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31* M.lUilllOlt AND I.
Wr neighbor planted an orchard
Of goodly orange trees;
And tr.e net fume sweet was wafted
To nie by the passing breeze.
Did I rudely call to inv neighbor:
“Take back what belongs to you?”
Ka. I joyed in the delicate perfume
That came when the soft winds blew.
1 bad not tended the orchard,
Nor planted a single tree;
But I shared with my neighbor the blessing
That came from the zephyrs free.
*1 v neighbor planted n garden.
With rare and beautiful flowers;
And some from far-away countries
Were brought to enrich his bowers.
But when the beautiful blossoms
Were open to sun and to dew,
Did my eyes not feast on their beauty?
Though 1 paid not a penny, ’tis true.
My neighbor had spoken, one morning.
Some beautiful words of cheer
To one who was heavy-hearted,
And they chanced to fall on iny car.
I, too. was somewhat discouraged.
For the burdens seemed heavy that day;
But my burden also was lifted.
And I turned light-hearted away.
Sometimes, at the mid-week meeting,
I heard my neighbor pray.
And it scene ! as if gates of Heaven
Wide open stood that day.
And the angels stood at the portals.
And turned with listening ear.
As the prayer sped up toward Heaven,
As though'they, too, would hear.
I had not words like my neighbor,
And yet it seemed to me then
That the prayer of his was also mine,
If I only said “Amen.”
And so my neighbor’s blessings.
Seemed on me to overflow,
Though my home was poor and lowly,
For the Lord had planned it so.
—-G. W. Tuttle, in the Christian Herald.
A ROMANCE OF TRAVEL.
It might not have happened if
Chelmsford hadn't noticed her vain
ly trying to overcome the obstinacy
of the car window. And it might not
have happened then, had she not shot
that appealing glance in Chelms
ford’s direction.' To that glance
from those eyes, Chelmsford—hith
erto invincible—capitulated.
He dropped his grip and tackled
the window. Under the spell of those
eyes and thnt smile he was conscious
of a Samson-like strength; if nec
essary he could have torn the win
dow from its casing. After he had
conquered the window there was
nothing to do but resume the grip,
acknowledge the thanks, and contin
ue his search for a vacant seat. It
•was really too bad that the other half
of her seat was occupied by her moth
er.
When he had at last settled down,
he tried to turn his thoughts to the
breeze-kissed lakes, denizened by vo
racious and inquisitive bass, which
he had reluctantly left behind; to the
city of turmoil and smoke to which
he was reluctantly returning; but
they determinedly refused to turn
from—those eyes.
At each stop of the crowded ex
cursion train ho wmtched to see if
she left the coach. When she and
her mother arose, ns the train pulled
into his own station, he hurried for
ward, elated, only to behold a hand
some young fellow meet them and
bear them triumphantly away, paying
especially attention to her.
Thirty minutes later Chelmsford
slammed a grip upon his dressing ta
ble and scowled fiercely at his reflec
tion In the mirror.
“Just my luck," he growled.
“Missed the one opportunity of my
life."
He slipped the catches of the grip
and jerked It open savagely. Strange
and surprising articles flew forth, ar
ticles quite foreign to the apartment
of a bachelor. Marvelous and dainty
garments, decorated with delicate
lace aud bows of ribbons, rose up
from the yawning receptacle to con
found him. A bunch of tiny hair
pins tinkled on the table. A downy
powder-puff rolled forth, its faint in
cense rising to astonished nostrils.
“Shade of Saint Anthony, protect
me!” Chelmsford gasped. “It’s her
grip!”
A little package of letters nestled
at the bottom, the uppermost en
velope bearing an inscription:
"MISS GRACE OLCOTT,
“2714 North WaluuOStreet, *
“City.”
Only five blocks away! One never
knows how near he may be to Para
dise.
Gingerly, reverently, he tucked the
escaped article into the grip, snapped
If shut, and rushed out.
