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FOR UMS ORGANIZATION
AND SOCIAL
Two Strong Speeches Wore Made at the Court House last
Night Oy Eugene V, Debs And President Mahone.
SOM i
Defined and Defended by Mr.
Debs Who Avows Him
self a Socialist.
CLIMAX IS AT HAND,
He Says When the Laboring Men
Representing the Socialist Vote
of This Country Will Elect
Their President.
■
Labor organization, trades unionism ho- I
dahlia and mcial m niocra y were tiie
themes at tile Bibb county court house
ItiMt night, when Mr. W. 1). Mahone, of
Detroit, Mid)., president of the Amalga
mated Ordet of Street far Mt n, and Mr.
Eugene V. Dt'bn, a recognized leader of
lalror and the founder of Social Democ
racy, .'poke to a large audience that. <Asm
pl.t.ly filled the court ho„ae.
The audience that gathered to hear the
two repreH. ntativcH of a revolutionary I
spirit eeejns to have been aroused among
the wage earners of this country—the
spirit that in ail ages has steadily per
meated nations and their people, growing
and swelling and evtr in ti.i dug until on
a .lay the mass begins to move slowly and
heavily at first but gathering speed and
volume as it goes until almost without
warning a mighty avalanche sweeps upon
the land and .nd- in a revolution of bal-
Ichh, m such a country as this, and a revo
lution of blood in countries where mon
archies exist was made up ot representa
tives of all .d isses and professions,
line dispassionately and convincingly.
'Mr. Mahonr sjsike on the subject of
trades unionism and organized labor. He
Im ii plain, forcible talker well prepared
with facts .and with figure;-'. He offers
arguments in favor of organized labor
that appeal to the business man a. well
as to the working man. He advocates
organization not as a sen Li nw n t but as a
business prop., ition and he argued on that
lino dlspassion.il. ly and cone, rningly.
He did not defend the mistakes made
by organlzo.l labor but tie pointed the way
to avoid mistakes.
'Mr. Debs In his speech went direct to
the root of the evil of the commercial
spirit of the age. He defined socialism
and avowed himself a socialist—and so
cialism from his st midpoint won the sym
pathy of his hearers. Mr. Debs I.at night
was earnest and powerful. He was dra
matic even and intensely sensational.
Ho was a revolutionist painting the
hll.ou.snc.su of poverty ground under the
hill of combined capital. He was pro
ph, tic and thrilling in the climaxes of
bis situations and then he was pleasant
and c.Muforting in the proffer of a theory
' • cur- He was heard with the most
int-use interest. \t times the silence was
painful ami the intensity of the feeling
* was evidenced by the tact that throughout
>ho whole of the two speeches, lasting for
two hours amt a half, not more thin three
people left the room. Applause w is spar
ing and waited for cause, it was not lavish
or foolish in its bestowal.
Mr. Million,- folks.
Tlie meeting last night was op. ned Iv.
Mr. .lames Davidson, wiio introduc. d Mr.
W. D. Mahone, ol Detroit, Mich, president
of the Amalgamated Association of Street
Car .Men.
in opening his speech Mr. Mahone said
that he had b<< n invited to address tin
meeting on the principles of organized la
bor. He pron.istd to be brief, because he
said his audit nee would prefer to hear -Mr.
Debs. His trip through the South had
been, lie said, primarily for the order ot
which he represented, and next for tin
federation of trade.
He was in M i.-on to address his hearer:
on tiie subject of trades unionism, a term
which is misunderstood.
I’lie trades union is a product of tin
present eomnureial age. he said. It is a
business organization. Mr. Mahone illus
trated trades unionism by an incident in
the work of the older of which he is pres
ident, which happened in Philadelphia.
The illustration pointed essentially to the
fact that tlu association was a business
organization. The policy of the business
world today is to get labor at the cheapest
price -treating it as a commodity.
How to d.al with the question of the
value of labor is the gr<at question before
the labor unions. Labor should be formed
into business organizations. It should go
to the employers and say. We have tin
product which j.u seek; we control tin
product, and wo propose to soil the small
est number of hours at the highest pos
sible price."
Labor organizations had. he said, made
their mistakes, but hi' would rather stand
before the throne of God to answer for the
mistakes made bj the labor organizations
than to answer for the mistakes made by
the corpora lions in the lone state ot Geor
gia.
