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£ccsi nos {terns.
liits Luia ii itu has returned >Ber
ft Visit to Bellton South Carolina.
Miss Annie 1/m McCord at
ttncUu iut opening of the .• if
Public schools .ast wt x the former
ly taught *r that, piece and naturally
{eels interested in the schoo .
Mr. Dae Tollerson of McDonough
spent Sunday in the city.
Miss Annie Crawford is Is:lsrt ’n
At lanta and Max .ys.
Mrs. W. R. Lanier has been quite
flick but is'mproving now.
Mr. and Mra J. H. Carmichael and
Children have returned from Onan-
COCk Virgin'*.
Miss ti itht Li..-,: ird : the •: (' if
ju iss Ada Sams.
Mr. and Mrs Garner of YVuuchuia
Ploridu and Miss Garner of Thomas-
Lq t more la spent Sut dy a: Mon
day w.vh Ils. uud Mrs. v. a r - anl
Jin
Misses Bert it* Carmichre'. and
I>i?' j aic Ta .ifon fiat* o from
Atlttnta and Lithia.
Mrs Mary lieiiin left Tuesday for
her pint!ti;l >n : Ifa.iCOe.rt •' Joue.iy.
ifr. and Airs, Jaunts Valentino
Jiavo returned ti . ai Macon
INIr. and Airs. Inn Giles* move hri
day into their pretty new homo un
Indian Spring Si.
FOR SALE.— My resi
dcnce in Last ! bird Street.
Also, '75 acre f arm in
Iron Spring District.
Frank Z. Curry.
Mrs, W. K. Cotnbs ami. ivi iss Lois
Will spend a lew day with Airs. .1. \Y.
McCord before going Macon, their
future ho.r.e. Jackson ragreu to
Jose this estimable faint y.
Miss Magger Belle Thaxfon leaves
Saturday lor Bessie Tift Cos lege.
Mrs. Nora I, >vo King is spending
a fnw d-rrs n A'lsnta villi her si •-
tsrMrs, I’ 'Wnli v
Mrs .1 .H. V. .nr. and li.t ie dan.jh
tor huvt returned to their h-.iiw m
.Morr niton Arkunstts utter an ex'end
ed visit t i in i parents .Mr, ;ind Mrs
b. M. l'upe
Liula Annette Alexander who i>
visiting M ' \V. 11 Linter span:
Monday ..1 (tMmitft wit i her fu ; . iter
J)r. Al* arular of Hi duly
hire. F. *. ioheiidg 1 hart return and
homo from New Jersey.
Quite n number of patrons sttend
the opening exercises of the J'ubi c
Schools Motuin., morning. Snort at and
appropriate ia ivi were made in the
minister. Ihe chairman of the hoard
of miae'i'ion and professors Lanier
and Hud r a large number of pu
pits w-re enrol ed and this year bid*
fair to he the most successful one In
the history of the school.
Alr. I! i> I'htixton from Patiumn
who is visitiog his fathers family
made the lacknoninn a pleasant cull
Thursday.
Pretty Usafut Shoes.
It would he dllficult to roe. lire wlj it
the Friesbuir’.or would do without Ids
klomi*;:. or wooden shoes, for they
have a hut dm,l uses. With them he
bails out h! boat, corrects his eh'.l
dnm and :■<-uuu up a drink of water
wherever he may be. lie places in
them Ids worms for Ashing, usi>s them
as missiles in a free light, digs with
them, measures dry goods with them,
and a hundred other things. The
klompen ure cheap; they epst illiciti
fifteen pence a pair, man's size. and
Dutchmen’s feet are not Cinderella
like hy any means.—W ide World Mag
azlne.
His Quary.
Wilfred was taken to the lake, which
Was entirely frozen over, and the
smooth ice glittered In the snulight. It
was the first time the little fellow had
seen this body of water covered with
lee, and, after viewing It for a few
minutes, he turned to his mother and
lisked Innocently:
"Say, tuuiuiua, who put the licl ou
the lake?” Circle.
Har Lata Husband.
