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■ . |H '1 By/ L.dfffie State cf In J Jr eating Import. C<tTlcU Chanfft Hands. Ynmon’s farm of J. M. Smith, of Rmithionia, which has been worked number of yearß by the labor of convicts, will in the future pie conducted under an entirely differ ent system. The last of the convicts *t Smithsonia have been turned over to the Chickamauga Coal and Coke by the disposal of the con- Ptract which J. M. Smith held with the :jtate of Georgia. IB It is understood that for the next |3be years at least, no more penitcnti ■ap convicts will be found on the P|pad acres of the Smithsonia planta tion. It is the impression at the office BP the state prison commission that the Hwces of the state convicts at Sinith wonia will be taken in the future by Jrivate labor and by misdemeanor prisoners from the misdemeanor camps of the surrounding counties. The labor of the misdemeanor convicts, it is said, can be had at much lower figures than even that contracted with the state for the penitentiary convicts. • * * Will Increase Water Supply. The Valdosta city council has made a contract by which the supply of water for the city is to be more than doubled. They contemplate putting a seven-inch pipe in the artesian well capable of pumping 300 gallons of water a min nte. The present pipe conveys only about 100 gallons per minute, and the supply is not sufficient for the largely increased demand. * • * Sprrlal Cara Were Ignored. A lively row has developed in Sa vannah between the Savannah, Thun derbolt and Isle of Hope Hail way com pany and the Georgia Industrial col lege for colored youths, just the other side of Thunderbolt. Recently the Thunderbolt authorities required the railroad company to comply with the state law with reference to separate ac commodations for the races. The conductors on the lines were instruct ed to put the colored passengers in separate seats, which was done. The colored college made complaint to the company, insisting that the seats set apart were insufficient to provide for the students in going from tho city and returning. Thereupon, tho com pany put on special cars for tho stu dents only. The Thunderbolt author ities ignored the fact that these were special cars, and when they readied that town took charge of them, fired the negroes off and threatened to pros ecute tho motorinuu and conductor. * * Military Pay at Ilia Fair. A communication, sent out by the fair military committee to all the mili tary companies in the state names Oc tober 28 as military Day at the state fair. Acting Adjutant General Byrd, who is chairman of the military com mittee, urges all the companies in the etatc to participate in tho exercises on that day. Many encouraging letters have been received by Colouel Byrd, and tho in dications are thnt this day is to be one of tho big features of the fair. The parade will be witnessed by Governor Candler and staff and by tlio legislature. .The parade promises to be a great military spectacle, and if all who have been invited respond the line will be very long. • • Mhiwit of (Iraifilioppera. Nawnau and LaGrange were visited last Friday night by immense swarms of grasshoppers. The insects settled upon the streots and houses by the millions. Where they came from is n mystery. Their appearance created much excitement. • * * Farmers* Inetltute. The farmers of Floyd comity held • two-days’ institute at Rome the past week. Mr. G. H. Miller, the head of the North Georgia Fruit Growers’ as sociation, presided. Hon. C. H. Jor dan, Mr. Wing, the dairyman of the experiment station, and Mr. Quaint nnee, horticulturist of the same insti tution, were among those who dis cussed the subjects beforo the body. • * • Bill of Kvrcptionn Filed. A bill of exceptions in the case of the slate against the Central Railroad of Georgia et. al. has been filed in the Putnam county superior court by Judge Turner, of the prison commis sion. The hill was filed by the coun sel for tho state since the judgment of the court was rendered in favor of the Central railroad and against the con tention of the state that the Central had violated the constitution in de feating oi attempting to defeat compe tition. ... Orvclojiltic: Mtiu-rnl l.Htuli. The Deßardeleben syndicate con tinues to purchase ore properties in Polk eouuty, but for obvious reasons nothing is given out about the numer ous investments they are making al most daily. But several thousand acres of mineral lands, forming a belt from Cave Spring nearly to Cedar town, have been secured by this gen tleman and the work of development is soon to begin. Already two very large iron ore washers, with steam shovels and all modern appliances for ore mining on a big scale, have been bought and will be erected near the richest deposits of ore. • * • WfttchlnK the CommlMion. The whole state is watching the rail v Toad commission to see what it will do. Atlanta’s depot matter is more a state issue than it is local. All the state is interested and the people are watching for developments and results. Counted remarked above, it is a slate