The Cordele sentinel. (Cordele, Ga.) 1894-????, February 21, 1902, Image 7
ILL ARP S LETTER jp . Has rr T L 3 + t TT up O ua II,Hi TT ana i tt 113 Peals Much Better, ES ICS EXPERIENCE AS A PATIENT [ring Trying “Ordeal” He Was Cheered By Good Company and Loving Attention From the Children. This is a bright and blessed morn s . 1 feel better-'-a good deal better. ,ink I will write a verse or two of itry. If a sick man has good sur Imdiugs it beats medicine. Good, ■eeriul Ig—good company to call and not stay children to sympathize and Itch the clock for medicine time, ■od |u grandchildren to come and kiss and go to and from and talk and like Id noise; a good wife to scold you tell how imprudent you have been, ■d a good doctor to look at your Lgue Indie and choke you with a spoon so as to see away down the Iphagus. But nature has the best ■ medicines stowed away in the bless I sunshine that gives life and vigor I everything animal and vegetable Id Ik. revives the drooping spirits of the It has been a long and hard win I—the coldest and most disagreeable |e Ive hundred consecutive How days I envied that we had for years. the lod Km people of Florida while I read Sawyer’s rhapsodies in the Clear later paper over the advent of spring Ith Ine its peach trees and yellow jes perfuming the balmy air with Kir fragrant blossoms. But it is com K—gentle Id spring is not far away now a day like this is its harbinger. If ■ were not for the daily catalogue of Irrible things that headline the daily Ipers even a sick man could be calm Id serene on such a day as this. An led country friend told me that he Id quit taking the daily papers, for [distressed | long him to live,” read said such he, things. “and haven’t to lon’t wish to cloud my mind with a |ily 1st record of human misery.” But all people have to mix up with |e [ep affairs of nations and of men and posted about everything that hap |ns. [e We can’t skip the bad and read good only. There is a fascination lout horrible things that we cannot feist. They are the first things we fek for. They excite our pity or our feignation or our wonder. Our child lod began that way, for we never red of Jack the Giant Killer and liwhead and Bloody Bonos, and Rob ison Crusoe. And now the editor of e press dispatches carelessly looks [er Is the little slips that are laid upon desk and reads “Another explosion the mines—one hundred killed;" Lnother railroad wreck—thirteen kill- 1,” and then resumes the little anec |te that he was narrating to a friend, [e are all growing case hardened to tin and grief and suffering for the ime reason that the surgeon become? tse hardened to the pain of his pa :nt. tBut ever and anon some new horror braes along that shocks humanity and stounds the world. I read three long felumns last night about the horrors I adulterated food in Paris and how 1,600 infants died the last year from bisoned milk. How the great incorpo feted dairy companies in the suburban bwns have to deliver 800,000 quarts feery night. It is skimmed before it l canned and then is watered 20 per hnt before it is put on the cars. On rrival at their depots it is delivered P cans to 800 milk boys (garcons), 'ho get $1.40 a night and as much pore as they can make by watering Pe milk fro-m the hydrants that are lupplied from the river Seine, the filth pst river in all France. One hundred letectives are employed to watch peso boys, but the boys have detec fves, too, and are seldom caught or ar pted. The superintendent of police ays it is impossible for one hundred Pen to watch these eight hundred boys [nd he now asks for two thousand, pis watered milk quickly sours and fy piler the time it is delivered to watered the re at daybreak it has to be (gain with a solution of bicarbonate f soda. >This is the milk that supplies Paris, and is daily fed to infant hildren and in a brief time they |ake nd die. cholera The medical infantum faculty or diarrhoea all tesu that this milk caused the death of tv * r 18 000 infants in Paris in one year ’ ‘nd the mortality was on the increase, ‘nd this does not include the deaths of ihildren