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BILL ARP’S LETTER
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peal For Orphans’ Home.
TOICHING STORY OF AN EPIDEMIC
Hi« Own Mother Wat Bereft of Her
Parents at the Tender Age of
Seven, But Fortunately Fell
Into Loving Hands.
Ninety-nine years ago today Rob
ert Emmett was executed for high
treason. I wonder how many of the
old school boys have spoken his speech
—his beautiful speech—In defense of
himself and companions for tho Irish
rebellion, and their attempt to seize
tho arsenal and the arms in Dublin and
set Ireland free. I wonder how many
of the modern school boys ever heard
of Emmet, one of the noblest, purest
and most eloquent patriots in all his
tory. It took a smart boy, a gifted boy,
a good, kind-hearted boy, to speak that
speech with feeling and pathos. Chan
Holt could do it, and he was the only
one of our set who could make the
turkey bumps rise on our spines and
our hearts go pity-pat as ho stretched
hlmself a littlo higher and exclaimed:
"Let no man write my epitaph. Until
Ireland Is free, lot not my epitaph be
written.” He had been already tried
and convicted, aud when the stern old
chief justice asked him if he had any
thing to say why sentence of death
should not bo pronounced, he made
this speech. The judge could not con
ceal his emotion, and all the court was
in tears. Robert Emmet was a very
great man. Although but 22 years old
at his death,’ he was the peer and com
panion of Curran, Grattan and Philips,
and the friend and college mate of
Thomas Moore, the poet. When exe
cuted bo was engaged to Curran's
daughter, the beautiful Sarah, and
Tom Moore has written a charming
poem about their sad and broken-heart
ed destiny. Had it not been for Sarah
and his love, Emmet would not have
been tried, for lie and his fellow pa
triots, who were leaders of the rebel
lion of 1798, had already escaped, most
of them to America, but Emmet lin
gered for Sarah’s sake and was ar
rested and tried for treason.
Among those rebels who escaped to
America was a young man named Ma
guire. who landed at Charleston and
settled there. He had some means,
and began business as a linen mer
chant, and prospered. Not long after
this he married an orphan girl, the
daughter of a sea captain, and they
lived happily together. Two children
were bom to them, James and Caro
line. No children ever had more lov
ing parents, no parents ever had more
loving and lovely children, and for
years there was no foreboding of any
calamity or affliction that could or
would befall them.
But now, as next Saturday, the 28th,
Is Orphans’ day, my ruminations that
began with Robert Enunet have, with
out design, brought iny thoughts along
down to this Maguire, who was one of
his friends and compatriots. 1 wish
to tell tlie young people a littlo story
about what happened to James and
Caroline. It may read like a romance,
but it is all fact. The story will fit
the day that is to come, tho 28th, and
will fit the orphans at the jjome, near
Decatur, and those at Clinton, j.n South
Carolina, and those anywhere and ev- i
erywhere, for it is a fact that 10 por
ceid, of all the children under 12 years
"of ago are either fatherless or mother
less. Orphans mZ ti? ward S of the
nation, and are as tnucu to
our care and *>■ aintenance as are tho
blind an' 1 t ke Charity to help
less friendless children is one thing
1 >ve can all agree upon. We may differ I
In politics or religion, but charity is
a universal sentiment. The man who
loves his fellow men and sympathizes J j
with them in their distress is forgiven I
for his faults, for charity hideth a mul
titude of sins. A man may gamble or
cheat or drink or lie, but if ho is good
to the poor and friendless it balances
the scales. It is a Dutch story that |
Jacob Snyder kept a mill. When he
died and knocked at St. Peter’s gate
for admission, the good saint said,
“Jacob, you dul keep a mill down in
the lower world, and you did some
times take too much toll—thee cannot
come in.’ “Ah! goot, saint, dot is
true,” said Jacob, “sometimes von de
vater vas low and do stones vas dull,
I did take a little too much toll, but I
always gave it to de poor.” The good
saint pondered and ruminated long,
but finally said, “Jacob, Jacob, I will
let you in. but it do strain the gate.”
