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THE MACON TELEGRAPH
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ESTABLISHED IN 1826.
MACON, GA., SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 14, 1904.
T'-i-ItluT'. Il II Ic ICZ
$1.25 and $1.50 Black
Mercerized Petticoats
Fifty dozen ladies' black Spun
Glass and Mercerized Sateen Petti
coats, made with deep accordian pleat
and ruffled flounce; real Si.50 to $2.00
values for tomorrow, choice only....
Sheets, ready made, size
72x90; 50c value for
15c Indian Head, 36 inches ...
wide; special for Monday..
40c Bleached Table, Damask
inches wide; special
Monday, yard .
DAILY—*7.00 A. YEAR
V* di -'A-4 a'-* 1 ' Avlt-Xt-Ici*
fluslin Underwear
Bargain
$r.oo to $1.25 Fine Muslin Gowns,
Skirts. Drawers and Corset Covers,
beautifully made and trimmed with
lace and embroidery, real St.oo and
$1.25 value*, for tomorrow, choice...
< 56
25c
35c Panne Satin Ribbons, all colors,
black and white; Mon
day, yard
15c Shirting Madras, in stripes
dots, soft and fine; Mon
day, yard
19c
and
.5c
Infants' I.isle So.r, in light and blue,
pink and tan; real 25c 1ft,.
ones at 17L
IT bite Checked Lawns, sheer
fine; 12 t-2c values
for, yard
40-ill. IThile India Lawn, 12
values, Monday
yard
Perealcs, New Fall Styles, toe
values, tomorrow yard
White Striped Dimity, sheer and
roc values; Monday,
yard
,9c
line;
,5c
Yard I Tide Sea Island, ye
value; tomorrow, yard
,5c
12 i-2c Linen Hack Towels, large
size, 18x36; August ft-
Clearance Sale VC
Fine Colored Wash Goods, that sold
up to 85 cents; to go Ift-
this sale, yard IV C
IO yards 7c Percale Shirting Prints;
August Clearance Sale i C -
for 4DC
to yards 6c Sheer Figured Lawn,
August Clearance Sale 1Z.r<
for
10 yards Sheer Whitt Lawn, a gooil
value; August Clearance T(T-
Sale for OOC
$i.oo Black Taffeta Silk,
inches wide; this said,
yard
full 36
99c
S300 Silk Umbrellas in solid colors
\ and fancy borders, ftQ
for only «pl./0
St.25 Gloria Silk Umbrellas, 'yft
fast black, steel rod; only ... I VC
’ toe Turkish Hath Towels; Oft _
dozen, this sale only OVC
35c and 50c Collars, the newest 1ft_
styles, at, choice, only IVC
8c Ladies' Gance Ribbed Tests, i_
tape neck; special for 4C
25c Ladies' Black and Tan Lace Hose;
special for this 1ft.
sale IVC
White Persian Lawn, very fine sheer
quality, 15c value; for,
Table Damask, all linen 72 inches
wide, 50c value; Mon- ift.
day yard 4/C
Fine ITbite Wash Chiffon, 43 inches
wide, a 30c value; jft
Monday yard ........ i.... .IVC
New Shirt Waist Silk, stylish, pretty
figured and dotted effects,
85c values for, rn
yard, 05c and J/C
Bleaching, full yard wide; soft finish
ed, IOC quality; 14 yards |jjj
Long Cloth, 10 yards to holt, (“ft
12 t-2c quality; this sale 3VC
6c
2 I-2C Pajama Cheeked Dimity
yard wide; to go this sal
yard
9c Lonsdale Mfg. Bleaching, full
yanl wide, soft finished; n
to go, per yard J C
15c TOffeta Silk Neck Ribbons;, all
colors, black and white, at 1ft
I»er yard lUC
$1.00 While Swiss Curtains, ruffled
edges, three yards 1 long; /ft
ior, pair OVC
15c Brown Dress Linen, 27 ir.che
wide; to go special this
August sale, yard at
$i.oo Bed Spreads, large size, special
August Clearance nn
Sale IVC
10c
SPECIAL SALE
EflBROIDERIES.
Monday witnesses another popular Embroidery Sale.
