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BOW LONG SHALL THEIR GBBAT
VOICELESS BLEEDING BE?
Madonna Mary, rimmed around with gold,
XVith altars chaste, with holy candles mm,
Sad-eyed among the shadows strange and
cold,
Yet through the ages bosom-warmad by
Him
Upon thy breast; thy motherhood a thing
Set round with fears, thut like a crown of
thorns
Tore at thy love until thy suffering
Blurred in a mist of red the corning
morns —
And yet what Marys yield their babes
away
To factory walls, a sunless Calvary!—
The Christ hung on the cross a angle day;
How long shall their great voiceless bleed
ing be?
How long shall Greed the babies crucify
Until Goa’s tears fall on them, and they
die?
—Garnet Noel Wiley, in The Reader.
THE DRIBLET BOX OR A 1
NEW INSTALMENT METHOD
BY HELEN CAMPBELL.
The little houses on the quiet sub
urban street were side by side, so
near that the baby could have been
handed across for inspection, as I
once saw high over my head In a nar
row street of Genoa, the Superb, the
pretty psrfsant mother smiling down
at my astonished face.
In this case there was no baby, and
thick sash-curtalns cut off general in
spection as much as possible, though
the young couples In each had been
friends from babyhood up, married at
the same time, each husband with the
same amount of salary, each wife
lost In experiments as to how much
farther each dollar might be made to
go. One of them was a college grad
uate with a course of household
economics added, the other a high
school girl, who had studied stenog
raphy and type-writing, and been for
a year private secretary, both of them
accustomed to making their income
do its utmost. Both of them loved
pretty things, despising cheap and
flimsy ornament or structure of any
sort, and going without till a really
good thing could be afforded.
The difficulty was It seldom couid
be afforded. The fixed charges, the
Inevitables of rent, and all the ac
companiments of household expenses,
left next to no margin, and what
there was of It disappeared unac
countably.
"We won’t be dominated too much
by the pennies,” they had said in the
beginning. ‘‘There must be a little
sense of freedom for both of us; only
a little of course, since the free fund
Is simply rldlcuibnaty small. And the
pretty mistress of Number Nine, as
she heard this conclusion, nodded as
sent yet looked thoughtful, for the
same wish was in the mind of each.
Both the houses, built by an archi
tect, who had made the most of his
space, had an unusually broad piaz
*a for which, after the first year, am
pelopsls and other vines had made a
delightful screen from passers by as
■well as afternoon sun, and shaker
rocking chairs and a table made it
tea or serving or general reception
room, at will. But there was still
full room for a coveted rattan lounge,
and over Its lack both Number Nine
and Number Seven sighed.
For Number Nine to let it go with
a sigh was impossible. In fact sighs
•were not In the least in her line,
some way to attainment was sought
steadily and silently, and as her eyes
now and then rested on the empty
space the young husband laughed.
"We might agree to break our rule
for once, and get It on the Instalment
plan," he said, but the mistress
shook her head.
"No. We settled In the beginning
not to, and knew It was best. But
we’ve got to save up somehow on sun
dries, perhaps, for that covers such
a lot of little things we agreed not to
specify, because really it isn’t your
business or mine to give account to
each other of what might be just a
sudden whim, or a need not foreseen.
Anyhow, twenty dollars might, as well
be two hundred, it would seem, as far
as that lounge Is concerned, and I
won't have any makeshifts of the
packing box, excelsior and denim
order of architecture, though of
course 1 could put up with a good Na
tional spring and mattress, if that did
not *ean nearly two thirds of the
twenty. I must think."
“There ought to be a raise for me
next year, but that won’t help this
one,” the husband said meditatively.
“Give it np, Jessica. It's very com
fortable and jolly just as it is."
“We don’t stop at part-way com
fortable. It's got to be perfect and
It shall be, somehow. You’ll have to
run for your car, Richard, dear,
you've stayed so long,” and Richard
ran. a fact to which he was well ac
customed, being given to lingering to
the last minute in this fascinating
spot which it still surprised him to
count as his own.
