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The Sunny South Is thm oldest meekly paper of Literature,
Romance, Pad and PlAlon In the South dk It le neat re*
Jtored to the original shape and will be published as for*
merly every week AT Pounded In IS7S It grew until 1599,
when, as a monthly. Its form was changed as an eaperi*
ment & It now returns to Its original formation as a
meekly with renewed vigor and the Intention of eellps*
tng Its most promising period In the past,
Jire Ranks of Crime Re*
cruited by Fatigue?
RESIDENT-H. C. KING, of Oberlin
college has advanced an interesting
theory to account for the predomi
nance of crime on Saturday night,
holding that the notable outbursts
of the criminal tendency in town
and country at the week's end may
be largely ascribed to the presence
of intense mental and bodily fa
tigue. This hypothesis has been of
fered before to explain the some
what odd fact alluded to, though
President King’s emphatic state
ments, in view of the current cru-
1 enjoyment, and he does not REALIZE the folly
and consequent disaster from the infraction
of moral or man-made statutes. Once teach him
these things in conjunction with a strong body and
you will see the crime-rate diminish radically. Other
wise his powerful physique is merely made to serve
the pernicious function of supporting the possibil
ity of protracted debauches, probably opening the
way to the entrance of criminal impulses.
Undoubtedly, however, much may be done to
promote the morality of the weaker class we have
mentioned, by the introduction of sensible recrea
tion measures. In fact, every single class of inhab
itant benefits by such a course, for it is a well-
known principle that the exhausted man and wom
an. no matter of what physique, not only suffers a
diminution of working ability'', but gains undesira
ble traits in a sharpness and a petulance which tes
tify eloquently to jangled nerves and overworked
work and leisure, will attract re-|—
ncwed attention. "In times of mental fatigue,” hej fii
sade in favor of healthier modes of aiu j fondle and bite and scratcli like a cat. because
they can. How many of us know people who
their conversation and letters are constantly
says, “the higher brain centers are the first to!.striving after the bombastic, coining long and in
give way. It is, therefore, no mystery that the; yolved sentences, utilizing abstruse and foolish
iccord of Saturday night is a tragic one. The man terms with the avowed purpose of startling the un-
who is fatigued is not so able to withstand tenipta- j mitiated or of giving shallow folk the impression
tion as the man who has an abundance of nervous of smartness? And how many of us, on the other
nergy in store.” The same general reasoning will hand, are acquainted with a handful of people who
apply to physical exhaustion, varying, of course, |
with the degree and the variety. It is our belief!
that this theorv is workable up to a certain limit,)
varying with the temperaments and the systems
of different men and women.
Take, for instance, a man whose work is en-j
tirely sedentary, let ns say of a clerical nature,
and that he looks on it only as a means for earning! drift into florescent figures of speech that we can-
his bread. Ii requires no special gilt of logic to] not resist the temptation, and—we pay the penalty,
foresee that this sort of man will let his thoughts
Uncle Sam Is
Their Father Confessor
(From The New York Tribune.)
GUILTY conscience need3
no accuser” Is an adage
that is not believed by of
ficials of the treasury de
partment. They are of
the opinion that the guilty
conscience does need a lit
tle prodding once In a
while to cause the owner
to repent and make
amends. As proof of this
contention they point with
pride to the so-called ‘‘con
science fund.” which witn-
in the last century has gathered in near
ly $600,000 for thc^overnment’s pocket-
book. But for the fact that'this mythl-
faculties. C ai “fund” has been referred to from
Looked at from any standpoint, therefore, the! time to time in the newspapers, the cin-
statements of President King and the remedy sug-J ciais believe, scarcely one-tenth of the
eested bv implication, contain a strong element hu « e sum mentioned would iimve been
* j sent to the treasury. The frequent prmt-
of logic. | i nig; the mere words “conscience fund
I is an accusation to every person who
„ at. some period In his life lias defrauded
Uncle Sam. The constant appearance of
dispatches from Washington giving ac
counts of unknown persons in various
parts of the country sending “conscience
contributions” to the secretary of the
treasury is the most eloquent of invita
tions to other guilty ones to “pay up
and make your peace with your con
science and your country.”
