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4 THE MACON NEWS. ESTABLISHED 1884. NEWS PRINTING COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. R. L. McKENNEY. Business Mngr. TOM W. LOYLESS, Editor. THE EVENING NEWS will be delivered by carrier or mail, per year, $5.00; per week, 10 cenU. THE NEWS will be for •ale on trains. Correspondence on live cubjecii solicited. Real name of writer should accompany same. Subscriptions payable In advance. Failure to receive paper should be reported to the business office. Address all communications to THE NEWS. Offices: Corner Second and Cherry Streets- ... N i O N BEL?/ THE STATE TICKET. For Governor, ALLEfIN D. CANDLER, of Hall. ” ' 1 For Secretary of State, PHIL COOK, of Lee. For Comptroller-General, w. A. WRIGHT, of Richmond. x .. For Attorney-General, JOSEPH M. TERRELL, of Mer riwether. k For Treasurer. W. M. SPEER, of Fulton. . For Commisioner of Agriculture, O. B. STEVENS, of Terrell. L For School Commissioner, G. R. GLENN, of Bibb. As to Wesleyan. We hope a few remarks from a Macon nrvsrtp.iper that is necessarily interested in the future of Wesleyan College, as it is in She city of Macon itself, will not be con.vid end officious at this time. If they are se considered, so much She more rea son for what we have to say. We wish, first, to advise the trustees of Wwbeyan to take the people of (Macon into th(*ir confidence, ih order that renewed in terest i;i the institution may be aroused and thebr 'active c.o-operation secured. As it. is now, Wesleyan is little more to ’Ma con than if it were located in some neigh borwig town. We do not mean by this to underestimate the value of the col f*e to Mavtn. but rather to emphasize the feel- I ing of indifference or unconcern that, un- j fortunately, possesses our people, as well as to point out some of the things that I have contributed to this state of affairs. In t'he first place educational conditions have undergone a marked change within the past ten years. There is greater rival ry. greater oompetition between colleges and it is in every case a survival not only of the fittest, but of the most progressive. It is not the largest college building or the oldest name that count today: it is the character of the management and the facilities for imparting the necessary col lege education in the most effective and, at the *ame time, attractive way. But, above all, the quality needed to make any educational institution a suc cess push, pluck, energy, executive abil ity. 'And Wesleyan, of all the colleges in the South, needs a man at the helm who combines all of these qualities; one who can reach the people, who can secure their confidence and patronage and who will manage the institution on a business basis. He should, by all means, be the most ac tive, progressive man that it is possible to find, even though he does not possess all the scholarly attainments, usually con sidered essential: for Wesleyan as she is today needs a manager rather than a teacher. But there is another point that the trus tees would do well to consider, apd it is the one here first alluded to. See that Wesleyan is more closely identified with Macon. Go to work to arouse local interest and pride in the college. Make the people j of Macon, independent of denomination, feel that they have a direct interest in the j institution. While seeking the patronage j of all denominations do not conduct the . college on close, sectarian lines. If pos- I sible. it seems to us, the faculty and even the management of the institution should j not be considered entirely from the stand- 1 point of creed. But not this alone will suffice. If Wes- i leyan is to be closely identified with Ma- , con, its management should use its utmost | endeavors to make the people and espe- j cially the business men of Macon appre- , ciate such a relation. In order that the | management may not be charged with in- i consistency. \ every dollar of the college's j patronage should be given to Macon. The ' policy of sending elsewhere for articles for . the sake of a few dimes saved should be ' abandoned, as should also the policy of ! making Wesleyan’s trade valuable to only one or a few houses. As far as practicable its patronage should be divided among all the merchants of Macon, be they Jew. Catholic. Protestant or sinner. A policy less broad and liberal will not arouse general interest in the college. We submit