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MONDAY NOVEMB ft’* !'• m 4f 3 The Last Day Of Cut Price And Slau&hi PI 'w' 1 5 < ie. I Supply yourself with Winter Shoes, Os < dng, Dress Goods, Underwear, Blankets A l 50L « .1 * 4i i Jl /•A 4 11 Kinds Of Dry Goods, R. S. BRASWELL’S STORE, YOU HAVE SELECTED THE GIRL. Now let us furnish the home. We have a magnificent line Of Furniture and Carpets and can save you money. Let us show you. E. J. & P. D. WILLINGHAM. Macon, Ga. .rms; Monthly accts. Monthly, Weekly, Due First of and Cash. Each Month. W.J. BRASWELL DEALER IN Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes, Gents’ Furnish¬ ings and a New Stock of Pure Food Groceries Call and buy, phene or send your orders, or notify me and I will send for same. All goods delivered free of charge in city. Credit will only be extended to reliable parties, and we will do our best to hold your trade and give satisfaction. Weekly Accounts Cash Buyers Will Due Once a Week Phone 47 Save Money Here h WONDERS n Can now be performed with the new additions just made to my Studio. New Lights, New Lens, New Styles with the best assortment of Card Mounts to be found. Handsome Premium with each order. W. M. WHITE, The Practical Photographer / FORT V ALLEY ,|QA. it tm la r • Portable an i Stationary - m Boilers/ Saw iVISHs IK Side Center Crank Crank and STEAM ENGINES 021 i fii Highest grade Ginning Machinery, » \m i Gasoline Engines, Shingle Mills, L pi Corn Mills and Pumping Outfits to - be had in the entire South. Large stock delivery. on hand, best terms, to quickest investi¬ t It will pay you gate our machinery and prices. 360 Cherry $ Si. .mallary bros. machinery co. MACON, GA. Our Debt to Ancient Greece. Greece and Rome were at the site poles of the human world, equally opposite are their upon modern times. Rome was tical, hard headed, juristic, while was intellectual, emotional, abounding In what may bo called forebrain versus the brain behind ears. Rome’s empire was lengthy, terial, matter of fact, while banked on the intellectual and ual, finding her greatest conquests the realm of mind rather than In that of matter. Rome produced no original thinker, her greatest men ing, like the moon, by borrowed light reflected from the sages of Ath ens. Rome taught men law, order, obe dience, but the mother of Ideas and sentiments was Greece. From Eternal City we have inherited our jur¬ isprudence, but it is from the City of the Violet Crown that we have derived our art, science and philosophy. In a word, to quote the substance of Dr. Johnson’s saying, eliminate from our modern civilization all that it owes to Greece and the residue would be bar¬ barism.—New York American. Poetry With a Sting In It. On one occasion when William Ham¬ ilton Ilayne was visiting Samuel Miu turn Peek at the latter’s home in Tus kaloosa the two poets strolled into the woods and paused to rest beneath the shadows of the pines. “Here are your favorite pines, Hayne,” said Peek. “Let’s dream a few poems beneath them.” The languid summer day had its ef¬ fect on them, and they were soon snor teg and dreaming away. But suddenly both awoke aud both started down the home road at top speed, shouting as they ran. An army of yellow jackets had dis covered them, and, not being partial to poetry, bad forcibly and feelingly resented its intrusion on their domain. Later, at supper, Peck asked: t i Did you make a poem, Hayne? »» “No,” was the meek reply, I made a poultice!” I : So did I,” said Peelc Not a Slip of the Tongue. It is dangerous to pretend to knowl¬ edge one does not possess, A man of little education was once a guest at a dinner, during which a servant stum¬ bled so that a roast tongue fell from the platter he was carrying. It was au embarrassing moment, but the quick witted host saved the day by remark lng, u Never mind, gentlemen, It’s only a ‘lapsus lingua. t tf This caused much laughter and applause, aud instead of being spoiled the dinner was a great success. The boor, wishing to sMue as a wit himself, shortly afterward gave a dinner, to which none of those pres ent at the first dinner were invited, When the guests had been seated a servant entered bearing a beef roast. Just before reaching the table he stumbled and fell. The host, % leaping to his feet, astonished the guestz by exclaiming, “Never mind, gentlemen, it’s only a ‘lapsus lingua.’ ’’—Kansas City Times. Got the Autograph. At Carlsbad on one occasion Brahms’ physician, Dr. Grunberger, asked tlie composer for his autograph for a young lady admirer, but Brahms scold ed him for making a nuisance of self and refused to give it. weeks later, at his departure from Carlsbad, Brahms handed to the doc tor an envelope inscribed, ‘With the cordial thanks of Johannes Brahms. ft Noticing a broad grin on the doctor’s face, be asked: “What makes you look so cheerful? You don’t know yet what the envelope contains. tf v • Nor do I care, ■ i retorted the doctor. i . The en velope is the main thing. Much oblig¬ ed for the autograph!” STOHia,. Bought B*sr* tin Vfhe Kind Yon Hate Always %u*m tf r # Waksd M > m “Fare! ft The passenger gave uo heed. | “Fare, please!” Still was the passenger oblivious. “By the ejaculatory term 'fare, said tiie conductor, “I imply no reft*, ence to the state of the weather, C complexion of the admirable you observe in the contiguous seat, even to the quality of service sated by this philanthropic corpora : 1 tion. I merely allude in a manner per i haps lacking in delicacy, but not conciseness, to the monetary set up by your presence in this car I suggest that, without 5" our celerity with cunctatlon, you liquidate, ft At this point the passenger from his trance.