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Coun ry Schools To Be Centralized.
Slat# School Commissioner
Glenn will recommend to the next
legislature a planto centralize the
country schools of the state of
Georgia in such a way as to com
pletely. revolutionize the wholf
system of country schools. In his
report to the legislature he will
call attention to the modern
methods adopted by some other
states, and will recomend that the
country schools be centralized
and that children living too re
mote to walk to and from school
be carried at the expense of the
state.
“To explain this,” said Mr.
Gleen, “it must be understood
that tin final expense is less tnan
it is under the present arrange
ment. As the schools are how
constituted we have any number
of weak and inefficient country
schools. The plan is to do away
with these weak schools, and put
four or five of them into one
strong school, with better equip
ment, betier teachers, a better
curriculum and a larger attend
ance.
“The problem then arises of
getting the children to school.
This has been successfully met in
some states by having them car
ried to and from school at the ex
pense of the state. The children
could have some common meeting
place in the mornings and could
easily be picked up by some farm
er and carried safely and comfort
ably to and from school.”
This plan is now in vogue in
some states, and has invariably
met with the greatest success, and
not only improving the school
system, but in every case actually
reducing the expense. New York
. has authorized such a centraliza
tion of the country schools. Wis
consin has at least twenty such
schools in successful operation.
A similar measure is before the
Maryland legislature. Massachu
setts has tried the experiment
successfully for thirty years. The
same plan is carried out in North
Carolina and Texas, as well as in
Iowa and many other states.
“I shall make this reeomenda-
tion most strongly,” said the
commissioner.“It is along the line
Hof progress, but the method lni3
already passed beyond the shape
of an experiment, having been a
pronounced success in so many
states. In fact, it is the only
;( method to secure efficient coun
try schools. There has been no
difficulty in carrying to and from
schools, and that', too, with the
important feature that better
schools can be maintained at an
L actual less cost to the state.”
Jim O’Brien’s Epitaph.
To Control The Output Of Farm Ma
chinery.
The incorporators of the Inter
national Harvester Company, ar
ticles of incorporation for which
were filed in.New Jersy last Wed
nesday, have made public a state
ment which says in part:
“The International Harvester
Company has been organized un
der the laws of New Jersey with a
capital stock of $120,000,000 to
manufacture and sell harvesting
machinery. It has purchased the
property and business of the fol
lowing manufacturers: The Me
Cormick Harvesting Machine
Company, Deering Harvester
Company, Plano Manufacturing
Company, Warner, Bushnell &
Glessner Company, Milwaukee
Harvesting Company. The com
pany is captalized upon an excep
tionally conservative basis. Of
its assets, $80,000,000 are in cash
working capital. The company
will require no financing, and
there will be no offer of its stock to
the public, all the cash required
having been provided by its stock
holders.”
After alluding to the advance
in prices of raw material and the
possible consequent advance in
the price of harvesting machinery
unless economies in existing con
ditions of manufacture could be
accompanied, the statement con
tinues :
“The management of the com
pany will be in charge of gentle
men who have for years been
identified with the business. The
company will start with ample
facilities. It has five fully equip
ped manufacturing plants in the
United States and one plant in
process of construction in Cana
da.”
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“I suppose our western country
has furnished more funny things
in the epitaph line than all the
rest of the world,” remarked a
Colorado ex-congressman.
“I remember one that adorned
the cemetery at Leadville in the
palmy days of that great mining
camp. It seems that in the
course of a barroom broil one
Jim O’Brien, a well known char
acter, had his existence termina
ted prematurely. He was a good
fellow in the main and not with
out friends. One of the dead
man’s associates, in deep grief
over his demise, erected a wooden
slab over'his grave on which he
had written iu large letters:
“Jim O’Brien departed for heav
en at 9:80 a. in.
^ “A local humorist happened
along soon afterward and append
ed the following:
“Heaven, 4:20 p. m.—O’Brien
not yet arrived. Intense excite
ment. The worst is feared.”—
Washington Times.
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All Were Saved,
“For years I suffered such un
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writes J. H. Johnston of Brought
on, Ga., that often I was unable
to work Then, when everything
else failed, I was wholly cured by
Dr. King’s New Discovery for
Consumption. My wife suffered
intensely from asthma till it cur
ed her, and all our experience
goes to show it is the best croup
imedieijne in the world.” A trial
%all convince you it’s unrivaled
for throat. and lung dizeases.
3-uaramteed bottles 50c and $1.00.
Priar bottles free at Holtzclaw’s
TlieJMan Who Is Ahead.
The Orange, Va., a Observer
breaks out with the following sen
timental song: “There is the
man behind the counter, the man
behind .the gun, the man behind
the buzz saw and the man behind
his son; the man behind the times
and the one behind his rents, the
man behind the ploughshares and
the man behind the fence; and
the man behind the whistle and
the man behind the bars, and the
man behind kodak and the man
behinds.tlie cars; the man behind
his whiskers and the man behind
his fist, and everything behind a
thing is entered on the list. But
they have skipped another fellow
cf whom nothing has been said —
the fellow who is even or just a
little ways ahead; who always
pays for what he gets and whose
bill is always signed—lie’s a
blamed sight more important
than the man who is behind. All
we newspaper people and mer
chants and the whole commercial
clan are indebted for existence to
this, honest, noble man. He
keeps us all in business and his
town is never dead—and so you
all take your hat off to the man
who is ahead.”
