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A SONG OF BRIGHT DAYS.
The bright days—they are coming, no
ter what they say!
2- or t neath the snows of winter dreams
violet of May,
And some time in the future, in the
There'll years to be,
be blossoms in the desert, and
streams will sing to sea!
The bright days—they are coming;
a twinklin’ of the light
In the stomi that sheds its shadows on
starry brow of night;
And some time—in the future, when
clouds have faded far,
The sun will greet the morning and
night will claim a star!
Ihe bright davs—they are coming in
cities and the dells
There s a whisper of the music from
morning’s golden bells!
And some time, in the future, when
skies are bending blue,
I here 11 be angels at the windows,
Frank they L. II kiss their hands to you!
tion. Stanton, in Atlanta
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THE ENCHANTED
CALENDAR.
L By S. E. KIEEIb.
USPENDED from the elec
s trie light bracket above
dison Winklehorst’s desk
was a beautiful
—or, rather, a picture
a beautirill woman with a little
endar in one corner of, the card, It
what might be called a haunting
that beamed down upon Mr.
horst as he sat there looking over
mail. I*e could not, for some
keep from glancing up every
while and drawing a deep sigh.
It may have been that
which he ate or drank at the
the night before had put him into a
romantic mood. At all events, he
covered some new eharm in the lady
every time lie looked up. lie
at the splendor of her figure, clad in
rich robes that suggested wonderful
outlines, and the soft tints upon her
cheeks were so indicative of
health and maiden modesty that lie
became possessed of the idea that if
iie were to touch them with his fingers
he would find them warm and yield
ing.
Presently he noticed that the lady of
the calendar was bending forward to
ward him and assuming lifelike pro
portions. One of her dainty feet pro
truded over the edge of the card and
a faint, delicious perfume emanated
from her rich attire. Just how she
got down to the flooV he did not know,
but he suddenly found that she was
sitting beside him and looking gladly
into his eyes.
“I can never hope to show you how
grateful I am, ' • she said in soft, eu
chanting tones, “for releasing me.”
“For releasing you?” he asked. “How
did I release you?”
it Why. ii she answered with
wonder
in her deep, splendid eyes. don't you
know? I was under a spell, I had
foolishly sold myself to a great soap
maker. Yon see these fine clothes I
am wearing? They got me into all
my trouble. *•
• i Tell me about it, if he urged. f
Fhe drew a long, deep sigh and said:
“I was only a poor girl, working as
n stenographer in his office, Every
year he got up a splendid calendar ns
an advertisement, lie hired great art
ists to paint pictures of beautiful wo
men. and I used to think I would be
so happy if one of them would paint
me. richly dressed, so that my picture
would he hung up in thousands of
places for men to admire, I longed
for beautiful clothes. I used to stand
in front of the big store windows when
they were getting ready for the horse
shows and wish I could have the ele
gant things I saw there.
t. One day as I lingered before a win
dow looking in and thinking how hap
py the women must he who could
wear such tilings as I saw there, the
rich soap man came along and, point
ing to one of the finest costumes, asked
me how I would like to have it. How
my heart leaped at his words! I told
him I would be the happiest, girl in
the world if that dress could be mine.
it ‘You shall have it,’ he said. ‘I will
buy it for you—on one condition. If
yon will consent to be painted in it
and let me use your picture for a cal
endar the dress shall be yours.
a Imagine how joyful I was. The
dress was bought for me and I posed
in it for the artist. I am sure I was
the happiest girl in the world, and the
proudest. But one day, as the finish
ing touches were being given to the
picture, I noticed that the artist had
turned into a horrible old woman, with
a wrinkled face, with one long, yellow,
fang-like tooth, and with hands that
looked like claws. I was filled with
fear and tried to run away, hut I
couldn’t. I couldn’t make a noise when
I called for help. I was pressed back
ward against something and then I
found I was the picture for the soap
calendar.
H The horrible old woman grinned at
me and said:
u i You see what love for fine clothes
has brought you to. You were willing
to give up your soul for that dress—
you know it. So you deserve just as
much punishment as if you had really
done what you were willing to do for
the sake of being dressed in finery.
