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PUBLIC ROADS.
Cost of Bad Highways and Effects of
Good Ones.
The public highways"have a very im- ; .
portant bearing on the judgment form-
ed by strangers in regard to the thrift
and enterprise of any county. One
who is looking about for a good local
ity in which to settle will be apt, all
things else being equal, to decide up
on a county in which good roads give
him easy access -to a market at all
seasons of the year.
It has been estimated by those who,
have given the matter chreful | atten
tion, that in a section of country hav
ing first-class roads the transportation
of his produce to market, will cost the
farmer just about one-fourth the ex
pense involved in the same traffic over
our ordinary Georgia roads.
Professor S. W. McGallie, assistant
state Geologist, in his excellent treat-
ease on “The Roads and Road-Building
That He Who Runs May Read.
Materials of Georgia/’. S£Lys: “it is
a well-known fact that in the winter
and early sp-jlng months, the majority
of our. common dirt roads become well-
nigh impassable for heavy traffic. Dur
ing this s®a«on of the year, the teams,
which might be profitably engaged in
hauling the farm products to mar
ket, remain idle, at a considerable, ex
pense to their owners in the matte? of
attention, feed, etc. . /
Cost of Bad Roads.
“Professor J. A. Holmes, State Ge
ologist of North Carolina, in discussing
this item of expense chargeable to bad
roads, places the loss due to-this cause
in 56 middle and western counties of
that state at .$1;600,000 pe?-annum, an
amount sufficient to build' more than
75 miles of first-class macadamized
road.
“Now, if the above figures are cor
rect, and they are undoubtedly plausi
ble, it would be no exaggeration to
say that the farmers of Georgia annu
ally sustain a loss of more than $2,000,-
000 from tins cause alone. In other
words, this large sum of money would
be an annuel net gain to the farmers
of the state, if the roads were so im
proved, that teams could be used at all
seasons of the year.
Effect of Good Roads.
If time and space allowed, we should
be glad to quote more from Prof. Mc-
Callie; but we will do this at another
time and show how good roads dimin
ish the wear and tear on vehicles,
harness and horses, and how they in
crease the value of real estate. On
the moderate estimate that good roads
will increase the value of lands con
tiguous to them by $2 per acre, Prof.
McCalJie thinks that this apparently
insignificant amount would aggregate
more than $lO,UOO,0OO,,a sum equal to
about one-half of the present assessed
valuation bf all the farming lhnds of
the state.
Sonne Good Roads In Georgia,
While urging our people to progress
on this line, we are glad that we are
not compelled to go beyond our own
State for examples of good roads. Sev
eral hundred miles of first-class ma
cadamized roads have been built in
several counties under the system pro
vided by our laws for the Improvement
and maintenance of .public highways.
The Manchester and Peachtree roads
near Atlanta, in Fulton county, are
thoroughfares equal to the best ideal.
More than 76 miles of splendid ma
cadamized roads in Floyd county give
tt> the citizpns easy access to the thriv-
. ing city of Rome. The Washington
Pike and the Savannah Valley roads,
of Richmond county, make travel and
transportation easy to' Augusta. Roads
of similar merit radiate from Mafcon
in Bibb county, from Savannah in
Chatham county, and from Brunswick
near “the marshes* of Glynn.”
GA. DEP’T. OF AGRICULTURE.
The lesson of this statement is
not hard to learn : John Wana-^
maker pays one thousand dollars
a day to the newspapers of his
home town for advertising, says
the Macon News.
'Those who do not think if pays
to advertise should be convinced
by this example; for, truly* there
is no doubt that this merchant
prince knows what “pays,” and
how to sncced in business. The
Wananiaker storos are the big
gest in the country, and their
immense-and complete stock is
being . offered'* to the public
through the columns of the news
papers. And for this service Ms.
Wanamaker pays $822,500 per
year. *
To the Press he pays $60,000; to
the Ledger $60,000; to the North
American $75,055 and to Evening
ing Telegram 850,000.
TJp to a few months ago Mr.
Wanamaker was using a page in
the (Record at the rate of $75,000
a year, which would have made
an annual expenditure of$372,500.
