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MB BALLAD OF THB BETHELL.
Homwwarrl bound wan the Bethell, out
from the Midland Sea,
Paat the Strait of Gibraltar into the west
nailed she.
Isaac Freeman, the master, thought of his
cargo sold.
Thought of the wares of Europe laden safe
in the hold,
Prayed for a peaceful passage, yet—if fight
lie must —
Letters of murquc he carried, and a score
of guns outthrust
Their menace to French and Spaniards,
who never would need to know
Thnt six of the guns were wooden—for the
Bethell still should go
Safe overseas to Boston, with riches
brought from far
To owners that dared the uttermost, de
spite King George’s War.
The snn swung low to the westward, lost
were the hills of Spain,
When far through the golden sun-track a
sail rose out of the main.
Slowly it grew to a vessel, blocking the
Bethell’s path,
Like a beast of prey that waited for the
glutting of its wrath;
And through the waning daylight a sea
sithooled eye could tell
nVus the flag of Spain that lifted and
sank on the long ground-swell.
So great, a foe for the Bethell, so small and
all unfit!
Never such need had Freeman to summon
his Yankee wit.
“All hands below!" lie shouted. ‘‘Search
every man his chest;
With your Sabha’-day hafs and jackets let
staves ami oars be dressed:
Then range them along the gunwale—good
scarecrows breed good fear!
Make sure that ail your lanterns are
trimmed and burning clear;
String them aloft in the rigging; then
Leave the guns well out,
‘Quakers’ and all —step lively!” “Aye,
aye!” came the answering shout.
Thus did the peaceful Bethell put on a
fighting guise,
Thus through the gathering darkness she
loomed for twice her size,
As under the flag of Kngland to the Span
iard close sue drew,
Brave with her lights and cannon, proud
of her mighty crew.
80 they hove to an<l parleyed, shouting
across in the night,
Clear sounded Freeman’s trumpet: “Yield
while ye may—or fight! ,r
What should (he Spaniard answer, with a
British sloop of war
Full-armed, full-manned, as lie thought her,
monstrous of hull and spar,
Rolling there in the darkness, ready to fire
and hoard?
Bitter the cry came back: “I yield—take
ye my ship and sword!”
With the cheer that rang from the Bcthell
a laughing note was blent.
And the Spanish master, bewildered, won
dering what it meant,
Wondered no more when, captive, on Free-
man's deck he stood,
And looked on the paltry ennnon, six of
them hewn from wood.
And the Yankee crew redoubled by a
muster of empty clothes.
Then what a torrent of fury, what a flood
of Spanish oaths!
For his guns were six and twenty, and his
crew a hundred and ten—
To the Bethell’s puny complement of seven
and thirty men;
And the Jesus Maria and Joseph, the ship
he had brought so far.
Bound from Havana to Cadiz, lost without
scratch or scar.
Was a register ship deep-laden with chests
of silver and gold,
Doubloons and dollars by thousands, for
naught to a trickster sold!
But vain the wrath of the prisoners,
manacled all by mom;
For pleading they got but laughter, for
cursing but looks of scorn,
Till they made Fa.val. where the Spaniards,
fuming hut now set free.
Saw captor and captive westward fade
over the rounding sea.
And the folk of Boston marveled when
seamen swart and strong,
Arnie 1 to the teeth like pirates, bore the
treasure along
Through winding streets to the mansion
where an oaken cellar door
Swung shut with the owner’s blessing on
the sea and its golden store.
And pieces of eight, of goodlv weight,
should have lined the captain’s kit
For the bloodless light he had won that
night all by his Yankee wit.
—M A DeWolfe llowe, in Youth's Com
panion.
BETH’S PREMIUM.
Hot aMata-Up Story--lt Everyßit Happened.
lilimbeth Price in St. Nicholas.
It was very hot to sit still and sew.
The needle would get sticky In spite
of all the little emery strawberry
could give it, and Beth’s fingers had
never felt so clumsy and uncomfort
able. if only May and Billy would
play a little further off it would help
some, but there they were in plain
Bight, under the very shadiest maple,
with all the games Beth liked best.