You wiil be nothing more than a
tore on a soap calendar after this,
less some man some time falls in
with you just as he woftld with a
ing person When that happens
will be released from your
ment -’ ”
Mr. Winklchorst gazed at her with
gladness in his heart that he had
experienced before.
i>ue leaned upon his desk with
soft chin resting in the palm of
of her little hands and looked into
eyes with a wistful ness that* lie
not mistake. Still, he was a
man and anxious to have the
opinion of other people. lie
what his friends would say if it
become known that he had fallen
love with a picture on a soap
The thought troubled him, and
beautiful maiden, seeing the cloud
on his face, asked:
n What has happened to make
sad? I have often seen you looking
admiringly at me as I hung
above jour desk, and, oh, you
know- how* I longed for you to fall
love with me. I will confess
thing to you now*. I loved you
the first time I ever saw you
here at your desk. It wouldn’t
right for me to tell you this if 1
know you loved me, would it?
vou do love me. If you didn’t the
I was under would not have
broken. 11
For some reason Mr.
heart sank. He didn’t like to have
sitting there talking that way to
It may have been because a man
likely to be in love very long with
girl who is too easily won. And
there was that disagreeable
of the soap calendar. He could
imagine what his friends would
when they found out about it.
would he a nubile laughing stock.
As if she’ had road his thoughts,
girl began to shrink away from
This caused Mr. Winklohorst's love
her to reassert itself. He forgot
thing but her wonderful beauty
the splendor of her figure. The
cate perfume from her rich
seemed to intoxicate him. and he
determined to possess her.
n Don’t leave me.” he begged. ii I’m
triad it fell to me to release you from
the spell' you were under. Stay with
me. T love you. You r re mine. I
not let yqu go.”
it No.” she sadly replied, “vou had
douhts. You are not the right man
after all. I must go back on the swap
calendar again.’
and . catch her,
He tried to reach out
hut there was a rustling of skirts—
and Miss Dallinsrton. the nretty ' stem
ngranher, touched him slightly ur>on
the arm which he had firmer out. say
inr\ as he sat up with a sudden iet K .
. * If you a r e ready now. Mr. Winkle
howst. I will take the* notes for that
letter to Peahodv Rinks & Co.”—Chi
cago Record-Herald.
CUMULATIVE VALUE GF ADVERTISING.
Interesting Suggestions From n Promi
nent Advertising Manager.
Some advertisers overlook the cumu
lative value of advertising. By cumu
lative I mean that power and value in
advertising that gains in force as the
advertising proceeds.
Advertising is augmented and given
force by successive insertions, Bacon
wrote: “As for knowledge which man
receiveth by teaching it is cumulative,
not original. •»
A single large advertisement may
not amount to much in results. It may
not do the business, ihe article au
vertlsed is soon forgotten and its effect
quickly lost among the hundreds ot
other advertisements puohshed daily
by the average newspaper. But follow
one advertisement with another; keep
hammering; let one blow follow an
other in rapid succession and results
will come
When least expected the policy of
persistent advertising will be produc
tive of results that can neither be de
stroyed nor forgotten.
Don’t try the costly experiment of
putting all your money into one big
advertisement and then quitting he
cause of disappointing results. Divide
your energy and your money. Follow
a line of systematic work. Be patient,
but be tenacious. Success may come
slowly, but if the proposition adver
Used possesses merit it will be sure.
IT. C. Ackerly, Advertising Manager
Los Angeles Herald.
Tiie Death Substitute.
. * I had in my employ,” said one of
the missionaries to China, “a very val
uable Chinese servant, upon whom I
leaned with implicit confidence. One
day he came to me and said: T shall
be obliged to ask you to find somebody
to take my place, as in the course of a
few weeks I am to be executed in place
of a rich gentleman, who is to pay me
very liberally for becoming his sub
stitute.’
“I asked what possible inducement
there could be to forfeit his life for any
amount of money. He replied: ‘I have
an aged father and mother, who are
very poor and unable to work, and the
money I am to receive will make them
comfortable as long as they live. I
think it is my duty to give up my live
to accomplish this.’ ”—V. O.
An Editor’s Civic T’ridc.
S. W. Nichols, one of the editors ol
the Jacksonville (111.) Journal, has pve
seated $ 10,000 to his city for the pur
chase of a public park.
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Epitomized Items of Interest
Cohere tiat&ereci A at at Random KuQGGm.
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! Bad Blaze at Jasper.
: The Jasper Manufacturing Compa
ny’s plant and the depot were destroy
ed by fire one night the past week.
