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8 Per Cent Guaranteed! Dividends paid e»mi-amnnallv. se>*ur«d t by deeds t» Improved real estate In more than d.ruble the anoMint deposited with Inion Hanngs Hank an I Trost Co GEO. A SMITH, Gen Man. ■ Equitable Building and Loan Association, I Mirun. (11.. 4<l| flurd ESTABLISHED 1884. ALL DOUBT IS I NOW DISPELLED The Maine Explosion Was Not an Accident—lmportant Witness Testifies. WHAT WILL BE HEIT MOVE? Board of Inquiry Has About Finished Its Work and Will Go to Key West. New York, Ei'b. 25.--A dispal- h to -the raid from Havana says: “There Is no longer any reason to doubt that the explosion which wrecked Maine eanie from underneath the vessel and that Iter magazines had nothing to do with the Initial explosion and played a much small er part in the general disaster than was at first supposed. “The evidence that 'has served to confirm the board was obtained by Ensign Powill •on, an officer attached to the Fern. “Powelison wax formerly in the con struction corps and took . a two years’ special course in the Glasgow Sdhool of Naval Architecture. He is therefore a competent witness. "What he discoverer] was that the for ward part of the keel of the Maine, with its ribs and plates was stove upward so far that parts of rhe shattered double bottom show out of the water, and in places sec tions of the green painted outer hull ar visible. "Corroborative of the evidence given by Ensign Pow. lison and of equal significance ami im-portanc. is the result of the close examination made by divers, what they found indicated that. Lite explosion cam. from a print beneath the keel. A plum line dropped from a point just sot ward of the conning tower would have laid the lea-1 exactly on the spot where the explosion oceui nil that hove the keel, plates-and ribs almost to the surface. The main force of the ex-plosion seems to have bt en. exceedingly slight on the port siif. of the vessel. This is consistent with the fa< ts hitherto ascertained. NOT CREDITED. Washingion Officials Think the Statement is Without Foundation Washington, Feb. 25—Undoubtedly _thire Is a qulter feeling manifested at the navy di-i• irtim nt over the Maine affair as tha time passes. This is the tenth day since the nebk wiar ship was de-iroy.d (but the 'officers are willing to wait in patience at the ad monition of tlie president and Secretary ilxmg until the facts relating to the ex plosion are fully developed. They are fully oiithbir guard against the acceptance of unauthorized statements of the conditions at Havana, and daily devel opments, bling aware of the efficiency of the precautions adopted by the court of inquiry to prevent the premature d'sclo sure of lie proceedings. Therefore the published statement that the explosion had been demonstrated to bt of exterior origin by the disci. ry of up heaval of the double bottom of the Maine, because the officers could not conceive that the alert numbers of the court of inquiry and their assistants in Havana had over looked a fait so important as this, not withstanding that it must have been per fectly apparent for the past week to any one who came near the wreck. Captain Crowninshield turned up at the navy department today and took the helm in the bureau of navigation, relieving Cap tain Dickens, who has distinguished him self and earned the thanks of the secreta ry for the untiring vigilance with which he has managed all of the many details of the Maine afi'air, that have fallen upon the navigation bureau, and of the news paper men for the patience and frankness with which he has met their inquiries. There was no word from either Captain Slgsbce or Consul General Lee this morn ing at the navy and state departments. The monitor Terror Is lying in Hampton Roads, and it Is said at the navy depart ment that she has no orders as yet. The Impression Is that she will remain In that place, which is one of great strat egic value in ease of need, at least until IL the Monitor Puritan is ready to take her jp place. COURT OF INQUIRY Will Probably Leave for Key West This Af ternoon. Havana. Feb. 25.