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•r ate see mm ro Atfrr.r^
1 [award Thompson haw iecci<J
* rjply to hia chall :nge for a joint
debate with Hon. F. C. Tate. Mr.
Tate accepts the gauntlet an I ask*
Mr. Thompaon to name a committee
of three to meet a like committeo of
hia, to be appointed hereafter, and
arrange particulars.
To this communication Mr. Thomp
has sent the following reply:
Gainesville, Ga., Jan. 26, 1898.
lfon. V. C • Tate, Washington, D. C.
My Dear Sir Your tetter of the
21st instant, in reply to mine of Jan.
Bth, duly received and contents noted-
In reply 1 beg to say that in accor
dance 'with your request to name
such friends of mine as I desire to
arrange for the joint discussion be
tween us in the interest of our re
■ptctive candidacies for the Demo
cratic nomination for the Fifty sixth
Congress of the United Slates, I have
•elected Gee. E. Dedwyler of Jack
son, W. E. Candler of Union and
Samuel C. Dunlap ol Hall to set tor
me and meet a lik# number of your
friends in the arrangement of the
time, place* and terms of the debates.
In the meantime, and until said
committee acts, I shall feel at liberty
to make such speeches and at such
times and places as opportunity pre
sent* and allow you the like privi
lege. Should you desire to be pres
ent st ray appointments during the
interim I shall be pleased to grant
von a fair division of time, and assure
yon the most courteous treatment.
1 remain, with high respect,
Your obedient servant,
Howard Thompson.
Now, it is dollars to doughnuts j
that there will be no joint discussion
Mr. Tate seems to accept all right
enough, but we will bet be sees a
loophole somewhere in the future j
through which to get out of the way
at the proper time. Does it stand to
reason that he will hold a joint dis
cussion witli Mr. Thompson, between
whom ad himself there is no sort
of issue, when he declined to discuss
with Winn, Twitty, and Perry, when
ihe issues between them were very
vital indeed?
Some men are quite anxious to
fight only when there has been no
assault-
If brother Tate can only manage
to keep Tom Reed in session until
after the Democratic district eoiiven
tiea meets be will be safe.
We are betting there will be no
j'int iis.—Gainesville Eagle.
HOT TIMES IN THE NINTH.
"Committee Appointed to Arrange
for Joint Debates.
Gainesville, Ga., January 2.. j
Hon. Howard Thompson lias named j
■nig committee to meet a similar one
to be named by Hon. Carter 1 ate to j
arrange time and place of a scries of j
joint -debates between those well
knr.vn Georgians who will contest
for the democratic nomination for
congress from the ninth district.
Colon*’ Thompson’s letter was
mailed to Colonel Tate this afternoon
at Washington, and upon its receipt
it is expected that the present con
gressman will select his friends to
meet Colonel Thompson’s friends
and arrange the debates.
Colonel Thompson lias selected
George E. Deadwyler, of Jackson
county; W. E. C ndler, of Union
county, and Samuel C. Dunlap, of
TTall county, to represent him, and
the gentlemen are well known fill
rens and influential democrats.
Trey aro among Colonel Thompson
strongest friends in the district and
can be expected to do their part
toward securing his nomination at the
approaching convention. Colonel
Thompson notifies Colonel Tate in
his letter that he will take the privi
lege of spekking at such times and
places os opportunity presents until
'he arrangement of the series of de
bates is consummated, and assures
linn that he will gladly give him an
equal division of time at his appoint
ments if the congressman so desires.
The privilege of speaking in the
meantime is also extended Congress
man Tate of eourse by Colonel
Thompson.—Atlanta Constitution.
Urn and Pigeons Race.
A curious sporting event recently
took place in Belgium. Bees and
homing pigeons wore released be
tween Hamm and Rhvnern. The
two towns are an hour apart, and
the bit was that 12 bees would ueat
J 2 pigeons in making the distance.
Four drones and tight working bees
were well powdered with flour and
released at the same instant with the
pigeons at Rhynern. A drone reach
ed home four seconds in advance of
the first pigeon, the three other
drones od one pigeon came in neck
and neck, according to the judges,
and the eight working bees came m
jnst a trifle ahead of ihe ten pigeons.
