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THE DISPATCH 1U5\J>KKH<» * HAN LOS, I’not’iiixTV'iM. M. Henderson, - -- Business Manager. J. W. Hanlon, - - Kdilor Published every Friday and entered at the Ocilla post*>dire as second-class mail matter, first -class refuting and a high grade advertising medium. yTrrr.iTTr Kulrsi'i'iption notes : Oiie.eopy, one year................... $l g One'copy, six months.............. § 'One cony, three months............ a 'Advertising rates on application. Address ait bust ness letters to Tin: ihs- 'i’ATt'ti, Lock Box S, Ocilla, Ua. Official Organ Irwin County Kkiiiay, Jri.v 14, is<i!i. The number of suicides in the United States last year is said to have been 7,000. “Most editors are so kind to new writers that they refuse to publish their articles.” Non-residents of Florida will hereafter have to pay §10 for the privilege of hunting in that state. In China many of the natives are dressed in dog skin.—Ex. We have some wolves in sheep’s clothing over here.—Waycross Herald. Mayor Herman, in a card in the current issue of the Eastman Times- Journal, accuses Dr. Clark, of that town, with having vaccinated him¬ self and charged it to the town council. The Herald never takes any liber¬ ties with any man unless we have them squarely down on our list of friends or our list of enemies. We try to steer clear of doubtful char¬ acters.—Waycross Herald. The Elberta is the finest peach of the year, as large as a man’s double fists, and a deep, rich yellow, tinged with red. Tifton will ship between 100 and 150 crates.—Tifton Ga¬ zette. Oh, John, can’t you send us a setting of them peaches? The generosity of some newspa¬ per men. is remarkable. For in¬ stance, the editor of the Hardeman (Tenn.) Free Press announces that he will, on the occasion of his twenty-seventh birthday, give a bas¬ ket dinner to his friends, and adds parenthetically that “each one should bring his own basket.” According to a local article in a Savannah paper it is a foolish piece of business to travel to the Klon¬ dike in search of gold when a man can start a loan office in Savannah. In a case investigated by the Press a negro woman borrowed of a loan office $5 two years ago, and has been paying $1.80 per month ever since. Up to date she has paid $50.40 for the use of $5. Over twenty governors have ac¬ cepted the invitation issued by Gov. Sayers, of Texas, to attend an anti¬ trust convention to he held at St. Louis in September. The delegates to this convention are to be made up of the governors and attorney- geuerals of the different states. We trust they will succeed in deal¬ ing the trusts an effective blow.— Eastman Times-Journal. The Fitzgerald Leader has been misnamed. The Fitzgerald Mis- leader would he more appropriate. The Dispatch lias had no cause to feel sore since its first issue under the present management; in fact, it has had no cause to feel otherwise than jubilant over the good fortune that has awaited it at every step. If it has any enemies, they are such through envy, and it is better off without them. “Sore?” Not even a little bit. A ministerial trust is the latest. The Iowa state board which controls penal and charitable institutions, has made a schedule rate of $3 per sermon for all sermons delivered in the institutions under its. control. The protestant ministers of Mar- shaltovvn have formed a sermon trust, and true to the spirit of all other truRts, are endeavoring to ad¬ vance the prices. They claim that a $3 rate is too low, and that unless they receive $5 per sermon, they will do no preaching. The paid in capital of the combination is not stated, hut it is supposed to consist largely of manuscript sermons. Whether the advanced price will be paid, cheaper preachers imported, or the poor sinners denied the custom¬ ary amount of preaching, is yet to be seen. Ex. In Momoriftm. Mrs. Sallio McMillan was horn May 28, 1823, iu Irwin county, Ga., about five or six miles eHst of where Ocilla now stands, and was married to John McMillan in May, 1857. She was the eldest daughter of J acob and Katie Paulk. She departed this life July 5, 1899, at 0 o’clock iu the evening, after an illness of three days. She was taken sick on Sunday evening,and at times seemed to he mending until Wednesday morning, when she fell asleep, and all the calls of “mother” by her children, or “sister,” foil upon deaf oars. She never even moved until, just as the breath left her, she fold¬ ed her hands across her breast and was with the angels. She was the mother of fourteen children—seven boys and seven girls. Archie, the oldest son, went to the civil war in 1861 and was never seen or heard of again. Mrs. Melissa