At a neat little cottage in a shady
street she, herself, answered his ring.
She uttered a little cry of mingled
Joy and dismay, and held out her
hands —for the grip.
“Did you—open it?” she stam
mered.
‘Naturally. They are precisely
alike and ”
"Horrible!" she Interrupted, and
lied with her grip.
Soon her mother appeared, handed
Chelmsford his property, with a few
cool words of thauks, and laid her
bands on the knob of the door. Evi
dently she considered the affair a*
a closed Incident. So Chelmsford
lifted his hat politely and returned
to his rooms humbly.
An oblong of pasteboard on the
floor caught his eye. He snatched it
up, turned it over, saw a face, and—
killed it. Then, seeking solace, he
searched his grip for something
which should have been put in it,
but whicli wasn’t. Meditating for a
moment, he smiled hopefully.
Nett day arrived a little missive:
“Pardon me if I say that a gentle
man would not have kept my photo
graph. Kindly return it at once—
by mail.
“(Miss) GRACE OLCOTT.”
Promptly Chelmsford retaliated:
“Pardon me for wondering what
use a lady can have for my pipe. I
shall call for it—in person.
“Respectfully,
“JOHN CHELMSFORD.”
As he approached the cottage next
morning she emerged, hatted and
gloved, bearing a stenographer’s note
book. She blazed at him for a mo
ment with those eyes, then melted
and laughed merrily.
“What a muddle! That pipe must
have fallen out when we opened your
grip. We thought Brother Will had
left it when he brought us from the
station. I’ll run in and get it.”
The pipe restored, Chelmsford ob
served brazenly:
“Come on. We’ll miss our car.
You’re going downtown, aren’t you?”
She was, of course, and Chelms
ford, and —yes, to her—that car
seemed to travel exasperatingly fast
as they chatted together. As he
handed her from the car she said,
suddenly:
“My photograph. You must re
turn that—you know.”
“Is it really necessary that I re
turn it?”
“Why, certainly.”
“By mail?” he asked, smiling.
She looked down and shifted the
note book nervously.
“I think I shall bring it this
evening.”
She looked up at him quickly,
then down again.
“Quick! The car’s going. May I?”
She glanced up archly, smiling be
wltchingly:
“If you think that safer than the
mail,” she called back as she turned
away.—Frank N. Stratton, in the
Valley Weekly.
IMMIGRATION GREATER.
Immigrants From Northern Europo
Are Recoining Fewer.
During the fiscal year ended June
30, 1906, a record was established in
the matter of immigrants who en
tered the ports, eclipsing all former
years. During that period no less
than 1,166,353 aliens were admitted,
of whom 1,100,735 were immigrants.
The increase over 1905 was 106,598.
During the year 1905 11,480 aliens
were rejected, and in 1906, 12,432.
Of the immigrants, 764,463 were
males and 336,272 females.
Most noticeable is the increase in
the percentage of immigrants from
the countries of southern Europe, and
the decrease from those countries
from which the United States in for
mer years received most of her fu
ture citizens. During 1906 those
countries of northern Europe whose
people and ideas are very similar to
our own furnished but few immi
grants. Of these, there were from
Ireland, 17,950; England, 15,218;
Sweden, 3251; Germany, 3010; Den
mark, 1229, and Scotland, 1111 less
than in 1905. On the other hand,
from Italy came 5165; Russian, 30,-
768; Greece, 8974, and Turkey 5165
more than in the previous year.
The immigration from Austria-
Hungary amounted to 265,138; Italy,
including Sicily and Sardinia, 273,-
120; Russia and Finland, 216,665;
China, 1544; Japan, 13,835; the
West Indies, 13,656.
The large amount of emigration
from southern Europe is due to the
very general unrest existing among
the laboring classes of those coun
tries, and a very reprehensible activ
ity on the part of agents of trans
portation companies, who, in order to
secure passengers for their respective
lines, are often guilty of gross mis
representations of conditions and ad
vantages in the United States, repre
sented as a land of boundless plenty
for all. The mental and physical
grade of the immigrants now enter
ing the United States is said by the
Commissioner-General of Immigra
tion to be much lower than in former
years.