—Columbus Dispatch. Tree Fountain. Au extraordinary curiosity is to seen in the Swiss village of Gunten, on Lake Thun. It takes the form of a nat¬ ural tree fountain, the water flowing continuously from a spout high up the tree. About twenty years ago the water from a spring was | through a shaft, and the supply pipe was directed through the cut trunk of a young poplar tree whieh was rammed te the ground. After a short time tho trunk rooted, branches followed, and now there is a splendid top growth. Friendship. Friendship is a vase which when it is flawed by heat or violence or acei dent may as well bo broken at once j It never can be trusted after. more graceful and ornamental it was j the more clearly do we discern the 1 i hopelessness of restoring It to its | former state. Coarse stones, if they - are fractured, may be cemented again; precious ones, never.—Landor. Great Laughers. j The giant laughers have been men— | Shakespeare and Rabelais. I do not regard Cervantes and Sterne as laugh¬ ers. They are smilers. They are not jolly roarers aud guffawers. They are not fat, rotund, jovial hilarities. They are thin, lean, ironic smiles. A smile is a diluted laugh. Sterne is a diluted , Rabelais.—James Douglas in M. A. P. Like Talking Shop. A stockbroker whose mind is always full of business was asked a few days ago bow old his father was. ; Well,” said he abstractedly, “he’s quoted at eighty, but there is every prospect that he will reach par and possibly be at a premium. ft A Rebuff. I - Miss May, *» ,__ jogan i • TT 0 m , ey, , | "would „ .. you-er-be mad if I to were j kiss you? | j girl, “Not “but necessarily,” I would certainly replied the be mad bright to ] *°t von. it j j Cash or Credit. j i Women should not get credit. NeJ they should men. Cash is the cure, , Tradesmen maybe would have a bad i time for six or twelve months, and many a lady would have to "lie low,” i but In the end we would get iotb our trade and our money, and k.v* would J get her dress and at far Ie .» cost.— Loudon Opinion. - The Vice Presidency 1 “It’s sthrange about th’ v e prisi dincy,” said Mr. Dooley. “Tli’ prisi* j dincy is th’ highest office in th’ gift Iv th’ people. Th’ vice pri- ey is j th’ crime nex’ highest exactly. an’ Ye th’ can’t lowest be sint It isn’t to a j jail f’r it, but it’s a kind iv a disgrace.” —“Dissertations by Mr. Dooley* ! ----- I His Hope For Revenqa. Judge (to barber sentenced to death) —If you have a last request, the court will be glad to grant it. Barber—I should like to shave tbo prosecuting o4 torney.—Mtiakdi iUBewi Let Us Try to Win. Is it not the duty of every loyal nocrat desiring his puny’s suc ‘ s, i* - it can be had wllhout tho ;,a rifice of principle, to take ju >•;> ions and comprehensive thought of the situation and exert nimself to see that the delegates to the na ti'mal convention at Denver July 7 shall go there unfettered by the dead hand of the past and prepared to con¬ sider calmly the political outlook and tire chances of Democratic success and then with cool and careful Judgment (elect a nominee who can win? This is a Democratic year if the Democrats of the nation will but make it so. j Why postpone all hope of success and the beginning of the restoration of Democratic control for another four . years? Did Away With Passes. In one ,of his messages Governor Johnson said: “If the public officers ire not adequately compensated now for their service'’, fix the compensation to such an extent as to make It reason able compensation and do away with the possibility of any officer becoming a beneficiary of the favor of corpora¬ tions and by reason of gratuities being placed under so toe obligation to tho corporation which extends the courtesy. * * * And urge most earnestly the early enactment of a law which will forever abolish the system in Minnesota.” And It was done, j The Phantom Fire Ship. ! Tho traditional “fire ship” of the 1 u,;ll ' !Ui ' bay, New Brunswick, . appear teg usually before a storm, has n basis of fact, according to a scientist. It is a hemispherical light, with the flat side toward the water, glowing sometimes j without much change of slender, form, but at other times rising into mov¬ ing columns, in which an excited im¬ agination might recognize the flaming rigging of a ship. The general ex¬ planation offered is that this object is a manifestation of St. Elmo’s fire, an electrical phenomenon, but the reason for its appearing only ou or near the Cbaleur bay is not known. Children in Pliny’s Day. It was not a modern American writ er who, discussing the children, wrote of them thus: How many are there who will give place to a man out of respect to his age and dignity? They are shrewd men already and know everything. They are in awe of no¬ body, but take themselves for their own example.” These were the words I of Pliny the younger used In one of | ^ famous letters during / the first | I ChtteUaa oeut but the win strong j ^ 7 ronae * Amer 1 The Man With the Wooden Hat. j A young Scotsman was shown into | the office of a great engineer at bn . mingham. He was wearing a bat of 'extraordinary shape, and at his nerv ousness at meeting the man of fame in let the hat slip. It fell with a hollov j ed thud with upon astonishment the floor. The at the engineer thing. look Th j owner picked it up and apologized foi > the noise it had caused. It was o j wood, he explained. He had made d himself, turning it with his father j lathe. The engineer thought that th \ must be something In a man who cornu think out and make such a thing as this. lie forthwith engaged {dm. kept an eye upon him and gave him work of responsibility. Tlie engineer was Boulton; the new man, William Mur j dock. The man with the wooden iat ; was sent away to Cornwall, and when j he returned it was to light up his mas iter’s premises with gas. The mind j | which to first the practically of lighting applied lived the coat In gas purpose i side that wooden hat—St. James’ Ga j ‘ *ette. -