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THE VIENNA PROGRESS
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“Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May.”
JOHN E HO WELL, Editor and Proprietor,
VOL. XI r. NO. lfi
VIENNA, GA.. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 14, 1893. '
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
UNSHED.
'The tears we shed on earth God know*
In agony must fall,
Eut, oh ! the tears we never shed
Are bitterer than all.
For liko the summer rain to flowers
Come tears to those who weep ;
Put as the hot dust in their hearts
Are those that they must keep.
-Ethel Leitner, In Frank Leslie’s Monthly.
BY MUTUAL CONSENT.
j HERE was no doubt
that the Messin-
gers were fortu
nate in possessing
so charming a
house as the Ness.
It was built at the
head of a narrow
valley shut in by
two hills, and be
yond the sloping lawns stretched a
wide expanse of sea.
Mr. and Mrs. Messinger were sim
ple unaffected people, devoted to their
children, and to Nancy, Mrs. Messin-
ger’s young step-sister. They treated
her with a kind of reverential tender
ness, chiefly due to the fact that she
was entirely dependent on them. And
in her turn, Nancy filled the place of a.
loving elder sister to the tribe of little
ones, and of friend-in-chief to her
gentle sister-in-law.
One sunny afternoon in early sum
mer Mrs. Messinger sat at the open
bay window of tl^e drawing room, read-
i ng. She was a placid little lady, sel
dom ruffled in mind or temper, and
her sweet face and soft blue eyes were
pleasant to contemplate. The door
opened presently, and Nancy came in
y rather slowly. Her expression was as
sweet Rnd gentle as her sister’s, but
J'hcr great dark eyes and firmly cut
mouth and chin bore evidence of much
greater strength and individuality of
character. She came over to the win
dow and seated herself in a low bas-
kct-chair with an air of constraint.
“I have had a letter from Jim,” she
said.
“Yes; I saw it on the hall table,”
replied Mary, laying down her book.
•“Does he say when ho is coming?”
“Yes; he came by the same steam
ship as the letter. He will be here to
morrow, I suppose.”
“Nancy ! really?” asked Mary, look
ing almost excited. “Are you not
delighted?”
“I—I—have a confession to make,”
said Nancy, nervously, looking out
over the sea. “I thought I loved Jim
when he went out to India five years
igo, but I was only seventeen then,
and did not realize what love meant.
We had known each other all our lives,
>nd I mistook our friendship for love. ”
“When did you mako this terrible
discovery?” asked Mary, in distress.
“I have felt it dimly for a year or
two, but what made it all clear to me
was Jim’s last letter, saying that he
was coming home. It filled me with
dismay and fear. I felt that I simply
could not meet him ns his bethrothed
wife, so I wrote last mail, and asked
him to release mo from my engage-
neat. ”
‘ ‘And what does he say ?” Mary asked,
anxiously.
“He is delighted,” said Nancy,
brightening. ‘ ‘He says that his feel
ings have changed too.”
“I always think of you in the future
as his wife,” sighed Mrs. Messinger,
whose mind was slow to welcome new
ideas. “Are you sure you are wise,
dear?”
“Quite sure,” Nancy answered,
firmly. ‘ ‘And you will break the news
gently to Ned, won’t you? And please
get reconciled to the arrangement soon.
I feel so delightfully airy and free !”
“You never hinted at any change
before.” said Mary, a little reproach
fully.
“I only know it dimly, or I might
have done so,” replied replied Nancy,
gently. “And since I wrote to him I
have been silent, to spare yon any
anxiety. I have felt it for the last
three years in writing to him. My
letters have never been from the
present Nancy, but from the
Nancy as I could remember her
at seventeen. In fact, I have been
‘writing down’ to the level of his in
telligence as shown in his letters, and
that level is painfully low. But hap
pily, you see, he is as pleased to end
our engagement as I am.”
“He would be much more likely to
object if he once saw you,” said Mary,
frankly, “for these five years have
done wonders with you in everyway.”
“Oh, he is so boyish that he will
think me strong-minded, and therefore
dislike me,” said Nancy, laughingly.
“And I did send him my last photo
graph, you know.”
“Did you send that hideous thing?”
asked Mary in surprise.
“Well,” confessed Mary, rather re
luctantly, “I believe I had some secret,
unconfessed hope that he would offer
to break off the engagement if he once
saw that hideous caricature. But here
:comes Ned; I shall leave you to ex
plain things to him. ”
A day or two later Nancy started for
her usual afternoon walk along the
[ifliffs. Since she had been released
'from the engagement, which for some
years past had been weighing on her
spirit, she had been in a state of ex
hilaration which surprised her. The
world seemed wholly beautifully; life
was an unmixed blessing; sin and
poverty were rarer than she had
thought. Walking quickly along,
absorbed in these pleasant reflections,
she did not hear footsteps behind her,
and was surprised at hearing herself
mddenly addressed. Looking up with
itartled eyes she found a young man
gazing at her with a puzzled, intent
expression in his handsome face.
“You are Nancy, are you not?” he
said, doubtfully, holding out his hand.
“Why, Jim, is it really you?” asked
Nancy, regarding him with surprise
‘•How you have grown! When did you
tome? and how did you find me?”
