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MACON. DUBLM ANO SAVANNAH
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Macon 11715 4:30
7:22 3:37 Swiftcreek 11:03 4:20
7:30 3:45 Drybranch 10:55 4:12
7:34 3:49 I Atlantic 10:51 4:09
7:38 3:53 Pike's Peak 10:48 4:03
7:45 4:00 Fitzpatrick 10:42 4:00
7:50 4:04 I Ripley 10:37 3:53
3:00 4:14 Jeff’son ville 10:27 3:42
3:10 4:23 Gallemore 10:15 3:30
3:20 4:33 Danvilel 10:07 3:22
3:25 4:38 Allentown 10:02 3:17
8:34 4:47 Montrose 9:53 3:08
3:44 4:57 Dudley 9:42 2:58
3:50 5:03 Shewmake 9:30 2:52
8:55 5:09 Moore 9:29 2:45
3:10 5:25 ar iv 9:15 2:36
Dublin
8:15 5:30 Iv ar 9:10 2:25
9:17 5:32 SouMD&SJct 9:08 2:23
3:21 5:36 NorMD&SJct 9:04 2:19
3:31 5:45 Catlin 8:54 2:09
9:40 5.54 Mlntor 8:47 2:01
9:50 6:05 Rockledge 8:36 1:50
9:55 6:10 Orland 8:31 1:45
10:08 6:23 Soporton 8:19 1:33
10:19 6:34 Tarrytown 8:07 1:21
10:26 6:41 Kibbee 8:00 1:15
10:40 6:55 Vidalia 7:45 1:00
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At Dublin with the Wrightsville and
Tennille and the Dublin and South
western for ' Kastman and Tennille
•nd intermediate points.
At Macon iwth Southern railway
from and to Cincinnati, Chattanooga,
Rome, Birmingham, Atlanta and In
termediate points. Also the Central
es Georgia, G., S. & F. railway, Ma.
•on and Birmingham railway and the
Georgia railroad.
At Rockledge with the Millen and
Southwestern for Wadley and inter
mediate points.
At Vidalia with the Seaboard Air
Line for Savannah and intermediate
points, and with the Millen and South
western for Millen, Stillmore and in
termediate points.
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WASHINGTON A
WONAL AOimil
O no one of the world’s
heroes, prcfbably, have
more monuments, stat
ues and other enduring
tributes been erected
than to him who was so
I aptly designated "First
in war, first in peace and
first in the hearts of his
countrymen.” Easily the
most important and most imposing of
all the memorials existing or project
ed is the Washington national monu
ment, that simple and stately white
shaft that rises on the banks of the
Potomac river at Washington and af
fords from its. top the most magnifi
cent view of the beautiful capital
city which Washington founded and
which bears his name. Yet few of the
persons who gaze in this twentieth
century upon what has been denom
inated a "poem in marble” pause to
consider how long this monument
was in building and by how narrow
a margin of chance a national tribute
missed being a national disgrace.
The towering shaft that so ably
typifies Washington’s simplicity and
strength of character was in the mak
ing for nigh a quarter of a century.
Not that work was continuous over
that protracted interval, but that such
a span of years intervened between
the inception and completion of the
work due to a long suspension of activities owing
to lack of funds. The whole project of providing
what is accounted the nation’s monument to
Washington was a long-drawn-out undertaking,
but this seeming tardiness of action has been
atoned for by the beauty of the structure, which
has few rivals In height, save some of the newer
skyscrapers in New York, and. which is so jeal
ously guarded by a proud people that congress
not so very long ago felt compelled to refuse
the request of the navy department that permis
sion be granted to establish a wireless telegraph
station at the top of the monument, as has been
done on the Eiffel Tower In Paris.
The project to provide a tribute to George
Washington at the seat of government dates from
the year 1783, when the Continental congress
voted to erect an equestrian statue and, oddly
enough, selected for its site the very location
that is now occupied by the national monument
However, the project progressed no further and
there was no further action until Washington
died at the end of the century, when congress
passed another resolution for a monument —this
bill providing for a testimonial In marble or
granite beneath which should repose the remains
of the nation’s greatest hero. Here, however, the
widow of General Washington interposed with
her very natural preference that the body should
rest at mount Vernon, and accordingly the whole
project again lapsed until 1823, when a number
of patriotic citizens of Washington formed an or
ganization known as the Washington Monument
association and undertook to revive interest in
the undertaking.
