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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.