“I came two days ago,” he said, red
dening slightly in irritation at her first
words. “Bather was anxious that I
should stay with him yesterday, but I
called at the Ness this afternoon, and
Mrs. Messinger told me where I should
find you. ”
“Let us go home now, and then you.
can see them all,” she said, turning
back. “You will -hardly know the
Vhiltlren; they were such mites when
pou left. ”
“I certainly shall not, if they have
altered as much as you have done. I
scarcely kgew you.” he said, looking
down at her with intent gray eyes, and
inwardly comparing this ' beautiful,
graceful girl with the gauche school
girl of five years since.
“I am older,” she said, her heart
sinking strangely. “He might dis
guise the iact that he finds me a dis
appointing failure,” she thought,
rather bitterly.
“Of course we are no longer boy and
girl,” he said. “But I hope we shall
always be friends, Nancy 1 We have
been that all our lives, haven’t we?”
“Yes, let us be friends, * she said.
And thinking that he was eager to im
press upon her that they were to be
nothing more, she added. “And it
was very wise to break off that child
ish engagement before you came home,
wasn’t it?”
“Y—yes,” he said, donbtfluly, “oh,
yes, of course. Your feelings are
naturally quite changed, I suppose,
Nancy?”
“Naturally, she said calmly, but
thinking to herself that she was not so
sure about that, after all.
“Naturally,” he echoed, his eyes,
however, becoming a little clouded.
“Those boy and girl engagements
never answer, do they? Peoplo de
velop so differently from what one
would expect. Judging from your let
ters, I should have thought you utter
ly different from what I find you.”
“You are equally different from what
I should have expected you to be,”
she answered. “But let us put up
with each other as we are; we need
not see much of one another, you
know.”
They had just reached the gate lead
ing into the garden of the Ness, as
she said this, and unconsciously she
paused outside. Jim took this,
coupled with her last words, as a hint
that he should go, and was more hurt
than he cared to own.
“Good afternoon,” he said, stiffly,
raising his hat. “Your suggestion is
a brilliant one, and you need not fear
that I shall trouble you with my pres
ence more often than is necessary.”
“You are coming in?” she said,
looking at him with pained, pleading
eyes.
“Thank you, no,” he said coldly.
“I have seen Mrs. Messinger and your
brother, and the children will keep. ”
“Good-by,” she said, turning in at
the open gate in order that he should
not sec the rising tears.
"Good-by,” he said, freezingly,
thinking her absolutely cruel in not
shaking hands. She went up the little
sloping avenue slowly and sadly, try
ing te crush back the tears which
would rise to her eyes in spite of her
efforts. She had succeeded before
reaching the hall, and could nnswer
her sister’s surprised questions quite
calmly.
“My dear Mary,” she said, laughing
gently, “you forget our changed rela
tions. You must not expect him to
come ns often as he used. We have
both come to the conclusion that we
are quite different from what we had
thought each other, and we have mu
tually agreed to see as little as possible
of ono another.”
But when she reached her own
room her self-control deserted her, and
she cast herself down on the little
couch and wept long and bitterly.
“I hate him !” she said to herself,
vindictively. “I do;. I hate him!
No, I don t; I • believe I do the very
opposite. Oh, I ought to be ashamed
of myself to care for one so utterly
indifferent to me! He didn’t even
come in, and after all these years! He
shall never know that I love him,
never 1 However much I may suffer,
I have enough pride to hide it. He
shall think me as indifferent as he is
himself. ”
Her mouth took a hard look, very
foreign to-its sweet lines, as she rose
and bathed her face; and through all
that evening-she ‘bore herself so brave
ly that.no one guessed of the bitter
ness and wounded pride she thus smil
ingly hid.
If Mrs. Messinger had been given to
abstruse reflections, she might have
asked herself how Jim and Nancy
could possibly avoid each other, ac
cording to their compact, when he was
always coming to the Ness? For he
came every day, and at all houi-3 of
the day, as he had been wont to do
five years ago. There was one differ
ence between this daily intercourse and
that of the old times, and that a rather
important one. Nancy lost all her
gentle brightness when speaking to
Jim, and was coldly, distantly polite
to him. He saw this and no doubt re
sented it, but Nancy never guessed
that from his manner. He did every
thing he could think of to please her,
but with no outward effect. Inwardly
she knew that her love for him was
strengthening day by day, and that no
power of hers could prevent it.
Jim was in a most trying position.
He knew himself to be deeply in love
with Nancy; his feeling for her had
never died, as he had imagined; but
with the knowledge of her as a sweet,
noble woman came the knowledge that
he had forfeited the right to tell of his
love. Her letters had been of a kind
of which he had wearied when he had
.ceased to be a youth. But, anxious
that his own letters should not be as
uninteresting to her as hers were to
him he had written in a boyish, semi-
frivolous strain, which he thought
would be pleasing to her, as natural to
herself. He could not understand
how such a thoughtful intelligent girl
as he knew her now to be, could have
written such shallow, characterless
letters. He supposed that she had
not cared enough for him to write
about what she felt interested in.
Nancy grew colder . and more con
strained than ever in her manner
toward him, and though every day he
felt more clearly that his love was
hopeless, he found it more and more
difficult to hide it from her. He was
too proud and too jpanly to force his
love on her, believing, as he did, that
she disliked him; and at last, after a
bitter struggle with himself, he deter
mined to return to India at once.
He had never been to the Ness late
ly without some valid reason, and this
new decision was so good an excuse
for calling that he was not slow in
taking advantage of it. He found
Nancy in the garden, arrayed in a
large, white sun bonnet, busily gath
ering strawberries for tea.
