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CHAPTER XX
"Perhaps you arc strong enough now for
a little outdoor exercise.”
When Derwent opened his eyes the
next morning, bars of golden sunshine
were lying on tho red tiles of the floor
and Ramon stood by his bedside, bearing
the coffee to which he always looked
forward as a distinct pleasure. His
shoulder was less painful, and the recol
lection that he was to spend an indefinite
time amid these charming surroundings
was invigorating as a tonic. To the
“Buenos dias, senor. Como esta listed?”
of Ramon, he answered, “Muy bneno,
gracias,” with so much emphasis that
the face of the attendant lighted up with
a bright smile, and he said, “Bueno!
bneno!” with an air of commendation, as
he set tho tray down.
A little later, after tho doctor had paid
his visit, and had also said “Bueno!” ap
provingly over the progress of the shoul
der, Ramon came in and announced that
el padre desired to see the senor. “Beg
him to enter,” said Derwent, who had
been very much pleased by the gentle,
refined face of the priest. He anticipat
ed an agreeable visit, in which he could
ask much concerning the country of one
intimately acquainted with its inner life;
but he was by no means prepared for the
errand on which it soon transpired that
Padre Francisco had come.
“Dona Zarifa,” said the priest, after
all duo inquiries had been made, “thinks
that perhaps you are strong enough now
for a little outdoor exercise, and that
you may like to see something of tho
hacienda—at least of the portion which
lies immediately around the casa grande.
If you care to go, she and I will be
happy for you to accompany us on our
usual morning round.”
“I shall be delighted,” answered Der
went. A man of another stamp might
have been disappointed that he was not
to have a tete-a-tete with his fair hostess,
but Derwent was not only too much a
man of the world to have expected such
a thing in a country with tho customs of
Continental Europe, but he really did
not desire it. He had nothing to say to
Dona Zarifa that the whole world might
not hear; and he was very sure that the
society of the padre would in no degree
detract from the enjoyment of her com
panionship.
They found her in the court when they
came out, standing under the shade of
one of the Moorish arches, dressed as
Derwent had seen her first, in black, and
draped with lace, which she wore in the
graceful Spanish fashion over her head.
She gave him her hand, asked how he
was feeling, and if he was sure that a
walk would not fatigue him. “You must
promise,” she said, “that you will let ns
know as soon as you feel the least weary.
Now, padre mio, I think we are ready.”
They passed through the wide, vault
ed passage, paved as a porte-cochere,
which led to the front of the house and
out into the arcade, which ran the
length of the long building, and the
great arches of which framed in a suc
cession of pictures the magnificent ex
panse of the plain.
Derwent now saw fully, for the first
time, the commanding position of the
house. Standing on a wide, level emi
nence, which on one side rolled gently
down to the spreading tableland, it was
inclosed on the other by hills, covered
with verdure, behind which rose the
high crests of greater heights, that,
curving around in the arc of a half cir
cle, lay in splendid masses of blue and
purple on each side of the mesa —their
farthest point forty or fifty miles dis
tant, but looking much nearer in the
clear atmosphere.
“What a glorious view!” he exclaimed.
“No wonder, senorita, that you like a
place which charms you with such pic
tures always before your eyes!”
“You should during the rainy
season, senor,” she answered, smiling,
“when all the plain before us is carpeted
with flowers—-myriads of every kind and
color. It is for this reason that the ha
cienda is called Miraflores.”
“ ‘See the flowers!’ ” said Padre Fran
cisco, translating. “Mexicans are fond
of fanciful names.”
“I should rather call them poetical,”
said Derwent “But this place deserves
its name doubly; for what beautiful
gardens!"
It was the parklike pleasance of which
he had already had a glimpse from his
window, and which now spread before
him An all its loveliness, with shadowy
vistds where great trees met overhead in
an arch of shade, stretches of green turf,
parterres bright with flowers, tropical
scrubs loaded with bloom, and small
gurgling streams, directed into channels
here and there for the irrigation which
made this paradise possible.
Turning to the priest. Dona Zarifa
said:
“Shall we take Senor Derwent through
the gardens first, padre raio? or will it
detain you too long?”
“By all means let us show him the
Canada,” the padre replied. “Miraflores
has many beauties, but I think that is
chief. And he may not be able to go
farther with us.”
“I feel as strong as possible,” Derwent
protested. “But if Miraflores contains
anything more beautiful than I have al
ready seen, I beg to be introduced to it
at once.”
