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Ills lips shook under his beard as be j
answered her:
“Because I can do no less in honor.
For God’s sake, do not you tempt me!”
A quick, deep sigh escaped her as
site heard, her fact* grew very pale, as
it had done before, and she moved
slightly from him.
“Forgive me.” she said after a long
pause. “I will never ask you that
again.”
Heavy as had been the curse to him 1
of that one hour in which iionor had !
forbade him to compromise a woman’s
reputation ami old tenderness had for
bade him to betray a brother’s sin. tie
had never paid so heavy a price for his j
act as that which lie paid now.
Through the yellow sunlight without. |
over tlit* barren dust strewn plains, in
the distance there approached three rid- ;
ers. accompanied by a small escort of
spaLis. She started and turned to him: j
“It is Philip! He is coming for me j
from iur camp today.”
His eyes strained through the sun
glare.
“Ah. God! I cannot meet him. I j
have lot strength. You do not know”— j
“I know how well he loved you.”
“Not better than I him! But I can
not, I dare not. Unless 1 could meet j
him as we never shall meet upon earth
we m ist be apart forever. For beai
en’s sake promise me never to speak
my name!”
“1 promise until you release me.”
“And you can believe me innocent !
still in face of all?”
She stretched her hands to him once
more. ‘‘l believe, for I know what you
once were.”
Great burning tears fell from his
eyes upon her hands as he bent over j
them: j
“God bless you! You were an angel
of pity to me in your childhood. In
your womanhood you give me the only
mercy I have known since the last day j
you looked upou my face! We shall be |
far sundered forever. May I come to j
you once more?”
She paused in hesitation and in 1
thought awhile, while for the first time j
in ail her years a tremulous tenderness I
passed over her face. She felt an un
utterable pity for this man and for his i
doom. Then she drew her hands gently
away from him:
. “Yes, 1 will see you again.”
So much concession to such a prayer
Venetia Corona had never before given. 1
He could not command his voice to !
answer, but he bowed low before her i
as before an empress. Another mo- j
ment aud she was alone.
“Is he a madman?” she mused. “If j
not, he is a martyr, one of the greatest \
that ever suffered unknown to other .
iiien.” -£*•* .-***• ...
* * * * • * *
In the coolness of the late evening in !
the court of the caravansary her broth
er and his friends lounged with hei
and the twojadies of their touring and
sketching party, while they drank their i
sherbet aud talked of the Gerome col- I
ors of the place and watched the flame
of the afterglow burn out and threw
millet to the doves and pigeons stray
ing at their feet
“My dear Venetia,” cried the Seraph
carelessly, tossing handfuls of grain
to the eager birds, “I inquired for your
sculptor chasseur—that fellow Victor—
but 1 failed to see him. for he had been
sent on an expedition shortly after I
reached the camp. They tell me he is
a fine soldier. But by what the mar
quis said I fear he is but a handsome
blackguard, and Africa, after all, may
be his fittest place. There is a charm
ing little creature there, a little fire
eater—Cigarette they call her—who is
in love*with him, I fancy. Such a pic
turesque child! Swears like a trooper,
too,” continued he who was now Duke
of Lypnnesse. “By the way, is Berke
ley gone?”
“Left yesterday.”
“What for? Where to?”
“I was not interested to inquire.”
Her brother looked at her earnestly.
There was a care upon her face new
to him.
you well, my darling?” he ask
ed her. “Has the sun been too hot for
you?”
She rose and gathered her cashmeres
about her and smiled somewhat weari
ly her adieu to him.
“Both perhaps. I am tired. Good
night.”
CHAPTER XIX.
J x-Sfe k N'E of the most brilliant of Al
geriau autumnal days shone
over the great camp in the
jg-SAlaj south. The war was almost
at an end for the time. The Arabs
were defeated and driven desertward.
Hostilities Irksome, harassing and an
noying, like all guerrilla warfare, would
long continue, but peace was virtually
established, and Zaraila had been the
chief glory that had been added by the
campaign to the flag of imperial
France. The whole of the army of the
south was drawn up on the immense
level of the plateau to witness the
presentation of the cross of the Legion
of Honor to Cigarette.