Hubbv (returning from his club at
6 a. m. .Hud finding his wife, dressed
in widow’s Iwaiting Mm
iV.’iiat on earth nr,- you in mourning
for?
• “Mr lata husband ” came the tear
ful reply.
§ mm aiswer
VVf.y d*: ; *s Cannot Get Good Men
lo Run Their Plants.
The Superintendent of a Municipally
Owned Electric Light Works Telle
Wa c Overruled by "the
Board’’ on Many Pointc —M. O. “Prac
tically y/rong, and Results Prove It.”
The question is often asked by de
!V i j of municipal ownership why
: ,-i nino* secure and retain to op
, ; ,.i( | ..nts ns good men as pri
vate concerto; have in their employ. An
1 answer is suggested by the following
! letter from the superintendent of a
municipal plant, which was printed In
| a recent Issue of the Engineer:
i • time ago I bumped into whu*
1 . ‘pen nut legislation.’ I took
I charge of u lighting and pumping
1 plant owned by a city. The plant con
i sis ted of two very good water tube
! boilers, i-> 1/ rsef/iwer each; all by 18
■ ,1,, :. . \-( iiss engine a 100 kilowatt
g -aV-r, " pumps 8 ami 12 by B*4
: indies with a twelve inch stroke, a C
and t tiy si In h feed pump, a (lob gallon
S V 1,, in ei.giue and a hoanl of uhtic
! v\< . 1v- supposed to b, ve charge
; of *!:•• entire plant, but not of tbo
I board but it was necessary to take
charge oi it at lii'ait.
••i ... ,1:11. was less than a yeai old
, u ..- (be fashion of municipal
1 already obtain ’ a good
i- it ..n tiie road to rack and ruin,
ihe engine pounded and had in less
tb.u, a year's time Imbibed ter. barrels
of oil in spite of an oil filter’s efforts.
I ! ably the waste oil made fin a bit
potter. The boilers were scandalously
dirty hotli inside and outside, and the
grate - .rt'p was one-third larger
t am was necessary to carry the peak
!• ui. An open feed wafer heater did
*.n .1 1 * to the tune of 100 degrees
Fahrwheit. The pumps had been de
nied proper lubrication and loudly pro
i. ~i the fact. Fully oao-fifth •>
•.lie eii" iii< service meters were out of
business aid customers paying
iii do tmi rate as a result. Water
sen ices .. ere not metered at ail
er..-.toners used water as th*y
pleased, at itch times as they four:;!
most convenient, regardless of sprin
kling li mr., and in some cases paid
what they pleased or not at all.
.Vile: those tilings had been Severni
y led. -tlvoly n.k-niT to (lie card
b■ • . was out square?; in tn-n the
■ i) iuri divided lr T ’"I the !’• •
ecipts a:most doubled. In fact, a plant
which had been losing money on a win
tar load was more than naming even in
'.[>•.•o. Th 1 next year the rate per kilo
v.-’tt liour was cut from 10 cents to
s i Oi-eaw. wild the character of the
or>‘h-n much improved. .Mark me i. 4
! pray yon, for conceit, tut rather as
:• nv \ tor ef plain, unvnrnlshe! truth
During all tins time the board was
’ ■■■ kido-.) lib.' What happened just about
tb ;t M .oV Very little, 1 assure you.
"I was ; ilvised that hereafb r ail or
ders for supplies, repairs, etc, must
puss through the board and be duly
acted upon and forwarded to flic city
clerk or executed. I needed a half inch
lr.no nipple very badly that day. and
I caul la't get it for a week. Then
along comes a bunch of ‘No Loafing'
signs, big and red enough to make tli<>
place look like a posthouse. Wiring
which was condemned by the inspector
was approved by the board after ‘due
deliberation.’
Tiion the meu at the plant were ud
c!-ahl that the board expected each ot
them to work a twelve hour si Ift and
after or before that do such tilings as
trim lamps, repair lines, connect serv
ices, read meters, etc. Other little bits
of advice too numerous to mention
came in regularly.
