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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-06-15

We heard IA tray rattle in the passage
without and a cry of Go along with
you, which we recognized. 1t was
the voice of our chambermaid Mary
Ann, and addressed to our waiter who,
Notwithstanding he was carrying
plates and glasses, had e~ndeavored to
snatch a salute from her. When we
had heard the same thing before we
had been shocked as in duty bound,
but on this occasion it gave us the
most heartfelt satisfaction; for it
showed that there were honest Gf
rather disrcputable) people about, and
that the household was still afoot. 1T
gave me courage at once, and rescued
sue from the very brink of Mysteries.
A sort of desperate audacity caused me
to see this mysterious matter out, and
the more so because the effect of this
relief was, ! regret to say, to cause Sue
to entertain some doubt of anything
having happened at all. Are you quite
sure, my dear she said, that you left
the gas aiight in the next room to be-
gin WITH 1t was a cruel observa-
ton to make, and, SO to speak,
put my back up. Since you
don't believe it, | replied, 4
m.'st give you the trouble to investi.
gate the matte for yourself and
thereby secured her very IL %,i,i..1
companionship. Again | lit the candle
and entered the drawing-room; it
looked empty enough, and going
straight to the gas lamp, ! put a match
to it which caused it to flame up at
once. AS | had not turned the screw
this showed of course that it had been
left alight. How it had been put out
and how the candle had been blown
out, remained still unsolved problems,
Our nerves were, however, now tolera'
bly, quieted, only WE turned the gas a
little on in our room for company AZ
it were, and lay marveling at what
bad happened and our W courageous
conduct. As we did so an incident
took place which explained the whoic
mystery and revealed the disturber Of
our peace. Suddenly we saw Il great
white moth fly right at II gaslamp
and getting beneath the glass attach
the slender flame. Had it but been a
bead of light, SO resolute was the on
set, it would certainly have extin
guished it, but as it was the poor in
sect persisted by suffice, We pitied it,
fate. thouph IL had twice left us In
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The DellghIs of pm.

In Pau you will find a quality OF
softness In the atmosphere which ever
the greater warmth of Cannes did not
supply, You will dwell, most probably,
IN one OF those great and good hotels.
the Gassion or the France, which stand
on the high terrace from which Won
look out over the rushing Gave and
away on over numberless pillows nj
foothills, rising higher and higher till
they lead the eye to the shining snow.
peaks of the Pyrenees, eliminating in
the lofty isolation of the Pic du Midi
or-there is always an alternative
tor a week the whole landscape NAV
be wrapped in haze, and you may have
nc visible evidence of mountain with.
in a thousand miles of you.
by preference, however, let us taLo
the more pleasing alternative. Then
after the little breakfast" which Won
will supplement, if you are wise. with
something certainly not less solid than
an oeuf a la coque, you will stroll
along the terrace, westward, past the
famous Chateau Henri w., whose won.
derful tapestries you will reserve for
h consolation Of your eyes on a ween.
ing day, when the vent du sud has
brought a curtain of rain to shroud
from you the beauties of the Pvrenees
-Blackwood's Magazine.
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THEN HE SMILED.


The Man with a Glass Eye Had Ills Wits
with Him..
"Better keep an eye on your over
coat"
The remark was meant in kindness
and the sweet-faced young woman in a
black gown, with spotless white apron,
cuffs and collar. who was serving food
to several men at the table in the down
town "quick-lunch" place, did not no.
tice that the man to whom she spoke
had "A glass eye. The other men at the
table did notice it and they smiled as
they also noted the fact that the man
had hung his o~vercoat where it was in
range of his glass eye, but was safely
out of his sight. The man "winked
the other eye" and also smiled to show
that he acknowledged one more joke
on himself, and he inquired, meekly:
(Which eyeY'
Letter l." said a smart man at the
other end of the table, and he laughed
at what he thought was a subtle joke.
Letter b, or you'll G." said the maj
with the glass eye, and then all of the
men laughed and looked at the young
woman.
Then she saw, and a quick flush
showed her distress as she haste ned to
say: "Oh, | didn't mean to be person.
al, but | only wanted to warn you. |
don't want a customer to accuse me of
carelessness if his overcoat disap-
pears"
The man with the glass eye FASTENED
to seize the opportunity to turn the
laugh away from himself. lie shot an
inquisitive glance along the table, as
sumed an air of suspicion and then
asked:
DO they swipe o~vercoats here now?,
That's what they do" replied the
unsuspecting young
Hum! Well, if | can't keep an eve
on my coat, I'll try to keep in touch
with it," he said, as he reached for the
coat, placed it on his chair and sat
down on it.
Then there was only the %clatter of
dishes to disturb the silence. and The
man with the glass eye was the only
one who smiled.-N. Y. Tribune
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Another Application.