The trades unionists today are trying to
teach the laboring man the value of labor.
The wage worker, standing alone, amounts
to nothing. His only hope is to organize.
He would not dwell very long, lie said, on
the reasons why men should organize.
Every sensible man and woman knows
that.
I.abor Builds Palaces,
Labor, he said, builds the palaces and
lives in huts, weaves the Line raiment and
goes in rags, raises the golden grain and
starves. Why not organize, then?
Mr. Mahone said that if a death angel
were to visit the home of the workers in
the cotton mills in Macon there would not
l>e enough cotton in the home to make
shrouds for the dead bodies.
Something is evidently wrong. Capital |
has organized the mills. Labor is in a
hopeless condition, opposed to such organ
ization on the part ot capital without or
ganization itself.
lie ami his colleagues are charged with
being agitators and demagogues. Those
who did so bad not looked at the condi
tions that produced organized labor. It
organized labor is wrong, the conditions •
that produce it are wrong.
Some people say that organization has
not accomplished much iu this country. >
but those who said so had not been mem- I
bers of a trades union. It was true that
not enough had been accomplished, be
cause wage earners had not sufficiently !
seen the importance ot organization. ' j
Mr. Mahone said that he found the same
conditions existing in the Southern cities I
as had existed in the North and East many j
years ago. He himself had worked sixteen
and eighteen hours a day on a street car j
when the Humane Society only allowed j
the mules to work three hours a day.
An eighteen or sixteen hours day is ’
an unknown thing. Looking over the col- i
unins of The Evening News, Mr. Mahone
said he bad found that the street ear own- I
era had tried to make their employes work
eighteen hours a day at 10 cents afi hour, i
The citizens of Macon should protest, and :
did protest successfully, through The j
News. The lives of their children were un- ■
safe, and a man who works sixteen hours I
a day is unfit to work.
The business men should realize that a i
man who gets 10 cents an hour for his
work ean buy little of their merchandise,
and therefore the business men should pro
test, because the cutting’ of the wages of
the men meant the removal of money from
’ the town. It tak, s money from the mer
i chants. The business man should be the !
, fi.-< nds of an organization that increases ;
! wages and .shortens hours.
Organization > ecessa ry.
The m et-sity for organization is appar-
• • ni to • v. iy one and especially to the man
• wno travels. The parks of great cities
.-warm with discontented men, idle and
' unuOt to get work, while the factories
swarm with stunted children.
’i tie only hope, tor freedom from these
l condition.-! is organization. The mother and
; the ci*U»i must be taken from the factories
| and tin workshops. We want to place the
I woman in the home and the child iu tne
1 schools. The hope of the nation is its
' cltil'Biood, ami the childhood of the nation
i is being stunted in the- workshops and the
improved machinery, made for the ben
| efit of mankind, has been made a curse.
I it ha thrown the father on the highway
I and the child into the factories.
What hope has the wage earner for his
! children? The situation is alarming. For
thirty day.-;, tin speaker said, he and Mr.
i Del,;- had worked in i'< nnsyivania and Vir
i t'.aia void mine regions. They had found
i squalor and poverty and utter hopcless
i '1 he Southern laboring man, said Mr. Ma
hone, is prejudic'd against organized la-
I bor. It is called un-American and un-
■ triotic it is, but the man who says that
I know bow capital loves the flag or how pa
; triotic lie is. but the man who says that
loi n.H.izi d labor is unpatriotic does not
I know what h< talks about. If it is unpa
triotic to protect the home and the wives
and the children of the wage earners, then
he w ished to be unpatriotic.
Tin- spirit of organized labor, Mr. Ma
lione said, came over with the pilgrims in
the Mayflower. Tin y came to find a coun
try that afforded them liberty and hope.
They planted the seed of co-operation on
I the rock-bound shores of New England.
I They called for equity, and the man who
I today waits on capital to set a fair price
on his labor waits in vain.
I npatriotic Capital
The unpatriotic side of labor is repre
sented, said Mr. Mahone, in tne Carnegies
and the Pullmans, who take the hard
e.irm d money of American workers to buy
castles iu Scotland or in Italy, or husbands
among the snobocracy of the old world.
