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THE BUILDER.
I bar- ... laid each . sfone in its measured pin*,
Turret and ("w-r an 1 stair
J 1UM.U4 Irvings that Hand ontheir te*;
Ana I know that my work is fair.
\et tke doulit of its iwuity an 1 worth grows ■
strong,
Now that my work is done ;
Ar^ji I find the thought I have held so long
Not worthy to stand in stone.
And the question comes, as its towers gleam
high
O'er the lower walls of the town,
Have I raised earth's dirt lo thy feet, O sky,
Or dragged thy crystal down?
—Anns Robeson Brown, in Lippincoft.
THE FATAL MARK.
^ this Mr. Hush
- ®'*?"
fslrjf It was a hand
some young man
a" who asked this
® question—a sty
mm lish fellow, with
plenty of light
latest whiskers, and th®
styi* of tic and collar. And the
girl who had opened the door for him,
lli that pretty couutry place where the
richest people were not very fashion
wide, was not a servant, but a young
lady— Mr. Jiushton's only daughter
iTun ‘Whal a pretty little soul,’’ lie
thought.
I hen as she turned her head, lie
wondered for a moment whether some
body had just slapped her on the left
check, there was such a singular mark
there, exactly like the scarlet print of
1< IU J l 'i r ' e
H |' ,n, \ // i 4.1 icie all
» auuy i» miiditon life, and it her
s was
one grief, her perpetual tease and tor
incut. She had grown morbid about
it in these of womanhood,
a _ tl .1 , wonld , , w.l.ngly lwvo been flayed
a to be rid of it. But there were
ntictismc.cHl hut could remove it
a« Ih It *!'«’ h ltH w V Jmbdul T'r Ht i scarlet >(! ° at- llg !
trailing the first . glance from every j
stranger
Mr. Rnshton at homo i said Luke |
Kolduns, with a bow. j
'vl':\r Iht n she ul ushered r m 7,r Mr. Robbins into . i
the parlor and went away; and in a
few moments the mill owner sauntered j
,n * II was busiuess _ call, though j
a not :
made exactly in a business-like way.
I here had been some delay of a train,
and the factory was closed when Mr.
Robbins reached Mill Hollow; but
those few words about woolen stuffs
clerk were easily said, and the confidential
of the New York firm of Kink A
Ilawley know that the manufacturer
was a man of strict integrity. The
business was otvwily completed, and i
then Luke Robbins rose to depart. i
l»y this b'/t delay, you re said put the out old of reckoning
“and the hotel gentleman,
is a long way off, and
I should be pleased to have you stay
over night with us. Ihe wife always
has one or two spare bed-rooms, and
supper will be ready iu fifteen minutes.
Let us have the pleasure of your com
pany.”
“Thanks,” said Luke Robbins,
loti are very kind. , I teel tempted.” |
l hen he thought of the pretty face
with the red slap upon the cheek,
Dospete that slap ho wanted to see it
again.
It sat opposite to him at supper
time.
“lh© best and kindest , face in the
world, he said to himself a dozen
I uuoh. And ho did his best to win a
chat, trom the shy girl, who could not
forget her tormenting mark until they
sat in the twilight on the piazza after- :
ward. Then he discovered that she
could lulk. As it grew dark, and the
chickens chirruped in the hedges, she
grew merrier and merrier.
Mrs. Rnshton had a call from some
neighbor and sat apart conversing.
Mr. Rnshton, after many amiable
attempts to rouse himself, went sound¬
ly asleep.
Through tho evening shadows Luke
'll a the girl's finely cut profile and
exquisitely shaped head; and the
moon turned all to black and white
moou, and blotted out the red mark.
, \ud , he. , sat as close to her as lie dared. I ,
\ud her robin-sweet voice charmed'
him ; ami what she said was bright and
fresh, and he fell in love, as men do,
for an hour.
Mt n actually do ’fall in love for an
hour. Women cannot do that. They |
pretend to be fascinated very often,
lu'ftrfi r '"" or *“““•* ' tUh «»“.«j '
Poor littl, Fanuy r«v. away lrer
heart that night in one whole lump,
It is always best to keep a little piece,
if one can; but sometimes that is im- !
“Oh, what a beautiful night!” said
Fanny, as she stood ou the porch with
her mother, after the gentleman had
retired. “Such a line breeze, and such
a bright moon !
ihe mosquitoes do bite so dread- I
fully, though,” said the mother, “and
it s quite damp. We’d better retire.
I wonder whether your pa will be j
suiTed with to morrow’s breakfast. He
does ask visitors so unexpectedly. ”
Married forty and single twenty
take different views of life sometimes.
Fannie went to bed to dream of!
