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THE FINES.
5 1)" myriad pinos the liills' va.*t ocean are;
.And ne who midat them dwell
il;" know tlie secrets of that surge afar
Of which our fathers tell.
■\\ f . ’le-i" (he rush of surf upon a shore
T.ong leagues on leagues awnv:
We pse a stretch of emerald billows o'er,
Willi every vale a bay.
\Y" know the storms—the moanine agony,
Th first awed, shuddering thrill;
We know the calms—for like the swelling
sea
The pines are never still.
© wondrous ocean of a landlocked folk,
Chanting :.t eve. at morn;
Drawing on store which eons past evoke—
Tune ere thane hills wore horn.
—Edwin L. Sabin, in Youth's Companion.
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"Can you tell me where Mr. John
Dainter liven?” asked a gentlemanly
looking man as he stepped into the
grocery and general store of the vil
lage.
“Old John Painter?” said the
young clerk after a moment’s hesita
tion. "Is that who you mean? He
Is such an old money-grubber that no
one ever speaks of him as anything
hut, old John Painter. Yes, he lives
In the big house at the end of the
street. I will show you,” and he led
the stranger to ihe door to point out
a large white farmhouse just at the
edge of the village.
"He Is rich, I am told,” said the
stranger rather questioningly.
“Rich as mud,” responded the
youth. ‘‘He owns about 1000 acres
of land and nobody knows how much
money he has besides. He's a regu
lar old miser, though his folks live
well enough.”
The stranger walked down the
grassy street to the big house and
presently stated his errand to Mr.
Painter. That gentleman frowned a
little as the guest stated his request
briefly, and said: “Hugh Peterson
promised me he never would tell. I
don’t like boys who break their
pledges.”
"But he didn’t break his pledge,”
said the stranger eagerly. “He has
been very ill and while delirious he
told about your kindness to him. He
does not know 1 am here to-day, but
I wanted to ask a little aid for our
college. It is a struggling affair, but
we have tried to make a place for
poor boys to work their way along.
A little help would enable a dozen of
our brightest students to come back
next fall, and 1 am very anxious to
obtain assistance for them. 1 thought
If you had done so much for Hugh
you might like to help other lads.”
"I will help.you if my name is not
mentioned,” said Mr. Painter, putting
out his check book. “I have had my
eye on that boy that clerks in the vil
lage store for some time, for 1 think
he deserves help. He is a clean, hon
est, manly fellow and is trying to
work in vacations to help himself
through college. Put his name on
your list and try to get him into your
sciiool, will you?”
The president of the little college
made it his business to stroll back to
the store and enter into conversation
once more with the young clerk. He
wanted to see if he were “worth edu
cating, as he alwayssaid when asked
why he cultivated the acqutaintauce
of young men. Trade was dull, so he
had ample time to make up his mind
as they talked together.
So Mr. Painter is regarded as a
miser by the village people, is he?”
Inquired the stranger after bringing
the conversation around to the old
Inhabitants of the place. ”He must
be very selfish.”
"He wouldn’t cheat a soul,” said
tlie boy quickly. "People have fallen
into the habit of culling him a miser
until the name sticks."
“Never does anything for any
body?” went on the stranger.
Why, yes, he has brought up three
orphan boys since I can remember,
and they are doing first rate. He
pays his debts, helps along with the
church work and is a good citi
*vn, but folks seem to think ha
ought to keep up everything. Come
to think of it, I believe they've im
posed on him so much that he is a
little close with his money.”
‘‘ls that the reason they call him a
money-grubber?” said the visitor,
who had heard the term several times
since he entered the village.
”1 suppose it must be, but it isn't
fair. He doesn't own a thing that he
didn't get together by hard work and
good management, so they have no
reason for calling him names. I'm
ashamed of myself for saying that to
you this morning about an old gen
tleman.”
“It is manly of you to say that,”
said the visitor, rising to go. “Never
be afraid to own that you may be mis
taken in your opinions."
