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VOL. XXII.—No. 1076.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1896.
Price, $2.00 Per Year
THE GK.EJIT SOUTH.
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Its Magnificent Attractions in Agriculture,
Horticulture, Fruit Culture, Minerals,
Water Powers, Truck Farming,
Railroads, Churches, Public
Schools, Literature, and
the Hospitality of
the People.
the South; he has carefully selected his as
sistant in each of the grand divisions of the
State, who will be aided by the best and most
efficient committees that can be selected in
each of the divisions. It will not be as it has
heretofore been in the several great Exposi
tions or shows of the country, a scientific or
botanical showing, nor an artistic and decora
tive one, but it will be entirely a plain, prac
tical, business showing of the Tennessee
lumber markets and the territory from
which they draw.
OUR
BRILLIANT
COMPLETE IS ONE
SHORT STORIES
AND TWO ISSUES.
A STRANGE VINO’ ,*TI0N.
GOOD ADVICE.
E. S. Compton, of Newark, N. J., on a
recent visit to New Orleans in an interview
with a reporter of the Picayune, said :
“Here in Louisiana there are to-day lands
that are worth millions to the State from a
standpoint of fertility and excellence,
that are going to waste. People in the
North are afraid to come here, because
they have an erroneous idea of the place.
You should get before them, present
ing to them the fact that you have the
greatest natural agricultural country,
in the world and that your resources are
diversified and magnificent. No section
of the Union is better able to rightfully
claim the people than this. No section
is so poorly advertised and more thor
oughly misunderstood. Let the State
be pushed forward with the business
me^ yS that j,pply to the trar.rr ction
--tnashiSv^s x»f any
Says the Macon Telegraph : “Surely before
the opening of another fruit season in Georgia
the movement in favor of canneries will have
found greater favor with the people who are
most interested. Hundreds of thousands of
dollars can be saved to the State by a full
BY BEULAH R. STEVENS.
I T WAS during the night of the sudden
and terrible thunderstorm that there
were two horrible happenings in our
village. Old Mother Weston was
struck by the bolt that made that
storm an epoch in our town, and ren
dered her a physical and mental wreck for
/ firn.
pnva*
and tne results will be marvelous.
“When you have a good factory you
advertise it. Merchants advertise their
wares and why should not a State adver
tise its advantages? Every settler of
good character that you secure is an
additional means of enriching the State.
The taxes upon many are lighter than
the taxes upon a few, because there
are more to divide the burdens of gov
ernment among. The prosperity in a
community where every foot of ground
is made to produce something is greater
than in a community where the people
are few and the planting is a monopoly.
Get out and advertise that this is the
place to come to to find success and
easy business porsperity, and the people
will come with their goods and chat
tels to make an empire State of Louis
iana.”
If Louisiana and all the other South
ern States would take Mr. Compton’s
advice, and advertise their advantages
liberally and aggressively, the volume
of people and money and factories
now going South would be enormously
increased.
In an article on “Southern Cotton
Mills,” The Savannah News says:
“The mills of the South are virtually
in the midst of the cotton fields; they
can purchase their supplies at their very
doors, thus saving the cost of freights
and handling which the Northern mills
must pay. The hours of work are long
er in the South than the North ; fuel
is cheaper and not so much of it is
needed here as there. There are many
matters jn which the South has advan
tage; and Northern spinners are beginning to
recognize them by removing at least a pari
of their establishments to the South. Several
branches of Northern mills have been planted
in the South, and others are to follow.”
surprised and many heads ' were shaken over
the hasty marriage that took place only three
short months after.
There existed a strong prejudice among our
simple folk against Englishmen as husbands.
We believed them harsh and tyrannical and
we could not bear the thought of our sweet
Nell thus situated.
And the event proved our apprehensions
well founded, for, after a three months’ so
journ across the sea, there returned to us
Mrs. Roland Alleyne, no longer a bright and
laughing girl, but a cold reserved
woman. Surely naught but deep un
happiness could have thus changed our
dear girl. Her brown eyes, once so
soft and gay and saucy, were now
bright with a hard restless glitter fa
made my heart tm— , a i«°I 9-1
Her little h
roses faded
frail that
SOUTHERN VIEWS—A TYPICAL SOUTHERN SCENE.
