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Coca! news Turns. Mrs. Mary E. Heflin of Jackson is hare for the fall.—Sparta lehmaeiite. Mr. and Mre. Lavosia MadtU* Jackson have been on a visit t hi: week to Mr. and Mra. A. S. Florence. —Mooticelui Nr. Col. Threat Moore of Jaokson has been in attendance upon court here this week. —Monticellu News. Rev. Hanal of Jackßon was ming ling with friends In Glxdeeville last Friday.—MonticeJoNews. Mr. J. T. Mayo of Jackson spent from Saturday until Tuesday with Mr. G. B. E lis.— Monticello News Miss Dollle McKibben returned home on Monday after a ten day vis it to Mies Daniel.—Henry County Weekly. Mr. Harold Mallett of Jackson was the guest of friends In McDonough Thursday.—Henry County Weekly. Dr. and Mrs. W- H. Copeland have returned to their home in Jackson af ter a weeke visit to friends and rela tives in tliis city.—Henry County Weekly. Me.-srs Wilson Gibbett and John Smith former pupil* of Mrs. J. K. Hanna at Douglas Ga. spent Sunday afternoon in the city as her gutsta. Miss Annie Nutt is the guest if Mrs. J. W. McCord The Milliaery openings t the diff erent: department stores Wednesday and Thursday were well attenued. Many pretty dress good and beauti ful bats, dear to the feminine heart, Were shown, the hats especialy exci ted the admiratiou of all the ladies combining as they did the effective designing and excellent taste of the Milliners. Mrs. O’Kelly has ret urned to her home in Tifton after an extended visit to her purents Captain ami Mrs. L. D. Watson. Mr. H. L Daughtry’s familj have returned from Indian Springs where they spent the summer. Mrs. Frank Shelton and son Frank Jr. ara visiting her sister Mrs. C. P. Carmichael In Monroe. Mr. John Duncan of Atlanta sper fc Sunday with his mother at Mrs. YV K. Lanier's. Henry Hendrick who was brought home from Vincent Ala. quite sick is improving. A speedy recovery is being antici pated by his many friends, Miss Tallie Jolly spent part of the •reek in Atlanta. Mr. G. T. Fossett is -up fn m Tooutsboro this week. Mr. Harold Griffin of Hartwell spent Sunday and Monday with Mr. A. H. Smith. Mr. Dav Goodsonof Atlanta spout Sunday with his mother. The special Rally day program for last Sunday morning at the Baptist Church was splendidly carried out and much praise is being showered upon the energetic superintendent. Mr. Dee Tulleraou of McDonough •pent Sunday in the city. Miss Dollie McKibben has returned home after an extended visit to Mbs UlUn Daniel in McDonough. Mrs. John Pittman spent Sunday da che city with Mrs. Susan Moore. Miss Minnie Browning has returned from Ytlanta. Dr. Jamerson has moved into Dr. YY’oods reidence on Dempsey Avenue. Mrs. YV. H. Naliy and Mrs. Fm H ark ness are visiting Mrs. 8. M, Pope who has been real sick. Mist Kthei Gillard spent the week end with her sister Mrs. H. W. i ;W right. The Literary Club met at Mrs. Ray mond Carmichael’s Monday evening. The Vicar of Wakefield was discussed Miss Matfisue Hatn conducting the study after which hot chocolate an. ■wafers was served. The next meet ing will be with Miss Adeile Nutt. Mr. Cliff >rd Sanders from Stark -was mingling with his friends in J .ok son Tuesday. Dr. Akin was down from Jenki'n burg Tuesday, Three Short Short Stories, for Leisure Hours Reading. How the Chicken Was Hatched. [Original.] At one time (luring the civil war while we were campaigning Id Virginia our brigade became separated from the main urrny, and we were In such a jHisttlon between the Confederate forces that If they couid have acted in concert they might have captured us. Hut neither one knew of the other’s proximity—that is, we inferred they did not, for they made no move against ua. But even If both knew of the oth er's presence they could not communi cate with a view to making a concert ed attack without sending a messenger through our lines. One morning when I was In charge of n picket post a young girl came into the lines with a basket of butter on one arm and a basket of eggs on the other. She said she had come from a small plantation Just without our linos and would like to sell us her produce. Since our rutlons had for some time been largely composed of salt pork and hard tack my mouth watered for her wares. I tasted the butter and found It delicious. As to the eggs, they looked tempting enough; but, yielding to an old habit when buying eggs, I held a number of them up to the light to muke sure they were fresh. All transmitted a portion of the light except one, which transmitted none. It seemed to be of exactly ahe same weight, size and shape as tue others; but, looking through it, I coukl not see a ray of light. '•There’s u chicken In that one,” I remarked to the glri. “If there Is, I don't see how it got In. I'll take It out. I think the ie;t are all right.” She took the egg out of rr.v hands. I selected half a dozen of the others and a pound package of the butter—all I could take care of while on duty—ln tending them for our company mess. The girl went on in toward the camp, and 1 saw no more of her. We did not refuse citizens admittance within our lines. Wo reserved our refusal till they asked to go out. And wo espe cially objected to their going out on the opposite side from which they came in. It was passed down among