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WHEN BROADWAY WAS A COFN
TRY ROAD.
No msbing cars, nor tramping feet
Disturbed the peaceful summer day*
That shone as now upon the street
That knows our busy, noisy ways.
And blushing girls and awkward jays
Ktrolled slowly home, and cattle lowed
As fell the purple twilight haze.
When Broadway was a country road.
No tailored dandies, trim and neat;
No damsels of the latest craze
Of form and fashion; no conceit
To cate!) the fancy or amaze.
No buildines met the skyward gaze:
Nor myriad lights that mighty glowed
To set the midnight hour ablaze —
Wto Broadway was a country road.
Then shady lanes with blossoms sweet
Led gently down to quiet bays
Or to the sheltered, hedged retreat
Some falling mansion now betrays.
The stage coach here no longer pays
Its daily call, nor farmers goad
Their oxen, as in olden days.
When Broadway was a country road.
Ijitl'e indeed to meet the praise
Of modern times the picture showed.
And vet the fancy fondly strays
To Broadway as a country ro#d.
—Chcries Coleman Stoddard, in Broadway
Magazine.
HANDBAG AND PLATE
Lucilc and Her Mother Have a
Quarrel.
I don't see why any one ever se
lects the summer time for a wedding.
I think it is very inconsiderate to ex
pect people to sit in a crowded
church to take part In a reception
crush on a hot evening. But persons
about to be married usually are too
selfishly absorbed in their own affairs
to have a thought for the pleasure
or comfort of others.
I did not want to attend Georgia
Harvey’s wedding, but mother insist
ed that I should go with her.
“I’m sure, Luclle,” she urged,
“that your father will lie vexed If you
don’t go. You know that Georgia Is
the daughter of one of your father’s
oldest business friends and he will
expect some of tis to be there.”
“If father Is so punctilious about
■having the family represented why
didn’t he stay at home and go him
self?” I asked, a trifle petulently. I
have long noticed that when there
are family social obligations to dis
charge father nearly always finds It
necessary to take a business trip out
fit town.
Mother only sighed at my remarks
In her provoking way. I went, on;
"It seems to me that I did my duty
toward the Harveys now and forever
■when I shopped all one stifling day
for a bridal gift for Georgia. It is
no pleasure to go from store to store
hunting for something rich and
handsome for S2O. If father wanted
to make her an elegant present he
should have given me more money to
spend for it.”
“Twenty dollars was all he could
afford,” said moth:r, ‘ and I’m sure,
Lmcile, that I could have found some
thing very nice for that amount.”
“Well,” I said, “I think the silver
mounted alligator handbag which I
bought was handsome enough for any
one. I quite wore myself out look
ing for it, hut I suppose you and
father think I might have done bet
ter. It’s pretty hard to please every
one.”
I “It’s very nice. Indeed, dear” said
mother, soothingly. "I think we'll
be quite satisfied when we see it dis
played among the other gifts.”
• Mother loves to look at wedding
presents. It makes me nervous to
see her examine every piece of silver
or cut glass as if she were mentally
appraising it, when really she is only
rejoicing that the bride has been so
generously remembered. Sometimes
I feel that mother’s breadth of human
interest almost amounts to vulgarity.
I never can make her realize that an
air of indifference adds to one’s so
cial equipment.
“Lueile,” said mother, in a dis
tressed whisper the night of the wed
ding, “I’ve looked everywhere among
the gifts and I can’t find the hand
bag. Do you suppose anything has
happened to it?’’
“Oh, no,’’ I returned. “It’s quite
safe in my chiffonier.”
“Why, did you forget to send it?”
“No, I’m not quite so forgetful as
that. I decided not to send it at all.
I thought as Georgia is going to
housekeeping she would rather have
those butter plates I decorated two
years ago when I was taking lessons
In china painting. Besides I think
It so nice to give one’s own work.”
"Why, Lueile,” exclaimed the
mother.