You will find it rather hot work, I
He had soon filled the basket, and
then, at his suggestion, they seated
themselves under an old apple tree to
rest. Nancy took off her sun bonnet,
and leaned her bare head against the
gnarled trunk languidly. Jim watched
her as she eat there, thinking that he
would soon have only the memory ol
her sweet, pure face to bear with him.
“I came up this afternoon to sav
goodby, ” he said, breaking the long
silence rather abruptly.
Nancy started slightly and raised
her eyes to his in wonderment.
“Goodby?” she said. “And where
are yon going?”
“I am going back to' India; I have
had enough of England.”
“To India? At once? Oh, why?”
she asked piteously, growing very
white, and looking at him with
frightened eyes.
An expression of tremulous hope be
gan to dawn on Jim’s face as he saw
how his words had affected her.
“Do you care, Nancy?” he asked,
eagerly. “Wouldyou rather I stayed?”
“My wishes have nothing to do with
the matter,” she said, rather bitterly.
“Indeed they have,” he said, very
earnestly. “Nancy, tell me, would
you rather I stayed?”
“If I say yes, would you stay?” she
asked, quietly.
“Only if you loved me,” he said.
“I cannot stay on and see you day
after day, and feel that you will never
care for me. May I stay, Nancy?”
“If you like,” she auswered, shyly.
Jim took her into liisarms.and kissed
her very tenderly.
‘ ‘There is one thing I want to know, ”
he said, presently, looking down into
her eyes; “when did you begin to love
me, dear?”
“When did you begin to love me?”
she replied, blushing under his gaze.
“I don’t know; I have loved you
all my lifel ” he answered.
“I don’t know, either,” she said:
“when I was about four or five, I
think. ”
“But, my darling, yon broke off our
engagement,” he said, wonderingly.
“Yes; from your letters I thought 1
did not love you. They were so stupid
—I—I mean—”
“Yes, they were' stupid, but yours
were silly, too, and I thought that was
the kind of thing you liked,” he said,
a ray of intelligence dawning in his
eyes.
‘ ‘I thought you were terribly boy
ish, so wrote very ‘young’ letters,
thinking they would interest you,”, she
said, beginning to laugh.
“We both fell into the samo ' mis
take, then,” he said, laughing, too,
though a little regretfully. “Oh,
Nancy ! we might have had such a good
time ! How I wish I had the letters
that you might have written!”
“Yes, it is a pity” she said. “But
it is all right now, and I will write the
sweetest letters to you in future.”
“Indeed you will not,” he replied,
in a calmly masterful tone. “I never
mean to leave you again. * We must
look upon those letters as a part of the
vast ‘It-might-have-been. ’ ”—Waverley
Magazine.
THE STATE LEGISLATORS.
Georgias’ Law Makers Assemble at -the
Capitol.
l>er of new bills were presented and
read, and the house adjourned.
Routine of the House and Senate Brief
Jy Reported.
The History of Our Dollar.
The silver dollar lias had a lot oi
trouble in its -day and generation.
Some of the facts concerning it are oi
immediate interest and will bear sum
ming up. Here is a chronological his
tory of the silver dollar :
Authorized to be coined, act oi
April 2, 1892; weight, 410 grains;
fineness, S72.4.
Weight changed, act of January 18,
1837, 4124 grains.
Fineness changed, act of January
18, 1837, to 900 grains.
Coinage discontinued, . act of Feb
ruary 28, 1873.
Total amount coined to February
12, 1837, $8,031,238.
Coinage reauthorized, act of Feb
ruary 28, 1878.
Amount coined from March 1, 1878,
to December 31, 1837, $283,259,357
(including $1937 recoined).
Total amount coined to December
31, 1S89, $357,969,239.
The first silver dollar was put in cir
culation in 1794.
“It was a crude design,” says a his
torian. “On the obverse, or face ol
the coin, was imprinted the head of a
young lady facing to the right. Her
hair was flowing to such an extent that
she looked as if taken in a gale oi
wind.”
In 1796 Congress stepped in to the
aid of the typical damsel and tied her
hair up with a bit of ribbon.
The fifteen stars were after -this re
duced to the original thirteen in rec
ognition of the number of States.
In 1836 the design was a°*air
changed and the silver dollar bore the
full figure of a neatly-dressed woman
in a flowing garment. The designer,
however, forgot to put on the thirteen
stars and the coin was soon called in.
Any one now in possession of one ol
these • dollars Las a valuable souvenir.
The new design had the lady sur
rounded by stars. It was an improve
ment on its predecessor, but the air oi
the female figure was defiant and stiff.
The dollar of 1838 was the first artis
tic piece of silver coined in the Unite!
States mint.
On April 22, 1864, the first dollar
having the legend “In God we trust,”
was coined.
In 1S73 the era of the trade dollai
of 900 fineness began. That trouble
some dollar ran its erratic course ir
just five years.
In 1878 the liberty dollar made it!
appearance. Miss Ann W. Williams,
a teacher in the girls’ normal schoo.
at Philadelphia, -sat for the portrait,
her profile being then considered the
most perfect obtainable. Her classic
features still decorate the silver dollar
—Atlanta Journal. -
The First Piano.
No one can tell exactly who madt
the first piano, for -the reason that it
has gradually “evolved” from an in
strument as much itself as one could
well imagine. In the twelfth century
it appears to have been a gigantic dul
cimer, which was merely an oblong
box holding a series of strings ar
ranged in triangular form across its
centre. In the thirteenth and four
teenth centuries the “clavichord,’
another musical. monstrosity, had de
veloped from it, and was used well up
am afraid, ’ he said, ■ looking down [ in the eighteenth century. About
“Let
'gravely into her flushed face,
me pick some now.” >. -
:-“Thank- you,” she answered, . re
signing, basket; ‘ ‘stooping so much,
has tired me a little.”
