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THE MACON TELEGRAPH’: MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 26, 1904.
MACON TELEGRAPH
ROOSEVELT AND BRYAN AGREE.
I In his meutie to congress Mr.
I Roosevelt made the Interesting an-
I nouncement that "the government
PUBLISHED EVERY KOKHIRG AWIi mu « >" Increasing degree supervise
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President and Jlanaeer.
C. R. PENDLETON. . . ,
LOUIS PENDLETON. .
THE TELEGRAPH IN ATLANTA
Tho Telegraph can ba found on aala
at the Kimball Houm and tho Pied
mont Hotel in Atlanta.
A HIDDEN MOTIVE.
In view uf ih* late nverwhelminu
Republican victory, ami of the roodlti-
cAtlon In Northern jm M'c opinion dur
ing recent years, the j*res*»nt violent
agitation within the Republican ronke
In favor of reducing the Bouth’a rep-
reaen tat Ion haa beert a. great surprise
to the country and many have won
dered what It can mean. A ataff cor
respondent of the Baltimore Sun give**
expression to a thought which haa en
tered the mlnda of many reflecting ob
server! when he declares It to be his
opinion that this whole .agitation was
undertaken ns a diversion from other
matters which the Republican leaders
wish to keep In the background.
What these other questions are he
leaves to conjecture. It Is perfectly
evident, however, that the dominant
element among the Republicans Is
afraid of the growing sentiment In
favor of tariff revision, that It dis
trusts the president himself where thin
matter la concerned, and that It would
probably welcome even a foreign war
as a means of distracting public at
tention therefrom.
According to the Baltimore Sun's
staff correspondent M lt ta due to this
disposition on their (the Republican
. leaders) part more than to anything
else that the Southern quantum line so
suddenly become acute. It la difficult
for any reasonable mind to discover
why at this time, when the Republi
can party has elected Its president by
nn overwhelming vote, carrying Mis
souri. almost carrying hftrylond and
disclosing a general condition In tho
South, which under fair Issue might
threaten Its solidity, the question of
negro suffrage should sudden^ become
of auch great Importance, and mem
bers of the house and senate who have
heretofore given the question no con
sideration should become greatly agi
tated with tho Idea of reducing South
ern representation, unless there Is an
underlying motive very remote from
that which aptumra on the surface.
There has Always been an element in
congrciM extremely hostile to the
South, but from the moment of the
failure of force bill legislation during
the Fifty-first congress this element
began to grow leaa Influential. Presi
dent McKinley ao earnestly opposed
any agitation of the "Southern ques
tion" that tha few advocates of South
ern respportlonment left In congress
it the time of his death had aban
doned all hope of ever securing any
consideration of their pet schemes.'
That there are motives other than
the ostensible one In this agitation we
may feel well assured, for every
who knows the facta must realise that
If there la any reduction of represen
tation It muat Involve Northern aa
wall aa Southern states—either that,
or there muat ba a hideously unjust
MctlomJ discrimination In the matter
which the country will hardly tolerate.
creased supervision Is the only altern
ative to an Increaoe of the present
evils on the one hand or a still mors
radical policy on the other." thus In
timating that the time la not far dis
tant when the government will be com
pelled to make a choice between rigid
control or ownership of our transpor
tation lined.
Mr. Bryan wns prompt to applAud
and express his entire approval of this
utterance, and remarked in the Com
moner that "the president la right In
hla conclusion that a failure of the
government to protect the public
(against the evils of private ownership
of railroads will make the people look
In Increasing numbers to government
ownership."
Railway magnates, according to re
port, are not so well pleased. Natur
ally they prefer their own ownership
to that of the government. Nor does
the prospect of government control
attract them, and If It were made ac
tual and rigid It Is easy to conceive
of a growing willingness on their part
to sell out altogether to the govern
ment.
The Jeffersonian Idea Is that the
least government Is the best. Pa
ternalism Is not n part of Its plan.
Conservative Democrats are therefore
not likely to Join Mr. Bryan In ap
plauding the position taken by tho
president. For the present the most
Intcfcatlng and Important fact in this
connection Is that Mr. Roosevelt and
Mr. Hrynn are agreed on this ques
tion. It Is another confirmation of
the argument that socialism In this
country Is rooted In and draws Its
strength from the paternalism of the
Republican party.
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TOPICS OP THE TIME8.
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A white Christmas Is the most
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POJNT8 ABOUT PEOPLE.
