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m lTOR NO. 3. $1 PER YEAR. 4 I k 9 * * 4 W s * 'A w g ,1 me r vt When L,ovu Was Young and Grew Not Old HiDh'ffd not tho least 0 shame about telling her Age. On the contrary, she was rather proud to do s«. It was some¬ thing to be proud of. Not that she was r, but that at sixly-fonr she a day over forty-eight, and forty eight at that, r hair was silver, but what .1 calth of silver 1 And it was -ent to soften wrinkles either, woro ns many of those ornaments is legitimate to wear at fortv- u., anil no more. Ob, she was cer¬ tainly a wonderful woman for her age, was Mrs. Joseph Allestree! Quaint, indeed, she appeared, par¬ ticularly on a certain evening, stand¬ ing in tho old square portico, with the sun shining straight under the trees into her face. The house at her hack was low nml long. It stood endwise to the hazy little river that flowed at tile foot of the abruptly sloping lawn. On the side, at the end o! a long, shady ave- ■"motion nue, was urt-h a >^o with an Concealed old-fashioned by over u, vines. It was toward this gate that Mrs. Allestree looked, leaning forward eagerly, like a girl, one hand shield¬ ing her eyes from the level sunbeams. She wore white—think of her daring to wear white! She was watching for Joseph. He had gone down to Stone- ton—only a mile distant—for the post at 5 o’clock. That was two hours ago. Joseph did love dearly to gossip with theold farmers and shopkeepers, but he really ought to remember dinner time. But Joseph had not forgotten his dinner. At this very minute the gate opened and his little gig rolled in, followed by three em'husiastio dogs— St. Bernard and 4 red setters. Mr. Allestree, after embracing his wife as if he had just returned from a year’s journey, went in with her to dinner, and Mr. Allestreo was-but I will not describe him; Ritnply he was everything that the husband of Mrs. Allestree should have been. Forty- two years had gone by since their marriage and in all that time they had never been separated a single day. “Dearest,” paid Mr. Allestree as they sat down, “I owe you an apology for my tardiness, but it couldn’t be helped. I got a letter calling mo away on an important matter, and I had to stop to attend to some things in the village. I must go immediately— to-morrow.” “Ob, that Perley affair,” she said, glancing over the page. “But, Joseph, can't you put it off? Remember, the Kennedys are coming iu the morning to “I stay over Sunday.” cannot, Henriett a It’s got to be attended to at once.” “But, Joseph, you can’t go without me. You know you never did such a thing.” “I am afraid J. must do it this time,” he replied, mournfully. They sat in silence for some minutes. Twice Mrs. Allestree wiped away a sly tear with her napkin. At length, bravely assuming a cheerful aspect, she asked: "How loug will you be gone?” “I oan’fc possibly reach London, ac¬ complish all I want to and get home again in less than ten days.” “Joseph, it will kill u-i both.” “Ah, no, my dear,” ho laughed; "it won’t quite do that. At least, 1 hope not. It will bo very, very hard. But think, my love, wo were apart five long years once on a time.” “Ah, Joseph,” with a sob in her voice, “that was beforo we had ever lived together. We only knew each other by let'er, you know.” “And a mighty comfort did we take out of those same letters. Isn’t it strange that in two and forty years wo should never have had occasion to write to one another ? Not since you were Henrietta Shower.” “It is a singular circumstance,” she replied. “Yes, we can write. Do you know, Joseph, the thought of it already consoles me a little. It will be such a delightful novelty.” It was a good thing for Mrs. Alles¬ tree that she expected visitors. But after the guests had departed her con¬ dition was pitiable. Especially as no letter had come. Mr. Allestreo had gone away early on she Saturday. Now it was Tuesday, had managed to be patient over j the Sabbath, but on Monday uiorning, when Jimmy carno up from Stoneton L empty handed, sho had refused to bo- r liove that he had not dropped the let- [ ^G”°ked or that it. the postmaster had not I the ., tv 41 0, ’ly two deliveries in '' r hours, and at tho C 2 *ormance was ro- -• Mr, Framwell began to dread th< hours of