It was an apron she was making—
white cambric with wee cunning
pockets and bretelles that were to
coiue quite up to her shoulders and
narrow, delicate tatting over-handed
every bit of the way around only the
belt. It wasn't at all like the aprons
little girls wear nowadays, but it was
Btylish then, and very pretty. Beth
had made it, every stiich—scams and
facing (hat had to be hemmed down
so carefully, and it was all done ex
cept a part of the tatting. But oh!
there had been such a lot of that—
yards and yards It seemed to Beth, as
she glanced longingly out once more
at the shade, and May, and Billy, and
the games. When you are only eight
years old there are things that seem
more interesting than over-handing.
Mamma, busy at her own sewing,
heard a long-drawn sigh and looked
up to smile comfortingly. “1 think
you’ll be through by 5 o'clock,
Selby," she said. “You know we
mast send It off to-night bo n to
have it entered on time. You've
done beautifully, dear, and you de
serve a premium whether you get It
or not.” Beth smiled back and de
cided that, after all, It wasn’t so
dreadfully hot, and 5 o’clock wasn’t
very far away. “Do you think I’ll
get It, mamma?” she asked for the
twentieth time.
“I don’t know’, dear. If mamma
was judge, you surely would, but they
haven't invited me to award any
prizes. You mustn’t count on it too
much, for you may be disappointed,
but your time has not been wasted
even if you get nothing but the pretty
apron, and the pleasure of knowing
that you made it yourself, and very
neatly.”
“What is this talk I hear of pre
miums and mysteries?” demanded
Uncle Ed, coming in from the porch.
“It’s the county fair, Uncle Ed—
next week—and they have offered $5
to the best sewing under fourteen
years old, and I’m trying to get it,”
explained Beth, excitedly.
“Which you surely ought to do, for
I can testify that your sewing is con
siderably less than fourteen years of
age,” declared the roguish uncle. But
Beth was too full of her subject to
heed teasing. Uncle Ed had been
away for a month, and it was such a
comfort to find somebody who hadn’t
heard the matter discussed over and
again.
“I’m only eight. Uncle Ed, but I’ve
been most as careful as fourteen,
don’t you think?” and the needle
roughened forefinger pointed to the
tidy hem. Uncle Ed hunted for his
eyeglasses—“because I can’t see them
at all without,” he declared. “Of all
the ridiculously small stitches—why,
Beth, I’ll be surprised if those near
sighted judges don’t think you’ve
glued that petticoat together.”
“It’s an apron, Uncle Ed,” ex-
plained the small seamstress, patient
ly. “It’s very important, because if I
get the money it’s to go into the bank
to help my education, so I can be a
teacher, and mamma won’t have to
work.”
“I see. And if you don’t get it
you’ll have to be an ignoramus all
your life. I should think it is impor
tant!”
And then May and Billy clamored
at the window, and Beth set the last
careful stitch, and the clock struck 5.
Tho county fair began as usual;
just as if Beth’s apron were not a
part of it. It was too far away for
mamma and the children to attend,
but Uncle Ed went on the last day,
and he was to bring back word of the
result. Beth was certain she should
not sleep a wink until he came, no
matter how late that was, hut mam
ma insisted on her going to bed as
usual, and the next thing she knew it
was broad daylight. Uncle Ed was
down in the dining room, but he
didn’t say much—just looked over
his eyeglasses and talked about pre
mium pigs and mowing machines and
pretended he hadn’t heard a word
about aprons. Bethy crept away by
herself. She understood —she hadn’t
gotten any premium, and Uncle Ed
didn’t like to tell her. Well, if she
couldn’t ever he educated she’d have
to be a dressmaker like mamma, and
sew, no matter how hot it was.
And then breakfast was ready, and
Uncle Ed called her to come quick
before he starved.
She slipped quietly Into her chair
and slowly lifted her plate to release
an edge of the napkin, and there, un
der it, folded neatly, lay her very
own cambric apron with a" blue rib
bon pinned fast, and across it a
smooth, gray-green, fascinating $5
bill.