Evidently there are many more Moros
yet to be killed, for General Wood In
hla recent report recommends fowlln-
prlcea with buckshot cartridges as
Ukely to assist In bagging the game in
greater quantities. To civilian ears
this sounds u little harsh, but a cer
tain amount of callousness Is Inevit
able among the freedom-loving Amer
icans who have been bngglng Filipino
"game" for six years.
The son of the soldier—even of the
Confederate soldier—seems to have
an inherited "pull" upon our military
president. The grandson of Stone
wall Jackson and the son of Oen. Jeb
Stuart are both recipients of his fav
ors. If ho* could overlook party lines
where the highest positions are con
cerned. It would perhaps please blm
to offer one tb Mayor Mcdlollnn of
New York.
popular, but any kind Is better than
a blue one.—Washington Post.
The Christmas cigar is a phase of
„.ie smoke nuisance that is overlooked
by the ofTJclala.—Washington Evening
Star.
The trouble between Colonel Greene
and Thomas W. Lawson ought to be
brought to the attention of The Hague.
—Chicago Chronicle.
The Woman s Christian Temperance
Union convention scored tobacco again.
Hut not a word about millinery bill
retrenehment.—Mexican Herald.
With d commission approximating
$2,000,000, there Is Just cause for re
joicing in Wall Street over the suc
cess of the Cuban loan.—Cincinnati
Tribune.
The Duke and Duchess of Manches
ter are going Into the poultry business.
Perhaps Pa Zimmerman was on the
wrong side of copper.—Chicago Rec
ord Herald.
They may rob Mr. Depew of the
honored title of senator, but no one
will dare attempt to separate him
from the distinction of being "a peach."
—Indianapolis Star.
Prince Fushlml should hold his
volume of American Impressions up
until he sees the ladies at the 45-cent
necktie counter In the closing days of
the Christmas rush.—Chicago Inter
Ocean.
The fact that strawberries and early
potatoes have reached the Eastern
market will hot trouble Clevelanders
to any marked extent. It's all we can
do to pay for ergs and butter.—Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
Keep your eyes on Thomas W. Law-
son and Colonel Greene. They may
be aty-unglng for a combine that will
create more astonishment than any
thing yet seen In "frenzied finance.”—
Cincinnati Enquirer.
A correspondent asks us to define a
philosopher. We reply that a philoso
pher is A man who has nothing that
can be stolen, nnd who is satisfied to
get a square meal and a good night's
sleep.—New York Evening Hun.
President Roosevelt shows a dispo
sition to attack the government print
ing waste. That man will tackle any
thing, and next, no doubt, we shall
hear that he Is attacking congressional
seed distribution.—Philadelphia Ledger.
It is an Interesting remark which Is
reported as coming from the president.
One of his cabinet officers had been
tolling of a determination to pursue
certain courageous and unpopular
course because he had "'no political
future." "That Is right," responded
Mr. Roosevelt, "our political futures
aro behind us."—Springfield Republi
can.
Right Use of Leisure
Gen.' Miles knows when he has
enough. He will accept the inspector-
generalship of Massachusetts and
draw only one salary—that from the
United mates ss a retired lieutenant-
general.
Senator Penrose, who has blossomed
out as a literary purist, should be
made managing editor of the esteemed
Congressional Record, our natlonn!
organ of the free and unlimited coin
age of American speech.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
tin 1 1 ii 1 1111 11 HwMMAinmnnnio
taidy Marjorie Bruce, in the 7 face of
protests in England, maintains that
Americans are the most courteous men
in the world.
Henry Dunant, now 7$ years old
and living In fll-health near the Lake
of Constance, was the originator of the
Red Cross movement It Is forty-five
years since he began his work and
forty years since the International
convention at Geneva.
Secretary Cortelyou Is still trying
to get away for the vacation he prom
ised himself he would take after elec
tion. He has made several attempts,
but post-campaign matters of import
ance spoiled hla plans in each in
stance. He is now convinced that not
until the new year will be be able to
leave Washington.
Miss Florence Hayward, who had
supervision of the collection and col
laboration of the historic documents
and relic exhibits of the Bt. Louis Ex
position, has been signally honored by
the French government by election to
membership In one of the five acad
emies constituting th* famous Insti
tute of France. A decoration is con
ferred with the appointment.
E. W. Hoch, governor-elect of Kan
sas, has religious scruples against
dancing. Therefore there will be no
Inaugural ball at Topeka In January.
