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THE AMERICAS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER: SUNDAY, APRIL 26, l«9l.
for Infants and Children.
“CMtorial: io well adapted to children that
I recommend It as superior to any prescription
known to me.** II. A. Archer, M. D.,'
Ill Bo. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. Y.
“The use of ‘Castoria* Is so universal and
Its merits so well known that it seems a work
of supererogation to endorse it Few are the
intelligent families who do not keep Castoria
within easy reach.** __
Carlos Marty*, D. D.,
New York City.
Late Pastor Bloomlngdalo Reformed Church.
Castoria cures Colic, Constipation,
Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea. Eructation,
Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes oi-
Without injurious medication.
** For several years I have recommended
S our * Castoria,»and shall always continue to
o so as It has invariably produced beneficial
results.”
Edwin F. Pardeb, H. D.,
“The WInthrop,” 128th Street and 7th Avo.,
New York City.
S. H. HAWKINS 't. H. C- BAGLEY. Vice Pree't
W. t. VRPhEY. Cashier.
'RGANIZED 1870.
-»8The Ba.ik of Americus.
Designated l*epos‘lory Stile of Georgia.
8tockhold* , »a in»livi<li^L|ly liable.
Capital, - • - 8150,000
HurpluN, - - • 8100,00o
- : ln tcEC.,0 I®:—
H. C. Bagiev, Pres. Americus Investment Co.
P. C. Clegg, Pres. Ocmulgee Brick Co.
Jas. Dodson, of .ias. Dodson & Sen, Attorneys.
(i. W. Glover, Pres’t Americus Grocery Co.
8. H. Hawkins, Pres’t 8. A. & M. Railroad.
8. Montgomery. Pres’t Peoples National Bank.
J W. Shertield.of Hbeflleld & Co., Hardware.
T. Wheatley, wholesale dry goods.
W. E. Murphey, Cashier.
Capital 8t.*ck ----- $100,000.
Paid up Capital ----- 50,000.
Tub Centaur Company, 77 Murray Street, Nbw Yore.
FOR RENT.
THE BANK OF SUMTER
T. X. IXAWKES, O. A. COLEMAN,
President. Vice-President.
W. C. FURLOVV, Cashier.
IJIRECTORS- O. A. Coleman, C. C.
Hankins. It. II. Jossey, T. X. Hawkes,
W. C. Furlow, W. II. C. Wheatley, R. S.
Oliver, H. M. Brown, W. M. Hawkes,
Ur. E. T. Mathis, Arthur Rylander.
Liberal to its customers, accommoda
ting to the public and prudent in its
management, this bank solicits deposits
and other business in its line.
Two dwellings, one of them suitable
for boarders.
FOR SALE.
( sentenced to death.
EVER mind
what my business
or how I was be
trayed and how I
was gathered in.
1Enough that they
Ibagged me 180
'miles inside the
enemy’s lines and
hustled me off to
prison at Fort Mc
Henry, in Baltimore harbor, where I was
confronted with the charge of being a
spy. No matter that 1 had on when
captured my full uniform as a captain.
No matter that at my conrt-martial trial
their own officer who captured me testi
fied that he did not take me us a spy,
that there was no work for a spy where
be captured me.
No matter: 1 was found guilty, and
the sentence was read to me, “To be
hanged as a spy on the parade ground of
Fort McHenyjr between the honrs of 13
m. and 8 o’clock p, m„ Nor. 3, 1863.”
In answer to my request that, if they
most kill me. for the sake of honor to
gire me the death of a soldier, they
graciously changed the paper to read,
“To be ahot to death with musketry, on
the parade ground," etc.
8omehow, 1 auppoee I did not folly
comprehend or adequately appreciate
my situation, for 1 did not feel then,
any more than I do now, that death was
to be my next deal. Nor hod 1 at all
contemplated that result all through the
trial Only the last day before that sen
tence was read to me I had been creating
merriment by asking puzzling or irrele
vant questions of the judge advocate,
telling jokes during the recesses of the
court, in divers manners creating fun to
draw mirth for myself out of that barren
rock, “military justice." Only the day
before, the president of the court mar
tial, the colonel of the regiment, twelve
of whose officers composed my adjudi
cators, asked to talk a little with me.
“Of course."
“Captain," said he, "I greatly fear you
do not appreciate yonr situation."
