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THE MACON TELEGRAPH: SUNDAY MORNING. DECEMBER- 18. 1904.
'THEMAC.0N TELEGRAPH 3
H BUSHED EVERY HOREIHG AND
TWICE A WEEK BY THE HACOH
TELEGRAPH PUBLISHING GOMPANT
Soj MULBERRY STREET, BACON, GA. | ci U b In London recently he .aid, in
part:
ANOTHER "STUDY IN SCARLET.”
Arthur Conan Hoyle, the dlatin-
jUiaheil writer of fiction dealing with
crime I* evidently of the opinion that
the United States .3 far and away
the beat Held for another "Study In
Scarlet," or for an unlimited number
f them. Speaking before the Authors'
C. R. PENDLETON,
President and Banajer.
C. R. PENDLETON . .
LOUIS PENDLETON,
The Urltlah army In South Africa lost
durtna three yaara 72,000 men front all
taumfi In three years tIk Unite 1 Stales
lost 31 .duo men from homicide. Ixtndnn.
with O.OOO.itoo Inhabitants, had >4 murders
last year; Chicago, with less than 2.000,-
Ldltora tide hall 121. Of fatndnn s 21. t were
1 Hanged, of Chicago’s 12*. 1 war hanged
1 The single stales of Georgia and South
THE TELEGRAPH IN ATLANTA
■ The Telegraph can be feund on eele
at the Kimball Heuee and the Pied
mont Hotel in Atlanta.
A "REPUBLICAN EMPEROR.”
Th« Macon Telegraph rayn that tli«
P>f* : on If* rnl«l now know* hew tin* Smith
fral* undrr tU<» fr*«se*nnt from tho whlto
Hotiw. K*111 wp did not think that Editor
J^pdiPton would owl I nn A morion n |*r*-*'l-
il(>nt o Republican ompernr. Wo trust
with the New Year that nil blttorm-M
will be put nsldc.—Savannah Praa*.
The
rich
The Southemere who
enough to live In New York and eat
Waldorf-Astoria banquets are scarce-
ly competent to advlee us folk who
hnve to handle the negro problem right
here where it lives*
Togo has cleared the field of naval
operations so tut to give hla whole
mind to the reception of the Baltic
fleet. He would like to give those
•hips to the mermaids for a Christmas
Rift-
•‘editor" named In the foregoing
is one of those politically unsophis
ticated. old-fashioned young n»en, that
does not know how to carry two stock
of opinions—one nnte-Hertlon nnd the
other post-election. Those things thnt
this newspaper said before the «l«"
tlon about Roosevelt It believed then,
and It believes them now. It said them
then nnd It says them now.
It is o fact thnt mi American Presi
dent hns more lower toon any Euro
pean monarch, except the cw»r "of rill
the Russia*." It Is also q fnet thnt
Roosevelt has stretched nut the am.
of that power further than any other
American President.
There are those who are attracted
by power lodged In others. There pro
also those who are subsorvlotit and ob
sequious before thnt power. Ro long
as the hammer docs not fall on the In
dividual most peoplo admire n
Colossus— a tryant. But there
are dthers—a minority perhaps—who
are afraid of power In an Impulsive
man's hands. It may he that the nil-
tor of the Press does not belong to
that minority. It may he Hint he was
shamming during the recent nnte-elec-
tinn period. The Telegraph was not.
The Telegrnph regards the President
with some misgivings, more particu
larly since the nssnult upon the Bos
ton paper for a most trivial offense.
He may not run amuck during his
coming full-fledged term, but let us
watch and pray.
There Is no •'bitterness* In the state
ment of these cold facts.
CLOeR TO^THE CRUX.
The other day The Telegraph un
dertook to show to the Brooklyn Ragle
that the Houth was endeavoring ns
best she could, under very ndvrrso cir
cumstances, to preserve the Anglo-
ftaxon blood nnd civilisation In this
aection where it is purest and most
dominant: that It was necessary to
draw the line of social equality at the
<-olor line, not nt Individual behavior.
In.a nioro reepnt editorial the Engle
gets closer to the crux of the problem
In these remarks.
