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THE DISPATCH. ^7 I INN DKI18: IN *. UANI.ON, I'UOI'li! ETol'S. M. Henderson, Unsincss Mnnnyvr. J. W. Hanlon, Editor. I’ltlilislicd every Friday and enlercd at Hie Ocilla posloiliee a second class mat) mallei, (irst-ctiss Hauling and a lllnh grade udvertisins niedbun. SuIiHcelj>( ion Kates : One copy, one year.............. SI S ..... One copy, six months.. £ ...... One copy, three months......... 3 Advertislii!? rates on application. \ddress all business letters to Tut: lbs PATOU, Lock box s, Ocilla, Oa. oilici.ii Oevtan It-tvli Ooiiniy- Kiiioav, Aimui. 31 , IS'.Rl. inwnnM.vf'Mira Two Flirto. lit* srnilud :>i hue. I saw him \v!it*ii hu slyly winked his eye: lie spoke some Iovmi.iv words to lie»• as slowly he passed by; lie li;;ii :, d, runic buck fmvurd her. and he ottered her his ha’id : Fhe t<M)U it with a lU’idisty not, l.:u‘d 1,o im- <!eir,t ;t :id. He tvd fr r ton uetiriiy sent. t;iey sat, logethi v t aere; And .soon 1 saw him gently rue. his lingers t hrough lo ; !mir; She smiled and looked up in his iaee. the t wiukle in her eye {said plainly, ‘‘you eau kiss me now if you will only try.” lie must have read her thou?ids. tor presently I saw him seek An opportunity, a: id then he kissed her dainty cheek. He held her oft white hands in his; she Resiled on his knee; Hut suddenly sue left, him and came hue 1: and sat with me. He followed her and .smilingly he ventured some remark About, the pleasant sunshine, or the beauty of the »>«• rk. And then he boldly risked if he might have one golden curl. 1 gave.^it. for my neighbor loves my llttU baby girl. — Law ret i- Poo'hcr He.vt. in t. lie Dolor dal Maga/ine. <s -------- Dr. G. II. Macon & Co. have put ■down a wooden pavement in front of the handsome Fourth Street Drug Store. We regret to chronicle the serious illness of Mrs. S. L. Hayes, who has been sick since last Sunday. A slight improvement was reported yesterday morning. F’ive hundred dollars worth of Dry Goods and Notions added to our stock this week. We are full up to the ceiling. Come and see. R. B. Allen & Co.’s Cash Store. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Palford, out at Vic, recently welcomed a 13- pound boy to their family circle. He is tho boss of the family at this writing and is a handsome baby boy. Judge .1. I’. Sweat, who lives near Ocilla, raised a pumpkin last year that weighed 125 pounds. Addi¬ tional evidence of what the soil of this section will do when properly tickled. Mr. L. F. Johnson got his hand badly mashed Wednesday at Mr. J. I). Paulk’s mill, He came to town and had Drs. Macon & Luke to fix it tor getting well. No bones were broken. The Fitzgerald people have rea¬ son for feeling proud of the success of their carnival. There is a lesson in this for other towns, and it is, that unity, advertising and push are essential to success. Owing to the protracted meeting | this week the Epworth League will not hold its weekly meeting Friday night. It will lie held Friday night of next week at Dr. J. E. Goethe’s, commencing at 7:30. Vegetables are quite plentiful ] hereabouts. Mrs. W M. Harris had garden peas for dinner Wednesday, and they did not come out of a can, ( • either! They are the first of the season, so far ns we have heard. Mr. Bob Henderson has been testing Elder Jack Vickers’ non- choke weeder in his cotton and pinders, and says he would not be without it for a big sum of money. Tt does the work thoroughly and leaves the ground in fine shape. News reaches here Tuesday of the shooting of Mr. Tom Willis at or near his home, in Worth county, on that day by the Sinclair boys of this county. Deputy Sheriff Oliver, of Berrien, was here Tuesday in search for them, but failed to find them. Being in a hurry for the building, Messrs. Fisher Griiier and *M. J, Paulk got on their fishing suits the other day and went to work helping to finish paint the interior of the building. Their work was excellent and they handle the brushes like old hands at the business. j ELDER MATTHEW SITES, Didn’t Think. Editor Pis pa tcli: Oh. how 1 could have bettered much of my former course if I just had thought at the pr< por time! But.! “didn'tthink.” When I was a lp>y my father, soe- ing that 1 was but a physical dwarf and would never amount to any- thing, proposed to seud ma to school ' a little more than b^ did his other children: but 1 did desniso'to go to school, and only went as he com- polled me to go. And when 1 was about grown he propc J t o send me a whole year if 1 would go, but I wouldn’t. I didn’t think what a dull drag it would be through this world without any education, but 1 wanted to get me a wito and settle down like other men and go to liv¬ ing. I didn’t think what all was involved in this one idea of getting a wife and going to living. I .