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'O AM A IDEA? \. i A. YES, :•! at #, J It is a very good Idea indeed, g * To come over to the m r* & SAVANNAH SHOE FACTORY m '•! In Fitzgerald’s Block, ;• m FOR m & it REAL BARAINS m IN SHOES. & m We keep on selling right § | along on our new scale. * m 75 CENTS ON THE DOLLAR. m m&mmmesmmmsmmmmsm « SMITH BROS., WHOLESALE FRUIT AND PRODUCE -DBALER8 IN BUTTER AND CHEESE. South Grant St. BALDWIN’S JEWELRY STORE. Try It Once. 0* Give Us a Trial. Take a hat pin anil make We have the latest in¬ a hole in the center, then struments for fitting the hold paper close to the eyes. If you have a brok¬ •ye. if vision is improved en or cracked lens that in either eye it Is a sure wus filled on an occulist’s indication that glasses are prescription, we can sup¬ needed amt you should go ply you with a new one. u * BALDWIN & CO. . BALDWIN & GO. Our Watch, Clock and Jewelry repairing is of the highest order. We «re graduates of one of the best Horological Institutes in this country. All work warranted. Complicated watches a specialty. Have you heard the great Cuckoo Clock? Come in and bear it tell the hour. Bring in your Old Uold and get Cash for it. C. S. BALDWIN & CD FITZCERALD BLOCK. JEWELERS and OPTICIANS. -5 13 ft! m ft AA FRANK S. BAUD Eli, Pres. Wx. P. BOWEN, Cashier. ft Colony Bank, 9 a u The & $ & Doinsr A General Banking Business. Credits ft Now Open and £ f|or}fyerqQxchange 8$ ension (Checks 6 £ PAR-^.-<fc. r AT U. When deposited by our customers. We issue gvchange on New a York. Savannah, Macon, Darien and Cordele at one-hnlf the rates charged by postoffice money orders. a V-C We lend money on high class security, never charging over eight o percent, perannum. and banking rules and customs are the same as thoie of u Our rates & Atlanta and Louisville banks. In other words, we gvie the business §: men of Fitzgerald the same banking rates and privileges from the o ft start that it took the merchants of Atlanta aad Memphis twenty > o years to get. Lack of competition will never cause us to take any Ift advantage of the colonists. a r o yVWYWVWWWVW o & & x4.4'4'4'4*4'4'4'4*4* 4 *4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4 * 4*4* 4* 4* 4* 4* X 4* FITZGERALD FliRRITURE * 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 14* 4* Newest Goods. 4* 4* * Latest Styles. 4* 4* 4* 4* Lowest Prices, j* ’4» 4» 4* 4 line of window shades 4* We carry a full 4 of every description. 4* 4 Iron bed, $5.00 and up. 4 4 Oak extension tables 65c per foot, up. 4 '4 steel springs the 4 4 We have the best on 4 4 market. Call and see them. 4 4 Our Cupboard Safes are beauties and price Is 4 4 the same as you pay for shoddy ones. 4 4 FRED J. CLARK, Proprietor. 4 4 4 4 FITZGERALD BLOCK. _14 ___ ADVANCE IN SURGERY HOW,IT DIFFERS NOW FROM WHAT IT WAS FIFTY YEAR8 AGO. The Horror of tho Knife Up to the Dis¬ covery of Anaesthesia—Danger H Well •i 1'tUu In the Operation—First Cm of Ether by Dr. William T. G. Morton. One of tho most Interesting papers rend at the eelebrution in Boston of the fiftieth unniversary of tho first adminis¬ tration of ether in a surgical operation, says the Philadelphia Record, was that by Dr. John Ashhurst of this city on “Surgery Before the Days of Anaesthet¬ ics. " It vividly recalls tho horrors of those days when tho surgeon’s knife was an object of fur greater terror than now and inflicted untold tortures upon tho conscious patient. “A study of the condition of surgery before the days of antesthesin,” said Dr. Ashhurst. “reveals on the ono hand a picture of heroic boldness and masterly self control on tho part of the surgeon, und on the other a ghastly panorama, sometimes of stole fortitude and endur¬ ance, sometimes of abject terror and hu¬ miliation—but always of agonizing wretchedness and pain—on tho part of the nnliuppy victim who required the surgeon's aid "The ’pitilessness' which Ceicus urged as an esseutiul trait iu the operative sur¬ geon wuh, before the days of anaesthesia, a feature in the surgeon’s career which impressed very strongly tho public gen¬ erally os well os those immediately con¬ nected with the operation. It is inter¬ esting to recall that Hlr James Simpson of Edinburgh, shortly after beginning his professional studies, was so affected by 'seeing the terrible ogouy of a poor Highland woman under amputation of the breast' that he resolved to abandon a medical career and seok other occupa¬ tion. Happily his intention was recon¬ sidered, and he returned to his studies, asking himself, ‘Can anything bo done to make operations less painful?’ and, M every one knows, in less than 20 years he became a high priest of anaes¬ thesia and the introducer into surgical and obstetrical practice of ether's great rival, chloroform. *‘No braver or more gallant gentle¬ man ever lived than Admiral Viscount Nelson, and after his right elbow had been shattered by a French bnllet in the assault at Tenerife he manifested the utmost courngo, refusing to be taken to the nearest ship lest the sight of hi? in¬ jury should alarm the wife of a fellow officer whose own fate was uncertain, and when his owu ship was reached he climbed up its side without assistance, saying: ‘Tell the surgeon to make baste and get his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it Is off the better. ’ ‘He underwent tho amputa¬ tion, ’ we learn from a private letter of ouo of his midshipmen, ‘with tbe same firmness aud courage that have always marked his character.' And.yet so pain¬ fully was he affected by tho coldneSs of the operator’s knife that when next go¬ ing into action at the famous battle of the Nilo he gave standing orders to his surgeons that hot water should always be kept in readiness during an engage¬ ment, so that if another operation should be required bo might at least have the poor comfort of being cut with warm instruments. “On the side of tbe surgeon we find throughout tbe ages a constant effort to diminish tbe terrors of operations and a continuous reprobation of the distress¬ ful, not to say cruel, modes of prac¬ tice adopted by preceding generations. And yet tbe time is not very far distant from ours when they lopped off a limb by striking it violently with a heavy knife; that time when they knew nei¬ ther how to stop nor how to prevent hemorrhage but by burning tbe part whence the blood jetted with boiling oil or the redhot iron; that timo when sur¬ geons armed themselves at every mo¬ ment with pinchers, with burning cau¬ teries and with instruments tho repre¬ sentations even of which cause terror. “But the presence of pain was not tbe only evil dreaded by our predecessors in attempting Important operations. The great risk of fatal accident from some in¬ voluntary movement of the patient was constantly present to the mind of the conscientious surgeon. ‘Bow often, ’ says Dr. Valentine Mett, ‘when operating In some deep, dark wound, along the Course of some great vein, with thin walls al¬ ternately distended and flaccid with the vital current—how often have I dreadod that some unfortunate struggle of tbe patient would deviate the knife a little from its proper course and that I, who fain would be tbe deliverer, should in¬ voluntarily become tho executioner, see¬ ing my patient perish in my hands by the most appalling form of death! Had he been insensible I should have felt no alarm. ’ “Coming down to the days more im¬ mediately preceding the date of the groat discovery, we find that opium aud alcohol were tbe only ageuts which con¬ tinued to be regarded as of practical value in diminishing the pain of opera¬ tions, though the attendant disadvan¬ tages of their employment wore of course recognized. Meanwhile facts were accu mnlating thtf significance of which we now plainly recognize, but which ex¬ cited no attention. ‘‘Sir Humphry Davy, iu the early days of the nineteenth century, suggest¬ ed the use of nitrous oxide gas as an anaesthotic in minor operations, and it was the custom at some of our medical schools—at the University of Pennsyl¬ vania, for one—for stndents to breathe ’laughing gas,’as ft was then called, for diversion. But yet—and yet—sur¬ geons went on, in every country, catting and burning, and patients went on writhing and screaming, until on the 18th day of October, in the year 1848 , in the Massachusetts General hospital, Dr. John C. Warren painlessly removed a tumor from a man who bad previously been etherized by Dr. William T. G. Morton, and snrgical anaesthesia be¬ came the priceless heritage of the civi¬ lized world.” A BOY AND AN ORANGE. Laurence Hutton Tell* How lie Niiecumb ud to u Tuiuptation In HI* Youth. Tho boy wan taught, from the earliest awakening of his miaouing powers, that truth was to bo told and to be respected and that nothing was more wicked or more ungeutJeinanly than a broken promise. Ho learned very oarly to do its he was told and not to do, under any consideration, what he hud said ho would not da Upon this lust point ho wut strictly conscientious, although once, literally, ho “boat about tho bush. »* His Aunt Margaret, always devoted to plants and to dowers, had, on tho bock stoop of his grandfather's house, a little grove of orange und lemon trees in pots. Some ouo of these wus usually in fruil or in flower, and the fruit to the boy was fond a groat temptutioo. He was very of oranges, and it scorned to him Unit a “homomudo" orange, which ho bad never tasted, must bo much better thou a grocer's orange, us homemade cake was certainly preferable even to tho wouderful cukes made by tho pro¬ fessional Mrs. Milderbergez. Ho