affair. • * • Stale Fair Near It Hand. A few days only intervene until the Georgia State Fair at Atlanta opens its gates to the world and invites the critical eye of all who may be inter ested to examine the products of the Empire State of the south. The eyes of all Georgia are turned on the show. Few citizens of the state ! are not deeply interested in the project, and the manner in which the Brand old state will exhibit that which is produced within her borders is the theme at every fireside. While the fair will be a magnificent exposition of all the best there is in the state, the greatest event of the whole time of tho show will be the prospective visit of Admiral George ; Dewey. WANTS READY-MADE HOUSE. Admiral Dewey Graciously Ac cepts the Nation’s Gift of a Home. A .Washington dispatch says: Ad miral Dewey has elected to accept a house in Washington already con structed, instead of having one built for his occupation. In accordance with the invitation of the committee which has had in charge the Dewey homo fund he called at the office of Acting Secretary Allen, in the navy department Friday morning to indi cate his preference in the matter of a residence. There were present be sides Mr. Allen, Assistant Secretary Vanderlip, Assistant Postmaster Heath and Genera! Corbin. The admiral was officially informed of the purpose of the people of the United States to present him with a home in Washington. He frankly ex pressed his gratification at the tender, which he immediately accepted. He said if tho proposed home had been the gift of n few wealthy men he should feel indisposed to accept it. Bnt lie notod that the fund had over 43,000 subscribers, indicating that the home was to be really the gift of the American people, and as such he would accept it with as much pleasure as he had tho sword bestowed upon him by congress. The location of the residence was next discussed, and the admiral showed a decided preference for the section in w r hich ho had made his home during his former details in Washington. lie wished the house to bo located in the northwest section somewhere west of Sixteenth street and M, not too far north, thus indi cating tho neighborhood of his former residence and the clubs where he had spent a good deal of his leisure time. First of all, ho wanted the house at the curliest possible moment, so thnt he “might go iu and hang up his hat at once,” as he put it. Of course that precluded the idea of erecting.a house to meet his special needs. He ex pressed his idea as to the character of the home he desires, and asked that the houso he modest enough in ap pointments aud cost to permit of the retention of a sufficient sum of money from the purchase fund to defray tho expense of furnishing. Tho committee listened attentively to all of these wishes and saw no rea son why euch and all could not be gratified. REBELS NEAR MANILA. They Advance Within Four Miles Of the City and Open Fire At Long Range. Advices from Manila state that, on Monday afternoon a body of insur gents was seen near La Lomu church, four miles from the heart of the city of Manila. They opeued fire, tho bul lets falling among the tents of the Twenty-fifth iufantry. The Americans manned the trenches and replied at. a range of 1,200 yards. The insurgents volleyed and the Americans used their artillery. The fight lasted and hour, after which the insurgents retreated. One American was wounded. Tho American camp Monday night was within sight of Ban Francisco <le Mulnbon, the stronghold of the insur gents iu the province of Cavite, whore the Filipinos are said to number five thousand. Captain Marion B. Safford, Thir teenth infantry, who lost his life in the attack on Noveletn, was a graduate of the military academy in the class of 1879. He was born at Belma, Ala., September 1, 1836. He participated in the campaign against the Apache Indians in New Mexico and Arizona, aud took n creditable part iu the cam paign ugninst Santiago. In April last he went to tho l’hilippines. GRAM’S TROOPS ENGAGED. aDilirKcn*! Arf Driven From l’oaition on ImuA Kiver. A Manila special says: General Fred • Grant, with three companies of the j Fourth infantry, two companies of the | Fourteenth infantry aud a band of I scouts attached to the former regi j meat, advanced from Imus Friday i morning, driving the insurgents from 1 the eutire west bank of the imus river. Three Americans were wounded. Companies C aud H, with the scouts, crossed the river at Big Bend and ad vancing westward in tlio direction of the Biucayau road, the iusurgents fir- I iug volleys, bnt retiring. Twenty j Fillipinos were discovered intrenched at the Biucayau church, about midway | between BRCoor aud Cavite Viejo, j These were routed, six being killed. Expresses Thankfulness For Good Things of Earth. HAPPINESS OF HOME PARAMOUNT. No Matter How Humble Our Domicile. May He They Are a Great Dleg.lng. "How small tho part of what we all endure Is that which kings or laws can cause or cure.” We make much ado over the money qnestion, the tariff, the trusts, the combination of capital against labor and the greed and