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PHANTOMS. j
Whence do they come? What may their
Import be—
The flitting, flashing phantoms ot the
mind—
That halt awake and half In dream we see;
'jfhat never can be captured or defined?
They hint nt something lost, something
desired, ownership would make
Something whose
us glad— with subtle meanings
Perhaps nt thoughts
tired, unrecognized becauso unclad.
Or truths
They may ho glints of half-forgotten
dreams, buriod deep,
They may bo memories long fltfui
That from their ashes give out
gleams long Anal sleep.
Before they sink to their
Perhaps eleotrlo lines trom other brain
Are tapped and (lashed by crossing with
our own, bits
Perhaps some floating shreds or ro
inalu
Of former life tlmt we somewhero have
known.
Ferhaps they aro the signals loved ones
send
Who wait our coming on the other shore;
The spirit-full with earthly sense to blend.
Too finely soft to fully pierce life’s rour.
Perhaps! Perhaps! Conjectures cannot
teach! .
Wo clutch at shadows ana we grasp the
alrl
The mystory is aye beyond our reach—
An Ignis fatuus no art can snare.
—Laura G. Carr, in Boston Transcript.
A DESPERATE EXPEDIENT.
NR. ROBERT Bu
channau called
■ old bachelor
V- on his
uncle one a f te r
noon in answer to
ijh'/l P*. "f/TXr 3 a n °f®- XX 0 was
(I(I, larly not in pleasant n l> articn -
frame of mind. As
ho rang tho bell he
wa> - v?*. P-Tar was thinking what
a very weary world this is for a young
medical gentleman who has not enough
of this world’s goods to feel justified
in asking the loveliosi girl in the
world—i. c., Enid Humphrey—to be
come his wife.
“Well, Robert,” said the old gen
tleman, getting down to business at
once, “I want to talk to you about your
medical practice; how is it progress
ing?”
“I am glad to bo able to say that
‘progressing’ is the right word, Uncle
Tom, but it is slow.”
i l Of course it is slow; wliat else did
you expect? Lot’s see, you have beou
back from tho university three years?”
“Yes, str.”
“Now, I tell you what the trouble
is, you need a wife. Yen must marry
and settle dowu.”
“I have known that for some time,”
Dr. Buclmunan gloomily assented.
“Have you? That is a good sign.
"When a man knows what he wants he
is half way on the road to its posses
sion. Why don’t you get a wife?”
“Money!” said Dr. Buchannan,
briefly.
“Yon moan lack of money, I sup
pose? Now, how much would yon
consider necessary?”
“With $10,000 and my practice—
for that is sure to inoroase—I would
feel safe in making the venture.”
“Yes, that ought to start you. I
suppose you haven’t picked out the
girl yet? Now, if you tell me some
nice sensible girl has promised to
marry you I will give you my cheek
for ten thousand, along with my bless
ing. What do you say?”
“I say it is a go,” and Robert
graspod his uncle’s hand.
“Very good, but that is uot all. Of
course, my boy, I do not want to in
terfere in your affairs, but—you know
Enid Humphrey, of course?”
“Yes.”
“Well, her mother and I wero great
friends; it amounted to a deal more ou
my part, and that is your old uncle’s
romance. Now, my boy, I could not
get the mother, but if you, my nephew,
should happen to get her daughter 1
should be very glad—aud Robert, not
meaning to use any undue influence,
you understand, I would make that
check, say $25,000.”
“Uncle Tom,” ho gasped, “you’re
a brick of purest ray serene. You sit
right dowu and fill out that check and
I will bo back for it in twenty min
utes,” and he was gone.
Twenty minutes after leaving his
uncle’s house he was sitting by her
side, an engaged man, and one of the
happiest in the universe.
Finally Robert declared thnt he
must go. t ( You see,” he said, “I
have a very important engagement
with Uncle Tom. In fact, my dear,”
with a grin, “it is a matter of ‘bread
and butter for two. f ))
U What on earth aro you talking
about, Robert?”
“It is very simple. About au hour
ago Unde Tom made me au offer;
promised to give me a check for $25,
000 the instant that 11could tell him
that you hud promised to be my
wife.”