The person wfho sends the amount of
lis debt to the “conscience fund" learns
that no effort will be made by the author
ities to discover his or her identity or
to exact punishment for the original
crime tie feels that by thus making
restitution he will not only be forgiven
lor his for.nei misdeeds, but wiii be able!
to look the world in the face once more,
.-deep better- and get more enjoyment out
of life. He is right in diierishin© these
beliefs, for the government officials will
make no attempt to resurrect his past,
and there is no doubt whatever that his
own conscience will reward lum for doing
■the square thing.
CALLED “MISCELLANEOUS RE
CEIPTS.” j
If you ask a treasury official for tne
office of tile “conscience fund” lie will I
.‘•mile and say* “Co to the public moneys
division ’’ At tli: public moneys division
you will bo told that there is no such |
thing as the "conscience fund,” but tliutj
the money received from the owners of i
troublesome consciences is turned into j
tlhe general treasury under the head of
•'■miscellaneous receipts.” For the sake
of accuracy, and also to help along the
wholesome fiction, a record is kept ot !
every cent thus received, and, as long j
as the treasury department keeps a se T i
of books, entries will be made of such j
contributions under the “conscience j
fund” caption. President .Madison re
ceived in IS I I a sum of money from some !
repentant sinner who wished to make ]
restitution of stolen money. Then and
there the fund
been in mythical existence ever since.
No sum is too largo or too small for
entry 'in the record. Just as much
I ains are
Adjectivitis and the Use of
Eloquence
ORDS are the counters of wise men
—they do but reckon by them,
but they are the money of fools.”
Many of our friends will disagree
with this rather sharp assertion,
since we live, to use execrable
slang, in an age wherein “hot air”
plays a very conspicuous part. And
yet when we consider the woeful
waste of verbiage employed by
many people daily in expressing
their thoughts, we are apt to lean
toward simplicity in language as
well as in life. Many men make
language leap and writhe and purr
have the rare faculty of expressing themselves in
that comapet, unaffected and yet graphic style
which tells what it has to say and is quiet ? Many
of ns are too prone to the maudlin metaphor, the
knock-kneed simile or the hysterical hyperbole.
We mistake sound for eloquence and melodrama
for effectiveness. It comes so easilv, at times, to
Along' the Highway
By FRANK L. STANTON
J
LOVE'S CONSOLATION.
I.
Well, my fate has come to this:
Married o'er my station,
But I had her first, sweet kiss:
That’s my consolation!
II.
In a twilight, all divine
As those stars above you,
Leaned her rose-red lips to mine—
Whispered sweet, “I love you!”
III.
What more could I ask of Fpte,
That gives fame and glory,
Than in lilies at Love’s gate
Just to hear that story?
IV.
Story, ever sweet and dear,—
All Life’s riches given!
It was worth a world to hear,
And the stars of heaven!
V.
Then I passed from night, to light
With Love’s first caresses;
All earth’s gold was mine of right
With her golden tresses!
VI.
Though her smile through Life I
miss,
’Twas a soul’s salvation!
For I knew her first, sweet kiss; —
That’s my consolation!
may swaller it; spen’ it on y oJe’f.
dev'll say you a fool, th ow it Y*
% a bigger fool still; f/e it ter de
po’ en needy, you don t ,g^e ha
enough- give all—you sho mus be
crazy My, my,—but money is trou
ble!”
this ghostly night.
I.
This ghostly night God sends
rain.
Lit by lightning, wlitere, alone,
The bitter cup of Life I drain.
And hear the Darkness moan:
“Alone, alone, alone!
After the years,
The toil—the tears,
Alone, alone alone!”
the
II.
night,
when Life but
LITERARY NOTES.
“You call that fellow, with the
close-cropped hair, a poet?”
"That’s what.”
“My, my! I took him for a plain,
human, sensible business man!”
This ghostly
craves
Of God s peace to be comforted.
The growling thunder shakes the
graves
That hide the heart’s dear dead:
“Alone, alone, alone!
After the years,
The toil—the tears,
Alone, alone, alone!”
III.
This ghostly night. God sends to me,
I walk as in a land unknown:
The bells—the bells of Memory.—
And Memory to moan:
“Alone, alone, alone-
After the years,
The toil—the tears,
Alone, alone, alone!”
LOG CABIN PHILOSOPHY.
Good idea to take the world as you
Mr. James Whitcomb Riley saysjfj nd } t —but lots of us waste the time
he writes laboriously. But, come to growling because we can’t find it all. I*)" ... ,
tbiTiir 4f i.n’t b I dis positioned
Poverty rails at the rich: but give
it riches, and it’s the first to hop into
an automobile and ride over crea
tion.
