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DIED GRIEVING FOR SON WHO PROVED REAL HERO AFTER DEATH SENTENCE "Mother Never Knew of Death Upon Battlefield After President Wilson Had Over ruled Inhu man Findings of Court-Martial Board. Eldorado, 111.—Under the wil lows of Wolf Creek Graveyard lies the body of Mrs. Mary Sebas tian. Somewhere in France sleeps Forest I). Sebastian, her soldier son. lie died a hero's death in battle —but his mother didn’t know. She only knew that be had been ordered shot, disgraced for sleep ing at his post of duty—for fall ing asleep after twenty-four hours of wakefulness. She only knew that her boy Forest was in disgrace -that same boy Forest, whose praises today are on every tongue in this town, who at 20 is Eldorado’s firsl gold alar hero. Anguished over her son’s sen tence, Mrs. Sebastian died five weeks before her son fell gallantly in action, at Soissons, on duly 20, IfflH, thus wiping off forever the blot against hi.s name which had been lightened already by Presi dent Wilson’s pardon. “Worry over her son bad rankl ed in the mother’s mind,” said Mrs. Katie Hampton, sister of Mis. Sebastian, from whose house the boy had gone to fight. “Mary was not yet 40 when she died. She had been large and strong and healthy. I tut worry over him caused her sudden de cline and death. “She lived to learn of her son’s pardon, hut she never recovered from the shock of the news of his sentence. It killed her. I komv it did. “l*ut. we never did, at anytime, KCt a word of official news from tlie War Department about the lioy’s trial and condemnation. The first we learned of his sentence was in the newspapers. And we heard of the pardon the same way.” “I suppose if the boy hadn’t been pardoned, and they had ear ned out the sentence, we’d have never been notified until after the poor hoy was dead? Letters and Allotment Stopped. “For three months Forest'smo ther was frantic to know what had befallen him. 11 is regular let ters stopped; then his allotments on which she was partially depen dent stopped; but no explanation came. “And then Mary fell sick. The absence of news from her son, fol lowed by the report in the news papers. that he had been .sentenc ed to death, served to aggravate her growing illness. The pardon by the President, comforting as it was, didn’t relieve her, and she died five weeks before Forest was killed. ‘M p to the very last, Mary held out that she know her boy hadn’t meant to be a coward. She knew he would do his duty like a man. “Forest never mentioned his trouble in letters even after he was freed, until he found out we bad heard of it through the news papers.” Mrs. Hampton brought out the letter from Forest Sebastian in which he made his first reference to his sentence and pardon: He wrote: “1 m not going to say anything al>out it now. Some day I may he able to explain to you all about it. But please don’t think I’m a ooward. Don t think I am chicken-, hearted. ” hildorodo s citizens are proud of Forest Sebastian for wiping out the stain on his name, if stain it was. His Buddy Tells Story. They were also very proud of Flaude Younger, another husky young coal miner. Younger had been Sebastian’s lifetime pal. The 4wo boys were the first to volun tecr from Eldorado, going away on April 14, only eight days after war was declared. Younger returned home two months ago grieved because he had to return without “Frosty,” as young Sebastian was known. 1 had been transferred to the Third I tat t alion with a machine gun unit.” said Younger. “Sebas tian was with Company G, of the Second Battalion. So I wasn’t with him when he got into trouble but I talked to him about it later. “One day I went to Demaigne, where be was confiend, I saw “Frosty” working among a gang of prisoners on the streets. That was before lie was sentenced to death. lie was trying to keep up his spirits even as a prisoner. He didn’t seem to realize what ser ious trouble he an hour off wasn’t enough 1o get even he was to go to the front. That was the last time 1 saw him. We went to an other sector. I did not learn of his pardon until after his death. “Frosty,” as he snatched an opportunity to talk to me away from the eyes of his setilry, told me for God’s sake not to write and let mother know the trouble I’in in. 1 wouldn’t have the folks home know it for Ihe world!” Couldn’t Get Sleep Off