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THE DISPATCH.
UKN1IKU80N A. HANLON,
Paoi’iiurrouH.
M. I(<‘inlt‘rs<>n, • Business Manager.
J. W. Hanlon, Editor.
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Address nil business loiters I■ - Tun I>is—
rA'icii, Lock Box S, Ocilla, Oa.
Oilieia! Organ Irwin County.
Friday, Mai iSl, 1HW).
The politicians arc making slates
for 11)00.
China has a population of 100,-
000,000 people,- mostly pigtails.
In Idaho the old bachehors’ out¬
number the young ladies ten to one,
Atlanta may get that earshed, but
the the outlook is that she will get
left.
The Moultrie Observer is one of
the newsiest country papers in the
state,.
It is sa-ia ■ that a Wilkes county
man recently married his daughter-
in-law.
The goldenrod has been elected
the national flower. The daisy re¬
ceived the next highest vote.
The war with, Spain has cost this
country up to date, about two hun¬
dred and eighty million dollars.
The, hpnes , of an average man
■weigh twenty pounds, while those
of a woman weigh about twelve.
McKinley has returned to Wash¬
ington without visiting Ocilla. He
made a grave mistake just there.
Timbered lands all over Georgia
are constantly enhancing in value.
Keep the tire out of the thickets.
In the statistics of crimes in the
United States Arizona stands first,
Nevada second and
third.
The Blakely Reporter says the
modest violet is getting more back¬
sets that a six teen-year-old boy who
tries to quirt a girl: tvi<?o..liis age.
The Pennsylvania legislature
passed one law in eight weeks, and
that was a law fixing the fees of
constables. That body should have
been, embalmed.
There is a new law in Georgia
against baiting fields for doves, and
another prohibiting hunting on the
Lord’s day. It goes further and
says that “no person shall fire or
discharge a gun or pistol on the
Sabbath day except in defense of
person or property.”
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A party of eight surveyors arrived
■h 1 ■' Mommy, headed by W.A.
-V 1,
Heath and Engineer Hightower,
and at once began work, locating
the line of ihe Tifton, Thomasvillc
>1 till Gulf, to Thomasvillc. They
have located the line to*Little River,
and will probably reach Colquitt
county this week.—Tifton Gazette.
Mr. Jeff Bryant, a well known
farmer living near the line of Berrien
and Lowndes counties, died last
Friday and was buried at the Cat
Creek cemetery Saturday afternoon.
Mr. Bryant was about fifty-five
years of age and was well known
in this county, as well as- i n Berrien,
where lie resided. He leaves a wife
and One child, Mrs, Jim Parrish, of
this city, and arlArge circle of friends
to mourn Iris death.-.-The Valdosta
Times.
A man at Gave Spring has come
into possession of a scrap, of paper
which was blown from the home of
Lewis Coffey, near Bdwardsville,
Ala., by the cyclone which recently
wrecked the Coffey home and killed
ten members of his family. The
paper is a receipt given Coffey in
1881; and was found in the woods
near Cave Spring the day after the
cyclone, a distance of twenty-three
miles from the (kiffey homt. The
paper is well preserved and clean,
although it passed through the ter
vible cyclone__Savannah News.
ELDER MATTHEW SIKES,
A Ciooci Huapancf,
Editor Dispatch : I don’t write
on the above text because I think
that good husbands are numerous,
for I don’t. . In fact, if the scarcity
of any commodity enhances its
rvalue, a good husband would be
worth his weight in gold. The first
husband we read of was Adam, and
immediately after bis marriage, and
almost before bis side got well from
where his wife was taken, he was
dodging behind her to hide from his
own sins; and she has been his
handy “scape goat” from then until
now, with few exceptions.
1 was acquainted with one man
who was a good husband. I don’t
say that I never knew another, but 1
am going to draw bis picture and
let that fix the lino of judgment
From the church I went homo with
that man and his wife to dinner.
She went right on into the kitchen.
He took me into the sitting room.
When .1 was seated he pointed to
the center table, saying: ‘ ‘There
are books, religious papers, etc.