IShe Busy World
At any moment an epoch-making navni
battle may occur in the China sea be-
tween, the fleets of Rojestvensky d |, d
Togo. It is reported that the Russian
combined fleet, composed of forty. lWlJ
vessels of various descriptions has pa.ssea
through the straits of Malacca and i a
heading toward Vladivostok. The when..
«bouts of Togo's vessels Is a mystery, the
presumption being that they arc nearing
those of tlie enemy.
HE statement has
been made on fx-H.
lent authority that a
matrimonial u lar.
between King Al
fonso XI11 of gp-ii,.
and the Princess
Patricia of Con
naught has been
satisfactorily ar-
ranged. Negotiations
have been pending,
it Is said, for some
time. King Ed-
Jting Alfonso ward's consent ^
given promptly, and the duke of Con
naught recently went to Madrid to dis
cuss the proposed alliance with m 'nlc r-
or the royal family of Spain. All ar
rangements were satisfactorily made,
even to the securing of a disp*- *atinn
from the pope which permitted Kin?
Alfonso to marry a Protestant. The di-
pensation was granted on the personal
j solicitation of the duke and duchess
Connaught, who visited the pope for that
purpose. According to the terms Fro ......
Patricia is to have perfect freedom ,
her religion. She will be neither asked
nor forced to become a Catholic. Any
sons that may he horn to the royal
! are to be reared in their father s
i while any daughters will be brougi :p
j as Protestants. Princess Patricia is th*
! youngest daughter of the duke of
! naught and Strathearn. brother to King
! Edward. Stic was born in Buekiua om
j palace March 17. 1886. As roya!
• princesses go she ic attractive in fa**®
think of it, writing isn’t exactly as
easy as falling off a log.
constantly wander toward recreation and pleasure, ;ourse usually winds up by paying more attention
even while lie is supposed to be delivering his time j to the husk than the kernel. When that becomes
to his employer. With the arrival of Saturday] the case, we find that thought is invariably sacri-
night and the coming emancipation for one dayjficed for a foolish dramatic effect, and that the
from the obligation of toil, he is apt to make plans] mentality of the individual steadily declines in iW
more or less uproarious ^ for the spending of the! ability to deal clearly with real problems or otltfbrs
evening and perhaps the ensuing day.
than the maudlin ones erected by the mind per-
For the person who persistently follows such a
' that some schoolboy sends to make pe.v.'e
with his inner self as with the fat roll
of bank notes some wealthy importer
semis to silence the “still small voice”
within iiis portly breast.
As soon as money for the “conscience
fund” is received «at the treasury depart
ment, Secretary sfeiw orders a 1 little item
placed upon the bulletin beard in Ins
cuter office. The newspaper correspond
ents, who igo tine rounds of the various
offices in the treasury building, invaria
bly make note of the case and tints the
news of a good example is sent broad
cast to the world.
On February 26 last Sccietary Show
found In his morning’s mail a letter con
taining 15 cents, rt read as follows:
“Inclosed you will find 15 cents, which
T send to pay for two slate pencils which
. ,1 believe I took from an Indian agency
By tins, we do not mean to disparage true elo-j located at that time at Colton, cai.
this hard commercial era! This ' ViU5 done when i was a small boy
more romantic ones. But our
Whether this particular species possess the phys-j verted into the habit of straining constantly after
ical strength and force of will of a prodigy, it is j external effect. Such a man, moreover, does not
extremely improbable that he will SEEK to resist] long delude his friends or the strangers he meets
the temptation toward dissipation. 1 hat is the; in his daily routine. They take his measure in
trouble in a nutshell. I he DESIRE for right liv- comparatively short order, and are not long in ar-
ing is missing, or present in such diluted measure: riving at the conclusion that his utterances are
as to afford little incentive. So that with the com-j apt to be “full of sound and fury, signifying noth
ing of the first impulse to vice or crime there! ing.”
as <apt to be easy compliance, since the barriers
erected against their entrance are purely incidental.) quence. It has its uses in
But there is another class, just as distinctly out-l just as it did in the mor
j T ^. . . , J _ '| *i. u piuuuui.i moir Liio.il mat. i
lined, and we presume 1 resident King had its| definition of eloquence has changed radically. We sent the money to the Indian agency
PLANTATION SONG.
Mister Lizard in de sun.
