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THE MACON NEWS.
ESTABLISHED 1834.
NEWS PRINTING COMPANY,
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R. L. McKENNEY, Business Mngr.
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The Congress.
Not In thirty-odd years has any congress
In this country had to face more impor
tant issues than at, present attract this
government’s attention and which must be
•a bitted core. By its stand on these issues
present session of congress, or at a special
session early next year.
The receut war with Spain has opened
up a new era, has forced to the front *new
questions of national policy, created new
Issues and practically subjected, for the
limo being, every other issue to those
newly created.
There is no doubt of the fact that the
Republican party stands sponsor for the
new policy, the policy of imperialism, that
•bus come to the front, and it is quite like
ly that the party in power may seek to
entirely abandon old lines and create a
new order of things. The Democratic
party, on the other hand, should, if it does
not, take a conservative stand, and refuse
to be demoralized by new conditions. It
should be the Democratic policy to observe
caution and keep the fundamantai prin
ciples of this Republic well in mind
throughout this re-adjustment of things.
The opportunity for national and per
sonal aggrandizement looks- very tempt
ing al this stage of the game, but it. is
quite possible that it is a fruit that has
a bitter core. By Itsstand on these issues
the Republican party must stand or fall,
its present disposition is to turn itself
loose. Intoxicated by the recent victory
over a weak nation, which it arrogantly
claims as “its own,’’ the Republican party
seems bent on throwing away all discre
tion and running riot both in its expendi
tures and its experiments. Common sense
would suggest that the Democratic party
should show more conservatism; first, as
■a cheek against these wild measures, and
second, as indicating to thq country that
It has not been entirely given over lo
the reckless one—that our people can re
pose confidence in the integrity and con
servatism of the Democracy, as they have
always done at critical times. i
Ii is for the congress to shape both !
party and national policy or these vital
Issues resulting from the war. Every act,
every word emanating from that body will ,
be watched with more than usual interest, i
The nation is undergoing a change—a |
most vital period in its history. Events of
the next few months may either add to the i
glory of this great Republic or cause it to
crpmble. Only time can
It is easy to bring on a war. It is easier
still to wage a successful war. where the
energy is small and already exhausted, i
but it is a most difficult problem to cope
with the consequences of war. The most
rigid conservatism is the only safeguard
against fatal mistakes. And present in
dications are that the Democratic party
will represent that policy in the present
crisis.
Only a Dozen Bicycles in Bibb.
We have no desire to arouse the ire of
the bicyclists, but. just the same, we will
refer to them to illustrate the practice of
tax dodging in Georgia. Not to all of
them, of course, but merely to those whom
the cap fits. For instance rhe value of
bicycles returned for taxation in Bibb
county is $1,260. as shown by the tax re
ceiver's books. This amount would prop
erly represent about a dozen full-grown
bicycles. And yet we all know, as a mat
ter of fact, that there are as many as thir
teen or. fourteen bicycles in the county.
We expect the average pedestrian is al
most run over by that many every week.
The city tax books show that, in reality,
there are fifty times that number 1 in the
city alone. And yet.
But what’s the use? Tax dodging in
Georgia is so common that very few peo
ple think anything of it. It is not con
fined to the bicyclists alone, but. on the
contrary, the tax books will show quite as
few horses in proportion. The situation
is simply this; nobody pays on such prop
erty, or. indeed, on any personal property,
unless the matter is presented so pointedly
that it cannot be evaded. And we have
never yet heard of a tax official doing any
thing of this sort.
But it is a rank injustice to cut down
the common school term while more than
the necessary amount to sustain the
schools is lost every year through shame
less tax / dodging—a practice that has
grown common. either through the callous
ness of ft he individual or the indifference
of officßtls. A practice, at any rate, that
should |e put an end to.
V
Macon and the Soldiers.
The neaY approach of Christmas, the
presence of s?P many soldiers in the? ity,
and the fact that their pay day is near at
hand constitute a very hopeful set of cir
cumstances for.the merchants of Macon.
