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Anil lovrlv. U;. Mil runts :;:••• mill'd
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Till se fields ( Ml I..1 their fnr.,if ties,
Their tine ar.d mingled harmonies.
Wlneeil Inee,- 1 ^ monstrous or minute,
Drill tlirntich the ut<"".:'.t'e olr,
Crei p riMind the avoirati" r< "t :
And doves embvidih'r. inlr lo | n 1 r.
The lyrle heavens; and stems have th'-re
The shone m' hirsts, with limns red s o s
That feather th in, and Jeweled tails.
The crosses' <•<•''; ennmellnfr
On the enehatited skv >• thrown:
Like birds In cluiste , Sonne wine
Great lavs and klnpiShers. wlde t'mvn.
Like winds ef blue and emerald I town—
Like winds that stir not. 1 • 11 are seen
Above the sweet, concerted green.
'Mid mushrooms, bells mid noilen rlro
Quaint orchids. tiekintt at the nlr
Llk" snakes; and snakes with golden rycB
And smooth and simple bracelets stare,
Ami amble, .lltnti and ih hmualre.
Ity blond and perfumed roots that hint
As hearts, and crawl with living feet 1
ranged, rufous beetles drop and leap,
lied vainrilres, venomous and blind
And rnrtnlv grlltlns stirred front sleep
Peer out and ati lt them, si n ent sp'.ned,
Wnr hlodlly. er.eh kind with kind.
Yet overhead no tremors nass
On the bright symbols of this grass.
O fields, where never footstrns pass,
Whose roses and whose lilies flow
In rhythmic lines, whose natterneil grass
Is erosseil by winds that never blow !
O fields I see, hut never knew,
Stopped by a Mask with orbs of stone,
Nunied Sleep, who holds yen ns Ills own !
—I. K. Lloyd, In The Acorn.
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There was not a better railroad
telegraph operator on the line of the
W. and W. road than Tim Mulligan,
but for all that he was out of a job
half of the time. Tim had begun his
career as a messenger boy and had
worked up from one place to another
until he had reached the top, but there
had been many intervals.
The trouble with him was that he
was no hero worshljiper. He refused
to believe that master mechanics, su
perintendents, general managers und
railroad presidents were better than
other men, and the employe who holds
to that belief cannot hold his job at
the same time.
Three times in five years he was
called upon to contribute to a fund to
buy an official a silver dinner set, and
three times he refused and was dis
charged. He did not refuse because he
disliked the man who was to he bene
fited by the gift, but because he be
lieved that the official should be satis
fied with his salary the same as he
was.
Ih the course of ten years Tim was
discharged seven times, and seven
times he was taken back after he had
loafed around for a couple of months.
The term Tor it in railroad parlance is
suspension without pay. In no in
stance was there cuuse enough to war
rant putting his name on the black list
and Tim had an affection for the W.
and W. road and did not look for a
position on any other.
The seventh time he was taken back
he was sent down the line to a wretch
ed little station on half salary. He
had to be freight and passenger agent,
and telegraph operator at the same
time. Tim did not object to his new
place. He knew that within a few
woek3 he would be invited to come
up higher. There was much chaffing
on the part of other operators along
the line, but Tim took it good nat-
uredly and went on with his work.
He had been holding this position
almost two months when a crisis hap
pened. There was an accident four
miles up the road from his station,
and an employe was sent back to do
telegraphing. He found the office
closed. The hour for closing was nine
o’clock and it was now midnight. Per
haps this part would have been ex
cused, but that night Tim happened to
be off to a dance with a crowd of
young people. There was an order
forbidding him to go to a dance when
off duty, and he was not supposed to
know when accidents were going to
happen, but he was held to be crim
inally guilty and told to prepare for
decapitation.
Two days later the superintendent
arrived on a special train. He was
showing a committee of the Legislature
over the road. On the same train was
a telegraph operator who had come
down to take Tim’s place. The spe
cial had twenty minutes to wait that
the run east might be clear, and the
superintendent personally saw the
transfer of the station. Then he told
Tim that he should never click an
instrument on the line again. Tim
replied that it would be no loss to
him and a few hot words passed.
As it happened Tim had received his
pay the day before and was free to go
where he would. YVhat he did was to
cross the tracks and take a seat on
pile of ties and wonder whether he
| Bhould turn navvy or farmer. The su
perintendent’s train was to make
run of fifteen miles, sidetrack for
seven or eight minutes and then have
a clear run of sixty miles. Tim could
bear the new man clicking away after
the train had pulled out and he heard
the word come back that it had reach
ed R and had taken the side track.
