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and mineral food for healthy growth.
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SOUTHERN RAILWAY
OFFERS SERVICE
North, South. East, and West
Tor rates, routes and schedules or any other in**
formation, address,
G, R, PETTIT, Trav, Pass, Agent, Macon Ga,
Go To Tom Thurston’s
Shop 4.0 get your horse-shoeing, tire-setting
and repairing done.
I use first class labor and ma erial; everything done
under a positive guarantee,
I Am No Price Cutter Or Cobbler,
but do first class work at living prices, which is the
CHEAPEST in the long run. Come to see me and
GET VALUE RECEIVED FOR YOUR MONEY.
Yours to serve at Hitchens old stand.
TOM THURSTON.
ATTENTION ALL! I
This is the season of the year 1
when your buggy cught to be
repaired, and repainted, JUST
LIKE NEW. Also, the time to
have your stock shod for FIFTY
CENTS, when paid in cash.
THIS I DO. All work done in
my shops, is done with dispatch
and, an accuracy only attained
by an EXPERIENCE COVER*j
ING TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS.;
Not six years scouting, or scuf=|
fling about. Everything guar-]
anteed, and at lively prices.
The old reliable,
G. W.KINSfIAN.!
The Telephone Voice.
“Next to knowing how I look,” said
the busy woman, “I’d like to know
how my voice sounds over the tele
phone. lam quite sure it doesn’t sound
/ atural. Nobody else’s does. Most
* >ople keep their telephone voice pack
ed away with their company manners.
It is so' different from the tones of or
dinary use that it is hardly recognis
able. * Take our manager's voice, for
•example. In general conversation his
voice is so heavy that it fairly makes
the furniture rattle, but when he gets
busy at the telephone, especially if
there happens to be a woman at the
other end of the wire, he assumes so
many vocal grace.s that you north!
think Chesterfield himself was at the
phone. E,ven girls—and they talk
more naturally than men employ
many strange inflections, so it stands
to reason that I must do the same.
New York Press.
History and the London Times.
I fancy history would have been very
tame If the Times newspaper had been
going all the time. One can fancy the
solemn letters that would have ap
peared in it “Sir-My attention has
been "Oiled to the report that I helped
to murder Julius Caesar in the capital,
a report which has no foundation in
fact ’ I should have thought that the
friendly relations which, I am proud
to say, always subsisted between us
would hare rendered such a slander
Impossible. Yours, etc., Brutus.”—G.
;iK.. Chesterton In Illustrated London
iNews.
JAMESTOWN RER=CEN
TENNIAL EXPOSITION
APRIL TO NOVEM
BER 1907.
Exceedingly low rates have been
authorized by the Southern Rail
way to Norfolk, Va,, and return,
account Jamestown Ter-Centen
nial Exposition.
Step overs will be allowed on
season, sixty day and fifte ;n day
tickets, same as granted on Sum
mer Tourist Tickets. Tickets will
be sold (Lily commencing April
19th, to and including November
30th 1907.
The Southern Railway is tak.
ing a vary great interest in this
Exposition and doing everything
within their power to promote its
welfare for the rsason that it is
located on historic and Southern
Grounds, and has evidence of be
ing one of the most important and
attractive affairs of this kind that
has ever been held*
Through train service and
sleeping car service to Norfolk du
ring the Exposition has not yet
been announced, but it is expected
that most excellent schedules will
be put in effect so as to make the
trip comfortable and satisfactory
in every way.
With these very liberal rates in
elfect everyone in the South has
en opportunity to visit the JAHES
TOWN TER-SENTENNIAL EXPO
SITION.
Full and complete information
will be cheerfully furnished upon
application to any Ticket Agent
of the Southern Railway Company
If the doc the r3 would open fewer
people and more windows there
wouldn’t be so many Christian Scien
tists.— ilr. Dooley. .