-.aw not king but sunshine, fair winds and sweet dreams before me. What a dunce I was. i l Didn’t think.” 1 launched out in search of a wife, and my policy was to go where 1 could have the most fun. Was there over another boy so foolish? I didn’t think that hunting fun and hunting a wife is quite different. I never had any experience with one of these funny wives, but I wanted to go and did go where the old folks would suffer thoir girls and boys to sit out in the hall or in the back way in the dark until midnight. The old folks would go off to sleep and would snore until you could hoar them all over j the place, and never knew when the boys left or tho girls went to their rooms. But they were not ail that way. One old woman, especially, I have in mind, who bothered me a good deal. She would let me sit out in the with her daughter until dark aud even later, provided another one of tho girls and her “fellow” were out there', too. But that old woman always kept a bright light in the house, so arranged as to shine on the baekway, and she neither slumbered nor slept we remained out there, and about ordinary bedtime she would to the door and say, modestly, but in no uncertain tone, “time to go to sleep girls.” This simply.meant; the boys to begin to hustle, nor did we stop to confer with Uesh and blood. Of course the girls invited us to Stay all night, but they knew we would not do so. But why couldn’t I think to leave without being told? It was no pleasant task for that old lady to tell mo to hus- tie, nor was it .any pleasant sound for me to hear it, and the girls felt bad about it, and all could have been avoided if I just had thought. Lam ashamed of it now. and if 1 could call those good old folks up from the tomb I would take off my hat and apologize like a gentleman i'or the trouble I gave them. But wan giving them another source trouble, as I have since learned, by experience. It frequently occurred that on Sunday dinner was a late and it was expected to only scrap up a little cold supper, they had company; but here are these boys. If they stay, supper is to cook. The old lady is with the headache and these girls are about the only chance to cook it, and they are cornered off in a jam with boys aud there they stay. family cannot afford to invite them out to a cold snack, and the only chance now fur the family to have any supper is for these boys to leave. Ah, me! and there they s'tay until bedtime. If they could know what is said about them they couldn’t feel very proud of themselves. I am writing this as a warning to other youngsters to have more sense than I had, and save themselves some hard feelings. Courting should only have its time and place, and not engross everything. When the boys corner the girls off (and they like to‘be cornered), they should remember there is a time to turn loose, and by observing this they will often save themselves the un¬ pleasantness of being invited to leave. 31. Sikes. Sunday after next the IVillacoo- chee Singing Convention meets Flat Greek church, in Berrien conn- ty. Quite a number of people from Atlanta Not The State of Geor.cJa.- Judge Candler, of the Atlanta circuit court, recently found the Fulton county docket so crowded with divorce suits that he announc¬ ed that he would be compelled to limit the rttin.be: of such oases to bo I considered and tried to four a week, J a '"' t!,e caU-.emcd Atlanta Journal, j i_ts I' M from this action ol'| the court, lioids up it>, hancs in hoi- ror and laments this state of affairs*] in Atlanta as something going t ; ' :10V> “Deorgist ret;''‘guided to a deplorable degree.” The mil’s lamentations escaped our notice when it appeared in that paper, says the Albany Herald, but we find it (X qfied aud commented upon as lot- lows in the New Orleans States: “It is a bad advertisement for G Lite Atlanta Jonnal, go of the superior court finds his docket so crowded with di¬ vorce suits that he is compelled to limit the mu ! ■of divorce trials four a week. There was a time in this state when suits for divorce were scarcely ever heard of. Now they come in groups and droves and gangs in all our. larger cities and are frequent in most of the counties. Something has gone wrong. Avery sad and significant fact stares us in the face from the records and dock- ets of every superior court in Geor¬ gia and from the column:; of news- papers almost every day, a fact which proves that, however great Georgia’s progress in some direc¬ tions may have been, in one very important element of true civiliza¬ tion and the best prosperity Geor¬ gia lias retrograded to a deplorable degree. The States comments upon this as follows: “Georgia is a state which is much given to boasting of its progression, but in its progressiveness there is reason to believe that it has import¬ ed considerable fresh blood and bad morals. In the matter of divorce cases it is evident from the state¬ ment of the Atlanta Journal Geor- with a number of Northern states where the man- ta l u-, appear to run very lightiy. ^ - a - khe Atlanta Journal says is a *^ vei T S°°d, but the mistake.; is . Iua(1e of charging up the sins of | Atlanta to thq state of Georgia. The lamentable conditions point- ed Ciit by tl,e Journal exist to the alarming and deplorable extent men- Bouod in Atlanta or Fulton county only, and it is a slander upon the stato Georgia to make these con- ditioES appty U- e state at large, We have not the data and records before ns to substantiate such an assertion, but we believe it could be said without fear of successful con- tradiction that Fulton county fur- I nishes more divorce suits annually J th an the combined. 130 other The counties “bad of adver- tho j state tisement” to which the Journal ro¬ iers 80 feelingly should, therefore, i Be applied to Atlanta, where it lie- | longs. I ho moral and social atrnos- pherc of Atlanta does not extend j over the entire state, and divorce -nits are the causes which usually I underlie divorce suits are not so ! common elsewhere in the state as in the Capital City. We have no de- s i re to speak any manner of evil of | Atlanta, but w do object to its i moral sins being charged up to the state at large, I Among the curiosities of Southern Georgia is a remarkable cavern, in Dooly county, at a place called the double-lirae-sink. The cave extends from the bottom of a deep lime-sink ! to a depth that has never been ex- j plored. About thirty feet from the entrance to the cave is a bottomless i well, into which, during the rainy “, water is continual y pouring, j and roaring like distant thunder, as i it leaps over a rugged precipice and , in its headlong descends | course to | an unknown depth below. It is dark in the cave, and it looks very dangerous, but hundreds of people go in with lights to see the sights which nature has so wonderfully | carved. Large crowds very often j visit the place to spend a day in pleasure taking, and to enjoy the wild and romantic scenery,-—Savan¬ nah 'News. This sounds a little !lh ' i y> * mt lr “L !ruc * The weather clerk is now behav¬ ing' vory nicely. Pi no ILoval Pickups. Several qf the boys and girls from here attended the carnival at'Fitz¬ gerald last week. Guess what young man got left Sunday. Brother, don’t worry over it, for such things will come. Ml . aluI M re. G. E. McMillan spent last Friday and Saturday with ^ D _ Garrison and family. yj r Oliver Crane, of Alapaha, visited Prof. W. J. Royal and fam¬ ily last Saturday and Sunday. Mr. J. C. Fletcher and L. G. Whitley, from Fitzgerald, spent last Sunday afternoon at Prof W. J. Royal’s. Some of the girls in this commu¬ nity ray they like to ride with a cer¬ tain young man that .comes from Fit;:, in a decorated buggy some limes. fir. and Mrs. 0. J. Luke, from near Tifton, spent last Friday, Sat- urday amt Sunday with their sister, 31 is Samantha Luke, who is very sick at Mr. F. G. E. Paulk’s. April 19. Little Bill. Waterloo Woavlrtgs. A much needed rain is falling ,to- day. Mr. T. 15. Young is on the sick Ijst this; week. Mr. S. M. Clyatt is suffering very j much from the effects of a bone- feioti. Rev. Babe Gibbs was able to at¬ tend church at Hickory Spring Sun¬ day, but was not able to preach. Miss Lizzie Bowen, of Stunner, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Oscar Olliver, returned home Saturday. You can’t guess what young mar¬ ried man, who lives-half a mile this side of Chula, carried a'young (?) lady home from church Sunday. April 17. Pap. . R. B. Allen & Co. are liberal ad¬ vertisers and they are selling the goods. That’s the way it is with all liberal advertisers. The last grand jury recommended a reduction of 40 per cent, in the salaries of county officers.. This, wc presume, is the initial step to¬ ward providing for better roads in the county without increasing the tax rate. Parties owning lands advertised as unreturned ought to know that tie sheriff or his deputies are- the only persons who can stop the ad¬ vertisement. The publishers of the Dispatch cannot stop it without ver¬ bal or written authority from them. Wednesday of last week the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mat. Feltes fell out off the porch of Mr. Bass’ new building and broke