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• THE LITTLE SISTER OF THE
PROI'HET.
1 re arise among you a prophet or a
dreamer.- Detit. xiii, ].
1 have left a basket of dates
In the cool, dark room that is under the
vine.
Some ( arris set out in two little crimson
plates,
And a hash of (he amber wine,
And calces mot cunningly beaten
O t savory herbs and spice and the delicate
wheaten
Flour that is 1 est;
Ami it 11 to lighten his spirit md sweeten
his rest.
This morning he cried, "Awake,
And see what the wonderful grace of the
Lord hath revealed!"
And we ran for his sake.
Hut 'twas only the dawn outspread o’er
our father’s field.
And the house of the potter white in the
valley below.
Put his hands were upraised to the east
and he cried to us. ".So
Ye may ponder and read
r lhe strength and the beantv of God out
rollcu in a fiery screed.”
Then the little brown mother smiled.
As one <f;es on the words of a well-loved
child,
And “Son,” she replied, "have the oxen
been watered and fed?
For work is to do, though the skies he
never so red,
And already the first sweet hours of the
day are spent.”
And l.e sighed, and went.
Will he coine from the brye.
With Ins head all misty with dreams and
his eyes on fire,
Shaking us nil with (lie weight of the
words of his passion?
I would give him raisins instead of dates.
And wreathe young leaves on the little red
plates,
I will put on my new head-tire,
And braid my hair in a eomelier fashion.
Will he note? Will he mind?
.Will he touch my cheek as he used to, and
laugh and be kind?
—Marjorie L. 0. Pickthall, in the Cen
tury.
The First Kiss.
BY NORMAN DUNCAN.
[“The Cruise of the ‘Shining
Light' ” grips and holds the-attention
us the old-time novels grip and hold.
Tho story begins with faithful, inim
itable old Nick Top and his care for
Dannie Callaway, whom the old man
strives to bring up according to the
rules of Lord Chesterfield. And there
is pretty Judith, of Whisper Cove, al
ways winsome in her tantalizing un
expectedness. Together, Dannie and
Judith grow into young manhood
and womanhood, and there is the
checkered course of their love-affair
and a wide sweep of varied and fas
cinating Interest. Here is the charm
ing description of the first kiss of
Dannie and Judith, both being then
in their early teens:]
“Now tho afternoon was near
spent. My hands were idle—my eyes
and heart far astray from the labor
of the time. It was very still and
dreamful in the cabin. Tho chinks
were red with the outer glow, and a
stream of mote-iaden sunlight, aslant,
came in at the com panionway.
“It fell upon Judith.
“ 'Judith,' I whispered, bending
close, 'I low I might as well have—
might as well '
"She looked up in affright,
i “ ‘Hava a kiss,’ said I.
j’ “ ‘Oh, no!’ she gasped,
f “ ‘Why not? Sure, I’m able for it!’
“ ‘Ay,’ she answered, In her wis
dom yielding this; but, Dannie, child,
’tisn’t ’lowed.’
“ Why not?*
“Her eyes turned round with re
ligious awe. ‘God.’ said she, with a
solemn wag, ‘wouldn’t like it.’
“ ‘l’d never stop for that.*
“ ‘May be,’ she chided; 'but I 'low,
lad, we ought t’ ’bilge Un once in a
while. ’Tls no more than kind. An’
wlmt's a kiss t’ lack? Pooh!’
“I was baffled.
“‘Ah, well then!’ said she; ‘an’
your heart’s set on it, Dannie, I've no
mind t’ stop you. But *
"I moved forward, abashed, but
determined.
“ 'But.,’ she continued, with an em
phasis that brought me to a stop, ‘I
'low 1 bettor ask God, t’ make sure.’
" 'Twas the way she had in emerg
encies.
" ‘Do,’ said I, dolefully.
"She spread her feet, shut her
eyes, set her teeth, clenched her
hands, and thus silently began to
wrestle for the answer, her face all
screwed, as by a taste of lemon.
“ 'What news?’ I inquired.
“‘Hist!’ she whispered. 'He's
lookin’ at me through His glasses.’
‘U waited nu Interval.
” ‘What now, Judy?’