\ Correspondents, f
•V fir *- '
Coodys Distric.t
Spring has come, the winter has
passed, the whipporwill sings all
night by the side of the brook, and
the whangdoodle mourn°th. The
bull frog bellows in the ditches, and
the partridge hollows bob white. O.d
mother earth hangs in her orbit, thr
sun he whispers and bids all human
ity to be glad. We are still hopeful of
a good crop the coming fall. The
farmers in this part of the cotton belt
were hard hit last year, o l account
of a short cotton crop. Some of our
creditors met us with a spirit of liber
ality, for which we feel grateful and
will remember them kindly in the fu
ture, And some were very drastic
and demanded the last farthing.
Those we will also remember kindly,
with these words of Robert Burns ad
ded, ‘‘mans inhumanity to m n makes
countless millions mourn.’*
It takes all sorts of people to make
a world, and we are ull in it. Some
people rej ice to see a short crop ; for
then is when they get in their biggest
work Did you ever see a fish hawk
sitting on a limb over a stream watch
ing for a fish? When he spies one
he makes a dart f>r him; and he is
mighty apt. to get the fish. He then
bears it away to some secluded spot
and there devours it. There arc men
in every community t tab don’t do
anything but set ou their perch and
prey on the misfortunes and ned s
siiies of others. And they imploy
every device known to trick, ry and
bull dozing, and the pitty of it is
some of those that practice these
tilings claim to love Jesus Christ so
good they can’t sleep sound.
Now a few words to the farmers:
In Home of our troubles we are large
ly to blame our selves, and 'he way
out of it is to quit planting so much
cotton. Let us remember it is not
too late to plant corn and so I. ts ju t
literally salt the earth down •• h
con, peas, potatoes and sorghum;
am con tac'as few new deb. s .pu -
sible until we pay off old score.-.
Rlowhandi.es.
Around No. 5.
Cotton planting ia tire general or
der of the day and if signs are worth
anything there wiil io another b'j:
.•r'p.
The hotel people have arrived at
Indian Sp’gs and are preparing f. r
the summer business. I understand
chat there are some twenty or mor
visitors among them already.
The misses Gsrr came down fruii
Locust Grove Saturday evening am
'pent Sunday with home folks atm
returned Monday.
Mr. and M rs. G. \Y. Allen ent<r.
tained very interesting on lust Fri
day evening n h >nor of Miss Julm
Allen of Covington. Many games
were indulged in unlil rim* o’. Link
when the dining room was thrown o
oen and the guests wer* served with
•ce cream and m my other eatable*.
Tlv>-e nre-enr were M... N t (Jr,.o
Ohail e Kimbill, out Walkin'*,
Watkins. Dr, Jo a Watkins, (
Watkins, Tom Watkins. Miss -[ ta
May Kiinbdl, J lo> Maddox, Bear]
Maadox, S<.Lie Lou Watkins. Abell
Watkins and Miss Julia Allen.
Miss Alert returned home to Cov
ington on Monduy much to the r< -
gret of some young man.
Mrs El Hoard bus jeturned from
Macon hospital some what Improved
hut not w 11.
I understand the Indian Springs
and Flovilla railroad will pat on regu
lar passenger trains In a few days with
much improvements from last season
HANIBELL DIXON
CASTOR IA
for Infants and Children.
Tha Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature of
GRAfI INJHGUNU.
Perhaps Not So Great In Extent
as Here, but Yet Well Started.
The Operation of Publio Utilities by
Public Officials Has Placed Them
Under Bueh Temptations as They
Have Never Before Known—Why
They Are Not Exposed.
There is nothing about the visiting
American in England more amusing to
the native than the American’s convic
tion that there is no graft iu English
municipal politics.
Frederick C. Howe, the magaziuist
who writes go much In praise of munic
ipal ownership, the British form of
socialism, admits that there is graft iu
England, but says It Is all practiced
by the lords and millionaires. No
graft, he declares, lias crept I through
the municipal ownership and operation
of public utilities.
