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OFFiCIAL ORGAN THE CITY OF Cordele. VOL. 14. NO. 33. Wbat The Sentinel Will Do. Beginning with the month of March, 1902, instead of publishing a synopsis as heretofore, the Sentinki. will pub lish in full all the Sheriff s and Ordinary’s legal advertise ments and keep a complete file in the Sentinel office of the county “official organ,” the Vienna News, subject to inspection by any and all who may desire to examine the san.e at any time, Elsewhere in the Sentinel is a complete synopsis of all legals published during February. Death of rirs. Raiford. Mrs. Esther B. Raiford, of Americus, sister to Mrs. J. W. Bowers, Mrs. W.H. Westbrook and half sister of Mrs, Sam P. Jones and Mrs. L. G. McKenney, all of Cordele, died at the home of her son, Mr. Gus Raiford, (formerly a Cordelean) of Columbus, last urday at 1:80 o’clock p. m. Mrs. Raiford was on a yisit to her son and had been in feeble health for some time but only confined to her bed for the past four weeks, Deceased was about 59 years of age, a consecrated Christian and bore her sufferings with Christian fortitude. She has four other sis ters besides the above named and one brother. Mr-T. L. Cat things, of Poulan Three sons raid one daughter survive her—two of the boys are well known in Cordele, Messrs. Gus and Bob Raiford. The funeral was conducted at the First/Methodist church in Americus and the interment took place at Americus in the presence of a number of relatives and friends. The Sentifkl joins in sympathy to the bereaved. 4 */. m V » ALL W©MSII Wine of Cardui is the guardian of a woman’s health and happi »ess from youth to old age. It help* her safely into womanhood. It sustains her during the trials of pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood, making labor easy and preventing Hooding and in.s carriage. It gently leads her through the dangerous period known as the change of fife. WINE”CARDUJ cures leucorrlicea, falling of the womb, and menstrual irregularity in every form. It is valuable in every trying period of a woman’s life. It reinforces the nervous system, acts directly on the geni tal organs and is the finest tonic for women known. Ask your druggist for a $ 1.00 bottle of Wine of Cardui. BateBville, Ala., July 11, 1900. I am using Wine of Cardui and Thed ford’s Black-Draught and I feel like a different woman already. Several la dies here keep the medicines _ in their homes all the time. I have three girls and thev are using it with me. Mrs. KATE BROWDER. For advice and literature, address, Depart- giving symptoms, “The Ladies’ Advisory Company, ment”, The Chattanooga Medicine Chattanooga, Term. To The General Public ! Mi. C. Z. Turner, having recently purchased The en — tire stock of General Merchandise of J. Dill, he will conduct a general mercantile store AT THE SAME –TAND, 7th Street opposite T. C. Barge – Go., and will on , found general keep on hand everything to be m a store of like character. For the next 30 clays, until I can wind up my business at Quitman, Mr. N. L. Hall, of ennil e one of the very best salesmen to be found will have charge of this business, and. noon arrival in Cordele i shall add to this already immense stock. Your Patronage Solicited, and Satisfaction Guaranteed. C. Z. TURNER, General Merchandise. Cordele, Georgia. A a SAVED FROM AN AWFUL FATE. ti<>n,” “Everybody said I had consump wires Mrs. A. M. Shields, of Chambersburg, Pa., “I was so after six nw ths of severe sickness, caused by Hay Fever and Asthma, that few thoughts I could get well, but I learned of the marvelous merit of Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption, used it, and was com pletely cured.” For desperate Throat, and Lung Diseases it is the cure in the world, a. d is for Coughs Colds and Bronchial Affections. Guaranteed bottles 5 a,1( l $1.00 Trial bottles free at. H - Ityals Dm*; Co. ----— CORDELE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. ’ _ Honor RoIHor January ■ _ The names of the pupils in the order of the averages " made in the grade. Third Grade— Laurie Maude Roberts, Agnes Roberts,Berta Hall, OctaviaByrd, Billy Roberts, Fred Walters, Tommie Whitley, Lee Bolin, J. B. Ryals, Jr., Walter Hiers and Dixie Wheeler, Jessie Vrieze. Fourth Grade —William Biv