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ABLY DISCUSSED.
tenor to the Old Soldier Who
Foagiit for (he Lost Cause.
Have a Bonded In~
debteness Than Reduce
Pensions or Cut the
School Fund.
BY C- J. SHIPP.
A great deal has been said of
Lteatout reducing the pensions
f old soldiers and also the public
fchool fund; it would be unfortu
[ate for the state if either of these
liould be accomplished; we cannot
lord to ignore the services of the
EM who through four long years
kcrifioed everything for their
wfjfry’s honor, and who after
he war during the terrible recon
[ruction period saved our state
torn the ravages of the dirty car
et bagger, the scalliwag and their
[tendant evil—negro supremacy;
p country has ever owed more to
[r I defenders than the south does
these old patriots of a lost;
[use, we had better incur a large
bunded indebtedness for future I
neration than submit to the
[ium of ingratitude; money is
everything, and the man who
bes the withdrawal of the funds
p pensions puts himself in con
pt with the deepest sentiments
It our people have; a proper re
pet for the defenders of a country
list be inculcated in the minds
[the jve the young if we expect to keep
fires of patriotism, and
p neglect of these old soldiers is
jnds pdly calculated to inspire in the
of the youth a proper rever
ie for the traditions of his
Ptry.
[These old soldiers are growing
I now, in a few more short years
P last one of them will have
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Free Blood Cure.
p [ e recommend Botanic Blood
m (B. B, B. ) for all blood trou
P> such as ulcers, eating sores,
plula, [ bones, eczemn, festering blood poison, ach
Mb sores, cancer,
rheumatism. Botanic Blood
cu res all malignant blood or
P [old, diseases, deep-seated especially advised
cases. It cures
F a 'l else fails. Heals every sore
Pimple, [giving stops all aches and pains
[roughly a healthy blood supply,
Mauds tested for thirty years.
cured. At drug stores,
r- receive Per large bottle. Our readers
a trial treatment free by
F'g Dr. Gillan, 218 Mitchell St.,
puta, [ uiedical Ga. Describe trouble and
Lt advice gi ven. Medicine
Fo. once, prepaid. J, B. Ryals
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We’li Furnish You at Low Prices,
Wicks, Lamp goods,
Globes, Glass Lamps,
Lanterns, Store Lamps,
Chimneys,
Decorated Lamps.
order Jr Yenfinel
| been gathered to his father; let
CZm»:£ Z a :j::z*
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rather be increasod, the state will
not miss it, as it will be spent
among the tax payers for the
necessaries of life, We are ta:.od
to pay the pensions of the union
soldiers, our former enemies, let
us pension the old confeds as a
just offering.
Our public schools are the sal
vation of the children of the poor
and unfortunate, and to withdraw
this fund would mean that thous
ands of bright and happy boys
and girls in the state would be
reared in ignorance and vice—
rather than do this it would be
better that the state had a large
bonded indebtedness for these
children to pay in after years that
they grow up ignorant; even if we
only weighed this matter in the
commercial scales education of
the young is a paying investment,
as it reduces crime and vice and
teaches the young to make an
honest living. It is the duty of
the state to see that the young one
is prepared for good citizenship
and I know of no influences so
potent in this respect as the pub
lic school; so mauy young men
have made exemplary citizens
who would never have had a
chance in the world but for the
education obtained in the public
schools.
Let us have better schools and
more of them. No nation at the
present time stands high in the
civilized world that does not keep
up its schools; modern progress
demands it.
Opera House.
Probably no more competent
combination of high-class people
could be gotten together than
those who compose the company
supporting H. Guy Woodward, who
will appear at the Opera House in
Cordele Saturday night next, Nov.
9th-, in Townsend’s pretty little
comedy, “Wanted—A Family.”
The play is chuck full of merri
ment from beginning to end. There
is not a dull moment throughout
the entire performance. Reserve
your seats early and be sure
of a good place.
Reserved seats 75 cents.
General admission 50 cents.
Gallery 25 cents. Seats on sale
at Ryals’ Drugstore.
Warranty Deeds. Hie Sen
tinel has just printed Deeds—the and now
has for sale Warranty
correct form.
MILLIONS PUT TO WORK.
The wonderful activity of the
new century is shown by world an enor- best
raous demand for the s
workers—J)r. Kings new Life Pills.
For Constipation, Sick Headache,
Billiousness, or any trouble of Sto
mach, Liver or Kidneys they’re Ryals un- –
rivaled. Only 25c at J. B.