That is the un-American side of labor.
It is said, too, that labor goes on strikes.
We seek, said Mr. Mahone, to get labor
united. When it is united the other fellow
will have to strike, it is only disorganized
labor that strikes.
Mr. Mahone drew attention to the dif
ference between the time when the coal
barons raist d the price of coal ami the
I>oor people suffered from cold. No in
junctions were issued and no coal opera
tors wt re shot down. But when the wage
arm r: asked for more wages .njuuelions
flew tlii 1; and fast and they cried, "Shoot
tin m down.”
Tin merchants, the saloon keepers all
have their prices on their goods, but when
labor sets a price on its brawn and sinew
they cry "Strike,” and say, “Shoot him
down.”
Organized labor, said Mr. Mahone, is not
irreligious. Every Christian should be a
friend to organized labor, for it seeks to
put the wage earners in a position to
better in this life.
Tiny say it is a ballot question. It is
first a question of education. "Ballots and
not bullets" sounds grand, but we have
been ballottiug for a hundred years. The
first thing lie had ever heard, said the
;'p. aker, was protection of the American
laborer.
i.abor looks upon the politicians as a
very tricky set. The politicians have
stolen the sheep out of the lot of labor and
have sold them to it again.
The politicians are tricky. They say
don’t organize; just vote, said Mr. Ma
hone, and we've been voting.
About Protection,
AVhen the advance agent of Hanna—
Prosperity—came, he said to the wage
earners, you must vote for protection of
American labor. They have got protection
ami prosperity in the New England states
to tlie tune of a 20 to 25 per cent, reduc
tion.
The only protection the wage earner got
ficin the Republican politician was when
the Pinkertons and police, armed with
rifles, protected the American laborer from
the organizer ami prevent'd the mine
worker from hearing jhe speaking of the
organizer.
Mr. Mahone touched upon silver He
said they might raise the altar of free sil
ver on every hill and in every valley, but
it availed the American laborer nothing
unless he v.as organized and was in a po
sition to demand his share of a prosperity
that would come under the free and unlim
ited coinage of silver.
The machinists of England are on a
strike', and they tire told by the employers:
"We cannot compete with the cheap labor
of America," and in Aim riea they say:
"We cannot compote with the cheap labor
of England." In the North they say: “We
annot compete with the cheap labor of the
South.” and in the Soutii they say: “We
e.annot e<>mpete with the cheap labor of
New England.” Capital has no flag, no
country .and no God. Labor must organize
to save this country and to save its peo
ple.
The war of the sixties was for the pur
pose of wiping out slavery. Chattie labor
was wiped out. but teday corporations en
throned have enslaved not only the negro,
but has bound the hands of white men and
women.
We' find them working children at 50
cents a week. Where are we drifting?
Thi y are introducing paeons now. w’e are
drifting towards paeonage. Business men
ire paeons, but business men should or
ganize and they must organize to protect
themselves and they must stand with la
bor. The railroad companies are going
into’business and are running grab-trains
in the South in competition with the bus
iness men.
If we unite and rally there is a hope,
said Mr. Mahone. There is no coercion at
the polls when there is organization. The
hope of this country is with organized
workmen, not with disorganized workmen,
and not with capital,
Eagpne V ticks Ajnin.
Hon. Eugene V. Debs was introduced by
Mr. Davidson.
Mr. Debs commenced by saying that he
hated slavery, as does every free man. The
wage slave of today is immeasurably bet
ter off than the chattel slave of forty years
ago. The chattel slave had a commercial
value. He was worth taking care of. The
wage slave is the slave of a corporation
and works under such conditions as cor
porate capital fixes. A few men may es
cape and go to the top. Those who do so
take credit and call themselves self-made
men and claim that others could do so if
they would.
But some men are endowed with forces
by nature which enable them to become
rich and to rise, while others remain poor
for the same reason.
Mr. Debs said that he proposed to strike
at the root of the evil. There is no hope
for the wage earner until the competition
i system has ijeen abolished. Why should
not every man be able to work for himself?
If a man will work let him get the bene
fit. If he does not work, then neither shall
he eat.
the system of individualism has suc-
I long as a man has been able to
j obtain work. But today it takes not one
■ man but a number of men to produce an
i article. We must reach a system where
j there shall not only be association in pro-
■ dv.'tiou but association in distribution.
