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WE 1 / DORIS AND I. ■We’re faithful com pan tons, wee Doris and If. An<l talk to *acii other, at least, so we try. She uses quaint language when speaking to me. For Doris Is only a baby, you see. She's eloquent vary In talk, ana nr Scarce resembles a yell or a screech. So far ne’er uttered a word, but sie knows , ~ How V ask fbi her bottle, and often she ihows Such "flashes 6f wisdom tlrat one wo Th Inspired with prophecy rare. qJ afternoons sunny wee Doris andll C* off on short Journeys through c try roads nigh; -inn" And, as hef" small carriage I push 1 tell her my ’ troubles, then try hard to For strength of the highest to guide m* That I may he useful and help spread th And nm one, save Drls and Ood, ev<r My heart’s deepest feelings. Its J ojrß a "'* iU woes. —Frederick Hawkins, In Dailies’ Worm. Amt Sally's Conscience. Never was there a better-natured, more conscientious woman than Aunt Bally Warner, relict of Joab Warner, who departed this life after a fall from the roof of his barn. Aunt Sally had no children of her own, but did have half a dozen nieces and nephews, and among the latter was the rollicking, Joe Henderson, who was twenty years old at the time the great calamity fell upon the house of War ner. Reference is not made to the fall from the roof of the barn, but to a cal amity that overtook Aunt Sally’s con science. One day nephew Joe, whose parents lived five or six miles away, arrived at Aunt Sally’s on an errand. She was about to set out for the village of Raw aomllle to do some “trading," and Joe volunteered to go along as driver of old Rommln. Aunt Sally had not been over that road for a month, and she "was surprised to see circus pictures pasted up on every barn on the route. Since childhood she had had a fond ness for circus pictures, tut had been brought up to believe that eternal pun ishment awaited every one who passed the doors of the circus Itself. During his lifetime Joab had discharged vari ous hired men for staying a day ofT to go to the circus, and he had refused to deal with certain men who had accept ed free tickets for the privilege of post ing pictures on their barns. As the good aunt and her nephew Jogged along the dusty highway and came to barn after barn decked out in gayest colors of printer’s ink Joe heard her sighing. Ho didn’t stop to ask himself whether she was sighing that die couldn't attend a circus promising ao much entertainment, but he forth with proceeded to concoct a plan. If a single person could conspire it would have been called a conspiracy as well as a plan. He made no comment on the barebacked riders, on the wom an Jumping through hoops, or the rhin oceros grazing along the banks of the African river, and the hyena sneaking •bout In the Indian thicket. He just sat still and chuckled, and when he wasn't chuckling he was talking about going to Alaska to dig for gold. When they reached town and found things in a bustle, he had to make some explanations. He explained that sn exhibition was to be given that af ternoon for the benefit of the widows sod orphans, but he didn’t say too much. While Aunt Sally was making her purchases the merchant might have referred to the ‘‘exhibitions’’ and called it by some other name if nephew Joe hadn't given him the wink. When ten yards of calico, fifteen of sheetiug. and needles had been bought Aunt Sally suddenly remembered something and turned to Joo aud said: •■lf there is anything going on for the benefit of widows and orphans I ought to be interested, being as I am a widow myself. Is it a spelling bee or anything of that sort?” “Oh, no. They have got a tent and a collection of wild animals. It’s what you might call a natural history ex hibition. Did you ever see a live lion or tiger. Aunt Sally?” “No, 1 never did.” "Ever see an elephant or a zebra or a giraffe?" “No.” “Well, you can see .item now and help the widows and the orphans the same time, it’s fifty cents apiece, but I*ve got the money for my ticket.” “But 1 shall pay tor both of us,” re plied Aunt Sally as she handed over v a dollar. “When l set out to do any thing for the benefit of charity I’m not one to scrimp at it. There won’t be aay gambling or horse racing, will there?” “Mercy no. The bill says there will be nothing to offend the most fastidi ous. Come on.” They had a quarter of a mile to go to reach the tent, aud during the walk Aunt Sally was puzzled that so many people should have turned out in the cause ot charily. If she had had her glasses on she might have read signs on the gayly painted wagons to arouse suspicion, but she passed into the tejit with the innocence of a child of five. It was the menagerie, and nephew Joe guided her around and saw that she missed nothing. It was a real treat to the woman, and she felt herself growing a bit reckless under her wave of enthusiasm. She ate peanuts and drank lemonade, and after taking an other look at the Bengal tiger, which had killed seven men and was anxious to finish off seven more as soon as pos sible, she said; “Joe, this Is real nice, and I’m glad we came. What are the folks going in to that other tent for?” “Oh, that’s part of the show, you know. There