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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.