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GOING HOME.
From t|je Realm of Toil and Trouble,
Toward the sunset keeps of Spain,
Rolling iron miles behind us
Westward speeds the lurching train.
Fades the city' s ragged skyline.
Steepled roof and garish dome—
And 1 m going home to Mary,
Going home, going home!
Grayness veils the whirling valley;
Darkness sweeps across the gray;
Lanterns red anu green and golden
Glint and glare along the way.
Every ringing wheel and bearing
Holds a jolly little gnome
Singing, “Going home to Mary,
Going home, going home!”
And I hear the chant re-echoed
In the grinding and the jar,
In the clanking of the coupler,
In the clatter of the car:
While the engine bears a burden.
Through a cloud of billowed foam
Calling, “Going home to Mary,
Going nome, going home!”
—Arthur Guiterman.
jf THEIR
\ FIRST
! QUARREL
"I felt really sorry for Emmeline,”
said the woman visitor. ‘lt made me
feel uncomfortable, of course, being a
guest, but I was sorry for her, any
way. They seemed to get along quite
well at first, and everybody said what
a happy couple they were. Of course,
he was polite, but anybody could no
tice the sarcastic t-orfe of his voice,
and although she laughed at what he
said her cheeks were pretty red. I
guess it wasn't their first spat by a
good many.”
“I always thought they got on well
together,” said Mrs. Wachilope. ‘‘He
always seemed very nice to her, I
know, and she seemed devoted to
him.”
" ‘‘You can’t always tell,” said Wac
llope.
‘‘No, indeed,” agreed the visitor.
‘‘Whenever I see a couple so particu
larly loving and sweet I always say
to myself, “Look out!” I make up
my mind that it isn’t all honey and
molasses.”
“Well, you mustn’t think that of
ns,’ laughed Mrs. Wachilope.
“Oh, dear, no!” said the visitor,
with tremendous emphasis upon the
“dear.”
“Because,” said Wachilope, with
conscious pride, “we haven’t man
aged to accomplish our first quarrel
yet.”
“Isn’t that lovely!” said the visitor.
“Don’t you believe him,” said Mrs.
Wachilope. “We quarrel dreadfully.
He’s the worst tyrant.”
“My dear!” remonstrated Wachi
lope.
“You know you are,” said the
young wife. “Don’t you remember
when we were going to the theatre
the other night how fearfully savage
and impatient you were with me be
cause you were afraid we were going
to miss the train?”
“Oh!” said Wachilope, with sud
den enlightenment. “You allude to
my action in throwing you down the
stairs and then dragging you out to
the vestibule by the hair of your
head. I admit that I was a little
impatient then.”
"Why, darling!”
“But then you exasperated me by
throwing boots at me as I ca,me up
the stairs.”
“Henry, dear, I don’t think it nice
of you to say such things even in
jest.”
“Well, perhaps it was only one
shoe and it hit me in two places.”
“It really wasn’t any such thing,”
explained Mrs. Wachilope, turning
with a distressed air to the visitor.
“He’s telling stories.”
“Now, that’s a nice thing, isn’t it?”
said Wachilope, likewise appealing to
the guest. “A lady in her own house
and not married six months coolly
and deliberately tells her friend that
her husband’s addicted to untruths.”
“Hush, my dear, or Mrs. J’unker
son will think that we are quarreling
now.”
“Oh, no; I’m sure you are net,”
said the visitor, rising. “Well, I de
clare I’ve been here for nearly an
hour and I didn’t mean to stay- more
than twenty minutes at the outside.
I really must go. I’m ever so glad to
have found you at home. Now, you
and Mr. Wachilope must come soon
and see us. My bag? Oh, yes.
Well, good-by. Now, don’t forget to
come soon. Good-by.”
Wachilope noticed that his wife
had more than the usual color in
her cheeks as she came back into the
parlor.
“Well, the old lady went, did she,
sweetness?” he called, cheerfully.
“Yes,” said Mrs. Wachilope, with a
slight chill in her voice, “and she’s
gone off to spread it all over the
neighborhood that we have had a
quarrel.”
“A quarrel!”
“Why, certainly. I’m sure you did
your best to give her that impres
sion.”
“My dear, what did I say?”
“How can you ask me? You know
very well what you said.”
"About dragging you around by
the hair of your head? My dear,
why Ha, ha! You don’t mean
to say you think she had any idea
of taking that seriously? Ho, ho!