Co. drug store.
A LEGACY OF THE GRIP
Is often a run-down system.
nervousness, lack of
appetite, energy and ambition, with
disordered liver and kidneys often
follow an attack of this wretched
disease. The greatest need then is
Electric Bitters, the splendid tonic,
blood purifier and regulator of
Stomach, Liver and Kidneys.
Thousands have proven that they
wonderfully strengthen the nerves,
build up the system, and restore to
health and good spirits after an at
tack of grip. If suffering, try them.
Only 50 cts. Perfect satisfaction
guaranteed by J. B. Ryals – Co.
For Sale, Cheap!
Two lots of land in Wilcox
o 011 Hawkinsville, Florida
» thern Railway.
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CORDELE, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8,
When the Executive Mansion Was In
Dooly-
It is a fact perhaps non goner
ally known that at one time the
executive mansion of the state
was located in Dooly county.
the “mansion” was not as pro
tentious as the present Peachtree
lesidence ot Geoigia schief
tive, but nevertheless it sheltered
Georgias governor lor a briol
period during a trying and stormy
time m the state s history.
Joseph E. Brown will be remem
bered in history as Georgia’s
war governor. Of Ins qualities it
,*? ho u life >> ne « !ssa 7 o»I»k- of iwb
ib a part the loeft-iy of
the state, and it is sufficient for
the purposes of this article to say
that lie was. at the beginning of
and
action. When the, state delayed
secUmHndL® th°at m m a cZi?
was being opposed by such aide
Georgians as Aleximdel H. btopii
ens and Herschcll V. Johnson,
Governor Brown growing impa-,
tient of delay and foreseeing that
Georgia must inevitably fdllow her
sister states m their withdraws
from the Untpn caused tlw arsenal
at Augusta and the forts below
Savannah to be seized and occu
pied by state troops. This was
the act of a bold and farsighted
executive, and had the Confeder
ate arms triumphed, all well and
good, but should failure come
the governor’s embarrassing and
perilous position can readily be
seen and appreciated.
Four years passed and with
those years the hopes of the Con
federacy,
Sherman, with his victorious
legions, had invaded Georgia- At
lanta had fallen and the state lay
prostrate and helpless at the con
queror’s feet. The Federal author
ities, flushed with victory, were in
no mood to be terified with, and
were particularly anxious to ob
tain possession of Joe Brown.
The governor himself doubtless
remembering his somewhat pre
mature action in the matter of the
Augusta arsenal and Forts Jack
son and Pulaski was in nowise
anxious to come into close con
tact with the Yankee officials. He
doubtless concluded that it would
be the part of wisdom to move the
of government or at least the
head of it to some more retired
community
The place selected showed the fine
judgement of the governor, for I
have no idea that it ever occured
to Sherman to look for Confeder
ates in the wilds into which he re
tired. In the southern portion of
the state lay a vast tract of sparse
ly settled pine lands, known then
and now as the wiregrass region of
Georgia. This vast expanse of
primeval pine forest began at a
point about thirty miles south of
Macon and stretched away to the
Florida line. The few hardy pio
neers who inhabited this region
lived in log cabins and their chief
source of revenue lay in their
herds of cattle and flocks of sheep
that roamed the woods at will and
subsisted upon the native wire
grass. Few people in this section
owned slaves and it was generally
looked upon as not only an unpro
ductive but an unhealthy country.
Several years before the event of
which I write Governor Brown had
purchased a track of several thous
and acres of land in the heart of
wiregrass region in the south
portion of Dooly county. It,
was to this place that Governor
Brown refugood after the fall of
Atlanta, and when it became ap
parent that Georgia would beover
run and every important point in
by the Federal forces,
The house occupied by the gov
,. rm ,r and his family and which
for the time became the executive
mansion of Georgia, was a typical
home of the better class of wire
grass land owners and cattle rais
ttr8 u f that day
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„ „ |, uilt ()f hewn jne ,
two etoriez high, and coMi.ted of
two big front rooms and two shed
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ra „ th e „ tmj of tlse build .
