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VOLUME XVII.—NO. 767.
ATLANTA, GA, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 30, 1890.
PRICE: *2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE.
HANGING OF RAIDERS
A Jlimk'rcr Made a Desperate
ISreak for Liberty.
An Andersonville Tragedy Re
called; A Captain’s Cool
ness Saved the Lives
of Thousands.
Washington', August Ifi, 1890
TALKED last night with
* man who sided in hang-
' " ing the six raiders in An-
41 dersunvllle in July, 1S61
These men were all mar
derers. They were bountv
jumpers, thieves and scoun
drels, and the Century
magazine of the current
month refers to them in its
article on the Andersonville
A prison.
r The full details of the ex
^ ccution, however, have
never been given to the
public. It Is one of the most remarkable
tragedies of prison history during the
late war, and it resulted in bringing or
der out of chaos for the 25,000 men who
were confined in the Andersonville
stockade.
Col. John McEiroy, the editor of the
Nath nal Tribune of Washington, tells
the story. He was one of the youngest
■ Jld *rs o’the late war. He shouldered
a mi: ket at 16. was captured at Jones
vllle. Va., in 1864. and after a short stay
at the prison ia R chraoi.d found him
self in Andersonville.
The exchange of prisoners between
the North and tho South stopped on the
3rd of July, 1863. and from this time on
the Southern prisons rapidly filled. In
January, 1S61, there were fifteen thous
and prisoners in Richmond and Dan
ville, and in April, 64, the number of
prisoners in Andersonville was nine
thousand five hnndred.
At the ei d of May this number had in
creased to nineteen thousand, and at the
end oi June to twenty six thousand
These raider* were hung ia July, and
at the end of that month there were
thirty one thousand prisoners in the
stockade.
Said Col. McEiroy:
4 You cannot imagine the crowded con
dition of the prison. It con-it?ted, you
know, of a field covering about four city
squares out idu of which extended a high
stockade. Just inside of this was arond
twenty feet wide running around the
whole inside o? ihe prison, known as the
[ n’ght of July 2. 18*54, and then Key had
| 50 J boys organ:z d, wno were armed with
ctubs, which were tied to their wrists
with strings. These clubs were abiut
tb^ size of a policeman's club.
* They were of pine, with knot* on the
end of them, and formed a v. ry effective
weapon. The raiders at this time had
their headquarters in a big tent made of
blankets, which they had robbed from
11 iers.
4 It was on the south side of the prison,
and was known as the round tent. As
SDon as they heard of it they sent three
rv ughs, aruitd with knives and brass
knuckles, to assault K-y, but Key had
gotten a revolver, which had beeu smug
gle d in, in one of the P»y motrh men's
knapsacks, and he stood them off.
“We then saw that the coxiict was
imminent, and that night was spent in
preparing for it. K~y went to see Wirz,
the head of the prison. He toid him the
condition of affairs, and Wi.z agreed to
>u9peud for the next few days the order
fur the artiiie ry to open
Vpeo l'« Without Warning
in the event of our assembling inside the
stockade in any nuinb.rs lor any pur
pof-e except xoll-call.
“Wirz sanctioned Key's actions, and
agreed to take charge of the prisoners
whom Key should arrest.
44 Tne whole prison ia the meantime
ta3 become awaie that something was
going on, but they did not know wnat it
was. A great many thought that there
was a fight between the Kaownothihgs
and the foreigners, and consequently tne
Fympuhtes ofthecunp were not with
us. The most of tLese robbers were, by j
the way. foreigners.
44 We formed on the morning of July 3
and raiders. Tney were reauy for us,
and in a snort time there was some club
practice there that would have put to the
Diush the contents of Dono> brook fair.
44 We made it a rule to nit with a club
every man who cil not belong to our
squad that came near us, and we fin» ly
routed the raiders and arrested 125 of
them. Wnz though he had given per
ii i-sioo ioi us o ..i .K, me arrrest, d d
lo. u**ea ui»u.uu b chance on us.
•‘He had his guards i .t iu r.fi s pits sur
rounding the prison armed with mus
kets ano hand grtnades,and the 19 pieces
of artiltry were loaded auu tue guoners
stood beside them with the lanyards in
their hands. He was afraid lo opyn the
gates to use the rations to the prison
ers that night owing to the commo
tion, and the resuit was that we
got no food till the nex day, and then tee
unish was ail spoiled. We wtre then be
ing fed upon imisfi, and the days of corn
brr-ad were played uut.
We got notblug to eat until the next,
da.v which w as the Fourth o' July.
