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Within About One and
l lalf Miles of 1 Iawkinsville
Wort (n tfie Road Said To
Progressing Rapidly,
Roadbed Wide, With Heavy
Will Hake, When Completed, One
of the Best Roads in the State
—Telegraph Lines Put Up.
Mr. C. G. Goff, who is construct
ing the HawKinsville, Florida and
Southern railway between
and Hawkinsville, was in
Sunday.
Mr. Goff said that his road
now in about one and a half
of Hawkinsville, and that
was progressing very rapidly.
Telegraph line* were being put
up, and in a short while the roll
ing stock would be received,
the road would be put in full opera
tion.
This road is laying heavy steel
rails, and the roadbed is wide and
well built, making it one of the
best roads in the state.
So soon as the road is completed
to Hawkinsville and everything
put in running order, a regular
schedule will be made, connecting
with the Seaboard at Pitts, and
with the Georgia Southern and
Florida at Worth.
This road also has a branch line
running to Fitzgerald.
This road will prove a great con
venience to the traveling public
who desire to reach Cordele. As
it is now, any one desiring to go
to Hawkinsville from Cordele have
either to go via Macon or Helena.
To go by Macon makes the dis
tance over 100 miles. While around
by Helena it is something over 90
miles. By the Hawkinsville, Flor
ida and Southern the distance will
be something over 40 miles, with
prompt connection with the Sea
board at Pitts.
The Hawkinsville, Florida and
Southern people ran their first
, . their line from Haw
Main over
kinsville to Pitts, thence over the
Seaboard tracks to Cordele yester
day (Thursday), bringing a num
ber of Masons over to the Masonic
meeting here. The Masons had to
hire teams from Hawkinsville to
take them about 14 miles to where
the road was in condition for
travel.
General offices have been opened
in Hawkinsville, where the com
pany will make their headquarters,
and in a short time this new road
will be in full working order.
^ °men are like cats; both are
graceful, both are domestic, and—
both scratch.
Let’s Hate
Tuk Sentinel. Alway in The
Lead in Efforts and
Suggestions For Cordele's Good,
Wants A Town Clock!
So, No Doubt, Do a Majority oT Our
Public Spirited and Enterprising
Citizens—“What Time is it?”
Time Cordele Had a Clock!
We are adverse to offering too
many suggestions to our city fath
ers, but seeing a great need of the
city, we do not think our sug
gestion will fall on deaf ears.
Cordele is growing rapidly, and
is adding to herself many things
that would be conducive to the
comfort and convenience of towns
with even a larger population,
but there is, we think, one thing
that would be of great service
to her citizens, and would only
necessitate a small expenditure
by our city fathers, and that is
a city clock.
There are several towns in the
state not so large as Cordele,
that have city clocks, and we
should not be behind m any of
these matters.
Let the city get a clock, one
that will give good service, and
she will have rendered a service
to the people that will be a real
benefit.
OUR ADMIRAL.
True people of America, an accusation
grave
Is leveled at a hero, our Admiral, so
brave,
And they’re racking Earth and Hades
in efforts to secure
Some charges of wrong doing h is honor
to obscure.
They say that Schley’s a coward—tnat
he fled from Spanish orders gun— of the
That he disobeyed Washington; the
clique at fame honor; that his
That he has no or
laurels are but dust—
That he stole them from another, and
give ’em up he must.
I say that they are liars ! and thieving
sons of sham,
Who possess no hearts, nor honor, nor
nothing worth a damn ;
That Winfield Schley’s a hero and a
man of noble name,
Who is due a world of honor and not a
iotof blame.
Ho lay waiting near the channel for the
brave old Spanish boats, where
Then sent them to a country
fiery brimstone floats;
While long and jealous Sampson was
many miles at sea,
Perhaps a’catchin’ suckers, or perhaps
a-drinkin’ tea!
Of course there’s no use talking, for
men of brains admit
That Schley is due all honor and Samp
son not a whit,
But a dirty gang of lobsters are prais
ing Sampson him high, the credit that is
And are really giving due to Schley.