“Oh, indeed!”
“Yes; real clever in the old boy,
wasn’t it?” said Robert, with a dim
perception that some one had blun
dered.
“But you are not so shrewd,” she
hurried ou, “in telling me so soon of
the great inducement that brought you
here this afternoon. 2
“Enid, dear-’
“Miss Humphrey, if yon please,
Dr Buchanan.”
• t Don’t be so sarcastic and angry.
You know that I love you; that for
two years I have not had a thought
but for you aud of you. This offer of
my uncle’s was made in the kindest
spirit. He knew that, my practice
was not sufficient to justify me in
speaking to any girl of marriage, and,
like the dear old fellow that he is,
came to my rescue. He, had previous
ly offered me $10,000 to settle down
with any one; aud then, because he
had once loved your mother, and be
cause he admires yon so very much, I
he afterward said that he would make '
it $25,000 if I could get you.”
“Oh!" put in the girl, rapidly, “you
are candor personified. That explains
fully why you have so seldom come
near me during the last few months,
when yon yvere free to chooBe whom
you would; but now, on receipt of this
larger offer an hour ago, as a premi
um for choosing me, you hasten hack
to my side. Home other girl—Annie
Bennett, for instance—must feel al
most as highly complimented as I
do.”
“Enid! Enid!” cried the unhappy
doctor, “you are trying not to under
stand. Uncle Tom made tho two of
fers at the same time; the other one
first, but both in the same conversa
tion—both this afternoon. Can you
see? And you know why I tried to
stop coming here, I could not ask
you to marry me, and without that
could I honorably tell you of my love?
As for Annie Bennett, I haven’t laid
eyes on her for two
“That will do, Mr. Bucliannan,”
said Enid, rising. “You need not try
to explain any further.”
Miserable enough Robert picked up
his hat and passed out into the hall.
With his hand ou tho street door ho
paused. never,” he muttered.
“It is now or
“I’ll risk it.”
When he re-entered the room Enid
was standing before the mantel, one
hand resting heavily on it.
“Enid,” he began, humbly, “for
give me if I say one more word. I
cannot leave you in this way. I was
so astounded at what you were saying
that I forgot another offer my uncle
made me.”
Ho paused, but she did not help
him. Robert continued:
“He named another girl and said
that if I would marry her he would
givo me $50,000.”
“Oh!”
“Yes, he really did.”
“And who-—who was the other girl?"
“Well, Enid, I was so overjoyed al
the offer about you that I rushed ofl
here without waiting to hear the resl
of it; but as I slammed the front door
I think I heard him say ‘Annie Ben
nett. » >>
For a moment there was another
pause. Robert ventured to take the
hand hanging at her side.
“Don’t you think, Enid,” he said,
pressing it between his own, “don’t
you think that makes a difference?”
And Enid said very low: “Yes—1
suppose it does—R-Robert.”
The girl was not crying now and
Robert took her in his arms.
Uncle Tom promptly filled out his
check for $25,000.
“Thank you, sir,” said Robert, as
he folded aud carefully placed it in his
pocketbook, “and, Uncle Tom, if any
one ever mentions this matter to you,
be sure you do not forget that third
offer you made me.”—The Chicago
News.
ENCHANTED CROVE OF BEES.
The Buzzing Am' hie, But Not a Bee Can
Be Found.
Away back in the ’50s there was a
Shawnee Indian village on the South
Canadian river about eighty-live miles
west of South McAlestev, Indian Ter
ritory, but the old village has long
since disappeared. On the spot whore
the young Shawnee buck sung his ki
owala to his dusky maiden and courted
his best girl by tho light of the full
moon, only an occasional rock hearth
and a few graves are loft to indicate
the former hunting grounds of the
red man, says tho Galveston News.
Neur the old village site now lives a
white man. Just on the border of this
man’s farm is a spot which seems to
have been the thickest settled spot of
the Shawnee village, and hero is a
grove of black oak trees. In this
grove are two very large postoak
trees, one in the south and one in the
north of the grove. In the grove can
be heard most any day the buzzing of
a swarm of bees so plainly that the
noise has fooled many bee hunters,
but all their search has never revealed
a single bee.