K -y, in the meantime, had given the
evening of thc4:h Wirz sent word that
he cjuid not hold for him so mauy pris
ohors, aud he must pic* out the woist
and he wouidsei.d the rest bacx into the
prison. Key then went in and selected
the wont for trial. He lectured the nsi
and turned them back into the stockade
44 ln the meantime the rest of the pris
oners nad learned wha: we were doing,
antt th«y were ail witu as. They learne i
ffiftine I remomhtr oue^y-in
fiitrp ms teot. I bcaid i he ping: of a bal
let and just escaped being shot To. hav
ing mv elbow over the edge.
“Tue prison was in the shape of a
tmnirle and it consisted of two hills whicn
sloped’down towards the centre, through
__ n o creek, perhaps one hundred
C wide Oa the P s.d.B of these hills
were crowded the
Thoaaauds lu the Prison,
and at one time there was scarcely room
enough Tor all to lie down at once.
“The prisoners came from all parts ot
the United States, aud from all divisions
of the Union army. They did not know
one another, and the new arrivals were
as lost aa a man In a strange town.
“During the war there was a band of
so-called Union soldiers, who were in
fact guerrillas, aad who preyed ctf of
hoth sides. Sams of these were bounty
tempers others were Union deserters
1 . ^?hers were rn.de up of thieves and
cutthroats "wTo follow* the fortune, of
war to make what they can out of either
S '“The Confederates had c2 P l “ r fJ® *
number of these men, and they held them
for a time at Uicumond, with the Idea of
excuanging tuem for Confederate prison
trs Our company soon teetnw acquaint
Id With them"and when they we.e sent
from Richmond to Andersonville we
8^ ed "as they got Into the prison
thev oreunized theinfle.ves into a regular
baud ol ih‘e• es aad robbers. They nad a
lead* r and they cominitlea a number of
murders Whenever a now Bet of prison
ers was admitted they would “ ak " *
ncint to rusn upon them, *■. d by throw
Eg blankets ove? .her heads or knock
iog them down, would be able to steal
whatever valuables they orought into
P ”Tife W me« lL w“o came in, knowing no
one, wou d suppi so that the whose prison
W, rc like these raiders, and the
was t.ier j was no security of property.
None of the prisoners had any property
g,Tpeak of,hut me new arrivals always
brought iu so'nuihlng
and they formed a line on ■»— —
the gate where they were to coum in.
Nearly every man in these two lines had
suffered from their depredatiens, aud
they were ready for vengeance.
• Each man bad a club, and the Confed
erate officers who enjoyed the spectac.e
of seeihg the Yankees clubbing each
other, let only one man in at a ti<ne.
Every one had to ran this gauntlet,
and all received serious beatings. One
man was killed. Ue was a sailor, ana be
bad secreted a knife iu his boot. Hecu-
SSf way along until he came to a mar.
a rail He dropped this on h s
The a , j*i or rell, and be was beaten
that the bad food aud air finally killed
^-Ker now formed a court martial con
slating of 13 s* rgeants selected from the
newes K t prisoners^ order that the, Bright
he free from predjudice. I don t
where any of these men now are, except
Ssv T J Sheppard of Kenton. O , who
is now a orom.nent Metnodist clergyman
ibere Hewas last year chaplain and
chief of the Ohio G. A. R. .
••The judee advocate was a member of
the 3-d Missouri Cavalry, and his uam
was Diet McCullough. Tee raiders were
defended by a shyster lawy^rfrom N^w
York, and were given a fair trial, w
had some fair lawyers in the prison and
won the court partial. Tne sentence
however, was that s:x of the worst pris
oners were guilty oi murder, and should
bC “Tffis sentence vras submitted to Gon
I U vVluder, the Confederate commissa
ry gl’neial. He considered it a day or so
and anally confirmed it.
• I nad acted at a serueant of my com
nany In a-r.-sting the raiders, and 1 sup
Sostd that our v.crk w«s endrd when w.
bad given them Into Wirz hands, isup
nosed that Key would himself carry out
{.ue rest of tho programme wuatever that
mi-iiL be Ou the morning of July It.
however, one of the hoys of my battalllou
Ca o^° B Troyr d K-y d is going to hang the
raiders today Ue wants you to get your
company together and go to the ration
co p j p„nt.h and iriiard ttic
eyiv&ni
tions* et Tae'niost of these men had voter
anized, a d had arrayed themse.ves ”
ti le cloth- S, pl«P irtltor ^ ll) •
toee teoir lolkb s.ud swcetnearls on their
\et.‘au lunoogh.
-By the teims of t eir
weroaliostd aud they fo
qulrry for theraide.s. As soon as they
pture it ey
THE WORLD S DESIRE.
A STORY OF OLD GREEK AND EGYPTIAN L FE.
BY
II. RIDER HAGGARD AND ANDREW LANG.
A VIEW OF NIAGARA FALLS.
How
arc Girls to Earn
Living?
mviVKV pipfu 1 bring about the ctsr ge, but it is < oming
I>1 blNLbO oll.Lo. nnd t wlll ttt onr jins to face tue bat-
- tlO.”