1711 Ghrrstafali of Padna invented a
real piano, but it is said to remind on<
of a coal box when compared with th«
'elegant and perfect toned instrumeni
• JrQffb-day.-—-t$t.--Lt>nis Republic-' A
THE HOl'SE.
Monday, Nov. 6.—There was a notice
able absence of members from the
house Monday morning. Many who
obtained leaves of absence on Satur
day had not returned, and empty
chairs rather than legislators faced the
speaker when he called the house to
order. Quite a spirited discussion
was created over the resolution of Mr.
Gray, of Catoosa to relieve Alex Satiee-
man, a citizen of Catoosa. The bill
by Mr. McDonald, of Gwinnett, to
amend the law authorizing the build
ing of courthouses in the different
militia districts of the state was taken
np. After some discussion favor
able to “ the hill, it was pass
ed, and now, upon the recommen
dation of the grand jury, these
militia district conrthonses ean be
built. The following local bills were
read the third time and passed : To es
tablish a system of public schools in
Blackshear; To amend the liquor li
cense law of Tatnall county ; To amend
the act establishing public schools in
Conyers; To amend the registration
law of Irwin county; To amend the act
creating a board of commissioners of
roads and revenues for Webster coun
ty; To incorporate the village of Nel-
lyville; To amend the charter of
Gainesville; to regulate municipal
elections in Savannah ; to repeal the act
prohibiting seining in Upson county.
The following general bills were read
the third time and passed : To amend
the general tax act so that the require
ments of a certain paragraph relating
to insurance companies shall not apply
to agents of industrial life insurance
companies; To amend section 1319 of
the code so that the directors of the
lunatic asylum can make their annual
report on the first of September ; To
authorize writs of error to the supreme
court from decisions on petitions, for
discharge from imprisonment in bail
trover cases; To make clerks of the
superior court eligible to hold the of
fice of city or county court clerk in
the county of his residence; To pro
vide when appeals from police and re
corders’ courts shall be filed; To
amend the act relating to the firing of
woods so that they can be fired at any
time provided the fire is not allowed
to get on the lands of another. Mr.
Thomas, of Coweta, introduced a bill
to amend the act incorporating the
town of Sharpsburg, and then the
house adjourned.
Wednesdat, Nov. 8.—There was
a very slim' attendance in the
house Wednesday morning—in fact,
it did not appear that there was
a quorum present all of the time. The
finance committee reported back the
bill to reduce the homestead, with a
recommendation that it do notpass: al
so a similar recommendation on the
bill, requiring parties who have issued
checks to laborers, good for supplies,
to pay the same in cash. The gover
nor notified the house that he had ap
proved the following bill: To amend
an act to create a system of pub
lic schools for Marietta'; to levy a
tax for that purpose, etc. The
house passed the bill to refnnd
the amounts received by the
state from the purchasers of wild
lands. The bill provides for the pay
ment when parties who bought wild
lands when Goldsmith was comptroller
general, and have either since been
ousted from possession, or who will
make a quit claim to the land to the
state. The bill passed with only ono
dissenting vote. Mr. Calvin, of
Richmond county, introduced a reso
lution authorizing the commissioner
of agriculture to publish a handbook
of Georgia, setting forth her re
sources, etc. The book is to bo sold
at a price to cover the cost of print
ing. The resolution was referred to
the committee on agriculture.
A number of other new bills were
presented and read first time. Bills
on third reading were then taken up
and the following passed: The bill
making the same formalities necessa
ry to the attestation of a deed, apply
to the attestation of bonds for tittle ;
The bill to allow judges to appoint
bailiffs in special cases. The bill to
fix the fees of the ordinaries of the va
rious counties, in making settlements
with executors, etc., was after some
dilatory discussion laid on the table.
At 12 o’clock, in pursuance of a joint
resolution, Dr. Boggs, chancellor of
the University of Georgia, delivered
an address on “The University, Its
Needs and Its Progress.” There is a
statute law requiring the chancellor to
make this address annually. It is in
the nature of a report to the legisla
ture of the work of the university.
Dr. Boggs delivered an interesting ad
dress. In addition to the members of
the legislature, there was a large crowd
of citizens in the gallery.
Thursday, Noy. 9.—Air. Gordy, of
Chattahoochee county, wants to short
en the session of the legislature, and,
therefore, ofl'ered a resolution in the
house Thursday morning that the leg
islature adjourn sine die on the 3d
Jay of December. If his resolution
is adopted, which is not at all proba
ble, the session will be ended within
forty days from the time it convened.
Mr. Hill, of Merriwethcr, .made the
suggestion that the house hold an
evening session to dispose of unfinish
ed business, -which was adopted.
Mr. Ham, of Hall couniy, introduced
a bill to authorize and direct the gov
ernor to issue bonds to the amount of
$368,000 for the purpose of raising
money with which to pay off that por
tion of the public debt, or so much as
may be necessary, represented by the
interest of the public debt maturing
in the year 1893. The finance. com
mittee reported favorably, to the.pas
sage of the bill, but there was a mi
nority report signed by Messrs.
Branch, Wheeler and others. The dis
cussion of the bill was participated in
by several members, when it was laid
on the table temporarily. -The bill in
troduced by Mr. Harrison, ofiQsit-
man, to establish a county court' -for
Quitman cpnnty was. passed,’.; Air.