The fire is thought to have been the
work of an incendiary. The loss
amounts to about $25,000; insurance,
$5,000. This is the third large fire m
the town within the 7a§t three months.
| * *
j State Cotton Being Held.
Chairman Turner, of the prison com
mission, states tnat three hundred and
fifty bales of cotton were raised on the
j sta te farm last year None of the cot
ton has been sold yet, it being the
idea of the commission to hold it as
long as possible before selling, in the
hope of securing a betteT price.
* * *
Captain Adams Discharged.
Captain B. 13. Adams, Jr., of the
I Baldwin Blues, of Milledgeville, com
| P an y E, Second regiment, G. S. T., has
been discharged from office by order
of Governor Terrell, based on the find
ing of a military board of inquiry
which heard his case.
Captain Adams was charged with
falsifying the company accounts, fail
ing to account for certain state prop
j erty and general inefficiency.
, The charges against Captain Adams
created quite a stir in Milledgeville,
! where he is well known.
* *
More Cash for the Teachers.
Treasurer Park has notified State
j I School Commissioner Merritt that he
rea( Jy on January 18th to send
j ou *- the mone y to the school teachers
°f Georgia for the last month’s work
in 1903. This will amount to practi
i cally $600,000.
! State School Commissioner Merritt
is now working on the warrants and
will have them ready for the governor
to sign in a few days, This payment
! will include the amount owed the
j teachers by the state for last year. Ev
ery effort is being made by Commi3 .
sioner Merritt to pay the teachers as
promptly as possible.
* *
Profits of Athens Rum Joint.
! The Athens dispensary for the year
: 1902 cleared $23,000, and for the year
; that has just closed the profits were
°^®r $27,000, showing an increase In
i profits of more than $4,000 for the past
year. The first year the dispensary
was in operation, eleven years ago, the
profits were a shade above $9,000.
During the past three years the prof
its at the dispensary have been ad
vancing steadily, and this year it is
! thought they will pass the $30,000
mark. These profits are divided be
tween the city of Athens and the coun
ty of Clarke. The city gets four-fifths
: and the county gets one-fifth In this
w r ay the city gets over $2(1,000 per an
j num and the county over $5,000.
j * *
! Big Profit in Sub-Letting Convicts.
j W. E. Hamby and W. M. Toomer,
who in the recent award of convicts- by
Hie state prison commission secured
felony convicts at the price of
$22U0 por year for each convict> have
suhIet severaJ hundred of these men
tcv diflerent parties at a good profit,
T _ CL nsign . u . 10 d . ° S f ciu ^' , 3*
' ’ '
convicts . . the recent award at $ 220
m .
ias sutJ ^ st ei dne fifty to other
parties at considerable profit.
Hamby states that he and Mr.
Toomer are getting an average price
F^r month for each convict sub
let, or a clear profit of $75 per year
on each of the 250, or a profit of $18.-
755.
i It is expected that some oi the other
bidders will be subletting before the
time for the contracts begin.
| * * *
Stops Sale of Toy Pistols.
The city of Augusta, as a result of
the four deatbg from christmas acci .
dents to children by the use of toy pis
tols, has declared war against the sell
ers of the deadly plaything.
The war belcared is in the nature of
an ordinance unanimously passed by
the city council, outlawing the toy and
prohibiting its sale under a very heavy
penalty, in the affixing of tne new or
dinance the extreme limit allowed by
law was named, to-wit: A $300 fine,
90 days on the public works, or both,
in the discretion of the recorder.
The ordinance forbids the sale with
in the city limits of Augusta of any
toy pistol using gun powder, dynamite
or other similar explosives, whether or
not a projectile is used. The new or
dinance was passed without a disaent
ing voice.
* *
Home Officers Retained.
No changes were made in the offi
cials of the Georgia Soldiers’ Home
by the board of trustees when the
annual election occurred in Atlanta the
past week,
j W. H. Bell, of the board of trustees,
I was named president of the board; E.
H. Thornton, of the board, was select
ed again as vice president; Dr. John
H. King was appointed surgeon; Lap
tain -Tip” Harrison was re-elected sec
retary; Dr. Amos Fox was re-electcNl
treasurer; L. C. Slade was reelected
superintendent; Mrs. L. C. Slade was
elected matron, that office having been
re-established- stewardess' Mrs John Maddox was
elected to succeed Mrs.
