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basket on her
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the corner mar-
ket to buy her
Thanksgiving dinner.
The
basket was ah-
piM** R Miss surdly Mattie small, but
jJ was
little herself,
J,f and when she
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uml stood blink-
light, the calf’s head ing in the bright
at her elbow
“nm'Vir* \ <■ Miss Mattie, grinning called at them out both, the
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tnai Let man, in liis hearty fashion,
“I see your mind is not set onn tur-
key this time, hilt just wait till I start
tins Basket off for Cap’n Lawson’s and
I’ll show you the right thing—a
plump little duck I Clapped into the
sam this morning, thinking to myself
that’s the very moral of a treat for
Miss Mattie.”
Miss Mattie looked embarrassed
and rubbed her forefinger uneasily
over a small coin that lay in the palm
of her hand under her glove. It was
a silver five-cent piece, and she had
taken it with much hesitation from a
little store of pieces, most of them
given her when she was a child. For
herself she could have got along very
wdl with bread and tea, but somehow
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it seemed a dishonor to all her happy
Thanksgiving; past not to have something special on
and so she had a feel-
ing of real pity for it, lying there
warm and snug in her palm, and so
soon clashing, to go tumbling into the heap of
by jingling coins tossed about
the butcher’s greasy fingers, or
perhaps into the pocket of that hor-
riblo apron Avitli blood-stains on it.
Miss Mattie shuddered, but quickly
recovered herself to say, cheerfully:
“Oh, thank you, Mr. Simmons; but
don’t you think ducks are a sight of
trouble, Avhsvt with the stuffing and the
roasting and needing to be looked
after and basted regular? I made up
my .loin mind to something W’. simple, aud I
kno „ easier got
or more relishing than lamb chops,
Two lamb chops is about what .1
thought of. M, Simmons. You know
there's only me.”
Mr. Simmons had not seen the five-
cent piece, but he understood just as
w ell as if lie had, and lie began to cut
the chops at once, talking all the time
to relieve liis ow n embarrassment and
assuring Miss Mattie that “if folks
only knew it, there w as nothing like
lamb chops to encourage your appe-
tito and strengthen you up all over.”
“But you’ll have to take three
chops,” looking curiously at the money
Miss Mattie laid in liis big hand, “or
I’ll liRA'e to make change, aud ebauge
is scarcer than lien’s teeth to-night.
You might have company unexpected, would
you know, and an extry chop
come in handy.”
Miss Mattie laughed so genially
that the market man A'eutured to slip
a sweetbread and a bunch of yellow
celery into the basket on the sly. He
would have loved to put in the duck,
but that would have looked as if he
suspected her reason for not buying
it, and, bless you, he knew' better
than that. Some people have feel-
ings, though their feces are red and
their hands coarse and greasy.
Miss Mattie wont A v erv happily do WI1
the street. She had lighted her lamp
before she went out, aud a cheerful
little ray smiled encouragingly at her
as she came to the gate. All the
other windows in the weather-beaten
old house w ere black aud empty aud
looked to the lonesome little woman
as if all sorts of hobgoblins might be
peeping out at her from the gloom be¬
hind them, for Miss Mattie’s neigh¬
bors had gone away on a TbauksgiA'-
ing At least Aisit they and said taken “the the whole v>hole family, family^
but at the very moment Miss Mattie
came to the gate a member of the fam¬
ily was huddled up in a corner of the
doorway, cold, huugry and had much become per-
plexed to understand what of
of all his friends and why, in spite
his pitiful plea, no one came to open
the door for him. H 3- heard Miss
Mattie aud ran hop stiff
limping as he came, for he had a
leg. said Miss
“Why, Tommy Barnes,”
Mattie, stooping to pat his rough ye*-
lot* head, “you don’t mean to say
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your folks have gone off to Thanks-
giving and left you beeind. Well if
I ever! How dreadful_thoughtless_
and you a cripple besides!”
his Tommy kept on crying, but he had
eye on the door while Miss Mattie
was fitting her key, and the minute it
opened lie darted in.
“That’s right, Tommy,” said Miss
Mattie; “just make yourself at home.
You and I’ll have our Thanksgiving
together. That extra chop will be
wanted after all, and I’m going to
make riz biscuits.”
Bhe put away her bonnet aud shawl
and hung the basket on a nail in the
back-room without even looking at the
contents, though Tommy Barnes
watched her keenly with a shrewd BUS*
picion of something good, and a faint
hope which nothing in his past expe-
rience justified that he might come in
for a share of it. Miss Mattie was ac-
customed to being alone, and she
scarcely thought of Tommy, as she
trotted about, setting the soonge for
her biscuits in a pint bowl, putting a
little cup of broth on tire stove to
warm for her supper, making her tea,
toasting her bread, and at last sitting
down by the table in the little green
chair with a patchwork cushion. Up
to this point Tommy had sat quietly
by the fire, having learned by many
severe lessons that little folks should
be seen and not heard, but when Miss
Mattie poured out the savory broth
the delicious odor Avas too much for
his fortitude, and with one bound Le-
sprung into her lap.
