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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-11-30

High Point emphasizes what | said
about good buildings. Those people
a. first put up cheap, wooden struc-
lures. In time they crowded each
otk5r and in the past few months six
factories there have been destroyed by
fire. One company, whose loss was
about $50, 900, had eight or nine
thousand dollars only Of insurance and
had paid rate of 50 per 800 to get
that. It's surprising they had this
much with such rate. Those who
rebuilt, you may have noticed if you
have passed there lately, did 80 out Of
brick. There will always be demand
for furniture aud some profit in max
ing it to the most favorably situated
and best managed plants. North
Carolina has some advantages over US
for this business. With nearly twice
the area of South Carolina and great
deal more hardwood timber Of better
quality than wo possess, when her
mountains are stripped she is nearer
to ,iose Of Tennessee and West Vir-
ginia, from where it will DC brought.
The marketing Of this timber is an in
dustry in itself. In North Carolina
the industry is we'll organized, while
with us undeveloped, and the South
Carolina manufacturer may have to
buy his lumber in North Carolina or
Tennessee. In the extreme northwes-
tern corner Of South Carolina there is
some good hardwood but no railroad as
yet to bring it out. Furniture factor
les as small industries do not believe
will pay in South Carolina. Competi-
tion between Southern factories for
local trade, | am told, is fierce and
when they reach out beyond their log
ioal field they meet the older manu-
fscturers Of the East and Northwest,
who have studied the economics of
production for years. This is hard
competition for amateurs to meet. If
we build furniture factories they
should be capitalized on scale simi.
lar to our cotton mills-only such can
stand the strains long enough to ulti-
mately succeed.
"But I have talked too long al
ready. Let me repeat justs this much.
The test we should apply to all manu-
featuring propositions is not, Can we
start it?' but Can we make and sell
our product at profit7' Test it by
calm, judicial investigation before,
and not after investing in buildings
and expensive apparatus. Experience
is fine school, but the tuition comes
high. Can't stay here longer or l will
miss my train"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-11-30

A man coming home at 3 o'clock
in the morning can be as quiet sneak
ing up stairs as he can be noisy with
his growls the next morning.
- The Grand Lodge, Of Masons, Of
Georgia, at it's recent session in Ma
con, decided that no man can be dis
pensary commissioners or dispenser,
and remain q Mason in good stand.
ing.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-11-30

- Some men have such will power
they can 60 walking with girl with
out getting engaged to her.
- The city af Reading, England.
has passed an ordinance requiring that
baths shall be placed in all dwell
ling house constructed within the
boroupht in future.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-02-19
Eccentr.cies in Dininn.

Eccentric dinner tables have long
been popular in Paris, and chiefly
among well known men. For instance.
M. Santos Dumont always takes his
meals-that is, when he is at home
on table that is 10 feet from the
ground, and at which 1t Is impossible
for more than two persons to sit at
one time. The only person who seems
to suffer through this table Is M. Du
mont's servant, who has continually
to run up and down two or three steps.
M. Jan Van Beers has abolished the
plan CT having servants around him
when lunching, and no sooner Is one
course finished than the table disap-
pears under the ground, to reappear
almost Immediately with the next all
served.
Today l attended a luncheon given
by M. Dessing- which was
distinctly original. The table took
the form of a boat, and the walters
were dressed as sailors. There was
distinctly nautical flavor about the
whole thing, and during the hors
G'ouvres and dessert sailors chorus
was sung. Not being particularly
good sailor, the perpetual motion OF
the table-which, it appears, took
some time to get in working order
was not for me the most enjoyable SEN
sation Of the occasion. | was able,
however, to appreciate the dexterity
with which it had been planned, as not
an article ever rolled-or even at
tempted roll-off the table. To make
the scene more realistic a canvas was
hung on the walls on which was paint
ed a somewhat rough sea. The guests
numbered twenty-four, and each was
presented with small ompass.-Cor-
respondent of The Pail Mall Gazette.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-02-19
The Price of Portraits.

