A RUSTIC LANDMARK.
its
TRAN SSI BE RIAN ROAD.
Til* Mont Comfortable Railway Trav-
alliiK la the World.
“Two ongiiu'8 are required on heavy
grades, and special twenty wheel loco
motives are used on the hilly sections,”
writes William Greener concerning the
Transslherian railway In Ills hook. “A
Secret Agent In Port Arthur.” “Hot
water Is kept night ui«l day at most
stations, and the trains’ suffer severely
from the Inclement weather. The dou
ble windows are permanently frosted,
often the vestibule doors become fast,
great patches of frozen snow adhere to
tlie roofs, the sides and panels are hid
den under a thick white hoar and long
streaming icicles hang from the roof to
the bogy truck where the water from
the tank for the heating apparatus In
each carriage has splashed over during
the day’s run. At every large station
there Is a special gang of attendants,
who attack the train vigorously on its
arrival. They use hammers and crow
bars, iron rods heated red, long nam
ing torches, scalding water and even
light fires of shavings under the car
riages to free the brakes, and little by
little thaw out the working parts of
the frost boujid train.
"1 am still of the opinion that the
Transslherian state express trains af
ford the most comfortable railway
traveling In the world. The cars are
as luxurious, but not so sumptuous, as
the l’ullmau palace cars of America.
They are wider and give more accom
modation, and us the trains are run
solid through from Moscow to Irkutsk
meals are provided at every hour of
the day, and It Is not necessary to
breakfast before 7 one morning and
after !• the next, as sometimes happens
on the American through transcon
tinental routes.
"In the’suloon the piano Is a welcome
addition, the exercising apparatus Is
useful and the bath a convenience. The
observation car was not much fre
quented in winter, and the reason for
the existence of the photographer’s j
dark room, with Its dishes and trays, j
has departed, now that all photograph
ing along the route Is strictly prohibit
ed.”
PnriM Hotels.
Paris hotels are divided into four
classes, according to the price of a
room a night, as follows: Over 12
shillings, from (J shillings and sixpence
to 12 shillings, from 2 shillings to 0
shillings and sixpence, and, lastly, un
der 2 shillings. As an example of the
business done by hotels oi the first
class it may be noted that the lClysee
Palace hotel, at which the king of the
Belgians always puts up when in
Paris, in the course of last year served
118,000 meals and let out 77,000 rooms
to 10,0(10 persons. The Grand hotel put
up 30,000 persons and the Continental
20,(MM) in the same period. English
visitors were in the majority, number
ing 0,500 as against 5,000 French per
sons, the same number of Americans,
1,1-10 Germans and 008 Russians. Dur
ing the year of the last Paris exhibition
the Grand hotel made a profit of £00,-
ooo, more than double Its average re
turn, which is roughly £21,000 unnuully.
—London Globe.
The Birthplace of llornoe Greeley
Is Still Preserved.
Scarcely fifty miles from Boston, Iso
lated and alone, in a delightful rural
community among New Hampshire's
hills, sheltered by protecting oaks and
elms, decorated with fruitful orchards
and fertile gardens, surroui/.ded by
dense thickets of pine forests, homelike
and cozy, with all its woeful lack of
paint, is a quaint old fashioned farm
house.
It is not the roomy old domicile of
colonial days nor the rough, unfinished
and uncouth shack of a frontier farm
er, rather a small, real, homelike New
Hampshire farmhouse. Six rooms meas
ure the size of the house, with wood
shed and cattle barns near by.
The exact date when the i«d house
was built Is unknown, but It is a pro
duction of the colonial period of archi
tecture. for before tne Revolution a
band of counterfeiters occupied It and
here manufactured until captured by
the authorities their spurious coin.
A broad drive leads to the front door.
The exterior is black with age. ex
cept for a few decorated patches of re
cently applied clapboards to keep out
the wind. No blinds gunrd the win
dows. and the sunshine sparkles
through the small window panes with
out hindrance.
A front door and a side one are the
moans of egress and entrance. A large
strip of lawn fronts the house, and lie-
sides the efforts of nature man has un
knowingly aided in the beautifying by
an adornment In the shape of a huge
pile of pine and birch logs, the winter's
supply of fuel. Giant shade trees shel
ter the roadway leading to the house;
the blue peaks of the nearby hills look
down upon the fifty acres of fertile
farm land, where good crops of oats,
potatoes and Indian corn are grown;
the sharp ledges which jut from the
hillsides and the rocks which rise pro
miscuously hero and there among the
cornfields convincingly prove that the
fertility of these lands was the result
of much labor and trouble on the part
of the pioneer New England farmer.
