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A 80NO cl THE ROAD.
I lift my cap to Beauty,
I lift my cap to Mve;
I bow before mV Duty,
And know that God’s above!
My heart through shining arches
Or leaf and blossom goes;
My soul, triumphant, marches
Through life to life’s repose.
And I. through all this glory
Nor know nor fear my fate—-
The. great things are so elmp le .
The simple are so great!
•—lTred O. Bowles, In Littell's Living Age.
HOW A BLOCKADE RUNNER
GOT THROUGH.
Stray Dog that Foilowad ths Captain of the
Laughing Lass on Board Ulilizad
to Save the Situation.
Capt. Harry Itockhill, who recently
died in London, spent the greater part
of his life in search of sport. Every
corner of the earth was visited h>
him in the course of his 70 years, and
the story of his adventures would AH
volumes. It was purely his love of
adventure that prompted him to be
come a blockade runner during the
civil war, and he often declared that
this occupation had furnished the
greatest sport he ever experienced.
“I suppose it was the novelty of the
thing,” he remarked; “a sort of
changing places with the game be
coming the hunted instead of the hunt
er. I fought Malay pirates one whole
summer, but it was not nearly so in
teresting as slipping in and out of
Charleston barber through the feder
al guard ships.”
While Capt. Rockhill owned nnd
commanded his ship, the Laughing
Lass, he never derived a cent of profli
from his blockade running. He would
take on a cargo of medicine and oth
er supplies purchased in England by
a confederate agent, and land them
In confederate territory without
charging anything for the service, and
there can be little doubt that he was
the means of saving many lives that
would otherwise huve been sacrificed
for lack of proper medicines.
The Laughing l.ass was a handsome
ly appointed and very swift schooner
yacht, and in all her career no Unit
ed States ship ever saw more of her
than her topsails as they faded away
In the distance, although on one occa
sion she must have passed within 50
feet of a steam warship, when
there was scarcely enough wind to
give steerageway. This occurred off
Charleston, when the schooner was
coming out, after having landed a
cargo.
The Laughing I*iss had lain with
loosened sails behind the confederate
batteries for ton days before an op
portunity presented itself for her es
cape from the iron-ringed harbor, but
on the night of Feb. 17. 1864 —the
same night that the submarine Hun
ley went out to her tragic but glorious
fate —a heavy fog rolled up from the
south, and it was decided to make the
attempt.
Every precaution was taken against
the occurrence of the slightest noise
aboard the schooner; every rope-end
was secured, and the crew was sup
plied with felt-soled shoes. The hull
of the vessel had been painted a lead
gray, very similar to the war paint of
the United States vessels of the pres
ent day, and her sails, instead of be
ing white canvas, were of a brownish
shade. Not a light of any kind was
shown, and the schooner slipped off
through the fog like some spirit ship.
The wind had shifted to the west,
and the blockade turners knew that
it would not he a great while before
the fog bank was blown out to sea.
and they intended if possible to go
with it. It seemed very likely that
this would be the case until the
schooner was some ten miles out
from the harbor, at which distance
ahe was likely to encounter one of the
blockading ships at any moment, and
then the wind failed almost entirely.
Occasionally a sail would flap, and
there was a hardly audible ripple un
der her forefoot.
Suddenly, sounding with startling
distinctness in the deathlike silence
which prevailed, there came to the
straining ears of those aboard the
schooner the sound of oars, and a
moment later a hail.
“Boat ahoy!" came the voice out
of the fog. and then the sound of feet
upon a ship’s deck.
"Ahoy! Is this the Housatonlc?*’
came the answer, as the small boat
evidently rested upon its oars.
“Yes. What boat is that?"
"Beat from the flagship,” was the
response, and the oars again began
their regular beat. A moment later
those upon the schooner could near
the steamboat bump into the man-of
war, and the noise of a man scramb
ling up a ladvier.
"She is on the port quarter," Cap;.
* Rockhill whispered. l;is mouth within
an inch of his pilot's car.
”No; ou the starboard,” the pilot
muttered, straining his eyes t* pierce
the cloud that enveloped them.
A catspaw of a breeze stirred the
fog, the schooner heeled over, and a
boom creaked.
“Did you hear that, sir?” a voice ex
claimed excitedly upon the guard
ship. “There is a ship very close—l
can hear the movement of her through
the water!”
The men aboard the Laughing Lass
scarcely dared to breathe. In the
very air was a strain of intense light
ening. A sail flapped and drew tight
with a short snap.
“You were right, lieutenant —there
is!" another voice said hurriedly. ‘‘Get
the men to their stations —and make
no noise.”
Capt. Rockhill realized that in a
few minutes more an alarm would be
sounded, and the whole fleet know that
a blockade runner or a confederate
cruiser was trying to slip through the
cordon. He touched his chief officer
on the shoulder.
