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THE COUNTRY VOLUNTEER. “He wins gruff an' rough hu ready— Wue our country soldier Joe, An' he handle of Ms rifle Like tia’d handle ot his hoe; An' he’d wan't the kind of soldier That the wtmmln try to smite, But you just had ought to seen him When the bugle sounded—fight! “He wus long an’lean an lanky Wuz our country soldier Joe, Air he’d shoot the practice target (.Ike he’d shoot a thievin' crow, An' thorn wnru’t one inch of beauty In his clumsy rawbone height. But you just had ought to seen him But when the bugle sounded—light! He wuz slim an’ slow sn’ stupid— Wins our country soldier Joe, An’ he’d rick a heap of canvas l.tke he’d rick a medder mow; An' he wan’t much good in drillin’— On parade he wins a fright, But you just hsd ought to seen him— When the bugle sounded figlitl” Victor A. Hermann. TWO CAREERS THAT ELENDED A. Hospital Romance. By Edgar T. Field. /— r - OUR cab is waiting, Mr. Y ’vsjk Blakeslee." JKB| “Then 1 must . ' K°> * suppose.” ||r pose ho. That AA was your inteu- Won, I believe.” 1 “I Relieve it was. There doesn’t seoui to be uuy particular reason why I shonld stay around here any longer.” Hore be glanced at her a trifle ex pectantly. “No,” she replied, ab sently, smoothing a tiny wrinkle in the covering of the hard little hospital bod “Oh, you don’t think there is?” he demanded, fiercely, stopping in his task of buckling the straps of his army blanket. “Well, the doctors Hay there isn’t,” she said, and then commenced straightening the bottles on the little stand with rather nervous lingers. “Confound the doctors!” Ho gave a vicious aud final tug to the straps, and then added: “They’re a precious set -the doctors.” “Why, ono would think you hadn’t been well treated here,” she said, with rather an unsteady laugh. “Oh,” exclaimed the young officer, “you’ve treated me well enough just as woll as you would anybody else, I suppose." A shadow of a smile crossed her lips, but there were tears in her eyes he did uot see. “I don’t complain, ”’ lie went on bitterly, watching the graceful lines of the little figure in the blue and striped dress, as it moved to and “To morrow they’ll bring some otlyif .tutor fellow in here and you’ll take jirit as good care of him as you did of me, and let him go with just as much cheerful ness, too. Poor wretch.” Ami the young lieutenant went to the window aud drammed on the glass with impatient fingers as he stared gloomily at the little patch of gray sky visible above the high roof CU the church next door. Through many weeks of pain aud weakness aud weariness indescribable he had watched that little scrap of gray as he lay helpless in the grasp of that terrible fever the insidious, treacherous deadly fever of the trop ics that had crept into his veins from the trenches of Santiago. At first it had meant nothing to him but so much blank space, that patch of sky. Then it begun to take ou u new meaning, as he uotioed that it was often the background for a picture a charming silhouette of a girlish face, with a little tip tilted nose and tender ourves of cheek and chin and waving masses of hair surmounted by a tiny, stiff cap of diaphanous white. He came to watch for this dainty vision, and sometimes in his fevered dreams he would see it when it was not there, always hettdiug toward him with a smile of divine pity on the •weet lips. He could see it now, thongli his back was turned to the girl busy at the table, aud be gave an inward groan as he remembered that soon he would see it no more, exoept in dreams. No ouo know what that face hail growu to ba to him ia the past weeks. No oue ever should know, he re solved, with a little tightening of the lips, as he turned from the window . She did not care for lue going—that was evident. •‘We take good care of everyone, I hope,” she was saying somewhat coldly. “As for our beiug glad to see them go- that is nonsense. We are very sorry to lose yon, Mr. Rlakes leo ** A groan hurst from his lips. “Oh, spare me that, l beg,’ - he ex claimed, wrenching himself into lur blue cape overcoat. “Aud we are always interested to know what the—the natieuts do after they leave us,” she proceeded, hesi tatingly. “Shall you return to the army. Mr Blakelee?” “I suppose so,” he replied. “I’ll go out to Manila aud get shot, if they'll waste the powder aud ball on Bio,” “How cowardly that sounds!” she cried, iudiguautly, aud the little womau of five foot oue surveyed the big soldier with onrliug lip aud dark, eeorufnl eyes. “It would be braver, perhaps, to stay at home and