Tlicir But this ia onlj a begianlDg. Mr.
Smith, the origin*tr of the buaiaess ce
partment, only volte the seutiments of
! every member of tb board of cducutioo,
How are our young girls and young j w £®“ hailoever be inteotAintil we bav*
women to earn their own living? I in connection wu our Girls* Hlg*
lh i a a. v 0 f business and business | school,a complete si thoroughly equip
In this ^ j looks more favor- i ped industrial dugtment where ou
women, when the wor.d loo j girls may be taug how to earn u
ably on the women who, by honest tnon, | themselves, and e self support!.,,
earn an independent support, than upon should they need tm so. And 1 believ
eatg the bread or idlentsf, the day is not far 4ant when we snal
her sister who eats too ore u have it > -Atlanta kmrg Journal,
there Is, perhaps, no question of greater
moment or of more general interest than
the one, “How are our girls to be self-
CHAPTER VI.
Bel, the Priest of Amen, the Master
Bu! dir, began his story unwillingly
enough, and slowly, but soon he took
pleasure in telling it as old men do, end
in sharing the burden of a secret.
“The Queen is tair,” he said. “Thou
hast seen no fairer in all thy voyug
ingsT'
“She is fair indeed,” answered the
Wanderer. ‘ I pray that she be well
mated and happy on her throne?”
“That is what I wtll tell thee of, though
my life may bo the price of the tale,”
said Rel. “But a lighter heart is well
worth an old man’s cheap risk, aud thou
may’st help me and her when thou
knowest all. Pharaoh Moneptah, her
lord, the King, is the son of the divine
Raineses, the ever-living Pharaoh, child
of the Sun, who dwelleth iu Osiris.”
“Toon meanest that he is dead?” asked
the Wanderer.
“Ha dwelleth with Osiris,” said Rei,
“and the Queen was his daughter by
another bed.”
“A brother wedasisteil 'ezclaimedthe
Wanderer.
“It is the custom of our Royal House,
from the days of the Timeless Kings, the
children of Horas. An old custom.”
The ways of his hosts are good In the
eyes of a stranger,” said the Wanderer,
courteously.
'It is an oid custom, and a sacred,”
said Rei, “but women, the custom mak
ers, are often custom breakers. And cf
all women, Meriainun least loves to he
obedient, even to the dead. And yet she
has obeyed, and it cime a lout thus: Her
brother Meneptah—who now is Pnaraoh
the Prince of Kush while her divine
father lived, and many half sisters, but
M.rlamuu was the fairest of them ail.
She is beautifnl, a moon-child the com
iuon people called her, and wise, and she
does not know the face of rear. And
thus it chanced that sne learned, what
even our Royal women rarely learn, all
the aDC'ent seer t wisdom of his ancient
land. Except Queen Tala of old, uo wo
man has known whatAlerlaman knows—
what I have taught her—I aud auother
counsellor.”
He paused here, and Lis mind seemed
. • ou uuhs'uiy thlp^y. u a
been her ouly familiar—and, after her
aiv ne father and mother, she loved me
more than any, for she loved few. But of
ail whom she did not love, she lov«.d her
royal brother le^st. He la slow of speech
And Bho IB nnL.h OU, a ■ r . .
THE CHAUTAUQUA A SUCCESS.
and sue is quick. She is tearless and he
has no heait for war. From her child
hood sbe scorned him, mocked him. and
mastered him with her tODgue. She
6Vfin InsriiuA tv avaaI uz • . .
Solid liusis.
BEFORE AND AEIt MARRIAGE.
Bupportink?”
Numerous answers have been given,
I-Hnw? ’ But, as a general thing, tnese
ulans and iheories, although very wire
P nd good-on paper, fail to material z a
and tne suggestions aud the girls are left
t0 Bui nowadays, theory without practice
ooTiged toearuYerown^idug.'she hasn’t
Uuie to stop and i ivestigate theories"!,
the aubioct. it is ail very well to teli her
ibout. d, but it is Of vss-.iy more practical
non- fit to her to give Her a way of golat
a *And it was with this idea that, tio
years ago, ou.- b -ard of education oegau
tooonhiiiur this matter
For years tney had be. n working for
the pub..c scacois of Atlanta, doing
everything tuev could, and «-C >rlr,„
every means in heir power to educ-t-
the boys and g.r.s oi
She waits and liste Footsteps fall,
She knows they aot his,
She waits and listor a sound
That sweetest mis.
He comes—and vusu Ideu thrill,
And heart-ta bt and clear.
