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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.