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PITY. mo wander through the *ght until the dawn is red --•'"* .1 be kind the passer meets) >ngle place to lay the head. /who wander through the earth such one meets when once starts) /fse souls are strangers unto love and mirth— Without a single place to lay their hearts! —New Orleans Times-Democrat. Bachelor’s Freedom. Gister had always declared that a man was foolish to marry. He gave the usual selfish bachelor reasons — namely, that a man who married sac rificed his comfort, resigned his in dependence, increased his responsi bilities and took long chances on un happiness into the bargain. His ob servation had convinced him that nine men out of ten who married were unhappy. "They port the best face on it that they can, of course,” he said to Mrs. Nistrin early in their acquaintance. "Some men 1 know pretend to like it. 1 have had them come crowing over me, even.” Mrs. Nistrin laughed. Mrs. Nis trin was a widow and a very clever and entertaining woman. Gister used rather to enjoy the evenings he spent at her home. "What could I gain by marrying?” continued Gister, addressing the widow. "1 have my apartments, •where I am not disturbed by any of the usual domestic nuisances. A child would not be allowed in the building for auy consideration on earth. My housekeeper puts every thing in order for me while I am downtown—sees to my linen, does what necessary mending there is to do, and my man attends to the rest. If I want to dine at home I make my selection from the cafe menu and have it sent up on a dumbwaiter in my own service and Sigmund serves it. If I want to dine out I have my choice of no fewer than eight decent places in this city. I have comfort. 1 have peace.” "What a vegry fortunate man you are?” said Mrs. Nistrin. “Don’t you think that I would show very doubtful judgment to change this for the joys of matri mony?” "I think you would be very foolish indeed,” said Mrs. Nistrin. “Not that I am insensible to the charms of your fascinating sex,” con tinued Gister. "1 think 1 show that best by remaining single. If I were married I might be denied the ines timable privilege of calling upon you, for instance—my wife might not like it.” "That's true,” murmured Mrs. Nis trin, "she might not.” "Then wouldn’t 1 be in idiot to want to marry?” “Between you and ms,” said the widow, "I think you would.” Last, winter Mrs. Nistrin decided that she would close her house and go to Caltnfornia. She gave a very gay little dinner party before she went, which Gister attended. He ob served to one of the men there that It was almost a pity Mrs. Nistrin was going away. She would be a distinct loss. Three weeks later Gister happened to be in California -on Inn iness. Of course it was only decency to call upon Mrs. Nistrin while he was there. She was greatly surprised to see him, but not displeased—lf Gister could judge. She was dressed most be comingly, Gister noticed, in some thing pinl-. He did not tell her that business bad brought him. On consideration that sounded rather shopworn. He said: "It seemed dull and cold in Chicago—after you left.” "I heard the weather had been rather disagreeable,” she said, with a queer look. "I decided to come on a sudden,” he said. "That’s the beauty of bachelor freedom,” said the widow. "Now, if you had been married” "I should nave stayed at home and thought my. elf lucky.” he said. "I don’t think wo ha.l a full grasp of that subject. 1 was inclined to alter iny views—in fact, 1 have altered them.” "Well,” said Mrs. Nistrin, "there is something to be said on both sides, of course. I think that one great sdurce of domestic unhappiness is the failure on the part of married people to realize that whatever con cessions are made, there must be only one real head to the family —one decisive voice. The man usually thinks that voice should be his. The woman nowadays fails to realize this as perhaps she should.” "You’ve hit it exactly," said Gister. “I’m one of those women,” said Mrs. Nistrin. “I’m used to having my way and I intend to have it al ways. My husband, if ever I married again, could have the management of his business, and that would have to satisfy him.” , Gister poughed behind his hand and was silent for a moment. "That .would satisfy me," he said presently. “No?" said Mrs. Nistrin. “With a certain woman.” “And how about your eomforts— your peace?” “I would have more than comfort. I would have bliss.” “You couldn’t discharge your wife, you know, if she displeasedvou.” “I would never want to,” said Gister. "You would have to dine at home always. If you went out or came in at any unusual hour you would be questioned.” “I would never go out. As for din ing at home —oh, what a word that is —home! I am forty-eight, Melissa, and 1 never had a home. You’ve got to make one for me. That’s what I came here to say.” "But suppose you wanted to relax with a little romance? Suppose your mood demanded variety of compan ionship and you were limited ” “Oh!” cried Gister. "You are the universal encyclopedia of philosophy and romance and all knowledge, the epitome of your sex, the ” "Stop!” commanded the widow, with her hands to her ears. “I be lieve yon were right about men being idiots—who thought of marrying. But —I—well, I prefer you a an idiot.”