I nder the present system a wage worker
; is denied the right to work unless he parts
I with four-fttths of his toil to go as profit
to a man who produe'es nothing.
•Nou-Productive Class,
M e have a number of commercial trav
j eltrs who are nice men, said Mr. Debs, but |
t the y produce nothing. They are made nec- I
. es'i'.ry : y the competitive system. Four- ;
I fifths of the workers are not productive. :
Lawyers and judges are made necessary by !
I the competitive system.
I M hen the fathers first met, said Mr. \
: Debs, they did not think of prosperity. It
j was not included in the Declaration of In- ‘
dependence. They believed that life was
sacred and liberty was sacred, but thought
nothing of property.
Millions of our people are begging for
the right to live. The sight of the wage
worker going from door to door begging
DEMOCRACY.
for work that his loved ones may live is
awful. It is. said Mr. Debs, the most mel
ancholy of spectacles. No man has a
guarantee that he has a job. And as the
competitive system grows the opportuni
ties grow less.
“What will you do with your children?"
asked Mr. Debs. Learn a trade? No.
The machine has absorbed the trade, a
few may stili pay. but human ingenuity
is at work and the skilled labor is being
driven out. Because some railroad men
still get the wages they used to get
some will tell you that for this reason
wages have not been reduced- But the ca
pacity of engines has been doubled and
now one t ain does the work of three trains
formerly.
It is g< ttlng harder and harder to get
work Th' nif you are thoughtful you will
ask yovit.t if what will you do with your
chile >en? Possibly your children will be
made the slaves of cruel masters. If a
girl, perhaps driven into the sweat shops
or into prostitution.
'1 li< Aiveat Miops.
Mr. Debs spoke of the sweat shops, lie
said that they were impossiole ot descrip
tion, but he essayed to do so, and drew a
hideous picture ot tiiem as fie had seen
them in New York.
Wiiat incentive have the workers in the
sweat shops to become good men and wo
men ?
The argument of capital is that tlie pres
ent conditions have been in existence for
hundreds of years ami will contiue to uo
so.
"If I thought that,” said Mr. Debs, “1
would commit suicide. '
Mr. uebs then drew a vivid picture of
tin difference between the lite, the home
and tne family of the section hand as rep
resenting labor and those of the rich man.
The rich man says that the section hand
cannot appreciate refinement. Change the
children oi the two while they infants and
they will grow up the oue relined and
tne other bestialized regardless of parent
age according to their surroundings. It
is altogether a question of opportunity,
said Mr. Debs, as to how our children
grow up.
Unless it is possible for all men to be
happy, creation is a mistake. There is
material enough to make homes for all
human beings and men enough to maKe
tiiem.
The system he seeks, Mr. Debs says, is
based upon economic equality, and in due
course of time social and economic eman
cipation will have been reached.
Under the present system a man must
be either a millionaire or a mendicant. He
lias |5,000 invested now. It may make him
a living. Five years from now it will not,
and five years from now the ?5,000 capi
talist will have disappeared.
Mr. Debs said that the change was at
hand. We have, he said, lived in the
midst of a revolution for the last twenty
live years, and before the new century
dawns the end will have been reached. It
is not a remote end; it is close at hand,
though some people will tell you that it is
far oil. It comes faster and faster and
faster and more surely every day.
Everything is to be monopolized. In the
South not much is known, but it is com
ing. In St. Louis the other day all the
wholesale groceries organized. The result
will be that they will discharge all their
drummers and will cease to advertise.
VVltulesalc Trusts.
In Chicago a large wholesale grocery
trust is to be organized and will have
blanch houses in every city. They will
crush out the small men. The meat men
must go, and they wiil crush out the gro
cers next. They are doing it now. In less
than twenty-four months the meat trust,
composed of four individuals, will control
the meat of the country.
Business men are interested and here
in Macon they will be reached by tne
trusts, said Mr. Debs. They will be reached
for two reasons. First the wage worker is
either out of work or he is getting a small
Concentrated capital is after you. Tlie
business man is being crushed between the
upper and nether millstones of corporate
capital and reduced purchasing power.