We’ll place .on sale tomorrow Ten Thousand yards or
more brand new, beautiful Cambric and Swiss Em
broideries. New pieces, new patterns—shown for
the first time Tuesday. A'small surplus lot of a St.
Gall manufacturer who closed down for the season.
We’ve divided the entire purchase into three prices
for choice!
Embroideries worth
Embroideries worth
Embroideries w orth
up to 1254c, at/yd
71c
up to 35c, at, yd
lie
up to 5Uc, at, yd
19c
$5.00 to $6.00 Walking
Skirls for
$3.98.
Here’s news of a Skirt event that
pales into insignificance any and
all past sales ever attempted by this
or any other house in Macon. This
is a manufacturer’s line of samples.
About one hundred stylish Walking
Skirts of such popular materials as
fancy Suiting and all wool Crashes;
worth from $5.00 to $6.00, ffT QQ
on sale, choice «P«5jV0
$10.00 Black Wool Dress Skirts;
choice August Clearance^
$15.00 Black Wool Dress Skirts;
choice August Clearance
SWEEPING CLEARANCE
WASH GOODS REMNANTS
r WORTH UP TO 25c.
Ladies, here’s a Remnant Sale for Monday that
will he impossible to resist. In order to effect a quick
clearance-we ll place the lot, about 20c
pieces and short lengths, various col
ored goods, worth up to 25c, on special
counter Monday, and sell while they
last for, choice at
This includes Plain ami Fancy lawns, India Lilians,
Batiste Clair, Etc., up to 25c ydrd. Come early.
FINE SILK K1MM0NAS AND
DRESSING SACQIJES CUT
TO HALF PRICE.
AT so CENTS.
One lot of $1.25 and $1.50 white
Lawn Shirt Waists, nicely made
ami trimmed.
AT $2.00.
One lot of $5.00 to $7.50 Silk
Waists of I’cau de Soic and Taf
feta Silk in black and colors.
AT 39 CENTS.
One lot of 75c and $1.00 White
Lawn Shirt Waist Embroidery.
Trimmed.
Wash Goods Sa!e.
Pint
15c
Fine Wash Goods Sacrificed. Finest
/Mercerized Cotton, wortli up to
85c. Cut to yard
Fine White Dimities and Waistings.
Dress Lawns and Shirting Madras,
worth up to 15c. Go on sale to- P
morrow for choice per yard «1L
Beautiful Swisses, Dress Linens, fine
Mercerized Cottons that sold for 20c,
25c and 35c. Tomorrow your
choice at per yard
9c
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FIRST STATUE
TO HAWTHORNE
Admirers of the Great Amorican Author
Planning to Erect Worthy Memorial
at Hawthorne's College—An Idoal
Figure Which Will Probably Repre
sent the Contribution of Hundreds of
Grateful Readers.
( BOSTON, Aug. 13.—A movement
lias been recently net on foot in this
' city for the erection, at Bowdoin Col
lege, of a statue in memory of Na
thaniel Hawthorne, a stauc. curiously
enough, thnt will be the first memorial
of Its kind yet raised In honor of on«
of the greatest names In American lit
erature. The movement is a direct
outcome of the deep und widespread
interest manifested In the recent cele
brations of Salem and Concord of the
Hawthorne Centennial. It was first
suggested, but only us a more or less
distant possibility, at nn annual dinner
held early last winter by Bowdoin
graduates In the vicinity of Boston.
Bowdoin is naturally proud of Haw
thorne. And less than a month later
the Bowdoin, Club of Boston, a smaller
organisation, determined to make the
erection of the statute a matter of .the
immediate future. Contributions fire
now being solicited anc^ the first steps
in raising the necessary sum of money
have been so successfully taken that
there seems to bo every reason to be
lieve it In merely a question of a few
months before a commission for the
first Hawthorne state will be In the
hands of some prominent American
‘sculptor.
Aside from any question of college
patriotism, the choice of Hawthorne's
college as the site of this proposed
statue is considered peculiarly appro
priate. His four years at college were
undoubtedly in many respects the hap
piest of his life, certainly less troubled
by care and perplexity than his years
in Salem or even In Concord. Haw
thorne himself has described the period
of his school days in the preface of
"Our Old Home" dedicated in 1S63 to
Kx-Presldent Franklin Pierce, who had
been one of his friends at college. “If
anybody is responsible for my being an
uuthor," he writes,'"It Is yourself. 1
know not whence your faith came, but
while we were lads together at a coun
try college, gathering blueberries In
study hours under those tall,. academic
pines, or watching the great logs a*
they tumbled along the current of th<
the
case. International prominence, the
most Important of course being Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow. Among tho
others were the Rev. Dr. George B.