It was full noon. The sun shone
without a single cloud on the deep,
sparkling azure of the skies. The
troops stretched east and west, north
and south, formed up in three sides of
one vast massive square. The battal
ions of zouaves and of Zephyrs, the
brigade of Chasseurs d’Afrjque t thfl
; squadrons of spahls, the regiments or
tirailleurs and Tureos, the batteries
of flying artillery, were all massed
there, reassembled from the various
camps and stations of the southern
provinces to do honor to the day, to do
honor in especial to one by wliom the
glory of the tricolor had been saved
unstained.
Mounted on her own little bright bay,
Etoile-Filante, with tricolor ribbons
! flying from his bridle and among the
glossy fringes of his mane, the little
one rode among her spahis. A scarlet
cap was on her thick, silken curls, a
tricolor sasli was knotted round her j
waist, her wine barrel was slung on
her left hip. her pistols thrust in her
belt and a light carbine held in her j
band, with the butt end resting on her
foot. With the sun on her childlike, :
brunette face, her eyes flashing like
brown diamonds in the light and her
marvelous horsemanship, showing its
skill in a hundred desinvoltures and
daring tricks, the little Friend of the
Flag had come hither among her half
savage warriors, whose red robes sur
rounded her like a sea of blood. They
loved her, these brutes, whose greed
was like the tiger’s, whose hate was
like the devouring flame, and any who
should have harmed a single lock of
her curling hair would have had the
spears of the African Mussulmans bur
led by the score in Ills body. Today
she was to her wild wolves of Africa
what Jeanne of Vancouleurs was to
her brethren of France, and today was j
the crown of her young life. France i
had heard the story of Zaraila. From j
the throne a message had been passed !
to her. What was far beyond nil else j
to her, her own army of Africa had i
crowned her and thanked her and
adored her as with one voice, and
wherever she passed the ,wild cheers
rang through the roar of musketry as
through the silence of sunny air, and
throughout the regiments every £word
would have sprung from its scabbard
in her defense had she but lifted her
hand and said one word—“Zaraila!” j
There was not one in all those hosts |
whose eyes did not turn on her with
gratitude and reverence and delight In
her as their own.
Not one, except where her own keen,
rapid glance, farseeing as the hawk’s,
lighted on the squadrons of the Chas
seurs d’Afrique and found among their
ranks one face, grave, weary, medita
tive, with a haze that seemed looking i
far away from the glittering scene to I
a grave that lay unseen leagues beyond
the rocky ridge.
A whole army was thinking of her
and of her alone, and there was a void
in her heart, a thorn in her crown, be
cause one among that mighty mass
one ouly—gave her presence little heed,
| but thought rather of a lonely tomb
among the desolation of the plains.
The trumpets sounded; the salvos of
artillery pealed out; the lances and the
swords were carried up in salute. On
I to the ground rode the marshal of
France, who represented the imperial
will and presence, surrounded by his
staff, by generals of division and bri
gade, by officers of rank and by some
few civilian riders. An aid galloped
up to her where she stood with the
corps of her spahis and gave her his
orders. The little one nodded careless
ly and touched Etolle-Fllante with the
prick of the spur. Like iighlriiug the
animal bounded forth from the ranks,
roaring and plunging and swerving
from side to side, while her rider, with
exquisite grace and address, kept her
seat like the little seini-Arab that she
was.
As carelessly as though she reined up
before the afe door of the As du
Pique she arrested her horse before the
great marshal, who was the Imperson
ation of authority, and put her hand up
in the salute, with her saucy wayward
laugh as indifferently as she bad many
a time reined up before a knot of
grim Tureos smoking under a barrack
gate. He was nothing to her. Itwas
her army that crowned her. “The geu
erallssimo is the poppy head; the men
are the wheat. Lay every ear of the
w£te*t low, and of what use Is the tow
ering poppy that blazed so grand in
the sun?” Cigarette would say, with
metaphorical unction, forgetful, like
most allegories, that her fable was one
sided and unjust In figure and deduc
tion.
Nevertheless, despite her gay eon
tempt for rank, her heart beat fast un
der its gold laced jacket as she reined
up Etoile and saluted. For the mo
ment she felt giddy with sweet, fiery
joy. They were here to behold her
thanked In the name of France.
