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THE VIENNA PROGRESS )^ TERMS, $1. Per Annum. “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' riTH AND POINT. light will 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.