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INTERSTATE FREIGHT RATES
By Our Washington Correspondent,
The ship subsidy bill will pass
at this session or there will be an
extra session to consider it. There
<s no longer any real doubt of this
The extra session, however, wil
not be called to consider this mat
ter. If it is found that the ship
subsidy bill cannot pass, one
more appropriation bills wil
probably also be held up on one
pretext or another and permittee
to fail and the extra session will
be called to consider them, thus
freeing the President from the un
pleasant task of summoning Con
gress to give away Government
money. If it should be thought
better not to block an appropria
tion bill, the extra session will be
called to consider the Cuban con
stitution or to pass laws for the
Philippines as soon as the Su
preme Court shall have handec
down its decision. There will be
plenty of pretexts, and on which
ever one the call is based, Con
gress will be free to take up the
shipping bill. The eagerness of
the subsidy hunters to get their
job voted on is discovered to be
■due to the fact that its chief bene
ficiary, the Interstate Navigation
Company, will get a bounty on
two vessels, aggregating 24,520
tons, now building, if the bill
passed before the vessels are com
pleted, but will not get so much if
ifche ships are completed before the
bill is passed. Under the Act of
1891, Senator Frye states, this
company got annually an extra
sum of $757,000 on four ships,
but under the bill now being push
od it would get on the same ships
$1,190,000. On its whole fleet of
>ships the company would get, it
.appears, a bonus of $2,382,024:
yearly for being so good as to con
ifinue in a profitable busines, this,
too, without underatking to give
additional facilities to our com
merce, either in character of ser
vice, number of trips or lower
urates. An obligation is imposed
•on the company in the bill to
build 12,000 tons of shipping in
this country, but this seems to be
-a sham-obligation, since the ves
sels already under construction
here-if not completed too soon
•can be used to offset the statutory
obligation. Of course the same
-end could be obtained by delay-
dug the completion of thb ships
■until the summer of 1902 and
passing the bill next winter, but
■the company is unwilling' to let
the extremely profitable trade of
the next year pass without being
able to use its new ships, although
Mr. Hanna states they are now
-run at a loss.
If ever there were a time when
we needed to think of what we can
have without money, it is now.
We think so much about money.
We talk so much about maney.
We say we can do nothing with
out money. That is not so. We
uan be saints without money; we
• can have peace of conscience,
"peace with God, joy iu God, we
-.can have Heaven without money.
—Margaret Bottome in the Feb
ruary Ladies’ Home Journal.
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Sunday Habits.
The average man does himself so
much harm on Sunday that he does
not recover until the following Wednes
day. In the first place, he loafs
around the house, instead of being ac
tive, as On weekdays. In the next
place, he cats his breakfast later than
usual, and his dinner earlier, and the
result is that he is knocked out until
Wednesday. The best thing to do on
Sunday is to conforn to your usual
habits as much as possible.—Atchison
-• 'Globe.
The Besfc'Prescription for Malaria,
Ohills and Fever is a bottle of
-Grove’s Tasteless Chill Toxic.
It is simply iron and quinine in a
tasteless form. No enre—no pay.
Price 50c.
Competent, but Uncanny.
A. A. Gallagher, district passenger
agent of the Missouri Pacific railroad,
while en route south was taken quite
ill and was compelled to stop at Mont
gomery, Ala. He went to a hotel and
sent for a physlelan.
The medical man said:
“You have a case of pneumonia and
infest have a nurse.”
“All right,” s&id Gallagher. “Do you
know a good nurse you can send to
look after me?”
The doctor said he did and would
have the nurse at the hotel within an
hour. In about an hour a colored wo-,
man who measured about nine feet in
girth put in an appearance, and Gal
lagher asked her if she had ever nurs
ed sick people.:
“Yes, Indeed,” she replied. “Fze had
considerable sperlence with ailing pus-
sons. I nussed Marster John, and he
died; then I nussed Mistress Lucy, and
she died; then I nussed Mistress Lu
ey’s sister. The doctor didn’t think
she was so very poorly, but she done
died.”
“Have you had any other experi
ence in nursing?” asked Gallagher.
“Yes, indeed. Only last week I left
Colonel Carter’s house, where J. nussed
the colonel for five days.”
“Well, did the colonel get well?” ask
ed Gallagher.
“No. The colonel he died, too, but
Dr. Jones, who ’tended him, run a big
knife into the colonel and opened him
up. The doctor had been out late the
night before and was a little nervous.
The knife sort of slipped and just
about cut the colonel’s heart out. Then
the doctor said all h— couldn’t save
him.”
“You seem to be a good nurse,’’ said
Gallagher, “and you’re engaged.”—Cin
cinnati Enquirer.
Not So Far Gone.
The last letter he received from
wifey conveyed the intelligence that
she was quite sick, and of course he
was considerably worried. But he was
comforted by the fact that she was
with her mother. He wrote her an af
fectionate letter and told her to be sure
and let him know if she grew worse.
The next letter conveyed the intelli
gence that she was a little worse,
though the doctor said it was nothing
serious. But he worried a great deal.
The next afternoon a telegraph boy
sauntered into his office with the usual
nonchalance of a. messenger boy con
veying a “rush” message and shoved
the book under hubby’s nose.
‘Is dis Mr. Blank?” asked the boy.
‘Yes,” gasped hubby, cold chills chas
ing up and down his spine.
‘Message f’r you. Sign here. De
charges is 60 cents.”