We must come either to an oligarchy of
wealth with ail the money in the hands of
a few and the rest all slaves, or the co
operative system with freedom lor all.
We are going to develop a collective
ownership of land and every man and all
men will work a resonable number of
hours at what nature intends he should
work at. Every man will work enough to
produce what he needs. Now one man is
crippled because he does no work and the
other because he does too much.
Everything in creation is in co-operation
except the system under which we live.
Tlie human system is co-operative, the so
lar system is co-operative. Work today is
diudgery under the competitive system.
Individual capital and labor cannot be har
monized. In New England they have cut
the wages of 25,000 men, amounting to
$90,000 a week and lay it on the pauper
labor of the Southern states.
Mr. Debs said he was not a calamity
howler, lie is full of hope, he says. He
simply describes the facts as they exist.
The patient is sick and he tries to diag
nose the malady. We are dying from
competitive smallpox, but as the competi
tive system gives away, the co-operative
system is developing.
Abuut SoeialiNiii.
The postoffice system is socialistic. The
people are against socialism, but there is
no man who is against socialism who
knows what it is. • Socialism is Christian
ity in action. It observes the rule "Do
unto others what you would that they
should do unto you.”
Socialism, says Mr. Debs, is the salva
tion of this country. It is the one move
ment developing throughout the world. It
is the only system under which war will
be no more. A socialist believes in the
brotherhood of the race.
"1 am," said Mr. Debs, “a socialist.”
He asked his hearers to investigate the
question of socialism. A socialist never
goes backward, he said. He is not crowded
or stampeded. He increases in number. It
is the only vote that increases. This fall
1,000,000 socialist votes will be cast in
this country, and Mr. Debs said that he
would not wonder to see a socialist pres
ident elected in 1900, and predicts that
surely one will be elected in 1904.
Mr. Debs has not the slightest resent
ment for a man who differs with him, he
said. Men may disagree yet be friends.
He advocated no change that would do his
hearers any injustice. He sought his free
dom through the freedom of others. The
helping of oneself by the helping of others,
is the quinteseenee ot co-operation.
Mr. Debs urged his hearers to read and
inform themselves on this subject. The
cause is at present an unpopular cause.
All great causes are unpopular. He said
that he did not want to be called a leader
—a leader implied a follower and he did
not want them to follow, but to join hands
in the movement.
He urged organization and asked them
to join the party of Social Democracy to
work politically towards the attainment
of a particular end.
In conclusion Mr. Debs thanked his au
dience for their temperate hearing of him
self and his audience.
He expressed himself as grateful to The
Evening News for their report of his Mon
day night’s speech, which he termed a
masterpiece, and he urged his hearers and
the working people to read The ?Wws.
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Object is to Contiol Bicycle Races in this
Country.
The question most prominently before
the bicycle world now is whether the
League of American Wheelmen is to have
a rival in the racing department of cy
cling.
Former attempts have been made to take
from the league the absolute control of the
racing, and none have been successful. No
organization of private individuals has
been found strong enough to beat down the
prestige gained by the L. A. W. In its
years of existence.
Rumors have been in circulation all
over the country regarding some associa
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racing and manage it. The names of some
•three or four men are said to be among
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received offers within the last few days
by men who were sent to sound them on
the question of racing on circuit tracks an
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If the League of American Wheelmen
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hours have elapsed a newly organized as
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Cycle racing wil be on a larger and
more costly basis this year than ever be
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is now being planned by the big men in
rhe cycle world. The best and the fastest
middle distance kings will be the contest
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that Greater New York will secure the
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rider will be selected will then meet Mi
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termed the champion of the world. For
the final the best riders in t!he world will
be secured for pacemaking purposes, and
the manager of each competitor may em
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cept The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is
President. p
March 8, 1897.
Do Not Be Deceived.
Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting
a cheap substitute which some chuggist may otfer you
(because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in
gredients of which even he docs not know.
“The Kind You Have Always Bo light’’
BEARS THE FAC SIMILE SiGNATURE OF
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insist on Having
The Kind That Never Failed You.
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Phone 73. $3.50 Per Ton
$3-50 sjz PA A T SSM*
Per Ton. I »J " O Genuine.
Eureka. Red Buy from me I $1.50
Ash, jeiico. and get what you 1,1
Genuine. g . ...pa/ fOT Per TOU.