face death in the ehape of a diphtheria microbe or a mettlesome horseless cab,” he said wilhjAther uusucessful sawa^fu. to tace life-'.'ana death, as iim ' "Why aßEaffiCTKwSMwant to .m stood close to her, looking down into the Hashing eyes. “I wonder if you know how pretty you are?” “i'wonder if you know bow rude you are?" she retorted. “Do you suppose it’s easy to say good-by to a girl with a face like yours?” he went on recklessly, taking her bands—the poor little hands all reddened and roughened by hospital work. “Then it’s only my face that makes it hard. You flatter me, sir.” She had withdrawn her hands promptly from his eager clasp. “Ob, well, it might be a little easier if you were crosseyed or looked like— like Becky Sharp,” he admitted. And they both laughed. After all, they were so young. “And you expect me to go away af ter all these weeks with you and pre tend not to care?” “You have no right to care,” she cried, drawing herself up proudly. “Ah, give me the right, he said. “1 cannot go away without you, and leave you here to do this sort of work. This hospital life is unfit for you—it is wearing yon out.” “Mr. Blakeslee, you do not know wliat you are asking. I’ve taken up this work against the advice and wishes of my family and friends. To give it up now would be to acknowledge my fuilure. It would be too humiliating. You must not ask me to. And then— your own career. You have made a glorious record so far—you must not think of anything else for years to oome. And your country needs you.” “No one else does, evidently,” he said bitterly. “Well, good-by, little girl, and God bless you.” And with out another word lie left the room. The young officer strode aloug the echoing corridors with hasty steps. His heart was hot within him and he was ashamed to find tears in his eyes. But when he reached the great door way he hesitated. Ouee outside and he had left her be hind him forever. He could not leave hor this way. Without a word of thanks for the tender nursing she had given him. She must not think him ungrateful. Swiftly he turned and retraced his steps. The door of the little room where he had lain so long was partly closed when he reached it. What if she had gone. With a heating heart he pushed the door open softly and went in. And tliore she was—the stout-hearted young woman who had so bravely sent him forth to his duty and so sturdily kept to hers, with her head on the, pillow— his pillow—crying her heart” out, just like any other unhappy girl. A moment he stood transfixed. Then in one bound he crossed the narrow room and took her in his arms, and as their lips met two careers that might have been melted into thin air and disappeared forever. CromwftU at Home. What glimpses we get of Cromwell by the fireside of the old gabled farm house at Huntingdon!—in the fields, mowing ami milking; in the market pluce with his fellow-townsmen, talk ing not only of oats and barley, but ol the sufferings of the non-conformists, ami the growing differences between the King and the Commons; at the great open fire-place round which, twice a day, he gathered his family aud servants, aqd expounded to them the Scriptures; in the village church, to which he went with pious regu larity, ami where his burly form always elicited respect, in spite of his coarse, country-made clothes, his big, unfashionable hat, aud the piece ot red tluunel that he always wore roiiud his throat when in the Feu Country. All the sedgy shores and swampy fields of the river Ouse he has made classic ground, for there, amid the blowing, sighing bulrushes, he fought over ngaiu that great spiritual battle which Luther had fought before him at. Ertnrth.—Amelia Barr, iu Harper’s Magazine. A Hungarian Love Tr(fwly, A shocking story comes from the village of Teteleu, Hungary. A cer tain cook in service iu the place was in possession of a lottery ticket which she had purchased years before when in Vienna. Austria. A Vienna hank, where she had deposited the ticket, wrote recently to inform her that she was the lucky winner of the chief prize. The news spread like wildfire through the village, andtwogeudanues who had been paying her court for some time offered her marriage. On her choosing one the other became so infuriated that he threatened to kill them both. They were discovered shot dead soon after, while their murderer committed suicide by throw ing himself in front of a passing train. On the day of his funeral and that of his two victims a letter arrived from the Vieuna bank addressed to the cook, in which she was informed, with