Here’s a presidential ticket that would
surely sweep the land :
Our Admiral and Bob band Taylor—they’re
brothers of the
Who believe in giving justice, no mat
ter where it’s found,
And in keepin’ all the rascals and dirty
asses down.
So here’s to our Admiral, and Robert
Taylor, too!
The South will gladly follow your lead
ership so true,
While the West will join with Yankees
who believe in doing right,
And we’ll wipe from off the compass
the sign of Pull and Might!
PriNT
CORDELE, GA.. FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1901.
A Final
M. If Roberts and d
. Bivins on a Tri;• To
Wilmington Island and
Points Rear Savannah,
Dr. Roberts’ Modesty—Were “Model
Boys” -Did Nothing Not Within
the Strictest Rules of Pro
priety—A Pleasant Trip.
Cordele Sentinel, Cordele, Ga.:
Dr. Roberts’ natural modesty
and timidity, or something else,
has precluded him from acceding
to my request to “write up” our
trip, although he informs me that
he has written some articles in
the past for newspapers. I have
waited until the last moment for
his article on how to catch fish,
crab, shrimp and stingerees, but it
is not forthcoming. An article
must be written, however, because
an editor was along, and custom
demands an article when an edi
tor takes a trip.
I shall endeavor to keep my
promise and not tell all that hap
pened on the trip, although I am
quite sure we did nothing that- we
would be afraid or ashamed to
tell. It simply would not interest
the public. .
We “took in” Tybee and ,l JL
vannah for a day, but these places
are familiar, and I can possibly
say nothing new about them, hence
pass them by.
At 10:30 o’clock in the morn
ing, city time—nicknamed by the
genial doctor, “ rag-time” — at
Thunderbolt, about six miles out
from the heart of Savannah (the
casino there draws large crowds
from the city every evening) we
boarded the steamer Wilmington
for an 18 mile journey on Wil
mington river to Warsaw beach.
The tide was kind’o against the
little steamer, and it took three
hours to make the trip; but the
ride was too elegant to mind that.
Some 200 or 300 people were
on board, a good string band
furnished music, and the bar-tend
er’s porter drinks, was yelling out a dozen
different from lemonade
to what he called “Sam Jones;”
it was Sunday morning, but how
could one tell it in the face of all
these things.
Warsaw is far superior to Tybee,
and not near so has dangerous. It is
said that never there been a
drowning at Warsaw beach, and,
it more accessible, would, un
doubtedly, prove far more popular
than Wilmington Tybee. ob
island was our
jeetive point, G miles below Thun
derbolt and 12 miles above War
saw, to which we returned in the
afternoon.
Here we found Professor R. J.
Prentiss and family, Mrs. Devant
and son, of Augusta, sister and
nephew to Mrs. Prentiss. We
were now the guests of Professor
Prentiss and family, as were also
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Wilson and
little son, of Fitzgerald, who had
stopped off at the island Sunday
morning, instead of going on to
Warsaw.
Wilmington island is an excel
lent Summer resort for those who
wish to go to the seashore and get
the benefit of salt water and have
fun fishing, crabbing, etc. The
island proper is something like 7
miles long, and an 4 to 1 mile
wide. It is well shaded with large
oaks, gets the benefit of the sea
breezes, has artesian water, a pa
vilion, and is a cheap place to
live. About 8 miles off the south
end of the island is divided into
400 lots, which are 00 feet front
by 230 feet long, and are for sale at
very reasonable figures. There
are some thirty houses now on the
island, and many prominent fam
ilies Summer there.
Baths are taken in the river,
which, by the way. shows a differ
ence of 9 feet in depth between
Dooly County
Jury Lists
Those A\ ho Will Compose
Dooly County’s
Qrand and Traverse Juries Who
Dispense Justice and (iiiard the
Public Peace, Etc., Etc.
The following gentlemen will
serve as grand jurors at the Sep
tember superior court, which con
venes September 2nd, 1901 .