Lookin’ mighty cunnin’;
Mister Blacksnake on de run—
Who kin beat him runnin’T
Hot times in Dixie—
Hot times, I say!
But cut de watermillion.
Bn gimme holiday!
Mister Black Crow in de fiel’
Whar de corn is cookin':
He de feller what kin steal
W’en you ain’t a-lookin”!
Hot. times in Georgy—
Hot times, I say!
Bur, cut de watermillion,
En gimme holiday!
“MONEY IS TROUBLE.”
Here’s a sable philosopher’s idea of
tartcd and it has | money, and it will do to paste in your
hat:
“Mighty hard thing ter know what,
ter do wid yo’ money. Put it in de
taken wifin the three stamps ! bank, en de bank liable ter bust wid
it; bury it in de groun’, a earthquake
Heaven is pretty much as we imag
ine it. Just think you’re happy, and
you’ll be able to shout “Halleluia” on
the stormy banks of Jordan.
We’re always looking for the lion
in the way, but when we get to where
we think he is, it is only to find that
he hasn't escaped from the circus
yet.
AVealtli doesn't bring happiness, but. i
i:, makes a man feel like he's a live j
proposition, and six inches taller than {
a bill collector.
IN GREEN FIELDS.
'•
Out in green fields, with a blue sky i
above you—
Why should you care, if the world i
doesn’t love you?
Singin’ away
In the light, o’ the day.
young woman who w. 1
make an excellent queen for the kir '
Spain, who has been searching for
suitable consort for the past coup!
years. I.ike others of the royal fan:: »-
of Europe. neither King Alton.--"
Princess Patricia has been consulted t,
any considerable extent in the making ‘
the alliance. It is believed, how . -
that of all the eligibles of the royal ho .
of Europe Princess Patricia will be
most congenial to the young king. T
wedding is destined to be a gorge"
affair.
LETTER has h-■
received from M
Aim<i» Tourgee n:
pouncing tlie criti
illness of her fath .
Judge Albion tv
Tourgee. Ameri
consul at Bordeaux.
France. Little hoj
she writes, is entt
tained for his reci
ery. Judge Tours
is a southerner w
lias made a reputa
tion in literary ,-i-
well. as political fields. He Is well know
Judge Tourgee
And April a-shakin’ his bright curls | throughout this section in both capacitl
at May!
Georgia’s Forgotten City;
North Carolina's Mysterious Mineral Gusher
{about 16 years old, or something near
It probably was more than that. I
members more especially in mind in making hi
declarations. 'I hev are more or less neurasthenic
or frail of constitution, though their ideals are wcil
S; no longer regard it as a shower of meaningless j*
I phrases and verbiage to which real thought it sub
sidiary. Nowadays eloquence is verbiage subordi
defined and the desire for plain living and righteous nated to thought, using it simply as a vehicle and.
action is strong. Let Saturday night come, how
ever, with its relaxation and the tired body and
brain is in a fit condition to accept whatever mis
chievous suggestions chance may throw in the
way. The power of mental and spiritual resistance
is at a low ebb, and. since it is a notable fact that
the weary man loses much of his sense of moral
perspective, lie i> in great danger of more or less
serious lapses.
It is from this class that the cohorts of vice and
crime exact their largest toll of recruits. The man
whose ideals are high and whose will is strong
puts up a strong fight against allurements, even
though he be of feeble physical caliber.
at that, the plainest sort of vehicle. No more apt
definition of this condition may be found than in
Tom Reed's terse epigram, “Eloquence is logic, on
fire.” In the old days, eloquence was language on
lire.
So. if you are afflicted or threatened with adjec
tivitis. watch your symptoms scrupulously and ap
ply th'e check-rein remorselessly. Business men of
today have little or no use for surplusage of words.
Short, sharp, dry and to the point is the way
they want their language served. They are tenfold
more quickly impresed by the man who uses only
the simplest, homeliest of words than he who lugs
1 into his conversation words bristling with syllables
It seems to us that the most imperative needs of: or those so rarely used in ordinary parlance as to
our modern society comprise the joint inculcation he practically unintelligible to the average man.
of exalted ideals and self-control. For instance,
the herculean day-laborer does not lack physical
reserve force, but lie is tatally handicapped because
lie does not KNOW the value of higher forms of! own or another’s making.