In tho summer of 1815 tho yellow fe
ver, that awful scourge, visited
Charleston, and in a week’s time tiad
swept the people away by thousands.
It was several days before the panic
became universal, and then all who
could go fled in terror; but In hun
dreds of families one or more were ta
ken and could not leave. Maguire anu
his wife were taken the same day.
They lived twenty-four hours and were
buried by night in the same grave.
The little boy of 9 years was hurried
away by a kind-hearted man, and the
little girl of 7 by another. Just then
the order came from the board of phy
sicians to remove all the children im
mediately, and James was hurried on
a schooner bound for Boston, and Car
oline on another bound for Savannah.
They diu not meet nor kiss a sad fare
well, nor knew of each others’ fate
nor where they were going. What
grief Yvas theirs! What briny tears!
Bereft! Bereft! that is the word, for
it means snatched away. Yvs, T knew
something about these orphans, for
this same Caroline was my mother,
and many times have I sat at her knee
and listened and wept over the sad
gtory of hcr orp hanage. How in a day
she lost her parents and har brother,
and was left alone without a relative
tfiis side of the sea.
She was placed in the orphan asy
lum in Savannah and was cared for
by good people until she was 10 years
old, when one day a good lady came in
a ilno carriage to choose and adopt a
child. The orphans were ail clad in
their best garments and gathered in
the great, big company room and af
ter they were seated the grand lady
went round and round talking kindly
to one and another and after long in
spection stopped at Caroline and said,
“I will take this one.” The poor girl
was alarmed and cried with grief at
being separated from those she had
learned to love. The great lady was
the mother of Rev. Dr. Goulding and
tho grandmother of Frank Goulding,
who wrote the pretty story of “Young
Marooners.” In the meantime Caro
Ilne ’ s Mother had been placed in an
orphans’ asylum in Boston, and after
two years ho was taken homo by a
wealthy gentleman of Randolph, who
had an only daughter and no son. This
daughter James married when he was
anc j tPoy received the old man’s
blessing and a good estate. In vain,
an( j j n vain, had James visited Charies
ton ^ fi n( i 9ome c lew to his lost sister
all( i gadly ho returned and mourned
her as dead,
Caroline was sent to school at oid
Midway, in Liberty county, where she
made good progress in her studies.
Her teacher took great interest in her
and kindly visited Charleston and ad
vertised In the city papers for her
brother, but learned nothing. When
Caroline was 15 her teacher became so
deeply grieved over her sad and lonely |
fate that ho married her and here I
am. Again he advertised in several i
papers, and at last in a Boston paper, j
and said in good, largo typo, "If James |
Maguire, whose parents died of yellow j |
fever in Charleston, S. C,, in 1815, is
living he can find his sister, Caroline,
by addressing the undersigned.” He
saw that. A friend handed it to him
in church one Sunday and there was a
scene. He came to Georgia by the j
first vessel that was bound for Savan
nah. From there he came to Law
renceville, where my father was then
living. I was then but 7 years old,
but I remember the meeting and no
pen can describe it. The young peo
pie must imagine the rest. When last j
in Savannah I visited the very ground |
and reverently looked upon the place
thut, gave my mother a welcome and a
home. If 1 am anything that is worthy, j
I owe it chiefly to my mother and she
owed all that she was to an orphanage.
Friends, do not forget the day nor the
deed that should be done. It will pay
in the long run. Maybe it will open
St. Peter’s gate to some who have ta- j
ken a leetlo too much toll. Forty
times are tho fatherless mentioned in I
the Bible. The word motherless is not
there, but the word fatherless includes
all orphans in the translation, Let j
us not forget tbe day nor the deed. A j
dime or a dollar or more given will be !
like lending it to the Lord. Send j
to Rev. H. S. Crumley, No. 200 Oak
street, Atlanta, Ga. I know him well |
and love him. His life work is for
tho orphans.—Bill Arp, in Atlanta Con
stitution.
