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THE MACON NEWS.
' “ ESTABLISHED 1884.
Nc.wv o PRINTING COMPANY,
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R. L. MCKENNEY. Business Mngr.
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Ilowd ye.
Welcome.
Birthday Gift.
Help yourselves.
Tomorrow is also a day.
Mak* yourselves at home.
Now let all others stand aside. It’s Ma
con’a treat.
But wait till you see the rest of it. This
is only a sample.
Uncle Sam was typical and Columbia
always will be beautiful.
Those Georgia Populists took off their
disguise and lined up for the (Democratic
ticket.
Macon’s Diamond Jubilee premises to be
the-bigs-st thing in the cly’s history.—Rome
Tribune.
'Hepp tht will lose the keys. AU
th< sw good folks would then have to stay
with us.
Think of it ye shivering folks in the
North. Georgia will see a battle of real
roars tomorrow.
Quay eaid he would “shake the plum
tree.’’’.but he evidently did not know it was
loaded with prosecutions.
You can almost hear the finish of the
League season, and the howls and shouts
from the Boston beaneries.
oratory is a necesasry adjunct to a
peace jubilee, then 'Chicago’s will be a
grand success. It is a notable list.
Smator Bacon has made a strong fight
tn the Eleventh. He is responsible for the
victory already perched on Brantley s ban
ner.
Montgomery, Alabama, has a new morn
ing paper. The Chronicle promises to
make it interesting for the morning Dry
as- dust.
All that will be wanted at the exhibition
tonight will be the real, sure enough lead.
Rut we will allow our imagination to do
th®: much for us.
According to the New York Times, when
n man ill-useis his mule in New Orleans he
is fined $25, while 'Boston fines a man $lO
for beating his wife.
Candler’s majority in a dull campaign
is the wonder of the country. The Pops c/
Georgia are not the only ones who felt the
blow which almost killed Hanna.
The paragrapher on the Washington
Post thinks that rains in this section have
been -<o frequent that Georgia is in grave
danger of .becoming water-logged.
A regiment of soldiers will -put about
$15,000 in circulation each month, outside
of commissary and other supplies that
may be furnished. —Augusta Tribune.
Tb° Republican campaign committee
wvill put no more money into Georgia'' on
the representation that fusion could be
made to work. They spent enough of it
in the Eleventh district.
If we had but Dewey. Lee. Wheeler and
a few more of the sure enough stuff here
r.-vlny we would wake the echoes around
I'tir .atven hills of Rome and make Phil
'Byrd warble.
Os course it is a success. Everyone knew
s' was going to be a success and there will
be more people around from now on who
first started Macon's Diamond Jubilee Car
nival than Carter had oats.
“If only >the army actually used—s4,ooo
men—had been called into service,” says
the New York World, “a death rate of 1.05
per cent would have buried only 572 men
insdoad of 2,910 for whom coffins were act
ually provided.”
The low price of cotton in the South
meets a condition which is about to add
many millions of people to the (population
of the country who consider a garb of red
oallico the very perfection of style and good
taste.—August Herald.
And now comes the news that Kid McCoy
and Peter Maher are matched. More work
for the typewriters. Sporting men say
that Maher will fight and will not tire the
public with “proclamations.” But they
forget that Peter has a manager.
Much interest will attach to the proceed
ings and discussions of the General Con- <
vent ion of the Episcopal Church, in session
in Washington. Topics of much importance
to the organization of the Episcopal church
and to Its standards of morality are up for
debate.
On the 27th of October the Georgia Li
brary Association meats in Atlanta. Each
library in the state is to be represented by
its librarian. Addresses will be made by '
prominent men and women, paers read by '
Vne librarians, and literary matters dis
cussed generally, and much good will b?
ocomfplished by co-operation and exchange
of ideas and experiences.
This Man a Hero.
“Speaking of heroes.” what a crop of
heroes we have lately brought to birth.
Some of them, I venture, were heroes long
before they donned the army blue or at
tained the dignity of yellow stripes on
their trousers. Some had been heroes so
long that they were well used to the con
dition and never suspected it.