—The United States light house tender Mangrove is still here, • and the naval of inquiry continues its usual sessions today. The members hope to get away to Key West this evening or early tomorrow morning, but are not sure which it will be. It is probable that the testimony of civ ilian witnesses did not add to the court’s knowledge of the circumstances attend ing the explosion, of the causes of which these witnesses could know nothing, as -they were quite a distance away at the time of the occurrence. The wounded are reported as doing well today. The Merritt & Chapman Derrick and Wrecking company tug Right Arm is again at work removing such‘parts of the wreck as are possible to handle in ad vance of the arrival of the stronger tugs and derricks from the north. SPAIN WANTS WAR. Newspapers Urging Government to Strike first R'ow. London. Feb. 25. —According to the spe cial dispatch from Madrid, the reports te ceived there from the United States to the effect that public opinion in the latter country is becoming more excited owing to the impression that the loss of the Maine was not due to an accident, are “restirring popular feeling here (in Madrid), and the conviction is increasing in ministerial circles that “the worst must be expected." Continuing, the special dispatch says: “The government has no choice If the United States adopts a threatening atti tude, for the prospect of war is popular w ith'all parties, and the more excitable newspapers are already urging the gov ernment to take measure to enable Spain to strike the first and decisive blow.” VESCAYA SAILS The Spanish War Vessel in Under Headway for Cuba. New York, Feb. 25.—The Spanish cruis er Vjscaya, was reported by the observer ta quarantine as under way at 10:25 p. m._ Her destination is Havana. The flag of the warship was still flying at half mast this morning because of the Joss o£ the Maine. WAR INEVITABLE Says President Iglesias Between Costa Rica and Nicaragua New York. Fob. 25.—A dispatch to the j Herald from Panama says: •Advices re ceived today from Costa Rico stat? that at | a banquet given Sunday night President ■ Iglesias, in bis speech, said the situation i b. tween Costa. Rico and Nicaraugua are ; such that war was inevitable. APPALLING DESTITUTION Found by Clara Barton at Jaruco on Her ■ Visit. Havana, Feb. 25.—Miss Clara Barton re- I ports that she-found the recon centradoes at Jaruco, Havana (Province, in an awful I condition of starvation and misery. She : said that she could not believe it was pos sible to witness more human suffering and ! more appaling spectacles of distress than j those she had already seen in Ctfba, Vet ' they did not compare with what she found in Jaruco. An immense crowd followed her to the church, and the poor people knelt and gave thanks to God for sending Miss Bar ton to them. She had' (been appointed by unanimous vote of the city council “adop tive daughter” of Jaruco. She left a good hospital in the place and has greatly re lieved the general misery. ST. JOHN DENIES That the Government Has Made Arrange rnents With Railroads. Norfolk, Va., Feb. 25. —The rumor that the government is securing from the rail way companies estimates of their capacity for moving troops and munitions of war between Atlantic and gulf ports and the ihtuior, is officially denied by President St. John, of thi Seaboard Air Line, whose road was mentioned in the reports. St. John said today that he was ignorant of any such move on the part of the war department, ami as to contracts for moving troops he had heard nothing of them.* DE LOME AGAIN. He Charges the American Newspapers With Lying About Him. Liverpool, Feb. 25.—Seuor Dupuy De Lome, who arrived here today on board the While Star Line steamer Britannic, is quoted as saying in an interview: "I have decided not to speak on the sub ject of my letter to Senor Caualejas. I can say, however, that I hbve been from the first a victim of misapprehension. "The news published in the American papers and sent to this country and my own, was from beginning to end made up of lies of the most infamous character. The allegation in. the American papers that the terrible explosion in the Maine was the outcome of Spanish conspiracy, is, in my opinion, another instances of the reckless manner in which the newspapers in America work upon popular prejudice. ” LA CHAMPAGNE The French Liner Due Last Sunday Not Yet Sighted. New York. Feb. 25.—At 9 o’clock this morning tire overdue French liner La Champagne, from Havre, had not been sighted, nor had anything been heard of her. Agent Boncandc and the local officials at the dock and. officers of the French liner still deny that the company is at all ap prehensive about La Champagne, which should have arrived last Sunday. The passengers booked to sail from New- York on La Champagne tomorrow- will be sent <m La Bretagne. BARNESVILLE MATTERS.' Presiding Elder of the Griffin District Push ing the Mission Work. Barnesville, Ga., Feb. 25.