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VOLUME XIX.
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Call and examine
© our large variety of
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RESPECTFULLY,
Zj/ie ylrlington ^Pharmacy.
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Annual Spring Clearance Sale
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UNTIL MAY 1ST.
You will save money by buying from us at any time and
NOW. Our solid Quarter Sawed Oak Suits reduced from $80 to $69.00.
Our $75 Quartered Oak Suits reduced to $62.00. An elegant
Suit worth $70 marked down to $48. There never was a greater bar¬
gain offered in Walnut Furniture. Highly polished Golden Oak Suits
with large French Plate Mirrors going at this sale from $55 to $60—A
clear reduction of 33% per cent on this entire line.
SIDE BOARDS, HAT RACKS,
CHIFFONIERS, BRASS AND WHITE
ENAMELED BEDS AND CHAIRS
Of every description going at lower prices than was ever
known in this section. We will save you one-half on
ART SQUARES, MATTINGS
and rugs. We are going out of the piano business and will sell you a
$375 Kranisch and Bach Piano at $275. This is a rare bargain.
We are agents for the three best Sewing Machines made—The NEW
HOME, WHEELER & WILSON and the DOMESTIC. We make
PICTURE FRAMES TO ORDER
and can please you in style and finish.
ALBANY : FDRRITDRE : ■5
LEADERS OF LOW PRICES,
ALBANY, GEORGIA.
Council Proceedings.
Call meeting of City Council,
April 11th, 1901.
Present—W. D. Sheffield, may¬
or, J. B. Lofton, R. G. Riley, W.
E. Bostwick, W. E. Clements and
Z. L. Henley, councilmen.
Motion made and carried that
a mass meeting of the citizens of
the town be called on Wednesday
night, the 17th inst., to discuss
and advise with the council upon
advisability of the city govern-
ment purchasing and operating
an electric light plant and some
system of water works.
Adjourned subject to call of the
mayor. R. J. Parramore,
Clerk.
ARLINGTON, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1901.
Special Train Wednesday.
The Central of Georgia Railway
will operate special train April
24th to Albany, Ga., on account
Millitary Day at the Georgia
Chautauqua. This special will
leave Arlington at 7:45 a. m., and
arrive at Albany at 9:10 a. m.,
returning leave Albany 5 p. m.
and 12, midnight.
For full information, rates, etc.,
call on any agent of this company.
Stops the Cough and Works Off the Cold.
Laxative Bronio-Quinine Tablets
cure a cold in one day. No cure, no
pay. Price 25 cents.
No use talking, our prices tell the
story. We ask that you call to see
us, J. S. COWART.
ARP OS VACCINATION.
BILL IS IN FLORIDA WHERE
THERE IS A SCARE.
Says Many Arms Arc Bare. He Then Talks
About How Physicians Have Become
Famous for Their Discoveries.
From the Atlanta Constitution.
Jacksonville, April 12.—Jack¬
sonville has got the smallpox
scare. It is not a panic, for there
has been no deaths, but there are
about forty cases and the board of
health has got them out of town
and has ordered universal vaccina¬
tion. A child can’t go to school
without a sore arm and a certifi¬
cate from the doctor. My son is
a doctor here and it interests me
to note the flocks of children who
come and go and to listen to
their talk. Mothers or' sisters
come with them to keep their
courage up. Some are timid and
some are brave. Young men come
at night and take their turns, and
the city will soon be immune.
What a wonderful discovery it
was—only a hundred years ago
Dr. Jenner dared proclaim it to
the world, and it took twenty-five
years to make the world believe it.
Now every child that bares its
arm to receive the virus is a liv¬
ing monument to the sagacity of
that great and good man. It is
pathetic to read how he was hound¬
ed and persecuted by the envious
and malignant of the medical
profession. How patiently he
waited for time and truth to prove
his theory, and lived to see it al
confirmed, and when he died a
beautiful monument was erectec
in Trafalgar square to honor his
name and to perpetuate his fame
and memory. Our own Dr. Craw¬
ford Long is entitled to a eimilar
memorial, not only by the state
but by the nation, for although
he did not protect mankind from
a pestilence he did give them im¬
munity from pain under thb sur¬
geon’s knife. I remember well
when the patient had to clinch
his teeth and strong men had to
hold him while the doctor cut and
sawed his limb in two.
I remember when it was my
part to hold the foot and leg that
was being severed from a poor suf¬
ferer, and when at last the saw
had cut through the bone and the
weight of the limb came down up¬
on me I fainted and fell down up¬
on the floor with the bleeding leg.
But Evans never groaned. He
lived to make me another pair of
boots. I remember when at col¬
lege in 1846 I had a jaw tooth ex¬
tracted and took what was then
called Morton’s Lethean and did
not know when it was pulled. It
;ook me some time to get over it
and as I was reeling back to col-
ege I met Professor McCoy, and
in a hilarious manner slapped him
on the shoulder and said, “Hello,
old Mack I” and he thought I was
drunk and had me up before the
faculty. My roommate, Derrell
Cody, was with me and tried to
explain, but the professor would
not hear him, and we had fun
next morning when the truth came
out. The professor apologized to
me and not long after invited me
to supper. Poor Bill Williams
was there—good, loving Bill Wil¬
liams. He was my classmate, and
f loved him and mourned for him
when he died. He had charge of
the blind asylum at Macon for
many years. Every now and then
the boys drop out. Just drop out
and the procession moves on.
read of everyone and feel sad, but
that is all I can do. A friend in
Atlanta asked me the other day,
“Why didn’t you write something
about Eugene Harris, your college
mate, and one of the truest, kind¬
est and best men who ever lived.”