And this isn’t a made-up story at
all, for it every bit happened.
ltings Around the Sun and Moon.
Among the popular notions regard
ing the weather there are several
which seem to have a good founda
tion. One of them is that a ring
around the sun or moon will be fol
lowed in a day or two by a heavy
storm. Such a ring is usually formed
in a layer of cloud so thin as not en
tirely to hide the luminary which is
encircled, and the cloud is always at
a great elevation. It is apt to be
composed of ice particles, but, any
how, the sheet proceeds from the up
per part of a distant storm area, and
is swept eastward by one of the high
er currents of air. An observer of
the United States Weather Bureau,
writing from Columbia, Mo., notices
a difference in the consequences of
rings of small diameter and those of
greater diameter. The storm usu
ally follows the former, if it occurs at
all, in from twelve to eighteen hours.
In the other case it is liable to be de
layed from thirty to thirty-six hours.
When a ring is first observed, he
says, the storm often is 800 or 1000
miles away. Sometimes in its east
ward movement it will press to the
north or the south of the observer,
and hence it is not a perfectly trust
worthy sign, but great confidence in
it is felt by this particular scientist.
Ihe Pilgrim Congregational
Church, near London, founded ia
1616, is the oldest of the denomina
tion in the empire, and !t was from it
I that the London contingent of tins
men of the Mayflower was recruited.
I Georgia Callings
Curtailed Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
Another Job for Soule.
Hon. Andrew M. Soule, dean of the
Georgia Agricultural College at Ath
ens, has been appointed by Governor
Smith as an ex-officio member of the
board of directors of the state expen
iment station at Experiment near Grif
fin.
* * *
Acquitted on Second Trial.
Ben Adams, charged with killing
Reese Jones last spring, who had bean
tried, found guilty and sentenced to
life imprisonment, after the sprc<he
court granted him anew trial, waa
found not guilty at Buchanan the past
week.
* • *
Heavy License on Locker Clubs.
The city council of Marietta has
placed a tax of $5,000 a year on locker
clubs, to become effective January 1.
There are fewer “blind tigers” in Ma
rietta than there ever have been in
her history, and the prohibition laws
are being enforced.
Bowers Loses His Bride.
In the case of Miss Hattie Squires,
16 years of age, living three miles east
of Tiftpn, on the Brookfield road, who
was married to Cecil E. Bowers, a
worthy young man of Tifton. The
strength of the matrimonial tie has
been tested by the court of ordinary
restoring to the father his daugh
ter.
* * *
Deferred Until Next Year.
The Atlanta Manufacturers’ Exhibit,
which was to have been held October
21-November 2, has been postponed
until next year. It developed that the
manufacturers were so far behind
with iheir orders that it was impos
sible for many of them to make a
creditable showing.
* * •
Telfair to Celebrate 100th Aniversary.
TCifah- county will celebrate its one
hundred anniversary in Mcßae on the
13th, 14th and 15th of November. Spe
cial exercises have been arranged for
the occasion. The two features will
be an all-day singing and speeches
to be delivered by prominent men from
ail over the state of Georgia.
* * *
Ancient Guards Quit Service.
The Savannah Volunteer Guards’
battalion of heavy artillery, which is
more than a hundred years old, has
unanimously voted to leave the na
tional guard because of the passage of
the Dick bill at the last congress
wbioh required state militia to corre
spond hi organization with the regular
army. The battalion will continue as
'an Independent organization.
i* * *
Doies-Cook Brigade Survivors.
This is to officially notify the mem
bers of the Doles-Cook Brigade Sur
vivors’ Association that our annual re
union will be held in Augusta, Ga., at
the same time that the Georgia division
of Confederate Veterans assembles far
reunion there, commencing on the 12th
day of November, 19071
Major V. D. Barbot, of the third bat
talion, third infantry, National Guards,
has kindly tendered the “officers'
room’’ of their armory for the trans
action of all brigade and regimental
business.
W. W. HULBERT, Commander.
H. W. THOMAS, Sec’y and Trees.
* * *
Exploding Boiler Kills Three.