The South ha* Incomparably the great.
P"»i*tn» on h.r hand.
. 't’— , l”;‘- kh* mini Mve that
.iurntlnn hMMIUTO aha live* with It anil the
" | 1.Pv u " must abide by her solution bo.
cause We could touch It. If we tried, only
at arm a length. Twenty oven ten y<*ara
*1 ,, '*ense feeling of sue.
KSSJh * T ?°f£ h - *nd especially in New
that the Houth w*u trying to
eSWK X) '* ,?* ,),r civil war.
P?Ii * J*h • e rat ana I ns has come the
ktmwlsdge that the got it hens whites are
, ln .. preserve ’Wlo-Baxon
*!*"* mrfcn to «!vc
-I.h .1,^*2 * ’'■ •'S’* «•»»*■« >amtwtlt>t»
Jb-t pma-millon. ta that .Mrti of
good will toward hruthor* «lth a Mg |«miI
% ^r ir Mayor MrC|fi|.?«
speech and the celebration of the Honth-
JJBj^aoeleJy will be received by New
Of Mayor McClellan's notable ad
dress we spoke yesterday, but the de
liberate expressions of a great
paper, like the foregoing, are far more
useful thnn the after dinner speech of
ml In a bad each more murders than
the whole British empire. Nor was this
duo to emigrants; It was most marked
In the purely American states.
In the presence of tho startling sta
tlstlcs gathered by our own observers,
the American must eorrowfujly admit
that nil this Is true, or very near the
truth. And the Americana of
Houth can find but little comfort In
the fact that the highest percentage
of homicides 1m found In tho Pacific
const regions. Homicide, as the Bn I
tlmare Hun declares. In not sectional
hut la "the great national crime,'* nnd
It Is a waste of the energy needed to
check the evil In all sections for the pot
to call the kettle black.
According to the English observer
quoted above, whether measured by
robbery, divorce oj any other symp
tom, "the Irregular ntnte of thlnga In
the United Htates bids fair to exceed
all European countries combined." As
regards a remedy. Dr. Doyle pointedly
suggests that In this country “the law
Is loosely administered:’* that “Judges
are not as free a* ’.hoy are In (treat
Britain; that they are Influenced by
politico) motives; tint there Is a pull
hither mid thither and Justice Is not
administered."
Undoubtedly the law Is loosely ad
ministered, but the fault Is with Juries
rather than with Judges. Perhaps the
most Important of all tho causes of the
shockingly frequent mlscnrrlages of
Justice In this country Is that public
sympathy Is too much enlisted In be
half of the individual and too little
enlisted In behnlf of soolety or the
state. We see this tendency carried
to its extreme among the lower races
who regard the law ns an enemy and
are ever ready to protect and withhold
front Its grasp even the vilest crimi
nals, The facta aeem to show thnt In
this matter of an enlightened nnd pa
triot lu regard for the welfare of so
ciety. or the collective man, at the ex
pense of the Individual evil doer,
whether the latter be poor or rich,
weak or powerful, the people of thle
country In the maee are leee developed,
leaa highly civilised, than those of sev
eral of the other lending countries of
the world.
It Is to be hoped that the Christmas
wet ? turkey at the White House Is leading
“the simple life" and will escape the
attention of the esteemed Boston Her
ald.
Murat Halstead has his book on
“The Fall of Port Arthur" ready on
the press and Is naturally worried that
Oen. Stoessel refuses to allow the
printing to proceed.
Mormonlsm Is not a religion, but a con
spiracy.—Washington Star.
The center of population in this country
Is & little west of Cincinnati we believe;
but the center of credulity appears to be
at Oberlln. Ohio.—Norfolk Landmark.
The Ohio farmer who hid his savings In
an old stocking Instead of depositing them
with a banker friend of Mrs. Chadwick.
Is now having his laugh.— Washington
Post.
The men who blew open a bank safe tn
Maryland with dynamite are now In Jail.
So la Mrs. Chadwick: but her arrival was
not so sudden.—Charleston (W. Va.) Ga
zette. ,
A Chicago man has appealed to the
courts to atop his wife's tongue. This
gentleman apparently believes that the
courts can perform miracles.—Raleigh
Times.
