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PAGE SIXTEEN CHLOE DIVINE. Chloe’s a nymph in flowery groves, A nereid in the streams; Saintlike she in the temple moves, A woman in my dreams. Love steals artillery from her eyes, The graces point her charms; Orpheus is rival’d in her voice, And Venus in her arms. Never so happily in one Did heaven and earth combine; And yet ’tis flesh and blood alone That makes her so divine. —THOMAS D’URFEY. MRS. FLASH. The gay Mrs. Flash has Remarried, you know; She came to the city Three husbands ago. —Lippincott’s. LIVING COSTS MORE. (Philadelphia Public Ledger.) Additional statistics on the in creased cost of living were made pub lic last week by the Department of Commerce. The investigation shows that wholesale prices reached a higher level in 1906 than in any other year during the 17-year period covered. The average was 36.5 per cent higher than that for 1897, the year of lowest prices, and 22.4 higher than the average for the ten years from 1890 to 1900. Os 258 representative articles, 178 showed an increase in price in 1906 over the figures for the previous year. The av erage was 5.6 per cent higher, and prices reached their highest point in December. The increased cost of most articles in common .use during the year was general, in some instances extraordinary. Thus, the price of metals and implements rose nearly THE V & Meridian Life & Trust Co. y 1 OF INDIANAPOLIS £ ARTHUR JORDAN, President 1 OUR POLICIES ARE PREFERRED TO ALL OTHERS: WHY? ■ A Because every one of them is protected with a deposit of securities w th the State of Indiana just as the National W Bank note in your pocket is protected by a deposit with the United States Government. The State of Indiana sees to it that we make the required deposit on EVERY POLICY WE ISSUE, just as the B , United States Government sees to it that the National Banker makes a deposit to cover every five dollar bill he issues. 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Director of Agencies, Atlanta, G». J. E. WILHELM. Assistant Superintendent. I per cent; building material near ly 10 per cent; food, 3.6, and cloth ing, 7.1. The rise in wholesale prices was reflected, of pourse, in the retail, so that householders were made aware of the increased cost of living with out the official announcement. UP A TREE. (The New York Herald.) Dr. Aked seems to have made the hit of the season last Sunday. He may turn out to be a second Rainsford. It looks, however, as if he is going gun ning for bulls and bears and the little lamb in Wall street, whereas Rains ford went for grizzlies in the Rocky Mountains. Aked is an excellent story teller and will be a prize for our fore most social clubs at annual banquets. He tells this on Spurgeon, who used to practice his students in extempore preaching: One of the eminent di vine’s young men on reaching the desk and opening the note containing his text, read the single word “Zaccheus.” He thought a minute or two, then de livered himself thus: “Zaccheus was up a tree; so am I. Zaccheus made haste and came down, and so do I.” FOR ARBITRATION. The Lake Mohonk Conference on In ternational Arbitration will meet on May 22 to 24. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler president of Columbia Univer sity, will preside and deliver an ad dress. The speakers include Senor Enrique C. Creel, the Mexican Ambassador; Senor Ignacio Calderon, the Minister from Bolivia; John Barrett, director of the Bureau of American Republics; Francis B. Loomis, former Assistant Secretary of State; Dr. Benjamin F. Trueblood, of Boston; Dr. Andrew D. White, former Ambassador to Ger- W AYSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. many and a member of the first Hague Conference; Chief Justice Simeon E. Baldwin, of Connecticut, and Bartlett Tripp, of South Dakota, fortner Am bassador to Austria. THE JERSEY WAY. A negro in New Jersey, who knock ed down a white woman on the street, was beaten by his captors, and when brought into court was knocked down by the presiding judge! But, suppose these incidents had occurred in a Southern state? Shall we understand that all Jerseymen are brutes as Sheri dan concluded all Louisianians were ruffians? Bainbridge Steam Laundry For Sale. Full equipment of machinery and appliances; first-class frame building, 30 feet by 55 feet; lot 84 feet by 100 feet; on Broad, a leading business street; stables and other out-buildings;, only steam laundry in this rapidly growing city of 7,000 population; in successful operation 6 years without change of ownership; nets over SSO a week. Owner selling because remov ing to Mississippi. Price, $3,600. Snap. R. L. HICKS, Real Estate Agent, Bainbridge, Ga. Pecan Grove For Sale. 22y 2 acres, 1,080 trees, 30 feet each way, one to sixteen years old, one to twelve inches diameter, some of them now bearing; land gently undulating; mile and half from business center of rapidly growing City of Bainbridge. Owner selling because removed to In diana. Price $5,500. For particulars, write or come. R. L. HICKS, Real Estate Agent, Bainbridge, Ga. A TWO-CENT FARE BILL. (The Marietta Journal.) Representative Geo. G. Glenn, of Whitfield county, will, at the coming session of the legislature, introduce a bill requiring the payment of a two cent fare on all railroads in Georgia. Bills of similar character have been introduced in numbers of southern states. Bainbridge Hotel for Sale. The New Lasseter House, at cor ner of Water and Florida streets, a handsome two-story frame building; built four years ago. Lot 115 feet by 125 feet. One block from Court House, two blocks from business center of city; surrounded by high-class resi dences; ideal location; 18 rooms, near ly all of them extra large; electric lights, fireplace, stationary wash bowl and running water in every room; walls wainscoted and plastered; over head ceiled; bath room and toilet on each floor; porches, pantries, closets, servants’ house, barn and, in fact, everything that goes to make com pl tea modern, up-to-date, high-class boarding house; a small lot of furni ture; overflowing with business today and every day since the first opening day; always 16 to 18 monthly board ers at S2O, several weekly boarders at $5 to $6 a week, several transients at $1 a day, several table boarders at sl6 a month; rent S7O a month. Own ers removed from state and wish to sell. Price, $8,500; $3,500 cash, bal ance in one and two years, with in terest. A gold mine for the right owner. R. L. HICKS, Real Estate Agent, Bainbridge, Ga. P. S. —The travelling men all say Bainbridge is one of the best business towns of its size in the South. Population 7,000, and growing rapidly.