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Fitzgerald Enterprize
Published Every Friday.
Enwrotl as socoml-< lass mail matter at the
pont-otlioe at Fitzgerald. Irwin county, Cia.
NETTIE C. HALL,
Editor and Proprietor.
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FEBRUARY 4, 1898.
♦SOME OF THE PEOPLE
WE HAVE MET.
While living near 1 ho Grow
Greek Reservation we became
acquainted with some of the no
fed “Braves’*( ?) among whom
pone made a more vivid im¬
pression than “Cut-Nose” who
camped with three hundred
others at the foot qf the famous
Wessjugton Ilills just outside
the boundary lines of our home
town. Nothing more pictures¬
que and weird could be im
agined than the sight of the To
pees of the “300” with the dark
green hill a.s a back ground,
—natural groye in the Ravine be
side their Camps through which
grove,bubbled “Spring Brook”
bursting from its fountain-head
up in the hill-side,-at the foot
which also nestled the village
in a frontier county :-the brook
babbling its way through the
grove, meandering on through
the town, never ceasing sum
ed* nor winter, its miniature
water-falls lulling the writer to
sleep :-the memories of its inns
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.nesSS*^ 8 , peace . and UopW
* memories of Tiayk'
beside its cooling banks with
Joved ones now under the sod.
The fountain-head was so high
that an irrigating ditch carrying
the water to the gardens in the
fown made the water appear to
climb the hill-side. A little
fake was formed at the head and
many lovers and fpvoot-heavts
have whispered vows of con¬
stancy as they leisurely floated
about Tn the small boat while
the Brook sang its way on
into town widening out beside
tin' main thoroughfare into an¬
other lake, the paradise of the
young folks in winter for skat¬
ing and its cooling waters like
an oasis in the desert during
the hot summer.
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We started out to toll of our
acquaintances among the red
men and the two being 1 so elos
Jy associated it seemed imposs¬
ible to separate the Indian from
the Medicinal Springs,-the pur¬
ling: brook,-the trees,-the hills.
the big ocean of prairie which
gives a stretch of vision that
shows up this enchanted spot
from seventy five miles distant;
and Turtle Peak (the highest
promontory) where lies the tin
deciphered history of Indian
legends, written in characters
pf stone laid in the ground, rep¬
resenting a huge Turtle and an
Indian squaw.
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The one particular scene wo
are describing is the fourth of
July when the “good” Indians
Jind come oyer from the Res
prvntiou to help us celebrate,
Old Glory floated from her staff
\yith a triumphant glee, above
the tqps of the beautiful trees,
The speaking was held in the
grove, and the Indian Qnar
tette (educated at the,, govern
ment school) sang America,
As their beautiful voices echo
ed through the grove “My conn
try tis of thee” we said “sure;
enough this is your country,
was yours first of all and we j
’pelieve should still remain
yours. ” While this
w:is singing, u squaw in native
costume, crowded her way up
to the rostrum and earnestly
gazed up into the face of one of
the singers, a modest, refined
looking young indian girl who
afterward told us tins was her
mother who had placed her in
the government school at six
yoars of age. The stoical face
of this mother a daughter of
the forest, never moved a mus¬
cle, but stood in grim, stolid
silence so noted in her race,
but in that dark eye there das¬
hed responsive pride as the ap¬
plause called her dusky daugh¬
ter to the front again,
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And “Cut-Nose” what of him?
lie stalked about in majestic
silence, decorated with his in¬
signia of rank viz; a plain shirt
-like garment reaching to the
knees and worn outside of all
else, it was made of coarse,
unbleached muslin that had no
doubt been clean, but above all
else was “Cut-Nose” happy
and proud in the narrow strip
of torn muslin, something near
a yard in length, sown to the
tail of this shirt, that trailed
out its lengjjh behind or waved
in triumph according to the
sport of the Dakota breeze ;
eloquent in its dirt and ragged
edges because it spoke of lud
mn valor in capturing white
scalps. With majestic strides
the haughty wearer came and
went among us, (ignoring his
own people surrounding him)
with the gravity of a city
Mayor or political ward-heeler,
Where “ignorance is bliss it is
folly to be wise” and “Cut¬
Nose” lived in perpetual bliss
beloiving himself really the big
man among the Sioux, and
with a self-complacent air de¬
the wild duck eggs on
Musk-Rat lake, rather preferr¬
ing them just as the young
ducks were peeping through
the shell swallowing them
wholo find mionQl oyl with .great
gusto, especially if aecotnpaued
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THE GREAT PYRAMID.
One of the leading granite
men of this county who made a
personal inspection of the (Treat
Pyramid says: “There are
blocks of stone in flip Pyramid
which weigh three or four t imes
as much as one of the obelisks.
