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— Blackburn’s Police Patrol. Oglethorpe Jtclio. A. bill introduced in the legisla viure by Representative B. R. Black burn, of Fnjton couuty, providing fora police patrol in each militia district of the state may develop in to a measure deserving more serious consideration than is at present be lug given it. If enacted the bill will create i -state police force of some 10,000 men whose duty it shall be to patrol their districts at least once a week iat the detection of crime and ap prehension of criminals and to cap tare all vagrants or other persons without visible means of support. The compensation of these officers will consist of being relieved of road duty or road tax and being allowed the samp fees ,as received by sheriffs iot making arrests. " While we have not seen it so sta tad, it is presumed that these offi <’.ers will supersede the district bail iffs and perform the duties now in' ■cambent upon those offioers. If this is not a provision of the bill it should ho. One feature of this bill strikes ub ■as being a good one—that iB, that there shall be a patrollment of the distriols for the detection of crime In other words, it makes it the da t,y of these officers to be on the alert for infringements of the law and to apprehend the infringers, and not to wait, as is too much the custom with officers at present, for some -one to hunt them up and report crimes and demand the arrest of criminate. With this new feature introduced and carried put by ar resting officers there could but be a lessening of crime and surer appre oou si on and punishment of law breakers. w ^ We do not believe otfr present Uws intend it should be so, hut it has beoome generally the custom of bailiffs and constables to take no lotioe especially of lesser crimes un less a request or demand is made of .hem by some other party to do so. lots of lawlessness may bemommit- ■ «;ed in their presenoe, even, and fro- ptently of their knowledge, and yet r,liey wait for warrants to be sworn mt by citizens before they will nake any move in the matter. If Mr. Blackburn’s bill seeks to -- rreot the evil arising from tlii misconception of duty upon the part arresting officers, it is worthy of ■serious consideration. If, nnder the ■ law he proposes, .these officers are ' made to accept it as their duty to 1'arret out lawlessness and bring the iw-breaker to justice without any lemand or aid from any oue, and :hoy sljohld perform that duty lithfully, we will Bee a decided de base of orime in the state.. If the •iminally inclined are made to feel •iat they will not be shielded by ■ fe feniency of their friends, or t iybe their fear to take steps look- to their puniahment, they will - • j far less ready to break tlm laws, When we first saw mention of ’vis bill we were inclined to consid er it an impraotioxble and unreason able measure, but after considering * l ire closely its provisions and pur- ... ^jsos, and probable results, we think setter of it. We don’t know but ihat_it would be wise to enact it in- lavi-. The Wages of Sin. "At the old fashioned inns and res it irahts in Sweden it is customary < > charge less for women than for ^neu, on the theory that the;: former ilo not eat so much. At .some ho ts in Sweden a map and a wife are ■ charged os one and one-half persons •it .they occupy the same room, A sband and wife may travel as one -• id one half persons by railway, and hmo by the post routes, furnishing iueir own carriage. *—:— "-»-i It is estimated that the recent <- action in the state of New York ~ a vi the republicans $360,000 and ■ he democrats $140,000. If the fig ures are approximately correct, the /campaign funds were hardly excess- jive. It will be noticed, by- the way, ; that the republicans spent about $3 for every $1 spent by the democrats, 'f&e democrats fight for principle; tke republicans fight with boodle. ■—$-•-+- — y- Startling But True, '‘If every one knew what a fgraad medicine Dr. King’s New if.-ife Pills is,” writes D. H. Turn- . Dempseytown, Penn., “you’d sell, all you had in a day. Two v.-r<9eks’ use has made a new man • erne.” Infallible fer constipa tion, stomach and liver troubles.' at Boltzclaw’s drug store. Macon Nows. A strong man lays the foundation of .a great fortune. Its automatic accumulations enable his immediate descendants to give more time and thought to the graces and ‘luxuries of life than he had either time or in clination for. The third generation is most likely removed from the ne cessity of effort, provided with the means of gratifying every whim and passion, and burdened with a leisure which creates an omnivorous and in satiate appetite fop diversion, says the Detroit Tribune. Sane and simple pleasure soon lose their savor to one so situated, whether man or woman, and the search for new sensations and expe riences^ leads in only one direction after these have been exhausted. In addition to this inevitable tendency must be counted the myriad oppor tunities and temptations which sur round the dwellers in great capitate; It is a trait of common human nature tp grant itself indulgence, whqin away, from Jbome, which would be sternly denied in the community of residence, and in New York, Paris, London or Berlin no one is, or at least no cue need be, at, ^eem not to profit by the experience home in the sense which implies re straint. In such vast and congested cities, where fainilies may live across a four-foot hall or a twolse foot al ley from each other and remain per fect strangers, all who choose to have it may enjoy the oonsoiousness of license that implants impulses of deviltry in the breast of the man who is 1,000 miles from home. Moreover, in New York there are men still young who, by the growth of the city in size and opulence, have been almost unconsoioiiBly sur rounded by invitations to vice in its