are folks who don’t care to look at wild animals, and so they have some riding and tumbling in there for them.” “But why can’t we see it?” “We can, and it won’t cost a cent more.” They went in and found seats, and the circus performance opened. How was the guileless Aunt Sally to tell that It was a circus? It was her first attendance, and she never even had a performance described to her. She grinned from the time the clown first appeared, and the hurdle jumping and bareback riding brought “Ohs,” and “Ahs!” from her until everybody around her was delighted. She bought lemonade and peanuts every time the boy came along, and when the perfor mance at last was over she said to her nephew; "Joe, I could go to such a show every day in the week and not see enough. I don’t know who got it up for the ben efit of the widows and orphans, but I’m telling you he was a mighty sensible feller. If It had been a husking bee he wouldn’t have taken In half the money. If you hear of any more shows like it this summer you let me know, and we’ll go.” Something really new had come into Aunt Sally’s life, and she talked of it all the way home. Joe left her to do most of the talking. He was now pre paring for the impending calamity. It came within fifteen minutes of their arrival home. Mrs. Bronson, a neighbor, was at the house on an er rand, and as soon as Aunt Sally be gan to describe the show given for the benefit of the widows and orphans the cat was out of the bag. “Do you know what you’ve done. Aunt Sally Warner?” asked the caller In serious tones. “Why, I've had a good time.” “Yes, you’ve had a good time, but you are going to pay an awful price for it. I wouldn’t be in your shoes for all the money this side of Jericho.” “But what do you mean? Isn’t It everybody’s duty to help the widows and orphans?” “Not If it’s going to send your soul to the bad place. Aunt Sally, you’ve been to a circus!” “No, I haven’t! I wouldn’t go to a circus for a thousand dollars, and you know It.” "You’ve been to a circus—a regular circus—with all its wickedness, and how on earth you are ever going to get forgiveness for it is more than I can say.” Nephew Joe was called in from the barn and the matter put to him, and he had to acknowledge he had worked a plot. “I never would have believed it of you—never!” wailed Aunt Sally. “To think that one of my own kith and kin would take me to a circus and make nie lose my chance of going to heav en!” "But the animals interested you.” "Yes, they did.” "And you liked the peanuts and lem onade.” “Alas, but I did!” “And you thought the clown was funny and the riding good.” “Heaven forgive me, but I did!” “Well, I don’t see where the kick comes in. I don't believe you are any wickeder than before." But Aunt Sally could not be com forted. Her conscience waa roused and she could eat no supper. She thought of the two-horned rhinoceros and the girl who jumped through hoops, and hid her face. She had an accusing night of it and never shut her eyes, and early the next morning she walked over to the house of the vil lage minister and told him. He asked many questions in a kind way, and when he had got root of the matter he said: "Well, sister Warner, being as your nephew deceived you and being ae there were animals and peanuts and lemonade, and being as there might not be another circus along here for five years, I think the Lord will let you off this time, but if your hired man plays dancing tunes on his fiddle you watch your feet and don’t let them get to shuffling.”—American Cultivator. Fired Sometimes, Probably. “Your husband, has he any aim in life?” “Why, 1 don’t know; why do you ask?” "My husband says he is alwayr, load ! ed.” —Houston Post - Asa result of special work done . by the Rev. S. Gray of Brighton. Eng land, $3,000 has been raised to pro vide a home for poor lepers in India. STOP AT THE ZETTLER HOUSE. The best SI.OO a day house in the. city. FOURTH ST., MACON, G*., . . Mr*. A. I Zeltler, Proprietress. STATE FAIR NOTES. Honorable William Jennings Bryan will make an address at the Georgia state fair, Atlanta, Saturday, October 19th. He will be Introduced by Gov ernor Hoke Smith. This will be one of the big days at the fair. All the secret orders in Georgia have been Hnvited to take part in Fraternal day exercises at the fair, Thursday, October 17 th. Nearly all railroads In Georgia will give reduced rates from October 10th to 26th. Oamden, Cobb, Cherokee, Carroll, Hall, Habersham, Rabun, DeKalb, Twiggs, Bulloch, and Worth counties have applied for spaoa for farm exhib its at the state fair. The far-famed Passion Play shown in moving pictures, will be seen at the fair. This play, representing the life of Christ, is presented once every ten years at Oberamergau In Europe, and draws people from all the world. Baby incubators with real live in incubator Is the best mother in the world for tiny, weak babies as the temperature is always the same, and a doctor and trained nurse are always on hand. The fair management has engaged Ranch 101, the great wild west show, to come direct from the Jamestown exposition to Atlanta. This show has been the leading attraction at James town ever since the exposition opened. It Is