She does nut hear.does not see,
sbe ft els Unit r
Piedmout Chautauqua Closes its S^ ,e ?^ ned r tae . xcel hlm in the chariot
•ouiius a, loses its I racet—therefore it was that the Kioe his
Tliirel Session on a I ™!* de tlm bat a general cr’the
toot soldiers—and in guessing riddles,
which our people love, she delighted to
conquer aim. Tae victory was eisy
We find the following statements in I dlvlne Hrince is heavy
-™."«
inst., and reproduce them with great I child, she .grudged that he should come
pleasure in onr columns. Col. W a I Ii? w i old f* 10 scourge of power, sad wear
Pr e e7dciTo- 0f th t e h Cha 0 ^ t,tDti0,, ’ b ' 8,D * '.nd^n^^^a^d.^ 6
nt °: the Clian tktqi» we take it | . “It is strange, then, that of all bis sto
at my own gam«*. and that my father's
son, the Royal Prince of Kush ax;d the
Pnaraoh who shall be, is moreth^n her
equal. I hold my waee, Meriamut !
“ ‘Go then, Prince,’she cried, and after
"unset meet me in my ante chamber.
Bring a scribe to score the games, Rei
shall be the judge and hold the st.Hker,
Rut beware of tne golden Cup of Pasht!
Drain it not tonight, lest I win a Jove
game, though we do not play for Io\*e.’
“The Prince went scowling away, ard
Meriamun laughrd, but I foresaw mis*
chief. The stakes were too high, ti e
match was too strange, but Meriamun
would not listen to me, for she was very
wilful.
4, The sun fell, and two hours after the
Royal Prince of Kush came with his
scribe, and found M.riamun with the
board of squares before her, In her ante*
chamber.
•‘He sat down without a word, then he
asked who should first take the field.
* 4 * Wait,’she said, first let ns ses the
stukes,’ aLd lifting from her brow the
goleen snake of royalty, she shook her
soft hair loose, and gave the coronet to
me. ‘If I Jose,’ she said, ‘never may I
wear the uraeas crown.’
“‘That shall thou never while 1 draw
breath,’ answered the Prince, as he too
li ted the symbol of his royalty from his
head and gave i; to me Tjerewasa
difference between the clrc'et-; the coro
net of Meriamun was crowned with one
cr; sted snike, that of the divine Prince
was crowned with twain.
4 ‘Ay, Meneptah,’ she paid, 4 bnt per
chance Osiris, God of the Dead, waits
thee, for surely he loves these too great
and good for earth. Take thou the field
and to the gains.* At her words of evil
omen he frowned. But he took the field
and readily, for he knew the game.
“She moved in answer heedlessly
enough and afterward she played at ran
dom and carelessly, poshing the pieces
aoout wth little skill. AuG so he won
this first game quickly, and crying,
4 Pharaoh is dead,’ swept the pieces from
the board. ‘See how I better thee,* be
went on in mockery. ‘Thtue is a wo
man’s gamr; all attack and uo defence.*
“‘Boast not yet, Menep.ah,’ sbe said.
‘There are still two sets to play. See the
board is set and I take the fiild.’
•Tula lime the game weot differently,
for toe Prince coaid scarce make prison
er of a single pteev.* save of one temple
and two bowmen only, and presently it
was the turn of Mexiamun to c^y Phara
oh is dead,* and to sweep tbe pieces from
the board. This time Meneptah did Lot
boost but scowled, wbi.e I a-ttiie bourd
aud tha ucrlbo wrote down the gome upon
►.«» » • Lium Vow it was tne Princ«’«
na “. e of the hoI r Tbotv he
tory) to wllom 1 '> 0 '» kvuat gi ts o.* vic
tors, If one must be Queen, he sbould
nsve cho.en her,” said the Wanderer.
T'ePo*. Dfrd . happened strangely.
Tbe Priuce’e father, the divine Ramesel
.L h ® ,Tue Prince
euUrtd Aud raonvil e taey were attacked
and seme who uffer.d resistance wtre
ki OUiers Were beaten over tbe head with
cluis ”ado Of ueavy pine kno-s or cut
with knives or razors
was
In » State of Terror
Tne whole camp
the hooth side and guard the
men’wbo are to put up tue bctfold ’
“This met-sage struck me all a^l ast i
had lu.ked very tlrougly in favor of d“ n B‘
ing the feiioivs, but 1 had no idea that 1
would be asked lo partic’pale iu c..
iog it out. 1 WUB toea made to iea.
boivtver, taut my
Only VVsy Out of tire Trouble
was to do « bat. was asked of me, or else
to make a Lumiliatinc backdown, ana
li.rure as a blackguard. I accepted tne
less disagreeable born oi the dilemma,
•“?Tbere were two reasons for guarding
the scaffold—first because we expected a
rusn f-om the friends of the condemned
to interfere with tue work; and second,
the'need of wood in the prison was so
that unless the timber Was guarded
trly lifting a fat e
lereyub of he t' biiie,
? murmurs in Fsoftest tones
Aly darling, .fe i?”
oi me city,
oiucetion was purely literary,
it iilt-d airis le> occupy positions
teachers, there were not always positions
Knowing this and realizing the i.-creas
lug nec. ssity fur fitting gins to become
«*elf Biipportibg, the matter was brought
uriucr ci--cd8>ion.