"We managed to keep up our work
alter a fashion, but things are steadily
getting worse. Explain things to
Viietn? dust like butting your bead
against a stoue wall. Grocers and
millers and doctors and lawyers muke
good consulting engineers, but when a
saving of S'J can Lie made by spending
f 1 they eant find the sl. In the mean
time my salary bad been raised by the
appalling sum of $5 i>er month. Still
every little bit helps.
"Municipal ownership, like the hows
and whys in textbooks, is theoretically
the correct thiug, but in the big ma
Jority of cases is practically wrong, and
results prove It. I’m not locking for
another position, but will take a good
job if I can get it. T. B. G.”
Illogical Municipal Ownership Talk.
Loose thinking and careless writing
are responsible for a lot of the trouble
that we mortals bring upon ourselves.
Take, for instance, the following edi
torial paragraph, which appeared in the
Buffalo Times:
"The doctrine of municipal owner
ship rests upon the broad principle of
republican self government. To say
that a community is incompetent to
own and operate the means of trims
sfloii of its citizens, for instance,
is about a., sensible as to assert that a
nation is unfit to fight its own battles
or that it should farm out its armies
•>d t i > to private individuals or
* 'to wage war with.!’.
IT for “tnfnspibrtu.if&n'' in. the above
paragraph Htih-*ltute “rou.-.'r.g.
clothing a:;. - '. . jdiue ’ be
quite as Is. deal. Self - vct: at bus
nothing to do with thr proc.ding by
euiti* or city c the uecc: v..in - *.-■ i -1 ic.-.u
ries of life.
M. O. Official Charged With Graft.
Oil liie cenr.es.ciou of b.-s .v .pis
William Willcor, former superintend
ent of tiie municipal electric light plan
of rtoiuTnbus, 0., has hetn nr’c-'Ti
n charge of putting through seven b
gup vouchers which are said to hav
netted the conspirators $4,088.
>. "-V— '
When C npowder Was N-av.
A curious feature about the evolu
tion met >ds of limiting was the
hesitation with which gunpowder was
taken up by the gregt nobles. Not only
did It take quite a century to familiar
ize hunter's with it, but the evidence
that has come down to us shows that
the humble cliw'vs ’lie first *•<
vise it for > hooting game c;■
urd--.it spor'stoi'in that lie ws •. teds i ■
himself that he could shoot farther
and with greater accuracy with his
cr<> -bow than his keeper could with
the '!/•<• tub. To prove this It > t ” ' t:s
the :. known story of n -art aln
Chamois stunvUng at 2i:o -• boms,
which, after being pronoutKed as too
far lii: !m:i-hinan. who va ar.o
e.i • : r■* if the first sporting firearms
meat toned in print, comes tuiiil>ii: n
down, pierced at the first attempt by
the emperor’* bolt Fro: : other
we learn of strict measures bei:;r
adopted to j recent po.i'T.ers and “W"-.i-l
loafers’' using firearms, and tlfis at a
perild ulien oriitoi-.-; still used fb.
cutabrous crossbow• and sjibar. ft was
only in (lie last quarter of the sir
toe nth century that firearms bad oust
■) other weapons for certain forms of
the eii re, fh ■ deer battue being among
the latter.—Gentleman’s Magazine
The Poise-nous Black St..'.
The B'.aek set, which in some part a
has depth of more than (>,r>b(! l'eot, is
poisoned by sulphurated hydrogen
wherever Ihe water i ■ deeper tie. a
1:: '<i feet. This accounts for the curi
ous fact that tiio’t* is no organic life
below that depth, excepting perhaps’
same bacteria of very low order, im
pregnated with sulphur. The causes
(or this phenomenon are explained
hy the quick outflow of the fresh wa
ter through the Idowporuss, v.-h'lo salt
water coming from the Mediterranean
ent.-'r. through a deeper current into
the depths of the Blue!' sea. The vra
f "•?. i {;!'■.* Tr’/fr* •i' **;>>
trap q absolutely by lit viz mini cur
ret>t -f consider:'.ble force, r.ud verti
cal currents which might carry tie
noxious gases from the Lotto; ■ to the
surface and fresh oxygon from the
surface to the bottom are hardly ever
noticeable. The water at greet depths
is so saturated with sulphuric gas by
tie- disintegration of organic water
.-'inking to the bottom by rear;. a of its
weight that no fish or other living be
ing which needs oxygen for its orgrt.o
system can exist beyond a stated
depth.
