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4 THE MACON NLWS. ESTABLISHED 1884. NEWS PRINTING COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. R L. MCKENNEY, Business Mngr. TOM W. LOYLESS, Editor. THE EVENING NEWS will be delivered by carrier or mall, per year, $5.00; per week, 10 centa. THE NEWS will be for on trains. Correspondence on live subjects 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: 412 Cherry Street _ - ' - 1 ; ..-X" - ' 11 £ JNIO N LA BED Reunited Forever. The history of these United States is a remarkable one in every way. It has been eiifh from the outaet. The conception of such an ideal government was wonderful in itself, and the genius which has guided its destinies has been no less remarkable. For a century and a quarter it has ful filled its mission of fostering freedom and spreading civilization, and its influence upon the other nations of the earth has been demonstrated in the gradual exten sion of self government, until today mon archial institutions are such in name only. It performed a wonderful achievement when a little handful of oppressed colonists threw off the yoke which one of the mightest nations of the earth had fas tened upon them. No less remarkable was its settlement of the internal differences that thirty-odd years ago forced our peo ple to resort to arms; a conflict which gave to the world the most impressive ex amples of bravery and devotion to princi ple ever recorded in history. And a fitting sequel to this conflict was the remarkable action of General Grant in refusing to ac cept the sword of Dee at Appomattox; nor even yet the hdrses of his conquered foes, which might be needed, he said, to make the next year’s crops. Remarkable again was. this nation in going to the relief of a war-wasted people, and still more so was the genius and hu manity displayed in prosecuting the war ■which resulted, during which we received the enemies’ surrendered troops with dis tinguished honors and cared for their dead and wounded as if they were our own—a war in which veterans of our own civil struggle, and their sons and grandsons fought and suffered side by side. NtCt> there be any surprise, therefore, when the head Os this nation, in his first address following a -formal declaration of ■peace, gives voice to such remarkable utterances as fell from the lips of XV illiam , McKinley under the dome of Georgia’s ca-pitol yesterday: •‘Sectional lines no longer mar the map of the United States. Sectional feeling no longer holds’ hack the love we bear each other. Fraternity is the national anthem, sung by a chorus of forty-five states and territories at home and beyond the seas. The union is once more the common altar : of our love and loyalty, our devotion and sacrifice. The old flag again waves over us in peace, with new glories which your sons and our sons have this year added to its sacred folds. What cause we have for rejoicing, saddened only by the fact that so many of our /brave men fell on field or sickened and died from hardship and ex posure, and others returning bring wounds and disease from which they will long suffer. The memory of the dead will be a precious legacy, and the disabled will be the nation’s -care. “A nation which cares for its disabled soldiers, as we have always done, will never lack defenders. The national ceme teries for those who fell in battle are proof that the dead as well as the living have our love. What an army of silent sentinels we have, and with -what loving care their graves are Kept! Every sol dier’s grave made during our unfortunate civil war is a tribute to American valor. And while when those graves were made we differed widely about the future of this government, these differences were long ago settled by the arbitrament of arms — AND THE TIME HAS NOW COME IN THE EVOLUTION OF SENTIMENT AND FEELING UNDER THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD. WHEN IN THE SPIRIT OF FRATERNITY WE SHOULD SHARE WITH YOU IN THE CARE OF THE GRAVES OF THE CONFEDERATE SOL DIERS. “THE CORDIAL FEELING NOW HAP PILY EXISTING BETWEEN THE NORTH AND SOUTH PROMPTS THIS GRA CIOUS ACT, AND IF IT NEEDED FUR THER JUSTIFICATION, IT IS FOUND IN THE GALLANT LOYALTY TO THE UNION AND THE FLAG SO CONSPICU OUSLY SHOWN IN THE YEAR JUST PASSED BY THE SONS AND GRAND SONS OF THESE HEROIC DEAD. “What a -glorious future awaits us if unitedly, wisely and bravely we face the new -problems now pressing upon us, de termined to solve them for right and hu manity!” • ' lx>oking back through the mists of a hundred yean? succeeding generations might read with doubt this remarkable declaration. But with the history of this most remarkable country before them they would comprehend and accept it. That the head of a government should thus pay tribute to the men who once came so near overturning that government seems remarkable even at this day, amid the in spiring events that prompt, such brotherly love and magnanimity. With the scales of prejudice removed from our eyes we of the South can recog nize the greatness of Lincoln