Cheever, one of the earnest and ablest
advocates of abolition and temperance;
United States Congressman Cilley.
whose life ended In one of the duels
that darkened the history' of congress
in the first half of the nineteenth cen
tury: and Horatio Bridge, paymaster
general of tho United States navy dur
ing the war for the Union. In the class
above him won Franklin Pierce, later
president of tho United States.
Like many another young man who
has afterward distinguished himself us
a writer, the future uuthor of "The
Scarlet letter" was remarkable In col
lege rather for tho position that he
obviously might have held In scholar
ship than that which he actually at
tained. A friend and classmate has re
corded that his personal characteristics
were Independence of though und ac
tion; absolute truthfulness; loyalty to
his friends; ubborrence of debt; great
physical as well as moral courage; und
a high and delicate sense of honor.
Declamation was the one thing of
which he declared himself utterly In
capable; mathematics he disliked and
refused to have anything more ta do
with than possible; the study of lan
guages. especially Latin, he was ex
tremely fond of. As material for his
statue the sculptor will have a boat Of
anecdotes that still survive in the let
ters and reminiscences of the future
author's friends and comrades;
letters that Hawthorne himself wrote
during his undergraduate career;
almost no pictorial representation of
him whatever during his residence
Bowdoin—material. In fact, that very
exactly defines the character of the
statue which It Is proposed to erect to
his memory.
The proposed statue is to represent
thr author not as. an old man resting
on hla laurels, but as a young man Just
leaving college und with all the world
4 before him. Naturally, this means an
Ideal figure rather than a portrait
nratu*». an Idea that has Immediately
moused enthusiasm among the several
prominent American sculptors who
have been Interviewed by the commit
tee having charge of the,work. Very
few sculptors enjoy the prospect of
making a statue of any man in the
garments of the nineteenth century.
But tho symbolic representation of gn
unborn literature, the youthful figure
of a man destined to move and delight
hundreds of thousands of his fellow
men by the magic of his pen and des
tined also, with In a hundred years, do
have been recognised the world over
’ problem.
Hawthorne’s college and partly from
lovers of his work to Whom Bowdoin
Is simply a name among other Amer
ican Institutions. The site chosen for
the statue is Just In front of the col
lege library, which will thus give the
Tgure an architectural setting. That
the statue will be very shortly under
tray is utmost :i certainty, although It
will not bo itt«mtp*u until the entire
amount Is subscribed nnd the produc
tion of a thoroughly worthy memprlul
definitely provided for.
The question, however, Is no! so
much the raising of the money as tho
manner of raising It. "While we have
no doubt that the entire sum will bo
forthcoming before the end of the
year," says Professor Alfred K. Burton,
,|. nf i !n M i <;p ! .ii .•■Its I*. «t it'll.' "f
Technology, and one of the prlmo
movers In the memorlnl, "we are spe
cially anxious that it should represent
a large rather than a small number of^
admtrors of Hawthorne. We want this -
first fftutue that has been raised to
Hawthorne in his own country to rep
resent th(> interest of the greatest pos
sible number of persons who have
known and loved his work; thnt it
should be, In other words, a personal
trlbuto from thousands of general rend
ers of Hawthorne rather than a memo
rial raised by a comparatively small
body of critical admirers."
WHERE CORN IS
KINO ABSOLUTELY
Amazing Celebration in Honor of tho
Parie Monarch—Myths, Legends and
Solid Facts Attest tho Importance of
This Coroal 4 —How It Is Making a
Metropolis in Western Missouri.
-The
KANSAS CITY, August 13.
thuslasm of the people of Kansan, Mis
sourl, and Oklahoma for King Corn Is
contagious. It Is easy to understand.
Corn has paid their mortgages,/ fed
their cattle and horses, has even kept
them wurin In times of coal famine.