Three minutes later he was on his
feet and all attention.
Darkness had fallen, and far up the
track he could see a locomotive head
light. According to arrangements
there should have been no following
was three miles off when sighted, but
Tim knew by the humming of the rails
that it was a locomotive only and that
it was running at top notch.
He made a dash for the station plat
form, hearing the call on the instru
ment as he did so, but he had not en
tered the open door when the engine
whizzed by. There was a flash, a roar
and it was gone. He saw only one
man who was Hinging his arms about
as if shouting. As Tim turned to the
new operator he saw that his face was
pale and he was in a collapse. His
hand was on tlie key but he could not
work it.
"Out of this, you spnlpfeen," shouted
Tim as the frenzied operator at Collins
kept calling. "Out of this, and let me
sea what’s the matter on the rails?”
Thirty seconds later he knew. It
was a wild locomotive which had pass
ed him—one of the fastest engines on
the road and in charge of a crazy en
gineer.
"Wild locomotive—keep Stipe’s train
on switch,” were the words sent along
to Grafton, and, though steam raced
with them, electricity won the race.
The Grafton operator had only a
minute to prepare, lint that minute
was enough. He halted the switch
man just as he was about to open the
main line, and fifteen seconds later the
runaway came along. The great en
gine rocked like a ship In a seaway.
She seemed to gather herself and
take a mighty leap. It was like a
blazing meteor flying along the rails,
and men were pale for half an hour
after she had disappeared. Had she
struck the special train of three cars
she would have ploughed her way to
the tender.
"Wild engine—throw her off,” was
telegraphed down to Stanton, and at
Stanton the flier left the main track
and went ploughing along and burst
her boiler with a sound that was heard
for miles around. Back to Collins,
while she was standing on the track
ready to be coupled to a coming ex
press train, her engineer had got off a
sick bed and taken possession. He
had made a run of thirty-five miles
but It was his last ride. They found
scraps of the engine, but not even
scraps of the man. The day after the
accident Tim was summoned to head-
ciuarters.
“Mr. Mulligan,” said the superinten
dent, “I believe you were the agent
down at Davisburg!”
“Up to yesterday—yes,” was the
reply.
"And then you lost your place for
not attending to business?”
“For not being at the station at
midnight, when I was not supposed to
be there, sir.”
“Um! I believe we had a few words
when the transfer was made yester
day.”
"We may have spoken about the
weather,” smiled Tim.
"Um! Well, let the weather nlone
after this, Mr. Mulligan. “It’s a bad
habit to discuss the weather with your
superiors. I don’t think the young
man I took down will do for the
place.”
"Am I to go back, sir?”
"No. They want you in Chicago, I
believe, at your old salary, and I’ll
send someone to Davisburg who knows
a telegraph key from a crowbar.
That’s all, Mr. Mulligan—good morn
ing.”—Sallie Chamberlin in California
News.
STILL USE CHURNS,
Even In This Day of Creameries But
ter Is Made in Old-Fashioned Way.
“The chances are ten to one or bet
ter," said a woodenware man, “that
the butter you buy at the grocery
store now was made in a creamery,
for the great bulk of the butter con
sumed in this country is now made
in milk establishments. But there is
still some butter made by hand, and
we still sell churns right along.
"The greater number of these now
sold are of the cylinder type, operat
ed by a crank, turning within the
churn a wheel with paddles, some
times like the paddlewheel of a
steamboat; but we still sell, as well,
churns of the old-fashioned dasher
type, such a3 our grandfathers used,
and such as their grandfathers used
before them. I might add that the
old-fashioned dasher churn is still, as
it has always been, painted blue.
"Who still buys these old-style
hand churns In the day of machine-
made butter? Why, so to speak, the
oldest people, and the most modern.
“They are bought by small farmers
keeping only one or a few cows, who
naturally continue to make their own
butter, and who make it, of course,
with a hand churn. Some of these
farmers might make more butter
than they would require for their own
use; and the surplus they would sell,
as they would their surplus eggs, to
the country store.
“And you would find larger farmers,
too, farmers, perhaps keeping many
cows and selling the bulk of their milk
to a creamery, still continuing to
make the butter that they needed for
themselves and making it, as they
have always done, in A hand churn.