Such is the exterior picture of Am
herst's most noted laiyjmnrk—the birth
place of Horace Greeley.—Boston and
i Maine Messenger.
COLONIAL DWELLING.
Of Attractive Modern Beslan tout
Cory Aritmaement—Cost, S-b.VIO.
[Copyright. 1906, by Stanley A. Dennis, 231
Broadway, New York.l
This model home has many special
and attractive features. It is designed
for a narrow lot, but may be built on a
large plot with equally good effects.
There Is a cellar under the e Wire house,
with eighteen inch stone walls laid In
cement mortar. The cellar floor Is con
creted to a depth of four Inches. Goal
bins, laundry, storeroom and a steam
boiler which beats the whole house are
all lit the cellar.
The frame Is hemlock lumber and
timber. The exterior walls are sheath-
1850 Fifty=Fifth Annual Statement. 1905
Aetna Life Insurance Company
Hartford, Connecticut.
MORGAN G. BULKELEY, President.
The leading Insurance Company in New England, and the Larg
est in the World Writing
Life, Accident, Health and Liability Insurance
January 1 st, 1 905.
FRONT ELEVATION.
#d, papered, sided and shingled. The
main roof Is covered with clear black
Rluto. The exterior work Is clear kiln
dried pine and cypress lumber and
moldings. The windows, except those
of the cellar and the fancy leaded glass
one, are tltted with outside blinds with
rolling slats and are hung with up to
date blind binges and openers. The ex
terior woodwork Is painted with three
coats of pure white lead and linseed oil
Receip.8 in 1904.
Premiums.- .. *l3,8fiS,082 77
Interest, rents and from other sources -- 3.0112,1133 fit)
Total Income in loot — - (>15,11111,55(1 it!
Disbursements in 1904.
Death Claims If”,800.580 (II
Matured Endowments -- 1,528.085 00
Dcntb and Indemnity (Accident and Liabil
ity) ...... ---- 1,881,988 09
Dividends to Policy Holders... . . . - 721.023 02 .
Surrendered Policies .— 510,080,1
Commissions to agents . 1,007,178 20
Agency Expenses, Medical Examinations
and Miscellaneous Expenditures -- 050,370 33
Dividends on Capital Stock (Life) 200,000 oo
Dividends mi Capital Stock (Accident) 50,000 00
Taxes 064,038 04
Total expenses (Accident and Liability
Business) -- 1,410,468 17 ; I
Assets.
Real Estate acquired by foreclosure
Office Building
Cash on Immi and in banks
Stocks and Bonds . -
Mortgages secured by Real Estate
Leans on Collaterals
1 .onus seemed Policies of tins Company
Interest due ami accrued Dee. 31, 1004
Premiums in course of collection nod
deferred Premiums (net)
Market valuoof Securities over cost, less
sets not admitted (#55,7 13 07 ) net,
Agents Balances mul Rills receivable
173,1(11 71
100,000 00
7,070,023 30
24,400,1180 fit*
32,080,317 72
1.051.304 (12
3,801,504 08
818,732 (15
(174,112 (IS
As-
8,1118,70(1 55
55.145 57
$73,000,178 81
Total Disbursements in 1001
Excess of Income over Disbursements in '01
01*1 l*lno Trees.
Six large pine trees have recently
been sawed Into lumber at Bradbury
Bros.' mill that made 14,010 feet of
1 sawed lumber. They were hauled to
the mill In logs from twelve to eighteen
feet In length, and nineteen of these
logs averaged over 500 each. They
i were very straight, pretty sticks, and a
good portion of the lumber was of the
grade known as "clear,” and the mar
ket price for the whole lot was $30 per
thousand.
These trees hail been standing on the
1 land near the Notch, owned in recent
years by M. L. Parsons, for many gen
erations. Five of them wen* on an nron
of less than a quarter of nil acre and
the sixth at no great distance. They
wore recently bought standing for $100
for tho lot of six trees by C. P. Whltte-
more.