“Get the long boat over, as quick
as you can, anti without a sound,” he
whispered. There was not the slight
est splash to announce when this had
been done.
“Get that dog that followed me on
board the other day,” was Capt. Rock
hill’s next command. “Put him in the
boat, with a fresh beef bone, and cut
the boat loose.”
Three minutes later this had been
done. The dog had been carefully muz
zled when the Laughing Lass slipped
her cable, but now the muzzle was re
moved, and he was left gnawing con
tentedly upon the bone. The breeze,
though still light, was now steady, and
the schooner was gliding silently for
ward at a rate of perhaps three knots
an hour. From the slight sounds
heard the man-of-war was now evi
dently astern, a little on the port.
“Load with grape—double charges,”
was order distinctly audible, followed
by the sound of gunners working
about their artillery.
The dog, which had been cut adrift
in the longboat and which was now
several hundred yards astern, had, as
Capt. Rockhill expected, been gnaw
ing contentedly upon his bone for sev
eral minutes before he realized that he
was alone. Then the loneliness of
the fog-shrouded waters struck Into
his heart, and he howled mournfully,
again and again.
“They aru right alongside! Ship
ahoy! Heave to or we will sink you!”
an officer on the guardship shouted.
The only reply was the delighted
yelping of the dog at the sound of a
human voice.
“Answer or we fire!” was the next
shout. The next instant there was
the roar of a gun, and a flash of flame
glimmered ‘faintly in the fog. Anoth
er and another gun crashed, all the
shots being directed toward the sound
of the dog’s howls, far to the stern
of the Laughing Lass.
From the next guardship a rocket
sped upward, then from the next and
the next, and then the sea was faint
ly illuminated by a light being turned
by the ship which the schooner had
so narrowly missed. The light must
have disclosed to them the longboat,
empty save for dog, for the firing
ceased. Instead there came the sound
of her engines as she got under way.
The wind was now blowing stiffly,
and every sail aboard the Laughing
Lass was drawing as she sped away
toward the open sea. When the gray
dawn broke and the fog had been dis
sipated by the rising sun not even a
trail of smoke was to be seen upon the
horizon. The blockade runner had
slipped safely through.—New York
Times.
SILO SURPRISES SWISS.
Our Method of Wintering Stock a
Revelation to European Agri
cultuists.
Tn describing the introduction of
American silos into Switzerland, Con
sul F. B. Keene writes from Geneva;
Just outside of Geneva there is a
small but model American farm, the
property of an American who has
long resided in this city. To a mod
el dairy and equally up-to-date quar
ters for fowls and swine, the owner
last autumn added two seventy-five
ton American silos. While twelve
acres of fine American corn were be
ing ground and packed into these,
farmers came In from the country
round about to see what was to them
a curiosity and a revelation. There
were as many as fifteen or twenty in
a day. These silos were, as far as
i know, the first to be set up in
Switzerland. During the past win
ter they have fed thirty head of fine
cattle. The practical Illustration of
wintering thirty head of stock on
the twelve acre crop of corn has re
sulted in inquiries for seed corn and
in orders for three silos by farmers
who came, saw and were corivinced.
Each of these three silos will be a
new advertisement for the system,
which is bound to spread. The
American model farmer in question
grinds his ensilage by electric pow
er. It may be that, in a country
abounding In water power, the spread
of silos will create a demand for elec
• io motors, in which our American
akers may find it t9 £eek
their share.
Georgia Callings
Curtailed Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
Ex-Coroner Acquitted of Murder.
W. S. Green, former coroner of
Richland county, charged with the
murder of Mose Tucker, a negro hack
man, of Columbus, about six months
ago, was acquitted of the charge by
a jury. Green, who is well connect
ed, has been in jail since the killing
of Tucker, having been twice refused
bail.
* * •
New Laws Confuse Druggists.
Druggists over the state have con
fused the provisions of the anti-nar
cotic law with the prohibition act, in
that many of them think it is neces
sary to file all narcotic prescriptions
with the county ordinaries. No such
provision is incorporated in the anti
narcotic act. The druggist is only
required to keep all such prescriptions
on file.
* * *
Agricultural Text Books.
A list of the text books to be stud
ied in the eleven district agricultural
schools of Georgia has just been is
sued. The course of study includes in
addition to agriculture and its allied
branches, English, mathematics, his
tory, geography, spelling, manual
training, cookery, needle work, gov
ernment in the state and the nation
and industrial drawing.
Fertilizer Bulletin Interesting.
There has been delivered to the de
partment of agriculture at the state
capitol 25,000 copies of the fertilizer
bulletin, which is the most exhaust
ive and instructive yet issued by this
important branch of the state gov
ernment.
Containing 196 pages, it is replete
with interest from cover to cover, and
will prove instructive to all classes
and conditions of citizens.