The marshal. In advance of all his
staff, doffed his plumed hat and bow
ed to his saddlebow as he faced her.
He knew her well by sight, this pretty
child of his army of Africa, who had
before then suppressed mutiny like a
veteran and led the charge like a Mu
rat, this kitten with a lion’s heart, this
humming bird with an eagle’s swoop.
“Mademoiselle,” he commenced, while
his voice, well skilled to such work,
echoed to the farthest end of the long
lines of troops, “I have the honor to
discharge today the happiest duty of
my life. In conveying to you the ex
pression of the emperor’s approval of
your noble conduct in the present cam
paign I express the sentiments of the
whole army. Your action on the day
of Zaraila was as brilliant In concep
tion as it was great in execution, anti
the courage you displayed, was only
equaled by your patriotism. May the
soldiers of many war a remember yqo
and emulate you. In the name of
France. I thank you. In the name of
the emperor. I bring to you the cross of
the Legion of Honor.”
As the brief and soldierly words coil
ed down the ranks of the listening g
-iments he stooped forward from his
saddle and fastened the red ribbon on
her breast, while from the whole gafh-
Shc reined up Etoile and saluted.
ered mass, watching, hearing, waiting
breathlessly to give their tribute of
applause to their darling also, a great
shout rose.
And as she heard her face became
very pale, her large eyes grew dim and
very soft, her mirthful mouth trembled
with the pain of a too intense joy. She
lifted her head, and all the unutterable
love she bore her country and her peo
ple thrilled through the music of her
voice:
“Frenchmen, that was nothing!”
That was all she said. In that one
first word of their common nationality
she spoke alike to the marshal of the
empire and to the conscript of the
ranks. Then she laid her hand on the
cross that had been the dream of her
years since she had first seen the
brazen glisten of the eagles above her
wondering eyes of infancy and loosen
ed it from above her heart and stretch
ed her hand out to the great chief.
"M. le Marechal, this is not for roe.”
“Not for you! The emperor bestows
it”-
Cigarette saluted with her left hand,
still stretching to him the decoration
with the other.
“It is not for roe—not while I wear
it unjustly.”
“Unjustly! What is your meaning?
My child, you talk strangely. The
gifts of the empire are not given
lightly.”
“No, aud they shall not be given un
fairly. Hark you! The emperor sends
me this cross. France thanks me. The
army applauds me. Well, I thank
them, one and all. Cigarette was nev
er yet ungrateful. It Is the sin of the
coward. But I say I will not take
what is unjustly mine, and this prefer
ence to me Is unjust. I saved the day
at Zaraila? And how? By scamper
ing fast on my mare and asking for a
squadron or two of my spahis; that
was all. It was not I who saved the
battle. Who was it? It was a Chas
seur d’Afrique, I tell you. What did
he do? Why, this: When his officers
were all gone down, he rallied and
gathered his handful of men and held
the ground with them all through the
day—two, four, six, eight, ten hours
In tlie scorch of the sun. I tell you
the cross is his and not mine. Take
It back and give it where it is duo,"
The marshal listened, half auiaaod,
half amused, half prepared to resent
the insult to the empire and to disci
pline, half disposed to award that sub
mission to her caprice which all Alge
ria gave to Cigarette.
he sold, with a grave
smile, “the honors of the empire are
Dot to be treated thus. But who is this
man for whom you claim so much?”
“Who is he?” echoed Cigarette, with
all her fiery disdain for authority ablaze
once more like braudy in a flame. “Oto
he! Napoleon Premier would not have
left his marshals to ask that! He te
the finest soldier in Africa, if it be
possible for one to be finer than anoth
er where all are so great. They know
that. They pick him out for all the
dangerous missions. But the Black
Hawk hates him, and so France never
hears the truth of all that he does. All
I know is he calls himself here Louis
Victor.”