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EXHIBITS Gl OD TASTE.
At onr mast head to day will be
tbe names of Aden I>. Candler for
Governor ann Howard Thompson for
Congress. They are both good men,
and we wnt to see them elected.
We propose to njake a straight
clean fight for them, believing them
to be the best representatives of the
people of this section, and we also
| believe the people oi Georgia could
| in no wise do better in electing Can
j dter governor and that the peoplu of
; the Ninth district would honor them
' selves in honoring Thompson with
! -.heir vote ai congressman.—Toccoa
Record.
THIS DO SETTLE IT.
Col. Allen I). Candler, the next
governer of Georgia, carries In hts
pocket the left hind foot of a rabbit
killed Friday, the 13th day of the
month, in a country graveyard in the
dark of the moon by a crosseyed, bow
legged negro rifling e white mule.
lOf coitrs jhi will bj elected.— W ilt o
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cIJ power to that last aupr .ookf"
Attiitr p< ii>>. -f hja reflections Bur
cmdet experienced -.iuu hesitation.
While ho was not thoroughly acquaint
ed w.tn physiology and philosophy,
ha uiel seen eo much, so many things;
ba'l knowu eo mauy straugo occurrences
and had studied many men. He knew —
for he had closely questioned wretches
Who had been saved from drowning at
tbo very last posMblo moment, some of
whom had attempted i.uicido, others
who bad been ulmost drowned through
accident, and each one had told him
that hia whole life, from his earliest
recollection, had flashed through his
mind in the iustunt of mortal agony—
yea, a whole lifetime in one instant of
cerebral excitement.
Had savants been able to solve this
wonderful mystery? The resume of an
existence in one vibration I Was it pos
sible? Vet—Beruardet still used the
word.
And why, in an analogous sensation,
could not the look of n dying man be
seized in an intensity lasting an instant,
as memory brought in a single flash so
many diverse remembrances?
“1 know, tit.ee it is the imagination,
•ad that the dead cannot see, whilo the
image on the retina is a fact, a fact con
tradioted by wiser men than I. ” Ber
nardet thought on these mysteries until
bis head began to ache.
“I shall make myself ill over it,” he
thought. “And there is something to
b> dona ”
Then in his dusty litt’e room, his
brain overexcited, he became eethnsed
vnru one idea. Ills sUrroantilcyS TeT
away from him; he saw nothing—every
thing disappeared—the books, the pa
pers, the walls, the visible objects, as
did also the objections, the denials, the
demonstrative impossibilities. And ab
solute conviction seized him to the ex
clusion of all extraneous surroundings.
This conviction was absolute, instinc
tive. irresistible, powerful, tilling him
with entire faith.
“This unknown thing I will find.
What is to be done I will do,” he de
clared to himself.
He threw the pamphlet on the table,
arose from his chair and descended to
the dining room, where his wife and
children were waiting for him. He
rubbed bis hands with glee, and bis
face looked jovons.
"Didst thou discover the trail?”
Mme. Beruardet asked very simply as a
working woman would ask her husband
if he had had a good day. The eldest of
the little girls rushed toward him.
"Papal My dear little papal”
"My darling!”
The'child asked her father in p. sweet
voice, ‘‘Art thou satisfied with thy
crime, papa?”
"We will not talk about that,” Ber
nardet replied. “To table. After dinner
I will develop Ihe pictures which I have
taken with my kodak, hut let us aiuose
eurwslves now. it is my fete day. I wish
to forget all ahout business. Letusd-.ne
uow and be as happy as possible ”
CHAPTER VII.
The murder of M. Rovere, oommitted
in broad daylight in a quarter of Paris
filled with life and movement, caused a
widespread seusation. The"e was so
much mystery mixed in the affair
What could be ascertained about the
dead man’s life was very dramatically
written up by Paul Hedier in a sketch,
and this, republished everywhere und
enlarg 'd upon, soon gave to the crime
of the Boulevard do (Jlichy the interest
of a Judicial romance. All that there
was of vulgar curiosity in man awoke
as atavistic bestiality ut the smell of
blood.