1
\
It goes without saying that the Decem
ber pay of 3 large majority of these sol
‘ tiler boys will go for presents for friends
and loved ones, together with such ne
cessities as they themselves may require.
This would indicate an unusually large
Christmas trade for our merchants. There
I are now in camp at Macon six regiments,
; with another regiment practically assured.
The pay received by each regiment will
| amount to about $25,000, or about $l5O,
• 000 in all.—quite a sum of money to be
' added to Macon’s Christmas trade.
! Os course Macon’s interest in the sol
i diem stationed here is not entirely a sel
; fish one. She has attempted to demon
j strate that, by receiving them socially
| and showing them every hospitaity posei
i ble. But it is only natural that the trade
' which grows out of their presence here
' should concern our merchants, and cause
. them to put forth active efforts to get
: their chare of it-
Especially is this so right now. when
pay day ia so near at hand. In this con
nection a word from The News may not
be amiss. These soldiers are all strangers
:in Macon. They hardly know one store
; from another. They wil trade where they
' find goods and prices most attractive. It
‘ is, therefore, worth your while to bring
your offerings directly to their attention,
the most effective way to do'this is to use
the columns of The News freely. In no
other way can you reach so many of them,
I for the reason that The News is the paper
that is most read in the camps. The News
. circulates more largely there than all the
| other papers combined. Its circulation
among the soldier boys is three or four
, times as large as that of any of any other
j paper. Ask any of the boys and they will
I tell you so.
With these facts before you, it should
be easy for you to decide on what course
Ito pursue—the best method of getting your
share of the $150,000 of soldier money that
is to be paid out in Macon this month.
We can’t make you let The News help
1 you, but we can offer you its services. You
lose a great deal more than any one else
if you fail to take advantage of the op
portunity. Your competitor who talks to
I them through The News, benefits by your
indifference to your interests.
The President’s Message.
It has rarely happened that a president
of the United States has transmitted to
‘Congress a mesage which contained so
■ few recommendations in the space of 20,-
. 000 words as that of Mr. McKinley, which
the readers of The News had the satisfac
’ tion of being the first to review yesterday.
The country wanted .particularly to learn
' what the president had in mind as io the
control of the Philippines and Cuba, and
■what. sort, of scheme of expansion or ter
ritorial protectorate he favored. But he
1 practically has given no sign. He ex
-1 scuses himself on the ground that the
treaty 'Commissioners are not yet through
i with their labors. He urges that some
plan be adopted for the government of
Hawaii, but leaves it to congress to de
i termine what that plan shall be. He has,
in short, left the whole world guessing.
The only positive recommendation he
I
i makes is byway of endorsing the proposi-
■ tions of the secretary of war for an in- !
i crease of the army. (Between the lines of
his paragraph relating to the Nicaragua
canal we may perceive that he approves
i the project, made especially important by
the long journey of the Oregon around the
continent. In the matter of the currency
he is quite indefinite and as to the con-
; duct of the star he has probably deemed it
wise to repress his views pending the re
port of the investigating committee cre
ated by himself.
As a reporter’s record of the war. having
at command the sources of original in
formation, his message is a most valuable
contribution to history because he speaks
authoritatively and, though dealing in
compliments somewhat sparingly, he
covers the ground very well in a general
way.
The message is, therefore, entertaining
1 without being particularly instructive and
1
. the public will have to wait until there
j shall be a special message on the questions
of territorial expansion and forms of gov
ernment.
'But this is the short session of con
gress. It will expire March 4 —only three
months hence. The next sesion will show
a small republican majority in the house
and a comparatively large one in the sen
ate. Is it not conceivable that the presi
i dent prefers to postpone his recommenda
tions so that the task of formulating them
into law shall devolve upon a congress
entirely Republican?
Is it not reasonable to suppose the presi
dent to be guided by, this consideration?
We are very much inclined to think so
| and to believe that the present congress,
with its shortage in Republican senatorial
membership, will have mighty little to do
with the determination of questions grow
i ing out of the results of the war.
GREETINGS.