There are very few such trees left In
Somerset county and, in fact, In any
part of Maine. It takes from 200 to 200
years for them to attain such a size.—
Somerset (Me.) Reporter.
Tlie Auto as a Nerve Care.
The possession of a motor enr Is a
matter of great Importance to the man
whose nervous system is on the ruck
all day. The mere rapid transit from
the town to the country rests the brain
and allows of that mental recreation
which Is always the chief object of
change of scene. The motor, then, Is
one of the modern aids to preventive
medicine.
Tlie Locomotive Mimt (io,
It was u decidedly Interesting though
one could hardly suy a startling pre
diction which Senator Depew made In
a speech the other night at a dinner of
the Transportation club In regard to
future of electricity as a motive power.
“Within ten years,” said Mr. Depew,
"the steam locomotive of today will he
seen In the museum for the inspection
of the antiquarian, uud we will lie able
to proceed over the rails by means of
•electricity ut a rate of seventy-five
miles an hour.” As u railroad official
of large experience Senator Depew un
doubtedly knows whereof he speaks
10,758 855 fill
6,172,700 80
Paid Policy Holders in 1904
$6,971,793 55
Total Paid Policy Holders from
Organization in 1850 to Janu
ary 1,1905
$145,918,246 86
Life Insurance issued, revived and paid
for in 1004 *88,85(1,0(17,00
Life Insuratien In 'force .liimmrv I, Ifib5 237,304,730,00
Accident Insurance in force .Inn. I, 1005 217,23(1,1 (I I.till
Number of Policy Holders .Inn, I, 1005 225,01 I
Total Assets, .lamutry I, 1005
Liabilities.
Losses and Gluims awaiting further proof,
and installment claims not yet due ( Life ' $ 306,147 00
isses and < Mu lilts a waiting further proof,
and not vet due ( Accident and Liability • 688,727 I d
Surplus Reserve for speeial class of Policies
and dividends to Policy holders not yet due 708,08(11 7
Premiums paid in advance and other Liahili-
t j,. s . 111,008 80
Reserve on Life. Endowment and term policies.
I per cent, standard on Old Business and 3>„
per unlit,, on Policies issuil since 1000, (11,858,1811 CO
Less value of Policies of Re-insur
mice, *10,0(10,00 . - - (11,817,814 00
Special Reserve, in addition to the Reserve
above given, ... 2,104,78(100
Unearned Premiums on accident and I,labil
ity insurance .. -- ... 1,874,1144 28
Special Reserve on Liability Insurance 100,000 (in
Total Reinsurance and Special Reserve
and all other Liabilities -- 07,140,538 Id
(laaranteo Fund in Excess of requirements by
(iompaiiy’s Standard . (I 555,(141) (Ml
Total Liabilities .Ian. I, 1005 . . . 73,0011,170 HI
Guarantee Fund in Excess of requirements
bv Standard of Uonneetieut mid oilier
Slates 8 850,48(1 (15
Great Gains in Business in 1904
mu
Increase in Assets
IncreiYHc in Guarantee Fnild o
quiremcntH
Increase in Premium Income
Increase in Total Income .
*5.(123,310 1(1
883,881 10
1,135,(1(18 00
1,372,(182 20
Increase in New Life Insurance issued and
paid for .. $2,225,105 00
Increase in Life Insurance in Foroo 11,001,802 00
Increase in Accident Insurance in Force 8,018,02(1(01
Increase in number of Policy holders Il,(ll8
F. M. BRYANT, District Manager,
Newnan, Georgia.
WEDDED TO A HABIT.
GUST FLOOR PLAN.
paints of desired colors. The shingles
are dipped In shingle stain before be
ing laid.
Tho floors are clear No. 1 corah grain
ed North Carolina pine tongued and
grooved flooring boards, blind milled.
The Interior walls are plastered on
spruce laths with two coats of hard , .
patent plaster, sand-finished. The trim when it is on his genial sell.
Is ash of special design, finished In the
nntural wood on the first floor and
cypress on the second floor, also finish
ed In the natural wood. The main
stalrH are quartered oak finished In the
Savor! by Dynamite.