1 saw a stone whose estimated
weight was 880 tons. There
are stones in it thirty feet in
length which lit so closely to¬
gether that you may run a pen¬
knife over tlie surface without
discovering the breaks between
them. They are not laid with
mortar either. There is now no
machinery so perfect that it
will make two surfaces thirty
feet in length which meet to¬
gether as these wonderful
stones in the Great Pyramid
meet. It covers an area of
about thirteen acres. It is es¬
timated that the Great Pyramid
weighs six million tons and
that to remove it would require
sixty thousand steam engines,
each drawing one hundred tons.
In fact the wealth of Egypt is
not- sufficient to pay laborers
to demolish it. Prof. Smyth
has concluded that it was built
iu the year 2170 B. 0. reaching
this conclusion first from as
tromioal observations.
IS IT ALL OF LIFE.
To have enough to oat, a
place to sleep, some covering
for the body, and perhaps a
polo game, a pri^e fight or
blood and thunder melodrama
to while away the few weary
hours intervening
drudgery and sloop? True
even that little would be like
a seventh heaven of delight
compared to that the average
workingman now enjoys, but
can the ambition of the Amori
can sovereignty rise to nothing
higher than that? What are
ail the beauties with which liat
ure has stocked the earth and
that the skill and ingenuity of
man have reproduced and am-
plified for, it not for the enjoy
nient of man? Yot do we en
joy them? We who produce
the wealth of the nation and
make possible the grandeur
and magnificence so abundant
on every hand, are ourselves
content to struggle on in pov
erty, live in wretchedness and
die in our misery without hav
ing seen, let alone enjoyed, the
beautiful world that was built
for us all.—The Beacon.
THE OPPORTUNITY OF THE
CENTURY.
From the Capitol Idea.
For fifty years William Booth
lias been adding page to page,
chapter to chapter, volume to
volume, of the most heroic,
triumphant, flaming history
ever inscribed upon the hearts
of man by a human being.
He stands today upon the
pinnacle of a biographical pyra¬
mid, as free from flaw as hum¬
an reason could possibly hope
for mortal man to build.
Now in his sixty-ninth year,
when time is fast spreading her
snowy mantle over his bowed
head, and the autumn sun is
tinging his western horizon
with the golden hues of the
glorious harvest morning in tne
crowning glory of his brilliant
warfare, it is our privilege to
sit in the halo of his light and
wrap around us his falling
mantle, whom succeeding gen¬
erations will look back upon
with supreme admiration,
HE COMES.
As a conquering hero gallops
homeward at the close of the
long hard fought battle, so our
General braves the terrors of
the deep, and hurries up and
down our ranks, to give us one
last parting cheer, and a few
wise words of council from his
long experience to help us in
our worthy ambition to emulate
his monumental example in
this great war for dying souls.
Ill the light of human reason
we eaii never exffeCt
here , again. It ti is • a miracle, -i of
mercy and divine plea lire, that
helms thus been sustained a
gainst such trying odds.
Wolf-Pit News.
The pleasant weather makes 11 s think
about putting in our spring crop.
Mr. Pearson is clearing,—“Judge” is
plowing ami “Shorty is putting on the
linishing touches on the house.
George Hascoll has just finished plow¬
ing for Mr. tollman.
Mr. Fred Dunbar and Miss Anna Coop¬
er were united in marriage, last Sund.-v,,
at the church. We wish them much joy
and a long and happy life.
On Friday night we were surprised to
find Mrs. Goff’s smoke house on fire. It
caught by a spark fiom a torch, failing
into some broom straw. It burnt all of
her meat and lard, some syrup and other
things.
Prayer m-cting was largely attended
Tuesday evening, at the church,—Clar¬
ence Miller as leader.
Cottage prayer meeting was held at Bro.
Hopper’s Thursday evening.
“Resident”.
A Leaf from ‘‘Rose Hill”.
W. E. Moyer, a brother of the late
Marion Moyer, came in on the last excur¬
sion from Cincinnati, Ohio, and is much
pleased with the country.
During our late battle with forest fires,
there was burning of clothes, and singeing
hair. A couple of us slept in the woods,
and didn't get home till morning. One
lost his whiskers, and another some of
his clothes.
Rev. Parks gave us a good sermon, at
the residence of H. Fisher, where Union
8. School meets every Sunday. lie will
preach one week fyou; Sunday, at 1 p. m.
Our S. School is growing and improving.
The Brick yard is getting ready to burn
their first Kiln. "A Rose Thorn”.
Dr. Breese begs to say to readers of
this paper, at a distance, who have writ
ten him for information, that he has been
so crowded with work, for some weeks
past, that he could net command the tirm
to answer them, but he will write, as soon
as possible, to each one in turn.