“Bless me,” said Miss Mattie, “if I
hadn’t clean forgot you, and you half-
starved I dare say. There, get down, j
j never could abide cats around my
victuals.”
She put Tommy gently on the floor,
crumbled some bread into the bowl of
broth, cooled it carefully aud set it
down for him to eat.
“It’s pretty rich for me anyway,”
she said, as she made out her supper
wit h toast and tea.
it was perhaps well for Tommy that ;
\ ie took an early promenade next |
mo rning around and the back secured yards several of the j
neighborhood, Mattie had
va i dable tid-bits, for Miss
very he/cMightM little to offer him. She baked
little puff, of biscuits,
enjoy letter eel them immensely, llnding
tbera and more digestible with-
out butter. B*. «£
u a little chirrup- Sought voice like a brown
sparrow. She iu the small
basket and flushed over the unexpeet-
ed fveasuretrove, but took it kindly as
a bit of neighborly goodwill. The
sweetbread, white aud plump and all
read y for cooking, reminded her of old
Mrs. Morrison, just beginning to sit
up and watch the people go by the
window'. What a toothsome dainty
Diis would be for her, and w hat a de-
light that she should be able to take
her as sbe Avent to church, yes,
aud some of the celery, too, for a rel-
j s h. The chops Avere transferred to a
p i a te on the shelf, the swet ibread
wrapped in a fine old uapkin and laid
back in the basket Avith the best half
0 f the celery, aud the biscuits Miss
yjftttie bad saved for dinner.
“The cold bread will go just as well
with chops,” she reflected, and pre-
pftr ed for church with a glow of hap-
pjness such as she had not knoAvn iua
i on g time.
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From lean skinny Joe to Tom Fat:
For ’tis Thanksgiving Day and this face all
so glum, for hat.
Was never cut out one Sherwood.
—Thomas
TOCCOA. HABERSHAM COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY, NOYEMBER 36,18!)7.
^ helped to a real feeling of thank-
fillness, especially when she thought
of old Mrs. Morrison, and how pleased
she had been with the unexpected
gift. She laughed a little to herself
as she returned to her own door after
service, remembering how when Sally
Morrison had commiserated her on be-
ing alone Thanksgiving Day, she had
assured her she had company invited
who Tommy Barnes, from the next door,
with her, was spending a couple of days
the rest Of the family being
away.
“I hope’t wa’n’t a sinful untruth,”
she said, smiling at Tommy, who lay
peacefully sleeping on the braided rug,
“but if old Miss Morrison had set in
to have me stay to dinner, I shouldn’t
a’ known how to get away, and she is
such a talker.”
__. With 4l clean
a long, apron over her
best frock, Miss Mattie began cheer-
f tt Hy *° make ^ er small preparations
* tbe Thanksgiving fea.st. She
I or had
mef litated leaving one chop for break-
fast ’ but ber waB * an(1 happiness had
made her hungry and she decided to
cook them all.
But Avhere did she put these chops
—she was getting so forgetful—she
could have sworn she put them on the
shelf—could she have left them in the
basket after all? Her perplexed eyes
fell from the shelf to the floor, and
there, just peeping from the Avood-box
was the plate, and tivo small, very
small, bits of bone, guawed quite clean
and white.
there Ungratefut Tommy Barnes, lying
in peaceful slumber, with those
precious chops rounding out your yel-
low sides, if justice had befallen you
then and there you might not have
lived to steal again. But into the
midst of Miss Mattie righteous wrath
came the reflection that Tommy must
have been hungry, and the fault after
all Avas partly her OAvn for putting
temptation in his nay, “though how
anything could have been further out
of his Avay than that shelf, I don’t
really see,” she added, dolefully.
At that minute Tommy Barnes
waked from his nap, transformed him¬
self into a camel, yawned in a fright¬
fully tigerish fashion, and proceeded to
sharpen his claws on the rug, the
sacred rug into which had beeu
braided some precious old garments
( ^ ear Hiss Mattie s heart. It u as a
sb'aw too much to nave insult added
injury, and springing from her
chair, she cuffed Tommy in such
Augorous fashion tuat three or four
hearty blows found tneir mark before
J iie astonished sinner could Avithdraw
his claws and bound out at the back
door, left ajar m the search for the
chops. At that instant a resounding
knock °n the front door sen xliss
Mat ie 9 heart *? he \. throat ^ lth a
sluWen , lea P’ a3 11 i aatlce " eie airead , Y
coming to take her m hand for umea
sonable crue.ty.