GRAND JURY:
Jno F. Hngsett,, W. B. Johnson,
W. J. Whitfield, J. E. Brown,
R. S. M. Lilly, J. T. Murray, Sr.
J. B.Whitehead, J. F. Calhoun,
J. H. Calhoun, W. H. Page, Sr.
J. A. McLendon, H. D. Wood,
F, M. Herring, J. O. Hamilton,
S. G. Walls, Jno. J. Willis,
John Fain, A. B. Davis,
J. M. Cox, B, S- Pate,
Fred Harder, Y. T. Sheffield,
W. O. Saunders, T. A. Royal,
C. C. Greer, Jno.H. Bedgood,
H. A. J. Fuqua, Mark Raney,
T. H. Butler, Jas. E. Joiner.
traverse jury—1st week.
J. H. Rains, R. C. Harris,
J. C. Mercer, S. A. Royal,
K. M. Patterson, S. S. Hudson,
R.T,Blanchard, A. E. Hamilton,
L M. Aultman, C. R. Roberts,
J.,R. McKinney, T. J, Perry, Hudson,
D.G.Quatlebaum,J. O. B. Perry, J. J. O. Slade,
‘Win. Clements, Nelson Clements,
G. S. Haslam, Geo. W, Lindsey,
N, T. Christmas, W.'F. Bridges,
J. Elder, G. W. Reynolds,
K, H. Tripp, Jack Bridges,
J. O. McKinney, G. L. Herring,
R. E. Ranson, T. P. Busbee,
J. R. Dowdy, E. M. Gunn,
I. H. Hair, J. O. James,
G. W- Coleman, B. D. Bryan, Sr.
TRAVERSE JURORS—2ND WEEK,
W. W. Collins, J. W. Fokes,
J. P. Gilmore, R.R.Mussel white,
J. J. Cooper, T, J. Pitts,
Joe C. Fenn. J. B. Pate,
A. J. Morris, D. A. Pitts,
Tlios. F. Collier, A. P. Gaines,
J. H. Powell, H. C. Brown,
Neal Smith, W. F. Byrom,
J. M. Graham, J. W. Bivins,
J. B. Smith, James Burnes,
J. B, Carlisle, F. M. Walden,
S. L. Lasseter, J. A. Adams,
Jno. Crumpler, £. T. Ranson,
F. E. Fenn, C. E. Frasier,
B. M. Sellers, E. B. Gunn,
W. F. Wardlaw, Jno. R. Smith,
J. C. Fullington, G. L. Dekle,
S. J. Lewis, D. W. Harvard,
W. M. Forehand, A. S. Hudson, Sr.
J- A, Adkins, D. T. Forehand,
F. M. White, J. T. Goodman,
Jno. B. Walton, W. W. Jordan,
J. C. Hamilton, C. P. Rouse,
E. S- Bowen, S. A. Saunders,
CORDELE’S FIRST BALE.
The first bale of cotton raised this
year was brought to the city last
Friday by S. P. Jones of near this
place. The cotton was stored at
warehouse of Busbee, Hamilton –
Co., and was not offered for sale
until Monday, when it was sold to
B. B. Pound for 12£ cents per
pound. The bale weighed 341
pounds. The price paid exceeds
any other market so far as we know.
John Ray, colored, who lives near
Drayton, carried the first bale of this
season to Vienna last Monday. It
was carried to the Smith – Walton
warehouse and sold for 10 cents per
pound. Unadilla’s bale—The first
new
new bale of cotton for Unadilla was
marketed there last Tuesday and
was sold for 10 cents per pound- John
Pinehurst’s first bale—Mr.
Byrom marketed the first bale of new
cotton received at Pinehurst this sea
son, It was bought by Mr. Mash
burn at 10 cents per pound.
low aud high tide.
It is an excellent, quiet, inex
pensive place at which to spend and a
few weeks in the Summer,
Doctor R. says he caught more fish
in one day there than in all
lile put together elsewhere.
J. W, B.
Should A Young Man
\ Steer Clear of Politics?
BY C. J. SHIPP.