I frowned, for I think there is
nothing more ill-bred than any quar
rel in public between members of a
family. So nothing more was said
about the matter until we were driv
ing home. Then mother declared that
she was certain father would be an
noyed at what I had done.
“What have 1 done?” I inquired.
“Well," began mother excitedly,
“I asked Georgia's little sister where
the dishes you sent were, for I
couldn't And them among the other
presents. She told me that they
were ail broken. Lueile, broken:”
“From your tone, mother, anyone
might fancy that it was my fault. If
the Harvey* pvere careless with the
gift*. I’m surfc I am not to blame.”
“Luclle,’’sfiid mother, solemnly,
"those dishes Vere in fragments when
they arrived at'the Harveys. You
put them in the box without any
packing and, of course, they were
broken. How could you be so heed
less f”
“It’s very unkind of you to speak
so crossly to me when I went to this
stupid wedding just to please you and
father,” I said, beginning to cry.
"There, there, dear,” returned
mother. “I’m afraid I was a little
harsh, for I was so disappointed that
there wasn’t any present from us dis
played. But I didn’t mean to be
cross, dear. So don’t cry any more.
It makes me unhappy, Lucile.”
For mother’s sake I dried my eyes
and tried to be cheerful. When I got
home I took out the handbag and
looked at it and I felt glad that I
had selected such a handsome one.
Little accessories of that kind add so
much to the elegance of a street cos
tume. My old one is almost shabby
and I should have had to ask father
for money to buy anew handbag if
it hadn’t been for my forethought in
sending Georgia the painted china.
I am always pleased when I can save
father any extra expense.—Chicago
News.
PINK AND PURPLE THOUGHTS.
Demonstrated by Certain Experiments
of Professor Gates.
Plunging his arm into a jar filled
with water to the point of overflow
ing and keeping his position without
moving, Professor Elmer Gates, of
the Laboratory of Psychology at
Washington, directed his thinking
to the arm. The blood soon entered
the arm in such quantities, declares
a writer in Current Literature, as
to enlarge it and cause the water
in the jar to overflow.
By directing his thoughts to his
arm for a certain length of time
daily for many days he permanently
increased both its size and strength.
He even instructed others to produce
the same effects on various bodily or
gans, thus demonstrating, it is con
tended, the accuracy of the state
ment that muscle can be developed
by a proper course of thinking as
well as by exercise.
Professor Gates, moreover, has
shown wliat is called the causative
character of thinking in a long series
of experiments. He has found that
change of the mental state changed
the chemical character of the per-*
spiration.
When treated with the same chemi
cal reagent the perspiration of an
angry man showed one color, that
of a man in grief another, and so on
through the long list of emotions.
Each mental state persistently ex
hibited its own peculiar result every
time the experiment was repeated.
Each kind of thinking, by causing
changes in glandular or visceral ac
tivity, produced different chemical
substances, which were being thrown
out of the system in the perspiration.
When the breath of Professor
Gates’ subject was passed through
a tube cooled with ice so as to con
dense liquid resulted. He kept the
man breathing through the tube, but
made him angry.
Five minutes afterward a sediment
appeared in the tube, indicating the
presence there of anew substance,
which had been produced by the
changed physical action caused by a
change of the mental condition.
Anger gave a brownish substance,
sorrow gray, remorse pink, and so
on. The results showed, as in the
experiments with the perspiration,
that each kind of thinking produced
its own peculiar substance, which the
system was trying to expel.
Lost Again.
“Hear about the hard luck story
of Dad Moulton, the Stamford train
er?” inquired one alumnus of anoth
er, coming back from the big game.
“No; what happened?”
“Wei, Dad, you know' used to be a
professional foot racer. Went all over
the world when in his athletic prime,
sprinting for money against all com
ers. They say he won 263 races,
never was*beaten but twice in his
career. One of the fellows that beat.
