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A' IM —*i ail iMI i■ hi i mi in———r—l THE j WIFE’S EXPERIMENT. By LUCY RAISDAII. COMFORT. EW .'HSU nil II )■!■■*'Wi'l II Tin !!■ i— Ml ■ iea was just over in the Liscombe age. The student lamp shone ly on the table, the fire blazed crackled cheerily on the hearth, the baby, a little Jure of a year old, lay in its lie sound asleep, with one pink doubled up on the counterpane, other nestled against its face. Mrs. Liscombe had just brought her mending basket for a ploas evening’s work. he was a rosy brunette, with very k hair, jetty, well-arched eye vs, and a nose just a little in -3d to the retrousse type. George ombe had been madly in love /ith her before he married her; she vas very dear to him still, but some tow the first bloom was off their hap piness. And Janet felt it, although, if any one had asked her,*she would have been r-solute in denying that the least change had come over the spirit of her dream. She looked up from her wo k is George came in from an opposite room. “Oh, George! you are not going out to-night?” she cried, involuntar ily, as "he no" ccd that he had his hat and evorcoat on. “Just for a little while, Net.” “You said that last, niga'., and you didn’t come until twelve o’clock.” "i\ow, darling, don’t be a goose,” laughed Liscomb, airily pinch'ng her cheek. ‘A man can’t always burrow at home, llko a mole in his tracks.” “And, George,” added Janet, nerv ing herself to the point (. remon strance, with a visible effort, “when you did come home, you—you had been drinking!” Liscombe frowned darkly. “What fools women are!” he ejac ulated. “As if a glass of ale ever harmed any one.” “Don’t go out to-night, George/’ pleaded Janet, with wistful, upraised eyes. “Stay and finish reading aloud ‘Waverly.’ Oh, you don’t know, George, how lonesome I air all those dreary evenings when yon are gone.” “I won’t be long to-night. Net, upon my word,” coaxed Liscombe. “Hut I promised Sherwold and the other boys I’d just come around, and have a roll at the ten-pins and a game of poker.” And he effected his escape before Mrs. Liscombe could urge him any farther. Janet looked after him with eyes brimming with tears. “The beginning of the end!” she murmured - “the entering wedge. Oh, God! if I thought I should live to see my husband a drunkard, I should almost be tempted to take my own life!” One by one the big drops plashed down on her work as she mechanical ly stitched on. Poor little Janet! she was becoming disenchanted from the dream of wedded happiness that had once cast such a glamor around her young life. With anxious eyes she watched the clock. Perhaps, after all, he meant to return early—perhaps he did not intend to leave her nil alone through the dreary hours. But as the hand touched the figures, first of ten and then eleven, the dim hope died out Within her breast. It was past twelve when at last he came in. Janet sprang to meet him. “Oh, George, I thought you never would come!” cried she. “Bessie has been croupy, and ” "Pshaw!” retorted Liscombe, In a thick and husky voice, “you women are always Imagining things. What are you sitting up for? Why aren't you in bed?” Janet said no more; but her heart sank like a mass of lead within her bosom. And all that night she scarce ly slept. Janet Liscombe had been a drunk ard's daughter. All the first years of her life had been spent in daily wit ness pf the terrible details of thp curse of drink. She had seen her mother drowned in tears, convulsed with shame, day after day; she had seen Want and Disgrace steal con stantly further and further across their threshold, until at last a merci ful release came in the shape of death! And she had stood, without one regretful tear, beside her father’s grave, only able to realize the bless ing his death would be to his house hold. “And,” she asked herself, clasp ing her hands in a sort of mute de spair, "have I got to live all this over again, in my own house? Oh, I-would rather die first, if only it were not for Bessie." For Bessie? What bugle-call ever aroused a mother's heart like the name of her child? The thought of Bessie's being forced to endure all that she had done, nerved Janet Lls combe's heart anew. “No!" she said to herself, not be a drunkard's wife, neither shall Bessie be a drunkard’s child " 'l*nat night she made no comment, when George put on his hat and overcoat, except to ask him, care lessly, whither he was going. “Just around to Morris* for half an hour,” said he. .And he was evi dently much relieved that no burst of feminine remonstrances ensue!. Janet sewed quietly on, but if Lis combq had taken the trouble to study her countenance he would have seen that her lips were compressed, and her cheeks flushed a deep red. . There were three or four genial and drouthy souls at Morris’ saloon that evening. Gerald Dikeman was there, the foreman in the nat manu