Pulaski's sons assert their sway,
j By gaining Prohibition day.
And to Calhoun and Whitfield wave
Their greetings o\ er whisky’s grave.
To Bibb who made a gallant fight
For honor, decency and right.
They pledge their aid. their faith, their
word,
. And bid her prayer till prayers are heard.
For truth and right must surely win.
Though for a time they're balked by sin.
Hope on! Work on! the mob most yield
An in confusion leave the field.
Yes; mother's prayers and sister's love,
Will reach the ears of God above;
Then courage, sister, never quail.
• Your work and prayers—both must pre-
vail.
Yours for the Right,
Now. henceforth and forever.
December 2d. 1898.
Chamberlain’s Colic. Cholera and Diar
rhoea Remedy can always be depended
upon and is pleasant and safe to take.
Sold by H. J. Lamar & Sons.
MACON NEWS TUESDAYjEVENING, DECEMBER 6 1898.
SEX IN BANQUETS.
Women Hare Seldom Been WeloM**
Attendant* on Formal Feasts.
When the last supper was partaken of
by the Lord and hi* disciples, no woman
participated, although the great Teacher
numbered many among his friends. Thia
was in strict accordance with the law of
the Passover, which forbade women at
tending their feasts. And the last sup
per was eaten on the eve of the Passover,
according to the synoptic gospels.
Going further afield Into the remote
past, wo find women are not permitted to
sit at meat with the philosophers at their
Utopian banquets. Socrates improved the
opportunity to speak his mind freely con
cerning Xantippe, for it was on one of
these occasions when he made his cynical
remark that he married Xantippe in order
that her society might inure him to the
trials of life—an after dinner speech that
has never been equaled for meanness.
Hawthorne, in describing his attendance
at some public banquets in England, has
this to say of one given by the lord mayor
of London:
“One very pleasant characteristic which
I never met with at any other public din
ner was the presence of ladies.”
He does not tell us what they did or
said, but confines himself to the gastro
nomic features of the banquet. He says:
“There fell to my lot three delectable
things—a red mullet, a plate of mush
rooms exquisitely stewed and part of a
ptarmigan.”
And then the lord mayor passed the lov
ing cup, and it is easy guessing the de
light of Hawthorne at seeing that digni
fied and ancient custom for the first time.
At the head of civil banquets stands the
inaugural entertainment at the Guildhall
on Nov. 9, to which the wives and daugh
ters are invited, and at which the lady
mayoress presides. A masculine descrip
tion of this yearly banquet, which is pro
vided for by the government, says that it
is the most “vague, aristocratic, unsatis
factory and uncomfortable” of all the pub
lic banquets given within the sound of
Bow Bells. Query: Because women are
present? Be that so or no, that particular
banquet interests all London. At 11 the
women retire to the ballroom, and a scene
of noise and gormandizihg ensues, and it
is early next day when the last banqueter
departs.
Fraternity, Masonic and civil banquets
cling to the old idea that woman, being
“the lesser man,” has no place at their
feasts. That argument does not bold good
in these days and is simply begging tho
question.
The women can retort with justice and
the truth: “Wo know why you want ua
to absent ourselves from your banquet.
You desire to smoke freely, drink till you
drown your sorrows and tell risque stories.
Well, have these special occasions once a
year, but do not ask us to sit in the boxes
and galleries, so near and yet so far that
we merely choke and blink and watch
you through rhe incense, wondering why
people are always at their worst when
feeding. ”
Apropos of which is the story of an old
Scotchwoman who listened to her minis
ter quoting Solomon where he says, “One
man among a thousand have I found, but
a woman among those have I not found.”
“Noo, Sister MacCleish, hoo do ye un
derstand thot?” asked the parson.
“I’m sure it’s simple enough,” was the
quick answer. “Nae reespectable woman
would ha’ been seen speaking wi’ Solo
mon.”