these suggestions not in a spirit of criticism, but solely for the good of Wesleyan and of Macon. It is impor tant that the grand old institution be put forward at once. Only the right man and the right policy can accomplish this. We believe we have suggested the right sort of man and the right sort of policy. It is for the trustees to decide. Xnd. as men having the interests of the institution at keart. they should make their decision without regard to family ties or personal favoritism. Otherwise they will bring the | finest educational institution in Georgia ' into contempt and disrepute. Wesleyan needs at its head the most ac- I tive man in the Southern Methodist ; church. \nd its new management needs to adopt the most liberal policy possible : not inconsistent with its denominational | rights and obligations. What They Want. The Brunswick 'Advertiser in comment ing on a recent editorial in The’News, in which it was stated that “the Berner- j Atkinson combination have sworn ven gance on the Hon. Fleming dußignon for the latter’s support of Colonel Candler in the recent gubernatorial contest,” says: “And our contemporary goes on to analyze the Situation by saying that Bob | and Speace will endeavor to encompass •je defeat of Mr. duß.gnon as permanent chairman of the state Democratic conven tion. The Time? has no doubt that The News has been correctly informed in this direc tion, and that th? running mates have at least the inclination to vent their spleen upon those who were prominent in Colonel Candler's support. But the game will as certainly prove a losing one as did the . ' memorable campaign in w.t . h Vkinsen and Berner in vain endeavored to dodge the lightning of popular disapproval. In i the slang of the market place, they have I bitten off more than they can chew, and would be much more profitably employed i in quietly chewing the rag in the rear of the political procession to which public j opinion has relegated them. i What men want is one thing, what they gee is another; and if Berner and Atkin son have not entirely lost the power of profiting by bitter experience, they will stand aside and let the procession pass. They are not in it. Fleming Iwßignon is. That is the difference, and it is a very sig nificant one. . . < * . The Inconsistency of It. The lispoeition of the authorities to take cognizance of the technical offense of Com mander McCalla at Guantanamo in salu ting the Cuban flag on the occasion of the visit of an officer of the <’uban army, seems silly and inconsistent on the face of it. We are arming and equipping the Insurgents and actually co-operating with them in the war against Spain. There seems now to be a full understanding be tween tne Cubans and our officers. The latest instance of this is General* Garcia s visit, to the squadron at Santiago. Any move to punish ‘McCalla tor a technical offense in showing courtesy to the Cubans would be, therefore, inconsistent in every sense. . I: would also indicate to the Cubans just bow much sincerity there was in the pro fession of unselfishness which accompanied our declaration of war. If we cannot res pect their flag, if we are not in effect, their allie®, what, then, are we there for? Is it a war of conquest, or to secure Cuba’s freedom ? The Philippine Situation. Notwithstanding Aguin ’ldo’s professions of friendliness, the fact cannot be dis guised that he hopes to be ruler of the Philippines Islands in the end, and would turn against Americans the moment they attempted permanent occupation of the islands. The American occupation of the Philli pines is not. therefore, as simple a problem as it appeared immediately after the battle of Manila. We have to reckon not only with the insurgents but with the European powers. All of these elements might ob ject to American proposals -to acquire a complete and permanent possesion and con trol over the islands. As Mr. Bryan, in his Omaha speech, in timated. the attack on the Philippines and the contemplated occupation of the islands for the sake of the military advantage to I be obtained in the war with Spain and the . conclusion of a peace is one thing. The proposition for permanent occupation, or for annexation and colonization is quite another. What Advertising Is. Advertising may be done in a thousand ways. Any method which tells anybody about anything is advertising. Advertising is anything which conveys a message about, a business