There was never afforded to any line of bus
iness in any section of the country such an op
portunity for showing to business men, manu
facturers, capitalists and investors of a nation
what that special line had to offer, as will
be given to the lumber men and the timber-
land-owners of the South by the Tennessee
Centennial. A special department, for
estry, has been set apart for that purpose;
ample buildings will be provided. The chief
or head of that department is one of the best
informed and most successful lumber-men in
realization of the importance of good can
neries that will save the crop and keep the
money at home that now goes to California,
Delaware, and, in fact, to almost all the
States where fruit is produced and where the
people are saving and determined to make the
most of their opportunities.”
“The South is making it easy and profita
ble for the establishment of manufacturing
enterprises in that section,” declares the
Trenton (N. J.) American. “We notice that
an election held in Charleston, S. C., to de
termine whether factories established there
should be exempt from taxation for five years,
the question was carried in the affirmative
by almost a unanimous vote, only fifteen bal
lots being found in opposition to it.”
weeks; and in front of her little cottage was
found, next morning, the dead body of Roland
Alleyne with a knife penetrating his heart!
The murdered man was a young English
man who had come among us on mining
business and had fallen captive to the grace
and sweetness of Nell Hartley, the pride of
our town. Nell was an orphan that lived
with an aunt who fairly idolized her; had
it been otherwise, at least fifty homes would
have been open to her -and as many house
holds would have gladly welcomed her bright
presence as one of themselves.
I could not attempt to describe Nell’s
peculiar charm, but every one and everything
loved her,* so no one was surprised when
Roland Alleyne began paying her marked at
tention sdon after his arrival ; but all were
ent, but , -
question " ot compel you, ot course. I
from icy r ’* re to coe,ce Y ou * n anything, but
the color flJ n makes me ho P e that ? ou
in her eyes, A do in this - U is the ver - v best
of gxici—0* sname ; but she answered
never a word.
And no one ever heard a complaint
from her lips. Alleyne had built a
beautiful little cottage just after their
marriage and furnished it luxuriously,
while a corps of trained servants
brought over from England left no
duties to burden the young wife.
In my lonely old maidenhood I
thought this very lack of occupation
might be, in part, the cause of Nell’s
unhappiness, though it certainly could
not be all; and I looked forward to
the coming of her baby as likelyto give
us back our gentle, laughing, impul
sive Nell in the place of this silent,
stately, haughty young matron.
But, after Baby Burton came, things
only seemed the worse. All expression
died out of Nell’s eyes save!! one of
perpetual fear, andwhen baby breathed
out its little life in my arms, only six
short weeks after it came, Nell knelt
by its side watching it with agonized
eyes ; and, though I knew her heart was
breaking at its loss, she shed never a
tear, but crossed its tiny, waxen hands
upon its breast and, raising her dry,
bright eyes to heaven, thanked God for
her baby’s death ! I began to think she
was losing her mind.
Presently, strange stories began to
circulate in a subdued, indefinite way
concerning Alleyne’s treatment of her;
and feeling against him and sympa
thy for her grew stronger and stronger,
till, when his sudden taking off came
about, there was but one sentiment
concerning the event.
But, when I was told that the knife
found in his heart was the one Nell
used to pruneher roses, my heart stood still
and I thoughtl was go. ig to faint for the first
time in my calm, uneventful existence. For
I feared tnat my dear girl’s mind had given
way at last and that—but I would not even
think of it!
However, I was not greatly surprised when
I heard that Nell was in custody, charged
with the murder of her husband, nor that
our prosecuting attorney Lambert had im
mediately resigned his position. He had
loved Nell all her life and he would not run
the risk of having to ferret out evidence to
hang her. It was no easy matter to fill his
place, for many were withheld by the same
reason, but finally a sharp young lawyer who
was a comparative stranger among us took
the position.