“Graft in England may not be of such
magnitude as In the United States,”
said an Englishman who is well known
iu public life, but is neither n lord nor
a millionaire, “but it exists here as
certainly us it does ih America. It is
carried on along similar lines, nnd, fos
tered by the opportunities which the
rising tide of municipal trading affords,
it is rapidly growing in magnitude. It
is owing to our overstrlct libel laws
and to the fact that immunity may not
be granted under English law* to one
who confesses to accepting a bribe that
the corruption now so well known to
exist iu our municipal governments has
not been effectively expand long ago.
“The newspapers know all about it,
and they know who are the grafters,
but they do not dare to expose the sit
uation, and until the proper statutes
are enacted it will be almost impossi
ble to punish grafters through the
courts.
“Not so very long ago a certain
speech was reported in one of the
Loudon newspapers. The specchmak
er was indignant, for neither the sub
ject matter of the speech nor the cir
cumstances under which it was deliv
ered were creditable to him, and he
brought a suit for damages on the
ground that the libel laws had been
violated. It was not claimed that the
speech was incorrectly reported; in
deed, it was admitted that the report
was substantially without error, yet
nevertheless heavy damages were
awarded to the plaintiff on the grounds
that the plaintiff’s reputation had been
injured und that the publisher could
not show that the publication of the
report was of benefit to the public.
“A little longer ago it was suspected
that members of the council of London
borough of Poplar had been accepting
bribes from contractors who were fur
bishing materials and supplies. Detec
tives were put upon the case, and the
facts were run down. Certain of the
contractors and councilmen, confront
ed with these facts, confessed and
promised to go upon the stand in court
and testify to the truth. In due time
one of the guilty men took the stand
as promised and told the story as
agreed.
“Tie was immediately arrested as a
criminal under the law as its stands
and dated for an early trial. This
chilled the enthusiasm of the others
who had promised to confess, and they
changed their minds promptly and Ir
revocably. As the prosecution was
thus left without witnesses, the Inves
tigation was brought to an abrupt
close.
“Now, the installation and operation
of tramways, electric light works, gas
works, etc., involves the letting of
many large contracts by men who hold
places In the municipal councils, not
Ixkcause they are fitted by training and
experience to let such contracts, but
because they have succeeded through
• c’.ly politics in yetting elected. They
receive no pay for their service i and
pj umnv cases are men viihout finan
cial resources of any consequence.
“There are contractors In England
ns veil as In America who are not
above getting contracts through brib
crv. and there are council members of
the prr.de I have mentioned who are
no more aide to resist 'lie temptation
to he bribed in England than they
would be in America. If It would not
sound unpatriotic, I might go so far ns
to say that since municipal trading has
so increased the magnitude of munici
pal eont’gKds Englishmen in many cit
ies have tx*en known to seek election
to the councils In order to have the
chance to be bribed.
“We could today make exposures of
graft in London and more than one
other English city that would startle
American renders even, accustomed ns
they are to reading graft stories, if we
could only give immunity to whoever
might be either scared or reasoned into
confessing the truth. In other words,
municipal ownership and operation of
public utilities in England are rapidly
honeycombing all our municipal gov
ernments with graft.
“The law makes an exception with
regard to election bribery charges, and
immunity may lawfully be promised
to tLpso,whose, testimony is needed to
cornet the guilty. This has enabled
us iu uiieaiiu many eie_uun uuegutui
lties, as the readers of English news
papers know very well, and eventually
we are going to be able to unearth the
facts with regard to bribery nnd Job
bery in English municipal administra
tion. We are well aware, however,
that it will probably be quite as diffi
cult to job as It was thirty odd years
ago in America to unearth the frauds
I>erpetrated by New* York’s notorious
Tweed ring.”
Nothing has yet been discovered that
thoroughly takes the place of the stim
ulus of profit; In carrying on any busi
ness establishment.—Exchange. .
DINGENDjEFER TALKS,
Concludes That Companies Are
Preferable to Cities. j
When a Newspaper Criticises a Com
pany It Yields “Quicker Than You
Can Say Jack Robinson,” but City
Authorities Feel Secure In Their
Places and Do Nothing.