ins, Hilda* Ward, Mary Nelson, Blanch Magahee and Ruth Iiiden hour and Nelson Shipp, Carl Wil liams and Lamar Ryals, Mary Lou Jenkins and Frankie Harris. Fifth Grade —Cordie Scott and Minnie Lee Bulloch, Ben Dickson and Clara Woods, Howard Roberts, Viva Whitley and Cliff Walters, Elmer Jackson and Austin Hall, Annie Joe Morris, Caddie hams, Myrtice Finger and Allie Shipp, Vivian Tyson and Tracy, Lula Thornton. Sixth Grade— George Mary Needham, Raymond Holton, Fulmer Holton Lyman Hall Seventh Grade--M yrtle Greer, Mj]ford Eldel . Mav B olin , Mane Eel] Nena Bray, Ruth Edwards, . , ' 1 •' ,31< •' u = K ' Eighth Grade Robert Btatcli ford, Emily Kobei Is, busie john, Rene RaveneJ, Mary Aycock, bailie Ilettie^Moins, Mae \\ heelei j (Irregular.) Ninth Grade —Idolene Ray, Lena Joiner. Tenth Grade —Ray Marshall. PqIq'Y’S' fiOtlGV and "7^9/* | cures colds, prevents pneumonia, I Valdosta Selected, ! Valdosta lias begn selected as the place for holding the State Fair this year. Valdosta and Sa vannah were the only contestants, the former agreeing to offer $12,000 in premiums while Sa vannah offered $10,000. Valdosta was agreed upon by the commil tee by an unanimous rising vote. CORDELE, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1902. BY CURVED LINES TO A POINT. “Silence is Vocal, if We Listen Well.” By Prof. Wm. P. Fleming. In certain mountain passes a shout will be echoed and re-echoed for a considerable •* i gth of from gran t t * wail to granite wall in apparently the wildest confusion, -s . that the hoof-stroke of one her. e will seem to g e |,j ie tramp of countless cav airy. But in the very chaos of sound there is perfect order, so that the last faintly audible echo will be the exact counterpart of its original. The principles of sound—trans mission, are not only axact and invariable, but they are identical in ail instances—although there aie two distinct theories explana tory of the method by which the transmission takes place, The thorny commonly accepted is that sound travels, as does light, waves, or undulations of the air. Waves of sound from a toll ing bell, or from a woodman’s axe, may be easily detected by the nut uml car - A sim P le experiment will apparently demonstrate the correctness of this theory: Place an inclined and very smooth surface 30me finel y pulverized P ovv ber; sound the note that cor responds to, or “fits” the room, and, presto, the powder is ar ranged incurved lines correspond ing to the waves of sound—trans mission in the air. This experiment demonstrates not only the method of transmis sion, but, also, that sound-waves make a real impressiou upon phys ical substances. Thomas Edison, “The Wizzard,” succeeded by means of a mechanical contriv ance in receiving these impres sions with such minute accuracy aud distinctness, that he was en abled to reproduce the original sounds an indefinite number ot times. In the latest reproduction, compared with the first, there “neither variableness nor shadow of turning ” It is infinite law proving silence vocable. Just as waves upon water are in creased by the confining and con verging shores, or “burning-glass,” as sun-rays may be focused by a so are sound-waves, by certain conditions, converged to a central P°’ nt and 111 P otei ; la! ^tensity I he \Y hispering Gal lery, of London, is, for instance, constructed with such accurate obed i Pace acccmstic )td - (;ven the faintest sound in b( , remo t es t part of it is con veyed w fih distinctness to the oth focus being at the war d{ , n ’ g ear? thus enabling him to do tect and thwart any plot essayed by his prisoners. This would not be possible were not sound-repro Hiactit^ns controlletl by infallible lav - It, is matter ot record tnat all on board a ship that was tw r enty dis miles from the nearest shore, tinctly heard, at eventide, the tinkling of a sheep bell as ‘the flocks wended their way o’er the lea’, The sails of the vessel were so bellied by the wind as to be converted into a receiver of the sound-waves that reached them from the land. The recent triumphs of Marconi in wireless telegraphy are neces- of sarily the result of his mastery the principles illustrated in the foregoing incident. It is not impossible, or even iin probable, that some such thing as the configuration of the land about some