us from headquarters that wo were between two tires and no person what ever should bo permitted to pass through our lines. YVe enjoyed our fresh eggs and but ter immensely and wished all the dairy men in Y'irgiula would come in with thoir produce. Several officers asked where we got them, and when I told them that a country gil l had come into camp to sell them one of them went off to find her. This was in the even ing after supper. The Inclosure wi La in the picket circle was not very largo, and ho might easily have come upon her if she had been in camp. Either she was not In camp or she was hid lng. Someone suggested that she had gone through the Hues. As our safety depended upon no one in the Confed erate Interest getting through the lines, this excited attention. I sot out with several others on a still hunt, but we all came back with the report that no girl of the description given was in camp. 1 felt it my duty to report the matter to the general, only mentioning •the girl and my having bought some of her butter and eggs. The general swore n good deal when he beard it, since be had given strict orders as to the departure of any citizen from our lines. Every officer of the picket was questioned, and all avowed that no one had gone out during the day. The only way I could account for the girl s disappearance was that she had stolen out between two pickets after duak. The next morning a flag of truce was seen coming, and when it arrived the otileer In command presented a de mand for the surrender of the brigade, stating that they hud us surrounded. The geueral sent them back with a proposition which delayed matters till after nightfall. Then he ordered the four regiments composing the brigade to cut their way out in four different directions, each fighting on its own hook. That was a terrible night. I shall never forget it. Our regiment took to a wood, where we came upou several regiments, and In the light one half were captured, the other half getting through and away. I was with those who were captured. Two of the other regiments were taken entire, and a third had the good fortune to strike an unguarded opening and marched through it The next morning I with the other prisoners was undergoing an inspec tion by the general who had captured us when one of the officers with him, a beardless boy, rode up to me and put out his hand. “How are you. captain?” he said. *T owe my life to your stupidity. If you'd boon smart I would have swung within a few hours after you passed me into your lines.” “Who are you?" I asked, putaled by a resemblance I could not explain. ‘TUX til®, country who sold vou THE LITTLE SCHOOLMA’AM. | Copyright. 1907, by Mary Mclteon.] She was a teacher m one of the pub lic schools in the city, having a “B" class, and she was referred to as “that little schoolina’am” ofteuer than ns Miss Sutherland. She was hardly above eighteen years old, and there wr those who thought it curious that s - a u slip of a girl should have secure; I re position. There may have ;er i “pull” somewhere, but as she* .n per fectly competent to All the place no one bnd any right to complain. The little schoolma’am was one of six teachers boarding, with good Moth er Williams. She had kept a board:.;g house for schoolteachers for many long years and had come to tie regard ed as a mclther to that class. She took Miss Sutherland under her wing at onco, and no incident of note happened for the firs# three months. Then a dia mond ring belonging to one of the oth er teachers in the house was suddenly missing. . Three more afcicles were missed; then a detective was called in. lie was not ten minutes making up his mind about it. “The three robberies were committed by the same person, and that person is your Susan,” he said. “The fact that she has been with you for five years and has never stolen anything before makes no difference. Men live straight live* for fifty years and then commit crimes. Let me take her to the-sta±lou house, and I can make her confess within half an hour.” Mother Williams would not listen to this. She not only refused to make a but gave the toucher the I amount she had lost and kept Pusan in her place. The robberies were, of course, a subject of conversation among tbc teachers, but that any one i should suspect another was a thing impossible. It was a month before anything further happened. Then a debt of .S7O was paid to Mrs. Williams in cash. As she had no bark account, slit; put the money in liur trunk in her room. In just a week it was missing. She couldn't .say within £r?e days of the time it 'was taken. It was there all right of Monday, but on Thurs day she looked for It in vain. The door of her room was never locked, and on Tuesday afternoon when she went out to market she remembered that she left the key In her trunk. This last robbery made tilings look serious indeed. Every one clamored for another detective to be called in, and the girl Susan, who felt that she might be under suspicion, declared that she would not remain another day unless a thorough investigation was made. There are detectives and detectives. The second one called, heard the par ticulars of all the robberies and did not lay any one under suspicion. He said he would think it over and see what could be done. He talked with the servants and the teachers and agreed with them that It was a mys terious case. Two wedks had gone by and ho had not been beard of again when the little schoolma’am took a book in her hand of a Saturday after noon and went into one of the public parks. She had been reading for half an hour when n man sat down on the bench beside her. She looked up to recognize the detective. 