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Place Your Ad. THROUGH The Sentinel. VOL. 14, NO. 20. The Rural fpee Delivery An Educator and Civilizer flAS MANY ADVANTAGES. Appeals for Two Routes Leading out From Cordele Should These Routes be Established Land Would Increase in Value 50 to 100 per Cent. BY C. J. SHIPP. I notice that a number of coun try neighborhoods in Georgia have secured free delivery of mails. This is certainly a move in the direc tion of education for the masses; a daily mail is a great civilizer, a great educator. In conversation with our con gressman, Hon. E. B. Lewis, a few months ago. he said to me, that if our people wanted it we could secure two routes leading from Cordele; but it seems that very little interest is being taken by our people to secure them. I have been told that there were a number of people who did not realize the anvantages to be de rived from the rural delivery and had actually entered protests against them, while a number of others were simply lukewarm on the subject. The result of this opposition and indifference, I fear, will prevent the establishment of these routes. This is unfortunate and much to be regretted. The country could be made as desira ble as the city as a place of resi dence if we could give it the same conveniences socially, religiously and educationally. With free de livery, public schools and good roads, a country residence would have a great many advantages over city life. A majority of the people on the proposed routes, I understand, are very anxious that they be estab lished ; but it is feared that there are hardly enough of these to get up such a petition as the govern ment requires in such cases. In my apinion, should these routes be established, land will readily increase in value from 50 to 100 per cent, and farmers from less fortunate neighborhoods will pur chase lands and build houses on this line for the sake of the con venience. A number of these routes have been established in the north and middle Goorgia counties and they have given such uniform satisfac tion that none of them have been discontinued; but there is a great disposition on the part of the people to haye more established. There is now an effort being made to give free delivery of mails to every farm house in one of the north Georgia counties. I regret to see our people so far behind in this procession; we are just as much entitled to favors of the United States government as the people of north Georgia, and we have an equally as enterprising a congressman as they have, hut if our people sleep over their rights they will have only themselves to blame. If the people on these proposed routes would call a u meeting among themselves and niake an organized effort to ac complish something, 1 believe that every stumbling block could be removed; I hope this will be done. This thing is too important to be neglected: the civilization and progress b of the dav demand it. Our people , are , backwoodsmen ,• , no longer. FOR SALE —For quick sale bring me $500.00 for 50 acres good land two miles Cordele, 85 acres cleared, barn, stalls and dwelling, A bargain. J. P. Highes. Sentinel NEW BRICK WAREHOUSE i Opposite Bolton Building Just Across Railroad Sidetrack. Building to be Thirty-Five by One Hundred Feet and to be Used by Wiilis-Wiison Grocery Co. as Wholesale Grocery House. The Willis-Wilson Grocery Com pany has leased the ground from the Georgia Southern and Florida Railway Company, has drawn up the plans and specifications and is nruv ready to let the contract for a brick building 35 feet wide by one hundred feet long, to be located just across the first side track west of the Bolton building, fronting Seventh street. The construction of this build ing will begin as soon as the con- | tract is let and is to be used by the Will is-Wilson Grocery Company as a wholesale grocery house. Opera House. Under the management of the Cordele Lyceum Association,Robt. J. Burdette, one of the most noted lecturers on the platform, will ap pear at the opera house in Cordele next Monday night, November 18. Mr. Burdette posesses wit and humor that is always pleasaut to everybody. There will be no super ior attraction at the opera house this season that Mr. Burdette and a well filled house is already assur ed to hear him WOULD SMASH THE CLUB. If members of the “Hay Fever Association” would use Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption, the club would go to pieces, for it always cures this malady, and Asth ma, the kiud that baffles the doctors, it wholly drives from the system. Thousands of once-hopeless suffers from Consumption, Pneumonia, Bronchitis owe their lives and health to it. It conquers Grip, saves little ones from Croup and Whooping Cough and is positively guaranteed for all Throat and Lung troubles. 