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WII0L.U SOUTH IX S011R0W.
ur | a | Day of Dead President One of
General Mourning. j
With tolling hells 1
and funeral tuner*th dUq.a, the southern peo-{ I
p Wlth eycs ailed with tears and
hearts with sorrow, bowed their heads l
m in prayer nravnn as thn tho lo.t last nnrthlv earthly rmnalns remains I I
of the martyred president, William
McKinley, were lowered into the last
resting place at Canton Thursday.
Every city, town and hamlet in tho
south his ceased business aud memorial out of services respect j
to memory,
were lield tor the S reat and S° od man |
who iiad endeared himself to every ,
one by his acts of wisdom and words :
of love. I
Proclamations had been issued by |
the governors of the southern states. |
making the day one of mourning and J
prayer, and municipal a hearty response came of j
from tho governments
cities and towns and the day was one
of sorrow to all.
WOOD SORELY DISAPPOINTED.
Governor-General of tuba Failed to
Iteach Canton for Funeral.
Had it not been for the intervention
0 f an agency beyond human control,
General Leonard Wood, governor gen
cra l of Cuba, would have been one of
those to pay a last sad tribute by his
presence to the martyred president of
the United States at tho .unoral in
tho Ohio city Thursday.
General Wood was In the state of
Georgia Wednesday making every ef
fort to arrange for special transporta
tion to carry him to Canton in time
for the funeral. Every assistance pos
sible was given him by the officers
over the different railroads, Just
as it was believed that a plan had
been devised whereby General Wood’s
cherished hope would be fulfilled the
news came that washouts on the lines
over Yvhich ne would have to travel
would prevent travel at a rate of speed
necessary to place him at the scene in
time for the funeral.
Georgia.\Cullings
Brief But Interesting Summary
of Happenings in tbe State.
For Circulating Libraries.
County School Commissioner T. R.
Bennett is working hard to establish
circulating libraries throughout Ware
county for the benefit of the schools.
Wife Murderer Surrenders.
Lewis M. Ashby, the white man who
murdered his wife in Savannah last
Friday, has given himself up. Board
ing a train at Guyton Sunday he sur
rendered to the conductor, who car
ried him back to Savannah.
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Central Buys Steamer,
Tlie Ocean Steamship Company has
acquired the Plant System steamer
LaGrande Duchesse. The announce
ment i3 made by President .Jo in M.
Egan, °* Central of Georgia Rail
way and Ocean Steamship Company,
who has just returned from New York,
where he went to meet officials of the
Plant system with reference to the
purchase of the steamship,
Peach Trees In Great Demand.
Young peach trees’for planting pur
poses have within the last two months
doubled in price in Georgia. The great
est craze the state has ever known
over peach trees has seized the plant
ers, and the nurserymen of the state
are now unable to supply the demand.
Two million trees have already been
sold this year, and the nurserymen
say if they had the trees they could fill
orders for thousands of them that they
now have to turn down.
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To Elect Representative.
An order, signed by the governor,
has been issued from the executive de
partment calling for a special election
for a representative in the lower house
of the general assembly from Ogle
thorpe county. 'the election is to be
held for the purpose of naming a suc
cessor to fill out the unexpired term of
Hon. Joseph McWhorter, who died re
cently. It is incumbent now upon the
ordinary of Oglethorpe county to call
this special election at the earliest pos
sible date, the same, however, not to
be held until twenty days’ notice has
been given to the qualified voters of
Oglethorpe.
Tifton Cotton Mills.
Owing to the difficulty in securing
the proper man as superintendent and
the death of one of tho best citizens
and leading spirits in the Tifton cotton
factory, Mr. L. G. Maynard, the mills
were not opened last August as was
intended, but will now be ready
to begin work within the next week
with a hundred or more experienced j
operatives. For the next few months
the mills will be run on double time.
The opening of the mills has been ;
looked forward to with much interest j
by the people, feeling assured, as they
did, that it would mark the opening of
an era of prosperity and business de
velopment.
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Banks In Good Condition.