What vas this Al. Rovere, former
consul to Buenos Ayres or Havana, am
ateur collector of objects of vertu, mem
ber of the Society of Bibliophiles, where
he had not been seen for a long time?
What enemy had entered his room for
thepurposeof cutting his throat? Alight
he not have been assassinated by some
thief who knew that his rooms contained
a collection of works of art? Tho fete at
Montmartre was often in, full blast iu
front of the bouse where the murder
had b“eu committed, and among the
crowd of ex-prison birds and nn lefactors
who are always attendant npon foreign
kirmesses might not someone of them
have returned and committed the crime?
The papers took advantage of the occa
sion to moralize upon permitting these
fetes to be held in the outlying boule
vards, where vice and crime seemed to
spring spontaneously the soil.
But no one, not, ono journal—perhaps
by order—spoke of that unknown visitor
whom Mouicbe called the individual
and whom the portress had seeii stand
ing beside Al. Itovero iu front of the
epen safe. Paul Itodier iu his sketch
scarcely referred to the fact that justice
had a clew important enough to pene
trate the mystery of the crime ..ud ia
tho cud arrest the murderer, and the
readers while awaiting developments
asked what mystery was hidden in this
n urder. Moniche at times wore a fright
ened yet important air. He felt that he
was an object of curiosity to many, the
center of prejudices. The porter and bis
wife possessed a terrible secret They
were.raised iu their own estimation.
shall appear at Ihe trial, '' said
Moniche, seeing himself already before
the red robes and holding up his baud
to rwear that lie would tell the truth,
the whole troth and nothing tut. the
truth.
And as they sat together in their lit
tle lodge they talked the matter over
and over and brought up every lucideut
in M. Rovere’s life which might have a
bearing on the case.
"Do you remember the young man
who came one day and insisted on see
ing M. le Consul.'”
"Ah, very well indeed!” said Mo
niche. "I had forgotten that one—a felt
bat, his face bronzed and a droll accent.
He had come from away off somewhere.
He was probably a Spaniard.”
"Some beggar likely, a poor devil
whom the consul had known in Ameri
ca, in the colonies, one knows uot
where. ”
“A bod face!” said Moniche "J 1
Revere received him, however, and gave
him aid, Iremember. If the young man
had come often, 1 should think that he
struck the blow, and also, I ought to
add, if there was uot the other. ”
"Yes, but there is the other,” his
wife replied. "There is the ouo whom 1
saw standing in front of the coupons and
who was looking''ht those other papers
with flashing eyes, I give mv word.
There is that one, Mouicbc. and I am
willing to put my hand into the fire and
yours, too, Moniche, if it is not he.”
"If he is tbe oce. be will be found. ”
'OV oi, i. oisappe-ared? On#
tb: very quickly iq these days.''
•' V-'o shn.! I'et **Wo"-e i'u t. U
t.ijl u ' v •n ' btv ' t- “.1 ;hat
“we mo uen,'’ a.- . r-fir : .er f the
guard before an imp* rtuut engagement
They had taken the body to the
morgue. At the hour fixed for the au
topsy Beruardet arrived. He seemed
much excited and asked M. Uiuory if
since their conversation in M. Bovere’s
library he had rejected and decided to
permit him to make tlie experiment—
the famous experiment reported for so
many years as useless, absurd, almost
ridiculous.
"With any one but M. Ginory 1
should not dure to hope," thought the
police officer, “but ho does not sneer at
strange discoveries.”
He had brought .his photographic ap
paratus, that kodak which ho declared
was more dangerous to the criminal
than a loaded weapon. He bad develop
ed the negatives which he had taken,
and of the throe two had come out in
good condition The face of the mur
dered mau appeared with a clearness
which in the proofs rendered it formi
dable us in tbe reality, and the eyes.
nicy talked the matter over.
those tragic, living eyes, retained their
terrible, accusing expression which the
supremo agony had left in them. Tbe
light bad struck full on the eyes, and
they spoke. Kernurdst showed the proofs
to M. Ginory. They examined them
with a magnifying glass, but they
showed only the emotion, the agony,
the anger, of that last moment. Ber
nurdet hoped to convince M. Ginory
that Bourion’s experiment was not a
failure.