“Come, then," said Zarifa, smiling.
She had opened a large white parasol
lined with rose color, the reflection of
which threw a soft pink glow over her
delicate, ivorylike face, and as she walk
ed by his side, with her spirited head
held aloft, and her firm, free step —the
true step of a Mexican woman—Derwent
could not but think how little there was
of the conventional languorous, tropical
type about her. There was nothing se
ductive in the glances of the dark, proud
eyes. Diana herself could not have sug
gested more strongly vestal purity and
perfect physical vigor in every move
ment, while her manner was a perfect
blending of simplicity and dignity. He
likened her again in his thoughts to a
young princess—an ideal princess, who,
realizing in every act and word the full
meaning of the noble old motto, No
blesse oblige, had yet under all her gen
tle graciousuess the ineradicable pride
of blood and birth and the fiery spirit of
a warlike race.
It was Padre Francisco who talked
most, answering Derwent’s questions
about the country as they walked down
the beautiful avenues that led toward
the hills which rose sheer and green be
fore them. Presently they entered a
path overshadowed by drooping foliage
that wound downward to a rocky ravine
through which a stream came leaping in
cascades of white foam. No more en
chanting spot could be conceived. Here
nature seemed untouched in all her
primitive beauty. Only a few paths
along the stream, one or two bridges
crossing it, and a temple shaped pavilion,
perched on a large rock overhanging the
highest fall suggested the work or pres
ence of man. And yet, as Derwent was
told, immense pains had been taken to
bring numbers of plants and trees here,
besides those which grew naturally in a
place so well adapted for vegetation.
The result was a wild, lovely blending
of tropical foliage, of masses of flowers
and of rare, exquisite orchids, while
through all, like a charming Undine,
the stream came whirling over the rocks
in sheets of foam and spray or fell into
crystal pools where naiads might have
bathed.
The enthusiastic admiration of the
young man pleased his guides. “This is
my favorite retreat,” said Dona Zarifa.
“There is no day so warm that delicious
coolness may not be found here, and the
view down the ravine from there”—she
pointed to the pavilion—“is most charm
ing. Some time I shall bring an artist
here to paint it. Are you anything of
an artist, Senor Derwent?”
“Unfortunately, no;” answered Der
went, “else I should be only too happy
to paint such a scene as this. But can
we not go up to the pavilion?” ■
“Certainly—and rest there for a time.
I am sure you must be tired.”
He did not like to acknowledge it, but
he was tired, and it was with a sense of
relief that he sat down in the pretty
temple after they had mounted the slope
which led to it. The view from this
spot was as lovely as Dona Zarifa had
said. Behind rose a steep, green hill
side, below dashed the leaping water,
while before them the romantic Canada,
with its wealth of foliage, its rocks and
cascades, extended for at least a quarter
of a mile.
“It reminds me somewhat,” said Der
went, “of the anew from the Buena Es
peranza. Standing at the mouth of the
mine, one looks down a ravine even
wilder and grander than this, though
not so picturesquely beautiful.”
His companions glanced at him with
interest. Evidently tho name of the
Buena Esperanza was familiar to them
“So it was there you were?” said Padre
Francisco. “I am inclined to congratu
late you upon getting off with a bullet
in your shoulder. You little knew what
you were doing in touching that mine.”
“I have learned, however,” said the
young man dryly. “It seems that it is
to all intents and purposes a mine of
gunpowder as well as of silver. This 1
must say for myself,” he added, “that if
I had had even the faintest idea of how
the bond of that mine had been ac
quired I should never have looked at it
But, after having seen it, I confess that
it is a great disappointment to me to find
it out of my reach altogether.*
“You thought it a good mine? 1 ” asked
Dona Zarifa.
“The best I have ever seen. If a man
could acquire it honorably he need ask
no better source of wealth.”
“You speak very confidently,” said
Padre Francisco. “Are you profession
ally a judge of mines?”
Derwent shook his head. “No,” he
answered. “1 should not think of at
tempting to judge a mine for anothei
person, but I do not hesitate to judge
for myself, and it was for myself that 1
was anxious to buy the Buena Esper>
anza.” . - .
“Oh, you have come to Mexico to seek
investments then?’
“I have come to Mexico to find the
means to realize a fortune in a short
time,” he answered.
“That is what all Americans desire tc
JACKSON, GA„ TUESDAY. JANUARY 19. 1892
do, I believe,” said Padre Francisco
meditatively—“to make a fortune in a
short time.”
