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LOST $100,000; NOW WAITER
AFTER A SEASON OF WEALTH JOHN
QUER § AGAIN BALANCING DISHES.
Former Capitalist, Napkin in Hand, Is
Daily Serv ng Lunches in a New
York Restaurant.
A New York dispatch savs Johm
Quera, waiter and inventor, and ouly
a couple of years ago the happy pos
sessor of a fortune won by a lucky
stock deal, has occasion to make &
sage observyations on the yicissitudes
of fortune.
Quern was known as an attentive
and obliging waiter to patrons of Del
monico’s Furty-fourth street establish
ment, waere he worked for a great
many years. He resigoed in 1899 after
making $1)0,000 through the sudden
rise of Brooklyn Rapid Transit stock.
Without a word of explapation the
former capitalist reappeared at Del
monieo’s Beaver street restaurant last
Saturday and asked for his old job as
waiter. Napkin in hand, he has work- ‘
.4 there daily since then, serving
luaches to brokers and business men
with whom for a short period he vied
iy prosperiay.
According to the manager at Del
moaico’s, Quern has made no explana
tion of his fallen fortunes. He bas
confided in no one, not even his former
asociates. The waiters said they had
refrained Jfrom ,questioning Quern on
the subject, which they feel is a rath
er delicate one to'broach.
Quern is now about 55 years old. He
came to this country 34 years ago and
worked in Delmonico’s most of the
time up to the period of his good for
tune. He is a self-educated scientist.
H: has always beea kncwn as a level
headed man.
Quern, while working in Delmon
jeo's in 1898, bought 50 shares of
'Brooklyn Rapid Transit in April of
that year. His purchase was made on
April 19, the day congress adopted a
resolation aeclaring the Cubans free
and directing armed intervention. It
was at a time when the stock market
was regarded by many old brokers as
dangerous.
Quern bought his 5) shares at 37. He
doubled and redoubled his purchases
as the stocks rose, and in March, 1899,
so'd out at 1363. He took his good for
tune modestly.
THE PERILSs OF PKOSPERITY
Pitiful Scenes Enacted in New
York Hotels.
There is a hotel in New York city
which for the last four years has been
enlivened every evening by the noisy
ostentations of the most conspicuous
men in the late boom's enormous prod
uct of the get-rich-quick, says the Sat
urday Evening Pest. And they still
go there; but instead of spending mon
ey like water they wait around in the
hope that some one will take pity on
them in their fallem estate. They
were rich—millionaires, almost multi
millionaires even. They are poor, so
poor that their families are no longer
living in small palaces near the ave
nue, but in large boarding houses far
from it.
All that vhese people have left is the
memory of their brief day of tawdry
splendor—and extravagant taste. Each
one of them is a melancholy lesson, not
10 the mutability of human fortunes,
hut 1n the perils of sudden prosperity.
Itis a pity that the newspapers which
aiew mornths ago were exciting the
irazinavions of the masses with tales
«f sudden wealth end splendor are not
devoling an equal amount of space and
headlives to the second half of these
stories. For ivis the second balf that
is important.
Paine’s Celery
Permanently Cures Sick and
Nervous Headaches that
Make Life Miserable.
Sick and nervous headaches are amongst
the worst ills of life. The man or woman who
is subject to headache at irregular intervals,
goes through life bearing a load of misery
and wretchedness that is terrible to think
of.
Headaches as a rule, result from a dis
ordered condition of the nervous system.
Mental excitement, loss of sleep, bodily
faticue, and disordered digestion are exciting
.causes. When the brain becomes tired and
debilitated, the whole nervous system is weak
ened, and headaches result, If the liver is
sluggish, the kidneys inactive, and digestion
deranged, headaches invariably follow.” Te
cure and prevent headache, the nervous sys
tem must be strergthened and vitalized.
The most persistent cases of headache, nervous
feebleness, and sleeplessness, are permanently
cared by Paine’s Celery Compound; it is the
great reconstructant of the nervous system.
Mys, Henry Westrick, St. Clair, Mich., tells
of her release from suffering as follows:
I have been troubled with dyspepsia and
sint;leadache for a number of years. About
every week I would have a bad spell of sick
headache, but since I began using Paine’s
Celery Compound, my dyspepsia is gone, and
Ido not have any more headaches. I feel
better than I have for years.”’
No Need Soiling the Hands with
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NEW HARDWARE STORE.
¢
I have just opened a new line of Hardware on Main
street in the store with C.C. Ansley Co. I will be glad
to see all my friends and the public generally who have
been treding with me for the past tour years.
NEW GOODS AND LOW PRICES.