innumerable apologies, that her ticket had not been drawn at all, a mistake having been mafie in one of the figures. —New York Press. Danger of u Little Arithmetic. An instance of the danger of a little arithmetic Las occurred at Birming ham. A far-seeing Alderman objected to building the council house upon ground held only upon a 999-year lease, at the end of which land and buildings (Birmingham buildings are, of course, durable) would belong to the ground landlord. A learned mathematician thereupon presented S3O to be accumulated at compound interest tc buy them back again. It seems, however, that $48.98 could safely be devoted to the present purchase of tnrtlescnpforthe corpora tion; two cents would be sufficient, sappofiug that interest, rent and money had not been abolished mean while, and that the end of the world had not come!—Madame. mm WEEKLY LETTER MAKES A STRONG TALK IN RE HARD TO LYNCHINGS. HE WADES INTO THE CRITICS. Bill Declare* That No Good Man Ha* Rea son to Fear For the Results of Mob Law. The lynching of Sam Holt is over. The press and the preachers have ex pressed their horror or their approval and the world moves on—not a stay nor a stop nor a jolt is felt either so cially, religiously, financially or com mercially. The fulminations of the northern press nor the apprehensions of editors nearer home amount to any thing. History is just repeating it self. Every few years something like this happens and the press and the preachers explode in about the same language until they get tired and then subside and wait quietly for some other barrowing thing to happen. We remember well what the press said about the burning of the brute at Dallas a few years ago and the same adjectives were used and the same anathemas hurled upon our people. The brute who ravished a child of six year Hand then killed her and threw her mutilated body into the hushes actu ally found friends among our enemies. They said it was brutal to burn him. We remember when the negro as saulted a little girl near Madison as slie was going home from school alone and then cut her throat and threw her body iu a gully and covered it with brush. When vengeance overtook him the northern press howled as usual. It is their business to howl. They like it, and do doubt are glad this thing has happened. It feeds their appetite and nurses their wrath and will last them a week, perhaps longer. In the language of Governor Oates, 1 would rise to a pint or order and ask, “What are you going to do about it?” Nothing, of course, nothing. Such things will happen sometimes every where at long intervals, but they do not affect a single item of civilization. Who is afraid to move to Georgia or Texas because of lynchings? Nobody, save, perhaps, a few had men who think of coming because they are in bad repute at home. Fitzgerald was not afraid to come, nor afraid to stay, and the northern people in that grow ing city are celebrating their content with picnics and and other hilarities while I write. •The wicked flee where no man pursuetli. No good man is in danger of the lynchers. No law-abid ing citizen lias any fear for himself or his household. It takes a terrible crime to arouse a whole community into such a remedy, and so I feel no personal alarm. Reader, do you? The truth is that lynchings are not as frequent iu the south as they have been, but are getting quite common over the line. We read that they tried t.o lynch a man in New Y’ork the other day for stealing a horse. Why they have long since quit that in Texas. Mr. Inman is right or nearly so. He says in his answer to the symposium of opinions that “there is no just cause for alarm among the country people—no greater cause than there lias been. That 95 per cent of the people, both white and black, are harmless and law-abiding and we will have to watch and punish the other 5 per cent just as we have beeu doing for many years.” The per cent of had negroes is greater than he thinks. The number in the chningangs prove this, hut their crimes are generally misdemeanors, larceny and burglary, aud education does uot correct this. Booker Washington says it does, but observation and statistics of the prison commission prove the reverse. Wo old men who owned slaves be fore the war are established in our opinions that education does not les sen crime, neither among whites nor blacks. Mr. Stetson, the chairman of the school commission of Massa chusetts, declared this in a pamphlet several years ago, and proved that educa tion increased crime not a little, but to an alarming extent. I have great