over one year old. These “Sht hundred boys are organized into ‘ powerful syndicate for protection ‘ nd defence. Each pays into their peasurv $4 a week, making a total of ,14 ’ C0 0 n month with which to pay awvers’ fees and fines and the wages those in jail and to bribe the city , ■electives to catch them when not wa 'ring the milk. They water it while h e wagons are on the go—pumping in ‘ehind with cans of water. The milk “Uspected is turned over to the city 'demist, who analyze and report, and the boys are arrested, most of them *8cap e punishment in some corrupt flay ' but none are discharged. They 8° back at once into the company’s pervice. But Paris is aroused as it Pver [“ling has been and declares the death business shall be broken up if I^akes two thousand detectives to i®’ le right hundred boys. “Our chil I 1 »rp fed on microbes from the riv [Seice,” is now on every tongue. * Other ^ cities have taken up the cry and Bouen and Dunkirk show a larger death rate of infants than Paris, and linn say n ? "' onder the popu,a tlon of France is decreasing , 1 instead J of increasing. We aro poisoning three fourths of all the children before they are a year old and half the remainder die soon after. Seine water, microbes and bicarbonate of soda! This exposure comes from late ofll cial sources and is no doubt 'the truth, or very near it. Just think of it and shudder—18,000 innocent, helpless babes murdered in one year in one city. Tom Hood wrote a song abouf the poor sewing women that aroused all London. If he were alive in Paris now what a pitiful subject he would have for another song. What a shame upon our sex, for it is not women who do these things, but men and boys. The mothers suiter in giving them birth. They nurse and cherish and clasp the little things to their bosom and love and hope and pray, but the destroyer comes and then all she can do is to grieve and weep. England slaughtering the Boers and Prance her innocent children. What next? A graphic writer in The New York Press describes a different kind of hor ror ihai we know not of, but is a liv ing, breathing, seething thing that is not new, but has come to stay and grows bigger and more horrible as the years move on. He says: “It would have bean unnecessary for Gustav Dore to follow Dante for a text in or der to picture the horrors of hell.” The government has established free baths at Hot Springs, where thousands of the most miserable of all God’s creatures congregate and bathe for relief and a cure from their loathsome diseases. These wreches leave their rags upon the cemented floors which are an inch deep in water, then stagger or reel or crawl naked as the fiends in the cham bers of hell. From thence they crowd into a third room, where the water and the air is up to 110, and the stench of foul odors is horrible. In this room are two large pools like vats in a tan yard, and the victims tumble into them like hogs into a mud puddle. No doctor, no soap, no towels, no attend ants, and they are scon hurried out to make room for more, for seven hun dred a day is the maximum. Ten, fif teen or twenty at a time soak their .oathsome infirmities in the nasty filthy, hot healing waters, and then reclothe themselves wuhtneir wet rags and go somewhere to dry. All are ben efited and 10 per cent are cured. What a picture! Their lives, such as they nave made them, are not worth saving, but they cling to them and live in hope and defy despair. One hundred and seventy-eight thousand of these human oeings passed through the free baths last year. One bath room is for white men, one for white women, one for negro men and one for negro women. Not far away is a magnificent hotel, and there is a fashionable ball going on. The rich, the gay, the elite are there. One moment a man is waltzing with his wife, the next with some other man’s wife, the next with somebody’s mistress, and the next with his own mistress. Everything goes, and all is hell. A famous physician took his daughter there this season, but sent her home quickly to keep her from the company of wealthy and diseased para