delivery. Twice a day, what¬ ever the weather, Mrs. Allestree pre¬ sented her handsome, anxious face at the window. When he handed out the post to her and she found not the letter she longed for, an angry face it was that peered in at him, and a stern—albeit well bred—voice that demanded of him to hunt through every box. lest perchance he had made some error in distribut¬ ing. Tho deserted, neglected wife must blame somebody, and she would not blame her husband. She did not at first even dream of blaming Joseph. By the middle of the week her whole mood changed. She felt hurt, deeply hurt. There seemed to be no reason, no excuse for such neglect. To think that this, their first seoaration in so tunny years, should be unbridged by a word! She could not have the consolation of writing to him, for ho had left no address, thero being an uncertainty about the very part of London in which that troublesome Perley was was living. It was the way of men, and he, it seems, was not better than the rest of them. Once out of her sight ho forgot—forgot all tho love and daily devotion of forty-two years. By Saturday morning Mrs. Allestree was ill—ill enough to go to bed. Jimmy had to letch both posts, and, after delivering in person the first one, he vowed to Molly that he would not appronoh Mrs. Allestree again while Mr. Allestree was away. All day Sunday Mrs. Allestreo lay silent in a dark chamber. Molly could not get a word from ber, nor would she eat. It was almost restful to bo so weak. True, sho was in despair. Sho had given up all expectation of seeing Joseph again, but compared with the bewildering tossings of vain conjecture, her present state was one of quiettulfvpid peace. But by iuondiy Miming sho was suffering tofmenti once more. She felt that if Jimmy returned without either Joseph or a letter sho would surely die. and, indeed, she nearly died as it was. When the wheels sounded again upon the gravel Mrs. Allestree sat up iu bed. She was whiter than her hair. No voices were heard below. She clutched her heart and gasped. But presently a door opened and a step came up the stairs. It was the step of Joseph. As he entered the room she fell back among the pillows. “My dear Henrietta, what’s all this?’ He looked around almost ac¬ cusingly upon the two frightened worucD, as if he had caught them iu the net of assassinating their mistress. “Didn’t Jimmy tell you?” she mur¬ mured. “You know Jimmy never tells any¬ thing. He did say you weren’t well. But have you been very ill, dear?” The women had withdrawn, and ho seated himself upon the bed. “Joseph, you might have sent me one little line!” “\Vh—what? I don’t quite compre¬ hend. Aline!” “Yes, it wouldn’t have hurt you to write a line.” “Eenrietio, I wrote to you every day, and sometimes twice a clay.” They stared at each other. “.But I never got a solitary letter,” she said presently. “1 sent to every delivery—went myself until I became ill. Mr. Framwell said thero was nothing from you. It nearly killed me, Joseph.” couldn’t •’However,” he muttered, “they have all miscarried—1—Hen¬ rietta ! I have it! Wait; I’ll be back in twenty minutes,” and the gentle¬ man fairly ran out cf tho room. He laughed all the way down stairs, and sho heard his ha, ha, ha’s between bis shouts for Jimmy to bring back the trap. In n few minutes they rat¬ tled out of the grounds, and within the time mentioned they rattled back again. Mr. Allestree tore breathless up tho stairs, bursting boy-fashion into his wife’s room. He carried a package of letters, which he spread out in a cir¬ cle on the bed. Thoro wore fourteen of them, and every one was addressed to Miss Henrietta Shower, For a short space nothing was said, and then the two aged lovers began to laugh, and they laughed until they cried. “ Joseph,” she said, “it’s very funny, very, but was almost the death of me. How did you come to do it?” “Why, Henrietta, love, when I once got out of your dear, familiar presence, the old days came back completely. You were little Retta Shower, and—” Josenh Allestree blu not o!te i quote poetiy- Aml our two and fo Boomed a mis' t!u i POPULATION A'N D Dj. MORGAN, GA., FEIDAY, JA . <J AKY 2 !i. 1897 . HARMON REVIEWS CASE AGAINST THREE FRIENDS. HE SAYS THE CREW ARE PIRATES. His Opionion of the Matter Said to he