Duty. “Frosty” just dozed a little and nodded his head on his breast, his comrades told me, and I can’t see how anybody could help it. We were on watch all night at a stretch, and an hour off wasn’t enough to get even a nap. In the daytime the boche shells were screeching over constantly. We were the first on the front and we hadn’t got used to it. And when he got out there in the stillness of the night, he just dropped off a moment. It’s easy for me to see how he did it. “It sounds awfully had to come one here at home, but lying in mud ill day and then trying to do picket duty on a tied spot all night, was no easy thing, especially when we’d hiked for days and days to fret up there." An official report made in Washington of the ease showed that Sebastian had been on sentry duty the night before, that during the day he had tried to get sleep in a noisy trench in which wood had been ordered chopped, and that when lie returned to sentry duty after a sleepless day his eyes simply refused to stay open.—Na tional Weekly News. WIPE OUT INSANITARY HO TELS IN EVERY TOWN. For years the Manufacturers Record has from time to time tried to find language adequate to fitly describe the hog-pen condition of some of the hotels in the smaller towns of the country; indeed, we have said that some of the hotels in their insanitary condition would be wholly unfit to be used as bog-pens. Put unfortunately commercial salesmen have to put up with conditions which endang er life, and which are a disgrace to hotel proprietors and to the towns in which these conditions exist. Any town that permits its hotels to exist in a condition of tilth unfit for human habitation disgraces itself and does not de serve health either morally, phy sically or financially. Some town people might say that they have no responsibility in regard to ho tel management or mismanage ment. They have. There is a verv great responsibility resting upon the officials of every community to see that sanitary conditions of ev ery kind are wholesome and clean, in the streets, alleyways and the yards and all public places of amusement or conveni ence. The hotel is semi-public in its character. It represents the town to the traveling public. Tt is cither a wholesome center of i heajtlifulness or it is a breeder of diseases, not only for the conimnn- I ity. but for the people who are un fortunate enough to have to visit THE BARROW TIMES, WINDER, GEORGIA. such places. For years we have tried to sti mulate the commercial travelers to a determination to break up the insanitary conditions which exist in some hotels. We are glad to see that the Atlanta Constitution lias joined in this campaign. In a re cent issue, referring to a letter on the subject from a traveling sales man in regard to some of the ho tels in that State (and the des- cription fits many other States,) its says: “Some of them are travesties— and abominations to boot! A few of them are well kept—but they are few, very few. Many of them are public nuisances. “Conditions in the average ho tel of this class, says Mr. Hart, ‘are barbarous!’ “Keeking retiring rooms; filthy lavatories; broken, unclean wash bowls; untidy and uncomfortable beds; dirty floors; screenless win dows in many instances; unsavory unpalatable and unclean food; de natured dishwater for ‘coffee;’ with various and sundry species of ‘wild life’ everywhere in evidence from bedroom to kitchen—then on top of it all a bill based upon the theory of first-class accommo dation—that affords a word pic ture of the average hotel of which Mr. Hart complains. “And these so-called hotels are located in prosperous centers, where plenty abounds. Their ta bles should be loaded the year round with the very ‘fat of the land,’ with seasonable fruits and vegetables in abundance and at rates at once profitable to the ho tel and reasonable to the guest. There is no reason why the ser vice should not he accommodat ing, efficient and alert, nor why cleanliness should not be the order from cellar to garret. 