Dad met later in another race and
outran him. Dad was after the other
fellow for a long while to get a re
turn race. But the fellow beat Dad
again.”
“How was that?”
“Died before Dad got another crack
a*, him."—San Francisco Chronicle.
Editor Defies Superstition.
Defying superstitition, the Herald,
of Slatington, Pa., began publication
as a weekly on Friday, September 13.
The first copy was taken from the
press at thirteen minutes before 5
o’clock, in the presence of thirteen
witnesses.
Laid on the Table.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch and
the Montgomery Advertiser are dis
cussing pie in their editorial col
umns. but the Kentucky plan of dis
cussing it on the dinner table is vast
ly more satisfactory.—Louisville Cou
rier-Journal.
Georgia Briefs
Items of State Interest CuJled
From Random Sources.
Banks Ready to Ship Currency.
Advices have been received by banks
in Atlanta, which indicate that the
banks of New York and other cities
are now in readiness to commence
shipments of currency again. Banks
in Augusta received similar notice and
the same is true with other cities in
Georgia.
• * *
Corporations Out of Business.
According to the annual report of
Secretary of State Philip Gook, now in
course o-f preparation, 182 corporations
went out of business in Georgia during
1907. These were mostly small con
cerns, many of them working on the
cooperative plan. Of this number fifty
eight were in Atlanta, sixteen in Chat
ham county, six in Richmond and five
in Bibb.
* * *
What Corporations Pay to State.
Public utility corporations have paid
the state in taxes for 1907 a total of
more than s6ls,ooo,which is the amount
the state receives 5 mills on total
assessments of $123,000’,0<00. This is
about $165,000 more than they paid the
state for 1906, last year’s assessments
having been considerably increased.
Of the 1907 taxes more than $475,-
000 was paid by the steam railroads.
* * *
Locker License Prohibitory.
There will be no locker clubs in Mil
ledgeville. At the last meeting of the
city council an ordinance putting the
license tax at SIO,OOO was passed with
out a dissenting vote. This action of
the council was in accordance with the
sentiment of the majority of the com
munity and to have the matter thus
decisively settled is more satisfactory
to the club men than to have the
matter up in -the air, as will be the
result in some communities.
Important Question Up.
An interesting question involving the
jurisdiction of the railroad commission
In compelling one telephone company
to coiiect with the lines of another,
■will come up for hearing before that
body on January 24.
The case comes up on a complaint
made by the Atlanta Telephone and
Telegraph company of Atlanta and the
Georgia Telephone company of Savan
nah against the American Telephone
and Telegraph company, which oper
ates a number of long distance lines
in Georgia.
* * *
Sea Island Cotton Receipts.
The receipts of sea island cotton
in Valdosta so far have been 6,175 bales
again 5,887 for last season. The re
ceij>ts for last season were the larg
est in the history of the city, although
the crop in the section was the small
est in six or eight years. It looks now
as if this season’s receipts will be
much greater than last year. Good
grades of sea island are bringing 28
cents per pound, but a great portion of
the staple is of a very inferior qual
ity.
Valdosta has for many years been the
largest interior sea island cotton mar
ket in the entire cotton belt.
* * *
Fulton’s Tax Record Smashed.
The county and state tax collections
in Fulton county so far have amounted
to $730,000, the largest in its history,
so says Tax Collector tSewart.who does
not explain the increase by the high
er rates alone, but states that the
fact that there are more taxpayers has
much to do with it.
When all the money that is due the
state and county is within the coffers
there will be just $275,000 added to the
already record-breaking total, this sum
being the amount of taxes yet due. All
of this comes from some 20,000 tax
payers who own property in Fulton
county.
* * *
Negro Escapes Gallows,
Lee Holmes, a negro, convicted of
the murder of E. A. Sands, a white
man, in Mclntosh county and sentenced
to be hanged January 21, will escape
the gallows. The prison commission,
after careful inquiry into his case, has
recommended commutation to life im
prisonment, aid it is believed the gov
ernor will endorse this recommendation
and issue an order accordingly.
