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— “Tjllrrlng,
(HT“ We have no auiru negt
•ry one is asked to
il money to thii officf Mowing,
returned by mailvef '"wing,
• sllenco where the red
09 In Bleep,
The Statue and vanish
•11 ii i ..Ttfßeeß deep,
ill holdup*
üblin ne® g P | der’s thread Is spun
morn,’ the grasses;
.... . e dewrlrops sparkling run
'-'Uncll light breeze passes;
: branches, moving slow,
llu, et their leaves a-ehlmlng,
■ the music ripples low,
a poet’s rhyming;
There the nre-flies glitter.
High ntd low they flicker,
Flutter like the thoughts cf youth ore
youth has flown away,
Like the hopes elusive
That we fain would stay.
When the red rose opens wide
In the sunny morning
And the bobolink with gride
Hleep, an 1 the night ii scorning;
We may search with eager care
For the fairy glimmer,
Vainly seeking here and there,
Not aitght will shimmer.
Transient as our dreaming
Is the ftre-llles gleaming;
Transient as remembered smiles on faces
seep no more;
Eerie lights that waver
When the day Is o’er.
—Angelina W. Wray, In Harper’s Bazar.
'‘Subbed" for Ihe Editor
By Barry Pain.
fthe Inner Cir
cle, Matthew
gone out for
half uu hour
his watch,
an 1 his as
sistant, J,
Gra h a m
Champ u i os,
his stead. Ou
every opcaaiou when Elder was ab-
Beut, whether he had gone out to get
Lis hair cut (at the restaurant oppo
site), or was awuy on a two months’
holiday, or had taken a week off be
cause he felt far from well, .T, Graham
Chnmpnies reigned in his stead, en
dowed with [denary powers. He was
ambitious, and intelligent, and hard
and trustworthy; Matthew
Elder, brilliant and lazy, had long
jjuce recognized that. Elder thought
things to do -Champnies did them.
°‘\ clerk just laid on Champnies’
nak the form which a visitor had
v jgd up.
Name— Miss Cynthia Page. ;
To.Hee—Th Editor. •
Bushinas—Private. ;
Date—B-5-99. ;
til
#e 'Well, I’ll see her," said Gharnp
s. He had seen the name Cynthia
•<*e, in good magazines, appended f
ac’ptof s‘and interesting stories.
.1 as not ill-pleased, when the
1 >wed her in, to tiud that, she
a >utb and beauty on pale and
niy.dfoal lines. Her long, raised
lashes and the lingering glance of her
gray eyes seemed to say, “You do in
terest me.” J. Graham Champnies
tonud himself hopiug that Matthew
dlder, after synchronizing his watch,
°ould Hud it necessary to go and see
man about a dog—or, at any rate,
■wild delay his return. Iu the mean
ile he was anxious to know what
could do for Miss Pago.
am speaking to the editor?”
-wv Miss Page, a little doubtfully.
“The actual editor_Mr. Elder, is
not in at present, but I have full
powers to act for him."
“I see.” Hho was still in doubt.
“Pray be assured of it. I can
make contracts with yon, accept
stories from yon, sign checks for you,
to if you have auything to propose—"
“Oh, it’s not that; iu fact, I came
in consequence of a proposition which
he had already made to me."
“Well, I shall be very glad to carry
on anything that he has begun. Asa
rule he mentions these things to me,
but this time T am iu the davk.”
She smiled mysteriously. “But
you can’t be sure that yon would
wish to carry on what he has beguu.”
“As Mr. Elder is the supreme au
thority here, I should have no clioioe.
But eveu if I had, what you suggest '
is extremely unlikely.”
“Why unlikely? No two men can
have minds exactly alike. It's a
funny arrangement yon have here." j
H “It works well enough in praotice.
We both know the character of onr !
paper and what our publio wants. I
say that it is uulikely that T should be
unwilling to carry ou whatever Mr. |
Elder has begun for this reason and
also because 1 know aud admire your
work."
“O, do you think it’s auy good?"
“Ot course I do.”
eaking frankly?”
“.Speaking frankly it’s full enough
of fault o , some of it seems to have run
away with you and got all over the
place. But it's horribly interesting
all the same. You see it's original.”
“O, yes!” she assented. “I am
original. If 1 were not, 1 shouldn't
here.” .
.'hat sounds cryptic,” he said,
oesibly 1 shall., ‘understand it when i
ei.
k' a*\ ! b iron knew that I’m afraid I
can’t Veil you.” ’
“Viry well, then; there’s nothing
more to be said. Mr. Elder is out at
present. You’d better call again. I
suppose you think it would make some
difference whether Mr. Elder went on
with this business, or I did?"