corruption of poli ticians, but after all our felicity de pends npon ourselves and what we choose to make of our domestic life. Compared with happiness at home all •ther joys are trifies, transitory pleas ures that come and go and leave us at last to take refuge in the domestic circle. A hundred years ago the poet wrote: "If solid happiness we prize Within our breast this jewel lies, From our own selves our joys must como And that endearing place—our home.” How sadly sweet is the dream of home to the boys who have exiled themselves to n foreign land—to the daughters who have followed their husbands far away—to tho soldiers who lie in the trenches in the distant islands of the sea, and to the wretched convicts who toil in the mines for life or for a term of miserable years. I was ruminating about how much we complaining mortals have to .be thankful for in this goodly land. It is well for us all to sometimes lake an in voice of what we have got that neither kings nor laws can take from us. The masses of our people have homes— humble homes, comfortable homes, where, as William Pitt said, “the poor est man may bid defiance to the crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake, the wind may blow through it and the rain leak in, but the king of England cannot enter, nor his forces dare to cross its threshold.” Tho masses of our people have good health, which is the chiefest of all the poor man’s bless iugs. In this goodly southern laud we have pure air, good water, a temperate •lirnate aud a soil that responds easily and surely to the laborer’s toil. Adam Smith said in his great work on the wealth of nations that a kind Provi dence had so ordained that the aver age labor of one man would support eight persons and give them all of the necessaries, many of the comforts and some of the luxuries of life. How nicely this fits the average family—a man aud his wife and six children. If there are more children the older ones are able to help, and as the man grows old and feeble the younger children have grown tip to take his place. Of course, there are exceptions, for the wife may be an invalid or the children all girls or the farm horse get sick and die, or the hogs take cholera, or the house burn up, bnt most all of our ills are tho resnlt of indolence, impru dence or criminal conduct. If we violate a law of nature we are sure to suffer for it. If we spend ruoro than we make and get in debt we chain ourselves to a hard master, for, ns Solomon said, “the borrower is a servant to the lender.” Frugal habits aud contentment at, home are cardinal virtues that ensure happiness. Then there are tho pleasures that affect the heart, and the emotions, the joys of Hiving and being loved, the innocent sports of children or grandchildron, as they play around us; the sweet charm of music, even though it be a mother’s song as she soothes her child to sleep. From my window I see beautiful ilowers looking up to heaven or bend ing gracefully to the God who made them. “Flowers tliat weep without woe, And blush without a crime.” And the vines on the trellis are fad ing into beauty and the forest trees are taking on their variegated colors. What is lovelier than the autumn robes of the chestnut and maple and sweet gum and the intermingled green of the pines? Why not cultivate a taste for all these outside ornaments of na ture, for they are not only beautiful, but the contemplation of them is refin ing. A beautiful flower is a miracle; no human hand could fashion it, aud, “Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these.” The bless ings of nature are gratuities. They cost nothing—the trees, the flowers, the grass, the sunshine and tho raid, the songs of birds and the reverential sound of distant thunder that comes, as the poet says, from heaven’s own organ. And so the invoice might go on. Of ceurse, a good citizen will take an in terest in the laws that govern him, but he should not forget the blessings that laws cannot take away, no r should he Iret himself because of evildoers. A much traveled friend, on bis return from Europe told me that as he jour neyed through Germany he saw many and many a woman yoked beside a cow or a steer pnlling a plow through the tough soil, and hundreds of women going to market half bent under the burden of wicker backets piled up with small wood or vegetables. The white man’s burden is nothing com pared with the white womau's burden among the peasantry of that country. Every young man owes military ser vice to the government and is obliged to go when liis time comes, but here every man is a king or a sovereign and can go or not, as he pleases. The truth is that our common people are the most independent common people iu the world aud ought to be grateful to God #tie lines tuw'lgMjH them in such pleasant places^^Jj^Bi be envious of the rich, the millionsflH who have more care and anxiety trcM we have; whose children grow np fl peril, whose days are consumed in plans to increase their riches, whose nights are restless with dreams of gold and whose health and appetite require constant nursing. The law of