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Coca! news Items. Miss Ethel Redman, one of the most highly accomplished young la dies of Butts County, is the guebt of Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Haizlip.—Eaton ton Messenger. Thornton Buchanan spent Sunday with homefolk. ])r. R. A. Franklin spent Sunday and Monday in Atlanta. Judge F. Z. Curry returned Mon day from a visit to Griffin, Hampton and Atlanta. Miss Marie, McMichael returned Saturday from Atlanta where she has been visiting her Bister Mrs. Valenti no. Some good second hand buggies for sale, some real bargains. Call on J. A. Kimbell, Jackson, Ga. Miss Bea Thornton will visit rela tives at Cork and Flovilla next week. The friends of Mi. J. W. Lemon will be sorry to learn that he is quite sick at lus home in Iron Spring. Mr. D. B. Duke had his arm and face cut Monday, caused by the bursting of a bottle, while bottling soda water. Jersy cow, with young calf for sale. Call on The Jacksonian We call your attention to the ad vertisement in another c >lumn, where we offer, a’ 1 for $2.25 1 The Jacksonian, The Cotton Journal and an accident policy, good for one year. Mr D. B. Moore was ip from Jen kinsburg Monday. Mrs. J. M. Trapp, and Mrs. Archil from Indian Spring Camp Ground were among the visitors in Jackson Tuesday. We will take chickens at or eggs at on sub scription for The Jackso nian, either renewals or new subscribers. The Georgia Legislature is now in session. Tomorrow Georgia will have anew Governor. Mr. W. M. Bledsoe and wife are a way for a time for the recuperation ol the health of Mrs. Bledsoe which i not as good as her friends would wist lr f Walter McMichael was ii Jackson Monday. Waiter has been teacn.ng ul Vila Rica where ho is very much in demand, among the young people as well as to direct the mind of y> u g amerlca. We will give a years sub scription to the man who brings us thej first Butts Connty raised watermel-i on this vear. Tins pleasant countenance of .rack Dempsey is now seen on the street.- of Ja esson. Jack is in College ai Emory, where he is one among the first in all his class- s. M . S. K. Smith waa in from Cork Tuesday. Tom & Jerry came home suffer in j. wlih . ea-Uche Tuesday. Mrs. \V. P. Collier is spending th week in the country at the home o 1 In r patents in East- Butts Mrs. A . \V. Wnght left Sunda ■rooming for (firm* '’tfiiain Ala., whe.c ane was called to the home of her son Mr. Aihis W.ight, totirol whose fam ii\ have typhoid lever. 1 e via Curry s'-ut several days is Atlanta this week. Mr. William Crilfin, of Griffin visited Mr. and Mrs. A. 11. Smith. Miss Vnuie Bou McCord and Mrs. C. A. Mtner returned irotn Vtiaut Monday. Mr. Joseph Jolty attended tin County Officers Convention a; India Springs la-r. we <k. Harry Bu’.ner n*s accepted a po.-. Mon with the Empire Buggy Cos. Mr. and Mrs. Dave McMichael 01 Griffin are expected in the city th> last of the week. The many friends of Mrs. Florence Lunquest are glad to know that she is greatly improved after several days illness. Little Misses Gladys and Dollie Missie Kimbell are visiting their grandparents at Childs Ga. Mr. Alan Crumbley and his daughter MissMeatly Crumbly spent Saturday in the city. Mrs. Elizabeth Smith of Monroe County is spending some time very pleasantly with the families of her sons. Messrs A. H., E.‘L., and R. L Smith. Mrs. Aaron Bradley after spending several days with Mis. C. B. Gunn left Friday for her future home in Pell City Ala. Mr. G.T. Fossettis up from Toon s boro looking after his buildings this week. Mrs. J. A. Kimbell ppent Tuesday and Wednesday in Henry County with relatives. Mrs. Joe Bailey will spend Sunday in Munticello. Dr. and Mrs. White were visitors iu Jackson Tuesday. Mrs. F. Z. Curry and children have returned from a pleasant visit to her sister in Mcßae. Mrs. W. B. Childs visited relatives in Henry County this week. 8. J. Buily, the hustler of hustlers, frcm Towaliga district paid the Jack 30‘nian a call this week and subscrib ed for the paper and*’requested all back numbers on hand. Thus the Jacksonian grows. Mr. J. R Wr-ght left Thursday afternoon for South Georgia in the intrdst of Pepperton Cotton Mill. Mr. .nd Mrs. E. M. Lawson were up from Flovilla Tuesday. A regular communication of S'. John’s Lodge No. 45 F. ife’A. M. will be held July Ist. at 7 :30 p. m. Bu.-i --nessof importance for consideration. V.l members are requested to be pres ent. John B. Hopkins, W. M. Gao. Carmichael, Sec In Loving Remembrance^ Of Mrs. Danieljßrooks. ■> —.