Entertained by President Cleveland. Proceedings to be Instituted. If the sensational stories in certain New York newspapers regarding the Cuban filibustering tug Three Friends on her last voyage training a Hotchkiss gun on a Spanish gunboat and firing on that vessel have any foundation in truth, the attorney general of the United States government declares that the Three Friends is amenable to the laws of piracy and her officers and crew are liable to be surrendered and punished as pirates. Attorney General Harmon, it is offi¬ cially stated, is considering the advis¬ ability of instituting proceedings against the Three Friends on that charge. The attorney general was originally of the opinion that the Three Friends had not committed a piratical act, even ^ f P "Jf ’ exchan S e of shots w But with a eare- the SK ei a 'l? 11 0 , a " , ^ a e ‘ • • . llar ‘ ' M “ cases ha<1 I made blm d °“ bt i h f P rlmal 'J , r / n ee order kriends, expedite the attorney the case general of the , uls P 10 P al °J nn application to ' pre- ■ sent to the United States Supreme court for a writ of certiorari on the United States circuit court at New Orleans for the transfer of the case to the supreme court so that the latter tribunal may pass oh J udge Locke’s decision, given at Jacksonville. Judge Loeke held that the govern- ment in its libel against the Three Friends did not show that the vessel had violated any law. He gave the government ten days to amend its libel, and declared that unless this were done, he would dismiss the ap- plication. BROTHER WEDS SISTER. Children Separated in Infancy Meet Rater On ami Unsuspectingly Marry. Mulvane, Ark., a few miles south of Wichita is stirred up over disclosures brought to light concerning Peter Wilson and his wife. When Wilson was a boy six years old he and his sister Rachael, two years old, were left parentless and adopted by two families—the boy growing up in Missouri and the girl in Iowa. They never heard anything more of each other, but in the meantime Peter WiisC# married a girl in Sioux City, Iowa. They have been married thiriy- nine years and have just discovered that they are the two orphans—brother ana sister—who were separated in childhood. They have nine children, three of whom are deaf mutes and two others deformed. He and his wife are almost crazed with grief over the painful dis¬ covery. FALLS FROM HIGH BRIDGE. Trnin With Thirty l’:»s9on K erB Takes a Plunge—Three Killed Outright. Saturday afternoon a passenger train onthe Pittsburg and Western railway went off a bridge fifty feet high over Paint creek, near Butler, Pa. The entire train with everybody on board went down. Only one person on the train, it is said, escaped injury. The train consisted of engine, bag¬ gage car and two passenger coaches, with thirty passengers on board. The engineer, fireman and mail agent were killed outright. Belief trains were buried from St. Petersburg and Foxburg with corps of physicians. RECEIVER UNDER ARREST. Mr. Draught is Held Swindling. on a Charge of Cheating and A. E. Draught, a middle-aged gen- tlemnn, the receiver of the Florida Midland railway and a prominent cap¬ italist of the Peninsula state has been arrested and jailed at Atlanta, Ga., charged with swindling. The prosecutors are Eady and May- field, dealers in bonds and stocks, at Atlanta. They claim they have been swindled by Draught to the amount of $2,400. President Back From Hunt. Tho president o’clock returned Saturday to Washing¬ ton about 10 night from his ducking trip near Quantico. His carriage was in waiting at Steven¬ son’s wharf and upon the arrival of the Maple Mr. Cleveland was immediately driven to the white house. Cordage and MachineCompauyAttached David H. McAlpin obtained an at¬ tachment for $50,000 against tho John Good Cordage and Machine company, whose works are in Brooklyn and Ravenswood, and a branch in Chicago, with interest on five notes of the com¬ pany. The notes are dated September 18, 1894. UNION PACIFIC FORECLOSURE. Bill Is Filed By Attorney General In U. S. Circuit Court. In the United States circuit court > *r n peti- >71 e of COURTESY TO M’KINLEY. Invited to Dine at the Executive Mansion the Day Before Inauguration, President and Mrs. Cleveland will invite Major and Mrs. McKinley to dine with