watched tlioso little green oranges from day to day as they gradually grow big and yellow In the sun. Ho promised faithfully that he would not pick any, but ho hud a notion that some of them might drop off. He never shook tho trees, b&'-mso lie said ho would not But ho shook tho stoop, and ho hung about tho bush, which ho was too honest to beat. One unusually tempting orange, which he had known from its budhood, Anally overcame him. Ho did not pick it off, he ilid not shake it off. He compromised with his conscience by lying flat on his buck ami biting off a piece of it It was not a very good action, nor was it a good orange, and for that reason, perhaps, he went homo immediately aud told on himself. Ho told his mother. He did not tell his Aunt Margaret H's mother did not seem to bo ns much shocked at his conduct us ho was. But in her own quaint way she gave him to understand thut promises wore not nmdo to be crucked uny more than they were made to bo broken—that ho had been falso to himself in heurt, if not in deed, and that ho must go buck and ruako it “all right” with his Aunt Mar¬ garet. Sho did not. seem to bo very mnch shocked either; ho could not toll why. But they punished tho boy. They mudo him eot tho rest of tho orange. He lost all subsequent interest lu that tropical glade, nnd lie has never cared much for domestic oranges siuoe.—“A Boy I Knew,” by LuurenooHuttou, in St Nicholas, FORGETFUL MR. BILLTOPS. And How ClatulFS Shoes Finally Got to the Shoemaker**. "Forgetful?” wad Mr. Billtops. "Well, well, well, I should say sol I haven’t any memory at all. If I want to romember any tiling, I have to make B memorandum of it, and then twist the paper ar«rt .d my key ring, c* abut it in my knifed or tie If through tho ring of my watcu, I can't remember anything at till. “Mrs. Billtops tried for days to get me to take Claude's shoes to the shoe¬ maker's. He’d worn them through on the soles und pnt on his best shoes to wear while the others wero bolug fixed. JSvery day Mrs. Hilltops would put the bundle on tho table near me os 1 rcud the paper and say: ‘Now, Ezra, don’t forget tbosboea * n Aud 1 would look at tiiem aud say oil right, and (ben forget all aboutthem and go awuy without them. •‘One morning Mrs. Billtops said to me, ‘Ezra, X have put Claudo’s shoes in your hat. ’ "That really did seem tike business It did really seem as though when I came to pick up my hat I would take the bundle out of It and put the hut on my head, and that then, being ready to go and having the bundle actually in my hands, I would tako it along aud leave it nt the shoemaker’a. I laughed to myself as I thought what a tremen¬ dously shrewd woman Mrs. Billtops i& Bat— “I am os particular ns I am forgetful. I. never go out in tho morning without first brushing my hat. I took the bundle out of iuy bat and laid ikon tho table, brushed my hat and— “Mrs. Billtops looked at mo fast a little reproachfully that night when I came home, but that was all. Next dt\y she took the shoes to tho shoemaker's herself.”—New Fork Son. The True Teat of Oyalerw "The best oyster experts that I know ot” said the captain of au oyster boat, “Judge an oyster by the smell, instead of by tho taste. There is something about the smell of any oyster that indi¬ cates its condition to me mnch plainer than doos the taste. People buy them and eat them probably on account of their taste. So also do they buy tea, coffee and the various grades of whisky aud brandy fur their taste, but all ex¬ perts on those things pass upon them entirely by their smell. The professional tea taster or whisky taster, so called, never tastes them, but simply arrives at their taste by their peculiarities of fla¬ vor, Or, to speak plainly, smell. "I can toll what prioo a loud of crjra ter8wlll be rated at when they arrive at the wharf here by opening up the hold of the boat and smelling. In eight coses out of ten I am right It strikes oyster men as strange when they see persons going about fropa boat to boat, as they lie at the wharf, tasting .oysters before they conclude to buy. Tasto is all right, but if they don't_8inoll right they will never taste right 1 "—Washington Slur. Shocking. "All, a now drama!” repeated the playwright. ‘‘About how indecent would you like it?” ”0h, from 15 to 80 volts!” answered the manager. "Very well. ” People were by no means ag easily shocked os formerly, and art had to govern itself accordingly. —Detroit 7ribm MONEY im-^t THE MISSING WORD. W this which P. are sentence: every pleased one to may make have an entirely a chance new to name offer to the our missing subscribers, word in in “ SUPPLY AND DEMAND ARE AS INTIMATELY ‘ AS CAUSE AND EFFECT.” It is quoted from a prominent writer upon economic subjects. 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