A justice of Glogau, Silesia, has set
a precedent for the price of portraits.
A widow was sued by an artist to re-
cover 800 due him for a portrait he
had painted of her. Her plea was that
the portrait was not good likeness.
Tie court ruled that it was quite good
enough for the price, and that anybody
who thought be could get good por-
trait for less than $1,000 deserved to
have his features distorted. The
Judge, however, was kind-hearted. He
said the picture made the lady some
what older than she really was, but
that, if she had lived long enough she
would have such a good portrait that
she might congratulate herself on hay
ing found a bargain.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-02-19
Wouldn't Lend a Cent.

The late Henry G.. Morse president
of the New York Shipbuilding COM
pany, was one day visited by man Of
questionable repute, who wished to bor-
row money wherewith to launch a
questionable enterprise. Mr.. Morse
gave some polite excuse for his
unwillingness to lend, and the man de-
clared that he regarded this excuse as
somewhat fishy. Thereupon smiling
grimly, Mr.. Morse said:
LET me tell you little story. Once
upon a time an Arab went to his
neighbor and said
"Lend me your rope
"T can't said the neighbor.
"'Why can't your
"'Because l want to use the rope
myself
"'What do you want to do with it?'
the borrower persisted.
"T want to tie up five cubic feet of
water with it, was the reply
"'How on earth, the other sneered,
can you tie up water with a roper
"'My friend said the neighbor,
Allah is great, and he permits us to
do strange things with a rope when
we don't want to lend it, E"
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-02-19
Character Above All.

Senator George F. Hoar recently de-
livered the commencement address at
the University of Iowa. He impressed
on his hearers the value of character,
either in the individual or in the ma
ton.
1.-THE fate of the nation depends In
the last resort on individual character.
Everything in human government, like
everything in individual conduct, de-
ponds, in the end, upon the sense of
duty Whatever safeguards may be
established, however complicated or
we'll adjusted the mechanism. you
come to a place somewhere where SAT-
ty depends upon somebody having the
will to do right when it is in his pow
er, and may seem to his interest to do
wrong.
''In the last resort the destiny of the
Republic, like the destiny of the in
dividual (and IL the case of an indi-
vidual character and destiny are the
same thing), depends. upon individual
will. Will the individual choose what
is right and not what is wrong?"
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-02-19
WOMEN AND DRESS.
GentIer Sex Adorns Itself Without
Regard to Man.

If there Is one point concerning
ly and permanently agreed, it is that
the desire to attract the eye of the
impressionable male does not enter
into the subject at all, or, at any rate,
that it is very far from being the
raison detre on dress and fashion. 1--WE
dress because we like to see, and feel,
and make, and wear, pretty, dainty
things, and all nice women are as care
tu Of their appearance, as delicate
IN their dislike to ugliness, coarsene5s
and vulgarlty, when they are wholly
in the society Of other women as they
are In that of men. In fact, more so,
since men are e" And here, in
this very general confession Of faith,
follows more or less contemptuouS
dismissal of the male biped, which is
designed to emphasize his utter I'M
worthiness, and SO to prove the impos-
sibility of considering him even in the
light of a critic.
However, it cannot be denied that In
is beneath even contempt in his APP
probation OF the niceties in dress Tho
husband who replied, when eagerly
cross-examined by his wife (prevented
from attending the marriage of the
town by new baby as to what the
bride had worn, Worn? Dear me!
Wait a bit, I'll remember-Yes! She
wore white" is, perhaps, an extreme
case Of invincible ignorance, If not
OF hopeless depravityy the
answer, shocking as it is, shows that
the honest gentleman had at least
tried to obey his wife's evident in
Junction to use his eyes"
But, taking one with another, 1t is
both astonishing and refreshing to find
how small a place dress occupies in
the mind of the average man. while
it is almost pathetic to notice the
constancy and simplicity of the lik-
ings and dislikings in regard to it.
He never desires change for changes
sake, and each new fashion is to him
at first an outrage on the old. Then
there is a curious unanimity also in
the taste of men which is almost mys
FERROUS. Take for instance, their per-
ennial approval of dark blue and black,
be it in serge and braid, or silk and
lace. If there be such a combination
in view, it will invariably be singled
out for approval, and should the OBJ
server belong to woman, the remark.
MY dear, ] wish you would get dress
like Mrs. Blanks" follows as a mat
ter of course.-St. Louis Mirror.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-02-19