This year’s crop, upon which the work
of the harvesters Is beginning, may not
equal the records of one or two yours
post, for tho rains and cold weather of
the early spring kept the farmers hack
In their planting, but*-outside of the
river valleys a fair yield will be gath
ered, every bushel of which, needless
to say, will be utilised.
Tho picturesque elem«
ductlon nns come to ap
Frc
m present Indications this ideal to western Imaglimth
ptlon of a worthy statute raised I only King, but a benl
In corn pro-
al powerfully
Corn Is not
ind bountiful
Kn
rattan of Ami
e—Hawthovne.
-have obtained com-
gnltlon on the other
and the fact probably
thuslasm with which
cb. Kltson. Pratt and
as lately come ror-
tue of La S.al le st Kt.
the
•-ll.!
to the memory of a great literary figure
by the small contributions of a host of 1
admirers seems In a very fair way to
be roll zed. The stutue undoubtdly will
be an inspiration to the youth of Bow
doin, but It will be more Important as a
practically national memorial to Haw
thorne. And the enthusiasm with
which a group of the most representa
tive American sculptors have approved
the fundamental Idea of making the
figure an Ideal representation of the
quthoris youthful drenm* and ambitions
is an almost certain presage of a wor
thy and beautiful memorial.
End of Bitter Fight.
"Two physicians had & long and stub
born fight with an abscess on my right
lung," writes J. F. Hughes, of DuPont.
Ga., “and gave me up. Everybody
thought my time had come. As a last
resort. I tried Dr. King's New Discov
ery for Consumption. The benefit I re
ceived was striking, and I was on my
feet In a few days. Now I’ve entirely
regained my health.” It conquers all
Coughs. Colds nnd Throat and Lung
troubles. Guaranteed by all druggists.
Price 60c and fi. Trial bottles free.
Governor Gets Biq Melon.
ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. 13.—Governor
Terrell received from Col. W. E. Woot
en, of Albany, today a 90-pound wa
termelon. rained on the plantation of
Colonel John D. Wooten, of Dough
erty county. The melop was raised by
Colonel John Wooten with the view
of sending It to Governor Terrell, nnd
Colonel W. E. Wooten forwarded the
handsome specimen. The melon was
exhibited by Governor Terrell to his
friends at the capital .today and at
tracted much attention.
the
Governor Is Busy.
h.mum ATLANTA. Ga.. Aug. 13.—Governor
rrnipe- I Terrell Is still busily engaged signing
it tne j bills ami resolutions passed by the leg-
taklnx I Isjature at Its session just closed. He
I hSs already signed 176 measure* and
excfu-! there are yet to go to him fifty inure
mated I ^ t‘ tr he has not balked upon any of
thou-1 measures thnt have been handed
■ " j in for- his signature. He will In all
M ’* | probability conclude this work Mon-
* ‘-fl Gay.
rch. The poetry of the pralrb*
pltomlsed In tho Kansas cornfield,
he sight of it oven the hurd-hva
farmer Is upt to become senllrm rita
Is even growing up In this
tho West an apraxlng apoth
sis of the popular cereal. Tho deb
tlons In honor of King Corn which
becoming common are somewhat
thb old-world festivities In honr of
jocund grape, a new sort of bneehn
11a, suited to the temperament o
staid Anglo-Baxon und Teutonic po
lation. For a week or mure after
corn crop has been gathered in, I
city people and country people In K
sas and western Missouri indulge
fetes. The women uppsur In costu
fashioned from com busks and taw
Enterprising shop keepers deck fi
their windows with corn products,
restaurants serve with milk and ay
all possible delicacies made from
corn kernel. Orators are secured
the local business men's associations or j
hoards of trade to sound the praises of
the all-puissant king. The railroad
panles help on the pelebnition, The
entire community goes corn in ad. And,
maddest of all. the Joil# old rogue of a
monarch himself often appears In ef
figy, seated on a corn-cob tbrorio, ar
rayed In robes of husks and silk, his
arms nnd hands shaped of mb*, his
long heard fashioned of way silk nnd a
corn-cob pip- • mouth. Even his
face is of papier much* made from the
corn stalk.