The young clerk tvmnuered why he
received
Xrem a certain college, and at last he
decided to go there, as the terms
seemed very reasonable. He resigned
his place in the store, and was one of
a group of new students waiting in
the office of the president one fine
September morning. He gave a little
start to see the man who had talked
to him early in the spring about John
Painter come into the room, but was
still more astonished to see him take
the chair at the desk and begin to
take the names of the pupils.
“You are James Reed,” said the
president, smiling. “I may tell you
that the reason we were able to make
such low rates to you is that Mr.
John Painter, of your town, has es
tablished a fund for worthy students,
and especially wished you to benefit
thereby. I am glad to welcome you
to our college.”
“And I told you he was a money
grubber,” said the boy, regretfully.
“I am ashamed to take his help.”
"Have you called him that name
since the day I talked with you last
summer?”
“No, but that does not excuse me.
I was merely repeating what other
folks called him then, but I should
have used my common sense.”
"Mr. Painter selected you as a
clean, worthy youth, and you can do
nothing better than to show him you
appreciate his great kindness. He
has been helping people all his life,
but he does it so quietly that no one
suspects. I really think he takes
more solid satisfaction out of life
than any one I know, for he is al
ways bringing joy and gladness to
some life. I am glad to have him
call me his friend.”
James Reed thought of the plainly
dressed old gentleman in his native
village, a little stooped from hard
work, but with keen, alert eyes, and
was glad such a man -should have
thought him worthy of helping. “I •
don’t deserve it,” he said, huskily, '
“but I’ll try to.”—Presbyterian Ban* !
ner.
FLATITIS IN GOTHAM.
i Nothing Between Princely,Apartment
and Wretched Flat.
"If only Mr. Carnegie, instead of
spending his money on libraries
would make New York a present of a
string of reasonably-priced apartment
houses, where women of refinement
could enjoy the comfort and privacy
of a pleasant home, how delightful
it would be,” sighed a young matron
on whom fate had placed the respon
sibility of bringing up a family of
children in the city. “It’s the prob
lem that confronts every business
woman I know —the problem of
where to live.
“There is no half way in the apart
ment house situation in New York.
The houses are so expensive that they
are entirely beyond the limit of the
average woman’s income or else they
are so tenementy that they must be
excluded on that score.
“Where can I find an apartment
that I can rent for $25, S3O or even
$35 in a decent neighborhood suita
ble for me and my children to live in?
I shouldn’t be surprised if anew dis
ease should soon spring up among
women breadwinners called flatitis—•
the effect of a constant but unreward
ed search for a cheap flat in a decent
neighborhood where respectable peo
ple dwell. I've about given up the
problem myself and have resigned
myself to the inevitable-—a boarding
house.” —New York Evening Sun.
Financial Progress.
A certain member of the Pittsburg
Stock Exchange has set his nephew
up in business three times, but the
young man lacks something essential
to success in the line selected for him,
and has failed with each effort.
When he recently appeared before
the uncle with his fourth request the
latter said:
“You must learn to lean on your
self. I can’t carry you all my life.
I’ll tell you what I’ll do. You owe me
a great deal as tlie result of your last
failure. Pitch in on your owu hook
and go it alone till you pay off those
debts. When you’ve done that I’ll
give you a check for what they
amount to. Such an experience will
do you more good than all the money
I could give you now.”
Two months later the nephew
walked in with every claim receipted
in full, and the uncle, delighted, gave
the promised check.
“How did you manage it, How
ard?" he asked after au expression of
congratulation.
“I borrowed the money,” replied
Howard. —Harper's Weekly.
Taxable Incomes in Prussia.
The Prussian income tax returns
the largest Increase registered in any
of the past thirteen years. These
returns, covering all incomes of £45
($218) and more, indicate a gain of
£35,250,000 ($170,443,100) in the
people's incomes for 1905 over 1904.