Now comes the most peculiar part
of this most peculiar tale. The large
postoak tree standing at the north eud
of the grove is the curiosity of the
bunch, for not long ago a young man,
hearing of the bees, went to the spot
and proceeded to look carefully up
eaoli tree iu the grove until he came
to tho north tree. He was within two
feet of this tree, looking up, when he
heard a noise just liko a carpenter at
work nailing on boards, and to locate
the hammering, but it still seemed tc
come from the trees. The hammering
continued until he happened to touch
the tree with his hand, when it sud
denly stopped. The man went away
amazed. A day or so after this man
had occasion to again pass that way.
He slipped up to the tree and listened
the hammering, and, sure enough,
it was as plain as ever, He touohod
the tree with end.of his finger, aud, as
before, the noise stopped at once.
This man and several others have tried
touching tue treo several times since,
with the same result.
They say that the humming of bees
aud the curious hammering can be
heard any day, but no one has been
able to explain the mysteries of this
enchanted grove.
Lizards an Article of Commerce.
A German paper says that dried
lizards have become an important ar
ticle of commerce in southern China.
The exportations are made from the
port of Pakhoi. These lizards are
procured from the town of Nan-nsug,
in the province of Kivaugsi, where
they live in the earth at a depth of
three or four inches. During the
night they leave their holes and are
easily caught. In 1S96 Pakhoi ex
ported 174,636 lizards, valued at
$100,000. Dried lizards are used by
the Chinese in making a kind of soup,
and they are also used iu medicine as
a preventive of consumption. The
demand for this medicine is so large
in Hong Kong that it is very costly.
Bill MR Ill 1111
His' RECENT ASSERTION CAUSES
INFLOW OF HEAVY MAIL.
REV. CADMflN CAUSED IT ALL.
Bill Reiterate* Hi* Remarks— A Short
Trip to Florida to Anni
hilate the Grip.
Now there is another trust just
consummated. Mr. Vanderbilt and
Miss Fair have put their millions to
gether and somebody is going to suf
fer by it. This thing is all wrong.
Rich people ought not to marry rich
■people, but I don’t see how we can
stop it. There are prettier girls than
Miss Fair and handsomer men than
Mr. Vanderbilt, but money loves
money and that settled it. That
pretty little nursery story about Cin
derella marrying a prince is as dead
ns Hector. But I don’t see how we
can prevent these trusts and com
binations and great accumulations
without a heavy income tax and an in
heritance tax. Even then the mil
lionaires would hide out of it or lie out
of it. They would dodge the revenue
men just like the moonshiners do. We
see that Vanderbilt is dodging them
now in New York and Governor
Roosevelt is after them in a special
message. It looks like we poor folks
will just have to submit—and thank
the Lcrd that we are out of jail and
that it as well with us as what it is.
They can’t form any trust on air and
water and our gardens and home
raised chickens and eggs and potatoes.
We had asparagus for.dinner today
and will have strawberries in a week
or two. There are many good things
not yet in any combine. I suggested
to Mr. Bealer the other day that I was
in favor of a church trust in every
small town, for I wanted to hear him
and all the preachers preach and was
afraid to leave my own little church
for fear of giving offense to our preach
er. I think it would be a good idea
for the preachers to rotate and preach
in the different churches, and we would
make a combine of the Salaries and
divide it out pro rata. Doctrinal ser
mons have about played out, anyhow,
and excepting baptism by immersion
there is very little difference in the
essential principles of the Christian
denominations. We all want to idol
ize somebody and I had just as leave
idolize four preachers as one.
Some of the preachers are disturbed
about what I wrote about the 400 in
New York, and want me to retract and
explain, aud I am pleased to learn
from The New York Christian Advo
cate that the Associated Press dis
patch that I quoted from was much
exaggerated and distorted. Enough
is admitted, however, to show that
Rev. Cadman is a skeptic on the sub
ject of miracles and drew conclusions
from his own argument that the edi
tor says he cannot accept and that Mr.
