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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.” | H I I HH i .kl V- — . - * i I V . - “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. »■■■•-< All Were Saved, “For years I suffered such un sold misery from Bronchitis,” 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 nil i'.Ases of Nervous Prostration caused jrj. ,, v -»> i 'vork. It is a true Nerve Tonic a;j ! r-sl >i'e3 Nervous Vitality or Loss-of Manliood. It will not only relieve these nervoU3 troubles and weaknesses, but ■will restore them to full vigor and man hood. Guaranteed. Sold by Dr. R. L. 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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SHINHGLSER, MACON, GA; n ..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.