them the day preceding the inauguration, invitation and it is probable the will be accepted, Tins courtesy Harrison was extended by President to Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland four years ago. Major According to the present program ington McKinley March will will arrive in Wash¬ Ebbitt 2, and remain at the house until he takes up his quarters in the executive mansion, im¬ mediately is after the inauguration. It expected that Mr. and Mrs. Cleve¬ land will leave on a special train the evening of March 4, and go to New York. Their home at Princeton, N. J., is undergoing repairs, and will not be ready for occupancy before spring. So far, it is said, Mr. Cleveland lias made no business arrangements, and it is understood that he will not decide what he will no until after he leaves office. It is thought probably that he will resume his former law connections in New York city. WEYLER PARDONS A FEW. Name Day of Alphonzo Observed in Ha¬ vana But Prisoners Disappointed. Saturday being the name day of King Alphonzo it was celebrated in Havaua by services in the cathedral in honor of the king’s patron saint and by social functions. In accordance with the custom which obtains on this day, a number of prisoners were given their liberty. It was thought that a number of the Americans now confined in Cuban prisons would be released in honor of the day, but this expectation was dis¬ appointed. There were only thirteen men set free, and they were only given their liberty provisionally. They were charged with various offenses, and all of them are comparatively unknown. PREACHER DROWNED. His Body Was Fished Out of a Tanyard Vat. Eev. T. J. Bruce, a Presbyterian minister, was fished out of an old vat in an abandoned tanyard in a field half a mile from West Point, Ga., Sunday morning. Dr. Bruce disappeared from West Point last Thursday under rather pe¬ culiar circumstancrs, and the indica¬ tions are that ho fell into the vat that evening and was drowned or scalded to death. At one time he preached in West Point and then at LaGrange, but more recently he has been located in Eufau- la, Ala., where ho had charge of a large and successful church. SENATOR GEORGE DYING. Mississippi's Representative Ill in a Wash- ing-ton Hospital. Senator James Z. George, of Missis¬ sippi. is lying at the Garfield hospital, in Washington, critically ill. His wife and family, who are at their home, Carrollton, Miss., have been summon¬ ed to his bedside. Senator George reached the capital January 5th, last, and immediately entered the Garfield hospital. He was then suffering from a complication of diseases,bronchial catarrh causing him the greatest annoyance. COAL MINERS STRIKE. Wilmington, Illinois, Field Operatives Walk Out, in a Body. A dispatch from Joliet, Ill., says: All the men in tho Wilmington coal fields were ordered out on strike Hat- urday in accordance with the decision of a mass meeting held at Coal City, which was attended by delegates from Brainwood, Braceville and Diamond. This action is taken because of the Star Coal Company’s effort to enforce the use of the two-inch screen. Approved By the President. President Cleveland has approved the following acts: To provide for the erection of a government building at the Tennessee Centennial exposition without advertising for proposals; con¬ structing the law in reference to the award of life saving medals may be awarded to persons not members of life saving stations and for exertions elsewhere than adjacent to a life saving station. Queen Lil in Washington. Ex-Queen Liliuokalani, of Hawaii, arrived in Washington from Boston Saturday afternoon and located at the Sboreliam. Mol) Lynched Taylor. A mob of Floridions broke into the Tallahassee jail Sunday morning and within a half hour Pierson Taylor a negro charged with assaulting a young lady, was hanging from the limb of a tree in the jail yard within a few feet of the jail door. The mob was an open one. There was no attempt to conceal the identity of the men who composed it. Fifty Degrees In Three Honrs. A special of Sunday from Kansas City says: A blizzard of unusual se¬ verity is raging over Kansas and the snow which is falling in the wistern section of the state is drifting badly. There is much suffering among stock. IOWA