The bulletin begins with a reproduc
tion of the fertilizer law as it now
stands on the statute books, and this
is followed by a number of rulings
made by the commission of agricul
ture in interpreting this law.
* * *
Recruits for Atlanta Pen.
Word has been received at the fed
eral prison, near Atlanta, to the effect
that 125 United States prisoners from
the federal penitentiaries at Mounds
ville, W. Va., and Columbus, Ohio,
would probably he transferred to the
Atlanta institution. There are already
528 prisoners there, and accommoda
tions are ready for 700. The additional
force will come for the purpose of
helping to do the great building work
which is going on. It is seen that it
will take quite a long time, and the
officials have decided to push it as
rapidly as possible, and for this rea
son more help will be sent from the
north and east.
* * *
Tech Opens on Twenty-Fifth.
President Matheson of the Georgia
School of Technology has returned
from a visit to his old home in In
diana, and is getting everything in
readiness for the opening of the school
on Wednesday, September 25th. It
is announced that the matriculation
will be the largest in the history of
the institution, and that the school
will be taxed to its fullest capacity.
Applications .have been received in
considerable numbers from Cuba and
Mexico, as well as from all parts
of the United States. Several have
come from even more distant lands,
and two have been received from In
dia. Since the close of the last ses
sion. a number of improvements have
been made on the campus, and practi
cally all of the buildings have been
placed in prime condition.
* * *
Bryan Coming to Georgia.
William Jennings Bryan, twice a
candidate for president of the United
States, and a possible leader of the
democratic party at the next national
election, will visit Atlanta Saturday,
October 19. when he will be a guest
of the Atlanta fair association and
will speak at noon.
“The Atlanta fair this year will be
better than ever before,’’ is the state
ment made by President J. J. Con
nor of the State Agricultural Society
and the Georgia Fair Association.
"I expect it to be the greatest agri
cultural demonstration that the state
has ever seen and many of the most
prosperous counties will take part.
The exhibits this year will be bigger
and better than ever. The crops are
all fine and the display will be more
elaborate than ever.”
The fair has offered generous prizes
of SIXOO7SI,OOO and SBOO for the first
three premium-winning exhibits. Purs
es of S2OO will be offered for the next
six.
* * *
Will Donate Exhibit to State.
President J. J. Conner of the State
Agricultural Society of Georgip and
head of the State Fair Association, has
perfected a plan for novel exhibits to
be located in the state museum at
the capitol. They are to be composed
of articles of all descriptions ana
products of all kinds, manufactured
in the state of Georgia. He has been
at work getting up this exhibit for
some time and now states that it is
a sure success. They are to be
shown first at the state fair and after
the fair is over the manufacturers are
going to donate their exhibits to the
state.
“We want Georgia for Georgians,
and we want the people to see that
this is not only an agricultural state,
but a manufacturing center as well.
It is my purpose to have located here
all sorts of articles made in the state,
especial attention being given to tex
tiles and feedstuffs. Georgia is noted
throughout the United States for her
fine grade of cloths and we propose
to have a sample of each.
“There is another branch of the
great southern staple which will have
our attention. This is the cotton seed.
We farmers know that cotton seed
meal and cotton seed hulks make the
best possible cattle feed. We pro
pose to have an exhibit of feedstuffs
with these two playing prominent
parts. Then that other cotton seed
product, cotton seed oil, is to come
in for an exhibit. Cotton seed oil, as
you know, is a good cooking oil, a fine
condiment and now it is to he used as
a medicine in cotton seed emulsion.
“Every article made in Georgia that
we can secure will have a place in
this exhibit if we can get it.”
ATLANTA TEAM WINS.
Captures Baseball Pennant in Southern
League By Close Margin
From Memphis.
The Crackers, Atlanta s chesty
basebal Iteam, won the pennant of the
Southern League Friday afternoon,
when it had come to pass that the
Crackers took the second from Little
Rock —9 to 3 —Montgomery harpooned
Memphis—2 to I—thus1 —thus shoving the
Crackers 26 points to the good and
assuring them of the bunting, no mat
ter what betided.
For the first time since 1886 has
Atlanta copped a rag.
It was a goodly proportioned bunch
that saw the Crackers punch their
way to victory at Ponce de Leon park
and it was a joyful crew that left the
grounds after Atlanta had won out.
Everyone knew that Bill Smith had
controlled a good team when the
Crackers reported in the spring, and
while it looked like a pennant win
ner, there are so many slips between
cup and lip that the fans just waited
un-til they copped it. No one was
sure of the dope, but it came true.
Atlanta has never been lower than
second place, and it does not matter
now how long they remained in that
position, as they finish at the head
of the procession.