“Ah, I have beard much of him. A
fine soldier, but"—
“A fine soldier without a ‘but,’ * in
terrupted Cigarette, with rebellious In
difference to the rank of the great man
she corrected, “unless you add, ‘but
never done justice by his chief.’ ”
As she spoke her eyes for the first
time glanced over the various person
ages who were mingled among the staff
of the marshal, his invited guests for
the review upon the plains. She saw
a fare which, though seen but once l>e
fore, she knew * instantly again—the
! face of “miladi.” And she saw it
change color and lose its beautiful hue
and grow grave aud troubled as the
last words passed between herself and
the French marshal.
“Ah, can she feet?” wondered Ciga
| rette, who with a common error of
such vehement young democrats as
herself always thought that hearts nev
er ached in the patrician order and
thought so still when she saw the list
less. proud tranquillity return, not
j again to be altered, over the perfect
features that she watched with so
much violent instinctive hate.
She scarcely heard the marshal’s
voice as it addressed her with a kindly
indulgence as to a valued soldier and
• a spoiled pet in one.
t _ “Have no fear, little one. Victor’s
claims are not forgotten, though we
may await our own time to investigate
and reward them. No one ever served
the empire and remained unrewarded.
For yourself, wear your cross proudly.
It glitters above not only the bravest
but the most generous heart in the
service.”
Plie saluted once again and paced
down the ranks of the assembled divi
sions, while every lance was carried,
every sword lifted, every bayonet pre
sented as she went, greeted as though
she were an empress for that cross
which glittered on her heart, for that
courage wherewith she had saved the
tricolor.
The eyes of Venetia Corona followed
her with something of ineffable pity.
“Poor little unsexed child V she thought.
“How pretty and how brave she is
and—how true to him!”
The Seraph beside her in the group
around the flagstaff smiled and turned
br> her.
“I said that little amazon waß In love
with this fellow Victor. How loyally
she stood up for himl But if he ever
forsake her she will be quite as likely
to run her dirk through him.”
“Forsake her! What is he to her?”
There was a certain impatience in
the tone and something of contemptu
ous disbelief that made her brother
look at her in wonder.
“What on-earth cun the loves of a
camp concern her?” he thought as he
answered. “Nothing that I know of.
But this charming little tigress is very
fond of him. By the way, can you
point the man out to me? lam curious
to see him.”
“Impossible. There are 10.000 faces,
and the cavalry squadrons are so far
off.”
She spoke with indifference, but she
grew a little pale*as she did so, and
the eyes that had always met. his so
frankly, so proudly, were turned from
him.
Cecil did not hear the gallant words
spoken in his behalf by the loyal
lips that he had not cared to caress.
As Cigarette passed down the ranks.
Indeed, he saw and smiled on his little
champion, but the smile had only a
weary kindness of recognition in it,
and .It wounded Cigarette more than
though he had struck her through the
breast with his lanee.
Venetia gave a low, quick breath of
mingled pain and relief as the last of
the chasseurs paced by. The Seraph
started and turned his head.
“My darling, are you not well?”
"Perfectly.”
“You do not look so, and you forgot
to point me out this special trooper.
I forgot him too.”
“He goes there the tenth from
here.”
Her brother looked. It was too late.
“He is taller than the others. That is
all I can see, now that his back is turn
ed. I will seek him out when” —
“Do no such thing.”
“And why? It was by your own re
quest that I inquired”—
“Think me changeable, as you will.
Do nothing to seek him, to inquire for
him”—
“But why? A man who at Zaraila”—
“Never mind. Do not let it be said;
you noticed a Chasseur d’Afrique at 1
my instance.”
Meantime in another part of the camp
the heroine of ’ Zaraila was feasted, |
not less distinctively, if more noisily'
and more familiarly, by the young offl-,
cers of the various regiments. Ciga
rette, many a time before the reigning;
spirit of suppers and carouses, was
banqueted with all the eclat that befit
ted that cross which sparkled on her
blue and scarlet vest. High throned
on a pyramid of knapsacks, canteens
and rugs, toasted a thousand times in
all brandies and red wines that the
stores would yield, the little one reign
ed alone and, like many who have
reigned before her, found lead in her
scepter, dross In her diadem, satiety in
her kingdom.
