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NAVAL CONSTRUCTION
strength and happiness. It was a re
lease from a thraldom darker and
more horrible than the fate of the
Lydian king concerned to hunger and
thirst with the most limpid streams in
sight and the finest viands before him
but without the power of reaching
them. It was freedom from a captiv
ity more appaling in contemplation
to a human being who has suffered it
than the thought of the tortures of a
lost soul. I returned to the city after
a few s weeks in the country, but in
consequence of an attack ot fever
contracted during my visit I was sent
to a hospital, and, after a stay of six
weeks I found myself able to go away
which I was advised to do, and which
advice I was glad to follow. I want
ed to be away from the scenes of my
terrible bondage for a time. I yearn
ed for a season of natural, healthful
rest, and accordingly went to a little
town on the Southern railway (Baxley)
and there spent a few months—the
The cure
High Engine and .Fire Boom Tempera
tures on a Warship.
The great internal heat that rendered
the Amphitrite inefficient was due to
lack of provision for ventilation in the
engine and boiler spacea These regions
became so hot that little useful work
could be done in them, and the lack of
sir was such as to actually ruin the-fur
nace draft, smoke coming out freely
from the holes in the furnace doom
Aside from two small ash hoist tubes'
in the central part of the fireroem and
a small escape, hatch forward, there
were no openings from the fireroom to
the outer air.
The boilers reached nearly to the iron
main deck of the vessel, and as the air
above them and between the deck beams
had no escape it became greatly heated
and lay roasting in those spaces. It was
impossible for a man to go on the grat
ings behind the upper parts of the boil
ers after they had been under steam a
few hours, though the main and auxil
iary stop valves were there. A board of
officers that reported on temperatures in
the vessel got at this place only by in
troducing a thermometer oh the mid Of
a long pole, and this thermometer,
when fii&ed out and taken to a place
where it could be read, showed 202 de
grees. - * -
The superstructure containing the
cabin and wardroom was directly above
the engine andjjoiler rooms, with a
light wooden floor laid over the. iron
main deck. At sea, f#fth the doors
closed, this habitation became exactly
power of alcoholism is as the power of
a giant against pigmy), was not enter
tained by me.
Weeks, months went by. Time af
ter time did I resolve to throw off,the
yoke, again and again did I surrender
under the agofiy and torture to body,
brain and nerves. I began to despair
—I did despair; hope faded, and I
abandoned myself to a fate worse than
death; an outcast from friends and
home, a wanderer without a single ray
of the light of happiness shining in my
dark pathway to the grave. One
gloomly morning in the winter I was
sitting on a tench on the St. Simon’s
Island pier when the boat came up
from island. One of the passengers
threw away a paper he had been read
ing, as he went by me, and more me-
chancally than otherwise I picked it
up and began to read it (?). As I
half consciously turned the pages my
eyes fell on an advertisement; it was
something after this:-Opium and Mor
phine Habit Cured. Address B. M.
Woolley, M. D., Atlanta, Ga.” I did
not pay much attention to it at first
for I had tried so many “cures” and
so many of the doctors without rescue
that I had abandoned^all idea or hope
of an efficacious cure or even relief.
That flight however under the influ
ence of one of the hallucinations that
I was at times th e victim of, I wrote
the Rev. A. G. P. Dodge, Jr., a
wealthy and philanthropic Episcopal
minister, living on St. Simon’s Island
and asked his opinion and advice as
to giving another trial against the en
thralment of the accursed drug. He
answered and bade me meet him on
the- island the next day. I went. He
met me. He advised a trial. He
finished the means of obtaining the
remedy, and I became a patien t of Dr.
B. M. Woolley, of Atlanta, Ga. His
treatment was seemingly simply. Two
small bottles of a. reddish liquid, not
unpleasant to the taste, was m3 first
supply. I neglected to take my first
dose 5 for two days after I received it,
owing to - my lack of confidence; but
one morning I discovered, on awaken
ing, that my moiphme was all gpne*
and so I decided to openfhe first bot
tle. I was beginning to feel the need
of the drug; but in a very few minutes
after I had taken the “Woolley anti
dote “I began to feel the neiryous tre
mors and cold perspiration (incident
tp the-, dying out of the drug in the
tystem) posing away, and in less than
fifteen; miniites I did not feel or ex-.
perience any ill effects from my ab
stinence from the drug. I ate hearti
ly at breakfast and for the first time
in three years felt like I had found at
least relief. My feeling of thankful
ness was such that I remembered pay
obligation to the Almighty, for the
first time in many terrible months. I
carefully noted the instructions and
followed them. About a week after
I commenced the “Woolley treatment”
I wasdn such a transport of hopeful
ness that I decided to go into, the
country and aid a friend on his farm. |
My strength was increasing. My ap
petite was fair and spirits rising. In
a word, the dream of freedom exper
ienced after my first dose of the anti
dote had matured into reality, and I
was awake to the fact that I was con
valescent. r And, oh! my God, a. glop-,
iqus awakening it was. Day by day,
week, by 'week, I gained in health,
Talented George B. Mabry
and Eis Strange Dreams-
A HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE
fie Tells flow fie Was Boundand Afterward
Freed and Brought Back to Conscious
ness—ft Tale of Caotlvtaand Par
don—The Danger of Morphine
Doctors
In the spring of 1881 I went to my
home after a day of successful work
in the court room, and after a hearty
supper I retired, feeling of couse a
little fatigued, but in perfect health.