Hou. Hoke Smith Cvincoivel and tntro-
riusfci the idta of adding to the xegu»ar
over these outrages.
“I remember one morning seeing three
men who had been killeu tbu night be
fore by the raiders. Tb.ir throats had
been cut by them and it last became so
common that almost auy time during
?ne day von would see a mob in some
part of the camp Drought about by these
m Many attempts were made by the law-
abiding soldiers of the prison to secure
order ia their Immediate vicinity. Eacu
sauad or clan aa it were had its own
mace, bat those squads nearest tne dead
one finally resolved themselves loto a
little organization for mutual telfpro
t9 f‘I buionged to one of these companies,
and our part was the only portion of tho
mison where any kind ot o.der pre-
vailed. Tne reel of the place wae held
hv the raiders, and anarchy reigned. It
O^worse and worse every day, and to
srards the latter pait of J " n ^’
J „ , v e , of Company M of my battal-
iotfoVtbe Sixteenth Illinois Cavalry, un-
dertook the organization of a force of
re S?“ere r was a number of his old battal
> nrlson. and the organization
‘^n^nclctud fifty able bodied boys who
bad not succumbed to the pestilential
scurvyand other diseases of the camp.
ThlB organization was made verj qaleuy,
is the raiders were ready to crush cut
anything of the kind by the sssassina-
tion of the leader. It was kept so jecret
they got no iokliog of it tut w*
&.rit would be snatched out of -he
" ° t f hi? e time ri “c eU roots of the trees
which had gone down into the grou.id
*r four or five feet were being dug up by
tne prisoners in order I hat they might be
drfed and used for cooking We baritone
or two raids upon us wtnie the scafloid
was being made. In ihe meantime Wirz
tne whole garrison under arms.
Tne fTfle pitT were 8 flUed with infantry
and the artillery men were at their guns
r6 “ Wheuthe time arrived for the hang
ing there were 15.000 men packed about
the scaffold, which was mBide of the
hollow square made by our 200 regula
tois My^ company formed each side of
this square, and, as 1 stood there, I shall
lever torget the’ sight that met my eyes
noon the north side of the camp.
^■The slope was just grat ual enough to
make the heads and suouiders of each
Urns of men appear over those of the line
in front of them, so as to producethe
eff ect of a sloping wall of human faces-
••in a short tim© Wirz came in with the
six condemned under guard. They were
accompanied by Father Mahoney, the
Catholic priest of Macon, who was the
only miniiter of the Gospel who made
any pretence or attending to the aplrit-
„ai wants of the prisoners. Dressed in
the appropriate church robes of the oica
sion, he read the seivice for the con
rode np on a white horse. He
was dressed in his usual suit uf white
which, added to the association,
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a dt-partineut uf husints", in which gin
might he t.ught so netuing rhat wo 1
be of practicing to them, and rend.,
them cJinptcnt to earn their own ,1
ir *Mr S nith’t ilea was adopted, and al
though practically nothing could oe
accomplismii tie first year, a begin
mug was male Mrs. Cunmie Doughs,
a ladv ol large experience as an educator
W48 put in charge of tue “business de
paittuent,” suca as it was
F vvitneut going into details of the pro
grets of the new department-, it la (.nib
cient to say that it has already proved to
be an unqualified success. A large nuin
ber of gins availed themselves ot the op
oortunity to learn acmeihlngof practical
business, end last Juue four youug lames
received diplomas, having received the
lull businsss course. When the next scs
sion oegius there will have to be two
teachers for the department.
At present the branches taught are
stenography, type writing, book keep
iuff, practical algebra, commercial aritn
metic, spelling, literature and met one
In the latter study business onus, punc
tuation, comprenenalve statements ana
letter writing take the place of verstflea
tlon and sty le. The arithmetic embraces
all the methods used by business men.
Book keeping is taught according to the
latest improved methods, and the entire
course is thorough and practical. It
gives a girl a chance to learn not only the
type writing and euorthand used so ex
tenslvely at present, and it not only h»
her to take charge of aayeet ot
bat it gives her a general business train
ing, that ia essential to success in almost
any position she ma, occupy.
The New York World, ti»« other day,
in speaking of the chances of the business
girls of today, in referring to this new
move in our Atlanta schools, •«M-
• This is tho sort of education that is
needed in America to «t V? ® il mJ^basl
s ets on being independent ^ t^ bual
ness world. The new departure in tne
Atlanta Girls’ High School is » j?.
tbe rigbt direction. It will Wke time to
An-1 ioots.eps I’X uuor;
bhu listens but ftbie Hies
More .-wituy tfj.OM*.
