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LANCARY 27, 1900
, Would Not Know It, Though,
If You Were Not Told.
written of the State Sanitarium
py a Former Legislator and News
“l“'r vian Who Is Bereft of His
‘; ; » .
i-(...wn and Confined in That In
s . .
1t Diseased Mind Pictures
,“(l“l .
Hm'l‘i'::" Conditions.
' The News, like a great many other
\\ r« of Georgia, has received
enetlly communication from
oo H. Bell, an inmate of the
L“ . . .
.« asvlum at Milledgeville, in
.1 various charges are made
o« the management of that in
.+ion. and pleading for assistance
‘(,-..‘;_A ing his release.
george Bell is the son of one of
Ut >
. wealthiest and most prominent
wens of Swainsboro, and was legal
committed to the asylum after
.« kind and indulgent parent had
nt much money and exhausted
v effort to save a wayward son,
~ had become both a physical and
bntal wreck by excessive indulgence
fast living.
He is a former Georgia editor and
bmber of the legislature from
nanuel county.
mThe editor of The News never
ow a brighter, a bigger hearted or
more genial and companionable
ung man than he was, and the
t¢ which has befallen him is a
aeedv all the more sad because he
d the advantages, capacity and
cans to have been a useful and in
ential citizen.
Below we print the last letter (we
ve recently received two) that has
ached us from Mr. Bell—not that
b endorse the charges he makes
ainst the great institution the peo
e of Georgia are supporting for the
re and treatment of unfortunates
ke himself, but as the remarkable
roduction of a man whose reason is
throned and who it is necessary
confine in an insane asylum. It
so much better written than many
us could do who are enjoying free
m, with our headgear in supposed
good working order and attending
) the ordinary affairs of life tha.
mless 1 knew the circumstances
would be hard to believe that its
ithor is a crazy man. The letter
ars the Griffin, Ga., postmark un
r date of January 19th, where it
as evidently mailed, and is as fol-
State Sanitarium, Milledgeville,
a., Dec. 25, 1908.—Editor Rainey:
beg a little space. In more
an two hundred communications to
ederal and State officials, newspa
rs and individual citizens I have
gged only a hearing in the courts—
privilege guaranteed to the mean
t citizen, but given to very few of
' ose imprisoned in this asylum.
\s a result of this general denial
[ this inalienable right to the citi-
N there are now no less than a
lousand men and women unlawfully
eld here—and ‘Liberty hangs her
ead and acknowledges Opression as
B sister. )
During more than two and a half
ears of excruciating torture in this
ving Inferno I have appealed to
very official from whom I could hope
) obtain assistance—and received
0l one reply.
It seems that the newspapers of
eorgia are in league with a gang
[ criminals whose sway in this state
> more complete than the bandit
aisuli’s in Morocco. This asylum,
stablished and supported by the tax
avers of the state as a public char
¥, is prostituted to the uses of
éartless and conscienceless fiends
ltarnate—in housing their unfort
late victims, in compounding their
"I‘H}n's. and in protecting them in
ielr criminal operations. (I have
¢el taught by a melancholy expe
ience of nearly three years—during
hich time I have lived in it, or,
ather, have not died in it—that
lese are the chief purposes of the
Istitution. It is a fact that no in
lale can hope to be discharged with
it the consent and sanction of the
1l who places him here.) And
" we have presiding over these
‘“ibless, hopeless, guiltless victims
lerciless and remorseless Imps of
f‘it I human form, who pursue
lem relentlessly day in and day out
Y every method of cruel persecu
oo, humiliation, imposition and
‘Uise e'er devised by the cruel, ma
€volent and malignant mind of the
Hdster Mephisto of all time!
breat God! What erimes are per-
Yfirated in the name of Charity!