‘‘l’m sure it would —the greatest
difference.”
“You think I shouldn’t do as well?"
“Not as well. You’d do better, in
finitely better. O, I must go,” she
I blushed, rose, good-byed, and faded
1 out of the office.
Ten minutes later Mr. Matthew El
der, middle-aged, bald, and cheerful,
sauntered into the room with his hands
in his pockets.
“Well, Bill! Everything all right?”
Mr. Elder had not found in the as
sortment of names provided for Champ
nies in the accident of his birth and
the guesswork of his christening any
thing which took his fancy.
“No,” said Champnies shortly, still
irritated by his interview with Cynthia
Page. “Quart into a pint pot.
Plugged up with ids., and Bowse has
just sent up that he’ll want another
half-page. We shall have to leave
over everything that’ll wait, and some
things that won’t.”
“Ah! you don’t keep a tight enough
hand on Bowse.”
“Btep in and tackle him yourself.
Here, this woman oalled to see you—
wouldn’t tell me her business.”
Matthew Elder took the paper slip
and sank down in a chair.
“Bill, this is rather bad. I ought
to nave been in. What with my un
fortunate enthusiasm and my wretched
memory I shall get myself into trou
ble. Listen: I met this girl two or
three times a year ago; never gave her
auother thought till I came on a story
by her that was perfectly magnificent
—O, horribly good!—probably the
best story that has been written this
century. I dashed off a letter to her
at once, and so worked myself up
about it that I said, to show my sin
cerity, that if, she liked I’d marry her,
and sho could call at the ofHoe this
morning with her answer. She'd have
refused me, of course, as they all do,
and perhaps I’m better single; but,
none the less, it would have been
more civil not to have forgottou the
appointment.”
“Really,” said Champnies, “you
must be a little niad.”
“Undoubtedly,” answered Elder,
cheerfully. “It’s the price ono pnys
for being so excessively intelligent.”
Chaiupuies stared 'blankly at the
desk, trying to recall the exact words
of his conversation with Cynthia Page.
“Look here, Bill,” said Elder,
“write and say you want to see her
about a story; then when she comes
do the explaining for me. Say I was
called away by telegram. Say it was
from motives of delicaoy. Suy any
thing.”
The following is from a subsequent
issue of the Tea-Oup, a journal con
ducted by ladies for ladies:
“Oue of the most brilliant of onr
lady writers, Miss Cynthia Page, is,
it is whispered, shortly to be led to
the hymeneal altar. The fortuuate
partner of her future joys and sorrows
is J. Graham Champnies, a young
journalist of great promise. Our
heartiest felicitations. Speaking oi
weddings, have you seen the really
beautiful designs in pearlettes—indis
tinguishable from real pearls—now
( l>eing shown in the windows of ?”
The Jersey Cow.
It was not without reason that the
Greeks called a beautiful woman
“cow-eyed”; but though many a fa
mous Jersey cow has borne a Greek
name, Hellas never saw cows compar
ing in beauty with the modern Jersey
—so line and trim in shape aud so
dainty in color and shading, or with
eyes so large and liquid. For many
years it was disputed whether the
breed were uot a oross between the
cow aud deer. The Jersey as much
surpasses her ancient progenitors in
the rioliness and abundance of her
milk and oream as in beauty. At the
World’s Fair at Chicago, iu 1893, the
Jorsey, putting aside all question of
beauty, challenged all other breeds
for quantity aud quality of the butter,
and was a triumphant winner over all
competitors.
For some years there has been a re
action from the extravagant prices
which prevailed in the eighties for
Jerseys, says Harper’s Bazar. Dur
ing the height of that craze, it is said
that $20,000 was paid for the bull
Priuoe of Pogis, and that famous cows
brought from SOOOO to SIO,OOO.
Pedro, sire of the great bull Pedro
Royal Marjoram, won first prize at the
World’s Fair iu 1893, and originally
cost his owner SIO,OOO. Pedro’s dam
was Eurotas, by many considered the
greatest of Jersey cows. She pro
duced 778 pouuds aud one ounce of
| butter iu one year. Pedro Royal
1 Marjoram was himself a winner at the
; World’s Fair, but his chief distinction
| has been in the extraordinary uni
! formity aud extraordinary merit of his
daughters.
It Sounded Horrible.