Since the income tax law was intro
duced, fourteen years ago, the num
ber of persons taxed has risen from
2,440,000 to 4,680,0(>0, and their ag
gregate income from £298,000.000
($1,445,300,000) to £536,000,000
($2.6 0S,(44,000) . —Department Bui
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Georgia Cullings
Curtailed Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
Pelham to the Front.
Pelham has voted for bonds to con
struct water works, lights, sewers and
an ice plant. Not a vote was cast
against the bonds in the election held
the past week.
Pelham is the first town in Georgia
to take steps to own and operate a
municipal ice plant.
Eleven-Year-Old B-sy Acquitted.
The case of the siate vs. Fred Bag
well, a boy who is 11 years old, and
charged with murder for shooting Ras
Freeman, a boy at Lavonia, last Jan
uary, was placed on trial at Carnes
ville a few days ago before Judge
Brand and a jury quickly secured. The
jury was out a short while and ren
dered a verdict of not guilty.
• * *
Preacher Involved in Trouble.
Rev. Solon H. Bryan,pastor of the
Methodist church at Millen, has be
came involved in trouble in which a
young woman’s name figures. The
young woman ’was studying under Mr.
Bryan for the purpose of becoming a
foreign missionary. A church trial
was held and Mr. Bryan was suspend
ed from preaching until the next con
ference.
Tallapoosa to Have Cotton Mill.
At lafft the city of Tallapoosa is to
have a $200,000 cotton mill. The stock
has all been subscribed, the minimum
subscription being s*oo. The three
Jackson brothers took $115,000. The
articles of incorporation hgve been
cirawn up and the application for char
ter made. The site of several acres
has been purchased and the buildings
will be erected thereon with all pos
sible dispatch.
* * *
Relics Reach Jamestown.
The priceless Bulloch-Roosevelt
x’elies of Georgia, consisting of two
silver cups and a miniature of Gover
nor Archibald Bulloch, ancestor of
President Roosevelt, and one of the
eariy governors of Georgia, have been
received by Governor Ellison of th?
Jamestown exposition, and placed in
a safety vault until the completion of
the fire-proof history building, in
which they will be exhibited.
* * *
Troops for Andersonville.
Governor Terrell has directed the
adjutant general to issue an order
sending the Americus Light Infan
try to Andersonville on May 30, Na
tional Decoration Day. It has been the
custom for several years past to send
a company of troops to Andersonville
on this occasion: on account ot the
excursions which carry there large
numbers of negroes. Almost every
year there was a killing at Anderson
ville until the state began to send
troops there to preserve order, but
in recent years the community has
been kept comparatively peaceful on
this occasion.
Money for Agricultural Schools.
Governor Terrell has just ordered
sent to the treasurers of the new agri
cultural districts $2,00P each from the
fund arising from* tne inspection of
fertilizers. This completes the first
distribution to all of the district agri
cultural schools. Later in the year a
second distribution will be made,
which will give them a little over
$4,0®0 each from this fund for 1906.
If the legislature makes provision for
giving them the entire fund next year,
each of the schools will receive about
$6,00f.
* * *
Latest Population Census.
The goveupment censw* bureau at
Washington has just announced its
figures on the population of cities of
the country on June 1, 1906.
According to these estimates Atlan
ta now has a total of 104,984 people
as opposed to 89,872, the official cen
sus of the government taken in the
year 1900. This showing gives Atlan
ta a gain of 15,000 people for a period
of five years, or a yearly increase in
the neighborhood of 3,000.
The increase in population of other
of the larger cities in Georgia, accord
ing to the census figures for 1900 and
1906 are: Savannah from 54,244 to GB,-
596; Augusta from 39,441 to 43,125;
and Macon from 23,272 to 32,692.
The census bureau does not claim,
however, that these flgures are abso
lutely accurate, as they are more in
the nature of estimates.
• *
State Would Lose Heavily.
