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THE SANDERSV1LLE HERALD. THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY. Could wo but know Tlio land that ends our dark, uncertain travels. Where lb th s. harrier hills and meadows low; Ah. If beyond the spirit's inmost travels Aught ot that country eou.ti we surely know. Who would not go? Might we hut hoar The hovering angels’ high Imagined chorus. Or catch, hi times, with wakeful eye s and clear. tine radiant vistn of the realm before us. With one rapt moment given to see and hi nr. Ah. who would ft ar? Were w“ quite sure To find tiie pi erless friend who left us lorn ly. Or then, by some celestial stream as pur'-. To gnr.e In eyes that here were lovellt only. This weary mortal coll were we quit sure Who would endure? Mrs. Robbins was so busy weeding ; 1he squash bed in her “truck patch” | 1hat she had to be called three times i before she pushed back her sunbonnet and said to a boy who had climber to the top of the rail fence close by: “Well, Charlie, what is it now? Has i your tna got any more washing for , me?" “liOts,” replied the boy. "That is, another lady at the hotel has, and mamma has told her about you. You I are to go for the clothes right away, I ns the lady is In a big hurry to have ’em done. She lias four boys and the oldest of ’em is so little that I could lick him with one hand, so you are in for a good job for the rest of the sum mer. I heard her tell mamma she would stay here till cold weather If the place suited her.” “I don’t see how 1 can manage to go up to the hotel before twelve o’clock,” returned Mrs. Robbins. “Abner has gone to the blacksmith’s to get a plow fixed and the key of the front door is lost. There aint much in the house to take, but all the same 1 shouldn’t care to have It took. The colored folks around here are all honest enough, but just as like as not that Abe Hurley will be pokin’ in before I git back.” “Is he a kleptomaniac?” asked Charlie, who having spelled that won! correctly In class just before vacation had not yet forgotten it. “No,” replied Mrs. Robbins, “if he knew enough to be anything he’d be a Baptist, as that’s what his mother was In her life-time. I’m alw'ays good to Abe on his mother’s account, but 1 (wouldn't trust him in my house when II wasn’t there to watch him. When folks what thinks they have good sense will make off sometimes with what doesn’t belong to them, what can you expect of a softy like Abe?” “You can go on up to the hotel, Mrs. Robbins,” exclaimed Charlie; “I watch out for Abe, and If 1 see him poking his nose Inside of your door I’ll send him about his business quicker than a flash. Ackey, who drives the hotel stage, says that, big as Abe is, lie'll run if you say ‘Boo’ to him.” Charlie Russell, the son of one of the summer boarders at the country hotel close by, though only twelve years old, looked so big when he said this that M rs. Robbins, who depended largely on ! the washing to be had from summer boarders to make Hoth ends meet (her husband being overfond of fishing) was not long in deciding; to take him at his (word, and so throwing down her hoe, she went off In the direction of the hotel while Charlie went into her cab in, feeling as if he had taken com mand of a garrison. The first thing that caught his eye was an old shot gun that had gone through the war with Abner Robbins and was leaning In a corner. “It would do Abe good if I were to snap a cap at him,” said he. "I see a box of ’em on the shelf yonder.” He had some difficulty in cocking the old-fashioned weapon, but finally he got it into condition for snapping a cap, and just as he did so lie had the satisfaction of seeing a great, awk ward creature with a vacant look on diis face come pushing into the front door without the ceremony of knock ing. "You’ll have to call again," said Charlie as lie brought the gun into a horizontal position; “folks ain't at home.” The man grinned at this, but made do reply. “Come, get a move on you,” said Charlie. “I’m in charge of this shan ty and 1 can’t have you here.” The grin broadened, but Abe did not stir a step. "Get out or I'll fire” said Charlie. “One—two—If you are not gone when I say ‘five,’ I'll pull the trigger.” Abe stood stock still, staring into the muzzle of the gun pointed at him. rA moment later there was a loud re port and man and boy were both on their backs on the floor, the latter as pale as death and not saying a word. Abe, on the contrary, was crying out between his groans that he had been hilled. Although violently jarred by the recoil of the gun, Charlie was on his feet in a moment and stood star ing down anxiously at Abe. “Where did it hit you?” asked he. But the other only groaned more louc)- I?’, repeating the assertion that he had :l>een killed. “I ll run down (othe blacksmith shop and call Mr. Robbins,” said Charlie; “maybe you ain’t wounded sc badly as iyou think.’ 