house, has resulted in shadowiug that house with the re putation of being “haunted”—al though this statement is not au thorized except by its reasonable ness to my own mind. It appears Talmage Next Monday Night, Dr. Talmage who will appear at the Cordele Opera House next Monday night is assured of a packed house. Since hist oatur day morning when Messrs. Hyde Derry placed tickets reserved on ihere has been a rush for seats, and while there are a num derof seats Idt it behooves those who wish to hear the eloquentdivine to secure seats without further lay. The management will try to accommodate everybody to a good seat and no one can afford to Dr. Talmage while it is so venient to hear him. that atmospheric conditions com bined, maybe, with attendant fa vorable circumstances, might con vert a locality into a proper re ceiver for sound-waves, and that, just as iu the ease of the bellied sails, sounds produced elsewhere might be reproduced there. That which was apparently an illustration of the correctness of this theory did occur a few years ago in a college town not far dis tant. The muffled tread of a man passing through the room was heard ; or, perchance, snatches of melody would be laintlv dis coined, uiavl).' a ulillei! gmaji, oi tee suggestion .>f convulsive laugh ter. There is no more reasonable explanation than that these sounds, produced otherwhere, were reproduced in the vicinity of that house. To what distances sound-waves travel, and for what length of time they repeat themselves in kind, are matters impossible of calculation. Marconi has received through . the air intelligible in >" pressions from a faint sound that was produced at the distance of nearly two thousand miles. He believes that he will succeed in sending ,, and , . . receiving messages, by the same method, round the world. Iu view of what has al ready been achieved, it can scarce ly be doubted that his message will go that journey, whether re ceived upon its return or not. Human reason demonstrates that just so surely as a wave of the ocean laps the furthest shore, or a wave of light finally reaches the earth from the sentinel star of the universe, just so surely do I* ulid-waves break against the confines of infinite possibility— that if ethereal conditions, at cer tain distances from the earth, are such as to preclude the possibility of sound-transmission, then, in that event, there is a never-ceasing ebb and flow of sound-waves with in the bounds so set. Who knows that the first outcry of creation’s dawn is not now borne by aereal pulses through boundless ether? That the record is in the air for a considerable time has had praeti cal demonstration—who is able to say: Thus far and no farther? The astronomers toll us that tens of thousands of years are Fe quired for light-waves to reach the earth from some of the stars. II waves of light persist so long, why should not waves of sound? And who dare say that the notes that squeaked from Nero’s fiddle-bow while Rome burned, have ceased to rasp the air within the brief pe nod ot two thousand years? the.air Some man lias said that we breathe is witness to all we think, or say, or do* And why is not this a simple statement of fact? Has a melody ever been sung, that does not gladden the world today? Was a groan ever uttered, that does not burden each vital breath? Has a tocsin ever sounded, fhat does not shout in our ears? Has a prayer ever been expressed that does not now ap peal to our souls? Does not De mostheues thunder from Athenian forums, and Cicero’s phillippios still hurl at Antony? May there not be hissings of in vective, clashings of swords, pit eous appeals of the distressed, in dependently of our abilility to hear them? Does nothing exist that our dull senses do not ap prove? Where, then, has reason flown? There is no such thing as anin- is: hilation, and the eternal decree Each after his kind. Will Keep on Talking. A certain prominent Cordelean, who ever talking and pulling for this eit ■’ 3 he expects to keep on talking and pulling unless en joined by some lawyer who can find nothing else to do. He says is a duy 0 f injunctions and does not know how long before enjoine . . , . be will , be , , ot possi > ) sued for damages, but that Cor dele is the best city m a . n section and that ie is 8 0,1| g keep on being for Cordele first, and all the time. CITY COUNCIL What the New Council Did at Fi st Meetings is of Inter est to the Public Regular meeting city council 8 o’clock p. m. February 7th, 1902. Present, Mayor Putts, Aldermen Lockett Lusseter, Harris. Cox and Kennedy. Mayor Cutis announced that he was convinced that the action of council on January 1st was not legal and it was then in order to elect officers lor the ensuing year. Mdennan Smith wanted to know if such was the sense of the body, and upon vote Aldermen Keune dy. Cox and Lockett voted to go into the election and Aldermen Smith, La.