the largest aggregation of genu ine Indians and cowboys traveling. The Indians are Sioux and some of them were in the Custer battle. One old duck carries two bullets which he received in that fight. This show will be a free attraction at the fair. ANTHRACNOSE IN COTTON. New State Entomolist of Georgia Explains Destructive Disease. Professor E. L. Worsham, recently appointed Georgia state entomologist to succeed Professor R. I. Smith, re signed, has taken up his work in this department at the state capitol in At lanta. Professor Worsham comes direct from the United States department of entomology. He has been stationed at Orlando, Fla., where he has been in vestigating and devising methods to control the white fly, which is as dis astrous to the orange crop as the boll weevil is to the cotton crop. He is in receipt of a letter from Darien, ad vising him that anthracnose is attack ing the cotton crops in south Georgia, and is proving most destructive. Com missioner of Agriculture Hudson states that the crops in Sumter county have been attacked in the same way. In speaking of the disease, Profes sor Worsham said: “Anthracnose is a fungus disease, which attacks the bolls and in many cases prevents them from opening. In planting, the seed which are diseased, anthracnose is perpetuated. Oftentimes planters, seeing their crops thus ravaged, be lieve it is boll weevil, on account of the fact that at the points of infec tious holes occur in which insects crawl. Georgia is singularly free from boll weevil, and importers of cotton seed and cotton seed hulls cannot be too careful in order to keep it out. The prevailing low prices of cotton seed and cotton seed huls in ifcsas is an incentive for importing, into Georgia from that state. If the planters would turn loose their cotton seed in Georgia and buy Georgia hulls, the boll wee vil danger would be obviated.” INVESTIGATING CENTRAL'S BOOKS. Accountant is Employed by Trustees of Income Bondholders. Authentic information has been re ceived in Savannah that an account ant has been named to thoroughly In vestigate the accounts of the Central Railway and Ocean Steamship compa nies. The accountant was appointed by the trustees of the income bondhold- ! ers who recently placed their holdings j in the hands of the Central Trust com- I pauy of New York. | Georgia Callings Curtailed Items of Interest Gathered at Random. U. D. C. to Meet in Augusta. On October 30th a state convention of the United Daughters of the Con federacy will be held in Augusta, and the local chapter is already actively preparing to entertain the delegates and guests. The convention will oe the occasion of general social enter tainment and is being looked forward to with interest by the ladies' all over the state. The convention will remain in session several days. Carroll Citizens Elated. The citizens of Carroll county are highly elated over the fact that an ex -perimestaJ-statipnJs to be established at the A. and G. colleger~TntH means very much for the college, and it is due to the untiring efforts of Presi dent J. H. Melson that one. was ob tained. Professor Melson is daily re ceiving applications for entrance irom all over the fourth congressional dis trict and from present indications all available room will be taken up by the opening of the college. Ihe buildings are nearing completion and school will open on the first of January. Two Dioceses for Georgia. The house of bishops of the general convention of the Episcopal Church of the United States, in session at Rich mond, Va„ has agreed to a division of the diocese of Georgia, and the resolution to that effect will go to the house of deputies for their concur rence. It was not just clear to some members of the house as to what por tion of the state was to be set off into the new diocese, but the bishops expressed their willingness to divide the state into two dioceses, the line of demarkation to be established later. * * * Uniforms Cost $lO6 Each. As the result of a meeting of mem bers of the governor's staff in the office of Adjutant General A. J. Scot-t at the capitol a few days ago, the con tract for furnishing uniforms to the members of Governor Smith’s staff was let to the M. C. Lilly company, the price to be $lO6 each. Only the service and the dress uni forms are to he purchased at this time. Later on the full dress uniform may be secured, but that has not yet been determined on. Should the staff de cide to buy it, its members will have to come up with $75 or SIOO more. * * * Donator of Cemetery First Occupant. Mr. B. F. Camp, one of the most prominent citizens of Douglas county, died at his. home near Douglasville a few ttays ago. He was taken suddenly with menin gitis and grew worse gradually until his death. He was in his fifty-fifth year and leaves a wife and five chil dren, four brothers and a host of relatives. Mr. Camp had just completed anew church building and had deeded the building and lands to the church, and he was the first to be placed in the cemetery adjoining. * * * Corporations Ignore New Law. Over one thousand corporations do ing business in Georgia will be liable to a fine of SSO each if they do nol file their corporation returns