Martin’s resolution anUtipzing the
governor to purchase-, a few .Jjpndred
copies of the ^o'Hd-w : as passed r .-A^num-
IN TIIE SEXtTE.
Monday, Nov. 5.—The senate met
at the usual hour Monday morning
with just about enough members pres
ent to constitute a quorum. Mr.
j Smith of the 34th, introduced a reso
lution which was adopted, providing
for the appointment of a committee to
investigate and report what legislation,
if any, is necessary to prevent, or to
regulate the formation of “physical
pools,” an alleged combination to con
trol the transportation of cotton by
railway and steamship companies.
The time for hearing from Chancel
lor Boggs was changed from 8 p. m.
on Wednesday night, to 12 m. on the
same day. The senate adopted the
house resolution accepting the portrait
of the late D. N. Speer which was pre
sented by his family. The portrait is
to be hung in the treasury depart
ment. The following resolution, intro
duced by Senator Fleming was unan
imously adopted: Whereas, Tues
day, the 7th day of November,
will be the 78th birthday of our
venerable and beloved chaplain, Rev.
John Jones, D. D. ; therefore, Re
solved, 1, That we congratulate him
upon continued life and good health,
and join him in devout thanks to the
giver of all good. Resolved, 2. We
request him, immediately after the
reading of the journal Wednesday
morning, to favor us with some re
marks, such as he may be pleased to
make. Two or three bills were read
the second time, when, upon motion
of Senator Corpnt, the senate adjourn
ed to meet at 9 o’clock Wednesday
morning, as the committee on lunatic
asylum left to inspect that institution.
Tuesday, Noy. 7.—The house held
a dull and uninteresting session Tues
day. There was barely a quorum
present at roll call, and at other times
during the day the speaker had to
end out for members to make the
quorum. The committee on the lu
natic asylum left during the day to
inspect the asylum, while members
of other committees were busy at
tending committee meetings in their
committee rooms. The bill of Mr.
Boynton, of Calhoun, to repeal the
law requiring the ordinaries of the
various counties to keep a set of stand
ard weights and measures, brought
about a little discussion. After
some desultory remarks the bill
was recommitted to the judiciary com
mittee to be perfected. A bill to ex
empt railroad ticket agents selling ac
cident insurance tickets from tax as in
surance agents was read. The present
law requires a tax of $10 special for
each agent in every county. The bill
was passed by 91 yeas to 3 nays. Rep
resentative Boifeuiilet, of Bibb, intro
duced a bill of great importance to ev
ery newspaper in the state, and of gen
eral interest to the public. The pur
pose of this measure is to protect
newspapers against malicious and
unjust prosecutions, for alleged libel.
Mr. Fleming introduced an important
bill. His bill provides for an appro
priation for a normal school to be run
in connection with the State Univer
sity, and open to both males and fe
males. . The bill was referred to the
committee on education. A big batch
of other new bills were presented and
read first time, after which the house
adjourned until AVednesday.
Wednesday, Nov. 8.—The senators
met one hour earlier than usual Wed
nesday morning to listen to the ad
dress of the Rev. John Jones, the
chaplain of that body. The venerable
preacher, from time immemorial, has
opened the proceedings of the Geor
gia upper honse. It was a unique
scence for a legislative body. The
aged, silver-haired chaplain, with
square collar and white stock tie,
talked for something over an hour.
He stood near the alert, youthful
president of the senate, who through
out his talk regarded the chaplain
with affection and interest. Air.
Jones’ talk was reminiscent in its
nature. He dwelt on the religious
side of the life of many of Georgia’s
departed statesmen. By a rising vote
the senate thanked Mr. Jones for his
address. The senate passed the fol
lowing bills: To repeal section 1329
of the code of Georgia; A bill giving
the governor authority to designate
certain banks in certain cities as state
depositories; To amend section 3211
of the code; To regulate costs in dis-
possessory warrants; To authorize
the proper athorities of the town
of Washington, Georgia, to issue
and sell bonds not exceeding $18,000.
Mr. Chambers, of the twenty-first
district, introduced a bill to regulate
the rights of widows and minors to
year’s support out of crops of tenants.
At 11:30 the senate took a recess un
til 11:55, when it met in joint
session with the house to hear Chan
cellor Boggs. The senate passed a
resolution thanking the Hon. J. L. M.
Curry, of Virginia, for his recent address
to the house and senate in joint ses
sion. Mr. Wilson, of the 11th sena
torial district, introduced a reso
lution which was adopted. It
was in regard to the repeal of
the 10 per cent tax on state banks.
The resolution is as follows: Whereas,
We believe that upon matters so vital
ly affecting the people as the mode and
manner of issuing currency, local ne
cessities require local government and
regulations and a recognition of tho
UTincinle and practice of home rule.
And, whereas, we believe that a large part
of the financial distress under which
we labor is due to capacity of central
control and manipulations of currency,
and that the remedy for this consists
in decentralizing the currency so far
as possible, and that this can only be
accomplished by a safe, sound and
well regulated currency. And,
whereas, the national democratic
platiorm declares in favor of the re
peal of the ten per cent taxation on
issues of state hanks; therefore, be it
Resolved, By the senate, the honse
concurring, that we request congress—
soon to assemble—to repeal the ten
per cent tax on state banks’ issue as
soon as the same can be properly done.