or a product, says Press and Printer. If a man opens a store and tells his friends a.bout it, he is advertising the store. If he prints his announcement on cards and hands them to the passers-by, he is advertising the store. If he makes a hundred duplicates of his sign and nails them on fences or dead walls .where ■peo ple can see them, he is advertising. If he causes his sign or his card to be reproduced in a newspaper, he is doing the same that he did when he tacked the sign on the fences or handed the cards to the passers-by. He is putting his sign in the house of every reader of that paper. This hypothetical man is a retail dealer. He is in direct contact with the f people to whom he seeks to convey the news of this enterprise. The principle is exactly the same with the maker or handler of goods that are to have local sale. Os all the ways of adver tising. the best and most certain and cheapest is that of using the columns of a good newspaper. Intelligent people with money to spend always read the news papers. Intelligent advertisers use the paper that is read by the most people—and espe cially the one that reaches the home. The News can prove that it reaches more Ma- : con homes than any other paper, besides , having a considerable circulation in all the ’ towns near Macon. Fire sale of shoes, Roches ter stock. Gent’s $5.00 and $6.00 shoes on our front table at 2.85. Rejected Blessings. A Lewiston man recently found a dog on his doorstep. He drove her away again and again, but she would continually re turn. Thursday he found her in his shed with seven pups lying contentedly on a rug. He was minded to drown them I all, but did not, and Saturday a stranger cashe who knew dogs and gave him $lO apiece for three of them. Sunday a man from Auburn who had heard of them came over and bought one for $lO. Mon day he sold the rest for $S apiece. “If I see any more dogs on my steps. I shall find out what- breed they are before I drivj ’em off,” he said. —Kennebec Journal. Woman’s Sweet Way. “The woman next door, ” said the fat man. “owing to some sort of missed con nections, had to fall to and do the wash- ' ing herself last week, and what do you suppose my wife did?” “Went over and wore herself out help ing her?” asked the lean man. “Not she. She sent out a hurry call to . a bunch of her cronies, and they had a perfectly lovely game of lawn tennis while • that poor unfortunate in the next yard was hangingout clothes.”—lndianapolis Journal. Right of Neutrals. Spain’s report of ‘‘one mule killed at Matanzas” has er.cited the hilarity of European newspipers. They all agree in j their respective languages that it was a grave violation on the part of the United States of the rights of neutrals. $5.00 and $6 00 gent’s shoes at $2.85 on our front counter. Fire sale. f MACON NEWS FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 24 1 iW POWDER Absolutely Pure Fined For I.ack of Good Taste. A Breslau hotel keeper has just been fined on the ground that “by placing a tasteless and offensive wooden fence along one of the finest parts of the roadway he would wound the aesthetic feelings of the public,” contrary to a statute book against “grober unfug,” or “gross nuisance.” HALF CENT H WORD. Miscellaneous. FOR SALE —Nice building lots on Colum bus road, near in: good water; will sell cheap. Call at Corbett House, Macon, Ga. FOR RENT—Nice summer residence in the country, near car line. Large house. Good water. Plenty of fruit. Cheap. Address P. O. Box 106. TWO gentit-men can get nice furnished room with or without board with pri vate family. 364 Hazel street. FOR RENT —Flat of three rooms, all fur nished if desired, ready for house keeping, with gas stove, connected bath and conveniences private. Terms very reasonable to right party. 147 Rose Park. NOW is the time to have your iace cur tains laundered. Mrs. Ryder, ne.tr Crump’s park, does the very best work. All curtains laundered at only 25 cents per window. Hurrah for Dewey. Have his or any other picture you want framed or enlarged first class, but mighty cheap. Do you want a. beautiful hall, dining room or parlor picture? I have ’em. Also breast, scarf or hair pins, rings, cuff and col lar buttons. If so remember Migrath’s, 558 Mulberry street, opposite Hotel Lanier. W. A. GOODYEAR, carnage, buggy and wagon shop. Horse shoeing, fine paint ing. Repairing of scales a specialty. 