Sterling G. Turner, of the state trea
sury department, has just returned to
Atlanta from a tour of examination of
various banks throughout the state,
Mr. Turner is now at work compiling
a record of the result ox his examina
tions pursuant to a call made upon the
state banks for a statement of their
conditions at the close of business on
September 5th. ;
“The banks,” said Mr. Turner, “are
in exceptionally fine condition through
out the state at this time. I do not
think the death of President McKinley
has had, or will have any effect on
banking in Georgia. ,
farmers of the state, he con
tinued “ seem to be in the m dst .*
’ their
prosp er 0 us era. They are paying i
notes at the bank before thC paper is
dU . ®’ in e . m . in instances „ tanf , M aS , s DlUCfl mue y» as US
two months before maturity.
Guard Was Honored.
Tho Gate City Guard, of Atlanta,
was the only outside military company
to take part ; n the McKinley funeral
obsequies. The Georgia company not
only was the recipient of the most un
stinted courtesy and consideration at
the hands of the people of Ohio, but
was the honored guest of all the mili
tary. The Guard occupied the right of
the line and with all of the troops
thrown into column of companies, the
Guard was the first military company
of the procession. This honor, high
and distinctive, accorded the Guard
was over the heads of 5,000 men ot
the national guard of Onio, they being
the only troops in the procession ex
cept the escort from the regular army
which surrounded the president’s cas
not.
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Hutchins Selected as Umpire.
Charles S. Northern representing the
Southern railway, and Railroad Com
missioner Pope Brown, representing
the state in the tax arbitration pro
ceedings between the Southern rail
way and the state, as to the value of
the terminal properties of the road at
Brunswick, have notified Comptroller
General Wright that they are unable
to agree and that they have agre^ :1
upon Judge N. L. Hutchins, of Law
renceville, as an umpire.
The value of the terminal proper.: -
at Brunswick of the Southern railway
is said to be about $100,000. Mr.
Northen and Mr. Brown were unable,
it is said, to get nearer than $40,000 of
the same figure.
A meeting of the arbitrators in the
returns of the Savannah, Florida and
Western railway will be held in Savan-
nah on October 26th. For some time
an effort has been attempted to arrive
at a reasonable figure for the value of
the terminal and the wharf properties
of this company, but the arbitrators
have not yet been able to agree.
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Limited to Mineral Exhibit,
At a meeting in Atlanta a day or
two ago of the exposition commission,
composed of Colonel W. A. Hemphill,
Commissioner of Agriculture 0. B.
i Stevens and State Geologist Yeates,
it was decided that owing to the linn
ited funds at the command of the com
mission only a mineral and geological
resource exhibit would be made at the
Charleston exposition.
Notwithstanding the manner in
which the commission has been handi
capped, the display, which will be
made under the direction of Professor
Yeates, will be a very handsome one,
and worthy of the state in the particu
lar lines displayed, but it is regarded
as almost a calamity to the welfare of
the state not to have an exhibit of its
agricultural, horticultural and other
resources at the exposition.
The exhibit to be placed at Charles
ton will be very much the same as that
now on view at the Buffalo exposition.
There will be some additions, which
Professor Yeates is now engaged in se
curing.
The inability of the state to make a
better showing is due to the small
amount of money the last legislature
appropriated for the purpose.
Druggists Take Appeal.
The injunction ease brought by the
Jacobs Pharmacy Company against
the Atlanta Druggists’ Association,
which has been decided by Judge
Lumpkin, in the Fulton county supe
rior court, in favor of the plaintiff,
will be carried to the state supreme
court. The case has been hard fought
presen t an( j W ill continue to be
until the highest tribunal in the state
has finally passed on it.
The decision of Judge Lumpkin is
said to be the first under the anti-trust
law passed by the Georgia legislature
in 1896. The Jacobs’ Pharmacy Com
pany filed a bill seeking to enjoin the
Atlanta Druggists Association and
two other associations of drug dealers
from forming an alleged combination
against its business.