Slade.
The office of purchasing agent was
established and the position given to
Dr. Amos Fox, who is to receive $50
per month for penorming the duties
of treasurer and purchasing agent.
The salary of Surgeon King was in
creased from $18 to $35 per month.
The members of the board of trus
well pleased with the conai- ..
tees were
tion of the home, and tne excellent dis
cipline enforced there.
* *
Freeman Succeeds Atkinson.
Hon. R. W. Freeman, ot Newman,
has been appointed judge of the supe
rior court of the Coweta circuit to suc
ceed the late Judge Thomas A. Atkin
son, who died a few days ago. Judge
freeman took the oatn of office at At
lsnta, and is now ready to begin holl
ing court. The first session of the su
perior court under his administration
will be at LaGrange on the fourth
Monday in this month.
The appointment of Judge Freeman
is until the next general election, and
he will therefore have to oe elected,
or nominated rather, v The coming
primary, which will probably be held
in May. it is understood that he will
be a candidate for re-election.
Judge Freeman is a native of Cow
eta county. Ho is it 45 years of age.
He is a graduate of Vanderbilt Uni
versity, and has been practicing law
for twenty years. Judge Freeman has
represented his county in the legisla
ture on two occasions, and is one of
the most popular men in the Coweta
circuit.
* * *
Loyiess After Book Commission.
State house officials are very much
interested in the publication of an edi
torial which appeared in The Augusta
Chronicle, which had a few tart and
rough things to say about the book
commission and its work in adopting
the school books of the state.
The editorial has been widely read
by the state house officers and a meet
ing was held by the book commission
for the purpose of discussing the edi
torial. After reading the publication
the commission concluded , , , to . take . . no
notice of the article.
The article intimates that the public
has been hoodwinked,^states that at
torneys who lived in the same town
as members . of , the ,, book commission . .
and ... the sub-commission . . . had , , , been
em
ployed , to Idok after the , interests . of .
certam . . , book One ^
companies. para
graph says: "Indeed some ot the
awards made by the commission were
so altogether absurd , as to , excite dis
. { ,,
3 Reference e is . made , m the ed.tor.a ,
CIa ?'“.
by h the o E. F Johnson Publishing Co
of Richmond, and it is stated that
those books are tar superior to those
adopted, and w r ere cheaper. The edi
torial closes with the following para
graphs.
“But it may be unnecessary to go
into detail—the book commission’s
awards would seem to speak for them
selves. The American Book Company
and Ginn & Co. received practically
the whole thing. Books by other pub
lishers seem to have been barely con
sidered—certainly not seriously con
sidered, if at all.
“And those two concerns were the
only book publishing houses that were
ever charged with having contributed
to the campaign funds of certain state
house officers—members of the book
commi&sion—who bad opposition in
the last primary.
.. These successful bidders, too, are
the only concerns charged with having
employed ‘attorneys’ living in (he
same town with or m some manner
closely associated with, various' mem
, bers ot r the ,, , boot , comomsioo. . .
If these acts ore not enough to
t, “ Pa “ lc Wlll?
And The Chromclo cordially mvites
any member of the book commission,
°JJ gat,on U ! of T.f't the facts G" herein f ° r set forth." ! nv
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New Franchise Law Attacked.
A bill that involves the constitution
ality of the franchise tax act, which
compels the railroads of the state to
pay taxes on their franchises, wag, filed
in the clerk’s office of the Federal
court at Atlanta a few days ago uy
the Georgia Railroad alT* Bankin r-r
Company against William A. Wright,
comptroller of the state of Georgia,
the questions involved arising from
the act passed by the general assem
bly in 1902.
Judge Newman has ordered that the
comptroller of the state show cause
before him on January 30 why the
prayer of the complainants should not
be granted. In the meantime he has
issued a restraining order temporarily
preventing the state oL Georgia from
collecting this tax from the Georgia
j railroad. It is said that the o
j lost in t}le -aSe, a
district COTJrt wiJi 03
j to t h 8 SU p reme CO urt by the abroad, takes
1
j The Georgia railroad cla* that
i d er h s charter, granted in 1833 J lit.
j compelled to pay in taxes only
half of 0a 033 ,
one per cent, of its net
ings, and that it is torced earn.
not to n pay
other taxes, including those °n iU
franchises.