Eleven o’clock was the hour named
for the autopsy. Twenty minutes before
Beruardet was at the morgue. He walk
ed restlessly about out.-ide among the
spectators. Seme were women, young
girls, students and children who were
hovering abc ut tbo p’r.ce hoping that
some chance would permit them to sat
isfy their morbid curiosity and to en.er
and gazo on those slabs whereon lay—
swollen, livid, disfigured—the tidies
Never perhaps ia bis life had the
police officer been so strongly moved
witn a desire to succeed. He brought to
his tragic task all the ardor of an apos
tle. It was not the idea of success, the re
nown or tbe possibility of advancement
which urged him on. It was the joy,
the glory, of aiding progress, of attach
ing bis name to anew discovery. He
worked for art and the love of art. As
he wandi red about his sole thought was
of his desire :o test Dr. Bouriou’s ex
periment, of the realization of his
dream. “Ah, if M. Ginory will only
permit it!” he thought
As ho formulated that hope in his
mind ho saw M Ginory descend from
the fiacre. He hurried up to him and
saluted him respectfully Seeing Bcr
nardet so moved auk the first one on
the spot, he could not repress a smile.
“I see you are still enthused. ”
”1 have thought of nothing else all
night, M. Ginory. ”
“Well, but,” said M Ginory in a
tone which seemed to Beruardet to
imply hope, “no idea must be rejected,
and 1 do net see why we should not try
the experiment 1 have reflected upon
it. Where is tbe unsuitableness?”
j "Ah, M le Juge,"cried the agent,
I “if you permit it, who knows but
, we may revolutionize medical jurispru
j deuce?”
“Revolutionize, revolutionize I” ho
' cried. Would the examining magistrate
j yet find it an idiotic idea?
M. Ginory passed around the build
ing and entered by a binall doer open
ing on the Seine. The registrar follow
ed him. and behind him came the po
lice agent. Bernardet wished to wait
nutil the doctors delegated to perform
the autopsy should arrive, and the head
keeper of the morgue advised him to
possess himself with patience and while
he was waiting to look aroi-nd and see
the ates cadavers which had been
brought there.
“Ve have had in eight days a larger |
number of women than men, which is
rare, and these women were nearly all
habitues of the public balls aud race
tracks. ’'
“And bow can you tell that?”
* Because they have pretty feet ”
Professor Moriu arrived with a con
frere, a young Pasteuriau doctor, with
a singular mind, broad aud receptive,
and who passed among his companions
for a man fond of chimeras, a little re
tiring, however, aud given over to mak
ing experiments and to vague dreams.
M. Morin sainted M. Ginory and pre
sented to him the young doctor, Erwin
by name, aud said to the magistrate
that th# house students had probably
begun the autopsy to gain time.
The body, stripped of its clothing, la?
upon tho dissecting table, and three
young men in velvet skullcaps, with
aprons tied about their waists, were
standing about the corpse. They had al
ready begun the autopsy. The mortal
wound looked redder than ever in the
whiteness of the naked body.
B> rnardet glided into the room, try
ing to keep out of sight, listening ard
i looking, and above everything uot los
ing sight of M. Gincry's face—a face in
which the look was keen, penetrating,
sharp as a knife, as he bent over tbe
pale face of the murdered a jo, regard
' ing it as ecarcbingly as the surgeons’
| scalpels were searching the wound and
’ the flesh. Among those men in their
black clothes, somo wi*h bared heads in
order to work better, others w ith huts
on, the stretched out corpse seemed like
a wax figure upon a marble slab. Ber
nardet thought of those images which
' he had 6een copied from Rembrandt's
j pictures—tbe poet with the anatomical
1 pinchers and the shambles. Tho surgeons
i bent over the body, tboir hands busy
ar.d their scissors cutting the muscles.