NY hen Miss Mattie was peacefully
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tend to it. Oh, you needn’t to look
as Josiaii if you thought it was a judgment.
I Avouldn’t be such a hipper-
crit as to pretend to be thinkin’ of
spiritooal things when I was wonder¬
in’ if Sarah Ellen would remember to
baste the turkey. Seems to me they
might let ns know sooner.”
“But I told ye, mother, it Avas a
telegram come just before church.
You can't regerlate telegrams like the
weekly newspaper, or stop folks from
dyin’ * unexpicted.”
“Then, why didn’t yon rush round
and get somebody else? Mercy sakes!
’TAvon’t seem like Thanksgiving at
all--”
“Didn't seem to be anybody to ask
but old Mis’ Morrison and Marthy
Ellison. I drove round by the Morri¬
sons, but the old lady was just having
something relishing Miss Mattie had
fetched in. They said they invited
her to dinner, but she had comp’ny;
one of them Barneses next door.”
“Fiddle«ticks!” said the deacon’s
wife, in aA*ery disrespectful tone, “You
just drive straight back and bring
Marthy Ellison np here to dinner.
Tell her I don't take any excuse, and,
if she can't come othenvays, she can
bring her comp’ny along, though the
way them shif’less Barnesses impose
on her is a mortal shame.”
Good Deacon Giles had learned
docility in many years of experience,
and the double knock at Miss Mattie’s
door followed as quickly as could be
reasonably expected. Miss Mattie at¬
tempted neither excuse nor hesitation,
but accepted her good proAndence with
radiant delight.
‘ ‘Mother said to fetch your comp’ny
along,” said the deacon, glancing
doubtfully about the small room. “We
heard you had one of the Barneses. I
kinder hope ’tain't the cross-eyed oue
that stole my pears.”
“Oh,” said Miss Mattie, laughing
into the little mirror, as she tied her
bonnet, “he’s had his dinner and he's
gone out.”
” that he had
She didn’t say eaten
Devoted to Southern Progress and Colonization.
her * also, but at Mrs. Giles's hos-
pitable table, under the genial influ-
ence of generous fare and pleasant
old-time reminiscences, she told the
story of Tommy Earnes and the lamb
chops lose in a way that made the deacon
his breath with laughter. And
when she was tucked into the yellow
sleigh fot the ride home, Mrs, Giles
stopped at the door to say:
“I put some bits of bones and things
in a basket under the seat for Tommy,
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cat fur ’nough to give his moral princi¬
ples a fair shouin’. ”
Tommy Avas on the step waiting to
welcome Miss Mattie, Avliich shows
his forgiving disposition, and, though
he got as much as was good for him
out of the basket under the seat, Miss
Mattie very wisely concluded that the
mince pie, roast chicken and cran¬
berry sauce could hardly have been
meant for his delight, so she locked
them in the cupboard, saying de¬
cidedly:
“This time, Tommy Barnes, I’ll
give your moral principles a fair show¬
ing.” Emily Huntington Miller.
O HEART, GIVE THANKS.
O heart, give thanks for strength, to-day,
To Araik, to run, to work, to play!
For feasts of eye; melodious sound;
Thy pulses’ easy, rhythmic bound;
Ten servants that thy will obey;
A mind clear as the sun’s own ray;
A life which has not passed its May;
That all thy being thus is crowned,
O heart, give thanks!
Feet helpless lie that once were gay;
Eyes know hut night’s eternal sway;
Souls dwell in silence, dread, profound;
Blinds iive with clouds encircling round;
In face of these, thy blessings weigh!
O heart, give thanks!
—Emma C. Dowd.
The Housewife’s Holiday Plans.
Make the home bright and cheer¬
ful for Thanksgiving and Christmas,
Avrites a farmer’s wife. Plan the work
so .that the holiday will not find you in
the kitchen every moment or find you
weary from overwork. Pies, puddings,
cake and bread may be made two days
before the event; sweeping, dusting
aud decorating may occupy the day
previous and the turkey or chicken
should also be cleaned and stuffed at
this time, m order to go into t le oien
early the next day. This method
gives a little time on the morning of
the holiday for the extra toilet and the
reception of guests. Boasting the
turkey and preparing and cooking the
vegetables will take up the remainder
of the morning, so that no time can
really be found in Avhieli to prepare
desserts, etc. Garlands of evergreen,
dotted here and there with wild im-
morteHes and pressed autumn leaves,
will bngnten the rooms wonderfnny.