either He was in the back room o.
saloon on State street, and as soon
as | approached him | snapped a pail
of handouts on his wrist and said:
Jim, | want you at the station"
thought he turned trife pale, but
his nerve was still in working order,
and he coolly said:
Glad to meet you, even if you are
a trife uncerenonicus. But may be
pardoned for asking what you are SO
anxious to see me about?'
Certainly replied just as cour-
teously. 4 am arresting you for the
robbery of 100000 worth of diamonds
from Senator Morgans house in Oma-
ha four nights ago.
This time he smiled.
"Ah! Another case of clumsy de-
tective work l wonder sometimes why
there are idiot asylums when there are
so many available places on the de-
tective force. -Four nights ago? That
was Tuesday night. And here ne
broke off and turned to the barkeeper,
'AO hCa ACIL lllS 0IdllOA dllO WIS
standing at the door. Say, Johnny,
where was l last Tuesday night? Do
you remember?
Playing poker in the side room
at least up until midnight
Il will confess l was a little uneasy
at that reply. What if had made an
idotic move? l would be the laugh
ing stock of the city, for such things
cannot oe kept quiet
But determined to keep up my
bluff.
So l replied quietly. Then it
was not you who registered at the Pax
ton hotel in Omaha Tuesday as Nor
man Whiting of San Francisco. Real
ly, Jim, I did not think | could be
mistaken in that face of yours. | was
dead certain saw you standing in the
hotel barroom.'
II could see that this shot told for
he paled perceptibly.
Were you there?' he asked hur-
riedly, and then, seeing that he had
given himself away, lost his swagger
and remained silent.
Yes, | was there. Come along to
the station and if you will put us on
the track of the diamonds l will see
what | can do to make it easy for you.
You see l show you my hand. know
that you did the job But l don't know
where you hid the plumber. And was
telling the truth in both statements.
He went with me to the station and
on the way told me where l would find
the diamonds. The same night tele-
graphed to Senator Morgan, and he
quick work created sensation, and
was pulled up as a second Lecocq and
all that. New York Evening Journal.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-02-19
" HON e-Wallness.t'

How often we hear it sfi6. at is worth
White to travel to have the ioy of getting
home again. One never realizes how good
home is TIL one has been away from it for
some time" How seldom we comnrehead
the disgrace involved in that remarks For
1T IS our business TO understand the JOYS Of
home. 1t is our business to appreciate it
while we are at homo. and while our appre-
cation can do our dear ores and the pre-
c,ous home life some good. and not wait
till we go away or till some confused re-
turn. whose transient emotions are so
speedily forgotten. Home-wellness thinks
every morning as we rise: "Ho"- GOOD il is
to be member of this household How
hllthe.v the sun shines in at my Window!
How bless God for this good home"
Home-wellness looks around at the break
fast table upon all the dear ones there,
and shines out its gratitude from beaming
eyes, and carols it out with CHEEKY laugh
and loving praises. Home-wellness goes
through the entire dav with song in the
heart. It irradiates the whole family with
ITS satisfaction, for home-weliness is very
contagious. 1t makes every one work bet
ter and play better. And when the even
ing comes. and the sacred night takes the
home m its keeping. il il home Of thanks
giving and peace that it broods under its
ebo1 wings. Inconsistencies is said to pro-
duce, very often. physical results as serious
as genuine disease: indeed. it deserves to
be ranked with the diseases of the body as
we'll as the maladies of the soul But
home-wellness is the epposite of disease;
II is the household hea.th.-Christan En-
deavor Word.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-02-19
BUILDING UP THE CORNERS.