Mary Alden had lived all her fifteen
years iu the country, far removed from
railroads, aud when her father accept
ed a position in the machine shops of
the great railroad corporation at Q.,
and settled bis family in a house over
looking the switch-yards, her life was
filled with terror.
On the first occasion of her crossing
the yards, a long train of cars was be
ing disconnected and distributed. To
her horror, she heard a man at oue
eud shout to unother, “Never mind
that jumper! You cau’t wait. Cut
her iu two, aud thro>s the head end
down here.”
Mary fainted.—Youth’s Companion.
auiftTitd?
Happenings In the State of Inter
esting Import.
To Maintain .Joint Agent*.
The railroads will maintain joint
cotton agents at Atlanta, Macon, Au
gusta, Athens, Colnmbns and Mont
: gomery the coming season.
As previously stated in the press,
there will he no material changes in
j the rates. The rates to New England
, points will be what they were at the
j opening of the last season, which rates
! were afterwards reduced.
There was a good deal of kicking
| last year by some cotton shippers be-
I cause the railroads insisted on rout
ing the cotton. A Memphis cotton
firm appealed to the courts for an in
junction and the supremo court of
Tennessee decided that the roads had
I a right to haul the cotton as they saw
! tit.
* * *
To Improve PnbMc Building.
The government’s chief architect at
Washington lias notified Congressman
| Bartlett that he has commenced work
on the plans for the improvement of
the United States courthouse and gov
ernment building at Macon. Congress
; recently appropriated $58,000 for the
improvements. The plans called for
: an additional two stories and an ele
; vator. This addition will greatly en
i large the space.
. * * *
“Banner” County Falls Off.
The tax returns from Fulton county
for 1899 show a decrease of $239,691,
I compared with the returns of last year,
i This decrease is due, it is said, to the
i fact that the city tax assessors last
year decreased city assessments, and
j property owners of the county have in
consequence made a reduction in their
: returns. The figures quoted do not
j include the defaulters — tho c e who
have failed to make returns on their
i taxable property.
* * *
Acquittal For .Jim Moore.
In flie ease of the state vs. James
A. Moore, accused of the murder of
Math MeCard at Thomaston the jury
returned a verdict of not guilty. The
court adjourned until the November
term.
The verdict was a complete surprise
to the people and was not at all ex
pected.
* * *
Horne Having at Klberton.
Much interest is being manifested
in the horse racing during carnival
week at Elberton, beginning August
21st. Many racers from various parts
of the state will be entered, and the
fun will be great.
w * *
Oliilfl Labor Bill to Be I’uahcd.
Bibb’s representatives in the legis
lature will be asked to support a bill
at the next legislature, which will be
introduced under the auspices of the
Georgia Federation of Labor, with
the following text: “To prevent chil
dren under the age of twelve years
from working in the factories and
other manufacturing or mechanical
establishments and workshops of this
state, except under certain conditions
herein mentioned; to provide suitable
punishment for violations of this act,
and for other purposes.”
* * * •
Savannah To Have New Station.
Savannah is counting on anew un
ion passenger station by next spring.
Mr. Mackall, general counsel for the
Georgia and Alabama, is quoted as
saying that the Southern Bailway will
go in with the Plant, Georgia and Ala
bama and Florida, Central and Penin
sula in bearing the expense.
This is taken to mean that the South
ern will build into Savannah. Just be
fore Mr. Spencer went abroad he stat
ed that nothing definite had been de
termined about building into Savan
nah. Ho is reported to have returned
to New York within the last few days.
Savannah is promised a station to
cost $500,000.
♦ *
Georgia Boy Commended.
The brave act of a popular Atlanta
boy is told in the official dispatches
sent. to the navy department by Ad
miral Watson, now commanding the
fleet at Manila. The young man is
Howell Woodward, and the story is
told in the following special from
Washington to The New York World.
“Manila, August 11. —On August ?d, gun
heat Pampatigu, Lieutenant (junior grade)
McNamoo, patrolling I.lngayen hay, Luzon
island, fouud American steamer Saturnus
on beach, at San Fernadino, Insurgents
having robbed cargo.
“Naval Cadet Woodward in dingey se
cured hawser around ruddor post of steamer
under musketry lire from strong intreneh
ineuts. Painpanga returned hot Are. but
could not move the steamer. Insurgents
burned vessel.
"Have sent Yorktown to punish piratical
act.
* * *
GoTprnor randier 1. Praised.
Information has been received from
Albany, N. Y., to the effect rhat the
Albany branch of the American Pro
tective League has transmitted to
Governor Candler a congratulatory
latter on the stand he had taken against
mob violence in the state.
