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4 THE MACON NEWS. ' “ ESTABLISHED 1884. Nc.wv o PRINTING COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. R. L. MCKENNEY. Business Mngr. joy w LOYLESS, Editor. THE EVENING NEWS will be delivered by carrier or mail, per year, 15.00; per week. 10 cents. THE NEWS will be for Mie on train*. Correapondence on live subjects aoHdted. Reel name o< writer should accompany same. Subscription* payable tn advance. Failure to receive paper should be reported to the buaineM •fflee. Address all communication* to THE NEWS. Offices: 412 Cherry Street Ct■: 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.” ♦ meets the requirements of every dress-maker, pro fessional or amateur. A valuable feature is its CUT PAPER PATTERNS Eack ssue contains, among its rick variety of S fashions, two gowns, for which cut paper patterns are furnished. If you wish to wear the latest UTILITY SKIRTS, WASH SKIRTS, SHIRT WAISTS, TAILOR-MADE GOWNS ar ? seeking new designs, you will find what you want in the pages of the BAZAR, at 25c. PER PATTERN WAIST, SLEEVE, or SKIRT - COMPLETE GOWX, 75*. and if you will send us the number of the pattern you wish, and enclose the amount, we will send -• you. If you are not familiar with the BAZAR, we will send you as a special offer a TRIAL SUB. 25c. FOUR WEEKS upon receipt of ‘he money. 10 Cents a Copy - Sub., $4 00 per year HARPER A BROTHERS, Publisher*, X. T. City £?Z ' E 3 •T ~2Z2 i TO 3 i CARNIVAL VISITORS 1 I AND | •b~- 1! •- I THEIR HOSTS: I g2~ ZZZ3 —• E3 I The Fair Store H Extends a cordial invitation T? to every one to visit it during the week and feast their eyes on the JE magnificent array of beautiful things on display for this occasion. s’W- • *" For the information of visitors g: it may be said that The Fair has always been the leader in low prices and latest ideas, so that to say it has made | Special Prices | | For Carnival week f Is to say that all former efforts have been eclipsed and that competitors are completely distanced. Our display of Glassware, Art= ware and House Furnishings of 3® every description is complete and gorgeous in every detail. ■ *2ZZ I The fair Store f R. F. SMITH, Proprietor. | CHERRY STREET, f “?CS