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FATE.
The skv is clouded, the rocks arc hare!
The spray of the tempest is white in air;
The winds are out with the waves at play,
And I shall not tempt the sea to-day.
The trail is narrow, the wood is dim,
The panther clings to the arching limh;
And the shall lion's whelps are the abroad to-day.' at play,
And 1 not join in chase
But the ship sailed safely over the sea.
And the hunters came from the chase in
glee; that
And the town was budded upon a
pock
Was swallowed up in the earthquake shock.
—Bret Harte.
A NIGHT ON THE
PUY-CLALLAHL
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By OTIS LANDSBfiR SEIBERT.
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ons mi,,' grown more deadly.
Once and once only have I seen a j
panther that was other than a only skulk- j J
ing, timorous brute, intent on
escape’. It was fifteen years ago, on
the Olympic shore and range, south
of the Stra.it of Juan de Fuca. I then
held a kind of roving commission from ,
the Smithsonian Institution, I was 1
hut twenty-two, and was thus put on
my mettle to penetrate unvisitod quar¬
ters of the world and keep my eyes
open.
And that time ilie region was A ver¬
itable terra incognita. On the map it
js termed Clallam County, but for a
iiundred miles cast and west, particu¬
larly among the mountains, it was til 1 n
as primitive and savage as when our
race first set font on tiie continent.
It was one vast tangle of brush and]
rotting tre - trunks, which gave way the') 1
like wet paper underfoot, letting
unwary explorer through into un.siis -I
pected holes, where he might, very pos
gibly, find himself in the lair of a gviz
zly that had never yet learned gun
fear. Bears and panthers were the
monarchs of tins solitude.
Humanly speaking, too, it was a law¬
less coast. Scattered along the shore,
often leagues apart, were a few
“lookouts” of otter-hunters, who were
a law unto themselves, and did not hes¬
itate to send a far-killing bullet after
those who intruded 011 their “ranges.”
Tiie flakes of a few Victoria fisher¬
men might be stumbled on during Hie
season. About the river mouths one
would at times catch glimpses of an
Indian canoe, or a thin line of smoke
rising at sunrise or sunset. F.ut Hie
forest was too dense, rank and tangled
for good hunting, and the Indians and
half-breeds here were mainly those
whom mhrdor or other crimes had ren¬
dered outcasts.
!• In some expectation of finding the
precious metals, I had been trying to
reach a high mountain valley, visible
from tiie coast, by ascending thy gorge
of th? Puy-Clallam. from Port Town¬
send. in a sailing dory, which carried
my small kit and stock of provisions.
A little way up the tidal portion of
the river I had come upon an old log
hut, in a secluded nook of file shore.
It had evidently been deserted for sov
eral years, but it served me as a base
for my tramps up the gorge. On the
night of my story I had returned to it
rather late and thoroughly tired, after
a solitary jaunt of twenty miles or
more. I put on half a salmon to boil
in my porcelain kettle, over a tire
which a rock and tiie en.l of the hut
sheltered, and I also made a skllietful
of hot “breakfast food:” this, with su¬
gar and a spoonful of diluted canned
milk, appeased my hunger a little, till
the salmon was cooked.
Meanwhile dusk bad fallen, nnd the
swarming mosquitoes drove me to don
net and gloves' The hum of thousands
of these insects blended with the dis¬
tant roar of rapids up tiie river. To
eat my salmon in peace it was necos
sary to smoke out tiie hut and retire
inside—for the ins et pests 1 ashed
blindly into my platter and in o my
mouth.
The moon was not yet quite ii sight
over the wooded mountain non >s tiie
stream, but its light was slowly diffus¬
ing itself athwart the willernei ?; and
presently I heard two sea-otters winn¬
ing at each other down in Littl? Bay.
They seemed to be close in Revived ;o the
shore; and as my supper had
me considerably, I took my a rbine
and stepped outside. It was nfcs.sible,
I thought, to get a shot at hem as th.
moon came up; and a sea-otter pelt
may be worth a couple of Jumlfed dol¬
lars.