Not even to comply with old-estab-
IIshed custom will he allow the man
sion to become a temple of terpsi-
chore. Mr. Hoch Is superintendent of
a Hunday school and a leading Meth
odist. There Is a liquor cabinet and
billiard table In the mansion and
doubtless these will have to go before
the arrival of the Hoch family.
A $10,000 status of Joseph Howe—
the printer who won world fame as a
poet, orator and statesman, and as the
most commanding figure among Brlt-
ish-Amerlcan colonists in the early
part of the last century—was unveiled
at Halifax the other day. the first
statue ever erected to a son of Nova
Beotia In his native province. He was
the son of John Howe, a Loyalist, who
cam© to Nova Beotia from New Eng
land. The statue was erected by the
government of Nova Beotia, for which
Howe secured responsible govern
ment.
The fashionable congregation of
Trinity church, Philadelphia, wag sur
prised on reaching the pews on a re
cent Sunday to find that they had all
been re-upholstered. There was a
new and exceedingly rlrh carpet on
the floor that had been thoroughly
overhauled since the Sunday before,
by some 'one with good taste nnd a
rather long pocket book. After ser
vices It came out that Miss Rebecca
Darlington, worth $20,000,000, who was
married to Mr. Stoddard of New Ha
ven, Conn., the previous Wednesday,
did not like the dingy furnishings of
old Trinity, and so had the church re-
upholstered and re-carpeted before her
wedding eve. *
PUT ON THE BRAKES.
Mrs. Chadwick . might escape by
pleading that "it was a great gamble'*
between herself and her creditors.
They were trying to "do" her, but q^e
did them first!
What our civilisation needs Is a
thoroughly enforced law making It a
felony for anybody to tote a pistol
that la not three feet long and weigh
ing twenty pounds.
TROUBLE AHEAD OF THEM.
If the bills to reduce the South's
representation In congress are meant
seriously. If they are anything more
than a "demonstration** designed to
distract public attention from ques
tions embarrassing to the administra
tion, their authors will fln<J themselves
in trouble when the hour of debate
arrives. i
These bills assume the exiattnc* of
enactments In all Southern state*
which suppress the bulk of the negro
vote. Yet Georgia. Florida. Ken
tucky, Arkansas, Tennessee and Texas
have not adopted any constitutional
amendments restricting the negro or
other Illiterate voter. They also ss
sums that the fourteenth amendment,
providing a penalty for the restriction
of the franchise for any other emus
than "participation In rebellion o
other crime." Is Ignored In the South
alone, yet several Northern states
have taken the vote away from (Utter
alee who have not been guilty of the
specified offenses. Massachusetts, for
example, requires that her voters t
‘able to read the constitution of tti
commonwealth In the Rngltah lan
guage." and the law la force In
state of Maine reads as follows:
No person shell have the right to %
e be eligible to office under the eonstl
non of inis state who shall not be i
a«1 the constitution In the EnalMt
language and write his name; prv I
that the provisions of this
! apply to anv pens
___J pbn&a) dtaebtitty frot
cemptying with Its requisitions; or an
person who now has the right to vote,
nor to any person who shall be nitty
rears of eg* or upwards at the time this
ent shall 1
The report that a Chicago alderman
whaled a boodler who offered him a
bribe Is Important, If true. Rut we
suspect It Is a posthumous Joke be
queathed by the late Joe Mulhatton
Thoee Mormon mortuary marriages
to bo the only variety that
should be divorce-proof—but even
they are not.
According to tho Greek' calendar,
Russia will not celebrate Christmas
until January $. But she Is behind In
erythtng.
We are Inclined to Implore both Col.
Osborne and "the machinist" not to
resume hostilities until 1906 gets fairly
Inaugurated.
Pop" Dodge's cose, when he reaches
New York, will look like the farce that
once tagged after the tragedy In the
ald-Ume theatre.
If the Republicans did not want
Mormons In congress why did they
make Utah a state? That was the be
ginning of Mmoofs offense.
Only the old Confed* can really
sympathise with the Japs who are
fighting through aero weather In Man
churia.
Another Installment of "frensled
finance" will be on when the Christ
mas bills are presented to papa.
smandmen
take effect,
senate
The Southern senators and repre
tentative* who oppose the Platt nnd
Morrell bills have plenty of ammuni
tion ready ta their hands. They can
readily show that Georgia. Florida,
Tennessee. Kentucky. Arkansas and
Texas ore not guilty, while* Maine.