This is the fourth piece of hunting
Bill Smith has raked in. His first
was with the Lynchburg team in 1597,
two with Macon in 1903 and 1904 and
now with Atlanta in 1907. Bill has
been managing teams since 1595 and
during that time he has won four pen
nants and never finished lower than
fobrth place. The team will be given
a present of $2,500 by the directors for
winning the pennant and it’s a reward
they richly deserve.
CONVENTION OF ODD FELLOWS,
Sovereign Grand Ledge Holds Annua! Meet
ing in St. Paul, Minnes r j‘a.
The opening ceremonies of the sov
ereign grand ledge of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows was held in
Central Presbyterian church at St.
Paul, Minn., Monday. F. A. Day, sec
retary to Governor Johnson, and May
or Smith made brief ardresses of wel
come. These were responded to bj
George W. Scherer, grand master oi
the Minnesota lodge; D. S. White
more, grand patriarch, and Miss Rose
Whiting, president of the Rebekah
assembly of Minnesota.
WOMAN FALLS FROM CLOUDS.
Dashed to Death From a Balloon Two
Thousand Feet in the Air.
Mrs. Carrie Meyers, 33 years old,
of Springfield, Mass., a professional
balloonist, fell from a parachute 2,-
000 feet above the fair grounds at
Glean, X. Y., Saturday, and was dash
ed to death in view of 8,000 persons.
CENTRAL ROAD
ON A NEW TACK
Seeks to Have Governor Smith Made
Party to Rate Suit.
FILES AN AMENDMENT
interesting Case is Called in United State*
District Court at Atlanta and Post
poned to October 7th for Hearing.
The suit of the Central of Georgia
railway in the district court of the
United States, at Atlanta, for a man
datory injunction against the state
railroad commission, the attorney
general and the special attorney to
the commission, was called before
Judge William T. Newman Monday
morning. The plaintiffs filed an
amendment to their original petition,
seeking to make Governor Hoke Smith
a party to the suit.
The commission, Attorney General
Hart and Special Attorney Hines filed
demurrers to the original petition,
setting up that they cannot legally
be made defendants to the proceeding.
The railroad contends that its amend
ment will meet the objection.
After hearing arguments on all of
the legal points involved, Judge New
man withheld his decisions, and post
poned the further hearing of the case
until Monday, October 7, when he will
rerfder a decision on the demurrers
filed by the state and decide upon the
admission of the railroad's amend
ment. Judge Newman’s order is as
follows;
“In the circuit court of the United
States for the northern district of
Georgia—Central of Georgia Railway
Company vs. S. G. McLendon, H. War
ner Hill, et al., railroad commission
ers; the Railroad Commission of
Georgia, John C. Hart, Attorney Gen
eral of Georgia, and J. K. Hines, Spe
cial Attorney to Railroad Commission
of Georgia—ln Equity;
“This cause came on this day, on a
rule to show cause why injunction
pendente lite should not issue against
the defendants to the original bill as
therein prayed for. The complainants
presented two amendments to their
bill, and the defendants presented a
demurrer. It is;
“Ordered, That the hearing be post
poned until Monday, October 7, 1907,
at 10 o'clock a. m„ at which time the
court will determine whether or not
Hon. Hoke Smith, governor of Geor
gia, can and should be made a party
defendant to this cause, and whether
or not injunction pendente lite shall
issue aaginst him and the other de
fendants as prayed in the bill.
“In open court, this 16th day o£
September, 1907.
“W. T. NEWMAN, U. S. Judge.”
The action of the Central in at
tempting to make the governor a par
ty to the suit caused surprise, as it'
has heretofore been believed that the
governor cf a state could not be sued.
The eleventh amendment to tse- fed
ral constitution provides that no state
can be sued, and the United States
supreme court has frequently held
that a governor in his official capac
ity cannot be made a party to a
suit.
HOUNDED BY MONEY LENDERS
Chicago Clerk Seeks Vengeance By At- I
tempting to Kill and Rob Eroker.
John W. Miller, a railroad clerk, I
held in Chicago, on the charge of at- I
tempting to kill and rob Edgar C. I
Crumb, a diamond broker, has coa- I
fessed the crime. I
Desperation, caused by the hound- 1
ing of a horde of loan sharks, was ■
given by Miller as the reason for I
the crime, for which he may hang. 1
In his statement he tells of the man- I
ner in which he lured Crumb in the I
flat for the deliberate purpose of at- ■
tacking and robbing him. Crumb was ■
badly beaten up and may die- H
GAYNOR IS DUE AN APOLOGY.
Notorious Federal Prisoner is Offended at I
Fake News Report.
John F. Gaynor and his attending I
officers, who returned to the Macon I,
jail Thursday morning from Indian ■
Spring, entered a protest against H
news report that Gaynor had a R
for a sea trip in addition to the a M
erties already extended him bj
United States court of appeals. T ANARUS“ B
officers and the prisoner are all ‘ B
fended and were emphatic *n
denial. B