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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.: - Transcript, >■