He did not utter any word of disap
proval for such an aim, but something
in his tone, and a certain look of with
drawal that came over Dona Zarifa’e
face—as if she lost interest in a man who
avowed such an ambition—stung Der
went, and made him say, on an impulse:
“I have a special reason for wishing
to make the fortune of which I speak.
It is not for myself—not merely for the
accumulation of money—but to pay a
debt of honor. If Ido not pay it others
will suffer. And that must not be ii
any exertion on my part can prevent it. r
It was the first time that he had ut
tered even so much of his secret to any
human ear, and these people were
strangers to him. But he was repaid by
a quick glance of sympathy from Zarifa’e
eyes, while the priest said kindly: “In
that case, I hope you may soon find
another Buena Esperanza. There are
many rich lodes in these mountains,
some of which are as yet untouched.
Now, my child,” he spoke to the girl,
“I must really go on; but there is nc
reason why you should not allow Senor
Derwent to rest himself fully and then
bring him with you.”
“No, no,” said Derwent, rising. “1
cannot consent to detain the senorita,
for 1 am really rested now. In this
wonderful climate I perceive that one
recuperates rapidly. lam equal to ac
companying you.”
“Bueno!” said the padre, approvingly.
“Then let us go.”
They left the pavilion, and Dona Zarifa
explained, as they crossed the pretty
stream, that a little lower it turned the
flouring mills of the hacienda, which,
Derwent found later, were the largest
in that part of the country and supplied
a wide district with their product.
“My father is very proud of his mills,”
she said, “and will certainly insist on
taking you over them. He has all the
latest improvements. I sometimes won
der how he can maintain such keen in
terest in so many varied pursuits.”
“He is a wonderful man, Don Mau
rizio,” said the priest. “His energy is
indomitable, and his interest in every
thing that can develop the country and
help the people is unflagging. Now,
Senor Derwent, can you guess where we
are taking you?”
Derwent confessed his inability to
hazard a conjecture; for, skirting the
grounds, they now seemed approaching
a village composed of neatly built adobe
houses, scrupulously clean both within
and without, as almost all Mexican
houses are.
“This is where the laborers on the es
tate live.” said Padre Francisco. “There
are several hundred souls here; for the
industries of a great hacienda are very
numerous. Everything which is con
sumed and almost everything which is
worn is made upon it.”
“And is it true that all the peons on
the haciendas are virtual serfs—unable to
leave without the consent of their mas
ters?” asked Derwent.
'lt is true that, by the laws of Mexico,
no laborer can leave an estate so long as
he is in debt to his master. That is just
enough, and on it the stability of the in
dustries of the country depends, in all
countries, however, there are men who
do not fear to incur the vengeance of
God by becoming oppressors of the poor
Such men take advantage of this law to
keep the peons in their debt, and so hold
them in virtual bondage. But no such
bondage exists at Miraflores. If a la
borer who is in debt wishes to go, Don
Manrizio will cancel his debt rather than
keep with him one who is unwilling to
remain. ”
‘But such a need rarely occurs,” said
Dona Zarifa. “Few of our people ever
wish to leave, and most of them have
been born on the estate. We know them
all we think for them all, they are, as it
were, part of our family; why should
they desire to go?”
“There is something very charming
in this feudal dependence of the em
ployed upon their employers—something
softening and humanizing on both
sides.” said Derwent. “How different
from the wide chasm and the bitter
strife between labor and capital with
which w r e have replaced it! But what
is This?”
“The school house,” said the priest,
smiling, as they paused before the open
door of a large room, where about fifty
children sat at their desks and a teacher
6tood before a blackboard. There was
a simultaneous movement, as all present
rose to their feet. Derwent did not en
ter. but, leaning against the doorway,
watched the scene—the pretty, dark
faces, the shining eyes and gleaming
teeth, the reverence with which the
small scholars knelt for the padre’s
blessing, the caressing affectionateness
with which those nearest Dona Zarifa
pressed forward to touch her dress or
kiss her hand. There was no servility
in the last action. It was plainly as
much an impulse of their admiring ado
ration as the same homage is from a
lover.
“Having the freedom to do so, how
conld they help it?’ Derwent thought.
Looking at the beautiful gracious figure
ot the young. lady, as she stood in the
center of the room, smiling into the up-,
turned faces, with one hand on the dark,
silky curls of a tiny boy, he envied the
children their privilege to express the
feeling which she inspired.