Cadman says he does not himself ac
cept. That is funny. The editor says
Ihese preachers often give tumultuous
applause to a meritorious papier., but
would refuse to indorse or approve
the paper. That is funny, too, and is
an admission that Mr. Cadmau’s argu
ment against miracles was meritori
ous.
But enough of this. The northern
Methodist church can take care of
itself. The editor says he has received
from two to twenty letters from each
of fourteen different states asking if
that press dispatch spoke the truth.
And I have received many, and among
them are two who indorse Cadman
and the 400, and one from a Mormon
elder who asserts that the purest of all
Christian faith is to be found only in
the Mormon church, and he sends me
some tracts and begs me to read them.
The letters I have received are no
doubt sincere, and they are written in
polite and scholarly language,and gave
me no ground for offense.
Many men of many minds there are
in this world and it becomes us all to
he tolerant. Error thrives on Intoler
ance and persecution. .Virginia
And here is an editor from
who complains to The Constitution,
and takes exception to my saving:
“So far as I am concerned I feel as if
I was nothing and less than nothing
in the scale of existence, for I know
uot whence I came nov where I am
going.” And he asks impertinently
if I have become an agnostic, aud says
my utterances are astounding. who There hypo
are some smart people are
critical and can’t help it. They hunt
for something to hawk at and feed
their conceit. What man knows the
secret of his being or where he came
from in the beginning? The Lord
answered Job out of the whirlwind
and said: i £' Wheve wast thou when I
laid the foundations of the earth? De
clare it if thou hast understanding.”
Perhaps this editor can answer. And
again the Lord asked Job: “Have the
gates of death been opened unto thee?
Ivnowest thou the ordinances of heaven
and canst thou set the dominion there
of?” This editor wants to know if I
have a Bible before me. Yes, and that
is what it says—and much more on
that line.
One day I was talking to Dr. Cand
ler at the union depot in Atlanta. The
train was about to leave and he had
hold of the hand rail when a newspa
per mau hurried up with his pad and
pencil and said: “Hello, Bishop. Ex
cuse me, but where are you going?”
The bishop pulled himself up gently
as tho car began to move and said:
“My friend, I am going to heaven.
Where are you going?” I enjoyed
that, but if I had been the reporter I
think I would have asked: And where
is heaven, aud how big is it, and when
will you (jet there? That umliscoTer-
ed country trom alienee no traveler
returns is still '.be mystery ot myste
ries No, my friend, I repeat that 1
know not whence I came nor whither
I am going and therefore I bumble my
self under the mighty hand of God
and trust him as a little child trusts
its father. returned from brief
I have just a
visit to Jacksonville, where I went in
search of milder weather, for I have a
bad cough and the grip, etc., lmt 1
did not find much difference. I he
weather is bad every where—get on a
trust I reckon. I had some fun, though,
at the expense of other people. and A
good old matron came to see me
lavished on me many pleasant said: com
pliments and among other things
“You must come aud see us. Y e have
every book that you ever wrote upon
our parlor table. Yes, we have your
‘Uncle Remus’ aud your ‘Mingo aud
Daddy Tack,’ the runaway, and all
your other books.” Well, now of
course I didn’t have the meanness in
, that I not
my heart to tell her was
Joel Chandler Harris, so I just swal
lowed it all down and felt flattered.
Next I tackled a conductor, and
when he read my pass he looked at me
and smiled: “Tam very glad to Colum- meet
you, major. My father was a
bus man and he just hanked on you.
Yes, up to the day of his death he said
everything that Bill Nye wrote—”
“Bill Nye is dead,” said I solemn
ly. He looked bewildered and I re
lieved him by telling him that I was
Bill Arp and not Bill Nye.
I wish I was rich. I know a man
whose name was Duncan, and one day
I found him brooding over the fire in
his hack store, and says I: “What are
you thinking about, Duncan?” He
smiled sadly and said: “I was just
wishing I was rich. ” “What for,” said
I. “Why, just to have my opinions
respected. One of my customers
asked me this morning what I thought
about cotton—would it go up or go
dowu, and I told him I thought it
would rise in a few days, and he told
another feller what I said and he
turned up his nose and said: ‘Duncan
—Duncan—hang Duncan. What does
he know? Why dident you ax Shor
ter?’ Well, Shorter is rich aud I’m
poor, but I know more about cotton
than he ddes, for he never bought a
bale in his life.”