An Uncertain Disease.
There is no disease more uncertain in its
nature than dyspepsia. Physicians say that,
the symptoms of no two eases agree. It is
therefore most difficult to make a correct
diagnosis. disguise No matter how severe, or under
what Ritters will dyspepsia attacks von. Browns’
Hon cure if. Invaluable in all
lisenses of the stomach, blood ami nerves.
Browns’ Iron Bitters is sold by all dealers.
Dakota breezes Monday and
day—and—cold for Georgia,
1VE, BUT MO STOMACH.
A Wandertal Operation Which
Started the Medioal
World.
HOPE FOR THE AFFLICTED
How The? Kay Have the Serves cf ths
Most Eminent specialists and be
Restored to Perfect Health.
The year just passed has been re¬
markable for the great advancement
made in medieal science and the in¬
troduction of new and successful
methods of treating what hus hereto¬
fore been considered as incurable
diseases. The daring and brilliant
operation performed by Dr. Carl
Schlatter, of Zurich, Switaerland,
by which the entire stomach of a
patient was successfully removed,
has astounded the medical profession.
Heretofore the stomach has been
considered a vital organ, but the
Zurich patient, alive and well,, re¬
futes this shop-worn theory. The
case of this woman without a stom¬
ach, demonstrates that the gastric
functions can be performed by other
organs of the body.
iCbe history of this case is of ab¬
sorbing interest. From childhood
the patient had suffered from fre¬
quent attacks of severe pain in the
stomach. The local doctors could
afford her no relief. She Anally
came under the treatment of Dr.
Schlatter. He diagnosed her case
and found the seat of trouble to be
a tumor. This he removed with the
entire stomneh, and the patient
though old and feeble, has fully reco¬
vered her health.
The remarkaple results obtained
in this ease prove the superiority
of the specialist over the general
practitioner in the treatment of
chronic diseases. His study, inves¬
tigation and practise are confined
to one particular organ of the body
and its diseases. His constant work
makes him master, and success at¬
tends his eiforts.
There has recently been formed
in New York City the Warner
Nazaro Medicine Company, which
ha3 a department for the special
treatment of chronic diseases of all
classes. Its Board of Physicians is
composed of the most successful
specialists of Greater New York.
object^f this company is to
could Wot otherwise obtain ^ tha
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8e r V ico of suck eminent specialists,
Many diseases which nave baffled
the Skill of the general practitioner
can thus be successfully treated and
suffering humanity benefited.
Among the diseases for which
special treatment can be had are
scrofula and all blood gnd skin di¬
seases; nervous prostration, in¬
somnia, chronic headaches, and all
nervous disorders: rheumatism and
gout; accuts and chronic catarrh;
diseases and weaknesses of women;
special diseases of men; indigestion
and stomach troubles.
This plan of special treatment has
been devised and perfected by Mr.
H. H. Warner, former proprietor
and originator of Warner’s Safe
Cure business some five years ago,
and since that time he has given his
attention to formulating and per¬
fecting the present undertaking.
His years of experience in the spe¬
cial treatment of kidney diseases
led him to believe chat equally good
results could be obtained by offering
the public, at a reasonable rate,
special treatment under the di¬
rection of eminent specialists for the
several classes of diseases to which
mankind is liable. This plan places
within the reach of all at minimum
prices, the experiences of men who
have devoted years of study to their
respective specialties.
Tho method of obtaining relief
from all chronic troubles is as simple
as it is inexpensive. Ail that is
necessary is to write out a history
of your case, making (he statement
as complete as possible, and giving
symptoms in detail. Send this, with
five dollars, to the Warner Zazaro
Medicine Company, St. Paul Build¬
ing, 220 Broadway, New York City,
when a complete diagnosis of your
case and medicine for thirty days’
treatment, should so long a lime be
necessary for a cure, will be sent
you and delivered free without fur¬
ther expense. The well known busi
ness ability of Mr. Warner, and the
fact that he has done so much for
suffering humanity in the past, are
ample assurances of the genuineness
of this, his latest and greatest work,
Write to day.
Do You Want A —
GOOD SHAVE and HASFl-CUT?
Goflv
.A. BUSH,
Who. will give you clean a satisfactory hair-cut
and shave.
IT’arm and Cold Baths.
Ayon Pine, next door to Bell's Restaurant.
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ii start that it took the merchants of Atlanta and Memphis twenty i
years to get. Lack of competition will never cause us to take any
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President. Sec. and Treas,
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We make a specialty of Peach, Plum, Pear and Apples.
We can supply Planters in any quantity and variety. We
make a specialty of growing June Bud Peach and Japan Plum.
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