facturing establishment where Lis combe worked; Tom Dailey, 'whose wife took In sewing; old Mr. Hop good, whose scarlet nose betokened his diurnal habits with unfailing ac curacy, and Joe Ponsonby, who wrote reports for the Pocklington Gazette, supplied the “poet's corner,” and be lieved firmly in the Byronic theory that gin and genius went hand in hand. And George Liscombe, sitting in their midst, was just commencing his fourth game at poker when the door opened, and Janet walked in. Everybody stared around in sur prise. Liscombe dropped his cards. “Janet!” he cried out. “Yes, Mr. Liscombe,” said his wife, unloosening her bonnet strings, with deliberation. “Is—is any one sick? Is it Bes sie?” questioned the husband. “Well, no one in particular,” Mrs. Liscombe calmly answered. “JJessie is a little inclined to croup, but I have left Mrs. Wingate with her.” “Then what brings you here?” asked Liscombe, with gathering dis pleasure. “Oh!” retorted Mrs. Liscombe, with a defiant toss of the head, “I lonely at home, and I thought I might as well come around here.” “This is no place for a woman,” said Liscombe, lowering his voice to a tone of angry remonstrance. “If it’s no place for a woman, it’s no place for a man,” said Janet. “At all events, here I shall spend the evening.” “And leave your sick child?” “She is as much your child as mine,” retorted Janet. “Give me a of Dublin stout, Mr. Morris, if you please.” “Janet!” gasped Liscombe, scarlet with mortification and anger. “Let me alone,” said she, with an impatient shrug of the shoulders. “You drink, and I shall claim the same privilege. lam tired of sitting tamely down by the fire. Henceforth, when you go out, I shall go, too.” Liscombe looked eagerly around for his hat. “Give me my things, somebody,” said he. “I believe the girl is crazy! Janet, come!” Mrs. Liscombe passed her arm smilingly through that of her hus band’s. “O.b, certainly,” said she, “if you are coining too.” “Janet,” Liscombe angrily demand ed, when the green baize doors of the liquor saloon had swung to be hind them, “what does this mean? Are you insane?” “If there is any . insanity in enter ing a saloon, there must be a good deal of lunacy at large,” observed Janet, calmly. “What do you mean by disgracing me, then?” he pursued, hotly. “Where’s the disgrace?” ques tioned Janet, preserving a marvelous composure. “A woman! in such a place as that!” be almost shouted. “Is it auy worse than a man in such a place as that?” “Janet!” “George!” “You are determined to drive me frantic!” he uttered, clenching his teeth. “Not at all, my dear,” said Janet, "I am only trying to keep from being driven frantic myself! ,And, h*e after, I wish you to understand that I mean to accompany you to your evening engagements, whether they may lead you to theatre, billiard room, or liquor saloon!” Liscombe uttered a low exclama tion of rage and wrath. “Gently, my dear,” said Janet. "If if is wrong for me it must be wrong for you. If it disgraces a woman to cross the thresholds of such haunts, what must it be for a man? No, George, for the rest of our lives it must be share and share alike, no matter where it leads us.” George Liscombe said no more. He walked quietly home with his wife, and sat silent ami thoughtful the rest of the evening. But the next morning he kissed Janet, in the old, lover-like fashion, before he went to his work. “Net,” said he, “I’ve been thinking. And although I was very angry with you last night, I do believe you were right! I’ll go no more to those places!” And from that day thenceforward George Liscombe never crossed the threshold of a saloon, or a billiard palace. The wife’s experiment had been a success.—Good Literature. I/et’s Have the Story. T say, D’Orsav, have you ever j heard that joke about the guide in | Home who showed some travelers two i skulls of St. Paul, one as a boy and ! the other ai| a man?” | “Aw, deah boy—no— aw, let j hear it.”—Boston Transcript. Georgia Callings Curtailed Items of Interest Gathered at Random. Bullard Declared Sane. The commission appointed by Gov ernor Terrell to inquire into the san ity of John Bullard, sentenced to be hanged in Marietta, for shooting and killing his daughter last September, returned a verdict declaring Bullard sane. ** * - The Same Old Story. Indications are that this year the legislature’s appropriation of $.