The Chicago Chronicle tells of a man in
Chicago once who had a delicate wife and
seven diminutive children. This wife and
the children he had just brought to the
city from the eastern home where he bad
left them comfortably installed while he
came on here and hustled for the work
which had failed him there, when his new
employment gave out. He had a few dol
lars in hand, and for three long weeks that
man tramped the down town streets in bit
ter winter weather, hungry, almost shoe
less, despairing, but never once did he hint
to his wife of the trouble which melted the
flesh from his bones and the hope from his
heart until he was again supplied with a
position. Then:
“ ‘l’ve changed my office, dearie,’ was
all he told her. Gs the awful three weeks
which had preceded this moment, of the
thirteen lonely pennies which remained in
his pocket when- his first week’s money
was handed to him she never knew. iHis
friends all agreed that she would have
merely reproached him, wifelike, for not
allowing her to share his troubles had she
afterward learned of the occurrence and
that he should have told her, but he
thought not.
“ ‘When I said for ‘better or worse,’ I
meant her to have the better and myself
the worst, if worst came,’ he always cher
rily maintained, and this was the prin
ciple upon which he acted, too. If that
man wasn't a hero—God bless him. any
way!”
7h* Southern Soldiers.
The Southern soldiers are receiving
many compliments. In fact bouquets are
being tossed at them from every direction.
General Wheeler is regarded at the North
as the man who saved the day at Santiago.
General Lee became a hero before the war
broke cut, and although he has seen no
service in the field, he is as popular as
ever and only recently the secretary cf war
openly declared that Lee’s camp was the
most healthful and best conducted of any
of the great military encampments. And
now General Boynton in his testimony be
fore the war investigating commisssion
volunteers the statement that there were
no complaints from Southern soldiers at
Chickamauga camp. He went even further
and added that he “did not believe we
would have heard the outcry that had been
raised if all the soldiers had been from the
South.” General Dodge, chairman of the
investigation commission, in reply said
that only two or three charges had been
received from the South and they were not
soldiers. If we draw a comparison with
other sections the Southern soldiers are
certainly Spartans. They have set a fitting
example for those from other parts of the
country.
Its a Good Thins.
Speaking of 'the experiment made in At
lanta in using the Australina. ballot in the
city primary, the Journal says:
“The people of Atlanta had an opportuni
ty in primary to observe the
working of the Australian ballet system,
aud it has received their hearty commen
dation. With the safeguard of bi-partisan
managers and clerks, it would be almost
an ideal method of holding elections.
Where the voter prepares his ballot in
privacy, away from the influence and im
portunity of political heelers, a true ex
preoiicu of the will of the people is secur
ed.
“It is fortunate that the attention of the
people of Georgia has been generally direc
ted to thls- prim-AFy- and to the method. of
ballotting used, and it is probable that the
object lesson 'which has been given will
lead to the adoption of the Australian bal
lot throughout the state.”
The San Francisco Chronicle says that
“Austria requires tires for wagons built
for more than two and one-fourth tons to
be at least four and one-third inches wide.
If for more than four and one-half tons,
six and one-fourth inches. Bohemia re
quires a four and one-half inch tire for
two-horse wagons. France requires tires
from three to ten inches wide; for four
wheeled wagons tires are usually at least
six inches, with the front axle shorter than
the rear, so that the wheels do not ‘track.’
Germany requires at least four-inch tires
for 'wagons for heavy loads.’ Switzerland
requires one inch width for each draft
animal.’and six-inch tires for wagons for
‘heavy leads.’ In Canada the agricultural
department recommended six-inch tires
for leads of a ton or more, and that is
probably the law.”
It would not be half a bad idea to try to
do something to check the use of profane
and cbscene language in public places. It
sometimes becomes the duty of the police
to teach people manors, for that seems to
be the only way some people can be taught
to behave. Enforcement of the anti-pro
fanity ordinance would be a particularly
appropriate thing upon the many occa
sions when men who sought to know bet
ter talk loudly not only on the street but
in street cars and scatter profane and efen
obscene terms thickly over their conversa
tion. the presence of ladies making no dif
ference to thorn whatever. If such people
were fined a few times it might improve
their manners whether it bettered their
morals or not.
If voters become apathetic ir respect to
their political duties and neglect the ballot
box they are pretty certain, in the course
cf time, to find themselves in the grasp of
political rings and corruptionists When
it is too late they find that bad laws have
beer passed, that taxes have been greatly
inc .sed and that the offices are being
useu'for the benefit of the few and to the
disadvantage of the many. It doesn’t take
long to reach that condition of affairs, but
it takes a long time for the people to get
hack the rights which, by neglecting their
political duties, they permit political trick
sters and corrupt political rings to get pos
session of and use for their own benefit. —
Savannah News.