So perhaps the richest compliment the
average banqueter could pay bis woman
kind is to invite them not to attend his
banquet, but to leave to their vivid imagi
nations the scene which, beginning with
the feast of reason and flow of soul, degen
erates into a hilarity that is neither hu
morous nor entertaining and ends with a
roar that has a hint of the crackling of
thorns under a pot, vide the laughter of
fools. How do we know? We listened in
the corridors, being fearful of a catastro
phe.—Chicago Inter Ocean.
Practicing; Marriage.
Professor Robert McLean .Cumnock,
president of the Cumnock School of Ora
tory at Northwestern university, has in
stituted a new regime in preparing his di
vinity students for the practical side of
their future work. Each Friday tho chords
of “Lohengrin’s” wedding march float
from the keys of tho chapel organ, the melo
dious voice of a divinity student chants the
marriage service and the mock marriage
ceremony is solemnized with attention to
the minutest details. • There is the student
groom and blushing “co-ed” for a bride,
the best man and the bridesmaids, Pro
fessor Cum nock acting as guardian to give
away tho bride.
In placing this course in Northwestern’s
curriculum it is the intention of Professor
Cumnock to give his divinity students
drill in the officiating at marriages of ev
ery class that they may meet with in the
vicissitudes of their future work, There
are to be marriages in high life with six
bridesmaids and as many groomsmen as
can be crowded at the chancel rail. There
will bo conducted the quiet wedding, with
only a few friends of the family present.
All of the services, both brief and prolix,
are to be used. The embryonic divine wil!
be shown just where to stand and how.
He will be instructed in regard to the best
usages of etiquette, the manner of receiv
ing his fee and bow to kiss the bride. He
will also learn how to compose his counte
nance and restrain his lacerated feelings
when there is no fee forthcoming.—Chica
go Times-Herald.
Making Precious Stones.
We understand that Mr. Arthur Schoeni
of Geneva. Switzerland, has succeeded in
the manufacture of sapphires; no imita
tion made of glass, but pure crystallized
aluminium. This result he has reached
after 14 months of laborous experiment
ing. He is now carrying on experiments,
which he believes will be successful, for
the similar production of emeralds and
rubies.
Mr. Schoeni asserts that tho only differ
ence between his products and those of na
ture is one of hardness, his sapphires hav
ing about two-thirds the natural resisting
power. However, as color and brilliancy
are the important requisites of such pre
cious stones, used for ornament, the in
ventor believes that his products will find
a ready sale at good prices.
Mr. Schoeni is not rich and has been
enabled to carry cn his experiments by
money earned through the invention some
years ago of new processes of manufactur
ing some of the colors employed in the
celebrated Geneva enamel work at one
fifth or one-sixth their former cost. Sev
eral Genevese gentlemen interested in his
work have also lent him kindly aid. He
is now anxious to establish a laboratory
for the "practical manufacture of his gems,
but finds that Geneva capitalists demand
too large a share of the prospective profits.
Should he receive sufficient inducement
he is anxious to come to the United
States. —Manufacturer.
A Bit of Patriotism.
A gentleman who was sailing up and
RoYal
Baking Powder
Made f ran pure
cream of tartar.
Safeguards the food
against alum.
Alum baking powders are the greatest
menacers to health of the present day.
rovai BMcma rawoc* co., new york.
down the coast last summer in his*yacht
told me that one day he put into Glouces
ter and had no sooner come to anchor than
he noticed that all the flags in the town
were flying at half mast. He had had no
opportunity to hear the nows for two or
three days and was inclined by tho half
masting of tho flags to suppose that some
public man had died in the interval. Per
haps soma general had fallen in the war,
he fancied. He lost no time in going
ashore and making inquiry. Then he
learned that all those signs of mourning
were for a private soldier belonging in
Gloucester who had died in tho service of
the country and whoso body had been
brought home for burial. The yachtsman
was much impressed by this incident. As
a man who had traveled abroad he felt
sure that in no other country would the
flags of a whole city be half masted as a
token of mourning at the death of a com
mon soldier, and he was proud of the pub
lic sentiment, at oneo intensely patriotic
and sincerely and unconsciously demo
cratic, which prompted such an honor.—
Boston Transcript.