My little cooking fire ind burned
down, and I scuffed some loose sand
over it with my foot as I stepped to
listen to the otters again. Jut a dense
gust of mosquitoes dashel nto my
face as I stood there; am reflecting
that I might have to lie or Hand quiet
for some little time if 1 ga ted the
otters. I went hack inside fr my head
net and gloves, standing ty Carbine
against that end of the hut s I did so.
for the door was at the otherend.
It took me a minute or tvo to find
and put on tiie net in the dak Interior
of the hut; hut I was coming-mt when,
not twenty feet away, I iscovered
some large animal with yes that
glowed like coals in the obsurity’. It
was in the very act of cradling to
spring at me! I heard the scigh of its
breath as it drew itself teether to
jump, and I leaped hack :ni the hut
and slammed the door.
I had no time to spare, ’he beast
came plump against the dor with a
violence that nearly hurled itiack and
me with it! One paw came a the
Ice by the door-post. I set ny back
•gainst the door and dug my eels into
LL wiid beasts are now |
mindi more afraid of men
than in former times, and
this dr< ad pt mankind has
increased as human wrap- ;
t
the earth to hold it fast, yelling all the
while to scare the creature away. But
my shouts did not frighten it in the
least. With eager growling it dug and
tore at the door with its nails. It even
tried to dig the earth away beneath it.
Then it coursed eagerly round the hut
in long bounds, and leaped on the roof.
Some slight smell of my fire lingered
at the farther end of the hut, and my
carbine, too, standing there, must have
given off odors; but these smells ap¬
peared not to deter the animal.
With low growls it dug at the poles ;
ami boughs of the roof. The old dry
stuff rattled through on me as I groped
for a log bench in the hut to set against
the door. I feared that the beast would
tear a hole in the roof and spring
down on me; but the thick, matted
mass of sodden boughs embarrassed it.
All the time I was shouting savagely,
and I made haste to strike a whole
card of matches, hoping that the odor
of brimstone or the gleam of light
would deter the beast from its attack.
But immediately it came digging at
the door again, as if transported by
ferocity, and again I threw my weight
against the inside of the door, for I
dared not trust to the bench,
My disgust witli myself for being
such a fool as to leave my carbine otit¬
side can easily lie imagined. I was at
niv wits’ end to know how to beat the
creature off. Plainly it was bold from
hunger, and had no doubt smelled mv
salmon, half of which was on a shelf
.iust inside the hut door. I had
thoughts of throwing the fish out to it,
and then an idea came into my mind.
For preserving the skins of birds and
small animals I had taken along a
juaniify of arsenic in a bottle. When
the violence of the creature’s efforts at
the door had subsided and it was rac
ing round the hut again, I hastily cut
a deep gash in the fish with my knife;
then, striking another match. I put in
as much ns twenty grains of the poison.
By this time the animal was on tiie
roof again, scratching and snarling and
snuffling. Opening the door a little, I
flung out tiie salmon. I had scarcely
done so when, pounce! came the beast
to the ground. With a sniff and snarl
it seized the fish and ran off a little
way. Not so far, however, but that I
could hear it eating, its teeth gritting
011 the backbone.
There must have been five or six
ponnds of the fish: but within half a
minute the animal was hack, sniffing |
about tiie place for more. I listened
anxiously. It jumped on the roof
again, then prowled round the hut.
Presently there came an interval of
frightful staccato screech! Then fol¬
lowed some lofty tumbling all over tiie
ground about the hut, enlivened by
the most blood-curdling yells it is pos¬
sible to imagine! Peeping out, I
caught glimpses of what occurred.
Sometimes that poor brute went ten
feet in tiie air. then it clawed up the
earth and brush.- turned wild somer¬
saults. and tore and bit its own flesh.
It tried m vain to vomit forth the
pel.-oh.
If not hard-pressed in self-defense, I
would never administer arsenic to any
living creature.