—Chicago News. Postage on Newspapers. In an endeavor to reduce the an nual deficit of nearly $15,000,000 in the Postoflice Department one Post master-General after another has suggested changes in the laws gov erning mail matter of the second class. Congress at its last session appointed a commission to investigate the matter, and hearings have begun before this commission. The big daily newspapers are of course using all their influence to retain their present rate, but some favor a raise in the rate for the weekly and the monthly, and also advocate the abo lition of free postal service for county papers. Many attribute the yearly deficit to what they term “abuses” of the sec ond class privilege extended to pub lishers. But the postal deficit more likely comes from exorbitant railway mail contracts, the distribution of free seeds, the abuse of the franking privilege, and the extension of rural free delivery, rather than from carry ing newspapers and periodicals at tho present rate. The rural free delivery has added enormously to the postal deficit, yet no one has suggested that the postage rate to the farmer be in creased in order to equalize the bur den of this service to him. The rural mail carrier has followed in the wake of civilization and the Government pays the cost. The two great civilizing influences of the present age are the school house and the newspaper, and no ob stacle should be placed in the way of either, for the Government is what it is largely because of the country school house and the country news paper. The postal law as originally enacted, establishing a rate of one cent a pound on newspapers, and free circulation within the county of pub lication, was intended to benefit the people who read the papers and not as a bounty to the publishers; the Government, 1. e., the people, has had value received for all it has done in the way of cheap postage to facili tate the circulation of the country weekly. If there ever is to come a time when it may be expedient to take a course calculated to curtail such circulation, that time has not yet arrived. Moreover, it is distinct ly good policy to encourage in every way possible the circulation of the admirable and constantly improving papers which make up the country weekly newspaper press of to-day, and to place no barrier between pub lisher and reader by adding addi tional postage, whet hen the postal rate is a means of expense or a source of revenue to the Government. No Government expenditure will bring greater returns, no investment means more In its relation to the home and the school house, and none has added so much to the sum of in dividual knowledge as that of carry ing the country weekly cheaply to its readers. The Government cannot afford to take a backward stop in this contribution to the intelligence and enlightenment of the people, and while it is desirable that the Post office Department should pay ex penses, if the attainment of that end calls for severe restrictions on the newspaper publishing industry, then let the deficit continue or be relieved : in some other way. He Got Off Easy. Clark Howell, of Atlanta, tells o. the sad case of an elderly darky in Georgia charged with the theft of some chickens. The negro had the misfortune to be defended by a young and inexperleuced attorney, although it is doubtful whether any one could have secured his acquittal, the commission of the crime having been proved beyond all doubt. The darky received a pretty severe sentence. “Thank you. sah.” said he, cheerfully, addressing the judge when the sentence had been announced. “Dat's mighty hard, sah, but it ain't anywhere near what I ’spected. I thought, sah. dat between my char ter and dat speech of mah lawyer ' you'd hats me shore!’’—Success. BEN TILLMAN PRODSTEDDY South Grolinian Vigorously Wields Pitchfork in Senate Speech. PRESIDENT AND NEGROES Was Subject Handled in Sensational and Vehement Language—Roose velt Likened to Lyncher. “The president’s action in dismiss ing these men was nothing more nor less than lynching.” This was only one of many bitter exclamations made by Senator Till man in a speech on the floor of the senate Saturday afternoon on the Brownsville affair. It was regarded as the most violent address ever de liver and by the south Carolinian before that body. In a voice heavy with emotion, he chained President Roosevelt with having revived the race issue and with bringing about conditions more threatening than those of 1861. "The president is primarily more re sponsible than any other man for the position the negroes, in the South and out of it, have taken on the question of negro rights,” he declared. “He gave recognition to Booker T Wash ington in a social way. He did it knowingly, flying in the face of the feelings of caste among 17,000,000 white people in the South, and against the same feeling of two-thirds of tho people of the North. ‘‘He does not understand the ne gro or the deep and vital character of the issues involved. He made a mess of it in the first instance