— - o On the beautiful spnngduy of Ju the 12th 19u7, Jesus came and tool rotn us our dear friend , Mrs. Brook after two weeks of suffering God works in mysterious ways, lie vonders to perforin. We all think ol leath as something awful. We nevei look upon it as carrying with it an>- hlng to be desired, but death is no in end it is a blow which shoots ui into Eternity. To the Christian it it but a swinging door, a nd as it swinge ve shall pass into light music and rest. Let us think of her as having oassed through the swinging door, and is now enjoying this heavenly rest. May we not wish her back, bui live here so that wo may meet her ii hoiven. Loving nusband, father mo olier and brother to whom she was faithful, look ny, smile throug your tears, kiss the rod that chest ens and wait for the resurrwctioi morning when we shall be made hk Tim and our loved and lost ones snai be restored to us. Asa friend she was rue, as a w.fe and mother stio tii.d and faithful, as a daughter si was obedient an t as a sister she w< 1 g i.tl . What more can we say of i* > earthly lif.-? To tier retailves am friends we shall say all wn can U coinfort you, but we point vou 10 1 iiofier power w I'D is able to jive trui joinfort. From one who knew and loved hei • 0. B. Marriage of Miss Julii Edwards and Rev. L. Martin. Miss Julia Edwards and Rev. Lo> Marlin f Kentucky were happil narri and on the evening o’June 271 it the home of t s briqes parents V! irui Mr-'. J B Edward®. A long an tappy life is our sincere wish fi 6 tero. How to Become an Artist, Holman Iluut began his art labors when at the age of four he cut off a lock of his own hair to make a paint brush. It is rather a serious matter for the young artist rightly to choose some picturesque and as far as possi ble inadequate means of beginning his career. We all know the story of Ben jamin West and the cat’s tail. Aliston, being a coloi'ist, is supposed to have squeezed the luscious hues from flow ers to make his paiuts. As there are probably many young artists contem plating a career, why not suggest a few new ways of beginning? Make a brush from popper’s shaving brush, from mummer’s hairbrush, from uncle’s chin whiskers, from auntie's false front. No doubt the reason there are few great artists nowadays is that it is so hard to avoid ready made paint brushes. They are thrust upon children in the public schools. How can we hope for a Benjamin West with brushes a drag on the market?—Philip L. Hale in Bos ton Herald. A Dog Detective. In 1820 a peasant was found mur dered in a wood in the department of the Loire, France, with his dog sitting near the body. No clew could at first be gained as to the perpetrators of the crime, and the victim’s widow contin ued to live lu the same cottage, ac companied always by the faithful dog. In February, 1837, two men, appar ently travelers, stopped at the house, requesting shelter from the storm, which was then granted, but uo soon er had the dog seen them than he flew at them with great fury and would not be pacified. As they were quitting the house oue of them said to the other, “That rascally dog has not forgotten us.” This raised the suspicion of the widow, who over heard it, and she applied to the gen darmes in the neighborhood, who fol lowed and arrested the men. After a long examination one of the criminals confessed.—Ralph Neville in Outing Magazine. A New Phase of Biology. A widow recently came from Albany to live with relatives In Brooklyn. Her new neighbors discovered that she was given to romancing about small mat ters. On her own behalf she claimed to take the “poetic view” of life. But one of her neighbors was inclined to use a “shorter and more ugly word” in describing the trait. Among other tilings the woman from Albany stated that her late husband was a biologist in the state’s service, presumably at Albany. Later on it was learned that he really had been in the state's serv ice, doing time at Sing Sing l’or a small forgery. A professor's wife came to the res cue. "Biologist is the poetic term, all right.” she raid. “My husband tells me a biologist is a student of cell life.’—Brooklyn Engle. He Couldn’t Plow. A certain incident connected with ■he great Napoleon while he was in ex ile in Elba is commemorated in the is land to tills hour by an inscription af fixed to the wall of a peasant’s house. A man named Glaconi was plowing when the famous exile came along one day and expressed an interest In his work. Napoleon even took the plow share out of the man's hand and at tempted to guide it himself. Eut the oxen refused to obey him. overturned the plow and spoiled the furrow. The inscription runs thus: “Napoleon the Great, passing by this place in MDCCCXIV, took in the neighboring field a plowshare from the bauds of a peasant and himself tried to plow, but the oxen, rebellious to those hands which yet had guided Europe, headlong lied from the furrow.” Greenland Whales. The great Greenland vliale has no teeth, its baleen plates, or whalebone, taking their place. Along the center of the palate runs a strong ridge, and on each side of this there is a wide de pression along which the plates are in serted. These are long and flat, hang ing free, nml are placed across the mouth with their sides parallel and near each other. The base and outer ■alge of the plates are of solid whale bone. but the inner edges are fringed, tilling up the interior of the mouth and acting as a strainer for the food, which consists of tln> small swimming mol lusks aud medusae or jellyfish. A Man’s Career. A man ought to look upon Ills career as a great artist looks upon his mas terpiece, as an out-picturing of his best self, upon which he looks with infinite pride and a satisfaction which nothing else can give. Yet many peo ple are so loosely connected with their vocation that they are easily separated from it.