That wound, which hud let out his lire,
I that lame wound, like a monstrous aud
r?i: .cii ; jiohta, ,they eulaij,.-d still
njoro. The head oscillated from side tp
sioe, aim they w ere uotiged to prop It
with some mats. The eyes remained the
same and in spite of the hours which
bad passed seemed as living, as menac
ing and eloqtieut ns tho bight before.
They were, hovover, veiled with some
thing vitreous over tho pupils, liko the
amaurosis of death, yet full of that
anger, of that fright or that ferocious
malediction which wns reproduced iu a
startling manner in the negatives taken
by Beruardet
"The secret of tbe crimo is in that
look, ’’ thought tbo polico agent. "Those
eyes see; those ey es speak. They tell
what they know; they nccuso someone. ”
Then while the professor, his asso
ciates and his students went on with
the autopsy, exchanging observations,
following in the mutilated body their
researches for the truth, trying to be
very accurate as to the nature of the
wound, tlm form even of the knife with
which It wns made, Bernardet softly
approaobed the examining magistrate,
and in a low tone timidly, rospeotfully,
he spoke some words, which were in
sistent, however, and pressing, urging
the magistrate to quickly interfere.
"Ah, M. lo Juge, this is the mo
ment! Von who can do everything”—
The examining magistrate has with
us absolute power. He decs whatever
seoms to him best, and he wishes to do
a thing because ho wishes to do it. M.
Giuory, curious by Dature and because
I", was his duty, hesitated, scratched his
ear, rubbed his nose, bit his lips, listen
ed to tho supplicating murmur of the
police Officer, but decided not to speak
just then and continued gaziDg with a
fixed stare at the dead man.
This thought came to him, moreover,
insistent and imperious—that he was
there to testify in all things in favor of
that truth the discovery of which im
posed uj>on him—and suddenly his sharp
voice the surgeon's work.
“Messieurs, does not the expression
of .the open eves strike you?” .
To bu continued next week'
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TON.
■‘l’ve got several plantations, own
thirty mule - and expert to make 200
bales ■ f cotton this year,” said a
prominent Southwest Georgia farmer
toCapt. I- B- English a few daps ago
“and 1 want to borrow 9, 000'’ ho
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make too much cottou,” was Capt.
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“Too much cotton is the whole
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reporter yesterdoy. “Strange as it
may seem, the planters, with starva
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knowing that they can.t make a cent
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refusing to advanec them money on
the expectancy of the cotton crop,
really save them from themselves-
Last year I had out SIOOO, 000 to
farmers and was fortunate enough to
collect it all, but 1 just, barely did it
Now, if I barelv collected wht was
owing me with coUor on a basid of 5
cents, how could I expect to collect a
like amount with cotton at 3 cents,
watch it will, in all probability be, if
anotlior big crop is made-”
Capt. English said that he had seen
the estimate of the Texas crop for the
coming season placed at 3, 000,000
hales- This should be a sufficient
warning to the other cotton growing
states to curtail tlieir crops, and toe
farmer who fails to heed the warning
will be the loser, :'n the opinion of
Capt. English.
As Capt. English is one of the
most experienced and at the same
time most conservative cotton man
in the country, his views a-e well
worth considering - He has the in
terests of the farmens at heart and
having studied them closely, is in po
sition to speak. lie thinks they
would he oettor off if they would buy
less guano and pay n. >re attention to
other crops than cotton. Ex.
Macon’s Odd Fellows sent down a
delegation to Tifton Wednesday
night to institute the Tifton Enoamp
iiKT.tNo.2I of the order. Twenty
one candidates were installed and
there i* a atrong probability that
: before very long a Rein'"a lor go of
jadies will he instituted there, as the
people of Tifton are very enthusias
tic, and many of them are Odd Fel
; lows Uv nature aud by training*
Those who went down from Macon
were District Deputy Grand Patri
arch W. C- Knohloak’ C. S. McKay,
George F. Wing, Joe P. Holmes, E.