That’s a good joke.”
“You said it seriously enough.
You ought to be ashamed of your
self, Henry, dear.”
“My own, I wouldn’t have men
tioned it, but don't you think it was
a little hard on me to say I was a.
tyrant and savage and impatient to a
stranger? I wouldn't have minded
with anybody else, but that old
hen ”
“I don’t think it’s nice to call a
lady a hen. Besides, she had just
said she suspected things when people
were too nice to each other, and I
thought you would have seen that.”
“Oh, I’m dense, I know—and
coarse. That’s twice this afternoon
you’ve accused me of not being nice.”
“I don’t think it was nice.”
“Just because I joked a little and
—oh, what’s the use of trying to ex
plain?”
“And because I joked a little.
That was to be taken in earnest, of
course. You know I never thought
of such a thing as our quarreling.
You know we never quarreled yet.
Why did you try to make out that wa
did?”
“Why did you?”
“I’ve already told you.”
“Well, I was just following your
lead. Come, don’t let’s lose our tem
pers.”
“Oh, I’m perfectly calm, but you
are red in the face.”
“You shouldn’t bite holes in your
lips to show your tranquillity, you—■
there’s the doorbell again!”
“Henry!”
“Beatrice!”
“This is going to be the very last.”
“It was all my fault.”
“No, it was mine—quick!”
“There’s the bell again.”—Chica
go News.
HOW TO GET MORE SUNLIGHT. »
Englishman Wants Clock Hands
Pushed Forward in Summer.
An interesting discussion has aris
en in the English and French press
as to how a man can make more use
than now of the available hours of
daylight. William Willett has just
published a pamphlet on the subject.
He writes:
“For nearly half a year the sun
shines for several hours each day
while we are asleep and is rapidly
nearly the horizon when we reach
home after the work of the day is
over. Under the most favorable cir
cumstances there then remains only
a brief spell of declining daylight in
which to spend the short leisure at
our disposal.
“Now if some of the hours of
wasted sunlight could be withdrawn
from the beginning and added to the
end of the day how many advantages
would be gained by all, and particu
larly by those who spend in the open
air, when the light permits them to
do so, whatever time they have after
the duties of the day have been dis
charged.
“By a simple expedient-these ad
vantages can be secured. ,We can
have eighty minutes more" daylight
after 6 p. m. every day during May,
June, July and August, and an aver
age of forty-five minutes more every
day during April and September. The
expedient which I propose is that at
2 a. m. on each of the four Sunday
mornings in April the standard time
shall advance twenty minutes, and on
each of the four Sundays in Septem
ber shall recede twenty minutes.
“Another means of arriving ap
promixately at the same end would
be to alter the clock thirty minutes
on six Sundays, the last three hi
April and the three in Septem
ber. We lose nothing and gain most
substantially. Having made up our
minds to be satisfied on four occa
sions with a Sunday of twenty-three
hours and forty minutes long, or
twenty-three hours and thirty min
utes long on three occasions, the ad
vantages aimed at will follow auto
matically without any trouble what
ever. Everything will go on just
as It does now, except that as the
later hours of the day come around
they will bring more light with
them.”
Mr. Willett calculates that on an
average 210 hours of daylight are
wasted every year by every person.
The expense of the artificial light
used in this time will be saved bod
ily. A man who left work at 5
p. m. would have as much daylight
before him as a man who leaves now
at 3.40. Saturdays if he left at 12
o’clock it would be equal to stop
ping under present conditions at
10.40 a. m.
Effect of the Weather.
Bishop Sanford Olmstead, of Colo
rado, at a dinner in Denver, said,
apropos of Sabbath breaking:
“I was talking to an Eastern clery
man the other day about his church
attendance.
“I suppose,” I said, “that in your
district rain affects the attendance
considerably.”
“He smiled faintly. ‘lndeed, yes,’
he said; ‘I hardly have a vacant seat
when it is too wet for golf or motor
ing.’ ” —Kansas City Journal. . ,
WORKING FORCE
IS CURTAILED
Southern Lays Oif ISO Mn in Its
Shops at Atlanta,
LEGISLATION THE CAUSE
Order of Suspension Was Indefinite as to
Time, and Came as Surprise to Many.
A., B. & A. Also Cuts Down Force.