Come to see me for your Hardware.
P. S.—ll also sell lumber, sash, doors, blinds, brick, lime, cement.
NOW A BIG RELIGIOUS TRUST IS PROPOSED
All of the Methodist Publishing Houses of the Coantry May Be
Merged into One Gigantic Combination.
| A combination of all the Methodist
publishing houses of the country has
been proposed. By merging the sev
eral houses into one gigantic coneern,
it is urged, the business could be made
more profitable to the church. The
number of employes could be reduced,
salaries could be shaved, long credits
could be denied, and the business be
put on a more modern, business-like
footing. The promoters of the scheme
point to the fact that the tendeney of
all business is towards consolidation or
combination, hence it would be a good
idea for the Methodist publishing con
cerns to follow along similar lines. By
cheapening the cost of produetion, it
is argued, the output of literature
could be increased to the benefit of the
church.
Against this proposition, however,
some vigorous protests are heard.
There is too much of commercialism
about it to suit some of the preachers
who are firmly grounded in the belief
that it is the function of the church to
spread the gospel and not to eagage in
NO WIDOWS NEXT TIME.
Syracuse Man Had 143 of Them
at a Dining.
On his eighty-second Dbirthday,
which occurred in the early part ot the
present year, Mr. A. A. Howlett of
Syracuse, N. Y., gave a dinner party at
which 143 widows were his guests. Mr.
Howlett will have another birthday
party in some few weeks, but he de
clares there will be no widows there.
The reason is that ever since he enter
tained the widows he has been receiy
ing letters from women in all quarters
of the globe, with the exception of
China, proposing marriage to him. He
says he hasreceived literally nundreds
of letters on the subject, and gives the
Chinese women credit for being the
most modest in the world.
How to Prevent Croup. ]
It will be good news to the mothers
of sma'l children to learn that croup
can be prevented. The first sign of
croup is hoarseness. This is soon fo'-
lowed by a peculiar rough cough. Givel
(Chamberlain's Cough Remedy freely
as soon as the child becomes hoarse,
or even after the rough cough appears,
and it will dispel all symptoms of
croup. In this way all danger and
anxiety may be avoided. This remedy
is used by many thousands of mothers
and has never been~known to fail. It
is, in fact, the only remedy that can
always be depeoded upon and that is
nleasant and safe to take. For sale by
D.wson Drug Co., Dawson Williford &
vo., Parrott.
As Mother Used to Spank Him,
A novel birthday party was ‘‘pulled
off”’ in Fair Haveun, N. J., the other
day. The occasion was in honor of
Abram Benopett, who runs a hotel.
About midnight, after a jolly- supper
and many congratulation, about a
dozen young women, led by Mrs. Ben
nett, caught Mr. Bennett in a room by
hirmaself and threw bim down and
spanked him with slippers ‘‘as mother
used to do it.’’ Mr. Bennett says it
remined him strongly of old times and
that he enjoyed it.
Excursion Rates to Atlanta,
On account of the annual meeting of
the Southern Educational Asso iation
excursion tickets will be on sale at all
ticket stations on the Central railway
to Atlanta on December 30, limited to
January 3 for return passage. The
Central offers yery attractive sched
ules and train service to Atlanta. For
rates and particulars apply to nearest
agent.
Congressman Hepburn’s Memory.
Congressman Hepburn’s memory
spans full half a century of Jowa his
tory, running back past the time when
he earned his first money planting
corn at 25 cents a day for a farmer
across the Jowariver.
A Timely Topic.
At this season of coughs and colds it
is well to know that Foley’'s Honey
and tar is the greatest throat and lung
remedy. It cures quickly and preyents
serious resulte from a cold.
KENDRICK'S DRUG STORE.
1 Chicken Pie House for Sale.
. The far famed **Chicken Pie House"
‘sn Smithville is being advertised by
l its owner for sale.
A glass or two of water taken haif
an hour before breakfast will usually
keep the bowels regular. Harsh ca
thartics sbould be avoided. When a
purgative is needed take Chamber
lain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets.
They are mild and gentle in their
action. For cale by Dawson Drug Co.,
’Dawson, and Williford & Co., Parrott.