The season npproacheth apace when the
Individual with the small pocketbook. an
audible conscience and visions of many
stockings, great and small, requires no
pointers from Mr. Tom Lawson on what
Is frenzied finance.—Columbia State.
According to Republican papers, there
are about 100,000 illegal registrations in
Philadelphia. Dead men. children and
even dogs have been registered there b;
the Republican machine. Yet they talL
about election wrongs In the South!—
Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
The Russians think the Japs have
"missed the psychological moment,"
but they certainly didn't miss any of
those Russlnn ships In the harbor of
Port Arthur.
In his next menage to congress we
trust President Roosevelt will deal
"vlgnisly" with the plstol-totlng habit
thnt prevails In New York city, ac
cording to police reports.
Judge Parker's old-fashioned polite
ness nt the bar In Now York hus pro
duced » sensation among the lawyer*
who heretofore have conducted law
suits under the rules of the dog-pit.
The greater O. O. P. makes the
stuffed effigy of Barnum's elephant,
Jumbo, look like the remains of u year
ling.
According to the Mormon creed our
troubles do not cease In heuven
Homebody on earth van mnrry us i
wife without our aid or consent!
Bobby Walthour has been suspend-
ad from the bike tracks for n year.
That will probably cool off some of his
Atlanta spirit.
Happy Carnegie! The Chadwick
woman’s case gave him only a puln In
the bock His bankroll escaped un-
senthed.
Monsieur Hyveton effaced himself
after first disgracing himself. What n
pity that men do not reverse those op
eration*!
MR. OSBORN B'S STATEMENT.
Hon. w. W. Osborne’* statement in
regard to political affair* in Qeorg!
which appear* In all the morning j*
jwra today, and also In The Telegraph,
is rather extreme not to say sensa
tional. We do not think Ute case la as
tmd as he states It. We get Into trou
ble once before trying to rob the Pop-
ulists nt their "Issues!* and we will get
into It iignih, nnd do harm rtther than
good trying to choke Watson on his
own provender. We believe the legis
lature can deni with the corporations
in felmeaa and with Justice to nil con
cerned without making a cruasde
against foreign Investments |n this
state. We do not believe that the al
leged ••mercenaries*’ can corrupt our
legislator* If they should attempt It.
Mr. Osborne Is nn engaging writer,
and we presume there la some card U|i
hi*
NOT 80 SURE.
ffpenktng of the Platt bill .to reduce
dlanapolls News remarks that
people will wonder why this bill. If
the
t? Is an honest attempt t
imtng conditions, was
apply to the Northern itati
deny suffrage to illiterates,
‘f them do." The Newra adds
more the matter is consld*
leaser It will become that
mere partisan effort to wtn s
tewwtake which the people
Bprti
till not
Dlscuulon of our pension system
has brought to light the Interesting
fact that the Duke of Richmond re
ceives n pension of $95,000 h year be
cause one of him ancestors was a son
of Charles II. This proves that the
Britishers dearly love a lord nnd will
tax themaelvea poor for the benefit of
any and everybody In or connected
Ith the royal fumlly. It does not
prove that our pension system Is not
nn outrageous Imposition on the tax
payers. Comparatively speaking \v<
do not give large pensions, but It must
not be forgotten that our royal family
contains n million members.
In n recent speech Heimtor Knox
declared It to bo "Axiomatic that the
people who are least governed nve
best governed." He might have added
thnt Jefferson and his followers sue
ceasfully contended for this position
ngnlnat the Federalists, mid that this
hus long been the chief Issue between
modern Democrat* and Republicans.
Being n Republican himself, Hen a lor
Knox naturally did not think It nd
vIsutile to give the history of n prln
clple which he seems to have adopted.