COVERED WITH SNOW. Heavy Northwest Wind Prevails*, and Zero Is Away Up. Iowa is experiencing the worst hliz- zat-d if years. Bnow began falling al jut noon Saturday and reports indi- ; lu- fall is very healy all over the northern and northwestern the mercury at 15 to v/UUll IftlU iiliSilL ULIsUfi i Il/ll ---- THEY CONDEMN THE PRESIDENT’S ALLEGED SECLUSION. j A BILL PASSED OYER i HIS VETO. Members Give Vent to Their Feelings Without Stint—Sherman Denies News¬ paper Reports. A number of letters, some favorable and others unfavorable to the Anglo- American peace treaty, were presented to the senate Friday by Mr. Cullom. After this Mr. Turpie (Dem.), Indi¬ ana, surprised the senate with a very caustic statement as to the Cuban sit¬ uation. He said he would on Monday call up the pending Cameron resolution for the independence of Cuba for the purpose of making some remarks. About three weeks ago, lie said, there appeared a formal utterance from the secretary of state in the newspapers olution. relative to the Cuban ros- At that time there was no resolution before the senate. Under such circumstances the secretary’s utterance was obiter dictum of the most rude, most swift, most voluntary character. It recalled the schoolmaster of anti¬ quity who caused a whole audience to tremble with a threat of future dis¬ pleasure. But the senate might have passed that by. Turpie, “Today, however, continued Mr. a publication appeared in the newspapers, which had apparently be¬ come the messengers between the state department and congress, to the effect that a compact had, been entered into between the secretary of state and the new premier (Mr. Sherman) by which there was to bo no further action on Cuba during the present administra¬ tion. “Allow me to say,” proceeded Mr. Turpie, “that I regard such a course as a violation of the comity existing between the legislative and executive blanches of the government., This had been done only once before, when Mr. Oauning-” Mr. Sherman arose at this moment while Mr. Turpie’s reference to the Canning incident was unfinished and said: “If the senator refers to a publica¬ tion of today I wilKsay there is notthe slightest warrant for the statement made. I have not had a word with Mr. Olney on that subject, and there has beon no mention of an agreement or Mr. understanding.” Turpie said he was glad to ac¬ cept this disavowal. But lie felt that llie senator should do something to dissipate such reports, “Whatever the difference may be as to the independence of Cuba,” eon- eluded Mr. Turpie, “I think every senator here favors the independence of the senate.” Another Sensation Sprung. This incident had hardly been con- eluded when it was followed by a gen¬ uine sensation in the form of the dis¬ cussion of the new Anglo-American peace treaty. Notwitstanding the rule of referring to treaties only in executive session it brought out statements from Mr. Sher¬ man, Mr. Cullom, Mr. Lodge and Mr. Gray, members of the committee on foreign relations and many other sena¬ tors. Baflaed Over President's Veto, Two-tliirds having voted in the af¬ firmative—141 to 168—the Texas judi¬ ciary district bill was passed over the veto of the president in tlie house. Mr. Cooper, of Texas, in support of the measure referred to the fact that he was unable to sec the president or got by Private Secretary Thurber. This was followed by a speech by Mr, Grosvenor, of Ohio, in which he sac- castically referred to tho difficulty in seeing the president. He said that no would self-respecting member of congress try to see him under the condi¬ tions. Representative Cooper, of Texas, told of his many unsuccessful efforts to get to the president to explain the needs of the bill,told how he bad been repeatedly rebuffed and said ho be¬ lieved if the president had allowed himself to be informed of the facts ho would never have vetoed the bill. Sev¬ eral other members spoke of tho same experiences, and the bill passed over the president’s veto by the necessary two-thirds. BARKED OUT THE WOMEN. ArLanwaft Laglglnturn Will Favor Only OunlilJutl KJrteioTB. The Arkansas senate has passed a bill introduced by Senator Witt, pro¬ viding that hereafter none but quali¬ fied electors shall bold any position within the gift of the Arkansas