Johnsonese is all right in the abstract, but it is a
drug on the market when you try to sell goods as
well as when you attempt to peddle a book of your
Milk Goat To Be Made Subject of Federal Experiment
1 department of agricul
ture lias recently turned
its attention to milk goats,
which form the subject of
an interesting bulletin just
that tiie gout is really of interest to both
classes of citizens.
In regard to the number of goats and
milk production abroad it may be said
that in Germany there are now kept
3,000,000, whose value is $12,000,000,
issued, of which Professor j an< * their annual production in milk.
George F. Thompson is the
author. The bulletin has
been compiled after a
a j y great deal of research an!
A ’ jjk correspondence with for
eign countries and prom
ises to add another valu
able animal to The farm
end help considerably the poorer classes
in the cities that can not afford to keep
a cow.
It may seem strange that the milk goat
should he expected to appeal both to the
very rieli and the very poor, hut such is
the case. There are at present practical
ly no milk goats in this country, except
such as are kept by a few of the Immi
grant settlers wflo are use! to them at
home.
The faat is that the goat is the poor
man s cow, and she is a much better
milk gfver than the cow, considering the
amount of food she consumes. A poor
family can keep a goat and have plenty
of milk, better than cow’s milk, for about
an eighth or a seventh of the money It
costs to keep a cow. At the same time
goat's milk is coming more and more
into favor with physicians as food for In
fants and invalids who can afford- it. and
properly prepared goafs milk such as
physicians ffould order for a well to do
patient will fetch from 12 to 25 cents a
quart in the market today. So it is seen ' of the'miik flow
hides and the meat of goats slaughtered
reaches the enormous total of $39,000,-
000. Switzerland, which is only about
half the size of Indiana, produces annu
ally 19,875,000 gallons a%’ goats’ milk,
valued roughly at $8,000,000. This will
show that the goat is hot to be over
looked as an economic faytor.
There arc some other things about goat
dairies that are not known by the gen
eral public. Goafs milk is richer in su
gar and cream and has less water than
ordinary cow’s milk. It is a better food
for infants and Invalids, and for that
reason brings higher prices where it
can be procured. And it has nothing to
distinguish it from cow's milk, except
I that it is better if the goats are cleanly
' kept and properly fed and milked. All
these subjects are gone into in'"(letail in
the department's report.
It has not been proved that the goal
is absolutely free from tuberculosis, but
it is so nearly so that this is another
reason its milk is recommended for ba
bies and for the sick. Compared with the
cow. which Is responsible for so much
of the spread of consumption, the goat
may be said to bo absolutely Immune
from this disease.
Now, as to the value of goat dairy
farming, for the main question in Ameri
ca with any question is whether it will
pa?, it may be said that the milk goat
from good stock will give as much as
4 quarts of milk a day. This is the aver
age of the Swiss goats and many of
day with three milkings. But of all the
varieties of goats, the Nubian is the best
milker, giving from 5 to 12 quarts daily.
The goats that arc bred for milk remain
productive for from eight to eleven
months, but that is twice or three limes
as long as could be expected of the na
tive breeds here.
There is also the question' of goat
cheese to be, considered in the future,
but at present there are no goat cheese
factories in this country. It may be said,
however, that goat's milk Is largely and
sometimes exclusively used In fancy
chees ami there are gept near Ly
ons. France, 12.000 goats, furnishing
milk for the cheese factories there, while
at Mount d'Or there are no less than
15,000 goats kept for the same purpose.
It is perhaps unfortunate that there are
hardly any milk goats in America and
they are more or less hard and difficult
to get. An American goat that would
give 2 quarts of milk daily and stay
“fresh” for four months would be enn-
sldered a good animal. A smaller pro
duction than that would hardly be worth
considering. There were about twenty-
five head of good milk goats imported
from Switzerland to the United States
recently. Just before the quarantine law
was passed against that country on ac
count of foot-and-mouth disease. Now
there are no more to be had from that
region-
The department of agriculture is pre
paring to import some goats direct from
Malta, where there is a good breed, but
they will not be available for some time
and when they are will be kept for study
and experiment and not for profit.'
If will be seen that the milk goat is
reajjy worth considering seriously as a
factor in American farm and -city life.
them go as high as 5 quarts. There is a i and there is small doubt, that the de-
l-eeord of a Lanflanzner goat, which is j part ment of agriculture Will he able to
one of the good milk breeds, which gave j do as much for the farmer In that line.