Senator Pettus of Alabama has
been visiting friends in Mobile,,
and, although he was 81 years old
last month, the Register declares
that, “venerable in age, but yet a
youth in- strength and feeling, he
is good for many years of further
service, and his people will, with
practical unanimity, continue
him in office.” Mr. Pettus is
probably the oldest man who ever
sought a seat in the Senate, as he
was 75 when he entered the lists
as a contestant for his present
seat in 1896.
The Jewish World estimates,
upon what it considers reliable
avthority, that there are no less
than 584,788 Jews in the borough
of Manhattan, New York city.
That is to say, every fourth per
son in that borough is a Jew or
Jewess. The Jews of New York,
considering all of the boroughs,
constitute 16.5 per cent, of the
population, and in Manhattan
nearly 27 per cent, of the popula
tion.
SMITH’S NERVE JRESTOKER.
This medicine is guaranteed to cure
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nervoU3 troubles and weaknesses, but
■will restore them to full vigor and man
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Cater.
One Cause of Railroad Trusts.
Savannah News.
A Houston Tex., dispatch says
that _ five hundred tickets were
sold in that city for Chicago on
Saturday afternoon last at prices
ranging all the way from $8 to
80 cents. In fact one broker of
fered to give a box of cigars to
every purchaser of a ticket for 30
cents. There was a rate war be
tween the roads leading from
Houston to Chicago. So fierce
was it that transportation to a
city nearly 1,000 miles distant
was practically given away.
Those who study the railroad
situation have no difficulty in see
ing why it is that the railroads
are being formed into great sys
tems, but the mass of the people
do not understand it, and insist
that mergers shall be prevented,
because they think they mean
monopolies and higher transpor
tation rates.-
Of course mergers * mean that
the highest rules possible will bo
charged, but the Interstate Com
merce Commission and State
Railroad Commissions are sup
posed to see to it that the rates
are reasonable. It is evident that
unless railroads are permitted to
pool their earnings, or to protect
themselves in some other way
against ruinous, competition, the
roads will become merged with
out any effort in that directon by
their owners. The weaker ones
will pass into the hands of receiv
ers and be sold, the stronger ones
becoming the purchasers.
As a rule it is the weaker road
that begins rate cutting. It
seeks to draw business from its
stronger competitor, and the only
way it can do that is to lower its
rates. Of course the stronger
road discovers at once what is
being done, and then the rate war
begins.
Rate wars are of no benefit to
the public. As a rule they are a
distinct disadvantage, because
they demoralize business. Busi
ness requires ^stable rates. Such
rates are impossible where there
is fierce competition. Congress
has refused to permit the roads
to pool their earnings, aiid there
has not arisen any one big enough
to suggest a way by which rail
roads car, maintain rates while
engaged iu fierce competi
tion.
The Houston incident is an ex
aggerated example of what is tak
ing place pretty nearly all the
time between roads which are
competing with each other. It'is
not to be wondered at that all
sorts of means are adopted to
maintain rates—that roads are
merged and trusts formed.
A YOUNG LADY’jTlIFE SAVED
At Panama, Colombia, by Chamber
Iain’s Colic, Cholera aN(l Diar
rhoea Remedy.
Dr. Chas. H. Utter, a prominent
physician of Panama, Colombia,
in a recent letter says: “Last
March I had as a patient a young
lady sixteen years of age, who had
a very bad attack of dysentery.
Everything I prescribed for her
proved ineffectual and she was
growing worse every hour. Her
parents were sure she would die.
She had become so weak that she
could not turn over in bed. What
to do at this critical moment was
a study for me, but I thought
of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy, and as a
last resort prescribed it. The most
wonderful result was effected.,.
Within eight- hours she was feel
ing much better; inside of three
days she was upon her feet and at
the end of one week was entirely
well.” For sale by all dealers in
Perry, Warren & Lowe, Byron.
A rather odd-looking Republi
can state convention will assemble
at Birmingham, Ala., on Sept,. 16.
It is said the number of black
faces in it will be very small—the
smallest in the history of Repub
licanism in the state. The rea
son is that only qualified voters
under the new constitution are
to be permitted to have any part
in the convention’s proceedings,
and there are not a great many
negroes in Alabama who are so
qualified.
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Made
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■ Examine the way the Ellwood
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buckles, pulls
ou t posts or J
breaks.
You can see an Ellwood Fence
in use in any part of the
V country, almost any
neighborhood. There's
a dealer handling
them everywhere.
If yours should
not have them,
write to
Atnurlctn Steel
anil Wire Co.,
Chicago.
New York,
San
, Franclnco,
Denver.
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the remody that cares a cold la one dgCf.
Weber, Brown, 'Russell and Thornhill Wagons cheaper
than you ever bought them before, to make room and re
duce storage and insurance.
MACON,
GA.
J. W. SHINHGLSER,
MACON,
GA;
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..SPECIAL PIANO SALE..
AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES
. For Next Ten Days.
Have on hand the finest stock of new Pianos ever brought
to this morket, such celebrated makes as Stein way, Weber,
Sohmer & Co., Kranich & Bach, Ivers & Pond, Crown and
others that we will sell for the next ten days ot greatly
reduced prices to make room.
Call or write at once and secure 'me of these bargalr s.
Pianos and Organs sold on ea-y verm-;.
F. A. GUTTER BERGER & CO*,
452 Second St., MacoN, Ga.