This is easy work for the young peo-
pie, Avho always want to belli at such a
time. Have some green upon the
table. If you have no flowers in bloom,
use the handsomest plants among
your window collections. If no jardi-
niere is forthcoming, conceal the ordi-
nary flower pot ivith evergreen or
autumn leaves. Chrysanthemums
keep out of doors until the first of
December, and are effective as decora-
tions, if one does not object to their
odor.
Let me describe the table decora¬
tion at our first Thanksgiving six
years ago. I had only a few carnation
blossoms, red and Avhite ones. These I
, U i into a tall glass vase with some
drooping sword ferns that I stole from
mv one jardiniere. I placed the vase
upon a large antique pewter platter,
covered with a pretty doily and heaped
with fruit, apples, grapes and bananas.
The base ofvaseAvas almost concealed,
and the result charming, as my guests
declared.
On Desert Air.
Winthrop—“If Freddie is going to
spend Thanksgiving with his grand¬
mother, perhaps you’d better buy him
that tin horn.”
Mrs. Winthrop—“I spoke to him
about it, my dear, but he said it would
do no good to him, as grandmother is
deaf.”
A Suclilng Pig For Thanksgiving.
There are some old-fasljioned peo¬
ple who prefer a sucking pig to turkey
at Thanksgiving, and to haA-e this dish
in perfection an old saying goes that
the small animal must ba three Aveeks
“under a moon.”
The Kid’s Harvest.
Sow he is as pleased as pleased can be,
And has no cause to sigh.
With all his heart he says: “To me
Thanksgiving time is pie. - ’
The Turkey on the Wall.
iHE opening of the chest¬
nut burs,
The leaves, yellow and
sere,
Told beyond a perad-
m venture
A That Thanksgiving Day
was near.
ted But, fancy. to my childish
The surest sign of all,
Of the nearness of
few Thanksgiving,
Was the turkey on
the wall.
It plainly told the story
That Ave had not long
to wait,
For the path from wall
to table
1* :ts very short and straight.
It hung ail plump and golden
In the pantry near the door
For a day or two before the feast.
And then was seen no more.
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Qt EEN REGENT OF SPAIN PARBONS
THE FOUR UNFORTUNATES.
WAS ONCE CONDEMNED TO DIE.
DeDoine Has a Conference With Assistant
Secretary Day In Regard to Weyler’s
Tobacco Decree.
Minister Woodford at Madrid has
telegraphed , , . . the state , department , x X XL that x
the Spanish cabinet has notified him
that the queen has pardoned the Com-
petitor prisoners.
The state department now announces
that the Competitor prisoners were
turned over to General Lee last Mon¬
day and will be sent by him direct
to New York.
It is not doubted in Washington
that the prisoners are liberated on
some such conditions as Avere imposed
in the case of former prisoners, that
is that they will not return to Cuba.
After their bitter experience iu the
Cuban jails, it is not believed the
men will be disposed to violate any
understanding of this kind to which
they may be parties. It is singular
that the men should have been for
four days in the custody of Consul
General Lee without the fact having
become generally known, but it is
supposed that secrecy was observed
in order to secure departure from Ha¬
vana without exciting trouble from
the extreme conservative Spanish fac¬
tion.
There were four prisoners, namely,
Alfred O. Laborde, the captain of the
Competitor, a native of New Orleans;
William Gildea, the mate, a natural¬
ized citizen; Ona Melton, who claims
Kansas as his native state, and avIio
Avent on the Competitor in the capacity
of a newspaper correspondent; Charles
Barnett, of British birth, but avIio
claimed the protection of the United
States by virtue of his sailing on an
American A’eSsel.
The conditions under which the
Competitor was captured April 25,
1896, off the Caban coast Avhile en¬
gaged in landing arms for the insur¬
gents lia\ r e been often described. The
defense of the men Avas that they Avere
forced, into the exposition against
their will by the insurgent party
aboard the boat. They Avere tried by
a naval courtmartial before Avhich they
could make only a poor shoAving, prin-
cipally because of their ignorance of
the Spanish language in Avhich the
proceedings were conducted, so that
their conviction aud the imposition of
the death sentence was not a matter of
surprise.
At that point, hoAvever, the case as-
sumed diplomatic importance.
May Revoke Weyler’s Decree.
Senor Duimy de Lome, the Spanish
minister, had a long conference with
Assistant Secretary Day Thursday
morning and it is believed that the
i Spanish government is voluntarily
about to remove another troublesome
factor from the field of negotiations in
■ revoking the decree made by Weyler
prohibiting the exportation of tobacco
{ Cuba
The reason set up by General Wey-
ler for the order was the necessity of
keeping in HaA-ana the supply of to-
bacco necessary to run the domestic
0l . ,8 ar fac , fV . les a ? d i x, thu ?’ i b y giving • • em-
ployment to AvorKmen.keep them from
drifting into the insurgent ranks. It
was a matter of common report, how-
that another potent reason was a
(legire to cri xiSited le the Cuban cigar mak-
ers in tlie States, from whom
the insurgents drew funds.