A certain schoolmaster occasionally
compares the achievements of his
pupils with the work of noted men in
their boyhood days, much to the
scholars disadvantage.
Now, John, have you solved the
problem?n asked the teacher the other
day.
mo, sir" replied the boy; ~ can't
"llow old are you, john"
sixteen was the answer.
sixteen" repeated the instructor.
Sixteen, and can't solve a simple prob
lem like that. Why, sir, at your age
Geosge Washington was surveying the
estate of Lord Fairfax"
The pupil looked thoughtful but
made no reply.
After the class was dismissed a class.
mate inquired of him if Washington
ever did anything else remarkable
when he was sixteen.
81 don't know" responded the boy.
'He was a surveyor when he was as
old as | am and when he was as old as
our teacher he was president of the
United States. "-Philadelphia Call.
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RoTES OF HE RAIL

JAMES ]. HIT, president Of the Great
Northern railroad. was a freight agent
on the steamboat docks Of st. Paul
twenty-five years ago at a salary of $40
a month.
1T took 1000 men an entire day to re-
move a recent landslide on the Penn
sylvania road, near Huntingdon. While
the work was In progress 10 miles of
solid trains were halted on either side
of the obstruction.
THE tunnels leading to the new union
depot at Columbus, o., will be kept free
from smoke by means OF an inverted
trough arrangement, through which an
artificial draught will be kept up,
THE rapid transit limo at Manitou,
Col, has been completed from the Col
orado Springs station to the Manitou &
Pixies Peak cog road station, a dis
lance of two miles. making a continu-
Gus line from Colorado Springs to the
summit of the peak.
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SHOULD NOT BE DISTURBED.
The Country Should he Left to the En-
joyment OF Present Prosperity.

The Country Should lie Left to the En-
joyment of Present Prosperity.
1t is a matter of relief and induces q
greater feeling Of confidence among the
people of the country that there is to be
no extra session o~fcongress because the
income tax law has been killed. That
there will be none is accepted, no more
from the assurance oiven bv tho secrc
cary Of the treasury that none will be
needed than from the facts upon which
he bases his statement. 1t is plain
from the evidence afforded by the situa-
ton that to disturb it by converting
congress before the regular time fixed
for its assembling would be on act Of
folly and a menace to the increasing
prosperity of the country, of which the
administration is incapable. With af-
fairs adjusted to the requirements of
existing legislation and the treasury of
the country in a comfortable condition,
it would be a calamity should a period
of doubt and uncertainty be forced
upon the people.
While the idea OF having a n extra
session has not been seriously enter
tanned, it has been advanced with the
purpose of affecting the stock markets
and in that connection proved an agent
of very little potency, for the shrewd
common sense which deals In corpora
ton securities saw how foolish it would
be to have a midsummer session of our
national legislature. The treasury is
now in as healthy a condition as it has
been for a long time. The gold re-
serve is but a trife below the high
water mark, the syndicate Is yet owing
ten million dollars, and the available
funds over and above the reserve
amount to about eighty-fve million
dollars. There is every reason to be-
lieve the claim that the comparatively
small deficit will continue to decrease
and there is certainly nothing alarm
ing In the prospect for the remainder
of the year.
What the business Of the country
now wants most is to be let alone, free
from any such endorsements as
would attend an extra session. All
matters of finance, currency and rev
cnue can be safely left until Deem
her. Suggestions for increase in
revenues, If it be found necessary
when congress co%nvenes, are being
freely made, and there will be ample
time to determine the sentiment OF
the country regarding them. Harter,
Of Ohio, is out with a plan, which
would net the country ninety million
dollars a year without seriously af-
fecting the prosperity of any class,
and that would avoid the iniquities OF
McKinleyism, to which Mr.. Harter
very justly charges the fact that the
administration has been selling United
States bonds instead of buying and
cancelling those which had already
been issued. There are other plans
proposed, but by the end of the year
1t will be a good deal palmer than
now what is needed, and an extra SEES
sion would lead to nothing but harm.
-nntrO{t Eraa prasa
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What Use Clean Water?