50c, $1.00. Trial bottles free at J. B. Ryals – Co. Little Mary Seymour. Exceedingly sad was the death of little Mary Seymour, the 12 months’-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. B- Seymour, which oc curred at their residence last Sun day morning about 9 o’clock, of pneumonia. Little Mary was sick only three or four days and one feature that made the death more sad was the fact that Mr. Seymour was absent from the city in the North on business when he receiv> d the news. IIo arrived home on the 11 o’clock train Monday morning and at 2 o’clock the family left for Thomasville, the interment their took old home, place. J where Mary was the pride of fond parents and was a perfect beauty. Her short illness and sudden death could hardly be realized. Free Blood Cure. We recommend Botanic Blood Balm ( B. B, B.) for all blood trou hies, such as ulcers, ealing sores, scrofula, eczemn, blood poison, ach ing bones, festering sores, cancer, Blood catarrh, rheumatism. Botanic Balm cures all malignant blood or skin diseases, especially advised f or 0 ki, deep-seated cases. It cures when all else fails. Heals every sore or by pimple, giving stops healthy all aches blood and supply, pains j a Thoroughly tested tor thirty years, Thou8a „d 8 cured. At drug stores, |1.00 per large bottle. Our readers will receive a trial treatment free by writing Dr. Oil an, 213 Mitchell St., Atlanta, Ga. Dcsciibe trouble and free medical advice given. Medicine j sent at once, prepaid. J. B. Lvals I – Co. CORDELE, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1901. pTHE DISPENSARY aTallacyT] t By bthel Xauthus. The ouly safe position in questions of moral reform is of principle. If a matter is right there is no half way house a conscientious man can stop. the liquor traffic is a moral evil there can be no compromise with those who fight it from principle. Of coure if a man is honest policy’s sake only, this will not appeal to him, but the fellow who is honest only policy is at heart a scoundrel no argument will reach him cept one of selfish gain. It not matter with him that liquor traffic breeds of the murders, the the crimes and disorders of country. The ism insanity which follows in wake appeals but little to sordidly selfish if thereby his pocket is a gainer. There is one way under the moral law deal with an evil and that is to fight it outright. 1. To license the dispensary to make the sale of liquor and respectable. It is to this low, disreputable, death ing, sin accursed business have sanction of government. Total prohibition denounces this infa mous traffic as a destroyer of and a promoter of political ruption. 2. A government ought to tect the weak, young and from abuse and misery. The pensary exposes them to evils. It will not furnish to the drunken man nor to minor without his parents’ sent. It is the sober, man it seeks to debase and the pitiable minor who has a debased father that will give him permis sion to purchase. Not so much harm would be done if the miser able drunkards alone were the cna tomers, but the dispensary will only sell to a man when sober and will not take care of him when he is drunk, nor even let him stay on the premises to drink, but he must go home and make life miserable for his wife and children if he has rn, There are no v beds , and j one. couches in the dispensary to , care of the man that it makes drunk, but he is turned out to make life miserable ,, for f , his wife and , child- , •,, of e whom , , he . making , • , beggars ren is and , criminals. • • i 3. „ The , dispensary . . unjust is an monopoly. If thetraffic.in a good thing then all should engage in it; if it be injurious none should. For the sake of a small revenue to itself the gov ernment should not make paupers and criminals and arrogate to Warranty Deeds. The Sen tinel has just printed and now has for sale Warranty Deeds—the correct form. A COMPLETE LINE OF Saddles and Riding Bridles. Cordele Hardware Company Chattanooga Plows. Osborne Disc Harrows, itself this right to gain at a fear ful cost to the poor and miserable who most frequently purchase. Virtuous people may well resist this goverment monopoly that breeds criminals and paupers at so fearful a cost to society. 4. It Ii.ib been argued that total prohibition laws do not prohibit and for this reason a dispensary should be established. This is sophistry of I he thinnest sort. The law against murder does not pre vent murder, the law against theft does not prevent thieving, it only restrains in a measured degree. Truly if there is anything in this argument of a sale of liquor be cause prohibition does not prohi bit, the same may be applied to every other evil in the land. Yet no one will contend the govern ment should establish a brothel house because it cannot suppress licentiousness, nor establish a gambling hell because some law breakers will gamble in spite of stringent laws. 5. The dispensary corrupts the men engaged in it. It is “evil communications which corrupt good morals.” The coarseness, the profanity, the vulgarity of the vicious, the thieving gambler, the unprincipled and the sensual, gather at its counter. The liquor business is demoralizing and nothing else can be made out of it. 6. If it be said that only the higher class will patronize a dis pensary, then is the reason more argument against them. If only one class must be injured in God’s name let that be the criminal class. It is less injurious to so ciety to destroy the debased and wicked than it is to wreck with strong drink the lives of pure and noble families. dls J' But what ? I» good the can country come bene- of a I* n8ar F S “" d b * annual cro P of dr "“ k - aI ; d “ . b,la " a S ood ma " vote tor ' vl,at he ; knows wllj fa8ten a mil1 ‘° breed P au P etS a,,d cr,mlnal8 111 h “ CMn,n ' u “V For the sake of a ^ P a,tr J dollars o( tMat,on . will he vote to fill our courts with criminals . . and our asylums J with , lanatlos . and ... de ' >alu ! heM ? Does ^ ‘ he ’•“P?”""