“We did not linger long on your ac
count.” she said, when they rejoined
him. “Usually el padre hears the cate
chism and l distribute rewards to the de
serving, but we let them off easily this
morning, because Ido not want to fa
tigue you, and l_do want yojj.to see our
hospital, if you are equal to a little far
ther walk.”
Derwent declared himself fully equal
to it, and. indeed his interest was so
much roused that he forgot his fatigue.
The tiospital—a rather imposing struc
ture built around a pleasant court, with
cleanliness and space and sunshine every
where —was as perfect in its arrange
ments as everything else on the hacienda
seemed to be. There were only one or
two patients in it at present; but every
thing was so attractive in appearance
and so well managed that it was evident
sickness was as little of a misfortune at
Miraflores as care and kindness could
make it. And here. too. Dona Zanfa
was like a young queen among her sub
jects. greeted with the same adoring
reverence which the children had dis
played. and repaying it with a tender in
terest and gentleness beyond words
Derwent thought that he had never wit
nessed a more lovely sight than when,
unconscious that any gaze was upon her.
she bent over a woman tossing with
fever, renewed the cool bandages on her
head, held a juicy lime to her parched
lips, and clasping the hot, dry hand be
tween her own cool, 6oft palms talked
Boothmgly as if to an infant.
“1 think, senorita,” he said, when they
were walking away, “that if you had
sent me to that hospital when 1 was
brought, a wounded, insensible stranger,
to your door, it would have been as
much as could have been expected of
you, and I should have been very grate
ful.”
“1 hope you like your present quar
ters better,” she said, with a smile.
“Oh, yes, since l have known them.
But if 1 had not known them l should
have been only too thankful to find my
self in such a place as your hospital.”
But he did not venture to add what
was in his thoughts—“ Perhaps you
would have come to see me there!”
[To be continued.]
THROUGH DIXIE.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY
PARAGRAPHED
Forming an Epitome of Daily
Happenings Here and There.
Snow fell at Mobile, Ala., Thursday
night, the first since 1886.
A. Horseborg, of Birmingham, the
leading merchant of Alabama has failed
with liabilities of $150,000 and assets of
$125,000.
Hon. Frank Morris,mayor of Richmond,
Va., and president of the Union savings
bank, died Wednesday after a long ill
ness of cancer of the throat.
The Kentucky house of representatives
on Wednesday refused to adopt a silver
resolution, and sidetracked it by referr
ing it to the committee on federal rela
tions.
B. W. Ballard & Cos., of Franklin, N.
C., general merchandise and dealers in
cotton, failed Friday. Their liabilities
are reported to be thirtty thousand dol
lars, the assets not being stated.
A Raleigh dispatch says: Secretary E.
G. Harrell received notice Saturday that
the executive committee of the Southern
Educational Association is called to meet
at Atlanta February sth, to choo<e the
time and place for the next annual ses-ion
and prepare the programme.
The creditors of J. H. Cox, who open
ed a large grocery sti re in Anniston a
few weeks since, seized his goods Friday.
Cox seems to have partly paid for his
goods with draf:s on Pittsburg banks,
which came back unpaid, with the infor
mation that he had no money there.
James Hoctor and his sister, Mrs. Ma
mie Fitzpatrick, of Savannah, great
great-grand-children of Sir Francis D:ake.
have received letters from English law
yers asking them to send them all the
facts in connection with their claim to
Drake’s reputed estate of $50,000,000.
A Savannah lawyer is now preparing the
papers.
A San Antonio, Tex., dispatch of
Wednesday says: One of the greatest
railroad strikes of the southwest is prac
tically at an end, the only bitch being
over a question of whether the old em
ployes shall be reinstated, which means
the discharge of a large number of men
who have taken the places of the strikers
or not.
A Chattanooga dispatch of Wednesday
says: Every day for a week past, small
parties of miners from the East Tennes
see mining districts have passed through
the city eu route to the Arkansas mines
at Onita. So far about one hundred
have gone west, and the exodus is es
teemed significant by persons familiar
with the minins trouble.
A Mobile dispatch of Thursday says :
The Alabama and Tombigbee rivers are
on the rampage, having risen with un
precedented rapidity during the last for
ty eight hours. The Alabama is up for
ty feet above low water at Selma,
and the Coosa is up fifty feet at We
tumpka, and the Tombigbee and War
rior rivers are very high.