I Sometimes a flaming city is saved by
i dynamiting a place Hint tho fire can’t
j cross. Sometimes, a rough hangs on so
; long, you feel us if nothing but dyiiii-
i mite would cure it. '/. T. Gray, of Onl-
: liouti, Gii., writes; “My wife had a
very aggrevating cough, which keeps
| her awake nt nights. Two physicians
icr; so she took Dr.
Robert L. Taylor, the much-
married ex-governor o( Tennessee,
is never averse to a joke even
J ust
now he is telling this one;
Upon the occasion of his most , could not hel|
recent marriage, late in the fall of King’s New Disoovory for Consumption,
, , Coughs mid Colds, which eased her
1904, he was, he says, somewhat "
As a curative agent, however, tlie mo
tor has a peculiar value, in certain nb- i T j le t)m e set for the relegation of tlie
normal conditions of the nervous sys- menin engine to the antiquarian mu-
tem more especially. I11 cases of nerv- sellnl seeIns ) jr [ e f, ) )ut when we re-
ous depression the exhilaration indue- member the progress made during the
ed by a runJn a motor cur Is most ben- | nst ten years in electrical propulsion
eficlnl; the circulation is Improved, the w | 10 s i, a ii say that the senator’s proph-
blood purified by the more rapid respl- ot . v lim .v not be literally fulfilled?— Les-
rat.ion of fresh air, and even in cases of Weekly.
profound Insomnia regular and refresh- 1 .
ing sleep Is obtained. In a word, the
effects of motoring are stimulative and
tonic.—Physician in London Chronicle.
Genius of n Convict.
With nothing but a jackknife to
work with, one of the convicts nt the
prison at Wethersfield, Conn., has re
cently finished two wooden models of
locomotives. These models are each
about eighteen inches long, Including
die tender, and perfect In every detail.
Nothing except wood is used In the
models, yet they may lie operated by
turning a crunk under the engine. The
wheels go around, the pistons slide
hack and forth, the cab windows may
be moved, the bell rung and the en
gine and tender uncoupled. The con
vict had nothing to work by except his
own memory.
British Military Genius.
Now forts are being erected and
guns mounted at Singapore, and the
British authorities, with their usual
sagacity, are boldly advertising what
ought to be hidden. Both the forts and
the guns mounted on them are sur
mounted with immense palings, which
have been painted white. Thus every
position has been earmarked, as though
to give a possible enemy every facility
to destroy the fortifications should oc
casion arise. At Aden the military
authorities have painted the railings
upon their forts scarlet, but the white
rails round the gun positions at Singa
pore are even more striking and are
visible at sea for a distance of five
miles.—London (’bronicle.
cough, gave her sleep, and finally cured
ami Dr. Paul Peniston’s Drug Store,
price 5()o and *1.00; guaranteed. Trial
bottle Free.
puzzled as to the fee lie should be- | 1( , r> n yj. r j 0 |.|y seieutiflo euro for bron-
stow upon the East Tennessee par- ( ohitis and Lu Grippe. At .1. T. Reeso’s
son who tied the nuptial knot.
Whispering his dilemma confiden
tially to a friend, Governor Rob
with difficulty suppressed his laugh
ter at the following advice, “Why
not give him just what you are ac
customed to paying?”—Woman’s
Home Companion lor June.
American Railroad Slaughter.
Greater I'iUstiiira.
The consolidation of Pittsburg and
Allegheny will create a municipality
American trains travel 000,000,000 having a population of 451,512, accord-
miles and English trains 400,000,000 ing to the census of 1000. The cousoli-
miles during a single year. With a dated city will rank next to Baltimore,
train mileage less than half that of tho which in the census year had a populu-
American roads the English roads in lotion of 50.8,057. Greater Pittsburg
4003 hauled twice as many passengers, will be the sixth In rank among Atrieri-
conducted their business on one-tenth can municipalities. The order in the
the trackage and In doing so killed but census year are New York, Chicago,
one-tenth as many people and injured Philadelphia, St. Louis, Boston and
SECOND FLOOR PLAN,
nntural wood. The hardware Is orna
mental dark bronze, with rosewood
knobs, roses and escutcheons.
The kitchen has a modern range,
sink, boiler and closets. The pantry
and closets are fitted in modern style.
The bathroom contains open sanitary
plumbing and fixtures. The walls of
the bathroom are tiled, and the floor Is
covered with composition tiling, as is
the kitchen floor.