Paradise; and the next day was all I
happy in memory of a parting pres- j
sure of the haud, aud a whispered
hope that they might often meet
agaim
“What a pity that mark is,’’thought
young Robbins. “Bile’s a darling
little thing. And I suppose that Rush
ton is a very rich man. A young man j
might do worse than
law.” Then, as the car whirled him
* v »y, he said to himself, “Whatayutv
that mark is. ’’
Nevertheless h< went down to Mill
Hollow very often after that, and he!
was with Fanny a great deal of the j
time. Fanny’s mother felt that though !
ihU 8 a! t 1' |"b rt tm V h cb 1 ; *i h V ltredm:u-k V Z
as as a a iiiMiuvantage 'vHt to her Fanny,
Fanny s papa was an honest, kindly
old mau, who loved his daughter
tleariy.
Alone together the old people spoke
of the probabilities.
no certainly means something,
*‘“\ndTv ,,,11 ot "T r 1V ‘ Wlth *,
ns, said papa, we need never part
fr 'S °l? i V ° ne '
'
f r'T 1 , *! \ ‘-^ything t
sier » a while. Luke Robbius
THE MONROE ADVERTISER, FORSY TH, GA, TUESD AY, APRIL 3, 1894,-EIGHT PAGES.
that there was any mark on Fanny’s
f&ce, unless something partieularlv
called his attention to it. At Mill
Hollow every one knew Miss Rnshton,
and no one stared at the sweet blem
jghed face.
He loved her very much at times,
though there were long hours in which
he never remembered her existence. I
suppose none of us ever quite believe
that the men we are fondest of work
us into their bargaining and ledger
keeping, as we work them into our
sewing and preserving. If lie only
thinks of you after dark, you are a
happy woman. If he takes your mem
orv out with his dress coat and even
ing tie, consider yourself billed.
1 wioe a week, at least, Luk^Ahought
enou gh of Fanny to buy her a bouquet
or some music, and to spend two hours
°n a dusty railroad for the sake of
seeing her.
Re felt her love for him in her very
finger tips; he saw it in her eyes; he
heard it in her voice. He was a mau
who is happy in being beloved. And
U was not old Mr. Rnshton’s money
that made him decide to offer himself
to her despite the red mark.
Yes, the next time he went to Mill
Hollow he would ask Fanny to have
him tor better or for worse. And he
knew that she would say “\es ' very
w ell.
There arc evil moments iu every
one’s life -moments that change one’s
destiny for the worst. If only it had
rained one morning; if only Fanny
had fallen ill; if only she had not un
dertaken that trip to the city just
when she did, this would be a different
story.
She used to be shy of going into the
crowded streets alone, and even when
with her mother wore a thick veil, and
felt uncomfortable when anyone
looked at her. But now she cared
nothing for strangers’eyes. Somehow
her blemished face had found favor in
hi*. Hod he not told her how sweet
her eyes were? Had he not kissed her
hand? Was she not sure he loved her
r hcr moSt l ,ftrfect of h11 livin 8 men? j
Let them stare. The prettiest girl
living was not so happy.
She went smiling down to f lic city,
She made her little purchases with a
light heart. And then, whiling away
an hour of waiting over a strawberry
short-cake in a pretty restaurant, she
saw Luke Robbins—yes, really Luke
himself, coming to meet her.
“Looks as if some one had slapped
her in the face,” said a giggling girl’s
voice.
And he turned his head as he sat at
a table and saw her, and went to her
at once,
((r Oh, ,, ,, in so glad ii4 to meet x you, ,, said |
I anny. “I suppose I ought to start at
once. ”
“And I’ll go with you,” said Luke
Robbins,
passed He saw down people the stare at licr as they! !
room. Part of the
staring was at the mark, part of it at
the pretty face and figure. He laid it
all to the mark, as she had all her life.
It made him uncomfortable. But that
his thoughts of lier were what they
were, it could not have affected him;
but his future wife, as lie already
thought her in liis heart, that was
different. He greiv very grave. It was
a terrible blemish. In those moon
light lovers’ walks in the country he
had forgotten all about it, but in i
bright Broadway how it forced itself ;
upon him! Everyone stared so.
In the car which they soon stepped !
into, a little child opened its round im-1 j
eyes, and with a child’s innocent
at pertinence, the mark pointed Fanny's its finger straight j
on face, with an,
“Oh, how funny !”
Its nurse slapped the small palm at
once, and turned scarlet herself, but
that did not mend matters,
At the ferrv there was a crowd. I
Luke had passed Fanny in first, and I
stopped to pav the fare. j
“Two ” said he
“The old lady ?” asked the man.
“Ob’, n\f 0 ” sa jq jJukc
that one with the red scar on
her face,” said the man, lowering his
voieo “\11 ri"'ht ”
“Confound you!” said Luke, in a I
rage.
But the man had meant no rudeness,
uor had Faunv heard him, but Luke
was excited, confused, agitated. He
hardly knew why then
They crossed the ferry together, and
he spoke no word to her, nor she to
him He handed her into the cars
Then ho pressed her hand
“Good-bv until we meet ” he said ’ 1
aud stepped to the platform.