Massachusetts. Ccfemectftrutt and Cali
fornia are gulUy of violating the
Idiotic requirement of the fourteenth
amendment that saiy'for "rebellion or
other crime" may the cHtsen'w right |
t vote be abridged, and that und
that amendment the representation «
the Northern states mentioned may I
The new Insurrection In Samar may
be onl^ of sufficient else to bring the
Puiajanes Into temporary prominence.
Atlanta and her wide-open mayor
will begin the New Year Joyously on
January two'th. Here's luck to 'tmi
The locomotives for the railroads In
Korea are bought exclusively In the
United States, presumably because
they aro more quickly obtainable here.
The friendship for the United States
Is Increasing.
The "Royal Company's Islands."
supposed to be In the Pacific ocean,
have been removed from the maps of
the hydrographic Institute of the Brit
ish admiralty because all efforts
find them have failed.
or SS samples of sausages examined
by the government analyst at Mel
bourne. Australia, not one was found
unadulterated. In the so-called pork
sausage not * particle of pork could
be discovered.
The skeletons of four men who mys
teriously disappeared there, between
two days, 20 years ago, have been dis
covered In an old water hole near
Quartrlte, Aria. They were on their
way to California nnd no doubt were
murdered for their money.
A recent number of the Cape Mer
cury contained this ndvertlrement:
Wanted for Gentian West Africa,
man to took after one horse, two cows
and three pigs. One who can Impart
the rudiments of French, singing and
the piano to children preferred."
Two hundred Chinese are going to
Victoria on the steamship Empress of
India to Join J. J. Hill's mammoth
steamship Minnesota when she calls
there about the middle of this month.
They will serve ns deck hands, fire
man, oilmen, sailors, servants, etc.
In 1190 the last Instance of boiling to
death took place In Persia. The often
der, guilty of stealing state revenues,
was put Into a large caldron of cold
water, which was slowly heated to the
boiling point. Hla bonee were distri
buted. ns a warning, among the pro
vincial tax collectors.
The number of hog* butchered In
Denmark In 1905 was 1.400.000, nnd
104.250,000 pounds of pork were ex
ported. This In an Increase of 93.940.-
000, and II4.2SO.OOO pounds of pork
were exported. This Is an increase of
21.240,000 pounds over the exportation
of the preceding year.
The only South American country
producing cereals for export ta Argen
tina. Thirty years ago It Imported
■ereala from the United States, from
Chill and even from Turkey, hut In
1902 the value of the quality exported
waa $$5,000,000. and according to alt
calculations It will exceed $100,000,000
In 1904.
At a recent medical examination In
l«ondon a new anesthetic, called aom-
noform, waa shown. It le a liquid
whose "boiling point" la 29 degrees
l*elow sero. The moment It comes In
•ntact with the air It becomes a gas.
Its great virtue, from a medical point
of view, te that breathing atops before
the heart when It Is administered.
Representing Sioux Indian chief
tains who were in ins Custer battle,
and now in the Standing Rock Indian
reservation. John Grass, chief Justice
of the 8toux tribe, has forwarded to
President Roosevelt an Immense Buf
falo robe, on the back of which appears
an Indian picture writing the narra
tion of historic deeds done In the Cus
ter fight
PRODUCTION OF WHEAT.
The Jug family has been doing
lively lot of traveling through Oeorgtar
thta past week.
The real curt
nand Utah to
ar Smoot lam la to re-
terrltortal condition.
Neglected Opportunities.
the New Torn Herald,
t Mrs. Smart Set—Why, 1901 is
gone, and I haven't been m»r-
nce this year
>Qd Mrs. Smart Set—I don't
1 hate cither—and leap year,
Pay of Various Armies.
From the Kansas City Journal.
It may atilt be said of the soldiers of
the army of the United States that
they are the heat fed. the beet clothed,
the best sheltered and the beat paid
troops in Ihe world. The Slav soldier,
who in fighting to maintain the pres
tige of the exar In Manchuria, receives
only twelve cents a month. The little
Jap, who la opposing him. receives only
sixty cents n month. France pays her
aotdlcre 91.74 a month, Germany pays
her soldiers $5.50 a month, and Eng
land pays her soldier* $7.14. But the
American soldier gets $19 a month in
time of peace, with a M per cant in-
in time of war.
The South is on the Upward Trend In
the Raising of Wheat.
From the Southern Field.