Georgia is preparing to fight a
scheme on foot in Chattanooga whicn,
if carried through successfully, would
destroy the valuable terminals in that
city of the Western and Atlantic —the
state railroad.
A measure has been introduced in
the Tennessee general assembly em
powering the city of Chattanooga to
extend a certain street in such a wa>
that it would cut squarely in half tile
twenty-three tracks in the yards own
ed by the state of Georgia in the Ten
nessee city.
This street extension would cut the
twenty-three tracks in two, and de
stroy the property. But Georgia is
on guard and will fight the movement
It means the preservation of state
terminals of immense value, which,
if destroyed by the .street extension
proposed, would mean the loss of thou
sands of dollars worth of extremely
valuable property—and almost hem
ming off the state road from entrance
to Chattanooga.
PupilG Hauled by Wagon.
Several decided improvements in
school management are being inaugu
rated in Tift county under the local
taxation system. One of the best is
at Tyty, where a >/agon is used for
hauling the pupils a distance of sev
eral miles to the Tyty school. By this
means the board of education saves
the expense of one teacher and finds
that it can very well afford to pay
the expense of hauling the children
to school and then have several dol
lars to spare when the expense of
maintaining a separate school is con
sidered.
The system has been found so prof
itable, as well as beneficial, to the
children in the country that the put
ting on of several wagons is contem
plated.
* *
Steamer Line in Sight.
President John Betjeman, of the
Georgia Immigration Association was
in Savannah the past week conferring
relative to the direct line that is to
be established with European ports
for the purpose of bringing immi
grants to this state. Mr. Betjeman
says he is certain that within sixty
days the first sailing for Savannah
will take place. He seems confident
that the work to be done under state
supervision will not meet with inter
ference at the hands of the national
government.
“There is a great demand in the
state for immigrants,” said Mr. Bet
jeman. "I have now on file in my
office at Albany 7,000 applications for
immigrants.”
* * *
Jordan Heads Association.
At a meeting of the executive com
mittee of the Georgia Immigration
Association held in Columbus the past
week, G. Gunby Jordan of Columbus
was elected president of the associa
tion. He has been serving as vice
president since the organization of
the association, and since the resig
nation of President Oliver of Savan
nah has been virtually president. Mr.
Jordan has been au enthusiast for
y ears on the subject of European im
migration of Georgia, and has done
splendid work in behalf of the pres
ent immigration .movement. He is
very optimistic over the present cam
paign to draw immigrants to Geor
gia, and says that the results so far
are highly encouraging.
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General Evans to Head Staff.
General Clement A. Evans, the rank
ing Confederate veteran in Georgia,
lieutenant general of the United Con
federate Veterans’ Association and
next in command in that organization
to General Stephen D. Lee, has been
tendered by Governor-Elect Hoke
Smith and has accepted the position
of chief of staff to the new governor.
In this capacity General Evans will
head the list of colonei or lieutenant
colonels, composing the staff of Gov
ernor Smith. There will be only twen
ty-eight members of the next govern
or's staff under the new military law
passed several years ago, and it is
required that ail of these shall have
had some military experience. Gover
nor Terrell has about 150 lieutenant
colonels on his staff, and under a spe
cial law was permitted to retain then,
until the end of his second administra
tion.
State License No Protection.
An echo of the recent prohibition
election in Decatur county, which re
sulted in the city of Bainbridge and
surrounding country going “dry,”
reached the state capitol a few days
ago, in the shape of a letter from
Judge Maxwell, the county ordinary,
seeking advice from the comptroller
general. The ordinaiy was anxious
regarding the status of the saloonists
who held lioenses from the state.
Judge Max wall says many of the sa
loons hold state licenses that will not
expire until December 31st, while the
prohibitionists insist upon closing all
saloons at the expiration of six weeks’
notice.
General Wright says the law i3
plain. It provides that no state li
cense shall relieve any dealer from
any local tax or prohibitory law that
may be passed with reference to the
sale of liquor.