There stood one of those white- I
aro alwavs Effect Lt, to a certain de^ee!
and who to be “judges of wo- I
men” in a way that is insulting to
every levef woman, since it places her on a
with wine and horses, anvtlm/ having !
nothing whatever to do with
‘ ^
but her personal attractions. j 1
“Ah, how de do?” said this old gen
tleman, grasping Luke's hand. “Glad '
to see you, my boy. Doing the gal
hint, 1 see. No relation?”
“No,” said Luke
“Thought not,” said the old gentle
man. “\Ve let our sisters and cousins
take care of themselves, for the most
part. Pretty figure rather; good
step; but confounded ugly red mark,
A man wouldn't like that—eh, Luke?”
“No,” said Luke; “a mau wouldn’t j
like it. ”
Something Something rustled rustled at at his his elbow. elbow.
“I—I left my parcel, Mr. Robbins,”
said a cold little voice. Fanny stood
there, so pale that the mark looked
pure scarlet. “Thanks. Don't trouble
yourself.” j
But he went back to the ear with j
her, and he would have pressed her
hand once more, nly she kept it from
him somehow.
She had heard his speech, “A man
wouldu’t like it. ” She had heard the
speech that caused his answer.
“She heard me,” said Luke to him
self. “Shebeard him—confound him.”
And as he looked after the flying eyes"
T' vo tears came into his
They trickled down upon his cheeks;
he wiped them away. Suddenlv he
felt that he loved F’anuv Rnshton from
his soul—that this cowardly sort of
trouble that the remarks and glances
of strangers had caused him
never make him ashamed of himself
agaiu.
.‘ tFa “ n V ’ m v darling” he said to
- -
Tuiuself ‘Fanny, my love, your face
is dearer to me lor its blemish, and
v / n »5 ail kUOW ?t lK 1° re 1 sWp ' You
* h ? nld ’ ™ rr u b ^ gflV 1 11 hide
from the worlds eol4 eyes on jay
bosom, darling; and I’ll love you ail
the more for it.” And but for the
place in which he stood, lie would hase
sobbed Te aloud in his agitation. Mill Hoi
took the next train to
low. He walked up the garden path
in the twilight. He asked for Miss
Fanny,
“She hasn't come iu yet,” said the
servant, “They are o fright£U*d
about her -master aud missus—but I
tell ’em she ll turn up ail right.”
Luke’s heart stood still. A pre¬
sentiment of evil filled his mind. He
had seen Fanny into the car, and the
tram stopped within sight of her
father's door. So, in the gathering
darkness, two anxious men went down
to the depot, hoping against hope.
“She stepped out ou the platform
suddenly. Either she was bewildered,
or she did it on* purpose. We were
going full speed. She had a blue dress
and a white hat, and there's a red
mark ou her face. They’ll know her
by that.”
That was the conductor's story,
That was the story that Luke and
Fanny’s father heard at last,
Did she step out on purpose or was
she “bewildered?” God only knows
—no living being. Luke tried to be¬
lieve that what she had heard him sav
had nothing to do with it. But it
was too late now to tell her what he
—too late to hide her sweet face
on heart. He could only stoop
over her, as she lay in her coifin, and
P ress the last kiss his lips ever offered
to any woman upon the cold cheek
that, even in the death hour, boro
s tdl upon it that fatal red mark,
Human Nature “Worked.”
The man who owned the toy store
understood human nature. He knew
that when you forbid a person to do a
certain thing that person is at once
possessed with a wild desire to do it.
Some things are a part of mischievous
Unman nature aud von can’t get rid
of them. Every man has wicked im
pulses to touch his finger to fresh
paint, to kick an old hat, to take an
extra peanut from thehuskster’s stand
and to give a twirl to any sort of
wheel that hangs loosely.
The toy store man put a good-sized
wheel in the street and immediately in
front of his show window. A sign
said:
' Don't Touch This Wheel.”
The result is that every man who
stops to look in the window defies the
instruction and gives the wheel a turn.
The axle is connected by a belt with
the motor which runs all the mechani
cal toys in tlie window. When the
wheel is turned the manikin begins to
saw wood, a clown beats a drum and
the preacher makes gestures. Tlie
man gives the wheel another turn to
keep them all going and then a crowd
gathers. When he gets tired some
one else is there to keep the wheel
buzzing. The shop-keeper gets his
motive power free of charge.
Suppose he had put out a placard:
‘Please Step Up and Turn
This Wheel,”
Why, then the great public would
have been darkly suspicious, and
would have hurried on.—Chicago
Record.
Where the Sun dels Its Heat.
