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TH^ MACON TELEGRAPH : SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 18, 1904.
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MR. DOOLEY j
On the Simple Life.
By F. P. DUNNE.
(Copyright,
by McClure,
lip* * Co.)
"Well, Chee. Wegner bee been havin’
th' floe old time over here," eeld Mr.
Dooley.
"Ie tbet th' men thet wrote th' nue-
Ic?" esked Mr. Henneeeey.
"No,'' eeld Mr. Dooley; "thet wee
Cel. Thle le Chee. Wegner en' he'e
th' euthor Iv th' two hundred thou-
eandth hook thet Prleldlnt Roeenfelt
hee reed elnee th' flret Iv November.
•Tie celled 'Th' Simple Life.' He eud-
den't And It In Frence eo he come look
in' fr It emong th' elmple en' peethrel
people In thle counthry. He found It.
He come over In e lerge but elmple
chip Iv twlnty thoueen' elmple horee
pcwer en' tended In th' elmple village
Iv New York where he war met be e
comity Iv elmple little vlllege lade en'
leeeee en' eecorted to th' elmple Wei
dorf en' Inatelled In e room elmply
decoreted In purple plueh. Thet eve
nln' he attlnded e meetln' iv th' Fifth
Av'noo Female Simplicity Club. A
lady wearln' e collar Iv dlmon'e whoee
value wee elmply febuloue recited pee-
eegee fr'm Th' Simple Life.’ Afther
thle n elmtile cupper Iv terrapin an'
champagne wee eervrd. He thin took
m elmple Pullman thr.iin to Wneh'nton
where he iytlr,ded a reyclpllon ut
which e leny Iv th' diplomatic core,
which la all that le left Iv diplomacy
nowadeye, poked th' wife Iv e con-
greeeman with a lorgnette fr golu'
Into eupper ahead Iv her. I-ater he
waa reycelved be th' elmple prleldlnt
who eeld to him: 'Chee,,' ha eeye,
•I’ve been preecbln' ye're book to me
countbryman,' he eeye. ‘Simplicity
an' e ethrong navy le th' watchword
Iv thle edmlnletratlon." he eeye.
•'Since thin Chee. hee been whoopin’
up th' elmple life. They've ahnwed
him Ivrythlng elmple we have. He'e
eeen th' aabway, th' dhralnege canal,
th’ etock eichange. Tom Laweon.
dawn D. Rockefeller an' Mre. Chadwick
He'e looped th’ loope, ehot th' ehoote,
had e ride In e pathrol wagon, played
th' raeee en’ met Dave Hill. Th' lee 1
eeen Iv him he wee climbin' Into e
private car In e fur-lined coat an' a
plug hat. Whin he gnea home to hie
elmple life In Parle, he'e gnln' to have
a ticker put In hie etudy. He le un-
dherehtud to favor cellin' copper on
hulgea.
"I haven't reed hie bonk but Hogan
eeye It'e a good wen an' I'm goln' to
reed It either I've reed th' Bible an'
Emereon which Mike Aheern rloom-
mended to me th' year Iv th' hlg Are.
Th' Idee le thet no matlher whet ye
ar-re. ye muat he elmple. If ye're
rich, he elmply rich; If ye’re poor, he
almply poor; If ye're neyether,
neyetlier but bo elmple. about It. Ye
don't have to be gln'roue to be elmple.
He mekee a ethrong pint Iv thet.
tn-eard* to Rueeell Sega.) It len't
nl< leery to open yo're puree, eaya Chee.
If ye're a mleer. be a elmple mlaer. It
ain't tealntlal to be poor to be elmple
A poor man walkin' th' ethreele le far
lore elmple then A rich men lollin'
hack In hie carriage en' Agurln' out
elmple Inthreat on hte cuff. Th' poor
man le envloua IV th' rich men hut
th’ rich man le not envloua Iv th' poor
men. If ye're a dower, eeye ha tie e
flower. If ye're a hur-rd be a htir-rd. If
a horee a horee. If a mule a mule. If e
humln'a hur-rd a huntin' bur-rd, If e
pole cat a pole cat. If a men a men.
Rut elweya be elmple be It aver eo
complex.