Station Derelict:?.
In every station one may find those
v.ho do not'take trains or meet them,
nor attend those who do. Some come
to the waiting room only to wail—re
spectable derelicts still ■ hoping tout
something will turn up, and wrecks
who have given up hope. It is a
warm place in winter, the seats are
comfortable, and thoughtless passen
gers often obligingly leave newspapers
behind them. It makes good waiting.
There are so few other places to wait
—so cruelly few for women adrift, but
not yet foundered. Sometimes, to de
ceive that meddlesome busybody, the
station detective, they carry in travel
ing bags and pretend to be pulled
down with their burdens, emptied
long since at the pawnshops.—Jesse
Lynch Williams In Century.
Why Ha Let Thom Wed.
Dean Pigou hud u quaint old verger
w hose name was Sugar. Imagine hi n,
a venerable figure with gray hair.
-ku!!cap, gown and verger’s staff. In
ignorance they had married a man to
his deceased wife’s sister. Sugar,
whose busiuess it was to settle the
matter about the banns, was at once
•rots examined. “Oh. .\es. vicar.’’ said
he, ”1 kuowed right well! I Jruowed
parties.” "But why did you not tell
me? I should have forbidden them.”
"Well, vicar. It was just this way. do
you see. One of the parties was eighty
four and t’other eighty-six. I says to
myself: ‘Lord, it can’t last long. Let
’em wed. and bother the laws!’
Loudon News.
A Contrast
Mr. Dapper is one of that.class of
men who are scrupulously neat in their
personal appearance, but who never
fail to leave chaos behind them in the
scene of their preparations. A neigh
lair recently called ou Mrs. Dapper
and remarked:
“One rarely sees a more well kept
man than your husband. He always
looks as if he had just come out of a
bandbox.”
“Very true,” retained Mrs. Dapper,
“but”—with a sigh—“you ought to see
tlje b.uidboy:."— Pearson's Akakiy.
Alive Four Months In a Grave.
Hari Das, the great Hindoo fakir,
w! lived in the first half of ike ulne
tt. ‘-aP.-’v, is L; only wonder
w ,ri: rofm. , era time-t win has ever
ai;ow(--i i: fit o he hnriou In tint
ground lor months. In the ..ear 183D
Hari told General Ventura that for a
certain fee he would allow a committee
to test the claim* which he ujpde of be
4ng able to die and remain dead tor
ninths and then come to life a train.
Then ail was arranged Hari hypno
‘zed Lifiiseit to such a ilegree that his
rculation was wholly stopped. When
e was pronounced dead to ail intents
nd purposes he was buried in a gar
den and a high wall built around the
grave, du rds were stationed on the
wall ,-jv. that interference or deception
would b“ im;, -sible. Four uionths
later Hari was exhumed according to
agreement, and after a few minutes of
vigorous rubbing of his body by friends
he opened bis eyes, and an hour later
he was well and able to walk. The
fakir v.as lean shaven when buried
and U said to ha m come rut of the
grave in the same shape, a fact which
is cited to prove that vitality must
have been completely suspended.
Seventeenth Century Superstition:.
Tu ■( R is a very ;-ufor‘-:nafe thing
fur a man to meete curly in a morning
nr. i l favored man or woman, a rough
fua-.T lien, u shay-hakn Dcsgv. r a
kc at That if is a stj-pie of .'.-.nth
to some In that house, where Crickets
have bin nu uv yeeres. if on a sudden
they forsake the- Chimney Corner. That
if a man dream of egs or fire lie shall
hcare of at.a ; . That to dreame of the
(! vil i good lucke That to dreame of
gold .vf-od tu- ke, but of silver ill. That
if a man be born in the daytime he
ch.tii iv unfortunate. That if a child
be born with a Caule on his head he
sihtd! In \qy fortunate. That when
the pa line of the right hand ttcheth
it is a shrewd sign he shall receive
money. That it is a great signe of ill
lucke it Hat* gnaw a mans i loathes.