The scheme was to provide funds by popular
subscription for erecting a monument and this
canvass was pursued more or less energetically,
but it was not until 1848, when a total of $87,000
had been collected, that the officials of the or
ganization considered that the funds In hand
justified the commencement of actual work. The
corner-stone was laid with due ceremony and the
work went forward for some years, but additional
subscriptions did not come In at a very lively
rate and finally work had to be suspended for
lack of funds. Thus the partially completed
obelisk —a “stump” of a monument it was termed
—stood during all the years Intervening between
1858 and 1880 until congress finally took up the
matter and appropriated funds to finish the
gigantic shaft.
However, it was not merely a case of provid
ing money to carry out the work already started.
The United States army engineers who were put
In charge when the national legislature took a
hand in the matter speedily discovered that the
original foundation provided for the monument
was hopelessly inadequate, considering the height
and weight of the mass which it was proposed
to place on it. Thereupon they set about a
mighty ticklish engineering project—nothing
less than the provision of a new or rather an
enlarged foundation for the monument. Os
course, the perplexing part of it was that the
new foundation had to be slipped under the
great mass of stone as it stood, for, naturally,
there were many objections to. consuming time
and money in tearing down the monument and
re-esecting it.
The engineers dug out at the corners and
sides of the monument as much as they dared
of the old foundation, meanwhile supporting the
partially undermined structure by means of
beams and braces of various kinds. All the
stone thus removed was replaced with concrete
and the concrete foundation was also extended in
every d'vsctlon beyond the base lines of the
monument and beyond the limitations of the
original inadequate foundation. To what an ex
tent the resting place of the shaft was expanded
may be surmised from the fact that the original
foundation had an area of only 6,400 square feet,
whereas the enlarged foundation covered 16,000
square feet, in addition to being of better mate
rial. Indeed, the new footing of monolithic con
crete is in effect a single block of solid stone.
With the new foundation In place the erection
of the shaft went on apace and the task was
finally completed In December, 1884, the dedica-
HOW TO TELL FORTUNES
One Formula Can Be Made to Fit Almost
Everybody.
The way to tell people’s fortunes is to have
one list of characteristics and to use it for every
one without the slightest variation. It is bound
to succeed. For instance, supposing Falstaff and
Hamlet had their fortunes told by the same
soothsayer. I imagine he would have told Ham
let’s character as follows, Maurice Baring writes
in the Metropolitan:
"You are not so fortunate as you seem. You
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You suffer from Indecision. You are fond of the •
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You often pretend to be more foolish than you
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will mix In high society, have friends at court
You will come off badly In personal encounter,
and your final enemy will be a king.”
Now imagine him saying exactly the same
thing to Falstaff. Doesn’t it fit him just as well?
Can’t you imagine Falstaff saying: "He has hit
me off to a T,” and Hamlet murmuring. "My
prophetic soul!” In fact. I believe fortune tell
ing, after that of medicine, to be the finest pro
fession In the world and the easiest.
A Serious One.
“I understand our Micawber friend had an
operation performed. Was It serious?”
“Very serious. He had a prospective job cut
out of his mind's eye.”
tion of the completed monument tak
ing place in the following February —
the month that holds the anniversary
of Washington's birthday. The Wash
ington national monument Is, in hori
zontal section, a square within a
square, whereas the structure might
be described as an iron tower within
a marble tower, the former being se
curely fastened to the latter by
means of iron, which takes the form
of a staircase that may be used by
visitors who do not prefer to patron
ize the elevator.
The walls of the monument, which
are fifteen feet in thickness at the
bake and decrease to a thickness of
only eighteen inches at the top. com
prise a grand total of twenty-three
thousand stones, many of these
stones having been contributed by
states of the Union, by foreign pow
ers and by municipal, civic and other
organizations. There are, all told,
about one hundred and seventy-six
carved memorials of stone and mar
ble embedded in the walls, but such
testimonials could not. from the very
character of the structure, be effec
tually guarded after the monument
was completed and more than one
fourth of the total number have been
more or less marred and damaged by
vandals and relic hunters. An espe
cial target for such souvenir hunting
was found in the projecting pieces of
carved stone such as originally appeared in the
representations of state seals or coats-of-arms,
and almost every one of these details is missing.