Why the sun continues to give forth
light aud heat iu undiminished quan¬
tities and unvarying intensity after
having been in a state of combustion
for untold ages has long been a puz¬
zle to the astonomers as well as to the
tt}°«g of htful star gazers. observer Those in the tower learned rank in
s, ”V lore teli 118 that for ever 7 »eeond
i ime The , sun emits as much heat
as
' vouid the iustrtut combus
tion of 11,600,000,000,000 tons of
^ oal! Calculating-from these figures
^ is easily shown hat u the sun s en
‘ ;lre mass consisted of nrst quality ot
^ a atate of combustion/and
that it could burn until the time when
I lie very laa * to “ 'vere consumed (main
tamiUg uutl1 t] /' n The rate of heat
em \ S f 0n U ° W / p) t™ SUpply
could not f possibly , last over 5000 A years.
? h aS ut . been lfc 18 1U existeuce heheved for that hundreds the sun ot
Thousands , , and probably millions of
years, and that since the “ages of
' dawuetl tile quantity of heat
mau
emitted has not perceptibly diminished,
Ihls be I n S the case there is but one
1
•{»« <»«1»» *»-. The lateet
theory is that the immense regions of
space ar ® occ "T\ ed by untold myriads
ot f lu,ature Txulies known as meteors,
! neteorites an d ^elites which are
hemgeonstautiy f f , drawn to the
sun,
a ? d that these c ™sTantly Pawing its
^mosphere evolve numerous streams
of b ° th heat and h ° ht — St - Lotus Re
. 1
pu 1 * c *
The!ermilorm Appendix,
The vermiform appendix is a part of
The human anatomy that sometimes is
a source of great trouble, and, so far j
ply a© known, sort of no closed earthly sack use. that It branches is sim- j j
a
from A the seed, large intestine other at hard, its origin, rough, j
grape or j ;
indigestible substance lodging in this
appendix often causes inflammation
ai *d suppuration for which there is no
remedy but the desperate one of lay
open the abdomen of the patient
and removing the foreign substance.
The operation is a dangerous one, and
the patient often dies from the shock, j
But a real case of appendicitis can bt
relieved in no other way, and if the
operation is not performed the pa
tient, necessairly dies of blood poison
i n §- Surgeons are sometimes blamed {
for performing operations that are
desperate and result in a large per-;
centage of deaths. But there are many j
operations like this for appendicitis, !
which a good Pigeon knows to be
dangerous, and yet without which the
sufferer is certain to die. I util a few ;
years ago a person with appendicitis
was a hopeless case, but recent prog- j
ress in abdominal surgery makes re
possible. The origin of the ver-;
miform appendix has never been sat
isiactorily accounted for be* by anato-.
mists. It is supposed to a
mentary or atrophied organ, which at
some l6ng past stage of development
i n the hut ‘Z n r g T Sm reformed the
fa lv lom 04 lUe CL,loE ~ St ' Lon,dI *- i
Public.
SENATOR COLQUITT
---
rv. EiriBly n . Late BrOOllt
ills lO a
*
fill CiOSe
Surrouuded by His Family aud Friends*
Rrief Sketch of His Life.
rrti, tt } mted .. , b tates fla n f“ fi _ at * n at .
h as over The , ltcd °i ? The S
ca P na
/ M UIi ‘ 1 a ', morni “o telling the sad
*
. ° , ^ ^
c ,, ^ r / / 1 - ‘'° at 0t . <d< re ?°k ? r ?i la S 80 6eni03 ^.°i [
: f t t 8tat ‘. . HudChnstianpatnot
ukntly and f 1 8man peacefully slipped away
1 p to within two hours of his death
General Colquitt was seemingly per
fectly conscious. He was aware of the
near approach of dcmth, but there
was no pain expressed upon his feat
ures. All of the members of his fam¬
ily were around his bedside; also his
family physician aud General and Miss
Caroline Gordon.
Yi hen the news of the death of Geor¬
gia's senior senator became known
in Washington there was shown over¬
whelming testimony of the cordial
love entertained for him-by the states¬
men nil over the couutry and the sym¬
pathy expressed for his family.
M hen the senate met the chair which
General Colquitt had filled so ably
aud patriotically for the past 11 years,
w-as draped in mourning. General
Gordon, the life-long friend as well as
tile colleague of General Colquitt, an¬
nounced his death in touching and af¬
fectionate language.
THE FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS.
He also introduced a resolution no¬
tifying the house and the different
branches of the death of his colleague
and asking for the appointment of
committees of tlie senate to accompany
the remains to Georgia. The follow¬
ing is the list of senators who accom¬
pany the remains: Senators Gordon,
chairman; Morgan, of Alabama; But¬
ler, of South Carolina; Ransom, of
North Carolina; Hoar, of Massachu¬
setts; Perkins, of California; Proctor,
of Vermont; Gray, of Delaware; Ca¬
rey, of Wyoming, and Allen, of Ne¬
braska.
SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.
Alfred H. Colquitt was born in Wal
ton county, G eorgia, in 1824. lie was
the eon of Hon. Valter 1. Colquitt,
one of tlie ablest and most brilliant
men of his day. It was said of the
elder Colquitt that he had no superior
as an orator. He was also an eminent
jurist and a statesman of the very first
rank. Surrounded by such an iu
fluence ns that which came from the
life and public career of his father, it
is then no wonder that his talents
should have ripened early. Itwasdis
covered at a very early age that he
was m possession of much of Ins fath
er s brilliant intellect.
Accordingly it Mas agreed upon to
give him the advantages of the best
education. As soon as he had com¬
pleted his academic studies in his na¬
tive state he was sent to Princeton
college in New Jersey. As soon ns
young Colquitt returned to Georgia,
after graduating with high honor from
Princeton, he began to apply himself
to the study of law. He made consid¬
erable progress in the study of his
books and soon acquired the funda¬
mental principles of his profession.
Tho idea grew upon him, how-ever,
that -while he was fond of oratory and
debate, he was not exactly fitted for
the detail and drudgery of the practice.
His reflections were in the line of
agriculture. Yielding to the instinct
of the farmer he soon deserted the fo¬
rum for the fields, and began the ca¬
reer of a young Georgia planfer. It
was just about this time that liG father
resigned his seat in the Unit d States
senate, and was succeeded by ex
Governor Towns. That was in 1847.
Though Colquit had given up the
practice of law he had not by any
means surrendered his love of politics.
His first appearance in public life was
in 1849. He was then the assistant¬
secretary of the state senate.
WINS THE CONGRESSIONAL FIGHT.
In 1853, though scarcely thirty years
of age, he became the candidate of the
southern rights party for congress and
was elected. His career in congress was
brilliant and was characterized by the
espousal of several measures contem
plating the welfare and advancement
of the country.
After his term of office expired he
hoaever, in the political affairs of his
district and was an active and earnest
factor in promoting the ends of his
party. He was a member of the state
democratic convention that met in
1860, and was chosen as an alternate
with William H. Dabney to the nation¬
al convention that nominated Breck
enridge and Lane.
Colquitt was an ardent secessionist
and when tbe secession convention of
TfiGl met at Milledgeville he was one
9f ine delegates,
Colquitt had been a soldier and af
Towards an officer in the Mexican war
°f TS45. He distinguished himself by
gaiiant service ana attained the
ran k °T major. Accordingly, when
the war of 1861 broke out he was not
without experience as to the hardships
^ nd danger of a soldier,
The war record of Governor Col¬
quitt was characterized by a dash and
gallantry that, placed him in the front
rank of confederate officers. From the
rank of a colonel he was steadily pro¬
moted until he wore on his collar the
insignia of a major-general.
COLQUITT AS GOVERNOR.
Ten years after the war General Col
qnitt was exhaulted to the gubernatorial
chair of the commonwealth of Georgia.
During the decade which had followed
the surrender of arms at Appomattox
he had devoted himself to the peace
fni impioyment of agricnUure. It was
during his administration that the
constitutional convention of 1877 was
called together
Governor Colquitt during the first
; wo vears of administration, bv
W1se an( i prnf i p t - PMnrM emceed ed
in saving for the state "the suin’ of
i\)0 “ihere ©00
was a change, uneT however, at
; ast an apparent before the close
;> f his term in the popular feelirn*
, vhich vag entertained toward the chief
magistrate. It sxew out of his ea¬
dorsemeut of Th t bonds of the
criticised by a majority of
the legislature. This drew out his
taaous letter of November 6, 1S78. A
joint committee to investigate the
j charges against Governor Colquitt was
appointed by the general assembly.
These gentlemen met together on the
12th of December, 1878,and the result of
their investigations was an overwhelm¬
ing vindication.
In view of the aspersions which had
been heaped upon the governor and
var i oug drawbacks which were in
, c iq ea t | G j,j 8 administration, he decid
i «*d to go before the people for re-elect
| tion and ask for a popular endorse*
meut . This he diJ a nd, iu spite of
many opponents, he plunged into that
even tful campaign of 1880.
The election occurred and the ma
j ority G f Governor Colquitt over his
opponent was more than 50,000
vo tes.
ELECTED to the senate.
Governor Colquitt was elected to the
United States senate in 1883 as tho
successor of Senator Hill, and again in
1889 as his own successor.
CONSIGNED TO THE TOMB.
Tlie Mortal Remains el Senator Colptt
Laid to Rest.
Imposing Funeral Processions and fer¬
emonies at Atlanta ami Maeou.
After impressive funeral services in
the senate chamber at Washington the
remains of Senator Colquitt were placed
upon a Richmond and Danville train,
aud accompanied by the family, the
congressional escort and others, were
borne away forever from the scenes of
the late senator’s greatest achievements.