SIr- hears n - Iciik lrtu-I ilmt time
a ml ctre are ms9o\v
And. with h siartemls her chair,
Hard roekiu»r t'^»
spring t'» the lauD<l with voice
More shrill tnalute s.
SOC!/ LIlE, GA,
Largo Sale oi Sstate; Several
Mills Built.
goelAL CIRCI. August n-Tce
largest sale of rite known in t!.e
history of Soci*! As predictor,
r»al estate in t- 1 © is cn a boom.
Tne extensive einilJlng aur^ saw
t/jill busine* s obpvbcer, the well
Known propriei t opencar rouse
of this place. wid»y sold to J o.
Shepherd, W. G. A. Gibson
and J H* Adsr have the means
*nd will great!? these facilities,
in anticipation bew railroad to
connect with tb Georgia and Al
lanti , which insured bejond a
doubt. Tais efias also secured
the grounds H -' “1 Georgia rail
road depot, on wilt at once erect
a cotton comply is also parties
here looking ftion for a brooiu
factory, wagi/ furniture
factory.
The adlltiortdustries.tojeth
er with the li.ai'road facilities
which we will P‘»c. Social Cir
cle on tile liitRresncities of
Georaiw . ,
There is not® o* now but in-
.istment** iu nianufactur-
ing Industrie*
The fact tlffiepherd is the
prime m jvtrlew entoprlses is
that the statements are official and
liable.
Pled “ ont Chautauqua closed its
third annual session last night, and a
grand aession it has bean. It was or lei i k ., j ,— muix
naily intended to ciose on the 27vh but 5,?Jf d e lt ? 0 .L e “. U i an Mtriamun, but the
on account of a portion of the famous I °’ a 8 the will of the gods. In
Weber band being called unexpectedly I ?“^' rt th® divine Priuce excelled, in
away, and tbe inability of Muss-a Cris^ k^h 8 , of Pleces . “ n old game in
?“2 Put F r " ort h tofill their engsgemem /hi* 8 m° p . tstlm ® ,or women, but
toe ter into a j.lnt discussion of the If! 1 ” “ t thlB 1 . M ®Hamun was determined
tariff question, which was to Lavo co m. I ‘" a 1 her br °t 1 »er. She bade me
oil this week, and owing to the fact that I 8et of the pieces fash-
some of th,. teachers aud students of the I th .® u ® at, s of cats, and shaped
Grady summer school were compelled to ^ th8 '- ard wo ”d of Azebi. I carved
.save to begin thtir regular duties in toe I wlth “i y 0 '? n i au <is, and night oy
schools at their various homes, the ma • I u, £ b t sue played witc me, who have
“guntnt decided to ciose the n.esenr rSf name ,or tki11 at the sport,
ession last night. There was a larg- I ' 0a ®» u o. s vt it chanced that her brother
attendance from At anta at Caautauqua I hin r ° m u hU1Ulne taB llon in ,ke
^ e ’ erd "y- • I o 1J h n ^ waH in an evil humor,
• “f Chautauqua Association feel very I ;? r u uad * ound no lions, and he caused
much encjuraged over the work or tht I k ® “ un! ® mtn to be stretchea out and
present session Last year the assembly r ? d "- Tb ®“ de called for
000 aad f0,C00. This yea: I * l “' aa ‘ l dralik dt ep at the palace gate
’ 1 “sV„mor per bt driuk the ^ 8 -
••He was going to his own Court in the
Palace, striking with a wnip at his
uounds, when he caanced to turn and
r“hla 1 ?a 8 'f!i“-.. Sd8 "“ting where
1-RSt between ;
nroHnaV*??! P^ior 'attractions they
*1000 “to’af™ wil1 0u from
aLd . had H not fc: c-u for
he unfonuoate acc.dont ou the rahroao
on raltnage night, the Chautauqua wou d
I ave paid cut, wir.u 000 or il 500 in thll , „
treasury. The Chautauqua restaurant l d° 8 ® three great palm trees are aud was
overpaid expense; the Sweetwater Pari t p ‘ ai H 1,ls »‘ r P‘®ces with me in the cool of
hotel has been iuil ever since it was 1? a d “ y ‘ There she sat in the shadow
opened, and still has couoiaer.tbly over I C ‘“ d la - wditu and purple, and with t.oJ
200 guests, many of whom will remote r ? d ? oId of thu ®nak.‘ of royalty "hT the
* iteorm'o | hair. Th«e s^e sat as
bv the management that this is tne firs'? I i >e ‘* utlful as tto Hathor, the Queen of
Tro’r , pa ‘ dt * Qce 11 * Ta9 bnit. I *^.' ¥ ;> oras the Lady itie whea she [dsj
fhe probability is k will pay web „ u . . ' 1 *“ * " p 1
investment tab. year over ruunln “ ex
p ® n ® ts ; Tho dumn y line runniiiL.’rroa.