A week or two went by with no
further mention of the lounge, till a
Saturday evening at the end of the
month when they went over accounts
together. His wife’s system of small
boxes, each marked with the purpose
of the money it held, always amused
him and ha laughed aloud as he saw
the latest addition, a little Japanese
one marked, “The surplus fund.”
“That’s distinctly a superfluity,” he
said. “There isn’t and there can’t
be a surplua."
"But there is. Don’t you remem
ber that evening you dropped a half
dollar and I aaid I wanted it—had a
special use for it?"
“Now that you remind me. Is that
all?"
"No indeed. You see when I
found there was really a start, for I
put It at once into this box, I deter
mined to watch my own sundry fund
and save out what ever I could. Also
I resolved not to count it and that
has been the hardest thing of all, be
cause I did get bo curious as to just
how much It really may be. There
were several little things I had meant
to get that I did without, the latest
kink In stocks and some other odds
and ends.”
“There are always kinks In stocks
and you mustn’t invest without talk
ing it over. What could make you
think of stocks? Anybody left you a
legacy?"
“What a thing a man is. Have
you lived with me two years and not
found out that this article around the
neck of a woman is known as a
stock? Never mind your ignorance,
though, the point is we are now going
to count the contents, a good lot of
half pennies I should say.”
"That means ice-cream sodas with
Number Seven, and a lot of car
fares, for I have been walking every
where and shall have to have new
shoes a month sooner than usual.”
"What? Have you been saving up
too?”
“Of course, when I knew you were
at It child. You didn’t suppose I
would let you have all the credit and
not go shares? But I was astonished
to find how much more than I could
have thought possible has Just drib
bled away; three or four newspapers
a day, when one Is quite euough, and
all that sort of thing. Now count, for
this excitement Is quite too much for
me. ”
The half dollar had become a foun
dation, It proved, for eleven quarters,
twenty ten cent pieces, followed by
eighteen nickles, one hundred and
twenty pennies, and, last, a five dol
lar bill, a grand total of twelve dol
lars and thirty-seven cents.
“That five Is the only real renun
ciation, Richard. It meant long
gloves for the theatre and that gar
den party, but I managed perfectly
well without them. I never could
have believed there would be so
much. New yours."
"No such piling of wealth as yours,
little woman, but I was amazed when
I counted it at the office. I put It in
an old purse In my desk drawer, and
changed it Into bills you see, because
it was heavy to carry. Here they are,
all small to make it seem more; four
ones, a two and a five, and sixty cents
over: total, eleven sixty, plus thirty
five. By George! It’s the lounge and
a pillow to boot I should say, or what
ever you elect,” and he waltzed the
owner of this unexpected wealth up
and down the room, a boy still In
spite of his nearly thirty years.
JThat was the beginning of the sys
tem still adhered to, what has long
been known as "The Driblet Box,” re
ceiving whatever contributions the
special object desired may bring
forth. Ned, aged eight, and Walter,
nearly six, have the same faith in
the system, and from their allowance
of five cents a week for Walter and
ten for Ned have saved birthday and
Christmas funds surprising in
amount. In short, for the family 113
a whole the method Is a settled one,
and Number Seven, though not equal
ly successful, still uses It for the oth
erwise unattainable, and has even
written a club paper for the House
hold Economic Section, on “The Drib
let Box and Its Meaning In Household
Economics,” ending: "Stern moral
ists Insist that driblets are immoral,
since they encourage lavishness and
deplete small Incomes, but long ex
perience convinces me that they are
or should be part of man’s free-will,
and regarded as a tribute to the real
self-sacrifice a real cause engenders
and continues. —From the Boston
Cooking School Magazine.
Railways in Argentina.
In 1880 Argentina had $40,000,-
000 worth of railways, but by 1906
the total capital invested in railways
had risen to $645,000,000, an in
crease of $605,000,000 in twenty-six*
years. The railway mileage was
about 12,500, and the total amount
of freight handled was 26,000,000
tons. Two concessions for new rail
roads have been granted this year to
Freneh-Belglan capitalists.