In the production of wheat the
South Is participating In that change
respecting the distribution of progress
to nn extent that has excited an inter
ested comment by the secretary of
agriculture. That official. In reviewing
condltons made apparent In 190.7, and
made still more noticeable In 1901, al
though detailed reports are not yet
mndo up, said: "During the long
period of time when the new and pro
ductive land of the West was easily
obtained, nnd when the number of
fnrma and the* amount of production
there multiplied at an amazing rate,
the farmers of the Eaat and ths South
suffered under a severe competition
and an Impending over-production,
and agriculture In those sections,
apart from cottoq production, wns out
stripped In th* agricultural expansion
of the West. Sines 1190, however,
there haa been a turn In the trend of
this expansion; the northern half of
the Mississippi Valley la not over
shadowing the other sections of the
country in its rate of expansion
formerly; an Improvement In the wel
fare of farmers- in other sections of
the county, ns well ns In the North
Central states, ta in evidence. "The
South, which had been backward in its
corn production for many years pre
ceding 1890, finds Itself alnce that time
with Its fraction of the national pro
ductlon of corn Increasing faster than
that of any other section; the same la
true with regard to wheat." etc., etc.
Preparing for Larger Production.
The agricultural rehabilitation of
the South has proceeded along lines
which have beep preparatory
greatly increased production of wheat
and as might well be expected under
auch circumstance*, corn, grass and
live stock, rather than wheat, are tho
present concern of the Southern farm
er. As fast ss the Southern farm Im
proves through the renovating efforts
of the grasses, legumes nnd grains
fed to live stock, to that extent will be
noted an increasing production
wheat In the South. The change,
noted by the secretary of agriculture
will become more pronounced with
each passing year. Today the South
ern states traversed by the Southern
railway line* nr* more notable by re.v
eon of the vbry conclusive object les
son* In wheat growing than In a large
aggregate production of the cereal
but enough has been accomplished
along thia line to satisfy the practical
farmer that wheat Is destined to be
come ss distinctive of the South a*
Is of other part* of the country, with
maximum yields, where proper
methods of farming are employed,
equal to the performance of the best
wheat lands of the West. The total
area devoted to wheat growing In
Southern railway states In 1909 was
4.194.480 acres, distributed as follows
Virginia. 804.557 acres; North Caro
lino. $99,040 acres; South Carolina.
970,2$ 1 acres; Georgia, 299.958 acres
Alabama. 112.129 acres; Mississippi.
3.84$ acree: Tennessee, 1,089,531 acres,
and Kentucky, 950,029 acre*. The to
tal production on this area was 30.
914.595 bushels, and wfille the average
woe only 7.3 hushela as compared with
19.3 for the country at large this aver
age Is largely influenced, aa In the
esse of corn, by the participation
the tenant and hts inefficient methods.
On the oth*r hand, the very best ex
ample* of wheat growing, in point
prodfiptlon per arre, found In the
South, compare* favorably with other
sections. The Southern farmer who
producing from 25 to 50 bushels per
acre Is Increasing fn number*.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
One of the lessons to be gleamed
from Carlyle's "Past and Present,"
which is a kind of epic on men as
worker or doer, Is that ths saddest
creatures on the broad earth are the
idlers, or those who have not found
their work in the world. Standing in
the sharpest contrast with the rugged
Carlylean philosophy is the pleasant
protest of Lamb, the essayist, in his
"Superannuated Man." When released,
an elderly man, from the post of a
clerk, he described himself as a pris
oner who had been liberated from a
bastile after forty years' confinement;
as one who "hid passed from time into
Eternity—for It is a sort of eternity
for a roan to have all his time to him
self." The only "true time, which a
man can properly call his own,” he
said, "Is that which he has all to him
self;" and he adds humorously:
"It is Lucretlan pleasure to behold
the poor drudges, whom I have left
behind In the world, carki.ng and car
ing; like horses in a mill, druglng on
the same eternal round—and what
It all for? A man can neyer have
too much time to himself, nor too little
<Jo. Had I a little son, I would
christen him Nothlng-to-Do; he should
do nothing. Man, I verily believe, is
out of his element ns long as he is opr
erative. I am altogether for the life
contemplative. Will no kindly earth
quake. come nnd swnllow up those ac
cursed cotton mills? Take me that
lumber of a desk there, and bowl It
down ‘as low as the fiends.’"
Tho world has fortunately come to
adopt the Carlylean view, though it
seems not so pleasant by half as the
Lamb attitude. The verdict on the tri
fling Idler is decisive. He is not doing
his duty In the world; he reaps where
he does not sow; his example !b bad;
his course Is futile; his idleness and
uselessness lead to his own deteriora
tion, and "in America, where every
body works," one of the harshest terms
of opprobrium Is the word "loafer."