-,90,W0 for the pension fund will lack $30,000 of being enough. Unless individuals offer to loan the state the amount of the deficit, the veterans will not be able to get their money until the legislature meets and appropriates a sufficient amount. * * * Death Claims Legislator. Rev. Elijah Roper, the present member of the legislature from Pick ens county, died at Nelson a few days ago of paralysis. Mr. Roper was about 60 years of age. Mr. Roper was away from his home when the attack came. He was standing in the street talk ing to some friends when he was seen to fall. He was carried into the hotel at Nelson and lingered for some time before death came. * * * Want Steamers During Exposition. A movement has been started in Savannah to have the Baltimore and Philadelphia steamers, or some of them, stop at Norfolk, Va., during the progress of the Jamestown Expo sition. Mayor Tiedeman has taken the mat ter up with the Board of Trade and Chamber of Commerce. It is believed that the arrangement would be mutu ally beneficial to the steamship com pany and the exposition management and Savannah. * * * To Awart Higher Decision. No more cases against the alleged violators of the Doykin law will be heard by Judge Roan in Atlanta until the court of appeals hands down a decision* on the C. N. Anderson ver dict, which will be carried to the high court by his attorneys. In the meantime the hearings of the other nine indicted men will be continued under the condition that these suspend operations until the court of appeals takes action on ihe test case. A. B. & A. Trains to LaGrange. ' Train service between Brunswick and LaGrange will be inaugurated over the Atlanta, Birmingham and At lantic railroad on March 3, the sched ules from Brunswick to Oglethorpe re maining as before, the new service being continued weet of Oglethorpe. According to the new schedules, train No. 1 will leave Waycross a‘t 8:20 a. m., arriving at LaGrange at 6: (15 p. m. Returning train No. 4 will leave LaGrange at 10 o clock in the morning, arriving at Waycross at 7:15 in the evening. ’] he A. B. & A. expects to inaugu rate train seVvice into Atlanta the coming summer. * * * Fruit Growers After Railroads. The members of the Georgia 1 ruit Growers’ Association, and growers of the adjoining states of Alabama, t lor ida. Tennessee and South Carolina, m session at A-tlanta 'the past week, au thorizedlU^j— gjg|| County School Commissioners. Two new ocnmty school commission ers have hot* elected; Hon. \Y. G. Avera, Berrien county, wno suc ceeds Hon. J. H. Gary, and Hon. L- M. Chastain, Rabun county, who sue ceeds Professor A. J. Ritchie. The association of county school commissioners of Georgia will meet in Milledgeville on the last week in April, and at that time important matters concerning the common schools of the state will be discussed, and some needed legislation sugj gested to the members of the next general assembly. The week al lowing, the Georgia Teachers Asso ciation will convene in annual session in Macon, thus giving an opportunity of attending that meeting without ex tra expense. :}c * * Habersham Gets School. At a meeting of the board of trus tees of the Agricultural and Mec.nan ical school for the ninth c-ongrt sHonnl district, to select a site for the 'in that district, the bid of Habersham county was adoepted amid great -.n thusiasm on the part of ihe contingcn,, from that county The successful bid calls for a cash donation of $25,000, 300 acres of land, free water and free telephone serv ice. The land is located a few miles north of Clarkesville and is said to be one of the best sites in the state. There were bids received from three counties —Habersham, Hall and Jack son. Hall county submitted three bids: first, 500 acres of land at Klondike and $30,000; second, 500 acres of land at Oakland and $31,000; third, zaU acres of land at Lula and $30,500. Jackson county offered $20,000 and 45p acres of land at Nicholson, or $20,000 and 300 acres at Commerce. * V * ' To Develop Anthony Shoals. Prospects for the speedy develop ment of Anthony Shoals on Broad riv er grow brighter daily, The return of Messrs. T. M. and J il. Fitzpatrick, purchasers of the prop erty, from a successful stay in New York, the paying off of options given by the laud owners in the neighbor hood of the shoals, and the presence in Washington of the owners, their attorney and engineer, are strong in dications of the fact that the prelim inaries are past and actual prepara tions are under way which will ulti mately result in the expenditure of be twen $5,000,000 and $6,00-0,000. Since the visit of Messrs. Fitzpat rick to New York recently the owner ship of this property on Broad river lias passed out of their hands into the control of a large northern elec trical concern, with a capital of sev eral millions of dollars, which makes a business of developing big water powers like that at Anthony Slioais on Broad river, and Ringjaw shoals on ihe Savannah. Two Pleased Officials. Chairman J. A. Betjeman of the ex ecutive committee of the Georgia Im migration Association, is delighted with the convention held in Macon the past week and its results. Chairman Betjeman, who has in charge the details of the immigration campaign just inaugurated, says tha-t ft was not the idea of the association prior to the Macon convention tp pro ceed with undue haste, but to lay the foundations of the work broad and deep. He says that the