Of the immigration of 1906, the
North Atlantic and North Central
States received ninety per cent, of
the total and the South four per
cent. The bulk of the immigrants
avowed their intention of locating
permanently in the larger centres of
population, 347,708 declaring New
York State to be their destination,
198.651 asserting that they were go
ing to Pennsylvania. 56.539 to Illi
nois, and 73,863 to Massachusetts.—
Scientific America.
In the Cemetery.
Somehow it is hard to take a per
sonal interest in a tombstone that
weighs tons and tons. A light one
looks as if it would be a lot more
comfortable. —Atchison Globe.
Georgia Callings
Curtailed Items of Interest
Gathered at Random,
Bonds Voted by Canton.
By a decisive vote last Saturday,
the citizens of Canton voted for the
issue of bonds for the establishment
of electric lights, waterworks and a
sewerage system in the town, thus
putting herself alongside the more
progressive and enterprising cities of
the state. Out of 174 votes polled,
172 were for electric lights, 171 for
waterworks and 168 for sewerage,
being a clear two-third of the regis
tered votes of the town.
* * *
Fertilizer Tags Received.
The department of agriculture has
received 4,500,000 fertilizer tags from
the Philadelphia factory where they
were made. The tags will be supplied
to the fertilizer manufacturers of Geor
gia, and every ton of their product
sold in the state must bear ten of
them.
The state pays 30 cents per thou
sand for the tags and sells them to
the fertilizer companies for $lO per
thousand, or one cent each. The
proceeds from the sales will go to sup
port the district agricultural colleges
of the state.
* * *
Report on Schools Wanted.
Governor Smith has called upon
State Treasurer Park and State School
Commissioner Merritt for a statement
showing just what the condition of
the treasury and the school commis
sioner’s office is in regard to the
common school teachers of Georgia.
That the state is far behind in its
payments of these splendid educators
is well known, and he is making an
effort to see just where the state
stands' in regard to this debt.
Some of the counties have been
paid more than their proportionate
share of the funds available and in
consequence some will be paid in the
near future before others.
Broughton’s Sala'ry Garnisheed.
The salary of Dr. Len G. Broughton,
pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist
church, Atlanta, has been garnisheed
and legal notice served on the treas
urer of the church.
The proceedings, which are return
ble to the November term of the su
perior court, were sworn out before
Justice Klngsberry by B. A. Pugin, an
architect, and followed the suit filed
against Dr. Broughton some two
weeks ago by Mr. Pugin, who, in his
former petition, alleged that the well
known minister is due him SSOO as
part payment for the drawing of the
plans of the proposed $50,000 taber
nacle institution.
* * *
Atlanta-Albany Electric Line.
Work is soon to start on the new
electric lines from Atlanta to Albany.
E. D. Harrington and W. J. Massee
have returned to Macon from New
York, where they went several weeks
ago on a mission touching the finan
cial status of the new enterprises, and
it is stated that the laying of the first
tie and rail is not far distant. A
great amount of work has been done
towards putting the contractors in
charge of the grading during the past
few weeks and the indications are
that there will now be little delay in
beginning the work. All officials will
be hard at work now until the grading
is started for both lines.
Carnegie’s Name Omitted.
The name “Carnegie” is conspicu
ously absent from the portal of the
new library in Columbus, and the of
ficial designation of the new institu
tion will be simply the “public li
brary.” It is believed that designating
the institution in this way. in prefer
ence to naming it for any individual,
even the philanthropist whose gener
osity made it possible, will tend to
popularize the Institution. Before this
step was taken Mr. Carnegie was com
municated with on the subject and re
plied very frankly that it was imma
terial with him what name was used,
as his only object in giving libraries
was to benefit, communities. The new
building, which cost $30,000. is the
second largest library in Georgia.
