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/fare/ Time Benefits Return of Habits of Thrift, Prudence, Econ• omy and Sobriety Results of 1907 Panic. By Jflexander D. Noyes. I T is no less true of a nation than of an individual, that a I 2 show of enormous prosperity, based on extended debt and ♦ achieved though living beyond its means, paralyzes the real * constructive and progressive energy with which its fortune « was originally established. We shall in due time be paying ♦*♦<♦♦♦<♦♦ more attention to the fact that the astonishing rise of indus ^ ♦ trial th America in decade international 1897, power its “Invasion” and prestige, of foreign during e prosperous since markets, its intrusion on the scene as a new force in the world’s productive 3 industry, resulted largely from the saving of capital, the search after conomies in production, and the application of cost-reducing in vention, which were forced on the business community by the hard times after 1893. The resources, developed with so extraordinary success by those methods of a dozen years ago, we still possess, and they are not less certain a factor in the future of industrial America than they were in 1890 or in 1901. Eco¬ nomic history is unfailing in one of its specific teachings; namely, that after each successive crisis of the sort, American finance and industry have in due time risen to far greater lieghts of genuine power and prestige than in the pre¬ ceding cycle of prosperity. As for the further outcome, in the return of hab¬ its of thrift, prudence, economy and sobriety, to the American people in their private life, tiiis will he the quickest and surest of all results. Nobody who has studied our social history during the last half dozen years will doubt that the change was neded.—The Century. * 9 9 9 AM. OW U"iv>«A The - Galveston —., Scheme h y ya / * LJL/ OTKS df \ ST i By H. S. Cooper. •♦♦e E in Galveston do think, however, that we have pretty nearly ^ ^ solved the most difficult, problem of civic administration, ♦ w wr y ♦ After six years’ trial of it there is very little that we would J % \ M i want changed in the charter, and we have re-elected the ♦ o whole board of commissioners three times. There is no pol £ * • j itics in it—and the remnants of the old board yearning of aldermen for the 6and the "bad” element following them—and 0 ](j days of misrule and graft—have tried very hard to in ject politics into it. It is a plain business government, on a pL n, everyday, common-sense, business, human plan; it has nothing sec tfoms racial, or geographical in it that will limit it; it is practical for every American city, even the very largest ones, for size has nothing to do with its prineiples, Election at large of a commissioner for each department or group of de¬ partments—never less than four nor needfully more than seven. A sharp definition of the departments. An equally sharp definition of the powers and responsibilities of each and every head of department. A president- also elected at large—not having charge of any department and \\ ho has a vote but no veto. No “executive” sessions. No "standing” committees nor any “committees” in the usual aldermanic sense. That is all. As Kipling says, "Think of the gorgeous simplicity of it!”— Success. f Martian Life i Conditions Make for Creatures of an 1 Advanced Order of Intellect .... By Percival Lowell. HATEVER its actual age, any life now existent on Mars must Vs must he in the land stage of its development, on the whole a much higher one than the marine. But, more than this, it should probably have gone much further if it exist at all, for in its evoh ng of terra lirma, Mars has far outstripped 9 9 the earth. Mars’s surface is now all land. Its form of life must be not only terrestrial as against aquatic, but even as opposed to terraqueous ones. They must have reached not simply the stage of land dwelling where the possibilities are greater for those able to embrace them, but that further point of pinching poverty where brain is needed to survive at all. The struggle for existence in their planet's decrepitude and decay would tend (o evolve intelligence to cope with circumstances growing momentarily more and more adverse. But, furthermore, the solidarity that the conditions prescribed would conduce to a breadth of understanding sufficient to utilize it. Intercommunication over the whole globe is made not only possible, but obli gatory. This would lead to the easier spreading over it of some dominant creature especially were this being of an advanced order of intellect—able to rise above its bodily limitations to amelioration of the conditions through ox ereise of mind, What absence of seas would thus entail, absence of moun tains would further, These two obstacles to distribution removed, life there would tend the quicker to reach a highly organized stage. Thus Martian con¬ ditions themselves l-ake for intelligence.—From The Century. Priscilla Explains. "Did you break this vase, Priscilla?" "It would be somewhat at variance with the truth, madam, to personally assume the fracture. The vase slip¬ ped from my fingers. It was the abrupt collision with the floor that caused its disintegration.” And of course when you have a Boston girl in the kitchen an explana¬ tion like that has to go.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Giving His Exercise. “Justin,” said Mrs. Wyss. "Yes,” replied Mr. Wyss. “Will you speak a kind word to Fido and make him wag his tail? He hasn't had one bit of exercise aii day."