When it was over, this banquet that
was all in her honor and that three
months before would have been a para
dise to her, she shook herself free of
the scores of arms outstretched to keep
her captive and went out into the night
alone. She did not know what she
ailed, but she was restless, oppressed,
weighed down with a sense of dissatis
fied weariness that had never before
touched the joyous and elastic nature
of the child of France.
“How they live only for the slaugh
ter! How they perish like the beasts
of the field! There is only one thing
worth doing—hi die greatly!" thought
the aching hrt of the child soldier
unconsciously returning Vo the only end
that the genius aud the greatness of
i&reece could find as issue to the terri
ble jest, the mysterious despair, of all
existence.
CHAPTER XX.
PME way distant, parted by a
broad strip of unoccupied
ground from the camp, were
the grand marquees set aside
for the marshal and for his guests.
They wefe 12 in number, gayly deco
rated as far as decoration could be ob
tained In the southern provinces of Al
geria and had, Arabiike, in front of
each the standard of the tricolor. Be
fore one were two other standards
also —the flags of England and Spain.
Cigarette, looking on from afar, saw
the alien colors wave in the torchlight
flickering on them. “That is hers.”
thought the little one, with the mourn
ful and noble emotions of the previous
moments swiftly ehauging into the vio
lent. reasonless, tumultuous hatred at
once of a rival and of an order.
She had it in her, could she have had
the power, to mercilessly and brutally
destroy this woman’s beauty, which
was so ft r above her reach, as she had
once destroyed the Ivory wreath: yet,
as that of the snow white,carving bad
done, so did this fair and regal beauty
touch her. even iu the midst of her fu
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f XT CO.TTIS I,'KD.I 1
SEPTEMBER
CROPREPORT
Cotton Has Suffered For Want
of Sunshine.
PICKING GREATLY RETARDED
Complaints Reach the Departmental
Rust, Kott-iug and Ravages of
tbs 801 l Worm—Fodder
Will Be Scarce.
aS. _
Agricultural Department,
Atlanta, Sepc. 1, 1901.
The characteristic feamres'of Angus!
weather were very heavy rains in moat
of the counties of the state, while the
temperature ranged slightly below the
normal, as a result of which the cotton
crop suffered materially for the want of
sunshine and warmer weather. Hence
many complaints have reached the de
partment concerning injury from rust,
rotting of bolls and ravages of the
boll worm, so that the crop condi
tions on Sept. 1 are far from satisfacto
ry" The average condition of the cotton
orop has fallen from 84 per cent on Jane
1 to 75 per cent on Sept 1.
In addition to the fact that the ootton
crop is 15 days late, picking has been
very materially retarded, owing to the
August rains.
The condition and prospects of corn,
which on June 1 were 89 per cent, were
on Sept. 1 77 per cent. This de
crease in the prospects of the corn
crop was caused in many cases
by overflows of the creeks and
rivers, resulting from the excessive
August rains. A large par cent of the
fodder also has been damaged by the
same agency and this forage will be
unusually scarce the coming year.
Most of the cane, sweet potatoes, peas,
ground peas, upland rice and the grasses
promise well.
Southern Section —Appling, Baker,
Berrien, Brooks, Bryan, Bulloch, Cal
houn, Camden, Charlton, Chatham,
Chattahoochee, Clay, Clinch, Coffee,
Colquitt, Decatur, Dodge, Dooly, Dough
erty, Early, Echols, Effingham, Glynn,
Houston, Irwin, Lee, Liberty, Lowndes,
Macon, Marion, Mclntosh, Meriwether,
Miller, Mitchell, Montgomery, Pierce,
Pulaski, Quitman, Randolph, Schley,
Stewart, Sumter, Tattnall, Taylor, Tel
fair, Terrell, Thomas, Wilcox, Wayne,
Webster, Ware, Wilkinson, Worth.