Water is very scarce at ~Coolgardie.
A golddigger, who was returning
empty-handed from the Coolgardie
mines, stayed for a few days at the
house of a farmer in Victoria.
He slept in the same room as the
farmers son, and waited patiently
while the lad washed himself. Then
he proceeded to perform his additions
in the same water.
Don't use that water" said the boy;
''it's dirty; get yourself some out of the
tank"
"But where shall | put thisT 4.
Throw it away"
Throw it away? Why, how much a
gallon do you pay / beg pardon, l
thought l was still in Coolgardie. =
Boston Globe.
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Always Pretty.

A summer wardrobe will not be com
plete without a Marie Antoinette fcbu
they are made of white muslin with
me close polka dots of pale pink q,
blue, and have deep double ruf,es .,
muslin and two-inch yellow lace. The,
are worn on wool or cotton gowns
passed about the sh~ouldersin soft folds
,o" down, making a yoke effect in the
oack' brought straight over the shout.
der and held on each side Of tho ~,
oy knots of butter. colored ribbon
from these bows the fichu is carried r.
the waist line and tied in a loose knot
with ends falling way down the front
VI the gown.--St Louis Republic,
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Republican mismanagement Of fnan-
ces and taxation has done its worst.
The depleted treasury is in shape to
stand any attack upon it. Business is
reviving steadily. The prices Of farm
products are again reaching a level Of
profitable returns. Wages had fallen
under the Mckinley tariff and the re-
publican tampering with the public
credit, which was behind the public
currency. Wages are now improving
in manufacturing industries and bet
ter trade laws are encouraging the ex-
port sale Of our manufactured prod.
uota. The prospect is that We shall
soon be selling abroad unprecedented
quantities Of such goods and will DO in
possession OF foreign markets which
will give steady demand. The danger
GUS overprc duction Of goods made for
a limited home market will not recur
SO frequently. Labor will have contin-
mona employment Republican reclrs
lessfess was q terror, but we have out
uYeG its worat-Sk Louis Republic
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WAGES INCREASED.
workinGmeP stnI or the Gain Through
tho Democratic Tariff.

/ 4VA.At.-..an GfNI m fha Nllga TArna1A
-
Nv ~
Since the l4th inst, when we pub
lished a record of the increases Of
~, ra ranor.ad mn 70 tho+ date sararol
notable nave peen MADE
The complete list has now become so
long that we have not space for IL here.
A, h stood on the ,4.b inst u sborv.d
- -. -. 400 49,.
~ihcre"Scs Hhaue ny a"oue ~ou olstihcV
companies, hrms, or individual emf
blowers. and the number of employes
o{far.ad NJ, IA that time was ahort los :
noo --
WV we "uu ueio" lne "Nunces ihdue
or reported since the p~uollcatlon OF
that m
Tho Carragia S,ea, comna,, ,a.r,r q, n0
nen emnlovad a, the Edssr Thomso, fur
nocas Edaar Tnonson e,o.I uor,,. D.o,asra
s,oe, ,orss uoroostood s,oa, wor,s : ~, ,n.-
races Eoys,one hr,d,a works rnnar I-r,or
,riiis Towar Irrion mtns ana psa.ar Ea,,o
miiis voI,r,,-v increass =, IA NOV CON, from
Irr,,
Io,ss Z ro,ohu, .msr,car iron wo-rs Mt
ptttsbnrsn yoIuntary increase ., N rer con,
M Nav "a. :. nn ON ,loros anectsa
S,,an w.. Nal ~ .rr ara I,n.,o. wiz.
Nail comnany Egrdlar n, ircrs,ss =, n nor
nan, On No. q. a ooo on, n,nras
Lindsay / NcCr,cnenn,s Ksvs.o,o mill
pittsburgh p, nradlers. wages inoreased
rom "a n 4. ner ton Nav "a
Fall River Machine company. Cuyahoga
Falls o. increase of 10 per cent, on May 49,
"v patat s,.u, ro-.s p.,,,,. = u...,..
OF Is per cent, so men,
William Wood & Co, Philadelphia; weavers'
wages increased by ? cents a yard.
40. utunuy "ofsteu h"ii' ofis'oi' RAJ u
Minnesota IRON com,anv, the advance IN the
mines OF the vermilion district, already re-
ported, has been followed by an advance in the
eonpany m.nes IN inc mesao" range IN ALL
Biwabik Ore COMPANY; iron ore mines in
Mesaba range; increase Of 10 per cent.
Berkshire cotton mills Adams. Mass in
errase oruereu 10 take enecs Nay ~
crease q, 10 ne, cent beginning Nav "a 200
men.
Moorehead Bros, vesuvius iron works
Sna'psonre, ra'. increase OF 10 per eon''' Oh
Bello,re Nail com nanv, pe,,a,rs q Increase
of is per cent,
Pencoyd iron works, West Msnayunk' Pa;
mo,
Nevicb,vanicr Manufacturing companv.
blankets, South Berwick, Me; increase Of 5
per cent. 800 employees.
These additions increase the plumber
OF employing concerns to PAT, and the
number Of employees benefited to about
100000. OF the recent changes report
ed above, all but two (Which affected
about 1000 mem were made voluntar-
lily, so far as we can learn from the
published accounts of the action taken.
Ia the case Of the Delaware iron works,
the wOrkmen first learned of their
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anxiety-indeed. we were talking
under the bed elothes-'I left more
than a bead. Is the d-ressing-roorh
door bolted% Yes | said; it was in
deed made fast by the machine, but
what was the good of that, when the
robber must be in the room; indeed 1t
must be worse than useless, fer he
would not know how to get out again,
which would probably make him des-
perate.
- think said Sue, we ought to
light the candle 1t stood with the
matches at my bedside, and what she
meant, as | well knew, was that |
ought to light it. This might preeipi-
tate matters and was therefore a dam
gerous Office, but somehow | accom-
plished IT. Upon the whole 1T had a
good effect upon my nerves, though
Sue was not an encouraging spectacle.
She had ~endeavored to take off her
nightcap, under the impression it was
a delicate thing To do in contemplation
of the visit of a stranger, and the
strings had got in a knot, at which she
was Juggling convulsively, This gave
her a color, but it was not a healthy
one, and her eyes looked as though
they would have come out of her head.
However. | took the candle and tot
tered with it into the next room with
a vague idea of asking for mercy on
condition of giving the man all our
valuables and showing how to undo
the door fastener. And here the most
dreadful thing of all happened, for
Just as ! crossed the threshold m
body blew the candle out, and we
were left in darkness with the positive
certainty of there being a robber
within a few feet of us. There may
have been more terrible positions in
the history of human life, but if SO, l
have never heard of them.
The tension of our minds was such
that a little more would have made
gibbering maniacs of both of us, when
a most providential affair happened.
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A GLAD
Calamity Hewlers Beginning to Get Their
Eyes Open.