One hundred and fifty men, four
fifths of whom are trained workers,
men who have served a long appren
ticeship and who are earning an ex
cellent grade of pay every day, walked
out of the Southern shops in South
Atlanta Thursday afternoon, carrying
with them an order of suspension for
—how long none of them can even
conjecture.
Not one of the men had the slight
est thought of a cessation of labor.
Since the season of vacations and
rests had passed and the men trained
to their several trades were anticipat
ing a long winter of money-making
work.
But, as the men entered the shops
Thursday morning, there was a fresh
sheet of paper on the bulletin board.
Its brightness attracted the attention
of every man with his dinner pail
upon his arm. All stopped to read
the board and to every one it was
a surprise. It was brief, but it was
plain and unmistakable. It simply
announced that when the day ended
there would be no work the next day
for some of those who read the bul
letin. While short and plain, the order
indicated those upon whom idleness
came. It apprised twenty-fliree ma
chinists, whose average pay is $23
to $25 a week; one coppersmith who
makes $3 and more a day; three
boilerma-kes whose scale is $3.10 a
day; fifteen helpers at $1.30 a day;
two blacksmiths, who without trouble
earn $3.20 a day, and one hundred
carpenters and car builders, out of a
force of 500 men and who earn $2
every day, that when the day’s work
was over they might call at their fore
man’s office for their time, as their
services would not be needed the next
day—Friday.
No reason was given the men for
the order, but it didn't take them long
to figure out a reason. One of the
number —he has been with the South
ern shops since Pittsburg, as the At
lanta shops are designated, was start
ed —spoke for the crowd who are laid
off:
“When I say that the order was a
surprise to the men, I tell you the
exact facts in the case. Still, among
those who are in charge it has not
been a surprise recently. We have
ascertained that some of these fore
men have been working for this or
der for more than a week. If they
knew any reason for it, however, they
have not given it out. But among the
men who are touched by the order,
as well as among their companions,
who still remain in, there is now
an understanding. Recent legislation
is the cause. And do you know there
is »ot a man not bit by the order
»f today who feels that he has a
certainty of a day’s work. That order
which came today may come again
tomorrow —it may come at any time
and when it does come we will then
know, and not before who is next to
be let out.”
At the regular meeting of the ma
chinists of Atlanta Thursday night,
it was announced, not in an official
way, but in a manner wholly reliable
that at Fitzgerald one hundred men,
$3.40 a day on the wage scale, had
been let out by the Atlanta, Burning
ham and Atlantic railroad. No reasons
were assigned for that iet-oui.
L. & N. SELLS REBATE TICKETS.
Plan of Road to Technically Comply With
Alabama Rate Laws.
The Louisville and Nashville rail
road, in seeking to comply with the
new 2 1-2 cent passenger rate law in
Alabama, has begun the sale of tick
ets within the state with coupons at
tached which entitle the passenger to
a rebate of half a cent a mile in
case the suit which the railroad has
brought against the state railroad com
mission to prevent the enforcement of
the new law is decided against it.
VERY LOW RATES
TO
NORFOLK, VA., AND RETURN
Account Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition
VIA
Southern Railway
Season, 6o clay and 15 day tickets on sale daily commen
cing April 19th, to and including November 30th, 1907.
Stop Overs will be allowed on Season, Sixty-day and
fifteen-day tickets, same as on Summer Tourist Tickets.
For fall and complete information call on Ticket Agents Southern
Railway, or write:
For rates, routes and schedules or any infor
mation, address,
C. R. PETIT, Trav. Pass. Agent
Macon. Ga.
JOHN B. WATKINS,
VETERNARY SURGEON.
Office at flack Goodwin’s stables below county jail.
Office hours: 1.30 to 2.30 p. m., Friday, Saturday and'
Sunday. All calls promptly attended to. Office Phone 44;
Residence Phone 131, Jackson, Ga.
FOR SALE-LOTS IN LOCUST
GROVE, GA.
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Southern Railway depot.
I*4 Acres, SSOO. Clevelrnd Street 100 ft front, facing
Railway Crossing. 400 feet from Southern Railway depot.
JOHN S. CLEATON, 408-9 Peters Bldg, Atlant a
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STATE FAIRi
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Prizes—ls County Exhibits Jnl
1. will be FARMERS UNION DAY. This wiii be a iua
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ng live* stock, poultry find tarm products will be at YV
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