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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 ( 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. ‘ £ Uf ^^ (]{f(*| A Xnl * IV F* .£ VI i-Vlv vJ iX'i A *-' 4 . {^ w++ 4 . 4 . ++++++ 4 . ++i . i . +i . + 4 4: Epitomized Items of Interest Cohere tiat&ereci A at at Random KuQGGm. == ! 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 * 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 - ! to S° to lier assistance