.+ llave seen frauds and fakes—
“sos and four-flushers; white Ma
{"" 145, and some not white; artists,
and otherwise; the man be
*lG “the nuts” and the ‘‘fish-pond”’
1400 the wheel o' fortune and the
Ditk-out” game; professional pocket
Mierers and tradin’ and trafficin’
Y “sters; medicine men and ‘‘high-
VlO7 plunderers; houkatouk ham
“'ers and bum bamboozlers; fly-by
lghts and get-away-quicks; and
.A 0 another ‘“sich,” in perambula
nons from “Hell's Half-Acre” to the
4t White Way. But sum them
o' Üb—congregate, consolidate, com-
B¢ multiply and add to—in this
7_s"_ “ne and only grand, stupendous,
‘Uossal, pyramidal Fraud of Frauds
‘lt Fake of Fakes of the entire
Universe!
~ | had never dreamed that such a
4N could exist in ecivilization—it is
> an institution of dark and dia
. 'al barbarism. But enough of
.+ 4m a prisoner in Pergatory, and
cite liberation. Will some one
4 me assistance? I need it badly,
‘OO T think I should have it. lam
® Cllizen of Georgia—unaccused of
crime, vagrancy, lunacy, or pauper
ism.
Since April 18, 1906, when I was
shanghaied from Swainsboro, Eman
uel county (““God With Us!”) I have
been deprived of my liberty, proper
ty, prospects, pride, honor, hopes,
and hide, through what I contend is
a criminal conspiracy. The officials,
State and Federal, have colluded
with the conspirators. What chance
Las a man in the hands of such un
scrupulous hellions?
Why force a man who wants to
be a good citizen to become an an
archist? (It will bpe remembered
that T escaped and broke in the Ma
€on postoffice last Spring—not s lor
the purpose of securing mail I
claimed I had there,” as The News
and other papers very unjustly chron
icled, but for the purpose of getting
a hearing in the Federal courts, so
as to establish my sanity, regain my
rights of citizenship, and bring to
justice several felonious ecriminals.
I was sent back without an interview
with a Federal official Oor a newspaper
man.
If anyone should take an interest
in my case enough to visit me let
bim not be prevented from seeing
me by the soft pretenses and suave
€xcuses of the management of this
stinkeranium.
I can be found here at any time
in spite of reports to the contrary,
and it is not true that I am' frothing
&t the mouth and threatening to de
stroy the world. (It is true that there
'S a negro here of the same name,
but he is not ‘‘the only one of the
name we know’?)
This long continued foolishness is
very irksome—though were it not so
ghoulishly tragic ’twould be clown
ishly ‘“‘amoosing.”
I beg ald to secure a habeas cor
pus trial—that open sesame of the
wrongly prisoned. ‘‘The Hell it is
in suing long to bide.” Yours very
truly. GHO. H. BELI.
NOTE.—The Count de Warren, in
his notable book on “British India”’
(London 1844) tells interestingly of
the ‘“Phansegars,” or Thuggle So
ciety—a religious and economical or
ganization which speculated with the
human race by exterminating men.
*“The basis of this society is a re
ligious belief—the worship of Bow
ance, a gloomy divinity, who is only
satisfied with carnage, and detests,
above all, the human race. Her most
agreeable sacrifices are human vic
tims, and the more of these her de
ciple offers her the more he will
be recompensed hereafter by all the
delights of soul and sense, and joys
eternally renewed. To obey his di
vine mistress he murders, without
anger and without remorse, the old
man, woman and child. The destruc
tion of his fellow creatures is the
primary object of his life. Destruc
tion is his end, his celestial mission,
his calling—the most captivating of
all sports, the hunting of men! Who
ever was in India during the years
1831 and 1832 must remember the
stupor and affright which the dis
covery of this vast “infernal machine
spread among all classes of society.
A great number of magistrates re
fused to believe in it, and could not
be brought to comprehend that such
a system had so long preyed on the
body politic, under their very eyes,
silently and without betraying it
self. G H. B.
TO TRY TO RELEASE BELL.
Hon. L. J. Kilbnrn of Macon Insti
tutes Proceedings.
A Macon dispatch says Hon. L. J.
Kilburn, former legislator from Bibb
county and president of the Georgia
Federation of Labor, has instituted
proceedings in the Baldwin county
ordinary’s court to secure the release
of Hon. George H. Bell from the
asylum, it being claimed that he is
illegally held.