Two failures occurred at Columbia,
Tenn., Thursday. McEwcn &Dale, dry
goods merchants, made a general assign
ment; liabilities $25,000; the stock is
valued at $15,000, balance in notes and
accounts; assets $20,000. Lucius Fryer
son made a deed of trust of his real estate
and bonds to secure debts amounting to
$50,000; his assets are about $40,000.
A Raleigh dispatch of Saturday says:
Official notice is given by the secretary
of the state board of' agriculture, of the
unanimous adoption, by that board, of a
resolution introducod by W. R. Wil
liams, calling on the farmers of North
Carolina to reduce the cotton acreage 20
per cent, and to plant food crops, and to
-pay special attention to diversification of
crops. * • ' • •
A Richmond dispatch says: The mes
sage of Governor McKinney, transmitting
to the general assembly the report of the
state commissioners, which, in conjunc
tion with the Olcott committee, reached
a basis of settlement of the Virginia
debt, was laid before the general assem
bly Thursday. The .two papers will be
referred to a special joint committee,
composed of the senate and house finance
committees, the lieutenant governor an i
the speaker of the house, with instruc
tions to report by bill or otherwise. No
serious opposition to tbe terms of the set
tlement" is anticipated.
TOO MUCH MORPHINE
JLdmistered by His Physician Killed the
Khedive.
A London cablegram of Monday says:
All the leading newspapers confirm the
report that tbe khedive died from the
effects of an overdose of morphine ad
ministered by Salem Pasha, the native
physician.
THE WIDE WORLD.
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND
CABLE CULLINGS
Of Brief Items of Interest From
Various Sources.
Governor Francis, of Missouri, will
call an extra session of the legislature.
Governor Brown, of Maryland, was in
augurated \S ednesday with great inthu
siasm.
The German landtag was opened in
Berlin Thursday by Chauceilor Von Cap
rivi
The wholesale boot and shoo house of
Alnutt, Nixon & Goldsborougb, in Bal
timore, failed Friday.
A cablegram of Friday states that ne
gotiations between S“ain and France for
a treaty of commerce have failed of re
sub.
The twenty-fourth annual convention
of the National American Woman’s
Suffrage Association began in Washing
ton Saturday.
An appeal for aid has been issued in
behalf of the destitute families of the
miners who lost their lives by the explo
sion at Kebs, N. M.
The two houses of the Ohio legislature
met in joint session Wednesday and ’an
nounced the election of John Sherman
United States senator.
The works of the Waterbury Brass
Company at Waterbury, Conn., were de
stroyed by fire Thursday night. The
loss is $260,000; insurance, $187,000.
The American Sugar refining Company
held its annual meeting in Jersey City,
N. J., Wednesday, re-elected new officers
and decided to increase the stock of com
pany by $2,000,000.
A dispatch of Thursday says: The
different organizations interested in the
re,form movement will hold a conference
in St. Louis to decide the question of put
ting a national ticket in the field.
Dispatches of Wednesday report that
the busine s portion of Seville, Spain, is
inundated by flood from Gaudalupe river
and the harbor is choked with debris
brought down by a sudden freshet. The
loss very heavy.
The six story brick power block, at
Cleveland, 0., occupied by the Cleveland
Electric Supply company, Champion
Safety Lock company and National Iron
works was totally destroyed by fire Wed
nesday morning. Loss amounts in the
aggregate to about $140,000.
A cablegram of Friday from Madrid
says; The negotiations between Spain
and France for a treaty of commerce
have failed of result. After the first of
February next ihe maximum tariff of
each country will be applied to the im
ports from the other.
A dispatch of Friday from Lisbon,
Portugal, says: The premier has an
nounced in the Cortes that the ministry
had resigned owing to its inability to
find a successor to Senor Cavalhoas min
ister of finance, and that the king, bad
accepted tne resignation of the ministry/
A cablegram of Wednesday from Pan
ama states that the Indians of Bolivia are
in open revolt. In the towns-, along the
frontier the revolting Indians have suc
cessfully resisted all efforts to suppress
them. They have sacked several vil
lages, killed many male inhabitants and
carried away women.
The embarrassed cotton and wool com
mission firm of Joseph H. Coates & Cos.,
at Philadelphia, made an assignment
Thursday afternoon to Horace H. Fritz.
The assignment is made by Joseph H.
Coates, Harrison B. Schell and John
Walter Gummev, individually and as the
firm of Coates & Cos.