This industrial age Is In perfect har
mony with the ancient Englishman who
declared that the destiny of all trades
sweet, "whether of the browe or of
the mind,” and that "God never al
lowed any man to do nothing." How
miserable Is the condition, he says, of
those men who spend time as If it were
given them, and not lent; as If hours
were waste creatures, and such ns
never should be accounted for. And
our Franklin summed up the American
Idea when he snid that the moat preci
ous of things was time, for It is the
stuff of which life is
It Is possible to construe the lesson
too literally and not place the right
value on leisure, confounding It with
Idleness. Leisure Is not necessarily
idleness; It la that blessed state to
which the man attains who may
choose his occupation or employment
people, though It seems harsh to
say so, are capable of using leisure
aright. If all people were to be sud
denly given the opportunity to do as
they please, or to do nothing, the
world would probably be turned up
side down. The naturalist who made
the Interesting experiment with a hive
of bees, which he took from a northern
cllrqe nnd liberated In the tropical
West Indies, has given us a pretty no
curate notion of the conduct of human
beings who should be suddenly released
from the necessity to labor. The bees
found in a very short time that they
did not need to store up honey for
their guidance, because nil nature
bloomed all the year 'round; acoord
Ingly they stopped work entirely and
spent their time In riotous living.
The great triumphs In civilization
and in individual character have been
achieved by ztruggllng against diffl
cultlcs. Foresight, mainly resolution,
patience. Intellectual growth, have
been dearly bought by tremendous ef
fort. It is a law of nature that thing*
of value are to be fought for. And yet
there Is a piece for leisure. If all the
peoples of the earth had never
achieved some measure of leisure we
should still be in the dark ages. If all
men ."worked sore and fared 111;" If all
were day laborers doomed to unremit
ting toll of the hardest and most ex
hausting kind: If there were not and
had never been time for Anything but
Incessant toll for the bare manna of
subsistence, our churches, our schools
and colleges, our libraries, our arts
and sciences, the triumphs of civil
ised life, our broad humnn feeling, the
splendors of genius, would all be lack
ing.
Heroic peoples have worked under
the hardest physical conditions—ns
the Puritans who aided In founding a
great republic; hut It wae under the
impulse of a religious fervor and a
love of liberty of which the founda
tions had been laid by Illustrious men
—divines, statesmen, philosophers and
thinker*—who hnd Improved the op
portunities granted by leisure to eet
England aflame with their ideas.
high development intellectually
nnd morally seems to require *ome re
lease from it dull round of hard effort
There should he provision In every
man's Ilf* for some leisure. The re
sult of the letsure will depend on the
wisdom with which it Is used. It has
been said that the severest test of
man's character Is the kind of amuse
ments he chooses; the way in which
he uses his leisure. Those who devote
their leisure to the Inane pleasures af
fected by many of the idle rich in all
countries show that they are not fitted
to exercise the privilege* which have
come to them; but equally foolish are
those who 7 In the mad quest of busl-
slave from mom until night, year
In and year out. without gaining any
knowledge of what the great men of
all ages have bequeathed to ua In books
in art: who know nothing of the
progress of science; who remain ig
norant of their own country, and ap
pear to be careless of Its political and
social destiny; who neglect their very
families, and with a kind of 1
ing frenzy seek money alone.
Thoee who never c.m *win the slight.
■ore U* FhBaXripftSS^rea*
•‘Dabster doesn't shout sod hzram
njurh about high art as he used ta
• No «e« the last thing he ezhtb-
MW' by the banging commit-
Slow Up, of Before You Know It Yt-»
May Be Off the Track.
The limited goes sixty miles an hour.
In the smoker men Joke and play cards
and tell riaque stories. The day coach
es are crowded and comfortless. The
heavy sleepers as they sway to and fro
make only gentle rocking for the peo
ple who chat and read and nap. Crash!
Engine and cars and flesh and blood
are ground up together in a shapeless
mass. Off the track!
‘ So goes humanity’s train. Here is a
boy who got to running on a fast
schedule. He began by pilfering from
hla father's till. As he grew older he
made faster time. Down grade he
goes, and soon cornea the crash. News
boys cry a murder and a suicide. The
crowd halts for a moment. His friends
murmur, "I never thought he was so
bad!" A young man is off the track!