Some months ago Mr. Bell, as
stated in his letter above, escaped
from his confinement, went to Ma
con and threw a brick through the
postoffice window there. He said he
did this at the time so the govern
ment authorities could handle his
case, and he would be given a hear
ing. Instead of this he was again
placed back in the sanitarium.
HE'S A CIGARETTE SUCKER.
Pennsylvania Congressman Almost
Fainted for Want of Stink Sticks.
The state of Pennsylvania has one
representative in congress who can't
keep still fifteen minutes at a time
unless he has a cigarette between his
lips. Naturally, therefore, he spends
the most of his time outside the
house. The other day the forty-odd
members who made up the attend
ance—the 300 and more others hav
ing business elsewhere—hazed the
Pennsylvania cigarette sucker un
mercifully. They got Speaker Can
non to call him to the chair while;
the house was in committee of the
whole, and kept him there without%
relief for two hours and forty min-l
utes, during the whole of which time
he was unable to suck a cigarette.
1t is said he nearly fainted.
9-FOOT SHEETS IN NEBRASKA.
Traveling People in That State to Be
Treated Handsomely.
Traveling men in Nebraska will be
handsomely treated at country hotels
so far as the bedding is concerned if
a bill introduced in the state legisla
ture becomes a law,
This bill provides for sheets at
least nine feet long and made of
white linen or cotton with emphasis
on the white. Pillow slips are to
be of the same material as the sheets,
and sheets and pillow slips are to be
changed for each new occupant of
the bed, and must be washed and
ironed before being used a second
time. Also quilts, blankets and com
forts must be, according to the pro
visions of the bill, aired every day.
To feel strong, have gooed appetite
and digestion, sleep soundly and en
joy life use Burdock Blood Bitters,
the great system tonic and builder.
Take Lives of Fifty Men While
Working Mile From Shore.
MANY MANGLED BODIES FOUND
Powder Explosion in Lake Michigan
Traps Men by the Score Like Rats
in Hidden Tunnel and Lake Crib.
Others Cling to Blocks of Ice and
Are Saved. Death Stops an Ap
peal for Aid. The Disaster an
Awful One.
CHICAGO.—BIown to pieces by
exploding powder, burned to death
by the resultant fire or drowned in
the icy waters of Lake Michigan was
the fate today of fifty-three work
men, who were working on a sub
marine tunnel at a wooden crib a
mile and a half from shore.
The crib was used in the construc
tion cf a tunnel connecting with the
Southside shore of the city at Seven
ty-third street. It is known that
ninety-five workmen were employed
in the crib and the connecting tunnel
at the time of the explosion, which
started the fire and blew or drove
men into the water. The work of
the destroying elements was begun
soo unexpectedly and reaped its har
vest of dead and injured with such
swiftness that the contracting firm
of George W. Jackson and the res
cuers have been unable tc arrive at
anything like an accurate list of
those who perished, or of others who
escaped the fury of the flames or
the icy waters of the lake.
Powder Explosion the Cause.
All Southside .hospitals are filled
with injured men tonight. City fire
boats and tugs of the construction
company made frequent trips far
into the night to the scene of the
disaster through the heavy ice floes.
The disaster apparently had its
origin in a powder house of small
dimensions, situated about 100 yards
from the crib structure proper, but
at the same time being a part of the
general structure.
The dull detonation, muffled as it
was by the crunching of floating ice
against the crib and the atmosphere
laden with heavy fog, simply aroused
the attention of the workmen, ac
eording to survivors, and it was not
until the heat of the flames and the
stifling smoke penetrated the so
called “living room” of the crib and
the tunnel beneath the waters of the
lake that the full import of the dis
aster dawned upon the workmen
cut off from quick succor.
Cut Off Telephone Appeal.
One of the workmen, with a cooler
head than his fellows, made his way
through tue smoke to a little in
closure in which was a telephone and
gave this hurried message to the
shore station:
“The crib is on fire. For God’s
sake send help at once or we will be
burned alive. The tug—"
At this point communication
ceased, and through the fog an oc
casional burst of flame and an un
mistakable odor of smoke made
known to the watchers on shore that
the telephone message was in earn
est.