Pathetic moans succeeded the
screeches, and then the suffering ani¬
mal dragged itself to the stream,
where I heard it noisily lapping water;
and after that the end came very soon.
Fancying that its mate might have
been attracted by the yelling, I hastily
sc cured my enrbin? and stayed inside
<lb( ' but rill morning.
At sunrise I found the creature dead.
bws than a hundred yards from the
place where it drank. It was, as I
had supposed, a mountain-lion, or pan¬
ther. a big male that would have
weighed two hundred and fifty pounds,
I am sure, and probably one that had
never before seen a human being, or
learned aught of tha deadly guile of
man.—Youth's Companion.
\>r, Sir.
The ether day an inspector was ex¬
amining a class in a Beckham school,
when lie came to the word “imagina¬
tion,” and then asked the meaning.
No one could tell him.
“Now,” said the inspector, “I’m
going to shut my eyes and tell you
what I can see. I can see my house.
A baker’s cart is at the gate. The
baker goes up the steps and rings the
boll. The servant opens the door and
takes a loaf from him and pays him.”
He opened his eyes and inquired:
"Now, then, what would you call
that?”
Up wont a little hand at the back of
the class.
•'Well, Willie, speak up.” said the
inspector. “What do you call it?”
“A lot of lies, sir.”—London Tit-Bits.
Sincere OnucKer}-.
A rather remarkable case of sincere
quackery, which perhaps may not be
as rare as is generally supposed, oc¬
curred in London some time ago.
An old lady sued Sir William Broad
bent. a leading London practitioner,
because lie refused to buy or try her
elixir. This "was no common remedy,
being free from those minerals which
are the root of all evil, but the skillful
blending of an herb of which medical
men know nothing.” Needless to say,
the old lady lost her case, which she
1 leaded in person. Her sincerity was
.vs obvious as her stupidity, and made
her a pathetic rather than a ridiculous
figure.
Kitg*ian Iliplomiitic Siren*,
The Russian Government, too, is also
represented abroad, not only by its am
bassadors, but by unofficial diplomats
of a most interesting description, "a
corps d’eiite of ladies who are de
spatehed to the various capitals of the
, world. In Washington Czardom has
, no less than ten of these ladies. They
I entertain lavishly, and their drawing¬
rooms, with shaded rose-colored lights
j and luxurious furniture and hangings,
, are palaces of ease for weary iegislat
ors and Senators.” These fascinating
sirens then dictate in whispers what
; laws shall or shall not be passed by
! Congress.—Joubert’s Fail of Tsardtmi.
ATTRASTtVE ROME GROUNDS
A Sun mcr House May He a Source
iMca.'Uie nt Little Cost.
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s.t' h structures are attractive in them¬
selves; second, they afford an excellent
opportunity for displaying vines to ad
vantage; third, they give the children
of t v family a place to play in. in
which then* is ample* shelter from
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pure air are to be obtained. But the
probabilities are that a house of this
kind will not be given over wholly to
the children. The older members of
Hie family will find it so delightful
a place to spend the hot days of sum¬
mer in that they will make quite as
much use of it as the children will.
With comfortable chairs and a ham¬
mock it can be made far pleasanter
than iU1 >' room in the house. If built
of good size—as every such house
ought to be, when the grounds wil!
admit of it—tea can be served there
in summer, and it will really become
the centre of family life from June to
September.
A house like the one shown in the
illustration accompanying this article
will cost considerable, for every part of
it is well built and calculated to last
for years. But those who cannot afford
the expense of such a structure can
easily reduce tiie cost by using rustic
material. Posts of cedar, set in the
ground, will afford ample support for
Ihe roof, whicli ought to ho of shingles
to keep out rain. For the railing and
bracket work cedar poles and branches
can he substituted, or, if these are uot
procurable, any kind of wood can be
used. Cedar is preferable because of
the ease with which it is worked and
its pretty bark, which will last for a
long time. Any kind of material ob-
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wishes Miss Elizabeth Patterson, of Baltimore.