Enjoy yourself while-you excuse me
a little. 1 must mar my wife in
this k itch ex. ” These underscored
words immortalized that man with
mo. 1 saw him no more until ho
came in to take me out to dinner.
When seated at the table, after help¬
ing my plate, his attention was
turned to the little children with as
much politeness as if they had been
visitors. There was no reaching
over the table by them, nor loud
cries for this and that. When this
man, returned from work at noon or
at night, he never sat down to rest
until his wife could sit down to
too. Now as short as this picture
is, let every woman lay it on her
own husband and see if it fits.
Of course, every good husband
will provide a comfortable home and
a sufficiency of the necessaries of
.life, but a man may do all this and
still be a very poor husband. Houses
and lands, flocks and herds, and
even money in tho bank, don't make
a comfortable home. Some as dis¬
agreeable husbands as I ever knew
were men owning considerable prop¬
erty. Here is one typo of a hus¬
band—he is either always gone from
home looking after his busines, or
crowds of men are flocking in to see
him on business. From the lowest
serf to the loftiest “grandee,” all
have business with him. His wife
never knows who or how many to
prepare the meals for, or for the
night,, frequently coming in after
meal time and a new meal to pre¬
pare. Of course, we need such men
and must have them, but I am talk¬
ing about husbands. How is it to
be the wife in such a home?
Another typo of a husband is one
who looks after his own business and
lets his wife look after hers. He
concludes that everything pertaining
to the Louse and yard, the garden
and poultry yard, belongs to her
business. He gives no attention to
making things convenient for her—-
that is her business. If ho keeps a
few chunks of wood on the wood
yard he is doing pretty well, and
one half the lime no axe there for
her to chop it. If he keeps an old
paint bucket or something no better
for a well bucket, all right. A strong
man can get up a little water for his
horse, but a feeble woman may
strain her eves out getting up water
for everything. If the roof leaks or
it rains down on the stove, no mat¬
ter. “No time to fix it.” He comes
in to his dinner and quietly sits
down and waits for the dinner bell.
He now goes ia to see if his feeble,
tired wife needs any help or to re¬
lieve her of a crying baby—that is
her business. If the doorsteps are
so that a man can clamber in and
out, that is sufficient.
If every husband who fits this
picture was taken out of the coun¬
try, bow.many would be loft? Many
women have gone to untimely graves,
and other are lean, long-faced and
spitting their lungs away as tho re¬
sult- of hardships from a thought-
less husband. M. Sikes.
Tax Receiver Jacob J. Paulk is
getting ready to begin work. He
will be assisted by Mr. K, L. Hen¬
derson. This is a good team, a fact
that will be more apparent when
the work for the year is finished.
South Struck By Cyclones.
Selma, Ala,, March 18.—A cy¬
clone did considerable damage today
in the little town of Iliderville,
twenty-two,miles north.
The sa w mill of the E. E. Jachson
Lumber Company, and the company
store were badly wrecked, and a
number of dwelling houses demol¬
ished. A large frame dwelling was
carried more than 10,0 yards and
overturned, and parts of several
houses were blown completely away.
Ex-Governor Jackson, of, Mary¬
land, who is president of the lumber
company, was visiting the mills,
and with several others was in the
office during the storm. The office
was wrecked, but all miraculously
escaped injury.
The cyclone was about one-eigltth
of a mile wide, and moved in a
southeasterly direction.
Opelika, Ala., March 28.—A ter¬
rific storm passed over this city to
day. The roof was blown off the
Mineral Well hotel.
In the eastern part of the city, a
two-room house was demolished and
Amy Hueguley instantly killed.
Many trejs ware blown down and
much damage done.
Lexington, Ga., March 28.—A
destructive wind and ram storm
passed over this comity today. Ilail
the size of bird eggs, did considera¬
ble damage.
At Crawford, a number of barns,
trees and fences were blown down.
Two stores were unroofed and the
steeples on two, churches were blown
off.
Americus, Ga., March 28.—A.
very severe storm passed ten miles
cast of Americus this afternoon,
wrecking numerous small houses and
causing great damage and destruc¬
tion of timber. At one point, more
than 100.fine trees were blown across
the road. No loss of life is reported
so far, though the damage otherwise
is very considerable.