Resolved, second, That a copy of these
resolutions, when signed by the gov
ernor, shall be made out and sent to
the speaker of the house of represent
atives, with the request that the same
be laid before congress.
Thursday, Nov. 9—The cold -murky
•atmosphere and; the .drizzling rain
Thursday morning,; while it did not-
prevent a quorum in the Georgia u,p-.
ger. hogse, soon made the senators':
Nreary'_in' “their work and at IF:05'-
S’ clock the body adjourned until Pfi-
day. There were several important
matters attended to, however, before
adjournment came. Mr. Hackett in
troduced a resolution providing for
the printing of one hundred copies of
the committee to investigate the con
dition of the treasury. The motion
was adopted. Mr. Reese intro-
dued a very important resolu
tion which was immediately and
unanimously adopted, bearing on the
rights of the state to the right of way
of the Western and Atlantic railroad.
Another resolution of importance
was introduced by Mr. Pinson. It
relates to another branch of Georgia’s
underpaid and overworked judiciary.
It was to raise a committee of seven to
examine into the propriety and prac
ticability of the state’s equalizing the
work of the judges of the superior
court of this state. The chairman an
nounced the committee. Mr. Wright
of the first introduced a bill which
passed to increase the liquor license of
Effingham county to $5,000. A bill
was passed to repeal an act creating a
board of commissioners of roads and
revenues for the county of Clinch and
to restore the law as it existed prior
to August, 1887. The senate then ad
journed.
THE NIGHT SESSION A FARCE.
The Thursday night session of the
house proved to be a farce. The sum
total of the work done was the reading
of one little local bill for the second
time by title only, the hearing of three
reports of committees, and the read
ing of the roll of members nine times
on a question to adjourn. With this
record the members of the house
showed that a stubborn determination
to enforce a night session can be met
by a stubborn determination to make
it a howling, pious fraud.
ANNIE PIXLEY DIES.
The Popular American Actress Passes
Away in London.
Annie Pixley, the well known Amer
ican actress, died in London Wednes
day night at the residence of her
brother-in-law, Edwin Fulford. Her
husband was present at her death,
which was caused by brain fever.
Annie Pixley was born in New York
city in 1855. When two years of age
she was taken to California and edit-'
cated in a convent. While still a child
she appeared with her parents at sev
eral mining camps and made a hit
with impromptu song and dance. La
ter, she went to Australia and married
Robert Fulford, an actor. Fulford
eventually retired from the stage and
became his wife’s manager. Alias Pix
ley made a great hit as “AI’Liss” in
BretHarte’s “Luck of Roaring Camp.”
She starred throughout the country,
and also appeared in several other
plays.
The Seale Signed.
A Pittsburg special says: After
two days’ session three of the largest
rolling mill plants in Mahoning valley
Saturday night signed the scale sub
mitted by the National Finishers Un
ion. The scale is practically the one
agreed upon by the amalgamated asso
ciation, with the exception that there
is no time set for its expiration.
WORK OF BOMB THROWERS.
Fifteen People Killed and Many In
jured by an Explosion.
A special of Wednesday from Bar
celona, Spain, says: Tuesday night,
during the performance of “William
Tell,” at the Lyceum opera honse,
place much frequented by the elite of
Barcelona society, two bombs, pre
sumably loaded with dynamite, were
thrown from the gallery. One ex
ploded with a terrific report. Almost
every person In the house sprung to
to his feet in terror and dismay. Wild
shrieks and cries of agony rose from
the lower part of the house, and it was
known that many persons had been
injured.
FIFTEEN BODIES IN ONE HEAP.
When the wreckage was in some de
gree cleared away it was found that
fifteen dead bodies, of which six were
those of men and nine the corpses of
women. The bodies of the ladies lay
close together, their bright-colored
evening dresses, laces and jewelry,
gloves, hats and bonnets and other
finery drenched in blood and torn in
the most fearful manner.
It is reported that soon after the ex
amination of tho dead began that a
large proportion of the killed belong
ed to one family who had taken a num
ber of tickets, it is presumed, forming
a theater party in honor of the birth
day of one of those lying there shat
tered to death by the anarchist bomb.
The only persons who retained their
presence of mind were the officials pres
ent. They knew that the outrage was
the work of anarchists, and determin
ed to prevent the escape of the miscre
ants. Some ran to the gallery and
surrounded that part from which the
bomb had been thrown. Several sus
picious-looking persons were placed
under arrest, and when a close exam
ination was made of the prisoners, it
was found that two were anarchists
well-known to the police.
Know rnyseir.
A male adult has half an ounce of sugar
In his blood.
The normal temperature of a human
body is 98 2-5 degrees.
An adult perspires twenty-eight ounces
in twenty-four hours.
An ordinary man exhales everyday
one pound of carbonic oxide.
As a rule the length of the face is th<
same as the length of the hand.
The rate of pulsation is 120 per min
ute in infancy, 83 in manhood and 60 in
Did age.
Sweat consists of nearly 99 per cent,
svater and a little over 1 per cent, of sal
ine matter.
Each adult inhales a gallon of air s
minute and consumes thirty ounces ol
oxygen a day. v '
Toe action of the human heart is suffi-
eiantly strong to lift every twenty-four
hours 120 pounds.
It has been computed that the average
growth of the fingernail is about oue-
thirty-second of an inch a week.
Ail the blood in the body makes the
entire round of the circulation in
twenty seconds, so that three times
in every minute all the red globules of
the blood, which are the oxygen car
riers, must each have its fresh medium of
oxygen.