T. Thomas Fortune’s paper, the New
York Age. declares tint "the president
la expected on his Southern tour to Im
itate the truckling of McKinley nnd
wear Confederate buttons, salute Con
federate Hags and advocate the deco-
rutlon of Confederate graves." but
that the Houth will be "cruelly disillu
sioned" when the tlmo comes. Not at
all. The South was long since dlsll
tusloned and has ceased to expect of
aldent Roosevelt, the tact, food
*e and genuine patriotism that dis
tinguished President McKinley.
Republican clubs and Interested indi
viduals are stilt pronouncing extrava
gant eulogies of the aucceesfu! candi
date to the Joyoue accompaniment of
popping chumpagno corks, and full
versions of the panegyrics uttered are
atlll sent over the wires. But no longer
are they nil printed, owing to the de
mands of economy and the necessity of
providing news that Is news.
If the president Is going to aid and
abet Colombia In forcing Panama to
assume the lion’s share of the former’s
debt, he ought first to compel West
Virginia to take over her righteous
share ot the Old Virginia debt. Char
ity should begin at home.
Rnoaevelt la right! If the Panama
canal cannot tie built under civil ser
vice regulation*, let It stay unbuilt.
It was never Intended to be the private
snap of the engineer* and commission
ers—a nest, in fact, of fSvorltalm and
rii the Republicans enforce the
enth amendment they will there-
N*ent to the disfranchisement of
egro and demonstrate that the
ith amendment la no longer nec-
Plant lesa cotton and more beans!
New England can economise on cot
ton but she Just has to have beans nil
the year 'rjund.
Rockefeller hrtd known how
"tough" his photograph was going to
look he would have postponed the tak
ing of It another forty years.
The crying need of the nation is the
colonisation of about half a million ne
groes In each of the states of New
England and the central North.
Col, Tom Loyless la whetting
his tommy-knife and scnlplng-huwk
against the forthcoming of Tom Wat
son's magazine.
Mrs. Chadwick has ahown that It la
a grnfty old girl who knows how tn
hnoae her own father for financial
purposes.
The price of cotton Is no good ex
cuse for being stingy with your home
folk this Christmas Loosen up und
give 'em a square deal!
The esar Is said to be superstitious.
But can you blame him when you
wlmt the hoodoos have done to him In
the Eastern war?
Those Ohio bankers who thought
they were sweating a guileless woman
millionairess fully deserved to
Chadwlcked.
We will not believe the president la
after Houthern congressional scalps
until Lodge Introduces a bill to rip
thsm off.
sure us we should
•• people"—only the
North and Went are
oukl appear—will
mere partisan ef-
1 vantage" UW-
lOrvhrm newspapers
polls News see fit
id tetl the truth. The
1 a praiseworthy be-
hope that It vili con
sume of our friends, the enemy, are
trying to convince us that the Platt
bill la only a Platt-attitude.
The Hearst newspaper* In New
York seem to be after Mayor McClel
Ian with their Joab blades.
The boll-weevil appears to have lak
en out naturalisation papers In the cot
ton belt.
Remember the poor! You never
can tell how soon or late you may be
one ot them.
Even In the matter of the weather
U Is what era gat from the north that
makes the Houth solid.
Governor Varda man la valuable be
cause he prove# to the country how
largely he la in the minority.
No. Mary Ann; Mrs. Chadwick'
name la "Casale" and not Cash-y!
The Southern Samaritan woman haa
ecu given her Crum again
‘ TOPIC8 OF THE TIMES,
(peaking
After all. t
remember th
themselves to
ator Sharon a
buried.
The rrceptt'
by the Clave
degree abort <
i given Mrs. Chedwtck
nd mob was Just oc«
an Ohio negro lynch*
Ceapart New
> tt that Mr*.
mentioned nn
Msuryt—Louisvtlla Courier-Jour
Times-Hi
hadwtrk has not
next secretary
The Norfolk Landmark teUs of a turtle
Si years oM That la a loog time for even
New^TImeTlIVrmUi 0 * th#
Svory man has some opinions whi
haa no, right to eapreas—bad apt
sbotu atrongvr own than be Is. fa
ample .—Dallas New*.
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POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.