—Rev. W. W. Wadsworth, presiding elder of the Grif fin district, North Georgia Conference, is holding a missionary institute at the M. thodist church. All the preachers in the district are here, and many visitors. Tuesday night Dr. H. C. Morrison, sec retary of the foreign mission board, de livered a very fine address. Wednesday night Rev. Simeon Shaw, of Madison, lectured on “Japan,” and Thurs day night Rev. Mr. Irwin, of "Forsyth, preached. The day services are devoted to insti tute work, and the night work to lectures and songs. The Barnesville Methodist choir has been furnishing some delightful music, which is a great feature with all the meetings held at this church.' Rev. .S- Stevens is the pastor in charge here. This is his second year, and the people all like him. He is assisting in making the missionary institute a suc cess. This institute was held here last year. DINGLEY ATTACKED. Moody Says He Will Not Follow a Dishonest Leader. Washington, Feb. 25.—The house today • resumed the consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bills. Quite a debate cn the motion to strike out the appropriation of $133,000 for work it Oakland. Cal., its opponents alleging that no contract had yet been made for the work, and asserting that the river and harbor bill was to be suppressed and fa vored a few given appropriations in the' sundry civil bills. Representative Moody made a sensation al attack upon the appropriation in the sundry civil bill of $360,000 for Rockland. Me., harbor, which is in Mr. Diagley’s district. He said he was willing to sub mit to economy under honest leadership, but for one he proposed to rebel against a leadership that gave an appropriation to Rockland, Me., an insignificant port. Mr. Din-gley answered the personal at tack made upon him. The Rockland im provement. he said, was not simply an im provement; it included the provision for a breakwater and a harbor of refeuge—just such another as was being built at Sand Bay in Air. Moody’s district, and on which $75,000 had been spent. Mr. Catchings, Democrat, of Mississippi, defended, the action of the appropriations committee. NAVAL MILITIA Appears Before the Committee to Urge Ap propriation. Washington. Feb. 25.—A delegation of officers of the naval reserve of the several easter states, headed by Captain Miller, of the New York naval malitia, and Com mander Emerson, of the Maryland, appear ed before the naval committee of the house today to urge favorable action upon the bill introduced by 'Representative Bull, of Rhode Island, to increase the strength of the naval militia. The bill provides for the construction of twenty torpedo boats of 150 tons each, at a cost not exceeding $2,500,000 for the use of rhe naval militia. Through Pullman Buffet sleeping cars between Macon and New York via Georgia railroad and Atlantic Coast Line, THE MACON NEWS. BRYAN COMING TO SPEAK HERE The Man of 1900 Will Visit This City Early Next Month, ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION Will Be Given Him By the People of Macon, and of This Section of the State. WillianrJ. Bryan will make .his first vis it to Macon about the second or third week of next month. The arrangements to bring Mr. Bryan to Macon have not yet been fully completed, but it may be set down as a positive fact that he will be here. Mr. Bryan is booked to reach Alabama to make a series of speeches in a number of towns next .week and the follow ing. He will then come on to Georgia, and it is not yet known whether he will speak first in Atlanta or Macon. An effort will be made to get him to make this his first stopping place in the state. Mr. Bryan will- have a tremendous re ception in Macon and will bring people here from all over this section. On the occ-xsi.j.-i of his coming Macon will have probably tbe 'biggest crowd she has ever known in her history ami the Democrats of the city will be asked to make It a great day. The dates for Mr. Bryan’s speeches in Georgia have not yet been fixed, but those for Alabama are as follows: Tuscaloosa, Tuesday night, March Ist. Birmingham, Wednesday night, March 2. Mobile, Thursday night, ’March 3d.. ■Pensacola, Friday night, .March 4th. Talladega, at noon, March sth. Montgomery, Monday night, March 7th. ZOLA’S SUPPORTERS Have Been Made to Pav a Penalty For Standing by Him. Paris, Feb. 25.