legis¬ lature. The army of women who be¬ siege the members at every session to secure votes for clerkships is responsi¬ ble for the action of the senate. The Deadly Bubonic Plague. The official returns of the health authorities of Bombay, India, for the past week show that the number of deaths from the Bubonic plague was 470. MOB HANGS TWO. Suspected Murderers of Mrs, Howland Victim« of dodge Lynch, A mob, no one knows where it came from or where it went, rode into Jef¬ fersonville, Ga., went to the county jail and took therefrom Charles For- ’’*l!is White, two negroes ” Airs, Rowland, — - at the TRAIN ROKBER NABBED. Was Implicated in Southern Holil-Up Near Berry Station, Ala. Information of a most reliable char¬ acter has just been received at Bir¬ mingham, Ala., of the arrest of a man at Eldridge, said to be one of the rob¬ bers, who worked on the express car Thursday night. The information comoe in an official manner, and while but little can be learned, and less is being givon out by those thoroughly posted, it can be stated that there is every reason to be¬ lieve the officers have secured one of the robbers. Tho prisoner answers most accu- rately the description of one of the by men, as the descriptions were given the express agent. Ho had, when arrested, a brace of pistols, and when searched $15 in money was found ini his person. He was found in the sec¬ tion of country in which tho hold-up occurred, and it is said that the offi¬ cers, relying on information they have received from Eldridge, foe 1 certain they have one of the robbers. In official circles at Birmingham there is no doubt that the robbery was committed by the name men who robbed the train near that same place on the 16th of December. PORTFOLIO TENDERED GAGE. Invited to Bo Secretary of Troumiry Jiy MeKlnloy. A Chicago special says: It can be stated positively that, the name of Lyman Gage, president of the First National Bank of Chicago, is being considered by President-elect McKin¬ ley for secretary of tho treasury. Prominent men who, while they did not say that they came at the sugges¬ tion of the president-elect, yet who are known to represent him, have visited Mr. Gage and asked him if he would accept the position in case it was ten¬ dered him. Mr. Gage was a gold democrat nud supported Mr. McKinley. He is un¬ derstood to have not yet made answer. Manager Iluinmcraiein Indicted. Oscar Hammerstein, manager of tho Olympia music hall at New York, has been indicted for maintaining a pub¬ lic nuisance. The specific offense charged is that upon the stage of the music hall there is given nightly a rep¬ resentation of scenes alleged to have transpired at the now famous Beeley bachelor dinner a few weeks ago. RECEIVER IS APPOINTED. Botltliurn Loan anti Builtling AHHoclalion Ha* Troulilo. At Nashville, Friday, United Statos District Judge Clark appointed 8. B. Luttrell temporary receiver of the Southern Building and Loan associa¬ tion of Knoxville. The application for a receiver was made by an Indiana stockholder who has $10,000 in stock. He claims that when he desired to withdraw he could not collect. Money Still Missing. The mystery surrounding the loss of $4,000 from the Southern express car on the Gainesville, Jefferson and South¬ ern, between Social Circle and Winder, Ga., is still unsolved. FUTILE SENATORIAL BALLOTS. Legislatures In South Dakota and Wash¬ ington Fail to Elect. The ballot of the South Dakota leg¬ islature Friday resulted: Kylo 30, Tjoucks 13, Plowman 11, Goody koontz <>, Palmer 1, Kellar 2, Weeks 1, Bow¬ ler 1. Five fusionists were absent. Pickier, 50: absent, 4. The first ballot taken in the Wash¬ ington state legislature Friday for l ed States senator was without re- ’od with 25 votes, Tur- .0 had 4. T. P. GREEN, MANAGER. TO RE FORECLOSED. Government lias Arranged a Deal ltegard- lug: Pacific Kuilroiidfi, The government has arranged its deal for closing out its interest in the Union Pacific and Kansas Pacific rail¬ way ceedings companies, and foreclosure pro¬ will be instituted within a few days. The attorney for the reorganization committee has returned to New York from Washington, where ho went to submit the offer of the committee to the attorney general. That offer ■was as follows: “hi the ere u t that the government shall