That it 1.-: naught, tor any man to give
■r j.ijire of Knives to Ids sweetheart,
for feare it cuts away all love that is
between them. That it is ill lucke to
have the saltseller tall toward you.
A, l-viciid Examination.
Colonel Alexander Gardner, in his
volume oat it led “Soldier and Travel
er,” says that during a stay in .Asia
he was once suspected of being a Rus
sian spy.
This was an accusation of great
consequence, us Russians were very
une ;:lar ut the Cine, bv.t F'e traveler
was prostrate with f> v-.-r and almost
i: .:in ll i n' us to what might befall
him.
Application was made to the khan
of Kliiva, and in a great state of anx
iety as to the traveler’s identity he
deputed three learned men who had
traveled over half The -world to ex
amine him. This was the abstruse
and terrific examination with which
they were satisfied:
“Wk.it are you?” asked they.
“An A n:e”i an,” was the answer.
full they were suspicious, and one
man, a very enlightened scholar, of
fered as a crowning test this deep and
conclusive geographical question:
"Could you go by land from America
to England?”
“No,” was the prompt reply, and the
questioner, as much delighted at his
own superior learning as at the trav
eler's integrity, declared that lie was
convinced. This was an American in
deed.
“Listeners Seldom Hear,” Etc.
Two elderly maiden sisters had long
lived together—one gent.le and sweet
the other acrid Id temper and forbid
ding in appearance. The former wa
taken suddenly ill, and the other, anx
ious to know whether the doctors
thought her sister would live—as she
was desirous of acquiring the money
che knew her gentle sister had willed
her —hid behind a sm-e:i in the morn
ing room, where the doctors soon after
came down to consult.
“Well,” asked Dr. Harris, “wkatdo
you think of her?”
“Think of her?’’ cried Dr. Brown.
“Of all the antiquated, vinaigrette!
old hags ever created I think rhe is
the very worst! What is Providence
thinking of to Inflict pain on that gen
tle soul upstairs a'id leave untouched
a gaunt, withered caricature of hu
manity such as this other? Jump into
my motor with me, and we’ll chat
about our patient ns we go.”
And they "goed,” leaving the eaves
dropper to come from her hiding place
as they retreated.—lllustrated Bits.
Plain Living.
How totally different is the effect of
a plain, rational and nutritious diet up
on the man who eats to live. His ap
petite requires no pampering, and yet
he enjoys his food, and at the same
time—what a gonna nd is deprived of
—lie is thoroughly alive to all the pleas
ures of life and able for its duties. —
Dr. Robert Bell in Health Record.
His Awful Dream.
Svdney Smith had been ill, and a
friend lnv : :g called to see him in
quired wlm ort of night he had pa*ss
ed. “Oh. to. rrid, horrid. my dear fe!-
hw-: I cl:.amt I was chained to a
ro k and being talked to death by Har-,
riet Martiueau and Macaulay.”
Curry’s Retort.
Justice Robin*ou’s encounter wlfk
John Philpot "urran Las lv, q-- q
by Lord Brougham to 1 a., . ij l 0
c.-t successful i. tanc of ; -.. ce
on :• cord Judge Uo’ninse.M ,va i koev.ii
lo be the authi.i of some n.i qyrt-ou:
pamphlets, a circumstance whi .h gave
Curran an opportunity to reitrt when
the judge made a brutal attw.pt to
crush Ui.:: wuen a y-m.ig W, . i 0.;,,.
rienced man at t**o l>ar.
“I have searched ail my 1 iv.b.oks,”
Ri’.i-l Curran, ••and £ can hud no eg:.
dent on the point.”
“Tour law library." said the judge,
“is rath'".’ contracted.”
“My boons,” refilled Curran, “may
1 few, But the ’file page. .- five
the write ll uuin t Mj .1 i-f is t
disgraced by any of sucli r. I. abs L
lty that their very authors are asham
ed to own them.”