A telegram of Friday from St. Louis
reports that a movement is on foot to or
ganize anew company to fight the Amer
ican tobacco cigarette trust. One mil
lion dollars will be the new company’s
capitalization,, and three hundred thou
sand dollars’ worth of new cigarette ma
chines have already been purchased.
Dan Tal mage’s Sons, the well-known
New York merchandise brokers and au
thorities on rice, advise through the Asso
ciated Press that the farmers of the south
cultivate rice wherever the cotton growth
is curtailed,' stating that it is the most
profitable of southern products. The
gross results are from S4O to $75 per acre.
The cost of cultivation is $35 and less.
The Mexican qaptured at Catnargo,
Mexico, Tuesday', who gave the.infqrmt
tion that there was to. be a meeting at
Laguano Seca of revolutionists, was’shot
the t-ame-night by the- Mexican tr9ops.
Two more, were cptured and executed,
and on Friday others. were ’• shot. iThis
brings the number of Garza suspects
killed by the Mexican troops up to about
two hundred and fifty.
A New Y'ork dispatch of Friday says
that notice has been given by. order of
the national committee of the prohibition
party that the national convention of
that party to nominate candidates for
president and vice * president of the
United States and to transact-such other
. business as may properly come before it,
will assemble in Music hall, in the city of
St. Louis, Mo., at l 0 O’clock a. m.,
Wednesday, January 29th.
THE MERCURY FREEZES.
Even Spirit Thermometers Register
Thirty to Fifty Degrees Below Zero.
A dispatch from St. Paul, Minn.', Says:
Thursday night was probably the coldeft
of tbe season. The mercury went down
until it froze;n many localities; itf-iacr,
all through' the northern part of the
state. In Manitoba', North Dakota and
in the Canadian northw-est the‘~tempera
ture langed from 39?t0 50 degrees below
zero on
it recorded 20 degrees Below zero at the
weather bureau,“andin various 'parts of
the city the'thermoftielev-recorded from
sto 10 degree* lower.': .* ~ i .
At .9 o’clock .Friday morning it was 48
. below at Pembina, in the, northern part
of North Dakota. Fergus Falls reports
30 below, this b&tfg- the- sixteenth con
secutive morniog with thßanercury below
zero. Bismarck reports the tempera
ture at 24 below, St. Vincent 40 below,
Moorhead 28 below and Winnipeg 42 be
low.
GEORGIA AT CHICAGO:
Governor Northen Issues an Address, to
tbe People of the State.
The following address, regarding a
display of Georgia's resources at the
World’s fair at Chicago in 1893, has
been issued to the people of the state:
Upon :he invitation of the citizens of
Macon, the Georgia Weekly Press Asso
ciation held an extra session December 4
to considi r the possibility of a creditable
display of Georgia’s resources at the Co
lumbian exposition, to be held at Chica
go in 1893. This convention was largely
attended by representative members of
the press, who fully discussed and thor
oughly endorsed the suggestions submit
ted to them. After full delibera
tion, with a view to inaugur
ate definite plans to secure the
exhibit,the convention apppointed a state
executive committee, to consist of one
member from each Congressional dis
trict, whose busine‘B it is to arrange the
ditails and begin, at once, such efforts as
will best secure the purpose of the con
vention and advance the interest of the
State. The executive committee, as con
stituted by the press convention, met in
the city of Macon, December 16, and
effected permanent organization by elect
ing the govtrnor of tbe State chairman
of the cemmittee, and W. W. Collins, of
Macon, secretary and treasurer. Under
instructions given.by the convention, the
committee arranged to increase its mem
bership by adding one member selected
fr- m each of the towns and cities in the
State that contains more than three
thousand inhabitants. For the pur
pose of a more complete or
ganization throughout the state, the or
dinaries of the several counties jn this
state were requested to furnish to the
secretary the name of some public -spirit
ed eitizen in each county who would
agree to act as chairman of a county
board of directors, whose duty it will be
to select two other suitable citizens of
the county to constitute, with him, a
county board for the purpose of securing
funds and exhibits for Georgia’s display.
The committee further requested the
editor of each newspaper in the state to
act as a special representative of the
World’s Fair movement in Georgia, to.
open a column for voluntary subscrip-*
tions, and to urge upon the people from
time to time the necessity for prompt
action in the matter. The appoint
ments will constitute the active force
for securing funds and exhibits
for Georgia’s display. If we have
the co-operation of the people of the
State, Georgia will he successfully ad
vertised to the world. If the people are
indifferent, the wh-de scheme will . fall
and our state will lose the leadership of
the South in progress and enterprise.