• * •
Consumers Entitled to Rebate.
H. H. Tift and other lumber man
ufacturers. comprising the member
ship of the Georgia Saw Mill Associa
tion. allege that they are confronted
with a scheme of the Southern rail
way and the lines forming the South
eastern Tariff Association, together
with the great car foundries and lum
ber consumers of the west, to defeat
the decree of the United States court -
giving back to the producers >-• c
cents per hundred pounds tar it psc
ed by the roads five years a o.
More than fifteen hundred thou -a: c
dollars must go back to the saw mil
men out of the freights paid und r
the illegal tariff, and since a stand
ing master has been put to the task
of taking evidence by Judge Emor;
Speer, the lines have joined several
car foundries and consumers in a
claim that the latter parties are the
real concerns entitled to the money.
* * *
Feature Days of State Fair.
The full program of the state fair
at Atlanta has not get been agreed
on, but the following special events
have been arranged:
Children’s day, Saturday, October
12.
Farmers’ Union day, Wednesday.
October 16.
Fraternal day, Thursday, October 17.
All-day singing, Friday, October 18
Cattle judging, Friday, October IS.
""Cement Mixers’ "convention, - Friday,
October 18.
William Jennings Bryan, Saturday,
October 19.
Cobb and Cherokee, Tuesday, Octo
ber 22.
Hall, Habersham and Rabun, Mon
day, October 23.
DeKalb, Carroll and Morgan, Tues
day, October 24.
Bibb, Twiggs and Bulloch, Friday,
October 25.
Camden and Worth, Saturday, Octo
ber 26.
Italian Colony for Stone Mountain.
While \the state of (Georgia and
other southern states are debating
the advisability of bringing to this
section a desirable class of immi
grants, Vincenzo Palumbo, a private
citizen and wealthy manufacturer of
New York, and his brother-in-law, Jo
seph Parantha, of Atlanta, are active
ly engaged in instituting one of the
moat comprehensive and practical col
onization schemes yet brought to pub
lic notice.
On the Georgia railroad, one mile
beyond Stone Mountain, these gentle
men have purchased five hundred
acres of fertile land and are prepar
ing it for division into truck farms.
Within the next few months 2,000
industrious immigrants from the ag
ricultural classes of Italy will be
brought over and settled upon this
land. Already twenty comfortable
frame dwellings are in course of erec
tion on the new estate, and several
hundred more will be constructed
within the next twelve months. Saw
mills have been erected, and will man
ufacture all the timber to be used
in building.
Preparing for Big Convention.
Every possible prfeparation is be
ing made for the care and entertain
ment of the 600 and more delegates
expected to attend the International
Conference of Cotton Grovers and
Manufacturers, which will be held in
Atlanta, October 7-9, inclusive.
The city council has apropriated sl,-
000 for the entertainment and has ap
pointed a committee to confer and act
with a similar committee from the
chamber of commerce, which latter
organization has been stirring itself
for several w'eeks in a great endeavor
to outdo anything in the entertain
ment line that has ever been done f in
Atlanta before.
The convention will represent hun
dreds of millions of dollars. All the
great cotton manufacturers of New
England and of England, Germany,
Italy, Spain, Russia, France, Austria
and Belgium will be in attendance.
In addition there will be several hun
dred of the most prominent cotton
growers of this section.
The European International Cotton
Spinners’ Association will be repre
sented by 115 spinners.
When the convention has closed
the foreign delegates have arranged
for a trip through the country, and
especially the south, over the South
ern railway. Seventeen states will be
visited.
SWUNG UP FOR USUAL CRIME.
Negro Pays Penalty for Attempted Crimi
nal Assault on White Woman.
Not over a dozen determined mask
ed men took Mose Dossett, colored,
from two deputy sheriffs Sunday
morning at 2 o’clock, three miles from
Mobile, Ala., and taking him into a
swamp hanged him to a tree.