“ Hist!’ rays she. ‘He’s wonderful
busy maltin' up His mind. Leave Un
be, Dannie:’
“ ‘Twas trying, indeed! 1 craved
the kiss. Nor by watching the child's
puckered lips could 1 win a hint to
ease the suspense that roue me.
“ 'Judy, maid,’ 1 implored, '"'ill He
never have done?’
*' ‘You’ll be maltin' Un mad, Dan
kSp.' she warned.
'1 can v.ait no longer.*
“ 'He’s scowlin'.’
*‘l wished 1 had not interrupted.
“’I ’low,' she reported, 'He ll
shake llis head in a minute.'
” Tws3 a tender way to break ill
n *ws.
” ‘Ay, she sighed, opening her
eyes. 'He’ve gone an’ done It. I
knowed it. He’ve said I hadn’t bet
ter not. I’m wonderful sorry you’ve
t’ lack the kiss, Dannie. I’m wonder
ful sorry, Dannie,’ she repeated, in a
little quiver of pity, ‘for you!’
"She was pitiful; there’s no for
getting that compassion—its tearful
concern and wistfulness. I was be
wildered by the fantasy of weeping
and nonsense. For the little break
in her voice and the veil of tears upon
her eyes I cannot account. ’Twas the
way she had as a maid; and concern
ing this I have found it foliy to spec
ulate.
“ ‘Dannie,’ she ventured, softly,
‘you’re able t’ take it.’
" ‘Ay—but will not.’
" ‘You’re wonderful strong, Dan
nie, an’ I’m but a maid.’
‘ ‘l’ll wrest no kisses,’ said I, with
a twitch of scorn, ‘from maids.’
"She smiled. ’Twas a passing
burst of rapture, which, vanishing,
left her wan and aged beyond her
years.
“ ‘No,’ she whispered, but i#t to
me; ‘he'd not do that. He’d not —do
that! An’ I’d care little enough for
the Dannie Callaway that would.’
" ‘You cares little enough as ’tis,’
said I. ‘You cares nothing at all.
You cares not a jot.’
‘She smiled again; but now as a
wilful, flirting maid.
“ ‘As for carin’ for you, Dannie,’
she mused, dissembling candor, ‘I do
—an’ I don't.’
‘‘The unholy spell that a maid may
weave! The shameless trickery of
this!
“Til tell you,’ she added, ‘to-mor
row.’
“ ‘There’ll be no to-morrow for we,’
I flashed, in a passion. ‘You care
nothing for Dannie Callaway.
“I moved towards the ladder—
with the will to abandon her.
“ ‘Dannie,’ she called, 'take the
kiss.’
“I would not.
“ ‘Take two,’ she begged.
“ ‘Maid,’ said I, severely, 'what
about your God?’
“ ‘l’ll ask,’ she answered; and
thereupon proceeded with the per
formance, after which (and ’twas
very brief) she looked up with a shy
little grin. ‘He says, Dannie,’ said
she, ‘that He ’lows He didn’t know
what a fuss you’d make. “Tell un,’’
say3 He, “that I didn’t know ho was
set on it. Tell un to go ahead,” says
He. “If.you don’t mind, Judy,” says
He, “why I can turn my head.” ’
“I pecked her lips.
“ ‘Volume 11, page twenty-six!’
roared my uncle, his broad red face
appearing at that moment in the com
punionwav. ‘Yon done well, Dannie!
’Tis quite t’ the taste o’ Skipper
Chesterfield. You’re sailin’ twelve
knots by the log, lad, on the course
you’re steerin’!’ ” —From Harper's.
GERMANY IN SOUTH AMERICA.
Trade Has Been Doubled There in
the Last Ten Years.
In South America German trade
during the last ten years has doubled.
The Germans have just arranged a
huge company to run the'river trade
of Paraguay, Uruguay, Rio Grande
(Brazil), Bolivia and North Argen
tina. Tho effect of this company on
German colonization will be enor
mous. The capital is from Hamburg.