'Hut too often the reverse is true. “.Such hotels are community lia bilities, fur a town is judged ......i.lv by it-, public places. j “The board of Trade of a cer tain Georgia community recently compelled the leading hotel to close its dining-room because the character of service and of food served was ‘hurting the town!” It the health authorities or the public officials will not compel cleanliness and sanitation in the j hotels and boarding bouses of the I community, then it is incumbent upon the commercial organiza tions or the business people nrp orally to take the matter in | Morally, physically ar.A ly, no community can be uimhi bet ter than the standing of the hotels which represent its business life. The work of the traveling sales men is hard enough at the best. They must be away from home much of the time. They must car ry the message of the world’s busi ness into every corner, even to the backwoods district, and when they have to put up with hotels whose dirt and lack of sanitation would disgrace a reasonably clean hog-pen. whose food would be re fused by any respectable, well-fed hog and whose air is one of dirt and tilth, life indeed is made hard and its very existence is threaten ed by such conditions. The hotel and boarding house are really public institutions, and if the communities won’t properly regulate them, then every State should pass laws for their inspec tion and the inspection should be rigid from top to bottom and no insanitary condition, no unclean, filthy hotel or boarding house should he permitted to continue in operation.—Manufacturers Re cord. Why Ho Hadn't Slumbered. Tm surprised at you. Mr. Twobhle. You fell asleep richt In the middle of Professor "'Dirts’ lecture.'’ “Don't Maine me for that, my clear." “Why uot. sir?’’ “I would have fallen asleep sooner, hut the person seated imme diately behind me kept eoughinj: on the hack of *uy neck.**~Bi;aiinghain Age iiernliL JURY FOR THE SPECIAL TERM OF COURT NEXT WEEK W. R. Drummonds Henry M. Hill T. X. Thompson G. W. Lyle R. A. Ethridge J. B. Evans G. W. McDonald Jr. E. B. Doster J. W. Brinsfield H. D. Jackson S. C. Potts A. D. Wall Jr. ' ' C. R. Hancock ' Robt. J. T’entecosh H. H. Pendergrass Dr. H. Pr Quillian 11. A. Perry F. H. Potts Dr. AV. L. Bush ‘ * F. M. Potts A. L. Jacobs 11. R. Kilcrease J. W. McElhannon Robert Moore R. M. Millikin A. M. Church J. R. Odum E. 11. Ridgeway N. L. Hamilton Weyman I’. Harrison Dr. E. F. Saxon D. 8. Rainey A Harvey Austin Dr. L. W. Hodges J. L. Harris T. C. Fulbright T. < \ Flanigan J. M. McElhannon J. G. Smith Judson Gordon - : : B. T. Thomas 0. W. Rooks G. P. Holloway D. W. Maffett ' -- ~~ R. L. Mobley W. Phillips J. F. "Watkins T. V Sudrlath J. AY. Shields AA . A. Ridgevi ’av “Ready-to-wear Barg’an Store ! Jackson St. Winder, Ga. Boys Suits, Woolen from $9.00, $12.50 to $15.00. Ladies Silk Waists, Georgette Crepe, from $3.00 to $7.50 each. y Fancy Veils SI.OO to $2.00. i'f V= Blankets, Comforts $7.50 value, now $5.98. iTjajOOK* f Men's Wool Pants, $3.00 to $7.50. Men, Women and children's under wear, all kinds 75c to $1.50. All I new goods. •' When in town call and see our goods. Geo. J. Zachem Sp§ * Winder, Ga. 1 of IS OUR CONSTANT AIM 11 Each deal with you is not made for its profit alone. It is your good will and permanent patronage that we seek. To this end we will exert every effort and our utmost abil ity to satisfy you in every transaction at this store. If you are not entirely satisfied at any time, let us know. We guarantee you satisfaction and are here to see that you get it. WE GUARANTEE YOU YOUR MONEYS’ WORTH Woodruff Hardware Cos. Winder. Georgia. C. C. Michael J. T. Fleeman A. C. Williams 11. G. Sega is Paul S. Roberts AV. N. Strange S. H. Kennedy J. P>. Cheek R. L. Sharpton AY. C. Sorrels C. 0. Maddox J. L. Aloore R. L. Callahan i!. AAA Edwards Clem "Royal D. T. Hammond Dr. S. A. Boland AV. D. Edgar John AT. Clack A Special Sale Ladies silk dresses $25.00 now $19.98. Ladies fancy Taffetas $15.00 now $1248. Fine all wool serge dresses from $9.00 up to $20.00. Ladies fine coats; cloth and velvet from sl6. 00 to $22.50. Ladies coat suits latest styles, all wool $25.00 to $30.00. House dresses 1.50 to $3.50. Ladies skirts from 3.00 8.50. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23 J. X. Afobley AY. D. Perkins G. M. Poole AV. S. Smith J. AV. Boyd E. B. Casper C. M. Cruee R. J. Wheeler J. S. Morrison G. S. Holliday A. S. Eberhart. Cold Snaps Specs’ Frames. Never leave classes or spectacles with shell or celluloid frames near a window in cold weather, and never wear them out of doors when the tem perature is low. For rims of this sort contract with cold much more than the glass contracts, so they are very • likely to break.