—1 t is semi-officially an nounced that Colonel Picquart, chief of the military witnesses for Zola during the lat ter’s trial, will be placed on the ‘half 'pay of a lieutenant. The chaplain w’ho wrote -the letter con gratulating Zola has been put upon the unattached list, and Professor Grimaux, of the Polytechnic Sschool, who signed the i ndorsement of Zola’s action, bias, been re tired. QUEEN’S WEATHER. Mrs. Pierpont Morgan Was Presented to the Queen Today. London, Feb. 25. —What 1 is known as “queen’s weather” prevailed today and the first drawing room of the season, at Buck ingham Palace was a most brilliant affair. Immense crowds of people lined t'he ap proaches to the palace. Mrs. Henry White, wife -of the United States charg d’affalrs, presented Airs. J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr., and Miss Muriel White. Messrs. White and Carter attended in diplomatic circles. MASS MEETING Os Representatives of Organized Railroad • Employes in Chattanooga- Chattanooga, Feb. 25.—0 n March 12th, 13th and 14th a mass meeting of represen tatives of all organized railroad employes south of the Ohio river will be held in Chattanooga. . ■» The national officers of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, the Order of Rail way Conductors, the Brotherhood of Rail way Trainmen, and others, have promised to -be present, and the attendance of sev eral thousand members is expected. The object of the meeting is to bring about a more fraternal feeling among the Southern trainmen and put them on a harmonious working basis. TWO MILLION DOLLARS. Tremendous Fire Threaters a Whole'Block in Lot : sv'"e. Louisville, Ky., Feb. 25.—The -big four story plant of the National Tobacco Works at Twenty-fourth and Main streets, caught fire this morning at about 8 o’clock, and from the present indications it seems that the whole building will go. . The plant covers nearly an entire square and is filled with tobacco which has been bought during the past six months. John Doerhoeffer, manager of the plant, says that if the whole building is destroy ed the total loss will be -in the neighbor hood of $2,000,000. Several persons were injured by the fall ing walls and many employes received -in juries while attempting to escape from the burning building. CHARGES AGAINST CHANCELLOR Official Notice Has Been Served Upon the Proper Officers. Fitzgerald, Ga., Feb. 25. —Grand Vice Chancellor W. E. Algee, of the Knights, of Pythias of Georgia, is today in receipt of official notice from W. T. Leopold, Grand Keeper of Records and Seals, that charges have been preferred against Grand Chan cellor Charles R. Warren, of Hawkins ville, Ga. Under the laws of the order Mr. Algee immediately assumes charge of its affairs in the grand domain of Georgia. At an early date a tribunal will be called to hear the articles of impeachment and act on the same. At anearly date a tribunal will be called to hear the articles of im peachment and act on cite same. A strong pressure is being brought to bear by the citizens of this city and members of the order in Southwest Georgia to have the tribunal sit here. Mr. Algee informed a reporter this afternoon that in all proba bility the trial will be held here. ACROSS THE RIVER. The New Race Traik Will in All Probability Be Built There. The New six-lap track for the Macon Bicycle club will in all probability be built across the river on the land which has been offered the club by Air. Sparks. The matter will be decided at a meeting of the club which will be held *at the* store cf Percy Griffith, on Cotton avenue, Tuesday night. At the meeting Tuesday night a vote of thanks will be extended to Lynwood Bright for sustaining the reputation of Macon wheelmen in the race at Americus, in which he defeated Bosworth, wh<f has been issuing challenges promiscuously over the state. MACON NEWS FRIDAY FEBRUARY 25 1898. COMMITTEE HAS JIG PLANS Not Prepared to Give Them Out Yet, But They Are Elaborate. MR, T, J, CARLING TALKS, A Member of the Committee Says That We Can Equal the -Dis play on a More Limited Scale- The committee from the executive com mittee of the Macon Carnival association and the Diamond Jubilee returned from New Orleans last night. They are delighted with the result of the visit to the Mardi Gras festivities, and say that they are confident that tlie in vestment necessary to send the commit tee to New Orleans will be productive of big results. Mr. T. J. Carling, who went with the committee as one of the members, and who