1 By what he regarded as wonderfully .good fortune Charlie met the neigh borhood doctor before he had gone ■fifty yards from the Robbins house. “Are you running from a bull?” tasked that gentleman. “Worse than Qftt,” gasped the boy, and then he told his story in as lew words as possible. "He snj 3 he is dead,” remarked Charlie in conclusion, "but he is mak ing a lot of no'.ie.” When the hoy, who had followed in a run the doctor's galloping home, ar rived at the cottage he found Abe still writhing on the floor, uttering the most dismal groans and asserting from time to time that he was " 'most gone.” The doctor was leaning over him, looking puzzled. "Where did the shot hit you?” he asked. “1 don’t see any wound.” “In the mouth,” replied Abe, raising into a silting pc Hire with more ener gy than might have been expected from a man at death's door. "In the moutu;’ repeated the doc tor. "Well, it is the queerest case I—” “What is all this row about?” lutcr- rupted Mrs. Robbins, who entered at this moment with a great basket of clothes poised on her head. “I shot Abe with Mr. Robbins' gull,” replied Charlie. ”1 didn't know it was loaded.” "Why, you little—. But 1 ain’t go ing to say nothin' to your mother’s son. Git up there, Abe (giving the groaning man a shove with her foot), "you ain't hurt.” "My own opinion exactly,” observed the doctor; “though his nerves are bad ly shaken up. You are quick in mak ing a diagnosis. Mrs. Robbins.” "I can’t make no diagnosis,” replied that lady, "but I can load a gun, and so when them fellers come along here t'other night in chase of the man who had stabbed Jack Tredwell, Abner ask ed me to load his gun while he was gone to saddle his critter. Now, I did not want my husband to shed any man's blood, and so while 1 put in a good-sized charge of powder, 1 left out the buckshot. 1 ’lowed Abner had shot off the gun since he brung it home, but I reckon he forgot It. The man was took before he caught up with the par ty. You can thank your stars, Charlie, that I was so forethoughted. If any body but me had loaded that gun you would now be—” ”Oh, dry up!” interrupted Mr. Rob bins, who had come in soon after his wife. "The hoy has had all the lesson he wants without any of your jawing. You may be sure that, after the scare he has had this morning, he’ll never again in time of peace point a shootin’- iron, loaded or unloaded, at a fellow- flitter.”—Christian Intelligencer. BIRDS DESTROYED BY SNAKES. Havoc Wrought Scarcely Realized, Even by the Birds’ Friends. Some one asks, What becomes of the birds? One answers lawless hunters, another cats, and women’s hats speak loudest of all. It is strange that more of the blame is not laid to snakes. The supineness throughout the country even with regard to ven omous snakes is incomprehensible. Last Summer's drought revealed myr iads of rattlesnakes, some of them surprisingly, large that came from theli lairs to drink from ponds and streams. They came In such num bers to a mill-dam in Connecticut, that tiie workmen fled, instead of rally ing the neighbors with every avail able shotgun the village actually wait ed I HI rain came,and the reptiles went back to the hills. If some of our sportsmen would practice their sharp shooting upon these loathsome and dangerous creatures it would add to the safety of people and animals. Far more harm is done by them than townspeople realize. A good rattle snake skin is said to bring five dol lars. A new crop for the unemployed. All kinds of snakes feed largely up on birds and birds’ eggs and upon young chickens, if left unprotected. A large black snake frequently makes havoc in a chicken house and attacks the farmer’s wife and even the farm er. One day in New Jersey a party of us bound for the woods were attract ed by the strange actions of a wood robin. In a moment we saw that it was being charmed by a blacksnake that slowly moved to and fro, its dreadful little eyes fixed upon the bird. The snake escaped our sticks and ran under a stone wall. It was lull a minute before the dazed bird flew away. The next day one of our party crossing the same wall noticed a strange commotion among birds of various kinds gathered in a tree. They seemed to bo cheering on a valiant cock-robin that was actually giving battle to a snake, presumably the of fender of the day before. The bird, with bristling feathers, fluttering wings, and shrill cries, again and again darted toward the snake’s