sites. Almost every one who goes there registers under an assumed name and plays incognito during his stay. A southern judge was recently called upon for a toast at a hotel ban quet and said: “Here’s to the name we left behind us.” But the half has not been told—some of it is too bad to tell. Every night the poker rooms are in blast and thousands won and lost. The reader ponders and wonders can such things be in this Christian land, and in this God’s country. Ver ily, the humble and the poor who live around ns on the hills and in the val leys or down in the piney woods should be thankful for the health and morality that comes from poverty. Burns nev er wrote a truer verse than that which says: “And I know by the smoke that so gracefully curled From among the dark elms that a cottage was near, And I said to myself, if there’s peace in this world, The Heart that is humble might hope for it here.” —Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution. STUDENTS OBJECT TO BOOKER. K , ck on Selection cf Negr0 as Com men cement O ay Orator. The seJection of Hooker T. Wash ingten as commencement day orator f(jr the university af Nebraska next June was annouilce d at Lincoln Thurs day ev6ning by chancellor Andrews. The invitation wa s sent Professor V vashington by the faculty and his ac ° ceptallc was received four days ago. A number 0 f members of the senior c , ass which has a vo i ce in the choice , opposi of orator announced their tion t0 tlle selection of a negro, and m make a protest at a meeting cf the class which has been called to , Jiscuss tht ma tter. FIRE MENACES MANIACS. state Insane Hospital Burn* and Dan gerous Lur.atics Are at Large. Th«. ctate insane hospital at Wil liameburg, Va., was badly burned Sat urday. Many thousands of dcliars will be required to make good the loss. What may prove to be more serious is the fact that seven lunatics, able bodied men, escaped from tne grounds in the early morning, and at nightfall only two of this number had found. At least eight are m.’wing Georgia.\Cul lings Brief But Interesting B Summary IlaOpenill^S in the State. _ of Warrenton Bank Closed. The Bank of Warrenton closed its doors Saturday „ morning . and , assigned . , for the benefit of creditors. Poor col lections are given as the cause of the failure. * * * Legislative Acts Printed. The acts of the legislature of 1901 have just been completed by the pub lic printer and are now ready for dis tribution. They have been delayed somewhat and there has been a great demand for them. They will be fur nished by State Librarian Wellborn, at Atlanta, on receipt of cost price, which is $1-25. * * * Will Serve In. New Prison. The new United States prison In At lanta has been designated as the pris on for convicts sentenced from the southern district of Georgia. This or der was made on the motion of Assist ant United States District Attorney Akerman. All of the defendants in trials now pending in the southern dis trict of the state will serve their sen tences in the Atlanta prison. * Meeting of Southern Educators. The date for the assembling of the southern educational conference at Athens having been fixed for April 24, the local committee on arrangements has gone to work with much energy to prepare for the entertainment of the distinguished guests of the occasion. This committee has already been quite successful in securing homes for the educators and philanthropists. There will be about five hundred dele gates in attendance upon the confer ence, and of that number fully three hundred will be entertained in the homes of the citizens. * New Town Under Way. It is said that a new town of some little importance is being started near the postoffice known as Warden, on the Jesup and holkston branch of the Plant system. Two new stores are be ir.g built, one belonging to W. P An derson, and the other to some Hebrew merchants of Folkston. A new store has just been finished there for War den, Carswell – Co. lhe O Quinn Lumber Company, of Hickox, expect to move their sawmill to that point in a few days. * Strike Threatened In Augusta. Much