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WILL COMPLETE
ROAD BY JANUARY
New Year Will See Trains Run-
ning Over Extension From
Columbus.
Columbus. September 17.—It is
now thought that it will lx* Janu
ary before trains am running 1h»-
tween < 'olmnbii" ami Atlanta over
the Central <il Oi-orgia tracks via
Newnan The Central lias been
busily engaged in building it.s ex
tension from Oieenville to the
vicinity of Newnaii, but has en
countered considerable trouble in
nett ing t he necessary labor. There
is already considerable railroad
building in that \ iriuity, the con
st met ion gangs of the A llanlic and
Birmingham railway being busily
engaged not faraway, and this has
made the competition Ibr labor
keen. Then, again, the farmers
in that section have been short of
help, ami all in all the supply of
help has been considerably short.
Notwithstanding these conditions,
steady progress has been made
building tIn* Central extension, al
though with plenty of labor the
road would doubtless be completed
now.
Growth of Free Mail Delivery.
evident.v correct, as the figures
were taken from a recent article of
Postmaster-General Cortelyou in
the Independent.
The article was not written for
the primary purpose of showing
■ he rap’d growth of the R F D.
since its establishment, but the
principal object of the writer was
;o •:'ustrate the fact that in thees-
i .bii-h'uent of Rural F ree Dc^jv-
erics no States are discriminated
against.
It occasionally happens that a
route is granted in a section that is
not sell sustaining, but this is an
infrequent occurrence, Sometimes
the prospective carrier in his
eager ness to secuic a route,resorts
to misleading statements and suc
ceeds in deceiving the inspector
who recommends the route in
good laith.
Since the beginning of the
world trickery has been practiced
in all trades and in the R 1*'. D.
service the carrier may be safely
designated as the trickster.
It occasionally happens that the
petitioners are indifferent regard
ing the route and sign the petition
without investigating the requisite
conditions of the route. Some of
them will sign a remonstrance on
the same lay.
In such a case as this the route
is usually relegated to a tri-week
ly service and in some instances
abandoned.
BRYAN DEFINED
RAILROAD VIEWS
In Louisville Speech Nebraskan
Clearly Defined His Position
on Government Ownership
of Railroads.
The first experiment with the
rural mail delivery service was
m ule in 1897 In 1898 t e expen
diture on the servue was only
$50,000; in 1905 the expendi
ture had advanced t o
nearly $21,000,000. The appropri
ation tor the current fiscal year is
$28,360,000. Die routes number
35,768. There is a daily service on
all routes except 253, anti on these
there is a seivico every other day.
The benefits of the service extend
to 3,228,660 families or 13,669,<>34
persons.
This brief story of the amazing
growth of the rural free delivery is
The News is sorry to learn that
Dr. W S. Zellars, of Palmetto is
in very feeble health. He once
rep csented this county in the
G. orgia Legislature, has long been
one of the best and most highly-
esteemed men in the county and
his many friends hope he will yet
be spared many years to bless his
town and county by bis faultless
daily walk before his fellow-men.
lie is now 75 years old.—Last
Week’s Kairburn News.
We know stenographers who
beat President Roosevelt to this
matter of “spelling reform."
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New YorK Bargain
I
"I have been brought to regard
public ownership as the ultimate
remedy by railroad h:story, which
is as familiar to you as to me. I
have been slow in reaching this
position, and 1 can therefore be
patient with those who now stand
where I stood for years, urging
strict regulation and hoping that
would be found feasible. I still ad
vocate strict regulation and shall
rejoice if experience proves that
regulation can be made effective.
“I expect that those Democrats
who oppose government owner
ship will accompany their declara
tion against it with the assertion
that they will favor government
ownership whenever they are con
vinced that the country must
choose between government
ownership of the railroad and rail
road ownership of the government.
“I have tried to make it clear
that I expressed my own opinion,
and have never sought to compel
the acceptance of my opinion by
anyone else. Reserving the right
to do my own thinking, I respect
the right of everyone else to do
ius thinking
• If the Democrats believe that
the next platform should contain
a plank in favor of government
ownership, then that' plank ought
to be included. If the Democrats
think it ought not to contain such
a piank, then such a plank ought
not to be included. 1 have spoken
tor myself, and for myself only,
and I did not know how the sug
gestion would be received. I am
now prepared to confess to you it
lias been received more favorably
than I expected.