The run to Atlanta was made without
special incident.
Just as the rays of a glorious sun
were putting a purplish tinge to a
gloomy, gray sky, the train rolled into
the Union depot at Atlanta, the
home of the distinguished dead. The
train was met by a detachment of po¬
lice and a military guard of honor.
As the dawn grew apace the people
of the city began to bestir themselves
an q by 8 o’clock tlie crowds began to
gather at tlie depot aud the procession,
which had previously been arranged
for, was soon formed, Tlie cask
e t, containing all that was mortal of
Alfred Holt Colquitt, was gently borne
from the train, placed upon a hearse
tin( i the procession moved off to tlie
, state capitol.
! The line was made up in the follow
i U g order: Police, military, hearse,
Confederate veterans, carriages con
taining members of the family and
members of the congressional and sen
| , a t 0 rial delegations, members of city
council and citizens. When the capi
tol was reached the casket was placed
upon the bier erected to receive it,
which was on the spot where the re¬
mains of Jefferson Davis w T ere allowed
to lie in state.
Around the bier w r ere placed a num¬
ber of beautiful floral tributes from tlie
friends of Senator Colquitt. The top
of the casket was removed, and all who
desired were permitted to pass by and
get a last glimpse at tbe silent and
cold form of the man whom every one
loved.
As soon as the great crowd which had
assembled had passed by the bier, they
gathered in the house of representa¬
tives to attend the memorial exercises.
Every seat in the house was occupied,
the galleries were crowded, and around
the doorw r ays many stood who could
not gain admittance. After prayer,
reading of scripture and songs beauti¬
fully rendered, brief and appropri¬
ate addresses were made by Governor
Northen, Judge Bleckley and Mayor
Goodwin.
At 10:30 o clock the remains . were
returned to the hearse end m the order
m which they went to the capital the
processton moved back to he union
11 0 cl00k th0 trM “
started for Macon.
AT MACON.
A military escort, civil delegations
and citizens generally accompanied the
remains from Atlanta to Macon. Ar
riving at the later city at two o’clock,
the train was met by a vast concourse
of people,all desirous of showing their
love and respect for the dead senator,
An immense procession was formed
under command of Captain John Hen
derson, and Captain Kenan, and began
to move in the following order to Mul*
berry street Methodist church: Mili
tary, Veteran’s association, clergy,
honorary pallbearers, active pallbear
ers, hearse, family, distinguished visi
tors, including senators, representa
tires and tbe governor and his staff,
members of the state legislature, state
house officials, mayor and council,
members of the Macon bar, faculty
and students of Mercer university and
citizens in carriages. It was the lon^
est funeral cortegeever seen in Macon
The streets were lined with peo
pie on with*a every side and every face was
veiled feeling of solemnity. ^
IN THE CHURCH.
front of the /recession reached the
door of the Mulberry Street church.
The services were highly impressive
and solemn, and were conducted by
Dr. Monk, the pastor, assisted by Drs.
Morrison ‘
and Candler.
The eulogy of Judge Candler was
pronounced by all who heard it as one
of the most remarkable tributes ever
paid to the memory of the dead,
When the services at the church were
concluded the line was re-formed and
the march to Rose Hill cemetery was
begun.
AT THE GRAVE.
When the funeral procession reached
the gates of the cemetery a large crowd
had gathered and was there in waiting,
Fully 5,000 people were present in the
neighborhood of the grave for the
purpose of testifying their respect to
the memory of the distinguished dead.
The services at the grave were con¬
ducted by Dr. H. C. Morrison in his
own beautiful and impressive manner, i
They were soon concluded and as the
solemn benediction was pronounced
the crowd dispersed.
In the silence of the gathering twi
light, broken only by the mystic flow
and murmur of the sweet Oemulgee,
all that was mortal left of Georgia's gifted j
senator was in the waiting of the
resurrection,
CRISP FOR SENATOR.
Alter latere Delifcralii Governor
Kerta A] pints H e
The Selection a Surprise-*-Will He
Accept i
Charles Frederick Crisp has been
appointed I nited States senator from
Georgia to succeed the late Alfred H.
Colquitt. This result was reached
Thursday night by Governor Northern
At the same time the governor author
ized the announcement that he, him
self, would not be iu the race for the
senatorship.
Name after name was considered,
and all were men fit to be senators,
but the logical man of the situation, as
it appeared to the governor, was
Charles F. Crisp, and to him the gov
ernor sent the following telegram :
“The Hou. Charles F. Crisp, Speaker
of the House of Representatives, Wash
ington, 1). C. : I have appointed you
to fill the vacancy in the United States
senate caused by the death of Senator
Alfred II. Colquitt. I beg that you
will at once tender me your resigna
tion, so that I can forward your com
mission in time for you to take your
place in the senate and take part in
the discussion and settlement of the
tariff measure soon to come before the
senate.