1.900 quarts a year, and at the helgTU as it has done with the angoraT—Chicago
r was giving 10 quarts at Chronicle. i
at San Jacinto, Cal., but it was sent ]
back to me. I do this because I be
lieve it is God's will. I hope you will
dispose of tlie amount so that it will
go to the proper place.”
A few days after the receipt of this
letter, or, to be accurate, on March 14,
a somewhat larger contribution to tlie
“conscience fund" came in tlie mail to
tlie secretary. The missive which ac
companied the cash did not tell how
the money was taken originally from
the government, but it was just as elo
quent of a desire to make amends, as
the following will show:
; “I am sending you herewith inclosed
i $12,000, which is to go to the use of the
United States government. Years ago
I defrauded the government, but have
returned it all, and now tun paying four
fold in accordance with tlie scriptures.
The way of the transgressor is hard and
no one but fGod knows how I have suf
fered the consequences and would ask
to do a bountiful restoration. May God
pardon while the United States is bene
fited. A Sinner.”
Tlie postmark upon tlie package con
taining the $12,000 was very badly
blurred. Some of the clerks in the sec
retary's office were of the opinion that
it had been postmarked New York, while
others believed that it came from New
ark, N. J., but there is no doubt about
tlie amount of money nor of the quality
of the bills, which were mostly of $50
and $100 denominations. The $12,000
contribution was the largest ever re
ceived with one exception. The record
was made in 1896, when United States
Consul General Patrick Collins, of Lon
don, transmitted to tlie secretary of the
treasury $14,225.15. which had been
given to him by Rev. Prebendary Barff,
vicar of St. Giles’ church in one of the
suburbs of the English metropolis. The
vicar informed Consul General Collins
that one of his parishoners had handed
him the money with the simple request
that it be sent to the United States gov
ernment. Although the papers at the
time were filled with speculations by
various authorities who advanced va
rious theories 'to acount for the
“conscience contribution.” nothing defi
nite was ever learned either of the
conscience-smitten person or of tlie theft
or fraud that lie had committed. It was
generally supposed that the sender of
the money had at sonic time defrauded
the government through the customs bu
reau, anil the same explanation is now
held in regard to the $12,000 package
that came to the department on March
14.
REVIVAL8 INDUCE REPENTANCE.
Many contributions received at the
treasury department are apparently due
to recent conversion at revivals or camp
meetings. These are almost always
signed “A Penitent,” “A Sinner” or ”A
Lost Soul.” The fair sex Is especially
given to confession and feminine con
tributions are nearly always accompa
nied by long letters telling in detail how
they smuggled their diamonds, laces and
gifts to friends In the country without
By HELEN HARCOURT.
Written for &/>e Sunny South
^ YERYBODY knows that
there is In south Georgia
a busy, enterprising lit
tie town called Valdosta.
Everybody does not know,
however, tlhat there is, 10
miles north of Valdosta
dead, ancient town
city, In ^harp contrast to
the living, modern town.
It is. fn very truth, a for
gotten city. All trace of
what it once was, has Ion,
since passed away, except
long lines of noble oaks, set in parallel
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rows about 30 miles apart, and extend
ing for nearly a mile. Each street of
this ancient town is thus laid out. They
were evidently about 40 feet wide, and
intersected each other at right angles.
There were many of these streets, for
the town was fully a mile square. These
hoary old oak 'trees show their great
age. towering heavenward far above
other trees near by, that are yet very
far from being in their infancy. The
graceful gray moss drooping from their
outspread branches, rests gently on the
tops of the smaller trees, as though laid
upon them in benediction.
The ■western end of this forgotten city
overlooks a htgh bluff, at the foot of
which tlhe Oeklacoocliee river flows on its
winding course. For ages the waters
have been busy at the foot of the bluff,
washing away huge pieces of the sand
stone of which it is composed, and mak
ing its way up into the streets that were
nearest the stream. Whatsoever race
located and built this ancient city, had
on eye both to beauty and defense. T'he
river just there makes a sharp bend in
the shape of a crescent, encircling the
town site. From a point just above the
most northern line of trees, and extend
ing in a semi-circle a little below the
southern boundary, may still be traced a
line of earthworks. This line was plain
ly the ancient wall that defended the
town, and is one of the few known in
stances of walled towns in wha't is
now the United States. In some places
this old wall is still easily to be traced,
in others it can scarcely be distinguished.
Its entire lenigth can be followed all
through the piney woods on that ;«ide.