raised head, seeming to aim at the eyes. The gentleman watched the scene, wondering and fascinated, till lie saw that the little champion was becoming exhausted. Then with a piece of fence rail he dispatched the dragon. The snake was large and fought fiercely. When the fray was over and the snake was hung across a tree stump, a large number of near ly developed eggs were revealed. Un fortunately the stomach was not open ed. If it had been the mate of the chivalrous cock might have been dis covered. Hardly noticing the young nn.n lire bird seemed loath to leave the dead enemy, but flew about still uttering its cry of distress, his back ers in the tree keeping up their excit ed watch, it was a pleasure to think that those woods were relieved of at least one family of bird destroyers.— NOTH1NG-BUT-THE:TRUTH, in the New York Times. The late King Oscar-stopped at the Swedish embassy when he was in Ixm- don and didn't cast King Edward a penny UNION FARMERS’ FAIR To Be Held Jointly With Local Asso ciation— Will Begin October 8th and Continue Through to 24th. Atlanta will have a state fair this fall, opening October 8 and continuing through October 24. It will be held jointly under the auspices of the Farm ers’ Union and the Atlanta Fair Asso ciation. The Farmers’ Union will have entire charge of tiie agricultural feat ures of the fair, while all other features will be under direction of the Atlanta Fair Association. This was the final action of the meet ing of the county presidents held In the hall of the house of representatives at Atlanta Wednesday. A commitee of the Fair Association made the prop osition that in addition to the usual premiums for agricultural displays, the association would offer $2,000 in spe cial prizes for the various oounty and local unions, and with the understand ing that the Farmers’ Union should have entire charge of the agricultural features. The details were presented by the committeemen, and shortly af ter they had retired from the hall the convention had accepted the proposi tion and assured the success of the big fair. "We propose to make the finest agri cultural exhibit ever seen in the state,” said President R. F. Duckworth. The following members of the union, one from each congressional district, were appointed to act in eo-operaticn with the Atlanta Fair Association in arranging all details for the state fair: First district, W. J. Kemp, Emanuel; Second district, not present; Third district, C. B. Bohanan, Pulaski; Fourth district, W. P. Cumbv, Heard; Fifth district, G. F. Hunnicutt, Fulton; Sixth district, J. G. Hightower, Fayette; Sev enth district, J. I. Harris, Polk; Eighth district, U. H. O. Martin, Elbert; Ninth district, L. M. Moore, Cherokee; Tenth district, failed to report; Eleventh dis trict. Z. R. Taylor, Dodge. The meeting had an attendance of fully 150, Including many county presi dents and other officers from all parts of the state. Following the action on the state fair matter an executive session of the un ion was held at which many matters were discussed behind closed doors. Among these were questions of reduc tion of acreage, the handling of cotton, good roads and rural education. RiOTOUS STATE CONVENTION Was That Held by Republicans of Ten nessee in Nashville. The Teanessee republican state con vention, which met in Nashville on Wednesday for the election of presi dential electors and delegates to the Chicago convention, proved to be the "wildest and woollest” affair of the kind ever held In the state. Pandemo nium broke loose as soon as the con vention was called to order. A dozen fights occurred between the Oliver and Evans factions, Ih which pistols were drawn and in one Instance a hatchet was flourished. The Oliver people finally got control and elected dele gates to Chicago. W. J. Oliver was en dorsed for national committeeman. The Evans wing met and immedi ately adjourned until Thursday morn ing. SENATOR BRYAN LAID TO REST. Funeral and Burial Service rt Jackson ville Largely Attended. The funeral of Senator William .Tas. Bryan took place Wednesday afterpnon ; at Jacksonville, Fla., from St. John’s Episcopal Church. Long before the cortege reached the church the streets were thronged for blocks and as the funeral party passed, all head,!! were uncovered in respect to tho youngest United States senator, from whom the people of his state had ex pected so much. Prominent Florida friends from all over tho state gathered to pay the last sad tribute to Senator Bryan’s mem ory. 8HOT BY KOREAN SPIES. D. W. Stevens, American Adviser to Korean Council of State, Wounded. D. W. Stevens, American adviser to the Korean council of state who was attacked