In Buenos Ayres the Germans own
a company running from that place
south to Punta Arenas, and which
largely controls the southern coastal
trade. Now we find them going north
through all the rivers. This is a
most important move. They have
an immense future before them, and
the formation of this new company
will give German colonization an im
mense lift throughout all the south
ern part of South America. German
influence is very strong in the south
of Chile as well as in south Brazil,
with a rapidly growing force in
Buenos Ayres. This steamship line
will now form a connecting link and
will do much to solidify German in
terests in South America. The
growth in Paraguay of German Influ
ence is also very marked, the for
eign population being almost entirely
German.
There has also come into existence
lately a big timber trade in the north
of the Argentine Republic, where
there are immense forests of the Que
bracho Colorado, a heavy, hard wood
containing a valuable tannin used for
tanning leather, which is in demand
to such an extent that German capi
tal is being poured into the exploita
tion of it. The Germans understand
well everything connected with for
estry. Factories are put up where
the wood is ground to powder and
either exported iu the shape of dust
or as an extract.
In certain instances German firms
have stcured special trades which
were formerly entirely Eritish, such
as the rice trade of Brazil, from our
possession of Rangoon to Kio. There
is not now a single British house at
Rio so employed.—Nineteenth Cen
tury.
T. Kyle, one of the original
■'iown siters” of Leavenworth, is still
ing in that prosperous Kansas city,
iir. Kyle and a few associates seiect
; oil the site of what is now one of th*
biggest cities iu Kansas jn 1854
Georgia Cullings
Curtailed Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
New Navigation Company.
At a meeting of the business men
in the offices of the Macon Chamber
of Commerce the Macon and Bruns
wick Navigation company was for
mally organized and arrangements
were made for the construction of two
river steamers to be used in the traf
fic between Macon and Brunswick.
Their carrying capacity will be 130
tons each, and bids for their con
struction will be asked at once. They
will be built in Macon.
* ■* •
Goodyear Boosting Canal.
Colonel C. P. Goodyear of Bruns
wick is energetically prosecuting his
efforts to arouse public sentiment in
the four states of Georgia, Tennessee,
Alabama and Kentucky upon the pro
posed construction of the canal from
Macon to the Tennessee river, via At
lanta, to connect the river system of
the west with the Ocmulgee and At
tamaha and the Atlantic ocean.
Colonel Goodyear thinks this canal
will help solve the transportation
problem of the state, and will be oi
wonderful value to this part of the
south.
Colonel Goodyear believes this the
most important suggestion for Geor
gia and the south in many years.
Lowndes to Vote on Liquor.
The prohibitionists of Lowndes
county have succeeded in securing
the required number of names to a
petition for an election on the whis
ky question and the ordinary has
named Monday, June 24th, as the day
for the election. The campaign from
now until that time promises to be
hot on both sides. The prohis have
been organizing and working through
the churches for the past six months.
Their first effort was to carry the
town dry by act of the mayor and
council. This movement met defeat,
and they then turned to the voters of
the county^
It is understood that the anti-pro
hibitionists are preparing to make a
vigorous campaign.
* * *
Silver Service for the Georgia.
The magnificent silver service to
be presented by the state to the bat
tleship Georgia arrived ia Atlanta Sat
urday and was placed on exhibition
in the windows of a local jewelry
store.
The public had been prepared in
some measure for a dazzling display
of plate, through pictures of the ser
vice, but it was not prepared for any
thing quite so sumptuous as the ac
tual silver itself.
The state of Georgia and the vari
ous towns contributing to the set have
done themselves proud, and the battle
ship Georgia will be able to point with
pride to one of the handsomest ser
vices of any vessel in the navy.
* * *
Electrical Equipment for Americus.
Representatives of the company
awarded franchises for building a pow
er plant and electric street railway
in Americus have announced that the
required bond of $25,000 guaranteeing
compliance to terms of contract would
be posted well within the time speci
fied with the city council.
One hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars will thus be invested in Ameri
cus immediately in electric equipment
and a street railway of four miles
circuit, this mileage to be increas
ed as business justifies. The company
has franchses for twenty years to
light the streets and pump by electri
cal power the city’s water supply.
Want Garnishment Law Changed.