A young girl thinks her mother Is
too slow for these record breaking
times. Mother is "old fashioned." The
girl goes to places her mother has
warned her she should not frequent.
The bloom Is brushed from the fruit.
• • • One day a brazen, drunken
creature, cursing and shrieking, la
loaded into the patrol wagon. A wo
man is off the track!
A man gets in a hurry to be rich.
His father went slowly, carefully, suc
cessfully. But father's methods will
not do. What’s the use of moiling and
tolling when a quicker way may well
do the business? 'So-and-so has spec
ulated successfully. Surely I am as
shrewd as he. • • • A pistol shot,
man is off the track!
Our age is a rapid one. Business and
Society go at a sixty mile clip. Rather
than be sidetracked for a time men
will drive their trains into the ditch.
Many of them run wild. There are fre
quent collisions and wrecks innumera
ble by getting off the track.
Look out, thriving but venturesome
merchant and reckless young woman
and gay young man! The race Is not
to he swift alone. Put on the brakes.
Slow up. or before you know It you will
be off the track.—Milwaukee Journal.
! YOUR NEW YEAR’S DINNER
will not ba complete without
Jell=0
America’s most popular desert, which
received Highest Award. Gold Medal,
at St. Louis Exposition. An artistic
table decoration that also pleases the
palate. Very eaxy to prepare. Six
choice flavor,:—Lemon. Orange, Rasp
berry, Strawberry, Chocolate and Cher-
Order a package ot each today
from your grocer, 10c. When you
make Ice Cream use Jell-0 ICE
CREAM Powder. All Ingredient, in
the package. At all grocers.
Hotel Lanier
American and European Flan
Cafe Open Until
12 Midnight.
Your Patronage Solicited
J. A. Newcomb,
Proprietor.
The Plaza Hotel
MACON, GEORGIA.
The Largest Flower.
From American Gardening.
The Rafflesla Is a strange plant.
R ows In Sumatra nnd derives Its r.-
om Sir Stamford Raffles, Governor of
Sumatra, at one time, and his friend.
Dr. Arnold, a naturalist. They were the
first white men to discover the wonder
ful plant. It I* said to be the largest
and most magnificent flower In the
world. It la composed of five roundish
petals, each a foot across and of a brick
•cd color, covered with numerous irregu-
*r yellowish white swellings. The petals
surround a cup nearly a foot wide, the
margin of which bears the stamens.
The cup is filled with a fleshy disk, the
upper surface of which Is everywhere
covered with projections like miniature
cow’s horns. The cup when free from its
contents would hold about 12 pints of
water. The flower weighs 15 pounds. It
Is very thick, the petals being ’three-
quarters of an Inch in thickness. With Its
beauty one Is led to expect sweetness,
but its odor is that of tainted beef, and
Dr. Arnold supposed that even the flies
were deceived by the smell and were de
positing their eggs in the thick disk,
taking it for a pie — tea
A New Hotel, w'th Spacious Sam
ple Rooms. All modern conveniences.
CAFE CATERS ESPECIALLY
TO BANQUETS AND
WEDDING PARTIES.
ED. LOH & CO., Proprietors.
. piece of carrion.
Idle Hour
Nurseries
109 Cotton ave. , « > . Macon, Ga.
GROWERS OF
CHOICE CUT FLOWERS.
ROSES, CARNATIONS, ETC.
Wedding bouquets and reception
flowers a specialty.
Artistic funeral designs.
Prompt attention given to out-of-
town ordet*.
Decorative plants rented.
TELEPHONE 224.
THE FAIR STORE
R. F. SMITH, Proprietor
507 Cherry Street
12 Candle Holders and 12 Candles 10c
ABC Block*. Be.
Toy Books, 5c and 10c.
Iron Automobiles, 10c.
Iron Trains, 10c.
Ooat and Cart, 10c.
Horse and Cart, 10c.
Iron Fire Engines. 10c.
Ten sets, 6c, 10c and 25c.
Swords, 5c.
Walking Stick end box ammuni
tion, 6c.
Doll Cradles, 10c.
Men’s Four-In-Hand Ties, 10c.
Vases, 10c, 25c and 50c.
Fine Bohemian Water Sets.
China Tea Sets. $5.00,
Mnddocks* and Johnson’s high grade
white ware.
Fine China Cake Plates, 25c.
Jardlnier*. 10c.
Colored Cuapadorex, 10c.
Gold Band China Fruit Saucers, 50c
for six.