CASTOHIA.
Bears the You Have Wwa^s
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Notice Os Election.
Notice is hereby given that on Tues
day, December 13, 1893. an election will
be held in. the city of Maron for four ai
dermen, one from each ward, at precincts
and with the managers named below. The
polls will be opened at 8 o’clock and closed
at So’clock.
, PRECINCTS.
First Ward —Courthouse.
Second Ward —Findlay's foundry.
Third Ward—City Hall.
Fourth Ward —Dumas’ ©tore.
MANAGERS.
First Ward —C. A. Ells, F. A. Schonc
man, G. L. Reeves.
Second Ward —N. L. ‘Brunner, L. W.
Hollingsworth. W. L. Johnson.
Third Ward—-E. O’Connell,. George R.
Barker, W. B. Chapman.
Fourth Ward —John Hartz, S. J. Kent,
George A. Dure.
S. B. Price, Mayor.
CITY TAX NOTICE.
Tax payers are notified that the fourth
installment of the city tax is now due.
Pay and save tax execution.
i
A. R. TINSLEY, Treasurer.
Dec. 1, 1898.
For Aiderman.
Election December 13,1898.
First Ward —John C. Van Syckel.
Second Ward —Thos. F. Sheridan.
Third Ward—Mallory H. Taylor.
Fourth Ward —John T. Moore,
AMUSEMENTS.
Academy of Music.
Tuesday Night, December 6th.
Geo. H. Broadhurt’s Anglo-American
- Success,
“WHAT HAPPENED TO JONES.”
Now in its twenty-cesond successful
week at the Strand Theater, London.
The Star Comedy Cast —Geo. C. Boniface,
Jr., Gerald Griffin, Frank Currier, J. W.
Cope, F. H. Robert, Lewis H. Newcomb,
Francis Drake, Mabel Montgomery, Helen
Bell, Mrs. E. A. Eberle, Florence Robinson,
Ada Craven.
Fri. Sat Mon Tues.
Academy of Music.
Wednesday, Dec. 7.
The Smith & Rice Comedians,
Presenting the Great. Gigantic. Maston
dic Margartherian Comedy Hit.
“Illy Friend from India.”
It will laugh your troubles away.
By H. A. DuSouchet.
Two hundred nights in New A’ork to
packed bouses and has since tickled the
risibles of multitudes of people in every
large city in the world. It is a great side
cracking. jaw-tiring laugh.
Positively no free list. Regular Prices.
ACADEMY OF MUSIC.
December Sth, 1898.
Bene-t performance for Macon Hospital
Association.
MILLER- STRATO N COMBINATION.
An evening of laughter and delight,
POLK MILLER,
JOHN ROACH STRATON.
Admittance—Orchestra circle 75c, bal
cony 50c. Seats reserved at Harry Jones
Co. :u_ .a
FINANCIAL.
You Don’t Have to
Wait for your money when you get loans
from us. We have it always on hand.*
GEO. A. SMITH, Gen. Man.
Equitable Building' and Loin Auociation,
Mwcor, G*., <6l Third Street.
K. Y. MALLARY, B. N. JELKS,
President. Vice-President
J. J. 0088, Cashier.
Commercial and Savings Bank,
MACON, GA.
General Banking Business Transacted.
$5.90 wll rent a box In our safety de
posit vault, an absolutely safe plan In
which to deposit jewelry, silverware and
securities of all kinds.
UNION SAVINGS BANK
AND TRUST COMPANY
MACON, GEORGIA.
Safety Deposit Boxes For Rent.
J. W. Cabaniss, President; 6. S. Dunlay,
Vice-President; C. M. Orr, Cashier.
Capital, $200,000. Surplus, $30,000.
Interest paid on deposits. Deposit your
savings and they will be increased by in
terest compounded semi-annnally.
THE EXCHANGE BANK
of Macon, Ga.
Capital $500,000
Surplus 150,090
J. W. Cabaniss, President.
S. S. Dunlap, Vice-President.
C. M. Orr, Cashier.
Libetal to its customers, accommodating
to the public, and prudent in its manage
ment, this bank solicits deposits and other
business in its line.