“It you say another word, sir,” said
the judge, “T’il commit you.”
“Then, my lord.” replied Curran, “it
will lie the host thing you have com
milk'd Fib term
Th. ji ‘go e;.T ; *:ivoted turret < urrar
disbarred, but failed.
Not the Store He Meant.
Crun.. od >?. hi: baud wa* a b.-tcb of
bhoi‘pi:g' liiii;, wi> i -e Inn.*: .:i'l
thug, .is cue clutch oi iii..:r [tosscssoi
relaxed and again tightened, afforded
ample te;-viinvii. + o rtie cause f iii
lordship's di-p ‘ isure.
Gently and with all her wooing arts
evidently in hair trigger readira s tin
young wife upproucUed the e-li'euded.
one am! began:
“Lovey, mow don’t sit lwr.' pouting
all by yourself like a bad natuned lit
tle boy. Such actions, as y.,u very
well know, if you’ll only stop to thins
it over, wiM not at all contribute to the
making of that blissful home you wen
so prone to picture to me during our
courting days. Don't you recall it
dearie, and how eloquent you used -.
grow over the happiness tit fat: v
ha.l in store f>-r us?”
With the petl of his displeasure
partly broken bv her persuasive man
ner, and yet with 30.n0 touth pi. t.at
ness in his tone, ho tur,.<Hl a id re; in u
“Yes, I do, bu+ I assure you, madam,
that i:i that remark there was not even
a remote hint of a department store.”
—Boston Courier
The “Letter Gae.” •
The leader of psalmody, or precentor,
in the Church <4' Scotland used to read
from Ids desk in f-out of the pulpit the
successive lines for congregational
singing. He was tbo “letter gae”—i. e.,
he that let g:> or started the praise—
nnd Ilia desk was called the “letteron”
.(lect.-inum) Pitching his voice to the
first note of each line, he proceeded to
chant the words in a slow, drawling
monotone, prolonging the last syllable
for a little and then breaking at the
head of the congregation into the mu
sic set to the words thus delivered.
The effect of this would no doubt l>e
frequently more curious and entertain
ing than edifying and solemn, and
strange developments must occasional
ly have occur; “‘l. The position tested
not only the music;. l qualifications, but
also the literary attainments, of the
lender, and there are passages in the
metrical version of tire I’salms as used
in Scotland which mu.-l have put rural
precentors on their -mettle. London
Notes and Queries.
Whoa to Shoot a Critic.
At a supper party at the Garrick
club in London some .years age a the
atrical manager won: and up a humorous
speech by dee hi ring his conviction that
it would be to the advantage of the
drama if a muster were made of all
the theatrical critics and they were
shot offhand. Joseph Knight, the crit
ic, called upon to reply to this playful
stricture, rose and in his richest tones
spoke as follows:
"Gentlemen. I have not the faintest
objection, understand me, to the course
propose*! by Mr. X. provided that in
mercy we arc shut before being invit
ed to witness such entertainments as
ou~ deer friend has recently produced
at his theater.”
The Federal Convention.
There were sixty-two members of
the convention that framed the con
stitution of the United States. Of
these the men who wielded the great
est influence were Washington, Frank
lin, Hamilton and Madison. Wash
ington’s devoted patriotism, Franklin’s
uufailing common sense, Hamilton’s
passion for nationality and Madison’s
unconquerable democracy, fused at
last to form what Mr. Gladstone called
“the greatest piece of work that ever
sprang from the human mind.”
The Valuable Boo's.
“I never met a more ignorant man
than Nurltch,” said* Mugley. “What
he doesn’t know would fill a good
many' books.”
“Yes,” replied Wise. “But what he
does know seems to have filled one
poeketbook at least.” Philadelphia
Press.
Hopeful.
Granger—How are yon getting along
at your bouse? Tim-on -emty w* 11.
on the whole. We are nearly out oi
everything but debt, and in time, if
things go on as th'-y have ’ v •• gotr.’
we ought to be out of tuat - I*o.: -
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