The report of crops for this section is
as follows:
Cotton, compared to an average, 75.13
per cent; corn, compared to an average,
78.44 per cent; rice, compared to an av
erage, 80.24 per cent; sugar cane, com
pared to an average, 91.50 per cent-;
sweet potatoes, compared to an average,
90.82 per cent; tobacco, ooapared to an
average, 90.50 per cent; pea crop, com
pared to an average, 84.84 per cent; pea
nut crop, compared to an average, 89. U
per oent; hay crop, compared to an av
erage, 85.60 per cent; number of stock
bogs, compared to last year, 90.42 per
cent; condition of stock hogs, compared
with an average, 94.24 per cent
Middle Section Baldwin. Bibb,
Burke, Butts, Carroll, Clayton, Colum
bia, Coweta, Crawford, Emannel, Fay
ette, Glasoock, Greene, Hancock, Harris,
Heard, Henry, Jasper, Jefferson, Jones,
Johnson, Laurens, McDuffie, Monroe,
Mnscoge9, Morgan, Newton, Pike, Put
nam, Richmond, Screven, Spalding,
Talbot, Taliaferro, Troup, Twiggs, Upson,
Warren, Washington.
The report of crops for this section is
as follows:
Cotton, oompared to an average, 74.13
per cent; corn, compared to an average,
72.09 per cent; rice, compared to an av
erage, 79.20 percent; sugar cane, com
pared to an average, 84.28 per oent;
sweet potatoes, compared to an average,
89.27 per oent; tobacco, compared to an
average, 90:33 per cent; pea crop, com
pared to an average, 90.10 per oent; pea
nut crop, compared to an average, 91.24;
hay crop, compared to an average. Bfl 31
per oent; number of stock hogs, com
pared to last year, 92.17 per cent; con
dition of stock hogs, compared with an
average, 90.33 per oent.
Nobthebn Section— Banks, Bartow,
Campbell, Catoosa, Chattooga, Chero
kee, Clarke, Cobb, Dawson, DeKalb,
Douglas, Elbert, Fannin, Foreyth,
Franklin, Floyd, Fulton, Gilmer, Gor
don, Gwinnett, Habersham, Harraleoa,
Hall, Hart, Jackson, Lincoln, Lumpkin,
Madison, Milton, Murray, Oconee, Ogle
thorpe, Paulding, Pickens, Polk, BabU%
Rockdale, Towns, Union, Walker, Wal
ton, White, Whitfield, Wilkes.
The report of crops for this section u
as follows:
Cotton, compared to an average, 76.16
per cent; corn, oompared to an average,
82 per cent; rice, compared to an aver
age, 98.33 per cent; sugar cane, com
pared to an average, S3 per cent; sweet
potatoes, compared to an average, 93.17
per cent; tobacco, compared to an aver
age, 81.15 p-r cenr; pea crop, compared
to an average, 90.66 per cent; peanut
crop, compared to an average, 91.19 per
cent; hay crop, compared to an average,
89.17 per cent; number oi stock hogs,
compared to last year, 90 39 per cent;
condition of stock hogs, compared with
an average, 90.07 per cent.
Sections Conoli(lated.
Cotton, compared to an average, 75.14
per cent; corn, compared to an average,
77.54 per cent; rice, compared to an av
erage, 85.92 per oent; sugar cane, com
pared to an average, 86 26 per cent;
sweet potatoes, compared to an average,
91.08 pier cenr; tobacco, compared to an
average, 87.32 per cenr; .pea crop, oom
p&red to an average, 88.53 pier cent; pea
nut crop, compared to an average, 90.53
pier cent; hay crop, compared to an av
erage, 88.02 per cent; number of stock
hogs, compared to last year, 91 per oent;
condition of stock hogs, compared with
an average, 90.51 per cent.
i Lollscto.’s Notics
I will attend the places „„
on the days stated for the n, 6d bei <V
collecting state and Cou„.o P rf)oa <= l
the year 1901 to-wit. OUut - v tHx e 8 f(j 'J
■ arte-sville Get, 7,iq qi. x .
Dec, 14, 1(5, 17, 18, 19, W 8I ’ Nov > 16, 30
Emerson Oct. 8. 26; N ov i,
Ailatoona Oct, 9, 25, Nov io
btainp Creek (Jet, in 2s- j 1 *’
Wolf Pen Oct. 112$: n’ W V. V - U.
Cassvilie Oct, 12; Nov, 2 V 3 ’
Pine Log Oct, 14, .40; NoV i 9
Eubarleo Oct, 21 Nov 7 tl?' „
Iron Hill Oct, 22; NoV,B; Dec'/’
Taylorsville Oct, 23; Nov g f'C
Stiiesboro Oct, 24; Nov li •' )! >ec > 6 -
White Nov, 18. ,U>l) ec,7.