compen sation is as fixed as fate and it is en tirely possible in this land of liberty for a poor man to be as happy as a rich one. But we must all work and be diligent in business. It is every man’s duty to better his condition, if he can. He must make hi3 home oomfortsble and attractive. His wife and daughters are compelled to live thero and they like comforts and ornaments. It is the nature of woman. The roof should not leak nor the wind blow in at a broken win dow pane. The doorß should shut easily and the front gate hang well on its hinges. If you can’t buy a carpet, you can make one of bagging that will be a comfort in winter. Beg a few rose bushes and vines from your neighbors and plant them. Bring some goldeurod from the fields and place it somewhere to look at. Keep a good, clean dog, but don’t let him lie by the fire. If yon can’t hire a servant, then do you or the boys make the fires and milk the cow. Woman has enough to do in nursing the little children and making their clothes and caring for them all the day and some times half the night. My contempt for a man who does not help his wife has no bounds. The catechism asks what is the chief end of man? And the answer is, “To glorify God and enjoy him forever.” That is good theory, but the fact is that a man’s chief business is to raise children and to enjoy them. The world is working for children and our greatest pleasure and our greatest grief comes from them. What does politics or fame or money weigh com pared with the death or the dishonor of a child. How does the great world shrink when affliction invades the family circle. The welfare of our children is the all-absorbing bnsiness of our life. The desire- to see them well and happy in childhood and later on to be well mated and married and prospering in business and ornaments to the church and tho community is ideal hope of parents. “To glorify God and to enjoy Him forever” is in a measure postponed for another world. We trust the Lord and jiray to Hina, but our most constant devotion and anxiety is for our children. But why this moralizing. The poets have long since sang the sweet song of filial and paternal love. Even David saug of the rich reward to the righte ous man when his children grew up like olive plants around his table. Our little orphan girl carae home yesterday as proud as her Uncle Tom will be when he receives his thousand dollar sword, for she is on the second honor roll at school and her picture will get into the papers some of these days. Another grandchild got the second honor in another grade and the parents and we grandparents are as proud as the children. We had no marks or honors when we went to school, except to get ahead in the Friday evening spelling class,when the whole school stood up in a semi-circle and contended for the highest place. My sweetheart generally held the fort and if I oould climb to her side and hold her hand iu mine it was enough for me. But, ah! the beautiful books the children have now aud the beauti ful pictures. How we would have wondered and admired if we had had a small portion of them. The old blue-back spelling book had five, I think, and I see the rude boy up in the apple tree now stealing ap ples. And we had an English reader and I remember the picture of the two farmers quarreling over a cow. One had her by the horns and the other by the tail and they were both pulling with all their might, while a lawyer was sitting on a stool milking her. How does that fit lawyers and a law case now? We had a grammar and an arithmetic and I notice that three times throe still make nine and the multiplication table is the same, hut I don’t see the rule of three nor “tare aud tret,” that we used to whisper was enough to make the devil sweat. Our geography was a book aud an atlas separate, hut there were no pictures. But there is more iu the boy or the girl than in the books, and either can get an education if they try to. The best part of onr education comes after we qnit school and settle down to the business of life. It comes from reading good books—history, biography, magazines and newspapers. In our young days we did not read trash, for we did not have it, but now the young people read anything and everything. If evil communications corrupt good manners, as St. Paul said, then a person’s character is affected by the books he rends. Read ing all sorts of novels is as much a dissipation as gambling and I wish there was a commission in every s ate to decide what books were best for minors to read. There is a smart servant girl in my family and she is reading “Trilby” on the sly—negroes will do every devilish thing they see the white folks do. I reckon that is the monkey that is in them.—Bum Af.p in Atlanta Constitution. THE U 31DAN ETA RECOYEKED. Expedition a Success and American! Suf fered No Carnalities. Rear Admiral Watson announces from Manila that the recovery of the United States gunboat Undaneta which was captured and beached by the in surgents near Orani, on the Orani river, where she had been blockading. 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