? h8 ‘l>oh""* 88 ? No all the churches oppose them “ and the , dispensary . the natural , is ‘ ,r foe of „ all ,, the religious . f, orgamza- B of . all religion .. . and . tions as it ^ is mom|jty . Th „ boot . black , the j ddleri tbe washerwoman all do gome g 00 ^ ( bu t the dispensary is a devi |„, oom p rom i M wl th evil and there ,s no more good in it than - n other work ot his 9atanic . J „ d "° d kI o y n u/cureUiTkffiney^cor rect8 the urinB) strengthens the sto mach and relieves backache. Cash Drug Store. Christian Workers Conference At the first Baptist Church WITH PYTHIAN HONORS, The Remains of Engineer Jones, Who was Killed in the Wreck, Were interred in Americus. Fireman McDonald, Colored, also Died, While Brakeman Wolf Still Lives and May Recover, Tiie wreck on the S. A. L. Rail way last Friday afternoon about 1:80 o’clock, caused by the switch of the ice factory sidetrack being open and the incoming freight from the east colliding with the yard engine 100 feet from the main line, was most disastrous, The crew to the yard engine jumped and were uninjured. Engineer R. J. Jones on the in coming freight, as did the colored fireman McDonald and colored braKemaii Wolf, stuck to their post of duty, and all were so bad ly injured and mangled that Engineer Jones died in two or three hours at Dr. H. M. Smith’s office, Fireman McDonald died during the night at Dr. G. W. Shipp’s office, while Brakeman Wolf, who was carried to Dr. W. E. Edwards’ office, still lives and may recover. Ylh Engineer Jones was about 80 years old, was married several years ago to Miss Mamie Lou Cameron, of Americus. She came to Cordele Saturday night, and ac companied the remains of her husband to Americus Sunday morning. - The funeral of'Mi*. Jones took place at his late home in Ameri cus Monday afternoon and was conducted by Rev. G. W. Mathews, pastor of the First Methodist church of that city, and the ser vices at the grave were conducted under the beautiful ritual of the Knights of Pythias. Fireman McDonald was buried at Cordele while, as above stated, Wolf still lives. Mrs. W. Rainbow. At her home on 8th Avenue, af ter three days’ illness, Mrs. W. Rainbow died Monday morning. Her husband was from home and did not arrive until Tuesday morning in time to accompany the remains to Americus where the interment took place. The infant child of Mrs. Rainbow also died. LOCKJAW FROM COWEBS. Cobwebs put on a cut lately gave a woman lockjaw. Millions know that the best thing to put on infal- a cut is Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, the lible healer of Wounds, Ulcers, Sores, Skin Eruptions, Burns, Scalds and Piles, It cuies or no pay. Only I 25 cents at J. B. Ryals <fc Co. drug Bt-ore. Oranges For Sale—* 2,00 per crate F.O.B. Send money or der and how to ship, freight or ex press. L. D. Vinson, 11-15 2-m Tarpan Spring, Fla. For Sale, Cheap! Two lots of land in Wilcox county, on Hawkinsville, Florida andSouthern Railway. Address, Ph. M. Berg, Cordele, Ga. Old hundred. papers at this office 25 cents per DR. S. B. L1UGIN, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Calls answered at all hours. I can be found at home, U miles northwest of Coney, Ga. Job Printing AT OFFICE OF The Sentinel. $1.00 A YEAR, BEGINS NEXT TUESDAY, x Three Services Daily: 10:30, A M, 3:30 P. M. and 7 P. M. To Close Friday Night.— Revs. Fitch, Broughton, Miller and Small are Expected to Deliver Addresses During the Conference. The Christian Workers Confer ence at the Baptist church begins next Tuesday and will continue up to and including Friday night. There will bo three services daily: 10:80 a. m., 8:80 p. in. and 7 p- m. Such men as Revs. Fitch Brough ton, Miller and Small are expected to be on hand. In point of the prominence of the speakers announced, this con ference next week promises to be a meeting of unusual importance. The purpose of the conference as announced by pastor Winches ter ought to commend it to every Christian regardless of creed or church affiliation. In a new and growing town like Cordele the in clination is to neglect church and religious matters. The purpose is not to discuss creed, but solely and simply to quicken and deepen the religious experience and interest of all. Not only are the people of Cor dele urged to attend this meeting, but a cordial invitation is extended to the surrounding country, to all who will, to come and enjoy what promises to be a feast of good things religiously. Free enter tainment will be provided for all who accept the invitation. CAN’T KEEP IT SECRET The splendid work of Dr. lving’s New Life Pills is daily coming to light. No such grand remedy for Liver and Bowel troubles was ever known before, Thousands bless them for curing Constipation, Sick Headache, Billiousness, Jaundice and Indigestion, Try them. 25c at J. B. Ryals – Co. drug store. Pine Field Dots. Rev. Isaac Hobby preached an elegant sermou at Mt. Pleasant church on the first Sunday in this month. Mrs. B. M. Bowen visited Mrs. James Ilayes last week. Mrs. Mary Hayes spent week be fore last witli her son, Mr. James Ilayes. Mr. Walt McRae and Miss Don nie Roland spent last first Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J.as. Ilayes. There was a joung man who failed to see his best girl last Sunday, and it gave him chills and fever. How about it Billy Stand up like a raau don’t give back so bad. Mr. J. J. Wheeler spent Tuesday out on his Fenn place. Seed Oats Grown by me. There is w> Johnson grass in these oats. Price, F. O. R. Abbeville, 95c. per bushel. A. K. FtSHKK, ll-15-2m] Abbeville, Ga. Guard your kidneys; the health of the body depends on those small but important organs. They extract uric acid from the blood which if allowed to remain in the system would cause dropsy and Bright’s disease. Prickly Ash Bitters is a successful kidney tonic; it heals and strengthens the kidneys, regulates the liver, stimu lates the stomach and digestion, cleanses the bowels. It will prevent or cure Bright’s disease. Cash Drug Store. 1 can make a few choice loans upon centrally located property and for 2, 8, or 4 years, building loan definite contract plan, J. W. Bivins.