—Success Magazine. He Knew Mother. “See here,” cried the boy's father, “If you don’t behave I'll whip you!” *T wisht you would,” replied the bad l>oy. ‘•You do, eh?” “Yes. ’cause when it’s all over ina will gimme some candy.”—Exchange. FAILURE JjJOSTON, Municipal Ownership Tried by the Hub, but Found Wanting. it Wa* Voted In 1906 Not to Try to Establish Municipal Gas and Electric Light Works Because the City Had Already Shown Its Inability to Carry on Public Utilities —History of the Unsuccessful Attempts. In 1906 the city council of Boston voted against attempting municipal gas and electric lighting on the ground that the city had already proved its Inabil ity in such matters by a succession of failures in various trading enterprises. In 1897, for instance, Boston estab lished a municipal printing plant. Five years later, hi 1902, Harvey Chase, an expert accountant, who was examin ing all the city departments for Mayor Collins, and Thomas P. Nichols, an ex pert printer, reported that the plant had already lost over $40,000 and, that a greater loss was avoided only by charging other departments more than they would have had to pay outside printers. They also reported that at the time of the investigation the stock room was crowded with unnecessary paper, inks, etc., bought at great expense and lia ble to depreciation by handling or dam age by tire; that some valuable stock, then very recently bought, could not be found, nor could there be found any record of Its use; that excessive rates were paid for ruling and binding done outside; that there was an entirely un necessary number of employees In all divisions of the department, who add ed to the expense and subtracted from tile’efficiency; that a disposition to kill time was manifest, and that in spite of the fact that the hours of employees were shorter than in private plants less was accomplished per man per hour worked. The operation of two ferry lines from Boston to East Boston, which were bought by the city In 1859, loom ed up as another object lesson. Until IS7O the ferries were leased at a loss and since then have been operated by the city at an even greater loss. In 1877, to he sure, the city made the mag nificent profit of $93.88, but In each of the other forty-seven years up to Feb ruary. 1900, there was a deficit vary ing from S7BO to $292,000 and amount ing In all to $3,743,548, or an average of almost $78,000 a year. Boston’s water supply, though far famed for quantity and quality, fur nished but another proof that the city cannot do business as well as a pri vate corporation. Boston receives pure water from the metropolitan water board, distributes it through the city, collects the charges and each year pays its assessed share of the total expense. This would secm'a simple proposition, but Harvey Chase In 1902 In his report on the water department said: “The lack of proper methods for handling transactions of such magnitude and. Indeed, the general crudeness and looseness of the capital accounts In tije waterworks’ bookkeeping ever since the foundation of the plant are aston ishing. * * * There has been excess ive expenditure for work done through the employment of unnecessary men, by the employment of aged and Infirm men and by other means whereby the costs of work have been heavily in creased.” Four years have now gone by since the evils in these three departments were made public In a free city docu ment, but nothing has been done to remedy them. “Even in those depart ments especially Investigated and re ported upon in considerable detail,” said Ilarvey Chase in 1900, “the an nual expense today is as large as be fore and in some cases even relatively larger.” What surer proof of ineffi ciency could be given? But even had there been no printing, no ferry, no water fiascos, the amounts paid recently for services of veterina rians to care for the horses in the street and police departments of Bos-1 ton would alone have hecn sufficient to j indicate that it would be well to limit j rather than extend Boston's municipal j activities. The police department in 1904 paid $19.34 for veterinary services and med icine for each of its sixty or more, horses, an outrageous price, and the 1 next year paid nearly $25. The street; department, where wasting the tax-) payers' money in excessive veterinary j payments had come to be a habit, easily ! topped its own high figures in 1905 by paying $24.20 for each of 500 horses. These figures were so obviously ex- j cessive that some change laid to be made. Accordingly the police depart-1 incnt under anew single headed com-' mission reduced its veterinary ex- j peases in 1900 to about sl3 per horse, j and the mayor instituted a plan by which the cost per horse in the street department came down to sl4. That these reductions were possible is itself a sure proof that Boston is anything but efficient in business, and furihor proof, if any is needed, can be found by compering even these re duced figures with, say, the average of sl3 per home paid..under able manage ™err\r in the fife department, wim 3 ;L. pa !': ■* by the police departmer" 1 ?