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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.