“And such churns are sold to people
living in suburban or country homes
and keeping cows, who make their
own butter because they prefer to,
anyway, and they are bought by vari
ous people, everywhere, wHo want
sweet, or unsalted, butter, and make
it for themselves in hand churns.
“We export churns to the West
Indies and South America and to
Zealand and Australia and to dairying
countries in various other parts of the
world.”—New York Sun.
Surveying New Road.
The Hartwell and Washington rail
road is now being surveyed. The
corps of engineers is being accompa
nied by W. O. Jones of Elberton and
J. D. Mathcwson of Hartwell. The
men behind the movement claim to
have plenty of money, and are among
the best of the section’s business
men.
• * * *"
Tech Commencement.
One of the most successful years
of the Georgia School of Technology
will be completed by thQ, commence
ment exercises which will be held
June 20 and 21, beginning with the
second annual promenade and con
cluding with the annual alumni ban
quet which will take place on the
night of June 21.
* * *
Will Be Added to Endowment.
J. P. Williams, president of Emory
College, which recently sold a large
block of property in Atlanta, sa>3
that the fund accruing from the sale
will be added to the endowment fund
of Emory. It amounts to something
like $133,000. Mr. Williams says the
college lias no immediate plan for
spending the mondy. It will be re
tained until opportunity for spending
it to good advantage presents itself.
* * *
Lightning Takes Two Lives.
At Fayetteville a few days ago,
while standing In the back porch of
Mr. B. L. McGough’s residence, Glenn
McGough, aged 21, and Russeil Mc-
Gough, 14 years of age, son and grand
son of B. L. McGough, were struck
by lightning and instantly killed.
The peculiar feature Is that on'v
one report of lightning and thunder
was made during the afternoon and
there was no rain, with little Indica
(ion.
* * *
Notorious Crook Escapes.
Ed Cole, one of the quartet of noted
pickpockets, who was sent up from
Valdosta, a few weeks ago, has made
liis escape from the convict camps it
Fargo. It is reported that Cole mad' 1
a break for liberty through the guard
lines, and was successful in getting
away. Dogs were hastily put on his
trail, but he eluded them In the
swamps and the search was given
up after several hours.
* * •
Three Colored to One White.
In the presentments of the Sumter
county grand jury, interesting figures
relative to attendance upon public
schools of the county are given. Dur
ing the past year sixty-one public
schools were operated with a total
scholarship enrollment of 3,52 pupils.
Of this number 1,007 were white chtl-
scholarshlp enrollment of 3,852 pudpils
negroes predominating by nearly three
to one. This statement does not In
clude the Americus public schools,
where the attendance is 1,500 and
nearly evenly divided.
* * *
Employing German Labor.
The recent arrival in Brunswick of
eighteen german laborers, who are
now at work at the mill of the Taylor-
Oook Cypress company, is only the
advance guard of 200 of these laborers
who are to arrive to work in the dif
ferent mills and lumber yards.
The eighteen already secured came
in on the Mallory steamer, and imme
diately went to work, and Superin
tendent Frlese announces that so far
they have given perfect satisfaction
in every respect.
• * *
Governor Suggests New Dormitory.
Governor Terrell, in his address at
the Georgia Normal and Industrial
college, the past week, cited what
had been done in this state since he
became its goveri#3r for the cause of
education, naming the many buildings
that had been erected. He stated
that it was his hope to see even
greater works done during his last
year of office, and the one thing he
most hoped for was a new dormitory
on the Georgia Normal and Industrial
campus, capable or holding 300 addi
tional Georgia girls.
A Wonder!
“He is the most polite man l ever
knew.”
“What gives you that impression?”
“Why, he even is polite in his home.’ 1
train for half an hour. The headlight i —San Francisco Call.
Atlanta’s Zoo Grows.
The Grant Park zoo in Atlanta
ceived thirteen new permanent visit
ors the past week. They were
camel, two wild bulls, two wild cats
three monkeys, two babboons, a hippo
potamus, a lion and a leopard.
The animals were recently purchas
ed in New York by Chairman Walter
R. Brown of the board, and they all
arrived in good condition and were
taken at once to the park and placed
in the new quarters that had been
prepared for them.
The wild bulls came from the jun
Kies or Ainca, me leoparo irom a zoo
in New York, the monkeys were from
the wilds of South America.