is looked upon by every one as a practical and conservative man, says that he is well pleased. “Our trip.” he said, “was a bard one. We worked hard, and while there were, of course, elements of pleasure in the trip, you can say that every member of "the commiitee did his full duty.” “Yes, I think the visit to New Orleans ■will be productive of -results that will be satisfactory to the Carnival Association and the whole people of Macon.” It is all a question of the amount of .money that the people of Alacon are will ing to give. When Mr. T. C. DeLeon was 'here he outlined the car.niva] plan and stated that SIO,OOO would be necessary for a given number of floats. I am confident since I have seen the New Orleans .floats that we can in this department make a 'bigger show for that number of floats than they did in New Orleans. "Os course I am not at liberty to -say what report the committee will make. We •have decided to keep that a secnet, but we will outline something new in Georgia and give the Carnival Association . something equal to any display that has been given in Macon. "Yes, the New Orleans mardi gras was magnificent. The crowds were immense and the order kept, notwithstanding those crowds, was something .wonderful. “We attended the ball. It was simply gorgeous and the costumes of the ladies were wonderfully beatulful. 'Now .when I speak of the expense you understand that in New Orleans they go to tremendous expense to get eostirmes iar,d the different, paraphanali-a of the pa xaders. For instance, one parade costumes cost SZ.aOO. They were all imported, and rhe import duty from France in addition to the first cost was $1,300. “But there Is no necessity for such out lay on our part. I think we can get up just as good to all intent and purposes ■here, and I should be most emphatically opposed to sending away/or what we can make at home. “If the Carnival Association can get up the money and the people of Macon want a big show, they can have it at very much less expense than New Orleans, and -have something that will be really creditable and novel.” The other members of the committee are equally as much pleased with the result of their trip as .Mr. Carling. They will not disclose anything except the.glitering gen eralities of their plan of carnival parade and mystic feature, but they have some thing good up their sleeve and have evi dently formed -the outline of a most inter esting report for the committee when it meets after President Waxelbaum’s re turn.* WORLD BEATER Is This Monster Monolith on Wisconsin L'ake Front, Milwaukee. Feb. 25.—Talking about s'tnoes the Badger State has a sample that be -s any rhiny in the libraries. The great Wisconsin monolith, 115 feet long, ten feet square at the base and four feet square at the top, may be set up on ixxe i.i..c Hom at Aftrwaukee to mark the coming semi-centennial of statehood. This stone Was taken from the red sandstone quarries of F. Prentice at Houghton Point. Wis., and it was originally proposed to send it to Chicago as a Wisconsin exhibit, but engineering and financial reasons pre vented. and it has been left at the quarry until the present time. A movement is now on foot to siiip it by water to Milwaukee 'and there erect it. Plans and estimates have been made and it is estimated that $40,000 to $50,000 will do t-lfe work. The claim is made that the stone is ten feet longer than any recorded single stone in the world. WHAT WRIGHT WILL 00, He Will Be an Independent Candidate for Congress in the Seventh. Rome, Ga., Feb. 25.—-It is rumored here that Hon. Seab Wright, late Populist can didae for governor, will be an independent candidate for congress against the "Demo cratic nominee. It is said that he will re ceive the support of the Republicans and straighout Prohibitionists. In one of the morning papers Mr. Wright’s name ap- ■ pears as a candidate for attorney general with the name of Thomas E. Watson for governor and John Temple Graves for state school commissioner. Os epurse there is nothing -authentic In the printing -of this ticket and it is understood tnat rhe gentle men named have not all -consented to run. There is not the shadow of a doubt that a great many of the Floyd county Popu lists are coming back into the 'Democratic party this fall and vote tMe Democratic ticket. Many of the leading ones say that they Will participate in the primaries and stand by the nominees. WILL GO TO WORK. Will Do Her Duty in Placing Georgia on Ex hibition in Omaha. Savannah, Ga., FKeb. 25.