Athens, Ga., March 28.—A severe
cyclone passed over Crawford, Ga.,
this afternoon at 2 o’clock. A house
belonging to II. H. Little was torn
to pieces.
The roof of R. S. Martin’s store
was blown 100 yards.
.several houses were damaged and
many trees uprooted.
Nobody was injured, although the
damage to property was consider¬
able.
An Aged WSoonshiner.
Deputy U. S. Marshal Cason
brought in this morning from the
neighborhood of Folkston, A. J.
Walker, charged with making moon-
shine whisky. Mr. Walker is sixty-
eight years old and says this is the
first time he has ever been in court
and the first time he has visited
Yv r Mr. Walker is before
ay cross. up
U. S. Commissioner Hargraves and
will-plead guilty to the charge of
making the liquor. A man who
has lived this near Waycross for
sixty-eight years and not visited the
city is likely to get into trouble.—
W ay cross Herald.
The members of the Baptist church
in Ocilla will organize a Sabbath
school, at the Methodist church.Sun¬
day at 10 a. m. All interested in
this good work are earnestly invited
to lie present promptly at-that hour.
Capt. Witham was a pleasant
caller at the News office Wednesday
afternoon. A gentleman of the
“old school” his courtesy and kind¬
ness makes us want to be—a—a,—
with him, (Withim).—Adel News.
The entertainment at the school
house Saturday night was an excel¬
lent one, and the house was crowd¬
ed to overflowing. The rendition
of each part of the program was
exceptionally good, and the large
audience retired at a seasonable
hour, highly pleased.
Exposure to rough weather,
dampness, extreme cold, etc., is apt
to bring on an attack of rheumatism
or neuralgia; chapped bands and
face, cracked lips and violent itch¬
ing of the skin also owe their origin
to cold weather. Dr. J. H. illc-
Leah’s Volcanic Oil Liniment should
he kept on hand .at all times for im¬
mediate application when troubles
of this nature appear. It is a sov¬
ereign remedy. Price i25c, 5()c and
$1 h bottle. For sale by Luke A
Ashley.
Society Notes.
The question is, who sets the
styles i» Ocilla? Some say one,
some another; but there is no tell¬
ing. All the styles are pretty, how¬
ever.
I here is very little dancing in
Ocilla, the social gatherings being
largely devoted to popular plays,
such as “stealing partners,” “Fish¬
ing for Love,” etc.
Beauty and freckles arc said to ho
only skin deep, and this may be
true as to freckles, but beauty,which
lies mostly in the eyes, is far more
deep-seated, as the eyes arc said to
lie the windows of tho soul.
A contract, it is said, has been
signed and witnessed binding two
popular young people, representing
as many counties, to appear at Hy¬
men’s altar the latter part of April.
Make a note o’ that, J udge Lee.
Cupid seems to be taking a rest
here, or perhaps he is working down
in Berrien. Any way, rumors of
weddings arc not floating about as
thick as they were some months ago,,
though one is said to be dangerously
imminent.
Some poet has said that “Beauty
unadorned is adorned the most,”
hut there are few if any who accept
this assertion as correct. Our ob¬
servation is, that the n*u>st beautiful
women are eager to employ much
art to add to natural beauty.
Kanslaying is Very Common.J
Lothair, Ga., March 25. —The
people of -this section of Montgom¬
ery county are shocked at the terri¬
ble tragedy which was enacted last
week at Glenwood. Mr, W. H.
Thompson, the murdered man, was
well liked, and was quite popular,
lie filled the position of postmaster
for several years. Channel, who
committed the deed, is said to be a
desperate character. There had been
a personal feeling between the two
men, but it was thought the enmity
was over and all were friendly again,
until the murder occurred. The
friends and relatives of the dead
man are now corresponding with
several eminent criminal attorneys
to assist in the prosecution. This
makes four murder cases for next
court—two whites and two negroes.
The county has a reputation for
hanging, and it is probable several
njay grace the gallows.
A crowd of negroes while playing
the usual game of “craps” Sunday
night, Lccsine angry over the con
tinned success of one named George."