German and Holland Bowls, 5c, 10c,
est release from the struggle for a
bare existence are to be pitted, but
those who have the opportunities
which leisure afford*, and yet do noth,
tng more for their own improvement
than the unfortunates who cannot
have the opportunity, are ths true bar
barians.
Reflection* of *
From the N«w York
After frill* bill*.
Nearly always a woman
ht In the ■
r get-
takes
.» —- - ■ direction.
A man ho* to have very thin tag
give hlmrelf *wwy e* a woman does
ting on a street ear.
When there » whiskey in the deean-
ter it is a elgn^that a man has fast either
**Wh.n » •» “nrtl ant h> tk*
rain with her beet l»t on it |e a caution
the way she can spock her cUXd for gel
ling Its feet wsL
15c and 25c.
See our line Moesalc Gloss Vases, 10c
China Cups and Saucers, 10c to 25c.
Blaque Figures, 10c.
10c Belts for 6c. 1
Chamber Sets. $100 and $4.00.
Fine China Mugs. 10c.
Gold Band Glassware.
Colored Bowl* and Pitchers.
Brown House,
MACON, GA.
Stubbs & Etheridge
Proprietors.
Opp. Union Station.
Kno.vn throughout the South
for the excellence of its ac*
commodations and service.
Careful attention paid Every
Guest. Cuisine Unsurpassed.
Rates Reasonable.
Curran R. Ellis
Offices: 4, 6 and 6 Ellis Bldg.,
Cherry st.. Cotton ave. and First st
Phone 239 Macon, Ga.
ARCHITECTS.
P. E. DENNIS, Architect.
668 Cherry st., Macon, Ga.
Twenty years experience and suc
cessful practice.
OCULIST AND AURIST.
DR. MAURY M. STAPLER,
Oculist and Aurist.
Office. 556 Cherry Street,
Day ’Phone, 2271. Night ’Phone 3053.
DR. J. H. 6HORTER.
Eye, Ear. Nose, Throat
Cherry and Second Streets.'
Thone 972, office. Residence, 3073.
DR. W. P. RU8HIN,
Ear. Nose. Throat and Electro-The-
rapent 1st. ‘Phone 2708. 6f»6 Cherry st.
Alexander Blair
& Kern ....
Architects,
673 CHERRY ST MACON. GA.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
Classified advertisements under
this head are Intended strictly for
the orotessicns.
OSTEOPATHY
°R. f; F. JONES. Osteopath.
1M Second Bt. 'Phone. siO-SOlO.
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.
GABRIEL R. SOLOMON,
Civil Engineer,
Plane, Estimates, Surveys,
668 Cherry Street, Macon. Ga.
Office Phone 962—Residence Phone 169
INTERNATIONAL
KEROSENE ENQINE6
Stationery. _ Portable,
for Lighting,
and
Outfits, all kinds of
chlnery. Launches
.fiend for tata-
logue and prices.
International Power Vehl
c!e Co.. 850 Third fit..
Macon. al'
BY MAIL
Best
Sewing-Machine
Needles
FOR ALL
MAKES OF
MACHINES
ONLY 5 CENTS
Per Package.
Postage one cent for 1 to 90 package.
' Send coin or (tamps. State kinds
wanted. Address
The Singer Mfg. Co.
563 Cherry st, Macon, Ga.
CIVIL ENGINEERING.
DENTISTRY.
DR. ADDIEL M. JACKSON, D.ntUL
Office on second floor Comra.rcUl
Bank Building, Triangular Block. Tel
ephone MS.
Cherry Bt. ’Phone No. J0«.
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEON8.
DR. MARY E. MeKAY,
Special attention to Obitetrlei and
Diiexeet of Women.
Commercial Bank Building.
Phones: Office. 5554: Residence, J57J.
Macon, Go.
ABSTRACTS.
DR. W. H. WHJPPLe.
Office, 573 Mulberry St., rooms 4 and 5.
Washington Block. Hours: 9 to 10 a. m.
12 to 1. and 6 to 6 p. m. Telephone con
nections at office end residence.
DR. J. J. SUBER8.
Permanently located. In the special
ties venereaL Lost energy restored.
Female irregularities and poison pak;
cure guaranteed. Address in confi
dence. with stamp, 61$ Fourth street.
EYES TESTED FREE.
^ G. G. COFFY,
Graduate Optician. 559 Cherry it.
GEORGIA TITLE & GUARANTY CO.
L H ENGLISH. Pres. J. J. COBB, Sec.
T. B. WLBT, Alt*.
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