in the Booker Washington case, and has made a worse mess of it in the Brownsville case.” fa en a tor Human spoke with unusual emphasis and reminded his hearers of the old days -when he received his title of “pitchfork.” After quoting the president’s Brownsville message, in which the president declared that each man should be dealt with on his merits as a man and not have his conduct judg ed because of his color, Mr. Tillman shouted: "Is President Roosevelt ready to act upon this theory and have his children marry men and women of the other races ? "Would he accept as a daughter in-law a Chinese, a Malay, an Indian or a negro in accord with the doc trine laid down in his message? "We all know he would not, and while ’fine words butter no parsnips,’ words like his are a source of incalcu lable evil, coming from that high source.” Discussing the Brownsville case, he said : "There is no doubt of the guilt of some of the soldiers as being respon sible for the outrage at Brownsville, but it is contrary to the fundamental principles of liberty and of English ana American law that the innocent should suffer because of the sins of the guilty. In this case 167 men have been punished while not more than twenty have ever been charged with participation in the crime. “The troops never should have been sent to Brownsville. It was done against the protests of one senator and members of congress from that district and done in the face of the record of the Twenty-Fifth Infantry.” In his conclusion, speaking of the amalgamation of the races, the sena tor said: "In Cuba the color line has been obliterated and miscegenation is in full blast. At the North, the same conditions exist and a large num ber of mulattoes and quadroons with white blood in their veins, who have migrated there, are the leaders in the doctrine of absolute social equal ity, encouraged as they have been and are now being by the president cf the United States. “The Southern white men and wo men who have for forty years resist ed in every possible way the doc trine of the equality of the races are just as resolved now as they have always been not to submit to it, or its results. "The conditions are growing worse and more aggravated every day. Race antagonism increases in intensity. Are things to drift until dire tragedies multiply on every hand and blood shall flow like water? Is the states manship of our time inadequate to cope with this question just as the statesmanship of IS6O failed to pre vent the dire catastrophe of civil war "That war was fought to settle the race question, but forty years after Its termination, we find conditions more threatening in some of their re spects than they were in 1 SGI.” SECRETARY SHAW SHIES. Says South Should Have a Subtrcasury But Sidesteps the Question of Its Permamnt Location. A Washington dispatch says: Sec rtary Shaw has forwarded to the ways and means committee his recommen dation relative to the establishment of a sub-treasury in the southeast. Chairman Payne says the matter will be considered at a called meet ing, and in the meantime refuses to talk of the contents cf Mr. Shaw’s communication. It is known, however, that the sec retary has failed to express a prefer ence as to the location of the institu tion. Indeed, he makes no reference to the alleged caucus of the southern states from which Georgia bolted. He says in substance that if another sub treasury is to be established, it should by all means be located in the south east. He even avoids naming a state. Chairman Payne had intended call ing the matter to the attention of liis committee Monday morning, with a view to disposing of the question, but the secretary’s communication was forgotten for the time being. The report of Secretary Shaw is disappointing to many southern con gressmen, but is especially gratifying to the Georgians, who are anxious to have the matter settled on its merits by the ways and means committee. It had been known, however, that the secretary would urge the establish ment of a sub-treasury, instead of leaving it for the committee to de cide whether one is reaily needed. Congressman Livingston announces, in connection with the report, that if a subtreasury is established it is bound to be located at Atlanta. HUNDRED YEARS BEHIND IHE TIMES- Orders of Pope are Considered as Redicu lously Antiquated. Rev. C. K. Nelson, Episcopal bishop of Georgia, does not agree with the Rev. Robert Codman, Episcopal bish op of Maine, in believing that the troubles between the government and the Roman Catholc church in France warrant official action on the part of the Episcopal church in America*. Bishop Codman, a few days ago, authorized the churches in his dio cese to offer a special prayer in be half of the Roman Catholic church in France. Bishop Nelson was shown the prayer and asked if he intended to authorize the Episcopal church of Georgia to take similar action or whether he agreed with the policy, and said: “No, I do not intend to take any such action, for I do not think the conditions warrant it. "Some are inclined to lay the trou ble to the fact that the ordeis of the pope are always a hundred years be hind the