respect for Booker Washington, and believe that the kind of education he is giving will lessen crime among the pupils he is educating. Our slaves were educated by fear of the lash or the whipping post, and you can pick them out today. It is their children, born since the war, or their grand children who are iu the chningang. Why should there be 4,000 negroes! iu these state and county chaingangs of Georgia when there are only ‘240 white convicts? It will not do to say the negro is punished and the white man escapes. That is a lie and every observing man knows it. My own ob servation is that the courts lesn to the negro rather thau against him. No small per eetitof the colored* convicts are now serving a second term aiid some a third term, which proves that imprisonment does not reform the ne gro. When he comes out his last con dition is worse than the first. But the whipping post would so thoroughly reform a youug negro that he would not repeat the offense. Confinement in jail nearly crushes the soul out of a white man, but a negro is perfectly contented there. Ask the sheriffs or the jailers if this is not so. Now, it will take perhaps ten years to do it, but my candid opinion is that the number of convicts would in that time he reduced from 4,000 to 400 were the whipping post used instead of the chaingang. Delaware has experi mented with this for half century and will not abolish it. It iV used for all colors —white, black ajtfd mulatto. If that little state was soijhtk of the line wouldn’t she catch At from the northern press and northern preach ers? J But how can we mfeke the change, for as long as the uedro has a vote he will vote against a candidate who fa vors it and the candidates are gener ally demagogues anil dare not dis please the negro? / No, they won’ even pass a dog law for fear of offend ing their colored constituents. Ev.-i v now aud then my wife asks rue to bn> some mutton and says we used tub "e mutton. But the liegroes owfi the dogs and the dogs Lave exterminated the sheep in Bartow county. We ought to change tlJe constitution and elect lawmakers fo four or six years and after that they should be ineligi ble. Then they Urouldent talk and vote for buncombe.! Some of the Symposium writers thought that the laiw’s delay and the lawyers were to blhme for these lyneh ings. Not so. A lynching for that crime is hut the outburst of human in dignation. The Maw’s delay is not iu their minds. If I [know myself I am as good a man as /any horror-stricken editor or preacheJ. Tam kind In heart and love my felhow men and fellow women. I respejet the supremacy of the law just as mluch as Governor At kinson or any Ether governor, but I rejoiced when the brute was caught and burned. I How much he/ suffered is of no con sequence to me, nor am I afraid of the , crowd that did lit or that will do it again. It was the unanimous verdict of a very large Jury, a jury of men and women, and I am not chicken-hearted about such suspects as Lige Strick land, nor woJild I take very much sympathetic tialk from other negro leaders who /raise their bristles. I know and feeljthat the white people of the south bavfi been kind; yes, over kind to the negro since the war and that yankee emissaries have alienated him from uls and we have got no thanks for all we have done. Sooner or later we wfill have to take away his vote and establish the whipping post and then, anil not till then, will we have peace bletween the races. If these remedies affected a few bad white men, [let them share it or leave the country!. Some of us remember when the kifklux was our only pretec tion, and it raised a howl that was heard acrosb the ocean, but it saved our wives ayid our daughters when the world, the/ flesh and the devil were against usi And so, /let the procession proceed. P. S. —I)r. E. Van Goidtsnoven, of Atlanta, a scholar aud a gentleman. He sends hie the translation of Bishop Onderdonlk’s gold-headed cane: “Epis noe ebor’f stands for “Episcopus noe eboracenais” and means “Bishop of New York.” Thanks. Bum Arp, At lanta Constitution. SENATOR MORGAN TYRITES. AlabitiniHfii Give* His Vimvs Suffrage Restriction*. A special from Montgomery, Ala., says: Senator Morgan, in response to a request) that he give his views on the mat ter of 111 e restriction of the suffrage lias written a letter which is attracting very great attention in the state. It was pub lished! in a special edition of The Birmingham Age-Herald, and in view of the deep interest throughout Ala bama in the suffrage question is bound to attract very great attention. HEALTHY