While the locomotive of freight train
No. 35, on the Central of Georgia rail
road, was taking water at the tank
near the Reynolds station early Sat
urday morning, the boiler exploded.
Engineer Avery, Conductor Allen and
the negro fireman were instantly kill
ed. The boiler of the locomotive was
blown a hundred yards, and the sta
tion -was badly damaged by the force
of the explosion. Engineer Averj
was on the locomotive at the time;
and his body was blown to fragments.
All those killed lived in Macon.
* * 0
To Test Pure Food Law.
Attorney Genial Hart, in the Unit
ed States court, at Atlanta, had the
hearing for an injunction against
Commissioner of Agriculture T. G*
Hudson, in regard to the "pure food
law," as prayed for by M. T. Savage
of the International Stock Food com
pany, postponed until a later date.
The “International Stock Food com
pany of Minneapolis. Minn., seeks tc
enjoin the commissioner for compell
ing this company to print the formula
of wis Seed under the “Georgia pure
food Ism," on each sack sold. Tbe
company' claims that it is a stock med
icine, although it is sold for a stock
feed, and the formula by which It is
compounded is of a great and secret
value.
The department claims that it is
branded as a feed stuff and as a feed
stuff must comply with the regulations
formulated in the pure food law. If it
is Bold as a medicine the department
has no objection to it being sold as
such, provided it complies with the
pure food and drugs act.
* * *
Baby Killed; Others Hurt.
At Whitesburg, in Coweta county,
ivhile returning from the funeral of
George Bridges, a young man who
lied of typhoid fever, a mule attached
to a buggy in which Mrs. W. H.
Dyers, wife of a prominent planter,
md three children were riding, be
came frightened and ran away, throw
ing them from the buggy.
Mrs. Hyer was seriously bust and
rendered unconscious, Der baby was
instantly killed, her two daughters se
riously hurt. The eldest daughter, 16
years of age, had one leg broken and
the other daughter suffered from a
fractured skull.
* * *
Reward Offered for Missing Man.
So far nothing has been heard of
the whereabouts of William M. Har
grove, a conductor, who lived in Ma*
con, and disappeared over a week ago.
Hargrove was employed on the Cen
tral railroad, and left a wife and three
children. He was last seen in Atlanta
on Saturday, October 5. No news of
him further than this has been obtain
ed. His family has offered a reward
of SIOO for information concerning his
present location.
* * *
To Raise School Funds.
In his speech at Calhoun, Gordon
county, on October 23, when he will
visit the Gordon county fair, Governor
Smith will, it is stated, outline a plan
for raising a fund of SOOO,OOO next year
for the agricultural schools, the agri
cultural college, the state normal
3chool and the Technological school.
The governor has just drawn a war
rant on the state treasury for SIB,OOO
to be paid to certain counties on ac
count of the common school fund. This
payment practically brings all the
counties in the state up to 20 per
cent of the present year s fund, and it
is hoped within the next few weeks to
bring every county in the state up to
that point.
There are no unpaid school fund bal
ances now remaining in the treasury,
all of these which had accumulated
having been paid out to the respective
counties several days ago.
Conductor Zack Martin Drops Dead.
Captain Zack Martin, one of the old
est railroad conductors in the serv
ice of the Atlanta and West Point rail
road, Sunday' night, at 8 o'clock, drop
ped dead in a coach on his train, due
to excitement from a small fire in the
mail car.
The West Point train, on which
Captain Martin has been running for
many years, left the terminal station
in Atlanta about 7:30 o’clock, and
on the run between Atlanta and More
land, about 45 miles distant, the mail
car in some way caught fire. During
the excitment of extinguishing the
flames Captain Martin dropped dead
in a coach from heart failure.
Captain Martin leaves a wife and re
sided at 37 Poplar street, Atlanta. He
was one of the oldest conductors In
the city, and had been in the service
of the West Point for over thirty-five
years.
* * *
No Uniform Price for Cotton Seed.