In the human body there is said to be
more than 2,000,000 perspiration glands
communicating with the surface by ducts,
having a total length of some ten miles.
Th# blood contains millions of millions
of corpuscles, each a structure in itself.
The number of rods in the retina, sup
posed to be the ultimate recipient ol
light, is estimated at 30,000,000. A Ger
man scientist has calculated that the
gray matter of the brain is built of at
least 600,000,000 cells.
THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION
Tlinrsday, November 30lh, Designated
by President Cleveland.
President Cleveland issued the fol
lowing thanksgiving proclamation Fri
day: “By the president of the United
States of America:
“A Proclamation—While the Amer
ican people should every day remember
with praise and thanksgiving tho divine
goodness and mercy which have fol
lowed them since their beginning as a
nation, it is fitting that one day in
each year should be especially devoted
to the contemplation of the blessings
we have received at the hands of God
and to the grateful acknowledgement
of His loving kindness.
“Therefore, I, Grover Cleveland,
president of the United States, do
hereby'designate and set apart Thurs
day, the 30th day of the present month
of November, as a day of thanksgiving
and praise to be kept and observed by
all the people of our land. On that
day let us forego our ordinary work
and employments and assemble in our
usual places of worship, where wc may
recall all that God has done for ns,
and where, from grateful hearts, our
united tribute of praise and song may
reach the throne of grace. Let the
reunion of kindred and tho social
meeting of friends lend cheer and en
joyment to duty,and let generous gifts
of charity for the relief the poor and
needy prove the sincerity of our
thanksgiving.
“Grover Cleveland.”
THE MONEY PUT UP.
Jacksonville, Fla., Is Anxious for the
Corbett-Mileliell Fight.
A Jacksonville, Fla., dispatch says:
The members of the local syndicate to
secure the Corbett-Mitchell fight, had
a conference Tuesday morning, and
decided to pnt up $20,000 in a lump.
The following telegram was sent at
11:30 a. m. to Richard K. Fox, at New
York:
Certified check for twenty thousand dollar*
by Hairy Ma=on and T. E. T. Bowden, well
known capitalists, has just been mailed to you
as stakes in pr posed Corbett-JIitcholl contest,
with conditions attached. Letter will follow
this. Bins A. Babnett,
(fishier National Bank of Jacksonville.
As the money is now up, everybody
here feels confident that the fight will
be had in Jacksonville.
AT NOON.
Among th© immemorial trees
The sunlight breaks the green gl00»
through.
And falls slantwise upon us two,
In dalliance with life's golden keys—
Life's golden keys of youth and love.
We stand before a wall of brush—
The green grass waving long and lush—
A distant call of dove to dove
And as our voices break the hush
Of midday siienees, a thrush
Sends out a glad, sweet thrill above.
—Vivian Castane, in Atlanta JournaL'
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Popular Songs.
THE REDUCTION ACCEPTED
With the Promise of an Advance in
Three Months.
A Knoxville special of Sunday says:
Chiefs Arthur, Clarke and Seargent
held a conference Saturday with tho
receiver of the East Tennessee road
about reduction of trainmen’s wages.
The final result was an agreement to
accept the proposed reduction for
three months, at the end of which the
old rates are to be restored. The re
ceivers signed a written agreement to
that effect.
One of the strongest productions aris
(ng from modern conditions is the pop
ular song. Somebody, in a theater or
joncert hall, nowadays will sing a song
that “catches,” and the first thing we
know it is on the lips of thoiuands of
people and is heard from one end of the
nation to the other. In the last few
years this musical phenomenon has
grown more and more marked and more
remarkable. The singular part of it al
is the fact that, almost without cxcep
tion, these songs wholly lack merit of
either melody or sentiment. Once in a
while, as in the case of “Annie Rooney,”
the music will be good, but usually it is
simply a catchy jingle with no worth or
real beauty at all. Think of the air of
“McGinty.” Think of this ballad of
“After the Ball.” Any man who would
hum the wretched and silly words of the
thing would naturally strike the arrange
ment of notes by-the writing of which
Mr. Harrison has gained popularity such
as no great poet ever knew in the his
tory of the world.- It is an inexplicable
phenomenon. If the song touched.ajiy
chord of genuine emotion, or awoke any
response of tender feeling, we could ua
derstand. the miraole. But, it is-not so.
The author catches the fag end of some
trivial and commonplace phase of feel
ing. and then raves over it in bad jnetef
and commonplace words, and the-’nation
fairly howls with delight. Theteunust
be a good deal of truth in the oldi theory
of the French cynic that the masses love
the commonplace because the excellent
is an.insult tbdiie'r intelbgepce.—[Min
neapolis Commercial. ' . . * :
ByejTdody shbutdxead tfj5Jt(per and
-keet* iLD.wtth thei-tiintsay:—
Gold in Alabama.
A Birmingham dispatch of Sunday
says: In a very qniet way a big syn
dicate has been formed and is now min
ing gold at Arbocooche, near Heflin,
Ala., at a good profit. For years it
has been known that gold existed in
considerable quantities in the neigh
borhood of Heflin. In fact the very
vein at Arbocooche was worked thirty
years ago at a profit. At one time the
United States mint depended to some
e tent on its shipments from this mine,
over $8,000,000 in gold has been
minted in the past from these mines.
Revolution in Cuba.