“Well, colonel, I know of no man more
favorably situated to realize it Why do
yon say so?"
“Because, dr, yonr life is at stake in
this trial’’
“Well?”
“Well, you’ll be found guilty, moat
aaauredly, of the charge.”
“Well?"
“You'll be sentenced to die.”
“WellT
“And you’ll bo hanged or shot! And
here yon have been spending the leisure
hours of the coart trying yon for life in
frivolous jesting and mirth. As a fel
low man, it grieves me to see yon so care
lessly playing at ao terrible a brink as
yon stand on."
“Colonel," was the reply, “I thank yon
for yonr interest If we are national
enemies, yon speak os a man and os a
soldier. Bat let me say this” (now I can
not explain what induced me to mako
the following foolish, braggart speech,
bat it bubbled npand was spoken), “col
onel, yon or I may die before night; we
do not know; bnt in ao far as the result
of yonr court’s finding is concerned, 1
will be alive when yon and your twelve
officers are dead and forgotten!"
He left me in disgust—and t don't
blame him.
Bat snch was my foeling. 1 did not
“feel it in my bones," as the slang goes,
that death was ao near.
That colonel, and the entire twelve
composing the court died before I was
exchanged—“shot to death" in ono
charge at Cold Harbor. I Uve to write
the occurrence twenty-fire years after
the oooYflmtioo.
It may or may not be true that when
the grim monster singles ont his victiih
he sends him, some way. a spiritual pre
monition that he is going to let fly from
death's quiver the fatal dark Be that
as it may—I hud no premonition of death.
Not when they stood me np to hear
my sentence und to answer, nor after
ward in the cool contemplation my iso
lation and silent dungeon afforded; not
when the officer of the day, on that
eventful execution morning, read to mo
in my dungeon the day's programme and
delineated my doom at the hands of
twelve detailed soldiers. Ho found me
whistling ns I paced my narrow cell that
morning, and exclaimed in surprise:
“Good God, captain! what kind of a
man are yon?"
“Oh, I don't know; skin and bone,
flesh and sinews, blood and bile. Why?"
“Why! Don’t yon know you are to be
ahot today? Outside here are the twelve
men detailed to send you Into eternity.
Yonll never see nuother morning! And
here yon are—whistling!"
“Well, why not whistle us long as pos
sible, and cry when yon cannot langhU
Hence. 1 may not be able to tell jnst
how a man feels who stares death calmly
in the face, for may be I did not so com
prehend my situation.
Bnt 1 was sentenced to death, that 1
folly comprehended when they inarched
me, handcuffed, betwocn two guards
with arms at “charge” and bayonets
fixed, back to the prtaon; and, instead of
to my former 13 by 13 cell, barred and
bolted me in an underground, dark, dank
dungeon, 3 by 10 feet, with a tub occu
pying two feet of that sparso space, sig
nificantly suggestive that I was to stay
right there until the day and hour.
The sentence was fully realized during
the sunless days and no darker nights of
tho weeks that followed.
Daylight! Good God, man! you do
not appreciate what a ray of glad, bright
sunlight is until shot in from all that
makte day beautiful.
Ob, yes; I comprehended, slightly, that
mine was no trifling sentence os I
WltEN CAPTURED.
crouched in that felt darkness, waiting
till dilated pupils enabled me to see im
perfectly what was the dampness that 1
touched.
Finally, however, I was permitted to
send out and buy a lamp and to keep it
lighted. The walls had been repeatedly
whitewashed, but the humid filth oozing
through tho bricks had pushed it off in
discolored flakes. The floor was stone;
a solid or cemented mass that at once
negatived any Morganic idea of “dig
ging out." Away up yonder, ten or
twelve feet away, was tho arched brick
ceiling, whose sweaty surface told it,
too, was under sod. Slimy snails and
“thousand lege" drew their clammy ways
across the moist walls and floor; vermin
found and fed upon the noxioos dirt-
damp; the disgusted rats that crept in
at the grated door darted back to find a
more yielding substance for their bor
rowing teeth.
Bnt the dampness, and the darkness,
and the dirt were bnt grains of dost
compand to the unutterable k—Bneni
that grew upon me in that sepulcher.
>'■• "J' - - wu' — ra.