At a meeting in Atlanta the past
week of about six members of the
Georgia Retail Merchants' Associa
tion, it was determined to introduce,
when the legislature meets, a bill ad
vocating that from 10 to 15 per cent
of every person’s salary, whether Im
does manual or brain work, be made
subject to garnishment.
•'As matters now stand,” said one
of the members of the association, ai
the conclusion of the meeting, "the
whole of a conductor’s salary can be
garnisheed, but none of a motorman's.
Also an engineer’s salary is subject
to garnismeut, but not his fireman.
What we aim at is to have passed a
law that will treat everyone alike,
whether he works with his hanus oi
his brain.”
Fifty-two towns iu Georgia were
represented at the meeting, and w
proved to be of more than usuai im
portance.
* *
Unique Fnrdon Casss.
Without having served a day of
their sentences, though convicted in
January, 1906, paraons have jus.
bevn gr-nied by the state prison com
miss.ua to John Wesley, Landa and
Newton Goodin of Spaidiug county, i
STOP AT THE
ZF.TTLEK HOUSE.
The best SI.OO a day house in the
c:ty.
2f;3 FOURTH ST., MACON, GV,
Mr3. A. L. Zettler, Propretvess.
During December of 1905, a general
row occurred at a dance in Spaiding
county, and O. M. Byars was kilted.
The Goodins were tried on tke charge
of killing Byars, and the hrst two
named received sentences' of eight
years each, and Newton Goodin was
given one year.
They were released, pending an ap
peal, and since respites lave been
granted from time to tiipe to allow
the case to get before theJ prison com
mission. The evidence oil which the
men were convicted is fe;id to have
been slight, and hundrep of people
signed the appeal for toirdon.
** * I
Fruit and Cotton piort.
The fruit crop of Geegia this sea
son will be one of tl< shortest in
years, according to the statement ot
a prominent railroad Height official,
and railroads expect aMg falling off
in shipments outside k the state.
In fact, so it is sa|? the crop will j
not be sufficient to surly the demand !
at home as the early tring has work- j
ed havoc with the orfiards. The oooi j
weather as well asjthe changeable
seasons of the past ninth, when warm
weather was neede< for the early
stage of the crops, as also resulted
in serious injury an there seems to
be little hope for evi a medium crop.
Cotton is also rafted to be seri
ously affected by ie weather condi
tions, and it is belied by some rail
road officials ihat(aipments will be
decreased.
Reports from j chard owners in
north Georgia saythat the crop this
season will not q more than -10 per
cent of last year! output.
f
CRUSH
I
Of Georgia to IVR at Atiantic Beach,
Fla., in ArtJal Convention.
Hon. J. A. /-’cock, president of
the Georgia (fishers’ Association,
will, from his I he in Carrollton, Ga.,
in a few dayssue a call for this
association to pet in annual conven
tion at Atlantlßeach, Fla., on June
24 and 25.
It has beenJie custom of this as
sociation to iff each year at Lithia
Springs, Ga.,it this year the dele
gates listeneq* the call of the waves
and voted fc*he Atlantic ocean re
sort.
During which is drawing
to a close, pat progress has been
made in thefsociation, and this will
be shown Ithe annual reports of
the officers this meeting.
An espeejy strong feature which
is the meeting will be
an addressfi Dr. George Brown of
Atlanta, of the Anti-Tuber
culosis Le|e of America, in which
he will gol-o details concerning his
recent invjgatioa-, whereby he has
proved thpeacy of cotton seea oh
over cod p’ oil as an emulsion to
be used ifie treatment of consump
tion.
AnothejiH be an article by Hon.
J. L. Beh of Monticello, Ga., for
merly si 1 ary ol this association,
but who: 1!OW in Europe as a Unit
ed Statefvernment expert on cotton
seed oilh its by-products, who will
write ai ter °sting article on hi& in
vesigatf i:i that country for this
southeipoduct.