The revolting spectacle now presented
in NojUh Carolina of brutal negro domina
tion in the black counties of that state is
an example of the results which inevitably
follow discord and division in the Demo
cratic ranks. The horrors of negro su
premacy will doubtless be sufficient to
bring the dissatisfied Populist and Pal
mc-rite elements back in the fold of the
only white man’s party and thus achieve
the redemption of the arand “Old North
State.”—Montgomery (Ala.>.Chronicle.
There’s a good deal cf sensational stuff
in the newspapers now ab/ut possible re
sumption of hostilities. (
MACON NEWS TUESDAY EVENING. OCTOBER u 189 b.
WIN 13
POWDER
Absolutely Pure
In opposing Roosevelt the New Yorok
World has only to quote the Rough. Rider’s
own words uttered in 1886 to demonstrate
that he is not the man to elect as governor
of New York. Twelve yeans ago Roosevelt
said: “Oooner or later the people of New
York will realize that it is not sufficient
to have at the head of their government a
man of high purpose and character, but
they must have one who shall be entirely
free from political entanglements with the
beneficiaries of the present abuses. No
matter how good his aim, he would find
himself at every step trammelled by a
thousand personal and political ties.” All
of which is true and on account of which
Colonel Roosevelt should be beaten since
he now declares that he will, if elected,
consult Senator Platt on all matters of
importance that come before him. In other
words, he is bound up with “the beneficia
ries of the present abuses.”
When the breath of scandal comes in
touch with the garment of a friend, it is
your duty to believe that friend innocent
until his guilt is established. A friendship
that will not wear through adversity is
worth little in the days of prosperity. We
wre too prone to accept a naked charge as
positive proof of guilt, forgetting that
there are many despoilers of fair names in
this world. Life would be sweeter and bet
ter if friend would trust friend. The scan
dal monger can tear down in one day what
it has taken years of patient labor to build
up.—Montezuma Record-
Commenting on the fact that South Car
olina is to have a carpet mill the Atlanta
Journal says: “We would have had carpet
mills and many manufactories of woolen
fabrics in Georgia but for the fact that we
protect several thousand worthless curs
and make profitable sheep raising almost
impossible in this tate. When we come
to the conclusion that a sheep is worth
more than a yellow’ dog Georgia will be a
great wool producer.”
Americus Herald: “If it is true that
more bales of hay are imported ln‘to Geor
gia 'than bales of- cotton are exported from
the state, that is one reason why prosperi
ty is a little slow about making a date
with us.”
A Gospel truth, well put. The Georgia
farmers need less import, if not more ex
port. They want to raise wha't they need
and make cotton a surplus crop.—Dalton
Argus.
The Philadelphia Ledger says that the
Georgia wind storm came while the Popu
lists were conducting their campaign.
Judging from the small number of Populist
votes cast, the wind storm must have
blown the majority of the members of that
body out to sea before the day of election.
Savannah News: Georgia has pointed out
to North Carolina -the way to get rid cf
the objectionable element now’ in the offices
in the latter state. Vote the Democratic
ticket and secure clean, white men in of-
South Macon Dots
A meeting of the fence committee of
Jones Chapel cemetery, was held at the
drug store of W. H. Hatcher in South Ma
con last night.
A resolution was offered by W. H. Hatch
er for the appointment of a committee of
five, whose duty it shall be to obtain the
names as all owners of lots in said ceme
tery and then call upon said owners per
sonally and solicit subscriptions from each
to aid in building the proposed fence, which
is to be of iron.
Said resolution was passed unanimously.
The following named gentlemen constitute
said committee: W. H. Hatcher, chairman;
S. H. Murfree, John A. Harrell, A. Dew
berry and J. S. Avant.
Your correspondent was called on to
witness an exceedingly sad and heatt
rending scene this morning at 7 o’clock,
near Waverly church, in the southern su
burbs of the city.
Mr. J. O. McCord was laid out a corpse
in one room of his house, and in the other
room his little child lay a corpse on one
Bide of the bed and the wife and mother
lying cn the other side of the bed exceed
ingly ill, besides being bereaved of her
husband and only child, both in the short
space of six hours.
The infant died at 10 o’clock -last night
and Mr. McCord about 4 o’clock this morn
ing. They will be carried to Forsyth this
evening for burial by Clayton McCord, the
brother of the deceased. Mr. McCord was
28 years of age and the child eight months.
Mr. McCord was a native of Alabama,
moving to South Macon about one year ago.
He had made many friends in the vicin
ity during his residence here,* who sympa
thize deeply with his unfortunate widow in
her sad bereavement. “Smith.”
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