453, 455 Poplar street. LOST —One solid black beef cow with horns. Is dry. Finder will be paid all fiud<s.- W- E. Hamlin, Butcher. LOST —Dog; wire hair fox terrier; white; Kis-eMe-Sum painted on sides. Re turn. to Park Hotel and get reward. VIAVI can be obtained of Mrs. J. B. Ste vens, 550 Oak street. FOR RENT —-Nicely furnished room for gentlemen, with or without board. Close iin. 550 Ooak street. AGENTS WANTED —For war in Cuba by Senor Quesada, Cuban representative at Washington. Endorsed by Cuban patriots. In tremendous demand. A bonanza for agents. Only $1.50. Big book ,big commissions. Everybody wants the only endorsed, reliable book. Outfits sent free. Credit Freight paid. Drop all rtash and make S3OO a month with War in Cuba. Address today, THE NATIONAL BOOK CON CERN. 352-356 Dearborn street, Chl oagw, 111. FOR SALE- —Law 40x,Gf). 6, Walnut street, corner Second. R. IS. Collins & Co., 456 Second street. FOR RENT —residence 27 Progress street until October 1. Applf to C. R. Wright. Money to Lend. If you- want to borow money on farm business ar residence property on the most favorable terms see the Georgia Loan and Trust Company, O. A. COLEMAN, Gen Man., 356 Second Street, Macon, Ga. money on Hand. Loans on real estate. Easy monthly payments. GEO. A. SMITH, Gen. Man. Equitable Building and Loan Association, Macon. Ga.. 461 Third Street. HarWßazar i.'-ets the requirements of every dress-ma&er, pro fessional or amateur. A valuable featur eis its CUT PAPER PATTERNS Each issue contains, among its-risk variety of fish ,o<ts. two gowns, for whi h cut paper patterns are furnished. If you wish to wear the latest UTILITY SKIRTS, WASH SKIRTS, SHIRT WAISTS, TAILOR-MADE GOWNS or if you are seeking new designs, you will find what you want in the pages of the BAZAR, at 2sc. PER PATTERN WAIST, SLEEVE. or SB!HT COMPLETE GOWS, 75e. and if you will send us the number of the pattern you w:si and enclose the amount, we will send rt to you. If you are not familiar with the BAZAR, we wiii send you as a special offer a TRIAL SUB. 2,5 c. FOUR WEEKS ufon receipt of the money 10 Cents a Copy • Sub., $4 00 per year A ldre.e H 4RPER & BROTHERS, PnbH.hera, 5. Y. City WOMEN AS SPIES. They Show Special Aptitude ae Secret Service Military Agent*. There is one branch of military duty for which women show especial aptitude— that gs (teem service. They make excel lent spica. More patient at.d persevering than men, they are exceedingly skillful at surprising secrets, and since the days of Delilah many Sanjsen«_h.yYe been shorn vs their strength through the wiles of de ceitful women. StiH it is scarcely fair to class all secret service agents as spies. The exigencies of military service require that generals shall be furnished with informa tion as to the enemy, and the man or wom an who risks life in order to serve her own country and cause is quite on another piano from the Judas who sells his own people for the enemy’s gold. Nina Diaz betraying her mother to a convict prison, with the possible fate of I-a Cent a in re serve, is an object of execration; Belle Boyd fording the Potomac in a heavy I storm of wind and rain at midnight to carry the news of a premeditated attack to her brother in Stuart's cavalry stirs hearts with admiration for her unselfish courage. r Secret service was carried to the utmost ' perfection during the war of the rebellion, ' and the government of the United States ! spent over $2,000,000 for that purpose. Yet there were few traitors on either side. Many of the sides were women, and it is I often said that sex gave them no protec [ tion. The great obstacle to the successful em ployment of women as spies is that, with rare exceptions, women will betray any one else for the sake of a lover. Nay, mare, I in a transport of jealousy a woman may i iietray the man whom she loves to iiripris- I onment and death. If she is in love on i the side which she is serving and her lover keeps her in a good humor, she is invalu able. Otherwise disastrous experiences may occur. One of the most active and useful agents of the Confederate government during the first half of the ,war of the rebellion was an English woman of rank—a Lady Eleanor N., a relative of Lady Macdon ald, wife of the late premier of Canada. Visiting in Richmond during the winter of 1861 she became engaged to a Virginian who was later on an officer of high rank in the southern army, and was, o? course, ready and anxious to serve him and