throughout hie efforts to avert and then to prosecute th© struggle between the states, but as great as were the utterances of the coun try’s martyred 'president,, they were not I greater nor more remarkable than the ■ manly, magnanimous, patriotic utterancca of William McKinley, president of this i reunited country, the greatest the sun has j ever shone upon. Recall □‘‘wey. i The New York Sun prints a dispatch I from Manila Bay which is of especial in ' terest to the American people. The cor- I respondent declares very positively that the heal Ch of Admiral IDewey is yielding to the intense nervous strain -to which he has -been continually E-wbjected since the j glorious first of May. When in August the ; President practically ordered him to re- J turn, tihe admiral protested on the ground i 'that his work was not quite completed. • Besides he was loath to undergo the ordeal of receptions and ex’hlbftions that he was advised would -face him on his arrival in ! the United States. But the Sun’s corree i pondent now asserts that the admiral wanst to go home, as he is worn out and ■ is afraid he will succumb to the 'torrid heat of the next six months. If there 'be one man In the armies and navies so the United States who has earn ed a period of rest, that man is George Dewey. The American people cannot af ford to permit him 'io risk his life tn meet ing duties that others hiay well -fulfill. Other Admiral* and generals have •been en joying holidays after their war labors, but •Dewey has stood gallantly at his post, waiting patiently for the day to come when he might he releived. He should not be allowed to feet that his government has forgoten him. Mrs. Myrick, the talented editor of the Americans Times-Recor'der, can write ten der lines -as well as caustic ones, if we may judge by a poem that appeared in the last edition of her bright paper. This poem proves that Ella Wheeler Wilcox is not the only one of the sex who can sing of Che grand passion. We do not know the object of Mrs. IMyrick’s tender lines, whether he be soldier or civilian, but who ever he may 'be, he ought to be ‘able to ap preciate the following confession, which the ‘talented Lady writes under the title, “Because fl Love You:” Forever ’neath the journalistic care And crosses that -I constant bear There is a love, sweet, soothing, sound. That helps the hands to glide around— Al things seem easy in my s!gbt From early mom till late at night— Because —«I love you. Above the composing room’s busy throng I hear the soulful mockibitd's song. Throughout the day’s distracting din The 'breath of flowers comes creeping .in, An through man’s speech of studied sting Full oft a jeweled thought finds wing—• Because —I love you. The St. iLouis Republic says the Kan sas girl who has been left a legacy of $500,000 wherewith to cultivate her voice is reminded that iMns. Mary Lease’s voice appears to be standing around disused somewhere in the effete East with a “for rent” sign hung around its trottie valve. She might lease -Mary’s wellkin-ringer for a good deal less than the legacy and use the money left over in hiring halls to operate in. It llxas been decided to institute a public investigation of the charges of co Wardice recently preferred against certain officers of the 71st New York volunteers. Inci dentally this investigation will also estab lish ‘the fact 'whether or not the New York World can tell the truth. The statement that only one ball out of every eighty-five fired in battle hits any body would b© much more comforting if the soldier could have some kind of mark put on that eighty-fifth one so that he could dodge it, thinks the .Montgomery Ad vertiser. IMr. McKinley’s expansion policy seems to embrace a bona-fide proposition to take the ex-Confederate states back into the Union. This is a great country, anyway, and McKinley is its prophet. With Macon wining and dining General Wilson, and a Republican president de claring that the government should care for Confederate graves, it begins to look like the war-before-last is over. Secretary of State IPhil Cook must have felt like he had been run over by an ice wagon when President McKinley made Appeal Coin IHarvey has so far collected his speech yesterday. The ‘‘Campania,” the 'Pullman car in which the President wll Itravel. is said to be the most magnificent and lavishly ap pointed in the world. The Hon. Joe Chamberlain thinks the exchange of English titles for American heiresses is, after all, as good as an in ternational alliance. The only thing Spain has left to show for her discovery of the 'Western Continent is a little metal box containing the ashes of Columbus. Someone suggests that if Tom Reed keeps on trying to sweep back the expansion tidal wave he will yet find himself cast up by the beach. Chicago’s threat to lynch her /boodle ai dermen caused them to rescind their ac tion. And now the people half regret it. Tom Platt hasn't been able to take his mind off Teddy long enough to form any conclusions as to the expansion policy. Colonel Bryan was willing