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I SUNDAY MORNING-, MAY 24, 1903 THE MACON DAILY TELEGRAPH: UMBRELLA CANOPIES I WAGON AND BUGGY For Open Buggies and Surries. UMBRELLAS. Best orade. 48x48 $10 00'Best grade $2.75 Second grade. 48x48 $7.50 ' Almost best grade $2 50 I bird grade, round $5.00 Third grade S1.75 Surrey sizes $15.00 to $25.00 I Advertising Umbrella $1.25 DUPLEX BOLSTER SPRINGS (' Horse, 1,000 lbs. ca- ; .£§SsaEl&fi*-' pa city, per set $6.00 .. —.... K w Two ho.-se, 2.o00 fbs. ca- pacity, per set $7.50 Two horse, 3,000 lbs. ca- ^ pacity. per set $9.00 ECONOMY BOLSTER SPRINGS tJUJUlg .... .... - :--U J.. \X Farm Wagon Bows, per set. $1.25. Covers for peach wagons. 8 oz. duck. 12x16 ft., $5.00. One horse, 1,500 lbs. capacity, grad uated, per set, $4.00. Two horse, 2,500 lbs. capacity, grad uated, per set, $500 In ordering Bol ster Springs give distance between standards. GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS A TURFMAN OLD RECORDS SHOW THAT THE FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY FOL LOWED THE GAME WHICH IS with which he was to change the map of Europe whenever he felt that he needed exercise. Chicago was a trad ing post on the southwestern shores of Lake Michigan, where Sac. Fox, NOW SO MUCH DENOUNCED- i « e h '™- ^/'“nerat^Tlini Indian RECORD OF A RACE HE WON AT ^^“IronUe™. notMng^like CHARLESTON. s. S. PARMELEE CO. VEHICLES, HARNESS, BICYCLES MACON, GA. COME AND INSPECT The magnificent Burglar Proof Safety Deposit Boxes in the new Steel and Fire Proof Vault just put m hy the American National Bank Spacious boxes from $3.50 to $20 per an- fum. Your deeds, Bonds and valuable apers will he safe m them. . J. TAYLOR. President R W. JOHNSTON, Vice Pres. L. P. HILLYER. Vice President OSCAR E. DOOLY. Cashier Directors—R. J. Taylor, W. M. Jo linston, R. W. Johnston. B. P. O'Neal, T. N. Baker, S. Popper, B T. Adams, O. A. Park and A. E. Chappell. “MOKON” The fast registered trotting stallion. A beautiful horse; sired by Moko (sire of Fereno 2.05 K and 30 others}, dam by AUerton 2.09U (sire of Locanda 2.02 and 175 others). Service tee. $25.60 to insure. Branan’s Stable Poplar Street George Washington was not only "first in war. first in peace and-first in the hearts of his countrymen;” he was also first at the good old game of horse racing. There was good red blood in the country gentleman of Revolutionary days. Washington loved a horse, and he knew the points of a dainty bit of racing flesh. His own stud, was one of the best in his day. He was a con sistent patron of the race track, and not infrequently carried off the purna. The following excerpt from the City Gazette and Daily Advertiser, pub lished in Charleston. S. C., tells its own story. The paper from which It is taken is the property of L. Z. Phillips, of this city, says the Boston Herald. The printing, in the original, is of the quaint old English style, in which the letter ”s” was barely to be dis tinguished from the letter "f,” and in which black type shouldered italics in a way which would shock the modern printer’s idea of conventionality. The letter reads: SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. Washington Course. Yesterday the first Jockey Club purse was run for, over this course, four- mile heats: General Washington’s horse Shark 1 1 Mr. Singleton’s mare Grey hound Col. Hampton’s gelding Harpoon.3 The following horses are entered to start for the second purse this day. three-mile heats: Major McPherson's Merry Andrew, 4 years old. to carry 106 pounds. Dress. Straw color and red cap. Mr. Nisbet’s mare Alorack, 6 years o’d. to *csrry 126 pounds. Dress: Plaid and huff. Mr. Singleton’s gelding Highlander, 6 years old. to carry 80 pounds. Dress: Blue and pink cap. Mr. Bellinger's horse Mogul. 5 years old, to carry 120 pounds. Dress: Pur ple. General Washington was not without honor in his own country, as may be learned from the following excerpt from another issue of the same paper: Alexandria. October 20. 1700. Lieutenant General George Washing ton haa returned to the peaceful shades of :,!t. Vernon. He was met at a little distance from the town by the differ ent militia companies, who saluted him passed and afterward <.’'od a .2 3 voi'ey. As almost even- one knows. Wash ington died In December 1700. less than two months after this race at Alexandria was run. of pneumonia, brought on by a cold contracted bv exposure in rainy weather. And there was a vast difference between the American of 1700 and the American of today. Washington was generally con ceded to be the wealthiest American citizen, and his wealth consisted chief ly of land and live stock There were no railroads, no telegraphs, no pool rooms, no reformers and few cranks. The great Napo’eon had just suc- as important as either Mjchllimackinac or Detroit. San Francisco was a lone- lv Catholic mission, and Fulton's steamboat was of as little practical use as is the airship of today. Pittsburg was still called Fort Pitt by Ameri cans and English and Fort Duquesne by Canadians. Cincinnati was just be ginning to rear her comely head on the banks of the limpid Ohio, and