"Th' on'y thing Hogan an' I oon't
make out fr'm th’ hook la whet le alm-
pllclty. I may be a almpletnn. 11 In-
nlrry. hut I don't know. Father Tom
Burke waa forty yearn wrlttln' a
hook on ‘almpllrlty* en' he nlver got
beyond th' Aret alnllnce which wee:
‘It la elmply Impoaelble to deAne elm-
pltctty.' u ain't elmple to be poor. It
ain’t elmple to be without clothee. It
ain't elmple to be ploue or eober. Ye're
pretty elmple to believe all I tell ye
hut ye may not bo aa elmple ae 1
think an' hope. A. lie may be ae elm-
pie ae th' Ihruth. Th' fact Iv th' met-
ther la that tit' m!e thruth la nlver
elmple. What we call Ihruth an' paw
around fr'in hand to hand la only ■
kind Iv Iv a currency lhat we uee
fr'm convenience. There ure n good
manny counterfeiter* a
th' counterfeiter* nine'
vulatlon. I haven't nnuy nutation thet
1 take In ir
tellechool ti
MORE CIVIL WORK
SET FOR HEARING
The City Court Will Continuo Hearing
Upon th# Civil Docket Until Tues
day—Several Important Case* for
First Week in January*
his wife put on inaufTrable airs an'
had such bad table manners that thla
here pathrlte waa compelled to leave
th’ room an* run home to put It down
In hla diary.
“An* there ye ar-rt. Th* more I
think, th' lesa simple simplicity be
come*. 8aya Wagner via Hogan, a
man ahud be like a lamp an’ th more
light he sheds th’ betther men he la.
That's th’ throuble with ivrybody that
thrle* to advise me to be something
I can't. Whin I run him into a corner
an' say: 'Come cn now an’ make good.
Show me th' way,' he tells me I'm a
lamp, or a three, or a snow-flake
blown be th’ winds, or a hur-rd in a
glided cage, or a paint bruah or s
ship, or something else. But says I:
'I'm none iv these flne things. I’m a
kind iv a man an* I’m not mtnttoued
in th* botany or th’ rqall ordher list
Tell me what I muat do.’ An’ he looks
me In th’ eye an’ says he: ’Be a man.'
An’ there ye ar-re. If a man'a a
lamp. It's because he smokes, don’t
show up well in th' sunlight an* will
wan day be blown out. There ar-re
other simple uses fr lamps besides
glvln* light which Is wan iv th* poor
est things they do nowadays. Roth-
rhlld (tirades in thin, th Herman im-
pror thinks they sr-re on’y useful to
throw at his Inlmles. an' my business
is to All thim with karosene.
"No, air, they ain’t snny simple life.
There’s on’y life. It's a kind Iv an ob
stacle race, fllnnln' replntln' slimin’
replntln'. Some can Jump high; some
can't Jump at all. Thim that Jump
highest have farthest to fall. Those
that go farthest are ruled-off fr foulin’
A man's no more thin a man an’ he has
as manny things in-him, anny wan Iv
thim lt'ble to go wrong without a mo
ment's notice, ss sll th’ InJInes, tools,
lumps an’ other hardware figures Iv
speech In a prise pome. He has to
make hls clumsy repairs while undher
full headway. Lucky man if he stag
gers Into port without havin' caused
too manny shipwrecks on th’ way over.
It isn't th' most succissful passage
that has caused th* most shipwrecks.
Ye set. Hlnnlssy I’m a kind iv a Chaa.
Wagner mesllf on’y betherr He gets
his out iv a Fr-rench head an’ I got
mine out Iv th’ third reader that a lit
tle boy left in here who came fr a pint
Iv simple refrlshments fr hls father's
comqlex thirst."
"I don't think ye know* such
about It," said Mr. Henneaaee.
"I know more about th* sample life,'
said Mr. Dooley.
Work In the civil branch of the city
court was set for two days of the pres
ent week yesterday morning. After
Tuesday there is no other work for
hearing before the holidays. There
will be nothing heard until Monday,
January 2, when the work of the ses
sion of Tuesday Is finished.
The civil work will lasf through the
first week In January. This time will
be devoted to the cases set for hearing
at yesterday's session.
The docket shows much heavier work
than has been done during the past
week. A number of the cases are Im
portant ones and will occupy a great
deal of time. The arrangement of
cases is as follows:
Monday, December 19, 1904.
Weichselbaum vs. Jones et al.
Umar et al., executors, vs. Lamar.
Taylor A. Riley Drug Co.
Tuesday, December 20, 1904,
Fearless Dishwasher Co. vs. New
comb.
Monday, January 2, 1905.
Thompson Co. vs. Kellers.
Cable Co. vs. Crump.
Hheppard vs. Cagle.
Holmes vs. Cllsby.
Walla vs. Manchester Manufacturing
Co.
Tuesday, January 3, 1905.
Grey Lumber Co. vs. Harris et al.
, Ober's 8on’K Co. vs. Huzlenurst.
Hightower vs. Macon Hallway and
Light Company.
Kt. Louis Htone Masons, etc., vs.
Georgia Quincy Granite Co.
Waters vs. Central of Georgia Rail
way Co.
Wednesday, January 4, 1905.
Dannenherg vs. mayor and council.
Nlenateln. vs.. Central, of. Georgia
Railway Co.