by a committee of Koreans in the Fairmont hotel in San Fran cisco, Sunday night, for favoring the course of Japanese in Korea, was shot three times by two Koreans at the Union ferry building, Monday, and seriously wounded. Stevens drew a pistol and shot one of the Koreans. WALL STREET JUBILANT. President’s Message Considered Olive Branch to Corporations. President Roosevelt's message was received in Wall street, New York, with great joy. It was interpreted as a message of peace to the corpora tions. It is asserted that the legislation the president proposes is the most import ant since the emancipation proclama tion. Georgia Briefs Items of State Interest Culled From Random Sources. Refund Money to Locker Club. After a long and acrimonious de bate, the Savannah city council, by a vote of 8 to 3, decided to refund to the locker club proprietors recently put out of business by Judge Speer the licenses they had paid the city. * * * Captain Price Detailed for Dahlonega. By direction of President Roosevelt, Captain Frederick S. L. Price of the ' eighth infnntry is detailed as profes- sor of military science and tactics of I the North Georgia Agricultural Col lege, Dahlonega, vice Captain Eze kiel J. Williams of the fifth infantry, who will proceed to Fort I/eavenworth, Kan s. • • * New Assistant State Geologist. State Geologist S. W. McCallie an nounces the appointment of S. P. Jones, a Georgian, ns assltant state geologist. Mr. Jones succeeds to the position which Professor McCallie held prior to his appointment to succeed the late State Geologist W. S. Yeates. Mr. Jcnes is a son of Professor Jones, who was for many years a member of the faculty of the state university. * * * Agricultural Hall Nears Completion. The work on the new agricultural hall on the campus of the University j of Georgia at Athens is progressing rapidly, it It practically certain that the building will be in readiness Tor occupancy at the opening of the uni versity next September, when It is con fidently expected there will be an In crease of not less than one hundred to one’hundred nnd fifty In the depart ment of agriculture. Tills Is by far the largest and most pretentious build ing on the university campus and will cost $100,000, exclusive of the equip ment. * * * Cotton Mill to Cost $250,000. The manufacturing committee of the Albany Rusiness League is working with a special committee to complete the work, begun last year, of raising subscriptions for a $250,000 cotton mill. The work was dropped during the financial panic In the fall, Ini it Is believed that conditions now warrant a revitalizing of the movement. About half of the stock has been sub scribed and subscription hooks will be reopened at once. Those at the head of the movement are most sanguine of success. * * * Veatch Exonerated. State Geologist S. W. McCallie has given out a statement, in which he completely exonerates his assistant, Otto Veatch, front charges recently published, intimating that he indis creetly gave out private information as to the existence of bauxite deposits in Wilkinson county, which resulted in parties purchasing the land for less than its value because the owners were Ignorant of its mineral wealth. Professor McCallie made a complete investigation of the matter, and is fully satisfied that there was no such indiscretion committed by any one con nected with the department. How the information got out he does not know, but he is fully satisfied that It did not escape through the geological de partment. * * * Must Swap Mileage fer Tickets. Cash or coupons from mileage books will he required for all transportation over the Southern railway, and the other lines which have agreed to ac cept the interchangeable mileage books. In other words “tickets” will be re quired for all fares, except cash fares, on these roads. No more will the drummer be allow ed to produce his mileage book, have a certain number of miles torn out, and the remainder handed back to the owner of the book. Hereafter the owner of the hook, ex cept in certain Instances, will go to the regular ticket window, ask for a ticket to the point of his destination, and either pay for it in cash or have that number of miles torn from his mileage hook by the ticket agent, and in lieu thereof is to receive a "pass age ticket.” * * * Cattle Show at State Fair. Plans for a cattle show and auction during the Georgia state fair, to be held in Atlanta October 8 to 24, under the auspices of the Georgia division of the National Farmers’ Union, are being made by General Manager Frank Weldon. On account of the strict cattle quar antine existing between the northern and southern cattle districts, it