Gr,at good is expected to result
from the conference just held among
the committees from the State and
Southern Cotton Associations, the
State and Interstate Cotton Seed
Crushers’ Association, in regard to
cotton seed and its by-products. After
a general discussion the conference
decided that owing to the great dif
ference in freight rates, the varying
qualities of cotton seed, the fluctuation
caused by supply and demand through
out the south, that no uniform value
or price for cotton seed could be fixed
and that the local conditions must
govern both.
A general discussion was entered
into upon the subject of cotton seed
and its products; the many usages
to whioh it was put and how this
usage would be sure to increase in the
near future were outlined. The plant
ers summed up the needs to which
cotton seed was put for planting, feed
ing, fertilizing and the like. When
this was totaled for the south, it was
demonstrated that there was still 3,*
STOP AT THE
2ETTLER HOUSE.
The best SI.OO a day house in the
city.
293 FOURTH ST., MACON, Ga..
Mrs. A. L. Zettler, Proprietress.
300*000 tons or seed now crushed or
available lor crushing in excess oi
the amount now utilized for other pur
poses, based on a crop of 13,000,006
bales.
TROOPS FALL SHORT.
Militia in Several States Must Hustle tc
Conform to Regulations of
New Dick Law.
The statement contained in a dis
patch from Washington Friday, to the
effect that in this year’s inspections
not a single Georgia military com-
pany was found to conform to the
United States army organization, nat
urally caused some comment among
those interested in the national guard
of Goorgia, and numerous questions
were asked as to the meaning of it.
Inquiry at the oce of Adjutant Gen
eral A. J. ScOtt at the capitol de
veloped the fact that the statement
was correct. There are none of the
Georgia commands, which, at that
time, conformed to the regular army
requirements.
But in this Georgia was not alone.
The military organizations of only ten
states had at the time the adjutant
general’s report was drawn, conformed
to the regular army organization, and
in only two states was this conforma
tion complete. Colorado and Florida had
conformed, in part; Missouri, with the
exception of headquarters and the hos
pital corps, and like exceptions were
noted in Ohio, Tennessee, Texas,Wash
ington and Wisconsin, Oklahoma and
Oregon were the only two in which
conformation was complete.
Georgia troops would have been
much nearer in conformity with Uni
ted States army requirements had it
not been for the fact that after they
fought they had all the necessary law,
other requirements were put upon
them by the war department,
“In 2905,” said Adjutant General
Scott, “a commission drew a code for
Georgia and submitted it the secretary
of war,who referred it to the war col
lege. It was approved with one slight
exception, returned and enacted into
law by the general assembly of 1905.
“In June, 1907, we were notified by
the war department that our organiza
tion did not conform to that of the
regular army. The previous approval
of our code by the department was
ignored, and when we requested it, the
necessary additional legislation was
suggested to us. That was drawn up
in the shape of a bill, which was
passed at the recent session of the
general assembly and went into effect
on October 1. We now have all the
law necessary, and the only thing yet
to be accomplished is to bring about
the proper organizations under it.
“The Georgia troops will be in full
conformity with the requirements of
the national government by January
1, 1968.”
Georgia’s regimental organization is
now in conformity with the govern
ment requirements, with the exception
of the hospital corps, which some of
the regiments are lacking.
It is required that each regiment
shall have twelve companies, a require
ment which is lacking in all the Geor
gia regiments. Each regiment miftt
have a hospital corps; some are now
without it. Each infantry company
must have 58 enlisted men as a min
imum, each light artillery battery 133
and each heavy artillery company 63.
Few companies have yet conformed
to these requirements as to minimum
numbers.
The question naturally arises as to
where the other companies necessary
to fill out the regiments are to come
from.
CASE UNDER ADVISEMENT.
Fight of Central Against Railroad Com
mission in Hands of Judge.
The argument having been complet
ed in the Central of Georgia Railroad
application for an injunction against
the Georgia railroad commission, the
entire matter is now in the hands oi
Judge Newman of the United States
district court at Atlanta before whom
the attorneys appeared.
It required the entire week for t^ l '
legal representatives of the road and
of the commission to make a full P rt ‘
sentation of the case.