Now, I don’t want to be rich just to
have my opinion respected,but I would
like to have a charity fund at my com
mand so that I could respond to some
of these pitiful appeals that I receive
almost every day. They make me
heartsick and I can’t do anything.
About half the letters I receive ask for
something that I cannot supply. They
want to know the missing word and
some of them actually offer to give me
half the reward if I will tell it to them.
And then these chain letters come
almost every day and they expect me
to send some money and make three
copies and send to three of my friends
and pay postage all round. And some
tions of my young friends want composi
or points for a debate about the
Philippines or the Cuban war. And
some ambitious young people send me
a lot of poetry to be criticised. They
are afraid of Frank Stanton. Well, of
course, all these letters are with good
intent and some of them have a stamp
inclosed, but they are a white man’s
burden and I cannot do justice to them.
As for autographs, I send them with
pleasure, for it is an easy task. I
wonder if “Uncle Remus” has a simi
lar experience. Nevertheless, I am
still calm and serene.— Bill Arp' in
Atlanta Constitution.
SPAIN’S MONEY READY.
Payment of the *‘40,000,000 To Madrid
Discussed At Cabinet Meeting.
A Washington dispatch says: The
cabinet was in session only an hour
Friday. of making the
The method payment
of $20,000,000 to Spain was talked
over, and, although no conclusion was
reached, it is expected that the trans
fer will be made by a draft on the
treasury to be, delivered to any repre
sentative whom the Spanish govern
ment may designate.
The situation in the Philippines was
also discussed, aud a telegram was
read to the effect that Aguinaldo was
reorganizing his army.
LIQUIDATING COMMITTEE
To Settle Joint Traffic Association Affairs
Meets In New York.
The liquidating committee of the
Joint Traffic Association held its first
meeting iu New York Thursday with
the object of settling the affairs of the
association.
The committee was appointed five
mouths ago as a result of the decision
of. the United States supreme court
adjudging the traffic body a combina
tion in restraint of trade.
At the meeting a difference of opin
ion developed regarding the disposi
tion of the association.
DEWEY’S HEALTH GOOD.
Admiral’* Condition I* Reported to Be
Fxcellent By Snrpcon.
Admiral Van Reypen, surgeon gen
eral of the navy at Washington, states
that all the recent reports received
from Manila show that Admiral Dewey
is in excellent health.
The surgeon of the Boston has re
cently arrived from the Manila station
and the surgeon general specially in
quired of him as to Admiral Dewey’s
health. The response was most sat
isfactory.
TIERNEY GOES TO PHILIPPINES.
Major Will Be Assigned to Active Service
at Manila.
A dispatch from Newport News, Va,,
says: Major Tierney, commandant at
Fort Monroe, left for San Francisco
Thursday under orders to proceed to
Manila, where he will be assigned to
active service. Colonel Guenther will
succeed Major Tierney as commandant
at the fort.
BEAD HEROES BURIED.
Bodies of 336 Americans Who Fell In
Cuba Re-Interred at Washington.
With full military honors, iu the
presence of President McKinley and
his cabinet and a multitude of people,
the bodies of 336 dead heroes who
gave their lives for their country in
Cuba or Porto Rico during the Span
ish-American war, wero consigned to
their last resting place in Arlington
cemetery in Washington, Thursday
afternoon. dead
The bodies of the Spanish war
were brought to New York last week
by the steamer Crook in order that
they might rest forever in the soil of
their native land.
In accordance with the directions of
the president, every honor, military
and civil, was shown to the nation’s
heroes. The government departments
and the federal courts were all closed
at noon, and, the flags over the gov
ernment buildings, the barracks, navy
yards and the forts along the Potomac
were half-masted. The military es
cort comprised all the artillery troops
at the Washington barracks, a troop
of cavalry from Fort Myer, a battalion
of marines from the navy yard and the
entire national guard of the District of
Columbia.