°?r “bona fide offer of ll ® of the best veterinary y^ ct do the street department’s work for $6 per horse and finally with the $2 per year for each of its 200 horses paid by a grent private grocery and supply Ann in Boston. Compared with some cities, Boston is well governed, but these and a suc cession of similar Illustrations of waste fulness, failure and executive ability prove that it cannot do business in a way to give its citizens full value for the money they pay in taxes.—Coun nay Crocker. ' ADVISE SELLING OUT. An Unusually Frank Statement of Failure by a Board of Public Service. In an exhaustive report to the city council the board of public service of Bellefontaine, 0., recommended the selling of the municipal gas plant on the following grounds: “The gas' plant is no longer necessary to and does not furnish any public service. “The mains in the principal streets are yery old and will require in the future expensive repairs. “The plant is in as good condition to day as it is possible to put the present system, and to change the system will require another bond issue. “The average price received from the sale of gas is very little if any lower" than a private corporation would give to our people, but is as low as auy gov erning board the people may elect can make and keep the plant in its present condition and meet all the require ments and pay bonds and Interest, as has been the policy of the present ma Hagement. “Four years ago it was necessary to issue $15,000 of bonds to build anew holder and install coal gas bench and necessary machinery, and another is sue of bonds to the extent of $12,000 to pay overdrafts in the banks, and $5,000 more to put new mains in San dusky street before it was paved. These bond issues should have been unnecessary if the plant had been op erated with a view of self support, but gas was being furnished part of our citizens for much less than cost, and the remaining citizens, even if they did not use gas, were compelled to stand a bond issue for which each tax payer became equally responsible to get the plant on its feet. And, as his tory repeats itself, yob will find a re quest in the future, as in the past, for bonds to keep the plant in condition if the price of gas is lowered, and we wish to say in this connection that with the election for members of this board almost a year in advance there are candidates who are grooming themselves today with a view of catch ing popular favor and riding into office on the promise of cheaper gas, and if elected on that issue and their prom ises and pledges are carried out you may expect a request for a bond issue, and when we realize that we are now bonded to our legal limit, how will the money be furnished? And if the plant is permitted to get in the condition it was iu four years ago, what would it be worth if compelled to sell it? “Is it right or just to tax those peo ple who do not use gas to keep up this plant, either by taxes or bond is sues, when they derive no service, ei ther personally or as citizens from pub lie service, from the plant? Is it right to tax any citizen to keep up some thing that gives him no return as a taxpayer? And, on the other hand, is it right to compel the gas consumer to build up a plant from revenues de rived from the sale of gas for the peo ple? As the people own this plant, would it not be more equitable to all the people to dispose of the plant and with the proceeds furnish a necessity by installing water mains and sewer age accommodation for all citizens? This, in our opinion, should find favor from both factions, botli of whom at present have just cause for complaint.” When Tom’s Tune Would Change. Of course municipal ownership would be liked by any political boss who owns a city, as Tom Johnson owns Cleveland. Just think of what a tre mendous increase of political power could be given to him were about 25,- 000 or more men to be added to the city payroll! How Tom as an “out” would like to be a candidate for mayor against such official backed by the support of an army of paid retainers! He would < like it and favor it just about as much as he liked or favored three cent faro or municipal ownership of street railways when he was man aging ’ ar.d owning street railways.— Mansfield (O.) News. , Heartless. “So you wouldn’t take me to be twen ty-six?” giggled the fair widow. “No, indeed,” rejoined the inconsid erate old bachelor. “But If you bad a daughter I might take her to be that old.” - Why They Left. “Hello, George! What’s everybody crowding out of the drawing room for / Have refreshments been announced.' George _Xo. But Aunt Matilda is get ting ready to sing.