—Ex-Governor W. J. Northern and other members of the Omaha Exposition commission for Georgia, were in Savannah today, and a meeting in the interest of the movement was held this morning at the City exchange. It was attended by a large number of prominent business men, who took considerable in terest in the movement. Governor North en and others made brief speeches outlin ing the plans for preparing an exhibit for Georgia, and there were also several talks by Savannahlans. A committee to raise subscriptions will be appointed here, and from the sentiment manifested it appears a hearty response will be the result. Gov ernor Northen and the commission left the city this afternoon for Waycross and other points in Southern and Southwest Georgia. The half a cent a word column of The News is the cheapest advertising medium 1A Georgia. WILL HOLD IN A TENT S The Exercises of the State Epworth League Convention Under Canvass. The meeting of the state Epworth League conference which will be held here i-n April will be conducted under a tent which the committee appointed to secure a place for the raiding of the exercises, has selected. , The committee has about decide upon the rental of a tent and and are now look ing about for a place to put it. LITERARY MEETINC Os the Mulberry Street Methodist Church Epworth League Tonight. The regular monthly literary meeting of the Mulberry Street Methodist church Ep worth League will be held in the annex of the cburch tonight and a most interesting program has been arranged. The young ladies of Wesleyan Female College have agreed to furnish the music on this occa sion. The following papers will be read: Miss Nahnette Carter on the life of Mor ris Thompson; Miss Jula Goodall, on the life of Charles Edwin Craddock, and Mr. O. A. Park on the life of Irvine Russell. OF NOBLE BIRTH Are Many of the Employes in New York Hoteis. New York, Feb. Pal Mall Ga zette announced yesterday in conection with the report of closing of the bank ruptcy proceedings in London against Prince Von Auersperg, who lost 'his for tune before he was twenty-six years old that the Prince “is now running an eleva tor in a big New York hotel.’’ It was said last night at the Waldorf-Astoria and sev eral other of the -biggest hotels that these hosieries 'had a number of Barons, 'Counts and Princess in their retinue of servants. THEY HONORED THE SOUTH. A* Distinguished Assemblage Met on Tuesday in New York City. The annual meeting of the New York Southern Society *was held Tuesday. Rev. Dr. I. S. Hopkins, of Atlanta, was present and made an address to the society. HC made a good impression on his audience, wihch was composed of ex-governors, ex- Utilled States ministers, senators and others of prominenece. The meeting of the Society is always considered of great moment in New York. The meeting are htid on February 22, aiid it is to be relied upon that patriotic addresses will be made. The present pres ident is 'Hugh S. Thompson, ex-governor of South Carolina, and he acted as toastmas ter at the banquet. (After rapping for attention he began speechmaking of the evening with a Imef address, in which he referred feel ingly to the disaster to the battleship Maine, paying an especial 'tribute to Capt. Sigs Dee. President Thompson’s expression of the conviction that if war should chance to come Americans everywhere would bring gifts to the altar of their common country occasioned much applause. At the conclusion of his address and at the suggestion of President Thompson, the members of the Society arose and drank a silent toast “to the dead of the steam ship Maine.” Mr. C. W. Jackson, of Au gusta, Ga., was another Georgian present and he added to the pleasure of the even ing with a plantation melody, in which he Initiated the barnyard calls. The remainder of the evening was passed in making patriotic speeches and in sing ing Southern melodies. INJUNCTION Against County Commission ers Dissolved—Three More Cases.’ The injunction against the county com missioners restraining them from building the pest house out near Bellevue farm has been dissolved by mutual consent, and the commissioners are now at work on the pest house. The hearing on the petition of Messrs. Dillon, Tinsley and others, whose name's were given in The News yesterday, was called in the superior court this morn ing before Judge Felton. But it was not gone into, as the attorneys on both sides announced that a settlement had been reached, and that they would agree to an order dismissing the injunction. The terms on which the settlement was made are that the commissioners agree to surround the pest house with a high fence, and to destroy it after the present neces sity for if has ceased to exist. The costs of the suit for the injunction are to be. shared equally by the two parties to the litigation. An order to this effect was signed by Judge Felton., and the whole matter dis posed of in this way. The lumber being on the ground and ev erything being in readiness to start the work, the pest house will probably be ready for occupance very soon, and then the two patients known to the county will be moved there. Three more cases were reported to the Board of Health of the city this morning. They are on Green street, and are all in negro houses. They have been removed to the pest house. This makes twenty-one cases in all in the city, and all of them, with the excep tion of the four cases on Magnolia street are at the pest house at the park, and are being cared for by City Physician Whipple. Arrangements have been made to make the house as comfortable and as well equipped as possible for a temporary struc ture, as this is. The city authorities realize now that the situation is most serious, and that the most strenuous efforts must be made to throttle the dread disease. A number of the physicians of the city do not hesitate to say that the smallpox is epidemic, and there' is a clamor among the physicians and the physicians and the citizens for compulsory vaccination. Said one of the most prominent citizens of Macon this morning: “The Board of Education is the only body that has taken up this matter with the right spirit, and they have done good work for the city and the county in requiring all the -children to be vaccinated. We must realize that this disease is not to be trifled with, and any efforts at official secrecy or secrecy on the part of the newspapers will do more harm than good.” Col. R. A. Nesbitt, president of the Board of Education, says that he has in formation that nearly all the children in the city and in the country as well have been vaccinated, and that on Tuesday next very few will have to be turned away on account of not having been vaccinated. In the county districts the response to the demand of the Board has been surprisingly ready,' and only at one school out in the Warrior district has there been any hesi tation on the part of the parents. At this school Col. Nesbit says that ev ery child not vaccinated will be turned away on Tuesday next, and that school will be kept open if there are only two pupils left in the schools. A meeting of the Board of Education has been held to discuss the advisability of closing the negro schools out in that sec tion of the city where the smallpox seems to have taken the greatest hold, but the Board decided that the best thing that could be done was to keep the schools open for the present, and to rely upon the effi ciency of the city sanitary and health forces to keep the cases reported. INFORMERS WILL GETJO PM, Action of Congress Will Make a Difference in Revenue Work. HOW ARRESTS ARE MADE, The Informer and Spies Are a Ne cessity in the Service, is the Opinion of Many Officials. If the action of congress striking out the appropriation to pay revenue informers stands, it will practically kill the revenue business in Georgia. The dispatches tram Washington on Wednesday slated that congerss, as a com mittee of the whole, had struck out of the sundry service bill the item of $75,000 to pay spies and informers in internal rev enue eases, r o-r many years past a strong fight iia-s uc-ca maue on this appropriation by Hon. Carter Tate, of the Ninth district, and has usually received the support of inc Democratic sloe of the house. This lime Mr. Tate was assisted in his fight by Kitchen, of North Carolina, and Swanson, of Virginia, and received a solid Democratic vote, witn the votes of three Republican members. The clause was killed by a vole of 09 to 63. The news of the house’s action created a consideraole stir among revenue men in the state, and it was the universal opinion that its effect -vrould be to kill the revenue business in this state and render the en forcement of the revenue laws a dead let ter. The measure would be more forcibly felt in North 'Georgia and the -Ninth Dis trict than anywhere else in the United States. " A prominent official speaking of the matter yesterday to an