St. Louis was a trading post, flaunting the flag of the degenerate Spanish Bourbons. Denver. Kansas City. St. Paul. Minne apolis. Seattle and Portland were un dreamed of. Virginia was the most populous of the entire English colonies, which twelve years before, after having waged a successful war for separation from Great Britain, adopted a federal constitution that to this day is pretty generally regarded the “grandest edi fice to human liberty ever erected by the genius of man,” if we may be per mitted to borrow a rather ornate phrase from one of the late Charles James Fox's ^rations. There is nothing In that constitution against horse racing—by the way Gen eral Washington raised his thorough breds on his farm in Westmoreland County. Va., just below Washington. -Westmoreland afforded better pastur- aeg in those days than it does today. Large tracts of its sod had not been disturbed by the plow. The grasses grew naturally and were succulent to a degree. To get from Virginia to Charleston in Washington's days was a tedious and ex pensive undertaking. The horses were led over dirt roads and as meetings were brief and purses small the Father of His Country never passed up the chances of winning the expenses of the trip by means of betting when he thought he had a chance good enough to win. In the good old days of Washington, when his former vice president, John Adams, sat in his capacious chair. Charleston was one of the considerable cities of the Atlantic seaboard. Philadel phia was the metropolis and New York was in second place, with Boston and Bal timore well up. Charleston pressed Bos ton and Baltimore closely in competition for trade and population, and its people were well-to-do lovers of outdoor sport. Everybody that was anybody attended the races and any person who had sug gested that the- be prevented by statute from btting would have been considered a fit subject for the bughouse, although they did not call it bughouse in those days. Bughouse is a modern vulgarism. Immediately before the Civil War Charleston was still a great racing cen ter. But the war impoverished the peo ple of South Carolina and Charleston fell from her high estate. Charleston has grown little in pontilation since the war. Other towns of the South, which were mere villages when it was a metropolis, have stridden past her In material prog ress. But Charleston is regaining her wealth, and with returning opulence the ingrained liking for racing Is reviving in the peo ple. It is not surprising, therefore, that certain enterprising citizens are just now making an effort to establish a track for first-class winter racing. The promoters of this enterprise lieve it to be a reasonable one Really there is no reason why racing at the big gest town of South Carolina, where freezing weather Is a novelty even when the winters are most severe, should not pay. especially if the Legislature of Vir ginia authorizes sport in the Old Domin- ceeded in marshaling the brilliant sol- I lor | ? n< J Charleston becomes one racing 1 ’ pMnt of a circuit including: such cities as (Jlprv rlr>fn n/'f Frenpl, Ul ^ i ircuil inuiuning 5511011 CHIOS aS fntn the r, T Republic I Richmond Lynchburg. Norfolk, Wilming- in *_2 irresistible fighting masses ton, Savannah and Augusta. ' NA-- Chloride Accumulator : f J 9 - - ■■■■J (STORAGE BATTERY) systems installed for residential and iso lated lighting plants. W. H. Singleton Something About Good Roads ‘‘Exilic’’ Sparking Battery. Phone 1234. 219 Third Street. Do You Use Light or Power? Yes? Then you surely need our superior Electric Light and Power Service. Its advantages are so many; its de fects—if any—so slight that in the interest of efficiency and convenience you owe It to yourself to get our free estimate this very day. Special price made on power for day load consum ers. We are manufacturers’ agents and sell motors for all purposes. Macon Railway & Light Co. From the Metropolitan Magazine. In many sections of this country there I is stiil need of aggressive .work on I the pert of those who know how to i arouse enthusiasm. In other words, the primary move in road reform, as I we'l a:< in all great movements, is the | agitation which awakens individuals I from a state of lethargy and puts their! minds into a rereptive mood, and thus ! insures the lodgment of seed in fertile soil. The old pathmaster who has never i had any practical experience with the construction and maintenance of ma cadam roads naturally leans to the, opinion that what was good enough for his father and grandfather must : of necessity be all right for him. He looks upon the first cost of proper highways as excessive, as increasing I his taxes without giving in return rea- 1 sonnble benefits. Such an one needs enlightenment. He is at sea and with out a compass. How often have we seen a country dirt road “repaired” by simply plow ing out the gutters and dumping the matter into the middle of the highway, securing for a time at least better drainage and a more even surface, but) resulting in no permanent improve ment. as the same work, both in kind and amount, is done each succeeding •K-H-t-J- I D. F. & C. P. LONG