A rnmor was started at Key West,
Fla., Wednesday afternoon to. the ef
fect that the long expected revolution
in Cuba had begun in real earnest, and
that a fight between Cuban and Span
ish forces had taken place at Cienfere-
gos. It created no little excitement
among the Cubans at Key West.
Nothing positive can be learned yet,
but the steamer Mascotte, from Ha
vana, will bring news whether it is a
fact or a canard.
Killed the Conductor.
Fast express teain No. 51, of the St.
Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern,
known as the “Cannon Ball,” due at
Little Rock, Arkansas, .at 2:10
.o’clock Friday morning .was held up
and robbed by seven masked at.
.Qiipliant, Ark., seven miles north of
Newpoint. Passenger Conductor J.
Pi'-Mcljfrlly was shot and killed xyfijleu
trymir to protect his train,
Bang-up—Shooting-stars.
Current bushes — Electric
plants.
A pradical joke—One which
sell.—Truth.
Courage is a hardy plant; it thrives
on heaps of sand.—Truth.
The half is not told—that is, his
better half frequently is not.
Money talks; it even has an eloquent
way of making its absence felt.—Puck.
It is strange that some people al
ways find it easiest to do a thing in
the most difficult way.
The ragpicker seldom grumbles.
He, of all men, is content to take
things as he finds them.—Buffalo Cour
ier.
An optimist is a man who will buy
a coat for ten dollars upon the assur
ance of the clothier that it is worth
thirty.—Puck.
Grit is the only kind of glue that
will ever hold together the stray pieces
of a shattered fortuno so that the
cracks will not show.—Puck.
A great many people do not learn
nntil they are forty-five or fifty that
it is dangerous to become confidential
with people. —Atchison Globe.
Though woman can't drive in a nail,
She puts to scorn the men
In such a simple little act
As driving out a hen.
—Indianapolis Journal.
“I see Officer Flynn has been pro
moted for bravery.” “What did he
do?” “Stood his ground while an
other officer shot at a dog.”—Chicago
Inter-Ocean.
Mr. Watts—“I wonder if a woman
ever does get too old to marry ?” Mrs.
Watts—“That’s pretty hard to answer.
Age does not always bring wisdom. ”—
Indianapolis Journal.
To believe oneself more cunning
than others is a mistake. The fox is
more cunning than an ass; but there
are more fox skins in a furrier’s store
than ass skins. —Puck.
A Caution—Never speak to a person
who is running up a column of figures;
it will be useless, for he cannot hear
what yon say. Nothing so deaf as an
adder.—Boston Courier.
Maude—“There’s one thing Bella
can say about her fiancee. He belongs
to a well-known family.” Grace—
“Indeed? What is his name?” Maude
— “Smith.”—Buffalo Courier.
Conundrum—What’s the difference
between a cat and a legal document?
Answer—The one has clawses at the
end of its pawses; the other has pauses
at the end of its clauses.—Boston
Courier.
Davis—“Who says the day of mi
racles is passed? Judge Williams per
formed one yesterday.” Henkins—-
No? What was it?” Davis—“He
gave a deaf man a hearing. ”—Brook
lyn Life.
Woodcraft is the art of securing a
cord of your neighbor’s wood without
detection, and of being able to sell a
man a cord of chestnut without his be-
able to discover that it is not hick
ory. —Puck.
“About 750 languages are spoken on
this continent. ”—Rochester Democrat
and Chronicle. And the man speaks
all of them at once when he has poked
the lighted end of his cigar in his
month.—Dansville (N. Y.) Breeze.
“How about Mrs. Trueheart’s wed
ding? Was it as simple and—” Mrs.
Flyhigh—“Simple? Well, I should
say so ! She married a man for love,
when she could have had one worth
half a million. ”—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Jack Aston (to the s’teenth heiress)
— “Must it be no, always, Miss
Scadds? My love pleads before a
merciless judge.” Miss Scadds—
“True; but what ought an habitual
criminal to expect?”—Kate Field’s
Washington.
Cannibalism.
Herr Henkenius, in the Deutsche
Rundschau, has an interesting paper
on the origin of cannibalism, which
appears to have sprungup among man
kind after they had made a certain
social advance. The lower animals
rarely devour their own species, and
no traces of the vice have as yet been
found among the relics of tho
paleolithic men. Some have attributed
the practice to religious motives, but
Henkenius thinks that hunger and
t he superstition about eating the heart
or any other part of an enemy in order
to acquire his courage were the
original incentives, and that religions
motives were a later development.
Continental Asia is remarkably free
from cannibalism. In Polynesia and
Central America it occurs chiefly in
connection with religious rites, and in
the former the eye of the victim is
preferred. In Dahomey the human
sacrifices did not lead to cannibalism.
The Maoris forbade human flesh to
women and viewed with abhorence
the eating of relatives. In many parts,
however, the flesh of relatives is pre
ferred. Happily this abominable vice
is dying out, owing to the influence
of Christian missionaries.
Electricity and Life.
Writing on “Electricity and Life”
in the Humanitarian, Mr. H. Newman
Lawrence comes to the following con
clusions : (1) All the thousand and one
changes which take place in the struc
ture of the living body, be they due to
the never-ceasing and involuntary pro
cess of metabolism, or to the exercise
of function, or to the effort of will,
partake of the nature of chemical
change. (2) All chemical changes are
accompanied by electrical manifesta
tions. ■ (3) Without chemical change
and interchange life does not appear
to exist. (4) Therefore, life is always
accompanied by the generation of elec
tricity. Electrical energy, however,
is not the immediate source of the vp
fality of 'the body.