Walker, the youngest daughter, died iu March, 1885, of fever. George McMillan, the youngest sou, died in Nov., 1990, of fever. Margaret, the oldest daughter, died August 29, 1896, of erysipelas. All the rest are living. She leaves ten chil¬ dren, thirty-seven grandchildren hnd twenty-six great-grandchildren, and one brother and three sisters to mourn her sad death. We can only say a good and true woman has passed away, leaving not an enemy in the world. She was a member of the Primitive Baptist church and had teen for forty or fifty years. The life lias .gone, the breath has fled. And what has been, no mow sbail be; The well-known form, the welcome trend. Oh, wine re are they, and where is she? —A Loving Graxddauohtek. Alapaha, July 10. AUNT SOFRONY SAYS That she believes Cupid has taken on new life in Berrien. That wedded bliss is not to be had in parcels, as we buy goods, but is the result of constant, deter¬ mined and kindly effort. That there is no use trying to put old heads on young shoulders, not¬ withstanding the frequent and glar¬ ing need of such change. That many a thing is said in jest that is put in such garb merely to conceal the sting until it is too late for the victim to parry it. That she wishes “Fanner Girl” could hear all the compliments that have heeti paid her articles that have appeared in recent issues of the Dispatch. That she hates to hear people talk so flippantly of marriage and of those who are trying to brace up sufficiently to move into that desira¬ ble state. That she has nothing to say against old maids and old bachelors. They are miserable enough without any help from her. As to widowers, young or old, she’d rather not speak. They do too much of that them¬ selves. That lovers’ quarrels usually do not last long, and the reconciliation sometimes more than balances the temporary misery; but such quar¬ rels, as well as all other kinds, should he studiously avoided. There is no sunshine in quarreling. That she looks upon careless en¬ gagements as the great source of work for the divorce courts. Sen¬ sible young men and women will not engage themselves one to the other unless they mean it. No one can account for the action of weak minds of either sex. To Aunt Sofrony. It is my duty to acknowledge tho reception of your reply to my note, in which your faithfulness and fair¬ ness as well as your honor, comes to the front in an admirable degree, and bespeaks your intrinsic value more than all the flirtation that you could have been mistress of under other circumstances. So I accept the position to which you have as¬ signed me with a degree of pleasure unknown to the world of flirts. The peculiar talents manifestly devel¬ oped in you point you out as a fit and proptir matron, whose influence should be used among all the chil¬ dren of your community. ur influence roll, as the overflowing Enriching and fructifying ground which is dried; advise and Admonish, instruct, reprove, And thus all the tares and thistles remove. Work on the young, the heart and the head, Faithful on this line until you are body dead; Then peace to your spirit, your the to dust. Your soul to its God, who houseth just. ■ Farewell, Uncle Buck. $O $ $ <> <*"'$ 4 *$ <XO Ci O Q 0.0 o o 0.0 ® | LOCAL and GENERAL. % *><>«>»*» o <? o0 0 0 ooooooooooo Yearly meeting at Brushy Creek Sunday after next. Is your residence nice enough tq photograph ? See Moose about it. Information was received in this place yesterday that Prescott was not expected to live. Barron is not seriously hurt. For some reason the Dispatch of last week failed to reach the Gazette office in Tifton, and we learn that all business was at a standstill until a copy of this world-stirring sheet could he obtained—-by wire. A protracted meeting began at Bethel church, two miles north of Irwinville, last Saturday. ‘Up to Wednesday night there had been six or eight additions to the church. Itev. E. F. Register is pastor. Way cross and Valdosta are the coming towns of wiregrass Georgia. This is the handwriting on the wall and it is impossible to rub it out.