interest, is felt in Augusta as to what the Textile union will do in regard to instructions from headquar ters to make a demand for a 10 per cent increase in wages. About a month ago a representative of the executive board of the Nation al Textile Workers' union visited Au gusta and mills in that section on an inspecting tour. In a speech he said that in his report he should advise that a demand for an increase in wages be made, and enforced with a strike if not conceded. It appears from the. news received a day or two ago that he has made such a report, and that it has been adopted. * * * Postoffice “Swiped” Bodily. The postoffice at Bi gWheel, in Ir win county, is said to have been stol en boldly about 25 days ago, and on the day the office disappeared, Post master Hendry was also non est. He was arrested later on, however. An examination was made by the officials of the government and it was found that nearly all of the mail that had passed through the office for six months had been tampered with and that the postmaster had taken the con tents from numerous valuable pack ages, mostly money being sent by tur pentine hands to their people in other sections. • * * To Push Work on Soldiers’ Home. Work on the new Soldiers’ home building is to begin at once, or just Ks soon as it is possible for the con tractors to get to work. The committee had eleven bids be fore it from various contractors here and elsewhere, and accepted the low est and most satisfactory, the figures ures being $22,775. This is, if any thing, something less than the trus tees of the home expected to have to pay. since they had estimated they would have to pay about $24,000 or $25,000. The new building will be construct ed on the foundation of the old one, a feature which resulted in saving. It is to be of the gothic style of architecture, larger, handsomer and more commodious than the old struc ture. There will be fifty rooms in all, with about a dozen offices and rooms for the officials and employes of the house. The home wil! be lighted by gas. heated by steam, and will have running water throughout. The trustees expect to have the new building completed within about four or five months, so tiiat the old soldiers can return to it probably about mid summer. The trustees request all those who have subscribed to the home to remit their subscriptions to the treasurer, Amos Fox, as soon as possible. Many have not yet paid their subscriptions, and every cent of the money is needed just as soon as it can be had. e Witham’s Name Not Mentioned. The name of W. S. With a m was not mentioned in the suit recently insti- Dr. C. H. Peete. EYE, EAR, NOSE and THROAT, 568 Cherry Street, Macon, Georgia. tilted by J. B. McCrary against the , Merchantg . and Farmers . bank of Ten . ^ ag hag been recent , publlghed , n connectlon wlth certftin papers , The allegations were to the effect that some one who went to the bank and i took 'rom a private drawer where the papers of Mr. McCrary were kept some stock of the East Atlanta Land Company. It has been published that Mr. With am, president of the bank, took the papers from Mr. McCrary’s drawer. The bill does not state that! Mr. With im took the papers out. but only that “home one ot the officers of the Dank opened the private drawer of McCra ry without authority and took the said stock therefrom and that the bank is seeking to sell it for an Indebtedness claimed to be due to itself.” * * * Gates Awarded Georgia Land. Judge Webb, at LaCrosse, Wis., has given his decision in the case tried there of J. L. Gates, of Milwaukee, against John Paul and other million alres associated with him In buying southern timber lands. Mr. Gates, with Mr. Paul, in 1895 bought 700,000 acres of timuer in Georgia aim Florida, It was turned over to a corporation of northern capitalists, known as the East Coast Land Company, of which Mr. Paul is a member. The land has since increased marvelously In value, Judge Webb held that he was entitled to one-sixth interest, as commission, in two tracts of 26,000 acres and 122,000 acres, respectively. The commission allowed