most attractive form. Resorts that reeked of respectability a decade or two ago have chunked, by almost insensible degrees, into the haunts of sin, and the oenters of the fast life of the town have spread north ward, absorbing sections not long ago consecrated to the habitation of the elite. It is not to be won do i. at if some whose early homes iind associations were there have b«u: overtaken aud overwhelmed Sr subtle influences of a. changed en> i ronment in accustomed places. Far ther yec, the sense of privilege and immunity which wealth bestows has been heightened by intercourse with foreign aristocracies to whom that sense is a legal heritage. All these causes have operated concurrently to relax the standards of right liv ing and obscure the moral lights of our plutocracy, but neither a New Jersey charter, the cunning of. mer ger-making nor the greed of voting trusts have served to reduce the wages of Bin. A society that defies eternal laws must pay the penalty, by eventually giving way to anoth er, either found in better ideate or doomed, like itself, to ultimate de struction. The Man Who Dabbles in Futures. Albauy Herald. A recent special to the Herald from Ashburn tells of the suicide in that town of a prominent citizen, a man respected and honored. Our correspondent says it was another case of a poor man dabbling in fu tures. The market went the wrong way, and in an effort to save what he had already risked, the specula tor plunged deeper into the mire, Finally, with the bulk—possibly all —of his worldly possessions' gone, he ended it all with a shot from his pistol. A widow and five children are left alone in the world with the memory of the husband and father’s tragic end as a heritage, and the worldly possessions which werq in part rightfully theirs are perhaps entirely swept away. It is a sad caBe, but the story is not a new one. How many men go to fill the suicide’s grave after los ing their all in the mad whirl of fi nancial speculation no man knows. And if hot suicide, the speculator finds at the end of his foolish frolic with fickle.fortune either disgrace or privation—perhaps both—for him self and his loved ones. Yet men IF 1 !! of others. Beardless youth and men past the allotted three score and ten risk their savings, or money borrow ed here and there, on the strength of a dream of sudden wealth. The winner wants more, and the loser wants to retrieve that which he has lost. Neither is satisfied. Both follow the bright bubble which floats temptingly before their eyes, and finally both go together over the precipice at the foot of which lie ruin and death. Lord Kitchener has given many reasons for his conviction that a sol dier should never marry. His latest is that the terrible anguish of officers’ wives was a' proof that, like priests, soldiers ought to be celibates. Lord Kitchener said this recently to an officer's wife, who answered: “Then you think that my husband ought not to haye married me?” To which Lord Kitchener replied graciously! “Thanks to you, I change my opin ion for one case.” Not only has William Waldorf As tor .failed to secure a title ini England, but he has reoently been denied the poor boon of using “Honorable” as a prefix to his name. Only sons of peers or members of legislative bodies under the crown are permitted to call themselves honorable.” It is said Mr. As tor was directed to drop the prefix by order of the King himself. Asleep Amici Flames. Breaking into a blazing homo, some firemen lately: dragged the steeping inmates from death. Fan cied security and death near. “It’s tiiat way when’you neglect coughs and colds. Don’t do it. > Dr. King’s New Discovery for Con sumption gives perfect protection against all "throat, chest and lung troubles. Keep it near and: avoid suffering, death, and doctor’s bills. A .teaspoonful stops a late cough, persistent use..the most stubborn. Harmless and nice’ tasting, it’s guaranteed to satisfy. Price 50c and $1.00. Trial bottles free at Hpitzclaw’S Drugstore. The Springfield (Mass.) Republi can says: “While a vice president of the Oifcy Bank of New York is pessimistically speaking of the fi nancial situation and outlook, with a weight of words that have at tracted wide attention, the presi dent of the bank is having plans made for a $1,000,000 dwelling- -mpo, to be located at Fifth avenue u 1 Seventy-second street on a lot tjr which he paid $860,000. The United States patent office has issued letters patent for an am- idobenzoflavine produced by trans forming the nitrotetraamidoditolyl- phenylmetban of amididitolyphenyl- methan into pentsaraidoditolphenyl- methan. Our only excuse for men tioning the mattor is that we are mad with the. linotype operator for what he did to'us yesterday.—At lanta Journal. Stops the Cough amt Works of f the Cold. 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This great and thoroughly tested and endorsed Califorma Remedy never disappoints, It cures in- fallibly if- taken as directed.. - Try it and he convinced that it is a wonder aud a blessing to suffering humanity. w* Price $1.00 per bottle; or 6 b„ot- a Vt** ? _J If URICSOL CHEMICAL CO., Los Angeles, C«J. >or the' LAMAR & RANKIN DRUd CO., Atlutfc Os. Distributing Agents. Did you-ever meet a fidgety man? Ever, stop to think why he ap pears so uneasy ? ; Nin.e times out of ten it’s be cause his clothes bother him. His. coat collar bobs up to his ears when he sits down; or the hem in his trousers lias an insane desire to rust on his ankle bone. Perhaps ’ti;l simply the vest that caiiSes the trouble, and when it taps him oil the lower extremity of bis left ear the “Fidg ety Man” can be seen at his best. Men who wear our clothes don’t fidgest. Fall stock ready for inspection. Benson, TSTalKer <fc Moore, The Up-to-Date Clothiers, THIRD STREET. :: MACON, GA. 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