Not a human sonl—not even a brnte, ex
cept tho scampering rats—to break the
heavy stillness of that mnrky tomb! Ont
yonder, somowhere, I knew was a grim
sentry, for I heard the measured tread of
tho relief as they left him on his lonely
post. Bnt I never saw or heard him.
Twice a day, grimly silent, came the
cook's detail with my barrack soup or
coffee. Bnt ho was mute, under strict
orders not to speak or signal to tho pris
oner, as his bakerlike shovel reached in
my morsel of tainted food.
Perdition! how I strove to make .Jliin
speak! If he only would curse me, abuse
me, anything: even his profunity would
have sounded ns melody in my solitude.
I never know what mnsic there was in.
the lmmun voice till in that dungeon
where it never sounded, and where I
soon grew startled at my own.
The post chaplain's was tho only hu
man voice I heard for weeks—and his
only onco, for my levity sbockod him so
that he gave mo np as an irredeemable
reprobate. Ho offered a prayer for me,
however, 1 courteously kneeling with
him on the stone floor. Bat he never
caino again.
Ho told mo—what my occasionally al
lowed letters from my friends had too
plainly informed me—that there was. no
hope of escape from the fate that aoetned
to them imd the ontsido world to l>e
staring me In the face. Every possible
effort had been made, every available in
fluence pressed into service with the
president, and he had positively declined
interfering with the judgment of the
court martial. Tho worthy chaplain cor
roborated their sad information; said he:
“Captain, you should prepare fordeath.
for yonr life cuds in a few days."
Here was food for reflection, surely.
In the prime and vigor of early man
hood, my veins thrilling with tho hound
ing energy of young blood, life jnst be
gun, with its plans, schemes und pur
poses all to work ont: a young wife und
two children, with nil the hopes of joy
existence with them gave; ambitions
walks all wide before mu awaiting to be
trod; what burning pages yet nnreod in
the book of life!
In buttle the half read paragraph of
life is suddenly left with a dash ,
au unseen, unfelt ballet cuts off. without
a thought, the might lie.
But here, alone, in silent darkness the
heavy wonder would come, “So strong
in health und hope of life, is death so
nesr?"
Life's retrospect, as memory was forced
to the review, presented so much to be
undone, so much yet to bo done, so much
jnst begun that should bo finished.
b it possible—is it true—this hale,
hearty, healthy body so soon to feed the
wormsl Are these lithe limbs to walk
ont in funeral pageant, my own funeral!
Quick, active, firm as the soldiers who
march with me. Am 1 to march out
with them, and they back without me?
To go forth from this dark, living tomb
to give my longing eyes one quaff of son-
light, and then shut them forever in the
eternal darkness of death's real grave?
Am I to die? To quit? To bo no more?
Talked of a day or week and then for
gotten? Is it I who am to look at those
twelve soldiers in silent rank twelve paces
at my front? To hear the command,
“Beady—aim—Are!" and hear the death
message, feel death's bullet nnd know
death, nil in ono brief instant—and then
forever know no more?
For the life of ino l could not say.
Yes, it is L” I had no such feeling,
and why I cannot tell.
I knew the law military—knew if I
was found guilty as a spy no power bnt
that of the pardoning prerogative of the
chief executive coold avert death.
I knew all had been done by my friends
that could be done, and without avail
Still, I coold not think 1 was to die so
soon.
Such reflections, retroapectiaas, ertf
Central and suburban property at bar
gain figures.
M. CALLAWAY,
Real Estate Agent.
LITTLE MARDRE.
Hie Old Reliable Stationer,
105 FORSYTH STREET,
Keeps always On hand a complete assortment of Books
and Fine Writing Papers; School Books for
every county in Southwest Georgia.
Fine * Pictures, * Framed * and * in * Sheets.
Large lot of New Moulding just received. Send in yout
Pictures and have them framed. I lead, others follow.
REMEMBER THE PLACE.
S. MONTGOMERY, Pr«t. 1. C. RONEY, Vice Pmt.
JNO. WINDSOR. C’r. LESTER WINDSOR Ant. C'r.
E. A. HAWKINS, Attorney
NO. 2830.
Peoples’ National
Of Americas.
Capital, 8.10,000. Surplus, 825,000
ORGANIZED 1883.
I.ALLE
Pres. H. R. JOHNSQN, V.Pres.