— Waycross Herald. Why in the world didn’t you include Ocilla? Those of our farmers who are now turning their wheat into flour will soon know how to appreciate geuaine biscuits. There is no bread in the world more nutritious than that made from Georgia grown wheat. Mr. J. H. Little, one of the clev¬ erest young men in half a dozen counties, arrived from Abbeville on Friday of last week and is now holding down a good position at Powell, Bullard & Go’s. Success to him. The mention of forty-seven ears to the stalk, in last week’s Dispatch, was a reality, just as published. The ears, of course, were small, but were well shaped, and grew on top of the stalk, where the tassel ought to have been. There are two old bachelors in town who sit on their respective store door steps every day and look across the street into each others’ sorrow-laden countenances and sigh with such force as to disturb the dust in the middle of the street. On Monday of last week Judge Wiley Whitley, while walking through Mr. E. J. Hogan’s fifty-acre field of corn, found one stalk, near a persimmon tree, that had seventy- two ears of corn on it. This is a fi lle yieh] for even Irwin county, Mr. O. J. Luke, of west Invin, who came over to attend the wed¬ ding of his sister, Miss Susannah M. Luke, last week, returned home Friday of that week, accompanied hv Miss Betsy Luke, another sister, who will spend a week over there. Ladies’ tine skirt buttons, belt buckles, collars, fine organdies, rib¬ bons, etc., sometimes cannot be found elsewhere in town. Go to T. Gottlieb’s; you will always find them in stock and they ean he had at your own price. 7-14-tf. "Capt. Jack Anderson, Mrs. M. A. Fountain, Mrs. Van Houten, James Fountain and wife, Alfred. Henderson, J. P. Brown, B. A. Freeman and family, A. C. Lawton, and Capt. Jackson and sons, of Sycamore, attended the reunion at Arabi Thursday.—Ashburn Ad¬ vance. At an adjourned meeting of the town council Wednesday afternoon Mr. A. L. Hayes was elected mar¬ shal, in place of Mr. N. A. Arnold, who resigned several weeks ago. Mr. Hayes at once assumed the du¬ ties of his office. The Dispatch be¬ lieves he will fill the position ad¬ mirably. The many friends of Dr. G. ]>. Watson of Acree, who was recently adjudged insane and sent to the san¬ itarium at Milledgeville, will regret to learn that little hopes of his re¬ covery are entertained, hut that his health is so shattered and broken that death is expected at almost any time.—Worth Local. Mr. JesseT. Boyctt, of Milltown, and Miss Leonie Crum were united in marriage Sunday last, at the res¬ idence of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Crum, near Tifton. The groom is a popular young man of southeast Berrien,‘and the bride is one of Worth’s prettiest daugh¬ ters.—rTifton Gazette. At a meeting of the board of trustees of- the Ocilla High School Wednesday night, Miss Tassie Over¬ by, of Richland, was elected teacher of the primary department and Miss Eva Smith, of Kicily, was elected to preside over the music depart¬ This completes the of 1 ment. corps teachers for the fall term. Superintendent Boh Handley gave th<! ehaiugaug a big dinner on the 4th. A tony white convict made a little speech on that occasion, and, among other things, said that he had served time in ’other gangs, hut could truthfully assert that in none had ho been as well treated as in the gang under Capt. Handley. On the first Sunday in August and Friday night and Saturday be¬ fore there will begin a protracted meeting at Prospect church, about two miles southeast of Mr. Joshua Troup’s. At the meeting about two weeks ago, there were twenty-four additions to the church, three by letter and twenty-one by conversion. Rev. Mr. Marlow is pastor. Master Willie Parkerson, who lives with his mother about six miles from Eastman, paid our office a visit on Saturday last. "YY illie en- joys the distinction of.being the largest hoy of his age in Dodge county. He is twelve years old, and pulls down the scales at 1UG pounds, this being 3 pounds less than he weighed at one time a short while ago. He is a bright, intelli¬ gent young fellow, and bids fair to become a great big man in a few- more years.— Eastman Times-Jour¬ nal. Mr. J. ft. GemmilJ, of Little Pennsylvania, has two acres of land that was considered almost worth¬ less, which he sowed down in Flor¬ ida beggar weed two years ago. This year, after turning the weed under, he has planted the land and' the crop on it is as good as if he had used near a ton of commercial fer¬ tilizer to the acre. Experiments made by Mr. Gemmill prove' the state agricultural department correct in its estimate that one crop of beggar weed, plowed under, is worth $20 worth of commercial fer¬ tilizers per acre. As a forage crop the weed has few superiors, and it possesses strong fattening quali¬ ties for stock, when used as pastur¬ age. Two full crops of it can he harvested annually.-—Tifton Gazette After the Wedding. At the Fountain-Luke wedding on Wednesday of last week, at Mrs. S. J. Luke’s, an elegant wedding- supper was served, after which there was some fine singing. This was followed by a serenade by the young- men about 1 a. in. After they had retired—to be more exact, about 3 a. m.