The dispatch stated that the letter,
after rehearsing in a general way the
numerous lynching* that had recently
occurred in the south, and especially
in the state of Georgia, and mention
ing the prominent and forceful stand
against the mob law taken by Gov
ernor Candler, was highly complimen
tary.
STATE FAIR NOTES.
The commmittee of the state fair
having charge of the eight weeks of
racing has just completed the p\o-
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expected tlmff^H
K.
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conJH
detail.
f N ■ turfnjwH
.in ' has heen^HHH
,i and thes^|H
mid starters will all be men thorfl|^H|
Iv familiar with the work of
ing good races. AH
While SC,OOO is assured as purHj
for the winners, it is understood thaP
this amount will be largely increased
from ontside sources and that when
the races are pulled off they will be
for as handsome prizes as were ever
offered at any state fair in the country.
The races will be one of the prime
features of the fair, and the outlook
is unusually promising for good, clean
sport on the track.
The racing will be from Ootober
24th to November Ist, and there will
be four running races a day. The
track will be especially prepared each
day and considerable care will be
taken to have it in excellent condition
during the entire time of the racing
events. Trotting and running races
will alternate, so as to give variety to
the events, and it is probable that
some very fine piieces of horseflesh
will be seen upon the track.
The arrangements of the details in
connection with the fair are beginning
to rapidly assume definite shape as the
time draws near for the opening.
Considerable time will be spent in pre
paring for special days during the fair
and already several committees having
this matter in hand have been appoint
ed and are expected to report progress
at an early date.
One of the most important features
of the fair "will be military day. A
committee of three, consisting of Col.
Phil G. Byrd, acting adjutant general
of the state, as chairmau; Captain Jo
seph Van Holt Nash and Dr. George
Brown, will have complete charge of
the full arrangements for this day and
are expected to decide upon a date
shortly.
As soon as the date has been-fixed
the othr arrangements will be made.
Invitations will be sent out all over
the state to the various military or
ganizations requesting their attend
ance on military day and it is confi
dently expected that a number of crack
companies will respond.
It is not improbable that a sham
battle will be one of the interesting
features of this day and prize drills
may be participated in by a number of
the companies that will attend. The
committee has already commenced its
work and will doubtless report prog
ress from time to time.
“The state fair is going to be a
great big event, worthy of Georgia.
Atlanta has never done things on a
small scale, and when the people of
the state come here to attend the big
fair this fall, they will find that Atlan
ta’s reputation has been fully sus
tained.”
A special Travelers’ Protective As
sociation day is expected to be ar
ranged, and Secretary Martin, of the
state fair, has already received a
number of letters from prominent
members of the association requesting
that such a clay be made a feature of
the fair, and giving him their assur
ance of hearty co-operation in the mat
ter.
The Travelers’ Protective Associa
tion is one of the largest organizations
of its kind in the state‘and has mem
bers in almost every town and city of
Georgia. If a special day is arranged
for the members of the association, it
is probable that a large number will
attend and the gathering will be in the
nature of a convention.
Will Be Immense.
The Atlanta Constitution speaking
editorially of the scope and magnitude
of the state fair, says:
“The statement of Secretary Martin
made to the farmers attending the
State Agricultural Society at Quit
man concerning the extent of the com
ing state fair, was calculated to open
their eyes, as it will the eyes of a
great many people right here in At
lanta.
“The gentlemen having in charge
this fair have been going ahead with
their work quietly and in a business
like manner, making no particular
bluster about what they were accom
plishing. The result is that few people
ontside their councils have realized
the extent of all they have done. To
be told, therefore, that the state fair
will cover as much space as the Gotton
Slates and International exposition is
in tbs nature of an eye opener.
“Of course this state fair is limited
in scope, and it was natural to sup.
pose, therefore, that it would in no
way approach the great exposition.
It seems, however, that the members
of the Fair Association have been
working on a big, broad scale, and
Secretary Martin’s statement shows
that this work has brought substantial
resalts.
SENATOR HAYWARD STRICKEN.
Prominent Nebraska Statesman Suffers a
Severe Stroke of Apoplexy.
Senator M. L. Hayward, of Nebras
ka, was stricken with apoplexy Tues
day afternoon at Bowuville, that
state, where he had gone to deliver vn
address at the Woodmen's picnic. He
was apparently in good health and
spirits up to the moment- of attack.
Just as the presiding officer was about
to introduce the seuator he was seen
to sway in his chair and then fall help
less to the platform.
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