It will be remembered that som®
nine or ten months ago Mr. Dingen
diefer burst from the obscurity in
which, ns a simple clarinet player
In the orchestra of a Manhattan the
ater, he had been enveloped and
flashed upon the Brooklyn public as a
redeemer of Its right to cross the
Brooklyn bridge at night without
clambering up and down the long, irk
some flights of stairs lending to nnd
from the elevated structures.
In otl'.er words, It was Mr. Dingen
diefer who, through the columns of the
Eagle, made It clear to the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit company that the di&-
eoutlnued night service of trolley car#
across the bridge ought to be resumed.
It was in this page of history that Mr.
Dingendiefer alluded in the following
remarks which he made concerning
municipal ownership of public utilities:
“I dink ve soom preddy goot lesson*
nlreutty got about dot moonlzlbal own
ershlb dings. Aln’d you dink so, yes?
Ven dey didn’t run dem drolley car#
auf der Brooklyn prldge by der nighd
dlme lasd vluter, all ve got to done is#
to say soomdlngs on dor Eagle news
pa her. und right avay quick der Brook
lyn Rabid Drnnslt gombany schtardt
dem running. Und since dot dime ve
didn’t got no droubles like dot soom
more. All vot der gombany vants to
know iss dot der peobles vouldn’t
sehtandt dot soom longer, und dnv get
soocli a move by dem dot you couldn’t
say ‘Yack Robinson’ vlrst.
“But vot iss it ven der cidy own dot
rallroats? I bed you dot’s a good deal
difference. Der brlvato gombany v.at
Iss got deir money invested by dot
rallroats couldn’t affords to make dor
people sooch a mad; meppe der peo
ples rise oop und say dey gif soom
odder gombany dot vranehires or
somedfngs like dot. But ven der otdy
owns dot rallront eferybotty vot runs
It nin’d got soom oof bis own money
Invested in It, so lie vouldn’d care vot
der peobles said. He run der rallroats
yoost der same vay vot lie vant to.
“Soom peobles said dot der bolldl
clans vould been more afraid oof der
peobles ns der brlvato gombany, but
dot Iss a foolishness. Der bolidlcians
got nod lugs to lose und dor brlvate
gombany got eferydings. Oof der boll
dicians vas afraid oof dor peobles,
how Iss ft dot day don’d go aheadt
right avay qvick und buildt dot ele
vated loop by Deinncey streed? Don’d
der peobles want dot? Und don’d der
bolidlcians know dot der peobles vant
dot? Sure dey know dot, but dey
don’d care soomedfngs nboud it. Mep
pe dey gots more money on delr pock
ets ven dey don’d buildt dot loop. I
bed you oof dot vas left vor soom brl
vate gombany to done und dor bolidi
clans got nodings to said abend it
dot loop vould bo buildt alrefty yet,
und ve vouldn’d got sooch a crowd
ings by der Brooklyn bridge nefer
soom more.
“Efery dime ven I dinks about dot
moonlzlbal ownership I dinks nboud
dot Mnnhaddnn prldge, vot d*r peo- (
hies vould been vnlking ofer by dl#
time oof It was dor broberdy oof soom
brlvato gorporntion. Aln’d you dink
so? No? Yes?”—Brooklyn Eagle.
Marshal Seizes Light Plant.
A United States marshal has seized
the electric light plant belonging to
the borough of Bark Ridge, N. J„ In
execution of a Judgment for $0,051.96,
which was obtained in the United'
States circuit court by the engineering
firm which Installed the plant. The
plant was to have been run by water
power, but has not been a success. The
builders claim thut this is due to in
adequate power and not to Improper
installation, as claimed by the borough
authorities, and the decision apparent
ly supports their claim. The situation
la a serious one, as the borough Is
small, and the plant cannot be operat
ed advantageously until a large addi
tional expenditure bus been made.
awo tnousnnu nine nuuarea silk
worms are required to produce ou©
pound of silk, but it takes 27,000 spi
der# to produce one pound of web.