Hubby grabbed the fateful manila
envelopes and hastily tore it open. What
he suffered while tremblingly unfold
ing the bit of yellow paper can be im
agined, but not described. He was al
most afraid to read it, but finally he
nerved himself for the worst. This is
what he read:
Turn off the water and don’t forget
to give the bird plenty of seed.”—Oma
ha World-Herald.
sometimes very funny H| You Want Anything
ed a western man. “I j
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BEDROOM SUITES, PARLOR SUITES,
DINING TABLES, SIDEBOARDS, CHAIRS
DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINES,
BEDSTEADS, MATTRESSES, SPRINGS, WINDOW SHADES
AND POLES, BABY CARRIAGES, ETC.,
You can save money at
Paul’s Furniture Store.
A complete -line of COFFINS and CASKETS always
on hand.
GEORGE PAUL, Perry, Ga.
OLD SCHOOL BOOKS
Bought, Said and Exchanged.
Full Line Houston County Books.
McEvoy Book
and Stationery Co.
The Coroner’s Two Verdict*.
“Inquests are
affairs,” remarked
remember one in the early days of my
county in Kansas. A man was found
dead by the side of a small stream out
on the prairie. No mark was found
on bis well dressed body. His gun
was fully loaded in his hip pocket, and
$25 was found in his pocketbook. Of
course the coroner took charge of the
money. A jury was Impaneled and
after finishing its deliberations found
that the man clearly died of heart fail
ure.
The coroner promptly paid from the
dead man’s pile the $12 due for ex
penses and discharged the jury. The
$13 remaining bothered him. He ar
gued that to turn that $13 over to the
county, to be held in trust for the
man’s possible relatives, would be the
same as throwing it away. The man
was a stranger in those parts. Possi
bly he had no friends.
The coroner was equal to the occa
sion, however. He declared himself
dissatisfied with the verdict and call
ed the jury together again. They sat
on the body a second time and found
exactly the same verdict, but the coro
ner’s mind was at ease. The $25 was
exhausted.”—Washington Star.
Leu Hopeful For Himself.
George, the colored janitor, needed
some money and went to the church
treasurer for it.
“There isn’t a cent in my hands just
now, George,” said that officer, “and
won’t be till next Sunday's collections
are handed over. Can’t you wait till
then?”
“Don’t see how I kin, Mistah Gub-
ney,” persisted George. “K'yarn’t run
de house wldout money.”
“The best I can do for you,” returned
the treasurer, “will be to advance you
$3 out of my own pocket and run my
risk of getting it back from the
church.”
“Well, suh,” solemnly rejoined the
janitor, “ef you don't git It back ’m
de chu’ch, Mistah Gubney, you’ll git
yo’ reward in de good world, but it’s
diffn’t wid me. Ef I cain’t git dat
free dollahs f’m you. I’d like t’ know
whah I kin!”—Chicago Tribune.
Suspicions.
Benevolent Old Gentleman (to fellow
passenger)—How fast we travel! But,
ah, young man, have you ever thought
of the flight of time? Think of the
fleeting hours of youth, the golden
days that swiftly pass away. Have
you ever counted the minutes—
Battersby (unregenerate and suspi
eious)—What are you trying to do?
Sell me a watch ?—London Nuggets.
A Sergeant’s Surprise. •
“When Indians were being recruited
for the regular army," said a western
representative, “it was the custom tfl
give them civilized names. Down at
Fort Apache army officers were re
cruiting Yumas and Apaches. A re
cruiting sergeant was naming them.
Finally a company had been formed,
and the first sergeant, who was ail
American, went out to the front and
center to report his company to the
commanding officer.
‘Company D, sir, four privates ab
sent.'
‘“Who are they?’ asked the com
manding officer.
“ ‘Jay Gould, Cornelius Vanderbilt,
Joe Jefferson and Russell Sage, sir,’
Bhouted the sergeant.”—New Yorlt
World.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Haro Always Bought
Bears the
Signature of
Fashion’s Demands.
The conscientious young man of
fashion now brushes his hair differ
ently when wearing a hat Chancellor
Tisdall, the acknowledged Beau Brum*
mel of Dublin in his youth, had inex
pressibles variously cut for walking
and for sitting and once sat down in
the former with disastrous results.
Not long ago a milliner advertised with
a newly invented hat that it “necessi
tated the mouth worn slightly open.”
What shall we come to. next?—Vanity
Fair.
No Interference.
Burglar (suddenly confronted by a
policeman)—Hello, here’s a cop!
•Policeman — Don’t let me^interfere.
I’m not on duty tonight Just dropped
m to see the cook.—Boston Transcript
^Wisdom “without honesty Is mere
graft and cozenage, and therefore:the
deputation of honesty must be got
'which cannot be but by living well,
ifl^good life Is a main argument
Millions of people are familiar
with DeWitt’s Little Early Risers,
and those who use them find them
to be famo'us little liver pills. Nev
er gripe. Holtzclaw’s Drugstore.
Irritating’.
“So Mrs. Gaylord Insists on a separa
tion at last, does she? Well, he has
neglected her shamefully.”
“Oh, she didn't mind that particular
ly.”
“What was the trouble, then ?”
“Why, whenever he was a little good
to her he was so very virtuous about it
that she just couldn’t stand it.’’—Har
per’s Bazar.
The actors* green room is so called
because Its floor in the time of Shakes
peare was always covered r with green
rushes.
Like had dollars, all counterfeits
of DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve are
worthless. The original qnickly
cures piles, sores and all skin dis
eases. Holtzclaw’s Drugstore.
mm
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Four centuries of
American prog
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(conventions
and platforms).
American rulein
the Philippines.
New.i govern-,
ments of Porto Rico and Ha
waii. Polar exploration in 1900.
Conclusion of the South African
Pan-American Exposition
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