P. 0. Box No. 506, Jacksonville, Fla. —SOLE AGENTS— KINSEY PURE RYE WHISKEY. BOTTLED IN BOND. Distilled in year 1903; bottled 1908. Each bottle bears the wording according to decision rendered by United States Attorney General as being a pure rye whiskey. Sealed with United States revenue stamp, which sig nifies the age. The above absolutely guarantees the purity of this goods. Full quarts $ 1.00 Twelve full quarts $11.00 We wish to call vour special attention to the express rates, as fol- jr lows, these rates applying only only when amount of express is re- J mitted with order, so charges may be nrepaid from this point: Four X to eight quarts, 60c.; twelve quarts, 90c. J, ± -*-«-* * . - T It would prove of great interest to the inhabitants of any farming district to study in tabulated form—arranged for quick comprehension—the value of the labor expended each year in their town by those who "work out” their road taxes. We all are quick enough in seeing the difference between pro ductive and non-prorluctlve labor, and experience has proved that when farm ers sense the amount of loss which goes with the old methods, they are not only ready but eager for a change. When the agitator has caught the at tention of the community and carried conviction with his arguments and illus trations. he. or his co-laborer, must be in a position to propose available meth ods and practical means of attaining the desired results. It is a psychological problem, and the sequence must he skil fully arranged. There is no use in for bidding a drinker to enter saloons. Go at it in *a radically different way and give him something that will take the place of and supplant the bar. and he will be started in the better direction. The initiative steps in the solution of any practical problem cost high In en- ergv. and call for a peculiar kind of ability; but it is not difficult at this stage of the game to secure forceful, interesting speakers, well equipped with the right data, for the successful w'ork of agitators. The county fair offers a peculiarly good opening for starting road reform. Here are gathered the brain and sinew of the community—intent, it is true, on diversion and recreation, but equally alive to the material benefits to be de rived from the numerous meetings where a free interchange of ideas Ls insured. Secure some good speakers: make it known by circular or through the col umns of the county and town papers that the good roads problem at the next county fair is to l*e discussed by local talent, and bv men trained in the actual Held work of this important business. There will be no difficulty in securing interested audiences, and it will be the exception if results are not manifested, either in the change of feeling or in the organization of n reform movement, j Meetings of boards of trade, granges both State and local, educational conventions, chambers of commerce, and such func tions ^re also good starting points for effective work in the good reads move ment. In this connection it should be kept in mind that the leading educational insti tutions of the country, like the Massa chusetts Institute of Technology. the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University, ris well as the agricultural colleges throughout the country have taken up In a scientific way the study of roads and road materials, and in many instances have f>rtablished deprtments in highwy engineering. They are turning out each year a number of bright, force ful young men whose education, both practical and in theory, has fitted them to become expert workers in this reform, a movement of as much importance as river and harbor improvements, tho pre servation of our forests, or the artificial irrigation of the arid regions of the West. The good oads orator of today shows his audience the many advantages, pe cuniary and otherwise, of the modern method of procedure. He emphasizes by illustrations the great enhancement of land values in regions where passable highways are maintained throughout the year. He touches a responsive chord when be forces home the fact that the conditions of the highways in many cases is the direct cause of profit or loss In the agricultural districts. It is not so many years ago that the farmers in the West burned corn on the cob as fuel, simply because it could not be transported at a profit to the nearest shipping centers. No man who has once I^st a chance to sell his produce at a fine figure can fail to remember that com modities can be sold to the best advan tage when the market is ready, not when he is ready. It is fair to add that, as a rule, the highest prices prevail -when the farmer is hampered by impassable roads, so that, he must haul wh e n he can. not when he wants to. and this means that a middleman carries the produce and reaps a material benefit except, of course, in the case of perishables. It is true that. «ther thing* filing equal, there would not be so much of a fluctuation in prices if all road** were good roads. But the gen eral benefit to the community at large, and to the farmer in particular, would not bo lessened. After the ball has once