I had always taken a great interest
in athelics^ in school and college, and
being at the time of which I write
only twenty-five years of age my love
of anything pertaining to the school
of the athelete was still attractive. I
mentidfl this only as a toucher that I:
was a young man in perfect health
and strength. I had just been elec
ted by the Legislature of Georgia
Solictor General of the Brunswick
Circuit, covering the large territory of
nine counties, and up to the time I
write of I cannot reinember of ever
having had a day of illness of any
kind. o n the fateful night I have al
luded to I was aroused from sleep by
a fearful nausea and violent pains in
the region of the abdomen. I called
a physician, now dead, and after he
had examinedme and asked questions
as to the substance of my supper, he
remarked that he would relieve the
excruciating pain I was suffering, pre
paratory tofuther treatment. I saw
hfm draw from his • breast pocket-a-
smallcase, and -from it h6 took a lit
tle instrument of silver, that Upon in-
qtffty I'WaS toldf was; mbrphuse or hy-
pod^iMc syringe.- I saov hfni pflt a
minute quanity of a white powder in
a little water, and after dissolving it
hqidrew it . in his. little innocent look
ing syringe and then screwed a fine,
sharp pointed, hollow needle^ on and
fold me to “bare my arm.” “What
in the World are you going to do doc
tor?” I inquired. “This^ill relieve
you at oncej” he replied. “I am go
ing to give you an injection of a little
morphine in your arm.” * I had never
heard of such an opperation before.
was side tracked. It is remarkable
sometimes Low the switching is
done on the limited amount of
side track here.
Col. J. H. Huggins is entertain
ing relatives from Atlanta this
week.
Several of our people went- to see
the circus Wednesday.
YELLOW CREEK.
* The .revenue -department cap
tured Messrs Tobe Jay and 0. C.
Keith, /two mules, a wagon and 75
gallons of the pure stuff.
Mr. A. S. Whelchel is mnninga
1 ;own at New Bridge. He has 1
: full store, cotton gin, com mill,
blacksmith shop, post-office, keept
boarders and farms.
Wheat is still being sown.
Some who have not sown any for
sometime are sowing freely.
Mr. C. F. Knipper has just re-j
turned from a trip through Mid*!
die Georgia and reports times ai
being very hard, and sale of ap
ples doll.
ME. J. A. Turner will l#
up on business at a very early
date.
very happiest of my life,
of Dr. Woolley was complete. I felt,
I knew, I was free free as air. I
knew that my slavery and horrible
suffering were oyer forever. I felt
it, I knew it. with, as much certainty
as if I had been my release by an op
tically revealed dispensation by the
Saviour of the World. I.am not
what is known to the religious world
as “a church. member*” though no
robed priest has a greater reverence
for the. forms oT religion than I. I
believe in the Father, Son and Holy
Ghost, and worship in accordance
with the dictates of my understanding
and conscience. I know that a great
medicine is obtainable to relieve the
misery of the opium and morphine
slave and to give freedom and life. T
know not its formula. I am ignorant
of the ingredients. But I do know
that the~Skill and study of this phy
sician has ( given the world a special
panacea, that causes more happiness
and thanksgiving from the morphine
slave than all; the, medicines of all the
schools of ; phiar-macy v com
bined in its" powbr for the
accomplishment of good, and—I say!
it with reverence—-4t seems almost di
vine. I make no pretensions to any
thing specially good or meritorious*
but if at any time I can aid a human
being in the* toils of the deflion drug,
of which-1 have written^ God kflows
I will freely give benefit of my counsel
to those who have experienced the
‘‘delightful effects” and Utopian
dreams of the drug as novitiates.'
The mdans of release is before you.
My release was from' slavery more
fearful, I tfust, than you, sufferer,
■may ever experience: but you will
reach that stage if your treatment is
neglected.,
George B. Mabry,
Atromey at Law.
^ | 'D/' Brunswick, Ga.
New Officers Elected.
The election for officers of the Pied
mont Eifies was held Tuesday night,
and resulted as follows: Captain, A. W.
VanHoose; First Lieutenant; W. R.
Chamblee; Second Lieutenant, John
Gaston. The new officers expect to
MAULDINS MII.ES.
The Sunday-school at Mulberry
church has decided to close the
present term of the Sunday-school
on Christmas with a Christmas
tree.
The farmers have nearly com-,
pleted the gathering of their crops
and are sowing wheat. From ap
pearances there will be much more
sown this fall than last, and this
is one hopeful sign as they can
never succeed raising cotton at
present prices." V
Mr. J. T. Johnson has sold out
and wilTin a few days start to
Oklahoma.
• The minutes printed by The
Cracker office are pronounced to
he the best work ever done for the
Thresh, shipment ‘‘Velvet” ’
candy just received at Manahai
^fulberry Baptist Association,
was finally brought to an anchor in St.
Simon’s sound. Though a warship of
formidable characteristics .and sent on
this distant service, it is doubtful if the
Amphitrite could have gone into action
at that time or have steamed 100 miles
farther to save herself.—F. M. Bennett,
U. S. N., in Cassier’s Magazine.
A Good Firm.
A firm that does a good business the
year round and which deserves the
large patronage it has is Hosch Bros.
& Co. These merchants deal properly
with their customers, giving them the
advantage of low prices and good
goods, consequently their trade is con
stantly increasing. The readers of The
Cracker will do well to see Hosch Bros.
& Co. ‘
LEE PARNELL
anksgiying
makes you
take Cam
3 liver pills.
Is an elegant place for those who - need tonsorial work. His hot
are fine—try one, 15 cents. Get a hair-cut or shave- at Parnell^
best shop in the city. > .
Cotton seed hulls and meal for sale.
. W. R. Canning Sc Bro.