The animals made a valuable ac
quisition to the zoo and the place will
now more than ever delight the chil
dren and the grown folks who have
to take them there.
* * *
Inter-Urban Trolley Line.
At a meeting held in Atlanta
few days ago, the incorporators of the
new interurban electric line between
Macon and Atlanta met, subscribed
the stock for the undertaking, appoint
ed an executive committee, and au
thorized that work on the line be be
gun at once.
1 he stock subscribed at the meet
ing was $100,000, but this will oe
increased Irom time to time. It is be
lieved that work will start within two
weeks.
The executive committee is compos
ed of \V. J. Kincaid of Griffin, chair-
mnn; W. J. Massee of Macon, Colonel
Clifford L. Anderson nnd Edwin P.
Ansley of Atlanta and \V. A. Wlmbish
nf Atlanta, secretary and treasurer
The dine will bo-88 miles long, and
Will coiuvjKt Atlanta, Forrest, Grif-
ifin, Porayth, Macon and the interven
ing towns.
Otter Cash to GeTRoad.
The people of Hawkinsville seem
determined to secure the Dublin and
GtAithwesfern road.
In order to get the road, the people
of Hawkinsville offer cash subscrip
tions to the amount of $60,000, termi
nal facilities in Hawkinsville, the right
of way through Pulaski county, five
miles of graded road from Hawkins
ville to Deep creek and a charter for
a road from Hawkinsville to Cordele.
It Is said that the peopfle of Cor
dele will put up another $50,000, and
that very advantageous terminal facil
ities and traffic arrangements at Cor
dele have been offered by the Sea
board Air Line railroad, it is be
lieved that the road will be built from
Eastman to Cordele via Hawkinsville.
• • •
Back Tax Fight Still On.
The Central of Georgia and Geor
gia Tailroads have not ended their
fight against paying the buck tax of
nearly a million dollars on the 15,000
shares held by each In the Western
Railway of Alabama stock.
A conference was held in Atlanta
a few days ago among attorneys of
the two railroads for the purpose of
deciding upon carrying the issue to
the United States supreme court.
While nothing was given out, It is be
lieved that the case will be carried
to the higher court.
Associate Justices Cobb and Lump
kin are disqualified in this case, ow
ing to relationship to some of the lit
igants, and Governor Terrell will name
two superior court Judges to sit on
the supreme court in order to make
full bench.
• • *
Hudson Issues His First Report.
Commissioner of Agriculture T. G.
Hudson has Issued his first crop bul
letin of the year and a decrease of
] per cent is indicated in the cotton
acreage in Georgia this year.
From 750 correspondents reports of
crop conditions were received and
these have been carefully compiled in
the commissioner’s report. This year’s
cotton acreage is estimated as 99 per
cent of last year’s. Planting time was
some ten days later than usual for
1906, and as a result of cold and wet
weather it was necessary to replant
about 12 2-3 per cent of the crop.
Condition of the crop is estimated at
$5 per cent, 1 per cent below the gov
ernment report issued a few days
ago.
A slight increase in the use of fer
tilizers under cotton is indicated. Fer
tilized cotton forms 94 per cent of the
total acreage, and the percentage of
commercial fertilizers used under oth
er crops is 98 2-3.
* * *
Lieutenant Governor Wanted.
If a resolution introduced by Sena
tor Crawford Wheatley of the thir
teenth district in the senate at the
last legislature is adopted by the gen
eral assembly at its coming session,
Georgia will have a lieutenant gov
ernor. The bill of Senator Wheatley,
which had its first reading at the
last session, provides for the amend
ment of the state code and constitu
tion so that a lieutenant governor
may be elected by the people.
Although a twothlrd vote will bo
required to secure the passage of the
bill, Senator Wheatley is confident
that it will be adopted by the senate
and that the house will concur in its
passage.
The creation of the office of lieuten
ant governor will prevent the compli
cations that would arise if a governor
of Georgia should die while in office.
Under the present constitution the
president of the senate would act as
governor of the state provided the
Chief executive died within the last six
months before his term expired, the
president of the senate would hold the
office only until a general election for
governor for the remainder of the
term would be held, entailing an ex
pense estimated at fl00,000i
PASS FEATURE I extravagance charges
IS PUZZLING
Senate Does Not Wish to Handicap
Railroad Employees.
MAY BE A COMPROMISE
Tremendous Pressure Brought to Bear
on Feature of Rate Bill is
Having Effect.