.Sffte'N,^c P in® 6,n - AH »-
Americas National Building
and Loan Association.
AUTHORIZED CAPITAL. - 850,000,000.
OVER $200,000 WORTH OF STOCK
ALREADY SOLD.
Money loaned at fl per cent, principal, and
intercut payable In easy monthly install-
men ts. Large profits secured to Investors.
DIRECTORS:
E.Taylor, Retired Merchant; H. R. Johnson,
of Johnson A llarrold; W. t*. Wallis. Atty. at
Law; T. M. Allen, Experienced Ho tiding und
Loan Manager; Lott Warren, Hecretary und
Treas. Mutual B. A L. As*.; 8. If. Haurkins,
Pres. H. A. A M. Ry.; J. B. Folder, Mayor of
Americus and Bros. Street Ry.
4-11 ’91 d.<wly
SCHOFIELD’S IRON WORKS,
FOUNDRY A.INO MACHINE 8IIOP.
H. C. Bagley, Pres. W. E. Hawkins, Sec. <& Tr.
Americas Investment Go.
Investment Securities.
Paid up CaDital, 81,000,000.
ISurplus, $260,000.
nniECTOits:
H 0 Bagley, W E Hawkins, S W Coney,
W S Gillls, J W Sheffield, P C Clegg,
W M Hawkes, B F Mathews, G M Byno,
W E Murphey, S Montgomery, J H Pharr.
B. P. Hollis.
9,401,23.
* Bank of Southwestern Georgia. *
J.W. WHEATLEY,
Vice President.
A. W. SMITH,
>1. SPEER,
President,
IV. H. C. DUDLEY*
Cashier. Assistant Cashier,
DIRECTOR?:
J. W. Wheatley, E. J. Eldridge,
C. A. Huntington, II. R, Johnson,
R. J. Perry, J. C. Nicholson,
A. W. Smith, W. H. C. Dudloy,
M. Speor.
E. Burnt,|Jm, Pros. H. M. Kxapp, V. P.
to. A. Coi.kman, Sec, a Treas,
J. S. SCHOFIELD’S SONS A CO., Prop’rs,
Manufacturers of Steam Engines, Boilers, Cotton Presses and General
Machinery, Cotton Gins, Cane Mills and Saw Mills. Dealers in Mill and
Maehinists’ Supplies. Special Attention to Repair Work.
MACON, GEORGIA.
Baseballs, Baseballs, Bats, Bats.
Our stock in this line cannot be surpassed In 8outh Georgia.
HAMMOCKS! HAMMOCKS!
It will pay you to see us before placing your order elsewhere. Cro
quet Sets, Croquet Sets! We have just received a fine assortment in this
line, and can save you money by trading with us. We would not forget
to call your attention to the fact that we have added to our general Inc of
Rooks and Stationery a full line of Moulding and Picture Framing iqa-
tcrial, and we have an experienced man at the head of this department, and
can do you as good work as you can have done in Macon or Atlanta Mail
orders will receive special attention.
ALLISON & AYCOCK,
310 LAMAR STREET.
AMERICUS. GEORGIA.
Negotiates Loans on improved
Farm and City Property.
B P Holms,
Attorney,
J E Bivins.
Land Examiner.
W. 0. MURRAY. PRESIDENT.
I. E. CLARK, CASHIER
Planters’ Bank of Ellaville,
KlUrtlle, Georgia.
PAID UP CAPITAL, . . .33,000
Collections a Specialty.
Liber*] to it* customers, accommodating to
the public and prudent in Ita management, this
bank solicits deposits and other business in ita
11 • janS-dawly.
loans.
Loans negotiated at LOWEST RATES.
Easy payments, on city or farm lands.
J. J. HANESLET,
°°* 5 ly Americus, Georgia.
K. T. BYED,
FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE.
Insurance
Office on
[commroox ururra paok.]
> placed on City and Country Property.
Jackson Street, next door below Mayor's
H. SANFORD,
Contractor and Builder,
AMERICUS, ga„
With large experience In building he can
guarantee u good work ae can be done any
where.
Designs Furnished,
Estimates Made.
Innide finishing a specialty, In hard woods
All latest designs. Samples can be had on ap
plication.
Cali at J. R. Drum's store, on Tama, street.
Americus, Ga. declMm
SHINGLES, SHINGLES.
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