byp6 oPuhf
Is business prosperity something to
rejoice over? And is 1t really caused
by politics? The Tribune pretends to
think so, though it is rather difficult to
keep up with its 'lightning changes
on this subject.
Last year our versatile contemporary
attributed the small foreign trade and
depressed domestic industries to the
democratic tariff. This tariff hap
pened to be, on the imports of last
year, the highest ever known in this
or any other country. But that did
not matter with the Tribune. 1t in
Weighed just as loudly against the
free trade" tariff as though the aver
age duty had beer only 80 per cent, as
it was under the original Morrill, tariff,
instead of so. 06 per cent, as 1t was last
year. And, of course, the slick trade
was a Calamity with a big {.
This spring trade began to revive.
Importation increased. The people
gave evidence of ability and confidence
to clothe themselves more comfort
ably. Again the cry of distress went
forth from the once tall tower. Our
markets were being flooded with for
eign goods. Reviving m was
as much of a calamity as dropping
commerce had been. And the dreadful
democrats were to blame either way
and in both cases.
But yesterday the organ opened an
other stop. 1t sounded the trumpet
note Of THE Glad Recovery" 1t pro-
claimed that 'hearty congratulations
are in order for the substantial i'm
provement in business which has
already appeared" go and which, it
might have added, 1t is impossible for
Mckinley newspapers longer to ignore,
But-and here the funny man again
gets in his work--all this glad recov-
cry" is due to the fact that the repub-
leans carried the last elections. Con-
sidering that there is a democratic
president in Office, and will be for al
most two years more, and that in the
senate Of the next congress the popu-
lists will hold the balance of power,
this wonderful %long-range effect of a
republican victory becomes little short
of miraculous. Captious critics might
ask why it has taken six months for
politics to revive business, but conun-
drums like this would upset the equa-
nimity OF even a partisan soothsayer.
The main thing is that there is a"glad
recovery" and that the Tribune no
longer looks upon m rs a ca
lamity, nor regards industrial prosper.
ity and advancing wages with a hostile
eye.-N. Y. World.
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,aoI, ,rhos+ 40, have IN himself
a. the o+Lor hapd hotels are very
oorronior, fn, ,obhers mot NJ course
~ tbo hlocl,ora nod and amonev-or-
,~.orrlifo" dosor;rt;on hut of the ouiet.
,or,la,,,plr.loo,i,gk kind who if they
Nc, Tho niobt chamberlain In the cas.
.oro AZ two Il, the morning exnrcss
,boir satisfaction at fndinr somebody
,.Lo.o,n toll tbou the number of their
roon which thcv have unhappily for.
pottan II must he a strange life,
That of nre,endinp to he somehod else,
r~onnraliv q c~antain verv much mat.
tachad and after mastering a more or
1ass ditHcp,+ role all dan. IN mass the
smou horrs nj the n,pht in irving
other peonle's doors and taking the
conseouenccs which NAV be ANYTHING
disagreeab,e. from the inouiry of
who the DEVILS that?"' down to the
nrcsentation of n revolver His hone.
NJ coursa is to find the gentleman he
visits whose very names. and far more
their habits are utterly unknown to
him in = deem sleen Int never dream
inp-if dream thew do-that their
nnrso and watch unon their DRESSING
table are at that very moment chang
ing Owners
0re can hardly nic,,re = moro anv.
iops life than that of the hotel thief.
moro AZ ,ha mercv If circu onres
more subiect To what the old stare
directions call ''alarms and eXcur-
sions =" and generally less at ease in his
inn.
No reflection. however. respecting
the discomfort of hotel thieves ever or.
currpd to Aunt Deborah. like he
Franch viv;sact;onist WIN was asked
whether his exneriments hurt the ami.
mails she might have honestly renlicd
.ha,tbat consideration "never entered
bar mind" Che vas q tonder.bearted
woman but he, nitv did not extend I,
the class in Question. They were If
fact bar heta no;r. her sister Snsan and
herself nassed a GOOD deal of thei,
time in hotels and alwavs with the
fear Of being robbed at night befor,
tboi,. evas Th.v never went down +,
the table d'hote without CONNECTING
.om. INNOCENT and rosnoctablc nersoT
with this larcenous profession. and il :
footstep nassed their door after the,
had retired to rest they plunged theil
heads beneath the bed clothes ant
awaited the worst.
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SHIP.