HOLMES JOHNSON, Oomu % l ee St.
$3.50 Per Ton. Phone 73.
F. A GUTTENBERGER & CO
Pianos and organs—Celebrated Sohinei
Bush & (b i ts, the Famous Burdette Organ,
■ X Bie Waterloo Organ, all strictly first-class.
ArUstic I'iano tuning.
1 have secured the services of Mr. Win.
Wjjii Hinspeter, so favorably known in Macon
' as a tuner and salesman. All orders left
satisfaction guaranteed.
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DEALERS IN
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a Palmers’ Supplies
I' Cabinet Mantels,
» Tiles and Grate?
Facilities Unsurpassed.
Central of Georgia
Twa Railway Company
Schedules in Effect Dec. 16, 1897, Standard Time
RY CO. Z 90th Meridian.
No. 5 I No. 7 *| No. 1 *| STA TIONS | No. 2 *| No. 8 *| No. G
11 20 am 740 pm| 835 ainlLv Ma con. . .Ari 725 pmj 740 am! 355 pm
12 19 am 8 40pm| 935 am|Ar.. ..Fort Valley. ,Lv| G3O pm| 639 am| 253 pm
! 3 35 pmj 110 20 am|Ar. .. .Perry Lvj! 5 00 pm| j!ll 30 am
1 20 pm'Ar. . ..Opelika. . .Lv| 2 45 pm! |
1 43 pm 10 01 pm| |Ar.. .Americus. . .Lv| | 5 18 pm| 128 pm
f 205 pm 10 2a pm) {Ar.. ..Smithville .Lv | 455 amjf 105 pm
3 20 pm 11 05 pm| |Ar. .. .Albany.. ..Lv I 4 15 amj 11 50 am
5 45 pm (Ar.. ..Columbia. ..Lv I | 900 arc
2 55 Pm |Ar.. ..Dawson. . ..Lv | | 12 13 pm
2 37 pm |Ar.. ..Cuthbert. . .Lv i | 11 30 pm
445 pm No. 9 *|Ar.. .Fort Gaines. Lv No. 10 *| j!10 40 am
4 29 pm 7 40 ami Ar Eufaula.. ..Lvj 7 20 pmj |! 10 40 am
8 14 pm |Ar Ozark. .. .Lvj | I’ 7 05 am
5 50 pm 9 15 am|Ar. . .Un. Springs. Lvi 550 pm | 9 15 am
7 25 am [Ar Troy. . ..Lvj I I 7 55 am
720 pm 10 45 am Ar. .Montgomery. .Lv| 4 10 pm| I 7 45 am
No. ll.*l No. 3.*| No. l.*i [ No. 2.»| NuTTI No Iz.«
8 00 am! 4 25 amj 4 15 pmjLv.. . .Macon. . . .Ar| 11 10 amj 11 10 pm| 7 20 pm
9 17 amj 5 47 amj 542 pmlLv. .Barnesville. ..Lvi 9 40 ami 945 amj 6 05 pm
■l2 05 ami j 740 pm Ar.. .Thomaston. ..Lv 700 am I! 300 pm
9 50 am, 6 16 am, 6 13 pm'Ar. . ..Griffin.. .. Lvi 907 amj 9 15 pmj 5 30 pm
• |!11 47 am' lAr.. ..Newnan. . .Lv! j j! 3 23 pro
[! 1 05 pm| |Ar.. ..Carrollton. .Lvj ...I |! 2 10 pm
11 20 ami 745 am: 7 35 pm Ar.. ..Atlanta. . ..Lv, 7 50 am' 750 pm| 4 05 pm
No. 6. !l No. 47*1 No. 2*| 7 No. 1. •, No. 3. *| No. 5. :
7 30 pnr 11 38 pm 11 2a am Lv. .. .Macon. . ..Ar 3 55 ami 7 45 am
810 pm 12 19 am 12 08 pm Ar. . . .Gor don. .. .Ar 500 pm 310 ami 710 am
850 P m ! 1 15 pm Ar. .Milled geville .Lvi! 345 pm I 6 30 rjr
10 00 pm ! 3 00 pm|Ar.. ..Eato nton. . .Lvj! 1 30 pm | 5 25 am
*ll 25 am *ll 3s pm *ll 25 am Lv. .. .Ma con. . ..Ar;* 3 45 pm * 3 55 am * 3 45 pm
117 pm 130 am f 1 17 pm Ar. .. .Ten nille.. ..Lv 1 56 pm 152 amj 152 pm
230 pm, 225 am 230 pm Ar. . .Wadley. .. .Lvjfl2 55 pm! 12 50 am| 12 55 pm
251 pm, 245 ami 251 pm Ar. . ..Midville. . .Lv| 12 11 pm! 12 30 ami 12 11 pm
3 2a pm, 3 15 am> 325 pmjAr. .. .Mil len. .. .Lvi 11 31 am| lx 58 pm| 11 3-' am
s j 42 pm| 4 42 am) 510 pmlAr .Waynesboro.. .Lvj 10 13 am! 10 37 pm|slo 4< am
5530 pm 635 am ! 635 pm'Ar. . .Aug usta. . .Lvi! 820 am: 840 pm|s 930 am
No. 16. *| | No. 15.