DIRECTORS.
J. W. Cabaniss, W. R. Rogers, R. E.
Park, H. J. Lamar, N. B. Corbin, S. S.
Dunlap, L. W. Hunt, Sam Meyer, W. A.
Doody, J. H. Williams, A. D. Schofield.
ESTABLISHED 1863.
IL M PLANT. CHAS. D. HURT
Cashier.
I. C. PLANT’S SON,
BANKER,
MACON, GA.
A general banking bueiaees traniaetei
end all consistent corteges cheerfully ex
tended to patrons. Certificates of deposit
Issued bearing Intereat.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
of MACON, GA.
The accounts of banks, eorporatlaaa,
firms and individuals received upon th«
most favorable terms consistent with eaa-
Mrvatlvo banking. A share of year bus
iness respectfully solicited.
&. BL PLANT,
Preside**.
George H. Plant, Vice-Presides*.
W. W. Wrigley, Cashier.
We will have at our disposal during
November $75,000 to loan on Georgia farms
or .city property. We are offering money at
low rates.
THE GEORGIA LOAN AND TRUST CO.,
O. A. Coleman, Genera; Manager,
356 Second Street.
HEADQUARTERS
FOR
Real Estate Loans
We have large quantities of money sub
ject to sight draft for loans on city, farm
or suburban property.
Straight interest loans.
Annual payment loans.
Monthly payment loans.
Security Loan and Rbgtiact Co.
370 Second St., Phone 82.
T. B. WEST,
Secretary and Attorney.
Money.
Loans negotiated, on improved city prop
erty, on farms, at lowest market rates,
business of fifteen years standing. Facili
ties unsurpassed.
HOWARD M. SMITH
Second St o Macon, Ga.
M 1 LOELLANEOUS.
MJ
Men’s Top Coats.'
The road to style leads right through
our shop. From here a man can start out
correctly appareled. Our methods of meas
uring, fitting and furnishing ar® pains
taking and the goods are of extra good
value.
Look at the line of Covert Cloths, Black
Cheviots, Black Unfinished Worsteds and
Oxford Vecunus. We make up very hand
some top coats from these at very moder
ate prices.
GEO. P. BURDICK & GO.,
Importing Tailors.
ITacon’s Only
Picture Frame store.
That te what we are. Wa guarantee you
that we ean show you four times the as
sortment and four times the amount of
slock shown by any other firm tn Macon.
And Our
Frames Are Made
Not thrown together. Call and see w?.
W. Lamar Williams,
422 Second St.
We have received
the
English Lawn
Grass Seed
for winter lawns.
H. J. Lamar & Sons
416 Second Street, next
to Old Curiosity Shop.
C. A. Harris. W. J. Hopper.
[Reciianlcs'Coalco
Phone 122.
Red Ash, Jellico
Always on hand.
We meet all competition and
take Periodical Tickets.
D. A. KEATING.
Genoral Undertaker and Embalmer.
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT.
Caskets, cases, coffins and burial robes;
hearse and carriages furnished to all
funerals In and out of the city,
telephone 468. 222 Mulberry street, Macon,
Ga.
jnacon screen co.
Manufacturers of the best adjustable
wire window screens and screen doors.
Your patronage respectfully solicited. Es
timates furnished free of charge. J. D.
Newbanks, manager, 215 Cottan avenue,
Macon. Ga.
Henry Stevens, Sons &
Company.
H. STEVENS’ SONS CO., Macon, Ga.,
Manufacturers of sewer and railroad cul
vert pipe, fittings, fire brick, clay, etc.
Wall tubing that will lasi forever.
Macon Refrigerators.
MUCKE’S Improved Dry Air Refriger
ators. he best refrigerators made. Manu
factured right here in Macon, any size and
a
of any material desired. It has qualities
which no other refrigerator on the market
possesses. Come and see them at the fac
tory on New street.
For Whooping Cough
use CHENEY’S EX
PECTORANT.