if® 1 ? ® 1 to springs will pay t fsyear
3o to 40 per cent, on cue oiigVal invest
• , --- t— **—j nuou SHU nlav
ed at pieces in Amonti with tho ancient
King. Nay, an old man may say it, there
never was but one woman core fair than
Meriamun, if a woman she be. she whom
our people call the Strange Uathor ”
„ n .r a i At ow . Wanderer beinounxii him of
Mesara E W. Mjrsh & Co., who own h h ® *“1® of pilot, but said nothing, “ini
the bweetwater Park hotel and dummy Wc “‘
^ pr A nclpa » ?«»®» of anu T *t 1*™**”}°*’ apd . *>i®. anger
t-eCuautaLqua, are very much encour
•ged with the outlook or th ir invest
ments at L thia Springs. Theie arl
eighteen lots that have oeen taken w ith
in the last two weeks at Chatanoua
ny persons residing at different poiute
iu Geoxgia, who intend to build cot
tages before the opening of th*
se&sion of 1891. The onl? thin^
make the Chautauqua self sustaii.inifaim
p *f f «Jivi d «ndon the investment is to
bui.il 1°0 or more cottages. Had tht re
been that many at the beginning of the
*® 83i ” n J uat c osed, every one of them
would have been occupied on oneninar
?z y i . E fT “" 8h & Co - wU1 ^“‘on
the 1st of January the erection of 100 ad
ditional cottages, which, together with
those that w ill be built by private parti..
wsures the unquestioned success of the
Piedmont Chautauqua, and it becomes
one of the permanent fixtures of the
State. In addition to the bnllding of the
cottages, the management has decided to
piocted at once to complete the original
Lhantanqua buildlnge, and to carrf o^t
fully the ong.nal ideas and plans. Th«
Cuautauqna has lived through thn!«
years, notwithstanding the kicks AnS
croaks that have been aimed at it and
now that it is established on a firmbarta
and its perpetual continuance assured
with »large amount of capital to back it
“Stain it, the thonsands of its
friends throngn the Sooth wiU be 611000?
aged to go to work in earnest to makeit
JJ 4 **, ltB founder intended—the ideal
Coautauqua of America. The Gtonh
Pacific is now at work grading an extra
roadbed from Atlanta to Austell, and bv
th of *. h « Chantan
assurrancX *iU go on to
completion.
The tfailroad.
The manai** Georgia Rail-
road ie mal»r»blo new i m
piovementa J® of the road.
Tne 53 powM 8 on the main
line are beiiW Qew <0 pound
rails. Tois** 11 commenced
from Atlanl|i D ? pushed on
down the rtl tails are being
taken np a» 1 J® *ton rails.
Besides thfjnts the whole
road is belied, which will
make travc^P 0 *" Une more
P 'ltie also th ® schedule
of the feat' J 1 ®” a ° d Atlan-
tae Wl M^><*“ ‘^ AU^t°lc ^L 0p * t n ' wUTtaa diibirtoSk,
t^st Un#»ta. ““ Mc • ^ be no trouble in ££
sought for something new to break itself
on. Up he came, and I rose before him
ted d oi bU M ed n “'J® 81 ''- Bj t Meriamun fell
indolently back lu her chair of Ivory, and
? d ' tl . a 8wetp °f ber slim baud she disor
dered the pieces and bade her waiting
woman, the Lady Hataska, gather up the
boaril aud carry aU away. But Hataska s
y ™n£l?, sact a}. y wa icniog the Prince
«.io m tto . 8 ’ Pri “®® 8 ®. our Royal slater,'
^*Lh„ P if a - j W . hat art tbou doing
t nd h ® Pointed with his
• rhn!°i hlp at tne cat beaded pieces,
arenni JI? n W °S aa ’.* * ame - these pieces
o^ 8 S?* bearta of men to be moved
Jw°.!F d *i y i°J e L TDis e am « ceeds
wit. Get thee to thj broidery, for there
thou mayt at excel.’
aalH Q Jff2 n8 ’ Prin 9® and royal brother,
“J d k .^®^ aman - ‘I laugh to hear thee
■peak of a game that needs wit. Tt>v
hanting hast not prospered, so get tbM
to the banquet board, for there, I hear,
the gods have granted thee to exoel ’
It is little to say,* answered
• in the name of hyiy Pasht,’she made
answer, ‘to whom I make daily prayer.’
For, being a maid, she swore by tne God-
dess of Cbasilty, and being Meriamun,
by the G iddess of Vengeance. *
‘’ p ! 8 biting thou shouldsi. vow by her
0 ‘ the Cat s Head.’ he said, sneering.