One of Georgia’s most promin
ent, statesmen once remarked that
the greatest mistake of his life
had been the abandonment in early
life of a lucrative law practice for
an uncertain political career. He
had held a number of prominent
P°htical offices; had represented
his people several terms in con
gress, besides having held a num
ber of other positions of dignity
and emolument. His success in
securing political preferment had
been superior to that of the great
majority of the swarm (if politi
cians who envied him his popu
laritv. Yet, notwithstanding all
this, the wisdom that had come
with old age taught him the error
and folly of Ins past life, and made
it a source of regret.
There is a halo and glamour
around the life of a successful
politician in the minds of the
young, which are very dazzling,
and are frequently more effective
in exciting in them a desire for
emulation than all the practical
suggestions of common sense, and
thus they commence the pursuit
of an ignis fatuus, that retreats
faster than they adyance.
A young man who makes up his
mind at an early age to entuyraM'
tics, rarely accomplishes muSr at
anything else. Politics is a jeal
ous mistress, and requinw the un
divided attention of her votaries;
to be even moderately successful,
he must give up his independence
of thought and individuality of
mind; he must cultivate asso
ciates that he would blush to ac
knowledge, and endorse the pet
measures of all the petty bosses,
no matter how contrary to his own
judgment, through fear of losing
his pull.
The brightest young lawyers
that I have ever known have been
completely demoralized after en
tering a political life. They would
neglect their business, and soon
become dependent on politics for
their daily bread — a precarious
liying,
A prominent lawyer stated to
me, recently, that he attributed
his success at the bar more to the
fact that he had all his life steered
clear of this. He had never held
office in his life, and though im
portuned, had uniformly refused
to be a candidate for any office.
Said he: “Should I run for office
and get elected, I couldn’t count
on a life job; there are too many
ambitious fellows who would be
looking for my political corpse,and
the result would be, after losing
my law practice, I would get beat
out of office, and be a statesman
out of a job, and a lawyer with
out practice, and would, in all
probability, have grown an ambi-
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tion for higher promotion, which
would keep me between two fires,
disabling me from ever catching
up another law practice,” and, be
sides, said he, ‘‘life is too short
for a man to impose upon himself
this burden of unrest; this run
ning after impracticable things,
creating a spirit of discontent
ment that can’t be satisfied. Give,
me none of it.” “Why, said
he, “There is nothing short of
congress that is worth having, and
you know the uncertain tenue by
which a Georgia congressman holds
his job.” He said that “the poli
ticians needed the jobs, let ’em
have them, I can make a living
and depend on no man.”
There isionly one man in many
thousands who by nature and ac
complishment have the capacity
of becoming great statesmen. Look
at the number of ex-congressmen
and ex-governors who are never
heard of after their term of office
expires.
Our great statesmen have rarely
ever been politicians, but, proving
their great ability in private life,
the people Lave sought them out
and madje them leaders.
Hoke Smith, the greatest living
rgian, nevjty sought political
, his merit im
s$M5|tary of the interior...
Ben mil yras elected to the .#
United States senate,without anv
political pull ;,in fact, the politi
cians of the state were nearly all
against him. He was elected be
cause he was a statesman—the one
man in many thousands. The peo
pie will not allow the talents of
men like these ever to rust, and I
predict a long term of service in the
United States senate for Mr. Smith,
whether he lines up with the poli
ticians or not. His merit so far
out-reaches that of the puny poli
tician that the people will demand
his services in the councils of the
nation.
Mediocre politicians, as a rule,
command very little respect from
sensible men.
Artificial Digestion?
Is that all that you want? It is
not all that you can get. T. <Sc
P. Stomach Tablets contains the
best digestive agents. These di
gests the food, but if this was all
they would not and could not cure
you. They have combined with
these digestive ferments tonics
that act directly on the organs of
digestion and laxative that regu
late the liver and bowels, perform putting
the systen in condition to
its own work. This means that if
you will half way take care of
your stomach a cure is certain.
T. – P. Stomach Tablets are for
sale by all druggists; 50 cents a
box. Free sample by mail if you
will write for it.
Taylor – Peek Drug Co.,
Macon, Ga.