Colonel Francis P. Guenther, of the
Fourth artillery, had command of the
troops and charge of the military cere
monies. The flay was perfect. Tne
sun blazed from a cloudless sky and
the scene in the historic cemetery
overlooking the Potomac river and the
whitewalls of the nation’s capitol was
profoundly impressive.
The site selected for the interment
is one of the most beautiful in the
e’emetery. It is in a direct line about
one-half mile south of the old Lee
mansion on the top of the slope toward
the river. Here in parallel lines were
the newly made graves with the flag
draped caskets containing the bodies
of the dead soldiers at their sides.
About the graves were formed the mili
tary in imposing arrav, while in the
group stdod the president, the mem
bers of liis cabinet, and other distin
guisbed functionaries of ths govern
ment. Back and around these was the
vast concourse of people.
The customary volleys were fired,
taps were sounded and military dirges
were played by the bands. The re
ligious services were vary simple,
There were no addresses or eulogies.
The interment of the bodies began
at the conclusion of tho ceremonies
and the departure of the militia.
DEADLY BLAZE IN NEW YORK,
Six Rives Are 'Lost In tlie Andrews Res
idence and Many Missing.
Six lives are known to have been
lost in a fire at an early hour in New
York city Thursday, destroying the
five-story dwelling at No. 2 East Sixty
ninth street, the home of Wallace An
drews, president of the New York
Steam Heating Company, and the
five-story brown stone house of Alfred
Adams, No. 3 East Sixty-ninth street.
Several persons are still missing and
several firemen were injured while
battling with the flames.
The dead are: Mrs. St. John, Wal
lace St. John, her son, seven years
old; four unidentified bodies, found
on the third floor of the Andrews
house.
The missing are; Mr. and Mrs. Wal
lance Andrews, J. St. John aud his
two young sons; Mary Bolder, Mary
Flanagan. Ann Marra, Eve Payson
and Kate Roth, servants.
The Andrews house is in the heart
of the district occupied by the homes
of New York’s richest millionaires.
The house on the corner is occupied
by H. O. Armour. The house at No.
4 is occupied by Mr. Rothschild. The
firemen found it impossible to sav4
the Andrews house and devoted most
of their energies to saving the Armour
and Rothschild properties.
NEW LINCOLN MONUMENT
Contemplated By Illinois Legislature To
Cost a Round Million,
A dispatch from Springfield, Ill.,
says: The house committee on ap
propriations has prepared a bill pro
vidingfor the erection of a new Lincoln
monument in Springfield to cost $1,
000 , 000 .
Of this amount $100,000 is to
appropriated at ouce for the commence
ment of the work: congress is to
requested to appropriate $500,000 and
$400,000 is to be raised by a popular
subscription.
The bill was reported to the
Wednesday night and advanced to
second reading.
KHORE ISLAND STATE ELECTION,
Republicans Were Victorious But Demo
crats Showed Up Well.
The Rhode Island stato election,
which was held Wednesday, resulted
in a republican victory, though the
democrats made gains in many locali
ties.
The entire republican state ticket
was successful and the general assem
bly will be republican by a large ma
jority, though not as large as last
year.
Eighty districts out of 104 in the
state give for governor: Dyer, repub
lican, 16,812; Greene, democrat, 9,
932; Herrick, socialist labor, 1,247;
Peekham, prohibition, 1,043.
LIST OF DINNER SPEAKERS.
Bryan, Gaynor and Towne Will Talk at
Chicago Platform Repast.
Eugene Y. Brewster, of New York,
has announced the list of speakers for
the Chicago platform dinner at the
Grand Central palace April 15th.
The list includes William Jennings
Bryan, Supreme Court Justice William
J. Gaynor, of Brooklyn; Jerome
O’Neill, the labor man; George Fred
Williams,of Massachusetts; Charles A.
Towne aud John F. Crosby.
GEORGIA STATE NEWS.
The state dpartment of education is
now making regular monthly payment
to Georgia’s public school teachers,
and when this has been finished some
thing like $340,000 in cash will have
been disbursed iu the several counties
of the state.