was feared that it would be impossible for the northern cattle to take part in the display. This obsacle has been over come, however, by the statement of Dr. Payne of the federal animal bu- rea, who has been making investiga tions in the south in regard to bring ing the northern cattle to the fair. According to the plans of Dr. Payne the cattle from the different sections will be kept separated. The northern cattle will be unloaded some distance from the fair grounds and will be brought Into the park by way of Pied mont avenue from the north. The southern cattle will come in either over Fourteenth street or Piedmont avenue from the south. Separate stalls will be arranged in the live stock building so that the ani mals will not eom<> in contact. The big live stock show will he held in the baseball park and the auction will take place in front of the grand stand. The exhibition will last from October 13 and 23. Elaborate plans are heing made for the different exhibits planned by the farmers of the state. • * * Farmers' Union to Finance Crop. It is announced that plans have been arranged by which the Georgia division of the National Farmers’ Un ion will finance the cotton crop of 1908 for farmers that are members of the state division. The decision of the union virtually means that the farmers of the state will at last be able to systematically hold their crops for merited prices in stead of being compelled to sell them to speculators or others who may de mand lower prices. According to the plans of the union that organization will accept and ware house all of the cotton upon which far mers need to borrow money until their crop has been sold. Farmers, who are compelled to have money before the crop is sold can warehouse their cot ton with the union and the union will lend the money on the cotton. When the farmer’s cotton is sold he will repay the loan he secured from the union, liy tills means the farmer will be protected, so officials of the union say, and will not be compelled to suffer while holding his cotton In dividually as heretofore. It is understood that the union ex pects to raise $1,000,000 by which to finance the year’s crop. The plan Is said to have met with the heartiest co-operation of the members of the Georgia division. • * * Fruit Safe, So Far. State Entomologist Worsham has re turned to the state capitol after a tour of the peach belt, and reports that the fruit crop is uninjured and the indications are that the yield this year will be a good one. Professor Worsham is taking special pains that no unde sirable fruit trees or plants from in fected districts are shipped into Geor gia. There is hardly a week that passes which does not find this de partment seizing shipments which do not come up to the requirements of the law. Professor Worsham states that it is almost as much of a task to' watch for the shipment of cotton seed hulls and cotton seed from the boll weevil district across the Mississippi, as to watch for the infested trees. Tiie fact that these seeds and hulls are oftentimes Infected tends to make the prices lower and some are shipped into Georgia. Professor Worsham is a great be liever In patronizing home productions anil home industries. He declares if the Georgia farmer would sell Ids cot ton seed to the oil mills of the state and purchase from them the desired cotton seed meal and nulls, the farmer would Increase his own wealth anrl help build up the cotton seed oil in dustry in Georgia. RIOT IN NEW YORK. Union Square Scene of Explosion Dur ing Demonstration by Unemployed. A red flag fluttered in Union Square, New York, Saturday, a bomb fell; two men lay dying in the people’s play ground, and New York awoke to the fact that It harbored those prepared to give their lives in armed resislanca to constituted authority. The bomli was intended for police, who, with rough firmness, had broken up a meet ing of $10,000 unemployed. It exploded prematurely in the hands of the assas sin, horribly wounding him, killing his companion, injuring slightly four po licemen and throwing to the ground a score of those who were massed in the vicinity. Saturday night Union Square Park was roped off from pedestrians; a hun dred police patroled the boundary streets and at the station house 1,000 reserves, awaited a call. No further disorder, however, developed. TWENTY INJURED IN WRECK. Smashup Occurs Between Special Pas senger and Freight Trains. Twenty people were injured, three fa tally, in a head-on collision between a Blue Grass special passenger train on the Queen and Crescent railroad a.nd a special freight train at Curville crossing, between Burgin and High Bridge, in Mercer