SUICIDE’S CONFESSION READ.
Sensation Sprung at Trial of Arroyo’*
A . profount ^eher, sensation In Cl yofMerlco Avas made in
^ course of t le tna of the police
officials of the City of Mexico who
ar 8 charged with the murder of Ar-
r °7°> ^7 production o the con es-
81011 ol * be ate ins P ec t 01 ' general of
? ohce ’ Velasquez r who suicided. It
is a most remarkable attempt at self-
justification, and falsely states that a
mob of the common people lynched
Arroyo.
The prosecuting attorney in a strong
argument pleaded for the execution of
a death sentence on all the prisoners
except ex-Assistant Chief of Detectives
Cabrera and one other minor prisoner,
BROTHERS BURIED TOGETHER.
Editor Brann IVarned and His Home
Guaided by His Friends.
The bloody duel between Colonel
Gerald and the Harris brothers at
Waco, Texas, has been the sole topic
of discussion in that usually quiet
city. Editor J. W. Harris, Avho w as so
terribly wounded, died Saturday and
his body was buried Sunday beside
that of his brother, Wk A. Harris,who
was killed while the battle was at its
fiercest.
Editor W. C. Brann, of the Icono¬
clast, whose discussion Avith Baylor
nnixersity Avas the origin of the trouble,
was warned anonymously Friday
night and friends guarded his resi¬
dence, but no trouble occurred.
MONUMENT TO YANCE.
Grand Lodge of Masons of North Carolina
Will Lay the Corner Stone.
A special from Asheville, N. C.,
saps that Grand Master Moore, at the
request of Masons of North Carolina,
will call a special communication of
the grand lodge to assist in laying the
corner stone of the monument to the
late United .States .Senator Vance at
Asheville.
The ceremonies will occur early in
December.
HONORED NAMESAKE.
Feoj*le of Nashville Present Silver Service
To Vessel Bearing City’s Name.
The presentation of a handsome sil-
ver serA’ice on behalf, and in the name
of the citizens of Nashville, Xenn.,Avas
made to the gunboat Nashville at the
navy yard at Norfolk, Va., Monday
morning.
The ceremony took place ol
main deck in the presence of the
ship’s company. Commandant Far-
quhar and other officers of the yard,
with a number of lady guests, wit-
ues-ed the presentation.
PLUNGED INTO A CREEK.
Train W recked and Bnrnfd-Only Onn
Death, But Many Injured.
Train 2 on the Kansas City, Fort
Scott and Memphis, which left Bir-
mingham, Ala,, Wednesday evening
fo 5 Kansas City, was derailed west of
Walliford, Ark., at 3 o’clock Thurs¬
j day morning. The combination coach,
ft“tauTth’ into Spring river. n ^'MnSoa^V'."
The chair car and
sleeper were both consumed.
One passenger was fatally injured,
dying shortly afterward, aud about
thirty others more or less seriously
hurt. It is believed none of the lat¬
ter will die.
I ^°- 2 is a fast through train from
the south. Between Williford and
Hardy the Memphis tracks parallel
Spring river, a little stream run¬
ning out of Mammoth Springs.
When near Williford the engineer
felt the train leap forward and found
that it liad parted between the two
day coaches. The last three cars
bumped over the ties, the chair car
and sleeper turning over on their
sides and the combination car finally
going into the river.
The engineer backed up the front
part of the train and the work of res¬
cue of was the immediately begun. The ter¬
ror passengers who had gone
down into the stream with the combi¬
nation car was heightened by cries of
alarm from the chair car and sleeper,
both of which soon took fire. The
intense darkness added to the confu¬
sion and it was some time before an
organized effort at rescue was put into
effect by the train crew and those of
the passengers who had been able to
extricate themselves without aid. The
passengers in the burning cars were
luckily rescued before the fire had
reached its height, and but few in
those cars were injured.
The wreck is the first one of a seri¬
ous nature iu the history of the Mem¬
phis road, and according to the state¬
ment of General Passenger Agent J.
E. Locswood, Mr. Hoover is the first
passenger ever killed while riding on
a train on that road.
REPORT OF SECRETARY BLISS.
Document Shows Work of Interior De¬
partment For Fast Year.
Secretary of the Interior Bliss, in
his annual report made public Thurs¬
day night, submits estimates aggregat¬
ing $156,532,419 for appropriation by
congress for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1897.
