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for Best Results 4 rs 1 jt 1 ♦ BEST EQUIPPED ■ of Both the City, in end Use out jiN 77* .‘Sr — A % ■! 9 SOUTH JOB OFFICE GEORGIA. IN the Columns of 1 V, if. j #• " J\PPLY FOR ) The SENTINEL PRICES VOL.14.NO. 8. ■ 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- Prices ON FRUIT JARS AND TIN CANS. Globe Glass Jar 1 qt. 90c doz. 66 •( “ 2 qt. $1.15 doz. Weir Stone Jar 1 qt. $1.25 doz. 66 66 *• 2 qt. $1.75 doz, Wax Tin Cans 50 cents dozen. CORDELE HARDWARE CO. $1.00 A YEAIv tion for higher promotion, which would keep me between two fires, disabling me from ever catching up another law practice,” and, be sides, said he, ‘‘life is too short for a man to impose upon himself this burden of unrest; this run ning after impracticable things, creating a spirit of discontent ment that can’t be satisfied. Give, me none of it.” “Why, said he, “There is nothing short of congress that is worth having, and you know the uncertain tenue by which a Georgia congressman holds his job.” He said that “the poli ticians needed the jobs, let ’em have them, I can make a living and depend on no man.” There isionly one man in many thousands who by nature and ac complishment have the capacity of becoming great statesmen. Look at the number of ex-congressmen and ex-governors who are never heard of after their term of office expires. Our great statesmen have rarely ever been politicians, but, proving their great ability in private life, the people Lave sought them out and madje them leaders. Hoke Smith, the greatest living rgian, nevjty sought political , his merit im s$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.