His partner thought he would check
him, so he drew a pistol and, without
any warning, fired, tho ball crashing
through the negro’s body. Dr. Bar-
wick thinks the darky is mortally
wounded. The one who did the
shooting escaped.
At Rentz’s still five miles below
here, another colored man was kill¬
ed while indulging in the skin game
Saturday night. So prevalent has
this negro killing become that the
authorities hardly make any effort
to catch the murderers.
Roberta Burned House.
Vienna, Ga., March 24.'—In the
case of the state vs. J. C. Roberts,
charged with arson, the jury re¬
turned a verdict of guilty. J. C.
Roberts is a white man who was
indicted for burning the gin house
of Charlie Joiner, who resides near
Byronville, in this county. He was
sentenced to five years in the peni-
tentiarv.
Mr. Jacob J. Paulk came in town
Wednesday with a bolt of homespun,
more or less, tied around his little
finger to remind him to get some
turnip seed, after he had failed
thirteen times to bring them, or.
about thirteen.
Mr. II. W. Bussey, of near, Syca-
more was in Ocilla part of Monday
and Tuesday shaking hands with
his numerous friends. Mr. Bussey
isj one of Irwin’s leading citizens
and a high office may yet succeed in
overtaking him.
There is a branch of a society
which was organized recently at
Waterloo that is destined to become
immensely popular, For further
information, sec lion. 1. B. Young
or Mr. Bush, It is tin excellent oi-
ganization, and every young man
should belong to it.
Two Kinds Of Lynching.
Yesterday was a great day for the
line arid glorious American snort of
lynching. At Palmetto, Ga., there
was a little affair in which nine ne¬
groes, charged with attempting to
burn down the town, were shut by a
masked mob, four being killed and
live badly wounded. 'Ihis was sat¬
isfactory as far as it, went, but it
was a mere bagatelle compared
with President McKinley’s splendid
lynching bee near Manila, of which,
a glowing and exhilerating- descrip¬
tion is given from day to day.. The
. Georgians only succeeded in bagging
the paltry total of tuna black men,
whereas Mr. McKinley assimilated
in the usual benevolent fashion at
least one hundred dusky Filipinos
in yesterday’s hunt alone, If the
totals for Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday are added to yesterday’s
account, Mr. McKinley and his
friends can “point with pride” to
some four or live hundred colored
gentlemen whom they have had to
put out of the way during four days
of only average shooting. It is easy
to see from these figures that the
benevolent assimilators of Georgia
and other southern states are not to
be compared for a moment as effect¬
ive and wholesale lynchers to the
imperialistic lynchers who are fore
ing American troops to commit
murder by the wholesale in the
Philipines.
The Georgia lynching will, of
course, fill the tender hearts of the
imperialists with holy horror and
put once, again on exhibition that
sensitive puritan conscience which
is always so glad of an opportunity
to place itself on public view, and
which is always so virtuously indig¬
nant against the sins of other peo¬
ple. The Georgia lynchers deserve
condemnation, but the papers and
the people who will be loudest in
denouncing them as brutal and cow¬
ardly murderers are precisely those
who have nothing but praise for the
administration under whose direc¬
tion thousands of Filipinos, , guiltless
of any crime but that of defending
their country, have been slaughtered
during the last few weeks. Look
on this picture, then on that. The
Georgians shot down supposed
criminals, who were charged with
the burning of property and the at¬
tempted destruction of a whole town.
President McKinley and his impe¬
rialist supporters are causing to be
shot down men whose only offense
is the refusal to surrender their
property and liberty to a foreign-
power. We do not defend the Geor¬
gia lynchers, and the large reward
which Governor Candler lias offered
for their apprehension shows that
the executive of the state has no
manner of sympathy with them.
But the deadly parallel is here, and
inevitably suggests itself to every
man of common sense who does not
permit himself to bo deceived by
the hypocritical and disgusting
shibboleth of “duty and destiny.”