K £
King Frederick Augustus of Saxony on
his accession to the throne, proclaimed
an omneety for alt minor offense* except
that of cruelly to animals,
Ernest Thompson fl^ton Is now on a
lecturing *our In England to enable Brit
ish hoy* and girls to make the acquaint
ance of his American friends.
I'rof. Brodley of Oxford has Just finished
« Ixwik on Shakespearean tragedy, which
submits to dose analysis “Ilnmlet,"
"Othello," “King Lenr" and "Macbeth."
In an endeavor to show that they have
common form of structures up to » cer
tain point.
Newton L. Penn, said to he tho Inst
lineal descendant of Whilom Penn has
Just died hi Hartford, Conn. Ills lsidy
will he Interred In the Penn burlnl
grounds In thin city. He was a deep stud
ent and translated Into English a great
quantity of French plays nnd poems, be
sides doing considerable work.
David R. Francis, president of the 8t.
fxiuls Exposition Company, Is probably
the most elaborately decorated man In
America. Kings, princes nnd potentates
have showered decorations upon him un
til, If he wore them all at once, he would
glitter like a circus wagon. Among the
lot are tho red eagle of Prussia, tho
Crown of Italy, the Leopold I. of Belgium,
the Bun nnd Loan of Persia, the Double
Dragon of Chinn snd the Cross of the Le
gion of Honor of France.
It Is the custom of old King Christian
Denmark to give small coins to beggnrs
and old women he meets on the street.
Recently he met n young beggitr nnd gsvn
him the customary copper, hut tho youth
handed It hack and sold that ho would
rather have a picture of the king. Chris
tian said that he did not carry his piet-
Hbout with him In Ms pocket. The
piece.
Tha husband ofCharlotto Bronte, Mr.
Nichols Is still living In an Irish village,
the object of much honor nnd respect
1 circle of friends. Mr.
Nichols has had tho unpleasant task of
denying some Ill-founded gossip concern
ing his brilliant Wife, who died a few
months after her marriage. Among other
things. It was said thnt he discouraged
her from writing, a totally untrue state
ment whlrh Mr. Nichols has been forced
to contradict again nnd again. C. K.
Shorter, an authority on the Brontes in
the London Sphere, now repeats the con
tradiction.
The two men of the hour In Mexico,
Porflrlo Dlax, who has Just been inaugu
rated president for the seventh time,
nnd Ramon Corral, the newly elected
vice-president, are the sublerts of Inter
esting personal sketches. In the current
llsroer'a Weekly. The brilliant record
of Dias nnd the remarkable manner In
which he has built lip the Mexican repub-
"<• are fast becoming familiar to Amer
en*. Of the new vice-prealdent much
lexs I* known, lie Is a comparatively new
figure In Mexican national affairs, having
entered the Dias cabinet In 1903 as minis
ter of the Interior. He believes the great
est need of the republic of Mexico Is edu
cation and thnt the future of the country
depends upon the building up of a sub
stantial "middle” doss.
The best histories of countries nnd peo
ple are frequently written by men who
are not native to the lands they describe.
For Instance, John Lorthrop Motley Is the
best historian of Holland, and his Rise of
the Dutch Republic and other works on
the Netherlands stand supreme despite
i he fact that the author was a native of
kirchester. Mass. Motley graduated from
Harvard, ar.d later Went abroad and stud-
ed at several German universities. Then
there Is Bryce's American Commonwealth,
and Alfred K. Colquhoun's Greater Amer
ica, the onl;
•■nmprchrn*
of America. Both these men are English
men. admirably fitted for their chosen
tasks, but why has the work not been
* — ^ I-. Americans who
» hotter equipped?
ler cent, of the agricultural families cult
ivate two acres or more up to one and
one-half cho, or a little leas than three
and three-quarter acres, leaving 15 per
cent, of the farmers who cultivate farms
The suppression of moral and religious
instruction in the schools In France since
1670 is offered by Mrs. John Van Vorst in
Harper's for January, g* the only expla
nation "for the startling increase In the
numbers of youthful delinquents, crimi
nals and suicides since that year." Mrs.