A Klih Thnt Flulien.
A Yarmouth shrimper yesterday
took in his net, in tiie roadstead, a for¬
midable fish that weighed half a hun¬
dredweight. It was by no means
handsome, and a naturalist identified
it as tin- sea angler, or "fishing frog"
(LophtTiS pis( atoriusi. At the extreme
end of its nose, above a great gaping
mouth, was a long cartilaginous rod,
R* out the length and thickness of a
large knitting nee die, on tiie top of
which hung a bundle of filaments that
must have . < oked, m the water, iike
1 yard of sufficient size to
admit of it ought to be
without something in the
way of a summer house.
There are several reasons
tainabie from the woods can be worked
into swell a building with good effect.
The more crooked, gnarled and fantas¬
tic it is the better for brackets and
railing.
Vines should be set out about the j
house and trained up the posts and
made to completely cover the roof. In
one season it cun he made a bower of
beauty. The best vine for the purpose
is our native Ainpelopsis, or Virginia
creeper. This will take bold of the
rough poles with its lingers and train
itself. Our Cblastrus, or bittersweet,
is another excelbnt native vine of very
rapid growth. This will also train it¬
self by twisting its slender branches
about bracket. ,
post and Its scarlet and
orange quite berries attractive will in winter make the in place j
as as sum¬
mer.
While a house like the one illustrat- i |
ed may look better in some respects
than the cheap substitute of posts and
poles, which it characterizes will lack tiie the rustic latter. charm The j
hoys of the family can build a house
that will afford the entire family a
world of pleasure, and tiie cost of it
will bo small.—Eben E. Rexford, in
New York Tribune.
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Novel Theory of Infection.
Apropos of the epidemic of cerebro
spinal meningitis, or “spotted fever,”
in Irthingborough, London, there was i
no sanitary defect, in the opinion of i
the medical men, sufficient to cause the
outbreak, but a week prior to the oc¬
currence of the first case the father
of the children affected received a pa¬
per published in Philadelphia which
had passed through New York, where
the disease was then raging. Still, it
was not regarded as possible for the
germs to be conveyed in that way. The
medical opinion was that the disease
was but mildly, if at all, contagious.
The Florida phosphate beds were
first discovered by the Government
geologists about 1884.
a tiny suspended sole. Any fish mak¬
ing for this tempting bait was prompt
ly swallowed by tiie gaping jj, ws of
the sea angler lying in hiding for the
purpose. It was of great length, with ;
an ugly head and two pectoral “pock- !
ots, but the latter were bare, even of
shrimps.—London Standard. ;
Advert nt. i
A respectable billionaire wishes to
give away his money to religious pur¬
poses.
References exchanged.—Life. ,
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I GEORGIA NEWS;:
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Epitomized Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
Handsome Gift to Industrial Home.
The will of the late J. O. Baskin,
a wealthy planter of Pulaski county,
who died June 25, provides a bequest
for the Georgia industrial home at
Hawkinsviile, amounting to $10,000..
The gift is in the property of the de¬
ceased and J. B. Mitchell, the execu¬
tor, is making preparation to carry
out the wil] in turning over to Man¬
ager Gunn, of the institution, the
amount specified.
May Secure Italian Colony.
Louis Ocidenilo, emigration agent of
the Southern railway in Italy, and
Guy L. Stewart of Atlanta, land and
induetri-al agen’t of the road, were in
Uoi '.mhrs, the past week, conferring
wi.h the officers of the heard of trade
to invert irate a suitable place for
the location of I.al’.an immigrants and
io ascertain wire her they are wanted,
They think Columbus a suitable place
for the location o; a colony.
Signing Ecnds for New Road.
Bonds to build the Alt a main Tran
sit railroad have arrived in Baxley,
and are being signed. They repre¬
sent one million dollars in hard cash.
Work on this road will begin by the
1 5 h of August. The president, Mr.