with Sec retary of State Phil Cook by November Ist. With the time limit less than 30 days off, Secretary Cook has noti fied the corporations that they will be fined under the state law unless they make the proper returns. The secretary of state is having con siderable difficulty in securing the cor poration returns and will probably in stitute proceedings to secure the fine if the returns are not made in the proper time. The corporations have responded; slowly to his demands, and in adai-' tion to those of this year there are one thousand corporations from last year who have not complied with the law. * * * Masons to Meet in Macon. The grand lodge of Georgia Masons will convene in Macon on October 29 i in its two hundred and twenty-first ‘ annual communication. The session j will be the most largely attended in the history of Georgia Masonry. There will probably be 1,500 masters anc" pastmasters present. The wonderful record of the past year is set forth in a letter of Grand Master Meyerhardt, which has been sent to all the lodges. Among other things in this letter, the grand mas ter says: “It is with profound pleasure that L announce to you that the past year has been one of unprecedented pros perity. When the grand lodge meets there will be in the treasury about $35,000, the greatest surplus known in the history of Georgia masonry. We will have 30,000 members on our rolls—an increase of 12,000 within the past nine years. Our lodges—includ ing those under dispensation—number 510. Our home has been improved, every need of its occupants? has been supplied, we do not owe one cent, and every department of the grand lodge has been properly and creditably maintained. Anew or enlarged grand lodge temple is in contemplation, and Georgia masonry stands on a higher and nobler plane than ever before,’ * * * Farmers’ Union Directors Meet. A significant meeting of the nationa. board of directors of the Farmers Union of America was held in Atlanta toe pasrwveete — Two. questions of im portance claimed the attention of the ■board —the short cotton crop and its relation to prices and the organization of the northeastern states for the in terests of the union. The meeting was an executive one and closed to outsiders. Just before it began, hov/ever, D. I. Neill, president of the Texas state union, said: “If the people hold their cotton, there is no telling where the price will go. Two weeks ago we had reports in our state from 185 counties. From these reports and later ones I estimate Tex as’ crop at'less than tw r o and a half million bales.” From this statement it is generally inferred that the directors will devote much of their time toward plans for holding the cotton market in the in' terest of the farmers. More Postmasters Organize. Between twenty-five and thirty of the second and third class postmasters of Georgia met in Atlanta last Saturday, and perfected an organization, the pur* poses of which were stated to be the mutual welfare and protection of its members and increased efficiency in that part of the postal service entrust ed to the second and third class post masters. There were a number of distinguish ed persons present at the meeting, but those who attracted chief attention were Mrs. Helen Longstreet, widow of the late General Longstreet and postmaster at Gainesville, and Mrs. W,. Y. Atkinson, widow of the late Gov ernor Atkinson, who presides over the destinies of the Newnan post office. ]\jrs. Longstreet was elected tempo rary president, and Mrs. Atkinson tem porary secretary. A committee tc draft a constitution and by-laws to be submitted to a future meeting was then named by Mrs. Longstreet, the temporary president. This committee was as follows: Walter Akermau of Cartersville, chairman; J. L. Sibley of Milledgeville, Mrs. W. Y. Atkinson of Newnan, E. F. Blodgett of Atlanta and Chafes W. Parker of Elberton. PILOT'S LICENSE SUSPENDED. teamboat Which Followed Teddy is Laid Up For Six Months. The steamboat, Fred Hartweg, the license of whose pilot the president personally ordered suspended, accom panied the presidential party fropi Cairo, 111., to Memphis, and carried a party from Pittsburg. From the first the boat insisted upon maintaining a position near the head of the procession, crow-ding the other vessels out of the places assigned to them and hugging the Mississippi, which carried the president. At one point it ran up alongside the president’s boat, and for a distance maintained a very close position. This is believed to be the conduct of which the president complained. The vessel also at times kept up an almost in cessant shrieking of whistles. Captain Waltz, inspector of hulls, suspended the license of Pilot Nichols for six months. The president had requested that his license be suspended for only three months, but Captain Waltz, after hear ing the evidence, decided to make the penalty six months. GAS EXPLOSION DEALS DEATH. Three Men Killed and Two Fatally Hurt in Coal Mine Accident. In a gas explosion at the No. 7 min* of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and R a: -' road company one mile from Pra*t City, Ala., Friday morning at o’clock, three man were killed and two others fatally hurt.