.................... 900 am Lv.. . .Macon. . .Ari 700 pm!
I 12 00 pm Ar. . .Madison. . .Lv! 4 13 pm'..
I 1 20 pmlAr. , ..Athens. . ..Lv! 300 pm 1
* Dally. ! Daily except Sunday, f Me al station, s Sunday only.
Solid trains are run to ands from Mac on and Montgomery via Eufaula, Savan
nah and Atlanta via Maccn, Macon and A Ibany via Smithville, Macon and Birming
ham via Columbus. Elegant sleeping ca rs on trains No. 3 and 4 between Macon
and Savannah and Aalanta and Savannah. Sleepers for Savannah are ready-for occu
pancy in Macon depot at 9:00 p. m. Pas- sengers arriving in Macon on No. 3 and S»
vannah on No. 4, are allowed to remain in sleeper until 7a. m. Parlor cars between
Macon and Atlanta on trains Nos. 11 and 12. Seat fare 25 cents. Passengers for
Wrightsville, Dublin and Sandersville take 11:55 train. Train arrives Fort Gaines
4:30 p. m., and leaves 10:30 a. m. Sundays. For Ozark arrives 7.25 p. m. and leaves
7.45 a. m. For further information or seh edules to points beyond our lines, address
W. P. DAWSON, T. P. A., Macon, Ga. E. P. BONNER, U. T. A
E. H. HINTON, Traffic Manager j. c. HAILE, G- P- A.
THEO. D. KLINE, G eneral Superintendent.
New Leaf.
\ ’'i* 1 ' 1 1 an< * n,a * i * nK good resolutions for the New
---1 f ■’ Year, is what many people will be doing
t,iis week * L '' one “ f them be to fin your
medicine chest from our stock of pure
<75.-7 »r drugs. We have headache cures, dyspep-
<' j I 17 sia cures, and cures for "all the ill* that
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flesh is heir to,” and it is well to keep
CO p '***<>•" lk> V some of our specifics on hand at all times.
A FEW OF THE GOOD THINGS WE HAVE TO OFFER
Hot water bag, 2 quart, 95c. Laxine, the wonderful nerve and liver
Hot water bag. 3 quart, $1.20. cure, 50c.
Fountain syringes, 2 quart 95c. Almond Cream, the only preparation of
Atomizers 50c. to $1 rval ,uerit for the skin, 25c.
One minute thermometers, regular price t rmt ‘ 15c“ P ° ad ' B EX '
$3, for $1.50. tract ’ } oC - , „ , „
o . , Goodwyn s Female Remedy, a positive
trjodwyn s Tonic, the wonderful flesh cure for menstrual irregularities, sl.
bui der, sl. Absorbent cotion, package sc.
Hypodermic syringes, best, $1.50. Great bargains in toilet soaps. }
GOODWYN’S DRUG STORE.
One Minute, Please,
Did you ever think of the fine season we are having for planting
FIELD SEED, such as BARLEY, RYE, CRIMSON CLOVER,
WHEAT and all kind of GRALX, also HYACINTH BULBS.
Don't wait until it is too late. We keep Canary Bird Cages and
Earthenware.
STREYER SEED CO.