It islected that he will deal es
pecialllth the tact that the French
chambpf deputies has decided to
suspeifie bill, which puts a prohib
itive f on this commodity, because
it coipa with olive oil, a French
predti
Th/ar the association will hate,
as itf’st, the president of the Intei
statepon Seed Crushers’ Associa
tionj> is L. A. Ransom of Atlanta,
whof elected to this honor at the
annfneeting or the association at
Janph-
'If onvention will be iu session
forl days, during which the Geor
gittfs will be made to conform to
thJeing adopted by the Interstate
AJtion. Large delegations of cot
tol'd oil manufacturers from At
lai-’olumbus, Macon, Augusta, Sa
vi, Athens, Albany, Rome, Way
cjknd LaGrange will be in attend
jlipon this meeting. There are
4il mills in Georgia and each
j-se is to be represented at this
hs
feaih Claims Ex-Senator Patton,
t-mer United States Senator John
|>n of Michigan died at ids home
fraud Rapids Friday of typhoid
•me men look as helpless as a lest
MOVE OF DIAZ
HINGES ON “IF”
Should Guatemala Execute Prison
ers Hostilities Wul Result.
MEXICAN TROOPS READY
-
President Cabrera Threatens to Take Lives
of Nineteen Alleged Assassins .But
Diplomats Make Protest.
Mexico has eight thousand men,
fully equipped and on a war footing,
now on the Guatemalan frontier. Dis
tributed at strategic points to the
south of Mexico City are eight thou
sand additional troops, which bodies
of soldiers can be transported to the
border on twenty-four hours’ notice.
While there is a disposition in official
circles to modify the height of the
tension existing between President
Cabrera and the Mexican government,
it is admitted on all sides that should
Cabrera carry out his intention of
executing the nineteen men accused,
of complicity in the alleged attempts,
to asassinate him, Mexico wo,uld be
forced to intervene.
A Washington special says: The
state department officials are watching
with interest the developments in Gua
temala, where great confusion exists
as the result of the recent attack upon,
the life of President Cabrera. A wild
panic appears to have seized ifpon
the government of that country and
arrests have been made by the whole
sale by persons suspected of complic
ity in the attempted assassination. Se
nor Canto, who was for some time
Chilean consul general at. Guatemala
City, and who has just been transfer
red to a similar position in x,ondon,
saw Secretary Root Monday, and
described at length the deplorable con
dition of affairs in Guatemala.
Philip Brown, the American charge
and secretary of the legation at the
Guatemalan capital, has reported ta
the state department by cable upon,
the events connected with President
Cabrera’s efforts to punish the insti
gators of the attack and also to crush
the incipient rebellion, which threat
ens the country.
Mr. Brown joined the other mem
bers of the diplomatic body in Gua
temala City in a protest directed to
Cabrera against the proposed execu
tion of no less than nineteen persons,
who had been arrested by the police In
connection with the attempted assas
sination, and when he reported this,
fact to the state department he was
advised against interference in view
of his statement that while a number
of foreigners were included in the list
of condemned, none of them were
Americans.
However, Mr. Brown has again ca
bled the department, asking if he
might use his personal influence in
behalf of the prisoners, and Secretary
Root Monday cabled him the neces
sary permission. The department prob
ably will be pleased if Brown can avert
the execution 'of the sentences, for it
is probable that the execution of any
of these foreigners upon the evidence
against them will lead to forcible for
eign intervention, which might result
in unpleasant complications.
SNOW AND FROST IN EVIDENCE.
The Two are Trying to Nose Out Summer
in North and Northwest.
Snow was reported from all over
Michigan Monday with a veritable
winter blizzard prevailing over the
Saginaw valley. Cadillac? reports that
five inches of snow fell Sunday night,
and six inches have fallen at Petos
key.
Flakes of snow fell in the Schuyl
kill valley in Pennsylvania and resi
dents of Berks county report that a
regular squali visited that section.
Frost was general over Kansas Sun
day night with the temperature in
many piaces in tile state reaching 39
degrees. Northwest Missouri was
also visited by a damaging frost.
INCREASED DOTIES HELD UP.
French Cab.net Succeeds in Having Cotton
Seen on mil .Postponed.
The French government has suc
ceeded in sidetracking the bill which
had been pending before parliament
to increase tue duties on American
cotton seed oti. lue action of the cab
inet furnished tresii proof of the de
sire of the government to avoid tariif
complications with the United States,
pending an attempt to arrange an
agreement througa a joint commis
sion.