STOP AT THE
ZETTLER HOUSE.
The best SI.OO a day house i n the
city.
253 FOURTH ST., MACON, GY,
Mrs. A. L. Zettler, Proprietress.
MINISTER PROMPTLY ACQUITTED.
Rev. Morgan Exonerated in Court of Spits
Perjury Charge.
The case against Presiding Eldev
E. F. Morgan, charged witn perjury,
was concluded at Wrightsville, Ga,
Wednesday night with a verdict of
not guilty, after the jury had oeen
out only long enough to read the pa
pers before them.
The announcement of the verdict
was greeted by cheers from the mea
and the singing of hymns by the
women.
Rev. Mr. Morgan was indicted on
a charge of perjury in connection
with the slander case of W. J. Flan
ders against Judge A. F. Delay, which
latter case was tried March 22, 1902.
Four grand juries have passed since
the alleged false testimony was given,
but the last grand jury, of which
Mr. Flanders was a member, indict
ed Mr. Morgan March 21st.
Rev. Mr. Morgan is now presiding
elder of the Mcßae district. He was
pastor of the Methodist church In
Wrightsville in 1902 and at that time
W. J. Flanders was a local preacher.
Mr. Morgan was a witness in the
church trial which arraigned Mr.
Flanders, expelled him from the
church and deprived him of his li
cense as a local preacher.
DAGO JUROR COBID NOT READ.
Foreigner Causes Quashing of Indictment
Against Favrot.
Inability on the part of a juror to
read and write the English language
has resulted in a decided turn in the
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case of Congressman-elect George K.
Faxrol. of the sixth district of Louis
iana, who has been confined in jail
for over seven months, charged with
the murder of Dr. R. H. Aldrich, in
Baton Rouge, last summer.
In the district court a demurrer to
the indictment was sustained on the
grounds that one member of the jury,
an Italian, could neither read nor
write the English language. The
state appealed the case to the supreme
court, which Monday afternoon af
firmed the decision of the lower court.
NORTHERN STATED A FACT.
Ex-Governor’s Remarks, Nevertheless,
Created Some Surprise.
Ex-Governor W. J. Northern took
up the negro question at the meeting
of the Evangelical Ministers’ Associ
ation at Atlanta Monday morning, and
gave expression to views that caused
not a little surprise.
‘‘The white people hate th ( '
and the negroes hate the white peo
ple, like they both do the devil,” he
said. “There is a deep grained antag
onism existing between the two races,
and, where the negro Is concerned,
the white people are all ready to cTy
with Ben Tillman; ‘To hell with the
law! ’
“This spirit has existed in high
places, and is alive in the courts.
PREACHED OWN FUNERAL SERMON.
Former Baptist Minister Hanged for Mur
der and Robbery of Woman.
Thomas Harris, a young white naan,
formerly a Baptist preacher, was
hanged in the jail yard at Gaffney.
S. C., Friday for the murder of Mrs.
Hortense Morgan, an aged white yvo
man, last November. Before the black
cap was adjusted Harris preached his
own funeral sermon. He killed Mrs.
Morgan by cutting her throat, after
which he took SBOO from her clothes.
SUCCESSOR TO SWETTENHAM.
King Edward Approves Appointment of
New Governor of Jamaica.
A London dispatch says; Sydney
Olivier will succeed Sir Alexander
Swettenham, who, as governor of Ja
maica, ordered Admiral Davis and
the American warships from Kingston
during the recent earthquake horror.
King Edward has approved the ap
pointment of Sir Olivier.
POSTAL COMPANY RAISES RATES.
Same Advance Adopted as That Made by
the Western Union.
Charles P. B rucfi_ t genera)
manager of the *®j“jraph com
pany, is quote **^^*^T“*-*mt
company has,
ly to the sa’’ '
announced)
new rate /
April 1. j