‘les, very fitting,’ she answered, ‘for
peruhance she’ll lend me her claws. Piav
thou, Meneptah.* J
‘■A Qd be played, and so well that for a
while the game went against h-r. But
^i eD x? th .’ when they had s ‘ r >»ggled long,
and Meriamnn had lost the most of htr
ileces, a light came into her face as
*he had found what she sought.
And while the Prince called for wiae end
drank, she lay bat k in her chair and
looked upon the board. Then she moved
so shrewdly and upon so de^p apian that
he fell into the trap toat she had laid for
him and could never escape. In vain he
vowed gifts to the holy Thot*, and
promised each a temple aa tfiere was none
m Knem.
“•Thoth hears thee not; he is the god
of lettered men,'said Meriamnn, mock-
me him. Then ne cursed aud drank more
wine.
“•Fools seek wit ia wine, bat only wise
men find it.’ quoth she again. ‘Behold
Royal brother, Pharaoh is dead, and i
have won the matsti and beaten thus at
thine own game. Rei, my servant, give
me tnat circlet; nay, not my own, the
double one, wi teh t. y divine Prince
wag- rtd. 80 I set it on my brow, for it
is mine. Meneptah. in this, as ia ail
things else, I have conq„ered thee.’
“And she :ose, and, standing full ( n
the sight of ti e lamps, the Rijal uraeus
onh-r hrow, she mocked him, bidding
h:m come do homage to her who had
won hii crown, and stretcaiug forth htr
small hand f >r him to kiss it. And so
wondrous was her beauty tn it the di •
fin6 Priuce of Kush ceasi d to call upon
the evil god3 because of his in fortune
aud stood g«z?ng on her.
“•By Piab, bat thou art fair,’ he erhd
‘and I pardon my father at last for will
ing thue to be my Queen!
•' I will never pardon him,’ said Meria
mun.
I “Now the Prince had drunk mu-h
wine.
“‘fi-.ou ohait be my Queen,’ he stid
| and for earn.st I will mss tbee. Tnis’
at th6 least, being tho strongest, I can
do.’ And ere she coull escape him ne
passed his arm about her and seized her
oy the girdle, and kissed her ou tne ites
and Jut her go. v
“ 'Meriamun grew white as the dead
By her side thtre hunga dagger. Swiftlv
she drew it and swiftly she struck at Ms
bean, so that had he not have shrunk
from the steel he had been surely slsir?
aud she cried as she s:ruca: “l bus, Princ-’
1 pay thy kiss back.’ ’’
'Bat as It chanced, she only pierced
his arm, and before she could strike
again I had seized her by the hand.
Prince, throwing him/a’lf Into tWch.ir
* bad risen, ‘It is little to^
but at the game of pieces I have wit
t «n h v.*°Sr« d^Vif^*;
-
‘ I * ak ® t b® challenge,’cried Meriamnn
bim where she
wanted, bat I will take no odds. Here
is my wager. I will play thee three
games, and stake the sacred circlet noon
my brow, against the Royal uraeu.^n
. “ naV* T "ball wear both.’
.... “ a 7> Lady,’ I was told to sav
‘this were too high n stake.’
“ 'High or low, I accept the wager ’ an
awered the Prlnce. -This aiate/5f mtae
She shall find
that her woman ■ wit cannot match me
her by the hand.
‘“Thou serpent,’ said the Prince, n B J e
with rage and fear. ‘1 tell thee I will
kiss thee yet, whether thou wilt cr not
and thou siialt pay for this,’ ’
“Bat she laug .ed softly now that her
anger was spent, and I led him forth to
seek a phy sician, who should bind np his
wound. And when he was gone I re
turned and spoke to her, wringing my
“ On, Royal lady, what hast thou done*
Tnou knowest that thy divine father des
tines thee to wed the Prince of Kush
whom but now thon didst smite so
fiercely.*
j ‘‘‘Raj. Rei, I will none or him—the
doll clod, who is called the son of Pna
raoh. Moreover, he is my half brother
and It is not meet that I should w™d mr
brother. For nature cries aloud against
the custom of tbe lend.' against
‘‘‘Nevertheless, Lady, It is the custom
th * ^‘ber’s WUL
inns the gods, thine ancestors
wed; Isis to Osiris. Thus greaterhoth^
mes and Amenembat did and deontui
* nd ail their forefathers and all their
so. d. Oh, bethink thee—speak it for
thine ear, for I love thee asnilne
daughter—‘bethink thee, for th“u can2
not eecape, that Pharaoh’s bed i.
step to Fh^aoh’s ZX. Ttou tovmt
power; here ie the gate of merer
S^e’ ** *°“ 6 “ d thon *balt sit
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