It was alleged that Jacobs had been
designated as an aggressive cutter and
that efforts were used to prevent him
buying goods from wholesale houses.
The Atlanta Druggists’ Association
claims that all it did was merely for
the protection of its members.
It is stated that cases of a similar
nature have been brought in other
states. Much law was introduced at
the hearing before Judge Lumpkin,
and the question of the constitutional
ity of the anti-trust law played a part.
BKYaX 1'aYS TJUUUTE.
Xebraskan Sajs Wrong: of Bnlfalo
Outrage Hiotibl Bo Avenged.
A tribute from W. J. Bryan to the
dead president was given to the Asso
ciated Press at Lincoln Wednesday:
Quoting the words of McKinley,
“God’s will, not ours, be done," Mr
Bryan recalls the pathetic scenes at
the deathbed and continues:
“The terrible deed at Buffalo, rudely
breaking the ties of family and friend
ship and horrifying every patriotic
citizen, crowns a most extraordinary
life with a halo that cannot but exalt
its victim’s place in history, His
bravery during the trying ordeal, his
forgiving spirit, fortitude in the final
hours, give glimpses of his inner life
which nothing less tragic could have
revealed. But inexpressibly sad as is
the death of McKinley, the illustrious
cit izen, it is the damnable murder of
McKinley, the president, that melts
75,000,000 hearts into one and brings
a h U3 h to the farm, the factory and
the forum. Death is the inevitable
■ caree r; it
“ i espises espIsts t tflc h e sword snoru and and the tne shield smem
Qf th{J warrior and lkllghS at the pi’e
cautions suggested by science.
Wealth cannot build walls high enough
or thick enough to shut it out, and no
house is humble enough to escape
its visitation. Even love, the most
potent force known to man—love, the
characteristic which links the human
to the divine—even love is powerless
in its presence! Its contigency is
recognized in the marriage vow—‘un
til death us do part’—and is written
upon friendship’s ring.
“But the death, even when produced
by natural causes, of a public servant,
charged with the tremendous possi
bilities Yvhich press upon a president,
shocks the entire country and is in
finitely multiplied when the circum
stances attending constitute an at
tack on the government itself. No
one can estimate the far-reaching ef
fect of such an act as that which now
casts a gloomt over our land, I
shames America in the eyes of the
world. It impairs her moral prestige
and gives enemies of free government
a chance to mock at her. and it excites
an indignation which, while righteous
in itself, may lead to acts which will
partake of the spirit of lawlessness,
A “s the president’s death over
whelms all in a common sorrow, so it
imposes a common responsibility,
namely, to so avenge the wrong done
to the president, his family and the
country as to make the executive life
secure without abridging freedom of
£peec h or freedom of the press.”
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G OTTOJ-tOTTOH-COTTOI
To My Foi^mer Patrons
and Friends.
I thank you most cordialy for your liberal pat
ronage since I have been in the Warehouse Business
in Cordele. I will still be in shape to handle your
:otton the coming season, but at another stand. I
have fixed up a warehouse in rear of Julien Perry’s
old stand on 12th avenue. Bring me your cotton and
I will see that you get highest market price for it.
Wagon yards and stables free. Thanking you again
I am the farmers’ friend,
G.H. TOMMEY, Cordele,
Georgia
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OF THE PRICES OF
The Cordele Grocery.
And the public is politely informed that this firm has
Hats! Hats! Hats! Staw hats, going at almost any old
price. If you can’t buy at our prices come in At Once and
buy at yours. We’ve got them on hand and they must
be gotten rid of at some Price.
Remember also that our store is Headquarters for
Groceries, Provisions, Flour, Feed stuff, etc., and for Dry
Goods. Gents’ Furnishings, in fact everything that a man
wears. We have nice summer suits, Mens’ shirt waists,
suspenders, shirts, shoes, summer pants, summer coats,
Etc. Etc Our Mr. W. M. Kennedy will take pleasure in
quoting prices. See us Tinware, Crockery, etc.
THE CORDELE GROCERY.
Next door to express office. Cordele, Ga.
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