The tug T. T. Moorford was the
first to begin rescuing the frenzied
workmen.
After several hours of heroic work
on the part of the rescuers thirty
nine workmen were rescued. When
the fire tug Conway and its crew
had finally quenched the flames fifty
three bodies had been carried to the
shore and placed in morgues in South
Chicago awaiting identification.
“Acting on a report that men have
been seen clinging to ice floes some
distance from the scene of the disas
ter Fire Chief Horan has ordered the
fire tug Illinois to patrol the lake
during the night in the hope of res
cue,
A Chicago woman is said to ‘“‘treat
animals as if they had souls.”
Doesn’t the “hound hunt in dreams?’’
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THE DAWSON NEWS.
NEGRO BAPTISTS CONTRIBUTE.
To the Erection of a New White Bap
tist Church in Arlington.
The members of the colored Bap
tist church made up a subscription
at their services Sunday morning as
a contribution to the building fund
of the white Baptist church, and
their clerk, Sonnie Graham, Monday
morning turned over the amount,
$16.51, to Major W. J. Horsley to
be applied in that direction. The
donation came as a surprise, but it
shows the good temperament and
worthiness of the colored congrega
tion in this community. The mem
bership of the colored Baptist church
is composed of some of the best citi
zens of the race and many of them
are in good financial circumstances.
—~Calhoun County Courier.
A REMARKABLE WOMAN SURE,
She Would Not Take a Million Dol
lars for a Secret.
A remarkable woman died in New
York the other day. She was Mrs.
Elizabeth Greenough, widow of Prof.
Benjamin Greenough, reputed to be
the inventor of a terrible projectile
available for war purpcses. When
Prof. Greenough died he left the
secret of the projectile to his wife,
who, it is said, was offered $1,000,-
000 for the secret. But because the
projectile was so terrible she refused
to sell, tore up the formula and de
clined to give any information re
specting it. She valued human life
above all money consideration, and
would not profit by the sale of a
secret that meant death and suffering
to human beings. If the story is
correct, Mrs. Greenough deserves to
‘be remembered forever with most
‘kind]y consideration.
A lazy liver leads to chronic dys
pepsia and constipation—weakens
the whole system. Doan’s Regulets
(25 cents per box) correct the liver,
tone the stomach, cure constipation.
| Special Notices. l
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For Sale.
' House and lot on Fourth avenue:
one two-horse wagon. E.T. JORDAN.
el e e N e
Boarders Wanted.
First-class accommodations in con
venient location. Apply to
MRS. W. F. VERONEE, Vine St.
For Sale.
Several small houses very cheap.
Located on the Rogers lot, corner of
Stonewall and Church streets, and
are to be moved. W. H. DAVIS.
Cabbage Plants,
Write Monroe Stevens, Shellman,
Ga., for cabbage plants. $1.50 per
1,000 £. o. b, at Shellman, or 26
cents per 100 by mail, prepaid.
Improved Cotton Seed.,
A quantity of Gunnels’ Improved
Prolific cotton seed for sale at $2.00
a bushel. Apply te
MRS. C. W. GUNNELS,
Bronwood. Ga.
Announcement,
We wish to announce to the pub
lic that we are now in position to
dress lumber, and will give you as
prompt service as possible.
THE VARIETY WOKKS CO.
For Lease or Rent.
One two-story store house and
fixtures situated on Muain and Fulton
streets, in Dawson, Ga. The lower
part of store contains counters,
shelves, drawers, show cases, oil
tank, scales, iron safe, eight-day
clock, barrels, scoops, etc. The up
per story has fireplaces five rooms,
place for cook stove, etc. Good barn,
lot, stables and fine bermuda pas
ture on premises. See
ROBERT FULTON,
Vine Street, North of Fulton Street.
C. W. CURRY
—_—mmmm m mm—
Dealer in High Grade Pianos and Organs,
Also Picture Frames and Moulding.
New_stock, latest patterns. High grade work
at lowest prices. You are cordially invited to
call and inspect my line,
Dawson, Ga, ': C. W. CURRY.
Next Door to Horsley Drug Co.
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