According to the evidence at the trial,
Holmes was trying to shoot another ne
gro with whom he was quarreling, but
Instead of hitting the man he was aim
ing at the bullet went in another di
rection and killed Sands, an innocent
party, who was sitting seme distance
away on a bale of cotton.
• * *
Trains to Run February 15.
Trains will be running into Atlanta
BTOP AT THE
ZETTIER HOUSE.
The best SI.OO a day house in the
city.
253 FOURTH ST., MACON, G&..
Mrs. A. L. Zeltler, Proprietress.
over the Atlanta, Birmingham and At
lantic railroad by February 15, accord
ing to a statement of General Superin
tendent C. B. Wilburn of that road,
who was in Atlanta a few days ago
for a conference with Vice President
p. S. Arkwrigth.
It. had been intended to have trains
in operation over the Atlanta division
sooner, but one delay after another in
terfered with these plans. Everything
is now in good shape and Mr. Wilburn
is confident that tne minaie or next
month will find regular schedules being
maintained into Atlanta. Through trains
are now being run via LaGrange, far
into Alabama and the construction
forces are steadily marching upon Bir
mingham.
* * *
Flat Rate by Southern.
The state railroad commission has
accepted a definite proposition on the
part of President W. W. Finley of the
Southern railroad to put into effect on
April the first the following rates:
A fiat 2 1-2 cent rate on all the lines
of the Southern railroad for intra-state
travel, provided that no charge shall
be required to ’be less than ten cents.
Two thousand mile books, intra-state,
interchangeable with such of the solv
ent roads of the state as will consent,
at 2 cents per mile, good for heads of
firms and employes, not exceeding a
total number of five.
One thousand mile bocks, intra-state
and interchangeable, at 2 cents per
mile limited to one individual and good
only in the hands of the purchaser.
Five hundred mile hooks at 2 1-4
cents per mile, good for heads of fam
ilies and dependent members thereof,
intra-state and non-interchangeable.
Mr. Finley further proposed triat
these rates should be kept in effect
for a period of twelve months, so as
to give a fair trial, with t*fe under
standing that the railroad by such trial
waives no right to relief should the
rates prove to be unjust or confisca
tory. This proposal also meets with
the approval of the commission.
Food Inspector on Second Round.
The state pure food inspector is out
on Ills second tour of the state in
search of adulterated foodstuffs which
he will get a sample of and return
to the state department of chemistry
for analysis and report. The Georgia
pure food law has not Deen in effect a
year yet, but good results have already
been made patent. Last fall the in
spector found a great many condiments
which did not measure up to the pure
food law, and he discovered adulterated
flour and impure vinegar, which were
reported and the sellers haled before
the commissioner of agriculture. The
inspector is seeing to it that cotton seed
oil, the well known Southern product,
is sold as a pure article. He is also
watching out to see that cotton seed
meal, which is recognized as the best
cattle feed, measures up to the stand
ard desired by the department.
* * *
Money for Vets and Teachers.
Georgia Confedeiate veterans may
receive their quarterly pensions early
in February, instead of waiting until
March 1, when the quarterly payments
become due. Georgia teachers proba
bly will receive their back salaries in
a short time.
The state has received much more
money than had been expected, Treas
urer Park having just received more
than $600,000.
The old soldiers formerly were paid
their pensions annually, but it has
lately been the custom to pay them
quarterly. It is now believed that, with
the funds the state has on hand, they
can be paid now instead of waiting
until March 1.
The sum of $235,000 is due the sol
diers and about $600,000 is due the
teachers of the state.
FROM HIRE OF HER CONVICTS
State of Georgia Will Get Nearly SIOO,OOO
of Last Quarter of 1907.
Nearly SIOO,OOO will be collected by
the state of Georgia this month for
the hire of convicts leased, for the
quarter ending December 31, 1907.