A Washington special says: When
the conference report on the railroad
rate bill was taken up Wednesday, the
anti-pass conference amendment re
ceived the attention of Senator Spoon
er. In the main, he endorsed the pro
hibition of passes, but he contended ! care of the white house, green housls”
Representative BrundigeThrows Ili,,
on White House Expenses and
Biffs President.
The house Thursday listened to
bitter arraignment of the president ?
the hands of Mr. Brundige of Ark ^
sas, a member of the appropriating
committee. *
Taking the items for the refurnish
ing of the white house, the care of th
grounds nnd tho traveling expend
of the president as his text, Mr. BrJ
dige compared the expenses of the last
Cleveland, the McKinley and the
Roosevelt administrations.
Under the Cleveland administration
he said there was expended for th«
executive department, Including the
salary of the president, $137,200. u n .
der the McKinley administration there
was expended $144,500, while the bill
under consideration carries for the
executive department, including ti e
that tijere should be exceptions, In
eluding railroad employees. Congress
had no right, he said, to step between
employer and employee.
He said there are many reasons
why the railroads should carry their
employees free, and none why they
should not.
"There is no sense in the provision
as it stands," he said; "the railroads
should be allowed to perform the ucts
of common humanity, it should be
elastic.”
Senator Knox suggested that the
law of 1895 is inadequate. Thereupon,
Mr. Tillman asked why the senator
"had broken out in a new place and
had run amuck on the pass question,"
but M,r. Knox replied that "not hav
ing indulged in that pastime he could
not reply."
Senator Tillman, one of the senate
conferees, said he had not advocated
the stringent provision reported, and
favored non-interference with tho
present law. Mr. Spooner also spoke
on the Importance of including the
members of the Railroad Young Men’s
Christian Association, as persons en
titled to passes, and Mr. Tillman sug
gested that it was necessary to draw
the line somewhere. He would have
tho exceptions limited to railroad em
ployees and their families, and Sen
ator Hale presented the same. view.
Senator- Lodge criticized on othor
grounds the action of the conference
committee in omitting the words "wil
fully and knowingly” from the penal
clauses of the bill, saying that to
leave the words out would work a
great injustice to railroad officials
through inadvertence, carelessness or
malice on the part of others.
Senator Bailey found fault with the
omission of sleeping car companies
from the bill, saying that the sleeping
car company is the only absolute mo
nopoly in the country.
Mr. Morgan contended that under
the proposed law the railroads would
give passes from one state to an*
other.
"According to that reasoning,” said
Mr. Tillman, "congress is powerless
to suppress the abuse."
"It is not an abuse,” retorted the
Alabama senator, who added that con
gress has no more right to deny to a
street ear company the right to enter
tain a guest than to say the same
thing to a hotel proprietor.
Senaor Hale presented a resolution
instructing the conferees that It is
the sense of tho senate that railroad
passes should be confined to actual
employees of the railroads, but It had
not been acted upon when the sen
ate adjourned at <5:25 p. m.
CRITICIZED SHERMAN'S “MARCH."
Orator at Memorial Exerciooo at Comp
Clooo Touched Upoo Incident.
The annual memorial services were
held at the confederate cemetery at
Camp Chase, near Columbus, Ohio,
Saturday, under the auspices of the
Daughters of the Confederacy.
Colonel James Blackburn of Ken
tucky was the orator of the day. He
criticised the Rev. Sherman, son of
the late General Sherman, for having
planned a trip with an army escort,
over the route of General Sherman’B
famous marcty to the sea, and which
was attempted, but abandoned.
"Christ never taught any such out
landish lesson," Colonel Blackburn de
clared, commenting upon the incident.
NEGROES FAVORED PROPOSITION.
Sentiment Unanimous (or Repeal of Fif*
teenth Amendment.
Commencement exercises were held
Wednesday at the Georgia State Col
lege for Colored Youths at Thunder
bolt. The address was by Judge W.
R. Hammond of Atlanta. He created
a sensation by advising the repeal of
the fifteenth amendment to the fede
ral constitution. The suggestion was
received with cheers.
A rising vote was taken in the
gathering to ascertain the sentiment
of the negroes upon the proposition,
and it was almost unanimous In to
▼or of the repeal.
etc., $253,840.