“1 am pleased to tender to you this
appointment, because your distm
guished services iu the house have
commanded the admiration and en
dearment of our people, and I
quite sure that my action will be most
heartily applauded by them.
(Signed) W. J. Northen,
Governor.
Whether Speaker Crisp will accept
or Not he does not know himself. The
following private message was received
from him :
Washington, March 30.—Am pro
foundly grateful, but taken by snr
prise. Had no idea such a thing was
iu contemplation. Must confer with
the democrats in the house before I
can decide whether I can accept or
not. Charles F. Crisp.
BUSINESS REVIEW.
Report of Trade for the Past Week by
Dun & Co.
B. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review
of trade says: It is perplexing to bo
obliged to report that business grows
larger in volume, at the same time not
more profitable. Uncertainty does
not diminish, but has rather increased
in the judgment of many commercial
bodies that have urged tho president
to veto the seigniorage bill.
Prices of commodities do not rise,
but are on ti e whole, about 1.5 per
cent lowrnr thn«t last week, though then
the lowest ever known in this country
and are 12.9 per cent lower than a
year ago. No more gold has gone
abroad, and stocks average only 3
cents per $100 for railroads than last
week and exactly tlie same for trust
stocks; but some foreign purchases and
tho intervention of a holiday explain
the steadiness. More mills are at
work, though the portion of productive
force employed is still from a fifth to
a third in different branches of indus¬
try, and many mills are stopping be¬
cause theiT orders have run out, even
while a large number are starting,
with orders enough for a time.
The prospect of getting constant or
remunerative employment for works
and hands does not change. The fact
that orders keep only part of the force
at work, while both prices and wages
tend downward, though spring is near
at hand, renders present business less
profitable and the future less promis¬
ing.
Mills are getting orders enough to
stal . t nml othet8 ^ „'h,ch hare filled or
j,,, in si 8t without trusting to
futnre trade. The demand tor cotton
goolls is fair , , but with rodne
accumulation tion in prices of some grades, and the
of print cloths continue.
A large auction sale of silks brought
fairly satisfactory prices. Bales of
wool for three weeks have exceeded
I afi t year’s 23.9 per cent, though trans
actions this month last year w 7 ere about
TO per cent below the average.
The volume of domestic trade mea
sured by clearings for the week has
been 32 1-10 per cent, smaller than
year and outside of New 7 York
17.9 per cent., the decrease being there
less, but at New York greater than the
previous week. There is a more en
couraging increase than for many
months in eastbound tonnage from
Chicago, and at Indianapolis the
movement is almost as large as last
year, while westbound tonnage of high
class merchandise is also large.
With long delay in fixing the
°I taxation, treasury embarrassments
increase, and since the Bland
passed the government bonds recently
purchased are quoted at prices below
the cost with interest.
The failures for the week ending
March 15th involved liabilities of only
$2,558,818, and for two weeks of March
only $4,835,110, of which $2,330,257
^ of manufacturing and $2 446,069
of trading concernB. Some deferred
re f or 8 furtber 8well J h e aggre
g^e, but at San Francisco the + resump
*1°™ r f. port f T T* e xcee<3 the fa,lures '
A ot railroad 1 receiverships are
I? ““I ° f Ttu 6 '
The fadures u this week number 244 in
United States against 217 last year,
“d fifty in Canada against twenty-ax
\ dian ast * failures ea f' 1118 are noteworthy con8lderab ly that mcreas- Cana-
1Ilo ‘
A curious fatality seems to liavi
attached itself to the family of Cap
tain Wilson, the African fighter. All
the members of it that have died
have been the victims of acci
dent or violence, except his mother,
who a few weeks ago succumbed to
an attack of paralysis. The hus¬
bands of two of Captain Wilson’s sis¬
ters were drowned. as were twobroth
ers in South Africa, There remains
now the eldest son, Dr. George Wil
son, a pioneer of sanitary science and
i lover of fox-hunting,
Would you like to be rich if you had
to be a?, mean as some men that are
rich?____
A Heidelberg professor decla<e§
that this is an age of nervousness, ,'
A QUEER RACE.
ODD HUMAN BEINGS ON A JAP¬
ANESE ISLAND.
The Alims Vve Not Handsome, but
the Race Is the Oldest in the
Northern Hemisphere—
Peculiar Traits.
£ 'Y OME new light on the most
^ primitive of primitive races
in the Northern half of the
earth has been given to
the world by A. II. Savage Laud or, an
Englishman who made a visit to Hak
o lnte, which is on the island of Yezo,
and is the Northern treaty port of tlio
Japanese islands. There he found
some queer specimens of semi-human
kind known as the Hairy Ainu, The
A inns are probably the “lowest down”
in the scale of humanity of any living
rice.