Discussing pensions he says 200,-
000 pension claims are awaiting adju-
dication and it is estimated that 40 or
50 per cent of these Avill be finally ad-
mitted. If they are rapidly adjudi-
oated they will swell the pension roll
from $5,000,000 to $7,000,000. When,
hoAvever, these claims are adjudicated
and the first payments made thereon,
the amount of the pension roll will de-
nnn crease Ar *-*0 ,,? er or Y $130 ra £ 11 000,000 ^ Y’ P® 8S1 the * first ^25,-
lbe ’’ total Indian year,
_ United , population of the
: States exclusive of the New
ioik Indians and the five civilized
tubes, approximates If <,178, located
on 1/7 reservations, Avhich contain
33,404,837 acres. Of
oMan of land At Avhich L aggregate 644,147 acres.
hecietary Bliss says while the opening
of the Wichita reservation in Okla-
homa to Avhite settlement ivould great-
ly P lorn °t e the development of that
country, yet, in vieiv of the unsettled
condition of the questions affecting
their rights, until there is further leg-
islation he does not see how it can be
dono without causing great in]n and
distress
i I o guard against this recommendation
is made that the DaAves commission be
authorized to inA'estigate questions as
to their rights and claims and report
recommendations from speedy and just
BO tlement.
DISASTROUS PRAIRIE FIRES.
Thre „ Thousand Sheep Burned in TeiB9
Counties,
a terrific prairie fire has passed
through Lubbock, Hale and Crosby
counties> Texas doi great damage
to the ranges .
originated east of Crosby county,
burned eastward through Crosby be-
fore a severe wesfc wind .
The flames made a fire ten miles
vide, Avhich traA-eled at great speed.
At least 400 square miles of territory
! were burned. Cattle suffered and
many were burned to death. Three
thousand sheep Avere burned in one
flock and many farmers lost all their
winter feed.
WHY DOORS WERE NAILED.
A Sensation of Great Magnitude Crops Out
In Savannah, Ga.
A SaA'annah special says: The hot¬
test kind of sensation has grown out
of the action of the chief of the fi 'e
department in nailing up the doors of
the city exchange a feAv days ago.
The fire commissioners investigated
the matter, and the chief said that his
reason for nailing up the doors Avas
j because the city section offices had
been used at night by some of the city
officials in the entertainment of their
lady friends.
This statement has caused tremen¬
dous excitement among municipal offi¬
cials, and an investigation has been
demanded.
MOB AiTER MURDERER.
Negio Entered Lee’s Residence and Killed
Him With An Ax.
A Columbia, S. C., special says:
Charles Mill tarns, a negro, was taken
j to Sumter jail Saturday night from
j Carter’s Crossing to prevent lynching.
He entered tue home of W. J. Lee
j Friday night for the purpose of rob-
bery, and, being determined, butcher-
ed Mr. lee iu his bed Avith an ax.
He says he had an accomplice. A
mob pursued the officers and prisoner.
DEkTH SENTENC E FOR TEN.
Kcsuitof Trial of Police At Mexico city
For m order of Arroyo.
The great trial of Arroyo’s mur-
derers at Mexico City terminated Mon-
j dav eA'ening with the sentence of
j death pronounced * on ten of the police
orticial s aud pc l icemen concerned in
t he butchery of the hapless wr :ch
whose audacious attempt on the presi-
dellt cansed HO profound a sensation,
Xhe j arv wa9 out ovel seven hours.
The condemned men do not vet
see m to realize their perilous position.
T be (r lawyers entered an appeal.
SUBSCRIPTION' HATES: tl.OO A YEAR.
!U1 US HER FIGHT.
BILL FOP. REMOVAL OF COURT¬
HOUSE IS DEFEATED.
RESULT WAS A DECIDED SURPRISE.
A Brief Stimmirry of the Unity Proceed¬
ing! and lloutlne Work In Both
House and Senate.
One of the hottest, most sensation¬
al, and thoroughly interesting fights
ever witnessed in the house of repre¬
sentatives was brought about Friday
iu the contest between Decatur and
Stone Mountain for the possession of
the DeKalb county courthouse.
Decatur won under circumstances
seemingly adverse.
The fight was brought on by the
Stone Mountain faction who seemed
sure of an easy victory. Test of
strength in the vote to take up the bill
Thursday seemed to indicate that the
required two-thirds majority was in
favor of a removal of the courthouse.
A substitute bill, referring a settle¬
ment of the question back to the peo¬
ple of the county, was offered aud lost.
Then the other bill came tip and a
sensation was caused by the discovery
that the measure could not be put to
a vote because the proper legal proofs
were missing. No other business
could be transacted. Under the call
for the previous question, the only
thing before the house was the vote
on this bill. For an hour and a half,
an exciting debate went on. All this
confusion was caused by the simple
fact that a newspaper containing a
copy of the advertisement of the bill
had been lost or misplaced.