110 was a middle aged man, of fatherly look, and, though engaged in detecting and punishing evil doers, It was evident that he had a kind heart. After a few casual remarks had passed he said: "Miss Sutherland. I have been wait ing for the last three days to see you alone. Had I called at the house ami hud a private conversation with you it •might have been embarrassing.” “But why should yon want a private conversation with me?" she asked. “About those robberies, my dear. 1 have found where the ring and the watch were pawned. I have the dates when you expressed the money to your sister Mary.” “Sir!”.exclaimed the girt, rising. “Sit down, child, and don’t attract at tention. You can’t be vicious by na ture. You have not spent a cent of the money on yourself. It has all gone to someone else. Tell me what actu ated you. lam here to pity more than to accuse. I can’t believe that you realised the heinousness of your of fenses. Don’t weep and draw atten tion. but Just tell me all about it." Tty' <*'-! •'■in wh'te as a sheet and butter and eggs. My neck "being tn a halter, I got nervous and left th wroug egg In the basket. That egg ! you couldn’t see through was filled with sand and a message from my general to General B. here, arranging for a concerted plan to capture you Yanks. Of course you couldn’t see through it. There was a chicken in It. as you : said, nucl the chicken has been hatched.” When I was exchanged the war was over. I was glad if it. for I btul r.o heart to continue In the service after the fearful results of my stupidity. I’rom that day to this I have never beer, able to lie.tr the sight of an egg. SPEXCEIt TROYYBRiDGE. Hunting a Grave. [Original.] My cousin Mary and I were very ! Intimate, and our fathers’. farms ad joined, though the distance by the road between the two houses was half a mile. I had been at Mary’s one even ing, staying much later than usual. There was no man to escort me home, and 1 was forced to go alone. Mary suggested that 1 take the deg with me, and I did so. It was 11 o’clock when , I started, and it was bright moonlight. We fanners’ daughters are used to go dig about alone in the couutry, and ; I didn’t feel afraid. If there was ti . midtty in me it was rather uue to super | stition than any real danger, a super j stition that every one feels, more or less. Of course I made figures out j of the stumps aud patches of moou- I light, but they always turned out stumps and moonlight, and I was be coming more or le6s used to them when suddenly the dog set up a howl and, putting his tail between his legs, ran off in the direction from which we had I come. I was the more astonished when I I saw the object that had frightened him, , a man, for I had relied on the dog for protection. I proceeded on my way, and the figure advanced slowly toward me. When we met I saw a young 1 man about twenty-five years of age, i very b udsome and evidently a gentle man. I was not unused to seeing city ' folk in the region, for we were ueai the ocean, ana there were summer re sorts above and below us, though the t season had passed, an.l the visitors were mostly gone. I felt no fear of injury, for the man raised ills hat politely, though with apparent effort. Whetl. r it was the moonlight that ghone full in his face or r.ot 1 c mldn’t tell, but he s<‘omed to bo very pale. •a 1 nbo Ik at there 'as a i odor of the :.oa about him. Let t .is may have ’-a borne on a light puff of air that p ..-sod as I met him. “Can you direct me to tin? church yard?” he asked. “Follow the road in the direction you are going' for about a mile,” I replied, “and you will come to it. It ■ lines the road. You can’t miss it.” For heaven’s sake, what did the tm.n want at the churchyard at that time of night? “Do you know the hour?” he asked. “A lirle past 11.” Was he ill. staggering about in tbc road, or was there something the mat ter with my vision? He seemed rath er to be swaying with a motion sim ilar to that of waves. He looked at me appealingly. A cloud passed over the moon, and when the light came again lie was standing before me per fectly tranquil, looking into my face with a persuasiveness I had never en countered before. “I came out for a walk,” be said, “from the ocean. I thought I’d go in land. I heard there was a church yard near bore, and I wanted to see it. But I don’t feel equal to proceed ing further. I think I’ll go back. Would you mind my walking with you—that is, as far as you go?” He "was so gentle, so deferential, so spiritual, that I had nothing to fear. Indeed, his very presence threw over me a singular spell. I gave the de sired permission, and we walked along together. “Why did you wish to visit the churchyurd?” I asked. “Welt, there aro peace and rest about a churchyard, such a contrast with the lb e world. One . day wo trembhLg all over, but she fought back her emotions and after a minute said: “It was all for Mary. Mary Is my sister, and she Is a cripple. She hasn’t had the chanoe that I and other girls have had, and I have always pitied her. If you knew her and knew how good and patient she Is you couldn't help but love her. Soon after I came to teach school a young man fell In love with her. We are very poor hut very proud at home. I wanted this young pan to marry Mary—l wanted It, oh, so bad, and I—l stole the things and money to buy her clothes. That was It—that's aIL Ton can take me to Jail now. We are all rained and Mary can't get married now.