Air. Landor had heard that no soli
tary traveler could possibly make a
tour of the island, but he succeeded
induing so, and gives some iuterest
ing ethnological facts in a narrative
published by him, entitled “Alone
With the Hairy Ainu.”
The Ainu is described as having no
similarity whatever to the Japanese
and Chinese type of men. The color
of the skin is light reddish-brown,
The eye is particularly contrasted to
the Mongolian eye, having a similar
form and setting to that of North Eu¬
ropeans. The hairy skin is supposed
t° indicate a Northern origin,
The eyes are very expressive and
show the emotions in an interesting
'"'ay. In adults the hair is black, wavy
and inclined to form large curls. The
emotions are expressed by sliglit
changes of posture or show gesture, but tlio
Ainus do not care to their feel
* U S' R > they have no sense of shame, and
cven I° !ir appears hardly known to
them.
Their history for t lie last 2500 years
is, to a certain extent, known.. They
were supposed at one time to have oc
©upied the Japanese archipelago, and
have been driven to Yezo, where
they maintained their independence
u 'dil the ninth century, then be*
coming subject to Japan. Their
fierceness gradually left them, and
they are now among the most peace¬
able and submissive of tho earth’s in¬
habitants. At Yezo tlieir number is
estimated to be about 17,000.
The races showing tlie least human
advancement abound more in tho
Southern than in the Northern Hem¬
isphere. The Ainus are the most
primitive of primitive races in tho
Northern Hemisphere, according to
the latest observations.
In commenting- upon this peculiar
people, Nature says that tho women do
most of the hard work, but the men
when hunting can walk forty miles a
day without fatigue, although they
usually prefer to ride, ponies being
plentiful and of a good breed. In mov¬
ing a load or heavy object the Ainus
never push, but always pull towards
them. They appear to use the feet and
toes very freely to help their hands
and fingers, and they readily puil employ
their teeth, preferring to with the
teeth than with the hand when an un¬
usually heavy haul is necessary.
Their appearance struck Mr. Landor
as exactly like the reconstructions of
the primitive man of Northern Eu¬
rope, and many of their movements
recalled those of the anthropoid apes,
which are the only creatures that have
been thought of as the possible “con¬
necting link” between men and their
fellow animals of a lower grade.
They are an extremely filthy people,
both in their persons and lints. They
seem to have an acute sense of smell,
'distinguishing between the odor of a u
Englishman and a Japanese, but ob¬
livious to their own very marked per¬
fume—an intensified form of the “pe¬
culiar odor of an uncleaned monkeys’
cage.” The sense of touch is singu¬
larly defective, and even when the ex¬
tremes are painful they cannot dis¬
tinguish the sensation of heat from
that of cold. Their hearing is very
acute. They are small in stature, al¬
though rather larger than tlie Japan¬
ese.
“Although ignorant and stiper
stitious, they do not look like savages
or barbarians,” says Mr. Hitchcock,
“Their manners arc gentle, their
voices soft and pleasing. The young
women are often comely and attrac
^ ve * The Japanese iu Yezo are quick
: "^ ^ nu r vcogmv;e women, the and good many qualities of them of marry tbe
Ainu wives.
A century^ago the Ainus were living
. the of stone, they
it in age only because they have are beyond
now obtained
knives from the Japanese. They have
no writing, no records of the past, no
, aspirations. Their language is still
a
l mzzie '■ > their traditions and myths are
seal eery known except to a few stu
^ en ^' They are incapable of advance
mtn '
After a century of contact with tli;
, have learned
’ auanese iey no arts,
f ( °P no lm ,T r ? ve men *' 8 ‘. ^ e hun
ter to-day shoots . the , bear with
poisoned
arr ? ,s "°. m a primitive as
early man himself, although the Japan
eSe are farn ? ns for thelr arcber Y ^
" ear ° ns '
A Horse’s ,Sense of Locality.
About the year 1856 a little colt wa?
born on a farm in Aroostook County,
in the State of Maine, a colt that was
soon sold away from the place, to
come shortly after into the possession
of a physician in the town of Houltou,
who, at the opening of the Civil War,
went “to the front,” taking with him
for cavalry service the colt, that had
now reached maturity. Through all
the vicissitudes of a" five years’ cam¬
paign his. this horse followed the fortunes
of master, being wrecked on the
Red River expedition and suffering
various other disasters, to return at
the close of the war to'the Btate of
Maine, across which he carried his
master horse-back until the town of
Houlton was again reached, On the
journey through Aroostook Countv
the road traveled lay past the farm
where some ten years before this horse
had been born. Neither his life be¬
tween tne shafts of a doctor’s gig nor
five years of war campaigning had
caused him to lose his bearings, and
when he reached the lane that led up
to the old farm-house he turned up to
the house as confidently as though he
had been driven away from it but a
half hour before.—-! ewi-ffon Journal,