Argentina has twenty-two railroad
companies, of which eighteen are
English, with head offices in London;
one is French, and three are owned
and operated by the Argentina Gov
ernment.
The Offer of Chan Tai Yuen.
A Chinese merchant named Chan
Tai Yuen, cf the Lee Hing Company,
offers to pay the Government $4500
a year for the monopoly of collecting
all the waste paper in the Kwong
Chow and Shiu Hing prefectures for
the purpose of manufacturing fire
crackers.—South China Post. • .
Georgia Briefs
Items of State Interest Culled
From Random Sources.
To Furnish List of Stockholders.
In general order No. 9, issued a few
days ago b j the state railroad commis
sion, every corporation within the juris
diction of the commission is required
to furnish it with a list of stockhold
ers, giving name and address of each
stockholder and amount of stock held
by each.
• * *
To Camp at Fort Screven.
A letter from Assistant Secretary
of War Oliver at Washington, stating
that be will order a portion of the
national guard of Georgia into camp
at Fort Screven, on Tybee Island, from
May 16 to 26, has been received and
turned over to Adjutant General Scott,
who will notify the commands which
will go into camp at the time desig
nated.
* * *
To Open Up Tobacco Plantations.
Great preparations are being made to
open up tobacco plantations near Bow
er station, on the Georgia, Florida and
Alabama railroad, 12 miles below Bain
brldge. Hon. B. B. Bower, Jr., and
J. D. Bower, his brother, will have ten
acres of shaded tobacco each, which
will yield SI,OOO per acre. In addi
tion to these there are many others
cultivating the weed In that vicinity.
* * *
Bank In Abbeville Closed.
After a conference in Atlanta be
tween State Bank Examiner Park, At
torney General Hart and Governor
Smith, at which President Hal Law
son was present, the Citizens’ bank of
Abbeville was placed in the hands of
the state bank examiner.
President Lawson made a frank state
ment of the bank’s affairs. He said
it had assets of $70,000 and liabilities
of about half that amount. A large
amount of outstanding paper with the
farmers and merchants, upon which the
bank could not realize now, forced it to
close its doors. The bank has a capi
tal stock of $35,000, and is the oldest
bank in Abbeville.
* * •
Georgia State Bonds Retired.
State Treasurer R. E. Park, through
the New York correspondent of the
Etate treasury, has retired $lOO,OOO in
Georgia bonds, and paid out interest to
the sum of $156,000 on the $7,131,000
of Georgia bonds now being held
throughout the country.
It will probably be the latter part of
the month before the "clipped coupons"
—which denote the payment of the in
terest —are received. This is the an
nual expense of the state, and a spe
cial appropriation to cover it is made
eaoh year by the general assembly.
The state is in splendid financial con
dition right now, and is amply able to
meet this debt.
• • *
Woman Gets Stay of Sentence.
A stay of sentence has been granted
by Governor Smith to Mrs. Sallie Free
ney, the young woman now in the Bibb
oounty jail at Macon, convicted of the
murder of W. P. Harrell, a bill collec
tor, and sentenced to life imprison
ment.
The stay of sentence holds until Feb
ruary 4th, in order that the woman’s at
torney# may take the case to the pris
on commission and the governor.
The crime for which Mrs. Freeney
was sentenced to life imprisonment
was committed at her home in East
man, Dodge county. Harrell, the bill
collector, made improper proposals to
Mrs. Freeney, following which she se
cured a revolver and shot him to death.
* * *
Liquor Problem for Sheriff.
A complicated legal question regard
ing the new prohibition law has arisen
in Brooks county.
A saloon man in that county, on the
first of December, mortgaged his stock
of liquors and bar fixtures. He did not
pay off the mortgage, and there was a
foreclosure.
The sheriff was instructed to sell
the liquors and fixtures to satisfy the
claim. The che T tSi was troubled and
h has written A'tomey General Hart
for an opinion. Judge Hart has sub
mitted an unofficial opinion that the
sheriff cannot sell the intoxicants be
cause the new act specifically forbids
an officer of the state to sell, make or
give away intoxicants.