county, Ky., Tuesday. The Blue Grass Special was on Its way to Lexington and Cincinnati. Mine Operators Anticipate Strike. According to a dispatch from Leav enworth, Ivans., mine operators are preparing for the coming strike of the coal miners. All of the mine mules are heing offered for sale, apparently ( in anticipation of a long contest. POPULISTS^OF GEORGIA Through Execuliv. Commit,,,, . demn Present Administration °i Will Put Out a State Tick* A resolution condemning the Iirp state administration a s exemplify the present governor, and calling f 0r state convention, subject to the Ca *' the chairman, to put out a state ' j ulist ticket, from the governor do and the selection of forty-nip? de gates to the national convention | n s Louis, was the action of th a Q 00r Btate populist executive commit!! meeting in the senate chamber at a! lanta Tuesday. A heated discussion was Troeipitatpa by a resolution, which not only rap„!l the present administration, but emk ed the candidacy of Joseph M. Brow I It was apparent that this resolutu: was going to bring on a discussion that would last Indefinitely, so Chairman j J. Holloway promptly named a co m ! mlttee of three on resolutions to wtu ' the matter. This committee wa* out but a short time and returned with the resolution shorn of the endorse- ment of Mr. Brown, and amalgamated with a call for a state convention to name a populist ticket. The resolution passed with only two dissenting votes. It is as follows: "Resolved, by the representative.) & ( the populist party here assembled, That we deploro the disastrous policies of the present state administration as «. amplified by the present governor, and we think the best interests of the farm- ers, laborers and business men of the state would be well conserved by t change in the administration. “That it Is our desire to call a popu list convention in the capitol, Atlanta, for the purpose of putting out a full state populist ticket, from governor down.” The section referring to the candi dacy of Hon. Joseph M. Brown, which was stricken out, was as follows: "Whereas, lion. Joseph M. Brown, t patriotic and capable business men, In whom the elements of intellect and af fection are admirably commingled, fit ting him In a rare degree for the prop er discharge of the great responsibly Ities of this exalted office, we, there fore heartily commend his candidacy to all the people of Georgia." Chairman Holloway will later take ! action on the calling of a state conven tion for the purpose of nominating a state ticket. SWORN TO STOP LAWLESSNESS. League Organized Against Night Rid ers In Tennessee. A law and order league has been or ganlzed for Clarksville ami Mont gomery counties, Tennessee. A perma nent organization was perfected to sup- press lawlessness in that part of the dark tobacco district. The league al ready has over three hundred mem bers. Following Is the oath taken: “As God is my witness, 1 solemnly and sincerely promise and swear, with out reserve or equivocation, that I ne cept the purposes of tho league; that I pledge my best endeavors to securing these purposes; that I shall bold se cret all proceedings of the league and that I shall not divulge the name of any member of the league, so help 1118 God." CIVIC FEDERATION MEASURE Seeking to Amend Anti-Trust Law In troduced in the House. The bill prepared by the National Civic Federation after conferences with the president and representatives of capital and labor to relieve the strin gency of the Sherman anti-trust la»’ was introduced in tho house Monday by Representative Hepburn of Io* a ' chairman of the committee on inter state and foreign commerce. It was referred to that committee for consid eration and report, and it is under stood that President Roosevelt villi in a message, make a recommendation concerning 1L LAW WAS INADEQUATE. Indictment Against Two Porto Rican Priests Unfortunately Voided. The Indictment that was return'd in San Juan, Porto Rico, against t"° priests, editors of a Roman Catholic publication, for printing an article in which it was asserted that persons contracting marriages under the cL' law live In a state of concubinage a- that their children are illegitimatt.-. was quashed, It having been found that the federal statutes do not cover il' ia offense. The newspapers of P° lt0 Rico, however, are expressing > lulln nation against the publication. GOV. BROWARD ANNOUNCES. Florida Chief Executive in Race f° r L1, S. Senate. Governor N. B. Broward of Florid Thursday announced his candidacy tor the United States senate at the coini--- democratic primaries. There ha- .' * been no appointment by him to succe« the late Senator W. J. Bryan.