to discuss ways and means Meaning OF Education. "Education means the free right training of every child in the com monwealth; but it means a great deal more than this. It means th( assertion of the community against the lawless individual—the com munity’s authority against individ ual authority. The state must tax; it must educate. "An aristocracy in a democracv means a group of privileged per- sons; outside this group, the bully; behind the bully an ignorant popus lace that will elect the bully to of fice, will hold him in honor and will acquit him of crime.”—Wal ter H. Page. Miss Abbot’s Perfor mance. The performance of Miss Annie May Abbott at the Opera House Tuesday and Wednesday nights elicited much praise and com* raent for the fair little lady. Tnere was no chi;anery about the performance. We will not go into detail as those who were not there would not believe our story and we have no explanation to of fer for her wonderful power. It is truly a mystery and the power which she has is appalling. of raising the required sum ar every citizen of the community urgently requested to atten Don’t suppose that this cs means any one more than it do you. Every one should be vital interested. We are informed th when the road is in running ordi it will be able to put us in Atlan three hours sooner than any oth route.