amounts to $167,000. • * ■* Roads Ready For Conference. The Atlanta and West Point Rail road Company has finally accepted the state’s depot proposition, and will join with the other roads in occupying a new union station in Atlanta when the state builds one. The letter from President Wickersham was the last to be i- ece ived by Governor Candler from tbe ra ii roads Now all of the lines bave be en heard from, The letters from President Spencer, of the South ern, and Major Hanson, of the Cen tral, were rather indefinite, but the communications from General Mana ger T K S cott, of the Georgia, Presi dent j W- Thomas, of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad, and President Charles A. Wickersham, of the Atlanta and West Point, were positive answers. NEXT GEORGIA STATE FAIR. Will Be Held In Valdosta—Savannah Was Outbid For the Honor. Valdosta won in the contest with Savannah for the next Georgia state fair before the executive committee of the State Agricultural Society at its meeting in Atlanta, and the exhi bition of the state’s products next fall will be made in the former city. Both cities had committees to ap pear before the executive committee, and the struggle for the honor was an interesting one. Valdosta made the best offer, however, and without giv ing her rival a chance to make an other bid, the committee knocked the fair down to that city. Another notable feature of the meet ing was the induction into office of Hon. Dudley Hughes, of Twiggs coun ty, the newly elected president of the State Agricultural Societ?'. - NEW ENL-LEoO CHAIN SCHEME, Chicago Man Is Anxious to Locate Pair of Elopers. An endless chain is the latest scheme to be adopted by James C. Rogers, of Chicago, to get track of Miss Florence Ely and her nephew, Frank Ely Rogers, who disappeared from Evanston last July. Two thousand circulars will be sent out to every part cf the United States containing the photographs and de scriptions of the missing pair and each person receiving the letter is requested to send copies of the letter to three friends asking them to send copies to three of theirs and so on, making a chain. VALET ROBBED MISS GOULD. Hired Man “Swiped" Property Aggre gating $10,000 In Value. Daniel Donovan, known to Miss Helen Gould as John O’Neill, her sec ond butler - was ^raigned , in , a police court at New York Thursday and pleaded guilty to having robbed Miss Gould’s residence. He was formally charged with stealing a combination opera and marine glass valued at $50, but Captain Titus, of the detective bureau, thinks he may have stolen as much as $10,000 worth of property. The robbery took place while Miss Gould was away oh her recent of the west. The police have recov ered many valuable articles. AIMED AT CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS Ohio Legislature Passes Law Inimical to the New Cult. The Ohio house of representatives has passed a bill aimed at Christian Scientists. It provides that any pa rent or guardian who shall wilfully deprive any sick child under the age of 16 years of the service of a physi cian shall be fined from $10 to $200 or be imprisoned for six months, or both. Atlantic – Birmingham Railroad Co. TIME TABLE EFFECTIVE DEO. 1. 15)01. No. 1 No. 3 No. 16 No. 17 STATIONS. Daily Sunday Daily Daily Only Ex. Sun. Ex. Sun. ............READ DOWN Wayoroas Union Station..... 11 00 am 5 15 pm 7 10 am 12 45 pm Jamestown....... 11 18 am 5 32 pm! 7 33 am 1 24 pm 6 ............ 11 31 am 5 45 pm' 7 53 am 1 48 pin ........... 11 37 am 5 52 pmi 8 03 aui 2 01 pm Beach.......... 11 40 uni 6 01 pm 8 15 am 2 18 pm Murray.......... 11 54 am 6 09 pm 8 25 am 2 30 pm Neanoms......... 12 02 pm 6 17 pm 8 35 am 2 45 pm Nicholls........ 12 10 pm 6 26 pm 8 45 am 3 27 pm Sngiuaw........ 12 17 pm 6 33 pm 8 54 nm| 3 40 pm Chatterton...... 12 25 pm 6 42 pm 9 04 am 3 62 pm Douglas........ 12 45 pm 7 00 pm 9 27 am 4 40 pm Uptou.......... 12 53 pm 7 10 pm 9 36 am 4 50 pm Ambrose........ 1 14 pm 7 30 pm 10 01 am 5 35 pm Wray........... 1 23 pm 7 39 pm 10 11 am 6 05 pm Traoy........... 1 36 pm 7 50 pm 10 24 am 6 27 pm Fitzgerald....... 