The Decatur people were willing to
accept the proofs at hand, aud so were
the Stone Mountain people. Bnt,
nevertheless, the debate went on and
Hie confusion increased. Finally the
missing newspaper was discovered and
the bill was voted on. The result was
85 to 60.
Stone Mountain had failed to receive
a constitutional majority and Decatur
was secure in the possession of the
county site.
Immediately after the reading of
the journal in the senate Friday morn¬
ing Senator SteAvart, chairman of the
committee on lunatic asylums, made
a report on the bill providing that
female physicians be allowed to enter
the competitive examinations for va¬
cancies on the state asylum staff. The
report of the committee Avas favora¬
ble.
Senator Battle moved that the regu¬
lar ordor, which Avas the calling of the
roll for the introduction of new matter,
be dispensed with, and that the read-
i j n g 0 f Rouse bills faA-orably reported
j on be read the second time. The mo-
j ti on prevailed.
At the conclusion of the reading of
bills for t’*ft second time the roll avus
e ft i,l e d for the introduction of new
matter. After this the senate went
i nto executive session and confirmed
Ho “* B ’ B ' ^ city court of
Decatur county; Hon. F. R. Tarver,
j judge of the Effingham county court;
: e. T. Shurley, solicitor of Warren
’
! county court.
Q n motion of Senator Steivart, ol
the 27th, the senate adjourned until
! 12 o’clock Mondav.
j Wednesday’s Frocecdings.
; I The entire day Wednesday in the
house Avas given up to the university.
Some routine business Av as transacted
and then the fight of the day on the
i university hearing came np.
The university Avas on trial aud
was ably represented by Hon. N.
J. Hammond, president of the
board of trustees. Another feat¬
ure of almost sensational interest,
iu that it Avas not on the program, was
a speech by Dr. William H. Felton, of
Cartersville, introduced to the general
assembly as “the old man eloquent.”
The friends of the institution in the
house won a fight in securing the
hearing for the trustees. The house
had run counter to the Avishes of the
senate and a sensational conflict Avas
promised. The house resolution pro¬
A ided for the hearing before a commit-
tee of the-whole. The senate resolu-
tion called for a joint session. This
precipitated the fight.
When the senate resolution came up
before the house it was sought to
amend it so as to fix the hearing for
Wednesday night. The time mention¬
ed in the resolution Avas 10:30 a. m.
That hour came and went while the
fight was still on in the house.
Then an amendment to this amend¬
ment, fixing the time for the hearing
at 11 o’clock was offered. This was
put and carried amid applause.
There was then a bare margin of 6
minutes and the trustees awaited the
result on the outside. Both houses
then convened in joint session and the
trustees, headed by Governor Atkin¬
son, were ushered into the hall. They
were greeted with applause, and after
an introduction by President Berner,
of the senate, Colonel Hammond be¬
gan his speech.
The first thing done by the senate
Wednesday morning was to send the
house the resolution for a joint session
at 10:30 o’clock to hear the university
trustees. Pending the receipt of in¬
formation touching the address of the
house on the subject, the senate trans-
ac ted routine business,
d was nearly 11 o'clock when a
, message from the house announced
. that the resolution had been adopt £
j with an amendment fixing the time at
j n o’clock. This was immediately
concurred in and the house was uoti-
fied.
j J These two bills were parsed by the
sena te: Mr. Felder’s bill to expedite
j prohibiting habeas corpus arresting cases; officers Mr. Hawes’ from bill ad-
A’ising or procuring se tlementa in
criminal cases and fixing a penalty for
so doing.
Thursday's Routine.
' Along with the first business in the
j , u°u« e Thursday „„ , the .. West . resolution , ,.
) to hm '\ ‘^nssionou the convict b.U
j j and after ]} to some 1 ° C discussion Ock ea< ‘ h d:,v v as eaule passed. "}>
I T1 *. e tb e “ took a at tbe
bl K A . few more a mendments
1 to the first section tvere pre sented, all
' ^hich were discussed without re-
NO. 2.
suits, and then the committee of the
whole reported progress.
The DeKalb court house fight ran
amuck of the convict bill and both
came to a standstill. An eflort was
made to secure the consideration of
the former measure at the expense of
the latter, and an interesting fight re¬
sulted. The convict bill gained the
right of way, howei'er, and was under
discussion during the remainder of
the day.
Mr. Gray’s prohibition bill came np
iu the senate as the first business
Thursday morning, and after a brief
statement by the author, it went to a
vote. The bill prohibits the sale of
liquors in smaller quantities than one
pint, aud prohibits the drinking of
liquor on the premises where it is sold.
The favorable committee report was
agreed to by a vote of 19 to 16.