the cause which he espoused. A subject of the British government, residing iuv Can ada, with friends (n Richmond, she went back and forth with the mails for the state department at Richmond. Some times' she went all the way under a. flag of truce. Sometimes the letters were brought to her in Baltimore and sometimes in New York. It was not until 1863 that she was detected, and then chiefly through, her prostration by grief at the loss of her lover,- who was killed in a skirmish near. - Richmond. At this news she became care less, lost the nerve and perfect self posses sion which had hitherto borne her through all dangers, and when the letters were found in. her baggage broke down and con fessed everything. 'Kite Forests of Cuba. Cuba still possesses 16,000,000 acres of virgin forest abounding in valuable tim ber, none o£ which is useful as coarse con struction lumber, while nearly every foot would be salable in the United States and bring high prices. Cuban mahogany and cedar are particularly well known in the United States. The mahogany is very hard and shows a handsome grain, and is preferred by many to any other variety in common use. The moment Spain drops the reins of government in Cuba and trade relations are m-established with the States there will be a movement, both inward and outward, of forest products which will have a beneficial effect upon the in dustry in both countries. First to feel the force of this movement toward rehabilitating Cuba will be the lumbering interests of the south Atlantic and. gulf coasts. Prior to three .years ago they looked upon Cuba as an excellent outlet for the coarse end of the mill cuts, and since that market has been closed to permit the prosecution of a most hideous and revolting war the coarser grades of yellow pine produced at coast points have been marketed with great difficulty and seldom at a profit. It is unfortunately true that Cuba will be unable to realize so promptly from a movement to re-establish her mahogany and cedar trade, for it is claimed by prominent operators that the industry has been so completely crippled by the ravages of war that a period of time running from 12 to 18 months will be re quired before logs can be landed at ports in this country.—Lumberman’s Review. “Remember the Maine!” The fact that certain very excellent peo ple have come together and formally pro tested against “Remember the Maine!” as a warcry, on the ground that it gives ex pression to an abominable spirit of venge ance, with which I heartily agree, was brought to my landlord’s attention, and 1 was astonished by his utterances. “Isn’t it better,” he said, “to look the thing square in the face? This is a war of revenge. If we knew at this minute that every ’reconcentrado’ would be dead and buried before we could land in Cuba, even if we knew that every man on the island other than the Spaniards and those who favor them was dead and buried, the war would go right on. If there had been no Maine, there would have been no war. The simple fact is that every man in the navy, from the admiral down, remembers the Maine.’ It may be ‘abominable,’ but there are lots of things of that sort con nected with war. It makes no difference what congress said, and I for one don’t assume that congresjs meant what it said. Among the people, in the army, and espe cially in the ‘Remember the Maine!' is the warcry. Every man feels it, every gun roars it, every shot whistles it, every dag signals it. It is the root and branch of the whole thing.”—Time and the Hour. Sublime Faith. I know a woman here in town who is fearfully afraid of thunder. She says it isn’t at all the lightning that frightens her She rather enjoys the glare, but she can’t endure the noise. She is going to spend the summer on one of the big wheat farms in North Dakota, and I went to see her the other day while she was packing. In the tray of her trunk she stowed away with care a long narrow box full of palm leaf strips. I asked her what in the world they were, and after a bit of fencing she said: “Well. I don’t care, they're just palms —Palm Sunday palms. You know they have such terrific thunderstorms out there on the prairie, and I simply can’t stand them. I’m takng these Palm Sun day palms so you know if you burn one it will keep a storm away. ” “And what does that S. A. G. on the box mean?” I asked. “Oh.” said she, “that means St. An thony’s Guidance. If you put that on anything, it never gets lost. I don't want to lose my palms.” —Washington Post. Ask for prices at the News Job room before deciding on that contract. LESSER’S BEE HIVE 559 CHERRY STREET, * % Great Mid Summer Cut- Price Sale of Seasonable Merchandise. Large shipments of beautiful white and colored Organdies, Muslins, La?e Curtains, Damasks, Ladies’ Ready- Made Skirts just received, bought from manufacturers and jobbers at almost half price. Everything has been marked down to ths lowest notch. Don 7 fail to avail yourself of this great opportunity. Money refunded if pur chases are not entirely satisfactory. 