started rolling in the right direction it is not a difficult matter to turn local activity toward the formulation and completion of plans. It mav be said with emphasis that the best method is to appoint a State High way Commission, and to give to such commission the entire supervision of the expenditures of all moneys appropriated by the Legislature, either for the build ing of new State roads or for taking over old ways and maintaining them as State thoroughfares. Skilled supervision both in construction and maintenance is the key to success. It should be added that the work ought to be so carried on as to interest and employ local talent, to train town and county employes in the best methods of road-making and up keep. so that carried to its ultimatum the reform would be educational as well as practical, and result in a wide dis semination of the best knowledge on the subject. As soon as enough local interest has been aroused, the matter should be made a political issue, and representatives to the Legislature urged, if not! nstrueted. to frame such an enactment as would insure a skilful and proper handling of the question throughout the State, and road commissioners of both counties and States should keep in touch and co-oper ate with such men as Hon. Walter E. Page, who is at present in charge of the office of rosd inouirv. department of ag riculture. Washington. D. C.. because that bureau of the United States is con stantly collecting and publishing ex tremely valuable information about the United States roads, road materials and the best ways of building and keeping up proper highways. The present property owners are quite richt in their position that the entire ex pense of road reform should not be shouldered by them, because the greater benefit will accrue to posterit. The State of New York has handled this Phase of the question in an ethical fash ion. in that the legislative enactment provided for the issuance of $50,000,000 of road bonds so arranged in the matter of payments of interest, etc. that a re tiring fund is created, and at the end of the period of issuance, both the principal and the interest will have been liqui dated. This means of course that the inheritors of a few* years to come will enjoy the benefits and pay part of the expense of the good roads built in New York State during the next few vears. To sum up: Seek first the proper agi tation locally: then a State law to secure skill in nil branches of the work, and an equitable financing of the entire scheme. Pedestrian Rights. The right of the pedestrian to the road is gradually being wrested from him. and certainly most motor drivers have little respect for him. This right must not be yielded and the conductors of motor traf fic on the roads must be made to learn that pedestrians have as much claim to the use of the road as thev have. What we think should be done now that the old relatively slow horse traffic is being so rapidly ousted by motor vehicles is that more “islands” should be placed in the main streets.—Lancet CANNING SEASON' CannCD 90 QTS. TOMATOES AO - “ CHOW-CHOW 30*” PEACHES SO ••• < APPLCS 20’-'** CHI LI pickles FRUIT AND VEGETABLES OCD5R OPEN I PREPARE FOR IT ' 1 VEGETABLES Jr_ \LAST>SEASON XTTITH this Practical Apparatus, ladies VV I **“ J J may overcome absolutely, the dread of steam burning, blistered hands; and accomplish more satisfactory results from their efforts during the short season in which this important work Is possible. Lasts forever. ifARVWTTrt holder; And OPENE RjbIN SE SUSPENDER PRICE 60 CENTS Sent by Mail on Receipt of Price Silver. Postage or Money Order And if not Entirely Satisfactory We Will Cheerfully Refund Amount Paid A NICE INCOME OFFERED LADIES Agency Given to Ladies or Gentlemen in Every Town. Send 60c. for Soliciting Outfit. -NOTA BLISTER .NOR A BURN IT SELLS ON SIGHT. GRAHAM NOVELTY GO., P.O.Box 887 ATLANTA, GA. NEW FRUIT LINE The Cuban Commercial Company, with a capital of $3,000,000. shares $10.00 each, transporting passen gers and freight, and dealing in the products of Cuba and Porto Rico Is to be inaugurated at once. Since the close of the Spanish war immigration to those Islands has been going on at a wonderful rate, hundreds of Florida orange and fruit growers have transferred their interests to Cuba, where they have no frosts and thousands of others have followed suit. „ ... The marketing of the products of these growers constitutes the greater part of the business of th.s com- P 5 With the installation of a regular line of steamships plying between the smaller as well as_ the larger ports of Cuba and Savannah, Ga. these products will be marketed in Chicago in 72 hours and at other Central Western points in corresponding time. . . . Fruits and vegetables will be purchased by the Company’s agents; taken upon consignment or- transport- ed for planters and growers at satisfactory rates of freight. ... There is a great demand for this service by the small growers and the Company’s agents at every port will have no difficulty in securing plenty of freight every trip , „ , Connecting traffic arrangements will be made with the Southern