Van Vorst points cut. In a very Interest
ing article, that In J901 there were 475
Juvenile suicides In France, whereas in
1840 there wen? only 144. The admirable
methods by which the city of Paris deals
with Its childish criminals are described
by Mrs. Van Vorst.
THE DECEMBER MAGAZINES.
Review of Reviews presents a series of
contributed articles of unusual variety
and Interest. Walter Wellman writes on
The United States and the World's Peace
Movement. Wlnthrop L. Marvin describes
the work of the Merchant Marine Com
mission. The four “men of the month"
chosen as the subject, for character
sketches are Chief Engineer Parsons of
the New York Rapid Transit Commission;
President Francis. Chairman Cortelyou,
and Governor-elect Douglas of Massachu
setts. William C. Edgar gives an Inter
esting account of the OJibway Indians’
play of Hiawatha; the article Is illustrated
from photographs of the Indian players
In costume. Clarence H. Poe tells the
story of the remarkable rejuvenation of
rural NortVy Carolina, illustrating his ar
ticle. The Hawaiian Sugar Product is
the title of a valuable illustrated article
by Lewis R. Freeman. H. M. Suter out
lines the work of the coming American
Forestry congress. Ernest Knaufft con
tributes an article entitled Modern Pict
ure-Book Children. What Pori Arthur
Means to Japan Is clearly set forth by
Adschi Klnnosuka, with a map of Port
Arthur and Its surrounding defenses.
Fifteen pages in this number are devoted
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The directors of the Great Western rail
way (England) are about to Introduce an
American engine for their long dial a nee
Transvaal Indians have Issued a strong
protest against the alleged desire of the
white* to put them on the same level
as Kaffir*.
An aged beggar, who died recently near
Porto Maurlslo. In the Italian province of
Liguria, left £l.*» pounds *
•w, a shoeblack tn America.
According to the latest official statistics,
the numbers of the sexes In Holland are
almost equal, women having a preponder
ance of only one per cent.
A Pruaalan firm haa received an enter
from the Ruaalan government for 4,000.000
cigars for the army In Manchuria. They
are to cost $1.S«> a hundred.
The Ink plant of New Grenada is a
curiosity. The Juice of It can be used
as Ink without any preparation. At first
the writing Is red. but after a few hours
It changes to black.
Thirty year* ago the cost of shipping
ton of grain from Chicago by railway to
New York, and then by steamer to Liver
pool, waa about 111. The same service la
“yw performed for about $4.&0.
The large*! British submarine wag
launched recently. It Is called the U.
It is 110 feet in length and eighty-alx feet
In girth— submarines have no beam—and
in about fifty feet longer and twenty feet
greater in girth than any of Its prede.
eesaors.
A Vienna society haa been formed to aid
parsons with short memories. A card is
Issued, upon which the purchaser write*
tha dale of an engagemenet and posit* tt
to the secretary'* office. By tha prat post
on the day of his engagement tha card Is
rsaatved by the pure hi
Tha custom of marrying girls when
they are mere children of i or 10 yearn
U Increasing rather than decreasing In
Bengal and other parts of India. Tha ra-
suiting racial degeneration la becoming so
obvious that laws have been passed In
feveral region* forbidding tha marriage
of girl* under 14.
The peat office department Is sanding
out Its winter stampa now. Pew know
that there is a difference between Winter
stampa and summer stampa. In tha
cold months tha gum an the at
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THE FAIR STORE
R. F. SMITH. Proprietor
507 Cherry Street
13 Candle Holders and M Candle. l«o
ABC Blocks. 5c.
Toy Books, 5c and 10c.
Iron Automobiles, 10c.
Iron Trains, 10c.
Goat nnd Cart, 10c.
Horse and Cart, 10c.
Iron Fire Engines, 10c.
Ten sets, 6c, 10c and 26c.
Swords. 6c.
Walking Stick and box ammuni
tion, 6c.
Doll Cradles, 10c.
Men’s Four-In-Hand Ties. 10c.
Vases, 10c, 26c nnd 60c.
Fine Bohemian Water Sets.
Chinn Ten Sets, $5.00.
Maddocks' nnd Johnson’s high grade
hite ware.