• • •
"Agricultural College on Wheels.”
Dr. A. M. Soule, dean of the SIOO,OOO
agricultural college at Athens, and
Chancellor D. C. Barorw of the Uni
versity of Georgia, have secured from
the railroad commissioners of Georgia,
permission for the "agricultural college
on wheels” to begin Its tour of the
state. The exact date for its depart-
STOP AT THE
ZETTLER HOUSE.
The best SI.OO a dsy house in the
city.
563 FOURTH ST., MACON, G<i..
Mrs. A. L. Zettler, Proprietress.
ure from Athens has not as yet been
decided upon, but will probably be be
tween the 10th and 15th of February.
Dr. Soule has mapped out the itinerary
and It will traverse every railroad in
the state of Georgia with the exception
of the Western and Atlantic, and will
consume a period of thirty-five days.
During this time rural towns with an
aggregate population of 350,000 people
will have been visited.
The special train, which is to be fur
nished free by the railroads, is to be
composed of one baggage car for ex
perimental purposes and two day coach
es for lecture rooms. Five instructors
will accompany the train.
Dr. Soule will advocate cattle raising
in Georgia. He is a strong believer in
the feeding qualities of cotton seed
meal and will urge its use. He will
also tell of soil tests to be made by
the use of this same meal as a fer
tilizer.
School Fund Apportioned.
State School Commissioner Jere M.
Pound, who assumed the duties of that
Important office on the first of the year,
has made up the apportionment sheet
for 1908, dividing the $2,000,000 appro
priated for the common schools of
Georgia among the 147 county school
system, and the several city school
systems of Georgia.
To arrive at this basis of computation
it was necessary to .take a school cen
sus, which shows that there are, today,
703,876 school children in Georgia, and
this appropriation sets aside $2.82 per
capita for each of these.
This is considerable increase over
that of last year, when the per capita
appropriation was only $2.58.
Of this sum, Fulton county and the
city of Atlanta will receive a large pro
portion. There are in Fulton county,
outside of Atlanta, 7,433 school chil
dren, which will give to thia system
an appropriation of $20,998, while At
lanta, with her 22,302 school children,
will receive $64,432.60.
The county of Richmond, including
the schools in Augusta, will receive
$50,821.75.
BK>b county, including the Macon
schools, $44,312.95.
Chatham county, including Savannah,
will receive $54,790.
Muscogee county, including Colum
bus, will get $11,876.80.
Next year this appropriation will be
increased by a quarter of a million, and
the school children of Georgia will re
ceive $2,250,000. Commissioner Pound
states that he hopes to send out an
other payment to the teachers early in
the spring.
RAILWAY IN HANDS OF RECEIVERS.
Many Creditors of Tallulah Falls Road
Seek Protection in Court.
Upon the request of a large number
of creditors cf the company, Judge J.
J. Kimsey, of the northeastern cir
cuit at Cornelia, Ga., Monday morn
ing, appointed W. S. Erwin, former
general manager of the company, and
L. R. Adams, present chief elerk to the
superintendent, temporary receivers of
the Tallulah Falls railroad, the hearing
to come up January 25th.
It is stated in the bill that the roan
is hopeless Insolvent.
The Tallulah Falls railroad extends
north from Cornelia, Ga., to Orlando,
N. C., a distance of about 75 miles.
It passes through Habersham and Ra
bun counties, Georgia, and enters Nortn
Carolina through Rabun Gap. Its
bonded indebtedness is between one
and two millions; floating debt between
forty and fifty thousand. Receivers
are ordered to operate the road as
usual.
HITCHCOCK WANTED BY TAFT
Aa Manager of His Presidential Campaign
in the Southern States.
Frank H. Hitchcock, first assistant
postmaster general, has been asked by
Secretary Taft to take charge of the
Taft presidential campaign in the south
and to line up southern delegates to
the next national convention for the
secretary of war.
The offer to Mr. Hitchcock does not
contemplate the removal of Arthur I.