Atlanta Journal reporter, said: “I don’t think the action of the house will stand. I think they will vote on the matter again and I am sure the appropt-ia tion will pass. The action, if allowed to stand, would seriously cripple the enforce ment of the revenue law, for when the of ficers are left to themselves to discover and capture moonshine distilleries they could do almost nothing. “The majority of ail the stills captured are reported and pointed out by iniformers, who receive a fee of $lO. Take away this fee and the inducement to hunt up and impart information to the government is gone and the enforcement of the laws piactiealiy dead. Then the people who favor this action lose sight of the ifaei that those who pay the government sl.lO per gallon license for the privilege of making liquors are entitled <o protection from the competition of those who pay no license at all. “It is estimated that fully 99 per cent of all the stills captured ,are reported to the officers by persons living in the locality. These persons also pilot the officers to the place and some times render effective service in making arrests. “The fight made by Congressman Tate has been made upon the grounds that the fee system often caused innocent men to be arrested and produced endless frivolous prosecutions.” SIX YEARS Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Geor gia. The sixth anniversary of the consecra tion of Bishop C. K. -Nelson as bishop of the diocese of Georgia was celebrated at St. Luke’s church yesterday morning by special Services, which were attended by & large congregation and a number of the clergymen of the city. Bishop Nelson took charge of this dio cese six years ago, at the time It was de manding energetic and aggressive mission ary work. He biys been more than suc cessful in his work, and the diocese is in a better condition than ever before. He has been untiring in his efforts, and the results are such as to cause the Episco palians of Georgia to feel great pride. The multiplying increase of building im provements is seconded by an equally thriving condition in the various missions, while little or no increase of expense has been placed upon the old parishes. The flourishing condition of the diocese is evidence of the successful labors of Bishop Nelson, and In observing the sixth anniversary of his consecration the good results he has brought about were also celebrated. FOUR GLARING EVILS Os the Present Day Will be Discussed at the Y. M. C. A. 4 2 Secretary Stacy, of tne Young Men’s Christian Association, has arranged a most interesting program for the devo tional meetings to be held at the associa tion rooms during March. The series of lectures will be on the four glaring evils of the day, and will be dis cussed as follows: Sunday, March 6, Gambling, Judge John P. Ross; Sunday, March 13, “Intemper ance,” Hon. N. E. Harris; Sunday, March 20, “Impurity,” Rev. W. W. Pinson; Sun day, March 27, “Improvidence," Hon. Wal ter B. Hill. All of the speakers have been heard at the association before, and are among the most gifted orators not only in Macon, but in the state. They are sure to be of vital interest £o those who attend. GRAND MASTER BRAND ILL. Heid of the I. 0. 0- F. in Georgia Gone to Colorado for His Health. Mr. Charles -H. Brand, of Lawrenceville, grand master Os the I. O. O. F. in the state of Georgia, has gone to Colorado for his health. During his absence Deputy Grand Master T. L. Guzzard, of Columibus, will act in his stead. Circulars announcing the illness and departure from the state of the grand master have been received in Macon. The annual meeting of the grand lodge occurs in Savannah in May, and it Is hoped by the members of the or der that the grand master will recover his health in time to be present. THE FUND IS GROWING. Y. M. C. A. Directors Are Greatly EncouF-. aged Over New Building Prospects. The directors of the Young Men’s Chris tian Association are very much encourage ed with the way the new building fund has been growing in the past few weeks. Nearly $2,000 have been contributed to the fundwithin the past two weeks, and if the fund grows at this rate" it will not be long before the SIB,OOO is raised. The di rectors are making no fuss about the mat ter but are getti-n'g the money. YOUR INSPECTION Os our Window Display is cor dially invited.... Same intro duces our new depart men t Yours truly, //. - /7 zO Prepare for Winter. 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