When he wanted to renew his con
tract with the Record the pub
lishers asked $87,500 more, or a
total of $112,500. Mr. Wauama-
kei* refuged to pay that sum,
thinking that no one else would
pay that for a page.
The proposition was put to Lit
Bros*, who accepted the contract
without a moment’s hesitation,
and they are now paying that
enormous sum for the use of the
page for one year.
The State Convention.
Here is one that is being passed
around by the newspapers that is
applicable to all towns: “There
is no reasonable excuse for a man
living in a town if he dosen’t like
it. If you have no word of com
mendation to say for your town,
its institutions or its people, emi
grate. Jou won’t stop the course
of events by going away, neither
will your carping criticism cut
any figure if you remain. The
church bells will have the same
musical ring, the dogs will play
just as briskly, the fish will bite
just as well and the pure air and
bright sunshine will have the
same health-giving properties.
Speak a good word for your neigh
bors if you can, if you can’t don’t
everlastingly enlarge their faults.
If you have become thoroughly
sour and disgusted and cannot
see any good in your town, move
away; go somewhere where things
suit you.
Read It in His Newspaper.
George Schaub, a well-known
German citizen of New Lebanon,
Ohio, is a coiistant reader of the
Dayton Volkszeifcung. He knows
that this paper aims to advertise
only the best in its columns, and
when he saw Chamberlain’s Pain
Balm advertised therein for lame
back, he did not hesitate in buy
ing a bottle of it for his wife,who
for. eight weeks had suffered with
the most terrible paius.in her back
and could get no relief. He says:
“After using the Pain Balm for a
few days my wife said to me, ‘I
feel as though born .anew,’ and
before using the entire co.nten.ts
of the bottle the unbearable pains
had entirely vanished and she
couldagain take up her house-
Virvlrl /Infioa lV* ; TTfl
hold duties.” He is very thank
ful and hopes that all suffering
likewise will hear of her wonder
ful recovery. This valuable lini
ment is for sale by all dealers -in
Perry, Warren & Lowe, Byron.
Some I people after casting a
crust of bread upon the' waters,
think they should get. a bowl of
milk toast m return.
It has been said repeatedly that
politeness is cheap and always
may be at command, without
money and without price. This
is an exaggeration of fact. Some
times it is most difficult to be-po
lite. There are course, rough
rude men to be met now and then
who try one’s gentlemanliness to
its limit. The stomachs bf writ
now and then, are out of gear
ers
and it is hard to be cheerful when
one is suffering from indigestion
But anyone with any sort of good
breeding may put on a veneer of
politeness that will pass for the
solid article, and certainly there
is no commodity in the market
that will bring as immediate aud
good returns.—Ex.
Mr. J. H. Hale of South Glas
tonbury, Conn., who is the owner
of a large peach orchard in Con-
necticutt as well as the largest or
chard in Georgia, at. Fort Valley
says that the Oonnecticutt crop
this year will be exceptionally
large^ approximating 1,000,000
bushels,. He looks also for a sue
cessful season in Georgia peaches
The state convention will be
composed of 850 delegates. The
majority rule governs, hence it
will require 176. votes to nomi
nate. The counties are entitled
representation in the conven
tion on the basis of two delegates
for each representative in the low
er house of the general assembly,
At its last session the general
assembly passed an act reappor
tioning the representation in ac
cordance with the federal census
of 1900. Under this aet seven of
the counties lost one representa
tive each, and seven gained one
each, leaving the total unaffected.
The counties are divided into
three classes, those of the first
class having three representatives
each, those of the second having
two, and those of the third one.
They will therefore be represent
ed in the convention by six, four
and two delegates, respectively.
The counties of the, first class
are Fulton, Chatham, Floyd, Bibb,
Richmond and Thomas.
The counties of the second class,
twenty-six in number, are Burke,
Muscogee, Decatur, Washington,
Carroll, Dooly, Sumter, Laurens,
Gwinnett, Coweta, Cobb, Jack-
son, Troup, Meriwether. Houston,
Bulloch, Emanuel, DeKalb, Wal
ton, Wilkes, Bartow, Hall, Mon
roe, Tatnall, Lowndes and Elbert.