Immense trees of yellow pine have sprung
up (from the broken summits of the
wall, thus proving, if further proof were
needed, the great antiquity of the crumb
ling- structure.
A MYSTERIOUS MOUND.
On the bank of t lie Ocklacoochee, about
half way of tlhe crescent bend, rises
huge mound. Huge now, even after ages
of crumbling away, but showing plainly
that it has once been still more huge.
Why it was put there, and when and by
whom the immense amount of work was
done, no one knows, no one can even
hazard a theory on the subject. Theo
ries must have a starting! point, a basis.
Here there is neither. TBiis big mound
is a fine field for the 'researches of an
tiquaries and savants. The wonder is
that it has not long since been dug into
and thoroughly explored. Who built that
town.? Who planted the shade trees,
erected the defensive wall, and 'heaped
up that wondrous mound? Echo answers
“Who?" No one knows. History does
not give us the very least hint of the
answer to those questions. No one
knows. Perhaps some day the govern
ment savants will roll up their sleeves,
and go delving below until they get
at tlie iheart of this mystery, and, then,
perhaps, we. too. shall know all about it.
This forgotten city was as much of a
mystery to the Creek Indians who lived
thereabouts for many generations, as to
their successors, the whites. The Indians
were removed by the government in the
thirties, but the country was not so fer
tile as to attract a large number of set
tlers, and as this condition obtains stin,
it is even now but thinly settled. The
Creeks had no town or village of their
own anywhere near this old town. In
truth, they were afraid of it as the
abode of spirits^ whether good or evil,
they knew not, but either way it was i
place to be avoided. Their hunters
would not go near it, and the wild ani
mals who sought refuge within the
bounds of the forgotten city, were per
fectly safe from pursuit. The old Indian
lore was full of traditions, but there was
never one word about this strange spot.
But from time to time, tangible evi
dences, beyond the walls and streets have
been found that an alien race once had
its being here. Bits of ancient pottery,
of styles and skill unknown to the Indi
ans, and queer stone implements, with
flint knives and arrowheads. These have
been found along the bluffs, and were
He has lived north in recent year.:
Washington much of the time.
Following is the respective strength of
the Japanese and Russian vessels abe ..
to clash In the Far East:
Alikasa—Flagship: 15,200 tons; foui
inch guns; fourteen 6-inch guns, Sy .
officers and men.
Asahi—New; 15,200 tons; four 12-in
guns; fourteen 6-inch guns; 750 oflicr
and men.
Shikshima—New: 14.850 tons: four 12
inch guns; fourteen 6-inch guns; 741 or
fleers and men.
Fuji— Mew: 12.320 tons; four 12-in ”
guns; ten 6-inch guns; 60 officers a .
men.
ADSU.MA, newt 9.435
ions; four 8-m h
guns; twelve 6-in Ii
guns; 482 officers
and men.
Taknmo—New; 9-
850 tons; four 8-inch
s uns
: twelve
6-ill" :
guns
600
"ffii
and
men.
Iw<
ite—Ne w;
9,750
tons;
four
8-1 ii h
gruns
: twelve
S-im
guns
672
office ■
and
men.
Jdsumo—New; 9.750 tons;
strange to the Indian tribes, strange to jtwelve 6-inch
everyone of them, who inhabited America
at the time when it was discovered bv
Columbus.
It is not alone within the bounds of
this anciexit city that strange things may
be seen. Trending to the northeast for
ten or fifteen miles, are regular crescent
shaped embankments, about three-quar
ters of a mile apart. Their convex sides
always face towards the northeast, and
the inside of the semi-circle partly in
closes three mounds, a larger one near
the embankment, and two smaller ones
at short distances, ranged in a direct
line from northeast to southwest. These
embankments represent an immense
amount of labor, being from one-half to
three-quarters of a mite sq length. They
are as mysterious as tlie forgotten city
itself. Did they mark the approach :o
some great temple, or palace, or were
they erected as a monument to a great
victory? Some day, perhaps, our savants
will tell us all about these also.
But even yet, we are not done with the
mysteries of this strange section of tic
country. Five miles above the forgotten
city is another puzzle, hut this time it
is one o£_ nature's making without the
help of man. It may, or may not, have
had something to do with the location of
its neighbor, the ancient city. Certain
It is that the wonder of it has perplexe i
the brains of the many generations of
white men who have lived thereabouts.