Bernstein vs. Central of Georgia
HAllway Co.
Merritt vs. Burkeye Oil Co.
Commercial Collecting Agency vs.
Wright et nl.
Thursday, January 5, 1905.
Fengin vs. Htetson Lumber Co.
Johnson vs. Odum et al.
Gates vs. 8chau.
Ethridge, executrix, vs. Crump.
Tinker vs. Macon Gaslight and Wa
ter Co.
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DUPONT 0UERRY SAYS
ITS A “FALSEHOOD”
Was Highly Incensed at Reading Jour
nal's Publication That Wesleyan
Girls Wsre to Meet Y. M. C. A. Boys
In • Basket Ball Game—His State
ment.
1
Kpeaklrtg last night of the article
printed under a double-column head In
the Saturday Issue of the Atlanta Jour
nal. President DuPont Ouerry of Wes
leyan said: ,•
"The statement In the Atlanta Jour
nal of this afternoon that the girls of
Wesleyan are to play basket ball with
young gentlemen la a falsehood. Please
publish this.
(Hlgned) "DtiPONT GITKRRY.'
Tha above statement waa the out
come perns pa of a misapprehension
on the part of the Journal. The Tele
graph printed yesterday morning
statement that two teams of the Y.
M .O. A. would appear In a game Mon
day afternoon before the students of
Wesleyan and Invited guests. Proha-
nanny Iv thim over me In- bly the Journal understood that the
air Ivory day un' pass out girls were to meet the boys.
» Iv th* counterfeits I Khould such a game have been
clous metal In thim ployed there would never have been
on y they don't bear | an end made of ‘t. Basket boll lacks
•’I'- a good deal of the fierceness of footbnU
le is s mpliclty an- but there Is still n deal of "roughing
1 CojUsh wurrud J If* in the game. When one or tw
think )t over. 81m- j the pluyerg clash actual scrimmages
'•* . n * v « i usually take place. Basket hall Is sll
an dimple.. 1 don't i right In Its place, but when the two
about bein’ simple, j sexes meet In a game It would be one
muktt me that way. j that would draw spectators for many
mpHcity but I can't j miles to see. especially If the partici
pant* were to be members of a female
school and members of the Y. M. C. A.
fei
b much |i
Lord didn't
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Faper-shell Almonds,
a lb 20c
Walnuts *....180
Large Brazil Nuts, lb..12c
Sicily Filbert, a lb 12c
Fancy Pecans, a lb 12c
8myrna Figs, a pkg....10c
Hallow! Dates, a pkg... 6c
Figs in Basket, basket.20c
R. & R. Plum Pud
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Greenbaum’s Plum Pud
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Grandmother Plum Pud
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Thyme, 8age, Marjoram
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Prunes, 90-100, a lb.... 5o
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emus. Wagner T«?ll me, t’h.ui., how to
lead th* simple life. Tell me. Tha>-
dore Roeenfelt, simple foul, what 1
must da I'll go aa far aa yo like.
Hand out th’ rayrelpt I'll make me-
alif a simple man tf 1 have to baka In
• slow oven to do It What'll 1 do?
Throw away th' superflootles says Ho.
gar. yut iv Chaa. hla book. But what
* r ’re th’ BUperiluotlca* I’ll turn out th*
Illcthrlc light, shut off th’ furnace an’
deathroy th* cash raygister be which
complex macheen 1 keep mesllf fr’m
fobbin* mesllf. But am I anny more
simple because !*m boldin' out on me
sllf with frozen fingers be s tallow dip?
Waa th* wurruUS tver anny more sim
ple thin it la today? I doubt It. I bet
ye there was a good dale Iv talk about
Adam an’ Eve dbresain’ ostentatlonaly
•n* havin’ th* King Iv HelJIum’s ances-
thor to supper with thim. Hogan was
readin* me out Iv a book th* other day
about th’ simple fathers Iv th* coun
thry. It wui a tur-rble shock to me.
This fellow says that Robert Morris
who I supposed sacrificed hla fortune
Pr liberty. InJooced th* govermtnt to
pay good money fr bed; Jawn Adams
* - *d to n >kt a kingdom tv th*
counthry; while ae fr George Wash'-
t he acted like u coai-oll Jawuny
* he " .ut to th* White House, an'
Nunnnlly’s candy for
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Thermograph Reading.
' 11 pm..« l am .10 11 pin «*
..**'12 mn..4r. * am **•“*
. 41* t am..43 7 am
• pm. ,
• pra. ..43 3 am..42' 9 i
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The Ocmulsee river at Macon at 7 a.
«• read 1.Sleet a fall of #.l of a foot
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l.t feet shove low water mark of Ilf*
The (Vonee river *1 MUIedveviUe i
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