o, this halt-friendship' how | hate the
thing
Giving so little. promising so much,
Protesting. never ~doing-there's the sting
A faise-faced weakling IN have none OF
such,
True friendship is a perfect, priceless gem
Its greatest glory is Its fawlessnesS
MY friends must give TO me, as l to them,
Their best or nothing-IN accept 10 less.
1 want the perfect music, or no sotg;
! want the perfect love. or none at all;
Right Is not right, when coupled with a
wrong;
Sweet Is not sweet when touched with ia int OF
gall.
The forger's gilded coin lacks Colds true
ring,
And this half frlendship-how l hate the
thing
William H Anderson, in overland Quarterly
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room. In this we kept the gas burn
ing, though very low, all night, and
the door open between the two rooms,
so as to avoid being in darkness, |
need not say that all the other doors
were bolted; to lock a door at An hotel
is simply to invite the robber, as with
a little instrument, such as dentists
use, he can turn the key from without:
if on the other hand you take out your
key he puts in one of his W we'll
oiled ones, and opens the door with
noiseless facility. Perhaps there is no
bolt, but in that case Sue and | have a
patent door fastener which sticks into
the floor, and it is practically immova-
BILE. 1t sometimes strikes me, if any
thing should happen to Sue, how very
dangerous these precautions would be
to a sound sleeper like myself, in ease
of fire; but it is not likely, considering
our ages, that she will be taken first.
well, | had turned the gas low in
the dressing-room, and was lying
awake listening to the breathing of
sister Sue and wishing it was not quite
so loud; as a general rule | don't mind
her snoring; it is intermittent, and
might be taken by r stranger for con-
versation, which is SO far a protec-
ton, but as it happened l was not
thinking of burglars at all that night,
but only wanted to get to sleep. Then
all of a sudden a most horrible thing
happened. found myself suddenly in
total darkness. Somebody in the
dressing-room had put out the gas.
Il woke dear Sue as gently as ] could
but she is not a good walker; in reply
to my terrified whispers she answered:
Eth? What? Did you speak?' And
even: Don't pinch for l was driven to
that expedient, but when | had
breathed into her ear what had hap
pened she was quiet enough. Perhaps
you turned the gas off yourself she
murmured. No. said ], In hushcd
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Each mind hath its own method. A
true man never acquires after college
rules. What you have yourself ag-
gregated in a natural name sur
prises and delights when it is produced.
We cannot verse leach others Sc
cret.-Emerson.