Under the direction of the executive
committee, I was instructed, as its chair
man, to ask the earnest, active aid of all
the people of the'State in this worthy
effort. We cannot afford to be absent
from .the gathering.of states. In all the
history of our people there was never a
better o pportunity to advertise the State
in its produces; its resources and its ad
vantages, so as to secure the upbuilding
of our various indus ries, the develop
ment of our manufactures,
-and commerce, and thereby secure tbe
increase of our taxable property and the
const quent distribution of the burdens Of
government among a greater number of
State interests. Not only will the dis
play secure the proper illustration and
advertisement of the State, but the ad
vertisement of the several localities, coun
ties and sections of the State as such*
Any locality, county or section, or, in
deed, any special industry, can make its
sp.cial display as a part of the aggregate
whole for the State and reap the benefit
of the advertisement of its special wares,
products and advantages. - The- scope of
this exhibition , wijl .not. be, confined,
therefore, to material display, but ex
tended to descriptive circulars, pamphlets
and such personal presentations-as may
give to, the people outside of the;State a
full and satisfactory knowledge of our
people, products: and possibilities. ,The ;
commit'ee intends this display to repre
sent Georgia; in miniature, embracing"
every feature that makes the wealth of
the State and. the content
of the people. A creditable
display caiinot be seaured, transported to '
Chicago, installed in its place and prop
erly' cared for during the exposition.
without a liberal expenditure of ■ funds.
The secretary of the. executive committee
has been instructed to furnish;, to the
treasurer of each county board the
amount necessary, in, the opinion of the
coin mu tee, tor eacn county to contribute
to the display, in order to* raise ome burn
dred thousand dollars as a general fund."
With diligence and under proper
methods, this, amount of money can be
easily secured from the people of the state,
It must be understood that .the active
agents in this work are necessarily con
fined to those named by the conpnittee.
The county boards, by selection, may
"call to their aid any other citizen; who
will consent to render service in obtain
ing subscriptions or securing exhibits.
The amounts collected can be forwarded
from time to time, to the treasurer, W.
W-. Collins, at Alacon, to be securely
held under sufficient bond and on dlpos
it until properly appropriated undel the
direction of the advisory board. :Ts> il .
lustrate the enterprise of our people and
the wealth and progress of our State,
every patriotic citizen should bring to
the-helpof thfe committee a worthy;con-.
tribution of his means and his services,
under the hearty endorsement of his ’good"
will, _ Just, as soon as the county boards
are well organized information will be
given them as to the means for securing
contributions in money and collecting
exhibits. We hope to have the full co
„ operation of all classes of the .people.
W/J'. NdrtTHEN, ■
- • -Chairman Executive; Committee.
~i_ -The feet brought out at the late Prison
Congress that crime has increased >rela- ?
tiv.ely in the Utted States acrid decreased ,
elsewhere has naturally caused, unfavor
cmnniCntf and' dbcourage'd inquiry
Into sje cause of this ijflpioasant show
ing. "The statement' is. "based on tfid
great deHswvn number jof
prisoners..in -Europe and their increase
here. In twenty years 'Hie prisoners con
fined ip England and Wales have fallen
from to 12,099, although there has
been a large Increase in population.
Whereas in the United States in ten years
our prison population has grown from
12,691 to 19,538.
NUMBER 3.
WAR IS IMMINENT.
HOSTILITIES WILL BEGIN UN
LESS CHILE APOLOGIZES,
Which She I’rohably TVon’t Do*-Active
Preparations by Both Sides.
A Whsbiugton di-patch of Friday says:
Avery large war cloud is hovering over
Washington at present. Indeed, every
indication now points to war with Chile.
So far the little Bouth American republic
ha-g.vin no official intimation th it she
iivund- to offer an apology. President
Ilarriioa has determined to wait no
longer, and unless Chile is very quick to
make the ameude, she will find a score
of Am- rican war vessels in her waters
within less than thirty days.
IN FAVOR OF WAR.
The preside! t called his cabinet to
g< ther Fri lay morning to discuss the sit
uation. All the members were preseut,
and all, except Mr. Blaine and Mr. El
kins, were decidedly in favor of war un
less Chili makes an immediate and hum
ble apology. Mr. Blaine and Mr. Elkins
found that the president nud other mem
bers were so decided in favor of prompt
and decisive action on the part of our
government that they said hut little in
opposition to the views expressed by Mr.