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llenC( , at the l n(enM J ioil of
i sla( ,[ ;8 | 1(mr d Trumpville roads,
in the ,„i d .t of a clearing " or field
somc „., int larger tllaa usua „
foulKl that section, and which
W as shut in on all sides by miles
of olmost llllbroke „ pine forest,
To the westward, scarcely a mile
' the wafers of Gum creek
lei8 relv fonild their t „ the
bosom of the Flint and just over
the creast of the eminence to the
east arose the headwaters of the
Alapaha. Neighbors were few and
far between, but it is not to be
supposed that fact detracted from
the desirability of the place at
that time. More than 40 miles
intervened between the nearest
railroad station, and here undis
turbed the goyernor remained
with his family, while Sherman
cut his way from Atlanta to the
sea and the Federal authorities
made diligent but fruitless search
for Joe Brown. Governor Brown,
while wealthy, is said to have
been frugal in his habits and old
fashioned in his ways, and there
is a legend still extant in these
parts that when he refugeed to
this place he did not fail to bring
with him a peculiar and favorite
species of collards, which he caused
to be transplanted in his wiregrass
garden.
To such wonderful pnqiortions
did these collards attain, and so
delicious was their flavor that
their fame spread abroad through
the wiregrass section and the na
tives came from far and near to
procure the seed. I am told that
the variety still survives in some
wiregrass, where it is known to
this day as “Joe Brown collards.”
The old log house stood intact as
when it bore the proud d istinotion
of sheltering Georgia’s chief exe
cutive until 11 years ago, when
the ruthless band of progress tore
it down and leveled the old foun
dations to make way for an im
posing brick block, for be it
known that upon the site of the
lonely plantation of Georgia’s war
governor has arisen the wonderful
young city of Cordele.
Time and progress have wrought
great changes in the wiregrass
country since the days when Geor
gia’s governor sought a refuge here.
Dooly county arra* the wiregrass
section wonderful are justly proud of the
progress that has been
made, but the city of Cordele will
always proudly claim as a part of
her ancient time history the fact that
one upon this spot stood
executive mansion of the state.
On a One Horse Farm.
Mr. Lee II. Webb, on his one
horse farm, 1 mile from Cordele,
raised 15 bales cotton valued at
$5G2, oats $100, hay $75, corn $75,
potatoes $125, syrup $50, cotton
seed $86, meat $75, total $1062,
not counting chickens, eggs and
numerous other products. He rais
ed Russel big bole cotton.
Mr, Webb doesn’t brag that he
has done any big thing, although
the above is an excellent showing,
but it would probably have been
even better Jiad Mr. Webb had
more time t6 give his farm his
personal attention all the while.
The kidneys are small but impor
tant orga ns. They need help oc
casionally. Prickly Ash Bitters is a
successful kidney tonic and system
regulator. Cash Drug Store.
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20th Century New Amusement Idea
Two Daily Shows Nov. 15
JJOORS OPEN AT 1 and 6:30 P. M.
THE ORIGINAL
WALTER L. MAIN’S
FASHION PLATE SHOWS.
The grandest, the Most Complete, and the Most Modern
Tented Organization ever Launched on the Public.
A strictly Moral exhibition, Indorsed by Press and Clergy
1,000 Men, Women and Horses. 300 Arenic Stars.
90 Meritorious Acts. 5,000 Surprises.
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* Lions Elephant * Emu Kangaroo “ Monkeys
OUR ANIMAL INFANT NURSERY
Maruel Family, Moore – Gilmore’s 3 Garsennells,
Fancy Bicyclists. Quintette of Daring Aerialists. Premier Acrobats
Bio 68-Horse Act, 8 Brazilian Nondescrihts,
A Wonderful Sight. Hat Manipulators.
3 Brothers Betitt, 4 Silvinis, 3 Barnells, Dan O’Brien,
Judge Brothers,Mons.Tassier, Wm. Connors, Busch, Mac
Davenport, Sig. Mooney, Loranta and Craig, Snakerina,
R. II. Dockrill, Nellie Ryland, Cecil Lowanda, Fianc
Reed, Lizzie Petitt. Tales and Hart, La Petit Trio, John
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Positively No Gambling Devices Tolerated.
Magnificent Free Street Parade
one mile long, will leave the show grounds at 10 A, M., returning at 11
o’clock after which the girl with the auburn hair will make her high
dive from a lofty tower into a net below.
ADMISSION, 5 50 CENTS,
Children 4 and over, and under 12, 25 cents.
One Ticket passes the holder all the way through the
Menagerie, Hippodrome, 3 Ring Circus, and Rough
Rider Exhibition.
TICKETS ON SALE at J. B. Ryals – Co’s Drug Store
on Show Day. Sale opens at 9:00 A. iTJ