Fine China Cake Plates, 25c.
Jardiniere, 10c.
Colored Cuspndorc'?, 10c.
Gold Bnnd China Fruit Saucers, 60c
for six.
German and Holland Bowls, 5c, 10c,
16c nnd 25c.
See our line Mossulc Glass Vases, 10c
Chinn Cups and Saucers, 10c to 26c.
Bisque Figures, 10c.
10c Belts for 6c.
Chamber Sets. $2.00 and $4.00.
Fine China Mugs. 10c.
Gold Band Glassware.
Colored Bow la and Pitchers.
Chambers Transfer Co.
I am operating an up-to-date
dray business and am prepared to
do any and all kinds of hauling.
Special attention to merchants’
freights at all the railroads, freight
paid and goods delivered promptly
and safely.
Your patronage needed and ap
preciated.
J. n. CHAMBERS,
Phone 416.
Songs From a
ert Loveman. ..
Philadelphia. Trice, $1.
This Is Mr. Loveman’* fourth volumo
of verse, each one adding to n?s reputa
tion. The present book Is composed of
two parts, the first, which gives tho tltlo
to tho work, and . tho second being
"Echoes from the Gates of Silence."
There are seventy-six pieces !n the book.
& s a specimen of hla work, the following
quoted:
TO THE NATIONS.
Shame «in you cruven crew.
You coward Nations, you!
Sitting supinely by,
While men file out to die;
Glory, you call It—Shame
Snail be Its filthy name!
Lust, pillage, blood, and hate
Evenom all the State;
You call It war.—you do,—
Shamo on you. Nations—you!
Shame on your sickly crew,
You coward Nut Ions, you!
Prating of God nnd Peuee;—
Go. bid the curnago cease;—
Drag Emperor and Tsar
Before your mighty bar;
Let Love and Mercy reign
Over tho land and main;—
You call It war, you do.--
8hame on you. Nations—you!
If your friends know it
enmo from Macon Trunk
Co., thoy know it’s good.
A WELL-CALCULATED RESCUE.
Loubst, tho Boy, Father of Loubot, tho
President.
The young Loubet. being 10 years
of age, was once butliing In the Drome
with certain older lads. One of them
got beyond his depth und was swept
away by the current. The Loubet lad
heard hla cry for help and studied the
situation. It was evident that he
could’nt get that big boy ashore. So
he kept out of reach and watched him
The drowning boy kept going up and
down, sw'nllowlng water. At last he
was so nearly drowned that there was
was no struggle In him. Then my lit
tle Loubet swam up, caught him by the
hair and towed him nshore.
It was a bit of pretty bit of calcula
tion. The big fellow w*aa only three-
parts drowned and they pumped him
out and made him as good as new.
One might have prophesied that Lou
bet would be a politician, remarks
Everybody’s Magaxtne. From Just
such troubled water he fished out—
three-parts drowned—hla election to
the Presidency. Just so canny. Just
so "Judgmatical" has his entire polit
ical career been. That boy was the
father of the calm, clear-headed, well-
meantng. honest man who Is to-day
the First Cltlsen of the Third Re
public.
Hog Raising In South Georgia.
MT. VKRNON. Qa., Dec. 17.—It la
sometimes said that south Georgia
can't raise hogs successfully. Though
a few have died this season in this
section, w fine lot lave been killed.
Tom Thompson, a substantial, enter
prising fsrmtr of Mt. Vernon. Mont
gomery county, heads the list with one
that netted MS pounds.
Idle Hour
Nurseries
109 Cotton avo Macon, Ga.
GROWERS OF
CHOICE CUT FLOWERS.
ROSES, CARNATIONS, ETC.
Wcddltfg bouquets and reception
flowers n specialty.
Artistic funeral designs.
Prompt attention given to out-of-
town ordei*-.
Decorative plnnts ranted.
TELEPHONE 224.
Curran R. Ellis
ARCHITECT
Offices; 4, 5 and 6 Kills B1dg. r
Cherry st., Cotton ave. and First st
Phone 239 Macon, Gtu
ARCHITECTS.