-sister and Harris against it.. This being a tie the mayor voted to go into the election, and Aldermen Lusseter and Harris re j p 0 participate in the elec lioU) h 0 i dins t liat the previous meeting made the only legal elec tiou . Ail th „ sain-, officers were elected except City Attorney Fields and Superintendent of Waterworks ( ;ii, KO n, which was deferred, A resolution by Alderman Ken nedy creating the office of city at- of torney, prescribing manner election , and dut ies ot office, was read and went over till next meet j n „ C A petition from A. – B..railroad was referred to proper committee to b(> r ,. porty( l back to next meet j n g. The gjfst of said petition was for council to only grant to the G. S. – F. Ry. authority to put in their transfer track with the un derstanding that said G. S. – F. Ry. build and maintain a crossing where said transfer track inter sects the A. – B main line. Application of Sentinel to pub lish council proceedings free dur ing this year was accepted with thanks to Editor Bivins. Motion of J. M. Cox to change the hour of meeting was lost. The matter of management of city waterworks was referred to water committee. On motion the telegraph and telephone companies were required to move certain posts. der k was instructed to give 10 days’ notice to have Suwanee ho tel sidewalks put in good condition Marshal ordered^ to have space back of Stead – Whipple cleared, Bids for hose referred to proper committee. Matter of acceptance of draft of Cordele National bank de ferred, Motion of Alderman Kennedy CUT-PRICES ON LAMPS. of our big line of Decorated for sale at Greatly Re duced prices. J. C. TRACY – CO. INVITE THE FARMERS To buy Supplies i Fertilizers FROM THEM. We carry a full line of DRY GOODS. SHOES, HATS ; PLOWS. FARMING IMPLEMENTS, G-rocerles, Etc. Come a,nd See Us« J. 0, TRACY – Ga. WE PUBLISH ALL THE LEGAL Advertisements. $1.00 A YEAR 1 to investigate financial affairs rt-> ferred. Adjourned to meet at 8 o’clock hi., February 11th. Adjourned regular meeting of council held Tuesday afternoon, February 11th. 1902, at 8 o’clock. Present, mayor and all the aider men except Harris Ordinance re-creating the office of city attorney read, rules sus pended, read second time and passed. Election of city attorney deferred Salaries were fixed as follows: clerk – treasurer, Beasley, $50 per month; chief of police, Bray, $50 per month ; policemen, Dorman month; and Morns, $40 each per city physician, Shipp, $25 per month to include all services, whether there is scarlet fever, small pox or otherwise; scavenger, An drew Tlnvreat, $20 per month; cartman, Ned Wise, 4i50 per week; city Special attorney, $75 per year. read 1 icense ordinances and adopted. (The special license paid tax is now due and must be without delay, otherwise execu tions will be issued and levied. This ordinance need not be pub lished at, all, but for the benefit of the public they will appear in the Sentinel next week. In the meantime call and pay your li cense tax.) Alderman Kennedy moved to defer action on outstanding bills, etc., until an investigation of the city’s financial condition is made. Said be, “Not a one of us know where we are financially, except that we have no funds, and I for one don’t want to move a peg un til we can get a statement.” The finance committee was appointed with power to employ extra help if needed, to get up such a state ment. Petition of G- S. –. F. Ry. rela tive to transfer track, raising tracks, etc., went over until next meeting. that Alderman Smith reported the cemetery lot had been leased, and that lease money would be -in yuhnnee. . 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