Harrison. The president notified the
members of his cabinet that he intended
to send the enthc Chilean correspond
ence, accompanied by a special message,
to congress at once.
Saturday’s dispatches are to the effect
that everybody in Washington whtse
opinion is worth anything believes that
war between the United States and C hile
will he declared by the former within a
“There is but one thing that can
prevent a declaration of war by this
country within a very few days,” said a
prominent republican, Saturday, who is
on intimate terms with the president,
- ‘and that is an immediate and humble
apology on the part of the Chilean gov
ernment for the outrages perpetrated
upon the American seamen at Valpa
raiso.”
Indeed, in a nutshell this expresses the
opinion of every one in Washington, re
gardless of party, right now. Chile must
apologize at once, or elso there will be
war, and it will not take many moments
for the geography of South America to
be changed in regard to one country.
The president and all those intimate
with him have but one opinion now.
That is that Chile does not intend to
apoligize, and that this government will
be forced to the necessity of declaring war
upon the little South American republic.
CHILE IS OFFNSIVE.
Indeed, the news from Chile indicates
that her people are more anxious for war
than peace. The Chileans are an arro
gant and 1 rave people. They have an
idea that they can sink the United States
navy to the bottom of the pacific ocean,
if it attempts to enter Chilean waters
upon a mission of destruction. Believ
ing this, no one doubts but that the gov
ernment is determined to make no
•amends.
The navy department is massing our
war vessels near Chile as rapidly as pos
sible. Admiral Walker is now at Monte
video with the Chicago, Atlanta and
Bennington. The Concord is also on
her way to Montivido. The Yorktown
is at’ Valpariso. The Boston is at Calao,
Peru, with the Charleston the San-
Francisco and the Baltimore are at San
Francisco. Besides these, the new ves
sels, the Essex and the Yanktic, are at
Montivideo, and several others of our
old ships are at or near San Francisco.
It would not take long for the United
States to, mass -a score of vessels in or
near the Chilean waters.
The ~ newspaper correspondents of
Washington, like the officials of the gov
ernment, fee.l quite sure that war will be
declared against Chili within a very short
while. Believing this, a number of them
are already endeavoring to get permission
to be allowed to. go down to Chili on one
S, our war vessels as war correspondents.
•', A CURIOUS OUTCOME
■' A curious outcome of, the present agi
tation. yras the publication Saturday by
the war depaitment of a convention
framed as long ago as 1864, to which the
United States and Chile, have since signi
fied thejt adhesion. In view of allega
'tions that have been made to'the effect
that the Chileans practice inhuman bar
barities in war, such as raassacreing pris
oners and wounded men, and mutilating
-deads bodies, it may be reassuring to our
soldiers that this is a convention, ‘‘for
the amelioration of the wounded in armies
in the field.” By some oversight the
‘convention -was never before publish
ed..-It guarantees, the pwutrality and
protection of ambulance and hospital
co’rps, and provides s 'that 'wounded or
•sick'BoldieT3 i shaH.-:be entertained and
taken care ; of without regard, to nation
'ality. It also contains ample 'provisions
for the succoring of wounded and wreck
ed sailors, and. in brief throws around
combatants every possible guarantee of
humane treatment in the event of their
being wounded or captured.
DRAWING TO A HEAD.
Affairs at Coah Croak May Yet Ter ml*
nate in Bloodshed. >
x A Knoxvit le dispatch-*)£ •_ Frki ay says:
The convict and state militia forces at
Coal Creek arc-each beiifg increased al
'most daily/- Whether this meatrsimmedi-
or not noone can tell. It is evi
dent to a casual observer that unless tbe
guying ceases od tbe part Of the troops and
the miners that bloodshed must follow.
The accidental killing of a colored con
vict Thursday by a soldier has caused
-omethtng of 'a mutiny in the convict
caa\p*!‘ud the miners look at it as an out
rage on humanity and are discussing it iu
at st ri us manner. It is positively an
nounced ibatuo convicte-will bere urned
tp. Oliver, Springs. - The miners were
paid off S iturday'and if trouble, results in
the hear future it will bo within fifty
hours.., „
AT SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
The Republican Convention will be
Held May 4th, Next.
A Chicago dispatqh of Friday says:
The republican state central committee
has called the state republican conven
tion to meet at Springfield on the 4th of
May next. It has been decided that 1,235
delegates shall comros : the convention.