Hobe, of New York, has sold out his
home in that city, and is a resident
of Baxley. Lands that were selling at
one dollar per acre last year are now
selling for five and the people are
prosperous.
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New Industries for Columbus.
Within a short while three new knit
ting mills will be in operation in Co
Iambus. The Perkins Hosiery mills
and the Topsy Hosiery mills are near¬
ing completion. The latter mill is
advertising that it will need 100 hands.
The Georgia Manufacturing company
will build another knitting mill, hav¬
ing bought land for that purpose sew
eral days ago. In all, Colnml^e’ va
rious industrial plants will needfeev
al hundred more operatives this
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Estill Campaign Buttons Out.
Although Colonel J. H. Estill has not
announced that he will be a candi¬
date for governor, campaign buttons
bearing an excellent likeness cf him
and inscribed “J. H. Estill for Gover
p,o v ,” have made their appearance,
This is regarded as most significant,
since the buttons are being circulat¬
ed by Marion Lucas. When it is known
that Mr. Lucas is the city editor of the
Morning News, Colone] Estill’s paper,
this distribution of Estill buttons be
come even reore significant. It Is net
belie '' e<1 that they would have been
issued without the knowledge of the
prospective candidate from South
Georgia.
Held for Wife Poisoning.
B. A. Nolan of Villa Rica, a middle
aged man, who, in the early spring,
announced his candidacy for governor
of Georgia in the coming campaign,
was tried the past week at Carrollton
] before Justice of the Peace Norman
on a warrant charging him with poi
sotting his wife, who died some two
months ego in a mysterious and sus
; picious way.
At the conclusion of the trial Jus
j tice Norman held the evidence intro¬
duced to be sufficient to warrant him
in holding Mr. Nolan to answer be
| fore the grand jury of Oarrol] county,
S which meets next November.
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Business Men to Tour State.
The tour of Georgia by the busi¬
ness men of Atlanta wil] commence oa
August 14. The trade extension trip
will continue for six days, and will
| include as many cities and towns as
| it is possible to visit during this
time.
Props of from thirty minutes to
j three hours will be made in the tpwr.s
; and cities. A brass band will aecom
pany the party and practically every
,
business man in Georgia will know
1 that the Atlantans are anxious to do
business with them before the return
j to the Gate City is made.
The itinerary of the trip has not yet
| been definitely decided upon, but a
committee is now working upon that
feature.
Big Corporation Formed.
A corporation has been formed in
Dublin to do business in the state of
Mississippi. Within thirty days the
corporation will begin the work ot
locating several turpentine stills near
Louin, Miss., and later a sawmill wih
be erected.
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$100,000 worth of timbered land, and
men are now in Mississippi securing
options on other tracts of land. It is
estimates by experts that the eompa
ny has land which will yield from
50,000,000 to 75.000,000 feet of lumber,
promoters are Dublin men
and Dublin capital will be used exclu
sively ir. developing the property
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Editor Gray Fined for Scrap.
In police court at Atlanta Recorder
Rroyh fined James R. Gray, editor
of the At’anU Journal, $10 for a teeh
niral violation of the law under a
charge of disorderly conduct. This
i WRS ,he result of the fight ,hat
Gray and Mr - H. H. Revill v Mr,
Peachtree :ive from Meriwether street, countv^h^' 05
opposite the U P‘hl
City Club.
Cases were made against thess
gentlemen and Mr. . W °
Milt Saul a!S , 0 ot
The Journal. When the cases
called, neither Mr. Revill nor were
were in court. Mr. Mr- Sam
Gr ay sain he
the aggressor in the J difficulty
that he did not want Mir. Revill and "
Recorder Broyles fj J 01
said that if Mr
ill was not exempt from the "
the case to- of law
reason be'r- » .
of the legislature he would
over for carrying concealed J 1
He then dismissed Wea al*
the eases ns
Revill and Saul. 0 ‘
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Jack Bone Re-sentenccd.