to fight for his country, but he was not willing to do police duty. Sectarianism is dead and President Mc- Kinley buried it too deep for resurrection by his speech in Atlanta yesterday. According to the Memphis Commercial- Appeal. Cain Harvey has so far collected $000,000,156. If you haven’t anything else to decorate, wear a flag in your hat ‘Monday. At §lO a plate Atlanta ought to net about out of her Peace Jubilee. President McKinley eveidently has de signs cn the solid South. The Worm Turned. From the Albany Herald. Those ministers who presume too much on the license of the pulpit often seem to forget that there is also such a thing as rhe freedom of the press. Such forgetful ness sometimes proves disastrous, as has just been demonstrated up in Macon. Rev. J. L. White, a minister of that city, took Editor Tom Loyless, of the Evening News, | to task in a card published in that paper j for having called Rev. J. L. Broughton, of MACON NEWS THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15 1898. Atlanta, a firebrand and having stated that he had met a just fate in being re buked by his own flock. The editor of The News comes back at the Rev. Mr. White just the same as if he wasn’t a preacher, and winds up his remarks with the following breezy paragraph: “As :o Dr. White’s admiration for Dr. Broughton, we have nothing to say, except that we do not envy him that, distinction. We frank ly confess our inability to admire any man who would prefer to see his own daughter in hell (or worse, as he stated it) than an inmate of a certain religious institution, merely because that institution differs with him in creed. We are not, however, surprised that Dr. White differs with us in this particular.” STATE NEWS AND VIEWS. There is a man in Atlanta who has the entire alphabet traced in the iris of his eye. There are probably more queer things “in the eye” of Atlanta people than any people in the country, the Savannnah News rises to remark, About noon on Monday, the sth instant, fire totally destroyed the home and almost the entire household effects of Mr. Robert Freeman, of Talbot county. Mr. Freeman was insured to the amount of S4OO. which will not half cover his loss. He has many friends who sympathize with him. Miss Berta Mae Crisp, daughter of the late Hon. Charles F. Crisp, was married yesterday to Mr. C. S. Glover, both of Americus. - At last accounts Santa Claus was study ing the maps of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines.—Waycross Herald. Charles Tolson, the actor who fillc 1 a several weeks’ engagement at Crump's park this summer, is now playing in Daw son. The Savannah Morning News has the following that is pertinent to some things in Georgia just at this time: • “The most opinionated and intolerant persons are the religious bigots. An in stance in illustration is noted by the Louisville Courier-Journal:. ‘The Atlanta pastor who rebuked his congregation, say ing that of one thing he was sure, and that was his religion, turns out to be noted for his attacks upon other creeds. People who are most doubtful of the righteousness of other people are the most confident of their own.’ ” PEOPLE’S FORUM. THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Editor cf The Evening News: The ques tion as to whether ;we shall maintain our public schols at the present status, is one of the questions of the hour in Georgia. It has been discussed in and out of the legis lature. The matter has not yet been fi nally settled, so I trust w'hat I shall gay will not be inopportune. I am unconditionally and unhesitatingly in favor of a complete system of public schools. I am certainly not satisfied with the system as it is at present. ‘lt is very inefficient, but it is doing great good, and is certainly worth maintaining so as to form a nucleus of a better anti more com plete system. At present the country districts are fa vored with a .six months scbool. These six months' are divided up sb as to .be most convenient to 'the country children. That the present system is a blessing no one can doubt. Let any one take a trip through the country districts of Georgia today and he will see more general inteligence among the children, more interest shown in edu cational affairs, than fifteen years ago. At that time, and until recently we had a ■three months’ school. These schools were taught in the summer months, usually July, August and September. They were were well attended, but were of such a short duration that in many neighborhoods teachers could not afford to teach 'them. The present system of six months has pro duced a much better class of teachers than we formerly had. Formerly 'a well edu cated teacher could not afford to teach a country school of three months. Now the country schools are being 'taught by edu cated men and women. So the improved condition of the schools 'has had a direct and beneficial effect upon the state. If by taxing the people a few cents on a feiw dollars can give to our state a citizen ship moral, educated and capable of pur suing its lifework