‘trade of any sort for profit. Consolida
tion and a reduction of expenses would
mean the throwing out of employment
of a number of faithful employes, some
of which have grown old in the pub
lishing houses to which they are at
tacheda. Scaling salaries, none of
which are now princely, has about it
an unpleasant suggestion of grinding
materialism. That sort~of thing may
be well enough for ‘‘soulless corpora
tions,”’but the Methodist church is a
corporation with a soul. It gtands for
something higher than organizing a
manufacturing establishment upon the
lines promising the greatest profits for
the least expense. The protestors are
led by Rev. Dr. Downey of Brooklyn,
and they promise to make the fight
against the proposed trust a warm and
interesting one. ;
Should the combination be finally ef
fected it would create one of the lar
gest book publishing concerns in the
world, and would have a capicalization
of 815,000,000 to s2o,ooo,ooo.—Savannah
News.
TO CORRESPONDENTS,
Send in Your Communications
Before Tuesday.
The News often receiyes communi
cations from county correspondents on
Tuesday morning, too late for publica
tion. We appreciate these contribu
tions, but Tuesday is the day The
News goes to press, and we cannot
publish communications received on
that day.
Please send in your publications ear
lier, or we cannot insure publication.
RICE AND ROSES.
Practical and Sentimental Side of
a Wedding Innovation,
The following editorial on an innova
tlon at a recent English wedding ap
peared in the Chicago Tribune:
Brides come and go, and when they
go it has been the custom from time
immemorial to throw rice after them.
The fashion of going away gowns
changes from year to year, but the
nuptial cereal that finds its way into
the creases of these gowns remains
ever the same. But at a recent Eng
lish wedding in high life a deviation
was made from this time honored cus
tom, and the departing pair were pelt
ed with dried rose leaves. Of course
this innovation has its practical and
sentimental side.
On the practical side it will appeal
to those thrifty housewives who have
deplored the number of possible pud
dings that bave gone to waste at wed
dings and have sadly estimated the
number of hungry mouths that they
might have fed. Of course rose leaves
have something of a sentimental sug
gestion, but the fact that dried rose
leaves are used ivould seem to imply
that romance had entered the sear and
yellow leaf stage, and then again the
question arises, How 1s it possible to
throw a thing of such alriness and
unsubstantiality as a rose leaf? Yet
no doubt if this custom is permanent
ly adopted in England it will soon find
its way to American wedding cele
brations.
Hereafter it will be the scent of
dried rose leaves rather than the pres
ence of rice that will betray bridal
couples, and do what these interest
ing individuals will to hide their iden
tity and newly marriedness the scent
of the roses will cling to them still.
One Hundred Dollars a Box
ia the value H. A. Tisdale, Summer
ton, S. C., places on DeWitt’'s Witch
Hazesl Salve. He says: *‘l had th
piles for 20 years. . I tried manv doc
tors and wmedicines, but all failed ex
cept DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. It
cured me.”’ It is a combination of the
healing properties of witch hazel with
antiseptics and emollients; relieves
and permanently cures blind, bleed
ing, itebhing and protruding piles, cuts,
sores, bruises, eczema, salt rheum and
all skin diseases. Sold by
DawsoN Druc Co.
After Polygamist Senator,
The National Congress of Mothers
is appealing to women everywhere to
use all theinfluence in their power to
get, Senator Smoot, of Utah, unseated.
The congress has tuken this action at
the request of the Gentile women of
Utah.
To Cure a Gold in One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
lets. All druggists refund the mone
it if fails tocure. E. W. Grove’s sig
pature is on each box. 25 cents.
NEGRO MURDERED IN LEE.
FELIX THOMAS CALLED TO HIS DOOR
AND SHOT FROM THE DARK.
Man Who Did the Shooting was Receg
nized as New Comer in the Neighber
hood. Stole Mule and Rode Away.
The Albany Herald gives the follow
ing :account of an assassination that
occurred over in Lee county a few
nights ago:
‘‘Some Lee county negroes who came
to this city this morning in search of a
mule that was stolen from the Jordan
Fowltown place reported that a negro
named Felix Thomas, who lived on the
}Ely place, adjoining Fowltown, was
‘assassinated last night.
‘“l'he part culars of the killing
brought by the negroes were meagre,
but it seems that Thomas was called te
his door and shot. The assassin first
went to the door of Thomas’s house
and inquired for him. Being told by an
inmate of the house that Thomas wae
out in the eotton house the assassin
then turned and went to the cotton
house. In a moment after he left the
house for the cotton house the report
of a gun was heard and Themas’s
daughter saw a man runnping off from
the eotton house. When Thomas was
found he was dead.