work Is now on a thorough business-like basis and will be prosecuted in a practical, sys tematic kind of way. “I expect great results from the Ma con convention on immigration,’’ said Commissioner Agriculture Hudson, in speaking of the meeting. “In the convention were manufac turers, merchants, business men, pro i fesslonal men and farmers. Every part [of the state was represented, showing [that interest in this vital! subject is [confined to no particular section, but [permeates every part of Georgia. | “The one great thing necessary-now I is money to work with in bringing in I desirable immigrants. The convention put this matter in the hands of com petent men, and the campaign will I begin in earnest. The whole state is araused to the question and results are sure to be obtained.” I SMALLPOX GRIPS HOUSE CLIKK. ■ fourth Man to Succumb in Missouri Legis- I laiure is Sent to Hospital. I John M. Dougherty, a clerk in the 9.Missouri house of representatives, was ■removed to the Emergency Hospital ■Monday night, suffering with small ■ pox. He'is the fourth man connected • with the bouse of representatives to 1 contract the disease. I Much alarm was caused by the re 9port that a guard at the penitentiary ■was taken from his post suffering Iwiih the disease. I flames Lick Up $ 25,000* 9 Fire Sunday destroyed the barns 1 and contents of the Warren Street I Railway company at Warren, Pa., and ■ caused a loss of sl2-5,000. STOP AT THE Zettlei? House, The best SI.OO a day house in the city. 253 Fourth Street, MACON, GA. Mhs. A. L. ZettLer, Proprietress BUY the: MACHINE Do not be deceived by those who ad vertise a 560.00 Sewing Machine for §20.00. This kind of a machine car. be bought from us or any of our dealer’s from §15.00 to §IB.OO - MAKE A VARIETY. , * THE NEW HOME IS THE BEST. The Feed determines the strength or weakness of Sewing Machines. The Double Feed combined with other strong points makes the lew Ifoisae the best Sewing Machine to buy. Write for CIRCULARS SSiS we manufacture and prices before purchasing THE NEW HOME SEWING lAGHINE GO. ORANGE, MASS. 28 Union Sq. N. Y., Chicago, 111., Atlanta, Ga., %t. 3jouis,Mo., Dallas,Tex., San Francisco, Gal FOR sale bv POLICEMEN KILLED BY MERCHANT. Officer Was Mistaken for Burglar While fryinq Store Ooor. Police Officer Walter Wilkins was shot and instantly killed at Augusta, Ga., Monday night, by E. M. Fuller, while examining the rear door of the Augusta Hardware company's store. Fuller was at work in the store when he heard someone fumbling with the latch of the rear door which opens into an alley. He seized a shot gun and ran arouhd to the rear from the front, and, poking the weapon almost in the officer’s face, fired. So close was he that the shot made but a single wound, penetrating the fore head. SLVtN 6UNb HaD BttN USED. Incriminating Testimony Against Negro LSol j.ers oiveii by Lieutenant. Iu trie r'enrose courtniartial at San Antonio. Texas, Saturday, Lieutenant I,awrason testiried under cross-exam ination that when lie inspected the gi ins on the morning after the ‘•shoot ing up” of Brownsville, he found seven men with guns that had evi dently been in use. "At an order from Major who just then came up,” said Lieu tenant Lawrason, ‘‘l went oft an an other duty, leaving those seven men and guns to Penrose and Captain Ly on for further inspection.” A BOOST fOR SHIP SUBSIDY. Rule Adopted in House Shows Influence of “dig Stick.” Ship subsidy secured a marked im petus Monday in the house, which, just before adjournment, adopted a rule that will probably insure the passage by the house of the Littauer substitute for the senate bill and re sult before the final adjournment, in positive legislation. The rule was agreed upon unex pectedly by the rules committee at a meeting held after the visit of Sec retary Root to the capitol and it was very generally understood that the administration was responsible for the committee’s action. UUCkIOWN COVcK CASE UP. Arguments on Noteu contention Heard by United states supreme court. A Washington dispatch says: The supreme court Monday afternoon be gan hearing argument in the famous Lucktown copper mines ease. The state of Georgia is trying to enjoin the Tennessee Copper compa ny from operating the copper mines at Ducktown, Team, until the fumes and gases are so controlled that they -a iil not damage the forestry and veg etation in North Georgia. The case is the first of its kind ever heard by the United States su preme court CQNVtMIOX Of LUMBERMEN. Brief Session Held in Jacksonville Which Adjourns to Meet in liflon. The Georgia-Florida Lumbermen’s'* Association met in Jacksonville Mon day morning, transacted routine busi ness, and adjourned to meet in Tit ton, Ga., March 12. They accepted an invitation to hold the June meeting ir. Fernandina, Fla. Only a short session was held, at which a closer union of the associa tions was discussed.