466 Poplar Street, Gunn’s Block.
We Have Moved!
Our office and sales room to two doors from the express
office 0:1 Fourth street, wheie we are better prepared than
ever to serve those ueediim
o
Building Material of Every Kind.
Macon Sash, Door - Lumber Co
IS- ~i — rTT | ~TU|J|I ||l n I 1 ! Dill ihDBU'III—WIWII—
CENTRAL CITY.
Refrigerator arm Cafflnat Works.
MANUFACTURE S OF
Bank, Bar and Office Fixtur s, Drug Store Mantels
and all kinds of Hard Wood Work, Show Cases to
order. Muecke’s newest improved Dry Air Refrigera
tor will be made and sold at wholesale prices to every
body. Give us a trial.
F. W. nUECKE, Manager
614 New Street.
F 3 AS S i N Q .
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HOL! DAVS
Has tended to lessen the volume of busi
ness at our store, but we are doing some
business at the old stand yet. We have
a few pieces left of the DELFT and Im
perial Bonn China at your own price.
BEELAND, the Jeweler Triangular Block.
rehW s bo i al hLLb.
rr Aai. for 9Sk MO*r-X d SSWHTKO'ZAX. HIZ.X.S and take no other.
W io.r circular. Frlce SI.OO per box, ff boxes for SS.UO.
i>i?. ViI’HL.MLiCLAL. 00., - CJlweland. Ohio.
For sale by H. J. LAMAR & SONS. Wholesale Agents.
Phone 617.
S. Gi. BOUIS cSo (DO.
Practical Plumbers.
Sanitary Plumbing, Gas Fitting, Steam, Hot
Water and Hot Air Heating.
Specicil Attention to Repair Work.
“It’S English, YOU Know,” Harvey English, who
says: ’‘Bnglish Paiut stops leaks, yes it do.”
I furnish all material, labor, stop the leaks, paint the roof and give a written
guarantee: ‘‘lf the above named roof leaks or needs painting at any time within ten
years from date, I am to do the work needed without any expense to the owner
of the building.”
My price is 50 cents a square of 100 square feet.
It’s Georgians
Os Albany, Ga., that rise *s one m«u and say: ‘‘English Paint Stops Leaks;
Yes, It Do.”
Albany, Ga., June 5, 1897.
We know Mr. Harvey English to be a citizen of Dougherty county, Georgia, a
property holder therein; that he has done a large amount of painting in Albany, Ga.
We have heard of no complaints about his work. Work entrusted to his hands will
be faithfully executed, and his guarantee is good. J. T. Hester, tax collector; Sam
W. Smith, ordinary; S. W. Gunnison, tax receiver; R. P. Hall, clerk superior court;
W. T. Jones, judge county court; W. E. Wooten, solicitor-general Albany circuit;
Ed. L. Wight, mayor of Albany and representative in the Georgia legislature; B. F.
Brimberry, John Mock, C. B. James, agent Southern Express Company; N. F. Tift, J.
C. Talbot, L. E. Welch, A. W. Muse, Y. G. Rust, postmaster; J. D. Weston, 3. ft.
Weston.
All of my customers are well pleased and say:
“English Paint stops leaks, yes it do.”
Home Industries
and Institutions.
Henr> r Stevens’ Sons Co.
H. STEVENS’ SONS CO, Macon, Ga., Manufacturers of Sewer,
and Railroad culvert pipe, fittings, fire brick, clay, etc. Wall tubing with
perforated bottoms that will last forever.
Macon Fish and Oyster House.
CLARKE & DANIEL, wholesale and retail dealers in Fresh
Fish, Oysters,Crabs, Shrimps, Game, Ice, etc., 655 Poplar street. Tel
ephone 463. Fisheries and packing house, St. Petersburg, Fla.
Macon Machinery.
MALLARY BROS. & CO., dealers in Engines, Boilers, Saw
Mills. Specialties—Watertown Steam Engines, Saw Mills, Grist Mills,
Cotton Gins.
Macon Refrigerators.
MUECKE’S Improved Dry Air Refrigerators. The best Re
frigerators made. Manufactured right here in Macon, any size and of
any material desred. It has qualities which no other refrigerator on
the market possesses. Come and see them at the factory pm Jstew St,
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