Jack Bone has been sentenced
h-ang in Rome. August to
25, by Judge
Fite. Bene killed Bach Hall and
convicted and sentenced was
to ksng, but
was sent to the asylum* as insane
from whence he was recently returned
as cured.
Under the law when a Kan urdci 1
the sentence of death is sea t to the j
asylum , , because of insanity and W h e| J
he becomes cured he must be re-sen
teacefi and hanged. When Bone was
pronounced cured the officials in tfloya
comity were notified of the fact.
His sisters, who appeared before the
prison commission last year, seeking
clemency are going to make another
effort to save his neck, and have hi®
committed to the state penitentiary.
Robinson Talks of Immigration.
David Robinson, a former Georgian
now residing in New York, is in At
lanta, for the purpose of discussing the
subject of immigration with state ot
rials. He called upon Governor Ter
rell a few days ago, and diseuxe;.,
with him a plan by which nigh class
immigrants can be brought to Georgia
and the labor problem solved.
“I notice,” said Mr. Robinson, “that
Ttalian immigrants are attracting at¬
tention in Georgia. They are the high¬
est class of laboring immigrants that
are brougnt to the country and make
excellent citizens. There is no rea¬
son in the w-orld why Georgia should
not secure her share of these desira¬
ble immigrants If she cares to go af¬
ter them. Even if the bill which pro¬
vides for a bureau of immigration is
not passed by the present legislature
the immigrants can be secured if the
proper machinery is set in motion.
•‘The Greater Georgia Association
could secure these immigrants, or the
various boards of trades could take up
the matter in an effective manner."
another grafter deposed.
George Moore, Physiologist of Agri¬
cultural Department, Resigns.
George T. Moore, physiologist of the
department of agriculture at Wash¬
ington, tendered his resignation to
Secretary Wilson Friday, and it was
promptly accepted.
This action is the culmination of a
hearing at the department Thursday,
at which it was alleged by two repre¬
sentatives of an agricultural publica¬
tion that Moore’s wife held stock in a
company manufacturing culture for
soil inoculation, while Moore, who hud
charge of the preparation and revis¬
ion of bulletins regarding the enrich¬
ment of farms, directed farmers to
the concern in question for their sup¬
plies of the culture.
The resignation of Cr. Moore and
i s acceptance were announced in a
statement issued by the department
late Friday. This statement con
sists of Dr. Moore’s letter to the sec¬
retary and an attached explanation ot
Moore’s relations with the nitro-cul
ture company, the concern manufac¬
turing the material for the soil inoc¬
ulation. The resignation was en¬
dorsed by Secreta-vy Wilson, to take
effect immediately. In his letter to
Secretary Wilson, Dr. Moore said:
“In view of the criticism which has
been made against my work and the
position I am placed in by this criti¬
cism, I feel that the department
should be relieved of any difference
which may arise through my presec*
connection with it.”
The attached statement by Dr
Moore contains correspondence with
hi3 superiors in the bureau of
industry. Beverly Galloway, the
of the bureau, and Edward Miller, the
pathologist and physiologist, who ac;S
as chief of the bureau, and Edward
Miller, the pathologist and physiolo¬
gist, who acts as chief in the absente
of Dr. Galloway, This correspond
ence is given by Dr. Moore with 3
view to justify the course he had
pursued toward the department in’h at
it showed that his superiors were
cognizant o r the fact that he had r( "
lations with the nitro-culture col¬
pany.
SHONTS IN CANAL ZONE
Goes Over Route from Panama
Culebra on Tour of Inspection.
President Shonts and a party of fi¬
lial officers went from Panama 0
inspect the route from the city to t u
lebra Thursday.
Among the subjects w-hich P rpsi
dent Shonts discussed with Govern 01
Masroon was the construction of q« ar
tors ar-.i places for the recrea'iw 1 c
the employees, to wh’ch much or
tame is attached.
Tee arrival of President Shoots has
produced .in excellent effect ef
the employes, counteracting ’" e
fee’s of th< Hon mcr
res ana
Chief Engineer Wallace.