Looking from my narrow window 1 could
see thick walls arise,
And | knew stately building soon would
-, tower toward the skies;
hlghty buttresses OF granite one by one I
saw them form
All knew the massive palace would resist
the stOntsst storm
nen no more saw the workmen; and the
walls Unfinished stood
Like some wind-wrecksd forest monarch In
the IA t1ess OF wood
Dut behold While 7til fretted DER the
structure incomplete,
Men appeared abovs It's walls again with
busy hands and feet.
And learned that while I'd wondered why
slieh aad lenee snonld b.
they'd been building upthe corners that my
owh eyes could not zee.
You have seen man Of promise starting
out for a career;
You had not a doubt about him, you had
ne'er qualm of fear
DAY by day you saw him growing and you
gloried in his strength
JUST AS II yourself possessed 1t, but there
came time at length
When the structure as you saw 1t, strove no
more to reach the sky:
And your anxious heart was anguished that
his glory mad gone by
But again you looked, and marye!ed; for
the man was growing sill.
ana you watched his rise TO greatness with
sympathetic thrill.
FOR the while you thought the struggle
pasely given over, he
BravelY buided up the corners that your
own eyes could not see.
S. W. GILLIAN, in Baltimore American.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-02-19
A Much Condemned Woman.

When Frau Przygodda of Berlin Is
Hanged she ought to be very dead in.
dee,: She was tried for poisoning in
quick succession five husbands. Found
guilty, she was condemned to death
no less than three times on as May
charges.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-02-19
Il Makes a Difference.

Speaking of lucky numbers, they
are the ones with the dollar sign be-
fore them, aren't they?"
well. that depends on whether they
represent what is coming to you or
wat you owe."-Chicago Post.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-02-19

In the principal public squares of
Stockholm. Sweden, are automatic tel
ephone kiosks. Any one may use the
telephones by dropping into the slot a
copper worth two or three of our cents.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-04-16
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.

Death has visited another happy home
and claimed a good and noble woman
for mis- victim. Mrs. Gnssie Lindiey
Cash was born March 90, 1879. and died
at her home near Macon after a brief
illness Of pneumonia. March II, 1904.
Called away from earth. che leaves a
home draped in mourning, sad hearts
desolate and sweet babies motherless.
A more generous. kind and unassum'ng
character never lived. A devoted
daughter, q loving sister, a true and
faithful wife. a kind and tender mother.
Medical skill the attention of friends,
| the patient nursing. and christian pray
ers could not arrest the fell destroyer.
for the Master had called for her.
She professed religion and Joined the
church at an early age. and ever main
tanned a blameless walk before the
wsrld evincing a decided beautiful
Christian character. so marked with
modesty that the excellence of mind and
heart we're best known by the loved ones
at home. There the gems of her pure
life shone with a brightness upper
ceived by the world. Sad indeed Is
home without her. The bereaved 'hus.
band is left but not without hope; the
shadow is depressing. bat the grace Of
God will lift it from his brow and the
affection Of his two precious children
will strengthen him in his sorrow. He
shall see her face again. not with the
lines Of pain that she. suffered here. but
wreathed with the smiles of an eternal
gain. The darling babes. her pride and
Joy. will never know the wonderous
power of a mothers love through every
phase of life, but we rust they will be
reared TO initiate her character and 10
cherish the memory Of a christian
mother.
How hard 1t is for us to give up our
loved ones. but how sweet to know that
some bright day we will meet again,
never more to part. Weep net, fond
parents. for your loss is her gain. Not
today, but some sweet day. when all
life's lessons have been learned, you
shall understand why God took your
darling Gussie from you. One less on
earth. one more in heaven
THE charmed circle broken, a dear face
Missed day by day from its accustomed place
But cleansed and saved aud perfected by
grace,
zone more in heaveni
Another thought to brighten cloudy days.
Another theme for thankfulness and praise,
Another link on high our souls to raise
To home and heaven"
Zone more at homsl
This 10 not home where cramped in earthly
mold.
Our sight Of Christ is dim--our love is cold;
But there where face to face we shall behold,
Is home and heaven!"
April 1904. b q. S.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-04-16
NOTICE TO ALL PERSONS WHO sHoULI
PAY PRIVILEGE TAX