** The detective sat there with his face in his hands and his eyes on the ground tor long minutes, while the ltttle school ma’am trembled and gasped and sobbed. Ffcally bo reached out his band and touched hers and said: “No one knows it but you and I. I have the ring and the watch, and they can be sent to the losers through the mall. As for the money, we will pay it back together, half and half. When we have got It together I will tell you how. Go on with your teaching. That’s all. - ’ That's ail.the reader need knew, ex cept that Mary was married six months later and that a mystery greater than the robberies still hangs over the boarding bouse. M. QUAD. 1 Among those who west to the cir cus Monday in Atlanta was Dr. R. w. Robert Lee, and John Billy Mays and Mote Watts. Mr. J. T. Preston of Flovilla was i n Jackson Tuesday. Bob Henderson was up from his country home near Flovilla Tuesday. Mr. J. T. Burford from Knoxville fenti. was down Tuesday looking after :he sale of the Burford land the g -ate oI which lie is administrator. Mr. Henry Lee Burfsrd was doss from Atlanta Tuesday. Mr. S. T. Haizlip is over irora Ea tonton visiting friends and relatives. Mr J. M. Trapp was up from Indi an Spring Camp Ground Tuesday. The Jacksonian had a pleasant call from Mr. R. E. Lee of Atlanta Satur day. Rev. Parry L>e Pastor of the East Macon Baptixt Church was in Butts Saturday attending the funeral servi ees of hif mother. Tiie hearing for the purpose of de termining whether or not the bonds recently voted in will be validated was postponed till the 28rd of Oct. ob a-count of Judge Reagan being dis qualified. Mr. and Mrs. Lavosia Maddox have Mfc for South Georg a where they will make Dublin their future home. | Judge F. Z. Curry sn-ntthe first of ;t.he week in utlauUon business. 1 Mr. D. S. Driehell 0 f Juliette was m i “cd to Fiss Bel|e Nolen Wednei di. ~ unit gat tae home of Mr. and Mrs. 0, .V. Towles at Cork. Our con g ...ilatinr• nre he. rb ly extended. The population of the world averages 109 women to every 300 men. : I Ev.r Noticed It. A man stood on the eighth floor of a skyscraper and pushed the button for the elevator. In a moment another man came along on the same floor and did the same thing. He also knew the first man had pushed the button. Presently a stenographer came trip ping along and gave the button a vi cious jab. She also knew the previous two had pushed the button. In a few moments more an elderly, woman came along, sized up the crowd and rang for the—but why go on?—Milwaukee Sentinel. FOR SALE:--My houshold furniture at a bargain by Oct. is* Moving to South Ga. Don’t want to pay freight. R. S. Brown. are a part or’Uie turmoil'of living be ings, with our ambitious, hates, loving; the next we are inhabitants of ft dead city. We speak neither to ou* companions nor to the living. The suii and the rain fall on us, the winds rock the branches above us, but noth ing disturbs us. How different a bur- ' ial at sea! There we sink to the Ix>t- i tom or drift into some cove in the rocks, but if we are not far enough beneath the surface we undulate with the waves that are rolling over us, now sucked partly out, now slowly driven In again, never knowing what is in store for us except that we must drift, drift, drift" The last three words were almost ft wail. We bad by this time come to tba i farm. I pitied my companion. Be I seemed so miserable out in the night, as If ho were seeking a place to rest I among the dead. I offered to awaken J my father and. take him In for tb* | night, but he shuddered and declined. “I must go back to the sea,” he said- I Leaning on the gate, I watched him I as he retreated. There was again about I him that swaying I had noticed before, I and I sniffed the salt sea smell. Wbeo I I could see him no longer I went to j and to bed, but not to sleep. AH night | I seemed to be rising and falling wttb I the waves and smelled the odor of sea- I weeds. In the morning I saw some peopk I coming up the road carrying a bier, j I questioned them, and they told me that I the body of a young man who had been ■ drowned while bathing during the sea* ■ son had risen to the Burfaee and they I were taking it to the churchyard f® r ly burial. I asked them to let roe so® I the corpse, but they told me the lid was screwed down. Besides, it no object for a young girl to look upo n -^H Tbls happened years ago, but I ha'® ■ never been the some woman since. ■ the autumn when the moon is near t ■ full I often walk between Mary's 8 ■i our place, thinking to meet the straw ■ ger who seemed to be hunting r - V grave. He has never appeared. ; ■ wonder if tbe dead ever do nop® B ® || living beings. F. A. MITCHEh- ; K