This dwelling, the architect says, can
be built In many places for $3,500.
A C001! Suggestion.
Mr. O. B. Wftinwriglit,of Lemon City,
Fla., has written tho manufacturers
that much better results are obtained
from the use of Chamberlain's Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy in eases
of pains in the stomach, colic and chol
era morbus by taking it in water as hot
ns can bo drank. That, when taken in
this way the effeotis double in rapidity.
"It seems to get nt the right spot in
stantly;’’la- says. For sale by Holt &
Oates, druggists, Newnan Gu.
PACIFIC COAST EXCURSIONS.
See the Most for Vour Money.
Rock Island service to California ap
Pacific Northwest this summer, permits
you to do this. Low round trip rates to
Los Angeles, San Francisco or Portland
011 special dates in May, Juno, July,
A'.gust,September and October. Liberal
arrangements for stop-over among the
mountains of Colorado and in Califor
nia—side trips to the Yellowstone,
Yosemite, etc. Write for Colorado and
California books and Rock Island folder.
John Sebastian, Passenger Traffic Man
ager, Rock Island System, Chicago.
■ ■ ■ At>ii
Peniston’s
Drug Store
Grano
Spring Medicine.
Prune
’h
Kidney and Backncho
Cure.
('rune
’h
(lough Caro,
(Jruiie
’h
Headache Relief.
Orano
’h
('liolera umlfl hurrlioeu
Mixture.
(’nine
’h
Family Liniment.
Grime
'h
Eczema Cure.
Grime
'k
Liver Powders.
(Irani'
’h
Pile Halve.
(!rime
’m
Liver Pills.
Grime
’b
Female Relief.
Iliese tire Slumlord Prepara
tions and are Sold and Recom
mended at
Peniston’s
Drug Store.
A man is never alone when he
has the company of a good book.
That Job of Printing—
less than one-tenth
son's Weekly.
as many.—Pear- Baltimore.
The Roonevelt Dam,
Another huge dam is to be built for
irrigation purposes, tlie Roosevelt darn
in Salt river valley, Arizona. It will be
one of the largest In the world, will
cost $1,000,000, will overflow about
350,000 acres of land and supply water
power for hundreds of places through
out the territory.
Bacilli Are Si-areit In Ffffj'pt.
A German physician has discovered
that the air of the Egyptian desert is
about as free from bacterial life ns tlie
polar regions or the high seas. Tuber
cle bacilli are killed when exposed six
hours in the sunlight. He considers
the desert especially suitable for rheu
matics and patients suffering from
kidney diseases and tuberculosis.
Glass Walls.
C. E. Eastman, an Iowa architect, Is
applying for a patent on a glass outer
wall for department stores, office build
ings, schools and courthouses. It con
sists of a steel framework supported
by brackets attached to the beams of
the floors In duplicate, making two
walls of opalescent wire glass, the glass
being set in the framework. The glass
walls are approximately a foot apart,
making an Insulating dead air space to
prevent loss of heat in winter and pre
vent undue heat In summer. This sys
tem of construction allows of any ar
rangement of floor plan because win
dows are unnecessary. The exterior
will admit of any style of treatment
entirely free of tlie restrictions of fenes
tration.
Have it done at this shop, and if
the quality of the stock and the work
is not satisfactory, or if the price 'is
not as reasonable as first-class print
ers anywhere charge for first-class
work—the job will not cost you a
cent. That’s a fair and reasonable
proposition—a proposition we could
not afford to make if we didn't have
the facilities, the workmen and the
will to “make good.” If it’s any
thing in printing, you should try The
News shop before giving an order.
Get a Shave
-AT-
r
Bailey’s Barber Shop
and you'll continue to get shaved
there, Tlie same is true of Imir-cuts,
shampoos, etc,, Three white bar
bers are employed, anil the service
is first-class. Drop into Bailey’s
White Barber Shop
(tperu House Building,
Newnan, - - - Georgia.
Cleaned for Action
When the body is cleaned for action,
by Dr. King’s New Life Pills, you can
tell it by the bloom of health on tho
cheeks; the brightness of tlie eyes; tho
firmness cf the flesh and muscles; the
buoyancy of the mind. Try them. At
I J. T. Reese’s and Dr. Paul Peniston’s
Drugstore, 20o.