At the point named, 5 miles above the
forgotten town, the Ocklacoochee river is
about 600 feet wide, and flows over a
bed of quicksand. Then comes a long
stretch of swamp, and then a steep bluff.
At the edge pf the latter, a part of the
river, some hundred and fifty feet wide,
leaves the main current, flows directly
eastward at right angles to tlie course
of the river, and plunges into a cavern, in
the face o£ a hill that is at least 100
feet high.
From time to time vain attempts have
been made to thoroughly explore this
weird retreat of the waters. One cour
ageous man succeeded in penetrating the
cave to a depth of 300 yards. In tra
versing this short distance, he passed
through a series of spacious chambers,
connected by narrow galleries through
which the water roared - and dashed at
headlong speed.' The course of this un
derground stream is marked by a suc
cession of sink holes for over a mile.
Then these cease, but a few miles lower
down, on the opposite side of the river,
a great limestone spring bursts out upon
the surface. As a rule, the water of this
spring is as clear as crystal. Whenever
there is an unusual freshet, however,
the water becomes clouded, so that it
would seem that the underground stream
from which the spring emerges must have
some surface connection. This mystcri-
four 8-inrh
672 office: -
four 8-in.-1
500 officer-
four 8-inch
482 offices
CONTINUED ON NINTH PAGE.
and men.
Takiwa—New: 9.750 tons
guns; twelve 6-in’h guns;
and men.
Asama—New: 9.750 tons;
guns; twelve 6-inch guns:
and men.
PROTECTED CRUISERS.
Kasagi—5.416 tons; two 8-inch gun*:
ten 4.7-inoh guns: 405 officers and iiipii./
Cliitose—4.760 tons: T Lrt 7 ”-
ten 4.7-ireh guns: 405' officers and men.
Itsukoshima—4.277 tons; one 12.5 in’ :
gun, eleven 4.7-inch guns; 350 officers
and men.
Hashidate—4.277 tons; one 12.5-ir’h
gun; eleven 4.7-inc-h guns; 350 offn *
and men.
Natsushfma—4.277 tons; one 12.5-in-h
gun; eleven 4.7-inch guns; 350 offi "=
and men.
Takasago—4.160 tons: two 8-inch gu:
ten 4.7-inch guns: 365 officers and in- ’
Naniwa— Old; 3.650 tons: two lO-ijch
guns; six 5.9-inch guns; 350 officers and
men.
Takashiho— Old; 3.700 tons: two 10 2-
lnrh guns, six 5.9-inch guns; 665 of
ficers and men.
RIJSR1AM BATTLESHIPS.
KNIAZ SIJVAROrf.
Flagship; 13.515
tons; . four 12-ineh
guns; twelve 6-ineh
guns, 740 officers
and men.
ALEXANDER Ilf
—New; 13,600 tons:
four 12-inch guns,
twelve 6-ineh gun*,
twenty 3-inch guns;
740 officers and men.
BORODINO—XV w;
13.600 tons; four 12-
• inch guns, twelve 6-
inch guns, twenty 3-inch guns; 740 of
ficers and men.
Orel—New; 13,600 tons; four 12-inch
guns; twelve 6-inch guns; 740 officers
and men.
Oslabia—Old: 12.674 tons; four 10-inch
guns: eleven 6-inch guns: sixteen 3-ineh
guns: 732 officers and men.
Sissoi Veliki—Old. launched in IS94.
8.880 tons: four 12-inoli guns, six 6-
ineh guns; 590 officers and men.
Navarin—Old. launched in 1891; 10.205
tons; four 12-ipch guns, eight 6-in -h
guns; 630 officers and men.
CRUISERS.
Aurora—New; 6.630 tons; eight 6-ineh
guns: twenty 3-inch guns; 422 officers
and men.
Admiral Nacliimoff—Old, but rebuilt;
two 8-lnch guns; fourteen 6-ineh guns;
425 officers and men.
Dmitri Donskoi—Old and rebuilt; 5.882
tons; two 8-ineh guns; fourteen 6-inch
guns; 418 officers a;sd men.
Jemtciiug—New; 3,400 tons; six 4 7- ’
inch guns; eight 1.8-inch guns; 340 of
ficers and men.
Svtetlanct—•flH; 3,828 tons: six 5,»-
inch guns; ten I.S-inch gunA; 360 officers
and men.
Almaz—New: 2.385 tons; six 4.7-inch
guns; eight 1.8-inrb guns; 340 officers
and men.