In the sight of the righteous and
merciful Majesty of Heaven what
difference is there in the moral qual¬
ity of murder when committed by
individuals and when committed by
a government? What difference is
there in Ills sight between the retail
lynching committed by a mob and
the wholesale lynching committed
by a nation? Condemn the Palmet¬
to lynching as strongly as-it de¬
serves, but let those who do so not
undertake to defend the systematic
military lynching that is going on
in the Philippines. The American
people are not to be deceived by
cant phrases, designed to cover
bloody and unrighteous deeds. The
Georgia mob have as much right to
plead duty and destiny in their de¬
fense as the administration has in
defense of its slaughter of the Fili¬
pinos, There must and will he a
accounting for all murder,
national as well as individual, and
the time will come when those who
have been guilty of either the one
or the other will receive the con¬
demnation they deserve.—Baltimore
Sun.
Mr. Geo. Wilcox, son of lion.
Geo. K. Wilcox, who has been in
south Florida for some time past, is
visiting his parents in Ocilla.
You’ll be Macon money by trad¬
ing at a certain drug store in town.
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Cougert His Own Eyes <
Birmingham, r
Ala., Mu
William II arris, u -15-veuv. t
oile, was taken to ;h<. ■ ns I".
at uskaloosa last nicht. 1
very c.urioun case of balla
11 is every strange act is the I
what he conceives to be t’l
command of heaven itself.
As stated in the corrcsint
few days ago, ho cut, the tl
young Guy Gunn, one of his
who was nursing him at his
at Goodwatcr, and looked j
fanatical death. stoicism as the boj j 'v
He was then takes
I hi de vi He. Mere again spiriij 1,1
visitation from tho x\
which, this time told hi in It
own eyes out. Having no vl
handy for this pin-pose he b
\\ mdow pane and proceedet
leisurely way to gouge his ey
One of them was torn from it
et in this manner and the
barely saved by the timely j
of his keeper.
He quiet), informed the
that the Lord had told him |
out veiled his from eyes tho in order sin to keejj
of tho
The man was taken throug
city last night for the asy
Tuskaloosa, lions will where his halj J
produce no harm. !
cility was produced by diseaj
Religious Notice. V
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Rev. Vv . W. Stewart will
in the Methodist church ij
on the second Sunday in each
morning and evening, and I . -
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fifth Sunday, morning and i
I will preach at Henil
chapel at 11 a. m. on the first q *
in eachanonth. E. F. RegiJ
It is very hard to stand, «
and awaiting see our tho dear ones suffer]
arrival dairymaid of the di
An Albany (N. Y.)
at a drug store there for a d<I
come and see his child, tl® ■
sick with croup. Not find®
doctor in, he left word for ■
come at once on bis returB Cbil
also bought a bottle of
Iain’s Cough Remedy, whH
hoped would give some relief
the doctor should arrive, lri
hours he returned, saying I fl
tor need,not oorne, as the clfl
much Scbolz, better-. The druggkB famB
Otto says the
since recommended ChambB
Cough Remedy to their nefl
and friends untii he has a cl
demand for it from that parti I
country. For sale by Dr.
Macon & Co. druggists.. I
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M. HENDERSON. C . II.
HENDERSON & JUKI?
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OCILLA, GEORGIA
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OCILLA HIGH SOI
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GOMffiERGIftL INSTITU
OCILLA, CA.
H. MCMILLAN, PRINCIPAL. 1
First Term begins August 22, 4H0I
Second Term begins October 81, l|
Third Term,begins Term begins January April 10, 38, 18'J ij
Fourth
TUITION FREE.
A well-equipped music an<
ness department is comiectei
the school. Students hav-o
to a library of over 400 w
ected books. For further in
tion, address M. Henderson,
nian Board of Trustees, <
Principal. 8
OCILLA LODGE NO. 3-T4 F. & A,V
Regular monthly communications nil
Wednesdays at 10 a. m.; fourth VVel
days at 1 p. m. Visiting members in !
standing are cordially invited to att
M. Henderson, W.
R. L. Henderson, Sec’y
OCILLA LODGE NO. 106 K. OF P. I
Ocilla Lodge No. 100 Knights of Fytli] Mcj
holds regular weekly meetings every
day night at 8 o’clook. Visiting invited membt|
in gcod standing cordially
L. It. Tucker, C. C.
C. H. Martin, K. ot U. & 8.