Comptroller General Wright aud
torney General Hart are not at d
conference worried over the the suit. r They held J
over matter and both
expressed the belief that the ?tats
would win the case in all the courts.
* * *
All Roads to Use Ne w Depot.
All roads centering in Atlanta W;
, use the new union pa&sen
! g er sr „ H
it is said on excellent author! ity.
This will be good new r s to the peo.
j pie of the city and of the state, as j
I there has been a general dislike Of the
idea of having to use two or more sta
tions in coming into and going out oi
the city. This plan has been found
work a great Inconvenience wherever
it has been tried and the tendency
all metropolitan communities ;a
j is to eon
centrate the passenger faciliti tes, thus
saving time and trouble to those who
iness. make use of the railroads in their bin”
Until now it has been thought that
only three or four of the local roads
would send their trains into tn- new
depot and that the remainder would
continue to run into the old car shed
of bad repute.
U JA3Y Rimr CROSSES DARK RIVER,
Eldest Daughter of Ex-President Cleveland
Dies Suddenly at Princeton.
Ruth Cleveland, eldest child :
former President Cleveland, died at
the Cleveland home Thursday very
unexpectedly, the immediate cause oil
of death being a weakening of the
heart action during a mild attack oi
diphtheria. Dr. Wyltoff, the attend*
ing physician, said Miss Cleveland
had been ill with a mild form of diph
theria for four days and that the heart
affection w-as not anticipated.. She
was 15 years old.
Miss Ruth Cleveland was the child'
of the nation, having been born in
the white house near the end of Pres
ident Cleveland’s first term. It will
j be remembered that Mr. Cleveland
j was married to Miss Frances Folsofii,
daughter of his old law partner, after
, he was president, .. , and , Miss „ Ruth ,, was
;
their . first _ . child. , She known all
I was
j over the country as “Baby Ruth, and
i was the recipient of magnificent pres
ents from all over the world.
XT Her * father and , mother ,, „ lavished . , ,
, upon , her a tender , , love and , were par
ticularly .. , , devoting , .. themselves ,, , to , her , „„
, education , and . training, . . ,, they , have „„„
i as
, „ (lone with theIr children
and cleTeland have alw „»
i , believed . in . giving . . to , their ,, . children , „ „ a
r i most , thorough .. . education, , ,. not , the ,, least ,
I part of which is a right understanding
ot American citi-er.ship.
j Four children survive, two sons and
t , Vij ,., h . ers
j GEORGIA BUILDING MODEL SELECTED.
I
:
j “ Liberty Kali,” Home of Stevens, will bo
i Reproduced at St. Louis Exposition,
j ‘Liberty Hall,” the famous home of
! Alexander H. Stephens, will be the
j m odel for the Georgia building at the
Louisiana Purchase exposition.
Some time ago the exposition man
j agement wrote to Governor Terrell,
: as king him to select some historic
Georgia building as a pattern for the
I state structure on the exposition
grounds, Governor Terrell gave the
matter considerable thought, finally
deciding on a reproduction of ‘ Lib
erty Hall. ’
SOLGNS DISCUSS POSTAL FRAUDS.
Sesslon of Senat Fpid was Devoted to
Most Strenuous Debate.
A]]eged fflc0 frauds were under
discussion ,, . in ... the senate . t-* Friday, •, the
| subi€ct being * opened in a set speed.
fcy Mr slm mon3 (Nortll Carolina),
i who insisted there should be an inves
j j Ugatlon byth0 senate into <k
cb Till eg
j discussion was "oolllver participated n
by Messrs . BuriwE> .r
| Quarles on the republican side, n 1
i Messrs. Carmack, Tillman and Tek
on the democratic side.
!
j ENGLAND BDliMD TO AiJ JtPA VI *0
:
Loudon Press Admits That Help Vviil
Extended if Necessity Arises. 1
Editorials in London morning ,
j P tin ers ttiat are almost if unanimous should in be/ ady
' & ev en war Greajff
, fined to Russia and Japan, 13
■ ain can not possibly see Japajfi err
! ecl aud that although not called on
I interfere by the terms of tr e An.? - >"
Japanese treaty, and that * hile hos
tiJit iesi may be confined t#, ths two
' nations, yet in the event oj[ Japan Great suf
( faring Britain a great naval £ feat, compelled
would be aim st
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! to S° to lier assistance