times. Things that he could order and consistently contend for one hundred years ago are about out of date now r , and cannot be upheld. Many have held this view.” ROADS WILL NLTO FIVE BILLIONS Within Next Five Years in Order to Keep Pace With Grawinq Business. Governor John A. Johnson of Minne sota has received a letter from James J. Hill, president of the Great North ern Railway company, declaring that it would requite a permanent invest ment off 1,100.000 a year for five years to provide the railroads of the country with the means to handle properly the business already in sight, and not al lowing for future growth. JOE WtttlltK TO rNSlil 08FAR. Son of Noted General to Aid n Inspection of Georgia Troops Captain Jos. A. Wheeler, Jr., U. S. A , a son of the la*3 General Joseph Wheeler, has bee.; detailed to assist in the inspection of the troops of the national guard of Georgia. Captain Wheeler lias been ordered to report for duty February 1, when the inspections will be begun* under the direction of Colonel Obear. COLO LEAD FOR RIJT RINGLEADERS. Mexican Au horities Make (xampie ol Strkers Hho < au*eJ trouble. Late advices from the Orizaba strike district in Mexico are to the effect that 5,562 of the 7,085 men which were out have now returned to work. Al though everything is quiet at piesent, swift punishment was inflicted by the government upon the men who were the leaders in the late rioting. The ringleaders were shot in the sight of hundreds of eye-witnesses. The gov ernment is determined to make exam pies of these men in older to ueter others, STOP AT THE Zettler House., The best SI.OO a day house Id the city. 253 Fourth Street, MACON, GA Mbs. A. L. Zettler, Propriet?*^ BUY the: Do not be deceived by those who ad vertise a $60.00 Sewing Machine for $20.00. This kind of a machine car. be bought from us or any of our dealers from §15.00 to SIB.OO - MAKE A VARIETY. THE NEW HOME IS THE BEST. The Feed determines the strength or weakness of Sewing Machines. The Double Foe<l combined with other strong points makes the Kew Home the best Sewing Machine to buy. Write for CIRCULARS we manufacture and prices before purchasing. THE NEW HOME SEW!NS MACHINE GO. ORANGE, MASS. 28 Union Sq. N. Y., Chicago, 111., Atlanta, Ga.,, %t. Louis,Mo., Dallas,Tex., San Francisco, Cat voa SALE DY LAWYER'S WIFE UNDER ARREST Charged With Hiring Iwo Men to Assassin note Her Husband. About three weeks ago, Colonel W. A. Guinn of McCays, Tenn., was as sassinated while entering his front yard about 9 o’clock at night. Ever since that time the coroner's jury has been investigating the crime,, and until Thursday their investiga tions have been kept a profound se cret. On that day John Ellis of Fan nin county, Georgia, who lias been held under bond as a witness *in the murder, made a confession which is highly sensational. He states that Mrs. Guinn, the wile of the murdered man, divided $250 between himself and John Allen, who is now in jail at Benton, Tenn., for the murder of Colonel Guinn. For this amount either he or Allen were to kill Colonel Guinn. They stationed themselves at. the two gates which gave entrance to Colonel Guinn’s premises, and at whichever gate Colonel Guinn entered whoever .was stationed there was to shoot and kill him. This was the agreement. From Ellis’ statement, Colonel Guinn entered by the gate where Al len was stationed, and Allen shot and killed him. Ellis also gave informa tion where was placed the gun with.- which the murder was committed. On investigation the gun was found as Ellis stated. Ellis also stated where could be found a bottle of turpentine, a part of which was used on tlieir ieet to prevent the degs from tracking them. Mrs. Guinn and Ellis have both been placed under arrest. GRAFT CHAKGI AGAINST PIERCE. Minister to Norway Accused of Duplicity in a ( leims Case. Herbert H. D. Pierce, new United' Stales minister to Norway, and for merly assistant secretary of state, is, again in the public eye because of charges made against him. He was accused Monday by Pro fessor H. W. Elliott of Cleveland,. Ohio, before the house committee on ways and means of having been guilty of misconduct while representing the United States government at The Hague in the settlement of claims re sulting from the seizure of a sealing vessel by the Russian government. Ta? charge is that Mr. Fierce not only represented this government, but did business ou his own hook and represented the owners of the ves sel. .vital AttlPi Ltrlrf i W Hits. Savannah Judge issues Mandamus Against Central iia.lraed. An order was passed by Judge Canm in the superior court at Savannah,. Ga„ Thursday night, directing the Central of Georgia railway not to re fuse to accept carloads of lumber from the Atlantic Coast Line. The or der was in injunction that partook of the nature of a mandamus. wages advanced by l. an. Shop Men of Road Get Raise Amounting About Four Per Cent. • The Louisville and Nashville rail road Monday gave notice that it* Increased the wages of its shopmen about 4 per cent, effective December i. The increase affects about 2,000 men. By reason of higher wages, the pay roll will be increased about SIOO,OOO a year.