The counties of the third class,
105 in number, are all of those
not included in the foregoing
lists. These for convenience are
sometimes called the “country
counties.” They will have 210
votes in the convention, against
140 for the “city” or more popu
lous counties.
A contemporary, the Gains-
ville News, recently,printed a ^ta
ble dividing the state into con
gressional districts and showing
the representation in the conven
tion of each district. The table
shows that the First district, 10
counties, will have 82 votes; the
Second, 15 counties, 80 votes; the
Third, 12 counties, 32;tbe Fourth
10 counties, 80 votes; the Fifth,
8 counties, 24 votes j the Sixth, 10
counties, 26 votes; the Seventh,18
counties, 84 votes, the Eighth, 18
counties, 28 votes; the Ninth, 17
counties, 40 votes; the Tenth, 11
counties,28 votes ;the Eleyenthl,,18
counties, 40 votes.
When a boy turns his bulging
pockets inside out >ve marvel at
the quantity and variety of arti
cles he has stowed away. Odd
Hardware, - Harness, - Saddlery.
Full line Agricultural Implements.
BEST GOODS.
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CLOSEST PBICE.
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■Harness Repairs a speciality.
463-465 Third St. MACON,
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At ffl.il $1.75 $2 and $3 jer Gallon,
Merchant Here.
It is a good thing to remember
wheh the children are noisy that
some day they will be married,
and living far away and the house
will be quiet as a tomb.
lengths of string, marbles,
horse-chestnut, a top, brass nails,
hickory-nuts, an apple and many
more articles are t garnered by this
“snapper up of unconsidered tri
fles.” , We think the collection
must be hard on a boy’s pocket,
and it is. But do we ever think
of the variety and miscellany of
the substances we put into the
pocket of our stomach? There’s
the apple and nuts, and things be
sides quite indigestible as brass
nails and with no more food value
than so many marbles. And yet
we wonder that the stomach“givos
out.” When the stomach breaks
down under the strains of careless
eating and irregular, meals it" can
be perfectly and permanently re
stored to health and strength by
the use of Doctor Pierce’s Golden
Medical Discovery. "The action
of this medicine on the stomach
and other organs of digestion and
nutrition is so marked, that re
lief from disease is at once exper
ienced, and the headaches, liver
“troubles,” kidney disorders,skin
eruptions and other symptom^ of
a diseased stomach are quip 1 ' 1 "
cured, Whenever the use oi
laxative' medicine is indicated,use
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets.
They act in harmony with the
,‘Discovery” and assists its ac
tion by purging the bowels
foul accumulations.
To Cure a Cold In One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine
Tablets. All druggists refund the
money if it fails to cure. E. W'.
Grove’s signature oh each box,25c.
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Every manufacturing establish
ment in San Francisco that for
merly used ten tons of coal daily
is now using U&R£?rhi{t; oil for
fuel. ' •
If lou Suffer from Kidney Troubles
Use Smith’s. Sure Kidney Cure. Noth
ing libhit for diseased kidneys. 50
cents, at Oater’s Drugstore.
Charges
paid by me on all packages of
DIRECT TO CONSUMER, SAVING MIDDLEMENS’ PROFITS.
All Express
TWO GALLONS or more. Terms, cash with order.
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Send your order and write Cor Descriptive Circular of Wine*
mid Brandies. References, the Cominecinl Agencies, or any
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Never goes wrong no matter
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your fields so they will stay fenced.
C. H U H N,
DEALER IN
SPORTING GOODS.:
Bicycles, Baseball Goods, Fishing Tackle, Gups, Pistols, etc. Hand-
spine Specialties, Pocket and Table Cutlery, Mechanics’ Tools.
Repairing of Guns, Bicycles, Etc.
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MACON, GEORGIA
The Four-Hour-Sleep Society is
the latest thing in associations
and it is Chicago bred. The mem
bers argue that more than four
hours’ sleep is unnecessary, and
they pledge themselves not to
have more, and to bring up their
children on the same plan.
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