The question then came up on the
passage of the bill and Senator Turner
rose to fai'or it. It fell far short of
what he desired, but was in the right
direction. Senator Gray called for
the ayes and nays and the vote was 20
to 17. The bill lacked only three N
votes of a constitutional majority.
The football bill came up and passed
by a A'ote of 31 to 4.
Senator Turner’s bill prohibiting
the shooting at turkeys and other
fowls for a prize, Avith chances stated
on hitting the bird, came on an adverse
report, which caused some discussion.
The adverse report was disagreed to
by a A^te of 21 to 14 aud the bill stands
for a third reading.
Mr. Felder’s bill to except the N. C.
and St. L. railway from the law’ pro¬
hibiting the running of freight trains
on Sunday was fonght by Senator
Turner. When the bill came up Sen¬
ator Kilpatrick explained that it ap¬
plied to railroads running through the
state less than three miles, and said
there were only six citizens who could
be disturbed by the noise of the trains.
Saturday In the House.
An effort Avas made in the house
Saturday to reconsider the action of
Friday in defeating the bill to remove
the courthouse of DeKalb county from
Deeatur to Stone Mountain. The re¬
sult was a second defeat for the Stone
Mountain faction. There was just
a quorum present and the motion to
reconsider received only 36 of the 88
votes cast. This ends the controversy
for five years at least, as no election
can be called before that time.
From noAv until the close the house
will hold two sessions daily. The
morning session will be from 9 until 1
o’clock, aud in the afternoon from 3 to
5 o’clock. The house Avill now go to
work in earnest to settle the many im-
portant matters noAv under considers-
tion.
►Saturday’s session was a busy one.
A great deal of routine business was
transacted and a number of important
measures were introduced. Mr. Cal¬
vin of Richmond offered a bill for
state banks of issue with Avhich he
hopes to make a test of the 10 per
cent, tax on the state banks.
Mr. Bartlett, of Paulding, proposes
two constitutional amendments, oue
of Avhich Avould place members of the
legislature on a salary of $250 per •
annum instead of the per diem. The
other seeks to strike the 50 days and
leave the legislature to hold unlimited
sessions.
Monday's lloutlne.
Mr. Calvin’s “mixed flour” bill
passed the honse at Monday’s session.
The bill requires the words “mixed
flour to be branded or marked on each
package containing a blending of Avheat
flour and corn meal, so as to show
Avhat per centum of the contents is
made from the food products of wheat
and from the food products of grain,
other than wheat. The purpose of the
bill is to put purchasers on notice as
to what they are buying, Avhether
straight flour or mixed flour.
The following bills were also pass-
td: An act for the protection of the
bicycle roads in the county of Wilkes;
an act making the condemnation of
land by counties the same as for all
corporations exercising the right of
eminent domain; amending the char¬
ter of the city of Waycross; establish¬
ing a system of public schools for the
city of Culloden; amending the char¬
ter of the city of Gainesville.
The senate passed the following local
bills Monday: To incorporate Mount-
ville; to incorporate Oeilla; to incor¬
porate Pepperton—(Pepperton is in
Butts county near a famous patch of
red pepper, from which a negro vil¬
lage called PeppertoAvn took its rise—
later a cotton mill was erected be¬
tween Jackson and the red pepper vil¬
lage); amending the Lawrenceville
charter so that it shall be called a city
instead of a town—(there is no penalty
for a violation of the act); to extend
the corporate limits of Douglasville-;
to amend the charter of Douglas in
the county of Coffee bo that it shall
be called a city instead of a town; to
extend the limits of East Rome; to
amend the charter of Buchanan; to
amend the charter of Washington,
Ga., so as to give the mayor a salary
of $200 and the recorder $250 if the
council is Avilling.
ALL QUARANTINE ENDED.
Citizpnft of Alabama Free to go and Come
Once More.
Beginning last Sunday at noon all
quarantine restrictions in Alabama, so
far as state authorities are concerned,
were removed aud people are free to
go and come.
One or twe counties south of Mont¬
gomery continue their quarantine, but
it amounts to little.
Commencing Monday all trains out
of Montgomery to Mobile and New
Orleans were p«t on their old sched¬
ules. All others resumed some days
ago.
PARK COMMISSIONER REPORTS.
Chairman Boynton Show* That Satiafae-
tory Progress Ha* Been Made.
,
General Henry Y. Boynton, as chair¬
man of the Cbicamauga and Chattp- has
nooga National park commission,
submitted to the secretary of war the
annual report of the comrrission,
showing that satisfactory progress has
been made in the establishment of the
park in accordance with existing laws
aud the plan heretofore adopted by
the war department. 1
No change seems to the park com
mission to be required or to be &dv'
aide. No new legislation is
and no mere*sr of the
..i tl.ut made i sr the current
is needed.