Furthermore, there is accumulating
throughout the com l*elt s wealth of
folk stories, always somewh at tmprob-
able, connected with the growing of the
corn. One of these tales pr-*'nimbly
a variant on the Ja*lpand-the-Bean-
Htalk yarn- is to the elf- • i that n Kali
ans boy went forth one wnrtfi morning
In August into » • ornfleld and foolishly
undertook to -limb one of t\.- stalks.
He got on all right but the rapid
growth of the stalk <-arris*! him Into
the air faster than he could cl Im»» down.
The attention of h* father .i i broth
er* whs attracted ta tiK {»'•■! nment
.and they made an ertoit to the
stalk. The corn, however, continued to
sprout upward so rapidly that nobody
could strike tho same place twice so
that his sorrowing relatives had to
leave the boy to his fate. The last thnt
was heard from him was that for six
weeks he had been up there with noth
ing to eat but raw corn and that during
that time he had cast down four bush
els of cobs from which ho had gnawed
the kernels.
Another bit of Knnsus fiction tells of
a traveler from the East who shortly
after leaving Kansas City asked the
.porter how long It would he before tho
train emerged from the tunnel through
which It was passing. "DIs ain't no
tunnel, sah,'-' replied the porter. "We’s
Jes pausin' fru do Kansas corn belt and
de tall stulkn shuts out do sun. Yo'
won’t seo no ino’ daylight for 200,
miles."
The uniform excellence of the corn
crop hs well as Us marvelous growth
Is also one of the proud housts of Kan-
sns people. A leading store In u town
near Kansas City lust summer had a
corn display In one of Its windows of
which the most spectacular feature was
a lonfe ’’nubbin'’ bearing the following
card: "This curiosity Is called a nub
bin and it !h the only one we have been
able to find In eastern Kansas. This
specimen wns secured In one of the
suburbs from a stalk which grew out of
the mortar in a brick wull. Its sur
roundings and the fact that the stalk
was twice struck by lightning as It
towered above tho building probably
accounts for the dwurfed appearance
-need b\ • u
as City M-
'ompany’H «
ty-second In pi
ninth In volun
A factor that
to he'
-It
th- li.mk < b .
that, though
itloi the cltj
buslnei
helped Kansu
•it capital «
tensive grow
of I
Kaffir corn In lb-
western Kansas, •>
horns. Time wns i
the regions beyond
W. M- Hr lit lM»' III
•nd-ai
Then, of course, there Is
rop of stories which nre
ummer of the necessity In
allties of using stepladde
estlng the corn. One yar
• given by the
he annual
-ertuin io-
» In hnr-
to which
stalki
currency wns
u year ago stn
sas townships
that they brushed against
wires und interfered wit
by grounding the clrcul
If these stories are so
doubted, the solid facts -
any way discredited. T
flat
OLD, OLD STORY
AGAIN REPEATED
Negroes Left Their Four Children
Locked Alone in Houjo ond Upon Re
turning Found Themselvea ChiUiloi*.
DECATUR, Go.. Atir. H. rh. '.*
DoKalb count\. ».•* •.iiiimmI. i >. s
ibout the im-
nre not Ire In
tie magnitude
j 2.244,176,1
I each, rou
habitant
west staggers the Imagination.
>lal yield for the United Htntcs In
t|»o banner year thus fur, was
bushels—two bushels
y speaking, for each In-
the globe. On a single
Go in the northern P«ri of
t Mississippi—Hon. David
rat bonanxa corn plant a-
rgest In the world—about
are annually sown In In-
Here one may look upon a
»f more than 6,000 acres.
make a metropolis. The
expansion of Kansas City
two decades is due largely
Ion in the center of the
-growin
r and ti
i. Tlrm
side with India
killed by the d
the fortune am
Violent Attack
Chamberl iin'
Diarrhoea
AMDS EKII
T I* V. M
Awarded G.»
f Diarrhi-en Cured by j
Colic, Cholera nnd i
lorrtcdy and Per
is of It
r It the
bowel ci
Governor Appoints Commission.
fed
Kb
villo’s No.-. Corspr
the
king
try, but the hog pus
root In th** bigger m
cago become the grei
City I* h
I Ci
all
is. Bed
nd F.irq
THE
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f’lRl
Jclli.
CO.
, tvr corn pro
Pho
V2..S5 for choico of '/'‘nt’a
I.ow Cui>, includon $•')."<)-
qualit-ica. E. B. Harris & Co.