in a better and happier manner. I say put the tax on. Don't stop to calculate the costs when you are rearing and training a Child for citizenship in Georgia. Did you ever think who paid the funds upon which the children of Georgia are educated? Very little comes out of the pockets of the people. The school fund is paid as follows: Poll tax,’ special tax on shows and exhi bitions, all taxes on the sales of spirituous and malt liquors, one half of the retals of the W. and A. railroad, the net amount arising for the inspection of oils and fetil izers and the net amount arising from the hire of convicts. So what is tihe use of bld Dives writhing and groaning. He pays no more of the school tax than the man who is worth much less. I am in favor of a more com plete system of public schools. I shall never be satisfied until I see such counties as Houston, Monroe, Butts, Pulaski, &c., have a nine months’ school with well sal aried teachers. By a system of local tax ation eabh community can do it. A bill •was passed in 1893 to allow each county in Georgia to do this. Suppose our sister county, Houston, which is now considered about the best county in Georgia, had a system as complete as Bibb. In five years her lands would double in price and value and she would be an ideal community. What is true so Houston county is true of Georgia. There never was a better invest ment than Georgia makes in the public school funds. She is way behind her sis ters of the South on this question. Yet she justly boasts of being the “Empire” Southern state. What would she >be if she had in every county a complete system of schools, taught by good teachers and run during nine months in the- year. She would not then have to get down on her knees and beg foreign capital and foreign enterprises to come. But at her gates cap ital would be knocking and enterprise would be entreating for entrance. Out lands would increase in value and the de mands be so great that the whole state would turn, for a eeason, into real estate dealers, selling to the welcomed visitors of the North and West our farms, which would soon blossom as the rose. One of our great troubles is the tendency of the people from the country to move to the cities. There is now an overflowing of the cities and depopulation of the coun try. This is almost solely due to a want of educational advantages in the country districts. Bibb county has a very imper fect system of public schools, yet I am sure she has about the best in the state. And see what schols have done for her. RoVal Baking Powder Made from pure cream of tartar. Safeguards the food against alum. Alum baking powders are the greatest menacers to health of the present day, ROYAL BAKING POWOER CO., NEW YORK. There is hardly an acre of land of the poor est sori and In the poorest neighborhood that would not sell for $lO per acre. Many large farms will bring ax present SIOO per acre. I challenge any one to dispute the facts I have related above. If these facts bo true, then can any one say that we should fail to work for a system of schools that will be an honor to our state 7 'lt is true that Georgia Washington had no educational advantages. A graduate of the Gresham High school probably gets about as complete an education as had Daniel Webster when he left Dartmouth College. Lord Bacon left college in dis gust and pursued his studies according to his own ideas and plans. Yet still, as Ma- Caulay says, these were playmates of Mil ton that were probably as great and per haps greater than Milton, 'while they were children, .but Milton was educated and his genius was developed to the delight of the civilized world. While ‘his playmates were brighter during the “doodle-hole blowing” period, were permitted to grow up unde veloped and died unknown, unhonored and unsung. The red old hills of Georgia have produced many great men. Genius is in digenous to her soil. The little brown hands of the country lads will one day hold the pen of statesmen. Let's all join hands to aid in the devel opment of the public schools of Georgia. Very truly, Civis. f,. ~ What a man \\ /Ta /7 /Stains to seems for a little time //J b e le high // / est rur| g in the / lad<ler, and dur- H —that brief pe ll Kr ft ft J r ’ o< t tie may be \\ w x ft[ ///content, but when Vwvj/ 1. jj he discovers that XX V .wW ft //ttt ere are other f -iK ft ft / rungs, still higher \ U P> ambition gives \ /1/a.nd he begins once \4/ I / raore to climb. To fjpj X v/'V // I climb is really man’s I v htef end. It isn’t in I attainment, but in v T /' / wor L.that man finds his k 1 /// rea t happiness, conse zV/a ] ! quently it is not strange ,we find men working un til they break down ''' when there is no real necessity for it. If men only knew it, they could work to almost any extent on through middle life and into old age, if they would only take a little common sense care of their health. The trouble is that they do not take the lit tle stitches here and there that are neces sary to preserve health. They pay no at tention to the signs of on-coruing ill-health. A little biliousness, a little indigestion, a little loss of sleep and appetite, a little nervousness, a little headache, a Little shakiness in the morning, and a little dull ness all day, a little this and a little that — all these little things they neglect. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery makes the appetite keen, digestion and assimila tion perfect, the liver active, the blood pure and the nerves steady. It is the great blood-maker and flesh-builder. It is the great liver iuvigorator and nerve tonic. It fits a man to work and work and work. Medicine dealers sell it and have nothing else “just as good.” “I was a sufferer five or six years from indi gestion,” writes B. F. Holmes, of Gaffney, Spartanburg Co., S. C., “ also from sore stomach and constant headache. I then used Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and ‘ Pleasant Pel lets,’ which in a few days gave me permanent relief.” A man or woman who neglects constipa tion suffers from slow poisoning. Doctor Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets cure constipa tion. One little “ Pellet ”is a gentle laxa tive, and two a mild cathartic. All medi cine dealers sell them. SPECIAL NOTICES. QB Til Nita. Tax payers are notified that the fourth installment of the city tax is now due. Pay and save tax execution. A. R. TINSLEY, Treasurer. Dec. 1, I*9B. Tailor Made SUITS at home. $20.00 ANO UP. F. W. GOETTE, 153 Cotton Ave. Academy of Music. THURSDAY, DEC. 15. DIRECTION OF JACOB BLITT Marie Wainwright. In the Big New York and London Success. SHALL WE FORGIVE HER. Two Years at the Adelphi Theatre, Lon don, England. Regular Prices* For Asthma use CHE NEY’S EXPECTOR- ANT. F~ I N A N O I A L. You Don’t Have to Wait for yoar money when you get loans from us. We have it always on band. GEO. A. SMITH, Gen. Man. ►quitable Building' and Loan Association, Macon, Ga.< 461 Third Strest. B. Y. MALLARY, B. N. JELKS, President Vice-President J. J. COBB, Cashier. Commercial and Savings Bank, MACON. GA. General Banking Business Transacted. $5.90 wil rent a box in our safety de posit vault, an absolutely safe plan in which to deposit jewelry, silverware and securities of all kinds. VISION SAVINGS BANK AND TRUST COMPANY MACON, GEORGIA. Safety Deposit Boxes For Rent. J. W. Cabaniss, President; S. 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-annually. THIS EXCHANGE BANK of Macon, Ga. Capital $500,000 Surplus 150,000 J. AV. 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 1368. 0L BL FL ANT. C2IAS. D. HURI Cashier. I. C. PLANTS SON, BANKEB, MACON, GA. A general banking builaoa* traoMet** and all consistent cortexie* cheerfully « tended to patron*. Certificate* of Issued bearing interest. FIRST NATIONAL BANK of MACON, GA. Th* account* of bank*, eerperatlen* firm* and individual* received upon th* most favorable terms consistent with eas servatlva banking. A chare of ysur bus Ince* respectfully selieltcd. B. E. PLANT, President. George H. Plant, Vlce-Prosideat 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, General Manager, 355 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 loan*. Annual payment loam*. Monthly payment loans. Security Loan and Rfcstiact 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. Faolli tles unsurpassed. HOWARD M. SMITH Second St., Macon, Ga. MILCE LLANE OUS. An« lO‘ 'Qg |jl® u IT 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 are pains taking and the goods are of extra good value. Look at the line of Covert Cloths, Black Cheviots, Black Unfinished Worsteds and Oxford Vecunaa. We make up very hand some top coats from these at very moder ate prices. GEO. P. BURDICK & CO., Importing Tailors. flacon’s Only Picture Frame Store. That is what we are. We guarantee you that we can show you four times the as sortment and four times the amount of stock shown by any other firm in Macon. And Our Frames Are Made Not thrown together. Call and see ua. W. Lamar Williams, 422 Second St. We have received the English Lawn Grass Seed for winter lawns. R. J. Lamar 8 Sons 416 Second Street, next to Old Curiosity Shop. C. A. Harrjs. W. J. Hopper. JUecftanics'CoaiCo 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 ail funerals in and out of the city, telephone 46&. 322 Mulberry street, Macon, Ga. [Racon Screen Co. Manufacturers of the best adjustable 1 wire window screens and screen doors. Your patronage respectfully solicited. Es timates furnished free of charge. J. D. Newbank*, manager, 215 Cotton aveaus, Macon. Ga. Henry Stevens, Sons & Company. 11. STEVENS' SONS CO., Macon, Ga., Manufacturers of sewer and railroad cul vert pipe, Actings, fire brick, elay, etc. Wall tubing that will last forever. Macon Refrigerators. MUCKE’S Improved Dry Air Refriger Jj a tors. he beet refrigerators made. Manu factured right here in Macon, any size and of any materiai deeired. It has qualities ** which no other refrigerator on the market fi possesses. Come and see then; at the sac- ]a tory on New street For Whooping Con**’ use CHENEY? '’ l " PECTORANT.