Booo’s Shop Nov, 22.
Boonsle.vs Nov, 2h
Lin wood Noy, 27.
Cement Nov, 28.
Ford Dec, 3.
Hitchcocks Dec, 5.
Sugar Hill Dec, 9.
Rogers Dec, 10.
Cass Station Dec, 11.
Ladds Dec, 12.
Douthitts Dec, 13
I am required by the laws
settlements, aud issue litas for n mak#
paid taxes on Dec 20th. T hav • Un '
tax payers the longest time
1 copy the lollowiug from my P K} 6 \
tions from the Comptroler ()i ruc-
The Legislature impowers and remro® 1
me to cause taxes to be collected i ! ? 1
20th of Dec. next and upon
any tax collector to clo so it i s „? 0 ? f
my duty to issue ilia's against eacK
every collector wno has failed to senu
bis account and place Ufa’s iu hands it
an officer for collection. I now tL ■
warn you that, the law relating m
faulting collectors will be rigidlv Ji ,
strictly enforced and the securities' !
your bond notified if your settlement
are not promptly made. I hope tax nav
ers will give prompt attention and
payment withiu the time named Th!
rate is ($14,84) fourteen dollars
eighty four cents per thousand.
This 16th day of September 1901.
F. V. SMITH
Tax Collector Bartow Cos. G a ’.
Libel for Divorce.
Mariah Young) In tne Superior Court
vs- -of Bartow Countv,
Ben Young ) Georgia. Libel for
Divorce. No. 28,
Julv term, 1899.
To the defendant, Ben Y'oung: You
are hereby notified, required and com
mauded personally or by attorney, to I
be and a_ppear at the Superior Court to
be held in and for said county of Bar
tow on the second Monday in January
next, then and there to answer the
plaintiff’s libel fora divorce, and in de
fault thereof the court will proceed as
to justice shall appertain.
Wituags the Honorable A. YV. Fite '
judge <®*nirt court, this Julv 30. 1901 ’
L. YV. REEVES, JR.,'
Clerk Superior Court.
Libel for Divorce.
Eva Little Pugh, alias t Liberal for di-
Eva Little Fowler I vorce, Bartow
vs- )■ Superiorcourt
Andrew Pugh, alias I July term,
Andrew Fowler. J 1901,
To Andrew Pugh, (alias) Andrew Fow
ler:
It appearing to the court, bv the re
turn of the sheriff, that the defendant
does not reside in this countv, audit
further appearing, that he one's not re-,
side in this state. It is on motion o f
counsel ordered, that, the defendant ap
pear and answer at the next term of this
court, also, that the case lie considered
in default, and the plaintiff allowed to
proceed, and it is further ordered that
this rule be published iu the News and
Courant, a newspaper published in this
county twice a month for two months
prior to the next term of this court.
A. W. FITE,
J. S. C. C. 0.
August 12, 1901,
A true extract from the minutes of
said court, L. W. REEVES, JR ,
Clerk.
TO ALL PERSONS HAVING
FARMING, TIMBERED OR
MINERAL LANDS, OR
WATER POWERS
FOR SALE.
The Nashville, Chattanooga and St. j
Louis Railway proposes to use its best j
efforts to induce a good class of immi
grants to settle in territory contiguous
to its lines, and to engage the attention,
of capitalists seeking Manufacturing
Sites or Mining Property. It therefore
solicits the support, the co-operation
and the assistance of the people of every
county through which its lines pass.
The management earnestly requests,
that all persons who have farms for sale
or lease, those who have timbered
lands, water powers or mineral lands
for sale, will send a brief description ot
tha same to the railroad agent nearest
them, giving the prices and terms of
sale. The prices must correspond with
the prices asked of local buyers. The
management does not propose to aid in
selling lands to immigrants at exorbi
tant or speculative prices.
Large tracts suitable for coloniza
at low prices, are especially
J. IL Killibbew,
Industrial and Commercial
H. F. Smith,
Traffic Manager,
Nasliyille, Tenn.
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