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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.