‘“The negro who did the shooting
was a new-comer in the neighborhood
und our informants eould not give his
pame,
‘*A mule was stolen from the Fowl
town place last night, and it is sus
pected that the murderer of Felix
Thomas was the thief—that he stole
the mule and rode it off in making his
escape.’’ I
Cures Cancer and Blood Poison,
If you have blood poison producing
eruptions, pimples, ulcers, swollen
glands, bumps and risings, burning,
itching skin, copper-colored spots or
rash on the skin, mucous patches in
mouth or throat, falling hair, bone
pains, old rheumatism or foul catarrh,
take Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.). It
kills the poison in the blood; soon all
sores, eruptions heal, +hard swellings
subside, aches and pains stop and a
perfect cure is made of the worst cases
of blood poison.
For cancers, tumors, swellings, eat
ing sores, ugly ulcers, persistent pim
ples of all kinds, take B. B. B. It de
strovs the cancer poison in the blood,
heals cancer of all kinds, cures the
worst humors or suppurating swell
ings. Thousands cured by B. B. B. af
ter all else fails. B. B. B. iscomposed
of pure botanic ingredients. Improves
the digestion, makes the blood pure
and rich, stops the awful itchings and
all sharp. shooting paius. Thoroughly
tested for thirty years. Druggists $1
per bottle, with complete directions
for home cure. Sample free and pre
paid by writing Blood Balm Co’, At
lanta, Ga. Describe trouble and free
medical advice will also be sent in
sealed letter.
Successful Women Blacksmiths,
A blacksmith’s shop managed en
tirely by three women is one of the
interesting sights to be seen in Kansas.
The mother took entire charge of
the business about fourteen years ago
upon the death of her husband, and
had her daughters brought up not
only to shoe 4 horse but tounderstand
everv branch of the trade as well.
The mother died and now the three
daughters, one of whom is married,
have five men in their employ and
carrying on a very prosperous busi
pess. They personally superint,endi
the shoeing of every horse. |
Cheap Rates Via S. A. L.
On account of the Centennial Cele
bration of transfer of the Louisiana
purchase from France to the United
States on December 18 to 20th, New
Orleans, La.. you can purchase tickets
via S. A. L. at the low rate of one fare
plus twenty-five cenuvs for the round
trip; tickets on sale Dee. 16th and 17.
Oan account of ““National Educational
Association,’’ Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 23 to
25th, we will sell you a ticket to Atlan
ta and return for one straight fare plus
25 cents. 1f you wish to go 1o Atlanta
don’t fail to take advantage of the low
rate we can give you. Tickets on sale
February 21st and 220 d. Forany furth
er information desired call on agent.
A Costly Mistake.
Blunders are sometimes very ex
pensive. Occasionally life itself is the
price of a mistake, but you’'ll neyer be
wrong if you take Dr. King's New
Life Pills for dyspepsia, dizziness,
headache, liver or bowel troubles
They are gentle yet thorough. 25c at
Dawson Drug Co's.
Easy on Buttons,
Gentle to the Back,
Kind to the Shoulders.
Trimmings cannot rust. Guarane
teed. If “President” is on buckles.
soc at dealers or by mail postpaid.
C.A. EDCARTON MFC. CO.
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SMOKING JACKETS
$5.00 to $l5.
WHITE AND FANCY VESTS
1 $2 to §7.50.
BATH ROBES
$6.50 to $25. }
~ AND HOUSE COATS
$5.00:t0f815.00
ALL MADE BY ALFRED BENJAMIN & CO.
BEST THINGS TO GIVE A MAN
FOR CHRISTMAS,
SEND US A MAIL ORDER. W—E-(—)AN PLEASE YOU, :
Benson, Walker A * Moore,
The Up-to-date Clothiers.
420 and 422 Third St. MACON, GEORGIA,
SHIELDS X COX.
DEALERS IN
Artistic Oak Mantles and Tiling, Doors,
Sash and Blinds, Builders’ Hardware,
Paints and Oils, Dressed and Rough
Lumber, Brick, Lime and Cement, Shin.
gles, Laths and Plaster Hair, etc. Coal a
Specialty
Shields & Cox.
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ESTABLISHE 1876.
Time Tried. Fire Tested.
The 'lnsurance Agency of
PARKS & BELL,
Office in Brick Building Next to Old Court House.
Is still in the business of furnishing the best protection and in
demnity to all who seek Fire Insurance, Storm Insurance, Accident,
Plate Glass, Steam Boiler and Burglary Insurance. Should you
sufter from fires and storms we offer to make good your losses by
a policy in the strongest and bést of insurance companies. We also
represent a first class Bonding Company that will become surety on
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AT A BARGAIN.
Dawson and Terrell county property is increasing in popularity
and value, and if yon want choice residence property or good
farming lands it will pay vou to see me. I have both, and the
best of both, on my lists, and feel sure 1 can please you.
The Only Real Estate Agency in Dawson
J. A. Horsley.
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