50’ pieces white 1 *atin stripe lawns, very I sheer, worth (EV. 10-yard's for 39c ' 38 pieces white dimity, large and small . surd, well worth 10c, 10 yards f0r....59c 27 pieces extra quality check nainsook, in i small and medium checks, worth 15c to 18c, at one price.... 10c 15 pieces lovely white S-wiss, in large and small dots, bordered and plain, worth 25c:. at -15 c New Shipment Skirts 5 dozen all Incn crash skirts deep h-:m. real; value $2 25.. cut price |.'.-9 3 dozen black brocade b-riliantine skirts, lined 1 , and bound, worth $2.25 at.... 51.23 2 dozen black brocade skirts, fiord and bound, worth $2150, at $1.49 1 dozen ladies’ black, brocaded silk skirts, good, quality, to be sacrificed at.... 53.49 TaDle Damask-Towels 5 6 pieces full bleach table damask, pretty designs 22 Vic 3 pieces heavy German bleach damask, 40c grade at 25c ' 6 pieces red damask, 25c grade, at 15c 8 pieces extra wid'e oil dyed red damask, 40c grade .....*, 25c ' Extra large Turkish towels, pure white, worth 25c, at 15c 50 dozen turkish bath towels, each 5c Check crash towefing. worth 5c yard, at 3*6 e Shirts —Underwear Gent’s white unlaundered shirts, worth everywhere 50c, our price 33 l-3c ] 50 Gent’s negligee shirts each 25c I We’ll sell the famous “Bee Hive” shirt j equals any $1 shirt, at 49c j Gen’s extra quality English balbriggan i shirts and drawers, each 25c [ Ladies’ bleached vests 5c Eadies’ extra finished bleached vests.. 25c quality ladies’ lisle vests, silk taped, at 12%c I specials for Saturday and fflondau 216 yds ful 10-4 bleached sheeting, slightly , soiled 31c 50c full sized bleached sheets for 39c 60c extra size heavy quality sheets for 45c Full yd-wide percale for 6c 10 yards lavender crepon 29c 10 pices black dimities, worth 10c. at..sc 15 pieces light blue and cream dimities. .5c 15c quality heavy Amoskeag feather tick ing 10c 45 pieces dark lace stripe lawns and dimi ties, worth 12l£c, at 5c 15c double width skirting 10c LESSERS BEE HIVE, 559 CHERRY STREET. Sheer White Goods. 1~5 pieces white check nainsook, the 7c gmde, 10 yards for p) c . 38 pieces white India dimities, beautiful stripes and checks, worth 15c to 25c, at ! one price 15 pieces purse white satin striped madras cAoib, worth 15c, at., ri^ c 5 pieces white diagonal pique, beautiful for skirts, value 25c, .cost price. .15c New Shipment Parasols | Ladies’ white silk parasols, silk tassel, I worth $1.25, at 95c j Ladies’ white silk parasols, with ruffles, j worth $2.00, at $1.25 | Ladies’ white and colored hemstitch para sols, worth $2.50, at $1.69 ' 200 ladies’ black umbrellas, natural and Dresden handles, worthsl.so, at 98c j 150 ladies’ steel rod umbrellas, worth 85c, 1 at 49c Lace Curtains white Quilts $5 Irish point curtains $2.98 75c lace curtains, for Saturday 39c 90c lace curtains, for Saturday 59c $1.25 lace curtains, for Saturday 95c 75c white quilts 50c $1.25 white honeycomb quilts, nicely hemmed .... 9216 c $2.50 extra size white Marseilles quilts, beautiful, designs, at $1.69 $5 extra s-cse English Marseilles quilts, at * $3.49 Hosiery-Hamlkemhiefs Ladies’ fast black and seamless hose....!fc 25c full regular made ladies’ hose, Herms dorf dye 15c Ladies' red lisle hose 25c Gents' fast black seamless hose 10c 18c quality children’s fast black ribbed ho>se. at 10c Ladies’ and children’s handkerchiefs, per doz.r 19c Gent's extra size white and colored bor dered handkerchiefs at 5c 18 J 6c crash skirts for 7*6c New shipment white kid belts 25c New shipment 100 pieces torchon lace, worth 10c 6%c Gent’s and ladies’ 4-ply linen collars..loc Ladies' silk fringed ties 25c Full box of writing paper 8c 15 pieces black pique for skirts Sc 50c books 35c Empire fans 3c All 50c and 75c shirt waists 35c Boys’ washable suits 59c Boys’ white shirt waists 25c Bojrs’ colored shirt waists 15c