Captain Good'.oe Yancey of the state
prison commission has completed a
statement, which he has furnished
Comptroller General Wright for collec
tion.
This statement shows that there are
thirteen lessees in the state owing an
aggregate of $94,368.10.
CHILDREN MANGLED.
Sixteen Crushed ta Death and Forty Badly
Maimed During Needless Stampede
in English Theatre.
Sixteen children were tramped to
death and forty others, several of whom
cannot live, were injured in a mad
rush for better seats at an entertain
ment given in the public hall at Barne
ley, England, Saturday afternoon. There
was a great rush to secure admittance
to the entertainment, and when the
show opened every seat was taken*
and the gallery was literally packed
with children, who filled the aisles and
were dangerously mashed against the
lower railing.
With a view to relieving this crowd
ing in the gallery, the attendants decid
ed to transfer some of the children to
the body of the house, and some of the
ushers called out: “Some of you chil
dren come downstairs!”
Immediately the rush started, and
within a few seconds hundreds of chil
dren were being trampled under foot.
Even those who had seats in the gal
lery doubtless became panic stricken
by the screams and struggles of the
crowds fighting to reach the staircases,
and joined in the stampede.
The scene was a terrible one, the
cries of the injured and moans of the
dying causing the greatest excitement
among those gathered in the body of
the hall.
When the reserve police arrived they
found the narrow stairway practically
blocked with bodies, which were crush
ed in some cases almost beyond recog
nition. Scores of children were forced
by the pressure from the crowd behind
them to scramble over those that had
fallen, whether living or dead, and
many of the injured children were
found later to be suffering from frac
tured bones and severe lacerations,
caused by the indescribable manner in
which they had been trampled upon.
DEMONSTRATIONS BY SOCIALISTS.
Thousands in Germany Engage in Riotous
Conduct for Universal Suffrage.
A special from Berlin, Germany,
says: The determination of the so
cialists to secure direct universal suf
frage, combined with their indignation
against Chancellor Von Buelow’s curt
declaration refusing their demand, gave
rise Sunday to an unusual scene and
a monster popular demonstration, ac
companied by disorders in the streets
of the Prussian cajHtal in which 4,069
organized socialists participated, while
30,000 sympathizers from time to time
actively joined in the manifestations.
Among the features of the day’s up
rising was the number of women who
engaged in the demonstration and they
appeared even more earnest in their
activities tham the men. The authori
ties took the sternest measures to pre
vnt outrages and the strictest precau
tions to protect the assembly and other
public buildings and Prince Von Bue
low’s residence from the outburst of
fury. Crowds in the streets were dis
persed and collisions between proces
sions of manifestants and the police re
sulted in the injury of a considerable
number of the demonstrators, but so
far as is known no fatality occurred
in Berlin.
The police refrained from making
arrests except in case of extreme vio
lence. The movement extends through
out Prussia, where the socialists are ex
ceptionally numerous in the country.
Reports received from other cities,
however, do not indicate that the
demonstrations there were accompa
nied by violence.
PANAMA CANAL TO COST MORE.
Latest Calculation Adds Enormous Sum of
Hundred Millions.
The Panama canal is likely to cost
at least $100,000,000 more than the
original estimates, according to figures
and data now in the possession of
the senate interocsanic canal commit
te-e. Splendid progress is being made
upon the canal where the work con
sists only of dredging and excavating.
MEMORIAL TO GENERAL CUSTER.
Widow of Indian Fighter to Erect Home
for Aged Literary Women.
Mrs. Elizabeth Custer, widow of
General Custer, who wa3 killed in the
Indian mas-acre in the west of 1876,
intends to erect a home for aged lit
erary women as a memorial to her
husband. She has purchased sixteen
lots in Bronxville, Westchester county,
New York, and will erect the home
there.
Mrs. Custer has written several
books, and has long been interested
in literary women.