P. E. DENNIS, Architect.
568 Cherry st., Macon, Ga.
Twenty years experlenco and suc
cessful practice.
OCULIST AND AURIST.
DR. MAURY M. STAPLER.
Oculist and Aurist.
'• Office. 656 Cherry Street,'
Day 'Phone, 2271. Night 'Phone 3051.
DR. J. H. SHORTER.
Eye, Ear. Nose, Throat
Cherry and Second Streets.
•Phone 972. office. Residence, 3073.
Hotel Lanier
American and European Plan
Cafe Open Until
12 Midnight.
Your Patronage Solicited
J. A. Newcomb,
Proprietor.
The Plaza Hotel
MACON, GEORGIA.
Europ.in Pl.n—
C.f* .nd Buffet Unexc.llrd
A Jf.w Hotel, Wth Spacious Sam
ple Room*. All modern convenience*.
CAFE CATERS ESPECIALLY
TO BANQUETS AND
WEDDING PARTIES.
ED. LOH & CO., Proprietors
Brown House,
MACON, GA.
Stubbs & Etheridge
Proprietors.
Opp. Union Station.
Knwn throughout the South
for the excellence of its ac
commodations and service.
Careful attention paid Every
Guest. Cuisine Unsurpassed.
Rates Reasonable.
DR. W. P. RU8HIN.
Alexander Blair
& Kern ....
Architects,
673 CHERRY ST MACON, GA
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
Classified advertisements under
this hsad are intended striotly for
the orotessions.
OSTEOPATHY
DR. F. F. JONES. Osteopath.
364 Second 8t. ’Phones 920-8019,
CIVIL ENGINEERING.
GABRIEL R. SOLOMON,
Civil Engineer,
Plans, Estimates, 8urveys,
568 Cherry Street, Macon, Ga.
Office Phone 962—Residence Phone 169
DENTISTRY.
DR. ADDIEL M. JACKSON. Dentist
Office on second finer Commercial
Rank Building. Triangular Block. Tel
ephone 531.
DR. H. W. WALKER. Dentist.
Office over McAndrew A Taylor, No. 561
Cherry st. ’Phone No. 2085.
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS.
DR. MARY E. McKAY,
Special attention to Obstetrics and
Diseases of Women.
Commercial Bank Building.
Phones: Office. 2554; Residence. 1572.
Russian railroad official* are ranch
alarmed over tha Increase In attempt
wreck train* in that country. The at
tempts average 00* t n three days, and
II per cent, result in danger. It Is pro-
posed to arm all railway official* and
give ag^oMi'i* positions whenever pos
sible ar.d in this way pot a cheek to the
practice.
Only 14.fss,:;i acres, er 16.T per ceot.
of th«* whole %rea of Japan, exdualv# of
Fbraoes. consists of arable land, and tt
r 77 w
Cures Grip and
COLDS
At or nM.
Huvfluff 1 IMwcti.r Co.. Cor. WUU.
u4 John Strt.u. Ntw York.
or Ligbllruc.
*00. 572 Mullxrry at., room. 4 and 6,
ohlngton Block. Hour,: 0 to lu a. m.
— to 1, and 5 to 5 p. m. Tclephoo. con-
nrctlons at office and reifd.nce.
OR. J. J. SUBERS.
Permanently Iocat*d. In th. apcclal-
tl.a venereal. Loet energy raatored.
Female irregularities and potion oak;
cure guaranteed. Addreei In confi
dence, with etamv, 510 Fourth etreet,
Macon, Ga.
Dr. Cha«. H. Hall. Or. Thoe. H. Hall
Office. 010 Mulberry st.
Retidence. 507 College «t
Telephone.: Office. 922: residence. «9.
Office hours: 8:20 to •; 12 to 1:20; 5 to A
OPTICIANS.
m
ETES TESTED FREE.
G. G. COFFY,
Graduate Optician. Ill Cherry it.
ABSTRACTS.
GEORGIA TITLE & GUARANTY CO.
L a ENGUSH: Pros. J. 3. COBB. Bee.
T. B. WEST. Atly.
CONTRACTING AND BUILDING