The people of Atlanta will be given
an opportunity to decide whether the
proposed issue of $200,000 of,water
bonds shall bo issued. Everything is
now in readiness for the election, and
from present indications, there is no
doubt that the bonds will be carried,
The executive committee of the As
sociation of County School Commis
sioners and Members of Boards of
Education met in the office of State
School Commissioner Glenn at Atlanta
Saturday morning to arrange for the
annual session of the association. The
committee agreed, after enthusiastic
addresses by several of those present,
to call the next meeting of the asso
ciation in Atlanta. The association
will meet May 9th, 10th and 11th.
* * *
The sale of guano tags by the com
missioner of agriculture up to the
present time has been much less than
during the year past. The amount of
fertilizers used by the farmers of the
state can be judged accurately by the
number of tags issued from the de
partment of agriculture. The sale at
the present time indicates that only
about 80 per cent of the fertilizers put
in the ground last year will be used
this season.
Judge Lumpkin at Atlanta has
granted a charter to the Southern
Westerly Granite Company. From
the statement of the businesses which
the company pioposes to carry on, it
wiU be one of the largest developing
and manufacturing concerns in the
siat®- fk 0 present capital stock is
$100,000, with the privilege of increas
in £ lk $500,Q00. The company will
bave it 8 principal offices in Atlanta,
! and will operate in the counties of
Fulton, Clarke, Elbert, Oglethorpe
and Madison.
The educational department of the
state fair will be unquestionably the
b08 * and most comprehensive display
tba t was ever made by any state fair
ever held in Georgia—probably the
best that has ever been seen at any
similar exhibition in the south. From
j the very inception of the present fair
the idea of education aud its import
ance as influencing and dominating
every possible line of human endeavor
occupied a conspicuous place in the
m i n ds of those entrusted with the im
portant work of planning the general
j s ,, ope 0 f t h e f a j r>
j An application has been filed with
I Secretary of State Phil Cook for a char
ter for the Arlington and Bluffton Rail
road company by the incorporators of
the new company, among whom are
some of the most prominent capitalists
in the state. The line is designed to
run from Arlington in Early county,,
through the counties of Clay and Cal- -
houn to Bluffton, Ga., and when com
pleted will be between seventy five
and eighty miles in length. The prin
cipal office of the company will be lo
cated in Arlington and it is proposed
by the incorporators to begin the work,
of construction as soon as the charter
has been granted by the secretary of.'
state.
The negroes of Georgia will be
handsomely represented at the state
fair this year; and every negro in the.
state who is engaged in agricultural,,
industrial or mechanical pursuits will
have au opportunity for competing for
one or more handsome cash premiums.
The fair committee, realizing the im
portance of interesting the negroes in
pursuits of which they may become
self-sustaining, has taken in hand the
question of a special negro depart
ment, with the result that a fund of
over $2,000 has been set aside in pre
miums to which negroes alone can
compete for.
The Georgia state monument has
now been erected iu Chickamaugn
park and the Georgia memorial board,
which has had the work under its di
rection for over two years, has an
nounced that the monument will be
unveiled with appropriate exercises on
May 4th. The program of exercises
has not been fully arranged, but they
will be elaborate, and the immense
gathering which will witness the ded
ication will be representative one from
many sections of the south. Hon. J.
0. C. Black, of Augusta, has been
ehosen as the orator of the occasion.
Governor Candler will receive the
monument on behalf of the state from
the commission. He will deliver it to
the secretary or the latter’s represen
| tative, who will receive it on behalf of
the national government.
s * a *' e prison commission has
been engaged in perfecting the organ
ization of f he P^son farm at Milledge
ville, and in the selection of guards to
oversee the work of the convicts. The
position of the greatest importance at
the farm, next to that of the superin
iendant, is the camp physician, and
this post has been filled by the election
of I)r. R. T. Dozier, of Sasser, Ga.
The commission decided that it would
be best to keep at least twelve convict
guards at the farm, with two deputy
i wardens, one to take charge of the
' squad of male convicts and the other
j the female prisoners. The board ac
cordingly elected twelve guards from
i the long list of applicants for the posi
tion. The farm at present is under
the control of Captain Foster, the su
perintendent, who will retain his posi
tion in the service of the state.