—a number of young ladies who were present, gathered up the “musical instruments” used by the young men and gave them a sere¬ nade that was first-class, This brought everybody out again, and from then until day all sat up and sang, making some delightful music. Mr. J. A. .Royal treated the as¬ semblage to an original and side¬ splitting piece, entitled “Apple Dumplings.” This has to be heard, as delivered by the author, to he fully appreciated. This was fol¬ lowed by a “sermon” by the same gentleman, which furnished carloads of mirth. About 9 o’clock a. m. the bride and groom and attendants drove to and over the principal portion of Fitzgerald, thence to Mr. W. T. Whitley’s, where another sumptuous feast awaited them. After this had received earnest attention, the party went over to Mrs. M. V. S. Whit¬ ley’s, where several hours were spent joyously in singing and conversa¬ tion. Keep ths Profits at Home. It was shown in the Times a week ago that the cotton which the farmer sells at five cents a pound returns to him in the different fabrics for which he has to pay about sixty-four cents a pound, About fifty-six cents of this amount goes to the railroads for transportation, to the foreign manufacturer and to pay profits to the different men who handle the staple between the cotton fields and the retail dealer in manufactured cotton goods. is What was said about* cotton true of almost, every ii • I ner nrodnrf raised in the south, Wo soli our hides to northern tanners at 15 cents a pound and buy them back in er at 40 cents and in shoes at from $1 to *;> a pound. We soli our svr- up for 15 cents a gallon and buy it hack in Sugar at three times amount. Our fruits and vegetables rot in the fields one half of, the and we pay northern packers high prices for the goods in cans during the other half. Our forests are full of every kind of timber, yet we have to send away from home all of our household furniture ami farming implements. In almost ev¬ ery instance the manufactured arti- ele returns to ns with from three to five hundred per cent, added. To save this profit and keep it at home is the problem for this section of the country. The south can never hope for the highest degree of prosperity so long as she is forced to pay four or five times as much for manufactured goods as she gets for her raw products. She must continue to build factories and her law-makers must encourage capital, instead of trying to legislate against it. She must patronize her own in¬ =SWIFT= “FINE WHISKIES.* 888888888888888 *88 We sell only the best goor Don’t drink mean whiskey <i Call on ns or send your orde Prices and treatment always rigl] 88*8 * 8* * * 88*888*88 OUR $1.50 PER QUART BRANDS. Harm Bassett, Jerry LyiiGli-Malt-- 01(1 Forrester. Garrett’s Private Stock, Stars’ Paul Jones’ "Four 8 8 «« 8 8 8 88 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 * PAUL JONES' FOUR ROSES $3.00 QUIRT. * 8 8 8 8 8888 88 888 8 8 8 8 8 Oilier Brands From 50c to $1.00 Quart. 88 8 8 88 8 8 8 88 8 8 8888 8 Fine Bottled and Draught Beers 8 8 fc 8 8 8 8 8 8 88 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 Pure Corn Whiskey, Giyars and Tobacco. 888888888888888888 REMEMBER THE NAME, -swift.; FITZGER ALD. 5-5-tC Jr OCILLfl NOVELTY WORKS! L. J. TUCKER, FROR'R, Ocilla, 1 prepared 8888888888888888888888 to manufacture, ........"I short notice am on > Mantles, Columns, G-able Ornaments, Brackets, Newel Posts, And all other interior and extdfior finishings for residences, churcheBj etc. My facilities for turning out work iu above line are excellent, and prif.es will be found reasonable for first-class work. Orders from Irwin county aud southwest Georgia generally are respectfully solicited, and satisfaction is assured. 7-7-2m. (* d<!«tries and protect. them toth tint. It'is ohiv hv tl lit ; ■rote of industries home patronage will that our <| become able to pete with the older manufuetj centers, V aldosta lias made a great st the last week in raising money large cotton factory. The ct prise will be worth thousand dollars to the city and will he J investment for the stockhel There are other fields equally I viting for men with money. took into them; stwdy the prpl factories of -different sorts, ail UR invest in thorn. Diversity dnstfies and diversity of cm)] save transportation ex pens* keep at home, the heavy tribe ha ve had to pay to other secti Valdosta 'Times. Rev. J.J.F. Goodman, of S man, was shaking halide wi(M Ocilla friends yesterday. fa Judge J- B. Clements and Shi) Fletcher were in these parts ye6' day- come and Cet It. 1 ] I hand. have six or seven and tons it ot high the earliest grade go )j on Come get at Henderso.] si hie moment. Wm. 5-5-tf Balusters, Head Blocks, Corner Blocks, Base Blocks, Mouldings.