Railway and the Louisville and Nashville R. R. at Savannah for points north and west, and similar arrangements with the Cuba Railroad at Antilla for all interior Cuban points. A large winter passenger traffic can be depended upon. Two refrigerator steamships with ample capacity for passengers and freight have been placed at the Company’s option for this service. The company has under option a tract of 5.000 acres of land in Cuba, upon which will be founded an Amer ican Colony, and this land will soon toe thrown open to the public for this purpose. Management. The affairs of the Company are in the hands of an Executive Committee composed of experienced and capable business men of great enterprise and energy. Each ship will carry a representative with full power to enter into and carry out contracts, and personally supervise the service extended to passengers, thus assuring both safety and comfort, and as the winter travel will be considerable the income from this source alone will more than pay expenses. Stockholders will naturally be considered where positions are created or vacancies occur. Your Opportunity. To enable the management to carry out these plans as above outlined the full paid and non-assessable Treasurv Stock of the Company is now offered for public subscription as follows: 10,000 OF THESE $10.00 SHARES WILL BE SOLD AT $2.00 PER SHARE—GOOD UNTIL JUNE 1st. ONLY. (Note—This advertisement appears this week in all the Middle Western States; there will be a general rush for the stock at this price.) AFTER JUNE 1st. 10,000 SHARES WILL BE OFFERED AT $3.00 PER SHARE—GOOD ONLY UNTIL AUGUST 1st, at which time the price will be advanced to $4.00 per share; and as fast as the money can be judi ciously invested further offerings will be made, but always at an advance of One Dollar per share over the pre vious offering, up to $10.00 per share. ..... This stock will eventually be listed upon the different exchanges, but not until It sells at $10.00 per share, which will probably be within one year.; 500 Per Cent. Advance Original purchasers of the stook at $2.00 per share will be able to secure 500 per cent profit on their in vestment when the stock sells at par ($10.00 per share), hut as the company will earn and pay dividends of 25 per cent or more at that time, it is doubtful if the owners of the stock will care to sell even though It will toe a satisfaction to know they can sell at that figure if they choose. June 1st. The stock will positively advance in price to $3.00. Unless purchasers get their orders in early the Company cannot guarantee that they will get any at $2.00 as only 10,000 shares will toe sold at that figure and as this offer Is made to the entire Middle Western States it will not last long. . . , , . . .. . , . .. (Note—This stock offering is made to the Middle West because the principal part of the business In the United States will be done in that territory and the Company believes it good policy to confine the sale of Stock to the territory in which the business is to be done.) • . ., . . , . _ , Special inducements will be offered to people engaged in the Fruit or Vegetable business as also to Colon ists and Planters In Cuba and Porto Rico. .... . . _ . No enterprise of modern times presents such an opportunity for specu’qtive investment. The Company has a great future and to far-seeing business men and women the present prie„ of $2.00 per share for this Stock should look like a rare bargain. Do It Now! Fill out the attached coupon at once and mall with P. O. money order, express money order, registered let ter or bank draft payable to the order of Massachusetts Loan & Guarantee Co, Registrars and Transfer Agents. Journal Building. Boston, Mass. CUBAN COMMERCIAL CO. 262 Washington Street Boston, Mass. bE ^ O ci o fi *2 To The Cuban Commercial Company., Boston, Mass. Gentlemen:—Enclosed find for which please send me... able stock of your Company. Name Address .... dollar* ’ shares of the full paid and non-assess- (N. B.—The above proposition sho uld appea Istrongly to the public spirl t of the citizens of Savannah and the State of Georgia generally. Do You Want To get your new house ready hy October first, which is moving time? Do you want to get the benefit of present ridiculously low prices of building material? Then it behooves you to get a move on quick. Bottom has been reached and passed. Demand among large buyers is increasing. Prices are already hardening. Delay will be expensive. Take our word for it and get busy before it is too late. Of course you will get best material from Massee & Felton Lumber Co. PHONE No. 1840 MACON, GA. In some Viennese schools a phono graph which repeats speeches as re cited by eminent actors has 'been in troduced In order to teach the pupils declamation. The President has nominated Chas. A. McAllister to be engineer-in-chief and Worth G. Ross to be captain com mandant in the Revenue Cutter Serv ice. . The Government of British India is se curing the views of chambers of com merce and other public bodies in that country relative to tts railways along the line of extension and general Im provements. ± A. I