The crime for which Dossett was
swung into eternity was an attempt
ed assault upon Mrs. J. Beeder, a
widow residing in a suburb of Mo
bile. The lynching was done in a
rainstorm, and there is not the slight
est clue to the men who did the
work.
STOP AT THE
ZETTLER HOUSE,
The best SI.OO a day house in the
c:ty.
253 FOURTH ST., MACON, G<v.,
Mr3. A. L. Zettler, Proprietress,
ON SCIENCE OF FEEDING
Georgia State Chemist Discourses in Fer
tilizer Bulletin No. 44.
Commisssioner of Agriculture T. G.
Hudson and State Chemist J. M. Mc-
Candless have just issued from the
press 25,000 copies of Fertilizer Bul
letin No. 44, which are available at
this department in the state capitol.
The bulletin is declared to be the
most complete ever issued. Dr. Mc-
Candless has written five letters in
the bulletin to “A Georgia Farmer”
on the subject of cattle raising.
In his third letter on the “Science
of Feeding” he uses as his topic
“Importance of cotton seed—how the
progressive farmer may calculate the
best rations for his stock.” He
writes:
“As I said, we have been raising
cotton for the sake of its fiber to be
spun into cloth, when we should have
been raising it chiefly for the sake of
the protein and carbohydrates of its
seeds to be transmuted by wonderful
alchemy of the brute creation into
beef, milk, mutton and pork, with the
lint simply thrown in as a by-product
“When we consider the wonderful
nutritive value of cotton seed meal
and hulls, after the oil, another by
product, has been extracted from
them, and the further fact that this
rich, nutritious food may be passed
through the donfestic animals, giving
them life, growth and development,
and yet in that process lose only
about 10 per cent of the rich fertiliz
ing constituents found in the origi
nal food and yielding a manure of
the very best quality, it does seem
as though nature had been too lav
ish and generous in her gifts to us of
the south.”
In addition the bulletin gives the
complete pure-food law and the
standard of pure-food values as allow
ed under the law in Georgia, and how
registration shall be accomplished for
the sale of these articles so as to com
ply with the state regulations.
SMALL PART OF BOOTY RECOVERED
Letten’s Wife and Son Come Across With
Over $6,000.
The recovery in cash of over $6,-
000, alleged to be part of the $116,-
000 stolen from the state by Tax Clerk
Charles E. Letten, was announced by
the police in New Orleans Saturday.
Letten’s son George was arrested when
he arrived in the city from a nearby
town and admitted that he has $2,000
which his father game him recently.
He promised to give the money up.
No charge was mftde against him.
The police announce also that the
tax clerk’s wife gave him $4,038 in
bills which she had drawn from a
bank.
The tax clerk in his confession said
e ga\y nearly all the money he stole
to Virginia Reed, a negress. Legal
proceedings are under way to recovei
money from her.
CLEVELAND IN GREAT LUCK.
Ex-President’s Doctors Disagree, Quit the
Case, and New One is Called.
Asa result of a dispute between
the physicians, former President Gro
ver Cleveland, who is believed to be
in a serious condition at his home,
Westland, near Princeton, N. J., has
been put in the hands of anew spe
cialist, Dr. Banks, of New York.
Dr. Carnahan and Dr. Bryant, who
have been attending Mr. Cleveland,
are said to have disagreed as to who
was properly in authority in the case.
It is said their clash reached so acute
a stage that both doctors decided to
retire and united in a request to the
family of their distinguished patient
that another physician be retained.
Both of them refused to make any
statements.
JAPS BARRED BY WHITE MINERS.
Gang of Seventy-Seven Put Aboard Steam
er and Sent to Vancouver.
Seventy-seven Japanese miners ar
riving at Atlin, Washington, to work
in the mines were escorted to the riv
er steamer Gleamer by 300 men and
started back toward Vancouver. The
white miners served notice upos the
Japanese that if they did not stay,
away violence would be shown m
protecting the diggings against Asiatic
labor.