both bones of her right leg just above the ankle. Drs. Luke and Macon set the limb, and it is doing nicely. The old wolf pit near Brushy Greek church should be fenced in and preserved as a relic of the days when wild beasts were plentiful throughout this section. The pit was dug by the late ( apt. Daniel Henderson, in the’ early days of the county, and many wolves met their death in it. We have it on the authority of one of Ocilla’a aldermen that Hon. R. V. Bowen was one clay slipping along his mi’ll darn to where he would have a better shot at a drove of wild ducks, when his gun was ac¬ cidentally discharged, killing nine ducks. Of course it could not he ascertained how many were wounded Exposure to rough weather, dampness, extreme cold, otc., is apt to bring on an attack of rheumatism or neuralgia; chapped hands and face, cracked liprs and violent itch¬ ing of the skin also owe their origin to cold weather. Dr. J. H. Mc¬ Lean’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 25c, 50c and $l.a bottle. For sale by Luke & Ashley, Col. D. B. Jay, of Fitzgerald, was in town Thursday. A portion of the cemetery is be¬ ing cleaned up and fenced. The old vets anticipate a great at Fitzgerald on the 29th. “A New Creed,” “The University Congrcgational- ist church, Rev. N. I. Rubinkain, l>. I)., pastor, has adopted a creed which reads as follows: '•We, the undersigned, are asso- obited together for the worship of God, religious instruction, mutual helpfulness in the spiritual life- and for service to our fellow men. “\Ve believe in the two laws of love toward God and toward our neighbor as proclaimed and ex¬ pounded by Jesus to be the funda- mental and all-inclusive ideal of every true life. “In subscribing ourselves as men - bore of the University Congrega- tional church, we declare it our pur¬ pose to strive to make the spirit of Christ dominant in our lives and in all the relations of men to each other. “The creed is noticeable rather for its omissions than for its affirma¬ tions. Nothing is said of sin or ol the necessity of regeneration, of the deity of Christ or of the nature and authority of the scriptures. Dr. Rubmkam thinks that the church must recognize the artistic and scientific movements of the day, and that,as people are leaving the church, it is necessary for it to follow them into the world and furnish them the religion which is the background of all true life.”—Congregationalist. Art Unfounded Rumor. The report that the Tifton and Northeastern railroad had been pur¬ chased by the. Georgia and Alabama system is utterly without founda¬ tion. Just how these rumors origi¬ nated is hard to say, as they had nothing behind them, and are un¬ irue for two good and sufficient rea¬ sons: 1st. The Georgia and Alabama has made no effort to buy the Tifton and Northeastern. 2d. The Tifton and Northeastern is not for sale. 11 is earning a hand¬ some dividend on the investment, is in good hands, and its business steadily increasing. — Tifton Ga¬ zette. The Dispatch has heard the rum- ors floating around Tor several weeks, but has taken no stock in j them, preferring to wait till they crystalize into facts or fade away into the mama of oblivion before immortalizing them with space, in this palladium of human rights. The Best in the World. We believe Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is tho best in the world. A few weeks ago we suffered with a severe cold and a troublesome cough, and having read their advertisements in our own and other papers we pur¬ chased a bottle to see if it would effect, us. It cured us before the bottle was more than half used. It is the best medicine out for colds and coughs.—The Herald, Ander- souville, Ind. For sale by Dr. G.H. Macon. & < '.o. druggists. The Dispatch has been aware for several weeks of the pleasing news that Rev. Lawson, of Abbeville, had purchased a lot in Ocilla, would erect a handsome residence thereon and would occupy it as soon as com¬ pleted, and is pleased to now state that the building is well under way, and that in two or three weeks this popular divine and ‘his estimable family will be part of our. little giant of a town. That a hearty welcome awaits them, there is no room to doubt. The contract to bu-ild a bridge across tho “still” branch, on Fourth street, has been let to contractor Newberry, of Albany, and work is to commence at once. When the bridge is completed Fourth street will be opened up by Powell, Bul¬ lard & Co.’s still, across the branch and thence to intersect the present road somewhere beyond the hill east of the branch. The large number of people cast of town, who trade here, and the traveling public gen¬ erally, will read this intelligence with pleasure. A confirmed widower of Ocilla is rcensed of falling in love with everything that has calico on it, even to the shelves in the stores. An old bachelor in town says he does not know whether to get mar¬ ried or commit suicide. He might remove the doubt by iryitig suicide. Tfie Protracted Electing. The protracted meeting, whi/j began in the Methodist church lai Sunday, lias been well attendee Rev. (.'has. Lane, of Atlanta, a>i Rev. Williams, of the Crisp uimifl have assisted the pastor, Rev. W.'M Stewart. 