WOMAN KILLED. Widow of Hungarian Nobleman Mur dered at San Antonio. Mrs. M. L. Maudarsy, a wealthy lady 1 of San Antonio, Texas, wife of a Hungarian nobleman who was banish ed from his country twenty-five or thirty years ago, was murdered aud her body burned Sunday. Robbery is believed to have been the incentive, and a Mexican laborer who worked on the place has baen arrested on suspicion. ATLANTA MARKETS. CORRECTED WEEKLY. —lB tirocerii. Roasted coffee, Arbuekle and Levering $11.30. Lion *IO.BO, less 50c per 100 lb cases. Green coffee choice 11c; fair 9c; prime 7.h'<®8 Sugar standard granulated. New York 5.56. New Orleans 5.56. New Orleans white do yellow s>^c. Syrup, New Orleans open kettle ‘2s®4oc. mixed 12>4@20c: sugar house 28@35c. Teas, black 60@65c; green 50@65c. Rice, head 7J^c: choice 6%@7c: Salt, dai ry sacks $1.25; do bids, bulk $2.00; 100 3s $2.75; ice cream $1.25; common 65®70e. Cheese, full cream 13c. Matches, 65s 45c; 200s #1.30@1.75: 300s $2.75. Soda, boxes 6c. Crackers, soda s<S>6 cream 6c: gingersnaps 6c. Candy, common stick 6e; fancy 12@13e. Oysters, F. W. $1.85@ $1.75; L. W. sl.lO. Flour, Grain anil Flour, all wheat first pate^^|^^ V- ■ • -I 1,1 .■ \ ' Jm M M < - m S|gj 9 ■ ■m v - v | ■ 'Jji 1 vi,4 nor ! u. H ■" ■ 9, sir 1 ' - ' I' 1 ■ r' ; .1 n ",' ; Florida 4as* it' l'ri.'d fruit, ai-a!"- T'a ' . yea Provisions. Clear rit>s boxed sides 5%e: clear s'§<* : ice-cured bellies hams M’lli': California HJt'O; bni-on lOffil Lard, best quality 7) 3c : s’ ond quality : compound sc. Cotton- Market closed quiet; middling 5 11-16. tills OF Ml MS Happenings In the State of Inter esting Import. Convention Whs Successful. The ninth International Sunday school convention, which adjourned in Atlanta Saturday night, was one of the most successful in the history of the organization of the International Sun day School Workers, and was also one of the largest ever held. It was as interesting as it was successful, and the indications are that its results will be far reaching. More than 1,500 delegates attended the convention, and these were enter tained free of charge by the church people of Atlanta. Atlanta threw open her doors to the delegates, and their impressions of the city were ot a most flattering nature. At this convention there was tran sacted probably more important busi ness than ever marked any previous convention of a like nature, and the leaders are well pleased with the re sults. The meeting in Atlanta began Tues day with the session of the interna tional lesson committee and closed Saturday evening with the final lesson of the convention. The first business meeting of the convention was held Wednesday evening, and three ses sions were held each day until the close. During that period a great number of important reports were rendered and the work for the next three years was mapped out by the executive com mittee. The convention was marked by the large number of excellent papers that were read and addresses that were made. The delegates displayed un bounded interest and enthusiasm in the proceedings of the convention and the Grand opera house was filled with them every day. At times large num bers of the visitors were turned away, being unable to find seats in the audi torium. Atlanta was honored by the election of Hoke Smith as president. The delegates were entertained in Atlanta’s usual hospitable manner and were well pleased with the city. Es pecially was this true of those who came from the far north, and had no idea that Atlanta was such a large and progressive city. While the conventions of coming years may he larger than the one held in Atlanta, it is hardly probable that any of them will prove as pleasant and accomplish as much work. For Benefit of Wage Workers. The labor convention in session at Atlanta the past week adopted the fol lowing constitution: “Believing that the wage workers of Georgia need more perfect organiza tion and unity of action in order that they may receive proper recognition from employers, the general public, and more important still, the various municipal, state and federal legislative bodies; and that such recognition must result in laws being enacted which will tend to alleviate the condition of the laboring class; and, “Believing the system of central bodies organized in citiss in state has resulted in much good to organ ized labor and the people, and should be encouraged and upheld; and, “Believing these central bodies blended together in one state body with the many labor unions of the state can accomplish more satisfactory results and