The nation’s monument, which Is so vast In
size that an army of twelve thousand men might
be comfortably housed In its Interior, weighs
more than eighty-one thousand tons. Engineers
declare that it is one of the very few actually
and absolutely fireproof structures in the United
States, and although cracks have from time to
time appeared In the walls, it is the popular be
lief that nothing short of a severe earthquake
could destroy the shaft. It has been repeatedly
struck by lightning and such visitations have no
terrors for the obelisk, thanks to the forethought
of the builders in providing an ingenious system
of electric conductors. The keynote of the
scheme Is found in a small pyramid of aluminum,
weighing about one hundred ounces, which
crowns the capstone of the monument. This
metal headpiece is connected with rods that de
scend six hundred feet to a well sunk to a con
siderable depth below the level of the earth.
The monument has been visited by as many as
five electric bolts within an interval of twenty
minutes, but the worst damage ever done was
the cracking of one of the stones near the top.
The shaft that rises from the gentle slope
between the White House and the Potomac cost
the nation about $1,300,000. nearly SIOO,OOO hav
ing been expended upon the new foundation j
alone. The present upkeep of the monument in- I
volves no great expense. The elevator which car- i
ries to the top of the monument those visitors :
who do not care to climb the 900 steps makes a
trip every half hour (although but seven minutes
Is required for the ascent of 500 feet), and
will accommodate thirty persons. Looking out
from the windows at the top of the monument,
517 feet above ground, the visitors behold a won
derful panorama extending fifteen to twenty
miles In every direction. On clear days It is
sometimes possible to discern the Blue Ridge
mountains, sixty miles away.
Likely to Know.
Youth —Can you tell me which is Mr. Pon
sonby?
Lady—The man with the gray hair, talking to
those ladles over there. I am Mr. Ponsonby’s
wife.
Youth —I know you are. that’s why I asked you.
as I thought you’d be sure to know.—Punch.
Solicitude.
"I feel very uneasy; its pouring with rain and
my wife went out without an umbrella.”
“No doubt she’ll take refuge In a shop some
where.’
* “Yes; that's just what’s worrying ma bo.”— Pels
Mele.
MOODY LADY
NOTMOODY
For Five Years Miss Davis of Moody
Was in Terrible Plight, But She
Is Now in Fine Spirits.
Moody, Tex—ln an interesting let
ter from this place, Miss Cora Davis,
of R. F. D. No. 6, Box 20, writes aa
follows:
“I had been taking different medi
cines for the past five years, without
any relief, and last spring my system
was so completely run down, and I
felt so tired and nervous all the time,
hardly felt like staying out of bed.
Friends advised me try Cardui, the
woman's tonic, and after taking six
bottles, I felt like an entirely different
person.
I was relieved of my nervousness,
and bad headaches, and could sleep
soundly all night,—something I hadn’t
done for years.
I also gained 18 pounds In weight
after taking Cardul, and am in better
spirits, and feel better, than I have
felt for five years.
I cannot say enough In behalf of
Cardul. It is the grandest medicine
ever discovered, and a God-send to all
Buffering women and girls.”
We do not ask you to accept our
statements as to the merits of Cardul,
the woman’s tonic.
We receive thousands of letters,
similar to the above, from grateful
ladies, every year, telling what this
medicine has done for them, and giv
ing us permission to publish their let
ters.
These letters speak for themselves.
N. B — Write to: Chattanooga Medicine Co,
Ladies Advisory Dept., Chattanooga. Tenn., for
Stecial Irttrurtions on your case and 64-pa ge book.
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HOT RETORT.
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The Pompous Man —Why, sir, I'm a
er-er-self-made man.
The Lean Chap—When are you go
ing to call the strike off and com
plete the job.
British Seamen’s Thrift.
For the years 1855 to 1912 the num
ber of British seamen's money orders
Issued at ports in the United Kingdom
and abroad was 3.365.489, of the value
of over £19,000,000. On March 31
last, only 742 of these orders re
mained unpaid, their value being
: £7,060. The total amount of seamen’s
wages transmitted home between 1878
and 1912 was £5,550.000, and the
amount transmitted foreign between
1894 and 1912 was over £1,000.000. —
"Shipping” Illustrated.
Journalistic Horror.
Old Subscriber —You and the editor
of that paper down in Lonelyville In
dulge in a lot of cheap jokes on each
other's town.
Editor (of Drearyhurst Argus) —Yes,
sir; we’re going to put a head on
them and call them “Interurbanites.”
HOWMRS.BROWN
SUFFERED
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