“Of course, of course,” said I,
“but what coukl I write?” He
was a friend in need, a friend in¬
deed—an aristocrat by birth, a
gentleman in heart and manners.
Lost everything by the war except
the gentleman that was born in
him. He died poor and was bur¬
ied by his friends, but he was a
big-hearted gentleman to the very
last. How kind he was to my wife
and little children during the war,
when they were fleeing from the
foul invader and I was far away.
That’s all. He was not a great
man in any sense, but he had a
great big heart, and would have
died for a friend. That’s all I If
I can’t find him in heaven I will
be disappointed. My wife says
he was the best friend she ever
had when she was in distress.
Easter is about over and will
soon be forgotten. I brought down
some Easter eggs for a little
grandson. His cousin died them
for him and he was very curious
to know more about them, and
said, “Mama, who is this Easter
man and where does he live?”
“He lives up in heaven,” she
said,“and his name is Jesus.” “Is
he selling eggs up there?” he ask¬
ed. How these little chaps do
perplex us with their questions.
Little Mary Lou has the whooping
cough and didn’t want to take her
medicine. “If you don’t take it,”
said her mother, “you may die.”
“Well, mamma, if I do die I will
go to heaven, where God is, and
he will give me a pony.” I wish
the grown up people were as trust¬
ing and innocent as the children.
“Suffer little children to come
unto me, for of such is the king¬
dom of heaven” is one of the
sweetest Verses in the scriptures.
The preachers may quarrel about
the confession of faith and infant
salvation, but the mothers don’t
want any better faith than is in
that verse and in that other one,
where David said of his child:
“He cannot come to me, but I
shall go to him.” There is an¬
other remark that I will make
about mothers. Not one believes
her dead son is lost, no matter
how wicked he was. The mother
expects to meet him in heaven,
and if he is not there how can she
be happy? God knoweth. We
do not. All that a poor mortal
can do is to trust Him and do
good. Bill Arp.
Thousands Sent Into Exile.
Every year a large number of poor
sufferers whose lungs are sore and
racked with coughs are urged to go
to another climate. But this is cost¬
ly and not always sure. Don’t be an
exile when Dr. King’s New Discov¬
ery for consumption will cure you
at home. It’s the most infallible
medicine for coughs and colds and
all throat and lung troubles on
earth. The first dose brings relief.
Astounding cures result from per¬
sistent use. Trial bottles free at
Redding’s Pharmacy. Price 50c.
and $1.00. Every bottle guaran¬
teed.
The spring and summer dress
goods are very pretty, call and see
them.
J. S. COWART.
NUMBER 17.
STARVE!) CHILDREN.
MAN AND WIFE ARE CHAROED
WITH INHUHAN CRIME.
Did Not Give Children Enough to Eat, and
Little Ones Often Ate Out of
the Slop Bucket.
One of the most inhuman crimes
ever reported has just been dis¬
covered in Alabama, and the fol¬
lowing special to the Atlanta
Constitution from Lafayette tells
of the crime:
There has come to light a con-
dition of affairs in a family, in
beat four, this county, which is
worse than anything yet heard of
in a civilized community. In the
family of Henry Davis are two
children of his, who have a step¬
mother. It is alleged that for
years these two children—twins—
have not been allowed to eat suffi-
cieht to keep them alive. The
children have been seen eating out
of the slop bucket and many a
time have ravenously eaten ool-
lard stalks.
A few days since the people
learned that one of the children
was dead. Upon investigation it
was learned that the child had been
sick with fever and its father and
and step-mother bad whipped it
the day before and had made it
make up beds. The coroner of
the county, with Dr. W. J. Love,
Justice Bosworth and G. H. Hol¬
lingsworth, were sent for and
went to the scene and held an in¬
quest and autopsy.
The verdict was that the child
had died from typhoid fever and
neglect. No physician had been
in and no attention given it.
When the child was washed the
scales had accumulated on it and
could not be removed.
The affair has highly incensed
;he people of this town, as well as
ohe neighbors to the Davis family,
and threats have been made. It
is probable that the next grand
ury will find an indictment
against the father and mother.
Editor Freeman’s Lament.
Douglass Breeze: The Plant
System won’t advertise its sched¬
ule in the Breeze because it don’t
want Coffee county people to ride
on its road, and won’t give us an
annual. It’s a striking shame,
and we’ve concluded to break the
dame thing up by ordering our
ink and paper shipped over some
other route, and when we want to
go anywhere we’ll ride the Air
Line or walk. We guess the con¬
ceited managers imagine the Plant
System is a bigger thing than the
Breeze. And to make the matter
more aggravating, when we wrote
Mr. Wrenn a sweet little letter
asking him for a pass, and telling
what a great thing he was making
out of the Plant System, he sent
us just two lines of his regrets,
enclosing a playing-card schedule
bearing the jack of diamonds.
Guess he thought the Plant Sys¬
tem held a better hand than we
did, and the jack of diamonds
was trumps, but when he finds out
that we won’t patronize the sys¬
tem without a free pass he’ll
change his exalted opinions. His
old road as only a fourth-class ox¬
cart any how compared to our
Coffee County Air Line Railroad,
and if he won’t let us go to Sa¬
vannah we recon he can’t keep us
from going to Fitzgerald, by gum!