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I AM SHOWING THEclSflOST ATTRACTIVE LINE OF ty—at prices never before quoted#* My line is too extensive to enumerate# bu it is the place to make your purchases* both as to price and the endless varie sw, ff'esh arid of this season’s designs. No old stock. Ollt-Of-tOWH M3ll Orders fltt6Ilt6d $0 SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF STERLING SILVER NOVELTIES FOR CHRISTMAS. CORNER 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.