“I have contended always that
platforms should be made by the
voters I have in my speeches and
through my paper insisted that
the platform should be the ex
pression of the wishes of the vot
ers of the party and not to be the
arbitrary production <>! one man or
a tew leaders.
“I think I may also reasonably
expect the Democrats who oppose
government ownership will say,
that if government ownership
must come, they prefer a system
whereby the State may be preserv
ed and the centralizing influence
be reduced to a minimum. Such a
plan 1 have proposed, and I have
proposed it because I want the
people to consider it and not be
driven to the Federal ownership of
| all railroads as the only alterna-
i tive to private ownership."
i Lost Platform Plank Found.
Store
A delayed plank in the platform |
of the Democratic party, as adopt-;
ed by the recent state convention ;
held in Macon, and aimed at the !
jug trade in dry counties, was
made public yesterday by H. H.
Cabaniss, who was one of the sec 1
retaries of the convention.
This plank, which is announced
as a part of the platform, and will
so stand, is as follows;
"We recommend the passage of
such laws by the legislature as,
will effectually protect the prohi- :
bition counties of Georgia from the
importation of intoxicating liquors
within their borders."
Secretary Cabaniss explains
that the reason this plank was left
out of the platform, as published,
is that it was written on a separate
piece of paper, detached from the
typewritten copy. It was, howev
er, he states, adopted as a part of
the report by the platform com
mittee, was read to the conven
tion by Chairman Gray of that
committee and was adopted by the
convention along with the rest ot
the platform.
Owing to the fact that it was on
a separate piece of paper, detached
from the rest of the document, it
was overlooked by the newspaper
reporters in making copies of the
platform for publication.
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The Tull name of the company, California Fig Syrup Co..
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CRAND FREE WORD CONTEST
Open to everybody (with exception noted below), (let busy. Fse your brain and Webster’s
International Dietionary and see how many correct words you can form from the letters used in
^polling the three wolds:
“Wester Music Company”
FIRST PRIZE-A fine $375.00 Kimball Piano.
SECOND PRIZE—A beautiful $300.00 Kimball Piano.
THIRD PRIZE—$150.00 Certificate of Credit.
Other prizes ranging in value from $ 125 down to $.">0. These prizes are in the form of Certifi
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Kimball piano at the regular retail price. This is by special arrangement with the W. W.
Kimball Company, manufacturers of the “Kimball” piano, and is for a short time only. We
will also give $10 credit on organs.
RULES AND CONDITIONS OF CONTEST
Lists must reach our office or bear post date not later than Oct. 2, 1900. Webster’s Interna
tional Dictionary to be authority for all words. Do not use proper names, foreign words,
names of persons, towns or places. Do not use a letter more times in forming a word than it
appears in the three words “Wester Music Company.” Words spelled the same but having
different meanings can be used but once. No one connected with the music business can com
pete. In the event of a tie prizes of equal value will be given. Decision of the judges of
awards must be final. Not more than one certificate can Iw* applied on the same piano. Words
in list should be numbered consecutively. Contestants must fill oiit, sign and attach coupon to
list. Lists not numbered or made alphabetically or unaccompanied by signed coupon will be
rejected. The winners of the prizes will be determined by three judges, two of them promi
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CUT. FILL OUT AND ATTACH THIS COUPON TO YOUR LIST OF WORDS
WESTER MUSIC CO., Atlanta, Ga.:
words, subject to rules and con-
I herewith submit list contaiuin
ditions governing contest.
Name
Town
State
Street
Have von a Piano!
Organ!
WESTER MUSIC COMPANY
64 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Ga.
Nevertheless, this plank, which
explains itself, is a most important
one and the fact that it is a part of
the party platform in Georgia, will
be received with no little interest.
—Atlanta Constitution.
A great many of life’s tragedie
would be comedies if we looked ,z
them from another viewpoint.