at once take proceedings in the pending foreclosure suits, or by inde¬ pendent bills, for the enforcement of its liens upon the railroads and prop¬ erty of the Union and Kansas Pacific railways by sale, and for the sale of the sinking funds in the hands of the secretary Union of the treasury relating to the Pacific Company, the commit¬ tee is prepared to guarantee a mini¬ mum bid for the Union Pacific and Kansas Pacific linos a railroad and the property embraced within the lien of the government, and for the cash and securities in the Union Pacific sinking fund, taken at par, which shall produce to the government, over and above any prior liens and charges upon the system and sinking fund, the net sum of $45,000,000.” The sum is slightly below the upset price which the government desired to fix of 02 2-3 per cent of the entire gross debt of the Union Pacific and Kansas Pacific, amounting to $69,000,- 000 in round figures, but it was ue- cepted by the attorney general and nn agreement was entered into by which on the deposit by tlio reorganization committee of $1,500,000—10 per cent of the guaranteed bid—in a New York bank to be designated by the secreta¬ ry of the treasury, foreclosure proceed¬ ings will at once be instituted by the attorney general. The papers have been prepared and will be sent as soon as notification of the deposit is had to the various offi¬ cials of the department of justice in each state in which proceedings must be entered. '0 I !\ WILLIAM IS HORRIFIED AT THE INCREASE OF SUICIDES. fl PRACTICAL REMEDY SUGGESTED. ' Wicked Deeds Lend to Remorse of Con- science Which in Turn Leads to Con¬ templation of Self-Murder. I tvas ruminating about thososuicides that soein to bo on the increase all over tlie land, and are not confined to any class or condi¬ tion. Several have occurred during the last row days In. Georgia and the adjoining states, i wo were young men, two past middle age and one was a girl in her teens. None had good cause for the rash deed, and it seems iilro this generation has more nerve and Ion: fear of tho hereafter than their fathers. 1 cannot imagine any condition or peril that requires the as much courage and will power as deliberate taking of one’s life. 1 would rather take my chances in battle or ship¬ wreck or pestilence. To be weary of life is a common who misfortune, and thousands there are can exclaim with David: “Oh, that I had the wings of a dove, that I might f!y away and bo at rest.” But to tho avers - man “the weariest jifo that ago, ache miry and imprisonment can lay OH V a paradise to what we fear o f must be a fearful leap tacorv “to die and go wo know i * it has become almost as c —murder that has the ex* some passion as hate, revoi or ambition. The suicide behind him save his own- to pity and domestic grief. T pursue, no court to Iry, i try no attainder or eonfisou without benefit of clergy. A little more than a century in George force IV was king of Engiand that the body of a sub have a stake thrust through it an by the highway, so as to intimi-’ from self destruction. His goods were forfeited to the crown. Tills pealed during King George’s ret' law declared that tho body s!i< at night,without tho perform- ceremonies. Such was th the our English ancestors for w crime of suicide. I kn crime that would justify a i own life, and that is remors. as Judas Iscariot felt when banged himself. Thorn ar< stances of self murder mentio iiistory, and they were all bad . our day, suicides arc generally g, people—Shakespeare great of heart, but says of Othol. was jt was romo killing ills innocent wife that nerved i the deed. Nowadays the most or si. are caused not from remorse, hut from appointments, unhappiness, failures in business, dement, dead kindred. or grief over lost lovers or trios drown Sometimes tho unhappy man to trouble in drink, and th' brings a depression that ends in self w * lint it docs not take a great misf< cause suicide now. Only last wool young man killed himself on he. his mother was dead, and a y hanged herself because sho did in¬ step-mother. been llow many traveling found dead in the Atlanta hotels durli, the past few years with no extraordinary cause for self destruction - just,tired of life— couldn’t make money fast enough; couldn't squaro their