1 •Powerful sermons have been' preached at each service, and it, oan- not: bo doubted that much good haK been accomplished. There w ere eight accessions to tine; church Wednesday afternoon, Amos Brown, the barber, bought the Lott Harper 2-story store build] ! ing on Cherry street Wednesday. The protracted meeting at the" Methodist church will continue a' 'least this week, and perhaps longe Attend every meeting you can. When you see a handsome youn I lady searching a catalogue for wedl ding wreaths, you may fed satisfiel that Cupid has finished his work nrfl gone elsewhere. V The Mutual Life, of New York! lodest, largest and best company ifl the United States. Cash policy] asset,! $2“7,517,225.-37, Have paid holders §487,748,1)10.00, which is nearly as much as paid by any twol other companies combined. For titer particulars call on or write 11.1 ( >. Snow, Special Agent, Abhe\ ille, Ga. Dr. J. C. Luke, M. E.,()eil * Ga. Owing to several causes the patch was not represented at the Fitzgerald carnival, but Ocilla sontH up a strong delegation each day, c«fl the word is, that our neighbor ered herself with glory on that c as ion. For two days the city crowded with people from in:| parts of Georgia, and tfney retun t® their homes highly pleased w the lavish hospitality they re d> and deeply impressed w ith all tl.V saw and heard in the Magic The carnival was a complete mm cess from start to finish, and H good results will doubtless be ftH reselling. ADM]X ISTKATOK’S SA LE. Georgia—T rwin County.. Will lx 1 sold in Ocilla. Ga., on Wcrtncsda May iKtttt.thc following ]irojM»rt. 1 ini/'’to flic estate of S. It. i’aulL. late of county, deceased, to-wft: One law several encyclopedias, one type-writer aiSL one desk, sold for the purpose of winding estate, of said deceased. Terms made knowi on day of salt 1 . 1 f This April .H, ISM. J. li. 1'AUtjK, > \ ADDIfi AND t-Si-tt Administrators. Tax Receiver’s Notice. 1 will be at the following places on the dates named, on my second round, for the purpose of receiving state and county tax returns for the year IdiU. Do not wait til lithe last round to nia ke your returns: district (Roberts). Mon <luy. May 1st. 1421st Tuesday. .May May ind, lt-V'tli district (Harding). Wednesday. 3rd. liMltii district (ChuhC. Thursday.' May 4th. tlttd district (Sycamore). Friday. Ma y all). Wist, disnict (Irwtnville). Monday. .May stli. Ctwtli district (Minnie). (Dorroiny’s Tuesday. May 8th, 4;tind district Mills). 'Wednesday. May Kith, ai.st.li ....... district (Old Fifth). Thursd; and Friday, May 111.lt and 12th, iy (Ocilla). !s:J!)Ut district fi JACOr. .J. PA rr.K. 4-22-1f I!. T. li. C R A PS S3 AND TRAVERSE JURORS Drawn for November Term, 1899, Irwin Superior Court. GRAND JURY. W. J. Dorminey-., Dorminey, Jacob .1. 11. Goodman, M. G. Hogan, Jus. P. Brown, J. V. Paulk. G.E. Kicker. W. A. Kobe its, •V. '1. Mull. Paulk, I), K. G. S. Graham, Hrper. •P. Li. I.TiiW. Lucius Fletcher. Paulk, 51. T. TRAVERSE J TltiY. Daniel Sinilh, Gray, II. (A J. M. P:HYord, \V. <'lenient s, A. P. 11 amons, M. Dickson, K. I*. Smith. Wiley McM i l l an, J. 11. Schaffer, G. J. Harper. Vv m. Grant ham, .). ii. Gcoghagan, Harley. G.S. \V.*!\ M. D. Gay. \S hit ley, A. T. Barber. ,mo. D. DJotclier, Sioky, E. G. IlKALKIt IN' Fins Whiskies, Brandies, Wines, Beer, Tobacco and Giaars. Prices moderate. Your patronage is re-, spcctfully solicited. 4-21-tf T J. LUKE, Attorriey-at-Law and Chancellor in Equity* Irwisvit.le, Ga, OFFICE IX COURT HOUSE. t-r.’My ! MQS r EAS1EE, CHERRY STREET, OCILLA, - GA. First-class Work, reasonable prices, polite ivt.ention. t-M-ly vJoliuo Flctoliev, W. A. Clements, I. . D. Taylor. Paulk, H. D. II. S. Gum mi il#*, .1. M. Gibbs, \V. A. York. J. A. .1. llcndoraoih A .!. Wooten, \ S. Bauiler, »lno. McMillan, (!« Oscar n. \V. Paulk.. Fletcher-, •i. If. ILitrper, Branch* .1 no. A . M. A. Zorn, S. A. Burns* K. T. Mauldin, (K. Gottthe, Yv\ K. Faulk. K. T-. F. Thompson, M Fletcher*, G. 4* no. ‘K. Clements* Jus. Paulk, r !'. M. Hunter, Dorrniney, A. 1 , Chamblesri, D. T Paulk. .lr., •fGsiiua 'l roup, T. P*. Koss, A. S. I )orminey, Luke, .lessee \V. If. Oliver.