Vorys as Taft’s political campaign
manager, but will restrict Mr. \ orys’
territory. The latter will continue the
work in Ohio, but other managers will
be appointed for other sections of the
country.
PEOPLE OP VANCOUVER ALARMED.
Unexplained Arrival of Horde of Jape, and'
More Coming, Causes Apprehension.
A dispatch of Saturday received in
Portland, Oregon, from Vancouver, B.
C., says:
The unexplained arrival of 300 Jap
anese at Vancouver Friday and the
Influx of 1,600 wjthin the next month
from Honolulu are the features of the
oriental situation in Vancouver. The
300 came from the coast logging camps
and some even from the American
side of the boundary line. Incidentally,
there was the usual crop of rumors that
they came in view of the possible
troubles. Officers of the Asiatic Ex
clusion League are much perturbed
over the event.
It was announced that at least 1,000-
Japanese would come from Hawaii dur
ing the next three weeks. One steamer
already chartered will leave Honolulu;
with 150 aboard for Vancouver next
week. Charters are now being arrang
ed to carry others. Then, too, all the
accommodations of the steamers of
the Canadian-Australian line have been
secured six months ahead of the Jap
anese of Honolulu. There is room
in the steerage for only fifty by each
steamer.
Of course, technically, the paternal
government cannot do anything to pre
vent the coming of these Japanese ta
British Columbia, for the Japanese are
free will agents once they have turned
in their passports at the islands and
there is really nothing to prevent them
inflicting their presence on this out
post of Great Britain, the ally of Ja
pan. So far, no action has been taken
by the police authorities toward the
disarming of the Japanese. It Is esti
mated that there are hundreds of ser
viceable firearms in the Japanese sec
tion.
GOVERNOR DECLARES MARTIAL LAW
Street Railway Strike in Munice, Ind.,.
Gets Beyond Local Authorities.
Governor Hanly of Indiana, Satur-,
day, issued a martial law proclamation,,
placing Major General McKee in com
plete control at Muncie.
General McKee has 12 companies of
infantry, one battery and details from
the signal and hospital corps of the
Indiana National Guard with him at
Muncie.
The decision of Governor Hanly to
Issue this martial law proclamation
was based not upon any new develop
ments In the street railway strike sit
uation, but upon His judgment that un
der the circumstances the best way to
handle the trouble and provide for all
possible emergencies would be by plac
ing General McKee in charge at Mun
cie.
When the Indiana Union Traction
company, which owns the city and in
terurban lines, refused to renew its
contract on January 1, with the Amal
gamated Association of Street and
Electric Railway employees, the 96
men employed on local cars struck. Of
men employed on local cars struck.
Other union men out of work in sym
pathy began taking part in the agita
tion and resulting disturbances until
the situation got beyond the power of
the Muncie authorities and Governor
Hanly took action.
Street cars were run Sunday from
early morning until dusk over all lines.
With the exception of the throwing, of
a few stones on the outskirts of the
city, the cars were unmolested, not
withstanding they were manned by im
ported strikebreakers and had neither
deputy sheriffs nor troops aboard.
CASHIER WALKER IS PENITENT.
Is Anxious to Aid Bank in Recovering Se*
curities Which He Stole.
In the hope that it may lighten his
punishment, William H. Walker, who
was arested in Ensenada, Mexico, for
robbing the savings bank of New Brit
ain, Conn., is willing to aid in any
way in his power to recover the stolen
securities. This information is con
tained in telegrams received by the
bank. .
WAR IS BEGUN ON PROHIBITION-
Probate Judge Issues Licenses in Alabama
County Which Voted Dry
Declaring the prohibition laws as far
as 1908 are concerned, unconstitutional,,
che judge of Cullman county,
Alabama, has issued nine saloon li
censes, and the liquor establishments
In the county will be opened.
Cullman voted on December 8 for
prohibition. The saloon men claim
that the prohibition law is unconstitu
tional because" it makes exceptions o t
counties which voted on the proposi?
Won prior to December 12.