H. Holloway, John T* Cornell and
T’ A. Cbealam, who acted as a grand
patriarch, and Mr. Holmes acted as
grand senior warden, George Wing
grand high priest, W. C. Knoblock
grand junior w arden, E’ IP Hollo
way grand inside sentinel, ,J. T. Con
nell grand outside sentinel, C. S.
McKay, grand secretary.
The members at Tifton expressed
themsoieen as highly pleased with the
instructions given them in the un
written work. It is predicted that
within six months they will have a
lodge of at least fifty members-
After the ceremonies of initiation
all of the new officers were installed
into their proper places and ihen the
lodge closed ind the Macon Cd 1
Fe 1 iws were tendered an oyster
supper.
They all rep:.it amo t deli, h
fi.l as well as profitable trip.—Ms
con Telegraph.
HEAD-END COLLISION.
A Rknaway Horse Encountered
ail Engine and Got a Little
the Worst of It.
A day or two ago Mr. C. A. Joyce,
the cigar manufacturer, was out
with a horse dealer trying a very
fine animal with a view to purchasing
it.
The gentlemen left the buggy for
a few seconds at a place out toward
South Macoa, and in " twinkling the
horse made a dash. He skipped off
down tbe street at a 2 17 clip snow
ing himself off to the very best ad
vantage In his eagerness to show
how fast he could travel, be left tbe
street and took down the railroad
track: Soon be encountered an en
gine coming toward him. This
didn't upset his nerve in the icas-;
j lie just ran right lull front against
i it. He and the buggy got a frne
i up the incline of the co-.v-catcher and
the boggy was smashed to pieces,
while the horse was lcnl over to one
side, a mass of boaes
The engine went of. and didn't
even look back. Macon Telegraph
SOUR BTOMAC CURE.
A long time I was a great sufferer
from Liver a fid stomach trouble*. I
had a dull pain in my left lide under
my heart. At times my side became
swollen and tlie pain acute. My stom
ach was always sour and I would uomit
every time I eat. My bowels were
very irregular, causing me pain and
distress. I tried many things without
any benefit. I read of yaur medicine
and concluded to try it, and an glad
hat I did. I felt better afterf the first
dose. I continued to take Ramon'.
Liver Pills <fc Tonic Peflets until I was
entirely cured. —D. W, Penland, Otto,
Macon Cos., N, C.
The Original Candler Man.
Thn original Candler roan in Geor
gia is Uncle Tommie Suddcth, who
is now 87 years old. He was tor
Candler for Governor in 1892, in
1894, in 189 C. and iu 1898. Can-
I diet- is his first choice all the time,
> and it was in 1894 thar he said, “Col.
Candler will be govornor of Georgia
some day, and I want to live to see
that event,” Unole Tommie came
here from Hall county, and was the
first man in Hail to urge Col. Can
tiler to run for representative, the
first time Col. Candler ever held a
satto office. lie was his zealous sup
porter for state senator, and rode
night an 1 dav for congress. Uncle
Tom said a few days ago, “I am get
ting mighty feeble, hut I do hope
to live to cast one more vote for Al
len Candler.” Wo expect to see
cleaner politics this year than Geor
gia has witnessed in eight years.—
Jackson Herald.
MOAEY
TO LOAN.
Monevto loan on real estate
for five vears at 6 per cent
interest Borrowers to pay ex
penses of obtaini? loan.
for full particulars call on or
address
CHAS, M, WALKER.
Harmony Grove, Ga,
j Winder ’'fay Have a Cotton Mill,
On last Thursday the. citizens of
Winder met to discuss plans for
electing a cotton factory at teat
place. The meeting was an inter
j esting one, ail seeming to be m svm
pathy with the movement,
j Col. U. B. Kusseli, chairman of the
■ meeting, was giv. n the power to ap
| point a committee of six to solicit
\ subscriptions. The following men
were appointed:
R. L. Carithers, J. H. Sikes-, VV.
H. Bash, S. W. Arnold, W. H. Fos
ter, and L. C. Russell, These are
all good men for the work and Wil
der is reasonably fissured a cottou
mill iu the near future.—Ex.
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o
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