In addition to this, Mr. Brundige
said that there were forty policemen
detailed to the care of the white
house and the groundB, and this was
an additional $40,000 added, bringing
' the total to nearly $300,000, which he
denominated as extravagance. Herald
he did not know whether forty po
licemen were too few or too many,
but he thought a section of the army
ought to be detailed for the prote>
lion the president and care of the
grounds, and these policemen permit
ted to go into the sparsely settled
sections of Washington, where thugs
and marauders were preying upon
defenseless women and children.
He criticized the item appropriating
$25,000 for the traveling expenses of
the president and incident thereto,
and said it was probably made for
the purpose of providing for a repe
tition of the "muck rake" speech.
“No wonder, in view of the pres
ent appropriations and present ex
penditures, no wonder the president
should hold up to public ridicule mag
azines and newspapers of this coun
try and public men and private citi
zens who dare to criticise.
"I entertained the hope and belief
that the time will never come in
the history of politics of this gov
ernment when any man occupying a
position of public trust and public
office will rise so high and become sc
great that the humblest citizen am)
the humblest newspaper or the larg
est may not justly and properly crit
icize his official conduct and ac
tions.”
He spoke of the president's stable
and enlarged on the number of the
horses contained therein and finally
spoke of the arrest of Mrs. Minor
Morris and the appointment of the
secretary to the president, Mr. Barnes,
as postmaster of Washington, as shov
ing the high-handed way the presi
dent conducts his office. During the
speech Mr. Brundige was frequently
applauded by the democrats, the re
publlcfai side of the chamber being
almost deserted.
In referring to the policemen d*
tailed for duty In and about the white
house grounds, Mr. Brundige satiri
cally said he recalled the fact that
recently the policemen made one very
important "brave and gallant arrest"
Continuing along these lines, he
said; "By the aid of a burly negro,
those gentlemen succeeded in ejecting
from the white house an inoffensive
quiet, peaceable American woman
They carried her out, it is true, with
force; they carried her out in a man
ner that has ever been and ever vrill
remain an insult to the American
people, to the American manhood and
to the American womanhood." (AP
plause on the democratic side.)
PREACHER DESERTER EROM NAVY.
Rev. Matthew Fortner Arrested for Skip 1
ping Out Alter Enlistment.
a duly ordained Baptist minister an
student at Furman University,
arrested in Greenville, S. €•. t° r
serting from the navy. He is mar
ried and has a child. Fortner enlis
erl in the navy four years ago, and .9
said to have deserted from the st ea ®
ship Lancaster in Hampton R° a
three months afterwards. He a
been preaching and teaching eu ‘
since.
WOMAN SLAIN BY NEGRO BOY.
Hotel Proprietress in Little Rock Killed for
Purpose of Robbery.
At Little Rock Tuesday, Will Gay,
a 15-year-old negro boy, who had been
employed as porter at the Drummers’
hotel, confessed to the murder at an
early hour of the morning of Mrs.
Charlotte Leetham, proprietress of the
hotel.
Gay reported the murder to the po
lice, hut was suspected and arrested.
Later he made a complete confession,
acknowledging that he had stabbed
Mrs. Leetham to death, and said that
the motive for the murder was rob
bery.
RECTOR CRAPSEY SHOWS FIGHT.
Dissatisfied with Verdict Against Him, He
Appeals Case.
The Rev. Algernon S. Crapsey, rec
tor of St. Andrew’s church of Roch
ester, N. Y., who was found guilty
of heresy after a trial by an eccle
siastic court, at Batavia, last month,
has filed, an appeal from the findings
of the court.
WEAK LEADER IS GOREMYKIN.
Successor of Witte Proves Incompetent
end May Be Fired by fi«f
According to reliable reports fro®
Peterhof, Emperor Nicholas has about
decided to retire Premier Goremyk®-
From the first It was apparent to ou -
aiders that M. Goremykin did no
possess the force, capacity or sk
necessary to steer the ship of sta
In the present crisis, and the J®.'
peror, who Is extremely dlssatlsn®
with the premier’s sorry failure
make any headway toward a rag
preachment with the lower house
parliament. Is now ready to esc
fice him.
A FILIBUSTER BY DEMOCRATS.
Minority Incensed Over • Limitatlo* •*
General Debate.
The minority members of the n '
believing that the majority had ®
undue advantage of them in 1‘® -
general debate on the sundry civ
to one hour, Wednesday, starte
other filibuster and two hours o
calls and points of order kep
house in a turmoil.