Under the New Law" all privilege tan
beccmps due on the Fl st day OF May. and
each person, firm or corporation that has
air. adv paid Tor u privilege that will ex-
pire, at any time before the first day Of
May. 1905, will he required to pay on the
lst day OF the montu OF expiration, one.
twelfth of the who e amoun Of sad Iii
cens3" for each month that may intervene
between the expiration OF same and the
LIST day OF May. 1908,
Sec. 1l3 Privilege Tax Law of 1904, rcacs
as follows, Sto-wit:
All persons or corporations liable for
privilege tax who shall fail to procure the
! censc during the month in With II ia
due shall be liable for double the
amout OF the tax, and 1t IL hereby made
the duty OF the Tax Collector to collect the
amount, issue II separate license therefor
and TO endorse across its face the words
COLLECTED as damages"
hereby give III required notice aud
hope that all persons, whose duty 1t may
be 10 take out privilege licenses will at
tend TO same promptly and not sabject
themselves to tne damages imposed by the
above sect on, y u. DANTzLER.
apllG-3t sheriff,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-04-16
STRAY COW.

l have lost a heifer about IS months
old, with a calf. dark color. with streak
on back, right horn slipped, crop in
right ear, white under stom ach. Was
last seen about March 10 in DR.. Robert
pasture near the church, l will than
any one for information and will pay for
any trouble or charges,
JERRY WILLIAMS,
April Is, Macon, Miss.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-04-16
SHERIFF'S SALE.

SHERIFF'S SALE.
State OF Mississippi, County Of Noxubce.
W G Beard
y W. E I 50 ! rs Execution
BY virtue of the a~bove.named writ d.
rected to me on March 25, 1904, from the
Office of j. c. MCQUEEN. Circuit Clerk OF
Noxuhse county, Miss. | will on tho
First Monday Of May, 1904,
being the End day of May. offer for sale in
front Of the Court House in Macon. Miss,
to the highest bidder for cash, the follow.
Ing desc ribed laids, lying and being In the
county of Noxubee. and State of..Mississip.
pi, and will be sold to satisfy said writ and
all costs, to-wit:
The undivided one-fourth interest Of
William P. Harris In the following lands
Northeast quar-, Sec. 0, and southeast
quai. Sec. 4, and also parts OF lois rs
and 10 north Of said last mentioned quar-
ter section extending out to the public
road in said section A. all the abOvc-de'
scribed land being in Township l6, north,
Range IS, east. also east half southeast
quarter, Section 8. Township 10 north,
Range IS, east. All said land being the
land conveyed Mariah Harris and Francis
Thomas by Mrs, II. w. Harris by deed re-
corded In the records of the Chanccry
Clerks Office of Noxuhee county. Miss, IN
book 50 page 3i6. Said interest Of W. 7,
Harris subject to lien OF Trust Deed re.
corded In book 81, page 80 oil abov"-men'
toned records. f. L. DAIMLER,
apl2 Sheriff.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-04-16

That is the question, Mr.. Elitor.
when it comes to water works for the
town OF Macon. Will the taxpayers Of
Macon deliberately vote more taxes upor
themselves for a utility which. viewing
it without prejudice, can be a benefit to
only a portion of the town. but for
which the whole population mnst pay2
| feel assured the advocates of water
works have not figured correctly on the
cost that such a burden would put upon
the town, If is intended that such a
project is to be extended to all the wards
Of Macon Unfortunately, 1t may be.
our small population covers too much
ground. and | think it would he the wi
ser polio, 70 wait until we have a larger
assessment roll before we undertake
such big things. | have no objection to
the business portion of the town having
water works. but in that case it won.d
only b. fair if an nd yalorum tax would
be levied upon those who are to be ben
Gifted. | hear "A great deal about en-
terprises coming here If we have water.
works. If they come they can do AS the
Cotton Oil Co, has done-dig their own
wells and get all the water they need.
COMMON SENSE,