accounts with their employers, or gome such reason. Job suffered great tribulations, self. but didn’t dare to destroy him¬ In the greatest anguish he said- "My soul is weary of my life, oil, that it would loose please God to destroy mo, that He would Hi.4 hand and cut me off 1 .” What Is the cause of this growing mentrfl cides malady in this happy land? Aro these sui¬ all skeptics, or infidels, or universal- ists, that they should huvo no fear of death, no dread of something after death ? Maybe thero is a hereafter and a judgment to come, and if so, a murderer has a bet¬ tor chance and than a suicide, for ho has time t repent be forgivon, ns David was; Th again, ft is such a selfish act, for it grief to kindred and leaves a shadow tho household that never passes av few years ago I mot a young man had not scon since he was a lad. li lag well In a distant state, where I and sisters lived, but I could see 4 a father never forgotten sorrow in ill- broken hung himself In a barn, a: months family moved far awa. ago I met tin oid friend wl ways greeted me cheerfully, prematurejyjgrav, but.', knew him. lie was the lines of sadness were in every llnramo, of his Intellectual features. He had ceasev to sml|e. His only son, on whom his love and his hope was centered, had killed him¬ had placed the fatal pistol to his temple and fired it. What makes our young men do so? If It comes from remorse, Is It not and safer to ' What doos kill, repent and reform? his body. a His man soul anyhow? Nothing but goes marching or. and remorse goes with it. Hut even his body Is saerod, and lie has no right to mutilate or it. The scripture nays that our bodies are temples of thellvlng Ood—created His Image and but a little lower than the Oh, it Is horrible to think of. It no one but murderers and assas¬ and they don't do it. If tho butcher, should kill himself in his cell, it be a lit ending of his life, whether he sane or insane, but for a young man or who have boon tenderly raised and parents or children or kindred who thorn, there is no excuse. Hotter to bear the tils we have than to plunge inagulf of dark despair, (let up and try again. If you have nerve enough to pull Hie fatal trigger, you surely can make another offor* to reform or to suffer and endure wbatei troubles you. Get up and do something - work for your board if you can’t do bettor. Work/it anything dig, boo, chop wood, be fireman on a locomotive, keep going don’t stop to think and brood over troubles. Con¬ stant employment will stifle woods grief. If you can’t get work, go to tho and hear the birds slug, and seethe glad wat< xilow- iiig in the little branches. Kite I- ".h living and the faithful wag of .OK's tall is worth living for much mute, is tho love of kindred and friends. \ believe that idleness Is not only the devil’s workshop and the chief cause of crime, but it produces that morbid melancholy state of mind lluff begins with drink and ends in suicide. \V> ever heard of an engineer, or a conduc. or a gardener, or a hard-working farmer committing suicide. They haven’t get time to think about It.^ If domestic trouble or family discord htfunts you, work it of Socrates married Xautippe, the most nggrn valtug woman tie could find, and ho says h did it for self-discipline and humllialio Homo women marry aggravating men; bi not for tlie like reason, but women rare commit suicide. They prefer to suffer a to live for their children. Don’t nurse yo wrath to keep it warm. There arc thousaa who aro Buffer unfortunately worso for off death than are. mid be strong, come after a while and relieve you. 1 was ruminating about th® difference tween now and then—between the old til and the new. There wore no suicides tb A crazy woman threw herself into a well i it created a great sensation, wondered, Wo hear many cases in Paris and wo i had pity, bu' i can't recall any iu Geor Now the dally thorn. papers have children to keep a s open for Our are i wrong or oducutod wrong. They don' to work or to study or to read good hoi go to church. They short want to frolic an sport or to And cuts to fortune. 1 pose we look for romo of the old biudim, and travel along tho old roads and.ecu if can't stop this self-destruction the 4 fearfully increasing In Consult**' our south Hint Akp in Atlanta