greater benefits than the independent atjd separate efforts now put forth, “It is hereby resolved, That the dn ly accredited delegates of bona fide la bor organizations, including local unions and central bodies, do hereby organize and constitute the Georgia State Federation of Labor, to the end that peace, prosperity and happiness shall come to the toiler and justice reign In the land.” * * * Veterans Fraternize at Fitzgerald. The first annual picnic of the gray and blue was held in Fitzgerald last Saturday. Hundreds of old veterans marched in line to the tunes of “l’au kee Doodle” and “Dixie.” General John B. Gordon reached the city dur ing the morning^, livered an^address to an immense'au ? dience-'-'He completely captivated his hearers, and as he would tell of the days of ’6l, and the struggle between the armies of the north and south, tears rolled down the cheeks of the old confederates andj^M^S^irand v i-■ plause. .. 1 - I.JVI trade from the city. There are many members of the different commands who would like to buy their clothes in Savannah, but they do not feel that they could carry them awuA’ under ther arms or in valises, anJttick to the blue uniforms they haveJLirn for several months. * * * Ex-Governor Atkinson a Trustee. Governor Candler has appointed e*-- Governor Atkinson to the vaucancy in the hoard of directors of the Georgia Normal and Industrial college aud an order to that effect has been issued by the executive department. Ex-Gov ernor Atkinson ha3 been connected with the state industrial schdjl for a number of years and his seryces for that institution have been of% signal character. The reappointment of ex- Governor Atkinson by the present chief executive was a compliment to the former and Mr. Atkinson x|illhold office under the appointment until the next session of the legislature,'-when a successor can be appointed and con firmed by the state senate. ... Atlanta Wag Ignored. At the meeting of the Georgia So ciety for Colonial Dames at Savannah the past week, the following‘officers were elected: President, Mrs. J. J. Wilder, Savannah; first vice-president, Mrs. Annie J. Waring, Savannah; sec ond vice-president, Mrs. Joseph L. Lamar, Augusta; honorary vice-presi dent, Mrs. H. C. White, Athens. The last mentioned office was especially created for Mrs. White at this meeting. Board of managers is composed of Mrs. W. G. Charlton, Mrs. Wm. Gar rard, Mrs. T. F. Screven, Mrs. L. Gourdin Young, Miss Mary Ellis, all of Savannah, and Mrs. F. H. Miller, of Augusta. Atlanta is not represent ed either in the list of officers or board of managers. * * V Delay In Rural Delivery. The rural mail delivery in Bibb county was to have been inaugurated May Ist, but Postmaster Hertz receiv ed a telegram from Washington in forming him that the delivery has been suspended until further orders. It is supposed in Macon that the autliori-' ties at Washington have taken this action because of the protest made by Senator Bacon and Congressman Bart lett to the appointment of negro car riers for the rural delivery. i * * * Help Palmetto Citizen*. Residentsvif various cities of this state are now taking subscriptions for the benefit of the Palmetto citizens who spent considerable time and money iu searching for Sam Halt. The movement was commenced by'Mpeßnt' of Hogausville. Firm Will Dissolve. The firm of Draper, Moore & Cos., wholesale dry goods dealers,of Atlanta, will go out of business on the first day of June. At that time the part nership will dissolve and the firm will become extinct. V v * ■ Koep abreast of these stirring times by subscribing for your home paper. The price is little, and you cannot afford to be without it. SOLDIERS’ BODIES BURIED. Brought From Cuba and Porto Kico and Interred At Washington. The bodies of 252 soldier dead, brought from the battlefields of Cuba and Porto Rico by the steamer Crook, were interred at Arlington cemetery at Washington Tuesday with military honors. The ceremony was identical with that held on the occasion of the inter ment of the bodies brought by the Crook on her first trip, about a month ago, but neither the president nor the members of his cabinet were present Tuesday, as on the fo nier occasion, the military display was less elaborate and the crowd much smaller. THIS LEGALIZES POLYGAMY. Order Issued By General Wood at San tiago Has Far-Reaclilni; Effect. M A dispatch from Santiago de Cukfl says: It is pointed out that a result of General. Wood’s audHfl merit that the marriage oeiJfc. ;il! reliiri-.isv ureCv I . i:.y s . tflj ■' Jgl ,<m. .’V’ jtp A