2 00 pm 8 12 pm 11 00 am 7 00 pm Uarbutt Junction 11 30 u;n 2 4 No. 16 i No. 18 STATIONS. Daily Sunday Only’ Daily j Daily i Ex. Sun. Ex. Sun. READ UP Garbutt Junction ........11 50 sm Fitzgerald 6 00 pm 7 00 am 6 00 am 1 00 pm Tracy.... 6 27 pm 7 25 am 6 27 am| 1 36 pm tVray..... 6 38 pm 7 34 am 6 44 am 1 51 pm Ambrose, 6 7 47 pm| 8 7 45 am 6 7 54 26 am 2 2 05 pm Uptou .... 10 pm 10 am am 33 pm Douglas .. 7 18 pm 8 19 am 7 36 uiu 2 46 pm Chatterton 7 38 pm 8 82 am 7 59 aip 3 16 pm Saginaw... 7 46 pm 8 38 am 8 09 am 3 40 pm Nicholls.. 7 54 pm 8 45 am 8 18 am 3 55 pm Sessoms............... 8 01 pm 8 31 am 8 35 am 4 22 pm | Murray............... 8 08 pm 8 58 am 8 55 am 4 39 pm Beach................ 8 io pm 9 04 am 9 05 am 4 52 pm Bolen................. 8 26 pm 9 12 am 9 19 am 5 10 pm Elsie................. 8 31 pm 9 19 ana 9 29 am 5 24 pm Jamestown............ 8 43 pm 9 29 am 9 48 am 5 50 pm IVaycrosa Union Station 9 00 pm 9 45 am 10 15 am 6 20 pm All trains carry possongers. Gkouoe Dolk Wadlky, H. C. McFadden, Vice Pres, ami Geu. Mgr. Gen. Freight and Puss. AgeDt. Aiii.x. Bonnyman, Superintendent, Waycroas, Ga. Hawkinsville and Florida Southern Railway. PINE BELT ROUTE. Local Time Table No. 4. in Effect January 6th, 1902. —Northbound— —Southbound— lst-ciass 2nd-class. lst-ciass 2nd-ciass. Daily. Daily ex. Sun. Daily. Daily ex. Sun. Train No. 1. Train No. 3. Stations. Train No. 2. Train No. 4. 7:40 a.m. 3:30 p.m. Lv. .. ... .Worth ... .... Ar. 6:30 p.m. 2:25 p.m. 7:42 a.m 3:32 p.m. Lv.- .....Domer .. ... Ar. 6:27 p.m. 2:20 p.m. 7:50 a.m. 3:45 p.m. Lv.......Shinglers .......Ar. 6:17 p.m. 2:15 p.m. 8:05 a.m. 4:00 p.m. Lv....... Amboy......Ar. 6:05 p.m. 2:05 p.m. S: 15 a.m. 4:15 p.m. Lv..... Davisville Ar. 5:57 p.m. 1:55 p.m. 8:30 a.m 4:30 p.m. Lv. Bush.......Ar. 5:45 p.m. 1:40 p.m. 8:37 a.m. 4:40 p.m. Lv. .. Allapaha River .... Ar. 5:40 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 8:40 a.m. 4:43 p.m. Lv....... Steele......Ar. 5:37 p.m. 1:20 p.m. 8:42 a.m. 4:45 p.m. Ar.........Pitts........Lv. 5:35 p.m. 1:15 p.m. 9:00 a.m. 5:30 p.m. Lv. Pitts ........Ar. 5:25 p.m. 12:45 p.m. 9:07 a.m. 5:40 p.m. Lv....... Ausiey........Ar. 5:20 p.m. 12:35 p.m. 9:20 a.m. 5:55 p.m. Lv. ... Rocky Point .... Ar. 5:05 p.m. 12:20 p.m. 9:26 a.m. 6:00 p.m. Lv..... Pope City ...... Ar. 4:55 p.m 12:10 p.m. 9:32 a.m. 6:10 p.m. Lv....... Barton ........Ar. 4:45 p.m. 12:00 m. 9:35 a.m. 6:25 p.m. Lv.......Pittsville Ar. 4:40 p.m. 11:55 a.m 9:42 a.m. 6:40 p.m. Lv..... Finleyson ...... Ar. 4:35 p.m. 11:45 a.m. 9:56 a.m 6:55 p.m. Lv....... Wallace Ar. 4:20 p.m. 11:25 a.m. 10:05 a.m. 7:00 p.m. Lv..... Chancy Ar. 4:15 p.m. 11:15 a.m. 10:20 a.m. 7:15 p.m. Ar.....Hawkinsville .... Lv. 4:00 p.m. 11:00 a.m. FITZGERALD BRANCH. Train No. 5. Train No. 6. 7:30 a.m •Lv. Isaacs Ar. 6:45 p.m. 7:50 a.m Lv. Luke Ar. 6:20 p.m. 8:15 a.m. Ar. Davisville Lv. 6:00 p.m. Trains Nos. 1 and 2 have absolute right of track. Connections: Hawkinsville—With Southern Railway and Wrightsvllle and Tennille Railroad. Pitts—With Seaboard Air Line Railway. Worth—With Georgia, Southern and Florida Railway. Trains Nos. 5 and 6, on Fitzgerald Branch, will only run on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. P. J. DOMER, Superintendent, H. H. STEELE, Worth, Ga. General Freight and Passenger Agt., Hawkinsville, Ga. LAND SALE! cr I will sell, at low prices, the follow ing country land lots in Dooly county: Lot Number 13 Lot Number 111 Lot Number 123 Lot Number 124 Lot Number 128 Lot Number 156 Lot Number 173 Lot Number 174 1-0t Number 177 . . Number 178 Lot Number 179 Lot Number 181 Lot Number 182 Lot Number 185 Lot Number 198 Lot Number 207 L'($t Number 219 Lot Number 231 Lot Number 234 Lot Number 247 Parties interested in buying lands should see me at once for terms. 1 hey will never again be as cheap in price as now. I). V, WHIPPLE, Cordele, fia I Ihese Lots are in the 11th District. Lot Number 2 Lot Number 3 Lot Number 4 Lot Number 6 Lot Number 6 Lot Number 7 Lot Number 68 Lot Number 69 Lot Num .er 117 Lot Number 123 Lot Number 127 These Lots are in the 13th‘District