—Lipi incott’s. World’s Greatest Airship. Count Zeppelin’s new airship, No. 4, which is almost completed, will have cost $100,000. It is 444 feet'in length, i he diameter of the baloon is 50 feet, and it will be driven by three Daimler motors, each of 140 liorse-power. Count Zeppelin hopes that the new balloon will attain a speed of 47 miles per hour, and calculates that it will be able to travel without landing for about 1430 miles. | lights It will for night be provided traveling, with and searefe ■ a com¬ plete apparatus for sending and re¬ ceiving wireless telegraphic messages. —Philadelphia Record. Among flowers the chrysanthemum is ] said to live the longest after being cut BLAMES WOMEN FOR SERVANT PROBLEM. They Lack Training and View Their Work Narrowly. One of the causes of the servant problem here is that women have not had the training for household affairs that men have for business, and do not consider their work from a suffi ciently broad point of view, so Miss Bella Bruce, teacher-student and teacher of domestic science, said in a talk at the Woman’s Exchange. "The woman owes her servants a definite and reasonable wage for a rea¬ sonable service, and also owes them a proper training,” said Miss Bruce. "It is her duty to give them sufficient nourishing food and sleeping rooms which would not be considered impos¬ sible for other people. When the eco¬ nomic work is done and paid for, the righ.t of the mistress ends. It is her privilege to suggest and guide her ser¬ vants, but only when her counsel is willingly received. "When a woman raises the wages in her household she raises the wages in ail the houses in the neighborhood. When she takes an untrained servant at the same wages that she had paid to a competent servant, she raises the scale of wages and puts a premium on incoirjpetency. When unskilled workers are drawn in the good serv¬ ants are pushed out and the industrial balance is destroyed. “The hope of tne American domes¬ tic service question is in the children of the immigrants, but domestic work down upon, and it must be raised. Teaching domestic science in the public schools is of the greatest im we have more ignorance in the draw mg room? The present higher educa tion of women is helpful to women who are going to lead strictly profes sional lives, but it does not help the woman in the home. The study of do¬ mestic science should take its position with the study of other sciences, no matter what position in life the student j s to hold. In the modern household there is an enormous waste of force not only in expenditure but in results. The arrangements made and conducted by men in the culinary departments of railroad trains and ocean liners can give points for most kitchens in com pactnes and practical utility.” Miss Bruce said that in the conduct of their households the hearts of liouse keepers sometimes ran away with their heads, and that by neglecting small matters for the comfort of the serv¬ ants they sometimes lost competent workers. She gave a number of “Don’ts” for the housewife. "Don’t give an order and then forget about it; don’t send orders by other sewants when it can be avoided; don’t talk about servants at the table; don’t leave money around as if you did not value it, and do not spy upon the servants; don’t make a promise to a servant and take it back; don’t go to the rooms of your servants unless you think they may not be clean; they have a right to some privacy; don’t let the cook scant the servants’ table; don’t forget that for extra service there should be extra rest, and if you wish respectful service be respectful and self-contained yourself.”—New York Times. Hew He Beat the Road. Some years ago there lived in Ar¬ kansas a man named Reynolds who owned a narrow gauge railroad from Malvern Junction to Hot Springs. It was partly due to the fact that he had put by a neat little fortune and part¬ ly to his habit of wearing an enor¬ mous diamond shirtstud that he had won the nickname of Diamond Joe. It was Diamond Joe’s boast that no one had ever stolen a ride on his lit¬ tle twenty-five-mile road; and, not content with telling this to his friends, he offered a reward of $100 and a suit of clothes to the man who could do it. One clear moonlight night a man came into his office, dripping from head to foot. "Is this Mr. Reynolds?” he asked. "Yes,’’ replied the owner of the nar¬ row gauge road, involuntarily glanc¬ ing out to see if it was learning. “Well, I’ve come for that suit of clothes and the $100. I've beat my way on your road, Mr. Reynolds, in the boiler tank of the engine; it was hard work keepin’ my head above wa¬ ter, but I did it—and—here I am!”— Philadelphia Ledger. A Kaiser's Revolver. Emperor William II. is never with¬ out his- revolver, and he is extremely skilful in the use of the weapon. It is inspected and freshly primed ev¬ ery moaning, so as to make sure it is in perfect working order. Firmly con¬ vinced that«he is going to die by the hand of an anarchist, this fate hav¬ ing been prophesied for him long ago, he is determined to make a stern - fight for his life, and to have, at any rate the satisfaction, if he falls, of in¬ flicting some injury upon his assail¬ ant.—London P. T. Q. 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General Interchangeable 1,000 Mile Exchange Or¬ ders $25.oo:=Wiil be continued on sale; good over entire Southern Railway System and many other roads South of the Ohio and potomac and East of the Mississippi Rivers. Georgia, Family 500 Mile Exchange Orders, $11.25: -Good between any points in the State on line of Southern Railway: for use of the heads of families and dependent members thereof. For full particulars, ask any Southern Railway Agent, or Write to G. R. PETTIT, Trav. Pass. Agt. Macon, Cm* Everything to Build With. We have recently purchased the Harris Manufacturing Company’s lumber plant and stock and will devote our exclusive attention to the builders supply busines in the future. Our very complete stock includes Brick, Lime, Sand, Cement, Fiber Wall Plaster, Paris Plaster, Laths, Framing—rough or sized to order; Weatherboarding—several grades; Sheeting. Shingles, Prepared Roofing, Kiln Dried Flooring and Ceiling, the kind that don’t crack open—several grades; Doors— plain, and fancy giass front doors; Sash and Blinds— in usual sizes; Window Cords, Weights and Pulleys; Mantels, Columns, Balusters, Brackets, Mouldings. Wainscoting, Corner and Plinth Blocks; Turned and Sawed Work Made to Order; Door and Window Frames; Sherwin-Williams Paint, Oils and Varnishes: Guaranteed Roof Paint. IN FACT Everything to Build lilitb. Bring us a list of the material that you want, or a plan of the house you anticipate building, and let us convince you that our prices are right. Fort Valley Lumber Companv. We have put in the latest improved Turning & Block Machine and are fitted up to get out round, square and octagon Balusters, Porch Spindles, Base and Corner Blocks. We also have a first-class Wood Lathe for all kinds of hand turning. We are prepared to get out all kinds of Dressed Lumber for buildings. Rough and Dress -ed Lumber, Flooring, Ceiling and Shingles on hand at all times. Don’t forget that we are still in the Repair Business of Engines, Boilers and other Machinery.